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JUS MEN AND Y/OMEN IN ALL WALKS OFLIFE YY HO /.RE OR HAVE BEEN THE ACKNOYVLEDGED 
LEADERS OF LIFE AND THOUGHT OFTHE UNITED STATES SINCE ITS FORMATION, 
ENTIRELY COVERING THE FIEL7 OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, HISTORY. POL¬ 
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PREFACE. 


The Nineteenth Century has been a period of activity and of hitherto unparalleled achieve¬ 
ments that have been manifested, especially in America, by the great progress made in every line of 
human effort. And now that this wonderful era has drawn to a close, the time was ripe, before the 
passage of years had worn off the sharpness of impressions, to collect and perpetuate the names and 
deeds of those who merit commemoration. 

In the conception of Herringshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Biography, we have been in¬ 
fluenced chiefly by the knowledge that although nearly •every nation has its own Encyclopedia of 
Biography, the United States has not produced one distinctively its own. In all Encyclopedias of 
American Biography so much space has been given to extended biographies, and so much to noted men 
of foreign countries, that to make room for them the publishers have entirely ignored the biographies 
of thousands of noted American Authors, Poets, Journalists, Publishers, Clergymen, Reformers, Ed¬ 
ucators, Lecturers, Lawyers, Jurists, Soldiers, Statesmen, Musicians, Singers, Painters, Sculptors, 
Scientists, Philosophers, Inventors, Explorers, Successful Merchants, Manufacturers and Builders, and 
men and women in all walks of life, who are worthy of representation in a work of this character. 

An Encyclopedia of American Biography that contains the names of but one-half of the noted 
personages of the United States is as inadequate to meet public requirements as a dictionary would be 
that contained but one-half the words of the English language. Neither is a ponderous work of sev¬ 
eral volumes suitable for the general use of the public. Hence,taking all these things into consid¬ 
eration, there was an open field for this work ; and the close of the Nineteenth Century made the time 
an especially appropriate and auspicious one for its publication. 

What was wanted was an Encyclopedia of American Biography that would be a standard book 
of biographical reference for the American people, as Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary is a stand¬ 
ard on Orthography—accurate, concise and complete. Accordingly, the design of this work has been to 
give in one volume a manual of reference containing in a condensed form appropriate notices of all per¬ 
sons who have risen to any considerable degree of prominence. Although ostensibly the work was 
to be confined to biographies of noted men and women who are living or have lived in the Nine¬ 
teenth Century, it has been given a wider scope, in order to make it more complete, by including all the 
more distinguished personages from the earliest settlement of the United States. 

The most attractive form of history is biography, which perpetuates the memory of individuals, 
and, while aptly illustrating the conduct of life, conveys important lessons. History, it has been well 
said, does not much regard fertile soil or material wealth; but the admirable men and women that a 
country produces—they are the glory of the country. In every city, town and village are men and 
women of character and influence, who have contributed by their enterprise and thrift, bv their activity 
and sagacity in business, their zeal in educational, in religious, and in political matters, to the moral 
and spiritual advancement as well as to the material prosperity of the community in which they live. 

What man has done man may do. Biographies of representative people, intimately connected 
with the development of the resources of their country, illustrate what energy, with a firm will and fixed 
purpose, has hitherto accomplished and can yet achieve. 

As the failure to consider the lives of men of affairs as of historical importance is a defective 
feature of the great biographical works heretofore published, a special feature of this work has been 
to include the lives of the great pioneers, merchants, manufacturers, railroad builders, and other prac¬ 
tical men who have developed the mines, forests and farms, built the railroads, steamboat lines and can¬ 
als, set afloat and managed the shipping, organized the corporations, and introduced the new processes 
in science and mechanics, which have so greatly reduced the cost and promoted the comfort of living, 
while contributing to the power and prestige of the nation itself. They have founded the great mu- 















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PREFACE. 


scums, erected statues, libraries and reading rooms; and it is by them that the colleges, schools and 
philanthropic institutions are built and maintained; and it surely is befitting that their records should 
be preserved for all time. 

In preparing this Encyclopedia, the compiler has restricted his description to sketches merely 
biographical, and has not criticised the individual, nor reviewed his attainments. But brief as are these 
biographical sketches, they are certainly a medium of introduction to the reader, especially when ac¬ 
companied with a portrait; as from the combination of portrait and biography the utmost degree of 
utility and pleasure may be derived. The contemplation of a portrait creates a desire to know more of 
the subject; and reading of the attainments of a person, makes the reader anxious to behold his counte¬ 
nance—hence one supplies the absence of the other. 

Herringshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Biography comprises a varied collection of names 
that has cost infinite pains and expense to obtain, containing as it does the lives and achievements of 
more than twenty-five thousand famous men and women in all walks of life who are* or have been the 
acknowledged leaders of life and thought of the United States since its formation, entirely covering the 
field of literature, science, history, politics, commerce, and the mechanical and industrial arts. In con¬ 
sequence of the almost inaccessibility of facts concerning the lives of many of the subjects contained in 
this work, the daily press, current magazines, and hundreds of genealogical and biographical works have 
been largely drawn upon for material, and thus many important facts and interesting reminiscences have 
been rescued from oblivion that add greatly to the value of the work. 

Herringshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Biography includes succinct biographies of all the 
Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the United States; every member of all the cabinets; every United 
States Senator and Speaker of the House; every United States Congressman; every member of the 
Supreme Court; every signer of the Declaration of Independence; the Governors of the States and Terri¬ 
tories; all the Authors, Poets and Composers; all the eminent Clergymen, Judges, Lawyers; all the 
Admirals and distinguished naval officers; all the Generals and distinguished army officers; while no 
name eminent in Literature, Art, Music, Science or Invention has been omitted. 

The courteous co-operation and words of praise received from prominent people throughout the 
United States, confirmed the opinion that the public was sufficiently alive to the value and importance 
of such a work, and the lasting benefit to be derived from placing their names, side by side with those 
of our most honored ones, in a volume that will be found in public libraries and reading rooms through¬ 
out the world, and which is ultimately destined to go down to posterity as an enduring record of the 
most eminent people of the United States; bearing in mind that without such a record some of the most 
illustrious names would be lost in oblivion, and their posterity deprived of the gratification and ad¬ 
vantage of reference to so honorable an ancestry. 

After three years of arduous labor we have succeeded beyond our expectations in compiling the 
most important and comprehensive work of the century—a monumental record which is a credit to the 
nation and to the world, and will prove to be more lasting than inscriptions on stone, and more enduring 
than shafts of marble. 

We cannot conclude without reiterating our gratefuhacknowledgments to our numerous friends 
in all parts of the United States, not only for valuable information of various kinds, but still more for 
the generous words of encouragement which we have received from them during our long and arduous 
labors. We feel confident that this general expression of our gratitude will be more acceptable to most 
of them than a more particular and open acknowledgment of their disinterested kindness. 

For the material aid and courteous co-operation of the press and public, especially contributors and 
their friends who have so kindly furnished genealogical works and data, clippings from newspapers and 
magazines, manuscripts and other material, our thanks are freely and sincerely given. Indeed, without 
such co-operation, Herringshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Biography could scarcely have assumed 
its present magnitude. 

Thomas William Herringshaw. 

Chicago, Ill., 










ADDENDA 


ALBERGER, WILLIAM CLENDEN- 
N1N, soldier, consulting engineer, was 
born Dec. 18, 1837, in Buffalo, N. Y. He 
was educated in the public schools of his. 
native state; and at Canandaigua aca¬ 
demy. He served during the civil war as 
first lieutenant, captain, major and lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel in the New York volun¬ 
teers; and as captain, brevet major, lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel and colonel in the United 
State volunteers; and was wounded at 
Antietam. He has been superintendent, 
chief engineer and manager of railroads; 
and Is now chief engineer of the Califor¬ 
nia rapid transit railroad company of 
San Francisco, Cal. In 1906-07 he was 
commander department of California and 
Nevada, grand army of the republic; and 
has filled various positions of trust and 
honor. 

ALDRICH. PERLEY DUNN, educator, 
vocalist, author was born Nov. 6, 1863, in 
Blackstone, Mass. He is one of the lead¬ 
ing authorities in America on voice pro¬ 
duction. He is the author of The Vocal 
Economy; Book of Songs; and numerous 
anthems and songs. 

ALEXANDER, HARTLEY BURR, edi¬ 
tor. author, was born April 9, 1873, in 
Lincoln, Neb. He is the author of The 
Problem of Metphvsics ;and Poetry and 
the Individual. 

ANDERSON, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, 
clergyman, author, was born April 22, 
I860, in Morgantown, Va., now W. Va. In 
1884 he graduated with the degree of A. 
B„ from the Ohio Wesleyan university; 
in 1887 graduated with the degree of B. 
D., from Drew' pheological seminary and 
for three years did post-graduate work 
in philosophy at the New York university. 
In 1887-89 he was pastor of the Mott Av¬ 
enue Methodist Episcopal Church in New 
York City; in 1890-94 was pastor of St. 
James church of Kingston, N. Y.; in 
1895-98 at Washington Square, in New 
York City; and in 1899-1904 he was pas¬ 
tor of Highland Avenue church of Ossin¬ 
ing, IN. Y. In 1898-1904 he was record¬ 
ing secretary of the board ol education 
of the Methodist episcopal church; and 
since. 1904 has been corresponding secre¬ 
tary. Since 1897 he has been a member 
of the board of managers of the mission¬ 
ary society of the Methodist episcopal 
church. He is the author of “The Com¬ 
pulsion of Love. 

ANTHONY, BRAYMAN WILLIAM, 
educator, clergyman, college presiden.. 
was born Feb. 16, 1854, in Leray, N. Y. 
Since 1877 he has been a clergyman of 
the Methodist Protestant Church. Since 

1904 he has been president of Adrian Col¬ 
lege, Mich. 

BAILEY. THOMAS PEARCE, educator, 
author, was born, Aug. 18. 1867, in 

Georgetown, S. C. Since 1887 he has 
been engaged in educational work; in 
1903-05, he was professor of psychology 
at the university of Mississippi; and since 

1905 professor of Psychology and educa¬ 
tion, and Dean of Dept of Education. He 
is the author of Love and Law'. 

BAKER. THOMAS STOCKHAM, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born March 23, 1871, in 
Aberdeen, Md. Since 1900, he has been 


a lecturer of modern German literature 
at Johns Hopkins University. He is the 
author of “Lenau and Young Germany in 
America. 

BATTEN, LORING WOART, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 17, 1859, in 
Gloucester county, N. .1. Since 1899 he 
has been rector of St. Marks church of 
New' York City. He is the author of The 
Old Testament from the Modern Point of 
View; The Hebrew' Preject. 

BEACH, REX ELL1NGWOOD, author, 
playwright, was born Sept 1, 1877, in At- 
w'ood, Mich. He is the author of Pard- 
ners; and The Spoilers.” 

BERNARD, EMORY D., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Sept. 7. 1873, in Serena, 
111. He w r as educated at the Northwest¬ 
ern university of Chicago, Ill.; attended 
the Tulane university of New Orleans, 
La.; graduated from the Saginaw Valley 
Medical college of Saginaw, Mich.; stud¬ 
ied at the New York post-graduate school 
of medicine and surgery. He was sur¬ 
geon to the Southern railway at Kansas 
City; was city surgeon; and physician to 
the American fisheries company. He is 
now physician and surgeon to the Gulf 
refilling company of Port Arthur. Texas; 
surgeon to the Mexican American steam¬ 
ship line; and other corporations. He 
has attained success in the practice of 
his profession; is a member of the lead¬ 
ing medical societies; and resides in Port 
Arthur, Texas. 

BIGELOW, MAURICE ALPHEUS, biol¬ 
ogist, educator, author, born Dec. 8, 1872, 
in Milford Center, Ohio. Since 1903, he 
has been professor of biology in Teach¬ 
ers College, Columbia university. Since 
1904 edior of The Nature Study Review'. 
He is the Author; The Teaching of Zool¬ 
ogy in the Secondary school. 

BOY1.E, JOHN J., arist, sculptor, w'as 
born Jan. 12, 1851, in New' York City. He 
was educated in the public schools of 
Philadelphia, Pa.; attended the Franklin 
institute of Philadelphia; studied at the 
Pennsylvania academy of fine arts; and 
at the Ecol des aux Arts in Paris, 
France. He is a teacher in the public 
art schools of New York city. He has 
received honors from the Paris salon, the 
Ecol des Beaux Arts, the World’s Colum¬ 
bian exposition, and the Pan-American 
exposition. He is a member and one of 
the executive council of the National 
sculpture society; is a member of th 
Architectural league of New York; and 
for the past three years has been " 
member of the Fine arts commission of 
New York; and resides in New York Ci 

BRADLEY, JOHN EDWIN, educator, 
college president, author, was born in 
Lee, Mass*. In 1865 he graduated from 
Williams college; and has received the 
degrees of A. M., LL. D., and Ph. D. In 
1865-68 he was principal high school of 
Pittsfield, Mass.; in 1868-86 was princi¬ 
pal high school of Albany, N. Y.; in 
1886-92 was superintendent of Minneap¬ 
olis schools; and in 1892-1900 was pre¬ 
sident of Illinois college. Since 1901 he 
has been superintendent of schools for 
Avon, Hclbrook and Randolph, Mass. In 


1878 he was commissioner for the state 
of New' York to the Paris exposition. L 
is the author of Science and Industry; 
School Incentives; Healthfulness of In¬ 
tellectual Pursuits; Unconscious Educa¬ 
tion; Work and Play; and Talks With 
Students. 

BRYAN, ENOCH ALBERT, educator, 
college president, author, w'as born May 
10, 1855, in Bloomington, Ind. In 1878 
he graduated from the Indiana universi¬ 
ty; and in 1893 graduated from Harvard 
university, with the degree of M. A.; and 
in 1900 received the degree of LL.D. from 
Monmouth college. In 1878-82 he was 
superintendent of public schools for Gray- 
ville. Ill. In 1882-93 he was president of 
Vincennes university of Vincennes, Ind.; 
and since 1893 has been president of the 
State College of Washington. He is the 
author of The Mark in Europe and 
America. 

BRUCE. WILLIAM GEORGE, publish¬ 
er, author, w'as born March 17, 1856, in 
Milwaukee, Wis. In 1891 he founded and 
has ever since been publisher of the 
American School Board Journal of Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis. In 1903-06 he w'as Tax 
Commissioner for the City of Milwaukee, 
Wis. He is the author of American 
School Architecture; and Bruce’s Manual 
on School Administration. 

CABELL. JAMES BRANCH, journalist, 
author, was barn April 14, 1879, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. He is the author of The 
Eagle's Shadow; and The Line of Love. 

CANDY, ALBERT LUTHER, educator, 
mathematician, author, was born March 
12, 1857, in Grant County, Ind. From 
1893-1905 he was adjunct professor of 
mathematics in the University of Nebras¬ 
ka ; since 1905 he has been Associate pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics in the University 
of Nebraska. He is the author of Anna- 
lytic Geometry. 

CARLETON, MARK ALFRED, public 
official, author, w r as born March 7, 1866, 
in Jerusalem, Ohio. Since 1894 he has 
been cerealist for the United States De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. He is the author 
of several publications on Durum Wheats 
and other grains. He established the dur¬ 
um wheat industry in this country, which 
after six years has already a farm value 
of thirty million dollars annually. 

CHESTER, FRANK DYER, American 
Consul-General, w'as born Dec. 2, 1869, in 
Newton, Mass. He was educated in New¬ 
ton and Bosron; and graduated from Har¬ 
vard University, from w'hich institution 
he has received the degrees of A. B. A., 
A. M., and Ph D. He has attained promi¬ 
nence as a noted linguist. In 1893-95 he 
was assistant in Semitic Languages at 
Harvard University. In 1897-1904 he was 
United States Consul at Budapest. He 
is also Consular-General for. Cuba and 
Panama. Since 1897 he has been in the 
American Consular service; and is now 
Consul-General to Hungary, with head¬ 
quarters at Budapest, Hungary. 

COOKE, GEORGE WILLIS, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, was born April 23, 
1848. in Comstock, Mich. He was edu¬ 
cated at Olivet college of Michigan; 




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ADDENDA. 


Meadville theological school of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; and the Liberal Institute of Jef¬ 
ferson, Wis. In 1872 he entered the Uni¬ 
tarian ministry; and has filled pastorates 
in Wisconsin, Michigan, Massachusetts 
and New Hampshire. In 1899 he retired 
from the active ministry; removed to 
Wakefield, Mass.; from the active minis¬ 
try; Wakefield, Mass.; devotes himself 
to literature and lecturing; and since 
1897 has been an editorial writer on the 
Christian Register. He is the author of 
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Poets and Prob¬ 
lems; Guide Book to the Poetic and 
Dramatic Writings of Robert Browning; 
The Spiritual Life; History of Unitarian- 
ism in America; and other works. 

COX, JOSEPH P., physician, surgeon, 
was born May 7, 1859, in Chatham, On¬ 
tario, Canada. In 1879 he graduated from 
the Indiana medical college of Indianap¬ 
olis, Ind. He soon attained success in 
the practice of his profession; and is sur¬ 
geon to the Chicago St. Paul, M. and O. 
railroad. He is examining surgeon to 
the Brotherhood of railroad trainmen. 
American express company, Prudential 
insurance company, Penn, mutual insur¬ 
ance company. North American life in¬ 
surance company, New York life insur¬ 
ance company, Federal life insurance 
company, Minnesota mutual life in¬ 
surance company, Michigan mutual 
life insurance company, North British 
life insurance company; and the New 
York equity life insurance company. He 
is a member of the American medical as¬ 
sociation, State Medical society of Wis-. 
oonsin; Tri-County Medical society, rail¬ 
way surgeons of the United States; 
American railroad surgeons; Internation¬ 
al Red Cross society and the Wisconsin 
state humane society. 

CRUMBINE, S. JAY, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Sept. 17, 1862, in Emlen- 
ton, Pa. In 1899 he graduated from the 
Cincinnati college of medicine and sur¬ 
gery; and soon attained success as a 
practicing physician of Kansas. He has 
been grand medical examiner of Ancient 
Order of united workmen of Kansas; and 
is a member of the leading medical so¬ 
cieties. He is secretary of the Kansas 
state board of health; and resides in 
Topeka, Kan. 

CUMMER, WELLINGTON WILLSON, 
lumberman, public official, donor was 
born Oct. 21, 1846, in Toronto Canada. 
He was educated at the high school of 
Waterdown, Canada; and is a prominent 
lumberman of Jacksonville, Fla. He has 
been mayor of Cadillac, Mich.; was a re¬ 
publican presidential elector in 1888; and 
a member of the school board for ten 
years. He made extensive investments 
in pine and cypress lands in Florida; 
owns over one-half of the stock in the 
the Cummer Lumber company of Jack¬ 
sonville, Fla; and is a large owner of 
stumpage in Michigan; and a member of 
the firm of Cummer, Diggins and Com¬ 
pany of Cadillac, Mich. He is interested 
in the Y. M. C. A., and library work; and 
gave thirty thousand dollars to the for¬ 
mer, and two thousand dollars to the lat¬ 
ter. 

DAWSON. GEORGE ELLSWORTH, 
professor of education, was born Dec. 23, 
1861, in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. In 
1887 he received the degree of A. B. from 
the university of Michigan; in 1888-89 
studied at the university of Leipzig; and 
subsequently received the degree of Ph 
D. from Clark university. In 1891-93 he 
was professor of English and literature 
at the South Dakota agricultural college; 
in 1893-95 was instructor of English at 


the university of Michigan: in 1895-97 
was a fellow in psychology at Clark uni 
versify; and in 1897-1901 was professor 
of psychology at the Hartford school of 
Religious pedagogy. In 1901-02 he was 
head of the department of history at 
Pratt institute; and since 1903 has been 
professor of education at Mount Holyoke 
college of South Hadley, Mass. He has 
contributed to American literature on 
educational topics; and resides in Spring- 
field, Mass. 

DEILMAS, DELPHIN MICHAEL, law¬ 
yer, educator, was born April 14, 1844, in 
France. From 1866 to 1883 he practiced 
law in San Jose, Cal.; from 1883 to 1906 
in San Francisco, and is now practicing 
in New York. He is the author of Speech¬ 
es and Addresses. 

DU BOIS, MARY CONSTANCE, writer, 
author, was born in 1879, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. She is the author of Elinor Arden, 
Royalist. 

DUGRO, PHILIP HENRY, lawer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born Oct. 2, 1855, in 
New York City. He was educated at 
Columbia College; and is a lawyer by 
profession. In 1878 he was a Representa¬ 
tive to the New York State Legislature 
from the City of New York; and in 1880 
was elected a member of Congress from 
New York as a democrat. In 1886 he 
became Justice of the Superior Court of 
the City of New' York; and in 1896 a 
Justice of the Supreme Court of the State 
of New York. Since 1896 he has been 
Justice of the State Supreme Court of 
New York. 

DUNHAM, SAMUEL CLARK, soldier, 
printer, journalist, public official, w'as 
born Feb. 22, 1855, in Eureka, Ill. He was> 
educated in the public schools of his 
native state. In 1877 he was a volunteer 
in the Bitter Root battle of Big Hole in 
the Nez Perce campaign. In 1897-99 he 
was statistical expert in the United 
States department of labor. In 1886-97 
he was stenographer in the department 
of labor at Washington; and for twelve 
years was private secretary to the late 
Senator Daniel W. Voorhees of Indiana. 
In 1897 he was assigned to the Klondike 
gold fields; in 1899 was the first special 
agent in the twelfth United States 
census; and had charge of the Census for 
the northern district of Alaska. Since 
1902 he has been editor of the Tonopab 
Miner of Tonopah, Nevada. He is tne 
author of The Goldsmith of Nome; The 
Missing Link in Shorthand; and Dust 
from (he Desert. 

ELTZHOLTZ, CARL FREDERICK, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 10, 1840, 
in Denmark. Since 1906 he has been 
pastor of the Norwegian Methodist Epis¬ 
copal Church, Cambridge, Wis. He is the 
author of several religious works. 

FAIRFAX, ALBERT KIRBY, banker, 
W'as born June 23, 1870, in Northampton, 
Md. He was educated at Maupin’s uni¬ 
versity school of Ellicott, city, Md. For 
fourteen years he was connected with 
Brown brothers and company of fifty-nine 
Wall street. New York city; and for four 
years was assistant manager of the Lon¬ 
don office of the International banking 
corporation of New York. He is now a 
partner of William P. Bonbright and com¬ 
pany, bankers of London, New York City 
and Colorado Springs. He is the twelfth 
baron of the baronetcy created in 1627; 
and has the title of Lord Fairfax of Ca¬ 
meron. The sixth baron inherited nearly 
six million acres of land in Virginia; set¬ 
tled in the American colonies; was> the 
friend and patron of George Washington; 


and his descendants still live in the 
United States. 

FANNING, JOHN THOMAS, civil en¬ 
gineer inventor, author, was born Dec. 31, 
1837, in Norwich, Conn. At the outbreak 
of the civil war he had completed a 
course of study in architecture and en¬ 
gineering. He enlisted in the third regi¬ 
ment Connecticut volunteers, served its 
full term, and subsequently was a field 
officer in the state militia. In 1862-80 he 
w'as acting engineer of Norwich, Conn.; 
and in 1872 moved to Manchester, N. H., 
to supervise the construction of the 
public water supply. In 1881 he was em¬ 
ployed by a citizen's committee to report 
upon an additional water supply for New 
York, Brooklyn, and Cities of the Hudson 
Valley. In 1886 he was appointed chief 
engineer and agent of the St. Anthony 
Falls Water Power Co. He was appointed 
consulting engineer of the St. Paul, Min¬ 
neapolis and Manitoba railway and of the 
Great Northern railway, and vice-presi¬ 
dent of Minneapolis Union railway. 
Among w'orks directed from his Minnea¬ 
polis office have been improvements in 
various water powers and public water 
supplies; a comprehensive plan for the 
drainage of 3,000 square miles of the fa¬ 
mous hard wheat land in the valley of 
the Red river of the North; the construc¬ 
tion of the water power from the Rainy 
river in Minnesota; the large water pow¬ 
er on the Missouri river at Great Falls. 
Mont., and on the Spokane river, at Spo¬ 
kane, Wash., and a large water power 
on the Missouri river, near Helena, 
Mont. He is patentee of improvements 
in slow-burning building constructions, in 
turbine water steam boilers. He is the 
author of A Treatise on the Water Sup¬ 
ply; and Engineering. 

FISHER, CLARENCE STANLEY, 
historical architect, author, was born 
Aug. 17, 1876, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is 
the author of Investigations and Re¬ 
searches at Nippur. 

FISHER, FRED D., diplomat, was born 
March 13, 1874, in Albany, Oregon. He 
was educated at Albany College; and 
graduated from The Holmes Business 
College of Portland, Oregon. In 1901-04 
he was vice-consul and interpreter at the 
United States Consulate at Nagasaki, Ja¬ 
pan; and is now American consul there. 

FLIPPER, JOSEPH SIMEOIN, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born Feb. 22, 
1859, in Atlanta, Ga. He received his' 
education in the public schools of his na¬ 
tive state; and graduated from Atlanta 
university. He has filled pastorates in 
several influential churches; has been 
dean of the Turner Theological seminary; 
and is now president of the Morris Brown 
college of Atlanta, Ga. 

FOSTER, MABEL GRACE, lecturer, 
author, was born in 1869, in Boston, Mass. 
She is a lecturer on art, history, and 
Italian literature. She is the author of 
The Heart of the Doctor. 

FRANK, JAMES H., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Jan. 1, 1853, in Lewis 
county, N. Y. He was educated at the 
high school of Uion, N. Y.; attended Fair- 
field seminary; and studied medicine at 
the American Medical college and at the 
Minnesota college hospital. He has been 
county physician, coroner, health com¬ 
missioner, a member of the board of edu¬ 
cation; and a member of the public libra¬ 
ry board. He has attained success in the 
practice of his profession at Anoka, 
Minn.; is physician to the Anoka state 
asylum; and a member of the board of 
pension examiners. 


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GAERTNER, FREDERICK, physician, 
surgeon, microscopist scientist, author, 
was born July 25, 1860, at Fort Russell, 
Madison County, Ill. In 1866-76 he at¬ 
tended a country school at the old Fort 
Russell; in 1876-79 attended the St. Louis 
high school; and graduated from the 
Mound City commercial college. In 
1882 he graduated with the degree of 
M. D. from the St. Louis medical col¬ 
lege; and then studied in Berlin, Vienna, 
Strassburg, Paris, London and Dublin, 
and soon became an eminent physician, 
scientist and microscopist,. He has re¬ 
ceived the degrees of B. S., A. M., M. D., 
D. M., and LL. D. from famous universi¬ 
ties. He subesquently began the prac¬ 
tice of medicine and microscopy in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. He has a collection of six 
thousand slides of microscopic speci¬ 
mens; and is frequently called into court 
as expert witness in medico-legal cases. 
Two prominent medical institutions of¬ 
fered him the chair of professor of path¬ 
ology and histology, which he declined. 
He is a bold surgeon; and has under¬ 
taken several capital surgical operations 
with success. He is associate editor, of 
the Dental and Surgical Microcosm; as¬ 
sociate-editor, of the International Jour¬ 
nal of Microscopy and Natural Science: 
collaborator of the Bacteriological 
associate-editor of the Observer; and a 
Successful Treatment of Cancer: 
The Causes of Dropsies and Its Cure: 
The Origin of Man and His Destiny; and 
scores of medical and scientific Mono¬ 
graphs. 

GAY, MRS. MAUDE CLARK, writer, 
author, was born Sept. 28, 1876, in Wal- 
doboro, Maine. She is the author of The 
Knitting of the Souls. 

GERMO, THOMAS, lawyer, public of¬ 
ficial, was born May 2, 1870, in Medo, 
Blue Earth county, Minn. He was edu¬ 
cated in the public schools of his native 
state; attended the Minnesota State nor¬ 
mal school at Mankato: and in 1900 
graduated from the law department of 
the State university of Minnesota. He 
soon attained success in the practice of 
law in Minnesota; is now prosecuting 
attorney for the county of Red Lake; 
and reside in Red Lake Falls, Minn. 

GITTINGS, J. CLAXTON. physician, 
author, was born May 23, 1874, in Wil¬ 
liamsport. Pa. Since 1895 he has prac¬ 
ticed medicine in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
is the co-author of Artificial Feeding of 
Infdnts. 

GOTTSCHALK, ALFRED L. M„ United 
States consul-general to City of Mexico, 
was born Feb. 8, 1873, in New York city. 
In 1890 he graduated from Packard's 
business college; in 1891-94 attended 
Kenyon college; and in 1896 graduated 
from the New York university. He has 
been a newspaper and magazine corre¬ 
spondent; and in 1898 was attached to 
the staff of Gen. Brooks’ division in the 
Porto Rico campaign as correspondent of 
the New York Herald. He engaged in 
sugar growing in Santo Domingo; and 
in 1900 was appointed collector of cus¬ 
toms at Monte Cristo. In 1902 he was 
appointed consul at San Juan del Norte, 
Nicaragua; in 1903 was transferred to 
Callao. Peru; and in 1905 was promoted 
to consul-general without change of post. 
He is the author of a volume of poems 
and magazine articles. He is a member 
of the seventh regiment national guard 
of New York; and resides in City of 
Mexico, Mexico. 

GUDEMAN, ALFRED, educator, lec¬ 


turer, author, was born Aug. 26, 1862, in 
Atlanta, Ga. In 1883 he graduated from 
Columbia university; and in 1888 re¬ 
ceived the degree of Ph. D. from the 
university of Berlin. In 1890-93 he was 
professor of Greek and latin.at the Johns 
Hopkins university; in 1893-1902 filled 
the same chair at the university of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and in 1902-04 at Cornell uni¬ 
versity. He is a noted classical philo 
logist, and resides in Munich, Germany. 
He is a member of the American Philo¬ 
logical association, find various other 
scientific societies. He is the author of 
History of Classical Philology; Tacitus' 
Dialogues de Oratoribus; Agricola; Agri¬ 
cola and Germania; Latin Literature of 
the Empire, in two volumes; The Sources 
of Plutarch’s Life of Cicero; and Sal¬ 
lust’s Catiline. 

GUENTHER, RICHARD, merchant, di¬ 
plomat, congressman, was born Nov. 30, 
1845, in Potsdam, Prussia. In 1866-67 he 
was engaged as a broker of drugs and 
chemicals in New York City; and in 1867 
engaged in business as a pharmacist in 
Oshkosh, Wis. For several years he was 
a member of the Oshkosh School Board; 
and in 1878-82 was State Treasurer of 
Wisconsin. In 1881-89 he was a member 
of the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty- 
ninth and Fiftieth Congresses from Wis¬ 
consin as a republican. In 1895-99 he was 
a member of the State Board of Control 
of Wisconsin; and president of the Board 
in 1898-99. In 1890-93 he was consul- 
general to the City of Mexico. Since 1899 
he has been United States Consul-General 
at Frankfort-on-Main, Germany. 

GULICK, EDWARD L„ educator, 
clergyman, author, was born March 21, 
1862, in the Hawaiian Islands. He was 
educated in St. Johnsbury, Vt., at Har¬ 
vard university and Dartmouth college. 
He has attained eminence as a noted 
educator and clergyman; and for ten 
years was master at Lawrenceville aca¬ 
demy of New Jersey. He is the author 
of several works. 

HALFORD, ALBERT JAMES, journ- 
nalist, author, was born Aug. 11, 1851, in 
Hamilton, Ohio. He received a thorough 
education in the public schools of his 
native state; and in 1900 was awarded 
the M. Dip, degree by Columbian uni¬ 
versity of Washington, D C. In his youth 
he learned the printer’s trade; at the age 
of fifteen years reported the proceedings 
of the Indiana state legislature; and 
three years later was engaged as a re¬ 
porter on the Indianapolis News. He 
filled various posit.ons on the Indiana¬ 
polis press up to managing editor until 
1888; and then was called to Wash¬ 
ington as managing editor of The Post. 
He has since been connected with the 
Associated Press and United Press; and 
is now also connected with the New 
York Sun bureau. He is the editor and 
compiler of The Congressional Direc¬ 
tory, published by the United States gov¬ 
ernment. 

HALL, FREDERIC CLARKSON, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, public official, was born 
July, 20, 1856, in North Brookfield, N. Y. 
He was educated at the Waterville aca¬ 
demy, University City, N. Y.; and at the 
Kansas Medical college and the medcial 
department of Washburn college. He was 
chairman of the republican central com¬ 
mittee for Richmond, Ivans.; was police 
judge during three terms for the city of 
Cuba, Kansas; has been school clerk of 

the city schools; and has filled various 

other positions of trust and honor. He is 

a successful physician and surgeon of 

Cuba, and is a stomach specialist. He 


is chairman of the A. M. A.; and for 
many years a member of the American 
association for the advancement of sci¬ 
ence; and a member of all the leading 
medical societies. 

HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born March 

II, 1869, in Richmond, Va. He was 
educated at Norwood’s university school 
of Richmond, Va.; and graduated from 
Richmond college. He has been principal 
of the Franklin academy of Virginia, 
instructor in mathematics and science a* 
the Locust Dale military academy of Vir¬ 
ginia; was professor of science at 
Brownsville college of Tennessee; and 
was vice president and professor of 
mathematics at the Female college of 
Hopkinsville, Ky. He is now president 
of Bethel college at Russellville, Ky.; 
and also professor of mathematics in that 
institution of learning. 

HARVEY, CHARLES, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 15, 1848, in Boston, 
Mass. He received an academic educa¬ 
tion ; and soon attained success in jour¬ 
nalism. He has been connected with 
newspapers in New York, St. Louis and 
Chicago; and since 1886 has been chief 
editorial writer on the Globe-Democrat 
of St. Louis, Mo. He is a frequent con¬ 
tributor on political, social and historical 
subjects to the Atlantic Monthly; North 
American Review, Putnam’s Monthly, 
Appleton’s Magazine, Metropolitan Mag¬ 
azine, Leslie’s Weekly and other period¬ 
icals. He is a member of the American 
political science association, the Missouri 
state historical society and the Kansas 
state historical • society. He is the au¬ 
thor of History of the Republican Party; 
Handbook of American Politics; and 
History of Missouri. 

HAYES, PHILIP CORNELIUS, soldier, 
journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 3, 
1833, near Granby, Conn. In 1860 he 
graduated from Oberlin college of Ohio: 
in 1863 graduated fro Oberlin theologi¬ 
cal seminary; and received the degree of 
master of arts from Oberlin college. He 
served three years in the Union army 
during the civil war as captain, lieu- 
tenant-colonel, colonel and brigadier-gen¬ 
eral by brevet, the latter promotion dat¬ 
ing from March 13, 1865. In 1877-81 he 
was a member of the forty-fifth and for¬ 
ty-sixth congresses from the seventh dis¬ 
trict of Illinois as a republican; and 
served on several important committees. 
He was a delegate to the republican na¬ 
tional convention of 1872 which nomi¬ 
nated Grant for president of the United 
States for a second term. In 1866 he 
bought a newspaper; and for almost thir¬ 
ty years followed journalism in Joliet, 

III. , as proprietor, editor and publisher of 
his own newspaper. He is a member of 
grand army of the republic and of the 
loyal legion of Illinois. He is the author 
of History of the One Hundred and 
Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and So¬ 
cialism and What It Means. 

HEAD, JOHN FRAZIER, army surgeon, 
was born Jan. 9, 1821, in Boston, Mass. 
He served in the Mexican and civil war; 
and in 1885 was retired with rank or 
colonel. In 1904 he was advanced to the 
grade of brigadier-general United States 
army. 

HENDERSON. ERNEIST NORTON, 
educator, psychologist, was born Dec. 17, 
1869, in La Salle county. Ill. He was 
educated at the university of California 
and at the Columbia universtiy. In 1892- 
95 he was teaching fellow in philosophy 
at the university of California; in 1895- 
97 was principal of the high school at 


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ADDENDA. 


Woodland, Cal.; and in 1897-1901 was in¬ 
structor in psychology and education at 
the California state normal school of 
Chico, Cal. In 1901-02 he was fellow in 
education in the Teacher’s college of Co¬ 
lumbia university; in 1902 and 1906-07 
was instructor in the summer session of 
Columbia university; and also filled the 
same position in 1904 at the university of 
North Carolina. He is now professor of 
psychology and education at the A'delphi 
college; and residesi in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HUGHES, WILLIAM EDGAR, soldier, 
lawyer, banker, was born March 15, 1840, 
in Morgan county, Ill. He was educated 
in the Jacksonville high school; and at¬ 
tended Illinois college to the end of the 
sophomore year. In 1860 he removed to 
Texas; was a colonel in the confederate 
army; and in 1865 was admitted to the 
bar. In 1865-73 he practiced law in 
Weatherford, Texas; and in 1873 con¬ 
tinued his profession in Dallas and also 
in Denver. In 1873 he organized the City 
bank of Dallas, now the City national 
bank; and became its president. In 1884 
he became president of the Exchange 
national bank of Dallas, Texas; and since 
1881 has been president of the Conti¬ 
nental land and cattle company of Den¬ 
ver, Colo. In 1890 he became president 
of the Union trust company of St. Louis, 
Mo.; and removed in 1898 to Denver, 
where he organized the Continental trust 
company, of which he is president. 

HYSLOP, JAMES HERVEY, educator, 
author, was born Aug. 18, 1854, in Xenia, 
Ohio. In 1877 he graduated from Wooster 
university; attended the Leipzig uni¬ 
versity; and in 1887 received the degree 
of Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins university. 
He has taught in Lake Forest university. 
Smith college, Bucknell university and is 
now professor of logic and ethics in Co¬ 
lumbia university. He is also secretary 
of the American society for psychological 
research. He is the author of Elements 
of Logic; Ethics of Hume; Elements of 
Ethics; Democracy; • Logic and Argu¬ 
ment; Syllabus of Psychology; Problems 
of Philosophy; and Science and a Future 
Life. 

IRISH, EDWIN M., soldier, lawyer, 
public official, was born June 11, 1848, in 
Gorham, Maine. He attended the Gor¬ 
ham seminary; and in 1872 graduated 
from the law department of the univers¬ 
ity of Michigan. Since 1872 he has prac¬ 
ticed law in Kalamazoo, Mich.; in 1875- 
80 was prosecuting attorney for Kalama¬ 
zoo county; and has been city attorney 
and a member of the Kalamazoo com¬ 
mon council. He served twelve years in 
various grades in the Michigan national 
guard; was colonel of infantry for six 
years; and in 1897-98 was adjutant-gen¬ 
eral for the state of Michigan. He served 
in the Spanish-Americau war; became 
colonel of the Thirty-fifth regiment Michi¬ 
gan United States volunteer infantry; 
and was mustered out with his regiment 
in 1899. He is still actively engaged in 
the practice of his profession; is promi¬ 
nently identified with the business and 
public affairs of his state; and resides in 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 

JONES, J. II., judge Mason county 
court of Texas, was born May 27, 1869, 
near Griffin, Cherokee county, Tex. He 
received a thorough education in the 
public and private schools of Texas ana 
Tennessee. For a number of years he 
was engaged in educational work; was 
principal of the Junction City public 
school; in 1902 he was ex-officio school 
superintendent; and has filled various 
other positions of trust and honor. Since 


190.2 he has been judge of the county 
court for Mason county. 

KENNON, LYMAN W. V., army officer, 
was born Sept. 2, 1858, in Providence, R. 
1. He was educated at the United States 
Military Academy of West Point, N. Y. 
He was Adjutant-General during the Ame¬ 
rican occupation of Cuba; and Colonel 
in the Thirty-fourth Infantry, United 
States Volunteers, and commander of the 
Third Brigade of the First Division in 
the Eight Army Corps, during the Philip¬ 
pine Insurrection. Since 1902 he has held 
the rank of Major in the United States 
Army; and is now stationed at Rio Ja¬ 
neiro, Brazil. 

KINSLEY, WILLIAM WIRT, soldier, 
educator .public official, author, was born 
Oct. 8, 1837, in 'Buffalo, N. Y. In 1861 he 
graduated from Oberlin college. In 1861 
he was a member of company C, seventh 
regiment Ohio volunteers infantry; and 
in 1861-64 was professor of mathematics 
in the Northern Indiana college. He was 
in the auditor-general’s office until 1872 
at Lansing, Mich.; in 1872 entered the 
United States Pension office; and since 
1881 has been a member of the board of 
review in the United States pension bur¬ 
eau. He is the author of Views an Vexed 
Questions; Science and Prayer; Old 
Faiths and New Facts; The Bronte Sis¬ 
ters; and other works. 

KNOPF, ADOLPHUS, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Nov. 27. 1857, in Ger¬ 
many. He received a thorough educa¬ 
tion; and has attained success as a noted 
consulting physician of New York city. 
He was vice-president of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania society ofr the prevention of tu¬ 
berculosis; and in 1905 was a delegate 
to the international Tuberculosis con¬ 
gress at Paris, France. He is a director 
in the national association for the study 
and prevention of tuberculosis; and as¬ 
sociate-director of the health depart¬ 
ment’s clinic for pulmonary diseases. 

KNOX, MRS. JESSIE JULIET, writer, 
author, was born May 14, 1860, in Cleve¬ 
land, Tenn. She is the author of Little 
Almond Blossoms. 

LANDON, MELVILLE DE LANCEY, 
Eli Perkins, journalist, lecturer, author, 
was born Sept. 7, 1839, in Eaton, Madi¬ 
son county, N. Y. In 1861 he graduated 
wiui the degree of A. M. from Union col¬ 
lege of Schenectady, N. Y. in 1863 he was 
appointed a clerk in tne United States 
treasury; and served in Gien. Cassius M. 
Clay’s battalion in front of Washington. 
He resigned from the treasury and bat¬ 
talion and joined the staff of Gen. A. L. 
Chetlain, with rank of Major. After the 
civil war he traveled in . Europe; and 
became secretary of the United States 
legation in Russia. He has attained 
world wide renown as a humorist writer 
and lecturer; is president of the New 
York news association; and has held va¬ 
rious positions af trust and honor. Under 
the nom de plume of Eli Perkins he is 
the author of Franco-Prussian War; Wit. 
Humor and Pathos; Wit and Humor of 
the Age; Kings of Platform and Pulpit; 
Thirty years of Wit; and American Hu¬ 
morists and Lecturers'. 

LARRINAGA, TULIO, was born Jan. 
15, 1874, in the town of Trujillo Alto. He 
was educated in the Seminario Consiliar 
of San Ildefonso, at San Juan, where he 
received the degree of bachelor of arts, 
with the highest honors; studied the 
profession of civil engineer at the Poly¬ 
technic Institute of Troy and at the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania, where he gradu¬ 
ated in 1871; practiced the profession for 
some time in the United States, taking 


part in the preparation of the typograph¬ 
ical map of Kings county, Brooklyn, and 
in the technical department of Badger & 
Co., of New York, in the construction of 
the Grand Central Depot in that city. In 
1872 he returned to Porto Rico and was 
appointed architect for the city of San 
Juan; built the first railroad in Porto 
Rico in 1880, and introduced for the first 
time American rolling stock in the 
island; was for ten years chief engineer 
of the provincial works, and built most 
of the important structures (especially 
bridges) in the island. He was one of 
the founders of the Atheneum of San 
Juan in 1876, and of the society for the 
education of intelligent young men of the 
poor classes. In 1898 he was appointed 
assistant secretary of the interior under 
the autonomic government, serving in 
that capacity until some time after the 
American occupation of the island. He re¬ 
signed the office to resume his position 
as chief engineer of the harbor works of 
San Juan; and is an ardent advocate of 
home rule for his country. In 1900 he was 
sent by the Federal party of Porto Rico 
to Washington as a delegate at the time 
the organic act for Porto Rico was be¬ 
ing framed by Congress; in 1902 was 
elected member of the house of delegates 
of Porto Rico from the district of Areci- 
bo. He is the president of the Society 
of Civil Engineers of Porto Rico. He was 
elected commissioner for the term of the 
Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected for 
the Sixtieth Congress. 

LATHBURY, ALBERT AUGUSTUS, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 24, 
1849, in Manchester. N. Y. He received 
his education in the public schools of his 
native state; in 1866-67 attended Fort 
Edward Collegiate institute of New York; 
and studied at Baldwin university of 
Berea, Ohio. Since 1879 he has been a 
member of the New York East conference 
of the methodist episcopal church; and 
has filled several important pastorates, 
now in New York city. He is the author 
of Life in Two Worlds. 

LAVERY, CHARLES J„ mayor of Fort 
Pierre, S. D., was born Feb. 5, 1867, in 
Clinton, N. Y. He received the rudiments 
of his education in the common and high 
schools of his county; attended the Star¬ 
ling medical college of Columbus, Ohio; 
and the College of Physicians and Sur¬ 
geons of Chicago. He has been super¬ 
intendent of the Stanley county board of 
health since 1891; was coroner of that 
county in 1895-96 and since 1894 has 
been physician and surgeon to the Stan¬ 
ley county poor He has been a member 
of the South Dakota republican state 
central committee; and for nearly eight 
years was editor of Fairplay, a leading 
newspaper of Fort Pierre, S. D. He is 
senior member of the firm of Lavery and 
Walsh, physicians and surgeons. He is 
secretary of the fourth district medical 
society of South Dakota; and a delegate 
from that society in the South Dakota 
state medical association in 1906 and 
1907. Since 1904 he has been mayor of 
the city of Port Pierre, and is now serv¬ 
ing his second term of 1906-08; and re¬ 
sides in Fort Pierre, S. D. 

LEACH, REGINALD BARKLEY, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, inventor, was born April 
4, 1861, in Dayton, Ohio. In 1879 he 
graduated from the high school of New 
Albany, Ind.; and in 1883 from Dart¬ 
mouth Medical college. He served as 
assistant in the New York Polyclinic; 
served in the outdoor poor department, 
of Bellevue hospital medical college; 
served in New York university medical 


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college, and in the German dispensary; 
and in 1883 was visiting surgeon to tlie 
heart and lungs and the throat and nose 
department in the New York dispensary. 
In 1884 he was surgeon of the steamship 
City of Merida, and also surgeon of the 
steamship Capulet, with practical expe¬ 
rience in yellow fever and small pox; 
and has also an equally practical expe¬ 
rience in Asiatic cholera. He has been 
secretary and president of the St. Paul 
society of homeopathic medicine and 
surgery; has been secretary and is now 
president of the Minnesota State Ho¬ 
meopathic Institute: was secretary of 
the board of health ot Paris, Texas; and 
has filled numerous other positions of 
trust and honor. He is the author of 
Arsenization Method of Preventing Chol¬ 
era and Yellow Fever; The Proper Dis¬ 
posal of Garbage in large Cities; and 
other works. 

LEWIS. CHARLES CLARKE, educa¬ 
tor, college president, author, was born 
Nov. 7, 1857, in Morley, St. Lawrence 
county, N. Y. He was educated at the 
State normal school of Potsdam. N. Y.; 
attended the Battle Creek college of Mi¬ 
chigan; studied at. Yale university; and 
has received the degrees of B. S.. and 
M. S. In 1882-86 he was professor of the 
English language and literature at Battle 
Creek college; in 1887-89 was principal 
of the Minnesota conference school oi 
Minneapolis; in 1891-96 was professor of 
English language and literature at Union 
college of Lincoln, Neb.; and in 1890- 
1902 was a principal of the Keene In¬ 
dustrial academy of Texas. In 1902-01 
he was president of Walla Walla college: 
and since 1904 has been president of 
Union college of College View, near Lin¬ 
coln, Neb. He is the author of Home and 
Church School Manual. 

LILLEY, MIAL E., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 30. 1850, in Canton, 
Pa. He was educated in the public and 
private school of his native state. In 188o 
he was admitted to the bar; and soon 
attained success in the practice of his 
profession in Towanda, Pa. In 1894-1900 
he wa^ prothonotary of Bradford county. 
Pa.; and in 1903-05 was assistant United 
States attorney for the middle district 
of Pennsylvania. In 1905-07 he was a 
member of the fifty-ninth congress from 
the fourteenth district of Pennsylvania 
as a republican; and served on several 
important committees. 

LYNCH, GERTRUDE, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in New London, Conn. 
Since 1895 she has been engaged in 
journalism in New York city. She is 
the author of The Fighting Chance; and 
The Wanderers; Winds of the World. 

MAIN, JOHN HANSON THOMAS, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was horn in 1859. 
in Toledo, Ohio. In 1880 he graduated 
with the degree of B. A. from Moore’s 
Hill colllege of Indiana; and subsequent¬ 
ly with the degree of Ph. D. from Johns 
Hopkins university. In 1882-87 he was 
professor of ancient languages at Moore’s 
Hill college; and in 1890-91 was assistant 
professor of Greek and latin at the Wo 
man’s college of Baltimore, Md. Since 
1892 he has been professor of Greek; in 
1902-06 was dean of the faculty; and 
since 1906 has been president of Iowa 
college at Grinnell, Iowa. He is a mem¬ 
ber of the American philological associ¬ 
ation; a member of the American archae¬ 
ological association; and has contributed 
valuable articles to various publications. 

MATTHEWS, WILLIAM BAYNHAM, 
lawyer, journalist, author, was born in 
July, 1850, in Lynchburg, Va. He was 


educated at the University of Virginia; 
and at Columbia University of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. In 1892-96 he was attor¬ 
ney for the state of Idaho; and since 1898 
has been Washington attorney for the 
Rio Grande Western Railroad Company. 
He is the author of Matthews’ Forms of 
Pleading; Guide for Executors and Ad- 
minstrators: Digest of Land Decisions; 
and Matthews’ Guide. In 1883-89 he was 
Chief of the Preemption Division of the 
United States General Land Office; and 
resides in Washington, D. C. 

McCORMICK, JOHN NEWTON, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, author, was born Feb. 1, 
1863, in Richmond, Va. In 1906 he was 
consecrated Bishop Co-adjutor of West¬ 
ern Michigan. He is the author of Distinc¬ 
tive Marks of the Episcopal Church; the 
Litany and the Life; and Pain and Sym- 
pat hy. 

McKINLEY, WILLIAM BROWN, busi¬ 
ness man, president, congressman, was 
born Sept. 5. 1856, in Petersburg, Ill. He 
was educated in the common schools; 
and studied two years in the University 
of Illinois. He has been principally en¬ 
gaged in building electrical railroads: 
and is president of the Illinois Traction 
Company. He was a member of th ? 
Board of Trustees of the University of 
Illinois. He was elected to the Fifty- 
ninth Congress from the Nineteenth Dis¬ 
trict of Illinois as a Republican for the 
term of 1905-07; received the re-election 
to the sixtieth Congress; and resides in 
Champaign, Ill. 

McREYNOLDS, PETER WESLEY, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
March 16, 1872, in Kokomo, Ind. He was 
educated at the Kokomo high school, In- 
daina Central normal school. Union 
Christian college, and at Hillsdale and 
Hiram colleges. He has filled pastorates 
in the Christian church for eight years 
in the state of Michigan. He has attained 
eminence in the religious and educa¬ 
tional world; and is now president of the 
Defiance college at Defiance, Ohio. 

MEES, ARTHUR, musical director, 
composer, author, was born Feb. 13, 1850, 
in Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from 
Concordia college of Fort Wayne, Ind.; 
and studied music in Berlin and Leipzig. 
He was conductor of the Cincinnati May 
Festival Chorus; assistant conductor of 
the Chicago orchestra; and assistant con¬ 
ductor of the American Opera with Theo¬ 
dore Thomas. He is now conductor of 
the New York Mendelssohn Club; con¬ 
ductor of the Albany Festival associa- 
t ion; and conductor of the Orange Men¬ 
delssohn union. He is the author of 
Chorus and Choral Music. 

MILLER, JAMES MARTIN, journalist, 
diplomat, author, was born June 24, 1859, 
in St. Mary’s, W. Va. He was educated 
in the public schools and at Pennington 
seminary of New Jersey. Since 1881 he 
has been engaged in journalistic work; 
as the representative of a syndicate has 
traveled in many foreign countries; has 
made two trips around the world, and 
lived in Italy, Germany and France for 
three years. He speaks the French and 
German languages fluently. In 1905 he 
was appointed United States consul to 
Germany at Aix la Chapelle; and since 
then has been appointed consul-general 
to New Zealand; and is now American 
consul to France at Rheims. He is the 
author of China, Ancient and Modern; 
The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roose¬ 
velt: The Martinique Disaster; and other 
works. 

MITCHELL, EDMUND, journalist, 
dramatist, author, was born March 19, 


1861, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1881 he 
graduated with the degree of M. A. from 
Aberdeen university, receiving the gold 
medal for English literature. He was 
engaged in journalism as editorial writer 
on the staff of the Glasgow Herald, The 
Times of India; The Melbourne Age of 
Australia; and on the editorial staff of 
the Los Angeles Times. He has traveled 
over the world as special newspaper cor¬ 
respondent on industrial topics; and at¬ 
tended as special correspondent the in¬ 
ternational expositions at Chicago, Ant¬ 
werp, Paris and St. Louis. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Temple of Death; Towards 
the Eternal Snows; Plotters of Paris; 
The Lone Star Rush; Only a Nigger; 
The Belforts of Culben; The Despoilers; 
In Desert Keeping; and other works. He 
is now on the directorate of several large 
industrial companies in the United 
States-; and resides in Los Angeles, Cal. 

MOWRY, MRS. BLANCHE SWETT, 
writer, author, was born Jan. 4, 1870, in 
Garland, Maine. She is the co-author oi 
American Pioneers; Essentials of United 
States History ;and First Steps in the 
History of England. 

MUNDY, EZEKIEL WILSON, clergy¬ 
man, librarian, genealogist, was born 
June 16, 1833, in Metuchen, N. .1. In 1860 
he graduated from the university of Ro¬ 
chester; in 1860-63 studied divinity in the 
Rochester Theological seminary; aud has 
received the degrees of A. M. and Litt. 
D. Since 1880 he has been librarian of 
the Public library of Syracuse, N. Y. In 
1863-66 he was pastor of the First Baptist 
church of Syracuse, N. Y.; in 1866-79 was 
pastor of the Independent church; and 
in 1883-93 was rector of St. Marks 
Church. He is a member of the Onon¬ 
daga Historical society, Onondaga Genea¬ 
logical society, New England historical 
genealogical society and the American 
historical association. 

MUNROE, HENRY SMITH, educator, 
scientist, author, was born March 25, 
1850, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1869 he 
graduated with the degree of E. M. from 
the Columbia School of Mines, subse¬ 
quently receiving the degrees of Ph. D. 
and Sc. D.; and also in 1869-70 took a 
post graduate course in chemistry and 
economic geology in the same institution, 
in 1870-71 he was geologist to the Ohio 
State geological survey; and also in 1870- 
72 was assistant chemist in the United 
States department of agriculture. In 1872 
-75 he was assistant geologist and min¬ 
ing engineer in the geological survey of 
Yesso, Japan; and in 1875-76 was pro¬ 
fessor of geology and mining in the uni 
versity of Toltio. In 1877-91 he was as¬ 
sistant professor, and since 1S91 has been 
professor of mining in the Columbia 
school of mines. Since 1895 he has been 
a member of the university council; and 
in 1897-99 was dean of the faculty of ap¬ 
plied science. In 1881-84 he was man¬ 
ager, and in 1890-92 was vice-president 
of the American institute of mining en¬ 
gineers. 

NYCE, BENJAMIN MARKLEY, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, was 
born Dec. 5, 1869, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 
1896-1904 he was pastor of the Presby¬ 
terian church of Lockport, N. Y. Since 
1904 he has been president of Talladega 
college of Alabama. 

PEARCE, HAYWOOD JEFFERSON, 
educator, college president, was born 
Aug. 26, 1871, in Columbus, Ga. He gradu¬ 
ated with the degree of A. B. from Emory 
college of Georgia; received the degree 
of A. M. from Chicago university; and 
the degree of Ph. D. from Wurzburg uni- 


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versity of Germany. He has attained 
note as a successful educator; and was 
president of Columbus Female college 
of Georgia. He is now associate-pres¬ 
ident of Brenau College-conservatory of 
Gainesville, Ga.; and professor of Phil¬ 
osophy and psychology in that institu¬ 
tion. 

POELS, HENRY ANDREW, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb.. 14, 1868, in 
Holland. Since 1904 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of old testament of the Catholic 
university of America at Washington, D. 
C. He is the author of several works 
in Dutch and French. 

POPE, JOHN DUDLEY, educator, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Dec. 28, 
1856, near Waukegan, Ill. in 1876-78 he 
attended Oberlin college preparatory; 
attended Lake Forest university in 1878- 
80; and in 1882 graduated from Dart¬ 
mouth college. In 1882-83 he taught 
languages in high school of Rochester, 
Minn.; in 1883-84 in Cassilton, N. D.; 
and in 1884-85 studied law in Chicago, Ill. 
He then took up the practice of law in 
Friend, Neb.; and in 1888-98 was a mem¬ 
ber of the Nebraska state senate. In 
1900 he was a republican nominee for 
congress from the fourth district of Ne¬ 
braska. He now practices his profession 
in Chicago and Waukegan, ill. 

PRYOR, ROGER ATKINSON, soldier, 
journalist, lawyer, diplomat, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 19, 1828, near 
Petersburg. Va. In 1845 he graduated 
from the Hampden-Sidney college from 
which institution he subsequently re¬ 
ceived the degree of LL. D.; and in 1848 
graduated from the University of Vir¬ 
ginia. In 1849-58 he was an editor in Pe 
tersburg, Va. He was special minister 
to Greece in 1855 under President Pierce, 
in 1859-61 was a member of United States 
congress; and in 1862 was a member 
of the confederate congress. In 1861 
he entered the confederate service as 
colonel; was in 1863 was breveted briga¬ 
dier-general; and in 1864-65 was a prison¬ 
er of war. After the civil war he took 
up the practice of law in the city of 
New York. In 1890 he was. appointed 
judge of the court of common Pleas; 
afterward was elected for the full term, 
of fourteen years; and by the constitu¬ 
tion of 1894 was transferred to the su¬ 
preme court of New York, retiring in 
1906. 

RAYMOND, ANDREW VAN VRANK- 
EN, clergyman, college president, was 
born Aug. 8, 1854, at Visscher’s Ferry, 
Saratoga county, N. Y. He was .educated 
at the Troy high school; in 1875 gradu¬ 
ated from Union college; in 1878 from 
the New Brunswick theological semi¬ 
nary; and has received the degree of A. 

M. , D. D. and LL. D. In 1878-81 he was 
pastor of the First reformed church at 
Paterson, N. J.; in 1881-87 was pastor at 
the Trinity reformed church at Plain- 
field, N. J.; and in 1887-94 was pastor of 
the Fourth presbyterian church at Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. Since 1894 he has been 
president of Union college and chancel¬ 
lor of Union university at Schenectady, 

N. Y. He is a prominent member of 
the Century, University, Alpha Delta Phi 
and Adirondack league clubs. 

RAYMOND, HENRY WARREN, joui- 
nalist, lecturer, public official; was born 
Sept. 10, 1847, in New York City. In 1869- 
71 he was correspondent and editor on 
the New York Times; became exchange 
editor and editorial writer on the Even¬ 
ing Post; and law reporter and editorial 
writer on the Brooklyn Union; was three 
years literary and musical editor of the 
Chicago Tribune and eighteen years 


editor and proprietor of the Evanston 
Telegraph. He has been Deputy Super¬ 
visor of the Unjted States twice; was 
private secretary to the Secretary of the 
Navy for four years. 

RAYNOLDS. JAMES WALLACE, Sec¬ 
retary of the Territory and Lieutenant- 
Governor of New Mexico, was born 
March 23, 1873, in Pueblo, Colo. He was 
educated in the local schools of Las 
Vegas, N. M., and at Canton, Ohio; and 
graduated from the Massachusetts Insti¬ 
tute of Technology. He is a succesful 
mining engineer; and in 1901-06 was Sec¬ 
retary of New Mexico. He is Lieutenant- 
Governor of New Mexico for the term of 
1906-10. 

REDE, WYLLYS, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 7, 1859, in Monmouth, lli. 
He has been rector of Protestant Episco¬ 
pal Churches in Maine, Virginia, Mary¬ 
land and Illinois; and since 1902 at 
Brunswick, Ga. He is the author of The 
Communion of Saints; otriving for the 
Mastery ;and is Secretary of the Diocese 
of Georgia. 

REDFIELD, CASPAR LAvATER, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Nov. 22, 1853, in 
Closter, N. J. He has been a machinist, 
teacher, clerk, draughtsman, mechanical 
engineer, inventor, and since 1892 a pa¬ 
tent solicitor of Chicago, Ill. He is the 
author of Control of Heredity. 

REED, BOARDMAN, soldier physician, 
editor, author, was born April 30, 1842, 
in Scottsville, N. Y. He served in the 
Civil war; and became Captain of Com¬ 
pany I Fiftieth Regiment Wisconsin 
Volunteer Infantry. Since 1896 he has 
practiced in special lines in Philadelphia, 
Pa, He was editor of International Med. 
Mag. 1898 to 1904, and is the author of 
Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines. 

REED, HENRY ALBERT, Army Offi¬ 
cer, author, was born June 23, 1844 in 
Plattsburg, N. Y. During tne Civil war 
he attained the rank of First Lieutenant. 
He then entered the regular army. In 
1870 he graduated from West Point Mili¬ 
tary Academy; has filled important posi¬ 
tions; Brigadier-General U. S. Army; 
and retired at his own request after 
one years service February 19th, 1906. 

He is the author of Topographical Draw¬ 
ing and Sketching; and Photography 
Applied to Surveying. 

REID, GEORGE CROGHAN, soldier, 
was born Dec. 15, 1840, in Lorain, Ohio. 
He was educated in the public schools 
of Lorain; in 1860-63 attended Oberlin 
college; and in 1873 graduated from Co¬ 
lumbian law school of Washington, D. C 
In 1864 he was commissioned lieutenant 
in the United States marine corps; in 
1864-66 served at headquarters; and in 
1867 on the steamship Monongahela in 
the West Indies squadron. In 1869 he 
was made first lieutenant; became cap¬ 
tain in 1884; adjutant and inspector with 
rank of major in 1894 ;and was promoted 
colonel in 1899. In 1904 he became 
brigadier-general and retired from active 
service. He served in the civil war, in 
the Spanish-American war, and in various 
departments of sea and barrack duty. 

RICHMOND, C. E., superintendent of 
schools, was born Nov. 17, 1872, in Bay 
Port, Mich. He was educated at the 
Michigan State normal college; and at 
the Michigan agricultural college. He 
has been principal of the village schools; 
teacher of science in high schools; and 
principal of high schools. He is now 
superintendent of schools of Litchfield, 
Ill.; and has filled various positions of 
trust and honor. 

RITTENHOUSE, JESSIE BELLE, 
critic, author, was born in Mount Mor¬ 


ris, N. Y. In 1895-99 she was in active 
newspaper work as correspondent and 
reviewer. She is editor of The Rubaiyat 
of Omar Kahyyam, and Lover’s Rubaiyat. 
She is the author of The Younger Ameri¬ 
can Poets, a volume of criticism. 

ROSS, ALBERT RANDOLPH, archi¬ 
tect. was born Oct. 26, 1868, in Westfield, 
Mass. He is architect of many muni¬ 
cipal buildings and memorial, the princi- 
cipal buildings and memorials, the princi- 
Ilouse of Elizabeth, N. J., public libraries 
of Washington, D. C.; and the public 
libraries of Columbus, Ohio, and Den-" 
ver, Colorado. 

RUOFF, HENRY WOLDMAR, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Nov. 3, 1867, in Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa. He was educated at the 
university of Indiana, Harvard univers¬ 
ity, Columbia university and abroad; 
and in 1901 received the degree of D. C. 
L. from Columbia university. In 1891- 
92 he was assistant in ethnology at the 
World’s Columbian exposition; and in 
1892-93 was a lecturer in psychology, 
ethics and philosophy of history at the 
Pennsylvania State college; in 1895-1904 
he was engaged in literary work and 
publishing; and in 1898-1904 was chiet 
editor of The King-Richardson company 
of Springfield, Mass. In 1904-06 he was 
associate-editor of the American Specta¬ 
tor; in 1906-07 was associate-editor of 
Ridgway’s; and since 1907 has been as¬ 
sociate-editor of the Nashville Tennes¬ 
sean. He has traveled extensively in 
Europe, Asia and Africa. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Century Book of Facts; Wo¬ 
man in the Middle Ages; The Pre- 
Christian Family; Home and State: 
Leaders of Men; The Capitals of the 
World; and The Universal Manual of 
Ready Reference. 

RUTH. JOHN W., business president, 
banker, was born Aug. 8, 1848, in East 
Huntington township, Pa. He was edu¬ 
cated in the public and private schools 
of his native state; and at Rankins 
school. He has for many years been en¬ 
gaged in the lumber business; and is the 
owner of a lumber mill and lumber yard. 
He is president of the Scottdale Savings 
and Trust company of Scottdale, Pa.; is 
interested in various other enterprizes, 
and is prominently identified with the 
business and public affairs of his city, 
county and state. 

SCHWEDTMAN, FERDINAND C., civil 
engineer, business president, was born in 
May, 1865, in Germany. He received a 
high school education in Hanover and 
Amsterdam. He then spent two years 
in South America; settled in New York 
in 1881; and there studied electrical and 
mechanical engineering. He was with 
the Edison electric company; and later 
was superintendent of water service of 
the Cotton Belt railway in New York 
city. In 1889 he moved to St. Louis, and 
became chief engineer of the Missouri 
Electric Light and Power company of 
that city. He was one of the organizers 
of the Wagner electric manufacturing 
company of St Louis, and its manager 
until 1904. He is now president of the 
Louisiana contracting company; secre¬ 
tary of the Citizens” industrial associa¬ 
tion of St. Louis; and secretary to the 
president of the National association of 
manufacturers. He is a member of the 
American institute of electrical engi¬ 
neers; a member of the St. Louis en¬ 
gineers’ club; and a member of the Mer¬ 
cantile club of St. Louis, Mo. 

SEE, THOMAS JEFFERSON JACK- 
SON, astronomer, mathematician, physic¬ 
ist, author, was born Feb. 19, 1866, near 
Montgomery City, Mo. He graduated 


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from the university of Missouri with the 
degrees of A. B„ L. B. and S. B.; and in 
1902 from the university of Berlin with 
the degree of A. M. and Ph. D. In 1887- 
89 he was in charge of the observatory 
at the university of Missouri; and in 
1893-96 organized and had charge of 
Yerkes observatory; and in 1896-98 was 
astronomer at the Lowell observatory. 
Since 1899 he has been professor of 
Mathematics- in the United States navy, 
in charge of the naval observatory at 
Mare Island, Cal. He has examined two 
hundred thousand fixed stars; and com¬ 
puted about fifty orbits of double stars. 
He is the author of Researches on the 
Evolution of the Stellar Systems; and 
various other works and researches on 
astronomical subjects. 

SEMPLE, ELLEN CHURCHILL, scien¬ 
tist, author, was born in 1863, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. She is the author of American 
History and Its -Geographic Conditions 

SHOUP, JAMES M., United States 
Marshall for Alaska, was born in 1849, in 
Armstrong County, Pa. He was educated 
in the public and private schools; stud¬ 
ied law and was admitted to the bar. He 
filled several county offices in Idaho; was 
a member of the first State Senate; and 
in 1892 was a delegate to the Republican 
National Convention. Since 1897 he has 
been United States Marshal for the First 
District of Alaska, and is now serving 
his second term of 1904-08. 

SMITH, GUY D., superintendent ot 
schools, was born July 31, 1873, in Ma¬ 
son, Mich. He was educated in the rural, 
graded and high schools; in 1891 gradu¬ 
ated from the high school of Mason; re¬ 
ceived the degree of A. B. from the uni¬ 
versity of Chicago in 1900. In 1891-94 he 
taught in the rural schools of Ingham 
county, Mich.; in 1898-1900 was instruc¬ 
tor in the Lansing high school; and in 
1900-03 was principal -of the St. Joseph 
high schools. Since 1903 he has been 
superintendent of schools at Ludington, 
Mich. He has been twice secretary and 
twice president of the Michigan high 
school oratorical association; was secre¬ 
tary of the Michigan state superintend¬ 
ents association; and is now serving his 
second term as secretary of the Northern 
Michigan teachers’ association. 

SPIVAK, CHARLES D., educator, li 
brarian, physician, author, was born Dec. 
25, 1861, in Russia. In 1882 he left Rus¬ 
sia on account of political views, avoid¬ 
ing thereby exile to Siberia. He became 
a laborer in New York, a mill hand in 
Maine, a farmer in New Jersey, and a 
teacher and librarian in Philadelphia, 
Pa. In 1890 he graduated from the Jef¬ 
ferson medical college; and in 1891-92 
studies at the Berlin university. In 1896 
1900 he was lecturer, and in 1897-98 was 
professor anatomy at the Denver school 
of medicine. In 1898-1902 he was edito' - 
of Medical Libraries; and librarian of the 
Denver academy of medicine. He is a 
member of the American Medical asso¬ 
ciation and othe medical and scientific 
societies. He is now professor of clinical 
medicine at the Denver and Gross med¬ 
ical school, a department of the univers¬ 
ity of Denver; and is also secretary of 
the Colorado medical library association. 

STAHL, JOHN MELOY, ediitor, pub¬ 
lisher, lecturer, was born Aug. 24, 1860, 
in Mendon, 111. He was educated in the 
country district schools and at the high 
school of Quincy, Ill., graduating as vale¬ 
dictorian in 1881. In 1883-87 he was 
editor of South and West of St. Louis, 
Mo. Since 1881 he has been editor, and 
since 1£8G proprietor, of Farmers’ Call 


of Quincy, Ill.; and is also an extensive 
farmer and land owner. In 1894-1903 he 
was secretary of the Farmers’ national 
congress; and is now president of the 
Farmers’ national congress, with head¬ 
quarters in Chicago, Ill. He is a member 
cf the executive committee and immigra¬ 
tion committee of the National civic fed¬ 
eration; and secretary of the national 
agricultural press league. He was secre¬ 
tary of the Illinois good road association. 
He was the first in 1879 to propose free 
delivery of mail to farmers; and was a 
leader in the movement until the reform 
was secured. He is specially known as a 
writer on economic-agricultural subjects; 
and has contributed extensively to Ameri¬ 
can literature. 

STANLEY, THOMAS WILLIAM, sup¬ 
erintendent of city schools, was born 
July 13, 1860, in Howard county, Mo. He 
was educated at the Sam Houston normal 
school of Texas; and at the Add-Ran col¬ 
lege of Thorp’s Springs, Texas. For the 
past twenty years he has been engaged 
hi educational work; and is now super¬ 
intendent of city schools at Weatherford, 
Texas. He has filled several positions 
of trust and honor; and hasi contributed 
extensively to educational literature. 

STOWELL, CALVIN LLEWELLYN, 
underwriter, financier, author was born 
Aug. 28, 1845, in Ansonia, Pa. He re¬ 
ceived a thorough education in private 
schools and academies. He began his 
business career in a New York banking 
institution; and since 1875 has been as 
sociated with the business and financial 
affairs of New York city and Rochester, 
N. Y. He became connected as director, 
manager, vice-president and president 
with nearly a score of railway and steam¬ 
ship companies, banks and fire insurance 
companies, and other corporations. He 
has always been interested in science 
and art; is a member of the American 
academy of political and social science; 
and a member of various other scienti¬ 
fic and literary societies in the United 
States, Great Britain and France, and 
has an excellent collection of works of 
art. He is the author of Christian 
Knighthood; and his contributions to 
scientific and literary publications have 
been a valuable acquisition to current 
literature. The history of the family 
may be found in Campden’s Britannia, 
Sir William Dugdale’s Baronage, and Sir- 
William Pool’s Survey of Devon. Among 
the names mentioned in the pedigree are 
those of Sir Henry Stawal, knight of 
Somersetshire, 1261; Baron Stawal, of 
Somersetshire, 1682; Sir Geoffrey Stawal, 
who was a grandfather in the reign of 
King Henry III.; and his son Geoffrey 
Stawal the Younger, who died in the 
thirty-seventh year of the reign of Ed¬ 
ward III,, being possessed of the lord- 
ships of Cotholston, Stawal, Stratton, 
Begbury and other estates in England 
and Wales. The present branch of tne 
family is descended from Gerald Stawal 
governor of Pembroke Castle in W’ales, 
and a great favorite of King Henry I„ 
whose wife was Nesta, daughter of Rees, 
prince of South Wales. In the family 
are found the earl of Pembroke, conquer¬ 
or of Ireland; the earls of Arundel, the 
barons of Dinham, and others of note. 
Sir John Stawall was one of the knights 
of the Bath at the coronation of King 
James I., and his son, John, one of the 
knights of the Bath at the coronation of 
Charles I. The descendants of this 
branch of the family came to the United 
States with the Puritan colonists, and 
settled on a large tract of land near what 


is now Boston Common. In England the 
family name was corrupted to Stowel, 
and in America became Stowell. 

TRIBBLE, HENRY WISE, clergyman, 
educator, college president, was born 
Feb. 8, 1860, in Hanover county, Va. He 
was educated at the Green Springs 
academy, Richmond college and the 
Southern Baptist theological seminary. 
He has been pastor of the First baptist 
church of Jackson, Tenn.; and pastor of 
the First baptist church of Charlottes¬ 
ville, Va. He has been trustee of the 
Southwestern baptist university; and is 
now trustee of the Southern baptist theo¬ 
logical seminary. He is president of 
Rawlings institute of Charlottesville, Va.; 
and pastor of the High street baptist 
church of that city. He has attained 
eminence in the religious and educational 
world; and has contributed extensively 
to current literature on educational and 
religious topics 

TROBEC, JAMES, clergyman. mis¬ 
sionary, bishop, was born July 10, 1838, 
in Austria. He received a classical edu¬ 
cation in Laibach, Austria; and studied 
philosophy and theology at St. Vincent’s 
college of Pennsylvania. In 1865 he 
was ordained priest at St. Paul, Minn.; 
in 1865-66 was pastor at Belle Prairie. 
Minn.; and in 1866-87 was pastor at 
Wabasha, Minn. He then organized a 
parish in St. Paul, Minn., and in 1887-97 
was its pastor. Sinde 1897 he has been 
Roman Catholic bishop of St. Cloud, 
Minn. 

ULKE, TITUS, mining engineer, metal¬ 
lurgist, author, was born Oct. 17, 1866, in 
Washington, D. CT. In 1891-98 he served 
as assistant, chief chemist or head assay- 
er for several of the leading American 
mining, smelting, or refining companies. 
In 1898-1900 he was assistant inspector of 
Ordnance in the United States army; 
metallurgist cf the World’s Columbian 
Exposition in 1893, and of the Consolidat¬ 
ed Lake Superior Company. In 1900-03; 
and is now assistant examiner, United 
States Patent Office; he is the author of 
Modern Electrolytic Copper Refining. 

ULMANN, ALBERT, banker, broker, 
author, was born July 2, 1861, in New 
York City. He is a successful stock bro¬ 
ker cf New York City; and a member of 
the New York Stock Exchange firm since 
1899. He is the author of Frederick 
Struther’s Romance Chaperoned; A 
Landmark History of New York, and 
New York’s Historic Sites. 

VAN CLEAVE, JAMES W„ manufac¬ 
turer, founder, was born in July, 1849, in 
Marion county, Ky. He received an 
academic education. For forty years he 
has been in the stove manufacturing 
business, first in Louisville and later in 
St. Louis; and for many years has been 
president of the Bucks stove and range 
company of St. Louis, Mo. He is presi¬ 
dent of the National association of manu¬ 
facturers; president of the Citizens’ in¬ 
dustrial association of St. Louis, being 
one of the founders of the National or¬ 
ganization of that order. He is a mem¬ 
ber of the Holland society; a member 
of the Glen Echo club; a member of the 
Mercantile club; and is prominently iden¬ 
tified with the business and public affairs 
of St. Louis, Mo. 

VAfr DEMAN, HENRY ELIAS, pomol- 
ogist, author, educator, was born Nov. 
3, 1845, in Ross County, Ohio. In 1863-65 
he served as a private soldier in the 
First Regiment of Ohio Volunteers Heavy 
Artillery. In 1878-9 was Professor of 
Botany and Practical Horticulture in the 
Kansas State Agricultural College. In 


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1886-93 he was chiet and founder of the 
Division of Pomology in the United 
States Department of Agriculture. He is 
president of the American Nut and Fruit 
Company. He is the author of Tropical 
and Semi-Tropical Fruits in America. 

VAN LIEW, CHARLES CECIL, educa¬ 
tor, college, president, was horn Feb. 15, 
1862, in Aurora, Ill. Since 1899 he has 
been president of the California State 
Normal School. 

VAN ZILE, PHILIP T„ soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born July 20, 1843, in 
Osceola, Pa. During the Civil war he 
served in Battery E, First Ohio Artillery. 
In 1868-72 he was prosecuting attorney 
of Eaton County, Mich.; and in 1872-75 
was judge of the Probate Court for that 
County. In 1875-78 he was Circuit. Judge 
of the Fifth Circuit of Michigan; and in 
1878-84 was United otates District At¬ 
torney for Utah. Is now and has been 
for 15 years Dean of Faculty District 
College of Law. He is the author of Bail¬ 
ments and Carriers; and Equity Pleading 
and practice. 

VINCENT, EDGAR LA VERE, journal¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 14, 1851, in Persia, N. 
Y. He is a printer and journalist, for 
two years was a representative in the 
New York state legislature; and since 
1889 has been engaged in farming at 
Maine, N. Y. He is the author of “Mar¬ 
garet Bowlby,” a political novel 

VINCENT, JOHN MARTIN, educator, 
author, was born Oct. 11, 1857, Elyria, 
Ohio. In 1895 he was made Associate 
Professor of History and in 1905 Profes¬ 
sor of European History in the John Hop¬ 
kins University of Baltimore. Md. He is 
the author of Government in Switzerland, 
and various other studies in historv. 

VOCKE, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, author, was born April 4, 1839, 
in Germany. He served through the civil 
war from private to captain in the twen¬ 
ty-fourth regiment Illinois volunteer in¬ 
fantry. In 1867 he began the practice of 
law in Chicago, Ill. He is the author of 
Administration of Justice in the United 
States. 

VOORHIES, FRANK COREY, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born June 1, 1877, in 
Woodbury, N. J. In 1895 he graduated 
from the William Penn Charter school of 
Philadelphia, Pa.; and in 1899 graduated 
from Princeton university. He became 
a reporter on the Omaha Daily News; 
later became editor of The Spatuala of 
Boston, Mass'.; and then for several 
years was an advertising writer of the 
Walter C. Lewis advertising agency of 
Boston, Mass. He is the author of Love 
Letters of an Irishwoman; Story of Liz¬ 
zie McGuire; Mrs. McPiggs of the Very 
Old Sratch; Reflections of Bridget Me 
Nulty; The Knocker; Twisted History; 
That Settles the Nolans; and Twisted 
Biographies. 

WAGNER, FRANK CASPAR, educator, 
mechanical engineer, was born Oct. 5, 
1864, in Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1886-89 he 
was engaged in engineering work with 
the Thomson, Houston Electric Com¬ 
pany; in 1890-96 was assistant professor 
of mechanical engineering at the Univer¬ 
sity of Michigan; 1896-1904 associate pro¬ 
fessor of Steam and Electrical Engineer¬ 
ing at Rose Polytechnic Institute; and 
since 1904, professor of Steam Engineer¬ 
ing at that Institution. 

WALKER, E. LAWTON, farmer, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Aug. 18, 
1867. in Pierce county, Ga. He was edu¬ 
cated at White Springs, Fla.: and is a 
farmer and lawver by nrofession. In 
1892-95 and in 1902 04 he was a Represent* 
alive in the Georgia State Legislature. 


In 1893-94 he was a member of Town 
Council of Blackshear, Ga.; and has been 
a member of the Pierce County Democra¬ 
tic Executive Committee. He is now a 
member of the Georgia State Senate from 
the Third District for the term of 1905- 
06. 

WALKER, GUY MORRISON, lawyer, 
financial expert, author, was born Jan. 
24, 1870, in Fort Wayne, Ind. He gradu¬ 
ated from De Pauw university; and has 
received the degrees' of A. B., A. M. and 
LL. D. from that institution. In 1891 he 
was admitted to the bar; has practiced 
his profession in New York, Michigan, 
Tennessee and Arkansas; and for ten 
years resided in China, and is an expert 
on Chinese matters. In 1894 he organized 
the Terre Haute trust company; in 1898 
organized the Security trust company of 
Toledo; and is now a lawyer and finan¬ 
cial expert of New York city. He is> the 
author of Railroads and wages; What 
Shall We Buy; Inter urban Railways; and 
other works. 

WALLACE, EDWIN SHERMAN, cler¬ 
gyman, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 
3, 1864, in Butler County, Pa. In 1888 he 
became pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church at Aberdeen, S. D. In 1893-98 he 
was United States Council for Palestine; 
and since 1899 has been pastor of the 
First Presbyterian Church at Greens- 
burg, Pa. He is the author of Jerusalem 
the Holy. 

WATT. DAVID ALEXANDER, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Dec. 27, 1865, 
in Maidstone, England. He has been en¬ 
gaged principally on the design and con¬ 
struction of locks and dams and other 
river improvements in the Ohio valley 
and elsewhere as United States Assistant 
Engineer. 

WEBB, WALTER LORING. civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born June 25, 1863, 
in Rye, N. Y. In 1888-92 he was instruc¬ 
tor in civil engineering at Cornell Uni¬ 
versity; and in 1893-1902 was a member 
of the faculty in the University of Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is now a consulting engin¬ 
eer of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author 
of Problems in the Use and Adjustment 
of Engineering Instruments and “Rail¬ 
road Construction. Also of two courses 
of instruction in Plotting and Topogra¬ 
phy and Railroad Engineering for the 
American School of Correspondence of 
the Armour Institute. 

WEBBER, SAMUEL GILBERT, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born July 24, 
1838, in Boston, Mass. In 1862-65 he 
was Assistant Surgeon in the United 
States Navy; and since 1865 has practic¬ 
ed his profession in Boston. Mass. He 
studied in Vienna 1866-67. He was Clin¬ 
ical Instructor in Nervous Diseases, Har¬ 
vard Medical School 1875-85; Resident 
Physician to Adams Nervine Asylum 
1885 to 1891; Professor Neurology, Tuffs 
College Medical School 1893 to 1902; vis¬ 
iting physician Boston City Hospital, de¬ 
partment Nervous and Renal Diseases, 
1877 to 1885. He is the author of Boyls- 
ton Prize Essay for 1866 on Cerebro 
Spinal Meningitis and of Treatise on 
Nervous Diseases. 

WEBER, HENRY ADAM, educator, 
chemist, author, was born July 12, 1845, 
in Franklin County, Ohio. In 1874-82 he 
vtas professor of chemistry in the Uni¬ 
versity of Illinois; and since 1884 has 
been professor of Agriculture Chemistry 
at the Ohio State University. He is the 
author of Select Course in Qualitative 
Analvsis. 

WEBSTER. JOHN CLARENCE, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born Oct. 21, 


1863, in Canada. Since 1899 lie has been 
professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology 
at the Rush Medical College of Chicago, 
Ill. He is the author of Text Book of 
Diseases of Women and Other Medical 
Works.. 

WEGMANN, EDWARD, civil engineer, 
author, was born Nov. 27, 1850, in Rio 
de Jerreiro, Brazil. In 1861-66 he attend¬ 
ed the public schools in Zurich, Switzer¬ 
land; in 1866-70 studied at the Brooklyn 
polytechnic institute; and in 1871 gradu¬ 
ated with the degree of C. E. from the 
New York university. In 1871-80 he was 
assistant engineer on the New York and 
Boston air line. New York elevated rail¬ 
way and other corporations. In 1880-84 
he was resident engineer on the New 
York West Shore and Buffalo railroad; 
and in 1884-1904 was division engineer 
for the Aqueduct commission of New 
York city. Since 1904 he has been ex¬ 
pert engineer and is now consulting en¬ 
gineer for the Aqueduct Commission of 
New York city. He is the author of the 
Design and Construction of Mason Dams; 
and The Water Supply of the City of 
New York. 

WEIMER. ALBERT B., lawyer, law' re¬ 
porter, author, was born Jan. 5, 1857, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1882 he began the 
practice of law. In 190 L he became law' 
reporter of the Superior Court of Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is the author of Railroad 
Law of Pennsylvania; and Corporation 
Law r of Pennsylvania. 

WEST, JAMES HARCOURT, publisher, 
author, w'as born Jan. 13, 1856, in Mel¬ 
rose, Mass. In youth he was a news¬ 
paper correspondent. In 1884-87 he w'as 
an Independent minister in Geneva, III.; 
and subsequently in Leicester and North 
Abington, Mass. Since 1888 he has been 
in the publishing business in Boston. 
Mass.; and in 1889 founded The New' 
Ideal Magazine. He is the author of The 
Complete Lift; Uplifts of Heart and 
Will; In Love With Love; and The Ninth 
Paradise. 

WHEELER, CHARLES GILBERT, 
chemist, geologist, inventor, author, was 
born July 23, 1836, in Canada. He has 
traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, and 
America; and in 1869 invented the Bab¬ 
cock Chemical fire extinguisher. He has 
been scientific expert for the Bell Tele¬ 
phone company; and president of the 
Chicago college of pharmacy. He is the 
author of Natural History Chart; The 
Terminative Mineralogy; Chemistry of 
Building Materials; and Medical Chemis¬ 
try. 

WHEELER, HENRY, soldier, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 22, 1835, in 
England. In 1855 he became a clergyman 
of the methodist episcopal church; and 
during the Civil war was Chaplain of 
the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Volunteer 
Cavalry. He is the author of Deacones¬ 
ses Ancient and Modern; One Thousand 
Questions and Answers on Methodisn 
The Probationer; and other Religious 
Works. 

WHITAKER, GEORGE, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, W'as born May 14, 1836, in 
Boston, Mass. Since 1861 he has filled 
pastorates in various cities; and since 
1900 has been pastor of Trinity Church 
of Cambridge, Mass., Now 1906 pastor of 
Centralville, Lowell, Methodist Episcopal 
Church. In 1887-91 he was president of 
Wiley University of Marshall, Texas; in 
1891-92 was president of Willamett Uni¬ 
versity and in 1899-1900 w'as president of 
the Portland Universtiv, Ore. 



WHITAKER, HERBERT C., educator, 
mathematician, inventor, was born Oct. 
31, 1862, at Cape May, N. J. Since 18S8 
he has been professor of Mathematics at 
the Central Manual Training High School 
of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of 
a Textbook on Trigonometry; and of 
numerous magazine articles on econom¬ 
ics, astronomy and mathematics. 

WHITE, WILBERT WEBSTER, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 
16, 1863, in Ashland, Ohio. He has been 
professor of Hebrew and Old Testament 
Literature in Xenia Theological Semin¬ 
ary; a teacher in the Moody Bible Insti¬ 
tute of Chicago, Ill. Since 1900 has been 
President of The Winona Bible School at 
New York City. He is the author of 
Thirty Studies in the gospel of St. John's 
studies in Old Testament Characters; 
The Natural Method of Memorizing; and 
Memory Training. 

WHITEHEAD. RICHARD HENRY, ed¬ 
ucator, physician, author, was born July 
27, in Salisbury, N. C. In 1891-1903 he 
was professor of Anatomy at the Univer¬ 
sity of North Carolina, and professor of 
Anatomy and Dean of Medical Depart¬ 
ment, University of Virginia. He is the 
author of Anatomy of the Brain. 

WHITNEY, LOREN HARPER, law¬ 
yer, soldier, author, was born Sept. 12, 
1839, in Berlin, Ohio. He served through, 
the Civil war, and was commissioned col¬ 
onel of the one hundred and fortieth reg¬ 
iment Illinois volunteer infantry, which 
he had organized. He served in twelve 
battles and forty skirmishes; and was 
twice wounded. Since then he has been 
engaged in the practice of law in Chica¬ 
go, Ill. He is the author of Parallels in 
the Lives of Buddha and Jesus. 

WHITNEY, MILTON, scientist, author, 
was born Aug. 2, 1860, in Baltimore, Md. 
He received the rudiments of his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools; and took a 
special three years’ course in chemistry 
at the Johns Hopkins university of Bal¬ 
timore, Md. In 1883 he became assistant 
chemist to the Connecticut agricultural 
experiment station; in 1886-88 was super¬ 
intendent of the experiment farm at the 
North Carolina experiment station; and 
in 1888-91 was professor of agriculture 
at the university of South Carolina, and 
vice director of the South Carolina ex¬ 
periment station. In 1891-94 he was 'soil 
physicist at the Maryland experiment sta¬ 
tion; and since 1894 has been chief bu¬ 
reau of soils in the United States depart¬ 
ment of agriculture. He is the author of 
numerous Reports on Soil Physics. 

WHITSON, JOHN HARVEY, author, 
was bom Dec. 28, 1854, near Seymour, 
Ind. He has practiced law in Seymour, 
Ind.; and then entered journalism as edi¬ 
tor and traveling correspondent. Lived 
several years on the Western Plains. At 
present a resident of Massachusetts. Now 
engaged in book and magazine writing. 
He is the author of The Young Ditch 
Rider; Barbara A Woman of the West; 
With Fremont, the Patfinder; A Courier 
of Empire; Campaigning with Teppe- 
canoe; The Rainbow Chasers; Justice 
"Wingate; Ranchman: and other stories. 

WHITTEN, ROBERT HARVEY, editor, 
librarian, was born Oct. 9, 1873, at 

South Bend, Ind. Since 1898 he has 
been Sociology librarian and editor of the 
Yearbook of Legislation of the New 1 orlc 
State Library. He is the author of Pub¬ 
lic Administration in Massachusetts. 

WICKERSHAM, WILLIAM HOWARD, 
business man, legislator, was born Nov. 
21, 1872, in Media, Pa. He received a 
thorough education in the public schools 
of Los Angeles, Cal.; and also studed un- 


ADDENDA. 

der private tutors. He is manager of 
The Morgan Oyster Company of San Ped¬ 
ro, Cal.; and prominently identified with 
the business and public affairs of that 
city. He has been school trustee for the 
City of San Pedro; and has filled various 
other positions of trust and honor. He 
is a Representative in the California 
State Legislature for the term of 1905-06; 
and resides in San Pedro, Cal. 

WIGGIN, TWING BROOKS, physician, 
author, was born Jan. 8, 1865, in Alle¬ 
gheny city, Pa. Since 1901 he has been 
adjunct professor of the practice of med¬ 
icine and clinical medicine at the Col¬ 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons. He is 
the author of Outlines of Physiology. 

WILBUR, HENRY W., printer, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was bom May 15, 1851, in 
Easton, N. Y. He was educated in the 
public schools of New York and New 
Jersey; attended the high school of Vine- 
land, N. J.; and studied in the Union 
village academy of Greenwich, N. Y. He 
is a printer by profession; and for the 
past thirty years has been an editor and 
writer. In 1876-84 he was editor of the 
Vineland, Independent; in 1888-91 was 
editor of the Hammonton Mirror; in 1896 
-98 was on the editorial staff of the 
New York Voice; and in 1901-02 was 
editor of Gunton’s Magazine; and in 
1899--1905 was editor of the New York 
Defender. He is recommended minister 
of the religious society of friends; and 
general secretary of the committee for 
the advancement of Friends’ principles of 
friend’s general conference; and resides 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WILDER. HARRIS HAW i HORNE, ed¬ 
ucator, zoologist, author, was born April 
7, 1864, in Bangor, Maine. Since 1892 he 
has been professor of zoology at Smith 
College of Northampton, Mass. He is the 
author of Inverterbrate Zoology; Synop¬ 
sis of Animal Classification; and numer¬ 
ous technical papers on vertebrate anat¬ 
omy. 

WILDMAN, EDWIN, journalist, author, 
was born May 9, 1867, in Corning, N. Y. 
In 1897, Vice and Deputy Consul General 
Hongkong, China. In 1898-1900 he was 
special war correspondent in the Phillip- 
pines; and in 1900-01 in China for the 
Hearst Newspapers. Later N. Y. World, 
Outing Magazine. He is the author of 
Aguinaldo a Narrative of Filipino Ambi¬ 
tions. Editor and President M. A. P., in 
America, 41 Union Sq., New York. 

WILLIAMS, FRANCIS CHURCHILL, 
journalist, author, was born April 23, 
1869 in Philadelphia, Pa. For ten years 
he was an editor of the Philadelphia 
Evening Bulletin. In 1901 he became 
associated with the publishing house of 
J. B. Lippincott Company, for which 
company he is literary advisor. He is 
the author of J. Devlin-Boss; The Cap¬ 
tain and Stories of the Colleges. 

WILLIAMS, HERBERT UPHAM, phy¬ 
sician, pathologist, author, was born 
Nov. 28, 1866, in Buffalo, N. Y. Since 
1889 he has practiced his profession in 
Buffalo, N. Y.; and since 1894 has been 
professor of Pathology and Bacteriology 
at the University of Buffalo. He is the 
author of Manual of Bacteriology. 

WILLING, JOHN THOMSON, design¬ 
er, artist, author, was bora Aug. 5, 
1860, in Toronto, Canada. He is a de¬ 
signer of book plates; and from 1900- 
03 has been art manager of The North 
American of Philadelphia, Pa.; and since 
1903 art manager of the associated 
Sunday Magazine, and the American 
Lithographer Company of New York. He 


lx 

is the author of Some Old Time Beau¬ 
ties; and Dames or High Degree. 

WILLIS, JOHN CALVIN, educator, 
college president, was born Nov. 1, 1862, 
in Lawrenceburg, Ky. He was educated 
at the Kentucky university and at the 
university of Wooster, Ohio. He has re¬ 
ceived the degrees of Ph. D. and M. D. 
He was vice-president of Kentucky uni¬ 
versity of Lexington, Ky.; and professor 
of psychology and psychiatry in that in¬ 
stitution until 1906. Since 1906 he has 
been president of the university of 
Louisville, Ky. He has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to educational and scientific 
journals. 

WILSON, GEORGE WEST, journalist, 
founder, public official, was born May 10, 
1859, in Boone county, Ky. He was edu¬ 
cated in the public schools and under 
private instructors; his principal instruc¬ 
tor being professor Todd, brother-in-law 
of Lincoln. He received the nomination 
for the state legislature; has always 
been an ardent political worker; and in 
1881 founded the Orange Lake Floridan. 
In 1897 he took charge of the Florida 
Citizen, which the same years was con¬ 
solidated with the Times-Union. He is 
president and editor of the Florida 
Times’-Union, now one of the leading 
daily newspapers in Florida. For three 
years he was president of the Semi-Trop¬ 
ical exposition, in 1889 was commissioner 
to the Paris expositioh; and for six years 
was president of the board of trustees of 
the University of Florida. He was col¬ 
lector of internal revenue under president 
Cleveland; and in 1892 was chairman of 
the Florida democratic state committee 
campaign. 

WILSON, DANIEL MUNRO, clergy¬ 
man, author, wasi born April 24, 1848, in 
Scotland. In 1872 he became a Pastor 
of the Unitarian Church at Melrose, 
Mass.; in 1879 pastor of First Church, 
Quincy, Mass,; in 1898 pastor of the 
Third Unitarian Congregational Church 
of Brooklyn,' N. Y.; and is now pastor 
of First Church, Northfield Mass. He is 
the autnor of Chapel of Ease and Church 
of Statesmen; and Where American In¬ 
dependence Began. 

WILSON, FLOYD BAKER, lawyer, 
author, was born June 23, 1845, in Water- 
vliet, N. Y. In 1873-80 he practiced law 
in Chicago, Ill.; and since 1880 has 
practiced law in New York City, his spe¬ 
cialty being corporation and mining law. 
He is the author of Up Hill, a novel; 
and Paths to Power; Man Limitless; 
works on progressive thought. He has 
also translated the comedy of La Coja y 
el Encogido. 

WILSON, HUNTINGTON, diplomat, 
was born Dec. 15, 1875, in Chicago, 111. 
He was educated in Europe and Amer¬ 
ica, and graduated from Yale Universi¬ 
ty. In 1901 he was charge d’ Affaires 
of the United States at Tokio, Japan, 
in 1902 and again in 1903 was also United 
State Charge d’ Affaires at the same cap¬ 
ital; and has filled various other posi¬ 
tions of trust and honor. Since 1897 he 
has been in the United States Diplomatic 
Service; and is now Secretary of Lega¬ 
tion at Tokio, Japan. 

WILSON, VICTOR TYSoK educator, 
draftsman, author, was born April 11, 
1864, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1887-93 he 
was in business in New York City; from 
] 893 to 1903 he was a teacher of drawing 
in Sibley College of Cornell University. 
Since 1904 he has been Ass’t Prof. Gen¬ 
eral Engineering Drawing in Univ. of 
Illinois. He is the author of Free Hand 
Perspective; and Free Hand Lettering. 



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WILTSE, CARLOS PALMER, justice 
of the peace, was born Aug. 25, in Muk- 
wonago, Waukesha county, Wis. He was 
educated at the Peru state normal school 
of Nebraska. He is a lawyer and editor; 
has been postmaster of Newport, Neb.; 
and is now a justice of the peace of 
Rock county, Neb. He has filled various 
other positions of trust and honor; and 
resides in Newport, Neb. 

WILSTACH, PAUL, dramatist, author, 
was bom July 1, 1870, in LaPayette, Ind. 
He is the author of Solitaire, Fifty Games 
of Patience. His plays of Polly Prime- 
rose, A Capital Comedy; A Gay Deceiver; 
Rufus Rugg; and others have been pro¬ 
duced. 

WINCHELL, SAMUEL ROBERTSON, 
business manager, author, was born Nov. 
26, 1843, in North East, iN. Y. He has 
been editor, publisher and proprietor of 
various educational journals; and in 1894 
-97 was principal of the Winchell Aca¬ 
demy' of Evanston, Ill. Since 1892 he 
has been manager of Winchell’s teach¬ 
ers’ agency and lecture bureau. He is 
the author of Latin Prose Composition; 
and several other educational works. 

WINSLOW, CHARLES EDWARD Am- 
ORY, educator, bacteriologist, author, 
was born Feb. 4, 1877, in Boston, Mass. 
Since 1902 he has been instructor, since 
1905 Assistant Professor of Biology in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
He is the author of a translation of En- 
dermann, “Magda"; and of text-books 
and scientific papers upon various prob¬ 
lems in Bacteriology' and sanitary science. 

WINSLOW. ISAAC OSCAR, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 30. 1856, in Fair- 
field, Maine. He was educated at the 
Friend's school of Providence, R. I.; and 
graduated in 1878 and 1880 with the de¬ 
grees of A. B. and A. M. from Brown 
university. In 1878 he became principal 
of the Federal street school of Provi¬ 
dence; was instructor in the technical 
high schol of Providence; and since 1899 
has been principal of the Thayer street 
school of Providence, R. I. He is the 
author of Principles of Agriculture; The 
Natural Arithmetic; and a series of Geo¬ 
graphies and a series of Geographical 
Readers. 

WITHERSTINE, C. SUMNER, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born Feb. 
15, 1854, in New York City. Since 1878 
he has practiced his profession in New 
York City and Philadelphia, Pa. He is 
the author of International Pocket Med¬ 
ical Formulary. 

WOLL, FRITZ WILHELM, educator, 
chemist, author, was born May 23, 1865, 
in Norway, since 1904 he has been asso¬ 
ciate professor of Agricultural Chemistry 
at the University of Wisconsin. He is 
the author of Agricultural Calender; 
Dairy Calender; and A Book on Silage; 
joint author of Testing Milk and Its pro¬ 
ducts; and translator of Grotenfelt’s 
Principles* of Modern Dairy Practice. 

WOOD, CASEY ALBERT, physician, 
author, was born Nov. 21, 1856, in Cana¬ 
da. In 1877-1901 he practiced medicine 
in Montreal, Canada; now practices his 
profession in Chicago, Ill.; and has been 
president of the Chicago Opthalmological 
society'. He is the author of several text¬ 
books on Diseases of the Eye. 

WOOD, CHARLES SEELY, clergyman, 
author, was born April 19, 1845 in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio, in 1869 he became a pastor 
of the Presbyterian Church. He is the 
author of Alice and Her Two Friends; 
On the Frontier with St. Clair; The 
Sword of Wayne; and Camp-Fires On The 
Scioto. 


WOOD, THOMAS J., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Sept. 30, 
1844, in Athens county, Ohio. He was 
educated in the high schools of Terre 
Haute, Ind.; and in 1868 graduated from 
the law department of the Michigan 
state university. Since 1869 he has 
practiced law in Crown Point, Ind.; for 
four years was state's attorney; and has 
always been prominently identified with 
the democratic party. For four years 
he was a member of the Indiana state 
senate; and for two years was a mem¬ 
ber of the forty-eighth congress from In¬ 
diana as a democrat. He was much talk¬ 
ed of as a favorite for the presidential 
candidacy; and had the Alton B. Parker 
movement failed on the first ballot, Mr. 
Wood’s name would have been placed be¬ 
fore the convention, and he would have 
received thirty-nine votes on the next 
ballot. He is still actively engaged in 
the practice of law; and resides in 
Point, Ind. 

WOODBURY, CHARLES JEPTHA 
HILL, civil engineer, inventor, author, 
was born May 4, 1851, in Lynn, Mass. 
Since 1894 he has been assistant engineer 
with the American Bell Telephone Com¬ 
pany of Boston, Mass. In 1884 he re¬ 
ceived the Alastian Medal from the So¬ 
ciety Industrielle de Mulhouse for work 
on mill engineering. In 1885 he received 
the Johns Scott Medal from the city of 
Philadelphia for meritorious electrical in¬ 
ventions. He is the author of Fire Pro¬ 
tection of Mills. 

WOODFORD, ARTHUR BURNHAM, 
educator, economist, author, was born 
Oct. 7, 1861, in Winsted, Conn. Since 
1897 he has been lecturer, and instructor 
at the Hopkins Grammar School of New 
Haven, Conn. He is the Author of The 
Economic Primer. 

WOODRING, JAMES D„ educator 
clergyman, college president, was born 
in 1854, in Lehigh county, Pa. He has 
been pastor of churches in Betlehem, 
Allentown, Reading and Philadelphia. 
Since 1902 he has been president of Al¬ 
bright College at Myerstown, Pa. 

WOODRUFF, FRANK EDWARD, edu¬ 
cator, was born March 20, 1855, in Eden, 
Vt. Superintendent of schools at Bruns¬ 
wick, Maine 1900-1904; since 1887 pro¬ 
fessor of Greek at Bowdoin College; 
author of Greek Prose Composition; and 
New Greek Prose Composition. 

WOODRUFF, THOMAS ADAMS, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born June 4, 1865, in 
Canada. Since 1890 he has practiced 
medicine in Chicago, Ill. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Common Diseases of the 
Eye. 

WOODS , ROBERT HAHN, soldier, 
journalist, was born April 17, 1840, in 

Greenville, Pa. During the Civil war he 
was a soldier in the Sixty-fourth Regi¬ 
ment Illinois Volunteer; and was twice 
brevetted for gallantry on the field of 
battle. He is a successful journalist and 
editor. He was Department Commander 
of the Grand Army of the Republic for 
Illinois for the term of 1905; and resides 
in Chicago, Ill. 

WOODWARD, FRANKLIN COWLES, 
educator, clergyman, college president, 
author, was born May 27, 1849, in Vir¬ 
ginia. In 1875 he was* ordained a clergy¬ 
man in the Methodist Episcopal Church 
South. In 1897-1902 he was president of 
the South Carolina College; and in 1906 
Professor of English Literature in Rich¬ 
mond Woman’s College. He is the author 
of English in the Schools; and English 
Analysis. 


WOODWARD, P. HENRY, journalist, 
public official, banker, author, was born 
March 19, 1833, in Franklin, Conn. In 
1862-65 he was editor of the Hartford 
Courant. In 1865-76 he was a special 
agent of the Post Office Department; 
and in 1881-85 had charge of the pre¬ 
paration of evidence in the Star Route 
cases. Since 1885 he has lived in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn.; is president of the Dime Sav¬ 
ings Bank of that city and vice presi- 
den of the Connecticut Life Ins. Co. He 
is the author of Guarding the Mail; In¬ 
surance in Connecticut; and Manufact¬ 
ures in Hartford.. 

WOOLSEY, GEORGE, physician, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born May 2, 1861 in 
New Haven, Conn. In 1890 98 he was 
professor of Anatomy and clinical surgery 
at the iNew York University Medical 
School; and since 1898 has filled the 
same chair at Cornell University and 
Medical College in New York City. He 
is the author of Applied Surgical Ana¬ 
tomy. He is visiting Surgeon to Bellevue 
Hospital and associate visiting Surgeon 
to the Presbyterian Hospital of York 
City. 

WORTHINGTON, EDWARD WIL¬ 
LIAM. clergyman, author, was born May 
10, 1854, in Batavia, N. Y. Since 1887 
he has been rector of Grace Church of 
Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of 
Ember Days and other Papers; The Holy 
Eucharist Devotionaliy Considered; and 
Occasional Officers of the Prayer Book. 

WRIGHT, JOHN EDWARD, journalist, 
editor, was born Oct. 14, 1861, in Tou¬ 
lon, Ill. »Since 1885 he has* been engaged 
in journalis min Chicago, III. In 1892- 
1900 he was city editor, and since 1901 
has been managing editor of the Chicago 
Evening Post. In 1889-90 he was presi¬ 
dent of the Pre«s club. 

WULLING, FREDERICK JOHN, edu¬ 
cator, pharmacologist, author, was born 
Dec. 24, 1866, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Since 
1892 he has been Dean of the Faculty; 
and professor of pharmacutical chemistry 
in the University of Minnesota. He is 
the author of Medical and Pharmacutical 
cnemistry and Evolution of Botany. 

YODER. ROBERT ANDERSON, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, was 
born Aug. 16. in Lincoln county, N. C. 
For many years he served as pastor of 
St. James Church of Newton, N. C.; was 
president of Concordia College in 1888- 
91; and president of Lenoir College in 
1891-1901. He is now pastor of Em¬ 
manuel’s Church of Lincolnton, N. C. 

YOUNG, MARTHA, writer, was born 
near Greensboro, Ala. She is a public 
reader and magazine contributor. She 
is the author of Plantation Songs; and 
Plantation Bird Legends; and Bessie 
Bell. 

ZECKWER. RICHARD, musician, com¬ 
poser, author, was born April 30, 1850, 
in Prussia. In 1869 be became a teacher 
in the Philadelphia Musical Academy; 
and in 1876 became proprietor of that 
institution. He is the inventor of the 
Liberating of the Ring Finger for the 
perfection of Technique. He is the com¬ 
poser of Festival Overture and Bride of 
Messina ; and the author of A Scientific 
Investigation of Touch. 

ZEISLER, SIGMUND, lawyer, orator, 
was born, April 11, 1860, in Austria; in 
1884 he graduated from the Northwestern 
University Law School with the degree 
of LL. B.; and has since practiced law 
in Chicago, Ill. In 1885 he married Fan¬ 
nie Bloomfield, the noted pianist of Chi- 


ADDENDA. 


xi 


cago, Ill., he was Associate Counsel in 
18886-87 for the defense in the Anarchist 
cases; and in 1893-94 was chief Assistant 
Corporation Counsel ofr the city of Chi¬ 
cago. He is distinguished as an orator; 
stumped the country in 1896 for McKin- 




ley on the money issue, and in 1900 for and publisher; and is now president of 
Bryan on the issue of imperialism. the Reading Times Publishing Company 

ZIMMERMAN, THOMAS C., journalist, of Reading, Pa. He is the author of Olla 
author, was born Jan. 23, 1838, in Le- Podrida two volumes of translations, ad- 
banon, Pa. He learned the printing busi- dresses, hymns and poems, 
ness; since 1869 has been a journalist 






ADDENDA 


ABBOT, EDWIN HALE, railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born Jan. 26, 1834, in Beverly. 
Mass. He is president and treasurer of 
the Wisconsin Central railroad. 

ABBOTT, FRANK FROST, educator, 
author, was born March 27. 1860, in Red¬ 
ding, Conn. Since 1891 he has oeen in¬ 
structor of latin at the University ol 
Chicago. He is the author of Repetition 
in Latin. 

ABBOTT, MRS. MARY PERKINS, 
Journalist, author, was born Oct. 17, 1857, 
in Salem, Mass. Since 1893 she has been 
book-reviewer of the Chicago Times-Her- 
ald. She is the author of Alexia; and The 
Beverleys. 

ABEL, JOHN J., physician, author, was 
born May 19, 1857, in Cleveland, Ohio. He 
is in charge of the department of physi¬ 
ological chemistry at Johns Hopkins 
University Medical School of Baltimore 
Md. He is the author of special Research¬ 
es on animal tissues and fluids. 

ABELL, EDITH, musician, vocalist, 
was born Dec. 25. 1846, in Boston. Mass. 
In 1868 she made her debut in Philadel¬ 
phia as Arline in the Bohemian Girl, 
and also appeared in the larger cities 
of the United States. She also was suc¬ 
cessful in opera in Italy and London. She 
prepares pupils for the concert and oper¬ 
atic stage in Boston, Mass. 

ABERNETHY, WILLIAM ELLIS, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was born 
May 28, 1860, in Rutherford College. N 
C. He has been president of Rutherford 
College since 1894. He is the author of a 
volume of lectures. 

ADAMS, ANDREW N.. clergyman, stat" 
senator, genealogist, author, was born 
Jan. 6, 1830. in Fair Haven. Vt. He has 
filled pastorates in Needham and Frank¬ 
lin, Mass.; and in 1860 retired Dorn the 
ministry. Since 1861 he has been engage' 
In the mercantile business at Fair Haven 
Vt.; and for twenty-five years a trustee 
of the State Normal school, and is pres 
ident of the board. In 1884-85 he was a 
representative in the Vermont state leg¬ 
islature; and a member of the State 
Senate in 1888-89. He is the author ot 
History of Fair Haven; and Genealogy 
of .Tames and William Adams. 

ADAMS, CHARLES JOSIAH. clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, was born in New 
Lisbon, Ohio, Oct. 31, 1850. Since 1896 he 
has been rector of St. Luke’s Church o r 
Rossville, N. Y. He is the author of is 
Man Alone Immortal; The Matterhorn 
Head, and Other Poems. 

ADAMS, CYRUS CORNELIUS, journal¬ 
ist. lecturer, author, was born Jan 7 
1849, in Naperville, Ill. He was first pr^s 
ident. department of geography. Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences: and in 
1889-90 made its geographical collection. 
Since 1884 he has been on the editorial 
staff of the New York Sun. He is tV- 
author of Commercial Geography for 
High Schools. 

ADAMS, HENRY A.. Jr., naval officer, 
was born in 1833 in Pennsylvania. 
was commissioned as lieutenant in 18 
and was on the Brooklyn at the pas¬ 
sage of forts St. Philip and Jackson, and 
the apture of New Orleans in 1862. IT 
volunteered for anything and everything. 
After the taking of Richmond he was 
one of the party that accompanied Pres 


ident Lincoln on his entry into the city. 
He was commissioned as commander in 
1S66. 

ADAMS, JAMES BARTON, soldier, 
author, poet, was born April 17, 1843, in 
Jefferson county, Ohio. He served in the 
sixth Iowa infantry until the close of 
the civil war ; and in 1873-77 served in the 
Indian wars. He is the author of Breezy 
■Western Verse. 

ADAMS. JOHN W., geologist, was 
born Sept. 4. 1844, in Whitesburg, Ky. He 
has attained a national reputation as a 
noted geologist of Kentucky. 

ADAMS, MAUDE, actress, was born 
Nov. 11, 1872, in Salt Lake City, Utah. 
She has attained success in Little Minis¬ 
ter. Her real name is Kiskadden. 

ADAMS. ROBERT NEWTON, soldier, 
clergyman, was born Sept. 15, 1835, m 

Fayette county, Ohio. He served through 
the civil war, and attained the rank of 
brigadier-general. He now dlls a pastor¬ 
ate in the Presbyterian church at Min¬ 
neapolis, Minn. 

ADAMS, SMITH, jeweler, genealogist, 
was born April 22. 1828. in Newburyport, 
Mass. He is a cloekmaker of Millfown. 
Maine. He is the author of the genealogy 
and history of a part of the Newbury 
Adams Family. 

ADAMSON. PENRHYN STANLEY, il¬ 
lustrator, author, was born March 19 
1877. in Scotland. He has done drawing 
for Life, Judge, Scribner’s and Harper’s. 
He is the author of College Girls. 

ADDAMS, JANE, lecturer, social re¬ 
former, was born Sept. 6, 1860, in Cedar- 
ville. Ill. She i* a well known writer and 
lecturer on social settlement work, .and 
social and political reforms. She is head 
resident of Hull House of Chicago, Ill. 

ADDISON, DANIEL DULANY. clergy¬ 
man, author; was born in Wheeling, W. 
Va., March 11, 1863. Since 1895 he has 
been rector of All Saints Church of 
Brookline, Mass. He is the author of 
Lucy Larcom, Life, Letters and Diary; 
Phillips Brooks; New England Town in 
the Civil War; Life and Times of Edward 
Bass, First Bishop of Massachusetts; All 
Saints Church, Brooklyn; and The Clergy 
ir. American Life and Letters. 

ADLER, CYRUS, librarian, archaelogi- 
ist, author, was born Sept. 13, 1863, in 
Van Buren, Ark. He has been president 
of the American Jewish Historical So¬ 
ciety; and since 1892 librarian oi Smith¬ 
sonian Institution of Washington, D. C. 
He is the author of Told in the Coffee 
House, a book of Turkish Tales. 

AGRAMONTE, EMILIO, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Nov. 28, 1844, in Cuba. 
During thirty years of active work in 
New York, he has trained many good 
singers. He is the composer of numerous 
songs and sacred compositions; and var¬ 
ious lectures*. 

AIKEN, WILLIAM MARTIN, architect, 
was born April 1, 1855. in charleston. B 
C. In 1895-97 he was supervising archi¬ 
tect o: the United States Treasury Depart¬ 
ment; and since 1897 has been in practice 
in New York City. He was concerned in 
the designing and erection of the mint 
buildings at Philadelphia and Denver; 
and numerous postoffice and custom¬ 
house buildings. 


AINSWORTH, FREDERICK CRAY¬ 
TON, army surgeon, was born in Wood- 
stock, Vt., Sept. 11, 1852. He has attained 
the rank of brigadier-general. He, devised 
and introduced the index-record system, 
by means of which all military and med¬ 
ical records have been reproduced in such 
a way as to make the full history of any 
soldier immediately available. The adop¬ 
tion of this system resulted in saving 
nearly half-a-million dollars annually. 

ALBERT. ARISTIDES, clergyman, 
orator, was born in 1853 in St. Charles 
parish, La. He has been a member of 
several Methodist conferences: and in 
1881-84 was assistant editor of the South¬ 
western Christian Advocate, succeeding 
to the editorship in 1887. He was the 
orator of the colored people of Louisiana 
at the World’s exposition at. New Orleans 
in 1885. 

ALBRIGHT. EDWIN, lawyer state 
senator, jurist, was born Nov. 8, 1838, ir. 
Lehigh County, Pa. For three years he 
was district attorney; and for six years 
was a member of the Pennsylvania state 
senate. Since 1878 he has been president 
judge of the district court of Lehigh 
County. Pa. 

ALDEN. JOHN CARVER musician, 
composer, was born Sept. 11. 1852. in 
Boston. Mass. Since 1899 he has been 
head of the piano department at the 
Quincy Mansion School of Wollaston 
Mass. He is the composer of pianoforte 
music, songs and anthems. 

ALDEN. MARCH, journalist, author 
was horn Sept. 29, 1869, in Easton, Pa. 
Since 1 SOI he has been on the staff of the 
Philadelphia Press. He is the author of a 
volume upon the Philippines. 

ALDERMAN. EDWTN ANDERSON 
educator, college president. lecturer, 
author, was horn in Wilmington. N. C.. 
May 15. 1861. Since if?96 he has be-n 
president of North Garoiina University. 
He i? the author of William Hooper. Sig¬ 
ner of the Declaration; and School TTis- 
try of North Carolina. 

ALDRTCH. EDGAR, lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was horn in 1848 in Pittsburg N. 
H. In 1885 he was a member and sneaker 
of the New Hampshire legislature. Since 
1891 he has been judge of the TTnited 
States for the district of New Hamp¬ 
shire. 

ALEXANDER. .TAMES WADDETJ , 
president author, was horn July 19, 1839, 
in Princeton. N. J. He was a member 
of the New York bar until 1866. when he 
entered the Equitable life insurance So¬ 
ciety of the United States, with which he 
has been since connected; and on the 
death of Henry B. Hyde, in 1899. suc¬ 
ceeded to the office of president. He is 
known as a public speaker; and is the 
author of Princeton, Old and New. 

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM DE WTTT 
civil engineer, author, was horn April 2. 
1833. in Honolulu. He has been surveyor 
general of Hawaiian Islands since isl¬ 
and assistant in United States Coast Sur¬ 
vey since Feb. 1, 1901. He is the author 
of A Brief History of the Hawaiian Peo¬ 
ple; History of the Later Years of th° 
Hawaiian Monarchy; Hawaiian Grammar, 
and Introduction to L. Andrews’ Hawaii¬ 
an Dictionary. 



ii 


ADDENDA. 


ALFRIEND, EDWARD MORRISSON, 
dramatist, author, was born in Richmond, 
Va., Oct. 25, 1843. He is the author of A 
Woman’s Ordeal; A Foregeone Conclu¬ 
sion; The Louisianian; Across the Poto¬ 
mac; The Diplomats; The Great Diamond 
Robbery; and His Double Life. 

ALLEN, ALFRED, dramatist, author, 
was born in Alfred, N. Y., April 8, 1866. 
He is the author of The Heart of Don 
Vega; Judge Lynch; Chivalry; The Cup 
of Victory; The Triumph of Todd; and 
plays entitled Jack the Giant Killer; A 
Burglar Honeymoon; Playmates; and 
Head of the House. 

ALLEN, AMOS L., lawyer,congressman, 
was born March 17, 1837 in Waterborough, 
Maine. He was admitted to the bar ot 
York County in 1866; served as clerk in 
Treasury Department for about three 
years; was elected clerk of the courts for 
York County in 1870 and reelected three 
times and served twelve years; was clerk 
of the Judiciary committee, House of Rep¬ 
resentatives, in 1883-84; and a special ex¬ 
aminer under the Pension Bureau for a 
year in 1884-85. He was a member of the 
Maine legislature in 1886-87; was private 
secretary to Speaker Reed in the Fifty- 
first, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Con- 
greses. He was elected to the Fifty-sixth 
Congress to fill a vacancy. 

ALLEN, ANDREW HUSSEY, historian, 
author, was born Dec. 6, 1855, in New 
York City. He is chief of Bureau of Rolls 
and Library at Washington. D. C. He is 
the author of The Historical Archives of 
the Department of State; and various 
other government publications. 

ALLEN, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor was born April 17,1827, in Greenfield, 
Mass. He practised law in Greenfield Jill 
1862, after that in Boston. In 1861-67 he 
was Reporter of Decisions, supreme jud. 
court of Mass., attorney-general of Mass, 
in 1867-72; chairman of Commission to Re¬ 
vise Statutes of Mass, in 1881. In 1882-98 
he was associate justice supreme judicial 
court of Massachusetts. He was author 
of Allen’s Mass. Reports in 14 vols; and 
Telegraph Cases. 

ALLEN, CHARLES DEXTER, journal¬ 
ist. banker, author, was born May 8, 1865, 
in Windsor Locks, Conn. He is by occu¬ 
pation a banker; and is literary editor ot 
Hartford Post. He is the author of 
American Book Plates; A Classified List 
of Early American Bookplates; and Ex 
Libris, Essays of a Collector. 

ALLEN, CORNELIUS L., lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 17, 1800, in Lansingburgh, 
N. Y. For nine years he was District 
Attorney of Washington County, N. Y.; 
became judge of Court of Appeals, and 
subsequently a justice of the Supreme 
Court In 1867 he was a delegate to the 
constitutional convention of New York; 
held many local positions; was a thirty- 
two degree Mason; and for fifty years 
was a trustee of Washington Academy. 
His father, David Allen, was a prominent 
lawyer of Rensselaer County, N. Y. and 
was Surrogate, Assemblyman and State 
Senator for many years. 

ALLEN, EDWIN WEST, scientist, 
author, was born Oct. 28, 1864, in Am¬ 
herst, Mass. He is assistant director. Of¬ 
fice of Experiment Stations, U. S. Dept, of 
Agr. He is the author of various papers 
on agricultural chemistry and on history 
and work of agricultural experiment sta¬ 
tions; and now editor Experiment Sta¬ 
tion Record. 

ALLEN, ETHAN, lawyer, author, was 
born May 12. 1832, in Manasquau, N. J. 
He is a noted lawyer of New York City; 
and in 1896-98 was president Cuban 


League of the United States. He is the 
author of Drama of the Revolution. 

ALLEN, GRACE BARTON, educator, 
artist, was born in Richmond, Va. She 
is a water-color artist; and a teacher in 
the New York School of Applied Design 
for Women. Many of her pictures have 
been lithographed. 

ALLEN, HENRY D., educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 24, 1854, in 
Henderson County, Ky. He taught in pub¬ 
lic schools until 1875; graduated from 
Missouri Medical College in 1877; and 
licensed to practice law in 1878. He was 
county attorney for nine years. He was 
elected to 56th Congress as Democrat 
from Morganfield, Ky. 

ALLEN, HENRY FRANCIS, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born June 23, 1837, 
in Wales. He has attained success as a 
noted physician and surgeon of St. Louis, 
Mo. He has written and lectured on 
Economic subjects; in 1872 he addressed 
the International Society of St. Louis on 
The Need of Reform, which was a clear 
forecast of The Trust-Domination now 
obtaining; and is now engaged on a typi¬ 
cal American play of the times, embody¬ 
ing all the salient features of the live 
economic issues of the hour. He is the 
author of The Key of Industrial Co-oper¬ 
ative Government; and A Strange Voy¬ 
age. 

ALLEN, JAMES LANE, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was bom March 3, 1848, in Lexing¬ 
ton. Ky. Since 1872 he has practiced law 
in Chicago, and is a director of the Chi¬ 
cago Public Library. He is the author of 
Allen’s Handbook of the Nebraska Code. 

ALLEN, JAMES MORRILL, physician, 
surgeon, was born Feb. 22. 1831, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. During the civil war he was 
acting assistant surgeon in United States 
Army; and in 1865-67, was medical in¬ 
spector of the Metropolitan Board of 
Health, Brooklyn, N. Y. Since 1869 he 
has been acting assistant surgeon of the 
United States marine hospital at Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis. 

ALLEN, JOHN, author, poet, was born 
in 1833 in Billingham. Mass. He is the 
author of Literary Art, poems. History 
of New Castle. N. H., Prose Idyls, and 
Life of Henry Dexter. 

ALLEN, JOHN ROBERT, educator, au¬ 
thor, was bora in Iredell County, N. C. 
Since 1892 he has been professor of men¬ 
tal and moral philosophy. Southwestern 
University of Georgetown, Texas. He is 
the author of Man. Money and the Bible: 
and The Itinerant’s Guide. 

ALLEN. NATHAN H.. musician, com¬ 
poser, was bora in 1848 in Marion. 
Mass. He settled in Hartford. Cbnn.. as 
organist of the Centre Church and 
teacher. He is the author of Church- 
music. songs, and part-songs. 

ALLEN. OSCAR DANA, chemist, au¬ 
thor. was born Feb. 25, 1836. in Hebron. 
Maine. He was graduated at the Shef¬ 
field scientific school in 1861. and ten 
years later he received the degree of 
doctor of philosophy for original investi- 
gations. having in the mean time been 
an assistant professor there. In 1871 he 
became professor of metallurgy and as¬ 
saying. and in 1873 was appointed to the 
chair of analytical chemistry and metal¬ 
lurgy. His researches have been chiefly 
on the rare element caesium and rubid¬ 
ium. The latest American edition of 
Frcsenius’s Quantitative Analysis was 
edited and revised by him. 


ALLEN, STEPHEN HALEY, lawyer, 
jurist, was^born March 19, 1847, in Sin- 
clairville, N. Y. In 1870 he settled in 
Pleasanton, Kan., was county attorney 
of Linn County in 1874; judge 6th judicial 
district in 1890-2; and associate justice 
supreme court of Kansas in 1892-9; now 
practicing law. 

ALLEN, VIOLA, actress, was born in 
the south. She has attained note for her 
successful rendition of Gloria Quayle in 
The Christian. 

ALLEN, WALTER, journalist, author, 
was born March 21, 1840, in Boston, 
Mass. In 1864-65 he was acting assistant 
paymaster in the United States navy. In 
1866-69 he was engaged in journalistic 
work with the Cincinnati Gazette; and 
then for seventeen years with the Boston 
Daily Advertiser. In 1886 he became one 
of the editors of Webster’s International 
Dictionary. He is the author of Governor 
Chamberlain’s Administration in South 
Carolina; and Life of General Ulysses S. 
Grant. 

ALLEN WILLARD S., business man, 
genealogist, was born May 12, 1841, in 
Eastford, Conn. He is engaged in real 
estate in East Boston, Mass.; has been 
clerk of the district court; and for fifteen 
years has been a member of the Boston 
school board. He is the author of a 
genealogy of the Allen Family. 

ALLIN, ROGER, farmer, state legis¬ 
lator, governor, was born Dec. 18, 1848, in 
England. He lived in Canada until 1878, 
then in Mich, until 1879, when he set¬ 
tled in Dakota, filing on land he now 
farms. He was Member Territorial Coun¬ 
cil in 1886-9; Constitutional Convention 
in 1889, first legislative assembly of North 
Dakota in 1889; lieutenant-governor in 
1890; and fourth governor of North 
Dakota in 1894-7. 

ALLINSON, FRANCIS GREENLEAF, 
educator, author, was bora in 1856 in 
Burlington, N. J. Since 1898 he has been 
professor of philology in Brown Univer¬ 
sity He is the author of Greek Prose 
Composition. 

ALLMOND, MARCUS BLAKELY, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, poet, was born 
Aug. 17, 1851, in Stanardville, Va. Since 
1900 he has been professor of Latin and 
German at the Hampden-Sidney College. 
He is the author of Abraham Lincoln; 
The Star of Sangamon. 

ALMY, FREDERIC, lawyer, composer, 
was born m New Bedford, Mass., Nov. 
28, 1858. Since 1894 he has been secre¬ 
tary Charity Organization Society of Buf¬ 
falo N. Y. He is joint author of libretto 
of tw'o comic operas, entitled Trilby and 
Orpheus and Eurydice; and of The Ni¬ 
agara Book. 

ALTSHELER, JOSEPH ALEXANDER, 
journalist, author, was born April 29, 
1862, in Three Springs, Ky. Since leaving 
college he has been on Louisville Courier- 
Journal and New York World. He is the 
author of The Rainbow of Gold and The 
Hidden Mine; The Sun of Saratoga; A 
Knight of Philadelphia; A Soldier of 
Manhattan; The Last Rebel; A Herald 
of the West; and My Captive. 

ALVEY, RICHARD HENRY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in March, 1826, in South¬ 
ern Maryland. He was one of Pierce 
presidential electors in 1852; was a mem¬ 
ber of Maryland State Constitutional Con¬ 
vention in 1867; chief judge fourth judi¬ 
cial circuit and a judge Maryland court 
of appeals in 1867-83; chief justice Mary- 


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land court of appeal in 1883-93; and chief 
justice since 1893 of court of appeals, D. 
C. In 1896 he was one of the Venezuela 
Boundry commission. 

ALVORD, HENRY CLAY, clergyman, 
genealogist, was horn April 30, 1854. 
Since 1886 he has been pastor of Old South 
Church of South Weymouth, Mass. He 
is author of Descendants of Jonathan 
Gillet. 

ALVORD, HENRY ELIJAH, soldier, 
educator, author, was born March 11, 1844, 
in Greenfield, Mass. He enlisted as a 
private in 1862, and passed through every 
grade to that of major in 1865. At the 
close of the war he was appointed to the 
regular army with the rank of captain of 
cavalry; and remained as such until 1872, 
when he became a special Indian courier. 
He then lectured for a time at Williston 
seminary of Easthampton, Mass. In lf86 
he was elected professor of agriculture at 
the Massachusetts agricultural college, 
Amherst. He is the author of the Amer¬ 
ican sections of Dairy Farming. 

AMES, HERMAN VANDENBURG. edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Aug. 7, 1865, in 
Lancaster, Mass. Since 1897 he has been 
instructor American constitutional histo¬ 
ry at the University of Pennsylvania. He 
is the author of The Proposed Amend¬ 
ments to the Constitution of the United 
States which in 1897 was awarded the 
prize of American Historical Association. 

AMES, JAMES BARR, educator, author, 
was born June 22, 1846, in Boston, Mass 
Since 1895 he has been dean of Harvard 
Law School. He has compiled collections 
of cases on torts, pleading, bills and notes, 
partnership, trusts and suretyship, and is 
the author of numerous articles in Har¬ 
vard Law Review and other law reviews. 

AMES, JOHN GRIFFITH, clergyman, 
public official, author, was born Dec. 11, 
1834, in East Dorset, Vt. Since 1874 he 
has been superintendent of documents, U. 
S. Dept, of the Interior. He is the author 
of Comprehensive Index of Publications 
of the U. S. Government. 

AMES, JOSEPH SWEETMAN, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born July 3, 1864, in 
Manchester, Vt. He is professor of phys¬ 
ics in Johns Hopkins University. He is 
the author of Theory of Physics; and 
Manual of Experiments in Physics. 

AMIDON, CHARLES FREMONT, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was horn Aug. 17, 1856, Id 
C lymer, N. Y. In 1893 he was a member 
of the commission to revise codes and 
statutes of North Dakota. Since 1896 he 
has been U. S. judge for the district of 
North Dakota. 

ANDERSON, EDWIN HATFIELD, li¬ 
brarian, was born Sept 27, 1861, in Zions- 
ville, Ind. Since 1895 he has been li¬ 
brarian Carnegie Library, of Pittsburg, 
Pa. 

ANDERSON, HUGH C., lawyer, banker, 
legislator, was born Feb. 2, 1851, in Me 
Nairy County, Tenn. For two years he 
was city attorney of Jackson, Tenn.; and 
was mayor of that city for eight years. 
He was twice elected a member of the 
general assembly of Tennessee. 

ANDERSON, JULIUS, lawyer, was born 
Aug. 25. 1849. He is a noted lawyer of 
Dixon, Ill. He is a direct descendant of 
James Anderson, who came to America 
in 1707, and whose Family History was 
published in 1893. 

ANDERSON, SAMUEL, railroad man¬ 
ager, was born Oct. 4. 1849, in Methueu, 
Mass. He was councilman of Londonderry 
for two years; and mayor of that city for 
two years. He is now general agent of 


the New York, New Hampshire and Hud¬ 
son River Railroad. 

ANDREWS, ADDISON F., musician, 
composer, was born in Cavendish, Vt., 
April 2, 1857. He first engaged in news¬ 
paper work on Tribune, Telegraph, Com¬ 
mercial Advertiser, Graphic and other 
New York journals; later in musical 
journalism. He was assistant manager of 
Carnegie Hall and the Symphony Orches¬ 
tra; and founded Manuscript Society ot 
New York. He is the author of Dart¬ 
mouth Songs. 

ANDREWS, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, 
was born May 27, 1827, in Whitestown, 
N. Y. He was mayor of Syracuse in 1861- 
62. He was chief judge in the New YorK 
court of appeals, and a member of that 
court for more than twenty-eight years. 
He was retired in 1897. 

ANDREWS, GEORGE, soldier, genealo¬ 
gist, was born Aug. 26, 1850, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. In 1876 he graduated from 
West Point; and as lieutenant in the 
twenty-fifth United States infantry, 
served in Texas, Dakota and Minnesota. 
He is the author of Genealogy of the 
Andrews of Taunton and Stoughton, Mass. 

ANDREWS, GEORGE PIERCE, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Sept. 29, 1835, in North 
Bridgeton, Maine. In 1872-84 he was cor¬ 
poration counsel of New York City. In 
1884-1901 he was associate justice of the 
Supreme Court of New York. 

ANDREWS, MRS. GWENDOLEN 
FOULKE, author, was born June 26, 1863, 
in Chester County, Pa. She is the author 
of The Living Substance. 

ANDREWS. JOHN NEWMAN, soldier, 
was born in Wilmington, Del., Sept. 16. 
1838. He served through Civil war; was 
bv’td captain, major and , lieutenant- 
colonel. He served in Indian country and 
in the Spanish-American war; and at¬ 
tained the rank of brigadier-general Unit¬ 
ed States volunteers. 

ANDREWS. LAUNCELOT WINCHES¬ 
TER, educator, author, was born June 13. 
1856, in Canada. Since 1885 he has been 
professor of chemistry in collegiate and 
pharmacy departments of the University 
of Iowa. He is the author of An Introduc¬ 
tion to the Study of Qualitative Analysis. 

ANDREWS. WILLIAM TORINO. mer¬ 
chant author was born Sept. 9. 1837. in 
New York City. He is a successful mer¬ 
chant of New York Citv; and a director 
of the Continental Insurance Company. 
He is the author of A Trio of French En¬ 
gravers; and Portraiture of the Ameri¬ 
can Revolutionary War. 

ANTHONY. GARDNER CHACE. edu¬ 
cator. author, was born April 24. 1856. in 
Providence, R. I. Since 1898 he has been 
dean in the engineering department of 
Tufts College, Mass. He is the author of 
Elements of Mechanical Drawing; and 
Essentials of Gearing. 

ANTIN, MARY, author, was born June 
13. 1883. in Russia. She is the author of 
From Plotzk to Boston. 

APPLETON. WILLIAM HYDE, educa¬ 
tor. author, was born June 10, 1842. in 
Portland. Maine. Since 1872 he has been 
professor of Greek at Swart,hmor° College 
Pa. He is the author of Greek Poets 
in English Verse. 

ARBEELY, ABRAHAM JOSEPH, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1852 in Syria. 
He was a founder and publisher of Kaw- 
kab America. He is the author of A Com¬ 
plete Self-Teaching Manual of the Arab 5 '- 
and English Languages. 

ARCHBOLD, GEORGE, chemist, was 
born May 4. 1848. in Ford Flodden Field. 
Scotland. He came to the United States 


in 1881, and has since devoted his atten¬ 
tion principally to the manufacture of 
starch, in which he has made important 
investigations. 

ARCHIBALD, JAMES F. J., journalist, 
war correspondent, author, was born 
Sept 22, 1869, in New York City. He 
served in Chinese-Japanese war; with 
Gen. Miles through labor riots, in the 
Sioux campaign, and the last Apache 
campaign; was through Spanish war; and 
was on Gen. McKibben’s staff in Santiago 
campaign. He was the first man wound¬ 
ed in war with Spain. He is the author 
of Blue Shirt and Khaki, and Tales from 
the Trenches. 

A’RENS, FRANZ XAVIER, musician, 
composer, was born Oct. 26, 1856, in Ger¬ 
many. In 1887 he was conductor of 
Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra; and 
since 1898 has been conductor of New 
York Manusci'ipt Society concerts. He 
is the author of The Troubadour. 

ARKELL, W. J., journalist, publisher. 
He is publisher of Judge, Leslie’s Weekly, 
Demorest’s Family Magazine, all of New 
York City. 

ARMISTEAD, HENRY BEAUFORD, 
soldier, merchant, state senator, was born 
in Upperville, Va., Oct. 19, 1833. In 1861-65 
he served as a private in the Confeder¬ 
ate army, and in 1874 was brigadier- 
general of the Arkansas militia. In 1877- 
79 he was a member of the Arkansas state 
senate, and in 1893-97 was Secretary of 
State. 

ARMS, EDWARD WRIGHT, civil en¬ 
gineer, inventor, genealogist, was born 
Dec. 4, 1845, in For 

forty years he has been connected with 
the manufacture of civil engineers’ and 
surveyors’ instruments; and has design¬ 
ed instruments! of precision and machin¬ 
ery for making them. He is the author 
of a genealogical record of the Arms 
family. 

ARMSBY, HENRY PRENTISS, chem¬ 
ist, author, was born Sept. 21, 1853, in 
Northbridge, Mass. Since 1887 he has been 
director Pennsylvania agricultural experi¬ 
ment station. He is the author of Manual 
of Cattle Feeding. 

ARMSTRONG-HOPKINS, MRS., SALE- 
NI, physician, author, was born Jan. 21, 
1855, in Canada. In 1887-89 she conduct¬ 
ed private hospital for women and chil¬ 
dren and missionary training school for 
nurses in Bombay, India, and now prac¬ 
tices in Syracuse, N. Y. She is the au¬ 
thor of Motto and Resolutions of a Little 
Girl, A Divine Call to Foreign Mission¬ 
ary Service, Seven Thoughts in Seven 
Gaibs. Record of Daily Work, and other 
works. 

ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM, lecturer, au¬ 
thor. In 1893-98 he was music critic 
Chicago Tribune. He is the author of 
Thekla, and An American Nobleman. 

ARMSTRONG. WILLIAM W., journal 
1st, public official, was born in Columbia- 
ana county, Ohio. In 1854 he purchased 
the Advertiser, of Tiffin, Ohio, and in 
1852-65 he was secretary of state. He 
then purchased the Plain Dealer, which 
he successfully edited in Cleveland until 
about 1890, when he disposed of the con¬ 
trolling shares. 

ARNOLD. ABRAHAM KERNS, soldier, 
was born March 24, 1837,in Bedford.Pa. In 
1862 he wasi breveted captain for gallantry 
at Gaines’ Mill; and major in 1864 for 
gallantry at Todd’s Tavern; and re¬ 
ceived a congressional medal of honor 
for gallantry in action. He served 
against the Indians on the frontier; was 
commissioned brigadier-general United 


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States Volunteers in 1898; served in the 
war with Spain in the field in 1898, and 
in 1899 commanded second division sev¬ 
enth army corps, in Cuba. He died Nov. 
23, 1901. 

ARNOLD, MRS. ELIZA ALMY PECK- 
HAM, artist, author, was born May 10, 
1823, in Middletown, R. I. She wrote 
many short stories and poems for Boston 
and New York periodicals. She married 
George B. Arnold, inventor, astronomer, 
of Strawberry Hill, N. J. She is the au¬ 
thor of Life, Labor, Love. 

ARNOLD, MAURICE, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Jan. 19. 1865, in St. Louis. 
Mo. He is the author of American 
Plantation Dances; Dramatic Overture; 
and various songs and valses. 

ARNOLD, SARAH LOUISE, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 15, 1859, in N. Ab- 
ington, Mass. She was principal of the 
training school at Saratoga, N. Y., for 
two years; supervisor schools of Minne¬ 
apolis for seven years; and prominent in 
summer school work. She .is the au¬ 
thor of Waymarks for Teachers and Step¬ 
ping Stones to Literature. 

ARTHUR, ALFRED, musician, compos¬ 
er, was born Oct. 8 , 1844, near Pittsburg. 
Pa. Since 1878 he has been choirmaster 
of the Woodland Av. Presb. Ch., of Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. He is the author of The 
Water-carrier: The Roundheads and Cav¬ 
aliers; and Adaline. 

ASHLEY, BARNAS FREEMAN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Nov. 27, 1833. 
in Nova Scotia. He has been in active 
pastorate for nearly fifty years, of Baptist 
churches and later of Reformed church. 
He is the author of Tan-Pile Jim; Dick 
and Jack’s Adventures on Sable Island: 
Air Castle Don; and other works. 

ASHLEY. CHARLES SUMNER, mer¬ 
chant, public official, was born Sept. 5, 
1858, in New Bedford, Mass. He is a 
successful merchant of New Bedford. 
Mass.; in 1891-92 and 1896-99 was mayor 
of that city; and its postmaster in 1893- 
96. 

ASHLEY, WILLIAM JAMES, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 25. 1860, in Lon¬ 
don, England. Since 1892 he has been 
professor of economic history at Harvard. 
He is the author of James and Philip 
van Artevelde; An Introduction to Eng¬ 
lish Economic History and Theory, and 
other works. 

ASHMEAD, WILLIAM HARRIS, ento¬ 
mologist, author, was born Sept. 19, 1855, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1897 he has 
been assistant curator in the United 
States National Museum at Washington. 
D. C. He is the author of Orange In¬ 
sects; and other works. 

ASHMORE, SIDNEY G.. educator, auth¬ 
or, was born April 15, 1852, in London, 
England. Since 1881 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of Latin language and literature 
in Union University at Schenectady. N 
Y. He is the author of Macmillan’s 
Classical Series; and other Latin Text¬ 
books. 

ASPINWALL, MRS. ALICIA, author, 
She is the author of Short Stories for 
Short People; and The Echo Maid and 
Other Stories. 

ATKINS, SMITH D., soldier, lawyer, 
journalist. At the outbreak of the civil 
war he was prosecuting attorney ot 
Stephenson county. Ill. He resigned his 
office and was the first private soldier to 
enlist in the county. He raised volun¬ 
teers for the ninety-second Illinois reg¬ 
iment, of which he was made Colonel; 
and in 1863 he became a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. Since the civil war he has been ed¬ 


itor of the Freeport Journal; was post¬ 
master of Freeport for thirty years; and 
in 1901 became president of the Illinois 
State Press Association. 

ATKINSON, GEORGE FRANCIS, bot¬ 
anist, author, was born in Raisinville, 
Mich.,Jan. 26, 1854. Since 1896 he has been 
professor of botany and botanist of the 
experiment station of Cornell University. 
He is the author of Biology of Ferns; and 
Elementary Botany. 

ATTERBURY. ANSON PHELPS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in New York. 
June 18, 1854. He is pastor Park Pres¬ 
byterian church, of New York City, we 
is the author of Islam in Africa. 

AUCHINCLOSS, WILLIAM STUAH. 
civil engineer, merchant, author, wasjiorn 
March 19, 1842. He was a commission 
merchant in 1879-95. He is the inventor 
of averaging instrument for rapid calcu¬ 
lation of accounts. He is the author of 
Link and Valve Motions. 

AUSTIN, OSCAR PHELPS, journalist, 
author, was born in Illinois. Since 1898 
he has been chief bureau Statistics of Dm 
Treas. Dept. He is the author of Uncle 
Sam’s Secrets; Uncle Sam’s Soldiers: Col 
onial Systems of the World; and Submar¬ 
ine Telegraphs of the World. 

AYER, JOSEPH CULLEN, clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was horn in Newton. 
Mass., Jan. 7. 1866. In 1891 he was lec¬ 
turer on Canon Law. Episcopal Theo r . 
School of Cambridge. Mass. He is the 
author of The World’s Orators. 

AYLESWORTH, BARTON ORT AN 
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born 
Sept. 5, 1860, in Athens. Ill. Since 1897 
he has been pastor of Central church of 
Christ, of Denver. Col. He is the author 
of Thirteen and Twelve Others: and Song 
and Fable. 

AYLSWORTH, NICHOLAS JOHN, cler¬ 
gyman. author, was born Jan. 15. 1843. in 
Lake county, Ill. He established church¬ 
es in Angola and Fort Wayne. Ind. He 
is the author of Moral and Spiritual As¬ 
pect of Baptism. 

AYRES, HOWARD, educator, college 
president, author, was born May 21. 1861. 
in Olympia, Wash. Since 1899 he has been 
president of the University of Cincinnati. 
He is the author of The Vertebrate Ear: 
and other works. 

AYRES. MILAN CHURCH, journalist, 
author, was born May 17, 1850. in Lewis¬ 
ton, Ill. Since 1890 he has been editor of 
The Boston Daily Advertiser. He is the 
author of Philip Brooks in Boston. 

AYRES, PHILIP WHEELOCK. educat¬ 
or, author, was born May 26. 1861. in Win- 
terset, Iowa. Since 1898 he has been 
superintendent of the Summer School in 
Philanthropic Work of the New York 
Charity Organization Society. He is the 
author of Hist. Reviews in The Outlook, 
1886-8; and articles in Charities Review, 
since 1894. 

AYRES, SAMUEL GARDINER, librari¬ 
an, author, was born April 25. 1865, in 
Peru, N. Y. Since 1888 he has been 
librarian Drew Theol. Sem. of Madison. 
N. J. He is the author of Drew Theol. 
Sem. Record; and Fifty Literary Even¬ 
ings. 

BABB. CYRUS CATES, civil engineer, 
author, was born June 18. 1867. in Port¬ 
land, Maine. He is hydrographer Unit¬ 
ed States Coast Survey. He is the auth¬ 
or of various articles in scientific journ¬ 
als. 

BABBITT, EDWIN DWIGHT, educat¬ 
or, founder, author, was born Feb. 1. 1828. 
in Hamden, N. Y. He is dean of Col¬ 
lege Fine Forces, founded in 1883. He 


is the author of Principles of Light and 
Color; Human Culture and Cure; and 
Health and Power. 

BABBITT, FRANK COLE, educator, 
author, was born June 4, 1867, in Bridge- 
water, Conn. Since 1899 he has been 
professor of Greek at Trinity College of 
Hartford, Conn. He is the author of 
Greek Grammar. 

BABCOCK, WILLIAM H., lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 1, 
1849. He is the author of Lord Stir¬ 
ling’s Stand and Other Poems; Lays from 
Over the Sea; Cypress Beach; The Brides 
of the Tiger; An Invention of the Enemy; 
Cian of the Chariots; and Two Last Cen¬ 
turies of Britain. 

BACKUS, J. BAYARD, lawyer, was 
born Sept. 20. 1853. He was one of the 
seven original founders of the Society of 
Mayflower Descendants, and is captain of 
the New York State Chapter of that 
society. He is a noted lawyer of New 
York City, and takes an active part in 
public affairs. 

BACON. ALICE MABEL, educator, 
journalist, author, was born in New 
Haven, Conn.. Feb. 26, 1858. In 1888-89 
she taught in Tokyo. Japan. In 1890 she 
founded Dixie Hospital for training' col¬ 
ored nurses. She is the autnor of Jap¬ 
anese Girls and Women; and Japanese 
Interior. 

BACON, BENJAMIN WISNER. clergy¬ 
man. author, was born Jan. 15, 1860. in 
Litchfield. Conn. In 1881 he graduated 
from Yale University; and since that 
time has filled the chair of new testament 
Criticism and Interpretation in his alma 
mater. He is the author of Genesis of 
Genesis: Triple Tradition of the Exo¬ 
dus; and Introduction to the Study of the 
New Testament. 

BACON, EDGAR MAYHEW, author, 
was horn June 5. 1855. in Bahamas, where 
his father. John Bacon, was then U. S. 
consul. He is the author of The New 
Jamaica; the Pocket Piece; and Chroni¬ 
cles of Tarrvtown and Sleepy Hollow. 

BACON, JOHN MOSBY. soldier, was 
born April 17, 1844. in Kentucky. He 
is a brigadier-general of U. S. volunteers. 

BACON, SELDEN, lawyer, author, was 
born Sept. 28. 1861, in New Haven. Conn. 
Since 1894 he has practiced law in New 
York City. He is the author of Equity 
Pleadings and Procedure. 

BAILEY. MRS. ALICE WARD, author, 
poet, was born in Amherst, Mass., April 
30, 1857. She is the author of Flower 
Fancies, in verse; and Mark Heffron, a 
novel. 

BAILEY, BENJAMIN FRANKS TN 
physician, author, was born June 22,1860. 
in Littleton N. H. In 1898 he became 
president of Sanitary Company, of Lin¬ 
coln, Neb. He is the author of Present 
Status of Paedology. 

BAILEY, EDGAR HENRY SUMMER- 
FIELD. educator, author, was born in 
Middlefield, Conn., Sept 17, 1848. He is 
professor of chemistry at the University 
of Kansas. He is the author of Quali¬ 
tative Chemical Analysis. 

BAILEY, MRS. FLORENCE MER- 
RIAM, author. She is the wife of Ver¬ 
non Bailey of Washington, D. C. She is 
the author of Birds Through an Opera 
Glass; and Birds of Village and Field. 

BAILEY, HOLLIS R.. lawyer, genealo¬ 
gist. He is a successful lawyer of Bos¬ 
ton. Mass.; and secretary of the Bailey- 
Bayley Family Association. He is the 
author of the Bailey Genealogy. 

BAILEY. JOHN M., lawyer, jurist, was 
bom in Dillsburg, Pa., July 11, 1839. In 


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V 


1872- 1 3 he was a member Pennsylvania 
Constitutional Convention. Since 1895 
he has been president judge twentieth ju¬ 
dicial district of Pennsylvania. 

BAILEY, MARIE LOUISE, musician, 
composer, was horn Oct, 24, 1876. in 

Nashville, Tenn. She first appeared in 
Carnegie Hall, N. Y., with the Damrosch 
orchestra; then made a long and success¬ 
ful tour of the United States and Canada. 

BAILEY, MARK, educator, author, was 
born Aug. 19. 1867, in Petaluma, Cal. 
Since 1899 he has been professor of an¬ 
cient languages at Whitworth College, 
of Tacoma, Wash. He is the author of 
The Latin Verb and Its Uses; and Latin 
Prepositions, the Principles of Their 
Use. 

BAILEY, PEARCE, physician, author, 
was born in New York. July 12. 1865. He 
is a specialist on diseases of mind and 
nervous system. He is the author of 
Accident and Injury, Their Relation to 
Disease. 

BAILEY. THOMAS WILLIAMSON, 
military engineer, was born Sept. 21. 1.826. 
in Kingsbury, N. Y. In 1861 he assisted 
in raising a company for the Engineers 
regiment of the west. Col. Joseph W. 
Bissell, and served with that organiza¬ 
tion throughout the civil war. In 1869 he 
became connected with the Chicago. Bur¬ 
lington and Quincy railroad on the en¬ 
gineering staff, of which corporation he 
long continued. 

BAILEY. VERNON, naturalist, author, 
was born June 21, 1863, in Manchester, 
Mich. He is chief field naturalist U 
S. Biological Survey. He is the author 
of Spermophiles of Mississippi Valley, 
Pocket Gophers of Mississippi Valiev: 
Revision of Voles of the Genus Evot- 
omys; and Mammals of District of Co¬ 
lumbia. 

BAILEY. WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
legislator, author, was born in Pasquo¬ 
tank county, N. C., Jan. 22. 1831. In 
1882 he was a member of the N. C. leg¬ 
islature; and has lived in Texas since 
1891. He is the author of The Effects of 
Civil War Upon the Rights of Persons 
and Property; Conflict of Judicial De¬ 
cisions; Self-taught Law; and The De¬ 
tective Faculty. 

BAILEY. WILLIS J.. farmer, legislator, 
congressman, was born Oct. 12 1854, in 
Carroll county. Ill. He was a member of 
the Kansas State board of agricultui e 
in 1S95-99. and was elected to the Kansas 
legislature from Nemaha county in 1888. 
He was elected to the Fifty-sixth Con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

BAIN, ROBERT EDWARD MATHER 
business man, legislator, illustrator, was 
born Aug. 9. 1858, in Chicago, Ill. He 
is general south-west agent of the WhTe 
Star Line of steamers at St. Louis, Mo 
In 1881-83 he was a member of the Mis¬ 
souri legislature. He is well known as 
a successful photographer: and has trav¬ 
eled extensively in securing photographs 
for illustrating Earthly Footsteps of the 
Man of Galilee: and a Romance of Pal¬ 
estine. 

BAINES-MILLER.MRS. MINNIE WIL¬ 
LIS, author, poet, was born in Lebanon 
N. H., 1845. She is the wife of Leroy Ed¬ 
gar Miller of Springfield. O. She is 
the author of The Silent Land: His 
Cousin, the Doctor; and The Pilgrim's 
Vision. 

BAKER, A. GEORGE, clergyman, 
author, was born in Pittsburg. Pa. He 
held pastorates in Philadelphia, and lat¬ 
er became rector of St. James church ot 
Perkiomen. Pa. He is the author of 


History of the Germans in America; His¬ 
tory Knights of St. John of Malta; Ger- 
man-American Christianity and Protest¬ 
ant Episcopal Church; and Flora of Ara¬ 
bia and the Arabian Prophet. 

BAKER, ANDREW J., soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born June 6, 1832, in Mar¬ 
shall county, W. Va. During the civil 
war he was a lieutenant in the Seven¬ 
teenth Iown Infantry. In 1868-69 he was 
a representative in the Missouri State leg¬ 
islature; and in 1871-72 was attorney gen¬ 
eral of Missouri. He is now a not n 
lawyer of Centerville, Iowa, and in 1885- 
89 was attorney-general of Iowa. 

BAKER, CHARLES WHITING, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Jan. 17, 1865, in 
Johnson Vt. He is managing editor of 
Engineering News of New York City. He 
is the author of Monopolies and the Peo¬ 
ple. 

BAKER. FRANCIS E., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 20, 1860, in Goshen. Ind. 
Since 1899 he has been judge of the Su 
preme Court of Indiana. 

BAKER, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1849, and is the 
son of the painter of the same name. He 
now practices his profession in New 
York City. He is the author of The Bal 
Habits of Good Society. 

BAKER, GEORGE COMSTOCK, lawyer, 
genealogist, was born April 29, 1868. He 
is deputy attorney-general of the stat" 
of New York. He is the author of a g°n- 
ealogy of the Baker Family. 

BAKER, IRA OSBORN, educator, auth¬ 
or, was born Sept. 23, 1853, in Linton 
Ind. Since 1882 he has been professor of 
civil engineering at the University of 
Illinois. He is the author of Treatise on 
Masonry Construction; and Engineer’s 
Surveying Instruments. 

BAKER, ISAAC V., banker, state sen¬ 
ator. was born in 1843. He is a banker 
of Comstock. N. Y.; has been a member 
of the New York state senate; superin¬ 
tendent state prison and railroad commis¬ 
sioner. 

BAKER, MOSES NELSON, journalist, 
author, was born in Enosburgh, Vt., Jan. 
26, 1864. He is associate editor of the 
Engineering News of New York City. H r - 
is the author of Sewage Purification in 
America: and Sewerage and Sewage 
Purification. 

BAKER, ORVILLE DEWEL lawyer 
author, was born Dec. 23, 1847, Augus¬ 
ta. Maine. He has contributed exten¬ 
sively to current literature. He Is a 
noted lawyer of New England; and is 
now attorney-general of Maine. 

BAKER, WENDELL, runner, was born 
Oct. 19. 1862, in Brooklyn, N. Y. During 
his preparation for college and subsequent¬ 
ly until his graduation he distinguished 
himself by winning twenty-one champion¬ 
ships at university and intercollegiate 
meetings. 

BAKER. WILLIAM BIISS, artist, was 
born in 1859, in New York City. He 
took the first prize in the antique school 
of the academy in 1879. and was award¬ 
ed the third Hallgarten prize of $109 in 
1884 for his Woodland Brook. Among 
his recent paintings exhibited at the Na¬ 
tional Academy are In the Old Pasture. 

BALCH, EDWIN SWIFT, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1853. He practices 
law in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the auth¬ 
or of Mountain Exploration; and Antarc¬ 
tic, a History of Antartic Discovery 1 . 

BALCH. GALUSHA B., physician, gene¬ 
alogist. He is a physician of Yonkers. N. 

Y. He is the author of the Balch Gene¬ 
alogy. 


BALCH, THOMAS WILLING, lawyer, 
author. He is a member of the Phi'a- 
delphia bar. He is the author of Some 
Facts about Alsace and Lorraine; and 
The Alabama Arbitration. 

BALDWIN, CHARLES SEARS,ed cat- 
or, author, was born March 21, 1867, In 
New York City. He is assistant profes¬ 
sor of rhetoric at Yale. He is the author 
of The Inflections and Specimens of Prose 
Description; and The Expository Para¬ 
graph and Sentence. 

BALDWIN, EVELYN BRIGGS, explor¬ 
er, author, was born July 22. 1862, in 
Springfield. Mo. In 1887-91 he was prin¬ 
cipal of the high school and superintend¬ 
ent of city school?, Kan.; and since 1892 
has been observer United States weather 
bureau. In 1893-94 he accompanied 
Peary; and in 1898-99 was with the Well¬ 
man Polar expedition. He is the author 
of Search for the North Pole. 

BALDWIN. FOY SPENCER, educator, 
author, was born July 6, 1870. in Char¬ 
lotte, Mich. Since 1895 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of economics at Boston Univers’ty. 
He is the author of History of Alining 
Legislation in England. 

BALDWIN, HENRY, custodian Ameri¬ 
can History, was horn in New York City, 
Feb. 1, 1832. In 1861 he was serg. in com¬ 
mand of corps of engineers, 12th regi¬ 
ment, N. Y. State troops: and after four 
month’s service organized corps of in¬ 
struction, from which several gradiiat 1 
as officers in the volunteer service. 

BALDWIN, JAMES, educator, author 
was born in Hamilton county. Ind.. D~e 
15, 1841. He was editor of school boo’ s 
for the American Book Company in 1893- 
1900. He is the author of The Story of 
Siegfried: The Story of Roland: The Book 
Lover: A Story of the Golden Age; Har¬ 
per’s Readers, in five volumes; Six Cen¬ 
turies of English Poetry; The Book ot 
Elegies: The Famous Allegories: Choice 
English Lyrics; Fairy Stories and 'ta¬ 
bles; Fifty Famous Stories Retold: Old 
Greek Stories; Old Stories from the East - 
Guide to Systematic Readings in the En¬ 
cyclopaedia Britannica: Four Great A uer 
icans; The Horse Fair; Baldwin’s Read? 
ers; Discoveries of the Old Northwest; 
and The Conquest of the Old Northwest. 

BALDWIN, JAMES FAIRCHILD, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born in Orangeville, N. 
Y., Feb. 12, 1850. In 1900 he was sur¬ 
geon and chief of staff Grant Hospital of 
Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of 
Operative Gynecology. 

BALDWIN, THEODORE A., soldier, 
was born in New Jersey. He served 
throughout the civil war; in 18S7 became 
major; and was a brigadier-general in 
the Spanish-American war. 

BALDY, JOHN MONTGOMERY, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born in Danville, Pa., 
June 16, 1860. He is consulting surgeon 
to Frederick Douglas Hospital, of Phila¬ 
delphia. He is the author of American 
Text Book of Gynecology. 

BALLARD, ADDISON, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born Oct. 18, 
1822, in Framingham. Mass. He is pro¬ 
fessor of logic at the New York Universi¬ 
ty. He is the author of Arrows, or 
Teaching a Fine Art. 

BAMFORD. MARY ELLEN, author, 
was born in Healdsburg. California. She 
is the author of My Land and Water 
Friends, The Look About Club, Thoughts 
of My Dumb Neighbors, Father Lambert’s 
Family, Up and Down the Brooks, Janet 
and Her Father. Talks by Queer Folks; 
and other works. 


vi 


ADDENDA. 


BANCROFT, EDGAR ADDISON, lawyer, 
railroad manager, author, was born 
Nov. 20, 1857, in Galesburg, Ill. He is 
vice-president and general solicitor of the 
Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad 
Company. He is the author of The Chi¬ 
cago Strike of 1894-95. 

BANCROFT, FREDERIC, historian, au¬ 
thor, was horn in Galesburg, Ill., Oct. 30, 
1860. In 1888 he lectured on political 
history of Civi’ war and reconstruction at 
Amherst; ani then became chief of Bu¬ 
reau of Rolls and Library. He is the 
author of Life of William H. Seward; and 
The Negro in Politics. 

BANCROFT, WILLIAM AMOS, soldier, 
lawyer, railroad president, was born April 
26, 1355, in Groton, Mass. During 1892-96 
he was mayor of Cambridge, Mass.; and 
in 1899 became president of the Boston 
Elevated Railway. He has also attained 
the rank of brigadier-general. 

BANGS, ISAAC SPARROW, soldier, was 
born March 17, 1831, in Canaan, Maine. 
He served throughout the Civil war; and 
in 1865 was breveted brigadier-general for 
gallant and meritorious service during the 
war. He has been department commander 
of Maine, of the Grand Army of the Re¬ 
public. 

BANGS, TRACY R., lawyer, was born 
April 29, 1862, in Le Sueur, Minn. In 
1890-92 he was city attorney; in 1892-94 
was states attorney for his coun¬ 
ty; and in 1894-98 was United States at¬ 
torney for the district of North Dakota. 

BANKS, CHARLES EUGENE, journal¬ 
ist. poet, was born April 3, 1852, in Clin¬ 
ton County, Iowa. He is city editor of 
the Register Gazette of Rockford. 111. H 
is the author of Quiet Music; Where 
Brooks Go Softly; Novel of the Civil War; 
Sword and Cross, and A Child of the Sun. 

BARBER, EDWIN AT LEE, archaeol¬ 
ogist, author, was born in Baltimore. Md.. 
Aug. 13, 1851. In 1879-85 he was postmas¬ 
ter of West Philadelphia, Pa.; and is now 
engaged in gold dredging. He is the 
author of Pottery and Porcelain of the 
United States; and Genealogies of the 
Atiee and Barber Families of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 

BARBER, GEORGE, manufacturer. In 
1847 he began the manufacture of matches, 
one of the first in this industry in the 
west. 

BARBER, LAIRD HOWARD, educator, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 25, 
1848, near Mifflinburg, Pa. In 1881 he was 
admitted to the bar in Carbon County, 
Pa.; and became a noted lawyer of Mauch 
Chunk. He served in the fifty-sixth con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania as a democrat. 

BARBER, OHIO C.. manufacturer, 
founder, was born April 20, 1841, in Mid- 
dlebury, Ohio. In 1881 he arranged the 
consolidation of a number of leading 
match manufacturers, and rormed the 
Diamond Match Company, of which he 
has always been president. He built up 
and developed the town of Barberton. 

BARBOUR, ERWIN HINCKLEY, ge¬ 
ologist, author, was born near Oxford. 
Ohio. Since 1891 he has been proressor 
of geology at the University of Nebraska 
and acting State geologist of Nebraska. 
He is the author of numerous published 
papers on geological, paleontological and 
zoological subjects. 

BARBOUR. RALPH HENRY, author, 
was born in Cambridge, Mass.. Nov. 13. 
1870. He is a contributor of poems and 
short stories to magazines under pen 
name of Richard Stillman Powell. He is 
the author of Phyllis in Bohemia: Tbe 
Halfback, and For the Honor of the 
School. 


BARDEEN, CHARLES VALDO, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Sept. 23, 1850, in Brook¬ 
field, N. Y. Since 1898 he has been 
justice of the supreme court of Wiscon¬ 
sin. 

BARDEEN, CHARLES WILLI AM, 
soldier, educator, publisher, author, was 
born Aug. 28, 1847, in Groton, Mass. Dur¬ 
ing the Civil war he served in the first 
regiment Massachusetts volunteers. Foi 
many years he was engaged in educational 
work; and in 1891-95 was director of the 
National Educational Association. He is 
the author of Manual of School Law; A 
System of Rhetric; and a score of other 
educational works. 

BARKER, ALBERT SMITH, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born March 31, 1843. in Han¬ 
son, Mass. He was promoted to lieuten¬ 
ant in February, 1864; commander in 
1877; and captain in 1892. In the war 
with Spain he commanded the cruiser 
Newark; and in the following year the 
celebrated battle-ship Oregon; succeeding 
Admiral Dewey in command of the 
Asiatic squadron at Manila, which he re¬ 
tained until relieved by the arrival of 
Admiral Watson in 1899. 

BARKER, MRS. ELLEN BLACKMER, 
author, was born in W. Springfield, Pa.; 
ed. Edinboro, Pa. She is the wife of Capt. 
Albert S. Barker, of the United States 
navy. She is the author of The Bishop's 
Conversion; Three Old Maids in Hawaii; 
and The Way of Fire. 

BARKER, JAMES MADISON, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 23, 1839, 
in Pittsfield, Mass. In 1883 he became 
superior court judge; and in 1872-73 was 
a member of Massachusetts legislature. 
He is now associate justice of the su¬ 
preme judicial court of Massachusetts. 

BARKER, LEWELLYS FRANKLIN, 
educator, author, was born Sept. 16. 1867. 
in Canada. He is professor and head oi 
the department of anatomy at University 
of Chicago. He is the author of The 
Nervous System and Its Constituent 
Neurones. 

BARKER, THEODORE GAILLARD, 
soldier, legislator, was born Aug. 1832. in 
Charleston, S. C. He served throughout 
the Civil war; and attained the rank of 
major in General Hampton’s Cavalry di¬ 
vision. In 1866 he was a member of the 
South Carolina legislature and in 1888 was 
a delegate to the National Democratic 
Convention. 

BARNARD. GEORGE GREY, sculptor, 
was born in Bellefonte, Pa., May 24, 1863. 
His works include Brotherly Love; Nor¬ 
way; Two Natures, in Metropolitan Mu¬ 
seum of New York City; and The God 
Pan, Central Park. 

BARNARD, JOB, soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Porter County, Ind., June 8, 
1844. In 1862 enlisted as private in Com¬ 
pany K, 73d Indiana volunteer infantry, 
and served through Civil war, attaining 
the rank of first sergeant. He is now as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court, D. 
C. 

BARNES, CHARLES REID, botanist, 
author, was born Sept. 7, 1858, in Madi¬ 
son, Ind. Since 1898 he has been profes¬ 
sor of plant physiology, at University of 
Chicago. He is the author of Plant Dis¬ 
section; Keys to the Genera and Species 
of North American Mosses and Plant Life. 

BARNITZ, ALBERT, soldier, poet, was 
bora March 10, 1835, in Everett, Pa. He 
served throughout the Civil war; and 
afterward in the regular army until re¬ 
tired as brevet colonel. He is the author 
of a volume entitled Poems. 

BARNUM, SAMUEL W., clergyman, 
author. In 1847 he was assistant editor 


of Webster’s Dictionary; and was sub¬ 
sequently editor of The Comprehensive 
Dictionary of the Bible. He was the au¬ 
thor of Barnum’s English Rhymes. 

BARR, ROBERT, educator, journalist, 
author, was born Sept. 16, 1850, in Glas¬ 
gow, Scotland. For many years he was 
on the Detroit Free Press. He is the 
author of In a Steamer Chair; and other 
novels. 

BARR, THOMAS FRANCIS, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Nov. 18, 1837, in Ar¬ 
lington, Mass. He entered the United 
States civil service in Washington in 
1861, and resigned in 1864. He practiced 
law in D. C.; was appointed major and 
judge advocate of volunttrs in 1865; trans ¬ 
ferred to the regular army in 1867? pro¬ 
moted lieutenant-colonel and deputy judge 
advocate general in 1884; and became 
judge advocate-general in 1901, with rank 
of brigadier-general. 

BARR, WILLIAM WILSON, clergyman, 
editor, was born Sept. 11, 1832, near 

Washington, Pa. For thirty-five years he 
has been pastor of the Eighth U. P. 
Church of Philadelphia. In 1860-80 he 
was editor of the Evangelical Repository; 
and since 1882 has been editor of the 
Christian Instructor. 

BARRETT, GEORGE CARTER, lawyer, 
jurist, was bora July 28, 1838, in Ireland. 
Since 1871 he has been associate justice 
of the Supreme Court of New York. 

BARRETT. JOHN, journalist, diplomat, 
author, was bora Nov. 28, 1866. in Graf¬ 
ton, Vt. In 1894-98 he was United States 
Minister to Siam; and during the Snan-. 
ish-American war he went to the Philip¬ 
pines as a war correspondent. He is the 
author of Admiral George Dewey; and 
The Far East and Siam. 

BARRETT, JOHN P.. electrician, in¬ 
ventor, was born in 1837 in Auburn, N. Y. 
In 1845 he settled in Chicago; was a sailor 
for eleven years; in 1861-76 was assistant 
and in 1876-94 superintendent fire alarm 
telegraph department of Chicago. He in¬ 
vented fire alarm signals; originated the 
fire alarm patrol system; and was first 
to conceive the idea of laying electric 
wires underground. He was chief electrici¬ 
ty department at the World’s Columbian 
Exposition. 

BARRETT, LUTHER GUSTAVUS. 
clergyman, educator, college president, 
was born Dec. 1838, in Watertown, Mass. 
He received his education at Harvard Col¬ 
lege and Newton Theological Institution. 
He has held pastorates in various cities 
of the United States: and besides other 
professorships has been for the past six 
years president of Jackson V/Ollege, Miss. * 

BARROWS. MRS. KATHERINE ISA¬ 
BEL HAYES, author, was born in 1846 1 
in Vermont. She is the author of The 
Shaybacks in Camp, a volume of leisurely 
travel notes. 

BARROW, WILLIAM THOMAS, farmer, 
legislator, was born Dec. 11, 1859, in War¬ 
ren County, N. C. He was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the North Carolina State Legis¬ 
lature in 1897; and has been identified 
with Farmer’s Alliance movement since 
its organization in that state. 

BARRY, THOMAS HENRY, soldier, 
was born in New York City, Oct. 13, 1855. 
He attained the rank of brigadier-general 
in the United States volunteers during 
the Spanish-American war. 

BARRYMORE, MAURICE, actor, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1847 in India. For 
many years he has taken the leading part 
with Modjeska. He is the author of 
Nadjeska; The Robber of the Rhine; and 
other plays. 


ADDENDA. 


vii 


BARSTOW, AMOS CHAPEE, manufac¬ 
turer, legislator, philanthropist. He was 
mayor of Providence in 1852; and as may¬ 
or he delivered a memorial address on 
Daniel Webster in Market hall, Nov. 4, 
1852. The Pennsylvania house of repre¬ 
sentatives elected him speaker in 1870. 

BARTCH, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
educator, lawyer, jurist, was born in 
Dushore, Pa., March 15, 1849. He be¬ 
gan law practice in Pennsylvania in 1884: 
removed to Colorado in 1886; to Salt Lake 
City in 1888; and practiced there until 
he became associate justice supreme court 
Utah Ty. in 1893. 

BARTLETT, EDWARD T., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. He is associated justice of court of 
appeals of N. Y., his present term expir¬ 
ing in 1907. 

BARTLETT, FRANKLIN WEST, cler¬ 
gyman. poet, was born Aug. 30. 1843, in 
Towanda, Pa. For seven years he was in¬ 
structor of Hebrew in Williams College 
Mass. He is a clergyman of Salem, Mass. 
He is the author of the American Mission¬ 
ary Hymn. 

BARTLETT, WILLIAM H.. soldier, au¬ 
thor. He served in Union army in Civil 
war; and in 1899 was commander Grand 
Army of the Republic for Massachusetts. 
He is the author of Facts I Ought to 
Know About the Government of My Coun¬ 
try. 

BARTON, EDMUND MILLS, soldier, 
librarian, was born in Worcester, Mass., 
Sept. 27, 1838. In 1863-65 he was relief 
agent United States Sanitary Commission 
5th corps. Army of the Potomac. Since 
1883 he has been librarian American An¬ 
tiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. 

BARTON, GEORGE HUNT, geologist, 
author, was born July 8, 1852, in Sud¬ 
bury, Mass. He is professor of geology in 
the Boston University. He is the author 
of Outline of Elementary Lithology. 

BARTON, WILLIAM ELEAZAR, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sublette, III. 
June 28, 1861. Since 1899 he has been 
pastor of First Congregational Church of 
Oak Park, Ill. He is the author of Life 
in the Hills of Kentucky; A Hero in 
Homespun; A Tale of the Loyal South: 
The Psalms and Their Story; and Old 
Plantation Hymns. 

BARUS, CARL, physicist, was born Feb. 
19, 1856, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He entered 
the United States geological survey, and 
was given charge of certain investiga¬ 
tions in physical geology. In 1895 he was 
called to the chair of physics in Brown uni¬ 
versity, which he still retains He is the 
author of numerous scientific monographs 
and papers, several of which form bul¬ 
letins in the series published by the Unit¬ 
ed States geological survey. 

BASHORE, HARVEY BROWN, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in W. Fairview, 
Pa., July 31, 1864. Since 1889 he has been 
in practice of medicine at West Fairview 
Pa. He is the author of Outlines of Rural 
Hygiene. 

BASKETT, JAMES NEWTON, zoolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Nov. 1, 1849, in 
Kentucky. Has resided chiefly in Missou¬ 
ri. He is the author of The Story of the 
Birds; The Story of the Fishes; The Story 
of the Amphibians and Reptiles; The 
Story of the Mammals; At You-All’s 
House, and As the Light Led. 

BASSETT, MRS. ADELAIDE FLOR¬ 
ENCE, author, was born in Boston, Mass., 
Sept. 24, 1845. She is the author of Hive 
Hall; Dick Travers Abroad, in four vol¬ 
umes; Daisy at Home, in four volumes; 
and Father Gander's Melodies. 

BASSETT. EBENEZER DON CARLOS, 
educator, diplomat, was born in 1833 in 


Litchfield, Conn. He served for fourteen 
years as a teacher in Philadelphia, Pa, 
He was United States minister to Hayti 
in 1869-77; and since 1879 has been Hay- 
tian consul in New York City. 

BASSETT, JOHN SPENCER, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 10, 1867, in Tar- 
boro, N. C. He is professor of history in 
Trinity College, N. C. He is the author 
of Constitutional Beginnings of North 
Carolina. 

BASSFORD, WILLIAM KIPP, musician, 
composer, was born April 23, 1839 in New 
York City. After concert-tours as a pian¬ 
ist through the United States, he became 
organist at Calvary Church of East 
Orange, N. J. 

BATCHELDER, JOHN C., musician, 
composer, was born in 1852, in Topsham, 
Vt. He is a teacher of organ and piano 
in Detroit Conservatory, organist of St. 
Paul’s Episcopal Church of Detroit. He 
has given many public organ-recitals. 

BATCHELLER, GEORGE CLINTON 
manufacturer, was born Sept. 27, 1834, in 
Grafton, Mass. He is a member of George 
C. Batcheller and Company, who employ 
one thousand hands in the manufacture 
of corsets and feminine attire at Bridge¬ 
port, Conn. 

BATES, ALFRED ELLIOTT, soldier, 
author, was born July 15, 1840, in Monroe. 
Mich. As second lieutenant he saw much 
Indian service during the ten years prior 
to his appointment as paymaster, with 
the rank of major, in 1875. In 1899, he 
was promoted to brigadier-general, and 
appointed paymaster-general of the Unit¬ 
ed States army. He contributed a chapter 
to Rodenbough’s From Everglade to Can¬ 
on with Second Dragoons; and was asso¬ 
ciated with the late general Emery Upton 
in compiling the Cavalry Tactics of 1874. 

BATES, ARTHUR LABAN, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Meadville, Pa.. 
June 6.1859. He was elected city solicitor 
of Meadville, Pa., in 1889, 1890, 1892. 1894. 
serving four full terms. He was elected 
to fifty-seventh congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania as a republican. 

BATES. HENRY CLAY, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in Derby, Vt., Jan. 29. 
1843. In 1864 he enlisted in 19th Massa¬ 
chusetts heavy artillery, which afterward 
became Company C, 4th regiment. Massa¬ 
chusetts heavy artillery. He practiced 
law in St. Johnsbury; and held many 
town and county offices; and was delegate 
at large to the National Republican Con¬ 
vention in 1900; and was lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of Vermont in 1890-1900. In 1901 
he became judge of court of appeals, Phil¬ 
ippine Islands. 

BATES. JOHN CO ALTER, soldiet, was 
born in St. Charles County, Mo., Aug. 26. 
1842. He served through the Civil war: 
and was on staff of Gen. Meade from Get¬ 
tysburg to close war; was bvtd. maj. and 
It.-col. For thirty years he was stationed 
on west Mississippi River, chiefly Indian 
country. He was made brig.-gen. vols. 
at the outbreak Spanish-American war; 
and was promoted maj.-gen. vols. during 
Santiago campaign. 1 

BATTEN, SAMUEL ZANE, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 10, 1859, in 

Swedesboro, N. J. He is pastor of the 
first Baptist church of Morristown, N. J. 
He is the author of The New Citizenship. 

BATTERSHALL, FLETCHER W.. law¬ 
yer author, was born in Ravenswood, N. 
Y., 1866. He is a lawyer of Albany, N. Y. 
He is the author of A Daughter of the 
World; and Mists. 

BATTERSHALL, WALTON WESLEY 
clergyman, author, was born in Troy, N. 
Y., Jan. 8, 1840. Since 1874 he has been 


pastor of St. Peter’s at Albany, N. Y. He 
is the author of Interpretations of Life 
and Religion. 

BATTLE, CULLEN ANDREW, soldier, 
lawyer, journalist. He served in the con¬ 
federate army during the Civil war; and 
attained the rank of major-general. 

BAUER, LOUIS, physician, was born in 
July, 1814, in Germany. He cooperated 
in the establishment of the Long Island 
college hospital, and was appointed pro¬ 
fessor of anatomy and surgeon to the new 
institution. In 1869 he went to St. Louis, 
Mo., where he founded the St. Louis Col¬ 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons. He'was 
its dean for twelve years, and professor 
of the principles and practice of sur¬ 
gery. 

BAUM, HENRY, MASON. He is editor 
of Record of the Past, published at Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

BAUM, L. FRANK, journalist, play¬ 
wright, author, was born in Chittenango, 
N. Y., May 15, 1856. He began newspaper 
work in 1880, and since 1897 has been 
editor of The Show Window, of Chicago. 
He is the author of Mother Goose in Prose: 
By the Candelabra’s Glare; Father Goose; 
His Book; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; 
A New Wonderland; The Songs of Father 
Goose; The Army Alphabet; The Navy 
Alphabet; American Fairy Tales: Dot and 
Tot of Merryland; The Art of Decorating 
Plays; The Maid of Arran; Matches; 
Kilmorne; and The Queen of Kilarney. 

BAUSLIN, DAVID H., clergyman, theo¬ 
logian, author, was born Jan. 21, 1853, in 
Winchester, Va. Since 1896 he has been 
prof, of practical theology at Wittenburg 
Theol. Sem. of Springfield, Ohio. He is 
the authir of Is the Ministry an Attrac¬ 
tive Vocation. 

BUSMAN, BENJAMIN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 28, 
1824. He is the author of Waysfde 
Gleanings in Europe; and Bible Charac¬ 
ters. 

BAYLEY, WILLIAM SHIRLEY, geol¬ 
ogist, author, was born in Baltimore, Md., 
on Nov. 10, 1861. Since 1886 he has been 
associate editor and is professor of geol¬ 
ogy at Colby University. He is the 
author of Report on the Geology of the 
Marquette Iron District. Michigan. 

BAYLISS, CLARA KERN, educator, 
journalist, author, was born in Kalama¬ 
zoo, Mich., March 5, 1848, She is now ed¬ 
itor Child-Study Monthly, of Springfield. 
Ill. She is the author of In Brook and 
Bayu. 

BEACH, MRS. AMY MARY CHEN¬ 
EY, musician, composer, was born in 
Henniker, N. H., Sept. 5, 1867. She is a 
concert-pianist; President of the Board 
of Councillors of the New England Cons.; 
and Honorary Corresponding Secretary of 
the New York Manuscript Society. She 
is the author of Songs of the Sea; Across 
the World; The Minstrel and the King; 
Wandering Clouds; and other songs and 
anthems. 

BEACH, DAVID NELSON, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 30, 1848, in Orange, 
N. J. Since 1899 he has been pastor of 
the first Congregational church of Denver, 
Col. He is the author of The Newer 
Religious Thinking. 

BEACH. HARLAN PAGE, missionary, 
author, was born April 4, 1854, in South 
Orange, N. Y. Since 1895 he has been 
edn’l sec. Student Volunteer Movement 
for Foreign Missions. He is the author 
of The Cross in the Land of the Trident; 
Knights of the Labarum; and Dawn on 
the Hills of T’ang. 

BEACH, MILES, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1840 in Saratoga county, N. Y. 


ADDENDA. 


viii 


He practiced law in New York City; in 
1874-94 was judge Court of Common Pleas, 
and lias >^en justice of the Supreme Court 
since 189 , for term expiring in 1907. 

BEADLE, SAMUEL ALFRED, author. 
He is the author of Sketches from Lite 
in Dixie; and a volume of short stories. 

BEADLE, WILLIAM HENRY, soldier, 
lawyer, college president, legislator, au¬ 
thor, was horn Jan.1,1838, in Howard,Ind. 
He was brevetted a brigadier-general in 
1865 for services in the civil war. He 
then practiced law in Dakota Territory. 
Was surveyor-general, and a member of 
the legislature in 1877-78. Since 1889 he 
hes been president State Normal School 
of South Dakota. He is the author of 
Geography, History and Resources of Da¬ 
kota Territory. 

BEAL, JAMES HARTLEY, educator, 
author, was born in New Philadelphia, 0., 
Sept. 23, 1861. Since 1897 he has been 
dean department pharmacy at Scio. Col¬ 
lege, Ohio, He is the author of Notes- on 
Equation Writing and Chemical Arithme¬ 
tic; and Pharmaceutical Interrogations. 

BEALL. MRS. MARY STEVENS,author, 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1895 
she has been secretary of the Columbia 
Historical Society, of Washington, D. C. 
She is the author of The Military and 
Private Secretaries of George Washington. 

BEAN, ROBERT SHARP, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 28. 1854. in Yamhill 
county, Ore. In 1882-90 he was circuit 
judge; and since 1890 has been justice of 
the supreme court of Oregon. 

BEAN. TARLETON HOFFMAN, cur¬ 
ator, author, was born Oct. 8, 1846, in 
Bainbridge. Pa. Since 1895 he has been 
director af the New York Aquarium. He 
is the author of The Fishes of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; and The Salmon and Salmon Fsh- 
eries. 

BEARD, LINA, artist, author, was 
born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is one of 
the authors and illustrators of The Amer¬ 
ican Girls’ Handy Book. 

BEARD, OLIVER THOMAS, soldier, 
lawyer, author, was born in New York 
City, Nov. 13. 1832. He built railroads in 
South America; served in the Civil war 
in 1861-65 from private 71st New York 
volunteers to colonel 48th New 
York volunteers. He practiced law in 
Ohio and Michigan; and was editor of 
The Post and Tribune, Detroit. He is 
the author of Bristling with Thorns. 

BEARD w. D.. lawyer, jurist. He is 
a prominent lawyer of the south; and is 
now associate juef'ee of the supreme court 
of Tennessee. 

BEARD, WOT COTT LE CLAIR, civil 
engineer, author, was born Nov. 10. 1868. 
in New York City. During the Spanish- 
American war of 1898 he served through 
the Porto Rico campaign as first lieuten¬ 
ant in the first regiment United States vol¬ 
unteer engineers. He is the author of 
Sand and Cactus. 

BEARDSLEE. LESTER ANTHONY, 
naval officer, was born in Little Fa,11s. N. 
Y.. Feb. 1. 1836. He participated in the 
capture of Confederate steam sloop Flor- 
, ida. in Brazil in 1864. and as prize master 
brought her to the United States: in 1870 
he took tug Palos to China, carrying on 
her the United States flag through the 
Suez canal; while commanding the U. S. 
S. Jamestown, 1879-80, in Alaska waters, 
discovered, surveyed and named Glacier 
Bay. He attained the rank of rear-ad¬ 
miral. and was retired in 1898. 

BEATON. DAVID, author, was born in 
1848 in Scotland. In 1888-91 he was pres¬ 
ident of Redfield College of South Dakota- 
and since 1891 has been pastor Lincoln 


Park Congregational Church, Chicago. 
He is the author of Cyrus the Magician; 
and Selfhood and Service. 

BEATTY, JAMES H., lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born in Lancaster, Ohio. He 
was a member of the Idaho Territorial 
legislature and constitutional convention 
and was chief justice of Idaho in 1889-91. 
Since 1891 he has been United States dis¬ 
trict judge. 

BEAUCHAMP, WILLIAM MARTIN, 
clergyman, author, was born in Colden- 
ham, N. Y., March 25, 1830. Since 1865 
he has been rector of Grace Church of 
Raldwinsville, N. Y. He is also an art¬ 
ist and scientist. He is the author of 
Iroquois Trail; Indian Names of New 
York; and New York Archaeological Bul¬ 
letins. 

BEAUDRY. LOUIS NAPOLEON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Aug. 11. 1833. ;n 
Highgate, Vt. He studied in Troy Univer¬ 
sity, but left without graduation, and be¬ 
came chaplain of the New 'York regi¬ 
ment of cavalry on Jan. 31. 1863. On Julv 
19, 1865, he was honorably discharged. 
He is now professor of theology in Wes¬ 
leyan theological college. Montreal. He is 
the author of Army and Prison Experi¬ 
ences with the Fifth New York Cavalry. 

BEAVEN, THOMAS DANIEL, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born in 1849, in Spring- 
field, Mass. Since 1892 lie has been R 
C. bishop of Springfield, Mass. 

BECK, JOHANN H.. musician, compos¬ 
er, was born Sept. 22. 1856. in Cleveland. 
Ohio. He attended the Cleveland Pub¬ 
lic Schools, and the Royal Conservator- 
ium of Leipzig. He is Director of the 
Beck Violin School; was Conductor of the 
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; and is now 
the Conductor of the Cleveland Symphony 
Orchestra. 

BECKEL, JAMES COX, musician, com¬ 
poser. was born Dec. 20, 1811. in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He has occupied several po¬ 
sitions as organist in Philadelphia, til'' 
last being the Clinton St. Church in 1875- 
91. He is now a music publisher of Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa., and Managing Editor of 
The Mucistl Clipper. 

BEER, WILLIAM, librarian, author, 
was born in 1849 in England. He is li¬ 
brarian of the Howard Memorial. . Fisk 
Free and Public libraries of New Orleans 
La. 

BEHRENS, JAMES, naturalist, was 
born June 30, 1824, in Germany. He set¬ 
tled in California, and has become a rec¬ 
ognized anthority on entomologv. H 
has contributed papers to scientific journ¬ 
als, and is a member of many scientific 
societies in the United States and Europe. 

BELASCO, DAVID, dramatic author, 
was born in San Francisco, Cal. He is 
the author of plays entitled Zaza; The 
Heart of Maryland: The Wife; The Char¬ 
ity Ball; Lord Chumley; May Blossom; 
Men and Women; La Belle Russe; The 
Girl I Left Behind Me; Valerie; and 
Hearts of Oak. 

BELKNAP, C. H., lawyer, jurist. He 
is now justice of the supreme court of 
Nevada. 

BELKNAP, WORTH, lawyer, soldier, 
was born Sept. 22. 1829, in Newburgh. N. 
Y. He served in the Civil war and at¬ 
tained the rank of major-general in 1865 
In 1865-69 he was collector of internal 
revenue; and in 1869 was appointed sec¬ 
retary of war. 

BELL. JAMES FRANKLIN, soldier, 
was born Jan. 9, 18?6, in Shelbyville, Ky. 
In 1878-94 he served on the plains; and 
during the Spanish-American war he was 
promoted from lieutenant to brigadier- 
general. 


BELL, JAMES MONTGOMERY, sol¬ 
dier, was born Oct.l, 1837, in Williams¬ 
burg, Pa. He served throughout the Civ¬ 
il war; and in many Indian wars. Dur¬ 
ing the Spanish-American war he became 
brigadier-general of the United States 
volunteers. 

BELL, WILIAM HEMPHILL, soldier, 
was born in West Chester, Pa., Jan. 28, 
1834. He took all grades in the army, 
after graduation, from breveted second 
lieutenant to brigadier-general and com¬ 
missary-general U. S. army. He served 
during the Civil war in the line of the 
army, in the field, and in the subsistence 
department. 

BELLAMY, MRS. BLANCHE WILDER 
journalist, author. She is the wife ot 
Frederick P. Bellamy, a lawyer and a 
brother of the late Edward Bellamy. She 
is vice-president of the Brooklyn Hospi¬ 
tal Training School for Nurses. She is 
the author of Twelve English Poets. 

BELLINGER, CHARLES BYRON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born in Maquon, Ill., Nov. 
21, 1839. He served in Modoc campaign 
in the Lava Beds in 1873; was judge of 
the State Circuit Court in 1878-80; and 
United States district judge for the dis¬ 
trict of Oregon since 1893. 

BELMONT. OLIVER HAZARD PERRY, 
New York City, was graduated from the 
U. S. naval academy in 1879, and for sev¬ 
eral years has taken an active part, as a 
Democrat, in the politics of his native city 
and state of New York. 

BEMAN. SOLON S.. architect,, was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1853. He de¬ 
signed all the buildings that compose the 
town of Pullman, besides club-houses, 
churches and many large residences in 
Chicago. 

BEMAN, WOOSTER WOODRUFF, 
mathematician, author, was born May 28. 
1850. in Southington. Conn. Since 1887 
he has been professor of mathematics in 
University of Michigan. He is the auth¬ 
or of Higher Arithmetic; High School Al¬ 
gebra; and other works. 

BENEDICT, MRS. ANNE KENDRICK, 
lecturer, author, was born in Rochester. 
N. Y., April 26, 1851. She was one of the 
organizers of Cincinnati Kindergarten As¬ 
sociation. She is the author of My Won¬ 
der Story; Centa. The Child Violinist: 
The Island Story; The Fisherman’s 
Daughter; and The Hathaway’s Sisters. 

BENEDICT, WAYLAND RICDARd. 
SON, educator, author, was born Jan. 9, 
1848, in Rochester, N. Y. Since 1875 he 
has been professor of philosophv at Dm 
University of Cincinnati. Ohio. He is the 
author of Nervous System and Conscious¬ 
ness. 

BENHAM, ANDREW ELLICOTT KEN¬ 
NEDY. soldier, was born April 10, 
1832. in New York City. In 1847-51 he 
served in the East India squadron, and 
assisted in capturing piratical Chinese 
junk. During the Civil war he served in 
the South Atlantic and Western Gulf 
blockading squadrons; and took nart in 
the battle of Port Royal and other en¬ 
casements. He was in command in one 
of the divisions in the navy display near 
New York in 1893: in 1894 commanded the 
squadron at Rio de Janiero. Brazil; and 
forced commander of insurgent squadron 
to raise blockade of city and to discon¬ 
tinue firing upon American merchant ves¬ 
sels. In 1898 he was prize commissioner 
at Savannah. Ga. He was retired in 1891 
with rank of rear-admiral. 

BENJAMIN. CHARLES HENRY, me¬ 
chanical engineer, author, was born Aug. 
29. 1856, in Patten, Maine. Since 1898 he 
has been professor of mechanical engi- 


ADDENDA. 


ix 


neering of Case School of Applied Science. 
He is the author of Notes on Heat and 
Steam; Notes on Machine Design; Me¬ 
chanical Laboratory Practice; Evolution 
of the Machine Tools; Power Losses in 
Machine Shop; and Development of Fly 
Wheels. 

BENNETT, ALFRED ALLEN, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Nov. 30, 1850. in 
Milford, N. H. Since 1885 he has been 
professor of chemistry at the Iowa State 
College. He is the author of Inorganic 
Chemistry, in two volumes. 

BENNETT, CHARLES EDWIN, edu¬ 
cator. author, was born April 6, 1858, in 
Providence, R. I. Since 1892 he has been 
professor of Latin at Cornell College. He 
is the author of A Latin Grammar; A 
Latin Composition; The Foundations or 
Latin; and The Quantitative Reading ot 
Latin Poetry. 

BENNETT. JOHN, illustrator, author 
was born in Chillicothe, O., May 17, 1865. 
He is the author of Master Skylark; anu 
The Story of Barnaby Lee. 

BENT, ALLEN H., business man, gen¬ 
ealogist, was born June 5, 1867. in Gard¬ 
ner, Mass. He is engaged in business in 
Boston, Mass. He is the author of The 
Bent Family; and of a number of articles 
in current publications. 

BENT, GEORGE P., manufacturer, was 
born June 16, 1854, in Dundee, Ill. In 
1870 he entered the employ of David C. 
Cook of Chicago; and eight years later 
bought out Mr. Cook's business. He first 
engaged in the manufacture of sewing 
machines and then of organs; and now 
his Crown pianos and organs are known 
throughout America. He is a son ot 
Judge George Bent, of Sherman county. 
Neb. 

BENTON, ANGELO AMES, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1837 in Crete. In 
1887-94 he was professor of dogmatic the¬ 
ology at the University of the South. He 
is the author of The Church Cyclopaedia, 
and The Tome of St. Leo. 

BENTON, FRANK, agriculturist, auth¬ 
or. was born in Coldwater, Mich., July 5, 
1852. He spent eleven years in invest¬ 
igating honey-bees of Europe. Africa and 
Asia. He is the inventor of transport 
cage for sending queen bees long distance 
by mail. He is the author of The Honey 
Bee; and Bee Keeping. 

BERENSON, BERNHARD, critic, his¬ 
torian, author, was born June 26, 1865, in 
Russia. He is a writer of history ana 
criticism of Italian paintings. He 
is the author of Venetian Painters ot 
Renaissance; Florentine Painters of Re¬ 
naissance; Centra; Italian Painters of Re¬ 
naissance; and The Study’ and Criticism 
of Italian Art. 

—BERG, HERMAN CASPER, clergyman. 
He is a clergyman of the Reformed, and 
in 1886 was in charge of a congregation 
at College Point, N. Y. 

BERGENGREN, MRS. ANNA FARQU- 
HAR, journalist, author, was born in 
Brookville, Ind., Dec. 23, 1865. AVhile 

studying vocal music in London and Paris 
was employed as foreign correspondent 
to Boston Transcript. She is the author 
of A Singer’s Heart; and The Professor’s 
Daughter. 

BERGER WILHELM, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Aug. 9, 1861, in Boston, 
Mass. He lives in Berlin, as a composer 
and well-known piano teacher. 

BERLINER, EMILE, inventor, was born 
May 20, 1851, in Germany. In 1879-82 he 
was chief instrument inspector of the Bell 
telephone company. He invented the 
loose contract telephone transmitter; and 
the gramaphone. 


BERNADOU, CHARLES BAPTISTE, 
naval officer, author, was born in 1S5S in 
Pennsylvania. He served in the Spanish- 
American war; and attained the rank of 
lieutenant in the United States navy. He 
is the author of A Trip Through Northern 
Korea. 

BERNHE1MER, ADOLPH, merchant, 
was born in 1833 in Germany. He started 
the manufacture of dyed and cotton-print- * 
ed fabrics, and may be called the pioneer 
of this industry in the United States. 

BERRYMAN, CLIFFORD KENNEDY, 
cartoonist, author, was born April 2, 1869, 
in Versailles, Ky. He began his career 
as an artist for the Washington Post in 
1891, and became cartoonist of that pub¬ 
lication. He is the author of Berryman’s 
Cartoons. 

BESSET.S. EMIL, scientist, was born in 
1847 in Germany. He is chief of the 
scientific department of the Polaris ex¬ 
pedition of 1870-73. and in 1876 edited the 
first three volumes of scientific results of 
that expedition, devoted to hydrography, 
meteorology, and astronomy. He was also 
in the expedition of Dorst and Weyprecht. 
and has edited reports of the United 
Slates naval institute. 

BEVERIDGE, ALBERT JEREMIAD 
lawyer. United States senator, was born 
Oct. 6, 1862, on an Ohio farm on the b >r- 
ders of Adams and Highland counties. He 
was elected United States senator from 
Indiana for the term ending in 1905 and 
in the summer of 1899 he visited the Pfifi- 
ipine islands and China. 

BEYER, SAMUEL WALKER, was born 
May 15, 1865. in Clearfield, Pa. He is 
professor of geology at Iowa State College. 
He was the author of The Sioux Quartzite 
and Certain Associated Rocks and Geol¬ 
ogy of Boone County, Iowa. 

BICKNELT . FRANK MARTIN, author, 
was born in Melrose, Mass., Jan. 24. 1854. 
He has written stories for St. Nicholas, 
Harper’s Young People. Youth’s Compan¬ 
ion, Outing, and New York Evening Post. 
He is the author of The City of Stories: 
and The Apprentice Boy. 

BIDDLE. CRAIG, soldier, author, jur¬ 
ist. was born Jan. 10. 1823. in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. Since 1875 he has been pre¬ 
siding judge of the court of common 
pleas of Philadelphia, Pa. He served as 
private on invasion of Pennsylvania by 
Confederates in 1863. 

BIEDERMAN. EDWARD JULIUS, mu¬ 
sician, composer, was born Nov. 8. 1849. 
in Milwaukee, Wis. He has been organist 
in New York churches; and for thirty 
years has been a teacher. He is the 
author of a number of anthems; vocal 
duets and solos. 

BIERCE. AMBROSE, soldier journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1842 in Ohio. He 
served as a line officer during the Civil 
war; and was breveted major for dis¬ 
tinguished services. He contributed to 
Overland Monthly; and edited Argonaut 
and Wasp. He is the author of In the 
Midst of Life; Black Beetles in A^h— 
Fantastic Fables; and The Monk and the 
Hangman’s Daughter. 

BIGELOW. EDWARD FULLER, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born Jan. 14, 1860, In 
Colchester, Conn. He is the author of 
Bigelow’s Descriptive Plant Analysis. 

BIGELOW. FRANK HAGAR, clergy¬ 
man, scientist, author, was born Aug. 28, 
1851, in Concord, Mass. For some years 
he was assistant astronomer in the 
Argentine national observatory in Cor¬ 
doba, and afterwards professor of 
of mathematics in Racine College. Wis¬ 
consin. assistant in the national al¬ 
manac office in Washington. Since 1891 


he has been professor of meteorology in 
the U. S. weather bureau in Washington, 
D. C., and since 1890 has been assistant 
rector of St. Johns church of that city. 
His name is especially associated with an 
instrument for the photographic recora 
of the transit of stars and with some 
novel studies by which the solar corona, 
the aurora, and terrestrial magnetism 
are shown to be associated. He is the 
author of Internal Cloud Report; and Bar 
ometry of the United States. 

BIGELOW, MARSHALL TRAIN, print¬ 
er, author, was born Oct. 5, 1822, at Nat¬ 
ick, Mass. He has been president of 
the Common Schools of Cambridge, Mass. 
He is the author of Punctuation and Oth¬ 
er Typographical Matters; and Mistakes 
in Writing English, and How to Avoid 
Them. 

BILL, CHARLES, publisher, was born 
June 7, 1840. He was a graduate of Nor¬ 
wich Academy, and in 1864 graduated 
from Yale College. For many years he 
was engaged in the subscription book 
publishing business in Chicago, Ill.; sub¬ 
sequently in Springfield, Mass.; and re¬ 
tired from active business in 1873. He 
traveled in all parts of the world: ana 
was a member of the National Academy 
of Science, American Economical Asso¬ 
ciation, and other social and scientific 
clubs of Springfield, Mass. 

BINGHAM, HIRAM, missionary, auth¬ 
or. was born Aug. 16, 1831. in Honolulu. 
H. I. He is the author of Story of the 
Morning Star; and Gilbertese Bible. 

BINNS, CHARLES FERGUS, artist, 
author, was born Oct. 4, 1857, in England. 
In 1901 he was president of the American 
Ceramic Society. He is the author of 
Ceramic Technology; and The Story of 
the Potter. 

BIRD, ARTHUR, musician, composer, 
was born July 23. 1856, in Cambridge. 
Mass. He founded the first male chorus 
in Nova Scotia. His first concert in 18S6 
at Berlin, was successful. He is the 
author of the comic opera Daphne. • 

BISCHOFF. HENRY, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Aug. 16. 1852. in New York 
City. Since 1896 he has been associate 
justice of the Supreme Court of New 
York. 

BISHOP. IRVING PRESCOTT, educat¬ 
or, author, was born in Burlington Flats. 
N.' Y.. Nov. 18, 1849. Since 1896 he has 
been instructor in New York State Sum¬ 
mer Institute at Chautauqua. He is the 
author of Salt Field of Western New 
York; and Geology of Erie County. 

BISHOP. JUDSON WADE, soldier, civil 
engineer, capitalist, was born June 24. 
1831. in Evansville. N. Y. In 1853 he be¬ 
came assistant engineer of the Grand 
Trunk railway; later engineer in Minne¬ 
sota- then surveyor at Chatfield. Minn.; 
and Publisher Chatfield Democrat in 1859- 
61. He served as eantain of the 2d Minne¬ 
sota regiment to bvt. brig-gen. voK * F - 
ter the Civil war he built and operated 
railroads in Minnesota, and is now pres¬ 
ident of the St. Paul Trust Co. 

BISHOP, LOUIS FANGERES, physi¬ 
cian. author, was born in Brunswick, N. 
J., March 14. 1864. He is now secretary 
and chairman Section of Medicine at the 
New York Academy of Medicine. He is 
the author of Theory and Treatment of 
Rheumatism; Diagnosis and Treatment 
of Gout; and Important Points ir> Dm 
Treatment of Pneumonia. 

BISPHAM, DAVID S.. singer, composer, 
was born Jan. 5, 1857. in Philadelphia. 
Pa. He is a favorite concert singer, and 
dramatic baratone. 


X 


ADDENDA. 


BISPHAM, GEORGE TUCKER, lawyer, 
author, was born May 24, 1838. in 
delphia. Pa. Since 1861 he has practiced 
law in Philadelphia. He is the author 
of Principles of Equity. 

BITTINGER, LUCY FORNEY, author, 
was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 29, 
18&9. She is the author of History of the 
Forney Family of Hanover, Fa.; and 1 
Germans in Colonial Times. 

BJERREGAARD, CARL HENRY AN¬ 
DREW, librarian, author, was born May. 
24, 1845, in Fredericia, Denmark. Since 
1879 he has been librarian of The Astor 
Library of New York City. He is the 
author of Mysticism and Nature Worship, 
in two volumes; and Being, and the Phi 
losophical History of the Subject. 

BLACK, CHAUNCEY FORWARD, law¬ 
yer, lieutenant-governor, was born Nov. 
28, 1839, in Somerset, Pa. He was elected 
lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania in 
1882; and in 1886 was the democratic can¬ 
didate for the governorship. He is a 
successful lawyer of York, Pa. 

BLACK, GREEN V., dentist, author, 
was born in Scott County, Ill., Aug. 3, 
1836. He is dean and professor of oper¬ 
ative dentistry, pathology and bacteriol¬ 
ogy at Northwestern University Dental 
School of Chicago. He is the author ot 
Formation of Poisons by Micro-Organ¬ 
isms; Periosteum and Peridental Mem¬ 
brane; and Anatomy of the Human Teeth. 

BLACK, WILLIAM MURRAY, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Dec. 8, 1855, m 
Lancaster, Pa. In 1899 he was appomte- 
major corps of engineers. United States 
Army. He is in charge of engineer work 
at Havana. He is author of Improve¬ 
ment of Harbors; and Public Works of 
the United Siates. 

BLACK, WINIFRED, journalist, auth¬ 
or, was born Oct. 14, 1869, in Chilton, Wis. 
She helped to found the Junior Republic 
for Boys in New York City. She is the 
author of The Little Boy Who Lived on 
the Hill. 

BLACKALL. CLARENCE HOWARt). 
architect, was born Feb. 3, 1857. in New 
York City. He was the architect of 
Tremont Temple and the Colonial Theatre 
of Boston, Mass. 

BLACKMAN, WILLIAM FREMONT 
educator, author, was born Sept, 26, 1855. 
in North Pritcher, N. Y. Since 1893 he 
has been professor of sociology at Yale. 
He is the author of The Territory of Ha¬ 
waii, a Sociological Study. 

BLACKWELL, ROBERT EMORY, ed¬ 
ucator, college president, author, was born 
Nov. 14, 1854, in Warrenton, Va. He 
the author of Were the Ancients Ac¬ 
quainted with America? 

BLAISDELL, ALBERT FRANKLIN, 
physician, author, was born Aug. 31. 1° 
in South Hampton, N. H. In 1878 he 
commenced the practice of medicine i" 
Providence, and as physician to the 
Rhode Island Hospital. He is the author 
of Study of the English Classics; Our 
Bodies and How We Live:How to Keen 
Well; Child’s Book of Health; and First 
Steps with American and British Authors. 

BLAKE. CHARLES DUPEE. musici?" 
composer, was born Sept. 13, 1847. in 

Walpole, Mass. He is a church orsrani 
of Boston. Mass. He is the author of 
Christmas Carols and Songs. 

BLAKE. FRANCIS, inventor, was born 
Dec. 25, 1850. in Needham, Mass. He i« 
the inventor of the Blake Transmitter 
now most frequently used on telephone 

BLAKE, HENRY T.. author. He is 
prominent in the public affairs of Ne-" 
Haven. Conn.; park commissioner; and 
the author of several published works. 


BLAKE, JOSEPH AUGUSTUS, physi¬ 
cian, author, poet, was born in San Fran¬ 
cisco, Cal., Aug. 31, 1864. He is the 
author of On the Wing; A Summer Holi¬ 
day in Europe; Verses Along the Way. 

BLANCHARD, HARRIS CHAMBER¬ 
LIN, architect, author, was born July 
22, 1847, in Baltimore, Md. He is a suc¬ 
cessful architect of New York City; and 
* the author of several published works. 

BLANCHARD, RUFUS, cartographer, 
author, was born in 1821, in Lyndeboro, 
N. H. Since 1854 he has been a maker 
and publisher of maps and writer of His¬ 
torical books. He is the author of His¬ 
tory of Illinois; Political History T' t 
United States; and History of the North¬ 
west and the City of Chicago. 

BLATCHLEY, WILLIS STANLEY, nat¬ 
uralist and geologist, was born Oct. 6. 
1859, in North Madison, Conn. Since 
1894 he has ben State Geologist of In¬ 
diana. He is the author of Gleanings 
from Nature; and Natural Resources ot 
Indiana. 

BLISS, FREDERICK JONES, explorer, 
author, was born Jan. 22, 1859, in Syria. 
He is explorer to the Palestine Explor¬ 
ation Fund. He is the author of A 
Mound of Many Cities; and Excavations 
at Jerusalem. 

BLODGETT, ISAAC N., lawyer, state 
senator, jurist, was born March 6, 1838. 
in Canaan, N. H. In 1871, 1873-74 and 
1878 he was a member of New Hampshi” 
legislature; and state senator in 1879-80 
In 1876 and 1889 he was a member of t. v '» 
Constitutional Convention. In 1880-96 he 
was associate-justice; and since 1896 
chief justice of the supreme court of New 
Hampshire. 

BLOSSOM, HENRY MARTYN, insur¬ 
ance, author, was born in St. Louis. Mo 
May 10, 1866. He is the author of The 
Documents in Evidence; and Checkers, a 
Hard-Luck Story. 

BLUE, VICTOR, naval officer, was born 
Dec. 6, 1865. During the war with Spain 
in 1898 he was ordered to the gun poo 
Suwanee; on June 11 he landed before 
Santiago and proceeded with guides to 
the hills overlooking the city and harbor, 
where he distinctly saw and located r 
Spanish fleet in the harbor. He the*' 
traveled about seventy-two miles throne" 
the enemy's country, and his report dis¬ 
pelled the last lingering doubt there may 
have been as to the presence of Admiral 
Cervera’s fleet in Santiago harbor. In 
September he was given command ot one 
of the Spanish prizes, and in 1899 was 
made a lieutenant. 

BLUNT, STANHOPE ENGLISH, sol¬ 
dier. author, was born Sept. 29. 1850, m 
Boston, Mass. He is commanding Rock 
Island Arsenal, Ill. He is the author of 
Firing Regulations for Small Arms. 

BOARDMAN, HARRY L.. educator col¬ 
lege president, was born June 23, 1866. in 
Cleveland, Ohio. Since 1895 he has been 
president of the McMinnville College, Ore. 

BOARDMAN, WILLIAM E.. clergyman, 
author. He is the author of The Higher 
Christian Life. 

BOAS, FRANZ, anthropologist, author, 
was born July 9, 1858, in Germany. In 
1901 he became curator of the American 
Museum of Natural History. He is the 
author of The Central Eskimo. 

BOATWRIGHT, FREDERIC WILT IAM 
educator, college president, author, was 
born Jan. 28, 1868. in White Sulphur 
Springs, W. Va. Since 1895 he has been 
president of Richmond College. He is 
the author of Syllabi French and German 
Literature. 


BODY, CHARLES WILLIAM EDMUND, 
educator, theologian, author, was born 
Oct. 4, 1851, in England. Since 1894 he 
has been professor of Testament literature 
and interpretation at General Theological 
'Seminary of New York City. He is the 
author of The Permanent Value of Gene¬ 
sis. 

BOGART, JOHN, consulting engineer, 
author, was born in Albany, N. Y., Feb. 
8. 1836. For twelve years he was editor 
of Transactions of American Society oi 
Civil Engineers; and lieutenant-colonel 
and chief engineer of the National Guard. 
New York. He is the author of Papers 
and Discussions. 

BOGGS, CARROLL CURTIS, lawver, 
jurist, was born Oct. 19, 1844, in Fairfield, 
Ill. He was state’s attorney of Wayne 
County in 1873-77; judge in 1877-85; cir¬ 
cuit judge in 1885-97. including six years 
on appellate bench in 1891-97. He is justice 
of the Supreme Court of Illinois for term 
1897-1906. 

BOGGS, WILLIAM ROBERTSON, sol¬ 
dier educator, architect, was born March 
18, 1829. in Augusta. Ga. He attained the 
rank of hrigadier-general in the Confed¬ 
erate service during the Civil war. 

BOISE, OTIS BARDWELL. musician, 
composer, was born Aug. 13. 1845. in Ober- 
lin. Ohio. In 1864-70 he was organist and 
teacher in Cleveland, and in 1870-76 in 
New York City. He is the author of 
Symphonies and Overtures. 

BOMBTANO. MRS. SOPHIA V.. author, 
was born in 1835 in Cincinnati. Ohio. She 
is the author of Ttnliau Explorers in Af¬ 
rica: and A Short History of the Italian 
Waldenses. 

BONACUM. THOMAS, clergyman, bish¬ 
op, was born Jan. 29. 1847, in Ireland. 
Since 1887 he has been first R. C. bishop 
of Lincoln, Neb. 

BONBRIGHT. DANIEL, educator, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born about 
1830. He is recognized as one of the 
most learned Latin scholars in the world. 
In 1900 he became president of the North 
western University of Evanston. Ill. 

BONER. JOHN HENRY, journalist, au¬ 
thor. was born Jan. 31. 1845. in Salem. N. 
C. He is the author of Whispering 
Pines. 

BONNER, GERALDINE, author, was 
born in 1870 in Staten Island. N. Y. For 
four years he was dramatic critic for the 
San Francisco Argonaut. He is the 
author of Hard Pan. 

BONNIFIELD, M. S.. lawyer, jurist. He 
is chief justice of the supreme court ot 
Nevada. 

BONSAL. STEPHEN, journalist, auth¬ 
or, was born in 1863, in Virginia. He 
served as special correspondent of the New 
York Herald in Bulgarian-Servian war, 
also in Macedonia, in Morocco and in 
Cuba. He was in the U. S. diplomatic 
service as secretary of legation and charge 
d’affairs in Peking, Madrid, Tokio and 
Korea, in 1890-96. He is the author ot 
Morocco As It Is; The Real Condition of 
Cuba; and The Fight for Santiago. 

BOUVIN, LUDWIG, musician, composer, 
was born Feb. 17, 1850, in Switzerland. 
Since 1887 he has been director of chorus 
and orchestra at Canisius College of Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y. His published works include 
three masses and much other sacred 
music. 

BOOKSTAVER, HENRY W., lawyer, 
jurist, was born in Montgomery, N. Y„ 
Sept. 17, 1835. He was elected judge of 
the court of common pleas in 1885; trans¬ 
ferred to Supreme Court in 1895, term 
expiring in 1900. 


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BOOKWALTER, JOHN W., author, was 
born in 1837 in Rob Roy, Ind. He has 
large works in Springfield, O., manufac¬ 
turing Leffel turbine wheels and Book- 
waiter engines. He was once Democrat¬ 
ic candidate lor governor of Ohio. He 
owns a famous art collection. He is 
the author of If Not Silver, What? 

BOOKWALTER, LEWIS, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born Sept. 
18, 1846, near Fallsville, Ohio. Since 1894 
he has been president of Western College 
of Toledo, Iowa. He is the author of 
The Family, or the Home and the Train¬ 
ing of Children. 

BOOTH, MRS. MAUD BALDINGTON. 
missionary, author. She is the wife of 
Ballington Booth, the general-m-chief, 
Volunteers of America. She is the auth¬ 
or of Branded; and Look Up and Hope. 

BOOTH, WALTER SHERMAN, edu¬ 
cator, publisher, genealogist, author, was 
born Sept. 28, 1827, in Bridgewater, Conn. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1861. In 
1862-65 he had charge of the Rochester 
City Post. For many years was court 
commissioner and city and ward justice 
of Rochester, N. Y. In 1876 he sold his 
interest in the Rochester Post, and en¬ 
gaged exclusively in law publications ; and 
his firm of Walter S. Booth and Son of 
Minneapolis, Minn., is well known 
throughout the United States. He is the 
author of Justices Manual; Constable’s 
Manual; Notary’s and Conveyancer’s Man¬ 
ual; Township Manual; Highway Man¬ 
ual; Village Manual; and Genealogy of 
The Booth Family. 

BORDEN, HENRY LEE, manufacturer, 
was born about 1837 in Texas. He is 
president of the New York Condensed 
Milk Company. Although his principal 
business interests are in New York he 
lives in Chicago, his company operating 
an extensive plant at Elgin, Ill. Recently, 
one shipment from his Elgin factory to 
San Francisco freighted an entire railway 
train. 

BOERING, VINCENT, soldier, banker, 
congressman, was born in Washington 
county, Tenn. Nov. 24, 1839. He was a 
volunteer in Union army, Company A, 
24th Kentucky infantry; and was promot¬ 
ed 1st lieutenant for meritorious conduct. 
In 1875 he founded Mountain Echo in 
London, Ky. He was elected county 
judge in 1886; since 1887 has been pres¬ 
ident Cumberland Valley Land company, 
and since 1888 president First National 
Bank of London, Ky. He was commander 
department Kentucky, G. A. R., in 1889. 
He was elected to the fifty-sixth and 
fifty-seventh congress as a republican. 

BOSS, LEWIS, astronomer, author, was 
born Oct. 26. 1846, in Providence, R. 1. 
Since 1876 he has been director of the 
Dudley Conservatory at Albany, N. Y. He 
is the author of Declinations of Fixea 


BOSTWICK, ARTHUR ELMORE, edu- 
tor librarian, author, was born March 
I860, in Litchfield, Conn. Since 189b 
> has been chief librarian of New York 
•ee Circulating Library. In 1892-94 he 
is associate editor Standard Dictionaiy. 
.d since 1891 editor. He is the author of 
ning Folks’ Cyclopedia of Games and 


Sports. 

BOSWORTH, FRANCKE HUNTING- 
TON physician, author, was born in Mar¬ 
ietta,' Ohio, Jan. 25, 1843. He is professor 
diseases of the throat Bellevue Hospital 
Medical College, of New York City. He 
is the author of Hand-book of Diseases 
of the Throat and Nose, Treatise on Dis¬ 
eases of the Nose ana Throat, in two vol¬ 


umes; and Text Book of Diseases of the 
Nose and Throat. 

BOTSFORD, GEORGE WILLIS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1862 in West 
Union, Iowa. Since 1895 he has been in¬ 
structor of history of Greece and Rome 
at Harvard university. He is the author 
of The Development of tne Athenian 
Constitution; and A History of Greece for 
High Schools and Academies. 

BOTTOME, MRS. MARGARET, journa - 
ist, author, was born Dec. 29, 1827, in New 
York City. She i® president of the I,i- 
ternat. Order Kings Daughters; and edi¬ 
tor of department in Ladies’ Home Jour¬ 
nal. She is the author of Crumbs from 
the King’s Table; A Sunshine Trip to the 
Orient; and other works. 

BOURGADE, PETER, clergyman, bish¬ 
op, was born in 1845 -n France. He went 
to Arizona as missionary; and in 1885 be¬ 
came vicar- apostolic of Arizona, with 
titular rank of Bishop of Taumaco. 

BOURNE, EDWARD GAYLORD, edu¬ 
cator. author, was born June 24, 1860, in 
Strykersville, N. Y. Since 1895 he has 
been professor of history at Yale. He is 
the author of The History of the Surplus 
Revenue of 1837. 

BOUVE, MRS. PAULINE CARRING¬ 
TON, journalist, author, poet, was horn in 
Little Rock, Ark. She is a journalist of 
Boston, Mass. She is the author of Their 
Shadows Before; and a volume of Poems. 

BOWEN, CLARENCE WINTHROP. 
publisher, author, was born in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., May 22, 1852. He became connected 
with The Independent, and on death of 
Henry C. Bowen, his father, succeeded as 
its publisher. He is the author of Boundary 
Disputes of Connecticut, and Memorial of 
Contennial of Washington’s Inauguration. 

BOWEN, HERBERT WOLCOTT, law¬ 
yer, diplomat, author, poet, was born Feb. 
29, 1856, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He practiced 
law in New York City; was appointed 
consul in 1890, and consul-general in TS95 
at Barcelona. He was the last to leave 
when war with Spain broke out. He is 
the author of Verses; Losing Ground; In 
Divers Tones; and International Law. 

BOWEN, J. E.. clergyman, author. He 
is a clergyman of Westport. N. Y. He is 
the author of Bowen Genealogy. 

BOWEN, JOHN WESLEY EDWARD, 
educator, author, was born Dec. 3. 1855, in 
New Orleans, La. Since 1888 he has been 
professor of historical geology at Gam¬ 
mon Theological Seminary of Atlanta. Ga. 
He is the author of Discussions in Phil- 
osophv and Theology. 

BOWIE. SYDNEY JOHNSTON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 26, 1865, in 
Talladega County. Ala. He is a member 
of the law firm of Knox, Bowie and Black¬ 
mon, of Talladega and Anniston, Ala. He 
was elected the fifty-sixth congress as a 
democrat. 

BOWLES, PINCKNEY DOWNIE, sol¬ 
dier. lawyer, jurist, was born July 7. 1835, 
in Edgefield, S. C. During the civil war 
he attained the rank of brigadier general. 
For ten years he was state’s prosecuting 
attorney: was postmaster of Evergreen, 
Ala.; and in 1887-98 was judge of probate. 

BOWMAN. ROLAND CLAUDE, artist, 
was born in 1870 in Michigan. Since 1897 
he has been cartoonist on the Minne¬ 
apolis Tribune. He is the author of 
Freckles and Tan, a volume of illustrated 
verse. 

BOWSER. EDWARD ALBERT, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 18, 1845, in 
Canada. Since 1870 he has been professor 
of mathematics at Rutgers College. Since 
1875 he has been in cnarge of the geodetic 
survey of New Jersey. He is the author 


of Academic Algebra; College Algebra; 
Plant and Solid Geometry; Elements of 
Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Trea¬ 
tise on Plane and Spherical Trigonome¬ 
try; Analytic Geometry; Differential and 
Integral Calculus Analytic Mechanics; 
Hydromechanics; Logarithmic Tables; and 
Roofs and Bridges. 

BOWYER, FRANK CLAYTON,business 
man, public official, was born Nov. 6, 1869, 
in Feay’s Valley, West Va. He is a prom¬ 
inent business man of Tampa, Fla., and 
was mayor of that city in 1893-1900. 

BOYD. ELLEN WRIGHT, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 8. 1833, in Winsted, 
Conn. For over a quarter of a century she 
has been principal of St. Agnes school of 
Albany, N. Y. She is the author of Out¬ 
lines of Religious Instruction; English 
Cathedrals; and Famous Art Galleries. 

BOYD, JAMES E., lawyer, jurist. He is 
judge U. S. Dist. Court for Western Dist. 
of N. C.; apptd. July 11, 1900. 

BOYD, JAMES P., lawyer, journalist, 
author,was born Dec. 20,1836, in Lancaster 
County, Pa. In 1868-72 he was managing 
editor of the Philadelphia Press; and of 
the People’s Journal in 1873-83. He is the 
author of Lives of Grant. Sheridan. Sher¬ 
man, and Emperor William I.; History of 
the Crusades; Building and Ruling the 
Republic; Political History of the United 
States; and other works. 

BOYD, WILLIAM P„ author, genealo¬ 
gist, was born March 26, 1849. He is the 
author of History of Conesus; and Boyd’s 
Genealogy. 

BO YE. MARTIN H., chemist, author, 
was born Dec. 6, 1812, in Denmark. In 
1845 he discovered and with others applied 
the first process of refining cotton seed 
oil, and specimens exhibited at the Cen¬ 
tennial Exposition of Philadelphia in 1876 
received first premium. In 1845-59 he 
was professor of chemistry and natural 
philosophy in Central High Scnuol of 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of 
Pneumatics, or the Physics of Gases; and 
Chemistry, or the Physics of Atoms. 

BOYLAN, MRS. GRACE DUFFIE, 
journalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 9. 
1861, in Kalamazoo, Mich. She is a 
sketch writer for the Chicago Journal; 
and a writer of dialect poetry and patri¬ 
otic verse. She is the author of If Tam 
O’Shanter ’d Had a Wheel, and Other 
Poems and Sketches. 

BOYLE, VIRGINIA FRAZER, author, 
poet, was born near Chattanooga, renn. 
She is the wife of Thomas R. Boyle, a 
lawyer of Memphis. Tenn. She is the 
author of The Other Side, an historical 
poem; and Brokenburne, A Southern 
Auntie’s War Tale. 

BRACE, THEODORE, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born June 10, 1835, in Mary¬ 
land. In 1861-62 he was colonel of the 
third Missouri cavalry, second district of 
Missouri guard. In 1874-75 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Missouri state senate. In 1878- 
79 he was judge of probate court: and 
judge of circuit court in 1880-86. Since 
1887 he has been a judge of supreme court 
of Missouri, his term expiring in 1907. 

BRADBURY, JOSEPH P., lawyer, jurist. 
He is associate justice of the supreme 
court of Ohio. 

BRADLEY, ANDREW COYLE, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Feb. 12, 1844, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He is associate justice of 
the supreme court of the District of Co¬ 
lumbia. 

BRADLEY, CHARLES, merchant, gene¬ 
alogist. was born Aug. 31, 1857. He is a 
successful merchant of Newark. N. J.; and 
a director in the Newark city bank and 


xii 

board of trade. In 1896 lie was a dele¬ 
gate to the Republican national conven¬ 
tion. He edited and published his fath¬ 
er’s work on The Bradley Family. 

BRADLEY, JOHN EDWIN, educator, 
author, was born in Lee, Mass. Since 
1892 he has been president of the Illino's 
College. He is the author of Science and 
Industry; School Incentives; Healthful¬ 
ness; Healthfulness of Intellectual Pur¬ 
suits; and Unconscious Education. 

BRADLEY, MILTON, manufacturer, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 8, 1836. in Vienna, 
Maine. He organized the Milton Bradley 
Company of Springfield, Mass. He is the 
author of Color in the Kindergarten; and 
other works. 

BRADSHAW, WILIAM RICHARD, 
journalist, author, was born .Tan. !4 V" 1 
in Ireland. In 1886-8? he was editor of 
Literary Life of Chicago; and The Dec¬ 
orater and Furnisher in 1890-96. He is 
an authority on questions of decorative 
art. He is the author of The Goddess of 
Atvatabar. 

BRADY, CYRUS TOWNSEND, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in Allegheny, Pa . 
Dec. 20. 1861. He was l’ector of protes- 
tant episcopal churches in Missouri and 
Colorado; and archdeacon of Kansas; 
chaplain first Pennsylvania volunteer in 
fantry Spanisli-American war. He is 
the author of For Love of Country; 
For the Freedom of the Sea; and The 
Grip of Honor. 

BRADY. JOHN, clergyman, bishop, wa= 
born in 1840 in Ireland. In 1891 he b° 
came auxiliary bishop of Boston: and was 
consecrated titular bishop of Alabama. 

BRADY, John G., missionary, governor, 
was born in 1849 in New York City. In 
*1897-1901 he was governor of Alaska. 

BRAIN. BELLE M., artist, author, was 
born in Springfield, O., Aug. 4, 1859. In 
1878-95 she was supervisor of drawing at 
Springfield public schools. She is .the 
author of Fuel for Missionary Fires: 
Weapons for Temperance Warfare; The 
Morning Watch; Quaint Thoughts of an 
Old-Time Army Chaplain; and The Trans¬ 
formation of Hawaii. 

BRAINARD, LUCY ABIGAIL, edu¬ 
cator. genealogist, was born June 26. 1832. 
in Colchester, Conn. She assisted in the 
compilation of the Foote Genealogy; aai 
is the author of the Brainard Genea’ogy. 

BRAINE, ROBERT DYER, musician, 
author, was born in Springfield, Ohio. May 
20. 1861. He is the author of Messages 
from Mars, or the Strange Revelations of 
the Telescope Plant. 

BRANDT, HERMANN CARL GEORGE 
educator, author, was born Dec. 15. 1850, 
in Germany. Since 1883 he has been 
professor of German at Hamilton College. 
He is the author of German Grammar for 
Schools and Colleges; German Reader: 
and German-English and English-German 
Dictionary. 

BRANN, HENRY ATHANASIUS, cler¬ 
gyman author, was born Aug. 15. 1837. in 
Ireland. He was ordained in 1862. He 
was vice-president of Seton Hall college 
until 1864; and in 1868-72 director of the 
Roman Catholic seminary in Wheeling. 
W. Va., when he was appointed rector ot 
St. Elizabeth’s church of New York. He 
is also archdiocesan censor of books. He 
is the author of Curious Questions- Truth 
and Error; Essays on the Popes; The Age 
of Unreason; and Immortality of the Soul. 

BRANNON. HENRi, lawyer legislator, 
jurist, was born Nov. 26, 1837, in Win¬ 
chester, Va. In 1859-81 he practiced law 
in West Virginia, and was nros"cut ; ng 
attorney of Louis county in 1860-64; and 
member of West Virginia legislature in 


ADDENDA. 

1870-71. In 1880 he became circuit judge: 
and since 18S8 has been judge of the su¬ 
preme court of West Virginia. 

BRANTLY, THEODORE, lawyer, edu¬ 
cator, jurist, was born Feb. 12, 1851, in 
Lebanon, Tenn. Until 1889 he taught 
languages at the College of Montana. 
In 1892-98 he was district judge third 
district of Montana; and in 1898 became 
chief-justice of the supreme court of 
Montana for term ending in 1904. 

BRANTLEY,WILLIAM THEOPHILUS, 
lawyer, author, was born Nev. 17, 1852. 
in Augusta, Ga. Since 1885 he has been 
professor of law school. University of 
Maryland. Since 1894 he has been report¬ 
er court of appeals of Maryland. He is 
Che author of Law of Personal Property. 

BRAYTON, ALEMBERT WINTHROP. 
physician, naturalist, author, was born in 
Avon, N. Y., March 3, 1848. He is th 3 
author of Birds of Indiana; Mammals of 
Ohio: Fishes of the Southern Allegheny 
Region, with 20 Species New to Science. 

BREARLEY, WILLIAM HENRY, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, author, was born in Plym¬ 
outh, Mich., July 18, 1846. In 1862-65 he 
served in the civil war, 17th ■ Michigan 
volunteer infantry. In 1873-87 he was 
advertising manager. Detroit News; and 
proprietor of Detroit Journal in 1887-92. 
He founded the Detroit Museum of Art in 
1883; Detroit Chamber of Commerce in 
1892. He is the author of R?coll ctio 
of the East Tennessee Campaign; Want¬ 
ed, A Copyist; and Leading Events of the 
American Revolution. 

BREAUX, JOSEPH A., soldier, lawyer 
jurist, was born in 1838 in Louisiana. In 
1861-65 he served in the confederate army 
Since 1890 he has been associate justice 
of the supreme court of Louisiana. 

BREAZEALE, PHANOR, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 29, 1858, in 
Louisiana. In 1892-99 he was district 
prosecuting attorney and elected a mem- 
of Louisiana, constitutional convention in 
1898. He was elected to the fifty-sixth 
Congress as a Democrat. 

BRECKINRIDGE, JOSEPH OABELi-. 
soldier, was born Jan. 14. 1842, in Balti¬ 
more, Md.. In 1861 he entered the Union 
army, was on General Nelson’s and 
Thomas’s staffs; and was given appoint¬ 
ment in regular army for gallantry at 
Mill Springs, Ky. He filled every grade; 
was major in 1881; brigadier-general in 
1889 : and major-general vols. in 1898. He 
was in Santiago campaign. 

BRECKINRIDGE, ROBERT JEFFER¬ 
SON, soldier, lawyer, jurist, statesman, 
was born in September, 1834. He was a 
representative in the Confederate con¬ 
gress; and colonel of cavalry confederate 
service. He was judge court of common 
pleas; member of the state senate of Ken¬ 
tucky; and attorney-general of Kentucky. 

BRECKONS, JOSEPH ALLISON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Nov. 27, 1857, in 
Right Problems on Bear River. 

St. Clair, Pa. Pie is the author of Water 

BREED, JOHN HOWARD, business¬ 
man, genealogist, was born May 27 18* ' 
He is superintenaent of Safe Deposit 
Vaults! of the Real Estate Trust Company 
at Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of 
The Breed Family Record. 

BRENNAN. THOMAS FRANCIS, cler 
gyman, bishop, was born in 1853 in Ire¬ 
land. In 1891 he was consecrated bishop 
of Dallas, Texas; was Vicar Apostolic of 
the Labrador in in 1893-94 and auxiliary 
bishop of Newfoundland in 1894-95. 

BRENT, JOSEPH LANCASTER, law¬ 
yer, was born Nov. 30, 1826, in Charles 
City county, Md. In 1862 he was appoint¬ 


ed chief of ordnance and artillery to Gen¬ 
eral Richard Taylor, in which position 
he continued during the year 1863, when 
he was made colonel of artillery. He was 
appointed brigadier-general, in 1864. 

BRETT, WILLIAM HOWARD, librar¬ 
ian, was born in 1846 in Braceville, Ohio. 
Since 1884 lie has been librarian of Public 
Library of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1897 he 
was president of American Library Asso¬ 
ciation. 

BREWER, ABRAHAM T„ soldier, law¬ 
yer. author, was born Sept. 20, 1841, in 
Monroe County. Ohio. He served three 
years during the civil war in the sixty- 
first regiment Pennsylvania volunteers 
He is the author of Ohio Corporations; 
and The Jury System. 

BREWER. JOHN HYATT, musician, 
composer, was born Jan. 18, 1856 in 
Brooklyn. N. Y. * or seven years he was 
boy-soprano in various churches; and in 
1871 began his career as organist; and 
since 1881 has been organist and director 
of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian 
Church of Brooklyn. N. Y. He is the au¬ 
thor of duets, quartets, anthems, glees, 
choruses and cantatas. 

BREWSTER. CHAUNCEY BUNCE, 
clergyman, bishop, author, was born Sept. 
5. 1848 in Windham, Conn. Since 1887 he 
has been bishop coadjutor of Connecticut. 
He is the author of Key of Life; Good 
Friday Addresses. 

BREWSTER, WADSWORTH J.. mer¬ 
chant, banker, genealogist, was born Feb. 
10, 1846. He is the proprietor of a large 
department store in Hannibal, N. Y.; and 
also conducts a banking business. He 
is the author of The Brewster Genealogi¬ 
cal Charts. 

BRIDGE. NORMAN, physician, author, 
was born in Windsor. Vt.. Dec. 30, 1844. 
Since 1888 he has been attending physi¬ 
cian to Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago. 
In 1881-84 he was a member and twice 
president of Chicago Board of Education. 
He is the author of The Penalties of Taste 
and Other Essays. 

BRIDGMAN, JOSEPH CLARKE, book¬ 
seller, genealogist, was born Oct. 23, 1831. 
He has been United States government 
agent in the Indian department. He is 
a bookseller of Hvd^ Park, Mass. He is 
the author of Genealogy of the Bridgman 
Family. 

BRIGGS. SAMUEL, treasurer, genealo¬ 
gist, was born April 12, 1841. In 1879-82 
he was superintendent Valley Railway of 
Ohio; and in 18S2-86 was receiver and 
general manager. He is the author of 
The Archives of the Briggs Family. 

BRIGHAM, ALBERT PERRY, geologist, 
author, was born June 12, 1855, in Perry, 
N. Y. He is the author of A Text-Book of 
Geology. 

BRIGHAM, MRS. SARAH J., illustrator, 
author, was born in Manchester, N. Y. 
March 5, 1835. As an artist she has illus¬ 
trated in color. She is the author of Un¬ 
der Blue Skies; and The Pleasant Land 
of Play. 

BRINKERHOFF, RICHARD, pub¬ 
lisher, genealogist, was born April 19, 
1828. Since 1875 he has been business 
manager of the board of publication of the 
Reformed church in America at New York 
City. He is the author of a genealogy 
of the Brinkerlioff Family. 

BRINSMADE, JOHN C., educator, legis¬ 
lator, was born April 24, 1852, in Spring- 
field. Mass. He was principal of the Gun¬ 
nery School of Washington, Conn. He 
-was a member of the Connecticut Legis¬ 
lature in 1893. 

BRISTOL, FRANK MILTON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in Orleans County, 


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N. Y., Jan. 4, 1851. He is now pastor of 
the Metropolitan M. E. Church of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He is the author of Provi¬ 
dential Epochs; The Ministry of Art; and 
Shakespeare and America. 

BRISTOL, GEORGE PRENTISS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was horn June 21, 1856, in 
Clinton, N. Y. Since 1898 he has teen 
professor of Greek in Cornell University 
of Ithaca, N. Y. He is the author of The 
Teaching of Greek in Secondary Schools. 

BRITTON, NATHANIEL LORD, geolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Jan. 15, 1859. in 
New Dorp, N. Y. He is director New 
York Bothanical Garden. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Flora of New Jersey; and il¬ 
lustrated Flora of the Northern United 
States and Canada. 

BROADHURST. G. M„ dramatist, au¬ 
thor. He is the author of the plays Wha* 

Happened to Jones; The House T’ at J'vk 
Built. 

BROBST, SAMUEL R. KISTLER, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Nov. 16, 1822. in 
Lynn township. Pa. In 1847 be fou'd d 
the Jugendfreund the first juvenile mag¬ 
azine published in the United States in 
the German language, which subsequently 
transformed into the Lutherische Zeit- 
schrift. He also formed a German teach- 
ars’ seminary, which became Muhlenberg 
college. He is the author of several works 
in Germany. and an annual Lutheran 
church almanac in German and Englis' - . 

BROCK, ROBERT ALONZO, antiquar¬ 
ian, historian, was born in Richmond. Va., 
March 9. 1839. He edited its eleven vol¬ 
umes of Collections. He is a member of 
numerous learned societies in the I nited 
States, Canada and Europe. 

BROCK ENBROUGH. J. W.. lawyer, was 
born in Virginia. He was appointed a 
judge of the United States district court 
for that district. 

BROCKWAY, HOWARD, musician.com- 
poser, was born in Brooklyn. N. Y., Nov. 
22. 1870. Since 1895 he has lived in New 
York City, teaching piano-forte and com¬ 
position. and concertizing. He is the au¬ 
thor of Variations on an Original Theme 
BROOKE, THOMAS PRESTON, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born in Leavenworth. 
Kan.. June 7. 1859. Since 1893 he has con¬ 
ducted the Chicago Marine Band. Among 
the best known of his compositions are 
Columbian Guards March; March of the 
First- Popular Swing Two-step: Louisiana 
Buck' Dance; Our Nation’s Guard March. 

BROOKE-RAWLE. WILLIAM, soldier, 
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 29, 1843. in 
Philadelphia. Pa. During the civil war 
he attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel 
He is the author of Gregg’s Cavalry Figh+ 
at Gettysburg. 

BROOKS ALFRED HULSE. geologist 
was born July 18. 1871. in Ann _\rh- 
Mich. He has been connected with the 
United States Survey since 1894: and ’ 
now engaged in explorations in Alaska. 

BROOKS, CHRISTOPHER PARKIN¬ 
SON, lecturer, scientist, author, was 
born April 17. 1866. in England. In 1898 
he organized and is managing director of 
New Bedford Textile School. He lectured 
in course of municipal lectures, city of 
Boston in 1899. He is the author of 
Cotton Manufacturing; Weaving Calcula¬ 
tions: and Cotton. Its Uses. Varieties, 
Fibre Structure and Cultivation. 

BROOKS, HENRY S.. Journalist author 
was born in London. England. In 1850 
he was a California pioneer; editor of Cal¬ 
ifornia Mountaineer in 1861: associate edi¬ 
tor of The Pacific in 1862-65. He is the au¬ 
thor of Dona Paula’s Treasure; and A 
Catastrophe in Boemia. 


BROOKS, JABEZ, educator, college 
president, author, was born Sept. 18, 1823, 
in Engand. Since 1869 he has been pro¬ 
fessor Greek at University of Minneapo¬ 
lis; president Minneapolis Educational As¬ 
sociation, 1868; Methodist. He is the au¬ 
thor of Attic Greek; a book for beginners. 

BROOKS, JOHN M., soldier, educator, 
was born in 1820. He designed the ram 
Merrimac and thus revolutionized marine 
warfare, is still living at Lexington. Va. 
He is Professor Emeritus of Physics at 
the Virginia Military Institute. 

BROOMELL, I. NORMAN, dentist, au¬ 
thor, was born in Chester County, Pa., 
Nov. 25, 1858. Since 1898 he has been 
professor of dental histology and pros¬ 
thetic dentistry at Pennsylvania College of 
Dental Surgery. He is the author of An- 
atomv and Histology of the Mouth and 


Teeth. 

BROUN. WILLIAM LEROY, soldier ed¬ 
ucator, physician, surgeon, was born in 
1827, Loundon County, Va. He filled pro¬ 
fessorships in the College of Oakland and 
the University of Georgia: and then or¬ 
ganized the Bloomfield Academy. In 1861 
he enlisted as a lieutenant of artillery in 
the confederate service; and subsequently 
was made commandant of the Richmond 
Arsenal. He then accepted the chair of 
natural philosophy in the University of 
Georgia- and in 1872 was elected presi¬ 
dent of the Georgia Agricultural and Me¬ 
chanical College. In 1875-82 he filled the 
chair of mathematics in.Vanderbilt Uni¬ 
versity. He then became president of the 
Agricultural and Mechanical College of 
Alabama, which has developed under his 
able administration into a scientific insti¬ 


tution of the highest rank. 

BROWER. DANIEL ROBERTS, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1839 in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa.. He is now professor of men¬ 
tal diseases and therapeutics at Rush Med¬ 
ical college of Chicago. Ill. He is the 
author of numerous monographs; and a 
text book on Insanity. • 

BROWER, JACOB VRADENBERG 
soldier, legislator, explorer, author, was 
born in York, Mich.. Jan. 21. 1S44. He 
served in the volunteer cavalry and in 
the United States volunteer navy during 
the civil war. In 1873 he was a member 
of the Minnesota state legislature He 
charted source of the Mississippi river in 
1889. He discovered mounds and ancient 
village site at Itasca Lake in 1894-95 and 
rediscovered site of Quivira in 1897-98. Lie 
is the author of The Mississippi River and 
Its Utmost Source; Phehistoric Man at 
the Head Waters of the Mississippi; and 
The Missouri River and its Sources. 

BROWN. ARTHUR LEWIS, lawyer 
jurist, was born Nov. 28. 1854, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I.' Since 1890 he ha* been United 
States judge for district of Rhode Island. 

BROWN. CALVIN LUTHER, lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 26, 1854. in Goshen. 
N. h! Since 1899 he has been judge of 
Supreme Court of Minnesota. 

BROWN CALVIN SMITH, educator, au¬ 
thor. was born Feb. 13 1866 r *h’-- 

County, Tenn. He is an instructor in 
English and Comparative literature in 
Uiversitv of Colorado. He is the author 
of The Later Eglish Drama. 

BROWN. CHARLES REYNOLDS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Oct. 1, 1862. in 
Bethany. W. Va. Since 1899 he has been 
special lecturer in Ethics at Stanford 
University of California. He is the an¬ 
ti-nr of Two Parables; and The Main 


Points. 

BROWN, ERNEST WILLIAM, educator, 
author was born Nov. 29, 1866, in Hull. 
England. Since 1891 he has been profes¬ 


sor of applied mathematics at Haverford 
College. He is the author of Treatise on 
the Lunar Theory. 

BROWN, FRANK, farmer, legislator, 
governor, was born in Carroll County, 
Md., Aug. 8, 1846. He was a member of 
the Maryland legislature in 1876-78. He 
is a stock raiser on a large scale. He 
was president of Maryland State Agricul¬ 
tural and Mechanical Association in 1880- 
92; and postmaster of Baltimore in 1886- 
90. In 1892-96 he was governor of Mary¬ 
land. 

BROWN. JOHN HOWARD, journalist 
author, was born Nov. 8, 1840. in Rhine- 
beck, N. Y. He was a student at Rhina- 
beck Academy, Fort Edward Institute, and 
Eastman College; and studied law in New 
York City. He was newspaper correspon¬ 
dent in 1863-65 in Washington, D. C.; and 
in 1868-71 was real-estate agent and news 
correspondent in Georgia. During 1871-85. 
he was a publisher of popular subscrip¬ 
tion books in New York City; in 1885-87 
was traveling correspondent for New York 
Star; and in 1890-95 was editor of Nation¬ 
al Encyclopedia of American Biography 
of New York City. In 1896-99 he was 
editor of the Encyclopedia of American 
Biography published in Boston, Mass., the 
ttle of which is now Lamb’s Biographical 
Dictionary of the United States. He is also 
the author of American Naval Heroes: 
and other works. 

BROWN, JOHN MARSHALL, soldier, 
financier, legislator, was born Dec. 14. 
1838, in Portland, Maine. During the civil 
war he attained the rank of brigadier- 
general. In 1899 he was a member of the 
Maine legislature. 

BROWN. LILLIE WEST, dramatic 
critic, author, was born in West Burling¬ 
ton. Iowa, Oct. 11. 1860. She is th" 
author of Amy Leslie at the Fair; and 
Some Players. 

BROWN. OB ADI AH BUREN, musician, 
composer, was born July 2, 1829, in Wash¬ 
ington. D. C. He was a teacher of mus 
ic in State Normal Schools at Salem, 
Bridgewater, and Framingham. Mass. 
He was organist in Boston and Malden. 
He is the author of several popular col¬ 
lections of school songs. 

BROWN. THOMAS JEFFERSON, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, was born July 24, 
1836. in Jasper county. Oa. Tn 1888-92 he 
was a member of the-Texas legislature: 
and judge of the State district court m 
1892-93. Since 1893 he has been asso¬ 
ciate justice of the supreme court of Tex¬ 
as. 

BROWN. WEBSTER E.. lumberman, 
congressman, was born JnW 1851 m 
Peterboro, N. Y. Since 1875 h“ has been 
engaged in the ’umber business at Rhine¬ 
lander. Wis. He was elected to the 
fifty-seventh congress from Wisconsin as 
a Rcnuhlican. 

BROWN. WILLIAM GARROTT. lec 
turer. author, was horn April 24. 1868. in 
Marion. Ala. Since 1892 he has been as 
sistant in Harvard Library. He is t*e 
author of Official guide to Harvard Uni¬ 
versity: and A History of Alabama. 

BROWN, WILLIAM TEE. journalist 
state senator, was born Dec. 25. 1840. in 
Vermont. He is joint proprietor of th« 
New York Daily News with Benjamin 
Wood. For two terms be was a state 
senator of New York. Tn 1892 he was 
candidate for Congress. 

BROWN. WTTLTAM MONTDOMwo >' 
clergyman, bishop, author, was born Nov 
n, 1855. near' Orrville. Ohio. Since isae 
he has been Protestant Episcopal bishop 
coadjutor of Arkansas. He is the anU'O'- 
of The Church for Americans. 


XIV 


ADDENDA. 


BROWN, WILLIAM THURSTON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Oct. 20, 1801, in 
Medusa, N. Y. He is the pa.,un 
Plymouth Church of Rochester, N. T. 
He is the author of the Real Religion of 
Today. 

BROWNE, BENNET BERxnARD, phy 
sician, was born June 11, 1842, in Wneat- 
lands, Md. He holds professorships in 
the medical college of Baltimore, in tli 
polytechnic and post-graduate medica 
school of that city, and is president of the 
Baltimore cunicai society. He has suc¬ 
cessfully introduced a new operation for 
chronic inversion of the uterus; and ha; 
written extensively for the medica' 
journals on obstetrical and gynaecological 
subjects. 

BROWNELL, CLARENCE LUDI 0\ 
journalst, author, was born June 0 
1864, in Hartford, Conn. He is the aui 
or of Tales from Tokio. 

BROWNING, WILLIAM CHARLES 
merchant, was born Nov. 13, 1833, in New 
York city. In 1868 he, with partners, es¬ 
tablished the firm of Browning, King ana 
Co., to represent the manufacturing and 
retail interests of their clothng trade, 
their wholesale business being carried on 
in Chicago under the name of Henry W. 
King and Co. They are the largest manu¬ 
facturers of clothing in the world, and 
have retail branches In Chicag 
Louis, Kansas City, St. Paul, Omaha, New 
York, Minneapolis, Brooklyn, Boston, Lin¬ 
coln, Providence and Cleveland. 

BROYDE, ISAAC, Arabist, author, was 
born Feb. 23, 1867, in Russia. He is 
the author of several Arabic works. 

BRUBAKER, ALBERT P., educator, 
author, was born Aug. 12, 1852, in Somer¬ 
set, Pa. Since 1893 he has been lecture^ 
on Anatomy and Physiology at Drexel 
Institute at Philadelphia, Pa. He is 
the author of Compend of Physiology. 

BRUCE, HORATIO WASHINGTON, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 
22 , 1830, ifi Lewis County, Ky. He was a 
member of the Kentucky legislature; and 
a member of the confederate congress 
He has been circuit judge in Kentucky; 
and chancellor Louisville Chancery 
court. He is now chief attorney of the 
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com¬ 
pany. 

BRUHL, GUSTAVUS, physician, was 
born May 31, 1826. in Prussia. He was 
physician of St. Mary’s hospital, lecturer 
on laryngoscopy in Miami medical col¬ 
lege; and one of the founders and first 
president of the Peter Claver society for 
the education of colored children. In 1869 
he edited the German Pioneer; and in 1871 
was nominated by the democrats for state 
treasurer of Ohio. In 1874 he was one of 
the examiners of public schools in Cincin¬ 
nati. 

BRUNCKEN, ERNEST, horticulturist, 
author. He was secretary of the Wiscon¬ 
sin State Forestry Commission. He is the 
author of North American Forests. 

BRUNER. LAWRENCE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1856 in Catasaqua, Pa. 
He is professor of entomology and ornith¬ 
ology at University of Nebraska. He is 
State entomologist of Nebraska. He is the 
author of Introduction to Study of Ento¬ 
mology; and Destructive Locust of Argen¬ 
tina. 

BRYAN, CHARLES PAGE, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, diplomat, was born June 12, 1856. 
in Chicago. Ill. In 1879-83 he practiced 
law in Colorado; and was a member of 
the Colorado state legislature. He made 
two tours of Europe for the Columbian 
Exposition. He served four terms as a 
member of the Illinois state legislature: 


and was colonel on the military staffs of 
Governors Fifer, Oglesby and Altgeld. 
Since 1898 he has been United States 
Minister to Brazil. 

BRYAN, GEORGE D., soldier, lawyer, 
public official, was born Sept. 26, 1845, in 
Charleston, S. C. During the civil war he 
served in the Confederate navy. During 
1878-87 he was corporation counsel of 
his native city; was mayor in 1887-91; 
and collector of customs in 1894-98. 

BRYAN, WILLIAM LOWE, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 11, 1860, near 

Bloomington, Ind. Since 1893 he has been 
professor of philosophy and vice-president 
since 1893 at Indiana University. He is 
the author of Plato the Teacher; Selec¬ 
tions from Plato; and The Republic of 
Plato, with Studies for Teachers. 

BRYANT, DAVID E., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 19, 1849, in La Rue County 
Ky. Since 1890 he has been United States 
district judge for the eastern district of 
Texas. 

BRYANT, JOHN HOWARD, farmer, 
legislator, poet, was born July 22, 1807, in 
Cummington, Mass. In 1842 and 1858 he 
was a member of the Illinois legislature. 
In 1854 he was a free-soil candidate for 
congress. He is the author of Life and 
Poems. 

BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, journal¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 1, 1849, in New York 
City. Since 1875 he has been publisher 
of the Brooklyn Times. 

BUCHANAN, ANDREWS HAYS, edu¬ 
cator, civil engineer, author, was born 
June 28, 1828, in Washington County, Ark. 
In 1861-65 he was military topographical 
engineer in the confederate service. Since 
1869 he has been professor of mathematics 
and civil-engineering in Cumberland 
University of Lebanon, Tenn. 

BUCHANAN, ROBERDEAU, civil en¬ 
gineer, genealogist, author, was born in 
1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. As civil en¬ 
gineer he was connected with the con¬ 
struction of the Charleston waterworks: 
and subsequently was chief-engineer ot 
various enterprises. He was connected 
with the United States patent office; and 
since 1878 has been connected with the 
Nautical Almanac and the United States 
Naval Observatory at Washington. He is 
the author of a Report on Bridge Con¬ 
struction; Genealogy of the Roberdeau 
Family; and other works. 

BUCK. CARL DARLING, educator, au¬ 
thor was born Oct. 2, 1866, in Bucksport. 
Maine. Since 1892 he has been professor 
of Sanskirt and comparative philology at 
University of Chicago. He is the author 
of Hale-Buck Latin Grammar. 

BUCK. GEORGE M., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Nov. 28, 1843, in Skaneateles, N. v 
He was circuit court commissioner of 
Kalamazoo County, Mich., for five yea’s; 
prosecuting attorney for four years; Unit¬ 
ed States commissioner for three years; 
Judge of Probate Court for eight years: 
and for the past twelve years has been 
Circuit Judge for the ninth judicial cir¬ 
cuit of Michigan. 

BUCK, GERTRUDE, educator author, 
was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., July 14. 
1871. Since 1897 she has been an in¬ 
structor of English at Vassar College. 
She is the author of A Course in Ex¬ 
pository Writing; and The Metaphor. 

BUCK, LEFFERT LEFFERTS, soldier, 
civil engineer, designer, was born in 
Canton, N. Y., in 1837. In 1861-65 he served 
in Union army, in 60th New York vol¬ 
unteers. He was chief engineer of New 
East River bridge; and designer and en¬ 
gineer of arch bridge at Niagara Falls. 


BUCKINGHAM, EBENEZER, banker, 
was born Jan. 16, 1829, in Zanesville, 
Ohio. In 1866, with his brother, John, 
be bought the grain elevators in Chicago 
connected with the Illinois Central rail¬ 
road, and continued in that business 
twenty-five years. In 190 he was elect¬ 
ed president of the Northwestern nation¬ 
al bank; and is also president of the 
Traders’ Insurance company. 

BUEHLER, HUBER GRAY, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born Dec. 3, 1864, 
in Gettysburg, Pa. He is a teacher at 
Hotchkiss School of Lakeville. Conn. He 
is the author of Practical Exercises in 
English. 

BUELL, MARCUS DARiUS, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 1, 1851. 
in Wayland, N. Y. Since 1884 he has 
been professor of New Testament Greek; 
and since 1889 dean of the theological 
faculty of Boston University. He is the 
author of Studies in The Greek Text of 
the Gospel of Mark. 

BUFFINGTON, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Sept. 5, 1855, in Kittanning. 
Since 1892 he has been United States 
judge for the western district of Penn¬ 
sylvania. 

BUGG, LELIA HARDIN, author, was 
born in Ironton Mo. She is the au¬ 
thor of The Correct Thing for Catholics; 
A Lady; and The Prodigal’s Daughter. 

BULKLEY, L. DUNCAN, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in New York City, Jan. 
12, 1845. He is consulting physician of 
New York Hospital. He is the author of 
Manual of Diseases of the Skin; and 
Acne and Its Treatment. 

BULLARD, FREDERICK FIELD, mu¬ 
sician, composer, was born Sept. 21. 1S64. 
in Boston. Mass. He settled in Boston 
as a teacher of composition. He was 
musical critic for Time and the Hour. He 
has publshed about 40 songs. 

BULLITT. JOHN C., lawyer, was born 
in Jefferson County, Ky., Feb. 10, 1824. 
He was receiver of the Schuylkill Ba^k 
gaining reputation by skillful manage¬ 
ment and settlement of its affairs. He 
was leading counsel for Gen. Fitz. John 
Porter before advisory board of officers 
at West Point. He is the owner of the 
large Bullitt Bldg, in Philadelphia. Pa. 

BULLOCH, JOSEPH GASTON BAIL- 
LIE, physician, genealogist, was born 
about 1850. For many years he practiced 
medicine in Florida, where he assisted in 
organizing several medical societies. He 
assisted in. organizing the Sons of the 
Revolution of Georgia, and was vice-pres¬ 
ident. He has filled numerous govern¬ 
ment medical positions; and is now su¬ 
perintendent of the Indian School service 
at Cheyenne Agency, S. D. He is the 
author of The Bulloch Family and Con¬ 
nections, and other genealogical works. 
He is also the author of various medical 
and sanitary articles; The Indian Ques¬ 
tion; and articles on good government.. 

BULLOCK. CHARLES JESSE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born May 21, 1869. in 
Boston. Mass. He is professor of econom¬ 
ics at Williams College. He is the author 
of The Finances of the United States; 
Introduction to the Study of Economics. 

BUMPUS, HERMAN CAREY, educator, 
author, was born May 5, 1862, in Buck- 
field, Maine. Since 1892 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of comparative anatomy in Brown 
University. He is the author of A Labora¬ 
tory Course in Invertebrate Zoology. 

BUNCE. FRANCIS MARVIN, Soldier, 
was born Dec. 25, 1836, in Hartford. Conn. 
During the Civil war he was executive 
officer of Penobscot. He served on Paw- 


ADDENDA. 


XV 


nee and had charge of naval part in at¬ 
tack and capture of Morris island, S. C. 

In 1891-94 he commanded Naval Training 
Station at Newport, R. I.; North Atlantic 
Station in 1895-97; navy yard of New 
York in 1897-99. He attained the rank of 
rear-admiral in 1898. 

BURBANK, LUTHER, naturalist, or¬ 
iginator, was horn March 7, 1849, in Dan- 
caster, Mass. He was always devofe'd to 
the study of nature, especially plant life; 
conducts Burbank’s Experiment Farms at 
Santa Rosa, Cal. He was the originator 
of the Burbank potato; Gold, Wickson. 
Apple, October Purple, Chaleo, America 
and Climax plums; Giant, Splendor and 
Sugar prunes; Peachblow, Burbank and 
Santa Rosa roses; Giant and Fragrance 
callas; and various new apples, peaches, 
nuts, berries and other valuable trees, 
fruits, flowers and vegetables. 

BURCHARD, CHARLES AUSTIN, leg¬ 
islator, was born Jan. 1, 1810, in Granby, 
Mass. In 1843 he settled in Waukesha. 
Wis. In 1846 he was elected a delegate 
to the first constitutional convention of 
Wisconsin; and in 1854 moved to Beaver 
Dam. In 1856 he was elected a member 
of the Wisconsin State Assembly. 

BURDICK, FRANCIS MARION, lawyer, 
author, was horn Aug. 1, 1845. in De 
Ruyter, N. Y. Since 1891 he has been 
Dwight professor of law, at Columbia 
University. He is the author of Burdicks 
Cases on Torts; Cases on Sales: The Law 
of Sales; Cases on Partnership; and The 
Law of Partnership. 

BURGESS, EDWARD SANDFORD,edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 19, 1855. in 
Little Valley, N. Y. Since 1895 he has 
been professor of natural science at Nor¬ 
mal College of New York. He is the 
author of Monographs Upon Species of 
North American Asters. 

BURGESS, FRANK GELETT, illus¬ 
trator, author, was born Jan. 30, 1866, in 
Boston, Mass. He is an illustrator of 
San Francisco, Cal. He is the author of 
The Lark Almanac; and other works. 

BURGESS, GAVON D„ lawyer, jurist, 
He is associate justice of the supreme 
court of Missouri. 

BURGESS, GEORGE FARMER, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1861. in 
Wharton, Texas. He is a successful law¬ 
yer of Gonzales, Texas. He was elected 
to the fifty-seventh congress from Texas 

BURK, HENRY, congressman, was born 
Sept. 26, 1850. in Germany. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-seventh congress from 
Pennsylvania. 

BURKE, CHARLES H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 1,1861, in Gene¬ 
see County, N. Y. He was a member of 
the North Dakota legislature in 1882 and 
was elected to the fifty-sixth congress as 
a republican. 

BURKE, MILO DARWIN, civil engi¬ 
neer, author, was born in Ashland County. 
O., Aug 23, 1841. He has general practice 
in engineering work; and constructed 
four incline planes for passenger traffic. 
He is the author of Brick for Street Pave¬ 
ments. 

BURKE. THOMAS MARTIN ALOYSI- 
US. clergyman, bishop, was born Jan. 10 
1840, in Ireland. He was theologian in 3d 
Plenary council in 1884; became vicar- 
general, administrator, and finally bishop 
of Albany. 

BURKET, JACOB F.. lawyer, banker, 
jurist, was born March 25, 1837, in Perry 
County, Ohio. Since 1887 he has been 
president American National Bank of 
Findlay. Ohio. Since 1893 he has been 
judge of the supreme court of Ohio; his 


BURKETT, CHARLES WILLIAM, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Jan. 3, 1873, in 
Thornville, Ohio. He is professor of ag¬ 
riculture at New Hampshire College of 
Agriculture. He is the author of History 
of Ohio Agriculture. 

BURKS, MARTIN PARKS, educator, 
author. He is professor of common and 
statute law at Washington and Lee Uni¬ 
versity. He is Reporter for Supreme 
Court of Appeals of .Virginia. He is the 
author of The Property Rights of Mar¬ 
ried Women in Virginia. 

BURLEIGH, CLARENCE BLENDON 
journalist, author, was born Nov. 1, 1864, 
in Linneus, Maine. Since 1887 he has 
been editor of the Kennebec journal; and 
State printer since 1897. He is the au¬ 
thor of The National Editorial Associa¬ 
tion in Florida; and The Smugglers of 
Chestnut. 

BURLESON, ALBERT SIDNEY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 7, 1863, in 
San Marcos. Texas. For eight years he 
was district attorney. He was elected to 
the 56th congress from Texas as a dem 
BURNHAM, A. ROLLINS, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 24, 1849, in Manches¬ 
ter, England. He is associate justice of 
the supreme court of Kentucky as a Re¬ 
publican. 

BURNETT. JOHN LAWSON, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 
20, 1854, in Cedar Bluff. Ala. He was 
elected to the Alabama legislature in 1884; 
and to the State senate in 1886. He was 
elected to the fifty-sixth congress from 
Alabama as a democrat. 

BURNHAM, DANIEL HUDSON, archi¬ 
tect, was born in Henderson. N. Y„ Sept. 
4, 1846. He was the architect of the 
Rookery, Calumet Club, The Temple. 
Masonic Temple, Illinois Trust Bank, 
Great Northern Hotel, and many other 
buildings in Chicago and elsewhere, in¬ 
cluding the Mills Building of San Fran¬ 
cisco, Ellicott Square of Buffalo. Society 
for Savings of Cleveland, and Land Title 
Building of Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
chief and director of works at the World’s 
Columbian Exposition. 

BURNHAM, HENRY EBEN, lawyer. 
United States Senator, was born Nov. 8, 
1844, in Dumbarton, N. H. In 1876-79 he 
was judge of probate at Manchester, N. H. 
He was elected United States senator from 
New Hampshire for term of 1901-07. 

BURR. WILLIAM HENRY, stenogra¬ 
pher, author, was born in Gloversville, N. 
Y., April 15, 1819. He became reporter of 
the official record, United States Senate; 
later court reporter of New York. He 
is the author of Self-Contradictions of the 
Bible- and The Quest of Mr. East. 

BURRELL, DAVID JAMES, clergyman, 
author, was born in Mount Pleasant, Pa., 
Aug. 1, 1849. Since 1891 he has been pas¬ 
tor of Marble Collegiate Church of New 
York City, the oldest church on the con¬ 
tinent and founded in 1628. He is the 
author of The Religions of the World: 
Hints and Helps, in three volumes; The 
Gospel of Gladness; The Morning Com¬ 
eth; The Religion of the Future; The 
Early Church; and The Wondrous Cross. 

BURROWS. JEROME B., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. He is an eminent lawyer of Paines- 
ville, Ohio; and now a judge of the circuit 
court of Ohio. 

BURT, HORACE GREELEY, railroad 
president. President Union Pacific Rail¬ 
road. He was chief engineer Chicago & 
Northwestern Railway at Chicago; and 
later general manager Fremont. Elkhorn 
& Missouri Valley and Sioux City & Pa¬ 
cific railroads. 


BURT, STEPHEN SMITH, physician, 
author, was born in Oneida, N. Y., Nov. 

1, 1850. He is professor of medicine and 
physical diagnosis at New York Post- 
Graduate Medical School. He is the au¬ 
thor of Exploration of the Chest in Health 
cincl Disease 

BURTON, CLARENCE MONROE, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in California, Nov. 
18, 1853. He devoted his spare time to 
study of history of Detroit and the North¬ 
west, and the collection of one of the 
largest libraries of America in the West, 
including about eleven thousand volumes, 
twenty thousand pamphlets and one hun¬ 
dred thousand unpublished documents, 
copies of archives in France, Can¬ 
ada and United States. He is the au¬ 
thor of Sketch of the Life J of Antoine de 
la Mothe Cadillac, founder of Detroit. 

BURTON, JOSEPH RALPH, lawyer, 
legislator, United States senator, was born 
Nov. 16, 1851, near Mitchell, Ind. He was 
a member of Kansas legislature for three 
terms; and has campaigned from Maine 
to Colorado. He was elected United 
States senator from Kansas for term' of 
1901-07. 

BURWELL, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
lawyer, jurist, was horn April 15. 1866, in 
Armstrong County. Pa. For term of 1896- 
1902 he was asociate justice of the Su¬ 
preme Court of Oklahoma. 

BUSBEY. L. WHITE, journalist, au¬ 
thor. was born Nov. 22. 1852, in Vienna, 
Ohio. Since 1896 he has been Washing¬ 
ton correspondent of the Chicago inter- 
Ocean. He is the author of The Battle 
of 1900. 

BUSCH, CARL, musician, composer, 
was born March 29, 1869, in Denmark. In 
1901 he was conductor of First May Fes¬ 
tival at Kansas City, Mo. He is the 
author of Orchestral Prologue to Tenny¬ 
son; and a number of songs and choruses. 

BUSH, T. G., soldier, manufacturer, 
legislator, was born in 1847 in Pickens- 
ville, Ala. He was cadet at University 
of Alabama until 1864, then resigned and 
entered Confederate army as adjt., 62d 
Alabama; and was captured by Federal 
troops in 1865. In 1886 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Alabama legislature. Since 1886 
he has been president of Mobile and Bir¬ 
mingham Railway Company; president of 
Clifton Iron Company, of Ironton, Ala., 
and Shelby Iron Company of Shelby, Ala. 

BUSSMEYER, HUGO, pianist, musician, 
composer, was born Feb. 26, 1842, in 
Brunswick. In 1860 he went to Mexico, 
and then settled in New York. He is 
the author of several pianoforte composi¬ 
tions. 

BUTLER, AMOS WILLIAMS, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born Oct. 1,1860,in Brook- 
ville, Ind. Since 1897 he has been sec¬ 
retary of Indian board of State charities. 
He is the author of Birds of Indiana. 

BUTLER, CHARLES HENRY, lawyer, 
author, was born June 18. 1859, 'in New 
York City. In 1898 he was legal expert 
for the American-Canadian Commission. 
He is the author of Cuba Must be Free; 
and The Voice of the Nation. 

BUTLER, EDWARD HUBERT, journ¬ 
alist, was born Sept. 5, 1850. in LeRoy, 
N. Y. In 1873 he established the Buffalo 
Evening News, of which he is sole pro¬ 
prietor. He was Republican presidential 
elector of New York in 1896; president of 
State Editorial Association in 1891: and 
president of Republican State Editorial 
Association in 1898. 

BUTLER, NATHANIEL BUTLER, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was 
horn May 22, 1853, in Eastport, Maine. 


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ADDENDA. 


Since 1895 he has been president of Colby 
College of Watefville, Maine. He is the 
author of Bellum Helveticum, a latin text¬ 
book. 

BUTLER, THOMAS AMBROSE, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was horn March 21. 
1837, in Dublin, Ireland. He was engaged 
in missionary work in Kansas in 1867-75; 
and later was appointed pastor of St. 
James's church ol St. Louis. Mo. He is 
the author of The Irish on the Prairies, 
and Other Poems; and Kansas and Irish 
Immigration. 

BUTTERFIELD, DANIEL, soldier, 
hanker, author, was born Oct. 31. 1831. in 
Oneida County. N. Y. During the Civil 
war he attained the rank of major-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers; and subsequently was 
breveted brigadier-general and major- 
general in the regular army. He received 
a medal of honor from congress for gal¬ 
lantry at Gaines Mill. He is president 
of the National Bank of Cold Spring-On- 
Hudson, N. Y. He commanded the great 
centennial parade of one hundred thous¬ 
and men in New York City. He is the 
author of Treatise on Camp and Outpost 
Duty, 

BYNUM, WILLIAM PRESTON, lawyer 
jurist, was born in 18t„ in McDowell 
county, N. C. He practiced law until elect¬ 
ed judge. He was a candidate for state 
senator. He was presidential elector of 
the Republican ticket in 1892; and was 
elected solicitory in 1894. He was judge 
of the superior court oi North Carolina 
in 1898; and is now special attorney tor 
United States. 

BYRNE, CHARLES ALFRED, dramat¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1848. in London. 
England. In 1871 he founded the Dra¬ 
matic Times; and in 1870 founded Truth. 
He is the author of the comic operas en 
titled Coward Conscience; Pearl of Pekin; 
Castles in the Air: Venus; Princess Nico¬ 
tine; Isle of Champagne; The Normandy 
Wedding; and Isle of Gold. 

BYRNE. THOMAS SEBASTIAN, cler¬ 
gyman. bishop was born July- 19, 1843. 
in Hamilton, Ohio. He devoted u - rw - 1 
to literature and teaching in Mt. St. 
Mary’s Seminary; and later had charge 
of the Cathedral at Cincinnati. Since 1891 
he has been bishop of Marshville, Tenn. 

BYRNE. WILLIAM, R. C. clergyman, 
author, was born in 1856 in Ireland. He 
is vicar-general of the archdiocese of Bos¬ 
ton. He is the author of Catholic Doc¬ 
trine. 

CABANISS. ELDRIGDE GERBv 
soldier, merchant, was born in 1845 in 
Forsyth, Ga. He served in the Conred- 
erate army and surrendered at Appotta- 
mox. Pie is now a successful mrchant of 
Savannah, Ga. 

CABANISS. GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 
soldier, lawyer. During 1861-65 he 
served in the confederate Army. He is 
now president of Southern Home Building 
and Loan Association of Atlanta. Ga. 

CABANISS.JOSEPH WARREN, soldier, 
banker, was bo^n in 1842 in Forsyth, Ga. 
He served in the Confederate army; was 
wounded at Petersburg, Va.; and captured 
and imprisoned until the close of the war 
at Elmira. He is prominent in the public 
affairs of Macon, Ga.; and president of 
the Exchange Bank of that city. 

CABELL, JAMES ALSTON, lawyer, 
legislator, author, was horn in Richmond'. 
Va. In 1893-97 he was a member of the 
Virginia legislature. He is the author of 
numerous historical and scientific papers. 

CABELL, WILLIAM LEWIS, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Jan. 1, 1827, in Danville. 
Va. He graduated from West Point in 
1850; and during the Civil war attained 


the rank of brigadier-general in the con¬ 
federate service. He was four times mayor 
of Dallas, Texas; and in 1885-89 was 
United States marshal for the northern 
district of Texas. 

CADWALADER, JOHN LAMBERT, 
lawyer, was born Nov. 17, 1836, near 

Trenton, N. J. His legal studies were 
made with Daniel Lord in New York City, 
and subsequently he practised his profes¬ 
sion in that place. In 1874-76 he was as¬ 
sistant secretary of state. 

CADWALADER. RICHARD McCALL, 
lawyer, author, was born in Trenton, N. 
J., Sept. 17, 1839. He practices law in 
Philadelphia. He is the author of The 
Law of Ground Rents. 

CADY, HERRICK D„ lawyer, jurist, 
w r as born April 12, 1846, in Esperance.-N. 
Y. He has been corporation counsel 
of Albany, N. Y. He is now supreme 
court justice of New York. 

CAJORI, FLORAN. educator, author, 
was born Feb. 28, 1859. in Switzerland. 
Since 1898 he has been professor of ma¬ 
thematics at Colorado College. He is the 
author of The Teaching and History of 
Mathematics in the United States: A His¬ 
tory of Mathematics; A History of Ele¬ 
mentary Mathematics; and A History of 
Physics. 

CALDWELL. AUGUSTINE, clergyman, 
antiquarian, author, was born Jan. 23. 
1836. He is the author of memories of 
Major Soule; The Caldwell Records; The 
Caldwell Chronicles; and Ipswich Ant ; - 
quarian Papers. 

CALDWELL. BEN FRANKLIN, 
banker, state senator, congressman, was 
born Aug. 2. 1S48. in Greene County. Ill. 
For four years he was a member of the 
Illinois legislature and a member of the 
state senate for four years. He is presi¬ 
dent of Caldwell State Bank of Chatham, 
Ill. He was elected to the fifty-sixth 
congress as a democrat. 

CALDWELL. HOWARD WALTER, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born AUg. 26, 1858, m 
Bryan, Ohio. Since 1893 he has been pro¬ 
fessor Vmer’can history and jurisprudence 
at University of Nebraska. He is the au¬ 
thor of History of the United States, 
1815-1861; Studies in History; A Survey 
of American History; Some Great Amer¬ 
ican Legislators; Life of Henry Clay; and 
Expansion of the United States. 

CALDWELL. JOSHUA WILLIAM, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in Athens. Tenn..' 
Feb. 3. 1856. He is the author of Consti¬ 
tutional History of Tennessee; and Bench 
and Bar of Tennessee. 

CALDWELL. W. C., lawyer, jurist. He 
is associate judge supreme court of Ten¬ 
nessee. 

CALDWELL, WILIAM, educator, au¬ 
thor. was born Nov. 10. 1863. in Edin¬ 
burgh, Scotland. Since 1894 he has been 
professor of moral and social philosophy 
at Northwestern University. He is the 
author of Schopenhauer’s System in its 
Philosophical Significance. 

CALL. RICHARD ELLSWORTH, cura 
tor, author, was born May 13, 1856. in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Sine? 1898 he has been 
curator of the Children’s Museum of 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He is the author of The 
Life and Writings of Rafinesque; and 
other works. 

CALLAHAN, JAMES MORTON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in Bedford, Ind., 
Nov. 4, 1864. Since 1898 he has been 
lecturer on American diplomatic history 
at Johns University. He is the author of 
Neutrality of the American Lakes; and 
Cuba and International Relations. 


CALLAWAY, MORGAN, educator^ au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 3, 1862, in Cuth- 
bert, Ga. Since 1898 he has been profes¬ 
sor of English in the University of Texas. 
He is the author of The Absolute Partici¬ 
ple in Anglo-Saxon. 

CAMPBELL, ALBERT JAMES, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 12, 
1857. In 1896 he was elected to the 
Montana legislature. He was elected to 
the fifty-sixth congress as a democrat. 

CAMPBELL, JAMES M., clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born in Scotland, 
May 5, 1840. He is a lecturer on Biblical 
themes. He is the author of Clerical 
Types; Unto the Uttermost; and The In¬ 
dwelling Christ. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, jurist, was born in Monroe County 
Ind., Sept. 13, 1853. He practiced law for 
five years at Colorado Springs, Colo; and 
was district judge there six years. In 
1885 he was a member of the general as 
sembly of Colorado; anu in 1887 was a 
member of the state senate. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN LORNE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 14, 1845. m 
Canada. Since 1889 he has been pastor 
of Lexington Avenue Baptist Church of 
New York City. He is the author of 
Sanctification. 

CAMPBELL. JOHN TENBROOK. civil 
engineer, inventor, author, was born M.ay 
21. 1833. near Montezuma, Ind. For ten 
years he was a county surveyor and since 
Civil war has beeu surveyor and civil en¬ 
gineer. He invented improvements in en¬ 
gineering instruments and several ma¬ 
chines; and was the first to discover and 
published the peculiar slope of the hills 
in the glacial drift area. He is the author 
of National Finances; and Labor Reform. 

CAMPBELL, MICHALL QUINN, in¬ 
ventor. was born June 17. 1849, in Ire¬ 
land. He received his education in the 
public schools of Massachusetts. He is 
the inventor of the National Cash Regis¬ 
ter, which was patented in 1882; and also 
of the Signal Apparatus in 1890. 

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM SHAW, trav¬ 
eler, diplomat, was born July 26, 1818, in 
New York City. In 1840-42 he traveled 
throughout eastern Europe, and an ac¬ 
count of his travels was published with 
the title of Letters from the Heart of 
Europe. In 1843 he was appointed United 
States consul at Rotterdam, Holland; and 
for nearly forty years was in the United 
States consular service in Holland, Ger¬ 
many, and England, retiring in 1897. He 
now lives in Washington, D. C. 

CAMPBELL, WILIAM WALLACE, as¬ 
tronomer, author, was born April 11. 1862, 
in Hancock County, Ohio. Since 1891 he 
has been astronomer in Lick Observatory 
on Mount Hamilton, Cal. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Elements of Practical As¬ 
tronomy. 

CANDAGE. RUFUS GEORGE FRED¬ 
ERICK, marine inspector, legislator, gen¬ 
ealogist, was born July 28. 1826, in Blue 
Hill, Maine. As master of a ship in the 
foreign trade he visited the East and 
West Indies, South America, Europe, 
China, Australia, and the principal coun¬ 
tries and sea ports of the world. In 1867 
he retired from the sea; and became 
marine inspector at Boston. In 1882-83 
he was a member of the Massachusetts 
state legislature. He is president of the 
Farmer’s National Congress; trustee of the 
Brooklyn Library; and a member of a 
number of genealogical and historical so¬ 
cieties. He is the author of a genealogy 
on the Cavendih, Cavendish, Candish, or 
Candage Family. 


ADDENDA. 


xv ii 


CANDEE, HELEN CHURCHILL, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1861, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. She is now editorial writer for 
New York Mail and Express. She is the 
author of Susan Truslaw; Not on the 
Flag; and How Women May Earn a Liv¬ 
ing. 

CANNON, GEORGE LYMAN, JR., geol- 
ologist, author, was born March IT), 1860. 
in New York City. Since 1887 he has 
been instructor geology and biology in 
Denver High School. He is the author of 
Geology of Denver; Quaternary of Platte 
Valley; and Nature Studies About Den¬ 
ver. 

CANNON, JAMES GRAHAM, banker, 
author. He is vice-president of the 
Fourth National Bank of New York City. 
He is the author of Clearing Houses: 
Their History, Methods and Administra¬ 
tion. 

CANTY, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, was 
born April 25, 1854, in London, Englancl- 
In 1890-1900 he was associate justice of 
the supreme court of Minnesota. 

CAPEN, EDWARD, librarian, was born 
Oct. 20, 1821, in Dorchester, Mass. He 
was librarian of the Boston Public library 
for twenty-two years; and in 187? was 
elected to the office of librarian of the 
public library of Haverhill, Mass. 

CARDWELL, RICHARD HPTNR\ 
soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born 
In Madison, N. C., Aug. 1, 1846. He en¬ 
tered the Confederate army in 1863, serv¬ 
ing until close of war. Since 1869 he has 
practiced law in Hanover, Va.; and - in 
1887-94 was a member of the Virginia 
legislature. Since 1895 he has been judge 
of the supreme court of Virginia. 

CAREY, EDWARD COLBY, soldier, 
was born April 20, 1871. in Santa Fe, N. 
M. He served with his regiment in the 
war with Spain; and was engaged in the 
assault on San Juan Hill. July 1. 1898. In 
1899-1900 he served in Philippine Islands 
as major forty-second United States vol¬ 
unteers. 

CARHART, DANIEL, civil engineer, 
author, was born Jan. 28, 1839, in Clin¬ 
ton, N. J. Since 1882 he has been dean 
collegiate and engineering depts. at 
Western University of Pennsylvania. He 
is the author of Plane Surveying; and 
Field Book for Civil Engineers. 

CARL, WILLIAM CRANE, musician, 
composer, was born March 2- 1865, in 
Bloomfield, N. J. Since 1892 he has been 
organist and choirmaster of the Old First 
Presbyterian Church. He was the found- 
der of American Guild of Organists. 

CARLAND. JOHN EMMETT, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 11, 1853, in Oswego 
County, N. Y. In 1885 he was appointed 
United States Attorney for Dakota Ter¬ 
ritory. In 1888 he became justice of the 
supreme court of Dakota Territory; and 
since 1896 has been United States District 
judge for the district of South Dakota. 

CARLTON, CALEB H„ soldier, was 
born in Ohio. He served in the regular 
army during the civil war; and attained 
the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1897 
he became a brigadier-general; and was 
retired the same year after forty years 
of service. 

CARLISLE, JAMES HENRY, educator 
college president, author, was born May 
4, 1825, in Winnsboro, S. C. Since 1875 
he has been president of Wofford College 
at Spartanburg, S. C. He is the author of 
Lives of Ascham and Arnold and The 
Young Astronomer. 

CARMAN, EZRA AYRES, soldier, 
mathematician, was born Feb. 27, 1834, in 


Metuchen, N. J. During the Civil war 
he attained the rank of brigadier-general. 
In 1877-85 he was chief clerk in the 
United States department of agriculture 

CARNAHAN, JAMES RICHARDS, 
soldier, lawyer, was born Nov. 18, 1840, 
in Tippecanoe, Ind. During the Civil war 
he attained the rank of brigadier-general. 
He is a successful lawyer of Indianapolis, 
Ind. 

CARPENTER, FRANK GEORGE, 
journalist, author, was born in Mansfield, 
Ohio, May 8, 1855. In 1888-89 he made a 
trip round the world for newspaper syn¬ 
dicate and Cosmopolitan Magazine; and 
in 1891 a newspaper tour to Mexico; to 
Russia, Germany and England in 1892; 
to China, Japan and Java in 1894; spent 
1898 in South America; . spent IQO'i 
in Philippihes, China, Java, Aus¬ 
tralia and New Zealand. He is the 
author of Through Asia with the 
dren ; Through North America with the 
Children; and South America. 

CARPENTER, FRANK OLIVER, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, author, was born in Mil¬ 
ford, Mass., March 23, 1858. He is the 
author of French Grammar for High 
Schools. 

CARPENTER. GEORGE RICE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 25, 1863, on 
coast of Labrador. Since 1893 he has 
been professor of rhetoric at Columbia 
University of New York City. He is the 
author of Latham’s Letters of Dante; and 
American Prose. 

CARPENTER. GILBERT SALON- 
STALL, soldier, author, was born in Me¬ 
dina, Ohio, April 17, 1836. During the 
Civil war in 1861-66, he was in the 18th 
United States infantry; and was breveted 
captain for gallantry, battle Stone River. 
He served in Indian campaigns; was 
major of 4th United States infantry; and 
lieutenant colonel 7 th infantry. Since 
1898 he has been Brigadier-general of 
volunteers for gallantry at Li Caney. 

CARPENTER, JAMES EDWARD 
soldier, lawyer, author, was born March 
6. 1841, in Kent County, Md. He par¬ 
ticipated in the campaigns of the Army 
of the Potomac until his discharge in 
1864. having attained the rank of captain 
in 1863. He received the brevet of major- 
in 1865. After the war he studied law. 
and was admitted to the bar in Philadel¬ 
phia. He is the author of A List of the 
Battles, Engagements, Actions, and Im¬ 
portant Skirmishes in which the 8tu 
Pennsylvania Cavalry participated during 
the War of 1861-65. 

CARPENTER. JOHN THOMAS, sur¬ 
geon, was born June 27, 1833, in Potts 
ville, Pa. At the opening of the Civil war 
he was commissioned surgeon of the 
thirty-fourth Pennsylvania volunteers; in 

1863 became president of the army medi¬ 
cal Board at Cincinnati, Ohio; and in 

1864 became medical inspector and sup¬ 
erintendent of hospitals in the district 
of Kentucky. At the close of the war 
he settled in practice of his profession 
at Pottsville, Pa. 

CARPENTER, LOUIS GEORGE math 
ematician, was born March 28, 1861, in 
Orion, Mich. In 1881 he was made in¬ 
structor of mathematics at Michigan ag¬ 
ricultural college. 

CARPENTER, LOUIS HENRY, soldi°r. 
was born Feb. 11, 1839, in Glassboro, 
N. J. He served in Army ot the Poto¬ 
mac; was aide to Geno"al Sheridan; and 
colonel of volunteers in 1865. Remained 
in regular army as captain 10th United 
States cavalry; participated in numerous 
campaigns; and received six brevets and 


a medal oi honor. In 1899 became bri¬ 
gadier-general of volunteers. He served 
in Spanlsh-American war. 

CARPENTER, WILLIAM LEWIS, 
soldier, naturalist, was born Jan. 13, 1844. 
in Dunkirk, N. Y. In 1867 he was pro¬ 
moted to a second lieutenancy in the 9th 
infantry, United States army; and in 1873 
to the rank of first lieutenant. In 1873 he 
became naturalist to the United States 
geological survey; and two years later 
was called to a similar office on the geog¬ 
raphical survey. 

CARPENTER, WILLIAM THOMAs, 
railroad president was born Feb. 14, 1850, 
in Clarke county, Ill. He is president or 
the Little Brook Cliff railway, at Grand 
Junction, Colo. 

CARR, EUGENE ASA, soldier, was 
born March 20, 1830, in Concord, N. Y. 
He attained the rank of brigadier-general 
and brevet major-general, U. S. A. ; and 
was retired in 1893. 

CARR, EZRA SLOCUM, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born March 19, 1819. He was 
called to the chair of chemistry and 
natural philosophy at the University of 
Wisconsin in 1856, where he was appoint¬ 
ed a regent of that institution by the 
legislature, and one of the state commis¬ 
sioners to carry forward the geological 
survey of the state, in which capacity he 
enriched the university with a complete 
collection of the soils, minerals, and pro¬ 
ductions of Wisconsin, thus forming one 
of the most perfect cabinets of the kind 
in the world. In 1861-65 he was professor 
of chemistry in Rush Medical College. 
In 1869-75 he was professor of chemistry 
and agriculture in the University of Cal¬ 
ifornia. He was then elected state super¬ 
intendent of public instruction for four 
years. He is the author of Child Culture. 
The Genesis of Crime, Claims and Condi 
tion of Industrial Education, and Patrons 
of Husbandry on the Pacific Coast. 

CARRERE, JOHN MERVEN, architect 
was born Nov. 9, 1858 of American par¬ 
ents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The firm 
were architects of the Ponce de Leon and 
Alcazar hotels of St. Augustine, Fla. H q 
is now architect for the New York Pub¬ 
lic Library. 

CARROLL, MITCHELV educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in Wake Forest, N. C., 
June 2, 1870. He is professor of classical 
philosophy at Columbian University or 
Washington, D. C. He is the author of' 
Aristotle’s Poetics, c. xxv., in the Light 
of the Homeric Scholia. 

CARRUTH, FRANCIS WESTON, au¬ 
thor, was born in Newton, Mass., July 12, 
1867. He is the author of Those Ho': 
Girls; and The Way of Blinda. 

CARRUTH. FRED HAYDEN, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1852 in Lake 
City, Minn. He Is the author of The 
Adventures of Jones; and The Voyage or 
the Rattletrap. 

CARRYL, GUY WETMORE, author, 
was born March 4, 1873, in New York 
City. He is Paris representative of Har¬ 
per and Brother. He is the author of 
Fables for the Frivolous. 

CARSKADON, T. R. farmer, orator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1837, in Mineral County, 
W. Va. In 1859 he was a member of the 
Constitutional Convention of West Vir¬ 
ginia. He was subsequently United 
States assessor; and was presidential 
elector for both Grant and Hayes. In 
1894 he was placed in nomination as vice- 
president by the national prohibition con¬ 
vention. He is an old southern aboli¬ 
tionist; an able orator, and the author of 
a number of agricultural works. 


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ADDENDA. 


CARSON, HOWARD ADAMS, civil- 
engineer, was born Nov. 28, 1842, in West- 
field, Mass. During 1894-98 be was chief 
engineer of the Boston Subway; and for 
six years was superintendent construction 
Boston main drainage. 

CARTER, BERNARD, lawyer. For 
many years this eminent lawyer of Balti¬ 
more has been recognized leader of the 
bar in Maryland. 

CARTER, FRANCIS BEAUREGARD 
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 12, 1861, in 
Jackson County, Fla. Since 1897 he has 
been justice supreme court of Florida. 

CARTER, JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born in New York, Oct. 1, 1853. 
Since 1889 he has been pastor Church of 
the Covenant of Williamsport, Pa. He 
is the author of Songs of Work and Wor¬ 
ship. 

CARTER. JAMES MADISON GORE 
soldier, physician, author, was born in 
Johnson county, Ill., April 15, 1843. Ih 
1861-65 he served in company K. 60th II 
linois volunteers; was at Island No. 10. 
Corinth, Nashville, Murfreesboro, Chat¬ 
tanooga to Atlanta, with Sherman to the 
sea, through Carolinas to Rockingham, 
N. C., where he was captured and taken 
to Libby Prison. He is the author of 
Outlines of Medical Botany of the Unit¬ 
ed States; Catarrhal Diseases of the 
Respiratory Organs; and Diseases of the 
Stomach. 

CARTER, JOSEPH NEWTON, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born March 12, 
1843, in Hardin County, Ky. Since 1869 
he has practiced law in Quincy, Ill.; and 
in 1878 and 1881 was a member of the 
Illinois legislature. Since 1894 he has 
been judge supreme court of Illinois. 

CARTER, WILLIAM H., soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1848 in Nashville 
Tenn. In 1873-97 he served on frontier; 
and since 1897 in the war department. 
He received the medal of honor for dis¬ 
tinguished bravery in action against 
Apache Indians at Cibicu Creek in 1881. 
He is the author of Horses, Saddles and 
Bridles; and Historical Sketch Sixth 
United States Cavalry. 

CARTWRIGHT, JAMES HENRY, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Dec. 1, 1842, in 

Maquoketa, Iowa. He practiced law at 
Oregon, Ill.; was circuit judge in 1888-95; 
and since 1895 has been judge of the su¬ 
preme court of Illinois. 

CARUS, PAUL, journalist, author, was 
born July 18, 1852, in Germany. He is 
editor of The Open Court and The Mon- 
ist of Chicago. He is the author of The 
Ethical Problem; Fundamental Problems; 
The Soul of Man; Primer of Philosophy; 
Science, a Religious Revelation; The Gos¬ 
pel of Buddha; Karma; Homilies of Sci¬ 
ence; The Idea of God; and Buddhism 
and Its Christian Critics. 

CAREY. ELISABETH LUTHER, trans¬ 
lator, author, was horn in 1867, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. She is the author 
of His Homes, His Friends and His 
work; Robert Browning, Poet and Man: 
The Rossettis, Dante Gabriel and Chri¬ 
stina. He has also translated numerous 
works. 

CASEY, THOMAS L., civil engineer, 
was horn Feb. 19, 1857, in New York 
City. He has been identified with much 
important engineering work; and was oc 
cupied during the Spanish-American war 
as engineer in chief in building fortifica¬ 
tions and laying mines for the defense 
of Hampton Roads, Va.; and became maj 
or in 1898. He is the author of numerous 
papers on entomology. 


CASLER, JOHN OVERTON, soldier, 
author, was born in Frederick County, 
Va., Dec. 1, 1838. In 1861-65 he served as 
a private in the Confederate army; and 
was in first battle of Bull Run and near¬ 
ly all campaigns of Army of Northern 
Virginia under Generals Lee and Jackson. 
He is the author of Four Years in the 
Stonewall Brigade; Lillian Stuart, the 
Heroine of the Rappahannock. 

CASSIDY, P. ORRIN, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, was born July 20, 1846 in Canada. 
In 1872 he was admitted to the bar, ana 
the same year was elected prosecuting at¬ 
torney for Wood County, Wis. In 1875 
he moved to Iowa, and there practiced 
law for twelve years. In 1893 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the superior court oi 
Guthrie. 

CASSON, HERBERT N., clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born in 1869 in Can¬ 
ada. In 1894 he founded the first labor 
church in America, at Lynn., Mass. He is 
the author of The Red Light; a collec¬ 
tion of addresses. 

CASTLE. FREDERICK ALBERT, phy¬ 
sician, author, was horn April 29, 1842, in 
Fabius, N. Y. From 1863 till the close of 
the war he was acting assistant surgeon 
in the navy. He is the author of Wood’s 
Household Practice of Medicine, Hygiene 
and Surgery, in two volumes. 

CASWELL, THOMAS HUBBARD, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in Exeter, N. Y., 
Aug. 10, 1825. He was judge eight 
year-. Nevada county! California; moved 
to San Francisco 1878.' In 1878-99 he was 
grand recorder of Grand Commandery, 
Knights Templars of' California. He is 
the author of Hand Book of the Chap¬ 
ter. 

CATENHUSEN, ERNST, musician, was 
born in 1841 in Germany. In 1862-81 he 
was musical conductor at a number of 
German opera houses successively. In the 
latter year he became musical conductor 
of the Thalia Theatre in New York city. 
In 1884 he accepted the place of conductor 
of the Milwaukee musical society. 

CATHELL. DANIEL WEBSTER, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Nov. 29, 1839, 
in Worcester county, Maryland. He is 
the author of The Physician Himself, 
and Things that Concern His Reputa¬ 
tion and Success. 

CATLIN, CHARLES ALBERT, chemist, 
author, was born in Burlington, Vt, May 
10, 1849. He is the inventor and patehtee 
of chemical processes and applications, 
many of which relate to manufacture of 
phosphates for dietetic purposes. He is 
the author of Baking Powders. 

CATLIN, HENRY GUY, mining engi¬ 
neer, soldier, author, was born in Bur¬ 
lington, Vt., July 21, 1843. He served dur¬ 
ing the civil war in the twelfth Vermont 
volunteers. Since 1870 he has been en¬ 
gaged in mining. He is the author of 
Yellow Pine Basin. , 

CATLIN. LOUISE ENSIGN, author, was 
born in Loclcport, N. Y., May 9, 1861. 
She is the author of Marjory and Her 
Neighbors. 

CESSNA, HOWARD, lawyer, educator, 
genealogist, was born Oct. 27, 1870, 

near Rainsburg, Pa. He wa$ assistant 
principal of the Masonic Academy of 
Clifton, Tern. He has practiced law 
smee 1894, and is now engaged in editing 
Family Genealogy of the House of Cess¬ 
na. 

CHAFFEE, ADRIA ROMANZA, soldier, 
was horn in Orwell, Ohio, April 14, 1852. 
He served through the civil war and at¬ 
tained the rank of major. In 1898 he was 


appointed brigadier general United States 
volunteers; served in Santiago campaign, 
and in 1898 was promoted to major gen¬ 
eral, United States volunteers. 

CHAINEY, GEORGE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1851 in England. He is 
pastor of the Unitarian Church at Wil¬ 
liams Bay, Wis. He is the author of 
Foundation Stones; The New Version; 
Discourses on the Bible in Boston and 
The Ten Commandments. 

CHAMBERLAIN,ALEXANDER FRAN¬ 
CIS. anthropologist, author, born Jan. 
12, 1866, in England. He is now lectur¬ 
ing on anthropology at Clark university 
of Worcester, Mass. He is the author of 
The Child and Childhood in Folk- 
Thought 

CHAMBERLAIN, FRANK. soldier, 
manufacturer, was born in December, 
1826, in Seneca county, N. Y. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he attained the rank 
of brigadier general. He is a successful 
miller of Albany, N. Y. He was one of 
the charter members of the First National 
Bank, and has been president of the board 
of trade of Albany, N. Y. 

CHAMBERLAIN, HENRY, farmer, leg¬ 
islator, founder, was born March 17, 1824. 
i" Pembroke, N. H. In 1849 he was a 
member of the Michigan legislature, and 
in 1850 founded the village of Three 
Oaks, Mich. In 1872 he was grand mas¬ 
ter of Masons in Michigan. He has re¬ 
ceived the votes of the Democratic party 
three times for congress, three times for 
United States senator and once for gov¬ 
ernor. 

CHAMBERLAIN, HENRY RICHARD¬ 
SON, journalist, author, was born Aug. 
25, 1859, in Illinois. Since 1892 he has 
been London correspondent of the New 
York Sun. He is the author of Six 
Thousand Tons of Gold. 

CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAW¬ 
RENCE, soldier, educator, author, was 
born Sept. 8, 1828, in Brewer, Maine, 
In 1865 he became brevet major-general, 
and was president of Bowdoin College in 
1871-83. He is the author of Maine, Her 
Place in History; Sovereignty and Sac¬ 
rifice; The Two Souls; American Ideals; 
and The New Nation. 

CHAMBERLAIN, MONTAGUE, soldier, 
merchant, author, was born April 5, 1844, 
in Canada. He is the author of Cana¬ 
dian Birds; and The Penobscot Indians. 

CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY, 
soldier, journalist, author, was horn Oct. 
19, 1833, in Ross county, Ohio. He 

served in the civil war as major of the 
Eighty-first volunteer infantry during 
1861-65; was recorder of Commandery 
State of Ohio, Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion of the United States in 1895-98; 
and was also agent of the Associated 
Press. He is the author of History 
of the Eighty-first Ohio. 

CHAMBERS, ALEXANDER, soldier, 
was born about 1832 in New York. FU 
served in the Tennessee and Mississippi 
campaign in 1862, having been twice 
wounded in the battle of Shiloh, and was 
promoted brevet major. He was a briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers in 1863. He was 
at Omaha as judge advocate of the dis¬ 
trict of Nebraska in 1866. He became ma¬ 
jor of the Twenty-second infantry in 1867. 

CHAMBERS, JULIUS, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 21, 1850, in 

Bellefontaine, Ohio. In 1872 he discov¬ 
ered Elk Lake, Minn., now recognized as 
the source of the Mississippi. He is the 
author of A Mad World and Its People; 
Chats on Journalism; and other works. 


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XIX 


CHAMBLISS, WILLIAM PARHAM, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born March 20, 1827, in 
Chamblissburg. In 1850-55 he practiced 
law in Pualski, Tenn.; and in 1852-55 
edited the Citizen. He was a member of 
the Tennessee legislature in 1853-54. He 
entered the regular army as first lieuten¬ 
ant in the Second cavalry in 1855; and was 
engaged in Texas against hostile Indians 
most of the time till 1861. He was made 
major in the Fourth cavalry is 1864; and 
was with his regiment in Texas till 1867. 
when he resigned and became president 
and general manager of the Cobourg rail¬ 
way and mining company, Canada. He is 
the author of a pamphlet on Genera) 
McClellan and the Presidency. 

CHAMPNEY, BENJAMIN, artist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 20, 1817, in New 
Ipswich. N. H. For sixtv years his pic¬ 
tures have gone far and wide and teen ex! 
tensively copied in chromo and other 
styles of reproduction. He is the author 
of Sixty Years’ Memories of Arts and 
Artists. 

CHAMPNEY, MRS. ELIZABETH WIL¬ 
LIAMS, author, was born Feb. 6, 
1850, in Springfield. Ohio. She is the 
author of In the Sky Garden, a book 
of astronomical fables; all Around a 
Palette; Bourbon Lilies and other tales 
and sketches, besides a novel call'd 
Sebia’s- Tangled Web and Three Vas- 
sar Girls in South America. 

CHANDLER, ALBERT BROWN, law¬ 
yer, manager, was born Aug. 20, 1840, 
in West Randolph, Vt. Since 1887 he has 
been president Postal telegraph cable 
company of New York city. 

CHANDLER, CHARLES FREDERICK, 
chemist, was born Dec. 6. 1836. in 

Lancaster, Mass. He is a noted chemis' 
of New Dork city. 

CHANDLER, FRANCIS WARD, soldier, 
architect, author, was born Sept. 3D, 
1844, in Boston, Mass. In 1862-63 he 
served in the Fifty-third Massachusetts 
volunteers. Since 1888 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of architecture at the Massachu¬ 
setts Inst. Technology. He has been ad¬ 
visory architect to the mayor, of Boston 
since 1896. He is the author of Construc¬ 
tion Details, Notes on Limes, Cements, 
Mortars and Concretes. 

CHANDLER, FRANK WADLKP'" 
educator, lecturer, author, was born June 
16, 1873, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Since 1901 be 
has been professor of literature and his¬ 
tory at the Polytechnic Inst, of Brooklyn 
N. Y. He is the author of Romances of 
Roguery. 

CHANDLER. MRS. IZOVA C.. artist. 
She is an illustrator for various publish¬ 
ers, and is art and music critic tor The 
Christian Advocate of New York city. 
She is the author of Anthe; Methodist 
Episcopalism; Three of Us; and A Dog 
of Constantinople, illustrated by herself. 

CHANFRAU, HENRIETTA BAKER 
actress, was born in 1837 in Philadelphia, 
Pa. Her first appearance on the boards 
of a regular theatre was at the city muse¬ 
um in her native place in 1854 as Miss 
Apsley in The Willow Copse. She mar¬ 
ried Mr. Chanfrau in 1858. 

CHANLER, WILLIAM ASTOR. soldier, 
legislator, congressman, author, was born 
June 11, 1867, in Newport, R. I. He was 
elected to the New York legislature in 
1897, and was elected to the fifty-sixth 
congress as a democrat. He went to the 
front in the Spanish war; took part in the 
battle and siege of Santiago and received 
special commendation from General Shaf- 
ter. He is the author of Through Jungle 


and Deserts, and Travels in Eastern 
Africa. 

CHANNING-STETSON, MRS. GRACE 
ELLERY, author, was born in Providence. 
R. I., Dec. 27. 1862. She is the au¬ 
thor of Dr. Channing’s Note Book; The 
Sister of a Saint; Sea Drift; and The 
Fortune of a Day. 

CHANUTE, OCTAVE, consulting engi¬ 
neer, author, was born in 1832 in France. 
He is president of the Chicago Tie Pre¬ 
serving Company. He is the author of 
Kansas City Bridges and Progress in 
Flying Machines. 

CHAPIN, JOHN BASSETT, physician, 
author, was born Dec. 4, 1829, in 

New York city. He was resident physi¬ 
cian of the New York hospital and in 
1854 was appointed assistant physician to 
the New York lunatic asylum of Utica. 
In 1869-84 he was superintendent and 
physician of the Willard asylum at Sen¬ 
eca Lake. N. Y.; and in 1884 became physi¬ 
cian-in-chief to the Pennsylvania hospital 
for the insane in Philadelphia. He is the 
author of Compendium of Insanity, for 
Physicians and Students. 

CHAPMAN, J. WILBUR, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 17, 1859. in Rich¬ 
mond, Ind. He is pastor Fourth Presby¬ 
terian church of New York City. He 
is the author of The Lost Crown; The 
Surrender of Life; and other works. 

CHAPMAN, JOHN JAY, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1862 in New York city. 
He is the author of Emerson and Other 
Essays; and Causes and Consequences. 

CHAPMAN, JOHN T., educator, horti¬ 
culturist, legislator, was born Nov. 
1, 1839, in Crawfordville, Ga. He has been 
a member of the board of education and 
a member of the legislature of Florida. 

CHAPMAN, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
born Jan. 22, 1810, in St. John’s, Md. 
He served on frontier duty at Fort Mack 
inac in 1831-32; on the Black Hawk expe¬ 
dition in 1832; was instructor at West 
Point in 1832-33; and with his regiment 
at various posts on the frontier until 1845. 
During the civil war he had command 
of a regiment in the defenses of Wash¬ 
ington in 1862; and was with the army ot 
the Potomac during the peninsular cam¬ 
paign. He was retired from active ser 
vice in 1863 with the rank of lieutenant 
colonel, and assigned to the command of 
the draft rendezvous at Madison. Wis. 

CHAPPLE, JOSEPH MITCHELL, jour¬ 
nalist, publisher, author, was born in La 
Porte City, Iowa, July 18, 1867. In 1897 he 
took charge of The Bostonian, afterwards 
changed to The Nation Magazine. He is 
the author of The Minor Chord and Boss 
Burt, Politician. 

CHASE, WALDO K, manufacturer, was 
born in 1847 in Stillwater, N. Y. He ac¬ 
quired an interest in the manufacturing 
business and entered into partnership 
with two others. The firm developed rap¬ 
idly. and is now one of the leading con¬ 
cerns of the United States in the manu¬ 
facture of malleable iron. He is also vice 
president of the Troy and Bridgeport 
companies. 

CHASE, WILLIAM MARTIN; lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 28, 1837. in 

Canaan, Conn. Since 1891 he has been 
judge of the supreme court of New Hamp¬ 
shire. 

CHAUVENET, WILLIAM MARC, min¬ 
ing engineer, chemist, was born in An¬ 
napolis, Md., March 4, 1855. In 1882-85 he 
was assistant United States geological 
survey. Lake Superior division. He is the 
author of Notes on Minnesota Geology 
on Northern Boundary. 


CHEEVER, DAVID WILLIAMS, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born Nor. 
10, 1831, in Portsmouth, N. H. He be¬ 
gan practice in Boston in 1858; has been 
connected with Harvard university since 
I860 as professor of chemical surgery and 
in 1893 was made professor of surgery 
emeritus. He has contributed extensively 
to medical journals, and has edited three 
volumes of the Medical and Surgical Re¬ 
ports of the Boston City Hospital. 

CHENEY, FRANK WOODBRIDGE. sol¬ 
dier, manufacturer, was born June 5, 1832, 
in Providence, R. I. He volunteered for 
the civil war in 1862 and became lieu¬ 
tenant colonel of the Sixteenth Connecti¬ 
cut volunteers. He led his regiment of 
recruits in a skirmish that proved pre¬ 
liminary to the battle of Antietam; in 
which engagement he was severely 
wounded, which obliged him to retire 
from service Dec. 24, 1862. He trav¬ 
eled in Europe, China and Japan.studying 
the silk industries of those countries, and 
became a member of the house of Cheney 
Brothers, and its treasurer. 

CHENOWETH, MRS. CAROLINE VAN 
DUSEN, journalist, author, was born Dec. 
29, 1846, near Louisville, Ky. She 

has founded two chapters of the Society 
of Daughters of the Revolution and 
Daughters of the American Revolution, 
and has been regent for seven years. She 
is the author of Stories of the Saints; 
Child Life in China; and School His¬ 
tory of Worcester. 

CHESSMAN, SAMUEL, merchant, gen¬ 
ealogist, -was born June 16, 1812. He was 
a mechanic and merchant, and raised the 
first money to begin the preliminary sur¬ 
vey of what is now the Pittsburg, Fort 
Wayne and Chicago railway. He is the 
author of The Chessman Family Record; 
and Leach Family Record. 

CHESTER, COLBY MITCHELL, naval 
officer, was born Feb. 29, 1844, in 

New London, Conn. In 1866 he became a 
master, in 1867 a lieutenant and in 1896 
received his commission as captain. He 
commanded the Galena in 1886. In 1890- 
94 he was commandant of cadets at An¬ 
napolis; in 1897 was in command o'f the 
Asiatic squadron;and during the war with 
Spain was in command of the Cincinnati. 
In 1899 he was assigned to the command 
of the new and powerful battleship Ken¬ 
tucky. 

CHESTNUT, VICTOR KING, botanist, 
author, was born June 28, 1827, in Ne¬ 
vada City, Cal. He is assistant botanist in 
charge of poisonous plant investigation in 
the United States department of agricul¬ 
ture. He is the author of Thirty Poison¬ 
ous Plants of the United States. 

CHETLAIN, ARTHUR HENRY, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born April 12, 1849, in 
Galena, Ill. Since 1894 he has been judge 
of the superior court of Cook county, Il¬ 
linois. 

CHEYNEY, EDWARD POTTS, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Jan. 17, 1861, in 
Wallingford, Pa., He is a professor in the 
University of Pennsylvania. He is the 
author of Social Changes in England in 
the Sixteenth Century. 

CHILD, FRANK SAMUEL, clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born in Exeter, N. 
Y., March 20, 1854. He is a lecturer on 
literary and historical subjects. He is the 
author of An Old New England Town; 
The Colonial Parson of New England: 
A Colonial Witch; A Puritan Wooing; 
The House with Sixty Closets; and A.n 
Unknown Patriot. 


XX 


ADDENDA. 


CHILDERS, WILLIAM BURR, lawyer, 
was born March 20, 1854, in Pulaski, 
Tenn. He was mayor of Abuquerque in 
1887; member of the city council in 1892- 
93, United States attorney for New Mexico 
and president of the board of regents of 
Territorial university. 

CHILDRESS, JOHN WHITSITT, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born near Murfreesboro, 
Tenn., April 20, 1845. In 1861-65 he served 
in the Confederate army. He has been 
chairman of the democratic state execu¬ 
tive committee. He is judge of the cir¬ 
cuit court of Nashville, Tenn. 

CHILDS, GEORGE THEODORE, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, legislator, was born in 
Charlestown, Mass., Sept. 7, 1842. He 
served in the civil war and was a prisoner 
of war at Libby, New Orleans and Salis¬ 
bury for one year. He then engaged in 
newspaper work at St. Albans, Vt.; has 
been department commander, Grand Army 
of the Republic. He has been a mem 
her of the Vermont legislature and judge 
advocate general of Vermont. 

CHILDS, THOMAS S., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in Springfield, Mass. He 
has filled pastorates in Hartford and Nor- 
walk.Conn.; and professorships in Woos¬ 
ter university, Hartford theological sem¬ 
inary. He is the author of Heritage of 
Peace; Christ His Own Witness; The 
Lost Faith; and Difficulties of Scripture 
Tested by Laws of Evidence. 

CHISHOLM, WILLIAM, manufacturer, 
was born May 22, 1843, in Canada. Since 
the death of his father he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Union rolling mills of Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. Under his management these 
mills have grown into an industry of the 
first importance. The capital stock is 
four million dollars. 

CHRISTIAN, JOHN T„ clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 14. 1849, in Fay¬ 
ette county, Kentucky. He is pastor of 
the East Baptist Church of Louisville, 
Ky. He is the author of Immersion; 
Close Communion; Did They Dip; and 
The Baptist Vindicated. 

CHRISTIE, ALEXANDER, clergyman, 
bishop. Since 1899 he was been arch¬ 
bishop for the See of Oregon. 

CHRISTIE, WILLIAM WALLACE, me¬ 
chanical engineer, author, was born in 
1866 in Paterson. N. J. Since 1882 he has 
been in practice as mechanical engineer. 
He is the author of Chimney Formulae 
and Tables; Chimney Design and Theory. 

CHURCH, ARCHIBALD, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1861 in Fond du Lac. 
Wis. He is professor of nervous and 
mental diseases and medical jurispru¬ 
dence at Northwestern university medical 
school. He is the author of Text-Book 
on Nervous and Mental Diseases. 

CHURCHILL, WINSTON, author, was 
born in St. Louis, Nov. 10, 1871. He 
is the author of The Celebrity; and Rich¬ 
ard Carvel. 

CHURCHMAN, WILLIAM H„ educator, 
was born in 1818 in Baltimore, Md. In 
1840 he was appointed assistant teacher 
of music and other branches in the insti¬ 
tution for the blind at Columbus, Ohio. 
He was superintendent of the Indiana m- 
sitution for the blind at Indianapolis in 
1847-53. In 1855 he was appointed super¬ 
intendent of the Wisconsin institute for 
the blind at Janesville. 

CILLEY,GREENLEAF, soldier, was born 
Oet. 27, 1829, in Thomas, Maine. He was 
commissioned as lieutenant in 1855; and 
was connected with the sloop Saratoga in 
1856-58; and subsequently served on vari¬ 
ous other vessels. In 1862 he was madq 


lieutenant commander, and during the 
civil war was in command of the Una- 
dilla; and later of the monitor Catskill. 

CLAGHORN, KATE HOLLADAY; au¬ 
thor, was born in Aurora, Ill., Dec. 
12, 1863. She is the author of College 
Training for Women. 

CLAPP, MOSES E., lawyer, United 
States senator, was born in Delphi, Ind.. 
in 1851. He was reared and educated in 
Wisconsin; and removed to Minnesota in 
1881. In 1886-92 he was attorney general 
of Minnesota. He became United States 
senator :n 1901 for term expiring in 1905. 

CLARK, ANSON LUMAN, legislator, 
physician, surgeon, author, was born in 
Carksburg, Mass., Oct. 12, 1836. He was a 
member Illinois house of representatives, 
twenty-seventh general assembly. Since 
1872 he has been president board of trus¬ 
tees Bennett college of eclectic medicine 
and surgery of Chicago. He is the au¬ 
thor of Clark’s Diseases of Women. 

CLARK. CHARLES DICKSON, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 14, 1847. 
in Laurel Cove, Tenn. In 1864 he entered 
the Confederate army and served op the 
staff of General Dibrell, under the com¬ 
mand of General Wheeler. In 1876-83 ne 
practiced law in Manchester, Tenn., and 
since 1883 in Chattanooga. Since 1895 be 
has been United States district judge for 
the eastern and middle districts of Ten¬ 
nessee. 

CLARK, EDWARD, architect, was born 
in 1824 in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1864 he 
has ben architect, United States capitol. 
He completed the Washington monument; 
has served on various other commissions 
for government work. 

CLARK, EDWARD L., clergyman, au¬ 
thor. He is pastor of the Central congre¬ 
gational church of Boston, Mass. He is 
the author of Israel in Egypt. 

CLARK. HORACE SPENCER, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born 
Aug. 12, 1840, in Huntsburg, Ohio. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he attained the rank of 
first lieutenant. He was judge of Mat- 
toon City court; in 1880-84 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Illinois state senate; and in 
1891 was commander Grand Army of the 
Republic for Illinois. 

CLARK, IMOGEN, author, was born in 
New York City. She is the author of The 
Victory of Ezry Gardner; Will Shakes¬ 
peare’s Little Lad; The Heresy of Tar- 
son Medlicott and God’s Puppets. 

CLARK, J. SCOTT, educator, author, 
was born Sept. 23, 1854, in Copen¬ 

hagen. N. Y. Since 1892 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of English language at Northwest¬ 
ern university, of Evanston, Ill. He is the 
author of A Practical Rhetoric; A 
Briefer Practical Rhetoric; The Art of 
Reading Aloud; and A Study of English 
Prose Writers. 

CLARK JAMES G., educator, author, 
was born in Virginia. Since 1873 he ha^ 
been professor of mathematics at William 
Jewell college. He is the author of The 
Calculus, a text book. 

CLARK, JOHN SPENCER, publisher 
author, was born in Victor. N. Y., Oct. 

5, 1835. He is co-author of The Prang 
Course in Art Instruction for Ungraded 
Schools; and similar works. 

CLARK, LEWIS HERVY, educator, 
genealogist, was born Sept. 11, 1827, 

in Lodus, N. Y. For twenty years he was 
principal of colleges, schools and acade 
mies. He has held numerous public of¬ 
fices in his native town, county and state. 
He is the author of several county his¬ 
tories and the Clark Genealogy. 


CLARK, LEWIS WHITEHOUSE, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born in Barnstead, N. H., 
Aug. 19, 1828. In 1851-77 he practiced 
law in Manchester, N. H. Since 1877 he 
has been justice of the supreme court of 
New Hampshire. 

CLARK, RUFUS WHEELWRIGHT, 
clergyman, author, was born May 29, 1844, 
in Portsmouth, N. H. Since 1877 he has 
been rector of St. Paul’s church of De¬ 
troit, Mich. He is the author of The 
Church in Thy House. 

CLARK, SOLOMON HENRY, educator, 
orator, author, was born about 1865. He 
is a reader and lecturer, and professor'ot 
public speaking in the University of Chi¬ 
cago. He is the author of How to Read 
Aloud; and Practical Public Speaking. 

CLARK, VICTOR SELDEN, educator, 
journalist, author, was born in Portage- 
ville, N. Y., June 12, 1868. He is super¬ 
intendent of public instruction and 
president insular board of education 
of Puerto Rico under the military gov¬ 
ernment. He is the author of Teachers' 
Manual; and Studies in the Latin. 

CLARK, WILLIAM ANDREWS, mer¬ 
chant, manufacturer, banker. United 
States senator, was born Jan. 8, 1839. 
near Connellsville, Pa. He owns the street 
railways of Butte, Mont, and is president 
of the United Verde Copper company of 
Arizona. In 1884 and 1889 he was presi¬ 
dent of the constitutional convention, and 
seved as a major of Butte battalion. He 
was elected United States senator from 
Montana for the term of 1901-07. 

CLARKE, CHARTS W, soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, was born Aug. 
19,1840, in Danville, Vt. He served* near¬ 
ly five years during the civil war in the 
Forty-second Ohio regiment, and wa3 
commissioned captain of volunteers. He 
was a member of the constitutional con¬ 
vention of Mississippi; has been judge of 
common pleas and probate court; for 
tweve years was district attorney, and 
served as a member of the Mississippi 
legislature. He is a successful lawyer; 
the manager of the Bankers’ Life Insur¬ 
ance company of Kansas City, Mo.; and 
in 1896 was elected a member of the Mis¬ 
souri state legislature. 

CLARKE, CRESTON, actor, was born 
in Philadelphia. Pa., Aug. 20, 1865. He 
is the author of The Last of His Race. 

CLARKE, DANIEL B, capitalist, vai 
born March 3, 1825, in Washington, D. C. 
He was elected a member of the city coun¬ 
cil; is director of the Metropolitan Rail¬ 
road company, and of the United States 
Electric Light company. He is also presi¬ 
dent of the Franklin Insurance company; 
and since 1877 has been president of the 
National Bank of the Republic of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

CLARKE, HUGH ARCHIBALD musi¬ 
cian composer, was born Aug. 15, 1839,. 
in Canada. Since 1875 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of the science of music in the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania. He is the au¬ 
thor of a treatise on Harmony; and text¬ 
books. 

CLARKE, JAMES P., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, governor, was born in Yazoo City, 
Miss., Aug. 18, 1854. In 1886-87 he was 
a member of the Arkansas legislature.and 
in 1888-92 was a member of the state 
senate. In 1893-94 he was attorney gen¬ 
eral of Arkansas, and in 1895-97 was gov¬ 
ernor of Arkansas. 

CLARKE, JOHN PROCTOR, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in Florence, Italy. Since 
1900 he has been justice of the supreme 
court of New York. 


ADDENDA. 


xxi 


CLARKE, JOSEPH IGNATIUS CON¬ 
STANTINE, journalist, author was born 
July 31, 1846, in Ireland. In 1883-95 he 
was managing editor New York Morning 
Journal, and since 1898 has been editor ol 
The Criterion. He is the author of the 
dramas, Heartsease; The First Violin; 
Her Majesty; and Robert Emmet. 

CLARKE, WILLIAM HORATIO, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born March 18, 1840, 
in Newton, Mass. In 1878-87 he was or¬ 
ganist at Tremont Temple, of Boston, 
Mass. He has built a chapel of music in 
Reading, Mass. He is the author of Out¬ 
line of the Structure of the Pipe Organ; 

CLARKE, WILLIAM NEWTON, theo¬ 
logian, author, was born Dec. 2, 1841, 
in Cazenovia, N. Y. Since 1890 he has 
been professor of Christian theology in 
Colgate university. He is the author of 
Outline of Christian Theology, and sev¬ 
eral other theological works. 

CLARKSON, RICHARD PERKJ .NI¬ 
HON, soldier, journalist, was horn in 
1840, in Brookville, Ind. He is editor 
and principal owner of the Iowa State 
Register. He served in the Union army 
throughout the Civil war; and spent sev¬ 
en months in a Confederate prison. With 
his father, Coker F., and brother, Jas. S., 
he bought the State Register; the sons 
bought the father’s interest in 1872; 
and in 1889 James S. sold his interest 
to R. P. Clarkson, who, with his sons, 
conducts the paper. 

CLARKSON, THADDEUS STEVENS 
soldier, public official, was born April 26, 
1840, in Gettysburg, Pa. In 1861-65 he 
served as private in ,the 1st Illinois 
to major in the 3d Ark. cavalry, U. S. vol¬ 
unteers. He moved to Omaha m 1866; 
and in 1896-99 was commander-in-chief of 
the G. A. R. He was postmaster of Oma¬ 
ha in 1890-95. 

CLAYTON, BERTRAM TRACY, civil 
engineer, congressman, was born in Clay¬ 
ton. Ala, Oct. 19.1862. In 1888 he entered 
business as civil engineer in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. During the Spanish-Ameri- 
ca war he commanded a troop guard. He 
was elected to the fifty-sixth congress as 
a democrat. 

CLAYTON. HENRY HELM, meteorolo- 
gits, author, was born March 12, 1861, 
in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Since 1894 he 
has been meteorologist of Blue Hill Me¬ 
teorological Observatory. He is the 
author of Discussions of the Cloud Obser¬ 
vations at Blue Hill; Exploration of the 
Air by Means of Kites; and The Lawrence 
Tornado. 

CLAYTON, WILLIAM HENRY HAR¬ 
RISON, lawyer jurist. He is now judge 
of the United States district court of In¬ 
dian Territory. 

CLEMENT, CLAY, actor, playwright, 
author, was born in Woodford county, Tfl. 
Dec. 21, 1863. Since 1883 he has been an 
actor and playwright. He is the author 
of A Southern Gentleman; and The New 
Domination. 

CLEMENTS, FREDERIC EDWARD, 
botanist, author, was horn Sept. 16, 1874. 
in Lincoln, Neb. He has been president 
of the Bot. Seminary; and secretary of 
Bot. Survey of Nebraska; and since 1894 
has been an instructor of botany in Uni¬ 
versity of Nebraska. He is the author of 
The Phytogeography of Nebraska. 

CLENDENIN, FRANK MONTROSE 
clergyman, author, was horn in Washing 
ton, D. C., Sept. 17, 1853. Since 1887 he 
has been rector of St. Peter’s church of 
West Chester, N. Y. He in the author of 
Idols by the Sea, and Other Sermons. 


CLENDENIN, WILLIAM WALLACE, 
educator, author, was born in Audrain 
county, Mo., April 5, 1362. In 1887-93 he 
was assistant mineralogy and geology at 
Missouri University; and in 1893-97 was 
professor of mineralogy and geology at 
Louisiana State University, and geologist 
Louisiana Agricultural and Geological 
Survey. He is the author of Louisiana 
Supplement to Hinman’s Geography. 

CLEVELAND, ABNER COBURN, 
stockman, miner, legislator, was born in 
Maine, Nov. 17, 1839. In 1869 he was a 
member of the Nevada legislature; and 
a member of the State Senate in 1870-74. 
In 1894 he was candidate for governor of 
Nevada; a delegate to the Republican 
National Convention in 1892; and inde¬ 
pendent candidate for United States Sen¬ 
ate in 1898. 

CLEVELAND. FRANCIS FOLSOM, wife 
of President Grover Cleveland, was horn 
in 1864 in Buffalo, N.Y. She is the 
youngest of the many mistresses of the 
White House. She is also the first wife 
of a president married in the White 
House, and the first to give birth to a 
child there, their second daughter having 
been born in the executive mansion. 

CLIFFORD. MRS. MARY SCOFIELD, 
educator, artist, poet, was born July 19, 
1846, in Columbia, S. C. She is princi¬ 
pal of Clifford Seminary of Union, S. C. 
She has contributed to the Youth's Com¬ 
panion and other prominent publications. 

CLOUGH, DAVID MARSTON, lumber¬ 
man, state senator, governor, was born 
in Lyme, N. H., Dec. 27, 1846. In 1880 
he was at the head of one of the largest 
lumber firms of Minnesota. In 1885 he 
was a member, and la'-er became president 
o* the (it / council of St. Paul, Minn. In 
1887-91 he was State senator; was elected 
lieutenant-governor in 1892 and 1894; and 
governor in 1895-99. 

CLOUS, JOHN WALTER, soldier, was 
born in 1837 in Germany. He is a briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers, lieutenant 
colonel and deputy judge advocate gen¬ 
eral, Unite 1 Slates army. He was twice 
breveted for gallant conduct at Gettys¬ 
burg. He served on frontier and in In¬ 
dian campaigns in 1868-86; served as 
judge advocate in many important trials 
and cases in 1862-86, and was appointed 
judge advocate, United States army, in 
1886. on staff Major General Miles while 
in field during Spanish-American war. 

CLOVER, SAMUEL TRAVERS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 13, 
1859, in London, England. Since 1894 he 
has been managing editor Chicago Even¬ 
ing Post. In 1880 he began hi® news¬ 
paper career by making a trip around the 
world. He is the author of Paul Traver’s 
Adventures; and poems and stories of 
Western life. 

CLUTE, WILLARD NELSON, curator, 
author, was born in Painted Post. N. Y., 
Feb. 26, 1869. He was editor and pub¬ 
lisher of The Fern Bulletin and founder 
of the Linnaean Fern Chapter. He is the 
author of A Flora of the Upper Susque¬ 
hanna Valley. 

CLYDE, JOHN CUNNINGHAM, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in White Deer 
Valley, Pa.. Oct. 22. 1841. Since 1879 
he has been pastor at Bloomsburg N. J. 
He is the author of History of the Irish 
Settlement of Pennsylvania; Reminis¬ 
cences of the Irish Settlement; Life of 
Professor James H. Coffin; The Chris¬ 
tian Temper and Scientific Thought, and 
History of the Churches of Newton Pres¬ 
bytery. 


COALE, ISAAC, author, philanthropist, 
was born June 2, 1861, in Baltimore, Md. 
He is an insurance agent and the author 
of the Sambo Books. 

COATES, GEORGE MORRISON, mer¬ 
chant, publisher, was born Aug. 20, 
1817, in Philadelphia, Pa. Hisi great-great- 
grandfather, Thomas Coates, removed 
from England to Pennsylvania in 1683, 
and became a prosperous merchant of 
Philadelphia. George Morrison Coates 
was also a successful merchant of Phila¬ 
delphia, and in 1869 became a partner in 
the publishing house of Porter & Coates, 
which attained a national reputation. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he was especially active 
in the organization and equipment of 
Union regiments; was a presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1862, 1868 and 1872, and filled nu¬ 
merous positions of honor. He died May 
21, 1893, in Philadelphia, Pa. Henry T. 
Coates, his son, now conducts the pub¬ 
lishing business as Henry T. Coates & Co. 
GARRISON. 

COBB, ANDREW JACKSON, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in Athens, Ga., April 1J, 
1857. In 1887-91 he was city attorney of 
Athens, Ga., and dean of Atlanta law 
school, Georgia, in 1893-98. In 1896-1903 
he was associate justice supreme court of 
Georgia. 

COBB, HENRY IVES, architect, was 
born in Brookline Mass., Aug. 19, 1859. 
He was architect for Chicago opera house, 
Newberry library, University of Chicago, 
Church of the Atonement, and many of 
the most prominent residence, business 
and public buildings in Chicago and other 
cities. 

COBLENTZ, VIRGIL, chemist, author, 
was born in Springfield, Ohio, in March, 
1862. Since 1891 he has been professor 
of chemistry and physics at New York 
college of pharmacy. He is the author of 
Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; 
Handbook of Pharmacy; and The Newer 
Remedies. 

COE, EDWARD BENTON, clergyman, 
author, was born in Milford, Conn., June 

II, 1842. Since 1899 he has been senior 
minister without charge of specfiic con¬ 
gregation. In 1898 he was president gen¬ 
eral synod. He is the author of Life In¬ 
deed. 

COE, GEORGE ALBERT, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born March 26, 1862, in Monroe 
county, N. Y. Since 1893 he was 
been John Evans professor of philosophy 
at Northwestern University, of Evanston, 

III. He is the author of The Spiritual 
Life; and Studies in the Science of Re¬ 
ligion. 

COFFEY, JAMES VINCENT, lawyer, 
jurist. In 1899 he was candidate for United 
States senate from California. He is now 
judge of the superior court of San Fran¬ 
cisco, Cal. 

COFFIN, OWEN VINCENT, business 
man, state senator, governor, was boru in 
Mansfield, Duchess county, N. Y., June 
20, 1836. He was president Brooklyn Y. 
M. C. A.; has lived in Middletown since 
1864; was secretary-treasurer and director 
Farmers and Mechanics’ savings bank in 
1864-78; and since 1883 has been presi¬ 
dent Middlesex Fire Assurance company. 
In 1872-73 he was mayor of Middletown, 
Conn.; was state senator in 1887-91; and 
governor of Connecticut in 1895-97. 

GOGGESHALL, JESSIE, diplomat, was 
born Sept. 22, 1851, in Wadsworth, 
Ohio. She accompanied her father to 
Ecuador as secretary of legation, and had 
entire charge of the office for four months 
after his death. 


XXII 


ADDENDA. 


COGHLAN, JOSEPH BULLOCK, naval 
officer, was born Dec. 8 1844, in 

Frankfort, Ky. In 1866 be was promoted 
to lieutenant, and was made lieutenant 
commander in 1868. He was promoted 
to commander in 1882 and captain in 1896. 
Since 1897 be bas commanded tbe Ra¬ 
leigh on tbe Asiatic station, taking part m 
the brilliant naval battle of Manila bay 

COHEN, SOLOMON SOLIS, physician, 
author, poet, was born in Philadelphia, 
Pa, Sept. 1, 1857. Since 1890 he has 
been professor clinical medicine and 
therapeutics Philadelphia Polyclinic and 
College for Graduates in Medicine. He is 
the author of Therapeutics of Tubercul¬ 
osis; Essentials of Diagnosis. 

COHN, ADOLPHE, educator, author, 
was born May 29, 1851, in Paris, France. 
Since 1891 he has been professor of 
romance, languages and literature at Co¬ 
lumbia university. He is the author of 
Voltaire’s Prose; and Le Sage’s Gil Bias. 

COLBY, FRANK MOORE, journalist, 
educator, author, was born in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., Feb. 10, 1865. In 1895 
1900 he was professor of economics at 
New York university. He was on the edi¬ 
torial staff of Johnson’s Cyclopaedia. He 
is the author of Outlines of General His¬ 
tory. 

COLE. BENJAMIN JAMES, manufac¬ 
turer, legislator, was born Sept. 28, 
1814, in Franconia, N. H. In 1836 he suc¬ 
ceeded his father in the foundry business 
in Guilford, N. H., and in 1873 organized 
the Cole Manufacturing company. In 
1849-50 he was a member of the New 
Hampshire state legislature; was a dele¬ 
gate to the national republican conven¬ 
tion in 1864: and a presidential elector 
in the following election. 

COLE. CHARLES CLEAVES, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born in Hiram, Maine, 
May 22, 1841. He served as private to 
captain in Company I, 17th Maine In¬ 
fantry, in the civil war. In 1879-93 he 
p^at’ced law in Washington, D. C.; and 
since 1892 has been associate justice su¬ 
preme court of District of Columbia. 

COLE, FRANK THEODORE, lawyer, 
educator, author, was born June 22, 1853 
in Brattleboro, Vt. In 1880 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar. He is now principal 
of the Columbus Latin school, and of the 
University school of Columbus, Ohio. He 
is the author of Cole Genealogy;and Glea¬ 
son Genealogy. 

COLE, GEORGE WATSON, lawyer, li 
brarian, bibliographer, was born in War¬ 
ren. Conn., Sept. 6, 1850. In 1888-90 

he was librarian Pratt library of Chicago; 
in 1891-95 librarian Free Public library 
of Jersey City, N. J., and then resigned 
to devote himself to bibliographical work. 
He has been president New Jersey State 
Library association and New York Li¬ 
brary club. 

COLE, JOHN ADAMS, civil engineer, 
was born Dec. 16, 1838, in West¬ 

moreland, N. H. In 1862 he was a dele¬ 
gate of the United States Christian com¬ 
mission, and went to the Army of the Po¬ 
tomac; and in 1863 was appointed gen¬ 
eral field agent. In 1872 he removed to 
Chicago; constructed a water tunnel un¬ 
der Lake Michigan over one mile in 
length for the Hyde Park waterworks; 
and for many years was city engineer of 
Hyde Park. 

COLE, LAWRENCE THOMAS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 24, 1869, in 
Ann Arbor, Mich. Since 1899 he has been 
warden at St. Stephen’s college of An- 
nandale N. Y. He is the author of The, 
Basis of Early Christian Theism. 


COLE, SAMUEL WINKLEY, musician, 
author was born in Meriden, N. H., Dec. 
24, 1848. Since 1833 he has been 

teacher, and now superintendent, of the 
department of sight-singing at New Eng¬ 
land Conservatory of Music. He pro¬ 
duced Haydn’s Creation with Dedham 
High School in 1890; Handel’s Messiah in 
1891, this being probably the first success¬ 
ful attempt in the United States to do a 
complete oratorio with high school pu¬ 
pils. He is the author of Child’s First 
Studies in Music; New England Course 
in General Sight-Reading; and compiled 
New England Conservatory Course in 
Sight-Singing, in three volumes. 

COLE, SETH BEACH, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, was born Dec. 25. 
1820, in Prattsburg, N. Y. He was prin¬ 
cipal of the Franklin academy, of Pratts- 
burg, for nine years; and was u mem¬ 
ber of the New York state legislature in 
1855-96. In 1860 he was a delegate to the 
national republican convention from 
Brooklyn. Since 1867 he has practiced 
law in Nyack, N. Y., and has been dis¬ 
trict attorney, judge and surrogate. 

COLE, WILLIAM MORSE, educator, au¬ 
thor was born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 
10, 1866. In 1890-93 he was instructor of 
political economy at Harvard university, 
and university extension lecturer in 1895- 
98. He is the author of An Old Man’s 
Romance. 

COLEMAN, CHARLES CARYLL. paint¬ 
er, was born in 1840 in Buffalo, N. Y. In 
1866 he went to Europe, and hasi since 
resided there, painting chiefly in Paris, 
London and Rome, where his studio was 
in 1886. He is a member of the London 
Art club, and since 1881 has been an as¬ 
sociate member of the National academy 
of New York. His principal works are 
Troubadour; Nuremberg Towers; Bronze 
Horses of St. Mark’s; Venice, Anciert 
and Modern. 

COLEMAN, MRS. KATHLEEN BLAKE, 
journalist, author, was born May 16, 1864. 
in Ireland. She was the first woman war 
correspondent duly accredited in the 
world, going with United States troops to 
Tampa and Cuba. She is the author of 
To London for the Jubilee. 

COLER. BIRD SIM, financier, author, 
was born in New York. He is comptroller 
of New York city. He is the author of 
Municipal Government. 

COLLIE, GEORGE LUCIUS, geologist, 
author, was born Aug. 11, 1857, in Del- 
avan, Wis. Since 1892 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of geology at Beloit college. He 
is the author of Supplement to Frye’s 
Geography; and Use of Governmental 
Maps. 

COLLIER, PRICE, clergyman, author, 
was born May 25, 1860. For nine years 
he was a Unitarian minister. He served 
through Spanish-American war as naval 
officer. He is the author of Mr. Picket 
Pin and His Friends; and America and 
the Americans from a French Point of 
View. 

COLLINS, MICHAEL F., journalist, ed¬ 
ucator, state senator, was born Sept. 27, 
1854, in Troy, N. Y. InJ 1886-87 he was a 
member of the New York assemby; and a 
member of the state senate in 1888-90 and 
1894-95. Since 1879 he has been editor 
and proprietor of the Troy Observer. 

COLLINS, WILLIAM H„ astronomer, 
author, was born in 1859 in Peekskill, N. 
Y. Since 1892 he has been director of 
Haverford College astronomical observa¬ 
tory. He is the author of Proceedings 
of Haverford College Observatory. 


COLLIS, CHARLES H. T., soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Feb. 4, 1838. in Ire¬ 

land. During the civil war he attained 
the rank of major general. He served 
two terms as city solicitor of Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. For several years he was 
commissioner of public works in New 
York city. 

COLLITZ, HERMANN, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 4, 1855, in Ger¬ 

many. Since 1897 he has been professor 
of comparative philology and German at 
Bryn Mawr college. He is the author of 
several German works. 

COLTON, ARTHUR WILLIS, author, 
was born in Washington, Conn., May 22, 
1868. He is the author of Bennie Ben 
Cree. 

COLTON, JULIA M.. author, was born 
in New York city. She is the author of 
Annals of Switzerland. 

COLVOCORESSES, GEORGE PART¬ 
RIDGE, naval officer, was born April 3, 
1847, in Norwich, Vt. He has served on 
most of the foreign naval stations, and 
in the hydrographic office at Washington, 
and in 1886 was assistant instructor in 
drawing at the United States Naval acad¬ 
emy. , 

COMBA, RICHARD, soldier, was born 
in Ireland. During the civil war he re¬ 
ceived the brevets of major and lieuten¬ 
ant colonel. He enlisted as private in 
1855. He served in the Santiago cam¬ 
paign and was made brigadier-general of 
volunteers in 1898 for distinguished ser¬ 
vice in Cuba. , 

COMBS, GILBERT RAYNOLDS, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Jan. 5. 1863, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was for years 
organist and choirmaster in some of the 
leading Philadelphia churches; became a 
capable orchestral conductor, and an ex¬ 
cellent performer on stringed instru¬ 
ments. In 1885 he founded the Broad 
Street Conservatory of Music of Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa., of which he is director. 

COMPTON. ALFRED GEORGE, mathe¬ 
matician, author, was born Feb. 1, 
1835. in London. England. He is profess¬ 
or of applied mathematics at College City 
of New York. He is the author of A Man¬ 
ual of Logarithmetic Computation; First 
Lessons in Woodworking: First Lessons 
in Metal-Working; The Speed Lather: 
and Some 'Common Errors of Speech. 

COMPTON, CHARLES E.. soldier, was 
born in Mauricetown, N. J., Jan. 28, 
1831. He served throughout the civil war, 
and attained the rank of lieutenant colo¬ 
nel. He was then transferred to the regu¬ 
lar army and in 1890 was made colonel 
for distinguished services in leading gal¬ 
lant charge against Indians on Red river. 
Texas. He was appointed brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers in 1898 in the war 
against Spain. 

COMSTOCK, ANTHONY, soldier, re¬ 
former, was born March 7, 1844, in Ca¬ 
naan, Conn. He served throughout the 
civil war. Since 1872 he has been secre¬ 
tary and special agent of the New York 
Society for the Suppression of Vice, and 
in that capacity and as postoffice inspec¬ 
tor has brought nearly three thousand 
criminal® to justice and destroyed eighty 
tons of obscene literature and pictures, 

CONANT. CHARLES ARTHUR, jour¬ 
nalist, author, public official, was born 
July 2, 1861, in Winchester, Mass. He be¬ 
came Washington correspondent of the 
Boston Post in 1886, and of the Commer¬ 
cial Bulletin in 1889. He was candidate 
to the legislature in 1886 and candidate 
for congress in 1894. He is the author of 


ADDENDA. 


xxiil 


A History of Modern Banks of Issue, with 
An account of the Economic Crises of the 
Present Century. 

CONANT, FREDERICK ODELL, mer¬ 
chant, genealogist, was born Oct 1, 
1857, in Portland, Maine. He is a suc¬ 
cessful merchant of Portland. Maine, and 
a director in various corporations'. He 
has ben councilman and alderman, and is 
a member of the Maine Historical society. 
He is the author of History and Geneal¬ 
ogy of the Conant Family. 

CONKLIN, JULIA STOUT, author, was 
born in Hamilton county, Ind., April 
27, 1854. She is trustee of Indiana Sol¬ 
diers’ Orphans’ home. She is the autho- 
of Young People’s History of Indiana. 

CONLEY, WILLIAM MAXWELL, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born in Maxwell Creek 
Cal., July 17, 1866. He moved to Madera 
in 1892, and assisted in county division 
in legislature. He was judge of the su¬ 
perior court of California in 1893-98. 

CONNELLY, MRS. CELIA LOGAN, 
playwright, author, poet, was born in 
1837 in Philadelphia, Pa, She is the au¬ 
thor of Her Strange Fate; and Sarz, a 
Story of the Stage. 

CONNELLY, JAMES H.. soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1840 in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. He was first lieutenant 145th 
New York volunteers in the civil war. 
He is the author of Mv Casual Death; and 
other novels, dealing wth theosophic and 
occult subjects. 

CONNELLEY, WILLIAM ELSEY. au¬ 
thor, was born in Johnson county, Ken¬ 
tucky, March’15, 1855. Since 1892 he has 
been connected with banking interests in 
Kansas City, Kan. He is the author of 
The Provisional Government of Nebraska 
Territory; Wyandot Folk-Lore; and Kan¬ 
sas Territorial Governors. 

CONNER, JACOB ELON, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in Wilmington, Ohio. 
Since 1900 he has been fellow in sociology 
at State university of Iowa. He is 
the author of Uncle Sam Abroad. 

CONNER, JAMES PERRY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born in Delaware 
county, Ind., Jan. 27, 1851. In 1885 

he was judge Thirteenth judicial dis¬ 
trict of Iowa, and later elected judge Six¬ 
teenth judicial district of Iowa. He was 
a delegate to the republican national con¬ 
vention in 1892. He was elected to the 
fifty-seventh congress as a republican. 

CONNERY, THOMAS BERNARD JO¬ 
SEPH, journalist, author, was born Oct. 
13, 1838, in Ireland. He filled near¬ 

ly every position except that of financial 
editor on the New York Herald in 1869-84. 
He is the author of Black Friday; That 
Noble Mexican; All the Dog’s Fault; His- 
otry of American Comic Journalism; and 
My Trip to Mars. 

CONNOR, LARTUS, physician, surgeon, 
author, was born Jan. 29, 1842, in 

Coldenham, N. Y. In 1871-72 he was lec¬ 
turer on Chemistry in Detroit Medical 
college, and in 1872-79 professor of physi¬ 
ology and clinical medicine in the same 
institution. In 1881-94 was ophthalmic 
and aural surgeon to Harper hospital of 
Detroit and consulting opthalmologist 
since 1894. In 1871-95 he edited the 
American Lancet. In 1877-78 and 1888-89 
he was president Detroit Academy of 
Medicine; president of the American 
Academy of Medicine in 1888-89: and in 
1894 was president of the American Med • 
leal Editors’ association. He is the au¬ 
thor of a score of valuable medical works. 

CONVERSE, FLORENCE, author, was 
born in New Orleans, La., April 30, 1871. 
She is the author of Diana Victrix. 


CONVERSE, JAMES B., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in Philadelpha, Pa., April 
8, 1844. In 1890-95 he was editor of the 
Christian Patriot. He is the author of A 
Summer Vacation Abroad; and Uncle 
Sam’s Bible. 

CONWAY, JAMES A., congressman. He 

was elected to the fifty-seventh congress 

COOK, FRANCIS AMES, naval officer, 
was born May 10, 1843, in Northampton, 
Mass. He became a master in 1866, a 
lieutenant commander two years later and 
a commander in 1881. He was appointed 
a captain in 1896, and soon after assigned 
to the command of the Brooklyn, flagship 
of Commodore Schley, commanding the 
flying squadron, which played so impor- 
tar' e a., he naval battle and vic¬ 
tory of Santiago in 1898. 

COOK. FRANCIS AUGUSTUS, naval 
officer, was born May 10, 1843, in North¬ 
ampton, Mass. He attended the United 
States Naval academy; served in the navy 
during the civil war; and in 1881 was 
promoted to commander. During the 
Spanish-American war he commanded the 
Brooklyn, and received the surrender of 
the Spanish warship Cristobal Colon. In 
1899 he was appointed to the United 
States naval examining board. 

COOK, FREDERICK ALBERT, physi¬ 
cian, explorer, author, was born in Sul¬ 
livan county, N. Y.. June 10. Y865. 
He was surgeon of the Peary Arctic expe¬ 
dition in 1891-92, and surgeon of the Bel¬ 
gium Antarctic expedition in 1897-99. He 
is the author of Through the First Ant¬ 
arctic Night. 

COOK, WILLIAM WILSON, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in Hillsdale, Mich., April 
16, 1858. He is general counsel for the 
Postal Telegraph Cable company ~ and 
Commercial Cable company. He is the 
author of Cook on Corporation; and Cook 
on Stock and Stockholders. 

COOKE, LORRIN ALANSON, business 
man, state senator, governor, was born in 
New Marlboro, Mass., April 6, 1831. In 
1856 he was elected to the Connecticut 
legislature, and was state senator in 1882- 
83. He was lieutenant governor in 1885- 
87 and 1895-97, and governor of Connec¬ 
ticut in 1897-99. 

COOKMAN. JOHN EMORY, clergyman, 
was born June 8. 1836, in Carlisle, Pa. He 
joined the New York conference in 1861. 
and has spent his ministry mostly in the 
vicinity of New York, with the exception 
of three years as pastor of Tremont Street 
ehurch, Boston. In 1886 he became pas¬ 
tor of the Bedford street M. E. church. 
New York city. * 

COOLEY. LYMAN EDGAR, educator, 
civil engineer, author, was born in Can¬ 
andaigua, N. Y., Dec. 5, 1850. In 

1890-91 he was president Western Society 
of Engineers. He was consulting engi¬ 
neer Chicago sanitary district drainage 
canal; was a member international deep 
waterawys commission in 1895-96; and 
consulting engineer on contractors and 
engineers’ trip to Nicaragua in 1897-98. 
lie is the author of The Lakes and Gulf 
Waterway. 

COOLIDGE. LOUIS ARTHUR, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in Natick. Mass., 
Oct. 8. 1861. He was editor 'f the Con¬ 
gressional Directory, and indexer of the 
Congressional Record. He is the author 
of The Show at Washington; and Klon¬ 
dike and the Yukon Country. 

COOLIDGE, THOMAS JEFFERSON 
merchant., diplomat, was born Aug. 26, 
1831. in Boston. He began business as 
an East India merchant, later becoming 
interested in New England cotto?i mills. 


He was president of, and is now a direct¬ 
or in, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 
railway. In 1892 President Cleveland ap¬ 
pointed him minister to France, where he 
remained for four years. In 1899 iMr. 
Coolidge was made a member of the 
commission to adjust disputes between 
the United States and Canada. 

COOMBS, CHARLES WHITNEY, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Dec. 25, 
1859, ft Bucksport, Maine. In 1892 he took 
charge of the music in the Church of the 
Holy Communion of New York city. He is 
the author of The \ision of St. John; 
Hymn of Peace; and Song of Judith. 

COOMBS, FRANK L., lawyer, diplomat, 
congressman, was born in Napa, Cab, 
Dec. 27, 1853. In 1879-84 he was dis¬ 
trict attorney of Napa county, Cal. 
In 1887-91 he was a member of the state 
legislature and speaker of assembly in 
1891. He was elected to the fifty-seventh 
congress from California as a republican 

COOPER, HENRY H., business man, 
public official, was born Nov. 1, 1857, 
in Buffalo, N. Y. He is now engaged in 
the boat business in Buffalo; and was 
mayor of the city of Jamestown, N. 

oOOPER, JACOB, soldier, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born in Butler 
county, Ohio, Dec. 7, 1830. In 1862- 

63 he was chaplain Third Kentucky regi¬ 
ment infantry. Since 1893 he has been 
professor of philosophy and logic at Rut¬ 
gers. He is the author of The Natural 
Right to Make a Will; and The Passage 
from Mind to Matter. 

COOPER, JAMES WESLEY, clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 6, 1842, in New 
Haven, Conn. Since 1878 he has been 
pastor of South Congregational church, 
New Britain, Conn. He is the author oi 
Gospel Truth. 

COOPER, OSCAR HENRY, educator, 
college president, author, was born 
Nov. 22, 1852, in Texas. He is presi¬ 
dent of Baylor university of Waco, Texas. 
He is the author of History of Our Coun¬ 
try; Monographs; Compulsory School 
Laws; and Universities and -Schools. 

COOPER, PHILIP HENRY, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Aug. 5, 1844, in New 
York city. He received his commission 
as lieutenant commander in 1868, and was 
assigned to duty at the United States na¬ 
val academy. He ws made commander 
in 1879; and for several years employed 
at the bureau of navigation in Washing¬ 
ton. He then commanded the Swatara in 
the Asiatic squadron. In 1886 he was 
made commandant of the Norfolk navy 
yard. 

COPELAND, ROYAL SAMUEL, physi¬ 
cian, author, was boim Nov. 7, 1868, 

in Dexter, Mich. Since 1895 he has been 
professor of ophthalmology and otology 
at University of Michigan. He is the au¬ 
thor of Refraction Text Book. 

COPLIN, WILLIAM M. L„ physician, 
author, was born in Clarksburg, W, Va.. 
Nov. 1, 1864. He is professor of 

pathology and bacteriology at Jefferson 
Medical college. He is the author of 
Manual of Pathology; and Text Book of 
Practical Hygiene. 

CORBIN. PHILIP, manufacturer, state 
senator, was born Oct. 26, 1824, in Wil¬ 
mington, Conn. In 1849. wifh his brother 
Frank, he started a shop of his own, 
which has grown into the remarkably 
prosperous hardware manufactory of P 
and F. Corbin. The firm are now incor¬ 
porated, with Philip Corbin as president. 
He was a member of the legislature in 
1844; state senator in 1889: and republi¬ 
can elector for Connecticut in 1892. 


xxiv 


ADDENDA. 


CORLISS, WILLIAM, manufacturer, in¬ 
ventor, was born Nov. 5, 1835, in Green¬ 
wich, N. Y. He was elected vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Corliss Steam Engine com¬ 
pany; and in 1863' was its treasurer. 
While treasurer of The Corliss Company 
he began the construction of the Corliss 
safe, which stands to-day a perfect struc¬ 
ture. 

CORN, SAMUEL THOMPSON, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in Nicholasville, Ky., 
Oct. 8, 1840. In 1886-90 he was justice 
of the supreme court of Wyoming; prac- 
siced law in 1890-96; and since 1897 has 
been justice of the supreme court of Wyo¬ 
ming. 

CORNELIUS, MRS. MARY ANN, phi¬ 
lanthropist, author, was born, in Ponti¬ 
ac, Mich., Sept. 25, 1827. She has been ex¬ 
tensively engaged in philanthropic work. 
She is the author of Little Wolf, Uncle 
Nathan’s Farm; and Thite Flame. 

CORNING, CHARLES ROBERT, law¬ 
yer, jurist state senator, author, was born 
in Concord, N. H., Dec. 20, 1855. In 1889 
he was a member of the New Hampshire 
state senate. He is now probate judge. 
He is the author of historical subjects 
and various Monographs. 

CORNING, JAMES LEONARD, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in Stamford.Conn., 
Aug. 28, 1855. He is specially disting¬ 
uished as neurologist.and discovered spin¬ 
al anaesthesia in 1885. He is the author 
of Brain Rest; Brain Exhaustion; Local 
Anaesthesia; Hysteria and Epilepsy; and 
A Treatise on Headache and Neuralgia. 

CORRIGAN, SEVERINUS JOHN, as¬ 
tronomer, physician, author was born in 
Troy, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1852. He made special 
studies in electrical science; and advanced 
new Kinetic theory of gases. He is 
the author of The Constituton anid Func¬ 
tion of Gases, the Nature of Radiance 
and the law of radiation. 

CORSON, MRS. CAROLINE ROLLINS, 
translator, author, was born in France. 
She is the wife of Prof. Hiram Corson, of 
Ithaca, N. Y. She is the author of arti¬ 
cles on Faust, Machiavelli, and Victor 
Hugo; besmes translations. 

CORSON, DIGHTON, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Somerset county, Maine. He was 
a member of the South Dakota Constitu¬ 
tional Convention. Since 1900 he has 
been presiding judge of the supreme court 
of South Dakota. 

CORSON, EUGENE R., physician, auth¬ 
or. He is a member of the Electro-Ther¬ 
apeutic Association. He is a writer on the 
Negro Question. 

CORTELYOU, GEORGE BRUCE, edu¬ 
cator, secretary, was born July 26, 1862, 
in New York City. He was stenographer 
and private secretary to President Wil¬ 
liam McKinley. 

CORTISSOZ, MRS. ELLEN MACKAY. 
journalist, author, poet, was born in New 
York City. She is a literary writer on 
the staff of the New York Tribune. She 
is the author of Songs and Lyrics. 

CORY, CHARLES BARNEY, ornithol¬ 
ogist, author, was born in Boston, Mass.. 
Jan. 31, 1867. He is the author of A 
Naturalist in the Magdalen Islands; Birds 
of the Bahafna Islands; The Beautiful and 
Curious Birds of the World; Birds of 
Haiti and San Domingo; Catalogue of 
West Indian Birds; Hunting and Fishing 
in Florida; The Birds of Eastern North 
America: How to Know the Ducks, Geese 
and Swans of North America; The Birds 
of the West Indies; Key to the Water 
Birds of Florida; and Hunting and -Fish¬ 
ing in Florida. 


CORY, HARRY THOMAS, civil engin¬ 
eer, author, was born May 27, 1870, in 
La Fayette, Ind. Since 1900 he has been 
dean and professor of civil engineering 
in the University of Cincinnati. He is 
the author of Manual of United States 
System of Land Surveying. 

COSBY, GEORGE BLAKE, soldier, pub¬ 
lic official, was born Jan. 19, 1830, in 
Louisville, Ky. He joined the Confed¬ 
erate army as captain of cavalry in 1861; 
was promoted to brigadier-general in 
1863; and commanded a brigade of caval¬ 
ry under Gen. Stephen D. Lee in the 
south. After the close of the war he 
was adjutant-general of California four 
years, and iisi at present receiver of pub¬ 
lic moneys of California at Sacramento. 

COSTELLO, FREDERICK H„ author, 
was born in Bangor, Maine, Sept. 24. 1851. 
He is local agent for R. G. Dunn & Co.’s 
Commercial Agency. He is the author of 
Master Ardick, Buccaneer; Under the 
Rattlesnake Flag; and On Fighting Decks 
in 1812. 

COTTER, JOSEPH B., clergyman, bish¬ 
op, was born in 1844, in Liverpool, Eng¬ 
land. In 1871-79 he was pastor of St. 
Thomas church of Winona, Minn; and 
was consecrated first bishop of the newly 
erected see of Winona in 1889. 

COTTON, CHARLES STANHOPE, nav¬ 
al officer, was born Feb. 15, 1843, in Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis. He graduated from the 
United States naval academy; and attain¬ 
ed the rank of rear-admiral. He is now 
president naval retiring board at Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

COURTENAY, ASHMEAD, manufactur¬ 
er, philanthropist. At the time of the 
earthquake he was mayor of Charleston, 
S. C.; and his wise administration at¬ 
tracted national attention. 

COURTNEY, WALTER, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Sept. 18, 1855, in Canada. 
Since 1899 he has -been chief surgeon of 
the North Pacific railroad company at 
Brainerd. Minn. In 1900 he became pres¬ 
ident of the Minnesota State Medical So¬ 
ciety. 

COVILLE, FREDERICK VERNON, bot¬ 
anist, author, was born March 23, 1867. 
in Preston, N. Y. Since 1892 he has been 
chief botanist U. S. Department of Agri¬ 
culture. He is the anthor of Botany of 
the Death Valley Expedition. 

COWAN, JAMES, soldier, author, was 
born March 8, 1841, in Westfield, Mass. 
He enlisted in the Union army and was 
wounded in the battle of Winchester on 
Sept. 19, 1834. During the past years he 
has been chiefly engaged in mercantile 
and literary work. He is the author of 
a book entitled Daybreak, A Romance of 
an Old World. 

COWARD. EDWARD FALES, broker, 
playwright, author, was born in New York 
City, Sept. 6, 1862. He is best known as 
amateur actor; for thirty years played 
continuously a total of one hundred and 
twenty-seven rote; and for two years was 
dramatic editor and critic New York Ev¬ 
ening Sun. He is the author of Hearts 
Are Trumps; The Lady From Chicago; 
and Around New York in Eighty Minutes. 

COWLES. ALFRED ABERNETHY. 
manufacturer, was born Sept. 28, 1845, in 
Torrington, Conn. In 1867 he entered the 
employment of the Ansonia Brass and 
Copper company, gave close attention to 
the business, took charge of the New York 
office, and has risen to be vice-president 
and executive manager of the company. 
The Ansonia Clock company, which he 
took an active part in organizing in 1879, 


is now the largest establishment of its 
kind in the world. He is also president 
of the Birmingham Water Power com¬ 
pany. 

COWLES, JAMES LEWIS, economist, 
author, was born in Farmingham, Conn., 
Sept. 14, 1843. He has devoted attention 
to the solution of the railroad problem 
and to the study of the postal service. 
He is the author of A General Freight and 
Passenger Post. 

COX, MRS. MARY McHENRY, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Sept. 3, 1827, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. Since its foundation in 1865 
she has been First Directress of Lincoln 
Institution of Philadelphia, Pa., organized 
as a soldiers’ orphans home, from which 
also another institution sprang, The Edu¬ 
cational Home, of which she is and always 
has been First Directress. She has per¬ 
sonally collected about one hundred and 
fifty thousand dollars for these institu¬ 
tions. In 1883 the Lincoln Institution 
was changed into an Indian school. These 
institutions have cared for about twelve 
hundred white children, and nearly one 
thousand Indian children. 

COX, MILLARD. F., lawyer, jurist, auth¬ 
or, was born Feb. 25, 1856, near Nobles- 
ville, Ind. In 1890-94 he was judge of 
the criminal court of Indianapolis, Ind. 
He is the author of The Legionaries, a 
Story of the Great Raid. 

COX, WILLIAM VAN ZANDT, lawyer, 
financier, author, was born in Zanesville, 
Omo, June 12, 1852. He was financial offic¬ 
er of the Smithsonian Institution and the 
United Satates National Museum at the 
World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago 
in 1893; Cotton States Exposition of At¬ 
lanta in 1896; Trans-Mississippi Exposi¬ 
tion of Omaha in 1898; and Pan-American 
Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. He is the 
author of Life of Samuel S. Cox. 

COXE. WILLIAM ELLERY C., manufac¬ 
turer, merchant, was born June 12, 1837. 
in Philadelphia. Pa. He is president and 
General Manager Montour Iron and Steel" 
company, of Toledo. Ohio; and prominent 
in the public and business affairs of his 
city, county and state. 

COY. ELIAB WASHBURN, educator, 
was born in 1832, in Thorndike, Maine. 
He has been principal of the public 
schools in Peoria, Ill.; principal of the 
high school department State Normal 
University, Normal, Ill.; principal of 
Hughes High Schools of Cincinnati, Ohio; 
president of National Council of Educa¬ 
tion in 1893-94; and Editor of the Illinois 
Teacher. 

COY, N. B., educator, public official. He 
is connected with Colorado College of Col¬ 
orado Springs. 

COYLE. HENRY, journalist, poet. He 
was editor of the Weekly Bouquet of Bos¬ 
ton, Mass.; and the author of a volume of 
poems entitled The Promise of the Morn¬ 
ing. 

CRAFTS, MRS. ANNIE STRATFORD, 
author, was born March 16. 1856. in Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. She is the author of Jupiter 
Jingles. 

CRAGIN. EDWARD BRADFORD, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, author, was born Oct. 23. 
1859, in Colchester. Conn. He is! the 
author of Essentials of Gynecology; and 
Is one of the authors of American Text- 
Book on Gynecology. 

CRAIG, ALFRED M., farmer, ia.wyer, 
jurist. In 1861-65 he was judge of Knox 
County. Ill.; was a delegate to Illinois 
Constitutional Convention in 1870. Since 
1873 he has been justice of the supreme 
court of Illinois. 


ADDENDA 


XXV 


CRAIG, JAMES ALEXANDER, linguist, 
author, was horn March 5, 1855, in Can¬ 
ada. Since 1893 he has been professor of 
Semitic languages and literatures in the 
University of Michigan. He is the auth¬ 
or of Hebrew Word Manual; and other 
works. 

CRAIGHILL, WILLIAM, PRICE, civil 
engineer,author,was born in Charlestown. 
Va., July 1, 1833. He built the defenses 
of Pittsburg in 1863; was breveted lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel in 1865 for services at 
Cumberland Gap; and afterward engaged 
on defenses of New York and Baltimore. 
In 1895 he was made brigadier-general 
and chief of engineers U. S. army. He 
is the author of Army Officers’ Pocket 
Companion. 

CRAIGIE, MRS. PEARL MARY 
John Oliver Hobbes, author, was 
born in Boston, Nov. 3 1 , 1867. She is the 
wife of Reginald Walpole Craigie. She 
is the author of Some Emotions and a 
Moral; The Sinner’s Comedy: A Study in 
Temptations; A Bundle of Life; Journey’s 
End in Lovers Meeting; The Gods, Some 
Mortals and Lord Wickenham; The Herb 
Moon; and School for Saints. Her'plays 
are The Ambassador; and A Repentance. 

CRAM, WILLIAM EVERETT, farmer, 
author, was born in Hampton Falls, N. H., 
June 22. 1871. He is he uthor of "Little 
Beasts of Field and Wood; and More Lit¬ 
tle Beasts. 

CRAMER, FRANK, educator, author, 
was born Nov. 4. 1861, in Wausau, Wis, 
He was professor of Natural History and 
Geology at Larence university in 1886-91; 
and principal Manzanita Hall, Palo Alto, 
California, in 1893-99. He is the author- 
of Method of Darwin: and On the Cra.nial 
Characters of the Genus Sebastodes. 

CRANE, BRUCE, painter, was born 
in 1857 in New York. His principal works 
are Old Mill-Pond on Long Island; On 
Shrewsbury River; After the Rain; Moor 
in Nantucket; Inlet on the Jersey Shore; 
Blossom Time; Winter; The Waning 
Year; and Indian Summer. 

CRANE, FRANK, clergyman, author, 
was bom May 12, 1861, in Urbana, Ill. 
He is pastor of the Hyde Paik Metho¬ 
dist Church of Chicago. Ill. He is the 
author of The Religion of To-morrow. 

CRANSTON, EARL soldier, clergyman, 
was born in Athens, Ohio, June 27, 1840. 
He served in Ohio volunteer infantiT to 
end of war as first sergeant, first lieuten¬ 
ant, adjutant and captain. He entered the 
Methodist ministry in Ohio Conference ir 
1867; and was publishing agent for Meth¬ 
odist church in 1884-96. In 1896 he be¬ 
came bishop. 

CARTER, LEWIS, soldier, educator, 
was bom Aug. 9, 1843. During the civil 
war he was in thirty-two engagements: 
and was promoted to adjutant captain. 
Since 1887 he has been treasurer of the 
Reading Steam, Heat and Power Com¬ 
pany. He is the author of History of the 
Carter Family. 

CRATTY, ROBERT IRVIN, farmer, ed¬ 
ucator, botanist, was bom Feb. 5. 1853. 
in Pennsylvania. In 1875-95 he was a 
teacher in the public schools of Illinois 
and Iowa. He has made an extensive col¬ 
lection of Iowa and Minnesota plants: 
and has a herbarium of six thousand 
species. He has written extensively on 
the Flora of Iowa. 

CRAWFORD. JOHN WALLACE, poet 
scout, was born March 4, 1847. in Ireland. 
He joined the 48th Pennsylvania volun¬ 
teers: and was severely wounded. He be¬ 
came government scout in the west; and 


served under General Crook in Sitting 
Bull campaign; and in 1876 was appointed 
chief of scouts. He served in campaigns 
against Apaches in New Mexico; and re¬ 
tired from army life in 1886. He is the 
and Story; Campfire Sparks; and Tat, a 
author of The Poet Scout; A Book of Song 
Drama in Three Acts. 

CRAWFORD-FROST. WILLIAM AL¬ 
BERT, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 
29, 1863, in Canada. Since 1896 he has 
been pastor of Memorial Church of the 
Holy Comforter at Baltimore, Md. He is 
the author of Old Dogma in a New Light. 

CRAWLEY, EDWIN SCHOFIELD, - civil 
engineer, mathematician, author, was born 
July 31, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 
1899 he has been Thomas A. Scott profes¬ 
sor of mathematics at the University of 
Pennsylvania. He is the author of file- 
rnents of Plane and Spherical Trigonom¬ 
etry; and Tables of Logarithms. 

CRAWSHAW, WILLI AN HENRY, edu¬ 
cator, author, was bom Nov. 6, 1861, in 
Newburgh, N. Y. Since 1887 he has been 
professor of English literature and dean 
of Colgate University. He is the author 
of Literature; and Dryden’s Palamon and 
Arcite. 

CREIGH, THOMAS A., business man, 
genealogist. He is president of the 0. F. 
Davis Company of Omaha, Neb. He is 
the author of an early history of his fam¬ 
ily; and has nearly ready for the press 
The Creigh Genealogy. 

CREIGHTON, JAMES EDWIN, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1861 in Nova 
Scotia. Since 1892 he has been professor 
of logic and mathematics at Cornell Uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of An Intro¬ 
ductory Logic. 

CROCKER, FRANCIS BACON, electric 
engineer, inventor, author was horn July 
4, 1861, in New York City. He was an 
inventor and practicing electric engineer 
in 1882-89; and vice-president of Crocker- 
Wheeler Electric Company since 1888. He 
is the author of Practical Management of 
Dynamos and Motors; and Electric Light¬ 
ing. 

CROLLY, MRS. JANE CUNNINGHAM. 
(Jennie June) journalist, author, was born 
Dec. 19, 1831, in England. She aided in 
starting Demorest’s Illustrated Magazine, 
of which she was editor for twenty-seven 
years. She is the author of Talks of 
Women’s Topics; For Better or Worse; 
and Three Manuals of Work. 

CROMER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in Madison 
County, Ind., May 13, 1856. In 1886-90 he 
was prosecuting attorney, 46th circuit; 
and was mayor of Muncie in 1894. He 
was elected a member of the fifty-sixth 
congress as a republican. 

CROMWELL, BARTLETT JAMES, na¬ 
val officer, was born March 28, 1841. in 
Nebraska. His first extensive trip was 
when he was commander, and was as¬ 
signed to the navigation of Admiral 
Schufeldt’s flagship the Ticonderoga on 
its trip around the globe in 1879. In 
1895 he ws a member of the examining 
and retiring board of the navy depart¬ 
ment, being promoted to the rank of com¬ 
modore in 1898. He succeeded to the 
rank of rear admiral when the naval per¬ 
sonnel bill went into force in 1899. He 
is commandant ox the naval station at 
Havana- 

CRONDAHL, JENS K, journalist, was 
born Dec. 3, 1869, in Eidsvold.- He 

is editor of the Red Wing Daily Re¬ 
publication; the Red Wing Daily Inde¬ 
pendent; City; and the Wordsjernen. He 


served in the state legislature during the 
years 1894-98; and is now the president 
of the Minnesota Republication Press 
Association. 

CRONIN, DAVID EDWARD, soldier, 
lawyer, journalist, artist, was born July 
12, 1839, in Greenwich, N. Y. He en¬ 
listed in the Union army during the civil 
war, and was breveted major. He then 
practiced law until 1872, when he began 
the publication of the Binghamton 
Times. In 1876 it was consolidated with 
the Binghamton Republican. 

CROOKER, JOSEPH HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 8, 1850, 

in Foxcroft, Maine. In 1881-91 he was 
Unitarian clergyman at Madison, Wis., 
and built large Unitarian church, estab¬ 
lished a strong Unitarian congregation at 
Helena, Mont, in 1891-97; since then at 
Ann Arbor. He is the author of Jesus 
Brought Back; Problems in American So¬ 
ciety; and The Growth of Christianity. 

CROSBY, ERNEST HOWARD, lawyer, 
legislator, reformer, author, was born 
Nov. 4, 1856, in New York city, in 

1878-89 he was in law practice in New 
York city; and a member of New York 
assembly in 1887-91. In 1889 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge international court at Al¬ 
exandria, Egypt. In 1894 he was one of 
the founders and first president Social 
Reform club. He is the author of Plain 
Talk in Psalm and Parable; and War 
Echoes. 

CROSBY, MRS. FRANCES JANE, hymn 
writer, author, was born March 24, 1820, 
in South East, N. Y. In 1858 she mar¬ 
ried Alexander Vanalstyne, a teacher of 
music in New York city, and blind, like 
herself. The best known of her hymns 
are Safe in the Arms of Jesus; Pass Me 
Not, O Gentle Savior; Jesus is Calling; 
Rescue the Perishing; Blessed Assur¬ 
ance; Saved by Grace; Jesus, Keep Me 
Near the Cross; and I Am Thine, O Lord. 
She was the author of The Blind Girl, 
and other poems; Monterey; Pilgrim Fa¬ 
thers; and A Wreath of Columbia’s Flow- 
©rs. 

CROSBY, STEPHEN MOODY, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, banker, was born 
Aug. 14, 1827, in Salisbury, Mass. He 
served through the civil war, reaching 
brevet rank of lieutenant colonel. He 
was a member of the Massachusetts leg¬ 
islature in 1869; and state senator in 
1870-71. Since 1883 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Massachusetts Loan and Trust 
company of Boston, Mass. 

CROSS, WILBUR LUCIUS, educator, 
author, was born April 10, 1862, in Mans¬ 
field, Conn. Since 1897 he has been as¬ 
sistant professor of English in Yale uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of Develop¬ 
ment of the English Novel. 

CROTHERS, THOMAS DAVISON, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Sept. 21, 
1842, in West Charlton, N. Y. Since 1880 
he has been president, .and superintend¬ 
ent Walnut Hill asylum of Hartford, 
Conn. He is the author of Disease of In¬ 
ebriety. 

CROWELL, FREDERIC, artist, was 
born Nov. 27, 1845, in Boston, Mass. 
His first work exhibited in public was' 
an allegorical portrait group sent to the 
Paris salon of 1878. In 1879 he was in¬ 
structor in the art school connected with 
the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, 

CROWLEY, JOSEPH BURNS lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born July 19, 
1858, in Coshocton, Ohio. In 1886-93 he 
was county judge of Crawford county, 
Ill. He was a representative to the fifty- 
sixth congress from Illinois. 


xxvi 


ADDENDA. 


CROWNINSHIELD, ARENT SCHUY¬ 
LER, naval officer, was born March 14, 
1843, in New York. He was attached to 
the steam sloop Ticonderoga and par¬ 
ticipated in both attacks on Fort Fisher. 
He was made lieutenant in 1866, lieuten¬ 
ant commander in 1868, and commander 
in 1880. 

CROWNINSHIELD, MRS. MAR 
BRADFORD, author, was born in New 
England. She is the wife of Arrant 
Schuyler Crowninshield. She is the au¬ 
thor of Where the Trade Wind Blows; 
All Among the Lighthouses; The Eight- 
house Children Abroad; Plucky Smalls; 
and San Isidro. 

CROZIER, WILLIAM, army officer, in¬ 
ventor, was born in 1855 in Ohio. He 
served three years in Western campaigns 
against Sioux and Bannocks. Since 1890 
he has. been connected with the ord¬ 
nance department, and was promoted 
captain in 1890. With General Buffington 
he invented the Buffington-Crozier dis ■ 
appearing gun carriage, now in general 
use in American coast-defense works. He 
is also inventor of the wire-wrapped ri¬ 
fle, a 10-inch gun. He was majgr gen¬ 
eral and inspector general, United States 
volunteers, in the Spanish-American war. 

CRUTCHER, THEOPHILUS WIL¬ 
BURN, business man, public official, was 
bora Sept. 18, 1855, in Maury coun¬ 

ty, Tenn. He has held the office 
of city comptroller of Nashville, Tenn., 
and is now a well-known fire insurance 
agent of that city. 

CULBERSON, CHARLES A., United 
States senator, governor. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Texas in 1894-98. He is the eld¬ 
est son of David B. Culberson, for twen¬ 
ty-two years a member of vongressi from 
Texas. He removed to Texas in 
He was United States senator from Tex¬ 
as in 1899-1905. 

CULBERTSON, JAMES COE. physi¬ 
cian, journalist, author, was born Dec. 
19. 1840, in Miami county, Ohio. 

Since 1873 he has been editor and pub¬ 
lisher of the Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic. 
He is the author of Luke, the Beloved 
Physician. 

CULIN. STEWART, anthropologist, au¬ 
thor. was born July 13. 1858, in Philadel¬ 
phia. Pa. He is curatof of the Museum 
of Science and Art of the University of 
Pennsylvania. He is the author of Kore¬ 
an Games. 

CULLEN, EDGAR MONTGOMERY, sol¬ 
dier. lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 4, 
1843. in Brooklyn, N. Y. During the 
civil war he was second lieutenant First 
United States infantry, andi colonel Nine- 
tv-sixth New York volunteers. He' was 
engineer-in-chief, with rank of briga¬ 
dier general, on staff of Governor Tilden, 
in 1875. In 1880 he was elected supreme 
court justice for a term of fourteen years, 
and was re-elected in 1894. 

CUMMING.GILBERT W.. soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born in 1817 in Delaware coun¬ 
ty. N. Y. In 1861 he raised the 
Fifty-first Illinois regiment, and was ap¬ 
pointed its colonel. He was afterward 
assigned to the command of a brigade, 
and did good service in Islanu No. 10, 
New Madrid, and Corinth. 

CUNFORT, TIFFANY CHARLES, cler- 
wman author, was born Oct. 5. 1829, 
in Baltimore, Md. He is a clergyman 
of New York city. He is the author of 
History of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church; and the Prayer-Book and the 
Life. 


nock School of Oratory at Northwestern 
university of Evanston, Ill. Ho is the 
author of Choice Readings for Public 
and Private Entertainment; and School 
Speaker, 

CUNNINGHAM, ALBERT BAXTER, 
journalist, author. He •'& editor of Cum- 

CUNNINGHAM, JOHN F„ clergyman, 
bishop, was born in July, 1842, in Ire- 

la ml. In 1898 he was consecrated bishop 

of Concordia, Kan. 

CURRIE, WILLIAM J., farmer, public 
official, was born April 3, 1846, in Robin¬ 
son county, North Carolina. He was a 
member of the North Carolina legisla¬ 
ture in 1897; and was for some years post¬ 
master of Maxton, N. C. 

CURRIER, AMOS NOYES, educator, 
author, was born Oct. 13, 1832, m 

Canaan, N. H. Since 1887 he has been 
dean of the College of Liberal Arts in 
the University of Iowa. In 1898-99 he was 
president of the Iowa State Teachers’ as¬ 
sociation. He is the author of Latin Suf¬ 
fixes. 

CURRIER, CHARLES WARREN, cler¬ 
gyman, bishop, author, was born March 
22, 1857, in the West Indies. Since 1900 
he has been pastor of St. Mary’s church 
of Washington, D. C. He is the author 
of Carmel in America; Historical Ro¬ 
mance; History of Religious Orders; ana 
other works. 

CURTIS, CHARLES BOYD, soldier, 
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 24. 
1827, in Penn Yan, N. Y. He served 'n 
the civil war as captain of the Fifty-sev¬ 
enth regiment, New York volunteers. He 
is the author of Rembrandt’si Etchings. 

CURTIS, CYRUS, publisher, was born 
June 18, 1850. He became publisher of 
the Tribune and Farmer of Philadelphia 
and afterward established the Ladies’ 
Home Journal. He is now head of the 
Curtis Publishing company. 

CURTIS, GEORGE LENOX, physician, 
author, was born April 19, 1854. He is 
successor to Prof. James E. Garrotson of 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is professor and 
ex-clinical instructor in oral and facial 
surgery, to which he confines his prac¬ 
tice. 

CURTIS. H. HOLBROOK, physician 
author, was born Dec. 15, 1856, in 

New York city. He is a specialist in 
laryngology, and restored the voice of 
Campanini, the famous tenor. He is the 
author of Voice Building and Tone Pla¬ 
cing. 

CURTIS. JOHN GREEN. ‘In 1873 he 
became adjunct professor of anatomy in 
the College of physicians and surgeons, 
of New York city. 

CURTIS, MATTOON MONROE, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Oct. 19, 1858, m 
Rome, N. Y. Since 1891 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of philosophy of Western Reserve 
university of Cleveland, Ohio. He is the 
author of Locke’s Ethics; Philosophy and 
Physical Science; Philosophy in Amer¬ 
ica; and other works. 

CURTISS, SAMUEL IVES, clergyman 
author, was born Feb. 5, 1844, in 

Union, Conn. He is professor of Biblical 
literature, Chicago Theological seminary. 
He is the author of The Name Macka- 
bee ; The Levitical Priests; Ingersoll and 
Moses; and The Date of Our Gospels. 

CUSACK, THOMAS, business man, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 5, 1858, in 

Ireland. He was a member of the Chi¬ 
cago board of education in 1891-98; and 
was colonel on Governor Altgeld’s staff. 
He was elected to the fifty-sixth con¬ 
gress from Illinois as a democrat. 


CUSHING, HARRY ALONZO, educator, 
author, was born in 1870 in Lynn, Mass. 

He is now in the department of history 
at Columbia university, of New York 
city. He is the author of History of the 
Transition from Provincial to Common¬ 
wealth Government in Massachusetts; 
and King’s College in the American 
Revolution. 

CUSHING. SAMUEL TOBEY, soldier, 
was born Sept. 14, 1839, in Provi¬ 

dence, R. I. He served throughout the 
civil war, and attained the rank of cap¬ 
tain. He has been an instructor in West 
Point. Since 1898 he has been a briga¬ 
dier-general and commissary-general in 
the United States army. 

CUSHMAN, AUSTIN SPRAGUE, sol¬ 
dier. lawyer, author, was born Sept. 

9, 1828, in Duxbury, Mass. In 1852 be 
was private secretary to President FiP- 
more. During the civil war he attained 
the rank of major. In 1867 he was 
United States registrar in bankruptcy. 

He was the first post commander in New 
England of the Grand Army of the Re¬ 
public, and the first department com¬ 
mander of Massachusetts. He is the au¬ 
thor of La Crise Financ.iere, and editor 
of Early History of Massachusetts Grand 
Army of the Republic. 

CUSHMAN, FRANCIS W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 8, 1867, in Brigh¬ 
ton, Iowa. Since 1891 he has been en¬ 
gaged in the practice of law in Tacoma. 
Wash. He was elected to the fifty-sixth 
congress from Washington as a republi- j 
can. 

CUSHNY. ARTHUR ROBERTSON, 
physician, author, was born March 6, 
1866, in Scotland. Since 1893 he has been 
professor of materia medica and thera¬ 
peutics in the University of Michigan. 

He is the author of The Action of Drugs 
in Health and Disease. 

CUTLER. NAHUM SAWIN. manufac¬ 
turer, legislator, genealogist, was born 
April 7. 1837. in Vernon. Vt. He is a suc¬ 
cessful shoe manufacturer of Greenfield, 
Mass., and a director in the Franklin 
County National bank and other corpora¬ 
tions. In 1889-90 he was a member of 
the Massachusetts house of representa¬ 
tives. He is the author of The Cutler 
Memorial; and History of the Town of 
Bernardston. 

DABOLL, CHARLES MINER, inven¬ 
tor, was born Oct. 14, 1823, in Groton, 
Conn. He is the inventor of the cast- 
iron bottom jack screw barrel, now in 
full operation for twenty-five years; as has 
also his oval slide parallel bench vise. He 
has invented also a breast drill, a self¬ 
centering brace for bits, a mowing ma¬ 
chine. and the Daboll bushing. He is Unit¬ 
ed States government inspector for Con¬ 
necticut and Rhode Island of boilers on 
steam vessels. 

DABOUR, JOHN, artist, was born in 
1837 in Smyrna, Asia. Fifteen years of 
his professional life were spent in the 
United States, painting portraits, which 
are to be found in the principal cities, 
but chiefly in Baltimore. Among the 
more prominent of those that have been 
sitters in his studio are Archbishop 
Spaulding of Baltimore, Archbishopi Pur¬ 
cell of Cincinnati; Senator Cameron of 
Pennsylvania, Senator Davis of Virginia, 
and Governor Groome of Maryland. 

DA COSTA, JOHN CHALMERS.' sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Nov. 15, 1863, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1895 he 
has been surgeon to Philadelphia hospital. 

He is the author of A Manual of Modern 
Surgery. 





ADDENDA. 


xxvii 


DAGGETT, MRS. MARY STEWART, 
author, was horn May 30, 1856, in Mor¬ 
ristown, Ohio. She is the author of The 
Broad Isle. 

DALE, ALAN—Alfred J. Cohen—jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born May 14, 1861, in 
Birmingham, England. Since 1895 he has 
been dramatic critic of the New York 
Journal. He is the author of Jonathan’s 
Home; A Marriage Below Zero; An Eerie 
He and She; My Footlight Husband; Miss 
Innooenoe; Familiar Chats with Queens 
of the Stage; An Old Maid Kindled; a 
M oral Busybody; and Conscience on Ice. 

DALE, FRANK, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Nov. 26, 1849, in De Kalb coun¬ 
ty, Ill. In 1880-85 he was prosecut¬ 
ing attorney of Wichita, Kan. In 1893 
he became associate justice of Oklahoma, 
and in 1893-98 was chief justice. 

DALE. THOMAS NELSON, geologist, 
author, was born Nov. 25, 1845, in 
New York city. He is on United States 
geological survey, and instructor in geol¬ 
ogy and botany at Williams college. He 
is the author of The Outskirts of Physi¬ 
cal Science; Mount Greylock, Its Areal 
and Structural Geology; and The Rens¬ 
selaer Grit Plateau in New York. 

DALLAS, GEORGE MIFFLIN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Feb. 7, 1839, m 
Pittsburg, Pa. Since 1892 he has been 
United States circuit judge of the third 
circuit of Pennsylvania. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the constitutional convention 
which framed the present constitution of 
Pennsylvania. 

DAMON. WILLIAM EMERSON, natur¬ 
alist. author, was born Nov. 15, 1838, 
•in Windsor, Vt. He is superintendent of 
the credit department of Tiffany & Co. 
of New York city. He is well known as 
a naturalist. He is the author of Ocean 
Wonders. 

DAMROSCH. FRANK, musician, com 
poser, was born June 22, 1859, in Bres¬ 
lau. In 1897 he was appointed super¬ 
visor of music in the New York city pub¬ 
lic schools. He is the author of Popular 
Method of Sight Singing. 

DANA, FRANCIS, author, was born 
March 4. 1866, in the East Indies. He is 
the author of Leonora of the Yawmish. 

DANA, STEPHEN WINCHESTER 
cergyman, was born Nov. 17. 1840. 

in Canaan, N. Y. In 1866-68 he was pas¬ 
tor of a Presbyterian church in Belvl- 
dere, N. J.; and then was called to tne 
Walnut Street church in West Philadel¬ 
phia. 

DANA, WILLIAM HENRY, musician, 
composer, was born June 10, 1846. in 
Warren, Ohio. He was a founder of the 
American Music Teachers’ National as¬ 
sociation, and director of Dana’s Musical 
Institute of Warren. Ohio. He is the 
author of Practical Thorough-Bass; Or¬ 
chestration; Instrumentation for Mili¬ 
tary Bands; and Practical Harmony. 

DANA. WILLIAM PARSONS WIN¬ 
CHESTER. artist, was born Feb. 18. 
1833, in Boston, Mass. His first pictures 
were marine views, but subsequently he 
treated genre subjects with success, and 
has been happy in painting children, 
horses and dogs. Some of his principal 
works are Chase of the Frigate Constitu¬ 
tion; "Waiting for the Fishing Boat: Ma¬ 
ternal Care; Land of Nod; and Gathering 
Seaweed. 

DANIELL, MOSES GRANT, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 9, 1836, in 

Boston, Mass. He is now in the editorial 
department of Ginn & Co. of Boston. He 
is the author of Exercises in Latin Com¬ 
position; New Latiu Composition; Exer¬ 


cises in Greek Composition; and First 
Year Latin. 

DANIELS, WINTHROP MORE, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Sept. 30, 1867, 

in Dayton, Ohio. Since 1892 he has been 
professor of political economy in Prince¬ 
ton university. He is the author of Ele¬ 
ments of Public Finance. 

DANNREUTHER, EDWARD, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Nov. 4, 
1844, in Strassburg. He was an active 
promoter of the Wagner festival in 1877. 
He is the author of Richard Wagner, His 
Tendencies and Theories; and Musical 
Ornamentation. 

DANNREUTHER, GUSTAV, musician, 
composer, was born July 21, 1853, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. In 1882-84 he was director 
of the Buffalo Philharmonic Society; and 
in 1884 he founded the Beethoven string 
quartette of New York city. He is the au¬ 
thor of a set of Chord and Scale Studies 
for Young Players. 

DARRAGH. ARCHIBALD B., soldier, 
banker, legislator congressman, was born 
Dec. 23. 1840, in Monroe county, Mich. 
In 1882 he enlisted as a private 
vate in the United States volunteers; and 
was discharged as a captain m 1865. Since 
1870 he has been a banker of St. Louis. 
Mich. In 1883-84 he was a member of 
the Michigan legislature. He was elected 
a member of the fifty-seventh congress. 

DARROW. CLARENCE S.. lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born April 13, 1857, in Kins¬ 
man, Ohio. He was at one time attorney 
for the Northwestern railway. He ha? 
been identified with many prominent 
cases; and recently in litigation against 
the gas trust in Chicago. He is the au¬ 
thor of Persian Pearl. 

t* \RWIN. MRS. OERTRUDE BASCOM. 
author, was born May 19, 1855, in M7d- 
dlebury. Vt. Since 1899 she has beer 
treasurer general of t.he National Society 
of the Daughters of the American Revo¬ 
lution. She is the author of Report of 
the Daughters of the American Revolu¬ 
tion. 

DASKAM, JOSEPHINE DODGE, au¬ 
thor. poet, was born Feb. 17, 1876, in 
Stamford. Conn. She is the author of 
Smith College Stories; and Sister’s Voca¬ 
tion and Other Girls’ Stories. 

DAVENPORT. CHARLES, manufactur¬ 
er, was born May 25, 1812, in Newton, 
Mass. As car builders, his was not only 
the pioneer firm of the United States, but 
for the twenty-two years during which 
he carried on the business his was the 
largest car establishment in America. In 
1838-39 he built the first eight-wheel car. 
to seat sixty; and in 1840 the first sixteen- 
wheel car, to carry seventy-six passen¬ 
gers. 

DAVENPORT, CHARLES BENE^ T '"'~ 
zoologist, author, was born June. 1, 1866 
in Stamford, Conn. Since 1899 he has 
been professor of zoology in the Uni¬ 
versity of Chicago. He is the author of 
Statistical Methods in Biological Varia¬ 
tion. 

DAVENPORT. HERBERT JOSEPH, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Aug. 10, lo61, 
in Wilmington, Vt. He is the author of 
Outlines of Economic Theory; and Prin¬ 
ciples of Grammar. 

DAVENPORT, HOMER CALVIN, ar¬ 
tist, author, was born March 8, 1867, in 
Silverton, Ore. He originated the Mark 
Hanna $-mark suit ot clothes. His work 
caused an attempt to pass an anti -car¬ 
toon bill in New York in 1897. He is 
the author of Davenport’s Cartoons; The 
Bell of Silverton. and Other Short Stor¬ 
ies of Oregon. 


DAVENPORT, STANLEY W., lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 21, 1861, in 
Plymouth, Pa. In 1893-96 he was reg¬ 
ister of wills of Luzerne county, Pa. He 
was elected to the fifty-sixth congress as 
a democrat. 

DAVES, GRAHAM, soldier, genealo¬ 
gist, was born July 16, 1836, in New Bern, 
N. C. In 1859-61 he was private secre¬ 
tary to Governor John W. Ellis of North 
Carolina; and during the civil war war 
captain and major in the Confederate 
army. He is president of the Roanoke 
Colony Memorial association at New 
Bern, N. C. He is the author of The 
Life of Major John Daves, hi® grand¬ 
father. 

DAVIDSON, HARLAN PAGE, educator, 
college president, was born Sept. 15, 1838, 
in Rookset, N. H. He is founder and 
president of Northwestern Military Aca¬ 
demy of Highland Park, Ill. 

DAVIDSON, JAMES WHEELER, jour¬ 
nalist diplomat, author, was born June 
14, 1872. in Austin, Minn. In 1895 he 
was a war correspondent with the Chi¬ 
nese army. Since 1898 he has been 
United States consul for Formosa, Japan. 
He is the author of The Island of For¬ 
mosa; and Formosa Camphor and Its 
Future. 

DAVIES, JOHN FRANCIS, librarian, 
educator, was born Oct. 2, 1858, in 
Rockland, Maine. He was assistant li¬ 
brarian of the St. Louis Public library 
in 1883-92: and in 1892 became librarian 
of the Butte Free Public library, Mon¬ 
tana. 

DAVIS, ARTHUR POWELL, civil en¬ 
gineer. author, was born Feb. 9, 1861, 
in Decatur, Ill. In 1884-94 he was top¬ 
ographer United States geological survey, 
conducting surveys and explorations in 
Arizona, New Mexico and California. 
Since 1898 he has been hydrograpber in 
charge of hydrographic examination of 
Nicaragua and Panama canal routes. He 
is the author of Elevation and Stadia 
Tables; Progress of Stream Measure¬ 
ments; Hydrography of Nicaragua; and 
Irrigation Investigation in Arizona. 

DAVIS, CHARLES BELMONT, diplo¬ 
mat. author, was born Jan. 24, 1866, 

in Philadelphia, Pa. He was United 
States consul at Florence, Italy. He is 
the author of The Borderland of Society. 

DAVIS. EDWARD PARKER, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born Sept. 16, 
1856, in Baldwinsville, N. Y. In 1890-98 
he was editor of the American Journal 
of the Medical Sciences; and since 1898 
has been professor of obstetrics in Jef¬ 
ferson Medical college of Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is the author of Treatise on Ob¬ 
stetrics: and other works. 

DAVIS, GEORGE RUSSELL, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 13. 1861, in 

Huntsville. Ohio. In 1897-1901 he was 
associate justice supreme court of Ari¬ 
zona. 

DAVIS. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, sol¬ 
dier, was born July 26, 1839, in Thomp¬ 
son, Conn. He entered the Eleventh 
Connecticut infantry Nov. 27, 1861, as 
quartermaster’s sergeant, and rose to 
major and quartermaster. He was ap¬ 
pointed captain Fourteenth United States 
infantry in 1867; promoted major Elev¬ 
enth infantry in 1894; lieutenant colonel 
in 1898; and was then appointed brigadier- 
general of volunteers, commanding divi¬ 
sion. In 1899 he became governor general 
of Puerto Rico. 

DAVIS, HARRIET RIDDLE, author. 
She is the author of In Sight of the God¬ 
dess; and other works. 







xxviii 


ADDENDA. 


DAVIS, JOHN D., educator, author, was 
born March 5, 1854, in Pittsburg, Pa. 
He is the author of Genesis and Semitic 
Tradition; and A Dictionary of the Bible. 

DAVIS, JOHN PATTERSON, lawyer, 
author, was born May 27, 1862, in Niles, 
Mich. In 1894-95 he was assistant in 
history and economics. University of 
Michigan; and since then in law practice 
in Idaho. He is the author of The Union 
Pacific Railway, a Study of Political and 
Economic History. 

DAVIS, JOHN WILLIAM, educator, 
civil engineer, state senator, governor, 
was born March 7, 1826, in Rehoboth, 
Mass. In 1844-50 he was in mason and 
civil engineering work, teaching school 
winters; and in 1850-90 was in the grain 
trade at Providence, R. I. He was state 
senator in 1885, 1886 and 1893; and gov¬ 
ernor of Rhode Island in 1887 and 1890. 
He was mayor of Pawtucket in 1897. 

DAVIS, NATHAN SMITH, physician, 
author, was born Sept. 5, 1848, in Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. He is a son of Dr. Nathan 
Smith Davis, the noted physician and au¬ 
thor. He is the author of Consumption; 
and other medical works. 

DAVIS, OSCAR KING, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 13, 1866, in Bald- 
winsville, N. Y. He is a noted war cor¬ 
respondent on the staff of the New York 
Sun. He is the author of Our Conquests 
in the Pacific. 

DAVIS, RAYMOND CAZALLIS, li¬ 
brarian, author, was born in June, 1833, 
in Cushing, Maine. In 1849-51 he made a 
voyage around the world. He is the au¬ 
thor of Reminiscences of a Voyage 
Around the World. 

DAVIS, MRS. VARINA HOWELL JEF¬ 
FERSON, author, was born May 7, 1826, 
in Natchez, Miss. In 1845 she was mar¬ 
ried to Jefferson Davis, who became pres¬ 
ident of the Confederacy. She is the au¬ 
thor of Jefferson Davis Memoir t>y His 
Wife. 

DAVIS, WILLIAM THOMAS, lawyer, 
state senator, author, was born March 3, 
1822, in Plymouth, Mass. In 1858-59 
he was a member of the Massa¬ 
chusetts state senate; was republican 
presidential elector in 1872; and 
delegate republican national convention 
in 1876. He is the author of History of 
Plymouth,- Ancient Landmarks of Ply¬ 
mouth; and History of Bench and Bar 
of Massachusetts. 

DAVIS, WILLIAM ZEPHANIAH, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born June 10. 
1839, in Loydsville, Ohio. He served 
three months’ enlistment in the Fourth 
Ohio regiment in 1861, and re-enlisted in 
the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteers, remain¬ 
ing in service until physically disabled 
and honorably discharged. In 1864-1900 
he practiced law at Marion, Ohio. Since 
1900 he has been judge of the supreme 
court of Ohio. 

DAWES, CHARLES GATES, comptrol¬ 
ler, author was born Aug. 27, 1865, in 
Marietta. Ohio. He was the leader of 
the McKinley movement in Illinois re¬ 
sulting in instructions for McKinley at 
the Springfield, Ill., convention of April. 
1896. In 1898 he was appointed comp¬ 
troller of the currency. He is the author 
of The Banking Systems of the United 
States. 

DAWSON, MILES MENANDER, actu¬ 
ary, author, was born May 13, 1863, in 
Viroqua, Wis. He is a translator from 
Norwegian and a writer and speaker on 
economics, ethics and reform movements. 
He is the author of Practical Lessons in 
Actuarial Science; Elements of Life In¬ 


surance; Assessment Life Insurance; and 
Principles of Insurance Legislation. 

DAWSON, WILLIAM M. O., lawyer, 
state senator, was born May 21, 1853, in 
Bloomington, Ma. In 1881-89 he served 
two terms as a state senator in the Mary¬ 
land legislature. Since 1892 he has been 
chairman of the West Virginia republi¬ 
can state and central executive commit¬ 
tee; and is a successful lawyer of King- 
wood. W. Va. 

DAY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, naval 
officer, was born in Ohio. During the 
civil war he attained the rank of lieu¬ 
tenant commander. In 1891 he became 
rear admiral; and in 1897-1900 was a 
member of the naval examining board. 

DAY, HOLMAN F., journalist, po§t, 
was born Nov. 6, 1865, in Vassal- 

boro, Maine. He is editor of the Lewis¬ 
ton Daily Sun. He is the author of Up 
in Maine, in verse. 

DAY, OSCAR FAYETTE GAINES, 
journalist, author, was born Oct. 7, 
1860, in Chicago, Ill. He is the author 
of A Mistaken Identity; and a volume of 
ooems. 

DAY, WILLIAM RUFUS, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born April 17, 1849, in Ravenna, 
Ohio. In 1886-90 he was judge of the 
court of common pleas. In 1898 he suc¬ 
ceeded John Sherman as secretary of 
S t&t6 

DAYAS, WILLIAM HUMPHRIES, mu¬ 
sician, composer, was born Sept. 12, 
1864, in New York. He was organist 
of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church; 
then of St. Andrew’s church of New 
York city. He is the author of Organ 
Sonatas and Waltzes. 

DEAN, BASHFORD, zoologist, author, 
was born Oct. 28, 1867, in New A ora 
city. He is the author of Fishes, Living 
and Fossil. 

DEAN, JOHN, lawyer, author. He is 
associate justice of the supreme court of 
Pennsylvania. 

DEAVER, JOHN B., surgeon, author. 
He is surgeon to the Children’s Hospital 
of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author 
of Surgical Anatomy, in three volumes. 

DEEMER, ELIAS, congressman. He 
is a member of the fifty-seventh congress 
from Pennsylvania. 

DEEMER, HORACE EMERSON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Sept. 24, 1855, 

in Bourbon, fnd. In 1887-94 he was judge 
of the district court of the fifteenth dis¬ 
trict of Iowa; and in 1894-98 was judge of 
the cupreine court. Since 1898 he has 
been chief justice of the supreme court 
of Iowa. 

DE GARMO, JAMES M., educator, busi¬ 
ness man, microscopist, author, was born 
Dec. 22, 1838, in Pleasant Valley, 

N. Y. He has spoken in every presiden¬ 
tial campaign but one since 1856. He 
has a large collection of butterflies; also 
birds, geological specimens, and birds’ 
eggs. He is the author of The Hicksite 
Quakers and Their Doctrine. 

DE GOESBRIAND, LOUIS, clergyman, 
bishop. He is Roman Catholic bishop of 
Burlington, Vt. 

DE HASS, WILLS, physician, scientist, 
author, was born July 4, 1817, in Wash¬ 
ington county, Pa. He recruit¬ 
ed the Seventy-seventh Ohio regiment tor 
the civil war: and commanded the ad¬ 
vance in Sherman’s division at Shiloh. 
He is the author of History of West Vir¬ 
ginia; The Mound Builders; and other 
works. 

DE KOVEN, MRS. ANNA FARWELL. 
author, was born Nov. 19, 1860, in 
Chicago, Ill. She is the wife of Louis 


Reginald de Koven, composer. She Is the 
autnor of A Sawdust Doll; and a transla¬ 
tion of An Iceland Fisherman. 

DE KOVEN, HENRY LOUIS REGIN¬ 
ALD, musician, composer, was born April 
3, 1859, in Middletowm, N. H. He is 
musical critic on various New York pub¬ 
lications. He is the author of operas 
entitled The Begum; Don Quixote; Robin 
Hood; The Fencing Master; The Tzigane; 
The Mandarin; The Highwayman; and 
The Three Dragoons. 

DE LEON, THOMAS COOPER, soldier, 
journalist, playwright, author, was born 
May 21, 1839, in Columbia, S. C. In 1861- 
65 he was in the Confederate service. In 
1873-96 he was owner and editor of Tim 
Gossip and The Gulf Citizen. of Mobile. 
He organized the Mobile Mardi Gras Car¬ 
nival and managed it twenty-five years. 
He invented and designed carnivals of 
Pensacola, Vicksburg, Bi-Centennial' and 
other celebrations. He is the author of 
Cross Purposes; and other works. 

DEMING, CLARENCE, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 1, 1848, in Litch¬ 
field, Conn. He is the author of By- 
Ways of Nature and Life. 

DENMAN, LEROY GILBERT, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 31 
1855, in Guadalupe county, Texas. Since 
1894 he hais been associate justice of the 
of the Buffalo Philhamonic cociety, and 
in 1884 he founded the Beethoven String 
quartette, of New York city. He is tne au- 
supreme court of Texas. 

DENNEY, JOSEPH VILLIERS, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Jan. 9, 1862, in 
Leroy, Ill. Since 1891 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of Rhetoric of English language in 
the Ohio State university. He is the au¬ 
thor of Composition Rhetoric; and Ele¬ 
mentary English Composition. 

DENNIS, JAMES SHEPARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 15, 1842, 
in Newark. N. J. In 1873-91 he was prin¬ 
cipal and professor in Theological sem¬ 
inary Beirut. Syria. He is the author 
of Foreign Missions After a Century; and 
Christian Missions and Social Progress. 

DENNISON, WALTER, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 9, 1869, in Saime, 
Mich. He is associate professor of Latin 
at Oberlin college. He is the author of 
a Junior Latin Book; and Some New in¬ 
scriptions. 

DENNY. COLLINS, lawyer, clergyman, 
educator, was born May 28, 1854, in Win¬ 
chester, Va. He practiced law in Balti¬ 
more for several years. He was chap¬ 
lain to the University of Michigan; and 
is now professor of mental and moral 
philosophy in Vanderbilt university. 

DENNY. GEORGE HUTCHESON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Dec. 3. 1S79, 
in Hanover county, Va. Since 1899 
he has been professor of Latin in the 
Washington and Lee university. He is 
the author of The Subjunctive Sequence 
After Adjective and Substantive Predi¬ 
cates and Phrases. 

DENNY, JAMES TV., soldier, educator, 
congressman, was born in 1842 in Vir¬ 
ginia. He enlisted in Company A, Thir¬ 
ty-ninth Virginia battalion of cavalry, 
in which company he served until in 
1863 be was detailed for service at Gen¬ 
eral R. E. Lee’s headquarters, where he 
continued until the surrender at Appo¬ 
mattox Court House. Since 1868 he has 
practiced law in Baltimore. Md. He was 
a member of the house of delegates of 
Maryland in 1888; and Governor Jackson 
conferred on him the rank of colonel on 
his staff. He was elected to the fifty- 
sixth congress from Maryland 


ADDENDA. 


XXIX 


DENSMORE, EMMET, physician au¬ 
thor, was born May 19, 1837, in Craw¬ 
ford county. Pa. Since 1S80 he 
has practiced almost exclusively hygienic 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is the author or 
Nature Food of Man; and How Nature 
Cures. 

DENT, MARMADUKE HERBERT, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born April 18, 1849. in 
Morgantown, W. Va. He is judge of West 
Virginia supreme court of appeals. 

DE PEYSTER, FREDERIC JAMES 
lawyer, lecturer, was born Feb. 5, 
1839, in New York city. Since 1889 he 
has been president of the Archaeological 
society of New York city; and is a lec¬ 
turer on history and archaeological smb- 
iects. 

DEPUE, DAVID A., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Oct. 27, 1826, in Northampton 

county, Pa. Since 1866 he has been jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of New Jersey. 

DE PUY. E. CORA, journalist, author, 
was born in Mount Morris, N. Y. In 1892 
she founded, edited and published T « 
Literary Century. She is the author of 
Temperance Work of the World; Peb¬ 
bles and Pearls; and several novels. 

DERBY, ORVILLE ADELBERT, geolo¬ 
gist, explorer, was born July 23. 1851, in 
Kelloggsville, N. Y. In 1873-75 he was 
instructor in geology in Cornell, and re¬ 
signed to serve on the geological commis¬ 
sion to Brazil. In 1878 he was appointed 
curator of the National museum, and ar¬ 
ranged the collection which he had gath 
ered in Brazil. He has explored nearly 
every part of that country, and Is re¬ 
garded as the greatest living authority 
on the geology and physical geography 
of Brazil. 

DESSAR, LEO 'CHARLES, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, author, was born in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. In 1870 he was a member 
of the New York State assembly; and in 
1885 became a civil justice. He is the 
author of A Royal Enchantress. 

DEUTSCH, GOTTHARD, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 31, 1859, in Aus¬ 
tria. He is professor of Hebrew at 
Union college of Cincinnati, Ohio. H 
is the author of Symbolik in Cultus; 
Theory of Oral Tradition; and Philoso¬ 
phy of Jewish History. 

DEVEREUX, MARY, author. She is 
the author of From Kingdom to Colony. 

DE VILLIERS, CHARLES A., soldier, 
was born in 1826. He became a brigadier- 
general for service in the civil war. He 
received his discharge from the army in 
1862, and returned to France. 

DEVINE, EDWARD THOMAS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born May 6, 1867, in 
Union, Iowa. He is general secretary oi 
the Charity Organization society of New 
York. He is the author of Economics, 

DEVOORE, ANN—Mrs. Walden—au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 16, 1872, in New 
York city. She is the author of Oliver 
Iverson, His Adventures During Four 
Days and Nights in the City of New 
York. 

DEWEY, MRS. BYRD SPILMAN, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 16, 1856, in Cov¬ 
ington, Ky. She is the author of Bruno. 

DEWEY, DAVIS RICH, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born April 7, 1858, in Burling¬ 
ton, Vt. He is professor of economics 
and statistics at Massachusetts Institute 
Technology. He is the author of Sylla¬ 
bus on Political History Since i815; and 
several reports. 

DEWEY, JOHN, educator, author, was 
born Oct. 20, 1859, in Burlington, Vt 


He is professor of philosophy at the Uni¬ 
versity of Chicago. He is the author of 
Psychology; Critical Theory of Ethics; 
Study of Ethics; and Psychology of Num¬ 
ber. 

DEWHURST, FREDERIC ELI, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, was born April 20 
1855, in Bradford, Maine. He is pastor 
of Plymouth Congregational church of 
Indianapolis, Ind. He is a lecturer in 
economics and sociology. He is the au¬ 
thor of Dwellers in Tents. 

DEXTER, MORTON, journalist, author, 
was born July 12, 1846, in Manchester, 
N. H. Since 1890 he has been proprietor 
of the Congregationalist of Boston, 
Mass. He is the author of The Story of 
the Pilgrims. 

DICK, CHARLES, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 3, 1858, in Ak¬ 
ron, Ohio. He was elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress to fill a vacancy, and was 
re-elected to the fifty-sixth congress from 
Ohio as a republican. 

DICK, SAMUEL MEDARY, clergyman, 
author, was born April 4, 1857, in Pick¬ 
away county, Ohio. He is pastor of Ma.th- 
ewson Street M. E. church of Providence, 
R. I. He is the author of Short Talk® on 
Our National Flag; and The Principle of 
Synthetic Unity in Berkeley and’ Kant. 

DICKERT, DAVID AUGUSTUS, sol¬ 
dier, planter, author, was born Aug. 
2, 1S45, in Lexington, S. C. In 1861 he 
entered the Confederate states army; 
was in all great battles, and surrendered 
with Johnson at Greensboro in 1865. Hs 
is the author of History of Kershaw’s 
Brigade, Longstreet’s Corps. 

DICKINSON MARTHA GILBERT, au¬ 
thor, was born in Amherst, Mass. She is 
the author of Within the Hedge. 

DICKINSON, MRS. MARY LOWE, edu¬ 
cator, author, poet, was born in 1839 in 
Fitchburg, Mass. After the death of her 
husband she was professor of belles let- 
tres, emeritus professor ana leeurrer at 
Denver university. She was president of 
the Woman’s National Indian association, 
and is now honorary president National 
Council of Women United States associa¬ 
tion. She is the author of a volume of 
poems, and several works of fiction. 

DICKSON, FREDERICK STO^ T - 

lawyer, author, was born June 24, 1850. 
in Utica, N. Y. Since 1873 he has prac¬ 
ticed law in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the 
author of An Analysis of Blackstone’s 
Commentaries; An Analysis of Kent’s 
Commentaries; and Blackwood’s History 
of the United States. 

DICKSON, HARRIS, lawyer, author, 
was born July 21, 1868, in Yazoo City. 
Miss. Since 1896 he has practiced law in 
Vicksburg, Miss. He is the author of 
The Black Wolf’s Breed. 

DIEHL, WILLIAM JOHN, public offi¬ 
cial, was born Jan. 22, 1845, in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. He has held the office of deputy 
sheriff, record examiner, and is at pres¬ 
ent secretary and treasurer for the 
Wheeling Natural Gas company. In 1899- 
1902 he was mayor of Pittsburg, Pa. 

DIGGS, MRS. ANNIE L., librarian, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1853 in Canada. Since 
1898 she has been state librarian of Kan¬ 
sas. She is the author of Little Brown 
Brothers. 

DILLINGHAM, WILLIAM PAUL, law¬ 
yer, legislator, banker, governor, was 
born Dec. 12, 1843, in Waterbury, 

Vt. In 1876 and 1884 he was a member 
of the Vermont legislature; state senator 
in 1878-80; and commissioner of state 
taxes in 1882-88. In 1888-90 he was gov- 


been president of Waterbury National 
bank. 

DINWIDDIE, WILLIAM journalist, 
photographer, author, was born Aug. 
23, 1867, in Charlottesville, Vtw. Since 1895 
he has been illustrator and correspondent 
of the New York Herald. He is the au¬ 
thor of War Sketches in Truth; and Our 
New Possessions. 

DITHMAR, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, 
journalist, author, was born May 22, 1854, 
in New York city. Since 1871 he has 
been on the staff of the Evening Post 
and New York Times. He is the author 
of John Drew, a biographical sketch. 

DITMARS, RAYMOND LEE, journalist, 
zoologist, author, was born June 20, 1876, 
in Newark, N. J. For five years_he was 
assistant curator of entomology at the 
American Museum of Natural History. 
He isi the author of Snakes Found With ¬ 
in Fifty Miles of New York City. 

DIX, EDWIN ASA, lawyer, author, was 
born June 25, 1860, in Newark, N. J. He 
traveled in all parts of the world. 
He is the author of A Midsummer Drive 
Through the Pyrenees; and Deacon Brad¬ 
bury, a novel. 

DIXON, FRANK HAIGH, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 8, 1869, in Win¬ 

ona, Minn. Since 1898 he has been as¬ 
sistant professor of economics at Dart¬ 
mouth college. He is the a.uthor of State 
Railroad Control. 

DIXON, J., lawyer, jurist. He is a 
lawyer of Trenton N. J.; and now asso¬ 
ciate justice of the supreme court of New 
Jersey. 

DIXON, SAMUEL GIBSON, physician, 
bacteriologist, author, was born March 
23, 1851. in Philadelphia. Sinae 1896 he 
has been curator and president of the 
Academy Natural Sciences, of Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is the author of Physio¬ 
logical Notes; and many articles in med¬ 
ical journals; and the proceedings of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences on bacterio¬ 
logical, hygienic and other subjects. 

DIXON, MRS. SUSAN BULLITT, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 20, 1829, in ox- 

moor, Jefferson county, Ky. She is tin 
wife of the late Archibald Dixon, Ur’'!" 5 
States senator and author of Repeal of 
the Missouri Compromise. She is the 
author of The True History of the Mis¬ 
souri Compromise and Its Repeal. 

DIXON, THOMAS, lawyer, lecturer, leg¬ 
islator, author,' was born Jan. 11, 1864, 
in Shelby, N. C. In 1884-86 he was a 
member of the North Carolina legisla¬ 
ture. He then entered the Baptist min¬ 
istry. He is the author of Living Prob¬ 
lems in Religion and Social Science; Ser¬ 
mons on Ingersoll; and The Failure of 
Protestantism in New York. 

DOAN, FLETCHER MORRIS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born July 21, 1846, in Circle- 
ville, Ohio. Since 1897 he has been as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court and 
judge of the second judicial district of 
Arizona. 

DODGE, CHARLES WRIGHT, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Jan. 15, i862, 

in Cape Vincent, N. Y. He is professor 
of biology at University of Rochester. 
He is the author of Introduction to Ele¬ 
mentary Practical Biology. 

DODGE, GRACE HOADLEY, reformer. 
In 1886 she wasi appointed by the mayor 
of New York city one of the board of 
school commissioners. She has been a 
prominent member of the New York state 
charities association; is president of the 
Working Girls’ society; and vice presi¬ 
dent of the Industrial Education associa¬ 
tion. 



XXX 


ADDENDA. 


DODGE, HENRY LEE, merchant, was 
born Jan. 31, 1825, in Montpelier, Vt. 
In 1847-49 be studied law, but abandoned 
it to seek his fortune on the Pacific 
coast. He arrived in San Francisco in 
1849, and after working in the mines he 
obtained the appointment of clerk in _the 
alcalde’s court, and was made clerk of 
the avuntamiento, or town council, of 
San Francisco, Cal. 

DODGE, HENRY NEHEMIAH, dentist, 
antiquarian, poet, was born May 19, 1843, 
in New York city. Since 1870 he has prac¬ 
ticed bis profession in New York city. 
He is the author of Christus Victor, a 
poem. 

DODGE, JOSHUA ERIC, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Oct. 25, 1854, 

in Cambridge, Mass. In 1891-92 he was 
a member of the Wisconsin legislature. 
Since 1898 he has been justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Wisconsin. 

DODGE, RAYMOND EDEY, journalist, 
author, was born Feb. 24, 1854, in Troy, 
N. Y. Since 1896 he has been editor of the 
Money Magazine of New York City. He 
is the author of Republican Reference 
Book; and Necessary Monetary Reforms; 
and American Currency. 

DODGE, RAYNAL, soldier, machinist, 
botanist, was born Sept. 9, 1844, in 

Newburyport, Mass. He served through 
Banks’ campaign in Louisiana during the 
civil war. He is the author of Fern'; 
and Fern Allies of New England. 

DODGE, RICHARD ELWOOD, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born March 30, 1868, in 
Wenham, Mass. Since 1897 he has been 
professor of geography in Columbia uni¬ 
versity of New York city. He is the au¬ 
thor of Reader in Physical Geography for 
Beginners. 

DOGGETT, SAMUEL BRADLEE, gen¬ 
ealogist. He is the author of The Dog- 
gett-Daggett Family. 

DOHERTY, ROBERT REMINGTON, 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 24, 1848. 
In 1889 he was one of the founders of 
the Epworth League at Cleveland, Ohio. 
He is the author of Illustrative Notes; 
A Guide to the Study of the International 
Lessons, published annually since 1891. 

DOLE. SANFORD BALLARD, lavwer. 
jurist, was bom April 23 1844, in Hawaii¬ 
an Islands. He engaged in practice of 
law in Honolulu;; in 1884 and 1886 he 
was a member of the legislature; a leader 
in reform movement in 1887; and judge 
of the supreme court in 1887-93. He 
was placed at the head of provisional 
government in 1893; became president 
by provision of constitution of 1894 that 
he should hold that office until 1901. 

DONALD, E. WINCHESTER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in Andover, Mass., 
July 31, 1848. Since 1892 he has been 
Rector of Trinity Church of Boston. He 
is the author of The Expansion of Relig¬ 
ion. 

DONALDSON, HENRY HERBERT 
neurologist, author. Since 1892 he has 
been professor of neurology in the Uni¬ 
versity of Chicago. He is the author of 
The Growth of the Brain; and The Phy 
siology of the Central Nervous System. 

DONLEVY, MRS. MARRIET FARLEY, 
journalist, author, was born Feb. 18, 1871, 
in Claremont, N. H. She has lectured 
extensively on The Laws of Life. She 
is the author of Shells from the Strand of 
the Sea of Genius; and Christmas Stories. 

DONOHUE, PATRICK JAMES, lawyer, 
clergyman, bishop, was born in 1851 in 
England. Since 1894 he has been R. 
C. bishop of Wheeling, W. Va. 


DOOLITTLE, CHARLES LEANDER, 
astronomer, author. Since 1895 he has 
been professor of astronomy in the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania. He is the au¬ 
thor of Practical Astronomy as Applied 
to Geodesy and Navigation. 

DORLAND, WILLIAM ALEXANDER 
NEWMAN, physician, author, was born 
Dec. 26, 1864, in Hilton Head, S. C. He 
is assistant demonstrator of obstetrics at 
University of Pennsylvania; and since 
1893 surgeon 2d troop Philadelphia City 
cavalry. He is the author of A Cluster 
of Pearls; A Syllabus of Gynecology: 
Modern Obstetrics; The American Pocket 
Medical Dictionary; and The American 
Illustrated Medical Dictionary. 

DORNER, ARMIN W., musician, com¬ 
poser, was born June 22, 1852, in Mariet¬ 
ta, Ohio. He is now professor in Cin¬ 
cinnati College of Music. He is the 
author of Technical Exercises. 

DOS PASSOS, JOHN R., soldier, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1845, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa., of Portuguese-American 
descent. He managed the defense of 
Edward S. Stokes, charged with murder 
of James Fisk, Jr.; and had other notable 
cases. For years past he has turned at¬ 
tention specially to banking, corporation 
and financial law, becoming prominent 
in formation of large business amalga¬ 
mations, including the so-called Sugar 
Trust, American Thread Company, and 
many others. He is the author of Trea¬ 
tise on the Law of Stock Brokers and 
Stock Exchanges; and The Interstate 
Commerce Act. 

DOSTER, FRANK, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 19, 1849, in Virginia 
He served two years in 11th Indiana cav¬ 
alry during the Civil war. Since 1871 
he has practiced law in Kansas. For 
four years he was judge of the district 
court; and is now Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court of Kansas. 

DOUBLEDAY, MRS. FRANK NEL¬ 
SON, author, was born Oct. 23. 1865, in 
Chicago, Ill. She is the author of T>m 
Piegan Indians; Bird Neighbors; Birds 
that Hunt and are Hunted; Nature’s 
Garden; and Our Wild Flowers and Their 
Insect Visitors. 

DOUBLEDAY. RUSSELL, 1 publisher, au¬ 
thor, was horn May 26, 1872. in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. He served in the United States 
navy during the Spanish-American war 
from New York, in battalion naval mi¬ 
litia. He is the autlior of A. Gunner 
Aboard the Yankee; and Cattle Ranch to 
College. 

DOUGHERTY. JOHN, lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Feb. 2*5, 1857, 
in Platt county, Mo. In 1881-86 he was 
city attorney of Liberty, Mo.; was editor 
of the Liberty Tribune in 1885-88; and 
in 1888-94 was prosecuting attorney of 
Clay county. He was elected to the fif¬ 
ty-sixth congress as a democrat. 

DOUGLAS, JAMES, educator, mining 
engineer, author, was bom in Canada.. 
He has been identified with the copper 
industry of Arizona; and is now presi¬ 
dent of the Copper Queen Consolidated 
Mining Company. He is the author of 
Canadian Independence; and Imperial 
Federation and Annexation. 

DOUGLAS, WILLIAM H.. traveler, con¬ 
gressman. author, was born Dec. 5, 1853. 
in New York City. He has visited many 
parts of Europe. Egypt, Ceylon, Austra¬ 
lia and New Zealand. He is a member 
of the Chamber of Commerce of New 
York City. He was elected a member 
from New York to the fifty-seventh con¬ 
gress. 


DOUGLAS, WILLIAM W., soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, was born Nov 26, 
1841, in Providence, R. I. In 1861-64 he 
served in the United States volunteer 
service; and was United States commis¬ 
sioner in 1874-90. In 1871-73 he was a 
member of the Rhode Island general as¬ 
sembly; and of the state senate in 1890. 
Since 1891 he has been justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Rhode Island. 

DOW, JESSE ERSKINE, educator, 
public official, was born Jan. 21, 1809, 
in Thompson, Conn. He went to sea 
with Commodore Elliott in 1835 as pro¬ 
fessor of mathemathics; and later be¬ 
came clerk in the United States patent 
office at Washington, D. C. He has been 
a correspondent of various periodicals; 
and has written frequently in prose and 
verse. 

DOWD, JEROME, journalist, educator-, 
author, was born March 18, 1864, in 

Moore county, N. C. Since 1893 he has 
been professor of political economy and 
sociology at Trinity College, N. C. In 
1893 he was president of the North Caro- 
lian Press Association. He is the author 
of Sketches of Prominent laving Ndrth 
Carolinans; and Life of Braxt.on Craven. 

BOWLING, ALEXANDER, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born in 1839 in Virginia. He 
is associate justice af the Supreme Court 
of Indiana for term of 1898-1904. 

DOWNEY. JOHN F., mathematician, 
lecturer, author, was born Jan. i0, 1846, 
in Hiramsburg, Ohio. Since 1880 he has 
been professor of mathematics in the 
University of Minnesota. He is a lec¬ 
turer on popular and scientific subjects. 
He is the author of Elements of Differ- 
entation and Integration and Higher Al¬ 
gebra. 

DOWNING, ANDREW, soldier, journ¬ 
alist, poet, was born Marcn 11, 1838, in 
Mount Carroll, Ill. He served as a 
soldier in the Union army during the 
Civil war; and became first lieutenant 
in the seventeenth Kansas cavalry. He 
was subsequently special examiner in the 
United States Pension Bureau. In 1873- 
83 he was editor of the Bocne Republic- 
an; and has been postmaster aha mayor 
of Boone, Iowa. He is the author of 
The Trumpeter and other Poems. 

DOYLE, C. W., physician, author, was 
born Aug. 29, 1852, in India. In 1875-88 
he practiced in England; and since then 
in California. He is the author of The 
Taming of the Jungle; and The Shadow 
of Quong Lung. 

DOZIER, ORION T., physician, invent¬ 
or, author, poet, was born Aug. 18. 1848, 
in Marion county. Ga. In 1892 he was 
the originator and organizer of the Reg¬ 
ents of the White Shield; and since 
1876 he has held office of Supreme Reg¬ 
ent Commander. He is the inventor 
and patentee of hame for harness, port¬ 
able elevator, and mailing machine. He 
is the author of Foibles of Fancy and 
Rhymes of the Times; and Poems Patri¬ 
otic. 

DRACHMAN, BERNARD, rabbi, auth¬ 
or, was born June 27, 1861, in New York 
City. Since 1889 he has been rabbi of 
the Congregation Zichron Ephraim of 
New York City. He is the author of 
The Place and Importance of Jehuda 
Hajjug in the History of the Hebrew 
Grammar. 

DRAHMS, AUGUST, clergyman auth¬ 
or. was born March 4. 1849, in Prussia. 
He served as a private in the Civil war 
in the seventh regiment. Illinois cavalry. 
He is resident chaplain of the state pris- 


ADDENDA. 


xxxl 


on of San Quentin, Cal. In 1900 he was 
national chaplain in chief of the Grand 
Army of the Republic. He is the author 
of The Criminal, His Personnel and En¬ 
vironments. 

DRAKE. LOUIS STOUGHTON, import¬ 
er, genealogist, was born Aug. 5, i8(; r - 
He is an importer and exporter of East 
India and China products at Boston. 
Mass. He is the author of The Drake 
Family in England and America. 

DRAPER, WTLLIAM H.. congressman. 
He was elected a member of the fifty- 
seventh congress from the state of New 
York as a republican. 

DREISER. THEODORE,, journalist, 
author, was born Aug. 27, 1871, in Terre 
Haute, Ind. He is the author of Studies 
of Contemporary Celebrities; anti poems 

DRESSER. HORATIO WILLIS, journ¬ 
alist, educator, author, was horn Jan. 15. 
1866, in Yarmouth. Maine. Since 1S99 
he has been associate editor of the Arena 
of Boston, Mass.; and since 1893 has been 
a lecturer on practical philosophy. He 
is the author of The Power of Silence; 
The Perfect "Whole; The Heart of It: 
In Search of a Soul; Voices of Hope; and 
Methods and Problems of Spiritual Heal¬ 
ing. 

DREXEL, GEORGE W. CHILDS, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was horn in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is editor and publisher of The Public 
Ledger of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the 
son of the late Anthony Joseph Drexel, 
banker and philanthropist. 

DRIGGS, EDMUND HOPE, civil engin¬ 
eer, congressman, was born May 2. 1865, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. For many years he 
has been engaged in the fire insurance 
business. He has been a member of con¬ 
gress from New York to the fifty-fifth 
and fifty-sixth congresses as a democrat. 

DROMGOOLE, WILLTAM ALLEN, 
public official, author, was born in I860 
in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He was engross¬ 
ing clerk of the Tennessee house of 
representatives and senate in 1883-89. He 
is the author of Heart of Old Hickory: 
Valley Path; The Farrier’s Dog and His 
Fellow; Further Adventures of the Fel¬ 
low; Three Little Crackers From Down 
in Dixie; Hero-Chums; Rare Old Chums; 
A Boy’s Battle; Cinch, and Other Tales 
of Tennessee; The Moonshiner's Son; A 
Notch on a Stick; Harum-Scarum Joe; 
and Little Brass Buttons. 

DROPPERS. GARRETT, educator, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born Apr'l 
12, 1860, in Milwaukee, Wis. Since 1898 
he has been president of the University 
of South Dakota. He is the author of 
Translation of Schopenhauer’s Essays. 

DROUET, ROBERT, actor, playwright, 
author, was born in 1870 in Clinton, Iowa. 
For the past five years he has been lead¬ 
ing man in several stock "companies in 
Philadelphia and Chicago. He Ts the 
author of plays entitled The White Czar; 
Montana; Tomorrow; An Idyll of Virgin¬ 
ia; Fra Diano; and Captain Bob. 

DRUM, RICHARD COULTER, sol¬ 
dier, was born May 28, 1825, in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He served in Mexico in 1847' 
•erred in the Mexican war; breveted first 
lieutenant for bravery; transferred to ar¬ 
tillery; served in expedition against 
Sioux, and in Kansas troubles of 1856. 
During the civil war he attained the rank 
of assistant adjutant general, United 
States army; captain May 14, 1861; major 
August 3; brigadier-general for services 
during war; and became full colonel in 
1869; and in 1880 became adjutant-gen¬ 
eral of army, with rank of brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. 


DRYSDALE, WILLIAM, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born July 11, 1852, in Lancas¬ 
ter, Pa. For twenty years he was on the 
staff of the New York Times. He is the 
author of Proverbs from Plymouth Pul¬ 
pit; In Sunny Lands; Outdoor Life in 
Nassau and Cuba; The Princess of Mont- 
serat; The Mystery of Abel Forefinger; 
The Young Reporter; The Fast Mail; The 
Beach Patrol; The Young Supercargo, 
and Cadet Standish of the St. Louis. 

DU BOIS, CONSTANCE GODDARD, au¬ 
thor, was born in Zanesville, Ohio. She 
is president of the Waterhury branch of 
the Woman’s National Indian Associa¬ 
tion. She is the author of Martha Corey; 
A Tale of the Salem Witchcraft; Colum¬ 
bus and Beatriz; and A Modern Pagan. 

DUBOIS, EDWARD CHURCH, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Jan. 12, 1848, in London, 
England. In 1894-97 he was attorney gen¬ 
eral of Rhode Island. Since 1899 he has 
been associate justice of the supreme 
court of Rhode Island. 

DUBOIS, PATTERSON, educator, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Oct. 10, 1847, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1886-1900 he was 
associate editor of The Sunday School 
Times of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the au¬ 
thor of Reckonings from Little Hands. 
The Point of Contact in Teaching; and 
Chat-Wood. 

DU BOSE. JOEL CAMPBELL, educa¬ 
tor. author, was born Dec. 17, 1855, 

in Gaston, Ala. He is the author of 
Sketches of Alabama History. 

DU BOSE, JOHN WITHERSPOON, sol¬ 
dier, planter, author, was born March 5. 
1836, in Darlington, S. C. He served in 
the Confederate states army. He is a suc¬ 
cessful cotton planter of Birmingham, 
A-la. He is the author of Life and Times 
of Yancey; Mineral Wealth of Alabama; 
and other works. 

DU BOSE, WILLIAM PORCHER. edu 
cator, clergyman, author, was born In 
1836 in Winnsboro, S. C He is professor 
and dean of theologies/ department in 
University of the South. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Soteriology of the New Te* 
lament; and The Ecumenical Councils. 

DUDLEY, MRS. LUCY BRONSON, au¬ 
thor, musician, was born May 1, 1848. in 
Peninsula, Ohio. As an organist she was 
received by Queen Victoria and the Prince 
of Wales in Windsor Castle in 1895; and 
has spent twenty-four years in the rtvna- 
graph and track indicator car, traveling 
all over the United States. She is t’-c 
author of Contributions to the Knowledge 
of the Semites; Letters to Rutn; and A 
Royal Journey. 

DUDLEY. PLIMMON HENRY, civil en 
gineer, inventor, was born May 21. 184L 
in Freedom, Ohio. In 1883 he designed 
the first five-inch steel rail used in tb ' 
United States. He is the inventor o? the 
dynagraph, track indicator and other rail¬ 
road devices. 

DUFFIELD, SAMUEL PEARCE, physi¬ 
cian, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 
24, 1833, in Carlisle, Pa. In 1858 he 
began to practice medicine at Detroit, 
giving special attention to toxicology and 
medical jurisprudence. He soon became 
known as an analytical chemist, and has 
been frequently called upon to testify In 
the courts as an expert. He arranged 
the chemical laboratory for the De¬ 
troit Medical college, and delivered the 
opening address there in 1868. He is the 
author of Ventilation of Sewersj Con¬ 
tamination of Drinking Water; Analysis 
of Malt by Polarization; and Aconite 
Poisoning. 


DUGAN, CARO ATHERTON, educator, 
author, was born in Brewster, Mass. She. 
is the author of The King’s Jester; and 
Other Short Plays for Small Stages. 

DUGMORE, ARTHUR RADCLIFFE. ar¬ 
tist, author, was born Dec. 25, 1870, 
in England. He is a successful painter 
and illustrator by photography of South 
Orange, N. J. He is the author of Bird 
Homes; 

DUGUE, CHARLES OSCAR, journalist, 
poet, was born May 1, 1821, in New Or¬ 
leans, La. In 1852 he became editor of 
a daily paper in New Orleans; and after¬ 
ward was a member of the bar. He is 
the author of Essais Poetiques, consist¬ 
ing of descriptions of southern scenery, 
and occasional poems; two dramatic 
works on subjects drawn from the ro¬ 
mantic legends of Louisiana; and an In¬ 
dian plot. 

DU HAMEL, WILLIAM, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in Newark, Del. Since 
1888 he has been editor of the Church 
Bells of New York city. He is author of 
First Millennial Faith. 

DUMAS, WILLIAM THOMAS, educator, 
poet, was born Oct. 17, 1858, in Barnes- 
ville, Ga. He is the author of Golden 
Day and Other Poems. 

DUNCAN, NORMAN, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born July 2, 1871, in Canada. 
He is now on the editorial staff of the 
New York Evening Post. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Soul of the Street. 

DUNLAVY, JAMES, soldier, physician, 
was born Feb. 4. 1844, in Decatur 

county, Ind. He enlisted as a private 
In the Thirtieth Iowa cavalry; in 1863 
re-enlisted in the Third Iowa Cavalry, 
and served in Tennessee, Missouri and 
Georgia until the close of the civil war. 
He is now practicing his profession in 
Iowa. 

DUNNE, EDWARD J., clergyman, bish¬ 
op. For many years he wasi a priest in 
Chicago, Ill; and since 1893 has been 
Roman Catholic bishop of Dallag, Texas. 

DUNNE, FINLEY PETER, journalist, 
author, was horn July 10, 1869, in Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. Since 1897 he has been editor 
of the Chicago Journal. He is the author 
of Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War. 

DU.NNELL, MARK BOOTHBY, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, author, was born June 28, 
1864, in Buxton, Maine. In 1889-92 he 
was deputy consul general at Shanghai, 
China. He is the author of Minnesota 
Trial Book; and Minnesota Pleading. 

DUNNING, EDWIN JAMES, dentist, 
author, was born July 19, 1821, in Camil- 
lus, N. Y. He practiced dentistry in Ith¬ 
aca, Syracuse and New York city in 1838- 
74; lost his sight in 1877 and took up lit¬ 
erature. He is the author of Genesis of 
Shakespeare’s Art, a study of His Poems 
and Sonnets. 

DUNNING. WILLIAM ARCHIBALD, 
educator, author, was born in Pla’nfield, 
N. J. He is professor of history in Co¬ 
lumbia University of New York city. He 
is the author of Essays on the Civil War 
and the Reconstruction. 

DUNTON. FRANK HOLT, journalist, 
author, was born in December, 1827. in 
Phillipston, Mass. In 1876 he founded 
Dunton’s Spirit of the Turf of Chica¬ 
go, Ill. He is the author of How to 
Train Trotters; and Dunton’s Turf Regis¬ 
ter. 

DURAND. EDWARD DANA, educator, 
author, was born Oct. 18, 1871, in Romeo, 
Mich. Since 1900 he has been secretary 
of the United States industrial commis¬ 
sion. He is the author of Finances ot 
New York City. 


XXXii ADDENDA. 


DURAND. JOHN, art critic, author, was 
horn May 6, 1822, in New r York city. He 
edited for several years' a monthly publi¬ 
cation called The Crayon. He translated 
several of Taine’s works, including Ideal 
In Art; Italy, Rome and Naples; Italy, 
Florence and Venice; Philosophy of Art; 
and Art in the Netherlands. 

DURAND, MARIE, singer, was born 
about 1850 in Charleston, S. C. In 1883 
she made her first appearance at the royal 
Italian opera in London; was then en¬ 
gaged for the entire opera season in St. 
Petersburg; and in 1884 returned to Lon¬ 
don to sing in Covent Garden. 

DURAND. WILLIAM FREDER r ~ 
marine engineer, educator, author, was 
bor" March 5. 1859, in Bethany. Conn. 
Since 1891 he has been professor of ma¬ 
rine engineering at Cornell univ°rsity. 
He is the author of Resistance and Pr 
pulsion of Ships. 

DU RELLE, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 18, 1852, in York, N. Y. 
In 1882-86 and 1889-91 he was United 
States attorney for Kentucky. Since 1895 
he has been judge of the court of appeals 
of Kentucky. 

DURIER, ANTOINE, missionary, bish- 
on, was horn Jan. 3, 1833, in France. 

Since 1885 he has been Roman Catholic 
bishop of Natchitoches, La. 

DURYEA, HIRAM, soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, was born April 12. 1834, in Man- 
hasset, N. Y. In 1855 he became a part¬ 
ner in the firm of H. V. Duryea & Son. 
starch manufacturers, which later merged 
with Glen Cove Starch Manufacturing 
company, of which he was vice president, 
and later president, until it was absorbed 
in 1890 by the National Starch company, 
of which he was president for nearly two 
years. He served in the civil war from 
captain to colonel, resigning in 1862 be¬ 
cause of permanent injuries. He was 
breveted brigadier-general, United States 
volunteers, for distinguished service. 

DUTTON, SAMUEL TRAIN, educator, 
lecturer, author, was born Oct. 16, 1849, 
in Hillsboro, N. H. He is superin¬ 
tendent of Teachers’ college school in Co¬ 
lumbia university of New York city. He 
is the author of Morse Speller; and So¬ 
cial Favors of Education. 

DYER. CHARLES GIFFORD, artist, 
was born in 1846 in Chicago, Ill. He has 
spent most of his professional life in Mu¬ 
nich and in Paris. Among his more im¬ 
portant works are On Linden when the 
Sun was Low; Historical Still Life of the 
Seventeenth Century; and Among the 
Domes of St. Mark’s. 

DYER, MRS. D. B., donor, author, was 
born in Illinois. She has presented to the 
board of education of Kansas City a val¬ 
uable collection of Indian curios. She is 
the author of Fort Reno, Ill. 

DYER. ELISHA, governor. In 1897-1911 
he was governor of Rhode Island. 

DYER, GEORGE HERBERT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 15, 1849, 
in Mendon, N. Y. He was presiding elder 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
1888-94, and was a member of the general 
conference in 1898. He is the author of 
Manual for Official Members; and History 
of the Christian Church. 

DYER, NEHEMIAH MAYO, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born June 18, 1839, in Province- 
town, Mass. He served in the navy dur¬ 
ing the civil war, and in 1868 was com¬ 
missioned lieutenant-commander. In 1898 
he took part in the battle of Manila bay, 
and attained the rank of rear-admiral. 

DYER, OLIVER, educator, journalist, 
author, was born April 26, 1824, in Porter, 


N. Y. In 1848 he was a reporter in the 
United States senate. He was on the re- 
portorial staff of the New York Tribune, 
and subsequently on editorial staff New 
York Sun. He is the author of The Wick¬ 
edest Man in New York; and Great Sena¬ 
tors of the United States Forty Years 
Ago. 

EAGAN, CHARLES PATRICK, soldier, 
was born Jan. 1, 1841, in Ireland. He 
entered the army in 1862. Served through 
grades of major, lieutenant colonel and 
colonel to brigadier general and commis¬ 
sary general, in which capacity he served 
during the Spanish-American war. 

EAMES, WILBERFORCE, librarian, 
bibliographer, was born Oct. 12, 1855. 

in Newark, N. J. In 1885 he became as¬ 
sistant at Lenox library; was assistant 
librarian in 1892, and librarian since 1893. 
He edited volumes fifteen to twenty of 
Sabin’s Dictionary of Books Relating to 
America. He made important contribu¬ 
tions to Pillings’ Indian Bibliographies. 

EARL, ROBERT, lawyer, founder, 
jurist, was born Sept. 10, 1824, in 

Herkimer, N. Y. He has held various 
town and village offices; was county 
judge of Herkimer county in 1855-59. He 
was one of the founders, and now presi¬ 
dent, of the Herkimer county Hospital 
Society. Together with his wife, he 
founded Herkimer Free library, and gave 
it about $30,000 worth of property. In 
1869-95 ho was judge of the court of ap¬ 
peals of New Jersey. 

EARLE, ALICE MORSE, author, was 
born April 27, 1853, in Worcester, Mass. 
She is the author of Home Life in Colo¬ 
nial Days; Customs and Fashions of Old 
New England; The Sabbath in Puritan 
New England; China Collecting in Amer¬ 
ica; Curious Punishments of Bygone 
Days; The Life of Winthrop: Child Lite 
in Colonial Days; and Tavern and Stage 
Coach Days. 

EARLE, MORTIMER LAMSON. philol¬ 
ogist, author was born Oct. 14, 1864, 

in New Iork city. Since 1900 he has been 
professor of classical philology in Bar¬ 
nard college, of New York city. He is 
the author of an Edition of Sophocles’ 
Odipus Tyrrannus. 

EASTMAN, AUSTIN VITRUVIUS, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, business man, was born Aug. 
27, 1839, in Broome county, N. Y. 

During the civil war he was first lieu¬ 
tenant in Company H, First regiment 
New York volunteers. He is a success¬ 
ful lawyer of Lake Charles, La., and'busi- 
ness manager of a large English land 
company. 

EASTMAN, CHARLES ALEXANDER 
physician, author, was born in 1858 in 
Redwood Falls, Minn. He is government 
physician at Crow Creek, S. D. He i~ 
the author of An Indian Boyhood. 

EATON, ARTHUR WENTWOR' 1 ’ 
HAMILTON, educator, clergyman, poet 
was born in Nova Scotia. He was chiel 
master of English literature in the Cut¬ 
ler school. New York city, for eleven 
years. He is a clergyman of the Pro¬ 
testant Episcopal church In New York 
city. He is the author of poems, esyays 
and stories. 

EATON, JAMES W., lawyer, author, 
was born May 14, 1856, in Albany. N. Y. 
In 1892-95 he was district attorney of Al¬ 
bany county; and since 1891 has been lec¬ 
turer in Albany law school. He is the 
author of Domestic Relations; Bankrupt¬ 
cy; and Equity. 

EATON, SEYMOUR, educator, author, 
was born May 7, 1859, in Canada. For 
five years he has been professor in Drexel 


Institute of Philadelphia. He was editor 
of The Home Study Library. He is the 
author of How to Do Business; and The 
New Arithmetic. 

ECKARD, LEIGHTON W., clergyman, 
author, was born in 1845 in Savannah, 
Ga. For five years he was a missionary 
in China; and since 1891 has been pastor 
of the Brainerd-Union Presbyterian 
church of Easton, Pa. He is the author 
of A History of Abington Church. 

ECKERT, THOMAS THOMPSON, sol- 
tfier, telegraph president, was born April 
23, 1825, in St. Clairsville, Ohio. During 
the civil war he was general superintend¬ 
ent of the military telegraph, with rank 
of major; reached brevet rank of bri¬ 
gadier-general; and in 1864-66 assistant 
secretary of war. In 1875-81 he was presi¬ 
dent of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegrapu 
company; in 1880-81 was president of the 
American Union Telegraph Company; and 
since 1881 has been general manager and 
since 1892 president of the Western Union 
Telegraph company. 

ECKSTROM, MRS. FANNY HARDY, 
author, was born June 18, 1865, in Brew¬ 
er, Maine. She is the author of The- 
Bird Book; and The Woodpeckers. 

EDDINS, EDGAR FREEMAN, educator, 
legislator, was born June 25, 1857, in 
Eagle Rock. N. C. He was 1 principal of 
the Franklin academy for two years, and 
has been principal of the Yadkin Mineral 
Springs academy for twelve years. He 
was elected county superintendent for two 
years. He served in the North Carolina 
legislature in 1897-98. 

EDMANDS, JOHN, librarian, author 
was horn Feb. 1, 1820, in Framing¬ 

ham, Mass. Since 1856 he has been chiel 
librarian of the Mercantile library of 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1877 he devised a 
system of library classification and num¬ 
bering. He has prepared bibliographies 
of Junius, and a list of historical prose 
fiction. 

EDMONDSON. THOMAS WILLIAM, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born June 26, 1869, 
in England. Since 1896 he has been as¬ 
sistant professor of physics at New York 
university. He is the author of Worked 
Examples in Co-ordinate Geometry; and 
Mensuration and Spherical Geometry. 

EDSALL, SAMUEL COOK, clergyman, 
bishop, was born March 4, 1860, in Dixon, 
Ill. He was admitted to the priesthood 
in 1889, and the following year took 
charge of St. Peter’s parish of Chicago, 
where he met with much success and re¬ 
mained until elected missionary bishon of 
North Dakota in 1898. 

EDWARDS, CHARLES LINCOLN, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Dec. 3, 
1863, in Oquawka, Ill. He is, professor 
natural history at Trinity college ot 
Hartford, Conn. In 1899 he was presi¬ 
dent of the American Folk-Lore society. 
He is the author of Bahama Songs and 
Stories. 

EDWARDS, LANDON BRAME. sold’er 
physician, founder, was born Sept. 20, 
1845, in Prince Edward county, Va. 

In 1863 he enlisted in the artillery 
corps of the Confederate army. In which 
he served until the end of the war. In 
1870 he was largely instrumental in found¬ 
ing the Medical Society of Virginia, ot 
which he is recording secretary. In 1874 
he established the Virginia Medical 
Monthly. 

EDWARDS, THOMAS C., clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 6, 1848, in Wales. 
He was professor of elocution for 
ten years in the Wyoming seminary of 
Kingston, Pa., and is now pastor of the 


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xxxiii 


Congregational church of Edwardsdale. 
Pa. He is the author of one volume of 

uonnooia uo samnioA 0 M 4 dub lAjiaod 
and Oratory. 

EGBERT, JAMES CHIDESTER, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1859 in New York 
city.. Since 1900 he has been professor of 
Roman archaeology and epigraphy at Co¬ 
lumbia university. He is the author of 
MacMillan’s Shorter Latin Course; and 
Introduction to the Study of Latin In¬ 
scriptions. 

EGBERT, SENECA, educator, author 
was born Feb. 17, 1863, in Petroleum 
Centre, Pa. Since 1893 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of hygiene and dean since 1898 at 
the Medieo-Chirurgical college of Phila- 
delphia, Pa. He is the author of A Man 
ual of Hygiene and Sanitation. 

EHRICH, LOUIS R., financier, author 
was born Jan. 23, 1849, in Albany, In. 
Y. He makes a specialty of mining in¬ 
vestments. He is the author of The Ques¬ 
tion of Silver. 

EICKEMEYER, RUDOLF, banker in¬ 
ventor, was born Oct. 18, 1831, in Ba- 
varia In 1854 he began the construc¬ 
tion of hat-making machinery at Yonkers 
N. Y., and these inventions effected a 
complete revolution in the manufacture 
of hats. He has; also made numerous 
other inventions. He has been a director 
of the First National bank of Yonkers 
since 1878. 

EIS, FREDERICK, clergyman, bishop, 
was born Jan. 20, 1843, in Arbach, near 
Cobientz. In 1899 he became bishop 
of Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette. Mich. 

ELKIN, WILLIAM LEWIS, astronomer, 
was born April 29, 1855, in New Orleans, 
La. In 1884 he became an astronomer at 
the observatory of Yale' university. His 
investigations at this place have included 
a triangulation of the Pleiades with th ■ 
heliometer, and other researches with thac 
instrument, the only one of its kind in 
America; also researches on the parallaxes 
of northern stars. 

ELLICOTT, TOHN MORRIS, naval offi¬ 
cer. author, was born Sept. 4, 1859, 

in St. Inigoes, Md. In 1894-96 he was 
instructor in ordnance at United States 
Naval academy. He.took part in the bat¬ 
tle of Manila bay May T, and was present 
at the surrender , of Corregidor, blockade 
and capture of Manila, in 1898. He re¬ 
ceived a medal from congress for sex-vice 
at Manila, and received the rank of lieu 
tenant. He is the author of Justified 
a novel; and-For Cuba. .-r 

ELLIOTT, BYRON. K„ lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born Sept. 4, 1835, in 

Hamilton, Ohio. During the civil war he 
served as captain in the. One Hundred 
and Thirty-second Indiana volunteers. In 
1865-69 he was city attorney of Indian¬ 
apolis, Ind. In 1876 he was elected judg- 
of the supreme court; and in 1880-92 was 
judge of the supreme court of Indiana. 
He is the author of General Practice, in 
tjvo volumes; and The Law of Railroads. 

ELLIOTT, GEORGE, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 14, 1851, in Licking 

county, Ohio. Since 1900 he has been 
pastor of Central Methodist Episcopal 
church of Detroit, Mich. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Abiding Sabbath. 

ELLIOTT, ORIN LESLIE, educator, 
registrar, was born March 8 , I860, in Cen¬ 
terville. N. Y. In 1886-91 he was Instruc¬ 
tor in English; and since 1891 has been 
registrar of Leland Stanford Junior uni¬ 
versity. 

ELLIS, ANNA M B—Max Elliot—jour¬ 
nalist, critic, author, was born in Ohio, 
he founded the Boston Amusement Ga¬ 


zette and edited it the first year. He is 
now London correspondent of the Boston 
Herald. He is the author of Bermuda 
Romance; A Tragic Marriage; Tart of a 
Summer; New Edinburgh Notes; Actors 
at Home; Clubs Are Trumps; and 
Sketches in Bermuda. 

ELLIS, ERASTUS R., physician, sur¬ 
geon, genealogist, was 4 born in 1832. In 
1873-75 he was college professor in the 
Detroit Homeopathic college. He is the 
author of Genealogy of the Ellis Family. 

ELLIS, WILLIAM ARBA, educator, 
civil engineer, author, .was born June 8 , 
1869, in Granville, Vt. He is a civil engi¬ 
neer of Meriden, Conn. He is the author 
of History of Norwich University 
ELLISON, MATTHEW, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 10, 1804,’ m 

Monroe county, Va. He became a 
Baptist minister in Virginia; traveled 
over wide districts in that vocation, and 
organized twenty-five churches. He is 
the author of Dunkerism, a Plea for the 
Union of Baptists; and other controver¬ 
sial works on the subject of baptism. 

LLMENDORF, JOACHIM, clergyman, 
author, was born March, 26. 1827, in Ro¬ 
chester, N, Y. Since 1853 he has held 
pastorates in the Dutch Reformed church 
in Poughkeepsie, Syracuse, Albany and 
New York city. He was elected a trustee 
of Rutgers college in 1869. He is the au¬ 
thor of Memoirs of Richard Varick De 
Witt and Alice Justina De Peystcr. 

ELSON, HENRY WILLIAM, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, was born March 29, 
1857, in Muskingum county, Ohio. He re¬ 
signed the ministry and became a writer 
and lecturer of the University Extension 
society of Philadelphia. He is the author 
of Side Lights on American History, In 
two volumes; Four Historical Biographies, 
lor Children; and Elson’s History of the 
United States. 

ELWELL, FRANK EDWIN, sculptor, 
was born June 15, 1858, in Concord, Mass. 
He was the first American sculptor to 
model a statue in America that was erect¬ 
ed in Europe. He .received a medal m 
the World’s Columbian exposition, a gold 
medal twice from the Art,club of Phila¬ 
delphia, and a medal from the King of 
Belgium for a study in architecture. 
Among his better known works are Death 
of Strength; Awakening of Egypt; monu¬ 
ment to Edwin Booth at Mt. Auburn, 
Cambridge; Dickens and Little Nell, at 
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. 

EMBREE, CHARLES FLEMING, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 1, 1874, in Prince¬ 
ton, Ind. He is the author of A Dream 
of a Throne. 

EMERSON, EDWIN, soldier, journalist, 
author, was born in Dresden, Saxony. 
During the Spanish-American war he 
went to the front as war correspondent 
for Leslie’s Weekly. He was engaged in 
successful exploration of Puerto Rico, and 
was secret agent United States military 
information. He joined Roosevelt’s Rough 
Riders in Cuba, served through the regi¬ 
ment’s engagement at San Juan, and in 
the trenches before Santiago. He is the 
author of College Yell Book; Pepy’s 
Ghost; In War, In Peace; and Tales Drot- 
atick. 

EMERSON, HENRY P., educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 12, 1847, in Lynn- 
field, Mass. Since 1893 he has been super¬ 
intendent of education of Buffalo. N. Y. 
He is the author of Latin in High Schools; 
and A Summer in Europe. 

EMERSON, LOUIS W., manufacturer, 
banker, congressman, was born July 
25, 1857, at Warrensburg, N. Y. Since 


1878 he has been engaged in the banking 
and manufacturing business. He was 
state senator for two terms, commencing 
In 1891. He was elected to the fifty-sixth 
congress as a republican. 

EMERSON, OLIVER FARRAR, educa¬ 
tor, author, was ’ born May 24, 1860, in 
Traer, Iowa. Since 1896 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of rhetoric and English philology 
at Western Reserve university. He is 
the author of A Brief History of the Eng¬ 
lish Language. 

EMERY, HENRY CROSBY, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 21, 1872, in 

Ellsworth, Maine. He is professor of po¬ 
litical economy in Yale university. He is 
the author of Speculation on the Stock 
and Produce Exchanges of the United 
States. 

EMERY, LUCILIUS A., lawyer, state 
senator, jurist, was born July 27. 1840, in- 
Carmel, Maine. In 1874, 1875 and 1881 
he was a member of the Maine state sen¬ 
ate. In 1876-79 he was attorney general 
of Maine. Since 1883 he has been justice 
of the supreme judicial court of Maine. 

EMMET, ROBERT TEMPLE, soldier, 
wasborn Dec. 13, 1854, in New York 

city. He served with distinction as com¬ 
mander of Indian scouts through the four 
years’ campaign against the Apaches. 

EMMETT, DANIEL DECATUR, soldier, 
musician, composer, was born in 1815 in 
Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He was a negro min¬ 
strel and song writer. In his youth he 
joined the regular army; in 1835 became 
a member of Oscar Brown’s Circus com¬ 
pany; and in 1842, with Frank Brown, 
William Whitlock and Richard Phelam. 
formed what was the first negro minstrel 
company. In 1859 he wrote the famous 
song of Dixie. In 1865 he became inde¬ 
pendent manager and in 1878 lie returned 
to Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He is the author 
of hundreds of songs, including Old Dan 
Tucker, Boatman’s Dance, The Road to 
Richmond, and many old-time favorites: 

EMMONS, HALMER HULL, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist. was born in 1§15 in Glens Falls. N. 
Y. In 1870 he was appointed circuit judge 
for the state of Michigan, but he exer¬ 
cised a much wider jurisdiction. 

ENDLICH. GUSTAV ADOLF, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Jan. 29, 1856j 
in Berks county, Pa.. Since' 1890 
he has been judge of the twenty.-tf'rd! 
judicial district of Pennsylvania. He is 
the author of The Law of Building Asso¬ 
ciations; The Law of Affidavits of De¬ 
fense in Pennsylvania; Woodward’s De¬ 
cisions; Commentaries on the Interpreta¬ 
tion of Statutes: and Rights and Liabili; 
ties of Married Women in Pennsylvania. 

ENGLISH, JOHN NELSON, pioneer, 
legislator. He took a prominent part in 
the formation and early settlement of the 
southern part of Illinois; and served ,n 
the legislature of Illinois for four terms. 

ENGLISH. JOHN W.. lawyer, jurist. 
He is associate justice of the suprem° 
court of West Virginia. 

ENGLISH, WILLIAM FRY. clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 6 , 1863. in Tufton- 
boro, N. H. He is pastor of the" First 
Congregational Church of East Windsor, 
Conn. He is the author of Evolution 
and the Imminent God. .. , 

ENTWISTLE. JAMES, naval officer, 
was born in 1837 in Paterson. N. J. He en¬ 
tered the Unit°d States navy in engineer 
service in 1861, and was commissioned 
lieutenant in 1866. In 1899 he became 
rear admiral, and wa? retired. He took 
part in the battle of Manila May 1 . 1898: 
was highly commended by Admiral Dew¬ 
ey, and awarded Dewey medal. 


ADDENDA. 


ERBEN, HENRY, naval officer, was 
bom in 1832 in New York city. In 1857 
he was promoted lieutenant, and served 
through the civil war. He was promoted 
to rear admiral in 1894. 

ERICH, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, 
physician, was born May 4, 1837, in Ger¬ 
many. In 1868 he was elected a member 
of the Baltimore special dispensary, and 
became professor of chemistry in the col¬ 
lege of physicians and surgeons of Bal¬ 
timore in 1873. 

ERNST, HAROLD CLARENCE, scien¬ 
tist, author. He is professor of bacteri¬ 
ology in Harvard Medical school, of Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He is the author of Infec¬ 
tion and Immunity. 

ESCH, JOHN JACOB, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 20, 1861, near Nor¬ 
walk, Wis. Since 1887 he has practiced 
law in La Crosse, Wis. He organized the 
Sparta rifles, afterwards known as Com¬ 
pany I, Third regiment, Wisconsin Na¬ 
tional guard, and was commissioned cap¬ 
tain, retaining the office until 1887. Upon 
his removal to La Crosse he helped to 
organize Company M of the same regi¬ 
ment, being first lieutenant, and after¬ 
wards captain; in January, 1894, was com¬ 
missioned acting judge advocate general, 
with the rank of colonel. He was elected 
to the fifty-sixth congress as a republican. 

ESHLEMAN, ISAAC STAUFFER, phy¬ 
sician, was born May 22, 1820, in Lan¬ 
caster county, Pa. He claims to 
be among the first to use stimulants in 
pneumonia, and also to have proved that 
blisters are not revellents, but stimu¬ 
lants. He found that cerebro-spinal men¬ 
ingitis yielded to free depletion if made 
use of early in the stage, and followed 
by chloroform taken internally. This ex¬ 
perience prepared him for the use ot 
chloral, which he has successfully pre¬ 
scribed in every form of convulsion. Be 
is the author of papers showing original¬ 
ity of practice in placenta previa. 

ESHNER, AUGUSTUS A., physician, 
author, was born Nov. 17, 1862, in 

Memphis, Tenh. He is a noted physician 
and scientist of Philadelphia, Pa. He is 
the author of Essentials of Diagnosis; 
and Hand-Book of Fevers. 

ESTABROOK, ARTHUR FREDERICK, 
banker, philanthropist, was born May 17, 
1847. He is a successful banker of Bos¬ 
ton, Mass.; and built the Estabrook 
school near Boston, Mass. 

ESTABROOK, WILLIAM BOOTH, law¬ 
yer, jurist, genealogist, was born Jan. 
27, 1856. He has been special county 
judge of Tompkins county, N. Y. He is the 
author of Estabrook Genealogy. 

ESTEE, MORRIS M., lawyer, author. 
He isi one of the leading lawyers of the 
Pacific coast; active in politics, and was 
republican candidate for United States 
senator in 1899. He is the author of Es- 
tee’s Pleading and Forms. 

ESTES, CHARLES, genealogist. He is 
the author of Genealogy of the Estes 
Family. 

ESTES, DANA, soldier, publisher, au¬ 
thor, was born March 4, 1840, in Gorham, 
Maine. He served in the Union army 
from 1861 until the second battle of Bull 
Run, where he was three times wounded, 
and disabled from further service. In 
1872 he became partner in Estes & Lau- 
riat, succeeded in 1898 by Dana Estes & 
Co., of which he is head He edited 
Half-Hour Recreations in Popular Sci¬ 
ence. 

ESTES, WILLIAM ROSCOE GREF~"~ 
soldier, merchant, journalist, author, was 
born Nov. 22, 1830, in Durham, Maine. 


He was lieutenant-colonel on the staff 
of Governor Garcelon. In 1888-93 he 
was postmaster of Skowhegan; and in 
1884 was grand master of Masons in 
Maine. He is the author of History of 
Durham, Maine; and Genealogy of the 
Estes Family. 

EVANS, CLEMENT ANSELM, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, author, was born 
in Georgia. He was judge of the county 
court; and in 1859 a member of the Geor¬ 
gia state senate. He served in Confed¬ 
erate army as major, colonel, brigadier- 
general and acting major-general in the 
army of northern Virginia. He is the au¬ 
thor of Military History of Georgia. 

EVANS, LAWRENCE BOYD, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 3, 1870, in 

Radnor, Ohio. Since 1900 he has been 
professor of history in Tufts college, 
Mass. He is the author o Civil Govern¬ 
ment in the United States. 

EVE, JOSEPH ADAMS, physician, 
founder, was born Aug. 1, 1805, in 

Charleston county. He was one of the 
founders in 1832 of the Medical college of 
Georgia. 

EVERHART. OLIVER T„ physician, 
genealogist, was born May 18, 1832. He 
is a noted physician of Hanover, Pa.; and 
has been assistant surgeon in the United 
States army. He is the author of His¬ 
tory of Everhart and Shower Families. 

EVERMANN, BARTON WARREN, 
naturalist, author, was born Oct. 24, 
1853,in Monroe county, Iowa. For ten 
years he was teacher and superintendent 
of schools in Indiana; professor of biology 
in Indiana State Normal school in 1886- 
91 land since 1891 ichthyologist, United 
States fisih commission. He is the author 
of Studies of the Salmon of the Pacific 
Coast of America; The Fishes of North 
and Middle America, in four volumes; 
and The Natural History of Puerto Rico. 

EWERS, EZRA P.. soldier, was born 
in New York city. In 1862-66 he served 
in the Nineteenth infantry from private 
to captain. He was appointed brigadier 
general, United States volunteers, in 1898, 
and assigned to command of troops in 
San Luis, Cuba. 

EWING, MRS. EMMA PIKE, educator, 
lecturer, author, was born in July, 1838. 
in Broome county, N. Y. She has 
taught and lectured throughout the United 
States and Canada. She is the author ot 
The Art of Cookery. 

EYERMAN, JOHN, geologist, author, 
was born Jan. 15, 1867, in Easton, Pa. 
He is associate editor of The American 
Geologist. He is the author of The Min¬ 
eralogy of Pennsylvania: The Genus Tem- 
nocyon; Mineralogy at the Columbian 
Exposition; A Study in Genealogy; and 
Mineralogy of the French Creek Mines. 

EYRE, WILSON, architect, was born 
Oct. 30, 1858, in Florence, Italy. He 
has built many buildings in Philadelphia 
and New York city; several buildings for 
Newcomb Memorial college, of New Or¬ 
leans, and the Detroit club. 

FABER, .1. EBERHARD, manufacturer, 
was born March 14, 1859, in New York 
city. He entered the office of his father, 
the well-known lead pencil manufacturer, 
and in 1879 took charge of the business 
in America. His factory in Brooklyn is 
conducted under the name of the E. Fa¬ 
ber Pencil company. 

FABER, WILLIAM FREDERIC, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 27, 
1860, in Buffalo, N. Y. He is rector of 
Grace Episcopal church of Lockport, N. 
Y. He is the author of Thoughts for 
Thoughts; and The Church for the Times. 


FAELTEN, CARL, musician, compos¬ 
er, was born Dec. 21, 1864, in Ilmenau, 
Thuringia. In 1885-97 he was with the 
N. E. Cons, of Boston, Mass. He found¬ 
ed the Faelton Pianoforte-School at Bos¬ 
ton. He is the author of The Conserva¬ 
tory Course for Pianists. 

FAIRBANKS, HAROLD WELLMAN, 
geologist, was born in Western, N. Y. 
He is a well known geologist of Berkeley, 

FAIRCHILD, EDWIN MILTON, lectur¬ 
er, founder, author, was born Nov. 7, 
1865, in Lansing, Mich. He proposed vis¬ 
ual instruction in ethics as a method 
for use in Sunday and public schools, 
which was first tried in 1898. He is the 
author of The Function of the Church; 
Commandments Father Wisdom Taught 
the Child He Loved; The Educational 
Church Marriage Service; and Ethical In¬ 
struction in School and Church. 

FAIRCHILD, GEORGE THOMPSON, 
educator, author, was born Oct. 6, 1838, 
in Brownhelm, Ohio. Since 1898 he has 
ben vice-president and professor of Eng¬ 
lish literature in Berea College, Ky. He 
is the author of Rural Wealth and Wel¬ 
fare. 

FAIRCHILu, MRS. SALOME CUTLER, 
librarian, author, was born June 21, 1855, 
in Dalton, Mass. She has held important 
positions in the American Library Asso¬ 
ciation since 1889; and editor of its cat¬ 
alogue. She is the author of Home Li¬ 
braries; and Scientific Study of Philan¬ 
thropy. 

FALCONER, JOHN M., artist, author, 
was born May 22, 1820, in Scotland. He 
proposed the first exhibition of engrav¬ 
ings in the United States; and organized 
the first chronological exhibition ot 
American art in the United States. In 
water colors he produced the William 
Penn Mansion; and a series of Historic 
Houses in enamel on porcelain, now in 
the possession of the Long Island histor¬ 
ical society. He is the author of Sketch 
of the History of Water-Color Painting. 

FARLEY, JOHN MURPHY, clergyman, 
bishop, was born April 20, 1842, in Ire¬ 
land. In 1895 he was appointed auxiliary 
bishop of New York. He assists Arch¬ 
bishop Corrigan in episcopal labors and 
acts as his vicar-general. 

FARMER, FANNIE M., educator, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born March 23, 18'57, 
in Boston, Mass. She is Instructor iu 
the Boston Cooking School; and Princi¬ 
pal of the Boston Cooking School. She 
is the author of The Boston Cooking 
School Book; and Chafing Dish Possibil¬ 
ities. 

FARMER, JAMES EUGENE, educator, 
author, was born July 5, 1867, in Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. He is teacher of English 
literature at St. Paul’s School, of Concord, 
N. H. He is the author of Essays on 
French History; and The Grenadier. 

FARMER, WILLIAM WALLACE, man¬ 
ufacturer, was born Jan. 12, 1851, in 

Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1892 the present firm 
of A. D, Farmer & Company was es¬ 
tablished, manufacturers of all classes of 
type. He is president of the Empire 
Typesetting Machine Company of New 
York citv. 

FARNHAM, CHARLES HAIGHT, mu¬ 
sician, author, was born May 25, 1841, 
near, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He is the 
author of Life of Francis Parkman. 

FARNHAM, HENRY PHILIP, lawyer, 
author, was born April 5, 1863. in Pal¬ 
myra, N. Y. He is a well known lawyer 
of Rochester, N. Y. He isi Associate Ed¬ 
itor of Lawyers’ Reports, Annotated. 


ADDENDA. 


XXXV 


FARNSWORTH, MOSES FRANKLIN, 
soldier, genealogist, was born Feb. 5, 
1834, in Edinburg, Ind. In 1857 be was 
first lieutenant of the Nauvoo Legion-, 
recorder St. George Temple in 1877; and 
at Manti in 1888. He is the author of 
the Farnsworth Memorial; and History of 
Manti, Utah. 

FARQUHAR, EDWARD, librarian, 
author, was born Sept. 2, 1843. in Sandy 
Springs, Md. Since 1865 he has been 
assistant librarian in the United States 
patent office. He is the author e*f Ele¬ 
ments of Unity in Homeric Poems. 

FARQUHAR, NORMAN VON HELD- 
REICH, naval officer, was born April 11. 
1840, in Pottsville, Pa. In 1862-63 he 
was executive officer of the steamer Ma¬ 
haska, of the North Atlantic squadron. 
He was commandant of cadets at the 
United States naval academy in 1881-86; 
and in 1889 became commandant of the 
Norfolk Navy Yard. 

FARR, GEORGE H., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, was born July 27. 1843, in 
Niagara county, N. Y. In 1861 he en¬ 
listed in the Adrian Cadets, and was in 
the first battle of Bull Run. He then 
enlisted in the United States artillery, 
and served through the war. He was a 
member of the Michigan state senate in 
1878-82. He was appointed Collector of 
Customs for the District of Michigan in 
1897. 

FARRINGTON, OLIVER CUMMINGS, 
geologist, author, was born Oct. 9, 1864, in 
Brewer, Maine. Since 1894 he has been 
curator of geology at Field Columbian 
Museum, of Chicago, Ill. He is the auth¬ 
or of Meteorites; and The Vocanoes of 
Mexico. 

FARRINGTON, WILLIAM GEORGE, 
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 15, 
1832, in New York city. In 1863 he or¬ 
ganized Christ church of Hackensack, N. 
J., of which he was rector till 1870. He 
was the author of The Historical Church: 
and has edited the Church Almanac since 
1867. 

FASSETT, JAMES HIRAM, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 11, 1869, in Nashua, 
N. H. He is superintendent of schools 
at Nashua, N. H-. He is the author of 
Colonial Life in New Hampshire. 

FAVILLE. JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born July 7, 1847, in Milford, Wis. 
He is president of the Wisconsin Anti- 
Saloon League. He is the author of The 
Problem of Authority in Religion. 

FEELY, JOHN JOSEPH, lawyer, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Aug. 1, 1875, m Will 
county. Ill. He is a lawyer of Chicago, 
Ill. He was elected to the fifty-seventh 
congress from Illinois as a democrat. 

FELL, DAVID NEWLIN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Nov. 4, 1840, in Buck¬ 
ingham, Pa. He served in 122d Pennsyl¬ 
vania volunteers during the civil war. In 
1876-94 he was judge of the court of com¬ 
mon pleas at Philadelphia, Pa. Since 
1894 he has been justice of the supreme 
court of Pennsylvania. 

FELL, SARAH MOORE, educator, gen¬ 
ealogist, was born May 30, 1824. Her 
life work has been teaching in the pub¬ 
lic schools of Delaware. She is the auth¬ 
or of the Fell Family. 

FENLEY, D. E., congressman. He 
was elected to the fifty-sixth dongress 
from South Carolina as a demorrat. 

FENN. WILLIAM WALLACE, clergy¬ 
man, theologian, author, was born Feb. 
12, 1862, in Boston, Mass. In 1901 he 
became professor of systematic theology 
in Harvard Divinity school. He is the 


author of The Flowering of the Hebrew 
Religion. 

FENOLLOSA, MRS. MARY McNIEL, 
author, poet, was born in Alabama. In 
1897-1900 she resided in Japan. She is 
the author of A Flight of Verses; and 
Children’s Verses on Japanese Subjects. 

FERGUSON, FREDERICK S., soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born May 2, 1841. 
in Huntsville, Ala. He served as lieu¬ 
tenant and captain of artillery in the 
Confederate army until captured at Ft. 
Morgan in 1864. In 1866 and 1892 he 
was a member of the Alabama legislature. 

FERGUSON, HENRY, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in Stamford, 
Conn. Since 1883 he has been professor 
of history and political economy at Trin¬ 
ity College of Hartford, Conn. He is the 
author of Four Periods in the Life of 
the Church; and Essays on American His¬ 
tory. 

FERGUSSON, ARTHUR WALSH, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Dec. 4. 1859, in 
Benicia, Cal. Since 1897 he has been 
chief translator of the Bureau of'Americ¬ 
an Republics at Washington, D. C. He is 
the author of Handbook of Mexico. 

FERNOW, BERTHOLD, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Nov. 28, 1837, 
in Prussian Poland. In 1862 he was a 
private in 4th Missouri cavalry, and a 
lieutenant in 3d United States infantry, 
colored troops in 1863; and topographical 
engineer, coast division, Department of 
the South in 1864. He is the author of 
Albany, and its place in the History 
of the United States; and Ohio Valley in 
Colonial Days. 

FERRIS, MRS MARY LANMA.N 
DOUM, founder, author, was born May 
22, 1855, in Poughkeepsie. N. Y. She was 
the founder and secretary of the Daught¬ 
ers of the Cincinnati; and was instru¬ 
mental in establishing the museum main¬ 
tained by the Colonial Dames of New 
York. She is the author of Dutch Nursery 
Rhymes; History of Fort Crails; The VaD 
Cortlandt Mansion; Colonial Dames; and 
Legend of New Year’s Eve. 

FERRIS MORRIS PATTERSON,_ law¬ 
yer, historian, was born Oct. 3, 1855. in 
New York City. He is a successful lawyer 
of New York city. He is president of 
Yonkers Historical Library Association; 
and treasurer of the Society of American 
Authors. 

FESSENDEN, JOSHUA ABBE, soldier, 
was born in Rockland, Maine. He was 
appointed second lieutenant in the 1st 
United States cavalry in 1862; first lieu¬ 
tenant in 1865: and captain in 1882. He 
was wounded at Chickamauga. 

FESSENDEN, MRS. LAURA DAYTON 
journalist, author, was born in New York 
City. She represented Harper’s Baza? 
at WoiTd’s Columbian Exposition; and 
is president of the Chicago Newspaper 
Women’s Club. She is the author of Es¬ 
sie; Beth; A Puritan Lover; A Colo¬ 
nial Dame; and Bonnie Mackirby. 

FEZANDIE, CLEMENT, educator, au¬ 
thor. was born Sept. 15, 1865. in New 
York city. He was instructor of mathe- 
matics and natural sciences in New York 
schools. He is the author of Through 
the Earth. 

FIELD, ALLEN W., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Nov. 28, 1853, in La Salle, Ill. In 
1886 he was city attorney of Lincoln. 
Neb. ; and in 1887-91 was district judgp. 
In 1899 he was a candidate for the United 
States senate. 

FIELD, B. RUSH, soldier, physician, 
author, was born Nov. 3, 1861, in Easton, 
Pa. In 1890 he founded the Easton Med¬ 


ical Society; was physician to the North¬ 
ampton county prison in 1886-87; and is 
frequently called as an expert in medico¬ 
legal cases. In 1893-95 and 1899-1902 lie 
was mayor of Easton, Pa. He is major 
of the third battalion National Guards. 
He is the author of Medical Thoughts 
of Shakespeare; Fielding’s Unconscious 
Use of Shakespeare; and other works. 

FIELD, EDWARD, public official, auth¬ 
or, was born Oct. 4, 1858, in Providence, 
R. I. Since 1891 he has been record 
commissioner of the City of Providence 
R- I. He is the author of Tax Lists of 
the Town of Providence During the Ad¬ 
ministration of Sir Edmund Andros and 
His Council, 1686-89; Revolutionary De¬ 
fenses in Rhode Island, with maps, plans 
and illustrations; The Colonial Taverns; 
Esek Hopkins, Commander-in-Chief of 
the Continental Navy During the Amer¬ 
ican Revolution; and Diary of Col. Is¬ 
rael Angel. 

FIFER, JOSEPH W., soldier, lawyer, 
governor, was born Oct. 28,1840, in Staun¬ 
ton, Va. In 1861-64 he served in the 
army in Co. C, 33d Ill. infantry volun¬ 
teers; and was wounded in the battle at 
Jackson, Miss. In 1889-93 he was gov¬ 
ernor of Illinois. 

FINE, HENRY BURCHARD, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 14, 1858, in Cham- 
bersburg. Pa. He is professor of math¬ 
ematics at Princeton. He is the author 
of The Number System of Algebra. 

FINK, LOUIS MARTIA, clergyman, 
bishop, was born in 1834, in Bavaria. He 
established a convent and built a church 
in Covington, Ky., and then became pas¬ 
tor of St. Joseph’s, of Chicago. In 1871 
he became bishop of Kansas. 

FINLAYSON, WILLIAM DANIEL, 
merchant, legislator was born Nov. 23. 
1855, in Gadsen county, Fla. He is a 
well known merchant of Cedar Keys, 
Fla. He was elected to the Florida state 
legislature; and has been mayor of his 
city. 

FINDLEY, DAVID EDWARD, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Feb 
28, 1861, in Trenton, Ark. He was a 
member of the house of representatives of 
South Carolina in 1890-91; and of the 
State senate in 1892-96. He was elected 
to the fifty-sixth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

FINLEY, JOHN HUSTON, journalist, 
educator, college president, was born Oct. 
19, 1863, in Grand Ridge, Ill. In 1892-99 
he was president of Knox college. In 
1899 he was editor of Harper’s Weekly, 
and in 1899-1900 was with the McClure 
publishing Company. He now fills the 
chair of politics in the Princeton Uni¬ 
versity. 

FINN, FRANCIS JAMES, priest, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 4, 185.9, in 
St. Louis, Mo. Since 1893 his time has 
been spent at Marquette college of Mil¬ 
waukee; St. Mary’s college of Kansas; 
and St. Xavier’s college of Cincinnati. 
He is the author of ten nooks for the 
young. 

FISH, PIERRE AUGUSTINE, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 17, 1865 m Chat¬ 
ham, N. Y. He is assistant professor of 
physiology and pharmacology at Cornell 
university. He is the author of Compar¬ 
ative Physiology. 

FISH, WILLIAM HANSELL , lawyer, 
jurist, was born May 12, 1849, in Macon 
Ga. In 1891-96 he was circuit judge. 
Since 1896 he has been justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Georgia. 


XXXVI 


ADDENDA. 


FISHBACK, GEORGE WELTON, sol¬ 
dier, government official, was born Nov. 
18, 1§60, in Smithland, Ky. Since 1898 
he has been major and paymaster in the 
United States volunteers. He served in 
the Spaniish-American war at Santiago. 

FISHER, ALBERT KENRICH, biolo¬ 
gist, author, was born March 21, 1856. in 
Sing Sing, N. Y. He is a biologist m 
the United States Department of Agricul¬ 
ture. He is the author of The Hawks 
and Owls of the United States in Their 
Relation to Agriculture; and Ornithol¬ 
ogy of the Death Valley Expedition of 
1891. 

FISHER, CHARLES E., physician, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born March 7, 1853, in 
North Benton, Ohio. In 1893-96 he was 
professor of obstetrics and surgery at 
Herring Medical college of Chicago; and 
in 1898-1900 was professor of obstetrics 
at Hahnemann Medical college of Chica 
go. He is the author of Fisher’s Disease 
of Children, and Homeopathic Text Book 
of Surgery. 

FISHER. IRVING, educator, author, 
was born Feb. 27, 1867, in Saugerties. N. 
Y. He is the editor of the Yale Review. 
He is the author of Mathematical Invest¬ 
igation in the Theory of Value and 
Prices; Application and Interest; and In¬ 
troduction to Calculus. 

FISHER, MARY, educator, author, was 
born April 12. 1858, in Marshall county, 
Ill. She is the author of Twenty-five 
Letters on English Authors; A Group of 
French Critics; and A Biographical and 
Critical Review of American Literature. 

FISHER, WILLIAM ARMS, jo'urnallst. 
musician, composer, was born April 27. 
1861, in San Francisco, Cal. Since 1897 
he has been editor for Oliver Ditson Com¬ 
pany. of Boston. Mass. He is the author 
of a volume of Children’s; Songs; numer¬ 
ous anthems; and an elegie for violin and 
piano. 

FISKE, AMOS KIDDER, lawyer, auth¬ 
or, was born May 12, 1842, in Whitefield, 
N. H. For twenty years he was on the 
staff of the New York Times Ho is the 
author of Midnight Talks at the Club: 
Beyond the Bourn; The Jewish Script¬ 
ures; The Myths of Israel; The Story of 
the Philippines; and The West Indies. 

FISKE. DANIEL WILLARD, journalist, 
educator, lecturer, was born Nov. 11. 18SL 
in Ellisburg, N. Y. In 1868-81 he was 
professor of European languages and 
chief librarian of Cornell university. He 
has written extensively in many lan¬ 
guages 

FISKE. GEORGE MCCLELLAND, cler¬ 
gyman author, was born Oct. 21. 1850, in 
East Windsor, Conn. In 1870-73 he was 
head master of Burlington college; and 
in 1874-76 missionary of St. Mark’s of 
Hammonton. N. J., and of Christ church. 
Waterford, N. J. He has been rector of 
St. Stephen’s, Providence, R. I., since 1884. 
He is the author of A Memorial Sermon 
on General Grant; and An Uncorrupt 
Life. 

FISKE, STEPHEN, journalist, author; 
was born Nov. 22, 1840, in New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. J. He i® editor of Rutger’s col¬ 
lege. He is the author of English Photo¬ 
graphs; Holiday Tales; and Off-Hand 
Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers. 

FISKE, WILLIaM MEAD LINDSLEY, 
physician, was born May 10, 1841, in New 
York city. He has invented and made 
numerous improvements in surgical in¬ 
struments the most important of which 
is known as the episaotomotome. 

FITZGERALD, ADOLPHUS LEIGH, 
lawyer, jurist,, was born Oct. 27, 1840. in 


Rockingham county, N. C. He practiced 
law in Nevada until 1886; and was dis¬ 
trict judge in 1886-1901. Since 1901 he 
has been justice of the supreme court of 
Nevada. 

FITZGERALD, EDWARD, clergyman, 
bishop, was born in 1833, in Ireland. 
Since 1867 he has been bishop of Little 
Rock, Ark. In 1857 he was pastor at 
Columbus, Ohio. 

FITZGErlALD, JAMES N., clergyman, 
bishop, was born July 27, 1837, in New¬ 
ark, N. J. In 1880-88 he was recording 
secretary of the missionary society of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church; and since 
1888 has been bishop. 

FITZGERALD, JOHN JOSEPH, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born, March 10, 
1872, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was elected 
to' the fifty-sixth congress as a democrat. 

FITZHUGH, EDWARD C., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was bora in Virginia. He was an 
early emigrant to Washington territory, 
and was appointed an associate justice 
of the United States court for that ter¬ 
ritory. 

FITZMAURICE, JOHN F., clergyman, 
bishop. Since 1897 he has been Roman 
Catholic bishop of Erie, Pa. 

FITZPATRICK, F. W. He is well 
known as an art critic; and has written 
extensively on architecture. 

FLAGLER, ISAAC VAN VLECK, pub¬ 
lisher, musician, composer, was born May 
15, 1844, in Albany, N. Y. He has been 
church organist in Chicago, Albany and 
Auburn, N. Y. He is now a publisher of 
musical books. He is the author of the 
Organists’ Treasury; and Flagler’s New 
Collection of Organ Music. 

FLANDRAU, CHARLES EUGEN^ 
lawyer, jurist, was born July 15, 1828, in 
New York city. He was a member of the 
territorial council of Minnesota in 1856: 
United States Indian agent for the Sioux 
tribe in 1856-57; and a member of the 
Constitutional convention of Minnesota 
in 1857. He was judge of the supreme 
court of the territory and state of Minne¬ 
sota in 1857-64. In 1867 he was elected 
president of the first board of trade of 
Minneapolis. 

FLATHER. JOHN JOSEPH, educator, 
author, was born June 9, 1862, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. Since 1898 he has been 
professor of mechanical engineering m 
the University of Minnesota. He is the 
author of Dynamometers and the Meas¬ 
urement of Power; Rope Driving; and 
Steam Boilers. 

FLEMING, WILLIAM HANSELL, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born in Philadelphia, 
Pa,, Aug. 23, 1844. For several years he 
has been secretary of the Shakespeare 
Society of New York city. He is the au¬ 
thor of A Bibliography of First Folios in 
New York and How to Study Shakes¬ 
peare. 

FLETCHER, HORACE, lecturer, auth¬ 
or, was born Aug. 10, 1849, in Lawrence, 
Mass. He has traveled in all parts of 
the world for thirty-five years and engag¬ 
ed in numerous occupations. Since 1895 
he has devoted his attention to sociology. 
He is the author of Menti-culture; Happi¬ 
ness: That Last Waif; Nature’s Fond wu- 
ter; The Mind Power-Plant; and Indus¬ 
trial Symphony. 

FLETCHER, ROBERT HOWE, soldier, 
author, clergyman, was born July 21. 
1850, iu Cincinnati, Ohio. He served on 
the Indian frontier and in California until 
1886, when he was retired for disabilities 
contracted in line of duty. He was first 
lieutenant and brevet captain for services 
in Nez Perces Indian war. Since 1899 he 


has been curator of Mark Hopkins in¬ 
stitution of Art at San Francisco. He is 
the autnor of A Blind Bargain; The 
Johnstown Stage; Marjorie and Her Pa¬ 
pa; and numerous short stories and es¬ 
says. 

FLETCHER, WILLIAM ISAAC, librar¬ 
ian, author, was born April 28, 1844, in 
Burlington, Vt. He is member, council¬ 
or and ex-president of American Library 
Association. He is the author of Public 
Libraries in America. 

FLICK, ALEXANDER, CLARENCE, 
educator, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 
18, 1S69, in Gabon, Ohio. Since 1899 he 
has been professor of history in Syracuse 
university. He is the author of Loyal- 
ism in New York; and History of New 
York. • 

FLING, FRED MORROW, educator, 
author, was born in I860 in Portland, 
Maine. For twelve years he was en¬ 
gaged in preparing a Life of Mirabeau. 
In 1897 he founded the association of Ne¬ 
braska Teachers of History. He is tne 
author of Outline of Historical Method; 
and Studies in Greek Civilization. 

FLINT GROVER, journalist, author. 
He has been a war correspondent. He 
is the author of Marching With Gomez. 

FLINT, JAMES MILTON, navy sur¬ 
geon, was born FeD. 7, 1838, in Hillsboro, 
N. H. During the civil war he was as¬ 
sistant-surgeon in the United States navy; 
became surgeon in 1874, medical inspec¬ 
tor in 1893; and was medical director in 
1897-1900 when he was retired with the 
rank of rear-admiral. 

FLINT, WESTON, lawyer, author, was 
born July 4, 1835, in Pike, N. Y. Since 
1898 he has been librarian and secretary 
of the board of trustees 1 of the Public 
Library at Washington, D. C. He is the 
author of Catalogue of the Library of 
the United States Patent Office; Cata¬ 
logue of Additions to the Library of the 
United States Patent Office; and Statis¬ 
tics of Libraries in the United State's 
and Canada. 

FLOODY, ROBERT JOHN, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 1, 1859, in Canada. 
He is now pastor of Shawmut Congrega¬ 
tional church of Boston, Mas®. He is the 
author of Scientific Basis of Sabbath and 
Sunday. 

FLOYD-JONES, DE LANCEY, soldier, 
author, was bora Jan. 20, 1826, in Queens 
county, N. Y. In 1846 he was commis¬ 
sioned second lieutenant of the seventh 
infantry. He served through the Mex¬ 
ican war and was breveted first lieuten¬ 
ant for gallant and meritorious conduct 
in the battle of Molino del Rey. He 
served during the Civil war as major of 
the eleventh United States infantry, and 
rose to the rank of Colonel in 1863. He 
is the author of Letters from t!Te Far 

Hi fl.st. 

FLUEGEL, MAURICE,author. He is the 
author of Thoughts on Religious Rights 
and Views; Spirit of Biblical Legislation; 
The Messiah-Ideal; Israel the Biblical 
People; and other works. 

FOEDERER, R. H., congressman. He 
served in the fifty-seventh congress from 
Pennsylvania as a republican. 

FOLGER, WILLIAM MAYHEW, naval 
ufficer, was born May 19, 1844, in Ohio. 
He served during the Civil war as a mid¬ 
shipman, and was promoted to tne grade 
or master in 1866. Two years later he 
became a lieutenant, and passing through 
the intermediate grades he was promoted 
to the rank of captain in 1898; and com¬ 
manded the protected cruiser New Or¬ 
leans .in the war with Spain. 


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xxxv ii 


FOLK, EDGAR ESTES, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 6, 1856, in Hay¬ 
wood county, Tenn. He has held pas¬ 
torates in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Mil- 
lersburg, Ky., and Albany. Ga. He is the 
author of Plan of Salvation; and various 
pamphlets and lectures. 

FOLKMAR, DANIEL, sociologist, an¬ 
thropologist, author, was born Oct. 28. 
1861, in Roxbury, Wis. Since 1898 he 
has been professor of anthropology at 
Brussels, Belgium. He is the author of 
Introduction to Philosophical Anthro¬ 
pology. 

FOLSOM, CHARLES WILLIAM, sol¬ 
dier, civil engineer, was born April 17, 
1826, in Cambridge, Mass. He served in 
the national army during the civil war; 
was receiver of rail roads in Virginia 
and Tennessee for the United States gov¬ 
ernment in 1869; and in 1870-73 was 
superintendent of Mount Auburn ceme¬ 
tery, near Boston. He has been employ¬ 
ed in the sewer department of Boston 
since 1876. 

FOLSOM, NORTON, physician, author, 
was born April 15, 1842, in Boston, Mass. 
He was surgeon of the forty-fifth colored 
troops in 1864-65, and acting medical di¬ 
rector of the 25th army corps, receiving 
the brevet of lieutenant-colonel. He was 
resident physician at the Massachusetts 
general hospital in Boston in 1869-76; and 
since then has practiced his profession 
in that city. He is the author of 
Essays on the Senses of Smell and Taste; 
and Plans and Suggestions for Johns 
Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore. 

FOixiAlNE LAMAR, soldier, civil en¬ 
gineer, ioet, was born Oct. 10, 1829. in 
W ashington county, Tex. In the civil 
war he held the commission of major 
of cavalry ,n the Confederate army. H° 
is the author of Oenore; and Only a 
Soldier. 

FOOTE, JOHN BARTLETT,clergyman, 
genealogist, was born July 1, 1826. He 
has held over fifty national camp meet¬ 
ings in twenty different states; and is 
now chaplain of penitentiary in Syracuse, 
N. Y. He was secretary of the New 
York state convention that started Syr¬ 
acuse university. He is the author of 
Genealogy of the John -Foote Family; 
and a number of published sermons. 

FORD, HENRY JONES, journalist, 
author, was born Aug. 25, 1851, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. Since 1890 he hajsi been 
managing editor of tne Pittsburg Chron¬ 
icle Telegraph. He is author of the Rise 
and Growth of American Politics. 

FORD, ISAAC NELSON, journalist, 
author, was born June 11, 1848, in Buf¬ 
falo. N. Y. Since 1870 he has been en¬ 
gaged in newspaper and literary work. 
He is the author of Tropical America. 

FORD, JOHN, lawyer, state senator, 
author, was born July 28, 1862, in Know- 
lesville N. Y. He is tne author of Pock¬ 
et Cyclopaedia of Protection. 

FORD, JOHN DONALDSON, soldiei, 
civil engineer, was born in Maryland. In 
1862 he entered the United States navy 
as third assistant engineer, and in 1890 
became chief engineer. He served with 
distinction through the civil war and lat¬ 
er through the Spanish war. He is the 
author of Several Pamphlets on Manual 
Training in Public Schools; and An 
American Cruise in the East. 

FORD, MARY HANFORD, lecturer, 
author, was born in 1856 in Meadville, 
Pa. She is author of Otto’s Inspira¬ 
tion; and The Message of the Mystic. 

FORDNEY, JOSEPH W., business man, 
congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1853, in 


Blackford county, Ind. He has been 
extensively engaged in the lumber bui- 
iness for many years; and owns an ice 
plant at Hartford, Ind. He was elected 
to the fifty-sixth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

FORMENTO. FELIX, physician, auth¬ 
or, was born March 16, 1837, in New 
Orleans, La. He was surgeon in the 
Franco-Sardinian army in 1859; and 
chief surgeon Louisiana Confederate Hos¬ 
pital, Richmond, Va., during the civil 
war. He is now president of the Confer¬ 
ence of State and Provincial Boards of 
Health of North America. He is the 
author of Notes and Observations of 
Army Surgery; Cremation; and School 
Hygiene. 

FOREST, J. A., clergyman, bishop. In 
1895 he was consecrated bishop of San 
Antonio, Tex. 

FORRESTER, HENRY, clergyman, 
author, was born July 6, 1841, in England. 
He served during the civil war in the 
Confederate army. In 1878 he was or¬ 
dained priest, and served in parishes at 
Summit and Osyka, Miss. He is the 
author of Christian Utility and the His¬ 
toric Episcopate; Christian Unity and 
the Holy Eucharist; and The Mission 
Manual. 

FORSYTH, GEORGE ALEXANDER, 
soldier, author, was born Nov. 7, 1837, 
in Muncy, Pa. During the civil war he 
attained the rank of brevet brigadier- 
general. In 1866-90 he was on the staff 
and frontier service. He is the author of 
Thrilling Days in Army Life; and the 
Story of the Soldier. 

FORT, JOHN FRANKLIN, lawyer, 
jurist, was bora March 20, 1852, in Pem¬ 
berton, N. J. In 1878-86 he was judge of 
the # district court of Newark, N. J. In 
1896-1900 he was presiding judge Common 
Pleas of Essex county, N. J. Since J900 
he has been justice of the supreme court 
of New Jersey. 

FOSTER, ADDISON G., business man. 
United States senator, was born in 1837 
in Belchertown, Mass. In 1859-75 . he 
was engaged in grain and real estate bus¬ 
iness; and later was county auditor and 
surveyor of Wabasha, Minn. He was 
elected a member of the fifty-sixtli "con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

FOSTER, DAVID JOHNSON, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
June 27, 1857, in Barnet, Vt. In 1886-90 
he was state’s attorney of Chittenden, 
county, Vt. In 1892-94 he was state sen¬ 
ator; and is now serving as congressman 
for Vermont for the term of 1901-03. 

FOSTER, MRS. ELLEN HORTON, 
lawyer, temperance advocate, was bora 
Nov. 3, 1840, in Lowell, Mass. Since 1875 
she has been a successful leader in the 
temperance cause, and has lectured in al¬ 
most every state and territory of the 
Union. She has also been counsel for the 
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 
of the United States. 

FOSTER, GEORGE P., lawyer con¬ 
gressman. He has been justice of the 
peace at Chicago, Ill., and is now a mem¬ 
ber of rae fifty-sixth congress from Il¬ 
linois. 

FOSTER, ROGER, lawyer, author, was 
born in 1857 in Worcester, Mass. In 
1896-98 he was special counsel for the 
board of health of New York city. He 
is the author of A Treatise on Federal 
Practice; and Commentaries on the Con¬ 
stitution. 

FOWLER, DAVID, lawyer, jurist. He 
is associate justice of the court of ap¬ 
peals of Maryland. 


FOWLER, FRANK, artist, author, was 
born July 12, 1852, in Brooklyn N. Y. 
He painted the portraits of Governors 
Samuel J. Tilden and Roswell P. Fowler, 
now in executive chamber at Albany, N, 
Y He is the author of Portrait and Fig¬ 
ure Paintings. 

FOWLER, JESSIE A., phrenologist, ed¬ 
itor, author, lecturer, wasi born July 11, 
1856, in New York city. She has lec¬ 
tured throughout the Australian Colonies 
and the British Isles in connection with 
her father, Prof. L. N. Fowler. She is 
president of the Fowler Institute in Lon¬ 
don, which has for its object the study 
of anthropology in all its branches. 

FOX, ALANSON J., lumberman, rail¬ 
road president. He is president of the 
Chicago Lumbering Company; and pres¬ 
ident of the Manistique and Northwestern 
Railway. 

FOX, CHARLES JAMES, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, lumberman, was born in 1842. In 
1861 he graduated from Union college; 
and served in the civil war as lieutenant, 
captain, and major of the one hundred 
and seventh New York volunteers. He 
is secretary of the Chicago Eumbering 
company. 

FOX, JOHN, author. He is the author 
of Hell for Sartin; The Last Stetson; The 
Kentuckians; A Mountain Europa; Cum¬ 
berland Vendetta; Crittenden; Bluegrass; 
and Rhododendron. 

FOX, LUTHER, AUGUSTINE, educat¬ 
or, cler fe yman, author, was born in 1S43 
near Greensboro, N. C. He is the author 
of History of Sunday Schools. 

FOX, WALTER DENNIS, journalist, 
author, was born July 4, 1867, near Mur¬ 
freesboro, Tenn. He is the author of 
Sam Davis; The Confederate Scout; Fath¬ 
er Carolan; and One Mid-Year’s Maaness. 

FOX, WILLIAM FREEMAN, soldier, 
author, was born in 1840. He has been 
captain, major, nd lieutenant-colonel in 
the one hundred and seventh regiment of 
New York volunteers; and is now super¬ 
intendent of forests of the State of Nee/ 
York. He is the author of Regimental 
Losses in the Civil War; and New York 
at Gettysburg; and Short Talks on For- 
restry. 

FOXCROFT, FRANK, journalist, auth¬ 
or, was born Jan. 21, 1850, in Boston, 
Mass. Since 1895 he has been editorial 
writer and department editor The Youth's 
Companion. He is the author of Tran¬ 
script Pieces; and other works. 

FRALEY, FREDERICK, merchant, 
founder, state senator, was born in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa., May 28, 1804. In 1824 he 
was one of the founders of the Franklin 
institute, and was for many years its 
treasurer. In 1837 he was elected ~by 
the Whigs to the state senate. He was 
active in the movement that culminated 
in 1854 in the consolidation of the city 
with all the districts within the bounds 
of the county. He'was chosen asi dele¬ 
gate to the commercial convention held 
in Boston for the establishment of a 
National board of trade and was its pres¬ 
ident until 1887. He was one of the 
most active promoters and organizers of 
the Centennial exposition of 1876, ahd in 
1873 was elected treasurer of the Centen¬ 
nial board of finance. 

FRANCIS, JOSEPH MARSHALL, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, bishop, was born in 
Eaglesmere, Pa. In 1864 he filled pas¬ 
torates in Milwaukee and Greenfield, 
Wis. In 1898 he was rector of St. Paul's 
Cathedral, Evansville, Ind.; and in 1899 
was elected bishop of Indiana. 


xxxviii 


ADDENDA. 


FRANKLIN, WILLIAM SUDDARDS, 
civil engineer, educator, author, was born 
Oct. 27, 1863, in Geary City, Kan. Since 
1897 he has been professor of physics and 
electrical engineer in the Lehigh Univer¬ 
sity of Bethlehem, Pa. He is the author 
of Elements of Physics; and The Ele¬ 
ments of Alternating Currents. 

FRASER, WILLIAM ALEX/ N"' 
author, was born March 24, 1859, in Nova 
Scotia, March 24, 1859. He has traveled 
much; lived nine years in India and 
speaks Hindustani; is mining engineer 
by profession, but now devotes his en¬ 
tire time to writing. He is the author 
of Eye of a God; Mooswa; and Others of 
the Boundaries The American Animal 
Book; and The Outcast. 

FREAR, WALTER FRANCIS, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Oct. 29. 1863* in 
Grass Valley, Cal. Since 1900 he has 
been chief justice of the supreme court 
of Hawaii. He is the author and com¬ 
poser of The Cocoa Palm and Other 
Songs. 

FRECHETTE, MRS. ANNIE HOW¬ 
ELLS, author, was born in Hamilton, 
Ohio. She was for a time literary edit¬ 
or of the Chicago Inter Ocean. She is 
the author of On Grandfather’s Farm; 
The Farm’s Little People; and Popular 
Sayings from Old Iberia. 

FREEDLEY, ANGELO TILLINGHAST, 
lawyer, author, was born Nov 12, 1850, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He is now counsel 
for Philadelphia Clearing House, and for 
several banka, members thereof. He is 
the author of The General Corporation 
Law of Pennsylvania; and Limited Part¬ 
nership Association Laws of Pennsylva¬ 
nia. 

FREEMAN, HENRY VARNUM, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist author, was bom Dec. 

1842, in Bridgeton, N. J. During the 
civil war he attained the rank of captain. 
In 1893-98 he was justice of the Illinois 
appeal court and became presiding jus¬ 
tice in 1898. In 1898 he was president of 
the Chicago Literary Club. He is lec¬ 
turer of medical jurisprudence in Rush 
Medical College. He is the author of 
The Town Meeting in Illinois; Military 
Essays and Recollections; and Some Bat¬ 
tle Recollections of Stone River. 

FREER, PAUL CASPAR, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born March 27, 1862, in 
Chicago, Ill. Since 1889 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of general chemistry in the Uni¬ 
versity of Michigan. He is the author of 
The Elements of Chemistry. 

FREER, ROMEO HOYT, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 9, 1847, in 
Bazetta. Ohio. In 1862-65 he served in 
the Union army. In 1868 he was admit¬ 
ted to the bar and in 1868-70 and 1873-77 
he was assistant prosecuting attorney for 
Kanawha county, W. Va. In 1873-77 he 
was United States consul to Nicaragua. 
In 1896-99 he was judge of the fourth ju¬ 
dicial district. He was elected to the 
fifty-sixth congress as a republican. 

FRENCH. CHARLES W., educator, 
author, was born April 5 , 1858; in Wood- 
stock, Vt. In 1896-1900 he was a member 
of joint commission on English require¬ 
ments for admission to college. He is 
now principal of the Hyde Park High 
School of Chicago. He is the author of 
Life of Lincoln; Words of Lincoln; and 
Introduction to the Study of Browning. 

FRENCH, FERDINAi>jJ COURTNEY, 
educator, author, was born Dec. 14, 1861. 
in Berkeley, Mas®. Since 1894 he has 
been professor of philosophy in Vassar 
College. .He is the author of The Con¬ 
cept of La\y in Ethics. 


FRETZ, ABRAHAM JAMES,clergyman, 
genealogist, was born Feb. 7, 1849, in 
Bucks county, Pa. He fills a pastorate 
in Milton, N. J. He is 1 the author of 
Genealogies of the Fretz, Kratz, Wismer, 
Moyer, Stover, Funk, Rosenberger, Bei- 
dler, and Oberholtzer Family. 

FREVET, WILLIAM ALFRED, sol¬ 
dier, architect, was born Jan. 19, 1833, in 
in°w Orleans, La. At the outbreak of the 
civil war he entered the Confederate ar¬ 
my as a private in the Washington ar¬ 
tillery from New Orleans. He was pro¬ 
moted from time to time, finally reaching 
the rank of lieutenant-colonel of engin¬ 
eers. In 1866-68 he was state engineer 
for Louisiana and for several years after 
that he had charge of the construction of 
the public schools of the McDonough 
fund, some sixteen in number. He served 
as supervising architect of the United 
States government in 1887-90, when he 
resigned. He designed the reconstruc¬ 
tion of the state house at Baton Rouge; 
and was the architect for the buildings 
of the state university at Pineville, La., 
and the University of Alabama at Tusca¬ 
loosa. 

FRICK, HENRI CLAY, manufacturer, 
was born Dec. ^9, 1849, in West Overton, 
Pa. He began business life as a clerk for 
his grandfather, a flour merchant and 
distiller. He later embarked in a 
sman way in a coke business, whicfl 
grew to be larger than all others in the 
United States combined. He is now pres¬ 
ident of the H. C. Frick Coke Company; 
also president of the Carnegie Steel Com¬ 
pany. 

FRIEDENWALD, HERBERT, author, 
was born Sept. 20,1870, in Baltimore,Ohio. 
Since 1897 he has been superintendent of 
the manuscript department in the Li¬ 
brary of Congress. He is the author of 
The Continental Congress; and The 
Journal and Papers of the Continental 
Congress. 

FRIEDMAN, ISAAC KAHN, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 3, 1870, in Chicago, 
Ill.- For three years he was in the flor¬ 
ist business with his brother; and since 
then has been writer on Chicago news¬ 
papers. He is the author of The Lucky 
iNumoer; and Poor People. 

FRISBEE, SAMUEL H., clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born July 10, 
1840, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1880-85 he 
was president of St. Francis Xavier col¬ 
lege. He is the author of a work en¬ 
titled Interior of Jesus and Mary. 

FROST, ARTHUR BURDETTE, illus¬ 
trator, artist, author, was born in' 1851 
in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1900 he was an 
exhibitor at the Paris Exposition. He 
is the author of Golfers’ Alphabet; and 
Sports and Games in the Open. 

FROST, WILLIAM ALBERT CRAW¬ 
FORD, clergyman, author, was born in 
1863. in Canada. He has filled pastorates 
in Canada; and since 1896 has been pas¬ 
tor of the Church of the Holy Comforter 
of Baltimore, Maryland. He is the auth¬ 
or of Old Dogma in a New Light. 

FROST, WILLIAM HENRY, journalist, 
author, was born March 18, 1863, in North 
Providence, R. I. He has been a member 
of the staff of the New York Tribune 
since 1887. He is the author of the 
Wagner Story Book; The Court of King 
Arthur; The Knights of the Round Table, 
and Fairies and Folk of Ireland. 

FROTHINGHAM, ARTHUR LINCOLN, 
JR., educator, lecturer, author, was born 
June 21, 1859, in Boston, Mass. He is 
now professor of ancient history and ar¬ 
chaeology in Princeton; and founded 


Princeton College Bulletin. He i^ the 
author of A History of Scripture; and 
Medieval Art Inventories of the Vatican. 

FRUIT, JOHN PHELPS, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 22, 1855, in Pem¬ 
broke, Ky. He has held numerous pro¬ 
fessorships in Kentucky and Tennessee; 
and since 1897 has been professor of 
English languages and literature in Wil¬ 
liam Jewell College. He is the author of 
The Mind and Art of Poe’s Poetry; Edit¬ 
or of Lycidas; and The Ancient Mariner. 

FRY, JACOB, clergyman, author, was 
born Feb. 9, 1834, in Trappe, Pa. Since 
1891 he has been professor of homiletic 
and sacred oratory in the Lutheran The¬ 
ological Seminary of Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is the author of Elementary Homilet¬ 
ics. 

FRYER, JOHN, educator, author, was 
born Aug. 16, 1839, in Kent, Eng. Since 
1896 he has been professor of Oriental 
languages and literature in the University 
of California. He is the author of Edu¬ 
cational Directory for China; and Trans¬ 
lator’s Vade-Mecum. 

FUERTES, JAMES HILLHOUSE, civil 
engineer, author, was born Aug. 10, 1863, 
in Puerto Rico. He has been connect¬ 
ed with the design and construction of 
numerous works for the sewerage, drain¬ 
age, refuse disposal and water supply o*f 
cities in the United States, Canada, Ha¬ 
waiian Islands and Brazil. He is the 
author of Water and Public Health; and 
European Sanitary Engineering Series in 
Engineering Record. 

FULLER, HULBERT, physician, auth¬ 
or, was born Dec. 22, 1865, in Baldwins- 
ville, N. Y. He practiced in Tustin and 
Los Angeles, California, anu Chicago. He 
is the author of Vivian of Virginia; and 
God’s Rebel. 

FULLER, JESSE FRANKLIN, edu 
cator, genealogist, was born March 4, 
1832, in Middleton, Mass. For five years 
he was superintendent of schools in Ap¬ 
pleton, Wis. He is the author of Ful¬ 
ler Genealogy. 

FULLER, WILLIAM OLIVER, journal¬ 
ist, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 3, 
1856, in Rockland. Maine. He is treas¬ 
urer of the Kockland Publishing 'Com¬ 
pany and is a writer of numerous 
sketches. He is the author of What 
Happened to Wigglesworth. 

FULLLERTON, ANNA M., physician, 
author. She is at present superintend¬ 
ing the establishing of medical missions 
of North Indian Medical School, Lodiana, 
The Punjab, India. She is the author 
of Obstetric Nursing; an- Surgical iNurs- 
ing. 

FULERTvjN, MARK A., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 13, 1858, in Salem, Ore. 
Since 1898 he has been judge of the su¬ 
preme court of Washington. 

FUNK, ISAAC KAUFMAN, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept.- 10, 1839, in Clif¬ 
ton, Ohio. In 1861-72 he filled various 
pastorates. j.n 1880 ne founded tiie 
Voice. He was editor-in-chief of the 
Standard Dictionary; and is author of 
The Homiletic Review. 

FUNSTEN, JAMES BOWEN, lawyer, 
missionary, clergyman, was born March. 
1858, in Clark county, Va. For a time 
he practiced law; but later he studied for 
the ministry; and in 1899 he was conse¬ 
crated P. E. missionary bishop of Boise 
City, Idaho. 

FUNSTON, FRED, soldier, botanist, 
was born Nov. 9, 1865, in Ohio. In 1891 
he was botanist United States Death Val¬ 
ley Expedition; and in 1893 commander 
of the Department of Agriculture to ex- 


ADDENDA. 


xxxix 


plore Alaska and report on its flora. In 
1896 he joined the insurgent army m 
Cuba and later went to the Philippines 
where he was promoted to brigadier-gen¬ 
eral, for acts of bravery. 

PURCHES, DAVID MOFPITT, lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 21, 1832, in Davie 
county, N. C. In 1857 he was admitted 
to the North Carolina bar. In 1892 was 
republican candidate for governor of 
North Carolina. Since 1894 he has been 
associate justice of the supreme court of 
North Carolina. 

FYLES, FRANKLIN, critic, author. 
He is dramatic critic for the New York 
Sun. He is the author oi Cumberland 
'61; and other works. 

uAb^ERT, WILLIAM H., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Oct. 12, 1849, in Scott coun¬ 
ty, Iowa. In 1883-93 he practiced law in 
Telluride, Col. ; and in 1893-97 was judge 
of the seventh district. Since 1897 he 
has been judge of the supreme court of 
Colorado. 

GAGE, H. T., governor. In 1899-1903 he 
was governor of California. 

GAINES, REUBEN REID, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Oct. 30, 1836,. in Sumter 
county, Ala. He practiced law in Texas 
until 1876. In 1877-85 he was judge of 
the sixth judicial district of Texas. In 
1885-94 was associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Texas; and chief justice 
since 1894. 

GALBRAITH, CLINTON ALEXAN¬ 
DER. lawyer, jurist, was born March 6. 
1860, in Hartsville, Ind. In 1900-04 he 
was associate justice of the supreme court 
of Hawaii. 

GALE, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Sept. 14, 1845, in Galesville, Wis. 
He has been county attorney and judge 
municipal court of Berlin, Wis. 

GALE, STEPHEN FRANCIS, mer¬ 
chant, was born March 8, 1812, in Exeter, 
N. H. In 1835 he went to Chicago, then 
a small frontier town; and was Chicago’s 
first bookseller. His half-brothers, Au¬ 
gustus H. and Charles Burley, joined him 
under the nrm name of S. F. Gale & 
Co., and they conducted a large business 
as pubishers and booksellers. 

GALLY, MERRITT, artist, inventor, 
was born Aug. 15, 1838, near Rochester, 
N. Y. He invented engraving tools; 
painted portraits; and ordained Presby¬ 
terian minister; lost his voice, and then 
devoted his attention to mechanics. He 
invented the Universal printing press, 
machine for making linotypes, and other 
printing machinery; also musical instru¬ 
ments, including the Orchestrone. the 
Back Vent system for tubuar church 
organs; the Counterpoise pneumatic sys¬ 
tem of the Aeolian, Pianola, Symphony 
and other automatic musical instruments. 

GANNON, ANNA, author, poet, was 
born June 6, 1876, in Philadelphia, Pa., 
the author of A Dream of Shakespeare’s 
Women; and The Song of Stradella anu 
Other Songs. 

GANONG. WILLIAM FRANCIS, botan¬ 
ist. author, was born Feb. 19. 1864, in 
Canada. Sinbe 1894 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of botany in Smith college of 
Northampton, Mass. He is the author of 
The Teaching Botanist. 

GANTT, AMES BRITTON, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist was born in Putnam coun¬ 
ty, Ga. During the civil war he served in 
the confederate army. In 1880-86 he was 
circuit judge of Henry circuit of Missouri; 
and judge of the supreme court of Mis¬ 
souri since 1890; and became chief jus¬ 
tice in 1898. 


GANTVOORT, ARNOLD J., musician, 
composer, was born Dec. 6, 1857, in Am¬ 
sterdam, Holland. In 1894 he became 
head of department for preparing pub¬ 
lic school for music teachers in the col¬ 
lege of music at Cincinnati, Ohio. He is 
the author of a series of music readers 
for public school children. 

GARDENER, MRS. HELEN HAMIL¬ 
TON, author, was born Jan. 21, 1858, in 
Winchester, Va. She is the author of 
Men, Women and ^ods; Facts ana F" 
tions of Life; A Patriot; and Historical 
Sketches of our Navy. 

GARDINER, ASA BIRD, soldier, law¬ 
yer. was born Sept. 30, 1839, in New York 
city. He was professor of law at the 
United States military academy for four 
years ; and later served as judge-advocate 
on the staff of General Hancock, com¬ 
manding the division of the Atlantic. 
He was retired from the army at his own 
request in 1888 and resumed the practice 
of law. In 1898 he became district at¬ 
torney of New York. 

GARDNER, CELIA EMMELINE, auth¬ 
or, poet, was born Nov. 4, 1844, in Sharon, 
Conn. She is the author of Stolen Wa¬ 
ters, a story in verse; Broken Dreams; 
Tested; Rich Medways Two Loves; Ev¬ 
ery Inch a King; Compensation; A Twist¬ 
ed Skein; Seraph or Mortal; Won Under 
Protest; and A Literary Tramp. 

GARDNi,xi. GEORGE WARREN, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born Oct. 
8, 1828. in Pomfret, Vt. In 1876-78 he 
was pastor of the First Baptist Church in 
Cleveland, Ohio; and in 1881-85 was pres¬ 
ident of the Central university of Iowa. 
In 1870 he visited Europe, extending 
his travels to Egypt, Palestine, and 
Greece. 

GARDNER, MILLS, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Jan. 30, 1830, 
in Russellville, Ohio. He was prosecuting 
attorney of Fayette county for four years; 
and was a member of the state senate of 
Ohio in 1862-64. He was a member of the 
state house of representatives in 1866-68. 
He was elected to the forty-fifth 'con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

GARDNER. WASHINGTON, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in Mor¬ 
row county, Ohio. He served in the 
ranks of the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer 
infantry in 1861-65. He served twelve 
years in the ministry of the Methodist 
Episcopal church. In 1888 he was com¬ 
mander of the Department of Michigan, 
Grand Army of the Republic; and was 
made professor in and public lecturer for 
Albion college in 1899. For several years 
he was secretary of state. He was elect¬ 
ed to the Fifty-sixth congress as a re- 
nublican. 

GARDNER, WILLIAM HENRY, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born April 7, 
1837 in Fayetteville, N. C. In 1861 he 
entered the United States army; became 
surgeon in 1882; lieutenant-colonel and 
deputy surgeon-general in 1896; and was 
retired in 1898. He is the author of 
The Curious Case of General Delaney 
Smythe. 

GARLINGTON, ERNEST A., soldier, 
author was horn Feb. 20, 1S53, in New¬ 
berry Court House, S. C. He commanded 
the Greely Relief Expedition in 1883. In 
1890 he was severely wounded in battle 
with hostile Indians at Wounded Knee 
Post Office and was awarded congression¬ 
al medal of honor for distinguished gal¬ 
lantry in that action. In 1898 he was 
inspector-general in Cuba; and was pres¬ 
ent at battle, siege and surrender of San¬ 
tiago de Cuba. He is the author of His¬ 


torical Sketches of the Seventh Cavalry 
Regiment; A Catechism; and Cavalry 
Outposts, Advance and Rear Guards, Rec- 
onnoissance. 

GARNETT, JAMES MERCER, soldier, 
philologist, author, was uorn April, 24, 
1840, in Aldie, Va. He served in the 
Confederate army in 1861-65, becoming 
captain of artillery. In 1882-96 he was 
professor of English language and lit¬ 
erature at University of Virginia. I?e is 
the author of Translation of Baewulf; 
and Elene and Other Anglo Saxon Poems. 

GAROUTTE, CHARLES H., lawyer, 
jurist. He is associate justice of the 
supreme court of California. 

GARRETSON, ARTHUR SAMUEL, 
railroad builder, was born Nov. 7, 1851, 
in Morgan county, Ohio. He huilt sev¬ 
eral railroads; and was for some years 
president of the Sioux City & Northern 
Railroad; and of Sioux City, O’Niell & 
Western. In 1898 he was democratic 
candidate for congress. 

GARRETT, WILLIAM ROBERTSON, 
educator, college president, author, was 
born in Williamsburg, Va. He serveu 
through civil war; attained the rank of 
captain. In 1868-73 he was president of 
Giles College of Pulaski, Tenn.; in 1891-93 
was state superintendent of public in¬ 
struction; and since 1899 has been (lean 
in Peabody Normal College of Nashville. 
Tenn. He is the author of The South 
as a factor in the Territorial Expansion 
of the United States. 

GARRISON, FRANCIS JACKSON, pub¬ 
lisher, author, was born Oct. 29, 1848. 
in Boston, Mass. He is the author of 
William Lloyd Garrison; and The Story 
of His Life Told by His Children. 

GARRISON, GEORGE PEARCE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Dec. 19, 1853, in 
Carrollton, Ga. Since 1897 he has been 
professor of history in the University ot 
Texas. He is the author of The Civil 
Government of Texas. 

GARVER, WILLIAM LINCOLN, archi¬ 
tect, author, was born Jnue 5, 1867, in 
Martinsburg, W. Va, In 1891 he became 
associated with a school of theosophy. 
He is the author of Associated Commun¬ 
ities and Proportional Industries; and 
Brother of the Third Degree. 

GARVIN, LUCIUS FAYETTE CLARK, 
physician, soldier, legislator, was born 
Nov. 13, 1841, in Knoxville, Tenn. He 
served as a private in the civil war. 
Since 1883 he has been a member of the 
Rhode Island legislature, having been 
elected fifteen times. He has been a 
democratic candidate for congress four 
times during 1894-1900. 

GARY, EUGENE BLACKBURN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, lieutenant-governor, was born 
Aug. 22, 1854, in Cokesburg, S. C. In 
1889 he was a member of the South Caro¬ 
lina legislature; 1890-93 was lieutenant- 
governor of South Carolina. Since 1893 
he has been associate-justice of the su¬ 
preme court of South Carolina. 

GARY, JOSEPH EASTON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born July 9, 1821, in Potsdam, N. 
Y. In 1844-49 he practiced law in 
Springfield, Mo., then at Los Vegas until 
1886. In 1856-63 he practiced law 
in Chicago, Ill. He presided in celebrat¬ 
ed Anarchist trial; and in second trial 
of Leutgert for wife-murder. Since 1863 
he has been judge of the superior court 
of Cook county, Ill. 

GAST. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, cler¬ 
gyman. educator, was born Oct. 17, 1835, 
in Lancaster county, Pa, In 1867 he be¬ 
came rector of the academy of Franklin 
and Marshall college; and in 1871 he was 


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appointed tutor in the theological sem¬ 
inary, when he was transferred from 
Mercersburg to Lancaster. In 1873 he 
was elected professor of Hebrew and Old 
Testament theology. 

GASTON, ATHELSON, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born April 24, 183?, in 
Castile, N. Y. Since 1873 he has been 
a manufacturer and dealer in lumber; 
Hd'was twice mayor of Meadville, Pa.; 
and president of the Cassadaga Lake Free 
Association, at Lily Dale, for ten years. 
He was elected to the fifty-sixth congress 
as a democrat. 

GASTON, JAMES McFADDEN, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born Dec. 27, 
1824, near Chester, S. C. In 1861-65 he 
was surgeon and medical director in the 
Confederate service. Since 1884 he has 
been professor of surgery in Southern 
Medical College of Atlanta, Ga. In 1895 
he was president of the American Acad¬ 
emy of Medicine. He is the author of 
Hunting a Home in Brazil. 

GATES, MRS. ELLEN M. HUNTIN''- 
TON, author, poet, was born in Torring- 
ton, Conn. She is the author of Treas¬ 
ures of the Kurium, a collection of her 
poems. 

GATES, LOUIS EDWARD, educator, 
author, was born March 23, 1860, in War¬ 
saw, N. Y. Since 1836 he has been as¬ 
sistant professor of English at Harvard 
University. He is the author of Se¬ 
lections from Jeffrey; Selections from 
Newman; Selections from Matthew Ar¬ 
nold; and Three Studies in Literature. 

GATES, W. FRANCIS, musician, com¬ 
poser, author, was born March 18, 1865, 
in Zanesville, Ohio. He is director of 
Western College of Conservatory of Mu¬ 
sic, of Toledo, Iowa. He is the author 
of Musical Mosaics; Anecdotes of Great 
Musicians; Pipe and Strings; and In 
Praise of Music. 

GATSCHET, ALBERT SAMUEL, lin¬ 
guist, author, was born Oct. 3, 1832, in 
Switzerland. He is linguist at the Bu¬ 
reau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian 
Institute. He is the author of The Kla¬ 
math Indians of Southwestern Oregon: 
and A Creek Migration Legend. 

GAUL, GILBERT WILLIAMS, artist, 
was born March 31, 1855, in Jersey City, 
N. J. He was made an associate of the 
National academy of design in 1879; and 
was elected an academican in 1882. 
Among his works are Stories of Liberty 
to the Confined; Charging the Battery; 
Holding the Line at All Hazards; and 
With Fate Against Them. 

GAY, EDWARD, artist, was born in 
1838, in Dublin, Ireland. In 1887 he took 
the Metropolitan Prize of $2,000 for the 
picture Broad Acres presented to the 
Metropolitan Museum of New York City. 

GAY, WINCKWORTH ALLAN, land 
©cape arust, was born Aug. 18, 1821, in 
West Hingham, Mass. He has traveled 
the world over; and has attained note as 
one of ne foremost artists of America. 

GAYLE, JUNE W., public official, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 22, 1865, in New 
Liberty. Ky. He served as deputy sher- 
iit for several years; and in 1892 was 
high sheriff of Owen county. He was 
elected to the fifty-sixth congress at the 
special election. 

GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 22, 1858, in China. 
Since 1889 he has been professor of Eng¬ 
lish language and literature at the uni¬ 
versity of California. He is the author 
of Songs of Yellow and Blue; Guide to 
Literature of Aesthetics; and Classic 
Myths in English Literature. 


GAYNOR, WILLIAM JAY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born in 1851, in Whitestown, N. 
Y. In 1893 he became judge of the su¬ 
preme court at Brooklyn, N. Y. 

GEER, THEODORE THURSTON, far¬ 
mer, legislator, governor, was bom March 
12, 1851, at Waldo Hills, Oregon. He was 
a member of the Oregon State legislature 
in 1880, 1889, 1891 and 1896. He is now 
governor of Oregon for term of 1899-1903; 
republican. 

GEMUNDER, AUGUST, manufacturer, 
was born March 22, 1814, in Germany. 
He was the founder of the famous house 
of August Gem under and Son, of New 
York city, makers of the finest violins. 
He died Sept. 7, 1895, in New York ’city. 
His son, August Gemunder, is the present 
head of the house. 

GEORGE, HENRY, journalist, reformer, 
author, was born Nov. 3, 1862, in Sacra¬ 
mento, Cal. He is the eldest son of the 
late Henry George. Since 1881 he has 
been engaged in newspaper work. He was 
secretary of his father on lecturing tour 
in Great Britain. He is the author of 
a biography of his father. 

GERHARDT, KARL, sculptor, was 
born Jan. 7, 1853, in Boston, Mass 1 . His 
notable works include busts of General 
U. S. Grant, Henry Ward Beecher, Samuel 
L. Clemens; and statues of Nathan Hale 
and John Fitch. 

GERRISH, FREDERIC HENRY, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born March 21, 1845 
in Portland, Maine. In 1879-91 he was 
visiting surgeon Maine General Hospital 
of Portland; and consulting surgeon since 
1892. He was president of Maine state 
board of health in 1885-89; and president 
American Academy or Medicine in 1887- 
88. He is the author of Antiseptic Sur¬ 
gery; Prescription Writing; and other 
works. 

GIBBS, HENEAGE, physician, author. 
He is professor of pathology at University 
of Michigan. He is the author of Prac¬ 
tical Pathology and Morbid Histology. 

GIBBON, JOHN, soldier, was born April 
20, 1827. near Holmesburg, Pa. He serv¬ 
ed at the City of Mexico and Tuloca un¬ 
til the close of the Mexican war. He 
commanded a brigade through the North¬ 
ern Virginia, Maryland, Rappahannock, 
and Pennsylvania campaigns in 1862-63. 
He was brevetted brigadier-general and 
major-general in the United States army. 
Since the civil war he has commanded 
various posts; and had charge of the Yel¬ 
lowstone expedition against Sitting Bull 
in 1876; and in 1877 he commanded in 
the action with the Nez Perces Indians at 
Big Hole Pass. In 1886 he was promoted 
to brigadier-general. He is the author 
of The Artillerist’s Manual. 

GIBBONS, WILLIAM CEPHUS, lectur¬ 
er, scientist, author, was born April 7, 
1834, in Bermuda. He entered the tem¬ 
perance lecture field in 1878. He is the 
author of The Heart of Job. 

GIBBS, GEORGE, illustrator, artist, au¬ 
thor. was born March 8, 1870, in New 
Orleans, La. He is the author of Pike 
and Cutlass; and Hero Tales of Our 
Navy. 

GIBSON. MRS. EVA KATHERINE 
CLAPP, author, poet, wasi born in Brad¬ 
ford, Ill. She is the author of Her 
Bright Future: A Lucky Mishap; Mismat- 
ed; A Woman's Triumph; A Dark Sec¬ 
ret; Songs of Red Rose Land; Patriotic 
Songs; and The Anthem of the Free. 

GIBSON, ROBERT ATKINSON, cler¬ 
gyman, bishop, was born July 9, 1846. in 
Petersburg, Va. In 1878-87 he was rector 
of Trinity church at Parkersburg, W. Va.: 


and rector Christ church of Cincinnati in 
1887-97. In 1897 he became protestant 
episcopal bishop of Virginia. 

GIEGERICH, LEONARD ANTHONY, 
lawyer, jurist, was born May 20, 1855, in 
Bavaria. In 1886 he was a member of 
the New York assembly; and collector of 
internal revenue, New York, in 1886-89. 
In 1890 he was judge city court; and in 
in 1891-95 was judge court of common 
pleas. Since 1896 he has been justice 
of the supreme court of New York for 
term ending 1906.' 

GIESY, S. HERBERT, lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 25, 1862, in Philadelphia. 
Pa. He is a lawyer of Washington, D. 
C. He was appointed by President Mc¬ 
Kinley a justice of the peace for the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia. 

GILBERT, BENJAMIN DAVIS, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Nov. 21, 1835, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. Since 1877 he has been sec¬ 
retary and treasurer of Utica Dairy Board 
of Trade. He is the author of Cheese 
Industry of the State of New York. 

GILBERT, CASS, architect, was born 
Nov. 24. 1859, in Zanesville, Ohio. He 
was architect of the new state capitol 
and many other buildings in St. Paul; 
and the Chambers building of New York 
City.’ 

GILBERT, CHARLES BENAJAH, ed¬ 
ucator, lecturer, author, was born March 
9, 1855, in Wilton, Conn. In 1897-1900 
he was lecturer at Teachers’ College, Co¬ 
lumbia University. Since 1901 he has 
been superintendent of schools at Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. He is the author of Step¬ 
ping Stones to Literature. 

GILBERT, CHARLES CHAMPION, sol¬ 
dier, was born March 1, 1822, in Zanes¬ 
ville, Ohio. In 1861 he was inspectoi- 
general of the Department of Cumber¬ 
land; and of the Army of the Ohio until 
1862. He was promoted to brigadier- 
generalship of volunteers in 18.62; be¬ 
came acting major-general in command 
of the Army of Kentucky; and for his 
galantry at Perryvile was brevetted col¬ 
onel in the regular army. He became 
lieutenant-colonel of the 7th Infantry, in 
1868; colonel of the 17th infantry in 1881; 
and was retired from active service in 
1886. 

GILBERT, FRANCES FREIOT, author. 
She is the author of Annals of My Col¬ 
lege Life. 

GILBERT, GEORGE GILMORE, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
Dec. 24, 1849, in Spencer county, Ky. In 
1876-80 he was attorney for Spencer coun¬ 
ty, Ky.; in 1886-88 was a member of-the 
state senate; and in 1896 was a delegate 
to the national convention. He was 
elected to the fifty-sixth congress ~Trom 
Kentucky as a democrat. 

GILBERT, GEORGE HOLLY, theologi¬ 
an, author, was horn in Cavendish, Vt. 
For many years he was professor Of New 
Testament literature at Chicago Theo¬ 
logical seminary. He is the author of 
The Poetry of Job; The Student’s Life of 
Jesi s; ard Revelation of Jesus. 

GILBEI T, WILLIAM BALL, lawyer, 
jurist, was born July 4, 1847, in Fair- 
port county, Va. Since 1892 he has been 
United States circuit judge at Portland, 
Oregon. 

GILBERT, WILLIAM LEWIS, manu¬ 
facturer, legislator, philanthropist, was 
born Dec. 30,1806, in Northfield, Conn. He 
was a member of the Connecticut legis¬ 
lature in 1848 and 1868; treasurer of the 
Connecticut western railroad for ten 
years, and has been its president since 


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1883. He holds the same office in fire 
manufacturing companies in Winsted, 
Conn. In 1887 he gave four hundred 
thousand dollars to provide a home for 
friendless children in Winsted and vicin¬ 
ity, and a like sum for a free high school 
in that place. 

GILCHRIST, FREDERICKA, author, 
was horn in 1S46, in Oswego, N. Y. She is 
the author of The True Story of Hamlet 
ana Ophelia, a study and new interpreta¬ 
tion of Shakespeare’s play. 

GILDER, JOSEPH B., journalist, critic, 
author, was born in Flushing, N. Y. In 
1881 he founded with his sister, Jeannette 
'L:-Gilder, The Critic of New York City. 
He is the author of Essays from the 
Critic; and Authors at Home. 

GILDERSLEEVE, HENRY ALGER, 
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 1, 
1840, in Duchess county, N. Y. He serv¬ 
ed as captain and major during the civil 
war; and was breveted lieutenant-colonel 
for gallantry and meritorious services in 
the Georgia and Carolina campaigns. He 
was secretary and president of the Na¬ 
tional Rifle Association. In 1876-89 he 
• was judge of court of general sessions: 
and in 1891-94 judge of the superior court. 
Since 1894 he has been justice of the su¬ 
preme court of New York. 

GILL, AUGUSTUS HERMAN,educator, 
author, was born Aug. 1, 1864, in Canton, 
Mass. Since 1894 he has been assistant 
professor of oil and gas analysis at 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technol¬ 
ogy. He is the author of Gas and Fuel 
Analysis for Engineers; and A Short 
Handbook of Oil Analysis. 

GILL, HENRY Z., physician, surgeon, 
author, was born Oct. 6, 1831, in Rich- 
boro, Pa. He was in the volunteer army 
as assistant surgeon of the eleventh reg¬ 
iment; and later surgeon ninety-fifth reg¬ 
iment Ohio volunteers. He was surgeon 
of United States volunteers in 1864, and 
was surgeon-in-chief 1st division, 20fh ar¬ 
my corps, during the Atlanta campaign 
and until the close of the war. For some 
time he was professor of histology, mic¬ 
roscopy and bacteriology at the Kansas 
medical college of Topeka, Kan. He 
is the author of Report on the Prisons of 
the United States. 

GILL, JOSEPH A., journalist, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Feb. 17. 1854, in Wheel¬ 
ing, W. Va. Since 1899 he has been United 
States judge for the Northern district of 
Indian Territory. 

GILL, JOSEPH J., lawyer, manufactur¬ 
er, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1846, 
in Barnesville, Ohio. He practiced law 
at the Jefferson county bar,- and subse¬ 
quently engaged in banking and later in 
manufacturing and iron mining. He was 
elected to the fifty-sixth congress from 
Ohio as a republican. 

GILL. WILLIAM HUGH, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 27, 1841, in Ireland 
He is pastor of the Evangelical church of 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of 
The Temple Opened; What Presbyterians 
Do Believe; The Junior’s Jesus; A Cate¬ 
chism for Youth; and The Bible Cate¬ 
chist. 

GILLESPIE, GEORGE LEWIS, army 
officer, was born in 1841, in Kingston. 
Tenn. During the civil war he was chief 
engineer in the army of the Shenan¬ 
doah; was twice breveted for gallantry; 
and received congressional medal for 
bravery. During the Spanish-American 
war of 1898 he was appointed brigadier- 
general. 

GILLETT, EZRA HALL, clergyman, 
educator, author. For many years he 


was professor in New York- university. 
He is the author of several published 
works. 

GILLETT, FRANCIS MORELhO, rail¬ 
road president, was born Feb. 14, 1850, in 
Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He is president 
of the Stuttgart and Orleans River rail¬ 
road; and also of the Pine Bluff and 
Eastern railroad of Arkansas. 

GILMAN. BRADLEY, clergyman, auth¬ 
or, was born Jan. 22, 1857, in Boston, 
Mass. Since 1892 he has had charge of 
the Congressional society of Springfield, 
Mass. He is the author of The Kingdom 
of Coins; Kibboo Ganey; The Drifting 
Island; and The Musical Journey of Dor¬ 
othy and Delia. 

GILMAN, MRS. CHARLOTTE PER¬ 
KINS, lecturer, author, poet, was born in 
1860 in Hartford, Conn. She is a lec¬ 
turer and advocate of equality for women. 
She is the author of Women and Econom¬ 
ics; In This Our World; The Yellow 
Wallpapfer; and Concerning Children. 

GILMAN, MRS.MARY REBECCA FOS¬ 
TER, author, was born in 1859, in Wor¬ 
cester, Mass. She is the wife of Rev. 
Bradley Gilman. She is the author of 
Life of St. Theresa, in Famous Women 
series. 

GILMAN, THEODORE, banker, author, 
was born Jan. 2, 1841, in Alton Ill. He 
is a successful banker of New York city. 
He is the author of A Graded Banking 
System ; and Federal Clearing Houses. 

GINN, EDWIN, publisher, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born Feb. 14, 1838, in Orland, 
Mass. Since 1886 he has been head of 
the firm of Ginn and Company, publishers 
of school and college text books. He is 
president of the John Howard Home for 
Discharged Prisoners; and is especially 
interested in the housing of the poor. 

GIST CHRISTOPHER, scout. He was 
a noted scout during the war. 

GIVEN, JOSIAH, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 31, 1828, in Westmore¬ 
land county, Pa. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1851, and for two years was states 
attorney. He served with distinction 
through the Mexican war; and was brig¬ 
adier-general in the civil war. He was a 
member of the Iowa house of representa¬ 
tives; and for the last twenty years has 
been justice of the supreme court of iowa. 

GLASS, HENRY, naval officer, was born 
in Kentucky. During the civil war he 
attained the rank of lieutenant; and be¬ 
came captain in 1894. Since 1899 he has 
been commandant of the United States na¬ 
val training station at San Francisco 
Cal. 

GLENN, THOMAS L., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 

2, 1847, in Ballard county, Ky. During the 
civil war he was in the Confederate ser¬ 
vice. In 1874-82 he was clerk of Ballard 
county, Ky.; and was state senator in 
1887-91. He then practiced law in Ida¬ 
ho. He was elected to the fifty-seventh 
congress from Idaho as a populist. 

GLENNON, JOHN JOSEPH, clergyman, 
bishop, was born June 14, 1862, in Ire¬ 
land. In 1896 he was appointed coadju¬ 
tor bishop of Kansas City, Mo., with right 
of succession, and consecrated titular 
bishop of Pinara. 

GLOVER. JAMES NETTLE, banker, 
founder, was born March 15, 1837, in Lin¬ 
coln county, Mo. He was the founder of 
Spokane, Wash., and the founder of 
the First National bank of Spokane, and 
its president in 1882-93. 

GLYNN, MARTIN H., lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, lecturer, congressman, was born Sept. 


27, 1871, in Kinderhaok, N. Y. He is a 
practicing lawyer; and' also managing ed¬ 
itor of the Albany Times-Union. He 
was elected to me fifty-sixth congress 
from New York as a democrat. 

GODDARD, LUTHER M„ lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born Oct. 27, 1840, in 
Palmyra, N. Y. In 1872 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Kansas legislature. In 1882-90 
he was district judge of the 5th judicial 
district of Colorado,- and in 1890-1901 was 
associate justice of the supreme court of 
Colorado. 

GODOWSKI, LEOPOLD, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Feb. 13. 1870, in Poland. 
Since 1895 he has been head pianoforte 
department in Chicago Conservatory of 
Music. He is the author of valses and 
and songs. 

GOEPP, PHILIP HENRY, musician, 
author, was born June 23, 1864, in New 
York city. He was one of the founders 
and secretary for several terms of the 
Manuscript Music society of Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is the author of Symphonies and 
Their Meaning. 

GOETSCHIUS, PERCY, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Aug. 30, 1853. He is the 
author of The Theory and Practice of 
Tone-relations; Models of the Principal 
Music forms; Syllabus of Music History; 
and The Homophonic Forms of Music 
Composition. 

GOLDBECK, RuBERT, musician, com¬ 
poser, was Dorn Aug. 19, 1839, in Pots¬ 
dam. He is the author of two operas 
entitled Saratoga and Newport. 

GOMPERS, SAMUEL, labor aavocate, 
founder, was born Jan. 27, 1850, in Eng¬ 
land. He is a cigarmaker by trade. He 
is one of the founders of the American 
Federation of Labor, and editor of its 
official magazine. He has written a 
number of pamphlets on the labor ques¬ 
tion and the labor movement. . Since 
1882 he has been president of the Ameri¬ 
can Federation of Labor. 

GOOCH, D. LINN, congressman, was 
born in 1853 in Rumsey, Ky. He is pres¬ 
ident of the Cincinnati Drug and Chemical 
Company; governor-general of Colonial 
Wars; and governor oi Order of Descend¬ 
ants of Colonial Governors'. He is con¬ 
gressman for the sixth Kentucky district 
for the term 1901-03. 

GOODALE, GEORGE POMEROY, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Aug. 12, 1843, in 
Orleans, N. Y. Since 1865 he has' been 
dramatic editor of the Detroit Free Press. 
He is the author of Signor Max Papers. 

GOODE, WILLIAM ATHELSTANE 
MEREDITH, soldier, journalist, author, 
was born June 10, 1875, in Newfoundland. 
Since 1894 he has been connected with the 
Associated Press, which he represented 
on the flagship New York during the 
Spanish-American war. He is the author 
of With Sampson Through the War. 

GOODELL, THOMAS DWIGHT, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Nov. 8, 1854, in El¬ 
lington, Conn. Since 1888 he has Keen 
professor of Greek at Yale university. He 
is the author of The Greek in English; 
and Greek Lessons. 

GOODENOW, MRS. ALICE SMITH, 
artist, was born July 21, 1852, in Tomp¬ 
kins county, N. Y. Early in life she de¬ 
veloped a talent for painting; and her 
works have become quite noted. 

GOODRICH, ALFRED JOHN, musician, 
composer, was born May 8, 1847, in Chilo, 
Ohio. He is a writer and teacher of 
Chicago, Ill. He is the author of Music 
as a Language; The Art of Song; Com¬ 
plete Analysis; Analytical Harmony; and 
Theory of Interpretation. 


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GOODRICH, CASPER FREDERICK, 
naval officer, was born Jan. 7, 1847, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was naval attache 
on the staff or Sir Garnet Wolseley during 
the Tel-el-Kebir campaign of 1882; and 
commanded the Jamestown Constellation 
and Concord. In 1897 he was president 
of the naval war college. During the 
Spanish-American war he commanded the 
cruiser St. Louis and the United States 
steamship Newark, rendering important 
services on both of those vessels. In 1899 
he was assigned to the command of tne 
battleship Iowa. 

GOODRICH, WILLIAM W., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Aug 23, 1833, in Havana, 
N. Y. Since 1896 he has been associate 
justice of the supreme court of New 
York. 

GOODWIN, J. CHEEVER, dramatist, 
author, poet, was born July 14, 1850, in 
Boston, Mass. He is the author of about 
forty plays, the principal of which are 
Evangeline; Wang; The Merry Monarch; 
and The Lion Tamer. 

GORDON, FRED GEORGE RUSS, shoe¬ 
maker, socialist, author, was born Sept. 4 
1860, in Walden, Vt. In 1895 he was sec¬ 
retary of the great Boston Shoemakers’ 
Convention. He is the author of The 
Cause and Cure; Hard Times; Govern¬ 
ment Ownership of Railroads; and Mu¬ 
nicipal Socialism. 

GORDON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
soldier, lawyer, educator, was born Oct. 5, 
1836, in Giles county, Tenn. During the 
civil war he attained the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general in the Confederate service. 
In 1885-89 he was employed in the In¬ 
terior Department at Washington, D. C. 
In 1892 he was elected superintendent of 
city schools of Memphis, Tenn. 

GORDON, JOSEPH CLAYBAUGH, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born March 9, 1842, 
in Piqua, Ohio. Since 1897 he has been 
superintendent of Illinois Institution for 
Education of the Deaf, lie is the author 
of Education of Deaf Chidren; and Notes 
and Observations on the Education of the 
Deaf. 

GORDON, ROBERT BRYARLY, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 
1855, in Auglaize county, Ohio. He suc¬ 
ceeded his father in the general grain 
business. He was auditor of Auglaize 
county in 1889-95. He was elected to 
the fifty-seventh congress from Ohio as 
a democrat. 

GORDON, WILLIAM W., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, legislator, was born Oct. 14, 1831, 
in Savannah, Ga. He served in the Con¬ 
federate army during the civil war. Since 
1868 he has been in the cotton business 
in Savannah, Ga. For six years he was 
a member of the Georgia legislature. He 
was four times in command of troops to 
suppress riots; and was a member of the 
evacuation commission for Porto Rico. 
Has been president of the Savannad Cot¬ 
ton Exchange. During the Spanish 
American war he attained the rank of 
brigadier-general. 

GORDY, J. P., educator, author, was 
born in 1851 in Maryland. From 1896 to 
1901 he was professor of education at 
the Ohio State University; in 1901 he ac¬ 
cepted the professorship of the History of 
Education in New York University. He 
is the author of The Growth and Develop¬ 
ment of the Normal School Idea in the 
United States; Text-book on Psychology; 
and History of Political Parties in the 
United States in four volumes. 

GORDY, "WILBUR FISK, educator, au¬ 
thor was born June 14, 1854, near Salis¬ 
bury, Md. He is supervising principal of 


public schools at Hartford, Conn. He is 
the author of A School History of the 
United States. 

GOSS, CHARLES FREDERIC, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 14, 1852, in 
Meridian, N. Y. In 1885-90 he was pastor 
of Moody Church, Chicago, Ill; and since 
1894 has been pastor of the Avondale 
Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
He is the author of The Optimist; The 
Philopolist; and Hits and Misses. 

GOSS, WILLIAM FREEMAN MYRICK. 
educator, author, was born Oct. 7, 1859, 
in Barnstable, Mass. Since 1890 be has 
been professor of experimental engineer¬ 
ing and director engineering laboratory 
at Purdue University. He is the author 
of Bench Work in Wood. 

GOTTHEIL, GUSTAVE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born May 28, 1827, in Prussia. 
He has been active as a leader in the re¬ 
form branch of the Hebrew Church of 
New York. He is the author of Hymns 
and Anthems. 

GOTWALD, LUTHER ALEXANDER, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 31, 1833, 
in York Springs, Pa. He has held pas¬ 
torates at Shippeqsburg and Lebanon. 
Pa., Dayton, Ohio, Chambersburg and 
York, Pa., and Springfield, Ohio. He is 
the author of Church Orders, or the Ne¬ 
cessity of a Right Call to the Office of 
the Ministry. 

GOULD, ELGIN RALSTON LOVELL, 
educator, philanthropist, author, was 
born Aug. 15, 1860, in Canada. In 1895- 
96 he was professor at University of Chi¬ 
cago. He retired from academic pursuits 
to become president City and Suburban 
Homes Co., an enterprise designed to im¬ 
prove living environment of New York 
wage earners and at same time provide 
remunerative commercial investment. He 
is the author of Housing of Working 
People; Popular Control of the Liquor 
Traffic; The Gothenburg System of Liquor 
Traffic; and The Social Condition of La¬ 
bor. 

GOULD, GEORGE MILBRY, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, editor, author, was born 
Nov. 8, 1848, in Auburn, Maine. In 1892-95 
he was editor of the Medical News; and 
is now editor of the Philadelphia Medical 
Journal. He is the author of American 
Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery; 
Borderland Studies; The Meaning and the 
Method of Life; and other medical works. 

GOULD, HELEN MILLER, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born June 20, 1868, in New York 
City. When the war wiffi Spain began 
she gave the United States government 
one hundred thousand dollars; was an 
active member of the Women’s national 
war relief association, contributing freely 
to its work; and personally cared for 
sick and convalescent soldiers at Fort 
Wykoff, Long Island, giving twenty-five 
thousand dollars for needed supplies; a* 
the Windsor hotel fire in 1899, she 
opened her house on Fifth avenue for the 
relief of the dying and injured. 

GOW, GEORGE COLEMAN, musician, 
author, was born Nov. 27, 1860, in Ayer, 
Mass. In 1889-95 he taught music at 
Smith College. He is the author of Struc¬ 
ture of Music. 

GOWIE. JOHN, inventor. He first in¬ 
vented and obtained a patent for making 
artificial ice. 

GRABAU, AMADEUS W., geologist, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 9. 1870, in Cedar- 
burgh, Wis. He is proiessor of biology 
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He 
is the author of Geology and Palentology 
of Eighteen Mile Creek and the Lake 
Shore of Erie County, N. Y.; a nd Guide 


to the Geology and Palentology of Ni¬ 
agara Falls. 

GRACE, THOMAS, clergyman, bishop, 
was born Aug. 2, 1841, in Ireland. Since 
1896 he has been Roman Catholic bishop 
of Sacramento, Cal. 

GRADLE, HENRY, physician, author, 
was born Aug. 17, 1855, in Germany. He 
was professor of physiology and is now 
professor of diseases of the eye and ear 
at Northwestern University Medical 
school. He is the author of Bacteria and 
the Germ Theory of Disease. 

GRAHAM, GEORGE EDWARD, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Nov. 15, 1866. -n 
Albany, N. Y. During the Spanish-Amer¬ 
ican war he was correspondent of the as¬ 
sociated press on the flagship Brooklyn; 
and stood beside admiral Schley on the 
bridge during the destruction of Cervera’s 
fleet. He is the author of Fighting with 
Schley. 

GRAHAM, LAWRENCE PIKE, soldier, 
was born in 1815 in Amelia county, Va. 
In 1842 he served in campaign against 
Seminoles; was brevetted major for gal¬ 
lantry in Mexican war; and brevetted 
brigadier-general for meritorious services 
in Civil war in 1865. In 1862 he raised 
and commanded a cavalry brigade in the 
Army of Potomac. 

GRAHAM, WILLIAM HARRISON, 
soldier, business man, congressman, was 
born Aug. 3, 1844, in Allegheny, Pa. In 
1861-65 he served in the second Virginia 
infantry and fifth West Virginia cavalry. 
He is president of Mercantile Trust Co. 
and Central Accident Insurance Co. of 
Pittsburg, Pa. For four terms he was a 
member of the Pennsylvania legislature. 
He was elected to fill vacancy and served 
in fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth congress as 
a republican. 

GRAHAM, WILIAM MONTROSE, 
soldier, was born Sept. 28, 1834, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. In 1855 he entered army as 
lieutenant, first United States artillery; 
was brevetted major for gallant service 
in Peninsular campaign; and made lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel for gallant conduct at An- 
tietam. He was made colonel for gallant 
conduct at Gettysburg; and . brigadier- 
general for gallant conduct in the field 
during the war. He organized and com¬ 
manded the second army corps for serv¬ 
ice aga'ust Spain. 

GRAMMER. JULIUS E.. clergyman, 
was born Oct. 6, 1831, in Washington, D. 
C. For twenty-seven years he was pas¬ 
tor of St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal 
Church; and is now rector of Trinity 
Church of Baltimore. Md. 

GRANDGENT, CHARLES HALL, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Nov. 14. 1862, in 
Dorchester, Mass. Since 1896 he has been 
professor of Romance languages and 
chairman of Romance department since 
1899 at Harvard university. He is the 
author of Italian Grammar; Italian Com¬ 
position; and Materials for French Com¬ 
position. 

GRANGER, CHARLES TRUMBULL, 
soldier, educator, lawyer, jurist, was born 
Oct. 9, 1835, in Monroe county. N. Y. He 
served in company K, 27th Iowa infantry; 
and was its captain to close of war. In 
1869-72 he was district attorney for tenth 
judicial district of Iowa. He was circuit 
judge in 1872-86; and district judge after 
change of judicial system in 1886-89. In 
1889-1900 he was judge of the supreme 
court of Iowa. 

GRANGER, MOSES MOORHE AT), 
soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born 
Oct. 22, 1831, in Zanesville, Ohio. During 


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the Civil war he was captain 18th United 
States infantry and lieutenant-colonel of 
122d Ohio volunteers; and was brevetted 
colonel for meritorious conduct. Since 
1865 he has had law practice in Zanes¬ 
ville, Ohio; was city solicitor; prosecuting 
attorney; judge common pleas; and chief 
judge Ohio Supreme Court Commission. 
He is the author of Washington Versus 
Jefferson; and The Case Tried by Battle 
in 1861-65. 

GRANINGER, CHARLES ALBERT, 
musician, composer, was born Jan. 2,1861, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since 1891 he has 
been director of the Orpheus Club of Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio; and is also professor in 
Cincinnati College of Music. 

GRANT, CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN, 
soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was 
born Oct. 25, 1835. in York county, Maine. 
In 1862-65 he served in Civil war as cap¬ 
tain to colonel in the 20th Michigan vol¬ 
unteers. In 1870-74 he was a member of 
the Michigan legislature. He was circuit 
judge in 1881-89; and since 1889 has been 
chief justice of the supreme court ot 
Michigan. 

GRANT, LEWIS ADDISON, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Jan. 17, 1829, in Ben¬ 
nington county, Vt. He served throughout 
the Civil war; and in 1864 became briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers. In 1890-93 he 
was assistant secretary of war. He now 
practices law in Minneapolis Minn. 

GRANT, ULYSSES SHERMAN, geolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Feb. 14, 1867, in 
Moline, Ill. Since 1899 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of geology and curator of the mu¬ 
seum in the Northwestern University of 
Evanston, Ill. He is the author of Pre¬ 
liminary Report on the Copper-bearing 
Rocks of Douglas County, Wis. 

GRAU, MAURICE, operatic manager, 
was born Dec. 20, 1849, in Austria. In 
1872 he became manager of Aimee; and 
since that time has continued his career 
as a successful operatic and theatrical 
manager. He is now managing director 
of the Maurice Grau opera company of 
New York City; and of the Royal opera- 
house of London. In 1899 he was made 
a knight of the Legion of honor, in recog¬ 
nition of his work on behalf of French 

ar t 

GRAVES, FRANK PIERREPONT, 
educator, author, was born in 1869 in New 
York City. He is president of the Uni¬ 
versity of Washington. He is> the author 
of Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks; 
and The State University Ideal. 

GRAVES, HENRY SOLON, educator', 
author, was born May 3, 1871, in Marietta, 
Ohio. Since 1900 he has been professor of 
forestry and director of Yale Forest 
School of New Haven, Conn. He is the 
author of The White Pine. 

GRAY, DAVID, journalist, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 8, 1870. in Buffalo, 
N. Y. In 1897 he was managing editor of 
Buffalo Center. He is the author 
of The Sphinx; and Gallops, a volume ot 
sketches. 

GRAY, JOHN CLINTON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 4, a 844, in New York 
City. In 1866-88 he practiced law in New 
York City. He is judge of the New York 
court of appeals. 

GRAY, JOHN HENRY, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born March 11, 1859, in Charles¬ 
ton, Ill. Since 1892 he has been professor 
of political and social science at North¬ 
western University of Evanston, Ill. Tie 
is the author of several works in Ger¬ 
man. 

GRAY, WILLIAM C., journalist, auth¬ 
or, was born Oct. 17, 1830, in Butler coun¬ 


ty, Ohio. Since 1871 he has been editor 
of The Interior of Chicago, Ill. He is 
the author of Campfire Musings. 

GRAYBIEL, MARY, missionary, was 
born Feb. 6, 1846, in Williamsville, N. Y. 
In 1812 she became a missionary to Hin- 
dO'.-tan under the care of the foreign mis¬ 
sionary society of the denomination of 
Disciples. She settled in the mission at 
Bilaspur, and having secured an appro¬ 
priation of four thousand dollars built a 
stone and wood cnurch for the use of the 
natives, herself planning and superintend¬ 
ing the erection of the building. 

GRAYDON, JAMES WEIR, soldier, civ¬ 
il engineer, inventor, was born Jan. 18, 
1848. He served in volunteer army in 
Civil war under Grant and Sherman. He 
is the inventor of Graydon dynamite gun; 
Graydon gigantic wheels; Graydon aerial 
torpedo; Graydon cable system of tor¬ 
pedoes; and Graydon railway carriage 
heater. 

GREELEY, EDWIN SENECA, soldier, 
banker, was born May 20, 1832, in Nashua, 
N. H. At the beginning of the Civil wav 
he served as first lieutenant; advanced 
through all grades to colonel of 10th 
Connecticut volunteers and was brevetted 
brigadier-general for gallant and meri¬ 
torious services. Since 1897 he has been 
vice-president of the Yale National Bank 
of New Haven, Connecticut. 

GREEN, ANDREW HASWELL, law¬ 
yer. was born Oct. 6. 1820, in Worcester, 
Mass. During his career in New York 
City he has filled many positions as trus¬ 
tee and executor of estates, and among 
the latter that of Samuel J. Tilden. He 
was a commissioner of education and 
president of the board in 1856; president 
of the Central Park board in 1857-70: 
and comptroller of the city in 1871-76. 

GREEN, CHARLES R., soldier, anti¬ 
quarian, genealogist, was born Nov. S, 
1845, in Milan, Ohio. During the Civil 
war he was a private in the one hundred 
and first Ohio infantry, Army of the Cum¬ 
berland, and served three years. He. 
eventually settled in Kansas, and is in¬ 
terested in horticulture near Lyndon. He 
is member of the Kansas State Historical 
Society; and author of Genealogy of Ezra 
Green. 

GREEN, HENRY DICKINSON, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born May 3, 1857, in Reading Pa. He 
has attained success in the practice of law 
in his native city. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the Pennsylvania state legislature 
in 1883-86; and a member of the state 
senate in 1889-96. During the Spaniisk- 
American war he was captain Company G 
ninth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers. 
He was elected to the fifty-sixth congress 
to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to 
the fifty-seventh congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania a® a democrat. 

GREEN, HETTY HOWLAND ROBIN¬ 
SON, capitalist, was born Nov. 21, 1835. in 
New Bedford, Mass. By careful invest¬ 
ment she has become a large holder of 
stock in sound railroad companies in the 
west and south, in the Chemical National 
bank, and in business blocks and other 
real estate in Chicago end other parts )f 
the United States. 

GREEN, JONATHAN H., lecturer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1815, near l^awrence- 
burg’ Ind. For twelve years; he led a wan¬ 
dering life, travelling up and down the 
the Mississipi. under feigned names, and 
engaging in gambling as a profession. He 
reformed in 1842, and the next year began 
a lecturing tour, in which he revealed the 
vices of gambling. He is the author of 


Gambling Unmasked, an Autobiography; 
and Secret Band of Brothers. 

GREEN, NATHAN, lawyer, educator, 
autnor, was born Feb. 19, 1827, in Win¬ 
chester, Tenn. Pie has been a law profes¬ 
sor since 1866; and since 1873 chancellor 
of Cumberland University. He is the au¬ 
thor of Hall Man of Winton; and Sparks 
from a Black Log. 

GREENE, CHARLES LYMAN, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Sept. 21, 1862, in 
Gray, Maine. He is clinical professor of 
medicine and physical diagnosis at Uni¬ 
versity of Minnesota. He is the author 
of The Medical Examination for Life In¬ 
surance, and Its Associated Clinical 
Methods. 

GREENE, DANIEL CROSBY, mission¬ 
ary, author, was born Feb. 11,1843, in Rox- 
bury, Mass. Since 1869 he has been a con¬ 
gregational missionary in Japan. He is 
the author of Chinese New Testament, 
prepared for Japanese readers. 

GREENE, GEORGE FRANCIS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 5, 1858, in 
North Greenbrush, N. Y. Since 1885 he has 
been pastor of the Presbyterian church of 
Cranford, N. J. He is the author of The 
Many-Sided St. Paul. 

GREENE, HENRY COPLEY, author, 
was born Nov. 21 1871, in Vienna, Austria. 
He is the author of The Children’s Cru¬ 
sade; Theophile, a Miracle Play; and 
Plains and Uplands of Old France, a Book 
of Prose and Verse. 

GREENE, JAMES DURELL, soldier, in¬ 
ventor, was born in 1828. During the 
Civil war he attained the rank of brevet 
brigadier-general. He was the inventor 
and manufacturer of breech-loading rifles. 

GREENE, RICHARD GLEASON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 29, 1829, in 
East Haddam, Conn. He was editor of 
Library of Universal Knowledge, in six¬ 
teen volumes; and Columbian Cyclopedia, 
in thirty-two volumes. 

GREENE, ROBERT HOLMES, surgeon, 
author, was born April 27, 1861, in Bruns¬ 
wick, Maine. Since 1900 he has been 
surgeon to Work House Hospital of New 
York City. He is the author of Healthy 
Exercise. 

GREENE, THOMAS L., author. He is 
manager of The Audit Co. of New York; 
and a writer on finance. He is the author 
of Corporation Finance. 

GREENE, WILLIAM STEDMAN, busi¬ 
ness man, congressman, was born April 
28, 1841, in Tremont, Ill. He has been in 
the real estate and insurance business 
since 1866 in Fall River, Mass. He was 
president common council in 1877-79; 
mayor in 1880-81, 1886 and 1895-97. He 
was elected to the fifty-sixth congress as 
a republican. 

GREENLEAF, MRS. GEORGE H. 
FRANK, founder, author, was born Nov. 
12, 1849, in Baltimore, Md. She started 
relief work on Pacific coast during the 
Spanish-American war. She is the foun¬ 
der and director of the American Library 
at Manila, P. I. She is the author of My 
Life Among the Indians. 

GREENOUGH, FRANCIS BOOTT, phy¬ 
sician, was born Dec. 24, 1837, in Boston, 
Mass. In 1871-75 he was an instructor in 
Harvard Medical School. 

GREENSLET, FERRIS, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born June 30. 1875, Glens Falls, 

N. Y. He is the author of Joseph 
Glanvill; A Study in English Thought and 
Letters of the Seventeenth Century. 

GREENWOOD, ISAAC J., genealogist, 
author. He has; been a prolific writer on 
history and genealogy in the New Eng¬ 
land Historical and Genealogical Regis- 


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ter, and the New York Genealogical and 
Biographical Record. He is the author of 
The Circus, Its Origin and Growth PriSr 
to 1835; Greenwood Colonial and Revolu¬ 
tionary Services; and The Life of Cap¬ 
tain John Manley, of the revolutionary 
navy. 

GREGORY, JOHN GOADBY, journalist, 
author, poet, was born July 11, 1856, in 
Milwaukee, Wis. He is editorial writer on 
the Evening Wisconsin. He is the author 
of A Beauty of Thebes, in verse. 

GREGORY, S. S., lawyer. He is a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer of Chicago, Ill.; a nd presi¬ 
dent of the Chicago Bar. 

GREINER, TUISCO, journalist, author, 
was born June 16, 1846, in Germany. Since 
1880 he has been engaged in writing on 
agriculture. He is the author of Money 
in Potatoes; How to Make the Garden 
Pay; New Onion Culture; Practical Farm 
Chemistry; Onions for Profit; Young 
Market Gardener; and The Garden Book. 

GRESLEY, WILLIAM STUKELEY, 
mining engineer, author, was born Nov. 
V, 1852, in England. He is the author 
of Glossary of Coal Mining Terms 1 ; and 
Different Methods of Working Coal "in 
Various Countries. 

GRIFFIN, MARTIN IGNATIUS JO¬ 
SEPH, journalist, author, was born Oct. 
23, 1842. in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1873 
he has been editor and publisher of Grif¬ 
fin’® Journal of Philadelphia, Pa, He is 
the author of History of Commodore 
John Barry; Bishop Egan ; Thomas 
Lloyd; Thomas Fitz Simmons; and other 
Catholic American Historical works. 

. GRIFFIN, APPLETON PRENTISS 
CLARK, librarian, author, was born in 
Wilton, N. H. Since 1897 he has been 
assistant librarian of Library of Congress 
at Washington, D. C. He is the author 
of Discovery of the Mississippi; and in¬ 
dex of Articles Upon American Local His¬ 
tory in Collections. 

GRIFFIN, THOMAS MUSGROVE. civil 
engineer, inventor, was born April 23, 
1823, in New York city. He assisted in 
the preliminary surveys of the Panama 
railroad; built the suspension bridge at 
Hamilton, Canada; and the first bridge 
over the Mississippi river in 1854. He 
was mechanical engineer under Admiral 
Francis H. Gregory during the civil war. 

GRIFFITH, FRANCIS MARION, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
Aug. 21, 1849, in Switzerland county, Ind. 
In 1886-94 he was state senator; was 
elected to congress to fill vacancy; and 
was re-elected to the fifty-fifth and fifty- 
sixth congresses as a democrat. 

GRIFFITH. J. P. CROZER, physician, 
author, was born Jan, 5, 1856, in Phila¬ 
delphia. Pa. Since the year 1891 he has 
been clinical professor of diseases 
of children at University of Pennsylvania. 
He is the author of The Care of the 
Baby. 

GRIGGS, EDWARD HOWARD, edu¬ 
cator, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 9, 
1868, in Owatonna, Minn. Since 1899 he 
has been a public lecturer. He is the 
author of The New Humanism. 

GRIMMELL, JULIUS C., clergyman, 
author, was born May 30, 1847, in Ger¬ 
many. He is president of the Cleveland 
Baptist City Mission Society. He is the 
author of Bible Lands in Sunshine and 
Shadow; and a book of hymns. 

GRIMSLEY, GEORGE PERRY, geolo¬ 
gist, author, was born February, 1868, at 
Granville, Ohio. Since 1895 he has been 
professor of geology and natural history 
at Washburn College of Topeka, Kan. He 
is the author of Studies of Granites of 
Cecil county. Md.; Gypsum Deposits of 


Kansas; and Microscopical Study of 
Limestones of Ohio; and Mineral Re¬ 
sources of Kansas. 

GRINNELL, FREDERICK, mechanical 
engineer, was born Aug. 14, 1836, in New 
Bedford, Mass. In 1869 he became presi¬ 
dent, manager and mechanical engi¬ 
neer of the Providence steam and gas 
pipe company. He introduced and has 
done much to perfect the automatic fire 
extinguisher and alarm, taking out about 
forty patents in connection with it. 

GROSS, CHARLES, educator, author, 
was born Feb. 10, 1857, in Troy, N. Y.: 
married Miss Annie Smith, of London, 
England, July 15, 1889. Since 1888 he 
has been an instructor at Harvard uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of The n ’ ’ 
Merchant; Select Cases from the Coro¬ 
ners’ Rolls; Bibliography of British Mu¬ 
nicipal History. 

GROSS, HALLER ALBERT, lawyer, 
author, was born March 18, 1844, in 
Louisville, Ky. In 1868 he was appointed 
United States attorney for New Mexico. 
He was elected in 1882 a member of the 
select council of Philadelphia. In 1885 he 
declined the United States consulship at 
Athens, Greece. He is the author of Au¬ 
tobiography of his father; and a work 
on Cremation. 

GROSSCUP, PETER STENGER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Feb. 15, 1852. in 
Ashland, Ohio. In 1874-83 he practiced 
law at Ashland, Ohio; and was city so¬ 
licitor for six years. In 1882-92 he prac¬ 
ticed law in Chicago, Ill. Since 1892 he 
has been United States judge for the 
northern district of Illinois. Among his 
notable judicial acts are included his 
opinion upon the application to close up 
the World’s Columbian Exposition on 
Sundays; also the injunction issued by 
him against Eugene V. Debs and other 
officers of the American Railway Union. 

GROSSMAN, LOUIS, rabbi, author, was 
born Feb. 24. 1863. in Vienna, Austria. 
Since 1898 he has been rabbi of the Con¬ 
gregation of B'nai Yeshurun of Cincin¬ 
nati; and also professor of ethics, the¬ 
ology and pedagogics at Hebrew Union 
College. He is the author of Judaism and 
the Science of Religion; and The Jewish 
Pulpit. 

GROUT, ABEL JOEL, botanist, author, 
was born March 24, 1867, in Newfane, Vt., 
Since 1899 he has been a teacher of bota¬ 
ny in Boys’ High School of Brooklyn, N. 
Y. He has made a specialty of Mosses: 
He is the author of Mosses with a Rand- 
Lens. 

GROWOLL, ADOLF, journalist, author, 
was born in 1850 in New York city. He 
is managing editor of The Publishers’ 
Weekly of New York city. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Bookseller’s Library and 
Plow to Use It; The Profession of Book¬ 
selling; Handbook of Practical Hints for 
the Apprentice and Bookseller, in two 
volumes: and a Bibliography of Ameri¬ 
can Books. 

GRUBB. IGNATIUS C., lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born April 12. 1841, in Grubbs 
Landing. Del. Since 1897 he ha® been 
associate judge-at-large of the supreme 
court of Delaware. He is the author of 
Colonial and State Judiciary of Dela¬ 
ware. 

GUERBER, HELENE ADELINE, edu¬ 
cator. author. She .is the editor of French 
and German text-books. She is the au¬ 
thor of Myths of Greece and Rome; 
Myths of Northern Lands; Legends of 
the Middle Ages; Legends of the Rhine; 
Legends of the Virgin and Christ; Stories 


of the Wagner Operas; Stories of Famous 
Operas; Story of the Chosen People; 
Story of the Greeks : Story of the Rom¬ 
ans; Story of the English; Story of the 
Thirteen Colonies; and Story of the Great 
Republic. 

GUFFY, BAYLESS L. D., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 24, 1832, in Muhlenberg 
county, Ky. In 1862-70 he was county 
judge; and in 1876 was a greenback can¬ 
didate for congress. In 1878-86 he was 
judge of Butler county, Ky.; and since 
1894 has been judge of the court of ap¬ 
peals of Kentucky. 

GUILFORD, SIMEON HAYDEN, den¬ 
tist, scientist, author, was born April 11, 
1841, in Lebanon, Pa. In 1862-63 he 
served as a private in the civil war. Since 
1872 he has practiced dentistry in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa.; has been professor in Phil¬ 
adelphia Dental College since 1881; and 
dean of same since 1895. He is the au¬ 
thor of Nitrous Oxide and Orthodontia. 

GULICK, JOHN THOMAS, missionary, 
author, was born March 13, 1832, in Ha¬ 
waiian Islands. Since 1864 he has been 
missionary of American Board of Com¬ 
missioners of Foreign Missions. He is 
the author of The Diversity of Evolution 
under One Set of External Conditions; 
Divergent Evolution through Cumulative 
Segregation; Intensive Segregation; Di¬ 
vergent Evolution and the Darwinian 
Theory; and The Inconsistencies of Utili¬ 
tarianism. 

GUMMERE, W. S., lawyer, jurist. He 
is associate justice of the supreme court 
of New Jersey. 

GUNTON, GEORGE, journalist, author, 
was born Sept. 8, 1845, in England. In 
1890 he established Gunton’s Magazine 
of New York city. He is the author of 
Wealth and Progress 1 ; Principles of So¬ 
cial Economics; and Trusts and the Pub¬ 
lic. 

GUTHRIE, WILLIAM DAMERON, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Feb. 3, 1859, in San 
Francisco, Cal. He is a prominent orator 
and constitutional lawyer; and argued 
Illinois inheritance tax and oleomargar¬ 
ine cases in United States supreme court. 
He is the author of Lectures on the Four¬ 
teenth Amendment to the Constitution. 

GUTHRIE, WILLIAM NORMAN, lec¬ 
turer, author, poet, was born March 4. 
1868, in Scotland. Since 1898 he has been 
lecturer of comparative literature at Uni¬ 
versity of Cincinnati. He is the author 
of Modern Poet Prophets; Essays Crit¬ 
ical and Interpretative; To Kindle the 
Yule Log; and A Booklet of Verse. 

GUY. SEYMOUR JOSEPH, artist, was 
born Jan. 16, 1824, in England. He came 
to New York in 1854, where he still re¬ 
sides. His subjects are chiefly scenes and 
incidents drawn from child-life. He ex¬ 
hibited at the academy The Good Sister; 
After the Shower; The Little Stranger; 
The Little Orange Girl; and See-Saw, 
Margery Daw. 

HAACKE, HENRY, journalist, author, 
was born Oct. 22, 1838, in Germany. Since 
1872 he has been editor of Cincinnati 
Volksfreund. He is the author of a vol¬ 
ume of Poems. 

HAAS. JOHN A. W., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 31, 1862, in Philadel¬ 
phia. Pa. Since 1896 he has been 
pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church of 
New York city. He is the author of Com¬ 
mentary on the Gospel of Mark in 
Lutheran Commentary. 

HACKETT, FRANK WARREN. law¬ 
yer, author, was born April 11, 1841, in 
Portsmoutth, N. H. Since 1873 he has 
practiced law in Washington, D. C.; and 


since 1900 has been assistant secretary of 
the navy. He is the author of The Ge¬ 
neva Award Acts; and The Gavel and 
the Mace. 

HACKH, OTTO CHRISTOPH, musi 
cian, composer, was born Sept. 30, 1852, 
in Stuttgart. Since 1895 he has been 
teacher in New York and Brooklyn, N. 
L. He is the author of some two hun¬ 
dred pieces. 

HACKLEY, CHARLES H., lumberman, 
philanthropist, was born Jan. 3, 1837, in 
Michigan City, Ind. He worked in mill 
as laborer and foreman; went to commer 
cial school; became bookkeeper and sub¬ 
sequently partner in mill firm. Ho 
bought a square in Muskegon, removed 
the buildings, turned it into a park and 
in the center built soldiers’ monument. 
He gave the park to the city; also gave 
the city a two hundred thousand dollar 
public library, a sixty thousand dollar 
high school and a seventy-five thousand 
dollar central school. 

HACKNEY, LEONARD J., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born March 29, 1885, in Johnson 
county, Ind. In 1878-80 he was prosecut¬ 
ing attorney of Shelby and Johnson coun¬ 
ties, Ind.; and in 1888-93 judge of cir¬ 
cuit court. Since 1893 he has been judge 
of the supreme court of Indiana. 

HADLEY, JOHN VESTAL, soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, jurist, author, was born 
Oct. 31, 1842, in Hendricks county, Ind. 
He served nearly four years during ih” 
civil war. In 1869-72 he was a member of 
the Indiana state senate. In 1888-97 he 
was circuit judge; and since 1899 has 
been chief justice of the supreme court 
of Indiana. He is the author of Seven 
Months A Prisoner. 

HAGEN, JOHN GEORGE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born March 6, 1847, in Austria. 
Since 1880 he has been director of Ob¬ 
servatory at Georgetown College, D. C. 
He is the author of several works in Ger¬ 
man. 

HAID, LEO, R. C. Bishop, was born 
July 15, 1849, in Latrobe, Pa. In 1872-85 
he was chaplain and a professor at St. 
Vincent’s abbey; and in 1885 became ab¬ 
bot of St. Mary Help abbey. He still 
fills the offices of abbot of the abbey and 
vicar apostolic of North Carolina. 

HAIGHT, ALBERT, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Feb. 20, 1842, in Ellicottville. N. V. 
In 1872 he became county judge of Erie 
county, N. Y.; and in 1876-94 was justice 
of the supreme court. Since 1894 he ha*-, 
been associate judge New York court of 

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HAILMANN, WILLIAM NICHOLAS, 
educator, author, was born Oct. 20, 1836 
in Switzerland. In 1894-98 he was national 
superintendent of Indian schools; and 
since 1898 has been superintendent of in- 
struction of Dayton, Ohio. He is the au¬ 
thor of a System of Object Teaching: His¬ 
tory of Pedagogy; and Kindergarten 
Culture. 

HAINER, BAYARD T., lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born May 31. 1860. in Colum¬ 
bia, Mo. Since 1898 he has been associate 
justice of the supreme court of Oklahoma: 
admitted to bar, supreme court, Michi¬ 
gan; practiced law at Larned. Kan., til 1 
1889. He is the author of The Modern 
Law of Municipal Securities. 

HAINES, ELMER P., railroad builder 
was born Aug. 25, 1860, in Medusa, N. 5 . 
He is a member of the Haines’ Railway 
Systems of Kinderhook, N. Y. He was 
democratic candidate for congress in 
1896; is president of the Champlain 
Graphite Mining company; and also of 
several railroads. 


ADDENDA. 


HAINES, WILLIAM T., lawyer, state 
senator, was born in Maine. He was 
county attorney in 1882-86; and in 18sj- 
92 was a memDer of tne Maine state 
senate. Since 1896 he ha® been attorney- 
general of Maine. 

HAINS, PETER CONOVER, soldier, 
was born July 6, 1840, in Pennsylvania. 
He served throughout the civil war and 
was several times breveted; served on 
light-house duty and as secretary light- 
improvement in Washington, and various 
house board; had charge Potomac Flats 
harbor and river improvements and forti¬ 
fications; was member board of engi¬ 
neers, New York; is member board of 
ordinance and fortifications. In 1898 ne 
was appointed brigadier general of vol¬ 
unteers; and served in the war against 
Spain. 

HALE, EDWARD EVERETT, educator 
author, was born Feb. 18, 1863, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He is a son of Edward Ev¬ 
erett Hale, the eminent divine and au¬ 
thor. Since 1895 he has been professor 
of rhetoric in Union College of Schenec¬ 
tady, N. Y. He is the author of Con- 
stiuctive Rhetoric. 

HALE, IRVING, soldier, scientist, was 
born Aug. 28, 1861, in North Bloomfield, 
N. Y. In 1884 he was made second-lieu¬ 
tenant of engineers; and was steadily 
promoted, and became brigadier general 
in 1898. In 1898-y9 he was engaged in 
service against the Filipino insurgents; 
and was recommended major-general by 
brevet for gallant and meritorious serv¬ 
ices throughout the campaign. He re¬ 
signed Oct. 1, 1899; and is now manager 
Rocky Mountain District General Electric 
Company at Denver, Colo. 

HALE, PHILIP, musician, composer, 
was born March 5, 1854, in Norwich. Vt. 
Since 1897 he has been editor of the Bos¬ 
ton Musical Record. He has given lec¬ 
tures on musical subject® at Columbia 
university of New York city; and in va¬ 
rious other cities. 

HALE, RICHARD WALDEN, lawyer, 
author. He is the author of The Dreyfus 
Story. 

HALE, WILLIAM, physician, author, 
poet, was born Jan. 18, 1856, in Dover, 
N. H. He is a noted physician of Glou¬ 
cester, Mass. He is the author of Shore 
Life in Song. 

HALE. WILLIAM GARDNER, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Feb. 9, 1849. Since 
1892 he has been professor of Latin in 
the University of Chicago. He is the 
author of The Art of Reading Latin; and 
The Hale-Buck Latin Grammar. 

HALE, WILLIAM THOMAS, lawyer, 
journalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 
1, 1857. in Liberty, Tenn. He practiced 
his profession in 1880-93; since which 
time he has been connected with i 1 ’'' 
Commercial Appeal of Memphis, the Post- 
Dispatch of St. Louis, the American of 
Nashville, and the Sentinel of KnoxvilD. 
He is the author of Divorce and Land 
Laws of Tennessee; Showers and Sun¬ 
shine, a volume of poems; The Back- 
woods Trail, Stories of the Indians and 
Pioneers; An Autumn Lane, and Other 
Poems. 

HALL, BOLTON, lawyer, lecturer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1854 in Ireland. He 
is a university extension lecturer. He 
is the author of Even as You and 1; and 
other works. 

HALL, CHARLES HARRIS, lawyer, 
merchant, was born March 19, 1860, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He studied law in nr< 
father’s office; and subsequently engaged 
in mercantile business. 


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HALL, CHARLES MARTIN, manufact¬ 
urer, inventor, was born Dec. 6, 1863, in 
Thompson, Ohio. In 1886 he invented the 
electrolytic power for the manufacture of 
aluminum now universally used. 

HALL, CHARLES SAMUEL, lawyer, 
author, was born May 10, 1827, in Middle- 
town, Conn. In 1831 he removed to Buf- 
lalo with his parents; the family settled 
in Binghamton in 1837. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1851; in 1856 became United 
States commissioner, and since 1879 has 
been master and examiner in chancery. 
As village attorney it fell to his lot to 
make a draft of a city charter for Bing¬ 
hamton in 1857, which he perfected ten 
years later. For four years he was a 
member of the board of education; ar.d 
during that, time revised the city school 
law ana the methods of Keeping tne 
school accounts. During the civil war 
he was active in the enlistment of re¬ 
cruits for the army, and administered 
the oath of allegiance to nearly every 
member of three companies. He is ;he 
author of Hall Ancestry; Why the Mis¬ 
souri Compromise Should be Repealed 
and various other articles on political and 
educational subjects. 

HALL, EDWARD HAGAMAN, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Nov. 3, 1858, in Au¬ 
burn, N. Y. He is the author of Finan¬ 
cial Red Book of America. 

HALL, EDWIN HERBERT, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 7, 1855, in Gorham, 
Me. Since 1895 he has been professor of 
physics at Harvard. He is the author of 
A Text-Book of Physics; and Lessons in 
Physics. 

HALL. GEORGE HENRY, artist, was 
born in 1825, in Boston, Mass. He is a 
painter of figures, especially of Italian 
and Spanish peasants. Also paints still 
life pictures, especially fruit. Hi® prin¬ 
cipal works are Precious Lady; The Four 
Seasons; and The Roman Fountain. 

HALL, JAMES KNOX POLK, lawyer, 
financier, congressman, was born Sept 
30, 1844, in Milesburg, Pa. He was dis¬ 
trict attorney of Elk county in 1867-76; 
retired from practice in 1883; and has 
cince devoted himself to his coal, lum¬ 
ber, railroad and banking interests. He 
was elected to the Fifty-sixth congress 
as a- democrat. 

HALL, JOHN LESSLIE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born March 2, 1856, in Wil¬ 
liamsburg, Va. He is professor of Eng¬ 
lish language and literature at William 
and Mary College. He i® the author of 
Translation of Beowulf; and Old English 
Idyls. 

HALL, PRESCOTT FARNSWORT’'. 
lawyer, author, was born in 1868, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. In 1896 he was a delegate to 
Indianapolis convention. He is the au¬ 
thor of Reference List of Wills Construed 
by the Supreme Court in Massachusetts. 

HALL, ROBERT HENRY, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 15, 1837, in Detroit, 
Mich. He served through t.he civil war: 
and attained the rank of lieutenant-colo¬ 
nel. He was a brigadier-general during 
the Spanish-American war; and is now 
serving in the Philippine®. He is the au¬ 
thor of History of the Flag of the 
United States; and History of United 
States Infantry Tactics. 

HALL, RUTH, journalist, author, was 
born April 10, 1858, in Schoharie, N. Y. 
She originated and edited Between Us 
Women column in New York Mail and 
Express in 1893-95. She is the author of 
In the Brave Days of Old; The Boys of 
Scrooby; and The Black Gown. 


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HALL, SAMUEL HOLDEN PARSONS, 
capitalist, was born Oct. 10, 1868, in 
Binghamton, N. Y. He is prominent in 
the business and public affairs of Balls- 
ton, N. Y., where he has charge of a large 
estate. 

HALL, THEODORE PARSONS, banker, 
grain broker, genealogist, author, was 
porn Dec. 15, i835, in Kocky Hill, Conn. 
In 1856 he graduated from Yale; and in 
his class were Judges Brewer and Brown 
of the United States supreme court, 
Chauncey M. Depew and Prof. Packard. 
He studied law for awhile in his brother’s 
office, but finally engaged in the bank¬ 
ing business. For thirty years he was 
engaged in the grainshipping business 
under the well-known firm name of Gil¬ 
lette and Hall of Detroit, Mich, in 18su 
he established Tonnancour, twelve miles 
from Detroit, where he has laid out- a 
beautiful park overlooking Lake St. 
Claire. In 1886 he published a series of 
geneaological notes relating to the fam¬ 
ilies of Gov. Lyman Hall of Georgia, Hon. 
Samuel Holden Parsons Hall of Bingham¬ 
ton, and Hon. Nathan Kelsey Hall of 
Buffalo. In 1892 he published family 
records of Theodore Parsons Hall and 
Alexandrine Louise Godfrey of Tonnon- 
cour, Grosse Point. 

HALL, THOMAS CUMING, theologian, 
author, was born Sept. 25, 1858, in Ire¬ 
land. Since 1898 he has been professor 
of theology at Union Theological Semi¬ 
nary. He is the author of The Power of 
An Endless Life; The Social Significance 
of the Evangelical Revival in England; 
and The Synoptic Gospels. 

HALL, WILLIAM T., lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor. He is a police magistrate and 
justice of the peace of Chicago, Ill. He 
is the author of several published works. 

HALLAM, MRS. JULIA CLARK, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 7, 1860, in 
Portage, Wis. She taught in high schools 
of Madison and La Crosse, Wis. She is 
the author of The Relation fi the Sexes 
from a Scientific Standpoint. 

HALLECK, REUBEN POST, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 8, 1859, in Rocky 
Point, N. Y. Since 1896 he has been 
principal of the Male High School at 
Louisville, Ky. He is the author of Psy- 
< hology and Psychic. 

HALLOCK, JOSEPH NEWTON, jour¬ 
nalist, clergyman, author, was born in 
1834, in Franklinville, N. Y. Since 1889 
he has been editor-in-chief and propri¬ 
etor of The Christian Work of Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He is director in sev¬ 
eral large corporations. He is author of 
A History of Southampton; First Im¬ 
pressions of Europe; Twice ‘Across the 
Continent; The Christian Life; and Fam¬ 
ily V o”ship. 

HALLOWELL. MRS. ANNA DAVIS 
author, was born April 21, 1838, in Phil¬ 
adelphia. She is the wife of Richard 
Price Hallowell. She is the author of 
James and Lucretia Mott, Their Life and 
Letters. ’ ipW*® 

HALLOWELL, RICHARD PRICE, mer¬ 
chant, author, was born Dec. 16, 1835, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a successful wool 
merchant of Boston, Mass. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Quaker Invasion of Massa¬ 
chusetts; and The Pioneer Quakers. 

HALSEY, FRANCIS WHITING, jour¬ 
nalist, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 15. 
1851, in Unadilla, N. Y. Since 1880 he 
has been editor on the staff of the New 
York Times. He is the author of Two 
Months Abroad; and An Old New York 
Frontier, Its Indian Wars, Pioneers and 
Land Titles. 


ADDENDA. 

HALSEY, FREDERICK A„ journalist, 
civil engineer, author, was born July 12, 
1856, in Unadilla, N. Y. Since 1895 he has 
been associate editor of American Ma¬ 
chinist of New York city. He is also well 
known as a successful consulting engi¬ 
neer. He is the inventor of the premium 
plan of paying for labor. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Locomotive Link Motion. 

HALSEY, JACOB LAFAYETTE, insur¬ 
ance, was born Aug, 18, 1828, in New 
York city. Since 1846 he has been con¬ 
nected with the New York Life Insurance 
company, of which he is vice-president. 
His name is associated with nearly the 
entire period of the development of life 
insurance in America. 

HAMBLEN, HERBERT ELLIOTT, civil 
engineer, author, was born Dec. 24, 1849, 
in Ossippee, N. H. He is now employed 
by New York city aqueduct department. 
He is the author of On Many Seas; The 
General Manager’s Story; Tom Benton’s 
Luck; The Story of a Yankee Boy: We 
Win; Scotty; and A Modern Sea Rover. 

HAMER, THOMAS R„ soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born May 4, 1864, in Ver¬ 
mont, Ill. He was elected to the state 
legislature of Idaho from Fremont coun 
ty.. During the Spanish-American war he 
raised a company of infantry, and was 
commissioned captain. While serving in 
the Philippine Islands he was appointed 
provost judge in Manila. He was wound¬ 
ed at the battle of Colooc.an; was com¬ 
missioned lieutenant-colonel; and is now 
military governor of the island of Cebu. 

HAMERSLEY, WILLIAM, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Sept. 9. 1838, in Hartford, 
Conn. In 1865-68 he was city attorney 
of Hartford. Conn.; and in 1868-88 was 
states attorney. In 1893-94 he was judge 
of the superior court; a^d since 1894 has 
been associate judge of the Conecticut 
supreme court of errors. 

HAMILTON, PETER JOSEPH, lawyer, 
author, was born March 19, 1859, in Mo¬ 
bile, Ala. He has been city attorney of 
Mobile, Ala. He is the author of Colonial 
Mobile; and Ramblers in Historic Lands. 

HAMMELL, GEORGE MILTON, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born July 
20, 1852, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was for 
many years instructor in Nelson’s Col¬ 
lege. He was a member of the Cincin¬ 
nati conference; and has been literary 
editor Western Christian Advocate. He 
is now professor of political science and 
economics in the American Temperance 
University of Tennessee. In 1899 he was 
nominated governor of Tennessee on the 
prohibition ticket. 

HAMMOND, JASON E., educator, auth¬ 
or, was born May 17, 1862, in Hillsdale 
county, Mich. Since 1897 he has been 
superintendent of public instruction of 
Michigan. He is the author of Revised 
State Manual and Course of Study. 

HAMMOND, JOHN WILKES, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 16, 1837. 
in Mattopoisett, Mass. In 1866-86 he 
practiced law at Cambridge, Mass.; was 
city solicitor in 1873-86; justice superior 
court of Massachusetts in 1886-98; and a 
member of the house of representatives 
of Massachusetts in 1872-73. Since 1898 
he has been justice of the supreme court. 

HAMMOND, JOSEPH, educator, legis¬ 
lator, genealogist, was born April 5, 1809, 
in Swanzey, N. H. For nearly sixty 
years he has been justice of the peace. 
In 1850-51 he was a member of the New 
Hampshire state legislature; and for 
twenty years was engaged in educational 
work. He is the author of Swanzer 
Hammonds. 


HANAFORD, MRS. PHEBE ANNE, 
minister, lecturer, author, poet, was born 
May 6, 1829, in Nantucket, Mass. She 
was the first woman minister ordained 
in New England. She is the author ol 
Life of Abraham Lincoln; Life of George 
Peabody; Lucretia, the Quakeress; Leon- 
ette, or Truth Sought and Found; The 
Best of Books and its History; Frank 
Nelson, the Runaway Boy; The Soldier’s 
Daughter; Field, Gunboat and Hospital; 
Women of the Century; The Captive Boy 
of Tierra del Fucgo; Life of Dickens; 
Heart of Siasconset; and From Shore to 
Shore and Other Poems. 

HANCOCK, HARRY IRVING, author. 
He is the author of Detective Jounson of 
New Orleans; What One Man Saw; His 
Evil Eye; Inspector Henderson; and 
Aguinaldo’s Hostage. 

HANECY, ELBRIDGE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born March 15, 1852, in Massachu¬ 
setts. He was clerk in the dry goods house 
of Field, Leiter & Company to 1871; and 
subsequently with J. V. r arwell & Com¬ 
pany. He was a member of the law firm 
of Hanecy and Merrick. In 1893-95 he 
was judge of the circuit court of Cook 
county, Ill; and then was assigned as 
a chancellor of the same court. In iti 
he was candidate for mayor of Chicago. 

HANUS, PAUL HENRY, educator, 
author, was born March 14, 1855, in Prus¬ 
sia. Since 1891 he has been assistant 
professor of education at Harvard univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of Elements of 
Determinants; Geometry in the Grammar 
School; and Educational Aims and Edu¬ 
cational Values. 

HAPGOOD, NORMAN, journalist, auth¬ 
or, was born March 28, 1868, in Chicago, 
Ill. He is dramatic critic of the New 
York Commercial Advertiser and The 
Bookman. He is the author of Literary 
Statesmen; Daniel Webster; and Abra 
ham Lincoln, the Man of the People. 

HARALSON, JONATHAN, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born in Lowndes county, Ala. 
In 1876-92 he was judge of the city court 
of Selma, Ala.; and since 1892 has been 
justice of the supreme court of Alabama. 
Since 1888 he has -been president of the 
Southern Baptist Convention. 

HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL, au¬ 
thor, was born July 5, 1858, in Dalton, 
Ga. He is the author of White Marie; 
Almost Persuaded; A Mute Confessor; 
The Land of the Changing Sun ; From 
Clue to Climax; The Caruther’s Affair; 
The North Walk Mystery; and the Wo¬ 
man Who Trusted. 

HARDENBERGH, HENRY JANEW4 V 
architect, was born Feb. 6, 1847, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. He was one of the 
foundens of the American Fine Arts So¬ 
ciety and Mutual Art Society. He erect¬ 
ed from his designs the Dakota Hotel, 
Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan Hotel, and 
American Fine Arts Society Building. 

HARDIN, GEORGE A., lawyer, state 
senator, jurist, .was born Aug. 17, 1832, 
in Winfield, N. Y. In 1861 he was a 
member of the New York state senate. 
Since 1884 he has been presiding justice 
of the 4th department appellate divis¬ 
ion of the supreme court of New York. 

HARDIN, MARTIN D., soldier, lawyer, 
lecturer, author, was born June 26, 1837. 
in Jacksonville, Ill. During the civil 
war he attained th rank of brigadier- 
general. Since 1870 he has practiced law 
in Chicago, Ill. He has lectured exten¬ 
sively on military subjects. He is the 
author of History of the Twelfth Regi¬ 
ment Pennsylvania Reserves. 


ADDENDA. 


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HARDIN, WILLETT LEPLEY, chem¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 8, 1868, in 
Lima, Ohio. Since 1896 he has been lec¬ 
turer in physical chemistry at University 
of Pennsylvania. He is the author of 
The Rise and Development of the Lique¬ 
faction of Gases; and translated Traube’s 
Physico-Chemical Methods. 

HARDING, JOHN W., journalist, auth¬ 
or, was born Oct. 30, 1864, in England. 

He fills an important position on a New 
York newspaper. He is the author of 
A Bachelor of Paris; The Strolling Pi¬ 
per of Brittany; The Conjurer of Phan¬ 
toms; and translated The Memoirs of 
Victor Hugo. 

HARDING, MYRON HOLLY,physician, 
was born Aug. 7, 1810, in Williamson, N. 

Y. He has served as United States pen¬ 
sion surgeon since his appointment in 
1862. 

HARDY, D. H., lawyer, public official, 
was born March 4, 1857, in Athens, Miss. 
He is a successful lawyer of Waco, Tex.: 
was presidential elector in 1896; and is 
now secretary of state. 

HARE, HOBART AMORY, physician, 
author, was born Sept. 20, 1862, in Phi a 
delphia, Pa. Since 1891 he has been ed¬ 
itor of the Therapeutic Gazette, of Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is the author of Text- 
Book of Practical Therapeutics; Practical 
Diagnosis; and a System of Therapeutics, 
in four volumes. 

HARKNESS, WILLIAM, surgeon, as¬ 
tronomer, physicist, was born Dec. 17, 
1S37, in Scotland. In 1862 he was ap¬ 
pointed aide at the Untied States naval 
observatory; and also served as surgeon 
in the United States army at the second 
battle of Bull Run and during the at¬ 
tack on Washington in 1864. He was 
commissioned professor of mathematics 
in the United States navy, with the rel¬ 
ative rank of lieutenant-commander, in 
1863, and stationed at the naval observa¬ 
tory at Washington, D. C. In 1866-bi 
during a cruise in the Monadnock, he 
made an extensive series' of observations 
on terrestrial magnetism at the principal 
ports in South America. In 1899 he was 
retired with the rank of rear admiral. 

HARLAN, HENRY DAVID, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 23, 1858,. in Church- 
ville, Md. Since 1888 he has been chief 
judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore, 
Md. 

HARLAND, EDWARD, soldier, lawyer, 
banker, state senator, was born June 21, 
1832, in Norwich, Conn. In 1863 he at¬ 
tained the rank of brigadier-gensrai. 
In 1869 he was a member of the Connect¬ 
icut legislature; and in 1870 a member of 
the state senate. In 1862-76 he was pre¬ 
siding judge of probate. He is the pres¬ 
ident of the Norwich Savings Bank. 
AMERICAN 72 BL 

HARNISCH. ALBERT ERNEST, sculp¬ 
tor, was born Feb. 14, 1842, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He early showed a taste foi 
art, and while still a lad modeled his first 
work, a Cupid. In 1878 he executed a 
model for an equestrian statue of Gen. 
Robert E. Lee, which is said to be re ; 
markable in respect to its simplicity. 

HARPER, GEORGE McLEAN. educat¬ 
or, author, was born Dec. 31. 1863, in 
Shippenisburg, Pa. Since 1894 he has 
been professor of romance languages it 
Princeton university. He is the author 
of The Legend of the Holy Grail. 

HARPER. SAMUEL H., lawyer, jurist. 
He was a judge of the United States court 
for the district of Louisiana. 

HARPER, WILLIAM ST. JOHN, illus¬ 
trator, artist, was born Sept. 8, 1851, in 


Rheinbeck, N. Y. He is a painter and 
book-illustrator. In 1881-83 ’ he was 
president of the Art Student’s League; 
and received the Clark prize in 1892 for 
painting Autumn. He has illustrated^ 
fine holiday editions of standard poets, 
romances, and school books and historical 
works. 

HARRINGTON, KARL POMEROY, ed¬ 
ucator, musician, author, was born June 
12, 1861, in Somersworth, N. H. Since 
1899 he has been professor of Datin at 
university of Maine. In 1899 he was 
president of Bangor Festival Chorus. He 
is the author of Helps to the Intelligent 
Study of College Preparatory Latin. 

HARRINGTON, JOHN WALKER, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born July 8, 1868, in 
Plattsburgh, Mo. He is now on the stall’ 
of the New York Herald. He is the 
author of The Jumping Kangaroo and 
the Apple Butter Cat. 

HARRIS, CICERO RICHARDS^ clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born Aug. 25, 1844, in 
Fayetteville, N. C. He is of Af¬ 
rican descent. He became principal 
of Livingston college in 1880; and was 
professor of mathematics there in 1882- 
88 . He was general secretary of the 
African Methodist Episcopal Zion church 
in 1880-84; and its general steward in 
1880-88, when he became a bishop. 

HARRIS, GEORGE B., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born in 1848, in Brookline, 
Mass. Since 1901 he has been president 
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 
railroad. 

HARRIS, MAURICE HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in London, Eng¬ 
land. In 1883 he became rabbi of the 
Temple Israel of Harlan, N. Y. He is 
the author of Selected Addresses, in three 
volumes. 

HARRiS, WILLIAM CHARLES, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, author, was born May 
30, 1830, in Baltimore, Md. He served 
as’ a soldier throughout the civil war. 
He is now editor and publisher of Th" 
American Angler. He is the author of 
The Fishes of North America, with col¬ 
ored lithographic plates of fishes; The 
Trouts of America; Game Fishes of the 
West; Game Fishes of the Atlantic Coast; 
and Sportsmen’s Guide. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM H., naval officer. 
He served throughout the civil war as en¬ 
gineer; and in 1883 became chief engineer. 
In 1890 he was retired by age limitation 
with rank of rear admiral. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM VICTOR, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born April 27. 186''. 
in New York city. He is a vocal in¬ 
structor, accompanist, and composer ot 
New York city. He is the author of 
several songs and an operetta. 

HARRISON, MRS. BELLE RICHARD¬ 
SON, educator, poet, was born Oct. 20, 
1856, in Camden, Ala. She is the author 
of Poems. 

HARRISON, GEORGE M., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. He is associate judge of the su¬ 
preme court of Virginia. 

HARRISON, RALPH C., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. He is associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of California. 

HARRISON, T. O. C., lawyer, jurist. He 
is chief justice of the supreme court of 
Nebraska. 

HARSHBERGER, JOHN WILLIAM -- 1 
ueator, author, was born Jan. 1, 1869, m 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is instructor in 
botany at university of Pennsylvania. 
He is the author of Botanical and Eco¬ 
nomic Study; The Botanists of Philadel¬ 
phia and Their Work. 


HART, BURDETT, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 16, 1821, in New Britain, 
Conn. He is the author of Biblical Ep¬ 
ochs; Studies of the Model Life; Aspects 
of Heaven; Always Upward; and The 
Crown Lost and Restored. 

HART, CHARLES ARTHUR, entomol¬ 
ogist, author, was born Oct. 12, 1859, in 
Quincy, Ill. He is a specialist in Aquat¬ 
ic Insect Life. He is the author o'f The 
Entomology of the Illinois River. 

HART, EDWARD, chemist, author, was 
born in Doylestown, Pa. He is professor 
of chemistry in Lafayette college of East¬ 
on, Pa. He has taken out four chemical 
patents. He is the author of Chemistry 
for Beginners. 

HART, HENRY MARTYN. clergyman, 
author, was born March 3, 1838, in Eng¬ 
land. He is dean of St. John’s cathedral 
of Denver. He is the author of Element¬ 
ary Chemistry; A Book of Family Prayer, 
and A Way that Seemeth Right. 

HART, PERCIE W., author, was born 
in 1870 in Nova Scotia. He is the author 
of A Tale of Nova Scotia; The Flying 
Cloud; Torpedo Boat Captured; The First 
Law of the Service; Sandals and Sabots; 
Ye Windmlil of Wall Street; Ye Key of 
Ye Broadway Gate; Ye Battle of Maiden 
Lane; and The Crimsoning of the High 
Seas. 

HARTMANN, ARTHUR, musician com¬ 
poser, was born July 23, 1882, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He has played the violin with 
success in London, Paris and Vienna. 

HARTSHORN, ORVILLE. NELSON, 
educator, college president, author. He 
settled in Mount Union, Iowa, in charge 
of a school which developed into Mount 
Union college in 1858. For forty-one 
years he was president of the institution. 
He is the author of a treatise entitled 
The Supremacy of the Law. 

HARTZELL, JOSEPH CRANE, mis¬ 
sionary, bishop, was born June 1, 1842, 
in Illinois. In 1896 he was elected mis¬ 
sionary bishop to Africa; and has since 
labored in building up missions there. 

HARTZLER, HENRY BURNS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 23, 1840, in 
York county. Pa. He is the author of 
Moody in Chicago. 

HARVEY, CORNELIUS BURNHAM, 
educator, soldier lawyer, genealogist, was 
born Oct. 20, 1839, in Enfield, N. Y. He 
taught school for awhile; and in 1862 he 
enlisted as a private in the fourteenth 
regiment, New Jersey volunteers. He has 
a large practice in Jersey City. He has 
given many years to historical and gen¬ 
ealogical research. He is the author of 
the Buck Genealogy of the Harvey Fam¬ 
ily; and a Biographical and Genealogical 
History of Bergen and Hudson Counties. 

HARVEY, HEZEKIAH, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born Nov. 27. 182 
in England. He came to the United 
States in 1830. In 1849-57 he was pastor 
of the Baptist church in Homer, N. ft; 
and since that time he has been a pro¬ 
fessor in the Hamilton theological semin¬ 
ary. He is the author of Memoir of 
Rev. Alfred Bennett; The Church, its Pol¬ 
ity and Ordinance®; and The Pastor, His 
Qualifications and Duties. 

HASBROUCK, HENRY C., soldier, was 
born Oct. 26, 1839, in Newburgh, N. v . 
During the civil war he attained the rank 
of captain. He became major for gal¬ 
lant service in action against Indians 
in Sorass Lake, Cal. In 1898 he was ap¬ 
pointed brigadier-general of the United 
States volunteers, serving in volunteer 
army as commander of the second brig¬ 
ade, second division, seventh army corps. 


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ADDENDA. 


HASKINS, CARYL DAVIS, civil en¬ 
gineer, inventor, author, was born May 
22, 1867, in Walton, Mass. In 1893 he 
invented the auto-dirigible torpedo. He 
volunteered for Spanish war and placed 
second in charge of submarine mining 
operations in Boston district; and in 1898 
commanded the volunteer electric corps, 
Boston battalion. He is the author of 
papers on electric subjects, and on coast 
defense and torpedo warfare. 

HASKINS, KITTREDGE, soldier, law. 
yer, state senator, congressman, was 
born April 8, 1836, in Dover, Vt. During 
the civil war he attained the rank of 
first lieutenant. In 1872-73, and 1896-99 
he was a member of the Vermont gen¬ 
eral assembly; and in 1892-93 was a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate. He was elected 
to the fifty-seventh congress from Ver¬ 
mont as a republican. 

HASSAM, CHILDE. artist, was born in 
1859 in Boston, Mass. He has received 
numerous medals for art exhibitions in 
Paris, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland 
and Chicago. 

HASSLER, MRS. ELIZABETH EMIjA. 
author, was born Jan. 27, 1865, in Ba¬ 
tavia, Ill. She is the wife of Dr. Fer¬ 
dinand A. Hassler. Since 1883 she has 
been engaged as a writer of fiction foi 
magazines and newspapers. 

HASTINGS DANIEL HARTMAN, law¬ 
yer, governor, was born Feb. 26, 1849, in 
Salona, Pa. In 1875-88 he practiced law, 
and has since been largely interested in 
coal mines and banking. In 1888 lie was 
a delegate at large to National republican 
convention. In 1895-99 he was governor 
of Pennsylvania. 

HASTINGS, RUSSELL, soldier, legis¬ 
lator, was born May 30, 1835, in Green¬ 
field, Mass. Early in the civil war h'e 
enlisted as a private, and was soon pro¬ 
moted to be a lieutenant in the 23d Ohio 
regiment. He was brevetted brigadier- 
general of volunteers in 1865. He was 
elected a member of the Ohio legislature 
in 1865; and while there was appointed 
United States marshal for the northern 
district of Ohio, serving until 1874. 

HASTINGS, THOMAS, architect, was 
born March 11, 1860, in New York city. 
He is an architect of New York city; 
and one of the designers of the New 
Consolidated library; Academy of De¬ 
signs; and other buildings. 

HASTREITER, MRS. HELEN, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Nov. 14, 1858, 
in Louisville, Ky. Her home is in Gen¬ 
oa. She is a great favorite in Italy; 
some of her leading roles are Orfeo, Euri- 
dice, Dalilah, Senta, and Ortrud. 

HATCH, JOHN PORTER, soldier, was 
born Jan. 9, 1822, in Oswego, N. Y. He 
served in the Mexican war; and in 1861 
became general of volunteers. 

HATFIELD, JAMES TAFT, educator, 
author, was born June 15, 1862, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. Since 1890 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of German literature at Northwest¬ 
ern university of Chicago, Ill. He is the 
author of Elements of Sanskrit Gram¬ 
mar; Materials for German composition; 
and German Lyrics and Ballads. 

HATTSTAEDT, JOHN J„ musician, 
composer, was born Dec. 29, 1851, in Mon¬ 
roe, Mich. Since 1886 he has been direc¬ 
tor of the American Conservatory of Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. He is the author of Manual o' 
Musical History. 

HAUCK, MINNIE, musician, composer, 
was born Nov. 16, 1852, in New York 
city. She has sung repeatedly in all 
European capitals, and in America, in 
1881 she married Ernst von Hesse-War- 


tegg, the traveler. Her principal roles 
are Zerlina, Mignon, Rosine, Margaretha, 
Aida, Fille du Regiment, and Carmen. 

HAUGEN, GILBERT N„ legislator, 
banker, congressman, was born April 21, 
1859, in Rock county, Wis. He was elec¬ 
ted to the Iowa state legislature, serving 
ir. the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth gen¬ 
eral assemblies. In 1890 he was one of 
the organizers of the Northwood Banking 
company, now operating banking insti¬ 
tutions in Northwood and Kensett, Iowa, 
of which concern he is president. He 
was elected to the fifty-sixth congress 
from Iowa as a republican. 

HAUSER, SAMUEL THOMAS, miner, 
banker, governor, was born June 10, 1833, 
in Falmouth, Ky. In 1865 he opened a 
bank at Virginia Ciiy, Mont.; and since 
1866 he has been president of the Firs*. 
National Bank of Helena, Mont. He 
built the first smelter and silver mill in 
Montana. In 1886-88 he was governor of 
Montana. 

HAVEMEYER, HENRY OSBORNE, 
sugar refiner, philanthropist, was born 
Oct. 18, 1847, in New York city. In 1891 
he organized and ever since has been 
president of the American Sugar Refining 
Company, with a capital of seventy-five 
million dollars. • He presented a public 
school-house, costing $250,000 to Green¬ 
wood, Conn. 

HAWKINS, HAMILTON S., soldier, 
was born in 1834, in Charleston, S. C. In 
1865 he was brevetted major; promoted 
through the grades, becoming colonel of 
the twentieth infantry in 1894. In 1898 
he was appointed brigadier-general of 
volunteers; major-general in 1898; and 
was retired from the army. 

HAWLEY, WILLIAM DICKINSON 
genealogist, philanthropist, was born Jan. 
11, 1838, in Northampton, Mass. For 
nearly forty years he has been chief clerk 
State Auditor’s department at Boston, 
Maes. He is the author of Genealogy 
of the Hawley Family of Marblehead. 

HAY, HELEN, author, poet, was born 
in New York city. She is the author of 
Some Verses; Beasts and Birds; The Lit¬ 
tle Boy Book; and The Rose of Dawn. 

HAYDEN, HORACE EDWIN, soldier, 
clergyman, author, was bofn Feb. 18, ] 8 9 7 
in Catonsville, Md. In'1861-65 he served 
as private in the Confederate army. Since 
1879 he has been assistant minister at 
St. Stephen's church of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
He is the author of History of the West 
Virginia Souliers’ Medals; Virginia Gene¬ 
alogies; Massacre of Wyoming; Pollock 
Memorial; and Weitzel Memorial. 

HAYES, ELLEN, educator, author, was 
born Sept. 23, 1851, in Granville, Ohio. 
Since 1897 she has been professor of ap¬ 
plied mathematics at Wellesley college. 
She is a lecturer on educational and soci¬ 
ological questions. She is the author of 
Higher Algebra; and Trigonometry. 

HAYES, JOHN RUSSELL, educator, 
author, poet, was born June 25, 1866, in 
West Chester, Pa. Since 1893 he has 
been assistant professor of English at 
Swarthmore college. He is the author of 
The Oid-Fashioned Garden and Other 
Verses; and Swarthmore Idylls. 

HALFORD, JOHN FILMORE, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born May j.9, 1868. 
at Rouse Point, N. Y. Since 1898 he has 
been expert computer and geodetist ot 
the Coast and Geological survey. He is 
the author of Goedetic Astronomy. 

HAYMOND, CREED, lawyer, state 
senator, was born April 22, 1*36, in Bev¬ 
erly, Va. He served as cha‘ man of the 


code commission of Californ i; and with 
his associate prepared the rst complete 
code that was adopted by any state in 
the Union. He was a member for two 
terms of the state senate of California.. 

HAYNES, NATHANIEL SMITH, sol¬ 
dier, clergyman, author, was born March 
7. 1844, in Washington, Ky. He is min¬ 
ister of the Christian Church of Disciples 
at Eureka, Ill. He served in eighty-sixth 
and one hundred and thirty-ninth Illi¬ 
nois voluntary infantry in the civil warn 
He is the author of Children’s Question 
Book. 

HAYWOOD, MARSHALL DE LANCE 
journalist, author. He is the author of 
a number of works on colonial subjects 
connected with North Carolina. 

HAZARD, M. C., journalist, author, wa^. 
born June 28, 1839, in Bradford, Pa. He 
is editor of the Sunday-school and Pub¬ 
lishing Society. He is the author of 
The Tearless Land. 

HAZELRIGG, JAMES HERVEY, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 6, 1848, 
in Montgomery county, Ky. He -served 
in the Confederate army in 1864-65; and 
practiced law in 1875-92. Since 1892 he 
has been chief justice of the court of 
appeals of Kentucky. 

HAZELTON, GEORGE COCHRA* 
lawyer, author, was born in Boscobel, 
Wis. In 1898-1900 he practiced corpora¬ 
tion law in Philadelphia, Pa.; and now 
practices in New York city. He is the 
author of The National Capitol; and sev¬ 
eral dramas. 

HAZEN, ALLEN, civil engineer, auth¬ 
or, was born Aug. 28, 1869, in Hartford. 
Conn. In 1898-99 he was chief engineer, 
in building the Albany water filtration 
plant. He is the author of The Flltra-, 
tion of Public Water Supplies. 

HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER, . edu¬ 
cator, author, was born March 17. 1868, in 
Barnet, Vt. Since 1894 he has been pro-, 
fossor of history at Smith college of Nor¬ 
thampton, Mass. He is the author of 
Contemporary American Opinion of the 
French Revolution. 

HAZEN, MARSHMAN WILLIAMS, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1845, in Beverly,^ 
Mass. He now practices in New York. 
He is the author of Observation, Thought 
and Expression, in two volumes; Govern-,- 
ment; and a series of readers and United 
States histories. 

HEADLEY, PHINEAS CAMP, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 29, 1819, in 
Walton, N. Y. He is the author of 
Women of the Bible; Half-Hours in Bible 
Land; and Public Men of Today. 

HEARD. W. W., governor, In 1901-04 
he was governor of Louisiana. 

HEARST, MRS. PHOEBE, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born in 1840. She became a 
teacher. In 1861 she married George F. 
Hearst, late United States senator from 
California. She has established and en¬ 
dowed five kindergarten classes for poor 
children, and a manual training school 
in San Francisco; several kindergartens 
and a kindergarten training school in 
Washington, D. C.; and has made dona¬ 
tions to the American university of Wash¬ 
ington. She gave two hundred thousand 
dollars to build the National Cathedral 
School for Girls; has established working 
girls’ clubs in San Francisco; maintains 
schools for mining engineers at university 
of California as memorial to her husband; 
and built, endowed and gave thousands of 
volumes to free libraries at Lead City. 
Anaconda, and other mining towns. Her 
life work is being devoted to a greater 
university of California. 


ADDENDA. 


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HEARST, 'WILLIAM RANDOLPH, jour¬ 
nalist, philanthropist, was born in Saw 
Francisco. Since 1895 he has been ed¬ 
itor and proprietor of the New York 
Journal. He is a son of the late George 
F. Hearst, United States senator from 
California. He became proprietor of tb- 
San Francisco Examiner, which he still 
owns; bought the New York Journal and 
removed to New York. 

HEATH, DANIEL COLAMORE, pub¬ 
lisher, was born Oct. 26, 1843, in Salem, 
Maine. He is president of Heath & Co„ 
publishers of text-books for schools and 
colleges. 

HEATH, PERRY SANFORD, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Aug. 31, 1857, in 
Muncie, Ind. In 1878-80 he was editor 
of Muncie Times; and in 1881 established 
the Aberdeen Pioneer, of South Dako'a. 
He was identified with framing the con¬ 
stitutions for division of South Dakota 
and government of the two proposed 
states of North Dakota and South Da¬ 
kota. In 1894-96 he was president and 
general manager of the Cincinnati Com¬ 
mercial Gazette. Since 1897 he has been 
first assistant postmaster-general. He is 
the author of A Hoosier in Russia. 

HEATON, AUGUSTUS GEORGE art¬ 
ist. author, was born Aprn 28, 1844, in 
Philadelphia. Pa. He painted Washing¬ 
ton at Fort Duquesne; The Recall of 
Columbus; and painted portrait of fbsh¬ 
op Bowman for Cornell college. He is 
the author of The Heart of David, The 
Psalmist King; and sundry poems, letters 
of travel and numismatic articles. 

HEATON, JOHN LANGDON.journalist, 
author, was born Jan. 29, 1860. in Can¬ 
ton. N. Y. He is the author of The Story 
of Vermont; The Book of Lies; The Oust¬ 
ing Bee and Other Poems; and Stories 
of Napoleon. 

HEBERT, LOUIS, soldier, engineer, 
state senator, was born March 12. 1820 
in Iberville parish, La. He was madn 
brevet lieutenant of engineers in 1845: 
but resigned in 1846. He served two 
terms in the state senate of Louisiana; 
and was engineer of the state. He was 
commissioned colonel of the third Lou¬ 
isiana infantry in the Confederate army 
in 1861; and brigadier-general in 1862. 
He is a representative of the old French 
or Creole people of Louisiana: and is still 
active in the management of his sugar 
plantation. 

HECKER, JOHN VALENTINE, manu¬ 
facturer, was born Dec. 25, 1848, in New 
York city. He became president of the 
George V. Hecker company, and subse¬ 
quently effected an organization of the 
flour mills of New York into the Hecker- 
Jones-Jewell Milling company, of which 
he is president. 

HEDGE. THOMAS, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born June 24, 1844, in Burlington, 
Iowa. He served as a private in Com¬ 
pany E, and as second lieutenant in Com¬ 
pany G, one hundred and sixth New York 
infantry in 1864. Since 1869 he has been 
engaged in the practice of law in Burl¬ 
ington, Iowa. He was elected to the fifty- 
sixth congress as a republican. 

HEERMANS, FORBES, journalist, 
author, was born Oct. 25. 1856, in Syr¬ 
acuse. N. Y. Since 1880 he has been 
engaged in journalism. He is the author 
of Thirteen Stories of the Far West; Love 
by Induction and Other Plays; Tire Ran¬ 
cho of Heavenly Rest: and The Vagabond, 
a play in which Felix Morris starred in 
1893-1900. 


HEILL, FREDERICK STANHOPE, 
naval officer, journalist, author, was born 
Aug. 4, 1829, in Boston, Mass. In 1861-65 
he was an officer in the United States 
navy; was with Farragut at the capture 
of New Orleans and at Vicksburg, and in 
command on coast of Texas and in the 
Mississippi squadron. He is secretary of 
the Massachusetts Nautical Training 
school. He is the author of Twenty 
Years at Sea, or Leaves from My Old 
Log-books. 

HEISTAND, HENRY OLCOT SHEL¬ 
DON, soldier, was born April 30, 1856, in 
Rich wood, Ohio. He entered West Point 
as a cadet in 1874. On graduating he was 
appointed government inspector and in¬ 
structor of the Ohio national guard in 
1892. In 1896 he was confidential secre¬ 
tary to Major McKinley during his pres¬ 
idential campaign. He is the author 
of Alaska, Its History and Description. 

HEKTOEN, LUDVIG, educator, author, 
was born July 2. 1863, in Wisconsin. 

Since 1895 he has been professor of pa¬ 
thology at Rush Medical college of Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. He is the author of Postmor¬ 
tem Technique. 

HEMMETER. JOHN COHN, physician, 
author, was born April 25, 1864. in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He is clinical professor of 
medicine in the University of Maryland. 
He is the author of Diseases of the 
Stomach; and other medical works. 

HEMMINGWAY. MARY A., educator, 
philanthropist. She established the 
Study of History in the Old South church. 
She established kindergartens; and gave 
a large fortune to organizations to bene¬ 
fit society and the nation. 

HEMPL, GEORGE, educator, author 
was born June 6, 1854, in Whitewater, 
Wis. Since 1889 he has been professor 
of English phimlogy and general linguist¬ 
ics, at the University of Michigan. He 
is the author of Whist Scores ind Card- 
Table Talk; Old-English Phonology; 
Chaucer’s Pronunciation; German Orthog¬ 
raphy; English Nursery Rhymes in Ger¬ 
man; and German Grammar. 

HEMSTREET, CHARLES, journalist, 
author, was born Sept. 20, 1866. in New 
York. city. He is the author of Nooks 
and Corners of Old New York; and The 
Calendar of Old New York. 

HENDERSON, CHARLES HANFOn 1 ) 
educator, author, was born Dec. 30. 1861, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a science 
teacher; and in 1898-99 was director in 
Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, N. Y. He 
is the author of Elements of Physics.^ 

HENDERSON, CHARI.ES RICHMOND, 
educator, author, was born Dec. 17. 1848, 
in Covington. Ind., Since 1892 he has been 
professor of sociology at the University of 
Chicago. He is the author of Introduc¬ 
tion to Study of Dependents, Defectives 
and Delinquents; Development of Doc¬ 
trine in the Epistles; Social Spirit in 
America; Social Elements; and Social 
Settlements. 

HENDERSON, JOHN JOSEPH, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 23, 1843, 
in Allegheny county. Pa. In 1862-65 he 
served in the Union army. In 1873-76 
he was district attorney of Meadville, Pa.: 
and in 1888-98 was presiding judge of the 
thirtieth district of Pennsylvania. 

HENDRY, THOMAS, clergyman, auth¬ 
or. He is a clergyman of Los Angeles. 
Cal.; and the author of a published work 
of selections. 

HENNESSY. ROLAND BURKE, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Jan. 30, 1870. 
in Milford, Mass. He is editorially con¬ 
nected with Broadway Magazine. He 


has written several songs, including The 
Songs of Long Ago. He is the author of 
Tales of the Heart, and Tales of Broad¬ 
way. 

HENROTIN, ELLEN M., was born July 

I, 1847, in Portland, Maine. In 1893 
she was vice-president of the Congress 
Auxiliary of the World’s Columbian Ex¬ 
position. In 1894-98 she was president 
of the General Federation of Women’s 
Clubs, at Chicago, Ill. 

HENRY, JAMES ADDISON, clergyman, 
was born Oct. 28, 1835, in Cranbury, N. 

J. He is president of the Pennsylvania 
Industrial Home for Blind Women. 'tie 
has visited Europe ten times and repre¬ 
sented the Presbyterian church in sev¬ 
eral Pan-Presbyterian councils. He has 
published numerous sermons and address¬ 
es. 

HENSHAW, F. W., lawyer, jurist. He 
is associate justice of the supreme court 
of California. 

HENSLEY, MRS. SOPHIA ALMON. 
lecturer, author, was born May 31, 1866, 
in Nova Scotia. She is president of the 
Society for the Study of Life, of New 
York city; identified with Mothers’ Con¬ 
gress work; and lectures on The Child of 
the Tenements. She is the author of 
Woman’s Love-letters; and Souls. 

HERBERT, VICTOR, musician, com¬ 
poser, was Porn Feb. 1, 1859, in Dublin 
Ireland. He is a grandson of Samuel 
Lover, the famous irish novelist. In 
1894 he was appointed bandmaster of the 
famous twenty-second regiment band, 
succeeding P. S. Gilmore; and since 1898 
has been conductor of the Pittsburg or¬ 
chestra. He is the author of several 
works for orchestra; and songs; and an 
oratorio, The Captive. 

HERFORD, OLIVER, journalist, auth¬ 
or, poet. He is: on the staff of The 
Criterion, of New York city. He is the 
author of The Bashful Earthquake, and 
Other Fables and Verses. 

HERREID, CHARLES N., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, governor, was born Oct. 20, 
1857, in Wisconsin. He settled as 
lawyer in McPherson county, Da¬ 
kota; has held office of state’s at¬ 
torney; and was judge of the county 
court. In 1892-96 he was lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of South Dakota; and governor in 
1901-03. 

HERRICK, CHARLES JUDSON, zoolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Oct. 6, 1868, in 
Minneapolis, Minn. Since 1898 he has 
been professor of zoology in Dennison 
university, of ^ranville, Ohio. He is fhe 
author of The Cranial and First Spinal 
Nerves of Menidia. 

HERRICK, CLARENCE LUTHER, 
college president, scientist, author, was 
born June 21, 1858, in Minneapolis, Minn. 
He served on geological survey of Min¬ 
nesota; has been professor of biology at 
University of Chicago; and is now pres¬ 
ident of the University of New Mexico. 
He is the author of Mammals of Minne¬ 
sota; Entomostraca of Minnesota; Wav- 
erly Group of Ohio; and also sources of 
papers on neurological, geological and 
psychological subjects. 

HERRICK. FRANCIS HOBART, edu¬ 
cator. author, was born Nov. 19. 1858. in 
Woodstock, Vt. He is professor of biol¬ 
ogy, at Adelbert college, Western Re¬ 
serve university. He is the author of 
The American Lobster, a Study of Itts 
Habits and Developments, with fifty-four 
plates 

HERRICK, FREDERICK WITJT' M 
artist, was born Nov. 24, 1821. He stud¬ 
ied art with his father and Henry Inman, 


1 


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and devotes his attention to portrait 
painting. 

HERRICK, GEORGE FREDERIC, 
missionary, author, was born April 19 
1834, in Milton, Vt. A large part of 
his life has been spent in Constantinople, 
where he has been much engaged in lit¬ 
erary work for the mission. He was one 
of the revisers of the Turkish transla¬ 
tion of the Bihle and has published 
in Turkish cpmmentaries on Mat¬ 
thew, Mark, and The Acts. Since 
1870 he has been professor of 
church history in the theological semin¬ 
ary in Marsovan, Turkey. He is the 
author of History of the Christian Relig¬ 
ion and Church; and Belief and Worship. 

HERRICK, LUCIUS CARROLL, physi¬ 
cian, genealogist, was born Sept. 2, 1840, 
in Randolph, Vt Since 1882 he ha? prac¬ 
ticed medicine at Columbus, Ohio. He 
is the author of Herrick Genealogy. 

HERRICK, MYRON T., soldier, finan¬ 
cier. He is president of the Cleveland 
Society of Savings. He was aid to Gov¬ 
ernor McKinley’s staff; and presidents 
elector in 1896 and in 1900. 

HERRIMAN, EDWARD CURRY, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Dec. 31, 1869. in 
Massachusetts. He is a lawyer of Chi¬ 
cago. He is the author of The Law of 
Contracts. 

HERSEY, AMOS SHARTLE, educator, 
author, was born July 11, 1867, in Heck- 
ersville, Pa. Since 1895 he has been as¬ 
sistant professor of political science at 
the Indiana state university. 

LHRVEY, WALTER LOWRIE. edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Sept. 28, 1862, in 
Mt. Vernon. Ohio. Since 1894 he has 
been examiner of the board of education 
at New York; and dean Chautauqua 
school of Pedagogy. In 1892 97 he was 
president of Teachers college. He is the 
author of Picture Work. 

H_<SLIN. THOMAS, clergyman, bishop, 
was born in April, 1847, in Ireland. Since 
1888 he has been Roman Catholic bishop 
of Natchez, Miss. 

HE>.^, JOHN H.. farmer, genealogist, 
was born Sept. 24, 1828, in Warwick town 
ship, Pa. He was a successful farmer 
He is the author of the Hess Genealogy. 

HEWINS, CAROLINE MARIA, librar¬ 
ian, author, was born Oct. 10. 1846, in 
Roxbury, Mass. Since 1892 she has been 
librarian of Hartford public library. She 
has done editorial work for Literary 
News, Library Journal, and Babyhood. 
She is the author of Books for the Young; 
and Books for Boys and Girls. 

HEYDECKER, EDWARD LE MOYNE, 
lawyer, author, was born June 12. 1863 
in New York city. Since 1886 he has 
practiced law in New York citv. He 
is the author of Commentary on Mechan¬ 
ics’ Liens; and War Revenue law, An¬ 
notated. 

HEYWOOD, CHARLES, marine officer, 
was born Oct. 3, 1839, in Maine. He was 
on board the Cumberland during its fight 
with the Merrimac, and was so- 
mentioned for his bravery. He served 
throughout the civil war, was fleet marine 
officer on board the Hartford; took part 
in the battle of Mobile bay; and the cap¬ 
ture of Forts Morgan, Gaines, and Powel. 
and other engagements in the gulf. For 
gallantry in presence of the enemy he 
was Lrevetted mator and lieutenant-colo¬ 
nel. In 1888 he was promoted to lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel, and in 1891 he was made 
i nmandant of the United States marine 
corps, with the rank of brigadier-general, 
and saw active service during the Span- 
ish-American war. 


HIBBEN, JOHN GRIER, educator, 
author, was born April 19, 1861, in Peoria, 
Ill. tie is professor of logic at Princeton 
university. He is the author of induc¬ 
tive Logic; and The Problems of Phi¬ 
losophy. 

HICHBORN, PHILIP, naval construct¬ 
or, was born March 4, 1839, in Charles¬ 
town, Mass. In 1860 he went to Califor¬ 
nia, and soon became master shipwright 
of the Mare island navy-yard. In 1863 
he was appointed assistant naval con¬ 
structor, with the station rank of lieu¬ 
tenant in the navy. In 1884, having re¬ 
ceived his commission, as a naval con¬ 
structor in 1875, he was sent to Europ-' 
on special duty. In 1884 he was ordered 
to the navy department as assistant 
chief of bureau; and in 1893 was appoint- 
chief constructor of the navy, and reap¬ 
pointed in 1897. In 1890 he prepared an 
important article upon Sheathed or Un¬ 
sheathed Ships. 

HIGGINS, MICHAEL, manufacturer, 
public official, was born June 28, 1855, in 
Constantia, N. Y. He is a manufacturer 
of carriage springs and axles in Racine, 
Wis. He was elected alderman in 1889; 
and was mayor in 1899-1901. 

HIGGINSGN, HENRY LEE, soldier, 
banker, was born Nov. IS, 1834, in New 
York city. He served in the civil war, 
being major and brevet lieutenant-colonel 
of first regiment Massachusetts cavalry. 
He is a successful banker of Boston, 
Mass; and a patron of music and ot 
Harvard university. 

HILD, FREDERICK H.. librarian, was 
born in Chicago, omte 1887 he has been 
librarian of the Chicago public library. 

nlLDEBRANT, CHARLES Q., mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born Oct. 

1864, in Wilmington, Ohio. In 1891 1m 
became clerk of courts at Wilmington. 
Ohio. He was elected to the fifty-sev¬ 
enth congress from Ohio as a republi¬ 
can. 

HILL, MRS. GRACE LIVINGSTON, 
author, was born April 16. 1865, in Wells- 
ville, N. Y. She is the wife of Rev. 
Thomas Guthrie Hill, pastor of the Pres¬ 
byterian church of Philadelphia. Pa, She 
is the author of Chautauqua Idvi; The 
Parkerstown Delegate; A Little Servant; 
Katherine’s Yesterday; In the Way; Lone 
Point; and A Daily Rate. 

HILL, MRS. JANET McKENZIE. lec¬ 
turer, author, was horn in December, 
1852, in Westfield, Mass. Since 1896 she 
has been editor of the Boston Cooking 
School magazine. She is the author of 
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing Disk 
Dainties. 

HILL, JOHN ALEXANDER, publish¬ 
er, author, was born Feb. 22, 1858, near 
Bennington, Vt. He ran a locomotive 
eight years. He is the author of Pro¬ 
gressive Examinations for Locomotive 
Engineers and Firemen; Stories of the 
Railroad; and Jim Skeever’s Object Les¬ 
sons, 

HILL, JOHN EDWARD, civil engiupo’- 
author, was born Nov. 9, 1864, in New 
York city. He is professor of civil en¬ 
gineering at Brown university. He is 
the author of A Text Book on Shades 
and Shadows and Perspective. 

HILL, JOHN ETHAN, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 15, 1865, in Mystic, Conn. 
Since 1898 he has been professor of math¬ 
ematics in the University of West Vir¬ 
ginia. He is the author of Bibliography 
of Surfaces and Twisted Curves. 

HILL, JUNIUS WELCH, musician, 
composer, was born Nov. 18, 1840, in 


Hingnam, Mass. He now devotes him¬ 
self to teaching. He is the author of 
Treasures of Lyric Art; Arabesque; Mo- 
saiques; and Characteristic Piano Pieces. 

HILL, ROBERT THOMAS, geologist, 
author, was born Aug. 11, 1858, in Nash¬ 
ville Tenn. Since 1886 he has been in 
the service of the United States geologic¬ 
al survey. He is the author of On Oc¬ 
currence of Artesian and Underground 
Waters in Texas, Eastern New Mexico 
and Indian Territory. 

HILL, THOMAS, artist, was born Sept. 
11, 1829, in England. He opened a studio 
in Boston in 1867, but returned soon to 
San Francisco spending a portion ot each 
year in the Yosemite valley and at 
studio in Mariposa county. Hi® princi¬ 
pal works are The Yosemite Valley; Tin 
White Mountain Notch; Donner Lake; 
The Great Canon of the Sierras; the 
Heart of the Sierras; The Driving of 
the Last Spike; and The Yellowstone 
Canon. 

HILd, THOMAS EDiE, journalist, auth¬ 
or, was born Feb. 29. 1832, in Sandgate, 
Vt. In 1866 he founded the Herald of 
Aurora. Ill.; and was mayor of Aurora 
in 1876. He is the author of Hill’s Man¬ 
ual of Social and Business Forms; Hill’s 
Album of Biography; Condensed Political 
History; Money Found; and Ways of 
Cruelty. 

HILLEBRAND, WiGLIAM FRANCIS 
chemist, was born Dec. 12, 1853, in Ha¬ 
waiian Islands. In 1879 he opened an 
assay office in Leadville, Col., but a year 
later entered the service of the United 
States geological survey, and in 1880 was 
sent to Denver to establish a chemical 
laboratory for Rocky Mountain division 
of the survey. For five years he remained 
in charge of this laboratory, and then 
was transferred to the chief laboratory 
in Washington, where he has since re¬ 
mained. 

HILLEGAS, HOWARD CLEM I,Vl 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 30, 1872, 
in Pennsburg, Pa. In 1S99-1900 he was 
war correspondent of the New York 
\vor.d in South Africa. He is the auth¬ 
or of Oom Paul’s veople; The Boers in 
War; and With the Boer Forces. 

HILLIS, NEWELL DWIGHT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Sept. 2, 1858, in 
Magnolia, Iowa. He is pastor of Plymouth 
church of Brooklyn, N. Y. He is the 
author of The Investment of Influence; 
A Man’s Value to Society; How the In¬ 
ner Light Failed; and Foretokens of im¬ 
mortality. 

HIMES, JOHN ANDREW, educator, 
author, was born June 3, 1848, in Mc- 
Allisterville, Pa. He is professor of 
English literature and political science at 
Pennsylvania college. He is the author 
of A Study of Milton’s Paradise Lost. 

hinds, John iredelle dillard 
educator, author, was born Dec. 13, 1847, 
in Davidson county, N. C. Since 1893 
he has been dean of college faculty and 
professor of chemistry at Cumberland, 
university. He is the author of Uses of 
Tobacco; Charles Darwin; and American 
System of Education. 

HINDS, WILLIAM ALFRED, stenog¬ 
rapher, author, was born Feb. 2, 1833. 
in Enfield, Mass. He is the author of 
Mutual Criticism; and American Com¬ 
munities. 

HINES, 6DWARD W., lawyer, was 
born Jan. 15, 1869, in Woodbury, Ky. He 
is a lawyer of Frankfort, Ky.; and was 
reporter of circuit court of appeals of 
Kentucky in 1886-97. 


ADDENDA. 


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HINMAN, GEORGE WHEELER, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Nov. 19, 1863, in Mt. 
Morris, N. Y. Since 1897 be has been 
editor-in-chief of the Chieago Inter Ocean. 

HINMAN, RUSSELL, civil engineer, 
author, was born Jan. 23, 1853, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. He has charge of the editor¬ 
ial office of the American Book company, 
of New York city. He is the author of 
Eclectic Elementary Geography; Eclec¬ 
tic Complete Geography; and Eclectic 
Physical Geography. 

HINRICHS, GUSTAVUS DETLEF. 
chemist, author, was born Dec. 2, 1836, 
in Germany. For twenty-five years he 
was professor of physical science in the 
State university of Iowa; and since 1889 
processor of chemistry at College of Phar¬ 
macy at St. Louis. He is the author of 
Introduction to General Chemistry; Ele¬ 
ments of Physics; Elements of Atom Me ¬ 
chanics; Principles of Pure Crystallogra¬ 
phy; Principles of Physical Sciences; and 
First Course in Qualitative Analysis. 

HINSDALE, MRS. GRACE WEBSTER, 
author, was born May 17, 1832, in Han¬ 
over, N. H. She is the wife of Theodore 
Hinsdale, a New York lawyer. She is 
the author of Coming to the King; and 
Thinking Aloud. 

HINTENACH, ANDREW, clergyman, 
bishop, was born May 12, 1844, in Ger¬ 
many. In 1861 he joined the Benedictine 
order, and was ordained priest in 1867. 
Since then he has been occupied succes¬ 
sively as professor in the college, master 
of novices, and prior to the monastery 
until 1888, when he was chosen abbot of 
St. Vincent’s abbey. 

HINTON, RICHARD JOSIAH. journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Nov. 25, 1830, in 
London, England. In 1856 he went to 
Kansas and became co-worker with John 
Brown. He served in the Union army 
in 1861-65; and was the first white man 
legally commissioned and mustered in to 
recruit and command colored troops. He 
is the author of Life of Abraham Lincoln; 
Life of William H. Seward; English Rad¬ 
ical Leaders; Handbook of Arizona; Life 
of Gen. P. H. Sheridan; John Brown; and 
The Making of tne New West. 

HITCHCOCK, ETHAN ALLEN, dip¬ 
lomat, cabinet officer, was born June 12, 
1835, in Mobile, Ala. He became pres¬ 
ident of several manufactories in St. 
Louis, Mo., also acquiring large railway 
interests. Early in 1897 he was appoint¬ 
ed minister at St. Petersburg; and m 
1898 he was made a member of President 
KcKinley’s cabinet, with the portfolio 
of the secretary of the interior. 

HOBAN, MICHAEL JOHN, clergyman, 
bishop, was born June 6, 1853, in Waten 
loo N. J. In 1896 he was consecrated 
titular bishop of Alalis, and appointed 
coadjutor bishop of Scranton, Pa. 

HOBBS, CHARLES AUSTIN, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 3, 1857. in Exem. 
N. H. He is a mathematical master m 
the Volkman school of Boston, Mass. He 
is the author of Hobbs’ Academic ArP 
metic; and Hobbs’ Elements of Geometry. 

HOBSON, EDWARD HENRY, soldier 
banker, railroad president, was born July 
11, 1825, in Greensburg, Ky. He was a 
director of the branch bank of Kentucky 
in 1853, and served as president in 185/- 
61. He then organized and became col¬ 
onel of the thirteenth Kentucky volun¬ 
teers, and became a brigadier-general. In 
1887 he became president of the Southern 
division of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail¬ 
road company. 


HOBSON, RICHMOND PEARSON, nav¬ 
al constructor, author, was born Aug. 
17, 1870, in Greensboro, Ala. He com¬ 
manded the collier Merrimac and sunk 
her in the harbor of Santiago. He is 
inspector of Spanish wrecks; in charge 
of operations to save same; and was suc¬ 
cessful with Teresa. He is the author of 
A Study of the Situation and Outlook in 
Europe; The Disappearing Gun Afloat: 
The Yacht Defender, and the Use of 
Aluminum in Marine Construction; and 
The Sinking of the Merrimac. 

HODDER, ALFRED, author, was born 
Sept. 18, 1866, in Celina, Ohio. He is 
the author of The Powers that Prey; and 
The Specious Present. 

HODGE, CLIFTON FREMONT, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Oct- 16, 1854, in 
Janesville, Wis. Since 1892 he has been 
assistant professor of biology at Clark 
university of Worcester, Mass. He is 
the author of Biology of Common Toad; 
and Nature Study and Life. 

HODGE, EDWARD B., educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 5, 1841, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is corresponding 
secretary of the Presbyterian board of 
education, at Philadelphia, Pa. He is 
tne author of Instructions Preparatory to 
Baptism and the Lord’s Supper; and 
Tracts and Sermons. 

HODGE, SAMUEL, clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born June 7, 1829, in 
Fork, Tenn. In 1866-82 he was president 
of Lenox institute, Iowa. He is the auth¬ 
or of The Centennial of i»ew Bethel Pres¬ 
byterian Church. 

HODGES, JOHN SEBASTIAN BACH 
H., clergyman, was born in 1830, in Eng¬ 
land. He is rector of St. Paul’s church 
of Baltimore, Md. He is also a fine or¬ 
ganist. 

HODGKINS, HOWARD LINCOLN, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Jan. 23. 1862, in 
Elgin, Ill. Since 1887 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics and since 1900 dean 
of Columbian university, of Washington, 
D. C. He is the author of Historical 
Catalogue of Columbian University. 

HOEBER, ARTHUR, artist, author, was 
born July 23, 1854, in New York city. He 
is a successful landscape and art critic 
of New York city. He is the author of 
Treasures of the Metropolitan Museum of 


Irt. 

HOFFMAN. FREDER-GK, clergyman, 
vas born Nov. 18, 1834, in New York 
ity. In 1872 he was called to All An¬ 
il’s church in New York city. In 1888 
te erected a new church for his parish, on 
he west side of Central Park, at a cost 
/f one hundred thousand dollars. 

HOFFMAN, FRANK SARGENT, edu- 
ator author, was born Feb. 9, 1852, in 
Sheboygan Falls, Wis. Since 1855 he has 
,een professor of philosophy at Union 
ollege. He is the author of The Sphere 
if the State; and The Sphere of Science. 

HOFFMAN, FREDERICK LUDWIG, 
tatistician, author, was born May 2, 1865. 
n Germany. He is statistician of the 
’rudential Insurance company of Amer- 
ca He is the author of Race Traits and 
tendencies of the American Negro; and 
teport on the Sanitary Condition of the 
trinity Tenements. 

HOFFMAN, GEORGE, W. S., railroad 
iresident, was born Nov. 30, 1840, in Bal- 
imore, Md. Since 1890 he has been pres- 
dent of the Gunpowder Valley railroad. 

HOFFMAN, FRANCIS ARNOLD, jour- 
lalist, author, was born June 5, 1822. in 
Russia. In 1860 he was elected lieuten- 
mt-governor of Illinois. For nearly 
wenty years past he has been editor of 


The Haus and Bauerfreund of Milwaukee, 
Wis. He is the author of Hand-book on 
the Cultivation of Grasses and Other 
Fodder Plants. 

HOGAN, MRS. LOUISE E. SHlMER, 
critic, author, was born Nov. 27, 1855, 
in Shimersville, Pa. In 1898 she made 
a personal study of Camp Alger and Camp 
Wykoff and of the army and navy food 
question. She is the author of How to 
Feed Children; and A Study of a Child. 

HOGE, PEYTON HARRISON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan 6, 1858, in 
Hampton, Sidney, Va. Since 1899 he has 
been pastor of the Warren Memorial 
church of Louisville, Ky. He is the 
author of Moses Drury Hoge. 

HOGUE, ADDISON, educator, author, 
was born in 1849, in Athens, Ohio. Since 
1893 he has been Corcoran professor of 
Greek at Washington and Lee university. 
He is the author of Irregular Verbs of 
Attic Prose. 

HOHLFELD, ALEXANDER RUDOLF, 
educator, author, was born Dec. 29, 1865, 
in Germany. Since 1892 he has oeen 
professor of German languages at Van¬ 
derbilt university. He is the author of 
a work in German. 

HOKE, ROBERT FREDERICK, sol¬ 
dier, railroad persident, was born May 
27, 1837, in Lincolnton, Neb. He was ap¬ 
pointed brigadier-general in the Confed¬ 
erate army in 1863; and major-general 
in 1864. He was at one time in command 
of the district of North Carolina. Since 
the civil war he has been actively engag¬ 
ed in business in North Carolina, and is 
now president of the Seaboard air line, 
Georgia, Carolina, and Northwestern 
railroad company. 

HOLABIRD, SAMUEL BECKLEY, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born June 16, 1826, in 
Canaan, Conn. During the civil war 
he attained the rank of brigadier-general. 
A;ter the civil war he became brigadier- 
general and quartermaster-general in the 
United States army. He is the author of 
Translation of General Jomini’s Treatise 
on Grand Military Operations. 

HOLCOMBE, CHESTER, diplomat, 
author, was born Oct. 16, 1844, in Win¬ 
field, N. Y. In 1880 he was a member 
of the commission for the negotiation of 
new treaty with China; and assisted in 
negotiating treaty with Corea in' 1882; 
and since 1885 has been concerned in ex¬ 
tensive commercial and financial ques¬ 
tions in China. He is the author of 
The Real Chinaman. 

HOLDER, PHEBE A., .ducator, auth¬ 
or, poet, was born Nov. 27, 1824, in Ber¬ 
lin, Mass. She has taught school in the 
high schools of Lee and Hinsdale for 
many years; and has devoted much time 
to literature. 

HOLLAND, JAMES WILLIAM, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1849, in Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn. Since 1887 he has been dean 
of faculty at Jefferson Medical College 
of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of 
Treatises on Diet for the Sick. 

HOLLANDER, JACOB H., financier, 
author, was born July 23, 1871, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. He is treasurer of Porto 
Rico; and associate professor of finance 
at Johns Hopkins University. He is the 
author of The Financial History of Balti¬ 
more. 

HOLLIDAY, E. S., congressman. He 
was elected to the fifty-seventh congress 
from Indiana as a republican. 

HOLLS, GEORGE FREDERICK WIL¬ 
LIAM, lawyer, author, was born July 1, 
1857, in Zelienople, Pa. He is the author 
of Sancta Sophia and Troitza. 


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A.DDENDA. 


HOLLY, JAMkS THEODORE, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born Oct. 3, i829, in 
Washington, D. C. He was ordained a 
colored missionary bishop of Haiti in 
1874; and in 1878 was a delegate to Lam¬ 
beth Conference, England. 

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born March 8, 
1841. in Boston, Mass. He is a son of 
Dr. 0. W. Holmes, the poet and essayis 
He served three years in the Massachu¬ 
setts volunteers. Since lo82 he has been 
justice of the supreme judicial court of 
Massachusetts. He is the author The Com¬ 
mon Law, Lectures at Lowell Institute; 
Speeches; and edited Kent’s Commen¬ 
taries. 

HOLT, ADONIRAM JUDSON, Clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 1, 1847, ir 
Somerset, Ky. He is State Secretary of 
Missions in Nashville, Tenn. He is the 
author of Miriam Heth and Parthenia. 

HOLT, ERASTUS EUGENE, oculist, 
aurist, founder, was born June l, 1849, 
in Peru, Maine. He was founder of 
Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary; and found¬ 
er of Maine Academy of Medicine anr 
Science. He was also the founder and 
editor of Journal of Medicine and Science 
of Portland, Maine; and the author o 
scores of valuable medical papers. 

HOLT, HENRY, publisher, author, was 
born Jan. 3. 1840, in Baltimore, Md. He 
is now senior member of Henry Holt <& 

' Company of New York City. 

HOOKER, JOHN, lawyer, author, was 
born April 19, 1816, in Farmington, Conn. 
He is a lawyer of Hartford, Conn.; and 
in 1858-94 was reporter of the Connecti¬ 
cut supreme court. He published thirty- 
six volumes of Law Reports. He is the 
author of Some Reminiscences of a 
Long Life. 

HOPKINS, CYRIL GEORGE, chemist, 
author, was born July 22, 1866, in Chat- 
field, Minn. Since 1900 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of chemistry in the University of 
Illinois. He is the author of Chemistry 
of the Corn Kernel. 

HOPKINS, HENRY 7 , clergyman, author 
was born Nov. 30, 1837, in Williamstown, 
Mass. In 1864-65 he was chaplain in field, 
with one hundred twentieth New York 
volunteers; and took ambulance corps, 
under flag of truce, on the battlefields of 
Chantilly and Bull Run. Several of his 
addresses on municipal and educational 
subjects have been published. 

HOPKINS, MRS. MARGARET SUT¬ 
TON BRISCOE, author, was born Dec. 
7. 1864, in Baltimore, Md. She is the au 
thor of Perchance to Dream; Links in a 
Chain; Jimty and Others; and The Sixth 
Sense, and bther Stories. 

HOPKINS, MRS. PAULINE BRAD¬ 
FORD, author, was born in 1874 in Fair- 
field, Conn. She is the wife of Dr. Her¬ 
bert Hopkins, professor of Latin. She 
is the author of A Story of Valley Forge; 
A Story of Witchcraft; and A Georgian 
Actress. 

HOPPIN, JOSEPH CLARK, educator 
author, was born May 23, 1870, in Prov¬ 
idence, R. I. Since 1899 he has been as¬ 
sociate classical art and archaeology at 
Bryn Mawr College. In 1893-98 he re¬ 
sided in Greece; and took part in the ex¬ 
cavation of the Heraeum at Argos. He 
is the author of Euthymides, a Study in 
Attic Vase Painting. 

HOPPIN. THOMAS FREDERICK, art¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 15, 1816, in Providence, 
R. I. He made the designs of the four 
evangelists which compose the great 
chance] window of Trinity church in New 
York City. A figure of a dog that was 
modeled by him is supposed to have been 


the first piece of sculpture cast in bronze 
in the United States. 

HORNBROOK, ADELIA ROBERTS, 
educator, author, was born March 1, 1846. 
in Boston, Mass. She was a teacher 
of mathematics and psychology. She is 
the author of Concrete Geometry; Horn- 
brook’s Arithmetics; and Laboratory 
Methods in Teaching Mathematics. 

HORNER, FRANK A., lawyer, state 
senator, author, was born April 18, 1849 
in Washington County, Ind. He was a 
member of the Indiana State Senate in 
1896-1900; and was states attorney in 
1890-94. He is the author of Horner’s Re¬ 
vised Statutes; Horner’s Criminal Forms 
of Indiana; and Horner’s Manual of 
Newspapers Advertising Laws. 

HORR, ASA, physician, scientist, was 
born Sept. 2, 1817, in Worthington, Ohio. 
In the civil war he was examining sur¬ 
geon in the recruiting service; and since 
1869 has been president of the Iowa In¬ 
stitute of science and arts, of which he 
was one of the founders. In 1875 he was 
appointed examining surgeon to the Uni¬ 
ted States pension bureau. In 1864 he es¬ 
tablished a private astronomical observ¬ 
atory at Dubuque, Iowa; and was the first 
to determine accurately the longitude of 
that city. 

HORR, NORTON TOWNSHEND. law¬ 
yer, author, was born April 26, 1862, in 
Huntington, Ohio. He is the author of 
Municinal Police Ordinances; and com¬ 
piled Bibliography of Card-Games and of 
the History of Playing Cards. 

HORSFORD, CORNELIA, archaeolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Sept. 25, 1861, in 
Cambridge, Mass. She is the daughter 
of the late Professor Eben Norton Hors- 
ford of Harvard University; and con¬ 
tinued her father’s archaeological re¬ 
searches after his death, 1893. In 1893 
she sent out archaeological expedition to 
Iceland to examine ruins of the Saga- 
Time; also in British Isles, in 1895-97, to 
examine ruins of open-air amphitheatres 
and forts. She is the author of Graves 
of the Northmen; An Inscribed Stone; 
Dwellings of the Saga-Time in Iceland, 
Greenland and Vinland; and Vinland and 
Its Ruins. 

HORTON, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 28, 1843. 
in Springfield, Mass. Since 1892 he has 
been president Benevolent Fraternity ot 
Churches and Unitarian Sunday-Schooi 
Society of Boston, Mass. He is the au¬ 
thor of Story of Israel; Great Thoughts 
of Israel; Scenes in the Life of Jesus; 
Teaching of Jesus; Beginning of Christi¬ 
anity; and Beacon Lights of Christian 
History. 

HORTON, GEORGE, journalist, diplo¬ 
mat, author, was born in 1859, in Pair- 
ville, N. Y. He is literary editor of the 
Chicago Times-Herald. He is the au¬ 
thor of Songs of the Lowly; In Unknown 
Seas; Aphroessa; and Constantine. 

HORTON, OLIVER H., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 20, 1835, in Cattaraugus 
county, N. Y 7 . He was corporation coun¬ 
sel of Chicago under Mayor Roche: and 
since 1887 judge of circuit court. He is 
now judge of the appellate court for first 
district of Illinois. 

HOTCHKIN, SAMUEL FITCH, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 2, 1833, in 
Sauquoit, N. Y. He is now rector of St. 
Luke the Beloved Physician at Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is the author of Ancient 
ana Modern Germantown; Early Clergy 
of Pennsylvania and Delaware Rural 
Pennsylvania; Dark Care Lightened; 

A Splendid Inheritance; The Unseen 
Christ; and The Living Savior. 


HOTCHKISS, J. ELIZABETH, meta¬ 
physician, author, was born in Elmira, N. 
Y. In 1895-96 she was literary editor of 
the Metaphysical Magazine. She is the 
author of Psycho-Therapeutics. 

HOUGH, EMERSON, explorer, author, 
was born June 28, 1857, in Newton, la. in 
1895 he explored the Yellowstone Park; 
and the act of Congress protecting the 
Park buffalo was due to this trip. He is 
the author of The Singing Mouse Stories; 
The Story of the Cowboy; and The Gin 
at the Halfway House. 

HOUSTON, DAVID FRANKLIN, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Feb. 17, 186t>, in 
Monroe, N. C. Since 1897 he has been 
associate professor of political science at 
University of Texas. He is the author 
oi A Critical Study of Nullification in 
South Carolina. 

HOUSTON, EDWIN JAMES, electric 
engineer, author, was born July 9, 1844, 
in Alexandria, Va. He was one of the 
inventors of the Thomson-Houston sys¬ 
tem of arc lighting. He is the author ot 
Elements of Physical Geography; Dic¬ 
tionary of Electrical words. Terms and 
Phrases; and Elements of Physics. 

HOVEY 7 , CARL, journalist, author, was 
born Oct. 2, 1875, in Boston, Mass. He 
is the author of Life of Stonewall Jack- 
son. 

HOWARD, CHARLES HENRY, soldier, 
journalist, was born in 1834 in Leeas, 
Maine. He served in the civil war; anct 
attained the rank of brevet brigadier-gen¬ 
eral in 1865. For many years he was in¬ 
spector Indian agencies. He was editor 
of The Advance of Chicago for many 
years: and later was editor oi The Farm. 
Field and Fireside of Chicago, founded by 
Thomas William Herringshaw. 

HOWARD. CLIFFORD, author, was 
born Oct. 12, 1868. in Bethlehem. Pa. He 
is the author of Sex Worship, An Expo¬ 
sition of the Phallic Origin of Religion, 
a dramatic poem of the Zuni. 

HOWARD, GEORGE ELL-OTT, edu¬ 
cator author, was born Oct. 1, 1843, in 
Saratoga, N. Y. Since 1891 he has been 
professor of history and history of insti¬ 
tutions at Leiand Stanford University. 
He is the author of Introduction to the 
Constitutional History of the United 
States, in two volumes; and Develop¬ 
ment of the King’s Peace and the Local 
Peace Magistracy. 

HOWARD. JAMES LELAND, manufac¬ 
turer, merchant, lieutenant-governor, was 
born Jan. 10, 1818, in Windsor, Vt. The 
firm of J. L. Howard and Company was 
one of the first in the United States to 
engage in the manufacture oi railway 
car trimmings, and to this business the 
firm devoted its entire energies and re¬ 
sources with marked success, in 18 n 
he was chosen to the office or lieutenant- 
governor of Connecticut. 

HOWARD, JOHN RAYMOND, soldier, 
publisher, author, was born May 25, 1837, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1861-65 he served 
as captain and aide United States vol¬ 
unteers. Since 1867 he has been in tne 
publishing business as Fords, Howard & 
Hulbert. He is the author of H. W. 
Beecher, A Study. 

HOWARD, JOSEPH, journalist, author, 
was born June 3, 1833, in Brooklyn, N. 
Y 7 . Since 1860 he has been a newspaper 
editor, correspondent and special writer 
for leading newspapers. In 1868-76 he 
wa~ editor and proprietor or New York 
Star. Since 1895 he has been president 
of the New York Press Club. He is the 
author of Life of H. W. Beecher. 

HOWARD. TIMOTHY EDWARD, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born 


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near Ann Arbor, Mich. He enlisted in the 
civil war; and was wounaed at Shiion 
in 1862. In 1886-92 he was a member Oi 
the Indiana state senate. Since 1892 ne 
has been a judge and is now chiet jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of Indiana. 

HOWE, CLARA E., educator, philan¬ 
thropist. Lor twenty years she has been 
a member and secretary of the School 
Committee in Gardner, Mass.; and is 
pi eminently ideutittecl with various edu¬ 
cational, religious, and charitable insti¬ 
tutions of that city. 

JhOWE, EDWARD GARDNER, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Aug. n, 1849, in 
Brookline, Mass. Since 1893 he has bee'n 
principal of the Preparatory School Uni¬ 
versity of Illinois. He is the author of 
Systematic Science Teaching, in two vol¬ 
umes. 

HOWE, JAMES LEWIS, educator, au 
thor, was born in August, 1859, in New- 
buryport, Mass. He is professor of 
chemistry at Washington and Lee Uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of A Biblio¬ 
graphy of the Metals of the Platinum 
Group; and Inorganic Chemistry Accord¬ 
ing to the Periodic Chemistry According 
ing to the Periodic Law. 

HOWE, MALVERD ABIJAH, civil 
engineer, author, was born Dec. 9, 1863, 
in Northfield, Vt. He is professor of 
civil engineering at Rose Polytechnic In¬ 
stitute. He is the author of Retaining 
Walls for Earth; Sabula Draw by Graph¬ 
ics; and a treatise on Arches. 

HOWE, MAUD, author, was born Nov. 
9, 1855, in Boston, Mass. She is the wife 
of John Elliott, an English artist. She 
is the author of San Rasario Ranch; A 
Newport Aquarelle; and Atlanta in the 
South. 

HOWE, REGINALD HEBER, ornithol¬ 
ogist, author, was born April 10. 1875. 
in Quincy Mass. He is the author of 
Every Bird; On the Birds’ Highway; The 
Birds of Rhode Island, and The Birds of 
Massachusetts. 

HOWELL, EVAN P., journalist, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Dec. 10, 1839, 
in Milton county, Ga. He became pres¬ 
ident of the company and editor-in-chief 
of the Atlanta Constitution. In 1872-78 
he was state senator; was solicitor-gen¬ 
eral of the Atlanta circuit; and a mem¬ 
ber of the State legislature afterward. 

HOW’ELL, JOHN THOMAS, clergyman, 
publisher, author, was born May 12, 1855. 
in Ramer, Ala. He is now publisher and 
proprietor of The Citizens’ Journal of 
Troy, Ala; and of the Methodist Protes¬ 
tant Telephone. He is the author of The 
History of the Methodist Protestant 
Church in Alabama. 

HOWISON, HENRY LYCURGUS, na¬ 
val officer, was born Oct. 10, 1837, in 

Washington, D. C. He served through¬ 
out the civil war. He is now rear-ad¬ 
miral and commandant Boston Navy 
Yard since 1897. 

HOWLAND, ALFRED CORNELIUS, 
lanscape painter, was born Feb. 12, 1838, 
in Walpole, N. H. His works are in Yale 
University, Leighton Art Gallery of Mil¬ 
waukee, and in many galleries of Amer¬ 
ica and England. 

HOWLAND, MRS. FRANCES LOUISE, 
journalist, author, was born in Lockport, 
N. Y. She writes under the pen name 
of Kenyon West. She has been dramatic 
correspondent and critic of the San Fran¬ 
cisco Call; and other papers. She is the 
author of Broken Bonds; Onward; and 
several translations. 


HOWLAND, MRS. MARY WOOLSEY, 
poet. She is known an the author oil a 
short poem Requiescam, also entitled In 
the Hospital, which was believed for a 
long time to have been found under the 
pillow of a soldier who died at Port 
Royal in 1864. 

HOY, ALBERT HARRIS, physician, au- 
thur. He served in United States army 
as acting assistant surgeon during the 
Civil war. He is now professor ot dis¬ 
eases of digestive system at Northwest¬ 
ern College Dental Surgery. He is the 
author of Eating and Drinking. 

HOY, PHILO ROMAYN, physician, ed¬ 
ucator, naturalist, was born Nov. 3, 1816, 
in Mansfield, Ohio. He has devoted much 
time and study to natural science. His 
local collection of birds, reptiles, fish, and 
insects is widely known. He was for 
three years president of the Wisconsin 
academy of science, arts, and letters; has 
been professor physiology and zoology 
in Racine college; and naturalist to the 
geological survey of Wisconsin. 

HOYT. DAVID WEBSTER, educator, 
genealogist, was born April 16, 1833. He 
is principal of the high school at Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He is the author of the 
Hoyt Genealogy; Hoyt, Haigh. and Hight 
Families; and Old Families of Salisbury 
and Amesbury. 

HUBBARD. RICHARD WILLIAM, art¬ 
ist, was born Oct. 15, 1810, in Middle- 
town, Conn. He is president of the Art¬ 
ists’ Fund society and of the Brooklyn 
Art association; and has traveled and 
studied extensively in France and Eng¬ 
land. Among his earlier works are Mans¬ 
field Mountain at Sunset; Showery Day 
at Lake George; Meadows near Utica; 
Twilight; High Peak; North Conway; 
and Vermont Hills. 

HUDSON, SANFORD AMOS, lawyer, 
jurist, genealogist, wasi born May 16, 1817. 
He has been associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Territory of Dakota. He 
is the author of the Hudson Genealogy. 

HUFFCUT, ERNEST WILSON, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 21, 
I860, in Kent, Conn. Since 1893 he has 
been professor of law at Cornell Univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of Elements of 
Law of Agency; Cases on Agency, and 
Law of Negotiable Instruments. 

HUGGINS, ELI LUNDY, soldier, was 
born in Illinois. He served through 
the civil war; on the plain®; and the 
Spanish-Amerioan war. He is now major 
in the United States army. 

HUGHES, AARON K., naval-officer, 
was born March 31, 1822, in Elmira. N. Y. 
He is a rear-admiral of United States 
navy, retired in 1884. 

HUGHES, CHARLES HAMILTON, 
physician, author, was born May 23, 1839, 
in St. Louis, Mo. He is president of the 
faculty and professor of nervous diseases. 
Barnes Medical College of St. Louis. Mo. 
He was editor and founder of the Alien¬ 
ist and Neurologist. He is the author 
of Reflex; Shuttle Pulse; Patriot’s 
Prayer; Up With the Flag; Symposium 
on the Maine: and The Great of Humble 
Birth in History. 

HUGHES, LOUIS C.. journalist, law¬ 
yer, jurist, governor, was born May 15, 
1844, in Philadelphia, Pa, He assisted 
in organizing and was a member of first 
lodge in United States of A. O. U. W. 
He began the practice of law in Tucson, 
Ariz., was district attorney two terms; 
and was probate judge; and attorney- 
general of Arizona. In 1893-96 he was 
governor of Arizona. 


HUGHES, ROBERT P., soldier, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He served in the 
civil war from private to lieutenant- 
colonel. He was then commissioned cap¬ 
tain in the regular army; was appointed 
brigadier-general in 1898; and asigned to 
duty as provost-marshal of Manila, P. I. 

HUGHES, RUPERT, journalist, author, 
was born Jan. 31, 1872, in Lancaster, Mo. 
He is assistant editor of The Criterion. 
He is the author of The Lakerim Ath¬ 
letic Club. 

HUGHES, THOMAS ALOYSIUS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 24, 1849, in 
Liverpool, England. He is professor of 
literature and philosophy at St. Xavier’s 
College of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the 
author of The Acolyte, or a Christian 
Scholar; Anthropology and Biology; and 
Loyola, or the Educational System of the 
Jesuits. 

HUGHES, THOMAS PATRICK, cler¬ 
gyman, orientalist, author, was born 
March 26, 1838, in England. He is the 
author of Notes on Muhammadanism; 
Poems of Abdur Rahman; Government 
Text-Books in Afghan Language; A 
Dictionary of Islam; Ruhainah, the Maid 
of Herat; American Ancestry; Heroic 
Lives in Foreign Fields; and The .Stage 
from a Clergyman's Standpoint. 

HUIDEKOPER. RUSH SHIPPEN, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born May 3, 1854, in 
Meadville, Pa. In 1878-91 he was major 
and brigadier-surgeon in the national 
guard of Pennsylvania. He is coroner’s 
physician of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the 
author of Age of Domestic Animals; and 
The Veterinary Blue Book. 

HULSKAMP, HENRY, manufacturer, 
was born in Westphalia. In 1850 he 
established a piano manufactory at Troy, 
N. Y.; and gained prizes in New York 
and London. In 1866 he moved the fac¬ 
tory to New York City. 

HUME, THOMAS, educator, author, 
was born in Portsmouth, Va. He is pro¬ 
fessor of English language and literature 
at University of North Carolina. He is 
the author of Helps to the Study of 
Hamlet; and Shakespeare’s Moral Teach¬ 
ing. 

HUMPHREY. CHARLES FREDERICK, 
soldier, was born in New York state. 
In 1863-66 he served as private to sec¬ 
ond lieutenant. In 1898 he was appointed 
brigadier-general of volunteers; and as¬ 
signed to duty as chief quartermaster at 
Havana, Cuba. 

HUMPHREYS, DAVID CARLISLE, 
civil engineer, author, wa® born in Hill, 
Va. He is now imofessor of civil engin¬ 
eering in Washington and Lee University. 
He is the author of Notes on Rankines 
Civil Engineering. 

HUMPHREYS, FRANK LANDON, 
clergyman, author was born June 16, 1858, 
in Auburn, N. Y. He is canon in cathe¬ 
dral of St. John the Divine of New York 
City. He is the author of Evolution of 
Music; Mystery of the Passion; Carols 
and Caroling; and Men of Understanding. 

HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS, journal¬ 
ist, author, \Vqs born Jan. 31, 1859, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1885 he has been 
associate editor of The Musical Courier. 
He is the author of Mezzotints in Modern 
Music; and As Man and Musician. 

HUNT, CHARLES WALLACE, civil en¬ 
gineer, inventor, was born Oct. 13, 1841, 
in Candor, N. Y. During Civil war he 
was special agent of the War Depart¬ 
ment to care for freedmen as they escap¬ 
ed from the Confederate into the Union 


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lines. He has done much engineering 
work in construction of wharves, docks, 
storage warehouses, power stations; is 
president of several corporations; and 
president of Staten Island Chamber of 
Commerce. 

HUNT, JAMES S. J., educator, miner, 
w r as horn in Indiana. He was engaged in 
educational work; and became president 
of the state Agricultural College of Iowa. 
He went to China and next to Corea and 
developed mining property said to be 
worth twenty-million dollars. 

HUNT, RICHARD HOWLAND, archi¬ 
tect, was born March 14, 1862, in France. 
He assisted his father, as architect on the 
work of the United States Military Acad¬ 
emy at West Point and on Vanderbilt’s 
estate at Biltmore, N. C. 

HUNT, ROBERT WOOLSTON, metal¬ 
lurgist, inventor, was born Dec. 9, 1838, 
in Fallsington, Pa. In 1860 he estab¬ 
lished the first analytical laboratory con¬ 
nected with any iron or steel works in 
the United States. In 1873 he was called 
to the charge of the Bessemer steel works 
Troy, N. Y., Albany and Rensselaer iron 
and steel company in 1875; and in 1885 
of its successor, the Troy steel and iron 
company. He has obtained patents for 
improvements in bottom casting of steel 
ingots for making special soft Bessemer 
steel; for a recarburizer for Bessemer 
steel; also a series relating to automatic 
tables for rolling-mills. 

HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Nov. 5, 1857, in New 
Orleans, La. Since 1894 he has been as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of 
Montana. Since 1900 he has been secre¬ 
tary of Porto Rico. 

HUNTING, FRED S„ electrical engin¬ 
eer. was born Sept. 30, 1867. in East Tem¬ 
pleton. Mass. He was chief engineer in 
engineering department with the Fort 
Wayne Electrical Corporation; and is now 
treasurer and sale® manager of the Fort 
Wayne Electric Works. 

HUNTING, TENNIS D., merchant, gen¬ 
ealogist, was born Sept. 22. 1848. He is 
a hardware merchant of Brooklyn, N. 
Y. He is the author of The Hunting or 
Hunt.ting Family in America. 

HUNTINGTON. ARCHER MILTON, 
author, poet, wa s born March 10, 1870, in 
.New York City. He is a son of the late 
Collis P. Huntington. He is the author 
of A Note Book in Northern Spain. 

HUNTINGTON, DANIEL, artist, was 
born Oct. 14. 1816, in New York City. At 
thirty-seven years of age he began the 
study of art and became distinguished 
as a portrait painter. His most notable 
paintings were A Toper Asleep; The Bar- 
Room Politician and Views of the Hud- 
eon. 

HUNTINGTON, DE WITT CLINwom 
clergyman, theologian, author, was born 
April 27, 1830. in Townsend. Vt. Since 
1898 he has been chancellor oi Nebraska 
Western University. He is the author of 
The Puritans; and Work on Sin and 
Holiness. 

HUNTINGTON, GEORGE, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 5, 1835, 
in Brooklyn, Conn. Since 1879 he has 
been professor of rhetoric and logic at 
Carleton College of Northfield, Mass. He 
is the author of Shining Hours; Outlines 
of Congressional History; Chubby Ruff; 
Nakoma; Kings and Cupbearers; The 
Rockanock Stage; and Maud Brayton. 

HUNTLEY, ELIAS DEWITT, clergy¬ 
man, college, president, was born April 


19, 1840, in Elmira, N. Y. He was presid¬ 
ing elder of the Madison district; and in 
1879-83 was president of Lawrence uni¬ 
versity, when he resigned to become pas¬ 
tor of the Metropolitan church of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. In 1883 he was transferred 
to the Baltimore conference and also 
elected chaplain of the United States 
senate, which office he held until 1886. 

HUNTLEY. MRS. FLORENCE, journal¬ 
ist. author, was born in Alliance, Ohio. 
She is the wife of Stanley Huntley, the 
author of the Spoopendyke Papers. At 
hits death in 1886 she entered journalism. 
She is the author of The Dream Child: 
and Harmonics of Evolution. 

HURD. HARVEY BOSTWICK. lawyer, 
founder, was born Feb. 14. 1828, in Hunt¬ 
ington. Conn. Since 1862 he has been 
professor of Chicago Law School. He 
was the first president village of Evans¬ 
ton. Ill. He was official reviser of gen¬ 
eral statutes of Illinois; has since edited 
twelve editions. He was the originator 
of the great Chicago drainage canal 
scheme; and author Torrens Act of Illi¬ 
nois for registration of land titles. 

HURD. HENRY MILLS, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born May 3, 1843. in Union 
City, Mich. Since 1889 he has been suoer- 
intendent of Johns Hopkins Hospital of 
Baltimore, Ind. Since 1897 he has been 
editor American Journal of Insanity. He 
is the author of Hints to Hospital Visi¬ 
tors: and Hispitals, Dispensaries and 
Nursing. 

HURLL. ESTELLE M.. educator, au¬ 
thor. was born July 25, 1863, in New Bed¬ 
ford. Mass. In 1884-91 she was a teacher 
of ethics at Wellesley College. She is 
the author of Child Life in Art; The Ma¬ 
donna in Art: and Life of Our Lord in 
Art. 

HUSMANN. GEORGE, vineyardist. au¬ 
thor. was born Nov. 4. 1827. in Germany. 
He has been professor of Pomologv and 
Forestry in the State University of Mis¬ 
souri at Columbia: and is now state 
statistical agent for California of the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
He is the author of three works on Grape 
Culture and Wine Making and one of the 
oldest living vineyardists in the United 
States, having planted a vineyard in Mis¬ 
souri in 1847; and now owns one in Napa 
county. Cal. 

HUSS. GEORGE J.. musician, composer, 
was born Sept. 25. 1828 in Bavaria. In 
1858-68 he was organizer of the Univer¬ 
sity Place Presbyterian Church of New 
York City. He is principally engaged 
as a pianoforte teacher. He is the au¬ 
thor of various sacred and secular compo¬ 
sitions. 

HUSS, HENRY HOLDEN, musician, 
composer, was born June 21, 1862, in 

Newark, N. J. He now lives in New 
York City as a teacher of pianoforte, 
composer, and instrumentation. He is 
the author of Ave Maria, songs, and 
rhapsodies. 

HUSTON, A.,chemist, author, was born 
April 20, 1858, in Damariseotta, Maine. 
Since 1888 he has been chemist for In¬ 
diana in the United States Agricultural 
Experimental Station; and professor of 
agricultural chemistry at Purdue Univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of Reports of In¬ 
diana Weather Service; and Reports In¬ 
diana State Chemist. 

HUSTON, JOSEPH WALDO, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born April 10, 1833. in 
Painesville, Ohio. In 1855-57 he was 
clerk in the United States Treasury De¬ 
partment. In 1861-62 he was lieutenant 


of third Michigan cavalry; and major of 
fourth Michigan cavalry in 1862-63. In 
1869-78 he was United States attorney for 
Idaho. In 1890-1900 he was justice of the 
supreme court of Idaho. 

HUSTON. THAD, soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
was born April 15, 1846, in Washington 
county, Tnd. He served in Union army 
in Civil war in company C, 137th Illinois 
volunteer infantry as first sergeant. In 
1901 he became judge of the superior 
court of Pierce county. Wash. 

HUTCHINSON, JOHN, vocalist, was 
born Jan. 4, 1821, in Milford, N. H. Among 
his songs and those of his son Henry 
were Will the New Year come To-Night, 
Mother; Bingen on the'Rhine; The New¬ 
foundland Dog; The Bridge of Sighs; and 
the People’s Advent. 

HUTTON, MANCIUS HOLMES, cler¬ 
gyman. was horn Oct. 13, 1837, in^New 
York City. He is a clergyman of the 
Reformed Church in America. Since 1896 
he has bean president of the American 
Board of Foreign Missions. 

HYDE. AMM1 BRADFORD, educator, 
author, was born March 13, 1826, in Ox¬ 
ford. N. Y. Ho is professor of languages 
at University of Denver. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Story of Methodism. 

HYDE. MARY CAROLINE, author, was 
born in Plainfield, Vt. She is the au¬ 
thor of Guy and Gladys; Gootsie; Under 
the Stable Floor; and Yan and Nochie of 
Tappan Sea. 

HYDE, SOLON, merchant, author, was 
born Nov. 12, 1838, in Rushville, Ohio. 
In 1861-65 he served in the United States 
volunteers. He taught school a number 
of years and is now a successful merchant 
ol San Jacinto, Ind. He is the author 
of A Captive of War. 

HYLLSTED. FREDERICK FERDI¬ 
NAND AUGUST, musician, composer, was 
born June 17, 1858, in Sweden. He has 
been the holder of several honorable po¬ 
sitions in the musical organization of 
America. For a number of years he 
was Assistant Director of the Piano De¬ 
partment Chicago Musical College; and 
afterward Director Piano Department at 
the Gottschalk School. During his stav 
abroad he enjoyed the unusual distinction 
of playing before almost all the reign¬ 
ing royal courts of Europe. He is the 
author of several compositions. 

IDE, MRS. FANNIE OGDEN, author, 
was born in 1853, in Long Island, N. 

Y. She is the author of His Little Royal 
Highness; A Loyal Little Red-Coat; A 
Little Queen of Hearts; Courage; A 
Little Homespun- and Loyal Hearts and 
True. 

IDE. HENRY CLAY, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Sept. 18, 1844. in Barnet. Vt. 

In 1882-85 he was a member of the Ver¬ 
mont. State senate and president Repub¬ 
lican State Convention of 1884. He was 
United States commissioner to Sajmoa in 
1891; and chief justice under joint ap¬ 
pointment. England and Germany. 

ILES, GEORGE, author, was born June 
20, 1852, in Gibraltar. He is the author 
of Flame, Electricity and the Camera. 

INGALS. E. FLETCHER, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 29. 1848, in Lee Cen¬ 
ter, Ill. He is a specialist in diseases of 
the throat and chest; and lectures on 
that subject in the Rush Medical College 
of Chicago, Ill. He is the author of Dis¬ 
eases of the Chest, Throat, and Lungs; 
and other medical works. 

INGALLS. HERBERT, public official, 
author, was born May 9. 1834. in Rindge. 

N. H. He has been a clerk in the Unit- 


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IV 


ed States Treasury Department; Cashier 
of the International Revenue; and Treas¬ 
urer and Cashier of Railroad Corpora¬ 
tions. He is the author of a published 
work. 

INGALLS, JAMES MONROE, soldier, 
author, was born Jan. 25, 1837, in Sutton, 
Vt. He is a lieutenant-colonel in United 
States army and retired. He founded 
Department of Ballistics at United States 
Artillery School at Fort Monroe in 1882; 
and was principal instructor until school 
suspended operation in 1898 at out¬ 
break of war with Spain. He is the 
author of Exterior Ballistic®; Ballistic 
Machines; Handbook of Problems in Ex¬ 
terior Ballistics; and Interior Ballistics 

INGLE, EDWARD, journalist, author, 
was born May 17, 1361, in Baltimore, ¥d. 
He is the author of Southern Sidelights; 
The Negro in the District of Columbia; 
Local Institution® of Virginia; Parish In¬ 
stitutions of Maryland; Capt. Richard 
Ingle, the Maryland Pirate and Rebel; 
and In the Maze. 

INGRAHAM, GEORGE LANDON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Aug. 1, 1847, in New 
York City. In 1893 he became judge of 
the supreme court of the City of New 
York. He is now justice appellate divi¬ 
sion of the Supreme Court of New York. 

INGRAHAM, JOHN PHILLIPS 
THURSTON, clergyman, author, was born 
Aug. 29, 1817, in Hallowell, Me. In 1862- 
64 he was chaplain in army in 
Tennessee. Since 1881 he has been rector 
Grace Church of St. Louis, Mo. He is 
the author of Why We Believe the Bible; 
Mother’s Talks with Her Little Folks; 
and The Christian Faith Traced Down 
from the Garden of Eden. 

INNES, GEORGE, artist, was born May 
1, 1825, in Newburg, N. Y. Among his 
best known works are A View from the 
Delectable Mountains; Delaware Gap; 
Joy After the Storm; and A Passing 
Storm. 

INVILLERS, EDWARD VINCENT, 
geologist, author, was born Aug. 2, 1857. 
in Germantown, Pa. He is a geologist 
and consulting engineer of Philadelphia. 
Pa. He is the author of Geology of Berks 
county, Pa.; and other geological works. 

IRELAND, ALEYNE, lecturer, author, 
was born Jan. 19, 1871. in England. In 
1900 he was appointed lecturer in politics 
in the University of Chicago. He is the 
author of Tropical Colonization; China 
and the Powers; and other works. 

IRELAND, JOSIAS ALEXANDER, phy¬ 
sician, was born Sept. 15, 1824. in Jef¬ 
ferson county, Ky. He became professor 
of obstetrics in the Kentucky school of 
medicine in 1864; professor of clinical 
medicine in the University of Louisville 
in 1866; and in 1867 returned to his for¬ 
mer chair in the Kentucky school of 
medicine. In 1872 he was elected pro¬ 
fessor of the diseases of women and 
children in the Louisville medical col¬ 
lege; and was afterward chosen dean of 
that institution. 

IRVING, JOHN DUER. genealogist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 18, 1874. in Madison. 
Wis. He is the author of Stratigraph- 
ical Relations of Brown’s Park Bed? 
of Utah; and Eruptive Rocks of the 
Northern Black Hills and Their Associat¬ 
ed Ore Bodies. 

IRWIN, SAMUEL D., soldier, lawyer, 
genealogist. He served in the civil war; 
•and took part in the Arkansas Expedition 
in 1864-65, principally with the engineers 
and scouts. In 1868 he published the Pi¬ 
oneer History of Forest County, Pa. He 


ha® been three times elected district at¬ 
torney of Forest county. He is the au¬ 
thor of History of the Irwin Family. 

ISAACS, ABRAHAM SAMUEL, edu¬ 
cator, rabbi, author, was born Aug. 30, 
1852, in New York City. He is professor 
of German literature in University of 
New York and he is also rabbi of the 
Barnet memorial temple of Paterson, N. 
J. Since 1878 he has been editor of the 
Jewish Messenger, is interested in benev¬ 
olent and educational work, and is a 
popular lecturer on literary topics. He 
is the author of Moses Chaun Luzzatto, 
a Modern Hebrew Poet, and Stories from 
the Rabbis. 

ISHAM, RALPH N., physician, surgeon, 
founder, was born March 16. 1831, in 
Manlieim, N. Y. In 1859 he was one of 
the founders of the old Chicago Medical 
College, which institution subsequent¬ 
ly became the medical school of 
Northwestern University. He was an in¬ 
structor in surgical anatomy in that 
school, and in 1896 was placed on the 
emeritus list. During the civil war he 
was surgeon ip the marine hospital in 
Chicago. He was one of the originators 
of the United States sanitary commission. 
He has been a wide traveler and has ac¬ 
cumulated a valuable biographical and 
historical library. 

IVES. FREDERIC. EUGENE, scientist, 
inventor, was born Feb. 17, 1856, in 

Litchfield, Conn. In 1878 he invented the 
first practically successful process of half¬ 
tone photo-engraving; and in 1886 in¬ 
vented the half-tone photo-engraving 
process now universally employed. 

IVISON, DAVID BRINKERHOFF. pub¬ 
lisher, was born June 28, 1835, in Auburn. 
N. Y. He entered the house of Ivison, 
Blakeman, Taylor & Company, school¬ 
book publishers, founded by his father, 
Henry Ivison, and in which he later be¬ 
came a partner, and eventually the senior. 
When in 1890 the firm was consolidated 
with other houses in the American book 
company. Mr. Ivison became president of 
that important corporation. 

JACK, SUMMERS MELVILLE, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 18, 1852, in 
Summersville, Pa. In 188’-89 he was dis¬ 
trict attorney for Indiana county. He was 
elected to the fifty-sixth congress from 
Pennsylvania as a republican. 

JACKMAN, HOWARD HILL, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born Feb. 9, 1852, in Liver¬ 
pool, Ohio. In 1893 he was judge of 
award at the World's Columbian Exposi¬ 
tion. Since 1900 he has had charge of 
the five city waterworks cribs of Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. 

JACKMAN, WILBUR SAMUEL, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 12, 1855. in 
Mechanicstown, Ohio. Since 1901 he has 
been dean and head of department of 
natural science in the University of Chi¬ 
cago. He is the author of Nature Study 
for Common Schools; and Nature Study 
for the Grammar Grades 1 . 

JACKSON, A. M., congressman. He 
was elected a member of the fifty-seventh 
congress from Kansas as a democrat. 

JACKSON, ABRAHAM VALENTINE 
WILLIAMS, linguist, author, was born 
Feb. 9, 1862, in New York City. Since 
1895 he has been professor of Indo-Iran- 
ian languages at Columbia University of 
New York City. He is the author of A 
Hymn of Zoroaster; An Avesta Grammar; 
An Avestan Reader; and Zoroaster, the 
Prophet of Ancient Iran. 

JACKSON, DUGALD CALEB, civil en¬ 
gineer, inventor, author, was born Feb. 


13, 1865, in Kennett Square, Pa. He has 
designed, built and operated many of the 
largest electric railway and lighting 
plants; and is now advising engineer and 
expert for several large corporations. He 
is the author of A Text-book on Elec¬ 
tricity and Magnetism and the Construc¬ 
tion of Dynamos; and Electricity and 
Magnetism. 

JACKSON, EDWARD, surgeon, author, 
was born March 30, 1856, in Goshen, Pa. 
In 1900 he was ophthalmologist to Ara¬ 
pahoe County Hospital of Denver, Col. 
He is the author of Essentials of Dis- 
eases of the Eye, and Manual of Diseases 
of the Eye. 

JACKSON, GABRIELLE EMILIE, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 13, 1861, in New 
York City. He is the author of Denise 
and Ned Toodles; and Pretty Polly Per¬ 
kins. 

JACKSON. JOHN HENRY, physician, 
state legislator, was born April 19, 1844, 
in Canada. Since 1865 he has been a suc¬ 
cessful physician of Barre, Vt.; and since 
1882 professor of physiology in University 
of Vermont. In 1878-80 he was a member 
of the Vermont state legislature; and in 
1896 was a democratic candidate for gov¬ 
ernor of Vermont. 

JACKSON, MARY ANNA, author. She 
is the wife of Gen. Thomas Jonathan J. 
Stonewall Jackson, deceased. She is the 
author of Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson. 

JACKSON. RICHARD HENRY, soldier, 
was born July 14. 1830, in Ireland. After 
serving in Florida and the west, he passed 
his examination for a second lieutenancy, 
receiving his commission in 1859. He 
afterward served as assistant inspector- 
general, and was also acting chief of 
artillery on Morris and Folly islands dur¬ 
ing the operations against Fort Sumter, 
and then chief artillery of the tenth and 
twenty-fifth corps, Army of the .Tames. 
He was brevetted brigadier-general of 
volunteers in 1865: and was commis¬ 
sioned full brigadier-general of volunteers 
in 1865. and brevet major-general fhe 
same year. He was promoted major in 
1880, and is now in command of Fort 
Schuyler, N. Y. 

JACKSON. SAMUEL MACAULEY. ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born June 19. 1851. 
in New York City. He is a professor of 
church history in New York University. 
He is the author of Concise Dictionary of 
Religious Knowledge- Heroes of Dm Re¬ 
formation. in nine volumes; and the ser¬ 
ies of Handbooks for Practical Workers 
in Church and Philanthropy, in twelve 
volumes. 

JACKSON. WITIAM H. congressman. 
He was elected to the fifty-seventh con- 
p. r p PS from Marvlaud as a renuhliean. 

JACOBI. ABRAHAM, physician author, 
was born May 6. 1830. in Westphalia. He 
is the author Dentition and Its Derange¬ 
ments; Infant Hygiene; Diptheria: Ther¬ 
apeutics of Infancy and Childhood, and 
Infant Diet. 

JACOBS. JOHN ADAMSON, educator, 
was born Nov. 6. 1839. in Cas® county. 
Mich. He removed to Danville, Ky.. 
where, at twenty years of age, he was 
apnointed assistant teacher in the deaf 
and dumb asylum. In 1862 he entered the 
National army, and served through th» 
civil war. In 1865 he resumed his posi¬ 
tion as teacher in the asylum; and in 
1869, was unanimously chosen by the 
trustees as superintendent of the institu¬ 
tion. 


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JACOBS, JOSEPH, journalist, author, 
was born Aug. 29, 1854, in Sydney, New 
South Wales. In 1900 he removed to 
America to take part in the editing of 
Funk & Wagnalls’ Jewish Encyclopaedia. 
He is the author of Studies in Jewish 
Statistics; Celtic Fairy Tales; Indian 
Fairy Tales;and a score of other works. 

JAMES, FRANK LOWBER, physician, 
journalist, author, was born Aug. 27. 1842, 
in Mobile, Ala. Since 1887 he has been 
editor of The National Druggist of St. 
Louis, Mo. He is the author of Ele¬ 
mentary Microscopical Technology. 

JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON, explor¬ 
er. ethnologist, lecturer, author, was born 
Sept. 27, 1858, in England. He has de¬ 
voted years to geography, geology, eth¬ 
nology, and archaeology researches in Cal¬ 
ifornia, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona 
and New Mexico. He is the author of 
The Lick Observatory; Tourists’ Guide to 
Southern California; Nature Sermons; 
Scenic Mount Lowe; Picturesque South¬ 
ern California; The Missions and Mis¬ 
sion Indians of California; From Alpine 
Snow to Semi-Tropical Sea; and In and 
Around the Grand Canyon. 

JAMES. HENRY B., soldier, author. 
He served with distinction through the 
civil war. He is the author of a volume 
concerning the civil war. 

JANVERS, MRS. CATHARINE DRIN¬ 
KER, artist, translator, author, was born 
in Philadelphia, Pa. Her principal 
paintings are Binding on the Shoes; The 
Guitar Player; Daniel at Prayer; and 
The Violinist. She is the author of 
Popular Keramics; and The Reds of the 
Midi; and other works. 

JARROLD, ERNEST, author, was horn 
in 1850 in England. He is the author of 
Odds and Ends; Mickey Finn Idylls; and 
Tales of the Bowery. 

JASTROW, JOSEPH, educator, au¬ 
thor. was born Jan. 30, 1863, in Poland. 
Since 1888 he has been professor of psy¬ 
chology in the university of Wisconsin. 
He is the author of Time-Relations of 
Mental Phenomena: and Fact and Fable 
in Psychology. 

JASTROW. MORRIS. JR., linguist, li¬ 
brarian, author, was born Aug. 13, 1861, 
in Europe. He is professor of Semitic 
languages’ and librarian of the university 
of Pennsylvania. He is the author of 
Religion of the Babylonians ana Assyr¬ 
ians. 

JEFFERSON, CHARLES EDWARD, 
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 29, 
1860. in Cambridge, Ohio. He is now 
pastor of Broadway Tabernacl" of New 
York city. He is the author of Quiet 
talks with Earnest People in My Study. 

JENKINS, BURRIS ATKINS, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, was 
born Oct. 2. 1869, in Kansas City. Mo. 
He has been pastor of Third Christian 
church, Indianapolis professor in But¬ 
ler college, Indianapolis; and is now 
president of the university of Indianap¬ 
olis. 

JENKINS, HOWARD MALCOLM, jour¬ 
nalist. author, was born March 30. 1842, 
in Gwynedd, Pa. In 1881-91 he was man¬ 
aging editor of The American of Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa., which position he filled for 
ten years. Since 1885 he has edited The 
Friends’ Intelligencer of Philadelphia. 
He is the author of Historical Collections 
Relating to Gwynedd, a work of local 
history, involving Welsh researen; Mem¬ 
orial History of Philadelphia; and The 
Family of William Penn. 


JENKINS, JAMES GRAHAM, lawyer, 
jurist, was born July 18, 1834, in Sara¬ 
toga Springs, N. Y. For four years he 
was city attorney of Milwaukee, Wis.; 
was defeated on democratic ticket for 
governor of Wisconsin in 1879; received 
the democratic vote in the legis¬ 
lature for United States senator in 1881. 
He was United States judge of the dis¬ 
trict of Wisconsin in 1888-93; and was 
promoted to circuit bench. 

JENKINS, WILLIAM M., lawyer, gov¬ 
ernor, was born April 25, 1856, in Alli¬ 
ance, Ohio. In 1897-1901 he was secre¬ 
tary of Oklahoma Territory. In 1891-03 he 
was governor of Oklahoma Territory. . 

JENKS, TUDOR, journalist, author, 
was born May 7, 1857, in Brooklyn, N. 
Y. He studied art in Pans; and in 
1881-87 practiced law in New York city. 
Since 1887 he has been on the editorial 
staff of St. Nicholas Magazine. He is 
the author of Century World’s Fair 
Book; and Boys’ Book of Explorations. 

JENNEY, WILLIAM LE BARON, sol¬ 
dier, architect, was born Sept. 25, 1832, 
in Fairhaven, Mass. He served through¬ 
out the civil war; and in 1864 was brev- 
etted major. In 1870-71 he was land¬ 
scape engineer for West Chicago Parks; 
and in 1S83 invented and first used in 
Home Insurance Building the skeleton 
construction now generally used for tall 
buildings. 

JENNINGS. EDWIN B„ civil engineer, 
lecturer, author, was born in 1855. in 
New York city. He engaged in practice 
as civil engineer, and for some lime 
taught in Cooper Union school; was 
twelve years in charge of Hawkins 
Bridge and Iron works; and since 1895 
has been known as lecturer and writer 
on trust questions. He is the author of 
People and Property. 

JENNINGS, JOHN JOSEPH, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born March 1, 1853, in 
St. Louis, Mo. He is the editor of the 
New York Evening World. He is the 
author of Theatrical and Circus Life. 

JERVIS. WILLIAM PERCIVAL. man¬ 
ufacturer, author, was born Dec. 28, 1851. 
in England. In 1898 lie founded the 
Baltimore Ceramic Company, of which he 
is the president. He is the author of 
Rough Notes on Pottery; and A Book of 
Pottery Marks. 

JESSUP, SAMUEL, missionary, auth¬ 
or, was born Dec. 21, 1833. in Montrose, 
Pa. In 1862 he was ordained by the 
presbytery of Montrose, and has since 
been engaged in mission work in 
Syria, having charge of the mission 
printing establishment and publishing 
house in that city. He is the author of 
Husn Sulayman. 

JEWELL. THEODORE FRELING- 
HUYSEN, naval officer, was born Aug. 
5. 1844, in Georgetown, D. C. He served 
on all the foreign stations, was in com¬ 
mand of the naval torpedo station for 
three years, and for the same period was 
superintendent of the naval gun-factory; 
and during the war with Spain command¬ 
ed the United States protected cruiser 
Minneapolis. 

JEWETT. JOHN HOWARD, soldier, 
journalist, author, was born Jan. 19, 1843. 
in Hadley, Mass. He served through 
the civil war; and in 1864 resigned with 
rank of assistant quartermaster and or¬ 
dnance officer. He is the author of The 
Bunny Stories. 

JOHNS, CLAYTON, musician, compos¬ 
er. was born Nov. 24, 1857. in New Castle 


Del. Since 1884 he has lived in Boston, 
Mass., as a concert-pianist, composer and 
teacher. He is the author of about one 
hundred songs. 

JOHNSON, BRADLEY TYLER, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, author, was born 
Sept. 29, 1829, in Frederick, Md. He 
served from captain to brigadier-general 
in the Confederate army through the civ¬ 
il war. In 1865-79 he practiced law in 
Richmond, Va.; and in Baltimore in 1879- 
90. He was a member of the National 
Democratic Convention in 1872, and 
a member of the Virginia state 
senate in 1875-79. He is the author 
of Chase’s Decisions;; The Foundation of 
Maryland; Memoir of Joseph E. John¬ 
ston; Life of General Washington; and 
The Confederate History of Maryland. 

JOHNSON, CHARLES SUMNER, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, was born in 1854, 
in Jones county, la. He was a member 
of the Nebraska legislature in 1883-84; 
and United States district attorney for 
Alaska in 1889-94. Since 1897 he has 
been United States judge for the district 
of Alaska. 

JOHNSON, ELIAS FINLEY, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, author, was born June 
24, 1861, in Vanwert, Ohio. In 1883-87 
he was a member of the Ohio legislature: 
and a member of the law faculty of the 
university of Michigan in 1890-1901. Since 
1901 he has been judge in the Philippine 
Islands. He is the author of Johnson on 
Bills and Notes. 

JOHNSON, HALE, lawyer, statesman, 
was born Aug. 21, 1847. in Montgomery 
county, Ind. In 1877 he began the prac¬ 
tice of his profession at Newton, Ill. In 
1896 he was nominated for vice-presi¬ 
dent, with Joshua Levering of Maryland 
for president, by the majority of narrow 
gauge section of the Prohibition party at 
the convention held in Pittsburg, Pa. 

JOHNSON, JESSE, lawyer, author, was 
born Feb. 20, 1842, in Bradford, Vt. In 
1889-93 he was district attorney of the 
eastern district of New York; and in 
1897-98 was justice of the supreme court 
of New York. He is the anther of Tes¬ 
timony of the Sonnets as to the Author¬ 
ship of the Shakespearian Plays and 
Poems. 

JOHNSON, JOHN, soldier, clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 25, 1829. in Char¬ 
leston, S .C. In 1861-65 he served as 
lieutenant captain and major of engin¬ 
eers in the Confederate army, in the 
Carolinas and Georgia. He was for fif¬ 
teen months engineer in charge of Fort 
Sumter during the heavy and prolonged 
bombardments and was twice wounded 
there. Since 1871 he has been rector of 
St. Philip’s church of Charleston. He 
is the author of The Defense of Charles¬ 
ton Harbor, 1863-65. 

JOHNSON, JOSEPH TRAVIS, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 28, 1858. in 
Brewerton. S. C. Since 1883 he has 
practiced law in Spartansburg, S. C. He 
was elected to the fifty-seventh congress 
from South Carolina as a democrat. 

JOHNSON, MORTIMER L„ naval offi¬ 
cer, w r as born June 1. 1842, in Naliant, 
Mass. He attained the rank of lieuten¬ 
ant during the civil w r ar. He was then 
placed on various duties and services; 
was promoted to rear admiral in 1901; 
and now is commander of naval station 
at Port Royal. S. C. 

JOHNSON. OTIS C.. chem’st author, 
v>as born Sept. 11, 1839 in Kishwaukee, 
111. Since 1889 he has been professor of 
applied chemistry in the university of 


ADDENDA. 


Ivii 


Michigan. He is the author of Qi ali- 
tative Chemical Analysis. 

JOHNSON, OWEN, journalist, author, 
was born Aug. 27, 1878, in New York 
City. He was the founder and first edit¬ 
or of the Lawrenceville Literary Maga¬ 
zine. He is the author of Arrows of the 
Almighty. 

JOHNSON, PHILANDER CHASE 
journalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 6, 
1866, in Wheeling, W. Va. He is now 
editorial writer and dramatic editor o 
the Washington Star. He is the author 
of Sayings of Uncle Eben; and Now-a- 
Day Poems. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM HENRY, sol¬ 
dier, clergyman, author, was born March 
29, 1845, in Beaufort, S. C. He served in 
the Confederate army as an officer in 
the regiment which garrisoned Fort 
Sumter. He is the author of The 
World’s Discoverers. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM MARTIN, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Dec. 12, 1862. 
in BoEton, Mass. He is art editor of the 
Ladies’ Home Journal. He is the author 
of Inside of One Hundred Homes. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM WOOLSEY. ed¬ 
ucator. mathematician, author, was born 
June 23, 1841, in Owego, N. Y. Since 
1891 he has been professor of mathe¬ 
matics in the United States naval acad¬ 
emy. He is the author of Differential 
Calculus; An Elementary Treatise on the 
Integral Calculus; and other works. 

JOHNSTON, MRS. ANNIE FEL T O^’S 
author, poet, was born in 1863, in Ev¬ 
ansville, Ind. She is the author of Big 
Brother; The Little Colonel; A Boy of 
Galilee; Old Mammy’s Torment; and 
other works. 

JOHNSTON, CHARLES, author, was 
born Feb. 17. 1867, in Ballykilbeg, Coun¬ 
ty Down, Ireland. He is the author of 
The Memory of Past Births. 

JOHNSTON. DAVID E., soldier, law¬ 
yer, State senator, congressman, was 
born April 16, 1845, in Virginia. In 1861 
he entered the Confederate army; and was 
twice wounded. In 1878 he was elected to 
the West Virginia state Senate; and in 
1880-88 was judge of the circuit court. 
He was elected a member of the fifty- 
sixth congress as a democrat. 

JOHNSON. ELIZABETH. BF.Y\N T ' 
lecturer, author, was born in Mason 
county, Ky. She is a lecturer and dia¬ 
lect reader of Washington. D. C. She 
is the author of Visitor's Guide to Mount 

JONES, RICHARD, educator, author. 
Since 1899 he has been professor of liter¬ 
ature in the Vanderbilt university of 
Nashville, Tenn. He is the author of 
Vernon; and The Days That Are No 
More. 

JOHNSTON. MRS. HARRIET LANE, 
was born in 1833, in Mercersburg, Pa. 
During the administration of her uncle, 
President James Buchanan, she was mis¬ 
tress of the White House, over which she 
presided with grace and dignity, receiv¬ 
ing, among other distinguished guests, 
the Prince of Wales and his party. In 
1866 she married Henry Elliott Johnston 
of Maryland. 

JOHNSTON. HUGH, clergyman, author, 
was born in Canada. Since 1898 he has 
been pastor of the First Methodist 
Episcopal church of Baltimore, Md. He 
is the author of Toward the Sunrise, 
sketches of travel in Europe and the 
Holy Land. 

JOHNSTON. JOSEPH FORNEY, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, banker, governor, was born 


in 1843, in Lincoln county, N. C. In 
1861-65 he served in the Confederate army 
from private to captain and was 
four times wounded. In 1866-84 
he practiced law at Selma, Ala.; since 
then he has lived in Birmingham. He 
was president of the Alabama National 
bank in 1884-94. In 1896-1900 he was 
governor of Alabama. 

JOHNSTON, MARY, author, was born 
Nov. 21, 1870, in Buchanan, Va. She 
is the author of Prisoner of Hope; and 
To Have and To Hold. 

JOHNSTON. NATHAN ROBINSON, 
clergyman, missionary, author, was born 
Oct. 8, 1820, in Harrison county, Ohio. 
He was co-worker with William Lloyd 
Garrison and Wendell Phillips in anti¬ 
slavery cause. In 1875 he went to Oak¬ 
land. Cal., as missionary to the Chinese. 
He is the author of Looking Back from 
che Sunset Land. 

JOHNSTON, WILLIAM AGNEW. law¬ 
yer, state senator, jurist, was born July 
24 1848, in Canada. In 1872-84 he prac¬ 
ticed law in Kansas; was elected to the 
legislature in 1875; and to the state sen¬ 
ate in 1876. In 1880-84 he was attorney- 
general of Kansas; and since 1884 has 
been justice of the supreme court of Kan¬ 
sas. 

JOHNSTON. WILLIAM ANDREW, 
journalist, author, was born Jan. 26, 1871, 
in Pittsburg, Pa. Since 1900 he has been 
on the editorial staff for the New York 
World. He is the author of History Up 
to Date. 

JONAS, AT.BERTO, musician, founder, 
composer, was born June 8, 1868, in Mad¬ 
rid. In 1894 he became head of the 
pianoforte department of the University 
of Michigan School of Music. He is 
director, president and founder of the 
Michigan Conservatory of Music of De¬ 
troit. He is composer of several dances 
and romances. 

JONES. CHARLES HENRY, lawyer, 
author, was born Sept. 13, 1837, in Read¬ 
ing Pa. In 1863 he settled in Philadel¬ 
phia. Pa.; and was soon appointed coun¬ 
sel for the Fairmount park commission. 
He is the author of A Pedestrian Tour 
Through Switzerland; Recollections of 
Venice; Memoir of William Rodman; The 
Campaign for the Conquest of Canada 
in 1776; and a Genealogy of the Rodman 
Family. 

JONES. DANIEL WEBSTER, soldier, 
lawyer legislator, governor, was born 
Dec. 15, 1839, in Bowie county, Texas. In 
1861 he entered the Confederate army 
and became colonel of the twentieth 
Arkansas infantry in 1862; and was 
commanding a brigade of infantry at the 
close of the war. In 1884-88 he was at¬ 
torney general of Arkansas; a member 
of the legislature in 1901; and governor 
in 1896-1900. 

JONES. FRANCIS COATES, artist, 
was born July 25. 1857. in Baltimore, Md. 
He is a successful figure painter of New 
York City. 

JONES, GARDNER MAYNARD, li¬ 
brarian, author, was born June 27, 1850, 
in harlestown. Mass. Since 1889 he has 
been librarian of Salem public library. 
He is the author of List of Subject Head¬ 
ings for Use in Dictionary Catalogues. 

JONES, GEORGE JAMES, clergyman, 
college president, lecturer, author, was 
born in 1856 in Wales. In 1895-97 h“ 
was president of Gale college, Wis. He 
is the author of The Province of Phil¬ 
osophy; American Church, and Public 
Lectures. 


JONES, GEORGE WILLIAM, mathe¬ 
matician, aamor, was born Oct. 14, 1837, 
in East Corinth, Maine. Since 1887 he 
has been professor of mathematics in 
Cornell university. He is the author of 
Drill-Book in Algebra; and Drill-Book in 
Trigonometry. 

JONES, HARRY CLARY, chemist, 
author, as born Nov. 11, 1865, in New 
London, Md. He is associate professor 
of physical chemistry in Johns Hopkins 
University of Baltimore, Md. He is the 
author of Freezing Point, Boiling Point, 
and Conductivity Methods. 

JONES, IRA B., lawyer, legislator, jur¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 29, 1851, in Newberry, 
S. C. In 1890 he was elected a member 
of the South Carolina state legislature, 
and became speaker of the house. He 
received the re-elction in 1892 and 1894. 
and in 1896-1902 was associate justice of 
the supreme court of South Carolina. 

JONES, ISAAC THOMAS, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born Dec. 2, 1838. in 
West River, Md. In 1868 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Maryland legislature. He was 
elected judge of the circuit court fifth ju¬ 
dicial circuit twice for fifteen years each: 
and became chief judge of the circuit. 

JONES, JOHN DIVINE, business man, 
philanthropist, was born Aug. 15, 1814. 
in Cold Springs, N. Y. He was placed 
in the office of his uncle, and under his 
guidance filled all the offices of the At¬ 
lantic company, of which he has been 
president since 1855. He has been a lib¬ 
eral benefactor of many public institu¬ 
tions, especially to the Protestant Epis¬ 
copal church of New York city and Long 
Island, and to the Historical Society of 
New York. 

JONES, MRS. KATE EMERY SAN¬ 
BORN, librarian, author, was born June 
23, 1860, in Henniker, N. H. She is the 
author of The Cutter-Sanborn Author 
Table. 

JONES, MARCUS EUGENE, botanist, 
geologist, author, was born April 25, 1852, 
in Jefferson, Ohio. He is now engaged 
as botanist, geologist and mining expert. 
He is the author of Excursion Botanique; 
Ferns of the West; Salt Lake City; Some 
Phases of Mining in Utah; and Botany of 
the Great Plateau. 

JONES, NELSON EDWARDS, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born Sept. 20, 
1821, in Ross county, Ohio. Since 1852 
he has practiced at Circleville. . In 1864 
he was commissioned surgeon of the 
board of enrollment, twelfth district of 
Ohio, serving to the end of the war. He 
served thirty-one years as examining 
surgeon for pensions. He is the author 
of The Squirrel Hunters of Oh 5 o. 

JONES, RICHARD, educator, author. 
Since 1899 ho has been professor of liter¬ 
ature in the Vanderbilt university of 
Nashville, Tenn. He is the author of 
The Growth of the Idyls of the King; 
and College Entrance English. 

JONES, RICHARD CHANNING, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state senator, was born 
April 12, 1841, in Brunswick county, Va. 
He served in the Confederate army as 
line and staff officer; and resumed prac¬ 
tice at Camden, Ala., after the war. Tft 
1882-85 he was a member of the Alabama 
state senate 

JONES. RUFUS MATTHEW, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 25, 1863, in South 
China, Maine. He is professor of phi¬ 
losophy in Haverford College, Pa.; and 
editor of the American Friend. He is the 
author of Life of Eli and Sibyl Jones; 
and A Dynamic Faith. 


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ADDENDA. 


JONES, SAMUEL M., inventor, reform¬ 
er, was born in 1846, in Waxes. In 18b 
he went to Titusville, Pa., worked in the 
oil fields; became an oil producer in 
Pennsylvania and later in West Virginia 
and in Ohio. He invented improved oil 
well appliance and established in Toledo 
the Acme Sucker Rod Factory of whim 
he is owner, and in which he has intro¬ 
duced various reforms in labor conditions. 
He was elected mayor of Toledo in 18117; 
and 1899; and was noted for opposition 
to monopolies, and advocacy of munici¬ 
pal ownership, direct legislation and the 
eight-hour day. 

JONES, SINGLETON THOMAS WEB¬ 
STER, clergyman, bishop, was born 
March 8, 1825, in Wrightsville, Pa. In 
1846 he was licensed to preach in Al¬ 
legheny, Pa.; became a member of the 
Allegheny conference in 1849: and in 
1851 was ordained an elder. He was 
elected a bishop of the African Methodist 
Episcopal Zion church in 1868. 

JONES, MRS. VIRGINIA SMITH, art¬ 
ist, author, was born Sept. 9, 1827. in 
New London, Conn. She is the author 
of Illustration of the Nests and Eggs of 
Birds of Ohio, with sixty-eight nand-col- 
ored plates. 

JORDAN, CONRAD N., banker, was 
born April 20, 1830, in New York city. 
In 1885-87 he was treasurer of the United 
States at Washington; and devised a new 
form of silver bullion certificate. 

JORDAN. ELIZABETH GARVER, 
journalist, author, was born May 9, 1867, 
in Milwaukee, Wis. He is editor of Harp¬ 
er’s Bazar. He is the author of Tales of 
the City Room. 

JORDAN. ; FRANCIS, merchant, anti¬ 
quarian, author, was born Aug. 28, 1843. 
in Philadelphia. Pa. He is an importer 
of chemicals of Philadelphia, Pa. He 
is also well-known as a numismatic and 
antiquarian. He is the author of The 
Remains of an Aboriginal Town of Re- 
nobeth, Del. 

JORDAN, JULES, musician, composer, 
was born Nov. 10. 1850 in Williamantic. 
Conn. He is highly successful as con¬ 
ductor and teacher of Providence, R. 1. 
He is the composer of Rip Van Winkle, a 
romantic comedy-opera. 

JORDAN, WILLIAM GEORGE, journal¬ 
ist. author, was born March 6, 1864. in 
New York City. Since 1898 he has been 
editor-in-chief of the Saturday Evening 
Post of Philadelphia. Pa. Since 1884 he 
has. been engaged in preparation of Jor¬ 
dan’s Guide to Poetry and Prose. 

JOSEFFY, RAFAEL, musician, compos¬ 
er. was born July 3, 1853. in Hungary. 
In delicacy of touch he is unexcelled. 
Since 1879 he has lived in New York 
City; and now teaches in the National 
Conservatory. He has composed about, 
a score of salon-pieces for piano. 

JOUETT. JAMES EDWARD, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Feb. 27, 1828, in Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky. He took a prominent part in 
entrance to Moblie bay under Farragut 
in 1864; and was promoted in course 
to rear admiral and commanded Norti 
Atlantic squadron. In 1885,’when repels 
closed the transit across the Isthmus 
of Panama, he opened the transit and re¬ 
stored peace, for which he was thanked 
by president of the United States of Co¬ 
lumbia. 

JOY. JAMES RICHARD, journalist, au¬ 
thor. was born Oct. 16, 1863. in Groton, 
Mass. He is the author of The Greek 
Grammar; Grecian History; and Twenty 
Centuries of English History. 


JOYCE, ISAAC W., clergyman, bishop, 
was born Oct. 11, 1836, in Hamilton coun¬ 
ty, Ohio. Since 1888 he has been Metho¬ 
dist Episcopal bishop at Minneapolis, 
Minn. , 

JUDD, CHARLES HUBBARD, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Feb. 20, 1873, in 
British India. Since 1898 he has been 
professor of Psychology in the University 
of New York. He is the author of Out¬ 
lines of Psychology. 

JULIEN, ALEXIS ANASTAY, geolo¬ 
gist, naturalist, was born Feb. 13, 1840, 
in New York City. He has attained a na¬ 
tional reputation as a successful geolo¬ 
gist and naturalist; and many of his col¬ 
lections of birds and land shells are in 
the Smithsonian institution. 

JUNGER, AEGIDIUS, missionary, 
bishop, was born April 6, 1838, in Prus¬ 
sia. In 1862 he was stationed as a mis¬ 
sionary at Walla Walla, Washington ter¬ 
ritory. In 1864 he ws attached to the 
cathedral at Vancouver; and in 1879 be¬ 
came second bishop of the diocese of 
Nesqually. 

JUSTICE. NOAH, business man. jurist, 
was born Oct. 16, 1836 in Clarksburg. 

Ohio. He is engaged in the business of 
realestate in LaFayette, Ind. He has 
been justice of the peace for eight years; 
and mayor of that city. 

KAHN, JULIUS, actor, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Feb. 28. 
legislature. He was elected to the fifty- 
sixth congress as a republican. 

KAHN, MRS. RUTH WARD, lecturer, 
author, poet, was born Aug. 4. 1872, in 
Jackson. Mich. She has lectured in twen¬ 
ty states. She is the author of The First 
1861, in Germany. After leaving school 
he entered the theatrical profession. He 
became a lawyer of San Francisco, Cal.; 
and in 1892 was elected to the California 
Quarter, collected poems. 

K A IN. JOHN JOSEPH, clergyman, 
archbishop, was born May 6i, 1841, in 
Martinsburg. W. Va. In 1875 he was 
consecrated bishop of Wheeling; in 1893 
he became coadjutor archbishop of St. 
Louis; and archbishop in 1896. 

KANTER, EDWARD, banker, state leg¬ 
islator. founder, -was born Aug. 14. 1824. 
in Silesia. The German-American bank 
was founded by him in 1868. and he 
Imld the presidency until 1894. He served 
as a member of the state legislature in 
1857. . 

KARR, MRS. ELIZABETH, author, 
was born in Geneva, N. Y. She is the 
wife of Gen. Charles W. Karr, a Cift- 
cinati lawyer. She is the author of The 
American Horsewoman. 

KEARNEY. BELLE lecturer, author, 
was born near Vernon, Miss. She ha', 
lectured extensively in the United States. 
Canada and Europe. She is the author 
of a Slaveholder’s Daughter. 

KEARNS, THOMAS miner UnR~d 
States senator, was born in 1868 in Can¬ 
ada. He is part owner of Silver King 
mine of Utah, one of the richest silver 
mines in the world. In 1901 he was 
elected from Utah to the ITn'ted States 
senate for term ending in 1907. 

KEATON. JAMES R.. educator, law¬ 
yer. jurist, was born Dec. 10 . 1861. in 
Carter county, Ky. Since 1896 he has 
been associate justice of the supreme 
court and ex-officio judge of the third 
judicial district of Oklahoma. 

KEELEY. JAMES, journalist, was horn 
Oct. 14. 1867, in London. England. Since 
1898 he has been managing editor of th Q 
Chicago Tribune. 


KEELY, ROBERT NEFF, physician, 
author, was born in 1860 in Pennsylvania. 
He is the author of In Arctic Seas. 

KEEN, GREGORY BERNARD, clergy¬ 
man, librarian, author, was born March 
3, 1844, in West Philadelphia, Pa. in 
1871 he was appointed professor of mathe¬ 
matics in the theological seminary of St. 
Charles Borromeo at Overbrook, Pa. In 
1873-76 he devoted himself to the study of 
Greek literature. In 1887 he was elected 
librarian of the University of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. , 

KEENAN. THOMAS JOHNSTON, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, founder, was born Nor 
22, 1859, in Pittsburg. Pa. He was pres¬ 
ident and founder of the Publishers' 
Press Association; was vice-president of 
League American Wheelmen in 1898, 
and president of same in 1899. In 1884 
he founded the Pittsburg Press, of which 
he has always been editor. 

KEENER, JOHN CHRISTIAN, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, author, was born Feb. 7, 
1819. in Baltimore. Md. In 1861-64 he 
was superintendent of chaplains in Con¬ 
federate army West of Mississippi river. 
Since 1870 he has been, bishop of the 
Methodist-Episcopal church ^South. In 
1873 he founded a mission in Mexico. He 
is the author of The Post Oak Circuit. 

KEENER. WILLIAM ALBERT, lawyer, 
lecturer, author, was born March 10. 1856, 
in Augusta, Maine. He is dean of School 
of Law and Kent professor of law at 
Columbia University of New York City. 
He is the author of Treatise on Quasi- 
Contracts. 

ICEESE, WILLIAM LINN, business 
man, author, was born Feb. 25. 1835, in 
New York City. He is the author of 
John Keese, Wit and Litterateur; and 
William E. Burton. Actor. Author and 
Manager. 

KEHOE. JAMES N„ lawyer, jurist con¬ 
gressman. was born July 15. 1862, in 
Maysville. Ky. In 1893 was city aitorney 
of Maysville; and in 1893-1900 master in 
chancery of Mason Circuit court. He 
was elected to fifty-seventh congress from 
Kentucky as a democrat. 

KETLEY, BEN.TAMTN .T.. clergyman, 
bishop, was born Oct. 13. 1847. in Peters¬ 
burg. Va. Since 1900 he has been Roman 
Catholic Bishop of Savannah. Ga. 

KEISER. EDWARD HARRISON, edu¬ 
cator. author, was born Nov. 20. 1861. in 
Allentown. Pa. He is professor of ehem- 
istrv at Washington University of St. 
Louis. Mo. He is the author of Labora¬ 
tory Work in Chemistry. 

KEITH. JAMES, lawyer, jurist. He is 
presiding judge of the supreme court of 
appeals at Richmond, Va. 

KETTH. NATHANIEL SHEPARD, elec¬ 
trical engineer, author, was born July 
14. 1838, in Boston, Mass. In 1884 be 
was the organizer and first secreta r v of 
American Institute Electrical Engineers. 
He is now mining and metallurgic expert 
with Arlington Copper Corapanv. AHing 
ton. N. J. Hp is the author of Magnetic 
and Dynamo-Electric Machines. 

KELLAR. HARRY, magician, was 
born July 11. 1849. in Erie. Pa. He has 
played through South America. Africa. 
Australia. India. China, Philippine Island 1 ' 
and Japan; and since 1884 he has per¬ 
formed in leading American cities. 

KELLEN. WILLIAM VATT . lawyer au¬ 
thor. was born July 3. 1852. in Truro, 
Mass. He is the author of Hdex-Digest 
of Massachusetts: and New Index to Pub¬ 
lic Statutes of Massachusetts. 


ADDENDA. 


lix 


KELLERMAN, WILLIAM ASHBROOK. 
botanist, author, was born May 1, 1850 
in Ashville, Ohio. Since 1890 he has been 
professor of botany in Ohio State Uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of Flora of 
Kansas; Elementary Botany; Phytotheca: 
and Spring Flora of Ohio. 

KELLEY. DAVID CAMPBELL, clergy¬ 
man. author, was born Dec. 25, 1833. in 
Leeville, Tenn. In 1890 he was a can¬ 
didate for governor of Tennessee on Pro¬ 
hibition ticket. He was projector of the 
scheme from which came Vanderbilt Uni¬ 
versity and the Nashville College for 
Young Ladies. In 1898-99 he was pre¬ 
siding elder Nashville district of Tennes¬ 
see and was six times elected to general 
conference. He is the author of Modern 
Doubt. 

KELLEY, EDGAR STILLMAN, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born April 14. 1857. 
in Sparta, Wis. He was organist in Oak¬ 
land and San Francisco, Cal., and in 1890- 
91 conducted a comic-opera companv in 
the Eastern States. He has taught piano¬ 
forte, organ and composition in various 
schools in California and New York: and 
recently in the New York College of 
Music. He is the author of numerous 
compositions. 

KELLOGG AMOS. MARKHAM, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born June 5, 1832. in 
Utica, N. Y*. Since 1874 he has been 
editor of School Journal of New York 
City. He is the author of School Man¬ 
agement: and How to Teach. 

KELLOGG. EDGAR ROMEYN. soldier 
was born March 25. 1842. in New York 
City. During the civil war he attained 
the rank of captain. In 1898 he was 
appointed brigadier-general in the United 
States volunteers. He commanded the 
tenth United States infantry at battle 
of San Juan Hills. 

KELLOGG. MRS. EVA MARY CROSBY, 
author was born March 20, 1860, in Nepon- 
set. Ill. She is the author of Australia 
and the Islands of the Sea-, and Grand¬ 
ma’s Darlings. 

KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Dec. 1, 1867. in Em¬ 
poria. Kan. He is professor of entomology 
in the Leland Stanford University of Cali¬ 
fornia. He is the author of Common In¬ 
jurious Insects of Kansas; and Elemen¬ 
tary Zoology. 

KELLY, MRS. FLORENCE F^ T C'H 
journalist, author, was born March 27 
1848, in Girard. Ill. She is the author of 
With Hoops of Steel. 

KELLY, HOWARD ATWOOD, physi¬ 
cian. author, was born Feb. 20, 1858. in 
Camden, N. J. He is professor of gyne¬ 
cology and obstetrics at Johns Hopki- 
university. He is the author of Opera¬ 
tive Gynecology. 

KEMP, JAMES FURMAN, geologist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1859 in New York 
City. He is professor of geology in Co¬ 
lumbia University of New York City. 
He is the author of Ore Deposits 
of the United States and Canada. 

KEMPFF, LOUIS, naval officer, was 
born Oct. 2, 1841, near Belleville. 111. Dur 
ing the civil war he attained the rank of 
lieutenant-commander. In 1896-99 he was 
in command of receiving ship Indepen¬ 
dence; and in 1899 became rear admiral. 

KENDRICK. JOHN MILLS, clergyman, 
bishop, was born in Gambier, Ohio. Since 
1889 he has been presiding bishop o 
Arizona. 

KENEALY, AHMED JOHN, journalist, 
author, was born April 13. 1854, in Eng¬ 
land. He joined staff of New York Her¬ 


ald. He is the author of Yacht Races for 
the America’s Cup; Boat Sailing in Fair 
Weather and Foul; and Yachting 
Wrinkles. 

KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER, law¬ 
yer, artist, author, was born in 1859, in 
Bridgeton, N. J. He has several times 
been juror of awards on paintings; and 
in 1900 was a commissioner to the Paris 
exposition. He is the author of Con¬ 
temporary Italian Romance; When the 
Printer’s Art Was Young; and The Friar 
in Fiction. 

KENNEDY, MRS. SARA BEATT 1 'tom~' 
author. She is the author of Joscelvn 
Cheshire, a Story of Revolutionary Days 
in the Carolinas. 

KENNEDY, WALKER, journalist, au¬ 
thor. was born June 8, 1857, in Louisville, 
Ky. Since 1896 he has been on the edi¬ 
torial staff of the Commercial Appeal of 
Memphis, Tenn. He is the author of 
In the Dwellings of Silence; and Javan 
ben Seir. 

KENNICOTT. CASS LANGDON, chem¬ 
ist. author, was born Feb. 25, 1871, in Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. He is the author of Dust Ex¬ 
plosions; Chicago’s Milk Supply; Ice; 
Water Analysis; and Food Adulterations. 

KENNY. ALBERT SEWALL, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born Jan. 19, 1841, in Des 
Moines, Iowa. He entered the navy as 
assistant paymaster in 1862, being pro¬ 
moted to paymaster in 1865, pay inspector 
in 1884, and pay director in 1897. For 
six years he was general storekeeper'of 
the Brooklyn navy yard. In 1899 he was 
appointed paymaster-general of the Unit¬ 
ed States navy with the rank of rear- 
admiral. 

KENT. CHARLES FOSTER, educator, 
author, was born Aug. 13. 1867, in Pal¬ 
myra. N. Y. Since 1895 he has been 
professor of biblical literature and history 
in Brown University. He is the author 
of Outlines of Hebrew History; The Wise 
Men of Ancient Israel ana Their Pro¬ 
verbs; A History of the Hebrew People; 
The United Kingdom; A History of the 
Hebrew People: the Divided Kingdom; 
The Messages of the Eai’lier prophets; 
and A History of the Jewish People. 

KENT, CHARLES W., educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 27, 1860, in Vir¬ 
ginia. Since 1893 he has peen professor 
lettres at Linden Kent Memorial School 
of English literature in the University of 
of Virginia. He is the author of Teutonic 
Antiquities in Andreas and Elene; Shake- 
spears Note Book; and Graphic Repre¬ 
sentations of English and American 
Literature. 

KENT, JACOB FORD, soldier, was 
born Sept. 14. 1835. in Philadelphia, Pa. 
During the civil war lie attained the rank 
of colonel. In 1898 he was made major- 
general; and served as such in the Span- 
ish-American war. 

KENT, WALTER HENRY, chemist, au¬ 
thor. was born March 29. 1851. in Levant 
N. Y. He is chemist and assistant pro¬ 
fessor in Brooklyn College of Pharmacy. 
He is the author of a published work in 
German. 

KENT, WILLIAM, civil engineer au¬ 
thor, was born March 5, 1851, in Phila¬ 
delphia. Pa. Since 1890 he has been a 
consulting engineer of New York City; 
and since 1895 associate editor of t.V 
Engineering News. He is the author of 
Strength of Materials: The Mechanical 
Engineer’s Pocket Book; and Steam B-> ; 
er Economy. 

KEPHART, CYRUS JEFFRIES, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was born 


Feb. 23, 1852, in Clearfield county, Pa. 
Since 1897 he has been president of Ava¬ 
lon College of Trenton, Mo. He is the 
author of Public Life of Christ; Jesus 
the Nazarene; and Life of Jesus for Chii' 
dren. 

KEPHART, ISAIAH LAFAYETTE.cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Dec. 10, 1832. 
In Clearfield county, Pa. In 1885-89 
he was president of Westfield Col¬ 
lege, Ill., and then became editor of 
The Religious Telescope, the organ of 
the United Brethren Church. He i« th- 
author of Biography of Rev. Jacob S. 
Kessler; and Evils of the Use of Tobacco 
by Christians. 

KERLIN, ROBERT THOMAS, edn — --- 
author, was born March 22, 1866, in New¬ 
castle, Mo. In 1890-94 and since 1900 he 
has been professor of practical theology 
Valley College. He was chaplain of 3d 
Missouri volunteers in Spanish-American 
war. He is the author of Mainly for 
Myself: The Lyrical Diversions of a Vil¬ 
lage Parson; and The Camp Life of the 
Third Regiment. 

KERN, JOHN ADAM, educator, cler¬ 
gyman. author, was born April 23, 1846. 
in Frederick county, Va. Since 1899 he 
has ben profesor of practical theology 
in Vanderbilt University. He is the au¬ 
thor of Ministry to the Congregation. 

KERNAN. WILL HUBBARD, journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born in November, 1845, in 
Mac-o-chee Valley, Ohio. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Flaming Meteor, a volume 
of poems. 

KERR. JAMES M., lawyer, author. He 
is a successful lawyer of Ohio; and is as¬ 
sistant editor of the Ohio Legal News. 
He is the author of Homicide; and 
Mortgages. 

KESTER, PAUL, dramatist, author, 
was born Nov. 2, 1869, in Delaware. Ohio. 
He is the author of Tales of the Real 
Gypsy; The Countess Roudine, produced 
by Mme. Modjeslca; Zamar. produced by 
late Alexander Salvini; a dramatization 
of When Knighthood was in Flower, pro¬ 
duced by Miss Julia Marlowe. 

KEY. JOSEPH STAUNTON, clergyman, 
bishop, was born July 18, 1829, in La 
Grange, Ga. He is bishop of the Metho¬ 
dist Episcopal Church South.. >. 

KEYES. CHARLES ROLLIN, geologist 
author. In 1894-97 he was director of 
Missouri geological survey. He is the au¬ 
thor of Geological Formations; Coal De¬ 
posits; Organization of Geological Sur¬ 
veys; Palaeontology of Missouri; and 
Maryland Granites. 

KEYES, WINFIELD SCOTT, mining 
engineer, author, was born Nov. 17. 1839. 
in Brooklyn. N. Y. In 1876 he was a 
member of the board of judges at Cen¬ 
tennial Exposition of Philadelphia. Pa.; 
and was honorary commissioner to Paris 
Exposition in 1878. He is the author of 
Resources of California; and Resources 
of Montana. 

KEYSER, CHART ES SHEARER, law¬ 
yer, author, was born June 18, 1825, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a noted 
lawyer of Philadelphia. Pa.; and 
is best noted for his work in the forma¬ 
tion of Fairmount Park; and the res¬ 
toration of Independence Hall. He is 
the author of Independence Hall; The 
Liberty Bell; Fairmount Park; Paris 
Treaty; and Genealogy of the Keyser 
Family. 

KEYSER. EDWARD LAWRENCE, 
physician, educator, author, was born 
Aug. 28, 1843, in Charleston, S. C. In 
1867 he settled in practice in New York 


lx 


ADDENDA. 


City. He became lecturer on dermatology 
in Bellevue hospital medical college in 
1871; was made professor of that branch 
in 1872; and since 1875 has been also 
adjunct professor of surgery. He is the 
author of Genito-Urinary Diseases witn 
Syphilis; and Venereal Diseases. 

KIDDER, FRANK EUGENE, architect, 
author, was born Nov. 3, 1859. He is the 
author of Architect and Builders’ Pocket 
Book; Churches and Chapels; and Build¬ 
ing Construction and Superintendence. 

KIDDER, JEROME HENRY, surgeon, 
scientist, was born Oct. 26, 1842, in Bal¬ 
timore county, Md. In 1862 he entered 
the National army; and served till the 
close of the war as a medical cadet in the 
military hospitals. He was appoints 
an assistant surgeon in the United States 
navy, and surgeon in 1876. 

KILLEBREW, JOSEPH BUCKNvv 
railroad manager;, author, was born May 
29, 1831, in Montgomery county, Teun. 
He has been president of the Industrial 
League and promoter of several large in¬ 
dustrial establishments in the South. He 
is the author of Resources of Tennessee: 
Grasses of Tennessee; Tobacco Leaf; and 
other industrial works. 

KIMBALL, ARTHUR REED, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Feb. 1, 1855. in 
New York City. Since 1881 he has been 
assistant editor of Waterbury American. 
Conn. He is the author of The Blue-Rib¬ 
bon Life of F. E. Murphy. 

KIMBALL, BENJAMIN AMES, me¬ 
chanical engineer, manufacturer, finan¬ 
cier, legislator, was born Aug. 22, 1833 
in Boston, Mass. He entered the employ 
of the Concord Railroad as draftsman, 
and in 1858 succeeded his brother John as 
master mechanic. This position he occu¬ 
pied until 1865 when he resigned to be¬ 
come a member of Ford and Kimball or 
Concord, manufacturers of car whee’s and 
brass and iron castings. In 1870 he was 
member of the New Hampshire house of 
l-epresentatives; and in 1876 was a mem¬ 
ber of the constitutional convention-, and 
filled various other public offices of trust. 
He was president and trustee of the Con¬ 
cord Savings Bank; and is now president 
of the Mechanics’ National Bank. He is 
also a director in the Concord Railway: 
and various other corporations. 

KIMBALL. GEORGE Cl TFTON. edu¬ 
cator, was born March 28, 1863, in Farm¬ 
ington. N. H. He is now instructor in 
Latin and Greek in Brewster, Academv, 
Wolfeborough, N. H. 

KIMBALL, JOHN, mechanic, financier 
state senator, genealogist, was born April 
13, 1821, in Canterbury, N. H. In 1850-58 
he was master mechanic Concord railroad: 
in 1856-57 was president city council; and 
in 1858-59 was a member of the New 
Hampshire state legislature. For seven 
years he was collector of internal 
revenue; was mayor of Concord in 1872- 
75; and in 1876 was a member of Un¬ 
constitutional convention to revise the 
constitution of the state. In 1880 he be¬ 
came president of the Concord Gas Light 
Company; and in 1881 became a member 
of the New Hampshire state senate-, and 
was elected its president. Since 1870 he 
has been treasurer of the Merrimack Coun¬ 
ty Savings Bank; and is a director in vari¬ 
ous corporations. He is the author of 
Genealogy of The Joseph Kimball Fam¬ 
ily. 

KIMBALL, WILLIAM SMITH, mechan¬ 
ical engineer, manufacturer, was born 
March 31. 1837, in Boscawen. N. H. In 
1862-63 he. had charge of the United States 


naval machine shops at Port Royal, S. C. 
He is one of the foremost manufacturers 
of Rochester, N. Y.; and prominent in 
public and business affairs of that state. 

KINEALY, JOHN HENRY, mechanical 
engineer, author, was born March 18, 
1864, in Hannibal, Mo. Since 1892 he 
has been professor of mechanical en¬ 
gineering at Washington University of 
St. Louis, Mo. He is the author of -Ream 
Engines and Boilers; Charts for Low 
Pressure Steam Heating; and Formulas 
and Tables for Heating. 

KING, ALBERT FREEMAN AFRICAN- 
US, author, was born Jan. 18, 1841„- in 
England. He is consulting physician at 
Children’s Hospital of Washington, D. 
C. He is the author of A Manual of Ob¬ 
stetrics. 

KING, FRANKLIN HIRAM, educator, 
author, was born June 8, 1848, in White- 
water, Wis. Since 1888 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of agricultural physics at Univer¬ 
sity of Wisconsin. He is the author of 
Economic Relations of Wisconsin Birds; 
The Soil; Elementary Lessons in the 
Physics of Agriculture; and Principles of 
Agricultural Irrigation and Farm Drain¬ 
age. 

KING, HAMILTON, clegyman, lecturer, 
diplomat, author, was born June 4, 1852, 
in Newfoundland. Since 1898 he has been 
United States minister resident and con¬ 
sul-general in Siam. He is the author 
of Greek Reader; and Outline,- of United 
States History. 

KING, HENRY CHURCHILL, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 18, 1858, in Hills¬ 
dale, Mich. Since 1897 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of theology at Oberlin College. He 
is the author of Outline of Erdmann’s 
History of Philosophy; and Outlines of 
the Microcosmus of Hermann Lotze. 

KING, MRS. JULIE RIVES, musician, 
composer, was born Oct. 31, 1859, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. She is a noted concert- 
pianist. In 1878 she married Frank H. 
King. She has played in over two hun¬ 
dred concerts with Theodore Thomas; 
and frequently with eminent conductors 
in the United States and Europe. 

KING, MARY PERRY, author, was 
horn in 1865, in Oswego. N. Y. She is 
director of Gymnasium for Women of 
New York city. She is the author of 
Comfort and Exercise; and The Basis c 
Beauty. 

KING, SAMUEL ARCHER aeronaut, 
was born April 9, 1828, in Philadelphia 
Pa. Since 1851 he has made about three 
hundred ascensions, passing through 
many perils and adventures. 

KING, WILBURN HILL, farmer, law¬ 
yer, author, was born June 10, 1839, in 
Cullodenville, Ga. He is the author of 
A History of the Texas Rangers. 

KING, WILLIAM BASIL, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born in 1859 in Prince 
Edwards Islands. He is an episcopal 
clergyman of Cambridge. He is ‘Tie au¬ 
thor of The Daily Song; Thoughts on th' 
Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer; 
and Griselda. 

KINGMAN. EBEN. business man, gen¬ 
ealogist, was born Nov. 16, 1826, in Wal¬ 
tham, Maine. He has been a success!*1 
farmer and lumberman, and filled numer- 
our local offices in Otis. Maine. He is the- 
author of the Genealogy of the Kingman 
Family. 

KINGSLEY. MRS. FI ORENC ^ MO^SE, 
author, was born July 14, 1859, near_ Me¬ 
dina. Ohio. She is the author of Titus, 
a Comrade of the Cross; Stephen; Paul; 
and Prisoners of the Sea. 


KINGSLEY, JOHN STERLING, zoo¬ 
logist, aui.no., was horn April 7, i»54, in 
Cincinnatus, N. Y. Since 1882 he nas 
been processor oi zoology at Tufts Col¬ 
lege. He is the author of Elements 
oi Comparative Zoology. 

KINKEAD, ELEANOR TALBOT, 
author, was bom in Kentucky. She is 
the author of ’Gainst Wind and Tide; 
ioung Greer ot Kentucky; and Flonu. 
Alexander. 

KINKEAD, ELIZABETH SHELBY, 
educator, lecturei, author, was born in 
Fayette county, Ky. Since 1897 she has 
been lecturer on English literature. She 
is the author of A History of Kentucky. 

KINLEY, DAVID, educator, author, was 
born Sept. 2, 1861, in Scotland. Since 
1894 he has been professor of economics, 
and dean at university of Illinois. He is 
the author of The Independent T. reas- 
ury of the United States. 

KINNE, LA V-.GA G., lawyer, jurist 
nalist, author, was born Nov. 5, 1846, in 
Syracuse, N. Y. In 1892-97 he was judge 
of the supreme court of Iowa; and since 
1897 has been chief justice. Since 1897 
he has also been law lecturer in the 
Iowa College of Law of Des Moines. He 
is the author of Kinne’s Pleading and 
Practice. 

KINNEY, ABBOT, farmer, scientist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 16, 1850, in Brook- 
side, N. Y. He has been major of Cali- 
fonia National Guard; and is now chair¬ 
man of commission to manage Yosemite 
Valley. He is president of Southern Cali¬ 
fornia Academy Sciences; and president 
Southern California Pomological Society. 
He is president of five mercantile corpo¬ 
rations. He is the author of Conquest ot 
Death; Tasks by Twilight; and Euca¬ 
lyptus. 

KINSOLVING, LUCIEN LEE, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born May 14, 1862, in 
Loudoun county, Va. He is presiding 
elder missionary bishop of Rio Grande 
do Sul, Brazil. 

KIRK, MAY, was born 1864 in Nova 
Scotia. She is the wife of E. W. Scrip¬ 
ture. She is the author of The Baldwin 
Primer. 

KIRKUS, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born May 9, 1830, in England. 
He is the editor of American Literary 
Churchman. He is the author of Chris¬ 
tianity. Theoretical and Practical; Mis¬ 
cellaneous Essays; Orthodoxy, Scripture 
and Reason; Religion a Revelation and 
a Rule of Life. 

KISER, SAMUEL ELLSWORTH, jour¬ 
nalist, author was born February 2, 1862, 
in Shippensville, Pa. He is now special 
and editorial writer of the Chicago 
Record-Herald. He is the author of 
Budd Wilkins at the Show and Other 
Verses. 

KITCHELL, JOSEPH GRAY, artist, 
author, was born April 25, 1862, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. In 1900 he produced the 
Kitchell Composite Madonna, a blend ot 
the most important Madonnas painted by 
the great masters during three centuries. 
He is the author of American Supremacy. 

KITCHIN. CLAUDE, congressman, was 
born March 24, 1869, in Scotland Neck, 
N. C. He is a lawyer of his native city. 
He was elected to the fifty-seventh con¬ 
gress from North Carolina as a democrat. 

KITTREDGE, ALFRED B., lawyer. 
United States senator, was born March 
26, 1861, in Cheshire county, N. H. Since 
1885 he has practiced law in Sioux Falls, 
S. D. In 1890-93 he was a member of 
South Dakota state senate. In 1901-03 
he was United States senator to fill a 
vacancy. 


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KITTRIDGE, WALTER, musician com 
poser, was born Oct. 8, 1834, in Merri¬ 
mack, N. H. In 1863 he composed his 
most successful song, Tenting on the Old 
Camp Ground, which a Boston publisher 
declined at the price of fifteen dollars. 
A year later, when it was issued, ten 
thousand copies were sold in three 
months, and it became among the 
most popular of the civil war songs; and 
from it the composer still receives a 
liberal copyright. For forty years he 
gave concerts. He is the author of When 
They Come Marching Home; No Night 
There; and many other favorite melodies; 
and has published several popular song- 
books. 

KLAUSER, JULIUS, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born July 5, 1854, in New 
York City. He lives in Milwaukee, Wis., 
as a music-teacher. He is the author ot 
the Septonate and the Centralization ol 
the Tonal System. 

KLEIN, BRUNO OSCAR, musician, 
composer, was born June 6, 1858, in Han¬ 
over, Since 1884 he has been head of the 
pianoforte department at the Convent of 
the Sacred Heart. He is the author of 
Kenilworth, grand opera in three acts. 

KLEIN, JOSEPH FREDERIC, civil en- 
ginee, author, was born Oct. 10, 1849, in 
Paris, France. Since 18S1 he has been 
professor of mechanical engineering in 
Lehigh university. He is the author of 
Elements of Machine Design; and De¬ 
sign of a High-speed Steam Engine. 

KLINE, JACOB, soldier, was born Nov. 
5. 1840, in Pennsylvania. He served 
through the civil war; and was brevetted 
major in 1864 for gallantry in Atlanta 
campaign. In 1898 he was appointed 
brigadier-general of volunteers. 

KLUTTZ, THEODORE FRANKLIN, 
railroad manager, banker, congressman, 
was born Oct. 4, 1848, in Salisbury, N. 
C. He was presidential elector in 1880 
and 1896. He has been identified with 
banking and industrial interests. He was 
elected to fifty-sixth congress by largest 
majority ever given congressman in 
North Carolina as Democrat. 

KNAPP, ADELINE, journalist, author 
was born March 15, 1860, in Buffalo, N 
Y. She is the author of One Thousand 
Dollars a Day. 

KNAPP, HERMAN, physician, founder, 
author, was born March 17. 1832. ir 

Prussia. He has practiced in New 
York since 1868; professor ophthal¬ 
mology, New York university Medical 
College. In 1869 he founded New York 
Ophthalmic and Aural Institute. He is 
th author of Intra-Ocular Tumors. 

KNEISEL, FRANZ, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born 1865 of German parent¬ 
age. In 1886 he organized the now world- 
renowned Kneisel Quartett which has 
not only played in leading American 
towns, but also in London, and is in the 
front rank of similar organizatons to¬ 
day. 

KNIGHT, JESSE, lawyer, jurist, was 
born July 5, 1850, in Boonville. N. Y. He 
is justice of the supreme court of Wyo. 
ming. 

KNOWLES, DANIEL CLARK, soldier, 
clergyman, college president, author, was 
born Jan. 4, 1836, in Yardville, N. J. In 
1861 he was captain company D, 48th 
New York volunteers. He is the author 
of A Life that Speaketh. 

KNOWLTON, FRANK HALL, botanist, 
author, was born Sept. 2, 186), in Bran¬ 
don, Vt. In 1887-96 he was professor ot 
botany in the Columbian University of 
Washington. D. C.; and since 1900 palae¬ 
ontologist on the United States geological 
survey. He is the author of Fossil Wood 


and Lignite of the Potomac Formation; 
and Fossil Flora of Alaska. 

KNOX, JOHN ARMOY, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 10, 1851, in Ireland. 
He became editor of Texas Siftings, a 
comic newspaper which was published in 
Dallas, Texas, but subsequently removed 
to New York city. He is the author ot 
Sketches from Texas Siftings; Three 
Dozen Good Stories; and On a Mexican 
Mustang inrough Texas from the Gulf to 
the Rio Grande. 

KOBBE, WILLIAM A., soldier, was • 
born May 10, 1840, in New York. In 1862- 
65 he served in the civil war; and in the 
Spanish-American war as brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He is military governor of the 
Hemp ports, and is military governor and 
department commander of Mindanao ana 
Jolo. 

KOCH, THEODORE WESLEY, bi'io- 
grapher, author, was born Aug. 4, 1871, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1895-1900 he was 
engaged in the preparation of annotated 
catalogue of the rich Dantft collection 
presented by Professor Willard Fiske to 
Cornell university library. He is the au¬ 
thor of Dante, in America. 

KOEMMENICH, LOUIS, musician,com¬ 
poser, was born Oct. 4, 1866, in Germany, 
Since 1890 he has been an active con¬ 
ductor of singing societies in New York 
city; and teacher of pianoforte and sing¬ 
ing. His compositions consist chiefly c 
part-songs for male jhorus, a cantata, 
and songs. 

KOHLER. MAX J., lawyer, author, was 
born May 22, 1871, in Detroit, Mich, in 
1894-98 he was assistant U. e>. district at¬ 
torney of New York city. He is the au¬ 
thor of Methods of Review in Criminal 
Cases in the United States. 

KOHLSAAT. CHRISTIAN C., judge, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 8, 1844, in 
Edwards county, Ill. Since 1893 he has 
been judge of the United States district 
court for Northern district of Illinois. 

KOLLE, FREDERICK STRANGE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Nov. 22, 1871, in 
Germany. He is chief instructor in de¬ 
partment of electro-therapeutics at the 
Electrical Engineering Institute of New 
York city. He is the author of Roent¬ 
gen Discovery; and Medico-Surgical Rad¬ 
iography. 

KOREN, JOHN, statistician, author, 
was born March 3. 1861, in Decorah, 

Iowa. He is in State and municipal 
service. He is the author ol Economic 
Aspect of the Liquor Problem, and The 
Liquor Problem in its Legislative 
Aspects. 

KOTTHOFF, LAWRENCE, musician, 
composer, was born Dec. 11, 1862, in Ger 
many. He is a Bach specialist, a critic, 
and a successtul teacher of St. Louis, 
Mo. He is the author of Scripto-Ana- 
lysis of Music. 

KOTZSCH’MAR, HERMAN, musician, 
composer, was born July 4, 1829, in Ge 
many. He was organist at the First 
Parish Church for forty-seven years; and 
is at present organist of the State street 
Church of Portland, Maine. He is the 
author of numerous vocal quartets. 

KRAUS-BOELTE, MARIA, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 8, 1836, in Ger¬ 
many. She is principal for Kraus semi¬ 
nary for Kindergartners of New York 
city. She is the author of Kindergarten 
Guide. 

KRAUSE, LYDA. FARRINGTON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1864. She is 
the author of We Ten, or the Story of 
the Roses; A Lovable Crank, or More 
Leaves from the Roses; Derick; A Little 
Turning Aside; and Ingleside. 


KRAUTBAUER, FRANCIS XAVIER, 
clergyman, bishop, was born Jan. 12, 
1824, in Batavia. In 1875 he was con¬ 
secrated Roman Catholic bishop of Green 
Bay, Wis. 

KREMERS, EDWARD, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 23, 1865, in Milwau¬ 
kee, Wis. He is professor in school ot 
Pharmacy at University of Wisconsin. He 
is the author of The Volatile Oils. 

KROEH, CHARLES FREDERICK, edu 
cator,- author, was born March 28, 1816 
in Germany. Since 1871 he has been 
professor of languages in Stevens Insti¬ 
tute of Technology. He is the author or 
First German Reader; the Pronunciation 
of French; The Pronunciation of Spanish 
in Spain and America; and The Living 
Method of Learning How to Think in 
German, French and Snanish. 

KROUT, CAROLINE VIRGINIA, au¬ 
thor, was born in Crawfordsville, Ind. 
She is the author of Knights in Fustian. 

KROUT, MARY H., journalist, author, 
was born Nov. 3, 1857, in Crawfordsville, 
Ind. She is the author of Hawaii and a 
Revolution; A Looker-on in London; 
Alice in the Hawaiian Islands and The 
China of To-day. 

KRUEGER, PAUL FERDINAND JU¬ 
LIUS, poet, was born Feb. 1, 1873, m 
Milwaukee, Wis. He is a stenographer of 
Milwaukee, Wis. He has written over 
one hundred and fifty poems on the late 
Spanish war, and a number of lyrics. 

KUHNS, OSCAR, educator, author, 
was born Feb. 21, 1856, in Columbia, Pa. 
Since 1890 he has been professor of 
modern languages in Wesleyan universi¬ 
ty. He is the author of Selections from 
Alfred De Musset; The Treatment ot 
Nature in Dante’s Divina Commedia; 
and Revised Edition of Cary’s Transla¬ 
tion of DantA 

KYLE, THOMAS P., congressman. He 
was elected to the fifty-seventh congress 
from Ohio. 

LACHMAN,ARTHUR, chemist, author, 
was born Dec. 4, 1873, in San Francisco, 
Cal. Since 1897 he has been professor 
of chemistry in the University of Oregon. 
He is the author of The Spirit of Organic 
Chemistry. 

LADD, HERBERT WARREN, soldier, 
merchant, governor, was born Oct. 15, 
1843, in New Bedford, Mass. He serveu 
through the civil war. He is the presi¬ 
dent of The H. W. Ladd Company dry 
goods merchants of Providence, R. I. He 
founded the Commercial club. In 1890-92 
he was governor of Rhode Island. 

LADD, SCOTT M., lawyer, jurist, was 
born June 22, 1855, in Sharon, Wis. Since 
1897 he has been judge of the supreme 
court of Iowa. 

LA FETRA. MRS. SARAH B„ philan¬ 
thropist, was born in Clinton, Ohio. She 
is prominent in temperance and phil¬ 
anthropic movements; has been called 
the mother of the Woman’s Christian 
Temperance Union of Washington, D. C., 
of which she was for many years its 
president She spent many years m 
building up the Hope and Help Home, 
which was recently merged into the 
Florence Chittenton Mission. 

LAFFERTY, JOHN J., soldier, clergy¬ 
man inventor, author, was horn in 1837, 
on the Roanoke, in Virginia. lie served 
in civil war as colonel Confederate cav¬ 
alry. For twenty years he was state 
curator of Virginia Medical College. He 
is the inventor of a process of milling a 
white whole wheat flour. He is the au¬ 
thor of Geography of Virginia; and 
Sketches of Virginia Methodist Ministers. 


lxii 


ADDENDA. 


LA FLESCHE, FRANCIS, public of¬ 
ficial, author, was born about 18(50, in 
Omana Reservation, Neb. Since 1881 he 
fias been clerk in United States Indian 
Bureau. He is the author of The Middle 
hive. 

LArtEE, HENRY CHARLES, business 
man, author was born July 2, 185(1, in 
London, England. In 1899 he established 
Yesterday and Today; Famous Violinists 
of Yesterday and Today; and Famous Pi¬ 
anists of Yesterday and Today. 

LAIRD, WASHINGTON ROBERT, 
clergyman, autnor, was born Apiil 22, 
1855, in Danville, Vt. Since 1892 he has 
been pastor of the First Presbytei ian 
Church or West Chester, Pa. He is ’.he 
author of Sermons and Addresses on 
Moral Responsibility of Nations; and 
Keswick and Northfield as Factors m 
Christian work. 

LAh.ES, ARTHUR, journalist, autnor, 
was born Dec. 21, 1844, in England, fie 
is assistant Western editor of Mines and 
Minerals of Denver, Colorado. ’He is the 
author of Geology of Colorado and West¬ 
ern Ore Deposits; Prospecting for Goid 
and Silver in North America; and Geolo¬ 
gy or Colorado Coal Deposits. 

LAMBERT, REV. LOUIS A., journalist, 
author, was born April 13, 1835, in Chai- 
leroi, Pa. Since 1894 he has been editor- 
in-chief of the New York Freeman s 
Journal. He is the author of Thesaurus 
Biblicus, or Hand-Book of Scripture Re¬ 
ference; and Notes on Ingersoll. 

LAMBERTON, BENJAMIN PEFFER, 
naval officer, was born March 10, 1848. 
in Pennsylvania. In the famous battle 
of Manila bay he served aboard the flag¬ 
ship Olympia as chief of staff to Commo¬ 
dore Dewey, and was promoted to the 
rank of captain in 1898. When Capt. 
Gridley was invalided to his home, Lam- 
berton succeeded to command of the flag¬ 
ship; and accompanied Admiral Dewey 
in the Olympia on her return to the 


United States. 

LAMPTON, WILLIAM JAMES, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was horn in Lawrence 
county, Ohio. For several years he has 
been engaged in writing Yawps for New 
York Sun. He is the author of Yawps 
and Other Things. 

LAMSON-SCRIBNER, F., scientist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 19, 1851, in Cam- 
bridgeport, Mass. Since 1894 he has been 
chief of division Agrostology in the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
He is the author of Fungus Disease of 
Plants; The Fungus Diseases of the Grape 
Vine; The Fungus Diseases of the Grape 
and Other Plants and Their Treatment; 
Ornamental and Useful Plants of Maine. 
Grasses of Tennessee; and American 
Grasses, Illustrated. 

LANDRETH, OLIN HENRY, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was bom July 21, 1852, in 
Addison, N. Y. Since 1894 he has been 
professor of engineering in Union college 
of Schenectady, N. Y. He is the author 
of Metric Tables. 

LANE, MRS. ANNA EICHBERG KING, 
author, poet, vas born in 1856, in Geneva, 
Switzerland. She is the author ot 
Brown’s Retreat; and Kitwyk Stories. 


LANE, JAMES HENRY, soldier, college 
president, was born July 28, 1833, in 

Matthews county, Va. He was assistant 
professor of mathematics in the Virginia 
military institute; professor of mathe¬ 
matics in the state seminary at Tallapoo¬ 
sa, Fla., and professor of natural philoso¬ 
phy and instructor of military tactics in 
the North Carolina military school at 
Charlotte. He was appionted brigadTer- 


genelal in the Confederate army in 1862. 
He is now at the head of the Agricultural 
and Mechanical college of Alabama, at 
Auburn. 

LANE, JOSEPH R., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 6, 1858, in Daven¬ 
port, Iowa. Since 1880 he has been in 
practice of law at Davenport, Iowa. He 
was elected to the fifty-sixth congress 
from Iowa as a republican. 

LANE, WILLIAM COOLIDGE, libra 
rian, was born July 29, 1859, in Newton, 
Mass. He was assitant in Harvard 
library in 1881-93; and in 1893-98 was 
librarian of the Boston athenaeum, when 
he was appointed librarian of Harvard 
university. His works consist of bi¬ 
bliographical contributions, such as The 
Dante Collections in the Harvard College 
and Boston Public Libraries; and Index 
to the Subject Catalogue of Harvard Col¬ 
lege Libra ry. 

LANGENKECK, KARL, chemist, cera¬ 
mist, author. He was superintendent of 
Mosaic Tile Company of Zanesville, Ohio. 
He is the author of Chemistry of Pot¬ 
tery. 

LANGFORD, MRS. LAURA CARTER 
HOLLOWAY, author, was born in 1848, 
in Nashville, Tenn. For twelve years 
she was associate editor of the Brook¬ 
lyn Daily Eagle. She is the author ot 
The Ladies of the White House; The 
Hearthstone or Life at Home; Motheis 
of Great Men and Women; Famous 
American Fortunes and the Men Who 
Have Made Them; The Home of Poetry 
Songs of the Master; Chinese Gordon: 
Howard, The Christian Hero; The Wo¬ 
man’s Story; and The Buddhist Diet 
Book. ' 

LANGWORTHY, CHARLES FORD, 
chemist, author, was born Aug. 9, 1864, 
in Middlebury, Vt. Since 1895 he has been 
editor of Experiment Station Record. He 
is the author of Digest of Metabolic Ex¬ 
periment. 

LANZA, GAETANO, scientist, author, 
was born Sept. 26, 1848, in Boston, Mass. 
He is professor of theoretical and ap¬ 
plied mechanics, in charge of the depart¬ 
ment of mechanical engineering at Mas¬ 
sachusetts Institute of Technology. He 
is the author of Applied Mechanics. 

LASSIGER, FRANCIS RIVES, lawyer, 
congressman, author, was born Fe'o. 18, 
1866, in Petersburg, Va. In 1893-9' he 
was United States district attorney at 
Petersburg, Va. He was elected to the 
fifty-seventh congress from Virginia as a 
democrat. He is the author of Notes on 
Arnold’s Raid. 

LATCHAW, JOHN ROLAND HARRIS, 
clergyman, college president, author, vas 
born Sept. 7, 1851, in Venango county. 
Pa. Sinee 1896 he has been president of 
Defiance college. He is the author ot 
Outlines of Psychology, Its Method and 
Matter. Citizenship in the Northwest 
Territory; Outline Lectures in Theology; 
and Theory and Art of Teaching. 

LATHERS, RICHARD, merchant, phil¬ 
anthropist, was born about 1820 in 
Georgetown, S. C. In 1847 he opened a 
commission business in New York: and 
ultimately became president of the 
Great Western marine insurance com¬ 
pany, retiring in 1867. In 1897 he present¬ 
ed to William college a fund, the inter¬ 
est of which shall be used to defray the 
cost of a gold medal to be awarded an¬ 
nually for the best essay advocating The 
Duty of Christians to Government. He 
has nearly completed an account of his 
active career entitled Notes of a Life of 
Sixty Years. 


LATHROP, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Feo. 8, 1835, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. During the civil war he was 
a captain. In 1874-88 he was reporter of 
decisions of the supreme court. In 1888 
91 he was justice of the superior court; 
and since 1891 has been justice of the 
supreme judicial court of Massachusetts. 

LAUBACH, CHARLES, geologist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 29, 1836, in Durham, 
Pa. He began scientific investigations, 
1865, and has devoted principal atten 
tion to them since 1870. He is the au¬ 
thor of Prehistoric Man in the Delaware 
Valley. 

LAUGHLIN, NAPOLEON B., soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born July 24, 1844, in 
Grand Tower, Ill. In 1864 he served in 
15th Mo. regt., Confederate army. He 
has been a member lower house of New 
Mexico, and in 1894-98 was associate 
justice supreme court and judge 1st ju 
dicial district court of New Mexico. 

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM, clergyman, 
bishop, was born May 30, 1850, in Boston. 
Mass. He was lector of Grace church, 
of Lawrence, Mass., and professor and 
dean in the Episcopal Theological School, 
Cambridge. He is now bishop of Massa¬ 
chusetts. 

LAW, JAMES, veterinarian, author, 
was born Feb. 13, 1838, in Edinburgh. 
Scotland. In 1869-96 he was consulting 
veterinarian to the New York State Agri¬ 
cultural Society. He is the author ot 
General and Descriptive Anatomy of 
Domestic Animals; Farmers’ Veterinary. 
Adviser; and Text Book of Veterinary 
Medicine. 

LAWLER, THOMAS G., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, was born April 7, 1844, in Liver¬ 
pool, England. He served in the civil 
war; for several years was colonel of the 
third Illinois infantry and in; 1876 or¬ 
ganized the Rockford Rifles. He is a 
coal and lumber merchant of Rockford. 
Ill.; was postmaster of Rockford in 1877- 
85 and 1889-93, and in 1894-95 was com 
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the 
Republic. 

LAWRENCE, ABRAHAM RIKER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Sept. 19, 1832, m 
New York City. Since 1873 he has been 
associate justice of the supreme court of 
New York. 

LAWRENCE, GEORGE PELTON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state senator, congressman, 
was born May 19, 1859, in Adams, Mass. 
In 1885-93 he was judge of district court 
Northern Berkshire; and in 1895-97 was 
a member of Massachusetts state senate. 
He was elected to the fifty-sixth con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts as a republi¬ 
can. 

LAWRENCE, ISAAC, lawyer, diplo¬ 
mat, author, was born in 1828 in Amer¬ 
ican legation, London, where his father 
was charge d’ affairs. In 1872-76 -he 
was United States consular agent at Port 
Hope, Canada. In 1878 he was candidate 
for governor of Rhode Island. He is the 
author of Life of W. B. Lawrence, Gov¬ 
ernor of Rhode Island 

LAWRENCE, ROBERT MEANS, phy 
sician, author; was born May 14, 1847, 
in Boston, Mass. He is tbe author of 
The Magic of the Horse Shoe; and Plis- 
torical Sketches of Some Members of the 
Lawrence Family. 

LAWS, SAMUEL SPAHR, clergyman, 
educator, college president; was born 
March 23, 1824, in Ohio county, Virginia. 
In 1876-89 he was president of Missouri 
state university. He was the inventor 
and introducer of system of simultane¬ 
ous telegraphing of market reports, 
called tickers. 


ADDENDA. 


lxiil 


LAWSON, JOHN DAVISON, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was bom March 29, 1852, 
in Cauada. In 1890-95 he was judge or 
civil court; and is now prolessor com¬ 
mon and international law, University 
of Missouri. He is the author of in¬ 
juries from Intoxicating Liquors; Rail¬ 
road Fires; Contracts o Common Car¬ 
riers; Usages and Customs; The Power 
of Usage and Custom; Hints on Advo¬ 
cacy; and other works. 

LEACH, JOSIAH GRANVILLE, sol 
dier, lawyer, legislator, was born July 27, 
1842, in Cape May, N. J. He enlisted in 
the civil war, and served as sergeant, 
sergeant-major, and lieutenant in the 
Twenty-fifth New Jersey regiment. In 
1866 he was graduated in law at the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania, and admitted to 
the Philadelphia bar. He has served in 
the legislature of Pennsylvania; and in 
1881-82 was one of the leaders of the 
independent republican movement in 
Pennsylvania. 

LEARNED, MARION DEXTER, edu¬ 
cator, author; was born July lu, 1857, 
near Dover, Del. Since 1895 he has been 
professor of German in University ot 
Pennsylvania. He is the author of The 
Pennsylvania German Dialect; and The 
Saga of Walther of Aquitaine. 

LEASE, MRS. MARY ELIZABETH, 
lecturer, author, was born in Ridgway 
Pa. She was appointed president ot 
Kansas State Board of Charities, being 
first woman to hold such a position in 
United States; and in 1893 she had a 
large following for United States senator. 

• She is the author of The Problem of Civ¬ 
ilization Solved. 

LEAVENWORTH, FRANCIS P., astron- 
omist, author; was born Sept. 3, 1858. 
in Mt. Vernon, Ind. Since 1892 he nas 
been professor of astronomy in Univer¬ 
sity ot Minnesota, ne is the author o> 
Double Star Observations; and Parallax. 

LEDERER, CHARLES, cartoonist, ar¬ 
tist, was born in 1856 in Lowell, Mass. 
Since 1875 he has been cartoonist and 
illustrator for Frank Leslie’s, Harper s 
New York World, Chicago Record. Chi¬ 
cago Chronicle, and other leaning pu'on 
cations. 

LEDYARD, ERWIN, soldier, journalist, 
legislator, author; was born in Nashville, 
Tenn. He served in the civil war in 3u 
Alabama regiment, Confederate service. 
In 1879-91 he was associate editor of the 
Mobile Register; and is now editor ot 
Mobile Herald. He served two terms in 
the state legislature. He is the author of 
John Holden, Unionist. 

LEE, ALBERT, journalist, author, was 
born May 11, 1868, in New Orleans, La. 
In 1895-99 he was editor of Harper s 
Round Table; and since 1899 has been 
managing editor of Harper’s Weekly. He 
is the author of The Knave of Hearts; 
and other works. 

LEE, ALFRED EMORY, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, legislator, diplomat, was born 
Feb. 17, 1838, in Barnsville, Ohio. He 
entered the Union army as a private; 
rose to a captaincy in the Eighty-second 
Ohio volunteers; and was severely 
wounded at Gettysburg. He served in the 
Ohio legislature in 1867-69; became col¬ 
lector of United States internal revenue 
for the eighth district of Ohio in 1870; 
was private secretary to Gov. Rutherford 
B. Hayes in 1876; and in 1877-82 was 
United States consul-general at Frank¬ 
fort, Germany. 

LEE, "ELMER, physician, lecturer, au¬ 
thor, was born March 12, 1856, in Piqua. 
Ohio. In 1892 he visited Russia and Ger¬ 
many to study cholera; and proposed a 


new method of treatment, which was ap¬ 
proved by Virchow and others. He 
served as a surgeon in the Spanish-Am 
erican war. He is the author of Treatise 
on Asiatic cholera; and other medical 
works. 

LEE, FRANK THEODOSIUS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 23, 1847, in 
Kenosha, Wis. For some time he was 
on the editorial staff of the Congrega- 
tionalist of Boston, Mass. He has filled 
pastorates at Sparta and Whitewater. 
Wis.; at Salt Lake City, Utah; at Mus¬ 
catine, Iowa; and at Douglas Park Con¬ 
gregational Church of Chicago in 1894- 
99. He is the author of Popular Miscon¬ 
ceptions as to Christian Faith and Life; 
and Popularizing the Bible. 

LEE, FREDERIC SCHILLER, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 16, 1859, 
in Canton, N. Y. Since 1895 he has 
been professor of physiology in Colum¬ 
bia Univeristy of New York City. He is 
the author of Physiology, the Vital 
Processes in Health. 

LEE, GERALD STANLEY, lecturer, 
author, was born Oct. 4, 1861, in Brock¬ 
ton, Mass. He gives courses of lectures 
on The Reading Habit, and Life of the 
Spirit in Modern Times. He is the 
author of The Shadow Christ; A Paper 
Civilization; Between Books; and About 
an Old New England Church. 

LEE, GUY CARLETON, educator. 
Since 1900 he has been a lecturer on com¬ 
parative politics at Columbia university; 
and since 1901 literary editor of the Bal¬ 
timore Sun. He is the author of Pub¬ 
lic Speaking; and The World’s Orators, 
in ten volumes. 

LEE, JAMES WIDEMAN, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 28, 1849, in Gwin¬ 
nett county, Ga. He traveled in Palestii 
with R. E. M. Bain, artist, gathering ma¬ 
terial for Earthly Footsteps. He is the 
author of The Making of a Man; and 
The Romance of Palestine; and The 
Earthly Footsteps of the Man ot Galilee. 

LEE JOHN, legislator, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born March 11, 1826, in Mont¬ 
gomery county, Ind. In 1879 he was 
elected president of tne Anderson and 
St. Louis railroad. He was chosen by 
the legislature in 1879 as one of the 
board of directors of the northern state 
prison; and at its first meeting was se¬ 
lected by the board as its president. 

LEE, JOHN STEBBINS, theologian, 
author, was born Sept. 23, 1820, in 

Vernon, Vt. Since 1869 he has been 
professor of church history and biblical 
archaeology in Canton Theological School 
of Canton, N. ±. He is the author of 
Nature and Art in the Old World; and 
Sacred Cities. 

LEE, LEONARD, soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, traveler, genealogist, was born 
March 5, 1820, in Southington, Conn. In 
1844 he removed to Kenosha, Wis., 
where for twenty-three ydars he im¬ 
proved and occupied a large prairie 
farm; and during 1867-90 was engaged 
in manufacturing in Kenosha. He has 
been alderman of his city, and held 
various local offices. During the civil 
war he served in the thirty-ninth regi¬ 
ment Wisconsin infantry, in ordnance 
department. He has traveled in the 
principal countries of the world. He is 
the author of Genealogy of John Lee, 
of Farmington, Conn., and Descendants; 
and a supplement to the same some 
years later. He retired from active busi¬ 
ness in 1890. 

LEE, LUCIUS ORREN, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, missionary, was born Jan. 12, 


1845, in Kenosha, Wis. He engaged in 
educational work for several years; was 
pastor at Oswego, Mich., for five years; 
and since 1880 has been missionary at 
Marach, Asiatic Turkey in connection 
with Marach Theological Seminary, ana 
also superintending other educational 
work in the city. He was present at the 
Turkish massacre of Armenians in 1895. 

LEE, MARGARET, author, was born 
Nov. 27, 1845, in New \ork City. Her 
first novel took a prize of one thousand 
dollars offered by James G. Bennett, ot 
New York Herald. She wrote memoua. 
for perpetual eopywright, numerously 
signed and presented in United States 
senate, in Dec., 1899. She is the author 
of Dr. Wilmer’s Love; Lorimer and 
Wife; Marriage; Lizzie; Divorce; 
Adriance; Since First I Saw Your Face; 
Missing Marriage Certificate; A Brigh¬ 
ton Night; A Brooklyn Bachelor; The 
Story of a Story; and One Touch ot 
Nature. 

LEE, WILLIAM WALLACE, ma¬ 
chinist, expert, legislator, was born July 
20, 1828, near Barkhamsted, Conn. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he was a lieutenant in 
the state militia. He served four years 
as alderman; and in 1885-86 was a mem¬ 
ber of the Connecticut state assembly. 
He is secretary of the Lee Association ot 
Cornell. He is much interested in gene¬ 
alogical researches. 

LEFAVOUR, HENRY, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 4, 1862, in Salem, 
Mass. Since 1897 he has been dear in 
Williams college of Williamstown, Mass. 
He is the author of Physics Lecture 
Notes. 

LEFFINGWELL, ALBERT, physician, 
author, was born Feb. 13, 1845, in Aurora, 
N. Y.. He has traveled in Japan, China, 
Burmah, India, Africa, Spain, Palestine 
and Egypt. He is the author of Ram¬ 
bles in Japan Without a Guide; Influ¬ 
ence of Seasons Upon Conduct; and 
Vivisection in America. 

LEFFMAN, HENRY, author, was 
born Sept. 9, 1847, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is emeritus professor of chemistry 
in Philadelphia Polyclinic. He is the au¬ 
thor of First Steps in Chemical Princi¬ 
ples; Compend of Organic Chemistry; 
Compend of Chemistry; Analysis of 
Water; and Analysis of Milk and Milk 
Products. 

LEHMANN, GEORGE, violinist, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born July 31, 1865, 
in New York City. He traveled until 
1893 as a soloist and with his quartet 
party, the Lehmann Quartet. He lives 
in New Yoi’k as a soloist, teacher, 
editorial writer, and critic on the staff 
of Musical America. He is the author 
of True Principles of the Art of Violin¬ 
playing. 

LEIGHTON, JOSEPH ALEXANDER, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
Dec. 2, 1870, in Canada. Since 1897 he 
has been professor of philosophy and 
chaplain in Hobart College of Geneva, 
N, Y. He is the author of Some Modern 
Conceptions of God. 

LEJTER, JOSEPH, business man, was 
born Dec. 4, 1868, in Chicago, Ill. He is 
a son of Levi Z. Leiter. In 1897 bought 
wheat on Chicago Board of Trade to 
such an extent as to make him, at be¬ 
ginning of 1898, the largest individual 
holder of wheat in the history of the 
grain trade., He is a director of Chicago 
Edison Company; Chicago and South 
Side Rapid Transit Elevated Railway 
Company, ana Chicago City Railway 
Company. 


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1 LITER, LEY I ZE1GLER, merchant, 
capitalist, was born in 1843 in Leiters- 
burg, Md. In 1865 he and Field soiu their 
interests in their old firm to John V. 
Farwell, and bought controlling in¬ 
terest in dry goods business ot Potter 
Palmer. The firm became Field, 
Palmer and Leiter, the Field, Leuei and 
Company until 1881, when he sold his 
interest and retired. Since then he has 
given attention to buying and improving 
business properties in Chicago, Ill.; and 
has large interests in corporations. 

LEMLY, HENRY ROWAN, soldier, 
author, was born Jan. 12, 1851, in North 
Carolina. In the Spanish-American war 
he commanded light Battery C, <th ar¬ 
tillery; and in Porto Rico eompaign ne 
served as captain. He is the author ot 
Among the Arapahoes; The Story ot 
Feather-Head; Santa Fe, de Bogota, A 
West Point Romance; Padre Anselmo; 
Uncle ’Man; and A Queen's Thoughts. 

LEMLY, SAMUEL CONRAD, naval of¬ 
ficer, was bcyn Match 14 1853, in Salem. 
N. C. He is judge-advocate-general in 


the U. S. N. „ , 

LEMMON, GEORGE THOMAS, clergy¬ 
man lecturer, author, was born Sept. 17 
1866] in Troy, N. Y. He entered the 
Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1890 in 
the Troy Conference, and at once took 
rank as a preacher; this led him to the 
lecture platform where he has scored 
many notable triumphs. He is the authoi 
of Better Things for Sons of God; rr 
Eternal Building; and Cuba Libre; A 
History of the Pearl of the Antilles from 
its Discovery to its Liberation. 

LENIHAN, THOMAS MATHIAS, 
clergyman, bishop, was born May 12, 
1845. Since 1897 he has been Roman 
Catholic bishop of Cheyenne, Wyo. 

LENSKI, RICHARD CHARLES HEN¬ 
RY, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 
14, 1864, in Prussia. Since 1892 he ha.s 
been pastor of Springfield. Ohio. He is 
the author of His Footsteps; Studies for 
Edification from the Life of Christ. 


LEONARD, ABIEL, clergyman, author, 
was born June 2G, 1845, in Fayette, Mo. 
Since 1888 he ha- been presiding elder 
bishop of Salt Lake, Utah. 

LEONARD, MRS. AGNES, author, poet, 
was born Jan. 20, 1842, in Louisville, Ky. 
She has gained note as a lecturer. She 
is the author of Myrtle Blossoms: \ an 
quished, a novel and Heights and 
Depths. 

I FONARD, JOHN WILLIAM, jour- 
ra’ict. lawyer, author, was born June 6. 
18 ir > in l ondon. England. He has tra- 
vr-m -1 ir, Furope. Africa East Indies, 
Australia and America. He engaged in 
journalism; came to Gnitecl States 1868; 
admitted to Texas bar 1870; and prae 
Used in Texas, Arizona and Illinois. He 
has edited several daily and weekly 
newspapers; and held various locnl of¬ 
fices. In 1898 he was Democratic no¬ 
minee for congress, eighth Illinois dis¬ 
trict. He is the editor of Who’s- Who 
in .America; Brehm’s life of Animals; 
Best Things by Chauncev M. Depew; 
He is the author of Gold Fields of Klon¬ 
dike; Centennial Review of Cincinnati: 
and other works. 


I FONARD, JONAH F. R„ soldier, edu¬ 
cator, jurist, was born Dec. 10. 1832, neat 
Waynesburg, Pa. He enlisted under .Tim 
Lane in the Kansas war for free state. 
He was county surveyor; county super¬ 
intendent of schools; and justice of the 
peace. He enlisted Co. C. ninety-third 
Illinois volunteers in civil war; and 
mustered out, 1865. He was first 
abolitionist, then republican, prohibi 


tionist, now of the United Christian 
party, which he helped to organize at 
Davenport, Iowa in 1898. He was can¬ 
didate lieutenant-governor of Iowa in 
1899; and for president in 1900. 

LEONARD, MARY, author, was born 
in Louisville, Ky.,. She is the author of 
The Story of the Big Front Door. 

LESLEY, MRS. SUSAN INCHES, phi¬ 
lanthropist, author, was born in North¬ 
ampton, Mass. She was long actively 
identified with work of organized chari¬ 
ties in Philadelphia, Pa. She is the au¬ 
thor of Mrs. Annie J. Lyman. 

LESLIE, MRS. FRANK, journalist, 
publisher, was born in 1851 in New Or¬ 
leans, La., of a French Creole family. 
She married Frank Leslie, the New York 
publisher, who died in 1880. She suc¬ 
ceeded to his business, then badly in¬ 
volved; personally managed it and put it. 
on a paying basis. She is president ol 
the Frank Leslie Publishing House and 
editor of Frank Leslie’s Monthly. 

LETCHWORTH, WILLIAM PRYOR, 
merchant, philanthropist, author, was 
born May 26, 1823, in Brownville, N. Y. 
In 1848-69 he was a manufacturer in Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y. Since 1869 he has devoted 
his entire time to charitable work. He 
secured the passage of a New York law 
providing for the removal of children 
from almshouses and other pauper es¬ 
tablishments. He also devoted much at¬ 
tention to the care of the insane, and 
other reforms. He is the author of The 
Care of the Insane in Foreign Countries. 

LEUPP, FRANCIS ELLINGTON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Jan. 2, 1849, m 
New York City. He is the author of How 
to Prepare for a Civil Service Examlna 
tion. 

LEUSCHNER, ARMIN OTTO, astron¬ 
omer, author, was born Jan. 16, 1868. 
in Detroit, Mich. Since 1898 he has been 
associate professor of astronomy and 
geodesy, and director Student Observa¬ 
tory. in University of California. He is 
the author of numerous papers on astron¬ 
omical subjects. 

L EVERETT, FRANK, geologist, an 
thor, was born March 10, 1859, in Den¬ 
mark. Iowa. His lines of investigation 
are glacial geology and water resources. 
He is the author of Water Resources ot 
Illinois; Water Resources of Indiana and 
Ohio; and The Illinois Glacial Lobe. 

LEVERING, JOSHUA, merchant, wat 
born Sept. 12, 1845, in Baltimore, Mcl. 
In 1860 he entered into the coffee import¬ 
ing business of his father in Baltimore. 
Md.. at first as an employee, but later as 
a member of the firm, conducting the 
business with his brother Eugene after 
the death of his father in 187F 

I EVERMORE, CHARLES HERBERT 
educator, college president, author, was 
born Oct. 15, 1856, in Mansfield, Conn. 
Since 1896 he has been president of Adel- 
pli College of Brooklyn, N. Y. He is tb 
n”thor of The Republic of New Haven: 
E’TlaHis of Lectures Upon Political 
Hi?torn Since 1815; and The Academy 
Sow" Book. 

LEVY, JEFFERSON M.. lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New York city. 
He studied law with the late Clarkson N. 
Potter; and was associated with him in 
various important litigations. He was 
elected to the fifty-sixth congress from 
Nc— York citv as a, democrat. 

LEVY, LOUIS EDWARD, scientist, in¬ 
vertor. author, wa s born Oct. 12. 1846 
in Bohemia. He is a nhoto-chemist: ape 
bis e-'neriirents in 1873-74 resulted in hb 
invention in photo-chemical engraving 
called the 1 evvtype. He is the author 
of Business, Money and Credit. 


LEV/IS, ALFRED HENRY, journalist, 
author. In 1898 he established The 
Verdict, a humorous weekly of New York 
city. He is the author ot Episodes ot 
Cowboy Life; and other, works. 

LEWIS, ARTHUR GORDON, railroad 
official, author, was born March 25, j ; 
in London, England. He is southern 
passenger agent of the Baltimore and 
Ohio tailrcad, at Noriolk. Va. He is the 
author of Life Without Love; Lights that 
Have Gone Out; Sunshine Thro’ the 
Rain; and various other works. 

LEWIS, CHARLES L„ lawyer, jurist, 
was born March 8, t852, in Ottawa, 111. 
In 1893-96 he was district judge at 
Duluth, Minn. Since 1900 he has been 
justice of the supreme court of Minne¬ 
sota. 

LEWIS. CHARLTON MINER, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born March 4, 1866, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Since 1899 he has been 
professor in English literature in Yale 
university. He is the author of The 
Foreign Sources of Modern English 
Versification; and The Beginning of 
English I iterature. 

LEWIS, EDWIN HERBERT, educator, 
author, was jorn about I860. Since 1896 
he has been associate professor of rhe¬ 
toric in University 'of Chicago. He is 
the author o f A First Book in Writing 
English; and An Introduction ot the 
Studv of Literature. 

LEWIS, HENRY HARRISON, jour 
nalist, author, was born March 29, 1863, 
in Anderson, Ind. In 1899 he was asso¬ 
ciate editor of Munsey’s Magazine; and 
in 1900 established Lewis’ Literary Syn¬ 
dicate. He is the author of A Gunner 
Aboard the Yankee. 

LEWIS, LIENRY THOMAS, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 21, 1847, 
in Oxford, Ga. Since 1897 he has been 
associate justice of the supreme court 
of Georgia. He was in the Confederate 
service with Georgia cadets and re¬ 
mained until war ended. 

LEWIS. LUNSFORD LOMAX, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 17, 1846, in 

Rockingham county, Va. He was com¬ 
monwealth’s attorney for Culpeper coun¬ 
ty in 1870-74; was soon afterward ap¬ 
pointed United States district attorney 
for the eastern district of Virginia; and 
in 1882 was elected a judge of the state 
supreme court, becoming the following 
year its president. 

LEWIS. ROBERT J.. congressman. He 
was elected member of the fifty-seventh 
congress from Pennsylvania as a demo¬ 
crat. 

LEWIS, WILLIAM DRAPER, lawyer, 
dean, author, was born April 27. 1867 
in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1896 he has 
been dean of law department in Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania. He is the au¬ 
thor of Federal Power Over Commerce 
and Its Effect on State Action; and 
Our Sheep and the Tariff. 

LEYBURN, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born April 25, 1814, in Lexington. 
Va. He became secretary of the Pres¬ 
byterian board of publication, changing 
the character of its publications and en¬ 
larging its operations. After the civil 
war he settled in Baltimore, where he 
was pastor for twenty years of an in¬ 
dependent Presbyterian church, of which 
he is now pastor emeritus. He is the 
author of The Soldier of the Cross; and 
Hints to Young Men from the Parable of 
the Prodigal Son. 

LICHENBERG, LEOPOLD, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Nov. 22. 1861. 
in San Francisco, Cal. A successful tour 
in Holland was followed by a season in 


ADDENDA. 


lxv 


New York and other cities with Theodore 
Thomas. In 1899 he became head of the 
violin-department in the National Con¬ 
servatory of New York city. 

LIDDELL, MARK HARVEY, educator, 
author, was born April 1, 1866, in Clear¬ 
field, Pa. Since 1897 he has been pro 
lessor of English in University oi Texas 
He is the author ot Middle English. 

LIEBER. GUIDO NORMAN, soldier, 
author, was born May 21, 1837, in Co¬ 
lumbia. S. C., Since 1895 he has been 
judge-advocate-general in United States 
army. He is the author of Remarks on 
the Army Regulations; and The Use of the 
Army in Aid of the Civil Power. 

LIEBLING, EMIL, musician, author, 
was born April 12, 1851, in Silesia. t- 
has been in America since 1867; and in 
Chicago since 1872, actively engaged as 
a concert-pianist, teacher, and contribu¬ 
tor to several papers. He is the author 
of songs Adieu; and Dost Thou Remem 
her; and piano pieces. 

LIGHTBURN, JOSEPH ANDREW. 
JaCKSON, soldier, legislator, was born 
Sept. 21, 1824. in Westmoreland county, 
Pa. He organized the fourth Virginia 
regiment of the national army; was 
made its colonel in 1861; and was pro¬ 
moted to brigadier-general of volunteers 
in 1863. In 1866-67 he was a member of 
the West Virginia legislature. 

LIGHTON. WILLIAM RHEEM,lawyer, 
author, was born July 13, 1866, Lycoming 
county, Pa. He published several mono¬ 
graphs on geological themes in scientific 
journals. He is the author of Sons of 
Strength, a Romance of the Kansas 
Border Wars. 

LILLARD, BENJAMIN, journalist, pub¬ 
lisher, author, was born Jan. 5, 1847, in 
Harrodsburg, Ky. Since 1895 he has 
been editor and publisher of the The 
Practical Druggist and The Popular 
Science News of New York city. He is 
the author of Practical Hints and 
Formulas; and Druggists’ Pocket Price 
Book. 

LILLARD, JOHN F. B., physician, 
author, was born May 14, laa4, in Har¬ 
risburg, Ky. He is the author of The 
Medical Muse; and Poker Stories. 

LILLEY, GEORGE, mathematician, 
author, was born Feb. 9. 1854, in Kewa- 
nee. Ill. Since 1897 he has been profes¬ 
sor of mathematics in the University of 
Oregon. He is the author of Elements 
of Algebra; and Higher Algebra. 

LINCOLN, DAVID FRANCIS, hy¬ 
gienist, author, was born Jan. 4, 1841, 
in Boston, Mass. He has resided in 
Boston since 1893. He is the author of 
Electro-Therapeutics; School and In¬ 
dustrial Hygiene; and Hygienic Physi¬ 
ology. text-bcok for use of schools. 

LINCOLN, CHARLES Z., lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 5, 1848, in Grafton, 
Vt. Since 1895 he has been chairman of 
the New York Statutory Revision Com¬ 
mission and legal adviser to the gov¬ 
ernor. He is the author of History of 
the Bench and Bar of Cattaraugus 
county, N. Y. 

LINCOLN, JAMES RUSH, soldier, was 
born Feb. 3, 1845. He served in Con¬ 
federate army during the civil war. He 
was appointed United States army at 
outbreak of Spanish-American war; and 
became brigadier general of volunteers. 

LINCOLN, JOSEPH CROSBY, jour¬ 
nalist,author, poet,was born Feb. 13. 1870, 
in Brewster, Mass. In 1896-99 he was 
associate editor of the League American 
Wheelmen Bulletin. He is the author of 
Cape Cod Rhymes and Other Verse. 

LINDSAY. MRS. ANNA ROBERTSON 
BROWN, author, was born Feb. 20. 1864. 


in Washington, D. C. She is the author of 
The Victory of Our Faith; Culture and 
Reform; and Giving What We Have. 

LINDSAY, GEORGE, congressman. 
He was elected a member of the fiity 
seven congress from New York as a 
democrat. 

LINDSAY, SAMUEL McCUNE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born May 10, 1869, 
in Pittsburg, Pa. He is assistant profes¬ 
sor of sociology in University of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He is the author of Social 
Aspects of Philadelphia Relief Work; 
and articles on silver question and on 
the Eleventh Census. 

LINDSEY, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyc 
jurist, state senator, was born Sept. 4, 
1835, in Rockbridge county, Va. At 
the opening of the civil war he entered 
the Confederate army as lieutenant; and 
was soon made captain in the twenty- 
second Tennessee infantry. In 1867 i 
was elected to the Kentucky state 
senate. In 1870 he was chosen to the 
highest judicial bench in the state, and 
in 1S76 became chief justice of Ken 
tucky. 

LINSLEY, JOSEPH HATCH. phy¬ 
sician, author, was born May 29, 185 
in Windsor, Vt. In 1881-84 he wq,s city 
physician of Burlington; and he was 
health officer in 1885-88, when he was 
appointed instructor in chemical micro¬ 
scopy in the New York post-graduate 
medical school. He is the author of a 
Hand-Book of Microscopy. 

LINK, THEODORE CARL, architect, 
was born March 17, 1850, in Germany 
He won the first prize in competition for 
St. Louis Union Station which was buin. 
from his plans and under his supervi¬ 
sion. He was consulting architect for 
St. Louis City Hall, and was architect 
for many churches, public buildings in 
St. Louis and vicinity. 

LIONBERGER, ISAAC H., lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 30, 1854, in St. 
Louis, Mo. He is professor of lav/ of 
corporations in St. Louis law school. He 
is the author of Law of Corporations. 

LIPPINCOTT, CRAIGE, publisher, was 
born Nov. 4, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is president of J. B. Lippincott Co., 
publishers, of Philadelphia, Pa. 

LISTEMANN, FRANZ, musician, com- 
cator, author, was born Hov. 25, 1S65, 
Germany. In 1874 he founded the Bos¬ 
ton Philharmonic Club; toured the 
country until 1878; then organized the 
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 
1893 he has been head of the violin- 
department in the Chicago College of 
Music. He is the author of Method for 
Violin. 

LISTEMANN, FRANZ, musician, com¬ 
poser, was b'orn Dec. 17, 1873, in New 
York city. He is a teacher, soloist, and 
quartet-player of New York city. His 
Stradivarius-cello formerly belonged to 
Holimann, the noted Dutch ’cellist. 

LISTEMANN, FRITZ, musician .com¬ 
poser, was born March 25, 1839, in 
Germany. Since 1884 he has devoted 
his time to teaching, and occasional 
tours with the Lisiemann Concert Com¬ 
pany. He is the author of Grosse Polo¬ 
naise; and Idylle. 

LISTEMANN, PAUL, musician, com 
poser, was born Oct. 24, 1871, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He has toured America as 
soloist of the Redpath Grand Conce 
Company. 

LITTLE, CHARLES EDGAR, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Nov. 25. 1865. 
near Eatonton, Ga. Since 1899 he has 
been professor of latin in the University 
of Nashville. He is the author of A 
Grammatical Index. 


LITTLE, CHARLES EUGENE, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 7, 1838, 
in Waterbury, Vt. He has filled pas¬ 
torates in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in the states of New Hamp¬ 
shire, New York, Vermont, and New 
Jersey, and now fills a pastorate in 
Jersey City, N. J. He is the author of 
Biblical Lights; Historical Lights and 
Side Lights; and the Cyclopedia of Clas¬ 
sified Dates. 

LITTLE, CHARLES JOSEPH, clergy¬ 
man, educator, was born Sept. 21, 1840, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1882-85 he was 
state librarian of Pennsylvania; and 
later he held the chair of the history of 
philosophy in Syracuse university. In 
1891 he was appointed president of the 
Garrett biblical institute. 

LITTLE, GEORGE O., clergyman, au¬ 
thor was born May 2, 1839, in Madison, 
Ind. He is the author of The Royal 
House of Israel and Judah; An Inter¬ 
woven History and Harmony. 

LITTRE, GILBERT FRANCIS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 2, 1845, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is United States circuit 
judge. Territory of Hawaii. 

LITTLE, JAMES CAIN, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born in 1840, in Louisville, Ky. 
Since 1888 he has been president of the 
Louisville and Wadley railroad. 

LITTLEHALES, GEORGE W., civil 
engineer, author, was born Oct. 14, 1860 
in Schuylkill county, Pa. He is chief of 
chart construction in United States 
navy. He is the author of The Develop¬ 
ment of Great Circle Sailing; The Meth¬ 
ods and Results of the Survey of 
Lower California; Submarine Cables: 
and The Magnetic Dip or Inclination. 

LIVINGSTON, CRAWFORD, railroad 
builder, was born May 6, 1848, in New 
York city. With Henry Villard he built 
the Little Falls and Dakota Railway: 
then built and was one of the owners 
of the James River Valley Railway and 
the Duluth-Manitoba Railroad. 

LLOYD, ALFRED HENRY, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 21, 1858, in 

Lovington, Ill. Since 1895 he has been 
junior professor of philosophy in Uni¬ 
versity of Michigan. He is the author of 
Citizenship and Salvation: Dynamic Ideal¬ 
ism; and Philosophy of History. 

LOCHREN, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, jurist, was born April 3, 
1832j in Ireland. He served from private 
to first lieutenant first Minnesota volun¬ 
teers in the civil war. In 1869-70 he 
was state senator; and judge in 1881-93. 
Since 1896 he has been judge of the 
United States district court of Minn. 

LOCKHART, CLINTON, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 21, 1858, in 
Lobington, Ill. Since 1895 he has been 
president of the Christian university of 
Canton, Mo. He is the author of Laws 
of Interpretation; and Critical Commen¬ 
tary on Book of Nahum. 

LOCKWOOD, THOMAS DIXON, 
civil engineer, author, was born Dec. 30, 
1848, in England. He is an authority 
on telephony and telegraphy. He is the 
author of Information of Telephonists; 
and Electricity, Magnetism, and the 
Electric Telegraph. 

LODGE, GONZALES, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 19, 1863, in Fort 
Littleton, Pa. He is the author of Latin 
Grammar; and managing editor of Gil- 
dersleeve-Lodge Latin Series. 

LOEB, JACQUES, educator, author, 
was born April 7, 1859, in Germany. He 
is professor of physiology and experi¬ 
mental biology in University of Chicago. 
He is the author of Physiological 
Morphology. 


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ADDENDA. 


LOGAN, CELIA, journalist, was born 
Dec. 17, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. She 
became a correspondent of American 
journals and wrote for magazines. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war ol 1861-65 she resided 
in Milan, Italy, translating the war news 
for newspapers. Afterward she settled 
in Washington, where she became as¬ 
sociate editor of The Capital. She has 
written several dramas, including An 
American Marriage. In rs72 she mar¬ 
ried James F. Connelly. 

LOGAN, JOHN DANIEL, educator, 
author, was born May 2, 1869, in Canada. 
Since 1899 he has been professor of 
English and philosophy in the State 
university of South .Dakota. He is the 
author of The Structural Principles of 
Prose Style. 

LOGAN, MRS. MARY SIMMERSON 
CUNNINGHAM, author, was born Aug. 
15, 1838, in Petersburg, Mo. She is the 
wife of John A. Logan, general and 
United States senator, now deceased. 
Since 1886 she has edited The- Home 
Magazine; and written articles for maga¬ 
zines and newspapers. 

LOMAX, LINDSAY LUNSFORD, sol 
dier, was born Nov. 4, 1835, in Newport, 
R. I., He served through the civil war 
in confederate service; and attained the 
rank of major-general. For some years 
past he has been employed in the war rec¬ 
ords office. 

LOMAX, THOMAS HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born Jan. 15, 1832, in 
Cumberland county, N. C. He united 
with the Methodist Episcopal church, 
and was licensed to preach in the 
African Zion church in 1864. He was 
ordained deacon in 1867; and elder in 
1868; and in 1876, was ordained a 
bishop of the general conference at 
Louisville, Ky. 

LOMBARD, LOUIS, musician,financier, 
author, was born Dec. 15, 1861, in 

France. He was founder and former 
director of the Utica, New York Con¬ 
servatory of Music and School and Lan¬ 
guages. He is the author Observations 
of a Bachelor; Observations of a Travel¬ 
er; The Vicious Virtuoso; The Art 
Melodious; and is the composer of 
Juliet, comic opera. 

LONDON, JACK, author, was born 
Jan. 12, 1876, in San Francisco, Cal. He 
tramped throughout the United States 
and Canada for social and economic study 
in 1894. He is the author of The Son of 
the Wolf. 

LONG, JOHN HARPER, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 1, 1856, near Steuben¬ 
ville, Ohio. Since 1881 he has been 
professor of chemistry in Medical 
School Northwestern university of Chi¬ 
cago, 111. He is the author of Elements 
of General Chemistry; A Text Book ol 
Analytical Chemistry; and Laboratory 
Manual of Physiological Chemistry. 

LONG, JOHN LUTHER, author. He 
is the author of Madam Butterfly; Miss 
Cherry-Blossom of Tokyo; Fox-Woman 
and The Prince of Illusion. 

LONG, WILLIAM JOSEPH, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 3, 1867, 
in North Attleboro, Mass! He is the 
author of Ways of Wood Folk; Beasts 
of the Field; and Fowls of the Air. 

LONGFORD, WILLIAM G., soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 10, 1834, 
in Greene county, Ohio. In 1856 he 
served as a volunteer in the Indian war. 
In 1863 he removed to Walla Walla, 
Wash., where he remained until 1867. 
In 1864-67 he was a representative in 
the territorial legislature. In 1875 he 
located at Lewiston, Idaho. He was 


elected to the upper house of the Idaho 
legislature; at the expiration of his 
term of service removed to Walla Walla, 
Washington territory, and was elected 
city attorney, and was four times re¬ 
elected. In 1885 he was appointed an 
associate justice of the supreme court 
of Washington territory. 

LONGHEAD, MRS. FLORA HAINES 
journalist, dramatist, author, was born 
July 12, 1855, in Milwaukee, Wis. She is 
the author of Libraries of California; 
The Man Who Was Guilty; The Aban¬ 
doned Claim; The Black Curtain; The 
Man from Nowhere; Santo’s Brother. 

LONGINO, ANDREW H„ lawyer, state 
senator, governor, was born May 18, 
1855, in Lawrence county, Miss. In 1880 
he was elected to the state senate of 
Mississippi; in 1888 was appointed 
United States district attorney for two 
years; and in 1894 was appointed chan¬ 
cellor of the seventh district. In 1899 
was elected governor of Mississippi. 

LOOMIS, BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD, 
journalist, author, was born Oct. 6, 1836, 
in Bridgewater, N. Y. He is editor ot 
New Jersey Methodist. He is prseident 
of Round Lake Summer Institute. He 
is the author of Studies in the Book ol 
Acts. 

LOOMIS, CHARLES BATTELL, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Sept. 16, 1861, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He is the author of 
Just Rhymes; The Four-masted Cat- 
boat; and Yankee Enchantments. 

LORD, EDWIN CHESLEY ESTES, 
geologist, author, was born May 7, 1868, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is the author of 
Dissertation on Basalts of the Fichtel- 
gebirge, Bavaria. 

LORD, ELEANOR LOUISA, educator, 
author, was born July 27, 1866, in Salem, 
Mass. Since 1897 she has taught in 
Woman’s College of Baltimore. She is 
the author of Industrial Experiments in 
the British Colonies of North America. 

LORD, NATHANIEL WRIGHT, chem¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 26, 1854, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He is professor of 
metallurgy and mineralogy in Ohio state 
university. He is the author of Notes 
on Metallurgical Analysis. 

LORENZ, JULIUS, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Oct. 1, 1862, in Han¬ 
over. Since 1895 he has been conductor 
of the Arion of New York city. He is 
the author of an opera, piano-music, 
choruses and songs. 

LORIMER, GEORGE HORACE, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Oct. 6, 1868, in 
Louisville, Ky. He is literary editor ot 
the Saturday Evening Post. He is the 
author of Behind the Veil of Isis. 

LORING, AUGUSTUS PEABODY, 
lawyer, merchant, author, was born 
Dec. 10, 1857, in Boston, Mass. He 

is president of the Plymouth Cordage 
Company of Boston, Mass. He is the au¬ 
thor of A Trustee’s Handbook. 

LORING, WILLIAM CALEB, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Aug. 24, 1851, in Bever 
ly, Mass. Since 1899 he has been as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme judiciary 
court of Massachusetts. 

LOTHROP, THORNTON KIRKLAND 
lawyer, author, was born in 1830 in New 
Hampshire. He is a noted lawyer ot 
Boston, Mass. He is the author of Life 
of William H. Seward. 

LOTTA—Charlotte Crabtree—actress, 
was born in 1847 in New York city. Her 
first stage appearance was at six years 
of age at Petaluma, Cal. She has play¬ 
ed in England and United States for thir¬ 
ty years; as the Marchioness in Little 
Nell, and in Firefly, Topsy, Musette, 
Bob, Nitouche, The Little Detective. 


LOUBAT, JOSEPH FLORIMUND, 
philanthropist, author, was born Jan. 2l, 
1831, in New York city. He inherited a. 
large fortune and has made many gifts, 
to public institutions, including an en¬ 
dowment of property worth one million 
dollars to the Columbia university libra¬ 
ry, besides gifts of books and manu¬ 
scripts. He is the author of Medallic 
History of the United States. 

LOUNSBERRf, ALICE, botanist, au¬ 
thor, was born in New York city. She 
is the author of A Guide to the Wild 
Flowers; A Guide to the Trees; and 
Southern Trees, Flowers and Shrubs. 

LOUNSBURY, GEORGE E., governor. 
In 1899-1901 he was governor of Con. • 
necticut. 

LOUNSBURY, PHINEAS CHAPMAN, 
soldier, financier, legislator, governor, 
was born Jan. 10, 1841, in Ridgefield, 
Conn. He entered seventeenth Connec¬ 
ticut volunteers as private, but was 
compelled to retire by serious illness. 
He engaged in financial, business in New 
York and was for years president of the 
Merchants’ Exchange National Bank of 
New York city. For several terms he 
was a member and speaker in Connecti¬ 
cut legislature. In 1887-88 he was gov¬ 
ernor of Connecticut. 

LOVE, ALFRED HENRY, merchant, 
was born Sept. 7, 1830, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He has been president of Universal 
Peace Union since 1866. 

LOVING, JOHN WHEELER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 16, 1860, in 
Virginia. He has been pastor of various 
Baptist churches in Kentucky. He is the 
author of The Doctrine of Sin in John. 

LOWE, JOHN, naval officer, was born 
Dec. 11, 1838, in Liverpool, England. He 
served through the civil war and 
through the Corean war. In 1884 he was 
a member of Greeley Relief Expedition. 
He attained the rank of rear admiral. 

LUCAS, THOMAS JOHN, soldier, was 
born Sept. 9, 1826, in Lawrenceburg, Ind. 
He enlisted for the Mexican war as a 
drummer-boy in the fourth Indiana volun¬ 
teers, and rose to be lieutenant and ad¬ 
jutant. He was promoted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers in 1864. In 1881-85 he 
was postmaster of Lawrenceburg, Ind; 
and in 1886 was an unsuccessful can, 
date for congress. 

LUCCOCK, NAPHTALI, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 28, 1853, in Kim- 
bolton, Ohio. He is pastor Union 
Methodist Episcopal church of St. Louis, 
Mo.; and editor of The American Illus¬ 
trated Methodist Magazine. He is tha 
author of Christian Citizenship; and Liv¬ 
ing Words from the Pulpit. 

LUCKEY, GEORGE WASHINGTON 
ANDREW, educator, author, was born 
in 1855, near Decatur, Ind. He is pro¬ 
fessor of education in University of 
Nebraska. He is the author of The Pro¬ 
fessional Training of Secondary School 
Teachers in the United States. 

LUDDEN, PATRICK ANTHONY, 
clergyman, bishop, author, was born in 
1838 in Ireland. Since 1887 he has been 
first Roman catholic bishop of Syracuse, 
N. Y. He is the author of Church 
Property. 

LUDINGTON, MARSHALL INDE¬ 
PENDENCE, soldier, was born July 4, 
1839, in Smithfield, Pa. He served 
through the civil war. He is now 
brigadier-general and quartermaster- 
general U. S. A. 

LUDLOW, NICOLL, naval officer, was 
born Sept. 11, 1842, in Islip, N. Y. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he attained the rank 
of lieutenant. During the Spanish- 


ADDENDA. 


Ixvii 


American war he commanded the Ter¬ 
ror; and attained the rank of rear ad¬ 
miral. 

LUKENS, HERMAN T., educator, au 
thor, was born Jan. 29, 1865, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. Since 1898 he has been head 
training teacher at State Normal school 
of California, Pa. He is the author ol 
Herbert’s Psychological Basis of Teach¬ 
ing; and The Connection Between 
Thought and Memory. 

LUMMUS, HENRY TILTON, lawyer, 
author, was born Dec. 28, 1876, in Lynn 
Mass, ne practices law in his native- 
city. He is the author of a treatise on 
The Law of Mechanics’ Liens upon Rea 
Estate in Massachusetts. 

LUQUER, LEA McILVAINE, educator, 
author, was born in 1864, in Brooklyn. 
N. Y. He is instructor at Columbia uni¬ 
versity of New York city. He is the 
author of Minerals in Rock Sections. 

LURTON, HORACE HARMON, lawyer 
jurist, was born in 1844, in Kentucky. 
Since 1893 he has been judge of the 
United States court, sixth judicial circuit 
of Tennessee. 

LUSH, CHARLES KEELER, journal 
ist, author, was born Dec 5, 1861, in 
La Crosse, Wis. He is the author of 
The Federal Judge. 

LYDSTON, G. FRANK, surgeon, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1858 in Tuolumne, 
Cal. He is the author of Stricture anu 
Urethra; Text Book on Genito-Urinary 
and Venereal Diseases: and Varicocele 
and Treatment. 

LYNDE, FRANCIS, railroad service, 
author, was born Nov. 12, 1856, in Lew¬ 
iston, N. Y. He is the author of A 
Question of Courage; A Romance in Tran¬ 
sit; The Helpers and a Private Chivalry. 

LYNES, FRANK, musician, composer, 
was bom May 16, 1858, in Cambridge. 
Mass. He has held positions as organist 
in various churches of Boston, Mass. He 
is conductor of the Cantabrigia Choral 
Class. He is the author of about fifty 
songs and pianoforte pieces. 

LYON, FRANK EMORY, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 20, 1864, in Lawn 
Ridge, Ill. He is the originator and no\V 
national lecturer and superintendent of 
the American Health Propaganda, Chica¬ 
go. He is the author of The Art of Liv¬ 
ing; and Social Evangelism. 

LYON, WILLIAM PENN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 28, 
1822, in Chatham, N. Y. In 1859-60 he 
was a member and speaker of the Wis¬ 
consin assembly. He served through 
the civil war; and was breveted brigadier- 
general in 1865. In 1866-71 he was judge 
of the first circuit of Wisconsin; and in 
1871-94 was justice of the supreme court 
of Wisconsin. 

LYONS, JUDSON WHITLOCKE. law¬ 
yer, was born Aug. 15, 1858, in Burke 
county, Ga. He is in the law practice in 
Augusta, Ga. He was a member of the 
Republican national convention of 1888. 
1892, and 1896; and in the latter year 
was elected on the Georgia national com¬ 
mittee. In 1898, he removed to Wash¬ 
ington, having been appointel at that 
date register of the United States treas¬ 
ury. 

LYONS. SAMUEL ROSS, soldier, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, was born April 28, 1849, 
in uoSth arolina. He served in the one 
hundred and fifty-fouth Illinois volunteers 
in the civil war. m 1898 he was elect¬ 
ed president of Monmouth college of 
Boomington, Ind. He has been a trustee 
of Indiana university since 1892. 


LYTE, ELIPHALET ORAM, educator, 
lecturer, author, was born June 29, 1842, 
in Bird-in-Hand, Pa. Since his gradua¬ 
tion he has devoted himself especially to 
the study of language and philosophy. 
He has been a member of the faculty of 
the Millersville state normal school since 
1868; and in 1887 was elected its principal. 
He is the author of Forms of Parsing and 
Analysis; Practical Book-keeping; The 
School Song Book; and Grammar ahfi 
Composition. 

MABRY, MILTON HARVEY, lawyer, 
lieutenant-governor, jurist, was born June 
17, 1851, in Pickens county, Ala. In 
1883-84 he was a member of the Florida 
legislature; and in 1884-88 was lieutenant- 
governor. Since 1891 he has been justice 
of the supreme court of Florida. 

MAC ALISTER, JAMES, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born April 26, 1840, in Scotland. 
In 1873 he was superintendent of public 
schools in Milwaukee. Wis.; and in 1878- 
8S was regent of normal schools in Wis¬ 
consin. He was then appointed first 
superintendent of public schools of Phila¬ 
delphia. tie is the author of Manual of 
Primary Instruction; Manual of Instruc¬ 
tion in United States History and Civil 
Government; and Catalogue of Pedagog¬ 
ical Library, with Bibliographical Notes. 

MAC ARTHUR, ARTHUR, soldier, was 
born in Massachusetts. In 1862-65 he 
served in the civil war from first lieuten¬ 
ant to breveted colonel of the twenty- 
fourth Wisconsin infantry. In 1866 he 
entered the regular army as first lieuten¬ 
ant; in 1898 was appointed brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of United States volunteers; and it 
1899 was promoted to major-general 
commanding the second division eighth 
army corps on special duty in Havana. 
Cuba. 

MACARTHUR, WALTER, journalist, 
author, was born March 9, 1862, in Glas¬ 
gow, Scotland. Since 1891 he has been 
associate editor of Coast Seamen’s Jour¬ 
nal of San Francisco, Cal. He is the 
author of The Red Record. 

MACBRIDE, THOMAS HOUSTON, bot¬ 
anist, author, was born July 31, 1848, in 
Rogersville, Tenn. Since 1884 he has 
been professor of botany in the state uni¬ 
versity of Iowa. He is the author of 
Botany, a text-book. 

MAC CAULEY, CLAY, Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born May 8, 1843, in 
Chambersburg, Pa. He is the author of 
Christianity in History; Introductory 
Course in Japanese; and Japanese Liter¬ 
ature. • 

MAC CORKLE, WILLIAM ALEXAN¬ 
DER, lawyer, governor, was born May 7, 
1857, in Lexington, Va. In 1880-89 he 
was prosecuting attorney of Charleston, 
W. Va. In 1892-97 he was governor of 
West Virginia. 

MAC DILL, DAVID, educator, author, 
was born Aug. 10, 1826, in Morning Sun, 
Ohio. Since 1885 he has been professor 
of apologetics at Xenia Theological sem¬ 
inary. He is the author of The Bible 
a Miracle; and Pre-Millennialism Discus¬ 
sed. 

MAC DONALD, ARTHUR, educator, 
author, was born July 4, 1856, in Cale¬ 
donia, N. Y. He is a specialist in edu¬ 
cation in the United States bureau of 
education. He is the author of Abnor¬ 
mal Man; Criminology; Education and 
Patho-Social Studies; Abnormal Children; 
and Experimental Study of Children. 

MAC DONALD, JAMES WILSON AL¬ 
EXANDER, sculptor, was horn Aug. 25, 
1824, in Steubenville, Ohio. His earliest 


production in marble was a bust of Thom¬ 
as H. Benton. Later he made his earli 
est ideal work, a bust of Joan of Arc, 
which he followed by a full-length figure 
called Italia. 

MACDOUGAL, DANIEL TREMBLY, 
botanist, author, was bom March 16, 1865, 
in Liberty, Ind. Since 1899 he hes been 
director in New York Botanical Garden. 
He is the author of Experimental Plant 
Physiology; and* Living Plants. 

MAC DOWELL, EDWARD ALEXAN 
DER, musician, composer, was born Dec. 
18, 1861, in New York city. In 1896 he 
was appointed professor of music in Co¬ 
lumbia university of New York city. He 
is a concert pianist of marked ability; 
and a composer of strong individuality. 

MACE, WILLIAM HARRISON, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Nov. 27, 1852, near 
Lexington, Ind. Since 1891 he has been 
professor of history in Syracuse univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of A Working 
Manual of American History; and Method 
in History. 

MACFADDEN, BERNARD ADOLPH¬ 
US, journalist, lecturer, inventor, was 
born Aug. 16, 1868, near Mill Springs. 
Mo. He is editor of Physical Culture of 
New York city. He is inventor of var¬ 
ious devices for exercise; and was an 
athlete of considerable prominence in the 
wrestling arena in 1890-93. He is the 
author of The Athlete’s Conquest; and 
McFadden’s Physical Training. 

MACFARLANE. ALEXANDER, math- 
ematican, author, was born April 21, 1851, 
in Scotland. He is general secretary of 
the International Association for Promot¬ 
ing Space-analysis. He is the author of 
Physical Arithmetic; and Elementary 
Mathematical Tables. 

MACFARLANE, JOHN MUIRHEAD, ed¬ 
ucator, botanist, author, was boi u S Q pt. 
28, 1855, in Scotland. Since 1893 he 
has been professor of botany in Univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania. In 1895-99 he de¬ 
veloped the botanical gardens of the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania. He is the au¬ 
thor of numerous papers on Cell struc¬ 
ture, Insectivorous Plants, and Movement 
of Sensitive Plants. 

MAC GRATH. HAROLD, journalist, 
author, was born Sept 4, 1871, in Syra¬ 
cuse, N. Y. He is the author of Arms 
and the Woman. 

MACKAY-SMITH, ALEXANDER, cler¬ 
gyman, bishop, was born June 2, 1850, in 
New Haven, Conn. He was rector of 
Grace church of South Boston in 1877- 
80; and in 1880 became assistant rector of 
St. Thomas’s church of New York city. 
In 1887 he became first archdeacon of New 
York. 

MACKENZIE, ARTHUR STANLEY 
educator, author, was born Sept. 26, 1865, 
in Canada. He is professor of physics 'in 
Bryn Maw r college, Pa. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Law of Gravitation. 

MACKENZIE, JOHN NOLAND, physi¬ 
cian, critic, was born Oct. 20, 1853, in 
Baltimore, Md. He was appointed clin¬ 
ical assistant in Bellevue hospital, and 
afterward a member of the house staff 
of that institution. He occupies the 
position of literary critic on various 
journals both in America and abroad. He 
is surgeon to the Baltimore eye, ear, and 
throat charity hospital; and vice-presi¬ 
dent of the American laryngological as¬ 
sociation. 

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM DOUGLAS, 
educator, theologian, author, was born 
July 16, 1859, in Africa. He is professor 


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ADDENDA. 


of theology in Chicago Theological Sem¬ 
inary. He is the author of The Ethics 
of Gambling; The Revelation of the 
Christ; and Christianity and the Progress 
of Man. 

MACKIE, PAULINE BRADFORD, au¬ 
thor, was horn July 5, 1873, in Fairfield, 
Conn. She is the author of Mademois¬ 
elle de Berny, a Story of Colonial Times; 
and Ye Lyttle Salem Maide, a Story of 
Witchcraft. 

MACKUBIN. ELLEN, author, was horn 
in Chicago, Ill. She is the author of 
The King of the Town. 

MACLAY, EDGAR STANTON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was horn April 18, 1863, 
in China. He is the author of The His¬ 
tory of the United States Navy; Remin¬ 
iscences of the Old Navy: and The His¬ 
tory of American Privateers. 

MACLOSKIE. GEORGE, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 14, 1834. 
in Ireland. He is professor of biology 
in Princeton university. He is the au¬ 
thor of Elementary Botany. 

MAC MILLAN, CONWAY, notanist. au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 26. 1867, in Hills¬ 
dale, Mich. Since 1891 he has been state 
botanist of Minnesota. He is the au¬ 
thor of Twenty-two Common Insects of 
Nebraska; The Metaspermae of the Min¬ 
nesota Valley; and Minnesota Plant 
Life. 

MAC MONNIES. FREDERICK, sculp¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 20. 1863. in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. In 1896 he was decorated with 
the Legion of Honor by the French gov¬ 
ernment. He is the author of Three 
life-size bronze angels at St. Paul’s 
church of New York city; army and navy 
groups for soldiers’ and sailors’ monu¬ 
ment in Indianapolis. Ind.; and bronze 
doors and statue of Shakespeare in Li¬ 
brary of Congress. 

MAC QUEARY. THOMAS HOWARD, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born 
May 27, 1861, near Charlottesville, Va. 
He is superintendent of the Parental 
school of Chicago, Ill. He is the author 
of The Evolution of Man and Christian¬ 
ity. 

MAC VANE, SILAS N.. educator, au¬ 
thor. He is professor of ancient and 
modern history in Harvard university. 
He is the author of Working Principles 
of Political Economy. 

MAC VEAGH, WAYNE, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, diplomat, was born April 19, 1833, 
in Phoenixville, Pa. In 1859-64 he serv¬ 
ed as district attorney for Chester county. 
Pa. In 1870-71 he was United States 
minister to Turkey; and in 1872-73 was 
a member of the Pennsylvania constitu¬ 
tional convention. In 1881 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States attorney-general 
in the cabinet of President Garfield, but 
resigned, with the other members on the 
accession of President Arthur, and resum¬ 
ed his law practice in Philadelphia. Pa. 

MAGEE, HARRIET CECIL, educator, 
was born Sept. 28. 1854. in New Bruns¬ 
wick. In 1884 she became the director 
of the art department of the State Normal 
school at Oshkosh, Wis.; and it is owing 
to her wise leadership that it is recog¬ 
nized as the representative art club of 
Wisconsin. 

MAGIF WILLIAM J., lawyer, state 
senator, jurist, was born Dec. 9. 1832, in 
Elizabeth. N. Y. In 1876-78 he was a 
member of the New Jersey state senate; 
and in 1880-97 was associate justice of 
New Jersey; and since 1897 chief justice. 

MAGONE. DANIEL, lawyer, publ'c of¬ 
ficial, was born Jan. 26. 1829, in Oswe- 


gatchie, N. Y. He became a member of 
the New York state canal commission in 
1875; and was appointed collector of the 
port of New York in 1886. He was chair¬ 
man of the New York state democratic 
committee in 1876; and a delegate to the 
national Democratic convention in 1876 
and 1884. 

MAGRUDER. BENJAMIN DRAKE, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 27, 1838, 
in Jefferson county. Miss. In 1859-61 he 
practiced law in Memphis, Tenn.; and in 
1861-85 practiced in Chicago, Ill. In 
1868-85 he was master in chancery. Since 
1885 he has been justice of the supreme 
court of Illinois, his present term end¬ 
ing in 1906. 

MAGRUDER, DANIEL R.. lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. For many years he was judge of 
the Maryland court of appeals. 

MAGUIRE, MATTHEW. machinist, 
was born in 1850. in New York. He 
moved to Paterson, N. J.. and took an 
active part in municipal, state, and na¬ 
tional politics. He has served as al¬ 
derman of Paterson. He was nomi¬ 
nated in 1896. for vice-president by the 
Socialist-Labor party at its convention in 
New York city; and in 1898 was nomi¬ 
nated by his party for governor of New 
Jersey. 

MAHONEY. WILLIAM F.„ congress¬ 
man. was born in Chicago, Ill. For five 
terms he was a member of the Chicago 
city council. He was elected to the 
fiftv-seventh congress from Illinois. 

MAISCH. HENRY CHARLES CHRIS¬ 
TIAN, chemist, author, was born Sept. 29. 
1862. in Brooklyn. N. Y. He has lectured 
on botany and materia medica at Chicago 
College of Pharmacy, and Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is the author of Maisch’s Man¬ 
ual of Materia Medica. 

MALLET. JOHN WILLIAM, chemist, 
was born Oct. 10. 1832. in Ireland. In 
1867-83 he held the professorship of an¬ 
alytical. industrial and agricultural chem¬ 
istry in the University of Virginia. ~In 
1883 he became professor of chemistry 
and physics in the recently organized uni¬ 
versity of Texas- and the equipment of 
these departments was selected by him 

MALLORY. FRANK B., physician, au¬ 
thor. He is a successful physician of 
Boston, Mass. He is the author of 
Pathological Tenhniaue. 

MALTBIE. MILO ROY, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 3. 1871, in Hinckley. 
Ill. Since 1897 he has been editor of 
the Municipal Affairs of New York city. 
He is the author' of English Local Gov¬ 
ernment of Today; and Municipal Func¬ 
tions. 

MA.LTBY. MRS. GEORGIA LOR 1 "! 
MOREHOUSE, genealogist, was bnm 
April 22. 1854. in New Haven Conn. She 
is the author of Maltby-Morehouse Fam¬ 
ily Record. 

MAJOR. CHARLES, lawyer, author, 
was born July 25. 1856, in Indianapolis. 
Ind. He is engaged in practice at Shel- 
byville. Ind. He is the author of When 
Knighthood was in Flower. 

MANATT, JAMES IRVING, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 17. 1845. in MR- 
lershurg Ohio. Since 1892 he has been 
professor of Greek literature and history 
in Brown university. He is the author 
of The Mycenaean Age. 

MANLEY. HENRY DE HAVEN, nav¬ 
al officer, was born Dec. 20. 1839. in 
Chester, Pa. He was promoted lieuten¬ 
ant-commander in 1866: served on the 
flag-ships of the European and Brazilian 
stations; was commissioned as comman¬ 


der in 1874; and circumnavigated the 
globe in command of the Ranger and the 
Alert in 1878-79. He was retired from 
active service in 1883 on account of loss 
of hearing and failure of health. 

MANLY, LOUISE, teacher, author, 
was born July 10 1857 in Richmond, Va. 
She has taught in Alabama, Kentucky, 
Florida and North Carolina. She is the 
author of Southern Literature; and His¬ 
tory of Alabama for Children. 

MANN, CAMERON, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1853, in New York city. 
Since 1882 he has been rector of Grace 
church of Kansas City, Mo. He is the 
author of Future Punishment; and Com¬ 
ments at the Cross. 

MANN, CHARLES HOLBROOK, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sent. 11, 1839, 
in Syracuse, N. Y. In 1870 he invented 
and patented the reactionary lifter. He 
is the author of Interior Spiritual Liv¬ 
ing; Sermons on Marriage; What God 
Hath Cleansed; The Christ of God; Psy- 
chiasis, or Healing Through the Soul 

MANNING, HENRY PARKER, educa¬ 
tor. author, was born Oct. 3, 1859, m 

Woodstock. Conn. He is assistant pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics in Brown univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of Non-Euclidean 
Geometry. 

MANSFIELD, RICHARD, actor, was 
born in 1857. in Heligoland. He studied 
for East Indian civil service, but opened 
a studio in Boston. Mass.; and later took 
to the theatrical profession. He is head 
of his own company and has created such 
parts as Beau Brummel Prince Karl l^ar- 
on Chevrial. and the titular roles in Dr. 
Jeky) and Mr. Hyde. 

MANTON. WALTER PORTER, phys'• 
cian, author, was born Aug 3, 1857, in 
Providence, R. I. He is a successful 
physician of Detroit, Mich. He is the 
author of A Syllabus of Lectures on Hu¬ 
man Embryology. 

MARCEAU. JAMES HERBERT, musi¬ 
cian. composer, was born Oct. 31, 1859. 
in Canada. He is now head of vocal de¬ 
partment at Quincy Mansion school of 
Wollaston, Mass. 

MARCH ALDEN, jouralist, author, 
was born Sept. 29. 1869. in Easton, Pa. 
Since 1891 he has been connected with the 
Philadelphia Press. He is the author 
of Conquest of The Philippines and Our 
Other Island Possessions. 

MARGOLIS MAX LEOPOLD, was 
born Oct. 15. 1866. in Russia. Since 1893 
he has been associate professor of Sem¬ 
itic languages and literatures in universi¬ 
ty of California. He is the author of 
An Elementary Text-Book of Hebrew Ac¬ 
cidence. 

MARIS. GEORGE LEWIS, educator, 
genealogist, author, was born April 16, 
1842, in Chester county. Pa. He is princi¬ 
pal of the George school of Buck’s county, 
Pa. In 1877 he wa.s president of the 
Pennsylvania State Teachers’ Associa¬ 
tion. He is the author of Normal Eng¬ 
lish Grammar; and Maris Family Rec¬ 
ord. 

MARKHAM, EDWIN, journalist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born April 23. 1852, in 
Oregon city, Ore. He has written poems 
since early boyhood in California papers 
and received recognition of best Eastern 
magazines; and was principal and super¬ 
intendent of schools in Calfornia until 
1899. He is the author of The Man With 
the Hoe, and Other Poems; The Man With 
the Hoe, with Notes by the Author; and 
Lincoln, and Other Poems. 

MARKS. WILLIAM DENNIS, civil en¬ 
gineer, author,, was born Feb. 26, 1849, 


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in St. Louis, Mo. He is president of 
the Edison Electric Light company of 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of 
The Relative Proportions of the Steam 
Engine. 

MARSHALL, CHARLES ALEXAN¬ 
DER, soldier, legislator, was born May 2. 
1809, in Mason county, Ky. He served 
in the Kentucky legislature in 1840, 1855 
anl 1857. He was a determined friend 
of the Union; recruited the sixteenth Ken¬ 
tucky infantry in 1861; was at the head 
of that regiment and led the advance of 
General William Nelson in his campaign 
in eastern Kentucky. 

MARSHALL, JOHN AUGUSTINE, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 5, 
1854, in Fauquier county, Va. In 1892 he 
■was a member of the Utah assembly. 
Since 1896 he has been United States 
judge for the district of Utah. 

MARSHALL, LEONARD B.. educator, 
musician, was born Aug. 9, 1847, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He is an instructor in music 
in Dorchester, Mass.; and is a member 
of the faculty of the American Institute 
of Normal Methods. 

MARSHALL. THOMAS F„ civil engi¬ 
neer, banker, state senator, congressman, 
was born March 7, 1854. For four yeaTs 
he was mayor of Oakes, N. D. For four 
years he was a member of the North Da¬ 
kota state senate. In 1899 he was a can¬ 
didate for the United States senate. He 
was elected a member of the iifty-seventn 
congress as a repumican. 

MARSHALL. WILLIAM CHAMPE. 
lawyer, orator, jurist, was born Nov. 15, 
1849, in Vicksburg, Miss. In 1895-98 he 
was president of the Missouri State Bar 
association. In 1898 he was judge of the 
supreme court of Missour. for the term 
ending in 1909. 

MARSTON, NATHAN W., merchant, 
jurist, genealogist, was born Jan. 25, 1827. 
He is a successful merchant and noted 
jurist of Lubec, Maine. He is the au 
thor of the Marston Genealogy. 

MARTIN, ELORA E., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Aug. 23, 1834, in Newport. N. 
Y. Since 1896 he has been judge of the 
New York court of appeals. • 

MARTIN. CHALMERS, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born Sept. 7, 
1859, in Ashland, Ky. Since 1900 he has 
been president of Pennsylvania College 
for Women. He is the author of Aposto¬ 
lic and Modern Missions. 

MARTIN, CHARLES CYRIL, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born Aug. 30, 1831, in 

Springfeld, Pa. He was super¬ 
intendent of the laying of the forty-eight- 
inch water-main along Atlantic avenue 
to the Ridgewood reservoir, through 
which the water supply of Brooklyn has 
since been obtained. He then became 
chief engineer of Prospect park, and 
there introduced a system of road-build¬ 
ing and sub-drainage sewers that has 
proved eminently successful, also bringing 
to a completion the great park well, then 
the largest in the world. On the ac¬ 
complishment of this work he became as¬ 
sistant engineer of the New York and 
Brooklyn bridges, and after the structure 
was thrown open to the public in 1883, 
was made chief engineer and superin¬ 
tendent. 

MARTIN. DANIEL HOFFMAN, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 5, 1859. in Martin- 
dale, N. Y. Since 1890 he has been pas¬ 
tor of Clinton avenue Reformed church 
of Newark, N. Y. He is the author of 
A Young Man’s Perplexities with His Bi¬ 
ble; Concerning Them that are Asleep: 
and Save America to Save the World. 


MARTINELLI, SEBASTIAN, Roman 
Catholic archbishop, was born Aug. 20, 
1848, in Italy. In 1894 ae visited tne 
United States as superior-general of the 
Augustinians; in 1896 he was appointed 
apostolic delegate; was consecrated arch¬ 
bishop of Ephesus in August of that year; 
and has since resided in Washington as 
the successor of Satolli as the pope's 
representative in the United States. 

MARTYN, CARLOS, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1843 in New York city. He 
is the author of Christian Citizenship; 
I.ife of John M^ton; English Puritans; 
Pilgram Fathers; History of the Hugue 
nots; Dutch Reformation; and several 
biographical works. 

MARVIN, JOSEPH BENSON, physi 
cian. lecturer, author, was born Aug. 3, 
1852, in Monticello, Fla. He is professor 
of medicine and president of the medical 
department in the University of Ken¬ 
tucky. He is the author of Lectures in 
International Clinics. 

MARVIN, WILLIAM T. R„ publisher, 
genealogist, was born Dec. 30. 1832. in 
Boston, Mass. He is editor of American 
Journal of Numismatics, of Boston, Mass. 
He is the author of The Marvin Mono¬ 
graphic. a genealogical work. 

MARZO. EDUARDO, musician, compos¬ 
er. was born Nov. 29. 1852, in Italy. He 
is specially distinguished for sacred com¬ 
positions. He has composed eight mass¬ 
es, four vespers, and many songs for the 
Catholic church. 

MASON, MRS. CAROLINE ATWAT¬ 
ER. author, was born July 10. 1853. in 
Providence. R. I. She is the author of 
A Titled Maiden; A Minister of the 
World; The Minister of Carthage; The 
Quiet King; and A Wind Flower. 

MASON. HARRIET L., educator, au¬ 
thor. was born Sept. 15. 1862. in Heoi? 
N. H. Since 1893 she has been instructor 
of English language and literature in 
Drexel institute of Philadelphia. Pa. 
She is the author of Students’ Reading 
and Questions in English Literature. 

MASON, HARRISON DENNING, bus¬ 
iness man, genealogist, was born Jan. 27, 
1855. in Allegheny City. Pa. He is pur¬ 
chasing agent of the Allegheny Valiev 
railroad of Pittsburg. He is the author 
of Genealogy of the Mason and Denning 
Families. 

MASON. MARY AUGUSTA, author, 
poet, was born in Windsor, N. Y. She 
is the author of With the Seasons, a 
volume of colonial poems. 

MASON, RUFUS OSGOOD, physician, 
author, was born Jan. 22, 1830. in Sulli¬ 
van, N. H. In 1861-64 he was acting 
assistant surgeon in the United States 
navy.. He is the author of Sketches and 
Impressions, Musical, Theatrical and So¬ 
cial. Including a sketch of the Philhar- 
mrnic Society of New York; and Telep¬ 
athy and the Subliminal Self. 

MASON, WILLIAM PITT, chemist, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 12. 1853. in New York 
city. He is professor of chemistry in 
Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy. 
N. Y. He is the author of Water Sup¬ 
ply; and Notes on Qualitative Analysis. 

MASSEY, W. A., lawyer, jurist. He 
is associate justice of the supreme court 
of Nevada. 

MASSEY. WILBUR FISK, horticultur¬ 
ist. botanist, author, was born Sept. 30. 
1839, in Accomac county, Va. He is 
professor of horticulture and botany in 
the North Carolina college ot Agriculture 
and Mechanic Arts. He is the author ot 
Crop Growing and Crop Feeding. 


MATCHETT, CHARLES HORATIO, 
electrician, was born May 15, 1843, in 
Needham, Mass. In 1886 he entered into 
the employment of the New Jersey tele¬ 
phone company. He was prominent in 
the Knights of Labor movement; and 
since 1885 has taken an active part in 
the Socialist-Labor party, being nomin¬ 
ated for mayor or Brooklyn, governor ot 
New York, vice-president of the United 
States, and in 1896 for president. 

MATHEWS, EDWARD, journalist, 
genealogist, author, was born Feb. 9, 
1837, in New Britain, Pa. He is the au¬ 
thor of History of Thomas Family; Ros- 
enberger Family; and several local his¬ 
tories. 

MATHEWS, FERDINAND SCHUY¬ 
LER, artist, author, was born May 30, 
1854, in New Brighton, N. Y. His spe¬ 
cialty is decorative design. He is the 
author of The Golden Flower; Familiar 
Flowers of Field and Garden; Familiar 
Trees and Their Leaves; Familiar Feat¬ 
ures of the Roadside; Familiar Life in 
Field and Forest; and The Beautiful 
Flower Garden. 

MATHEWS, FRANCES AYMAR, dra¬ 
matist, author, was born in New York 
city. She is the author of One Man in 
Ten Thousand; To-night at Eight; His 
Way and Her Will; A Married Man; 
The New Yorkers; and A Little Tragedy 
at Tientsin; and other plays. 

MATHEWS, JOSEPH McDOWELL. 
physician, surgeon, author, was born May 
1, 1847, in New Castle, Ky. He is pres¬ 
ident of the Kentucky state board of 
Health. He is the author of Mathews 
on Diseases of the Rectum and Sigmoid 
Flexure. 

MATHEWS, SHAILER. educator, au¬ 
thor, was born May 26, 1863, in Portla'nd, 
Maine. He is professor of New Testa¬ 
ment history and interpretation in Uni¬ 
versity of Chicago. He is the author 
of Select Mediaeval Documents; and The 
Social Teachings of Jesus. 

MATTESON. CHARLES, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. He is chief justice of the supreme 
court of Rhode Island. 

MATTHEWS, BRANDER, author, was 
born Feb. 21, 1852, in New Orleans, La. 
He was one of the founders of the New 
York authors' club, and also took a con¬ 
spicuous part in organizing the American 
copyright league and the Dunlap society. 
He is the author of The Theatres of Par¬ 
is; French Dramatists of the Nineteenth 
Century; The Last Meeting; A Secret of 
the Sea; and Pen and Ink. His plays in¬ 
clude Margery’s Lovers; and other works. 

MATTHEWS. EDMUND ORVILlE, 
naal officer, was born Oct. 24. 1836. in 
Baltimore. Md. During the civil war he 
was lieutenant-commander. In 1897 he 
became rear-admiral; and was president 
of the examining board when retired. 

MATTOCKS, CHARLES PORTER, sol¬ 
dier, state legislator, was born Oct. 11, 
1840. in Danville, Vt. In 1865 he was 
breveted brigadier-general. In 1880-84 
he was a member of the Maine legislat¬ 
ure. He served in the Spanish-American 
war. 

MAURICE, ARTHUR BARTLETT 
journalist, author, was born April 10, 
1873. in Rahway, N. J. Since 1899 he 
has been editor of The Bookman of New 
York city. He is the author of New 
York in Fiction. , 

MAXEY, THOMAS F., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator. jurist, was born Sept. 1, 1846. in 
Brandon, Miss. He served in the Con¬ 
federate army one year; and in 1870 was 


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a member of the Mississippi legislature. 
Since 1888 he has been United States 
judge for the western district of Texas. 

MAXIM, HIRAM STEVENS, inventor, 
was born Feb. 5, 1840, in Sangerville, 
Maine. He has patented many electric in¬ 
dentions including incandescent lamps 
and self-regulating current machines. He 
invented the Maxim gun, which makes 
the recoil of the gun serve as the power 
for reloading. 

MAY., MITCHELL, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born July 11, 1871, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. He is actively engaged in prac¬ 
tice of law in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was 
elected to the fifty-sixth congress as a 
democrat. 

MAYNARD, GEORGE WILLIAM, min¬ 
ing engineer, was born June 12, 1839, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1868-72 he was pro¬ 
fessor of mining and metallurgy at Rens¬ 
selaer polytechnic institute. In 1873-79 
he was consulting engineer for iron, steel 
and copper works in England, Germany, 
and Russit. Since that time he has 
been engaged as a consulting mining and 
metallurgical engineer with an office m 
New York city. 

MAYNARD, H. L., congressman. He 
was elected a member of the fifty-seventh 
congress from Virginia'as a democrat. 

MAYO, EARL WILLIAMS, journalist, 
author, was born May 5, 1873, in Spring- 
ville, N. Y. He is editor of McClure’s 
syndicate supplying stories and special 
articles to newspapers and magazines. 

He is the author of A Border Rivalry. 

MAYO-SMITH, RICHMOND, educator, 
author, was born in 1854, in Ohio. Since 
1883 he has been professor of political 
economy in Columbia University of New 
York city. He is the author of Emigra¬ 
tion and Immigration; and Sociology and 
Statistics. 

MAZET, ROBERT, lawyer, legislator, 
was born May 15, 1857, in Pittsburg, 
Pa. He began the practice of his pro¬ 
fession in New York city. He took an 
active interest in the affairs of the Na¬ 
tional guard of the state; serving as 
first lieutenant in the seventh regiment: 
and also serving as republican member 
of the legislature in 1897-99. 

McADAM, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Oct. 6, 1838, in New York city. 
Since 1896 he has been associate justice of 
the supreme court of New York. 

McALLISTER, DAVID, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 25, 1836, in New 
York city. He is the author or Manual 
Christian Civil Government; and Poets 
and Poetry of the Covenant. 

McALLISTER, W. K., lawyer, jurist. 
He is associate justice of the supreme 
court of Tennessee. 

McANDREWS, JAMES, congressman. 
He is a member of the fifty-seventh con¬ 
gress from Illinois as a democrat. 

McATEE, JOHN L., lawyer, jurist. He 
is associate justice of the supreme court 
of Oklahoma. 

McCABE, CHARLES C.. clergyman, 
bishop, was born Oct. 11, 1836, in Athens, 
Ohio. Since 1896 he has been Mpthodis' 
Episcopal bishop. 

McCAGG, EZRA BUTLER, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Nov. 22. 1825, in Kinder- 
hook. N. Y. Since 1847 he has practiced 
in Chicago, Ill. He was a member of 
the United States sanitary commission: 
and president of the Northwestern sani¬ 
tary commission during the civil war. He 
was the first president of the Lincoln 
park trustees. He has a large library 
and art collectior 


McCALLA, BOWMAN H., naval officer, 
was born June 19, 1844, in Camden, N. J. 
He served throughout the civil war; and 
in 1866 was promoted master. He served 
during the war with Spain; and as colonel 
he commanded a division of six cruisers 
and gunboats on the coast of Luzon. In 
1900, with officers and men from the New¬ 
ark, he formed part of a column in an 
attempt to relieve legations in Pekin, 
China. 

McCAMMON, JOSEPH KAY, lawyer, 
author, was born Oct. 13, 1845, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is the author of Re¬ 
port on Indian Service; Report on Coun¬ 
cils with Bannock and Shoshone Indians; 
Report on Councils with Flathead and 
Other Indians; and Arguments in Cases 
Affecting Pacific and Other Railroads. 

McCARROLL, JAMES, inventor, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Aug. 3, 1814, in 
Ireland. He is the author of various in¬ 
ventions, the last of which increases tne 
light and flame in the chimney of an Ar- 
gand gas-burner, or of any other burner, 
to double their volume by retarding the 
escape of unconsumed carbon through the 
chimney. He is well known as a poet; 
and has published in book-form his hu¬ 
morous letters, under the pen-name ot 
Terry Finnegan, to Thomas D’Arcy mc- 
Gee; The New Gauger; The Adventures 
of a Night; and The New Life-Boat. 

MCCARTHY, D. F., journalist, poet. 
He is editor of Sacred Heart Review of 
East Cambridge, Mass. He is the author 
of a volume of poems. 

McCAWLEY, CHARLES GRYMES, 
naval officer, was born Jan. 29, 1827, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was appointed 
from Louisiana second lieutenant in the 
marine corps in 1847. He served with 
the army in Mexico, being present at 
the storming of Chapultepec and the cap¬ 
ture of the city of Mexico, for gallantry 
in which action he was brevetted first 
lieutenant in 1847. In 1862 he was sent 
to reoccupy the Norkolk navy yard with 
a force of two hundred men, and hoisted 
the National flag on behalf of the navy. 
In the boat attack on Fort. Sumter in 
1863 he led a detachment of 100 men and 
officers, and received a brevet as major 
for his bravery on that occasion. Since 
1876 he has been in command of the 
marine corps with rank of colonel. 

McCHESNEY, DORA GREENWF* ’ 
author, was born Oct. 1, 1871, in Chicago', 
Ill. She is the author of A Romance of 
the Great Rebellion; A Summer Tragedy 
in Rome; and Rupert, By the Grace of 
God. 

McCHESNEY, MRS. ELIZABETH 
STUDDIFORD, author, was born April 29, 
1841, in Monroe, Mich. She is the author 
of Under Shadow of the Mission, a Mem¬ 
ory of Santa Barbara. 

McCLAIN, EMLIN, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 28, 1851, in Salem, 
Ohio. In 1873-81 he practiced law in Des 
Moines, owa; and in 1890-1900 was chan¬ 
cellor of the law department of the Uni¬ 
versity of Iowa. Since 1901 he has been 
judge of the supreme court of Iowa. He 
is the author of McClain’s Annotated 
Statutes of Iowa; Outlines of Criminal 
Law and Procedure; Cases on the Law 
of Carriers; A Treatise on the Criminal 
Law as Now Administered in the United 
States; and A Selection of Cases on Con¬ 
stitutional Law\ 

McLELLAN, THOMAS NICHOLAS, 
lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born 
Feb. 23, 1853, in Limestone county, Ala. 

In 1872 he began the practice of law in 


Athens, Ala. In 1880-84 he was a mem 
ber of the Alabama state senate; and in 
1884-89 he was attorney-general of Ala¬ 
bama. In 1889-98 he was associate jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of Alabama; 
and since 1898 has been chief justice. 

McCLINTOCK, JOHN NORRIS, jour- 
na 1st, ?• v - imgineei, was born May 12, 
1846, in Winthrop, Maine. He has serv 
ed in the United States coast survey; has 
been an instructor in Bowdoin college; 
and editor Granite Monthly. He is now 
president of the American Sewerage Dis¬ 
posal company of Boston, Mass. 

McCLURE, JAMES GORE KING, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, author, was 
born Nov. 24, 1848, in Albany, N. Y. 
Since 1897 he has been president of Lake 
Forest university, Ill. He is the author 
of Possibilities; and The Man Who Want¬ 
ed to Help. 

McCONNELL, ANDREW M„ journal¬ 
ist, educator, poet, was born in 1873, in 
Blount county. Ala. He is lecturer ot 
Atlanta, Ga. He is the author ot Echce~ 
from the Heart, a volume of poems. H:- 
wife is also the author of a volume of 
poems. 

McCONNELL, MRS. MARION DAN¬ 
IEL, educator, poet, was born in Newman. 
Ga. She is the author of Sheaves of 
Song. 

McCORVEY, THOMAS CHALMERS 
educator, author, was born Aug. 18, 1852, 
in Monroe county, Ala. Since 1888 he 
has been professor of history and philos¬ 
ophy in university of Alabama. He is 
the author of The Government of the 
People of the State of Alabama. 

McCOWEN, JOHN PORTER, soldier, 
was born about 1820, in Tennessee. He 
became first lieutenant in 1843; was regi¬ 
mental quartermaster in 1847-48; and was 
brevetted captain for bravery at Cerro 
Gordo, in 1847. He resigned from the 
United States army in 1861, and became 
a brigadier-general in the Confederate 
service. He commanded at New Mad¬ 
rid, Mo., in 1862, but evacuated the town 
after its invasion by Gen. Pope. 

McCRADY, EDWARD, soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, author, was born April 8, 18J3, 
in Charleston, S. C. During the civil 
war he attained the rank of lieutenant- 
colonel in the Confederate service. In 
1880-90 he was a member of the South 
Carolina legislature. He is the author 
of The History of South Carolina under 
the Proprietary Government; The His¬ 
tory of South Carolina under the Royal 
Government; and The History of South 
Carolina in the Revolution. 

McCREATH, ANDREW S., chemist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 8, 1849. in Scotland. 
For ten years he was chemist geological 
survey of Pennsylvania. He is the auth¬ 
or of Mineral TVealth of Virginia; and 
The New River-Cripple Creek Mineral 
Region. 

McCRILLIS, HERBERT ORIN, educa¬ 
tor, genealogist, was born May 15, 1854, in 
Grafton, Mass. He taught school for 
awhile; and is row head book-keeper of 
the Youths’ Companion company. He is 
the author of McCrillis’ Records. 

McCULLAGH. JOHN, missionary, was 
born in 1811 in Scotland. In 1834 he 
emigrated to the United States, connected 
himself with the American Sunday-school 
union as a volunteer, and labored at first 
among the so-called bark peelers of Sul¬ 
livan county, N. Y.. then in southern Il¬ 
linois; and after 1839 in Henderson. Ky. 

In 1852-84 he was superintendent of mis¬ 
sions in the south. 


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McCULLUM, J. BREWSTER, lawyer, 
jurist. He is associate justice of the 
supreme court of Pennsylvania. 

McCUMBER, PORTER J., lawyer, leg 
islator, United States senator, was born 
Feb. 3, 1856, in Crete, Ill. Since 1880 he 
has practiced law in North Dakota. He 
was a member of the Territorial legis¬ 
lature in 1885 and 1887; and state’s at¬ 
torney of Richland county. He became 
United States senator in 1899 for term 
ending 1905. 

McCURDY, RICHARD ALDRICH, law¬ 
yer, insurance president, was born Jan. 
29, 1835, in New York city. In 1860 he 
became attorney of the Mutual Life in¬ 
surance company; became its vice-presi¬ 
dent in 1865; and since 1885 has been 
president of the corporation. 

McCURDY, STEWART LEROY, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born July 15 . 1859, in 
Bowenston, Ohio. He is professor of 
anatomy and surgery, and trustee and 
secretary of Pittsburg Dental Department 
of Western University of Pennsylvania. 
He is the author of Manual of Orthopae¬ 
dic Surgery; and Oral Surgery, a text 
book on general medicine and surgery as 
applied to dentistry. 

McCUTHEON, GEORGE BARR, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born July 26, 1866. in 
Tmpecanoe county, lnd. Since 1893 he 
has been city editor of Lafayette Couri¬ 
er. He is the author of Graustark. 

McCUTHEON, JOHN TINNEY. illus¬ 
trator, journalist, artist, author, was born 
May 6, 1870, in South Raub, lnd. Since 
1889 he has been connected with the Chi¬ 
cago Record, now the Chicago Record- 
Herald. He started on a trip around the 
world on the despatch boat McCulloch; 
and was on board that vessel during the 
destruction of the Spanish fleet in Ma¬ 
nila Bay. He is the author of Stories of 
Filipino Warfare. 

McDERMOTT. ALLAN L.. congress¬ 
man. He was elected a member of the 
fifty-seventh congress from New Jersey 

MCDONALD, MARSHALL, fish commis¬ 
sioner, scientist, was born June 26, 1835. 
in Romney. W. Va. He was a professor 
at the Virginia military institute for 
fourteen years; and since 1875-has been 
Virginia commissioner of fisheries. He 
became attached to the United States fish 
commission in 1879; for several years was 
in charge of the distribution of young 
fishes; and was later chief of the di¬ 
vision of fish culture. He invented the 
automatic hatching jars in 1881 that are 
now in use in the general United States 
fish commissiort and in Japan and Eu¬ 
rope; and developed in 1882 the.tidal ap¬ 
paratus now in use for hatching the float¬ 
ing eggs of cod, halibut, and other ma¬ 
rine species, by which the work of distri¬ 
bution has been developed, its methods 
perfected, and its cost cheapened. 

MCDONALD. WILLIAM, clergyman, 
author, uas born March 1, 1820. in Bel¬ 
mont, Maine. He has made an evangel¬ 
istic tour of England and India, and the 
Holy Land. He is the author of History 
of Methodism in Providence, R. I.; Spir- 
New Testament Demonology and Modern 
itaualism Identical with Ancient Scorcery; 
Witchcraft; Scripture Way of Holiness: 
Saved to the Uttermost; Wesley and His 
Doctrine; Another Comforter: and The 
People’s Wesley. 

McDonnell. Charles edward. 

clergyman, bishop, was born June 26.1854. 
in New York city. Since 18.92 he has 
been Roman Catholic bishop of Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 


McDOUGALL, WALTER HUGH, art¬ 
ist, author, was born Feb. 10, 1858, in 
Newark, N. J. He introduced the il¬ 
lustration of news and cartooning in the 
daily newspaper. He is the author of The 
Hidden City; and other works. 

Mcelroy, mrs. mary Arthur, was 

born in 1842, in Greenwich, N. Y. She 
is the sister ci Chester A. Arthur. In 
1861 she married John E. McElroy of Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. During the administration 
of her brother as president of the United 
States she made her home in Washing¬ 
ton in the winter season, and dispensed 
the hospitalities of the White House with 
rare social tact. 

McELROY, WILLIAM H., journalist, 
lecturer, author, was born in Albany, N. 
Y. He is a lecturer on literary, educa¬ 
tional and other topics. He is the author 
of Matthew Middlemas’ Experiment; and 
An Overture to William Tell. 

McFARLAND, MRS. AMANDA R., mis¬ 
sionary. was born about 1837. In 1857 
she married David F. McFarland, a Pres¬ 
byterian clergyman, and in 1867 removed 
to Santa Fe to engage in mission work 
in New Mexico. Here she organized and 
conducted a successful mission-school 
among Mexican children. In 1873 they 
removed to California and established an 
academy at San Diego; and in 1875 they 
conducted missions among the Nez Perces 
Indians. After her husband's death in 
1876 his wife removed to Portland, Ore., 
and in 1877 took charge of a school at 
Fort Wrangell, Alaska. Her efforts re¬ 
sulted in the establishment of a training- 
school for Alaskan girls which is called 
The McFarland Home of which institution 
she now has charge. 

McFarland, Joseph, bacteriologist, 
author, was born Feb., in 1868, in Phila¬ 
delphia. Pa. He is professor of pathol¬ 
ogy and bacteriology in Medico-Chirurg. 
college of Philadelphia. Pa. He is the 
author of Pathogenic Bacteria. 

McFARLAND. THOMAS B„ lawyer, 
jurist. He is associate justice of the 
supreme court of California. 

McFAUL, JAMES AUGUSTINE, clergy¬ 
man. bishop, was born June 6, 1850, in 
Ireland. Since 1894 he has been Roman 
Catholic bishop of Trenton. N. J. 

McGAVICK. ALEXANDER, clergyman, 
bishop. Since 1899 he has been Roman 
Catholic bishop of Chicago, Ill. 

McGEE. MRS. ANITA NEWCOMB, phy¬ 
sician, was born Nov. 4, 1864. in Washing¬ 
ton. D. C. In 1888 she married W. J. 
McGee, ethnologist in charge of the 
Washington bureau of American ethnol¬ 
ogy. She practiced medicine in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C.; and was director of the 
Daughters of the American revolution 
hospital corps, which selected the trained 
women nurses for both the army and 
navy service in the war with Spain. In 
1898 she was appointed acting assistant 
surgeon in the United States army; and 
is the only voman possessing an army 
commission. She is stationed in the 
surgeon-general’s office, in charge of 
nurses. 

McGILL, DAVID FRAZIER, clergyman, 
author, was born March 22. 1857, in West 
Alexander, Pa. Since 1885 he has bem 
pastor of the Sixth United Presbyterian 
church of Allegheny. Pa. Since 1891 he 
has been associate editor of the United 
Presbyterian. He is the author of The 
Young Christian in Prayer; and Sugges¬ 
tions for Committees. 

McGILL, JOHN THOMAS, chemist, au¬ 
thor. was born Oct. 13. 1851, in Monroe 


county, Tenn. Since 1900 he has been 
professor of organic and physical chem¬ 
istry and dean of the department of phar¬ 
macy in Vanderbilt university. He is 
the author of Introduction to Qualitative 
Chemical Analysis; and Laboratory Ex¬ 
periments in General Chemistry. 

McGINNIS, GEORGE FRANCIS, sol¬ 
dier, was born March 19, 1826, in Boston, 
Mass. He served during the Mexican 
war as captain of Ohio volunteers; in the 
civil war as lieutenant-colonel and colonel 
of the eleventh Indiana infantry; and 
was promoted brigadier-general of vol¬ 
unteers in 1862. 

McGOLRICK, JAMES, clergyman, bish¬ 
op, was born in 1844 in Ireland. Since 
1889 he has been first Roman Catholic 
bishop of Duluth, Minn. 

McGONIGLE, THOMAS GEORGE, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Dec. 1, 1857, in Ireland. 
He is an Episcopal clergyman of Ham¬ 
mond, lnd.; and a well known theological 
writer. 

McGOVERN, JOHN, author, poet, was 
born Feb. 18, 1850, in Troy, N. Y. For 
sixteen years he was compositor, proof¬ 
reader and night editor of the Chicago 
Tribune; and has been engaged in literary 
work. He is the author of Empire of In¬ 
formation; Golden Censer; Toiler's Dia¬ 
dem; Pastoral Poem; Daniel Trent¬ 
worthy; Burritt Durand; David Lockwin-, 
Geoffrey; King Darwin; Jason Hortner; 
Golden Legacy; Fireside University; The 
Dream City; Famous Women of the 
World; American Statesmen; and His¬ 
tories of Wheat, Money, Paint and Mark¬ 
et Places. 

McGREGORY, JOSEPH FRANK, chem¬ 
ist, author, was born April 11, 1855, in 
Wilbraham, Mass. Since 1884 he has 
been professor of chemistry and miner¬ 
alogy in Colgate university of Hamilton, 
N. Y. He is the author of Lecture Notes 
on General Chemistry; and Qualitative 
Analysis. 

McHENRY, MARY, philanthropist, was 
born in Philadelphia, Pa. She married 
J. Bellargee Cox of Philadelphia, Pa. She 
aided in founding the Church home in 
1856; the Soldiers’ reading room in 1862, 
which she aided in maintaining until the 
close of the civil war; the Lincoln in¬ 
stitution in 1865; and the Educational 
home in 1871; with all of which, except 
the second named, she is still connected, 
and has been active in fostering. Since 
1873 she has been president of the board 
of lady visitors of the Soldiers’ home, 
Philadelphia. She was appointed in 1876 
by the Centennial commission one of the 
thirteen women to represent the thirteen 
original states. 

McILVAINE, CHARLEg.. soluier, au¬ 
thor, was born May 31, 1840, in Chester 
county. Pa. During the civil war he 
attained the rank of ’major. He is the 
author of A Legend of Polecat Hollow; 
The Continent; and One Thousand Amer¬ 
ican Fungi. 

McINTOSH, BURR, playwright, author. 
He is the author 0 f The Little I Saw of 
Cuba; and Boy of the Twentieth. 

McIVER, HENRY, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Sept. 25, 1826, near Society 
Hill, S. C. In 1848 he began law practice 
at Cheraw, S. C.; was prosecuting attor¬ 
ney for the state in 1853-68; and in 1861- 
65 was an officer in the Confederate army. 
In 1877-91 he was associate justice, and 
since 1891 chief justice of the supreme 
court of South Carolina. 

McKEE, WILLIAM JAMES, soldier, 
merchant, was born Dec. 12, 1853, in Mad- 


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ADDENDA. 


ison, Ind. He has been identified with 
the national guard of Indiana in which 
he became brigadier-general. In 1898 
he was appointed brigadier-general in the 
United States volunteers; and served as 
commanding third brigade, first division, 
first army corp's, during the Spanish- 
American war. 

McKIBBIN, CHAMBERS, soldier, was 
born Nov. 2, 1841, in Chambersburg, Pa. 
During the civil war he attained the rank 
of captain. In 1898 he was made brig¬ 
adier-general of United States volunteers, 
and assigned to command the first brig¬ 
ade, first division, second corps. He 
took part in the battle of Santiago; and 
was appointed military governor of San¬ 
tiago de Cuba. 

McKIM, JOHN, missionary, bishop, was 
born in Pittsfield, Mass. Since 1898 ne 
has been bishop of Tokyo, Japan. 

McKINLEY, CARLYLE, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 22, 1857, in Newnan, 
Ga. Since 1884 he has been editorial 
writer on Charleston News and Courier. 

McKINLEY, RUSSELL AUSTIN, cler¬ 
gyman, lecturer, author, was bora Nor. 
19, 1847, in Franklin, Pa. Since 1895 he 
has filled a pastorate in Steubenville, 
Ohio. He is prominent in the affairs of 
his church; a popular lecturer; and the 
author of a published work. 

McKINNEY, MRS. IDA SCOTT TAY¬ 
LOR, composer, poet, author, was born in 
Springfield, Ill. She studied music and 
painting. She married William E. Mc¬ 
Kinney, of Jacksonville, Ill. She is the 
author of Story of Columbus Told in 
Rhyme; Baby’s Journal; Year Book of 
American Authors; and Year Book of 
English Authors. 

McKINNEY, MRS. KATE SLAUGHT¬ 
ER, author, poet, was born Feb. 6, 1857, 
in London, Ky. She is the wife of James 
I. McKinney, superintendent of L. & N. 
railroad. She is the author of Katydid’s 
Poems. 

McKOWEN, JOHN CLAY, soldier, phy¬ 
sician, antiquarian, author, was born in 
March, 1842, in Jackson, La. He served 
in the Confederate army to lieutenant-col 
onel. He has a noted collection of arms, 
curious, pictures, books, antique statues, 
marbles and inscriptions. He discovered 
new disease and remedy; and published 
discovery under title Aromatic Toxins. 
He is the author of Capri, historical, arch¬ 
aeological and ethnological study. 

McLAIN, FRANK ALEXANDER, law¬ 
yer, legislator, congressman, was bora 
Jan. 29, 1853, in Amite county, Miss. In 
1880 he commenced the practice of law 
in Liberty. Miss.; was a member of the 
state legislature in 1881-83; and district 
attorney for his judicial district in 1883- 
95. He was a member of the fifty-sixth 
congress to fill a vacancy; and was re¬ 
elected to the fifty-seventh congress. 

McLAUGHLIN, HUGH, public official, 
was born April 2, 1827, in Brooklyn, N. 
Y. In 1857 he accepted the position of 
master mechanic, or general superintend¬ 
ent of all the workmen, in the Brooklyn 
navy yard. In 1860 he was a candidate 
for sheriff of Kings county and was de¬ 
feated. In 1861 he was elected register 
of the county, and he was subsequently 
twice re-elected. It was largely due to 
his untiring efforts that the Brooklyn 
bridge and Prospect park became accom¬ 
plished facts. • 

McLAUGHLIN, MARY LOUISE, artist, 
author, was bora in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
She began making porcelain called Losan- 
ti ware, and exhibited in the Paris expo¬ 


sition. She is the author of China Paint¬ 
ing; Pottery Decoration; and Suggestions 
to China Painters. 

McLEAN, GEORGE P., governor. In 
1901-03 he was governor of Connecticut. 

McLEAN, JOHN, missionary, author, 
was born Oct. 30, 1852, in Scotland. In 
1874-89 he did special work among the 
Blackfoot Indians in Fort MacLeod, 
Northwest Territory. In 1889 he left the 
Indian work and served at various sta¬ 
tions in the Northwest Territory, where 
he acted as inspector of schools and as 
member of the board of education and 
board of examiners. He is the author of 
American Indian Literature; The Cree 
Language; and Indian Languages and Lit¬ 
erature. 

McLEAN, NATHANIEL COLLINS, sol¬ 
dier, was born Feb. 2, 1815, in Warren 
county, Ohio. He married a daughter of 
Judge Jacob Burnet in 1838 and began 
practice in Cincinnati, where he attained 
success at the bar. He entered the Union 
army in 1862 as colonel of the seventy- 
fifth Ohio volunteers; and was soon com¬ 
missioned brigadier-general. 

McLEAN, SIMON JAMES, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born June 14, 1871, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Since 1897 he has been professor 
of economics and sociology in University 
of Arkansas. He is the author of Tar¬ 
iff History ui Canada. 

McLELLAN, C. M. S., dramatist, author, 
was born Sept. 4, 1865, in Bath, Maine. 
He is the author of plays entitled Puritan- 
ia; The Lady Slavy; In Gay New York; 
The Whirl of the Town; An American 
Beauty; The Belle of New York; The Tel¬ 
ephone Girl; and Yankee Doodle Dandy. 

McLEOD, ARCHIBALD LORENZO, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 27, 1859, 
in Jackson, Miss. He is a lawyer of 
Selma, Ala.; was a member of the Ala¬ 
bama legislature in 1888-89; and mayor 
or Selma in 1889-1901. 

McMAHAN, MRS. ANNA BENNESON, 
lecturer, author, was born July 24, 1846, 
in Quincy, Ill. She is the author of The 
Study Class; and A Guide to the Student 
of English Literature. 

McMANUS, BLANCHE—Mrs. M. F. 
Mansfield—illustrator, artist, author, 
was born in Louisiana. She made twelve 
color illustrations for Kipling’s Ballads 
and Ditties; poster designs; and illustrat¬ 
or on books and magazines. She is the 
author of The True Mother Goose; Child¬ 
hood’s Songs of Long Ago; and Colonial 
Monographs, in five volumes. 

McMICHAEL, CLAYTON, soldier, pub¬ 
lic official, was bora June 30, 1844, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1862 he was com¬ 
missioned second lieutenant in the United 
States army. He resigned in 1865 with 
the brevet rank of major in the regular 
army. In 1872 he was appointed commis¬ 
sioner of the International exposition at 
Vienna; and in 1882 became United States 
marshal for the District of Columbia. 

McMILLAN, CHARLES, engineer, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, was born March 24, 1841, 
in Moscow, Russia. Adopting civil en 
gineering he aided in building the new 
reservoir in Central park, New York city. 
He was professor geodesy and topograph¬ 
ical drawing in Rensselaer polytechnic in 
stitute in 1865; and later added the in¬ 
struction in road engineering to his du¬ 
ties. In 1875 he became professor of 
civil engineering and applied mathematics 
in Princeton; and consulting engineer in 
Troy, N. Y., Bethlehem, Pa., and Prince¬ 
ton, N. J. Since 1885 he has been the 
editor of Smith’s Topographical Drawing 


McMURRICH, JAMES PLAYFAIR, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Oct. 16, 1869, 
in Canada. He is professor of anatomy 
in the university of Michigan. He is 
the author of Invertebrate Morphology, a 
text book. 

McMURRY, CHARLES ALEXANDER, 
educator, author, was Dorn Feb. 18, 
1857, in Crawfordsville, Ind. He is the 
author of Special Method in Literature 
and History; Special Method in Geogra¬ 
phy; Special Method in Natural Science; 
Pioneer History Series; and Course of 
Study in the English Grades. 

McNAIR, ANTOINE REILHE, naval 
officer, was born Sept. 15, 1839, in Louis¬ 
iana. In 1862 he was promoted lieuten¬ 
ant; and engaged in the attack on Fort 
Sumter and the defences of Charleston, 
the capture of the batteries on Morris 
Island, in the capture of Fort Fisher, 
and other minor engagements on the At¬ 
lantic seaboard. In July, 1866, he was 
promoted lieutenant-commander. He was 
then appointed equipment-officer and in¬ 
spector of supplies of the Norfolk navy- 
yard, but was retired in 1872, in conse¬ 
quence of an injury that he received in 
the West Indies in 1868. 

McNEILL, GEORGE EDWIN, organiz¬ 
er, author, was born Aug. 4, 1837, in 
Amesbury, Mass. In 1867-69 he was the 
founder and president of the Working¬ 
men’s Institute; in 1869-73 was president 
of the Boston Eight-hour League. He 
is the author of The Labor Movement the 
Problem of a Day; History of Co-Upera- 
tion in Massachusetts; History of the De¬ 
velopment of the Shoe Industry; History 
of Shoemakers’ Unions; and Eight-Hour 
Primer. 

McPHERSON, JOHN BAYARD, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Nov. 5, 1846, in Harris¬ 
burg, Pa. In 1882-99 he was common 
pleas judge; and since 1899 has been 
United States judge for the eastern dis¬ 
trict of Pennsylvania. 

McPHERSON, JOHN HANSON THOM¬ 
AS, educator, author, was born Oct. 30, 
1865, in Baltimore, Md. Since 1891 he 
has been professor of history and political 
science in University of Georgia. He is 
the author of A History of Liberia; and 
The Civil Government of Georgia. 

McPHERSON, LOGAN GRANT, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Aug. 11, 1863, in 
Circleville. Ohio. He is the author of 
The Meaning of Corporations and Trusts; 
and The Monetary and Banking Problem. 

McPHERSON, SMITH, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman. was born Feb. 14, 1848, in Mor¬ 
gan county, Ind. Since 1870 he has prac¬ 
ticed law in Red Oak, Iowa; in 1874-80 
was district attorney of third district of 
Iowa; and in 1884-85 was attorney-gen¬ 
eral of Iowa. He was elected to the 
fifty-sixth congress as a republican. 

McSHERRYL JAMES, lawyer, jurist. 
He is chief justice of Maryland court of 
appeals. 

McSWEENEY, MILES BENJAMIN, 
governor, was born in Charleston, S. C. 
In 1899-1901 he was governor of South 
Carolina. 

McVICKAR. WILLIAM NEILSON, cler¬ 
gyman, bishop. Since 1898 he has been 
coadjutor Protestant Episcopal bishop of 
Rhode Island. 

McWHINNEY, THOMAS MARTIN, 
theologian, author. He is now non-res¬ 
ident professor of Christian ethics and 
psychology. He is the author of Heav¬ 
enly Recognition; Reason and Revela¬ 
tion; Crime Legalized; Eighth Wonder- 
Ethical Science; and Christ Our Creed. 


ADDENDA. 


Ixxiii 


MEAD, GEORGE WHITEFIELD, cler¬ 
gyman. author, was born May 27, 1865 in 
Norwalk, Ohio. Since 1898 he has been 
pastor of the First Presbyterian church 
of New York city. He is the author of 
Modern Methods in Church Work. 

MEAD, OLIVE, musician, composer 
was born Nov. 22, 1874, in Cambridge.’ 
Mass. He is a talented concert-violin¬ 
ist; and has played in many concerts 
in New England cities. 

MEAD, WILLIAM LEON, journalist, 
author, poet, was born April 27 1861 in 
Margaretville, N. Y. He has been asso¬ 
ciate^ editor of Truth; and editor of Tom 
Nast’s Weekly and Form Magazine. He 
is the author of In Thraldom, a Pshycho- 
logical Romance; Catherine’s Coquetries; 
Valentine; The Bow-Legged Ghost, and 
Other Stories; and Wild Cat Ledge 
MEAD, WILLIAM RUTHERFORD, ar¬ 
chitect, was born Aug. 20, 1846. in Brattle- 
boro, Vt. His firm were the architects 
of Columbia university, university of City 
of New York, university of Virginia. Bos¬ 
ton Public library, Metropolitan univer¬ 
sity and Century clubs, and private 
houses of Villard, Vanderbilt and Tiffany 
MEADE, RICHARD KIDDER, chemist, 
author, was born Nov. 28. 1874, in Char¬ 
lottesville, Va. Since 1897 he has been 
professor of chemistry in Lafayette col¬ 
lege of Easton, Pa. He is the author 
or the Chemists’ Pocket Manual. 

MEARS, DAVID OTIS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 22, 1842, in Essex, 
Mass. Since 1895 he has been pastor of 
Fourth Presbyterian church of Albany, N. 
Y. He is the author of Life of Edward 
Norris Kirk; and The Deathless Book. 

MEARS, LEVERETT, educator, author 
was born May 19, 1850, in Essex, Mats.' 
Since 1888 he has been professor of chem¬ 
istry in Williams college. He is the au¬ 
thor of Lecture Notes on Chemistry; and 
Qualitative Analysis. 

MEARS, MARY M., author, was born 
Jan. 2, 1871, in Oshkosh, Wis. She 

is the author of Emma Lou. Her Book. 

MECHEM, FLOYD RUSSELL, lawyer, 
author, was born May 9, 1858, in Nunda. 
N. Y. Since 1892 he has been Tappan 
professor of law in University of Michi¬ 
gan. He is the author of Cases in Agen¬ 
cy; Cases on Partnership; Cases on Dam¬ 
ages; and other legal works. 

MEEK. EDWARD R., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Dec. 23, 1865, in Davenport, 
Iowa. Since 1898 he has been United 
States district judge for the Northern 
district of Texas. 

MEEKINS, LYNN ROBY, journalist, 
author, was born Nov. 14, 1862, in Salem. 
Md. Since 1899 he has been managing 
editor of the Saturday Evening Rost ot 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author ot 
The Robb’s Island Wreck; and Some of 
Our People. 

MEERSCHAERT. THEOPHILE, cler¬ 
gyman, bishop, was born Aug. 24, 1847, 
in Belgium. In 1891 he was appointed 
first vicar apostolic of the Indian Terri¬ 
tory, comprising Oklahoma and Indian' 
Territories, with the title of bishop of 
Sidyma. 

MEES, ARTHUR, musician, composer, 
was born Feb. 13, 1850, in Columbus, 
Ohio. Since 1896 he has been chorus- 
conductor and assistant-conductor of the 
Thomas orchestra in Chicago, Ill. He 
is the author of Piano Studies. 

MEES, THEOPHILUS MARTIN, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was boru July 
13, 1848, in Columbus, Ohio. In 1874 he 
became a Lutheran minister. Since 1888 


he has been president of the Teachers’ 
Seminary of Woodville, Ohio. He is the 
author of School Government and Meth¬ 
ods. 

MEIGS, ARTHUR VINCENT, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1850 in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is the author of Milk 
Analysis and Infant Feeding; and The 
Origin of Disease. 

MEIGS, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, 
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 12, 1852, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author 
of Life of Josiah Meigs; and Life ot 
Charles Jared Ingersoll. 

MELL, PATRICK HUES, geologist, 
botanist, meteorologist, author, was born 
May 24, 1850, in Penfield, Ga. Since 
1878 he has been professor of geology and 
botany in Alabama Polytechnic Institute. 
He is the author of Auriferous Slate De¬ 
posits Southern Region; Southern Soap¬ 
stones and Fireclays; Wild Grasses of 
Alabama; Microscopic Study of Cotton 
Plant; Climatology of Alabama; Climat¬ 
ology of Cotton Plant; Improvement of 
Cotton Plant by Crossing; and Botanical 
Laboratory Guide. 

MELLEN, CHARLES SANGER, was 
born Aug. 16, 1851, in Lowell, Mass. Since 
1896 he has been president of the North¬ 
ern Pacific railway; and since 1897 presi¬ 
dent of the Seattle and International rail¬ 
way, and Washington and Columbia River 
railway. 

MELVILLE, HENRY, soldier, lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 25, 1858, in Nelson, 
N. H. He was associated with United 
States senator Roscoe Conkling until the 
latter’s death. In 1898 he was captain of 
Company A in the eighth regiment of the 
New York volunteers in service during 
the war with Spain. He is the author of 
Ancestry of John Whitney. 

MENDES, FREDERICK DE SOLA, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born July 8, 1850, in 
West Indies. Since 1874 he has been rab¬ 
bi of West End Synagogue of New York 
city. In 1879 he founded the American 
Hebrew. He is the author of Jewish 
School Books; Child’s First Bible; Out¬ 
lines of Scripture History; and A He¬ 
brew’s Reply to the Missionaries. 

MERCER, ALFRED CLIFFORD, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born July 5, 1855, in 
Syracuse, N. Y. Since 1893 he has been 
professor of clinical pediatrics in Syracuse 
university. He is the author of An Ex¬ 
perimental Study of Aperture as a Factor 
in Microscopic Vision. 

MERCER, HENRY CHAPMAN, anthro¬ 
pologist, archaeologist, author, was born 
June 24, 1856, in Doylestown, Pa. He is 
now curator and secretary of American 
and prehistoric archaeology in University 
of Pennsylvania. He is the author of 
Hill Caves of Yucatan; Lenape Stone; 
Antiquity of Man ; and Tools of the Na¬ 
tion Maker. 

MERINGTON, MARGUERITE, play¬ 
wright, author. She is the author of 
Daphne; Captain Letterblair; and Love 
Finds the Way. 

MERIWETHER, COLYER, educator, 
author, was born at Clark’s Hill, S. C. 
He is secretary and treasurer of the 
Southern Historical association of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He is the author of His¬ 
tory of Higher Education in South Caro¬ 
lina. 

MERRIAM, FLORENCE AUGUSTA 
author, was born Aug. 8, 1863, at Locust 
Grove, N. Y. She is the author of Birds 
Through an Opera Glass; My Summer in 
a Mormon Village; A Binding on a Bron¬ 
co; and Birds of Village-and Field. 


MERRIAM, HENRY C., soldier, in¬ 
ventor, was born Nov. 13, 1837, in Maine. 
In 1897 he became brigadier-general in 
the United States army; and major-gen¬ 
eral of United States volunteers in 1898. 
He is the inventor of the Merriam in¬ 
fantry pack. 

MERRILL, CYRUS STRONG, oculist, 
was born Sept. 21, 1847, in Bridgeport, 
Vt. In 1874 he settled in Albany, N. V.; 
became ophthalmic and aural surgeon to 
St Peter’s hospital and to the Child’s hos¬ 
pital; ophthalmic and aural surgeon to 
the Albany hospital; and professor of the 
diseases of the eye and ear in Albany 
medical college. 

MERRILL, GEORGE A..merchant,state 
senator, was born in Plymouth, N. H. 
In 1849-54 he was master of transporta¬ 
tion; and in 1855-60 superintendent of the 
Connecticut and Passumsic Rivers rail¬ 
way company, St. Johnsbury, Vt. He was 
a member of the Vermont state legislature 
in 1857-58; secretary of civil and military 
affairs of Vermont in 1860-61. In 1869-70 
he was a member of the state senate of 
Vermont. 

MERRILL, GEORGE EDMANDS, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, author, was 
born Dec. 19, 1846, in Charlestown, Mass. 
Since 1899 he has been president of the 
Colgate university of Hamilton, N. f. 
He is the author of The Story of the Man¬ 
uscripts; Crusaders and Captives; The 
Reasonable Christ; and The Parchments 
of the Faith. 

MERRILL, JAMES GRISWOLD, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, author, was 
born Oct. 20, 1840, in Montague, Mass. He 
is acting president of Fisk university ot 
Nashville, Tenn. He is the author oi 
Two Volumes of Children’s Sermons. 

MERRIMAN, MRS. HELEN BIGELOW, 
artist, author, was Dorn July 14, 1844, 
in Boston, Mass. She is the author oi 
What Shall Make Us Whole. 

MERRIMAN, TITUS MOONEY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 23, 1822, 
in Canada. In 1864-95 he was professor 
in La Salle seminary of Auburndale, 
Mass. He is the author of Trial of His¬ 
tory; Historical System; and William, 
Prince of Orange. 

MERRITT, EDWIN ATKINS, soldier, 
civil engineer, legislator, diplomat, was 
born Feb. 26, 1828, in Sudbury, Vt. He 
moved to New York in 1841 and after 
holding local offices he was elected to 
the lower branch of the legislature as 
a republican in 1859, and re-elected ;n 
1860. At the beginning of the civil war 
he became quartermaster of the sixtieth 
New York regiment. He was made quar¬ 
termaster-general of the state of New 
York; and he superintended the Soldiers' 
home in New York city. In 1869-70 ne 
was naval officer of the port of New 
York. In 1877 he became surveyor ot 
the port of New York; and in 1878 lie 
was appointed collector in place ot 
Chester A. Arthur. He was United 
States consul-general in London in 1881- 
85. 

MERRY, WILLIAM LAWRENCE, mer¬ 
chant, diplomat, author, was born in 1842. 
in New York city. Since 1897 he nas 
been United States minister to Nicar¬ 
agua, Salvador and Costa Rica. He was 
a commander of steamships on Atlantic 
and Pacific oceans in California trade 
under the American flag. He is the 
author of The Nicaragua Canal the Gate¬ 
way Between the Oceans. 

MERWIN, HENRY CHTLD3 lawyer, 
lecturer, author, was born Aug. 5, 1853, 
in Pittsfield, Mass. He is a lecturer in 


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Boston university Law school. He is 
the author of Patentability of Inventions; 
and Road, Track and Stable. 

MERWIN, SAMUEL, author, was born 
Oct. 6, 1874, in Evanston, Ill. He is 
the author of The Short Line War; and 
The Road to Frontenac. 

MESTREZAT, STEPHEN LESLIE, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 19, 1848, 
in Mapletown, Pa. In 1894-99 he was 
judge of the district court; and since 
1900 has been justice of tne supreme 
court «f Pennsylvania for twenty-one-year 
term. 

METCALF, VICTOR HOWARD, was 
born Oct. 10, 1853, in Utica, N. Y. In 
1876 he was admitted to practice in the 
supreme court of Connecticut; and in 
the supreme court of New York in 1377. 
He practiced law in Utica for two years, 
a.ud then moved to Oakland, Cal. He 
was elected to the titty-sixth congress 
from California as a republican. 

METCALFE, JAMES STETSON, crit¬ 
ic, author, was b'orn June 27, 1858, m 
Buffalo, N. Y. He is dramatic critic ot 
Life of New York City. He is the au¬ 
thor of Mythology for Moderns; and The 
American Slave. 

MEYERS, ROBERT C. V., author, poet, 
was born May 1, 1858, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is the author of Sixty t ears a 
Queen; The Colonel’s Christmas Morn¬ 
ing; and a number of poems. 

MICHAEL, ARTHUR, chemist, was 
born Aug. 7, 1853, in Bultalo, N. Y. Since 
1881 he has filled the chair of chemistry 
in Tufts college. His investigations in 
organic chemistry include researches on 
the dehydration of organic acid anhy¬ 
drides; on a new method of forming 
aromatic sulphones; on the formation of 
aldol from ethyl aldehyde; synthetical 
researches in the glucoside group; on the 
action of aldehydes on phenols; on the 
action of aromatic oxyacides on phenols; 
on the action of phosphorus pentachlor- 
ide on the ethers of organic acids; on 
alloisomerism; and some new reactions 
with sodium malonic ether and analogous 
derivatives. 

MICHAELS, RICHARD C., journalist, 
publisher, author, was born Sept. 1, 1839, 
in Germany. In 1871 he founded and 
has since been editor and publisher of 
the Chicago Freie Pressc. He is the 
author of Looking Further Forward, An 
Answer to Bellamy’s Looking Backward. 

MICHAUD, JOHN STEPHEN, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born Nov. 24, 1843, m 
Burlington, Vt. Since 1892 he has been 
Roman Catholic bishop of Burlington, Vt. 

MIFFLIN, LLOYD, artist, author, was 
born Sept. 15, 1846, in Columbia, Pa. He 
is the author of The Hills; At the Gates 
of Song; and The Slopes of Helicon and 
Other Poems. 

MILBURN, GEORGE ROSZELLE, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Nov. 15, 1850, in 
Washington, D. C. In 1889 he was dis¬ 
trict judge of the seventh district of 
Montana; and since 1901 he has been as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court ot 
Montana. 

MILES, EVAN, soldier, was born in 
Pennsylvania. He entered the navy in 
1861 as first lieutenant; and became cap¬ 
tain in 1866. He was appointed brigadier- 
general in United States volunteers for 
service in the Spanish-American war. 

MILLARD, HARRISON, musician com¬ 
poser, w r as born Nov. 27, 1830. in Boston, 
Mass. He is a tenor concert-singer; and 
toured Great Britain with Catherine 
Hayes. In 1865 he settled in New' York 
city as a singer, composer and vocal in¬ 
structor. He is the author of the four- 


act Italian opera Deborah; Grand Mass; 
Church-services; and published over 
three hundred songs. 

MILLARD, JOSEPH H., banker, United 
States senator, was born in 1836, in Can¬ 
ada. He was the founder and president 
of Omaha National bank; and was tor 
many years a director of the Union Pa 
cific railway. He was elected United 
States senator from Nebraska for term 
of 1901-07. 

MILLER, ALFRED BRASHEAR, col¬ 
lege president, scientist, author, was Dorn 
Oct. 16, 1829, in Brownsville, Pa. He 
is president emeritus of vVaynesburg 
college, Pa.; of w^en he was president 
in 1858-99. He is the author of Doctrines 
and Genius of the Cumberlana Presby¬ 
terian Church. 

MILLER, CHARLES ARMAND, cler¬ 
gyman, author, poet, was born March i, 
1864, in Shepherdstown, W. Va. In 1888- 
96 he was pastor of the College Church 
or Roanoke, and since 1896 has been 
pastor of the Church of Holy Trinity of 
New York city. He is the author of An 
Astra and Other Verses on Sacred 
Themes; and The Way of the Cross. 

MILLER, EDMUND HOv7D, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 12, 1869, in Fair- 
field, Conn. Since 1901 he has been 
adjutant professor of analytical chemistry 
and assaying in Columbia university or 
New York city. He is the author of 
Notes on Assaying; and Calculations of 
Analytical Chemistry. 

MILLER, JAMES MONROE, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born in 
Three Springs, Pa. In 1880-82 and 1884- 
88 he was attorney for Morris county, 
Kan. In 1894 he was a member of the 
Kansas legislature. He was elected to the 
fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh congresses as 
a republican. 

MiLLER, JOHN, merchant, governor, 
was born Oct. 29, 1843, in Dryden, N. Y. 
He is a successful grain commission mer¬ 
chant of Duluth, Minn. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the territorial council of Dakota; 
and the first governor of the state of 
North Dakota, serving in 1889-91. 

MILLER, MARCUS P., soldier, was 
born in Massachusetts. He served 
through the civil war; and became colo¬ 
nel of artillery in 1897. In 1898 he was 
apnointed brigadier-general of United 
States Volunteers, 

MILLER, MERRILL, naval officer, w T as 
born in Ohio. During the civil war 
he attained the rank of lieutenant. in 
1900 he became a rear-admiral. 

MILLER, MRS. MAY HALSEY, lectur¬ 
er, author, was born July 2, 1865, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. She is a lecturer on 
history and economics. She is the au¬ 
thor of Raoui and Iron Hand, or Winning 
the Golden Spurs; and The Maid of Bo- 
casse. 

MILLER, SAMUEL LLEWELLYN, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, was born March 25, 1844, 
in Waldoboro, Maine. During tne civil 
war he served three years in the army. 
For twenty-two years he has been post¬ 
master of his native town. He is the 
author of The Country Newspaper. 

MILLER, WAlTER, educator, author, 
was born May o, 1864, in Ashland county, 
Ohio. Since 1892 he has filled a profes¬ 
sorship in Stanford university. He is 
the author of Excavations Upon the Akro- 
polis at Athens; The Theatre of Thor- 
icus; Latin Prose Composition for Col¬ 
lege Use; Pronunciation of Greek and 
Latin Proper Names; Scientific Names ot 
Latin and Greek Derivation; The Roman 
Religion; The Old and New; and Stel- 
ler’s Great Sea Beasts. 


MILLETT, JOSHUA H., lawyer, manu¬ 
facturer. He is tne founder and presi¬ 
dent of the Crosby Steam Gauge and 
Valve company of Boston, Mass. 

MILLS, ALBERT LEOPOLD, soldier, 
was born May 7, J854, at Washington 
Heights, New Tork city. He served In 
the campaign against the Sioux Indians 
in 1891 and in other Indian wars; and tor 
four years he was adjutant of his regi¬ 
ment. At the outbreak of the war with 
Spain he was appointed captain and as¬ 
sistant adjutant-general; and was made 
chief of staff to Gen. Young’s brigade. 
At the battle of San Juan, on July 1, ne 
was severely wounded, a ball entering 
his left cheek-bone and making its exit 
at the outer angle of his right eye. He 
was then ordered to Washington, and in 
1898 was appointed superintendent ot 
the United States military academy at 
West Point, N. Y., with rank and emolu¬ 
ments of colonel. 

MILLS, ANSON, soldier, inventor, was 
born Aug. 31, 1834, in Boone county, lnd. 
During the civil war ne was never ab¬ 
sent, either on leave or from sickness, 
but was present in all engagements of his 
regiment; and attained the rank of brig¬ 
adier-general. He participated in most 
of the Indian wars; commanding United 
States troops at the battle of Slim Butts 
in 1876. He invented the woven cart¬ 
ridge belt and loom for its manufacture 
now exclusively used in the United States 
army and navy. Since 1893 he has been 
a member of the Mexican Boundary com¬ 
mission. 

MILLS, BENJAMIN FAY, clergyman, 
author, was born June 4, 1857, in Rah¬ 
way, N. J. Since 1897 he has been pastor 
of the independent congregation at Hollis 
Street Theatre of Boston, Mass. He is 
the author of Power From on High; A 
Message to Mothers; a.ud Victory 
Through Surrender. 

MILLS. HERBERT ELMER, educator, 
author, was born Aug. 8, 1861, in Salem, 
N. H. Since 1890 he has been professor 
of economics in Vassar college. He is 
the author of French Revolution in San 
Domingo; Practical Economic Problems; 
and Labor Problem. 

MILLS, WILLIAM JOSEPH, lawyei, 
legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 11, 1849, 
in Yazoo city, Miss. Since 1898 he has 
been chief justice of the supreme court 
of New Mexico. He has been a member 
of both branches of the Connecticut leg¬ 
islature. 

MILLSPAUGH, CHARLES FREDERIC, 
botanist, author, was born June 20, 1854, 
in Ithaca, N. Y. Since 1894 he has been 
curator in the department of botany in 
Field Columbian museum of Chicago, ill. 
He is the author of American Medical 
Plants; Weeds of West Virginia; and 
Flora of West Virginia. 

MILNE, JAMES M., educator, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1850 in Scotland. 
He has been an institute lecturer; pres¬ 
ident of the New York State Education¬ 
al Association; and is now lawyer ol 
Cortland, N. Y. He is the author of 
An English Grammar. 

MILVANE, JOHN R., banker, philanth¬ 
ropist, was born July 6, 1835, in New 
Comerstown, Ohio. He is president ot 
Bank of Topeka; president of Missouri 
and Kansas Telephone company; and a 
director in several large corporations. 

MINER, J. A., lawyer, jurist. He is 
associate justice of the supreme court of 
Utah. 

MINOR. THOMAS CHALMERS, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born July 6, 1846, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1878-79 he was 
health officer of Cincinnati, Ohio. He 



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is the author of Medicine in the Middle 
Ages; ana Medicine and Morals of An¬ 
cient Rome According to Latin Poets. 

MINSHALL, T. A., lawyer, jurist. He 
is associate justice of the supreme court 
of Ohio. 

MINTON, MAURICE M„ insurance, au¬ 
thor, was norn Jan. 31, 1859, in France, 
of American parents. In 1894-98 he was 
connected with Equitable Life Insurance 
society; and since 1899 has been conduct¬ 
ing Life Insurers’ Information Bureau. 
He is the author of The Road of the 
Rough; and Country Lanes and City 
Pavements. 

MINTY, ROBERT HORATIO GEORGE, 
soldier, was born Dec. 4 1831, m Ire¬ 

land. He came to the United States 
in 1853 and settled in Michigan. He be¬ 
came major of the second Michigan cav¬ 
alry and then lieutenant-colonel of the 
third at the beginning of the civil war. 
At the close of the war he received the 
brevets of brigadier-general and major- 
general of volunteers. 

MITCHELL, JOHN J., banker, was 
horn in 1854 in Alton, Ill. Since 1880 
he has been president of the Illinois 
Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago, Ill. 

MITCHELL, MARGARE, JULIA, ac¬ 
tress, was born 1832 in New York city. 
In 1851 she made a successful appearance 
as Julia in The Soldier’s Daughter. In 
1862 she introduced part of Fanchon 
at the Olympic theatre in New York 
•city; and she also appeared in Mig- 
non, Pearl of Savoy, Little Barefoot, and 
Jane Eyre. Since then she has traveled 
extensively through the United States as 
a star, under the management of Henry 
Paddock, whom she married in 1868. 

MITCHELL, STUART, cleryyman, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1825 in Bucks coun¬ 
ty, Pa. .During 1872-88 he tilled pastor¬ 
ate in the Presbyterian church of Blooms- 
burg, Pa.; and since 1888 has filled a pas¬ 
torate at Mount Carmel, Pa. He is the 
author of the Healing Spring; The 
Church, its Constitution and Govern¬ 
ment; and Jonah, the Self-Willed Prophet. 

MIXTER, WILLIAM, lawyer, merchant, 
state senator, was born April 5, 1809. 
He was a merchant for several years, m 
the store formerly occupied by his fath¬ 
er, from which he retired with a plenti¬ 
ful estate. He was a member of the 
Massachusetts state senate in 1857; and 
has been a justice of the peace since 
1845. 

MOELLER, HENRY, clergyman, bish¬ 
op, was b.orn Dec. 11, 1849, In Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. Since 1900 he has been a 
Roman Catholic bishop of Columbus, 
Ohio. 

MOFFETT, SAMUEL ERASMUS, 
journalist, author, was born Nov. 5, 1860, 
in St. Louis, Mo. He is the author of 
Tariff, What It is and What It Does; 
and Suggestions on Government. 

MOHR, CHARLES THEODORE, bot¬ 
anist, author, was born Dec. 28, 1824, in 
Germany. Since 1884 he has been bot¬ 
anist in the Geological Survey of Ala¬ 
bama. He is the author of The Timber 
Pines of the Southern United States; and 
Plant Life of Alabama. 

MOLDENKE, RICHARD GEORGE 
GOTTLOB, metallurgist, author, was born 
Nov. 1, 1864, in Watertown, Wis. He 
Is a consulting metallurgist of New York 
city. He is the author of Two Strings 
to His Bow; Bryan Maurice; and The 
Mocking Bird, a poem. 

MOLINEUX, MARIE ADA, lecturer, 
author, was born in California. She has 
lived in Boston from childhood. She 
is a bacteriologist, teacher of psychology: 


and a lecturer on literary, artistic and 
scientific topics. She is the author of 
A Phrase Book from the Poetic and Dra¬ 
matic Works of Rooert Browning. 

MOLLENHAUER, EMIL, musician, 
composer, was born Aug. 4, 1855, in 

Brooklyn, N. Y. He is a noted violinist; 
and assumed the conductorship of the 
Gremania and Boston Festival orchestras, 
touring the country every ydar with the 
latter with famous vocal and instrument¬ 
al soloists. In 1899 he was elected con¬ 
ductor of the Boston Handel and Haydn 
Society. 

MOMBERT, JACOB ISIDOR, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 6, 1829, m 
Germany. In 1859-70 he was rector at 
St. James churcfi of Lancaster, Pa. He 
is the author of Great Lives; Short His¬ 
tory of the Crusades; and other works. 

MONAGHAN,JOHN JAMES, clergyman, 
bishop, was born May 23. 1856, in Sumter,’ 
o. C. Since 1897 he has been Roman 
Catholic bishop of vVilmington, Del. 

MONFORT, JOSEPH GLASS, clergy¬ 
man, was born Dec. 9, 1810, in Warren 
county, Ohio. He was a founder and 
editor of the Louisville Presbyterian Her¬ 
ald in 1836-37. He has been trustee of 
Hanover college, Ind.; a director of the 
Theological seminary of the northwest; 
and a trustee of Lane theological semin¬ 
ary. 

MONKS, LEANDER JOHN, lawver, 
jurist, was born July 10, 1843, in Win¬ 
chester, Ind. In 1878-94 he was judge of 
circuit court; and since 1894 has been 
judge of the supreme court of Indiana. 

MONROE, FRANK ADAIR, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 30, 1844, in 
Annapolis, Md. Since 1899 he has been 
associate justice of the supreme court of 
Louisiana. 

MONTAGUE. ANDREW JACKSON, 
lawyer, was born Oct. 3, 1862, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was United States district 
attorney of western district of Virginia 
under the second Cleveland administra¬ 
tion; and attorney-general of Virginia 
in 1898-1902. 

MONTAGUE, ANDREW PHILIP, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was born 
Sept. 27, 1854, in Essex county, Va. Since 
1897 he has been president of Furman 
university. He is the author of Selected 
Letters of Cicero; and Selected Letters of 
Pliny. 

MONTGOMERY. EDWARD EMMET, 

' physician, author, was born May 15, 1849, 
in Newark, Ohio. He has been president 
of the Philadelphia Clinical society. He 
is the author of Practical Gynecology. 

MONTGOMERY, FRANK HUGH, pny- 
sician, author, was born Jan. 6, 1862, Hi 
Minnesota. He holds a professorship in 
Rush Medical college of Chicago, Ill. 
He is the author of A Practical Treatise 
on Diseases of the Skin. 

MONTGOMERY, GEORGE, clergyman, 
bishop, was born in Kentucky. Since 
1894 he has been Roman Catholic coad¬ 
jutor bishop of Los Angeles, Cal. 

MONTGOMERY, ROBERT M. law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born May 12, 1849, m 
Eaton Rapids, Mich. In 1890-1900 he 
was justice of the supreme court of Mich¬ 
igan. 

MONTGOMERY, W. A., lawyer, jurist. 
He is associate justice of the supreme 
court of North Carolina. 

MOODY, MRS. HELEN WATTERSON. 
author, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. 
She is the author of The Unquiet Sex. 

MOODY, JAMES H., congressman. He 
was elected a member of the fifty-seventh 
congress from North Carolina as a re¬ 
publican. 


MOODY, MALCOLM A., banker, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 30, 1854, in 
Brownsville, Oregon. He entered bus¬ 
iness at The Dalles with his father, Ze- 
nas F. Moody, ex-governor of Oregon, in 
1887 the mercantile business was merged 
into The Dalles National bank, of which 
he was elected cashier. In 1885-89 he 
was a member of the city council of The 
Dalles; and in 1889 was elected mayor, 
serving two terms. He was elected to 
the fifty-sixth congress from Oregon as 
a republican. 

MOODY, WILLIAM VAUGHN, educa¬ 
tor, author, poet, was born July 8, 1869, in 
Spencer, Ind. He is an instructor of Eng¬ 
lish literature in the University of Chi¬ 
cago. He is the author of The Masque of 
Judgment; and a volume of poems. 

MOORE, CHARLES, journalist, author, 
was born Oct. 20, 1855, in Ypsilanti, Mich. 
Since 1891 he has been clerk of the 
United States senate committee. He is 
the author of Charities of the District of 
Columbia; and The Northwest Under 
Three Flags. 

MOORE. CLARENCE BLOOMFIELD, 
archaeologist,, author, was born Jan. 14, 
1852, in Philadelpnia, Pa. He has trav¬ 
eled in nearly every part of Europe, in 
Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, Tur¬ 
key. He is the author oi Certain Sand 
Mounds of the St. Johns River, Florida; 
and Certain Sand Mounds of Duval Coun¬ 
ty, Florida. 

MOORE, EDWARD CHARLES, silver¬ 
smith, was born Aug. 30, 1827, in New 
York city. He learned the trade of sil- 
versmithing from his father, John C. 
Moore. He succeeded to the business in 
1854; and in 186 < transferred his silver 
works to Tiffany and company, of which 
he has since had charge. 

MOORE. EDWARD MOTT, surgeon, 
was born July 15, 1814, in Rahway, 'N. J. 
He has attained success in his profession 
in New Jersey; and contributed valuable 
papers to medical literature. 

MOORE, FRANK A., lawyer, jurist. 
He is associate justice of the supreme 
court of Oregon. 

MOORE, GEORGE FOOT, educator, 
author, was born Oct. 15, 1851, in West 
Chester, Pa. Since 1883 he has been 
professor of Hebrew in Andover Theolo¬ 
gical seminary, Mass. He is the author 
of Commentary on Judges; and other 
works on biblical literature. 

MOORE, JAMES E., surgeon, author, 
was born March 2, 1852, in Clarksville, 
Pa. In 1888 he gave up general practice 
to take up surgery as a specialty. He 
is the author of Moore’s Orthopaedic Sur¬ 
gery. 

MOORE, JAMES HOBART, lawyer, 
promoter, was born June 14, 1852, in 
Berkshire, N. Y. He located in Chicago 
in 1873. He was the promoter of large 
industrial corporations including Dia¬ 
mond Match, New York Biscuit, American 
Tin Plate, and other combinations of 
capital. 

MOORE, JAMES W., physician, edu¬ 
cator, was born June 14, 1844, in Easton, 

Pa. He is the author of The Elements 
of Natural Philosophy. 

MOORE, JOHN, surgeon, was born 
Aug. 16, 1826, in Indian He entered 
tne United States army as assistant sur¬ 
geon in 1853; served in Florida, in 
Utah expedition in 1857; in Cincinnati 
Marine hospital in 1861-62; was promoted 
surgeon in 1862; was medical director m 
Central Grind division of the Army of 
the Potomac in r862-63. He was with 
Sherman at Atlanta and march to the 


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sea; and attained the rank of brigadier- 
general. He was retired in 1899. 

MOORE, JOHN, clergyman, bishop, 
was born June 27, 1835, in Ireland. He 
has been Roman Catholic bishop of St. 
Augustine since 1877. 

MOORE, JOHN BASSETT, publicist, 
author, was born Dec. 3, 1860, in Smyrna, 
Del. In 1898 he was assistant sec¬ 
retary of state. He is the author or 
Extradition and Interstate Rendition; 
American Notes on the Conflict of Laws; 
and History and Digest of International 
Arbitrations, in six volumes. 

MOORE, JOHN C., soldier, educator, 
was born Feb. 28, 1824, in Hawkins coun¬ 
ty, Tenn. During the civil war ne at¬ 
tained the rank of brigadier-general in 
the Confederate service. He has since 
been engaged in educational work in Tex¬ 
as. 

MOORE, JOHN JAMISON, clergyman, 
bishop, was born Oct. 19, 1814, in Mar- 
tinsburg, Va. In 1839 he united with the 
Philadelphia conference of the African 
Methodist Episcopal Zion church. in 
1852 he went to California, where he es¬ 
tablished several churches and took an 
active part in contending for the rights 
of his race. He returned to the east 
in 1868; was elected bishop in that year; 
and undertook missions to England and 
to British America. He is the author 
of a pamphlet on Universalism; and his¬ 
tory of the African Methodist Episco¬ 
pal Zion Church of America. 

MOORE, JOHN LEVERETT. educator, 
author, was born June 6, 1859, in New 
York city. Since 1891 he has been 
professor of Latin at Vassar university. 
He is the author of Latin Prose Exer¬ 
cises. 

MOORE, JOHN TROTWOOD, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Aug. 26, 1858, m 
Marion, Ala. For ten years he taught 
school and edited papers; and then took 
up the rearing of fine stock on a stock 
farm near Columbia, Tenn. He is the 
author of Stories from Tennessee; and 
A Summer Hymnal, a Tennessee Ro¬ 
mance. 

MOORE, THOMAS JOSEPH, business 
man, poet, was born May 1, 1864, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is agent of American 
Strawboard company. He is the author 
of Elecampane, a volume of poems. 

MOORE. WILLIS LUTHER, meteorol¬ 
ogist, was born Jan. IS, 1856, in Scranton, 
Pa., but passed most of the time between 
birth and the age of nineteen at Bing¬ 
hamton, N. Y. In 1876 he entered the 
United States signal-corps, and ten years 
later was promoted to the grade of ob¬ 
server sergeant in recognition of ms 
skill in devising new mechanical appli¬ 
ances. During the next five years ne 
was employed as a meteorological clerk 
for making the synopsis charts for the 
study of official forecasters. On the or¬ 
ganization of the weather bureau on a 
civil basis in 1891, he was appointed local 
forecast official in charge of the meteor¬ 
ological office in Milwaukee. In 1893 
Mr. Moore entered an open competitive 
examination for the place of professor 
of meteorology in the United States 
weather bureau, and successfully defeat¬ 
ed twenty-three contestants. On ac¬ 
count of his demonstrated ability as a 
forecaster he became official for the up¬ 
per lakes with headquarters in Chicago, 
where he remained until July, 1895, when 
without effort by himself or friends, Pres¬ 
ident Cleveland recognized his scientific 
attainments and executive ability by ap¬ 
pointing him chief of the weather bu¬ 
reau in Washington, which office he now 
occupies. 


MORA, FRANCIS, clergyman, bishop, 
was born Nov. 25, 1827, m Spain. m 
1854 he volunteered for the California 
mission under Bishop Amat, by whom 
he was ordained in 1856; and was ap¬ 
pointed to the pro-cathedrai of Los An¬ 
geles in 1863. In 1865 he was appointed 
vicar-general of the diocese; in 1873 was 
consecrated bishop of Mossinopolis ana 
coadjutor of Bishop Amat with the right 
of succession. On the death of the pre¬ 
late in 1878 he succeeded to the see of 
Monterey and Los Angeles. 

MOREHOUSE, GEORGE READ, phy¬ 
sician, was born March 25, 1829, in Mount 
Holly, N. J. In 1862-65 he was acting- 
assistant surgeon in charge of the special 
hospitals for nervous diseases in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is the author of Re¬ 
searches on the Anatomy and Physiology 
of Respiration in the Chelonia; and Gun¬ 
shot Wounds and Other Injuries of the 
Nerves. 

MORELAND, WILLIAM HALL, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 9, 1861, 
in Charleston, S. C. Since 1899 he has 
been Protestant Episcopal bishop of Sac¬ 
ramento, Cal. He is the author of What 
Is Christianity; and The Church or the 
Churches, Which? 

MORGAN, ANNIE EUGENIA FELICIA, 
educator, author, was horn Oct. 3, 1845, 
in Oberlin, Ohio. Since 1878 she has 
been professor of philosophy in Welles¬ 
ley college, Mass. She is the author 
of Scripture Studies on the Origin and 
Destiny of Man; and The White Lady. 

MORGAN, CAROLINE STARR, author, 
was born April 15, 1859, in Houndsvilie, 
N. Y. She is associated with her hus¬ 
band in literary work. She is the author 
of Ways That Win; Esther Lawrence; 
Charlotte’s Revenge; Marmarduke Multi¬ 
ply Stories; and numerous short stories 
for children. 

MORGAN, DAVID E., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 8, 1849, in Coalport, Ohio. 
In 1885-1901 he was judge of the district 
court. Since 1901 he has been judge of 
the supreme court of North Dakota. 

MORGAN, GEORGE, journalist, author, 
was born Oct. 10, 1854, in Concord, Dei. 
He is on the editorial staff of the Phila¬ 
delphia Times. He is the author of 
John Littlejohn. 

MORGAN, HARRIET, author. She is 
the author of The Sand Man; and The 
Island Impossible. 

MORGAN, JOHN PiERPONT, banker, 
was born April 17, r837, in Hartford, 
Conn. In 1871 he became a member of 
tne firm of Drexel, Morgan and Company, 
now J. P. Morgan and Company, leading 
private bankers of the United States. He 
has been prominent in the largest re¬ 
organizations of railroad and industrial 
consolidations of recent years. 

MORGAN. JOHN LIVINGSTON RUT¬ 
GERS, chemist, author, was born June 
27, 1872, in New Brunswick, N. J. Since 
1901 he has oeen professor of physical 
chemistry in Columbia university of New 
York city. He is the author of The 
Elements of Physical Chemistry. 

MORGAN, MICHAEL RYAN, soldier, 
was born Jan. 18, 1833, in Canada. He 
served at various frontier posts until 
1859. He was captain in the Unitea 
States army in 1861; and advanced to 
brevet rank of brigadier-general in United 
States army during the war. After the 
war he was in the commissary service 
and promoted in regular order to briga¬ 
dier-general; was commissary-general of 
subsistence United States army when re¬ 
tired in 1897. 

MORGAN, STEPHEN, educator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 25, 1854, in 


Jackson county, Ohio. He taught in tne 
public schools of Jackson county for a 
number of years; was school examiner 
for nine years; and principal of the uaiv 
Hill school for fifteen years. He was 
elected to the fifty-sixth congress as a 
republican. 

MORGAN, THOMAS HUNT, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 25, 1866, in Uex- 
ington, Ky. He is professor of biology 
in Bryn Mawr college. He is the author 
of Development of the Frog’s Egg. 

MORLEY, MAkGARET WAkNER, ed¬ 
ucator, autnor, was born Feb. 17, 1858, 
in Montrose, towa. She has been pro¬ 
fessor of biology in Armour institute of 
Chicago, Ill. She is the author of A 
Song of Life; Lite and Love; A Few Fa¬ 
miliar Flowers; and Flowers and Their 
Friends. 

MORRIS, MRS. ALICE A. PARME- 
LEE—Mrs. Robert C. Morris—author, 
was born in New Haven, Conn. She is 
the author of Dragons and Cherry Blos¬ 
soms. 

MORRIS, EDWARD PARMELEE, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Sept. 17, 1853, 
in Auburn, N. Y. Since 1891 he has been 
professor of Latin in Yale university. 
He is the author of The Mostellaria of 
Plautus, with notes; The Pseudolus of 
Plautus, witn introduction and notes; and 
The Captives and Trinummus of Plautus, 
with introduction and notes. 

MORRIS, MARTIN F., lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born Dec. 3, 1834, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He is associate justice of 
the court of appeals of District of Colum¬ 
bia. He is the author of Lectures on 
the History of tne Development of Con¬ 
stitutional and Civil Liberty. 

MORRISON, HARRY STEELE, lectur¬ 
er, author, was born Nov. 26, 1880, in 
Mattoon, Ill. He has lecture^! in larger 
cities of the East. He is the author of 
A Yankee Boy’s Success. 

MORRISON, HENRF CLAY, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born May 30, 1842, in 
Montgomery county, Tenn. Since 1898 
he has been bishop of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church South at Louisville, Ky. 

MORRISON, JOSEPH, physician, sur¬ 
geon, astronomer, author, was born in 
1848. He is the author of Treatise on 
Trigonometry. 

MORRISON, MRS. MARY J. WHIT¬ 
NEY, author, poet, was born June 13. 
1832, in Saccarappa, Maine. She is the 
author of Stories True and Fancies New. 

MORRISON, SARAH ELIZABETH, au¬ 
thor, was born in Indiana. She is the 
author of Chilhowee Boys; • Chilfiowee 
Boys in War Time; Chilhowee Boys at 
College; and Chilhowee Boys in Harness. 

MORRISON, THEODORE NEVfN, 
clergyman, bishop, was born Feb. 18. 
1850, in Ottawa, Ill. In 1876-99 he was 
pastor of the Church of the Epiphany oi 
Chicago. Ill. Since 1899 he has been 
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Iowa. 

MORROW, WILLIAM C., author. He 
is the author of Bohemian Pari3 of To¬ 
day; and other works. 

MORSE, CHARLES HENRY, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Jan. 5, 1853, in 
Bradford, Mass. He is an excellent or¬ 
ganist and chorus conductor; and teacher 
of organ-playing and voice-building in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. ne is the author or a 
Christmas Carols; and several valuable 
compilations. 

MORSE, FRANK ROGERS, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer. For many years he has 
been pastor of Calvary Baptist church of 
New York city. He has attained great 
popularity as a lecturer, principally on 
religious subjects. 

MORTON, AGNES H., author. She 


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is the author of Our Conversational Cir¬ 
cle; Etiquette; Letter Writing; and Quo¬ 
tations. 

MORTON, FREDERICK W„ journalise 
author, was born Dec. 2, 1859, in Canada’ 
He removed to Chicago in 1887; and was 
reporter, critic, and editor in 1888-99. He 
is the author of Woman in Epigram; Men 
in Epigram; Love in Epigram; and The 
Revolt of the Countess. 

MORTON, JAMES M., lawyer, jurist. 
He is associate justice of the supreme 
judicial court of Massachusetts. 

MOSELEY, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, 
lawyer, legislator, author, was born 
March 23, 1846, in Newburyport, Mass. 
He is secretary of the interstate com¬ 
merce commission. He has been a mem¬ 
ber of the Massachusetts legislature. 
He is the author of Arbitration as Ap¬ 
plied to Railways and Their Employees; 
Safe Appliances on Railroads; and One 
Hundred Years of Interstate Commerce. 

MOSES, ALFRED JOSEPH, educator, 
author, was born July 25, 1859, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. Since 1897 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of mineralogy in Columbia uni¬ 
versity of New York city. He is the 
author of Mineralogy, Crystallography; 
Blowpipe Analysis; and Characters of 
Crystal. 

MOSES, BERNARD, educator, author, 
was born Aug. 27, 1846, in Burlington, 
Conn. Since 1876 he has been professor 
of history and political economy in Uni¬ 
versity of California. He is the author 
of Federal Government in Switzerland; 
Democracy and Official Growth in Amer¬ 
ica; and Establishment of the Spanish 
Rule in America. 

MOSES, THOMAS FREEMAN, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born June 8, 1836, in 
Bath, Maine. During the civil war he 
was acting, assistant surgeon in the Uni¬ 
ted States army, in charge of government 
transports and hospitals; and after 1864 
he settled in practice in Hamilton county, 
Ohio. He was elected professor of nat¬ 
ural sciences in Urbana university of Ohio 
in 1870; and in 1886 became acting pres¬ 
ident of that institution. He is the 
author of an annotated edition of Emile 
Saigey’s Unity of Natural Phenomena. 

MOSS, FRANK, lawyer, author, was 
born March 16, 1860, in Cold Spring, N. 
Y. In 1897 he was president of the 
board of police of New York city; and 
associate counsel to Lexow Investigating 
committee. He is the author of The 
American Metropolis, a history of New 
York, in three volumes. 

MOULTON, FRANK PRESCOTT, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 11, 1851, m 
Parsonsfield, Maine. He has been a 
teacher since 1874; and in Hartford High 
school since 1890. He is the author of 
Preparatory Latin Composition. 

MOUNT, WALLACE, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Jan. 16, 1859, in 
Oregon. In 1889-92 he was judge ot 
the superior court; and was a member 
of the Washington legislature in 1899. 
Since 1901 he has been justice of the 
supreme court of Washington. 

MOWBRAY, HARRY SIDDONS, artist, 
was born Aug. 5, 1858. He has produced 
some effective figure-pieces, among which 
are The Alchemist; Lalla Rookh; Rose 
Festival; and Evening Breeze. 

MOWRY, ARTHUR MAY, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 19, 1862, m Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He was professor of Sci¬ 
ence in Gloucester High school; and in 
Salem High school, Mass. He is the 
author of History of the United States; 
First Steps in History of Our Country; 
and Constitutional History of Rhode Is¬ 
land. 


MOXOM, PHILIP STAFFORD, sol¬ 
dier, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 
10, 1848, in Canada. He served in the 
Union army auring the civil war. Since 
1894 he has been pastor of the South 
Congregational church of Springfield, 
Mass. He is the author of The Aim of 
Life; and The Church in the First Three 
Centuries. 

MUELLER, FRANZ, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Aug. 1, 1853, in Newark, 
Ohio. He is professor of music and one 
of the founders of the Illinois college of 
music of Bloomington, Ill. The comic 
opera, The White Fawn, was composed 
and produced by him at Spokane in 1895. 

MUELLER, HERMAN, educator, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Oct. 24, 1860, in Ger¬ 
many. Since 1894 he has been professor 
of German in Providence high schools. 
He is the author of A Collection of Poems 
for High Schools. 

MUHLEMAN. MAURICE LOUIS, flnan 
cier, author, was born Nov. 27, 1852, near 
Alton, Ill. Since 1888 he has been dep¬ 
uty assistant treasurer of the United 
States at New York City. He is the 
author of Money of the United States; 
and Monetary Systems of the World. 

MUIR, JERE T., educator, lecturer, 
lawyer, college president, author, was 
born in Trimble county, Ky. He nas 
been superintendent of schools; and is 
now president of the La Grange college. 
Mo. He is the author of Orthoepy. 

MULDOON, PETER J.. clergyman, 
bishop was born in 1863 in Columbia, 
Cal. Since 1901 he nas been Roman 
Catholic auxiliary bishop for Chicago dio¬ 
cese. 

MULLANY. JOHN FRANCIS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 19, 1853, in 
Utica, N. Y. He is now pastor of S^ 
John the Baptist church of Detroit, Mich. 
He is, a contributor to periodicals; aDd 
has published numerous translations from 
the Italian and French. 

MUNGER. WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 12, 1845, in Bergen, 
N. Y. In 1875 be was a member of the 
constitutional convention of Nebraska. 
Since 1879 he has been United States 
judge for the district of Nebraska. 

MUNN, CHARLES CLARK, author, 
was born in 1848, in Southington, Conn. 
For thirty years he has been a commer¬ 
cial traveler. He is the author of Pock¬ 
et Island; and Uncle Terry, a Story of 
the Maine Coast. 

MUNN, ORSON DESAIX, publisher, 
was born June 11, 1824, in Monson, Mass. 
In 1846 he bought the Scientific Ameri¬ 
can. then six months old, of which he is 
still at the head. In 1876 he established 
Scientific American Supplement; and a 
monthly Architects’ and Builders’ edi¬ 
tion in 1885. For over fifty years he 
has been also at the head of Munn <fc 
Company, doing the largest business as 
patent solicitors in the world. 

MUNROE, JAMES PHINNEY, finan¬ 
cier, author, was born June 3, 1862, in 
Lexington, Mass. Since 1897 he has been 
treasurer of Monroe Felt & Paper Co. of 
Boston, Mass. He is the author of A 
Sketch of the Munro Clan. 

MUNSELL, FRANK, publisher,genealo¬ 
gist, author, w;as born June 19, 1857, in 
Albany, N. Y. He is a retired publisher 
of Albany, N. Y. He edited American 
Ancestry, 1887-1900; Genealogical Index; 
and American Genealogist. He is the 
author of Bibilography of Albany; and 
Munsell Genealogy. 

MUNSON, WALTER D., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, capitalist, was born Feb. 18, 1843, 
in Cheshire, Conn. In 1861-66 he served 


as a soldier in the Union army and was 
mustered as a commissioned captain in 
the regular army. He is a successful 
shipping merchant; and is noted as hav¬ 
ing built up the Munson Steamship Line 
to Cuba, Mexico, and West Indies. 

MUNSTERBERG, HUGO, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born June 1, 1863, in Danzig, 
Germany. Since 1892 he nas been pro¬ 
fessor of psychology in Harvard Univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of Psychology and 
Life. 

MURDOCK, GEORGE J„ inventor, was 
born April 17, 1858, in New Berlin, N. Y. 
He invented a dynamo electric machine; 
an arc lamp, the carbon-saving globe now 
in use, and ihe automatic bolt machine. 
He is also known as a song composer and 
verse writer. 

MURDOCK, JOSEPH BALLARD, naval 
officer, author, was born Feb. 13, 1851, in 
Hartford, Conn. During tne Spanish- 
American war he attained the rank of 
lieutenant-commander. He is the author 
of Notes on Electricity and Magnetism. 

MURPHY, JOHN B., physician, in¬ 
ventor, was born Dec. 21, 1857, in Apple- 
ton, Wis. He is distinguished for the 
invention of the anaslomosis button, a 
valuable appliance for abdominal surgery. 

MURRAY, GEORGE BRINTON, mer¬ 
chant, author, was born May 31, 1863, 

near Olney, Ill. He is a successful hard¬ 
ware merchant of Olney, Ill; and promin¬ 
ent in the business and political affairs 
of his city, county and state. He is the 
author of A Boy’s Journey Around the 
World. 

MUSGRAVE, GEORGE CLARKE, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born May 1, 1873, in 
England. He is the author of West Afri¬ 
can Fetish; The Cuban Insurrection; Un¬ 
der Three Flags in Cuba; and In South 
Africa with Buller. 

MUTCH, WILLIAM JAMES, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 7, 1858, 
in Hillsboro, Wis. He served the Howard 
Avenue Church of New Haven Conn. He 
is the author of The Testing of A Soul; 
and Christian Teachings. 

MUTCHLER, HOWARD,* congressman. 
He was elected a member of the fifty-sev¬ 
enth congress from Pennsylvania. 

MYER. ISAAC, lawyer, author, was 
born March 5, 1836, in Philadelphia. He 
is the author of Presidential Power 
Over Personal Liberty; The Waterloo 
Medal; and Scarabs, The Oldest Books in 
the World. 

MYERS, CORTLAND, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 3, 1864, in Kingston, 
N. Y. He is pastor of the First Baptist 
Church of Brooklyn, N. Y. He is the au¬ 
thor of a published work. 

MYERS, MRS. MINNIE WALTER, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1852, in Holly Springs, 
Miss. She is identified with philanthropic 
work. She is the author of Romance 
and Realism of the Southern Gulf Coast. 

NADAL, EHRMAN SYME. author, was 
born in 1843 in Greenbrier county, Va., 
In 1887-83 he was one of the secre¬ 
taries of United States legation, London. 
He is the author of Impressions of 
London Social Life; Essays at Home ana 
Elsewhere; and Notes of a Professional 
Exile. 

NAEGELE, CHARLES FREDERICK, 
artist, was born May 8 , 1857, in Knox¬ 
ville, Tenn. In 1892 he received prize 
for Columbus medal design. He has 
painted portraits of Peter Cooper; 
Charles L. Tiffany; Gov. Roswell P. Flow¬ 
er: Gen. Joseph D. Brvant: and others. 

NANCREDE, CHARLES BEYLARD. 
physician, surgeon, author, was born Dec. 
30, 1847. in Philadelphia, Pa. He is pro¬ 
fessor of surgery and clinical surgery and 
surgeon of University Hospital in Uni- 


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versity of Michigan. He was recommend¬ 
ed for brevet lieutenant-colonel for at¬ 
tending wounded under fire before San¬ 
tiago. He is the author of Essentials of 
Anatomy. 

NAPHBN, HENRY FRANCIS, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Aug. 14, 1847, in Ireland. Since 1880 he 
has devoted himself to the practice of nis 
profession in Boston, Mass. He was state 
senator in 1885-86. tie was elected to the 
fifty-sixth congress as a democrat. 

NASH, CHARLES ELLWOOD, clergy¬ 
man, coilege president, author, was born 
in 1855, in Alamuchy, N. J. Since 1895 
he has been president of Lombard Uni¬ 
versity of Galesburg, Ill. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Savior of the World. 

NASH, GEORGE KILBON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 4, 1842, in York, Ohio. 
He edited for a year the Ohio State Jour¬ 
nal; became chief clerk in the office ot 
secretary of state of Ohio; was prosecu¬ 
ting attorney of Franklin county for 
three years; in 1883 he was elected judge 
for the state supreme court; and served 
as attorney-general of Ohio. 

NASH, WILLIAM HOIT, soldier, was 
born June 22, 1834, in Gallipolis, 

Ohio. He entered the military service as 
telegraph operator in 1861. In 1898 he 
was appointed commissary-general sub¬ 
sistence with rank of brigadier-general; 
and retired from active service. 

NASON, FRANK LEWIS, mining en¬ 
gineer, author, was born May 12, 1856, in 
New London, Wis. In 1888-90 he was 
assistant state geologist of New Jersey; 
and also of Missouri in 1890-92. He is 
the author of Iron Ores of Missouri. 

NEFF, ELIZABETH CLIFFORD, gen¬ 
ealogist, was born Aug. 24, 1851. She :s 
the author of the Neff History; a pamph¬ 
let on Heraldy; and other works. 

NEIDLINGER, WILLIAM HAROLD, 
musician, composer, was born July 20, 
1863, in Brooklyn, N. Y. His composi¬ 
tions include a mass; other church 
music; mixed and male choruses; and 
numerous songs. 

NEIL, EDWARD WALLACE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was horn in Newark, N. J. 
In 1883 he was founder and since then 
rector of Church St. Edward the Mar¬ 
tyr of New York City. He is the author 
of Faithful Woman. 

NEILSON, WILLIAM GEORGF metal¬ 
lurgical engineer, was born Aug. 12, 1848, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1871 he was ap¬ 
pointed general manager of the Logan 
iron and steel company; and since 1877 
has been manager of the Standard steel 
company. His services were called for 
by the Baldwin locomotive-works in 1878 
in order to aid them in their shipment of 
locomotives to Russia. He published in 
1868 a chart illustrative of the material 
progress of the United States, showing 
the costs of certain stapie products during 
a series of years. 

NELSON, CHARLES EUGENE, physi¬ 
cian. journalist, inventor, was born March 
28, 1837, in Montreal, Canada. In 1883 he 
became editor of the New York Planet; 
in 1885 assistant editor of the East¬ 
ern Medical Journal of Worcester, Mass.; 
and in 1886 its editor. He has founded 
the Robert Nelson gold medal in connec¬ 
tion with the medical school of Lennox- 
ville university, Canada. He has invented 
a rectal bougie, which bears his name. 

NELSON, EDWARD BEVERLY, edu¬ 
cator, was born May 20, 1850, in Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. In 1873 he was appointed 
professor in the New York city institu¬ 
tion for the instruction of deaf-mutes. In 
1876 he was appointed principal of the 


Central New York institution for deaf- 
mutes at Rome. Under his care the insti¬ 
tution has been put upon an independent 
basis, and the number of teachers, in¬ 
structors, and pupils greatly increased. 

NELSON, EDWARD WILLIAM, nat¬ 
uralist, author, was born May 8, 1855, in 
Manchester, N. H. Since 1890 he has 
been field naturalist in the United States 
department of agriculture. He is the au¬ 
thor of Report on Natural History Col¬ 
lections Made in Alaska. 

NELSON, WILLIAM, lawyer, was born 
Feb. 10, 1847, in Newark, N. J. In 1880- 
99 he was secretary of the New Jersey 
historical society. He is the author of 
The Indians of New Jersey; The Doremus 
Family in America; and The History ot 
the City of Paterson. 

NEVIN, ETHELBERT, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Nov. 25, 1862, inj Edge- 
worth, Pa. He has composed a large 
amount of music, notably songs including 
Bed-time Song; Cradle Song; I Once Had 
a Sweet, Little Doll; and Milkmaid’s 
Song. 

NEW, HARRY STEWART, soldier, 
publisher, state senator, was born Dec. 31, 
1858, in Indianapolis, Ind. Since 1896 he 
has been a member of the Indiana state 
senate. In 1898 he was captain and 
assistant adjutant-general of the third 
brigade, second division, seventh army 
corps during the Spanish-American war. 
In 1896 he was delegate to the Republican 
National convention. He is the publish¬ 
er of The Indianapolis Journal. 

NEWBERRY, FANNIE ELLSlv ORTH, 
author, was born May 7, 1848, in Monroe, 
Mich. She is a writer of Coldwater, 
Mich. She is the author of Impress of a 
Gentleman; and other works. 

Dewberry, william belknap, 
chemist, author, was born Jan. 15, 1867, 
in Cleveland Ohio. In 1896-97 he was 
chemist Alpha Portland Cement Company 
of Easton. Pa. He is the author of 
Chemical Constitution of Portland Ce¬ 
ments. 

NEWCOMB, CHARLES BENJAMIN, 
lecturer, author, was born June 22, 1845, 
in Boston, Mass. He is the author of 
All’s Right With the World; and Discov¬ 
ery of a Lost Trail. 

NEWCOMB, HARRY TURNER, law¬ 
yer, statesman, author, was born Jan. 4, 
1867, in Owosso, Mich. Since 1900 he has 
been expert chief of division of agricul¬ 
ture in the United States census. Since 
1896 he has been lecturer on statistics in 
Columbia university of Washington, D. 
C. He is the author of Railway Eco¬ 
nomics; and The Postal Deficit. 

NEWCOMB, MRS. KATHARINE 
HINCHMAN, educator, author, was born 
Dec. 16, 1852, in Brooklyn, N. Y. She 
is the author of Helps to Right Living. 

NEWELL, FREDERICK HAYNES, civ¬ 
il engineer, author, was born March b, 
1862, in Bradford, Pa. Since 1888 he has 
been hydrographer in the United States 
Geological survey. He is the author ot 
Agriculture by Irrigation; Hydrography 
of the United States; and The Public 
Lands of the United States. 

NEWELL, PETER, illustrator, artist, 
was born March 5, 1862. in McDonough 
county, Ill. He is the author of Topsys 
and Turveys; A Shadow Show; and Peter 
Newell’s Pictures and Rhythms. 

NEWHALL, ADA L., author. She is 
a successful writer of fiction. She is 
the author of Adopted; Hazel Verne; The 
Bride of Infelice; and After the Night 
Has Passed. 


NEWMAN, ALBERT HENRY, theolo¬ 
gian, author, was born Aug. 25, 1852, in 
Edgefield county, S. C. Since 1881 he haa 
been professor of church history in Mc- 
Master university of Toronto. He is the 
author of The Baptist Churches in the 
United States; and Manual of Church His¬ 
tory. 

NEWTON, JAMES HALE, educator, 
manufacturer, banker, was born Jan. 13, 
1832, in Hubbardston, Mass. He is one 
of the leading paper manufacturers of 
America; has been president of several 
companies; and is now president of Chem¬ 
ical Paper company of Holyoke, Mass. 
Since 1884 he has been president cf the 
Home National Bank. 

NIBLACK, ALBERT PARKER, naval 
officer, was born July 25, 1859, in Vin¬ 
cennes, Ind. Since 1880 he has been- 
ensign to lieutenant in United States 
navy. He is a writer and lecturer at 
Naval War college on signaling and nav¬ 
al tactics. He is the author of Tne 
Coast Indians of Alaska and Northern 
British Columbia. 

NICCPLLS, SAMUEL JACK, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 3, 1838, in 
Westmoreland county, Pa. In 1863 he 
was chaplain in the one hundred and 
twenty-sixth Pennsylvania volunteers. He 
is the author of Eastern Question in 
Prophecy. 

NICHOLAS, ANNA, journalist, author, 
was born in Meadville, Pa. Since 1881 
she has been on the editorial staff of 
The Indianapolis Jo’.irnai. She is the 
author of An Idyl of the Wabash, a vol¬ 
ume of short stories. 

NICHOLL, HORACE WADHAM, mu¬ 
sician, composer, was born March 17, 1848, 
in England. Since 1883 he has been reg¬ 
ular reader of music proofs for G. Schri- 
mer of New York city. He is the author 
of numerous compositions. 

NICHOLS, CHARLES HENRY, physi¬ 
cian, was born Oct. 19, 1820, in Vassal- 
borough, Maine. He attained success in 
his profession; and contributed exten¬ 
sively to medical literature. 

NICHOLS, EDWARD WEST, educator, 
author, was born June 27, 1858, in Peters¬ 
burg, Va. Since 1890 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics in the Virginia 
Military institute. He is the author ot 
Analytical Geometry; and Differential and 
Integral Calculus. 

NICHOLS, GEORGE FREDERICK, sol¬ 
dier, merchant, was born Jan. 6, 1835, in 
Plattsburg, N. Y. He entered the army 
as major in the one hundred and eigh¬ 
teenth New York volunteers; was promot¬ 
ed to lieutenant-colonel and later to col¬ 
onel. He was breveted brigadier-general 
for gallantry in the field. Since the war 
he has been in business pursuits at Platts¬ 
burgh, N. Y. 

NICHOLS, HENRY WINDSOR, geolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Dec. 7, 1888, in 
Cohasset, Mass. Since 1897 he has been 
assistant curator of geology in the Field 
Columbian museum of Chicago, Ill. He 
is the author of Ore of Columbia. 

NICHOLS, HERBERT, lecturer, author, 
was born Feb. 7, 1852, in Walpole. N. H. 
Since 1896 he has been a lecturer in Johns 
Hopkins university. He is the author ot 
The Psychology of Time; Our Notions ot 
Number and Space; and A Treatise on 
Cosmology. , 

NICHOLS. WILLIAM FORD, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, author, was bom June 9, 
1849, in Lloyd, N. Y. He was consecrat¬ 
ed bishop-coadjutor of California in 1890; 


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and bishop of California in 1893. He is 
the author of On the Trial of Your Faith. 

NIEHAUS, CHARLES HENRY, sculp¬ 
tor, was born Jan. 24, 1855, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He received the highest prize yet 
won by an American; and a diploma and 
medal for a group entitled Fleeting. 

NIGHTINGALE, AUGUSTUS FRED¬ 
ERICK, educator, author, was born Nov. 
11, 1843, in Quincy, Mass. Since 1892 he 
has been superintendent of Chicago high 
schools. He is the author of Requirements 
for Admission to American Colleges. 

NIKITA—Louisa Margaret Nicholson— 
musician, composer, was born Aug. 18, 
1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1894 she 
was engaged at the Paris Opera as 
prima donna soprano. Her leading roles 
are in Lakme Manon, Barbiere and Tra- 
viata. 

NIND, MRS. MARY CLARKE, mission¬ 
ary, evangelist, was born Oct. 9, 1825, in 
England. In 1850 she married lames 
Gardiner Nind, and has lived In Minne¬ 
sota and Michigan. As Mother Nind she 
has been an inspiration to Christian work¬ 
ers at home and abroad. In 1900 appear¬ 
ed In Journeying Oft, a sketch of the 
life and travels of Mary C. Nind. 

NIRDLINGER, CHARLES FREDERIC, 
critic, author. He is a dramatic critic of 
New York city. He is the author of 
Masques and Mummers. 

NISBET, JAMES DOUGLAS, physician, 
author, was born July 30, 1861, in Wax- 
haw, S. C. He is adjunct professor of 
diseases of the digestive system in the 
New York polyclinic. He is the author 
of Diseases of the Stomach. 

NIXON, OLIVER WOODSON, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Oct. 25, 1825, in 
uuilford county, N. C. During the civil 
war lie was medical director of the army 
of Missouri. In 1878 he purchased, with 
his brother. The Chicago Inter-Ocean, of 
which he is literary editor. He is the 
author of How Marcus Whitman Saved 
Oregon for the Union. 

NIXON-ROULET. MARY F., author. 
She is the author of With a Pessimist in 
Spain; and other works. 

NIXON, WILLIAM PENN, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, journalist, publisher, was born 
March 19, 1833, in Fountain City, Ind. 
In 1865-68 he was a member of the Ohio 
legislature; then practiced law until 1868 
in Cincinnati; and in 1868-72 was business 
manager of the Cincinnati Chronicle. 
Since 1872 he has been connected with the 
Chicago Inter-Ocean as editor and pub¬ 
lisher. In 1896 he was appointed Lincoln 
park commissioner, and was its president 
in 1897. In 1897 he was appointed col¬ 
lector of port of Chicago. 

NOBLE, FREDERICK A., clergyman, 
author, was born March 17, 1832, in Bald¬ 
win, Maine. Since 1879 he has been pas¬ 
tor or Union Park church of Chicago. ITT. 
He is the author of Divine Life in Man; 
Discourses on Philippians; and Our Re¬ 
demption. 

NOBLE, LUCRETIA GRAY, author, 
was born in Lowell, Mass. She is the 
author of A Reverend Idol, a novel. 

NOBLES. MILTON, actor, playwright, 
author, was born Sept. 28, 1847, in Al- 
mont, Mich. He has played in support of 
Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Forrest, Edwin 
Booth. Lawrence Barrett and others un¬ 
til he began starring in plays written by 
himself in 1875. He is the author of 
Shop Talk; Under Martial Law; A Man 
of the People; Love and Law; and other 
plays. 


NOONAN, EDWARD T., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 
1861, in Macomb county, 111. In 1890-94 
he was a member of the Illinois state sen¬ 
ate. In 1893-98 he was attorney for the 
board of West Chicago park commission¬ 
ers. He was elected to the fifty-sixth 
congress as a democrat. 

NORDlCA, LILLIAN, opera-singer, was 
born about 1858, in Farmington, Maine. 
She appeared in various important oper¬ 
atic roles; and in later years particularly 
she has had many successes in the roles 
of the great Wagnerian heroines. Mme. 
Nordica's first husband, F. A. Gower, was 
an electrician, and was lost in a balloon 
ascension in 1887. In 1896 she was mar¬ 
ried to Zoltan F. Doehme, the talented 
tenor singer. She spent the summer of 
1899 in the Black forest of Germany, 
joining Grau’s opera troupe for the Amer¬ 
ican season of 1899-1900. 

NORRIS, FRANK, journalist, author, 
was born in 1870, in Chicago, Ill. He 
was war correspondent for the San Fran¬ 
cisco Chronicle in South Africa during 
the Uitlander insurrection in 1895-96. He 
is the author of McTague, the Octopus. 

NORRIS, HOMER ALBERT, musician, 
author, was born in 1860, in Wayne, 
Maine. He is a teacher of musical compo¬ 
sition along lines pursued in Paris Con¬ 
servatory of Music; and a lecturer on 
musical aesthetics. He is the author of 
Practical harmony on a French Basis; 
The Art of Counterpoint; and also about 
fifty songs and sacred music. 

NORRIS, MARY HARRIOTT, educator, 
author, was born March 16, 1848, in Boon- 
, ton, N. J. Since 1898 she has been dean 
of women in Northwestern university of 
Evanston, Ill. She is the author of 
Dorothy Delafield;. Phebe, a Damsel of 
the Eighteenth Century; The Nine Bles¬ 
sings; John Applegate, Surgeon; After 
ward; Lakewood, a; Story of To-day; and 
The Gray House of the Quarries. 

NORRIS, RICHARD COOPER, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Nov. 9, 1863, in 
Havre de Grace, Md. He is the author of 
American Text Book of Obstetrics; and 
Syllabus Obstetrical Lectures. 

NORTH, S. N. DEXTER, journalist, 
statistician, was born Nov. 29, 1849. in 
Clinton, N. Y. He has been editor of 
Utica Herald, of Albany Express, and is 
now editor of the Bulletin of the "Nation- 
He was also chief statistician of manufac- 
He was also chief statistician of manufac¬ 
turers on the twelfth census. 

NORTHEN, WILLIAM J., soldier, ed¬ 
ucator, state senator, congressman, was 
born July 9, 1835, in Jones county, Ga. 
In 1861-65 he served as private in com¬ 
pany commanded by his father, Peter 
Northen, in the Confederate army. In 
1877-78 and 1880-81 he was a member of 
the Georgia legislature; was state sena¬ 
tor in 1884-85; and governor in 1890-94. 

NORTON, CHARLES STUART, naval 
officer, was born Aug. 10, 1836, in Albany, 
N. Y. In 1860 he became lieutenant; 
captain in 1881; commodore in 1894 * and 
rear-admiral in 1897; retiring on reaching 
age limit. 

NORTON, EDWIN FRANKLIN, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 
15, 1862, in Homer. N. Y. For five yeArs 
he was professor of Greek and superin¬ 
tendent of schools in New York state; 
and then for six years professor of rhet¬ 
oric and modern languages in Olivet col¬ 
lege, Mich. Since 1894 he has been a 
clergyman of the congregational church 
in Almont, Mich. 


NORTON, GEORGE W., educator, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Aug. 25, 1855, in 
Strong, Maine. Since 1892 he has been 
editor of the Portland Evening Express, 
Maine. 

NOURSE, HENRY STEDMAN, soldier, 
civil engineer, author, was born April 9, 
1831, in Lancaster, Mass. In 1861-65 he 
was adjutant captain of 55th Illinois vol¬ 
unteer infantry and commissary of mus¬ 
ters, 17th army corps. In 1883 he was a 
member of house of representatives of 
Massachusetts • and in 1885-86 was a mem¬ 
ber of Massachusetts state senate. He is 
the author of Early Records of Lancaster; 
and The Story of the 55th Regiment of 
Illinois Infantry. 

NOYES, ALEXANDER DANA, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Dec. 14, 1862, in 
Montclair, N. J. He is financial editor 
of the New York Evening Post. He is 
the author of Thirty Years of American 
Finance. 

NOYES, THEODORE WILLIAMS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Jan. 26, 1858, in 
Washington, D. C. Since 1887 he has been 
associate editor-in-chief of the Washing¬ 
ton Star, D. C. He is the author of The 
National Capital; Newspaper Libels; and 
Notes of Travel. 

NUTTALL, MRS. ZELIA, archaeologist, 
author, was born in San Francisco, Cal. 
She is an extensive traveler; and has 
made special study of languages and an¬ 
tiquities of Mexico, including ancient pic¬ 
ture writings; and is noted for research 
in Mexican archaeology. She is the au¬ 
thor of The Blowpipe; The Sturfinder; 
and The Aneroid. 

NUTTING, CHARLES CLEVELAND, 
zoologist, author, was born 1 May, 25, 1858, 
in Jacksonville, Ill. He engaged in ex¬ 
plorations for Smithsonian Institution in 
Central America; and since 1886 has been 
connected with University of Iowa. He 
is the author of Narrative of Bahama Ex¬ 
pedition from University* of Iowa. 

O’BRIEN, DENIS, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in March, 1837, in Ogdensburg, N. 
Y. Since 1889 he has been judge of court 
of appeals of New York. 

O’BRIEN, HUGH, journalist, public of¬ 
ficial, was born July 13, 1827, in Ireland. 
He founded the Shipping and Commercial 
List, of which he was long the editor. 
He was an alderman of Boston in 1875-83; 
and for four years chairman of the board. 
In 1885 he was mayor of that city. 

O’BRIEN, MORGAN JOSEPH, soldier, 
jurist, was born in New York City. In 
1887-96 he was judge of the supreme court 
of New York, trial division; and in 1896- 
1901 judge of the appellate division. 

OCHS. ADOLPH S., publisher, was born 
March 12, 1858, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 
1878 he became publisher of the Chat¬ 
tanooga Times, of which he is still pro¬ 
prietor. In 1896 he became publisher and 
principal owner The New York Times. 

OCKENDEN, MRS. INA MARIE SOR¬ 
TER, journalist, author.poet, was born 
March 4. 1846. She has edited the South 
Alabamian; Southern News; and Green¬ 
ville Advocate; and was a charter mem¬ 
ber of the Alabama Woman’s Press Asso¬ 
ciation. 

O’CONNOR, E. SCOTT, author. She is 
the author of Tracings. 

O’DONAGHUE, DENNIS, clergyman, 
bishop. He is a Roman Catholic Bishop 
at Indianapolis, Ind. 

O’DONOVAN, WILLIAM RUDOLF, sol¬ 
dier. sculptor, was born March 28, 1844, in 
Preston county, Va. After fighting in the 
Confederate army during the civil war, he 


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opened a studio in New York City. He 
has been very successful in portraiture, 
and among others has executed portrait- 
busts and bas-reliefs of John A. Kennedy; 
William Page; R. Swain Gifford; Arthur 
Quarterly; Bayard Taylor; and Edmund 

C. Stedman. 

OERTEL, JOHANNES ADAM, clergy¬ 
man, artist, was born Nov. 3, 1823, in 
Bavaria. He painted many scriptural and 
other pieces. 

OFFORD, R. M., clergyman, author. He 
is the author of a volume of hymns; and 
editor of several religious works. 

OGDEN, JAY BERGEN, physician, 
chemist, author, was horn in August, 
1868, in West Sparta, N. Y. Since 1894 
he has been assistant in clinical pathol¬ 
ogy at Boston City Hospital. He is the 
author of Clinical Examinations of the 
Urine and Urinary Diagnosis. 

OGDEN, ROBERT CURTIS, merchant, 
author, was born June 20, 1836, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He is a member of the firm 
of John Wanamaker of Philadelphia. Pa. 
He is the author of Getting and Keeping 
a Business Position. 

O’GORMAN. THOMAS, clergyman, 
bishop, author, was born May 1, 1843, in 
Boston, Mass. Since 1896 he has been 
Roman Catholic bishop of Sioux Falls, S. 

D. He is the author of A History of the 
Roman Catholic Church in the United 
States. 

O’GRADY, JAMES M. E„ lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born March 31. 
1863, in Rochester, N. Y. Since 1885 he 
has practiced his profession in Rochester. 
N. Y.; was school commissioner of the 
city of Rochester in 1887-92; and member 
of the New York State assembly in 1893- 
98. He was elected to the fifty-sixth 
congress as a republican. 

OHMANN-DUMESNIL, AMENT Hr N- 
RY, physician, author, was born Sept. 30, 
1857, in Dubuque, Iowa. He is editor and 
proprietor of the St. Louis Medical and 
Surgical Journal. He is the author of 
Hand-book of Dermatology. 

OLCOTT, GEORGE N., archaeologist, 
author, was born Sept. 19, 1869, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. Since 1898 he has been lec¬ 
turer in Roman archaeology in Columbia 
University. He is the author of Studies 
in the Word-formation of the Latin In¬ 
scriptions. 

OLDROYD, OSBORN H., author, was 
born July 31, 1842, in Mount Vernon, 
Ohio. He is Curator of the Lincoln Mu¬ 
seum of Washington, D. C. He is the au¬ 
thor of Soldiers Story of the Siege of 
Vicksburg. 

O’LEARY, CORNELIUS M., educator, 
was born about 1840 in Ireland. In 1864 
he became professor of logic and meta¬ 
physics, and lecturer on physiology in 
Manhattan college, N. Y., and afterward 
filled the chair of Greek and Latin, be¬ 
sides lecturing on various scientific sub- 
J6CtS. 

OLIVER. CHARLES AUGUSTUS, phy¬ 
sician, scientist, author, was born Dec. 
14, 1858, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is sur¬ 
geon to Wills’ Eye and Philadelphia hos¬ 
pitals. He is the author of Correlation 
Theory of Color Perception ; and Ophthal¬ 
mic Methods in Recognition of Nerve 
Diseases. 

O’NEIL, CHARLES, naval officer, was 
born March 15, 1842, in England. In 1861 
he entered the American navy from 
Massachusetts. Having rendered much 
valuable service afloat and ashore, he at¬ 
tained the rank of captain in 1897; and 
was assigned to duty as chief of the bu¬ 


reau of ordnance, with the' rank of rear- 
admiral while filling that office. 

O’REAR, EDWARD CLAY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Feb. 2, 1863, in Montgom¬ 
ery county, Ky. Since 1901 he has been 
judge of the Kentucky court of appeals. 

O’REILLY, BERNARD, clergyman, 
was born in 1823 in Ireland. He was 
professor of rhetoric in St. John’s college 
at Fordham, N. Y. He afterward traveled 
extensively through Europe, at the same 
time devoting himself with success to 
literary pursuits. His intercourse with 
Pius IX and Leo XIII has been con¬ 
fidential, and the latter pontiff selected 
him to write the official Life of Leo XIII. 
He was raised to the dignity of domestic 
prelate of the papal throne in 1887. He 
is the author of Mirror of True Woman¬ 
hood; Life of Pius IX; Key of Heaveu: 
The Two Brides, a novel; and Life of 
Leo XIII. 

ORLAY, GEORGE BOAL, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Feb. 22, 1850, in Peters¬ 
burg, Pa. In 1878-87 he was district at¬ 
torney of Huntingdon county, Pa. Since 
1895 he has been judge of the superior 
court of Pennsylvania. 

ORR, ALEXANDER ECTOR, merchant, 
was born March 2, 1831, in Ireland. In 
1850 he visited the United States, and 
settled here permanently in 1851, finding 
employment first in a firm of commission 
and shipping merchants; and in 1858 with 
David Dows & Co. In 1861 he was ad¬ 
mitted as a partner, having been elected 
to membership in the Produce exchange 
in 1859. 

ORRIS, S. STANHOPE, educator, au¬ 
thor. was born Feb. 19, 1838, in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. Since 1877 he has been professor 
of Greek language and literature in 
Princeton University. He is the author 
of Greek Text of The Teaching of the 
Twelve Apostles. 

OSBORN, HERBERT, zoologist, ento¬ 
mologist, author, was born March 19, 1856, 
in Lafayette, Wis. Since 1890 he has been 
entomologist of experiment station; be¬ 
coming in 1898 state entomologist of Iowa. 
He is the author of Insects Affecting Do¬ 
mestic Animals. 

OSBORNE, ADRIENNE, musician, com¬ 
poser. was born in Buffalo, N. Y. For her 
interpretation of Carmen she received 
gold medals from the Prince of Sonder- 
shausen and Duke of Altenburg. 

OSBORNE. JOHN BALL, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born June 24, 1869. in Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa. Since 1897 he has been joint 
secretary of Reciprocity Commission at 
Washington, D. C. He is the author of 
The Story of Arlington. 

OSBORNE, THOMAS O., soldier, law¬ 
yer, diplomat, was born Aug. 11, 1832, in 
Jersey, Ohio. At the beginning of the 
civil war he offered his services to 
the government and devoted his 
time and means to the organization 
of the thirty-ninth Illinois regiment, 
of which he became lieutenant-colonel and 
afterward colonel. For services he was 
made brigadier-general of volunteers. His 
other services throughout the war were 
recognized by promotion to the rank of 
brevet major-general of volunteers. In 
1874-85 he was accredited as consul-gen¬ 
eral and minister-resident to the Argen¬ 
tine Republic. 

OSGOOD. EMMA ALINE, singer, was 
born about 1852, in Boston, Mass. Her 
first appearance in public was made in 
Boston, when she was so successful that 
she was engaged for two years to sing in 
Canada and the United States. 


OSGOOD, GEORGE LAURIE, musician, 
composer, was born April 3, 1844, m 

Chelsea, Mass. Since 1872 he has lived fn 
Boston as a much-sought vocal teacher; 
and since 1875 has been conductor of the 
Boylston Club. He is the author of Guide 
in the Art of Singing. 

OSTERBERG, MAX, electrical engineer, 
author, was born June 12, 1869, in Ger¬ 
many. In 1894 he gave courses of lec¬ 
tures on Electrical Engineering; and in 
1S95 was appointed Fellow in Mechanics 
at Columbia University. While editor of 
the Electric Power, he published a Synop¬ 
sis of Current Electrical Literature. 

OSTERHAUS, PETER JOSEPH, sol¬ 
dier, manufacturer, was born about 1820 
in Germany. At the beginning of the civil 
war he entered the National service as 
major of the second Missouri volunteers. 
He was commissioned brigadier-general 
of volunters in 1862. He was in the At¬ 
lanta campaign, the march through 
Georgia, and the compaign of the Caro- 
linas, being promoted major-general in 
1864. In 1866 he became consul at Lyons, 

OTERO, MIGUEL ANTONIO, banker, 
governor, was born Oct. 17, 1859, in St. 
Louis, Mo. In 1897-1901 he was governor 
of New Mexico. 

OTT, EDWARD AMHERST, educator, 
lecturer, author, was born Nov. 27, 1867, 
in Youngstown, Ohio. He is dean of 
Drake University College of Oratory and 
English at Des Moines, Iowa. He is the 
author of How to Gesture; How to Use 
the Voice in Reading and Speaking; Sour 
Grapes; and Philip Guard, a novel. 

OVENSHINE, SAMUEL, soldier, was 
born in Pennsylvania. In 1861 he was 
appointed from Maryland as 2d lieutenant 
5th infantry; and attained the rank of 
captain in 1864. In 1898 he was appointed 
brigadier-general in United States volun¬ 
teers; and placed in command of brigade 
in Philippine Islands. 

OVINGTON, IRENE HELEN, nurse, in¬ 
ventor, author, was born Dec. 21, 1836, in 
New York City. She is secretary of 
Training School for Nurses of Brooklyn. 
N. Y. She is an inventor of conveniences 
for sick room. She is the author of Helps 
to Home Nursing. 

PACKARD. JOSEPH, clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, was born Dec. 23, 1812, in Wiscasset, 
Maine. In 1834-36 he was professor of 
ancient languages at Bristol College, Pa.; 
and in 1836-90 was professor of sacred 
literature in the P. E. theological semin¬ 
ary near Alexandria, Va; and became pro¬ 
fessor emeritus in 1892. For fifteen years 
he was dean of the institution. He is the 
author of Commentary on Malachi; and 
Recollections of a Long Life. 

PADGETT, LEMUEL PHILLIPS, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 28, 1855, in Columbia, Tenn. Since 
1879 he has been actively engaged in the 
practice of law in Columbia, Tenn. In 
1896 he was elected to the Tennessee state 
senate. He was elected to the fifty- 
seventh congress as a democrat. 

PAGE, CURTIS HIDDEN, educator, 
author, poet, was born April 4, 1870, in 
Greenwood, Mo. He is an extension lec¬ 
turer on English literature; and since 
1895 lecturer in Romance languages and 
literatures in Columbia University ot 
New York City. He translated A Voy¬ 
age to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac; 
and is the author of poems, essays, stor¬ 
ies in leading magazines. 

PAGE. HENRY, lawyer, jurist. He is 
associate justice of the court of appeals 
of Maryland. 


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lxxxi 


PAGE, SAMUEL D\VIS, lawyer, fin¬ 
ancier, was born Sept. 22, 1840, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He entered public life by 
election to the Philadelphia city councils; 
and subsequently to the office of city 
comptroller. In 1886 he was appointed 
assistant treasurer of the United States. 
PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW, journalist, 
author, was born July 10, 1861, in New 
Bedford, Mass. He is editor of the chil¬ 
dren’s department in New \ork Sunday 
Herald. He is the author of Autobiog¬ 
raphy of a Monkey; The Mystery of Eve¬ 
lyn Delorme; The Arkansaw Bear; The 
Hollow Tree; and Rhymes by Two 
Friends. 

PAINE, CHARLES, civil engineer, au¬ 
thor, was born April 25, 1830. in Haver¬ 
hill, N. H. Since 1891 he has been con¬ 
sulting engineer in New York City. He is 
the author of Elements of Railroading. 

PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, lawyer, 
legislator, philanthropist, was bon 
Oct. 28, 1835, in Boston, Mass. 

He practiced law until 1870; 
then retired. In 1879 he organized Well 
Memorial Workingmen’s Institution, and 
is its president; also president Working¬ 
men’s Cooperative Bank; Workingmen’s 
Building Association; Workingmen’s 
Loan Association; and since 1878 presi¬ 
dent of Associated Charities of Boston, 
Mass. In 1884 he was a member of the 
Massachusetts legislature. With his wife 
he created and endowed with two hundred 
thousand dollars a trust for charitable 
purposes, named the Robert Treat Pain 
Association. 

PAINTER. FRANKLIN NEWTON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born April 12, 1852. in 
Hampshire county, Va. Since 1882 he 
has been professor of modern languages 
in Roanoke College. He is the author of 
History of Christian Worship; and other 
works. , 

PALMER, ABRAHAM JOHN, soldier, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 18, 1817, 
in Frenchtown, N. J. In 1861-64 he was a 
private in company D, 48th regiment New 
York state volunteers. He is editor of 
World Wide Missions, i.e is the author 
of History 48th Regiment New York 
State Volunteers. 

PALMER, ERASTUS DOW, sculptor, 
was born April 2, 1817, in Pompey. N. Y. 
Among his best known works are The In¬ 
fant Ceres; Morning and Evening; Peace 
in Bondage; The Angel of the Sepulchre; 
and The White Captive. 

PALMER, FRANK WAYLAND, jour¬ 
nalist, publisher, congressman, was born 
Oct. 11, 1827, in Manchester Ind. In 1858- 
61 he was editor and joint publisher of 
Dubuque Times; and in 1861-68 was state 
printer of Iowa. In 1869-73 he was a 
member of congress. In 1874-76 he was 
editor-in-chief of Chicago Inter-Ocean: 
and postmaster of Chicago in 1877-8j. 
Since 1889 he has been public printer of 
the United States government. 

PALMER, JOHN WILLIAMSON, physi¬ 
cian. journalist, author, poet, was born 
April 4, 1825, in Baltimore Md. In 1849 
50 he was first city physician of San 
Francisco, Cal. During the civil war he 
was Confederate war correspondent tor 
the New York Tribune. He is the au¬ 
thor of The New and The Old; The Beau¬ 
ties and Curiosities of Engraving: and 
other works. 

PALMER, THEODORE SHERMAN, 
naturalist, author, was born Jan. 26, 1868, 
in Oakland. Cal. Since 1889 he has been 
in United States Department of Agricul¬ 
ture; and since 1896 has been assistant 


chief of biological survey. He is the au¬ 
thor of Jack Rabbits of the United States; 
Extermination of Noxious Animals by 
Bounties; and List of Generic and Fam¬ 
ily Names of Rodents. 

PALMER, THOMAS WITHERELL. 
merchant, diplomat, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Jan. 25, 1830, in Detroit, 
Mich. He made a pedestrian tour in Spain 
and traveled in South America; and after¬ 
ward was a merchant in Appleton, Wis. 
In 1855 he became a lumber merchant and 
mill-owner in Michigan. In 1878 he was 
a member of the Michigan state senate. 
In 1883 he was United States senator as a 
republican. He was United States minis¬ 
ter to Spain in 1889-92. In 1892-93 he 
was president of the World’s Columbian 
Commission. 

PALMEY. FREDERICK, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 29, 1873, in Pleasant- 
ville, Pa. He was newspaper correspon¬ 
dent in London in 1895-97; Greco-Thrkish 
war in 1897; in the Klondike and Alaska 
in 1898; in the Philippines in 1899-1900; 
and Peking relief expedition in 1900. He 
is the author of The Story of a Little 
War; In the Klondike; and The Ways of 
the Service. 

PAMMELL, MARY PLATE, authoi. 
was born in Albany, N. Y. She is the 
author of Historical Lines; Metaphysical 
S,tories; and Philosophical Essays. 

PANCOAST, HENRY SPACEMAN, edu¬ 
cator. author, was born Aug. 24, 1858, in 
Germantown. Pa. He is the author of 
Representative English Literature; Intro¬ 
duction to English Literature; and In¬ 
troduction to American Literature. 

PARET, JAHIAL PARMLY, journalist, 
author, was born Oct. 3. 1870, in Bergen 
Point. N. J. He has been editor of the 
New York Sun, Tribune, Herald, and 
Times; and is a special writer and au¬ 
thority on amateur sports. 

PARKER, ALTON BROOKS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born May 14. 1852. in Cortland. 
N. Y. In 1885 he became judge of the 
supreme court; and since 1898 has been 
chief judge of the court of appeals of 
New York. 

PARKER, MRS. BESSIE CHANDLER 
journalist, author, was born in 1856, in 
Batavia, N. Y. She is a daughter of 
Rear-Admiral Ralph Chandler; and the 
wife of LeRoy Parker of Michigan. Sh° 
is the author of A Woman Who Failed. 

PARKER. FRANK WILSON, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 16, 1860. in Sturgis 
Mich. Since 1881 he has practiced law in 
Hillsboro, N. M. Since 1898 he has been 
associate justice of the supreme court of 
New Mexico. 

PARKER, HENRY RUST, educator, 
physician, surgeon, was born Jan. 24, 1836 
in Wolfboro, N. H. For many years he 
was engaged in educational work, in 
1881 he removed to Dover, N. H.; became 
county examining surgeon for pensions: 
and president of the board. In 1890 he 
was elected mayor of Dover, the first 
democratic mayor the city ever had. 

* PARKER. HORATIO WILLIAM, must 
cian. composer, was born Sept. 15, 1863, in 
Auburn dale. Mass. In 1894 he was called 
to the chair of music at Yale University. 
He is the author of numerous composi¬ 
tions. 

PARKER. MRS. JANE MARSH.author. 
was born June 16, 1836. in Milan. N. Y. 
She is the author of The Midnight Cry; 
and other works. 

PARKER, LEONARD FLETCHER, 
soldier, educator, legislator, author, was 


born Aug. 3, 1825, in Arcade, N. Y. He is 
emeritus professor of history in Iowa Col¬ 
lege. He attained the rank of lieutenant 
in the Union army in 1864. In 1868-70 he 
was a member of the Iowa legislature. He 
is the author of History of Education in 
Iowa. 

PARKHURST. HOWARD ELMORE, 
musician, author, was born Sept. 13, 1848, 
in Ashland, Mass. He is a composer of 
oratorio, cantata, church music, orchestral 
symphonies and overture. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Birds’ Calendar; Songbirds 
ui X.iisuuaqo jo jossajoud uaaq suq 
aq 0681 aouig ’ssuh ‘ojoqiJreM Avafq ui 
‘>981 '2Z qo-miM ujoq sb.w ‘joqinu ’isitaaqo 

VIOHHLVT SaDMVHO ’SNOSHYd 
and Waterfowl; anu How to Name tbe 
Birds. 

PARLANCE, CHARLES, lawyer, state 
senator, lieutenant-governor, jurist, was 
born July 23, 1851, in New Orleans, La. 
In 1879 he was a delegate to constitu¬ 
tional convention; and member of the 
T ouisiana state senate in 1880-85. In 1885- 
89 he was United States attorney for the 
eastern district of Louisiana; and lieu- 
tenant-governor of Louisiana in 1892-93. 
In 1893-94 he was associate justice of 
Louisiana supreme court; and since 1894 
has been United States judge for the east¬ 
ern district of Louisiana. 

PARRISH, STEPHEN, artist, was born 
July 9, 1846. He was engaged in mercan¬ 
tile pursuits until his thirtieth year, when 
he applied himself to art. 

Hampshire College. He is the author ot 
Mineralogy; Crystallography; and Blow 
pipe Analysis. 

PARSONS, E. A., musician, composer. 
Since 1894 he has been organist and 
choir-director of the Church of the lJi 
vine Paternity ot New lorlc City. He is 
the author of Legend of the Fountai... 

PARSONS, FRANK N., lawyer, jurist, 
associate justice of supreme court of New 
Hampshire. 

PARSONS, JAMES RUSSELL, educator, 
author, was born in February, 1861, in 
Hoosick Falls, N. Y. He is secretary ol 
the University of the State of New York. 
He is the author of French Schools; Prus¬ 
sian Schools; and several other educa¬ 
tional works. 

PARSONS. WILLIAM BARCLAY, civil 
engineer, author, was born April 15, 1859. 
He is chief engineer Rapid Transit Com¬ 
mission of New York City. He is chief 
of engineers, and brigadier-general in Na¬ 
tional Guard in the state of New York. 
He is the author of Track; Turnouts; and 
An American Engineer in China. 

BARTON, HENRY WOODBRIDGE, art¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 28, 1858, in Hudson. N. 
Y. He has had no regular art-instruction, 
but began to exhibit in the Academy of 
design in 1878. He exhibited in the Roy¬ 
al Academy, London, in the spring of 
1884. 

PASMORE, HENRY BICKFORD, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born June 27, 1857, in 
Jackson, Wis. He is organist of St. 
John’s Episcopal church; and professor 
singing in the University of the Pacific. 
San Jose. He is the author of Conclave 
March: and Miles Standish. 

PATON, LEWIS BAYLES, theologian, 
author, was born June 27, 1864, in New 
York City. He is professor of theology 
in Hartford Theological Seminary. He 
is the author of Early History of Syria 
and Palestine. , 

PATRICK, GEORGE THOMAS WHITE, 
educator, author, was born Aug. 19, 1857. 
in North Boscawen, N. H. Since 1887 


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he has been professor of philosophy in 
University of Iowa. He is the author of 
The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus 
of Ephesus. 

PARTRIDGE, EDWARD LASELL, 
physician, author, was horn Sept. 27, 1853, 
in Newton, Mass. He has been phy¬ 
sician to the New York nursery and 
child’s hospital since 1881; and surgeon 
to the Maternity hospital in 1884-86. He 
was instructor in obstetrics in the New 
York college of physicians and surgeons 
for several years; professor in the New 
York post-graduate medical school in 
1883-85; and later was visiting physician 
to the New York hospital. He is the au¬ 
thor of a Manual of Obstetrics. 

PATTEE, WILLIAM SULLIVAN, law¬ 
yer. legislator, author, was born Sept. 19. 
1846, in Jackson. Maine. In 1884 he was 
elected a member of the Minnesota legis¬ 
lature. He is the author of Illustrative 
Cases in Realty; Elements of Contracts; 
and Elements of Equity. 

PATTERSON, CHARLES BRODIE. lec¬ 
turer, author, was born March 19, 1854, 
in Canada. He is an instructor in the 
art of breathing. He is the author of 
Seeking the Kingdom; Beyond the 
Clouds; New Thought Essays; and 
Studies in Spiritual Science. . 

PATTERSON, MRS. JOHNSON MAR¬ 
THA, was born Oct. 25, 1828, in Green¬ 
ville. Tenn. In 1857 she married Judge 
David T. Patterson. She presided at the 
White House in place of her invalid 
mother; and with her sister assisted in 
the first reception that was held by Pres¬ 
ident Johnson in 1866. 

PATTERSON, MALCOLM RICE, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born June 7. 1861. 
in Somerville, Ala. In 1894-1900 he was 
attorney-general for Shelby county, Tenn. 
He was elected to the fifty-seventh con¬ 
gress from Tennessee as a democrat. 

PATTERSON, ROBERT WiLSON, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Nov. 30, 1850, in Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. He became a reporter on th' 
Chicago Times; then on The Interior; 
and since 1873 has been with the Chi¬ 
cago Tribune. On the death of Josepo 
Medill, he became editor-in-chief. 

PATTON, NORM AND SMITH, archi¬ 
tect, was born July 10. 1852, in Hartford, 
Conn. In 1897-98 he was architect for 
board of education of Chicago, Ill.; and 
designed many school and institute build¬ 
ings in that city and elsewhere. He is 
president of Chicago Municipal Improve¬ 
ment League. 

PAUL, JOHN RODMAN, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 6, 1852, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is president Philadelphia 
College Settlement. He is the author of 
Digest of Acts and Decisions Relating to 
Passenger Railways. 

PAYNE, JOHN BAR x ON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 26, 1855, in Prunty- 
town, Va. In 1889 he was president of the 
Chicago Law Institute. In 1893-98 he was 
judge of the superior court of Cook Coun¬ 
ty, Ill. 

PAYNE. OLIVER A., capitalist, philan¬ 
thropist. He is one of the principal own¬ 
ers and managers of the Standard Oil Co. 
In 1898 he gave $1,500,000 for the endow¬ 
ment of a medical school at Cornell uni¬ 
versity. . 

PAYNE, WILLIAM HUDSON, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Jan. 9. 1865, in 
Whiteside county, Ill. Since 1897 he has 
been financial editor of the The Econo¬ 
mist of Chicago, Ill. He is the author 
of Jerry, the Dreamer; and The Money 
Captain. 


PAYNE, WILLIAM HENRY, soldier, 
was born June 15, 1830, in Clifton, Fau¬ 
quier county, Va. At the beginning 
of the civil war he raised and organized 
the Black horse cavalry and was its first 
captain, commanding it at the battle ox 
Bull Run. He was made lieutenant-colonel 
of the 4th Virginia cavalry in 1862; 
colonel in September, 1863; and brigadier- 
general in the Confederate service m 
1864. 

PAYSON, WILLIAM FARQUHAR, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in New York 
City. He is the author of The Copymalt- 
er, a story of newspaper life; and The 
Title-mongers. 

PEABODY, CECIL HOBART, naval 
architect, author, was born Aug. 9, 1855, 
in Burlington, Vt. Since 1893 he has been 
professor of marine engineering and naval 
architecture in the Massachusetts Insti¬ 
tute of Technology. He is the author of 
Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine; 
Valve Gear for Steam Engines; and Man 
ual of Steam Engine Indicator. 

PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD, 
clergyman, theologian, author, was born 
in 1847, in Boston, Mass. Since 1886 he 
has been Plummer professor of Christian 
morals in Harvard university. He is the 
author of Mornings in the college Chapel; 
Short Addresses to Young Men on Per¬ 
sonal Religion; Founder’s Day at Hamp¬ 
ton; and Afternoons in the College 
Chapel. 

PEABODY, GEORGE HARMAN, art 
writer, philanthropist, was born in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He is the chief founder of 
the free and Unsectarian Peabody Home 
for Aged and Indigent Women. 

PEABODY, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born April 14, 1838, in Gilead. 
Maine. In 1880-1900 he was judge of pro¬ 
bate for Cumberland county, Maine. 
Since 1900 he has been justice of the su¬ 
preme judicial court of Maine. 

PEABODY, JOSEPHINE PRESTON, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in New York City. 
She is the author of Old Greek Folk- 
Stories; The Wayfarers; A Book of 
Verse; Fortune and Men’s Eyes; New 
Poems with a Play. 

PEACOCK, VIRGINIA TATNALL, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Jan. 7, 1873, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. She is the author of 
Famous American Belles of the Nine¬ 
teenth Century. 

PEAKE. ELMORE ELLIOTT, author, 
was born March 25, 1871, in Decatur,Ohio. 
He has been private secretary to presi¬ 
dents of several railroad companies. He 
is the author of The Darlingtons. a novel 
of modern American life. 

PEALE, ALBERT CHARLES, ge¬ 
ologist, author, was born April 1, 1849 
in Hecksherville, Pa. Since 1898 he has 
been geologist-aid in section of paleo¬ 
botany of the United States National 
Museum. He is the author of Yellow¬ 
stone National Park and American 
Springs; The Classification of American 
Mineral Waters; Mineral Springs of the 
United States; and The Natural Mineral 
Waters of the United States. 

PEARCE, JAMES ALFRED, lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 2, 1840, in Ches- 
tertown, Md. Since 1897 he has been 
judge of the court of appeals of Mary¬ 
land. 

PEARCE, STEPHEN AUSTEN, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Nov. 7, 1836, 
in London, England. In 1879-85 he was 
Organist of the Collegiate Church of New 
York City. He is the author of several 
operas and other compositions. 


PEARRE, GEORGE ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, congressman, was born July 16, 
1860, in Cumberland, Md. In 1890 he was 
elected to the state senate of Maryland. 
In 1887 he became a member of the Mary¬ 
land National Guard; and in 1889 was 
commissioned lieutenant-colonel. He was 
elected to the fifty-sixth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

PEARSE, CARROLL GARDNER, edu¬ 
cator, was born Nov. 2, 1858, in Tabor, 
Iowa. Since 1895 he has been superin¬ 
tendent of city schools of Omaha, Neb. 
He has been president Nebraska State 
Teachers’ Association; president Nebra- 
braska Schoolmasters’ Club. 

PEARSON, EDWARD N., journalist, 
public official, was born Sept. 7, 1859. in 
Boscawen, N. H. In 1882-98 he was editor 
Concord Evening Monitor; public printer 
of New Hampshire in 1893-97; and since 
1899 secretary of state. 

PEARY, MRS. JOSEPHINE DlE- 
BxTSCH. arctic traveler, author, was born 
in Washington, D. C. She is the wife 
of Lieutenant R. E. Peary, explorer; and 
accompanied him on his 1891-92 and 1893- 
94 expeditions as far as winter quarters 
in Greenland. She was the first white 
woman to winter with an arctic expedi¬ 
tion; and gave birth to a daughter, the 
most northerly born white child in 
world. She accompanied her husband on 
his arctic trip in 1897. She is the au¬ 
thor of My Arctic Journal. 

PEARY, ROBERT EDWIN, civil en¬ 
gineer, explorer, author, was born May 
6, 1856, in Cresson, Pa. In 1887-88 he was 
engineer in charge of Nicaragua Canal 
surveys; and invented rolling-lock gates 
for canal. He has made several arctic ex¬ 
plorations; and in 1894 discovered *’he 
famous Iron Mountain;in 1898 again start¬ 
ed North to endeavor to place the Amer- 
can flag at North Pole. He is the au¬ 
thor of Northward Over the Great Ice. 
a Complete Narrative of Arctic Work. 

PEASE, ERNEST MONDELL, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 24. 1859. in West 
Union, Iowa. He is professor of Latin in 
Leland Stanford Jr. University of Cali¬ 
fornia. He is the author of Relative 
Value of Manuscripts of Terence; an- 1 
The Development of Latin Satire. 

PEASLEE. ROBERT JAMES, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Sept. 23. 1864, in Weare. 
N. H. Since 1898 he has been associate 
justice of the supreme court of New 
Hampshire. 

PECH. JAMES, musician, lecturer, was’ 
born Dec. 23. 1830, in England. Id 186fi 
he was appointed an organist of Trinity 
parish of New York City. He subse¬ 
quently established the church music as¬ 
sociation, by which Mozart’s Requiem 
and Beethoven’s Mass in D, with an. or¬ 
chestra of ninety and a chorus of four 
hundred were produced for the first time 
in America. 

PECKHAM, GEORGE W., soldier, edu¬ 
cator, librarian, author, was born in 1845 
in Albany, N. Y. During the civil war he 
attained the rank of lieutenant. He has 
attained success in educational work;has 
been principal of the high school at Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis.; and librarian Milwaukee 
public library. He is the author of nu¬ 
merous scientific works. 

PECK, HIRAM DAVID, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 23, 1844, in Harri¬ 
son county, Ky. He was private company 
A, 86th Ohio infantry in 1862. In 1876 
he was city solicitor of Cincinnati, Ohio; 
and in 1883-89 judge of the superior court 
of Cincinnati. 


ADDENDA. 


lxxxiii 


PEEBLES, JAMES MARTIN, physi¬ 
cian, journalist, author, was born March 
23, 1822, in Whitingham, Vt. He is edi¬ 
tor and proprietor of Temple of Health 
of Battle Creek, Mich. He has three 
times circumnavigated the globe, lectur¬ 
ing in New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, 
India, South Africa, Palestine and Egypt. 
He is the author of Seers of the ages; 
Immortality and Our Homes Hereafter; 
How to Live a Century and Grow Old 
Gracefully; Three Journeys Around the 
World; and The Christ Question Settled. 

PEGRAM, ROBERT BAKER, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Dec. 10, 1811, in Dinwiddie 
county, Va. In 1847 be served in the 
Mexican war; and in 1852 took part in the 
Japan expedition. He served in the Nor¬ 
folk navy-yard in 1856-58; in the Para¬ 
guay expedition in 1858; and in 1859 was 
a commissioner to define the limits of 
the Newfoundland fisheries. He resign¬ 
ed from the United States navy in 1861; 
became a captain in the Virginia service; 
commanded at the navy yard of Norfolk 
after its evacuation by the United States 
forces; and erected a battery at Pig 
Point, Nansemond river, with whic 
he disabled the United States steamer 
Harriet Lane, which was surveying the 
river and -placing buoys. In 1864 a fund 
was raised in Virginia to purchase and 
equip in England a naval force to be 
called the Virginia volunteer navy, and to 
be commanded by him. 

PEIRCE, MRS. MELUSINA FAY. found¬ 
er, author, was born Feb. 24, 1836. in 
Burlington, Vt. She originated theories 
of Co-operative Housekeeping and Co-op¬ 
erative Farming; and organized the Bos¬ 
ton Woman’s Educational Association, 
Woman’s Philharmonic Society of New 
York, and other associations of women. 
In 1869 she was president of the first 
Woman’s Parliament ever held in New 
York city. She is the author of Co-oper¬ 
ative Housekeeping, How Not to Do It 
and How to Do It. 

PELOUBET, FRANCIS NATHAN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Dec. 2, 1831. in 
New York city. He is the author of 
Selected Notes on the International Sun¬ 
day School Lessons, twenty-five annual 
volumes in 1875-99. 

PENFIELD, FREDERIC COURTLAND. 
journalist, diplomat, author, was born 
April 23, 1855, in Connecticut. In 1893- 
97 he was diplomatic agent and consul- 
general to Egypt. He is the author of 
Present Day Egypt. 

PENFIELD, SAMUEL LEWIS, mintr- 
alogist, author, was born Jan. 16, 1856, in 
Catskill, N. Y. He is professor of min¬ 
eralogy in Yale university. He is the 
author of Brush-Penfield Determinative 
Mineralogy and Blow-Pipe Analysis. 

PENHALLOW, CHARLES S., was bo-: 
May 10, 1852. He is prominent in the 
public affairs of Massachusetts at Boston. 

PENNEWIEL, JAMES, lawyer, jurist. 
He is associate justice of the court of 
errors and appeals of Delaware. 

PENNIMAN, JOSIAH HARMAR, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born July 20, 1868, in 
Concord, Mass. He is dean of the col¬ 
lege and assistant professor of English 
literature in University of Pennsylvania. 
He is the author of The War of the 
Theatres, a study of an incident in the 
history of the Elizabethan drama. 

PENNINGTON, ALEXANDER CUM¬ 
MINGS, soldier, was born Jan. 8, 1836, in 
Newark. N. J. Since 1898 he has been 
brigadier-general of United States volun¬ 
teers. 


PENNINGTON, JEANNE G., educator, 
author, was born in New Castle county, 
Del. She became a teacher; and had 
a private school in Chester, Pa. She is 
the author of Some Marked Passages; 
and Life’s Fitful Fever. 

PENNINGTON, WILLIAM, congress¬ 
man, governor. He was governor ana 
chancellor of the state of New Jersey for 
many years; and also speaker of the 
United States house of representatives. 

PENNOCK, ANNA M., psychologist, 
author, was born in Lancaster county, Pa. 
In 1894 she began teaching classes, pri¬ 
vate pupils; and lecturing on practical 
psychology. She is the author of Creative 
Force in Vegetable, Animal and Human 
World; Inside Our Own Doors; A Key to 
Success; The Thought Circle; and 
Thoughts and Words. 

PENNYPACKER, u^LUSHA, soldL 
was born June 1, 1844, in Chester county. 
Pa. He is colonel and breveted major- 
general in the United States army, retir¬ 
ed. 

PENROSE, CHARLES BINGHAM, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Feb. 1, 1862, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He has been surgeon 
to Gynecean hospital of Philadelphia from 
its foundation in 1887. He is the author 
of Text Book of Diseases of Women. 

PENROSE. WILLIAM HENRY, soldier, 
inventor, was born March 10, 1832, in 
Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y. In 1865 he was 
commissioned a brigadier-general of vol¬ 
unteers. During the war he won the 
brevets in the regular army, including 
that of brigadier-general. Ini 1896 he was 
retired. He invented several mechanical 
devices; and a set of infantry equip¬ 
ments which was recommended by a 
board of officers. 

PEPPER. CHARLES M., journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 11, 1860, in Ohio. 
In 1901 he was a delegate to the P' 
American congress. He is the author of 
To-morrow in Cuba. 

PEPPER, GEORGE WHARTON, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1867, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is the author of The 
Borderland of Federal and State deci¬ 
sions : Pleading at Common Law and Un¬ 
der the Codes; and Digest of Decisions 
and Encyclopaedia of Pennsylvania Law, 
1754-1898. 

PEPPER, JOHN R., merchant, author, 
was born April 6, 1850, in Montgomery 
county, Va. He is a member of the In¬ 
ternational Sunday School executive and 
and lesson committee. He is president of 
Hernando Insurance company. He is the 
author of Modern Sunday School Superin¬ 
tendent; Quiver Tips for Lovers of Sun¬ 
day School Work; and Tried Plans of 
Sunday School Work. 

PERABO, ERNST, musician, composer, 
was born Nov. 14, 1845, in Germany. 
Since 1866 he has given concerts in the 
vest an,d at Boston which established his 
reputation as a concert-pianist. He is 
a well-known and influential teacher. He 
is the author of various original piano¬ 
forte compositions. 

PERCIVAL, HENRY ROBERT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1854, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. Since 1880 he has been 
rector of Church of the Evangelist of 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of 
The Doctrine of the Episcopal Church; 
The Glories of the Episcopal Church; a? 

A Digest of Theology. 

PEREA, PEDRO, banker, congressman, 
was born April 22, 1852. in Bernalillo, 
N. M. He has been principally engaged 
in farming and sheep raising; and was 


at one time president of the First Nation¬ 
al Bank of Santa Fe. He was four 
times a member of the council of the New 
Mexico legislature. He was elected to 
the fifty-sixth congress from New Mexico 
as a republican. 

PERKINS, CHARLES ALBERT, elec¬ 
tric engineer, author, was born Oct. 31, 
1858, in Ware, Mass. Since 1892 he has 
been professor of physics and electric en¬ 
gineering in the University of Tennessee. 
He is the author of Outlines of Electric¬ 
ity and Magnetism. 

PERRY, ALEXANDER JAivIEo, soldier, 
was born Dec. 11, 1828, in New London, 
Conn. He served against Seminole In¬ 
dians and was professor of mathematics 
at West Point in 1852-57. He reached 
brevet rank of brigadier-general in United 
States army; and retired in 1890. 

PERRY, ANTONIO, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Jan. 5, 1871, in Honolulu, H. I. Since 
1900 he has been associate justice of the 
supreme court of Territory oj. Hawaii. 

PERRY, J. FRANK, physician, author, 
was horn July 11, 1846, in Biddeford, 
Maine. He entered the United States 
navy in 1862, and served until near the 
close of the civil war. In 1873-86 r 
practiced medicine in Boston, Mass. He 
is the author of Friend in Need; Health 
in Our Homes; Health of Our Children; 
Kennel Secrets; Kennel Diseases; and 
Dogs in Health and Disease. 

PERSHING, CYRUS L., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Feb. 3, 1825, in 
Youngstown, Pa. In 1862-66 he was a 
member of the Pennsylvania legislatin' 
He has been a candidate for congress and 
for judge of the supreme court. In 1?72- 
99 he was presiding judge of the court of 
Schuylkill county, Pa.; and presided over 
the famous Mollie McGuire trials. 

PETERS, JOHN PUNNETT.clergyma 
theologian, author, was born Dec. 16, 1852. 
in New York city. Since 1893 he has 
b^en rector of St. Michael’s church of 
New York city. He is the author of 
Scriptures, Hebrew and Christian. 

PETERS, WILLIAM E., soldier, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Aug. 18, 1829,’Id 
Bedford county, Va. Since 1886 he has 
been profesor of Latin in University of 
Virginia. He is the author of Work on 
Latin Case Relations; and Syntax of Lat¬ 
in Verb. 

PETTEY, CHARLES CALVIN, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, bishop, was born Dec. J, 
1849, near Wilkesboro, N. C. He Is of 
African descent, and was born a slave, 
but acquired an education by his own 
efforts; and in 1878 was graduated at 
Biddle university of Chanotte, N. C. U 
then became a teacher; entered the min¬ 
istry of the African Methodist Episcopal 
Zion church; and later became bishop. 
Ho is the author of Events By the Way. 

PHELAN, RICHARD, clergyman, bish¬ 
op, was born Jan. 1, 1828, in Ireland. 
Since 1899 he has been Roman Catholic 
bishon of Pittsburg, Pa. 

PHELPS, ELLSWORTH C., musician, 
composer, was born Aug. 11, 1827, in Mid¬ 
dletown, Conn. He has held various im¬ 
portant positions as organist; and has 
taught in the public schools for more than 
thirty years, principally in Brooklyn, N. 
Y. He is the author of two comic op¬ 
eras; sacred operetta; and other composi¬ 
tions. 

PHILIPPOTEAUX, PAUL, artist, was 
born Jan. 27, 1846, in France. He is a 
noted artist of New York city. 

PHILIPSON, DAVID, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 9, 1862, in Wabash, 



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Ind. He is professor of homiletics in the 
Hebrew Union college of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
He is the author of The Jew in English 
Fiction; and The Oldest Jewish Congrega¬ 
tion in the West. 

PHILLIPS, FREMONT ORESTES, was 
born March 16, 1856, in Lafayette, Ohio. 
Since 1880 he has been engaged ifi the 
practice of law in Medina, Ohio, with 
the exception of six years during which 
he held the office of probate judge of Me¬ 
dina county. He was elected to the fifty- 
sixth congress from Ohio as a republican. 

PHILLIPS. GEORGE L.. lawyer, jurist, 
was born March 2, 1844, at Keokuk. Iowa. 
He is a lawyer of Cleveland, Ohio; and 
was judge of the court of common pleas 
ten years in 1884-94. He is the author 
of Phillips on Code Pleading. 

PHILLIPS, HENRY WALLACE, artist, 
author, was born Jan. 11, 1869. in New 
York city. He was assistant editor of 
St. Nicholas. He is the author of Fa¬ 
bles for the Times. 

PHILLIPS. JOHN HERBERT, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 12, 1852, in Hirm- 
ingbam, Ala. In 1895 he was president 
of the Southern Educational association. 
He is the author of History and Litera¬ 
ture in Grammar Schools; and The Negro 
and Education. 

PHILLIPS, MORRIS, journalist, author, 
was born May 9, 1834. in London, Eng¬ 
land. Since 1854 he has been editor of 
the Home Journal of New York city. He 
is the author of Abroad and at Home. 

PHILLIPS, WALTER POLK, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born June 14, 1846. in 
Grafton, Mass. In 1870 he became man¬ 
aging editor of the Providence Herald: 
and two years later founded the Attleboro 
Chronicle. He is superintendent of the 
Associated Telegraph Line; and is the in¬ 
ventor of Phillips’ System of steno-teleg- 
raphy. He is the author of a volume of 
stories. 

PIER. ARTHUR STANWOOD. journ¬ 
alist, author, was born April 21, 1874, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. Since 1896 he has been 
associate editor of Youth’s Companion. 
He is the author of The Pedagogues: and 
The Sentimentalists. 

PIERSON, JOHN FRED, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, was born Feb. 25, 1839, in N$w 
York city. In 1865 he was breveted brig¬ 
adier-general for gallant and meritorious 
services during the civil war. Since 1866 
he has been a merchant of New York 
city. He is president of the Army and 
Navy club of New York city. 

PICOTT. WILLIAM 1 RIGG, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 3, 1861, in Boonville. 
Mo. Since 1897 he has been associate 
justice of the supreme court of Montana. 

PIKE, ROBERT GORDON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born July 28, 1851, in Rollins 
ford, N. H. Since 1896 he has been as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of 
New Hampshire. 

PILLSBURY, JOHN ELIOT, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Dec. 15, 1846, in Lowell. 
Mass. During the civil war he was 
a page in the house of representatives 
at Washington. He graduated from the 
naval academy; and has been stationed 
at the Boston navy yard and on various 
war-ships with the rank of lieutenant 
commander. He is the author of Dan¬ 
gers of the South Pacific; Atlantic Coast 
Pilot; Charts and Chart-making; and The 
Gulf Stream. 

PILSBRY, HENRY A., conchologist, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 8, 1862, in Iowa City, 
Iowa. He is now conservator of concholog- 


ical section and professor of malacology 
in Academy of Natural Sciences of Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He is the author of Th> 
Manual of Conchology, in sixteen vol¬ 
umes; and Guide to the Study of Helices. 

PINCHOT, GIFFORD, horticulturist, 
author, was born Aug. 11, 1865, in Sims¬ 
bury, Conn. Since 1898 he has been for¬ 
ester in the United States Department 
of Agriculture. He is the author of The 
White Pine; and The Adirondack Spruce. 

PINKERTON, SAMUEL JOHNSON, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, poet, was born March 
27, 1820, in Chester county, Pa. For over 
half a century he has been a clergyman 
of the Protestant Episcopal church; and 
now fills a pastorate in Augusta, Ga. He 
is the author of a Volume of Poems. 

PINKERTON, WILLIAM ALLAN, sol¬ 
dier, detective, was born April 7, 1846, in 
Dundee, Ill. He is a son of Allan Pinker¬ 
ton, a noted detective. He entered th- 
secret service division of the United 
States army in 1861; and served through 
the civil war, chietiy in the Army of the 
Potomac. He succeeded to the detective 
business on the death of Allan Pinkerton 
in 1884. 

PITKIN, MRS. SARAH HOWARD, gen¬ 
ealogist, was born Dec. 12, 1853. She 
is an occasional contributor to the press: 
connected with the Historical society of 
Hartford, Conn.; and organizer of the Art 
club. She is the author of the Pitkin 
Genealogy. 

PLATZEK. M. WARLEY, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 27, 1854, in North 
Carolina. In 1894 he was a member of 
the constitutional convention of New 
York. He is the author of Trial by Jury: 
Israel and Isham; and American Grit. 

PLUMB. HENRY BLACKMAN, lawyer, 
author, was born Nov. 13, 1829. He is 
a retired lawyer of Luzerne <munty, Pa. 
He is the author of the Plumb Genealogy; 
History of Wyoming Valley; and other 
local historical works. 

PLUME. JOSEPH WILLIAM, soldier, 
banker, was born Aug. 23, 1839 in Troy, 
N. Y. He entered the banking business, 
and rose to be cashier and vice-president. 
He has held every grade of army rank 
from private to major-general. During 
the civil war he served as acting adjutant- 
general of the third division of the sec¬ 
ond army corps. He had forty years’ 
continuous service in the National guard 
of New Jersey, rising to the rank of ma¬ 
jor-general. During the Spanish-Amer- 
ican war in 1898 he was created brigadier- 
general of volunteers; and served with 
the second corps under General Graham. 

PLUMMER, MARY WRIGHT, librari¬ 
an, author, poet, was born in 1856. in 
Richmond. Ind. She is librarian of Pratt 
Institute free library of Brooklyn, N. Y 
She is the author of Hints to Small Li¬ 
braries; and A Volume of Poems. 

PLUMMER, STANLEY, lawyer, state 
senator, was born in 1846, in Dexter, 
Maine. He was a member of the house 
of representatives at the age of twenty- 
tv o; elected city solicitor of Bangor; 
chief clerk of the department of the i v 
terior; and was made internal revenue 
agent and served for years in all parts 
of the country. He was postmaster of 
the United States senate for four years; 
was again a member of the house in 
1845; and is now state senator from the 
tenth senatorial district. 

PLYMPTON, ALMIRA GEORGE, au¬ 
thor, was born in Boston, Mass. She 
is the author of A Willing Transgressor; 
A Bird of Promise; Dear Daughter Doro 


thy; Betty, a Butterfly; The Little Sister 
of Wilifred; Robin’s Recruit; Penelope 
Prig; The Black Dog; Dorothy and An¬ 
ton; Rags and Velvet Gowns; Wanolas- 
set; A Flower of the Wilderness; and 
Gerald and Geraldine. 

POE, JOHN PRENTISS, lawyer, state 
senator, author. He has served with dis¬ 
tinction as attorney-general; and was a 
member of the state senate of Maryland. 
He is the author of a. published work. 

POFFENBARGER, GEORGE, educator, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 24. 1861, 
in Mason county, W. Va. Since 1901 lie 
has been judge of the supreme court of 
appeals of West Virginia for term ending 
in 1912. 

POLAND, WILLIAM CAREY, artist., 
author, was born Jan. 25. 1846, in Goffs- 
town, N. H. He is professor of the his¬ 
tory of art in Brown university of Provi¬ 
dence, R. I.; and president of the Rhode 
Island school of design. He is the au¬ 
thor of Notes and Questions on the His¬ 
tory of Art in the Seventeenth and Eigh¬ 
teenth Centuries. 

POLK, CHARLES H.. clergyman, au¬ 
thor. He is a clergyman of Boston, 
Mass. He is the author of Pioneers of 
Massachusetts. 

POLK. JAMES T.. manufacturer, in¬ 
ventor. He was the first man in Indl 
ana to put up peas, corn and tomatoes. 
He started his establishment with a single 
cook stove; and his immense factory novr 
turns out millions of cans annually. 

POLK. RUFUS K.. soldier, manufactur¬ 
er, congressman, was born Aug. 23. 1866. 
in Columbia, Tenn. He served in the 
Spanish-American war as first lieutenant 
of Company F. twelfth regiment of Penn¬ 
sylvania volunteers. He is engaged in 
steel manufacture at Danville, Pa. He 
was a member of the fifty-sixth congre-^- 
from Pennsylvania. 

POLLARD. PERCIVAL, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1869 in Pomerania. 
He is the author of Figaro Fiction; Cape 
of Storms; Posters in Miniature; Dreams 
of To-day; and The Kiss that Killed 

POMEROY. El.TWEED, manufacturer, 
author, was born Sept. 7, 1860. in Newark. 
N. J. He is president of the corporation 
of Pomeroy Brothers Company, in whose 
factory profit-sharing has been several 
years in operation. He is president of 
National Direct Legislation League. He 
is the author of By the People. 

POND. CHARLES M., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1846, in Walworth county. Wis. 
Since 1875 he has lived in Minneapolis 
where he has successfully practiced his 
profession of law. In 1890 he was elect¬ 
ed to the district bench for six years; and 
in 1898 was elected for a second term. 

POOR. AGNES BLAKE, author, was 
born in Bangor. Maine. She is a daugh¬ 
ter of Henry Varnum Poor, banker and 
editor of Poor's Railway Manual. She 
is the author of Brothers and St. anger- 
and Bostor Neighbors. 

POPE, YOUNG JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, jurist, was born April 10 
1841, in Newberry, S. C. He entered 
confederate army'as private, rising to be 
adjutant and afterward assistant adju¬ 
tant-general Conner’s brigade of infantry. 
In 1865-68 he was district judge of New¬ 
berry; was five years mayor of New¬ 
berry; and afterward member of the lev. 
islature and state senator. In 1890-91 he 
was attorney-general of South Carolir- 
Since 1891 he has been associate justice 
of the supreme court of South Carolina. 


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PORTER, CHARLOTTE, journalist, 
author, was born in 1859 in Towanda, 
Pa. She is the author of Dramatic 
Motive in Browning’s Strafford; and 
Browning Study Programmes. 

PORTER,DWIGHT, civil engineer, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 28, 1855, in Hartford, 
Conn. He is professor of hydraulic ent 
neering in Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology. He is the author of Report 
Upon Water-Power of the Rivers o 
Maine; and other works. 

PORTER. FRANK ADDISON, musician, 
composer, was born Sept. 3, 1859. in Dix- 
mont. Maine. In 1884-92 he was piano- 
professor of New England Conservatory 
of music; and since 1892 superintendent 
of Normal Course. He is the author of 
Prelude and Fugue, Nocturnes; Mazurka; 
instructive pieces; System of Finger- 
Technique; and a Method for Pianoforte. 

PORTER. ROBERT P., jorunalisf, au¬ 
thor. was born June 30, 1852. in England. 
He founded the New York Press with 
Frank Hutton. In 1889-93 he was superin¬ 
tendent of the eleventh census. In 189S- 
99 he was special commissioner to Cuba 
He is the author of Life of William 
McKinley; Municipal Ownership at Home 
and Abroad: and Industrial Cuba. 

PORTER. WILLIAM WAGnNER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born May 5, 
185fi, in Philadelphia. Pa. Since 1897 he 
has been judge of the superior court, of 
Pennsylvania. He is the author of .ne 
Law Relating to Bills of Lading. 

POSEY FRANCIS B.. lawyer, legis¬ 
lator. congressman, was born AnrM *>S 
1848, in Petersburg, Ind. In 1887-89 lie 
was a member of congress from Indiana. 
He now practices law in Evansville Ind. 
In 1899 _e was a candidate for the Unit 
ed States senate. 

POST CHARLES CYREL philanthro¬ 
pist. author, was born May 16. 1846 in 
Shiawassee, Mmh. He is the author of 
Driven from Sea to Sea; Metaphysical 
Essays: Men and Gods; and From Wa¬ 
bash to the Rio Grande. 

POST. GEORGE EDWARD, clergyman, 
physician, author, was born Dec. 17 18°° 
in New York city. He is the author of 
Flora of Syria; Palestine and Sinai. 

POST, LOTUS FREELAND, journalist, 
lawvcr, author, was born Nov. 15. 1849, 
Vienna. N. J. He became interested 
Henry George and his teachings; ran £n- 
congress on labor ticket in 1882; and has 
since advocated single tax and allied 
economic reforms. In 1898 he found 0 ' 1 
The Public of Chicago, Ill. He is 
author of An Explanation with Diagrams 
of the Single Tax. 

POST. MELVILLE DAVISSON, lawyer, 
author, was born April 19, 1869, in Har¬ 
rison county. W. Va. He was a. member of 
the Electoral college of 1892. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Strange Schemes of Ranuol 
Mason; and the Man of Last Resort. 

POTTER, BURTON WIT LIS soldie- 
lawyer, legislator, author, was born Feb 
8. 1843. in Colesville, Broome county. 
N. Y. He served in the civil war as a 
private to sergeant in Company A. four¬ 
teenth Vermont volunteers. He has bee 
three years a member of the Massachu¬ 
setts legislature. He is the author 
The Road and the Roadside. 

POTTER, MRS. CORA URQUHAP 1 ’’ 
actress, was born in New Orleans, La. 
Since 1887 she has appeared in a varie' 
reoeratory. including raar>v leading legit¬ 
imate dramas; macie a starring tour of 
the world; played in England in 1898. 


POTTER, EDWARD TUCKERMATs 
architect, composer, was born Sept. 25. 
1831, in Schenectady, N. \. He has 
given attention principally to collegiate 
and ecclesiastical architecture. His 
work is illustrated in the Church of the 
Heavenly Rest of New York city; the 
Church of the Good Shepherd of Hartio 
Conn.; and Memorial Hall of Schenectady. 
N. Y. He has resided largely abroad, 
and is known as a musical composer of 
much merit. 

POTTER, MARGARET HORTON, au¬ 
thor, was born 1881, in Chicago, Ill. She 
is the author of A Social Lion; TTn- 
canonized; and The House of De Mailly. 

POTTER, WILLIAM PLUMER, lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 27. 1857, in Jackson 
county, Iowa,. Since 1900 he has been 
judge of the supreme court of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 

POTTS, THOMAS MAXWELL, journal¬ 
ist, genealogist, was born Feb. 17, 1836. 
in Chester county, Pa. He was the 
founder and editor of the Canonsburg 
Herald until 1888. He is the author of 
Biography of Major James Pott; Memorial 
of Jeremiah Carter; Our Family Ances¬ 
tors; and Historical Collections Relati:.: 
to the Potts Family. 

POTTS, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, was 
born May 5, 1838. in Philadelphia, Pa. In 
1881-94 he was secretary Brooklyn Civil 
Service Reform Association; and New 
York Civil service Reform Association. 
He is now vice president of the National 
Civil Service Reform League. He is the 
author of From A New England Hill¬ 
side. 

POU, EDWARD WILLIAM, lawye 
congressman, was born Sept. 9, 1863, i 
Tuskegee, Ala. He practiced law in 
Smithfield, N. C.; and was solicitor in 
1890-1900. He was elected to the fi 
seventh congress from North Carolina as 
a. democrat. 

POULSSON. ANNE EMILIE, journalist, 
author, was born Sept. 8, 1853, in Ceda 
Grove, N. J. She is joint editor of the 
Kindergarten Review of Springfield, Mass 
She is the author of Nursery Finger 
Plays; In the Child’s World; Through 
the Farmyard Gate; and Child Stories 
and Rhymes. 

POWELL. WILLIAM BRAMWELL 
educator, author, was born Dec. 22, 1836, 
in Castyle, N. Y. Since 1885 he has 
been superintendent of schools of Wash¬ 
ington. D. C. He is the author of Eng¬ 
lish Grammar; and a series of Language 
Lessons. 

POWERS. ELLA MARIE, educator, 
composer, author, was born Aug. 19, 1865. 
in Milford, N. H. She has been prin¬ 
cipal of Sanborn school of New York 
city; and has been a constant contributor 
to educational literature. She is the au¬ 
thor of several works on art and biogrr 
phy; and in 1900 began a series of readers, 
which were published by Morse and Com¬ 
pany of New York city. 

POWERS. FREDERICK A., lawye- 
state senator, jurist, was born June 19, 
1855, in Pittsfield Maine. In 1891-92 he 
was a member of the Maine state senate, 
and in 1893-96 was attorney-general of 
Maine. Since 1900 he has been justice of 
the supreme judicial court of Maine. 

POWERS, LEGRAND, clergyman, 
statistician,’author, was born in 1847. i’ 
Preston, N. Y. In 1874-90 he was engage' 
in the ministry. In 1891-99 he was com¬ 
missioner of labor of Minnesota. Since 
1899 he has been chief statistician of 
census in charge of agr. at Washington, 


D. C. He is the author of Minnesota 
Bureau of Labor Biennial Reports; and 
Farmer Hayseed, a reply to Coin’s Finan¬ 
cial School. 

POWERS, PRESTON, sculptor, was 
born April 3, 1843, in Italy. His first im¬ 
portant work was the statue of Jacob 
Collamer in 1875, which was originally 
ordered of his father. It was placed in 
the old hall of representatives in Wash¬ 
ington. He executed in 1881 a statue ot 
Reuben Springer for Music Hall. Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. Of his ideal works the figure 
Maud Muller, and the busts Evangeline, 
ana Peasant-Girl are the best known. 

POWERS, SAMUEL L., lawyer, orator, 
founder, congressman, was born Oct. 26, 
1848, in Cornish, N. H. He was the 
founder of Dartmouth Educational As¬ 
sociation; and president .Kimball Union 
Alumni Association of Massachusetts, file 
was elected to the fifty-seventh congress 
from Massachusetts as a republican. 

POYNTER. THOMAS H., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. congressman, was born Dec. 9. 1851, 
near Vanceburg, Ky. In 1876-82 he was 
county attorney. He served in the fifty- 
first. fifty-second and fifty-third congress¬ 
es from Kentucky. In 1885-93 he was 
judge of the court of appeals of Ken¬ 
tucky; and in 1901 became chief justice. 

POYNTER. WILLIAM A., state senator, 
governor, was born May 29, 1848. in 

Eureka, Ill. In 1885 he was a member 
of the Nebraska legislature; and state 
senator in 1891. In 1898 he was a member 
of the state commission of Trans-Missis¬ 
sippi Exposition. In 1899-1901 he was 
governor of Nebraska. 

PRANG, LOUIS, engraver, lithographer, 
publisher, was born March 12, 1824, in 
Germany. He studied chemistry, color¬ 
mixing, designing, engraving, bleaching, 
printing and dyeing. In 1851 he establish¬ 
ed himself in Boston as wood engraver; 
as lithographer in 1858; and as publish¬ 
er in 1861. He made a specialty of color¬ 
printing and became prominent as pub¬ 
lisher of Christmas cards and other art 
publications. He is now president of The 
Prang Educational Company of Boston; 
and Taber-Prang Art Company of 
Springfield, Mass. 

PRANG, MRS. MARY DANA, educator, 
artist, author was born Oct. 7. 1836, in 
Syracuse, N. Y. In 1875-80 she was pres¬ 
ident of the Social Art club of Syracuse, 
N. Y.; in 1877-1900 was director of Prang 
Normal Art classes; and president Massa¬ 
chusetts Floral Emblem Society in 1898- 
1901. She is the author of The Use of 
Models; and The Prang Complete Course 
in Form Study and Drawing. 

PRATT. SILAS GAMALIEL, musician, 
composer, was born Aug. 4. 1846, in Addi¬ 
son, Vt. He is principal of the West End 
School of Music of New York city. He is 
the author of Zenobia; The Triumph of 
Columbus and Lucille, grand operas; 
The Soul of a Song, concert-lecture: and 
three grand symphonies. 

PRENDERGAST, EDMOND FRANCIS, 
clergyman, bishop, was born May 3, 1843, 
in Ireland. His first missionary work 
was as assistant pastor of St. Paul’s 
church, and next as assistant pastor of 
the church at Susquehanna Denot. In 
1874 he became rector of St. Malachy’s 
church in Philadelphia. In 1897 he was 
appointed auxiliary bishop of Philadel¬ 
phia. 

PRENTICE, SAMUEL OSCAR, lawyer, 
jurist, was 'born Aug. 8, 1850, in North 
Stonington, Conn. Since 1889 he has been 
judge of the superior court of Connecticut. 


lxxxvi 


ADDENDA. 


PRESSER, THEODORE, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born July 3, 1848, in Pittsburg, 
Pa. He established himself in Philadel¬ 
phia as a publisher of music and musical 
literature. In 1883 he founded The Etude, 
a well-known musical monthly of which 
he is the editor. He has written in¬ 
structive pieces and studies f. pf., and 
translated several foreign text-books on 
music. 

PRESTON, GEORGE JUNKIN, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1858 in Lex¬ 
ington, Va. He is professor of Neurology 
in the college of Physicians and Surgeons 
of Baltimore, Md. He is the author of 
Hysteria. 

PRESTON, S. HORACE, farmer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Oct. 25, 1837, in Oneida, 
Mich. He is a farmer of Lansing, Mich. 
He was a representative in the Mich - 
gan state legislature; and supervisor and 
county agent of state board of correc¬ 
tions and charities. 

PRICE, MILO BERA, educator, author, 
was born Sept. 10, 1867, near Newark, 
Ohio. He is master of history m Wor¬ 
cester Academy, Mass. He is the author 
of Teutonic Antiquities. 

PRICE, SADIE F., botanist, author, 
was born in Bowling Green, Ky. In 1893 
she received a medal and diploma for 
botanical work from the World’s Colum 
bian Exposition. She has discovered 
many rare plants. She is the author of 
Trees and Shrubs of Kentucky; and 
Fern-Collector’s Handbook and Herburi 
um. 

PRICHARD, SARAH JOHNSON, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 11, 1830, in 'Water- 
bury, Conn. She is the author of Martha’s 
Hooks and Eyes; Hugh’s Fire on the 
Mountain; Nat’s Shoes; and other works. 

PRIME, RALPH EARL, soldier, lawyer, 
author, was born March 29, 1840, in Mat- 
teawan, N. Y. He was twice promoted 
for signal bravery on field of battle; and 
in 1863 became brigadier-general, corps 
headquarters; nominated, March 4, 1863. 
by President Lincoln to be brigadier 
general. He has been city attorney of 
Yonkers; and attorney-general state of 
New York. He has crossed the ocean 
ten times, and traveled in Europe, Asia 
and Africa. He is the author of Descend¬ 
ants of James Prime. 

PRIME, SAMUEL THORNTON, agri¬ 
culturist, author, was born July 31, 1834. 
in Weston, Conn. He is a compiler of 
crops statistics. He is the author of 
Prime’s Crop Reports; and Model Farmers 
and Their Methods. 

PRINCE, GEORGE, sailor, soldier, busi¬ 
ness man. traveler, author, was born 
Aug. 9, 1817. During the civil war be 
was captain in the first regiment of the 
Maine cavalry; has been president of the 
Marine Insurance Company of Boston, 
Mass.; and has filled numerous town and 
municipal city offices. He is the author 
of Rambles in Chili; Prince Genealogy 

PRINGLE, COLEMAN ROBERSON, 
planter, lecturer, state senator, was born 
about 1835, in Monroe county, Ga. In 
1882-84 he was a member of the Georgia 
house of representatives; and of the state 
senate in 1886-87. He was a railroad 
president for eighteen years; president of 
Southern Forestry Congress in 1886-87. 

PROCTOR, JOHN ROBERT, geologist, 
was born March 16, 1844, in Mason coun¬ 
ty, Ky. In 1873 he was appointed an 
assistant on the geological survey of Ken¬ 
tucky, and remained as such until 1880, 
when he was made state geologist. In 
1893 he was appointed one of the Uhited 


States civil service commissioners. He 
was a member of the jury of awards on 
mines and mining at the World’s Colum¬ 
bian exposition in Chicago in 1893. 

PROVOST, ANDREW 7 J., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, genealogist, was born April 2, 1834, 
in New York City. He was a member of 
the New York assembly in 1859-61; was 
a member of the Brooklyn board of edu¬ 
cation in 1864-68; was school commission¬ 
er of Queens county in 1874-78; was jus¬ 
tice of the peace and police judge for 
eight years; and president of the board 
of education for five years. In 1887-96 he 
was grand-commander-in-chief for New 
York of the Knights Templars; and since 
1887 has been representative of supreme 
council of that order for Great Britain 
in the United States. 

PROWELL, GEORGE R.. educator, 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 12, 1849, 
in York, Pa. He is the author of History 
of York County, Pa.; History of West 
Jersey; History of Wilmington, Del.; and 
History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, 
Pennsylvania Volunteers. 

PRYOR, WILLIAM RICE, physician, 
author, was born about 1860. He is pro¬ 
fessor of gynecology, in New York Poly¬ 
clinic. He is the author of The Treat¬ 
ment of Pelvic Inflammations. 

PUGH, EDWARD FOX, lawyer, author, 
was born May 30. 1847, in Doylestown. 
Pa. He is the author of Memoir of 
Edward Fox; and of Forms and Rules in 
Admiralty; and is editor of Dunlap’s Book 
of Forms. 

PULLMAN, JEREMIAH JOHN, lawyer, 
legislator, was born June 19, 1849, in Ire¬ 
land. He is a lawyer of Pensacola, Fla.; 
and has been a member of the Florida 
state legislature. 

PURDY, WARREN GRAFTON, was 
born May 20, 1843, in Baltimore, Md. 
Since 1898 he has been president of the 
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. Co. 

PURNELL, THOMAS R., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, jurist, was born in 
1847, in Wilmington, N. C. He entered 
the Confederate army at sixteen years of 
age; and surrendered and paroled at 
Greensboro in 1865. He has served in both 
branches of the North Carolina legis¬ 
lature. Since 1897 he has been United 
States district judge of North Carolina. 

PUTNAM, ALFRED PORTER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 10, 1827, in 
Danvers, Mass. He has been president of 
Danvers Historical Society from its found¬ 
ation in 1889. He is the author of Singers’ 
Songs of the Liberal Faith, with sketches 
of seventy-two Unitarian hymn writers. 

PUTNAM, EBEN, journalist, publisher, 
genealogist, author, was born in 1868, in 
Salem, Mass. He is the publisher of the 
Genealogical Quarterly Magazine of Bur¬ 
lington Vt.; and manager of The Inter¬ 
national Monthly. He has traveled exten¬ 
sively; and is especially noted for his 
genealogical researches conducted in New 
England and Great Britain. 

PUTNAM, EMILY JAMES, educator, 
author, was born April 15. 1865. in Can¬ 
andaigua, N. Y. In 1894-1900 she was 
dean of Bernard college. She is the au¬ 
thor of Selections from Lucian. 

PUTNAM, HERBERT, lawyer, librari¬ 
an, was born Sept. 20, 1861, in New York 
City. In 1884-87 he was librarian of Min¬ 
neapolis Athenaeum; in 1881-91 of Min¬ 
neapolis Public Library; and of Boston 
Public Library in 1895-99. In 1898 he was 
president of American Library Associa¬ 
tion. i Since 1899 he has been librarian of 
congress. 


PUTNAM, JOHN PICKERING, archi¬ 
tect, inventor, author, was born in 1847 
in Boston, Mass. He is the inventor of 
Sanitas plumbing. He is the author of 
The Open Fire Place in All Ages; The 
Principles of House Drainage; Improved 
Plumbing Appliances; and The Outlook 
for the Artisan and His Art. 

PUTNAM, MRS. MARY TRAILL, auth¬ 
or, was born Dec. 3, 1810, in Boston, Mass. 
She married Samuel R. Putnam, a mer¬ 
chant of Boston, Mass. She is the author 
of Records of an Obscure Man; The 
Tragedy of Errors and the Tragedy of 
Success, a dramatic poem in two parts; 
Memoir of William Lowell Putnam; Fif- 
ten Days; and a Memoir of Charles Low¬ 
ell. 

PUTNAM. WULLIAM LE BARON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born May 12, 1835, in 
Bath, Maine. In 1858-92 he practiced law 
in Portland; and in 1869 was mayor of 
Portland. In 1888 he was democratic can¬ 
didate for governor of Maine. Since 1892 
he has been judge of the United States 
circuit court of Maine. 

QUARLES, JAMES ADDISON, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born April 30, 1837, in 
Cooper county, Mo. Since 1886 he has 
been professor of philosophy in Washing¬ 
ton and Lee University. He is the author 
of Life of F. T. Kemper. 

QUARLES. JOSEPH VERY, lawyer, 
legislator, United States senator, was 
born Dec. 16, 1843, in Kenosha, Wis. 
In 1862 he enlisted in thirty-ninth Wis¬ 
consin infantry; and was elected first 
lieutenant of company C. He has served 
as district attorney, and mayor of Ken¬ 
osha. Wis.; and has been a member of 
both houses of Wisconsin legislature. 
Since 1888 he has practised law in Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis. He became United States 
senator in 1899 for term ending in 1905. 

QUARLES, JULIAN MINOR, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 1, 1848, in 
Caroline county, Va. He commenced the 
practice of law in Staunton, "\ a.; and 
was judge of the county court for sev¬ 
eral years. He was elected to the fifty- 
sixth congress from Virginia. 

QUARLES, RALPH P., lawyer, jurist, 

. was born June 10, 1855, in Benton, Ky. 
He is justice of the supreme court of 
Idaho. 

QUIGLEY, JAMES E., clergyman, bish¬ 
op, was born Oct. 15, 1854, in Canada. 
Since 1897 he has been Roman Catholic 
bishop of Buffalo, N. Y. 

QUINCY, JOSIAH, lawyer, legislator, 
was born Oct. 15, 1859, in Quincy. 

Mass. For four years he served in 
Massachusetts legislature; and in 1892 
managed literary bureau of Democratic 
State Committee. In 1893 he was first 
assistant secretary of state; and was 
elected mayor of Boston in 1895. 

QUIRK, JOHN F„ clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born July 23, 1859, 
in Boston, Mass. Since 1898 he has been 
vice president of Boston college. He is 
the author of A Patron for Scholars. 

RABB. MRS. KATE MILNER, author. 
She is the author of National Epics. 

RADFORD, BENJAMIN JOHNSON, 
educator, clergyman, author, poet, was 
born Dec. 23, 1838, in Eureka, Ill. He has 
been president of Eureka, college of Illi¬ 
nois, and Drake university, Des Moines, 
Iowa. He is the author of Court of Des¬ 
tiny, and Other Poems. 

RADFORD, CYRUS S., captain United 
States marines, was born June 3, 1868, 
in Hopkinsville, Ky. He is captain in the 
United States marines. He is the author 
of Hand-Book of Naval Marines. 


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lxxxvii 


RAIMOND, C. E., She is the author of 
Fatal Gift of Beauty; George lviancle- 
ville’s Husband; New Moon; and The 
Open Question. 

RAINES, C. W., librarian, author, was 
born in Austin, Texas. He is state libra¬ 
rian of the Texas state library at Austin, 
Texas. He is the author of Bibliography 
of Texas; Life of Santa Anna; and 
Raines’ Year Book of Texas. 

RAMSAY, FRANCIS MUNROE, naval 
officer, was born April 5, 1835, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He was in the Mississippi 
squadron in 1863-64; and later command¬ 
er gunboat Unadilla in the North Atlan¬ 
tic Squadron in 1864-65. After the war he 
was in various services; and became rear- 
admiral in 1894. 

RAMSDELL, JOHATHAN GANNETT, 
lawyer, jurist, pomologist, was born m 
1830 in Plymouth, Mich. Since 1861 he 
has practiced law in Traverse city, Mich. 
He served four terms as circuit judge of 
the thirteenth district of Michigan; and 
was chairman of the executive committee 
of the State Grange of Michigan in 1886- 
95. 

RAMSEY, MARATHON MONTROSE, 
philologist, author, was born in 1867, in 
Newton, Mass. Since 1894 he has been 
professor of Romance languages in Co¬ 
lumbian university of Washington, D. C. 
He is the author of A Text-Book of Mod¬ 
ern Spanish; and Progressive Exercises 
in Spanish Prose Composition. 

RANCK, GEORGE W., author, was born 
Feb. 13, 1841, in Louisville, Ky. He is the 
author of History of Lexington, Ky., 
Girty, the White Indian; The Traveling 
Church; The Story of Bryan’s Station: 
and The Bivouac of the Dead and its 
Author. 

RAND, BENJAMIN, educator, author, 
was born July 17, 1856, in Canada. He is 
instructor of Philosophy in Harvard uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of Abstract ot 
Ferrier’s Greek Philosophy; and Bibliog¬ 
raphy of Economics. 

RANDALL, GEORGE M., soldier, was 
born in Ohio. During the civil war he 
attained the rank of captain. He was 
made lieutenant-colonel and colonel in 
1890 for gallant services in Indian war¬ 
fare in Arizona, 1873-74. In 1898 he was 
appointed brigadier-general United States 
volunteers. 

.RANDALL, SAMUEL BOND, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born r eb. 26, 1860, 
in Adams, N. Y. Since 1896 he has been 
a teacner of California college. He is the 
author of Walking with God. 

RANDELL, CHOICE B.. congressman, 
He was elected a member of the fifty- 
seventh congress from Texas as a demo¬ 
crat. 

RANSDELL, JOSEPH E., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was horn Oct. 7, 1858, in 

Alexandria, La. He was educated in the 
public schools of Alexandria and gradu- 
ted at Union college. Since 1883 he nas 
been engaged in the active practice of 
law. In 1884-96 he was attorney of the 
eighth judicial district of Louisiana. He 
was a member of the state constitutional 
convention of Louisiana in 1898 which 
framed a new constitution for the state. 
He was elected to the fifty-sixth congress 
to fill a vacancy. 

RANSOM, GEORGE MARCELLUS, 
naval officer, was born Jan. 18, 1820, in 
Springfield, N. Y. He served on the coast 
of Africa in 1856-57; was commissioned 
lieutenant-commander in 1862; and when 
in command of the steam gun-boat Kinea, 
of the Western Gulf blockading squadron 
he had several engagements with the 
enemy. He was promoted commander in 


1863, and served with the North Atlantic 
blockading squadron in command of the 
steamer Grand Gulf in 1864 and captured 
three steamers off Wilmington. He was 
commissioned captain in 1870; commo¬ 
dore in 1877; and was retired in 1882. 

RANSOM, JAMES W., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born May 20, 1829, in Liberty, 
N. Y. He is a lawyer of Portland, Ore.; 
was a member of the Michigan state 
legislature in 1875-77; and for fourteen 
years was city attorney and corporation 
counsel for the city of Grand Rapids, 
Mich. 

RANSOM, RASTUS SENECA, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born March 31, 1839, 
in Mount Hawley, Ill. He served in the 
army of the Potomac as first lieutenant 
in the fiftieth New York volunteers, 
commanding his company. He practice!! 
law successfully in New York city; and 
served for one full term of six years as 
surrogate of the city and county of New 
York. 

RAPER, CHARLES LEE, educafor, 
lecturer, author, was born March 10. 
1870, in Hign Point. N. C. Since 1900 be 
has been lecturer in history at Columbia 
unicersity of New York city. He is the 
author of The Church and Private 
Schools of North Carolina. 

RAPIER, THOMAS G„ journalist. He 
is one of the most prominent journalists 
of the south; and manager of the Daily 
Picayune of New Orleans, La. 

RAPP, WILHELM, journalist, author, 
was born July 14, 1828, in Germany. He 
is editor-in-chief and vice-president of the 
Illinois Staats-Zeitung of Chicago, Ill. 
He is the author of Recollections of tne 
German Fatherland by a German-Ameri- 
can. 

RASSIEUR, LEO, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born April 19, 1844, in Prussia. 
In 1861-65 he served in the Union army 
from private to major in the Missouri 
volunteers. In 1880-90 he was attorney ot 
the board of public schools of St. Louis, 
Mo.; and was judge of probate court in 
1885-99. In 1900 he was elected com¬ 
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the 
Republic. ; 

RATHBONE, ST. GEORGE, journalist, 
author, was born Dec. 26, 1854, in Coving¬ 
ton, Ky. He is the author of Baron 
Sam; Captain Tom; Colonel by Brevet; 
Dr. Jack; Dr. Jack’s Wife; The Fair Maid 
of Fez; The Fair Revolutionist; The Girl 
from Hong-Kong; A Goddess of Afri¬ 
ca; The Great Mogul; Her Rescue from 
the Turks; Major Matterson of Ken¬ 
tucky; Miss Caprice; Miss Fairfax of Vir¬ 
ginia; Miss Pauline of New York; Mon¬ 
sieur Bob; Mrs. Bob; The Nabob of Sin¬ 
gapore; A Son of Mars: The Spider’s 
Web; Squire John; Under Egyptian 
Skies; Little Miss Millions; A Captain 
of the Kaiser; At Swords’ Points; Dr. 
Jack’s Widow; Saved by the Sword; An 
American Nabob; A Sailor’s Sweetheart; 
A Chase for a Bride: The Man from 
Wall Street; Mynheer Joe; and The Man 
from Denver. 

RAVOGLI, AUGUSTLS, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born Feb. 7, 1851, 
in Rome, Italy. He is a successful phy¬ 
sician and surgeon of Cincinnati, Ohio; 
and dermatologist to the city hospital. 
He is the author of The Hygiene of the 
Skin. 

RAWSON, EDWARD KIRK, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 21, 1846, m 
Albany, N. Y. In 1897 be became super¬ 
intendent of Naval War Records. He is 
the author of Twenty Famous Naval Bat¬ 
tles, Salamis to Santiago. 


RAYMOND, BRADFORD PAUL, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, author, was 
born April 22, 1846, in Stamford, Conn. 
Since 1889 he has been president of the 
Wesleyan university of Middletown, 
Conn. He is the author of Christianity 
and the Christ. 

RAYMOND, MRS. EVELYN HUNT, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 6, 1843, in Water- 
town, N. Y. She is the author of Mixed 
Pickles; Monica; Little Lady of the 
Horse; Little Red Schoolhouse; Among 
the Lindens; and A Daughter of the 
W est. 

RAYMOND, JOSEPH HOWARD, phy¬ 
siologist, author, was born about 1842. 
He is professor of physiology and hy¬ 
giene in the Long Island college, N. ¥. 
He is the author of Manual of Physiology. 

RAYMOND, MARCIUS DENlSOxs, 
journalist, genealogist, was born April 8, 
1833, in Sherburne, N. Y. Since 1859 he 
has been engaged in journalism; has been 
postmaster; and has filled various public 
offices of trust. He is the author of 
Gray Genealogy; and several Historical 
works. 

RAYMOND, WILLIAM GALT,educator, 
civil engineer, author, was born March 
2, 1859, in Princeton, Iowa. Since 1892 
he has been professor of geodesy, road 
engineering and topographical drawing 
in Rensselaer Polytechnic institute ot 
Troy, N. Y. He is the author of Plane 
Surveying. 

RAYNE, MRS. MARTHA L., journalist, 
author, poet, was born in Canada. She 
is a special writer for Chicago Times- 
Herald. She is the author of Against 
Fate, a Novel of Chicago Life; and Fal¬ 
len Among Thieves. 

RAYNER EMMA, journalist, author, 
was born in 1888 in England. Since 
1895 she has been on the staff of the 
Youth’s Companion. She is the author 
of Free to Serve; and In Castle and Col¬ 
ony. 

REA, GEORGE BRONSON, electrical 
engineer, journalist, author, was born 
Aug. 28, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was 
correspondent for the New York World 
in bombardment of San Juan. Porto Rico 
and before Santiago; and made a trip 
through Porto Rico during the Spanish- 
American war in the secret service for 
the United States government. He is 
the author of Facts and Fancies about 
Cuoa. 

REA, SaiviuEL, civil engineer, author, 
was born Sept. 21, 1855, in Hollidays- 
burg. Pa. He is the author of Tne Rail¬ 
ways Terminating in London. 

READ. JOHN ELLIOT, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 4, 1845, in South Am¬ 
herst, Mass. Since 1889 he has been 
corresponding editor of The Practical 
Farmer of Philadelphit, Pa. He i's the 
author ot Farming for Profit; and Life 
Triumphant, A Stuay oi the Nature, Ori¬ 
gin and Destiny of Man. 

READE, PHILIP, soldier, was born Oct. 
13, 1844. He is lieutenant-colonel and 
inspector-general in the United States vol¬ 
unteers; and major fourth regiment Uni¬ 
ted States infantry. 

READER, FRANCIS SMITH, soldier, 
journalist, author, was born Nov. 17, 1842, 
in Coal Centre, Pa. He was in the Uni¬ 
ted States civil service for ten years. 
During the civil war he was in the in¬ 
fantry and cavalry service; and was cap¬ 
tured while on scout duty. He is the 
editor of Beaver Valley News, Pa. He 
is the author of History of Fifth West 
Virginia Cavalry; and History of New 
Brighton, Pa. 


lxxxviii 


ADDENDA. 


REAVIS, JAMES BRADLY, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born in 1848, in 
Boone county, Mo. Since 1896 he has 
been judge of the supreme court of Wash¬ 
ington, at Olympia. 

REED, MRS, CAROLINE GALLUP, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Aug. 5, 1821, in Berne, 
N. Y. In 1851 she married the Rev. 
Sylvanus Reed; and in 1864 established 
a school for young ladies in New York 
city. In 1883 this very successful school 
was incorporated under the laws of New 
York state as Reed college. 

REED, MYRTLE, author, was born 
Sept. 27, 1874, in Chicago, Ill. She is the 
author of Love Letters of a Musician; 
and Later Love Letters of a Musician. 

REED, REBECCA THERESA, prose¬ 
lyte, author, was born about 1813, in East 
Cambridge, Mass. She is the author of Six 
Months in a Convent, or The Narrative 
of Rebecca Theresa Reed, Who was un¬ 
der the Influence of the Roman Catholics 
about Two Years, etc.; and Supplement 
to Six Months in a Convent, confirming 
the Narrative of Rebecca Theresa Reed 
by the Testimony of more than One Hun¬ 
dred Witnesses. 

REED, VERNER Z., author, was bom 
Oct. 13, 1863, in Ohio. He is engaged in 
mining promotion. He is the author of 
Lo-To-Kah: Tales of the Sunland; and 
Adobeland Stories. 

REEDER, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, edu¬ 
cator. banker, congressman, was born 
Aug. 28, 1849, in Cumberland county, Pa. 
Until 1880 he taught school; and since 
then has been a banker. • He owns one 
of the largest irrigation farms in Kan¬ 
sas. He was elected to the fifty-sixth 
congress from Kansas as a republican. 

REID, CHARLES CHESTER, lawyer, ’ 
congressman, was born June 15, 1868. in 
Clarksville, Ark. For many years he 
has practiced law in Conway county. Ark. 
He was elected to the fifty-seventh con¬ 
gress from Arkansas as a democrat. 

REID. HARRY FIELDING, geologist, 
author, was born May, 18, 1859, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. Since 1896 he has been asso¬ 
ciate professor of geological physics in 
Johns Hopkins universitv of Baltimore, 
Md. He is the author of Parts vi, vii and 
viii of Highways of Maryland. 

REID, SYDNEY, journalist, historian, 
author, was born Sept. 5, 1857, in Can¬ 
ada. In 1881-97 he was a reporter on 
Brooklyn Eagle and Brooklyn Citizen. 
He is the author of Josey and the Chip¬ 
munk. 

REINSCH, PAUL SAMUEL, educator, 
author, was born in 1869, in Milwaukee, 
Wis. Since 1899 he has been professor 
of political science in University of Wis¬ 
consin. He is the author of several pub¬ 
lished works. 

RELYEA, CHARLES M., illustrator 
artist, was born April 23. 1863, in Alba¬ 
ny, N. Y. R' is a noted artist of New 
Rochelle. N. Y. 

REMSBERG. JOHN E.. soldier, lectur¬ 
er, author, was born Jan. 7, 1848, in Tre- 
mont, Ohio. He enlisted in the Union 
army at fourteen, and received special 
certificate of thanks from President Lin¬ 
coln at the close of the war. He en¬ 
gaged in school teaching for some years; 
and then became writer and lecturer in 
support of atheism. He is the author of 
Life of Thomas Paine; False Claims; 
The Image Breaker; The Apostle of'T ib- 
erty; Bible Morals; Sabbath Breaking: 
and The Fathers of Our Republic. 

RENFROW, WILLIAM CARY, sol¬ 
dier, banker,, governor, was born March 


15, 1845, in Smithfield, N. C. He served 
in the Confederate army in 1861-65. He 
engaged in banking at Norman, Ark.; 
and in 1893-97 was governor of Okla¬ 
homa. 

RENNELSON, MRS. CLARA H„ au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 15, 1845, in Norwalk. 
Ohio. She is the author of Social Hero¬ 
ism; and Kinsmen All. 

RENNERT, HUGO ALBERT, educator, 
author, was born May. 6, 1860, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is professor of Ro¬ 
mance philology in University of Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is the author of The Span¬ 
ish Pastoral Romances. 

RENO, MRS. ITTI KINNEY, author, 
was born May 17, 1862, in Nashville, 
Tenn. She is the author of Miss Breck- 
enridge, a Daughter of Dixie; and An Ex¬ 
ceptional Case. 

RENOUF, EDWARD, chemist, author, 
was born Sept. 4, 1848, in Lowville, N. 
Y. Since 1885 he has been professor ot 
chemistry in Johns Hopkins university 
of Baltimore, Md. He is the author of 
Volhard’s Experiments in General Chem¬ 
istry; and Inorganic Preparations. 

RESTARICK. HENRY BOND, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 26, 1854, in 
England. Since 1882 he has been rector 
of St. Paul’s church of San Diego, Cal. 
He is the author of Lay Readers; and The 
Love of God, Addresses on the Last Seven 
Words. 

REXDALE, ROBERT, journalist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1859, in Canada. 
In 1885-92 he was assistant editor of the 
Portland Sunday Times, of Maine. Then 
for several years he was engaged iu lec¬ 
turing throughout the United States. He 
is the author of Saved by the Sword, a 
novel; and Drifting, a volume of poems 
and short stories. 

REYBURN, ROBERT, soldier, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born Aug. 1, 
1833, in Scotland. In 1856-62 he prac¬ 
ticed medicine in Philadelphia, Pa. In 
1862 he entered the United States army as 
acting assistant surgeon. He has con¬ 
tinued in practice in Washington 
until the present time. In 1881 he 
was one of the surgeons in attendance 
upon President Garfield; and is new pro¬ 
fessor of physiology and hygiene in the 
medical department of Howard univer- 
sity. He is the author of Clinical His¬ 
tory of the Case of President Garfield. 

RHEA, WILLIAM FRANCIS, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born in 1862. in 
Washington county, Va. He was elect¬ 
ed judge of the county court of Washing¬ 
ton county; and served four years. He 
was then elected to the state senate for 
four years. He was elected judge of the 
city court of Bristol. Va. He was elected 
to the fifty-sixth congress from Virginia. 

nHEES, RUSH, educator, clergyman, 
author, was brnm Feb. 8, 1860. in Chicago, 
Ill. Since 1900 he has been president of 
the University of Rochester. N. Y. He 
is the author of The Life of Jesus of Naz¬ 
areth, a Study. 

RHOaDES. HENRY HECKFORD, sol¬ 
dier. journalist, explorer, was born June 
15, 1844, in New York city. He served 
in the civil war and war with Spain, and 
attained the rank of lieutenant. lie 
made an arctic cruise with De Long in 
1873 in search of Polaris survivors. He 
is the editor of The Tribune Almanac 
and Year-Book. 

RICE. ALONZO T EORA, educator, au¬ 
thor. poet, was born June 12. 1867, in 
little Blue River. Ind. He is the au¬ 
thor of a volume entitled Prize Poems. 


RICE, CHARLES EDMUND, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Sept. 15, 1846, in Fair- 
field, N. Y. Since 1895 he has been 
president-judge of the superior court of 
Pennsylvania. He was judge of Lu¬ 
zerne county in 1879-95. 

RICE, EDMUND, soldier, inventor, 
was born Dec. 2. 1842, in Cam¬ 

bridge, Mass. He enlisted at the 
outbreak of the civil war and 
was appointed captain of the 19th Massa¬ 
chusetts infantry, and was honorably 
mustered out as lieutenant-colonel of the 
regiment in 1865. Congress presented 
him with a medal of honor for conspicu¬ 
ous bravery in leading his regiment m a 
counter-charge against Pickett's division, 
he himself falling severely wounded 
within the enemy’s lines in the battle of 
Gettysburg. After a short retirement 
to private life he entered the regular 
army as first lieutenant. In May, 1898, 
he was appointed inspector-general and 
in 1899 made colonel of the 26th United 
States infantry. He is the inventor of 
the trowel bayonet and of the stacking- 
swivel and knife-intrenching bayonet now 
in use in the army. 

RICE, FENELON B., musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Jan. 2, 1841, in Green, 
Ohio. He was an organist in Boston 
for three years; and since 1871 has been 
director of Conservatory of Music of 
Oberliu, Ohio. 

RICE, FRANKLIN PIERCE, journalist, 
publisher, author, was born July 29, 18o2, 
in Marlborough, Mass. For twenty-five 
years he was engaged in developing sys¬ 
tematic history; and has published nearly 
one hundred historical, biographical and 
genealogical works. He was a founder 
of Worcester Society Antiquity. He ed¬ 
ited Worcester Records, in nine volumes. 

RICE. JOSEPH M., physician, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1857, m Philadel¬ 
phia, va In 1881-88 he practiced medi¬ 
cine in New York city; and is now editor 
of The Forum. He is the author of 
The Public School System of the United 
States; and The Rational Spelling Book. 

RICE. WALLACE, lecturer, critic, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 10, 1859, in Canada, 
of American Parents. He has lived in 
Chicago since 1861: and has been dramat¬ 
ic critic of the Tribune, Daily News, and 
other publications. He is the author cf 
Heroic Deeds; Flying Sands; and Wild 
Animals. 

RICE, WILLIAM GORHAM, public of 
tidal, manager, was born Dec. 23, 1856. 
in Albany, N. Y. In 1875 he was ap¬ 
pointed assistant paymaster-general of 
the National guard of New York, with 
the rank of colonel. He was vice-presi¬ 
dent and general manager of the Consoli¬ 
dated car-heating company of Albany, 
which place he held until 1894. In 1895 
he was appointed to succeed Theodore 
Roosevelt as United States civil service 
commissioner, holding that office until 
1898. 

RICE, WILLIAM NORTH, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 21, 1845, in Mar- 
blehewd, Mass. Since 1867 he has been 
professor of geology; and since 1884 in 
Wesleyan university of Middletown, 
Conn. In 1891 he was president of the 
American Society of Naturalists. fTe is 
the author of Twenty-fire Years of Sci¬ 
entific Progress and Other Essays; Sci¬ 
ence Teaching in Schools; and Geology 
of Bermuda. 

RICH. CHARLES ALONZO, architect, 
was born Oct. 2?, 1855, in Beverly. Mass. 
He graduated at the Chandler scientific 


ADDENDA 


lxxxix 


department of Dartmouth in 1875, and 
subsequently devoted his attention to 
the study of architecture; spending 1S79- 
8d in Europe for that purpose. un his 
return he settled in New York and be¬ 
came professionally associated with Hugh 
Lamb. 

RICH, GEORGE, genealogist, was horn 
Aug. 20, 1854, in Trumbull, Ohio. He 
is the author of Genealogy of Descendants 
of Jonathan Rich. 

RICHARD, JAMES WILLIAM, ociuea 
tor, theologian, author. He is professor 
of homiletics in Lutheran Theological 
Seminary of Gettysburg, Pa. He is the 
author of Philip Melanchthon. 

RICHARDS, A. M., author. He is the 
author of Letter and Snirit; and other 
works. 

RICHARDS, DE FOREST, banker.state 
senator, governor, was born Aug. 6, 1846, 
in Charlestown, N. H. In 1868 he was 
a member of the Alabama legislature; 
and was state senator in 1893. Since 
1886 he has been president First National 
Bank of Douglas, Wyoming. In 1899-1901 
he was governor of Wyoming., 

RICHARDS. EDGAR, chemist, author, 
was born Feb. 23, 1858. in New York city. 
In 1887-92 he was chemist for the Internal 
Revenue Bureau in the United States 
Treasury Department at Washington, D. 
C. He is t^e author o ^Principles and 
Methods of Soil Analysis; and Some Food 
Substitutes and Adulterants. 

RICHARDS, JOHN KELVEY, lawyer, 
state senator, was born March. 15, 1856, 
in Ironton, Ohio. In 1890-92 he served 
in the state senate of Ohio; was attorney- 
general of that state in 1892-96; and 
since 1897 has been solicitor-general ol 
the United States. 

RICHARDS. LOUIS, lawyer, genealog¬ 
ist. was born May 6. 1842. He is a noted 
lawyer of Reading, Pa. He is the au¬ 
thor of the Richards Genealogy. 

RICHARDS, THEODORE WILLIAM, 
chemist, was born Jan. 31, 1868, in Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa. He became a noted chemist 
of Germantown. Pa. He is the author of 
several scientific works. 

RICHARDSON. CHARLES WARREN, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 
7. 1843. in Salem, Mass. He has served 
as a member of the state legislature of 
Massachusetts; and is nov/ special judge 
of the first, district court of Essex,Mass. 

RICHARDSON, CLIFFORD, chemist, 
author, was born March 6 1856. in Wor¬ 
cester. Mass. Since 1896 he has been 
superintendent of tests of Barber Asphalt 
Paving Co. He is the author of On Ame¬ 
rican Cereals; Adulterations of Spices 
and Condiments and Reports of the Asso¬ 
ciation Offlc'al Agricultural Chemists. 

RICHARDSON. LEANDER, journalist, 
author, was born Feb. 28. 1856, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. He is now on editorial 
staff New York Morning Telegraph. He 
is the author of The Dark City; Lord 
Dunmersey; As Ye Sow-, and Adapted 
French Operettas and Plays; Olivette: 
The Snake Charmer; Anselma; and The 
Nominee. 

RICHARDSON. WARFIELD CREATH. 
educator, journalist, author, was born 
June 23. 1823, in Maysville. Ky. In 1864- 
77 he was professor of chemistry, miner¬ 
alogy and geology. He is the author of 
Gaspar; and Fall of the Alamo. 

RICHMOND. MARY E., philanthropist, 
author, was born Aug. 5, 1861, in Belle¬ 
ville, Ill. In 1891 she became general 
secretary Baltimore Charity Organization 
Society; and resigned to accept the same 


position in Philadelphia in 1900. She is 
the author of Friendly Visiting Among 
the Poor. 

RICHTER, HENRY JOSEPH, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born April 9, 1838, in 
Germany. He was made vice president 
of Mount St. Mary’s seminary in 1865; 
where he was professor of dogma, philos- 
ephv and liturgy until 1870. He founded 
the Church of St. Laurence; and was di¬ 
rector of the Academy of Mount St. 
Vincent. On the establishment of the 
diocese of Grand Rapids he was conse¬ 
crated its first bishop in 1883. 

RICKER, MRS. MARILLA M:, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, philanthropist, author, was 
born March 18, 1840, in New Durham, N. 
H. For several years she was a school 
teacher. She has been Un ; ted States 
commission and examiner in chancery at 
Chicago: and is noted as a successful la'w- 
yer and political writer. 

RICKER. NATHAN CLIFFORD, archi¬ 
tect, author, was born July 24, 1843, in 
Acton, Maine. IIe is dea l oi College 
of Engineering in University of Illinois. 
He is president Ilinois State Board Ex¬ 
aminers of Architects. He is the author 
of Trussed Roofs; also text-books and 
translations issued in blue-print form for 
students. 

RICKS. AUGUSTUS J., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Feb. 10, 1843, near 

Massillon. Ohio. He served in the civil 
war. Since 1890 he has been United 
States judge of Northern district of 
Ohio. 

RICKS. JAMES B.. lawyer, jurist, was 
born Dec. 23, 1852, in Bear Creek Town¬ 
ship, Ill. Since 1901 he has been justice 
of the supreme court of Illinois. 

RIDDICK, JAMES EDWARD, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist., was born Aug. 29. 1849. 
in Fayette county, Tenn. In 1872 lie be¬ 
gan practice at Gainesville, Ark.; was 
prosecuting attorney second circuit Ar¬ 
kansas in 1876-78 and a rremb:r of the 
legislature in 1879. In 1886-94 he was 
judge of the second circmt of Arkansas; 
and since 1894 has been associate justice 
of the supreme court of Arkansas. 

RIDDLE, GEORGE', elocutionist, was 
born Sept. 22. 1853. in Charlestown, Mass. 
He was instructor in elocution at Har¬ 
vard university. He has given readings 
in the principal cities of the LTnited 
States, the most successful of which are 
Shakespeare’s Midsummer-Night’s Dream. 

RIDEAL, CHARLES FREDERICK, 
journalist, lecturer, author, was born 
June 10. 1858, in England. He studied for 
the medical profession, but subsequently 
engaged in journalistic work. He is 
one of the original members of the Vaga¬ 
bonds’ Club: and of the Playgoers’ Club 
of New York City. He has compiled 
twenty-five volumes in various branches 
of literature. 

RILEY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN cler¬ 
gyman, college president, author, was 
born July 16. 1S49. in Pineville. Ala. In 
1872 he entered the ministry; in 1888-93 
was president of Howard college of Ala¬ 
bama; was professor of English literature 
in University of Georgia in 1893-1900. He 
is the author of Alabama As It Is; His¬ 
tory of Baptists of Alabama: and His¬ 
tory of Baptists of the Southern States 
East, of the Mississippi. 

RIIEY, FRANKLIN LAFAYETTE 
educator, author, was born Aug. 24, 1868. 
near Hebron, Miss. Since 1897 he has 
been professor of history in University of 
Mississippi. He is the author of Colonial 
Origins of New England Senates; and 
School History of Mississippi. 


RILEY, MADISON MONROE, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born in Dal¬ 
las burg, Ky. He has held numerous 
pastorates in Kentucky; for three years 
was financial secretary Georgetown col- 
1 eg a; and for six years has been presi¬ 
dent of the Greenville Female College of 
South Carolina. 

RINER. JOHN A., lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor. jurist, was born in 1850, in Preble 
county, Ohio. In 1881 he was city attor¬ 
ney of Cheyenne; and in 1884 United States 
r - rt rttorney, Wyoming Ty. In 1886 
he was a member of the upper house of 
Territorial legislature; and a member of 
the constitutional convention in 1889. 
He was elected to the state senate. Since 
1890 he has been United States district 
judge. 

RIPLEY, WILLIAM ZEBINA, educator, 
author, was born in 1867 in Medford, 
Mass. Since 1895 he has been professor 
of sociology and economics in Massachu- 

' tts Institute Technology. He is the au¬ 
thor of Financial Llistory of Virginia; 
and The Races of Europe. 

RIORDAN, DANIEL J., business man, 
congressman, was born iu 1872 in New 
York city. He became a partner in Hie 
real estate business conducted by his 
father. He was elected to the fifty-sixth 
congress as a democrat. 

RISHELL. JAMES DYSON, educator, 
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 11, 1858, 
in Hugh'isville Pa. Since 1897 he has 
been professor of law and political econ¬ 
omy in Northern Illinois college. He is 
th author of Elfrida. a riistorieal Drama. 

RISLEY, RICHARD VOORHEES, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Nov. 8, 1874, in 
New York city. He is the author of The 
Sentimental Vikings; Men’s Tragedies; 
The Sledge; and The Anvil. 

RIVES, HALLIE ERMINIE, author, 
was born May 2, 1874, in Christian coun¬ 
ty, Ky. She is the author of Smoking 
Flax; and As the Heart Panteth; A Fool 
in Spots; and Singing Wire. 

RIVE-KING, JULIE, musician, com¬ 
poser. was born Oct. 31, 1857. in Cincin¬ 
nati. Ohio. Her piano-music is deserved¬ 
ly popular. 

ROACH, ADDISON L., lawyer, jurist, 
was horn Nov. 3, 1817, in Rutherford 
county, Tenn. In 1852 he was elected a 
justice of the supreme court of Indiana. 
He sat upon the bench until 1854 when he 
resigned. 

ROBERT. HENRY MARTYN, civil en¬ 
gineer. author, was horn May 2, 1837, in 
Beaufort district, S. C. Since t 895 he has 
been colonel of engineers in United States 
army. He is the author of Robert's Rules 
of Order. 

ROBERTS, BRIGHAM HENRY, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, author, was born 
March 13. 1857, in England. He was a 
member of the Utah Constitutional con¬ 
vention in 1895; and democratic nominee 
for congress in 1895. He was elected to the 
fifty-sixth congress. He is the author of 
The Life of john Taylor; Outlines of 
Ecclesiastical History; and A New Wit¬ 
ness of God. 

ROBERTS, ERNEST WILLIAMS, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 22. 1858, in East Madison, Maine. In 
1894-96 he was a member of Massa¬ 
chusetts legislature; and state senator in 
1897-98. He was electeu to the fifty- 
sixth congress. 

ROBERTS, GEORGE EVAN, printer, 
financier, author, was born Aug. 19, 1857, 
in Delaware county. Iowa. In 1882 he was 
elected state printer for Iowa. Since 1898 
he has been director of the mint. He is 



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the author of Coin at School in Finance, 
Iowa and the Silver Question; and Mon- 
eyj Wages and Prices. 

ROBERTS, MARTIN LEONARD, legis¬ 
lator, genealogist, was born April 24, 
1839, in Chatham, Conn. For many years 
he has been a railway postal clerk. In 
1869 he was a member of the Connecticut 
state legislature. He is the author of a 
genealogy of the Carpenter Family; and 
has written a History of Chatham. 

ROBERTS. THOMAS PASCHALL,civil 
engineer, author, was born April 21, 1843, 
in Carlisle, Pa. He executed surveys for 
ship canal to connect Ohio river With 
Lake Erie. He is the author of Memoir 
of the Late Chief Justice Gibson of Penn¬ 
sylvania. 

ROBERTS, WILLIAM CHART EL. 
clergyman, college president, was born 
Sept. 23, 1832, in Wales. In 1887 he be¬ 
came president of Lake Forest university. 
Illinois. In 1859-63 he was a trustee of 
Lafayette college; and he has held the 
same relation to Princeton since 1866. 

ROBERTSON, HARRISON, author. He 
is the author of If I Were a Man; and 
Stories of the South. 

ROBERTSON, MORGAN ANDREW, 
business man, author, was born Sept. 30, 
1861, in Oswego, N. Y. In 1877-86 he 
went to sea; entered the jewelry business 
in 1886: and since 1896 has been writer 
for periodicals. He is the author of 
Spun-Yarn; Futility; and Shipmates. 

ROBESON, HENRY B., naval officer, 
was born Aug. 5, 1842, in New Haven, 
Conn. In 1863 he commanded landing 
party from the New Ironsides in assault 
and capture of Confederate works on the 
lower part of Morris Island. He became 
a commodore in 1898. 

ROBINSON, ALBERT ALONZO, rail¬ 
road president, was born Oct. 21, 1844, in 
South Reading, Vt. Since 1893 he has 
been president of the Mexican Central 
railway. 

ROBINSON, DOANE, lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born Oct. 19. 1856, 
in Snarta, Wis. In 1898 he established 
the Monthly South Dakotan, devoted to 
state history, and literature. He is the 
author of History of South Dakota from 
the Earliest Times; and Coteaus of Da 
kota. in verse. 

ROBINSON. EDWIN ARLINGTON, 
author, was born Dec. 22, 1869, in Head 
Tide, Maine. He is the author of The 
Torrent and the Night Before; and The 
Children of the Night. 

ROBINSON, FRANKLIN CLEMENT, 
'hemist, author, was born April 24, 1852. 
a East Orrington, Maine. Since 1874 he 
xxas been professor of chemistry in Bow- 
doin college of Brunswick. Maine. He 
is the author of The Metals; and Quali¬ 
tative Analysis. 

ROBINSON, GIFFORD SIMEON, sol¬ 
ar, lawyer, state senator, jurist, was 
jrn May 28. 1843. in Tremont, Ill. He 
itered Union army in Company H. 115th 
urinois infantry; was disabled by wound 
at battle of Chickamauga. In 1870-88 he 
practised law in Storm Lake, Iowa; and 
served in both houses Iowa legislature. 
Since 1888 he has been judge of the su¬ 
preme court of Iowa. 

ROBINSON. JAMES HARVEY, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 29. 1863, in 
Bloomington. Ill. Since 1895 he has been 
professor of history in Columbia uni¬ 
versity of New York city. He is the 
author of Petrarch; The First Modern 
Scholar and Man of Letters; and other 
works. 


ROBINSON, JOHN, botanist, financier, 
author, was born July 13, 1846, in Salem, 
Mass. For several years he was botanist 
of Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 
Since 1875 he has been president of the 
Peabody Academy of Science of Salem, 
Mass. He is the author of Ferns 
and Their Homes and Ours; and Flora 
of Essex county, Mass. 

ROBINSON, JOHN S., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born May 4, 1856, in 
Wheeling, W. Va. In 1886 he was elect¬ 
ed county attorney of Madison county, 
and reelected in 1890; in 1893 he was 
elected judge of the ninth judicial dis¬ 
trict of Nebraska, and relected in 1895. 
He was elected to the fifty-sixth con¬ 
gress from Nebraska as a democrat. 

ROBINSON, WALTOUR M., lawyer, 
jurist, was born Nov. 27, 1850, near Par¬ 
is, Mo. Since 1895 he has been judge of 
the supreme court of Missouri. 

ROBINSON, WILLIAM CALLYHAN, 
clergyman, lawyer, legislator, jurist, au- 
tnor, was born July 26, 1834, in Norwich, 
Conn. Since 1895 he has been dean of 
law schools in Catholic University of 
America at Washington, D. C. In 1865-95 
he practiced law in New Haven, Conn; 
in 1869-71 was judge city court. New 
Haven, Conn.; and in 1874-76 judge of 
court of common pleas. He is the au¬ 
thor of Life of Ebenezer Beriah Kelly; 
Notes on Elementary Law; Elementary 
Law; Clavis Rerum; Law of Patents. 

ROCHE, JOSEPH F., clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 3, 1865, in Canada. He 
was Chancellor and Secretary of Lin¬ 
coln Diocese; Rector of Cathedral; and 
Rector of Present Church. He is the 
author of Apostles Belief and Unbelief; 
and two other works bearing on Catholic 
Doctrine. 

RODENBERG, WILLIAM A., lawyer, 
congressman was born Oct. 30, 1865, in 
Chester, Ill. In 1896 he was a delegate 
to National Republican Convention. He 
was elected to the fifty-sixth congress from 
Illinois as a republican. 

RODDLE, WILLIAM, merchant, public 
official, was born Dec. 28, 1868, in Keno¬ 
sha county, Wis. He is a successful 
merchant of Brookings, S. D.; and since 
1896 has been secretary of state of South 
Dakota. 

RODGER, JAMES GEORGE, educator, 
lecturer, author, was born July 4, 1852. 
in Hammond, N. Y. He became presi¬ 
dent of Benzonia Coliege, Mich.; and 
he resigned in 1897 to lecture on The 
Evidences of Christianity from a Scien¬ 
tific Basis. He is the author of Adol¬ 
phus, a religious drama. 

RODGERS, FREDERICK, naval officer, 
was born Oct. 3, 1842 in Maryland. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he attained the rank of 
lieutenant-commander. In 1897 he was 
president of the board of inspections and 
survey; and became commodore in 1898. 

RODMAN, WARREN ANSON, educat¬ 
or, architect, author, poet, was born 
Feb. 10, 1855, in East Boston, Mass. Since 
1895 he has been secretary of The Meta¬ 
physical Club of Boston, Mass. For ten 
years he practiced as architect; and lec¬ 
tured on metaphysics for three years. He 
is the author of Fate and Law; The Story 
of an Optimist; and Trust Thyself. 

ROE, MRS. NORA ORDELIA MET¬ 
CALF. author, poet, was born April 1, 
1856, in Franklin, Mass. She is the au¬ 
thor of Two Little Street Singers. 

ROEHRIG, FREDERICK LEWIS, arch¬ 
itect, was born Dec. 24, 1857, in Le Roy, 
N. Y. From his plans numerous promi¬ 
nent buildings in California have been 
built. 


ROGERS, MRS. CLARA KATHLEEN, 
musician, composer, was born Jan. 14, 
1844, in Cheltenham, England. She is the 
daughter of John Barnett, the father of 
English opera. She settled in Boston as 
a concert-singer, singing-teacher, and 
composer. She is the author of Op. 10, 
6 songs; Kiss Mine Eyelids, Lovely 
Morn; The Philosophy of Singing; and 
other compositions. 

ROGERS, DELLA, musician, composer, 
was born about 1879, in Denver, Colo. 
She made her debut at St. Petersburg. 
She has sung in Milan, Roumania, Tur¬ 
key; as well as America. 

ROGERS, GEORGE CLARKE, soldier, 
was born Nov. 22, 1838, ‘ in Piermont, 
N. H. He was the first to raise a com¬ 
pany in Lake county, Ill., at the open¬ 
ing of the civil w r ar; and became 1st 
lieutenant in 1861, and soon afterwarci 
captain. He commanded a brigade near¬ 
ly two years, including the Atlanta cam¬ 
paign; and in 1865 was brevetted briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers. 

ROHE, CHARLES HENRY, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born May 20, 1846, in 
Syracuse, N. Y. Since 1882 he has been 
pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church of 
Columbus, Ohio. He is me author of sev¬ 
eral novels and stories; and two volumes 
of poems. 

ROLFE, HENRY WINCHESTER, edu¬ 
cator, author. He is the author of Pet¬ 
rarch; the First Modern Scholar; and 
Man of Letters. 

ROOKER, FREDERICK ZADOK, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Sept. 19, 1861, in New 
York City. In 1889-93 he was vice-rec¬ 
tor American College; and is now its 
secretary to apostolic delegation. 

ROONEY, JOHN JEROME, journalist, 
financier, poet, was born March 19, 1866, 
in Binghamton, N. Y. He is a broker of 
New York City. He is the author 
The Men Behind the Duns, a volume of 
poems. 

ROOT, FREDERICK STANLEY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born May 7, 1853, in 
New Haven, Conn. He is the author of 
What Is the Matter with the Church ? 
The Extraordinary Case of Dr. Tetlow; 
and Athletics and Morals. 

ROOT, JOHN GILBERT, financier, was 
born April 20, 1835, in Westfield, Mass. 
Since 1883 he has been president of the 
Farmers’ and Mechanics' National bank. 
In 1888 he was elected mayor of Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

ROOT, OREN, educator, college pres¬ 
ident, author, was born May 18, 1838, it. 
Syracuse, N. Y. He is professor of 
mathematics in Hamilton College. In 
1873-76 he was president Pritchett Col¬ 
lege. He is the author of Brief Elemen¬ 
tary Trigonometry. 

ROSE, GEORGE B., lawyer, author, 
was born July 10, 1860, in Batesville, 
Ark. He has traveled extensively in the 
study of Renaissance art. He is the au¬ 
thor of Renaissance Masters. 

ROSE, WALTER MALINS, lawyer, 
author, was born Nov. 25, 1872, in Can¬ 
ada. He is a successful lawyer of San 
Francisco, Cal. He is the author of 
Notes on United States Reports, in 
twelve volumes. 

ROSEBORO, VIOLA, author, was born 
in Pulaski, Tenn. She is the author of 
Old Ways and New, a volume of short 
stories. 

ROSENTHAL, ALBERT, artist, was 
born Jan. 30, 1863, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He studied art under his father and at 
the Pennsylvania academy. He turned 
his attention to etching, and has become 
widely known for his work, which, like 
that of his father, includes numerous 


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xci 


portraits of American historical charac¬ 
ters. 

ROSENTHAL, HERMAN, librarian, 
author, was born Oct. 6, 1843, in Russia. 
He now publishes and edits the Hebrew 
Monthly Intelligencer of New York City. 
He is the author of Report on Japan, 
China and Corea. 

ROSEWATER, VICTOR, journalist, 
author, was born in 1871 in Omaha, Neb 
Since 1895 he has been managing editor 
of the Omaha Bee. He is the author of 
Special Assessments; and A Study in Mu¬ 
nicipal Finance. 

ROSS, EDWARD ALSWORTH, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Dec. 12, 1866, in 
Virden, Ill. In 1893-1900 he was profes¬ 
sor of sociology in Stanford University 
of California. He is the author of Hon¬ 
est Dollars. 

ROSS, JONATHAN, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born April 
30, 1826, in Waterford, Vt. In 1865-67 
he was a member of the Vermont legis¬ 
lature; and state senator in 1870. Since 
1870 he has been judge; and in 1890-1900 
was chief justice of the supreme court of 
Vermont. In 1899 he became United 
States senator to fill a vacancy. 

ROSS, JOHN B., author. He is the 
author of Scottish Poets in America; and 
editor of a dozen books about Burns. 

ROSS, PETER, historian, author, was 
born in Scotland. He is an author of 
New York city; and has written History 
of Freemasonry; Life of St. Andrew; 
Scotland and the Scots; The Scots in 
America; Kingcraft in Scotland; and Lit¬ 
erature of the Scottish Kings. 

ROSS, WILLIAM, novelist, was born 
Dec. 20. 1851, in Westfield, Mass. During 
his early life he was connected with var¬ 
ious newspapers; and in 1889 began a 
series of novels of great popularity, which 
achieved a sale of nearly two million 
copies within ten years. He has also 
traveled extensively, using material thus 
obtained in fiction. 

ROTCH. ARTHUR, architect, was born 
May 13, 1850, in Boston, Mass. In 1880 
he became senior member of the firm of 
Rotch and Tilden, in Boston; and since 
that time he has built various churches 
and the Memorial library building in 
Bridgewater, Mass., gymnasiums of Bow- 
doin college and Phillips Exeter acad¬ 
emy associates’ hall, high school, and ac¬ 
ademy in Milton, Mass.; the art schools 
and art museum of Wellesey college; and 
many private houses and business blocks 
throughout the United States. 

ROTH, FILIBERT, horticulturist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 20, 1858, in Ger¬ 
many. Since 1898 he has been profes¬ 
sor of forestry in Cornell university of 
Ithaca, N. Y. He is the author of For¬ 
est Conditions of Wisconsin; Cypress; 
The Annual Ring; Timber Physics; and 
Uses of Wood. 

ROTOLI, AUGUSTO, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Jan. 7, 1847, in Rome, 
Italy. Having achieved a high reputa¬ 
tion as a conductor, singing-teacher, and 
song composer, in 1885 he was called to 
Boston, Mass., as vocal instructor in the 
New Eiigland Conservatory. He is the 
author of many songs and compositions. 

ROUCOLLE, ADRIENNE, author, was 
born June 14, 1875, in France. She is 
the author of His Aunt’s Fortune; Child 
of the Sun; Not Like Other Girls; The 
Flood of Toulouse; Her Wedding Morn; 
The Gypsy; and The Kingdom of the 
Good Fairies. 

ROWAN, ANDREW SUMMERS, sol¬ 
dier, civil engineer, author, was born in 
Gap Mills, Va. He served in Texas, 


New Mexico, Colorado. South Dakota, 
North Dakota, Michigan, Washington, D, 
C.; and was a member of the Interconti¬ 
nent railway survey, and in charge of 
hypsometric work of Central American 
party. He was sent to communicate 
with Gen. Garcia after the declaration 
of Spanish-American war. He is the 
author of The Island of Cuba. 

RQWE, PETER TRIMBLE, clergyman, 
bishop was born in 1856 in Canada. 
Since 1895 he has been Protestant Epis¬ 
copal bishop of Alaska. 

ROWELL, JOHN W., lawyer, jurist. 
He is associate justice of the supreme 
court of Vermont. 

ROWLAND, ADONIRAM JUDSON, 
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 9, 1840, 
in Valley Forge, Pa. Since 1895 he has 
been general secretary of the American 
Baptist Publication Society. He is the 
author of A Handbook on the Penta¬ 
teuch. 

ROWLAND, KATE MASON, author, 
was born in Virginia, She is the author 
of The Life of George Mason, including 
his speeches, public papers and corres¬ 
pondence; and The Life of Charles Car- 
roll of Carrollton. 

ROWLEY, JOHN, taxidermist, author, 
was born March 11, 1866, in Hastings-on- 
Hudson, N. Y. Since 1893 he has been 
chief taxidermist of the American Mu¬ 
seum of Natural History. He is the 
author of The Art of Taxidermy. 

RUCKER, WILLIAM W., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Feb. 1, 1855, 
near Covington, Va. For three terms 
he was prosecuting attorney of Chariton, 
Mo.; and in 1893-90 was judge of the cir¬ 
cuit court. He was a member of the 
fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh congress from 
Missouri as a democrat. 

RUGGLES, HENRY JOSEPH, lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 1, 1813, in Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. He practices law in New 
York city. He is the author of The 
Plays of Shakespeare Founded on Liter¬ 
ary Forms; and The Metnod of Shake¬ 
speare as an Artist. 

RUGGLES, HIRAM, farmer, lumber¬ 
man, state senator, was born Oct. 14, 
1813. He engaged in the manufacture 
of lumber in Carmel, Mass. In 1839 no 
was appointed a justice of the peace; 
in 1846-51 he was a member of the state 
legislature; and in 1853-54 was a member 
of the state senate. In 1873 he was ap 
pointed collector of United States inter¬ 
nal revenue. He is a trustee and treas¬ 
urer of the East Maine Conference Sem¬ 
inary of BucKsport. 

RUGGLES, WILLIAM BENJAMIN, 
journalist, lawyer, state senator, was 
born May 14, 1827, in Bath, N. Y. In 
1849 he settled in Georgia; and in 1854 
established there the Daily Intelligencer, 
the first daily newspaper in Atlanta. 
Returning to Bath, N. Y., he was a mem¬ 
ber of the assembly in 1876-77; first dep¬ 
uty attorney-general of New York state 
in 1878-81; was a member of the state 
senate in 1883;' and in 1883-86 was state 
superintendent of public instruction. 

RUMSEY, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Oct. 18, 1841, in 
Bath, N. Y. In 1861-65 he served dur¬ 
ing the civil war in Peninsula, Shenan¬ 
doah Valley, and other campaigns; and 
retired with the rank of lieutenant colo¬ 
nel. He practiced law in Bath, N. Y. 
Since 1880 he has been justice of the 
supreme court of New York. He is the 
author of Rumsey’s Practice, in three 
volumes. 

RUNKLE, BERTHA, author, was born 
in Berkeley Heights, N. J. She is the 
author of The Helmet of Navarre. 


RUNYAN, HENRY, business man, "gen¬ 
ealogist, was born Nov. 9, 1832, near 
Peapack, N. J. Fr many years he was 
engaged in book and stationery business 
in Princeton, N. J. He is the author of 
Genealogies of Runyan and Osborn Fam¬ 
ilies. 

RUNYAN, RICHARD, lawyer, author, 
was born Nov. 14, 1830. For two terms 
he was mayor of Princeton, N. J. He 
is the author of Eight Days with the 
Confederates, and Capture of their Ar¬ 
chives, Flags, Etc. 

RUSBY, HENRY HURD, botanist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 26, 1855, in Frank¬ 
lin, N. J. Since 1888 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of botany, physiology and materia 
medica in New York College of Phar¬ 
macy. He is the author of Essentials 
of Pharmacognosy. 

RUSLING. JAMES F„ soldier, lawyer, 
was born April 14, 1834, in Washington, 
N. J. During the civil war he attained 
the rank of brigadier-general. 

RUSS, ADOLPH GUSTAV, financier, 
legislator, was born Jan. 19, 1826, in Sax¬ 
ony. In 1861-62 he built the Russ hotel 
of San Francisco, Cal. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the California state assembly in 
1887-88; and was a member of the vig¬ 
ilance committee of 1856. 

RUSSELL, FRANK, educator, author, 
was born Aug. 26, 1868, in Ft. Dodge, 
Iowa. In 1892-94 he was in anthro¬ 
pological and zoological work. He is 
the author of Explorations in the Far 
North. 

RUSSELL, HENRY BENAJAH, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born March 9, 1859. in 
Russell, Mass. In 1890-97 he was asso¬ 
ciate editor of the Hartford Post. He 
is the author of Life of William McKin¬ 
ley; International Monetary Conferences, 
and Our War With Spain. 

RUSSELL, ISAAC FRANKLIN, lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 25, 1857, in Ham¬ 
den, Conn. Since 1881 he has been 
professor of law in New York university. 
He is the author of Lectures on Law for 
Women; and Outline Study of Law. 

RUSSELL, JAMES EARL, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born July 1, 1864, in Ham¬ 
den, N. Y. Since 1898 he has been 
dean of Teachers college in Columbia 
university of New York city. Ha is 
the author of Extension of University 
Teaching in England and America. 

RUSSELL, LOUIS ARTHUR, musician, 
composer, was born Feb. 24, 1854, in 
Newark, N. J. In 1885 he founded the 
College of Music of Newark, N. J., of 
which he is musical director. In 1893 
he organized the Newark Symphonic 
Orchestra. He is the author of The 
Embellishments of Music; How to Read 
Modern Music; Problems in Time and 
Tune; Development of Artistic Piano¬ 
forte Touch; and the cantata, A Pastoral 
Rhapsody. 

RUSSELL, SOL SMITH, actor, was 
born June 15, 1848, in Brunswick, Maine. 
He followed the Union army as drummer 
boy. He left at Cairo, Ill., where he 
sang in a theatre, and acted small parts 
and beat the drum in the orchestra. 

He later joined a traveling company and 
in 1865 played at DeBar’s Theatre, St. 
Louis, Mo. For a number of years he 
has starred with his own company in 
Edgewood Folks; Felix McCusick; A Poor 
Relation; Peaceful Valley; and other 
plays. 

RUST. ALBERT DEXTER, soldier, 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 10, 1834, 
in North Danville, Vt. In 1868 he es¬ 
tablished the Michigan State Advance, 
which in 1870 was incorporated with an- 


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other newspaper and named Michigan 
Courier and Advance. He filled the 01 - 
fice of justice of the peace and other 
offices in Michigan. He is now a res¬ 
ident of Rock Island, Texas, where he 
publishes The Weekly Journal. He is 
the author of Record of the Rust Family. 

RUST, HENRY APPLE r ON, soldier, 
railroad builder, was born Nov. 26, 1832, 
in Springfield, Ill. During the civil war 
he participated in many battles and sieges 
of the armies of the Mississippi and 
Cumberland. Since 1866 his residence 
has been Chicago, Ill., where he has 
been extensively engaged in public wor,^ 
in the departments of railroads, their or¬ 
ganization and construction in railroad 
bridge bunding. 

RUST, NATHANIEL JOHNSON, bank¬ 
er, state legislator, bank president, was 
born Nov. 28, 1833, in Gorham, Maine. 
For a number of years he w r as engaged 
in the wholesale drug business in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. In 1874-76 he was a member 
of the Massachusetts state legislature; 
in 1877-78 was chairman of the republican 
city committee of Boston: and a member 
of the city council in 1878-79 and 189 -91. 
He is president of the Lincoln National 
bank Of Boston; president of the Dor¬ 
chester Gas Light company; and of var¬ 
ious other corporations. 

RYAN. JAMES W., educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1858. in 
Schuylkill county. Pa. He began the 
practice of law in Pottsville, Pa. He was 
district attorney in 1892-95. He was elec¬ 
ted to the fifty-sixth congress as a dem¬ 
ocrat. 

RYAN, THOMAS, musician, composer, 
was born in 1827, in Ireland. His fortunes 
were inseparably bound up with those 
of the Mendelssohn Quintette club, of 
which, after half a century of pioneer 
work for the highest class of chamber- 
music, he is the sole remaining original 
member. This little band of excellent 
musicians has visited every town of any 
size in the United States. He is the 
author of Recollections of an Old Musi¬ 
cian. 

RYAN, WILLIAM HENRY, congress¬ 
man, was born May 10, 1860, in Hopkin- 
ton, Mass. He was elected to the fifty- 
sixth congress from New York as a dem¬ 
ocrat. 

RYDER. THOMAS PPIILANDER, mu¬ 
sician, composer, was born June 29, 1836. 
in Cohasset, Mass. For many years he 
was organist at Tremont Temple of Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He is the composer of light 
and popular piano-music. 

RYLAND, C. H., clergyman. He is 
financial secretary of the Richmond col¬ 
lege, Va. 

RYLEY, MRS. MADELINE LUCETTE, 
playwright, author, was born in London, 
England. She abandoned tne stage for 
authorship; and made her first success 
with Cnristopher, Jr., played by John 
Drew in 1894. She has since produced 
The American Citizen; Mysterious Mr. 
Bugle; Lady Jemima; Valentine’s Days; 
A Coat of Many Colors; and a score of 
other plays. She is the author of An 
American Citizen. 

SABINE. WALLACE C., educator, au¬ 
thor. He is assistant professor of phys¬ 
ics in Harvard university. He is the 
author of Laboratory Course in Physical 
Measurements. 

SADLER, REINHOLD, governor, was 
born Jan. ^0, 1848, in Prussia. He has 
long resided in Nevada. He was elect¬ 
ed lieutenant-governor in 1895; and in 
1896 succeeded to the governorship. He 
vas elected for second term in 1898. 


SADTLER, SAMUEL PHILIP, chemist, 
author, was born July 18, 1847, in Pine 
Grove, Pa. In 1874-91 he was professor 
of chemistry in the University of Penn¬ 
sylvania; and since 1878 professor of 
chemistry in the Philadelphia college ot 
Pharmacy. He is the author of Hand¬ 
book of Chemical Experimentations tor 
Lectures; Handbook of Industrial Or¬ 
ganic Chemistry; and Textbook of Phar¬ 
maceutical Chemistry. 

SAGEBEER, JOSEPH EVANS clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1861, in Allen¬ 
town, Pa. He is the author of The Bible 
in Court; The Method of Legal Inquiry 
Applied to tne Study of the Scriptures. 

SALISBURY, ALBERT, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author was born 
Jan. 24, 1843, in Lima, Wis. He served 
as a private soldier during the civil war 
in the thirteenth Wisconsin volunteer in¬ 
fantry. Since 1885 he has been president 
of the State Normal School of White- 
water, Wis. He is the author of Phon¬ 
ology and Orthoepy; and History of Nor¬ 
mal Instruction in W.sconsin. 

SALLEY, ALEXANDER SAMUEL, 
lawyer, librarian, author, was born June 
16, 1871, in Orangeburg county, S. C. He 
is secretary, treasurer, and librarian of 
the South Carolina Historical Society. He 
is the author of History of Orangeburg 
County, S. C.; and Bibliography of Wil¬ 
liam Gilmore Simms. 

SALMON, DANIEL ELMER, veterin¬ 
arian, author, was born July 23, 1850, in 
Mount Olive, N. J. Since 1884 be has 
been chief of the United States Bureau 
of Animal Industry. In 1898 he was 
president of the United States Veterin¬ 
arian Medical association. He is the 
author of Diseases of Poultry. 

SALMON, JOSHUA S., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Feb. 2, 1846, 
in Schooley’s Mt., N. J. In 1878 he was 
a member of the New Jersey legislature. 
In 1893-98 he was prosecutor of pleas of 
Morris county, N. J. He was elected 
to the fifty-sixth congress from New Jei- 
sey as a democrat. 

SALTER, MOSES BUCKINGHAM, 
clergyman, bishop, was born Feb. i3, 

1841, in Charleston, S. C. In 1865 fie 
was one of the founders c ; the American 
Methodist Episcopal church. Since 1892 
he has been bishop. 

SALTER, WiLLIA.-i MaCKinTiKE, 
lecturer, author, was born Jan. 30, 1853, 
in Burlington, Iowa. He is lecturer of 
Society oi Ethical Culture of Chicago, 
111. He is the author of on a Foundation 
for Religion; Die Keligion der Moral; 
Ethical Religion; and An inquiry in Fun¬ 
damental Politics. 

SAMPEY, JOHN RICHARD, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 27, 1863, in Fort 
Deposit, Ala. Lo has been professor or 
Old Testament Interpretation in the 
Southern Theological Seminary since 
1885. He is the author of Syllobes of 
Old Testament History and Liteiaiure, 
and History oi the Southern Bap list, rhe¬ 
ological Semina; y. 

SAMPSON, FRANCIS ASHBURY, law¬ 
yer, scientist, author, was born Feb. 6, 

1842, in Harrison county, Ohio. He is a 
noted lawyer of Sedalia, Mo.; and vice 
president Missouri Trust company. He 
has been active in natural science matters; 
and sixteen species of lossiis and sneiis 
have been named for him. He is the 
author of Bibliography of the Geology of 
Missouri; Bibliography of Missouri Au¬ 
thors; History and Bibliography of the 
Missouri Horticultural Society: and other 
works. 


SANBORN, ALvAN FRANCIS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born July 8, 18ot>, 
in Marlboro, Mass. Since 1899 he has 
been Paris correspondent of the Boston 
Transcript. He is the author of Moody’s 
Lodging House, and Other Tenement 
Sketches; and Meg McIntyre’s Raffle, 
and Other Stories. 

SANBORN, JOHN BENJAMIN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state senator, was born Dec. 
5, 1826, in Epsom, N. H. As adjutant- 
general and quartermaster-general he or¬ 
ganized and sent Minnesota troops to 
war in 1861; was colonel of fourth Min¬ 
nesota in 1862; and served to the close 
of the war, becoming brigadier-general 
and brevet major-general. He has serv¬ 
ed in the Minnesota house and senate. 

SANBORN, V. C., genealogist. He is 
the author of the Sanborn Genealogy. 

SANDERS, FRANK KNIGHT, educa¬ 
tor, archaeologist, author, was born June 
5, 1861, in Ceylon. He is professor of 
Biblical history and archaeology and 
dean in Divinity School of Yale univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of The Messages 
of the Later Prophets; Historical Series 
for Bible Students, in ten volumes; and 
The Messages of the Bible, in twelve 
volumes. 

SANDERS, THOMAS JEFFERSON, 
educator, college president, author, was 
born Jan. 18, 1855, near Burbank, Ohio. 
Since 1891 he has been president of Ot- 
terbein university of Westerville, Ohio. 
He is the author of Philosophy of the 
Christian Religion; and Transcendental¬ 
ism. 

SANDERSON, LILLIAN, musician, 
composer, was born Oct. 13, 1867, in 
Milwaukee, Wis. In 1890 she made her 
debut as concert-singer at Berlin; and 
since then has made successful tours of 
the chief cities of Europe. She is the 
wife of Herr Rumrnel, and lives in Ber¬ 
lin. 

SANDERSON, SIBYL, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born in 1865, in Sacramento, 
Cal. In 1889 she very successfully made 
her debut at the Opera-Comique as a so¬ 
prano opera singer. 

SANFORD. EDMUND CLARK, psy¬ 
chologist, author, was born Nov. 10, 1859, 
in Oakland, Cal. He is professor of 
experimental and comparative psychol¬ 
ogy in Clark university. He is the au¬ 
thor of A Course in Experimental Psy¬ 
chology. 

SANFORD, FERNANDO, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 12, 1854, in Taylor, 
Ill. Since 1891 he has been professor of 
physics in Stanford university. He is 
the author of Variation of Resistance of 
Copper Wires in Various Dielectics; Ex¬ 
periments in Electric Photography; An 
Acoustic Pyrometer; and Rain Making. 

SANFORD, HEMAN HOWES, educa¬ 
tor, genealogist, was born Sept 29, 1829, 
in Madison, N. Y. For many years he 
was a classical teacher in Cortlanu Acad¬ 
emy of Homer, N. Y.; became professor 
of Latin in Syracuse university in 1872; 
and of Latin and English literature in 
the University of Chicago in 1878. He 
now resides in Syracuse, N. Y. He is 
the author of Genealogies of the John 
Howes and the William Sanford Fami¬ 
lies. 

SANGER. WILLIAM CARY, soldier, 
author, was born May 21, 1853, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He was lieutenant'-colonel of 
203d regiment in the volunteer service of 
United States in Spanish-American war. 
He is the author of Sea Coast Defenses 
and the Organization of Sea Coast Ar¬ 
tillery Forces; and Organization and 
Training of a National Reserve. 


ADDENDA. 


xcm 


anist, author, was born Dec. 25, 1863, m 
Boston, Mass. He is the author or 
Guide to Cryptogams; Through a Micro¬ 
scope; A Key to North American Species 
of Cladonia; and How to Describe a 
Flowering Plant. 


-}oq ‘aohhh HomaaaHH ’lnhohvs 

SARGENT, HERBERT HOWLAND, 
soldier, author, was oorn Sept. 29, 1858. 
in Carlinville, Ill. He served on the 
frontier until the outbreak of the Span¬ 
ish-American war. He served at Wash¬ 
ington in organizing volunteers; was ap¬ 
pointed colonel of the 5th United States 
volunteers in 1898; and organized regi¬ 
ment at Columbus, Miss. He is the 
author of Napoleon Bonaparte’s First 
Campaign; and The Campaign of Maren¬ 
go. 

SASS, GEORGE HERBERT, author, 
poet, was born Dec. 24, 1845, in Charles¬ 
ton. S. C. He contributes verses to the 
leading periodicals; and many years was 
literary editor of Sunday News and Cour¬ 
ier of Charleston, S. C. He is master 
in equitv of Charleston county S. C. 

SATOLLI, FRANCIS Roman Catholic 
cardinal, was born July 21, 1831. in Italj'. 

In 1893-96 he was apostolic delegate to 
United States with plenary powers. 

SATTERLEE, HERBERT LIVINGS¬ 
TON, lawyer, author, was born Oct. 31, 
1863, in New York city. tie is president 
of the Naval Reserve association. He 
is the author of Political History of the 
Province of New York. 

SATTLER, ERIC E., physician, author, 
was born Nov. 4, 1859. in Cincinnati. 
Ohio. He limits his practice to dis¬ 
eases of eye, ear, nose and throat, and 
was one of the earliest practicing phy¬ 
sicians of Cincinnati. Ohio. He is tne 
author of History of Tuberculosis. 

SAUNDERS, MARGARET MAR¬ 
SHALL, author, was born in. 1861 in Can¬ 
ada. She is the author of Beautiful Joe. 
for which she received a prize of two 
hundred dollars from the American 
Humane Educational society. Her othe' 
works are The King of the Park; For Hi: 
Country; and For the Other Boy’s Sake, 
and Other Stories. 

SAVAGE, ALBERT R., lawyer, jurist 
was born Dec. 8, 1847, in Ryegate, "V t. 
He is justice of the supreme judicial 
court of Maine. 

SAVAGE, EZRA PERIN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, merchant, legislator, governor, was 
born in 1842, in Connorsvihe. Ind. He 
served as soldier and scout in the ci\i! 
war under Grant and Sherman. In 186 
he engaged in the stock, grain and m- 
plement busines in Lyons, Iowa; and in 
1873 began cattle raising in Crawford 
county. Towa. In 18P3 he was in business 
in South Omaha. Neb.; and was nrs f 
mayor there. He laid out the town of 
Sargent in 1883; was a member of the 
seventeenth Nebraska legislature; a 1 
governor of Nebraska in 1900-01. 

SAVAGE, HIRAM A., business man 
legislator, was born Aug. 28. 1864. in 
Saginaw county. Mich. In 1888 he en¬ 
tered the employ of the Michigan Cen¬ 
tral Railroad; and is now car recorder. 
He was a member of the Michigan stab 
legislature in 1897-98. 

SAVIDGE. EUGENE COLEMAN. Mu¬ 
sician, author, was born Oct. 21, 1863. in 
Maryland. He is gynecologist on staff 
of Roosevelt hospital of New York city. 
He is the author of Wallingford: Gallery 
of Eminent Men; The American in Paris: 
and The Life and Times of Brewster. 

SAVIDGE. FRANK RAYMOND, law¬ 
yer, author, was born May 22, 1866, in 
Hancock. Md. He is solicitor of numer¬ 


ous corporations, municipal and others, 
in Philadelphia, i a. He is the author 
of Law of Borougns in Pennsylvania. 

SAVORY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
clergyman, lecturer, author, was Corn 
March 29, 1856, in Warner, N. H. Since 
1893 he has been engaged in lecturing 
and evangelistic work with stereoptieon. 

He is the author of Marriage, Ms science 
and Ethics, or Love’s Consummation. 

SAWIN, THEOPHILUS PAR ONS, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 14, 1841, 
in Lynn. Mass. Since 1886 he nas been 
pastor of the First Presbyterian church 
of Troy, N. Y. He is the author ol 
The Transfiguring of the Cross; and Lib¬ 
erty in the Presbyterian Church. 

SAWYER. CHARLES HENRY, manu¬ 
facturer, legislator, governor, was born 
March 30, 1840, in Watertown, N. Y. He 
is a woolen manufacturer of Dover, N. H. 

In 1869-70 and 1876-77 he was a member 
of the New Hampshire legislature. In 
1884 he was a delegate to the National 
Republican convention. In 1887-89 he 
.,as governor of New Hampshire. 

SAWYER. WALTER LEON, journal 
ist, author, was born Oct. 23, 186Z, m 
Cumberland, Maine. Since 1892 he has 
been assistant editor of Youth’s Compan¬ 
ion of Boston, Ma^s. He is the author 
of An Outland Journey; and A Local 
Habitation. 

SAYRE. LUCIUS ELMER, pharmacist, 
author, was born in 1847, in Bridgeton. 

N. J. Since 1885 he has been dean of 
Department of Pharmacy in the Univer¬ 
sity of Kansas. He is the author or 
Chart of Materia Medica; Essentials or 
Pharmacy; and Organic Materia Medica 
and Pharmacognosy. 

SAYRE, REGINALD HALL, physician, 
surgeon, was born Oct. 18, 1859, in New 
York city. He is a successful physician 
of New York city; and vice-president of 
the American Orthopaedic Association. 
He is the author of Immediate Reduction 
of Deformity After Penotomy; and other 
medical works. 

SCAIFE, WALTER B„ author, was 
born Sept. 10, 1858, in Pittsburg, Pa. 
He is the author of American Geograph¬ 
ical History; and Florentine Life During 
the Renaissance. A 

SCARBOROUGH, ROBERT BETHEA 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 29, 1861, in Chesterfield C. H., S. 
C. Since 1884 he has practiced in Conway, 
g‘ c. in 1896 he was elected to tne 
South Carolina senate. He was elected 
to the fifty-seventh congress from South 
Carolina as a demon at. 

SCHAEFFER. NATHAN C., educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 3, 
1849. in Berks county, Pa. Since 1893 he 
has been state superintendent of public 
instruction of Pennsylvania. He is the 
author of Thinking and Learning to 
Think. 

SCHAUFFI ER. ADOLPHUS FREDER¬ 
ICK. clergyman, author, was born Nov. 
7, 1845. in Constantinople. In 1873-87 he 
was pastor of Olivet church of New York 
city. Since 1887 he has been superintend¬ 
ent of the New York city missions. He 
was elected president of the New York 
Sunday-school association in 1897: and 
in the same year was made a member of 
the Inter national Sunday-school lesson 
committee. He is the author of Ways 
of Working. 

SCHELLING. FELIX E.. educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 8, 1858. He 

is John Welsh Centennial professor 
of English literature in Univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania. He is the author 


of Edition of Ben Jonson’s Discoveries; 
Literary and Verse Criticism of the Reign 
of Elizabeth; Life and Works of George 
Gascoigne; A Book of Elizabethian 
Lyrics; and a Book of Seventeenth Cen¬ 
tury Lyrics. 

SCHENK, WILLIAM EDWARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 29, 1819, in 
Princeton, N. J. Since 1865 he has been 
vice-president of Pennsylvania Coloniza¬ 
tion Society; and of American Coloniza¬ 
tion Society since 1877. He is the au¬ 
thor of Historical Account of the First 
Presbyterian Church of Princeton, N. 

J.: Aunt Fanny’s Home; Children in 
Heaven; Nearing Home; The Fountain 
for Sin; and Church Extension for 
Cities. 

SCHEPPEGRELL. WILLIAM, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Sept. 22. 1860. in 
Germany. He first practiced in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C.; removed to New Orleans in 
1890; and became assistant surgeon of 
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. He 
is the inventor of many appliances in 
ear, nose and throat specialty. He is 
president of the Western Ophthalmologic 
and Oto-Laryngologic Association. He is 
the author of Electricity in Diseases of 
the Nose, Throat and Ear. 

SCHERER, HENRY P„ manufacturer, 
public official, was born Sept. 1. 1854. in 
Fort Wayne, Ind. He is a carriage man¬ 
ufacturer of Fort Wayne, Ind.; and was 
county commissioner of Colfax County, 
New Mexico. 

SCHERMERHORN. MARTIN KEL¬ 
LOGG. clergyman, author, He is the au¬ 
thor of Ancient Sacred Scriptures. 

SCHIEFFEI.IN, BRADHURST, manu¬ 
facturer, was born Sept, 21. 1824, in New 
York city. In 1883 he was nominated ly 
his party for state senator from the tenth 
district of New York city. 

SCHILLER, MADELINE, musician, 
composer, was born in London. England. 
On her return from a successful Australi¬ 
an tour she married Mr. Marcus Elmer 
Bennett of Boston, Mass. A second tour 
in Australia was followed by a season of 
concertizing in Europe. At present she 
is in New York city. She has won gen¬ 
eral recognition by her spirited and re¬ 
fined interpretations of classic and mod¬ 
ern pianoforte literature, and her qualities 
as an instructress. 

SCHILLING, GEORGE A., organizer, au¬ 
thor. He is active in labor organiza¬ 
tions in Chicago; and secretary of Illinois 
State Department of Labor in 1893-97. 
He is the author of Street Railways of 
Chicago and Other Cities. 

SCHMIDT, ARTHUR P., musician, 
publisher, composer, was born April 1, 
1846. in Germany. In 1876 he established 
a business of his own which now has 
branches in New York and Leipzig. 

SCHMIDT. NATHANIEL, educator, au¬ 
thor,- was born May 22. 1862, in Sweden. 
Since 1896 he has been professor of 
Semitic languages and literature in Cor¬ 
nell University. He is the author of 
The Character of Christ’s Last Meal; and 
Maranatha. 

SCHMUCKER, SAMUEL D., soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 26, 1844. in 
Gettysburg, Pa. In 1863 he was sergeant 
of the twenty-sixth Pennsylvania regi¬ 
ment in the Union army. He practiced 
law in Baltimore for thirty-two years. 
He was president of the Bar Association; 
and was one of the commission which 
prepared present charter of Baltimore 
city. Since 1898 he has been judge of 
court of appeals of Maryland. 


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ADDENDA. 


SCHNEIDER, ALBERT, botanist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 13, 1863, in Gran¬ 
ville Ill. Since 1897 he has been profes¬ 
sor of botany and materia medica in 
Northwestern University School of Phar¬ 
macy of Chicago. He is the author of 
A Text-book of General Lichenology; 
Guide to the Study of Lichens; Micro¬ 
scopy and Micro-Technique; and Hints 
on Drawing for Students of Biology. 

SCHNEIDER, GEORGE, banker, was 
born Dec. 13, 1823, in Bavaria. He es¬ 
tablished the Neue Zeit of St. Louis, 
Mo.; and afterward removed to Chicago; 
and in 1861 was appointed collector of in¬ 
ternal revenue. He was subsequently 
president of the State savings institution 
until 1871, when he became president of 
the National bank of Illinois. In 1876 he 
served as United States minister to 
Switzerland. 

SCHOENEFELD, HENRY, musician, 
composer, was born Oct. 4, 1857, in Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis. After a pianist tour 
through Northern Germany he settled in 
Chicago as a teacher and composer. He 
is the author of numerous compositions. 

SCHOFF, STEPHEN ALONZO, en¬ 
graver, was born Jan. 16, 1818, in Dan¬ 
ville, Vt. He engaged in bank-note work 
in New York city, and soon was employed 
upon his first important work, Caius Ma¬ 
rius on the Ruins of Carthage, after 
Vanderlyn. This plate was issued about 
1843, and to expedite its publication and 
aid the young artist, the master Ameri¬ 
can engraver, Asher Brown Durand, en¬ 
graved the head and gave some touches 
to the figure. Recently he has turned 
his attention to etching, producing some 
beautiful plates. 

SCHOULER, JOHN, naval officer, was 
born Nov. 30, 1846, in Lowell, Mass. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he became lieutenant. 
In 1895-97 he was chief of staff of the 
North Atlantic fleet; and in 1899 was re¬ 
tired with the rank of rear-admiral. 

SCHRADER, FREDERICK FRANK¬ 
LIN, journalist, author, was born Oct. 
27, 1857, in Germany. For several years 
he was a manager of theatres. In 1898 he 
was compiler and editor of the republi¬ 
can campaign textbook. He is the au¬ 
thor of Jose, a novel; and several plays. 

SCHROEDER, A. T., lawyer, lecturer, 
author, was born Sept. 17, 1864, in Hori- 
con, Wis. He successfully conducted the 
case against congressman elect Brigham 
W. Roberts; and is a noted anti-Mormon 
lecturer. He is the author of Mormonism. 

SCHULTZE, ARTHUR, educator, in¬ 
ventor, author, was born March 30, 1861, 
in Germany. Since 1897 he has been 
second assistant of Boys’ High School of 
New York city. He is the inventor of 
the Dynamic Heater. He is the author ot 
Propagation of Heat in a Homogeous 
Rectangular Parallelopiped. 

SCHUREMAN, MELANCTHONT FREE¬ 
MAN, manufacturer, was born Aug. 31, 
1820. in New Brunswick. He is proprietor 
of two planing mills in New York city, 
and has been engaged with planing mills 
for fifty years. For forty years he has 
been vestry man of the Parish of St. 
John the Evangelist. He published the 
Schureman Genealogy. 

SCHUYLER, EUGENE, diplomat, au¬ 
thor. was born Feb. 26, 1840. in Ithaca, 
N. Y. He entered the diplomatic service 
of the United States in 1866; and was 
consul at Moscow in 1867-69; and at Reval 
in 1869-70: and secretary of legation at 
St. Petersburg in 1870-76. He became 
secretary of legation and consul-general 


in Constantinople in 1876. He is the au¬ 
thor of Turkestan, Notes of a 

Journey in Russian Turkeston, Khokand, 
Bokhara, and Kuldja; Peter the Great. 

SCHUYLER, WILLIAH HENRY, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, was born Oct. 15, 1848, 
in Hartleton, Pa. He was instructor in 
Lafayette College; principal of Lewis- 
town and New Bloomfield Academies; and 
pastor of the Presbyterian church in 
Everett, in 1887-99. He is now pastor of 
the Presbyterian church of Schellsburg, 
Pa. 

SCHWAB, CHARLES M., civil engi¬ 
neer, corporation manager, was born 
April 18, 1862, in Williamsburg, Pa. He 
became president of the Carnegie Steel 
Company; and on the organization of the 
United States Steel Corporation be became 
president of that institution. He built 
the new Catholic church at Loretto, Pa.; 
and established the Industrial School of 
Homestead, Pa. 

SGHWAN, THEODORE, soldier, was 
born in Germany. In 1867 he was made 
major for gallant and meritorious servi¬ 
ces during Civil war. In 1898 he was ap¬ 
pointed brigadier-general United States 
volunteers; and assigned to duty as pres¬ 
ident of Board of Brevets and Medals of 
Honor. 

SCHWEBACH, JAMES, clergyman, 
bishop, was born Aug. 15, 1847, in Ger¬ 
many. Since 1892 he has been Roman 
Catholic bishop of La Crosse, Wis. 

SCHWEINFURTH, CHARLES FRED¬ 
ERICK, architect, was born in 1856, in 
Auburn, N. Y. Since 1883 he has prac¬ 
ticed in New York city; practice 
mostly in residence, collegiate and church 
structures. 

SCHWEINITZ, EMIL ALEXANDER 
DE, chemist, was born Jan. 18, 1866. in 
Salem, N. C. He entered the chemical 
division of the agricultural department 
in Washington; and became in 1890 di¬ 
rector of the Biochemic laboratory of the 
agricultural department. He is also pro¬ 
fessor of chemistry in the Columbian 
university medical school, of which fac¬ 
ulty he is the dean. He is the author of 
A Chemical Study of the Osage Orange as 
a Substitute for the Mulberry in rearing 
Silkworms; The Poisons produced by the 
Hog Cholera Germ; The Production of 
Immunity to Swine Plague by Use of the 
Products of the Germ; The Use of Mal- 
lein and its Active Principles; A Pre¬ 
liminary Study of the Poisons of the Tu¬ 
berculosis Bacillus and the Practical Val¬ 
ue and Use of Tuberculin: Artificial 
Media for Bacterial Cultures; The Effect 
of Tuberculin on the Milk of Cows; The 
Chemical Composition of the Tubercu¬ 
losis and Glanders Bacilli; A Hygenic 
Study of Oleomargarine; and The War 
with the Microbes. 

SCHWEINITZ, GEORGE EDMUND DE. 
physician, author. He is the author of 
Diseases of the Eye; Diseases of the Eye, 

Ear, Nose and Throat; and Toxic Ambly¬ 
opias. 

SCIDMORE, ELIZA RUHAMAH, auth¬ 
or, was born Oct. 14, 1856, in Madison. 
Wis. She is corresponding secretary of 
the National Geographical Society. She is 
the author of Westward to the Far East; 
From East to West; Guide to Alaska and 
the Northwest Coast; and Java, the Gar¬ 
den of the East. 

SCOTT, EBEN GREENOUGH, author, 

was born June 15. 1836, in Wilkes-Barre. 
Pa. He is the author of Interstate Law 
of Pennsylvania; and Development of 
Constitutional Liberty. 


SCOTT, ELMON, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Nov. 6, 1853, in Isle La Motte, Vt. 
He was several times mayor of Pomeroy, 
Wash. In 1889-98 he was a judge of the 
supreme court; and since 1898 has been 
justice of the supreme court of Washing¬ 
ton. 

SCOTT, FRANCIS MARKOE, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 14, 1848, in New 
York city. Since 1898 he has been justice 
of the supreme court of New York for 
term ending in 1911. 

SCOTT, FRED NEWTON, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 20, 1860, in Terre 
Haute, Ind. Since 1896 he has been jun¬ 
ior professor of rhetoric in University of 
Michigan. He is the author of Aesthetics, 
Its Problems and Literature; Principles 
of Style; Guide to Literature of Aesthet¬ 
ics; and other works. 

SCOTT, HARRIET MARIA, educator, 
author. In 1886-99 she was principal of 
the Detroit Normal Training School. She 
is the author of Organic Education. 

SCOTT, HENRY WILSON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, author, was born about 1865, in San¬ 
gamon county, Ill. In 1893 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States district judge for 
Oklahoma Territory. He is now engaged 
in the practice of law in New York city. 
He is the author of Distinguished Ameri¬ 
can Lawyers. 

SCOTT HUGH MCDONALD, clergyman, 
author, was born March 31, 1848, in Guys- 
boro, N. S. Since 1881 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of ecclesiastical history in Chicago 
Theological Seminary. He is the author 
of The Nicene Theology. 

SCOTT, NATHAN BAY, soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, banker, United States senator, 
was born Dec. 18, 1842, in Guernsey coun¬ 
ty, Ohio. In 1862-65 he served as a soldier 
in the Civil war. He then engaged in 
the manufacture of glass at Wheeling, 
W. Va.; is pre'sident of the Central Glass 
Works; and president of the Dollar Sav¬ 
ings Bank. In 1882-90 he served as a 
member of the West Virginia state senate. 
In 1899 he was elected to the United 
States senate for term expiring in 1905. 

SCOTT, SUTTON SELWYN. lawyer, 
farmer, author, wasi born Nov. 26, 1829, in 
Huntsville Ala. In 1857-60 he was a mem¬ 
ber of Alabama legislature from Madison 
county. In 1875 he was a delegate to Ala¬ 
bama Constitutional Convention; and 
delegate to National Democratic Conven¬ 
tion, Cincinnati, in 1880. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature from Russell coun¬ 
ty in 1884 and 1890. He is the author 
of Southbooke, Southern Tales and 
Sketches; and The Mobilians. 

SCOTT, THOMAS MORTON, soldier, 
business man, was born June 25, 1824, in 
Cadiz, Ohio. He served in the Mexican 
war. He was captain in Confederate serv¬ 
ice. In 1896 he was brevet major-general 
in United Confederate Veterans. 

SCOTT WILLIAM BERRYMAN, educa¬ 
tor. author, was born Feb. 12, 1858, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He is professor of ge¬ 
ology and paleontology in Princeton Uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of An Introduc¬ 
tion to Geology. 

SCOVEL, SYLVESTER FITHIAN, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, auth¬ 
or, was born Dec. 29, 1835, in Harrison, 
Ohio. In 1866-83 he was pastor of the 
First Presbyterian church of Pittsburg, 
Pa.; and in 1883-98 was president of the 
University of Wooster. Ohio, where he 
fills the chair of professor of morals and 
sociology. He is the author of Centennial 
History of First Presbyterian Church of 
Pittsburg. 


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SCOVELL, JOSIAH THOMAS, educator, 
author, was born July 29, 1841, 

in Vermontville, Mich. He was four 
months in the army in 1866 in 160th 
Ohio regiment. He is the author of Les¬ 
sons in Geography; Lessons in Physiol¬ 
ogy; and Practical Lessons in Science. 

SCOVILLE, WILBUR L., educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 22, 18G5, in Bridge¬ 
port, Conn. He is professor in Massachu¬ 
setts College of Pharmacy. He is the au¬ 
thor of Art of Compounding. 

SCREVEN, JOHN, railroad president, 
was born Sept. 18, 1827, in Savannah. Ga. 
He was president of the Savannah, Flor¬ 
ida and Western Railroad company for 
over twenty years. 

SCRIBNER, FRANK KIMBALL, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Feb. 22, 1867, in 
New York city. He is the author of Hon¬ 
or of a Princess; The Love of the Princess 
Alice; The Fifth of November; and A 
Maid of the Colonies. 

SCRIBNER, GILBERT HILTON, law¬ 
yer, author, was born June 23, 1831, in 
Monroe county, N. Y. In 1880-93 he was 
president of Central Park North and East 
River Railroad Company; and in 1863 be¬ 
came president of Palisade Bank of Yonk¬ 
ers, N. Y. Since 1898 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Fortnightly Club for Study of 
Anthropology. He is the author of Where 
Did Life Begin. 

SCRIBNER, HARVEY, lawyer, author, 
was born March 19, 1850, in Mt. Vernon, 
Ohio. He has been identified with many 
important cases in Toledo, Ohio. He is 
the author of My Mysterious Clients. 

SCUDDER. CHARLES LOCKE, physi¬ 
cian, author. He is a successful physician 
of Boston, Mass. He is the author of 
Treament of Fractures. 

SCUDDER, TOWNSEND, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 26, 1865, in 
Northport. N. Y. He has made a specialty 
of municipal law; and has served four 
terms as counsel for Queens county. He 
was elected to the fifty-sixth congress 
from New York as a democrat. 

SEAMAN, LOUIS LIVINGSTON, physi¬ 
cian. surgeon, author, was born Oct. 17, 
1851, in Newburg, N. Y. Since 1876 he 
has practiced medicine in New York city. 
He was superintendent of State Emi¬ 
grant Insane Asylum in 1879-81; and chief 
of staff of the various hospitals and the 
Training School for Nurses. He was 
major-surgeon of the first regiment, Unit¬ 
ed States volunteer engineers, in Spanish- 
American war. He is the author of The 
Social Waste of a Great City. 

SEAMAN, WILLIAM H., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 15, 1842, in New Berlin, 
Wis. Since 1893 he has been United 
States judge for eastern district of Wis¬ 
consin. In 1893-98 he was president of 
Wisconsin State Bar Association. 

SEARLE, ARTHUR PHILLIPS, astron- 
omist. author, was born Oct. 21, 1837, in 
London. England. Since 1887 he has been 
professor of astronomy in Harvard Uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of Outlines of 
Astronomy. 

SEARS. JOSEPH HAMBLEN, journal- 
is i , author, was born in 1865 in Boston, 
Mass. He is the author of The Govern¬ 
ments of the World Today: and Fur and 
Feather Tales. 

SEARS, LORENZO, educator, author, 

was born April 18, 1838. in Searsville, 
Mass. Since 1890 he has been professor 
of rhetoric and American literature in 
Brown University. He is the author of 
The History of Oratory; The Occasional 
Address. Its Composition and Literature- 


and Principles and Methods of Literary 
Criticism. 

SEAY, ABRAHAM J., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, was born Nov. 28, 1832, 
in Union service from private to colonel 
in Amherst county, Va. In 1861-65 he was 
in thirty-second Missouri volunteer in¬ 
fantry. In 1890-92 he was supreme judge 
of Oklahoma. In 1892-93 was governor of 
Oklahoma. t 

SEDGWICK, ELLERY, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 27, 1872, in New York 
city. Since 1900 he has been editor of 
Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. He is 
the author of Life of Thomas Paine. 

SEDGWICK WILLIAM THOMPSON, 
biologist, author, wiais born Dec. 29, 1855, 
in W. Hartford, Conn. He is professor of 
biology in Massachusetts Institute Tech¬ 
nology. In 1900 he was president of Bos¬ 
ton Civil Service Reform Association. He 
is the author of General Biology; and Life 
and Letters of William Barton Rogers. 

SEE. THOMAS JEFFERSON JACK- 
SON, astronomer, author, was born Feb. 
19, 1866, near Montgomery City, Mo. In 
1899 he was appointed professor of mathe¬ 
matics in the navy. He is the author of 
Researches on the Evolution of the Stel¬ 
lar Systems. 

SEELEY, LEVI, educator, author, 
was born Nov. 21, 1847, in North Harpers- 
field, N. Y. He is professor of pedagogy 
in state normal school at Trenton, N. J. 
He is the author of History of Educa¬ 
tion. 

SELBY. THOMAS J., journalist, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Dec. 4, 1840. 
in Delaware county, Ohio. For two terms 
he was mayor of city of Jerseyville, Ill. 
He moved to Calhoun county in 1884; 
and was State’s attorney in 1888-94. He 
was elected to fifty-seventh congress from 
Illinois as a democrat. 

SELLERS. WILLIAM, civil engineer, 
manufacturer, was born Sept. 19, 1824, in 
Delaware county. Pa. In 1847 he started 
in business now known as William Sellers 
& Company of which he is president and 
engineer. He is also president of Edge 
Moor Iron Company since' 1868; and Mid¬ 
vale Steel Company in 1873-87. In 1864 
he read paper before Franklin Institute 
on Screw Threads and Nuts, which has 
since become the standard for the United 
States. 

SENTER, JOHN HENRY, lawyer, pub¬ 
lic official, was born Nov. 11, 1848, in 
Cabot, Vt. He was superintendent of 
schools of Montpelier, Vt.; justice of the 
peace; United States bank examiner; 
United States district attorney; and may¬ 
or. He is now engaged in the practice 
of his profession in Montpelier. 

SERRELL, EDWARD WELLMAN, civ¬ 
il engineer, was born Nov. 5, 1826, in 
New York city. He accompanied the ex¬ 
pedition that in 1848 located the route of 
the railroad between Aspinwall and Pana¬ 
ma; and a year later was engaged in 
building the suspension-bridge across the 
Niagara river at Lewiston; also that at 
St. Johns, New Brunswick. At the be¬ 
ginning of the civil war he entered the 
first New York volunteers as lieutenant- 
colonel, soon became its colonel, and 
served as chief engineer of the tenth army 
corps in 1863. Many valuable improve¬ 
ments of guns and processes, that proved 
of practical service during the war, were 
suggested by him; and the brevet of bri¬ 
gadier-general of volunteers was con¬ 
ferred on him in 1865. In 1887 he became 
president and consulting engineer of the 
Washington county railroad. 


SERVISS, GARRETT PUTMAN, jour¬ 
nalist, lecturer, author, was born March 
24, 1851, in Sharon Springs, N. Y. He is 
the author of Astronomy with an Opera 
Glass; and Edison’s Conquest of Mars. 

SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON, artist, 
author, was born Aug. 14, 1860, in Eng¬ 
land. In 1866-70 he lived in the backwoods 
of Canada; and in 1882-87 on the western 
plains. He is now well known as an ani¬ 
mal painter and illustrator; and was one of 
the chief illustrators of The Century Dic¬ 
tionary. He is the author and illustrator 
of Wild Animals I Have known; Wild 
Animal Play for Children; and other 
works. His wife, Mrs. Grace Gallatin 
Thompson-Seton has also written a serial' 
story entitled A Woman Tenderfoot. 

SEVERANCE, MRS. CAROLINE MA¬ 
RIA, philanthropist, founder, was born 
Jan. 12, 1820, in Canandaigua, N. Y. In 
1840 she married Theodoric C. Severance, 
a banker of Cleveland, Boston, and 
later of Los Angeles, Cal. In 1868 she 
was one of the founders and first president 
of the New England Woman’s Club of 
Boston, which was organized a few weeks 
before the Sorosis Club of New York city; 
and therefore she is sometimes called the 
mother of women’s clubs. She has been 
active in women’s suffrage agitation; has 
preformed numerous memorials and ap¬ 
peals for suffrage; and has lectured 
extensively on that subject. She has also 
founded clubs in Santa Barbara and Los 
Angeles, Cal. 

SEVERANCE, FRANK HAYWARD, 
jounalist, author, was born Nov. 28. 1856, 
in Manchester, Mass. Since 1886 he has 
been managing editor of the Illustrated 
Buffalo Express. He is the author of Old 
Trails on the Niagara Frontier. 

SEVERENS, HENRY FRANKLIN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born May 11, 1835, in 
Rockingham, Vt. Since 1886 he has been 
United States judge for western district 
of Michigan. 

SEWALL, ALICE ARCHER, artist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1870 in Glendale, 
Ohio. She is the author of a volume of 
poems entitled Ode to Girlhood. 

SEWARD. WILLIAM, soldier, was born 
Aug. 19, 1837, in New Hackensack, N. Y. 
In 1861-63 he served in the civil war; and 
attained the rank of adjutant-general. 
In 1893 he was breveted brigadier-general. 

STEWART. JOHN KNOX, manufactur¬ 
er, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 
20, 1853, in Perth, N. Y. He became 
proprietor of the Forest Paper Mills 
which were established by his father; 
and in 1888 became proprietor of the 
Chuctanunda Hosiery Mills. In 1889 he 
was elected a member of the New York 
state assembly. He was elected to the 
fifty-sixth congress as a republican. 

SEYMOUR, HORATIO W„ publisher, 
author, was born in 1854, in Cayuga 
county, N. Y. He is publisher" of the 
Chicago Chronicle; and secretary and 
treasurer of the Chicago Chronicle com¬ 
pany since 1895. He is the author of 
Government & Company, Limited. 

SEYMOUR, MRS. WILLIAM WOOD, 
author. She is the author of Christmas 
Holidays at Cedar Grove; Easter Holi¬ 
days; and other works. 

SHACKLEFORD, DORSEY W., lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 27, 
1853, in Saline county, Mo. In 1879 he 
began the practice of law in Booneville, 
Mo.; and in 1882-86 served as prosecut¬ 
ing attorney of Cooper county. In 1892- 
99 he was judge of the fourteenth judi¬ 
cial circuit of Missouri. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-sixth congress 


xcvi 


ADDENDA. 


SHACKELFORD, JAMES M., soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born July 7. 1827, in 
Lincoln county, Ky. He served as a 
lieutenant in the Mexican war; and dur¬ 
ing the civil war he became brigadier- 
general in 1863. The same year he 
captured confederate General John H. 
Morgan and command. In 1889-93 he 
was judge of the United States court of 
Indian Territory; and is now attorney 
for the Choctaw nation; and practices 
law in Muscogee, I. T. 

SHACKLETON, ROBERT journalist, 
author, was born Dec. 26, 1860, in Ma- 
zomanie, Wis. He ;s one of the edit¬ 
ors of The Saturday Evening Post o; 
Philadelohia. He is the author of 
.Toomey and Others. 

SHAFFER, NEWTON MELMAN. phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, founder, author, was 
born Feb. 14, 1846. in Kinderhook, N. Y. 
Since 1900 he has been surgeon-in-chief 
of the New York State Hospital for Crip¬ 
pled and Deformed Children, of which 
institution he was the founder. He is 
the author of The Hysterical Element 
in Orthopaedic Surgery. 

SHAHAN, THOMAS JOSEPH, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Sept. 11, 1857, in 
Manchester, N. H. Since 1891 he has 
been professor of church history and 
patrology and lecturer on Roman law 
in Catholic University of America. He 
is the author of The Blessed Virgin m 
the Catacombs. 

SHANAHAN, JOHN W., clergyman, 
bishop. Since 1899 he has been Roman 
Catholic bishop of Harrisburg, Pa. 

SHANKLIN, JOHN G.. journalist, pub¬ 
lic official. He has filled the office 
of secretary of state of Ohio. 

CHANLEY, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 4, 1852, in Albion, N. Y. 
Since 1889 he has been Roman Catholic 
bishop of Fargo, N. D. 

SHANNON, PETER C., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was ap¬ 
pointed from that state chief justice of 
the supreme court for the territory of 
Dakota. 

SHELBY, JOSEPH soldier, was born 
in 1831 in Kentucky. He served through 
the civil war, attaining the rank bf 
brigadier-general. 

SHARPE, WILLIAM C., journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1838 in Seymour, 
Conn. For ten years he was engaged in 
educational work; and since 1871 has been 
editor and publisher of The Seymour 
Record. He is the author of History of 
Seymour; Histories of Oxford and South 
Britain; and the Chatfield, Washburn, 
Dart, and Sharpe Genealogies. 

SHARPLES, STEPHEN PASCHALL, 
chemist, author, was born April 21, 1842, 
in West Chester, Pa. In 1880 he was 
expert on census; and a judge of awards 
World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. 
He is the author of Chemical Tables. 

SHARPLESS, ISAAC, mathematician, 
college president, author, was born Dec. 
16, 1848, in Chester county. Pa. Since 
1887 he has been president of Haverford 
college. He is the author of Astron¬ 
omy; Geometry; and English Education. 

SHAUCK. JOHN ALLEN, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born March 26, 1841, in Ohio. 
For ten years he was judge of circuit 
court. He is now judge of the supreme 
court of Ohio. 

SHAW, EDWARD RICHARD, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1855, in Bellport, 
L. I. He is professor of pedagogy in 
New York university. He is the author 
of Physics by Experiment; English Com¬ 
position by Practice; and Legends of Fire 
Island Beach. 


SHAW, JOHN BALCOM, clergyman, 
author, was born May 12, 1860, in Bell- 
port, N. Y. He is pastor of West End 
Presbytery, of New York city. He is 
the author of Four Great Questions. 

SHEARD TITUS, manufacturer, state 
senator was born Oct. 4. 1841, in Eng¬ 
land. In 1871 79 he represented Herki¬ 
mer county in New York state assem¬ 
bly; and was state senator in 1890-91. He 
is a manufacturer of knitted cotton and 
woolen underwear; and president of the 
Utica Herald Publishing company. 

SHELAB> RGER, SAMUEL lawyer, 
legislator congressman was born Dec. 
10, 18'.7, i C arke county OVc. He 
was a member of the Ohio lrgi'laiure 
in 1852-53; and was elected a rep- enta- 
tive from Ohio to the thirty- eventh 
congress. In 1864 he was elected to 
the thirfy-uiath 'ort>-fi.st and iG'ty-sec- 
ond congresses. ' 

SHELBY, DAVID D„ lawyer state sen¬ 
ator, jurist, was born Oct 24 1847 in 
Madison eouu^, A'a. In 1 882-86 he was 
a member of^e Alabama state senate. 
Since 1899 he has been United States 
circuit judge at Huntsvill Al? 

SHELDON CHARLES MONROE, 
clergyman, author. Since 1889 he has 
been pastor of Central Congrt gational 
church of Topeka, Kan. He is the au¬ 
thor of In His Steps; and other religious 
works. 

SHELDON, GRACE CAREW. journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in Buffalo, N. i. 
In 1886 she founded and ever since has 
been head of Woman s Exchange of Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., which accepts work only from 
self-supporting women in the United 
States. She is the author of As We Saw 
It in ’90; and From Pluckemin to Paris. 

SHELDON, HENRY I., lawyer, author. 
He is a successful lawyer of Chicago. 
Ill. He is the author of Notes on the 
Nicaragua Canal. 

SHELDON. WALTER L„ lecturer, 
founder, author, was born Sept. 5, 1858, 
in West Rutland, Vt. He is the founder 
and since 1886 lecturer Ethical Society 
of St. Louis, Mo. He is the Author of 
An Ethical Movement; and An Ethical 
Sunday School; and Story of the Bible. 

SHEPARD, FRANK HARTSON, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Sept. 20, 1865, 
in Bethel, Conn. In 1891 he established 
the Shepard Scnool of Music of Orange. 
N. J.; and is organist and musical di¬ 
rector of Grace church. He is the au¬ 
thor of Piano Touch and Scales; Church 
Music and Choir Training; How to Mod¬ 
ulate; Harmony Simplified; and Chii 
dren’s Harmony. 

SHEPARD, SETH, soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, jurist, was born April 23, 
1847, in Washington county, Tex. He 
was private in Company F, fifth Texas 
mounted volunteers in the Confederate 
service in 1864-66. In 1874 he was a 
member of the Texas state senate. He 
was regent of the University of Texas 
1883-91. In 1869-93 he practiced law in 
Brenham, Galveston, and Dallas, Tex. 
Since 1893 he has been associate justice 
of the court of appeals of District of 
Columbia. 

SHEPARD, THOMAS GRIFFIN, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born April 23, 1848, 
in Madison, Conn. In 1888-99 he was 
organist of Church of the Redeemer of 
New Haven, Conn. He was for some 
years conductor of the New Haven Ora¬ 
torio Society, a chorus of about six hun¬ 
dred. He is the author of Pennikeese, 
or Cuisine and Cupid, comic opera; a 
Christmas cantata, The Word Made 
Flesh; and numerous anthems, offer¬ 
tories, and sacred songs. 


SHEPHERD, MRS. E. R„ author. She 
is the author oi A Supplement to School 
Physiology For Girls; and True Manhood. 

SHEPHERD, HENRY ELLIOTT, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was born 
Jan. 17, 1844, in Fayetteville, N. C. He 
was elected superintendent of public in¬ 
struction for Baltimore in 1875, resign¬ 
ing the position in i882 to assume the 
presidency of the College of Charleston, 
S. C. He is the author of A History 
of the English Language; and is editor 
of Appleton’s Historical Reader. 

SHEPHERD THEODOSIA BURR, seed 
grower, florist, originator, was born Oct. 
14, 1845, in Keosauqua. Iowa. Since 1885 
he has been engaged in growing seeds; 
and is called 'he pie ’eer flower seed 
grow.,' cf C.Ji orr?. He has created 
new varieties oi Marts: arfl wr-'ies ar¬ 
ticles on flowers aid ffor. UcuL re or 
current publicatk .. 

SHEPLEY. GEOI IE FOSTBR archi¬ 
tect, vas born No*-. 7, 1860, in St. Louis, 
Mo. Amorg the bui 1 r**ngP h s firm have 
designed are Ames Build Chamber 
of Commerce, Southern Terminal Station. 
New Congregational House. Mercantile 
Buildings, all of Boston: and New Public 
Library. Art Institute, of Chicago. 

SHEPPARD, JOHN LEVI, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. congressman, was born April 13, 1852, 
in Blufton. Ala. In 1879 he began prac¬ 
ticing at Daingerfield. Texas; was dis¬ 
trict attorney of the fittlf judicial district 
in 1882-S8; and in 1888-96 he was district 
judge. He was elected to the fifty- 
sixth congress from Texas as a demo¬ 
crat. 

SHERIDAN, MICHAEL VINCENT, 
soldier, was born May 24, 1840, in Somer¬ 
set, Ohio. He is the youngest brother 
of the late General Philip H. Sheridan. 
He served in the civil war and became 
second lieutenant in 1866. In 1898 he 
was appointed brigadier-general, and 
served in the Spanish-American war. 

SHERMAN, LUCIUS ADELNO, edu¬ 
cator. author, was born Aug. 28. 1847. in 
Douglas, Mass. Since 1882 he has been 
professor of English literature in Univer¬ 
sity of Nebraska. He is the author of 
Analytics of Literature. 

SHERRILL, TSAAC W., business man. 
public official, was born May 17, 1849, 
in New Lebanon, N. Y. He was county 
treasurer of Dutchess county for two 
terms; trustee of New York State Sol¬ 
diers’ and Sailors’ Home, of Bath, N. Y.; 
and is now mavor of Poughkeepsie. 

SHERWOOD. EuGAR HARMON, sol¬ 
dier. musician, composer, was born Jan. 
29. 1845, in Lyons, N. Y. In 1862-65 he 
served in the Union army; and then 
close music as his profession. In 1895 
he was national music director of the 
Union Veterans’ Union. He has pub¬ 
lished over one hundred compositions for 
pianoforte and for voice. 

SHERWOOD, SIDNEY, educator, sci¬ 
entist, author, was born May 28, 1860, 
in Saratoga county, N. Y. He is pro¬ 
fessor of political economy in Johns Hop¬ 
kins university of Baltimore, Md. He 
is the author of History and Theory of 
Money. 

SHERWOOD. WILLIAM H.. musician, 
composer, was born Jan. 31, 1854, in Ly¬ 
ons, N. Y. He is a concert and recital 
pianist and lecturer, teacher of music 
and composer, and recognized as a rep¬ 
resentative American pianist. 

SHINN, MILICENT WASHBURN, 
journalist, author, was born April 15. 
1858, in Niles, Cal. In 1883-94 she was 
editor of Overland Monthly. She is the 
author of Notes cn the Development o*' 
a Child. 


ADDENDA. 


xcvii 


SHINN, WILLIAM POWELL, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born May 4, 1834, in Burling¬ 
ton, N. J. Since 1886 he has been vice- 
president of the New York and New Eng¬ 
land railroad company. In 1873-79 he 
had charge of the construction and man¬ 
agement of the Edgar Thompson steel¬ 
works in Pittsburg. 

SHIPMAN, LOUIS EVAN, journalist, 
author, was born Aug. 2, 1869, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He is editorial writer on Les¬ 
lie’s Weekly; and since 1896 a contrib¬ 
utor to Life. He is the author of Urban 
Dialogues; A Group of American Theat¬ 
rical Caricatures; D’Arcy oi the Guards; 
and Predicaments. 

SHIPPEN, EDWARD, naval surgeon, 
author, was born June 18, 1826, in New 
Jersey. In 1861 he was commissioned 
surgeon; and was promoted to medical 
director in 1876. His principal naval 
service was in China and on coasts ot 
Africa and South America. He is the 
author of Thirty Years at Sea. 

SHIPPEN, EDWARD, lawyer, diplo¬ 
mat, was born Nov. 16, 1821. He was for 
many years member of the board of public 
education in Philadelphia; and in 1864-69 
was its president. He has been a dele¬ 
gate to several national educational con¬ 
ventions. He is one of the founders 
of the Teachers’ institute and of the 
Teachers’ benevolent association of Phil¬ 
adelphia. During the civil war he was 
chief of the educational department of 
the sanitary commission. During the 
Centennial exposition in 1876 he was the 
president of the Chilian commission. He 
is the president of the art club of Phil¬ 
adelphia. He is consul for the Argen¬ 
tine Republic, Chili, and Ecuador, at 
Philadelphia, and has filled these posts 
for many years. Several of his address¬ 
es on educational subjects have been pub¬ 
lished. 

SHOEMAKER, JOHN VIETCH, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born March 
18, 1852, in Chambersburg, Pa. He is 
surgeon-general of the National Guard of 
Pennsylvania. Since 1879 he has been 
editor of the Medical Bulletin, and was 
one of its founders. He is the author of 
Poisons and Antidotes; and Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics. 

SHOEMAKER, SAMUEL. He is prom¬ 
inent in the public affairs of Baltimore. 
Md. 

SHOREY, PAUL, educator, author, was 
born Aug. 3, 1857, in Davenport, Iowa. 
Since 1892 he has been professor of 
Greek in University of Chicago. He is 
the author of The Idea of Good in Plato s 
Republic; and Tne Odes and Epodes of 
Horace. 

SHRIVER, JOHN SHULTZ, journalist, 
author, was born June 17, 1857, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. He is Washington corres¬ 
pondent ot the New York Mail and Ex¬ 
press. He is the author of Through the 
South and West With President Harri¬ 
son. 

SHUFELDT, ROBERT WILSON, naval 
officer, was born Feb. 21, 1822. in 

Red Hook, N. Y. He attained the rank 
of commodore in the United States nat v. 

SHUMWAY, EDGAR SOLOMON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 6, 1856, in 
Belchertown, Mass. In 1883-1900 he was 
professor of Latin language and litera¬ 
ture in Rutgers college. He is the au¬ 
thor of A Day in Ancient Rome; Latin 
Synonyms; Syllabus of Classical Archae¬ 
ology; and Synopsis of Sources, Litera¬ 
ture and Language of Roman Law. 

SHUTE. DANIEL KERFOOT. physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Oct. 22, 1858, in 
Alexandria, Va. Since 1888 he has been 


professor of anatomy in Columbia uni¬ 
versity at Washington, D. C. He is the 
author of A First Book in Organic Evo¬ 
lution. 

SICKLES, DAVID BANKS, banker, 
diplomat, author, was born Feb. 8, 1837, 
in New York city. During the civil war 
he was war correspondent for eastern 
and western newspapers. He is the 
author of Leaves of the Lotus; and Land 
of the Lotus, or Life and Scenes in tfie 
Far East. 

SIEBERT, JOHN SELMAR, architect, 
was born Sept. 28, 18t>4, in Germany. He 
has been instructor in civil engineering 
in Lehigh university; and Pennsylvania 
State college. He has been Inspector 
of United States light house service; and 
is a practicing architect of Cumberland, 
Md., in which city the best business 
houses and residences have been built 
from his designs. 

SIHLER, ERNEST GOTTLIEB, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 2, 1853, in 
Fort Wayne, Ind. Since 1892 he has 
been professor of Latin and lecturer in 
Graduate school in New York university. 
He is the author of Lexicon to Latinity 
of Caesar’s Gallic War. 

SILLIMAN, REUBEN DANIEL, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born May 17, 1871, in 
Hudson, Wis. In 1894-98 he practiced 
law in Duluth, Minn.; and since 1900 has 
been judge of the circuit court of Ha¬ 
waiian Islands. 

SIMMONS, FRANKLIN, sculptor, was 
born Jan. 11, 1839, in Webster, Maine. 
Since 1868 he nas lived mostly in Rome. 
He has executed about one hundred por¬ 
trait busts in marble; about fifteen pub¬ 
lic monuments, including statues of Wil¬ 
liam King and Roger Williams in Nation¬ 
al Capitol; Grand Army of the Republic 
monument of Gen. Grant for National 
Capitol, and equestrian monument of 
Gen. Logan in Washington. 

SIMONS, HENRY MARTYN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1841, in Paris, 
N. Y. He was superintendent of schools 
in Kenosha several years. He is the 
author of The Unending Genesis. 

SIMMONS, JAMES CONNOLLEY, 
farmer, legislator, was born Dec. 23, 1850, 
in Warren, Ind. He is engaged in farm¬ 
ing and shipping live stock in Wellsville, 
Kansas. He held the oflice of register 
of deeds of Franklin county in 1891-95; 
and postmaster in 1885-88. He was a 
member of the Kansas state legislature 
in 1897. 

SIMMONS, JOSEPH EDWARD, bank¬ 
er, was born Sept. 9, 1841, in Troy, N. Y. 
In 1866 he removed to New York city, 
where he has since engaged in banking. 
He became a member of the Stock ex¬ 
change in 18<2; and was elected its 
president in 1884. He was appointed 
a commissioner of education in 1881, re¬ 
appointed in 1884, and again in 1887. He 
was unanimously elected president of the 
board of education in 1886; and re-elected 
in 1887-88. In the latter year he was 
also made president of the Fourth na¬ 
tional bank of New York city. 

SIMON, JOSEPH, lawyer, state senat¬ 
or, United States senator, was born in 
1851,. Since 1872 he has practiced law 
in Portland, Oregon. In 1892 he was 
delegate to the national republican con¬ 
vention. In 1880-98 he was a state sen¬ 
ator of Oregon; and president of the 
state senate in 1889, 1891, 1895, 1897 and 
special session in 1898. In 1898 he be¬ 
came United States senator for term end¬ 
ing in 1906. 

SIMONDS, FREDERIC WILLiAM, ge¬ 
ologist, author, was born July 3, 1853, in 
Charlestown, Mass. In 1887-92 he was 


assistant geologist in the Arkansas Ge¬ 
ological survey; and since 1899 has been 
professor of geology in the university of 
Texas. He is the author oi A Record 
of the Geology of Texas for the Decade 
Ending in 1896. 

SIMONTON, CHARLES H., soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born July 11, 1829, 
in Charleston, S. C. In 1858-86 he was 
a member of the South Carolina legisla¬ 
ture, except during the civil war and re¬ 
construction period. He served in the 
Confederate army as captain of Washing¬ 
ton light infantry; and later as colonel 
of the 25th South Carolina volunteers. 
In 1886-93 he was United States district 
judge; and since 1893 United States 
Judge for the fourth district of South 
Carolina. He is the author of Lectures 
on Jurisdiction and Practice of United 
States Courts; ana Digest of the Equity 
Decisions, State of South Carolina. 

SIMONTON, JOHN WIGGINS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Dec. z, 1826, in 
Hanover township, Pa. Since 1881 he 
has been presiding judge for the Twelfth 
judicial district of Pennsylvania. In 
1895 he was president of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania state bar association. 

SINGENBERGEn, JOHN, educator, 
musician, was born May 25,1848, in Swit¬ 
zerland. He is professor of music at 
the Catholic Normal school of St. Fran¬ 
cis, Wis.; president of the American St. 
Caecilia society; and editor and publish¬ 
er of the Caecilia, a monthly devoted to 
Catholic church music. 

SINGER, ISIDORE, journalist, author, 
was born Nov. 10, 1859, in Austria. He 
is managing editor of the Jewish Ency¬ 
clopedia. He is the author of several 
published works; and numerous transla¬ 
tions of French works into German. 

SINGLETON, ESTHER, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in Baltimore, Md. She 
has done editorial work on the staff of 
Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Bi¬ 
ography. She is the author of A Guide 
to the Opera; originator and editor of 
a series of books on art and travel, oi 
which Turrets, Towers and Temples; 
Great Pictures; Paris; Wonders of Na¬ 
ture; ana The Furniture of Our Fore¬ 
fathers have apDeared. 

SISCO, MRS. M. M„ poet. She is a 
writer of Clinton, Iowa; and the author 
of a volume of poems entitled Gems of 
Inspiration. 

SITTERLY, CHARLES FREMONT, 
educator, theologian, author, was born 
June 4, 1861, in Liverpool, N. Y. Since 

1892 he has been professor of Biblical 
literature in Drew Theological Seminary. 
He is the author of Praxis in Manu¬ 
scripts of Greek New Testament; and 
History of English Bible. 

SKEEL, ADELAIDE, author, was born 
in 1852, in Newburgh. N. Y. She is the 
author of An After Christmas Thought; 
and My Three-Legged Story Teller. 

SKINNER, HENRIETTA DANA, au¬ 
thor, was born in Cambridge. Mass. She 
is the daughter of Richard Henry Dana, 
author of Two Years Before the Mast. 
She is the author of a novel entitled 
Espirum Santo; and other works. 

SKINNER, OTIS, actor, was born in 
1858, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1892-95 
he was leading man with Mme. Moa- 
jeska; and since then has been starring 
in romantic plays. 

SLEIGHT, MARY BRECK. author, was 
born in New York city. She is the au¬ 
thor of Prairie Days; Osego Chronicles; 
Pulpit and Easel; The House at Crague; 
Flag on the Mill; The Knights of Sandy 
Hollow; and An Island Heroine. 


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SLICER, THOMAS ROBERTS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 16, 1847, 
in Washington, D. C. Since 1897 he 
has been pastor of Church of All Souls 
of New York city. He is the author oi 
The Great Affirmations of Religion. 

SLICHTER, CHARLES SUMNER, 
mathematician, author, was born April 
16, 1864, in St. Paul, Minn. In 190U-U3 
he was president of the Wisconsin Acad¬ 
emy of Sciences. He is the author of 
School Algebra; University Algebra; and 
Logarithmic Tables for Rapid Computa¬ 
tions. 

SLOCUM, JOSHUA, sailor, author, was 
born Feb. 20, 1844, in Canada. He was 
a sailor from boyhood. His sevei-al oth¬ 
er commands were all under the flag of 
the United States. For fifteen years he 
sailed out of San Francisco to China, 
Australia, the Spice Islands and Japan. 
In 1898 he completed a voyage around 
the world alone. He is the author of 
The Voyage of the Liberdade from Bra¬ 
zil to New York; and Sailing Alone 
Around the World. 

SMALL. JOHN HUMPHREY, lawyer, 
journalist, congressman, was born Aug. 
29, 1858, in Washington, N. C. In 1883- 
86 he was proprietor and editor of the 
Washington Gazette; and was one year 
mayor of Washington, N. C. He was 
elected to the fifty-sixth congress from 
North Carolina as a democrat. 

SMEDLEY, WILLIAM THOMAS, art¬ 
ist, was born March 6, 1858, in Chester 
county, Pa. In 1882 he was engaged by 
publishers of Picturesque Canada to trav¬ 
el with Marquis of Lome through West 
and Northwest Canada and illustrate fhe 
work. He has since made several 
sketching tours in United States; and in 
1890 around the world. His principal 
productions are An Indiscreet Question; 
A Thanksgiving Dinner; and A Summer 
Occupation. 

SMILEY, ALBERT KEifH, educator, 
philanthropist, was born March 17, 18'28, 
in Vassalborough, Maine. For twenty 
years he was principal of a successful 
boarding-school in Providence, R. I. He 
then purchased, with his brother, a large 
property in Ulster county, N. Y„ and es¬ 
tablished a unique hotel at Lake Mohonk 
in which there is no wine, no cards, and 
no dancing permitted, his twin-brother, 
Alfred, having a similar hotel, known as 
the Minnewaska, the two estates com¬ 
prising seven thousand acres. For sev¬ 
enteen years the Lake Mohonk annual 
Indian conference has been hospitably 
entertained there, and the many members 
of the arbitration conference at their 
five annual meetings have also been his 
guests. His winter residence is near 
Red Lands, southern California, where 
he has a large estate, and he recent!: 
presented a handsome park and substan¬ 
tial library building to Red Lands at a 
cost of sixty thousand dollars. 

SMILEY, FRANCIS EDWARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 11, 1858, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1893 he has 
been pastor of 23d Avenue Church of Den¬ 
ver, Col. He is the author of The Evan¬ 
gelization of a Great City; and The In¬ 
quirer’s Guide for a Happy Christian 
Life. 

SMITH, ALBERT WILLIAM, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Aug. 30, 1856, 
in Westmoreland, N. Y. Since 1892 he 
has been professor of mechanical engi¬ 
neering in Leland Stanford, Jr., univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of Constructive 
Materials of Engineering; and Element¬ 
ary Machine Design. 

SMITH, ARCHIBALD CARY, naval 
architect, was born Sept. 4, 1837, in New 


York City. In 1871 he designed lor 
Robert centre, or New York city, the 
cutter Vindex, wnicn was the nrst iron 
yacht that was bunt in Chester, Pa. 
mis success in this business induced him 
to abandon painting, and he has 
since devoted himself to designing and 
altering yachts or all kinds, among whicn 
are the schooners Intrepid, Fortuna, 
Norma, Harbinger, Carlotta, Iroquois, 
Oriole, Dream, Whim, the sloops Mis¬ 
chief, Rover, Kestrel, Priscilla, Cinder¬ 
ella, Banshee, Katrina, and Meteor, 

SMITH, BENJAMIN ELI, educator, ed¬ 
itor, was born Feb. 27, 1857, in Syria. 
He was managing editor of the Century 
Dictionary; editor of the Century Cyclo¬ 
pedia of Names; editor of the Century 
Atlas; and other works. 

SMITH, BENJAMIN MOSBY, elei- 
gyman, theologian, was born June 30, 
1811, in Powhatan county, Va. In 1854 
he was appointed to the chair of Oriental 
and biblical literature in Union seminary, 
which office he still holds. In 1858-74 
he was pastor of Hampden Sidney col¬ 
lege church; and he was moderator of 
the general assembly of the Presbyterian 
church in 1876. 

SMITH, CHARLES LEE, educator, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born Aug. 29, 1865, in 
Wilton, N. C. Since 1891 he has been 
professor of history and political science 
in William Jewell college. He is the 
author of History of Education in North 
Carolina; and The Money Question. 

SMITH, CLEMENT LAWRENCE, ed¬ 
ucator, philologist, was born April 13, 
1844, in Delaware county, Pa. He be¬ 
came tutor in Latin in Harvard univer¬ 
sity, Mass., iin 1870; in 1873 assistant 
professor; in 1883 professor of the same; 
and since 1882 he has been dean of the 
college faculty. He has published sev¬ 
eral papers on philological and educa¬ 
tional matters. 

SMITH, COLUMBUS, educator, law¬ 
yer, real estate dealer, genealogist, was 
born Jan. 6, 1819. He recovered num¬ 
erous estates in England for American 
claimants. In 1850 he took the first block 
of marble from Branden, Vt., to London, 
which was the first marble taken to Eu¬ 
rope from the United States. He has 
large holdings of real estate in Vermont, 
Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas. 
He is the author of Report to the Innis 
Association of the United States; and 
other works. 

SMITH, DAVID EUGEi.E, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 21, 1860, in Cort¬ 
land, N. Y. In 1891-98 he was professor 
of mathematics in Michigan State Nor¬ 
mal school; and since 1898 principal of 
New York State Normal school. ’ He is 
the author of History of Modern Mathe¬ 
matics; and Teaching of Mathematics. 

SMITH, EDGAR F„ chemist, author. 
He is professor of chemistry in Univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania. He is the author 
of Richter’s Organic and Inorganic Chem¬ 
istries. 

SMITH, EDMUND MONROE, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Dec. 8, 1854, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Since 1886 he has been 
one of the editors of "Political Science 
Quarterly. He is the author of Bis¬ 
marck and German Unity. 

SMITH, EDWARD C., governor. In 
1898-1900 he was governor of Vermont. 

SMITH, EDWARD E., lawyer, state 
senator, was born May 5, 1861, in Spring 
Valley, Minn. He was a member of the 
Minnesota house of represetatives in 
1895-97; and was a member of the state 
senate in 1898-1902. 

SMITH, EZEKIEL EZRA, educator, 
diplomat, was born May 23, 1852, in 


Duplin county, N. C. In 1873-74 he was 
one of the Jubilee singers that raised 
twenty thousand dollars for Shaw Uni¬ 
versity, at which he was graduated in 
1878, and in the next year he was 
licensed to preach. He was principal 
of the graded school at Goldsborough, 
N. C., in 1879-1883 when he became prin¬ 
cipal of the State colored normal school 
at Fayetteville, N. C. In 1888 he was 
appointed United States minister and 
consul-general to Liberia, Africa. 

SMITH, GEORGE M., educator, author, 
was born May 30, 1847, in Belgrade, 
Mass. Since 1897 he has been professor 
of modern languages and pedagogy in 
University of South Dakota. He is the 
author of Vocabulary to Caesar; Outlines 
of Civics for South Dakota; The State 
and Nation; History and Civil Govern¬ 
ment of South Dakota; and Outlines of 
Pedagogy. 

SMITH, GERRIT, musician, composei, 
was born Dec. 11, 1859, in Hagerstown, 
Md. He began his professional career 
as organist and choirmaster of St. Paul’s 
church of Buffalo, N. Y. He is professor 
in the Union Theological Seminary; and 
a noted concert-organist. He is the au¬ 
thor of over fifty songs; pianoforte 
pieces, a cantata, carols, Te Deums, an¬ 
thems, and male and female choruses. 

SMITH, GOLDWIN, author, was born 
Aug. 23, 1823, in England. He is the 
author of The Civil War in America; 
The Relations Between America and 
England; and other works. 

SMITH, MRS. HARIETTE KNIGHT, 
author, was born Oct. 28, 1855, in Hud¬ 
son, Ohio. She is the author of History 
of the Lowell Institute. 

SMITH, HARLAN INGERSOLL, an¬ 
thropologist, author, was born Feb. 17, 
1872, in East Saginaw, Mich. He is 
the author of Data of Michigan Archae¬ 
ology. 

SMITH, HARRY BACHE,.author, was 
born in 1860 in Buffalo, N. Y. He is 
the author of Robin Hood; Rob Roy; 
The Little Corporal; The Fortune Teller; 
The Highwayman; The Serenade; Wiz¬ 
ard of the Nile; The Idol’s Eye; Half a 
King; The Fencing Master; The Knick¬ 
erbockers; The Three Dragoons; The Be¬ 
gum; Jupiter; The Tar and the Tartar; 
The Tzigane; Boccailio; Clover; The 
Crystal Slipper; Sinbad and other lib¬ 
rettos. 

SMITH, HELEN EVERTSON, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Aug. 22, 1839, in 
Sharon, Conn. She is the author of Col¬ 
onial Days and Ways. 

SMITH, HENRY ERSKINE, authoi, 
was born in New York city. He is the 
author of On and Off the Saddle, Charac¬ 
teristic Sights and Scenes from the 
Great Northwest to the Antilles; and 
Love’s Diplomacy. 

SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 23, 1847, in 
Troy, Ohio. He is professor of Biblical 
literature in Amherst college. He is 
the author of a published work. 

SMITH, HUNTINGTON, journalist, 
publisher, author, was born Dec. 4, 1857, 
in Hudson, N. Y. Since 1898 he has been 
editor and publisher of the Boston Bea¬ 
con. He is the translator of Tolstoi’s 
My Religion. He is the author of A 
Century of American Literature. 

SMITH, ISAAC TOWNSEND, consul- 
general, was born March 12, 1813, in 
Boston, Mass. He settled in New York 
where as a merchant and ship-owner he 
conducted business for several years. 
He was an incorporator and for many 
years president of the Metropolitan 
savings-bank; and was a commissioner 


ADDENDA. 


XC1X 


of emigration for the state of New Yon: 
for several years. He is Siamese con¬ 
sul-general for the United States. 

SMITH, MRS. ISABEL E., artist, was 
born in Ohio. In 1895 she married Carl 
F. Smith, an artist or Washington, D. C. 
She has painted miniature of President 
McKinley on brooch daily worn by Mrs. 
McKinley; miniature of Queen Wilhelm- 
ina of Holland from life; miniature ot 
Queen Victoria; miniature of President 
Faure of France; and miniatures of other 
notables. 


SMITH, J. ALLEN, educator, autuor, 
was born May 5, 1860, in Pleasant Hill, 
Mo. Since 1897 he has been professor 
of political economy in University of 
Washington. He is the author of Mul¬ 
tiple Money Standard. 

SMITH, JACOB HURD, soldier, was 
born Jan. 29, 1840, in Jackson, Ohio. He 
served in the civil war from 1861 to close. 
In 1867-98 he served in Indian wars;in the 
Spanish-American war; and in the Phil¬ 
ippine war. In 1900 he was made brig¬ 
adier-general in the United States armv. 

SMITH, JAMES ARGYLE, soldier, ed¬ 
ucator, public official, was born July i. 
1831. Until 186 I he served on the West¬ 
ern frontier and Pacific coast. He then 
resigned and entered Confederate service 
as first lieutenant; and passed through 
all grades until appointed brigadier-gen¬ 
eral in 1863. In 1878-86 he was state 
superintendent of education of Mississip¬ 
pi; in 1893-97 was in United States Indian 
service; and is now marshal of the state 
supreme court of Mississippi. 

SMITH. JAMES FRANCIS, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Jan. 28, 1859, in San 
Francisco, Cal. In 1898 he became col¬ 
onel of the first California regiment. Uni¬ 
ted States volunteers; and served in the 
first expedition to the Philippines. In 
1899 he was made brigadier-general; and 
the same year became military governor 
of the Island of Negros. 

SMITH, JAMES IRWIN, clergyman, 
author, was born March 31. 1827, in Mer¬ 
cer county. Pa. In 1881-88 he was pastor 
of Galesville, Wis; professor, and then 
president of Galesville university. He 
is the author of Parents’ Part With Bap¬ 
tized Children. 

SMITH, J. M., business man, leg¬ 
islator. was born Oct. 14, 1853, in Warren, 
Pa. He was a member of the Minnesota 
state legislature in 1894-95; and since 
1898 has been receiver United States 
land offices for Duluth district. 


SMITH, JOHN BERNHARDT, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Nov. 21, 1858. in 
New YorK. In 1898 he was state ento¬ 
mologist of New Jersey. He is the au¬ 
thor of Economic Entomology for the 
Farmer and Fruit-grower. 

SMITH, JOHN TALBOT, clergyman 
lecturer, author, was born in September. 
1855, in Saratoga, N. Y. In 1889-92 ha 
was editor of the New York Catholic 
Review. He is the author ot A Woman 
of Culture; Solitary Island; Training ot 
a Priest; and other works. 

SMITH, JOHN W„ congressman. He 
was a member of congress from Mary- 


ind in 1899-1901. 

SMITH, JOSEPH, soldier, journalist, 
.uthor, was born Aug. 15, 1855. in Dub- 
in Ireland. In 1873-78 he was in the 
Jn'ited States cavalry service in Nw 
/[exico, Arizona and Texas. In 1892 h 
stablished and edited the Sunday^rena 
if Lowell, Mass. He is the autho. o 
['he Scotch-Irish. 


SMITH JOSEPH LINDON, artist, was 
bom Oct. 11, 1863, in Pawtucket, R. 1. 
He executed the mural decorations in the 


Public Libiary or Boston, Mass.; and tne 
muiai decorations on uie exterior or vae 
Horticultural hall or r-niiaaelphia, Pa. 

SMITH, JOSEPH OTtS, journalist, sol¬ 
dier, legislator, was Dorn April 24, ± 8 sy, 
in Weston, Maine. He was a lieutenant 
in tne Union army in 1865; has been a 
member of the Maine nouse or repre¬ 
sentatives; ana secretary or state, rxe 
is the autnor or essay, Tne practical auu 
Ethical in Journalism. 

SMITH, LANGDON, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born jan. 4, r85s, in rxentucny. 
He went to Cuba tor the New torn Bei- 
ald when war broke out in 1898; and was 
on the hill with the marines at Guantan¬ 
amo and at battles of El Caney and San 
Juan. He is the author or On tne pan 
Handle; also snort stories. 

SMITH, LEE STEWART, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, lecturer, author, was born April 
24, 1844, in Cadiz, Ohio. During the 
civil war he served in the First Penn¬ 
sylvania artillery; and has been adjutant- 
general in the Pennsylvania National 
Guard. He has traveled extensively m 
foreign countries; and lectured on sub¬ 
jects of travel, rxe is the author oi 
Through Egypt to Palestine. 

SMITH, MARION COUTHOUY, au¬ 
thor, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. She 
is a contributor to leading magazines of 
poems, short stories and articles, and a 
serial, A Working Woman. She is tne 
author of Doctor Marks, Socialist. 

SMITH, NORA ARCHIBALD, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in Philadelphia, 
Pa. She is the author of The Children 
of the Future. Also with Kate Douglas 
Wiggin, The Story Hour; and The Re¬ 
public of Childhood, in three volumes. 

SMITH OBERLIN, engineer, inventor, 
author, was born in 1840, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He is a manufacturer and con¬ 
sulting engineer of Bridgeton, N. J.; is 
president of the Ferracute Machine Co.; 
and formerly president of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is 
the author of Press Working of Metals. 

SMITH, ORLANDO- JAY, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born June 14, 1842, 
near Terre Haute, Ind. Since 1882 he has 
been president of the American Press 
Association. In 1861-65 he served in the 
sixteenth Indiana volunteers infantry and 
sixth Indiana cavalry as private to major. 
He is the author of A Short View oi 
Great Questions; and The Coming 
Democracy. 

SMITH, RICHARD, journalist, was 
born Jan. 3D. 1823, in Ireland. He gained 
employment on the Price Current of Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio; of which he soon became 
proprietor. About 1854 he purchased an 
interest in the Cincinnati uazette which 
became prosperous under his direction, 
especially during the civil war. But in 
1880 its interests and those of the Cin¬ 
cinnati commercial indicated the finan¬ 
cial and political wisdom of their union, 
and accordingly the first of the following 
year they were consolidated under the 
name of the Commercial Gazette. 

SMITH. SUSAN AUGUSTA, genealo¬ 
gist. author, was born Oct. 19. 1843. She 
is the author of a genealogical work on 
the Bass Family; A Memorial of Rev. 
Thomas Smith and Descendants; and 
History of The Town of Pembroke. 

SMITH. WALTER INGLEWOOD, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born July 
10, 1862. in Council Bluffs. Iowa. He 
practiced law in Council Bluffs, Iowa. In 
1890-1900 he was judge of the fifteenth 
judicial district of Iowa. He was elected 
to the fifthy-seventh congress from Iowa 
as a republican. 


SMITH, WILLIAM_ soldier, was born 
March 26, 1831, in Orwell, Vt. In 1861-66 
he was paymaster United States volun¬ 
teers; paymaster in regular army in 
1867 with rank of major; deputy pay¬ 
master-general with rank of lieutenant- 
colonel in 1888; and paymaster-general 
in 1890 with rank of brigadier-general. 
He was retired in 1895. 

SMITH, WILMOT M„ lawyer, jurist, 
was born March 21, 1852, in Suffolk coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. In 1884-90 he was district at¬ 
torney of Suffolk county, N. Y.; County 
judge in 1891-95; and since 1895 has been 
justice of the supreme court of New York. 

SMITH, WILSON GEORGE, musician, 
composer, was born Aug. 19, 1855, in 
Elyria, Ohio. Since 1882 he has been a 
teacher of pianoforte, voice, and com¬ 
poser in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the au¬ 
thor of forty songs and other composi¬ 
tions. 

SMYTH, ANDREW WOODS, physi¬ 
cian, was born Feb. 15, 1833, in Ireland. 
He settled in New Orleans in 1849. He 
performed, in 1864, the first and only 
recorded operation of tying successfully 
the arteria innominata for subclavian 
aneurism. In 1866 he also made the first 
successful reduction of a dislocation of 
the femur of over hine months duration; 
and performed the operation of extirpa¬ 
tion of the kidney in 1879; then almost 
unknown to the profession. 

SMYTHE, WILLIAM ELLSWORTH, 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 24, 1861, 
in Worcester, Mass. In 1895 he founded 
New Plymouth, a notable settlement in 
Idaho. He has lectured extensively on ir¬ 
rigation. He is the author of The Con¬ 
quest of Arid America. 

SNEATH, E. HERSHEY, educator, 
author, was born Aug. 7, 1857, in Mount- 
ville, Pa. He is professor of philosophy 
in Yale university. He organized and 
edited The Modern Philosophers Series, 
in eight volumes; The Ethical series, in 
six volumes. He is the author of The 
Philosophy of Reid; The Ethics of 
Hobbes. 

SNODGRASS, CHARLES EDWARD, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 28. 
1866, in Sparta, Tenn. He moved to Cross- 
ville and began the practice of law, to 
which he devoted himself exclusively. He 
was elected to the fifty-sixth congress As 
a democrat. 

SNODGRASS, DAVID LA FAYETTE, 
lawyer, jurist, was born April 6 , 1851, in 
Sparta, Tenn. In 1886-1902 he was chief 
justice of the supreme court of Tenn. 

SNOOK, JOHN S„ lawyer, congress- 
man, was born Dec. 18, 1862, near Ant¬ 
werp, Ohio. In 1887-90 he practiced law 
in Antwerp, Ohio; and since then in 
Paulding. He was elected to the fifty- 
seventh congress from Ohio as a demo- 

SNYDER. ALBERT WHITCOMB, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 8 . 1845, 
in Lisbon, N. Y. He holds a pastorate 
in Elmhurst, Borough of Queens, N. 
Y. He is the author of Living Churcn; 
The Chief Things; The C - Days; and 
Church Doctrine of the People. 

SNYDER. SIMON, soldier, was born 
Feb. 9, 1839, in Selin’s Grove, Pa. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he attained the rank 
of captain. In 1890 he was brevetted 
major for gallant services against In¬ 
dians at Bear Paw Mountain. Mont., in 
1877. In 1898 he was appointed brigadier- 
general, United States volunteers; and 
commanded various divisions in volun¬ 
teer army at several points in Southern 
St Bites 

SOBIESKI, EUGENE THADDEUS 
soldier, lawyer, was born Sept. 10, 1842, 


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ADDENDA. 


in Poland. He entered the Union army, 
and fought through the four years of the 
civil war, being honorably discharged id 
1865; when he accepted a colonel’s com¬ 
mission in the Mexican army. Later ne 
settled in Missouri, where ne practiced 
law; and in recent years has become 
well known as a platform leeturer. 

SOLBERG, THORVALD, register of 
copyrights, was born April, 22, 1852, in 
Manitowoc, Wis. He was on staff Li¬ 
brary of Congress in 1876-89; spent great¬ 
er part of time abroad until appointed in 
1897 as register of copyrights. He is the 
author of Bibliography of Copyright. 

SOMMERVILLE, MAXWELL, archae¬ 
ologist, author, was born May 1, 1829, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1894 he has 
been professor of glyptology in Univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania. He has spent the 
greater part of his life in Europe and 
Asia, devoting more than thirty years 
to his quest for rare gems, cameos, in¬ 
taglios and specimens of lapidary’s art 
of historical value. He is the author of 
Engraved Gems. 

SOULE, CHARLES CARROLL, soldier, 
publisher, author, was born June 25, 
1842, in Boston, Mass. In 1862-65 ho 
served as private and # lieutenant of forty- 
fourth Massachusetts, and captain of fifty- 
fifth Massachusetts. He is president of 
Boston Book Company. He is the auth¬ 
or of The Lawyer’s Reference Manual 
of Law Books and Citations. 

SOUSA, JOHN PHILIP, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Nov. 6, 1854, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He was a teacher at fifteen 
and conductor at seventeen; and was one 
of first violins of Jacques Offenbach’s 
orchestra when latter was in the 
United States. In 1880-92 he was band 
leader in the United States Ma¬ 
rine Corps; and since 1892 di¬ 
rector of Sousa’s Band. He has com¬ 
posed and published many marches, or¬ 
chestral suites; songs; waltzes; and the 
light operas El Capitan; Bride Elect; 
and The Charletan. 

SOUTHGATE, JAMES HAYWOOD 
merchant, banker, was born July 1?. 
1859, in Norfolk, Va. Since 1882 he has 
been engaged in banking and insurance 
business in North Carolina. 

SOVEREIGN. JAMES F.. manager, ora¬ 
tor, In 1894-97 be was General Master 
Workman of Knights of Labor. 

SPAT EJNG. El IZABETH HILL, edu¬ 
cator. author, poet. She is a teacher of 
English in Pratt Institute of Brooklyn. 
N. Y. She is the author of The Problem 
of Elementary Composition: Suggestions 
for Its Solution; and The Language- 
Speller. 

SPALDING, FREDERICK PUTNAM, 
civil engineer, author, was born April 7 
1857. in Wysox. Pa. For several years 
be was in practice as civil engineer upon 
river improvements and municipal worL 
He is the author of Notes on Hydraulic 
Cement; Text-Book on Roads and Pave¬ 
ments: and Hydraulic Cement, Its Proper¬ 
ties. Testing and Use. 

SPALDING, WARREN CLYDE, physi- 
sian, surgeon, poet, was born in 1857, in 
Rensselaer, N. Y. For many years he 
was surgeon in the Omaha Remedial In¬ 
stitute; and now practices his profession 
in New York city. 

SPARKMAN, JAMES TRUSLOW. mer¬ 
chant, reformer, was born Sept. 27. 184?. 
in Brooklyn. N. Y. In 1861 he entered 
into business with his father, James D 
Sparkman, of New York city, who was a 
large importing merchant. In recent 
years he has advocated various measures 
of reform, notably the labor-day bill, the 
half-holiday bill, the small-parks, bill and 


the tenement-house reform bill; and 
has been uniformly successful in procur¬ 
ing the passage of measures of reforma¬ 
tory legislation. 

SPEAR, WILLIAM T., lawyer, jurist, 
was born June 3, 1834, in Warren, Ohio. 
In 1873-77 he was prosecuting attorney 
at Columbus, Ohio. In 1878-84 he was 
judge of the court of common pleas; and 
since 1885 has been judge of the supreme 
court of Ohio. 

SPEARMAN, FRANK HAMILTON, 
banker, author, was born in Buffalo, N. 
Y. In 1889 he became a bank president; 
and since 1895 has been in literary work 
as magazine writer and author. He is 
the author of The Nerve of Foley. 

SPEER, ROBERT ELLIOTT, author, 
was born Sept. 10, 1867, in Huntingdon, 
Pa. Since 1891 he has been secretary 
of Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis¬ 
sions. In 1896-97 he made a tour of 
visitation of Cfiristian missions in Persia. 
India, China, Korea and Japan. He is the 
author of The Man Christ Jesus; The 
Man Paul; Missions and Politics in Asia; 
and A Memorial of a True Life. 

SPENCE, WALTER, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born July 5, 1867, in Rural Re¬ 
treat. Va. He is a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Kingfisher, O. T. He is the au¬ 
thor of Back to Christ. 

SPENCER, MRS. ANNA GARLlN. 
minister, author, was born April 17, 1851, 
in Attleborough, Mass. She is a Unitari¬ 
an minister of Providence, R. I.; and a 
lecturer on philanthropy at teachers’ in¬ 
stitutes. She is the author of Order of 
Service for Public Worship. 

SPENCER, EDSON R., banker, state 
senator, was born Jan. 17. 1861, in Wa¬ 
tertown, N. Y. He is now engaged in 
the banking business in Firth. Neb. He 
served three terms in the Nebraska legis¬ 
lature. 

SPENCER. MRS. WILLIAM LORING. 
educator, author, was born in St. Augus¬ 
tine, Fla. She is the author of Salt Lake 
Fruit; Story of Mary; A Plucky One; 
and Calamity Jane. 

SPENSER. WILARD, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born July 7, 1856, in Coopers- 
town, N. Y. He is a self-taught com¬ 
pose" of light pianoforte music. He is 
the author of a comic operetta entitled 
The l ittle Tycoon. 

SPERRY. LYMAN BEECHER, educa¬ 
tor. lecturer, author, was born Feb. 19. 
1841, in Sherman, N. Y. In 1876-84 he 
was professor of chemistry and physiol¬ 
ogy in Carleton College, Minn.; and since 
1886 has been a public lecturer on gen¬ 
eral themes. He is the author of Con¬ 
cerning Narcotics: and Confidential 
Talks with Young Mep. 

SPEYERS, CLARENCE LIVINGSTON, 
educator, author, was bor" in January, 
1863, in New York citv. 1891 ko 

has been professor of chemistry in Rut¬ 
gers College. He is the author of Text¬ 
book of Physical Chemistry. 

SPIERING. THEODOR, musician, com¬ 
poser. was born in 1871, in St. Louis. 
Mo. He is founder of. and first violin 
in, the Spiering Quartet of Chicago, III. 

SPIGHT, THOMAS, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 25. 1841. in 
Ripley. Miss. In 1861 he ent°r°d 
Confederate army: and was in command 
of the 34th Mississippi infantrv at close 
of war. In 1879-84 he founded, owned 
and edited the Southern Sentinel of Rin- 
ley. Miss. In 1884-92 he was district at¬ 
torney. He was elected to the fifty-sixth 
congress for unexpired term. 

SPIT LANE. EDWARD, clergyman edu¬ 
cator. author, was born Nov. 19. 1859, in 
New York city. He has been professor 


of Greek and Latin literature in various 
Jesuit colleges in New York, Balti¬ 
more, Washington and Boston. He is 
now engaged in compilation of a Dic¬ 
tionary of Catholic American Authors. 

SPINGARN, JOEL ELIAS, educator, 
author, was born May 17, 1875, in New 
York city. Since 1900 he has been tutor 
in comparative literature in Columbia 
University of New York city. He is tne 
author of A History of Literary Criticism 
in the Renaissance. 

SPIRO, CHARLES, inventor, author, 
was born Jan. 1, 1850, in New York city. 
In 1885 he patented the Columbia type¬ 
writer; and later the Bar-lock typewriter. 
He is the author of a system of short¬ 
hand. 

SPRAGUE, FRANK HEADLEY, en¬ 
graver, author, was born in 1861 in Mel¬ 
rose, Mass. He has been in the engrav¬ 
ing business since 1884. He is the author 
of Spiritual Consciousness. 

SPRAGUE, FRANKLIN M.. soldier, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 1, 1843, 
in East Douglas, Mass. For two years he 
served as lieutenant and captain in Union 
army. He is the author of Socialism from 
Genesis to Revelation; The Laws of So¬ 
cial Evolution; and Honest money. 

SPROULL, WILLIAM OLIVER, edu¬ 
cator. author, v/as born May 8, 1848, in 
Allegheny, Pa. Since 1880 he has been 
professor of Latin and Arabic in Univer¬ 
sity of Cincinnati. He is the author of 
The Education of the Roman Youth. 

SPRUANCE, WILLIAM CORBIT. law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born April 2, 1831. in 
Smyrna. Del. In 1871-97 he practiced 
law in Wilmington, Del. Since 1897 he 
has been associate judge of the court 
of Delaware. 

SPURR. JOSIAH EDWARD, geologist 
author, was born Oct. 1, J.870, in Glou¬ 
cester, Mass. He is geologist on United 
States Geological Survey. He is the au¬ 
thor of Through the Yukon Gold Dig¬ 
gings. 

STACKPOLE, EVERETT S„ educator, 
author, was born June 11, 1850, in Dur¬ 
ham, Maine. In 1888-93 he was director 
of a theological school at Florence. Italy; 
and has been a member of the Maine con¬ 
ference of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church since 1878. He is the author ot 
Four and a Half Years in the Italy Mis¬ 
sion; and The Evidence of Salvation or 
the Direct Witness of the Spirit. 

STAFFORD. WENDELL PHILLIPS, 
lawyer, orator, legislator, jurist, poet, was 
born May 1, 1861, in Barre, Vt. He rep¬ 
resented St. .Tohnsbury in Vermont leg¬ 
islature in 1892. Since 1900 he has been 
iudge of the supreme court of Vermont. 
He edited the sixty-ninth, seventieth and 
seventy-first volumes of Vermont Reports. 

STANFOFD, MRS. JANE LATHROP, 
philanthropist, was born Aug. 25, 1825. in 
Albany, N. Y. She married Leland Stan¬ 
ford. Her social life began when Mr. 
Stanford was elected governor of Cali¬ 
fornia in 1861. With her husband she 
established The Leland Stanford, Junior. 
University in 1891; built Children’s Hos¬ 
pital of Albany. N. Y.: and gave $160,000 
to kindergarten schools of San Francisco. 
Since the death oi her husband she has 
devoted her attention to the development 
of the university. 

STANSBURY, CHARLES FREDER¬ 
ICK. journalist, author, was born Nov. 

3, 1854, in London. England. He went 
to California at the age of twenty, thence 
to Hawaii, Samoa and Australia; anrt 
made a second voyage to Australia m 
1879, remaining there until 1887. He is 
the author of Klondike, The Land of 
Gold. 


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STANTON, ROBERT BREWSTER, 
civil engineer, author, was born Aug. 5, 
1846, in Woodville, Miss. He made rail¬ 
way survey as chief engineer through 
Grand Canon of the Colorado. He is tne 
author of The Canons of the Colorado 
River of the West for Railway Purposes; 
and The Great Land Slides on the Cana¬ 
dian Pacific Railway in British Columbia 

STANTON, ROBERT LIVINGSTONE, 
clergyman, author, was born March zb, 
1810, in Griswold, Conn. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Church and the Rebellion. 

STAPLES, HENRY LORING, physi¬ 
cian, was born Sept. 21 1859, in Maine. 
He is professor of clinical medicine in the 
University of Minnesota. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Minerals of Parsonsfield. 

STAPLES, KING G., lumberman, legis¬ 
lator, was born May 26, 1851, in Bee, 
Maine. He is engaged in the lumbering 
business as logger and manufacturer. He 
was town treasurer ior the town of Su¬ 
perior in 1887-88; and was elected to fho 
Wisconsin assembly in 1896. 

STAPLETON, AMMON, soldier, cler¬ 
gyman. author, was born Jan. 15, 18o0, 
in Earl, Pa. He entered Union army 
when only 14 years of age; and serveu 
under Sheridan. He has been presiding 
elder since 1895. He made original re 
searches in and wrote and lectured on 
palaeontology and arcnaeology. He m 
the author of Natural History of the Bi¬ 
ble; and Compend of Church History. 

STARR, ALFRED ADOLPHUS, lectur¬ 
er. inventor, was born Jan. 25,1820. in New 
York city. In 1845 he began giving lectures 
which he illustrated with a crude solar 
crude solar microscope made of 
pasteboard. Afterward he made an 
oxyhydrogen microscope; and several 
years later he procured a fine 
apparatus. He has given three thou¬ 
sand lectures and exhibitions be¬ 
fore schools and colleges; and was also 
connected with Phineas T. Barnum. Us¬ 
ing a microscope of enormous power, he 
projected living specimens on his screen; 
and being a skilful manipulator, regulat¬ 
ed their performances with dexterity, 
showing water-»nsects and animalcules 
feeding upon or fighting with each other. 
He was one of the first to procure a 
patent to light railroad-cars with .gas. 

STARR, FREDERICK, anthropologist, 
author, was born Sept. 2, 1858, in Auburn. 
N. Y. Since 1893 he has been professor 
ofanthropology in University of Chi¬ 
cago. He is the auinor of On the Hills, 
geology for young people; and Some First 
Steps in Human Progress. 

STARR I OU1S. physician, author, was 
horn in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the au¬ 
thor of Disease of Digestive Organs in 
Infancy and Childhood; Hygiene of the 
Nursery; Diets for Infants and Children 
in Health and in Disease; and A Synopsis 
of the Physiological Action of Medicines. 

STARRETT, MRS. HELEN FKIN edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Sept. 19. 1840. Al¬ 
legheny county. Pa. She is principal of 
Mrs. Starrett’s Classical School for Girls. 
She is the founder of Kenwood institut‘d 
of Chicago, Ill. She is the author of 
Letters to a Daughter; Letters to Elder 
Daughters; and a volume of poems. 

START, CHARLES M., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 4. 1839, in Bakersfield, 
Vt. He is chief justice of the supreme 
court of Minnesota. In 1880-81 he wan 
attorney-general of Minnesota. 

STEBBINS, ALONZO T.. business man. 
state senator, was born Sept. 21, 1847. 
in Mansfield, Mass. He is engaged in the 
hardware business at Rochester, Minn. 


He was elected to the Minnesota state 
legislature in 1888. 

STEELE, MRS. ESTHER BAKER, au¬ 
thor, was oorn in 1835 .a Lysander, N. Y. 
She married Prof. Joel Dorman Steele. In 
collaboration with her husband she pub¬ 
lished Barnes Brief Histories. Since her 
husband's death she has revised new edi¬ 
tions of these joint worns; and also or 
her husband s science books. 

STEERE, JOSEPH BEAL, scientist, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 9, 1842, in Lenawee 
county, Mich. He has made numerous 
trips in foreign countries collecting speci¬ 
mens for the Smithsonian Institution. He 
is the author of Fifty New Species of 
Philippine Birds. 

STEINER. BERNARD CHRISTIAN, 
educator, librarian, author, was born Aug. 
13, 1867, in Guilford, Conn. Since 1892 
he has been librarian of Enoch Pratt 
Free Library of Baltimore, Md. He is the 
author of Education in Maryland; Educa¬ 
tion in Connecticut; Citizenship and 
Suffrage in Maryland; Institutions and 
Civil Government of Maryland; and 
Genealogy of Steiner Family. 

STEINER, JOHN ALEXANDER,manu¬ 
facturer, soldier, journalist, legislator, 
was born March 16, 1816. He served dur¬ 
ing the civil war as major and lieutenant 
colonel in the first regiment Potomac 
home brigade; and in 1866 was brevetted 
colonel and brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers. He has been a member of the 
Maryland house of delegates; editor of 
the Frederick Examiner; and inspector 
of customs at Baltimore, Md. 

STEINMETZ, CHARLES PROTEUS, 
electrician, author, was born April 9, 1845, 
in Germany. He is the author of The¬ 
ory and Calculation of Alternating Cur¬ 
rent Phenomena. 

STELWAGON, HENRY WEIGHTI5IAN 
physician, author, was born Dec. 3, 1853. 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of 
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin. 

STENGEL, ALFRED, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 3, 1868, in Pittsburg. 
Pa. He is a successful physician of 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of 
A Text-Book of Pathology. 

STEPHENS. CHARLES ASBURY, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1847 in Lake Norway, 
Maine. He is a writer of Norway, 
Maine, and the author of Camping Out; 
Off the Geysers; Left on Labrador; Fox 
Hunting; On the Amazon; The Young 
Moose-Hunters; and The Knockabout 
Club in the Woods and in the Tropics. 

STEPHENS, LON V., lawyer, journalist, 
banker, governor, was born Dec. 21, 1858, 
in Boonville, Mo. He learned the print¬ 
er’s trade; was for a time bank clerk, 
then telegraph operator, then lawyer; 
and finally president of Bank of Boon¬ 
ville. Mo. In 1897-1901 he was governor 
of Missouri. 

STEPHENS, ROBERT NEILSON, jour¬ 
nalist. author, was born July 22, 1867. in 
New Bloomfield, Pa. -In 1893 he became 
theatrical agent and dramatist in New 
York city, writing plays for cheap thea¬ 
tres, notably the Steve Brodie melo¬ 
drama, On the Bowery. He later wrote 
An Enemy to the King, produced by E. 
H. Sothern in 1896; and The Ragged 
Regiment, produced in 1898. He is the 
author of An Enemy to the King; The 
Continental Dragoon; The Road to 
Paris; A Gentleman and Player; Philip 
Win wood; and Captain Ravenshaw. 

STERRETT, JAMES MACBRIBE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 13. 1847, in 
Howard, Pa. Since 1892 he has been pro¬ 


fessor of philosophy in Columbian uni¬ 
versity, D. C. Since 1893 he has been 
president of the Society for Philosophical 
Inquiry. He is the author of Studies in 
Hegel’s Philosophy oi Religion; rveasu.. 
and Authority in Religion; and The 
Ethics of Hegel. 

STERRETT, JAMES P., lawyer, jurist, 
chief justice of the supreme court of 
Pennsylvania. 

STETSON, MRS. CHARLOTTE PER¬ 
KINS, author, was born in 1860 in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. She made a reputation as a 
story-writer, lecturer, and advocate of 
equality for women; and in 1896 visited 
Great Britain as public speaker. She is 
the author of Women and Economics; 
and In This Our World, in verse. 

STEUNENBERG, FRANK, governor. 
In 1897-1900 he was governor of Idaho.' 

STEVANS, C. M., educator, journalist 
author, was born in 1861. For twelve 
years he was engaged in educational 
work; and for nine years was editor 
of educational and subscription books in 
Chicago and New York city. He is the 
author of History of Spanish-America; 
World’s Congress of Religions; Powers 
of Mind; Scenes in Our New Possessions; 
and other works. 

STEVENS, ALBERT CLARK, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Oct. 10, 1854, 
in Buffalo, N. Y. In 1880-98 he was editor 
of Bradstreet’s. He is the author of 
Cyclopedia of Fraternities. 

STEVENS, ARTHUR ALBERT, phy¬ 
sician, author. He is a physician of 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of 
Manual of the Practice of Medicine. 

STEVENS, GEORGE THOMAS, physi¬ 
cian, inventor, author, was born 1832 in 
Essex county, N. Y. In 1861 he was 
commissioned surgeon of 77th New Yo r 
volunteers. Since 1880 he has been in 
practice in New York city. He is the 
inventor of many standard surgical and 
philosophical instruments. He is the au¬ 
thor of Three Years in the Sixth 
Corps. 

STEVENS, GEORGE W„ journalist, 
artist, author, poet, was born Jan. 16, 
1866, in Utica, N. Y. Since 1900 he has 
been on editorial staff of Toledo Times. 
He is the author of The King and the 
Harper,- and Other Poems. 

STEVENS. HAZARD, soldeir, lawyer, 
was born June 9. 1842, in Newport R.T. He 
served throughout the civil war,1861-65. ir 
Army of the Potomac. He is the author 
of Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens. H* 
served throughout the civil war in 1861- 
65; and attained the ranch of brigadier- 
general. 

STEVENS, JOSEPH EARLE, business 
man, author, was born Feb. 8, 1870, in 
Boston. Mass. He is the author of 
Yesterdays in the Philippines. 

STEVENS, P. F.. clergyman, bishop. 
He is a bishop of tne Reformed Episco¬ 
pal Church at Orangeburg, S. C. 

STEVENS, WALTER B.. journalist, 
author, was born July 25, 1848, in Meri¬ 
den, Conn. He has been Washington cor¬ 
respondent of the St. Louis Globe-Demo¬ 
crat since 1884: and has traveled exten¬ 
sively for same paner through the United 
States, Canada, Mexico, and Cuba. He 
is the author of Through Texas. 

STEVENS WILLIAM ARNOLD, theolo¬ 
gian. author, was born Feb. 5, 1839, in 
Granville, Ohio. Since 1877 he has been 
professor of New Testament Interpreta¬ 
tion in Rochester Theological Seminary. 
He is the aurnor of Harmony of the 
Gospels for Historical Study. 


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STEVENSON, BURTON EGBERT, 
Journalist, librarian, author, was born 
Nov. 9, 1872, in Chillicothe,Ohio. He is the 
author of A Soldier of Virginia, a Story 
of Colonel Washington and Braddock’s 
Defeat. 

STEVENSON, JAMES HENRY, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born April 16, 1860, in 
Canada. Since 1892 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of Hebrew in Vanderbilt universi¬ 
ty. He is the author of Herodotus and 
the Empires of the East; and Babylon¬ 
ian and A ss y r i ai1 Contracts with Ara¬ 
maic Reference Notes. 

STEVENSON, JOHN JAMES, educator, 
geologist, author, was born Oct. 10, 1841, 
in New York city. Since 1871 he has been 
professor of geology in the New York 
university; was United States geologist 
during 1873-79; and president of Geolo¬ 
gical Society of America in 1898. He is 
the author of six volumes on geology. 

STEVENSON, MRS. MATILDA COXE, 
ethnologist, author, was born in San 
Augustine, Texas. Since 1889 she has 
been on the staff bureau of American 
Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution 
of Washington, D. C. She has explored 
cave, cliff and mesa ruins of New Mexi¬ 
co; and visited all the Pueblo tribes. She 
is the author of The Zuni and the 
Zunians; and Zuni Ancestral Gods and 
Masks. 

STEVENSON, PAUL EVE, author, was 
born May 19, 1868, m New fork City. 
He is the author of A Deep Water Voy¬ 
age; and By Way of Cape Horn. 

STEVENSON, MRS. SARA YORKE, 
archaeologist, author, was born Peb. 19. 
1847, in Paris, France. She married 
June 30, 1870, to Cornelius Stevenson. In 
1894 she was president of Civic Club of 
Philadelphia, Pa. She is the author of 
Maximilian in Mexico; and The Book of 
the Dead. 

STEWARD, MRS. ELECTRA MARIA, 
author, was born Sept. 6, 1817, in Le Roy, 
N. Y. She is a writer of Detroit.' She is 
the author of Early History of Michigan; 
and The Clevelands, a religious juvenile 
tale. 

STEWARD, THEOPHILUS GOULD, 
clergyman, author, was born April 17. 
1843, in Gouldtown. N. J. He is a clergy¬ 
man of African descent. He is the author 
of Death, Hades, and the Resurrection; 
The End of the World; and Genesis Re¬ 
read. 

STEWART, EDWIN, naval officer, was 
born May 5, 1837, in New York city. He 
is paymaster-general of the United 
States navy; and in 1899 received the 
rank of rear-adniiral. 

STEWART, GEORGE BLACK, theolo¬ 
gian, college president, author, was 
born Feb. 28, 1854, in Columbus, Ohio. 
Since 1884 he has been president and 
professor of practical theology in the 
Theological Seminary of Auburn, N. Y. 
He was the founder and for five years 
president of the Pennsylvania Chautau¬ 
qua. He is the author of Life of Jesus 'or 
Juniors. 

STEWART. HAMILTON, journalist, 
was born Sept. 4. 1813, in Kentucky. He 
has resided in Galveston, Texas, from the 
foundation of the citv. and has been re¬ 
peatedly its mayor. He is also editor of 
its rhipf ra^er. The Galveston News. 

STEWART, JAMES ALOYSIUS, phy¬ 
sician. was horn April 3, 1828, in Balti¬ 
more. Md. He established himself in 
practice in Baltimore; and became phy¬ 
sician to the city general dispensary; 
a rd assistant physician to the Maryland 


hospital for the insane. Since 1875 he 
has been health commissioner, rcg.strai 
of vital statistics; and president of the 
city board of health. He checked an in¬ 
cipient outbreak of yellow fever in 1886; 
and has aided in suppressing two epi¬ 
demics of small-pox. 

STEWART, JOHN, lawyer, state 
senator, jurist, was born Nov. 4, 1839, in 
Shippensburg, Pa. In 1864 he was a dele¬ 
gate to Republican National convention; 
and in 1892 was a member of the Consti¬ 
tutional convention of Pennsylvania. In 
1880-84 he was a member of the Penn¬ 
sylvania stare senate; and since 1888 has 
been presiding judge of the thirty-ninth 
judicial district of Pennsylvania. 

STEWART, JOHN K., congressman. He 
was elected to the fifty-sixth congress 
from New York as a republican. 

STEWART, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 27, 1825, 
in Baltimore, Md. He has presided as 
judge over each of the state courts of 
Baltimore city; and has filled positions 
of dignity, ability and impartiality. 

STICKNEY. WILLIAM WALLACE, 
lawyer, legislator, governor, was born 
March 21, 1853, in Plymouth, Vt. In 1882- 
84 and 1890-92 he was states attorney; 
and in 1892-96 represented Ludlow in the 
Vermont legislature. In 1900-02 he was 
governor of Vermont. 

STIEGLITZ. ALFRED, artist, author, 
was born Jan. 13, 1864, in Hoboken, N. 
J. He founded and is editor of Camera 
Notes; devotes his energies to the ad¬ 
vancement of American Pictorial Photo¬ 
graphy; and has won over one hundred 
medals for photograpny. He is the author 
of Picturesque Bits of New York, and 
Other Stories. 

STIMPSON, HERBERT BAIRD, lawyer, 
author^ was born Jan. 31, 1869, near 
Uchester, Md. He is a successful lawyer 
of Baltimore, Md. He is the author of 
The Regeneration; and The Tory Maid. 

STIMSON, HENRY A., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 28. 1842, in New 
York. He is vice-president of the 
American Missionary Association. He is 
the author of Religion and Business; 
Questions of Modern Inquiry; and The 
Apostles’ Creed. 

STINE. WILBUR MORRIS, civil engi¬ 
neer, author, was born Nov. 3, 1863, in 
Tyrone, Pa. Since 1898 he has been 
professor of engineering in Swarthmore 
college. Pa. He is the author of Photo- 
metrical Measurements. 

STIVERS. MRS. KAZIA ARMING- 
TON, vocalist, author, poet,was horn July 
10, 1840, in Weedsport, N. Y. She is the 
author of occasional short poems pub¬ 
lished in periodicals in New York and 
elsewhere. She sang soprano in the 
Protestant Episcopal cathedral of Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y„ and in the Roman Catholic 
cathedral of San Antonio, Tex. 

STOAKS. CHARLES E., educator, 
author, was born May 17, 1859, in 

Friendsville, Ohio. He is a chalk talk and 
lecturer on all Chautauqua and lyceum 
platforms: and minister of Cumberland 
Presbyterian church. He is the author 
of Aron Burr, or Kingdom of Silver; 
and Stoaks’ School Grade System. 

STOCKTON, MRS. CORNELIA M„ 
educator, poet, was born June 29. 1835. 
in Wallkill, N. Y. In 1856 she taught 
at Glendale college, Ohio; then moved to 
Kansas, where she was regent of the 
State university of Lawrence. She is 
a noted writer of Kansas, and the au¬ 
thor of a volume entitled Poems. 


STOCKSLAGER, CHARLES O., law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Feb. 8, 1847, in 
Harrison county, Ind. In 1876-87 he 
practiced law in Cherokee county, Kan.; 
and since 1887 in Idaho. In 1890-1900 
he was judge of the fourth district; and 
since 1900 has been associate justice of 
the supreme court of Idaho. 

STOCKTON, LOUISE, writer, author, 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa. She is a 
sister of Francis R. Stockton. She nas 
been connected with the leading journals 
as editorial writer; and book editor and 
music critic. She is now president of 
West Philadelphia Center University Ex¬ 
tension. She is the author of Doro¬ 
thea. 

STOCKWELL, CHESTER TWITCH- 
ELL t dental surgeon, autnor, was born 
Sept. 5, 1841, in Royalston, Mass. He 
is the author of The Evolution or im¬ 
mortality; The Philosophic Idea of God; 
Sentiment vs. Science; The Ethical As¬ 
pects of the Evolution of Machinery; 
The Relation of Evolutionary Thought to 
Immortality; The Ethical Basis of Equal¬ 
ity; Of Ethical Ideas and World Move¬ 
ments; The New Materialism; and The 
New Pantheism. 

STOCKWELL, JOHN NELSON, as¬ 
tronomer, author, was born April 10, 
1832, in Northampton, Mass. He is 
known for original investigations in as¬ 
tronomy. He is the author of Memoir 
on the Secular Vibrations of the Plane¬ 
tary Orbits. 

STODDARD, FRANCIS HOVEY, edu¬ 
cator, author, was Horn April 25, 1847, 
in Middlebury, Vt. He is professor of 
English literature in New York univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of The Modern 
Novel; The Ideal in Literature; Psycho- 
Biography; Women in the English Uni¬ 
versities; The Caedmon Poems; Condi¬ 
tions of Labor in England; Miracle Plays 
and Mysteries; Tolstoi and Matthew 
Arnold; The Uses of Rhetoric; Inductive 
Work in College Classes; Literary Spir¬ 
it in the Colleges; and The Study of the 
English Language. 

STOKES, ANSON PHELPS, banker, 
author, was born Feb. 22, 1838, in New 
York city. In 1900 he was president of 
the National Association of Anti-Imper- 
alist Club. He is the author of Joint 
Metallism; and other works. 

STOKES, FREDERICK A., publisher, 
author, was born Nov. 4, 1857, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He is president of Frederick 
A. Stokes Company, publishers of New 
York city. He is the author of College 
Tramps. 

STOKES. HENRY NEWLIN, chemist, 
educator, was born Oct. 24, 1859, in 

Moorestown, N. J. In 1899 he became 
assistant chemist in the United States 
geological survey. In 1892 he was ap¬ 
pointed assistant professor of general 
and inorganic chemistry in the Univer¬ 
sity of Chicago; and since 1893 has been 
with United States geological survey. 

STONE, CHARLES WELLINGTON, 
educator, author, was born Dec. 13. 1S53, 
in Temoleton, Mass. He is the author 
of Needles of Pine. 

STONE, MRS MARGARET MANSON 
BARBOUR, educator, author, was born 
Feb. 26, 1841. in St. Louis, Mo. In 1885 
she was president and originator of Mod¬ 
ern Novel Club. She is the author of 
The Problem of Domestic Service; To 
Reading Clubs; and One of Berrian's 
Novels. 

STONE, WITMER. naturalist, author, 
was born Sept. 22, 1866, in Philadelphia. 
Pa. He is assistant curator in charge of 
museum of Academy of Natural Science 
of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author "V 


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Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New 
Jersey; Report on Birds or Yucatan and 
Southern Mexico; and The Molting of 
Birds. 

STRAKOSCH, MAX, artist, was born 
Sept. 27, 1835, in Moravia. He was as¬ 
sociated with his brother in most oi 
his enterprises, and some of the most 
famous artists traveled under their man¬ 
agement, including Carlotta and Adelina 
Patti, Karl Formes, Pasquale Brignoli, 
Italo Campanini, Pauline Lucca, Therese 
Titjens, Christine Nilsson, and Marietta 
Alboni. 

STRANG, LEWIS CLINTON, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 4, 1869, in 
Westfield, Mass. He is the autnor < 
Famous Actresses of the Day; Famous 
Actors of the Day; Prima Donnas and 
Soubrettes of Light Opera and Mu¬ 
sical Comedy of America; and Celebrat¬ 
ed Comedians of Light Opera and Mu¬ 
sical Comedy in America. 

STRATEMEYER, EDWARD, author, 
was born Oct. 4, 1862, in Elizabeth, N. 
J. He is the author of Under Dewey 
at Manila; A Young Volunteer in Cuba; 
To Alaska for Gold; and The Minute 
Boys of Lexington. 

STRATTON. GEORGE M AI COT M. edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Sept. 26, 18"65, 
in Oakland, Cal. He is orofessor ana 
director of the Psychological Laboratory. 
University of California; and the au¬ 
thor of a number of articles on Psychol¬ 
ogy in current scientific publications. 

STRATTON, MRS. MERCY LA VINA 
BUMP, was born Oct. 31, 1841, in Middle- 
borough, Mass. She was engaged 
by Mr. Barnum in 1862, under whose 
management she assumed the name 
of Warren. When exhibited with 
Gen. Tom Thumb she was both 
shorter and lighter tnan her hus¬ 
band, but her height increased to forty 
inches and her weight to fifty pounds. 
After the death of Mr. Stratton she lived 
in retirement until her marriage in 1885 
to Count Primo Magri. an Italian dwan, 
with whom she has since given exhibi¬ 
tions in the United States and Europe. 

STRECKER, HERMAN. botanist, 
sculptor, author, was born March 24 1836, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He designed the 
Soldiers’ Monument at Reading, Pa., as 
well as numerous other works of note. 
He is the author of Butterflies and Moths 
of North America. 

STREET, WEBSTER, lawyer, jurist, 
was born June 8, 1846, in Salem, Ohio. 
Since 1897 he has been chier justice of 
the supreme court of Arizona.. 

STRINGER, ARTHUR J., author, poet, 
was born Feb. 26, 1874, in Canada. He 
is the author of Watchers of Twilight; 
Pauline and Other Poems; Epigrams; 
and The Loom of Destiny. 

STRINGHAM, (WASHINGTON) IRV¬ 
ING, mathematician, author, was born 
Dec. 10, 1847, in Yorkshire, N. Y. Since 
1886 he has been professor of mathe¬ 
matics and dean in University of Cal¬ 
ifornia. He is the author of Uniplanar 
Algebra. 

STROBEL, EDWARD HENRY, law 
yer, diplomat, author, was born Dec. 7. 
1855, in Charleston, S. C. He is Bemis 
■ professor of international law in Harvard 
university. He is the author of i he 
Spanish Revolution. 

STRONG, CHARLES H„ clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 29, 1850, in New 
Orleans, La. He is rector of St. Johns 
church of Savannah, Ga. He is the au¬ 
thor of Creed in Deed; A Fair Agnostic; 
and In Paradise. 


STRONG, EDWARD TRASK, navai 
officer, was born Feb. 10, 1840, in Ipswich, 
Mass. He served tnrough the civil war. 
In 1868 he was commissioned ensign in 
regular navy; and in 1900 was retirea 
with rank of rear admiral. 

STRONG, FRANK, educator, author, 
was born Aug. 5, 1859, in Venice, N. Y. 
Since 1897 he has been lecturer on his¬ 
tory in Yale university. He is the au¬ 
thor of Life of Benjamin Franklin; and 
A Forgotten Danger to the New England 
Colonies. 

STRONG, THOMAS NELSON, soldier, 
lawyer, author, was born inarch 17, 1853, 
in Cathlamet, Washington Territory. In 
1869-73 he was engineer on the Northern 
Pacific railroad; and since 1874 has prac¬ 
ticed law in Portland, Ore. He is tbe 
author of The Spanish Revolution. 

STRONG, WILLIAM B., railroad man¬ 
ager, banker, was born about 1830, in 
Brownington, Vt. He began railroading 
in 1854; filled the positions of superin¬ 
tendent and general manager on various 
roads; and for ten years was president 
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 
railroad. Resigning that position, he 
subsequently became a banker at Beloit, 
Wis. 

STUART, CHARLES MACAULAY, the¬ 
ologian, author, was born Aug. 20, 1853, 
in Glasgow, Scotland. Since 1896 he has 
been professor of sacred rhetoric in Gar¬ 
rett Biblical institute. He is the author 
of Descriptive Text of Photogravures of 
the Holy Land; Life and Selected Writ¬ 
ings of Fiancis Dana Hemenway; Sing¬ 
ers and Their Songs; Visions of Christ in 
the Poets; and Story of the Masterpieces. 

STUBBS, WILLIAM CARTER, soldier, 
scientist, author, was born Dec. 7. 1846. 
in Gloucester county. Va. In the civil war 
he served in the confederate cavalry. 
Since 1883 he has been professor of ag¬ 
riculture in the Louisiana State Univer¬ 
sity; and since 1896 has been state chem¬ 
ist of Louisiana. He is the author of 
Sugar, in two volumes; The Des¬ 

cendants of Mordecai Cooke. 

STURGIta, JULIAN, lawver, autnor, 
was born Oct. 21, 1848, in Boston, Mass. 
He is the author of John-a-Dreams; An 
Accomplished Gentleman: Dick’s Wander¬ 
ing; John Maidment; Thralldom: Mv 
Friends and I; Comedy of a Country 
House; Master of Fortune: After Twenty 
Years; and The Folly of Pen Harring¬ 
ton. 

SUDWORTH. GEORGE BISHOP, bot¬ 
anist, author, was born Aug. 31. 1862. in 
Kingston, Wis. Since 1895 he has been 
dendrologist in Division of Forestry of 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
He is the author of Forest Flora of the 
Pocky Mountain Region; Forest Flora ot 
Tennessee; and other works. 

SULLIVAN. ISAAC N„ lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 3. 1848. in Towa. Since 
189 r > he has been chief justice of the 
sunreme court of Idaho. 

SULLIVAN. J. J., lawyer, jurist. He 
is associate justice of the supreme court 
of Nebraska. 

SULLIVAN. THOMAS CROOK, soldier, 
was born Nov. 14, 1833. in Montgomery 
county, Ohio. He was brigadier-general 
and commissary-general of subsistence 
in United States army: and retired in 
1897. He served in the army through 
all grades of commissioned officer until 
retired by operation of law. 

SUMNER, EDWIN VOSE. soldier. He 
served with merit during the civil war: 
and was appointed major of the fifth cav¬ 
alry in 1879; and is now inspector of rife 
practice. 


SUMNER, GEORGE WATSON, naval 
officer,was born Dec. 31, 1841, in Constan¬ 
tine, Mich. He became lieutenant- 
commander in 1866; commander in 1876; 
captain in 1891; and rear admiral in 1899. 

SUMNER, SAMUEL STORROVV, sol¬ 
dier, was born in Pennsylvania. During 
the civil war he was brevetted first lieu¬ 
tenant, captain, and major; and in 1879 
jvas made major of the eighth cavalry. 
In 1898 he was appointed brigadier-gen¬ 
eral in the United States volunteers; and 
subsequently major-general. 

SUNDERLAND, MRS. ELIZA READ, 
educator, lecturer, author, was born in 
1839, in Huntsville, Ill. She taught in 
Chicago High Schools; and has preached 
and lectured in many cities. She is the 
author of Stories from Genesis; and He¬ 
roes and Heroines. 

SUPER, OvANDO BYRON, educator, 
author, was born March 2, 1848, near 
Newport, Pa. Since 1900 he has been 
professor of Romance languages in Dick¬ 
inson college of Carlisle, Pa. He is the 
author of French Reader; and German 
Reader. 

SUTHERLAND, MRS. EVELYN 
GREENLEAF, playwright, author, was 
bdrn in Cambridge, Mass. She is the 
author of In Office Hours, and Other 
Vaudeville Sketches; and many one-act 
plays in professional use. 

SUTHERLAND, GEORGE, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was porn March 
25, 1862, in England. In 1896 he was a 
member of the Utah legislature; and nas 
held other positions. He was elected 
to the fifty-seventh congress from Utah 
as a republican. 

SUTHERLAND, JOHN PRESTON, 
physician, author, was born Feb. 9, 1854, 
in Charlestown, Mass. He is dean of 
Boston University Medical school. In 
1883-97 he was editor of New England 
Medical Gazette. He has been president 
of Massachusetts 'Homeopathic Medical 
Society. He is the author of Hints on 
Urinary Analysis. 

SUTPHEN, W. G. VAN TASSEL, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born May 11, 1861, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author ot 
The Golficide, The Golfers Alphabet. 

SWAIN, GEORGE FILLMORE, civi. 
engineer, author, was born March 2, 1857, 
in San Francisco, Cal. Since 1887 he 
has been professor of civil engineering, 
in charge of civil engineering department 
of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
He is the author of Report on Watei' 
Power of the Atlantic Watershed. 

SWAN, HENRY HARRISON, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 2, 1840. in Detroit, 
Mich. Since 1891 he has been Unitea 
States district judge for eastern district 
of Michigan. 

SWEARINGEN, HENRY H„ lawyer, 
author, was born April 7, 1857. He is 
a noted lawyer of Washington, D. C.; and 
has been government examiner of claims. 
He is the author of the Swearingen Gen¬ 
ealogy. 

SWEET, ADA CELESTE, lawyer, was 
born Feb. 23, 1853, in Stockbridge. Wis. 
She is the daughter of Benjamin J. Sweet, 
who became colonel and brevet brigadier- 
general in the Union army; and after tne 
war practiced law in Chicago. When 
he became United States pension agent 
she learned the business; and after his 
death in 1874 she was appointed United 
States pension agent for paying pensions 
in Chicago—the first woman ever appoint¬ 
ed as a disbursing officer in the United 
States. She held the office until 1885. 
In 1886 she became literary editor ol 
the Chicago Tribune; and in 1888 onened 
a United States claims office in Chicago. 



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She has been president of the Municipal 
Order League of Chicago; and president 
of the Chicago Woman’s Club. 
SWEETSER, DELIGHT, Mrs. F. F. 
. Prentiss, author, was born Jan. 21, 1873, 
in Hartford City, Ind. She is the author 
of One Way Round the World. 

SWENIE, DENNIS J., public official, 
was born July 29, 1834, in Glasgow, Scot¬ 
land. Since 1879 he has been chief oj: 
Chicago fire department; and was retired 
in 1901. 

SWETT, JOHN, educator, author, was 
born July 31, 1830, in Pittsfield, N. H. 
Since 1853 he has been superintendent and 
principal of normal schools in San Fran¬ 
cisco, Cal. He is the author of History 
of the Public School System of Califor¬ 
nia; Methods of Teaching; and Amer¬ 
ican Public Schools. 

SWIFT, LINDSAY, librarian, author, 
was born July 29, 1856, in Boston, Mass. 
He is librarian of Boston Public library. 
He is the author of Brook Farm. 

SYMONS, THOMAS WILLIAM, civil 
engineer, author, was born Feb. 7, 1849, 
in Keesville, N. Y. He is major of corps 
of engineers in United States army. He 
is the author of The Columbia River; 
and A Ship Canal from the Great Lakes 
to the Sea. 

TABOR, EDWARD A., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born July 28, 1857, near Water 
Valley, Miss. He is now state superm- 
t.endent of Arkansas of the Anti-Saloon 
League. He is the author of Danger 
Signal. 

TAFT, ROYAL CHAPIN, manufactur¬ 
er, legislator, banker, governor, was born 
Feb. 14, 1823, in Northbridge, Mass. In 
1849 he engaged in manufacturing cotton 
and woolen goods; and subsequently ac¬ 
quired large interests in other mills. In 
1880-84 he was a member of the Rhode 
Island legislature; and was governor of 
Rhode Island in 1888. He is now pres¬ 
ident of Merchants National Bank oi 
Providence, R. I. 

TAFT, WILLIAM H., lawyer, orator 
jurist, was born Sepc. 15, 1857. in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. In 1887-90 he was judge or 
the superior court of Ohio; in 1890-92 he 
was solicitor-general of the United States; 
and since 1896 has been dean and profes¬ 
sor in law department of University or 
Cincinnati. Since 1892 he has been cir¬ 
cuit judge. 

TALBOT, EUGENE S., dentist, author, 
was born March, 8, 1847, in Sharon, Mass. 
He is a noted dentist of Chicago, Ill. 
He is the author of Degeneracy, Its Caus¬ 
es, Signs and Results; The Irregularities 
of the Teeth and Their Treatment; and 
Chart of the Typical Forms of Constitu¬ 
tional Irregularities of the Teeth. 

TALIFERRO, JAMES PIPER, soldier, 
merchant, banker, United States senator, 
was born Sept. 30, 1847. in Orange Court 
House, Va. He served as private in the 
Confederate army. He engaged in log¬ 
ging and sawmill enterprise; and is now 
identified with business interests as vice- 
president of a leading wholesale grocery 
house of Jacksonville. Fla. He is presi¬ 
dent of First National bank of Tampa, 
Fla. He was elected to the United States 
senate for term of 1899-1905. 

TALLMAN, GEORGE BENTON, jour¬ 
nalist, legislator, was born Nov. 18, 1849, 
in Turtle, Wis. He is a printer in f.ne 
government printing office at Washington, 

D. C. He was a member of the Minne- 
sotajegislature in 1895. 

TALTON, AUGUSTUS, clergyman, was 
born in 1854, in Ralls county. Mo. He 
is the first colored Roman Catholic priest 
in the United States. 


TALTY, JOHN A., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Aug. 22, 1860, in Moline, Ill. He 
is a noted lawyer of St. Louis, Mo. in 
1896 he was elected for a full term as 
judge of the eighth circuit court of Mis¬ 
souri. 

TANNER, JAMES, lawyer, was born 
April 4, 1844, in Richmondville, N. Y. 
He volunteered in the eighth New Yorn 
infantry, was promoted to corporal, and 
lost both legs in the second battle ol 
Bull Run. He studied law, and received 
an appointment in the New York custom¬ 
house, being deputy collector under Gen. 
Chester A. Arthur. In 1877-85 he was 
commander of the Grand Army of the 
Republic of New York state; was tax 
collector in Brooklyn; and in 1889 he was 
appointed United States commissioner of 
pensions. 

TANNER, JOHN HENRY, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born March 1, 1861, in Ft. Plain, 
N. Y. He is assistant professor of math¬ 
ematics and secretary of faculty in Cor¬ 
nell university. He is the author of 
Analytic Geometry. 

TAPPAN, BENJAMIN, naval officer, 
was born April 10, 1856, in New Orleans, 
La. In 1888 until 1891 he was on duty 
in the office of the bureau of naval intel¬ 
ligence. In 1891 he was promoted lieu¬ 
tenant; was ordered to the Miantonomah, 
and served until 1894. In 1895-96 he was 
on duty in the Brooklyn navy-yard;' and 
then was transferred to the Amphitrite 
and subsequently to the Raleigh. He 
was on board the latter vessel during the 
battle of Manila in 1898; and during the 
attack on the city in August he com¬ 
manded the launch Barcelo, which had 
been captured from the Spaniards. Upon 
this occasion he took the launch througn 
the breakers and captured a Spanish bat¬ 
tery. In recognition of his conduct 
President McKinley advanced him five 
numbers in the list of lieutenants in 1898. 

TAPPAN, DAVID STANTON, educatoi. 
college president, author, was born April 
2, 1845, m Steubenville, Ohio. Since 
1899 he has been president of Miami 
univeristy of Ohio. He is the author of 
History of Presbyterianism in Iowa; and 
Miscellaneous Sermons. 

TAPPAN, EVA MARCH, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 26, 1854, in Black- 
stone, Mass. She is a teacher in English 
High school of Worcester, Mass. She is 
the author of Charles Lamb, the Man and 
the Author; Selections from Emerson; 
and In the Days of Alfred the Great. 

TAPPAN, TODD, educator, author, 
was born in 1824, in Ohio. In 1875-87 he 
was a professor of mathematics in Ken¬ 
yon college of Gambier, Ohio; and since 
then Ohio commissioner of common 
schools. He is the author of Plane and 
Solid Geometry; Elements of Geometry, 
and Treatise on Geometry and Trigonom¬ 
etry. 

TAPPER, THOMAS, musician, author, 
was born Jan. 28 1864, in Canton, Mass. 

He is the author of Chat with Music 
Students; The Music Life; Music 
Talks with Children; Child’s Music 
Pictures from the Lives of the Great Com¬ 
posers; and First studies in Music Bi¬ 
ography. 

TARBELL, HORACE SUMNER, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Aug. 19, 1838, in 
Chelsea, Vt. Since 1884 he has been 
superintendent of public schools of Prov¬ 
idence, R. I. He is the author of Tar- 
bell’s Lessons in Language and Gram¬ 
mar; Werner’s Introductory Geography; 
Werner’s Grammar School Geography: 
Tarbell’s Introductory Geography; and 
Tarbell s Complete Geography. 


TARKINGTON, NEWTON BOOTH, au¬ 
thor, was born July 29, 1869. He is 
the author of The Gentleman from India; 
Monsieur Beaucaire, a novelette. 

TAYLOR, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 11, 
1853, in Toledo, Ohio. He was chaplain 
of the state senate of Illinois thirty-eighth 
general assembly. He is president of 
standing committee Diocese of Spring- 
field. He is the author of The Confes¬ 
sions of Our Christian Faitn, commonly 
called the Creed of St. Anthanasius, with 
brief notes. 

TAYLOR, HENRY CLAY, naval officer, 
was born March 12, 1842, in Washington, 
D. C. He was president of the Naval 
war college near Newport for three years; 
and since 1897 has been in command or 
the battleship Indiana, in which he had 
an honorable share in the destruction of 
Cervera’s Spanish squadron at Santiago 
in 1898. 

TAYLOR, HORACE ADOLPHUS, pub¬ 
lisher, state senator, diplomat, was born 
May 24, 1837, in Madrid, at Lawrence 
county, N. Y. For many years ho 
was extensively engaged in banking, 
printing, lumbering, and real es¬ 
tate business. In 1874-80 he was Wis¬ 
consin state land agent; and in 1880-83 
was United States consul to Marseilles, 
France. In 1887 he was elected state 
senator of Wisconsin; and in 1889-93 was 
United States commissioner of railroads. 

In 1899 he became assistant secretary oi 
the United States treasury department. 

TAYLOR, JAMES KNOX,architect, was 
born Oct. 11, 1857, in Knoxville, Ill. He 
practiced his profession of architecture 
in St. Paul for ten years, removing to 
Philadelphia in 1892, where he designed 
several important buildings. In April, 
1895, he became a senior draughtsman 
in the United States architect’s office in 
Washington, and subsequently principal 
draughtsman. In 1897 he was appointed 
supervising architect of the United States 
treasury department. , 

TAYLOR, JAMES LOOCKERMAN, 
soldier, railway agent, was born July 26, 
1847, in Tallahassee, Fla. He served as 
a youth in the Confederate army during 
1864-65; and later as a captain in the 
Georgia National guard. He is the Euro¬ 
pean representative of the Pennsylvania 
railway, company; and president of the 
American society of London, where he 
has made many notable speeches; also 
one at a public dinner in Sheffield early 
in 1899. 

TAYLOR, MARY IMLAY, author. She 
is the author ot An Imperial Lover; On 
the Red Staircase; and A Yankee Volun¬ 
teer. 

TAYLOR, ROBERT FENWICK, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born March 10, 1849, in 
Beaufort District, &. C. He was member 
Florida constitutional convention in 1885. 
Since 1897 he has been chief justice of 
the supreme court of Florida. 

TAYLOR, THOMAS, physician, sur¬ 
geon, author. He is the author of Stu¬ 
dents’ Handbook of Mushrooms of Ameri¬ 
ca, Edible and Poisonous; and Food Prod¬ 
ucts. 

TAYLOR, THOMAS ULVAN, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Jan. 2, 1858, in 
Parker county, Tex. Since 1888 he has 
been professor of civil engineering in 
University of Texas. He is the author ol 
The Austin Dam. 

TAYLOR, WILLIAM GEORGE LANG¬ 
WORTHY, educator, author, was born 
May 13, 1859, in New York city. Since 
1893 he hag been professor of economics 
in university of Nebraska. He is the 
author of Exercises in Economics. 


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TAYLOR, WILLIAM SYLVESTER, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 10, 1853, in 
Butler county, Ky. In 1886-94 he was 
judge of Butler county, Ky.; and was at¬ 
torney-general in 1895-99. In 1900 he was 
elected governor of Kentucky, but was 
removed from that office by the general 
assembly. 

TEMPLE, MARY BOYCE, philanthro¬ 
pist, author, was born about 1857, in 
Knoxville, Tenn. She is prominent in 
various societies of the South; and for 
four years was corresponding secretary 
General Federation of Women’s Clubi. 
She is the author of A Life of Margaree 
Fuller Ossoli. 

TENNEY, H. A., author, was born Feb. 
22, 1820, on Grand Island, Lake Cham¬ 
plain, Vt. He is the author of The Ten¬ 
ney Genealogy. 

TERHUNE, EDWARD PAYSON, cler 
gyman, was born about 1825 in New 
Brunswick, N. J. In 1859 he removed to 
Newark, N. J. and took charge of the 1st 
Reform church. In 1876-77 he was 
the American chaplain at Rome, Italy; 
returned to the United States in 1878; 
and in 1879-84 was pastor of a Congre¬ 
gational church in Springfield. Mass.; 
when he took charge of a Reformed 
church in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

TERRAL, SAMUEL HEIDELBERG, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 4. 1835, 
in Jasper county, Miss. In 1882-97 be 
was circuit judge; and since 1897 has 
been judge of the supreme court of Mis¬ 
sissippi. 

TERRY, HENRY TAYLOR, lawyer, 
author, was born Sept. 19, 1847, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. In 1878 he became professor 
of law in the Imperial University of Tok- 
io, Japan. He is the author of First 
Principles of Law; Leading Principles 
of Anglo-American Law; and The Com¬ 
mon Law. 

TERRY, SILAS WRIGHT, naval officer, 
was born Dec. 28, 1842, in Kentucky. 
During the civil war he attained the rank 
of lieutenant commander. In 1900 he 
became rear-admiral. 

TERRY, THEODORE BRAINARD, 
journalist, lecturer, author, was born Jan 
2, 1843, in Lafayette, N. Y. He bought a 
poor farm in 1870; made great success 
of it; and for twenty years has been in 
great demand as lecturer at Farmers’ in¬ 
stitutes. He is the author of A B C of Po¬ 
tato Culture; and A B C of Strawberry 
culture; and Our Farming. 

TERHUNE. MRS. MARY VIRGINIA, 
author, was born in Amelia county, Va. 
Her first novel entitled Alone was pub¬ 
lished in 1854. In 1888 she established a 
magazine called the Money Maker and 
edited it for a number of years. Among 
her works are Moss Side; At Last; Helen 
Gardner; and True as Steel. 

THACKER. W. H., lawyer, legislator, 
was born July 15, 1336, in Ohio. He was 
prosecuting attorney for San Juan county 
for four years; and served in the fifth and 
sixth sessions of the Washington legisla¬ 
ture. 

THAYER, EUGENE, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Dec. 11. 1838, in Men- 
don, Mass. While in Boston he edited 
the Organist’s Journal and the Choir 
Journal; and was director of the Boston 
choral union, the New England church- 
music association, and other societies. He 
has given organ recitals in the United 
States and Europe. Since 1881 he has re¬ 
sided in New York City, following his 
profession as an organist and teacher. 

THAYER, JOHN R., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born March 9. 


1845, in Douglas, Mass. He served as 
councilman and alderman of Worcester, 
Mass.; was a member of the legislature 
two terms; and state senator two terms. 
He was elected to the 56th Congress; 
as a democrat. 

THAYER, WILDIE, poet, was born in 
New England. She is the author of 
three volumes of poems. 

THAYER, WILLIAM SYDNEY, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born June 23, 1864, in 
Milton, Mass. He is the author of Lec¬ 
tures on the Malarial Fevers; and The 
Malarial Fevers of Baltimore. 

THILLY, FRANK, educator, author, 
was born Aug. 18, 1865, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. Since 1893 he has been profes¬ 
sor of philosophy in University of Mis¬ 
souri. He is the author of An Intro¬ 
duction to Ethics. 

THOMAN, LEROY DELANO, lawyer, 
lecturer, jurist, as born July 31, 1851, 
in Salem, Ohio. In 1873. he removed 
to Youngstown, Ohio, where he served 
for some time as probate judge. 'In 
1880 he was the Democratic candidate 
for governor, but was defeated by Will¬ 
iam McKinley; and in 18S3 he was ap¬ 
pointed by President Arthur the demo¬ 
cratic member of the United States civil 
service commission. In 1888 he removed 
to Chicago, where he has since practiced 
his profession. He is lecturer on inter¬ 
national law in Northwestern university. 

THOMAS, ALLEN CLAPP, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 26, 1846, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. Since 1878 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of history and librarian of Haver- 
ford College. He is the author of Ed¬ 
ward Lawrence Scull, a Memoir; and A 
History of the United States for Schools 
and Academies. 

THOMAS, AUGUSTUS, playwright, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 8, 1859, in St. Louis, 
M ■. ’ He was page boy in the forty-first 
congress. He is the auuhor of the dramas 
entitled Alabama, Mizzoura, and Arizona. 

THOMAS. CALVIN, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 28, 1854, near Lapeer, 
Mich. Since 1896 he has been profes¬ 
sor of Germanic languages and literatures 
in Columbia university of New York 
City. He is the author of A Practical 
German Grammar. 

THOMAS, CHARLES RANDOLPH, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 21, 
1861, in Beaufort, N. C. He is a son of 
the late Judge Charles K. Thomas, who 
was a member of the forty-second and 
forty-third congresses. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1882, and since that time 
has continuously practiced his profession. 
He was member of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives of the North Carolina legisla¬ 
ture in 1887; and was elected a member 
of the fifty-sixth congress. 

THOMAS, CHARLES SPALDING, law- 
yer governor, was born Dec. 6, 1849, in 
Darien Ga. He practiced law in Lead- 
ville and Denver. In 1899-1901 ne was 
governor of Colorado. 

THOMAS, EDWARD A., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in New York City. In 1873 
he was appointed an associate justice of 
the supreme court for the territory of 
Wyoming, residing at Laramie City. 

THOMAS, EDWARD B„ lawyer, jurist, 
Since 1898 he has been United States 
judge Eastern district of New York. 

THOMAS, HENRY WILTON, journal¬ 
ist author, was born in 1861 in New 
Rochelle, N. Y. In 1887-98 he was a 
reporter on New York newspapers. He 
is the author of The Last Lady Mulber¬ 
ry; and The Kiss of Nero. 


THOMAS, HIRAM WASHINGTON, 
clergyman, author, was born April 29, 
1832, in Hampshire county, Va. Since 
1880 he has been pastor of The People’s 
church, at McVicker’s Theatre of Chica¬ 
go; and since 1881 has been chaplain 1st 
regiment, I. N. G. He is the author of 
Origin and Destiny of Man; Life and 
Sermons; and The People’s Pulpit. 

THOMAS, JAMES, physician,, surgeon, 
lecturer, author, was born March 3, 1843. 
He is professor theory and practice of 
medicine in the Cincinnati university. He 
is the author of Lectures on Physiology; 
and Theory and Practice of Medicine. 

THOMAS, JOHN HENRY, manufac¬ 
turer, banker, was born Oct. 4, 1826,, in 
Frederick county, Md. In 1851 he moved 
to Ohio, and was there democratic can¬ 
didate for governor. In 1857 he founded 
the Agricultural Implement Works of 
Springfield. Ohio. 

THOMAS, JOHN ROCHESTER, archi¬ 
tect, was born June 18, 1848, in Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y. He was architect of New York 
Hall of Records; and of several hundred 
churches, and other buildings. 

THOMAS, LOT, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 17, 1843, in Fay¬ 
ette county, Pa. He established practice 
in Buena Vista county, Iowa; and was 
judge district court in 1885-98. He as 
elected to the fifty-sixth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

THOMAS, MRS. LOUISE PALMER, 
educator, was born about 1830 in Mount 
Holly, N. J. For many years, owing to 
the failing health of her husband, she 
managed a large estate near Philadel¬ 
phia. This gave her an opportunity to 
educate eighteen children, eleven being 
taken from the colored orphan asylum of 
New York City. Since 1873 she has beeu 
editor and publisher of the tract depart¬ 
ment of the Universalist church in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

THOMAS, RICHARD HENRY, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Jan. 26, 1854, in 
Baltimore, Md. He is the author of 
Echoes and Pictures, poems; Penelve, or 
Among the Quakers, a story; and His¬ 
tory of the Society of Friends in Amer- 

THOMAS, S. SEYMOUR, artist. He 
exhibited at Paris in 1892; and at Phila¬ 
delphia in 1S93-94. His best known pic¬ 
ture is An Innocent Victim. 

THOMAS, SAMUEL, soldier, railroad 
president, was born April 27, 1840, in 
Lawrence county, Ohio. During civil 
war he attained the rank of brigadier- 
general of volunteers. He has been a 
successful financier and railroad presi¬ 
dent. 

THOMAS, THEODORE, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Oct. 11, 1835, in Ger¬ 
many. He was elected conductor Brook¬ 
lyn Philharmonic Society in 1862, and of 
New York Philharmonic Society in 1877, 
holding these positions almost continu¬ 
ously until 1891, when he moved to Chi¬ 
cago; since then conductor Chicago Or¬ 
chestra. He was musical director World’s 
Columbian Exposition. 

THOMPSON, ADELE E., author, was 
born in Middlefield, Ohio. She is the au¬ 
thor of Beck’s Fortune. 

THOMPSON, DENMAN, actor, was 
born in 1833 in Girard, Pa. He took up 
comedy and starred in Joshua Whit¬ 
comb, a play of his own. which was aft¬ 
erward remodeled as The Old Home¬ 
stead. 

THOMPSON, HENRY ADAMS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 23, 1837, in 


cvi 

Stormstown, Pa. Since 1893 he has been 
editor of Sunday School literature of 
United Brethren church. He is the au¬ 
thor of Schools of the Prophets; Power 
of the Invisible; and Our Bishops. 

THOMPSON, VANCE, journalist, play¬ 
wright, author, was horn April 17, 1862. 
He was editor and founder M’lle New 
York (fortnightly review). He is the au¬ 
thor of In Old Japan; The Dresden Shep- 
ardess; The Japanese Doll; Floriane’s 
Dream; all dramas. His hooks are Ber¬ 
wyn Kennedy; The City of Torches; A 
Flash of Honor; Writers of Young 
France; and Songs and Symbols. 

THOMPSON, WILL L., was horn Nov. 

7, 1847, in Beaver county, Pa. He is the 
author of Thompson’s Papular Anthems; 
and about one hundred popular songs, 
such as Gathering Shells on the Sea 
Shore; Drifting With the Tide; Come 
Where the Lilies Bloom; and Moonlight 
Will Come Again. 

THOMPSON, WILLIAM GILMAN, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, author, was born Dec. 25, 
1856 in New York. In 1898 he was elect¬ 
ed professor medicine Cornell University 
Medical School, New York He is the au¬ 
thor of Practical Dietetics. 

THORNDIKE, EDWARD LEE, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Aug. 31, 1874, in 
Williamsburg, Mass. Since 1901 he has 
been adjunct professor of genetic psych¬ 
ology in Teachers’ College of Columbia 
university. He is the author of The Hu¬ 
man Nature Club. 

THORNTON, CHARLES S., lawyer, 
was borni April 12, 1851. in Boston, Mass. 
He is senior member of the law firm of 
Thornton and Chancellor, one of the larg¬ 
est in the city of Chicago, Ill. He was 
the author of the Teachers’ Pension Bill 
of Illinois. 

THORNTON, WILLIAM TAYLOR, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, governor, was born Feb. 9, 
1843, in Henry county, Mo. He served in 
Confederate army from 1861 to end of 
war, except over a year as prisoner of 
war at Alton, Ill. After the war he prac¬ 
tised law at Clinton, Mo., and was mem¬ 
ber Missouri legislature in 1876. In 1891 
he was first mayor of Santa Fe; and in 
1893-97 was governor of New Mexico. He 
is interested in large mining enterprises 
in Mexico and New Mexico. 

THRASHER, MAX BENNETT, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born April 11, 1860, in 
Westmoreland, N. H. In 1898-99 he was 
assistant superintendent Farm School at 
Thompson’s Island, Boston. He is the 
author of Tuskegee, Its Story and its 
Work. 

THROPP, JOSEPH EARLSTON. civil 
engineer, manufacturer, congressman, 
was born in Valley Forge, Pa. He en¬ 
gaged in his profession in Minnesota, 
reaching the rank of division engineer. 
He entered the iron business in 1870; 
became a partner in 1872; and in 1889 
purchased the large iron and coal and 
ore properties of the Everett Iron Com¬ 
pany of Bedford county, Pa. He was 
elected to the Fifty-sixtu congress from 
Pennsylvania as a republican. 

THURSTON, ERNEST LAWTON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Feb. 13, 1873, in 
Fall River, Mass. He is head depart¬ 
ment of mathematics in Washington 
Business High School. He is the author 
of Mental Commercial Arithmetic; and 
Practical Tests in Commercial and High¬ 
er Arithmetic. 

THURSTON. JOHN HENRY, soldier, 
government printer, genealogist, was 
born Jan. 25, 1832, in Portland, Maine. 


ADDENDA. 

During the civil war he was first lieu¬ 
tenant and adjutant in the forty-ninth 
regiment United States infantry. He is 
the author of Genealogy of the Thurston 
Family. 

THWING, CHARLES BURTON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born March 4, 1860, in 
Theresa, N. Y. Since 1896 he has been 
professor of physics in Knox College 
of Galesburg. Ill. He is the author of 
Exercises in Physical Measurement; and 
An Elementary Physics. 

TICKNOR, HOWARD MALCOM, edu¬ 
cator, lecturer, publisher, author, was 
born July 4, 1836, in Boston, Mass. Dur¬ 
ing 1869-78 he was in the United States 
consular service in Italy; and since 1878 
has been professor of oratory at How¬ 
ard and Brown universities. 

TIERNAN, CHARLES BERNARD, 
lawyer, genealogist, author, was born 
Sept. 4. 1840, in Baltimore, Md. He is 
superintendent Cathedral Sunday school; 
and trustee of the Cathedral at Balti¬ 
more. Md. He is the author of Tiernan 
Family in Baltimore. 

TIFFANY, NINA MOOxvE. author, was 
born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the au¬ 
thor of Pilgrims and Puritans; Colony to 
Commonwealth; and Samuel E. Sewall. 
a Memoir. 

TIFFANY, OTIS HENRY, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1825 in Maryland. He 
is a methodist clergyman of prominence. 
He is the author of Pulpit and Platform 
Addresses and Sermons. 

TILESTON, MRS. MARY WILDER, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 20, 1843, in Salem. 
Mass. She is the author of Quiet Hours, 
a collection of poems; Selections from 
Marcus Aurelius Antonius; Selections 
from the Imitation of Christ; Hymns of 
Comfort; and Sunshine in the Soul. 

TILLEY. RISBROUGH HAMMFTT. 
publisher, librarian, author, was born 
Sept. 1. 1850, in Newport. R. I. In 1880- 
84 he was publisher of the Newport His¬ 
torical Magazine; in 1884-87 editor Rhod” 
Island Historical Magazine; in 1891-02 
editor Magazine New England History; 
and since 1384 has been librarian New¬ 
port Historical Society. He is the au¬ 
thor of Genealogy of the Tilley Fam¬ 
ily; and since 1896 has been state record 
commissioner of Rhode Island. 

TILT.INGHAST. CALEB BENJAMIN, 
librarian was born April 3. 1843, in West 
Greenwich. R. I. In 1870 he went on 
the staff of the Boston Daily Journal, 
serving as city editor for many years. 
In 1879 he left the Journal to take charge 
of the state library of Massachusetts; 
and in 1893 he was appointed state librar¬ 
ian. He served as clerk and treasurer 
of the Massachusetts board of education 
for many years; was appointed one of 
the original members of the Massachu¬ 
setts free public library commission; and 
was designated as chairman by Gov. 
Brackett, being reappointed in 1895 by 
Gov. Greenhalge. 

TIMBY. THEODORE RU1GGLES. in¬ 
ventor, was born April 5. 1822. in Dover, 
N. Y. He made a model of a marine tur¬ 
ret, and at that time filed a caveat in 
the United States patent office for a me¬ 
tallic revolving fort, to be used on land 
or water, and to be revolved by propell¬ 
ing engines located within the same, act¬ 
ing upon suitable mechanism. From 
1841 until 1861 Mr. Timby urged the im¬ 
portance of his plans upon the proper au¬ 
thorities at Washington and elsewhere, 
but without satisfactory results. In 1861 
he devised the method, now in universal 


use of firing heavy guns by electricity, as 
well as other inventions of practical util¬ 
ity. 

TIMLOW, ELIZABETH WESTYN, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 24, 1861, in 
Rhinebeck, N. Y. In 1893 she estab¬ 
lished, with her sister, a boarding school 
for girls in Nutley, N. J. She is the au¬ 
thor of Cricket, a Story for Little Girls; 
Cricket at the Sea-shore; Eunice and 
Cricket; Dorothy Dot; and What Came to 
Winifred. 

TITHERINGTON, RICHARD HAND- 
FIELD, journalist, author, was born Oct. 

2, 1861, in England. He engaged in teach¬ 
ing; and since 1886 has been with pub- 
lising house of Frank A. Munsey. He is 
the author of History of the War with 
Spain. 

TITTERINGTON, MRS. SOPHIE BRON¬ 
SON, author, was born March 13, 1846, 
in India of missionary parents. She is 
the author of A Summer Brother; Hill¬ 
top Farm; Little Pilgrim Series; A New 
Endeavor; and Folded Hands. 

TITUS. ANSON, clergyman, lecturer, 
author, was born June 21. 1847, in Phelps, 
N. Y. He is Antiquarian Examiner and 
Historical Collaborator; and Historical 
lecturer in Tufts College, Mass. He is a 
member of the American Historical Asso¬ 
ciation: and a life member of the New 
England Historic-Genealogical Society. 

TODD, JAMES EDWARD, geologist, 
author as born Feb. 11 18*6. i’ 1 C 1 ' ,r k«- 
field. Ohio. Since 1892 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of geology and mineralogy in the 
University of South Dakota. He is the 
author of The Quarternary of Missouri; 
and The Moraines of the Missouri Cot- 
eau. 

TOEDT, THEODORE J.. musician, 
composer, was born Feb. 4. 1853, in New 
York City. He acquired an excellent repu¬ 
tation as a singer in oratorio, church, and 
concert; and is now a vocal instructor 
of New York City. He became blind in 
1S95. 

TOLFREE, JAMES EDWARD, naval 
officer, was born Aug. 27, 1837, in Ithaca, 
N. Y. He served during the civil war 
to 1867, U. S. S. Vanderbilt; and was 
promoted to paymaster in 1866. He at¬ 
tained the rank of rear-admiral; and was 
retired in 1899. 

TOLMAN. HERBERT CUSHING, edu¬ 
cator. author, was born Nov. 4, 1865, in 
Norwell. Mass. He is professor of Greek 
in the Vanderbilt university of Nashvilm 
Tenn. He is the author of Ancient Per¬ 
sian Inscriptions; and editor of the Van¬ 
derbilt Oriental Series. 

TOMPKINS, ARTHUR S„ lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Aug. 26. 1865. 
in Scoharie county, N. Y. In 1887 he was 
elected police justice of Nyack, N. Y.: 
was member State assembly from Rock¬ 
land county in 1889; and in 1894-98 was 
county judge. Rockland county. He was 
elected to the fifty-sixth congress. 

TOMPKINS. CHARLES H.. soldier, 
was born Sept. 12, 1830, in Fort Monroe. 
Va. He served in the dragoons during 
the civil war; and attained the rank of 
brevet brigadier-general. He reached the 
actual rank of colonel as division quar¬ 
termaster; and was retired in 1894. 

TOMPKINS, DE LOSS MONROE, cler¬ 
gyman. author, was born Jan. 7. 1849. in 
Ashland. N. Y. In 1894-99 be was pastor 
of Wheaton methodist church. He is the 
author of Best Hundred Books for Pas¬ 
tor’s Library; Business Men’s Sunday 
School Lesson Commentary; and Brown¬ 
ing as a Spiritual Teacher. 


ADDENDA. 


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TOMPKINS, ELIZABETH KNIGHT 
author, was born Oct. 17, 1865, in Oak¬ 
land, Cal. She is the author of Her Maj¬ 
esty; An Unlessoned Girl; The Things 
that Count; and Talks with Barbara. 

TOMPKINS, EMMET, congressman. 
He was elected a member of the fifty- 
seventh congress from Ohio as a repub¬ 
lican. 

TOMPKINS, LESLIE JAY, educator, 
author, was born May 2, 1867. in Olm- 
stead county, Minn. Since 1899 he has 
been professor of law at University Law 
School in New York University. He is 
the author of Law of Promissory Notes, 
Drafts, Checks, etc.; and Condensed Ca¬ 
ses on Corporations. 

TORRANCE, DAVID, lawyer, jurist. 
He is associate justice of the supreme 
court of Connecticut. 

TORRENS, WILLIAM ERSKINE, edu¬ 
cator, expert, author, was born July 15, 
1870, in New York City. He studied 
manufacturing economy in various mills 
in New England and Pennsylvania: and 
has visited foreign countries in that in¬ 
terest. He is the author of Commercial 
Traveling in South America; and Com¬ 
mercial Traveling in the East. 

TOULMIN, HARRY THEOPHILUS. sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born 
March 4, 1838. in Mobile county. Ala. He 
entered Confederate army as private in 
1861; and rose through grades to colonel 
twenty-second Alabama infantry. In 1868 
he was a democratic presidential elector; 
and in 1870-72 was a member State legis¬ 
lature. In 1874-82 he was state circuit 
judge; and since 1886 United States judge 
for the southern district of Alabama. 

TRACY, MRS. CLARISSA TUCKER 
botanist, author, was born Nov. 12, 1818, 
in Jackson, Pa. Since 1859 she has been 
instructor of botany and mathematics in 
Ripon College, Wis. She is the author 
of Manual of the Flora of Ripon and 
Vicinity. 

TRACY. FRANK W., banker, was born 
July 21, 1833. in Baltimore. Md. Since 
1879 he has been president of the First 
National Bank of Springfield, Ill. He was 
one of the founders of the American 
Bankers’ Association. 

TRACY, JOHN CLAYTON, educator, 
author, was born Nov 3, 1869, in Willi- 
mantic. Conn. Since 1891 he has been an 
instructor in Yale university. He is the 
author of An Introductory Course in 
Mechanical Drawing. 

TRAFTON. ADELINE, author, was 
born about 1845. in Saoarappa, Maine. Her 
novels were first printed as serial's in 
magazines. They include An American 
Girl Abroad; Katherine Earle; and His 
Inheritance. 

TRASK. SPENCER, banker, author, 
was born Sept. 18. 1844. in New York 
city. He is president Edison Illumina¬ 
tion Co.; director Edison Light Co.; and 
director several railroads which are more 
or less controlled bv him and his firm. 
He is the author of Bowling Green. 

TRICKETT, WILLIAM, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1840. in England. Since 
1890 he has been dean of Dickinson 
School of Law. He is the author of 
Law of Liens in Pennsylvania, in three 
volumes; I aw of Assignments in Penn¬ 
sylvania; law of Limitations in Penn¬ 
sylvania; Law of Boroughs in Pennsyl¬ 
vania: Law of Streets and Roads in 
Pennsylvania; Law of Guardians in 
Pennsylvania; and Law of Partition in 
Pennsylvania. 


TRIGGS, OSCAR LOVELL, educator, 
lecturer, author, was born Oct. 2, 1865, 
in Greenwood, Ill. Since 1892 he has 
been connected as teacher wun English 
department in University of Chicago. 
He is a member of the New York Shake¬ 
speare Society; Modern Language Asso¬ 
ciation; International Folk-Lore Society; 
Editor Lydgate’s Assembly of Gods (for 
Early English Text Society.) He is the 
author of Browning and Whitman, a 
Study in Democracy. 

TRILLEY, JOSEPH, naval officer, was 
born Sept. 25, 1838, in Ireland. He became 
rear-admiral in United States navy, re¬ 
tired. 

TRINE, RALPH WALDO, author, was 
born Sept. 9, 1866. in Mt. Morris, Ill. He is 
a director in Massachusetts Society Pre¬ 
vention Cruelty to Animals. He is the 
author of The Life Books; In Tune with 
the infinite; and the Greatest Thing Ever 
Known. 

TRIPLER, CHARLES E., physicist, in¬ 
ventor, was born in 1849 in New York 
city. His greatest achievement is the 
manufacture of liquid air, which he has 
experimentally applied to the operation 
of an engine with remarkable results, 
this product being obtained by compres¬ 
sion of atmospheric air at a temperature 
of over three hundred degrees below 
zero. 

TROBEC. JAMES, clergyman, bishop, 
born Sept. 9, 1866, in Mt. Morris, ill. Re is 
1897 he has been Roman Catholic bishop 
at St. cloud, Minn. 

TRUAX, CHARI ES HENRY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 31, 1846. in Durham- 
ville, N. Y. He was elected a judge of 
the superior court of New York for 
the term of fourteen years expiring in 
1894, and a year later he was elected to 
the first judicial district of the supreme 
court for fourteen years, which term will 
continue until 1910. He recentlv present¬ 
ed one^ thousand volumes to Hamilton col¬ 
lege. 

TRUE. FREDERICK WILLIAM, zoo¬ 
logist, author, was born July g. 1858, in 
Middletown, Conn. Since 1872 ' he has 
been executive curator United States 
National Museum at Washington. D. C. 
He is the author of Review of the 
Family Delphinidae. 

TRUEBLOOD, THOMAS CLARK 0 ' - M 
orator, author, was born April 6, 1858. in 
Salem, Ind. Since 1889 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of elocution and oratory in the 
University of Michigan. He is the au¬ 
thor of Practical Elocution; Choice Read¬ 
ings: and Patriotic Eloquence. 

TRLTEBLOOD, W. P., educator, legisla¬ 
tor. was born March 1. 1852, in Salem, 
Ind. He is a successful educator; and in 
1894 was elected a member of the Kansas 
state legislature. 

TRUMBULL, ANNIE ELIOT, author, 
was born March 2, 1857, in Hartford. 
Conn. She is the author of An Hour’s 
Promise; White Birches; A Christmas 
Accident, and Other Stories; A Cape Cod 
Week; Rod’s Salvation; and Mistress 
Content Cradock. 

TRUSDET t , CHARLES ORF/Toov 
clergyman, philanthropist, was born May 
1. 1826. in Montgomery, N. Y. Since 
1891 he has been general superintendent 
of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society. 

TLTBBS. FRANK HERBERT, musician, 
composer, was born Nov. 16, 1853. in 

Brighton. Mass. He has be°n cboi’-maste- 
in various churches. He founded New 
York Vocal Institute; and established 
The Vocalist. He is the author of Hints 


to my Pupils; Expression in Singing; 
Seed Thoughts for Singers; and Voice- 
culture and Singing. 

TUCK, JOSEPH HENRY, inventor.was 
born March 12, 1812, in Dorchester, Mass. 
He is a grandson of John Tuck, who was 
a chaplain in the Revolutionary army. 
Joseph was graduated at the Boston 
high-scnool, and afterward apprenticed to 
a watch-maker. He was subsequently 
employed in a candle-factory, where he 
brought to perfection his first invention, 
the endless wick. 

TUCKER, GENEVIEVE, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 25, 1858, in Waupa¬ 
ca, Wis. For three years she taught in 
the public schools of Iowa. She is a 
noted physician and surgeon of Pueblo, 
Colo., and in 1898-99 was president of 
the Colorado Homoepathic Medical So¬ 
ciety. She is the author of Mother. Baby 
and Nursery. 

TUCKER, GILBERT MIL) 1GAN .iour- 
nalist, author, was born Aug. 26, 1847, 
in Albany, N. Y. He is editor of the 
Country Gentleman. He is the author of 
Our Common Speech. 

TUIRRELL, HENRY, journalist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Feb. 3, 1865. Since 
1960 he has been on the editorial staff of 
Judge, ile is the au„..or of Lee of Vir¬ 
ginia. 

TULEY, MURRAY F., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 4, 1827, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. In 1847-48 he served in the 
Mexican war in fifth Illinois regiment, 
and for two years was attorney-general 
of New Mexico; and one term member 
legislature. In 1854-79 he practised law 
in Chicago, Ill.; in 1869-73 was corpora¬ 
tion counsel; and since 1879 has been 
circuit judge of Cook county, 111. 

TUNNELL. EBE W., governor. In 1897- 
1901 he was governor of Delaware. 

TUPPER, KERR BOYCE, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 2, 1854, in Wash¬ 
ington, Ga. He is now pastor of First 
Baptist Church of Philadelphia, Pa. He 
is the author of Gladstone, and Other 
Addresses; Seven Great Lights; Robert¬ 
son’s Living Thoughts; and Popular 
Treatise on Christian Baptism. 

TURLEY, THOMAS BATTLE, soldier, 
lawyer, United States senator, was born 
April 5, 1845, in Memphis, Tenn. He 
served through war as private in Confed¬ 
erate army. In 1897 he was appointed 
United States senator, and later elected 
by legislature to succeed the late Isham 
G. Harris; term expires 1901. 

TURNBULL, CHARLES SMITH, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Nov. 10, 1847, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1872 he was sur¬ 
geon to the United States geological 
survey in Wyoming and Montana terri¬ 
tories; and in 1873-74 he was resident 
surgeon of the New York ophthalmic 
and aural institute; and is now chief of 
the aural department of Jefferson medical 
college. 

TURNBULL, MRS. FRANCES HUB¬ 
BARD LITCHFIELD, author, was born 
in New York city. In 1890, with her hus¬ 
band, she founded the Percy Turnbull 
Memorial Lectureship of Poetry in Johns 
Hopkins University in memory of her 
deceased son. She is the author of the 
Catholic Man, novel, of which the chief 
character is a study of Sidney Lanier, 
the poet; Val-Maria, a romance of the 
Time of Napoleon; and The Gomen Book 
of Venice, a Historical Romance of the 
16th Century. 

TURNER, CHARLES WILLARD, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Feb. 23, 1844, in 


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Boston, Mass. He is associate professor of 
law and acting professor ot constitutional 
history in university of Tennessee. He 
is the author of the Syllabi of Work in 
Evidence, Insurance and Domestic Rela¬ 
tions. 

TURNER, GEORGE KIBBE, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born March 23, 1869, in 
Quincy, Ill. He has written short stories 
in Atlantic, McClure’s, New England, 
Black Cat, and poems in Chap Book. 

TURNER, HENRY WARD, geologist, 
author, was born Aug. 22, 1857, in Sil¬ 
ver Lake, Ba. He is a noted geologist 
of San Francisco, Cal. He is the author 
of The Origin of Yosemite Valley. 

TURNER, ROSS STERLING, artist, 
author, was born June 29, 1847, in West- 
port, N. Y. He paints pictures in oil 
and water colors. He is the author of 
Water Colors, and Art for the Eye, 
School Room Decorations. 

TURNEY, PETER, lawyer, jurist, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Sept. 22, 1827, in 

Jasper, Tenn. In 1870-93 he was 
judge of the supreme court of Tennessee; 
and chief justice in 1886. In 1893-97 he 
was governor of Tennessee. 

TURNLEY, PARMENUS TAYLOR, 
soldier, banker, author, was born Sept. 
6, 1821, in Dandridge, Tenn. He served 
throughout the Mexican war; and in 
1849-52 was on duty with his company 
on the boundary line between Mexico 
and the United States. In 1855 he was 
transferred to the quartermaster’s 
department, in which he served faithfully 
until failing health induced him to re¬ 
sign in December, 1865. Since that time 
he har lived with his family in Illinois. 
He was vice-president of a Chicago bank 
for five years. He is the author of Turn- 
ley’s Narrative from Diary. 

TUTHILL, RICHARD STANLEY, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 10, 
1841, in Vergennes, Ill. He entered the 
army in 1863. and served as scout at¬ 
tached to command of Gen. John A. Lo¬ 
gan; later 2nd and 1st lieutenant battery 
H 1st Michigan ligt artillery; 3rd divi¬ 
sion 17th army corps, Army of Tennessee, 
to close of war. In 1875-76 he was city at¬ 
torney of Chicago, Ill.; and in 1884-86 was 
Unitea States attorney. Since 1887 he has 
been judge of the circuit court of Cook 
county. Ill. 

TUTTLE, ALBERT HENRY, natural¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 19, 1844. in Cuy¬ 
ahoga Falls, Ohio. In 1888 he became 
professor of b iology and agriculture in 
the University of Virginia. 

TUTTLE HIRAM AMERICUS, busi¬ 
ness man, legislator, governor, was born 
in 1837. in Barnstead. N. H. In 1873-74 
he as a member of the New Hampshire 
legislature. In 1891-93 he was governor 
of New Hampshire. He has large real 
estate and lumber interests. 

TWACHTMAN. JOHN HENRY, artist, 
was bom Aug. 4, 1853, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. In 1888 he gained the Webb prize 
for his Windmills, which now belongs 
to Smith college of Northampton, Mass. 
Other works by him are Winter; The 
Pond; and On the Seine. 

TWICHELL, JOSEPH HOPKINS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in Southington, 
Conn. In 1861-64 he was chaplain in 
the United States volunteers during the 
civil war. Since 1865 he has ' been 
pastor of the Asylum Hill Congregation¬ 
al church of Hartford Conn. He is the 
author of Life of John Winthrop; and 
Some Puritan Love Letters. 


TWINING, KINGSLEY, clergyman, 
was born July 18, 1832, in West Point, N. 
Y. He was a resident licentiate at An¬ 
dover seminary in 1857. He held pastor¬ 
ates in various congregational churches. 

TWINING, THOMAS J., manufacturer, 
financier, genealogist, was born Jan. 30, 
1851, in Huntington, Ind. For twen¬ 
ty-five years he was engaged in the wag¬ 
on and carriage business; and is now a 
real estate and loan agent of Fort Wayne, 
Ind. He is the author of the Twining 
Genealogy. 

TYLER, BENJAMIN BUSHROD, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 9, 1844, in 
Decatur, Ill. He is now an editor on 
Christian Evangelist of St. Louis, Mo. 
He is the author of The Way of Salva¬ 
tion; History of the Disciples of Christ; 
and The Peculiarities of the Disciples. 

TYLER, HARRY WALTER, educator, 
author, was born April 16, 1863, in Ips¬ 
wich, Mass. Since 1891 he has been sec¬ 
retary of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology. He is the author of Enter¬ 
tainments in Chemistry. 

TYLER, JANUS PIOGE. soldier, farm¬ 
er, state ’senator, governor, was born 
Aug. 11, 1846, in Caroline county, Va. He 
served as private in Confederate army. 
In 1877 he was a member of the Virginia 
State senate. In 1889 he was lieutenant- 
governor of Virginia; and in 1897T902 
was governor. 

TYLER, MASON WHITING, soldier, 
lawyer, was born in Amherst, Mass. En¬ 
tering the 37th Massachusetts volunteers 
in 1862 as 2d lieutenant, he served 
through the Civil war. Since 1880 he 
has been president of the board of di¬ 
rectors of the publie library of Plainfield. 

TYLER ODETTE, actress, author, was 
Wn Sept. 26, I860, in Savannah, 

Ga Her real name was originally Eliza¬ 
beth Lee Kirkland, daughter of Gen. W. 
W Kirkland of the Confederate army. 
She is a successful comedienne under Dan¬ 
iel Frohman’s management; later in 
Minnie Maddern’s, Charles Frohman s 
and other companies. She is the author 
of Boss, a story of Virginia life. 

TYSON, JOHN RUSSELL, lawyer, 
legislator,’ jurist, was born Nov. 28, 
1856, in Lowndes county, Ala. In lbSU- 
82 he was a member of the Alabama leg¬ 
islature. In 1891-99 he was a member of 
the city council of Montgomery, Ala. in 
1892-98 he was judge of the circuit couit, 
ancT since 1898 has been associate justice 
of the supreme court of Alabama. 

ULKE HENRY, portrait painter, was 
born Jam 29, 1821, in Prussia. He has 
painted portraits of Ulysses S. Grant. 
James G. Blaine; John Sherman; S. P 
Chase; Charles Sumner; Secretary Stan¬ 
ton- General Rawlins; Secretary Car¬ 
lisle; Francis P. Blair; John Wanamak 
er- R. G. Ingersoll; and others. 

ULRICH, CHARLES FREDERICK, ar¬ 
tist was born Oct. 18, 1858, in New 
York city. For several years he followed 
his profession in New York, but about 
1884 he went to Venice, Italy. He was 
elected an associate of the National acad¬ 
emy in 1883; and received the Thomas B. 
Clarke prize there the following year for 
his In the Land of Promise. 

ULRICH, EDWARD OSCAR, geologist, 
author, was born Feb. 1, 1851, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. He became curator of 
the Natural history society of Cincin¬ 
nati; and later was paleontologist to 
geological surveys of Illinois, Minnesota, 
and Ohio; and for ten years was asso¬ 
ciate editor of the American Geologist. 


UNDERHILL, JOHN GARRETT, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 10, 1876, in 

Brooklyn, N. Y. Since 1899 he has been 
president Alumni Association Polytech¬ 
nic Institute of Brooklyn, N. Y. He i* 
the author of Spanish Literature in the 
England of the Tudors. 

UNDERHILL, JOHN QUINCY, insur¬ 
ance, congressman, was born Feb. 19, 
1848, in New Rochelle, N. Y. He is 
president and treasurer of the Westches¬ 
ter Fire Insurance Co. of New York. For 
four years he was president of the village 
of New Rochelle. He was elected to the 
56th congress as a democrat. 

UPHAM, WILLIAM H., soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, banker, governor, was born May 
3, 1841. in Westminster. Mass. In 1861 
he was shot through the lungs at Bull 
Run and reported dead; he was lieuten¬ 
ant in the United States army until 1875. 
He engaged in lumber, furniture manu¬ 
facturing and banking at Marshfield. 
Wis. In 1895-97 he was governor of Wis¬ 
consin. 

UPSHUR. JOHN HENRY, naval officer, 
was born Dec. 5, 1823, in Northhamp¬ 
ton county, Va. He served in the 
Mexican and Civil wars; and was in 
1885 ordered to command naval forces in 
the Pacific and promoted to rear-admiral. 

UPTON. EDWARD PIERCE, lawyer, 
jurist, was born July 22, 1816, in Castine. 
Maine. He settled in Virginia, but about 
1858 moved to Texas. During the civil 
war he was a devoted friend of the Un¬ 
ion; and was indicted for treason against 
the Confederacy, imprisoned six months, 
and shot at several times. He was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the 18th judicial dis 
trict of Texas in 1867. 

VAIL, CHARLES H.. clergyman, au¬ 
thor. was born April 28. 1866, in Tullv. 
N. Y. Since 1894 he has been pastor of 
the First Universalist church of Jersey 
City. N. J. He is the author of Modern 
Socialism; and Scientific Socialism. 

VALENTINE. JOHN J.. manager, was 
born Nov. 12. 1840. in Bowling Green. 
Ky. President of Wells. Fargo & Co.’s 
Express. His annually published sum¬ 
mary of the American output of gold and 
silver is recognized as authoritative. 

VALLIANT, LEROY BRANCH, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born June 14, 1838. in 
Moulton, Ala. He was judge of the Cir¬ 
cuit. of St. Louis in 1886-99; and since 
1898 has been judge of the Supreme court 
of Missouri. 

VAN BRUNT. CHARLES H.. lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 26. 1835. in Fort 
Hamilton. N. Y. In 1869-83 he was 
judge court of common pleas, ciiy and 
county of New York. Since 1883 he has 
been justice of the supreme court of New 
York. 

VANCE. JAMES ISAAC, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 25, 1862. in 
Arcadia, Tenn. Since 1895 he has been 
pastor of the First church of Nashville, 
Tenn. He is the author of Young Man- 
Four-Square; Church Portals-. College of 
Apostles; and Royal Manhood. 

VAN CLEVE. JOHN SMITH, musician, 
was born Oct. 30. 1851. in Ma.ysv51 la . Kv. 
In 1872-75 he taught in the Institution 
for the Blind at Columbus, Ohio; and 
later was lecturer and writer at the Con¬ 
servatory and College of Music at Cin¬ 
cinnati. Ohio. He removed to Ohicago 
in 1897. He is the author of Gavotte 
humoresque; and Annotations on Cam- 
panari’s twenty-two Quartet Concerts 
given in 1892-93. 


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VANDERLIP, FRANK ARTHUR, 
journalist, author, was born Nov. 17, 
1864, in Aurora, Ill. He became reporter 
on Chicago Tribune and later financial 
editor; in 1894 be bought an interest in 
Chicago Economist, a weekly financial 
journal. He became private secretary to 
secretary Gage in 1897; and later assistant 
secretary of the treasury. He is the au¬ 
thor of Chicago Street Railways. 

VAN DER STUCKEN, FRANK, musi¬ 
cian, was born Oct. 15, 1858, in Freder¬ 
icksburg, Tex. He gave a series of Am¬ 
erican concerts at the Paris exposition 
of 1889; made a concert tour of Europe 
with the Arion society in 1892; and 
since 1895 has conducted the symphony 
concerts in Cincinnati, in which city he 
is the dean of the College of Music. His 
symphonic prologue to Heine’s tragedy 
of William Ratcliff, was performed at 
one of the concerts of the New York 
philharmonic society. 

VANDEWATER, GEORGE ROE. cler¬ 
gyman, was horn April 25, 1854, in Flush¬ 
ing, L. I. In 1888 he became rector of 
St. Andrew’s church of New York city. 
He is identified with the cathedral and 
the cathedral schools in Garden City, 
Long Island; and is a trustee of Cornell; 
and of the General theological seminary. 
He is the author of Manual of Church 
Music; The Hymn-hook for Missions; 
and Manual of Church Prayer. 

VAN DE VYER, A., clergyman, bish¬ 
op. Since 1889 he has been Roman Catho¬ 
lic bishop of Richmond, Va. 

VAN DYKE, HENRY, author, clergy¬ 
man, was bom Nov. 10. 1852, in German¬ 
town, Pa. He is a successful congrega¬ 
tional minister of Newport, R. I. He is 
the author of the Reality of Religion 
The Story of the Psalms ; and the Gospe' 
for an Age of Doubt. 

VAN DYKE. PAUL, clergyman, theol¬ 
ogian, author, as horn March 25, 1859. i 
Brooklyn. N. Y. In 1892-98 Be was pasto: 
of Edward’s Congregational church of 
Northampton, Mass. He is the author oi 
The Age the Renaissence. 

VAN ELTEN, HENDRICK DIRK 
KRUSEMAN, artist, was born Nov. 14. 
1829, in Holland. He has received medals 
at Amsterdam and Philadelphia.: and has 
contributed many pictures to the exhibi¬ 
tions at the Academy of Design. His 
Clearing Off. Adirondacks; The Grove in 
the Heath; Russell’s Falls: Adirondacks. 
and Autumn in the White Mountains, 
were at the Philadelphia exhibition o f 
1876. 

VAN HISE, CHARLES RICHARTL ge¬ 
ologist, author, was born May 29. 1857, in 
Fulton. Wis. Since 1882 he has been 
professor of geology in the University of 
Wisconsin. He is the author of various 
works upon the Iron-bearing Districts of 
the Lake Superior Region; upon struct¬ 
ural geology, and upon metamorphism. 

VAN MARTER. MARTHA, journalist, 
author, was born Dec. 31 1839. in Lvons. 
N Y She has edited Children’s Home 
Missions; and Leaflets of Women’s Home 
Missionary Society: and also libraries fot 
primary classes. She is the author of 
Jessie in Switzerland; and The Primary 
Teacher. 

VANNAH, LETITIA KATHERINE, 
journalist, poet, was born Oct. 27, 1855. 
in Gardiner, Maine. She has been a join - 
nalist and miscellaneous writer: and is 
now best known as a writer of sones 
notably Good-bye, Sweet Day. She is th’ 
author of Verses: and from Heart to 
Heart, a volume of poems. 


VAN RENSSELAER, MRS. M. KING, 
author, was born May 25, 1848, in New 
York city. She is the wife of John King 
Van Rensselaer. She is the author of cro¬ 
chet Lace; The Devil’s Picture Books ■, 
and New Yorkers of the Nineteenth Cen¬ 
tury. 

VAN REYPEN, WILLIAM KNICReR 
BOCaER, surgeon, was born Nov 
14, 1840, in Bergen, N. J. He was ap¬ 
pointed assistant surgeon in the navy in 
1861, passed assistant surgeon in 1865. 
and three years later full surgeon. In 
1887 he became medical inspector; in 18J5 
medical director; and in 1897 chief o. 
the bureau of medicine and surgery. 

VAN SANT, SAMUEL K., soldier, busi¬ 
ness man, legislator, governor, was born 
May 11, 1844, in Rock island. 111. He saw 
three years service in Company A, 9th Il¬ 
linois cavalry as private in Civil war; 
and the title of captain comes from be¬ 
ing master of steamboat. In 1892-96 he 
was a member of the Minnesota legis¬ 
lature, and speaker of same. In 1901-03 
he was governor of Minnesota. He is 
engaged in steamboat business. 

VAN SYCKEL, BENNET, lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 17, 1830, in Hun¬ 
terdon county, N. J. He practiced law 
until 1869 in Trenton, N. J. Since 1869 
he has been justice of the supreme court 
oi. New Jersey, his present term ending 
in 1904. 

VAN WYCK, AUGUS'i US, jurist, was 
born Oct. 14, 1846, in New York city. In 
1884 he removed to Brooklyn, and soon 
began to take an active part in political 
affairs. In 1884 he was elected judge of 
the city court in Brooklyn, N. Y. After 
the abolition of the old Brooklyn city 
court, under the provision of the New 
York state constitution of 1894, he was 
transferred in 1896. to the bench of the 
supreme court. In 1898. he was nominat¬ 
ed for governor of New York by the 
Democratic party, but was defeated by 
Theodore Roosevelt, Republican. 

VAN WYCK, ROBERT ANDERSON, 
lawyer, jurist, was born July 20, 1849. in 
New York city. In 1889 he was elected 
judge of the city court, and was re-elected 
in 1895. In 1897 he was elected first mayor 
of Greater New York. He was active in 
making tne arrangement for New York's 
magnificent reception of Admiral Dewey 
in 1899. 

VASSAR. WALTER BROWNSON.cler- 
gyman, author, was born Oct. 25, 1854. 
in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He has filled 
pastorates in the baptist church in Illi¬ 
nois. Connecticut, and New York. He fs 
the author of The Life of Uncle John 
Vassar, his father. 

VAUGHAN, VICTOR CLAKENCE.edu- 
cator, author, was born Oct. 27, 1851, in 
Mt. Airy, Mo. Since 1890 he has been 
dean of department of medicine and 
surgery in University of Michigan. He 
served in Santiago campaign in 1898. as 
major and surgeon 33d Michigan volun¬ 
teer infantry; was appointed division 
surgeon in 1898; was recommended by the 
President for brevet of lieutenant-colonel. 
He was appointed surgeon-general Span- 
ish-American war veterans of 1900. He 
is the author of Osteology and Myology 
of the Domestic Fowl; and Text-Book of 
Physiological Chemistry. 

VEBLEN. THORSTEIN B., educator, 
author. Since 1900 he has been assistant 
professor of political economy in Univer¬ 
sity of Chicago. He is the author of The 
Theory of the Leisure Class. 


VENABLE, WILLIAM MAYO, soldier, 
author. He served in the union army 
during the civil war. He is the author of 
History of the Second United States En¬ 
gineers. 

VERDAGNER, P., clergyman, bishop. 
Since 1890 he has been Roman Catholic 
bishop of Laredo, Texas. 

VlBERT, WILLIAM H., clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 1, 1839, in New 
Haven, Conn. Since 1891 he has been 
pastor of the Trinity Chapel of New 
York city. He is the author of A Guide 
to Reading the Hebrew Text. 

VIELE, HERMAN KNICKERBOCK¬ 
ER, civil engineer, artist, author, was 
born Jan. 31, 1856, in New York city. He 
was especially connected with the exten¬ 
sion of Washington, D. C. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Inn of the Silver Moon. 

VILAS, CHARLES H., physician, sur¬ 
geon, genealogist, was born July 22, 1846, 
in Chelsea, Vt. He has been president 
of Hahnemann Medical College of Chica¬ 
go; and president National Ophthalmolo¬ 
gy and Otological Association. He has 
practiced his profession in Chicago for a 
quarter of a century. He is the author of 
Vilas Genealogy; and other works. 

VINCENT, GEORGE EDGAR, jour¬ 
nalist, educator, author, was born in 1864 
in Rockford, Ill. Since 1900 he nas been 
professor of sociology in the University 
of Chicago. He is the author Social 
Mind and Education. 

VINCENT. LEON HENRY, lecturer, 
author, was born Jan. 1, 1859, in Chicago, 
Ill. He is the author of The French 
Academy; and other works. 

VINING, HELEN SHERWOOD, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born July 4, 1855, in 
Brooklyn. N. Y. She is the author of a 
pianoforte primer; and other instructive 
works. 

YIRGiL, ALMON K1NKA1D, musician 
author, was born Aug. 13. 1S42. in Erie. 
Pa. He has invented and patented 
several instruments to aid in carrying 
out his educational ideas. He is the 
author of Foundation Exercises. 

VIRGIL, MRS. ANTHA MINKR'” - 
musician, author, was born in Elmira, 
N. Y. She is director of the Virgil Pi¬ 
ano School and School of Public Per¬ 
formance. She is the author of The 
Virgil Method of Piano Instruction; Prac¬ 
tical Exercises in Harmony Playing; 
Four Books of Melodious Studies' and 
Short Pieces; and Instructive Talks with 
Pianoforte Students. 

VIVIAN. THOMAS JUNDK11U, educa¬ 
tor, journalist, author, was born Aug. 3, 
1855 in England. He is the author of 
Seven Smiles and a Few Fib*; Wits 
Dewey at Manila; The Fall of Santiago; 
and Everything About Our New Posses¬ 
sions. 

VOLK, DOUGLAS, artist, was born 
Keb. 23. 1856 in Pittsfield. Mass. In 1886 
he organized Minneapolis School Fine 
Arts. He received medal for evhibi* of 
three oil paintings at World’s Columbian 
Exposition. 

VON DFR HEIDE. JOHN PREDERTC. 
musician, composer, was born Feb. 28. 1857. 
in Cincinnati. Ohio. In 1882-84 be was 
director of the Buffalo School of Music: 
then settled in New York city as a 
teacher. 

VON HOLST. HERMANN EDUARD, 
educator, author, was born Juno io igai 
in Livonia. Since 1892 he has been head 
and professor of historv in UnivorsRv of 
Chicago. He is the author of Constitu¬ 
tional History of the United Staf°s ; 


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Constitutional Law of the United States; 
and Life of John Brown. 

VOORHEES, FOSTER MACGOWAN 
lawyer, state senator, governor, was horn 
Nov. 5, 1856, in Clinton, N. J. In 1888-90 
he was a member of the New Jersey 
legislature; and state senator in 1894-98. 
In 1898-1901 he was governor of New 
Jersey. 

VOORHEES, JAMES SPENCER, cler¬ 
gyman, was born May 14, 1858, in Rocky 
Hill, N. J. He was a missionary under 
the Congregational Home Missionary So¬ 
ciety; State Secretary of the Young 
Men’s Christian Association of Califor¬ 
nia; and pastor of Second Congregational 
Church of Winsted, Conn. He is now 
pastor of the Roslindale Congregational 
Church, in Boston, Mass. 

VORSE, ALBERT WHITE, journalist, 
author, was born Aug. 18, 1866, in Little¬ 
ton, Mass. He is associate editor of the 
Criterion of New York city. He is the au¬ 
thor of Laughter of the Sphinx, a volume 
of short stories. 

VOS, BERT JOHN, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 27, 1867. in the Nether¬ 
lands. Since 1898 he has been associate 
professor of German in Johns Hopkins 
university. He is the author of Materials 
for German Conversation. 

VQTAW, CLYDE WEBER, theologian, 
author, was born Feb. 6, 1864, in Whea¬ 
ton. Ill. Since 1900 he has been assistant 
professor of Biblical Greek in University 
of Chicago. He is the author of Induc¬ 
tive Studies in the Founding of the Chris¬ 
tian Church; and Use of the Infinitive in 
Biblical Greek. 

VREELAND, EDWARD B.. lawyer, 
banker, congressman, was born 1857 in 
Cuba. N. Y. In .1877-82 he was superin¬ 
tendent of schools of Salamanca. Since 
1891 he has been president of the Sala¬ 
manca National Bank. He was elected to 
the fifty-sixth congress from New York as 
a republican. 

WACHTER, FRANK C„ merchant, 
congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1861. in 
Baltimore. Md. He engaged in the pres¬ 
ent business of examining, adjusting, 
sponging and refinishing woolens and 
cloths at Baltimore, Md. He was elected 
to the fifty-sixth congress from Maryland 
as a republican. 

WADLEIGH. GEORGE HENRY, naval 
officer, was born Sept. 28. 1842. in Dover. 
N. H. He was present at the attack or. 
Fort Powell in Farragut’s famous battle 
of Mobile and subsequent operations re¬ 
sulting in the surrender of Fort Morgan 
and capture of the Confederate vessels. 
He attained the rank of captain fn 1894. 
and he commanded the Philadelphia 
when the American flag was raised over 
the Hawaiian islands in 1898. 

WADLIN. HORACE GREELEY, archi¬ 
tect. statistician, author, was born Oct. 
2, 1851, in Wakefield. Mass. Since 1888 
he has been chief of the Massachusetts 
Bureau of Statistics of Labor. He is the 
author of Reports on the Statistics of 
Labor of Massachusetts; and Annual 
Statistics of Manufactures of Massa¬ 
chusetts in fourteen volumes. 

WAGNALLS, MABEL, musician, au¬ 
thor. In 1891 she first appeared as pia¬ 
nist with the Theodore Thomas Orches¬ 
tra in New York city. She is the author 
of a Musical Story; and Stars of the 
Opera. 

WAHL. WILLIAM HENRY, scientist, 
author, was born Dec. 14, 1848. in Phila¬ 
delphia Pa. He is a scientific journalist, 
metallurgist, and electro-chemist. He is 
the author of Galvanoplastic Manipula¬ 


tions: Techno-chemical Receipt Book; 
Handbook of Assaying; and Iconograph'ic 
Encyclopaedia. 

WAIT. CHARLES EDMUND, chemist, 
author, was born Nov. 3, 1849, in Little 
Rock, Ark. Since 1888 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of chemistry in University of Ten¬ 
nessee. He is the author of Bulletins on 
Nutrition. 

WAITE, MERTON BENWAY, patholo¬ 
gist, author, was born Jan. 23, 1865, in 
Oregon. Ill. He is vegetable pathologist 
in the United States department of agri¬ 
culture. He is the author of Pollenation 
of Pear Flowers; Pear Blight and its 
Remedy; and other botanical papers. 

WAKE, CHARLES STANILAND, an¬ 
thropologist, author was born March 22, 
1835, in England. He is now connected 
with Field Columbian Museum of Chica¬ 
go, Ill. He is the author of Chapters on 
Man; The Evolution of Morality, in two 
volumes; The Development of Marriage 
and Kingship; Serpent Worship, an’d 
Other Essays; and The Geometry of 
Science. 

WAKEMAN. ANTOINETTE, journalist, 
author, was born Dec. 4. 1854, in Cort¬ 
land county. N. Y. She is the author of 
Questions of Conscience, a novel: artd 
How to be Attractive and Successful. 

WAKEMAN. THADDEUS BURR, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Dec. 23, 1834. in 
Greenfield Hill, Conn. He has devoted 
much attention to literature >and to posi¬ 
tive philosophy. He is the author of An 
Epitome of Positive Philosophy and Re¬ 
ligion : The Religion of Humanity; Liber¬ 
ty and Purity; The Age of Revision: and 
Evolution or Creation. 

WALDO, CLARENCE ABI ATW ,p . 
educator, author, was born Jan. 21. 1852. 
in Hammond. N. Y. Since 1895 be has 
been head professor of mathematics in 
Purdue university. He is the author of 
Manual of Descriptive Geometry. 

WALDSTEIN, LOUIS, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born April 15, 1853. in New 
York city. In 1880-98 he practiced law 
in New York city; and since in London. 
He is the author of The Sub-Conscious 
Self in its Relation to Education and 
Health. 

WALKER. AIEX^NDER. lawyer 
journalist, jurist author. wa= born Oct. 
13, 1819, in Fredericksburg, Va. He re¬ 
moved to New Orleans, La., where he 
practiced law and became a journalist at 
the same time. He was the editor of 
the Jeffersonian, which was established as 
the organ of the Louisiana Democracy; 
and afterward of the Delta; the Times; 
the Herald; and The Picayune; and for 
some time of the Cincinnati Enquirer. He 
was appointed judge of the city court of 
New Orleans; and in 1861 was a member 
of the secession convention of Louisiana. 
He is the author of Jackson and New 
Orleans; Life of Andrew Jackson; and 
History of the Battle of Shiloh. 

WOLKER, MRS. MERIBAH E. WH- 
LIAMS, educator, lecturer, author, was 
horn June 2. 1841, in Genessee county, 
Mich. She taught public schools for 
twenty years in Michigan and Illinois.and 
subsequently became a teacher and ex¬ 
pounder of direct legislation. She is the 
author of a volume entitled Direct Le- 
s.,is'atfon. 

WALLACE. DAVID DUNCAN, educa¬ 
tor. author, was born May 23. 1874. in 
Columbia, S. C. He is professor of his¬ 
tory and economics in Wofford College of 
Spartansburg, S. C. He is the author o'f 
Constitutional History of South Carolina; 
and Arrival of the Tea, and the Origin 


of the Extra-Legal Organs of Revolution 
in South Carolina. 

WALLACE, JOSEPH, lawyer, author, 
was born Sept. 30, 1834, in Carroll coun¬ 
ty, Ky. Since 1858 he has practiced 
law in Springfield, Mass. He is the 
author of Biography of Colonel Edward 
D. Baker; and History of Illinois and 
Louisiana Under the French Rule. 

^WALLACE, ROBERT MOORE, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born May 2, 1847, 
in Henniker N. H. He established a 
practice at Milford, N. H. In 1877-78 he 
was a member of the New Hampshire 
legislature. Since 1893 he has been jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of New Hamp¬ 
shire. 

WALLACE, RUSH R., naval officer, 
was born Nov. 7, 1835, in Tennessee. He 
was appointed to navy in 1852; was lieu¬ 
tenant-commander in 1862; commander in 
1870; captain in 1882; and commodore in 

1894. 

WALLIN, ALFRED, lawyer, jurist. He 
is associate justice of the supreme court 
of North Dakota. 

WALSH, BLANCHE, actress, was born 
J-an. 4 , 1873, in New York city. She ha« 
played title role in Trilby; and other 
leading parts in modern drama. 

WALSH. HENRY COLLINS, journalist 
author, was born Nov. 23, 1863, in Flo¬ 
rence, Italy. During the Spanish-Ameri- 
can war he was war correspondent of the 
New York Herald. He is the author of 
By the Potomac, and Other Poems; aniH 
The Last Cruise of the Miranda. 

WALSH. JOHN R., banker, was 
born Aug. 22, 1837, in Ireland. In 1855 he 
became an employe of J. McNally, news¬ 
dealer; and in 1861 established a news 
depot on his own account. He began 
supplying country dealers in opposition 
to the American News Company, but 
the competition was ended in 1866 by 
the organization, as a branch of the lat¬ 
ter, of Western News Company, with Mr. 
Walsh as manager. He was part owner 
of the Chicago Herald and Post until 

1895. He is president Chicago National 
Bank, and Equitable Trust Co. 

WAMBAUGH, EUGENE, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 29, 1856, in Brook- 
ville. Ohio. Since 1892 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of law in Harvard university. He 
is the author of The Study of Cases: 
Cases for Analysis; Cases on Agency; and 
Cases on Insurance. 

WAPLES. RUFUS, lawyer, author, was 
born Aug. 11, 1825, in Millsboro, Del. In 
1870-72 he was city attorney of New Or¬ 
leans for special cases. He is the author 
of A Treatise on Proceedings; and A 
Handbook of Parliamentary Law. 

WARD, ARABELLA, author, poet. Sh° 
is the author of Short Stories; Stories 
ror Children; and has translated several 
works from the French of Hugo, Dumas 
and Daudet. 

WARD, DELANCEY WALTON, chemi¬ 
cal engineer, author, was born July 8, 
1866, in New York city. Since 1894 he has 
been professor of dental chemistry and 
metallurgy in New York Dental School. 
He is the author of Chemistry an*3 
Physics. 

WARD, GENEVIEVE, was born March 
27, 1833, in New York city. When she 
was fifteen years old her voice attracted 
the interest of Rossini, who superin¬ 
tended her musical education. She gave 
Italian operas in London during the 
season of 1862; and at its close came to 
the United States, appearing in New 
York city and Philadelphia, and in th* 
winter sang in Havana. For several 


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years she taught vocal music in a school 
in New York city; and finally she pre¬ 
pared herselt for the dramatic stage. Be¬ 
ing coldly received by an audience of 
New York critics, she sailed for England, 
making her first appearance in 1873, in 
Manchester, as Lady Macbeth. She play¬ 
ed Unarita in The Prayer in the Storm. 

WARD, MRS. LYDIA AVERY COON- 
LEY, author, poet, was born Jan. 31, 1845, 
in Lynchburg, Va. In 1895-96 she was pres¬ 
ident of Chicago Woman’s Club. She is 
the author of Under the Pines and Other 
Verses; Singing Verses for Children; and 
Love Songs. 

WARD, SUSAN HAYES, artist, author, 
was born Nov. 26, 1838. in Abington. 
Mass. She has taught china decoration 
and embroidery; and in 1899-93 was art 
critic of the New York Independent. 
She is the author of Sabrina Hackett; 
The Green Guess Book; and other works. 

WARD, THOMAS, clergyman, bishop, 
was born Sept. 28, 1823, in Penn¬ 

sylvania, He preached in Pennsylvania. 
New York, and New England; and was 
the first secretary of the New England 
conference of his church. He asked to 
be sent to do missionary work on the 
Pacific coast, and arrived there in 1854, 
but returned in 1860 to meet the general 
conference in Pittsburg. He was elected 
bishop in 1868. Since 1884 he has had 
charge of Arkansas, Louisiana, and In¬ 
dian territory. 

WARD. WILLIAM GODMAN. educator, 
author, was born Nov. 5, 1848. in San¬ 
dusky, Ohio. Since 1898 he has been 
professor of English literature in Emer¬ 
son College of Oratory of Boston, Mass. 
He is the author of Tennyson’s Debt to 
Environment; The Poetry of Robert 
Browning; and Art for Schools. 

WARDER, ROBERT BOWNE. chem¬ 
ist, was born March 28. 1848, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. Since 1874 he has been en¬ 
gaged in teaching chemistry and physics; 
and in 18S3-87 was state chemist of In¬ 
diana. In 1887 he removed to Washing¬ 
ton, D. C.; and has contributed papers 
to society transactions and scientific 
journals. 

WARFIELD. WILLIAM, planter, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1827, in Lexington, Ky. 
He was a successful stockbreeder, He is 
the author, of History of Imported Short- 
Horns; Cattle Breeding; and other 
works. 

WARNER, BRAINARD H.. real estate, 
banker, founder, was born May 20. 1847. 
in Great Bend, Pa. He enlisted as a 
volunteer nurse in regular army in 1863; 
and promoted and afterward held civilian 
treasury department in 1866-67; and in 
1867-68 was collector of internal revenue, 
Lancaster. Pa. Since 1869 he has been in 
the real estate business in Washington. D. 
C. He is president of the Andyke Compa¬ 
ny; has erected over 1 000 homes in and 
near Washington. In 1890 he founded and 
is proprietor of the town of Kensington, 
Md. 

WARREN. ARTHUR, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born May 18. I860, in Boston, 
Mass. Since 1888 he has been I ondon 
correspondent of the Boston Herald. 
He is the author of The Charles Whit- 
tinghams; A Secret of the Confessional; 
Love, the Mariner; Off the White Coast; 
The Count Stroloff; The Lost Planet; A 
OTld Mj ss Timmins of 

Spain. 

WARREN, EDWARD, physician, au¬ 
thor. was born Dec. 19 1804. in Boston, 
Mass. Among his medical writings are a 
Sketch of the Progress of Cholera in 


America in 1832; and three Boylston 
prize essays on Scrofula, Rheumatism, 
and Erysipelatous Inflammation. 

WARREN, FREDERICK MORRIS 
educator, author, was born June 9, 1859, 
in Durham, Maine. Since 1891 he has 
been professor of Romance languages in 
Adelbert College. He is the author of A 
Primer of French Literature;i and A His¬ 
tory of the Novel Previous to the Seven¬ 
teenth Century. 

WARREN. SAMUEL PROWSE, organ¬ 
ist, was born Feb. 18, 1841, in Canada. 
He is the son of Samuel Russell War¬ 
ren. a well-known organ-builder. For 
two years he played the organ at Dr. 
Henry W. Bellow’s church of New York 
city; after which he became organist of 
Grace church. He then played for some 
time at Trinity church; after which he 
returned to his old post at Grace church. 
He has given several series of organ re¬ 
citals, in which he covered the whole 
field of organ music, giving interpreta¬ 
tion to all its schools. 

WARRING, CHARLES B., educator, 
scientist, author, was born Jan. 15. 1825, 
in Charlton, N. Y. He is specialist on 
the Hebrew and the present cosmogony. 
He is the author of The Miracle of To¬ 
day; Genesis I and Modern Science: The 
Three Climates of Geology; and Gyro¬ 
scopic Bodies. 

WARTHIN, ALDRED SCOTT, physi¬ 
cian author, was born Oct. 21, 1866, in 
Greensburg, Ind. He is the author of 
Practical Pathology. 

WATERLOO. STANLEY, journalist, 
author, was born May 21, 1846, in St. 
Clair county, Mich. He was twice presi¬ 
dent of the Chicago Press Club. He is 
the author of A Man and A Woman; An 
Odd Situation; The Story of Ab; Arma¬ 
geddon; The Wolverines; and The 
Launching of a Man. 

WATERMAN, ARB A N., soldier, law¬ 
yer. jurist, was born Feb. 5, 1836, in 
Greensboro, Vt. He was lieutenant-col¬ 
onel in 100th Illinois volunteers in the 
civil war; was wounded at battle of 
Chickamauga. He practiced law in Chi¬ 
cago until elected judge; was judge of 
appellate court for first district of Illi¬ 
nois. Since 1887 has been judge of the 
circuit court of Cook county. Ill. 

WATERMAN. C. M.. lawyer, jurist. He 
is associate justice of the supreme court 
of Iowa. 

WATERMAN, NIXON, author, poet, 
was born Nov. 12, 1859, in Newark, Ill. 
He was a contributor of verse to maga¬ 
zines; and has given many public read¬ 
ings of his own lines and some lectures 
on humorous-literary topics. He is the 
author of Some Home Made Poems; and 
A Book of Verses. 

WATERS. RUSSELL JUDSON. lawyer, 
founder, congressman, was born June 
6. 1843, in Halifax. Vt. He founded 
Redlands. Cal.; and built and was pres¬ 
ident Redlands St. R. R. Co, He is pres¬ 
ident Los Angeles Directorv Co.: and 
president Los Angeles Chamber of Com¬ 
merce. He was elected to the fift^-cUt/h 
congress from California as a republican. 

WATERS, WILSON, clergyman, genea¬ 
logist, was born Oct. 11, 1855, in Mariet¬ 
ta, Ohio. He is a clergyman of Chelms¬ 
ford. Mass. He is the author of Ancestry 
of the Waters Family. 

WATIES, JAMES RIVES, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Aug. 22. 1845 in Charles¬ 
ton. S. C. He served in Confederate armv 
during the Civil war. He was nromoUd 
brigadier-general in 1898 during the Span- 
ish-American war. 


WATKINS. JOHN ELFRETH, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born May 17, 1852, in 
Ben Lomond, Va. Since 1895 he has 
been curator of technology in the United 
States National Museum. He was direc¬ 
tor of industrial arts in Field Colum¬ 
bian Museum of Chicago in 1894. He is 
the author of History of Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 

WATKINS, LYNN B., lawyer, jurist. 
He is associate justice of the supreme 
court of Louisiana. 

JAMES, HORATIO, naval officer, was 
born July 30, 1822, in Whitemarsh, Pa. 
During the Mexican war he was in most 
of the operations in California, including 
the bombardment of Guaymas. In 1864- 
65 he was fleet paymaster of the South 
Atlantic squadron. He was subsequently 
general inspector, and in 1873-77 pay¬ 
master-general. In 1884 he was retired. 

WATSON, ALFRED E., journalist, bus¬ 
iness man, state senator, was born Aug. 
6, .1857, in Worcester, Vt. Since 1885 
he has been agent Vermont Mutual Fire 
Insurance company; and a director in 
1886-90. In 1887-97 he was the Vermont 
representative of the New England As¬ 
sociated Press. In 1898-1900 he was a 
member of the Vermont state senate. 

WATSON, EDWARD WILLARD, phy¬ 
sician, poet, was born 1843 in Newport, 
R. I. He is a practising physician of 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author ot 
Songs of Flying Hours; and To-day and 
Yesterday. 

WATSON, JOHN CRITTENDEN, 
naval officer, was born Aug. 24, 1842, in 
Frankfort, Ky. In 1886 he became a 
lieutenant-commander. In the war with 
Spain he commanded the blockading 
squadron on the North Cuban coast as a 
commodore. 

WATSON, JOHN HENRY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born May 12, 1851, in Jamai¬ 
ca, Vt. Since 1899 he has been judge of 
the supreme court of Vermont. 

WATSON, W. P., governor. In 1895 9 ' 
he was governor of Delaware. 

W’ATTS, JOHN WALTER, farmer, 
legislator, was born Nov. 8. 1862, in 

Alexander county, N. C. He has been 
hrstice of the peace of Taylorsville, N. 
C., county sheriff for six years: and was 
a member of the North Carolina state 
legislature in 1887. 

WAUGH, GEORGE BREVITT, artist, 
was born Oct. 29, 1854, in Baltimore, Md. 
Among his works are Sunset; Twilight on 
the Susquehanna; Village Scene in 
Brownsville; and On the Upper Potomac. 

WAYNE, CHARLES STOKES, jour¬ 
nalist. author, was born March 18, 1858, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He is managing 
editor of Town Topics of New York city. 
He is the author of Mrs. Lord’s Moon¬ 
stone; Anthony Kent; and The Lady and 
Her Tree; and A Witch of To-Day. 

WAYNE. WILLIAM, soldier, legislator, 
was born Dec. 6. 1828. During the civil 
war he held the rank of captain in the 
ninety-seventh Pennsylvania volunteers. 
In 1881-87 he served as a member of the 
Pennsylvania assembly. 

WEAVER. AARON WARD, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born July 1, 1832, in District of 
Columbia. He served through the civil 
war, taking a prominent part in many 
naval bombardments; and became com¬ 
mander in 1866. In 1893 he became rear- 
admiral. 

WEBB CHART FS M.. soldier lawyer, 
jurist. He served in Company G twelfth 
Wisconsin regiment in the civil war. He 
was eneaged in practice as lawyer at 
Grand Rapids until elected judge qf th a 
circuit court of Wisconsin. 


cxii 


ADDENDA. 


WEBB, FRANK RUSH, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Oct. 8, 1851, in Covington, 
Ind. Since 1883 Re has been a teacher of 
pianoforte and director of School of Music 
in the Virginia Female Institute of Staun¬ 
ton, Va.: and organist and musical direc¬ 
tor'at Trinity Episcopal Church. He is 
the author of two hundred pieces for mil¬ 
itary band. 

WEBB, JAMES AVERY, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born July 2, 1868, in Ripley, 
Tenn. In 1890-91 he was mayor of Rip¬ 
ley Tenn; Secretary Commercial Law 
League of America in 1896; and secretary 
of the Bar Association of St. Louis in 
1896-1900. He is the author of books on 
the law of Passenger and Freight Ele¬ 
vators. 

WEBB, WILLIAM WALTER, priest, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 20, 1857, in German¬ 
town, Pa. He is the author of Index to 
and Literature of Electrolysis Guide to 
Semarians; and the Cure of Souls. 

WEBER, ADNA FERRIN, statistician, 
author, was born July 14, 1870, in Spring- 
ville, N. Y. Since 1899 he has been com¬ 
missioner of labor statistics of New 
York. He is the author of The Growth of 
Cities in the Nineteenth Century. 

W T EBER, PAUL, artist, was born about 
1823. Among those of his works that 
are owned in the United Spates are A 
Scene in the Catskills, in the Corcoran 
gallery of Washington; and Morning, in 
the Pennsylvania academy of fine arts. 

WEBSTER, ARTHUR GORDON, edu¬ 
cator. author, was born Nov. 28, 1863, in 
Brookline, Mass. He is professor ^ of 
physics in Clark University of Wor¬ 
cester, Mass. He is the author of A 
Mathematical Treatise on the Theory of 
Electricity and Magnetism; land Lowell 
Institute ‘ Lectures on Electricity and 
Ether. 

WEBSTER, HELEN LIVERMORE, 
educator, author, was uorn in 1853, in 
Boston, Mass. Since 1900 she has been 
professor of comparative philology in 
Wellesley College. She is the author of 
A Special Treatise on the Guttural Ques¬ 
tion in Gothic. 

"WEBSTER, HENRY KITCHELL. edu¬ 
cator. author, was born Sept. 7. 1875. in 
Evanston, Ill. He is the author of Tim 
Short Line War ; and The Banker and 
the Bear. 

WEBSTER, W. F., educator, author. He 
is principal of the East High School in 
Minneapolis, Minn. He is the author of 
English Composition and Literature. 

WEED. GEORGE LUDINGTOK edu¬ 
cator, author, was born April 9, 1828, in 
Union Mission, Ark. He is the au¬ 
thor of Great Truths Simply Told; A 
Life of Christ for the Young; A Lite of 
St. Paul for the Young; and A Life of 
St! John for the Young. 

WEED, WALTER HARVEY, geologist, 
author, was born May 1. 1862. in St. 

Louis, Mo. Since 1883 he has been geo¬ 
logist on the United States Geological 
Survey. He is the author of Formation 
of Hot Springs Deposits; Glaciation of 
Yellowstone Valley; Geology of Castle 
Mountain District; and other works. 

WEEKS. GEORGE H., soldier, was 
horn Feb. 3. 1832. in New Hampshire. He 
is brigadier-general in United States 
army, now retired. 

WEIK. JESSE WILLIAM, lawyer, was 
born Aug. 23, 1857, in Greencastle. Ind. H? 
is the author of Herndon and Weik’s Lin¬ 
coln, in two volumes. 

WEIR. SAMUEL, educator, clergyman, 
author, was born April 15, 1860, in Cana¬ 
da. Since 1895 he has been professor in 


New York university. He is the author 
of Christianity as a Factor in Civiliza¬ 
tion. 

WEISE, ARTHUR JAMES, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 15, 1838, in Shep- 
herdstown, Va. He served in the civil 
war as a lieutenant in the seventh in¬ 
fantry regiment of Maryland volunteers, 
Army of the Potomac in 1862-64. He is 
the author of History of the City of 
Troy; History of Lansingburgh; The 
Discoveries of America to the Year 1525; 
History of the City of Albany; Troy and 
its Vicinity; and Representative Men of 
Troy. 

WELLS, BENJAMIN WILLIS, educa¬ 
tor, critic, author, was born Jan. 31, 1856, 
in Walpole, N. H. He is the author of 
Modern German Literature; and Modern 
French Literature; A Century of French 
Literature. 

wells! CAROLYN, author, was born 
in Rahway, N. J. She is the author of 
At the Sign of the Sphinx; The Jingle 
Book- The Story of Betty; and Idle Idyls. 

WELLS, EDWARD, L., lawyer, business 
man, author, was born in November, 1839, 
in New York city. He is the author of 
History of the Charleston Light Dra¬ 
goons; and Hampton and His Cavaliy in 

’64. " 

WELLS, HEBER MANNING, banker, 

governor, was born Aug. 11, 1859, in SaL 
Lake City, Utah. He was recorder in 
Salt Lake City in 1882-90; and was a 
member of the constitutional convention 
which framed Constitution of Utah. He 
is cashier State Bank of Utah. In 1895- 
1900 he was governor of Utah. 

WELLS HORACE L„ educator, author, 
was born’Oct. 5, 1855, in New Britain, 
Conn. He is professor of analytic chem¬ 
istry and metallurgy in Sheffield Scientific 
school of Yale university. He is the au¬ 
thor of Laboratory Guide in Qualitative 
Analysis. 

WELLS, WEBSTER, mathematician, 
author, was born Sept. 4, 1851. in Boston, 
Mass. He is the author of Elementary 
Treatise on Logarithms; University Alge¬ 
bra- Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; 
Academic Algebra; Elements of Geo¬ 
metry; Higher Algebra; Essentials of 
Trigonometry; Four Place Tables; Col¬ 
lege Algebra; Academic Arithmetic; Re¬ 
vised Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; 
Six Place Tables; Essentials of Algebra; 
Essentials of Plane and Solid Geometry; 
New Higher Algebra; Complete Trigo¬ 
nometry; and New Four Place Tables. 

WELSH. CHARLES, publisher, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 22, 1850, in England. 
He is the author of Publishing a Book; 
and A Bookseller of the Last Century. 

WENCKEBACH, CARLA, educator, au¬ 
thor was born Feb. 14, 1853, in Germany. 
Since 1895 she has been professor of Ger¬ 
man in Wellesley College. She is the 
author of Deutsche Grammatik; and oth¬ 
er works in German. 

WENLEY, ROBERT MARK, educator, 
author, was born in July, 1861, in Edin¬ 
burgh, Scotland. Since 1886 he has been 
head of philosophical department in Uni¬ 
versity of Michigan. He is the author of 
Socrates and Christ; Aspects of Pessi¬ 
mism; University Extension Movement 
in Scotland; Contemporary Theology and 
Theism; Introduction to Kant; and Prep¬ 
aration for Christianity in the Ancient 
World. 

WERNER, WILLIAM E„ lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born April 19, 1855, in Buffalo, 
N. Y. In 1895-1900 he was justice of 
the supreme court; and since 1900 judge 
of court of appeals of New York. 


WERTS, GEORGE THEODORE, law¬ 
yer, state senator, jurist, governor, was 
born March 24, 1846, in Hackettstown, 
N. J. In 1883-85 he was recorder of 
Morristown, N. J.; and in 1886-92 was 
mayor. He served six months in the 
New Jersey state senate; and in 1892-93 
was justice of the supreme court. in 
1893-96 he was governor of New Jersey. 

WESSON, DANIEL BAIRD, manufac¬ 
turer, inventor, was born May 25, 1825, 
in Worcester, Mass. On his brother’s 
death in 1860 he took charge of the bus¬ 
iness of the firm of Smith and Wesson, 
manufacturers of rifles, of Norwich, 
Conn. He introduced improvements 
which brought them a very large t.ade. 
He is now head of the firm with his sons 
as partners; and also has other large 
interests. 

WEST, ANSON, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 3, 1832, in Robertson coun¬ 
ty, N. C. He has been in the ministry 
since 1856. Since 1874 he has been a 
member of every general conference of 
the Methodist Episcopal church, South. 
He is the author of The State of the 
Dead; The Old and the New Man; and 
History of Methodism in Alabama. 

WEST, CALEB WALTON, lawyer, gov¬ 
ernor, was born May 25, 1844, in Cynthi- 
ana, Ky. Since 1896 he has been special 
agent in the United States treasury. In 
1867-86 he practiced law in Cynthiana, 
Ky. In 1886-89 and 1893-96 he was 
governor of Utah Territory. 

WEST, MAX, expert, author, was horn 
Nov. 11, 1870, in St. Cloud, Minn. Since 
1900 he has been expert agent in the 
United States industrial commission. He 
is the author of The Inheritance Tax. 

WESTCOTT, JOHN HOWELL, edu¬ 
cator. author, was born Aug. 3, 1858, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1889 he has 
been professor of Latin; and also in¬ 
structor in Roman Law since 1892. He 
is the author of educational editions of 
several volumes of the classics. 

WESTINGHOUSE, GEORGE, manufac¬ 
turer, inventor, was born Oct. 6, 1846, in 
Central Bridge, N. Y. In 1865 he in¬ 
vented a device for replacing railroad 
cars on the track; and invented and suc¬ 
cessfully introduced tue "W estinghouse 
air brake, which he has since greatly 
improved. He is now president of 
twelve corporations. 

WESTON, JAMES AUGUSTUS, sol¬ 
dier, clergyman, author, was born May 
6. 1838, in Lake Comfort, N. C. In 1864- 
65 he was major thirty-third North Caro¬ 
lina regiment, Confederate army. He 
has held pastorates at Hertford, Hickory 
and Raleigh, N. C. He is the author of 
Historic Doubts as to the Execution of 
Marshal Ney. 

WESTON, JOHN FRANCIS, soldier, 
was born in Kentucky. During the civil 
war he attained the rank of major. He 
was appointed brigadier-general in United 
States volunteers in 1898; and in 1899 
succeeded Gen. Eagan as commissary 
general. 

WESTON, THEODORE, civil engineer, 
architect, author, was born Oct. 9. 1832, 
in Sandy Hill, N. Y. He was architect 
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of 
New York city. He is the author of 
Report Upon Water Supply of Brooklyn. 

WETMORE, CLAUDE HAZELTINE, 
author, was born in 1862, in Cayuga 
Falls, Ohio. He has made a special 
study of the navies of the world. He is 
the author of Sweepers of the Sea. 

WHARTON, MRS. EDITH, author, 
was born in 1862. in New York city. She 
is the author of The Greater Inclination; 
The Touchstone; and Crucial Instances. 


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cxiii 


WHARTON, HENRY REDWOOD, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born May 23, 1853, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is surgeon in Pres¬ 
byterian and Children’s hospitals. He 
is the author of Surgery and Bandaging. 

WHEATON, LOYD, soldier, was horn 
July 15, 1838, in Michigan. He served 
in the civil war rising from first sergeant 
to colonel of the eighth Illinois volunteer 
infantry; and captain of thirty-fourth 
United States Infantry. He received 
several orevets and medals from con¬ 
gress for meritorious services as briga¬ 
dier-general; he commanded the first brig¬ 
ade, first division, seventh army corps in 
the Spanish-American war; and was 
present at Havana when the American 
flag was floated in 1898. He left for 
Manila with the twentieth infantry and 
participated in many battles in the Phil¬ 
ippine rebellion. 

WHEELER, C. GILBERT, chemist, 
geologist, inventor, author, was born July 
23, 1836, in Canada. In 1869 he invented 
a chemical fire extinguisher which attain¬ 
ed wide use. He is the author of Nat¬ 
ural History Chapts; Catalogue Polyglot- 
tus; Determinative Mineralogy; Chem¬ 
istry of Building Materials; and Medical 
Chemistry. 

WHEELER, CANDACE THURBER. 
artist, author, was born in Delhi, N. Y. 
She was the founder of systems and first 
society of Decorative Arts; and founder 
of the Associated Arts. She is the author 
of Double Darling and Other Fairy Tales; 
Household Art; Content in a Garden; 
Decorators and Decorating; and Domestic 
Weavings. 

WHEELER, DAVID HILTON, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, author, 
was born Nov. 18, 1829, in Ithaca, N. Y. 
In 1883-92 he was president of Allegheny 
college of Meadville, Pa. He is the 
author of Brigandage in South Italy; By¬ 
ways of Literature; and Our Industrial 
Utopia. 

WHEELER, EDWARD JEWETT, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born March 11, 1859, 
in Cleveland, Ohio. Since 1895 he has 
been editor of The Literary Digest of 
New York city. He is the author of 
Stories in Rhyme for Holiday Time. 

WHEELER, EVERETT PEPPERELL. 
lawyer, author, was born March 10. 1840, 
in New York city. In 1883-89 and 1S95- 
97 he was chairman of the New York 
city civil service commission. He is 
the author of Modern Law of Carriers; 
Wages and Tariff; and Real Bimetallism. 

WHEELER, HERBERT ALLEN, min¬ 
ing engineer, author, was born in 1859, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is now manager 
of the Standard Tile company: and was 
first president of American Ceramic so¬ 
ciety. He is the author of Clays. 

WHEELER, JOHN WILSON, manufac¬ 
turer, banker, legislator, was born Nov. 
20, 1832, in Orange, Mass. In 1867 he 
established a sewing machine business 
which developed into the New Home 
Sewing Machine company, of which he 
is president and treasurer. In 1877 ho 
was a member of the Massachusetts leg¬ 
islature; and in 1888 was a delegate to 
the national Republican convention. 
He is president of the Orange Savings 
bank. Mass. 

WHEELER, POST, historian, author, 
was born Aug. 6, 1869. in Owego, N. Y. 
He spent some time among the Tukudh 
Indians in the Arctic regions; and has 
written much of interest concerning 
them. He is one of the editors of the 
New York Press. He is the author of 
The Writer; Reflections of a Bachelor; 
and Love-in-a-Mist, poems. 


WHEELOCK, MRS. JULIA SUSAN, 
hospital nurse, was born Oct. 7, 1833, in 
Avon, Ohio. In 1865-73 she held a clerk¬ 
ship in the United States treasury de¬ 
partment. In 1873 she married Parter 
C. Freeman, with whom she has since 
- resided in Middleville, Mich., and Spring- 
field, Mo. Her journal was published 
as The Boys in White, the Experience of 
a Hospital Agent in and around Wash¬ 
ington. 

WHELPLEY, HENRY MILTON, phy¬ 
sician, biologist, author, was born May 
24, 1861, in Battle Creek, Mich. Since 
1900 he has been professor of materia 
medica and pharmacy in medical depart¬ 
ment of Washington university. He is 
the author of Curtman’s Chemical Lec¬ 
ture Notes; and Whelpley’s Therapeutic 
Terms 

WHERRY, WILLIAM M„ soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 13, 1836, in St. Louis, 
Mo. In 1861-66 he served in the civil 
war. He served on the frontier against 
the Indians; and during the Spanisn 
American war was a brigadier-general 
in the United States army. He is the 
author of Lyon’s Campaign in Missouri. 

WHICHER, GEORGE MEASON, edu¬ 
cator, author. In 1892-1900 he was pro¬ 
fessor of Greek and Latin in the Packer 
Institute of Brooklyn, N. Y. He is the 
author of First Latin Readings. 

WHIGHAM. HENRY JAMES, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 24, J869, m 
Scotland. During the Spanish-American 
war he was war correspondent of the 
Chicago Tribune. He subsequently was 
war correspondent in South Africa; and 
in 1900 went to China as war correspond¬ 
ent for Scribner’s Magazine. In 1896-97 
he was amateur golf champion of the 
United States. He is the author of How 
to Play Golf. 

WHITAKER, ROBERT, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Sept. 9, 1863, in 
England. He is now pastor at Palo Alto, 
Cal. He is the author of God Garners 
No Green Grain, poem; and The Man 
Who Might Have Been. 

WHITAKER, WALTER CLAIBORNE, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 28, 1867, 
in Lenoir. N. C. He is the author of 
History of the Protestant and Episcopal 
Church in Alabama. 

WHITE, CHARLES HENRY, navy 
surgeon, was born Nov. 19, 1838, in Cen¬ 
ter Sandwich, N. H. Since 1861 he 
has been a medical officer in the navy. 
In 1869 he was promoted surgeon; became 
medical director in 1895; and was retir¬ 
ed in 1900 with rank of rear-admiral. 

WHITE, EDWIN, naval officer, was 
born in 1843 in Ohio. During the civil 
war he attained the rank of master. In 
1895-98 ne was commandant of cadets in 
the United States naval academy. in 
1899 he was retired as rear admiral. 

WHITE, EMORY CALVIN, college 
president, author, was born Oct. 15, 1858, 
in Monterey, Mich. He became superin¬ 
tendent of schools at Albion, Ind., but 
resigned in order to accept the presi¬ 
dency of the American college at Cal¬ 
lao, Peru. After filling this post for 
a time, he relinquished it for the sake of 
studying the ruins of the Incas, among 
which he spent three years, excavating, 
photographing, and surveying. He then 
traversed the upper Amazon, visiting Bo 
livia. Chili. Brazil, the Argentine Repub¬ 
lic, and Spain, in search of further in¬ 
formation regarding the Inca and pre- 
Inca races, returning to the United States 
in 1886, and is writing histories of Peru, 
Chili, the Argentine Republic and Bra¬ 
zil. 


WHITE, ERSKINE NORMAN, pastor, 
author, was born May 31, 1833, in New 
York city. In 1862 he was chaplain of 
twenty-second New York volunteers. He 
is tne author of History of West Twenty- 
third Street Presbyterian Church. 

WHITE, GEORGE LEONARD, soldier, 
educator, was born Sept. 20, 1838, in 

Cadiz, N. Y. In 1862 he enlisted in the 
73d Ohio regiment, and fought at Fred¬ 
ericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, 
Lookout Valley, and Lookout Mountain. 
At the close of the war he entered the 
employ of the Freedmen’s bureau, but in 
1868 he resigned to give his entire time 
to the work of Fisk university. He had 
heard the simple negro songs that came 
into being during the days of slavery, 
and he resolved to form a bana of his 
best voices to sing these songs in the 
large cities of the north in aid of the 
university. 

WHITE, HENRY ALEXANDER, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born April 
15, 1861, in Greenbriar county, W. Va. 
He is professor of history in Washington 
and Lee university. He is the author of 
The Pentateuch, in the Light of the An¬ 
cient Monuments; and Robert E. Lee and 
the Southern Confederacy. 

WHITE, HERVEY, librarian, author, 
was born Nov. 26, 1866, in New Lonaon, 
Iowa. In 1896-99 he was reference li¬ 
brarian in John Crerar Library of Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. He is the author of Differ¬ 
ences; Quicksand; When Eve Was Not 
Created, and Other Stories. 

WHITE, JAMES DEMPSEY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 31, 1831, in Hickman 
county, Ky. In 1870-80 he was judge oi 
court of common pleas; and since 1896 
has been associate judge court of appeals 
of Kentucky. 

WHITE, JARVIS, soldier, business 
man, legislator, was born April 21, 1833, 
in Whitney, vt. He enlisted in the Mas¬ 
sachusetts infantry in 1861; was pro¬ 
moted through the different grades to 
captain, and mustered out in 1866. in 
1896 he was elected to the Wisconsin as¬ 
sembly; and was appointed postmaster 
of South Superior in 1897. 

WHITE, JOHN, musician, composer, 
was born March 12, 1855, in Springfield, 
Mass. In 1887-96 he was organist and 
choirmaster of the Church of the Ascen¬ 
sion of New York city; and since tha f 
time has lived in Munich, studying and 
composing. He is the author of several 
compositions. 

WHITE, JOHN B., congressman. He 
was elected a member of the fifty-sev¬ 
enth congress from Kentucky as a dem¬ 
ocrat. 

WHITE, JOHN BLAKE, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 9, 1850, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. Fr-r eight years he was san¬ 
itary inspector; for fourteen years vis¬ 
iting physician for New York Charity 
hospital; and a lecturer post-graduate 
Medical college. He is the author of 
numerous medical and surgical papers. 
He is a son of Dr. Octavus A. White, 
and grandson of Hon. John Blake White. 

WHITE, MRS. SALLIE JOY, journalist, 
author, was born in Winchester, N. H. 
She is the author of Housekeeping and 
Home Making; Cookery in Public 
Schools; and Business Opportunities for 
Girls. 

WHITE, STANFORD, architect, was 
born Nov. », 1853, in New York city. He 
designed the Century and Metropolitan 
Clubs, University of New York, Washing¬ 
ton Arch, University of Virginia; and 
pedestals for principal statues of St. 
Gaudens. 


CX1V 


.ADDENDA. 


WHITE, STEWART EDWARD, lawyer, 
author, was born March 12, 1873, in Grand 
Rapids, Mich. He is the author of The 
Westerners; and The Claim Jumpers. 

WHITE, TRUMBULL, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was Dorn Aug. 12, 1868, in Winter- 
set, Iowa. He is the noted author of 
Wizard and Wall Street; Our War With 
Spain; Our New Possessions; and otner 
works. 

WHITE, WILLIAM PRESCOTT, jour¬ 
nalist, clergyman, author, was born 
March 22, 1840, in Honey Brook, Pa. 
Since 1894 he has been editor of Presby¬ 
terian Journal of Philadelphia, Pa. He 
is the author of Presbyterian Year Book; 
and The Presbyterian Churches of Phil¬ 
adelphia. 

WHITEHOUSE, ROBERT TREAT, 
lawyer, author, was born March 27, 1870, 
in Augusta, Maine. He is the author of 
Equity Jurisdiction, Pleading and Prac¬ 
tice in Maine. 

WHITELOCK, MRS. LOUISE CLARK¬ 
SON, author, was born in 1865, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. She is the wife of George 
Whitelock, a lawyer of Baltimore, Md. 
She is the author of Violet With Eyes of 
Blue; The Gathering of the Lilies; The 
Rag Fair; Indian Summer; Heartsease 
and Happy Days; Flyaway Fairies; and 
Little Miss Stay-at-Home. 

WHITFIELD, ALBERT HALL, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 12, 1849, in Aber¬ 
deen, Miss. Since 1894 he has been as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of 
Mississippi. 

WHITING, ARTHUR BATTELLE. mu¬ 
sician, composer; was born June 20, 1861, 
in Cambridge, Mass. He is a teacher of 
pianoforte and composition in New York 
city. He is ihe author of many piano¬ 
forte-pieces, anthems, songs, and organ 
music. 

WHITMAN, WILLIAM EDWARD SEA- 
VER, journalist, author, was born Dec. 
25, 1832, in South Boston, Mass. Since 
1850 he has been the regular correspond¬ 
ent for fourteen leading dailies; and with 
the Boston Journal for twenty-five years. 
He is the author of The Ship Carpenter’s 
Family; Maine in the War for the Union; 
and Narrow Gauge Raliroads. 

WHITMARSH, H. PHELPS, author, 
governor. He is now civil governor of 
the Province of Benguet, Luzon, Philip¬ 
pine Islands. He is the author of The 
World’s Rough Hand; Toil and Adventure 
at the Antipodes; The Golden Talisman. 
The Young rearl Divers; and Mysterious 
Voyage of the Daphne. 

WHITNEY, MRS. BELLE ARM¬ 
STRONG, journalist, author, was born 
Sept. 27, 1861, in Boston, Mass. She is 
editor of The Gentlewoman of New York 
city. She is the author of The Art of 
Dress. 

WHITNEY, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, 
state senator, author, was born Feb. 23, 
1831, in Detroit, Maine. He was an in¬ 
timate friena of Lincoln from 1854 until 
his death; and in 1861-65 was paymaster 
in the United States army. In 1871-72 
he was state senator of Kansas. He is 
the author of Life on the Circuit with 
Lincoln; Marriage and Divorce; and also 
many essays on Lincoln. 

WHITRITT, WILLIAM HETH, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
Nov. 25, 1841, in Nashville, Tenn. In 
1872-95 he was professor in the Southern 
Baptist Theological Seminary of Louis¬ 
ville, Ky.; and in 1895-99 was president 
of that institution. He is the author of 
History of Origin of Infant Baptism; His¬ 
tory of Communion among Baptists; and 
Origin of the Disciples of Christ. 


WHITSIDE, SAMUEL MARMADUKE, 
soldier, was born Jan. 9, 1839, in Canada 
In 1858 he entered the United States 
army; and during the civil war served 
with the sixth United States cavalry. 
For over a quarter of a century he served 
in Indian wars on the Western frontier. 
He captured Big Foot and his four hun¬ 
dred Sioux warriors in 1890. During the 
Spanish-American war he attained the 
rank of brigadier-general. 

WHITTIER, FRANK NATHANIEL, ed¬ 
ucator, lecturer, was born Dec. 12, 1861, 
in Farmington, Maine. He is a noted 
lecturer on Hygiene; and since 1897 has 
been instructor of bacteriology in Bow- 
doin college. He is the author of Light 
Gymnastics for Schools. 

W1CKSON, EDWARD JAMES, educa¬ 
tor, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 3, 
1848, in Rochester, N. if. Since 1897 
he has been professor of agricultural prac¬ 
tice in University of Caiiiornia. He has 
been connected with the University of 
California since 1879. He organized the 
first dairy association in California in 
1876. He is the author of California 
Fruits and How to Grow Them; and The 
California Vegetables in Garden and 
Field. 

WILBOUR, MRS. CHARLOTTE BEE- 
BEE, founder, was born March 2, 1830, 
in Norwich, Conn. She was elected 
president of Sorosis in 1870, and five 
times re-elected. She was a founder of 
the club, devoted much time and thought 
to securing for it a permanent founda¬ 
tion, and was instrumental in organizing 
the Association for the advancement oi 
women that was formed by it in 1873. 
Since she has resided abroad she has 
maintained her interest in the elevation 
of her sex, and sought every opportunity 
to labor for it. 

WILBOUR, JOSHUA A., diplomat. He 
is now United States consul at Dublin. 

WILBUR, GEORGE A., lawyer, jurist. 
He was associate justice of the supreme 
court of Rhode Island. 

WILBUR, LA FAYETTE, lawyer, gene¬ 
alogist, author, was born May 15, 1834, 
in Waterville, Vt. He is a successful 
lawyer; and has filled several public po¬ 
sitions of honor. He is the author of 
two novels of Early History of Ver¬ 
mont; and Genealogy of the Wilbur Fam¬ 
ily. 

WILCOX, DELOS FRANKLIN, farmer, 
author. He is a successful farmer oi 
Elk Rapids, Mich. He is the author of 
The Study of City Government; and Eth¬ 
ical Marriage. 

WILCOX, REGINALD WEBB, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born March 29, 18—, in 
Madison, Conn. He is a noted Physi¬ 
cian of New York city. He is the author 
of the Wilcox Genealogy. 

WILCOX, ROBERT WILLIAM, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 15, 1855, in Ha¬ 
waiian Islands. In 1901-03 he was a 
delegate in congress from Hawaii. He 
led Diamond Head reolution against 
government to restore Queen Liliuoka- 
lani in 1895; was condemned to death, 
but United States senate intervened, and 
President Dole commuted sentence to 
thirty-five years at hard labor, with ten 
thousand dollars fine. He was pardoned 
in 1896. 

WILCOX, >/ALTER DWIGHT, scien¬ 
tist, author, was born Sept. 25, 1869, in 
Chicago, HI. He has traveled and made 
scientific investigations in Canadian 
Rockies; Hawaiian Islands; and other 
countries. He is the author of Camping 
in the Canadian Rockies; and The Rock¬ 
ies of Canada. 


WILDES, FRANK, naval officer, was 
born June 17, 184<s in Boston, Mass. He 
was promoted to captain in 1894; was in 
command of the Boston during Dewey’s 
brilliant victory at Manila, and was 
among the captains who welcomed the 
admiral on ms return to his native land 
in 1899. 

WILEY, ARISTO APPLiNG, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman. He 
was long engaged as lawyer in Alabama; 
served in Alabama house and senate ior 
eighteen years; and was appointed lieu- 
tenant-colonel of the fifth regiment Uni¬ 
ted States volunteer infantry. He served 
eleven months in Cuba; was chief legal 
adviser to General Lawton; later ap¬ 
pointed as acting civil governor of San¬ 
tiago; and framed constitution and set 
in motion the machinery of a civil gov¬ 
ernment. 

WILEY, FRANKLIN BALDWIN, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born Sept. 28, 
1861, in New York city. Since 1899 he 
has been literary editor of the Ladies’ 
Home Journal. He is the author of 
Roadside Rhymes; The Harvard Guide 
Book; and Flowers that Never Fade. 

WILEY, JOHN ALEXANDER, soldier, 
was born Sept. 3, 1843, in Allegheny 
county, Pa. He was a private in tne 
eighth Pennsylvania reserves in 1861-64; 
and chief clerk in the quartermaster’s 
department in 1864-65. He was an ex¬ 
tensive oil producer alter the civil war; 
and mayor of Franklin, Pa. In 1898 he 
became brigadier-general in United States 
volunteers; and served in war with 
Spain. 

WILEY, WILIAM HALSTED, sol¬ 
dier, publisher, author, was born July 10, 
1842, in New York city. During the civil 
war he attained the rank of major. He 
is the author of Yosemite, Alaska and 
the Yellowstone. 

WILKIN, JACOB W., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was Dorn June'7, 1837, in Newark, 
Ohio. He served in the Union army in 
1862-65, becoming major of the 130th Illi¬ 
nois volunteer infantry. In 1879-88 he 
was circuit judge; and since 1888 has been 
judge of the supreme court of Illinois 

WILKINSON, FLORENCE, author, 
poet, was born in Tarrytown, N. Y. She 
is the author of The Lady of the Flag 
Flowers; and The Marriage of Guineth 

WILLARD, oOSIAH FLYNT, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Jan. 23, 1869, in 
Appleton, Wis. He is the author of 
Tramping with Tramps; Powers that 
Prey; and Notes of an Itinerant Police¬ 
man. 

WILLARD, JULIUS TERRASS, chem¬ 
ist, author, was born April 9, 1862, In 
Wabaunsee, Kan. Since 1897 he has been 
professor of applied chemistry in Kansas 
State Agricultural college. He is the 
author of Organic Compounds of Every¬ 
day Life. 

WILLCOX, ALBERT OLIVER, mer¬ 
chant, founder, was born May 10, 1810, 
in New York city. In 1844 he was 
among the founders of the National Era 
in Washington, D. C. He was engaged 
for many years betore the war in extend¬ 
ing the earliest mercantile agency; am. 
in thei dry-goods business; and has since 
followed the insurance business in New 
York city; and devoted himself to tl),e 
public advocacy of woman suffrage. 

WILLCOX, MARY ALICE, zoologist, 
author, was born April 24, 1856, in Ken- 
nebunk, Maine. Since 1883 she has 
been professor of zoology in Wellesley 
college. She is the author of Pocket 
Guide to Common Land Birds of New 
England. 


ADDENDA. 


CXV 


WILLCOX, WALTER FRANCIS 
statistician, author, was born March 22. 
1861, in Reading, Mass. He is professor 
of social science and statistics in Cornell 
university of Ithaca, N. Y. He is the 
author of The Divorce Problem, A Study 
in Statistics. 

WILLETS, GILSON, journalist, trav¬ 
eler, author, was born Aug. 10. 1869, ir. 
Hempstead, N. Y. He has been war cor¬ 
respondent in Cuba; and traveled one 
thousand miles through the famine dis¬ 
tricts of India for the Christian Herald. 
He is the author of The Triumph of Yan¬ 
kee Doodle; The Rulers of the World at 
Home; and other works. 

WILLIAMS, ARCHIBALD, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born in Kentucky. He settled 
in Illinois; and was appointed judge of 
the United States court for the district 
of Kansas, residing at Topeka. 

WILLIAMS, ARTHUR LLEWELLYN, 
clergyman, bishop, was born Jan. 30, 
1856, in Canada. In 1879-85 he was in 
the railway service. In 1888 he was or¬ 
dained in the Protestant Episcopal church, 
and for ten years held charges in Chica¬ 
go and elsewhere. In 1899 he was elected 
coadjutor bishop to Bishop Worthington, 
of Nebraska. 

WILLIAMS, FREDERICK WELLS, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Oct. 31, 1857. 
Since 1900 he has been professor of mod¬ 
ern Oriental history in Yale university. 
He is the author of The Middle Kingdom, 
in two volumes. 

WILLIAMS, GEORGE BURCHELL. 
financier, was born Dec. 5, 1841, in Lock- 
port, N. Y. In 1871 he was appointed 
by the Japanese government to assist in 
the reorganization of the financial sys¬ 
tem. to be counsellor to the imperial au¬ 
thorities m all matters relating to the 
finance, and particularly upon banking, 
internal revenue, export and import du¬ 
ties, and economic and monetary mat¬ 
ters. 

WILLIAMS, GEORGE FORRESTER 
soldier, journalist, author, was born in 
1841, on Rock of Gibraltar. in I860 he 
joined the staff of New York Times. He 
served in the civil war as private, ris¬ 
ing to brevet rana of major. He acted 
as war correspondent during Franco-Mex- 
ican war and saw Maximillian executed 
at Queretaro. In 18 <0-73 he was manag¬ 
ing editor New cork Times; and in 1874 
managing editor New York Herald. He 
is the author of Bullet and Shell; Lucy’s 
Rebel; The Memorial War Book; Un¬ 
fair in Love and War; and Across the 
Lines. 

WILLIAMS, HAROLD, physician, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Dec. 5, 1853, in 
Brookline, Mass. He is dean of Tuft’s 
college. He is the author of Mr. and 
Mrs. Morton; Silken Threads; and Cli¬ 
matic Treatment of Phthisis. 

WILLIAMS, LEWIS ALFRED, publish¬ 
er, author, was born Jan. 22, 1849, in 
Bellevue, Onio. r or many years he com¬ 
piled and published city, county and state 
histories in Cleveland; and in 1887 estab¬ 
lished the Magazine of Western History 
in New York city, which was subsequent¬ 
ly consolidated with the National Mag¬ 
azine. He has brought out such work 
as Memorial History of the City of New 
York, in four volumes; Bench and Bar of 
New York, in two volumes; Leslie’s His¬ 
tory of the Greater New York, in thr*e 
volumes; Leslie’s History of the Repub¬ 
lican Party, in two volumes; Bruce’s Em¬ 
pire State in Three Centuries, in three 
volumes; and other notable historical 
and biographical works. 


WILLIAMS, MRS. MARIA PRAY, act¬ 
ress, was born 1828, in New York city. 
She became a ballet girl at fifteen years 
of age, performing at the Chatham tne- 
atre, and shortly afterward married 
Charles Mestayer. After his death she 
married Mr. Williams in 1850, and there¬ 
after generally appeared with him, play¬ 
ing star engagements. 

WILLIAMS, MARSHALL JAY, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 22, 1837, 
in Fayette county, Ohio. He was elected 
to the Ohio general assembly m 1869 and 
1871. In 1884-86 he was circuit judge; 
and was chief justice of that court. 
Since 1886 he has been judge of the su¬ 
preme court of Ohio. 

WILLIAMS, MRS. MARTHA McCUL- 
LOCH, author, was born in Montgomery 
county, Tenn. She is the author of 
Field Farings; Two of a Trade; Next 
to the Ground; and over two hundred 
short stories. 

WILLIAMS, RALPH OLMSTED, law¬ 
yer, educator, author, was born in 1838. 
He was a contributor to Webster’s Inter¬ 
national dictionary and the Standard Dic¬ 
tionary, Modern Language Notes. He 
is the author of Our Dictionaries and 
Other English Language Topics. 

WILLIAMS, ROBERT, soldier, was 
born Nov. 5, 1829, in Culpeper county, 
Va. During the civil war he attained 
the rank of major and brigadier-general. 
He was retired in 1893. 

WILLIAMS, RUFUS PHILLIPS, edu¬ 
cator, scientist, author, was born Jan. 3, 
1851, in Ashueld, Mass. Since 1885 he 
has filled the chair of chemistry in the 
Boston English high school. He is the 
author of Chemical Science; Laboratory 
Manual; Chemical Experiments; and Ele¬ 
ments of Chemistry. 

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM ASBURY, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
May 30, 1854, in Beallsville, Ohio. Since 
1887 he has been president of Franklin 
college, W. Va. He has published Silver 
Tones, temperance song book; Song Jew¬ 
els, Sunday School song book; Music 
Chart; and Parliamentary Chart. 

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM ELZA, lawyer, 
congressman, was Dorn in Detroit, Ill. 
In 1886-92 he was states attorney of Pike 
county, Ill. He was elected to the fifty- 
sixth congress as a democrat. 

WILLIS, ALFRED, clergyman, bishop, 
author, was born Feb. 3, 1836, in England. 
Since 1872 he has been Anglican bishop 
of Honolulu. He is the author of a 
translation of three hundred hymns into 
the Hawaiian language, 

WILLIS. HENRY PARKER, educator, 
author, was born Aug. 14, l u f4, in Wey¬ 
mouth, Mass. Since 1898 he has been 
professor of economics and political 
science in Washington and Lee univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of History of 
the Latin in Monetary Union. 

W1LLISTON, EDWARD BANCROFT, 
soldier, was born in Vermont. During 
the civil war he attained the rank of 
captain. In 1898 he was appointed 
brigadier-general in United States vol¬ 
unteers. 

WILLISTON, SAMUEL WENDELL, 
geologist, uathor. was born July 10, 1851, 
in Boston. Mass. He is professor of geol¬ 
ogy arid anatomy in tne University of 
Kansas. He is the autnor of Manual 
of North American D.ptera. 

WILLOUGHBY, HUGH LAUSSAT, 
yachtsman, author, was born in 1856 in 
Solitude, N. Y. In 1879 he organized the 
first bicycle club in America; and was 
one of the organizers of the League of 
American Wheelmen. He is the author 
of Across the Everglades. 


WILLOUGHBY, WESTEL WOOD¬ 
BURY, scientist, autnor, was born July 
20, 1867, in Alexandria, Va. He is asso¬ 
ciate professor of political science in 
Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, 
Md. He is the author of Government 
and Administration of the United States; 
A Study in Political Philosophy; and The 
Rights and Duties of American Citizen¬ 
ship. 

WILLOUGHBY, WILLIAM FRANK¬ 
LIN, statistican, author, was born July 
20, 1867, in Alexandria, Va. He is tno au¬ 
thor of Workingmen’s Insurance. 

WILLSON, FREDERICK NEWTON, 
educator, author, was oorn Dec. 23, 1855, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. Since 1883 he has been 
be has been expert in the United States 
department of labor. He is the 

professor of descriptive geometry and 
technical drawing in -Princeton uni 
versity. _ He is the author of a series of 
text books on descriptive geometry and 
its applications. 

WILSON, ADAIR, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, jurist, was born Nov. 16, 1841, in 
Saline county, Mo. In 1875 he was a 
member and president of Colorado Ter¬ 
ritorial legislative council; received but 
declined the democratic nomination tor 
governor in 1880. In 1886-90 he was 
state senator; and in 1897-1903 judge of 
court of ; ppeals of Colorado. 

WILSON, ALPHEUg WATERS, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, author, was born Feb. 5, 

1834. in Baltimore, Md. He took Episco¬ 
pal tours around the world in 1886, 1888, 
1890, and in 1898. Since 1882 he has been 
bishop Methodist Episcopal church Soutn. 
He is the author of Missions; and otner 
works. 

WILSON, AUGUSTA JANE EVANS, 
philanthropist, author, was born May 8. 

1835, in Columbus, Ga. During the civil 
war she was an active, zealous, sympa¬ 
thizer for the South; and la benefactor 
to the soldiers that were stationed near 
her country home. In 1868 she married 
L. M. Wilson of Mobile, Ala. She is 
the author of Inez, a Tale of the Alamo; 
Beulah, which was the novel that estab¬ 
lished her reputation; St. Elmo; and oth¬ 
er works. 

WILSON. CHARLES BRANCH, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 20, 1861, in 
Dexter, Maine. Since 1896 he has been 
professor of biology and head of natural 
science department of State Normal 
school of Westfield, Mass. He is the 
author of Nature Study for Grammar 
Grades; and Laboratory Outlines in Zo¬ 
ology and Botany. 

WILSON, EDWARD LIVINGSTON, 
journalist, author, was born March 4, 
1838, in Flemington, N. J. He conduc¬ 
ted several large photographic enterpris¬ 
es, one to Egypt. Palestine and Arabia, 
including Petra. He is the author of 
In Scripture Lands; and numerous pho¬ 
tographic books. 

WILSON, EDMUND BEECLIER, zo¬ 
ologist, author, was born Oct. 19, 1856, 
in Geneva, Ill. He is professor of zool¬ 
ogy at Columbia university of New York 
city. He is the author of AJlas of Kary- 
okinesis and Fertilization; and The Cell 
in Development. 

WILSON, FRANCIS BISHOP, actor, 
author, was born Feb. 7, 1854, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He has acted in many plays 
and operas, also playing the role of ac¬ 
tor-manager for many others. The Lit¬ 
tle Corporal is one of his popular char¬ 
acters. He is the author of Some At¬ 
tentions; and Recollections of a Player. 

WILSON, FRANK E., physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1837, in Roxbury, 


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N. Y. In 1899-1901 he was a member 
of the fifty-seventh congress from Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 

WILSON, FRANKLIN, clergyman, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Dec. 8, 1822, in 
Baltimore, Md. For many years, begin¬ 
ning with 1851, he was the editor of The 
True Union, a Baptist weeuly paper pub¬ 
lished in Baltimore, and he has long been 
a trustee of Columbian university ox 
Washington, D. C. He is the author of 
a prize essay on The Duties of Churches 
to their Pastors; and or several essays 

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WILSON, HARRY LANGFORD, was 
born Oct. 28, 1867, in Canada. He is 
associate professor of Latin in Johns 
Hopkins university of Baltimore, Md. He 
is the author of The Metaphor in the 
Epic Poems of P. Papinius Statius; and 
Satires of Juvenal. 

WILSON, HERBERT MICHAEL, geog¬ 
rapher, author, was born Aug. 23, 1860, 
in Glasgow, Scotland. He has lectured 
on irrigation, geography, etc., at colleges, 
geographical and engineering societies. 
He is the au,_or of Manual of Irrigation 
Engineering; Exploratory, Geograpnic 
and Topographic Surveying; and official 
reports. 

WILSON, MRS. IDA LEWIS, life-saver, 
heroine, was born in 1841, in Newport, 
R. I. She is the daughter of Capthin 
Hosea Lewis, the keeper of Limerock 
lighthouse. She became an expert row¬ 
er and swimmer; and has saved eighteen 
lives; and received medals for heroism 
from the United States government and 
the Humane society of Massachusetts. 
Her boat, the Rescue, was exhibited at 
the World’s Columbian exposition. 

WILSON, JAMES CORNELIUS, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born March 25, 1847, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1891 he has 
been professor of clinical medicine in 
Jefferson Medical college of Philadelphia. 
Pa. In 1897 he was president of the 
American Academy of Medicine. He is 
the author of The Summer and Its Dis¬ 
eases; Wilson’s Pocket Visiting List; and 
other works. 

WILSON, JOHN FRANKLIN, soldier, 
lawer, legislator, congressman, was born 
May 7, 1846, in Pulacki, Tenn. In 1861 
he entered the confederate army; was 
wounded six times; and rose to lieuten- 
anti-colonel. In 1877-79 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Arkansas state legislature. 
He removed to Arizona; and in 1896-97 
was its attorney general. He was a 
member of congress from Arizona m 
1899-1901. 

WILSON, JOHN M., soldier, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born Oct. 8, 1837, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. During the civil war he 
attained the rank of colonel. He then 
had charge of engineering work; the 
building of the Medical Museum and Li¬ 
brary; anu the completion of the Wash¬ 
ington monument. Since 1897 he has 
been chief of engineers with the rank of 
brigadier-general. 

WILSON, JOSEPH VALTER, author, 
was born June 28, 1857, in Lafayette, Ind. 
He studied law, and established himself 
in practice in Lafayette, Ind. He has 
made a translation of some of the Odes 
of Horace; and is the author of Biography 
of Count Charles d’Alembert. 

WILSON, LUCY LANGDON WIL¬ 
LIAMS, educator, author, was born Aug. 
18, 1865, in St. Albans, Vt. Since 1892 
she has been professor of biology in Phil¬ 
adelphia Normal school. She is the au¬ 
thor of Domestic Science; and Picture 
Study. 


WILSON, MOSES FLEMING, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Sept. 10, 1839, 
in Franklin, Ohio. In 1871-81 he was 
judge of Cincinnati police court; and 
judge of court of common pleas in 1892- 
97. He is the author of Wilson’s Crim¬ 
inal Code of Ohio. 

WILSON, OLIVER MORRIS, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 16, 
1836, in Logansport, Ind. After serving 
in the civil war as captain and major 
of Indiana volunteers, he was secretary 
of the Indiana state senate in 1865-69; 
assistant United states attorney for the 
state in 1869-71; and member of the legis¬ 
lature in the latter year. He was adju¬ 
tant-general of the Grand Army of the 
Republic for Indiana in 1866-68, and or¬ 
ganized the first department in that order. 
He is the author of Digest of Parliament¬ 
ary Law; and Indiana Superior Court Re¬ 
ports. 

WILSON, ROBERT CLARENCE, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Dec. 22, 1858, 
in Western Pennsylvania. He has been 
city attorney of Port Angeles, Wash.; 
and was a member of the Washington 
state senate in 1895-97. 

WILSON, WILLIAM HUNTINGTON, 
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 21, 1870, 
in Washington, D. C. He engaged in the 
practice of law in West Virginia. He 
is the author of Rafnaland, a novel. 

WILSON, WILLIAM POWELL, botan¬ 
ist, founder, was born Oct. 17, 1844, in 
Oxford, Mich. He was professor of bot¬ 
any and director of school of biology in 
the University of Pennsylvania. In 1893 
he founded the Philadelphia commercial 
museum, of which he is the director; and 
in 1899 he was elected director-general of 
the national exposition of American man¬ 
ufactures suitable for export, which was 
opened by President McKinley in 1899. 

WINANS, SAMUEL ROSS, educator, 
author, was Dorn March 1, 1855, in Eliza¬ 
beth, N. J. Since 1876 he has been 
professor of Greek at Princeton univer¬ 
sity; and in 1899 was made dean of the 
university. He is the author of several 
text books. 

WINCHELL, HORACE VAUGHN, ge¬ 
ologist, author, was born Nov. 1, 1865, 
in Galesburg, Mich. Since 1898 he has 
been geologist for Anaconda Copper 
Mining Company. He is the author of 
The Iron Ores of Minnesota. 

WINCHESTER, CALEB THOMAS, ed¬ 
ucator, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 18, 
1847, in Montville, Conn. Since T873 he 
has been professor of English literature 
in Wesleyan university. He is the au¬ 
thor of Five Short Courses of Reading 
in English Literature; and Some Prin¬ 
ciples of Literary Criticism. 

WING, HENRY F., financier, legislator, 
was born Sept. 16, 1825. In 1862-70 ne 
was assistant states internal revenue as¬ 
sessor. In 1864 he became cashier of the 
National bank of Grafton; and in 1869 
the treasurer of the Grafton Savings 
bank. He has been a representative to 
the general court. 

WINGATE, JAMES DANA PAINE, 
journalist, genealogist, was born April 2. 
1855. For twenty-five years he was ed¬ 
itor and publisher of The Gazette of 
Exeter, N. H.; and is now business man¬ 
ager of the Boston Journal. In 1888 he 
published History of the ingate Fam¬ 
ily in England and America. 

WINSHIP, GEORGE PARKER, librar¬ 
ian, author, was born in 1871 in Bridge- 
water, Mass. He is in charge of John 
Carter Brown library of Providence, R. 

I. He is the author of The Coronado Ex¬ 
pedition; The Cabots; Bibliography of 
Coronado; and Early Mexican Printers. 


WINSLOW, ix.ATE REIGNOLDS, act¬ 
ress, author, was born in 1814 in Eng¬ 
land. She has attained a national repu¬ 
tation as a noted actress. She is the 
author of a work entitled Yesterdays 
with Actors. 

WINSTON, FREDERICK HAMPDEN, 
lawyer, diplomat, was born Nov. 20, 1830, 
in Sand Hill, Ga. In 1853-85 he practiced 
law in Chicago, Ill.; and in 1885-86 was 
United States minister to Persia. For 
twelve years he was president of the 
Lincoln park commissioners; and in 1888 
was president of the Union Stock Yards 
company. 

WINTER, MRS. ELIZABETH CAMP¬ 
BELL, author, was born Dec. 19, 1841, in 
Scotland. She is the author of The 
Spanish Treasure; The Curse of Danger- 
field; Hawthorne Lodge; and The Mis¬ 
tress of the Grange. 

WINTON, ANDREW L„ chemist, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 26, 1864, in Westport, 
Conn. He is chemist of Connecticut 
Agricultural Experiment Station. He is 
the author of papers on chemical analy¬ 
sis adulteration of foods, dairy chemis¬ 
try, and composition of agricultural pro¬ 
ducts. 

WISE. PETER MANUEL, physician, 
author, was born March 7, 1851, in Clar¬ 
ence, N. Y. Since 1896 he has been pres¬ 
ident of New York State Commission in 
Lunacy. He is the author of Text-Book 
for Training Schools, in two volumes. 

WISE, STEPHEN S., clergyman, auth¬ 
or, was born March 17, 1872, in Hungary. 
Since 1900 he has filled a pastorate in 
Beth Israel of Portland, Ore. He is the 
author of A Zionist Bibliograpny; and 
Ethics of Solmon Ibn Gabriol. 

WISNER, GEORGE Y.. civil engineer, 
author, was born July 11, 1841, in West 
Dresden. N. Y. In 1865-80 he was engaged 
in Government surveys in Great Lakes 
and Mississippi river. He is the author of 
Geodetic Field Work; Regulation of Lake 
Levels; Canals From the Great Lakes to 
the Atlantic; and other works. 

WISWELL, ANDREW PETERS, law¬ 
yer, jurist. He is justice of the supreme 
judicial court of Maine. 

WITTHAUS, RUDOLPH AUGUST, toxi¬ 
cologist, author, was born Aug. 30, 1846, 
in New York City. He is professor of 
chemistry and toxicology in the medical 
department of Cornell University. He is 
the author of Essentials of Chemistry; 
Manual of Chemistry; and other works. 

WOLF, EMMA, author, was born June 
15. 1865. in San Francisco. Cal. She is 
the author of Other Things Being Equal; 
Joy of Life; and A Prodigal in Love. 

WOLFE, THEODORE FRELINGHUY- 
SEN, physician, author, was born in 1847, 
in Kenvil, N. J. He has held various 
public offices in the health department of 
Jersey City, N. J. He is the author of 
Literary Rambles at Home and Abroad; 
and other works. 

WOLVERTON, CHARLES EDWIN, 
lawyer, jurist, was born May 16, 1851, in 
Des Moines county, Iowa. He was elected 
to the supreme bench in 1892; and since 
1893 has been chief justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Oregon. 

WOOD, CARROLL DAVID, educator, 
lawyer, jurist, was born July 8, 1857. He 
has been state superintendent public in¬ 
struction of Arkansas. In 1882-86 he was 
district attorney; and in 1886-93 he was 
circuit judge. Since 1893 he has been as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of 
Arkansas. 

WOOD, HUDSON A., soldier, educator, 
lecturer, author, was born May 10, 1841. 
in Smyrna, N. Y. He has taught mathe- 


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CXV11 


matics in academies, normal and scientific 
schools; and in 1888-89 at Stevens School 
of Hoboken, N. J. He is the author of 
Trigonometry; and Short Cuts in Arith¬ 
metic. 

WOOD, MRS. MARY KNIGHT, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was horn April 7, 1859. 
in Easthampton, Mass. She is the com¬ 
poser of about thirty-five published songs. 

WOOD, NATHAN E., clergyman, college 
president, author, was born June 6, 1849, 
in Forrestville, N. Y. Since 1899 he has 
been) president of Newton Theological In¬ 
stitution. He is the author of History of 
The First Baptist Church of Boston, Mass. 

WOODBURN, JAMES ALBERT, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Nov. 30. 1856. in 
Bloomington, Ind. He is professor of 
American history in Indiana University. 
He is the author of Higher' Education in 
Indiana; Select Orations of Burke and 
Webster; land Representative American 
Orations, in four volumes. 

WOODBURY, URBAN A., soldier, phy¬ 
sician. governor, was born July 11, 1838. 
in New Hampshire. In 1840 he moved to 
Vermont. He enlisted in company H, sec¬ 
ond Vermont volunteers; and lost right 
arm at Bull Run. In 1885-86 he was 
mayor of Burlington, Vt. He was lieu¬ 
tenant-governor in 1894-96. 

WOODHULL, JOHN FRANCIS, scien¬ 
tist, author, was born July 2, 1857, in 
Westport, N. Y. Since 1888 he has been 
professor of physical science in Teachers’ 
College of Columbian University of New 
York city. He is the author of Simple 
Experiments for the School Room; Object 
Lessons; First Course in Science; Manual 
of Home-made Apparatus; and Physics, a 
textbook. 

WOODHULL, ZULA MAUD, scientist, 
author. She is a writer on scientific and 
sociological questions; and associate edi¬ 
tor of The Humanitarian. She is the au¬ 
thor of The Proposal, a dialogue; and 
Affinities, a play. 

WOODMAN. CLARENCE'EUGENE, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 1, 1852, 
in Saco, Maine. In 1891-93 he was lec¬ 
turer in Catholic University of America. 
He is now pastor of St. Paul’s Church of 
New York city. He is the author of The 
Bridal Wreath; Manual of Prayers; and 
Poets and Poetry of Ireland. 

WOODMAN. RAYMOND HUNTING- 
TON, musician, composer, was born Jan. 
18, 1861. Brooklyn, N. Y. Since 1880 he has 
been organist and choirmaster First Pres¬ 
byterian Church of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and 
professor of music at Packer Collegiate In¬ 
stitute since 1894. His church choir of 
mixed voices is noted for excellent per¬ 
formances. He is the author of Romance; 
The Brook; Spring Song; and Three Al¬ 
bum-leaves. 

WOODRUFF. EDWIN HAMLIN, law¬ 
yer, librarian, author, was born Sept. 2, 
1862. in Ithaca, N. Y. In 1891-96 he was 
librarian Leland Stanford University of 
California. He is the author of Domestic 
Relations; Introduction to the Study of 
Law; and Cases on Insurance. 

WOODRUFF. TIMOTHY T ESTER, bus¬ 
iness man, lieutenant-governor, was born 
Aug. 4, 1858. in New Haven, Conn. He 
chose a business career, becoming 
connected with various commercial 
enterprises and trust companies. In 
1896 he was appointed park commissioner 
of Brooklyn. In 1896 he was elected 
lieutenant-governor of New York; and re¬ 
nominated in 1898. 

WOODS, ALBERT FRED, physiologist, 
pathologist, author, was born Dec. 25, 
1866, in Belvidere, Ill. Since 1893 he has 


been assistant chief and first assistant 
pathologist in United States Department 
of Agriculture. He is the author of Re¬ 
ports on Flora of Nebraska. 

WOODS, SAMUEL D., congressman. He 
was elected a member of the fifty-seventh 
Congress from California as a republican. 

WOODS, THOMAS HALL, soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, was born March 1, 
1836, in Arkansas. He was captain in 
Confederate army for four years; was dis¬ 
trict attorney of third district of Missis¬ 
sippi; and later member of the Mississip¬ 
pi legislature. Since 1889 he has been 
chief justice of the supreme court of 
Mississippi. 

WOOD-SEYS. ROLAND ALEX., horti¬ 
culturist, manufacturer, author, was born 
Nov. 5. 1854, in England. He settled in 
California as grower of olives and maker 
of olive oil. He is the author of A Wo¬ 
man With a Secret; Blacksmith of Voe; 
Bull i’ the Thorn; Cut With His Own 
Diamond; and The Shepherdess of Treva. 

WOODWARD, BENJAMIN DURYE \ 
educator, lecturer, was born in 1868. Since 
1894 he has been instructor in Romance 
languages and literature in the Columbian 
University. In 1900 he was appointed as¬ 
sistant commissioner general of the Unit¬ 
ed Sttnes to the Paris Exposition. 

WOODWORTH. JAY BACKUS, theol¬ 
ogian. author, was born Jan. 2, 1865, in 
Newfield, N. Y. Since 1893 he has been 
instructor of geology in Harvard univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of Geology of Nar- 
ragansett Basin. 

WOODY, FRANK H., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Dec. 10, 1833, in Chatham coun¬ 
ty, N. C. Since 1892 he has been judge 
of the fourth judicial district of Mon¬ 
tana. 

WOOLF, PHILIP, physician, author, 
was born Feb. 7, 1848, in New York city. 
He is editor of the Saturday Evening 
Gazette of New York city. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Trail of the Serpent; Satan’s 
Mirror; Three Women and a Dead Man, 
and Goldenrod and Aster. 

WOOLF, SOLOMON, educator, author, 
was born Jan. 6, 1841, in New York city. 
In 1878 he was appointed to the professor¬ 
ship of geometry and drawing in the 
Cooper Union. He is the author of A 
Course in Descriptive Geometry. 

WOOLLEY, JOHN GRANVILLE, law¬ 
yer. journalist, lecturer, author, was born 
Feb. 15, 1850. in Collinsville, Ohio. He 
is editor of the The Chicago Lever. He 
is the author of Seed; The Sower; Civil¬ 
ization by Faith; and The Christian Citi¬ 
zen. 

WOOLSEY, THEODORE SALISBURY, 
lawyer, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 22, 
1852, in New Haven, Conn. He is profes¬ 
sor of international law in Yale Univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of America’s For¬ 
eign Policy. 

WORCESTER, DEAN CONANT, zoolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Oct. 1, 1866. in 
Thetford, Vt. He is professor of geology 
in the university of Michigan. He is 
the author of The Philippine Islands and 
Their People. 

WORCESTER, ELWOOD C., physician, 
author. He is the author of What We 
Know About Genesis in the Light of 'Mod¬ 
ern Science. 

WORDEN, JAMES AVERY, soldier, 
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 10, 
1841. in Oxford, Ohio. During the civil 
war he was second lieutenant in the sev¬ 
enty-fourth New York volunteers. He 
is the author of Westminster Normal Out¬ 
lines. in two volumes; and Bible Corre¬ 
spondence School, in eight volumes. 


WORTH, WILLIAM SCOTT, soldier, 
was born Jan. 6, 1840, in Albany, N. Y 
During the civil war he attained the rank 
of captain. During the Spanish-American 
war he was severely wounded during the 
charge on San Juan Hill. He was pro¬ 
moted to brigadier-general and retired. 

WORTHINGTON, WILLIAM JACK- 
SON, soldier, legislator, jurist, lieutenant- 
governor, was born Nov. 9, 1832, in West¬ 
moreland county. Pa. For four years he 
was lieutenant-colonel in the twenty-sec¬ 
ond regiment Kentucky volunteers. In 
1866-70 he was a member of the Kentucky 
state senate; and was county judge for 
four years; and ip 1895-99 was lieutenant 
governor of Kentucky. 

WRIGHT, CHARLES FREDERICK 
banker, congressman, was born May 3, 
1856, in Forest Lake, Pa. In 1896 he was 
a delegate to the republican national con¬ 
vention. He is a successful banker of Sus¬ 
quehanna, Pa. He was elected to the 
fifty-sixth congress from Pennsylvania as 
a republican. 

WRIGHT, JOHN HENRY, educator, 
journalist, was born Feb. 4, 1852, in Ur- 
miah, Persia. Since 1887 he has been 
professor of Greek in Harvard University; 
and since 1897 editor of the American 
Journal of Archaeology. 

WRIGHT. MRS. MARIE ROBINSON, 
journalist author, was born in 1866 in 
Newnan, Ga. In 1889 she was a com¬ 
missioner from Georgia to the Paris Ex¬ 
position. She is the author of Pictur¬ 
esque Mexico. 

WRIGHT, MILTON, clergyman, bishop, 
was born Nov. 17, 1828, in Rush county, 
Ind. In 1877 he became bishop of the 
United Brethren in Christ, and until 1881 
held that position in the western Missis¬ 
sippi district. In 1886 he was re-elected 
bishop for a term of four years and sent 
to the Pacific coast district. 

WRIGHT, ROBERT EMMET, lawye". 
author, was born in 1810 in Allentown, 
Pa. He is a lawyer of Allentown Pa. 
He is the author of Alderman and Jus¬ 
tices of the Peace; The Office and Duties 
of Constable; and Pennsylvania State Re¬ 
ports, 1861-65. 

WRIGHT. RUFUS, artist, was born in 
1832, in Cleveland. Ohio. His professional 
life has been spent in New York, Wash¬ 
ington and Brooklyn. His portraits in¬ 
clude those of Roger B. Taney; Edwin M. 
Stanton; and William H. Seward. About 
1875 he turned his attention also to the 
painting of composition pictures. 

WURTS. ALEXANDER JAY. electrical 
engineer, inventor, was born March 3, 
1862, in Carbondale, Pa. He discovered 
the five non-arcing metals. For inven¬ 
tions in lighting arresters he was award¬ 
ed the John Scott Medal. He is now with 
the Westinghouse Electric and Manufac¬ 
turing Company of Pittsburg, Pa. 

WURTS, JOHN, lawyer, author, was 
born July 10. 1855, in Carbondale, Pa. 
He is professor of law in Yale University. 
In 1884-96 he practiced law in Jackson¬ 
ville. Fla. He is the author of Index- 
Digest of Florida Reports. 

WURTZ, HENRY, chemist, was born 
June 5. 1825, in Easton, Pa. His original 
work has included the discovery of the 
mineral hisingerite in America; the in¬ 
vention of methods for the production of 
alum from greensand marl; and potassium 
chloride and potassium sulphate from 
similar sources. In 1888 he entered the 
employ of Thomas A. Edison as chemist. 

In 1876 he served as a judge on the in 
ternational jury of awards at the World’s 
fair in Philadelphia. 


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WYCKOFF, WALTER AUGUSTUS, 
traveler, educator, author, was horn April 
12, 1865, in India. He is professor of politi¬ 
cal economy in Princeton University N. 

J. He is the author of The Workers, in 
two volumes. 

WYLIE, ANDREW, lawyer, jurist was 
born Feb. 25, 1814, in Canonsburgh, W 7 ash- 
ington county, Pa. In 1863 President Lin¬ 
coln appointed him justice of the supreme 
court of the District of Columbia, which 
office he filled with honor and ability for 
more than twenty-two years. 

WYLIE. WALKER GILL, soldier, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, author, was born Sept. 2. 
1848, in Chester, S. C. He served in the 
Confederate army in 1864-65. In 1882 he 
assisted in founding, and became profes¬ 
sor of gynecology in the New York Poly¬ 
clinic. He is the author of Hospitals, 
their Organization and Construction. 

WYMAN, WALTER, navy surgeon, 
author, was born March 22, 1852, in An¬ 
derson, Ind. For many years he was pro¬ 
fessor of surgery in the Michigan College 
of Medicine and Surgery. He is the au¬ 
thor of many papers on surgical topics. 

WYMAN WALTER, surgeon-general, 
was born Aug. 17, 1848, in St. Louis, Mo. 
After spending several years in city hos¬ 
pitals, in 1876 he entered the marine hos¬ 
pital service, serving in Baltimore, Cin¬ 
cinnati, New York, and Washington; and 
in 1891 became surgeon-general. He made 
a study of the physical conditions affect¬ 
ing seamen of the merchant marine; and 
was instrumental in causing laws to be 
passed in their behalf. 

WYMAN. WILLIAM STOKES, educa¬ 
tor. legislator, was born Nov. 23, 1830, in 
Montgomery, Ala. Soon after his gradua¬ 
tion he was appointed professor in the 
University of Alabama, in which position 
he has continued almost continuously for 
nearly half a century, occasionally acting 
as president. He has been a member of 
the Alabama assembly; and has long beeD 
a recognized authority on the history of 
his native state. 

WYNNE. MRS. MADELINE YALE, art¬ 
ist, author, was born Sept. 25, 1847. in 
Newport. N. Y. She is the daughter of 
Lynus Yale, the inventor of the Yale lock. 
She has developed interesting specialty 
in hand-wrought metals. Sue is the au¬ 
thor of The Little Room, and Other 
Stories. 

YARNALL, ELLIS, author, was born 
in 1817 in Philadelphia. Pa. He is the 
author of Wordsworth and the Coleridges. 

YATES, JOHN BARENTSE, civil engi¬ 
neer. was born Oct. 19, 1833, in Schenec¬ 
tady, N. Y. He served during the civil 
war as colonel of the first Michigan en¬ 
gineers under Gen. William T. Sherman. 
Subsequently he became a division engi¬ 
neer on the New York state canals. 

YATES, LORENZO GORDIN, dentist, 
naturalist, author, was born Jan. 8, 1837, 
in Great Britain. He began the practice 
of medicine in St. Louis. Mo.; and in 
1863 moved to California. His collection 
of six thousand specimens of fossils are 
highly valued in Leland Stanford Univer¬ 
sity for classwork. He had charge of sci¬ 
entific department of Froebel Institute at 
Los Angeles; and catalogued collections 
and prepared Illustrated Guide for Gol¬ 
den Park Museum of San Francisco. His 
first large collection of shells, fossils, In¬ 
dian relics and minerals were sold to 
Wabash College, Ind. He is the author of 
California Digest of Masonic Law; Charm 
Stones; Ferns of Ceylon; Notes of Ha¬ 
waiian Ferns; All Known Ferns; Aborig¬ 
inal Weapons of California; and various 
other works. 


YERKES, JOHN WATSON, lawyer, was 
born April 1, 1854, in Lexington, Ky. He 
has since practiced law in Danville; and is 
professor of law in Centre College. He 
has been registrar in bankruptcy, master 
in chancery, commissioner to World’s Co¬ 
lumbian exposition, and to the Atlanta 
exposition, chairman in 1891-96 of the Re¬ 
publican state central committee of Ken¬ 
tucky; and from 1896 member of the na¬ 
tional Republican committee. He Is the 
attorney for the Cincinnati, New Orleans 
and Texas-Pacific Railway Co.; and since 
1897 has been a commissioner of the state 
deaf and dumb institute and also United 
States collector of internal revenue. 

YOUNG, ABRAM VAN EPS, chemist, 
author, was born June 5, 1853, in Sheboy¬ 
gan, Wis. Since 1885 he has been profes¬ 
sor of chemistry in the Northwestern Uni¬ 
versity of Evanston, Ill. He is the authoi 
of The Elementary Principles of Chem- 
istrv. 

YOUNG. BENNETT HENDERSON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, author, was born May 25, 
1843, in Nicholasville, Ky. He was bri¬ 
gadier-general on staff of General John 
B. Gordon, commander-in-chief, Confeder¬ 
ate Veterans. He is the author of Histo¬ 
ry Constitutions; rustory of Eva^elistic 
Work; and History Battle Blue ™ck. 

YOUNG, CHARLES, soldier, was born 
March 12, 1867, near Helena. Ky, of negro 
parents. During the civil war he attained 
the rank of second-lieutenant. In 1896 he 
was promoted to first lieutentant. At the 
beginning of the war with Spain in April, 
in 1898, he was commissioned major of 
volunteers; and was assigned to the com¬ 
mand of a colored battalion mustered into 
service from the National guard of Ohio. 

YOUNG, CLAIBORNE ADDISON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, poet was born in Indiana. 
He is the author of Way Songs and Wan¬ 
derings; and nancy Gilbreth of the Cum¬ 
berland Mountains. 

YOUNG. CLARK MONTGOMERY, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in Hiram. Ohio. 
Since 1892 he has been professor of his¬ 
tory and sociology in the University of 
South Dakota. He is the author of His¬ 
tory and Government of South Dakota; 
and Elements of Pedagogy. 

YOUNG, FRANKI IN KNOWLES, in¬ 
ventor, author, was horn Oct. 21. 1857. in 
Boston. Mass. He is the inventor of .the 
automatic breech-action for small arms 
and field artillery. He is the author of 
The Minor Tactics of Chess; The Major 
Tactics of Chess; and other works. 

YOUNG, JAMES THOMAS, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 23, 1873, In Phil¬ 
adelphia. Pa. Since 1896 he has been in¬ 
structor in University of Pennsylvania. 
He is the author of several works in Ger¬ 
man. 

YOUNG, JOHN PHILIP, journalist, au¬ 
thor. was born Aug. 9. 1819. in Philadel¬ 
phia. Pa. Since 1876 he has been man¬ 
aging editor of the San Francisco Chroni¬ 
cle. He is the author of Protection and 
Progress; Bimetallism or Monometallism; 
and other economic works. 

YOUNG. LUCIEN. naval officer, author, 
was born March 31. 1852. in Lexington, 
Ky. While on the Alaska, in the Euro¬ 
pean squadron, he rescued a seaman, for 
which he was presented with a gold med¬ 
al. He was ordered to the Huron. 1876, 
and the ship was wrecked in 1877. For 
his conduct in rescuing the cr Q w of the 
Huron he received the thanks of the sec¬ 
retary of the navy, a gold medal of the 
first class from congress, and a sword 
from his native state of Kentucky. He 
was promoted in regular grades to that 
of lieutenant in 1884. In 1898 he was 


assigned to the command of the light- 
ju'otected cruiser Hist, with the fleet of 
Commodore Watson. He is the author of 
A Standard Work on Navigation; A 
Cruise in the Hawaiian Islands; A Trip 
to the North Pole; and The Boston at 
Hawaii. 

YOUNG, NEWTON C., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Jan. 27, 1862, in Mt. Pleasant. 
Iowa. Since 1898 he has been judge of 
the supreme court of North Dakota. 

YOUNG, SAMUEL BALDWIN MARKS, 
soldier, was born Jan. 9, 1840, near Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. During the civil war he was 
breveted brigadier general. In 1886 he 
entered the regular army; and in 1897 be¬ 
came colonel of the third cavalry. In the 
Spanish-American war as major general 
of volunteers he commanded the third 
army corps. • 

ZELIE, JOHN SHERIDAN, clergyman, 
author, was born May 3, 1866, in Prince¬ 
ton. Mass. 1 Since 1894 he has been pastor 
of Belton Avenue Presbyterian Church of 
Cleveland, Ohio. In conjunction with Car- 
roll Perry he published a work entitled 
Bill Pratt, the Saw-Buck Philosopher. 

ZELLMAN. JOSEPH B„ musician, com¬ 
poser. He is director of the vocal depart¬ 
ment of the Mollenhauer Conservatory of 
Music in New York city. 

ZENDER. JOACHIM DENIS LAURENT, 
physician, was born Nov. 22. 1805.in Paris. 
France. After teaching humanities in 
several Roman Catholic colleges in Mis¬ 
souri and Maryland, he left the church 
in 1832, studied medicine in New York, 
obtained his diploma in 1842, and in 1844 
was ordained in the latter city as a Pro¬ 
testant minister of the Congregational 
church, and gathered a small French con¬ 
gregation. Later he devoted himself to 
scientific works, and also traveled through 
the country, conducting revivals. He is 
the author of A New System on the Mag¬ 
netic Constitution of Man. 

ZIEGFELD, FLORENCE, musician, 
composer, was born in Germany. Since 
1867 she has been president of the Chicago 
Musical College. She was chairman of 
board of judges in the musical exhibit at 
the World's Columbian Exposition, 

ZEIGLER. EDWARD D., congressman. 
He was elected a mem er of the fifty- 
sixth congress from Pennsylvania as a 
democrat. 

ZIMMERMAN, EUGENE, cartoonist, 
artist, was born May 25. 1862. in Switzer¬ 
land. In 1882-85 he was connected with 
Puck; and since 1885 has ben cartoonist 
on Judge. He has illustrated books and 
articles by Bill Nye and James Whitcomb 
Riley; and other works. 

ZIWET. ALEXANDER, mathematician, 
author, was born Feb. 8, 1853, in Ger¬ 
many. He is junior professor of mathe¬ 
matics in University of Michigan. Since 
1892 he has been co-editor Bulletin Amer¬ 
ican Mathematical Society. He is the 
author of An Elementary Treatise on The¬ 
oretical Mechanics; Introduction to Dyn¬ 
amics, Statics, and Kineties. 

ZOLLINGER. GULIELMA, journalist, 
author. He is the author of Dan Drum¬ 
mond of the D.; and The Widow O’Calla- 
han’s Boys. 

BARLOW, COLUMBUS, physician, sur¬ 
geon, author. In 1877 he graduated from 
the Cincinnati College of Medicine and 
Surgery of Cincinnati, Ohio. He has at¬ 
tained success in the practice of his pro¬ 
fession in Crawford county at Eaton, Ill., 
and has filled several positions of trust 
and honor in the gift of his city, county 
and state. He is the author of Day 
Dreams of a Doctor. 



ADDENDA. 


CX1X 


ADAMS, JO’SIAH H., farmer, journal¬ 
ist, lawyer, historian, was born July 24, 
1838, in Grand Isle, Vt. He was educated 
at the academies of Swanton, South 
Hero, and the School of Jesuits; and 
was admitted to the bar in 1867 at St. 
Albans, Vt. In 1861-71 he was corre¬ 
spondent for the Plattsburgh Republican, 
N. Y., and for the Sentinel of Burlington! 
Vt. He then traveled extensively 
throughout South America and Europe. 
In 1875-79 and 1881-85 he was State’s At¬ 
torney of Grand Isle County, Vt.; and 
has attained prominence as a lawyer of 
great learning and judicial ability. He 
is considered a good authority on his¬ 
torical subjects; contributes extensively 
to current literature, and is the author 
of a local history. 

ADAMS, MORGAN, musician, dentist, 
physician, was born Nov. 11, 1834, in 
Payette, Tenn. He graduated from the 
Vanderbilt University; from the Mis¬ 
souri Dental College; and has received 
the degrees of M. D. and D. D. S. He 
was given a musical education, with a 
view of teaching. He played first vio¬ 
lin in orchestra; and was bandmaster 
during the civil war in the Confederate 
service. He has traveled extensively in 
Europe; and in 1881 attended the Inter¬ 
national Medical Congress held in Lon¬ 
don. He has attained success in his 
profession at Sardis, Miss.; has been 
president of the board of health of that 
city; and president of the Mississippi 
State Dental Association. He is the au¬ 
thor of a number of essays; and has 
contributed extensively to medical and 
current literature. 

ADAMS, WILLIAM ADELBERT, den¬ 
tist, was born Oct. 15, 1862, in White 
County, Ind. He received his education 
in the public schools and private acad¬ 
emies of Indiana; and graduated from 
the American Dental College of Chicago, 
Ill. He has attained success in his pro¬ 
fession at Detroit, Mich.; and is senior 
proprietor of Adams’ Dental Parlors of 
that city. He is also prominently iden¬ 
tified with various institutions. 

AGNEW, MRS. LEE, musician, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 21, 1875, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. Most of her life has been 
spent in New York City, where- she is 
known as an eminent musician and au¬ 
thor. She is the author of A Marriage 
Above Zero; The Banker and the Type¬ 
writer; The Summer Heart; The Dis¬ 
agreeable Man; and nine other works. 

ALLEN, CORNELIUS L., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born July 17, 1800, in Lansing- 
burgh, N. Y. For nine years he was 
District Attorney of Washington Coun¬ 
ty, N. Y.; became judge of Court of Ap¬ 
peals; and subsequently a justice of the 
Supreme Court. In 1867 he was a dele¬ 
gate to the constitutional convention of 
New York; held many local positions; 
was a thirty-two degree Mason; and for 
fifty years was a trustee of Washington 
Academy. His father, David Allen, was 
a prominent lawyer of Rensselaer Coun¬ 
ty, N. Y.; and was Surrogate, Assembly- 
man and State Senator for many years. 

ALLEN, CORNELIUS L., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, manufacturer, was born Aug. 6, 
1847, in Salem, N. Y. He was educated 
at Washington Academy, Norwich Uni¬ 
versity of Vermont, Yale College, Al¬ 
bany Law School, and Yale Medical Col¬ 
lege. He has attained success at the bar 
of New York at Salem. For twelve 
years he was special county judge of 
Washington County, N. Y.; and for 
twelve years was local judicial magis¬ 


trate. He is president of Larcells Manu¬ 
facturing Company, manufacturers of 
soaps and perfumes. He is a son of Cor¬ 
nelius L. Allen, the noted lawyer and 
jurist. 

ALLEN, WILL PAT, dentist, mer¬ 
chant, stock dealer, was born July 26, 
1873, in Rocky Station, Va. He gradu¬ 
ated from the Vanderbilt University of 
Nashville, Tenn.; and graduated in den¬ 
tistry with first honors and the degree 
of D. D. S. He has been a successful 
merchant and traveling salesman; is 
now a patent promoter; and a successful 
stock dealer of Walnut Hill, Va. He is 
a son of Dr. P. H. Allen, who for thirty- 
eight years practiced medicine in Lee 
County, Va. 

BROWN, ALLEN HENRY, clergyman, 
evangelist, was born Sept. 23, 1820, in 
New York city. For over a half a cen¬ 
tury he has been engaged as a presbyter- 
ian minister, principally on the coast of 
New Jersey. He was ordained as an 
evangelist in 1848, and has always been 
engaged in itinerant and missionary 
work. He is the author of An Autobiog¬ 
raphy. which is the interesting history 
of a pioneer of Southern New Jersey and 
the Presbytery of West Jersey. 

BROWN, AMOS PEASLEE, educator, 
geologist, was born Dec. 3, 1864, in Ger¬ 
mantown. Pa. Since 1892 he has been 
professor of geology and mineralogy in 
the University of Pennsylvania. He has 
contributed extensively to scientific liter¬ 
ature. 

BROWN, J. ELDRED, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Jan. 4, 1861, in 
Newport, R. I. In 1887-96 he was rector 
Church of Reconciliation of Webster. 
Mass.; and since 1896 has been rector 
Trinity Church of Norwich, Conn. He is 
the lauthor of a historical sermon entitled 
A Half-Century of Parish Life. 

CLARK. ANSEL RUSSELL, soldier, ed¬ 
ucator, merchant, lawyer, jurist, was born 
April 10. 1842, in Huntsburg, Ohio. In 
1860 he moved to Iowa City; and served 
throughout the civil war in the second 
Iowa cavalry. He then for six years was 
engaged as a school teacher, merchant 
and farmer at Mattoon, Ill. Since 1873 
he has practiced law in Sterling. Kan., 
excepting for the thirteen years that he 
has now been judge of the twentieth ju¬ 
dicial district. 

CLARK, J. N., educator, college presi¬ 
dent. He is a noted educator of Kansas; 
and is president of Central Normal Col¬ 
lege of Great Bend, Kan. 

CLARK, RUFUS, J., educator, college 
president, inventor. He is a prominent 
educator of Kingston Springs, Tenn.; and 
is president of Vanderbilt Preparatory 
Academy. He invented the viola-piano, 
and is now engaged perfecting the Sing¬ 
ing Piano. 

CLARK, SIMEON CARNES, educator, 
surveyor, jurist, was born Oct. 29, 1868, 
in San Jacinto county, Texas. For three 
years he was county surveyor of San 
Jacinto county; for one year was county 
superintendent of public schools; and for 
the past eight years has been county 
judge. He has always taken an active 
part in the business and public affairs of 
his city, county and state. 

CLARKE, GEORGE, educator, college 
president, was born Dec. 23, 1862, in 
Greenup county, Ky. Since 1887 he has 
been principal of the Hindman School, 
Ky.; has been county examiner; and in 
1896 became a member of the state board 
of examiners of —entucky. 


DAVIS, CHARLES HOWARD, artist, 
was born Feb. 2, 1857, in East Cambridge, 
Mass. He acquired a knowledge of paint¬ 
ing; and since 1879 has been a profes¬ 
sional artist. He is now connected with 
the Howard Anthenaeum of Boston, Mass. 

EARLING, ALBERT J., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Jan. 19, 1849, in Richfield, 
Wis. In 1866 he entered the employ of 
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail¬ 
way; and in 1899 became its president. 

HALL, JAMES HUGH BLAIR, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, college president, was 
born Sept. 22, 1855, m Monroe county, 
Tenn. In 1878 he began teaching in Ala¬ 
bama; and is a clergyman in the Cumber¬ 
land Presbyterian Church. He is the 
founder and president of the Zelosophian 
Academy of Birmingham, Ala. 

HALL, NORMAN GORDON, inventor, 
was born Sept. 22, 1867, in Canada. His 
grantfather, David Hall, was born in the 
state o- New York. He is now engagATt 
in drilling artesian and tubular wells in 
South Dakota. He is the inventor of a 
drill turner; and also other mechanical 
devices. 

HALL, THOMAS F., railroad contrac¬ 
tor, lumber and grain merchant, legisla¬ 
tor, inventor, was born June 23, 1841, in 
East Dennis, Mass. He has been a ship 
captain; and for many years was a rail¬ 
road tie contractor and operated saw¬ 
mills. He is now engaged in the lumber 
and grain business in Omaha, Neb. He 
has been postmaster of Omaha; and a 
member of the Nebraska state legisla¬ 
ture. He is the inventor of the Hall 
Grain Distributer and Overflow Signal, 
which is now in extensive use. 

HOLDEN, ALBERT J., musician, com¬ 
poser, was born in 1841. in Boston, Mass. 
For thirty-five years he has been organ¬ 
ist at Church of the Divine Paternity and 
the Church of the Puritans of New York 
city. He has composed three hundred an¬ 
thems. hymns and other church music. 

JOHNSON, ALBINUS ALONZO, clergy¬ 
man, college president, founder, author, 
was born Feb. 8, 1852, in Lexington, Ind. 
He has been pastor and presiding presi¬ 
dent and founder of Fort Worth Univer¬ 
sity, Texas; and has been president of 
the state University of Wyoming. He is 
now pastor of St. James Methodist Epis¬ 
copal Church of Denver, Colo. He is the 
author of Steps to Salvation, a Compen¬ 
dium of Essential Doctrines. 

JOHNSON. BENJAMIN, legislator, 
bishop, was born July 28, 1818, in Fre- 
donia, N. Y. In 1831 he became ac¬ 
quainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith, 
was closely associated with him, and 
through the last years of his life was his 
business partner, his legal agent, and his 
companion. In 1846 he was driven from 
Nauvoo, and moved to Utah with the 
Mormon pioneers; served fourteen terms 
in the Utah legislative assembly; served 
the people as bishop and other public 
callings; and now serves as patriarch in 
the Church of Latterday Saints. 

JONES, JOHN LLOYD, clergyman, mis¬ 
sionary, author, was born Dec. 11. 1840. 
in Wales. Since 1872 he has filled several 
pastorates in the United States; and in 
1883 was missionary to Nevada. In 1896 
he was secretary of the National Reform 
Association at Philadelphia. Pa. ; and in 
1898 was general secretary of the Amer¬ 
ican Citizenship Alliance. He now fills 
a pastorate in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church of Potter. N. Y. He is the author 
of Patriotic Melodies. 


cxx 


ADDENDA. 


JONES, MINOR S., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1850. In 1878 be was admitted 
to the bar and has since attained prom¬ 
inence in his profession at Titusville, Fla. 
He fills the position of circuit judge of the 
seventh judicial circuit of Florida; and 
has held other offices of honor in his city, 
county and state. 

LAFFAN, WILLIAM N., journalist, 
publisher, author, was born Jan. 22, 1848, 
in Ireland. He is the publisher and part 
proprietor of the New York Sun. He is 
the author of American Wood Engraving. 

McKNIGHT, HIRAM PECK, lawyer, 
state senator, author, was born April 
3, 1859, in Waddington, N. Y. He gradu¬ 
ated from the University of Michigan and 
in law from the Albany Law School. For 
two terms from 1883 he represented hia 
senatorial district in the Michigan state 
legislature. He is well-known in Ohio 
and the central states as one of the best 
criminal lawyers. He is the author of 
several works, and a noted contributor 
to law literature. 

MILLER, ELIJAH, educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 16, 1842, in 
Springville, Ill. In 1884 he founded 
Sedgewickville Academy of Sedgewick- 
vile, Mo., which he conducted for five 
years. He has been president and secre¬ 
tary of the synod of Southern Illinois; 
and compiled A History of the Synod. 

MILLER, OHIO L., educator, lawyer, 
college president, was born in 1859. In 
Sigourney, Iowa. In 1885 he became a 
teacher; and for several years was a col¬ 
lege president. He was admitted to the 
practice of law by the supreme court of 
Washington; and for several years has 
been engaged in the practice of law at 
Baker City, Oregon, where he is also sec¬ 
retary of the chamber of commerce. 

MOORE, JAMES Z., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Owensboro, Ky. He is a promin¬ 
ent lawyer and counselor of Washington 
at Spokane. He was a member of the 
constitutional convention which framed 
the Constitution under which Washing¬ 
ton was admitted into the union. He has 
served with distinction as judge of the 
superior court; has been prosecuting at¬ 
torney; and is now a member of the 
Board of Regents of the University of 
Washington. 

MERCIER, ALFRED, physician, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born June 3. 1816, in Mc- 
Donogh, La. He practiced medicine for 
a while in New Orleans, La. He is the 
author of several works of fiction in 
French; and a volume of poems. 

MILLER. ARTHUR SCOTT, soldier, 
lawyer, builder, was born Nov. 13. 1848, 
in Alto, Mich. In 1864 he enlisted in the 
United States navy, and served to the end 
of the civil war. For a number of years 
he was court stenographer; then prac¬ 
ticed law; and subsequently became an 
extensive builder of houses and blocks 
in Denver, Colo., where he now resides. 

MOORE, MILES C.. banker, governor, 
was born April 17, 1845, in Rix Mills, 
Ohio. Since 1863 he has resided in the 
state of Washington; and is now presi¬ 
dent of the Baker-Boyer National Bank 
of Walla Walla. He was the last terri¬ 
torial governor of Washington. 

MOORE, R. L., educator, college presi¬ 
dent, was born in Globe. N. C. He is a 
prominent educator of North Carolina: 
and is president Mars Hill College of 
Mars Hill, N. C. 

MOORE. RICHARD FRANCIS, clergy¬ 
man, founder, was born July 26. 1858. in 
Hartford, Conn. As a church builder and 


organizer he is well known in New Eng¬ 
land; and in his diocese he has organized 
three parishes and equipped them with 
costly edifices. He is rector of St. Joseph’s 
Church of New Britain, Conn.; and con¬ 
tributes extensively tc/ religious literature. 

MUNN, HIRAM H., lawyer, author, was 
born Sept. 25, 1838, in Cleveland, Ohio. 
He is the author of History of the De¬ 
clination of the Great Republic. 

PARKER, HERSCHEL CLIFFORD, 
electrical engineer, author, was born July 
9, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y. For many 
years he was actively engaged in moun¬ 
tain climbing; ascended Mount Blanc in 
1891; Matterhorn in 1895; and made the 
first ascent of Mount Dawson in 1899. He 
is president of the Vedanta Society of New 
York City. Since 1890 he has been in¬ 
structor of physics in Columbia Universi¬ 
ty of New York City. He is the author 
oi A Systematic Treatise on Electrical 
Measurements; and a number of Mono¬ 
graphs. 

ROCHE, ROBERT TIMPANY, mission¬ 
ary, clergyman, was born Feb. 25, 1823, in 
Nova Scotia. He has been a successful 
clergyman of the episcopal church for 
half a century. He has been a missionary 
in British America, and rector of George¬ 
town, Prince Edward Island. He has 
filled pastorates in Riverton, N. J. f St. 
Paul’s church of Philadelphia, Christ 
church of Muscatine, Iowa; pastorates 
in Palatka and Monticello, Fla., and now 
fills a pastorate in St. James’ church of 
Eatontown, N. J. 

SMITH, ELLISON G., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Dec. 5, 1849, in Ohio. He has 
been United States district attorney; and 
is noted as an eminent jurist of South 
Dakota, at Yankton. For twelve years he 
has served his state as circuit judge. 

SMITH, FRANCIS MARION, capitalist, 
was born Feb, 2. 1846, in Richmond, Wis. 
In 1872 he discovered Teels Marsh Borax 
Mines. He is president of the Pacific 
Coast Borax Company; and also president 
of the Realty Syndicate, Oakland, Cal. 

SMITH, GEORGE P., agriculturist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 25, 1858, and is a 
son of Rufus Smith. He is a prominent 
citizen of Sunderland, Mass.; and 
in 1900 was a delegate to the Farmer's 
National Congress. In 1898-1901 he was a 
member of the Massachusetts state board 
of agriculture. He is the author of An 
Essay on The Revolutions of Farm Ma¬ 
chines in Massachusetts Agriculture. 

SMITH, JOHN B., clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, college president, was born Aug. 29, 
1836, in Union county, Ind. He is an 
eminent divine of Crockett, Texas; and 
vice-president of the First National Bank 
of that city. He was chaplain of the 
nineteenth regiment Ohio volunteers in¬ 
fantry during the civil war. He has been 
president of the Farmers’ College; presi¬ 
dent of the Mary Allen Seminary. 

SMITH, VERNON H„ lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1838 in Norfolk county, Can¬ 
ada. He has attained prominence as a 
successful lawyer of Michigan. For twelve 
years he was circuit judge of the eighth 
judicial circuit. He still practices law 
in Ionia, Mich. 

THOMPSON, ALTON HOWARD, den¬ 
tist, author, was born April 8. 1849, in 
Logansport, Ind. He is a successful den¬ 
tist of Topeka, Kan. He contributes ex¬ 
tensively to dental mazagines and books; 
and stands high in his profession. 

THOMPSON, GEORGE KRAMER, arch¬ 
itect, was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He is 
one of the most prominent architects in 
the United States; and has erected some 


of its finest buildings. He was architect 
of the Manhattan Life building, Standard 
Oil building, Empire building and other 
noted buildings and blocks of New York. 

THOMPSON, GILBERT, topographer, 
was born March 21, 1839, in North Black- 
stone, Mass. During the civil war ho 
served as a soldier and assistant engineer. 
Since 1866 he has been engaged on West¬ 
ern explorations and surveys. 

TOWER, GEORGE WARREN, geolo- 
gist, was born Oct. 27, 1871, in Cambridge, 
Mass. In 1894 he graduated from Har¬ 
vard University; and since then has been 
in the United States service. He has 
written many reports on mining. 

WHITE, HENRY W., He is vice-presi¬ 
dent of Savings Institution City of Wil¬ 
liamsport, Pa. ; and president of Williams¬ 
port Passenger Railway. He has filled 
numerous positions of trust and honor. 

WILCOX, MILTON CHARLES, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born April 
9, 1853, in Theresa, N. Y. For a while 
he was a school teacher; and later a 
clergyman in the Seventh Day Adventists. 
In 1884 he started The Present Truth in 
London, England, now having a large cir¬ 
culation. During 1887-99 he was associate 
editor of Signs of the Times, of Oakland, 
Cal., of which publication he is now ed¬ 
itor-in-chief. He has been president In¬ 
ternational Sabbath School association. 
He is the author of The Lord’s Day; and 
other works. 

WILLIAMS, L. C., educator, college 
president. He is a well known educator 
of Maine; and is president of Somerset 
Academy of Athens, Maine. 

WILIAMS, WILLIAM BENJAMIN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born May 28, 1841, in 
Wales. He has been a pastor of churches 
both in the Congregation and Presbyterian 
denominations; and is now a Presbyter¬ 
ian sabbath school missionary in Tacoma, 
Wash. He is the author of a number of 
Well-known hymns, which have been pub¬ 
lished in Sacred Songs, Uplifted Voices, 
and various other standard works. 

WILLIAMS, SHERMAN, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in Cooperstown, N. Y. 
He is a noted state institute conductor; 
and now superintendent of schools at 
Glens Falls, N. Y. He is the author of a 
series of supplementary readers known 
as Choice Literature. 

WILSON, CALVIN DILL, clergyman, 
author, was born July 12, 1857, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He is pastor of the Presby¬ 
terian Church at Franklin, Ohio. He is 
the author of Bible Girls and Boys; 
Child’s Don Quixote; and the Story of the 
Cid, 

WILSON, CHARLES A., physician, sur¬ 
geon, founder, was born in 1856, in Har- 
risonville, Ohio. In 1879 he graduated 
from the Medical College of Ohio, and 
received the faculty prize of a gold medal 
for excellence in al departments. He is 
now a prominent orthopedic surgeon of 
Indianapolis, Ind.; and proprietor of the 
National Surgical Institute of that city. 

WILSON, JOHN, banker, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born in Sweden. He was presi¬ 
dent of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ 
Bank of Stromsburg, Neb.; and was pro¬ 
minent in the financial and public affairs 
of his city, county and state. He was 
an elder in the Free Methodist Church; 
and actively engaged in its foreign mis¬ 
sion work, to which he donated large 
sums of money for its maintenance. He 
died in 1901, in Stromsburg, Neb. His son. 
Nathan Wilson, is cashier of the Farmers’ 
and Merchants’ hank of Stromsburg, Neb. 


HERRINGSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA 

OF 

AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


AARON, SAMUEL, clergyman, educat¬ 
or, author, was born in 1800 in New Brit¬ 
ain, Pa. He was a baptist clergyman and 
educator of Mount Holly, N. J., and prom¬ 
inent as an anti-slavery advocate. He 
published a number of popular text-books, 
and was the author of Faithful Transla¬ 
tion. He died April 11, 1865, in Mount 
Holly, N. J. 

ABADIE, EUGENE H., surgeon, was 
born about 1814 in France. In 1836 he 
entered the medical corps of the United 
States army, and in 1853 was promoted 
surgeon. In 1865 he became chief medi¬ 
cal officer of the military division of west 
Mississippi; in 1866 medical director of 
the department of Missouri; and lastly 
acting assistant medical purveyor at St. 
Louis. At the time of his death he had 
seen more years of actual service than 
any, save two, of the army surgeons. He 
died Dec. 12, 1874, in St. Louis, Mo. 

ABBADIE, D’, governor of Louisiana, 
was born about 1710. He was sent to 
America by Louis XV of France, to take 
charge of certain royal business interests 
in New Orleans, and was granted militai’y 
authority over the affairs of the province. 
He died Feb. 4, 1765, in New Orleans, La. 

ABBATT, AGNES DEAN, artist, was 
born June 23, 1847, in New York city. 
She has given special attention to the 
painting of chrysanthemums, and her 
most noteworthy pictures are: When Au¬ 
tumn Turns the Leaves; and The Last of 
the Flowers. In the landscape field she 
has confined her work mostly to rural 
scenes in Westchester County, N. Y. 

ABBE, CLEVELAND, astronomer, me¬ 
teorologist, author, was born Dec. 3, 1838, 
in New York city. He was director of the 
Cincinnati observatory; and in 1871 be¬ 
came professor of meteorology in the na¬ 
tional weather bureau and has since con¬ 
tinued in that position. The more im¬ 
portant of his many publications include 
Solar Spots and Terrestrial Temperature; 
A Plea for Terrestrial Physics; Atmos¬ 
pheric Radiation; Treatise on Meteoro¬ 
logical Apparatus; and Preparatory Stud¬ 
ies for Deductive Methods in Meteorology. 

ABBE, FREDERICK RANDOLPH, 
clergyman, poet, was born in 1827 in Con¬ 
necticut. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man in Massachusetts; and the author of 
The Temple Rebuilt, a poem of Christian 
faith. He died in 1889. 

ABBETT, LEON, lawyer, legislator, jur¬ 
ist, governor, was born Oct. 8, 1826, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1862 he settled in 
Hoboken, N. J., in the practice of law; 
and in 1863 was appointed corporation at¬ 
torney. In 1864 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the New Jersey legislature; 
was re-elected in 1865; was again elected 
to the same position in 1868, and was 
chosen speaker of the house. He was re¬ 
elected to both positions in 1869; was 
corporation counsel for Bayonne City and 

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the town of Union; and in 1872 was a 
delegate to the democratic national con¬ 
vention. In 1874 he was elected a state 
senator; and in 1876 became corporation 
counsel of Jersey City, to which place he 
had removed in 1866. In 1883 he was 
elected governor of New Jersey for the 
term of three years; and in 1893 he was 
appointed a justice of the supreme court. 

ABBEY, EDWIN AUSTIN, artist, was 
born in 1852 in Philadelphia, Pa. He en¬ 
tered the employ of Harper and Brothers 
of New York city as an illustrator to 
Harpers’ Magazine. He has attracted 
considerable attention as a water-colorist 
by such pictures as The Widow; and 
Reading the Bible. 

ABBEY, EVERETT L., educator, auth¬ 
or, was born Oct. 10, 1855, in Mayfield, 
Ohio. He graduated from Wooster Uni¬ 
versity in 1880, and in 1890 traveled in 
Europe. He is a successful educator of 
Cambridge, Ohio; and the author of The 
Passion Play. 

ABBEY, HENRY, journalist, poet, was 
born July 11, 1842, in Rondout, N. Y. He 
studied at Kingston Academy and at the 
Hudson River Insti¬ 
tute in Columbia 
county. His first 
collection of poems, 
entitled May Dreams, 
was published in 
1862. For many 
years he was en¬ 
gaged in journalism 
in New York city, 
where he is also con¬ 
nected with several 
financial institutions. 
He is the author of 
Ballads of Good Deeds; The City of Suc¬ 
cess; May Dreams; Ralph and Other 
Poems; Stories in Verse; and The Poems 
of Henry Abbey. The poem Ralph is con¬ 
sidered one of his best. 

ABBEY, HENRY EUGENE, dramatic 
manager, was born June 27, 1846, in Ak¬ 
ron, Ohio. He began life as clerk in his 
father’s jewelry store; rose to partner¬ 
ship; and in 1873 succeeded to the busi¬ 
ness. In 1869 he leased the Akron theater, 
which he managed with so much success 
that in 1876 he also leased the Park thea¬ 
ter of New York city, and from that time 
forward devoted his energies entirely to 
dramatic affairs. He is now the manager 
of Abbey’s theater and the Metropolitan 
opera house of New York city; and of 
the Tremont theater of Boston, Mass. 

ABBEY, RICHARD, clergyman, theolog¬ 
ian, author, was born Nov. 16, 1805, in 
Genesee county, N. Y. He was a promin¬ 
ent clergyman of the southern methodist 
church, among whose many theological 
and controversial writings are: End of 
the Apostolical Succession; Creed of All 
Men; Diuturnity; Ecce Ecclesia, a Reply 
to Ecce Homo; and The City of God and 
the Church Makers. 


ABBOT, ABIEL, clergyman, author, was 
born Dec. 14, 1765, in Wilton, N. H. He 
was a congregational clergyman of Con¬ 
necticut and Massachusetts; and the auth¬ 
or of a History of Andover; and a Gene¬ 
alogy of the Abbot Family. He died Jan. 
31, 1859, in West Cambridge, Mass. 

ABBOT, ABIEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 17, 1770, in Andover, Mass. 
He w T as a congregational clergyman of 
Beverly, Mass.; and the author of Let¬ 
ters From Cuba. He died June 7, 1828, 
on Staten Island, N. Y. 

ABBOT, EZRA, theologian, author, was 
born April 28, 1819, in Jackson, Maine. He 
was a Unitarian biblical scholar of much 
prominence, who was for many years a 
professor in the Divinity school of Har¬ 
vard university, and widely known for the 
extent of his bibliographical acquire¬ 
ments. He was the author of Literature 
of the Doctrine of a Future Life; Authen¬ 
ticity of the Fourth Gospel; and The 
Fourth Gospel and Other Critical Essays. 
He died March 21, 1884, in Cambridge, 
Mass. 

ABBOT, FRANCIS ELLINGWOOD, 
author, was born Nov. 6, 1836, in Boston, 
Mass. He is a religious and philosophical 
thinker of advanced views; for some 
years editor of The Index, of Cambridge; 
and the author of Scientific Theism; and 
The Way Out of Agnosticism. 

ABBOT, GORHAM DUMMER, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 3, 1807, 
in Hallowell, Maine. He was a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman, long an educator of 
New York city, and a brother of Jacob 
Abbott, but returned to an older spelling 
of his surname. He was the author of 
Prayer-Book for the Young; Pleasure and 
Profit; and The Family at Home. He died 
July 31, 1874, in South Natick, Mass. 

ABBOT, HENRY LARCOM, soldier, 
civil engineer, author, was born Aug. 13, 
1831, in Beverly, Mass. He is a general 
in the United States army, and of prom¬ 
inence as an engineer. Besides several 
series of Professional Papers, his writings 
include Lectures on the Defence of the 
Sea Coast of the United States; and 
Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi 
River. 

ABBOT, JOEL, congressman, was born 
March 17, 1766, in Fairfield, Conn., and 
emigrated to Georgia. He was elected a 
representative in congress from Wilkes 
county from 1817 to 1825. He died Nov. 
19, 1826, in Washington, Ga. 

ABBOT, JOEL, naval officer, was born 
Jan. 18, 1793, in Westford, Mass. Con¬ 
gress voted him a handsome sword for 
gallantry in action off Cumberland Head 
on Sept. 11, 1814, and he was also promot¬ 
ed lieutenant. In 1852 he commanded the 
Macedonian in the Japan expedition, and 
succeeded Commodore Perry as flag-of¬ 
ficer of the squadron. He died Dec. 1, 
1855, in Hong Kong, China. 





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ABBOT, JOHN, educator, librarian, 
financier. In 1784 he graduated from 
Bowdoin college, and during 1787-92 was 
a tutor in Harvard 
college. For fourteen 
years he filled a pro¬ 
fessorship in Bow¬ 
doin college, and 
subsequently became 
a trustee and the 
college treasurer. 
For more than a 
quarter of a cen¬ 
tury he was an 
officer of Bowdoin 
college, as professor, 
librarian, and treas¬ 
urer. For over half a century he was 
actively identified with the progressive 
welfare of his alma mater, and attained a 
national reputation in the educational 
world. He died in 1843 in Andover, Mass. 

ABBOT, JOSEPH HALE, educator, was 
born Sept. 26, 1802, in Wilton, N. H. He 
graduated from Bowdoin college in 1822; 
was tutor there in 1825-27; and from 1827 
to 1833 professor of mathematics and 
teacher of modern languages in Phillips 
Exeter academy. He then taught a school 
for young ladies in Boston, and subse¬ 
quently became principal of the high 
school of Beverly, Mass. He paid much 
attention to the solving of pneumatic and 
hydraulic problems, and published in¬ 
genious and original speculations on these 
subjects. He died April 7, 1873, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

ABBOT, WILLIS JOHN, journalist, 
author, was born in 1863 in Connecticut. 
He is a journalist of New York city; and 
the author of Blue Jackets of 1776; Blue 
Jackets of 1812; Blue Jackets of 1861, 
three volumes of history for young people; 
Battle Fields of 1861; Battle Fields and 
Camp Fires; Battle Fields and Victory; 
and Life of Carter Harrison. 

ABBOTT, ALEXANDER C., physician, 
educator, was born Feb. 26, 1860, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He is the chief of division of 
bacteriology, pathology, and disinfection 
of the bureau of health of Philadelphia, 
Pa.; and fills the chair of hygiene in the 
Pennsylvania university. 

ABBOTT, AMOS, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 10, 1786, in Andover, 
Mass. He was educated at a district 
school, but spent the most of his life as 
a trader and merchant. During the years 
1835, 1836, and 1842, he was a representa¬ 
tive in the Massachusetts legislature; from 
1840 to 1842 was a member of the state 
senate; and represented his native state 
in congress from 1843 to 1849. He died 
Nov. 2, 1868, in Andover, Mass. 

ABBOTT, ARTHUR VAUGHAN, elec¬ 
trician, author, was born in 1854 in New 
York. He is a civil, electrical, and me¬ 
chanical engineer of Chicago; and the 
author of Electrical Transmission of En¬ 
ergy; The Evolution of a Switchboard; 
History and Use of Testing Machines; and 
Treatise on Fuel. 

ABBOTT, ASA T., soldier, educator, was 
born in Sidney, Maine. He served as a 
union soldier in the civil war in the first 
regiment Minnesota volunteer infantry. 
In 1867 he was appointed military com¬ 
mandant of Shattuck Military school by 
the secretary of war; and under his com¬ 
mand it has been placed at the very head 
of the military schools in the United 
States. 

ABBOTT, AUSTIN, lawyer, author, was 
born Dec. 18, 1831, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a lawyer of New York city; and was 
dean of the Law school of New York 
university at the time of his death. Be¬ 
sides preparing several works with his 


brother Benjamin, he published Legal 
Remembrancer, Principles and Forms of 
Practice in Civil Actions in Courts of 
Record; The Law of Evidence; Select 
Cases on Code Pleading; and a Digest 
of New York Statutes. These legal com¬ 
pilations are of great value to the pro¬ 
fession. He died in 1896. 

ABBOTT, BENJAMIN, clergyman, was 
born in 1732 on Long Island, N. Y. The 
story of his life has for a century been 
a typical one for the methodists, of which 
denomination he was an early apostle. 
He died Aug. 14, 1796, in Salem, N. J. 

ABBOTT, BENJAMIN VAUGHAN, 
lawyer, author, was born June 4, 1830, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer of New 
York city; and the author of Law Dic¬ 
tionary; Traveling Law School and Fam¬ 
ous Trials; First Lessons in Government 
and Law; Patent Laws of All Nations; 
Year-Book of Jurisprudence for 1880; and 
Judge and Jury. He died Feb. 17, 1890, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

ABBOTT, CHARLES CONRAD, physi¬ 
cian, naturalist, author, was born June 4, 
1843, in Trenton, N. J. He is a naturalist 
and physician of Trenton, whose writings 
show a very close and sympathetic ob¬ 
servation of nature. He is the author of 
The Stone Age in New Jersey; Primitive 
Industry; A Naturalist’s Rambles about 
Home; Cyclopaedia of Natural History; 
Upland and Meadow; Wasteland Wan¬ 
derings; The Birds About Us; Days Out 
of Doors; Outings at Odd Times; Recent 
Rambles; Travels in a Treetop; Notes 
of the Night; A Colonial Wooing, a novel; 
and Bird-Land Echoes. 

ABBOTT, CHARLES EDWARD, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1811 in Maine. 
He was an educator in Connecticut; and 
the author of Down the Hill; and Village 
Boys. He died in 1880. 

ABBOTT, DAVID, pioneer, was born 
Dec. 5, 1765, in Brookfield, Mass. In 1808 
he became the first land-owner in what is 
now Erie county. He died in 1822. 

ABBOTT, EDWARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born July 15, 1841, in Farming- 
ton, Maine. He is an episcopal clergy¬ 
man of St. James episcopal church of 
Cambridge, but prior to 1878 a congrega¬ 
tional minister and editor of The Congre- 
gationalist. He is the editor of The Liter¬ 
ary World; and the author of Dialogues 
of Christ; The Long Look series of ju¬ 
venile tales; A Trip Eastward; Revolu¬ 
tionary Times; Paragraph History of the 
United States; and Paragraph History of 
the American Revolution. 

ABBOTT, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, 
educator, was born Sept. 11, 1852. She 
has been eminently successful in kinder¬ 
garten work; and is secretary of the Con¬ 
necticut Valley Kindergarten association. 
She is well known as a writer and speak¬ 
er, and was the chief founder of the Wom¬ 
an’s club of Waterbury, Conn. 

ABBOTT, EMMA A., vocalist, was born 
Dec. 9, 1849, in Chicago, Ill. She was the 
daughter of a music teacher, and was edu¬ 
cated in part by the aid of Clara Louise 
Kellogg. She sang throughout the United 
States, and in an incredibly short time 
amassed a fortune. Although married to 
Mr. E. J. Wetherill, she always retained 
her maiden name. She died Jan. 4, 1891, 
in Ogden, Utah; and was buried in Glou¬ 
cester, Mass. 

ABBOTT, FRANK, physician, author, 
was born Sept. 5, 1836, in Shapleigh, 
Maine. He received his education in the 
district and high schools of his native 
town, and at the university;of the City of 
New York. He has attained eminence as 
a great physician, and for more than a 


quarter of a century has been professor 
and dean of faculty of the New York Col¬ 
lege of Dentistry. He is the author of 
several well-known works. 

ABBOTT, JACOB, educator, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 14, 1803, in Hallo- 
well, Maine. He was an educator of New 
England, who was a voluminous and 
popular writer for young people. Among 
his numerous writings the best known 
are The Franconia Stories; Marco 
Paul’s Adventures; The Rollo Books; 
Histories of Celebrated Sovereigns; and 
Harper’s Story Books. Few writers 
have given to the public a great¬ 
er number of volumes. He has ad¬ 
dressed himself principally to the young, 
with whom his works have been exceed¬ 
ingly popular. Nearly all of his books 
have been republished in England, and 
many have been translated into the vari¬ 
ous European and Asiatic languages. The 
twenty-eight volumes of Rollo Books are 
perhaps his best known. He died Oct. 31, 
1879, in Farmington, Maine. 

ABBOTT, JO, soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, Hillsboro, Texas, was born 
Jan. 15, 1840, near Decatur, Ala. He 
served in the Twelfth Texas cavalry, 
confederate army, as first lieutenant. 
He was elected to the state legisla¬ 
ture in 1869 and served one term. 
He was appointed by Governor Roberts 
judge of the twenty-eighth judicial dis¬ 
trict in 1879; was elected to the same po¬ 
sition in 1880, and served four years. He 
was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, 
Fifty-second, and Fifty-third congresses, 
and re-elected to the Fifty-fourth congress 
as a democrat. 

ABBOTT, JOHN STEVENS CABOT, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
Sept. 18, 1805, in Brunswick, Maine. He 
was for some years a congregational min¬ 
ister, but after 1844 devoted himself to 
literature and educational work. Among 
his works are comprised The Mother at 
Home; Practical Christianity; Romance 
of Spanish History; American Pioneers 
and Patriots; History of Napoleon; Na¬ 
poleon at St. Helena; History of the 
French Revolution; History of the Civil 
War in America; Lives of the Presidents; 
History of Maine from Its Discovery by 
Northmen; Christopher Carson; History 
of Napoleon III; History of Frederick 
the Great; and History of Christianity. 
He died June 17, 1877, in Fair Haven, 
Conn. 

ABBOTT, JOSEPH C., soldier, lawyer, 
journalist, United States senator, was 
born July 15, 1825, in Concord, N. H. He 
received an academic 
education; read law, 
and was admitted to 
the bar in 1852. He 
was editor and pro¬ 
prietor of the Man¬ 
chester American for 
five years, and sub¬ 
sequently editor of 
the Boston Atlas. He 
was appointed adju¬ 
tant general of the 
state of New Hamp¬ 
shire in 1855, and 
held the office until 1861, when he re¬ 
signed. He raised a regiment of infantry 
in 1861; and in 1865 was brevetted 
brigadier general for gallant services 
in the capture of Fort Fisher. After 
leaving the service he removed to 
North Carolina and entered into busi¬ 
ness; in 1867 was elected to the state 
constitutional convention; in 1868 was 
elected to the state legislature, and in 
1868 was elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate as a republican. He died Oct. 8, 1882, 
in Wilmington, N. C. 




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ABBOTT, JOSIAH GARDNER, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, congressman, was 
born Nov. 1, 1815, in Chelmsford, Mass. 
He received a classical education, gradu¬ 
ating from Harvard university in 1832. 
He was a representative in the state legis¬ 
lature in 1836; a state senator in 1841-42; 
was judge of the superior court in 1855; 
and successfully contested the seat of 
Rufus S. Frost as a representative from 
Massachusetts to the Forty-fourth con¬ 
gress. He declined the renomination, and 
was subsequently a candidate for the 
United States senate, and for the govern¬ 
orship of Massachusetts. He died June 2, 
1891, in Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

ABBOTT, LYMAN, lawyer, clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 18, 1835, 
in Roxbury, Mass. He is a congregational 
minister of broad views, who as editor of 
The Illustrated Christian Weekly and suc¬ 
cessor to Henry Ward Beecher as pastor 
of Plymouth church of Brooklyn, has ex¬ 
ercised a wide influence. He is the author 
of Christianity and Social Problems; 
Jesus of Nazareth; Old Testament Shad¬ 
ows of New Testament Truths; Illustrated 
Commentary on the New Testament; A 
Layman’s Story; How to Study the Bible; 
Life of Christ; In Aid of Faith; The 
Evolution of Christianity; A Study in 
Human Nature; and Dictionary of Re¬ 
ligious Knowledge. 

ABBOTT, NEHEMIAH, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born March 29, 
1806, in Sidney, Maine. He was a member 
of the house of representatives in the 
Maine legislature in 1842-43; and was 
elected a representative from Maine to 
the Thirty-fifth congress. 

ABBOTT, RUSSELL BIGELOW, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, author, 
was born Aug. 8, 1823, in Brookville, Ind. 

He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Indiana 
university, and dur¬ 
ing 1850-55 was prin¬ 
cipal of Newcastle 
seminary, and of the 
Presbyterian for the 
two succeeding 
years. In 1857 he 
was ordained a 
clergyman in the 
Presbyterian church, 
and filled pastorates 
in Brookville in 
1857-64; and Knightstown in 1864-66; 
when he moved to Minnesota. In 1869 he 
was appointed principal of the St. Paul 
seminary, when he received a call as 
pastor of the presbyterian church of Al¬ 
bert Lea, which position he filled till 1884. 
Since 1884 he has been president of the 
Albert Lea college, and pastor of the 
Presbyterian church. He is the author 
of History and Analysis of the Books of 
the Bible; Biblical History; and other 
works. 

ABEEL, DAVID, missionary, author, 
was born June 12, 1804, in New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. J. He was a reformed Dutch 
missionary in China; and the author of 
Journal of a Residence in China; A Mis¬ 
sionary Convention at Jerusalem; and 
The Claims of the World to the Gospel. 
He died Sept. 4, 1846, in Albany, N. Y. 

ABELL, ARUNAH S., founder of the 
Baltimore Sun, was born Aug. 8, 1806, in 
Providence, R. I. The Baltimore Sun was 
established as a penny paper in 1837 and 
placed under the special management of 
Mr. Abell. Upon this journal he won 
distinguished success. In 1868 he bought 
the interests of his associates in The 
Baltimore Sun, and thenceforward was 
sole owner of a property which made the 
fortunes of his family. The Baltimore 


Sun is now owned by the corporation of 
The A. S. Abell Co. He died April 19, 
1888, in Baltimore, Md. 

ABERCROMBIE, JAMES, congressman, 
was born in Georgia. Moving to Alabama, 
he was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1851 to 1855. 

ABERCROMBIE, JAMES, clergyman, 
was born in 1758 in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was principal of the Philadelphia acad¬ 
emy from 1810 to 1819, and retired from 
the ministry in 1833. He published Lec¬ 
tures on the Catechism; and several ser¬ 
mons. He died June 26, 1841, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

ABERCROMBIE, JOHN JOSEPH, sol¬ 
dier, was born 1802, in Tennessee. In 1822 
he graduated from West Point; served in 
the Florida, Mexican and civil wars; and 
was brevetted brigadier-general. He re¬ 
tired in 1865; and died Jan. 3, 1877, in 
Roslyn, N. Y. 

ABERNETHY, ALONZO, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born April 
14, 1836, in Sandusky county, Ohio. He 
received his early 
education in the pub¬ 
lic schools of Belle¬ 
vue, Ohio. In 1854 
he moved with his 
parents to Illyria, 
Iowa, in which state 
he attended the Bur¬ 
lington academy; 
and subsequently en¬ 
tered the university 
of Chicago, from 
which he graduated 
in 1866. He served 
as a union soldier during the civil war, en¬ 
listing in company F, Ninth Iowa volun¬ 
teer infantry, serving four years, going 
out as a private and returning as lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel in command; and was 
twice wounded. He was in forty battles, 
including Pea Ridge, Vicksburg, Brandon, 
and Atlanta. In 1866 he represented his 
county in the lower house of the Eleventh 
general assembly. In 1870 he was elected 
principal of the Des Moines Baptist col¬ 
lege, served one year, and has been a 
member of its board of trustees continu¬ 
ously since. In 1871 he was elected su¬ 
perintendent of public instruction of 
Iowa; was re-elected in 1873, and again 
in 1875. In 1876 he served as president of 
the university of Chicago; and since 1881 
he has been connected with the Cedar 
Valley seminary of Osage, Iowa. 

ABERNETHY, GEORGE, governor of 
Oregon, w r as born in 1807 in Scotland. He 
came to the United States with his par¬ 
ents in 1809, and settled in New York 
state. In 1840 he moved to Oregon, and 
was governor of Oregon during 1845-49, 
before the creation of Oregon as a ter¬ 
ritory. He died in 1877 in Portland, Ore. 

ABERT, BYRON D. L., soldier, business 
man, was born Dec. 2, 1841, in Milwaukee, 
Wis. He enlisted in the Twenty-fourth 
Wisconsin infantry regiment of volun¬ 
teers, in which he became corporal of 
company E. In 1864 he was promoted to 
first lieutenant; and in 1865 was elected 
superintendent of the county poor. 

ABERT, GEORGE, pioneer, state legis¬ 
lator, was born May 10, 1817, in France. 
He helped to build up Milwaukee; and in 
1839 erected the first bakery on the west 
side of the present city of Milwaukee. In 
1846 he was chosen alderman; and for 
six terms during 1861-72 he was a member 
of the state legislature. In 1865 he es¬ 
tablished the first iron foundry. He died 
Oct. 14, 1890, in Milwaukee, Wis. 

ABERT, GEORGE A., business man, 
state senator, was born Oct. 22, 1840, in 
Milwaukee, Wis. In 1877-78 he was state 


senator from the seventh Wisconsin dis¬ 
trict; and in 1879 he served as a city com¬ 
missioner of public works of Milwaukee, 
Wis. 

ABERT, JAMES WILLIAM, soldier, 
was born Nov. 18, 1820, in Mount Holly, 
N. J. He served through the civil war; 
attained the rank of major of the United 
States engineers, and resigned from the 
army in 1864. He was examiner of patents 
in Washington; and later professor of 
mathematics and drawing in the univer¬ 
sity of Missouri at Rolla. 

ABERT, JOHN B., soldier, mechanic, 
was born May 16, 1848, in Milwaukee, Wis. 
He was noted as an expert mechanic. In 
1864 he enlisted in the Forty-fifth Wiscon¬ 
sin regiment of volunteers and served un¬ 
til the close of the war. 

ABERT, JOHN JAMES, soldier, was 
born Sept. 17, 1788, in Shepherdtown, Va. 
In 1829 he succeeded to the charge of the 
topographical bureau at Washington, and 
in 1838 became colonel in command of 
that branch of the engineers. He was re¬ 
tired in 1861 after long and faithful ser¬ 
vice. Colonel Abert was associated in 
the supervision of many of the earlier 
national works of engineering, and his 
reports prepared for the government are 
standards of authority. He was a mem¬ 
ber of several scientific societies, and was 
one of the organizers of the national in¬ 
stitute of science, which was subsequent¬ 
ly merged into the Smithsonian institute. 
He died Sept. 27, 1863, in Washington, 
D. C. 

ABERT, SILVANUS THAYER, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born July 22, 1828, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a civil engineer 
in the United States service; and the au¬ 
thor of Notes Historical and Statistical 
upon the Projected Route for an Inter- 
oceanic Canal between the Atlantic and 
Pacific. 

ABERT, WILLIAM, soldier, was born 
Nov. 18, 1820, in Mount Holly, N. J. He 
graduated from West Point in 1842. After 
service in the infantry he was transferred 
to the topographical engineers, and was 
engaged on the survey of the northern 
lakes in 1843-44. He then served on the 
expedition to New Mexico, and published 
a report. From 1848 to 1850 he was as¬ 
sistant in drawing at West Point, and 
from 1851 to 1860 he was engaged in the 
improvement of western rivers. During 
the civil war he served with distinction. 

ABERT, WILLIAM STONE, lawyer, 
was born July 27, 1845, in Washington, 
D. C. He is a prominent lawyer of Wash¬ 
ington; and among the notable cases in 
which he has figured may be mentioned 
The Washington city postoflice case and 
the Powell will case. 

ABERT, WILLIAM STRETCH, soldier, 
was born Feb. 1, 1836, in Washington, 
D. C. He served in the civil war; was 
brevetted major in 1862; and brigadier- 
general in 1865. He died Aug. 25, 1867, in 
Galveston, Texas. 

ABRAHAM, ABRAHAM, merchant, 
was born March 9, 1843, in New York 
city. He became senior partner of the 
present firm of Abraham and Straus, dry 
goods merchants. He is an excellent mer¬ 
chant, and his store is now the leading 
bazaar of Brooklyn, N. Y., employing 
more than two thousand persons, and 
covering about thirty city lots. 

ABRAHAM, WOODWARD, journalist, 
business man, was born Oct. 2, 1814, in 
Maryland. He was for a time one of the 
publishers of two Baltimore journals, 
The Eastern Express • and The Kaleido¬ 
scope; but of later years he has devoted 
himself to the management of an ex¬ 
tensive ice business. 




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ACHESON, ERNEST F., journalist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 19, 1855, in 
Washington, Pa. He was educated at 
Washington and Jef¬ 
ferson college; read 
law and was admit¬ 
ted to the bar in 
1877; and in 1879 
purchased The 
Washington Observ¬ 
er, of which he has 
since been editor. 
He was elected presi¬ 
dent of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Editorial as¬ 
sociation in January, 
1893, and in June of 
the same year was chosen as recording 
secretary of the National Editorial asso¬ 
ciation. For ten years he was a mem¬ 
ber of the republican state committee; 
was a delegate to the republican national 
conventions at Chicago in 1884 and at St. 
Louis in 1896; was elected to the Fifty- 
fourth; and re-elected to the Fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

ACHESON, MARCUS W„ lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He settled at 
Pittsburg, in the practice of his profes¬ 
sion. In 1880 he was appointed United 
States district judge for the western dis¬ 
trict of Pennsylvania, residing in Wash¬ 
ington, Pa. 

ACHESON, SARAH C., temperance 
w r orker, was born Feb. 20, 1844, in Wash¬ 
ington, Pa. She has been a power in 
temperance work in the state of Texas, 
and has been state president of the Wom¬ 
an’s Christian Temperance union. She 
resides with her husband, Dr. Acheson, in 
Denison, Texas. 

ACHESON, THOMAS DAVIS, clergy¬ 
man, missionary, was born Dec. 8, 1858, 
in Canada. For eight years he was a mis¬ 
sionary, until he accepted the pastorate of 
the presbyterian church of East Grand 
Forks, Minn., where his eloquence has 
made him popular throughout the state. 

ACKEN, WILLIAM HENRY, business 
man, was born Jan. 11, 1833, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. He was elected treas¬ 
urer of the New York rubber company, 
and so remained until 1883, when he was 
elected president of the company. 

ACKER, DAVID D., merchant, was born 
June 13, 1822, in Bergen county, N. J. 
In 1868 he entered the mercantile busi¬ 
ness; was vice-president of the New York 
National Exchange bank; and an active 
and influential member of the Produce 
and Mercantile Exchanges and Chamber 
of Commerce. He died March 23, 1888, in 
New York city. 

ACKER, EPHRAIM L., educator, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 
1827, in Marlborough township, Pa. He 
was editor and publisher of The Norris¬ 
town Register. He was superintendent 
of common schools for Montgomery coun¬ 
ty from 1854 to 1860; and was appointed 
postmaster at Norristown in 1860. He 
was inspector of Montgomery county pris¬ 
on three years; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Forty- 
second congress. 

ACKERMAN, AMOS T„ lawyer, was 
born in 1819, in New Hampshire. He re¬ 
ceived a good education; studied law, 
and came to the bar in 1841. In 1850 he 
moved to Georgia and settled in Elberton, 
where he practiced his profession. In 
1866 he was appointed United States at¬ 
torney for the district of Georgia, and re¬ 
mained in offlce until 1870; in that year 
he was appointed attorney-general of the 
United States, and continued in that posi¬ 
tion until 1872. 


ACKERMAN, CHRISTIAN, manufac¬ 
turer, legislator, was born Sept. 4, 1850, m 
Hanover, Germany. He was elected to 
the Wisconsin state assembly from She¬ 
boygan in 1894; and received the re-elec¬ 
tion in 1896. 

ACKERMAN, ERNEST ROBINSON, 
manufacturer, was born June 17, 1863, 
in New York city. In 1891 he was 
elected to the presi¬ 
dency of The Law¬ 
rence Cement Co., 
which produces five 
thousand barrels per 
day, nearly an eighth 
of the whole product 
in this country. The 
works of the com¬ 
pany extend four 
miles on the Ron- 
dout creek in Ulster 
county, N. Y. The 
mills, kilns, store¬ 
houses, repair shops, cooper shops, rail¬ 
roads and mines, constitute an extensive 
plant, requiring the services of about a 
thousand men. A fleet of twenty-five 
canal boats, built by the company, trans¬ 
ports the product to market by way of 
The Delaware and Hudson canal and the 
Hudson river, and a large number of out¬ 
side vessels find desirable employment in 
the same business. 

ACKERMAN, JESSIE, temperance ad¬ 
vocate, was born July 4, 1860. She is a 
world’s temperance missionary under the 
auspices of the Good Templars and the 
W. C. T. U.; and has traveled in Aus¬ 
tralia, China, Japan, Siam, India, Africa, 
and other lands. Her report in the spring 
of 1896 shows 200,000 miles traveled; 502 
cities visited; 1,417 meetings held; 1,317 
lectures and addresses delivered; 9,000 
white ribbons distributed; 2,000 men 
pledged to abstinence; 647 Good Templars 
initiated; and much other active temper¬ 
ance work performed. 

ACKERMAN, JOHN C., merchant, legis¬ 
lator, was born March 21, 1853, in Lu¬ 
zerne county. Pa. He was elected to the 
Pennsylvania house of representatives in 
1896. 

ACKLEN, JOSEPH HAYES, lawyer, 
legislator, was born May 20, 1850, in Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn., the eldest son of Joseph A. 
S. Acklen and Adelicia Hayes. He was 
educated during early life by private tutor, 
subsequently at Burlington college, New 
Jersey. He graduated in two foreign uni¬ 
versities, acquiring a thorough knowledge 
of both German and French; and finally 
graduated from the law school of Leban¬ 
on, Tenn. Since 1871 he has been actively 
engaged in the practice of law. He was 
elected as a democrat and served in the 
Forty-fifth • and Forty-sixth congresses 
from the Third district of Louisiana. In 
1884 he returned to Nashville, where he 
has successfully engaged in the practice 
of his profession. His writings and 
speeches on political questions have at¬ 
tracted widespread attention. 

ACKLEY, HORACE A., physician, was 
born in 1815, in Genesee county, N. Y. 
He gave a course of lectures in Willough¬ 
by Medical college in 1836. He livqd in 
Toledo for three years, and in 1842 set¬ 
tled in Cleveland, in which city he filled 
the chair of surgery in the Cleveland Med¬ 
ical college until 1858, when he resigned. 
Here he died April 24, 1859. 

ACTON, THOMAS COXTON,-banker, 
was born Feb. 23, 1823, in New York city. 
In 1860 he became commissioner of the 
New York metropolitan police, and two 
years later was president of that board, 
where he remained for seven years, in 
which office he did good service in sup¬ 
pressing the draft riots. In 1870 he was 


appointed superintendent of the United 
States assay office, which post he held for 
twelve years. He became United States 
assistant treasurer at New York in 1882, 
and since 1887 has been president of the 
bank of New Amsterdam. 

ADAIR, GEORGE WASHINGTON, cap¬ 
italist, was born March 1, 1823, in Mor¬ 
gan county, Ga. He has been one of the 
builders of every Atlanta enterprise; pro¬ 
moter of the Atlanta cotton factory; pres¬ 
ident of the Georgia Pacific railroad; 
president of the Tallapoosa Land com¬ 
pany; and director of a number of pros¬ 
perous corporations. 

ADAIR, JAMES, Indian trader, author. 
He was a trader with the Indians of the 
southern states, and for forty years lived 
exclusively among them. He is the au¬ 
thor of a volume entitled The History of 
fhe American Indians. 

ADAIR, JOHN, soldier, legislator, 
United States senator, was born in 1759, 
in Chester county, S. C. He emigrated to 
Kentucky in 1787; served as a major in 
the border warfare of the time; was elect¬ 
ed to the Kentucky legislature, serving 
one year as speaker; in 1799 was a mem¬ 
ber of the convention which formed the 
state constitution; subsequently held the 
office of register of the land office in Ken¬ 
tucky; and was a senator of the United 
States from Kentucky during the years 
1805 and 1806. He commanded the Ken¬ 
tucky troops at the battle of New Orleans 
under General Jackson, and was appoint¬ 
ed a general in the army. He was elected 
a representative in congress from Ken¬ 
tucky from 1831 to 1833. He died May 19, 
1840, in Harrisburg, Ky. 

ADAIR, WILLIAM, horticulturist, state 
senator, was born in 1815, near Glasgow, 
Scotland. In 1834 he settled in Detroit, 
Mich.; worked as a carpenter until 1840; 
when he began business as a gardener 
and horticulturist. He held several local 
positions of honor in Detroit, among 
them president of the Detroit Mechanics’ 
society and president of St. Andrew’s so¬ 
ciety. He was state senator of Michigan 
for nine years during 1861-77. 

ADAMS, ABIGAIL SMITH, author, was 
born Nov. 23, 1744, in Weymouth, Mass. 
Her father was the Rev. William Smith, 
for fortyyears 
a congregatio n a 1 
clergyman of Wey¬ 
mouth. She was the 
wife of President 
John Adams, to 
whom she was mar¬ 
ried Oct. 25, 1764. 

She was endowed 
with intellectual 
gifts, tact, and prac¬ 
tical knowledge, and 
eminently qualified 
to be the companion 
of her husband; and was also an inspira¬ 
tion to her gifted son. She is known to 
literature by her entertaining Letters, ed¬ 
ited by her grandson. She died Oct. 28, 
1818, in Quincy, Mass. 

ADAMS, ALBERT BRINSMADE, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, poet, was born Nov. 11, 
1856, in Kalamazoo county, Mich. He 
graduated from the Vicksburg high 
school, Michigan; and for eight years 
taught school in Mills county, Iowa. He 
now fills a pastorate in Little Sioux, Iowa, 
and has attained success as a clergyman 
and evangelist. He is the author of sev¬ 
eral meritorious poems, the most notable 
of which is The Honored Brave. 

ADAMS, ALLEN WILLSON, merchant, 
was born June 25, 1848, in Hampton, N. 
Y. He is a merchant of New York city, 
and for several years past has done a 
large and successful business. 






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ADAMS, ALVA, merchant, legislator, 
governor of Colorado, was born May 14* 
1850, in Iowa county, Wis. In 1876 he 
served with distinction as a member of 
the first Colorado state legislature; was 
elected governor of that state and served 
during 1887-89; and was again elected to 
that high office for the term of 1897-99, 
He has also attained success as a hard¬ 
ware merchant of Pueblo. 

ADAMS, ALVIN, founder of the Ad¬ 
ams Express company, was born June 16, 
1804. In 1840 Alvin Adams engaged in 
the then novel specialty of forwarding 
parcels, money, and valuable merchandise 
between Boston and New York by way of 
Worcester, Norwich and New London, 
beginning in a little store in Boston. 
Later he formed the partnership of Ad¬ 
ams and Co., with Ephraim Farnsworth, 
the latter taking charge of the New York 
office, and being succeeded at his death 
soon afterwards by William B. Dinsmore. 
In 1854 Mr. Adams effected a union of 
four concerns under the name of The 
Adams Express Co., and became president 
of the organization. He died Sept. 2, 
1877, in Watertown, Mass. 

ADAMS, AMOS, clergyman, was born 
Sept. 1, 1728, in Medfield, Mass. He gradu¬ 
ated at Harvard in 1752, and in Septem¬ 
ber of the following year became pastor 
of a church in Roxbury, which he served 
until his death. He was secretary of the 
convention of ministers at Watertown, 
which in 1775 recommended the people to 
take up arms. Many of his sermons were 
published from 1756 to 1769, as well as 
two discourses on Religious Liberty. The 
most notable of his writings were two 
discourses on the general fast, 6 April, 
1769, in which he gave A Concise Histor¬ 
ical View of the Difficulties, Hardships, 
and Perils which Attended the Planting 
and Progressive Improvement in New 
England, with a Particular Account of Its 
Long and Destructive Wars. He died Oct. 
5, 1775, in Dorchester, Mass. 

ADAMS, ANDREW, lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born in January, 1736, in Strat¬ 
ford, Conn. He graduated from Yale col¬ 
lege in 1760; adopted the profession of 
the law, and settled in the practice in 
Litchfield in 1764. From 1777 to 1782 he 
was a delegate from Connecticut to the 
continental congress, and was one of the 
signers of the articles of confederation. 
In 1789 he was appointed a judge of the 
supreme court of Connecticut, and in 
1793 chief justice of said court. He died 
Nov. 26, 1797, in Litchfield, Conn. 

ADAMS, AUSTIN, lawyer, jurist, was 
bom May 24, 1826, in Andover, Vt. His 
life is interwoven with the educational 
history of Vermont and Iowa. Eight 
generations before him his grandfathers 
without a break have been presidents of 
educational institutions where they lived. 
He graduated from Dartmouth college, 
and from Harvard Law school. He was a 
prominent educator; president of the pub¬ 
lic school board of Dubuque, Iowa; regent 
of the state university of Iowa; a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer and law lecturer; and 
judge of the supreme court of Iowa for 
twelve years. When chief justice he ad¬ 
mitted the first woman to practice be¬ 
fore the supreme court; and always in¬ 
sisted that the true wife and mother 
should enter fully into the intellectual life 
of her life companion. He was a man of 
rare literary attainments, and left a vol¬ 
ume of poems. He died in October, 1890. 

ADAMS, BENJAMIN, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1765 in Worcester, 
Mass. He was a member of the legisla¬ 
ture; as representative from 1809-14; and 
as senator in 1814-15, and 1822-25. He 
was a representative in congress from his 


native state from 1816-21. He died March 
28, 1837, in Uxbridge, Mass. 

ADAMS, BLANCHE HERMINE, edu¬ 
cator, poet, and daughter of Major Enoch 
George Adams, was born Oct. 22, 1871, 
in Vancouver, Wash. In 1885 she moved 
to South Berwick, Maine, and in 1890 
graduated from the Berwick academy. 
She has become a successful teacher, 
and holds high rank as an elocution¬ 
ist. She is the author of several prize 
stories, and her poems have appeared in 
several standard works. 

ADAMS, BROOKS, lawyer, author, was 
born June 24, 1848, in Quincy, Mass. He 
graduated from Harvard in 1870, and is a 
successful lawyer of Boston. He is the 
author of The Gold Standard; The Eman¬ 
cipation of Massachusetts, a careful study 
of the evolution of religious freedom; and 
The Law of Civilization and Decay, an 
Essay in History. 

ADAMS, CHARLES, lawyer, author, 
was born March 12, 1785, in Arlington, 
Vt. He became a prominent lawyer, and 
was a constant contributor to newspapers 
on political questions. He was the friend 
and adviser of General Wool during the 
Canadian difficulties of 1838, and wrote 
a history of the events connected with 
that rebellion. He died r eb. 13, 1861, in 
Burlington, Vt. 

ADAMS, CHARLES, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1808, in New Hampshire. He 
was a methodist clergyman who wrote ex¬ 
tensively, and among whose works are 
Evangelism in the Middle of the Nine¬ 
teenth Century; Women of the Bible; 
The Poet Preacher, a Memorial of Charles 
Wesley; The Earth and Its Wonders; 
Life of Cromwell; and Life Sketches of 
Macaulay. He died in 1890. 

ADAMS, CHARLES BAKER, naturalist, 
author, was born Jan. 11, 1814, in Dor¬ 
chester, Mass. He was a naturalist, and 
published Contributions to Conchology; 
and Monographs of Several Species of 
Shells. He died Jan. 19, 1853, in St. 
Thomas, W. I. 

ADAMS, CHARLES COFFIN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1826. He was an 
episcopal clergyman; and the author of 
Creation, a Recent Work of God; Life of 
Christ; Anthroposophy; and The Bible, a 
Scientific Revelation. He died in 1888. 

ADAMS, CHARLES FOLLEN, soldier, 
poet, was born April 21, 1842, in Dorchest¬ 
er, Mass. He is principally known as the 
author of Leedle 
Y a w c o b Strauss; 
Leedle Yawcob 
Strauss, and Other 
Poems; Dialect Bal¬ 
lads; and other 
works. He served 
gallantly as a soldier 
during the civil war 
in the thirteenth 
regiment Massachu¬ 
setts volunteer in¬ 
fantry. He has de¬ 
livered many of his 
original productions before Boston audi¬ 
ences, in which city he is a successful 
merchant. 

ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, author, was born 
Aug. 18^ 1807, in Boston, Mass. He spent 
the most of his boyhood in St. Petersburg 
and London, whilst his father, John 
Quincy Adams, was minister to Russia 
and England. He graduated from Har¬ 
vard university in 1825; studied law, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1828. He served 
three years in the lower house, and two 
years in the upper house of the Massa¬ 
chusetts legislature. In 1848 he was a 
delegate to the Buffalo convention, and 


elected president; was the candidate for 
vice-president on the ticket with Mr. Van 
Buren; was elected a representative from 
Massachusetts to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress, and received the re-election to the 
thirty-seventh congress. One of the most 
noted events of his life was his appoint¬ 
ment as minister to England during the 
civil war in America, and though encoun¬ 
tering the most bitter social hostility in 
England, he maintained the right of his 
country, and exercised the grandest qual¬ 
ities of true statesmanship just where and 
when they were of priceless value. He 
edited The Life and Works of John Ad¬ 
ams; Letters of Mrs. Abigail Adams; Life 
and Works of John Q. Adams; and Fa¬ 
miliar Letters of John and Abigail Ad¬ 
ams, with Memoir of Mrs. Adams. He 
died Nov. 21, 1886, in Boston, Mass. 

ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, JR., 
soldier, railroad president, author, was 
born May 27, 1835, in Boston, Mass. He 
was an officer in the union army during 
the civil war, and subsequently an expert 
in railway science and president of the 
Union Pacific railway. Since resigning 
that office he has devoted his attention to 
historical writing, his estimates of men 
and motives often differing materially 
from those of other writers in the same 
field. He is the author of Notes on Rail¬ 
way Accidents; Chapters of Erie; Rail¬ 
roads; A College Fetich; Massachusetts, 
Its Historians and Its History; Three 
Episodes of Massachusetts History; Rich¬ 
ard Henry Dana [infra], a Biography; 
and Life of Charles Francis Adams. 

ADAMS, CHARLES H., lawyer, manu¬ 
facturer, state senator, congressman, was 
born in 1824, in Coxsackie, N. Y. He stud¬ 
ied law and practiced until 1850, when he 
engaged in manufacturing at Cohoes, N. 
Y.; and served as trustee and president 
of the water board in that place before it 
was made a city. In 1851 he served as aid 
to the governor. In 1857 he was elected a 
member of the assembly; was state sen¬ 
ator in 1872 and 1873; and was a member 
of the republican national convention in 
1872. For a long time he was president 
of the National Bank of Cohoes, and was 
the first mayor of the city. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative from New York to the 
forty-fourth congress. 

ADAMS, CHARLES KENDALL, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was born 
Jan. 24, 1835, in Derby, Vt. He received 
his education in the 
university of Michi¬ 
gan, college d e 
France, and the uni¬ 
versities of Leipzig, 
Berlin, Bonn, Mun¬ 
ich, Rome and Paris. 
During 1862-67 he 
was assistant profes¬ 
sor of history and 
latin in the univer¬ 
sity of Michigan; 
and during 1867-85 
filled the chair of 
history in the same institution. During 
1885-92 he was president of Cornell uni¬ 
versity; and since the latter year has 
been president of the university of Wis¬ 
consin. By founding an historical sem¬ 
inary in the university of Michigan in 
1869, he became the first introducer of the 
German seminary method of teaching in 
the United States. He was at one time 
dean of political science in the university 
of Michigan; and has been president of 
the American Historical association. His 
best known works are Manual of Histor¬ 
ical Literature; Democracy and Monarchy 
in France; and Christopher Columbus. 
He was also the editor-in-chief of John¬ 
son’s Universal Cyclopedia. 







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ADAMS, DANIEL, physician, state sen¬ 
ator, author, was horn Sept. 29, 1773, in 
Townsend, Mass. He taught a select 
school in Boston in 1806-13; practiced 
medicine in Lancaster, Boston, and Keene, 
N. H.; was state senator in New Hamp¬ 
shire in 1838-40; and was president of the 
New Hampshire Medical and Bible soci¬ 
eties. Besides an arithmetic, which was 
extensively used, and other school books, 
he published an oration at Leominster on 
the death of Washington; edited the Tele¬ 
scope of Mt. Vernon, and the Medical and 
Agricultural Register of Boston. He died 
June 8, 1864, in Keene, N. H. 

ADAMS, EDWARD DEAN, banker, 
scientist, was born April 9, 1846, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He received his education at 
the Chauncey Hall school of his native 
city, and at the Norwich university of 
Vermont. He has been president, direc¬ 
tor and trustee of many railroads, scien¬ 
tific and art organizations; was manag¬ 
ing partner of the New York banking 
house of Winslow, Lanier and Co.; presi¬ 
dent of companies developing Niagara 
Falls power; chairman of the board of 
directors of the Northern Pacific Railway 
company, and chairman of the board of 
directors of the American Cotton Oil 
company. He was the author and execu¬ 
tor of plans for the reorganization of the 
Central Railroad of New Jersey, the West 
Shore Railroad company, the Northern 
Pacific Railroad company, the American 
Cotton Oil Trust, and numerous other 
companies. 

ADAMS, EDWIN, comedian, was born 
Feb. 3, 1834, in Medford, Mass. He has 
attained success in all the large cities of 
the United States as an accomplished 
light comedian. He died Oct. 28, 1877, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

ADAMS, ELMER B., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Oct. 27, 1842, in Pomfret, Vt. He 
was educated at Yale college and Harvard 
law school; in 1868 removed to Missouri, 
being engaged in general practice of law 
except from 1879-85, during which time 
he was one of the circuit judges of St. 
Louis. In 1895 he was appointed judge of 
the United States district court of Mis¬ 
souri, eastern district. 

ADAMS, EZRA EASTMAN, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 29, 1813, in' Con¬ 
cord, N. H. He was made professor of 
theology in Lincoln university, Pa.; and 
in 1870 became editorially connected with 
the Presbyterian of Philadelphia. He died 
Nov. 3, 1871, in Oxford, Pa. 

ADAMS, F. W., physician, musician, was 
born in 1787. He was a good performer on 
the violin, and early turned his attention 
to violin-making. He died in 1859, in 
Montpelier, Vt. 

ADAMS, FLORENCE ADELAIDE 
FOWLE, dramatic reader, teacher, author, 
was born Oct. 15, 1863, in Chelsea, Mass. 
In 1884 she graduated from the Boston 
School of Oratory; and in 1888 was mar¬ 
ried to George Adams, a direct descend¬ 
ant of the statesmen and presidents of 
that name. She is the author of Gestures 
and Pantomimic Action; and still pur¬ 
sues her chosen line of work. 

ADAMS, FRANCIS, farmer, merchant, 
state senator, was born in April, 1862. He 
was elected a member of the Florida state 
senate from Hamilton in 1894; and in his 
town and county has filled numerous of¬ 
fices of honor. 

ADAMS, FRANCIS ALEXANDRE, 
journalist, orator, was born May 11, 1874, 
in New York city. In 1890 he edited and 
published the Gotham Monthly, which 
was the pioneer genealogical periodical in 
America, and which in 1891, under the 
title of Adams’ Magazine, became the 


official exponent of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution. He has gained 
prominence as an orator, and in 1896 was 
appointed a campaign speaker by the New 
York democratic party. 

ADAMS, FRANCIS COLBURN, author, 
was born in 1850. He was a writer of 
Charleston, S. C., and wrote under various 
pseudonyms. He was the author of Man-- 
uel Pereira, or the Sovereign Rule of 
South Carolina; Uncle Tom at Home; 
Our World, or the Democrats’ Rule; Jus¬ 
tice in the Byways; Life and Adventures 
of Major Potter; An Outcast, a novel; 
The Story of a Trooper; Siege of Wash¬ 
ington, for Little People; and The Von 
Toodleburgs, or the Memoirs of a Very 
Distinguished Family. 

ADAMS, FRANKLIN GEORGE, author, 
was born May 13, 1824, in Rodman, N. Y. 
In 1876, at the beginning of the work of 
the Kansas State Historical society, he 
was appointed secretary, a position which 
he still holds. He has been editor of sev¬ 
eral newspapers; and is the author of a 
volume entitled Homestead Guide. 

ADAMS, GEORGE, jurist, was a citizen 
of Mississippi. He was appointed United 
States judge for the district embracing 
that state, and resided at Natchez. 

ADAMS, GEORGE, soldier, merchant, 
banker, was born Sept. 13, 1834, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He received his education in 
the Baltimore schools and at the Newton 
university. In 1852 he moved to Wheel¬ 
ing, W. Va., where he subsequently en¬ 
gaged in the grocery and commission 
business. In 1864 he organized the First 
National bank of Wheeling; and for many 
years was president of one of the largest 
banking institutions of that city. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he served as captain 
and subsequently as colonel of the fifth 
regiment of West Virginia militia, an or¬ 
ganization that gave good service in de¬ 
fense of the union. He has been president 
of the Wheeling Library association; 
president of the Buckeye Glass company; 
and of various other institutions. 

ADAMS, GEORGE BURTON, educator, 
author, was born in 1851 in Vermont. He 
is an historical writer; professor of his¬ 
tory at Yale university; and the author of 
Civilization During the Middle Ages; and 
The Growth of the French Nation. 

ADAMS, GEORGE ENOCH, soldier, 
journalist, poet, was born in Bow, N. H. 
In 1849 he graduated from Yale college, 
and then taught school in New Hamp¬ 
shire, Massachusetts, Maryland and Mis¬ 
souri. In 1861 he enlisted in Company 
D, second regiment New Hampshire vol¬ 
unteer infantry; he was afterward 
wounded at the battle of Williamsburg, 
the bullet still remaining in his body. 
He was in the peach orchard at the battle 
of Gettysburg. In 1865 he commanded at 
Fort Rice, D. T., where he met and van¬ 
quished the famous Sitting Bull and ten 
thousand warriors. He was mustered out 
of service as captain and brevet major. 
For a number of years he was editor and 
owner of the Vancouver Register, W. T., 
where he was also register of the land 
office. He next published the Columbian 
of St. Helena, Ore., where he was al-so 
justice of the peace, and filled various 
other public positions of trust. Major Ad¬ 
ams is a brilliant lecturer, and a, poet of 
excellence. 

ADAMS, GEORGE EVERETT, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born June 
18, 1840, in Keene, N. H. He removed to 
Chicago in 1853; graduated from Harvard 
university in 1860; studied law at Dane 
law school, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1865, and engaged in practice at Chi¬ 
cago. In 1880 he was elected a state sen¬ 


ator for a term of five years; was elected 
a representative from Illinois to the 
Forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected 
to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty- 
first congresses. 

ADAMS, GEORGE M. soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1837, in 
Knox county, Ky. He was educated at 
Centre college; studied law; was clerk of 
the circuit court of Knox county from 
1859 to 1861; subsequently served for a 
few months as a captain in the union 
army; and was an additional paymaster 
of volunteers from 1861 to 1865. He was 
elected a representative from Kentucky 
to the Fortieth congress, and re-elected 
to the three succeeding congresses. In 
1875 he was elected clerk of the house of 
representatives of the Forty-fourth con¬ 
gress. 

ADAMS, GREEN, lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 20, 
1812, in Barboursville, Ky. He was bred 
a farmer; read law and adopted that pro¬ 
fession. In 1832-33 he was deputy sheriff 
of Knox county; in 1839 was elected to 
the state legislature, and was re-elected; 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1847-49; was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1844 and 1856, and a judge 
of the circuit court of Kentucky from 
1851-56. In 1859 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Kentucky to the Thirty- 
sixth congress; in 1861 was appointed 
sixth auditor of the United States treas¬ 
ury; and was disbursing clerk in the 
house of representatives at Washington 
from 1875 to 1881. He died Jan. 18, 1884. 

ADAMS, HANNAH, the first woman in 
the United States to make a profession of 
literature, was born in 1755 in Medfield, 
Mass. After the civil war she opened a 
school to prepare young men for college. 
Her principal work appeared in 1784, en¬ 
titled A View of Religious Opinions; and 
a fourth edition of that work was entitled 
A Dictionary of Religions. She was also 
the author of A History of New Eng¬ 
land; Evidences of Christianity; History 
of the Jews; and Letters on the Gospel. 
She died Nov. 15, 1832, in Brookline, Mass. 

ADAMS, HENRY, author, was born 
Feb. 16, 1838, in Boston, Mass. He is an 
historian and political biographer, living 
in Washington; and the author of Life of 
John Randolph; Life of Albert Gallatin; 
and other works. 

ADAMS, HENRY CARTER, author, was 
born in 1852 in Iowa. He is a political 
economist of note; and the author of 
Public Debts, an Essay in the Science of 
Finance; and Taxation in the United 
States, 1789-1816. 

ADAMS, HENRY H., merchant, was 
born July 9, 1844, in Collamer, Ohio. In 
1882 he became associated with the Cole- 
rain Company of Reading, Pa.; and three 
years later settled in New York city, en¬ 
gaging there in the iron business. In 1890 
he was elected president of the Columbus 
and Hocking Iron and Coal Company; 
and in 1891 became president of the Henry 
H. Adams Company of New York city. 

ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born April 16, 1850, in 
Amherst, Mass. He is a professor of his¬ 
tory at Johns Hopkins university, and the 
secretary of the American Historical asso¬ 
ciation from its beginning. He is the 
author of The Germanic Origin of New 
England Towns; Saxon Tithingmen in 
America; Norman Constables in America; 
Village Communities of Cape Ann and 
Salem; Thomas Jefferson and the Uni¬ 
versity of Virginia; Methods of Historical 
Study; and History of the United States 
Constitution. He has edited the Life and 
Writings of Jared Sparks. 


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ADAMS, ISAAC, physician, legislator, 
was born April 23, 1767, in Andover, Mass. 
He was one of the committee on education 
in the Michigan house of representatives. 
He assisted in preparing the bill to estab¬ 
lish the university of Michigan, and took 
an active interest in that institution dur¬ 
ing his life. He died in 1852, in Trov, 
Mich. 

ADAMS, ISAAC, inventor, state senator, 
was born 1803 in Rochester, N. H. In 1828 
he invented the printing-press that bears 
his name. It was introduced in 1830, and 
came into almost universal use, being still 
so popular as to warrant its manufacture 
in more than thirty different sizes. He 
improved it in 1834, making it substan¬ 
tially what it now is. He was a member 
of the Massachusetts state senate in 1840. 
He died July 19, 1883, in Sandwich, N. H. 

ADAMS, JAMES HOPKINS, state sen¬ 
ator, governor of South Carolina, was 
born about 1811 in South Carolina. He 
graduated from Yale college in 1831; was 
a member of the legislature and senate of 
South Carolina, and was governor of that 
state from 1855 to 1857. After the seces¬ 
sion of South Carolina from the union he 
was one of the commissioners appointed 
to confer with the president concerning 
United States property in South Carolina. 
He died July 27, 1861, near Columbia, S. C. 

ADAMS, JAMES W., journalist, state 
senator, was born Jan. 16, 1865, in Hawes- 
ville, Ky. He is the editor of the Daily 
Graphic, and served as state senator in 
the Kentucky legislature in 1893. One of 
the principal events of his public life is 
his world’s fair speech in the Kentucky 
state senate in 1893. 

ADAMS, JANE KELLEY, educator, was 
born Oct. 30, 1852, in Woburn, Mass. In 
1875 she graduated from Vassar college, 
and has since been interested in educa¬ 
tional work. In 1881 she became the wife 
of Charles Day Adams, a noted lawyer of 
Boston, Mass. During 1886-87 she was 
president of the Woburn Woman's club, 
and was one of the founders of the Wo¬ 
burn Home for Aged Women, of which 
she has been vice-president. 

ADAMS, JASPER, educator, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 27, 1793, in Med¬ 
way, Mass. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man, once noted as an educator at West 
Point, Charleston, and elsewhere, and 
published The Elements of Moral Phil¬ 
osophy, and other works. He died Oct. 
25, 1841, in Charleston, S. C. 

ADAMS, JEWETT W., governor. He 
was elected governor of Nevada for the 
term of four years from January, 1883. 

ADAMS, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Greene 
county, N. Y., from 1833 to 1835. He died 
Sept. 28, 1854, in Catskill, N. Y. 

ADAMS, JOHN, second president of the 
United States, was born Oct. 30, 1735, in 
Braintree, Mass. He graduated from Har¬ 
vard college in 1755; 
chose law as a pro¬ 
fession; and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 
1761. In 1764 he mar¬ 
ried Abigail Smith, 
an accompl ished 
daughter of the Rev. 
William Smith. In 
1770 he was chosen 
representative from 
Boston in the Massa¬ 
chusetts assembly, 
and in 1774 he was 
elected to the first continental congress. 
He was re-elected in 1776, and was one of 
the committee which drafted the declara¬ 
tion of independence in June of that year. 
Adams was appointed as commissioner to 


the court of France in December, 1777, 
and returned in 1779. After his return he 
was chosen a member of the Massachu¬ 
setts convention for framing a constitu¬ 
tion, and on the 29th of September, 1779, 
he was appointed minister plenipotentiary 
to treat with Great Britain for peace and 
commerce. He was soon after appointed 
minister to Holland, and recalled in July, 
1781, to Paris. In January, 1785, he was 
appointed minister to England, and oc¬ 
cupied that post until 1788, when he re¬ 
signed and returned home. He was elect¬ 
ed first vice-president of the United 
States, and took the oath of office April 
21, 1789, which office he held, by re-elec¬ 
tion, until March 4, 1797. He was elected 
president in 1796, and took the oath of 
office March 4, 1797, at Philadelphia. He 
was defeated for a re-election, and, at the 
close of his official term, he retired to 
his farm at Quincy. John Adams held 
office over twenty-five years, and died 
moderately well off, on July 4, 1826, with 
the same words on his lips which, fifty 
years before, on that day, he had uttered 
on the floor of congress: Independence 
forever! His principal publications were: 
Letters on the American Revolution; De¬ 
fense of the American Constitutions; an 
Essay on Canon and Feudal Law; a series 
of letters under the signature of Novang- 
lus; and Discourses on Davila. It was 
as vice-president that he had a seat in 
the senate. In 1856 his life and writings 
were published in ten volumes, edited by 
his grandson, C. F. Adams. 

ADAMS, JOHN, clergyman, educator, 
son of a revolutionary officer of the same 
name, was born Sept. 18, 1772, in Canter¬ 
bury, Conn. He was graduated at Yale 
in 1795, and taught for three years at the 
academy in his native town. In 1800 he 
became rector of Plainfield, N. J., acad¬ 
emy, and in 1803 principal of Bacon acad¬ 
emy, Colchester, Conn. In June, 1810, he 
was chosen principal of Phillips Andover 
acaaemy, wnere he remained for twenty- 
three years, and, in addition to his regu¬ 
lar duties, took part in the organization 
of several of the great charitable associa¬ 
tions that have attained national im¬ 
portance. He resigned his office in 1833, 
and went to Illinois, where he esiao- 
lished several hundred Sunday-schools. 
He died April 24, 1863. 

ADAMS, JOHN, sailor, was born Nov. 
29, 1796, in Boston, Mass. He was the 
last survivor of all who witnessed the 
victory gained by Hull in the Constitution 
over Dacres in the Guerriere, in 1812. He 
was subsequently captured and confined in 
Dartmoor prison till the end of the war. 
For nearly half a century afterward he 
followed the sea, commanding some of the 
finest merchantmen that sailed from Bos¬ 
ton. He died March 17, 1886, in Allston, 
Mass. 

ADAMS, JOHN, soldier, was born in 
1825 in Tennessee. His first service was 
in the Mexican war, where he was bre- 
vetted first lieutenant, for gallantry at 
Vera Cruz de Rosales, March 16, 1848. 
At the outbreaking of the civil war he 
became a major-general in the Confeder¬ 
ate army. He died Nov. 30, 1864, in 
Franklin, Tenn. 

ADAMS, JOHN COLEMAN, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1849 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He was a universalist clergyman 
and editor of The United States During 
1801-17; Historical Essays; and Essays 
in Anglo-Saxon Law. t 

ADAMS, JOHN GREENLEAF, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 30, 1810, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. In addition to his con¬ 
stant work as a universalist clergyman 
he published fifteen volumes, besides 
pamphlets and tracts; and edited Sunday 


school periodicals for twenty-two years. 
His principal works are: The Universal¬ 
ist Church, Its Faith and Its Works; 
Universalism of the Lord’s Prayer; Talks 
About the Bible to Young Folks; and 
Fifty Notable Years, or Views of the 
Ministry of Universalism. He died in 1887. 

ADAM, JOHN JAY, soldier, educator, 
state senator, was born Oct. 30, 1807, in 
Scotland. In 1826 he emigrated to the 
United States, and became well known as 
a successful educator. In 1832 he served 
in the Black Hawk war; and subsequent¬ 
ly took part in the Toledo war as a lieu¬ 
tenant. In 1835 he was a delegate to the 
Michigan constitutional convention. In 
1839 was a representative from Lenawee 
county to the Michigan legislature, and 
subsequently served several terms in the 
state senate. He was also auditor-general 
of Michigan for several terms. 

ADAMS, JOHN J., lawyer legislator, 
was born Sept. 16, 1848, in Canada. He 
attended the ordinary country schools; 
entered Columbia law college and gradu¬ 
ated in the class of 1876; was admitted 
to the bar in that year and commenced 
practice in New York city. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative from New York to the 
forty-eighth congress, and was re-elected 
to the forty-ninth congress. 

ADAMS, JOHN MILTON, journalist, 
was born Sept. 22, 1819, in Rumford, 
Maine. In 1866 he became sole owner and 
editor of the Eastern Argus; and has 
contributed numerous articles to maga¬ 
zines. 

ADAMS, JOHN R., clergyman, was born 
in 1802, in Plainfield, Conn. He was ap¬ 
pointed chaplain of the fifth Maine volun¬ 
teers and was present at nearly all the 
battles of the army of the Potomac, from 
the first battle of Bull Run to the close 
of the civil war. He died April 26, 1866. 

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, sixth presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born July 
11, 1767, in Braintree, now Quincy, Mass., 
and at the age of 
eleven years he ac¬ 
companied his fath¬ 
er, John Adams, to 
France. He attend¬ 
ed school in Paris, 
and in 1781 accom¬ 
panied the American 
ambassador, Francis 
Dana, to Russia as 
his private secretary. 
He returned home in 
1785, and entered 
Harvard college, 
where he graduated in 1788. He then be¬ 
gan the study of law with Hon. Theophi- 
lus Parsons. In 1794 he was appointed 
resident minister to the Netherlands, and 
afterwards to Portugal; but, while on his 
way to Lisbon, he received a new com¬ 
mission from his father, then president, 
which changed him to Prussia. In 1797 
he was married to Miss Louisa Catherine 
Johnson. He returned to America in 1801, 
and in 1802 he was elected to the senate 
of Massachusetts. In 1803 he was elected 
to the United States senate, and resigned 
his seat in 1806. In 1809 he was appointed 
minister plenipotentiary to Russia, and 
in 1814 he was placed at the head of the 
American commissioners who negotiated 
the treaty of peace with Great Britain at 
Ghent. Mr. Adams was appointed minis¬ 
ter to the court of St. James in 1815; was 
appointed secretary of state in 1817, and 
held the office eight years. Feb. 9, 1825, 
he was elected president of the United 
States by the house of representatives, 
the electoral college having failed to make 
a choice, and was inaugurated March 4. 
He was defeated for a re-election, and on 







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the 4th of March, 1829, he left the execu¬ 
tive chair and retired to private life. In 
1830 he was elected to the house of repre¬ 
sentatives, and held the office by re-elec¬ 
tions until his death, Feb. 23, 1848, which 
occurred in the capitol at Washington in 
the speaker’s room, two days after fall¬ 
ing from his chair in the house of repre¬ 
sentatives. His last words were: This 
is the end of earth; I am content. His 
writings, though mainly political in their 
character, include several purely literary 
works. Lectures on Rhetoric and Ora¬ 
tory; The Bible and Its Teachings; 
Poems of Religion and Society; Letters 
on Freemasonry; and Lives of Celebrated 
Statesmen, and many state papers. An 
elaborate history of his life was published 
in 1875, by his son, Charles Francis 
Adams. 

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Sept. 22, 1833, in Boston, 
Mass., and was the eldest son of Charles 
Francis Adams. He was graduated at 
Harvard college in 1853, and admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1855. During the civil 
war he was on Gov. Andrew’s staff. He 
was elected to the legislature by the town 
of Quincy in 1866. In 1869 and 1870 he 
was again a member of the legislature. 
In 1867 and 1871 he was democratic candi¬ 
date for governor of Massachusetts. 

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, a descendant 
of the famous Adams family of Massachu¬ 
setts, was born in 1848, in Lancaster, 
N. H. He is a charter 
member of the Soci¬ 
ety of the Sons of 
the American Revo¬ 
lution, and also 
secretary-general of 
the Order of the 
Founders and Pa¬ 
triots of America. 
This society em¬ 
braces the early set¬ 
tlers of the colonies 
from 1607 to 1657, 
with revolutionary 
descent thereafter. Mr. Adams was edu¬ 
cated in the Lancaster academy, and has 
been a student of and writer on political 
subjects all his life. He was a candidate 
for congress in his district in 1896. He 
is the brother of Mrs. Flora Adams Dar¬ 
ling, the founder-general of the Daugh¬ 
ters of the American Revolution. 

ADAMS, JOHN TURRELL, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1805 in British Guiana. 
He was a lawyer of Norwich, Conn., and 
the author of The Knight of the Golden 
Melice, an historical tale; and The Lost 
Hunter. He died in 1882. 

ADAMS, JOHN WESLEY, clergyman, 
poet, was born May 23, 1832, and is a 
lineal descendant of the presidents of that 
name. In 1858 he 
joined the New 
Hampshire confer¬ 
ence of the rnetho- 
dist episcopal 
church, and has held 
pastorates in Rye, 
Derby, South New¬ 
market, North Sa¬ 
lem, East Canaan, 
Winchester, Great 
Falls, Tilton, New¬ 
port, Exeter, and 
Keene. In 1889 he 
retired from active service, and is now 
living in Methuen, Mass. He has been 
president of the trustees of the confer¬ 
ence seminary and female college, and 
has held various positions of honor. He 
has rare literary attainments, and his 
poems have been given a place in Na¬ 
tional Poets of America and other stan¬ 
dard works. 




ADAMS, JONATHAN, civil engineer, 
was born July 8, 1798, in Taunton, Mass. 
Many of the important lines in New York 
and New England were constructed under 
his supervision, and for fifty years he 
ranked as one of the most skillful railroad 
engineers in the country. He died Sept. 
6, 1872. 

ADAMS, JONATHAN EDWARDS, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, was born April 29, 1822, 
in Woolwich, Maine. He graduated from 
the Phillips academy of Andover, Mass., 
and from the Hampden academy, Bowdoin 
college, and the Bangor theological sem¬ 
inary. He is a successful clergyman of 
the congregational church, and during 
1876-95 was secretary of the Maine Mis¬ 
sionary society. He is an overseer of 
Bowdoin college, and a trustee of the 
Bangor seminary and the Maine Mission¬ 
ary society. 

ADAMS, JOSEPH, tobacconist, banker, 
was born Jan. 5, 1827, in West Cambridge, 
Mass. In 1854 he commenced the tobacco 
business, putting up strips and leaf for 
the English markets. In 1867 he built an 
additional establishment, at Uniontown, 
Ky., and is now one of the most success¬ 
ful and extensive tobacco dealers in the 
country. 

ADAMS, J. McGREGOR, manufacturer, 
was born March 11, 1834, in Londonderry, 
N. H. In 1858 he settled in Chicago, repre¬ 
senting Morris K. Jesup and Co., the house 
being subsequently merged into that of 
Crerar, Adams and Co., which is yet in ex¬ 
istence, and of which Mr. Adams is a 
partner. In this concern and in The Ad¬ 
ams and Westlake Co., incorporated in 
1874 with a capital of $650,000, of which 
he is president, The Union Brass Manu¬ 
facturing Co., and kindred concerns, Mr. 
Adams manufactures the whole range of 
goods called railroad supplies, including 
headlights, lanterns, car trimmings and 
other specialties in metals, many of them 
patented articles. 

ADAMS, JULIUS WALKER, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Oct. 18, 1812, in 
Boston, Mass. He is an engineer of dis¬ 
tinction, who has been employed in many 
important engineering works; and the 
author of Sewers and Drains for Populous 
Districts. 


ADAMS, JULIUS W., soldier, was born 
in April, 1840, in Westfield, Mass. He was 
graduated at West Point in 1861, served 
there as assistant instructor of infantry 
tactics till June, 1862, was wounded and 
taken prisoner at Gaines’ Mills, promoted 
captain in August, 1862, and served at 
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettys¬ 
burg, where he commanded a regiment, 
and the second battle of Cold Harbor, 
where he received wounds that caused his 
death. He died Nov. 15, 1865, in Brook¬ 



lyn. N. Y. 

ADAMS, LOUISE CATHERINE, the 
wife of John Quincy Adams, was born 
Feb. 11, 1775, in London, England. She 
was the daughter of 
Joshua Johnson of 
Maryland, but passed 
her early years in 
England and in 
France. She was 
married to Mr. Ad¬ 
ams July 26, 1797, 
in London. She was 
possessed of high in¬ 
tellectual qualities; 
well versed in both 
French and English 
literature; translat¬ 
ed from the French; was the author of a 
number of meritorious poems; and was 
an accomplished musician and vocalist. 
She died May 14, 1852, and was buried 
by the side of her husband in the family 
burying ground at Quincy, Mass. 


ADAMS, MRS. MARY MATHEWS, edu¬ 
cator, poet, was born Oct. 23, 1840, in Ire¬ 
land; and is the wife of Charles Kendall 
Adams, president of 
the university of 
Wisconsin. She came 
to America in her 
childhood, and was 
mainly educated at 
the Packer institute 
of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
For ten years she 
was engaged in edu¬ 
cational work, and 
s u b s e q uently ac¬ 
quired success in lit¬ 
erary pursuits. Her 
verse is largely lyrical, and her themes 
include romance, heroism, and religion. 
She is the author of a brochure of poems 
entitled The Choir Visible; and among 
her other works The Epithalamium is 
perhaps the best known. 

ADAMS, MRS. MARY NEWBURY, the 
wife of the late Judge Austin Adams, of 
Dubuque, Iowa, was born Oct. 17, 1837, in 
Peru, Ind. In 1868 she was urged to 
speak before a class of girls graduating 
from the Lombard university of Gales¬ 
burg, Ill.; and since that time her life 
has been devoted to the advancement of 
women. She has been vice-president of 
the Iowa Suffrage association; trustee of 
the Humboldt college, Iowa; vice-presi¬ 
dent of the association for Advancement 
of Women for nearly a quarter of a cen¬ 
tury; and has lectured extensively before 
women graduates. 

ADAMS, MILWARD, theatrical man¬ 
ager, was born Jan. 6, 1857, in Lexington, 
Ky. In 1881 Mr. Adams assumed the sole 
management of Central music hall, but in 
1887 he gave this up for me management 
of the Chicago Auditorium. 

ADAMS, MOSES S., lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born Oct. 19, 1826, in Rindge, 
N. H. In 1854 he graduated in law from 
the university of Albany, and has at¬ 
tained prominence as an able and success¬ 
ful lawyer. For two terms he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Kansas house of representa¬ 
tives, during which time he was speaker 
in that body. President Lincoln appointed 
him army captain and commissary of 
subsistence of volunteers during the civil 
war. He was district attorney of the 
sixth district of Colorado; and county 
judge of Fremont county in that state. 

ADAMS, MYRON, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1841 in New York. He was a 
congregational clergyman of Rochester, 
N. Y., from 1876 until his death. He was 
the author of The Creation of the Bible; 
and The Continuous Creation, an Applica¬ 
tion of the Evolutionary Philosophy to 
the Christian Religion. He died in 1895. 

ADAMS, NEHEMIAH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 19, 1806, in Salem, 
Mass. He was a noted congregational 
clergyman of Boston, whose most famous 
work, A South Side View of Slavery, pro¬ 
voked much hostile criticism. Among 
other works by him are Walks to Em- 
maus: Scriptural Argument for End¬ 
less Punishment; Remarks on Unitarian 
Belief; Life of John Eliot; Agnes and 
the Little Key; and Evenings with the 
Doctrines. He died Oct. 6, 1878. 

ADAMS, NELLIE E., poet, was born 
July 12, 1864, in Exeter, N. H. She is the 
author of a volume of poems entitled 
Blossoms; and a successful writer of 
both prose and verse for current maga¬ 
zines. 

ADAMS, OSCAR FAY, poet. He is the 
author of Post-Laureate Idyls, and Other 
Poems; and is a popular poet and grace¬ 
ful writer. 








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ADAMS, PARMENIO, congressman 
was born in Hartford, Conn. He was a 
representative in congress from Batavia 
N. Y., from 1823 to 1827. 

ADAMS, ROBERT, geologist, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1849 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated at the 
university of Penn¬ 
sylvania in 1 8 6 9; 
studied and prac¬ 
ticed law for five 
years: was a mem¬ 
ber of the United 
States geological 
survey from 1871 to 
1875, and engaged in 
explorations of the 
Yellowstone park. 
He was a member of 
the state senate of 
Pennsylvania from 
1883 to 1887; graduated in 1884 from the 
Wharton School of Economy and Finance 
of the university of Pennsylvania; was 
appointed United States minister to Brazil 
April 1, 1889, and resigned June 1, 1890. 

He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty- 
fourth congresses and re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican, and 
served on important committees. 



• declaration of independence; was one of 
those who matured the plan of the conti¬ 
nental congress, and was delegate from 
Massachusetts from 1774 to 1782. He 
signed the articles of confederation; was 
a member of the state convention which 
adopted the federal constitution, and 
made some amendments to that instru¬ 
ment. On the adoption of the state con¬ 
stitution, he was made president of the 
senate; was lieutenant governor of 
Massachusetts from 1789-94, and governor 
from 1794-97. So ardent was his patriot¬ 
ism, that he was one of the three leaders 
who were to be exempt from the pardon 
offered in 1775. As a statesman and or¬ 
ator he fills a large place in the annals of 
the American revolution. He died Oct. 
2, 1803, in Boston, Mass. 

ADAMS, SAMUEL M., clergyman, legis¬ 
lator, was born Dec. 10, 1853, in Dallas 
county, Ala. He was twice elected to the 
state legislature of Alabama; and was 
president of the Alabama Farmers’ State 
alliance for six years in succession. For 
twenty years he has been a missionary 
baptist clergyman, and is now pastor of 
the baptist church at Jemison, Ala. 

ADAMS, SETH, inventor, manufac¬ 
turer, was born April 13, 1807, in Roches- 


ADAMS, ROBERT CHAMBLET, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1839 in Massachusetts, 
and is the son of Nehemiah Adams. He 
is the author of History of England in 
Rhyme; History of the United States in 
Rhyme; On Board the Rocket; Aids to 
Endeavor; Evolution, a Summary of Evi¬ 
dence; Travels in Faith from Tradition 
to Reason; and Pioneer Pith. 

ADAMS, ROBERT H., United States 
senator, was born in 1792 in Rockbridge, 
Va. He was a senator in congress, from 
Mississippi, by . appointment, from Jan¬ 
uary to May, in 1830. He died July 2, 
1830, in Natchez, Miss. 

ADAMS, SAMUEL, statesman. He was 
acting governor of Arkansas in 1844. 

ADAMS, SAMUEL, military surgeon, 
was born in Maine. Dr. Adams distin¬ 
guished himself during the civil war by 
riding along the advanced line of com¬ 
batants, and under the fire of the enemy, 
dressing the wounds of Gen. Potter, who 
could not be removed from the spot where 
he fell, and, but for the action of Sur¬ 
geon Adams, would have lost his life. He 
died Sept. 9, 1867, in Galveston, Texas. 

ADAMS, SAMUEL, governor of Massa¬ 
chusetts, was born Sept. 27, 1722, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass., and was a cousin of President 
John Adams. He 
graduated from Har¬ 
vard university in 
1740; studied for the 
ministry; received 
the degree of A. M. in 
1743; was one of the 
first who organized 
measures of resist¬ 
ance to the mother 
country, and drew up 
the instructions of 
the town of Boston 
against taxation in 
1764. He was elected a representative in 
1765; was chosen clerk and served in that 
body for ten years, and, it is said, he sug¬ 
gested the congress that assembled at 
New York in 1765, and the non-importa¬ 
tion agreement of 1769. He addressed a 
public meeting the day after the Boston 
massacre, and was chairman of the com¬ 
mittee to demand the removal of the 
troops. In 1772 he organized the com¬ 
mittee of correspondence, which was first 
adopted by Massachusetts, and followed 
by all the provinces; was a signer of the 


ter, N. H. In 1836 he began the manu¬ 
facture of the famous power printing 
presses which had been invented by his 
brother Isaac. For many years he had 
charge of the Adams Sugar Refinery, 
which was then the largest of its kind in 
the United States. He took an active 
part in the public affairs of Newton, 
Mass., where he died Dec. 7, 1873. He left 
large bequests of money to Bowdoin col¬ 
lege, and other institutions; and a mas¬ 
sive monument has been erected to his 
memory. 

ADAMS, SILAS, soldier, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1839, 
in Pulaski county, Ky. He received an 
education in the public schools of the 
county, the Kentucky university of Har- 
rodsburg, and the Transylvania of Lex¬ 
ington. In 1867 he entered the law school 
at Lexington, and received license to prac¬ 
tice; served two terms as county attor¬ 
ney; served three terms in the legisla¬ 
ture; in 1892 was nominated and voted for 
by the republicans of the state legislature 
for speaker, and also for United States 
senator. He entered the union army in 
1861 as first lieutenant, first Kentucky 
volunteer cavalry; was promoted to cap¬ 
tain, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of 
the regiment, and was mustered out Dec. 
31, 1864. In 1892 was elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a republican. 

ADAMS, STEPHEN, lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, United States senator, was a native 
of Franklin county, Tenn., and was a 
member of the senate of that state. Re¬ 
moving to Mississippi, he took an active 
part in public affairs; was a member of 
the state legislature; a representative in 
congress from 1845 to 1847; was elected 
judge of the circuit court, and from 1852 
to 1857 was a senator in congress from 
Mississippi. He removed to Tennessee, 
with the intention of practicing law at 
Memphis, where he died of smallpox, 
May 11, 1857. 

ADAMS, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Virginia to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1778 to 1780, and 
signed the articles of confederation. 

ADAMS, WASHINGTON IRVING, 
manufacturer, was born March 25, 1832, 
in New York city. In 1875 he became 
president of S. Peck and Co., manufac¬ 
turers of photographic apparatus; and 
was for many years vice-president of the 
Centennial Photograph company. 



ADAMS, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 25, 1807, in Colchester, 
Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman 
of prominence in 
New York city dur¬ 
ing 1835-80. He was 
the author of the 
Three Gardens: 
Eden, Gethsemane, 
Paradise; Conversa¬ 
tions of Jesus Christ 
with Representative 
Men; In the World, 
Not of the World; 
Thanksgiving, and 
Memories of the Day 
and Helps to the 
Habit. He died Oct. 31, 1880, in Orange 
Mountain, N. J. 

ADAMS, WILLIAM, clergyman, theo¬ 
logian, author, was born July 3, 1813, in 
Ireland. He was an episcopal clergyman 
who was one of the founders of Nasho- 
tah Theological seminary, Wisconsin, and 
professor of systematic divinity there from 
1841. He was the author of Mercy to 
Babes; Elements of Christian Science; 
and New Treatise of Baptismal Regenera¬ 
tion. He died in 1897. 

ADAMS, WILLIAM FORBES, bishop, 
was born Jan. 2, 1833, in Ireland. He 
was admitted to the Mississippi bar. He 
afterward removed to Tennessee, and be¬ 
came a candidate for holy orders in 1857. 
Removing to Mississippi while pursuing 
his theological course, he was ordained 
deacon in 1859; priest in 1860, and is now 
a bishop in the protestant episcopal 
church in the diocese of Easton. Md. 

ADAMS, WILLIAM TAYLOR (Oliver 
Optic), educator, author, was born July 
30, 1822, in Medway, Mass. He was 
a prolific and popular writer of books 
for boys, and was for many years 
a teacher in the Boston public schools. 
Among his writings are: Army and 
Navy Series; Young America Abroad 
Series; Lake Shore Series; and Starry 
Flag Series. In 1867 he founded the 
journal known as Our Boys and Girls. 
He died in 1897. 

ADAMSON, WILLIAM CHARLES, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 
13, 1854, in Bowdon, Ga. He spent his 
youth alternately in working on the 
farm and in hauling goods and cotton be¬ 
tween Atlanta and Bowdon; took the col¬ 
legiate course at Bowdon college, gradu¬ 
ating with the degree of A. B. in 1874, the 
degree of A. M. being conferred a few 
years later by the same institution. He 
was admitted to the bar October, 1876, and 
has lived at Carrollton, Ga., ever since. 
He was judge of the city court of Carroll¬ 
ton from 1885 to 1889, and was attorney 
for the city of Carrollton for a number of 
years; was presidential elector in 1892; 
and had never held nor sought any other 
office until elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

ADDAMS, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1776, in Lan¬ 
caster county, Pa. He was a member of 
the state legislature from 1822-24. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1825-29; and associate 
judge of Berks county from 1839-42. He 
died in the spring of 1858. 

ADDICKS, GEORGE B., clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born Sept. 9, 1854, in 
Hampton, Ill. For many years he was 
professor of German language and litera¬ 
ture in the Iowa Wesleyan university of 
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; and subsequently be¬ 
came president of the Central Wesleyan 
college and clergyman of the German 
methodist episcopal church of Warren- 
ton, Mo. 





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ADDICKS, JOHN EDWARD, capitalist, 
was born Nov. 21, 1841, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. Works for the manufacture of gas 
were built by him in Jersey City and for 
The Consumers’ Gas Co. of Chicago, and 
the competition which he engendered led 
to a union of the gas companies in Chi¬ 
cago into the now noted Chicago Gas 
Trust. In 1884 he organized and became 
president of The Bay State Gas Co. of 
Boston, which constructed large works. 
In 1892 he bought a majority interest in 
The Brooklyn Gas Co., becoming its presi¬ 
dent, and is now largely interested in 
other gas companies in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
These operations have brought him large 
wealth. He has also established a gas 
making plant in Wilmington, Del. 

ADDIS, EMMERSON W., journalist, 
state legislator, was born Oct. 13, 1853, 
in Litchfield, Conn. He is the editor of 
The Standard of Brewster, N. Y.; has 
been postmaster, justice and trustee of 
Brewster; and in 1895 was elected a 
member of the New York state assembly. 
He was re-elected in 1897, and has taken 
an active part on various committees. 

ADE/GEORGE, journalist, author, was 
born in 1866 in Illinois. He is a success¬ 
ful Chicago journalist; and the author of 
Artie, a Story of the Streets and Town. 

ADEE, ALYEY A., public official, diplo¬ 
matist, was born Nov. 27, 1842, in Astoria, 
N. Y. He was educated by private tutors; 
studied civil engineering; and was secre¬ 
tary of the American legation at Madrid, 
Spain, from 1870 to 1877. In 1877 he was 
transferred to the department of state at 
Washington; in 1878 became chief of the 
diplomatic division of that department; 
and in 1882 was appointed third assistant 
secretary of state. 

ADEE, DAVID GRAHAM, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, author, was born May 31, 1837, in 
Chelsea, Mass. He was United States 
commissioner to Sandwich islands in 
1883; during the war he was military 
secretary on staff duty, and has prac¬ 
ticed law in New York ten years. He is 
the author of the novel No. 19 State 
Street, and is still largely engaged in lit¬ 
erary work. The poems of this great jur¬ 
ist have appeared in the leading daily 
newspapers of America, and in current 
magazines. 

ADGATE, ASA, legislator, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in the leg¬ 
islature of New York from Clinton county 
from 1798 to 1799; was a representative 
in congress from Essex county from 1815 
to 1817; and was again a member of the 
legislature in 1823. 

ADKINSON, MARY OSBURN, temper¬ 
ance reformer, was born July 28, 1843, in 
Rush county, Ind. She is the wife of the 
Rev. L. G. Adkinson, the president of 
the New Orleans university. She took a 
leading part in the organization of the 
Woman’s Foreign Missionary society of 
Madison, Ind.; and was four times unan¬ 
imously elected its president. She has 
been superintendent of the Woman’s 
Christian Temperance union in the state 
of Louisiana; and is also matron in the 
New Orleans university. 

ADLER, FELIX, reformer, author, was 
born Aug. 13, 1851, in Germany. He is 
an ethical reformer of New York city; 
and the author of Creed and Deed; and 
The Moral Instruction of Children. 

ADLER, GEORG, philologist, author, 
was born in 1821, in Germany. He was a 
philologist of New York city; and was 
the author of a valuable German and 
English dictionary and other educational 
works. He died Aug. 24, 1868, in New 
York city. 


ADRAIN, GARNETT B., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 20, 1816, in New 
York city. He graduated from Rutgers 
college in 1833; studied law, and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1837. He was a repre¬ 
sentative from New Jersey in the thirty- 
fifth congress; and was also elected a 
member of the thirty-sixth congress. In 
1861 he offered the resolution of thanks 
to Major Robert Anderson for his defense 
of Fort Sumter. He died Aug. 17, 1878, in 
New Brunswick. N. J. 

ADRAIN, ROBERT, mathematician, 
was born Sept. 30, 1775, in Ireland. He 
taught school in New Jersey and Penn¬ 
sylvania, contributed to scientific jour¬ 
nals, and from 1810 to 1813 was professor 
of natural philosophy and mathematics in 
Rutgers college; then until 1825 in Col¬ 
umbia college; and from 1827 to 1834 was 
professor of mathematics in the university 
of Pennsylvania. He edited Hutton’s 
Mathematics, published essays on the 
figure and magnitude of the earth and on 
gravity, and was editor from 1825 to 1829 
of the Mathematical Diary. He died Aug. 
10, 1843, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

ADRAIN, ROBERT, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Dec. 17,1853, in New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. J. He was elected president of 
the senate of New Jersey in 1891, and suc¬ 
cessively re-elected in 1892 and 1893. He 
was appointed prosecutor of the pleas of 
Middlesex county in 1890, and continued 
to hold the position for several years. 

ADRIAN, JAMES, physician, was born 
Jan. 12, 1829, in St. Lawrence county, 
N. Y. In 1876 he was a member of the 
electoral college, and his efforts in sup¬ 
port of Tilden and Hendricks established 
his reputation as a political orator. In 
1875 he was a delegate from the American 
Medical association to tne International 
Medical congress at Brussels. 

ADSIT, ALLEN C., soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Feb. 20, 1837, in Rut¬ 
land, N. Y. He studied law at Water- 
town, N. Y., and was admitted to the bar 
in 1859. He enlisted in the forty-fourth 
New York volunteers in 1861, and par¬ 
ticipated in the principal battles in which 
the army of the Potomac was engaged. 
He was a representative in the Michigan 
state legislature in 1871-72; and now 
practices his profession in Grand Rapids, 
Mich. 

ADSIT, NANCY H., art lecturer, was 
born May 21, 1825, in Palermo, N. Y. She 
graduated from the Ingham university, 
and for the past half a century has con¬ 
tributed constantly to current literature. 
Her contribution to the London Art 
Journal and other leading art publications 
has made her name well known in art 
circles; and to her work is due most of 
the art interest in Wisconsin, as well as 
in the entire west. 

AGAR, JOHN GIRARD, lawyer, was 
born June 3, 1856, in New Orleans, La. 
He was appointed assistant United States 
district attorney for the southern dis¬ 
trict of New York. He held this office 
for a year when he resigned and became 
the senior member of the firm of Agar, 
Ely and Fulton. The university of 
Georgetown conferred upon him the de¬ 
gree of M. A. 

AGARD, ISAAC MERRITT, educator, 
was born Dec. 3,1854, near Stafford, Conn. 
He has attained success in educational 
work; and is now principal of the Rock¬ 
ville high school, Conn., and also super¬ 
intendent of the east district schools. He 
received a thorough education at the 
Amherst college and other institutions, 
and has had conferred upon him the de¬ 
grees of M. A. and Ph. D. 


AGASSIZ, ALEXANDER, zoologist, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 17, 1835, in Neuchatel, 
Switzerland, and is a son of L. Agassiz. 
He is a marine zoologist, and came to 
America with his father, and has dis¬ 
tinguished himself in lines of special 
scientific research. He is the author of 
Exploration of Lake Titicaca; List of the 
Echinoderms; and Three Cruises of the 
Blake. 

AGASSIZ, ELIZABETH CABOT, na¬ 
turalist, was born in 1822. In 1850 she 
was married to Professor Louis Agassiz. 
She accompanied her husband on his 
journey to Brazil in 1865-66; and on the 
Hassler expedition in 1871-72; and was 
associated with him in many of his 
studies and writings. She is the author 
of A First Lesson in Natural History; 
Edited Geological Sketches; and also ed¬ 
ited. Life and Correspondence, of her hus¬ 
band, in two volumes. 

AGASSIZ, JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE, 
educator, naturalist, author, was born 
May 28, 1807, in Switzerland. He was a 
naturalist of eminence, and the founder 
of the Museum of Natural History at 
Cambridge. He was the author of Re- 
cherches sur les Poissons Fossiles; Lake 
Superior, Natural History of Fresh Water 
Fishes of Central Europe; Etudes sur les 
Glaciers; Systeme Glaciere; Methods of 
Study in Natural History; Geological 
Sketches; Structure of Animal Life; and 
A Journey in Brazil. He died Dec. 14, 
1873, in Cambridge, Mass. His grave in 
Mt. Auburn is marked by a boulder from 
the glacier of the Aar, and shaded by 
pine trees brought from Switzerland. 

AGEN, JAMES HERMAN, soldier, 
financier, legislator, was born April 29, 
1847, in Montpelier, Vt. He was presi¬ 
dent of the West Superior Chamber of 
Commerce in 1890-91; represented his 
ward as alderman in 1893-94; was presi¬ 
dent of the Douglas County Agricultural 
society and also president of the North¬ 
western Wisconsin Fair association in 
1895.-96. He served two years and nine 
months in the First New York Dragoons; 
was in forty-two battles, serving under 
Gen. Phil. Sheridan; and was wounded 
in the battle of Winchester in 1864. He 
was elected to the Wisconsin state assem¬ 
bly in 1896. 

AGNEW, CORNELIUS REA, physician, 
philanthropist, was born Aug. 8, 1830, in 
New York city. He founded in 1868 the 
Brooklyn eye and ear hospital, and in 
1869 the Manhattan eye and ear hospital; 
contributed numerous papers to the cur¬ 
rent medical journals, most of which are 
devoted to diseases of the eye and ear, and 
he also published brief monographs and a 
Series of American Clinical Lectures. He 
died April 18, 1888, in New York city. 

AGNEW, DANIEL, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Jan. 5, 1809, in Trenton, N. J. He re¬ 
ceived his education at the Rev. Joseph 
Stockton academy, 
and the Western 
university of Penn¬ 
sylvania, both of 
Pittsburg, Pa. In 
1829 he was admitted 
to the bar, and prac¬ 
ticed for many years 
in Pittsburg, Pa. In 
1837-38 he was a 
delegate in conven¬ 
tion to amend the 
constitution of 
Pennsylvania. Dur¬ 
ing 1851-63 he was president judge of the 
seventh judicial district of Pennsylvania; 
in 1863-79 was justice of the supreme court 
of Pennsylvania; and from 1874-79 was 
chief justice of the supreme court of 
Pennsylvania. 



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AGNEW, DAVID HAYES, physician, 
author, was born Nov. 24, 1818, in Lan¬ 
caster county, Pa. He was a successful 
physician and was for a long time pro¬ 
fessor of surgery in the university of 
Pennsylvania. His writings were the 
outcome of wide experience. His works 
are: Handbook of Practical Anatomy; 
Principles and Practice of Surgery: ‘a 
treatise on Surgical Diseases and Injuries, 
which has been translated into the Jap¬ 
anese language. He died in 1892. 

AGNUS, FELIX, soldier, journalist 
was born July 4, 1839, in France. In 1864 
he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel in the 
civil war. He is a leading journalist of 
the south. 

AHEARN, JOHN F., merchant, state 
senator, was born April 18, 1853, in New 
York city. His early life was devoted to 
mercantile pursuits. In 1882 he was 
elected to the New York state assembly; 
to the state senate in 1889, again in 1891, 
1893, and in 1895. 

AHL, JOHN A., manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in August, 1815, in' 
Strasburg, Pa. He received a good En¬ 
glish education; studied medicine with 
his father and graduated at the Washing¬ 
ton Medical college of Baltimore. He 
abandoned his profession in 1850, and 
turned his attention to various kinds of 
manufactures. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Pennsylvania to the thirty- 
fifth congress. 

AHRENS, MARY A., lawyer, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born Dec. 29, 1836, in England. 
She received her education in the seminary 
of Galesburg, Ill.; and in 1889 graduated 
from the Chicago Union College of Law. 
She has been vice-president of the Pro¬ 
tective Agency for Women and Children; 
chairman of the Woman’s School Suffrage 
association of Cook county; and is a 
member of the Illinois Woman’s Press 
association. 

AIKEN, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Oct. 
30, 1827, in Manchester, Vt. He was 
graduated at Dartmouth college in 1846 
and at Andover Theological seminary in 
1853. From 1859 to 1866 he was professor 
of Latin at Dartmouth, and from 1866 to 
1869 at Princeton college. From 1869 
to 1871 he was president of Union col¬ 
lege. 

AIKEN, D. WYATT, soldier, legislator, 
congressman, was born March 17, 1828, 
in Winnsboro, S. C. He graduated at the 
South Carolina college in 1849; taught 
school for two years; engaged in farm¬ 
ing; and served in the confederate army 
during the war of the rebellion from 1861 
until disabled by wounds. He was elected 
a representative in the state legislature in 
1864, and again in 1866. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the Democratic national conven¬ 
tion of 1876; was elected a representative 
from South Carolina to the forty-fifth, 
forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, 
and forty-ninth congresses. 

AIKEN, JOHN, educator, was born in 
1797 in Vermont. He was trustee of the 
Andover Theological seminary, and for 
fifteen years one of the board of com¬ 
missioners for foreign missions. He died 
Feb. 11, 1867. 

AIIvENS, AMANDA L, editor, philan¬ 
thropist, was born May 12, 1833, in North 
Adams, Mass. Since 1887 she has been 
editor of The Woman’s World, a special 
department of The Evening Wisconsin, 
of Milwaukee, Wis.; of which publica¬ 
tion her husband is one of the proprietors. 
She has been president of the Board of 
Local Charities and Corrections; was two 
years president of the Woman’s club of 
Milwaukee, and has filled other positions 


of honor in various institutions. She was 
one of the organizers of the First Wom¬ 
an’s Republican club of Wisconsin; and 
for nearly twenty years has been identified 
as officer or director with the Art Science 
Class, a literary organization for the pur¬ 
pose of developing a taste in architec¬ 
ture, painting, sculpture and science. 

AIKENS, ANDREW JACKSON, manu¬ 
facturer, journalist, was born Oct. 31, 
1830, in Barnard, Vt. In 1856 he was 
city editor of the Evening Wisconsin; 
and in 1864 the firm of Cramer, Aikens 
and Cramer, commenced publication of 
the patent insides with advertisements, 
being the only pioneer house in the busi¬ 
ness. 

AIKIN, WILLIAM, governor of South 
Carolina, was born in 1806 in Charleston, 
S. C. He graduated at the South Carolina 
college in 1825; was a member of the 
state legislature in 1838, 1840, and 1842; 
was governor of South Carolina in 1844; 
and a representative in congress from 
that state from 1851 to 1857. He was con¬ 
sidered one of the most successful rice- 
planters in his native state, and was one 
of the leading men of his state who did 
not take part in the rebellion. He was 
also noted for his liberality, benevolence, 
and culture as a scholar. 

AIKMAN, GRANVILLE P„ lawyer, ora¬ 
tor, jurist, was born Dec. 27, 1857, i» 
London, Ky. He received the rudiments 
of his education in the public schools of 
Kansas, the London seminary, and from 
private instructors. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as an eminent lawyer of Eldorado, 
Kan.; and was prosecuting attorney of 
Butler county in 1882. In 1883 he was 
elected judge of the probate court; and 
in 1895 received the nomination for cir¬ 
cuit judge. He has taken great interest 
in republican politics, and is well known 
as a brilliant orator. For several years he 
was editor of The Eldorado Eagle, and 
has contributed extensively to current 
literature. 

AIKMAN, HUGH, was born July 11, 
1790, in Nova Scotia. He was for a num¬ 
ber of years president of the New York 
Marine Bible society, and was also a 
member of the New York peace society. 
He was notable for his earnestness in ad¬ 
vocating the principle of peace in the in¬ 
tercourse of nations with each other. He 
died in 1867 in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

AIKMAN, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1824 in Italy. He was a 
Presbyterian clergyman; and the author 
of The Moral Power of the Sea; Life at 
Home, or the Family and Its Members; 
The Altar in the Home; and A Bachelor’s 
Talks about Married Life. 

AINSLIE, GEORGE, lawyer, legislator, 
congressman, was born Oct. 30, 1838, near 
Boonville, Mo. He attended the St. Louis 
university two years; studied law; was 
admitted to practice in 1860, and removed 
to Colorado. In 1862 he settled in that 
portion of Washington territory which 
now constitutes the territory of Idaho; 
served in the territorial legislature, and 
was president of the council during one 
session. He was editor of a newspaper 
from 1869 to 1873; was elected district at¬ 
torney in 1874, and re-elected in 1876. He 
was elected a delegate from Idaho to the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses. 

AINSLIE, HEW, poet, was born in 
1792 in Scotland. He was a Scottish poet 
who emigrated to America in 1822 and 
lived mainly in Kentucky. He was the 
author of Pilgrimage to the Land of 
Burns, a prose work with lyrics inter¬ 
spersed; and Scottish Songs, Ballads, and 
Poems. He died in 1878. 


AINSWORTH, FRANK BEVERIDGE, 
reformer, was born Aug. 11, 1841, in Lis¬ 
bon, N. Y. In 1870 he was a delegate from 
the state of Indiana to the international 
congress on penitentiary and reformatory 
discipline at Cincinnati, Ohio; and in 
1867 he was superintendent of the Indiana 
House of Refuge. 

AINSWORTH, JAMES GALVESTON, 
farmer, merchant, legislator, was born 
May 26, 1846, in Copiah county, Miss. He 
is a successful farmer and merchant of 
Ainsworth, Miss.; and in 1896 was elect¬ 
ed a member of the Mississippi state legis¬ 
lature, his term expiring in 1900. 

AINSWORTH, LABAN, clergyman, was 
born July 19, 1757, in Woodstock, Conn. 
He graduated from Dartmouth college in 
1778, and was ordained pastor of the 
church at Jaffrey in 1782, where he re¬ 
mained until his death, seventy-six 
years. This is probably the longest pas¬ 
torate on record. He died March 17, 1858, 
in Jaffrey, N. H. 

AINSWORTH, LUCIEN LESTER, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
June 21, 1831, in New Woodstock, N. Y. He 
was educated at the common schools and 
at the Oneida Conference seminary, New 
York; studied law and was admitted to 
practice in 1854. In 1855 he removed to 
West Union, Iowa; was a member of the 
lower house and senate of the state for 
several years; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Iowa to the forty-fourth 
congress. He entered the union army in 
1862 as captain in the sixth regiment 
Iowa cavalry, and served for three years 
against the Indians in the northwest. 

AITKEN, DAVID D., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 5, 1854, in Genesee 
• county, Mich. He started in life as a 
bookkeeper, then became a teacher, and 
in 1878 was admitted to the bar. In 1880 
he organized the Venus Tent of the 
Knights of the Maccabees, of which order 
he was elected supreme commander in 
1882, and supreme counselor and great 
commander in 1892. He is a - successful 
lawyer of Flint, Mich., and served with 
distinction as a member of the fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth congresses. 

AITKEN, ROBERT, journalist, author, 
was born in 1734, in Scotland. He set¬ 
tled in Philadelphia in 1769, and published 
the Pennsylvania Magazine, or American 
Monthly Museum, in 1775-76, having Hop- 
kinson and Witherspoon for contributors, 
and was imprisoned in 1777 for his at¬ 
tachment to the cause of independence. 
He printed the first American Bible in 
1782, and is reputed to have been the 
author of An Inquiry Concerning the 
Principles of a Commercial System for 
the United States. He died July, 1802, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

AKELEY, HEALY CADY, lumber mer¬ 
chant, was born March 16, 1836, in Stowe, 
Vt. He was educated in the local schools, 
and began life as a farmer and surveyor, 
and later became a lawyer. In 1863, he 
enlisted in the second Michigan cavalry 
as a private, and was mustered out in 
1865 as adjutant of the regiment. In 
1872, he went into the manufacture of 
lumber in Grand Haven, Mich., and con¬ 
tinued therein until removal to Minne¬ 
apolis in 1887. He was mayor of Grand 
Haven two terms, and 1866-81 collector 
of customs for the district of Michigan. 
Mr. Akeley is now president of The H. C. 
Akeley Lumber Co. of Minneapolis, in 
partnership with Charles H. Hackley and 
Thomas Hume, of Muskegon, Mich., pres¬ 
ident of The Itasca Lumber Co., and presi¬ 
dent of The Flour City National bank and 
The Metropolitan Trust Co. 


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AKER, LEONARD, farmer, soldier, leg¬ 
islator, was born in 1842 in Ravenna, Ohio. 
He enlisted as a private in company F, 
twelfth regiment Indiana volunteer in¬ 
fantry. After serving thirteen months, 
was mustered out at expiration of service. 
May 27, 1862. He re-enlisted Aug. 15,' 
1862, to serve three years, in company F, 
one hundredth Indiana volunteers. Com¬ 
missioned second lieutenant; promoted to 
first lieutenant; and then captain, July 
28, 1864, which rank he held when mus¬ 
tered out at the close of the war. Cap¬ 
tain Aker was appointed on the commis¬ 
sion to locate the Kansas soldiers’ graves, 
and to erect a monument to the memory 
of the fallen heroes of the eighth Kansas, 
on the fields of Chickamauga and Mission 
Ridge, at the Chattanooga cemetery, in 
1895. He served with distinction as a 
member of the Kansas state legislature in 
1897. 

AKER, WILLIAM W„ soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born in Darke county, Ohio. 
He graduated from the Cincinnati law 
school and was admitted to the bar in 
that city in 1872, but shortly after re¬ 
moved to Eaton, Ohio. He served in the 
union army as lieutenant of company H, 
ninety-third Ohio volunteer infantry, and 
in 1897 was post commander of Calep 
Marker post, G. A. R., at New Paris. He 
was elected to the seventy-first general 
assembly of the Ohio state legislature as 
a republican; and was re-elected to the 
seventy-second general assembly. 

AKERLY, SAMUEL, physician, author, 
was born in 1785. He was graduated at 
Columbia college in 1804. He contributed 
to medical and scientific periodicals, was 
active in establishing institutions for deaf 
mutes and the blind, and published an 
Essay on the Geology of the Hudson 
River and Observations on Deafness. He. 
died July 6, 1845, on Staten Island, N. Y. 

AKERMAN, AMOS TAPPAN, lawyer,’ 
was born 1819 in New Hampshire. He 
graduated from Dartmouth college in 
1842, was admitted to the bar in 1841, 
and settled in Elberton, Ga., in 1850. He 
followed his state in secession in 1861, 
and served the confederate government 
in the quartermaster’s department; but 
after the war he was a republican and 
reconstructionist. He was appointed dis¬ 
trict attorney for Georgia in 1866 and at¬ 
torney-general of the United States in 
1870, remaining in that office until 1872. 

AKERS, BENJAMIN PAUL, sculptor, 
was born July 16, 1825, in Westbrook, 
Maine. His best known works are: Peace; 
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary; Diana and 
Endymion; Paul and Francesca; Mil- 
ton; and The Dead Pearl Diver. He died 
May 21, 1861, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

AKERS, THOMAS PETER, congress¬ 
man. He was elected a representative 
from Missouri to the thirty-fourth con¬ 
gress for« the unexpired term of J. G. Mil¬ 
ler, and served one session. 

AKINS, FRANCIS ASAHEL, farmer 
and secretary State Grange, was born Jan. 
2, 1849, in Mayfield, Ohio. He graduated 
from the Baldwin university of Berea, 
Ohio. He was president of the state asso¬ 
ciation of Mutual Fire Insurance associa¬ 
tions; in 1890 was elected secretary of 
the Ohio State Grange Patrons of Hus¬ 
bandry, and received the re-election for 
four successive terms. 

ALBAUGH, JOHN W., actor, was born 
Sept. 30,1837, in Baltimore, Md. In 1875 he 
gained popularity in the play Louis XI; 
and since that time has been manager of 
the Holiday Street theater, and the lessee 
of the popular Albaugh Grand Opera 
House of Washington, D. C. He is also 
the possessor of the most varied and ex¬ 
tensive dramatic library in America. 


ALBEE, JOHN, author, poet, was born 
in 1833, in Bellingham, Mass. He grad¬ 
uated from Phillip academy of Andover, 
Mass., and the Har¬ 
vard university. For 
many years he was a 
successful clergy¬ 
man. He has writ¬ 
ten extensively and 
published the fol¬ 
lowing boo«.s: Lit¬ 
erary Art; An In¬ 
dian Idyl; History 
of New Castle, 
N. H.; and Prose 
Idyls. He has been 
a constant contrib¬ 
utor to the leading magazines and period¬ 
icals of America, and his poems have 
been given prominence in standard publi¬ 
cations. 

ALBERGER, FRANKLIN AUGUSTUS, 
business man, was born Jan. 14, 1825, in 
Baltimore, Md. He was appointed canal 
commissioner in 1862, serving six years; 
was elected to the assembly in 1871, and 
re-elected for the three following terms. 
With the close of his assembly term he 
retired from public life and devoted him¬ 
self to private business. He died Aug. 
24, 1877. 

ALBERT, JOHN S., engineer, was born 
jn 1835. He entered the navy in 1855 
from New York, and was appointed chief 
engineer in 1861, in which capacity he 
served during the war with credit. He 
died July 3, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ALBERT, WILLIAM J., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 4, 1816, at Bal¬ 
timore, Md. He was educated at St. 
Mary’s college; was a merchant; retired 
from business in 1856, and was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1864. He was subse¬ 
quently interested in banking and manu¬ 
factures, and was elected to the forty- 
third congress as a republican. 

ALBERTSON, NATHANIEL, congress¬ 
man, was born in Virginia. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
the first congressional district of Indiana 
from 1849 to 1851. 

ALBRIGHT, ANDREW, inventor, was 
born June 23, 1831, in Dryden, N. Y. He 
is the inventor of rubber bound and set 
brushes, which his firm, the Rubber and 
Celluloid Harness Trimmings Company, 
manufacture; and also of a great part of 
the machinery used in manufacturing his 
inventions. 

ALBRIGHT, CHARLES, lawyer, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born Dec. 13, 
1830, in Berks county, Pa. He was edu¬ 
cated at Dickinson 
college; studied law 
and came to the bar 
in 1852. In 1854 he 
visited Kansas, and 
in 1856 returned to 
Pennsylvania; i n 
1860 was a delegate 
to the republican na¬ 
tional convention; 
entered the army in 
1862; was commis¬ 
sioned colonel, com¬ 
manding the third 
brigade at Chancellorsville, and was 
placed in command at Camp Muhlenburg, 
Pa., to organize troops. In July he was 
sent to Philadelphia to assist in the draft; 
in September, 1864, was assigned to an 
independent command to protect rail¬ 
roads and the outer defenses of Washing¬ 
ton, and in March, 1865, was promoted to 
brevet brigadier-general of volunteers. 
After the war he was sent to the com¬ 
mand of the Lehigh military district to 


pacify tumults in the mining regions; in 
1865 was mustered out of service, and 
in 1872 was a delegate to the republican 
national convention at Philadelphia. He 
was elected to the forty-third congress. 

ALBRIGHT, CHARLES J., congress¬ 
man, was born in Pennsylvania. He was 
elected from the state of Ohio as a repre¬ 
sentative to the thirty-fourth congress. 

ALBRIGHT, ELIZA DOWNING, edu¬ 
cator, temperance worker, was born 
March 13, 1847, in Philadelphia, Pa. After 
her marriage in 1867 to the Rev. Louis M. 
Albright, she was engaged in teaching 
mathematics and natural sciences in the 
Ohio Wesleyan female college; and has 
also filled the chair of mathematics in the 
Depauw female college, of which institu¬ 
tion her husband was president. Since 
1877 she has been identified with the Ohio 
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 
and the Woman’s Foreign Missionary so¬ 
ciety, and has filled numerous positions 
of honor as secretary, chairman and 
speaker. 

ALBRIGHT, JACOB, clergyman, was 
born May 1, 1759, in Pottstown, Pa. Be¬ 
ginning a religious life in 1790, and being 
successful as an exhorter, he soon be¬ 
came a methodist minister. He made 
many converts, almost exclusively Ger¬ 
mans, and in 1800 a separate church or¬ 
ganization was created for them, Albright 
being their first presiding elder. He was 
appointed bishop in 1807. His denomina¬ 
tion is now known as the evangelical as¬ 
sociation, but in many places its adher¬ 
ents are named Albrights. He died in 
1808. 

ALBROOK, J. B., educator, clergyman, 
was born July 18, 1844, in Monroe, Pa. 
In 1870 he graduated from the Cornell col¬ 
lege, IoWa. In 1863 he was first lieuten¬ 
ant in Milo guards; in 1874 was chaplain 
of the Iowa Independent Order Good Tem¬ 
plars; in 1892 was department chaplain of 
the Iowa Grand Army of the Republic. 
In 1896 he was a delegate to the general 
conference of the methodist episcopal 
church; and is now pastor of one of the 
largest and best churches in Iowa meth- 
odism. 

ALBUOY, WILLIAM A. H., clergyman, 
was born July 19, 1861, in Bermuda, West 
Indies. In 1888 he graduated from the 
Lincoln university, Virginia, and pursued 
his theological studies in the same institu¬ 
tion. In 1891 he was ordained a presby- 
terian clergyman. He has organized four 
churches in Charlotte county, Va.; and in 
1897 became moderator of the presbytery 
of southern Virginia. 

ALCORN, JAMES LUSK, lawyer, gen¬ 
eral, governor of Mississippi, United 
States senator, was born Nov. 4, 1816, 
near Golconda, Ill. He settled in Ken¬ 
tucky; was educated at Cumberland col¬ 
lege; was appointed deputy sheriff of Liv¬ 
ingston county, and held the office for five 
years. In 1843 he was elected to the leg¬ 
islature; removed in 1844 to Mississippi; 
entered upon the practice of law, and 
served sixteen years in the legislature of 
that state in the house and senate. In 
1852 he was chosen elector, and was nomi¬ 
nated for governor in 1857, but declined. 
He was founder of the levee system in his 
state, and in 1858 was chosen president 
of the levee board of the Mississippi- 
Yazoo delta. He was elected to the state 
convention of 1851, and again to that of 
1861, the latter body electing him a briga¬ 
dier-general. In 1865 he was elected to 
the senate of the United States, but not 
allowed to take his seat. In 1869 he was 
elected governor of Mississippi, and was 
elected to the senate of the United States 
in 1871 for six years. 





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ALCOTT, AMOS BRONSON, educator, 
lecturer, author, was born Nov. 29, 1799, 
in Wolcott, Conn. He was a philosopher 
of a singularly unpractical type, whose 
personality was of greater interest than 
his writings. He was the author of Con¬ 
versations with Children on the Gospels; 
Table Talk, Emerson; Essays; Tablets, 
Concord Days, Sonnets, and Canzonets; 
and New Connecticut, a poem. He died 
March 4, 1888, in Boston, Mass. He was 
the father of Louisa May Alcott. 

ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY, author, was 
born Nov. 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pa. 
She was a writer whose books for young 
people have been widely popular. She 
served as a hospital nurse in Washing¬ 
ton in 1862-63. She was the author of 
Little Women; Little Men; An Old-Fash¬ 
ioned Girl; Eight Cousins; Under the 
Lilacs; Moods; Hospital Sketches, and A 
Modern Mephistopheles. The thoughtful 
poem, Thoreau’s Flute, is her finest effort. 
She died March 6, 1888, in Boston, Mass. 

ALCOTT, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, re¬ 
former, author, was born Aug. 6, 1798, in 
Wolcott, Conn. He was an energetic, 
earnest writer upon diet reform, and the 
author of The House I Live In; Vegetable 
Diet; and Library of Health. He died 
March 29, 1859, in Auburndale, Mass. 

ALDEN, CYNTHIA M. WESTOVER, 
educator, journalist, was born May 31, 
1862, in Afton, Iowa She is a graduate 
of the Colorado state university and the 
Denver business college. She has been a 
teacher of geology, bookkeeping and vocal 
music, and as a soprano soloist she sang 
for several years in the New York church 
choirs. In 1887 she became inspector of 
customs of the United States government 
in New York City, making some of the 
most important seizures in the service. 
For many years she was engaged in the 
state museum of natural history, in the 
geological department and the cata¬ 
loguing of gems, etc., which was to her 
more a work of pleasure than labor. She 
resigned her position in the museum to 
devote herself entirely to journalistic 
•work; for several years was editor of the 
woman’s department of the New York 
Recorder; and is now the editor of the 
woman’s department of the New York 
Tribune. 

ALDEN, EBENEZER, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born March 17, 1788, in Ran¬ 
dolph, Mass. He was of the seventh gen¬ 
eration from John Alden of Mayflower 
memory, and was graduated at Harvard in 
1808. He studied medicine at Dartmouth 
and at the university of Pennsylvania, 
and followed his profession throughout 
his life in his native town. He published 
Historical Sketches of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society; Memoirs of Mrs. M. A. O. 
Clark, and the Alden Memorial (Boston, 
1867). He died Jan. 26, 1881, in Ran¬ 
dolph, Mass. 

ALDEN, EMILY GILLMORE, edu¬ 
cator, poet, was born Jan. 21, 1834, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. She has taught in Castleton, 
Vt., and now has charge of the depart¬ 
ments of history, rhetoric and English 
literature in the Monticello seminary of 
Godfrey, Ill. She is the author of numer¬ 
ous meritorious poems, and has contrib¬ 
uted extensively to current literature. 

ALDEN, GEORGE ADELBERT, mer¬ 
chant, was born April 7, 1830, in Hope, 
Maine. He started a brokerage business 
in drugs and crude rubber, adopting the 
firm name of George A. Alden and Co. In 
1878 his oldest son, Adelbert Henry Alden, 
then just of age, came into the concern 
as a partner. The firm now enjoy a 
large business in importing rubber, and 
have gradually come to deal in various 
other foreign products. 


ALDEN, HENRY MILLS, journalist, 
author, poet, was born Nov. 11, 1836, in 
Mount Tabor, Vt. He received a college 
education, and in 1869 he became man¬ 
aging editor of Harper’s Magazine. He 
is the author of the poem, The Ancient 
Lady of Sorrow; and, jointly with A. H. 
Guernsey, Harper’s Pictorial History of 
the Great Rebellion, .Mr. Guernsey writ¬ 
ing the eastern campaigns and Mr. Alden 
the western. He is also the author of 
God in His World, and A Study of Death. 

ALDEN, HIRAM, legislator, philan¬ 
thropist, was born in October, 1792, in 
Ashfield, Mass. He was a representative 
from Branch county in 1835 in the Michi¬ 
gan state legislature, and was of the sev¬ 
enth generation from John Alden, of 
Mayflower fame. In 1838 he was ap¬ 
pointed commissioner of internal im¬ 
provements of Michigan, and was acting 
railroad commissioner at the time of the 
construction of the railroad from Detroit 
to Pontiac. He died Nov. 26, 1838, in 
Detroit, Mich., and was followed to his 
grave by six hundred officials and labor¬ 
ers, who insisted on paying the expenses 
as their tribute to a friend and an honest 
man. 

ALDEN, ICHABOD, soldier, was born 
Aug. 11, 1739, in Duxbury, Mass. He was 
a great-grandson of John Alden of the 
original Plymouth colony. Before the 
revolution he was lieutenant-colonel of 
the Plymouth regiment, and he held the 
same rank in Baldwin’s regiment at the 
siege of Boston. Subsequently he was 
promoted to the colonelcy of the 7th Mas¬ 
sachusetts regiment. He was killed by 
Indians at Cherry Valley, N. Y. He died 
Nov. 10, 1778. 

ALDEN, ISABELLA MACDONALD, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 3, 1841, in Rochester, 
N. Y. In 1866 she was married to the 
Rev. G. R. Alden, and resides in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. Her books are peculiarly 
adapted to the use of the youth of this 
country; and most of them have been 
adopted in Sunday school libraries 
throughout the United States. She is au¬ 
thor of a popular juvenile series called 
Pansy Books, embracing nearly sixty 
titles, most of which are adapted to the 
use of Sunday school libraries. Mrs. Al¬ 
den has from the beginning been identi¬ 
fied with the Chautauqua system of in¬ 
struction, and also edits Pansy, a juvenile 
publication. 

ALDEN, JAMES, naval officer, was 
born March 31, 1810, in Portland, Maine. 
He was appointed midshipman in 1828, 
and in that capacity accompanied the 
Wilkes exploring expedition around the 
world in 1838-42. He was commissioned 
commodore in 1866, and two years later 
was placed in charge of the navy yard 
at Mare Island, Cal. He died Feb. 6, 
1877, in San Francisco, Cal. 

ALDEN, JOHN, magistrate of the Ply¬ 
mouth colony, was born in 1599 in Eng¬ 
land. He was hired as a cooper at South¬ 
ampton, where the Mayflower was un¬ 
dergoing repairs, and signed the compact 
in her cabin in 1620. He married Pris¬ 
cilla Mullens in 1621, and the incident of 
his courtship has been made the subject 
of one of Longfellow’s longer poems. He 
died Sept. 12, 1687, in Duxbury, Mass. 

ALDEN, JOSEPH, educator, author, 
was born Jan. 4, 1807, in Cairo, N. Y. He 
was an industrious contributor to educa¬ 
tional and Sunday-school literature. He 
was for many years president of the nor¬ 
mal school at Albany; and was the author 
of ExamDle of Washington; Citizen’s 
Manual; Christian Ethics; The Science of 
Government; Studies in Bryant, and 
other works. He died Aug. 30, 1885, in 
New York. 


ALDEN, ROGER, soldier, was born 
Feb. 11, 1754, in Lebanon, Conn. He was 
graduated at Yale in 1773, and served in 
the revolutionary war as aide to General 
Greene. Subsequently he became agent 
of the Holland Land company, and re¬ 
sided at Meadville, Pa., from 1795 to 1825. 
He was appointed ordnance storekeeper at 
West Point in 1825, and remained as such 
until his death. He was a great-grandson 
of John Alden. He died Nov. 5, 1836, in 
West Point, N. Y. 

ALDEN, TIMOTHY, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born Aug. 28, 1771, 
in Yarmouth, Mass. He studied at Har¬ 
vard, distinguishing himself by his knowl¬ 
edge of oriental languages, and was grad¬ 
uated in 1774. From 1799 to 1805 he was 
pastor to the congregational church in 
Portsmouth, N. H., where from 1800 to 
1808 he taught school. Subsequently he 
conducted schools for young ladies in 
Boston, Newark, Cincinnati, and East 
Liberty, Pa. In 1817 he founded Alle¬ 
ghany college, Meadville, Pa., and be¬ 
came its first president, retiring in 1831. 
He published a collection of epitaphs and 
inscriptions in five volumes entitled: An 
Account of Sundry Missions Among the 
Senecas, and other works, and prepared 
a valuable catalogue of the library of the 
New York historical society. He died 
July 5, 1839, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

ALDEN, TIMOTHY, inventor of a ma¬ 
chine for setting and distributing type, 
was born in 1819 in Barnstable, Mass. He 
was sixth in descent from John Alden, 
the Mayflower Pilgrim. When very young 
and a compositor in his brother’s print¬ 
ing office he said: If I live I will invent 
a machine to do this tiresome work. He 
steadily pursued this object, and after 
twenty years’ labor accomplished it. It 
was improved after his death by Henry 
W. Alden. He died Dec. 4, 1858, in New 
York. 

ALDEN, WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, au- - 
thor, was born Qct. 9, 1837, in Williams- 
town, Mass. He was a humorous writer 
who has for some time resided in Lon¬ 
don. He was the author of A New Rob¬ 
inson Crusoe; Domestic Explosions; 
Shooting Stars; Moral Pirates; Cruise of 
the Canoe Club; and Life of Christopher 
Columbus. 

ALDERSON, JOHN DUFFY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 29, 1854, at 
Nicholas Court-House, W. Va. He re¬ 
ceived a common-school education; 
studied law and was admitted to the bar 
when twenty-one years of age. He was 
appointed prosecuting attorney in each of 
the counties of Nicholas and Webster, to 
fill vacancies occasioned by the death of 
his father, Hon. Joseph A. Alderson; and 
in 1876 was elected prosecuting attorney 
for these counties, apd was twice re¬ 
elected, serving until Jan. 1, 1889. He 
was elected to the fifty-first and fifty- 
second congresses, and re-elected to the 
fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

ALDRICH, ANNE REEVE, poet, novel¬ 
ist, was born April 25, 1866, in New York 
City. Her poems have constantly ap¬ 
peared in Lippincott’s Magazine, The 
Century, and various other periodicals. 
She is the author of the Rose of Flame 
and Other Poems of Love; Songs About 
Life, Love and Death; and a novel enti¬ 
tled The Feet of Love. She died in lbai. 

ALDRICH, CHARLES, journalist, was 
born Oct. 2, 1828, in Ellington, N. Y. He 
spent one year in Jamestown academy. 
In 1857 he went to Iowa and established 
the Freeman in Webster City. He served 
as a member of the Iowa house of repre¬ 
sentatives in 1882-83. Mr. Aldrich is the 
author of many of the important laws of 
Iowa. 


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ALDRICH. CYRUS, contractor, public 
official, congressman, was born in June, 
1808, in Smithfield, R. I. He received a 
common-school education; followed the 
various occupations of a sailor, a boat¬ 
man, a farmer, a contractor on public 
works, and a mail contractor; was a mem¬ 
ber of the Illinois legislature, and also a 
register of deeds and register of the land 
office at Dixon, in that state, for four 
years. Having removed to Minnesota, he 
was a member of the constitutional con¬ 
vention of that state and member of the 
county board of Hennepin county, in that 
state. He was elected a representative 
from Minnesota to the thirty-sixth and 
thirty-seventh congresses. After leaving 
congress he was appointed commissioner 
to settle claims against the Sioux Indians. 
In 1867 he was appointed postmaster at 
Minneapolis, Minn. 

ALDRICH, EMMA B., educator, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born April 4, 1845, in 
Cape May county, N. J. In 1864 she grad¬ 
uated from the state normal school of 
Trenton, N. J.; and subsequently attained 
success in educational work. She was 
married in 1866 to Mr. Levi L. Aldrich; 
and in connection with her husband pub¬ 
lished the Public Record of Cawker City, 
Kan. She was one of the organizers of 
the national woman’s relief corps, one of 
the founders of the woman’s Hesperian 
library club, and the founder of the Kan¬ 
sas woman’s press association. 

ALDRICH, FLORA L., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Oct. 6, 1859, in Westford, 
N. Y. In 1883 she was married to Dr. 
A. G. Aldrich, of Adams, Mass. In 1877 
she graduated from the medical depart¬ 
ment of the Minnesota state university, 
and has since taken post-graduate courses 
in the best schools in America and Eu¬ 
rope. She has attained eminence as a 
successful physician and surgeon of 
Anoka, Minn.; is at the head of several 
literary and scientific organizations; and 
contributed extensively to current litera¬ 
ture. 

ALDRICH, FRANCIS FREDERICK, 
lawyer, author, was born Feb. 26, 1845, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was graduated 
at the law department of the university 
of Pennsylvania in 1866. He has published 
A Digest of the Laws and Ordinances of 
the City of Philadelphia, and A Digest of 
the Laws of Pennsylvania from 1883 to 
1887. 

ALDRICH, J. FRANK, civil engineer, 
business man, congressman, was born 
April 6, 1853, in Two Rivers, Wis.; re¬ 
moved to Chicago in April, 1861; attended 
public schools and Chicago university, 
and graduated at the Rensselaer polytech¬ 
nic institute, Troy, N. Y., in 1877, with 
degree of civil engineer. He engaged in 
the manufacture of linseed oil and sub¬ 
sequently in the gas business. He has 
been a member of the Cook county board 
of commissioners, and was president of 
that body during the reform period in 
1887; was also a member of the county 
board of education and chairman of the 
committee of citizens of Chicago ap¬ 
pointed from the various clubs and com¬ 
mercial organizations to inaugurate and 
further the drainage act; and served as 
commissioner of public works of Chicago 
from 1891 to 1893. He was elected to the 
fifty-third and re-elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a republican. 

ALDRICH, JAMES, journalist, poet, 
was born in 1810 in Suffolk, N. Y. He 
was a litterateur of New York, and estab¬ 
lished The Literary Gazette in 1840, in 
which a number of his verses appeared. 
His poems were privately printed by his 
daughter in 1884. He died in October, 
1856. 


ALDRICH, JAMES, legislator, jurist, 
was born July 25, 1850, in Barnwell, S. C., 
and is the son of James Thomas Aldrich. 
In 1872 he graduated from the Washing¬ 
ton and Lee university of Lexington, Va. 
He was a member of the South Carolina 
legislature from 1878 to 1889, missing one 
term only through sickness. In 1889 he 
was elected circuit judge of the second 
circuit of South Carolina; he was re¬ 
elected in 1893, and is now the presiding 
judge. He has always taken an interest 
in educational matters, and has done 
considerable literary work, and has pub¬ 
lished numerous addresses, essays and ar¬ 
ticles on various topics. 

ALDRICH, JAMES THOMAS, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1819, in Charleston, 
S. C. He refused every political position 
tendered him except as an officer in the 
service of the confederacy. In 1842 he 
was admitted to practice law, and soon 
became one of the leaders of the South 
Carolina bar, especially in the courts of 
equity. Mr. Aldrich, like many of his 
name, was the author of a number of 
poems and literary articles that have 
been a valuable acquisition to current 
literature. He died in 1875, at his resi¬ 
dence in Barnwell C. H., S. C. 

ALDRICH, JOSEPHINE CABLES, phi¬ 
lanthropist, author, was born in Connec¬ 
ticut. In 1882 she founded The Occult 
World, a publication devoted to advanced 
thought and reform work. She is vice- 
president of the woman’s national indus¬ 
trial league; vice-president of the 
woman’s national liberal union; and one 
of the founders of the woman’s national 
university and school of useful and orna¬ 
mental arts; and resides in Aldrich, Ala. 

ALDRICH, JULIA CARTER, author, 
poet, was born Jan. 28, 1834, in Liverpool, 
Ohio. For awhile she was engaged in 
educational work in her native town; 
and subsequently contributed to period¬ 
ical literature under the pen name of 
Petresia Peters. She has written exten¬ 
sively on reformatory measures in the 
interest of humanity; and is also the au¬ 
thor of a volume of poems. 

ALDRICH, LEANDER JEFFERSON, 
clergyman, educator, college president, 
was born May 21, 1851, in Conklingville, 
N. Y. In 1880 he 
graduated from 
Oberlin college; -and 
from the theological 
seminary in 1885. 
He has filled pas¬ 
torates in Dover. 
Ohio, and in Merom, 
Ind. In 1886 he be¬ 
came president of 
the Union Christian 
college of Merom, 
where he also fills 
the chair of rhetoric 
and botany, and also that of Christian 
ethics. He has traveled extensively in 
foreign countries as a special student of 
ancient history and litex-ature. He is 
also pastor of the college church. 

ALDRICH, LEVI, physician, state sena¬ 
tor, was born Jan. 27, 1820, in Erie county, 
N. Y. He received an academical educa¬ 
tion, studied medicine at the Albany med- . 
ical college and Buffalo medical univer¬ 
sity, and practiced medicine successfully 
in Erie county and at Edwardsburg. He 
was representative in the Michigan state 
legislature from Cass county in 1863-4; 
senator in 1865, and a member of the con¬ 
stitutional convention in 1867. 

ALDRICH, MARY JANE, temperance 
reformer, lecturer, was born March 19, 
1833, in Sidney Plains, N. Y. She has 


been president of the woman’s Christian 
temperance union of Iowa, of which she 
is now corresponding secretary; has lec¬ 
tured extensively, and was a member of 
the national convention of 1890, held in 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

ALDRICH, NELSON WILMARTH, 
merchant. United States senator, was 
born Nov. 6, 1841, in Foster, R. I. He 
received an academic education; engaged 
in mercantile pursuits, and was president 
of the common council of Providence, 
R. I., in 1872 and 1873. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state house of representatives 
in 1875 and 1876, serving as speaker dur¬ 
ing the latter year. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Rhode Island to the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses, 
and resigned in 1881 to take his seat as a 
senator of the United States from Rhode 
Island for the term of six years from 
March 4, 1881, and received the re-elec¬ 
tion in 1886 and in 1893. 

ALDRICH, ORLANDO W., lawyer, was 
born March 30, 1840, in Clarence, N. Y. 
He filled the chair of law in the Illinois 
Wesleyan university; was professor of 
law in the Ohio state university; presi¬ 
dent of the Ohio society of war of 1812, 
and judge advocate department of Ohio, 
Grand Army of the Republic. 

ALDRICH, SAMUEL N., lawyer, finan¬ 
cier, was born Feb. 3, 1838, in Upton, 
Mass. He is a graduate of the Worcester 
academy and the Brown university, and 
has attained success as a noted lawyer. 
He has been president of the central Mas¬ 
sachusetts railway company; was assist¬ 
ant treasurer of the United States at Bos¬ 
ton under President Cleveland’s first ad¬ 
ministration, and since 1890 has been 
president of the State National bank of 
Boston, Mass. 

ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY, author, 
poet, was born Nov. 11, 1836, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. He is a poet and novelist 
whose work in both verse and prose is 
distinguished for grace of expression and 
delicacy of execution. His early youth 
was spent in Louisiana. At the death of 
his father he entered the counting-house 
of his uncle in New York city. He occu¬ 
pied editorial positions for ten years on 
various papers; and in 1881 succeeded 
William D. Howells as editor of the At¬ 
lantic Monthly, which position he re¬ 
signed nine years later to devote his en¬ 
tire time to personal literary work and 
travel. He is the author of the following 
poetical works: The Bells; Ballad of 
Baby Bell; Pampinea; Flower and Thorn; 
Cloth of Gold; Friar Jerome’s Beautiful 
Book; XXXVI Lyrics and XII Sonnets; 
The Sisters’ Tragedy; Wyndham Towers; 
Unguarded Gates; Mercedes and Later 
Lyrics; Judith and Holofernes. His 
prose works are: Prudence Palfrey; The 
Queen of Sheba; The Stillwater Tragedy; 
Marjorie Daw and Other Stories; Two 
Bites at a Cherry, with Other Tales; The 
Story of a Bad Boy; An Old Town by the 
Sea: a description of Portsmouth, the au¬ 
thor’s birthplace; From Ponkapog to 
Pesth; and Travel Sketches. 

ALDRICH, TRUMAN H., civil engineer, 
railroad president, congressman, was born 
Oct. 17, 1848, in Palmyra, N. Y. He was 
educated in the public school at that 
place, at the military academy in West 
Chester, Pa., and was graduated from the 
Rensselaer polytechnic institute of Troy, 
N. Y., as a mining engineer in class of 
1869. After practicing his profession in 
New York and New Jersey removed to 
Selma, Ala., in winter of 1871-72; was in 
the banking business there for two years 
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ALDRICH, WILLIAM, merchant, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 
1820, in Greenfield, N. Y. He was reared 
on a farm; received a good education; 
taught school for a time; in 1846 engaged 
in mercantile pursuits, and in 1851 re¬ 
moved to Wisconsin and engaged in mer¬ 
chandising and manufacturing. He was 
superintendent of schools for three years; 
was chairman of the board of supervisors 
one year, and was a member of the Wis¬ 
consin house of representatives in 1859. 
In 1860 he removed to Chicago, Ill., and 
engaged in the wholesale grocery busi¬ 
ness. He was a member of the board of 
aldermen in 1876, and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Illinois to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses. He died Dec. 3, 1885, in Fond du 
Lac, Wis. 

ALDRICH, WILLIAM DUANE, civil 
engineer, state senator, was born Dec. 29, 
1833, in Smithfield, R. I. He has held va¬ 
rious town offices, having been for some 
seventeen years a member of the town 
councils of Smithfield and Lincoln. He 
was a representative in 1869-70, 1892-95, 
and senator since May, 1895. 

ALDRICH, WILLIAM F., civil engineer, 

■ congressman, was born March 11, 1853, at 
Palmyra, N. Y. He was educated at the 
public school of his 
native village until 
1865, when he re¬ 
moved with his 
father to New York 
city, in which city 
and vicinity he at- 
tended several 
schools, and was 
graduated from War¬ 
ren’s military acad¬ 
emy at Poughkeep¬ 
sie, taking a course 
in civil engineering; 
removed to Alabama in 1874, and engaged 
in mining and manufacturing, and built 
up the town that now bears his name. 
The only political office he ever held was 
that of postmaster of his town; was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress by the 
combined vote of the republicans and 
populists of the fourth district, against 
Gaston A. Robbins, democrat. The lat¬ 
ter received the certificate of election 
from the governor on the face of the re¬ 
turns. Mr. Aldrich instituted a contest, 
and was seated by the house on Friday, 
March 13, 1895. In November, 1896, he 
was again elected to congress, but was 
again forced to contest for his seat. 

ALDRICH, WILLIAM W., stockman, 
banker, was born Sept. 13, 1826, in Dela¬ 
ware, Ohio. He has been president of 
the Farmers’ and Citizens’ bank of Nick¬ 
erson, Kan., and other institutions. He 
is now a successful stockman; proprietor 
of the Border Lawn stock farm of Tipton, 
Iowa, and the president of the First Na¬ 
tional bank of that city. 

ALDRIDGE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
contractor, was born Dec. 28, 1856, in 
Michigan City, Ind. He has attained a 
wide reputation and prominence as a 
builder and contractor. He remodeled 
the Academy of Music, Wilder’s arcade, 
and several private residences of promi¬ 
nence and architectural beauty. 

ALEXANDER, ABRAHAM, statesman, 
was born in 1718 in North Carolina. He 
represented Mecklenburg county in the 
colonial legislature prior to 1775. 

ALEXANDER, ADAM R„ congressman, 
was born in Washington county, Va. He 
was elected a representative in congress 
from Madison county, Tenn., from 1823 
to 1827. 


ALEXANDER, ARCHER, freedman, 
was born about 1810, near Richmond, Va. 
He was a slave, and fled to St. Louis, 
then under martial law, in 1863, and was 
formally liberated the same year. He 
served as the model for the freedman in 
the bronze group by Thomas Ball, stand¬ 
ing in the capitol grounds in Washington, 
and known as Freedom’s Memorial. He 
died Dec. 8, 1879, in St. Louis, Mo. 

ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born April 17, 
1772, in Rockbridge county, Va. He was 
a presbyterian clergyman who was pro¬ 
fessor at Princeton theological seminary 
1812-51. Evidences of Christianity; The 
Canon of Scripture; Moral Science; Bible 
Dictionary are some of his many works. 
He died Oct. 22, 1851, in Princeton, N. J. 

ALEXANDER, ARMSTEAD M., lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 26, 1834, in 
Clark county, Ky. He removed to Mis¬ 
souri and settled at Paris; studied law; 
was admitted to the bar in 1860 and en¬ 
gaged in practice. He was prosecuting 
attorney of Monroe county for six years; 
was a delegate to the state constitutional 
convention of 1875, and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Missouri to the forty- 
eighth congress. 

ALEXANDER, BARTON STONE, civil 
engineer, general, was born in 1819 in 
Kentucky. He was brevetted brigadier- 
general March 13, 1865, for meritorious 
services in the rebellion. He has been 
much engaged in the construction and re¬ 
pairs of forts and in the erection of Mi¬ 
not’s Ledge lighthouse, 1855-61. He was 
consulting engineer in Sheridan’s army, 
Shenandoah Valley, Va., and present at 
the battle of Cedar Creek, Oct. 9, 1864. 

ALEXANDER, CALEB, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born July 22, 1775, 
in Northfield, Mass. He was a clergyman 
much of whose life was spent in teaching 
at Onondaga, N. Y. He published Latin 
and English grammars; Essay on the 
Deity of Christ; The Columbian Diction¬ 
ary; Grammar Elements, and a literal 
prose version of Virgil. He died April 12, 
1828, in Onondaga, N. Y. 

ALEXANDER, CHARLES, journalist, 
poet, was born March 7, 1867, in Natchez, 
Miss. For many years he was connected 
with the Boston Daily Standard and The 
American Citizen; and in 1894 he estab¬ 
lished The Monthly Review of Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., of which he is still editor and 
owner. He has contributed poems, short 
stories and sketches to several leading 
publications. 

ALEXANDER, CHARLTON HENRY, 
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 12, 1858, 
in Kosciusko, Miss. He graduated in lit¬ 
erature and law from the university of 
Mississippi, and has attained prominence 
as an able lawyer of Jackson, Miss. He 
has been reporter of the supreme court 
of Mississippi, and, in conjunction with 
Mr. L. Brame, his law partner, is the 
author of a Mississippi Digest. 

ALEXANDER, DE ALVA STAN- 
WOOD, soldier, lawyer, congressman, 
was born July 17, 1846, in Richmond, 
Maine. At the age of fifteen he entered 
the army, serving three years, and until 
the close of the war, as a private soldier; 
upon leaving the service prepared for 
college at Edward Little institute, in Au¬ 
burn, Maine, and took his bachelor’s de¬ 
gree from Bowdoin college in 1870; after¬ 
ward located at Indianapolis, Ind., where 
he studied law and practiced in partner¬ 
ship with Hon. Stanton J. Peelle, now 
judge of the court of claims in Washing¬ 
ton. In 1881 was appointed fifth auditor 
of the treasury department, and during 
his residence in Washington was elected 



and served one term as commander of the 
department of the Potomac, Grand Army 
of the Republic. On leaving Washington, 
removed to Buffalo, forming a law part¬ 
nership with his college classmate, Hon. 
James A. Roberts, at present comptroller 
of the state of New York. In 1889 was ap¬ 
pointed United States attorney for the 
northern district of New York, holding 
the office until December, 1893. He was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
republican. 

ALEXANDER, EDMUND BROOKE, 
general, was born Oct. 2, 1802, in Hay 
Market, Va. He was graduated at the 
United States military academy in 1823. 
After twenty years of frontier and garri¬ 
son duty he had an opportunity for serv¬ 
ice in Mexico, where he won a major’s 
brevet in 1847 and a lieutenant-colonel’s 
in 1847. During the civil war he was re¬ 
tained at St. Louis on provost-marshal’s 
duty, involving delicate and responsible 
administration of important matters. He 
was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865, 
and commanded his regiment at Fort 
Snelling till retirement, in 1869, by op¬ 
eration of law. He died Jan. 3, 1888, in 
Washington, D. C. 

ALEXANDER, EDWARD PORTER, 
soldier, educator, authoi’, was born May 
26, 1835, in Washington, Ga. He grad¬ 
uated from West Point academy in 1857, 
and was promoted second lieutenant 
corps of engineers, and served in the 
United States army in the Utah expedi¬ 
tion in 1858. He was instructor in engi¬ 
neering at West Point in 1859-60; and 
was professor in mathematics and en¬ 
gineering in the South Carolina univer¬ 
sity in 1866-69. He served with distinc¬ 
tion in the confederate service, and until 
1892 held numerous and important rail¬ 
road positions in the southern states. He 
is the author of Railroad Practice and 
various pamphlets and articles on rail¬ 
road and other topics. 

ALEXANDER, EVAN, congressman, 
was born in North Carolina. He grad¬ 
uated from Princeton college in 1787; was 
a member of the legislature for two 
years, and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from North Carolina from 1805 to 
1809. He died Oct. 28, 1809. 

ALEXANDER, FRANCIS, artist, was 
born in 1800 in Connecticut. When eight¬ 
een years of age he began painting in 
water-color without an instructor. About 
1820 he went to New York and prosecuted 
his art studies, as a pupil of Alexander 
Robertson. He worked for a few months 
in Providence, R. I., and subsequently 
opened a studio in Boston, where he 
gained great popularity as a portrait 
painter. He went to Europe _ in 1831, 
finally taking up his residence in Flor¬ 
ence, Italy. 

ALEXANDER, GROSS, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, was born June 1, 1852, in Scotts- 
ville, Ky. He received his education at 
the university at Louisville; the Drew 
theological seminary; and the southern 
baptist theological seminary. He is one 
of the foremost divines of the south; has 
been professor of Latin and Greek in the 
Warren college, Ky.; and is now pro¬ 
fessor of the New Testament, Greek and 
Exegesis in the Vanderbilt university of 
Nashville, Tenn. 

ALEXANDER, HENRY P., merchant, 
congressman, was born in New York in 
1802. He engaged in commerce; was a 
representative in congress from Herki¬ 
mer county, in that state, from 1849 to 
1851, and was a member of the committee 
on expenditures in the state department. 
He died Feb. 22, 1867, in Little Falls, 
N. Y. 




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ALEXANDER, ISAAC J., educator, 
lecturer, poet, was born June 5, 1863, in 
Pickaway county, Ohio. He is a success¬ 
ful educator and lecturer of Royalton, 
Ohio, and the author of a number of meri¬ 
torious poems. 

ALEXANDER, JAMES, JR., congress¬ 
man, was born in Maryland. He was a 
resident of St. Clairsville, Ohio; was 
elected a representative in congress from 
the eleventh district of that state from 
1837 to 1839, and was a member of the 
committee on public expenditures. He 
died Aug. 6, 1846. 

ALEXANDER, JAMES WADDEL, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 13, 1804, 
in Louisa county, Va., and was a son of 
A. Alexander. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of New York city, and the au¬ 
thor of Plain Words to a Young Commu¬ 
nicant; Sacramental Discourses; 
Thoughts on Preaching; Life of Archibald 
Alexander; Consolation; The American 
Mechanic and Workingman, and other 
works. He died July 31, 1859, in Red 
Sweet Springs, Ya. 

ALEXANDER, JANE GRACE, finan¬ 
cier, was born Oct. 26, 1848, in Winches¬ 
ter, N. H. She is cashier of the Win¬ 
chester national bank; treasurer of the 
savings bank of her native town, and has 
attained success as a successful business 
woman and financier. 

ALEXANDER, JOHN, congressman, 
was elected a representative in congress 
from Ohio May 4, 1813, serving till 1817. 

ALEXANDER, JOHN EDMINSTON, 
clergyman, genealogist. In 1842 he be¬ 
came a clergyman of the presbyterian 
church, and for the ten years during 
1853-62 was principal of the Miller acad¬ 
emy of Washington, Ohio, where he had 
been pastor for twenty years. He is the 
author of a Historical Sketch of Greene- 
ville Church, Tenn.; a History of the 
Synod of Tennessee; A Record of the 
Alexander Family, and other works. 

ALEXANDER, JOHN HENRY, scien¬ 
tist, author, was born June 26, 1812, in 
Annapolis, Md. He was once a noted 
Maryland scientist and the author of 
History of the Metallurgy of Iron; Uni¬ 
versal Dictionary of Weights and Meas¬ 
ures, Ancient and Modern; International 
Tonnage; Treatise of Mathematical In¬ 
struments; Introits; and Catena Domin¬ 
ica, a collection of religious poems. He 
died March 2, 1867, in Baltimore, Md. 

ALEXANDER, JOHN M., soldier, busi¬ 
ness man, public officer, was born May 17, 
1841, in Delaware county, Ohio. He 
served three years in Sheridan’s army, 
and was wounded at Fisher’s Hill in 
1864. He is a successful business man of 
Gallipolis, Ohio, and has been mayor of 
his city four terms. 

ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON, 
clergyman, author, was born April 24, 
1809, in Philadelphia, Pa., and is a son of 
A. Alexander. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman, professor at Princeton college, 
and theological seminary, 1820-60. He 
was the author of Commentaries on the 
Psalms, Isaiah, Acts, Matthew', and Mark, 
and many theological reviews, often as 
sarcastic as they were forcible. He died 
Jan. 28, 1860, in Princeton, N. J. 

ALEXANDER, LORENZO P., soldier, 
merchant, state senator, was born Aug. 
10, 1820, in Angelica, N. Y. When twenty- 
one he settled in Buchanan, Mich. In 
1844 he was a militia captain, and in 1845 
became colonel of the 28th regiment. He 
was a representative in the Michigan 
state legislature of 1841-42; in 1867 was 
member of the constitutional convention; 
and in 1871-72 state senator. He was a 
delegate to the republican national con¬ 


vention at Baltimore in 1864, and was a 
member of the committee that notified 
President Lincoln of his renomination. 
He was postmaster of Buchanan from 
1862 to 1866, and again from 1877 to 1886. 

ALEXANDER, MARK, congressman, 
was born Feb. 7, 1792, in Mecklenburg 
county, Virginia. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in the Virginia state legisla¬ 
ture in 1815; and w r as a representative in 
congress from that state from 1819 to 
1833. He died July 6, 1883, at Scotland 
Neck, N. C. 

ALEXANDER, MATILDA G„ author, 
was born June 14, 1842, in Mt. Vernon, 
Ind. She is the author of Going West; 
Here and Hereafter; and Worth Wins. 

ALEXANDER, NATHANIEL, soldier, 
physician, congressman, governor, was 
born in 1756, in Mecklenburg, N. C. He 
graduated from Princeton college in 1776, 
and, after studying medicine, entered the 
army. At the close of the war resided 
at the High Hills of Santee, pursuing his 
profession, and afterwards at Mecklen¬ 
burg. While he held a seat in congress, 
as a representative from North Carolina, 
from 1803 to 1805, the legislature elected 
him governor for 1806. He died March 8, 
1808, in Salisbury, N. C. 

ALEXANDER, ROBERT, was born 
about 1740, in Baltimore, Md. He was a 
delegate from Maryland to the conti¬ 
nental congress from 1775 to 1777. 

ALEXANDER, ROBERT CARTER, 
lawyer, journalist, was born July 7, 1857, 
in West Charlton, N. Y. He was made 
secretary and treasurer of the Mail and 
Express corporation, as well as its legal 
counsel; and in 1895 became editor-in- 
chief of the paper. In 1890 he was elected 
a life trustee of Union college. 

ALEXANDER, SAMUEL DAVIES, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1819, in 
Princeton, N. J., and was a son of A. 
Alexander. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of New York city from 1855; and 
the author of Princeton College in the 
Eighteenth Century; and A History of 
the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. He 
died in 1894. 

ALEXANDER, STEPHEN, educator, 
astronomer, author, was born Sept. 1, 
1806, in Schenectady, N. Y. He was an 
astronomer who was a professor at Prince¬ 
ton college in 1834-78, and the author of 
Physical Phenomena of Solar Eclipses; 
and Certain Harmonies of the Solar Sys¬ 
tem. He died June 25, 1883, in Prince¬ 
ton, N. J. 

ALEXANDER, SYDENHAM B., soldier, 
farmer, state senator, congressman, was 
born Dec. 8, 1840, in Mecklenburg county, 
N. C. He entered the university of North 
Carolina in 1856 and graduated from that 
institution in 1860. In 1861 enlisted in the 
army as a private soldier in the first 
North Carolina volunteer infantry; in 
June, 1862, was elected captain of com¬ 
pany K, forty-second North Carolina in¬ 
fantry; and in 1864 was detached from 
his company and served as inspector- 
general on the staff of Major-General R. 
F. Hoke; after the war returned home 
and engaged in farming; in 1877 was 
master of State Grange and a member of 
state board of agriculture; he was elect¬ 
ed to the state senate in 1878, and was re¬ 
elected in 1882, 1884, and 1886. He is a 
member of the board of trustees of the 
North Carolina Agricultural and Mechan¬ 
ical college; and was elected to the fifty- 
second and re-elected to the fifty-third 
congress. 

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
born in 1726, in New York city. He served 
gallantly with Washington during the 


revolutionary war; and it w r as through 
him that the Conway Cabal was made 
known to Washington. He died Jan. 15, 
1783, in Albany, N. Y. 

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, clergyman, 
theologist, was born Dec. 18, 1831, in 
Huntingdon county, Pa. In 1858 he gradu¬ 
ated from Jefferson 
college; and in Sep¬ 
tember of the same 
year entered Prince¬ 
ton Theological sem¬ 
inary, and graduated 
therefrom in 1861. 
He has been pastor 
in various presby¬ 
terian churches, and 
was president of the 
Carroll college, Wis.; 
president of the City 
college of San Fran¬ 
cisco, Cal.; and since 1871 has been 
theological professor in San Francisco 
theological seminary, of which institution 
he was the principal founder. He is the 
author of numerous published Sermons 
and Addresses, Commentaries on Inter¬ 
national Sunday School Lessons, and 
various other letters and papers. He is 
one of the editors and a contributor to ^ 
The Presbyterian and Reformed Review. 

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM COWPER. 
lawyer, state senator, was born in 1806 in 
Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 
1827, and soon gained a reputation for 
legal knowledge and eloquence and took 
part in political affairs. For several years 
he was president of the New Jersey state 
senate. He was nominated for governor, 
and lacked but a few votes of election. 
After being a member of the peace con¬ 
gress of 1861, over which he was fre¬ 
quently called to preside, he withdrew 
from politics and devoted himself entirely 
to the business of insurance, having been 
elected president of the Equitable Life In¬ 
surance company when it was organized 
in 1859, of which he was president at the 
time of his death. He died Aug. 23, 1874, 
in New York city. 

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM IRVIN, 
clergyman, lecturer, was born May 13, 
1867, in Greenwood, Ind., a suburb of 
Indianapolis. He graduated in 1889 from 
Hartsville college, and in 1893 from Lane 
Theological seminary of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
He taught school for awhile, and in 1893 
accepted a call to the First presbyterian 
church of Decatur, Ind.; and during a 
pastorate there of two years the mem¬ 
bership was doubled. In 1895 he accept¬ 
ed a call to the Willow Creek presby¬ 
terian church of Argyle, Ill. The largest 
country church in the United States, com¬ 
posed of a large and wealthy Scotch con¬ 
gregation in what is known as the Scotch 
settlement. The services of this rising 
presbyterian clergyman are in demand as 
an evangelist and lecturer. 

ALFORD, JULIUS C., congressman, was 
born in Georgia. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Troup county, 
Ga., from 1839 to 1842. 

ALGER, CYRUS, inventor, iron found¬ 
er, was born Nov. 11,1781, in West Bridge- 
water, Mass. Early in life he became an 
iron-founder, and established his business 
in Easton, Mass. In 1809 he removed to 
South Boston, where he founded the 
works that since 1817 have been known 
as the South Boston Iron company. Mr. 
Alger also devised numerous improve¬ 
ments in the construction of time fuses 
for bomb-shells and grenades. In 1811 he 
patented a method of making cast-iron 
chilled rolls, and in 1822 first designed 
cylinder stoves. He died Feb. 4, 1856, in 
Boston, Mass. 








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ALGER, HORATIO, author, was born 
Jan. 13, 1854, in Revere, Mass. He gradu¬ 
ated from Harvard college, and for fif¬ 
teen years has prepared boys for col¬ 
lege in New York city. He is the author 
of a series of popular juvenile tales, 
among which the Ragged Dick stories are 
best known. His stories of the street life 
in New York have made him a great 
favorite with boys everywhere. 


ALGER, RUSSELL A., general, gov¬ 
ernor of Michigan, secretary of war, was 
born Feb. 27, 1836, in Lafayette, Ohio. 

He was admitted to 
practice law in 1859. 
During the rebellion 
he entered the union 
army as a private, 
and in 1865 was bre- 
vetted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral and major-gen¬ 
eral for gallant con¬ 
duct. In 1884 he was 
elected governor of 
Michigan; in 1888 
was a candidate for 
president in the re¬ 
publican national convention; and in 1889 
was elected commander-in-chief of the 
Grand Army of the Republic. President 
McKinley appointed him secretary of war 
in 1897. He is one of the wealthiest men 
in Michigan, in which state he owns very 
large lumber interests. 



ALGER, WILLIAM ROtJNSEVILLE, 
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 30, 1822, 
in Freetown, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman and lecturer of Boston, and the 
author of Symbolic History of the Cross: 
The School of Life; History of the Doc¬ 
trine of a Future Life; The Solitudes of 
Nature and Man; The Friendships of 
Women; Poetry of the Orient; and Life 
of Edwin Forrest. 


ALISON, FRANCIS, educator, clergy¬ 
man, was born in 1705 in Ireland. He was 
appointed vice-provost and professor of 
philosophy in the college of Philadelphia; 
and was the pastor of the First presby- 
terian church of that city. He died Nov. 
28, 1779, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ALKIRE, HENRY T., lawyer, legislat¬ 
or, jurist, was born Sept. 6, 1854, in Platte 
county, Mo. He received the rudiments 
of his education in 
the district school; 
graduated from the 
Kirksville State 
Normal school in 
1875, and from the 
Missouri State uni¬ 
versity in 1881. He 
has attained prom¬ 
inence as an able 
lawyer of Oregon, 
Mo., of which city he 
has been mayor; and 
for three terms was 
city attorney. He was a member of the 
thirty-fifth general assembly of Missouri; 
was the nominee for secretary of state of 
Missouri; and in 1894 was elected pro¬ 
bate judge of Holt county for four years. 
For six years he was chairman of the re¬ 
publican central committee; and for two 
years president of the Oregon school 
board; besides filling various other po¬ 
sitions of honor. He has written exten¬ 
sively on law and judicial subjects, and is 
one of the brightest men of Missouri. 



ALLAIRE, ANTHONY J., soldier, was 
born Feb. 17, 1829, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
He served in the civil war; and rose to 
the rank of brigadier-general. In 1867 
he was appointed police captain of the 
twenty-first precinct of New York city. 


ALLAN, JOHN, soldier, patriot, was 
born Jan. 13, 1746, in Scotland. He be¬ 
came a justice of the peace, and then 
clerk of the supreme court, and from 1770 
to 1776 was a member of the provincial 
assembly. When the American colonies 
engaged in the struggle for independence 
he gave them active and efficient aid, se¬ 
curing the alliance of the Indian tribes of 
that region. Congress nominated him su¬ 
perintendent of the eastern Indians, and 
gave him a colonel’s commission in Jan¬ 
uary, 1777, and with his Indians he pro¬ 
tected the otherwise exposed line of the 
northeastern frontier. The Nova Scotian 
authorities offered a price for his appre¬ 
hension, while his house was burned and 
his wife thrown into prison. In 1784 Col. 
Allan settled in Maine. The government 
of Massachusetts in 1792 granted him a 
tract of 22,000 acres, on which the town 
of Whiting now stands, and in 1801 con¬ 
gress gave him 2,000 acres in Ohio in 
compensation for the losses he sustained 
for the patriot cause. He died Feb. 7, 
1805, in Lubec, Maine. 

ALLAN, JOHN, antiquarian, was born 
Feb. 26, 1777, in Scotland. He made a 
valuable and unique collection of pic¬ 
tures, books, autographs, and rare and 
curious articles. His collection was sold 
at auction a short time after his death, 
and the total receipts amounted to nearly 
fifty thousand dollars. He died Nov. 19, 
1863, in New York city. 

ALLAN. WILLIAM, soldier, author, was 
born in 1837 in Virginia. He was a lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel in the confederate army 
during the civil war; and the author of 
Battlefields of Virginia; Jackson’s Valley 
Campaign; and Army of Northern Vir¬ 
ginia. He died in 1889. 

ALLANSON, EDWARD G., poet, was 
born Nov. 11, 1863, in Elgin, Ill. He at¬ 
tended the Iowa Business college of Des 
Moines; has attained success as a writer; 
and is the author of several meritorious 
poems. 

ALLEN, ALEXANDER VIETS GRIS¬ 
WOLD, educator, clergyman, author, was 
born May 4, 1841, in Otis, Mass. He is an 
episcopal clergyman, prominent among 
leaders of modern religious thought, and a 
professor in the Episcopal Theological 
school at Cambridge. He is the author of 
The Continuity of Christian Thought: a 
Study of Modern Theology in the Light 
of Its History; Life of Jonathan Ed¬ 
wards; The Greek Theology and the Re¬ 
naissance of the Nineteenth Century; and 
Religious Progress. 

ALLEN, ANDREW, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the 
continental congress in 1775 to 1776. 

ALLEN, BENJAMIN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 29, 1789, in Hudson, 
N. Y. He published in 1815 the weekly 
Layman’s Magazine, and in 1820 an 
abridgment of Burnet’s History of the 
Reformation. In 1821 he was chosen rec¬ 
tor of St. Paul’s church, Philadelphia. In 
1827 he established a printing-house for 
the publication of tracts and printing of 
prayer-books. He published Christ and 
Him Crucified; and Living Manners, a 
tale; and other works. He died at sea 
Jan. 13, 1829. 

AjjnjiN, CHARLES, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, jurist, was born on Aug. 9, 
1797, in Worcester, Mass. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature in 1829, 1833, 

1834, 1838, and 1840; a state senator in 

1835, 1838, and 1839; and judge of the 
court of common pleas from 1842 to 1844. 
He was a representative in congress from 
1849 to 1853; chief justice of the superior 
court of Suffolk county from 1858 to 1859; 


and subsequently chief justice of the su¬ 
perior court of the state. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state constitutional conven¬ 
tions of 1853 and 1859; a commissioner to 
negotiate the Webster treaty in 1842; and 
was a delegate to the peace congress of 
1861. He died Aug. 6, 1869, in Worcester. 

ALLEN, CHARLES H., merchant, state 
senator, congressman, was born April 15, 
1848, in Lowell, Mass. He received his 
early education in the public schools; 
graduated from Amherst college in 1869; 
and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He 
received the degree of A. M. from Amherst 
college in 1872. He held several local 
offices in Lowell; was a representative in 
the Massachusetts legislature in 1881 and 
1882; was a state senator in 1883; in 1884 
was elected a representative from Massa¬ 
chusetts to the forty-ninth congress, and 
received the re-election to the fiftieth 
congress. 

ALLEN, CHARLES WELLINGTON, 
physician, surgeon, was born July 17, 
1855, in North Hero, Vt. He graduated 
from the Toledo, Ohio, School of Medicine 
and from the university of Vermont. He 
was mayor of Story City, Iowa, for two 
terms; president of the Central District 
Medical association of Iowa; and presi¬ 
dent and secretary of the Story County 
Medical society. 

ALLEN, CHILTON, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born April 6, 1786, 
in Albermarle county, Va. He settled in 
Kentucky as a wheelwright; educated 
himself for the legal profession; from 
Clark county was elected in 1811 to the 
legislature of Kentucky, and re-elected for 
several terms. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1831 to 
1837. In 1838 was president of the board 
if internal improvement; and in 1842 was 
again returned to the state legislature. 
He died Sept. 3, 1858, in Winchester, Ky. 

ALLEN, CLARENCE EMIR, educator, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 
1852, in Girard, Pa. He was trained in 
the common schools of Girard, fitted for 
college at Grand River institute, Austin- 
burg, Ohio, and graduated from Western 
Reserve college with the class of 1877. 
He taught one year at Grand River insti¬ 
tute, and then was principal of the pre¬ 
paratory of Western Reserve college three 
years; went to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 
August, 1881, where he was an instructor 
in Salt Lake academy until 1886, when he 
resigned and entered upon the business of 
mining. He was elected to and served in 
the territorial legislatures of 1888, 1890, 
and 1894; was elected county clerk of 
Salt Lake county, Utah, in August, 1890, 
and served until Jan. 1, 1893; was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar at Salt Lake City, in 
1892; was the liberal candidate for dele¬ 
gate to congress in 1892; and was elected 
to the fifty-fourth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

ALLEN, DAVID OLIVER, educator, 
missionary, author, was born in 1800, in 
Barre, Mass. He was graduated at Am¬ 
herst college in 1823, taught in Lawrence 
academy, and then entered Andover Theo¬ 
logical seminary, which he left in 1827 to 
go as a missionary to Bombay. He es¬ 
tablished schools and preached in that 
province, and made extensive tours in 
western India. In 1844 he took charge of 
the Bombay printing establishment. He 
wrote tracts in Mahratta, and supervised 
a new translation of the Bible in that lan¬ 
guage. Injured in health by the Indian 
climate, he returned to America in 1853. 
After his return he published a History of 
India, Ancient and Modern, Geographical, 
Historical, Political, Social, and Religious. 
He died July 17, 1868, in Lowell. 



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ALLEN, DE WITT CLINTON, lawyer, 
was born Nov. 11, 1835, in Clay county, 
Mo. He was educated at Wyman’s En¬ 
glish and Classical high school of St. 
Louis, Mo.; and graduated from the 
William Jewell college of Liberty, Mo. 
He has held positions as attorney of the 
fifth judicial circuit of Missouri; and was 
a member of the Missouri constitutional 
convention in 1875. He is a trustee of 
the William Jewell college; and was a 
presidential elector in 1896. 

ALLEN, DON ALONZO, soldier, clergy¬ 
man, evangelist, was born Oct. 23, 1844, in 
Ellisburgh, N. Y. At eleven years of 
age he became a cab¬ 
in boy on a propel¬ 
ler; and was a sailor 
on the lakes in sum¬ 
mer, and attended 
school in winter. At 
the age of sixteen 
years he enlisted in 
the twenty-fourth 
regiment New York 
volunteer infantry, 
and served gallantly 
throughout the war. 
He then served as a 
sailor until 1877; and since 1883 has been 
a clergyman of the methodist episcopal 
church. He has attained prominence as 
an evangelist of note in Kansas, Nebras¬ 
ka, Missouri and several other western 
states. He is also a prominent prohi¬ 
bitionist, and was tendered the nomina¬ 
tion for congress, but has steadfastly de¬ 
clined all political honors. He now fills 
a pastorate in Randolph, Iowa. 

ALLEN, EBENEZER, soldier, was born 
Oct. 17, 1743, in Northampton, Mass. In 
1771 he emigrated to Poultney, Vt., and 
became a lieutenant in Col. Warner’s regi¬ 
ment of Green Mountain boys. He re¬ 
moved to Tinmouth in 1775, and was a 
delegate from that town to the several 
conventions in the New Hampshire grants 
in 1776, and to those that declared the 
state independent and formed the state 
constitution during the following year. 
He was appointed a captain in Col. Her¬ 
rick’s battalion of rangers in July, 1777, 
and distinguished himself at the battle of 
Bennington. In September of the same 
year he captured Mt. Defiance by assault, 
and on the retreat of the enemy from 
Fort Ticonderoga made fifty of them 
prisoners. Subsequently he was made 
major in the rangers, and showed himself 
a brave and successful partisan leader. 
He died March 26, 1806, in Burlington, Vt. 

ALLEN, EDWARD P., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 28, 1839, in 
Sharon, Mich. He graduated from the 
State Normal school in March, 1864; 
taught the Union school in Vassar, Mich., 
for the three months following, when he 
enlisted and helped to raise a company 
for the twenty-ninth Michigan infantry. 
He was commissioned first lieutenant, and 
was mustered out as captain. He entered 
the law school at Ann Arbor, graduating 
in March, 1867; practices in Ypsilanti. 
He was elected alderman of Ypsilanti in 
1872 and 1874, and mayor in 1880; and 
was prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw 
county in 1872. He was elected to the 
lower house of the legislature in 1876; 
was again elected in 1878, at which time 
he was elected speaker pro tempore. He 
was appointed assistant assessor of in¬ 
ternal revenue in 1869; was United- States 
Indian agent for Michigan in August, 1882, 
which office he held until December, 1885. 
He was elected to the fiftieth congress, 
and was re-elected to the fifty-first con¬ 
gress as a republican. 


ALLEN, EDWIN R., soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island, 
was born Nov. 26, 1840, in Windham, 
Conn. He was educated in the schools of 
his native town and at Eagleswood, N. J. 
He enlisted in company A, seventh-regi¬ 
ment Rhode Island volunteers, in August, 
1862; was corporal, sergeant-major, sec¬ 
ond lieutenant, first lieutenant, and was 
in command of said company when it was 
mustered out of service in June, 1865. He 
served as state senator in 1889-90 and in 
1891-92, and became lieutenant-governor 
of Rhode Island in 1894. 

ALLEN, ELISHA H., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, diplomatist, was born Jan. 28, 1804, 
in New Salem, Mass. He was a lawyer; 
served in the legislature of Maine from 
1836 to 1841, and in 1846; and in 1838 as 
speaker. He was elected a representative 
in congress from Maine from 1841 to 1843. 
In 1847 he removed to Boston; was elect¬ 
ed to the Massachusetts legislature in 
1849; after which he was appointed con¬ 
sul to Honolulu. He afterward became 
connected with the government of the 
Sandwich islands; and in 1856 visited the 
United States as envoy. In 1857 he was 
chief justice and chancellor of the Sand¬ 
wich islands, serving until 1864; and was 
the Hawaiian minister at Washington for 
a number of years. He died suddenly 
while attending the president’s reception, 
Jan. 1, 1883, in Washington, D. C. 

ALLEN, ELIZABETH AKERS, poet, 
was born Oct. 9, 1832, in Strong, Maine. 
In 1855 she became assistant editor of the 
Portland Transcript; and wrote the cele¬ 
brated poem entitled Rock Me to Sleep. 
Mother. She is the author of a volume 
of poetry, entitled Forest Buds from the 
Woods of Maine; and a second volume 
of verse entitled Poems by Florence 
Percy; and is also the author of The Sil- 
'ver Bridge and other works. She is a 
member of the Sorosis, of New York city, 
and is still engaged in literary work. 

ALLEN, ESTHER LAVILLA, author, 
poet, was born May 28, 1834, in Ithaca, 
N. Y. Since 1870 she has contributed 
stories, sketches and poems to various 
newspapers and magazines, which have 
been a valuable acquisition to current 
literature. 

ALLEN, ESTHER SAVILLE, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 11, 1837, in 

Honeoye, N. Y. For many years she was 
engaged in educational work in the states 
of New York and Illinois; and is now a 
resident of Arkansas. She is the author 
of numerous productions in prose and 
verse, which have had extensive publica¬ 
tion in the leading periodicals of the 
west. 

ALLEN, ETHAN, an officer of the revo¬ 
lutionary war, was born Jan. 10, 1737, in 
Litchfield, Conn. He was leader of the 
famous Green Mountain boys, of Ver¬ 
mont, and hero of the capture of forts 
Ticonderoga and Crown Point, May 10, 
1775. He attacked the English at Mont¬ 
real, was taken prisoner, and sent to Eng¬ 
land in irons. He died Feb. 13, 1789, near 
Burlington, Vt. 

ALLEN, FRED HOVEY, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1845 in New Hampshire. 
He is a clergyman, author of the text in 
a number of popular art works, such as 
Great Cathedrals of the World; Modern 
German Masters; The Bowdoin Collec¬ 
tion; The Dord Album; The Gerome Al¬ 
bum; Discovery and Conquest of Peru; 
and Discovery and Conquest of Mexico. 

ALLEN, FREDERICK DE FOREST, 
educator, author, was born in 1844 in Ohio. 
He has been a professor of classical phi¬ 


lology at Harvard university since 1880; 
and the author of Remnants of Early 
Latin; and Greek Versification in Inscrip¬ 
tions. 

ALLEN, HARRISON, surgeon, author, 
was born April 17, 1841, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is a surgeon of Philadelphia, pro¬ 
fessor in the university of Pennsylvania 
from 1865; and the author of Outlines of 
Comparative Anatomy; and System of 
Human Anatomy. 

ALLEN, HEMAN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in 1776. He was a resident, if 
not a native, of Milton, Vt., and adopted 
the profession of the law, in which he be¬ 
came distinguished. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Vermont from 1833 
to 1839. He died Dec. 11, 1844, in Bur¬ 
lington, Vt. 

ALLEN, HEMAN, lawyer, congressman, 
diplomat, was born Feb. 23, 1779, in Poult¬ 
ney, Vt. He was a resident of Colchester, 
Vt.; graduated at Dartmouth college in 
1795, and adopted the profession of the 
law; and was sheriff of Chittenden county 
in 1808 and 1809. From 1811 to 1814 he 
was chief justice of the Chittenden county 
court; from 1812 to 1817 was an active 
member of the state legislature; was ap¬ 
pointed quartermaster of militia, with the 
title of brigadier; and was a trustee of 
the university of Vermont. He was first 
elected a representative in congress from 
Vermont in 1817, but resigned in 1818 to 
accept the appointment of United States 
marshal for the district of Vermont. In 
1823 he received the appointment of min¬ 
ister to Chili, which post he resigned in 
1828. In 1830 he was appointed president 
of the United States branch bank, of Bur¬ 
lington. He died April 9, 1852, in High- 
gate, Vt. 

ALLEN, HEMAN W., soldier, merchant, 
legislator, was Dorn in 1844, in Westford, 
Vt. He was a private in company A, 
thirteenth regiment Vermont volunteers; 
was promoted to first lieutenant company 
I, second Vermont militia, in 1864-67; and 
inspector of rifle practice on staff of Gov¬ 
ernor Woodbury. He is a successful dry- 
goods merchant of Vermont; a director of 
the Merchants National bank, and of the 
Vermont Electric company. 

ALLEN, HENRY, founder of a sect, was 
born June 14, 1748, in Newport, R. I. In 
1774 and succeeding years he made many 
converts in Nova Scotia to his peculiar 
mystical religious ideas. He believed that 
human souls are emanations from a single 
great spirit, and that the BiDle is to be in¬ 
terpreted not literally, but in a spiritual 
sense. He published a book of hymns 
and several treatises and sermons. The 
Allenites became numerous under his elo¬ 
quent preaching, but declined after his 
death. He died Feb. 2, 1784, in North¬ 
ampton, N. H. 

ALLEN, HENRY WATKINS, the fif¬ 
teenth governor of Louisiana, was born 
April 29, 1820, in Prince Edward county, 
Va. He taught school, practiced law, and 
became a gallant soldier. In 1842 with 
his brother he enlisted in the war of 
Texas against Mexico; and in 1846 was 
elected to the state legislature of Missis¬ 
sippi. He ran away from school, had a 
roving disposition, and finally settled in 
West Baton Rouge; and in 1853 was 
elected to the Louisiana house of repre¬ 
sentatives. In 1861 he joined the con¬ 
federate army, was elected lieutenant- 
colonel, and became military governor of 
Jackson, Miss. He was desperately 
wounded at Shiloh and at Baton Rouge, 
and was appointed brigadier-general. In 
1864 he was inaugurated governor of 
Louisiana, and died April 22, 1866, in the 
city of Mexico. 



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ALLEN, IRA, soldier, author, was born 
April 21, 1751, in Cornwall, Conn. He was 
an officer in the American army during 
the revolutionary war, and was after¬ 
wards instrumental in settling the dis¬ 
putes between Vermont and its neighbors. 
He was the author of Natural and Politi¬ 
cal History of Vermont. He died Jan. 7, 
1814, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ALLEN, JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born 1692 in Roxbury, Mass. He was 
ordained in 1718 and became the first 
minister of Brookline, remaining in that 
charge until his death. His remarks con¬ 
cerning the religious revival of 1743 drew 
upon him severe animadversion. He pub¬ 
lished a Thanksgiving sermon; a dis¬ 
course on Providence; a discourse en¬ 
titled The Doctrine of Merit Exploded, 
and Humility Recommended; a Fast 
Sermon on the Earthquake, and other 
works. He died Feb. 18, 1747, in Brook¬ 
line, Mass. 

ALLEN, JAMES C., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 28, 1823, in Shelby 
county, Ky. In 1846 he was elected prose¬ 
cuting attorney in the seventh judicial 
district of Indiana for two years; and in 
1850 and 1851 was elected a member of the 
state legislature. He was chosen a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Illinois, from 
1853 to 1855, and re-elected to the thirty- 
fourth congress. In 1862 he was elected 
to the thirty-eighth congress as a repre¬ 
sentative. 

ALLEN, JAMES LANE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1849, in Kentucky. He 
was at one time a teacher, now devoted 
to literature. A writer of short stories, 
notable for literary excellence. He is the 
author of Flute and Violin; The Blue 
Grass Region and Other Sketches of Ken¬ 
tucky; John Gray: a Novel; The Ken¬ 
tucky Cardinal; Aftermath; A Summer 
in Arcady; and The Choir Invisible. 

ALLEN, JEREMIAH MERVIN, under¬ 
writer, was born May 18, 1833, in Enfield, 
Conn. Since 1867 he has been president 
of the Hartford Steamboat Inspection and 
Insurance company; and is also trustee 
and director of a number of business cor¬ 
porations. 

ALLEN, JEROME, educator, author, 
was born in 1830 in Vermont. He was an 
educator of New York, dean of the school 
of Pedagogy; and author of Handbook of 
'Experimental Chemistry; Methods for 
Teachers in Grammar; Mind Studies for 
Young Teachers; and Temperament in 
Education. He died in 1894. 

ALLEN, JESSE C., educator, lawyer, 
author, was born Jan. 31, 1832, in Muskin¬ 
gum county, Ohio. For nearly twenty 
years he was engaged in educational 
work; was then admitted to the bar, and 
attained success as an eminent lawyer 
of Van Wert, Ohio. He now devotes most 
of his time to literature, and is the au¬ 
thor of a work entitled Modern World 
View. 

ALLEN, JOEL ASAPH, naturalist, au¬ 
thor, was born July 19, 1838, in Spring- 
field, Mass. He is a naturalist who since 
1885 has been curator of orinthology and 
mammalogy in the American Museum of 
Natural History in New York city. He is 
the author of History of North American 
Pinnipeds; and Monographs of North 
American Rodentia. 

ALLEN, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in 1763, in Great Barrington, 
Mass. He was a lawyer‘by profession; 
and was a member of the state council of 
Connecticut for several years. He was 
a representative from that state during 
the last congress which was held in 
Philadelphia, from 1797 to 1799. He died 
July 31, 1812. in Litchfield, Conn. 


ALLEN, JOHN, lawyer, soldier, was 
born Dec. 30, 1772, in Rockbridge, Va. 
He was the son of an early settler in 
Kentucky, and began the practice of law 
at Shelbyville in 1795. In 1812 he raised 
a regiment of riflemen which was en¬ 
gaged in the battle pf Brownstown and 
formed the left wing at the river Raisin, 
and was killed in battle at that place, Jan. 
22, 1814. 

ALLEN, JOHN, lawyer, state senator, 
was born Aug. 17, 1796, in Augusta county, 
Va. In 1824, in company with E. W. 
Rumsey, he located the site of Ann Arbor, 
Mich. He engaged in land speculation and 
at one time owned thousands of acres of 
land in the western part of the state, 
much of which was lost in the panic of 
1837. In company with Samuel W. Dex¬ 
ter, he published for a time the Western 
Emigrant, the first paper in Washtenaw 
county. He studied law with James 
Kingsley, and was admitted to the bar in 
1832, but gave little time to the pro¬ 
fession. He was state senator of Michigan 
in 1845-48. He went to California in 1850 
and died there March 11, 1851. 

ALLEN, JOHN, dental inventor, was 
born May 26, 1823, in Meriden, Conn. 
After numerous experiments he succeed¬ 
ed by artificial means in restoring the 
sunken portion of the face to its original 
position. He was largely instrumental in 
organizing the Ohio Dental college, and 
was professor for many years in this col¬ 
lege. He died March 12, 1892. 

ALLEN, JOHN BEARD, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
May 18, 1845, in Crawfordsville, Ind. He 
was educated in Wabash college, Craw¬ 
fordsville; was a private soldier in the 
one hundred and thirty-fifth regiment of 
Indiana volunteers; removed with his 
father's family to Rochester, Minn., where 
he resided until 1870; here he read law, 
and was admitted to practice. He re¬ 
moved to Washington territory in 1870, 
and entered upon the practice of his pro¬ 
fession. He was appointed United States 
attorney for Washington territory April, 
1875, by President Grant, and continued 
in that office until July, 1885; and was 
reporter of the supreme court of Wash¬ 
ington territory from 1878 to 1885. He 
was elected to the fifty-first congress as a 
republican from the territory of Washing¬ 
ton; was elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate under the provisions of the act of 
congress admitting Washington territory 
into the union; and took his seat Dec. 2, 
1889. His term of service expired March 
3, 1893. 

ALLEN, JOHN J. congressman, jurist, 
was born in Virginia. He was a resident 
of Harrison county; and was elected a 
representative in congress from Virginia, 
from 1833 to 1835. Subsequently he held 
the office of chief justice of the supreme 
court of Virginia. 

ALLEN, JOHN M., soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 8, 1847, in Tisho¬ 
mingo county, Miss. He received a com¬ 
mon-school education; and served in the 
confederate army throughout the civil 
war. He attended the law school of Cum¬ 
berland university, Tennessee, and in 
1870 graduated in law from the univer¬ 
sity of Mississippi; in the same year was 
admitted to the bar, and commenced the 
practice of law at Tupelo, Miss. In 1875 
he was elected district attorney for the 
first judicial district of Mississippi, in 
which position he served four years; and 
in 1884 was elected a representative from 
Mississippi to the forty-ninth congress, 
and received the re-election to the fiftieth, 
fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty- 
fourth. and fifty-fifth congresses. 


ALLEN, JOHN W., state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1802 in Litchfield, 
Conn. He settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 
1825; was a member of the senate of that 
state from 1835 to 1837; also mayor of 
Cleveland; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1837 to 1841. He 
waq a son of John Allen, of Great Bar¬ 
rington, Mass. 

ALLEN, JOSEPH, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 2, 1749, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a merchant in Leicester, 
and benefactor of the academy there; 
twice elector for president; and was a 
clerk of the county court and a state coun¬ 
cilor. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts, from 1810 to 
1811. He died Sept. 2, 1827, in Worcester, 
Mass. 

ALLEN, JOSEPH, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 15, 1790, in Medfield, Mass. 
He was graduated at Harvard in 1811, and 
was ordained pastor of the congregational 
church at Northborough in 1816, which 
relation he sustained until his death. He 
was a delegate to the peace congress at 
Paris in 1849; and the author of His¬ 
torical Account of Northboro; Centennial 
Discourse; Memoir of Rev. Dr. Lathrop 
of Springfield; History of the Worcester 
Association; and Allen Genealogy. He 
died Feb. 23, 1873, in Northborough, Mass. 

ALLEN, JOSEPH HENRY, clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born Aug. 21, 1820, 
in Northborough, Mass. He attended the 
district school till the age of thirteen 
years, and graduated from Harvard col¬ 
lege in 1840. During 1843-47 he filled a 
pastorate in Jamaica Plain, near Boston; 
in Washington, D. C., 1847-50; in Bangor, 
Maine, 1850-57. During 1857-69 he was 
editor of the Christian Examiner; from 
1887-91 was editor of the Unitarian Re¬ 
view; and during 1878-82 was lecturer on 
ecclesiastical history in the Harvard uni¬ 
versity. He was associate editor of the 
Allen and Greenough series of classical 
text-books. He is the author of Hebrew 
Men and Times; Fragments of Christian 
History; Christian History, in three 
volumes; Outline of Christian History; 
Positive Religion; Historical Sketch of 
Unitarianism; and other works. 

ALLEN, JUDSON, congressman, was 
born in Connecticut. He removed to New 
York, and was elected a representative in 
congress from that state, from 1839 to 
1841. 

ALLEN, LEWIS FALLY, author, was 
born in 1799 in New York. He was once 
a prominent cattle broker, and the author 
of Rural Architecture; The American 
Herd Book; and American Cattle. 

ALLEN, LYMAN WHITNEY, clergy¬ 
man, poet, was born in 1854, in St. Louis, 
Mo. He graduated from Washington uni¬ 
versity in 1878, and prepared for the min¬ 
istry at Princeton Theological seminary. 
This eminent presbyterian clergyman is 
chiefly known as the author of many 
gems of religious verse, which have ap¬ 
peared in standard publications. 

ALLEN, MALACIAH, soldier, farmer, 
public official, born April 1, 1841, in 
Georgia. After graduating from Madi¬ 
son college, Miss., he taught school for 
awhile; he then became a soldier in the 
Tennessee division of the army; he 
served four years and held the position 
of captain at the close of the war. He 
was in every battle fought by the army 
of the Tennessee, and was wounded three 
times. After the war he engaged in 
farming; and since 1887 has been clerk 
of the circuit court of Madison county,. 
Miss. 


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ALLEN, MARY WOOD, physician, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born Oct. 19, 1841, in 
Delta, Ohio. After graduating she taught 
music, French, and German in a collegiate 
institute in Battle Ground, Ind., until her 
marriage to Mr. Chillon B. Allen, now a 
noted lawyer. In 1875 she graduated in 
medicine from Ann Arbor, Mich., subse¬ 
quently practiced medicine in Newark, 
N. J.; and is now a successful lecturer 
of Toledo, Ohio. She is the author of 
Man Wonderful and the House Beautiful, 
an allegorical physiology; and her poem, 
entitled Motherhood, won for itself im¬ 
mediate fame. 

ALLEN, MOSES, clergyman, patriot, 
was born Sept. 14, 1748, in Northampton, 
Mass. In 1777 he took charge of the 
church at Midway, Ga. The British force 
under Gen. Prevost burned his church 
and devastated the district in 1778. He 
officiated as chaplain to the Georgia bri¬ 
gade, and was captured when Savannah 
was reduced by the British in December. 
His eloquent, patriotic appeals and ener¬ 
getic exertions in the field had rendered 
him obnoxious to the British, and they 
refused to release him on parole with the 
officers. He was confined in a loathsome 
prison-ship, and was drowned in attempt¬ 
ing to escape. He died Feb. 8, 1779. 

ALLEN, NATHAN, physician, author, 
was born April 13, 1813, in Princeton, 
Mass. He was a physician of Lowell; and 
the author of The Law of Human In¬ 
crease; The Opium Trade; and Physical 
Development. He died in 1889. 

ALLEN, NATHANIEL, congressman, 
was born in Dutchess- county, N. Y. He 
served in the assembly of that state in 
1812; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress, from 1819 to 1821. 

ALLEN, NATHANIEL TOPLIFF, edu¬ 
cator, was born Sept. 29, 1823, in Medfield, 
Mass. In 1848 he was appointed to the 
charge of the model 
department in the 
Normal school of 
West Newton, Mass., 
which position he 
filled with marked 
ability for six years. 
In connection with 
Cyrus Pierce, father 
of American normal 
schools, he then es¬ 
tablished the West 
Newton English and 
Classical school. For 
nearly half a century he has taught in 
this school, which he purchased in 1853; 
and with his three brothers has created 
for the institution a national reputation 
in the educational world. Here the first 
pure kindergarten in the United States 
was started in 1863. He has always ad¬ 
vocated the liberal and thorough co-edu¬ 
cation of the sexes, and is one of the 
most prominent educators in the United 
States. 

ALLEN, ORRIN PEER, educator, phar¬ 
macist, author, was born Sept. 30, 1833, in 
Wallingford, Vt. He finished his educa¬ 
tion at Chester academy, Vt.; he taught 
school in several Vermont towns; for 
two years was superintendent of schools 
in Vernon; and subsequently was prin¬ 
cipal of the Toanack institute of Hacken¬ 
sack, N. J. Since 1859 he has resided in 
Palmer, Mass., and successfully conduct¬ 
ing a pharmacy. He was one of the 
founders of the Palmer Public library in 
1878, and has since been a member of its 
board of management, and is a member 
in various societies. He is the author of 
the Lee, Doolittle, and Allen Genealogies; 
and of many historical and miscellaneous 
papers. 


ALLEN, PAUL, journalist, poet, was 
born Feb. 15, 1775, in Providence, R. I. 
He was a journalist of Philadelphia; and 
the author of Poems: Noah, a poem in 
five cantos; Life of Alexander I; and 
Lewis and Clark’s Novels. He died Aug. 
18, 1826, in Baltimore, Md. 

ALLEN, PHILIP, manufacturer, gov¬ 
ernor of Rhode Island, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Sept. 1, 1785, in Providence, 
R. I. He graduated at Brown university 
in 1803; was elected to the state legis¬ 
lature in 1819, 1820, and 1821; and de¬ 
voted much attention to the business of 
manufacturing; he was governor of 
Rhode Island during the years 1851, 1852, 
and 1853; and was elected a senator in 
congress from his native state, from 
March 3, 1853, for six years. He 

constructed the first Watt and Boulton 
steam engine in Providence. He died Dec. 
16, 1865, in Providence, R. I. 

ALLEN, RICHARD, revolutionary sol¬ 
dier, was born Nov. 26, 1741, in Maryland. 
In 1775 he joined the continental forces 
as sergeant, and later was promoted cap¬ 
tain. After the war he held several civil 
offices. He died Oct. 10, 1832. 

ALLEN, RICHARD, clergyman, bishop, 
was born in 1760. He became a local 
methodist preacher about 1782, and in 
1793, at Philadelphia, organized the first 
church for colored people in the United 
States. He was ordained in the methodist 
ministry in 1799, and was elected bishop 
of the newly formed African methodist 
episcopal church in 1816. He died March 
26, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ALLEN, RICHARD C., jurist. He was 
a citizen of Florida, and was one of the 
earliest United States judges appointed 
for the district embracing that state. 

ALLEN, RICHARD LAMB, journalist, 
author, was born in October, 1803, in 
Hampton county, Mass., and was a broth¬ 
er of L. F. Allen, with whom, in 1842, he 
founded the American Agriculturalist. 
He was the author of Domestic Animals; 
Diseases of Domestic Animals; and New 
American Farm Book. He died Sept. 22, 
1869, in Stockholm, in Sweden. 

ALLEN, ROBERT, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1777 in Augusta county, 
Va. He was a colonel in the army under 
General Jackson; and a representative 
in congress from Tennessee, from 1819 
to 1827. He died Aug. 19, 1864, in Car¬ 
thage, Tenn. 

ALLEN, ROBERT, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born July 20, 1794, 
in Woodstock, Va. He was educated at 
Dickinson and Washington colleges; stud¬ 
ied law, and practiced in his native place. 
For a time he held the office of prosecutor 
for the commonwealth; served five years 
in the senate of Virginia; was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1827 to 1833. 

ALLEN, ROBERT, general, was born in 
1815 in Ohio. He was graduated at West 
Point in 1836, and was second lieutenant 
in the Seminole war. In the Mexican war 
he received the brevet rank of major. He 
was promoted brigadier-general of vol¬ 
unteers in 1863, and was brevetted brig¬ 
adier-general in the regular army in 1864 
He received the brevet rank of major- 
general in 1865. After the war he served 
again as chief quartermaster of the Pa¬ 
cific, and was retired March 21, 1878. He 
died Aug. 6, 1886, in Geneva, Switzerland. 

ALLEN. SAMUEL, patentee of New 
Hampshire, was born in 1636 in England. 
He was a London merchant, and in 1691 
purchased from the heirs of John Mason 
their grant of land from the English 
crown. The purchase included Portsmouth 


and Dover, and extended sixty miles from 
the sea coast. He died May 5, 1705, in 
Newcastle, N. H. 

ALLEN, SAMUEL C., clergyman, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
Jan. 5, 1772, in Franklin county, Mass. 
He graduated at Dartmouth college in 
1794; was a representative in the Massa¬ 
chusetts legislature from 1806 to 1810; a 
state senator from 1812 to 1815, and in 
1831; a member of the executive council 
in 1829 and 1830; and a representative in 
congress from Massachusetts from 1817 to 
1829. He was at one time a congregation¬ 
al preacher, but subsequently turned his 
attention to law and literature. He died 
Feb. 8, 1842, in Northfield, Mass. 

ALLEN, SAMUEL WARD KING, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 2, 
1842, in North Kingstown. He received 
his education at the East Greenwich acad¬ 
emy, the New York Conference seminary, 
and the Boston university. He served as 
a soldier in the civil war, and attained 
prominence as an able lawyer; served six 
terms in the Rhode Island state legisla¬ 
ture; and was speaker of the house of 
representatives three successive terms. 

ALLEN, SOLOMON, soldier, missionary, 
was born Feb. 23, 1751, in Northampton, 
Mass. He was a brother of Moses and 
Thomas Allen, who were chaplains in the 
revolutionary army, while he fought as a 
soldier and rose to the rank of major. As 
lieutenant he commanded the guard that 
took Major Andrd to West Point. After 
the war he was engaged in suppressing 
Shay's rebellion. At the age of forty he 
became a religious convert, and at fifty 
began the life of a missionary preacher. 
A Sketch of the Last Hours of Solomon 
Allen was written by J. N. Danforth. He 
died Jan. 28, 1821, in New York. 

ALLEN, STEPHEN, business man, pub¬ 
lic official, was born in July, 1767, in New 
York city. While commissioner for visit¬ 
ing prisons, he proposed the erection of 
the state prison at Sing Sing, and was one 
of the principal originators of the project 
for supplying New York city with water 
from the Croton river. He perished in the 
steamer Henry Clay, which was burned 
in July, 1852. 

ALLEN, STEPHEN, state senator, was 
born about 1772. He was elected mayor 
in 1821 and 1822. and for several years wa3 
a state senator; and a member of the 
court of errors, at that time the highest 
court of appeal in the state. 

ALLEN, STEPHEN MERRILL, mer¬ 
chant, banker, author, was born in 1819 
in New Hampshire. He was a banker and 
merchant of Boston; and the author of 
Fibrilia and Fibrous Manufactures, An¬ 
cient and Modern; Theories of Light; and 
Religion and Science. He died in 1894. 

ALLEN, THOMAS, lawyer, journalist, 
railroad president, congressman, was born 
at Pittsfield, Mass. He was educated at 
Union college; studied law, and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar. In 1837 he removed to 
Washington, D. C., and engaged in the 
printing and newspaper business. In 1842 
he removed to St. Louis, Mo. He was a 
state senator in 1850 and 1854; became 
largely interested in railways, and was, 
for many years, president of railway cor¬ 
porations. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Missouri to the forty-seventh 
congress. He died April 7, 1882. 

ALLEN, THOMAS, clergyman, patriot, 
was born Jan. 17, 1743, in Northampton, 
Mass. He was the first minister of Pitts¬ 
field, Mass., where he was ordained in 
1764. He died Feb. 11, 1810, in Pittsfield, 
Mass. His son William is the well-known 
D. D. and author, who for nineteen years 
was president of Bowdoin college. 




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ALLEN, THOMAS, landscape and ani¬ 
mal painter, was born Oct. 19, 1849, in St. 
Louis, Mo. He was president of the 
Paint and Clay club of Boston; Boston 
Society of Water Color Painting, and the 
Boston Art club. In 1894 he was judge of 
awards, department of fine arts, at the 
World’s Columbian exposition, Chicago. 

ALLEN, TIMOTHY FIELD, physician, 
author, was born April 24, 1837, in West¬ 
minster, Vt. He is a physician of New 
York city, and has been dean of the 
Homoeopathic Medical college since 1882. 
He is the author of Characcae American*; 
and General Symptom-Register of 
Homoeopathic Materia Medica. He has 
edited Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia 
Medica. 

ALLEN, WILLIAM, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born Jan. 2, 1784, 
in Pittsfield, Mass. In 1802 he graduated 
at Cambridge; and 
two years later was 
licensed to preach. 
During 1804-10 he 
was a regent in Har¬ 
vard college; and 
devoted much of his 
time to the prepara¬ 
tion of the American 
Biographical and 
Historical Diction¬ 
ary. For two years 
he was president of 
Dartmouth univer¬ 
sity; and in 1820 was inaugurated presi¬ 
dent of Bowdoin college. He resigned 
in 1839, and moved to Northampton, 
Mass., where he devoted himself to liter¬ 
ary work. He was the author of An Ac¬ 
count of Remarkable Shipwrecks; A Col¬ 
lection of Psalms and Hymns, many of 
which were original; a second and en¬ 
larged edition of the Biographical Dic¬ 
tionary; and a work entitled Junius Un¬ 
masked. He died July 16, 1868, in North¬ 
ampton, Mass. 

ALLEN, WILLIAM, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, governor of 
Ohio, was born in 1806 in Edenton, N. C. 

He received a good 
education; was con¬ 
nected by family ties 
with Allen G. Thur¬ 
man; was an early 
emigrant to the state 
of Ohio; and adopt¬ 
ed the profession of 
the law. He was a 
representa t i v e in 
congress from Ohio 
from 1833 to 1835; 
was elected a senator 
in congress from 
1837 to 1849; and in 1874 became govern¬ 
or of Ohio, serving as such until 1876. He 
refused to accept any office except such 
as was conferred upon him by an election 
of the people. He died July 11, 1879. 

ALLEN, WILLIAM, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 13, 1827, in Butler 
county, Ohio. He received a good En¬ 
glish education; taught school for a time; 
studied law, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1849. In 1850 he was elected a county 
prosecuting attorney, and re-elected in 
1852. In 1858 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Ohio to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress, and re-elected to the thirty-seventh 
congress. He was a delegate to the Chi¬ 
cago convention in 1864, and also to the 
Philadelphia national union convention 
of 1866. 

ALdEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Sept. 5, 1830, in 
Northborough, Mass., and was a brother 
of J. H. Allen. He was a professor in the 


university of Wisconsin, and published 
Outline Studies in the History of Ireland; 
Monographs and Essays; and edited a 
collection of -Slave Songs. He died in 
1889. 

ALLEN, WILLIAM HENRY, educator, 
college president, was born in March, 
1808, in Readfield, Maine. In 1833 he 
graduated from 
Bowdoin college; 
and then became a 
teacher of Greek and 
Latin in the Caze- 
novia seminary, N. Y. 
In 1836 he took 
charge of the 
high school in Au¬ 
gusta, Maine; then 
filled a position in 
Carlisle, Pa., where 
for ten years he was 
professor of chem¬ 
istry and natural philosophy in Dickin¬ 
son college. In 1850 he became president 
of the Girard college of Philadelphia, Pa. 
For thirteen years he filled that position 
and then resigned; but at the end of 
four years he was persuaded to again ac¬ 
cept the presidency of that institution. 

ALLEN, WILLIAM HOWARD, naval 
officer, was born July 8, 1790, in Hudson, 
N. Y. He entered the navy as midship¬ 
man in 1808, and was promoted lieuten¬ 
ant in 1813. He was second lieutenant of 
the Argus, and commanded in the fight 
with the Pelican off the coast of England 
after Captain Allen and the first officer 
were disabled. He was killed in attempt¬ 
ing to board piratical vessels with boats 
near Matanzas, in the island of Cuba. His 
friend Halleck made his early death the 
subject of a tender and touching poem. 
He was killed in action Nov. 9, 1822. 

ALLEN, WILLIAM J., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1828, in Tennes¬ 
see. He removed with his father to Illi¬ 
nois in 1829; studied law, and was admit¬ 
ted to the bar in 1848. In 1854 was elect¬ 
ed to the Illinois legislature; in 1855 was 
appointed United States attorney for the 
district of Illinois, which office he re¬ 
signed in 1860, and was then elected judge 
of the circuit court. In 1862 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Illinois to the 
thirty-seventn congress, for the unexpired 
term of John A. Logan, resigned, and was 
re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress. 

ALLEN, WILLIAM TEMPLE, clergy¬ 
man, was born on Dec. 15, 1855, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He is a clergyman of St. Peter’s, 
Talladega. He built the church at Boeme, 
Texas, and also the church at Gadsden, 
Ala. 

ALLEN. WILLIAM VINCENT, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, United States senator, 
was born Jan. 28, 1847, in Medway, Ohio. 

He received his edu¬ 
cation in the Iowa 
common schools and 
the Upper Iowa uni¬ 
versity of Fayette. 
He served as a union 
soldier during the 
civil war in com¬ 
pany G, thirty-sec¬ 
ond Iowa volunteer 
infantry. In 1869 he 
was admitted to the 
bar; removed to Ne¬ 
braska in 1884; and 
in 1891 was elected judge of the ninth 
judicial district of that state. In 1893 he 
was elected a member of the United States 
senate for the full term of six years. As 
a lawyer, judge and senator, he has es¬ 
tablished an admitted leadership. He is 
a marvel of senate oratory, having made 


a notable fifteen hours’ speech in the 
great silver debate; and is the unques¬ 
tioned populist leader in the entire con¬ 
gress. 

ALLEN, WILLIS, congressman, was 
born in Tennessee; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Illinois from 1851 
to 1855. 

ALLEN, WILLIS BOYD, author, was 
born July 9, 1855, in Kittery Point, Maine. 
He attended the Boston Latin school, and 
in 1878 graduated from Harvard college. 
He has been editor of Cottage Hearth; 
Our Sunday Afternoon, and Wellspring. 
He is the author of twenty-eight books for 
young people, the most notable of which 
are: Pine Cone Stories, in six volumes; 
Red Mountain of Alaska; Lion City of 
Africa; Camp Vagabond; Mammoth 
Hunters; The Great Island; Boyhood of 
John Kent; Christmas at Surf . Point; 
Snowed In; A Son of Liberty; Called to 
the Front; Mountaineer Series, in five 
volumes; Forest Home Series, in five 
volumes; John Brownlow's Folks; and 
In the Morning. 

ALLEN, ZACHARIAH, inventor, was 
born Sept. 15, 1795, in Providence, R. I. 
He was a noted inventor and manufac¬ 
turer of Providence; and the author of 
Practical Tourist; Practical Mechanics; 
Philosophy of the Mechanics' of Nature; 
and Solar Light and Heat. He died March 
17, 1882. 

ALLERTON, MRS. ELLEN, poet, was 
born in 1835, in New York. She is the 
author of Poems of the Prairies, and 
contributes to current literature. 

ALLERTON, ELLEN PALMER, poet, 
was born Oct. 17, 1835, in Centerville, 
N. Y. She has contributed to Milwaukee 
and Chicago papers; was at one time 
book reviewer for the Milwaukee Sentinel, 
and is the author of a volume entitled 
Poems of the Prairies. 

ALLERTON, ISAAC, pilgrim, was born 
about 1583. He went from England to 
Leyden in 1608, and came to America in 
1620 in the first voyage of the Mayflower. 
He was a wealthy and enterprising mem¬ 
ber of the colony, and took a leading part 
in its affairs. He treated with Massasoit, 
and made several trips to England as the 
agent of the colony to purchase the rights 
of the adventurers, to secure patents for 
lands, and to bring over the rest of the 
congregation at Leyden. He died in 1659 
in New Haven, Conn. 

ALLERTON, SAMUEL WATERS, pack¬ 
er, was born May 26, 1828, near South 
Amenia, N. Y. In 1873 Mr. Allerton be¬ 
gan packing meats, and carried on the 
business as The Allerton Packing Co., of 
which he is president. He now has forty 
thousand acres of farm land in Illinois, 
Ohio, and in Iowa—upon which live stock 
is raised and fattened. He is one of the 
two survivors of the organizers of the 
First National bank of Chicago; and a 
large owner in The Chicago City Railway; 
The Arcade File Works of Anderson, Ind., 
and president of The Allerton bank of 
Allerton, Ill. 

ALLEY, JOHN B., manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 7, 1817, in Lynn, 
Mass. He entered largely into the shoe 
and leather business; served several years 
in the city councils of Lynn; was a mem¬ 
ber of the governor’s council in 1851; a 
member of the Massachusetts senate in 
1852; of the state constitutional conven¬ 
tion held in 1853; and in 1858 was elected 
a representative from Massachusetts to 
the mirty-sixth congress. He was elected 
to the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth and 
thirty-ninth congresses, and was a dele¬ 
gate to the Philadelphia loyalist conven¬ 
tion of 1866. 











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ALLIBONE, SAMUEL AUSTIN, author, 
was born April 17, 1816, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is widely known by his Critical 
Dictionary of English Literature and 
British and American Authors, a work of 
immense labor and research. He died 
Sept. 2,1889, in Lucerne, Switzerland. 

ALLIN, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born in 1596 in England. He was a puri¬ 
tan scholar, who emigrated from England 
in 1637; became the first minister of 
Dedham; and was the author of several 
works. He died Aug. 26, 1671, in Dedham, 
Mass. 

ALLIS, LIZZIE MAY, educator, was 
oorn May 28, 1863, in Prattsburgh, N. Y.. 
which city is still her home. She gradu¬ 
ated from the Franklin academy; El¬ 
mira college and from Cornell university. 
She has filled the chair of German and 
English in the Jacksonville Female acad¬ 
emy, Illinois; was preceptress for three 
years of the State Normal school of Mans¬ 
field, Pa.; and now fills the chair of 
French and German in the Iowa State 
college. 

ALLISON, BURGESS, educator, clergy¬ 
man, inventor, was born Aug. 17, 1753, 
in Bordentown, N. J. He studied at Rhode 
Island college (now Brown university) in 
1777, and subsequently had charge of a 
small congregation at Bordentown, N. J., 
where he established a classical boarding- 
school, which attained great reputation. 
In 1796 he withdrew from his teaching 
and devoted his time for several years 
to inventing. Some improvements in the 
steam engine and its application to navi¬ 
gation are due to his efforts. He was 
elected chaplain of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives in 1816, and later became chap¬ 
lain at the navy-yard, Washington, where 
he remained until his death. He died Feb. 
20, 1827, in Washington, D. C. 

ALLISON, JAMES, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 4, 1772, in Cecil coun¬ 
ty, Md. He studied law and acquired a 
high position at the bar of western Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from that state to the eighteenth 
congress; was re-elected to the nineteenth 
congress, but on account of ill health and 
his dislike of public life, declined the po¬ 
sition. After practicing his profession for 
fifty years, he died in June. 1854. 

ALLISON, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Aug. 5, 1812, in Pennsylvania. 
He studied law, but never practiced the 
profession; was elected to the assembly 
of his state in 1846, 1847, and 1849; was a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
thirty-second and thirty-fourth con¬ 
gresses, and declined a nomination for re- 
election. In 1869 he was appointed regis¬ 
ter of the United States treasury. He died 
March 23, 1878, in Washington, D. C. 

ALLISON, ROBERT, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Pennsylvania, 
fi 'm 1831 to 1833. 

ALLISON, WILLIAM B., lawyer, United 
States senator, was born March 2, 1P29, in 
Perry, Ohio. He was educated at the 
Western Reserve college, Ohio; studied 
law and practiced in Ohio until he re¬ 
moved to Iowa in 1857. He served on the 
staff of the governor of Iowa and aided 
in organizing volunteers in the beginning 
of the war for the suppression of the re¬ 
bellion. He was elected a representative 
in the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, 
and forty-first congresses, and was elect¬ 
ed to the United States senate as a repub¬ 
lican, and took his seat March 4, 1873. 
He was re-elected in 1878, 1884, 1890, and 
1897. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 1903. 


ALLSTON, JOSEPH, governor, was 
born in 1778 in South Carolina. He was 
a planter of education and ability; was 
several years a member of the South 
Carolina legislature; and was governor of 
that state from 1812 to 1814. He married 
a daughter of Aaron Burr, and for that 
reason was suspected, but unjustly, of be¬ 
ing concerned in the questionable enter¬ 
prises of that famous man. His wife was 
lost at sea on her passage from New York 
to Charleston in 1812. He died Sept. 10, 
1816. 

ALLSTON, ROBERT FRANCIS WITH¬ 
ERS, statesman, author, was born April 
21, 1801, in All Saint’s parish, S. C. He 
was a Carolina statesman well known at 
one time as an agricultural reformer. He 
was the author of Memoir on Rice; Essay 
on Seacoast Crops; and Report on Pub¬ 
lic Schools. He died April 7, 1864, near 
Georgetown, S. C. 

ALLSTON, WASHINGTON, artist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 5, 1779, in Wacca- 
maw, S. C. He was the foremost of Amer¬ 
ican painters in his delineations of sa¬ 
cred history. Jacob’s Dream; Elijah in 
the Desert; and Belshazzar’s Feast, the 
latter on which he was at work when 
he died, are among his sacred historical 
paintings. He also possessed poetical 
talent of a high order, and was the author 
of Sylphs of the Seasons; Romance of 
Monaldi; and Lectures on Art. He died 
July 9, 1843, in Cambridge, Mass. 

ALLYN, EUNICE ELOISAE GIBBS, art¬ 
ist, poet, was born near Cleveland, Ohio. 
She has been the Washington correspond¬ 
ent of the Chicago Inter Ocean; was a 
writer for the St. Louis Globe and the 
New York World; and still contributes 
both prose and verse to the leading pub¬ 
lications of America. She has also won 
distinction as an artist and lecturer. For 
eight years she served as president of the 
Dubuque Woman’s Christian Temperance 
Union, and is prominently identified with 
various other organizations. 

ALLYN, JOHN, merchant, was born 
Sept. 4, 1783, in Boston, Mass. In 1805 he 
originated the ice trade; and developed the 
marvelous processes of harvesting, han¬ 
dling and storing ice, which are still in 
use wherever natural ice is obtained on 
a large scale. He died Feb. 6, 1864. in 
Boston, Mass. 

ALLYN, JOSEPH P., jurist, was a na¬ 
tive of Connecticut, from which state he 
was appointed an associate justice of the 
United States court for the territory of 
Arizona. 

ALMOND, MARCUS BLAKEY, author, 
was born Aug. 17, 1851, in Stanardsville, 
Va. For many years he was professor of 
ancient languages in the male high school 
of Louisville, Ky., and is now headmaster 
of the university school of that city. His 
famous poem, Estelle, is a beautiful story 
in verse of some fifty pages, and was pub¬ 
lished in a volume with other poems. 
His next work was Agricola, an Easte: 
Idyl; and he is the author of several edu¬ 
cational works of acknowledged excel¬ 
lence. 

ALMY, JOHN JAY, naval officer, was 
born April 25, 1815, in Rhode Island. He 
entered the navy as midshipman in 1829, 
advanced to the rank of commodore in 
1869; and until 1876 was commander of 
the Pacific squadron. 

ALMY, WILLIAM, educator, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Feb. 17, 1761, in Prov¬ 
idence, R. I. He was a teacher and a 
member of the society of Friends, and be¬ 
came wealthy through marriage with the 
only daughter of Moses Brown and re¬ 


sulting business arrangements for the 
manufacture of cotton goods. One of his 
most important charities was the estab¬ 
lishment of the New England yearly 
meeting boarding-house in Providence, 
where he educated at his own expense 
eighty young persons selected by him. 
He devoted large sums to other charita¬ 
ble objects. He died Feb. 5, 1836. 

ALoOP, GEORGE, author, was born in 
1638 in England. He published a book 
with this quaint title: A Character of 
the Province of Maryland; also a Small 
Treatise on the Wild and Naked Indians 
or Susquehanokes of Maryland, their 
Customs, Manners, Absurdities, and Reli¬ 
gion. together with a collection of his¬ 
torical letters. 

ALSOP, JOHN, merchant, congressman, 
was born in Middletown, Conn. He was 
a merchant, and by his ability, patriot¬ 
ism, and integrity secured his election to 
the continental congress in 1774, serving 
two years in that body. He died Nov. 

22, 1794, in Newtown, N. Y. 

ALSOP, JOHN, lawyer, poet, was born 
Feb. 5, 1776, in Middletown, Conn. He 
was admitted to the bar, and began prac¬ 
tice in New London. He afterward be¬ 
came a bookseller in Hartford, and still 
later in New York. His poems were 
never issued in book form, but appeared 
in various periodicals and collections. He 
died Nov. 1, 1841, in Middletown, Conn. 

ALSOP, RICHARD, poet, was born Jan. 

23, 1761, in Middletown, Conn. He was a 
witty political satirist who, with Theo¬ 
dore Dwight, wrote The Echo in 1791, a 
series of metrical parodies upon current 
publications, orations, state papers, and 
the like. Other works by Alsop are: The 
Charms of Fancy; A Monody on the 
Death of Washington; and The Enchant¬ 
ed Lake of the Fairy Morgana. He died 
Aug. 20, 1815, in Flatbush, N. Y. 

ALSTON, LEMUEL J., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1807 to 1811. 

ALSTON, WILLIAM, revolutionary 
soldier, state senator, was born in 1757 
in Charleston, S. C. He was a captain 
in the revolutionary war; a capable sol¬ 
dier and a zealous patriot. After the war 
he served for many years in the state se»- 
ate. He died June 26, 1839. 

ALSTON, WILLIAM J., congressman, 
was born in Georgia. Removing to Ala¬ 
bama, he was a representative in congress 
from that state from 1849 to 1851. 

ALSTON, WILLIS, congressman, wa3 
born in Halifax county, N. C. He ap¬ 
peared in public life as early as 1794, serv¬ 
ing in the state legislature for several 
years. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from North Carolina from 1799 to 
1815, and from 1825 to 1831. He died April 
10, 1837. 

ALSTON, WILLIS, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Halifax county, 
N. C. In 1794 he was a member of the 
North Carolina state legislature; and for 
twenty years was a member of congress. 
He died April 10, 1837. 

ALT, GUSTAVE ADOLPH F. W., phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, was born Aug. 13, 1851, 
in Baden. He served two years as house 
surgeon in the New York ophthalmic and 
aural institute; and in 1887 was made lec¬ 
turer on ophthalmology and otology in 
Trinity college. In 1879 he published in 
Germany, also in New York, The Normal 
and Pathological Histology of the Human 
Eye; and in 1883 he founded and edited 
the first ophthalmological journal, The 
American Journal of Ophthalmology. 


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ALTGELD, JOHN P., lawyer, governor, 
was born in December, 1847, in Germany. 
When sixteen years of age he entered the 
Union army, and carried a musket in the 
James river campaign. At nineteen he 
began to teach school, and at twenty-one 
went farther west. In 1884 he published 
a small volume entitled Our Penal Ma¬ 
chinery and Its Victims, and in 1890 a vol¬ 
ume entitled Live Questions, being a dis¬ 
cussion of some of the problems of the 
day. In 1894 he published volume two of 
the work last named. He was elected 
judge of the superior court of Chicago 
in 1886, and was for a time chief justice 
of that court. After serving on the bench 
about five years he resigned to devote 
himself to private affairs. Meanwhile 
he had become interested in Chicago real 
estate, and built six of the finest business 
blocks in Chicago, one of them a sixteen- 
story fire-proof structure called The 
Unity, which is regarded as one of the 
finest office buildings in the country. In 
1892 he was elected governor of the state 
of Illinois. 

ALVORD, BENJAMIN, soldier, author, 
was born Aug. 18, 1813, in Rutland, Vt. 
He was a United States officer who served 
in the Mexican and civil wars; and was 
the author of Tangencies of Circles and 
Spheres; and Interpretation of Imaginary 
Roots in Questions of Maxima and Min¬ 
ima. He died Oct. 16, 1884, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

ALVORD, JAMES C., lawyer, legislator, 
was a native of Massachusetts. He adopt¬ 
ed the profession of the law; served one 
term in each branch of the state legis¬ 
lature; and was elected a representative 
from Massachusetts to the twenty-sixth 
congress, but died in the latter part of 
1839. before taking his seat. 

ALVORD, THOMAS GOLD, lawyer, 
statesman, was born Dec. 20, 1810, in 
Onondaga county, N. Y. He graduated 
from Yale in 1828; in 1832 was admitted 
to the New York bar; and in 1844 sent to 
the legislature, where he remained for ten 
consecutive terms. He was elected 
■speaker of the house in 1858 and in 1864; 
was lieutenant-governor in 1865-66, and a 
member of the New York state constitu¬ 
tional convention in 1867-68. He is the 
proprietor of extensive salt mines in cen¬ 
tral New York. 

AMBAUEN, ANDREW JOSEPH, Ro¬ 
man catholic priest, author, was born 
March 7, 1847, in Switzerland. In 1872 he 
was ordained to the 
priesthood in Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis., w r here 
for thirteen years he 
worked in various 
pioneer mission sta¬ 
tions in that diocese. 
In 1886 he was ap- 
pointed to St. 
Joseph’s congrega¬ 
tion in Dodgeville. 
Wis., where he has 
since faithfully min¬ 
istered. In the inter¬ 
vals of exacting pastoral duties he has 
contributed extensively to church and 
popular literature. Among his works are 
The Friend of Youth; Roses of Heaven; 
and Guide to Our Celestial Home; all in 
the German language. In English he is 
the author of The Devoted Companion; 
Our Christian Duties; and The Floral 
Apostles, or What the Flowers Say to 
Thinking Man. Father Ambauen is wide¬ 
ly popular in his adopted state, both 
within and without the church, as one 
whose earnestness and thorough devotion 
to all causes of good and truth are un¬ 
failing and sincere. 


AMBLER, JACOB A., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1829, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. He studied law in Ohio, 
and in 1857 was 
elected to the state 
legislature, and 
served two terms. 
In 1859 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the 
ninth judicial dis¬ 
trict of the state, 
and served until 
1867, when he re¬ 
sumed the practice 
of his profession. 
He was elected to 
the forty-first and 
forty-second congresses, serving on the 
committee on foreign affairs. He still 
practices law in Salem, Ohio, in partner¬ 
ship with his son, under the firm name 
of Ambler and Son. 

AMBLER, WILLIAM E., lawyer, state 
senator, jurist, was born Dec. 18, 1845, 
in Medina, Ohio. Since 1868 he has prac¬ 
ticed law in Pentwater, Mich. He has 
been president of the village, and a mem¬ 
ber of Neilsen and Company, bankers. 
He was elected senator in the state legis¬ 
lature in 1878; was re-elected in 1880; 
and was president pro tem of the senate 
during his last term. He subsequently 
became judge of probate for Oceana 
colinty. 

AMBROSE, JAMES W., civil engineer, 
legislator, was born Jan. 3, 1826, in In¬ 
dustry, Maine. He became a member of 
the Maine state legislature in 1883. For 
eighteen years he was commissioner, and 
is a successful farmer and legislator. 

AMBROSE, JOHN L., organist, singer, 
composer, was born in 1844, in Sandwich, 
N. H. He has composed church music 
and has prepared a book of Male Quar¬ 
tettes for the work of the Masonic lodge. 

AMERMAN, LEMUEL, educator, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1846, 
near Danville, Pa. He was professor of 
ancient languages and English literature 
in the state normal school at Mansfield, 
Pa., for three years; was admitted to prac¬ 
tice and located in Scranton in 1876; was 
county solicitor for Lackawanna county 
in 1879-80; was representative in Pennsyl¬ 
vania legislature, 1881-84; was city comp¬ 
troller of Scranton, 1885-86; was reporter 
of the decisions of the supreme court 
of Pennsylvania, 1886-87. He was largely 
interested in the construction and opera¬ 
tion of water works; and was elected to 
the fifty-second congress as a democrat. 
He died Oct. 7, 1897, in Scranton, Pa. 

AMES, ADELBERT, soldier, governor, 
United States congressman, was born Oct. 
31, 1835, in Rockland, Maine. He received 
a classical education; entered the mili¬ 
tary academy at West Point, and grad¬ 
uated in 1861. He was commissioned sec¬ 
ond lieutenant of artillery; brevetted 
major for gallant services at the battle 
of Bull Run, where he was wounded; 
brevetted lieutenant-colonel for services 
at the battle of Malvern Hill; was ap¬ 
pointed colonel of volunteers; brevetted 
colonel for services at the battle of Get¬ 
tysburg; brevetted major-general of vol¬ 
unteers for services at Fort Fisher; and 
again brevetted major-general, United 
States army, at the close of the war, for 
gallant and meritorious services in the 
field during the rebellion. He was ap¬ 
pointed provisional governor of Missis¬ 
sippi in 1868; appointed to the command 
of the department of Mississippi in 1869; 
was elected to the United States senate 
for six years, taking his seat in 1870. In 
1873 he was elected governor of Missis¬ 
sippi. 


AMES, CHARLES GORDON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1828, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a Unitarian clergyman 
and pastor of the church of the disciples 
in Boston. He is the author of George 
Eliot’s Two Marriages; As Natural as 
Life; and Studies of the Inner Kingdom. 

AMES, EDWARD RAYMOND, edu¬ 
cator, bishop, was born May 20, 1806, in 
Athens, Ohio. He studied for two years 
at the Ohio state university, and in 1828 
opened a high school at Lebanon, Ill., 
which in time grew into McKendree col¬ 
lege. Here he remained until 1830, when 
he joined the Indiana methodist episco¬ 
pal conference and became an itinerant 
minister, and in 1852 became a bishop. 
He died April 25, 1879, in Baltimore, Md. 

AMES, ELEANOR MARIA, journalist, 
author, was born in 1830. Under the pen 
name of Eleanor Kirk she has published 
a number of books; and she is also the 
proprietor of a magazine entitled Eleanor 
Kirk’s Idea, which is published in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. She is the author of Up Broad¬ 
way and Its Sequel; Information for Au¬ 
thors; and Perpetual Youth. 

AMES, FANNY B., industrial reformer, 
lecturer, was born June 14, 1840, in Can¬ 
andaigua, N. Y. Her first experience in 
practical work was gained in military 
hospitals during the war. In 1863 she 
was married to the Rev. Charles G. Ames. 
She has been the president of the chil¬ 
dren’s aid society; was for two years pres¬ 
ident of the new country club of Phila¬ 
delphia; and in 1891 was appointed fac¬ 
tory inspector in Massachusetts. 

AMES, FISHER, orator, statesman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 9, 1758, in Dedham, 
Mass. He graduated from narvard uni¬ 
versity in 1774; 
studied law in Bos¬ 
ton, and commenced 
practice in his na¬ 
tive town; distin¬ 
guished himself as a 
member of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts conven¬ 
tion for ratifying 
the constitution in 
1788; and from that 
body passed into the 
state legislature. He 
was soon afterward 
elected a representative in congress, 
where he served from 1789 to 1797, and 
gained great reputation for his eloquence 
and exalted patriotism. He was devotedly 
attached to Washington, and was the au¬ 
thor or the Address from the house 
of representatives to the president 
prior to his retirement from office. He 
wrote much for the papers on the public 
affairs of America, England, and France, 
and both as a writer and orator attained 
a very prominent position, and exerted 
an extensive influence. In 1809 a collec¬ 
tion of his writings, and his life, were 
published by Rev. Dr. Kirkham; in 1854 
a more complete edition was issued, 
edited by his son. He died July 4, 1808. 

AMES, JOSEPH, painter, was born 
Sept. 6, 1816, in Roxbury, N. H. His best- 
known pictures are portraits of Ristori, 
Prescott, Emerson, Rachel, and President 
Felton, of Harvard, and Gazzaniga. 
Among his ideal paintings are: Miranda; 
Night; Morning; The Death of Webster; 
and Maud Muller. He died Oct. 30, 1872, 
in New York. 

AMES, LUCIA TRUE, author, was born 
May 5, 1856, in Boscawen, N. H. She is 
the author of Great Thoughts for Little 
Thinkers; and Memoirs of a Millionaire, 
a work of fiction. For many years she 
has conducted numerous large adult 
classes in Boston, giving studies in nine¬ 
teenth century thought. 








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AMES, MARY CLEMMER (Mrs. Hud¬ 
son), author, was born in 1839 in Utica, 
N. Y. She was intimate with Alice and 
Phoebe Cary, whose biographies she 
wrote. She published monographs on 
Charles Sumner, Margaret Fuller, George 
Eliot, Emerson, and Longfellow. She 
wrote three novels, Victoria; Eirene; and 
His Two Wives; Ten Years in Washing¬ 
ton; Outlines of Men, Women and Things; 
and a volume of poems. In 1883 she mar¬ 
ried Edmund Hudson, editor and proprie¬ 
tor of the Army and Navy Register. She 
died Aug. 18, 1884, in Washington, D. C. 

AMES, NATHAN P., manufacturer, 
was born in 1803. He commenced the 
cutlery business in 1829. In 1834 the 
Ames manufacturing company was in¬ 
corporated, with N. P. Ames as agent. 
This company has supplied the United 
States government with swords since 
1831. In 1840 he visited Europe to in¬ 
spect foreign armories, and acquire in¬ 
formation in regard to tools, cutlery, and 
improvements in arms. In 1836 the 
bronze foundry was erected, which has 
become the most famous in the United 
States. Since its erection nearly all the 
brass guns made for the American army 
have been cast at this establishment. 
Here the celebrated statues of De Witt 
Clinton, in Greenwood cemetery, Brook¬ 
lyn; Washington, in Union square, N. Y., 
and that of Franklin, in School street, 
Boston, were cast. In 1854 the British 
government ordered of this company a 
' complete set of the machines for per¬ 
fecting the stock of the musket. They 
are now in use at the government armory 
near Woolwich, England. He died April 
23, 1847, in Cabotville, Mass. 

AMES, NATHANIEL, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1708 in Bridgewater, 
Mass. He was a physician of Dedham, 
Mass., who published in 1725-64, an As¬ 
tronomical Diary and Almanac which con¬ 
tained much shrewd humor and original 
philosophy and was widely popular. He 
died July 11, 1764, in Dedham, Mass. 

AMES, OAKES, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 10, 1804, in Eas¬ 
ton, Mass. He received a public-school 
education; was engaged in manufacturing 
and largely engaged in railroads; and 
was elected a member of the executive 
council of Massachusetts in 1860 and 1861. 
He was elected to the thirty-eighth, thir¬ 
ty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty- 
second congresses as a republican. He 
died May 8, 1873, in North Easton, Mass. 

AMES, OAKES ANGIER, manufacturer, 
banker, was born April 15, 1829, in Eas¬ 
ton, Mass. This successful manufacturer 
and financier is the 
president of the Oli¬ 
ver Ames and Sons 
corporation of North 
Easton, Mass., an 
institution which 
has a national repu¬ 
tation as manurac- 
turers of shovels, 
spades, and hard¬ 
ware specialties. He 
is president of the 
N orth Easton sav¬ 
ings bank; vice- 
president of the Easton national bank; 

director of the Lincoln national bank of 
Boston; director of the Kenily iron and 
machine company of Canton; director of 
the Washington Mills emery company; 

president of the Ames security register 

company; and trustee of the state lunatic 
hospital at Taunton. Mr. Ames is an in¬ 
fluential man in manufacturing and finan¬ 
cial circles in the New England states. 


AMES, OLIVER, soldier, manufacturer, 
governor, was born Feb. 4, 1831, in North 
Easton, Mass. Entering early the great 
shovel manufactory, he acquired a mas¬ 
tery of the business, and contributed nu¬ 
merous inventions to the processes of the 
manufacture. In 1880-dl he was elected 
a member of the Massachusetts senate; 
and in 1882 lieutenant-governor of the 
state. In 1886 he was elected governor, 
and re-elected in 1887-88. 

AMES, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, author, 
was born Sept. 6, 1806, in Providence, 
R. I. He was prepared for college at 
Phillips Andover academy, and was grad¬ 
uated at Brown in 1823. After gradua¬ 
tion he attended the law lectures of 
Judge Gould at Litchfield, Conn., and be¬ 
came a member of the Rhode Island bar 
in 1826. He served in the Providence city 
council; was for many years in the state 
assembly; and was elected speaker of that 
body in 1844 and 1845. In 1853 he was 
appointed by the legislature to repr^ent 
the state in adjusting the boundary- be¬ 
tween Rhode Island and Massachusetts. 
In 1855 he was one of the commissioners 
to revise the statutes of Rhode Island, a 
work that was completed in 1857 mainly 
under his supervision. He was elected chief 
justice of the state supreme court in May. 
1856, and resigned the office in November, 
1865, because of failing health. He was 
a delegate to the peace convention ’in 
1861. The law books of which he was au¬ 
thor or editor are: Agnell and Ames on 
Corporations, and Rhode Island Reports, 
volumes 4 to 7. He died Dec. 20, 1865, in 
Providence, R. I. 

AMES, WILL L., soldier, legislator, 
was born in Petersboro, N. H. He was 
educated at Phillips Exeter academy, 
N. H.; enlisted in the first New Hamp¬ 
shire cavalry in 1863, and served during 
the war under Generals Custer and Sheri¬ 
dan. He resided twelve years in Seattle, 
and served three years as city treasurer 
of that city. In 1897 he became a mem¬ 
ber of the Washington state legislature. 

AMHERST, J. H., actor, dramatist, was 
born in 1776 in London, England. He 
came to the United States in 1838 as di¬ 
rector of Cook’s equestrian company, and 
first acted as the Castilian in Mazeppa in 
Philadelphia. He was an accomplished 
classical scholar, and the author of sev¬ 
eral plays, of which the following are the 
best known: Will Watch, or the Black 
Phantom; Napoleon Bonaparte’s Invasion 
of Russia, or the Conflagration of Mos¬ 
cow; Ireland as It Was; The Battle of 
Waterloo; and Ireland as It Is. He died 
Aug. 12, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

AMIES, OLIVE POND, educator, lectur¬ 
er, was born in Jordan, N. Y. She has at¬ 
tained eminence as a successful teacher; 
has given model lessons at conventions 
and institutes; and for many years was 
in constant demand in the county teach¬ 
ers’ institutes in the states of New York 
and Maine. She founded the training 
school for teachers in Lewiston, Maine; 
has held state positions in the Woman’s 
Christian Temperance union and the 
Woman’s Suffrage association; and deliv¬ 
ers lectures on different themes connected 
with these organizations. In 1871 she 
was married to the Rev. J. H. Amies, an 
eminent clergyman of the universalist 
church. 

AMMEN, DANIEL, naval officer, au¬ 
thor, was born May 15, 1820, in Brown 
county, Ohio. He was chief of the naval 
bureau of navigation in 1870-78; and was 
sent to the so-called Paris canal congress 
in 1879. At the close of the civil war he 
designed the Ammen Life Raft, which 


saved the lives of more than half the 
crew of the Kearsarge when she was 
wrecked on a reef. He is the author of 
The Atlantic During the Civil War; The 
Old Navy and the New; Recollections of 
Grant; and various other papers. 

AMMEN, JACOB, soldier, was born Jan. 
7, 1808, in Virginia. He was graduated 
at West Point in 1831, and served there 
as assistant instructor in mathematics, 
and afterward of infantry tactics. He 
was promoted to be brigadier-general of 
volunteers in 1862. 

AMMIDOWN, EDWARD HOLMES, 
merchant, author, was born Oct. 28, 1820,. 
in Southbridge, Mass. He has been di¬ 
rector of the Importers’ and Traders' 
bank; the United States life insurance 
company; and the Dundee water-power 
company. He is the author of Historical 
Collections. 

AMORY, ESTELLE MENDELL, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 3, 1845, in 
Ellisburgh, N. Y. In 1868 she graduated 
from Falley seminary, and has attained 
success in educational work. Her lit¬ 
erary productions consist mainly of 
domestic articles, short stories for chil¬ 
dren, essays on living themes, and oc¬ 
casional poems. 

AMORY, ROBERT, physician, author,, 
was born May 2, 1842, in Boston, Mass. 
He was appointed in 1869 lecturer at Har¬ 
vard college on the physiological action 
of drugs, and was afterward professor of 
physiology in the medical school at Bow- 
doin college, but resigned this chair in 
1874. He is a member of several socie¬ 
ties of medical science, and has published 
Bromides of Potassium and Ammonium, 
and Acuon of Nitrous Oxide, and has 
contributed to periodicals important pa¬ 
pers.' 

AMORY, THOMAS COFFIN, lawyer, 
author, was born Oct. 16, 1812, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was the author of Life of 
James Sullivan, Governor of Massachu¬ 
setts; Military Services of Major-Gen¬ 
eral John Sullivan; and Life of Sir Isaac 
Coffin. He died Aug. 20, 1889, in Boston, 
Mass. 

AMORY, THOMAS J. C., general, was 
born about 1830 in Massachusetts. He 
was graduated at West Point in 1851, and 
served on garrison and frontier duty in 
the Utah expedition, and on recruiting 
service until 1861, when he became colo¬ 
nel of the seventeenth Massachusetts vol¬ 
unteers. He was brevetted brigadier- 
general of volunteers. He died Oct. 8,. 
1864, in Newbern, N. C. 

AMUNDSON, JOHN A., lawyer, was 
born April 2, 1856, in Madison, Wis. He 
is a lawyer of New York city, and is 
known for his sterling integrity, thor¬ 
ough preparation, and distinguished tal¬ 
ents as an advocate, and as learned in the- 
law. 

ANAGNOS, MRS. JULIA ROMANA, 
author, was born in 1844. She was a 
daughter of Dr. S. G. and Julia Ward 
Howe, and wife of M. Anagnos, the su¬ 
perintendent of the Perkins institute for 
the blind in Boston. She is the author of 
Stray Chords, a volume of verse; and 
Philosophise Questor. She died in 1886. 

ANCONA, SYDENHAM E., congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 20, 1824, in Warwick, 
Pa. Removing to Berks county, he was 
for several years connected with the 
Reading railroad company; in 1860 was 
elected a representative from Pennsylva¬ 
nia to the thirty-seventh congress; was 
re-elected to the thirty-eighth and thirty- 
ninth congresses. He was one of the rep¬ 
resentatives designated by the house to 
attend the funeral of General Scott in 
1866. 



H LR KING SHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


ANDERS, T. J., lawyer, jurist, was born 
April 4, 1838, near Republic, Ohio. He re¬ 
moved to Montana, and later to Walla 
Walla, opening a law office at the latter 
town in 1871. He was elected city at¬ 
torney, and also five times elected prose¬ 
cuting attorney for that district. Judge 
Anders has been connected with much of 
the important litigation of Washington, 
and was the unanimous choice of his 
brother judges for the first chief justice 
of the supreme court of Washington. In 
1892 he was re-elected for six years. 

ANDERSON, ABEL, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, was born Dec. 6, 1847, in Albion, 
Wis. He graduated from the Lather col¬ 
lege, university of 
Wisconsin, and 
from the Concordia 
theological seminary 
of St. Louis, Mo. 
During 1874-87 he 
was pastor of the 
Lutheran church in 
Muskegon, Mich., 
then at Appleton, 
Minn.; and since 
1888 at Montevideo, 
Minn. Since the 
latter date he has 
also filled the chair of ancient and mod¬ 
ern languages in the Windom institute. 
He was school inspector for a series of 
years, and in 1884 was a delegate from 
Michigan to the republican national con¬ 
vention. 

ANDERSON. ALFRED HORACE, rail¬ 
road president, was born in 1858, in La 
Crosse, Wis. Since 1895 he has been 
president of the Peninsular railroad. 

ANDERSON, ALBERT R., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1837, 
He was appointed state railroad com¬ 
missioner in 1881; and was elected to the 
fiftieth congress as an independent repub¬ 
lican. 

ANDERSON, ALEXANDER, engraver, 
author, was born April 21, 1775, in New 
York city. He was the first wood-en¬ 
graver in the United States. He was the 
author of an illustrated General History 
of Quadrupeds. He died Jan. 17, 1870, in 
Jersey City, N. J. 

ANDERSON, ALEXANDER, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 10, 1794, in Jefferson 
county, Tenn. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from the Knoxville district, Tennes¬ 
see, during the years 1840 and 1841, part 
of a term, and served as a member of the 
committee on the militia. He died May 
23, 1869, in Knoxville, Tenn. 

ANDERSON, C. L., soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 15, 1845, in 
Noxubee county. Miss. He entered the 
confederate army as 
a private in the thir¬ 
ty - ninth infantry 
regiment, Mississip¬ 
pi volunteers, March 
5, 1862, and served 
continuously in that 
command, receiving 
promotion through 
the successive grades 
o f non - commis¬ 
sioned officers until 
July, 1864, when he 
s was transferred to 

Bradford’s cavalry corps of scouts, with 
the rank of second lieutenant, in which 
capacity he served until the close of the 
war. He entered the university of Mis¬ 
sissippi in January, 1866, where he re¬ 
mained until the summer of 1867, having 
taken a partial course in both the literary 
and law departments. He commenced 
the practice of law in the town of Kosci¬ 


usko, Feb. 14, 1868; was elected to the 
Mississippi legislature in November, 1879, 
and served through the session of 1880; 
and was elected to the fiftieth congress, 
and was re-elected to the fifty-first con¬ 
gress. In 1896-97 he was United States 
district attorney of Mississippi. 

ANDERSON, CHARLES, lawyer. He 
was acting governor of Ohio in 1865 and 
1866; and was by profession a lawyer. 
He was a man of high culture, and for 
many years was an influential citizen of 
Cincinnati. 

ANDERSON, CHARLES M„ soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 
1845, in Juniata county, Pa. He removed 
with his parents to Ohio in 1855; served 
in the Union army throughout the civil 
war; studied law, and was admitted to 
the bar in 1868. He engaged in practice 
at Greenville, Ohio; and in 1884 was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Ohio to the 
forty-ninth congress. 

ANDERSON, CLIFFORD, attorney- 
general, was born March 23, 1833, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was elected judge of Macon 
city court in 1856, and attorney-general 
of Georgia, serving in the last office ten 
years. 

ANDERSON, DAVID, soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, state senator, was born Nov. 26, 
1825, in Clarendon, N. Y. He moved to 
Michigan in 1854, and settled in the town 
of Madison. In 1865 he removed to the 
town of Columbia, where he has held va¬ 
rious offices of trust in his township. In 
1862 he joined the nineteenth Michigan 
infantry, received the commission of first 
lieutenant, and in the same year was pro¬ 
moted to the rank of captain. In 1864 
he was commissioned as major, and at 
the close of the war received a colonel’s 
commission. During 1873-74 he served 
with distinction as a member of the 
Michigan state senate. 

ANDERSON, GALUSHA, LL. D„ cler¬ 
gyman, educator, college president, was 
born March 7, 1832, in Bergen, N. Y. In 
1854 he graduated from the university of 
Rochester; and from the Rochester theo¬ 
logical seminary two years later. He was 
pastor of the first baptist church of Janes¬ 
ville, Wis.; of the second baptist church 
of St. Louis, Mo.; of the Strong place 
baptist church of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and of 
the second baptist church of Chicago. 
For eight years he was president of the 
university of Chicago; and for three 
years was president of the Denison uni¬ 
versity, Ohio. For seven years he filled the 
chair of sacred rhetoric, church polity 
and pastoral duties in the Newton theo¬ 
logical seminary. Mass.; and now fills 
the same chair in the divinity school of 
the university of Chicago. He was in St. 
Louis during the civil war, and preached 
the first loyal sermon in that city in 
April, 1861; and he was one of a band of 
loyal men who succeeded in keeping 
Missouri in the Union. His writings 
have appeared in the North American Re¬ 
view and various standard works. 

ANDERSON, GEORGE A., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 11, 1853, in 
Botetourt county, Va. He removed with 
his parents to Hancock county, Ill., when 
two years of age; received a common 
school and collegiate education, graduat¬ 
ing with first honors in 1876. He began 
the practice of law in Quincy, Ill., in 
1880. He was elected city attorney of 
Quincy in 1884, and re-elected without op¬ 
position in 1885, and was elected to the 
fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

ANDERSON, GEORGE B., soldier, was 
born in 1831 in Wilmington, N. C. He 
entered West Point, was graduated in 


1852, and appointed second lieutenant in 
the second dragoons. On the breaking 
out of the civil war he resigned his com¬ 
mission to accept a brigadier-generalship 
in the confederate army. He died Oct. 16, 
1862, in Raleigh, N. C. 

ANDERSON, GEORGE W„ soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born May 22, 
1832, in Jefferson county, Tenn. He grad¬ 
uated at Franklin college, Tennessee; 
studied and practiced law; went to Mis¬ 
souri in 1853; was a member of the state 
legislature of Missouri in 18t>9 and 1860, 
and of the state senate in 1862; was a 
presidential elector in 1860; served as 
colonel of a regiment of the reserve corps 
from 1862 to 1864, and commanded the 
forty-ninth regiment and first battalion 
E. M. M. in active service. He was elect¬ 
ed to the thirty-ninth congress, and was 
re-elected to the fortieth congress as a 
radical. 

ANDERSON, HENRY JAMES, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Feb. 6, 1799, in New 
York. He was the author of Geology of 
Lieutenant Lynch’s Expedition to the 
Dead Sea; and a Geological Reconnois- 
sance of Part of the Holy Land. He died 
Oct. 19, 1875, in Hindostan. 

ANDERSON, HUGH J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born May 10, 
1801, in Wicassel, Maine. He was clerk 
of the Waldo county courts from 1827 to 
1837; a representative in congress from 
Maine, from 1837 to 1841, and a member 
of the committee on naval affairs. He 
was a lawyer by profession; governor of 
Maine from 1844 to 1847; a presidential 
elector in 1849; and commissioner of 
customs in Washington, from 1853 to 
1858. In 1866 he was appointed sixth 
auditor of the treasury. He died May 3, 
1881, in Portland, Maine. 

ANDERSON, ISAAC, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1803 to 1807. 

ANDERSON. ISAAC, clergyman, was 
born March 26, 1780, in Rock Bridge, Va. 
He was a successful clergyman of Mary¬ 
ville, Tenn., where the Southwestern 
Theological seminary was established 
through his efforts. 

ANDERSON, J. P., congressman, was 
born about 1820 in Tennessee. He was 
elected a delegate to the thirty-fourth 
congress from the territory of Washing¬ 
ton. He died in 1873, in Memphis, Tenn. 

ANDERSON, JAMES HAMILTON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born May 30, 1842, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1857 he moved with 
his father to Keokuk, Iowa; and three 
years later to Missouri. For awhile he 
was in a regiment of the North East Mis¬ 
souri volunteers in 1861; and in 1864 
he enlisted in the forty-fifth regiment vol¬ 
unteer infantry. He subsequently studied 
law in Keokuk, and since 1866 has prac¬ 
ticed his profession in that city. He 
was vice-president and manager of the 
Keokuk and Northwestern railroad; and 
he built the original street railroad in 
Keokuk, of which for several years he 
was president. He is president of the 
Keokuk school board; and takes an ac¬ 
tive part in the public affairs of his city, 
county and state. 

ANDERSON, JAMES O., soldier, farm¬ 
er, legislator, was born Aug. 1, 1845, in 
Henderson county, Ill. He left Mon¬ 
mouth college when a student to enlist 
in the twenty-eighth regiment Illinois in¬ 
fantry, in which he attained the rank of 
second lieutenant. He was sheriff of 
Henderson county for ten years, and he 
was elected to the Illinois house of repre¬ 
sentatives in 1888, 1890, 1892, and in 
1896. 






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ANDERSON, JAMES PATTON, soldier, 
Yvas born in 1820 in Tennessee. During 
the civil war he held the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general, C. S. A., and was promoted 
major-general in 1864. He died in 1873 
in Memphis, Tenn. 

ANDERSON, JAMES W. D., clergyman, 
lecturer, poet, was born March 3, 1859, 
in Coffey county, Kan. He is a success¬ 
ful methodist clergyman and lecturer of 
Kansas. He is the author of a work en¬ 
titled The Kansas Methodist Pulpit; and 
is also the author of a number of meri¬ 
torious poems. 

ANDERSON, JEROME A., surgeon, lec¬ 
turer, poet, was born July 25, 1849, in 
^Randolph county, Ind. In 1857 he re¬ 
moved to Kansas, and at the age of six¬ 
teen was a member of the Kansas troops 
in the Price raid of the late civil war. 
In 1872 he removed to California. After 
graduating, Mr. Anderson served one 
year as surgeon on the Pacific mail steam¬ 
er, and has practiced medicine continually 
since. He is at present editing a de¬ 
partment of Oriental Literature in the 
Golden Era of San Diego, being also en¬ 
gaged in writing and lecturing upon 
Theosophy. 

ANDERSON, JOHN, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in Wind¬ 
ham, Conn. In 1813 he graduated from 
Bowdoin college, and 
became a noted law¬ 
yer of Portland, 
Maine. In 1823 he 
served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of 
the Maine state sen¬ 
ate; and during 
1825-33 was an able 
and useful member 
of congress. During 
1 8 3 3-3 6 he was 
United States dis¬ 
trict attorney for 
Maine; and for many years was collector 
of the port for Portland. He was three 
times chosen mayor of Portland, and dis¬ 
charged his duties with great ability. 
He died in 1853. 

ANDERSON, JOHN A., congressman, 
was born June 6, 1834, in Washington 
■county, Pa. He graduated at Miami uni- 
yersity, Ohio, in 1853; removed to Cali¬ 
fornia; in 1857 was ordained a minister 
of the Presbyterian church; was elected 
trustee of the State Insane asylum in 
1860; was a chaplain of volunteers in 
1862; was in the service of the United 
States sanitary commission from 1863 to 
1867, and was president of the Kansas 
State Agricultural college from 1875 to 
1879. He was elected a representative 
from Kansas to the forty-sixth, forty- 
seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, 
and fifty-first congresses. 

ANDERSON, JOHN JACOB, educator, 
author, was born in 1821, in New York 
city. He is an educator of New York city 
who prepared a number of historical text 
books, among which are A History of 
Prance; and Common School History of 
the United States. 

ANDERSON, JOSEPH, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, was born 
Nov. 5, 1757, near Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was appointed an ensign in the New Jer¬ 
sey line in 1775; was promoted to an 
adjutancy; as a captain fought at the 
l)attle of Monmouth; also went in 1779 
with Sullivan against the Six Nations; 
in 1780 was at Valley Forge; in 1781 at 
the siege of York; and after the war re¬ 
tired with the rank of brevet major. He 
^practiced law in Delaware for seven years. 
In 1791 was appointed judge of the ter¬ 
ritory south of the Ohio river; remained 


in that position until the first constitution 
of Tennessee was formed, which he aided 
in forming in convention; and was an in¬ 
fluential member of the United States sen¬ 
ate from Tennessee from 1797 to 1815. 
He was appointed in 1815 first comptroller 
of the treasury, where he remained until 
1836. He died April 17, 1837, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

ANDERSON, JOSEPH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 16, 1836, in Scotland. 
He has been pastor of congregational 
churches in Stamford, Norwalk and 
Waterbury, Conn.; at the latter since 
1865. In 1877 and 1890 he was moderator 
of the general association of Connecticut, 
and in 1878 of the congregational churches 
of the Connecticut general conference. 
He is the author of The Church of Mat- 
tatuck; and History of Waterbury. 

ANDERSON, JOSEPH H., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was elected a 
representative in congress from that state, 
from 1843 to 1847. 

ANDERSON, JOSEPH W., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born Feb. 5, 1837, in York 
county, Pa. Since 1895 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Stewartstown railroad of 
Pennsylvania. 

ANDERSON, JOSEPHUS, clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born Oct. 7, 1829, 
in Hanover county, Va. He is one of the 
foremost clergymen of the methodist epis¬ 
copal church south; and has held the 
highest offices in the gift of that denom¬ 
ination. For the past ten years he has 
been editor of the Florida Christian Ad¬ 
vocate of Leesburg, Fla. 

ANDERSON, JOSIAH M., congressman, 
was born in Tennessee. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from the third dis¬ 
trict in that state, from 1849 to 1852; and 
was delegate to the peace congress of 
1861. 

ANDERSON, LUCIEN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June, 1824, in May- 
field, Ky. He received a good English 
education; adopted the profession of the 
law; was a presidential elector in 1852; 
served for two terms as a member of the 
Kentucky legislature. In 1863 was elected 
a representative from Kentucky to the 
thirty-eighth congress. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the Baltimore convention of 1864, 
and a delegate to the Philadelphia loyal¬ 
ists’ convention of 1866. 

ANDERSON, MARION T„ soldier, was 
born Nov. 13, 1839, in Clarksburg, Ind. 
He served as a union soldier during the 
civil war, and joined 
company C, seventh 
Indiana volunteer in¬ 
fantry; and was in 
the first battle of the 
war, and captured 
the first rebel flag. 
He was promoted to 
sergeant, acting 
major of the regi¬ 
ment, and in 1862 
was commissioned 
second lieutenant. 
In 1863 he received 
his commission as captain, and as such 
was severely wounded on Dec. 31 of that 
year. For seven months he was an in¬ 
mate of Libby prison; was one of the 
seventy-five officers who drew lots for 
their lives to afford two victims to be 
hanged the following morning in retalia¬ 
tion for some executions of rebel spies 
made by Gen. Burnside in Kentucky; and 
on Dec. 11 made his successful escape 
from that prison. 

ANDEh^W, MARY, actress, was born 
July 28, 1859, in Sacramento, Cal. Her 
remarkable beauty and grace aided 
materially in making her a social as 


well as a dramatic success. In 1890 she 
married Mr. Navarro of New York, and 
retired from the stage. 

ANDERSON, MELVILLE BEST, edu¬ 
cator, translator, and critic, was born 
March 28, 1851, in Kalamazoo, Mich. He 
is a professor of English literature in 
Stanford university, California. He is the 
translator of Victor Hugo’s William 
Shakespeare, and several other works, in¬ 
cluding Paul and Virginia. He is noted 
as a literary critic, and for many years 
has been a contributor to The Dial. 

ANDERSON, NORTON BROCK, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Jan. 8, 1843, in 
Todd county, Ky. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Paducah college, Kentucky, 
Bethel college of Russellville, Ky.; and 
at Harvard university. He has attained 
prominence as an able lawyer of Plane 
City, Mo., and in 1870 was elected prose¬ 
cuting attorney of his county. During 
1889-93 he served as a member of the 
Missouri state senate. He was one of 
the revisers of the Missouri general stat¬ 
utes; and has contributed extensively to 
law literature. 

ANDERSON, OPHi^iA BaOWN, ac¬ 
tress, was born July 24, 1813, in Boston. 
She was the daughter of Mrs. Pelby, an 
actress, and appeared on the stage in 
Boston, when two years old, as Cora's 
child in Pizarro. She became a favorite 
with the American public, and was the 
chief attraction in the Tremont and Na¬ 
tional theaters, of which successively her 
father was the manager. She died Jan. 
27, 1852, in Jamaica Plain, Mass. 

ANDERSON, OSCAR DAVID, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 27, 1854, in James¬ 
town, N. Y. He has attained success as 
an able lawyer of Red Wing, Minn.; has 
been justice of the peace; judge of pro¬ 
bate court; court commissioner; and has 
filled various other public positions of 
trust. 

ANDERbUN, OTTO LEANDER, farmer, 
lecturer, legislator, was born Feb. 27, 
1849, in Sweden. He is a successful 
farmer of Rockerville, S. D.; was a repre¬ 
sentative in the fifth session of the South 
Dakota legislature; and a successful al¬ 
liance lecturer and organizer of the 
people’s party. 

ANDERSON, RASMUS BJORN, author, 
was born Jan. 12, 1846, in Albion, Wis. 
In 1866 he became professor of Greek and 
modern languages in 
Albion academy, 
near his home. In 
1869 he became in¬ 
structor in languages 
in the university of 
Wisconsin, and in 
1875-83 filled the 
chair of Scandinav¬ 
ian languages and 
literature in that in¬ 
stitution, where he 
also founded a Scan¬ 
dinavian library. He 
has been a prolific writer, and has contrib¬ 
uted to Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia; 
McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia, The 
American Supplement of the Encyclopedia 
Britannica; and to the last edition of 
Chambers’ Encyclopedia. He has lec¬ 
tured extensively on the subject of Norse 
literature and mythology. During 1885- 
89 he was United States minister to Den¬ 
mark. As an author of books he has 
won an enviable reputation, his principal 
works being Norse Mythology; America 
Not Discovered by Columbus; Echoes 
from Mist-Land; History of the Litera¬ 
ture of the Scandinavian North; Viking 
Tales of the North; The Younger Edda; 
The Elder Edda: and various other woras. 







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ANDERSON, RICHARD CLOoGH, sol¬ 
dier, was born Jan. 12, 1750, in Hanover, 
Va. As captain in the fifth Virginia con¬ 
tinentals, he led the advance of me Amer¬ 
icans at the battle of Trenton (Dec. 24, 
1776), crossing the Delaware river in the 
first boat, and driving in the Hessian out¬ 
posts several hours before the main at¬ 
tack was delivered. He was at the battles 
of Brandywine and Germantown, and was 
a daring leader wherever dash and reso¬ 
lution were needed. He died Oct. 16, 1826, 
in Louisville, Ky. 

ANDERSON, RICHARD CLOUGH, JR., 
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 
1788, in Louisville, Ky. He practiced with 
success at the Kentucky bar, and, after 
sitting in the legislature, was elected to 
congress in 1817 and again the following 
term. In 1822 he was again returned to 
the legislature, and was chosen speaker. 
He was appointed minister to ColumDia 
in 1823 and in 1826, when, proceeding to 
the Panama congress as envoy extra¬ 
ordinary, he died on the journey. He died 
July 24. 1826. 


ANDERSON, RICHARD H., soldier, 
was born Oct. 7, 1821, in Slatesburg, S. C. 
He was made a brigadier-general in the 
confederate army, promoted to lieutenant- 
general in 1864, and in the Wilderness 
campaign had several important com¬ 
mands. He died June 26, 1879, in Beau¬ 
fort, S. C. 


ANDERSON. ROBERT, soldier, was 
born June 14, 1805, in Louisville, Ky. In 
1825 he graduated from West Point, and 
was assigned to the 
third artillery as 
second lieutenant. In 
the Black Hawk war 
of 1832 he was col¬ 
onel of a company 
of Illinois volun¬ 
teers. He took part 
in the Seminole and 
Mexican wars; and 
in 1857 was appoint¬ 
ed major of the first 
artillery. He was 
commander of Fort 
Sumter when it was forced to surrender. 
He attained the rank of brigadier-gen¬ 
eral, and subsequently was brevetted 
major-general. He was one of the found¬ 
ers of the Soldier's Home in Washington. 
He died Oct. 27, 1871, in Nice, France. 



ANDERSON, ROBERT HOUSTON, sol¬ 
dier, was born Oct. 1, 1835, in Savannah, 
Ga. He entered the confederate army in 
1861 and rose by successive advancements 
to brigadier-general in 1864. 

ANDERSON, ROBERT L., railroad 
president, was born Dec. 11, 1856, in May- 
field, Ky. He is president of the Live 
Oak and Gulf railroad at Ocala, Fla. 


ANDERSON, RUFUS, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 17, 1796, in North 
He graduated from 
Bowdoin in 1818, and 
subsequently gradu¬ 
ated from the An¬ 
dover seminary. He 
devised the Chris¬ 
tian Almanac, which 
is still continued 
under the title of the 
Family Christian Al¬ 
manac, which has a 
circulation of nearly 
half a million copies 
annually. In 1826 he 
was ordained a 
clergyman; and has been a missionary 
in various countries. He w r as the author 
of Memoir of Catharine Brown, which had 
a large circulation both in America and 


Yarmouth, Maine. 



in England. He was secretary of the 
American board of foreign missions in 
1824-74. He was also the author of For¬ 
eign Missions, Their Relations and 
Claims; History of the American Board’s 
Missions in the Sandwich Islands, Tur¬ 
key and India, Peloponnesus and Greek 
Islands. He died May 30, 1880. 

ANDREW, SAMUEL, clergyman, was 
born in 1656, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1707- 
19 he was rector of Yale college. He died 
Jan. 24, 1738. 

ANDERSON, bAMUEL, congressman, 
was born in 1774, in Pennsylvania. He 
served repeatedly in the legislature of 
that state; and was speaker of cue house 
during two sessions. He was elected a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1827 to 1839, and was a mem¬ 
ber of the committee on the boundary line 
of Missouri. He died Jan. 17, 1850, in 
Chester, Pa. 

ANDERSON, SAiuuEL GRAHAM, 
clergyman, evangelist, was born Sept. 17, 
1842, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1876 he 
was ordained a clergyman of the baptist 
church, and has filled pastorates in Can¬ 
ada, New York and Michigan, in which 
latter state he fills a pastorate in Ish- 
peming. He has been instrumental in 
organizing and building a number of 
churches; takes a practicable interest in 
all missionary, education and charitable 
enterprises; and has been very success¬ 
ful as an evangelist. 

ANDERSON, SAMUEL JAMESON, was 
born in December, 1824, in Portland, 
Maine. In 1856 he was elected attorney 
for the county of Cumberland, and in 1856 
was surveyor of the port, and held the 
office four years. In 1869 he was elected 
president of the Portland and Ogdens- 
burg railroad on its organization, and is 
now in that position. In 1878 he was 
nominated by the democratic party for 
congress, but failed of an election. For 
some years he was major-general in the 
state militia. 

ANDERSON, SIMEON H., congressman, 
was born March 2, 1802, in Garrard coun¬ 
ty, Ky. He studied law, and practiced 
with success; and served frequently in the 
Kentucky legislature. He was elected a 
representative in congress from the fiftn 
congressional district of Kentucky, from 
1839 to 1841, and served as a member of 
the committee on postoffices and post 
roads. He died Aug. 11, 1840, near Lan¬ 
caster, Ky. 

ANDERSON, T. J. soldier, was born in 
1839, in Portage county, Ohio. He moved 
to Kansas in 1856; and in 1861 enlisted as 
a private in the fifth Kansas cavalry, 
and was brevetted colonel at the close of 
the war. He has been commander of 
his post at Topeka, and also served as de¬ 
partment commander. 

ANDERSON. THOMAS, soldier, clergy¬ 
man, was born Jan. 1, 1791, in Mercer 
county, Pa. He graduated in 1820 from 
the Washington college of Washington, 
Pa. He served as a private during the 
war of 1812. In 1825 he entered the minis¬ 
try, and was a home missionary in west¬ 
ern Pennsylvania from that time until 
1843. He died Dec. 20, 1853. 

ANDERSON. THOMAS L., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dee. 1, 1808, in Greene 
county, Ky. He was self-educated; re¬ 
moved to Missouri in 1830, where he com¬ 
menced the practice of law at twenty-one 
years of age; and was elected to the legis¬ 
lature of that state in 1840. He was a 
presidential elector in 1844, 1848, 1852, 
and 1856; was a member of the conven¬ 
tion for remodeling the state constitution 


in 1845; and was elected a representative 
to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth con¬ 
gresses. 

ANDERSON, THOMAS MAC ARTHUR, 
lawyer, army officer, author, was born 
Jan. 21, 1836, in Chillicothe, Ohio. He 
was educated at the 
Mount St. Mary's 
college, Mary land; 
and graduated from 
the Cincinnati law 
school; and subse¬ 
quently practiced 
law. During the civil 
war he served as a 
soldier in the sixth 
regiment of the Ohio 
volunteer infantry. 
He has been lieuten¬ 
ant in the fifth U. S. 
cavalry; captain in the twelfth U. S. in¬ 
fantry; and was acting field officer dur¬ 
ing the civil war; major of the twenty- 
first U. S. infantry; major of the tenth 
U. S. infantry; lieutenant-colonel ninth 
U. S. infantry; and since 1886 has been 
colonel of the fourteenth U. S. infantry. 
He has been vice-president of the Sons 
of the American Revolution; past com¬ 
mander of the Loyal Legion; besides 
holding various other positions of honor. 
He is the author of a number of Mono¬ 
graphs of Military, Masonic, and Patriotic 
subjects. In 1898 he accompanied Gen. 
Merritt to Manila as a brigadier-general. 

ANDERSON, WILLIAM, soldier, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1763, in Chester 
county, Pa. He served throughout the 
revolutionary war with credit, taking a 
prominent part in the siege of Yorktown. 
After the war returned to Delaware coun¬ 
ty, Pa.; was a representative in congress 
from that state from 1809 to 1815, and 
from 1817 to 1819; was afterwards a 
judge of Delaware county court, and a 
customhouse officer at Chester, Pa. He 
died Dec. 14, 1829, in Chester, Pa. 

ANDERSON, WILLIAM, clergyman, 
was born April 29, 1864, in England. He 
was a local preacher in the Wesleyan 
methodist church in England; and subse¬ 
quently attended the Drew Theological 
seminary of Madison, N. J. He is now 
one of the foremost clergymen of the 
south in the methodist episcopal church, 
and fills a pastorate in Wheeling, W. Va. 

ANDERSON, WILLIAM B., farmer, 
general, .congressman, was born April 2, 
1830, in Mount Vernon, Ill. He received a 
common school education; was elected 
surveyor of Jefferson county in 1851; stud¬ 
ied law, was admitted to the bar in 1858, 
but never practiced, engaging in agricult¬ 
ural pursuits, and is by occupation a 
farmer. He was elected a member of the 
state house of representatives of Illinois 
in 1856, and again in 1858; entered the 
union army in 1861 as private, was suc¬ 
cessively elected captain, lieutenant-col¬ 
onel, and colonel, and was brevetted brig¬ 
adier-general. He was a presidential 
elector on the Seymour and Blair ticket in 
1868; was elected a member of the consti¬ 
tutional convention of Illinois in 1869; 
was elected to the state senate of Illinois 
Nov. 5, 1871, to fill a vacancy; and was 
elected to the forty-fourth congress as an 
independent reformer. 

ANDERSON, WILLIAM C., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1826, in 
Lancaster, Ky. He was educated at the 
college of Danville; and adopted the pro¬ 
fession of the law. He served in the Ken¬ 
tucky legislature in 1851 and 1853; was a 
presidential elector in 1856; and in 1859 
was elected a representative from Ken¬ 
tucky to the thirty-sixth congress. He 
died Dec. 23, 1861, in Frankfort, Ky. 



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ANDERSON, WILLIAM COLMAN, was 
born July 11, 1853, near Greeneville, Tenn. 
He was raised on a farm; graduated from 
Tusculum college in 1876; read law at 
Newport, Tenn., and was admitted to the 
bar in 1878. He was elected to the state 
legislature from Cocke and Sevier coun¬ 
ties in 1880 as a republican; was chair¬ 
man of the republican congressional com¬ 
mittee for the first district for six years; 
was appointed a principal examiner of 
contested land claims in the general land 
office in 1889, and afterwards promoted 
for merit, first to chief of the contest di¬ 
vision, and then to chief clerk of the gen¬ 
eral land office. He was assistant secre¬ 
tary of the republican national committee, 
with headquarters in New York, during 
the campaign of 1892, and took an active 
part in that campaign. He returned to 
Newport in the spring of 1893 to resume 
his law practice, and was nominated in 
1894 and elected to the fifty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

ANDERSON, WILLIAM J., lawyer, pub¬ 
lic official, was born May 20, 1854, in On¬ 
tario, Canada. He received his education 
in the public schools of the United States; 
has occupied the positions of receiver of 
public moneys; county auditor, and mayor 
of Grand Forks, N. D. He takes an active 
part in public affairs; and was appointed 
a judge at the World's Columbian expo¬ 
sition. 

ANDERSON, WILLIAM PELBY, actor, 
manager, was born March 16, 1793, in 
Boston, Mass. He managed the Tremont; 
built the Warren theater; and appeared 
in London as Hamlet and Brutus. 

ANDREASEN, MATTHIAS N., clergy¬ 
man, orator, temperance advocate, was 
born May 2, 1871, in Denmark. In 1890 he 
entered the Danish Free Church semin¬ 
ary of Chicago; and subsequently gradu¬ 
ated from the Chicago Theological sem¬ 
inary. In 1893 he was ordained a clergy¬ 
man of the presbyterian church, and 
filled a pastorate in St. Paul, Minn., until 
May, 1897. He then joined the Danish 
united evangelical Lutheran church in 
America, and now fills pastorates in two 
large Lutheran churches in Sioux City, 
Iowa. He was the editor of the Free 
Church Messenger, a religious weekly pub¬ 
lished by the synod of Minnesota; is an 
ardent temperance advocate; and has 
lectured extensively in that cause. 

ANDREW, JAMES OSGOOD, bishop, 
was born May 3, 1794. near Washington, 
Ga. He entered the South Carolina con¬ 
ference in 1812, was 
ordained deacon in 
1814, received full 
ordination in 1816, 
preached on circuits 
in Georgia and 
North Carolina, was 
stationed at Savan¬ 
nah, Ch a r 1 e s t o n, 
Greensborough, and 
Athens, was presid¬ 
ing elder for several 
years, and in 1832 
was chosen bishop 
by the general conference that met at 
Philadelphia. In 1846 the methodist epis¬ 
copal church, south, was organized as an 
independent body, in a general conference 
held at Petersburg, Va. Bishop Andrew 
presided as senior bishop over this organ¬ 
ization until his death. He published a 
volume of Miscellanies and a work on 
Family Government. He died March 1, 
1871, in Mobile, Ala. 

ANDREW, JOHN ALBION, lawyer, 
governor, was born on May 31, 1818, in 
Windham, Maine. In 1837 he graduated 


from Bowdoin college; and in 1859 was 
elected a member of the Massachusetts 
state legislature. In 1860 he was elected 
governor of the state of Massachusetts, 
and acquired the title of The Great War 
Governor. He was a member of the His¬ 
torical societies of Maine and Massachu¬ 
setts; declined various honorable and 
lucrative offices, and resumed the prac¬ 
tice of law. He died Oct. 30, 1867. A 
statue of marble in memoriam has been 
placed in the state house of Massachusetts 
in his honor. 

ANDREW, JOHN FORRESTER, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1850, 
in Hingham, Mass. He practiced law in 
Boston; served three terms as member of 
the state house of representatives and 
two terms in the state senate; and was 
democratic candidate for governor in 1886 
and was defeated. He was elected to the 
fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a democrat. He 
died May 30, 1895, in Boston, Mass. 

ANDREWS, A. M., journalist, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Nov. 3, 1850, in Coopers- 
town, N. Y. He has been editor of several 
publications, and held various political 
offices in his county and state; and has 
also served as a member of the South 
Dakota state senate. 

ANDREWS, ALEXANDER BOYD, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Feb. 2, 1873, in 
Henderson, N. C. He has attained suc¬ 
cess in the profession of law at Raleigh, 
N. C.; and is one of the compilers of the 
North Carolina Court Calendar for 1895- 
97. 

ANDREWS, ANNIE M., nurse, was born 
in 1835 in New York. During the preva¬ 
lence of yellow fever at Norfolk, Va., in 
1855, she became widely known for her 
earnest and devoted labors among those 
stricken hy the epidemic. The Howard 
association subsequently presented her 
with a gold medal in acknowledgment of 
these services. 

ANDREWS, BYRON, journalist, author, 
was born Oct. 25, 1852, in Argyle, Wis. 
He received his education at the Evans¬ 
ville seminary and Hobart college, of 
Geneva, N. Y. He went direct from col¬ 
lege to newspaper work; served as a re¬ 
porter on the Chicago Daily News; then 
on the Chicago Inter Ocean. In 1880 he 
accompanied Gen. Grant on a tour through 
the West Indies and Mexico as his secre¬ 
tary and as correspondent of the Chicago 
Inter Ocean and New York Tribune. Then 
for four years he was the Washington 
correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean 
and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In 1884 
he became connected with the National 
Tribune of Washington, D. C., and in 
1897 became its owner. He is the author 
of Notes on the Russo-Turkish War; 
Biography of John A. Logan; and One 
of the People, a biography of President 
McKinley; besides various historical and 
controversial pamphlets, such as The 
Story of Cuba; President Monroe and 
His Doctrine; and others. He has also 
filled many public positions of trust. 

ANDREWS, CHARLES, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1814 in Paris, 
Maine. He studied law, and was admitted 
to the bar in 1837. He was a member of 
the state legislature from 1839 to 1843, 
and a portion of the time speaker of the 
house. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maine from 1851 to the time of 
his death. He died April 30, 1852, in Paris 
Hill, Maine. 

ANDREWS, CHARLES BARTLETT, 
lawyer, state senator, jurist, governor, 
was born Nov. 4, 1831, in Sunderland, 
Mass. He received a classical education, 


graduating at Amherst college in 1858; 
studied law, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1860; and settled at Litchfield, Conn. 
He was a state senator in 1868 and 1869; 
was a representative in the state legisla¬ 
ture in 1878; was governor of Connecti¬ 
cut from 1878 to 1880; and in 1882 was ap¬ 
pointed a judge of the superior court of 
Connecticut. 

ANDREWS, CHARLES McLEAN, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1863, in Weth¬ 
ersfield, Conn. He graduated from Trin¬ 
ity college in 1884, and from the Johns 
Hopkins university in 1887; and since 
that time has been associate professor of 
history in Bryn Mawr college. He is the 
author of River Towns of Connecticut; 
Old English Manors; Historical Develop¬ 
ment of Modern Europe from the Con¬ 
gress of Vienna to the Present Time; and 
has also contributed sundry short articles 
to scientific journals. 

ANDREWS, CHRISTOPHER COLUM¬ 
BUS, lawyer, general, author, was born 
Oct. 27, 1829, in Hillsborough, N. H. He 
was a brevet major-general in the United 
States army, who was minister to Sweden 
1869-77, and consul-general to Brazil 1882- 
85. He is the author of Minnesota and 
Dakota; Practical Treatise on the Rev¬ 
enue Laws of the United States; Hints, 
to Company Officers on Their MilitarY 
Duties; History of the Campaign of Mo¬ 
bile; Digests of the Opinions of the At- 
torneys-General of the United States; and 
Brazil, Its Condition and Prospects. 

ANDREWS, CONSTANT A., banker, 
was born Feb. 25, 1844, in New York city. 
He is president of The United States 
Savings bank and The Elkhorn Valley 
Coal Land Co.; a director of the Second 
Avenue Street railroad, and largely in¬ 
fluential in other directions, where his 
interest and counsel are demanded. 

ANDREWS, EDMUND, surgeon, was 
born April 22, 1824, in Putney, Vt. He 
has filled the place of demonstrator of 
anatomy at the Rush Medical college of 
Chicago, and subsequently the chairs of 
the principles and practice of surgery and 
of clinical and military surgery in the 
Chicago Medical college, of which institu¬ 
tion he is one of the founders. In 1859 
he became surgeon to the Mercy hospital, 
and during the civil war he served in a 
similar capacity with the first Illinois 
light artillery. He is president of the 
Illinois state medical society and of the 
Chicago academy of sciences. Dr. An¬ 
drews was one of the founders of the 
Michigan state medical society, and is a 
trustee of Northwestern university. He is 
the author of a great number of articles 
in different branches of surgery which 
have been published in medical jour¬ 
nals and proceedings of the socie¬ 
ties to which he belongs. Numerous im¬ 
provements in surgical apparatus and op¬ 
erations have been made by him; among 
them is the practical demonstration of the 
value of free incision, digital exploration, 
and disinfection of lumbar abscesses, a 
treatment previously forbidden. 

ANDREWS, EDWARD GAYER, meth¬ 
odist episcopal bishop, was born Aug. 7, 
1825, in New Hartford, N. Y. He was 
graduated in 1847 from the Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity at Middletown, Conn., and, enter¬ 
ing the methodist ministry the following 
year, became in 1855 a teacher in Caze- 
novia, N. Y., seminary, of which he was 
chosen president in 1855. In 1850 he was 
ordained an elder, and in 1864 became a 
preacher in the New York east conference. 
Dr. Andrews was elected a bishop in 1872. 
He has published semi-centennial ad¬ 
dresses delivered in 1875 and 1881, and 
other works. 




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ANDREWS, ELISHA, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 29, 1768, in Middle- 
town, Conn. He preached in various 
places in New Hampshire and Massachu¬ 
setts, and published, besides sermons and 
tracts, The Moral Tendencies of Univer- 
salism; Review of Winchester’s Dia¬ 
logues on Universal Restoration; and a 
Vindication of the Distinguishing Senti¬ 
ments of the Baptists, and other works. 
He died Feb. 3, 1840. 

ANDREWS, ELISHA BENJAMIN, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was born 
in 1844 in New Hampshire. He is a prom¬ 
inent educator and president of Brown 
university; and the author of Institutes 
of General History; Institutes of Econom¬ 
ics; Brief Institutes of Our Economical 
History; An Honest Dollar; Eternal 
Words and Other Sermons; History of 
the United States; Wealth and Moral 
Law; and History of the Last Quarter 
Century in the United States. 

ANDREWS, ELIZA FRANCIS, educa¬ 
tor, botanist, author, was born Aug. 10, 
1847, in Washington, Ga. Her father was 
Judge Garnett Andrews, an eminent jur¬ 
ist, and the author of Reminiscences of 
an Old Georgia Lawyer. She is the au¬ 
thor of A Mere Adventurer; Prince Hal; 
A Family Secret; How He Was Tempted; 
and In the Pine Lands of Georgia; be¬ 
sides numerous popular character 
sketches, and several meritorious poems, 
the most notable of which is entitled 
Haunted. She has lectured on various 
subjects; is a fine linguist, and probably 
the most accomplished field botanist in 
the south. 

ANDREWS, ETHAN ALLEN, educator, 
author, was born April 7, 1787, in New 
Britain, Conn. He was an educator who 
was at one time professor of ancient 
languages in the university of North Caro¬ 
lina. Besides a Latin-English Dictionary, 
he published a valuable series of classical 
text-books. He died March 4, 1858, in 
New Britain, Conn. 

ANDREWS, FRANCIS FOOTE, legis¬ 
lator, was born March 12, 1828, in East 
Haven, Conn. He has filled numerous 
public offices of trust, and in 1897-98 was 
a member of the Connecticut state legis¬ 
lature. 

ANDREWS, FRANK DE WITTE, anti¬ 
quarian, was born Aug. 1, 1847, in South¬ 
ington, Conn. He settled in Vineland, 
N. J., and became interested in antiqua¬ 
rian pursuits. He has an extensive col¬ 
lection of autograph letters and docu¬ 
ments, and a library of Americana. _ He 
is the secretary and librarian of the Vine- 
land Historical and Antiquarian society, 
and has written extensively on historical 
subjects and numismatics. 

ANDREWS, GARNETT, lawyer, author, 
was born May 15, 1837, in Washington, Ga. 
He removed to Chattanooga, Tenn., in 
1882, where he has since remained, prac¬ 
ticing his profession; and was elected 
mayor of Chattanooga in 1891. He is the 
author of Andrews’ Digest of the Laws of 
Mississippi. 

ANDREWS, GEORGE ARTHUR, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born 
May 22, 1870, in Springfield, Mass. He at¬ 
tended Colby university and the Andover 
Theological school, and became instructor 
in mathematics in the English high 
school of Worcester, Mass. He has pre¬ 
pared a book on Composite Geometrical 
Figures. 

ANDREWS, GEORGE LEONARD, sol¬ 
dier, educator, was born Aug. 31, 1828, in 
Bridgewater, Mass. In 1851 he graduated 
from the United States Military academy; 
served with distinction through the civil 
war; and attained the rank of brigadier- 


general and brevet major-general of the 
United States volunteers. For several 
years he was United States marshal for 
the district of Massachusetts; and was 
professor of modern languages in the 
United States Military academy. 

ANDREWS, GEORGE R., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from the fourteenth 
congressional district in that state, from 
1849 to 1851. 

ANDREWS, HENRY FRANKLIN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state senator, genealogist, 
was born June 27, 1844, in Lovell, Maine. 
He served three years in the sixteenth in¬ 
fantry volunteers; was recorder of Audu¬ 
bon county, Iowa, in 1867-68; county 
judge in 1868; and state senator in 1892- 
95. He has practiced law since 1869; and 
is the author of The Andrews Family; 
The Hamilton Family; and other works. 

ANDREWS, HENRY T., artist, state 
legislator, was born June 28, 1866, in 
Tarrytown, N. Y. He is a successful 
artist of New York city. In 1895 he was 
elected a member of the New York state 
assembly, and received the re-election in 
1896, and again in 1897. 

ANDREWS, ISRAEL WARD, college 
president, author, was born in 1815 in 
Connecticut. He was president of Mari¬ 
etta college. His only published work of 
importance is a Manual of the Constitu¬ 
tion of the United States. He died in 
1888. 

ANDREWS, JAMES R., lawyer, editor, 
was born Oct. 23, 1854, in East Windsor, 
Conn. In 1877 he received the degree of 
A. B. from Yale college; and two years 
later received the degree of LL. B. from 
the Yale law school. He has attained suc¬ 
cess in the profession of law at Hart¬ 
ford, Conn.; has been special prosecuting 
attorney; reporter of judicial decisions; 
and is the editor of the Connecticut Index 
Digest. 

ANDREWS, JANE, author, was born in 
1833 in Massachusetts. She was a writer 
of Newburyport, Mass., whose books for 
children have long been deservedly popu¬ 
lar. She was the author of Seven Little 
Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball that 
Floats in the Air; The Seven Little Sis¬ 
ters Prove Their Sisterhood; The Stories 
Mother Nature Told; Ten Boys Who 
Lived on the Road from Long Ago to 
Now; and Only a Year and What It 
Brought. She died in 1887. 

ANDREWS, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born April 4, 1746, in Cecil county, 
Md. He taught a school in Yorktown; be¬ 
came principal of the Philadelphia Epis¬ 
copal academy in 1785, and then professor 
of moral philosophy in the university of 
Pennsylvania, of which institution he was 
vice-provost until December, 1810, and 
after that provost until his death. He was 
the author of Elements of Logic. He died 
March 29, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ANDREWS, JOHN T., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was elected 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1837 to 1839. 

ANDREWS, JOSEPH, engraver, was 
born Aug. 17, 1806, in Hingham, Mass. 
His best known engravings made in 
America are from Stuart’s head of Wash¬ 
ington and Rothermel’s Plymouth Rock 
in 1620. He engraved portraits from 
paintings by Trumbull, G. P. A. Healy, 
and others, of Oliver Wolcott, John Q. 
Adams, Zachary Taylor, Jared Sparks, 
Amos Lawrence, and James Graham, and 
several ideal scenes after representative 
American painters. He died March 9, 
1873, in Hingham. Mass. 


ANDREWS, JUDITH WALKER, phil¬ 
anthropist, was born April 26, 1826, in 
Fryeburgh, Maine. Since 1863 she has 
resided in Boston, Mass.; was left a wid¬ 
ow in 1869; and since 1876 has been 
president of me South Friendly society. 
In 1886 she became president of the Wom¬ 
an’s Auxiliary conference; and in 1889 
became president of the National Alliance 
of Unitarian and Other Liberal Christian 
Women; and has always taken as active 
part in various charitable organizations. 

ANDREWS, LANDAFF W., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1803, in 
Fleming county, Ky. He graduated at 
Transylvania university in 1824; and 
commenced the practice of law in 1826. 
He was a member of the Kentucky legis¬ 
lature in 1834, and subsequently of the 
senate. In 1838 was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress, serving from 1839 to 
1843. 

ANDREWS, LOREN, educator, college 
president, was born April 1, 1819, in Ash¬ 
land county, Ohio. He filled various im¬ 
portant educational places until 1854, 
when he was elected president of Kenyon 
college. On the outbreak of the civil war, 
in 1861, President Andrews raised a com¬ 
pany in Knox county, of which he was 
made captain. He died Sept. 18, 1861, in 
Gambier, Ohio. 

ANDREWS, LORRIN, was born April 
29, 1795, in East Windsor, Conn. He was 
educated at Jefferson college, Pa., and 
Princeton Theological seminary; sailed 
for the Hawaiian islands in November, 
1827, and preached at Lahaina. In 1831 
he established Lahainaluna seminary, 
which subsequently became the Hawaiian 
university, in which he was a professor 
for ten years. He translated a part of the 
Bible into Hawaii. In 1845 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge under the Hawaiian govern¬ 
ment, and was also secretary of the privy 
council. These offices he held for ten 
years. He prepared a Hawaiian diction¬ 
ary and several works on the literature 
and antiquities of the Hawaiians. He died 
Sept. 29, 1868, in Honolulu, Sandwich 
Islands. 

ANDREWS, MARIE LOUISE, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Oct. 31, 1849, in Bed¬ 
ford, Ind. She was the originator of the 
Western Association of Writers, and for 
many years was its secretary. She has 
contributed extensively both prose and 
verse to the leading newspapers and 
magazines; and is an effective public 
speaker. 

ANDREWS, MARY GARARD, univer- 
salist minister, was born March 3, 1852, in 
Clarksburgh, Va. After five years of ser¬ 
vice in the free baptist church, she asso¬ 
ciated herself with the universalist 
church, and has been eminently success¬ 
ful in her pastorates in that denomina¬ 
tion. She is well known as a temperance 
and Grand Army worker; and for two 
years was national chaplain of the Wom¬ 
en’s Relief Corps. In 1888 she was mar¬ 
ried to Mr. I. R. Andrews, a noted lawyer 
of Omaha, Neb. 

ANDREWS, MAUDE ANNULET, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Dec. 29, 1865. Mrs. 
J. K. Ohl is one of the most noted writers 
of the south, and a successful journalist 
and poet. 

ANDREWS, NEWTON LLOYD, college 
president, was born Aug. 14, 1841, in Fa- 
bius, N. Y. In 1865 he became adjunct 
professor of Latin in Colgate university, 
and in 1868 was elected professor of Greek 
language and literature, which position he 
still holds. On the death of President 
Dodge the charge of the college was com¬ 
mitted to Prof. Andrews as acting presi 
dent. 


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ANDREWS. ROBERT LEE, clergyman, 
journalist, was born March 1, 1867, in 
Yellow Hill, N. C. He is one of the most 
eminent clergymen of the missionary bap¬ 
tist church, and an impressive lecturer. 
He has been secretary of the Farmers’ Al¬ 
liance, and filled various other public po¬ 
sitions of trust; and is also the editor and 
proprietor of The Times of Jefferson, N. C. 

ANDREWS, SAMUEL G., merchant, 
congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1799, in 
Derby, Conn. He received an academic 
education; removed, with his father, to 
Rochester, N. Y., in 1816; was occupied 
chiefly in mercantile and manufacturing 
pursuits; and was for several years mayor 
of Rochester. He was a member of the 
New York legislature in 1831 and 1832 
from Monroe county, N. Y.; was post¬ 
master of Rochester; and was elected a 
representative from New York to the 
thirty-fifth congress. He died in 1863 in 
Rochester, N. Y. 

ANDREWS, SAMUEL JAMES, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 21, 1817, in 
Danbury, Conn. He is the brother of I. 
W. Andrews, and an Irvingite clergyman 
of Hartford, Conn. He is the author of 
The Life of Our Lord upon Earth; and 
God’s Revelations of Himself to Men. 

ANDREWS, SHERLOCK J., lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1801 in Wal¬ 
lingford, Conn. He graduated at Union 
college; settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 
1825, and practiced law. He was judge of 
the superior court of that state; and was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1841 to 1843. He died Feb. 11, 
1880, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

ANDREWS, SIDNEY, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1837. He was a Boston 
journalist; and the author of The Art of 
Flying; and The South Since the War. 
He died in 1880. 

ANDREWS, STEPHEN PEARL, au¬ 
thor, was born March 22, 1812, in Temple¬ 
ton, Mass. He was an eccentric writer of 
New York city, the originator of phono¬ 
graphic reporting and at one period prom¬ 
inent as an abolitionist. Among his many 
and varied works are Basic Outline of 
Universalogy, in which he advocated the 
adoption of a universal language called 
Alwato; Discourses in Chinese; Compari¬ 
son of Common Law with Roman, French, 
or Spanish Laws on Entails and Other 
Limited Property; and Love, Marriage 
and Divorce. He died May 21, 1886, in 
New York city. 

ANDREWS, SUMNER A., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, educator, was born Dec. 29, 1844, 
in Johnson, Yt. For many years he was 
a successful merchant of Johnson; was a 
representative in the Vermont state legis¬ 
lature in 1884; has served as assistant 
judge of his county; and in 1889 was ap¬ 
pointed superintendent of the Vermont 
Industrial school of Vergennes. 

ANDREWS, TIMOTHY PATRICK, sol¬ 
dier, public official, was born in 1794, in 
Ireland. He fought in the battle of El 
Molino, and was brevetted a brigadier- 
general for gallantry at Chapultepec, 
Mexico. After the close of the war he 
was reinstated as paymaster, and subse¬ 
quently became paymaster of the army. 
He died March 11, 1868, in Washington, 
D. C. 

ANDREWS, W. H., merchant, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Jan. 14, 1842, in Youngs- 
ville. Pa. He was a member of the Penn¬ 
sylvania house of representatives; and 
was elected to the state senate in 1894. 

ANDREWS, WALLACE C., president of 
the New York Steam company. He was 
one of the promoters of the original 
Standard Oil Co.; was a director of the 
company for a long period of years and 


up to the formation of the trust, and is yet 
a large stockholder in the company. One 
of the most important of his enterprises 
is The New York Steam company, a con¬ 
cern which supplies steam for heat and 
power by underground pipes in various 
sections of New York city, and has in¬ 
itiated a new era in the management of 
office buildings, by enabling their pro¬ 
prietors to dispense with the annoyances 
attending the production of steam in their 
own premises. He is president of the 
company, and has managed its affairs 
with signal ability and success. He was 
lately president of The Standard Gas 
Light Co. of New York and is its largest 
stockholder. 

ANDREWS, WILLIAM DRAPER, in¬ 
ventor, was born May 23, 1818, in Grafton, 
Mass. He has received twenty-five 
United States and nine foreign patents on 
pumps, oscillating steam engines, boilers, 
friction and differential power gearing, 
siphon gang wells and attachments, bal¬ 
anced valves, safety elevators, and other 
similar inventions. 

ANDREWS, WILLIAM E„ educator, 
congressman, was born near Oskaloosa, 
Iowa. He entered Simpson college, Indi- 
anola, Iowa, in 1874; was elected superin¬ 
tendent of the schools of Ringgold coun¬ 
ty, Iowa, in 1879; graduated from Par¬ 
sons college, Fairfield, Iowa, in 1885; was 
a member of the faculty of Hastings 
(Neb.) college, 1885-93; elected vice-presi¬ 
dent of the college in 1889, and president 
of the Nebraska State Teachers’ associa¬ 
tion in 1890. He was a member of the 
Nebraska republican state central com¬ 
mittee, 1891-»3; was private secretary to 
the Hon. Lorenzo Crounse, governor of 
Nebraska, 1893-94; and was elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a republican. 

ANDREWS, WILLIS W., journalist, was 
born Jan. 10, 1868, in Portland, Mich. 
After receiving his education he became a 
practical printer, and is now the presi¬ 
dent of the Muskegon Publishing com¬ 
pany. He is president of the Typo¬ 
graphical union, and has filled various 
other positions of honor. 

ANDRIDGE ANDREW ADELBERT, 
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born July 
20, 1863, in Hillsdale, Mich. He graduated 
in 1885 from the Chicago Theological sem¬ 
inary, and was ordained the same year. 
He has filled pastorates in Hawarden, 
Iowa; Prairie du Chien, Wis.; Sturgeon 
Bay, Wis.; and Columbia congregational 
church, Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the au¬ 
thor of Wisconsin Church History, and 
has contributed extensively to religious 
periodicals. 

ANDROS, EDMUND, colonial governor, 
was born Dec. 6, 1637, in Island of Guern¬ 
sey. He was a governor of Connecticut, 
and in 1688 was made governor of all the 
English possessions on the mainland of 
America, and in 1692 royal governor of 
Virginia. He died Feb. 24, 1714. 

ANDROS, R. S. S., public official, au¬ 
thor, was born in Berkeley, Mass. He 
edited several newspapers, was deputy 
collector in Boston for some years, and 
subsequently, as special agent of the 
treasury department, was engaged in re¬ 
organizing custom houses in the south. 
He was the author of the Customs Guide, 
a codification of the revenue laws; con¬ 
tributed poems to the Democratic Re¬ 
view, and published Chocoruna and Other 
Sketches. He died in August, 1868, in 
Berkeley, Mass. 

ANDROS, THOMAS, soldier, clergyman, 
was born May 1, 1759, in Norwich, Conn. 
He joined the revolutionary army at the 
age of sixteen, and was in the battles of 
Long Island and White Plains. In 1781 


he enlisted on a privateer in New London, 
but was captured and confined in the 
Jersey prison-ship in New York. A few 
months later he escaped, and on the resto¬ 
ration of his health studied theology with 
Dr. Benedict in Plainfield, Conn. He was 
ordained at Berkeley in 1788, and for 
forty-six years remained in the ministry. 
He died Dec. 30, 1845, in Berkeley, Mass. 

ANDRUS, REUBEN, college president, 
clergyman, was born Jan. 29, 1829, in 
Watertown, N. J. He was principal of the 
Central academy of Springfield, Ill.; and 
president of a women’s college in Jack¬ 
sonville. After the war he reorganized 
Quincy (now Chaddock) college, Illinois; 
in 1867 went to Indiana, and was elected 
president of Asbury university in 1872. 
He died Jan. 17, 1887, in Indianapolis, Ind. 

ANDRUS, WESLEY P„ soldier, educa¬ 
tor, state senator, was born Feb. 19, 1834, 
in Potter, N. Y. In 1861 he entered the 
forty-second Illinois volunteer infantry, 
and was soon commissioned first lieuten¬ 
ant; was promoted to a captaincy for 
meritorious service at Stone River. He 
has been four years a member of the com¬ 
mon council of Cedar Springs, Mich., and 
has been its mayor. In 1877 he served 
with distinction as a member of the Mich¬ 
igan state senate. 

ANDRUS, WILLIAM W., merchant, 
state senator, was born July 24, 1821, in 
Wyoming county, N. Y. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the constitutional convention of 
1867; was assessor of internal revenue 
under Grant; and in 1881-82 served as a 
member of the Michigan state senate. 

ANGEL, WILLIAM G., congressman, 
was born in New Shoreham, R. I. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Burlington, N. Y., from 1825 to 1827, and 
again from 1829 to 1833. 

ANGELL, GEORGE T., philanthropist, 
author, was born June 5, 1823, in South- 
bridge, Mass. He is the president of the 
American Humane Education society; the 
Massachusetts Society for the Preven¬ 
tion of Cruelty to Animals; and the 
Pre-Parent American Band of Mercy. He 
graduated from Dartmouth college in 
1846 and from the Harvard university 
Law school in 1851. He founded the 
Massachusetts society in 1868, and estab¬ 
lished a magazine entitled Our Dumb 
Animals. Since that time he has given 
his time and energy to the protection of 
dumb animals, establishing twenty thou¬ 
sand branches of The American Band of 
Mercy, and The American Humane Educa¬ 
tion society, in behalf of which he has 
employed missionaries to found humane 
societies in the south and west, and has 
caused the circulation of some two mil¬ 
lion copies of the book Black Beauty, and 
also of hundreds of thousands of copies of 
other humane prize stories and publica¬ 
tions. 

ANGELL, HENRY CLAY, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 27, 1829, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He is a professor of ophthal¬ 
mology in Boston university; and the au¬ 
thor of Diseases of the Eye; How to Take 
Care of Our Eyes; and Records of W. M. 
Hunt. 

ANGELL, JAMES BURRILL, educator, 
college president, diplomatist, was born 
Jan. 7, 1829, in Scituate, R. I. He gradu¬ 
ated from the Brown university in 1849; 
and during 1855-60 filled the chair of 
modern languages in that institution. In 
1866 he became president of the university 
of Vermont; and since 1871 has been 
president of the university of Michigan. 
He has served as United States minister to 
China; and in 1897 was appointed United 
States minister to Turkey. He is the au¬ 
thor of Manual of French Literature; and 
Progress in International Law. 


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ANGELL, JOSEPH KINNICUT, author, 
was born April 30, 1794, in Providence, 
R. I. He was a legal writer of Rhode 
Island, among whose works are Treatise 
on the Common Law of Watercourses; 
The Law of Tide Waters; and The Lim¬ 
itation of Actions. He died May 1, 1857, 
in Boston, Mass. 

ANGELL, WILLIAM GORHAM, invent¬ 
or, was born Nov. 21, 1811, in Providence, 
R. I. In 1838 he became manager of the 
Eagle Screw com¬ 
pany, which subse¬ 
quently was merged 
into the American 
Screw company. His 
inventive mind was 
fertile in expedients 
for the improvement 
of ^machinery; and 
he was also a suc¬ 
cessful architect and 
builder, and a good 
draughtsman. H e 
was the inventor of 
the famous screw-making machine, which 
has revolutionized that business. He 
was a liberal supporter of public chari¬ 
ties. He died May 30, 1870, in Providence, 
R. I. His son, Edwin Gorham Angell, 
now conducts the business, 

ANGWIN, MATTIE W.. poet, was born 
Aug. 31, 1850, in Darke county, Ohio. She 
is a writer of Mount Vernon, Mo.; and 
her poems have appeared in the Toledo 
Blade and other prominent publications. 

ANSBACHER, ADOLPH BENEDICT, 
manufacturer, was born Oct. 4, 1832, in 
Germany. In 1852 he emigrated to New 
York and established a mercantile house, 
which was one of the foremost in that 
line of business. 



ANSORGE, CHARLES, musician, was 
born in 1807 in Germany. He taught 
music in an asylum at South Boston; and 
in 1863 became conductor of several mu¬ 
sical colleges in Chicago, Ill. He wrote 
musical and political articles for several 
newspapers and periodicals. He died Oct. 
28, 1866, in Chicago, Ill. 


ANSPACH, FREDERICK RINEHART, 
clergyman, author, was born in January, 
1815, in Central, Pa. He was a lutheran 
clergyman of Hagerstown, Md.; and is the 
author of Sons of the Sires; Sepulchres 
of Our Departed; and The Two Pilgrims. 
He died Sept. 16, 1867, in Baltimore, Md. 

ANTHON, CHARLES, educator, author, 
was born Nov. 19, 1797, in New York city. 
He was a noted classical scholar, for 
many years professor of ancient lan¬ 
guages at Columbia college. He was the 
author of some fifty classical text-books, 
including a Classical Dictionary. He died 
July 29, 1867, in New York city. 

ANTHON, JOHN, jurist, author, was 
born May 14, 1784, in Detroit, Mich. He 
was a jurist of New York city, and the 
author of Essay on the Study of Law; 
and Analysis of Blackstone. He died 
March 5, 1863, in New York city. 

ANTHONY, ANDREW VARICK 
STOUT, artist, was born in 1835 in New 
York city. Among his best-known works 
are the illustrations for Whittier's Snow 
Bound; Ballads of New England; and 
Mabel Martin; Longfellow’s Skeleton :n 
Armor; and Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter. 

ANTHONY, AUGUSTA, lecturer, au¬ 
thor, was born May 25, 1844, in Rockland, 
Mass. As a lecturer she has gained emi¬ 
nent success in California. Mrs. An¬ 
thony is the author of several prose works 
and numerous poems of merit, and man? 
of her poems have been set to music. 

ANTHONY, CHARLES EDWARD, nu¬ 
mismatist, was born Dec. 6, 1822, in New 
York city. He was a son of John An 


thon; was graduated at Columbia col¬ 
lege in 1839, and from 1853 until 1883 he 
held the chair of history and belles- 
lettres in the college of the city of New 
York. He was an enthusiastic collector 
of coins, and owned one of the most val¬ 
uable collections ever gathered in the 
United States. For some time he was 
president of the American numismatic 
society. He died June 7, 1883, in New 
York city. 


ANTHONY, CYRUS A., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 29, 1839, in Hack- 
ettstown, N. J. He served four years in 
the fifty-first Illinois infantry, rising from 
private to captain. He moved to Missouri 
in 1870; prosecuting attorney of Nodaway 
county 1875-76; elected to the thirty-first 
general assembly; twice appointed on 
committees to settle with the state treas¬ 
ury; elected to the thirty-third general 
assembly; elected judge of the twenty- 
ninth circuit in 1886; and re-elected in 
1892. 

ANTHONY, DANIEL READ, pioneer 
journalist, was born Aug. 22, 1824, in 
South Adams, Mass. He visited the state 
of Kansas in 1854, and while there helped 
to found the city of Lawrence. He lo¬ 
cated in Kansas at Leavenworth, and in 
1863 was elected mayor of that city. He 
is the owner of the Leavenworth Times, 
now one of the most extensive newspaper 
establishments in the west. 


ANTHONY, GEORGE CHRISTIAN, 
lawyer, educator, was born March 19, 
1820, in Red Hook, N. Y. He was the 
eldest son of the Rev. Henry Anthon; 
was graduated at Columbia college in 
1839; studied law, and was admitted to 
practice at the New York bar. He re¬ 
moved to New Orleans and there began 
teaching, but returned to New York and 
was appointed professor of Greek in the 
university of the city of New York. He 
established the Anthon grammar school 
in 1854, and was its principal until his 
death. He died Aug. 11, 1877, in Yonkers, 
N. Y. 

ANTHONY, GEORGE T„ statesman. 
He was governor of Kansas from 1877 to 
1879. 


ANTHONY, HENRY B., United States 
senator, was born April 1, 1815, in Cov¬ 
entry, Boston. He graduated at Brown 
university in 1833; 
in 1838 he assumed 
the editorial charge 
of the Providence 
Journal, which he 
retained until called 
to a seat in the 
United States senate. 
He was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Rhode Is¬ 
land in 1849; re¬ 
elected in 1850; and 
declined a further 
re-election; and was 
elected a senator in congress in 1859, and 
served until his death; was re-elected to 
the senate for the term ending in 1871. 
He was a member of the national com¬ 
mittee appointed to accompany the re¬ 
mains of President Lincoln to Illinois; 
was one of the senators designated by the 
senate to attend the funeral of General 
Scott in 1866; was also a delegate to the 
Philadelphia loyalists’ convention of 1866. 
He died Sent. 2. 1884, in Providence, R. I. 



ANTHONY, JOHN GOULD, naturalist, 
author, was born May 17, 1804, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He accompanied Agassiz on 
the Thayer expedition to Brazil in 1865. 
He was recognized as an authority on the 
American land and fresh water mollusca. 
He died Oct. 16, 1877, in Cambridge, Mass. 

ANTHONY, JOSEPH B., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was elect¬ 


ed a representative in congress from that 
state from 1833 to 1838. He died Jan. 17, 
1851, in Williamsport, Pa. 

ANTHONY, PHILIP FREDERICK, pa¬ 
triot, statesman, was born July 2, 1730. 
He held several public offices; was a 
member of the provincial council and of 
the general and state assemblies; judge 
of the court of common pleas; and a colo¬ 
nel of state militia. He was so conspicu¬ 
ous and ardent a patriot during the revo¬ 
lution that the British offered a reward 
for his head. In 1776, in company with a 
Mr. Potts, at Warwick furnace, he suc¬ 
cessfully cast an eighteen-pounder, the 
first cannon ever made in America. He 
diea Sept. 20, 1801, in Lancaster, Pa. 

ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL,, 
woman suffragist, was born Feb. 15, 1820, 
in South Adams, Mass. Her father was. 
a Quaker, and was proprietor of a small 
cotton mill, in which his daughter worked 
from an early age. Subsequently she at¬ 
tended school in Philadelphia, and taught 
school in the state of New York. She 
has participated in temperance and re¬ 
formatory movements. She is chiefly - 
known as an ardent supporter of the 
political enfranchisement of women. At 
one time she edited a paper in New York 
called The Revolution. 


ANTHONY, WILLIAM ARNOLD, edu¬ 
cator, lecturer, electrical engineer, was 
born Nov. 17, 1835, in Coventry, R. I. 
For fifteen years during 1872-87 he was 
professor of physics at Cornell university, 
where he planned and equipped the phy¬ 
sical laboratory building, and organized 
and had charge of the department of 
electrical engineering. He is now a con¬ 
sulting electrical engineer of New York 
city; and part author of a Text-Book of 
Physics; and numerous papers presented, 
before technical societies and in scien¬ 
tific periodicals. 


ANTHONY, WILLIAM HENRY, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Aug. 2, 1827, in. 
New York city. He was admitted to the- 
bar in 1848, and soon became distin¬ 
guished in its practice. In 1851 he 
served as member of the state legislature, 
and during the civil war he was judge- 
advocate-general on Gov. E. D. Morgan’s, 
staff. He died Nov. 7, 1875, in New York: 
city. 


ANTONY, EDWIN LE ROY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1852, near 
Waynesboro, Ga. He was admitted to 
practice in the 
courts of that state 
Jan. 8, 1874, and at 
once entered upon, 
the duties of his pro¬ 
fession; two years 






! 


later he was elected 
'3P' 'ZM county attorney of 

v "W his county, the first 

■ under the constitu¬ 

tion of 1876. being: 
also ex-officio dis¬ 
trict attorney for 
his county; in 1886, 
during the illness of the regular district 
judge, he filled that office as special judge; 
in 1892, while an alderman of his city, 
was nominated and elected, June 14, 
1892, to the fifty-second congress as a. 
democrat. At the expiration of his term 
he returned to his home and resumed the 
practice of his profession, in which he is 
still engaged. He was, and still is, an 
ardent supporter and admirer of Presi¬ 
dent Cleveland, and is of the school 
of politics known as gold standard demo¬ 
crats. In 1876 he was married to Mis? 
Augusta Houghton, a native Texan, and 
a daughter of Judge Joel A. Houghton, 
of Georgetown, Tex. 







48 


HERRINGSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


APES, WILLIAM, author, was born 
about 1800. He was an Indian preacher 
of the Pequot tribe; and published A Son 
of the Forest; Experiences of Five Chris¬ 
tian Indians of the Pequot Tribe; Indian 
Nullification; and a Eulogy on King 
Philip. 

APLIN, CHARLES BENJAMIN, physi¬ 
cian, was born June 17, 1869, in New Ply¬ 
mouth, Ohio. He attended the Columbus 
Medical college, Ohio, and graduated 
therefrom in 1892. He is one of Kansas' 
foremost physicians at Lamar. 

APPEL, DANIEL MITCHELL, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born Oct. 28, 1854, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He attended the Jef¬ 
ferson Medical college of Philadelphia. 
He was appointed assistant surgeon to 
the United States army in 1876, and pro¬ 
moted to surgeon in 1895, with the rank 
of major. 

APPEL, THEODORE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 30, 1823, in East¬ 
man, Pa. From 1877 to 1886 he was gen¬ 
eral superintendent of home missions for 
the eastern part of the reformed church; 
and traveled on business connected with 
that office through Pennsylvania, Mary¬ 
land,. Virginia, and North Carolina. From 
1881 to 1886 he edited the Reformed Mis¬ 
sionary Herald. He has published Rec¬ 
ollections of College Life. 

APPLE, JOSEPH HENRY, JR., edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Aug. 
4, 1865, in Rimersburg, Pa. This success¬ 
ful educator has filled the chair of mathe¬ 
matics in several large institutions; and 
since 1893 has been president of the Wom¬ 
an’s college of Frederick, Md. 

APPLE, THOMAS GILMORE, educator, 
was born Nov. 14, 1829, in Easton, Pa. 
He graduated from Marshall college in 
1850, and, entering the ministry, was a 
pastor of the German Reformed church 
from 1853 to 1865. In the latter year he 
was chosen president of Mereersburg col¬ 
lege, which he left in 1871, and became 
a professor in the Lancaster Theological 
seminary. In 1878 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of Franklin and Marshall college. 
He edited for several years the Mercers- 
burg Review and the Reformed Quarterly 
Review. 

APPLEBURY, ELIZABETH M„ edu¬ 
cator, poet, was born Oct. 21, 1834, in Pal¬ 
myra, Mo. She graduated from the 
Female seminary of her native town, and 
soon afterward began educational work. 
She has contributed extensively to peri¬ 
odical literature, and her poems have 
been given a place in several standard 
works. 

APPLEGARTH, RUFUS W., lawyer, 
legislator, was born in 1845 in Baltimore, 
Md. He was called to the bar in 1867, 
and has been counsel in most of the lead¬ 
ing cases that have been tried in the 
court of appeals; has also appeared in 
the appellate and United States and local 
courts of Louisiana, Virginia, Delaware, 
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, 
and New Jersey. He was elected to the 
general assembly of Maryland in the fall 
of 1895. 

APPLEGARTH, WILLIAM F., educat¬ 
or, merchant, legislator, was born Feb. 
11, 1842, in Golden Hill, Md. He taught 
school for fifteen years; has served with 
distinction as a member of the Maryland 
state legislature; and is now a successful 
merchant of his native city. 

APPLEGATE, O. C., soldier, business 
man. He has been closely identified with 
the growth and prosperity of southern 
Oregon, and resides in Klamath Falls. 

APPLETON, DANIEL, publisher, the 
founder of the house of D. Appleton and 
Co., was born Dec. 10, 1785, in Haverhill, 


Mass. He began life as a dry-goods mer¬ 
chant in his native town; subsequently 
went to Boston, and in 1825 removed to 
New York. Here he began the importa¬ 
tion of English books in conjunction with 
the dry-goods business. Mr. Appleton 
soon abandoned the dry-goods business, 
thereafter giving his attention solely to 
the importation and sale of books. He 
died March 27, 1849, in New York. 

APPLETON, DANIEL, publisher, was 
born Feb. 24, 1852, in New York. In 1879 
he was admitted into partnership with D. 
Appleton and Co. Possessing fine busi¬ 
ness qualifications, he has been an effi¬ 
cient member of the firm. Colonel Apple- 
ton has long taken an active part in New 
York city’s favorite militia regiment, the 
seventh, of which, July 18, 1889, he was, 
by unanimous vote, promoted from a cap¬ 
taincy to the colonelcy. He is a director 
of the American Book company, and a 
member of the Union, Century, Aldine, 
Riding, and New York Yacht clubs. 

APPLETON, DANIEL S., publisher, 
was born April 9, 1824, in Boston, Mass. 
He attained success as one of the most 
prominent publishers in the United 
States. 

APPLETON, GEORGE S., author, was 
born Aug. 11, 1821, in Andover, Mass. He 
is the author of Picturesque America; 
Picturesque Europe; and Picturesque Pal¬ 
estine. He died July 7, 1878, in Riverdale, 
N. Y. 

APPLETON, JAMES, temperance re¬ 
former, was born Feb. 14, 1786, in Ips¬ 
wich, Mass. When a young man he was 
elected to the legislature of his native 
state, and during the war with Great 
Britain he served as a colonel of Massa¬ 
chusetts militia; and after the close of 
the war was made a brigadier-general. 
During his subsequent residence at Port¬ 
land, Maine, he was elected to the legis¬ 
lature in 1836-37, but he returned finally 
to his native town, where he died. By 
his speeches and publications he exercised 
great influence upon public sentiment in 
favor of abolition and total abstinence. 
In his report to the Maine legislature in 
1837 he was the first to expound the prin¬ 
ciple embodied in the Maine law. He 
died Aug. 25, 1862, in Ipswich, Mass. 


APPLETON, JAMES, general, was born 
Feb. 14, 1815, in Ipswich, Mass. He was 
an energetic champion of total absti¬ 
nence, and the first expounder of the prin¬ 
ciple underlying the Maine law. He died 
Aug. 25, 1882. 

APPLETON, JESSE, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Nov. 
17, 1772, in New Ipswich, N. H. In 1792 
he graduated from 
Dartmouth college; 
and then for two 
years was an in¬ 
structor in Dover 
and in Amherst. In 
1795 he was licensed 
to preach, and for 
ten years filled a 
pastorate in Hamp¬ 
ton, N. H. In 1803 
he filled the chair of 
theology at. Cam¬ 
bridge; and in 1807 
became president of Bowdoin college. A 
volume of his addresses has been pub¬ 
lished; and a selection from his sermons 
and poems has also been published in 
two volumes. He died Nov. 12, 1819, in 
Brunswick, Maine. 

APPLETON, JOHN, jurist, was born in 
1804. He was a former chief justice of 
Maine; eminent as a legal reformer; and 
was the author of The Rules of Evidence 
Stated and Discussed. He died in 1891. 



APPLETON, JOHN, physician, lecturer, 
author, was born Jan. 9, 1809, in Salem, 
Mass. In 1833 he graduated from the 
Harvard University Medical school, taking 
the Boylston prize. He attained emi¬ 
nence as a doctor of medicine, lecturer, 
and author, and was a member and as¬ 
sistant librarian of the Massachusetts His¬ 
torical society. He died February, 1869, 
in Cambridge, Mass. 

APPLETON, JOHN, journalist, diplo¬ 
mat, was born Feb. 11, 1815, in Beverly, 
Mass. He was admitted to practice law 
at Portland, Maine, in 1837. In 1857 he 
was appointed assistant secretary of state, 
and in 1860 was appointed United States 
minister to Russia. He died Aug. 22, 
1864, in Portland, Maine. 

APPLETON, JOHN HOWARD, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Feb. 3, 1844, in 
Portland, Maine. He has been a pro¬ 
fessor of chemistry at Brown university 
since 1868. He is the author of The 
Young Chemist; Qualitative Analysis; 
Quantitative Analysis; and Chemistry of 
Non Metals. 

APPLETON, JOHN JAMES, diplomat¬ 
ist, was born Sept. 22, 1792, in Calais, 
France. While his father was United 
States consul at that place he graduated 
at Harvard university in 1813; was sec¬ 
retary of legation of the United States to 
Portugal from 1819 to 1822; to Spain from 
1822 to 1825; charge d’affaires to the Two 
Sicilies in 1825, and to Sweden in 1826. 
He resided in France, where he owned a 
valuable estate. While at Stockholm he 
negotiated a treaty of commerce. He died 
March 4, 1864, in Rennes. France. 

APPLETON, JOHN W. M., soldier, 

farmer, adjutant-general of state, was 
born April 1, 1832, in Boston, Mass. He 
received his educa¬ 
tion in the Boston 
public schools, in 
the private schools 
o f Massachusetts, 
and the medical 
school of Harvard 
university. In 1852- 
56 he was assistant 
librarian of the Bos¬ 
ton public library; 
and was clerk in the 
board of charities of 
that city. During 
the war, from 1862 to 1865, he served as 
a private soldier; was promoted to major 
of infantry, and subsequently as com¬ 
mander of battalion of six batteries of 
artillery. In 1865 he moved to West Vir¬ 
ginia, and there joined the national 
guards, in which he has served as captain, 
major, colonel, and brigadier-general; 

and since 1897 has been adjutant-general 
of West Virginia. 

APPLETON, NATHAN, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1779, in 
New Ipswich, N. H. He became inter¬ 
ested in the cotton manufacture, and in 
1821 was one of the three original found¬ 
ers of Lowell, Mass. He was at different 
periods a member of the legislature of 
Massachusetts; from 1831 to 1833 was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts; and was again elected to con- 
gress in 1842, but soon resigned his seat. 
He died July 14, 1861, in Boston, Mass. 

APPLETON, NATHAN DANE, lawyer, 
legislator, was born in 1794 in Ipswich, 
Mass., on the farm which was bought in 
1634-35 by his emigrant ancestor, Samuel 
Appleton. He repeatedly represented the 
town in the legislature; was once in the 
senate of Maine; and three times he was 
the candidate of his party for congress. 
In the winter of 1857 he was chosen by 
the legislature attorney-general of the 
state. He died in 1861. 





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APPLETON, NATHANIEL, clergyman, 
was born Dec. 9, 1693, in Ipswich, Mass. 
He was educated at Harvard, taking his 
degree in 1712; studied theology, and was 
ordained Oct. 9, 1717, succeeding Mr. Brat¬ 
tle as congregational minister. From 
1717 to 1779 he was one of the corpora¬ 
tion of Harvard university. He pub¬ 
lished sermons and occasional discourses. 
He died Feb. 9, 1784, in Cambridge, Mass. 

APPLETON, SAMUEL, merchant, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born June 22, 1766, in 
New Ipswich, N. H. He was an importer; 
established cotton mills at Waltham and 
Lowell, Mass.; and at his death the sum 
of two hundred thousand dollars was dis¬ 
tributed among charities. 

APPLETON, THOMAS GOLD, artist, 
author, was born March 31, 1812, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was the author of A Sheaf 
of Papers; A Nile Journal; Windfalls; 
Syrian Sunshine; Chequer-Work; and 
Faded Leaves, a volume of verse. He 
died April 17, 1884, in New York. 

APPLETON, WILLIAM, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 16, 1786, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He was educated for 
mercantile pursuits, in which he was en¬ 
gaged extensively and successfully for 
more than fifty years. He took a promi¬ 
nent part in various public and benevo¬ 
lent enterprises; and gave much attention 
to banking and financial operations. In 
1850 was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts; was re-elected 
in 1852; and was also elected to the thir¬ 
ty-seventh congress. He died Feb. 20, 
1862, in Longwood, near Boston, Mass. 

APPLETON, WILLIAM HENRY, pub¬ 
lisher, was horn Jan. 27, 1814, in New 
York city, and is a son of Daniel Apple- 
ton. In 1835 he was sent to represent the 
house in London, where he established 
an agency. In 1838 he was taken into 
partnership. At his father’s death, in 
1849, he inherited a moderate estate, 
which he has since increased by his own 
energetic prosecution of the business and 
by active participation in other enter¬ 
prises. Under his management the house 
devoted itself entirely to the sale of its 
own publications, and has come to rank 
among the half dozen leading publishing 
houses of the United States. 

APPLETON, WILLIAM WORTHEN, 
publisher, was born Nov. 29, 1845, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., a son of William H. Ap¬ 
pleton. In recent years he has given 
more of his time to the editorial depart¬ 
ment and the London office. He is a di¬ 
rector in the American Book company, a 
corporation founded in l&tfO, with a capi¬ 
tal of $5,000,000; and is actively identified 
with the New York Free library, of which 
he was one of the founders, and has held 
continuously the chairmanship of the li¬ 
brary committee. 

APSLEY, LEWIS DEWART, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born Sept. 29, 
1852, in Northumberland, Pa. At the age 
of fifteen he removed to Philadelphia, 
and immediately engaged in active busi¬ 
ness pursuits, early identifying himself 
with the rubber goods trade. He re¬ 
moved to Massachusetts in 1877, and es¬ 
tablished himself in 1885 as a manufac¬ 
turer of rubber clothing in Hudson. He 
is president and treasurer of the Apsley 
Rubber company; president of the Millay 
Last company; president of the Hudson 
Board of Trade; a director in the Hudson 
National bank; and identified with many 
other enterprises. He was elected to the 
fifty-third, and re-elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a republican. 

APTHORP, WILLIAM FOSTER, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1848 in Massachusetts. 
He is a musical newspaper critic of Bos¬ 

4 


ton, and the author of Musicians and Mu¬ 
sic-Lovers, and Other Essays. He has 
translated Zola’s Jacques Damour. 

ARBUCKLE, CHARLES, coffee import¬ 
er, was born in 1833 in Allegheny City, Pa. 
His early years were passed in Allegheny 
City, Pa., where he became a prominent 
wholesale grocer. In 1871 Mr. Arbuckle, 
with his brother John, established a fac¬ 
tory for the preparation of roasted and 
ground coffee in Brooklyn, N. Y., and in 
1875 transferred all his interests to that 
city. He died March 27, 1891, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 

ARBUCKLE, JOHN, importer and man¬ 
ufacturer. He spent his early life in Alle¬ 
gheny, Pa. In 1871 he engaged with his 
brother Charles in the preparation of 
roasted and ground coffee, their factory 
being located in Brooklyn; and he is now 
head of the firm of Arbuckle Brothers. 
He is also a director in the Importers’ 
and Traders’ bank, and is president of the 
Royal Horse association, a syndicate own¬ 
ing ranches in Wyoming. 

ARBUCKLE, JOHN CHALMERS, sol¬ 
dier, educator, clergyman, was born July 
27, 1847, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1864 
he enlisted in the 
fourth regiment, 
Iowa volunteer in¬ 
fantry, and served as 
a private soldier till 
the close of the war. 
He taught school for 
several years, and 
in 1874 graduated 
from the Ohio Wes¬ 
leyan university of 
Delaware. For a 
quarter of a century 
he has been a cler¬ 
gyman of the methodist episcopal church, 
his principal pastorates being in Colum¬ 
bus and Zanesville, Ohio. For four years 
he was presiding elder on the Gallipolis 
district, and is now presiding elder of the 
Columbus district. He has twice been a 
member of the general conference of the 
methodist episcopal church; and for two 
years served as a member of the general 
missionary board of that denomination. 

ARBURY, FREDERICK WALTER, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Nov. 8, 1856, in Flint, 
Mich. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the Flint public schools, 
and in 1883 graduated from the university 
of Michigan. For five years he was su¬ 
perintendent of public schools of Flint, 
Mich.; three years at Houghton; and four 
years at Battle Creek. Since 1895 he has 
been connected with a Boston publishing 
house. 

ARCHBALD, ROBERT WODROW, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Sept. 10, 1848, in 
Carbondale, Pa. He graduated from Yale 
college in 1871; in 1884 was elected addi¬ 
tional law judge of the forty-fifth judicial 
district of Pennsylvania. He has since 
been president judge of the said district, 
receiving the re-election in 1894 for an¬ 
other ten years. 

ARCHBOLD, JOHN DUSTIN, oil re¬ 
finer, was born July 26, 1848, in Leesburg, 
Ohio. In 1864 he joined the rush to the 
Pennsylvania oil regions, and spent 
eleven years there in various branches of 
the petroleum industry. He rose to 
prominence, and has long been the chief 
proprietor and president of the Acme Oil 
company. Since 1875 he has been identi¬ 
fied with the Standard Oil company, and 
a director since its organization, and is 
now vice-president of the Standard Oil 
company, of New York. He is president 
of the trustees of Syracuse university, 
and a director of the post-graduate hos¬ 
pital and training school and St. Christo¬ 
pher’s home and orphanage. 


ARCHER, BRANCH T., Texan revolu¬ 
tionist, was born in 1790 in Virginia. He 
studied medicine in Philadelphia, and 
was for many years a physician and poli¬ 
tician in his native state, being a member 
of the legislature several times. In 1831 
he removed to Texas and became a prom¬ 
inent actor in the movements prelimi¬ 
nary to the revolution. In 1835 he pre¬ 
sided over the famous consultation held 
by the American settlers, and with Col. 
Stephen Austin and N. H. Wharton 
formed a board of three commissioners 
to solicit aid from the United States in 
the struggle for Texan independence. He 
was a member of the first Texan congress 
in 1836, and afterward went to Washing¬ 
ton, where he became speaker of the house 
of representatives and secretary of war 
from 1839 to 1842, when by reason of ill- 
health he was obliged to retire to private 
life. He died Sept. 22, 1856, in Texas. 

ARCHER, HENRY HAYES, street rail¬ 
way manager, was born July 1, 1860, in 
Rokeby, Pa. He is president of the Val¬ 
ley Railway company, of Scranton, and 
vice-president of the People’s Railway 
company of Scranton, and the system of 
which he is manager comprises thirty- 
eight miles of road, owned by seven dif¬ 
ferent companies, though operated by the 
Scranton Traction company. 

ARCHER, JOHN, soldier, physician, 
congressman, was born June 6, 1741, in 
Harford county, Md. At the commence¬ 
ment of the revolution he had command 
of a military company; was a member of 
the state legislature; and after the war 
practiced his profession. He was a pres¬ 
idential elector in 1797; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Maryland 
from 1801 to 1807. As a medical man he 
commanded great influence, and several 
discoveries were made by him which 
have been adopted by the profession. He 
died in 1810 in Harford county, Md. 

ARCHER, STEVENSON, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Harford county, 
Md. He graduated at Princeton college 
in 1805; was a judge of the court of ap¬ 
peals; was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maryland from 1811 to 1817, 
when he was appointed judge in Missis¬ 
sippi territory; and was chosen a repre¬ 
sentative in congress again from 1819 to 
1821. In 1845 he was appointed chief jus¬ 
tice of Maryland. He was the son of 
John Archer. He died June 5, 1848, in 
Harford county, Md. 

ARCHER, STEVENSON, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 28, 1827, in Har¬ 
ford county, Md. He graduated at Prince¬ 
ton college in 1846; adopted the profes¬ 
sion of the law; was a member of the 
Maryland legislature in 1854; in 1866 was 
elected a representative from Maryland 
to the fortieth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-first, forty-second, 
and forty-third congresses. His father, 
bearing the same name, and his grand¬ 
father, John Archer, were both repre¬ 
sentatives in congress from the same dis¬ 
trict which he represented. 

ARCHER, WILLIAM S., United States 
senator, was born March 5, 1789, in Ame¬ 
lia county, Va. He studied law, and in 
1812 was elected to the Virginia state leg¬ 
islature, where he served, excepting one 
year, until 1819. In 1820 he was elected 
a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia, where he remained until 1835. In 
1841 he was elected to the United States 
senate, where he remained until 1847, 
having from the first been placed at the 
head of the committee on foreign rela¬ 
tions in that body. He died March 28, 
1855, in Amelia county, Va. 



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ARCHIBALD, ANDREW WEBSTER, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1851 in 
New York. He is a congregational cler¬ 
gyman of prominence in Iowa; and the 
author of The Bible Verified. 

ARCHIBALD, GEORGE D„ college 
president, was born Feb. 15, 1820, in 
Washington county, Pa. From 1861-66 
was pastor of the First presbyterian 
church of Madison, Ind* in 1866-70 presi¬ 
dent of Hanover college; and from 1873- 
74 was president of Wilson Female semi¬ 
nary of Chambersburg, Pa. 

ARENTS, ALBERT, metallurgist, was 
born March 14, 1840, in Germany. After 
coming to the United States he was vari¬ 
ously occupied as mining superintendent, 
and also in charge of metallurgical mills 
and smelting works in Arizona, Califor¬ 
nia, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. He 
has contributed valuable technical papers 
to the Transactions of the American In¬ 
stitute of Mining Engineers, and has in¬ 
vented numerous appliances. 

AREY, HARRIETT ELLEN GRANNIS, 
journalist, author, was born April 14, 
1819, in Cavendish, Vt. She has been ed¬ 
itor of various publications; was one of 
the founders and the first president of the 
Ohio Woman’s State Press association, 
which office she still holds. For many 
years she has been president of an active 
literary and social club of Cleveland, 
Ohio. Her principal writings are House¬ 
hold Songs and Other Poems; and Home 
and School Training. 

ARKELL, JAMES, manufacturer, state 
senator, was born in England. During 
the civil war he invented a machine for 
the manufacture of paper sacks; and has 
erected a number of manufacturing es¬ 
tablishments of Arkell and Smiths in sev¬ 
eral of the largest cities. In 1883 he was 
elected to the New York senate, and be¬ 
came immediately one of its leading mem¬ 
bers. 

ARKINS, JOHN, soldier, journalist, 
was born Feb. 14, 1842, in Fayette county, 
Pa. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in 
the fifth Minnesota infantry, and served 
until 1864. In 1880 he purchased a con¬ 
trolling interest in the Denver Rocky 
Mountain News, of which he has since 
been the manager and chief editor. 

ARMBRUSTER, SARA DARY, journal¬ 
ist, philanthropist, was born Sept. 29, 
1862, in Philadelphia, Pa. She has been 
a successful business woman; originated 
in Philadelphia the Woman’s Exchange; 
and is the proprietor of The Woman’s 
Journal, a weekly paper devoted to the 
cause of women. 

ARMFIELD, HYATT JACKSON, farm¬ 
er, banker, was born in High Point, 
N. C., which has always been his home. 
He is a successful farmer; president of 
the National bank of High Point; direct¬ 
or of the Greensboro National bank; and 
is also prominent in various other busi¬ 
ness enterprises. 

ARMFIELD, ROBERT FRANKLIN, 
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born 
July 9, 1829, in Guilford county, N. C. 
He received a collegiate education; adopt¬ 
ed the profession of the law; was county 
attorney from 1855 to 1861; state solicitor 
for the sixth district from 1863 to 1865; 
served in the confederate army as lieu- 
tenant-colonel during the war of the re¬ 
bellion; was president of the state senate 
and lieutenant-governor in 1875 and 1876; 
and was elected a representative from 
North Carolina to the forty-sixth and 
forty-seventh congresses. 

ARMIN, CHARLES E., lawyer, poet, 
was born Dec. 27, 1853, in De Kalb, St. 
Lawrence county, N. Y. He finished his 
education at the State Normal school at 


Pottsdam, N. Y. In 1878 he moved out 
west, and five years later commenced the 
practice of law; has become prominent 
in that profession; and is well known as 
an able lawyer of Waukesha, Wis.; and 
for two years was district attorney of 
Waukesha county. His writings have ap¬ 
peared in various publications; and his 
poems have been given a place in stand¬ 
ard works. 

ARMINGTON, JAMES HERVEY, sol¬ 
dier, consulting engineer, legislator, was 
born Aug. 10, 1827, in Providence, R. I. 
In the civil war he served as first lieuten¬ 
ant and quartermaster in the tenth regi¬ 
ment, R. I. Volunteers. He also served 
as lieutenant, captain, and colonel of the 
sixth regiment, R. I. M. Has been a 
member of the city council of Providence 
and of the town council of East Provi¬ 
dence; and a state representative since 
May, 1896. 

ARMISTEAD, GEORGE, soldier, was 
born April 10, 1780, in Newmarket, Va. 
He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for 
his successful defense of Fort McHenry, 
near Baltimore, against the British fleet, 
under Admiral Cochrane, Sept. 14, 1814. 
His steadfast bravery on this occasion no 
doubt saved Baltimore from capture, and 
the citizens presented him with a hand¬ 
some service of silver, the centerpiece be¬ 
ing in the form of a bombshell. He died 
April 25, 1818, in Baltimore, Md. 

ARMISTEAD, LEWIS ADDISON, sol¬ 
dier, was born Feb. 18, 1817, in Newbern, 
N. C. He served in the Mexican war, 
and for gallant services attained the rank 
of major. He also served in the civil 
war; and rose to the rank of brigadier- 
general. He died July 3, 1863. 

ARMITAGE, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 2, 1819, in England. 
He is a prominent baptist clergyman of 
New York city; and is the author of 
Jesus, His Self Introspection; Lectures 
on Preaching; and History of the Bap¬ 
tists. 

ARMOR, CHARLES LEE, jurist, was 
born in Virginia. He was appointed 
from Maryland an associate judge of the 
United States court for the territory of 
Colorado. 

ARMOUR, ANDREW W„ banker, was 
born Jan. 27, 1829, in Stockbridge, N. Y. 
In 1878 he located in Kansas City, and be¬ 
came president of the Armour Brothers 
Banking company. He subsequently be¬ 
came vice-president of the Midland Na¬ 
tional bank, when it succeeded to the bus¬ 
iness of the Armour bank, and was one 
of the directors of the Armour Packing 
company. 

ARMOUR, HERMAN OSSIAN, mer¬ 
chant, was born March 2, 1837, in Stock- 
bridge, N. Y. The packing business of the 
Armour brothers is conducted on a stu¬ 
pendous scale. Their abattoirs in Chi¬ 
cago are of immense capacity. Thous¬ 
ands of animals are slaughtered there 
every day. The firm not only supply mil¬ 
lions of the people of the United States 
annually with fresh meats, through the 
method of distribution by refrigerator 
cars, but they are the largest shippers of 
cured goods across the ocean for the sup¬ 
ply of western Europe. They give em¬ 
ployment in their several industries to 
upward of fifteen thousand persons, while 
the auxiliary branches of the business 
attain to the number of about three hun¬ 
dred. Herman 0. Armour is now one of 
the most respected merchants of New 
York city, and has identified himself 
thoroughly with the business and social 
life of the metropolis. 

ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH, mer¬ 
chant, was born May 16, 1832, at Stock- 


bridge, N. Y. Of all the Armour broth¬ 
ers, Philip has probably attracted to him¬ 
self more public attention than any of 
the others by reason of his remarkable 
personality and his practical philanthro¬ 
py, in which, however, he has been sus¬ 
tained by the liberality of the other 
brothers. The Armour mission, one of 
the most conspicuous institutions in Chi¬ 
cago, has been developed through his ac¬ 
tivity, originality and generosity from an 
humble beginning to colossal magnitude. 
The youngest brother, Joseph, who died 
Jan. 5, 1881, bequeathed $100,000 in his 
will for the founding of a mission in Chi¬ 
cago, to be conducted on certain novel 
lines. As the executor of the estate, 
Philip D. Armour became peculiarly in¬ 
terested in the carrying out of the trust 
imposed upon him. The mission repre¬ 
sents the sum of $3,000,000. 

ARMOUR, SIMEON B., merchant, was 
born Feb. 1, 1828. He is the oldest of the 
Armour brothers. In the development of 
the vast industry created by these ener¬ 
getic men he was an active participant. 
The Kansas City branch came more di¬ 
rectly under his supervision and for many 
years he has been the leading commercial 
spirit in that active and thriving empo¬ 
rium. He lacks nothing of that keen 
business judgment which is so pre-emi¬ 
nently a family trait. 

ARMS, MRS. MARY P. S., poet. She is 
a writer of Beckwith, Cal.; and her poems 
have constantly appeared in the press 
and in several standard publications. 

ARMSBY, JAMES H., physician, was 
born Dec. 31, 1809, in Sutton, Mass. He 
conceived the idea of founding a univer¬ 
sity in Albany, raised ten thousand 
dollars for the object, and deliv¬ 
ered in that city the first American course 
of medical lectures illustrated with dis¬ 
sections of the human body. He was one 
of the originators of the Young Men’s 
Christian association, and was also in¬ 
strumental in founding the Dudley ob¬ 
servatory. He died Dec. 3, 1875, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. 

ARMSTRONG, ADDISON F„ merchant, 
was born April 1, 1835, in Clinton county, 
Ohio. He was elected in 1870 to the In¬ 
diana state senate, and held that position 
three terms, or until 1874, serving also in 
that time through the special session of 
1872. He became a merchant in Koko¬ 
mo, Ind. 

ARMSTRONG, DAVID H„ educator, 
public official, was born Oct. 21, 1812, in 
Nova Scotia. He received an academic 
education; was a teacher for eighteen 
years; and in 1837 removed to Missouri, 
opening, in 1838, and conducting in St. 
Louis the first public school established 
under the laws of that state. In 1847 he 
was appointed comptroller of the city of 
St. Louis, and reappointed in 1848 and 
1849; and in 1854 was appointed postmas¬ 
ter of St. Louis. He was appointed a 
United States senator to fill a vacancy. 

ARMSTRONG, DAVID MAITLAND, 
artist, was born about 1837 in Newburg, 
N. Y. He was graduated at Trinity col¬ 
lege, Hartford, in 1858; studied law in 
New York; and practiced that profession 
for a short time. It soon became evident 
to him that his choice of the law was a 
mistake, and he turned his attention to 
art. He studied in Rome and Paris under 
the best teachers, and divided his time 
mainly between Italy and New York. For 
four years he was United States consul 
general for Italy, resident at Rome, and 
was director of the American art depart¬ 
ment at the Paris exposition of 1878, 
when he received the decoration of the 
Legion of Honor. 


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ARMSTRONG, GEORGE DODD, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 15, 1813, 
in Mendham, N. J. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman of Norfolk, Va.; and the au¬ 
thor of The Summer of the Pestilence; 
The Doctrine of Baptisms; The Christian 
Doctrine of Slavery; Theology of Chris¬ 
tian Experience; The Sacraments of the 
New Testament; and The Books of Na¬ 
ture and Revelation, a criticism of the 
theory of evolution. 

ARMSTRONG, GEORGE WASHING¬ 
TON, business man, was born Aug. 11, 
1836, in Boston, Mass. In 1865 he pur¬ 
chased a local baggage express, and at 
once organized Armstrong’s Transfer, 
which he soon raised to be a business of 
importance and magnitude. He owms 
the news business on the entire Hoosac 
Tunnel line; and is a director of a num¬ 
ber of business corporations. 

ARMSTRONG, HENRY CLAY, legislat¬ 
or, was born June 1, 1840, in Lafayette, 
Ga. He received his education at the 
Howard college. During 1876-80 he 
served as a member of the Alabama state 
senate; in 1880-84 was state superintend¬ 
ent of education of Alabama; in 1884-85 
was a member of the Alabama house of 
representatives; and filled the chair of 
speaker in that body; and during 1885-89 
he served as consul-general of the United 
States to Brazil. He has filled various 
high positions in the Masonic lodge; has 
been grand secretary of the Masonic grand 
bodies; and since 1892 has been recorder 
of the grand commandery of Alabama. 

ARMSTRONG, JAMES, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He 
served as a colonel in the successful de¬ 
fense of Fort Moultrie, Charleston har¬ 
bor, in the summer of 1776, and command¬ 
ed the Pennsylvania militia in the defense 
of Germantown in October, 1777. He was 
a member of congress from 1793 till his 
death. He died March 3, 1795, in Carlisle, 
Pa. 

ARMSTRONG, JAMES, naval officer, 
was born Jan. 17, 1794, in Shelbyville, 
Ky. He commanded the East India squad¬ 
ron in 1855, and assisted at the capture 
of the barrier forts near Canton, China, 
in 1857. He was in command of the navy 
yard at Pensacola, Fla., when that state 
seceded in 1861; and surrendered without 
resistance when a greatly superior mili~ 
tary force demanded possession. In 1S6 j 
he was promoted to be commodore. He 
died Aug. 27, 1868. 

ARMSTRONG, JAMES F„ naval officer, 
was born Nov. 20, 1817, in New Jersey. 
He was passed midshipman in 1838; pro¬ 
moted lieutenant in 1842; and was com¬ 
missioned captain in 1862. He died April 
19, 1873, in New Haven, Conn. 

ARMSTRONG, JOHN, general, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He 
distinguished himself in the Indian wars, 
and was consulted by the proprietors of 
Pennsylvania on all matters connected 
with Indian affairs. In 1776 congress pro¬ 
moted him from the rank of colonel to 
that of brigadier-general, and he assisted 
in the defense of Fort Moultrie, and m 
the battle of Germantown. In 1777 he re¬ 
signed his commission in consequence ot 
dissatisfaction as to rank; was subse¬ 
quently elected a representative to con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania, serving from 
1793 to 1795; and also held a number 
of other honorable offices. He died March 
9, 1795, in Carlisle, Pa. 

ARMSTRONG, JOHN, general con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Nov. 25, 1758, 
in Carlisle, Pa. He served as an officer 
in the revolutionary war. At the close ot 
the war, in order to obtain redress for the 
grievances of the officers of the army, he 


prepared the celebrated Newburgh Let¬ 
ters; was a delegate to the continental 
congress in 1778 and 1787, from Pennsyl¬ 
vania; was made secretary of state and 
adjutant-general of the state; to him was 
intrusted the direction of the last Penn¬ 
sylvania war against the Connecticut set¬ 
tlers of Wyoming. Returning to New 
York, he was sent to the senate of the 
United States, serving from 1800 to 1804, 
when he resigned. On the return of Chan¬ 
cellor Livingston from the French em¬ 
bassy, he was commissioned minister in 
his place, in 1804; and was also appointed 
a commissioner plenipotentiary to Spain. 
Returning to his own country, he was ap¬ 
pointed a brigadier-general in 1812; and 
in 1813, secretary of war. He was the 
author of Notes on the War of 1812; 
Treatise on Gardening; Treatise on Agri¬ 
culture; and other works. He died April 
1, 1843, in Red Hook, N. Y. 

ARMSTRONG, MOSES K., surveyor, 
journalist, statesman, was born Sept. 19, 
1832, in Milan, Ohio. He was educated at 
the Western Reserve college; removed 
to Minnesota in 1856; was elected sur¬ 
veyor of United States lands; on the ad¬ 
mission of Minnesota as a state, removed 
to Yankton, on the Missouri river; on the 
organization of Dakota, in 1861, was elect¬ 
ed to the first territorial legislature, and 
re-elected in 1862 and 1863, serving the 
last year as speaker; was editor of The 
Dakota Union in 1864; was elected ter¬ 
ritorial treasurer; appointed clerk of the 
supreme court in 1865; elected to the ter¬ 
ritorial senate in 1866; and chosen presi¬ 
dent in 1867. He published the first his¬ 
tory of Dakota in 1867; acted as secre¬ 
tary to the Indian peace commission to 
the Sioux; and from 1866 to iou d estab¬ 
lished the base-lines for United States 
surveys in southern Dakota, and the 
northern Red river valley. He was again 
elected to the territorial senate in 1869; 
established the first democratic newspaper 
in the territory; and was chosen presi¬ 
dent of the First National bank of the 
territory in 1872. He was elected dele¬ 
gate to the forty-second and forty-third 
congresses. 

ARMSTRONG, P. B., financier, was born 
Feb. 3, 1847, in Franklin county, Ind. 
He holds the presidency of three different 
fire insurance companies, and is a mem¬ 
ber of the leading clubs of the metropol¬ 
itan districts. 

ARMSTRONG, ROBERT, soldier, was 
born in 1790 in Tennessee. He command¬ 
ed a company of Tennessee artillery under 
Jackson in the Creek war of 1813-14 with 
distinguished bravery. He again distin¬ 
guished himself at the battle of New Or¬ 
leans, and in 1836, as brigadier-general, 
commanded the Tennessee mounted vol¬ 
unteers at the battle of Wahoo swamp. 
He was postmaster at Nashville from 1829 
to 1845, when he was sent as consul to 
Liverpool, remaining until 1852. He sub¬ 
sequently became the proprietor and ed¬ 
itor of the Washington Union, and was the 
confidential adviser of Mr. Polk during his 
presidency. Gen. Jackson bequeathed to 
him his sword. He died Feb. 23, 1854, in 
Washington, D. C. 

ARMSTRONG, ROBERT, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born September, 1846, in Green¬ 
wich, N. Y. He received his education at 
the South Hartford academy. Fort Ed¬ 
ward Collegiate institute, and the Union 
college of Schenectady, N. Y. He was 
a member of the New York state assembly 
for two terms, in 1881-82 and in 1882-83; 
and while a member of that body served 
on the judicial committee, and on general 
laws. He has attained prominence in his 
state as an astute and able lawyer. 


ARMSTRONG, SAMUEL C., soldier, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Jan. 30, 1839, in Hawaii. 
He served in the civil war, and in 1865 
was brevetted brigadier-general. He laid 
the foundation of the now celebrated 
Hampton Normal and Agricultural insti¬ 
tute; and has helped build many other 
institutions. 

ARMSTRONG, SAMUEL T., governor of 
Massachusetts, was born in 1784 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a bookseller in Boston, 
and among other works published a 
stereotype edition of Scott’s Family Bible, 
which was widely circulated. He became 
mayor of Boston and lieutenant-governor 
of Massachusetts, and in 1836 the elec¬ 
tion of Governor Davis to the United 
States senate made him governor for the 
remainder of the term. He died March 
26, 1850. 

ARMSTRONG, SARAH B., educator, 
physician, surgeon, was born July 31, 
1857, near Cincinnati, Ohio. She taught 
school for several years, and in 1886 
took her first degree in regular medi¬ 
cine, and has received the degrees of 
B. A., M. A. and M. D. Since 1891 she 
has practiced her profession with suc¬ 
cess in Bay City, Mich. 

ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 23, 1782, in Ire¬ 
land. He studied law in Winchester, Va.; 
he was a member of the Virginia house of 
delegates; in 1822-23, a member of the 
board of public works; in 1820-24 was a 
presidential elector. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1825-33. 

ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM DAWSON, 
musician, composer, was born Feb. 11, 
1868, in Alton, Ill. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Alton public schools and at 
Shurtleff college. In 1889 he was elected 
to a professorship in Forest Park univer¬ 
sity of St. Louis, Mo.; and in 1891-96 be¬ 
came director of the Shurtleff School of 
Music of Alton, Ill. As an organist and 
composer he has attained national re¬ 
pute. 

ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM H., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 7, 1824, in 
Williamsport, Pa. He graduated at 
Princeton college in 1847; and adopted the 
profession of the law. He was elected to 
the state legislature in 1860-61; and was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the forty-first congress. In 1882 
he was appointed commissioner of rail¬ 
roads in the department of the interior. 

ARNELL, SAMUEL M., educator, manu¬ 
facturer, congressman, was born May 3, 
1833, in Maury county, Tenn. In 1859 he 
went into the business of manufacturing 
leather; in 1861 took an active interest in 
putting down the rebellion, and suffered 
in person and property from the con¬ 
federate army. He was elected to the 
Tennessee legislature, and advocated the 
passage of the constitutional amendment 
in 1865. He was elected a representative 
from Tennessee to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress, and re-elected to the fortieth and 
forty-first congresses. 

ARNETT, BENJAMIN W., bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born March 6, 1838, in Browns¬ 
ville, Pa. He was chosen bishop in 1888, 
and appointed to the episcopal district of 
South Carolina and Florida. He is the 
author of The Light Along the Jordan; 
and Fifty Years in the Field. 

ARNOLD, ALBERT NICHOLAS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 12, 1814, in 
Cranston, R. I. He was a baptist clergy¬ 
man who held professorships in several 
baptist seminaries successively; and was 
the author of Pre-requisites to Commun¬ 
ion; Evils of Infant Baptism; and One 
Woman’s Mission. He died Oct. 11, 1883, 
in Cranston, R. I. 


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ARNOLD, ALEXANDER C., educator, 
lawyer, legislator, railroad president, was 
born Oct. 20, 1833, at Rhinebeck, N. Y. 
He received an academic education; grad¬ 
uated from the law school; and prac¬ 
ticed law in Wisconsin until 1862. He 
served with distinction in company C, 
thirtieth regiment Wisconsin volunteer 
infantry, and was promoted to captain. 
He has been county superintendent of 
schools; district attorney; member of 
the state senate of Wisconsin, and also 
of the assembly. He has been president 
of the Wisconsin State Agricultural so¬ 
ciety; president of the Galesville and 
Mississippi Railroad company, and filled 
various other offices of honor. 

ARNOLD, BENEDICT, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was a member of the assembly 
of New York from Amsterdam, Mont¬ 
gomery county, in 1816 and 1817; and 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1829 to 1831. 

ARNOLD, BENEDICT, governor of 
Rhode Island, was born Dec. 21, 1615, in 
England. He lived for some time in 
Providence, and in 1637 was one of thir¬ 
teen who signed a compact agreeing to 
subject themselves to any agreements 
made by a majority of the masters of 
families. In 1645 his knowledge of the 
native tongues gained him the office of 
messenger to negotiate with the Indians, 
and on one occasion they accused him of 
misrepresentation. In 1653 he moved to 
Newport, and in 1654 was elected assist¬ 
ant for that town. In 1657 he was one of 
the purchasers of the island of Conanicut. 
On May 19, 1657, Roger Williams having 
retired from the presidency of the colony. 
Arnold was elected to the office, and he 
was again assistant in 1660. On May 22, 
1662, he was again elected president, and 
under the royal charter given in 1663 he 
was the first governor of the colony. To 
this office he was re-elected in May, 1664, 
and in 1669, 1677, and 1678. Gov. Arnold 
was instrumental in bringing about the 
reconciliation and union of the two col¬ 
onies of Rhode Island and Providence 
plantations. He died June 20, 1678. 

ARNOLD, BENEDICT, soldier, was 
born in January, 1740, in Norwich, Conn. 
He fought nobly for freedom until 1778, 
when his passions got the better of his 
judgment and conscience, and he became 
a traitor and joined the British army. He 
went to England after the war, and died 
June 14, 1801, in London. 

ARNOLD, GEORGE, journalist, poet, 
was born June 24, 1834, in New York city. 
He was a journalist and poet of New 
York city, whose verse is musical without 
being especially strong. He was the au¬ 
thor of Drift and Other Poems; and 
Poems Grave and Gay. He died Nov. 3, 
1865, in Strawberry Farm, N. J. 

ARNOLD, HARRIET EUDORA 
PRITCHARD, poet, was born Dec. 24, 
1858, in Killingly, Conn. She is the au¬ 
thor of a number of meritorious poems 
and sketches which have appeared in 
various magazines and periodicals under 
the signature of H. E. P. She is the wife 
of Ernest Warner Arnold of Providence, 
R. I. 

ARNOLD, HENRY F., lawyer, educator, 
was born Dec. 2, 1855, in Newport, Iowa. 
He attended the Western college of Iowa 
and State university of Iowa, from which 
he graduated in classical course in 1881; 
and from the law school of the same 
university in 1884, receiving the degree 
of A. M. He was superintendent of city 
schools of Manchester, Iowa, and has 
served three terms as county attorney. 

ARNOLD, HORACE F., farmer, state 
senator, was born June 19, 1857. He was 


educated at the Caledonia academy and 
the North Dakota university, and has 
served as state senator in four legisla¬ 
tures of North Dakota. He entered 
journalistic work in 1890, and is president 
of the Dakota Lake Chautauqua associa¬ 
tion. 

ARNOLD, ISAAC NEWTON, lawyer, 
congressman, author, was born Nov. 30, 
1815, in Hartwick, N. J. He was a prom¬ 
inent Chicago lawyer and politician, and 
member of congress in 1861-65. He was 
the author of Life of Abraham Lincoln; 
Life of Benedict Arnold; and Recollec¬ 
tions of the Early Chicago and Illinois 
Bar. He died April 24, 1884, in Chicago, 
Ill. 

ARNOLD, JOHN, physician, surgeon, 
was born Jan. 15, 1815, in England. In 
1877 he moved to Rushville, Ind. He is 
a member of the Rush Medical society, 
the Union District Medical society, the 
Indiana State Medical society, and the 
American Medical association. 

ARNOLD, JOHN H., business man, 
legislator, was born July 9, 1846, in War¬ 
wick, N. J. He received his education in 
the public schools; has been a member of 
the common council of Pawtucket; and a 
representative in the Rhode Island state 
legislature since 1896. 

ARNOLD, JOHN MOTTE, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1824, in Acra, N. Y. 
In 1839 he moved to Michigan, residing in 
Detroit from 1861 until his death on 
Dec. 8, 1884. He filled several methodist 
episcopal pulpits in Detroit, Mich.; as¬ 
sisted in founding the Michigan Christian 
Advocate, which he edited until his death; 
and founded the Detroit Methodist Book 
concern. Dr. Arnold was the author of 
Doctrines of Sanctification; and was a 
learned and versatile writer. 

ARNOLD, JONATHAN, surgeon, jurist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1741, in 
Providence, R. I. He was a member of 
the state assembly in 1776; and was the 
author of the act of May, 1776, repealing 
the laws providing for the oath of alle¬ 
giance to the mother country. He was a 
surgeon in the revolutionary army; after 
the war removed to St. Johnsbury, Vt., 
where he was appointed judge of the 
Orange county court in 1782, holding that 
office during the remainder of his life. 
He was a member of the continental con¬ 
gress from 1782 to 1784. He died Feb. 2, 
1798, in St. Johnsbury, Vt. 

ARNOLD, JOSEPH MITCHELL, edu¬ 
cator, was born Dec. 14, 1863, in New 
Buffalo, Pa. He attended the Bloomfield 
academy, and in 1887 graduated from the 
Lafayette college. The succeeding five 
years he was principal of the Bloom¬ 
field academy, and since 1893 has been 
superintendent of schools of Perry coun¬ 
ty, Pa., and has attained prominence in 
the field of education for his progressive 
improvements of the school system under 
his charge. 

ARNOLD, LAUREN BRIGGS, agricult¬ 
urist, author, was born in 1841, in New 
York. He was an agriculturist of western 
New York who lectured frequently upon 
dairy husbandry and was the author of 
American Dairying. He died in 1888. 

ARNOLD, LEMUEL H., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born Jan. 29, 
1792, in St. Johnsbury, Vt. He was re¬ 
moved to Rhode Island at an early age; 
graduated at Dartmouth college, in 1811; 
and was educated for the bar, but turned 
his attention to mercantile pursuits. In 
1831 was elected governor of Rhode 
Island, and re-elected in 1832; was a 
member of the governor’s council during 
the Dorr rebellion in 1842; and a repre¬ 


sentative in congress from 1845 to 1847. 
He died June 27, 1852, in Kingston, R. I. 

ARNOLD, LEWIS G., general, was born 
in December, 1815, in New Jersey. In 
1862 he was placed in command of the 
forces at New Orleans and Algiers, La., 
which command he retained until he was 
disabled by a stroke of paralysis, from 
which he never recovered. 

ARNOLD, LYNN J., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Sept. 28, 1864, in Burlington Flats, 
N. Y. In 1884 he graduated from the 
State Normal college of Albany, N. Y. 
He then engaged in educational work; 
and was admitted to the bar in 1889. He 
has attained success in the profession of 
law at Cooperstown, N. Y.; and in 1894 
was elected surrogate of his county. 

ARNOLD, MARSHALL, educator, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Oct. 21, 1845, 
in St. Francois county, Mo. He was edu¬ 
cated in the common schools; was pro¬ 
fessor in Arcadia college in 1870-71; has 
been deputy clerk of the circuit, county, 
and probate courts in St. Francois county. 
Mo; was prosecuting attorney of Scott 
county, Mo.; served two terms in the 
legislature of Missouri; and was presi¬ 
dential elector on the Hancock ticket. He 
was elected as a democrat to the fifty-sec¬ 
ond and fifty-third congresses. 

ARNOLD, PELEG, jurist, congressman, 
was born in 1752, in Smithfield, R. I. He 
was a member of the assembly of Rhode 
Island; was for many years chief justice 
of the supreme court of that state; was 
a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1786 to 1788, when he was appointed 
judge. He died Feb. 13, 1820, in Smith- 
field, R. I. 

ARNOLD, REUBEN, soldier, lawyer, 
was born Aug. 7,1833, in Greeneville.Tenn. 
He served in the civil war, and was ten¬ 
dered recommendation for brigadier-gen¬ 
eral, which he declined. Col. Arnold was 
elected city attorney of Atlanta in 1867, 
and has since been a very prominent 
figure in politics and law. 

ARNOLD, RICHARD, general, was born 
April 12, 1828, in Providence, R. I. He 
was a son of Gov. L. H. Arnold, was 
graduated at West Point in 1850. For his 
services through the war he was, on 
March 13, 1865, brevetted colonel, briga¬ 
dier-general, and major-general in the 
regular army. After the close of the war 
he commanded various posts, and on Dec. 

5, 1877, was made acting assistant in¬ 
spector-general of the department of the 
east. At the time of his death he was 
major in the fifth artillery. He died Nov. 

8, 1882, on Governor’s Island, New York 
harbor. 

ARNOLD, SAMUEL, business man, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 1, 1806, in Had- 
dam, Conn. He received his education 
at Plainfield academy, in Connecticut, and 
Westfield academy, in Massachusetts; de¬ 
voted the most of his life to agricultural 
pursuits, and to various interests of com¬ 
merce. For many years he carried on 
one of the most extensive stone quarries 
in the union; was, for a number of years, 
president of the bank of East Haddam; 
served his native county in the legislature 
during the years 1839, 1842, 1844, and 
1851; and was elected to the thirty-fifth 
congress. 

ARNOLD, SAMUEL GREENE, was 
born April 12, 1821, in Providence, R. I. In 
1862 he was again elected lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of Rhode Island, and was soon 
afterwards chosen senator in congress to 
fill a vacancy. He was the author of a 
History of Rhode Island; and Life of 
Patrick Henry. He died Feb. 12, 1880, in 
Providence, R. I. 


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ARNOLD, THOMAS D., congressman, 
was born May 23, 1798, in Spottsylvania 
county, Va. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Knox county, Tenn., 
from 1831 to 1833; and was elected for a 
second term, from 1841 to 1843, represent¬ 
ing Greene county. He died May 26, 
1870, in Jonesboro, Tenn. 

ARNOLD, THOMAS H., journalist, poet, 
was born Dec. 26, 1857, in New Orleans, 
La. For three years he was connected 
with the Chattanooga Times, and is now 
editor of the Middleborough News, of 
which publication he is also president 
and manager. His poems have appeared 
in several standard collections. 

ARNOLD, TRESSA RICHARDSON, 
evangelist, editor, was born May 9, 1864, 
in Lanesboro, Minn. In 1882 she gradu¬ 
ated from the Emporia Commercial and 
Business college, and since that time 
has taken an active part as a teacher 
and Sunday school missionary, accepting 
an evangelist’s license in 1885. In 1887 
she married T. B. Arnold, the veteran 
journalist and book publisher of Chicago; 
and since then has been editor of the 
Light and Life series of Sunday school 
periodicals. Since 1888 she has been an 
assistant superintendent of the Chicago 
Industrial Home for Children, of which 
institution her husband is superintendent. 

ARNOLD, WARREN O., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born June 3, 1839, in 
Coventry, R. I. He received his education 
in the public schools of his native state; 
was engaged in mercantile pursuits from 
1857 to 1864; and from the latter date 
to 1866 was engaged in cotton manufac¬ 
turing. Since that time he has been en¬ 
gaged in the manufacture of woolens. He 
was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first 
congresses and re-elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a republican. 

ARNOLD, WILLIAM CARLILE. law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born July 15, 1851, 
in Luthersburg, Pa. He was educated in 
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts; was 
admitted to the bar in 1875 and has prac¬ 
ticed law continuously since his admis¬ 
sion; had never held any public office be¬ 
fore his election to the fifty-fourth con¬ 
gress. He was re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

ARNOT, JOHN, financier, congressman, 
was born March 31, 1831, in Elmira, N. Y. 
He was three times president of the vil¬ 
lage of Elmira, and was the first mayor 
after its incorporation; and was, subse¬ 
quently, twice elected mayor. He became 
cashier of The Chemung Canal bank, in 
1851, and continued in that position. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth 
congresses. 

ARNOT, MATTHIAS HOLLENBACK, 
capitalist, was born Nov. 10, 1832. As 
president of The Chemung Canal bank, a 
family institution, which has in every 
crisis proved itself as solid as The Bank of 
England, Mr. Arnot has sustained the 
financial credit of Elmira in every storm. 
His art gallery, which has cost not less 
than $300,000, is an evidence that his 
aspirations are higher and better than the 
mere love of gain. Among his practical 
interests are The Chemung Canal bank. 
The Sheldon Saddlery Co., Thomas Briggs 
and Co., brewers, The Junction Canal Co., 
The Seneca Lake Steam Navigation Co., 
The Chemung Plank Road Co., and The 
Elmira Industrial association, of most if 
not all of which he is the head. 

ARRINGTON, ALFRED W., lawyer, 
author, poet, was born in September, 
1810, in Iredell county, N. C. He was a 
prominent lawyer in the southwest, and 
later in Chicago. He was the author of 
The Rangers and Regulators of the Tan- 


aha; Sketches of the Southwest; and 
Poems, with Memoir. He died Dec. 31, 
1867, in Chicago, Ill. 

ARRINGTON, H. ARCHIBALD, con¬ 
gressman, was born in North Carolina. 
He represented that state in congress 
from 1841 to 1845, after which he retired 
to private life. His son, Alfred W. Ar¬ 
rington, attained distinction as a method- 
ist preacher, a lawyer, and judge, and a 
writer for the magazines under the as¬ 
sumed name of Charles Summerfield. 

ARROWSMITH, EUSEBIUS WAL¬ 
LING, lawyer, was born Oct. 3, 1869, in 
New York city. He is a successful law¬ 
yer of Freehold, N. J., and makes a 
specialty of criminal law. He is deputy 
county clerk, and takes an active part in 
democratic politics. 

ARTHUR, CHESTER ALLAN, twenty- 
first president of the United States, was 
born Oct. 5,1830, in Fairfield, Vt. He grad¬ 
uated at Union col¬ 
lege, Schenectady, 
N. Y., 1849; taught 
school and was prin¬ 
cipal of the Pownal 
academy, Vermont. 
Studied law and was 
admitted to the bar, 
and was married to 
Miss Herndon. He 
was a delegate to 
the Saratoga conven¬ 
tion when the re¬ 
publican party of 
New York was formed. Was judge-advo- ' 
cate of the second brigade of state militia 
before me war. In 1860 Governor Edwin 

D. Morgan appointed him engineer-in- 
chief on his staff and afterwards in¬ 
spector-general and quartermaster-gen¬ 
eral, holding the latter office until the 
close of 1863. He practiced law in New 
York city until Nov. 20, 1871, when he 
was appointed collector of customs at 
that port, and reappointed in 1875. In 
1877 he was chairman of the republican 
central committee of New York city, when 
President Hayes issued his order forbid¬ 
ding officers in the civil service from act¬ 
ing as political managers. Mr. Arthur 
neglected to comply with this order and 
was removed by the president in July, 
1878. He was a delegate to the Chicago 
convention in 1880, and a strong support¬ 
er of General Grant. He was nominated 
for vice-president on the first ballot, 
which stood for Chester A. Arthur, 468; 

E. B. Washburne, Illinois, 193; Marshall 
Jewell, Connecticut, 44; Horace Maynard, 
Tennessee, 30; B. K. Bruce, Mississippi, 
8; J. L. Alcorn, Mississippi, 4; E. J. 
Davis, Texas, 2; Thomas Settle, North 
Carolina, 1; Stewart L. Woodford, New 
York, 1. Being elected he took the oath 
of office and became vice-president March 
4, 1881. On being notified by the cabinet 
of the death of President Garfield, he took 
the oath of office as president at his own 
house in New York city, on Sept. 20, 1881, 
at two o’clock in the morning. On reach¬ 
ing Washington, Sept. 22, he again took 
the oath of office before Chief Justice 
Waite. The republican national conven¬ 
tion met at Chicago, June 3, 1884. Those 
receiving the highest number of votes on 
the first ballot were James G. Blaine, 
334%, and Chester A. Arthur, 278. On 
the fourth ballot Mr. Blaine was nomi¬ 
nated. General Arthur retired from the 
presidency March 4, 1885, and died Nov. 
18, 1886, in New York city. 

ARTHUR, CHRISTOPHER, soldier, 
physician, public official, was born Sept. 16, 
1833, in Highland county, Ohio. In 1862 he 
raised a company for the seventy-fifth In¬ 
diana volunteers, of which he was chosen 
captain. A few days later he was appoint¬ 


ed surgeon of the regiment, which was as¬ 
signed to the fourteenth army corps. With 
this command he served through the en¬ 
tire Atlanta campaign. At the battle of 
Chickamauga he was taken prisoner, and 
sent first to Atlanta, and finally to Libby 
prison. He has identified himself with 
the public schools of Camden, where he 
lived for some years, and is now presi¬ 
dent and a stockholder of the Citizens’ 
bank. He has a very large and interesting 
collection of archaeological specimens. 

ARTHUR, JESSE, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Jan. 14, 1846, in Kershaw county, 
S. C. He attended a private school until 
September, 1863, when he entered the 
confederate army, and served through the 
war. He was made prisoner in front of 
Richmond on Aug. 15, 1864; and was re¬ 
leased in March of the following year. 
In 1889 he moved to Washington terri¬ 
tory, attained prominence as an able law¬ 
yer; and in 1892 was elected superior 
court judge of the state of Washington 
for Spokane county, which position he 
still holds. 

ARTHUR, JOSEPH CHARLES, botan¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 11, 1850, in Lowville, 
N. Y. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the public schools of Iowa; 
studied four years at the Iowa Agricult¬ 
ural college, taking the degree of B. S.; 
then attended Cornell, receiving the de¬ 
gree D. Sc.; and also studied at Johns 
Hopkins, Harvard, and the university of 
Bonn. He has been instructor in botany 
at the Iowa Agricultural college, the uni¬ 
versity of Wisconsin; and during 1884-87 
was botanist to the Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment station at Geneva, N. Y. Since 1887 
he has been professor of vegetable physi¬ 
ology and pathology in Purdue university. 

ARTHUR, TIMOTHY SHAY, journalist, 
author, was born in 1809 in Newburg, N. 
Y. He was a prolific writer of moral tales, 
with much more excellence of intention 
than literary merit to recommend them, 
but which have enjoyed a very extensive 
popularity. He was the author of Ten 
Nights in a Bar-Room; Six Nights with 
the Washingtonians; and Tales of Mar¬ 
ried Life, which are well known works. 
His life was nearly all spent in Philadel¬ 
phia. He died March 6, 1885, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

ARTHUR, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1796 in Antrim, Ireland. 
He was graduated at Belfast college, 
came to the United States, studied law 
for a short time, and was then called to 
the baptist ministry. After preaching 
in Vermont and western New York, he 
was settled as pastor of the Calvary bap¬ 
tist church of Albany, N. Y., where he 
remained from 1855 to 1863. He after¬ 
ward removed to Schenectady, where he 
published a magazine called the Anti¬ 
quarian, to whose pages he contributed 
much curious learning on a variety of 
topics. He published an Etymological 
Dictionary of Family and Christian 
Names. Dr. Arthur was noted for his at¬ 
tainments in the classics and in history, 
both sacred and profane. His son, Ches¬ 
ter Allan Arthur, was twenty-first presi¬ 
dent of the United States. He died Oct. 
27, 1875, in Newtonville, N. Y. 

ARTHUR, WILLIAM E., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born March 3, 1825, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He removed with his 
parents to Covington, Ky., where he was 
educated; studied law, and was admitted 
to the bar in 1850. He was elected at¬ 
torney for the ninth judicial district, and 
served from 1856 to 1862; was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1860; elected judge of the 
ninth judicial district in 1866; and was 
elected to the forty-second and forty- 
third congresses. 



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ASBURY, A. EDGAR, banker, business 
man, was born Aug. 16, 1836, in Virginia. 
He received his education at the Rector 
college, Virginia, and at Allegheny college 
of Meadville, Pa. He served four years in 
the war and was captain in the confed¬ 
erate states army. This successful finan¬ 
cier and business man has been the presi¬ 
dent of the American bank of Higgins- 
ville, Mo., for the past twenty years. 

ASBURY, FRANCIS, bishop of the 
methodist episcopal church, was born 
Aug. 20, 1745, in Handsworth, England. 
For thirty-two years, Bishop Asbury 
traveled yearly through the United States, 
ordaining not less than three thousand 
preachers, and preaching about seventeen 
thousand sermons. He died March 31, 
1816, in Spottsylvania, Va. 

ASH, MICHAEL W., congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1835 to 1837. 


ASHBOTH, ALEXANDER SANDOR, 
general, was born Dec. 18, 1811, in Hun¬ 
gary. He served in the Austrian army, 
and afterwards de- 
voted himself to en¬ 
gineering. In 1861 
he offered his serv¬ 
ices to the govern¬ 
ment, and went as 
chief of Fremont’s 
staff to Missouri; 
and was made a 
brigadier-general. In 
1865 he was brevet- 
t e d major-general 
_for services in Flor¬ 
ida; and was ap¬ 
pointed minister to the Argentine Repub¬ 
lic in 1866. He died Jan. 21, 1868, in 
Buenos Ayres. 



ASHBURN, GEORGE W., soldier, was 
born in Georgia. During the civil war he 
was a strong opponent of secession, and 
raised a company of southern loyalists, 
subsequently enlarged to a regiment, of 
which he was colonel. On his return 
home after the war he boldly advocated 
the congressional plan of reconstruction. 
He was chosen a delegate to the Georgia 
constitutional convention of 1867, and did 
much toward perfecting the constitution 
of his state. He died April 1, 1868. 



ASHBURN, JESSE ANDERSON, farm¬ 
er, clergyman, state senator, was born 
Dec. 21, 1861, near Pilot Mountain, N. C. 

He is a farmer and 
a noted clergyman of 
Ashburn, N. C. As 
an orator he is well 
known in the south; 
where he is also 
prominent as a polit¬ 
ical speaker. In 1896 
he was elected a 
member of the 
North Carolina state 
senate; has taken a 
prominent part in 
the deliberations of 
that body; at all times advocating with 
voice and pen all progressive measures in 
the interests of the commonwealth. 


ASHBURNER, CHARLES ALBERT, 
geologist, was born Feb. 9, 1854, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 1880 he was appointed 
geologist in charge of the survey of the 
anthracite coal fields, where he originated 
a method for surveying and representing 
the geology of this great coal-bed which 
has received the approbation of mining 
engineers and geologists both in the 
United States and in Europe. He died 
Dec. 24, 1889, in Pittsburg, Pa. 


ASHBY, TURNER, soldier, was born in 
1824, in Rose Hill, Va. He raised a regi¬ 
ment of cavalry, and made so distin¬ 
guished a record as a cavalry officer, that 
he was appointed brigadier-general in the 
confederate provisional army in 1861. He 
died June 5, 1862. 

ASHE, JOHN, soldier, was born in 1720, 
and was a general in the continental 
army. He died Oct. 24, 1781, in Sampson 
county, N. C. 

ASHE, JOHN B., congressman, was 
born in 1748 in Rocky Point, N. C., and 
was a son of John Baptiste Ashe. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Tennessee, from 1843 to 1845, representing 
the tenth district. He died Nov. 27, 1802, 
in Halifax, N. C. 

ASHE, JOHN BAPTISTE, congressman, 
governor, was born in 1748, in Rocky 
Point, N. C. He was a delegate to the 
continental congress in 1787 and 1788; 
was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina from 1790 to 1793; and 
was one of those who voted for locating 
the seat of government on the Potomac. 
He was elected governor of the state of 
North Carolina in 1801. He died Nov. 27, 
1802, in Halifax, N. C. 

ASHE, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1725, in North Caro¬ 
lina, and was a brother of General John 
B. Ashe, of the old congress. He was a 
lawyer of ability, a citizen of exalted pa¬ 
triotism, and a soldier in emergencies. 
He was a leading member of the North 
Carolina congress; chief justice of the 
state from 1777 to 1796; and governor of 
North Carolina from 1795 to 1798. He 
died Feb. 3, 1813, in Rocky Point, N. C. 

ASHE, SAMUEL A’COURT, lawyer, 
journalist, was born Sept. 13, 1840, near 
Wilmington, N. C. He attended the 
Georgetown Mathematical academy, Rug¬ 
by academy, Oxford Military academy, 
and the United States Naval academy. 
He served as a captain in the confederate 
army; has been postmaster of Raleigh, 
N. C.; and chairman of the state demo¬ 
cratic executive committee. He has at¬ 
tained prominence as a successful jour¬ 
nalist and an able lawyer. 

ASHE, THOMAS SAMUEL, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Orange county, 
N. C. He graduated at the university of 
North Carolina in 1832; studied law and 
pursued that profession; and in 1842 was 
elected a member of the legislature of 
North Carolina. In 1847 he was elected 
solicitor of the fifth judicial district of 
North Carolina, and served in that ca¬ 
pacity four years; in 1854 was elected 
to the state senate; in 1861 was elected 
to the house of representatives of the 
confederate states; to the senate of the 
confederate congress in 1864; and was 
one of the councilors of state in 1866; 
He was elected to the forty-third and 
forty-fourth congresses. 

ASHE, WILLIAM S., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Wilmington, N. C., and 
was the son of John Baptiste Ashe. He 
was a lawyer by profession; served in 
the state legislature in 1846, and was re¬ 
elected in 1848. He was a representative 
in congress from 1849 to 1853. He was 
killed on a railroad in 1864, near Wil¬ 
mington, N. C. 

ASHHURST, JOHN, surgeon, author, 
was born Aug. 23, 1839, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He graduated from the university 
of Pennsylvania in 1857, and at the medi¬ 
cal department in 1860, and from 1862 till 
1865 he served as acting assistant sur¬ 
geon in the United States army. Since 
1877 he has been professor of clinical 
surgery in the university of Pennsylvania, 
and he has been connected with several 


hospitals. He is the author of Injuries of 
the Spine; and Principles and Practice of 
Surgery; and the editor of Transactions 
of the international Medical Congress; 
and the International Encyclopaedia of 
Surgery, in six volumes. 

ASHLEY, CHESTER, lawyer, United 
States senator, was born June 1, 1790, m 
Westfield, Mass. He established himself 
in Little Rock, Ark., then a mere landing, 
and was chosen a senator in congress 
from Arkansas in 1844. He died April 27, 
1848, in Washington City. 

ASHLEY, CLARENCE DEGRAND, law¬ 
yer, was born July 21, 1851, in Boston, 
Mass. He organized the Metropolis Law 
school of New York city, and accepted a 
professorship in its faculty. He was ap¬ 
pointed to the chair of contracts in Uni¬ 
versity Law school; became vice-dean of 
its faculty and executive head of the even¬ 
ing department. 

ASHLEY, DELOS R., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 19, 1828, in Arkansas. 
He went to California in 1849, where he 
held the office of district attorney in 
1851-53; was a member of the California 
assembly in 1854-55; a state senator in 
1856-57; and state treasurer in 1862-63. 
Early in 1864 he moved to Nevada, and 
was elected a representative from that 
state to the thirty-ninth and fortieth con¬ 
gresses. He died July 18, 1873, in San 
Francisco, Cal. 

ASHLEY, HENRY, congressman, was 
born in Cheshire county, N. H. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Delaware and Greene counties, N. Y., from 
1825 to 1827. 

ASHLEY, JAMES M., lawyer, merchant, 
congressman, governor, was born Nov. 14, 
1824, in Pittsburg, Pa. In 1849 he was 
admitted to the bar 
of Ohio; but aban¬ 
doned that profes¬ 
sion for the business 
of boat building. He 
was also connected 
with the press for 
awhile; and subse¬ 
quently went into 
the wholesale drug 
business in Toledo, 
Ohio. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative 
from Ohio to the 
thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth, 
thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. In 
1866 he was a delegate to the Philadel¬ 
phia loyalists’ convention. He was sub¬ 
sequently appointed governor of the ter¬ 
ritory of Montana. 

ASHLEY, OSSIAN D„ soldier, railway 
president, was born April 9, 1821, in 
Townshend, Vt. In 1889 he was elected 
president of the Toledo, Wabash and 
Western Railroad Co., which position he 
still holds. For a number of years he 
was connected with the Boston Journal 
as its financial editor, and also a frequent 
contributor to the New York Tribune. 
He served in the civil war and attained 
the rank of colonel. 

ASHLEY, WILLIAM H., congressman, 
governor, was born in 1778, in Powhatan 
county, Va. He was the first lieutenant- 
governor of Missouri, after it became a 
state; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress, from 1831 to 1837. He died March 
26, 1838, in Boonville, Mo. 

ASHMEAD, HENRY GRAHAM, lawyer, 
author, was born June 30, 1838, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was local editor of the 
Chester Evening News, The Delaware 
County Republican, and other newspapers. 
He is the author of History of Delaware 
County, Pa.; History of Pennsylvania; 
and Historical Sketches of Chester-on- 
Delaware. 






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ASHMEAD, ISSAC, printer, was born 
Dec. 22, 1790, in Germantown, Pa. He 
was apprenticed to William Bradford, and 
in 1821 founded what is now the oldest 
printing establishment in Philadelphia. 
He set up the first power-presses ever 
used in that city, and introduced com¬ 
position rollers. He was one of the 
founders of the American Sunday School 
union, and printed its publications. He 
also aided in establishing the American 
Presbyterian and the Presbyterian Quar¬ 
terly. He died March 1, 1870, in Phila¬ 
delphia. 

ASHMORE, JOHN D., congressman, 
was born Aug. 7, 1819, in Greenville, S. C. 
When quite young he filled various offices 
in the state militia; was a member of 
the South Carolina legislature in 1848, 
1850, and 1852; in 1853 was elected comp¬ 
troller-general of the state for two years 
and was re-elected for a second term. 
He was subsequently elected a representa¬ 
tive from South Carolina to the thirty- 
sixth congress. 

ASHMORE, OTIS, educator, astronomer, 
was born March 6, 1853, in Lincoln coun¬ 
ty, Ga. He has always been engaged in 
educational work. For ten years he was 
science teacher in the Savannah High 
school, and is now superintendent of 
schools of that city. He is the author of 
Grier’s Almanac, the best known annual 
publication of the kind in the south; 
and has also attained prominence as a 
noted astronomer. 

ASHMUN, ELI PORTER, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born June 24, 
1770, in Blandford, Mass. He was a dis¬ 
tinguished lawyer, and for several years a 
member of the house of representatives 
and senate of Massachusetts. In 1816 
he was elected to succeed C. Gore as 
senator from that state in congress. He 
died May 10, 1819, in Northampton, Mass. 

ASHMUN, GEORGE, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 25,1804, in Blandford, 
Mass. He graduated at Yale college in 
1823; studied law, 
and settled in 
Springfield in 1828; 
served in the state 
legislature during 
the years 1833, 1835, 
1836, 1838, and 1841, 
officiating as speaker 
of the house in the 
latter year. He was 
a representative in 
congress from 1845 
to 1851. In 1860 he 
was president of the 
Chicago convention; and in 1866 was 
chosen a delegate to the Philadelphia 
National Union convention. He died July 
17, 1870, in Springfield, Mass. 

ASHMUN, JEHUDI, missionary, author, 
was born April, 1794, in Champlain, N. Y. 
He was placed in charge of an expedi¬ 
tion to reinforce the colony of Liberia; 
remained in the colony for six years, but 
in 1828 he was obliged to return home 
on account of ill-health. He was the au¬ 
thor of a volume entitled Memoirs of 
Samuel Bacon. He died Aug. 25, 1828, in 
Boston, Mass. 

ASHMUN, JOHN HOOKER, jurist, was 
born July 3, 1800, in Blandford, Mass. He 
was the son of Senator Eli P. Ashmun, 
was graduated at Harvard in 1818, and, 
on the establishment of the law depart¬ 
ment of that university, appointed its 
first professor, under the endowment of 
Isaac Royall. Prior to this he was asso¬ 
ciated with Judge Howe and Elijah J. 
Mills in establishing a law school in 
Northampton. He died April 1, 1833, in 
Cambridge, Mass. 


ASHTON, J. HUBLEY, lawyer. He was 
a citizen of Pennsylvania, from which 
state he was, in 1864, appointed assist¬ 
ant attorney-general of the United States, 
serving three years. He was re-appointed 
in 1868, serving one year; and was sub¬ 
sequently associated with the court for 
the settlement of the Alabama claims. 

ASPER, JOEL F., somier, journalist, 
congressman, was born April 20, 1822, in 
Adams county, Pa. He studied law and 
came to the bar in 1844, writing fre¬ 
quently for the newspapers; was elected a 
justice of the peace in 1846, and in 1847 
prosecuting attorney for his county. He 
was a delegate to the Buffalo convention 
of 1848; editor of the Western Reserve 
Chronicle in 1849, and of the Chardon 
Democrat in 1850. In 1861 he raised a 
company and was mustered into the vol¬ 
unteer army as captain, and was pro¬ 
moted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. 
In 1866 he started a paper at Chillicothe, 
Mo., called the Spectator, and, while edit¬ 
ing that journal and practicing law, was, 
in 1868, elected a representative from Mis¬ 
souri to the forty-first congress. He died 
Oct. 1, 1872, in Chillicothe, Mo. 

ASPINALL, NOVITAS B., physician 
and surgeon, was born Oct. 28, 1857, in 
Liverpool, England. He studied medi¬ 
cine under his father, Doctor R. H. Aspin- 
all, a practicing physician of Liverpool, 
England. He graduated in 1879 from the 
college of Physicians and Surgeons in 
London; and after doing hospital work 
for two years, came to the United States 
and practiced in Chicago, where he was 
a medical director in Dr. Borton’s sani¬ 
tarium. In 1892 he moved to Plymouth, 
Ind., where he is city physician, and sur¬ 
geon in the county infirmary. Dr. Aspin- 
all is a member of the Indiana State Medi¬ 
cal society, the American Medical associa¬ 
tion, and other prominent medical bodies. 

ASPINWALL, THOMAS, soldier, was 
born May 23, 1786, in Brookline, Mass. He 
was graduated at Harvard in 1804, and 
studied law with William Sullivan. He 
was major of the ninth United States in¬ 
fantry in the war of 1812, and for gallant 
conduct at Saekett’s Harbor received the 
brevet of lieutenant-colonel, and that of 
colonel for the sortie from Fort Erie, 
in which he lost an arm. From 1815 to 
1853 he was United States consul at 
London. He died Aug. 11, 1876. 

ASTOR, JOHN JACOB, merchant, was 
born July 17, 1763, in Germany. His oc¬ 
cupation was the purchase of furs from 
the Indian tribes and the shipment of 
them to Europe. The greatest venture 
of Mr. Astor was the founding of Astoria 
at the mouth of the Columbia river in 
1809. He planted there a fort and a settle¬ 
ment, in person, won the friendship of 
the Indian tribes, and, during his four 
years of control, carried on a large trade. 
He also founded the Astor library of New 
York by his bequest of $400,000. At 
an early period it became necessary for 
Mr. Astor to employ ships of his own 
in exporting furs to Europe. The return 
of these vessels laden with merchandise 
led him into an extensive foreign trade. 
He gradually acquired a large fleet, and 
his ships ploughed every ocean of the 
globe and carried cargoes both to and 
from England, Germany, France, Russia, 
China and America, the cargoes usually 
being purchased and sold on Mr. Astor’s 
account. He died March 29, 1848, in New 
York city. 

ASTOR, JOHN JACOB, third of the 
name, soldier, capitalist, was born June 
10, 1823, in New York city, and was a 
son of William B. Astor. At the out¬ 
break of the civil war Mr. Astor enlisted 
as a volunteer, and served with credit on 


the staff of General McClellan. After the 
war he remained in business with his 
father. After his father’s death in 1875, 
Mr. Astor increased his inheritance by 
continuing the purchase and improve¬ 
ment of real estate. At his death he was 
the largest owner of real estate in New 
York city, aside from the Trinity Church 
corporation. His estate was estimated 
variously between $75,000,000 and $100,- 
000,000, the bulk of it going to his son, 
William Waldorf Astor, now the head of 
the family. He gave legacies of $400,000 to 
The Astor library, $100,000 each to St. 
Luke’s and the Cancer hospitals, and 
other sums to kindred public objects. He 
died Feb. 22, 1890, in New York city. 

ASTOR, JOHN JACOB, fourth of the 
name, capitalist, was born July 13, 1864, 
at Ferncliff, N. Y„ and a son of William 
Astor. The influence of his name has 
been sought by financial institutions and 
he is a director in The National Park 
bank, The Title Guarantee and Trust Co., 
The Mercantile Trust Co., The Illinois 
Central railway, The Second National 
bank, and The Plaza bank. Already the 
possessor of many buildings in this city, 
Mr. Astor’s civic pride, energy and busi¬ 
ness sagacity combined promise to place 
upon the island of Manhattan several 
splendid buildings during the long busi¬ 
ness career which is before him. Vari¬ 
ous' plans are now in contemplation. He 
is fond of the study of science and phil¬ 
osophy, and he has written a book en¬ 
titled A Journey in Other Worlds: A 
Romance of the Future, which was su¬ 
perbly illustrated. 

ASTOR, WILLIAM, capitalist, was born 
July 12, 1829, in New York city, and a 
son of William B. Astor. In 1875 a visit 
to Florida awoke his interest in the vast 
undeveloped resources of that state; and 
it is believed that his enterprise, during 
the next ten years, accomplished more 
for Florida than that of any of his con¬ 
temporaries. He built a railroad from 
St. Augustine to PalatKa, constructed sev¬ 
eral modern blocks of buildings in Jack¬ 
sonville, and led other men of means to 
join in the work of re-creating a new Flor¬ 
ida in place of the old one. His services 
were so valuable that the state govern- ’ 
ment voted him a grant of eighty thou¬ 
sand acres of land. He died April 25, 1892, 
in Paris, France. 

ASTOR, WILLIAM BACKHOUSE, mer¬ 
chant, was born Sept. 19, 1792, in New 
York. Upon his father’s death Mr. Astor 
became the sole heir of an immense es¬ 
tate. Thereafter he devoted himself to 
the preservation and growth of his prop¬ 
erty. He was a progressive man and 
one of the most, active builders of his 
generation. It was said in 1867 that he 
had inherited and built seven hundred 
and twenty dwellings and stores in this 
city. He had also promoted important 
railroad and insurance enterprises. He 
added $250,000 to the endowment of the 
Astor library, and made a total of $550,000 
in gifts to that institution. His estate 
was divided mainly and equally between 
his sons, John Jacob and William Astor. 
He died Nov. 24, 1875, in New York city. 

ASTOR, WILLIAM WALDORF, mil¬ 
lionaire, was born March 31, 1848, in New 
York city, N. Y. He was chiefly educated 
by private tutors at his home, and in Eu¬ 
rope; and graduated from Columbia col¬ 
lege law school in 1875. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the state legislature in 1878; 
a state senator in 1880 and 1881; and was 
appointed envoy extraordinary and min¬ 
ister plenipotentiary of the United States 
to Italy in 1882-85. He is the proprie¬ 
tor of the Pall Mall Gazette, of London, 
England; and the author of two books. 




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ATCHESON, WILLIAM HENRY, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Feb. 24, 1853, in Gene¬ 
see county, N. Y. He received a thorough 
education, and is a graduate of the Chi¬ 
cago Theological seminary. He has at¬ 
tained success as a clergyman, and now 
fills a pastorate in Bloomer, Wis. He 
has contributed valuable articles to the 
religious press. 

ATCHISON, DAVID R., lawyer, United 
States senator, was born Aug. 11, 1807, 
in Frogtown, Ky. He was educated for 
the bar; removed to Missouri in 1830; 
and was elected to the legislature of that 
state in 1834 and 1838. In 1841 he was 
appointed judge of the Platte county cir¬ 
cuit court; and during the year 1843 was 
appointed a senator in congress, to which 
position he was subsequently elected for 
two successive terms, serving until 1855. 
He died in 1886. 

ATHERTON, CHARLES GORDON, 
lawyer, United States senator, was born 
July 4, 1804, in Amherst, N. H. He grad¬ 
uated at Cambridge 
in 1822; studied law; 
and was for many 
years in the legisla¬ 
ture of New Hamp¬ 
shire, and for three 
years speaker of the 
house. He was a 
representative i n 
congress from 1837 
to 1843; a United 
States senator in 
congress from 1843 
to 1849; and in 1852 
was elected a United States senator to fill 
a vacancy. He died Nov. 15, 1853, in 
Manchester, N. H. 

ATHERTON, CHARLES HUMPHREY, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 
1773, in Amherst, N. H. He graduated at 
Harvard college in 1794; held the office 
of register of probate from 1798 to 1807; 
and was a representative in congress 
from 1815 to 1817. He stood at the head 
of the bar in Hillsboro county for many 
years; and was a member of the state 
legislature in 1823, and again in 1838 and 
1839. He died Jan. 8, 1853, in Amherst, 


ATHERTON, GEORGE W., soldier, col¬ 
lege president, was born June 20, 1837, in 
Boxford, Mass. He graduated from Yale 
college in 1863, and was appointed first 
lieutenant of the tenth Connecticut vol¬ 
unteers, and remained in command of 
his company through the battles of Roan¬ 
oke and Newbern. In 1882 he became 
president of the Pennsylvania State col¬ 
lege at Harrisburg, Pa. 

ATHERTON, GERTRUDE, author, was 
born Oct. 30, 1857, in San Francisco, Cal. 
She is a grand-niece of Benjamin Frank¬ 
lin, and the author of What Dreams May 
Come; Hermia Suydam; The Dooms- 
woman; Before the Gringo Came; A 
Whirl Asunder: Patience Sparhawk and 
Her Times; His Fortunate Grace; and 
Valiant Runaways. 

ATHERTON, GIBSON, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 19, 1831, in Lick¬ 
ing county, Ohio. He graduated at Miami 
university, Ohio, in 1853; studied law; 
was admitted to the bar in 1855; and en¬ 
gaged in practice at Newark, Ohio. He 
was prosecuting attorney from 1857 to 
1863; was mayor from 1860 to 1864; was 
a delegate to the democratic national con¬ 
vention of 1876; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Ohio to the forty-sixth 
and forty-seventh congresses. 


ATHERTON, JOSHUA, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born June 20, 1737, in Harvard, 
Mass. He was graduated at Harvard in 
1762; studied law, and began practice in 
Petersham. Shortly afterward he re¬ 
moved to Litchfield, and in 1773, having 
been appointed register of probate in 
Hillsborough county, he settled in Am¬ 
herst. He became a member of the conven¬ 
tion appointed to consider the federal con¬ 
stitution, and opposed its adoption on ac¬ 
count of the provisions concerning slaves 
and slavery. Subsequently he was elect¬ 
ed to the New Hampshire legislature, and 
in 1793 he was made attorney-general of 
the state. He was also for a time com¬ 
missioner for the United States direct tax. 
He died April 3, 1809, in Amherst, Mass. 

ATKINS, JOHN D. C., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 4, 1825, in 
Henry county, Tenn. He graduated at 
the East Tennessee university in 1846; 
studied law; and was elected a member 
of the legislature in 1849 and in 1851. He 
was elected to the state senate in 1855; 
chosen a presidential elector in 1856; 
elected a representative in congress in 
1857; and was a presidential elector in 
1860. He was lieutenant-colonel of the 
fifth Tennessee regiment in the confed¬ 
erate army in 1861; was elected to the 
confederate provisional congress in Au¬ 
gust, 1861, and re-elected in 1863. He 
was elected a representative from Tennes¬ 
see to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses; and in 1885 was appointed com¬ 
missioner of Indian affairs. 

ATKINSON, ARCHIBALD, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 
1792, in the Isle of Wight county, Va. 
Upon leaving the army he commenced 
the practice of law in Smithfield, and was 
a member of the general assembly from 
1815 to 1817, and also of the house of del¬ 
egates and state senate for several years. 
In 1843 he was elected a representative 
in congress from Virginia, and served 
until 1848; was a member of the commit¬ 
tee on naval affairs and commerce; was 
prosecuting attorney for his county twen¬ 
ty years; mayor of Smithfield; and a 
magistrate. He died Jan. 10, 1872, in Isle 
of Wight, Va. 

ATKINSON, BYRON A., business man, 
was born in 1854 in Sackville, N. B. He 
is the owner of the largest housefurnish¬ 
ing establishment in the United States 
in the city of New York. 

ATKINSON, CLARENCE T„ lawyer, 
lecturer, author, was born Dec. 23, 1863, 
in Columbus, N. J. He graduated from 
the Columbus semi¬ 
nary and from the 
Adelphic institute of 
Bordentown, N. J. 
He received the 
nomination as a 
member of the New 
Jersey legislature in 
1886, and ran ahead 
of his ticket, but 
failed to carry 
enough votes to se¬ 
cure election. He 
has participated in 
three presidential campaigns, and earned 
a reputation as an able and eloquent ora¬ 
tor. Since 1886 he has steadily refused to 
accept any public office. He is an astute 
and prominent lawyer of Camden, N. J.. 
and a member of the law firm of Gilbert 
and Atkinson. As a lecturer he is well 
known throughout the east, and has con¬ 
tributed numerous articles to law litera¬ 
ture and the periodical press; and many 
of his productions have been incorpo¬ 
rated into standard publications. 


ATKINSON, EDWARD, author, was 
born Feb. 10, 1827, in Brookline, Mass. 
He is a Boston reformer, active in mat¬ 
ters of diet and political economy; and 
the author of The Distribution of Prod¬ 
ucts; Labor and Capital; Industrial 
Progress of the Nation; The Science of 
Nutrition; Margin of Profits; and Taxa¬ 
tion and Work. 

ATKINSON, GEORGE H., missionary, 
was born May 10, 1819, in Newburyport, 
Mass. In 1872 Dr. Atkinson became gen¬ 
eral missionary for Oregon, and in 1880 
superintendent of home missions for Ore¬ 
gon and Washington. He died Feb. 25, 
1889, in Portland, Ore. 

ATKINSON, GEORGE W., lawyer, au¬ 
thor, governor, was born June 29, 1845, 
in Virginia. In 1870 he graduated from 
the Ohio Wesleyan 
university; took a 
post-graduate course 
at Mount Vernon 
college; studied law 
two years; attended 
lectures at Colum- 
b i a n university; 
graduated from the 
law department of 
Howard university; 
and was admitted to 
the bar in 1875. He 
has been eminently 
successful as a lawyer; was four years 
United States marshal for West Virginia; 
was elected to the fifty-first congress 
from Virginia as the representative of 
the Wheeling district; and in 1896 was 
elected to the high office of governor of 
West Virginia. In conjunction with Al¬ 
varo F. Gibbons, he is the author of 
Prominent Men of West Virginia; a Vol¬ 
ume of Poems; and a half-dozen other 
works. 

ATKINSON, HENRY, soldier, was born 
in South Carolina. He entered the army 
as captain in 1808. He was retained in 
the army after the war of 1812; was made 
adjutant-general, and was finally appoint¬ 
ed to the command of the western army. 
He died in June, 1842, in Jefferson bar¬ 
racks. 

ATKINSON, HENRY MORRELL, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, public official, was born Sept. 
9, 1838, in Wheeling, W. Va. He removed 
to Ohio in 1846, with his parents; was 
educated chiefly at the Denverson uni¬ 
versity, Ohio, and in Connecticut; re¬ 
moved to Nebraska in 1857, and engaged 
in the land agency business; studied law 
and came to the bar in 1861. He served 
as adjutant of cavalry, and in 1864 be¬ 
came provost-marshal for southern Ne¬ 
braska. From 1867 to 1871 was register 
of the land office in Nebraska; subse¬ 
quently turned his attention to the law 
and railroad building; in 1873 was ap¬ 
pointed a special commissioner to Mexico; 
and in 1875 was appointed commissioner 
of pensions in Washington. 

ATKINSON, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 6, 1835, in Deerfield, N. J. 
He is a clergyman of prominence in the 
methodist church; and the author of The 
Living Way; Memorials of Methodism in 
New Jersey; The Garden of Sorrows; 
The Class Leader; and Centennial His¬ 
tory of American Methodism. 

ATKINSON, JOHN M. P., educator, 
college president, was born Jan. 10, 1817, 
in Mansfield, Va. In 1857-83 he was elect¬ 
ed president of the Hampden Sidney col¬ 
lege. He died in 1883. 










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ATKINSON, LOUIS E., physician, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born April 16, 
1841, in Juniata county, Pa. He was edu¬ 
cated in the common 
schools and at Airy 
View and Milnwood 
academies; studied 
medicine, and grad¬ 
uated at the medical 
department of the 
University of the 
City of New York, 
March 4, 1861. He 
entered the medical 
department. United 
States army. Sept. 
5, 1861; served as 
assistant surgeon of the first Pennsylva¬ 
nia reserve cavalry, and surgeon of the 
one hundred and eighty-eighth Pennsyl¬ 
vania infantry, and was mustered out in 
December, 1865; was disabled while in the 
army, and, being unable to practice medi¬ 
cine, studied law; was admitted to the 
bar in September, 1870, and has practiced 
law since that time. He was elected to 
the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, 
fifty-first, and fifty-second congresses. 

ATKINSON, THEODORE. soldier, 
jurist, was born Dec. 20, 1697, in New 
Castle, N. H. He graduated at Harvard 
university in 1718; was secretary of the 
colony in 1741; chief justice in 1754, and 
major-general of militia in 1769, but the 
revolution deprived him of all these 
offices. He was a delegate to the congress 
at Albany in 1754, and was one of the 
committee that drew up the plan of Union 
for the defense of the colonies. He was 
for many years in the legislature and 
council; also held the office of clerk of 
the court of common pleas; was colonel 
of militia, and in active service during 
the French and Indian wars. He died 
Sept. 22, 1779. 

ATKINSON, THOMAS, bishop, was 
born Aug. 6, 1807, in Mansfield, Va. He 
was elected bishop of North Carolina in 
1853. He attended the general convention 
of the episcopal church in 1865, and did 
much to hasten the reunion of the north¬ 
ern and southern dioceses. He died Jan. 
4, 1881, in Wilmington, N. C. 

ATKINSON, WILLIAM BIDDLE, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born June 21, 1832, in 
Haverford, Delaware county, Pa. He was 
educated in Philadelphia, and graduated 
from the Central high school; and in 
1853 graduated from the Jefferson Medi¬ 
cal college. He has written many arti¬ 
cles for medical journals on subjects in 
general practice and the diseases of chil¬ 
dren. He is author of The Physician and 
Surgeons of the United States; Hints in 
the Obstetric Procedure; Therapeutics of 
Gynaecology and Obstetric; and various 
other works. Dr. Atkinson has been the 
permanent secretary of the American 
Medical association since 1864, and of the 
State Medical society of Pennsylvania 
since 1862. He was lecturer on Diseases 
of Children at the Jefferson Medical col¬ 
lege during 1877-86; professor of sanitary 
science and pediatrics in the Medico- 
Chirurgical college of Philadelphia dur¬ 
ing 1888-91. During the civil war he was 
assistant surgeon of United States volun¬ 
teers. He is also the associate editor of 
the Medical and Surgical Reporter of 
Philadelphia; and contributes extensively 
to medical journals. 

ATKINSON, WILLIAM ELRIE, lawyer, 
was born July 24, 1852, in Shelby county, 
Ala. He has attained success as a noted 
lawyer; in 1885 was a delegate to the 
congressional convention, and was one 
of the leading spirits in founding the 
Ouachita Baptist college at Arkadelphia. 



ATKINSON, WILLIAM PARSONS, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born in 1820 in Mas¬ 
sachusetts, and was a brother of E. At¬ 
kinson. He was a professor of history at 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technol¬ 
ogy; and the author of The Right Use of 
Books; History and the Study of His¬ 
tory; and Classical and Scientific Studies. 
He died in 1890. 

ATLEE, JOHN LIGHT, was born Nov. 

2, 1799, in Pennsylvania. Dr. Atlee’s op¬ 
eration for double ovariotomy in 1843 was 
the first in the history of medicine. He 
was one of the founders of the Lancaster 
City and County Medical society in 1843, 
and twice served as its president. He 
assisted in organizing the Pennsylvania 
Medical society in 1848, and became its 
president in 1857, and was also one of the 
organizers of the American Medical as¬ 
sociation in Philadelphia, and was elected 
vice-president in 1865, and president in 
1882. At the union of Franklin and Mar¬ 
shall colleges, in 1853, he became pro¬ 
fessor of anatomy and physiology, and 
continued there until 1869. He died Oct. 

1, 1885, in Pennsylvania. 

AT LEE, SAMUEL JOHN, soldier, 
statesman, was born in 1738. He com¬ 
manded a Pennsylvania company in the 
French war; and in 1776 commanded an 
advanced battalion on Long Island; was 
made prisoner and remained some time 
in the hands of the British. He was af¬ 
terward a commissioner to treat with 
the Indians; was a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1778 to 1782, and 
one of the committee on the meeting of 
Pennsylvania troops in 1781. He died 
November, 1786, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ATLEE, WASHINGTON LEMUEL, 
surgeon, author, was born Feb. 22, 1808, 
in Lancaster, Pa. He was a noted sur¬ 
geon of Philadelphia, and the author of 
Ovarian Tumors and Ovariotomy. He 
died Sept. 6, 1878. 

ATTWOOD, JULIUS, banker, was born 
Feb. 23, 1824, in East Haddam. Conn. In 
1859 he was elected judge of the probate 
court; from 1873-74 was a member of the 
general assembly of Connecticut; and in 
1883 was elected president of the Na¬ 
tional bank of New England. 

ATWATER, AMZI, pioneer, was born 
May 23, 1776, in New Haven, Conn. He 
settled in Mantua, Ohio, in 1800; and on 
the organization of Portage county was 
elected one of the county judges. He died 
June 22, 1851. 

ATWATER, CALEB, lawyer, legislator, 
author, was born Dec. 25, 1778, in North 
Adams, Mass. He was graduated at Wil¬ 
liams college in 1804; studied law, and be¬ 
came a successful practitioner. He moved 
to Ohio in 1811, where for some years he 
was a member of the state legislature 
and postmaster of Circleville. He was 
also Indian commissioner under Jack- 
son. He published A Tour to Prairie du 
Chien; Western Antiquities; Writings of 
Caleb Atwater; History of Ohio; and an 
Essay on Education. He died March 13, 
1867, in Circleville, Ohio. 

ATWATER, FRANCIS, author, jour¬ 
nalist and publisher, was -horn in Ply¬ 
mouth, Conn. He learned the printing 
trade early in life, and in 1886 established 
and became president of the Journal Pub¬ 
lishing company, of Meriden, Conn., pro¬ 
prietor of the Meriden Daily News, and 
Connecticut School Journal. He is the 
author of the Histories of Plymouth, 
Conn., and Kent, Conn. 

ATWATER, HORACE COWLES, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1819 in New 
York. He was a clergyman of the meth- 
odist church, south, and published Inci¬ 
dents of a Southern Tour. He died in 1879. 


ATWATER, JOHN W., farmer, state 
senator, was born Dec. 27, 1840. He 
served in the first North Carolina regi¬ 
ment throughout the war, surrendering 
with Lee at Appomattox. When the 
Farmers’ Alliance was organized in Chat¬ 
ham county, N. C., he served as president 
two terms, and afterward for two terms 
as president of the sub-alliance. Has 
represented his people for three terms in 
the state senate. 

ATWATER, LYMAN HOTCHKISS, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Feb. 20, 1813, 
in New Haven, Conn. He was a professor 
of philosophy at Princeton college, and 
long a noted contributor to the Princeton 
Review; and the author of A Manual of 
Elementary Logic. He died Feb. 17, 1883, 
in Princeton, N. J. 

ATWATER, WILBUR OLIN, educator, 
author, was born May 3, 1844, in Johns- 
burg, N. Y. He has been professor of 
chemistry at Wesleyan university since 
1873. He has written extensively upon 
agricultural chemistry, and published 
Co-operative Experimenting as a Means 
of Studying the Effect of Fertilizers; and 
Results of Field Experiments with Vari¬ 
ous Fertilizers. 

ATWELL, WILLIAM HAWLEY, law¬ 
yer, orator, was born June 9, 1869, in La 
Crosse, Wis. He attended the Dallas 
public schools, Texas; the Southwestern 
university, and the State university. In 
1889 he was assistant attorney of Dallas 
county; in 1894 was nominee for attor¬ 
ney-general of Texas. He has been sec¬ 
retary of the State Republican league; 
of the National Committeemen league in 
1896; and is a prominent member in va¬ 
rious societies. He is one of the finest 
speakers in the south, his oratory being 
strong, sparkling and convincing. 

ATWILL, EDWARD ROBERT, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born Feb. 18, 1840, in 
Red Hook, N. Y. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Hudson 
j Classical institute; 
graduated from Co¬ 
lumbia college in 
1862; and was or¬ 
dained in 1864, and 
consecrated a bishop 
in 1890. He was rec¬ 
tor of St. Paul’s 
church of Burling¬ 
ton, Vt.; and in 
1882 became rector 
of the Trinity 
church of Toledo, 
Ohio. Since 1890 he has been bishop of 
west Missouri, residing in Kansas City. 
He has contributed valuable articles to 
church literature and the secular press. 

ATWOOD, ANTHONY, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1801 in New Jersey. 
He was a methodist clergyman, whose 
only published work is The Abiding Com¬ 
forter. He died in 1888. 

ATWOOD, ETHEL, musician, was born 
Sept. 12, 1870, in Fairfield, Maine. She 
has attained success in orchestral work in 
Boston, Mass. She organized the Fadette 
Ladies’ orchestra, which now has thir¬ 
teen regular members in the orchestra, 
which is in constant demand. 

ATWOOD, HARRISON HENRY, archi¬ 
tect, congressman, was born Aug. -6, 
1863, in North Londonderry, Vt. He at¬ 
tended the public schools, graduating in 
1877; studied architecture and began prac¬ 
tice in 1886; has erected many buildings 
in and about Boston. He was elected to 
the Massachusetts house of representa¬ 
tives in 1887-89; was elected twice as dele¬ 
gate to republican national conventions, 
1888 and 1892; was elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a republican. 





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ATWOOD, ISAAC MORGAN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 24, 1838, 
in Pembroke, N. Y. He was educated at 
Loekport, N. Y.; entered the universalist 
ministry in 1859, and was pastor of 
churches in New York, Maine, and Mas¬ 
sachusetts. Since 1879 he has been pres¬ 
ident of Canton Theological seminary, St. 
Lawrence university, where he is also 
professor of theology and ethics. The 
degree of A. M. was conferred on him by 
St. Lawrence university in 1872, and that 
of D. D. by Tufts in 1879. He was editor 
of the Boston Universalist in 1867-72, and 
of the Christian Leader in 1873-75; and 
has been associate editor of the latter 
journal since 1875. He is the author of 
Have We Outgrown Christianity; Glance 
at the Religious Progress of the United 
States; Latest Word of Universalism; 
Walks About Zion; and Manual of Reve¬ 
lation. 

ATWOOD, WILLIAM' A., merchant, 
state senator, was born April 11, 1835, in 
Newfane, N. Y. For the past ten years 
he has been director and vice-president 
of the Genesee County Savings bank, 
and in 1881 he was elected mayor of Flint, 
Mich. He was elected to the Michigan 
state senate in 1887. 

AUBRY, LEANDER J., manufacturer, 
was born May 1, 1848, in Canada. He is 
a successful carriage manufacturer of 
New Haven, Conn.; and manufactures 
carriages for the best makers in the 
United States; carries the leading styles 
of both light and heavy work, and makes 
special and exclusive designs. 

AUDENRIED, JOSEPH C., soldier, was 
born Nov. 6, 1839, in Pottsville, Pa. He 
served through the civil war and was 
brevetted captain in 1866; lieutenant- 
colonel, aide-de-camp, in 1866; and 
colonel aide-de-camp, in 1869. He re¬ 
mained on Gen. Sherman’s staff until his 
death. He died June 3, 1880, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

AUDSLEY, GEORGE ASHDOWN, ar¬ 
chitect, author, was born in 1838 in Scot¬ 
land. He is a Scottish architect and art 
writer of note of Plainfield, N. J. With 
his brother, William James Audsley, he 
has published Colour in Dress; a Manual 
for Ladies; Floral Decoration of 
Churches; Cottage, Lodge, and Village 
Architecture; Outlines of Ornament in 
the Leading Styles; Popular Dictionary 
of Architecture and the Allied Arts, in 
ten volumes; Polychromatic Decoration 
as Applied to Buildings in the Mediaeval 
Styles; and (with James Lord Bowes) 
The Keramic Art of Japan. His separate 
works include Guide to the Art of Illumi¬ 
nating and Missal Painting; Handbook 
of Christian Symbolism; The Art of 
Chromo-Lithography; Notes on Japanese 
Art; and The Ornamental Arts of Japan. 

AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, naturalist, 
author, was born May 4, 1780, near New 
Orleans, La. His admirable work, The 
Birds of America, now in the Astor libra¬ 
ry, sold for $1,000 a copy, and was pro¬ 
nounced by Cuvier to be the most mag¬ 
nificent monument that art ever raised to 
ornithology. His other works are Orni¬ 
thological Biography; and Quadrupeds of 
America. He died Jan. 27, 1851, in New 
York city. 

AUGHEY, JOHN H., educator, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born May 8, 
1828, in New Hartford, N. Y. He grad¬ 
uated from the Franklin college, Ohio, 
and for nearly half a century has been 
a minister of the gospel. For many years 
he was principal of the high school of 
Winchester, Ky.; has served as president 
of the Female college. Miss.; and is now 


pastor of the First Presbyterian church 
of Mulhall, 0. T. He is the author of two 
works entitled Tupeh, and Spiritual 
Gems. 

AUGUR, CHRISTOPHER COLON, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1821 in New York. In 
1843 he graduated from West Point; and 
during the next two 
years served on 

frontier duty. In 

1846 he took part in 
the Mexican war in 
the advance to the 
R i o Grande. In 

1852 he was pro¬ 

moted captain; and 
served with great 
ability in the Indian 
troubles in Oregon 
during 1855-56. He 
served with distinc¬ 
tion through the civil war; and in 1865 
received the brevet of brigadier-general; 
and also the brevet of major-general. He 
commanded at Washington during 1863- 
66, and was promoted colonel of the 
twelfth infantry. In 1869 he was made 
brigadier-general of the United States 
army; and was retired in 1885. His son, 
Jacob Arnold Augur, is also a graduate 
of West Point, and a captain in the fifth 
United States cavalry. 

AUGUR, HEZEKIAH, sculptor, was 
born Feb. 12, 1791, in New Haven, Conn. 
He was unsuccessful in business, and 
turned his attention to sculpture and me¬ 
chanical inventions. His best work, Jep- 
tha and His Daughter, is in the Trumbull 
gallery, Yale college. His most impor¬ 
tant invention was a machine for carving 
wood, which came into general use. He 
died Jan. 10, 1858, in New Haven, Conn. 

AUGUSTIN, JOHN, soldier, author, 
was born Feb. 11, 1838, in New Orleans, 
La. His volume, War Flowers, is a col¬ 
lection of poems that were written by him 
during his service in the confederate 
army. He held at different times the city 
editorship of nearly every newspaper of 
New Orleans. He died Feb. 5, 1888. 

AUGUSTINE, OGDEN W., musician, 
composer, was born in 1841 in Franklin 
county, Ohio. He was educated under 
private teachers. He is teacher of voice 
culture and music in the public schools; 
and the author of a considerable number 
of Sunday school singing books and 
works for classes and musical conven¬ 
tions. 

AUGUSTUS, JOHN, philanthropist, 
was born in 1785. He was a shoemaker, 
doing business in Boston, and devoted his 
means and his labors to aiding and re¬ 
claiming the poor and the vicious. For 
more than twenty years he was a con¬ 
stant visitor to the police courts, seeking 
subjects for his charitable efforts. He 
died June 21, 1859, in Boston, Mass. 

AUHL, MRS. ALICE B., florist, poet. 
Her poems are generally on floral sub¬ 
jects, and have appeared extensively in 
the press of Iowa. She is also the au¬ 
thor of a work on the subject of Flowers. 

AULD, ISAAC N., lawyer, journalist, 
was born March 20, 1858, in Benton coun¬ 
ty, Iowa. He graduated from the Till- 
ford Collegiate academy of Vinton, Iowa. 
In 1882 he moved to Plankinton, S. D., 
where he was city auditor for three 
terms. In 1892 he moved to Oacoma, and 
there established the Gazette-Leader, of 
which he is editor and owner. He was 
twice elected register of deeds; and then 
became state’s attorney for the district 
comprising five adjoining counties. 

AULICK, JOHN H„ naval officer, was 
born in 1789, in Winchester, Va. In 1851 
he was empowered to obtain permission 


to purchase supplies for the United States 
steamers in Japan, and to negotiate a 
treaty of amity and commerce with that 
empire; and commenced the important 
work which was completed by Commo¬ 
dore M. C. Perry. He died April 27, 1873, 
in Washington, D. C. 

AULL, ELBERT H., lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Aug. 18, 1857, in 
Newberry county, S. C. In 1880 he grad¬ 
uated from the Newberry college. He 
taught school after graduation, and for 
two years was professor in the Newberry 
college. In 1882 he was admitted to the 
bar, and for three years practiced that 
profession with success. In 1886 he be¬ 
came the editor and owner of the New¬ 
berry Herald News. He was president 
of the South Carolina Press association 
for three years; and is the author of sev¬ 
eral historical works; a School History of 
South Carolina; and other works. 

AULT, JOHN S., soldier, lawyer, was 
born Jan. 3, 1841, in New Philadelphia, 
Mo. He received his education in the 
public schools of Illinois; and graduated 
from the Colonel Wing Law school of 
Salem, Mo. He has been a lieutenant of 
cavalry, justice of the peace, mayor of 
Salem, Mo.; besides filling numerous 
other offices of trust. He has attained 
success as an able lawyer of his state. 

AULTMAN, CORNELIUS, manufactur¬ 
er, was born March 10, 1827. In 1851 he 
entered into partnership with Ephraim 
Ball, an ingenious inventor, in the firm 
of Ball, Aultman and Co., and engaged 
in the-manufacture of the plows and 
stoves patented by Mr. Ball. Being a 
man of marked executive ability, Mr. 
Aultman devoted his attention to the gen¬ 
eral affairs of the firm, while Mr. Ball 
continued to invent new devices, which 
the firm took charge of and manufac¬ 
tured. The Ohio mower, the World 
mower and reaper, the Buckeye mower, 
and the New American harvester were 
brought out successively, and were man¬ 
ufactured in enormous quantities. After 
1872 the style was changed to C. Aultman 
and Co. Having accumulated more means 
than could be employed to advantage in 
his own business, Mr. Aultman invested 
his surplus resources in various indus¬ 
trial concerns, including the Wrought 
Iron Bridge company, the Mansfield 
Mower and Reaper works, and Aultman, 
Miller and Co., of Akron, Ohio. He died 
Dec. 25, 1884, in Canton, Ohio. 

AURINGER, OBADIAH CYRUS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 4, 1849, in 
Glens Falls, N. Y. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman of New York state, whose 
writings in verse include Scythe and 
Sword; The Heart of the Golden Roan; 
The Episode of Jane McCrea; and The 
Book of the Hills. 

AUSTEN, PETER TOWNSEND, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Sept. 10, 1852, in 
Clifton, N. Y. He has been professor of 
chemistry at Rutgers college since 1877; 
and has contributed much to scientific 
journals, and published Chemical Lecture 
Notes; and Organic Chemistry, from the 
German of Pinner. 

AUSTILL, HURIEOSCO, soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Feb. 16, 1843, 
in Mobile, Ala., which has always been 
his place of residence. He graduated 
from the university of Alabama, and soon 
attained success as an eminent lawyer. 
During the war he served as a captain in 
the confederate army. He has been a 
member of the Alabama state senate, and 
served with distinction in that body. 

AUSTIN, ARCHIBALD, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1817 to 1819. 




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AUSTIN, ARTHUR E., business man, 
legislator, was born July 23, 1868, in Prov¬ 
idence, R. I. He was educated in the 
public schools of said city; has been for 
the past two years a member of the 
town council, and representative since 
1896; and in 1897 was elected a member 
of the Rhode Island state legislature. 

AUSTIN, ARTHUR WILLIAMS, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1807, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a lawyer of Boston; 
and the author of The Woman and the 
Queen; and Other Specimens of Verse. He 
died in 1884. 

AUSTIN, BENJAMIN, merchant, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 18, 1752, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a Boston merchant, active 
as a political writer, and an especially 
violent champion of democracy. Consti¬ 
tutional Republicanism is a collection of 
some of his contributions to the news¬ 
papers of his day. He died May 4, 1820, 
in Boston, Mass. 

AUSTIN, COE FINCH, botanist, au¬ 
thor, was born June 20, 1831, in Finch- 
ville, N. Y. He was a botanist of Closter, 
N. Y.; and published Musci Appalachani, 
a description of American mosses. He 
died March 18, 1880, in Closter, N. Y. 

AUSTIN, DAVID, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1760 in New Haven, Conn. 
He was graduated at Yale college in 1779; 
and in 1788 was settled as the presbyte- 
rian minister in Elizabethtown, N. J. 
He published The American Preacher, by 
various ministers; The Downfall of Baby¬ 
lon; a Commentary on the Bible; and 
several millennial pamphlets and ser¬ 
mons. He died Feb. 5, 1831, in Norwich, 
Conn. 

AUSTIN, FREDERICK ELLSWORTH, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 6, 1865, 
in Taunton, Mass. He served in the city 
council of Taunton, Mass., where he has 
attained prominence as a political leader. 
In 1894 he was elected as a member of 
the Massachusetts state legislature. 

AUSTIN, GEORGE CURTIS, lawyer, 
legislator, was born July 19, 1863, in 
Saluria, Pa. He is engaged in the prac¬ 
tice of law in New York city, and was 
until recently instructor in the law con¬ 
tracts at the New York Law school. He 
was elected a member of the New York 
assembly in 1895. 

AUSTIN, GEORGE LOWELL, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1849 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a Boston physician 
whose miscellaneous writings include 
Perils of American Women, a Doctor’s 
Talk with Maiden, Wife, and Mother; 
Water Analysis, a Handbook for Water- 
Drinkers; Under the Tide; Life of Franz 
Schubert; Popular History of Massachu¬ 
setts; Life and Deeds of General Grant; 
Longfellow; and Life of Wendell Phillips. 
He died in 1893. 

AUSTIN, HARRIET BUNKER, author, 
poet, was born Dec. 29, 1844, in Erie, Pa. 
Her great-grandfather, Benjamin Bunker, 
was a soldier of the revolution, and was 
killed in the battle of Bunker Hill. The 
hill from which the battle was named 
comprised part of the Bunker estate. She 
received her education in the Woodstock 
High school and Dr. Todd’s Female semi¬ 
nary. She has been a prolific writer; 
and many of her poems have been set to 
music. She is the wife of Mr. W. B. 
Austin, a prosperous merchant of Wood- 
stock, Ill., in which city she lends her in¬ 
fluence to every reform. 

AUSTIN, HELEN VICKROY, journal¬ 
ist, horticulturist, was born in 1829, in 
Miamisburg, Ohio. As a writer of sketch- 
es and essays, and as a reporter and cor¬ 
respondent she has exhibited marked ca¬ 
pacity; but she is best known by her 


writings for the agricultural and horti¬ 
cultural press. 

AUSTIN, HENRY, lawyer, author, was 
born in 1856 in Massachusetts. He is a 
lawyer of Boston, who has written The 
Law Concerning Farms; American Farm 
and Game Laws; American Fish and 
Game Laws; and Liquor Law in New 
England. 

AUSTIN, HENRY WILLARD, journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born in 1858. He is a jour¬ 
nalist of Boston, and the author of Vaga¬ 
bond Verses. 

AUSTIN, HORACE, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, governor of Minnesota, was born 
in 1831 in Connecticut. He received an 
academic education; taught school; re¬ 
moved to Maine, and there studied law. 
In 1856 he removed to Minnesota, where 
he practiced his profession. He served 
as a captain against the Indians in 1863; 
in 1864 was elected a district judge; in 
1869 was elected governor of Minnesota, 
and re-elected for a second term. On ac¬ 
count of his health he retired to private 
life until 1876, when he was appointed 
third auditor of the United States treas¬ 
ury in Washington. 

AUSTIN, JAMES TRECOTHICK, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Jan. 7, 1784, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a prominent lawyer of 
Boston, and published a Life of Elbridge 
Gerry. He died May 8, 1870, in Boston, 
Mass. 

AUSTIN, JANE GOODWIN, novelist, 
was born Feb. 25, 1831, in Worcester, 
Mass. She was the author of Standish of 
Standish; Betty Alden; The Nameless 
Nobleman; Dr. LeBaron and His Daugh¬ 
ters; and various other works. She was 
also the author of numerous meritorious 
poems; and her contributions to the lit¬ 
erature of early New England possess a 
rare value. She died March 30, 1894, in 
Boston, Mass. 

AUSTIN, JONATHAN LORING, patriot, 
was born Jan. 2, 1748, in Boston, Mass. 
He was graduated at Harvard college in 
1766, and became a merchant in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. He was secretary to the 
Massachusetts board of war until October, 
1777, and was sent to France with dis¬ 
patches to Dr. Franklin announcing the 
defeat of Burgoyne and asking for 
clothing and stores for the army. He 
was a state senator for several terms, 
and elected state treasurer, and subse¬ 
quently secretary of state. He died May 
10, 1826, in Boston, Mass. 

AUSTIN, JONATHAN WILLIAMS, 
soldier, was born April 18, 1751, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was graduated at Harvard 
in 1769; studied law in the office of John 
Adams, and admitted to the bar in 1772. 
In the Middlesex convention in 1774 he 
was chairman of the committee that drew 
up the resolutions. He served as a ma¬ 
jor in the revolutionary war, and was 
commandant at Castle William in 1776. 
He died in 1778 in the south. 

AUSTIN, MOSES, Texan pioneer, was 
born in Durham, Conn. He removed to 
the west in 1798, and engaged in lead 
mining. In 1820 he went to Texas, and 
from Bexar forwarded to the Mexican 
commandant at Monterey a petition for 
permission to colonize three hundred 
American families in that section. Re¬ 
turning to Missouri in search of emi¬ 
grants, he was robbed and exposed to 
hardships that caused his death. The 
Mexican authorities granted a tract of 
land for a colony, and his son, Stephen 
F. Austin, founded the settlement. He 
died June 10, 1821, in Louisiana. 

AUSTIN, SAMUEL, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born Oct. 7, 1760, 


in New Haven, Conn. He was a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman of Worcester, Mass, 
1790-1815, and afterwards president of the 
University of Vermont. He was the au¬ 
thor of Views of the Church; Theolog¬ 
ical Essays; and Letters on Baptism. He 
died Dec. 4, 1830, in Glastonbury, Conn. 

AUSTIN, STEPHEN F„ founder of the 
state of Texas, was born about 1790. In 
1821 he conducted a party of emigrants 
from New Orleans to take possession of 
a tract of land granted to his father by 
the Mexican government, and they set¬ 
tled whex-e the city of Austin now stands. 
In 1833 the Texas colonists formed a con¬ 
stitution, and applied for admission to 
the Mexican confederacy, but Mexico be¬ 
ing in a state of anarchy, he failed to 
find recognition. In 1835 he went as com¬ 
missioner to the United States to promote 
the liberation of Texas from Mexico, but 
did not live to see it admitted into the 
Union. He died Dec. 27, 1836, in Texas. 

AUSTIN, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, 
was born March 2, 1778, in Charlestown. 
Mass. He was a Boston lawyer whose 
best claim to remembrance is that he was 
author of the famous sketch Peter Rugg, 
the Missing Man, which appeared in the 
New England Galaxy in 1824. It is a 
very remarkable imaginative study that 
in some respects anticipates the later 
work of Hawthorne. Other works of his 
are Letters from London; and The Hu¬ 
man Character of Jesus Christ. He died 
June 27, 1841, in Charlestown, Mass. 

AUSTIN, WILLIAM HARVEY, lawyer, 
state senator, was born Oct. 22, 1859, in 
Binghamton, N. Y. He came to Wiscon¬ 
sin in the spring of 1869 and settled at 
Portage City; moved to Milwaukee in 
1871, where he has practiced law since 
1879. In 1880 and 1881 he was assistant 
district attorney for Milwaukee county; 
was school commissioner in 1889; and was 
appointed assistant city attorney of t'he 
city of Milwaukee in 1890; and was city 
attorney in 1891. In the fall of 1892 he 
was elected to the Wisconsin state assem¬ 
bly upon the republican ticket from the 
fifteenth and sixteenth wards; he was the 
unanimous choice of his party for speaker 
during the session of 1893. In the fall of 
1894 he was elected state senator. 

AUSTRIAN, JOSEPH, merchant, was 
born Sept. 15, 1833, in Bavaria. About 
1882 the interests were consolidated un¬ 
der the name of the Lake Michigan and 
Lake Superior Transportation company, 
Mr. Austrian being elected the general 
manager, which office he yet holds. The 
company now operates six excellent 
steamers. The magnificent Manitou, the 
finest steel passenger steamer on the 
lakes, vfas added to the fleet in 1893. Mr. 
Austrian has an interest in the Mastodon 
Iron company, near Crystal Falls, Mich., 
of which he has always heen secretary 
and treasurer. 

AVANN, ELLA H. BROCKWAY, edu¬ 
cator, was born May 20, 1853, in Newaygo, 
Mich. In 1871 she graduated from the 
Albion college of Michigan; and subse¬ 
quently became preceptress of that insti¬ 
tution. She filled the chair of English 
literature and also lectured on the his¬ 
tory of music. For ten years she was 
president of the Woman’s Foreign Mis¬ 
sionary society; makes frequent contri¬ 
butions to the religious press; and holds 
official positions in various literary, social 
and benevolent societies. 

AVER, HENRY OGDEN, architect, was 
born Jan. 31, 1852, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He designed monuments and mortuary 
chapels, as well as houses of very notable 
excellence. He died April 30, 1890, in New 
York city. 


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AVBRELL, WILLIAM WOODS, soldier, 
was born Nov. 5, 1832, in Cameron, N. Y. 
He was engaged with the army of the Po¬ 
tomac in its most 
important cam¬ 
paigns. In March, 
1863, he began the 
series of cavalry 
raids in western Vir¬ 
ginia that made his 
name famous. He 
started with a force 
of 5,000 men and 
drove the confeder¬ 
ates out of Green¬ 
brier county, captur¬ 
ing three guns and 
about one hundred prisoners. In De¬ 
cember he was again in motion, advanc¬ 
ing with a strong force into southwest¬ 
ern Virginia. In Dec. 16 he struck the 
Virginia and Tennessee railroad at Sa¬ 
lem, Gen. Longstreet’s base of supplies. 
He destroyed the railroad, severing an 
important line of communication between 
the confederate generals Lee and Bragg, 
and burned a large quantity of provis¬ 
ions, clothing, and military equipments. 

AVERETT, THOMAS H., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a resident 
of Halifax county; and was elected a 
representative in congress from the third 
district in that state, from 1849 to 1853. 

AVERILL, JOHN T., manufacturer, 
general, state senator, congressman, was 
bbrn March 1, 1825, in Aina, Maine. He 
completed his studies at the Maine Wes¬ 
leyan university; was a manufacturer; 
and was elected to the state senate of 
Minnesota in 1858-59. He entered the 
union army in 1862 as lieutenant-colonel 
of the sixth Minnesota infantry, and was 
mustered out in 1865, as brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers. He was elected to the 
forty-second and forty-third congresses. 

AVERY, ALEXANDER R., lawyer, was 
born Nov. 14, 1846, in Canada. He began 
the practice of law at Port Huron, Mich.; 
and was appointed city attorney in 1876; 
was prosecuting attorney in 1884-87; and 
in 1891 he was appointed postmaster; and 
in 1881 was elected great commander of 
the order of the Knights of Maccabees. 

AVERY, ALIDA CORNELIA, physician, 
was born June 11, 1833, in Sherburne, N. 
Y. She taught in sundry schools in New 
York state; was resident physician and 
professor of physiology and hygiene in 
Vassar college from 1865-74; and presi¬ 
dent of the Colorado State Suffrage asso¬ 
ciation in 1876-77. 

AVERY, ALPHONSO CALHOUN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 11, 
1837, in Morganton, N. C. He entered the 
army in 1861, and was commissioned first 
lieutenant; in 1862 was elected captain; 
and the same year was appointed major 
and assistant adjutant-general. At the 
close of the war he resumed the practice 
of law, and in 1888 he was nominated as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of 
North Carolina for a term of eight years. 

AVERY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
manufacturer, was born Dec. 3, 1801, in 
Aurora, N. Y. The principal products of 
his industry were cotton sweeps, and 
chilled, wheel gang, shovel, steel, subsoil 
and sulky plows. The old firm are now 
incorporated with a capital of $1,500,000, 
the stock being owned almost wholly by 
the Avery family. The founder was a 
man of great force of character and busi¬ 
ness genius and became one of the most 
highly regarded citizens of Louisville, 
Ky. 

AVERY, BENJAMIN PARKE, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1829, in New York 


city. He was a Californian journalist 
who was appointed minister to China in 
1874; and was the author of Californian 
Pictures in Prose and Verse. He was one 
of the founders of the San Francisco Art 
association. He died on Nov. 8, 1875, 
in Pekin, China. 

AVERY, CATHARINE HITCHCOCK 
TILDEN, educator, author, was born Dec. 
13, 1844, in Monroe, Mich. In 1867 she 
graduated from the Framingham Nor¬ 
mal school of Massachusetts; and at¬ 
tained success in educational work. In 
1870 she was married to Dr. Leroy M. 
Avery, the author of a series of text¬ 
books on natural philosophy and chem¬ 
istry. She is president of the East End 
Conversational club of Cleveland, Ohio; 
and has held high positions in various 
organizations of that city. 

AVERY, DANIEL, congressman, was 
elected a representative from Cayuga 
county in congress from New York from 
1811 to 1815; and again from 1816 to 
1817. 

AVERY, ELROY McKENDREE, Ph. D„ 
LL. D., soldier, journalist, legislator, au¬ 
thor, was born July 14, 1844, in Erie, 
Mich. He served with 
distinction through 
the civil war; en¬ 
listed in the first 
company that went 
from Monroe to the 
front, and was pro¬ 
moted to sergeant- 
major. During his 
military service he 
also acted as corre¬ 
spondent of the De¬ 
troit Daily Tribune. 
In 1871 he graduated 
from the university of Michigan; and 
during his collegiate course was engaged 
in journalistic work. Early in life he 
taught school, and in 1871 became super¬ 
intendent of public schools of East Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio; then principal of the East 
High school, and subsequently of the 
Normal school. In 1893 he was elected 
a member of the Ohio state legislature, 
and received the re-election in 1895. He 
is the author of Avery’s Elements of 
Physics; Avery’s Elements of Natural 
Philosophy; School Physics; Element¬ 
ary Physics; and First Lessons in 
Physical Science. For the past ten years 
he has given most of his time to the 
preparation of a Popular History of the 
United States, soon to be published in 
eight octavo volumes, with maps and 
illustrations. 

AVERY, ISAAC WHEELER, lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born May 2, 1837, 
in St. Augustine, Fla. He held a success¬ 
ful law practice in Dalton, Ga., but in 
1869 removed to Atlanta and became the 
chief editor of the Atlanta Constitution. 
He is the author of Digest of the Georgia 
Supreme Court Reports; and a History of 
Georgia. 

AVERY, JOHN, physician, surgeon, 
congressman, was born Feb. 29, 1824, in 
Watertown, N. Y. He removed to Michi¬ 
gan in 1836; graduated from Cleveland 
Medical college in 1850, and has been in 
the active practice of his profession since 
that time, He was assistant surgeon and 
surgeon of the twenty-first Michigan in¬ 
fantry; served in the army of the Cum¬ 
berland in Kentucky and Tennessee, and 
was with Sherman on his march to the 
sea. He was member of the state legis¬ 
lature from Montcalm county in 1869- 
70; was appointed member of the state 
board of health in 1880 and reappointed 
in 1886, and for the last six years has been 
president of the board. He has been a 
United States pension examiner for the 


last sixteen years, member of the Stanton 
board of United States examiners for six 
years, and president of the board for the 
last three years; has been member of the 
school board and common council of 
the city of Greenville; and has been 
annually elected for twelve years su¬ 
pervisor of the first ward. He was elected 
to the fifty-third and re-elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a republican. 

AVERY, OMER H., lawyer, legislator, 
was born April 3, 1854, in Lincoln county. 
Mo. He was educated in the public 
schools and at the state university; elect¬ 
ed public administrator of Lincoln coun¬ 
ty in 1880, and prosecuting attorney in 
1888; and was a member of the thirty- 
eighth and thirty-ninth general assembly 
of the Missouri state legislature. 

AVERY, OSCAR F., soldier, legislator, 
was born Nov. 19, 1841, in Hillsdale coun¬ 
ty, Mich., and entered Hillsdale college in 
1860. In 1861 he left school and enlisted 
in the eleventh Michigan infantry, com¬ 
pany B, and served until November, 1865, 
when he was mustered out. He partici¬ 
pated in the battles of Stone River and 
Chickamauga. He has served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the Illinois state 
legislature. 

AVERY, RACHEL FOSTER, woman 
suffragist, was born Dec. 30, 1858, in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. In 1871 she became identified 
with the Citizens’ Suffrage association of 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1881 she planned 
the series of ten conventions to be held 
in the different New England states; in 
1882 she conducted the Nebraska amend¬ 
ment campaign; and in 1883 went to 
Europe with Susan B. Anthony and trav¬ 
eled through nearly all the European 
countries in the interests of woman suf¬ 
frage. She is at the head of almost every 
movement of the National Woman Suf¬ 
frage association; and contributes ex¬ 
tensively to current literature. 

AVERY, ROSA MILLER, reformer, was 
born May 21, 1830, in Madison, Ohio. 
During the years of the war her pen 
was actively engaged in writing for vari¬ 
ous journals on the subject of union and 
emancipation. For nearly twenty years 
she has resided in Chicago, and many of 
her ably-written articles and responses 
to the opponents of franchise for women 
have appeared from time to time in the 
Chicago Inter Ocean. 

AVERY, SAMUEL P., artist, was born 
March 17, 1822, in New York city. He 
founded the Avery Architectural library 
at Columbia college, New York city; and 
is the author of an article entitled Prog¬ 
ress of the Fine Arts in New York Dur¬ 
ing Fifty Years. 

AVERY, WAITSTILL, lawyer, patriot, 
was born May 3, 1745, in Groton, Conn. 
In 1775, he was a delegate to the congress 
at Hillsborough which organized the mili¬ 
tary force of the state. In the summer of 
1776, he joined the army of Gen. Ruther¬ 
ford in the Cherokee nation, and was a 
commissioner at the treaty of Holston, 
which gave peace to the western frontier. 
In the fall of 1776, he was again a mem¬ 
ber of the state congress. In 1781 he 
moved to Burke county, which he repre¬ 
sented many years in the state legislature. 
He was the first state attorney-general of 
North Carolina in 1777. He died March 
15, 1821, in Burke county. N. C. 

AVERY, WILLIAM T., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 11, 1819, in 
Maury county, Tenn. He was a lawyer by 
profession; was elected to the legislature 
of Tennessee in 1843; and held several 
creditable positions in his native state. 
He was chosen a representative to the 
thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. 




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AVERY, WILLIAM W., lawyer, state 
senator, was born May 25, 1816, in Suan 
Ponds, N. C. He was speaker of the 
North Carolina senate in 1856; and was 
again elected in 1860. In 1861 he was elect¬ 
ed by the convention as one of the mem¬ 
bers from the state at large of the provis¬ 
ional congress of the confederate states. 
He died July 3, 1864, in Morgantown, N. C. 

AX, CHRISTIAN, manufacturer, was 
born Nov. 12, 1823, in Prussia. Coming 
to America in 1851 he was employed as 
a traveling salesman by George W. Gail, 
manufacturer of smoking tobacco, to 
whom he proved so valuable an aid that, 
in 1855, Mr. Gail admitted him to partner¬ 
ship. The firm of G. W. Gail and Ax 
developed during the life of Mr. Ax one 
of the largest manufacturing plants of its 
class in the country. It is now identified 
with The American Tobacco Co. He 
died March 20, 1887. 

AXTELL, JOHN T., physician, surgeon, 
was born Aug. 11, 1856, in Roseville, Ill. 
He received the rudiments of his educa¬ 
tion in the common schools of Kansas; 
in 1879-80 attended the university of 
Michigan; and in 1883 graduated from 
the Bellevue Hospital Medical college. 
For many years he filled the chair of 
orthopedic surgery in the college of Phy¬ 
sicians and Surgeons (university of Kan¬ 
sas City). He is the proprietor of the 
Axtell hospital of Newton, Kan., and 
one of the most prominent men in the 
medical profession of that state. 

AXTELL, SAMUEL B., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, governor, was born Oct. 14, 
1819, in Franklin county, Ohio. He was 
educated at Oberlin, and Western Reserve 
colleges; studied and practiced law; emi¬ 
grated to California in 1851; and was 
elected a representative from that state 
to the fortieth and forty-first congresses. 
In 1874 he was appointed governor of 
Utah; in 1875 was appointed to the same 
position in New Mexico; in 1876 was 
selected as one of the judges at the Cen¬ 
tennial exhibition; and in 1882 was ap¬ 
pointed chief justice of the supreme court 
of New Mexico. 

AYCRIGG, JOHN B., congressman, was 
born in New York. He was elected a 
representative in congress from New Jer¬ 
sey from 1837 to 1839, and again from 
1841 to 1843. In 1844 he was a presidential 
elector; and was a candidate for election 
to the twenty-sixth congress. 

AYER, FRANKLIN DEMING, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 19, 1832, in 
St. Johnsbury, Vt. He graduated from 
Dartmouth col lege 
and the Andover 
Theological semin¬ 
ary. He was or¬ 
dained in 1861. and 
has filled pastorates 
in the congregation¬ 
al church at Milford, 
N. H., during 1861- 
67; and at the 
First Congregational 
church at Concord 
since 1867. During 
1871-80 he was secre¬ 
tary of the New Hampshire General as¬ 
sociation; is trustee of the New Hamp¬ 
shire Home Missionary society; presi¬ 
dent of the New Hampshire Prisoners’ 

Aid society since 1881; and moderator of 
the General association of New Hamp¬ 
shire since 1887. He is the author of 
History of the First Church of Concord, 
N. H.; several published sermons; and 
many articles in current literature. His 
church is one of the oldest and strongest 
in the state. 


AYER, FREDERICK, manufacturer, 
was born Dec. 8, 1822, in Ledyard, Conn. 
In 1855 Mr. Ayer retired to join his 
brother in the manufacture of Ayer’s Pro¬ 
prietary Medicines in the firm of J. C. 
Ayer and Co., Lowell, Mass., and was 
made treasurer of the company. In 1885 
he bought The Washington Mills of Law¬ 
rence; was president for the first year, 
and has been treasurer ever since. The 
company employs three thousand two 
hundred hands. 

AYER, FREDERICK FANNING, law¬ 
yer, was born Sept. 12, 1851, in Lowell, 
Mass. Upon his father’s death in 1878 
Mr. Ayer became the 
manager of the great 
properties which his 
father had created. 
He has displayed 
business ability of a 
high order, and his 
previous legal train¬ 
ing has aided to 
make him a success¬ 
ful financier. Among 
many philanthropic 
acts, it is told of him 
that in 1890 he gave 
$5,000 for books for a public library in 
the town house of Ayer, and later built 
for the town the Ayer Memorial Library 
building, at a cost of about $40,000. He is 
a director of The Lake Superior Ship 
Canal Railway and Iron Co., The Portage 
Lake and River Improvement Co., The 
Lowell and Andover railroad, The J. C. 
Ayer Co., The Tribune association in 
New York, and the Tremont and Suffolk 
mills. 

AYER, HARRIET HUBBARD, business 
woman, journalist, was born in 1852, in 
Chicago, Ill. She graduated from the 
convent of the Sacred Heart. She be¬ 
came a business woman of the highest 
type in New York city; and rapidly made 
a fortune from her Recamier preparation. 
The Recamier company, of which she is 
the president and chief owner, now oc¬ 
cupies a five-story building in New York 
city, and employs nearly a hundred people. 

AYER, JAMES COOK, manufacturer, 
was born May 5, 1818, in Groton, Conn., 
which city now bears the name of Led¬ 
yard. He has become famous as a manu¬ 
facturer of proprietary medicines, and as 
an organizer and financier. In his veins 
ran the blood of old American families, 
distinguished for personal character and 
active interest in public affairs. Freder¬ 
ick Ayer, his father, who served as a sol¬ 
dier of the war of 1812 and died in 1825, 
was, a son of Elisha Ayer, a hero of the 
American revolution. Ayer’s Almanac 
was given away by the millions of copies. 
The principal remedies prepared by Dr. 
Ayer were his Cherry Pectoral, Sarsapar¬ 
illa, Ague Cure, Hair Vigor, and Pills. 
A large laboratory was built to accommo¬ 
date the growing manufacture, and was 
expanded until it gave employment to 
nearly three hundred persons. In 1874 
he received the republican nomination for 
congress. He left a fortune of twenty 
million dollars. He died July 3, 1878, in 
Winchendon, Mass. 

AYER, JOHN A., banker, was born Aug. 
2, 1847, in Jacksonville, Ill. He attended 
the Illinois college; and has attained suc¬ 
cess in business affairs in his native city; 
where he is a prominent banker. 

AYER, RICHARD S„ soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 9, 1829, in Waldo 
county, Maine. He engaged in agricultur¬ 
al and mercantile pursuits; at the break¬ 
ing out of the rebellion enlisted as a 
private in the fourth Maine volunteers, 
and was promoted to a captaincy, which 


position he held for three years, serving 
at the first battles of Bull Run, Seven 
Pines, and Malvern Hill. In 1865 he re¬ 
moved to Virginia; in 1867 was elected a 
delegate to the Virginia constitutional 
convention; and was elected to the forty- 
first congress. 

AYLSWORTH, WILLIAM PRINCE, 
clergyman, theologian, was born Dec. 12, 
1844, in Cuba, Ill. He attended the Chi¬ 
cago university and Bethany college, re¬ 
ceiving the degrees of B. A. and M. A. 
from the latter institution, and LL. D. 
from Cotner university. He has held pas¬ 
torates at Angola and Fort Wayne, Ind., 
and in Columbus, Ohio. He was president 
of the Fairfield college, and is now presi¬ 
dent of Cotner university of Lincoln, Neb. 

AYRES, ALFRED, author, was born 
Feb. 26, 18—, in Montrose, Ohio. He is 
the author of The Orthoepist; The Verbal¬ 
ist; The Mentor; Acting and Actors; and 
The Essentials of Elocution. He has also 
attained success as a dramatist and actor. 

AYRES, ANNE, author, was born in 
1816, in England. She was the first mem¬ 
ber of an American sisterhood in the 
Protestant episcopal church, becoming a 
sister of the Holy Communion in 1845. 
She was the author of Evangelical Sister¬ 
hoods; and Life of W. H. Muhlenberg. 
She died in 1896. 

AYRES, ROMEYN BECK, soldier, was 
born Dec. 20, 1825, in East Creek, N. Y. 
He served during the civil war, and in 
1864 was made major-general of volun¬ 
teers, for conspicuous gallantry in the 
battles of the Virginia campaign. He died 
Dec. 4, 1888, in Fort Hamilton, N. Y. 


BAART, P. A., priest, was born in 1858 
in Coldwater, Mich. In 1881 he was or¬ 
dained to the priesthood; and in 1890 was 
appointed one of the four irremovable 
rectors of the Detroit diocese, and also 
chosen one of the examiners of the clergy. 

BABB, WASHINGTON I., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Oct. 2, 1844, in Des Moines, 
Iowa. He graduated from the Wesleyan 
university. He was elected a member of 
the Iowa state legislature; has served as 
district judge of the second judicial dis¬ 
trict; and was the democratic candidate 
for governor of Iowa in 1895. 

BABBITT, B. T., manufacturer, was 
born in 1809, in Westmoreland, N. Y. He 
discovered a new process for making sal- 
eratus at a great saving of cost, and in 
a few years acquired control of the trade 
of the whole country. He also manufac¬ 
tured soda and potash. In 1858 he began 
the manufacture of soap, from which he 
amassed a fortune. He died Oct. 20, 1889, 
in New York. 

BABBITT, CLINTON, farmer, public 
official, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 
1831, in Westmoreland, N. H. He re¬ 
ceived a common school education and 
graduated from Keene academy, New 
Hampshire; removed to Wisconsin in 
1853; is by occupation a farmer and 
breeder of blooded stock, and resides on 
his farm, giving his personal attention to 
that business. He was for several years 
secretary of Wisconsin State Agricultural 
society; was elected alderman, and was 
one of the members of the first city coun¬ 
cil of Beloit. He was appointed post¬ 
master of Beloit in 1886; was democratic 
candidate for congress in 1880; and was 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat. 

BABBITT, EDWIN B., soldier, was born 
about 1802 in Connecticut. He was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general for his services 
on March 13, 1865. He died Dec. 10, 1881, 
in Fortress Monroe. 







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BABBITT, ELIJAH, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1796 in Providence, R. I. 
He was prosecuting attorney for the state 
in 1833; served in the state legislature in 
1836 and 1837; was a state senator in 
1844 and 1845; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Pennsylvania to the thirty- 
sixth and thirty-seventh congresses. 

BABBITT, ISAAC, inventor, was born 
July 26, 1799, in Taunton, Mass. In 1839, 
he discovered the now well-known anti¬ 
friction metal that bears his name and is 
so extensively used in lining boxes for 
axles and gudgeons. For this invention 
he received in 1841 a gold medal from the 
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics’ as¬ 
sociation, and afterward congress granted 
him $20,000. He was also engaged in the 
manufacture of soap. He died May 26, 
1862, in Somerville, Mass. 

BABCOCK, ALFRED, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1841 to 1843. 

BABCOCK, CHARLES A., naval officer, 
was born June 12, 1833, in New York city. 
While co-operating with the army on the 
James, York and Pamunkey rivers, he 
defeated the confederates in several ac¬ 
tions. He was afterward attached to the 
Pensacola navy yard, and in 1868-69 com¬ 
manded the steamer Nyack of the South 
Pacific squadron. He died June 29, 1876, 
in New Orleans, La. 

BABCOCK, CHARLES ALMANZO, edu¬ 
cator, scientist, was born in 1849. He 
graduated from Hamilton college, and re¬ 
ceived the degrees of A. M. and LL. B. 
He has filled the chair of science in the 
New York State Normal school; and has 
been superintendent of schools of Oil City, 
Pa. He has lectured on scientific subjects, 
and contributed valuable articles on sci¬ 
ence to current literature. He is the or¬ 
iginator and founder of bird day in the 
schools of America; and is a member of 
the British Astronomical association. 

BABCOCK, ELNORA MONROE, woman 
suffragist, was born Jan. 11, 1852, in 
Columbus, Pa. In 1870 she was married 
to Prof. John W. Babcock of Jamestown, 
N. Y., and now superintendent of public 
schools in Dunkirk. She became presi¬ 
dent of the Dunkirk club; was elected 
president of the Chautauqua County Polit¬ 
ical Equality club, of which she still holds 
the presidency. In 1891 she had the honor 
of presiding over the first woman suffrage 
meeting ever held at the great Chautau¬ 
qua assembly. 

BABCOCK, EMMA WHITCOMB, au¬ 
thor, was born April 24, 1849, in Adams, 
N. Y. She is the wife of Prof. C. A. Bab¬ 
cock, superintendent of schools of Oil 
City, Pa. She has done considerable work 
as book reviewer; has contributed to 
various leading magazines; and is the 
author of Household Hints; A Mother’s 
Note Book; and other works. She is 
president of a literary club well known 
in western Pennsylvania, which has 
founded a public library. 

BABCOCK, FRANCIS GRANGER, 
banker, legislator, was born in 1831, in 
Pharsalia, N. Y. He purchased large 
tracts of land with reference to their 
value as timber land, which turned out 
to be petroleum producing. In 1875 he 
established The Bank of Hornellsville, 
and is the owner of the celebrated Bab¬ 
cock Stock Farms. In 1853 he was elected 
to the legislature. 

BABCOCK, GEORGE HERMAN, in¬ 
ventor, engineer, manufacturer, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Jan. 17, 1832. The 
Babcock and Wilcox boilers have been 
the most extensively built and sold of 


all devices of this nature. Large works 
for their production have been built in 
Elizabeth, N. J. Works have been estab¬ 
lished in the city of Glasgow, from which 
the markets of the world are supplied. He 
died Dec. 20, 1894, near Otsego, N. Y. 

BABCOCK, HARMON SEELEY, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, poet, author,was born April 
11, 1849, in Lebanon, R. I. In 1874 he 
graduated from the Brown university 
with the degree of A. B., and was valedic¬ 
torian of his class. In 1877 received the 
degree of A. M., and was admitted to the 
bar in the same year. For three years he 
was superintendent of public schools of 
East Providence, R. I.; was town solicitor 
for two years; and since 1890 has been 
coroner. He taught two years in the 
University Grammar school of East Provi¬ 
dence, and for one year in the Brown 
university as instructor in logic. He has 
delivered poems at annual conventions of 
various associations and reunions, and is 
the author of two volumes of poems, en¬ 
titled Trifles, and The Friendship of 
Learning. He has been president of the 
Rhode Island Poultry association; vice- 
president of the American Poultry asso¬ 
ciation; editor of the Standard of Per¬ 
fection; and is the author of several 
works on poultry. 

BABCOCK, HELEN LOUISE B., edu¬ 
cator, elocutionist, was born Aug. 13, 
1867, in Galva, Ill. She graduated from 
the Cumnock School of Oratory of the 
Northwestern university, and subsequent¬ 
ly became an instructor in that institu¬ 
tion. She then taught elocution in the 
Mount Vernon seminary of Washington, 
D. C.; and has attained prominence as a 
dramatic reader. In 1891 she was mar¬ 
ried to Dr. F. C. Babcock, a successful 
physician of Hastings, Neb. 

BABCOCK, JAMES F., journalist, jur¬ 
ist, legislator, was born in 1809 in Con¬ 
necticut. He began newspaper work at 
an early age, and in 1830 became editor of 
the New Haven Palladium, which soon be¬ 
gan to issue a daily edition and which he 
conducted for thirty-one years. He was 
nominated for congress, and was elected 
by the democrats to the state legislature 
in 1873. The legislature of 1874 elected 
him judge of the police court of New 
Haven. He died June 18, 1874, in New 
Haven, Conn. 

BABCOCK, JAMES FRANCIS, chemist, 
was born Feb. 26, 1844, in Boston. For 
five years he was professor of chemistry 
in the Boston university; and in 1881 
he accepted that chair in the Massachu¬ 
setts college of pharmacy. He is.well 
known as the inventor of a fire extin¬ 
guisher. 

BABCOCK, JOSEPH WEEKS, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born March 6, 
1850, in Swanton, Vt. He removed with his 
parents to Iowa in 
1855; attended school 
at Mount Vernon 
and Cedar Falls; 
removed from Iowa 
in 1881 and settled 
in Necedah, where 
he has since resided, 
being engaged in the 
manufacture of lum¬ 
ber. He was elect¬ 
ed to the Wisconsin 
assembly in 1888 and 
re-elected in 1890; 
was elected chairman of the national re¬ 
publican congressional committee in 1894 
and re-elected in 1896. He was elected to 
the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses 
and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 


BABCOCK, LEANDER, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1851 to 1853. 

BABCOCK, ORVILLE E., soldier, was 
born Dec. 25, 1835, in Franklin, Vt. He 
was graduated at West Point, and entered 
the engineer corps as second lieutenant 
May 6, 1861. In 1865 he was brevetted 
brigadier-general of volunteers. At the 
surrender of Lee at Appomattox he select¬ 
ed the place where the generals met. He 
was promoted a colonel in the regular 
army in 1866. He was drowned June 26, 
1884, in Mosquito inlet, Fla. 

BABCOCK, PAUL, soldier, merchant, 
was born Aug. 18, 1841, in New York city. 
Since 1880 he has been the president of 
The Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, and 
of The Soule and Fleming Manufacturing 
Co., and of The Liebig Manufacturing Co. 

BABCOCK, SAMUEL S„ soldier, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, was born Feb. 5, 1842, in 
Genesee county, Mich. In 1861 he en¬ 
listed as a union soldier and was pro¬ 
moted to first sergeant. He was a gradu¬ 
ate from the Michigan State Normal 
school, and for fifteen years was engaged 
in educational work. He held the chair 
of mathematics in the State Normal 
school; and the chair of natural sciences 
in the Ypsilanti seminary. For six years 
he was a member of the state board of 
Michigan, four years of which he was its 
president. For two years he was a mem¬ 
ber of the state board of geological sur¬ 
vey; has heen president of the Michigan 
Republican club, and a director from its 
organization. He is a successful lawyer of 
Detroit, Mich.; and has contributed both 
prose and verse to current literature. 

BABCOCK, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1831 to 1833. 

BABER, EDMUND K., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Oct. 7, 1841, in New York 
city. Since 1889 he has been president 
of the Keesville, Ausable Chasm and Lake 
Champlain railroad. 

BACH, J. MAURICE, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born May 7, 1856, in Switzer¬ 
land. He is active as teacher of piano, 
organ and theory at Henderson, Ky. He 
is a good performer and has composed 
much music, including four operas, Lar¬ 
edo; Marguerita; Alhamer; and The Poli¬ 
ticians. 

BACHE, ALEXANDER DALLAS, scien¬ 
tist, author, was born July 19, 1806, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated at West 
Point in 1825. In 1843 he was appointed 
superintendent of the United States eoast 
survey; was one of the founders of the 
American association for the Promotion 
of Science; in 1855 was made president of 
the American Philosophical society; was 
an active and efficient member of the 
United States sanitary commission 
throughout the civil war; and in 1846 was 
made regent of the Smithsonian institu¬ 
tion. In 1833 he edited Brewster’s Optics, 
with notes; in 1840 to 1845 published Ob¬ 
servations at the observatory of Girard 
college; and in 1834, Report of Experi¬ 
ments to Navigate the Chesapeake and 
Delaware Canal by Steam. He died Feb. 
17, 1867, in Newport, R. I. 

BACHE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, sur¬ 
geon, was born Feb. 7, 1801, in Monticello, 
Va. He was fleet-surgeon of the Mediter¬ 
ranean squadron in 1841-44, and of the 
Brazil squadron in 1847-50. From 1850 to 
1854 he was at the New York naval hos¬ 
pital, and then organized in New York 
the laboratory that furnishes all medical 
supplies to the navy. He was director of 
this from 1853 to 1871. He died Nov. 2, 
1881, in New York city. 



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BACHE, FRANKLIN, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 25, 1792, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia physi¬ 
cian, and professor of chemistry in Jef¬ 
ferson Medical college, 1841-64. He was 
the author of A System of Chemistry for 
Students in Medicine; and The Dispensa¬ 
tory of the United States. He died March 
19, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


BACHE, HARTMAN, engineer, was 
born in 1797, in Philadelphia, Pa. He re¬ 
ceived the brevet of brigadier-general in 
1865, the highest grade in the engineer 
corps, for long, faithful, and meritorious 
services. Among his engineering works 
of conspicuous merit were the construc¬ 
tion of the Delaware breakwater and the 
successful application of iron-screw piles 
for the foundation of lighthouses upon 
sandy shoals and coral reefs. He died Oct. 
8, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BACHE, RICHARD, postmaster-general, 
was born Sept. 12, 1837, in England. He 
established himself in Philadelphia, and 
Benjamin Franklin appointed him secre¬ 
tary, compiler and register general; and 
in 1776 he became postmaster-general. 
He died July 29, 1811, in Seattle, Pa. 

BACHE, SARAH, philanthropist, was 
born Sept. 11, 1744, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
She was the leader among the ladies of 
Philadelphia to furnish the destitute 
American soldiers with money and cloth¬ 
ing during the year 1780. She died Oct. 
5, 1808, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BACHE, THEOPHYLACT, merchant, 
colonist, was born Jan. 17, 1734, in Eng¬ 
land. In 1774 he was elected the fifth 
president of the New York Chamber of 
Commerce. He died Oct. 30, 1807, in New 
York city. 

BACHELLER, IRVING, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1859 in New York. He 
is a journalist of New York city; and the 
author of The Master of Silence, a ro¬ 
mance; and The Still House of O'Darrow, 
a novel. 

BACHMAN, JOHN, naturalist, author, 
was born Feb. 4, 1790, in Dutchess county, 
N. Y. He was a naturalist of Charleston, 
where he was pastor of a Lutheran 
church, 1815-74. He assisted Audubon, 
preparing the greater part of the text of 
The Quadrupeds of North America, and 
wrote several religious and scientific 
works. He was the author of Two Let¬ 
ters on Heredity; and Defence of Luther 
and the Reformation. He died Feb. 25, 
1874, in Charleston, S. C. 

BACHMAN, REUBEN K., educator, 
merchant, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 
1834, in Williams, Pa. He spent his early 
boyhood upon his father’s farm; received 
a common school education; and followed 
the vocation of teaching in his early man¬ 
hood. Subsequently, he entered into the 
mercantile and milling business at Dur¬ 
ham, »Pa.; and was elected to the forty- 
sixth congress as a democrat. 

BACHMAN, SOLOMON, manufacturer, 
was born in 1827 in Germany. He engaged 
in the manufacture of balmoral skirts, 
and bought a mill at Paterson, N. J., with 
machinery to make yarns, and power 
looms to weave skirts and shawls. In lo| 
he bought the Merrimack woolen mill m 
Lowell, Mass., which he still continues to 


•un. 

BACHMANN, ALEXANDER^ musician, 
;omposer, was born Jan. 2, 1836, in Ger- 
nany. He is a successful and noted in¬ 
structor of the piano, organ and violin; 
i director of choruses; and for many 
mars principal of the Northwestern Musi- 
;al institute of Philadelphia, Pa. he is 
said to have taught the largest 
)f individual pupils of any music tea cher 
n America, many of whom now occup. 


high positions in the musical world. He 
has been organist of some of the lead¬ 
ing protestant episcopal churches of Phil¬ 
adelphia; and for many years was vocal 
instructor of the Protestant Episcopal Di¬ 
vinity school. He is the author of con¬ 
siderable church music, and his transla¬ 
tions have been a valuable acquisition to 
musical literature. 

BACKUS, AZEL, educator, clergyman, 
college president, was born Oct. 13, 1765, 
in Norwich, Conn. He was licensed to 
preach in 1789, and in 1791 became the 
successor of Dr. Bellamy at Bethlehem, 
Conn., where he also carried on a success¬ 
ful school. Here he remained until, at 
the foundation of Hamilton college, Clin¬ 
ton, N. Y., in 1812, he was chosen its first 
president. He died Dec. 9, 1817. 

BACKUS, CHARLES, theologian, was 
born Nov. 9, 1749, in Franklin, Conn. In 
1774, he became pastor of the congrega¬ 
tional church in Somers, where he re¬ 
mained until his death. Here he estab¬ 
lished a sort of divinity school, receiving 
theological students into his family. He 
died Dec. 30, 1803, in Somers, Conn. 

BACKUS, CLARENCE WALWORTH, 
soldier, clergyman, was born April 20, 
1846, in Schenectady, N. Y. He spent one 
year in the Pennsylvania Military acad¬ 
emy, and from there entered the army as 
first lieutenant of the ninety-seventh regi¬ 
ment New York volunteers. He subse¬ 
quently graduated from Union college, 
and from the Princeton Theological sem¬ 
inary; and has since attained promi¬ 
nence as one of the foremost clergymen of 
the presbyterian church in Kansas. 

.BACKUS, FRANKLIN T„ lawyer, was 
born May 6, 1813, in Lee, Mass. He was 
elected prosecuting attorney of the county 
in 1841, and was sent to the Ohio house 
of representatives in 1846, and to the 
state senate in 1848. He was a delegate 
to the peace congress at Washington in 
1861. He supported McClellan for presi¬ 
dent in 1864, and was a delegate to the 
national convention that met at Phila¬ 
delphia in 1866 to form a new party. He 
died May 14, 1870, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

BACKUS, HENRY CLINTON, lawyer, 
was born May 31, 1848, in Utica, N. Y. 
In 1891 he was chairman of the delegation 
of the thirteenth assembly district to the 
republican county committee of New York 
city and county; and held the leader¬ 
ship of the district for one year. In 
1893 he consented to stand for the New 
York constitutional convention. 

BACKUS, HENRY T., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Norwich, Conn. He received 
a liberal education; adopted the profes¬ 
sion of the law; and removed to Detroit, 
Mich., where he was for many years de¬ 
voted to his profession. He was subse¬ 
quently appointed an associate justice of 
the United States court for the territory of 
Arizona. 

BACKUS, ISAAC, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 9, 1724, in Norwich, Conn. 
He was a baptist clergyman of Rhode 
Island; and the author of A History of 
New England, with Particular Reference 
to the Baptists. He died Nov. 20, 1806. 

BACKUS, TRUMAN JAY, educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born Feb. 11, 1842, in 
Locke, N. Y. In 1867 he was elected to 
fill the chair of rhetoric and English in 
Yassar college, which office he held for 
sixteen years. He accepted a call to the 
presidency of Packer collegiate institute 
of Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1883. 

BACKUS WILLIAM VERNON, lawyer, 
was born Aug. 24, 1860, in Cleveland, Ohio. 
He received his education in the public 
schools of his native city; in business col¬ 
leges, and received private instruction in 


foreign languages. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as an able lawyer of Cleveland, in 
which city he was a member of the board 
of education during 1892-97, and its presi¬ 
dent in 1895-96. 

BACON, AUGUSTUS OCTAVIUS, was 
born Oct. 20, 1839, in Bryan county, Ga. 
He was frequently a member of state 
democratic conventions; was president 
of the state democratic convention in 
1880, and was delegate from the state at 
large to the national democratic conven¬ 
tion in Chicago in 1884; in 1868 he was 
elected presidential elector on the demo¬ 
cratic ticket;- in 1871 was elected to the 
Georgia house of representatives, of which 
body he has served as a member for 
fourteen years, and during eight years-- 
was speaker. He was several times a can¬ 
didate for the democratic nomination for 
governor of Georgia; and was elected to 
the United States senate as a democrat 
in 1894. His term of service will expire 
March 3> 1901. 

BACON, DAVID FRANCIS, physician, 
author, was born Nov. 30, 1813, in Pros¬ 
pect, Conn. Soon after the completion 
of his studies he was sent as principal col¬ 
onial physician to Liberia by the Amer¬ 
ican colonization society. He was a fre¬ 
quent contributor to periodical literature, 
and published Lives of the Apostles; and 
also Wanderings on the Seas and Shores 
of Africa. He died Jan. 23, 1866, in New 
York. 

BACON, DAVID W., Roman Catholic 
bishop, was born in 1814, in Brooklyn, N. 
Y. In 1855 he was consecrated bishop of 
the newly created diocese of Portland, 
Maine, which embraced the states of 
Maine and New Hampshire. He died Nov. 

5, 1874, in New York. 

BACON, DELIA SALTER, author, was 
born Feb. 2, 1811, in Talmadge, Ohio. She 
was the earliest exponent of the Baconian 
theory of the authorship of Shakespeare; 
and was the author of Philosophy of the 
Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded; Tales of 
the Puritans; and The Bride of Fort Ed¬ 
ward, a Drama. She died Sept. 2, 1859, in 
Hartford, Conn. 

BACON, EDMUND, lawyer, was born in 
January, 1776, in Virginia. He is the 
Ned Brace of Judge Longstreet’s Georgia 
Scenes, and as a wit and humorist was 
conspicuous among his contemporaries. 
He died Feb. 2, 1826, in Edgefield, S. C. 

BACON, EDWARD PAYSON, merchant, 
financier, was born May 16, 1834, in Read¬ 
ing, N. Y. In 1865 he established the firm 
of E. P. Bacon and Company, a grain 
commission business; in 1889-91 was vice- 
president of the Milwaukee Chamber of 
Commerce; and in 1891 was elected its 
president. 

BACON, EDWARD R., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Nov. 22, 1846, in New 
York city. Since 1890 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Baltimore and Ohio South¬ 
western railway. 

BACON, EDWIN MUNROE, journalist, 
author, was born Oct. 20, 1844, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He is a journalist of Boston; 
and the author of Dictionary of Boston; 
and Boston of To-Day. 

BACON, EZEKIEL, jurist, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Sept. 1, 1776, in 
Stockbridge, Mass. He graduated at Yale 
college in 1794; was a member of the 
state legislature in 1805 and 1806; was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1807 to 1813; chief justice 
of common pleas in 1813; and first comp¬ 
troller of the United States treasury from 
1813 to 1815. He removed to Utica, N. Y., 
and was a delegate to the state constitu¬ 
tional convention in 1821. In 1843 he pub¬ 
lished Recollections of Fifty Years Since.. 
He died Oct. 18,1870, in Utica, N. Y. 


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BACON, FLORENCE R„ journalist 
poet, was born March 25, 1867, in Port¬ 
land, Maine. Her life has been spent prin¬ 
cipally in Wisconsin, where her parents 
removed when she was less than a year 
old. She attended the Milwaukee, col¬ 
lege, and since an early age has been en¬ 
gaged in literature. She is the society 
editor of the Daily Times of Minneapolis, 
Minn.; and the author of a volume of 
poems entitled Midsummer Mist; and an¬ 
other entitled Indian Legends. 

BACON, FRANCIS, manufacturer, was 
born Jan. 22, 1831, in New York city. He 
is a successful piano manufacturer of 
New York; and in 1880 organized the 
firm of Francis Bacon and Company. 

BACON, FREDERICK HAMPTON, law¬ 
yer, author, was born May 5, 1849, in 
Niles, Mich. He engaged in the practice 
of his profession in St. Louis, Mo., and 
gained a high position at the bar in that 
state. He is the author of a law treatise 
entitled Benefit Societies and Life Insur¬ 
ance. 

BACON, GEORGE ALLEN, public of¬ 
ficial, author, was born April 4, 1830, in 
Wellfleet, Mass. In 1881 he was appointed 
corresponding clerk of the department of 
agriculture, which position he still holds. 
He was the original author of the Game 
of Portrait Authors, and in 1884 he pub¬ 
lished A Life Sketch of Edward S. 
Wheeler. 

BACON, HENRY, artist, author, was 
born in 1840, in Haverhill, Mass. He is 
an artist who has lived principally in 
Paris; and is the author of A Parisian 
Year; and Parisian Art and Artists. 

BACON, HENRY, lawyer, congressman, 
was born March 14, 1846, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. He received an academic educa¬ 
tion at the Mount Pleasant academy at 
Sing Sing and at the Episcopal academy 
of Cheshire, Conn.; and was at Union col¬ 
lege, from which he graduated in 1865. 
He studied law and commenced to practice 
in 1866; and was elected to the forty- 
ninth and fiftieth congresses as a demo¬ 
crat, and was elected to the fifty-second 
congress as a democrat. 

BACON, JOEL SMITH, college presi¬ 
dent, was born Sept. 3, 1802, in New York. 
In 1841 he became president of the Col¬ 
umbian college; and from 1855 to 1866 
was engaged in female education in the 
south. He died Nov. 9, 1869, in Richmond, 
Va. 

BACON, JOHN, clergyman, statesman, 
was born in 1737, in Canterbury, Conn. 
He graduated at the college of New Jer¬ 
sey in 1765; studied theology; and after 
preaching for a time in Maryland, re¬ 
moved to Massachusetts, and settled in 
Boston. He subsequently held the posi¬ 
tions of magistrate, representative in the 
state legislature, presiding judge of the 
court of common pleas, a member and 
president of the state senate, and that of 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1801 to 1803. He died Oct. 
25, 1820, in Berkshire county. Mass. 

BACON, JOHN EDMUND, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 3, 1832, in 
Edgefield, S. C. He studied law; was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced 
the practice of law. In 1857 he was ap¬ 
pointed secretary of legation at St. Peters¬ 
burg, Russia; in 1860 entered the confed¬ 
erate service as a private; and served 
throughout the civil war, rising to the 
rank of major. In 1868 he was elected 
district judge; and in 1870 was an un¬ 
successful candidate for congress. In 
1872 he removed to Columbia, S. C.; in 
1878 was elected a representative in the 
state legislature, and devoted himself to 
securing the re-establishment of the 


South Carolina college, which end he ac¬ 
complished after a long and laborious 
struggle. In 1885 he was appointed 
United States charge d’affaires to Para¬ 
guay and Uruguay. 

BACON, JOHN WATSON, civil en¬ 
gineer, banker, was born June 9, 1827, in 
Hartford, Conn. For several years he has 
been state commissioner of the official 
topographical survey of Connecticut. He 
has been director of the Savings bank of 
Danbury for over thirty years, and on the 
death of its first president was elected to 
fill the vacancy. 

BACON, LELAND CAREY, diplomat, 
was born in 1862, in Centremoreland, Pa. 

* He is treasurer of the Pan-American Sew¬ 
ing Machine company of New York city; 
has served as United States consul at San 
Domingo during 1882-83; and has filled 
various other public positions of trust. 

BACON, LEONARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 19, 1802, in Detroit, 
Mich. He was the pastor of a congrega¬ 
tional church in New Haven, Conn., 1825- 
81, and a prominent figure in the denom¬ 
ination to which he belonged. He was the 
author of Historical Discourses; Slavery 
Discussed in Occasional Essays; Genesis 
of the New England Churches; and Chris¬ 
tian Self-Culture. He died Dec. 24, 1881, 
in New Haven, Conn. 

BACON, LEONARD WOOLSEY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 1,1830, in New _ 
Haven, Conn. He is a congregational 
clergyman; and the author of A Life 
Worth Living; Church Papers; Ser¬ 
mons; and The Simplicity That Is in 
Christ. 

BACON, NATHANIEL, colonial 'leader, 
was born in 1630, in England. About 1650 
he settled upon the James river, and soon 
after his arrival was appointed a member 
of the governor’s council. He died Oct. 

1, 1676. 

BACON, NATHANIEL, lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 14, 1802, in Ballston, N. Y. 
He moved to Niles, Mich., in 1833, and in 
1855, was appointed circuit judge and one 
of the judges of the supreme court. In 
1857 he was elected circuit judge for six 
years; was elected again in 1866 to fill 
a vacancy, and was re-elected in 1869 for 
six years. He died Sept. 9, 1869, in Niles, 
Mich. 

BACON, REBECCA TAYLOR. She be¬ 
came distinguished by her philanthropic 
labors in the founding of the Hampton, 
Va., institute and the New Haven school 
of nursing. 

BACON, SHERMAN JOSEPH, mer¬ 
chant, was born Feb. 27, 1812, in Burling¬ 
ton, Conn. He established a drug busi¬ 
ness in St. Louis, Mo.; and in 1848 a com¬ 
mercial business in copper and metal, 
which he carried on successfully for near¬ 
ly a quarter of a century. 

BACON, THOMAS SCOTT, author, was 
born in 1825, in New York. He is an 
episcopal controversialist of Maryland; 
and the author of Both Sides of the Con¬ 
troversy between the Roman and Re¬ 
formed Churches; The Reign of God and 
the Reign of Law; The Beginnings of Re¬ 
ligion; Primitive Man in Christian 
Thought; It Is Written; and The Prim¬ 
itive and Catholic Doctrine as to Holy 
Scripture. 

BACON, WILLIAM JOHNSON, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 
1803, in Williamstown, Mass. He gradu¬ 
ated at Hamilton college in 1822; and 
was appointed counsel to the corporation 
of the city of Utica in 1837. He was a 
member of the New York house of as¬ 
sembly in 1850; in 1853 was elected a 
justice of the supreme court for eight 
years, and in 1861 was re-elected, without 


opposition, for another term of eight 
years. He was elected to the forty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

BACON, WILLIAM THOMPSON, 
clergyman, poet, was born Aug. 24, 1814, 
in Woodbury, Conn. For some time he 
was one of the editors of the New Eng¬ 
lander, and during several years editor 
and proprietor of the Journal and Courier, 
of New Haven. He then resumed his 
ministerial labors, and was in charge of 
parishes in Kent and in Derby, Conn. He 
was the author of two volumes of poems. 
He died May 18, 1881, in Derby, Conn. 

BACONE, ALMON C., college president, 
was born April 25, 1830. -He has held 
prominent positions in the schools of 
New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Michi¬ 
gan; and in 1878 he was called to take 
charge of the Cherokee Male seminary in 
Tahlequah, I. T. 

BADEAU, ADAM, general, author, was 
born Dec. 29, 1831, in New York city. 
He was a general in the United States 
army; and the author of The Vagabond; 
Military History of General Grant; Con¬ 
spiracy: q Cuban Romance; Aristocracy 
in England; and Grant in Peace: a Per¬ 
sonal Memoir. He was secretary to Gen¬ 
eral Grant, and assisted him in writing 
his life. He died in 1895. 

BADGER, GEORGE E., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born April 13, 1795, in 
Newbern, N. C. He graduated at Yale col¬ 
lege in 1813; studied and practiced law; 
and was elected to the legislature in 1816. 
In 1820 he was elected a judge of the 
supreme court, which position he resigned 
in 1825; was appointed secretary of the 
navy in 1841; and was elected a senator 
in congress in 1846, and re-elected in 1849 
for a term of six years. He died May 11, 
1866, in Raleigh, N. C. 

BADGER, JOSEPH, soldier, jurist, was 
born Jan. 11, 1722, in Haverhill, Mass. 
He was appointed brigadier-general in 
1780, was judge of probate from 1784 to 
1797, and in 1788 was a member of the con¬ 
vention that adopted the federal consti¬ 
tution. In 1784 and 1790-91 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the state council. He was one of 
the founders of Gilmanton academy. He 
died April 4, 1803. 

BADGER, JOSEPH, missionary, was 
born Feb. 28, 1757, in Wilbraham, Mass. 
In 1800 the missionary society sent him to 
the unsettled part of the country north¬ 
west of the Ohio river. Here he endured 
great hardships for thirty years, going 
from settlement to settlement, over a 
country where there were neither roads 
nor bridges, and often passing the night 
in the branches of a tree. This mode of 
life gave him great familiarity with the 
country, which was of use to the Amer¬ 
ican army during the war of 1812, when 
he served as chaplain. He died May 5, 
1846, in Perrysburg, Ohio. 

BADGER, JOSEPH, clergyman, was 
born Aug. 16, 1792, in Gilmanton. He 
edited Palladium; and founded various 
churches. He died May 12, 1852, in Gil¬ 
manton. 

BADGER, LUTHER, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born April 10, 1785, in Part- 
ridgefield, Mass. In 1824 he was elected 
a representative to the nineteenth con¬ 
gress; had been engaged in military ser¬ 
vices in his state, and in 1819 was ap¬ 
pointed judge advocate for the twenty- 
seventh brigade of infantry of New York 
state, which office he held for eight years. 
In 1832 resumed the practice of law, and in 
1840 was appointed examiner in chancery 
and commissioner of United States loans, 
which office he held for three years. From 
1846 to 1849 was United States district at¬ 
torney for New York. 


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BADGER, MILTON, clergyman, was 
born May 6, 1800, in Coventry, Conn. He 
was ordained in 1828 as pastor of the 
South Congregational church in Andover, 
Mass., and remained there until 1835, 
when he became associate secretary of 
the American Home Missionary society. 
He was soon placed in the position of 
senior secretary, and for thirty-four years 
performed the duties of his office with 
great faithfulness and skill. He died 
March 1, 1873, in Madison, Conn. 

BADGER, OSCAR C., naval officer, was 
born Aug. 12, 1823, in Windham, Conn. 
He was made lieutenant-commander in 
1862, and commanded the ironclads 
Patapsco and Montauk in the engage¬ 
ments with the forts and batteries in 
Charleston harbor in 1863. In 1872 he 
was made captain, and on Nov. 15, 1881, 
commodore. In 1885 he was placed on the 
retired list. 

BADGER, WILLIAM, governor, was 
born Jan. 13, 1779, in Gilmanton, N. H. 
He was a member of the legislature from 
1810 to 1812; of the senate from 1814-16; 
and president of that body in 1816. He 
was an associate judge of the court of 
common pleas from 1816 to 1821; high 
sheriff of Stafford county, N.- H., from 
1822-32; and governor of the state from 
1834-36. He died Sept. 21. 1852, in Gil¬ 
manton, N. H. 

BADLAM, EZRA, soldier, was born 
May 25, 1746, in Milton, Mass. He was a 
brother of Gen. Stephen Badlam, was a 
captain in Grilley’s artillery regiment at 
the siege of Boston in 1775, was in Bald¬ 
win’s regiment in 1776, was present at 
Trenton and Princeton, and from 1777 to 
1780 was lieutenan*-colonel of Bailey's 
regiment. He died April 5, 1788, in Dor¬ 
chester, Mass. 

BAENSCH, EMLL, lawyer, jurist, lieu¬ 
tenant-governor, was born June 12, 1857, 
in Manitowoc, Wis. He was educated in 
the private and public schools of his 
native city; and in 1888 graduated from 
the state university. He then edited a 
local republican newspaper for two years; 
was admitted to the bar in 1882, and the 
same year elected justice of the peace. 
In 1885 he became county clerk, which 
position he resigned to accept the posi¬ 
tion of county judge. He held this office 
for six years, and during his term but one 
appeal was taken from his decision. He 
was a candidate for congress in 1892, and 
has filled various positions of honor in 
his county and state. In 1894 he was 
elected lieutenant-governor of Wisconsin, 
and received the re-election in 1896. He 
is a life member of the State Historical so¬ 
ciety, and an honorary member of the 
German Press association of Wisconsin. 

BAER, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born in Frederick, Md. He was engaged 
in various branches of business; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1797 to 1801. and again 
from 1815 to 1817. He died in Frederick 
at an advanced age. 

BAER, JOHN WILLIS, lecturer, was 
born May 2, 1861, near Rochester, Minn. 
He is actively engaged in Christian En¬ 
deavor work, and is the general secretary 
of the United Society of Christian En¬ 
deavor, with headquarters at Boston, 
Mass. 

"BAER, LIBBIE C. RILEY, poet, was 
born Nov. 18, 1849,' near Bethel, Ohio. 
Her poems have appeared in the leading 
publications, and in several standard 
works. She has taken an important part 
in the benevolent work of the Womans 
Relief corps of Appleton, Wis. In 18b7 
she was married to Capt. John M. Baer, 
an officer with a gallant military record. 

5 


_BAER, 0. -P„ physician, was born Aug. 
25, 1816, in Frederick, Md. In 1867, with 
ten other homoeopathic physicians, he or¬ 
ganized The Indiana Institute of Homoe¬ 
opathy, and was elected its president. 

BAER, WILLIAM JACOB, artist, was 
born Jan. 29, 1860, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 
1892 he was chosen principal of freehand 
drawing at the newly organized New York 
school of applied design for women of 
New York city; and became instructor 
of drawing from antique at the Cooper 
Union Art schools. 

BAGBY, ALBERT MORRIS, author,* 
was born in 18—. He is a writer of New 
York city; and the author of A Weimar 
Idyl, a popular musical novel. 

BAGBY, ARTHUR P., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born in 1794, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He adopted the profession of law, 
and settled in Alabama in 1818; was elect¬ 
ed a member of the legislature in 1820 
and 1822, and was speaker of the house. 
He was governor of Alabama from 1837 
to 1843; and was a senator in congress 
from that state from 1842 to 1849. He died 
of yellow fever Sept. 21, 1858, in Mobile, 
Ala. 

BAGBY, GEORGE WILLIAM, journal¬ 
ist, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 13, 
1828, in Buckingham county, Va. He was 
a Virginia journalist and lecturer and of 
some note as a humorist. He was the au¬ 
thor of John M. Daniel’s Latin Key; What 
I Did with My Fifty Millions; and Mee- 
kins’s Twinses. He died Nov. 29, 1883, in 
Richmond, Va. 

BAGBY, JOHN C., lawyer, congressman, 
was born Jan. 24, 1819, in Glasgow, Ky. 
He was educated at Bacon college; studied 
law, and went to the bar in 1846. In 
that year he removed to Rushville, Ill., 
where he practiced his profession. In 
1874, without seeking the nomination, he 
was elected a representative from Illinois 
to the forty-fourth congress. 

BAGG, CLARA B., pianist, was born 
Sept. 26, 1861, in New York city. The 
last of her instructors was Rafael Joseffy, 
from whom she acquired technical skill, 
force, and delicacy. She has appeared 
with success in concerts in Brooklyn and 
New York city. 

BAGG, LYMAN HOTCHKISS, author, 
was born in 1846 in Massachusetts. He is 
the author of Four Years at Yale; and 
Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle. 

BAGLEY, BLANCHE PENTECOST, 
Unitarian minister, was born Jan. 19, 1858, 
in England. In 1882 she moved to Chi¬ 
cago, Ill.; and in 1889 graduated from the 
Meadville Theological school. In 1887 
she first preached in Middlesex, Vt.; and 
in 1889 Mr. and Mrs. Bagley were ordained 
and installed together as joint pastors of 
All Souls church of Sioux Falls, S. D. 
Since 1890 she has lived in Haverhill, 
Mass., where she occasionally fills her 
husband’s pulpit, and takes an active part 
in various organizations. 

BAGLEY, GEORGE A., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born July 22, 1826, in 
Watertown, N. Y. He received an aca¬ 
demic education; studied law, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1847; and practiced 
for six years, when he engaged in the 
manufacture of iron and machinery. He 
was elected to the forty-fourth and forty- 
fifth congresses. 

BAGLEY, JOHN H., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 26, 1832, in Hud¬ 
son, N. Y. He received a common-school 
education; and in 1851 went to California 
and engaged in mining and other pur¬ 
suits. He returned to New York and en¬ 
gaged in steamboating on the Hudson 
river, and settled at Catskill, N. Y., as a 
merchant and leather manufacturer. He 


served four terms as supervisor of the 
town; was elected a representative from 
New York to the forty-fourth congress; 
and also elected to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress. 

BAGLEY, JOHN JUDSON, manufactur¬ 
er, governor, was born July 24, 1832, in 
Medina, N. Y. In 1872 he was elected 
governor of the state of Michigan; and 
re-elected in 1874. He died July 27, 1881 
in San Francisco, Cal. 

BAILEY, ALEXANDER H.,*jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 14, 1817, in 
Minisink, N. Y. He was a justice of the 
peace at Catskill for four years; was a 
member of the state assembly in 1849; 
and judge of Greene county for four years 
from 1851. He was a member of the state 
senate from 1861 to 1864; was elected a 
representative from New York to the 
fortieth congress, in the place of Roscoe 
Conkling; and was re-elected to the forty- 
first congress. He died April 20, 1874, in 
Rome, N. Y. 

BAILEY, ANNA WARNER, known as 
Mother Bailey, patriot, was born Oct. 11, 
1758, in Groton, Conn. She was the wife 
of Capt. Elijah Bailey, of Groton. She 
witnessed the massacre at Fort Griswold 
in 1781. In 1813, when the British threat¬ 
ened to attack New London, Mother Bai¬ 
ley rendered great aid to its defenders by 
tearing up flannel garments for cartridges. 
She died in 1850 in Groton, Conn. 

BAILEY, CHARLES MARTIN, manu¬ 
facturer, banker, was born Oct. 24, 1820, 
in Winthrop, Maine. He began the man¬ 
ufacture of oil-cloth carpets in Winthrop, 
Maine. Depots are now maintained in 
New York city and Philadelphia, unuer 
the style of The C. M. Bailey’s Sons Co. 
He is president of the Bank of Winthrop 
and the Maine Steamship company. 

BAILEY", DAVID J., congressman, was 
born in Georgia. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1851 to 
1855. 

BAILEY", EBENEZER, educator, was 
born June 25, 1795, in West Newbury, 
Mass. In 1838 he established a boys’ 
school at Roxbury, which in 1839 was 
moved to Lynn. He was at various times 
a member of the city council of Boston, 
director of the Home of Reform, presi¬ 
dent of the Boston Lyceum, and director 
of the Boston Mechanics’ institute. He 
died Aug. 25, 1839, in Lynn, Mass. 

BAILEY, ELLENE ALICE, inventor, 
was born in Pond Fort, Mo. One of her 
principal inventions is the Dart needle, 
for sewing on shoe and other buttons. 
Her numerous inventions have proved not 
only useful and practical, but of com¬ 
mercial importance. 

BAILEY", EZRA B., financier, state sen¬ 
ator, was born March 29, 1841, in Frank¬ 
lin, Conn. He resumed control of the 
E. H. Horton and Son Co. in 1880; since 
that time has been its general manager; 
and is now president and treasurer. In 
1890 he was appointed United States col¬ 
lector of customs to the port of Hartford. 
He served in the state senate in 1887. 

BAILEY", GAMALIEL, journalist, was 
born Dec. 3, 1807, in Mount Holly, N. H. 
The first number of the National Era, 
published under the auspices of the Amer¬ 
ican and Foreign Anti-Slavery society, 
appeared in 1847, and of which publication 
he was editor. In 1848 an angry mob laid 
siege to the office for three days, and 
finally separated under the influence of 
an eloquent harangue by the editor. The 
Era, in which Uncle Tom’s Cabin orig¬ 
inally appeared, ably presented the opin¬ 
ions of the anti-slavery party. He died 
at sea June 5, 1859. 


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BAILEY, GEORGE HOWARD, lawyer, 
was born Feb. 1, 1867, in Washington 
county, Ohio. In 1894 he graduated from 
the Michigan university, and has since 
attained prominence as an able lawyer of 
Red Lodge, Mont. 

BAILEY, GEORGE MILROY, journal¬ 
ist, capitalist, was born Oct. 8, 1862, in 
Ogdensburg, N. Y. He is president of the 
Bailey Investment company; of the Buf- 
falo-Marion Land company; and of the 
Niagara Falls Tunnel company. He is 
vice-president of the Hudor Lithia com¬ 
pany; of the J. J. George Furniture com¬ 
pany; and of the Buffalo Depew Land 
company; and secretary of the Oatman 
Produce company, and of the Depew Ter¬ 
minal Land company. He publishes a 
successful monthly paper entitled The 
Buffalo Presbyterian News. 

BAILEY, GILBERT STEPHEN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 17, 1822, in 
Dalton, Pa. After graduating from the 
Oberlin college, Ohio, he started a select 
school at Waverly, which soon grew into 
Madison academy, with one hundred 
students. He subsequently resigned this 
charge and was ordained to the ministry; 
and later filled a pastorate in Pomona, 
Cal. Besides numerous tracts and uncol¬ 
lected poems he has published a History 
of the Illinois River Baptist Association; 
Caverns of Kentucky; Manual of Bap¬ 
tism; The Trials ahd Victories of Re¬ 
ligious Liberty in America; Three Dis¬ 
courses on the History, Wonders, and Ex¬ 
cellence of the Bible; The Word and 
Works of God; Prize Discourse on 
Slander; and Ingersollism Exposed. 

BAILEY, GOLDSMITH F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 17, 1823, in 
Westmoreland, N. H. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1848; in 1856 was elected to 
the legislature of Massachusetts; and in 
1858-60 to the senate of the state. He 
was elected a representative from Massa¬ 
chusetts to the thirty-seventh congress. 
He died May 8, 1862, in Fitchburg, Mass. 

BAILEY, GUILFORD DUDLEY, sol¬ 
dier, was born June 4, 1834, in Martins- 
burg, N. Y. When the civil war began he 
was stationed at Fort Brown, Texas, but, 
with his immediate superior, Capt. Stone- 
man, refused to surrender when Gen. 
Twiggs attempted to give up his entire 
command to the confederates, and effected 
his escape into Mexico. A monument has 
been raised to his memory in the ceme¬ 
tery at Poughkeepsie. He was killed in 
action May 31, 1862. 

BAILEY, HANNA JOHNSTON, presi¬ 
dent of the Maine Woman’s Suffrage as¬ 
sociation, was born July 5, 1839, in Corn¬ 
wall - on - the - Hud¬ 
son, N. Y. She re¬ 
ceived her education 
at a denominational 
boarding school, and 
subsequently f o1 - 
lowed the profession 
of teaching for ten 
years. She has been 
the world’s and na¬ 
tional superintend¬ 
ent of the depart¬ 
ment of peace and 
arbitration in the 
Temperance union, 
was treasurer of a 
society, and is now 
treasurer of the National Council of 
Women. Mrs. Bailey was one of the 
judges in the department of liberal arts 
at the World’s Columbian Exposition; 
and she is now the honored president of 
the Maine Woman’s Suffrage association. 

BAILEY, HENRY TURNER, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 9, 1865, in North 


Scituate, Mass., where the Bailey family 
have lived since 1660. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the public 
schools of his native city, and graduated 
from the Massachusetts State Normal 
Art school of Boston. He has been a pro¬ 
fessor in the Boston Evening Drawing 
schools; supervisor of drawing in the 
public schools of Lowell, Mass.; was an 
agent of the state board of education, 
Mass.; and state supervisor of drawing. 
He is widely known through Reports on 
Drawing to the state board of education, 
and is a popular lecturer on art educa¬ 
tional topics. He is the author of First 
Year in Drawing; and miscellaneous pa¬ 
pers on Art and Education. 

BAILEY, HORACE W., commissioner 
of fisheries and game for Vermont, was 
born Jan. 16, 1852, in Newbury, Vt. He 
graduated from Newbury seminary, and 
during 1886-96 was clerk of his native 
city and superintendent of schools. Dur¬ 
ing 1894-96 he was a member of the Ver¬ 
mont state senate, and served with dis¬ 
tinction in that body. In 1894 he was ap¬ 
pointed state commissioner of fisheries 
and game for Vermont. 

BAILEY, JACOB, soldier, was born 
July 2, 1728, in Newbury, Mass. He set¬ 
tled in Hampstead in 1745, and served as 
a captain during the French war in 1756. 
He was with Col. Munroe in the siege of 
Fort William Henry, and was among 
those who escaped the subsequent mas¬ 
sacre in 1757. He was also present at 
the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown 
Point in 1759. In 1764 he removed to Ver¬ 
mont, and there obtained a township. 
Later he was appointed brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of militia by the state of New York. 
During the revolutionary war he was 
commissary-general of the northern de¬ 
partment. He died March 1, 1816, in 
Newbury, Vt. 

BAILEY, JACOB WHITMAN, natural¬ 
ist, was born April 29, 1811, in Ward, 
Miss’. He is the inventor of Bailey’s In¬ 
dicator and of many improvements in the 
microscope. His investigations with this 
instrument, illustrating botany and zool¬ 
ogy, gave him great distinction. His Mi¬ 
croscopic Sketches, together with his col¬ 
lection of about 4,500 specimens of algae, 
he bequeathed to the Boston Society of 
Natural History. He died Feb. 26, 1857, 
in West Point, N. Y. 

BAILEY, JAMES ALDERSON, JR., 
lawyer, legislator, state senator, was born 
March 25, 1867, in Arlington, Mass. In 
1888 he graduated from Harvard college 
with the degree of A. B.; and subse¬ 
quently from the Harvard Law school, 
from which institution he received the 
degrees of LL. B. and A. M. He is a 
successful lawyer, and has a large practice 
in his native city. He has served with 
distinction as a representative in the 
Massachusetts state legislature; and also 
as a state senator. 

BAILEY, JAMES ANTHONY, show¬ 
man, was born in 1847 in Detroit, Mich. 
The Great London circus was bought and 
added to that of Cooper and Bailey, lead¬ 
ing to the firm of Barnum and Bailey. 

BAILEY, JAMES E., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 15, 1822, in Mont¬ 
gomery, Tenn. He was educated at the 
Clarksville academy and the university 
of Tennessee; studied law; and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar at Clarksville, Tenn., 
in 1840. He was a representative in the 
state legislature in 1853; and was elected 
a senator of the United States from Ten¬ 
nessee to fill the vacancy caused by the 
death of Andrew Johnson, serving during 
1877-81. He died Dec. 29, 1885, in Clarks¬ 
ville, Tenn. 



Woman’s Christian 
For ten years she 
foreign missionary 


BAILEY, JAMES MONTGOMERY, 
journalist, author, was born Sept. 25, 
1841, in Albany, N. Y. Widely known at 
one time as The Danbury News Man. He 
was a journalist of Danbury, Conn., who 
was among the earliest to exploit a kind 
of native humor, chiefly concerned with 
local allusion and application. He has 
had many imitators, whose methods have 
been much less legitimate than his. He 
was the author of Life in Danbury; Eng¬ 
land from a Back Window; The Danbury 
Boom; Mr. Phillis’ Goneness; and They 
All Do It. He died March 4, 1894. 

BAILEY, JAMES STANTON, manufac¬ 
turer, was born Dec. 9, 1817, in Lebanon, 
Conn. He established the house of Tuttle 
and Bailey, manufacturers of registers 
and ventilators; and on the death of 
Charles Tuttle became senior partner. 

BAILEY, JEREMIAH, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born at Little Comp¬ 
ton, R. I. He graduated at Brown uni¬ 
versity, and studied law; was a member 
of the Maine legislature from 1811-14 and 
a judge of probate from 1814-35. He was 
a representative in congress from Lincoln 
county, Maine, from 1835-37 and was col¬ 
lector of customs at Wiscasset from 
1849-53. He died in July, 1853. 

BAILEY, JOHN, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Norfolk county. 
Mass. He was a member of the Massa¬ 
chusetts legislature from 1815-18, and a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1823-31. He wa3 a state 
senator in 1831-34. He died June 16, 1835, 
in Dorchester, Mass. 

BAILEY, JOHN M., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 24, 1838, in Bethle¬ 
hem, N. Y. He graduated at Union college 
in 1861; studied law; in 1862 entered the 
union army as first lieutenant, and in 1864 
commenced the practice of law. He was 
assistant district attorney of Albany 
county in 1865-67; was collector of inter¬ 
nal revenue four years; in 1874 was elect¬ 
ed district attorney and served three 
years, and was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-fifth and 
forty-sixth congresses. 

BAILEY, JOSEPH, soldier, was born 
April 28, 1827, in Salem, Ohio. When the 
civil war broke out he entered the federal 
army as captain of the fourth Wisconsin 
infantry. He accompanied the army in 
the Red river campaign, and it was dur¬ 
ing this expedition that Bailey achieved 
the remarkable engineering feat which 
made him one of the heroes of the war. 
He received the brevet of brigadier-gen¬ 
eral on June 7 and was promoted colonel 
on June 30, 1864. He died March 21, 1867. 

BAILEY, JOSEPH MEAD, jurist, was 
born June 22, 1833, in Middlebury, Vt. He 
graduated from the university of Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y., in 1854, and in 1856 began the 
practice of law at Freeport, Ill. He was 
a member of the Illinois legislature in 
1866-70 and presidential elector of the 
same state in 1876. He was chosen a judge 
in the thirteenth judicial circuit in 1877; 
judge of the first division appellate court 
in 1878; and chief justice of that court in 
1879. He became a trustee of the univer¬ 
sity of Chicago in 1878. 

BAILEY, JOSEPH W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 6, 1863, in Copiah 
county, Miss. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1883 and served as a district elector 
on the Cleveland and Hendricks ticket in 
1884. He removed to Texas in 1885 and 
located in Gainesville. He served as 
elector for the state at large on the demo¬ 
cratic ticket in 1888; was elected to the 
fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, and 
was re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
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BAILEY, LEPHA ELIZA, lecturer, pro¬ 
hibitionist, was born Jan. 21, 1844, in Bat¬ 
tle Creek, Mich. She received her edu¬ 
cation in the public schools of her native 
city and at the Battle Creek college. For 
many years she has been secretary of the 
Woman’s Christian Temperance union; 
Reform club; Sovereigns of Industry; and 
#f the Independent Order of Good Tem¬ 
plars. She has delivered hundreds of lec¬ 
tures on temperance and reform subjects 
and is one of the most talented leaders in 
the field of prohibition. She has contrib¬ 
uted extensively to the periodical press; 
has edited various departments in news¬ 
papers, and is the author of several works 
in prose and verse. 

BAILEY, LIBERTY HYDE, educator, 
lecturer, author, was born March 15, 1858, 
in South Haven, Mich. He is a promi¬ 
nent horticulturist and for many years 
was professor of horticulture and land¬ 
scape gardening in the Michigan Agricul¬ 
tural college. He is the author of Amer¬ 
ican Grape Training; Cross-Breeding and 
Hybridization; Field Notes on Apple Cul¬ 
ture; Annals of Horticulture; The Hor¬ 
ticulturist Rule-Book; The Nursery-Book; 
A Complete Guide to the Multiplication 
and Pollination of Plants; and Talks 
Afield About Plants; Plant Breeding. 

BAILEY, LORING WO ART, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 28, 1839, in West 
Point, N. Y. He is a professor of natural 
history in the university of New Bruns¬ 
wick, and the author of Mines and Min¬ 
erals of New Brunswick; Geology of 
Southern New Brunswick; and Element¬ 
ary Natural History. 

BAILEY, MARTIN B., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Jan. 22, 1858, in Vermillion 
county, Ill. He was chief of the law de¬ 
partment in the pension bureau during 
Harrison’s administration, and was a 
member of the Illinois state legislature in 
1895. 

BAILEY, NORMAN, soldier, merchant, 
state senator, was born Jan. 1, 1822, in 
New York. He was captain in the service 
during the war, and in 1861-62 was a 
member of the Michigan state senate. 

BAILEY, RUFUS WILLIAM, educator, 
author, was born April 13, 1793, in North 
Yarmouth, Maine. In 1854 he was elected 
professor of languages in Austin college at 
Huntsville, Tex., and in 1858 became its 
president. He was the author of a series 
of newspaper letters on slavery, subse¬ 
quently published in a volume under the 
title of The Issue; also of a volume of 
sermons entitled The Family Preacher; of 
letters to daughters entitled The Mother’s 
Request; of a Primary Grammar; and of 
a Manual of English Grammar used ex¬ 
tensively in southern schools. He died 
April 25, 1863, in Huntsville, Tex. 

BAILEY, SARA LORD, elocutionist, 
was born Sept. 9, 1856, in England. In 
1888 she graduated from the Boston 
School of Oratory and has since attained 
success as a teacher of elocution and voice 
culture in numerous large institutions. 

BAILEY, SILAS, clergyman, educator, 
college president, was born in 1812 in 
Massachusetts. He became principal of 
Worcester academy about 1840, and after 
several years was elected president of 
Granville college, afterward Dennison 
university, Granville, Ohio, where he re¬ 
mained for ten years. He then became 
president of frhe newly established college 
at Franklin, Ind., where he remained until 
his health failed. He bequeathed his 
library to Franklin college. Dr. Bailey 
published sermons, addresses and re¬ 
views. He died June 11, 1874, in Paris, 
France. 


BAILEY, THEODORUS, United States 
senator, was born Oct. 12, 1758, in Dutchess 
county, N. Y. He was a representative 
in congress from New York from 1793-97, 
and again from 1799-1803. He was a sena¬ 
tor in congress from 1803-04, when he re¬ 
signed and was appointed postmaster of 
New York city. He died Sept. 6, 1828, 
in New York city. 

BAILEY, THEODORUS, naval officer, 
was born April 12, 1805, in Chateaugay, 
N. Y. After serving on the frigate Con¬ 
stellation, in which he again sailed round 
the world, he was placed in command of 
the storeship Lexington in 1846, in which, 
on the breaking out of the Mexican war, 
he conveyed to California, by way of Cape 
Horn, an artillery company and several 
officers who afterward became famous. He 
died Feb. 10, 1877, in Washington, D. C. 

BAILEY, WILLIAM WHITMAN, bot¬ 
anist, author, was Ijorn Feb. 22, 1843, in 
West Point, N. Y., and is a brother of L. 
W. Bailey. He is a professor of botany 
at Brown university and the author of 
New England Wild Flowers and Their 
Seasons; Among Rhode Island Wild 
Flowers; and Botanical Collector’s Hand- 
Book. 

BAILLY, JOSEPH A., sculptor, was 
born in 1825 in Paris, France. He began 
his career as a woodcarver and later he 
applied himself to marble sculpture and 
became a professor in the Pennsylvania 
Academy of Fine Arts. He has produced 
a statue of Washington, which was placed 
in front of the Philadelphia statehouse 
in 1869; a colossal statue of Witherspoon; 
the companion groups called The First 
Prayer and Paradise Lost; portrait busts 
of Gen. Grant and Gen. Meade; an eques¬ 
trian statue of President Blanco of Vene¬ 
zuela; and Spring. 

BAILY, JOSEPH, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 18, 1810, on the 
Brandywine battleground, Chester county, 
Pa. From 1839 to 1845 he represented his 
native county in both branches of the 
legislature; and from 1850 to 1854 repre¬ 
sented Perry county in the state senate; in 
1854 he was treasurer of the state of Penn¬ 
sylvania; and in 1860 was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Pennsylvania to the 
thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elect¬ 
ed to the thirty-eighth congress. He was 
one of the twelve democrats in congress 
who voted for the constitutional amend¬ 
ment abolishing slavery. 

BAINBRIDGE, HENRY, soldier, was 
born in 1803, in New York. He served in 
the Florida war, in the military occupa- 
• tion of Texas, and in the war with Mexico. 
In 1849-50 he served in the Seminole war. 
He was promoted to a lieutenant-colonel¬ 
cy in 1851. He died May 31, 1857, near 
Galveston. 

BAINBRIDGE, WILLIAM, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born in 1774 in New Jersey. He 
was the captain of a merchant vessel at 
the age of nineteen and entered the naval 
service in 1798. He was distinguished 
during the war of 1812, and died in 1833. 

BAIRD, ABSALOM, general, was born 
Aug. 20, 1824, in Washington, Pa. He 
served at Chickamauga, Chattanooga, 
Resalo, Jonesborough, and Atlanta. For 
his services in the Atlanta campaign he 
received the brevet rank of brigadier-gen¬ 
eral in the regular army in 1865, with 
that of major-general for services dur¬ 
ing the rebellion. He served as inspector- 
general of the department of the lakes 
from 1866 to 1868, of the department of 
Dakota till 1870, of the division of the 
south till 1872, and subsequently as as¬ 
sistant inspector-general of the division 
of the Missouri. 


BAIRD, ANDREW D., soldier, merchant, 
was born Oct. 14, 1839, in Scotland. He 
served entirely through the war, taking 
part in forty-five battles and being wound¬ 
ed three times, and commanded the regi¬ 
ment after May, 1864. The stone yards of 
Gill and Baird of New York City are 
among the foremost in the United States. 

BAIRD, CHAMBERS, lawyer, poet, is 
a popular lawyer of Ripley, Ohio, and the 
author of several meritorious poems. 

BAIRD, CHARLES WASHINGTON, 
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 28, 
1828, in Princeton, N. J., and was a son 
of R. Baird. He was a presbyterian minis¬ 
ter of Rye, N. Y., and the author of Eu- 
taxia, or the Presbyterian Liturgies; Book 
of Public Prayer; History of Rye; and 
History of the Huguenot Emigration to 
America. He died Feb. 10, 1887, in Rye, 
N. Y. 

BAIRD, GEORGE W., naval engineer, 
inventor, author, was born April 22, 1843, 
in Washington, D. C. He entered the 
navy as assistant engineer and served 
during the civil war. He is the inventor 
of a distiller for making fresh water from 
sea water, an evaporator, a pneumatic 
steering machine, and numerous other in¬ 
ventions. He is the author of The Ab¬ 
sorption of Gases by Water; The Flight 
of Flying Fish; Science; and other works. 

BAIRD, HENRY CAREY, political 
economist and author, was born Sept. 10, 
1825, in Bridesburg, Pa, He is a publish¬ 
er of industrial books at Philadelphia, 
and an active member of the American 
Philosophical society, before which he has 
read many learned papers. He is the au¬ 
thor of Rights of American Producers and 
Wrongs of British Free Trade Revenue 
Reformers; Protection of Home Labour 
and Home Production Necessary to the 
Protection of the American Farmer; and 
Miscellaneous Papers on Economic Ques¬ 
tions. 

BAIRD, HENRY MARTYN, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 17, 1832, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is a professor of Greek 
at the University of New York from 1859, 
and an historian who is conscientious but 
not absolutely impartial. He is the au¬ 
thor of Life of Robert Baird; Modern 
Greece; Narrative of a Residence and 
Travels; History of the Rise of the 
Huguenots of France; The Huguenots 
and Henry of Navarre; and The Hugue¬ 
nots and the Revocation of the Edict of 
Nantes. 

BAIRD,- JAMES HADYN, journalist, 
was born Aug. 13, 1866, in West Lebanon, 
Tenn. In 1889 he became business manag¬ 
er of Southern Lumberman. In 1896 he 
was elected to the office of scrivenoter 
in the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, 
with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn. 
He was also secretary of Forestry depart¬ 
ment in the Tennessee centennial at 
Nashville in 1897. 

BAIRD, JOHN C., lawyer, orator, jur¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 7, 1852, in Pittsburg, 
Pa. He received his education in the pub¬ 
lic schools of his native city, and has 
attained prominence as a lawyer of abili¬ 
ty of Cheyenne, Wyo. He has filled the 
office of district attorney; and has been 
judge-advocate-general of Wyoming, with 
rank of colonel. He is prominent in 
Knights Templars and other orders, and 
well known as an eloquent western orator, 

BAIRD, JOHN FARIS, educator, clergy¬ 
man, was born Dec. 5, 1851, in Charles¬ 
town, Ind. In 1880 he was elected pro¬ 
fessor of ethics and Christian evidence in 
Hanover College, which he held until 1890, 
when he accepted a pastorate of the pres¬ 
byterian church of Seymour, Ind. 


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BAIRD, MATTHEW, locomotive build¬ 
er, was born in 1817, in Londonderry, Ire¬ 
land. He became connected with the 
Baldwin Locomotive works as a partner 
in M. W. Baldwin & Co. He made note¬ 
worthy experiments in the economical 
burning of soft coal in railroad engines 
and adopted the deflector plate or brick 
arch, now in general use. He died May 
19, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BAIRD, ROBERT, clergyman, author, 
was born Oct. 6, 1798, in Fayette 

county, Pa. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man, active in the cause of temperance 
and in promoting the extension of Pro¬ 
testantism in Europe. He was the author 
of History of the Temperance Societies; 
View of Religion in America; History of 
the Waldenses, Albigenses, and Vaudois; 
and Protestantism in Italy. He died 
March 15, 1863, in Yonkers. N. Y. , 

BAIRD, SAMUEL JOHN, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1817, in Newark, 
Ohio. He is a presbyterian clergyman 
whose writings are chiefly concerned with 
the polity and history of the presbyterian 
church. He is the author of The Church 
of Christ: its Constitution and Order; 
History of the Early Polity of the Pres¬ 
byterian Church in the Training of Minis¬ 
ters; The Socinian Apostasy of the En¬ 
glish Presbyterian Church; and History 
of the New School. 

BAIRD, SAMUEL T., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 5, 1861, in Oak Ridge, 
La. He was educated at home and at Vin¬ 
cennes, Ind.; began the study of law in 
1879, and was admitted to the bar in 1882, 
and was elected district attorney of the 
sixth judicial district in 1884. He served 
four years upon the bench, and was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fifth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 


BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON, na¬ 
turalist, was born Feb. 3, 1823, in Read¬ 
ing, Pa. He was a naturalist of promi¬ 
nence, who was from 1878 the secretary of 
the Smithsonian Institution. He was the 
translator and editor of the Iconographic 
Encyclopedia; co-author with J. Cassin of 
Birds of North America and Mammals of 
North America; editor Annual Record of 
Science and Industry from 1872-78. A 
History of North American Birds, written 
in collaboration with T. M. Brewer and 
R. Ridgway, is one of his most valuable 
works. He died Aug. 19, 1887, in Wood’s 
Holl, Mass. 

BAKER, ABIJAH RICHARDSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Aug. 30/1805, in 
Franklin, Mass. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Lynn, Mass., and the au¬ 
thor of School History of the United 
States; The Catechism Tested by the 
Bible; and Topics in Christ’s Sermon on 
the Mount. He died in 1876. 


BAKER, ALBERT C., lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born Feb. 15, 1825, in Girard, 
Ala. He received his education in the 

East Alabama Male 
college of Auburn, 
and has attained em¬ 
inence as an astute 
lawyer and jurist. 
He has been city at¬ 
torney for Phoenix, 
Ariz.; district at¬ 
torney of his coun¬ 
ty; and assistant 
United States at¬ 
torney for Arizona. 
He was a member 
of the eleventh leg¬ 
islative assembly of Arizona, and was 
chairman of the judiciary committee in 
that body. He has been a member of the 

board of curators, territorial library; a 



member of the board of directors of the 
Territorial Normal school; and has filled 
with distinction the high office of chief 
justice of Arizona. 

BAKER, ALFRED, banker, was born 
Feb. 8, 1811, in Warren County, Ga. In 
1870 he organized and became president 
of the National Exchange Bank of Au¬ 
gusta; and in 1875 he established the 
Augusta Savings bank, and became its 
president. As a wholesale merchant, 
manufacturer, and banker he has been 
one of the leading business men of his 
section. 

BAKER, ALPHEUS, soldier, lawyer, 
was born May 23, 1825, in South Carolina. 
He joined the confederate army in 1861, 
and was rapidly promoted for gallant and 
meritorious services, to the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general. At the close of the war he 
engaged in the practice of law in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. He died Oct. 2, 1891, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. 

BAKER, ANDREW J., merchant, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Sept. 4, 1842, in 
Mississippi. He attended the University 
of Mississippi, and served during the civil 
war in the confederate army, and was 
twice a member of the Mississippi state 
legislature. He is a successful merchant 
and lawyer of San Angelo, Texas; has 
served with distinction as a member of 
the Texas state legislature; and for four 
years was commissioner of the general 
land office of Texas. 

BAKER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
musician, was born July 10, 1811, in Wen- 
ham, Mass. From 1842 to 1848 he was 
superintendent of musical instruction in 
the grammar schools of Boston, Mass., 
and met 8,000 pupils a week. He intro¬ 
duced music into the public schools of 
Lowell and Lawrence; became editor of 
the Boston Musical Journal; and, from 
its foundation in 1857, was principal of the 
Boston music school. 

BAKER, BENJAMIN M„ lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Jan. 20, 1850, in 
Girard, Ala. After receiving his educa¬ 
tion he entered into the active practice 
of law. He was the first state superin¬ 
tendent of public education of Texas; and 
was a member of the fifteenth, sixteenth 
and seventeenth state legislatures of 
Texas. He has served as judge of the 
thirty-first judicial district of his adopt¬ 
ed state, and his decisions have shown 
him to possess rare judicial abilities. 

BAKER, BENJAMIN T., journalist, was 
born Aug. 3, 1866; is the editor and owner 
of The Journal of Smith Center, Kan. He 
is prominent in the affairs of his county 
and state, and a member of the populist 
congressional, judicial and county com¬ 
mittees. 

BAKER, BENJAMIN W., soldier, minis¬ 
ter, college president, was born Nov. 25, 
1841, in Coles county, Ill. He has at¬ 
tained prominence as an eloquent metho- 
dist minister and as president of Chad- 
dock college, Quincy, Ill. He served as 
a soldier for three years in the civil war. 

BAKER, BERNARD N.. businessman, 
was born May 11, 1854, in Baltimore, Md. 
He is president of the firm of Baker, 
Whiteley & Co.; and is also the presi¬ 
dent of the Baltimore Storage and Light¬ 
erage company, which has a capital of 
$1,500,000 and which owns and controls 
the Atlantic Transport line. 

BAKER, CALEB, congressman, was 
born in Providence, R. I. He served four 
years in the New York assembly; was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1819 to 1821, 

BAKER, CHARLES JOSEPH, mer¬ 
chant, manufacturer, was born May 28, 
1821, in Baltimore, Md. It was through 


his efforts that the Union railroad and 
tunnel were constructed; and, having 
bought control of The Baltimore Gazette, 
he was enable'd to advance reform move¬ 
ments. He died Sept. 23, 1894, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. 

BAKER, CHARLES SIMEON, soldier, 
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Feb. 18, 1839, in Churchville, N. Y. He 
received an academic education; was a 
teacher in 1856-’57; studied law, was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in December, 1860, and 
Las since practiced the profession, ex¬ 
cept during the first year of the war, 
when he served as first lieutenant of Com¬ 
pany E, Twenty-seventh New York volun¬ 
teers, being disabled at the first battle of 
Bull Run. He was a member of the board 
of supervisors of Monroe county three 
years; was a member of the Rochester 
board of education two years, and presi¬ 
dent thereof the second year. He was a 
member of the New York state assembly 
from the Rochester district in 1879, 1880, 
1882; was a member of the state senate 
of New York from the twenty-ninth dis¬ 
trict in 1884-’85; and was elected to the 
forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

BAKER, CONRAD, statesman. He was 
governor of Indiana from 1867 to 1869. 

BAKER, DANIEL, soldier, was born 
about 1775. He was brevetted major for 
gallantry in the disastrous affair at 
Brownstown, Mich., known as Van 
Horne’s defeat. After the war of 1812 he 
was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the 
sixth infantry, and commanded that regi¬ 
ment. at the battle of the Bad Axe river, 
in the Black Hawk war, in 1832. He died 
Oct. 10, 1836, in Detroit, Mich. 

BAKER. DANIEL, clergyman, author, 
v/as born Aug. 17, 1791, in Midway, Ga. 
He gained such a reputation as an effec¬ 
tive preacher that his services were in 
demand as a revivalist. After 1830 he 
continued as an evangelist, traveling in 
the south, and at last settled in Austin, 
Texas, where he founded a college and 
became its first president. Among his" 
published works are A Scriptural View of 
Baptism; An Affectionate Address to 
Mothers, and one to Fathers; Baptism 
in a Nutshell; and Revival Sermons. His 
memoirs, prepared by his son, were pub¬ 
lished in Philadelphia in 1859. He died 
Dec. 10, 1857, in Austin, Texas. 

BAKER, DAVID JEWETT, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Sept. 7. 1792, 
in East Haddam, Conn. He had an ex¬ 
tensive practice, and was probate judge 
of Randolph county, Ill. He was a sen¬ 
ator in congress from 1830 to 1831, carry¬ 
ing through congress the important meas¬ 
ure of selling the public lands to actual 
settlers in parcels of forty acres; and was 
United States attorney for Illinois from 
1833 to 1841. He opposed the introduction 
of slavery into Illinois in 1823 with such 
energy that his opponents tried to kill 
him. He died Aug. 6, 1869, in Alton, Ill. 

BAKER, DAVID V., lawyer, was born 
May 30, 1839, in Dayton, Ohio. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education in 
the common schools, and attended three 
sessions at Liber college, Indiana. In 1861 
he received a commission as an aid-de- 
camp, with the rank of colonel, to the gov¬ 
ernor when less than twenty-two years 
of age. Mr. Baker was postmaster under 
President Lincoln; was elected city at¬ 
torney; town councilman; town clerk; 
four years a mail contractor; five years 
in charge of clerkship of the Jay circuit 
court; and in 1880 was a candidate for 
the legislature, and carried Adams and 
Jay counties by 4,000 majority. 



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BAKER, DORSEY' SYNGE, physician, 
banker, was born Oct. 28, 1823, in Center¬ 
ville, Ill. In 1871 he took steps to organ¬ 
ize a railroad company to build a line 
from Walla Walla to Wallula. This road, 
the first in the territory, was built entire¬ 
ly from his own means and was finished 
in 1873. His principal properties were The 
Baker and Boyer bank in Walla Walla; 
and The Walla Walla and Columbia River 
Railroad. 

BAKER, EDWARD D., lawyer, soldier, 
congressman, was born Feb. 24, 1811, in 
London, England. He was brought to 
this country when a 
child, and was early 
left an orphan in 
Philadelphia. He be¬ 
came famous as an 
advocate in Illinois, 
to which state he 
emigrated in his 
nineteenth year. 
After serving in the 
Illinois legislature 
for two years, he re¬ 
signed, and, in 1846, 
went to Mexico as a 
colonel of volunteers. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Illinois from 
1849 to 1851, after which he took an active 
part in the building of the Panama rail¬ 
road. In 1852 he settled in San Francisco, 
devoting himself to his profession; sub¬ 
sequently removed to Oregon, which state 
he represented as a senator in congress, 
taking his seat in March, 1861. At the 
outbreak of the rebellion, in 1861, he raised 
a body of men in Philadelphia, called the 
California regiment, and while gallantly 
leading them in battle at Leesburg. Va., 
against a superior force, was shot from 
his horse and killed, Oct. 21, 1861. 

BAKER, ENOS POMEROY, clergyman, 
college president, was born Dec. 20, 1856, 
in West Bloomfield, N. Y. He graduated 
from Lake Forest university as valedic¬ 
torian in 1882, and in 1886 from the Pres¬ 
byterian Theological Seminary of the 
Northwest, now the McCormick Theo¬ 
logical seminary, of Chicago. He had 
charge of several churches, and is now 
president of the Presbyterian College of 
the Southwest, of Del Norte, Colo. 

BAKER, EZRA, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Jersey from 1815 to 1817. 

BAKER, FRANK R., legislator and 
lawyer, was born Nov. 11, 1861, in Ben- 
tonsport, Iowa. In 1891 he was elected 
a member of the Washington state legis¬ 
lature, and has since attained prominence 
as an orator and statesman. 

BAKER, FREDERICK A., was born 
June 14, 1846, in Holly, Mich. He com¬ 
menced the study of the law in 1865, was 
admitted to the bar in 1867, and has been 
in active practice ever since. In 1877 he 
served with distinction as a member of 
the Michigan state legislature. 

BAKER, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1821, in New York 
City. He was a successful lawyer of New 
Y T ork and the author of Point Lace and 
Diamonds, a collection of sparkling so¬ 
ciety verse; The Bad Habits of Good So¬ 
ciety; Mrs. Hephaestus and Other Short 
Stories; and West Point: a Comedy. He 
died April 2, 1880, in New York City. 

BAKER, GEORGE HALL, librarian, 
was born April 23, 1850, in Ashfield. Mass. 
In 1883 he joined the staff of Columbia 
college library as assistant librarian. Dur¬ 
ing 1885-89 he was lecturer in the school 
of political science in Columbia college 
on the bibliography of history and politi¬ 
cal science. 



BAKER. GEORGE MELVILLE, author, 
was born in 1832, in Maine. He was the 
author and compiler of Amateur Dramas; 
the Social Stage; and works of like char¬ 
acter. He died in 1890. 

BAKER, GEORGE PIERCE, educator, 
author, was born in 1866, in Rhode Island. 
He is an instructor at Harvard university, 
and the author of Plot Book of Eliza¬ 
bethan Plays; and Principles of Argu¬ 
mentation. 

BAKER, GEORGE TITUS, civil en¬ 
gineer, legislator, was born Sept. 24, 1857, 
in Homestead, Iowa. He attended the 
Iowa state university in 1874-75, and 
he is a member of a large construction 
company of Davenport, Iowa. During 
1896-97 he served with distinction as a 
representative in the Iowa state legisla¬ 
ture. 


BAKER, GEORGE W., educator, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Dec. 14, 1857, near Cen¬ 
tral Academy, Miss. For fourteen years 
he was engaged in educational work; was 
licensed to preach in the methodist epis¬ 
copal church in 1887; was admitted to the 
annual conference at Grenada in 1896; 
and was ordained Jan. 17. 1897. He has 
since served in the Corinth circuit, with 
great success. 

BAKER, GRAFTON, jurist, was born 
in Virginia and removed to Mississippi, 
from which state he was appointed an 
associate justice of the United States 
court for the territory of New Mexico. 

BAKER. MRS. HARR1ETTE NEW¬ 
ELL. author, was born in 1815, in An¬ 
dover. Mass. Besides two novels,—Cora 
and the Doctor, The Courtesies of Wedded 
Life,—her writings include nearly two 
hundred moral and religious tales, among 
which Tim the Scissors Grinder is the 
best known. She is best known by the 
pseudonyms of Madeline Leslie and Aunt 
Hally. She died in 1893. 

BAKER, HENRY BROOKS, physician, 
was born Dec. 29, 1837, in Brattlesbor- 
ough. Vt. He has devoted much time to 
studies relative to the causation of diph¬ 
theria, typhoid fever, cholera, and pneu¬ 
monia. The results thus far obtained have 
appeared in the Transactions of the 
American Public Health Association; and 
Transactions of the American Climato¬ 
logical Association, 1886. 

BAKER, HENRY" G., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Sept. 22, 1857, in Cleveland, 
Ohio. At the age of twenty-one he was 
elected justice of the peace and ten years 
later was elected probate judge of De¬ 
fiance county, Ohio. He was appointed 
by the governor as commissioner to the 
Columbian exposition for Ohio. 



BAKER, HENRY M., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 11, 1841, in Bow, N. 
H. He graduated from the New Hamp¬ 
shire Conference 
seminary in 1859, 
Dartmouth college 
in 1863, and the Co¬ 
lumbian College 
Law school in 1866, 
and admitted to the 
bar the same year. 
He was a clerk in 
the war and treasury 
departments, and la¬ 
ter practiced law in 
Washington, D. C. 
He was judge-advo¬ 
cate-general of the National guard of 
New Hampshire in 1886-’87, with the rank 
of brigadier-general; and was a member 
of the state senate in 1891-’92. He was 
elected to the fifty-third congress as a 
republican from the second district of 
New Hampshire, and in 1894 was re-elect¬ 


ed by a greatly increased majority. He 
was not again a candidate for re-election. 
In congress he served on the judiciary 
and other important committees. Several 
of his speeches were printed in pamphlet 
form and extensively circulated. 

BAKER, ISAAC GILBERT, merchant, 
was born Aug. 22, 1819, in Rigfield, Mo. 
In 1866 he engaged in mercantile busi¬ 
ness, operating the Baker line of steam¬ 
boats, transporting freight by wagons to 
the mining towns, and trading with the 
Indians. Every year he collected in the 
western region about twenty thousand 
dressed buffalo robes and shipped them to 
a market in the east. 

BAKER, JAMES H., soldier, public offi¬ 
cial, was born May 6, 1829, in Monroe, 
Ohio. He received his education at the 
Wesleyan university of that state; be¬ 
came a teacher, and had charge of a fe¬ 
male seminary at Richmond, Ind. In 1853 
he purchased the Scioto Gazette and be¬ 
came its editor; in 1855 was elected secre¬ 
tary of state for Ohio, and suosequently 
removed to Minnesota and became the 
secretary of that state. He served as a 
colonel in the army in 1862 and 1863; was 
made provost-marshal for the depart¬ 
ment of Missouri, and served as such un¬ 
til the close of the rebellion, having been 
made a brigadier-general. He was then 
appointed register of public lands at 
Boonville, Mo., and in 1871 was appointed 
commissioner of pensions, resigning the 
position in 1875. 

BAKER, JAMES HUTCHINS, educator, 
college president, author, was born Oct. 
13, 1848, in Harmony, Maine. In 1873 he 
graduated from 

Bates college and at 
once entered into 
educational work as 
principal of the Yar¬ 
mouth High school. 
From the beginning 
of his residence in 
Colorado, he has 
identified himself 

closely with the ed¬ 
ucational interests 
of that state. For 
seventeen years he 
was connected with the East Denver High 
school, and during his administration the 
magnificent High school building, second 
to none in the United States, was erected 
—a lasting and a splendid, memorial of 
his work. In 1892 he assumed his duties 
as president of the university of Colora¬ 
do. He has been president of the state 
teachers’ association, and since 1886 has 
served as a member of the national coun¬ 
cil of education, being elected its presi¬ 
dent in 1891. He is the author of Ele¬ 
mentary Psychology and other works; 
and his reputation rests chiefly on his 
studies and investigation of problems in 
psychology and ethics. 

BAKER. JAMES L., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Feb. 2, 1847, in Montgomery, N. Y. 
He received his education at the Ithaca 
academy, and graduated from the law de¬ 
partment of Union college. He has at¬ 
tained success as an eminent lawyer of 
Ithaca, N. Y.; has been its city attorney, 
and filled with honor the position of spe¬ 
cial county judge of Tompkins County, 
N. Y. 

BAKER, JAMES M., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born July 22, 1821, in 
Robeson county, N. C. In 1862 he was 
elected by the legislature of Florida as 
senator in the confederate congress; and 
was re-elected in 1864. In 1866 he was ap¬ 
pointed associate justice of the supreme 
court; and in 1881 was appointed judge of 
the fourth judicial circuit. He died June 
20, 1892, in Jacksonville, Fla. 


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BAKER, JEHU, lawyer, diplomat, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 4, 1822, in Fay¬ 
ette county, Ky. He attended common 
schools and McKendree college, but did 
not graduate; and subsequently received 
from the latter institution the honorary 
degrees of M. A. and LL. D. He studied 
medicine for a time; is a lawyer; was 
master in chancery of St. Clair county 
1861-’65; was elected to the thirty-ninth, 
fortieth, and fiftieth congresses; and 
served as United States minister resident 
to Venezuela in 1878-81 and 1882-85. He 
was minister resident and consul-gener¬ 
al for a time during the closing part of 
this service, and was elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a fusionist. 

BAKER, JOANNA, educator, linguist, 
was born Feb. 14, 1862, in New Rochelle, 
Ill. She received a thorough education; is 
a fine linguist; and now fills the chair of 
Greek, language, literature and philoso¬ 
phy in the Simpson college of Indianola, 
Iowa. As a lecturer she has also attained 
success. 

BAKER, JOHN, lawyer, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1811 to 1813. He died Aug. 
18, 1823, in Sheperdstown, Va. 

BAKER, JOHN H., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Feb. 28, 1832, 
in Parma township, N. Y. He removed, 
studied law, and commenced practice in 
Goshen, Ind., in 1857. He was state sen¬ 
ator in 1862; in 1874 was elecied a repre¬ 
sentative from Indiana to the forty-fourth 
congress and was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth and forty-sixth congresses. 

BAKER, JOSHUA, was born March 23, 
1799, in Kentucky. He graduated from 
West Point in 1819, and at his death on 
April 15, 1893, he was the oldest graduate 
in existence. He practiced law in Mary’s 
parish, and in 1839 was appointed judge. 
In 1867 he was appointed governor of the 
state by General Hancock. 

BAKER, JULIA KEIM WETHERILL, 
journalist, author, w T as born July 18, 1858, 
in Woodville, Miss. She received her ed¬ 
ucation in Philadelphia, Pa. Her hus¬ 
band, Marion A. Baker, is the literary ed¬ 
itor of the New Orleans Times-Democrat; 
and for the past six years she has been 
employed as literary critic and editorial 
writer on the staff of that journal. She 
is the author of a novel entitled Wings. 

BAKER, LAFAYETTE C. t patriot, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 13, 1826, in Stafford, 
N. Y. He was chief of the United States 
secret service during the civil war; and 
in 1862 the bureau became attached to the 
war department, and he was commission¬ 
ed colonel, and subsequently brigadier- 
general. He was the author of a work 
entitled History of the United States Se¬ 
cret Service. He died July 2, 1868, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

BAKER, LEWIS, journalist, legislator, 
was born in 1832, in Belmont county, 
Ohio. He was educated in the log school- 
house and the coun¬ 
try printing office; 
admitted to practice 
law in the supreme 
and other courts of 
Ohio; and declined 
his party nomina¬ 
tion to congress 
when in his 25th 
year. He has edited 
and published at dif¬ 
ferent periods the 
Cambridge Jeffer¬ 
sonian, Ohio; Daily 
Ohio Statesman, of Columbus; Daily Au¬ 
rora, of Zanesville; the Wheeling Regis¬ 
ter, West Virginia, and the St. Paul Globe, 
Minnesota. He has been a member and 


presiding officer of the West Virginia 
state senate; president of the St. Paul 
school board; and envoy extraordinary 
and minister plenipotentiary of Nicarau- 
gua, Costa Rica, and Salvador. He has 
been connected with many business en¬ 
terprises, and has always taken an active 
part in politics, and was a member of the 
two democratic national conventions of 
1884 and 1892. 

BAKER, LOUISA S., clergyman, writer, 
was born Oct. 17, 1846, in Nantucket, 
Mass. For many years she was engaged 
in educational work; is now pastor of the 
First congregational church of Nantuck¬ 
et, Mass.; and is well-known as a success¬ 
ful contributor to current literature. 

BAKER, LUCIEN, law r yer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1846 in Ohio. Shortly 
after he removed with his parents to 
Michigan, but in 1869 he removed to Kan¬ 
sas and settled in Leavenworth, where he 
has since resided, engaged in the practice 
of law. He was elected to the United 
States senate as a republican in 1895. His 
term of service will expire March 3, 1901. 

BAKER, LUTHER ELIJAH, financier, 
was born Jan. 1, 1865, in Melrose, Va. He 
accepted the position of bookkeeper, and 
afterward assistant secretary and secre¬ 
tary of the Iowa Mutual Benefit associa¬ 
tion, one of the oldest institutions of its 
kind in the west. He is official corre¬ 
spondent of the American Protective Tar¬ 
iff league and director of the Toledo Sav¬ 
ings bank. 

BAKER, MARCUS, explorer, w r as born 
Sept. 23, 1849, in Ostemo, Mich. He was 
educated at Kalamazoo college and the 
university of Michigan, graduating in 
1870; in 1870-’71 was made professor of 
mathematics in Albion college, and in 
1871-’73 tutor of mathematics in the uni¬ 
versity of Michigan. In 1873 he became 
connected with the U. S. Coast and Geo¬ 
detic survey, attaining in 1886 the grade 
of assistant geographer. During this time 
he spent several years in explorations and 
surveys in Alaska, and traversed the en¬ 
tire Pacific coast from southern Califor¬ 
nia to the Arctic ocean. In 1882 he was 
in charge of the Los Angeles magnetic 
observatory, established by the U. S. sig¬ 
nal service. 

BAKER, NATHANIEL BRADLEY, 
governor, was born Sept. 29, 1818, in 
Henniker, N. H. For three years he was 
joint proprietor and editor of the New 
Hampshire Patriot. He was elected to 
the legislature in 1851, was chosen speak¬ 
er of the house, and served two terms. He 
was a presidential elector in 1852, and 
in 1854 was elected governor of the state 
on the democratic ticket. He was elected 
to the Iowa legislature in 1859. In 1861 
he was appointed adjutant-general of 
Iowa. He died Sept. 11, 1876, in Des 
Moines, Iowa. 

BAKER, OSMOND OLEANDER, cler¬ 
gyman, was born July 30, 1812, in Marlow, 
N. H. He was a professor in the Gen¬ 
eral Biblical institute of Concord, N. H., 
and in 1847 was president of the same; 
bishop of the methodist episcopal church 
in 1852-’71, and wrote A Guide Book in 
the Administration of Discipline of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. He died 
Dec. 20, 1871, in Concord, N. H. 

BAKER, OSMYN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born May 18, 1800, in Amherst, Mass. 
He graduated at Yale college in 1822; 
adopted the profession of the law, and 
was a member of the Massachusetts legis¬ 
lature in 1833 and 1834. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from his native 
state from 1839 to 1845, and was state 
councilor in 1853 and 1S54. 


BAKER, PETER CARPENTER, pub¬ 
lisher, author, was born March 25, 1822, 
in North Hempstead, N. Y. In 1865 he 
established the law-publishing firm of Ba¬ 
ker, Voorhis and Co., which is still in ex¬ 
istence and has a large catalogue. Mr. 
Baker was one of the founders of the 
Metropolitan Literary association, edited 
the Steam Press, a patriotic periodical, 
during the civil war (1861-’5), and origi¬ 
nated the plan for a statue of Benjamin 
Franklin in Printing-house square, New 
York, which was given by Albert De 
Groot. He has published addresses and 
monographs. 

BAKER, PHILIP PONTIUS, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Jan. 14, 1846, in Cowan, 
Pa. In 1869 he moved to Vineland, N. J., 
where, under the firm name of Baker 
Bros., they built up an extensive trade in 
the business of general merchandising. 
In 1881 he w r as elected to the assembly, 
and 1886 was a member of the New Jer¬ 
sey senate. He was one of the founders 
and president of the Tradesman bank, 
and one of the leading spirits in the de¬ 
velopment of Sea Isle City, N. J. 

BAKER, ROBERT HALL, manufactur¬ 
er, was born June 27, 1839, in Lake Gene¬ 
va, Wis. Through an acquaintance with 
the late Jerome I. Case, manufacturer of 
threshing machines, Mr. Baker was final¬ 
ly induced to become a partner in Mr. 
Case’s firm, and he remained successfully 
engaged in that business until death. He 
was state senator of Wisconsin in 1872- 
’76, and mayor of Racine in 1874 

BAKER, SARAH WOODS, author, was 
born in 1824, in New Haven, Conn. She is 
the author of the following works: The 
Babes in the Basket; The Aunt Friendly 
Books; Timid Lucy; Pictures of Swe¬ 
dish Life; Our Elder Brother; Salt; and 
six volumes of stories. Her maiden name 
was Sarah Tuthill. Mrs. Woods-Baker re¬ 
sides in Sweden. 

BAKER, STEPHEN, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 12, 1819, in New 
York city. At an early age he engaged 
in mercantile pursuits, from which he re¬ 
tired in 1849 to a country seat in Dutchess 
county, N. Y. He was elected a represent¬ 
ative from New York to the thirty-sev¬ 
enth congress. 

BAKER, WILLIAM, educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 29, 1831, in 
Washington county, Pa. He was brought 
up on a farm and graduated from 
Waynesburg college in 1856. He followed 
teaching as a profession a number of 
years, and while teaching studied law and 
w r as admitted to the bar. For the last 
thirteen years he has been engaged in 
farming and stock raising in Lincoln 
county, Kans.; and was elected to the fif¬ 
ty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses. 

BAKER, WILLIAM B., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 22, 1840, near 
Aberdeen, Md. He was educated at pub¬ 
lic and private schools; worked upon a 
farm until thirty-two years of age, when 
he commenced fruit packing, and has 
been engaged in that business ever since. 
He has frequently been a delegate to state 
and congressional conventions, and al¬ 
though his county is strongly democratic, 
he was elected to the house of delegates 
as a republican in 1881 and to the state 
senate in 1893. He was elected to the fif¬ 
ty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

BAKER, WILLIAM H., artist, was 
born in 1825, in Lenox, N. Y. One of his 
best portraits is that of Bishop Quintard 
of Tennessee, painted for the episcopal 
general convention. He died May 29, 1875, 
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BAKER, WILLIAM H., educator, law¬ 
yer. congressman, was born Jan. 17, 1827, 
in Lenox, N. Y. He removed with his 
parents to Oswego county in 1829, and re¬ 
ceived his education at the common 
schools. He became a mechanic and then 
a school teacher; studied law, and came 
to the bar in 1851. In 1862 was elected 
district attorney for Oswego county; re¬ 
elected in 1866, and in 1874 was chosen a 
representative from New York to the for¬ 
ty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to 
the forty-fifth congress. 

BAKER, WILLIAM MUMFORD, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 27, 1825, in 
Washington, D. C. He was a popular nov¬ 
elist who was a presbyterian clergyman 
in the southwest until 1870, and after¬ 
wards the pastor of a church in Boston. 
He was a vigorous writer of considerable 
originality, whose earlier works possess 
historic interest as pictures of a now past 
stage of civilization in the southern 
states. He was the author of Inside a 
Chronicle of Secession; The Virginians 
in Texas; Oak Mot; The New Timothy; 
Mose Evans; His Majesty Myself; Blessed 
St. Certainty; Thirlmore; Carter Quar- 
terman; A Year Worth Living; Colonel 
Dunwoddie: Millionaire; The Making of 
a Man; The Ten Theophanies: the Mani¬ 
festations of Christ before His Birth in 
Bethlehem; and John Westacott, a juve¬ 
nile tale. He died Aug. 20, 1883, in South 
Boston, Mass. 

BAKER, WILLIAM SPOHN, antiqua¬ 
rian, author, was born April 17, 1824, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He possesses a collec¬ 
tion of engraved portraits of George 
Washington which is the most complete 
that is known; and his number of medals 
of Washington is second only to that of 
William S. Appleton, of Boston; while his 
collection of biographies of Washington 
is the most noted in existence. He is the 
author of Origin and Antiquity of En¬ 
graving; American Engravers and their 
Works; William Sharp, Engraver, and 
His Works; Engraved Portraits of Wash¬ 
ington; Medallic Portraits of Washing¬ 
ton; Character Portraits of Washington; 
Bibliotheca Washingtoniana; and Itiner¬ 
ary of George Washington. 

BALBACH, EDWARD, smelter, refiner, 
inventor, was born March 19, 1804, in 
Germany. He patented a de-silverizing 
process, which has completely revolu¬ 
tionized the smelting of gold and silver 
in this country and in Europe, and which 
brought to his works a continual stream 
of consignments of gold and silver ores 
from all the western states and territories 
and Mexico, and afterward incorporated 
the business, with himself as president, as 
The Balbach Smelting and Refining Co. 
of Newark, N. J. He died Oct. 14, 1890. 

BALBACH, EDWARD, metallurgist, in¬ 
ventor, was born July 4, 1839, in Ger¬ 
many. In 1864 he obtained letters pat¬ 
ent for a new de-silverizing process for 
argentiferous lead, which was afterward 
known as the Balbach Process. He also 
invented the water jacket used for smelt¬ 
ing and refining furnaces. In 1891 he was 
appointed president of the Balbach Smelt¬ 
ing and Refining Co. 

BALBACH. LEOPOLD, metallurgist, 
was born March 17. 1847, in Germany. He 
founded and incorporated the Omaha 
Smelting and Refining company of Oma¬ 
ha, Neb.; also established similar works 
at Chicago, Ill., and at Denver, Colo. For 
some past years he has been an exten¬ 
sive mine operator. 

BALCH, ALFRED, jurist. He was an 
early emigrant to the territory of Flori¬ 
da, and in 1840 was appointed one of the 
United States judges for that territory. 


BALCH, GEORGE BEALL, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Jan. 3, 1821, in Tennessee. 
He served in the Mexican war, and in 1850 
was commissioned lieutenant. In 1861 he 
enlisted in the United States navy to 
serve in the civil war, and attained the 
rank of rear admiral. From 1879-’81 he 
was superintendent of the naval academy 
at Annapolis, Md. 

BALCH, WILLIAM STEVENS, clergy¬ 
man, author. He was born in 1806 in Ver¬ 
mont. He was a universalist clergyman, 
long resident at Elgin, Ill.; and author of 
Lectures on Language; Grammar of the 
English Language; Ireland as I Saw It; 
and A Peculiar People. He died in 1887. 

BALDRIDGE, WILLIAM M„ lawyer, 
legislator, was born March 13, 1863, in 
Saline County, Ark. He graduated from 
the Little Rock university, and from the 
law r department of the Vanderbilt uni¬ 
versity. He has attained success as an 
eminent lawyer of his native state at 
Benton, and served as a representative 
in the Arkansas state legislature in 1893 
and again in 1897. 

BALDWIN, ABEL SEYMOUR, physi¬ 
cian, state legislator, was born March 19, 
1811, in Fulton, N. Y. He was the first 
president of the Florida, Atlantic and 
Gulf railroad; in 1852 was elected to the 
Florida legislature; in 1859 was a state 
senator, and in 1863 was made medical 
director of Florida and Georgia. 

BALDWIN, ABRAHAM, lawyer, states¬ 
man, w r as born Nov. 6, 1754, in Guilford, 
Conn. He was a graduate of Yale college 
in 1772, and from 
1775 to 1779 was a 
tutor in that insti¬ 
tution. Having stu¬ 
died law, settled in 
Savannah, Ga.; soon 
after his arrival 
there was chosen a 
member of the leg¬ 
islature; originated 
the plan of the uni¬ 
versity of Georgia, 
drew up the charter, 
persuaded the as¬ 
sembly to adopt it, and was for some time 
its president; was a member of the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1785 to 1788, and 
a member of the convention which 
framed the constitution of the United 
States, which he duly signed. From 1789 
to 1799 he was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Georgia, and from 1799 to 1807 
was a member of the United States sen¬ 
ate. He died March 4, 1807, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

BALDWIN, ALBERT, merchant, man¬ 
ufacturer, financier, was born in 1834 in 
Watertown, Mass. He is now president 
of the hardware corporation of A. Bald¬ 
win and Co. of New Orleans, La., and is a 
prominent factor in the business world. 

BALDWIN, ALEXANDER W., lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1835 in Alabama. He 
received a legal education and settled in 
Virginia City, Nev.; in his thirtieth year 
was appointed United States judge for 
Nevada. His father, Joseph G. Baldwin, 
was the author of a popular book entitled 
The Flush Times of Alabama and Missis¬ 
sippi, and was judge of the supreme court 
of California. He was killed by a railroad 
accident Nov. 15, 1869, at Alameda, Cal. 

BALDWIN, ASHBEL, clergyman, was 
born March 7, 1757, in Litchfield. Conn. 
He served as a quartermaster in the revo¬ 
lutionary war, and was ordained by Bish¬ 
op Seabury in 1785—the first episcopal or¬ 
dination in this country. He had preached 
about 10,000 times, baptized 3,010. married 



600 couples, and assisted at the burial of 
about 3,000 individuals. He died Feb. ^ 
1846, in Rochester, N. Y. 

BALDWIN, AUGUSTUS C., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1817, in 
Salina, N. Y. In 1837 he emigrated to 
Michigan and settled in Oakland county; 
taught school, and at the same time stu¬ 
died law, and came to the bar in 1842. 
In 1844 and 1846 was elected to the legis¬ 
lature of Michigan; in 1853 and 1854 was 
prosecuting attorney for his adopted 
county, and was a delegate to the 
Charleston and Baltimore conventions of 
1860. In 1862 he was elected a represent¬ 
ative from Michigan to the thirty-eighth 
congress. 

BALDWIN, CHARLES H., naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Sept. 3, 1822, in New York 
city. He entered the navy in 1839. In 
the war with Mexico he served on the 
frigate Congress, and in 1861 commanded 
the steamer Clifton. January, 1883, he was 
raised to the rank of rear admiral, and 
assigned to the command of the Mediter¬ 
ranean squadron, and in 1884 was placed 
on the retired list. He died Nov. 17, 1888, 
in New York city. 

BALDWIN, DANIEL PRATT, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born March 22, 1837, 
in Madison county, N. Y. He graduated 
from Cagmina seminary in 1852, the Col¬ 
gate university in 1856, and from the Co¬ 
lumbia Law school in 1860. He was judge 
of the circuit court in 1870, and attorney- 
general of Indiana in 1880. He is a plat¬ 
form speaker and a successful man of af¬ 
fairs. 

BALDWIN, DAVID C., merchant, legis¬ 
lator, was born Sept. 18, 1836, in Elyria, 
Ohio. He entered mercantile business 
with his father and others in Elyria, 
Ohio, in 1855, continuing therein until 
1893. As first lieutenant in the one hun¬ 
dred days service he was actively en¬ 
gaged in some lively skirmishes in West 
Virginia, where John Brown located. He 
has been connected with the historical so¬ 
ciety at Cleveland, Ohio, as incorporator 
and trustee, and is the donor of a fine 
archaeological collection from American 
and foreign sources. He was elected to 
the seventy-second Ohio general assembly 
as a republican. 

BALDWIN, EDWIN THOMAS, compos¬ 
er, was born July 19, 1832, in New Ips¬ 
wich, N. H. He is a composer of band 
music and sacred quartettes, and presi¬ 
dent of the New Hampshire State asso¬ 
ciation. 

BALDWIN, FREDERICK W„ lawyer, 
author, was born Sept. 29, 1848, in Low¬ 
ell, Vt. He is one of the leading law¬ 
yers of Vermont at Barton, and the au¬ 
thor of Biography of the Bar of Orleans 
County, Vt. He has been presidential 
elector, and is prominent in the public 
enterprises of Barton, Vt., notably that 
of the Barton Manufacturing company 
and the Barton Hotel company. 

BALDWIN, GEORGE COLFAX, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Oct. 21, 1817, in 
Pompton, N. J. He graduated from Mad¬ 
ison university of Hamilton, N. Y., and 
has been for many years pastor of the 
First baptist church in Troy, N. Y. He is 
author of Representative Women of the 
Bible; Representative Men of the New 
Testament; and The Model Prayer; a vol¬ 
ume of lectures and other works. 

BALDWIN, GEORGE VAN NEST, law¬ 
yer, was born Jan. 23, 1838, in New York 
city. He is one of the ablest lawyers 
connected with the bar of New York, and 
the latter years of his life have been oc¬ 
cupied more in the line of consultations 
than in court work. 





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BALDWIN, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1780, in 
New Haven, Conn. He graduated at Yale 
college in 1797; was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1817 to 
1822, when he resigned. He was a dis¬ 
tinguished lawyer, and was for many 
years associate judge of the supreme 
court of the United States. He died April 
21, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BALDWIN, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Nov. 5, 1867, in Lau¬ 
rel county, Ky. After graduating he 
taught school for seven years, and in 1895 
was elected a member of the Kentucky 
state legislature from the seventy-first 
legislative district. 

BALDWIN, HENRY PORTER, state 
senator, governor, United States senator, 
was born Feb. 22, 1814, in Coventry, R. I. 
In 1838 he moved to Detroit, Mich; 
became president of the Second national 
bank of Detroit; and was for two years 
a state senator. In 1868 he was elected 
governor of Michigan, to which position 
he brought a full store of general infor¬ 
mation gathered from foreign travel and 
the study of men and books; and re-elect¬ 
ed in 1870 for a second term. In 1879 
he was appointed United States senator 
to fill a vacancy. 

BALDWIN. JAMES MARK, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 12, 1861, in Colum¬ 
bia, S. C. In 1884 he graduated from the 
Princeton university, and has attained 
success as an educator. During 1887-89 
he was professor in the Lake Forest uni¬ 
versity; professor in the university of 
Toronto during 1890-93; and since 1893 
has been professor in the Princeton uni¬ 
versity. In 1897 he was elected president 
of the American Psychological associa¬ 
tion; and the same year was awarded a 
gold medal by the Royal academy of Den¬ 
mark. He is the author of Psychology; 
Elements of Psychology; Mental Devel¬ 
opment in the Child and Man; and a 
translation of Ribot’s German Psychology 
of To-Day. 

BALDWIN, JEDUTHAN, soldier, was 
born Jan. 13, 1732, in Woburn, Mass. He 
commanded a company during the French 
and Indian war, and served in the expe¬ 
dition against Crown Point during the au¬ 
tumn of 1775. He served under General 
St. Clair at Ticonderoga in 1777, and with 
his regiment was at West Point in 1780. 
He was a memDer of the Massachusetts 
provincial congress in 1774-75. He died 
June 4, 1788, in Brookfield, Mass. 

BALDWIN, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Windham, Conn. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1825 to 1829. 

BALDWIN, JOHN D., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Sept. 28, 1810, 
in North Stonington, Conn. In 1842 he 
became associated with the press, first in 
Hartford, and then in Boston, and was 
editor of the Daily Commonwealth, a wri¬ 
ter for the Advertiser, and subsequently 
became the proprietor of the Worcester 
Spy. He was a delegate to the Chicago 
convention of 1860; and in 1862 was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Massachusetts 
to the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress, and in 1866 was elected to the for¬ 
tieth congress. For many years he was 
particularly devoted to the study of an¬ 
cient history, and was the author of Pre- 
Historic Nations; Ancient America; and 
Raymond Hill and other poems. He died 
July 8, 1883, in Worcester, Mass. 

BALDWIN. JOSEPH, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 31, 1827, in New Castle, Pa. 
For half a century he has been engaged 
in educational work. He was president 


of the normal schools in Indiana for ten 
years; president of the North Missouri 
state normal school of Kirksville during 
1871-81; president of the Texas state nor¬ 
mal school of Huntsville during 1881- 
91; and since that time has been pro¬ 
fessor of pedagogy in the university 
of Texas. This eminent educator is the 
author of Art of School Management; 
Elementary Psychology; Psychology Ap¬ 
plied to the Art of Teaching: and School 
Management and School Methods. 

BALDWIN, JOSEPH ELIAS, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Aug. 22, 1826, in New 
York city. In 1846 he graduated from the 
Wabash college of Crawfordsville, Ind., 
and taught school several years after 
graduation. He studied law in Buffalo, 
N. Y., and was admitted to the bar in 
1858. In 1864 he was elected a member 
of the Missouri state senate from Potosi, 
Mo., and served with distinction for two 
years. 

BALDWIN, JOSEPH G., jurist, author, 
was born in 1811 in Sumter, Ala. He 
was a popular humorous writer and a ju¬ 
rist of prominence in Alabama, and after¬ 
ward of California, of which state he be¬ 
came chief justice. He is the author of 
Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi; 
and Party Leaders, able papers on south¬ 
ern statesmen. He died Sept. 30. 1864, in 
San Francisco, Cal. 

BALDWIN, MRS. LYDIA WOOD, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1836 in Massachusetts. 
She is the author of Rubina; aud A Yan¬ 
kee School-Teacher in Virginia. 

BALDWIN, MARY H., educator, au¬ 
thor, was born May 31, 1841, in Craw¬ 
fordsville, Ind. For many years she 
taught with success in Glendale and Rut¬ 
gers female colleges. She is the author 
of Voice-Placing for Elocution; Speech 
and Song; and teaches in New York city 
the way to restore lost voices by her 
methods. 

BALDWIN, MATTHIAS WILLIAM, lo¬ 
comotive builder, was born Dec. 10, 1795. 
Under the name of M. W. Baldwin and 
Co. he started on a small scale the great 
works which yet bear his name. In 1835 
fourteen engines were produced, and the 
next year forty, and the works now have 
a capacity of 1,200 engines per year. He 
died Sept. 7, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BALDWIN, MELVIN R., was born 
April 12, 1838, in Windsor county, Vt. He 
removed to Wisconsin in 1847; entered 
Lawrence university 
of Appleton in 1855; 
studied law, and 
then adopted civil 
engineering as a 
profession. He was 
engaged on Chicago 
and Northwestern 
railway till April 19, 
1861, when he en¬ 
listed as a private in 
company E, second 
Wisconsin infantry, 
brigaded with the 
Iron brigade. He was slightly wounded 
at the first and severely wounded at the 
second battle of Bull Run; and promoted 
to captain of his company. He was cap¬ 
tured at Gettysburg and confined in Lib¬ 
by, Charleston, and Columbia. He made 
two escapes, but was recaptured, and was 
finally exchanged after seventeen months’ 
imprisonment. He removed to Minnesota 
in 1875, and has resided in Duluth since 
1885; and president of Duluth chamber 
of commerce since 1886. He twice de¬ 
clined congressional nomination; and was 
elected to the fifty-third congress as a 
democrat. At close of congressional term 


he was appointed by President Cleveland 
chairman of the Chippewa Indian com¬ 
mission. holding this position until 1897. 

BALDWIN. RODERICK, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, was born May 17, 1833, in 
Stanford, N. Y. In 1862 he enlisted as 
first lieutenant in the one hundred and 
twenty-ninth New York infantry, and 
from 1863-64 was detailed judge advocate 
of the military commission. In 1870 he 
became editor and proprietor of the Stan¬ 
dard of Warrensburg, Mo. 

BALDWIN, ROGER SHERMAN, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born Jan. 
4, 1793, in New Haven, Conn. In 

1837 he was elected 
to the state sen¬ 
ate; re-elected in 
1838, and chosen 
president pro tem¬ 
pore of that body; 
and was a trustee of 
Yale college in 1838 
and 1839. In 1840 
and 1841 he was a 
representative in the 
general assembly. 
In 1844 and 1845 he 
was governor of the 
state; in 1847 was appointed, and in 1848 
elected, to the United States senate by the 
legislature of Connecticut, serving until 
1851. He died Feb. 10, 1863, in New Ha¬ 
ven, Conn. 

BALDWIN, SIMEON, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1761, in 
Norwich, Conn. He was a representative 
in congress from Connecticut from 1803 
to 1805, and declined a re-election. In 
1806 he was appointed, by the legislature, 
associate judge of the superior court and 
of the supreme court of errors, and held 
the office until 1817. In 1822 he was chos¬ 
en by the general assembly one of the 
commissioners to locate the Farmington 
canal, and was made president of that 
board. In 1826 he was elected mayor of 
New Haven. He died May 26, 1851, in 
New Haven, Conn. 

BALDWIN, SIMEON EBEN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Feb. 5, 1840, in New Ha¬ 
ven, Conn. In 1872 he was professor of 
constitutional law in Yale university. In 
1893 he became associate judge of the su¬ 
preme court of errors of Connecticut. 
During 1872-87 he was a member of va¬ 
rious state commissions for the revision 
of laws on education, pleading, taxation 
and general statutes. In 1890 he was 
president of the American Bar associa¬ 
tion; president of the American Social 
Science association in 1897; and during 
1884-96 was president of the New Haven 
Colony Historical society. 

BALDWIN, THERON, missionary, was 
born July 21, 1801, in Goshen, Conn. He 
went as a missionary to Illinois in 1829, 
but in 1831 he went east to solicit funds 
for the Illinois college, opened in Jack¬ 
sonville. He was first principal of Mon- 
ticello seminary. He died April 10. 1870, 
in Orange, N. J. 

BALDWIN, THOMAS, clergyman, was 
born Dec. 23, 1753, in Bozrah, Conn. In 
1773 he was elected to the Connecticut 
state legislature; in 1790 was installed 
pastor of the Second baptist church of 
Boston; and in 1803 he published the 
American Baptist Missionary Magazine. 
He died Aug. 29, 1825, in Waterville, 
Maine. 

BALDWIN, WILLIAM ASHBRIDGE, 
railroad president, was born June 28, 1835, 
in Philadelphia. Pa. Since 1893 he has 
been president of the Cleveland and Ma¬ 
rietta railway. 





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BALDWIN, W. H., railroad manager. 
In 1888-90 he was general manager of the 
Montana Union railway, of which he was 
also president for a short time. He has 
been assistant vice-president of the Union 
Pacific railway at Omaha, Neb.; was gen¬ 
eral manager of the Flint and Pere Mar¬ 
quette railroad during 1891-94; and since 
1895 has been second vice-president of the 
Southern railway at Washington, D. C. 

BALDWIN, WILLIAM S., railroad man¬ 
ager, was born Jan. 18, 1833, in Clarke 
county, Ga. Since 1852 he has been in the 
railway service; since 1885 has been 
supervisor of the Louisville and Nash¬ 
ville railroad; and since 1889 supervisor 
of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West 
railway at Sanford, Fla. 

BALDWIN, WILLIAM W„ railroad 
president, was born Sept. 28, 1845, in 
Keosauqua, Iowa. He is president of the 
St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern rail¬ 
road; and also of the Chicago, Burling¬ 
ton and Kansas City railway. 

BALDWIN, WINFRED, clergyman, was 
born Feb. 11, 1851, in Blenheim, N. Y. In 
1872 he graduated from the New York 
Conference seminary; and six years later 
from the Boston University School of 
Theology. For eleven years he was a 
member of the East Maine conference of 
the methodist episcopal church; and 
since 1889 has been a ipember of the 
North Dakota conference. 

BALES, ELISHA J., physician, was 
born in 1850 in Xenia, Ohio. He grad¬ 
uated from the Cincinnati Medical and 
Surgical college; and has attained emi¬ 
nence as a prominent physician of Pacific 
Junction, Iowa, where be is United States 
pension examiner, and examiner for the 
New York Life and the Mutual Insurance 
companies. 

BALESTIER, CHARLES WOLCOTT, 
author, was born Dec. 30, 1861, in Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y. He was an American writer 
who established himself as a publisher in 
London, and whose sister was married to 
Rudyard Kipling, the novelist. He was 
the author of A Fair Device; Life of 
Blaine; A Victorious Defeat; Benefits 
Forgot; The Naulahka, with Rudyard 
Kipling, and A Common Story. He died 
in 1891. 

BALKE, JULIUS, manufacturer, was 
born March 30, 1830, in Germany. In 1879 
the New York billiard manufacturer, W. 
II. Collender, joined his corporation, and 
business has been conducted since then 
by The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. 

BALL, BYRON D., lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, was born July 19, 1844, in Rochester. 
N. Y. In 1871-72 he was state senator of 
Michigan, and was chairman of the com¬ 
mittee of railroads. He was elected at¬ 
torney-general of Michigan in 1872 and 
served up to 1874, when he resigned on 
account of ill health. He built a block of 
stores in Grand Rapids, and was inter¬ 
ested with his father in other enterprises. 

BALL, CHARLES P., soldier, railroad 
manager, was born Aug. 16, 1837, in Mont¬ 
gomery county, Ala. Since 1853 he has 
been in the railroad service as civil en¬ 
gineer and general manager. During 1857- 
61 he attended the West Point academy, 
and served with distinction in the confed¬ 
erate army during the civil war. Since 
1888 he has been general manager of the 
East and West railroad of Alabama at 
Cartersville, Ga. 

BALL, EDWARD, congressman was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Ohio from 1853 to 
1855, and was re-elected to the thirty- 
fcurth congress. 


BALL, EPHRAIM, inventor, was born 
Aug. 12, 1812, in Greentown, Ohio. The 
Ohio Mower was invented by Mr. Ball in 
1854, and afterward he devised the World 
Mower and Reaper, and in 1858 the Buck¬ 
eye Machine was brought out, all of 
which have sold extensively. He died 
Jan. 1, 1872, in Canton, Ohio. 

BALL, GEORGE HARVEY, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born Dec. 
7, 1819, in Canada. After graduating from 
the divinity school of Lewiston, Maine, 
he taught school in Ohio. For thirty 
years he was pastor of the baptist church 
in Buffalo, N. Y.; for seven years was ed¬ 
itor of the Baptist Union of New York 
city; and in 1892 became president of the 
Keuka college, New York. He has al¬ 
ways taken a deep interest in govern¬ 
mental affairs, and was a member of the 
first republican convention at Philadel¬ 
phia. which nominated John C. Fremont 
for the presidency. He is the author of 
several books, and has contributed exten¬ 
sively to periodical literature. 

BALL, GEORGE W. I., lawyer, con- 
'veyancer. He has been connected with 
railroads as military agent and general 
passenger and ticket agent; and since 

1884 has been chief conveyancer of the 
Pennsylvania railroad of Philadelphia, Pa. 

BALL, HERMAN F., civil engineer, 
railroad manager, was born Dec. 17, 1867, 
in Altoona. Pa. Since 1884 he has been 
in the railroad service; has been chief 
draftsman in the car department of the 
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rail¬ 
road at Cleveland, Ohio; and since 1894 
has been general car inspector of that 
company. 

BALL, HOWARD J., railroad manager, 
was born May 23, 1852, in Philadelphia. 
Pa. Since 1863 he has been in the rail¬ 
road service; and since 1887 has been 
general western passenger agent of the 
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail¬ 
road at Buffalo, N. Y. 

BALL, JOHN, lawyer, state legislator, 
philanthropist, was born Nov. 12, 1794, in 
Hebron, N. Y. In 1820 he graduated from 
Dartmouth college; taught school for a 
number of years; and from 1824 practiced 
law. In 1837 he settled in Grand Rapids, 
Mich.: in 1838 he was a representative in 
the Michigan state legislature; and was 
interested in schools, geology, lyceums 
and other local enterprises. He died Feb. 
5, 1884, in Grand Rapids, Mich., and willed 
to that city forty acres of land, which is 
now known as the John Ball Park. 

BALL, R. T. MASON, naval officer. In 
1880 he entered the navy; in 1881 joined 
the Mayflower for a practice cruise with 
naval cadets. In 1884 he joined the 
monitor fleet and served two years; in 

1885 joined the monitor Nantucket at 
New Yoi’k for experimental cruise; and 
subsequently joined the United States 
naval station at New London, Conn. 

BALL, THOMAS, sculptor, was born 
June 3, 1819, in Charlestown, Mass. In 
early life he was a singer of basso parts 
in oratorios, and a portrait painter in 
Boston. About 1852 he devoted himself 
to modeling, and made a miniature bust 
of Jenny Lind, another of Daniel Web¬ 
ster, and a life-size statue of the states¬ 
man. His statue of Webster, in the Cen¬ 
tral park of New York city, is his noblest 
work. 

BALL, THOMAS H., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 14, 1859, in Hunts¬ 
ville, Tex. He was educated in private 
schools and Austin college, in his native 
town: afterwards obtained practical busi¬ 
ness training upon a farm and in the mer¬ 
cantile business; and served three terms 


as mayor of Huntsville. He attended lec¬ 
tures at the university of Virginia and 
was elected president of the law class. He 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

BALL, WILLIAM CREIGHTON, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, was born Dec. 27, 1846, 
in Terre Haute, Ind. For many years he 
taught school in his native city; and since 
1872 has been proprietor and editor of 
the Terre Haute Daily, Evening and 
Weekly Gazette. He has always taken an 
active part in public affairs, and is a 
member of the Terre Haute board of park 
commissioners. 

BALL, WILLIAM LEE, congressman, 
was born in 1779, in Lancaster county, 
Va. He was a representative in congress 
from that state from 1817 to 1824. He 
died Feb. 28, 1824, in Washington, D. C. 

BALLANCE, ROBERT, railroad man¬ 
ager, was born Dec. 22, 1850, in Canada. 
Since 1866 he has been in the railway ser¬ 
vice as machinist to the Michigan Central 
railroad; and since 1870 general man¬ 
ager of the machinist department of the- 
Burlington and Missouri River railroad at 
Denver, Colo. 

BALLANTINE, JOHN G., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born May 20, 1827, 
in Pulaski, Tenn. He received a classical 
education, graduating from the universi¬ 
ty of Nashville in 1845. He studied law; 
graduated from Harvard law school in 
1848; and was admitted to the bar. He 
engaged in planting; removed to Missis¬ 
sippi in 1855, and to Memphis, Tenn., in 
1860. He served in the confederate army 
throughout the civil war; and was elected 
a representative from Tennessee to the 
forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses. 

BALLANTINE, WILLIAM DUNCAN, 
soldier, civil engineer, state legislator, 
was born Feb. 21, 1837, near Whitesboro, 
N. Y. He graduated from the Georgia 
military institute of Marietta, and has 
attained note as a successful mechanical 
and hydraulic engineer. During the civil 
war he was in the confederate service 
and attained the rank of lieutenant colo¬ 
nel. He has been connected with various 
railroads as master mechanic and hy¬ 
draulic engineer in Georgia and Florida. 
For four years he was commander of the 
first battalion Florida state troops; was 
aid-de-camp on the governor’s staff; and 
in 1897 he was elected a member of the 
Florida state legislature from Fernandi- 
na. 

BALLANTINE, WILLIAM GAY, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Dec. 7, 
1848, in Washington, D. C. In 1875 he 
was appointed professor of Greek in the 
university of Indiana; and in 1891 was 
elected president of Oberlin college 

BALLANTYNE, REV. MARLIN J., 
educator, clergyman, poet, was born Aug. 
30, 1852, near Brookville, Pa. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
in the public schools 
and at Dayton Union 
academy. For seven 
years he taught 
school, and for near¬ 
ly twenty years has 
been engaged in the 
ministry. He is now 
presiding elder of 
the Oregon Confer¬ 
ence of the United 
Evangelical Church, 
president of the La 
Fayette seminary, and teacher of political 
economy and ethics in the same institu¬ 
tion. He has contributed extensively 
both prose and verse to the religious 
press. 





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BALLARD. ANDREW JACKSON, law¬ 
yer, journalist, legislator, was born about 
1817. In 1842-43 he represented the city 
of Louisville in the legislature. In 1871 
lie became the principal political editor 
of the Louisville Daily and Weekly Com¬ 
mercial. 

BALLARD, ASA N., soldier, physician, 
surgeon, was born Oct. 17, 1842, in Wil¬ 
mington, Ohio. During the civil war he 
served with distinction in the forty-eighth 
regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and 
was lieutenant. For many years he was 
superintendent of public schools in Illi¬ 
nois and Indiana, and principal of the 
Ward school of Indianapolis. He is now 
a successful physician of Birmingham, 
Ala.; has been president of the Alabama 
Homoeopathic association: anu president 
of the board of pensions of examining sur¬ 
geons of Birmingham, Ala. 

BALLARD, BLAND, pioneer, legislator, 
was born Oct. 16, 1761, in Fredericksburg, 
Va. As a major of Kentucky volunteers 
lie led an expedition against the British 
and Indians at the river Raisin, in Michi¬ 
gan, in 1814, where he was wounded and 
taken prisoner. He was for several terms 
a member of the Kentucky legislature. 
Ballard county, Ky., and Blandville, its 
capital, commemorate his services during 
the early history of the state. He died 
Sept. 5, 1853, in Shelby county, Ky. 

BALLARD, BLAND W., soldier pio¬ 
neer, legislator, was born Oct. 16, 1761, in 
Fredericksburg, Va. He was a noted 
pioneer; served in the war of 1812; and 
repeatedly represented Shelby county in 
the Kentucky legislature. He died Sept. 
5, 1853. 

BALLARD, EZRA H., educator, phy¬ 
sician, was born Nov. 18, 1843, in Helena, 
N. Y. He received his education at the 

public schools; Fort 
Covington academy; 
State Normal school 
of Albany, N. Y.; and 
in 1868 graduated 
from the medical de- 
P* partment of the uni- 

y' versity of Michigan. 

During 1871-73 he 
served as superin¬ 
tendent of schools in 
. Emnietcounty, 

Iowa; and again 
during 1885-89. serv¬ 
ing nearly eight years. During 1874-79 
lie was county treasurer; and since 1879 
has given his whole attention to the prac¬ 
tice of medicine at Westerville. In 1888 
he was elected a member of the educa¬ 
tional council, and has always taken an 
active part in educational matters. 

BALLARD, HARLAN HOGE, educator, 
author, was born May 26, 1853, in Athens, 
Ohio. He is the founder and president 
of The Agassiz association, which was 
established in 1875 at Pittsfield, Mass. He 
Is the author of Three Kingdoms; One 
Thousand Blunders of English Corrected; 
World of Matter; and with the Hon. S. 
Proctor Thayer was joint author of 
Barnes’ Readers, and the American Plant- 
book. 

BALLARD, HENRY, lawyer, lecturer, 
•orator, politician, was born April 20, 1839, 
In Tinmouth, Vt. In 1861 he graduated 
from the university of Vermont; and 
from the Albany Law school in 1863. He 
served one year in the civil war in the 
fifth Vermont volunteer infantry. He 
has been city attorney of Burlington, Vt.; 
and states attorney of his county. In 
1888-89 he was a member of the Vermont 
house of representatives, and a member 
•of the state senate in 1878-79. He was the 


delegate from Vermont to the republican 
national convention in 1884; and assist¬ 
ant secretary of the national republican 
convention in 1888. He has filled many 
positions of honor; was one of the char¬ 
ter members of the Vermont Commandery 
of the Loyal Legion, and judge advocate 
of G. A. R. for Vermont. 

BALLARD, HENRY E., naval officer, 
was born in 1785, in Maryland. He was a 
lieutenant on board the U. S. frigate Con¬ 
stitution in her famous action with the 
British cruisers Cyane and Levant in the 
bay of Biscay in 1815. He died May 23, 
1855, in Annapolis. 

BALLARD, MINNIE C., journalist, 
poet, was born in 1852, in Troy, Pa. Since 
1873 she has been a constant contributor 
of poetry and prose to current literature. 

BALLARD, TILGHMAN E., journalist, 
author, was born Nov. 11, 1850, in Boone 
county, Ind. He received his education 
at the Smithson college, and the DePauw 
university. He is best known as a law 
writer, and president of the Ballard Pub¬ 
lishing company of Crawfordsville, Ind. 
He is the author of Ballards’ Real Estate 
Statutes of Indiana; Ballards’ Real Es¬ 
tate Statutes of Kentucky; Ballards’ Ohio 
Law of Real Property; and various other 
works. 

BALLINGER, RICHARD ACHILLES, 
lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 9, 
1858, in Boonesboro, Iowa. In 1884 he 
graduated from the 
Williams college, 
Mass.; having previ¬ 
ously prepared for 
college at the state 
university of Kan¬ 
sas, and Washburn 
college of Topeka. 
He has been emin¬ 
ently successful as a 
lawyer; acted as U. 
S. commissioner in 
1890-92, under ap¬ 
pointment of Dis¬ 
trict U. S. Judge Hanford of Washington; 
and has held the high office of judge of 
superior court for Jefferson county, Wash. 
He is the author of Ballinger on Com¬ 
munity Property, a law publication cov¬ 
ering the property rights of married 
persons in several of the coast and south¬ 
ern states; and also author of Ballinger’s 
Annotated Code and Statutes of Washing¬ 
ton. 

BALLOU, AARON BRYON, physician, 
scientist, was born July 29, 1831, in Eagle 
Harbor, N. Y. He is a distinguished 
scientist and owns one of the best indi¬ 
vidual geological and mineralogical col¬ 
lections in the state of Indiana. 

BALLOU, MRS. ADDIE LUCIA, artist, 
poet, was born April 29, 1837, in Chagrin 
Falls, Ohio. She is a successful artist, 
journalist, and speaker of San Francisco, 
Cal., in which city she is president of the 
Nationalist club. 

BALLOU, ADIN, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1803 in Rhode Island. He 
was a universalist clergyman of Milford, 
Mass., and the author of Christian Non- 
Resistance Defended; Treatise on Spirit 
Manifestations; Primitive Christianity 
and its Corruptions; and History of the 
Town of Milford. He died in 1890. 

BALLOU, AURELIA A., writer, poet, 
was born in Hannibal, Mo. She is the 
author of over one thousand letters writ¬ 
ten to prominent newspapers, the first 
being written in 1859, and dated Florence, 
Italy. She has also contributed many 
meritorious poems to current literature, 
and her productions appear in Poets of 
America and other standard works. 


BALLOU, DANIEL R., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Aug. 6, 1837, in Smith- 
field, R. I. He received his education in 
the schools of Rhode 
Island and the 
Brown university. 
During the civil war 
he served as a union 
soldier in the twelfth 
regiment of the 
Rhode Island volun¬ 
teer infantry and 
was promoted lieu¬ 
tenant; also was 
colonel in the Rhode 
Island militia. He 
has served as a 
member of the Rhode Island general as¬ 
sembly from Smithfield and Providence. 
He has been a member of the city council 
of Providence, and president of the board 
of aldermen. He has attained promin¬ 
ence as an able lawyer, and is the senior 
member of the law firm of Ballou and 
Tower of Providence, R. I. 

BALLOU, DANIEL W., soldier, journal¬ 
ist. was born Feb. 26, 1837, in Cuyahoga 
Falls, Ohio. He served as a union soldier 
in company K, tenth regiment Illinois in¬ 
fantry. He participated in fifteen engage¬ 
ments, and his dash and bravery became 
proverbial in the army. He carried an 
unextricable rebel bullet in his lungs for 
twenty-three years, and finally died from 
its effects March 9, 1885, in Oakland, Cal. 

BALLOU, ELI, D. D„ clergyman, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Dec. 1, 1808, in Leroy, 
N. Y. From 1840 to 1870 he was the owner 
and editor of the universalist periodical, 
entitled The Christian Repository. He 
died March 12, 1883. 

BALLOU, FREDERICK MILTON, 
manufacturer, legislator, was born June 
21, 1818, in Cumberland, R. I. He was a 
successful woolen manufacturer and rep¬ 
resented the city of Baltimore in the state 
legislature in 1870 and 1883, and for three 
years was a member of the city council. 
He died in 1889. 

BALLOU, HENRY LATIMER, financier, 
legislator, was born Oct. 14, 1841, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He is a successful financier 
and treasurer of various banks and socie¬ 
ties. He was elected to the Rhode Island 
state senate in 1888. 

BALLOU, HOSEA, clergyman, author, 
was born April 30, 1771, in Richmond, N. 
H. He is justly regarded as the most 
distinguished Ballou 
in America, and two 
separate volumes 
have been published 
to commemorate his 
celebrity. He was 
the author of a trea¬ 
tise on Atonement; 
Notes on the Para¬ 
bles, and other re¬ 
ligious works. He 
was the founder of 
universalism, and 
established the first 
newspaper devoted to this doctrine. Af¬ 
ter sixty years of public service, he died 
June 7, 1852, in Boston, Mass. 

BALLOU, HOSEA. clergyman, author, 
was born Oct. 18, 1796, in Halifax, Vt. He 
was a universalist clergyman and the first 
president of Tufts college in 1854-61. He 
was the author of Ancient History of Uni¬ 
versalism. He. died May 27, 1861, in 

Somerville, Mass. 

BALLOU, HOSEA, farmer, merchant, 
genealogist, was horn July 12, 1827, in 
Fenner, N. Y. He is a successful busi¬ 
ness man, and aided greatly in collecting 
historical data for the genealogy of the 
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BALLOU, HOSEA STARR, banker, was 
born Feb. 9, 1857, in North Orange, Mass. 
He graduated from the Harvard universi¬ 
ty and the university of Berlin, and is a 
successful financier and banker of Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

BALLOU, LATIMER WHIPPLE, finan¬ 
cier, banker, legislator, author, was born 
March 1, 1812, in Cumberland, R. I. He 
commenced life as a 
printer, and was one 
of the founders of 
the Cambridge Press, 
with which he re¬ 
mained for seven 
years. In 1850 he 
became treasurer 
and bank cashier of 
the Woonsocket In¬ 
stitution for Savings, 
the deposits of which 
institution rose to 
five million dollars 
under his sagacious and judicious man¬ 
agement. He has always taken a deep 
interest in public affairs; was presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1860; delegate from Rhode 
Island to the national republican conven¬ 
tion in 1872; elected a representative in 
congress in 1874, receiving the re-election 
the two succeeding terms, and filled that 
office with distinction. He is the author 
of the Ballou Genealogy, a work which re¬ 
flects great honor on himself and his de¬ 
scendants. 

BALLOU, MATURIN MURRAY, pub¬ 
lisher, author, was born April 14, 1820, in 
Boston, Mass., and a son of H. Ballou, 
2nd. He is the founder and editor of sev¬ 
eral periodicals in Boston which bore his 
name, and, in his later years, a traveler 
to all parts of the world. He is the au¬ 
thor of History of Cuba; Life of Hosea 
Ballou; Due West, or Round the World 
in Ten Months; Due South, or Cuba Past 
and Present; Due North: Glimpses of 
Scandinavia and Russia; Under the 
Southern Cross: Travels in Australia, 
Tasmania, New Zealand, etc.; Alaska: 
The New Eldorado; Aztec Land; The 
Story of Malta; The Pearl of India, a 
description of Ceylon; Equatorial Ameri¬ 
ca, a description of visits to the Lesser 
Antilles and to South American capitals; 
and Footprints of Travel. 

BALLOU, MOSES, clergyman, author, 
was born March 24, 1811, in Monroe, Mass. 
He was a nephew of H. Ballou, 1st, and, 
like him, a universalist clergyman. He 
was the author of The Divine Character 
Vindicated. He died May 19, 1879, in 
Atco, N. J. 

BALLOU, NAHUM ENON, physician, 
scientist, author, was born Sept. 16, 1822, 
in Plymouth, N. Y. He has been a student 
of meteorology for nearly half a century, 
and is the author of a number of works 
on that subject. Since 1863 he has been 
United States pension surgeon, being now 
one of the oldest in the service. 

BALLOU, OREN ALDRICH, manufac¬ 
turer, legislator, was born Aug. 22, 1813, 
in Cumberland, R. I. He was a successful 
manufacturer and represented the city of 
Providence in the state legislature in 
1867-78. He died Feh. 21, 1877. 

BALLOU. PHINEAS DODGE, legisla¬ 
tor, was born March 3, 1823, in Starks- 
borough, Vt. For two terms he was 
mayor of Burlington, Vt., and served as a 
member in the Vermont state legislature. 
He died Jan. 16, 1877, in Deadwood, N. D. 

BALLOU, SULLIVAN, soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born March 28, 1827, 
in Smithfield, R. I. He was a successful 
lawyer; became a member of the Rhode 
Island house of representatives, and was 


unanimously chosen speaker. He was 
one of the most prominent men of his 
native state; and lost his life at the dis¬ 
astrous battle of Bull Run. 

BALSLEY, ALFRED H., journalist, 
was born Dec. 15, 1828, in Pittsburg, Pa. 
In 1853 he purchased the Grand River 
Record; in 1876 purchased the Jeffer¬ 
sonian; and was also the proprietor of 
the Attica Journal and the Carey Times 
of Ohio. 

BALTES, PETER JOSEPH, clergyman, 
author, was born April 7, 1827, in Ba¬ 
varia. He studied at the college of the 
Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., at St. Ig¬ 
natius college, Chicago, and at Lavalle 
university, Montreal, and was ordained 
priest in 1853, and consecrated bishop of 
Alton in 1870. He was the author of Pas¬ 
toral Instruction. He died Feb. 15, 1886, 
in Alton, Ill. 

BALTZER, HERMAN R., merchant, 
was born Feb. 16, 1826, in Germany. He 
has been Russian vice-consul in New 
York city, and was a member of a Euro¬ 
pean banking house. Mr. Baltzer is a di¬ 
rector of the Germania Life Insurance 
company, and vice-president of the Colo¬ 
rado Central Consolidated Mining com¬ 
pany of New York city. 

BAMPFIELD, SAMUEL JONES, law¬ 
yer, journalist, legislator, was born Dec. 
5, 1849, in Charleston, S. C. He received 
his education at the Lincoln university of 
Chester county, Pa. In 1874 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar by the supreme court; 
was a member of the state legislature of 
South Carolina in 1874-76; and clerk of 
the circuit court during 1876-96. In 1897 
he was appointed postmaster of Beaufort, 
S. C.; and since 1888 has been the editor 
and proprietor of The New South. 

BANCROFT, AARON, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 10, 1755, in Reading, 
Pa. He was a Unitarian clergyman of 
Y/orcester, Mass., in 1785-1839, and was 
prominent in the earlier days of the Uni¬ 
tarian movement as a writer in its be¬ 
half. He was the author of Sermons on 
the Doctrines of the Gospel; and A Life 
of Washington. He died Aug. 19, 1839, in 
Worcester, Mass. 

BANCROFT, EDWARD, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 9, 1744, in Westfield, 
Mass. He was a physician who resided 
chiefly in London, where he was supposed 
to have been a spy of the English gov¬ 
ernment during the American revolution. 
He was the author of Natural History of 
Guiana; Researches Concerning the Phi¬ 
losophy of Permanent Colors; Charles 
Wentworth: a Novel; and several politi¬ 
cal works. He died Sept. 8, 1820, in Eng¬ 
land. 

BANCROFT, MRS. FLORENCE MAI, 
poet. She is a successful writer of Lex¬ 
ington, Neb.; and the author of a num¬ 
ber of meritorious poems. 

BANCROFT, GEORGE, historian, was 
born Oct. 3, 1800, in Worcester, Mass. He 
commenced his education at Exeter 
academy, N. H., and 
graduated at Cam¬ 
bridge university in 
1817. In 1818 he vis¬ 
ited Europe, studied 
at Gottingen and Ber¬ 
lin, and traveled 
extensively. In 1823 
he published a vol¬ 
ume of poems; in 
1824 a translation 
of Heeren’s Politics 
of Greece; and be¬ 
came a frequent con¬ 
tributor to the North American and other 
reviews. On his return from Europe he 
spent one year as a tutor at Harvard; 


and was at the head of the Round Hill 
school at Northampton. From 1838 to 
1841 he was collector of the port of Bos¬ 
ton, appointed by President Van Buren; 
in 1844 was an unsuccessful candidate for 
the governorship of Massachusetts; in 
1845 was appointed secretary of the navy; 
and in 1846 was appointed minister to 
Great Britain, remaining there until 1849. 
On his return settled in New York and 
became an active member of various 
learned societies. In 1844 he published the 
first, volume of his History of the United 
States, which now contains twelve 
volumes; in 1855 published his Literary 
and Historical Miscellanies; in 1865, by 
invitation of congress, delivered, in the 
capitol, an oration on the death of Abra¬ 
ham Lincoln; and in 1867 was-appointed 
minister to Prussia. Pie died in 1891. 

BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE, publish¬ 
er, author, was born May 5, 1832, in Gran¬ 
ville, Ohio. Early in life he moved to San 
Francisco, Cal., and 
there opened" the 
first book store on 
the Pacific coast. He 
subsequently added 
a publishing estab¬ 
lishment, which has 
become the largest 
publishing house 
west of New York 
city. He has im¬ 
pressed himself upon 
the literature of the 
nineteenth century, 
by a colossaPwork entitled History of the 
Pacific States of North America, includ¬ 
ing Central America, Mexico, California, 
Oregon and British Columbia, in thirty- 
nine volumes. He is also the author of 
The Native Races of the Pacific States, in 
five volumes; The Early American 
Chroniclers; Popular History of the Mexi¬ 
can People; Literary Industries, an au¬ 
tobiography; The Book of the Fair; and 
Wealth of Nations. 

BANCROFT, LUCIUS W., educator, 
clergyman, was born Aug. 27, 1827, in 
Worcester, Mass. In 1862 he was pro¬ 
fessor of divinity in Kenyon college, 
Gambier, Ohio; for five years professor 
in the divinity school of Philadelphia, 
Pa.; and has filled pastorates in the epis¬ 
copal churches of South Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BANCROFT, WILLIAM L„ was born 
Aug. 12, 1825, in Martinsburg, N. Y. In 
1859 he was a representative; in 1865 a 
senator of the Michigan state legislature, 
and was secretary of the state senate in 
1849. He has been a democratic nominee 
for congress and for secretary of state. He 
was the first mayor of Port Huron, Mich., 
and has been postmaster of that city. 

BANDELIER, ADOLPH FRANCIS AL¬ 
PHONSE, archaeologist, author, was born 
Aug. 6, 1840, in Switzerland. He is the 
author of The Art of War and Mode of 
Warfare; Tenure of Land and Inherit¬ 
ances of the Ancient Mexicans; Historical 
Introduction to Studies among the Seden¬ 
tary Indians of New Mexico; Archaeolog¬ 
ical Tour in Mexico in 1881; and The De¬ 
light Makers, a novel of Pueblo Indian 
Life. 

BANES, CHARLES H„ soldier, author, 
was born Oct. 24,1831, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He served through the civil war, and at¬ 
tained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 
1864. He is the author of a volume en¬ 
titled History of the Philadelphia Brig¬ 
ade. 

BANGS, FRANCIS C., actor, was born 
in October, 1837, in Virginia. His first ap¬ 
pearance on the stage was in November, 
1852, in the Old National theater, Wash¬ 
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BANGS. FRANCIS NEHEMIAH, law¬ 
yer, was born Feb. 23, 1828, in New York 
city. He was one of the original members 
of the Bar association of New York, and 
was its president in 1882 and 1883. He 
was one of the originators of the Union 
League club in New York city. He died 
Nov. 30, 1885, in Ocala, Fla. 

BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK, journalist, 
author, was born in 1862 in New York. He 
is a humorous writer of Yonkers, N. Y., 
and one of the founders of Life. He is the 
author of Three Weeks in Politics; Coffee 
and Repartee; The Idiot; The Water 
Ghost; Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica; A 
House Boat on the Styx; The Bicy¬ 
clers and Other Farces; Toppleton’s 
Client; and A Rebellious Heroine. 

BANGS, NATHAN, clergyman, author, 
was born May 2, 1778, in Stratford, Conn. 
He was an active methodist theologian 
and controversialist, very prominent in 
the literary history of his church and a 
most prolific writer. Among his works 
are comprised History of the Methodise. 
Episcopal Church to 1840; Errors of Hop- 
kinsianism; Life of Arminius; Letters to 
a Young Preacher; Letters on Sanctifica¬ 
tion; and Methodist Episcopacy. He died 
May 3, 1862, in New York city. 

BANIGAN, JOSEPH, manufacturer, was 
born June 7, 1839, in Ireland. He organ¬ 
ized The Woonsocket Rubber company in 
1866, and has ever since been its president 
and general manager, making his home in 
Providence, R. I. 

BANISTER, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Virginia to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1778 to 1779, and 
signed the articles of confederation. 

BANISTER, JOHN, botanist, author, 
was born in 16— in England. He was a 
Virginia botanist who assisted the Eng¬ 
lish naturalist, John Ray, and was the 
author of Observations on the Natural 
Productions of Jamaica; Insects of Vir¬ 
ginia; Curiosities of Virginia; The Un¬ 
seen Lupus; and The Pistolochia, or Ser- 
pentaria Virginiana. The genus Banis- 
teria was named in his honor. He died 
in 1692 in Virginia. 

BANISTER, JOHN, soldier, legislator, 
was born in Virginia. He was a member 
of the state assembly, and of the conti¬ 
nental congress from 1778 to 1779. In 
1781, as lieutenant-colonel of Virginia 
cavalry, he took an active part in repelling 
the British from his state. He died 1787 
in Hatchers Run, Va. 

BANKARD, HENRY NICHOLAS, busi¬ 
ness man, was born Dec. 23, 1834, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He published a paper which 
was strongly commended for its breadth 
of view and its force of statement. He 
was one of the founders of the real es¬ 
tate exchange of Baltimore, and is also 
director of the Taxpayer association. 

BANKHEAD, JOHN H., farmer, soldier, 
congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1842, in 
Lamar, Ala. He is a farmer; served four 
years in the confederate army, being 
wounded three times, and represented 
Marion county in the general assembly, 
sessions of 1865, 1866, and 1867; he was 
a member of the state senate in 1876-77, 
and of the house of representatives in 
1880-81. He was warden of the Alabama 
penitentiary from 1881 till 1885, and was 
elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty- 
second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty- 
fifth congresses as a democrat. 

BANKHEAD, JOHN PINE, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Aug. 3, 1821, in South Caro¬ 
lina. He entered the navy as a midship¬ 
man; was made a lieutenant in 1852; com¬ 
mander in 1862; and captain in 1866. He 
di^d April 27. 1867. in Arabia. 

A 


BANKS, EUGENE, lawyer, poet. He is 
a successful lawyer of Chicago, Ill., and the 
author of a volume of poems entitled 
Where Brooks Go Softly. 


BANKS, GARDNER, soldier, was born 
in Waltham, Mass. At the beginning of 
the civil war he raised a company for the 
sixteenth Massachusetts regiment, in 
which he rose to the rank of colonel in 
1862. Gen. Hooker said, in a letter to 
Governor Andrew: There is no doubt 
but at Glendale the sixteenth Massachu¬ 
setts saved the army. He died July 9, 
1871, in Waltham, Mass. 

BANKS. JOHN, lawyer, jurist, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1793 in Juniata county, 
Pa. He received a classical education; 
studied law; came to the bar in 1819, and 
settled in the western part of the state. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1831 to 1836, when he 
resigned to accept the appointment of 
president judge of the third judicial dis¬ 
trict of the state. He died April 3, 1864, 
in Reading. 

BANKS, LINN, congressman, was born 
in Virginia. He was for twenty success¬ 
ive years speaker of the house of delegates 
of that state. He was a representative in 
congress from Virginia from 1838 to 1842. 
He was drowned Feb. 24, 1842, in Madison 
county, Va. 

BANKS, LOUIS ALBERT, clergyman, 
was born in 1855 in Oregon. He is a 
prominent methodist clergyman and the 
author of The Saloon Keeper’s Ledger, a 
Series of Temperance Discourses; The 
Fisherman and his Friends; Common 
Folks’ Religion; Revival Quiver, a Rec¬ 
ord of Revival Campaigns; The People’s 
Christ; White Slaves, or the Oppression 
of the Worthy Poor; The Honeycombs 
of Life; and Christ and His Friends. 

BANKS, MARY ROSS, author, was 
born March 4, 1846, in Macon, Ga. Her 
literary fame was attained principally 
through her book entitled Bright Days on 
the Old Plantation, which was published 


in 1882. 

BANKS, MAUD, actress, after a course 
of study and training at the New York 
school of acting, went upon the stage in 
1886, making her first appearance at Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H., in the character of Par- 
thenia in Ingomar. 

BANKS, NATHANIEL P„ legislator, 
governor, was born in 1816 in Waltham, 
Mass. He worked in a cotton factory; lec¬ 
tured in public; edit- 
ed a country newspa- 
.jnWfcJDb, per; held a custom 
house position; prac¬ 
ticed law; in 1849 
and 1851 was sent to 
the state legislature; 
in 1852 was member 
of congress; in 1853 
presided over the 
state constitutional 
convention; was 
three times elected 
governor of his 
state; was president of the I. C. R. R. in 
1860; served brilliantly as commander in 
the Union army, and was several times 
re-elected to congress. He died in 1894. 

BANNEKER, BENJAMIN, astronomer, 
was born Nov. 9, 1731, at Ellicott’s Mills, 
Md. He was an astronomer and mathe¬ 
matician of African descent, who assisted 
in the original survey of the District of 
Columbia and published an astronomical 
almanac 1792-1806. He died in October, 
1806, in Baltimore, Md. 

BANNING, EPHRAIM, lawyer, was 
born July 21, 1849, near Bushnell, Ill. He 
received his education at the public 
schools and the academy at Brookfield, 

Mo. He moved to Chicago in 1871, and 



the following year opened a law office. He- 
has made a specialty of patent and trade¬ 
mark law, and is one of the best known 
lawyers in his branch of profession in Chi¬ 
cago. In 1896 he was a presidential 
elector, and in 1897 was appointed by 
Governor Tanner a member of the state 
board of charities. 

BANNING, HENRY B„ general, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1834, in 
Mount Vernon, Ohio. He received an 
academic education; studied and practiced 
law at Mount Vernon, Ohio, until 1861, 
when he enlisted as a private soldier; rose 
to the rank of brevet major-general. He 
represented Knox county in the Ohio leg¬ 
islature in 1866 and 1867; removed to 
Cincinnati in the year 1869, where he re¬ 
sumed the practice of law. He was elect¬ 
ed to the forty-third, forty-fourth and for¬ 
ty-fifth congresses. 

BANNISTER, E. M., artist, was born 
in 1833, in Andrews, New Brunswick. He 
studied art at the Lowell institute, Boston, 
and spent the greater part of his profes¬ 
sional life there. In 1871 he removed to- 
Providence, R. I. He has contributed reg¬ 
ularly to the Boston Art club exhibitions. 
His picture Under the Oaks was awarded 
a first-class medal at the centennial ex¬ 
hibition of 1876. 

BANTA, MELISSA E„ poet, was born 
March 27, 1834, in Cincinnati, Ohio; has 
attained prominence in literature, and her 
poems have been given a place in several 
standard publications. She is the wife of 
Judge Banta, of Bloomington, Ind. 

BANVARD, JOHN, artist, author, poet, 
was born about 1820, in New York. He 
was an artist and poet whose famous 
nanorama of the Mississippi covered three 
miles of canvas. He wrote much indiffer¬ 
ent verse, and published books of a mis¬ 
cellaneous nature. He was the author of 
Amasis, the Last of the Pharaohs, after¬ 
ward dramatized by him; Carrinia: a 
Drama; Description of the Mississippi 
River; Pilgrimage to the Holy Land; The 
Private Life of a King; A Tradition of 
the Temple, and a Poem. He died in 1891. 

BANVARD, JOSEPH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born May 9, 1810, in New York 
city, and a brother of John Banvard. He 
was a baptist clergyman of Massachu¬ 
setts, who beside contributing somewhat 
largely to Sunday-school literature wrote 
much in other directions. He is the au¬ 
thor of Romance of American History; 
Plymouth and the Pilgrims; Novelties of 
the New World, or Adventures and Dis¬ 
coveries of the First Explorers; Tragic 
Scenes in the History of Maryland; The 
American Statesman, a Memoir of Web¬ 
ster; Southern Explorers; Soldiers and 
Patriots of the Revolution; and Priscilla. 

BARAGA, FRIEDRIC, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born June 29, 1797. He was a 
Roman Catholic missionary who came to 
America in 1830 from Austria, and 
became bishop of Sault Ste. Marie 
in 1852. He devoted himself to 
mission work among the Chippewa or 
Ojibway Indians, and beside writing sev¬ 
eral books in their tongue prepared a 
Grammar and Dictionary of the Otchipe- 
we Language. He died Jan. 19, 1868. in 
Marquette, Mich. 

BARBE, WAITMAN, lecturer, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born Nov. 19, 1863, 
in Morgantown, W. Va. He is the editor 
of the Daily State Journal of Parkersburg, 
W. Va., and the author of Ashes and In¬ 
cense, a volume of poems containing 
gems of rare genius; and a volume of 
short stories, entitled In the Virginias. 
He has also attained prominence as a 
lecturer before schools and colleges on 
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BARBEE, WILLIAM J., educator, 
'Clergyman, physician, author, was born in 
1816 in Winchester, Ky. He was educated 
at Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, and 
studied medicine with Dr. Drake, of Cin¬ 
cinnati, where he practiced from 1836 to 
1846. He afterward taught school in Ken¬ 
tucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, and also 
became a preacher of the Christian or 
Campbellite denomination. He is the au¬ 
thor of Physical and Moral Aspects of 
Geology (Philadelphia, 1859); The Cot¬ 
ton Question; The Scriptural Doctrine of 
Confirmation; Life of the Apostle Peter, 
and other works. 

BARBER, AMZI LORENZO, capitalist, 
was born June 22, 1843, at Saxton’s River, 
Vt. In 1867 he graduated from Oberlin 
college with the de¬ 
gree of A. B.; and 
in 1868 took charge 
of the preparatory 
department of the 
Howard university 
of Washington. In 
1887 he resigned 
from the professor¬ 
ship to engage in 
the real estate busi¬ 
ness; and since 1878 
has been identified 
with asphalt pave¬ 
ment. He is president of the Barber As¬ 
phalt Pavement company; president of 
the celebrated Trinidad Asphalt com¬ 
pany; and their asphalt pavements are 
used in the principal cities of the United 
States. He is one of the foremost busi¬ 
ness men of Washington, D. C. 

BARBER, FRANCIS, soldier, was born 
in 1751, in Princeton, N. J. In 1767 he 
graduated from Princeton college; and 
during 1769-76 he conducted an academy 
in Elizabethtown, N. J. He served with 
distinction through the revolutionary war, 
and attained the rank of adjutant general. 
He was accidentally killed by a falling 
tree Feb. 11, 1783, in Newburg. 

BARBER, GEORGE FRANKLIN, archi¬ 
tect, was born July 30, 1854, in DeKalb, 
Ill. He is well known as an architect of 
Knoxville, Tenn.; and a writer on archi¬ 
tectural subjects. 

BARBER, GERSHOM M„ soldier, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 2, 
1823, in Cayuga county, N. Y. He was 
professor in Baldwin institute four years 
and principal two years. He served in 
the civil war and rose to the rank of 
brigadier-general. In 1873 he was elected 
judge of the superior court of Cleveland; 
in 1875 served on the bench of the court 
of common pleas; and served two terms 
as a member of the city council of Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. 

BARBER, HIRAM, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 24, 1835, in Warren 
county, N. Y. He removed to Wisconsin 
in 1846, and was educated at the State 
university at Madison; studied law and 
was admitted to the bar. He was district 
attorney of Jefferson county, Wis., in 
1861-62; was assistant attorney general of 
the state in 1865-66; and in 1866 moved to 
Chicago, Ill. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Illinois to the forty-sixth con¬ 
gress. 

BARBER, HOMER G., business man, 
state senator, was born in 1830, in Benson, 
Vt. He removed to Vermontville, Mich., 
and became a merchant, and in 1871 en¬ 
gaged in banking. In 1871-72 he was state 
senator from Eaton and Barry counties. 
In 1861 he was appointed postmaster of 
Vermontville, and held that position 
eleven years. 

BARBER, ISAAC, physician, surgeon, 
state senator, was born Sept. 4, 1854, at 


Forty Fort, Pa. He is a physician by pro¬ 
fession. He studied medicine, and grad¬ 
uated from the university of Pennsylvania 
in 1879. He served as medical director of 
the Metropolitan Life Insurance com¬ 
pany in New York city for one year, and 
located at Phillipsburg, N. J., in 1880. In 
1897 he was elected a member of the 
New Jersey state senate, and has since 
continued in active practice. 

BARBER, ISAAC AMBROSE, physician, 
business man, legislator, congressman, 
was born Jan. 26, 1852, near Salem, N. J. 
He graduated from the Hahnemann medi¬ 
cal college of Philadelphia, Pa. In 1873 
he moved to Easton, Md.; practiced medi¬ 
cine for fifteen years; and since that time 
has been engaged in milling. He has 
been president of the Farmers’ and Mer¬ 
chants National bank of Easton, Md.; 
was a member of the Maryland state legis¬ 
lature in 1895-96; and in 1896 was elected 
a member of the fifty-fifth congress. 

BARBER, J. ALLEN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Georgia, Vt. He ob¬ 
tained a liberal education at the univer¬ 
sity of Vermont; 
studied law and was 
admitted to practice 
in 1833. In 1837 he 
removed to the ter¬ 
ritory of Wisconsin; 
and was a member of 
the first constitution¬ 
al convention of 
Wisconsin in 1846. 
He was elected to 
the state assembly in 
1852, 1853, and 1863, 
serving the last year 
as speaker. He was elected to the state 
senate in 1856 and 1857; was elected to 
the forty-second and forty-third con¬ 
gresses; and served with ability on nu¬ 
merous important committees. 

BARBER. .JOHN JAY, soldier, lawyer, 
artist, was born Sept. 21, 1840, in San¬ 
dusky, Ohio. He studied law, was admitted 
to the bar in 1862; joined the volunteer 
army in 1863; returned sick, and upon re¬ 
covery determined to devote himself to 
painting. He received no instruction in 
art, but settled in Columbus, Ohio, in 
1871, and opened a studio. He devoted 
himself at first to landscapes, delineating 
scenes in the Muskingum valley. Subse¬ 
quently he executed cattle pieces, and after 
1881 exhibited in the National academy in 
New York. 

BARBER, JOHN WARNER, author, 
was born Feb. 2, 1798, in Windsor, Conn. 
He was an industrious annalist whose 
compilations, though of slight literary 
merit, are valuable as historical material 
not so readily accessible elsewhere. He 
is the author of Historical Collections of 
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, 
New Jersey, Virginia, and Ohio, the four 
last being prepared with the assistance of 
Henry Howe; History of New Haven; 
Elements of General History; and His¬ 
torical Scenes in the United States. He 
died in June, 1885, in New Haven, Conn. 

BARBER, DEVI, congressman, was born 
in Litchfield county, Conn. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Ohio from 
1817 to 1819, and again from 1821 to 1823. 

BARBER, MARY AUGUSTINE, educa¬ 
tor, was born in 1789, in Newtown, Conn. 
She entered the visitation convent of 
Georgetown in 1818 with her four daugh¬ 
ters. She was a woman of superior edu¬ 
cation, and the convent and school pro¬ 
gressed rapidly during her residence. In 
1836 she founded a convent of the visita¬ 
tion in Kaskaskia, Ill., where she re¬ 
mained until 1844. She died in 1860, in 
Mobile, Ala. 




BARBER, NOYES, merchant, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 28, 1781, in 
Groton, Conn. He was in early life a 
merchant, but a lawyer by profession; 
and was a representative in congress 
from his native state from 1821 to 1835. 
He died Jan. 3, 1845, in Groton, Conn. 

BARBER, OTHO C., president of the 
Diamond Match company, was born April 
20. 1841, in Middlebury, N. Y. In 1880, 
The Barber Match 
company, of which 
he was at the head, 
was making over 
one-fourth of the 
matches manufac¬ 
tured in the United 
States. About this 
time, Mr. Barber saw 
the advantages of 
consolidating a num¬ 
ber of the leading 
manufactories, and 
instead of thirty 
factories being required for their manu¬ 
facture, ninety per cent, of the matches 
in America are now manufactured in five 
factories. In 1889 The American Straw 
Board company was organized with $6,- 
000,000 capital, with Mr. Barber as presi¬ 
dent, in which position he served until 
1894. In 1891 Mr. Barber and associates 
founded the town of Barberton, Ohio. He 
is president of The Ohio Tube company, 
of Warren, Ohio, and of The Barberton 
Belt Line Railroad company. 

BARBER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, was born Sept. 10,1869, in Chester, 
county, S. C. In 1889 he graduated with 
distinction from the South Carolina col¬ 
lege, and received the degrees of A. B. 
and LL. B. In 1894 he was elected attor¬ 
ney general of South Carolina, and in 
1896 received the re-election without op¬ 
position. 

BARBOUR, G. L., author, poet. He is 
the author of The End of Time; and his 
poems have appeared in numerous col¬ 
lections. 

BARBOUR, GEORGE HARRISON, 
manufacturer, was born June 26, 1843, in 
Collinsville, Conn. He is the president 
and general manager 
of the Michigan 
Stove company; 
first president of the 
Chamber of Com¬ 
merce; president of 
the Manufacturing 
club; director of the 
Buck Stove and 
Range company, of 
St. Louis, Mo.; ex¬ 
president of the Na¬ 
tional Association 

Stove manufactory; 
and served as president of the city coun¬ 
cil of Detroit in 1888. He has taken an 
active part in the business and public af¬ 
fairs of his city and state; and has been 
foremost in various public improvements 
and charitable works. 

BARBOUR. JAMES, state senator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born June 10, 1775, in Orange 
county, Va. He was speaker of the house 
of delegates, and governor of that state; 
and was a senator in congress from 1815 
to 1825. He was appointed secretary of 
war in 1825, and minister to England in 
1828. He died June 8, 1842, in Orange 
county, Va. 

BARBOUR, JOHN HUMPHREY, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born in 
1854, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is an epis¬ 
copal clergyman, professor of New Tes¬ 
tament interpretation at the Berkeley 
Divinity school of Middletown, Conn.; and 
the author of Beginnings of the Historic 
Episcopate. 










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BARBOUR, JOHN S., congressman, 
was born Aug. 8, 1790, in Culpeper coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was in early life a member of 
the state legislature; from 1823-33 a mem¬ 
ber of congress from Virginia; member of 
the constitutional convention in 1829-30; 
and again in the state legislature in 1833- 
34. He died Jan. 12, 1855, in Culpeper 
county, Va. 

BARBOUR, JOHN S., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born 
Bee. 29, 1820, in Culpeper county, Va. 
He began the practice of law in his na¬ 
tive county of Culpeper; was elected to 
the legislature of Virginia from Culpeper 
county in 1847, and was re-elected, serving 
four consecutive sessions. He was elected 
president of the railroad company then 
called the Orange and Alexandria Rail¬ 
road company in 1852, and served in that 
position until it was merged into what is 
now known as the Virginia Midland Rail¬ 
road company, of which he was president 
till he resigned, in 1883. He was elected 
to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and 
forty-ninth congresses, and was elected to 
the United States senate, serving during 
1889-95. 

BARBOUR, JOSEPH L., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator. From 1877 to 1884 he was prosecut¬ 
ing attorney of Hartford, Conn. He is a 
popular member of the Connecticut state 
legislature and the speaker of the house. 

BARBOUR, LUCIEN, educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 4, 1811, in 
Canton, Conn. He was appointed, by 
President Polk, United States district at¬ 
torney; acted a number of times as ar¬ 
bitrator between the state of Indiana and 
private corporations; and in 1852 was ap¬ 
pointed a commissioner to prepare a code 
of practice for the state. He was a rep¬ 
resentative from Indiana in the thirty- 
fourth congress. 

BARBOUR, LUCIUS ALBERT, manu¬ 
facturer, was born Jan. 26, 1846, in Madi¬ 
son, Ind. In 1882 he became identified 
with The Willimantic Linen Co., a 
concern organized in 1854, which was the 
first to make all sizes of six-cord spool 
cotton from the raw material, and is now 
president and treasurer of that great in¬ 
dustry. 

BARBOUR, OLIVER LORENZO, law¬ 
yer, author, was born July 12, 1811, in 
Cambridge, N. Y. He was an eminent 
lawyer of New York state; and the au¬ 
thor of Equity Digest; Criminal Law; 
The Law of Set-Off; Practice of the Court 
of Chancery; and Summary of the Law 
of Parties to Actions at Law, and many 
legal reports. He died Dec. 18, 1889, in 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 

BARBOUR, PHILIP P., lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, congressman, was born May 25, 
1783, in Orange county, Va. He was a 
member of congress from Virginia from 
1814-25 and 1827-30; speaker of the house 
of representatives in 1821; and in 1825 
was appointed judge of the eastern dis¬ 
trict of Virginia. In 1836 he was ap¬ 
pointed associate judge of the supreme 
court of the United States. He died Feb. 
25, 1841, in Washington city. 

BARBOUR, ROBERT, manufacturer. 
With his brother Thomas he established 
the industry in Paterson, N. J., under the 
name of The Barbour Flax Spinning 
Co., Robert being president of the com¬ 
pany. 

BARBOUR, THOMAS, manufacturer, 
was born July 9, 1832, in Ireland. In 
1865 The Barbour Flax Spinning Co. 
was established, with mills in Paterson, 
Thomas Barbour becoming president un¬ 
til 1875, when Robert was elected presi¬ 
dent and Thomas vice-president and 
treasurer. He died Jan. 19, 1885. 


BARBOZA, MARY GARNET, mission¬ 
ary, was born Jan. 17, 1845, in Troy, N. Y. 
In 1881 her father was appointed United 
States missionary to Liberia, and she ac¬ 
companied him to Africa. She visited the 
United States and England and secured 
many friends for the two hundred native 
children that composed her native school. 
She died Dec. 2, 1890, in Liberia, Africa. 

BARCLAY, DAVID, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from his native 
state from 1855-57. 

BARCLAY, JAMES TURNER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1807, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was a leading clergyman of 
the Campbellite faith, and for many years 
a missionary in Jerusalem. He is best 
known as the author of The City of the 
Great King, a description of Jerusalem. 
He died in 1874. 

BARCLAY. ROBERT, physician, was 
born May 8, 1857, in St. Louis, Mo. In 
1883 he was elected assistant aural sur¬ 
geon in the New York Eye and Ear in¬ 
firmary, serving until 1885, when he re¬ 
signed, and removed to St. Louis, Mo. 
By the St. Louis Medical society he was 
appointed a delegate to the American 
Medical association in 1888 and in 1893. 

BARCLAY, SHEPARD, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 3, 1847, in St. Louis, Mo. 
He received his education in the public 
and high schools, St. Louis university, 
university of Virginia and Berlin univer¬ 
sity. He began the practice of law in 
1872; in 1882 was elected circuit judge in 
St. Louis; and in 1888 was made a judge 
of the supreme court. 

BARCLAY, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, 
physician, was born Feb. 13, 1842, in Jack¬ 
sonville, Pa. He discovered and applied 
gold compounds in 1893, in which he suc¬ 
cessfully combined gold with bromine, 
mercury, arsenic, and other metals, in the 
face of the decree of chemistry that such 
compounds were impossible. 

BARD, DAVID, congressman, was a 
graduate of Princeton college in 1773. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1799, and again 
from 1803 to 1815. He died in 1815, in 
Virginia. 

BARD, JOHN, founder of St. Stephen’s 
college, was born June 2, 1819, in Hyde 
Park, N. Y. He was the founder of St. 
Stephen’s college, at Annandale, N. Y., 
a diocesan training-school for students 
for the ministry of the Protestant Episco¬ 
pal church, preparatory to entrance in the 
general theological seminary in New 
York city. 

BARD, WILLIAM, was born in October, 
1777, in New York. He was a pioneer in 
life insurance in the United States, and 
for twelve years from its foundation in 
1830 the president of the New York Life 
Insurance and Trust company. He died 
Oct. 17, 1853. 

BARGER, SAMUEL F., lawyer, finan¬ 
cier, was born Oct. .19, 1832, in New York 
city. He is a director of the Central 
Railroad company; Harlem road; Lake 
Shore and Michigan Southern; the Chi¬ 
cago and Northwestern; Union Tele¬ 
graph company; and many other business 
corporations. He was one of the founders 
of the Manhattan club, and also of the 
Casino and Reading room at Newport. 

BARGHOORN, CHARLES D„ lawyer, 
was born Jan. 1, 1860, in Holland. Dur¬ 
ing 1883-87 he served as a school trustee; 
during 1884-86 was a justice of the peace; 
and since 1892 has been prosecuting at¬ 
torney in Luther, Mich. Since 1885 he 
has been in the active practice of law, in 
which he has been eminently successful. 


BARHAM, JOHN A., educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 17, 1844, in 
Missouri. He removed with his parents 
to California in 1849, and was educated in 
the common schools and at the Hesperian 
college, in Woodland, Cal. He taught in 
the public schools of California for three 
years; studied law and was admitted to 
practice in 1868, and has practiced his 
profession since. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress. 

BARHYDT, THEODORE WELLS, rail¬ 
road president, banker, capitalist, was 
born Api’il 10, 1835, in Newark, N. J. 

He received an aca¬ 
demic education in 
the Lyceum academy 
of Schenectady, N. 
Y. In 1855 he moved 
to Burlington, Iowa, 
where he became one 
of the principal 
clerks in the post- 
office. In 1859 he 
entered mercantile 
business; and since 
1870 has been presi¬ 
dent of the Mer¬ 
chants’ National bank of Burlington, 
of which institution he was one of 
the organizers. He was one of the 
organizers of the Burlington, Cedar 
Rapids and Northern Railroad com¬ 
pany, and is now president of the Bur¬ 
lington and North Western and of the 
Burlington and Western Railroad com¬ 
panies. He is the owner of the Delano 
hotel and several other fine business 
buildings; was instrumental in establish¬ 
ing the Burlington water works; and was 
one of the principal promoters and build¬ 
ers of the first street railroad in his city. 
He has been president of the Board of 
Trade, and a member of the city council, 
and filled various other public positions 
of honor. 

BARIGHT, MARIE LOUISE, educator, 
elocutionist, was born Aug. 12, 1864 in 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. She received ’her 
education in Cook’s Collegiate institute 
of her native city; subsequently attend¬ 
ing the Boston university, and the School 
of Expression of Boston, Mass.; and 
finally studied in the Chicago university. 
She has been professor of Elocution and 
English Literature in the State Normal 
schools of West Chester, Pa.; and filled 
the same chair in the university of Ore¬ 
gon. 

BARKER, ABRAHAM A., merchant, 
congressman, was born March 30, 1816, 
in Lovell, Maine. Mr. Barner was a dele¬ 
gate to the Chicago convention of 1860; 
and in 1864 was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth 
congress. 

BARKER, DAVID, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was a lawyer by profession. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Hampshire from 1827 to 1829. He died 
April 1, 1834, in Rochester, N. H. 

BARKER, FORDYCE, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born May 2, 1819, in Wilton, 
Maine. He was a New York physician of 
prominence and a professor in the Belle¬ 
vue hospital from 1860; and the author of 
On Sea-Sickness; and On Puerperal Dis¬ 
eases. He died in 1891. 

BARKER, GEORGE FREDERICK, 
educator, author, was born July 14, 1835, 
in Charlestown, Mass. He has been pro¬ 
fessor of physics in the university of 
Pennsylvania since 1873. He is the au¬ 
thor of Correlation of Vital and Physical 
Forces; and Text Book of Elementary 
Chemistry. 



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BARKER, JAMES NELSON, author, 
poet, was born June 17, 1784, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia poet 
and playwright, and was comptroller of 
the United States treasury in 1838-50. 
His dramas include Marmion; The In¬ 
dian Princess; Superstition; and Smiles 
and Tears. He died March 9, 1858, in 
Washington, D. C. 

BARKER, JAMES WILLIAM, mer¬ 
chant, was born Dec. 5, 1815, in White 
Plains, N. Y. In 1859 he established an 
extensive house in Pittsburg, and trans¬ 
acted annually a very large business. 
In 1854 he was the Knownothing candi¬ 
date for mayor of New York city, but 
was defeated in a closely contested elec¬ 
tion by Fernando Wood. He was very 
active in the founding of the Order of 
the Star Spangled Banner, a secret or¬ 
ganization, having for its object the pre¬ 
vention of the political ascendancy of the 
foreign-born inhabitants of the United 
States, and was its principal officer in 
1853. From 1867 till his death he was 
president of the Eclectic Life Insurance 
company, New York. He died June 26, 
1869, in Rahway, N. J. 

BARKER, JOSEPH, clergyman, con¬ 
gressman. He commenced his classical 
studies at Harvard university, and grad¬ 
uated at Yale college in 1771. He was 
an ordained preacher of the gospel; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1805 to 1809. He died 
in 1815. 

BARKER, JOSIAH, shipbuilder, was 
born Nov. 16, 1763, in Marshfield, Mass. 
He was United States naval constructor 
about 1810, and built the Virginia in 1818, 
the Warren in 1826, the Cumberland in 
1842, and other men-of-war. He also re¬ 
built the Constitution in 1834, and fur¬ 
nished the plans for the Portsmouth. 
He died Sept. 23, 1843, in Charlestown, 
Mass. 

BARKER, LORENZO ABEL, soldier, 
journalist, was born Aug. 16, 1S39, in 
Naples, N. Y. He is the editor and owner 
of The Clarion of Reed City, Mich. At 
an early age he learned the printing busi¬ 
ness; and in 1861 enlisted in company 
E, thirteenth regiment Missouri volun¬ 
teers; which afterward was changed to 
company D, sixty-sixth company Illinois 
Western Sharpshooters. He fought gal¬ 
lantly during the war and was promoted 
sergeant. In 1884 he was a presidential 
elector in the Blaine and Logan cam¬ 
paign; and in 1896 was again a presi¬ 
dential elector for William McKinley. He 
served as postmaster of Reed City during 
President Harrison’s administration. He 
is a prominent member of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, and various other 
fraternal orders. 

BARKER, REUBEN H. W., farmer, sol¬ 
dier, state senator, was born Aug. 31, 1846, 
C. He was educated 
at Rutherford col¬ 
lege; and was for 
many years engaged 
in merchandising, 
but later became a 
successful farmer 
and stockraiser. 
He served two years 
in the confederate 
army as a member 
of the twenty-ninth 
regiment North 

Carolina troops. He 
is the son of the 
Rev. J. N. Barker, who for nearly fifty 
years was a traveling methodist clergy¬ 
man. He has taken an active part in pub¬ 
lic affairs; has been a justice of the 
peace; and in 1896 was elected a member 
of the North Carolina state senate. 


BARKER, SAMUEL ALPHONSO, law¬ 
yer, was born July 26, 1833, in Kennebec, 
Maine. In his youth he taught school, 
and in 1857 was admitted to the bar in 
the supreme court at Augusta, Maine. For 
ten years he practiced law in his native 
state, and in 1867 moved to California. ' 
He settled in San Jose, where he is known 
as one of the foremost lawyers of his 
adopted state. 

BARKER, WHARTON, financier, was 
born May 1, 1846, in Philadelphia. He 
was one of the four who organized in 
Pennsylvania the republican revolution, 
of 1881. He was the founder of the In¬ 
vestment company of Philadelphia, and 
also of the Finance company of Philadel¬ 
phia. 

BARKER, WILLIAM MORRIS, mis¬ 
sionary bishop of Olympia, Wash., was 
born May 12, 1854, in Towanda, Pa. For 
two years he was an assistant master in 
the Bishop Scott grammar school, of Port¬ 
land, Ore. Until his consecration he 
was in charge of St. Paul’s church, of 
Duluth; and president of St. Luke’s hos¬ 
pital in that city. 

BARKLEY, DAVID WRIGHT, journal¬ 
ist, legislator, was born May 21, 1842, in 
Fairfield, Ill. He has been president of 
the board of trustees of Hayward Collegi¬ 
ate institute of Fairfield, Ill., and a mem¬ 
ber of the Illinois legislature. He is the 
editor and owner of The Enterprise of 
Rocky Ford, Colo. 

BARKLEY, HENRY L., educator, 
clergyman, legislator, was born March 19, 
1858, in Adams county, Ind. He received 
a thorough education in the public schools 
of Ohio, and graduated from the high 
school of Bryan. He has been a success¬ 
ful educator, clergyman, and is now bishop 
of the Pacific coast district of the United 
Brethren church at Woodburn, Ore. He 
served with distinction for two terms as 
a representative in the Oregon legislature. 

BARKLEY, JAMES, soldier, was born 
in Kentucky. He enlisted as private in 
the one hundred and fourteenth Illinois 
infantry in 1862, and made a capital 
record as a brave soldier. He started in 
as a private and worked his way to briga¬ 
dier-commander. He is senior brigadier- 
general in the service; was for a time 
captain of battery B; and was elected 
colonel of the fifth regiment in 1877, hold¬ 
ing that position until 1891. 

BARKSDALE, ETHELBERT, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born in Rutherford 
county, Tenn. He received a classical 
education; removed to Mississippi at an 
early age, and adopted the profession of 
journalism. He was a representative in 
the confederate congress for four years; 
was a presidential elector, and president 
of the Mississippi college of electors, in 
1876. He was elected a representative 
from Mississippi to the forty-eighth and 
forty-ninth congresses. 

BARKSDALE, WILLIAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 21, 1821, in 
Rutherford county, Tenn. He pursued a 
partial course of studies at the Nashville 
university; was a lawyer by profession; 
held a commission in the staff of the 
second Mississippi regiment, in the Mexi¬ 
can war, in 1847. He was a member of the 
Mississippi convention called in 1851 to 
discuss the compromise measures of 1850; 
and was elected representative from 
Mississippi in the thirty-third, thirty- 
fourth, thirty-fifth, and thirty-sixth con¬ 
gresses. He was killed July 2, 1863, at 
the battle of Gettysburg. 

BARLOW, BRADLEY, merchant, bank¬ 
er, congressman, was born May 12, 1814, 
in’Fairfield, Vt. He was engaged in agri¬ 


cultural and mercantile pursuits until 
1858; removed to St. Albans, Vt., and en¬ 
gaged in banking and other pursuits. He 
served six terms as a representative in 
the state legislature, and two terms as 
state senator; was twice a member of 
state constitutional conventions; and was 
county treasurer for several years. He 
was elected a representative from Ver¬ 
mont to the forty-sixth congress. 

BARLOW, CHARLES AVERILL, mer¬ 
chant, farmer, congressman, was born 
March 17, 1858, in Cleveland, Ohio. He 
removed to San Luis Obispo county, Cal., 
where he acquired land and engaged in 
wheat farming. He was state lecturer of 
the Farmers’ alliance one term, and was 
elected to the state assembly from San 
Luis Obispo county in 1893 on the straight 
people’s party ticket. He introduced el 
number of important bills in the legisla¬ 
ture and conducted them to a successful 
passage. He was elected to the fifty-fifth, 
congress, and took an important part in 
the deliberations of that body. 

BARLOW, FRANCIS CHANNING, sol¬ 
dier, public official, was born Oct. 19, 1834, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. In Grant’s campaign 
he captured the whole division of Gen. 
Johnston, and in the final struggle and 
pursuit of Lee’s routed army he rendered 
essential service. He was secretary of state 
of New York. 

BARLOW, HENRY C., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Aug. 15, 1850, in Niles, 
Mich. Since 1894 he has been president 
of the Evansville and Terre Haute rail¬ 
road. 

BARLOW, JOEL, patriot, poet, was 
born March 25, 1755, in Reading, Conn. 
As an author he belonged to the first class 
of his time in Ameri¬ 
ca, and was one of 
the celebrated Hart¬ 
ford Wits. His Vis¬ 
ion of Columbus, a 
poem in imitation of 
Milton, obtained 
great popularity, 
and Hasty Pudding, 
a humorous poem 
dedicated to Martha 
Washington, was 
much admired. His 
most elaborate work, 
Columbiad, an epic poem, is considered 
by critics to be a failure. He died Dec. 
24, 1812, near Cracow, in Poland, while 
serving as foreign ambassador. 

BARLOW, SAMUEL LATHAM MIT¬ 
CHELL, lawyer, author, was born June 5, 
1826, in Granville, Mass. He was educated 
in New York city, where he practiced law 
for forty years. He gave much time to the 
collection of rare and curious books. His 
library of Americana was among the 
largest in the country. In connection 
with Henry Harrisse he edited Notes on 
Columbus, an invaluable work for the 
biography and bibliography of the discov¬ 
erer of the new world. He died July 10, 
1890, in Glen Cove, N. Y. 

BARLOW, STEPHEN, business man, 
congressman. He was a representative 
in congress from Pennsylvania from 1827 
to 1829, and was a member of the commit¬ 
tee on agriculture. 

BARLOW, THOMAS HARRIS, inventor, 
was born Aug. 5, 1789, in Nicholas county, 
Ky. He settled in Lexington, Ky., in 
1835, and in 1851 finished his first plane¬ 
tarium which is now in Transylvania uni¬ 
versity in that town. This ingenious and 
useful piece of mechanism is now in use 
at West Point, the Washington observa¬ 
tory, and other institutions. He died in 
1865, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 









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BARMM. FRANK HERMAN, lawyer, 
was born Jan. 25, 1864, in Chicago, Ill. 
He is a recognized expert on real estate 
values; his own holdings in the city of 
Chicago being very extensive and val¬ 
uable. 

BARNAM. CURTIS FIELD, lawyer, 
legislator, was born May 24, 1820, in Rich¬ 
mond, Ky. He graduated from the law 
school in 1842, and became prominent as 
a representative in the state legislature of 
Kentucky. 

BARNARD, CHARLES, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 13, 1838, in Boston, 
Mass. He is a journalist, and the author 
•of The Tone Masters; The Soprano; My 
Ten Rod Farm; Farming by Inches; A 
Simple Flower Garden; The Strawberry 
Garden: Legilda Romanoff; Knights of 
To-day; Co-operation as a Business; A 
Dead Town, a Romance of the Old Coun¬ 
try; Talks about the Weather; and Talks 
about the Soil. 

BARNARD, DANIEL DEWEY, lawyer, 
congressman, author, was born July 16, 
1797, in Sheffield, Mass. In 1826 he was 
elected district attorney for Monroe coun¬ 
ty, N. Y., and in 1827 was elected represen¬ 
tative to congress. He was again in con¬ 
gress from 1839 to 1845, when he was 
chairman of the judiciary committee. 
From 1850 to 1853 he was United States 
minister to Prussia. He was the author 
•of numerous reviews and speeches. He 
died April 24, 1861, in Albany, N. Y. 

BARNARD, EDMUND K., educator, was 
born in 1863, in Sauk county, Wis. His 
life has been devoted to educational work; 
he has been county superintendent of 
schools, and has occupied the positions of 
principal and professor in various schools 
of Oregon and Washington. 

BARNARD, EDMUND M., state senator, 
was born May 28, 1860, in Hudson, N. Y. 
In 1891 he was elected a representative in 
the Michigan state legislature; was a 
member of the senate in 1893-94, and re¬ 
ceived the re-election in 1895-96, and again 
in 1897-98. 

BARNARD, EDWARD EMERSON, as¬ 
tronomer, author, was born Dec. 16, 1857, 
in Nashville, Tenn. Since 1883 he has 
had charge of the astronomical observa¬ 
tory, and he is also assistant in practical 
astronomy at Vanderbilt university. His 
publications consist of astronomical con¬ 
tributions to the Sidereal Messenger, Ob¬ 
servatory, Science Observer, Astronom- 
ische Nachrichten, and other technical 
journals. 

BARNARD, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS 
PORTER, college president, author, was 
born May 5, 1809. in Sheffield, Mass. He 
was an educational writer, and was presi¬ 
dent of Columbia college in 1864-89. He 
was the author of History of the United 
States Coast Survey; Imaginary Metro- 
logical System of the Great Pyramid; The 
Undulatory Theory of Light; and Letters 
on College Government. He died April 
27, 1889, in New York. 

BARNARD. HENRY, educator, author, 
was born Jan. 24, 1811, in Hartford, Conn. 
In 1837 he was elected a member of the 
legislature of Connecticut, and was twice 
re-elected to that office, during which time 
he effected a reorganization of the state 
common school system. He was superin¬ 
tendent of public schools in Rhode Island 
from 1843-49; state superintendent of 
school architecture from 1850 to 1854; and 
began the American Journal of Education 
in 1855. He became president of the 
American association for the advancement 
of education. He is the author of sev¬ 
eral educational works, including Story of 
Education in Connecticut, and Education¬ 
al Biography. 


BARNARD, ISAAC D., soldier, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born July 18, 
1791, in Aston, Pa. He was distinguished 
at Lyons Creek and at the capture of 
Fort George in 1813; and left the army 
in 1815. He was admitted to the bar in 
1816, and was soon made deputy attorney 
general. He was chosen state senator in 
1820; secretary of state in 1826; and was 
United States senator from Pennsylvania, 
from 1827 to 1831. He died Feb. 28, 1834, 
in Westchester, Pa. 

BARNARD, JAMES ELLERY, lawyer, 
was born Jan. 29, 1863, in Franklin, N. 
H. He graduated in 1884 from Dartmouth 
college; and from the Boston university 
law school in 1890. He has attained prom¬ 
inence as a successful lawyer in his native 
town, and in 1892 was appointed justice of 
the police court of his city by Gov. Smith. 
He is very prominent in various Masonic 
bodies. 

BARNARD, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 6, 1681, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a congregational minister of Bos¬ 
ton who was among the earliest New Eng¬ 
land dissenters from Calvinism. A ro¬ 
bust and logical thinker; and the author 
of Version of the Psalms; Sermons; and 
The Strange Adventures of Philip Ashton. 
He died Jan. 24, 1770. 

BARNARD. JOHN GROSS, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born May 19, 1815, in Sheffield, 
Mass. He was a major-general of the 
United States army; and the author of 
Survey of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; 
Phenomena of the Gyroscope; Dangers 
and Defences of New York; Sea Coast 
Defence; The Peninsular Campaign and 
its Antecedents; and Problems of Rotary 
Motion. He died May 14, 1882, in Detroit, 
Mich. 

BARNARD, OLIVER W., farmer, busi¬ 
ness man, poet, was born Aug. 4, 1828, in 
Economy, Ind. He is a successful farmer 
and business man of Manteno, 111.; and is 
the author of a number of poems which 
have appeared in Poets of America and 
other standard works. 

BARNARD, WILLIAM STEBBINS, 
naturalist, inventor, author, was born 
Feb. 28, 1849, in Canton, Ill. His reports 
as entomologist have been published by 
the government, and he has contributed 
to the proceedings and transactions of the 
scientific societies of which he is a mem¬ 
ber. He has made inventions of harvest¬ 
ers, both for corn and cotton, and also 
of means and appliances for the destruc¬ 
tion of injurious insects. He also devised 
the Harvard book-rack, improved paper- 
file holders, and similar articles. 

BARNES, ALANSON H., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in New York. He removed to 
Wisconsin and practiced law, and in 1873 
was appointed United States associate jus¬ 
tice for the territory of Dakota. 

BARNES, ALBERT, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 1, 1798, in Rome, N. Y. 
He was a leader of new school presbyter- 
ian thought, and an 
able scriptural com¬ 
mentator. He was a 
clergyman of Phila¬ 
delphia, and was at 
one time tried for 
heresy. He was the 
author of Notes on 
the New Testament; 
Scriptural Views of 
Slavery; The Atone¬ 
ment; Life at Three 
Score; Prayers for 
Family Worship; 
and Evidences of Christianity in the 
Nineteenth Century. He died Dec. 24, 
1870, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


BARNES, ALFRED C., was born Oct. 
27, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
elected colonel of the thirteenth regiment 
in 1884, and in 1886 retired from military 
service. He founded the Astor Place 
bank, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and in 1891 be¬ 
came its president. He planned and su¬ 
pervised Barnes’ Brief History of Amer¬ 
ica. 

BARNES, ALFRED SMITH, publisher, 
was born Jan. 28, 1817, in New Haven, 
Conn. In 1840 he went to Philadelphia 
for four years, and built up a profitable 
publishing business, which he then re¬ 
moved to New York city. His brother, 
five sons and a nephew were associated 
with him under the title of A. S. Barnes 
and Co. The firm attained eminence in 
the publication of school books. His son, 
Alfred C. Barnes, now represents the 
house in The American Book company. 
He died Feb. 17, 1888, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BARNES, AMOS, hotel proprietor, was 
born Aug. 15, 1828, in East Lebanon, 
N. H. He established the firm of Barnes 
and Dunkle in 1879, and leased the Hotel 
Brunswick in the famous Back Bay dis¬ 
trict of Boston. The Brunswick is now 
known as one of the finest and most suc¬ 
cessful hotels in America. 

BARNES, ANNIE MARIA, editor, au¬ 
thor, was born May 28, 1857, in Colum¬ 
bia, S. C. For many years she edited and 
published a juvenile paper, and is the 
author of Some Lowly Lives; The Life 
of David Livingston; Scenes in Pioneer 
Methodism; The Children of the Kala¬ 
hari; The House of Grass; and The At¬ 
lanta Ferryman. 

BARNES, CATHARINE WEED, artist, 
was born Jan. 10, 1851, in Albany, N. Y. 
She is one of the editors of the Ameri¬ 
can Amateur Photographer, besides 
writing for other magazines on camera 
work. She built a fine portrait studio 
at Albany, N. Y., containing a labora¬ 
tory and printing room. 

BARNES, DEMAS, journalist, banker, 
congressman, was born April 4, 1887, in 
Canandaigua, N. Y. In 1866 he was elected 
as a democrat to the fortieth congress, 
where he served on the committees on 
banking and currency, and education and 
labor. He was active in procuring legis¬ 
lation for the construction of the Brook¬ 
lyn bridge. The Brooklyn Eagle at one 
time belonged to him, and of the Brook¬ 
lyn Argus he was the founder, continuing 
publication until 1877. He died May 1, 
1888, in New York city. 

BARNES, EDWIN H., poet, was born 
May 13, 1849, in Marathon, N. Y. He is 
the author of a volume of poems entitled 
A Wild Bouquet, which contains many 
rare gems of verse. He is engaged in 
business in his native city, where he 
filled the office of postmaster for eleven 
years. 

BARNES. GEORGE T., lawyer, state 
representative, was born Aug. 14, 1833, 
in Richmond county, Ga. He was edu¬ 
cated at the Richmond county academy 
and at Franklin college, University of 
Georgia, Athens, where he graduated in 
August, 1853. He studied law, was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, and has since practiced 
in Georgia. He was a member of the 
state house of representatives of Geor¬ 
gia in 1860-65; was a member of the na¬ 
tional democratic committee from Geor¬ 
gia, 1876-84, and was elected to the for¬ 
ty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses. 

BARNES, JACOB B., journalist, was 
born July 11, 1839, in Freeport, Ill. He 
is the editor and owner of the Peoria 
Journal, one of the leading newspapers of 
the west. 



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BARNES, JAMES, author, was born in 
1865 in Maryland. He is the author of For 
King or Country, a Story of the Revolu¬ 
tion; Admiral Farragut; Naval Actions 
of the War of 1812; and A Princetonian. 

BARNES, JOHN A., lawyer, jurist, leg¬ 
islator, was born Jan. 3, 1859, in Marion 
county, Ky. He has been master in chan¬ 
cery for Clay county, Ill., and is a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer of Louisville. In 1897 he 
became a member of the Illinois state leg¬ 
islature. 

BARNES, JOSEPH K., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born July 21, 1817, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was present at the death¬ 
bed of Lincoln, attended Secretary Sew¬ 
ard when he was wounded by the knife 
of a confederate assassin, and attended 
Mr. Garfield through his long confine¬ 
ment. He was a trustee of Peabody edu¬ 
cational fund, a commissioner for the sol¬ 
diers’ home, and the custodian of other 
important public trusts. He died April 
5, 1883, in Washington, D. C. 

BARNES, LEMUEL CALL, clergyman, 
was born Nov. 6, 1854, in Kirtland, Ohio. 
He is a prominent clergyman of the bap¬ 
tist church, and is now pastor of the 
Fourth Avenue church, of Pittsburg, Pa. 

BARNES, LYMAN E., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born June 30, 1855, in Weyau- 
wega, Wis. He began the practice of 
law in Appleton in 1876; was district at¬ 
torney of Outagamie county, and as a 
democrat was elected to the fifty-third 
congress. 

BARNES, MARY SHELDON, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 15, 1850, in Oswe¬ 
go, N. Y. In 1874 she graduated from the 
University of Michigan; and has filled the 
chair of Latin and Greek in the Oswego 
state normal school, and later in the 
Wellesley college. She is the author of 
Studies in General History; Studies in 
American History; and Teachers’ Man¬ 
ual. 


BARNES, PHINEAS, engineer, was 
born Jan. 10, 1842, in Portland, Me. He 
studied at the Lawrence Scientific school, 
Cambridge, Mass., and at the Rensselaer 
Polytechnic institute, Troy, N. Y. Mr. 
Barnes has made a specialty of the con¬ 
struction of iron and steel works, and 
for some time has been associated with 
the American Iron and Steel works in 
Pittsburg, Pa. He is a member of the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
to whose transactions he has frequently 
contributed papers of technical value. 


B4RNES, SARAH . ISABELLA, poet, 
was born March 18, 1867, in Dexterville, 
Ohio; is the author of a volume of poems. 
She has contributed extensively to the 
periodical press, and her poems have been 
incorporated into several standard works. 



BARNES, THURLOW WEED, presi- 
ent of corporations, was born June 28, 
853, in Albany, N. Y. In 1876 he grad¬ 
uated from Harvard 
university. His life 
has been devoted to 
literary work and 
politics. He is the 
president of corpor¬ 
ations in New York 
city. He was chair¬ 
man of the Albany 
general committee 
in 1886; traveled in 
Europe in 1882, and 
made the tour 
around the world in 
884-85. He is a grandson of Thurlow 
Veed, and is the author of the second 
’olume of the Life of Thurlow Weed in 
wo volumes, and of Souvenir of Albany 
licentennial. 


6 


BARNES, WILLIAM, educator, lawyer, 
was born May 26, 1824, in Pompey, N. Y. 
He started life as a schoolteacher, and in 
1843, in connection with his father, who 
was county superintendent, he success¬ 
fully conducted one of the first normal 
schools or teachers’ institutes in New 
York state at Baldwinsville. In 1845 he 
was admitted to the bar, and became 
noted as one of the foremost lawyers 
of his state at Albany. 

BARNES, WILLIAM, journalist, is the 
youngest son of William Barnes, the cele¬ 
brated lawyer of Albany, N. Y. He is 
the editor of The 
Albany Evening 
Journal, and contrib¬ 
utes extensively to 
current literature 
The Evening Jour¬ 
nal is published ev¬ 
ery evening except 
Sunday, and also is¬ 
sues a semi-weekly 
and weekly edition. 
It is one of the fore¬ 
most journals in the 
state of New York, 
and always advocates the principles of the 
republican party. It is published by The 
Journal Publishing company, of which he 
is one of the largest individual stock¬ 
holders. 

BARNES, WILLIAM H., lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, was born in 1843 in Hampton, 
Conn. In 1866 he was admitted to the 
bar and commenced the practice of law 
at Jacksonville, Ill. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the state legislature in 1871 and 
1872, and was a delegate to the demo¬ 
cratic national conventions of 1876, 1880 
and 1884. He was a member of every 
democratic state convention held in Illi¬ 
nois between 1865 and 1885, and in 1885 
was appointed an associate justice of the 
supreme court of the territory of Arizona. 

BARNES, WILLIAM HENRY, railroad 
president, was born July 12, 1829, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1892 he has been 
president of the Allegheny Valley rail¬ 
way, and also various other railroads. 

BARNETT, EDWARD H., clergyman, 
journalist, was born Oct. 8, 1840, in Mont¬ 
gomery county, Va. He has filled various 
pastorates in Virginia and Georgia; has 
been for five years editor of the Presby¬ 
terian Quarterly of Richmond, Va., and is 
the author of a work entitled Life’s Gold¬ 
en Lamp. 

BARNETT, JAMES, soldier, merchant, 
banker, congressman, was born June 21, 
1821, in Cherry Valley, N. Y. He received 
his education in the public schools of 
Cleveland, Ohio, and is a successful hard¬ 
ware merchant of that city. During the 
civil war he served with distinction, and 
attained the rank of brigadier-general. 
In 1882 he was elected a member of con¬ 
gress from Cleveland by the republic¬ 
an party. He has served as president of 
the First National bank, and is promi¬ 
nently identified with the business and 
public affairs of his city and state. 

BARNETT, ORVILLE MARION, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, was born Aug. 14, 
i870, in Knox county, Mo. He is a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer of Sedalia, Mo., and in 
1897 was elected a member of the Mis¬ 
souri state legislature. 

BARNETT, MRS. RACHEL PRICE, ed¬ 
ucator, poet, was born March 30, 1837, 
in Freeport, Ohio. For nearly ten years 
she taught school in Ohio and Iowa, and 
is now a writer and poet of Dexter, Iowa. 

BARNETT, SAMUEL, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 6, 1824, in Washing¬ 
ton, Ga. He was president of the Wash¬ 
ington bank; in 1871 was commissioner, 


and in 1872 was secretary of the Georgia 
State Agricultural society. He was editor 
of the Chronicle, and author of Interest 
Table; Buckle’s Outline View of Georgia; 
and many other works. 

BARNETT, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from Georgia from 1812 to 1815, 
when he was appointed one of the com¬ 
missioners to run the Creek boundary 
line. 

BARNETT, WILLIAM ALLEN, mer¬ 
chant, was born Oct. 8, 1822, near Hamil¬ 
ton, Ohio. He has attained success as 
a merchant miller. For over half a cen¬ 
tury he was proprietor of the same mills. 

BARNEY, EDWARD MITCHELL, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 28, 1811, 
in Lynn, Mass. He was educated at the 
Harvard college and Tufts Divinity school 
and received the degree of B. D. from the 
latter institution. He has filled a pastor¬ 
ate in the First Universalist church of 
Marion, Mass., and now fills a pastorate 
in the First Universalist church of Bev¬ 
erly, one of the largest churches in his 
denomination. 

BARNEY, EVERETT H„ inventor, 
manufacturer, was born Dec. 7, 1835, in 
Framingham, Mass. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as a manufacturer and inventor, and 
the Barney and Berry skates have a 
world-wide, reputation. 

BARNEY, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a member of congress from Maryland 
from 1825 to 1827. He left behind him an 
unfinished record of Personal Recollec¬ 
tions of Men and Things. He died Jan. 
26, 1856, in Washington, D. C. 

BARNEY, JOSHUA, naval officer, com¬ 
modore, was born in 1759 in Baltimore, 
Md. He entered the naval service of the 
revolution in 1775, and was active during 
the whole war. He bore the American 
flag to the French national convention in 
1796, and entered the French service. He 
returned to America in 1800, and took 
part in the war of 1812. He died in 1818 
in Pittsburg, Pa. 

BARNEY, SAMUEL S.,lawyer,congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 31, 1846, in Hartford, 
Wis. He was educated in the public 
schools and at Lombard university, Gales¬ 
burg, Ill., and taught the high school in 
Hartford for four years. He has practiced 
his profession at West Bend, Wis., since 
1873. He filled the office of superintend¬ 
ent of schools of Washington county from 
1876 to 1880, and was elected to the fifty- 
fourth and fifty-fifth congresses. 

BARNFIELD, THOMAS P., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born March 25, 1844, 
in Boston, Mass. He was admitted to the 
Rhode Island bar in 1870, and was city 
solicitor of Pawtucket for eleven years. He 
was judge of the probate court for three 
years, and was a member of the legisla¬ 
ture of Rhode Island for three years. 

BARNHART, JACOB S., lawyer, poet, 
was born Jan. 19, 1828, near Bellefonte, 
Pa. In 1849 he became a daguerrean 
artist, and subse¬ 
quently a photog¬ 
rapher. For many 
years he was the 
editor and owner of 
the Democratic 
Watchman of Penn¬ 
sylvania. In 1871 he 
was admitted to the 
bar, and since 1877 
has practiced law in 
Charles City, Iowa. 
He is a stenographer 
and a teacher of 
shorthand, and a natural musician. He 
has contributed extensively to the period¬ 
ical press, and his poems have been given 
a place in several standard works. 




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BARNITZ, CHARLES A., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1833 to 1835. He died 
in March, 1850, in York, Pa. 

BARNS, WILLIAM, clergyman, was 
born in 1795, in Ireland. He was very 
successful in his preaching, and during 
his various pastorates large accessions 
were made to the churches under his di¬ 
rection. Among these charges.were sev¬ 
eral of the largest in Philadelphia and 
Harrisburg. He died Nov. 25, 1865, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

BARNUM, MRS. FRANCES COURTE¬ 
NAY, author, was born in 1848 in Arkan¬ 
sas. She is a novelist now living in Sa¬ 
vannah, Ga., and the author of On Both 
Sides, an international novel; Behind tbe 
Blue Ridge; Juan and Juanita, a juvenile 
tale; and Claudia Hyde. 

BARNUM, HENRY A., soldier, was born 
Sept. 24, 1833, in Jamesville, N. Y. He was 
brevetted major-general in 1865. In 1866 he 
resigned, having declined a colonelcy in 
the regular army, and became inspector of 
prisons in New York. He was deputy tax 
commissioner from 1869 till 1872, and was 
for five years harbor-master of New York. 
In 1885 he was elected as a republican to 
the New York state assembly. 


BARNUM, PHINEAS TAYLOR, show¬ 
man, author, was born July 5, 1810, in 
Bethel, Conn. He was the son of a farmer 
and tavern keeper, 
and became a suc¬ 
cessful showman of 
world-wide fame. He 
was the author of 
Humbugs of the 
World; Struggles 
and Triumphs, or 
Forty Years’ Recol¬ 
lections; Lion Jack, 
or How Menageries 
are Made; and Au¬ 
tobiography. He was 
the best known and 
most popular circus showman ever en¬ 
gaged in that business in America. He 
died April 7, 1891, in Bridgeport, Conn. . 




BARNUM, WILLIAM H., manufacturer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Sept. 17, 1818, in Columbia county, 
Conn. His firm of 
Barnum, Richardson 
and Co. built large 
works in Lime Rock 
and East Canaan, 
Conn., and finally 
added a car wheel 
shop in Chicago. In 
1851-52 he sat in the 
state legislature, and 
from 1868 attended 
every national con¬ 
vention of his party 
as a delegate. He 
was a member of congress in 1867-76; and 
Connecticut then made him United States 
senator. He died April 30, 1889, in Lime 
Rock, Conn. 


BARNUM, ZENAS, civil engineer, cap¬ 
italist, was born Dec. 9, 1810, in Wilkes- 
barre. Pa. He was a civil engineer, but 
became proprietor of Barnum’s hotel in 
Baltimore, in the management of which 
he acquired a large fortune. Later he be¬ 
came president of the Baltimore Central 
railroad. He died April 5, 1865, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. 


BARNWELL, JOHN, soldier, was born 
about 1671 in Ireland. Barnwell’s force 
overtook the depredating Tuscaroras and 
killed 300 in the first engagement. The 
survivors were driven into their fortified 
town, besieged, and finally reduced to sub¬ 
mission. Nearly 1,000 of them were killed 


or captured, and the remnant abandoned 
their hereditary lands and joined the Five 
Nations of New York. This was the first 
crushing blow dealt against the Indians by 
the white settlers in the Carolinas, and 
Barnwell is to this day known to his 
descendants as Tuscarora John. He 
died about June, 1724, in Beaufort, S. C. 

BARNWELL, ROBERT, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1762 in Beaufort, 
S. C. He volunteered for the revolution¬ 
ary war when sixteen years old. He was 
afterward a member of the convention in 
South Carolina on the adoption of the 
federal constitution; and was a represent¬ 
ative in congress in 1791-93. He died in 
1814. 

BARNWELL, ROBERT WOODWARD, 
college president, congressman, was born 
Aug. 10, 1801, in Beaufort, S. C. He grad¬ 
uated at Harvard university in 1821; stud¬ 
ied law; was a representative in con¬ 
gress from South Carolina from 1829 to 
1833; was president of the South Carolina 
college from 1835 to 1843, and was a sena¬ 
tor in congress in 1850 by appointment to 
fill a vacancy. After the war he was again 
president of the South Carolina college. 
He died Nov. 25, 1882, in Columbia, S. C. 

BARR, ALBERT J., journalist, was 
born Jan. 12, 1851, in Pittsburg, Pa. Upon 
the death of his father he became presi¬ 
dent of the Pittsburg Post Printing and 
Publishing company, and editor-in-chief 
of the paper. The work he has since done 
on the Post has made that publication 
one of the best known newspapers in 
America. In 1893 he was appointed a com¬ 
missioner to the World’s Fair, and in 1894 
was appointed surveyor of customs of the 
port of Pittsburg. 

BARR, MRS. AMELIA EDITH [HUD¬ 
DLESTON], author, was born March 29, 
1831, in Lancaster, England. She came to 
America in 1854. Her books exhibit many 
excellencies of construction and character¬ 
ization, are wholesome in tone, and have 
been deservedly popular. Among the best 
of them may be named Jan Vedder’s Wife; 
Paul and Christina; A Daughter of Fife; 
A Border Shepherdess; The Bow of Or¬ 
ange Ribbon, a tale of colonial life in New 
York; Between Two Loves; Friend Olivia; 
Bernicia, a story in which Whitefield, the 
famous preacher, is a prominent figure. 
Other works by Mrs. Barr include: Scot¬ 
tish Sketches; Flower of Gala Water; Ro¬ 
mance and Reality; Young People of 
Shakespeare’s Time; Cluny McPherson: 
The Hallam Succession; The Lost Silver 
of Briffault; The Last of the McAlisters; 
Scottish Sketches; The Squire of Sandal 
Side; Master of His Fate; Christopher; 
Remember the Alamo, a story of Texas; 
She Loved a Sailor; A Rose of a Hundred 
Leaves; Michael and Theodora; A Sister 
to Esau; Feet of Clay; The Household of 
McNeil; The Preacher’s Daughter; Love 
for an Hour is Love Forever; A Singer 
from the Sea; and The Lone House. 

BARR, BERZELIUS L., lawyer, college 
president, author, was born Sept. 29, 1846, 
in Tremor t City, Ohio. He graduated in law 
from the University of Michigan, and as 
civil engineer from the National Normal 
university, Ohio. For twelve years he 
was president of the Western Normal uni¬ 
versity, and now practices law in his na¬ 
tive city. He served as a union soldier 
during the civil war in company F, second 
Illinois light artillery, and was in the 
sieges of Atlanta and Jonesboro, and 
Nashville, Tenn. He is the author of 
Outlines of Oral Grammar Teaching; and 
Complete Inductive Grammar. 

BARR, CHARLES, educator, was born 
April 8, 1860, in Watertown, N. Y. In 
1887 he accepted the chair of natural 


science in Baldwin university of Berea, 
Ohio, and in 1888 he became professor of 
astronomy and applied mathematics, and 
acting professor of biology in Albion col¬ 
lege, of Albion, Mich. 

BARR, G. WALTER, physician, lectur¬ 
er, author, was born Oct. 25, 1860, in Med¬ 
way, Ohio. In 1880 he graduated from the 
Indiana Asbury uni¬ 
versity, and in 1884 
from the Jefferson 
Medical college of 
Philadelphia. He is 
professor of materia 
medica, therapeu¬ 
tics and hygiene in 
the College of Physi¬ 
cians and Surgeons 
of Keokuk, Iowa. He 
has been a public 
lecturer on popular 
science; was lecturer 
on hygiene in the Training School for 
Nurses in the Blessing hospital of Quincy, 
Ill.; is post-surgeon Illinois division 
Sons of Veterans, U. S. A., and a promi¬ 
nent member of many leading medical and 
pharmaceutical associations. He is the 
author of Idiosyncrasy and Drug, and 
other works. 

BARR, GEORGE TILLOTSON, banker, 
state senator, was born Feb. 4, 1851, in 
Terre Haute, Ind. He is a successful 
banker of Mankato, Minn., of which city 
he has been mayor. In 1889 he served 
as a representative in the Minnesota state 
legislature; was a state senator during 
1891-97, and president pro tern of the sen¬ 
ate during the sessions of 1895 and 1897. 

BARR, JOHN W., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Dec. 17, 1826, in Versailles, Ky. In 
1847 he commenced the practice of law 
at Versailles, Ky., and soon afterward re¬ 
moved to Louisville, where he continued to 
practice his profession until 1880, when 
he was appointed United States district 
judge for the district of Kentucky. 

BARR, SAMUEL F., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 15, 1829, in Ire¬ 
land. He emigrated with his parents to 
the United States in 1831; received a com¬ 
mon-school education; engaged in rail¬ 
road and commercial pursuits; was editor 
of the Harrisburg Telegraph from 1873 
to 1878, and was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the forty-seventh 
and forty-eighth congresses. 

BARR, THOMAS C., capitalist, was born 
Feb. 2, 1858, in Wellsboro, Pa. He has 
been president of several railway com¬ 
panies, and has ajso organized and put in 
operation the omnibus general of Phila¬ 
delphia. He was elected president of the 
New Jersey Traction company in 1893. 

BARR, THOMAS J., state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1812 in New York 
city. In 1853 he was elected a member of 
the New York state senate, and was 
elected a representative in congress from 
New York to the thirty-fifth and thirty- 
sixth congresses. 

BARRAS, CHARLES M., actor, author, 
was born in 1826. He was the author of a 
well-known spectacular play called The 
Black Crook, from which he derived a 
large income. His eccentric character 
and unconscious drollery made him popu¬ 
lar. He died March 31, 1873, in Cos Cobb, 
Conn. 

BARRERE, GRANVILLE, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Highland county, 
Ohio. He commenced practicing law in 
Illinois in 1856, and was elected to the 
forty-third congress. 

BARRERE, NELSON, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1851 to 1853. 




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BARRET, ALEXANDER BUCHANAN, 
tobacco merchant, was born March 
18, 1811, in Louis county, Va. He estab¬ 
lished branch stemmeries in Henderson, 
Louisville, Owensboro, Cloverport, and 
other points in Kentucky, at Clarksville, 
Tenn., and in Missouri, and was, in his 
time, without doubt, the most extensive 
tobacco merchant in the world, controlling 
annually many thousands of hogsheads 
in the markets of England. He died June 
15, 1861, in New York. 

BARRET, JOHN HENRY, merchant, 
was born in 1835, in Henderson, Ky. His 
firm is known under the style of Jno. H. 
Barret and Co., and they retain, both in 
America and in Europe, the extensive and 
influential prestige which was once the 
high and peculiar distinction of the orig¬ 
inal house in the Kentucky tobacco mar¬ 
ket. 

BARRETT, BENJAMIN FISK, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 24, 1808, in 
Dresden, Maine. He is a Swedenborgian 
clergyman of Philadelphia who wrote ex¬ 
tensively in behalf of his faith. Among 
his many books are A Life of Sweden¬ 
borg; The New View of Hell; Swedenborg 
and Channing; Heaven Revealed; and a 
Popular Presentation of Swedenborg’s 
Disclosures about Heaven. He died in 
1892. 

BARRETT, EDWARD, naval officer, was 
born in 1828, in Louisiana. In 1864-65 he 
commanded the monitor Catskill, and cap¬ 
tured the Deer, the only blockade-runner 
captured by a monitor. He "was in the 
first expedition that ascended the Yang- 
tse-Kiang river as far as Hangkow, and 
took the first man-of-war through the 
Eads jetties at the mouth of the Missis¬ 
sippi. He died in March, 1880. 

BARRETT, FLAVIUS J., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, jurist, was born Oct. 22, 1835, in Giles 
countv. Tenn. He received the rudiments 
of his education in 
the common schools, 
and graduated from 
the Baylor univer¬ 
sity of Independence, 
Texas. During the 
war he was captain of 
company B, fifteenth 
regiment, Texas cav¬ 
alry, in the Confed¬ 
erate states army. 
He has attained emi¬ 
nence as an able law¬ 
yer of Henrietta, 
city he has been 
chief of police, superintendent of pub¬ 
lic schools, and held other offices of 
trust. He has served with distinction as a 
member of the Texas state legislature, and 
is now county judge of Clay county, 
Texas. 

BARRETT, GEORGE HOOKER, actor, 
was born Jan. 9, 1794, in England. He 
made his debut as an adult as Belcaur in 
The West Indian at the Parke theater, 
New York, in 1822, and at once became one 
of the favorite actors of the day. 

BARRETT, HARRISON D., spiritualist, 
was born April 26, 1863, in Canaan, Me. 
He has been a teacher in the public 
schools of Minnesota, and in 1889 grad¬ 
uated from the Meadville Theological 
school, Pennsylvania, but has never been 
ordained. In 1891 he was co-editor of a 
work entitled Cassadaga, Its History and 
Teaching; and is the author of Life Work 
of Cora L. V. Richmond. In 1893 he was 
elected president of the National Spiritual, 
ist association, and in 1897 was appoint¬ 
ed editor of The Banner and Light of Bos¬ 
ton, Mass., the oldest spiritualist paper in 
existence. 


BARRETT, J. RICHARD, congress¬ 
man, was born in Kentucky. Removing to 
Missouri he was elected a representative 
from that state to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress. 

BARRETT, JOHN ERIGENA, journal¬ 
ist, state legislator, author, was born May 
10, 1849, in Ireland. He entered journal¬ 
ism as a reporter on The Republican, of 
Scranton, Pa., and became its managing 
editor. In 1884 he began the publication, 
in conjunction with J. J. Jordan, of The 
Scranton Truth, an independent daily 
newspaper, which they still publish. He 
is one of the foremost editorial writers in 
America, and has attained note as a bril¬ 
liant orator. In 1878 he was elected a 
member of the Pennsylvania state legis¬ 
lature as a republican, and took an im¬ 
portant part in the deliberations of that 
body. He is the author of a number of 
stories, the most notable of which are 
Love and Labor, or All the Perils of the 
Poor; The Black List; Worse Than 
Death; A Knight of Labor; The Rising 
Tide; and the Curse of Innisfail. He is 
also the author of a volume of poems en¬ 
titled The Fugitives and Other Poems. 

BARRETT, JOSEPH HARTWELL, 
journalist, author, was born April 15, 
1824, in Ludlow, Vt. In 1845 he gradu¬ 
ated from Miadle- 
bury college. In 1851- 
52 he served as a 
representative in the 
Vermont state legis¬ 
lature; in 1853-54 he 
was secretary of the 
Vermont senate, and 
in 1861-68 was com¬ 
missioner of pen¬ 
sions. During 1857- 
61 he was editor of 
the Cincinnati Ga¬ 
zette, and editor of 
the Cincinnati Chronicle and Times dur¬ 
ing 1868-79. He has contributed to re¬ 
views and other periodicals from 1846 to 
the present time, and his writings have 
been valuable acquisitions to current lit¬ 
erature, and have, in many instances, been 
incorporated into standard works. He is 
the author of Biography of Abraham Lin¬ 
coln. 

BARRETT, LAWRENCE, actor, was 
born April 4, 1838, in Paterson, N. J. His 
first appearance was in 1853. On the out¬ 
break of the civil war in 1861, Mr. Bar¬ 
rett accepted a captaincy in the twenty- 
eighth Massachusetts infantry and served 
with distinction. Afterward he acted at 
Philadelphia, at Washington, and then at 
the Winter Garden in New York, where 
he was engaged by Mr. Booth to play 
Othello to his Iago. He died March 20, 
1891, in New York city. 

BARRETT, WILLIAM E., journalist, 
legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 
29, 1850, in Melrose, Mass. He was edu¬ 
cated at the public schools, and graduated 
from Dartmouth college in 1880. He be¬ 
gan at once as assistant editor of the St. 
Albans Daily Messenger; joined the staff 
of the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1882, 
and was Washington correspondent of 
the Boston Advertiser 1882-86; he 
was recalled to Boston to become ed- 
itor-in-chief, and in 1888 he became chief 
proprietor and manager of the Boston 
Daily Advertiser and the Boston Evening 
Record. He was a member of the Massa¬ 
chusetts legislature in 1887-92, and a can¬ 
didate for congress in April, 1893; was 
elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses. 

BARRICKLOW, JOSEPH P„ lawyer, 
legislator, was born Feb. 7, 1867, in Ris¬ 


ing Sun, Ind. He is a successful lawyer 
of Areola, Ill., and served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the thirty-ninth and 
fortieth general assemblies of the Illinois 
state legislature. 

BARRINGER, DANIEL L., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 1, 1788, in Meck¬ 
lenburg county, N. C. He served in the 
legislature of North Carolina in 1813, and 
from 1819-22. He was a representative in 
congress from North Carolina from 1826 
to 1835; and was a presidential elector in 
1844. He subsequently removed to Ten¬ 
nessee, and was elected speaker of the 
house of representatives of that state. He 
died Oct. 16, 1852. 

BARRINGER, DANIEL MOREAU, law¬ 
yer, legislator, congressman, was born in 
1807 in Cabarras county, N. C. He com¬ 
menced practicing law in 1829, and in 
that year was elected a member of the 
state legislature, in which position he con¬ 
tinued for a number of years. He was 
a representative in congress from North 
Carolina from 1843 to 1849, when he was 
appointed Minister to Spain. On his re¬ 
turn home he was elected to the state leg¬ 
islature. He was elected a delegate to the 
peace congress of 1861, and also to the 
Philadelphia national union convention 
of 1866. He died Sept. 1, 1873, in Green 
Brier Springs, Va. 

BARRINGER, JOHN E., farmer, state 
senator, was born July 16, 1841, in New 
York. He was elected to the Michigan 
state senate of 1887-88, and took an active 
part in that body. 

BARRITT, FRANCES FULLER, poet, 
was born in 1826 in Rome, N. Y. When 
only fourteen years old she began writ¬ 
ing for publication, and at twenty- 
two was a favorite contributor to 
the Home Journal, under the man¬ 
agement of N. P. Willis. Azlea, a 
tragedy, was written about this time, and 
published in 1851 in a volume entitled 
Poems of Imagination and Sentiment, 
by herself and her sister Metta (Mrs. 
Victor), and edited by Rufus W. Griswold. 

BARRON, ELWYN ALFRED, journal¬ 
ist, dramatist, was born in 1855, in Ten¬ 
nessee. He has been a Chicago journalist 
on the editorial staff of the Inter-Ocean 
since 1879, and has written The Viking, 
a blank-verse drama, and A Moral Crime, 
and other plays. 

BARRON, ERNEST R., inventor, was 
born May 23, 1844, in Meadville, Pa. He 
has made many important inventions now 
used on typewriters.- He superintended 
the construction of the first caligraph, 
and witnessed its success as rival of the 
Remington. 

BARRON, JAMES, naval officer, was 
born in 1769 in Virginia. He is chiefly 
known to the present generation from his 
encounter when in command of the Ches¬ 
apeake with the British frigate Leopard 
in time of peace, and the duel in which he 
killed Com. Decatur. He died April 21, 
1851, in Norfolk, Va, 

BARRON, JOHN C., surgeon, capitalist, 
was born Nov. 2, 1837, in Woodbridge, 
N. J. Returning to civil life at the end 
of his enlistment, he became a member 
and surgeon of the famous seventh regi¬ 
ment of New York city from 1863 to 1871, 
and after his resignation he was appoint¬ 
ed surgeon-general of the first division of 
the national guard of New York, 
with the rank of colonel. He is 
president of The Carpenter Steel works 
of Reading, Pa.; The Kentucky Coal, Iron 
and Development company; The Lyons 
and Campbell Ranch and Cattle company, 
and The Gila Farm company. 






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BARRON, SAMUEL, naval officer, was 
born Sept. 25, 1765, in Hampton, Ya. He 
was distinguished for gallantry in the 
revolutionary navy of Virginia, in which 
his father, his uncle and his brother also 
participated. He died Oct. 28, 1810, in 
Hampton, Ya. 

BARRON, SAMUEL, naval officer, was 
born about 1802 in Virginia. He entered 
the navy as midshipman; attained the 
rank of lieutenant in 1827; commander 
in 1847; and captain in 1855. 

BARRON, WALTER J., inventor, was 
born June 27, 1846, in Meadville, Pa. He 
invented many improvements now in use 
on leading typewriters, and in 1888 he in¬ 
vented the Universal typewriter. In 1891 
he perfected the Densmore and Barron 
typewriters. 

BARROW, ALEXANDER, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, United States senator, was born 
in 1801 in Nashville, Tenn. He served a 
number of years in the legislature of 
Louisiana, and was a senator in congress 
from Louisiana from 1841 to 1846. He 
died Dec. 29, 1846, in Baltimore, Md. 

BARROW, DAVID, clergyman, was 
born Oct. 30, 1753, in Virginia. He held 
various pastorates in Kentucky, and in 
1803 published an able pamphlet on The 
Trinity. He died Nov. 14, 1819, in Ken¬ 
tucky. 

BARROW, MRS. FRANCES ELIZA¬ 
BETH, author, was born Feb. 22, 1822, in 
Charleston, S. C. She was a writer of 
juvenile tales which have been widely 
circulated. Among them are The Night 
Cap Series; The Pop Gun Series; and The 
Six Mitten Books. She died in 1894. 

BARROW, POPE, soldier, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born Aug. 1, 
1830, in Oglethorpe county, Ga. He grad¬ 
uated from the University of Georgia in 
1859, and in the law class of that institu¬ 
tion of 1860. He served in the confeder¬ 
ate army, and at the close of the war of 
the rebellion resumed the practice of law 
at Athens, Ga. He was a member of the 
state constitutional convention of 1877, 
and was a representative in the state leg¬ 
islature in 1880-81. He was elected a sena¬ 
tor of the United States from Georgia to 
fill a vacancy, and served from 1882 to 
1883. 

BARROW, WASHINGTON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 5, 1817, in Da¬ 
vidson county, Tenn. He was a lawyer 
by education and profession, and in 1841 
was appointed American charge d’affaires 
to Portugal. He was a representative in 
congress from Tennessee from 1847 to 
1849. He died Oct. 19, 1866, in St. Louis, 
Mo. 

BARROWS, CHARLES C., physician, 
was born June 5, 1857, in Jackson, Miss. 
He is assistant obstetric physician and 
gynecologist of Bellevue hospital of New 
York city. 

BARROWS, ELIJAH PORTER, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 5, 
1817, in Mansfield, Conn. In 1853 he was 
appointed professor of Hebrew language 
and literature in Andover theological 
seminary, retaining the office until 1866. 
In 1872 he accepted a like appointment in 
Oberlin, Ohio, theological seminary. Be¬ 
sides twenty-five articles in the Biblio¬ 
theca Sacra, he has published A Memoir 
of Evertin Judson; Companion to the Bi¬ 
ble; and Sacred Geography and Antiqui¬ 
ties. He has also been one of the ed¬ 
itors of the American Tract society’s Bible 
with Notes. 

BARROWS, HENRY FRANCIS, manu¬ 
facturer, was born in Attleborough, Mass. 
He is the builder and president of The 
Attleborough Branch railroad; manager of 


The North Attleborough Gas company; 
and president of The North Attleborough 
National bank. 

BARROWS, JOHN HENRY, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1847 in Michigan. He 
is a presbyterian clergyman of Chi¬ 
cago, and the author of The Gospels are 
True History; I Believe in God the Father 
Almighty; Henry Ward Beecher, the Pul¬ 
pit Jupiter; and Life of Henry Ward 
Beecher. 

BARROWS, JOHN OTIS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Aug. 4, 1833, in 
Mansfield, Conn. He has filled many im¬ 
portant pastorates in the congregational 
church, and is the author of On Horse¬ 
back in Cappadocia and many po¬ 
ems of merit have appeared from the pen 
of this eminent divine. 

BARROWS, ‘SAMUEL JUNE, clergy¬ 
man, congressman, author, was born 
May 26, 1845, in New York city. He was 
fifteen years chaplain of the fifth regi¬ 
ment Massachusetts militia, and was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. He is the author of The Shay- 
hacks in Camp; The Baptist Meeting 
House; Science and Immortality; Isles 
and Shrines of Greece; and various other 
works. 

BARROWS, WILLARD, civil engineer, 
author, was born in 1806 in Monson, Mass. 
He accomplished the government survey 
of the Choctaw purchase, in Mississippi, 
finishing that work in 1835. Later he ex¬ 
plored Cedar river, which at that time 
was scarcely known, and in 1837 was en¬ 
gaged on the first surveys of Iowa. In 
1840 he surveyed the islands in Missis¬ 
sippi river between Rock Island and 
Quincy. He published several accounts 
of his experiences, including Barrows’s 
New Map of Iowa, with Notes, and His¬ 
torical Sketch of Scott County. He died 
Jan. 3, 1868, in Davenport, Iowa. 

BARROWS, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1815 in Massachusetts. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Massachusetts, and the author of The 
Church and the Children; The Indian’s 
Side of the Indian Question; Oregon, the 
Struggle for Possession; The United 
States of Yesterday and To-morrow; and 
Tw r elve Nights in the Hunter’s Camp. He 
died in 1891. 

BARRY, BELLE B., poet, has contrib¬ 
uted many poems of rare merit to the peri¬ 
odical press, which have been incor¬ 
porated into several standard works. She 
is the wife of Isaac E. Barry, a prominent 
business man of Knoxville, Tenn. 

BARRY, F. G., soldier, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 15, 
1845, in Woodbury, Tenn. He served in 
the confederate army during the civil 
war, and engaged in the practice of law 
at West Point, Mississippi. He was a 
state senator from 1875 to 1879; was a 
presidential elector in 1880, and was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Mississippi to 
the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses. 

BARRY, HENRY W., soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in New York 
city. He entered the union army as a 
private early in the war; organized the 
first regiment of colored troops raised in 
Kentucky, and commanded a brigade and 
for a time a division of the army. He was 
brevetted twice for gallant and meritori¬ 
ous conduct, the last brevet being major- 
general. He was elected a member of the 
state constitutional convention of Mis¬ 
sissippi in 1867; was elected to the state 
senate of Mississippi in 1868; and was 
elected to the forty-first, forty-second and 
forty-third congresses. He died June 7, 
1875, in Washington, D. C. 


BARRY, JOHN, naval officer, was born 
in 1754 in Ireland. He served through the 
revolutionary war as a naval officer, and 
at the close of the 
war, the United 
States established a 
new navy, and Barry 
was named senior of¬ 
ficer. In 1776 he com¬ 
manded the brig Lex¬ 
ington, the first 
continental vessel 
which sailed from the 
port of Philadelphia, 
and with which he 
made the first cap¬ 
ture of a British war 
vessel accomplished by an American cruis¬ 
er. He subsequently commanded the Ef¬ 
fingham, Raleigh, the Alliance and other 
war vessels. He died Sept. 30, 1803, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

BARRY, JOHN DANIEL, author, was 
born in 1866 in Massachusetts. He is 
the author of A Daughter of Thespis; 
The Intriguers, a novel; Mademoiselle 
Blanche; and The Princess Margarethe, a 
fairy tale. 

BARRY, JOHN STETSON, clergyman, 
author, was born March 26, 1819, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a universalist clergy¬ 
man, and the author of The Stetson Gen¬ 
ealogy; and History of Massachusetts. He 
died Dec. 11, 1872, in St. Louis, Mo. 

BARRY, JOHN STEWART, state sena¬ 
tor, governor, was born Jan. 29, 1802, in 
Amherst, N. H. Upon the organ¬ 
ization of the Michigan state government 
he was elected a state senator, and in 1841 
chosen governor of the state. He was re¬ 
elected in 1843, and also in 1849; and was 
also, on two occasions, a presidential 
elector. He died Jan. 14, 1870, in Constan¬ 
tine, Mich. 

BARRY, NICHOLAS J., physician, was 
born in 1865, in La Crosse, Fla. Is a prom¬ 
inent physician and drug merchant of 
Yular, Fla. He received his education in 
the schools of Lebanon, Ohio, and at col¬ 
leges in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Atlanta, 
Ga. 

BARRY, PATRICK, horticulturist, au¬ 
thor, was born in May, 1816, near Bel¬ 
fast, Ireland. He edited the Genesee 
Farmer in 1844-52; and was editor of 
The Horticulturist in 1852-54. He wrote 
extensively on subjects connected with 
pomology and flowers, and in 1851 pro¬ 
duced a Treatise on the Fruit Garden. 
His most important book is the complete 
and valuable Catalogue of the American 
Pomological Society, which has long been 
a standard work. He died June 23, 1890, 
in Rochester, N. Y. 

BARRY, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
wds born Jan. 10, 1805, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Chicago; and the author of Rights and 
Duties of Neighboring Churches; 
Thoughts on Christian Doctrine; History 
of Framingham; and Antiquities of Wis¬ 
consin. He died Jan. 17, 1885, in Chicago, 
Ill. 

BARRY, WILLIAM FARQUHAR, sol¬ 
dier, was born Aug. 8, 1818, in New York 
city. In 1865 he was made brevet briga¬ 
dier-general, United States army, for his 
services in the campaign ending with the 
surrender of the army under Gen. J. E. 
Johnston, and on the same day was made 
brevet major-general for gallant conduct 
in the field. He was the author in conjunc¬ 
tion with Gen. Barnard, of Reports of the 
Engineer and Artillery Operations of the 
Army of the Potomac from its Organiza¬ 
tion to the Close of the Peninsular Cam¬ 
paign. He died July 18, 1879, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. 




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BARRY, WILLIAM T., legislator, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 5, 
1785, in Lunenburg, Va. He served in 
the state legislature as speaker; during 
the years 1810-11 was a representative in 
congress; was a senator in congress 
from Kentucky from 1814-16; and was 
also a member of President Jackson’s 
cabinet, as postmaster-general. He died 
Aug. 30, 1835, in Liverpool, England. 

BARRY, WILLIAM T. S., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Dec. 10, 
1821, in Columbus, Miss. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature from 1849 to 1851; 
was a representative in congress from 
Mississippi from 1853-55; was speaker of 
the state legislature in 1855; seceded from 
the Charleston convention in 1860; and 
was president of the Secession convention 
of Mississippi, and member of the Provi¬ 
sional congress. He entered the confeder¬ 
ate army in 1861, and commanded the 
thirty-fifth Mississippi regiment from 1862 
until captured at Mobile in 1865; he after¬ 
ward practiced law in Columbus. He 
died Jan. 29, 1868, in Columbus, Miss. 

BARRYMORE, WILLIAM, actor. He 
came to the United States in 1826, and was 
stage manager of the Bowery theater. 
His first appearance here as an actor was 
Jan. 28, 1832, at the Walnut street theater, 
Philadelphia, in the pantomime of Mother 
Goose. He died in 1847, in Boston, Mass. 

BARSTOW, GAMALIEL H„ business 
man, state senator, congressman. He was 
treasurer of the state of New York from 
1825-38; served three years in the assem¬ 
bly of New York; four years in the state 
senate; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1831-33. He 
died in April, 1865, in Nichols, N. Y. 

BARSTOW, GEORGE EAMES, manu¬ 
facturer, state legislator, was born Nov. 
19, 1849, in Providence, R. I. He was 
educated in the pub¬ 
lic schools and at 
Mowry and Goff’s 
English and Classi¬ 
cal school of Provi¬ 
dence. For four 
years he was a mem¬ 
ber of the common 
council; and for 
fourteen years was 
a member of the 
school board, being 
president thereof 
during his last year 
of service. During 1894-97 he was a 
representative in the Rhode Island leg¬ 
islature. He is a successful manufac¬ 
turer; and founder of the town of Bars- 
tow, the county seat of Ward county, 
Texas. He is a member of the Rhode 
Island Historical society and other insti¬ 
tutions; and his descriptive and other 
writings frequently appear in current 
literature. 

BARSTOW, GIDEON, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Massachusetts. He 
served in both branches of the legislature 
of that state; and was a representative 
in congress from 1821 to 1823. He died 
March 26, 1852, in St. Augustine, Fla. 

BARSTOW, JOHN L., soldier, legislator, 
state senator, governor, was born Feb. 
21, 1832, in Shelburne, Vt. He served in 
the union army from 1861 to 1864, rising 
to the rank of major; and was made brig¬ 
adier-general of state troops at the time 
of the St. Albans raid. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the state legislature in 1864- 
65; a state senator in 1860-68; and was 
United States pension agent at Burling¬ 
ton, Vt., from 1870-78. In 1880 he was 
elected lieutenant-governor for the term 
of two years; and in 1882 was elected 


governor of Vermont for the term of two 
years. 

BARSTOW, WILLIAM A., soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1811. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Wisconsin from 1854 to 1856. 
When the rebellion commenced he raised 
a regiment of cavalry for the war, and 
was appointed its colonel. He rendered 
important service on courts-martial at 
St. Louis. He died Dec. 14, 1865, in Lea¬ 
venworth, Kan. 

BARSTOW, WILSON, soldier, was born 
in 1830. He served from the first year 
of the war until its close with zeal and 
ability, entering the service as a lieuten¬ 
ant, and, passing through the successive 
grades, attained the brevet rank of brig¬ 
adier-general in 1865. He died March 
16, 1869, in New York city. 

BARSTOW, ZEDEKIAH SMITH, edu¬ 
cator, legislator, author, was born Oct. 4, 
1790, in Canterbury, Conn. In 1818 he be¬ 
came pastor of a congregational church 
in Keene, N. H. He continued to teach 
the classics after his settlement at Keene, 
and the late Chief-Justice Chase was one 
of his pupils. In 1868-69 he was a member 
of the New Hampshire legislature, and 
chaplain of that body. He published many 
sermons, dissertations, and essays, and 
was a frequent contributor to religious 
periodicals. He died March 1, 1873, in 
Keene, N. H. 

BARTEAU, CLARK RUSSELL, soldier, 
lawyer, was born April 7,1835, near Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. He received his education in 
the Wesleyan university of Delaware, 
Ohio. Prior to the war he went south, 
and became principal of the Male acad¬ 
emy of Hartsville, Tenn., in 1856; and 
two years later became the editor and 
owner of The Hartsville Plaindealer. Dur¬ 
ing the war he was colonel of cavalry, 
known as Barteau’s Second Tennessee, 
in the confederate service. He was known 
as a fighter; was cool but impetuous in 
action, and was wounded in many bat¬ 
tles, including Shiloh, Murfreesboro, 
Franklin, Harrisburg, and Okolona; and 
on Dec. 6, 1864, was disabled for the rest 
of the war. In 1866 he was admitted to 
the bar; and in 1870 removed to Bartlett, 
Tenn., and practices law in Memphis. 

BARTH, WILLIAM, capitalist, was 
born in 1829, in Germany. Foreseeing 
the great future of Denver, he at an 
early day bought a large amount of 
local real estate. He took an active part 
in building The South Park railroad and 
The Denver, Texas and Gulf railroad. 
For ten years he was president of the 
City National bank, of Denver, Colo. 

BARTHOLDT, RICHARD, journalist, 
congressman, was born Nov. 2, 1853, in 
Germany. He came to this country 
when a boy; re¬ 
ceived a classical 
education; learned 
the printing trade 
and has remained 
a newspaper man 
ever since. He was 
connected with sev¬ 
eral eastern papers 
as reporter, legis¬ 
lative correspond¬ 
ent, and editor, and 
was at the time of 
his election to con¬ 
gress editor-in-chief of the St. Louis 
Tribune. He was elected to the board 
of public schools of St. Louis, and in 
1891 was chosen its president. He was 
elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth 
congresses and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a republican, by over 
16,000 majority. In the fifty-fourth con¬ 


gress he was chairman of the committee 
on immigration, and reported and passed 
the so-called Bartholdt-McCall bill which 
provided an educational test for immi¬ 
grants. 

BARTHOLOMEW, EDWARD SHEF¬ 
FIELD, sculptor, was born in 1822, in Col¬ 
chester, Conn. Among his best-known 
works are Blind Homer led by his Daugh¬ 
ter; Eve; Campagna Shepherd Boy; Ge¬ 
nius of Painting; Youth and Old Age; 
Evening Star; Eve Repentant; Wash¬ 
ington and Flora; A Monument to 
Charles Carroll; Belisarius at the Porta 
Pincinia; and Ganymede. The Wads¬ 
worth gallery, Hartford, Conn., contains 
a large number of his works. He died 
May 2, 1858, in Naples, Italy. 

BARTHOLOMEW, MILES MAR¬ 
SHALL, inventor, was born Feb. 3, 1844, 
in Vienna, Ohio. He invented a type¬ 
writer aad took out his first natent in 
1879. 

BARTHOLOMEW, PLINY WEBSTER, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 4, 1340, in 
Cabotville, Mass. He graduated in 1864 
from the Union college of Schenectady, 
N. Y., and has attained success as an 
able lawyer of Indianapolis, Ind. He 
has been commissioner for New York and 
Connecticut, in Indiana; trustee of the 
American college of Indianapolis; and 
judge of the superior court during 1892- 
96. 

BARTHOLOW, ROBERTS, physician, 
author, was born Nov. 18, 1831, in How¬ 
ard county, Md. He is a physician and 
medical professor of Philadelphia. He 
is the author of Materia Medica and 
Therapeutics; Practice of Medicine; 
Medical Electricity; and The Antagonism 
between Medicines and between Remedies 
and Diseases. 

BARTINE, HORACE F., soldier, law¬ 
yer, journalist, congressman, was born 
March 21, 1848, in New York city. He 
enlisted as a private 
soldier during the 
civil war in the 
eighth regiment of 
the New Jersey vol¬ 
unteers, and was se¬ 
verely wounded in 
the breast at the 
battle of the Wil¬ 
derness. He was 
subsequently i n 
nearly all of the 
principal engage¬ 
ments in which the 
army of the Potomac took part. In 1869 
he moved to Nevada, and resided there 
until 1895. In 1888 he was elected to con¬ 
gress, and received the re-election in 
1890. He is now the editor of The Bi¬ 
metallist of Washington, D. C. 

BARTINE, JOHN D., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1836, in Princeton, N. J. 
In 1865 he moved to Somerville, N. J., 
where he was appointed law judge in 
1885, receiving the reappointment in 1890 
and again in 1895. Although he has been 
twelve years on the bench, such decisions 
of his as have been taken to higher courts 
have not been reversed in a single in¬ 
stance, which proves his wisdom and in¬ 
timate knowledge of the law. 

BARTLETT, A. EUGENE, clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born Dec. 23, 1873, 
in Boston, Mass. He graduated from 
Tufts college, and received the degree of 
bachelor of theology. He has been secre¬ 
tary of the Boston Ministers’ association; 
is an earnest advocate of woman’s suf¬ 
frage; is prominent in many reform 
movements; and is the author of 
Thought Pits. 









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BARTLETT, ALICE ELOISE, author, 
poet, was born Sept. 24, 1848, in Dela- 
van, Wis. She is widely known by the 
pen name of Birch Arnold. In 1872 she 
began to write for the Toledo Blade; and 
is the author of two novels entitled Un¬ 
til the Daybreak, and A New Aristocracy. 
She has written numerous meritorious 
poems, which have appeared in current 
magazines and in several standard col¬ 
lections. 

BARTLETT, ASA, jurist. He was ap¬ 
pointed chief justice of the United States 
court for the territory of Dakota. 

BARTLETT, BAILEY, congressman. 
He was sheriff of Essex county, Mass., 
for many years, and a representative in 
congress from Massachusetts from 1797 
to 1801. 

BARTLETT, CHARLES G., soldier. 
For many years he served his country as 
a soldier, and is now a colonel in the 
United States army. 

BARTLETT, CHARLES HENRY, naval 
legislator, was born Oct. 15, 1833, in Sun- 
apee, N. H. He served with distinction 
in the New Hampshire state senate in 
1883; and was made president of that 
body. He resides in Manchester, and his 
portrait hangs in the new library build¬ 
ing of the state capitol. 

BARTLETT, CHARLES L„ lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, congressman, was born 
Jan. 31, 1853, in Monticello, Ga. He re¬ 
moved from Monticello to Macon, Ga., in 
1875, and has resided in Macon since 
then; was educated in the schools at 
Monticello, the university of Georgia, and 
the university of Virginia; and graduated 
at the university of Georgia in August, 
1870. He studied law at the university 
of Virginia and was admitted to the bar 
in August, 1872. He was appointed so¬ 
licitor-general (prosecuting attorney) for 
the Macon judicial court Jan. 31, 1877, and 
served in that capacity until Jan. 31, 1881; 
was elected to the house of representa¬ 
tives of Georgia in 1882-83, and again in 
1884-85, and to the state senate in 1889. 
He was elected judge of the superior 
court of the Macon circuit in 1893; and 
was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty- 
fifth congresses. 

BARTLETT, CLARENCE, lecturer, was 
born May 22, 1858, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He attained prominence as a lecturer on 
neurology in many prominent colleges; 
and is the author of a work entitled 
Farrington Clinical Materia Medica. 

BARTLETT, DAVID LEWIS, manu¬ 
facturer, was born Dec. 6, 1816, in Hadley, 
Mass. His firm are among the most ex¬ 
tensive manufacturers of architectural 
iron and gas works in the United States. 
They have erected gas plants at Milwau¬ 
kee, Wis., Brooklyn, N. Y., Newark, Ho¬ 
boken, and Morristown, N. J., Boston, 
Brookline and Haverhill, Mass., Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., Montreal, Canada, and Ha¬ 
vana, Cuba. 

BARTLETT, EDWIN JULIUS, educa¬ 
tor, was born Feb. 16, 1851, in Hudson, 
Ohio. He was graduated at Lake Forest 
academy in 1868, and at Dartmouth in 
1872, after which he studied at Rush 
medical college, receiving his degree in 
1879. From 1879 till 1883 he was associate 
professor of chemistry in Dartmouth col¬ 
lege, and in 1883 he became full professor. 

BARTLETT, ELISHA, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1805, in Smithfield, R. 
I. He was a Rhode Island physician; and 
the author of The Fevers of the United 
States; and Simple Settings in Verse for 
Portraits and Pictures in Mr. Dicken’s 
Gallery. He died July 18, 1855, in Smith- 
field, R. I. . 


BARTLETT, ELIZABETH COLLIS, 
author, was born Nov. 5, 1838, in New 
Haven, Conn. Mrs. Bartlett’s husband 
was editor of the Scientific American. 
After his death she became a writer of 
short stories, and at present is writing 
stories on English history. 

BARTLETT, FRANKLIN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 10, 1847, in 
Worcester county, Mass. In 1890 he 
served as a member of the constitutional 
commission of the state of New York; 
in 1892 was a delegate from New York to 
the democratic national convention at 
Chicago; and was elected to the fifty- 
third and re-elected to the fifty-fourth 
congresses. 

BARTLETT, HOMER LYMAN, physi¬ 
cian, was born in Jericho, Vt. He was 
consulting physician to Kings county 
hospital; and in 1881 was a delegate to 
the Physicians’ Mutual Aid association. 
He has contributed freely to medical 
journals; and also written a series of 
Sketches of Long Island. 

BARTLETT, ICHABOD, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born July 24, 
1786, in Salisbury, N. H. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New Hamp¬ 
shire from 1823-29; was also frequently 
in the state legislature, and was a mem¬ 
ber of the convention to revise the state 
constitution. He died Oct. 19, 1853, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. 

BARTLETT, JOHN, journalist, author, 
was born June 14, 1820, in Plymouth, 
Mass. He was formerly a Boston pub¬ 
lisher, well known as the editor of Fa¬ 
miliar Quotations, which reached a ninth 
edition in 1891. He is the author of The 
Shakespeare Phrase-Book; and A Com¬ 
plete Concordance to Shakespeare. 

BARTLETT, JOHN RUSSELL, public 
official, author, was born Oct. 23, 1805, in 
Providence, R. I. He was at one time 
secretary of state in 
Rhode Island; and 
was the author of 
Records of the Col¬ 
ony of Rhode Island; 
Memoir of Rhode 
Island Officers in the 
War of the Rebel¬ 
lion; Primeval Man; 
Genealogy of the 
Russell Family; Dic¬ 
tionary of Ameri¬ 
canisms; and Prog¬ 
ress of Ethnology. 
He edited the Letters of Roger Williams. 
He died May 28, 1886, in Providence, R. I. 

BARTLETT, JOSEPH, poet, was born 
June 10, 1762, in Plymouth, Mass. He 
was a satirical poet whose New Vicar of 
Bray once attracted considerable atten¬ 
tion. He died Oct. 20, 1827, in Boston, 
Mass. 

BARTLETT, JOSEPH J., diplomat, was 
born about 1820, in New York. In 1867 
he was appointed minister resident to 
Sweden and Norway, where he remained 
until 1869. 

BARTLETT, JOSIAH, jurist, governor, 
was born Nov. 21, 1729, in Amesbury, 
Mass. He was educated for the medical 
profession; held commissions, both mili¬ 
tary and civil, under the royal govern¬ 
ment; accompanied Stark to Bennington 
as medical agent; was a delegate from 
New Hampshire to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1775 to 1779, and signed the 
articles of confederation and declaration 
of independence. He was appointed, in 
the latter year, chief justice of the court 
of common pleas; justice of the superior 
court in 1784, and chief justice in 1788. 


In 1790 he was appointed president of 
New Hampshire, and elected by the peo¬ 
ple in 1791 and 1792. In 1793 he was 
elected governor of New Hampshire 
under the constitution, serving two years. 
He was the president of a medical society 
established by his efforts in 1791. He 
died May 19, 1795, in New Hampshire. 

BARTLETT, JOSIAH, physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1768, in New 
Hampshire. He was a physician of ex¬ 
tensive practice; a representative in con¬ 
gress from New Hampshire from 1811 
to 1813; and a presidential elector in 
1792 and 1825. His father, bearing the 
same name, was a man of note, and the 
first governor of New Hampshire, after 
the adoption of the federal constitution. 
He died April 14, 1838, in Stratham, N. 
H. 

BARTLETT, MARY RUSSELL, author. 
She is a graduate of Wellesley college; 
and her poems constantly appear in cur¬ 
rent publications. 

BARTLETT, NAPIER, soldier, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1836, in Georgia. 
He was the author of Clarimonde, a 
novelette; Stories of the Crescent City; 
and A Soldier’s Story of the War. He 
died in 1877. 

BARTLETT, PETER MASON, clergy¬ 
man, banker, was born Feb. 6, 1820, in 
Salisbury, Conn. In 1850 he graduated 
from Williams college; and in 1853 from 
the Union Theological seminary of New 
York city. He has been general agent of 
the American Tract society; and has 
filled pastorates in Circleville, Ohio; 
Lansingburgh, N. Y.; and Windsor 
Locks, Conn. He served as chaplain of 
the first New York mounted rifles during 
1862-63. In 1868 he was elected president 
of the Maryville college, Tenn.; and for 
nearly twenty years filled the chair of 
Mental and Moral Philosophy, and of 
Didactic Theology in that institution. 
He has been president of several business 
firms of Tennessee, and is now president 
of the bank of Maryville. 

BARTLETT, RALPH W„ lawyer, edu¬ 
cator, was born June 13, 1865, in North 
Brookfield, Mass. He is a graduate from 
Amherst college and the Boston univer¬ 
sity law school; and is a member of the 
bar. Since 1894 he has been instructor 
of real property at the Boston university 
school of law. 

BARTLETT, SAMUEL COLCORD, 
eighth president of Dartmouth college, 
was born Nov. 25, 1817, in Salisbury, N. 
H. In 1836 he graduated from Dartmouth 
college; then began educational work. 
In 1843 he became pastor of the congre¬ 
gational church in Monson, Mass.; and 
three years later assumed the duties of 
the professorship of intellectual philoso¬ 
phy and rhetoric in the Western Reserve 
college. In 1852 he returned to the min¬ 
istry; filled pastorates in Manchester, 
N. H., and Chicago, Ill.; and became one 
of the editors of the Congregational Her¬ 
ald. In 1858 he was chosen professor of 
biblical literature in the Chicago Theo¬ 
logical seminary; was elected president 
of Vermont university in 1866; and in 
1877 became president of Dartmouth col¬ 
lege. After fifteen years of service he 
resigned in 1892. He is the author of Life 
and Death Eternal; from Egypt to Pales¬ 
tine; and other works. 

Bartlett, thomas, jr., lawyer. 

legislator, congressman, was born in Ver¬ 
mont. He adopted the profession of the 
law; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Vermont from 1851 to 1853. 
He served three years in the state legis¬ 
lature, in both houses. 



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BARTLETT, THOMAS EDWARD, con¬ 
tractor, genealogist, was born April 17, 
1838, in Smithfield, R. I. He received his 
education at the Maine Wesleyan semi¬ 
nary, and the Quaker school of Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He is a successful contractor 
of Worcester, Mass., and the author of a 
genealogy of the Bartletts. 

BARTLETT, THOMAS ELLIOTT, 
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 20, 
1853, in Newburyport, Mass. He gradu¬ 
ated from Brown university and New¬ 
ton Theological institute, and since 1880 
has been pastor of South Baptist church, 
of Providence, R. I. He is the author of 
several books. 

BARTLETT, WASHINGTON, governor, 
was born Feb. 29, 1824, in Savannah, Ga. 
He published the first book printed in 
California, entitled California as It Is 
and as It May Be. In 1886 he was chosen 
governor of California, and held that 
office until the time of his death. He 
died Sept. 2, 1887. 

BARTLETT, WILLIAM, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born Jan. 31, 1748, in Newbury¬ 
port, Mass. Entering on a mercantile 
career, before the revolution, he suc¬ 
ceeded, with economy, in amassing a for¬ 
tune, which he largely spent in charity, 
and for the advancement of religion and 
morals. At the foundation of Andover 
theological seminary, in 1807, he gave it 
$30,000, endowed a professorship, and 
built a house for the use of the incum¬ 
bent. His gifts to this institution reached 
$250,000, and he also gave largely toward 
temperance work, missions, and the edu¬ 
cation of ministers. He died Feb. 8, 
1841, in Newburyport, Mass. 

BARTLETT, WILLIAM FRANCIS, sol¬ 
dier, was born Jan. 6, 1840, in Haverhill, 
Mass. He served in the civil war as 
captain of the 57th Massachusetts volun¬ 
teers, and was promoted brigadier-general 
for gallant and meritorious conduct. He 
died Dec. 17, 1876, in Pittsfield, Mass. 

BARTLETT, WILLIAM HOLMS 
CHAMBERS, scientist, author, was born 
in 1809, in Lancaster, Pa. He was a 
prominent scientist, who was from 1834- 
71 an instructor at West Point. He was 
the author of Treatise on Optics; Analy¬ 
tical Mechanics; and Spherical Astrono¬ 
my. He died in 1893. 

BARTLETT, WILLIAM PITT GREEN¬ 
WOOD, mathematician, author, was born 
Oct. 27, 1837, in Boston, Mass. He be¬ 
came one of the corps of computers for 
the Nautical Almanac. He published 
several papers on the elements of quater¬ 
nions in the Mathematical Monthly, and 
on interpolation in the Memoirs of the 
American Academy. He died Jan. 13, 
1865, in Cambridge, Mass. 

BARTLEY, ELIAS HUDSON, chemist, 
author, was born Dec. 6, 1849, in Bartley- 
ville, N. J. In 1882 he was appointed 
chief chemist to the health department, 
Brooklyn. He is also consulting sanita¬ 
rian to the hospital for nervous diseases, 
and visiting physician to the sheltering 
arms nursery. Dr. Bartley is a member 
of numerous medical and other scientific 
societies, and president of the American 
Society of Public Analysts. He has con¬ 
tributed several articles to Wood s House¬ 
hold Practice of Medicine; and is the 
author of A Text-Book of Medical Chem¬ 
istry. 

BARTLEY, MORDECAI, soldier, agri¬ 
culturalist, governor, was born Dec. 16, 
1783, in Fayette county. Pa. He was cap¬ 
tain’and adjutant, under Harrison, in the 
war of 1812; and was a state senator m 


1817 and 1818. He was a representative 
in congress from Ohio from 1823 to 1831; 
and governor of Ohio from 1844 to 1846. 
He died Oct. 12, 1870, in Mansfield, Ohio. 

BARTLEY, THOMAS W., lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, governor, was born 
Feb. 11, 1812, in Jefferson county, Pa. 
He served two years in the house of rep¬ 
resentatives, and four years in the senate 
of Ohio. In 1851 he was elected judge of 
the supreme court of Ohio, and served in 
that position two terms, three years of 
the time as chief justice of the court. In 
1844, when Governor Shannon resigned 
to become minister to Mexico, Mr. Bart¬ 
ley, as president of the senate, became 
the governor. 

BARTOL, CYRUS AUGUSTUS, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born April 30, 
1813, in Freeport, Maine. His first and 
only settlement in 
the ministry was as 
colleague with Rev. 
Dr. Charles Lowell, 
at West church, Bos¬ 
ton, in 1837. In 1861 
he became and still 
remains sole pastor, 
having rendered dis¬ 
tinguished service 
of more than half a 
century over one of 
the oldest and most 
influential societies 
of Boston. This noted Unitarian clergy¬ 
man is prominent as a leader of radical 
religious thought; and has always been 
active in philanthropic movements. He 
is the author of Pictures of Europe; 
Christian Spirit and Life; Radical 
Problems; The Rising Faith; Principles 
and Portraits; Church and Congregation; 
and Christian Body and Form. 

BARTON, MRS. ANNA, pastor, poet, 
was born Oct. 26, 1842, in Western New 
York. After engaging in active church 
service for many years, in 1886 she as¬ 
sumed the position of pastor of the Free 
Baptist church, of Paw Paw, Mich. In 
1882 she published a volume of poems, 
entitled For Friendship’s Sake. 

BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Feb. 10, 1766, in 
Lancaster, Pa. He was a noted physician 
of Philadelphia; and the author of Ob¬ 
servations on Some Parts of Natural His¬ 
tory; New Views on the Origin of the 
Tribes of North America; and Elements 
of Botany. He died Dec. 19, 1815, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

BARTON, CLARA, philanthropist, was 
born in 1830, in North Oxford, Mass. She 
was educated at Clinton, N. Y. She 
founded a free school at Bordentown, N. 
J.; was clerk in the United States pat¬ 
ent office from 1854 to 1861; devoted her¬ 
self to the care of sick and wounded sol¬ 
diers during the civil war; went to Eu¬ 
rope and did hospital work in the 
Franco-German war; aided the Red 
Cross movement; assisted the poor at 
Paris and Strasburg; returning, she be¬ 
came the head of the Red Cross society, 
and in 1896 went to Turkey to aid the 
persecuted Armenians. In 1898 she went 
to Cuba, and had charge of distributing 
supplies furnished by the United States 
government. 

BARTON, DAVID, congressman, was 
born in 1785, in Boonville, Mo. He was 
one of the first emigrants to the territory 
of Missouri; president of the convention 
which met to form a state constitution 
in 1820, and was a senator in congress 
from Missouri from 1821 to 1831. He 
died Sept. 28, 1837, near Boonville, Mo. 


BARTON, HUBBARD ALONZO, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born May 12, 1842, in 
Croydon, N. H. This well-known New 
Hampshire editor 
was educated in the 
schools of his native 
town and by private 
instruction, and for 
many years was 
superintendent of 
schools. Early de¬ 
veloping a literary 
taste he contributed 
much, both in prose 
and verse, to the 
public press. In 
1879 he became the 
editor and senior proprietor of the New 
Hampshire Argus and Spectator, a well- 
known democratic newspaper published 
at Newport, N. H., which was established 
in 1823, by his great uncle, the Hon. Cy¬ 
rus Barton; and for the past twenty 

years he has been continuously connected 
with that publication. 

BARTON, RICHARD W„ legislator, 

congressman, was born in Virginia. He 

was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1841 to 1843; also served 
in the state legislature; and was the first 
president of the Valley Agricultural so¬ 
ciety. lie died March 15, 1859, in Fred¬ 
erick county, Va. 

BARTON, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born in New York. He served three 
years in the assembly of that state; and 
was a representative in congress from 
1835 to 1837. 

BARTON, THOMAS, clergyman, was 
born in 1730, in Monaghan, Ireland. He 
was for nearly twenty years rector of St. 
James church, Lancaster, Pa. He died 
May 25, 1780, in New York. 

BARTON, WILLIAM, soldier, was born 
May 26, 1748, in Warren, R. I. He was a 
soldier in the revolutionary war; and 
received the rank of colonel and a sword 
for his services. He died Oct. 22, 1831, 
in Providence, R. I. 

BARTON, WILLIAM PAUL CRILLON, 
physician, surgeon, botanist, author, was 
born Nov. 17, 1786, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He organized the United States naval 
bureau of medicine and surgery, and was 
known both as botanist and surgeon. He 
was the author of Vegetable Materia Med- 
ica of the United States; Flora of North 
America; Medical Botany; and Compen¬ 
dium Florae Philadelphiae. He died Feb. 
9, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BARTOW, A. A., educator, journalist, 
poet, was born Sept. 3, 1851, in Huron, 
Ohio. Until 1889 he was engaged in edu¬ 
cational work; and then became editor 
of the Cincinnati Public School Journal. 
At the age of twelve he was a drummer 
boy in the union army. 

BARTRAM, JOHN, botanist, author, 
was born March 23, 1699, in Darby, Pa. 
He was a shrewd, careful observer whom 
Linnaeus termed the greatest natural 
botanist in the world, and was called the 
father of American botany. He was the 
author of Observations on the Inhabi¬ 
tants, Climate, etc., as made by Mr. John 
Bartram in his Travels from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to Onondaga, etc. A similar record 
of travels in eastern Florida appeared in 
1766. He died Sept. 22, 1777, in King- 
sessing. Pa. 

BARTRAM, JOSEPH BURR, merchant, 
was born May 17, 1839, in Black Rock, 
Conn. He is extensively engaged in the 
importation of sugar from the West In¬ 
dies, having plantations on the islands 
of St. Croix and San Domingo, and con¬ 
trolling the product of several others. 











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BARTRAM, WILLIAM, botanist, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 9, 1739, in Kingsess- 
ing, f*a. He was a botanist and traveler 
of Pennsylvania; and the author of 
Travel Through North and South Caro¬ 
lina, Georgia, etc.; and Observations on 
the Creek and Cherokee Indians. He 
died July 22, 1823, in Kingsessing, Pa. 

BARWIG, CHARLES, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 19, 1837, in 
Germany. He emigrated to America with 
his parents in 1845, locating at Milwau¬ 
kee. He graduated from the Spencerian 
business college in 1857; located at May- 
ville in 1865; and was elected to the fifty- 
first, fifty-second and fifty-third con¬ 
gresses. 

BARZEE, CLARK LOUIS, educator, 
college president, poet, was born Jan. 5, 
1864, in Marion county, Ore. He has been 
president of the Jefferson institute, Ore¬ 
gon; president of the Mineral Spring col¬ 
lege, of Sodaville, Ore., of which institu¬ 
tion he was the founder; and is now 
president of the state normal school, of 
Drain, Ore. For several years he was the 
editor of the Oregon School Journal; is 
the author of a work entitled X-Rays on 
the Public Schools; and is the author of 
a number of meritorious poems. 

BASCOM, HENRY BIDLEMAN, bishop, 
author, was born May 27, 1796, in Han¬ 
cock, N. Y. He was a bishop of the 
methodist church; and the author of 
Sermons from the Pulpit; Mental and 
Moral Science; and Methodism and 
Slavery. He died Sept. 8, 1850, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. 

BASCOM, JOHN, author, was born May 
1, 1827, in Genoa, N. Y. He is a philo¬ 
sophical writer, and from 1874-87 was 
president of Wisconsin university, and 
subsequently professor of political science 
at Williams college. He is the author of 
Elements of Psychology; ^Esthetics; Po¬ 
litical Economy for Colleges; Science, 
Philosophy, and Religion; Natural The¬ 
ology; The Science of Mind; The Words 
of Christ; Philosophy of English Litera¬ 
ture; Comparative Psychology; Problems 
in Philosophy; Sociology, Social Theory; 
Ethics; The New Theology; Historical 
Interpretation of Philosophy; and A Phil¬ 
osophy of Religion. 

BASHFORD, HERBERT, author, poet, 
was born in 1871, in Sioux City, Iowa. 
A poem written at the age of fifteen was 
accepted by the Critic, and his poems have 
appeared in several standard works. 

BASHFORD, JAMES WHITFORD, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
in 1849, in Fayette, Wis. He has held 
various pastorates, had frequent calls to 
take up educational work, and in 1889 
was elected president of the Ohio Wesley¬ 
an university. 

BASHFORD, ROBERT McKEE. lawyer, 
legislator, was born Dec. 31, 1845, in Fay¬ 
ette, Wis. He graduated from the state 
university of Wisconsin in ancient 
classics in 1870; and in law the follow¬ 
ing year. During 1880-85 he was city 
attorney of Madison, Wis.; a delegate to 
the national democratic convention in 
1884; and in 1890 was mayor of that city. 
During 1884-85 and since 1893 he has been 
professor in a law school of the state 
university of Wisconsin. During 1892-96 
he was a member of the Wisconsin state 
senate, and served with distinction in 
that body. 

BASKERVILL, WILLIAM MALONE, 
educator, author, was born April 1, 1850, 
in Fayette county, Tenn. He has been 
professor of Latin and French in Wofford 
college, S. C.; and of English language 
and literature in the Vanderbilt univer¬ 


sity. He is the author of Joel Chandler 
Harris, a biographical and critical study. 

BASS, EDWARD, bishop, was born 
Nov. 23, 1726, in Dorchester, Mass. He was 
consecrated in Philadelphia in 1797, and 
his jurisdiction extended over the 
churches in Rhode Island and New 
Hampshire. He died Sept. 10, 1803, in 
Newburyport, Mass. 

BASS, JOHN H., soldier, business man, 
financier, was born Nov. 9, 1835, in Sa¬ 
lem, Ky. During the war he served the 
union cause in the 
thirtieth regiment 
Indiana volunteer 
infantry. He es¬ 
tablished the Fort 
Wayne Machine 
works, and in 1869 
extended his opera¬ 
tions by founding 
the St. Louis Car 
Wheel company, of 
which he was presi¬ 
dent. Since 1880 he 
has owned a plant 
for the manufacture of pig iron in north¬ 
eastern Alabama, whence that commodity 
is shipped to his establishments in Fort 
Wayne, Chicago, and St. Louis. He is 
the president of the old national bank of 
Fort Wayne; owns the Brookside farm; 
and nearly twenty thousand acres of val¬ 
uable mineral land in Alabama. In 1888 
he was a delegate at large to the demo¬ 
cratic national convention, and was the 
same year nominated one of the presi¬ 
dential electors. 

BASS, JOSIAH LUSTER, merchant, 
was born Feb. 20, 1853, in DeKalb county, 
Tenn. He established a large dry goods 
house in Griffin, Rome and Atlanta; and 
has been a prominent leader in public 
industrial affairs. 

BASS, LYMAN K., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 13, 1836, in Alden, N. 
Y. He was elected district attorney for 
Erie county in 1865, for three years; and 
was re-elected in 1868; and served until 
1872. He was renominated and was elected 
to the forty-third and forty-fourth con¬ 
gresses. 

BASS, WILLIAM C., clergyman, college 
president, was born Jan. 13, 1831, in Au¬ 
gusta, Ga. He entered the ministry of 
the methodist church in 1852, and has 
given his later life to the work of edu¬ 
cation in Georgia. He became a professor 
in the Wesleyan Female college in 1859, 
and succeeded to the presidency in 1874. 

BASSETT, ALLAN LEE, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, insurance president, was born Feb. 
28, 1827, near Birmingham, Conn. For 
twenty years he was 
a successful mer¬ 
chant of New York 
city. He served with 
distinction through 
the civil war in the 
twenty-third New 
York regiment. In 
1866 he established 
The Northern 
Monthly and New 
Jersey Magazine, of 
Irvington, N. J., 
which subsequently 
became Putnam’s Magazine. In 1873 he 
organized the Prudential Insurance com¬ 
pany, now one of the most important in¬ 
stitutions of its kind in America; and 
he became its first president. He died 
Dec. 4, 1892, in Newark, N. J. His son, 
Carrol Phillips Bassett, still resides in 
Newark, N. J. 

BASSETT. ARTHUR, merchant, was 
born Jan. 17, 1851, in Fairfield, Mich. In 
1882 he was elected great commander of 


the Order of the Knights of the Macca¬ 
bees, at Port Huron, Mich., where he is 
a wholesale druggist and successful man 
of affairs. 

BASSETT, BURWELL, congressman, 
was born in New Kent county, Va. He 
was a representative in congress from 
that state in 1805-13, from 1815 to 1819, 
and from 1821 to 1831. 

BASSETS, CARROLL PHILLIPS, civil 
engineer, author, was born Feb. 27, 1862, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was president of 
the New Jersey Sanitary association from 
1892-93; is chief engineer of the Com¬ 
monwealth Water company; and has de¬ 
signed and constructed the waterworks, 
the sewerage, and sewage purification 
works of many towns in New Jersey, New 
York, Pennsylvania and Delaware. He 
is the author of The Conservation of 
Streams, and Inland Sewage Disposal. 

BASSETT, HOMER FRANKLIN, li¬ 
brarian, was born Sept. 2, 1826, in Flori¬ 
da, Mass. In 1872 he was appointed li¬ 
brarian of the Silas Bronson library, of 
Waterbury, Conn. 

BASSETT, J. ANTHONY, educator, was 
born Dec. 25, 1850, in Denmark, N. Y. He 
received a thorough education in the Low- 
ville academy and the Rochester univer¬ 
sity. For twelve years he was in charge 
of the departments of science and mathe¬ 
matics in the old Gouverneur Wesleyan 
seminary; and in 1887 assumed the prin- 
cipalship of the Richfield Springs Union 
schools. 

BASSETT, JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 31, 1834, in Canada. This 
eminent clergyman has filled various pas¬ 
torates in Pennsylvania and New York. 
He is the author of a number of works, 
and has contributed extensively to church 
literature. 

BASSETT, RICHARD, jurist, United 
States senator, governor, was born in 
Delaware. He was a member from Dela¬ 
ware of the convention which formed the 
constitution, and signed that instrument; 
and was a senator in congress from 1789 
to 1793. He was a presidential elector in 
1797, and was the first man who cast his 
vote for locating the seat of government 
on the Potomac. He was chief justice of 
the federal supreme court, and governor 
of Delaware from 1798 to 1801. He died 
in September, 1815, in Delaware. 

BASSETT, SPENCER JOHN, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 10, 1867, in Tar- 
borough, N. C. He is a successful edu¬ 
cator and the author of the following 
works: The Constitutional Beginnings of 
North Carolina; Slavery and Servitude in 
the Colony of North Carolina; The Reg¬ 
ulators of North Carolina; Suffrage in 
North Carolina; and Anti-Slavery Lead¬ 
ers in North Carolina. 

BASTIN, EDSON SEWELL, educator, 
author, was born in Wisconsin. In 1893 
he was elected to the chair of materia 
medica and botany in the Philadelphia 
College of Pharmacy. He is the author 
of Lectures on Botany and Materia Medi¬ 
ca; Elements of Botany; The College Bot¬ 
any; and Vegetable History. 

BATCHELDER, JOHN PUTNAM, edu¬ 
cator, physician, surgeon, author, was 
born Aug. 6, 1784, in Wilton, N. H. He 
was a successful surgeon, and performed 
many operations of great importance, and 
requiring extraordinary skill and daring. 
He was president of the Academy of Medi¬ 
cine, and of the New York Medical as¬ 
sociation in 1858. He published Thoughts 
on the Connection of Life, Mind, and 
Matter, and other works. He died April 
8, 1868, in New York city. 




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BATCHELDER, SAMUEL, manufactur¬ 
er, inventor, author, was born June 8, 
1784, in Jaffrey, N. H. In 1808 he began 
the manufacture of cotton at New Ips¬ 
wich. Among his inventions, that of the 
dynamometer, for ascertaining the power; 
for driving machinery, first used in the 
York mills in 1837, is perhaps the great¬ 
est. He is the author of History of the 
Cotton Manufacture in the United States. 
He died Feb. 5, 1879, in Cambridge, Mass. 

BATCHELLER, GEORGE S., soldier, 
statesman, was horn July 25, 1836, in 
Batchellerville, N. Y. He reorganized the 
militia of New York and served as in¬ 
spector-general from 1865 to 1869. He 
was appointed to represent the United 
States at the international tribunal of 
Egypt, and in 1883 was elected president 
of that body. In 1889 he was appointed 
consul-general to Egypt by President 
Harrison. 

BATCHELOR, GEORGE, clergyman, 
author. He was born in 1836 in Connecti¬ 
cut. He is a Unitarian clergyman, and 
the author of Social Equilibrium and Oth¬ 
er Problems, Ethical and Religious. 

BATE, HENRY C., soldier, was born 
July 28, 1839, in Bledsoe’s Lick, Tenn. He 
served in the civil war as a confederate, 
and attained the rank of major. 

BATE, WILLIAM B., soldier, lawyer, 
governor, United States senator, was born 
Oct. 17, 1826, in Castalian Springs, Tenn. 
He received an academic education; 
served as a private throughout the Mexi¬ 
can war in Louisiana and Tennessee regi¬ 
ments; and a year after returning from 
the Mexican war was elected to the Ten¬ 
nessee legislature. In 1854 he was elected 
attorney-general for the Nashville district 
for six years; was a presidential elector 
in 1860; was private, captain, colonel, 
brigadier-general, and major-general in 
the confederate service, surrendering with 
the army of Tennessee in 1865; and was 
three times dangerously wounded. Aft¬ 
er the close of the war he returned to 
Tennessee and resumed the practice of 
law; was a delegate to the democratic 
national convention in 1868; served on 
the national democratic executive com¬ 
mittee for Tennessee twelve years; was 
an elector for the state-at-large on the 
Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876; in 
1882 was elected governor of Tennessee, 
and re-elected in 1884 without opposition. 
He was elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate in 1887, and in 1893-99. 

BATEMAN, EPHRAIM, physician, state 
senator, congressman, was born in Cedar- 
ville, N. J. He was well educated, and 
adopted the profession of medicine. He 
was a representative in congress from 
1815 to 1823; and a senator in congress 
from 1826 to 1829. He died Jan. 29, 1829, 
in Cedarville, N. J. 

BATEMAN, ISABEL, actress, was born 
Dec. 28, 1854, near Cincinnati, Ohio. Her 
family moved to England in 1863. Two 
years later she made her debut in a 
child’s character in London. For six 
years after 1872 she played the leading 
characters with Henry Irving. Most of 
her acting has been done in the theaters 
of London. 

BATEMAN, KATE J., actress, was 
born Oct. 7, 1842, in Baltimore, Md. Her 
father became the manager of the Ly¬ 
ceum theater in London. She was intro¬ 
duced to the London public by P. T. 
Barnum in conjunction with her young 
sister, as the Bateman Children. Her 
married name was Crowe. Her best char¬ 
acter was that of Leah in a play of 
that name. 


BATEMAN, NEWTON,* educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born July 27, 1822, in 
Fairfield, N. J. He came to Illinois in 
1833, and graduated from Illinois college 
in 1843. He assisted in organizing the 
State Teachers’ association of Illinois in 
1854. In 1858 he founded the Illinois 
Teacher, and was its first editor. He 
became state superintendent of public in¬ 
struction of Illinois in 1859, and to this 
office he was re-elected four times. In 
1860 he issued the first of the series of 
reports, which are recognized as classic 
authority concerning Illinois pedagogic 
law T . In 1874 he was chosen president of 
Knox college. He died Oct. 21, 1897, in 
Galesburg, Ill. 

BATES, ARLO, educator, author, was 
born Dec. 16, 1850, in East Machias, 

Maine. He is professor of English liter¬ 
ature in Massachusetts Institute of Tech¬ 
nology. He is the author of Talks on 
Writing English; The Pagans; Patty’s 
Perversities; A Wheel of Fire; In the 
Bundle of Time; A Lad’s Love; The Phil¬ 
istines; A Book o’ Nine Tales. His verse 
includes Berries of the Brier; Sonnets in 
Shadow; A Poet and his Self; Told in 
the Gate; and The Torch-Bearers. 

BATES, BENJAMIN E„ philanthro¬ 
pist. Bates college, of Lewiston, Maine, 
was controlled by the free baptists; 
founded in 1863, and named after Ben¬ 
jamin E. Bates, of Boston, who contrib¬ 
uted $200,000 to its endowment fund. 

BATES, CHARLOTTE FISKE, author, 
poet, was born Nov. 30, 1838, in New 
York city. She has published a volume 
of her collected verses, entitled Risk, and 
Other Poems. She has edited the Long¬ 
fellow Birthday Book and The Seven 
Voices of Sympathy, compilations of 
Longfellow’s prose and poetry, and the 
Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song, a 
volume of poetical selections from Eng¬ 
lish and American authors. She has also 
written some prose, which has not yet 
been published in a collected form. Miss 
Bates assisted Longfellow in compiling 
his Poems of Places, making ten trans¬ 
lations expressly for the work. 

BATES, MRS. CLARA [DOTY], author, 
was born in 1838 in Ann Arbor, Mich. 
She is a writer of juvenile tales and the 
author of Classics of Babyland Versified; 
Child Lore; On the Way to Wonderland; 
and Heart’s Content. She died in 1895. 

BATES, CYRUS S., an eminent cler¬ 
gyman of the episcopal church, was 
born Dec. 31, 1840, in Chester, Ohio. 
He was among the first to volun¬ 
teer in the northern army in 1861, and 
was distinguished for his bravery. He 
was severely wounded at the battle of 
Chickamauga. .In 1865 he graduated 
from the Cincinnati Law school, and later 
from the Theological seminary at Gam- 
bier, Ohio. During six years he was 
professor of divinity in this seminary, 
and professor of philosophy in Kenyon 
college. For the last twelve years of 
his life he was rector of St. Paul’s, Cleve¬ 
land. He was a vigorous thinker and a 
speaker of great power, indefatigable in 
labor, and prominent in many lines of 
philanthropic work. He died April 19, 
1896, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

BATES, DAVID, author, was born 
about 1810 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
the author of the well-known poem 
Speak Gently, about which, shortly after 
its publication, there was a notable con¬ 
troversy and counterclaims as to its au¬ 
thorship. Childhood is another of his best, 
known pieces. A complete edition of his 
poems was edited by his son. He died 
Nov. 25, 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


BATES, DEWEY, painter, was born in 
1851 in Philadelphia. At an early age he 
went abroad to study art, first entering 
the schools of the royal academy of Ant¬ 
werp, and subsequently spending several 
years as a student in the Ecole des beaux 
arts in Paris and as a pupil of Gerome. 

BATES, EDWARD, lawyer, jurist, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was boi’n Sept. 4, 
1793, in Belmont, Va. He was elected a 
representative in congress from Missouri, 
serving from 1827 to 1829; and in 1830 
was elected to the state senate. In 1834 
he was again elected to the lower house 
of the legislature; in 1850 was appointed 
secretary of war, but declined the office; 
and in 1853 he was elected judge of the 
St. Louis land court, which office he re¬ 
signed in 1856. In 1861 he was appointed 
attorney-general in President Lincoln’s 
cabinet. He died March 25, 1869, in St. 
Louis, Mo. 

BATES, FREDERICK, jurist, governor, 
was born June 23, 1777, in Belmont. Va. 
He was appointed by President Jefferson 
in 1805 the first United States judge for 
the territory of Michigan, and having 
subsequently become a citizen of Missouri 
was elected governor of Missouri, serv¬ 
ing from 1824 until his death, Aug. 21, 
1825. 

BATES, MRS. HARRIET LEONORA 
[VOSE], author, was born in 1856. She 
was the author of A Woodland Wooing; 
Old Salem; and Prince Vance. She died 
in 1886. 

BATES, ISAAC C., state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 14, 1780, in 
Granville, Mass. He graduated at Yale 
college in 1802, and studied law and at¬ 
tained a high position as an advocate. 
He was frequently in the state legislature 
and a member of the executive council; 
was a representative in congress from 
1827 to 1833; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from 1841 to 1845. He died March. 
16, 1845, in Washington, D. C. 

BATES, J. WOODSON, jurist. He was 
an early emigrant to the southwest, and 
while residing at the post of Arkansas 
was appointed a United States judge for 
that territory. 

BATES, JAMES, physician, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Somerset county, Maine, from 
1831 to 1833. 

BATES, JAMES W., congressman, was 
born in Goochland county, Va. He was 
a delegate to congress from the territory- 
of Arkansas from 1820 to 1823. 

BATES, JOHN LEWIS, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Sept. 18, 1859, in Easton, 
Mass. He received his education at the 
Boston Latin school and the college and 
law departments of the Boston univer¬ 
sity. He has attained success as one of 
the foremost lawyers of New England, 
and is the senior member of the law firm 
of Bates and Bradish, of Boston, Mass. 
In 1891-92 he was a member of the Bos¬ 
ton common council; in 1894-97 served 
with distinction as a member of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts house of representatives, and 
was speaker of the house in 1897. 

BATES, JOSEPH CLEMENT, lawyer, 
author, was born in July, 1836, in Rich¬ 
mond, Maine. He is a successful lawyer 
of San Francisco, Cal. He has published 
a work, Forms and Use of Blanks, and 
a paper entitled Horace Howes’s Will 
Case. 

BATES, JOSHUA, educator, college- 
president* was born March 20, 1776, in 

Cohasset, Mass. In 1818 he accepted the 
presidency of Middlebury college, Vt., 
which position he filled for twenty years. 
He died Jan. 14, 1854, in Dudley, Mass. 


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BATES. KATHARINE LEE, educator, 
author, poet, was horn Aug. 12, 1859, in 
Falmouth, Mass. She received her de¬ 
degrees of B.A. and M.A. from the Welles¬ 
ley college, in which institution she has 
been instructor of English literature for 
many years. She is the author of the 
Student’s Series of English Classics, nu¬ 
merous stories, and two volumes of 
poems. 

BATES, LAURENCE WEBSTER, edu¬ 
cator, was born Nov. 10, 1819, in Burling¬ 
ton county, N. J. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the Medford 
Quaker school of his 
native county. For 
several years he was 
the editor of a 
prominent church 
paper, and has con¬ 
tributed extensively 
to current litera¬ 
ture. He was pres¬ 
ident of the Mary¬ 
land conference in 
1860-61; president 
of the general con¬ 
ference in 1874; president of the gen¬ 
eral church convention in 1877; and 
he has filled numerous high positions 
in the methodist episcopal church. Dur¬ 
ing 1893-96 he was professor in the West¬ 
minster Theological seminary. He was 
chairman of the committee to compile a 
new hymn book; and is first president of 
the Christian Endeavor union of the 
methodist protestant church. 

BATES, MRS. MARGARET HOLMES, 
author, poet, was born Oct. 6, 1844, in 
Fremont, Ohio. She is the author of two 
novels entitled Manitou, and The Cham¬ 
ber Over the Gate, and her poems have 
appeared in several standard collections. 

BATES, MARTIN, lawyer, legislator, 
United States senator, was born Feb. 24, 
1787, in Salisbury, Conn. He was edu¬ 
cated for a physician, and taught school 
for a time, but afterward studied law and 
removed to Delaware, where he practiced 
in Dover. He served several terms in the 
legislature, and was a member of the 
state constitutional convention of 1850. 
After the death of John M. Clayton he 
was chosen to the United States senate 
as a democrat, and served from 1858-59. 
He died Jan. 1, 1869, in Dover. Del. 

BATES, SAMUEL PENNIMAN, educa¬ 
tor, historian, poet, was born Jan. 29, 
1827, in Mendon, Mass. In 1851 he graduat¬ 
ed from the Brown 
university, and the 
following five years 
he was engaged in 
teaching the ancient 
languages in Mead- 
ville, Pa., which city 
has since been his 
home. In 1857 he 
was elected superin¬ 
tendent of public 
schools of Crawford 
county; received the 
re-election in 1860, 
but resigned to accept the office of deputy 
state superintendent of education, which 
position he held for six years. In 
1866 he was appointed state historian, and 
the result of his seven years’ work was 
published in five volumes entitled His¬ 
tory of Pennsylvania Volunteers. He next 
wrote the Lives of the Governors of 
Pennsylvania, which was followed by the 
following works: Martial Deeds of 
Pennsylvania; The History of the Battle 
of Gettysburg; The History of the Bat¬ 
tle of Chancellorsville; and a Condensed 
History of Pennsylvania. 


BATES, WILLIAM W„ journalist, ship¬ 
builder, was born in 1827, in Calais, 
Maine. From 1854-59 he helped to con¬ 
duct The Nautical Magazine and Naval 
Journal; in 1875 he took part in a coun¬ 
cil of shipbuilders to improve their rules; 
in 1881 he built a large dry dock at Port¬ 
land, Maine; and in 1889 was elected com¬ 
missioner of navigation. He is now en¬ 
gaged on an elaborate work entitled The 
Shipping Question Investigation. 

BATESON, JOHN C., physician, lectur¬ 
er, was born July 25, 1854, in Iowa. He 
graduated from the University of New 
York, and has attained eminence as a 
great physician and surgeon. He was 
the founder of the organization known as 
the United Christians; and has lectured 
extensively on Christian union hygiene. 
He has been health officer of Scranton, 
Pa., where he has filled many public posi¬ 
tions of trust. 

BATTELLE, GORDON, clergyman, was 
born Nov. 14, 1814, in Newport, Ohio. His 
influence in western Virginia was very 
great, and at the beginning of the civil 
war in 1861 he was appointed an official 
visitor to the military camps. The needs 
of the time demanding attention to the 
political situation, he became a member 
of the convention that met Nov. 24, 1861, 
and framed the constitution of the new 
state of West Virginia. To him, more 
largely probably than to any other man, 
was due the abolition of slavery in that 
region. He died Jan. 7, 1862. 

BATTELS, S. M. E., philanthropist, 
was born Nov. 17, 1839, in Hudson, Ohio. 
She was a prominent worker member of 
the first Ohio Soldiers’ Aid society; and 
was for three years president of the Wo¬ 
man’s Relief corps of Ohio. She has done 
inspective work through the state, solic¬ 
iting, purchasing and distributing sani¬ 
tary and hospital supplies to the Ohio 
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ home. 

BATTEN, JOHN M., physician, was 
born April 19, 1837, in East Brandywine, 
Pa. He graduated from the medical col¬ 
lege department of the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1864, and prior to 
graduating was a medical cadet in the 
army hospital at Philadelphia. In 1864 
he was appointed acting assistant sur¬ 
geon in the United States navy, and 
served at different times on the United 
States steamers Princeton and Valley 
City. 

BATTERMAN, HENRY, merchant, 
banker, was born Nov. 5, 1849, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He employs 500 clerks, and 
conducts the most important trade in the 
eastern district of Brooklyn. He is pres¬ 
ident of The Broadway bank of Brooklyn. 

BATTERSHALL, JESSE PARK, chem¬ 
ist, author, was born May 26, 1851, in 
Troy, N. Y. In 1879 he entered the gov¬ 
ernment service, and since that time he 
has had charge of the analytical depart¬ 
ment of the United States laboratory at 
New York. Hfe has contributed papers 
to chemical journals, and is the transla¬ 
tor of Naquet’s Legal Chemistry, and the 
author of Adulteration of Food and 
Drink. 

BATTERSON, HERMON GRISWOLD, 
D. D., priest, poet, was born May 28, 1827, 
in Litchfield county, Conn. He has been 
rector of the St. Clement’s church, and 
the Church of the Enunciation, of Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is the author of the fol¬ 
lowing works: The Missionary Tune 
Book; The Manual of Plain Song; Sketcii 
of the American Episcopate; Christmas 
Carols; The Pathway of Faith; Vestal 
Bells and Other Verses; Daily Rule for 
Busy People; Remember Your Dead; and 
other works. 


BATTERSON, JAMES GOODWIN, in¬ 
surance president, was born Feb. 23, 1823, 
in Bloomfield, Conn. He owns and oper¬ 
ates extensive granite quarries at West* 
erly, R. I., and Concord, N. H. He has 
been the moving and controlling force 
in the management of the Travelers In¬ 
surance company since its inception in 
1663. 

BATTEY, ROBERT, physician, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Nov. 26, 1828, in 
Augusta, Ga. He has been successful in 
the execution of a number of difficult sur¬ 
gical operations on the urinary organs 
of both sexes. Of the methods used, sev¬ 
eral were original with himself. From 
1873 to 1875 he was professor of obstet¬ 
rics in the Atlanta Medical college, and 
from 1873 to 1876 he edited the Atlanta 
Medical and Surgical Journal. He is a 
member of the Georgia Medical associa¬ 
tion, and was its president in 1876. He 
has written numerous papers and reports 
of cases, which have been contributed to 
the medical press both in America and 
England. 

BATTEY, SUMTER BEAUREGARD, 
physician, surgeon, was born near Louis¬ 
ville, Ga. In 1885 he began the practice 
of medicine in New York city; made a 
specialty of surgery; and has done unique 
work in that field. 

BATTLE, ARCHIBALD J., clergyman, 
college president, author, was born Sept. 
10, 1826, in Powelton, Ga. He was pres¬ 
ident of Mercer university from 1871 to 
1879, and in 1879 was pastor for an in¬ 
terim of the First Baptist church of Ma¬ 
con. He is the author of a volume en¬ 
titled Human Will. 

BATTLE, BURRILL B„ jurist, was 
born July 24, 1838, in Hinds county, Miss. 
In 1885 he was elected to fill a vacancy 
upon the supreme bench of the state, and 
in 1886 was re-elected to the same posi¬ 
tion for the full term of eight years. He 
was elected associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Arkansas in 1894. 

BATTLE, KEMP PLUMMER, lawyer, 
educator, college president, was born Dec. 
19, 1831, in Franklin county, N. C. He is 
the son of the late Judge William Horn 
Battle. He graduated from the Univer¬ 
sity of North Carolina, of which institu¬ 
tion he has been president, and now fills 
the chair of history. He has been state 
treasurer of North Carolina, and has 
filled various positions of trust in his 
county and state. 

BATTLE, WILLIAM HORN, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Oct. 17, 1802, in 
Edgecombe county, N. C. He graduated 
from the University 
of North Carolina; 
and was reporter of 
the supreme court 
decisions. In 1839 
he was a delegate to 
the convention that 
nominated William 
Henry Harrison for 
the presidency of the 
United States. Dur¬ 
ing 1840-52 he was 
judge of the superior 
court of North Caro¬ 
lina, and during 1852-68 was judge of the 
supreme court. North Carolina. He was 
the author of several valuable works 
on the common and statute laws of his 
state. He died March 14, 1879, in Chapel 
Hill, N. C. 

BATTLES, W. S., physician, was born 
May 12, 1827; attained eminence as a 
physician in Shreve, Ohio. He contrib¬ 
uted extensively to literature, and his 
poems can be found in various standard 
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BAUDER, EZRA, educator, was born 
April 7, 1824, in Indian Castle, N. Y. In 
1879 he established a boarding and day 
school known as Brentsville seminary; 
and has been engaged in the profession of 
teaching in Virginia for many years. 

BAUDER, LEVI F., lawyer, poet, was 
born Jan. 28, 1840, in Cleveland, Ohio. He 
is a learned lawyer and has served as a 
justice of the peace in Cleveland, Ohio. 
In 1880 he published a volume of poems 
entitled Passing Fancies. 

BAUGH, DANIEL, manufacturer, was 
born Oct. 22, 1836, in Chester county, Pa. 
His business has been incorporated as The 
Baugh and Sons Co., capital $1,000,000, 
Daniel Baugh becoming its president. He 
is president of the Girard National bank 
of Philadelphia, Pa. 

BAUGHER, HENRY L., educator, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1805 in Abbottstown, 
Pa. He was licensed to preach by the 
Maryland Lutheran synod; was chosen 
pastor at Boonesboro, Md., in 1829, and 
took charge of a classical school in 
Gettysburg in 1830. The school expanded 
into a college in 1832, and Mr. Baugher 
became professor of the Greek language 
and belles lettres; was elected to the pres¬ 
idency of the college in 1850, and contin¬ 
ued in that office until his death. He died 
April, 1886, in Gettysburg, Pa. 

BAUGHER, HENRY LOUIS, educator, 
clergyman, journalist, author, was born 
Aug. 6, 1840, in Gettysburg, Pa. For 
twenty-four years he was professor of 
Greek in the Pennsylvania college; and 
has also filled the same chair in the How¬ 
ard university of Washington, D. C. He 
has filled pastorates in Morristown, Pa.; 
Indianapolis, Ind., and Omaha, Neb. He 
is now the editor of the Augsburg Sun¬ 
day-School Teacher, and The Lutheran 
World; and is the author of Annotations 
on the Gospel According to St. Luke. 

BAUMBACH, MORITZ WILHELM 
HERMAN VON, diplomat, banker, was 
born Jan. 13, 1834, in Prussia. He has 
been the imperial and royal consul of 
Austro-Hungary; consul of Saxony; and 
imperial German \ ice-consul. He is now 
the president of the German Exchange 
bank of Milwaukee, Wis. 

BAUMGARDT, BERNHARD RICHARD, 
astronomist, was born May 19, 1862, in 
Liverpool, England. He was educated in 
Sweden, and after graduating spent five 
years in traveling around the world. From 
a love of mathematics he took up astron¬ 
omy, and devotes much of his time to 
that science in his private observatory 
in Los Angeles, Cal. He gives public 
lectures on astronomy, mathematics and 
philosophy, and has attained a national 
reputation. In 1891-93 he was secretary 
of the Oregon Academy of Sciences; and 
since 1894 has been secretary of the South¬ 
ern California Academy of Sciences, in 
which institution he is also chairman of 
the astronomical section. He is also a suc¬ 
cessful business man, and is interested 
in many public enterprises. 

BAUVAIS, A., governor. He was acting 
governor of Louisiana in 1830. 

BAWDEN, JOHN, manufacturer, bank¬ 
er, was born April 10, 1827, in Cornwall, 
England. He began business for himself 
in Freehold, N. J„ but in 1858 he formed 
a co-partnership with Gilbert Combs. He 
is president of the board of health and 
director of the Central National bank of 
Freehold. 

BAXLEY, ISAAC RIEMAN, poet, was 
born in 1850 in Baltimore, Md. He has 
traveled a great deal, but since 1878 has 
made his home in California. His pub¬ 
lished books are The Temple of Alanthur, 


with Other Poems; The Prophet and Oth¬ 
er Poems; Songs of the Spirit; and Be¬ 
yond the Bank of Mist. 

BAXTER, DELOS W., was born July 
29,1857, in Rochelle, Ill. Since 1881 he has 
practiced law in Rochelle, 111. In 1884 
he was elected state’s attorney of Ogle 
county and held the office for twelve 
years—until his election as Illinois state 
senator in 1896. He also has been mayor 
of Rochelle. 

BAXTER, ELISHA, governor, was born 
Sept. 1, 1827, in Rutherford county, N. C. 
He was governor of Arkansas during a 
part of the years 1874-75. 

BAXTER, FELIX JOSEPHUS, lawyer, 
state senator, was born Aug. 10, 1830, in 
Sutton, W. Va. He has served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the West Virginia 
state senate. 

BAXTER, GEORGE A., educator, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born July 22, 
1771, in Rockingham county, Va. In 1829 
he became president of Washington col¬ 
lege; in 1832 he was inaugurated pro¬ 
fessor of theology in the Union Theologi¬ 
cal seminary; and in 1835 was chosen 
president of the Hampden Sidney college. 
He is the author of Abolition of Slavery; 
Parity; and the Scriptural Order of Chris¬ 
tian Ministry. He died April 14, 1841. 

BAXTER, HENRY, soldier, diplomatist, 
was born Sept. 8, 1821, in Sidney Plaine, 
N. Y. During the civil war he was made 
lieutenant-colonel of the seventh Michigan 
infantry, and in 1866 was appointed min¬ 
ister resident to Honduras. 

BAXTER, HORACE HENRY, railroad 
builder, was born Jan. 18, 1818, in Sax¬ 
tons’ River, Vt. He built the Cleveland, 
Norwalk and Toledo railroad. At the out¬ 
break of the civil war he attended the 
peace congress as a delegate from Ver¬ 
mont, and when that meeting failed of 
its object he became adjutant-general of 
Vermont. He died Feb. 17, 1884, in New 
York city. 

BAXTER, JAMES PHINNEY, artist, au¬ 
thor and philanthropist, was born in 1831 
in Maine. He is well known as the Poet 
of Maine; and is the author of more than 
a doaen popular works. He is the hon¬ 
ored president of the Maine Historical so¬ 
ciety. He built and presented to the city 
of Portland its magnificent public library 
building, the most beautiful structure in 
the city. He has served as mayor of Port¬ 
land, and has been foremost in the de¬ 
velopment of that city and its institu¬ 
tions. His principal works are George 
Cleves of Casco Bay, 1630-67; Sir Ferdi- 
nando Gorges and His Province of Maine; 
and Idyls of the Year, a collection of 
verse. 

BAXTER, JOHN, lawyer, legislator, 
congressman, was born March 5, 1819, in 
Rutherford county, N. C. In 1842 he was 
elected a representative in the state leg¬ 
islature; was a presidential elector in 1844 
and 1848; was again in the legislature in 
1846, and from 1852 to 1857, serving as 
speaker of the house in 1852. In 1857 he 
removed to Knoxville, Tenn.; in 1870 
was a member of the state constitutional 
convention; and in 1877 was appointed 
United States circuit judge for the sixth 
judicial circuit. He died April 10, 1886, 
in Hot Springs, Ark. 

BAXTER, KATHARINE SCHUYLER, 
author, was born Feb. 22, 1845, in Oswego, 
N. Y. She is a great-granddaughter of 
Major-General Philip Schuyler, of the 
revolutionary army; a member of the 
Daughters of the Cincinnati, Colonial 
Dames of America, and the American 
Authors’ guild. She is the author of In 
Bamboo Lands; A God-Child of Washing¬ 
ton; and other works. 


BAXTER, LYDIA, hymn-writer, poet, 
was born Sept. 2, 1809, in Petersburg, 
N. Y. She is the author of Gems by the 
Wayside, a collection of poems, and the 
hymn, The Gates Ajar. She died Jan. 23, 
1874, in New York city. 

BAXTER, PORTUS, merchant, legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born in Brown- 
ington, Vt. He was elected a represent¬ 
ative from Vermont to the thirty-seventh, 
thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses: 
v.as also a delegate to the Philadelphia 
Loyalists’ convention of 1866. He died 
March 4, 1868, in Washington, D. C. 

BAXTER, SYLVESTER, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1850 in Massachusetts. 
He is a journalist of Boston, prominent 
in exploiting the Metropolitan park sys¬ 
tem, and is the author of The Cruise of 
a Land Yacht, a Boy’s Book of Mexican 
Travel. 

BAXTER, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1823, in England. He 
is a clergyman of Cincinnati, whose War 
Lyrics as originally published in Har¬ 
per’s Weekly were once widely popular. 
He is the author of The Loyal West in 
the Times of the Rebellion; Pea Ridge 
and Prairie Grove, or Scenes and Inci¬ 
dents of the War in Arkansas, 

BAXTER, WILLIAM M., lawyer, was 
born Aug. 30, 1850, in Alexander, S. C. 
He is a prominent lawyer of Knoxville, 
Tenn., and in 1882 became general soli¬ 
citor of the legal department of the East 
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad 
company. 

BAY, WILLIAM V. N., congressman, 
was born in New York. Hav ing become a 
citizen of Missouri he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1849 to 1851. 

BAYARD, JAMES ASHETON, United 
States senator, was born July 28, 1767, in 
He graduated at 
Princeton college in 
1784; after studying 
law at Philadelphia, 
commenced the prac¬ 
tice in Delaware. In 

1796 he was elected 
a representative in 
congress from Dela¬ 
ware, serving from 

1797 to 1801, when 
he was appointed 
minister to France. 
In 1804 he was elect¬ 
ed to the United 

States senate, of which body he continued 
a member until appointed, in 1813, a com¬ 
missioner to negotiate a peace with Great 
Britain. He died Aug. 6, 1815, in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. 

BAYARD, JAMES A., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
Nov. 15, 1799,. in Wilmington, Del. He 
was the son of the 
United States sen¬ 
ator bearing the 
same name, and a 
brother of Richard 
H. Bayard. He was 
a senator in con¬ 
gress from Delaware 
during 1851-54; and 
in 1863 he was elect¬ 
ed for the third 
term, but resigned 
in January, 1864. In 
1867 he was ap¬ 
pointed to a seat in the senate to fill a 
vacancy, and subsequently received the 
election to that office. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the New York convention of 1868. 
He died June 13, 1880, in Wilmington, 
Del. 


Philadelphia, Pa. 






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BAYARD, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a delegate from Pennsylvania to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1785 to 1787. 

BAYARD, RICHARD H., lawyer, 
United States senator, was born in 1796 
in Wilmington, Del. He was a senator 
in congress from Delaware from 1836 to 
1839, and again from 1841 to 1845; and 
was appointed charge d’affaires to Bel¬ 
gium in 1850. He died March 4, 1868, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

BAYARD, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 11, 1767, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was one of the founders of 
the New York Historical society, organ¬ 
ized in 1804. In 1806 he purchased an 
estate at Princeton, N. J. For several 
years he was a member of the New Jersey 
legislature, and for a long period presid¬ 
ing judge of the court of common pleas 
of Somerset county. He was one of the 
founders of Princeton Theological semi¬ 
nary, and joined with Elias Boudinot in 
establishing the American Bible society 
and the New Jersey Bible society. He was 
the author of several law compilations. 
He died May 12, 1840, in Princeton, N. J. 

BAYARD, SAMUEL, president of the 
Evansville National bank, was born in 
Vincennes, Ind. In the early part of the 
year 1873 he aided in organizing the Ger¬ 
man National bank of Evansville, of 
which he is at present a director and one 
of the largest stockholders. 

BAYARD, THOMAS FRANCIS, states¬ 
man, was born Oct. 29, 1828, in Wilming¬ 
ton, Del. He was chiefly educated at 
the Flushing school. His early training 
was for a mercantile life; studied and 
adopted the profession of the law; and 
came to the bar in 1851, and has always 
practiced in his native city. In 1853 he 
was appointed United States district at¬ 
torney for Delawax-e, but resigned in 
18o4. He was elected a senator in 
congress from that state in 1869. 
On the same day of his election 
his father, James A. Bayard, was also re¬ 
elected to the senate from the same state 
—the only instance of the kind which 
ever occurred. He was re-elected in 1875, 
and again in 1881. In 1885 he was ap¬ 
pointed secretary of state in the cabinet 
of President Cleveland, and resigned his 
seat in the senate. He died Sept. 28, 1898, 
in Dedham, Mass. 

BAYARD, WILLIAM, public official, 
was born Jan. 1, 1729, in New York. He 
was a delegate from New York to the 
colonial congress, held in New York city 
in 1765. He died in 1804 in Southampton, 
England. 

BAYARD, WILLIAM, merchant, was 
born about 1764 in New York. He was a 
large ship owner; traded with all the 
world; was for many years director of 
the Bank of America; and in 1810-27 was 
president of the Chamber of Commerce. 
He died Sept. 3, 1850, in New York city. 

BAYLES, GEORGE, physician, was 
born Aug. 7, 1836, in New York city. He 
graduated from the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, and from the medical de¬ 
partment in the Columbia university In 
1859. He has held many important posi¬ 
tions, and is president of the board of 
education of Orange, N. J. 

BAYLES, JAMES C., soldier, lecturer, 
journalist, author, was born July 3, 1845, 
in New York city. In 1870 he became 
editor of the Iron Age; and in 1874 estab¬ 
lished The Metal Worker. He has deliv¬ 
ered lectures on sanitary topics in New 
York, and in all of the prominent cities 
of the Union, and is the author of the 
first standard American work on the 
Mechanics of Hygiene, House Drainage 
and Water Service. In 1883 he was 


elected president of the New Jersey State 
Sanitary association, and was appointed 
a commissioner to devise a system of 
sewers and sanitary improvements for 
the city of Trenton. 

BAYLEY, JAMES ROOSEVELT, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Aug. 23, 1814, 
in New York city. He was a clergyman 
who entered the Roman catholic church 
from the episcopal and became arch¬ 
bishop of Baltimore. He was the author 
of History of the Catholic Church of New 
York; Memoirs of Brutd, First Bishop of 
Vincennes; and Pastorals for the People. 
He died Oct. 3. 1877. in Newark, N. J. 

BAYLEY, RICHARD, educator, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1745 in Fairfield, 
Conn. The causes of yellow fever were 
very carefully studied by him, and in 1797 
he published a work in which he con¬ 
tended that its origin was due entirely to 
local causes, and therefore that it was 
not contagious. He died Aug. 17, 1801, 
on Staten Island, N. Y. 

BAYLEY, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in Somerset county, Md. He was a 
representative in congress from Maryland 
from 1817 to 1823. 

BAYLEY, THOMAS M., legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1775 in Virginia. 
He entered public life in 1798; continued 
therein until 1830; and served in both 
branches of the state legislature. He was 
a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1813 to 1815. He died in 1834 
in Accomac county. 

BAYLEY, WILLIAM G., civil engineer, 
railroad manager, was born Sept. 2, 1865, 
in Hollidaysburg, Pa. Since 1884 he has 
been in the railway service; during 1890- 
94 as engineer maintenance of way; and 
since 1894 as division superintendent of 
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and 
St. Louis railway. 

BAYLIES, FRANCIS, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 16, 1783, in 
Taunton, Mass. He was register of pro¬ 
bate in Bristol county, Mass., from 1812 
to 1820; was a representative in congress 
from Massachusetts from 1821 to 1827; 
and was a member of the state legislature 
from 1827 to 1832, and in 1835. In 1832 
he was appointed charge d’affaires to 
Buenos Ayres. He was the author of A 
History of the Plymouth Colony. He 
died Oct. 28, 1852, in Taunton, Mass. 

BAYLIES, NICHOLAS, jurist, author, 
was born in 1772 in Uxbridge, Mass. He 
was graduated at Dartmouth in 1794; 
studied law, and practiced in Woodstock 
and Montpelier. From 1831 to 1834 he 
was a judge of the supreme court of Ver¬ 
mont! He published a Digested Index to 
the Modern Reports of the Courts of Com¬ 
mon Law in England and the United 
States, in three volumes; and an Essay on 
Free Agency. He died Aug. 17, 1847, in 
Lyndon, Vt. 

BAYLIES, WILLIAM, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 5, 1743, in Ux¬ 
bridge, Mass. He graduated at Harvard 
college in 1760. He was a member of the 
provincial congress in 1775; often a mem¬ 
ber of the Massachusetts state council; 
served many years in the state legisla¬ 
ture; and was a presidential elector in 
1801. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts from 1805 to 
1809. He died Jan. 17, 1826, in Dighton, 
Mass. 

BAYLIES, WILLIAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 15, 1776, in 
Dighton, Mass. He was a representative 
in congress from Massachusetts from 
1813 to 1817, and again from 1833 to 1835. 
He served in the state legislature in 1830 
and 1831. He died Sept. 27, 1865, in Taun¬ 
ton, Mass. 


BAYLOR, FRANCES COURTENAY, 
author, was born Jan. 20, 1848, in Fay¬ 
etteville, Ark. Her writings have been 
principally for periodicals, in which two 
of her short stories—The Perfect Treas¬ 
ure and On This Side—attracted wide at¬ 
tention, and were published in book form 
as one narrative, On Both Sides. Her 
other works are: Juan and Juanita; and 
Behind the Blue Ridge. 

BAYLOR, GEORGE, soldier, was born 
Jan. 12, 1752, in Newmarket, Va. He 
served continuously throughout the revo¬ 
lutionary war. He participated in the 
surprise of the Hessians at Trenton; car¬ 
ried the news of the victory to congress, 
and was presented by that body with a 
horse, and advanced to the rank of 
colonel in the dragoons in 1777. He died 
in March, 1784, in Bridgetown, W. I. 

BAYLOR, ROBERT EMMETT BLED¬ 
SOE, clergyman, lawyer, jurist, legislat¬ 
or, congressman, was born May 10, 1793, 
in Lincoln county, Ky. He served in the 
war of 1812. He was elected to the Ala¬ 
bama state legislature in 1824, and in 
1829 was sent as a representative from 
Alabama to the twenty-first congress. 
Subsequent to his career in congress he 
emigrated to the republic of Texas, 
where he was immediately elected a judge 
of the district and of the supreme court, 
and held the office for twenty-five years. 
Baylor university was named as an honor 
warranted by the gifts of land and money 
made by Judge Baylor. One of the coun¬ 
ties of Texas was also named for him. 
He died Jan. 6, 1874, in Gay Hill, Tex. 

BAYLY, THOMAS HENRY, soldier, 
legislator, jurist, was born in 1810 in Ac¬ 
comac county, Va. While a member of 
the Virginia legislature he was elected 
by that body a brigadier-general of the 
militia of eastern Virginia; and subse¬ 
quently was elected judge of the circuit 
superior court of law. In 1844 he was 
elected to the national house of repre¬ 
sentatives from the Accomac district, and 
continued, by successive elections, a mem¬ 
ber of the house for twelve years. He 
died June 22, 1856. 

BAYNE, THOMAS M., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was boim June 14, 1836, in 
Allegheny, Pa. He took part in the bat¬ 
tles of Fredericksburg and Chancellors- 
ville. He was district attorney for Alle¬ 
gheny county in 1870; and was elected to 
the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and 
fifty-first congresses. He died in Alle¬ 
gheny, Pa. 

BEACH, ABEL, lawyer, poet, was born 
Feb. 7, 1829, in Groton, N. Y. In 1849 he 
graduated from the Union college of 
Schenectady, N. Y. 
He then taught 
school in Ithaca 
and Westfield acad¬ 
emies, N. Y.; and 
was a professor m 
the State university 
of Iowa. He next 
entered into the 
practice of law; and 
has attained promi¬ 
nence as a successful 
pension attorney of 
Iowa City, Iowa. He 
has served as deputy auditor of Iowa, 
and has held various public positions of 
trust in his town, county and state. He 
was one of the principal founders of the 
Theta-Delta-Chi fraternity, and is a 
prominent member of various societies. 
For many years past he has given fre¬ 
quent contributions of poetry to the press, 
and is the author of Western Airs from 
the Prairies of Iowa; and several poetic 
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BEACH, ALFRED E., inventor, jour¬ 
nalist, was born in 1826 in Springfield, 
Mass. He received an academic educa¬ 
tion, and in 1846, with Orson D. Munn, 
founded the firm of Munn and Co., and 
they became proprietors of The Scientific 
American. For almost fifty years he has 
been active in the editorship of this news¬ 
paper and in the extensive patent business 
of the firm. In 1847 he invented a type¬ 
writing machine. 


BEACH, MYRON WALTER, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Aug. 27, 1844, in La¬ 
grange, Mich. During the civil war he 
was a member of company I, first regi¬ 
ment Michigan sharpshooters. In 1870 
he was admitted to the bar, and has at¬ 
tained success in his profession at Car- 
roll, Iowa. He has been county super¬ 
intendent of schools and mayor of his 
city; and has filled various other public 
positions of trust. 


ics in the United States naval academy 
at Annapolis, Md., and from 1876 ml 
1882 professor of civil engineering in Iowa 
Agricultural college, where from 1879 till 

1882 he was also acting professor of zool¬ 
ogy and comparative anatomy, and in 

1883 professor of geology. His writings, 
principally on topics of natural history, 
include the articles, Birds of Iowa; Value 
of the Seed-Eating Birds; and similar 
contributions to scientific journals. 


BEACH, CHARLES FISK, clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born Sept. 5, 1827, 
in Hunter, N. Y. During 1851-54 he at¬ 
tended the Auburn Theological seminary, 
and was ordained to the ministry on Jan. 
3, 1855. He at once entered active work 
as pastor of the presbyterian church; 
and for nearly twenty-two years suc¬ 
cessfully followed that vocation. During 
1874-95 he was editor and publisher of 
The National Presbyterian and Exposi¬ 
tor; and also of the International Sun¬ 
day School Lessons. Since 1897 he has 
given his attention to law, with an office 
in Indianapolis, Ind. He is the author of 
Commentaries on the Law of Trust and 
Trustees; and other works. 


BEACH, CLIFTON BAILEY, lawyer, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born 
Sept. 16, 1845, in Sharon, Ohio. He re¬ 
moved to Cleveland in 1857, where he has 
since resided; was educated in the com¬ 
mon schools and Western Reserve college, 
class of 1871; was admitted to the bar in 
1872, but retired from active practice in 
1884, having become extensively engaged 
in manufacturing enterprises. He was 
•elected to the fifty-fourth, and re-elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

BEACH, DAVID NELSON, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1848 in New Jersey. 
He is a prominent congregational clergy¬ 
man of Cambridge, Mass., and since 1895 
of Minneapolis, Minn. He is the author 
of The Newer Religious Thinking; How 
We Rose; Plain Words on Our Lord’s 
Work; and The Intent of Jesus. 


BEACH, HENRY HARRIS AUBREY, 
physician, was born Dec. 18, 1843, in Mid¬ 
dletown, Conn. He was educated at Cam¬ 
bridge, and was graduated at Harvard 
Medical school in July, 1868, settling in 
Boston soon afterward. He is a member 
-of many medical associations, and in 1873 
was president of the Boylston Medical so¬ 
ciety. He became assistant demonstrator 
of anatomy in Harvard Medical school in 
1868, and surgeon in the Massachusetts 
general hospital in 1872. He has contrib¬ 
uted many papers to medical periodicals, 
and was at one time assistant editoi of 
the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. 

BEACH, JOHN N., merchant, was born 
Aug. 1, 1837, in Lodi, N. Y. He located 
in New York city; entered the dry-goods 
business; and has been a member of the 
present firm of Tefft. Weller and Co. 
since 1879. He is vice-president of the 
Mercantile Accident Insurance company, 
and president of the Dry-Goods Chronicle 
Publishing association. 


BEACH, LEWIS, lawyer, congressman, 
was born March 30, 1835, in Ne'sv 1 or \ 
city N. Y. He graduated at the Yale Law 
school in 1856; was admitted to the bar, 
and commenced practice in New York city 
the same year. In 1861 he removed to 
Orange county, N. Y., and en S a §® cl !“ 
farming and the practice of law. He was 
also a contributor to the press; was su¬ 
pervisor of the town of Cornwall in 1869, 
and was treasurer of . the n ^“^070 
state central committee from 1877 to 1879. 
He was elected a representative from 
New York to the forty-seventh, forty- 
eighth, and forty-ninth congresses^ He 
.died Aug. 11. 1886, in Cornwall, N. Y. 


BEACH, WILLIAM AUSTIN, lawyer, 
was born Aug. 22, 1842, in Baldwinsville, 

N. Y. He has attained success as a prom¬ 
inent lawyer; and in 1885 received the ap¬ 
pointment of collector of internal reve¬ 
nue for the twenty-first district of New 
York. 

BEADLE, JOHN HANSON, journalist, 
author, was born March 14, 1840, in Parke 
county, Ind. He was educated at the 
university of Michigan, ana served as a 
Union soldier during the civil war. He 
traveled extensively in America and Eu¬ 
rope, and for many years was editorial 
writer for the American Press associa¬ 
tion. He was the auinor of Life in Utah; 
The Undeveloped West; Western Wilds; 
and other works. He died Jan. 15, 1897. 
in Rockville, Ind. 

BEADLE, WILLIAM HENRY HARRI¬ 
SON, soldier, legislator, educator, college 
president, was born Jan. 1, 1838, in Parke 
county, Ind. He graduated from the uni¬ 
versity of Michigan in 1861. He served 
during the civil war from first lieutenant 
to brevet brigadier-general United States 
volunteers. He was a member of the leg¬ 
islature of Dakota territory; and served 
as superintendent of public instruction 
during 18o-85. He is the founder of the 
school system of the territory and state; 
and his most distinguished and enduring 
service was in securing the constitutional 
protection to the school lands and school 
funds of the state. He is the author of 
the provisions on education in the state 
constitution, and the upbuilder of the 
State Normal school of Madison, S. D., 
of which he has been president since 
1889. 

BEAKMAN, DANIEL FREDERICK, 
soldier, was born about 1760 in New Jer¬ 
sey. He was the last surviving soldier of 
the revolution on the pension list. 
In 1778 he was enrolled in the mili¬ 
tia, and then served in the war. His 
married life extended over eighty-five 
years, and his wife reached the age of 
one hundred and five. In 1867 congress 
passed a special act giving him a pen¬ 
sion of $500 during the remainder of his 
life. He died April 5, 1869, in Sandusky, 
N. Y. 

BEAL, ABRAHAM, philanthropist, 
was born about 1803 in Chatham, Eng¬ 
land. He became very familiar with the 
criminal laws of New York and other 
states, and in 1863 assumed the general 
agency of the New York Prison associa¬ 
tion. He was for many years an efficient 
officer of the New York Port society. He 
died Feb. 25, 1872, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BEAL, C. W., journalist, state senator, 
was born April 25, 1860, in Audrain coun¬ 
ty, Mo. In 1890 he assumed editorial con¬ 
trol of the Custer County Beacon, with 
which paper he is still connected. He 
was elected to the house of representa¬ 
tives of the legislature in 1893, and was 
elected to the state senate on the populist 
ticket in 1896. 

BEAL, FOSTER ELLENBOROUGH 
LASCELLES, naturalist, author, was 
born Jan. 9, 1840, in Ayer, Mass. He was 
graduated at the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology in 1871. During 1874-75 
he was assistant professor of mathemat- 


BEAL, GEORGE LAFAYETTE, sol¬ 
dier, was born May 21, 1825, in Norway, 
Maine. He left Portland in 1861 as 
colonel of the tenth Maine regiment. He 
was appointed by the president brigadier- 
general of volunteers in 1864, and was 
mustered out of the service in 1866. 

BEAL, WILLIAM JAMES, educator, 
botanist, author, was born March 11, 1833, 
in Adrian, Mich. He has taught natural 
history, science, botany, and horticulture 
in the leading agricultural colleges in 
America; and since 1870 has been pro¬ 
fessor of botany and forestry in the Ag¬ 
ricultural college of Michigan. He has 
filled numerous positions of honor; is 
the author of The New Botany; Grasses 
of North America; and has contributed 
extensively to current literature. 

BEALE, CHARLES L., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 5, 1824, in 
Canaan, N. Y. In 1858 he was elected a 
representative to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress from New York; in 1864 was a 
presidential elector; and was a delegate 
to the Philadelphia national union con¬ 
vention of 1866. 

BEALE, CHARLES WILLING, was 
born in 1845 in the District of Columbia. 
He is a successful writer, and the author 
of The Ghost of Guir House. 

BEALE, EDWARD FITZGERALD, sol¬ 
dier, diplomatist, was born Feb. 4, 1822, 
in Washington, D. C. In 1875 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States minister to Aus¬ 
tria. 

BEALE, JAMES M. H., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1833 to 1837, and from 1849 cO j.853. 

BEALE, MRS. MARIA, author, was 
born in 1849 in Virginia. She is a novel¬ 
ist of Arden, N. C.; and the author of 
Jack O’Doon. 

BEALE, RICHARD LEE TUBER- 
VILLE, general, lawyer, congressman, 
was born May 22, 1819, in Hickory Hill, 
Va. He was a representative from Vir¬ 
ginia in the congress of the United States 
in 1847-49; and was a member of the con¬ 
vention to form a constitution for Vir¬ 
ginia in 1851. He was a member of the 
state senate of Virginia in 1858-60. He 
was in the service of the confederate 
states, and became a brigadier-general. 
He was elected to fill the vacancy in the 
forty-fifth congress caused by the death 
of B. B. Douglas. He had previously been 
elected to the forty-sixth congress as a 
democrat. 

BEALL, JOHN YATES, adventurer, 
was born about 1833 in Virginia. He en¬ 
tered the confederate army at the out¬ 
break of the civil war, and was commis¬ 
sioned acting paymaster in the navy. He 
was captured by the federals; tried and 
found guilty of being a spy; and was exe¬ 
cuted Feb. 25, 1865. 

BEALL, REZIN, soldier, congressman, 
was born Aug. 10, 1770, in Pennsylvania. 
He was an officer in Wayne’s army, with 
Harrison and Van Rensselaer; occupied 
various public stations in Ohio; and was 
a member of congress from that state 
from 1813 to 1814, when he resigned. He 
died Feb. 20, 1843, in Wooster, Ohio. 


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BEAMAN, FERNANDO C., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born June 28, 1814, 
in Chester, Vt. He was prosecuting at¬ 
torney for Lenawee county, Mich., six 
years; was judge of probate four years; 
and was presidential elector in 1856. He 
was elected to the thirty-seventh, thirty- 
eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, and forty- 
first congresses as a republican. 

BEAN, BENNING M., state senator, 
congressman, was born in 1782 in New 
Hampshire. He occupied a seat in the 
state legislature for five years, and was 
president of the senate in 1832; was a 
state councilor in 1829; and a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1833 to 1837. He 
died Feb. 9, 1866, in Moultonborough, 
N. H. 

BEAN, CURTIS C., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 4, 1828, in Tamworth, 
N. H. He was appointed attorney-gen¬ 
eral for the eleventh judicial circuit of 
Tennessee; and was a representative in 
the state legislature in 1866 and 1867. In 
1868 he moved to Arizona territory and 
settled at Prescott. He was a member of 
the upper house in the territorial assem¬ 
bly in 1879, and in 1884 was elected dele¬ 
gate from Arizona to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress. 

BEAN, IRVING M., soldier, banker, 
was born April 27, 1838, in Essex county, 
N. Y. He attained the rank of provost 
marshal in the civil war. In 1863 he was 
elected president of the Forest City bank; 
and in 1867 president of the Northwest¬ 
ern Iron company. 

BEAN, MARY P., educator, was born 
about 1818. She opened a seminary for 
young ladies, which for twenty-four years 
was one of the most prominent in New 
York city. She died in New York city. 

BEAN, SAMUEL, physician, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, was born March 24, 1842, 
in Canada West. For many years he was 
engaged in school teaching; has been a 
successful public lecturer and a physi¬ 
cian and clergyman of Bronson, Fia., 
where he has also been justice of the 
peace and a successful merchant. 

BEAN, WILLIAM, the first white set¬ 
tler west of the Alleghanies. He was a 
companion of Daniel Boone in his visit 
to Kentucky in 1760, and returned in 1768 
and settled with his family on Boone’s 
creek, a small tributary of the Watauga. 

BEARD, ANDREW, inventor, was born 
in 1849 in Alabama. He went into mill- 
wrighting in Hardwicks; built his first 
mill there; and three years later succeed¬ 
ed in building four more. In 1889 he dis¬ 
covered the rotary engine. 

BEARD, DANIEL CARTER, artist, au¬ 
thor, was born June 21, 1850, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. In 1878 he removed to New 
York as an illustrator, and there studied 
art. He is the author of American Boy’s 
Handy Book; Moonlight; Six Feet of Ro¬ 
mance; and American Boy’s Book of 
Spirits. 

BEARD, FRANK, artist, author, the 
third son of J. H. Beard, was an artist for 
Harper and Brothers during the civil 
war. He devotes himself particularly to 
character sketches, in the production of 
which he has attained remarkable facil¬ 
ity. He lectures on various topics, ac¬ 
companying himself with crayon sketches 
on the blackboard. He was for a time 
professor of the fine arts in Syracuse 
university. He has published The Black¬ 
board and the Sunday School. 

BEARD, GEORGE MILLER, physician, 
author, was born May 8, 1839, in Mont- 
ville, Conn. He was a New York physi¬ 
cian, and the author of American Nervous 
Diseases; Causes and Consequences; The 


Scientific Basis of Delusions; Clinical 
Researches in Electro-Surgery; Medical 
Uses of Electricity; Physiology of Mind- 
Reading; Stimulants and Narcotics; Psy¬ 
chology of the Salem Witchcraft and Its 
Practical Application in Our Own Time; 
and some works of lesser note. He died 
Jan. 23, 1883, in New York. 

BEARD, HENRY, soldier, artist, the son 
of J. H. Beard, was born in 1841 in Ohio. 
He was a captain in the thirtieth Mis¬ 
souri volunteers at twenty-one years of 
age. He painted genre subjects in oils 
and water-colors, and made the uesigns 
for many of Prang’s publications. He 
died Nov. 19, 1889, in New York city, 
N. Y. 

BEARD, JAMES CARTER, lawyer, art¬ 
ist. He is a lawyer by profession, and 
has made spirited drawings of birds and 
animals, which are to be found in the 
best illustrated books and periodicals of 
the day. 

BEARD, JAMES HENRY, painter, was 
born in 1814, in Buffalo, N. Y. His fam¬ 
ily removed when he was a child to Ohio, 
and he eventually settled in Cincinnati, 
where he devoted himself for many years 
to portrait painting; Henry Clay, John 
Quincy Adams, and other distinguished 
persons being among his sitters. Of late 
years he has devoted himself chiefly to 
animal painting, in which branch of art 
he has achieved success. Among his 
best known works are: Peep at Growing 
Danger; The Widow; Mutual Friend; 
There’s Many a Slip; Consultation; Don’t 
You Know Me; Heirs at Law; Which Has 
Preemption; The Mississippi Flood; Barn 
Yard. 

BEARD, JOHN SHEPARD, lawyer, was 
born June 14, 1859, in Tallahassee, Fla. 
He received his education in his native 
city and the university of the south. He 
has attained prominence as an able law¬ 
yer of Pensacola, Fla., where he has 
filled several public positions of honor. 

BEARD, RICHARD, educator, college 
president, author, was born Nov. 27, 1799, 
in Sumner county, Tenn. He was grad¬ 
uated at Cumberland university, Tennes¬ 
see, in 1832; and became president of the 
university in 1843. On the founding of 
the Theological school of the university 
in 1853, he resigned the presidency of the 
university and took the chair of system¬ 
atic theology, being in reality for the next 
twenty-five years both principal and pro¬ 
fessor. He was a leader in the Cumber¬ 
land Presbyterian organization, and pub¬ 
lished Systematic Theology; also Bio¬ 
graphical Sketches; and Why I Am a 
Cumberland Presbyterian. He died Dec. 
2, 1880, in Lebanon, Tenn. 

BEARD, WILLIAM HENRY, inventor, 
was born Oct. 12, 1839, in Richmond, 
Mass. The Beard hydraulic shield was 
used in the construction of the great rail¬ 
way tunnel under the St. Clair river at 
Port Huron and Sarnia, between the 
United States and Canada, as well as in 
excavating the underground railway tun¬ 
nels in London and Glasgow, the Hudson 
river tunnel, and other similar works. 
He is the designer of many other inven¬ 
tions. 

BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK, artist, 
was born April 13, 1825, in Painesville, 
Ohio. He studied art abroad, and he is 
widely known for his pictures of alle¬ 
gory and humor portrayed by animal and 
human creatures. He has written a text¬ 
book on art entitled Action in Art. Hu¬ 
mor in Animals is another book published 
a few years ago, besides various magazine 
articles. The Spirit of the Storm is con¬ 
sidered his greatest work. 


BEARDSLEY, ALONZO, lawyer, manu¬ 
facturer, was born July 11, 1820, in Venice, 
N. Y. He was elected secretary of the Os¬ 
wego Starch factory, and continued in this 
position until 1858, when he became treas¬ 
urer. In 1866 he entered the Cayhga 
Chief Manufacturing Co., and carried on 
the manufacture of the Cayuga Chief 
mower and reaper. 

BEARDSLEY, ARTHUR, engineer, was 
born Nov. 1, 1843, in Esopus, N. Y. Dur¬ 
ing 1867-68 he was assistant engineer at 
the Hoosac tunnel, Mass., and from 1863 
till 1872 professor of civil engineering 
and industrial mechanics at the univer¬ 
sity of Minnesota. In 1872 he became 
professor of civil and mechanical engi¬ 
neering in Swarthmore college, where he 
organized a manual training department, 
of which he is director. 

BEaRDSLEY, CHARLES, physician, 
journalist, state senator, was born Feb. 
18, 1830, in Knox county, Ohio. He prac¬ 
ticed medicine at Oskaloosa, Iowa, until 
1861; was editor of the Herald of that 
place from 1858 to 1865; and of the Bur¬ 
lington Hawkeye from 1865 to 1874. He 
was a member of the state senate in 1870, 
1872, and 1873; and in 1879 was appointed 
fourth auditor of the treasury at Wash¬ 
ington. 

BEARDSLEY, EBEN EDWARDS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1808 in Step¬ 
ney, Conn. He is an episcopal clergy¬ 
man of New Haven; and the author of 
History of the Episcopal Church in Con¬ 
necticut; Lives of Samuel Johnson, the 
First President of King’s College, New 
York, William Samuel Johnson, presi¬ 
dent of Columbia College; and Samuel 
Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut. He died 
in 1891. 

BEARDSLEY, HOSEA L., soldier, cler¬ 
gyman, was born June 11, 1838, in Dela¬ 
ware county, N. Y. He served with dis¬ 
tinction during the civil war; first in the 
eighteenth regiment, Iowa volunteer in¬ 
fantry, and was promoted- to first lieu¬ 
tenant of the second regiment, Arkansas 
infantry. Since 1866 he has been clergy¬ 
man of the Methodist Episcopal church; 
and since 1885 has been pastor of the 
Simpson Methodist Episcopal church of 
Denver, Colo. 

BEARDSLEY, ISAAC H., clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 1, 1831, in North 
Harpersfield, N. Y. For nearly fifty 
years he has been a clergyman of the 
methodist episcopal church; and has filled 
pastorates in New York, Ohio, and for the 
past thirty years in Colorado. During 
the civil war he was a chaplain in the 
Union army. He is the author of Echoes 
from Peak and Plain; and a Genealog¬ 
ical History of the Beardsley family. 

BEARDSLEY, LEVI, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, jurist, was born Nov. 13,1785, in Hoo- 
sic, N. Y. In 1825 he was elected to the 
state assembly that passed the first rail¬ 
road charter in the United States. He was 
elected to the state senate in 1829; re¬ 
elected in 1834; and was president of the 
senate in 1838, and for many years judge 
of the court of errors of New York. Be¬ 
sides his legal opinions, he published an 
autobiographical volume entitled Remi¬ 
niscences. He died March 19, 1857, in New 
York. 

BEARDSLEY, MORRIS BEACH, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, was born Aug. 13, 
1849, in Trumbull, Conn. He graduated 
from Yale university and Columbia col¬ 
lege law school, and has been judge of 
the Bridgeport probate court for sixteen 
years; and member of the general assem¬ 
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BEARDSLEY, NELSON, manufacturer, 
bank president, was born May 30, 1807, 
in Southbury, Conn. In 1848 he became 
one of the incorporators of me Oswego 
Starch factory, and in 1883 its president, 
and held the office for the rest of his 
life. He gained a fortune of seven mil¬ 
lions. He died Jan. 15, 1894, in Auburn, 
N. Y. 

BEARDSLEY, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1790, in 
Hoosic, N. Y. He held the post of at¬ 
torney-general of the state. He was a 
representative in congress from Oneida 
county, N. Y., to the twenty-second, 
twenty-third, and a part of the twenty- 
fourth and twenty-eighth congresses. He 
also held the office of state senator in 
1823, and was assistant justice and chief 
justice of the supreme court of the state, 
and the federal appointment of United 
States district attorney for New York. 
He died May 6 , 1860, in Utica, N. Y. 

BEARD&lEY, SAMUEL RAYMOND, 
lawyer, soldier, was born Dec. 31, 1814, 
in Cherry Valley, N. Y. He was elected 
mayor of Oswego in 1852; appointed post¬ 
master in 1853; and was defeated as a 
candidate for the assembly in 1858. He 
was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of 
the twenty-fourth New York volunteers in 
1861; was wounded at Chancellorsville, 
and was promoted to the colonelcy in 
1863. He died Dec. 28, 1863, in Stevens- 
burg, Va. 

BEASELEY, NATHANIEL, pioneer, 
state senator, was born in 1751. He was 
a large and powerful man; a noted In¬ 
dian fighter, and performed valuable serv¬ 
ices in the St. Clair and Wayne cam¬ 
paigns. He afterward settled in Chilli- 
cothe, Ohio; was a member of the general 
assembly in 1819-20 from Adams county, 
and senator from Brown in 1820-22. He 
was also canal commissioner and major- 
general of militia. He died March 27, 
1835, in Knox county, Ohio. 

BEiioLEY, FREDERICK, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1777, near Edenton, 
N. C. He was an episcopal clergyman 
who was provost of the university of 
Pennsylvania. He was the author of An 
Examination of the Oxford Divinity; 
Search of Truth in the Science of the 
Human Mind; and Reply to Dr. Chan- 
ning. He died Nov. 2, 1845, in Elizabeth¬ 
town, N. J. 

BEATTIE, ELISE, author, poet, was 
born Feb. 27, 1858, in Newbury, Vt. Sue 
is the author of a volume of poems en¬ 
titled Echoes, which was published in 
1873. 

BEATTIE, HAMLIN, manufacturer, 
banker, was born May 6 , 1835, in Green¬ 
ville, S. C. In 1859 he established the 
mercantile house of H. Beattie and Co.; 
and in 1872 organized and became the 
president of the National bank of Green¬ 
ville. S. C. 

BEATTIE, JAMES HENRY, civil en¬ 
gineer, state senator, was born Jan. 17, 
1847, in Maidstone, Vt. He is a success¬ 
ful farmer and land surveyor of Bruns¬ 
wick, Vt. In 1872-74 he was a member of 
the Vermont house of representatives; 
and in 1896 was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate. 

BEATTIE, JOHN, contractor, was born 
June 18, 1824, in Scotland. In 1855 he 
purchased the Harrison quarry at 1 all 
River; and a year later opened another 
quarry at Niantic, Conn. Among the 
most notable structures he has built are 
the stone towers for the suspension 
bridge across the Kentucky river; bridges 
on the Wabash railroad in Indiana; and 
the great bridge across the Ohio, between 
Cincinnati and Covington. 


BEATTY, HARRY L., lawyer, state 
legislator, was born April 4, 1865, in Ra¬ 
venna, Ohio. He is a successful lawyer 
of Ravenna; has filled numerous public 
offices; and served as a member of the 
seventy-second and seventy-third gen¬ 
eral assemblies of Ohio. 

BEATTY, JOHN, physician, congress¬ 
man. He was a delegate to the conti¬ 
nental congress from 1783 to 17 »5; and a 
representative in congress from New Jer¬ 
sey from 1793 to 1795. He died April 30, 
1826, in Trenton. 

BEATTY, JOHN, banker, general, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 16 , 1828, in San¬ 
dusky city, Ohio. He entered the third 
Ohio infantry and became brigadier-gen¬ 
eral in the civil war. He was elected a 
representative from Ohio to the fortieth 
congress to fill a vacancy, and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-first congress. 

BEATTY, MARTIN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1833 to 1835. 

BEATTY, ROBERT MUIR, attorney- 
general, was born March 4, 1850, in Mount 
Morris, Ill. In 1873 he moved to Eureka 
county, Nev., where he served as district 
attorney during 1887-88, and continued 
to reside there until his election to the 
office of attorney-general in 1894. 

BEATTY, SAMUEL, farmer, soldier, 
was born Dec. 16, 1820, in Mifflin county, 
Pa. He served nearly two years in the 
Mexican war as first lieutenant in the 
third Ohio volunteers. He was made 
brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, 
commanded a division in the Dattle of 
Stone River, and was brevetted major- 
general in 1865. He died May 26, 1885, in 
Jackson, Ohio. 

BEATTY, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in Ireland. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1837 to 1841. 

BEATTY, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Feb. 18, 1838, in Lucas 
county, Ohio. He received the rudiments 
of his education in the common schools 
of California and Kentucky; and attend¬ 
ed the university of Virginia. During 
1864-75 he was judge of the district court 
of Nevada; justice of the supreme court 
of Nevada during 1875-81; and since 1889 
has been chief justice of the supreme 
coui't of California. 

BEAUCHAMP, JAMES T., lawyer, was 
born March 13, 1864, in Morgantown, Ky. 
He graduated from the Ogden college of 
Bowling Green, Ky., where he has at¬ 
tained eminence as an able lawyer, mak¬ 
ing a specialty of equity practice in fed¬ 
eral and state courts. After graduation 
he taught school for awhile, and for two 
years was clerk of the quarterly court of 
Warrenton, Ky. 

BEAli^HAMP, JENNIE B., reformer, 
author, was born July 9, 1833, in Nelson 
county, Ky. She is the author of Maple- 
hurst; Digest of Parliamentary Laws; 
and A Collection of Responsive Bible 
Readings. The pen of this writer has 
been especially devoted to reform work, 
and in 1883 she was elected state presi¬ 
dent of the Texas Woman’s Christian 
Temperance union. 

BEAUCHAMP, LOU J., journalist, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born Jan. 14, 1851, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been telegraph, 
news and literary editor of the Cincin¬ 
nati Times-Star, and has been connected 
with various leading dailies. Since 1877 
he has been principally engaged as a 
temperance lecturer, and has been called 
The Western Gough. He is the author 
of two books: This, That and The Other; 
and Sunshine. 


BEAUMONT, ANDREW, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1833 to 1837; and was ap¬ 
pointed, in 1846, commissioner of public 
buildings for the District of Columbia. 
He died Oct. 30, 1853, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. 

BEAUMONT, BETTY BENTLEY, mer¬ 
chant, author, was born Aug. 9, 1828, in 
England. She was the only child of 
Joseph Bentley, the great educational re¬ 
former, and author of thirty-three books 
to improve the methods of education. She 
became a successful merchant of Wood- 
ville, Miss.; and is the author of Twelve 
Years of My Life; and A Business Wom¬ 
an’s Journal. 

BEAUMONT, JOHN G., naval officer, 
was born Aug. 27, 1821, in Pennsylvania. 
He was engaged as commander of a 
monitor in attacks on the fortifications 
in Charleston harbor during the civil war, 
and took a prominent part in the capture 
of Fort Wagner. He died Aug. 2, 1882. 

BEAUREGARD, PIERRE GUSTAVE 
TOUTANT, general, author, was born 
May 28, 1818, in St. Bernard parish, La. 

As a commander of 
the confederate 
army he was very 
popular. He is in¬ 
cluded among Lou¬ 
isiana’s d i s t i n- 
guished authors, in 
virtue of his Com¬ 
mentary on the 
Campaign and Battle 
of Manassas, and his 
Summary of the Art 
of War. He died 
Feb. 20, 1893, in New 

Orleans, La. 

BEAUSAY, RICHARD FAUSTINUS, 
educator, lawyer, clergyman, was born 
Feb. 15, 1859, near Greenville, Ohio. He 
was a printer and newspaper correspond¬ 
ent in his youth, attended school at the 
Ohio Normal university of Ada, Ohio, and 
followed educational work for fifteen 
years. In 1895 he was admitted to the bar 
at Columbus, and practiced law for a 
brief period at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. 
In 1896 he became a clergyman of the 
methodist episcopal church, entering the 
Central Ohio conference at Bellefontaine, 
and was appointed to the pastorate of 
Dixon circuit. 

BEAUVAIS, ARMAND, sixth governor 
of Louisiana, was a creole of that state. 
He became governor by constitutional 
right, being president of the state and ex- 
officio lieutenant-governor at the time of 
Governor Derbigny’s death. He was 
justice of the peace in 1810; was elected 
to the state legislature in 1814, to which 
position he was afterward twice re-elect¬ 
ed. During 1822-30 he was a continuous 
member of the state senate. 

BEAVER, JAMES ADDAMS, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Oct. 21, 
1837, in Millerstown, Pa. In 1856 he grad¬ 
uated from the Jefferson college. During 
the civil war he served with distinction 
and was mustered out on account of 
wounds received in battle Dec. 4, 1864, as 
brevet brigadier-general United States 
volunteers. During 1870-87 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the national guard of Pennsylvania, 
in which he served as brigadier-general 
and major-general. In 1880 he was chair¬ 
man of the Pennsylvania delegation to 
the republican national convention. In 
1882 and 1886 he was the candidate for 
governor of Pennsylvania, and filled that 
high office during 1887-91. In 1895 he 
was appointed judge of the superior court 
of Pennsylvania; and the same year was 
elected to that office to serve ten years 
from January. 1896. 




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BEBB, WILLIAM, governor, was born 
in 1802 in Butler county, Ohio. He was 
governor of Ohio from 1846 to 1848. He 
<iied Oct. 24, 1873, in Rockford, Ill. 


BECHTEL, GEORGE, manufacturer, 
philanthropist, was born in 1840 in Ger¬ 
many. After graduating from the Col- 
__umbia college, he 

f igs- became identified 

with his father’s 
brewery, which was 
6 * established in 1853 

; at Stapleton, Staten 
Island. In 1870 he 
became sole propri¬ 
etor; and was one of 
the largest taxpayers 
on Staten Island. He 
filled numerous pub¬ 
lic offices of trust; 
was four times elect¬ 
ed delegate from Richmond county to the 
state convention; and in 1888 was a presi¬ 
dential elector. Shortly before his death 
he erected Bechtel’s hospital on Staten 
Island, which his widow subsequently do¬ 
nated to the Smith’s infirmary. He was 
extremely charitable, and foremost in all 
benevolent works on Staten Island. He 
■died July 16, 1889, leaving an estate worth 
two million dollars. 



BECK, CHARLES, educator, legislator, 
was born Aug. 19, 1798, in Heidelberg, 
•Germany. In 1832 he was elected to the 
chair of Latin language and literature 
•at Cambridge, and, on his retirement from 
that professorship in 1850, he devoted 
himself to literary pursuits and classical 
studies. In 1863 he published The Manu¬ 
scripts of the Satyricon of Petronius Ar¬ 
biter, described and collated. He was for 
two years a representative of Cambridge 
in the state legislature. He died March 
19, 1866, in Cambridge, Mass. 

BECK, ERASMUS W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 21, 1833, in Mc¬ 
Donough, Ga. He was educated at Mer¬ 
cer university, in that state; was admit¬ 
ted to the bar in Georgia in 1856; and 
practiced his profession there. He was 
elected to the forty-second congress to 
fill a vacancy. 

BECK, GEORGE, poet, was born in 1749 
In England. He wrote short poems, made 
poetic translations from Anacreon, Ho¬ 
mer, Virgil, and Horace, and in 1812 pub¬ 
lished Observations on the Comet. In 
1795*he served as a scout in Wayne’s cam¬ 
paign against the Indians. He died Dec. 
24, 1812, in Lexington, Ky. 

BECK, JAMES B., lawyer, United 
States senator, was born Feb. 13, 1822, in 
Scotland. In 1867 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Kentucky to the fortieth 
congress, and was re-elected to the three 
succeeding congresses. He was elected a 
United States senator from Kentucky for 
the term of six years, from 1877; and 
was re-elected for a second term of six 
years. He died May 3, 1890, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

BECK, JOHN BRODHEAD, physician, 
author, was born Sept. 18,1794, in Schenec¬ 
tady, N. Y. He was the author of Medical 
Essays; and with his brother, T. Romeyn 
Beck, produced the great work on Medical 
Jurisprudence. He was also the author 
of Infant Therapeutics; and Historical 
Sketch of the State of Medicine in the Col¬ 
onies. He died April 9, 1851, in Rhine- 
beck, N. Y. 

BECiv, LEONORA, educator, author, 
was born in Georgia. For five years she 
was the president of the Capitol Female 
college of Atlanta, Ga., and now fills the 
chair of Latin and Greek in the Gardner 
Institute of New York city. She is the 
•author of a work of prose and verse. 


BECK, LEWIS C., chemist, author, was 
born Oct. 4, 1798, in Schenectady, N. Y. 

In 1830 he was appointed professor of 
chemistry and natural history in Rutger’s 
college, and, at the time of his death, 
was professor of chemistry in the Albany 
Medical college. He published Account 
of the Salt Springs at Salina; On Adulter¬ 
ations; Botany of the United States, and 
of the United States North of Virginia; 
Mineralogy of New York; Illinois and 
Missouri Gazetteer; and Chemistry. He 
died April 20, 1853, in Albany, N. Y. 

BECK, PAUL, philanthropist, was born 
in 1760 in Philadelphia, Pa. He acquired 
a large fortune in the wine trade, and for 
several years filled the office of port war¬ 
den of Philadelphia. He was one of the 
founders of the Philadelphia academy of 
fine arts, a benefhctor of the deaf and 
dumb institution of that city; president 
of the American Sunday School union; 
and a contributor to various other chari¬ 
table and religious undertakings. He died 
Dec. 22, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BECK, SAMUEL, .educator, clergyman, 
was born Nov. 3, 1832, near Richmond, 
Ind. He received his education in the 
public schools and academies of eastern 
Indiana; and received the degree of 
doctor of divinity from the DePauw uni¬ 
versity. For ten years he was engaged in 
educational work in the common and 
special schools. He has attained success 
as an eminent clergyman; has filled pas¬ 
torates in the methodist episcopal church 
in Covington, Attica, Crawfordsville, 
Greencastle, Thorntown, Terre Haute, and 
Brazil; and for the past twelve years 
has been presiding elder of the Valparaiso 
district. 

BECK, THEODRIC ROMEYN, author, 
was born April 11, 1791, in Schenectady, 
N. Y. He was a medical writer of Al¬ 
bany; and the author of Elements of 
Medical Jurisprudence, with J. B. Beck, 
his brother. He died Nov. 19, 1855, in 
Utica, N. Y. 

BECKER, CYNTHIA ANN, poet. She 
is a successful writer of Lincoln, Neb.; 
and her poems constantly appear in the 
western press. 

BECKER, GEORGE FERDINAND, ge¬ 
ologist, author, was born Jan. o, 1847, in 
New York city. He is a geologist in the 
United States service; and the author of 
Geology of the Comstock Lode; Atomic 
Weight Determinations; Geometrical 
Value of Volcanic Cones; A New Law 
of Thermo-Chemistry; Geology of the 
Quicksilver Deposits of the Pacific Slope; 
and several lesser works. 

BECKER, HARRY WILLIAM, was 
born June 18, 1868, in Girardville, Pa. 
He was educated in the common schools 
of his native place 
and at Ashland, Wil¬ 
liamsport, and in a 
business college of 
Philadelphia. H e 
built the Palace the¬ 
ater in Girardville, 
of which he is owner 
and manager. He has 
been engaged with 
and interested in nu¬ 
merous theatrical en¬ 
terprises; and is the 
owner and editor of 
the Footlight, a theatrical paper, and The 
Weekly Stem. He is an accomplished 
musician and leads a band numbering 
over one hundred men. He is a member 
of the board of trade of his city, and is 
interested in various business enterprises. 

BECKER, PHILIP, merchant, public 
official, was born in April, 1830, in Ger¬ 
many. He attained success as a mer¬ 
chant in Buffalo. N. Y., and has retired 


from active business. He served three 
terms as mayor of the city of Buffalo; 
and since 18b9 has been president of the 
Buffalo German Insurance company. He 
was a delegate to the republican national 
convention of 1876. 

BECKER, THOMAS A., Roman Cath¬ 
olic bishop, was born in 1832 in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. He was appointed professor of 
theology, ecclesiastical history, and sacred 
scriptures in St. Mary’s college, Emmetts- 
burg, and was one of the chief secretaries 
of the plenary council assembled at Balti¬ 
more. He was then stationed at the ca¬ 
thedral of Richmond, where he remained 
until created bishop of the new diocese 
of Wilmington, Del. He has contributed 
largely to reviews and periodicals, and his 
series of articles in the American Cath¬ 
olic Quarterly on the idea of a true uni¬ 
versity attracted wide attention. 

BECKETT, SYLVESTER BREAK- 
MORE, author, poet, was born in 1812 in 
Maine. He was a publisher of Portland, 
Maine; and the author of Hester, the 
Bride of the Islands, a Poem; and Guide 
Book of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence. 
He died in 1882. 

BECKHAM, CARL H., lawyer, state 
legislator, was born July 3, 1860, in Henry 
county, Ohio. He studied law in Toledo, 
was admitted to the bar in 1886, and has 
been ever since engaged in the practice 
of his profession in that city. He was 
elected to the seventy-first Ohio general 
assembly as a republican, and re-elected 
to the seventy-second general assembly. 
In 1888 he was a candidate of the demo¬ 
cratic party for congress. He has been 
a member of the board of city school ex¬ 
aminers for about eighteen years. 

BECKLEY, JOHN NEWTON, educator, 
lawyer, railroad president, was born Dec. 
30, 1848, in Clarendon, N. Y. From 1870- 
71 he became principal of the public 
schools of Lanesboro, Minn.; and at 
Rushford from 1871-72. In 1882 he was 
elected city attorney of Rochester, N. Y.; 
and in 1889 was elected president of a rail¬ 
road; and in 1892 became president of 
the street railroad association of the state 
of New York at Rochester. 

BECKNER, WILLIAM MORGAN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born June 
19, 1841, in Nicholas county, Ky. He was 
elected city judge without opposition 
March, 1865; county attorney without op¬ 
position in 1867; was nominated without 
opposition and elected county judge in 
1870; was appointed prison commissioner 
in 1880, and wrote report of commission 
with reference to system for manag¬ 
ing state prisons. He was appoint¬ 
ed railroad commissioner in 1882 and 
served until February, 1884, when he 
resigned. He was nominated and elect¬ 
ed member of the constitutional con¬ 
vention without opposition in 1890; and 
was elected to the legislature without op¬ 
position in 1893. He was elected to con¬ 
gress as a democrat in 1894, to fill a 
vacancy. 

BECKWITH, AMOS, soldier, was born 
in 1830 in Vermont. He was graduated 
at West Point in 1850, and served in the 
Seminole war. He was brevetted briga¬ 
dier-general in the United States army 
in 1865, and promoted lieutenant-colonel 
on the general staff in 1874. 

BECKWITH, CHARLbs D„ manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 
1838, in Saratoga, N. Y. He was educated 
at private schools in Troy, N. Y.; Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa.; Worcester, Mass.; and at 
New Haven, Conn, (military). He is en¬ 
gaged in iron manufacturing; served as 
alderman and mayor, each four years; 
and was elected to the fifty-first congress 
as a republican. 




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BECKWITH, EDWARD GRIFFIN, sol¬ 
dier, was born June 25, 1818, in Gaze- 
novia, N. Y. He was graduated at West 
Point in 1842, served in the war with 
Mexico at Tampico and Vera Cruz. In 
1865, he received the brevet rank of brig- - 
adier-general, United States army, for 
faithful and meritorious services during 
the war. He died June 22, 1881, in Clif¬ 
ton, N. Y. 

BECKWITH. EMMA, rt former, was 

born Dec. 4, 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

She received her education in the public 
schools of Toledo, 
Ohio, and was the 
li r s t woman go¬ 
ing into business 
life in lower New 
York, at 66 Nassau 
street. She was 
nominated for mayor 
of Brooklyn, made a 
genuine canvass, and 
obtained a large 
vote. She is an 
earnest advocate of 
woman suffrage, and 
has entered the regular lecture field, in 

which she has attained eminent success. 
She has also been foremost in all chari¬ 
table works and philanthropic move¬ 
ments. 

BECKWITH, JAMES CARROLL, paint¬ 
er, was born Sept. 23, 1852, in Hannibal, 
Mo. He is a son of N. M. Beckwith, who 
was United States_commissioner-generaI 
at the international exhibition of Paris 
in 1867. He studied art for two years in 
the national academy, New York, and for 
five years in the Paris school of arts. 
His works include Judith, portraits ex¬ 
hibited at the New York academy of de¬ 
sign, and The Falconer, sent to the Paris 
exposition of 1878. He received a medal 
from the Universal exposition in Paris in 
1889. 

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BECKWITH, JOHN WATRUS, bishop, 
was born Feb. 9, 1831, in Raleigh, N. C. 
At the close of the war he became rector 
of Trinity church, New Orleans, and while 
there was elected protestant episcopal 
bishop of Georgia. He died Nov. 24, 1890, 
in Atlanta, Ga. 

BECKWITH, PHILO DANIEL, was 
born March 6, 1825, in Pike, N. Y. In 
1871 he invented the Round Oak stove 
for heating purposes, which has since 
revolutionized the stove trade of the 
United States. He was elected mayor of 
Dowagiac, Mich., four times. 

BECKWITH, MRS. SUE E., poet, was 
born in 1843, in DeKalb county, Ill. She 
is a writer of Audale, Kan.; and the au¬ 
thor of the poem entitled A Legend of 
Arkansas. 

BECKWITH, WALTER PARKER, edu¬ 
cator, was born Aug. 27, 1851, in Lemp- 
ster, N. H. In 1871 he graduated from the 
Kimball Union academy of Meriden, 
N. H.; and from Tufts college in 1876. 
For two years he was principal of the 
Chicopee Falls high school; and during 
1878-96 was superintendent of schools at 
Adams, Mass. Since 1896 he has been 
connected with the State Normal school 
of Salem, Mass. 

BECKWOURTH, JAMES P., pioneer, 
was born about 1800 in Virginia. He was 
a mulatto. About 1850 he discovered the 
pass through the Sierra Nevada moun¬ 
tains that bears his name. During his 
adventurous life he was at one time chief 
among the Crow Indians, and he figures 
in many books of western travel. He died 
in 1867. 


BEDEL, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born July 8, 1822, in Indian 
Stream territory, N. H. His father was 
Gen. Moody Bedel. 
The son enlisted as 
a private in the Mex¬ 
ican war in 1847, 
and became a captain 
in 1849. He was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 
1850, and practiced 
in Bath. He was 
made a brigadier- 
general of United 
States volunteers, 
by brevet, dating in 
1865, for gallant 
and meritorious services. He repre¬ 
sented the town of Bath in the legis¬ 
lature, and was several times the unsuc¬ 
cessful democratic candidate for governor. 
He died Feb. 26, 1875, in Bath, N. H. 

BEDEL, TIMOTHY, soldier, was horn 
about 1740 in Salem, N. H. He served as 
a lieutenant in the French war. In 1775 
he was appointed captain of rangers, and 
in 1776, colonel of the first New Hamp¬ 
shire regiment, joining the northern army 
under Schuyler. He died February, 1787 
in Haverhill, N. H. 

BEDELL, FREDERICK, physicist elec¬ 
trician, was born April 12, 1868, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He .graduated from Yale, and 
later received the degree of Ph. D. from 
Cornell, where he was appointed assist¬ 
ant professor of physics in 1893. He is 
the editor of the Physical Review, is well 
known by his scientific writings, and as 
the author of Alternating Currents; A 
Laboratory Manual of Physics; and The 
Principles of the Transformer. 

BEDELL, GREGORY THURSTON, 
bishop, author, was born Aug. 17, 1817, in 
Hudson, N. Y. He was the third protest¬ 
ant episcopal bishop of Ohio, and a valued 
writer of the evangelical school. He is 
the author of The Divinity of Christ; 
The Profit of Godliness; Pastoral The¬ 
ology; Principles of Pastorship; The 
Age of Indifference; Episcopacy; Fact 
and Law; and a few minor works. He 
died in 1892. 

BEDELL, GREGORY TOWNSEND, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 28, 1793, 
on Staten Island, N. Y. He was an epis¬ 
copal clergyman of Philadelphia, and once 
famous as a preacher. He is the author of 
Renunciation; Ezekiel’s Vision; and Ser¬ 
mons were his chief works. He died Aug. 
30, 1834, in Baltimore, Md. 

BEDELL, LOUIS, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, was born Oct. 1, 1864, in Coxsackie, 
N. Y. He is a successful lawyer of New 
York city; and in 1896-97 served with 
distinction as a member of the New York 
state legislature. 

BEDFORD, GUNNING, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born about 1730 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lieutenant 
in the French war in 1755; major in 1775; 
lieutenant-colonel in Hasler’s regiment in 
1776; was wounded at White Plains; and 
subsequently appointed muster-master- 
general in 1776. He was a delegate to the 
continental congress from 1783 to 1785; 
and governor of Delaware in 1796 and 
1797. He died Sept. 30, 1797, in New 
Castle, Del. 

BEDFORD, GUNNING, JR., lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born in 1747, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated at New 
Jersey college in 1771; practiced law at 
Dover, and at Wilmington, Del.; was a 
member of the legislature; attorney-gen¬ 
eral of the state; and a delegate to the 
continental congress in 1785 and 1786. 
He was a member of the convention which 




formed the federal constitution; was a 
presidential elector in 1789 and 1793; and 
was United States district judge from 
1789. He died March 30, 1812, in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. 

BEDFORD, GUNNING S„ physician, 
author, was born in 1806, in Baltimore, 
Md. He was the author of Lectures on 
Diseases of Women and Children; Mid¬ 
wifery; and has translated flom the 
French several medical works. He died 
Sept. 5, 1870, in New York city. 

BEDFORD, MRS. LOU S., poet. Her 
first work, A Vision and Other Poems, 
was published in 1881, and by permission 
was reproduced in London. This volume 
elicited many fine encomiums from such 
men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Long¬ 
fellow, and Paul Hayne. In 1888 ap¬ 
peared Gathered Leaves, a very fine col¬ 
lection of her later poems. 

BEDINGER, GEORGE M., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born about 175o in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was one of the earliest emi¬ 
grants to Kentucky. He served as ad¬ 
jutant in the expedition against Chilli- 
cothe in 1779; as major at cne battle of 
Blue Licks in 1782; and did good service 
throughout the war as an Indian spy. He 
was major of the United States infantry 
in 1792-93; was a member of the Kentucky 
legislature in 1792; and a representative 
in congress from that state from 1803 to 
1807. He died in 1830 in Lower Blue 
Licks, Ky. 

BEDINGER, HENRY, lawyer, diplom¬ 
atist, congressman, was born in 1810 near 
Shepherdstown, Va. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from Virginia from 1845 
to 1849, where he was distinguished for 
his eloquence as a debater. In 1853 he 
was appointed charge d’affaires to Den¬ 
mark, afterward minister resident. Dur¬ 
ing his residence in Denmark he was suc¬ 
cessful in bringing about the treaty abol¬ 
ishing the sound dues. He died Nov. 26, 
1858, in Shepherdstown, Va. 

BEDLE, JOSEPH DORSET, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, governor, was born Jan. 3, 1831, in 
Mattawan, N. J. In 1865 he was appointed 
a judge of the supreme court of New Jer¬ 
sey, and was reappointed in 1872. In 
1874 he was elected governor of New Jer¬ 
sey, and served three years. 

BEDLE, JOSEPH DORSETT, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, was born Jan. 5, 1821, in 
Middletown, N. J. In 1865 he was elect¬ 
ed justice of the supreme court of New 
Jersey; and in 1875-78 was elected the 
twenty-sixth governor of New Jersey. 

BEDLOW, HENRY, capitalist, was born 
Dec. 21, 1821, in New York city. In 1868 
the island to which he gave his name, 
came to him by purchase, and there he 
made his home. He also served in 1848 
as assistant physician of the American 
expedition to the Dead sea. While thor¬ 
oughly a New Yorker, Mr. Bedlow long 
ago made Newport, R. I., his home, and 
held the office of mayor of that city in 
1875, 1876 and 1877. 

BEE, BERNARD E., soldier, was born 
about 1823 in Charleston, S. C. He served 
as captain on frontier duty in Minnesota, 
on the Utah expedition, and in Dakota 
until March 3, 1861, when he resigned and 
entered the confederate service. He held 
the rank of brigadier-general, and com¬ 
manded a brigade of South Carolina 
troops at Bull Run. He died July 21, 1861. 

BEE, HAMILTON P., soldier. He was a 
general in the confederate service during 
the civil war. He is a brouier of Bernard 
C. Bee, who at Bull Run said: There is 
Jackson standing like a stone wall, thus 
giving to that officer a name that would 
live for all time, while he was to die that 
day himself. 


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BEE, THOMAS, jurist, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was horn in 1729 in South Carolina. 
He was a revolutionary patriot of South 
Carolina; member of the assembly; 
speaker of the house of representatives; 
member of the privy council; judge of the 
state courts; member of the council of 
safety; and lieutenant-governor. He was 
a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1780 to 1782, and finally district 
judge; and published Reports of the Dis¬ 
trict Courts of South Carolina in 1810. 

BEEBE, BEZALEEL, soldier, legislator, 
was born April 28, 1741, in Litchfield, 
Conn. As one of Rogers’ celebrated rang¬ 
ers, he was engaged in the bloody fight 
where Putnam was captured, and he was 
also at the capture of Montreal in 1760. 
He was appointed to the command of all 
the Connecticut troops raised for sea- 
coast defence, with the duties and pay of 
a brigadier-general. After the war he 
was frequently a member of the legisla¬ 
ture. He died May 29, 1824, in Litchfield, 
Conn. 

BEEBE, GEORGE M., journalist, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Oct. 38, 1836, 
in New Vernon, N. Y. In 1859 he went to 
Kansas; was elected to the territorial 
council, appointed secretary of the terri¬ 
tory, and was acting governor. In 1872- 
73 he was president of the democratic 
state convention at Syracuse and Utica, 
N. Y.; was elected to the legislature of 
New York in 1873-74; and was elected a 
representative from New York to the 
forty-fourth and forty-mth congresses. 

BEEBE, JOHN W., educator, journalist, 
poet, was born Aug. 2, 1853, in George¬ 
town, Del. He is a successful educator 
and journalist of Kingman, Kan.; and the 
author of a number of meritorious poems. 

BEEBE, MILTON EARL, architect, 
was born Nov. 27, 1840, in Cassadaga, 
N. Y. He is one of the leading architects 
in the city of Buffalo, and has built and 
designed many of the most important 
buildings of that city. In 1879 he was 
elected alderman, and in 1881 mayor of 
Buffalo. 

BEEBE, WARREN LORING, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, was born March 16, 1848, 
in Belpre, Ohio. He is one of the fore¬ 
most physicians and surgeons of Minne¬ 
sota at St. Cloud; has been president 
of the Minnesota State Medical society; 
and surgeon to the Northern Pacific and 
Great Northern railroad companies. 

BEECH, MRS. MARY TURNER, poet, 
was born in Homer, N. Y. She is a poet 
of Beechville, Ill.; and has contributed 
extensively to current literature. 

BEECHER, CATHERINE ESTHER, 
educator, author, was born Sept. 6, 1800, 
in East Hampton, N. Y., and is a daughter 
of L. Beecher, a New England educator 
of much celebrity at one time, who wrote 
with the ardor of sincerest conviction. 
She was the author of Domestic Econ¬ 
omy; Physiology and Calisthenics; Let¬ 
ters to the People; Religious Training of 
Children; and Domestic Service, True 
Remedy for the Wrongs of Woman. She 
died May 12, 1878, in Elmira, N. Y. 

BEECHER, CHARLES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 7, 1815, in Litchfield, 
Conn., and is a son of L. Beecher. He 
is a congregational clergyman; and the 
author of Patmos; Pen Pictures of the 
Bible; The Eden Tableau; and Redeem¬ 
er and Redeemed. He edited his father’s 
Life and Correspondence. 

BEECHER, EDWARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 27, 1803, in East 
Hampton, N. Y., and was a son of L. 
Beecher. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Illinois, and later of Brooklyn, 
whose attainments must be considered 


as the most solid of those of any of the 
famous children of Lyman Beecher. In 
his Conflict of Ages (1853) was struck 
the earliest note of the liberal theology 
now dominant in the congregational 
churches. The more important of his 
other works include Papal Conspiracy Ex¬ 
posed; Baptism; and History of Opinions 
on the Scriptural Doctrine of Future 
Retribution. He died in 1895. 


BEECHER, MRS. EUNICE WHITE, 
author, was born Aug. 26, 1812, in West 
Sutton, Mass., and was the wife of H. 
W. Beecher. She was the author of From 
Dawn to Daylight: a Simple Story; 
Motherly Talks with Young Housekeep¬ 
ers; All Around the House, or How to 
Make Homes Happy; Letters from Flor¬ 
ida; and Mr. Beecher as I Knew Him. 
She died in 1897. 

BEECHER, FARY BUCHANAN, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, was born June 2, 1856, in 
Steuben county, N. Y. He received his 
education in the common schools and at 
Rogersville Union seminary. For sev¬ 
eral years he was engaged in educational 
work, and became principal of the At¬ 
lanta Union Free school. For five years 
he was a justice of the peace; and is now 
a successful lawyer of Atlanta, N. Y. He 
is a prominent member of various orders. 
He has also contributed both prose and 
verse, as well as law articles, to current 
literature. 

BEECHER, GEORGE, clergyman, was 
born May 6, 1809, in East Hampton, N. Y. 
He was a clergyman of Chillicothe, Ohio, 
and a devoted pastor, and an inspiring 
preacher. He died July 1, 1843. 


BEECHER, HENRY WARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 24, 1813, in 
Litchfield, Conn., and was a son of Ly¬ 
man Beecher. He 
was a congregation¬ 
al clergyman widely 
famous as the pastor 
of Plymouth church 
of Brooklyn in 1847- 
87. He was an earn- 
e s t, large-hearted 
man, though not a 
deep thinker, and his 
cheerful influence 
upon middle-class 
American thought 
was very extensive. 
His literary work can hardly he said to 
possess enduring excellence, and much of 
it is already forgotten, graphic and pic¬ 
turesque as it often is. He was the author 
of Eyes and Ears; Life Thoughts; Star 
Papers; Yale Lectures on Preaching; Lec¬ 
tures to Young Men; Speeches on the 
American Rebellion; Doctrinal Beliefs 
and Unbeliefs; and Life of Jesus the 
Christ. His only novel, Norwood, is a 
collection of successful character studies 
rather than a finished story. He died 
March 8, 1887. 



BEECHER, JAMES CHAPLIN, soldier, 
clergyman, was born Jan. 8, 1828, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was graduated at Dart¬ 
mouth in 1848, studied theology at An¬ 
dover, and on May 10, 1856, was ordained 
a congregational clergyman. He was 
mustered out of service in 1866 as brevet 
brigadier-general. He died Aug. 25, 1886, 
in Elmira, N. Y. 

BEECHER, LYMAN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 2, 1775, in New 
Haven, Conn. He was a congregational 
clergyman of wide fame. While in Bos¬ 
ton he was a zealous opponent of uni- 
tarianism, and as president of Lane Theo¬ 
logical seminary at Cincinnati was noted 
as an outspoken enemy of slavery. He 
was a bold thinker, much in advance of 


his contemporaries. He was the author 
of Sermons on Temperance; Views in 
Theology; Scepticism; and Political 
Atheism. He died Jan. 10, 1863, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 

BEECHER, PHILEMON, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New Haven, Conn. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1817 to 1821, and again from 
1823 to 1829. He died Nov. 30, 1839, in 
Lancaster, Ohio. 

BEECHER, THOMAS KINNICUT, 
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 10, 
1824, in Litchfield, Conn., and is a son 
of Lyman Beecher. He is a congregation¬ 
al clergyman of Elmira, N. Y.; and the 
author of Our Seven Churches. 

BEECHER, WILLIAM HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, was born Jan. 15, 1802, in East 
Hampton, L. I. For many years he was a 
home missionary on the Western Reserve, 
and since has held charges in Putnam, 
Toledo, and Chillicothe, Ohio, and in 
Reading and North Brookfield, Mass. 

BEECHER, WILLIS JUDSON, educat¬ 
or, author, was born in 1838 in Ohio. He 
is a professor of Hebrew in the Auburn 
Theological seminary; and the author of 
Farmer Tompkins and His Bible; Drill 
Lessons in Hebrew; and Testimony of 
the Historical Books. 

BEEDE, JOHN E., lawyer, was born 
Feb. 2, 1834, in Sandwich, N. H. He re¬ 
ceived his education from the common 
schools and the Friends school of Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He was a millwright before 
he entered the practice of law. He has 
been justice of the peace in Arizona and 
Idaho, master of the grange, and delegate 
chairman and president of numerous 
movements and conventions in Idaho. 

BEEKMAN, HENRY RUTGERS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Dec. 8, 1845, in New 
York city. Previous to his election as 
judge of the superior court, he was a 
member of the law firm of Ogden and 
Beekman. In 1886 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the board of aldermen, for which 
office he was nominated by the united 
democracy. In 1888 he was appointed 
counsel to the corporation of the city of 
New York. 

BEEKMAN, JAMES WILLIAM, state 
senator, was born Nov. 22, 1815, in New 
York city, N. Y. He was chosen state 
senator of New York in 1850, and served 
two terms. In 1861 he. with Erastus 
Corning and Thurlow Weed, was appoint¬ 
ed by a meeting of conservative men in 
New York to go to Washington and urge 
President Buchanan to relieve Fort Sum¬ 
ter. He died June 15, 1877, in New York 
city, N. Y. 

BEEKMAN, THOMAS, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1829 to 1831. 

BEEMAN, JOSEPH H., business man, 
legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 17, 
1835, in Gates county, N. C. He received 
an academic education; and was elected 
to the legislature from Scott county, Miss., 
in 1883, 1885, 1887, and 1889. He has been 
connected with the Farmers’ Alliance 
since its organization in the state, having 
served during this time as chairman of 
the state executive committee. He was 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat. 

BEERS. CYRUS, congressman. In 1838 
he was elected a representative from New 
York to the twenty-fifth congress to fill a 
vacancy. 

BEERS, MRS. ETHELINDA, author, 
poet, was born Jan. 13, 1827, in Goshen, 
N. J. She was the author of General 
Frankie, a juvenile tale; and All Quiet 
Along the Potomac, and other poems. She 
died Oct. 10, 1879, in Orange, N. J. 



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BEERS, HENRY AUGUSTIN, educator, 
author, was born July 2, 1847, in Buffalo, 
N. Y. He is a professor of English liter¬ 
ature at Yale university; and the author 
of The Ways of Yale; A Suburban Pas¬ 
toral and Other Stories; From Chaucer 
to Tennyson; Life of N. P. Willis; Outline 
Sketch of English Literature; Initial 
Studies in American Letters. Verse: 
Odds and Ends; and The Thankless Muse. 

BEERS, ROBERT WELSTED, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 3, 1860, in 
Easton, Pa. He graduated from Lafayette 
college in 1880, and entered Princeton 
seminary in 1882. He is a successful 
clergyman and the author of Mormon 
Puzzle. 

BEERS, WAYLAND L., clergyman, was 
born Dec. 16, 1867, in Montana, N. J. 
He graduated from the Peddie institute in 
1890; from the Brown university in 1895; 
and subsequently from the Union sem¬ 
inary and Columbia university. He has 
attained success as a Unitarian clergyman, 
and now fills a pastorate in Union 
Springs, N. Y. 

BEESON, HENRY W., congressman, 
was horn in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from his native 
state from 1841 to 1843. 

BEESON, JASPER LUTHER, educator, 
chemist, was born Aug. 31, 1867, in Keen¬ 
er, Ala. He graduated from the univer¬ 
sity of Alabama, with the degree of M. A.; 
was assistant professor of physics in his 
alma mater, and later chemist to the 
Alabama Geological Survey. In 1893 he 
graduated from the Johns Hopkins uni¬ 
versity in chemistry with the degree of 
Ph. D., whereupon he was elected profes¬ 
sor of agricultural chemistry in the Au¬ 
dubon Sugar school of New Orleans. He 
is the inventor of standard chemical ap¬ 
paratus for agricultural analysis, which 
are in use both in America and Europe. 
He is a prominent member of various 
scientific bodies and has published sev¬ 
eral pieces of original investigation work 
upon sugar and the sugar cane. 

BEESON, JOHN WESLEY, educator, 
college president, was horn March 31, 
1866, in Keener, Ala. This eminent edu¬ 
cator received his education at the uni¬ 
versity of Alabama. He became president 
of the Arcadia college of Louisiana, and 
subsequently was made president of the 
Marengo Female college of Demopolis, 
Ala. 

BEGOLE, JOSIAH W., educator, busi¬ 
ness man, congressman, governor, was 
born Jan. 20, 1815, in Groveland, N. Y. 
He received a public school education; 
removed to Genesee county, Mich., in 
1836; taught school during the winters; 
became a farmer in 1839, and followed 
that occupation until 1856. He was elect¬ 
ed county treasurer from 1856 to 1864; 
and commenced the lumbering business in 
1863. He was elected to the state senate 
in 1871; was an alderman for the city 
of Flint for three years; a delegate to the 
national republican convention at Phila¬ 
delphia in 1872; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Michigan to the forty-third 
congress. In 1882 he was elected governor 
of Michigan for the term of two years 
from January, 1883. 

BELCHER, HIRAM, lawyer, legislator, 
congressman, was born in Augusta, Maine. 
For four or five years he was a member 
of the Maine legislature; and was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1847 to 1848. He died May 7, 1857. 

BELCHER, JONATHAN, merchant, 
governor, was born Jan. 8, 1681. He was 
graduated at Harvard in 1699; and spent 
six years in Europe. Having returned to 
Boston and become a merchant there, 


in 1729 he was sent to England as the 
agent of the colony, and on Gov. Burnet’s 
death in 1730 he was appointed governor 
of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 
which office he held for eleven years. He 
died Aug. 31, 1757, in Elizabethtown, N. J. 

BELCHER, JOSEPH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 15, 1794, in Birming¬ 
ham, England. He was a baptist clergy¬ 
man of Philadelphia, who came thither 
from England in 1844. His complete 
works number over two hundred volumes. 
Among them are The Baptist Pulpit of the 
United States; The Clergy of America; 
History of Religious Denominations in 
the United States; and Hymns and Their 
Authors. He died July 10, 1859, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

BELCHER, NATHAN, manufacturer, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born June 23, 1813, in Griswold, Conn. 
He was a member of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives of Connecticut in 1846 and 1847, 
and of the state senate in 1850. He was a 
presidential elector in 1852; and was a 
representative in congress from 1853 to 
1855. 

BELCHER, SAMUEL CLIFFORD, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born March 20, 1839, in 
Farmington, Maine. He graduated from 
Bowdoin college in 1857. He was cap¬ 
tain and major in the sixteenth regi¬ 
ment of Maine infantry in the civil war; 
and in 1879 was inspector-general of the 
Maine militia, with the rank of brigadier- 
general. He has practiced law for nearly 
thirty years, and his reputation as an 
astute lawyer is widespread. 

BELDEN, ALBERT CLINTON, sur¬ 
geon, was born Sept. 14, 1845, in Castile, 
N. Y. He settled in the practice of his 
profession in Akron, Ohio; and had one 
of the largest practices in the city. He 
was made surgeon of the eighth regiment 
Ohio national guard. He died Dec. 20, 
1890. 

BELDEN, ELLSWORTH BURNETT, 
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1866 in Ra¬ 
cine county, Wis. He graduated from 
the law department of the Wisconsin 
State university; and in 1889 became 
county judge, and was thrice re-elected 
without opposition. He is a director in 
the Racine Building and Loan associa¬ 
tion; a trustee of Racine college, and is 
prominently identified with the business 
and public affairs of his native county. 

BELDEN, GEORGE O., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1827 to 1829. 

BELDEN, JAMES JEROME, business 
man, banker, congressman, was born Sept. 
30, 1825, in Fahius, N. Y. He is a charter 
member of the order 
of the Founders and 
Patriots of America, 
and has been elected 
councilor-general by 
the societies of New 
York, New Jersey, 
and Connecticut. He 
has been extensively 
engaged in business 
pursuits for forty 
years, having been 
largely interested in 
and director of sev¬ 
eral national banks; is president and 
principal owner of the Robert Gere bank 
of Syracuse, which he founded, and has 
been trustee of the Syracuse university 
since it was founded. He was elected 
mayor of Syracuse in 1877, and re-elected 
in 1878 without opposition; was a dele¬ 
gate to the republican national conven¬ 
tion at Chicago in 1880; and was elect¬ 
ed as a republican to the fiftieth, fifty- 
first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fifth 
congresses. 


BELDEN, JOSIAH, merchant, states¬ 
man, was born May 4, 1815, in Crom¬ 
well, Conn. When Captain Jones, of 
the frigate United States, took posses¬ 
sion of California for the government, 
Mr. Belden was appointed alcalde of 
Santa Cruz, and with his own hands 
raised the American flag in California for 
the first time. He was the first mayor 
of San Jose in 1850. He died April 23, 
1892. 

BELDING, MILO MERRICK, manufac¬ 
turer, was born April 3, 1833, in Ashfield, 
Mass. In 1866, with his brothers, he start¬ 
ed a silk factory in Rockville, Conn. In 
1874 they built a second silk mill in 
Northampton, Mass.; and later one in 
Belding, Mich. 

BELFORD, JAMES B., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1837, in 
Lewiston, Pa. He was educated at Dick¬ 
inson college; studied and practiced law; 
and was appointed a judge of the supreme 
court of Colorado in 1870, and served 
five years. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Colorado to the forty-fourth, 
forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, and 
forty-eighth congresses. 

BELFORD, JOSEPH McCRUM, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 5, 1852, in 
Milflingtown, Pa. He received a classical 
education, graduating from Dickinson col¬ 
lege, Carlisle, Pa„ in 1871; and engaged in 
academic work for some years. He re¬ 
moved to Long Island in 1884; was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1889, and was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

BELKNAP, CHARLES EUGENE, was 
born Oct. 17, 1846, in Massena, N. Y. He 
removed with his parents to Grand Rap¬ 
ids, Mich., in 1855; 
was educated in the 
common schools of 
Grand Rapids, left 
school Aug. 14, 1862, 
and enlisted i n 
twenty-first r e g i- 
ment, Michigan in¬ 
fantry; was promot¬ 
ed to different posi¬ 
tions, and received a 
captain’s commis¬ 
sion Jan. 22, 1864, at 
the age of seventeen 
years and three months; and served until 
June, 1865, with the army of the Cumber¬ 
land. He served eleven years in the fire 
department of Grand Rapids as captain of 
a company, assistant chief, and chief; 
seven years on board of education; served 
two years as alderman; served one year 
as mayor; has been a member of the 
board of control of state school institu¬ 
tion for the deaf for the past four years; 
and is engaged in the manufacture of 
wagons and sleighs. He was elected to 
the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses. 
In 1892 he was appointed chairman of the 
Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Mission¬ 
ary Ridge Military Park commission for 
the state of Michigan. He has contribut¬ 
ed war stories and Chippewa Indian 
myths to current literature. 

BELKNAP, GEORGE EUGENE, naval 
officer, author, was born Jan. 22, 1832, in 
Newport, N. H. Since 1847 he has 
been in the United States naval service, 
and in 1875 was commissioned post-cap¬ 
tain; was made commodore in 1885; and 
is now rear-admiral. He is the author of 
valuable papers on Deep Sea Soundings; 
is a member of the American Geograph¬ 
ical society; and has received a silver 
medal as a recognition of merit from 
the Geographical society of France. His 
portrait hangs in the new Library build¬ 
ing of the New Hampshire state capftol. 







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BELKNAP, HUGH REID, business 
man, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 
1860, in Keokuk, Iowa. He attended the 
public schools there, and also took a 
course of instruction at the Adams acad¬ 
emy, Quincy, Mass., completing his educa¬ 
tion at Phillips academy at Andover, 
Mass.; being unable to take a collegiate 
course, at the age of eighteen he entered 
the service of the Baltimore and Ohio 
Railroad company in a minor capacity; 
remained with that company for twelve 
years, filling various positions in practical 
railroading in the operating department, 
and retired as chief clerk to the general 
manager, in 1892, to become superintend¬ 
ent of the South Side Rapid Transit rail¬ 
road of Chicago. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as 
a republican. 

BELKNAP, JEREMY, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 4, 1744, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Boston, whose History of New 
Hampshire ranks as the best among local 
state histories, and is accurate as it is 
entertaining. His other works include 
American Biographies; The Foresters; 
and an American Tale. He died June 20, 
1798, in Boston, Mass. 

BELKNAP, WILLIAM WORTH, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, legislator, was born in 1831 
in Hudson City, N. Y. He was elected to 
the Iowa legislature in 1849. He was 
present at the battles of Shiloh and Vicks¬ 
burg; was with General Sherman in his 
great campaign; and was so rapidly pro¬ 
moted as to have-command of a division 
of the army as major-general. After the 
war he was appointed a collector of in¬ 
ternal revenue, which position he held 
until he entered President Grant’s cabi¬ 
net, in 1869, as secretary of war. He 
died Oct. 12, 1890, in Washington, D. C. 

BELL, AGRIPPA NELSON, physician, 
surgeon, journalist, was born Aug. 3, 
1820, in Northampton county, Va. He 
entered the practice of medicine in Frank- 
town, Va.; and in 1847 entered the naval 
service as a surgeon. In 1873 he estab¬ 
lished The Sanitarian, of which he still 
continues as editor and proprietor. He 
is the author of Knowledge of Living 
Things, and other works. In 1872 he 
was one of the founders of the American 
Public Health association. 

BELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM, pat¬ 
entee, was born March 3, 1847, in Edin¬ 
burgh, Scotland. With men of executive 
ability to aid him, including Gardiner G. 
Hubbard, his father-in-law, Prof. Bell or¬ 
ganized, in 1878, the American Bell Tele¬ 
phone company, to introduce telephone 
service into general use throughout the 
United States. Subordinate companies 
came into existence in various sections 
of the United States, and after protracted 
litigation and contention with the West¬ 
ern Union Telegraph company, Prof. Bell 
established his rights, and the telephone 
has now become one of the most neces¬ 
sary, as it is one of the most useful, facil¬ 
ities for the transaction of every-day 
business. 

BELL, CHARLES H., naval officer, was 
born Aug. 15, 1798, in New York. He 
served in the war of 1812 as midshipman; 
in 1862 was promoted to commander 
in the civil war; and in 1866 attained the 
rank of rear admiral. He died Feb. 19, 
1875, in Brunswick, N. J. 

BELL, CHARLES H., lawyer, legislator, 
United States senator, governor, was born 
Nov. 18, 1823, in Chester, N. H. He re¬ 
ceived a collegiate education, graduating 
at Dartmouth college in 1844; and studied 
and practiced law. He was solicitor for 


Rockingham county from 1855 to 1865; 
was a representative in the legislature in 
1858, 1859, and 1860; and the last year as 
speaker. He was a state senator in l6o3 
and 1864; president of the senate the last 
year; and was again a member of the 
state house of representatives in 1872 and 
1873. He was appointed a United States 
senator in 1879 to fill a vacancy. In 1880 
he was elected governor of New Hamp¬ 
shire for the term of two years from 
June, 1881. He is the author of me 
Bench and Bar of New Hampshire. 

BELL, CHARLES K., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was uorn 
April 18, ls53, in Chattanooga, Tenn. He 
removed to Texas in 1871, and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1874. He was elected 
district attorney, state senator, and dis¬ 
trict judge, serving four years in each po¬ 
sition. He was a delegate to the demo¬ 
cratic national convention in 1884; and 
was elected to the fifty-third and fifty- 
fourth congresses as a democrat. 

BELL, CLARK, lawyer, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 12, 1832, in Rod- 
man, N. Y. He was the originator and 
president of the Saturday Night club. In 
1883 he founded the Medico-Legal Jour¬ 
nal, and is still its editor. 

BELL, EDWARD A., artist, was born 
Dec. 18, 1861, in New York city. In 1881 
he went to Europe, where he studied at 
Munich for two years. He painted nis 
first picture. Their First Sorrow, two 
years later. 

BELL, FRANK FREDERICK, banker, 
was born May 26, 1855, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He became the first treasurer of the 
city of Philadelphia under the new char¬ 
ter. He engaged in large real estate op¬ 
erations; and is the senior member of 
the banking firm of Bell, Houghes and 
company. 

BELL, GEORGE, soldier, was born 
about 1832 in Maryland. He was grad¬ 
uated at West Point in 1853. During the 
civil war he served as assistant in the 
organization of the subsistence depart¬ 
ment for the Manassas campaign; as 
principal assistant commissary to the 
Army of the Potomac, and in charge of 
subsistence depots, and as chief of com¬ 
missariat of the departments of Wash¬ 
ington and the Potomac. On April 9, 
1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general 
for services during the war. 

BELL, HENRY HAYvvOOD, naval 
officer, was born about 1808 in North Car¬ 
olina. Early in the civil war he was ap¬ 
pointed fleet captain of the Western Gulf 
squadron. In July, 1866, he was promot¬ 
ed to be rear-admiral; and in 1867 he was 
retired. He died Jan. 11, 1868, in Japan. 


home; and has taken an active part in the 
public affairs of his city, county and 
state. 

BELL, ISAAC, JR., merchant, banker, 
public official, was born Nov. 16, 1846, in 
New York city, N. Y. He was educated 
at private schools, and at Harvard col¬ 
lege, Cambridge, Mass., where he re¬ 
mained two years. After leaving Har¬ 
vard he went abroad to complete his edu¬ 
cation and to travel. From 1870 to 18 <8 
he was engaged in mercantile business 
and in banking in New York city; and in 
the latter year retired from business and 
went abroad. He returned to the United 
States in 1880 and settled at Newport, 
R. I. In 1885 he received the vote of his 
party in the state legislature for United 
States senator, but was not elected. In 
1885 he was appointed United States min¬ 
ister at The Hague, Netherlands. 

BELL, JAMES, lawyer, United States 
senator, was born Nov. 13, 1804, in Fran- 
cestown, N. H. He began to practice at 
Gilmanton, N. H.; 
in 1831 he removed 
to Exeter, N. H.; 
and in 1846 repre¬ 
sented that town in 
the legislature. In 
that same year he 
removed to Gilford, 
where he took 
charge of the enter¬ 
prise of damming 
the outlets of Lake 
Winnipiseogee and 
other lakes, so that 
the large mills on the Merrimac might 
not suffer from a diminished water sup¬ 
ply during the dry season. By prudent 
management he gained over those prop¬ 
erty-owners whose interests seemed to be 
threatened, and the scheme was success¬ 
ful. He was a member of the state con¬ 
stitutional convention in 1850, and in 1854 
and 1855 the unsuccessful whig candidate 
for governor. In 1855 he was elected to 
the United States senate, where he served 
until his death. He died May 26, 1857, 
in Laconia, N. H. 

BELL, JAMES DANA, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Aug. 30, 1840, in 
Exeter, N. H. He graduated from the 
Phillips Exeter academy, and the Harvard 
Law school, and has attained eminence 
as a successful lawyer and jurist, rie 
was a member of the constitutional con¬ 
vention of South Carolina; and nas 
served as a judge of the probate court. 
He has always taken great interest in 
religious matters, and was commissioner 
to the general assembly of the Presbyte¬ 
rian church of the United States. 



BELL, HIRAM, congressman, was born 
in Vermont. He was a representative in 
congress from Ohio from 1852 to 1853. 


BELL, HIRAM P., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1827, 
in Jackson, Ga. He graduated from the 
Academy of Cumming, Ga., where he has 
attained a reputation as one of the lead¬ 
ing lawyers of the south. In 1861 he was 
a delegate to the secession convention; 
was a state senator the same year, and 
resigned to enter the confederate army 
in 1862. He raised a company, of which 
he was elected captain. He was danger¬ 
ously wounded at Chickasaw bayou; and 
attained the rank of colonel. He was a 
representative from Georgia in the sec¬ 
ond confederate congress in 1864-65; and 
was elected a representative from his 
state to the forty-third and forty-fifth 
congresses of the United States as a dem¬ 
ocrat. He has been a trustee of four col¬ 
leges, and also of the'Methodist Orphans’ 


BELL, JAMES M., congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1833 to 
1835. 

BELL, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Ohio 
from 1850 to 1851. 

BELL, JOHN, merchant, governor, was 
born in 1766 in Londonderry, N. H. He 
was for many years a merchant in Ches¬ 
ter, N. H.; councilor of the state; and 
sheriff of Rockingham county from 1823 
to 1828; and was governor of New Hamp¬ 
shire from 1829 to 1830. He died March 
22, 1836, in Chester, N. H. 

BELL, JOHN I., physician, lecturer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1796, in Ireland. He 
was a physician and medical lecturer, 
among whose writings are Health and 
Beauty; and Regimen and Longevity. He 
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BELL, JOHN, lawyer, congressman. 
United States senator, was born Feb. 15, 
1797, in Nashville, Tenn. In 1817 he was 
elected to the state 
senate; declined a 
re-election, and de¬ 
voted the next ten 
years of his life 
wholly to his pro¬ 
fession. In 1827 he 
was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in con¬ 
gress, and continued 
to be re-elected until 
1841, officiating dur¬ 
ing one term as 
speaker. In 1841 he 
President Harrison’s 
cabinet as secretary of war, which post 
he resigned in five months after the ac¬ 
cession of President Tyler. In 1847 he 
accepted a seat in the house of represent¬ 
atives of Tennessee, but before the close 
of the year was elected to the United 
States senate; and was re-elected in 1852, 
serving from time to time as chairman 
of important committees until the close 
of the thirty-fifth congress. In 1860 he 
received from the Union party the nomi¬ 
nation for president of the United States, 
but was defeated. He died Sept. 10, 1869, 
in Nashville, Tenn. 

BELL, JOHN C., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 11, 1851, in 
Grundy county, Tehn. He attended the 
public schools of his native county. In 
1888 he was elected judge of the seventh 
judicial district of Colorado for a period 
of six years. He was elected to the fifty- 
third, fifty-fourth, and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses. 

BELL, JOSHUA F., lawyer, orator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Kentucky. He 
was elected a representative in congress 
from that state from 1845 to 1847, and 
declined a re-election. He was a lawyer, 
and distinguished in the west as an ora¬ 
tor; and was a member of the peace con¬ 
vention of 1861. He died Aug. 17, 1870, in 
Kentucky. 

BELL, LILIAN, journalist, author, was 
born in 1867 in Kentucky. She graduated 
from the Dearborn seminary of Chicago, 
Ill.; and has attained success as a jour¬ 
nalist. She is the author of The Love 
Affairs of an Old Maid; A Little Sister 
to the Wilderness; The Under Tide of 
Things; From a Girl’s Standpoint; In¬ 
stinct of Stepfatherhood; and other 
stories. 

BELL, LUTHER VOSE, physician, sur¬ 
geon, legislator, author, was born Dec. 
20, 1806, in Chester, N. H. He was the 
fourth son of Gov. 
Bell, of New Hamp¬ 
shire, a noted lawyer 
a n d congressman. 
In 1823 he graduated 
from Bowdoin col¬ 
lege; studied medi¬ 
cine, and attained 
success in that pro¬ 
fession. He was 
elected a member of 
the New Hampshire 
state legislature; 
and was appointed 
one of the special committee for making 
some provision for the insane. He was 
the author of numerous dissertations on 
medical subjects; and to him belongs the 
honor of having first brought the notice 
of the medical profession to a new form 
of disease, which has since been desig¬ 
nated as Bell’s disease, peculiar to the 
insane. He died Feb. 11, 1862, near Budd’s 
Ferry, Md. 


BELL, M. E., architect, was born Oct. 
20, 1847, in Chester, N. H. He conceived 
the idea of becoming an architect, and 
studied for the profession; apprenticed 
himself to an able French architect of St. 
Louis, Mo., and was engaged with him 
in the construction of the capitol build¬ 
ings at Springfield, Ill., and Des Moines, 
Iowa, from 1870 to 1876. In the latter 
year his employer died, and Mr. Bell took 
charge of the work himself. While en¬ 
gaged upon the Iowa capitol he was ten¬ 
dered, and accepted, the position of super¬ 
vising architect of the United States 
treasury. 

BELL, PETER H., jurist, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was governor 
of Texas from 1849 to 1853; was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Texas from 
1853 to 1857; and subsequently became 
judge of the supreme court of that state. 

BELL, ROBERT C., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, was born July 13, 1844, in 
Clarksburg, Ind. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the univer¬ 
sity of Michigan, and 
graduated therefrom 
in 1868. During the 
civil war he served 
gallantly as a sol¬ 
dier in the Union 
army, first in the 
eighth regiment, In¬ 
diana volunteer in¬ 
fantry, and then in 
the one hundred and 
twenty-fourth regi¬ 
ment; and he was 
subsequently assigned to detached duty 
at Nashville, Tenn., where he remained 
until the close of the war. After the 
war he opened a law office in Muncie, 
Ind.; and in 1871 moved to Fort Wayne, 
where he has attained a reputation as 
one of the foremost lawyers of Indiana. 
He has served in many high positions 
of public trust and responsibility'; and in 
1874 was elected to the state senate of 
the Indiana state legislature; received 
the re-election in 1888, and was chairman 
of the judiciary committee. 

BELL, SAMUEL, lawyer, legislator. 
United States senator, governor, was born 
Feb. 9, 1770, in Londonderry, N. H. He 
graduated at Dartmouth in 1793; studied 
law, and was admitted to practice in 1796. 
He was a member of the legislature from 
1804 to 1808, occupying the position of 
speaker. In 1807 and 1808 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the senate; and in 1809 a member 
of the executive council. From 1816 to 
1819 he -was judge of the superior court 
of the state; and in 1819 was chosen gov¬ 
ernor, serving until 1823. From 1823 to 
1835 he was United States senator. He 
died Dec. 23, 1850, in Chester. N. H. 

BELL, SAMUEL DANA, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 9, 1798, in Francestown, 
N. H. He was a justice of the superior 
court; in 1855 justice of the supreme 
court; and from 1859-64 served as chief 
justice. He died July 31, 1868, in Ches¬ 
ter, N. H. 

BELL, SAMUEL NEWELL, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 25, 1829, 
in Chester, N. H. He graduated at Dart¬ 
mouth college in 1847; studied law, and 
practiced at Manchester. He was elected 
to the forty-second congress; and was 
subsequently appointed chief justice of 
the supreme court of New Hampshire. 
He was also elected to the forty-fourth 
congress. He died Feb. 8, 1889, in Man¬ 
chester, N. H. 

BELL, THEODORE S., physician, was 
born in 1807 in Kentucky. He was ap¬ 
pointed professor of medicine and hygiene 
in the university of Louisville, and editor 


of the Louisville Medical Journal, posi¬ 
tions which placed him in the front rank 
of his profession. He died Dec. 28, 1884, 
in Louisville, Ky. 

BELL, WILLIAM, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, was born in 1828, in Utica, Ohio. 
In 1871 he was elected a member of the 
Ohio house of representatives, receiving 
the re-election in 1873, and again in 1881. 
He has been mayor of Newark, Ohio, 
and filled various other positions of 
honor 

BELL, WILLIAM ALLEN, educator, 
editor, was born Jan. 30, 1833, in Clinton 
county, Ind. He attended Antioch col¬ 
lege, Ohio, while Horace Mann was pres¬ 
ident. He became principal of the In¬ 
dianapolis High school, president of the 
Indiana State Teachers’ association, and 
for more than twenty-five years editor 
and publisher of the Indiana School Jour¬ 
nal, and is still doing this work. He is 
one of the oldest educational editors in 
the United States. 

BELL, WILLIAM A., capitalist, was 
born in 1841 in Ireland. In 1870 he set¬ 
tled in Colorado, and was associated with 
Gen. William J. Palmer in the building of 
the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, and 
had a share in the management after¬ 
ward, being vice-president for several 
years. 

BELLAMY, ALFRED D., physician, 
manufacturer, was born July 15, 1847, in 
Watkins, N. Y. For many years he suc¬ 
cessfully practiced medicine, but was 
compelled to change his occupation on 
account of deafness. In 1882 he estab¬ 
lished the Florence Wagon company, one 
of the first wholesale manufacturers of 
farm wagons in the southern states, and 
of which he is still president. 

BELLAMY, CHARLES JOSEPH, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1852 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a journalist of Spring- 
field, Mass., and the author of The Bre¬ 
ton Mills, a Novel; Everybody’s Lawyer; 
The Way Out; and Suggestions for So¬ 
cial Reform. 

BELLAMY, EDWARD, reformer, au¬ 
thor, was born March 26, 1850, in Chico¬ 
pee Falls, Mass. He is a socialist reform¬ 
er whose Utopian theories embodied in 
the tale Looking Backward, 2000-1887, 
have been very widely read, and have re¬ 
sulted in the formation of several socie¬ 
ties and communities that endeavor to 
put some of them in practice. His other 
works include Six to One, a Nantucket 
Idyl; Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process, a Novel; 
and Miss Ludington’s Sister, a Romance 
of Immortality. He died in 1898. 

BELLAMY, MRS. ELIZABETH WHIT¬ 
FIELD, author, was born April 17, 1839, 
in Quincy, Fla. She is a novelist of Mo¬ 
bile, and the author of Four Oaks; Lit¬ 
tle Joanna; Penny Lancaster Farmer; 
Old Man Gilbert; and The Luck of the 
Pendennings. 

BELLAMY, JOHN D., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, author, was born March 24, 1854, 
in Wilmington, N. C. He graduated from 
the Davidson college, and from the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia. He has been state 
senator and city attorney; is the author 
of several books; and a contributor to va¬ 
rious newspapers and periodicals. 

BELLAMY, JOSEPH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1719, in Cheshire, Conn. 
He founded a divinity school in his par¬ 
ish, and trained many men there who 
were afterwards famous among New 
England ministers. He is the author of 
True Religion Delineated; The Law Our 
Schoolmaster; The Half-Way Covenant; 
and The Nature and Glory of the Gospel. 
He died March 6. 1790, in Bethlehem, 
Conn. 



accepted a seat in 








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BELLAMY, ORLANDO ROLLIN, edu¬ 
cator, poet, was born Aug. 10, 1856, in 
Vevay, Ind. He attended the DePauw 
university of Greencastle, and while there 
wrote an essay in poetry. As a student 
he won the honors of his class, and re¬ 
ceived a gold medal as a prize in mathe¬ 
matics. He is the author of a volume of 
poems entitled Songs by the Wayside. 

BELLAMY, WILLIAM, author, was 
born in 1846 in Massachusetts. He is a 
Boston writer who has published a vol¬ 
ume of poems entitled A Century of Cha¬ 
rades; and A Second Century of Charades. 

BELLAS, HENRY HOBART, soldier, 
author, was born June 30, 1846, in Ebens- 
burg, Pa. He graduated from the univer¬ 
sity of Cambridge. From 1873-80 he was 
an officer of the United States army, 
when he was placed on the retired list 
as captain of cavalry. He is the author 
of various genealogical and historical 
publications. 

BELLINGER, JOSEPH, congressman. 
He was a presidential elector in 1809; 
and a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1817 to 1819. 

BELLINGHAM, RICHARD, colonial 
governor, was born in 1592 in England. 
He settled in Boston, and in 1641 was 
elected governor; was re-elected in 1654, 
and again in 1665. He was chief magis¬ 
trate of Massachusetts for the remainder 
of his life, being deputy governor thirteen 
years and governor ten. He died Dec. 7, 
1672. 

BELLOWS, ALBERT F., painter, was 
born Nov. 29, 1829, in Milford, Mass. His 
early works, mostly genre pictures in oil, 
include The First Pair of Boots; The 
Sorrows of Boyhood; and The Lost 
Child. Among his later water-colors are 
The Notch at Lancaster; Afternoon in 
Surrey; The Thames at Windsor; The 
Reaper’s Child; and New England Home¬ 
stead. He died Nov. 24, 1883, in Auburn- 
dale, Mass. 

BELLOWS, BENJAMIN, soldier, legis¬ 
lator, was born Oct. 6, 1740, in Walpole, 
N. H. He was a member of the colonial 
and afterward of the state legislature; 
and was appointed a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress in 1781, but his busi¬ 
ness forced him to decline. He was a 
member of the state convention that rati¬ 
fied the federal constitution in 1788. He 
presided over the New Hampshire elec¬ 
toral college that voted for Washington 
in 1788, and was a member of the one that 
voted for John Adams in 1796. He was 
active in the colonial and state militia, 
rising from the rank of corporal to that 
of brigadier-general, and served during 
the revolutionary war as a colonel. He 
died June, 1802, in Walpole, Mass. 

BELLOWS, HENRY ADAMS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 2j>, 1803, in Walpole, 
Mass. In 1826 he was admitted to the bar, 
and in 1828 opened an office in Littleton, 
N. H. He was appointed associate judge 
of the supreme court in 1859, and after ten 
years of service in that capacity became 
chief justice on the death of Judge Per- 
ley. He died March 11, 1873, in Concord, 
N. H. 

BELLOWS, HENRY WHITNEY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 11, 1814, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman of prominence in New York 
city, well known at one time as the pres¬ 
ident of the United States sanitary com¬ 
mission. He was the author of Restate¬ 
ments of Christian Doctrine; Sermons; 
Relation of Public Amusements to Public 
Morality; and The Old World in Its New 
Face. He died Jan. 30, 1882, in New York 
city. 


BELMONT, AUGUST, diplomat, was 
born in Germany. In 1853 he was ap¬ 
pointed by President Pierce charge d’af¬ 
faires to The Hague, and afterward be¬ 
came minister resident, resigning in 1858. 
In the latter capacity he negotiated a 
highly important consular convention, 
for which and other diplomatic services 
he received special thanks from Wash¬ 
ington. He was a leading delegate to the 
democratic convention of 1860; and from 
that year until 1872 was chairman of the 
national democratic committee, when he 
resigned. 

BELMONT, AUGUST, banker, was 
born Feb. 18, 1853, in New York city. He 
is now at the head of August Belmont 
and Co., the American representatives of 
the Rothschild bank abroad. The family 
make their country home at Hempstead, 
on Long Island. 

BELMONT, PERRY, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 27, 1851, in New York 
city. He graduated at Harvard college 
in 1872; and was admitted to the bar in 
1876. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-seventh, 
forty-eighth, and forty-ninth congresses 
as a democrat. 

BELO, ALFRED H., journalist, was 
born May 27, 1839, in Salem, N. C. In 
1865 he became connected with the Gal¬ 
veston News; and in 1885 published the 
Dallas News, which has achieved a great 
and rapid success. 

BELROSE, LOUIS, author, was born 
in 1845 in Pennsylvania. He was a writer 
whose only published work of note is 
Thorns and Flowers, a volume of poems. 
He died in 1896. 

BELSER, JAMES E., congressman, 
was born in South Carolina. He was a 
representative in congress from Alabama 
from 1843 to 1845. He died Jan. 6, 1859, 
in Montgomery, Ala. 

BELTZHOOVER, FRANK ECKELS, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 6, 
1841, in Cumberland county. Pa. In 1858 
he entered Pennsyl¬ 
vania college, at 
Gettysburg, where 
he graduated in 1862. 
He was admitted to 
the bar in 1864, and 
has practiced since. 
In 1868 and 1873 he 
was chairman of the 
democratic executive 
committee of the 
county; and in 1874 
was elected district 
attorney, and served 
for three years. In 1878 he was elected 
to the forty-sixth congress, forty-seventh 
in 1880, and also to the fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses as a democrat. 

BEMAN, NATHANIEL SYDNEY 
SMITH, clergyman, was born Nov. 26, 
1785, in New Lebanon, N. Y. He became 
pastor of the presbyterian church in Troy, 
N. Y., in 1822, and continued as such for 
upward of forty years. He was actively 
interested in the temperance, moral re¬ 
form, revival, and anti-slavery move¬ 
ments of his time. Besides sermons, es¬ 
says, and addresses, which have been 
separately published, he was the author 
of a volume entitled Four Sermons on the 
Atonement. He was also one of the com¬ 
pilers of the hymn-book adopted by the 
new-school branch of the presbyterian 
church. He died Aug. 8, 1871, in Carbon- 
dale, Ill. 

BEMENT, GEORGE WILLIAM, mer¬ 
chant, was born March 4, 1824, in Stock- 
bridge, Mass. In 1843 he located in Terre 
Haute, and by more than fifty years of 
unremitting application and prudent hus¬ 
banding of means haq accumulated large 
wealth in the wholesale grocery business. 


BEMENT, WILLIAM BARNES, manu¬ 
facturer, inventor, was born May 10, 1817, 
in Bradford, N. H. He went to Philadel¬ 
phia and devoted 
himself there to the 
invention and manu¬ 
facture of machine 
tools and machinery. 
The Industrial 
Works, as they were 
called, grew in time 
both in size and 
prestige to equal the 
best of their class in 
America, and they 
are said to stand 
second only to the 
Whitworth shops in England. 

BEMIS, ARTHUR L., educator, jour¬ 
nalist, legislator, was born March 20, 
1858, in Elyria, Ohio. For many years 
he was professor of chemistry, general 
history, and penmanship in the Ionia 
schools, Mich. Since 1890 he has been 
the editor and owner of the Carson City 
Gazette; and in 1897-98 was a member of 
the Michigan state legislature. 

BEMIS, EDWARD WEBSTER, educat¬ 
or, author, was born in 1860 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a professor of economics 
in the University of Chicago; and the au¬ 
thor of History of Co-operation in the 
United States; and Municipal Ownership 
of Gas in the United States. 

BEMIS, GEORGE PICKERING, jour¬ 
nalist, business man, was born March 15, 
1838, in Boston, Mass. He is a descend¬ 
ant of Timothy Pickering, of revolution¬ 
ary fame. In 1861 he enlisted in the sec¬ 
ond battalion of Massachusetts light in¬ 
fantry, serving about seven months, after 
which he joined George Francis Train in 
London, where that gentleman was intro¬ 
ducing street railways; and for over 
twenty years he was his private secretary. 
He also became general manager and 
editor of the London American, the only 
American newspaper in Europe during 
the civil war. In 1892 he became mayor 
of Omaha, Neb., and received the re-elec¬ 
tion three successive times. During his 
entire term he defended the interests of 
the taxpayers, and saved them millions 
of dollars. 

BEMISS, SAMUEL MERRIFIELD, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, author, was born Oct. 15, 
1821, in Nelson county, Ky. From 1862 
till 1865 he was a surgeon in the confed¬ 
erate army. After the war he settled in 
New Orleans, and in 1866 he became pro¬ 
fessor of the theory and practice of medi¬ 
cine in the university of Louisiana. He 
is the editor of the New Orleans Medical 
and Surgical Journal. 

BENDER, JOHN S., civil engineer, law¬ 
yer, was born Jan. 26, 1827, near Carlisle, 
Pa. He was a miller by trade until 1852; 

a land surveyor and 
civil engineer from 
choice until 1856; 
and since that time 
has been engaged in 
the practice of law. 
Since 1854 he has 
taken great interest 
in politics; was con¬ 
tingent elector for 
Douglas; supported 
Lincoln during the 
war of 1861; and in 
1878 joined the inde¬ 
pendent movement for reform; was elec¬ 
tor at large in Indiana for Butler; and he 
has held many other prominent offices in 
his county and state for the furtherance 
of the movement. He is the author of 
A Hoosier’s Experience in Europe; 
Money: Its Definition; and other works. 







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BENDER, JOSEPH ELMER, educator, 
physician, nurseryman, was born Sept. 17, 
1852, in Westmoreland county, Pa. He 
received his education at the Oskaloosa 
college, Iowa; and during 1879-81 attended 
the Allopathic Medical department at 
the Iowa State university. He taught 
school until 1883, and since that time has 
been secretary of the Independent School 
district of Oakland, Iowa. He abandoned 
the practice of medicine in 1892, since 
which time he has been engaged in fruit 
growing. 

BENDER, PROSPER, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1844 in Quebec, Canada. 
He is a Canadian physician, and since 
1883 has practiced his profession in Bos¬ 
ton. He is the author of Old and New 
Canada; Literary Sheaves, or La Litera¬ 
ture au Canada-Francais. 

BENDIRE, CHARLES E., soldier, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1836 in Georgia. 
He was an ornithologist of note; honora¬ 
ry curator of the department of oology 
in the United States National museum; 
and a captain and brevet major in the 
United States army. He was the author 
of Life Histories of North American 
Birds. He died in 1897. 

BENDIX, JOHN E„ soldier, business 
man, was born Aug. 28, 1818. He partic¬ 
ipated in the battles of Antietam, Fred¬ 
ericksburg, and the Wilderness, besides 
the engagements of the intervening cam¬ 
paigns. He was promoted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral in 1865. He died Oct. 8, 1877, in New 
York city, N. Y. 

BENECKE, LOUIS, lawyer, legislator, 
was born May 1, 1843, in Brunswick, Ger¬ 
many. He received his education in the 
common schools in 
Blankenburg college, 
Germany, and in the 
high schools of 
Brunswick, Mo. He 
served during the 
civil war in the 
forty-ninth regiment 
of the Missouri vol¬ 
unteers, and was 
captain of company 
I. For fourteen 
years he was mayor 
of his adopted city 
of Brunswick, Mo.; for twenty-two years 
president of the board of education of 
that city; and a director of the First Na¬ 
tional bank of Brunswick. For four 
years he served as a member of the Mis¬ 
souri state senate. He stands high in 
fraternal societies; is grand dictator of 
the Knights of Honor; judge-advocate, 
junior, senior, and department command¬ 
er of the G. A. R. of Missouri. 

BENEDICT, ASA G., educator, was 
born Aug. 11, 1848, in Lysander, N. Y. 
He was principal of the Free academy of 
Rome, N. Y.; and was for three years 
president of the Y. M. G. A. In 1880 he 
came to Clinton, N. Y., as principal of 
the Houghton seminary, which he has 
since managed with ability and success. 

BENEDICT, CHARLES B., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1828, in 
Attica, N. Y. He received an academic 
education; studied law; was admitted to 
practice in 1856; engaged in the banking 
business at Attica in 1860, and continued 
therein. He was a member of the demo¬ 
cratic state committee in 1875; a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1876; and was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
forty-fifth congress. 

BENEDICT, CHARLES L„ lawyer, 
jurist. He practiced the profession of the 
law in Brooklyn; was a representative 
in the New York legislature in 1863; in 
1865 was appointed United States district 



judge for the eastern district of New 
York; and in 1881 was tendered the ap¬ 
pointment of associate justice of the 
court of appeals of New York state. 

BENEDICT, DAVID, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 10, 1779, in Norwalk, 
Conn. He was a baptist clergyman of 
Pawtucket; and the author of History of 
the Baptists; History of All Religions; 
Fifty Years Among the Baptists; Com¬ 
pendium of Ecclesiastical History; and 
History of the Donatists. He died Dec. 
5, 1874, in Pawtucket, R. I. 

BENEDICT, ERASTUS CORNELIUS, 
jurist, author, was born March 19, 1800, 
in Branford, Conn. He was a jurist of 
New York city; and the author of The 
American Admiralty, Its Jurisdiction and 
Practice. He died Oct. 22, 1880, in New 
York city. 

BENEDICT, FRANK LEE, author, 
poet, was born in 1834 in New York city. 
She is the author of Miss Van Kortland; 
My Daughter Elinor; The Price She Paid; 
John Worthington’s Name; Miss Doro¬ 
thy’s Charge; St. Simon’s Niece; ’Twixt 
Hammer and Anvil; Her Friend Lau¬ 
rence; A Late Remorse; Madame; and 
The Shadow-Worshipper and Other 
Poems. 


BENEDICT, GEORGE GRENVILLE, 
journalist, state senator, was born Dec. 
10, 1826, in Burlington, Vt. He attended 
the academy at Burlington; and grad¬ 
uated from the university of Vermont in 
1847. During the civil war he was lieu¬ 
tenant in the twelfth regiinent, Vermont 
volunteers; and aid-de-camp on the staff 
of the second Vermont brigade. He has 
been president of the Vermont and Bos¬ 
ton Telegraph company; a member of 
the Vermont state senate; secretary of 
the university of Vermont; president of 
the State Historical society; president of 
the Vermont Press association; and pres¬ 
ident of the Vermont society of Sons of 
the American Revolution. He has been 
the state military historian; collector of 
customs for Vermont; and for forty years 
editor of the Burlington Free Press. 

BENEDICT, GEORGE WYLLYS, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, was born Jan. 11, 1796, 
in North Stamford, Conn. He was pro¬ 
fessor at the university of Vermont from 
1825 till 1847. He became associated with 
Ezra Cornell in the construction of the 
Troy and Canada junction telegraph line, 
becoming the first superintendent of that 
company. He subsequently engaged in¬ 
dependently in telegraph building, and 
contracted for the erection of several 
lines. He purchased the Burlington Free 
Press in 1853, and remained its editor and 
publisher until 1866. During 1854 and 
1855 he was a member of the Vermont 
senate, serving as chairman of the com¬ 
mittee on education. He died Sept. 23, 
1871, in Burlington, Vt. 


BENEDICT, HENRY HARPER, manu¬ 
facturer, was born in 1801. In 1882, hav¬ 
ing been admitted to membership in the 
firm of Wyckoff, 
Seamans and Bene¬ 
dict, he removed to 
New York city to 
engage in the sale 
of Remington type¬ 
writers. In 1886 the 
firm purchased the 
entire typewriter 
plant of the Rem¬ 
ingtons, including 
all rights and fran- 
U® chises, and have 
since conducted the 
manufacture as well as the sale of the 
machine, attaining a remarkable success. 



BENEDICT, KIRBY, jurist, was born 
in Connecticut. In 1853 he was appoint¬ 
ed an associate justice of the United 
States court for the territory of New 
Mexico. 

BENEDICT, LE GRAND, soldier, was 
born April 10, 1802, in Troy, N. Y. He 
enlisted in the second New York volun¬ 
teers, and in 1826 was made assistant ad¬ 
jutant-general of the United States vol¬ 
unteers, with the rank of captain, by 
appointment of President Lincoln. 

BENEDICT, LEWIS, soldier, lawyer, 
was born Sept. 2, 1817, in Albany, N. Y. 
In 1845-46 he was city attorney at Albany; 
in 1847 judge advocate; and from 1848 
until 1852 surrogate of Albany. In 1860 
he was elected a member of the state as¬ 
sembly, but entered the military service 
for the civil war. He died April 9, 1864, 
in Pleasant Hill, La. 

BENEFIELD, ROBERT K. W., journal¬ 
ist, planter, was born Dec. 28, 1835, in 
Louisville, Ky. He attended the Ayers 
university, of Albany, Ind.; and was a 
graduate of the American Health college 
of Cincinnati, Ohio. He served as a pri¬ 
vate soldier in the confederate army. He 
is the editor and owner of the Southland 
and Gazette, of Maurepas, La. He has 
been a justice of the peace, a memuer of 
the school board, and has held various 
other public offices in his county and 
state. 

BENEZET, ANTHONY, philanthropist, 
author, was born Jan. 31, 1713, in France. 
He was a Quaker philanthropist of Phil¬ 
adelphia, whose tracts on slavery first 
aroused the attention of Clarkson and 
Wnuerforce to the subject. He died May 
3, 1784, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BENHAM, ALEXANDER E. K., naval 
officer, was born in 1832 in New York. 
He entered the United States navy dur¬ 
ing the civil war; was raised to the rank 
of commander in 1867; became captain in 
1878; commodore in 1889; and acting 
rear-admiral in 1890. In 1891 he was 
made commander of the East Indian 
squadron. He retired in 1894. 

BENHAM, DE WITT MILES, clergy¬ 
man, was born Sept. 8, 1862, in Marysville, 
Cal. In 1889 he received a call to the 
Presbyterian church of Pittsburg, Pa., 
but resigned this charge in 1893 and be¬ 
gan new work in the east end of the 
city. The result was the organization of 
the Tabernacle Presbyterian church in 
1894. 

BENHAM, HENRY W., engineer, in¬ 
ventor, was born in 1817, in Connecticut. 
He invented the picket shovel used by 
troops in the field, and was an expert in 
pontoon bridges, in the management of 
which he devised important improve¬ 
ments. He died June 1, 1884, in New 
York city. 

BENHAM, ROBERT T., soldier, jurist, 
was born about 1745 in Virginia. He 
served in the civil war and attained the 
rank of captain. At the close of the 
war he settled in Campbell county, Ky., 
where in 1794 he was one of the first 
judges of the county court. 

BENJAMIN, ALBERT ELLIS, journal¬ 
ist, was born Oct. 7, 1872, near Barry, Ill. 
He is the editor and owner of the Che- 
halis County Tribune of Hoquiam, Wash.; 
and has contributed extensively to peri¬ 
odical literature. 

BENJAMIN, DOWLING, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 23, 1849, in Baltimore, 
Md. In 1877 he began the practice of 
medicine in Camden, N. J., where he has 
built up a general practice. He is the 
author of Contagion, Typhoid in Water; 
and Treatment of Fractures. 




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BENJAMIN, JOHN FORBES, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 
1817, in Cicero, N. Y. He was a member 
of the state legislature of Missouri in 
1850 and 1852; was presidential elector 
in 1856; and enlisted in the union cav¬ 
alry service as a private in 1861, and was 
subsequently captain, major, lieutenant- 
colonel, and brigadier-general. He was 
provost marshal of the eighth district 
of Missouri in 1863 and 1864; was dele¬ 
gate at large from Missouri to the Balti¬ 
more convention in 1864; and was elect¬ 
ed to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, and forty- 
first congresses. He died March 8, 1877, 
in Washington, D. C. 

BENJAMIN, JUDAH PHILIP, lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 11, 1811, in St. 
Croix, W. I. He was a prominent New 
Orleans lawyer who became attorney- 
general of the confederacy during the 
civil war. At its close he went to Eng¬ 
land, and speedily became eminent in his 
profession there. His Treatise on the 
Law of Sale of Personal Property is the 
standard work on the subject. He died 
May 8, 1884, in Paris, France. 

BENJAMIN, MARCUS, editor, author, 
was born Jan. 17, 1857, in San Francisco, 
Cal. In 1867 he moved with his parents 
to New York city, and in 1878 graduated 
in the chemical course of the school of 
mines of Columbia college. In 1882 he 
became editor of the American Pharma¬ 
cist, and subsequently was on the editori¬ 
al staff on the Engineering and Mining 
Journal. He has been on the editorial 
staff of Appleton’s Cyclopedia of Ameri¬ 
can Biography; Appleton’s Annual Cy¬ 
clopedia; Johnson’s Universal Cyclo¬ 
pedia; Standard Dictionary; and various 
other works. He is now connected with 
the United States national museum of 
Washington, D. C. 

BENJAMIN, NATHAN, missionary, re¬ 
former, was born Dec. 14,1811, in Catskill, 
N. Y. In 1835 he was appointed as mis¬ 
sionary to Greece and Turkey by the 
American board, and went to Argos in 
1836. He translated numerous works into 
Greek and Armenian, including Pilgrim’s 
Progress and D’Aubigny’s Reformation, 
and also established the first newspaper 
ever published in the Armenian tongue. 
The Morning Star, which is still issued 
He died Jan. 27, 1855, in Constantinople, 
Turkey. 


BENJAMIN, PARK, journalist, poet, 
was born Aug. 13, 1809, in British Guinea. 


He was a journalist 




and poet of New York 
city. The Old Sex¬ 
ton is the best re¬ 
membered example. 
His poems were 
chiefly lyrical, and 
attracted world wide 
attention; appeared 
in the leading news¬ 
papers and maga¬ 
zines of America; 
and subsequently 
were published in 
book form. His 


. , , son, Park Benjamin, 

is a noted lawyer of New York city; and 
the author of a number of meritorious 
works. He died Sept. 12, 1864, in New 
York city. 


BENJAMIN, PARK, lawyer, author 
was born May 11, 1849, in New York city.’ 
He is a New York lawyer wnose specialty 
is patent law; and is the author of Shak¬ 
ings: Etchings for the Naval Academy 
Wrinkles and Receipts: Suggestions for 
the Mechanic, Engineer, etc.; The Age 
of Electricity; The Intellectual Rise in 
Electricity; and a History. 


BENJAMIN, SAMUEL GREEN 
WHEELER, diplomatist, author, was 
born Feb. 13, 1837, in Argos, Greece. He 
is a contributor to the field of general 
literature; and at one period minister to 
Persia. He is the author of Art in Amer¬ 
ica; Contemporary Art in Europe; 'me 
Atlantic Islands; Troy: its Legend, Liter¬ 
ature, and Topography; A Group of Etch¬ 
ers; Persia and the Persians; The Story 
of Persia; The Cruise of the Alice May 
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; and Sea 
Spray, or Facts and Fancies of a Yachts¬ 
man. 

BENJAMIN, SAMUEL NICOLL, sol¬ 
dier, educator, was born Jan. 13, 1839, in 
New York city. He was brevetted lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel in 1865, and major in 1875. 
On recovery from his wounds he became 
assistant professor of mathematics at the 
United States military academy. Col. 
Benjamin was one of the very few officers 
that held the congressional medal for con¬ 
spicuous bravery in the field. He died 
May 15, 1886, on Governor’s Island, N. Y. 

BENJAMIN, WALTER ROMEYN, anti¬ 
quarian. journalist, was born Sept. 24, 
1854, in Guilford, Conn. In 1874 he gradu¬ 
ated from the Union college; then studied 
law three years; and for eleven years 
was connected with the New York Sun. 
He originated the special business of 
dealing in authograph letters and histori¬ 
cal documents; and rescued from oblivion 
many valuable historical papers. In 1887 
he established The Collector, which he 
still edits, and in 1897 he was historian of 
the Sons of th| American Revolution. 

BENNER, GEORGE JACOB, educator, 
lawyer, congressman, was born April 13, 
1859, in Gettysburg, Pa. He was educated 
at Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, 
graduating in the class of 1878. After 
several years devoted to teaching he was 
admitted a member of the Adams county 
bar Dec. 31, 1881, since which date he has 
followed the practice of the law. He was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

BENNER, PHILIP, soldier, iron manu¬ 
facturer, journalist, was born May 19, 
1762, in Chester county, Pa. He served in 
the revolutionary war. In 1794 he erect¬ 
ed a forge, the first in that vicinity, and 
manufactured iron during the year. The 
development of the iron industry in the 
western part of Pennsylvania is largely 
due to his enterprise. He was twice a 
presidential elector, notably on the Jack- 
son-Calhoun ticket of 1824. In 1827 he 
established the Centre Democrat at Belle- 
fonte, in the interest of Gen. Jackson. He 
was major-general of the Pennsylvania 
militia, and left a valuable estate. He 
died July 27, 1832, in Centre county, Pa. 

BENNET, BENJAMIN, clergyman, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1762. He was a 
baptist minister; and a representative in 
congress from New Jersey from 1815 to 
1819. He died Oct. 8,1840, in Middletown, 
N. J. 

BENNET, ORLANDO, wrecker, was 
born Oct. 4, 1818, in Ithaca, N. Y. During 
the civil war he was employed by the 
United States government to clear the 
harbors of Charleston and Savannah from 
monitors, torpedoes, and other obstruc¬ 
tions. By this means a sea-way was 
opened to supply Gen. William T. Sher¬ 
man’s army after its, march to the sea. 
He died July 10, 1880, in Bellport, N. Y. 

BENNET, THOMAS, governor, was 
born in South Carolina. He was governor 
of that state from 1820 to 1822. 

BENNETT, MRS. ADELINE G., poet, 
was born Nov. 8, 1848, in Warner, N. H. 
She is a writer of Pipestone City, Minn. 


BENNETT, ALFRED SILAS, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born June 10, 1854, 
in Dubuque, Iowa. He was school super¬ 
intendent for Waco county, Oregon; in 
1882 was elected a member of the Oregon 
state legislature; and was circuit judge 
in 1882-84. In 1892 he was a democratic 
candidate for supreme judge of Oregon, 
and a candidate for congress in 1896 from 
the second district. 

BENNETT, CALEB P., soldier, govern¬ 
or. He was a major in the Delaware 
regiment of the revolutionary army, and 
was engaged at the battles of Brandywine, 
Germantown, and Monmouth. He was 
governor of Delaware from 1833 until 
his death. He died May 7, 1836, in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. 

BENNETT, CASSIUS C., banker, state 
senator, was born Feb. 4, 1856, in Wash¬ 
ington county, Vt. In 1879 he engaged in 
business in Portland, Ore.; and in 1883 
settled in Pierre, S. D. He was elected 
president of the Pierre savings bank in 
1887; and in 1888 was also made presi¬ 
dent of the First National bank of that 
city. During 1894-96 he served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the South Dakota 
state senate. 

BENNETT, CHARLES GOODWIN, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Dec. 11, 1863, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is a member of the 
law firm of Daniels & Bennett, of New 
York city; was the unsuccessful repub¬ 
lican candidate for member of the fifty- 
third congress; and was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as 
a republican. 

BENNETT, CHARLES WESLEY', cler- 
gy'man, author, was born July 18, 1828, in 
East Bethany, N. Y. He was a methodist 
clergyman prominent in educational mat¬ 
ters; and was the author of National 
Education in Italy, France, Germany, 
England, and Wales, Popularly Consid¬ 
ered; and Christian Art and Archaeology 
of the First Six Centuries. He died in 
1891. 

BENNETT, DAYUD S., congressman, 
was elected a representative from New 
Y'ork to the forty-first congress. 

BENNETT, DE ROBIQUE MORTIMER, 
author, was born Dec. 23, 1818, in Spring- 
field, N. Y. He was a noted freethinker 
who was several times arrested and im¬ 
prisoned on account of his extreme views. 
He was the author of the World’s Reform¬ 
ers; Champions of the Church; From Be¬ 
hind the Bars; An Infidel Abroad; and 
A Truth Seeker Around the World. He 
died Dec. 6, 1882, in New York city. 

BENNETT, EDMUND HATCH, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born in 1824 in Ver¬ 
mont. He is a New England jurist, and 
dean of the Boston university law school. 
He is the author of English Law and 
Equity Reports; Fire Insurance Cases; 
and Leading Cases in Criminal Law. He 
has also edited many legal works of im¬ 
portance. 

BENNETT, EMERSON, author, was 
born March 16, 1822, in Monson, Mass. He 
is a Philadelphia writer of sensational ro¬ 
mances, which have been very popular. 
He is the author of Prairie Flower, Leni 
Leoti, which are perhaps the most noted 
of his fifty or more novels. 

BENNETT, FRED A., state bank ex¬ 
aminer, was born March 1, 1869, in Wor¬ 
cester county. Mass. He graduated from 
the state university of Iowa, and now 
holds the high office of state bank ex¬ 
aminer of Iowa. He is prominent in fra¬ 
ternal orders, and resides in Manning, 
Iowa. 


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BENNETT, GRANVILLE G., soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 9,1833, in Butler coun¬ 
ty, Ohio. He entered upon the practice of 
law in 1859; and served throughout the 
war of the rebellion as a commissioned 
officer in the union army. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative in the Iowa legislature 
in 1865 for two years, and to the state 
senate in 1867 for four years. In 1875 he 
was appointed an associate justice of the 
supreme court of the territory of Dakota; 
resigned in 1878 and was elected a dele¬ 
gate from the territory of Dakota to the 
forty-sixth congress as a republican. 

BENNETT, H. S., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 7, 1807, in 
Williamson county, Tenn. He began to 
practice law in 1830, when he removed to 
Mississippi, where he held the office of 
circuit judge for eight years. He was a 
representative from Mississippi to the 
thirty-fourth congress. 

BENNETT, HENRY, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 29, 1808, in New Lis¬ 
bon, N. Y. He was elected to congress as 
a representative from New York state in 
1848, and served continuously for ten 
years. 

BENNETT, HENRY W., clergyman, 
was born April 4, 1835, in Constableville, 
N. Y. In 1862 he graduated from the 
Wesleyan university and received the 
highest prize in the senior class for liter¬ 
ary work. He has filled the chair of 
Latin in several large institutions; has 
traveled extensively in Europe, Egypt and 
Palestine; and has filled pastorates in the 
methodist episcopal church in the north¬ 
ern New York conference, of which con¬ 
ference he was presiding elder for ten 
years. 

BENNETT, HIRAM P., jurist, legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1826, 
in Carthage, Maine. In 1852 he was elect¬ 
ed to a judgeship in western Iowa. He re¬ 
moved to Nebraska territory in 1854, and 
was at once elected a member of the ter¬ 
ritorial council; in 1858 was re-elected to 
the Nebraska legislature, and made speak¬ 
er of the house. He removed to Colorado 
territory in 1859, and was chosen a dele¬ 
gate therefrom to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress; and in 1862 was re-elected to the 
thirty-eighth congress. In 1867 he was 
appointed secretary of the territory of 
Colorado. 

BENNETT, JAMES GORDON, journalist, 
was born Sept. 1, 1795, in Scotland. He 
emigrated to the United States in 1819, 
and in 1835 founded the New York Her¬ 
ald, the first newspaper that published a 
daily money article and stock lists. He 
■was its editor and proprietor for nearly 
forty years. He died June, 1, 1872, in 
New York city, 

BENNETT, JAMES GORDON, journal¬ 
ist, was born May 10, 1841, in New York 
city. He became the proprietor of The 
New York Herald upon the death of his 
lather. He added to the fame of his paper 
by publishing in England storm-warnings 
transmitted from the United States; by 
fitting out the Jeanette polar expedition; 
by sending Henry M. Stanley in search of 
Livingstone; and by other similar enter¬ 
prises. In 1883 he associated himself with 
John W. Mackay in forming the commer¬ 
cial cable company and laying a new 
cable between America and Europe, to 
compete with the combined English and 
French lines. 

BENNETT, JOSEPH, lawyer, state 
senator, was born May, 1839, in Sweden. 
He studied law, and has pursued the pro¬ 
fession in Boston. He has been on the 
school board in Brighton and Boston; has 


been a trial justice in Middlesex county, 
and special justice in Brighton district 
municipal court. In 1879 he was in the 
Massachusetts house of representatives, 
and the next year in the state senate. 

BENNETT, MILO LYMAN, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born in 1790 in Sharon, 
Conn. He practiced law in Burlington, 
Vt., and was judge of the supreme court 
in 1839-59. He was author of Vermont 
justice, and other legal text-books. 

BENNETT, RICHARD, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor!, jurist, was born Dec. 4, 1851, in On¬ 
tario, Canada. For three years he was 
probate judge of Grand Forks county, N. 
D.; alderman of Grand Forks city for 
six years; and a member of the constitu¬ 
tional convention of North Dakota. He 
now practices law in Neihart, Mont., 
where he is also engaged in several busi¬ 
ness enterprises. 

BENNETT, RISDEN T., was born June 
18, 1840, in Anson county, N. C. He en¬ 
tered the confederate army as a private 
April 30, 1861, and rose through the sev¬ 
eral grades to the colonelcy of the four¬ 
teenth North Carolina troops. He was 
solicitor of Anson county in 1866-67; was 
a member of the legislature of North 
Carolina in 1872, and delegate to the con¬ 
stitutional convention of the state in 1875. 
He was judge of the superior court in 
1880, and resigned to accept the nomina¬ 
tion for congress as congressman at large 
from North Carolina; and was elected to 
the forty-eighth and forty-ninth con¬ 
gresses. 

BENNETT, SAMUEL FILLMORE, 
soldier, physician, author. For many 
years he practiced medicine in Richmond, 
Wis. He served through the civil war 
in the fortieth regiment Wisconsin vol¬ 
unteer infantry; and during his service 
compiled several popular pieces, ydiich 
were sung with great enthusiasm by the 
boys in blue. He is the author of the 
popular song entitled In the Sweet By 
and By. 

BENNETT, THOMAS W., soldier, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 16, 
1831. in Union county, Ind. He graduated 
at the Asbury university law school in 
1854; was elected to the Indiana senate 
in 1858; entered the union army in 1861 
as a captain; served through the war, and 
became a brigadier-general of volunteers. 
He was re-elected to the Indiana senate 
in 1864, serving four years; and was elect¬ 
ed mayor of Richmond, Ind., in 1869, serv¬ 
ing two years. He was appointed govern¬ 
or of Idaho in 1871, serving until Decem¬ 
ber, 1875, when he resigned to take his 
seat as a delegate from Idaho to the forty- 
fourth congress. 

BENNETT, WILLIAM ZEBINA, chem¬ 
ist, author, was born Feb. 25, 1856, in 
Montpelier, Vt. In 1880 he became assist¬ 
ant professor of chemistry, and in 1883 
succeeded to the chair of natural sciences 
in the university of Wooster. Besides 
numerous contributions to scientific 
periodicals, he has published A Plant 
Analysis. 

BENNION, EMMA, poet, was born on 
March 13. 1859, in Sheldon, N. Y. She is 
a writer of Strykersville, N. Y.; and the 
author of a number of meritorious poems. 

BENSCHOTEN. HARVEY LEE VAN, 
lawyer, was born Jan. 27, 1863, in Sebewa, 
Mich. He received his education in the 
schools of Indiana, Michigan agricultural 
college, and the university of Michigan. 
He is an able lawyer of Beeding, Mich., 
where he is city attorney, and prominent 
in the public affairs of his county and 
state. 


BENSEL, JAMES BERRY, author, poet, 
was born Aug. 2, 1856, in New York city. 
He was the author of In the King’s Gar¬ 
den, and Other Poems; and King Cophe- 
tua’s Wife, a novel. He died Feb. 3, 1886, 
in New York city. 

BENSON, EGBERT, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 21, 1746, in New 
York city. He was attorney-general of 
New York from 1780 to 1789; a delegate 
to the continental congress from 1784 to 
1788; and a representative in congress, 
from New York, from 1789 to 1793. He 
was a judge of the state supreme court 
from 1794 to 1801. He was again elected 
to congress in 1813. He died Aug. 24, 
1833, in Jamaica, N, Y. 

BENSON, EUGENE, artist, author, was 
born in 1837 in Hyde Park, N. Y. He es¬ 
tablished his studio in Florence in 1871, 
and removed to Rome in 1883. Among 
the better known of his pictures are 
Cloud Towers; Strayed Maskers; Ba¬ 
zaar at Cairo; Study of Girl in Blue; Art 
and Love; Afternoon on the Lagoon; and 
Ariadne. Mr. Benson has been a frequent 
contributor to periodicals, and has pub¬ 
lished two books entitled Gaspara Stam- 
pa; the Story of Her Life, and Art and 
Nature in Italy. 

BENSON, HENRY C., clergyman, au¬ 
thor was born in 1815 near Xenia, Ohio. 
He was editor of the Pacific Christian Ad¬ 
vocate at Portland, Ore., from 1864 to 1868, 
in which year he became editor of the 
California Advocate. For several years 
he labored among the Choctaw Indians as 
a missionary, and he has related his ex¬ 
periences in a book called Life Among the 
Choctaws. 

BENSON, SAMUEL PAGE, lawyer 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1804 
in Winthrop, Maine. In 1825 he gradu¬ 
ated from Bowdoin 
i college; and acquir¬ 
ed prominence as 
one of the leading 
lawyers of New 
England. He was 
elected a member of 
ft the Maine state 
legislature; served 
in the state senate; 
and for several 
years was secretary 
of the state of 
Maine. He served 
with distinction in the thirty-third con¬ 
gress, and received the re-election to the 
thirty-fourth, and served as chairman of 
the committee on naval affairs. 

BENT, SILAS, jurist, was born in 
Massachusetts. In 1813 he was appointed 
United States judge for the territory of 
Missouri. His name was given to a well- 
known frontier post and military fort. 

BENTEEN, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
army officer, was born Aug. 24, 1834, in 
Petersburg, Va. He served with distinc¬ 
tion in the civil war 
during 1861-65; and 
was colonel of the 
United States volun¬ 
teers. He has been 
brigadier general of 
the Missouri militia; 
and was brevetted 
brigadier-general of 
the United States 
army. He now re¬ 
sides in Atlanta, 
Ga.; where he takes 
an active part in the 
business and public affairs of that city. 
His services in the army have made him 
very popular throughout the UnRed 
States. 







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BENTLEY, CHARLES EUGENE, cler¬ 
gyman, prohibitionist, was born April 30, 
1841, near Syracuse, N. Y. This eminent 
baptist clergyman of Lincoln, Neb., has 
been chairman of the prohibition state 
committee of Nebraska, and had official 
charge of the great amendment campaign 
•of 1890. He has been his party candi¬ 
date for governor and United States 
senator, and was formally endorsed as 
Nebraska’s choice for president in the 
campaign of 1896. 

BENTLEY, EDWIN, physician, was 
born July 3, 1824, in Connecticut. He 
served in the civil war as surgeon, and 
in 1886 was post-surgeon at Fort Brown, 
Texas. He was professor of anatomy in 
the Pacific medical college of California 
and has been professor of surgery in the 
Industrial university of Arkansas since 
Its organization. 

BENTLEY, HENRY W., orator, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, and financier, 
was born Sept. 30, 1838, in DeRuyter, 
N. Y. He received 
the rudiments of his 
education in Morris- 
ville, and subse¬ 
quently attended 
Yates Polytechnic 
Institute at Chitten- 
ango, and Judds’ 
private school at 
Berkshire. For sev¬ 
eral years he taught 
school in New York 
and Illinois, and in 
1861 was admitted to 
the bar. He then opened an office in 
Eoonville, N. Y., where he has attained 
•eminence as one of the leading lawyers 
of his native state. In 1890 he was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-second congress of the 
United States, and took an active part in 
the deliberations of that body, and was a 
prominent advocate for a ship canal from 
the great lakes to the Hudson. He was 
appointed by Governor Flower as com¬ 
missioner to investigate the charges 
pending for the removal of Sheriff Beck; 
and in 1894 he was appointed as surro¬ 
gate of Oneida county, and filled that 
office with distinction. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the democratic national conven¬ 
tion at Chicago in 1896, and was most 
pronounced in opposition to the free sil¬ 
ver platform. He has been four times 
•elected president of Boonville; is vice- 
president of the First national bank of 
that city, and takes an active part in the 
public affairs of his city, county and 
state. 

BENTON, CHARLES S., congressman, 
was born in Maine. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 1843 
to 1849. 

BENTON, GUY POTTER, educator, was 
born May 26, 1865, in Kenton, Ohio. He 
graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity of Delaware. For five years he 
was superintendent of city schools in Fort 
Scott, Kan.; and served one term as as¬ 
sistant state superintendent of public in¬ 
struction of Kansas. This popular edu¬ 
cator fills the chair of history and so¬ 
ciology in the Baker university of Bald¬ 
win, Kan. 

BENTON, HERBERT E., lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, was born July 31, 1849, in Morris, 
Conn. He became night editor of the 
New Haven Daily Palladium, in which ca¬ 
pacity he served until his appointment as 
editor-in-chief in 1880. He served two 
years as a councilman, four years as al¬ 
derman, and six years as police commis¬ 
sioner. 


BENTON, JACOB, lawyer, legislator, 
congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1819, in 
Waterford, Vt. In 1854-56 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature; was a dele¬ 
gate to the Chicago convention of 1860; 
and was elected a representative from 
New Hampshire to the fortieth and forty- 
first congresses. 

BENTON, JAMES GILCHRIST, soldier, 
inventor, was born Sept. 15, 1820, in Leb¬ 
anon, N. H. He was brevetted colonel 
U. S. army in 1865; designed ordnance 
appliances; discovered use of electricity 
to determine velocity; and wrote A 
Course of Instruction in Ordnance and 
Gunnery. He commanded the national 
armory of Springfield, Mass., until his 
death. He died Aug. 23, 1881, in Spring- 
field, Mass. 

BENTON, JOEL, author, was born May 
29, 1832, in Amenia, N. Y. He is a verse- 
writer and critic and the author of Un¬ 
der the Apple Boughs, a collection of 
verse; and Emerson as a Poet. 

BENTON, MAECENAS E., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 29, 1849. in Obion 
county, Tenn. Beginning with 1872 (with 
three exceptions) he has been a delegate 
to every democratic state convention held 
in Missouri, and was president of the 
conventions held in 1890 and 1893. He 
was elected prosecuting attorney in 1878 
and in 1880, and declined re-election in 
1882; was attorney of the United States 
from March, 1885, to July, 1889; and is 
the original offensive partisan who was 
charged with pernicious activity in poli¬ 
tics. He has served as a member of the 
democratic state committee for the state 
at large; was a delegate to the national 
democratic convention held in Chicago in 
1896, and was a member of the committee 
on credentials in that body. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fifth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

BENTON, MORTIMER MURRAY, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born in 1807, in 
Benton, N. Y. He represented Kenton 
county in the lower house of the Ken¬ 
tucky legislature from 1863 to 1865; was 
then elected to the senate at the expira¬ 
tion of his term. 

BENTON, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
a representative in congress from South 
Carolina from 1793 to 1798. 

BENTON, THOMAS HART, statesman, 
author, was born March 14, 1782, in Hills¬ 
borough, N. C. He is an eminent states¬ 
man who represent¬ 
ed Missouri in the 
United States sen¬ 
ate for thirty years; 
removed to Tennes¬ 
see; became an at¬ 
torney; was elected 
for one term to the 
Kentucky legisla¬ 
ture; served with 
his regiment in the 
war of 1812; began 
law practice at St. 
Louis, Mo., in 1813; 
established the Missouri Inquirer; killed 
an opponent in a duel; was elected U. S. 
senator from Missouri in 1820, and was 
continuously re-elected for thirty years; 
was elected member of congress in 1852. 
His political writing is notable for its 
simple, direct style and absence of in¬ 
vective. He is the author of Speeches; 
Thirty Years’ View; History of the Work¬ 
ings of Congress, 1820-50; and Abridg¬ 
ment of the Debates of Congress, 1789- 
1856. He died April 10, 1858, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

BENTON, WILLIAM PLUMMER, sol¬ 
dier, was born Dec. 25, 1828, in Newmar¬ 


ket, Md. He was admitted to the bar in 
1851, in 1852 appointed prosecuting attor¬ 
ney, and in 1856 made judge of the com¬ 
mon pleas court. When Fort Sumter was 
fired upon, Judge Benton was the first 
man in Wayne county to respond to tae 
president’s call for 75,000 men. He com¬ 
manded a brigade at Pea Ridge, and was 
promoted to brigadier-general for gal¬ 
lantry. He was in the battles of Port 
Gibson, Jackson, Champion Hills, Black 
River Bridge, the siege of Vicksburg, and 
Mobile. He died March 14, 1867, in New 
Orleans, La. 

BERARD, AUGUSTA BLANCHE, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 29, 1824, in West 
Point, N. Y. She is an educational writer 
of West Point, and the author of School 
History of the United States; School 
History of England; Manual of Spanish 
Art and Literature; and Reminiscences 
of West Point in the Olden Time. 

BERARD, CLAUDIUS, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born March 21, 1786, in Bor¬ 
deaux, France. He arrived in New York 
in the spring of 1807, and soon afterward 
became professor of ancient languages in 
Dickinson college at Carlisle, Pa., where 
he remained until his appointment, in 
1815, as professor of French in the U. S. 
military academy at West Point. He held 
this chair until his death, a period of over 
thirty-three years. He died May 6, 1848, 
at West Point, N. Y. 

BERESFORD, RICHARD, congress¬ 
man. He was a delegate from South Caro¬ 
lina to the continental congress from 1783 
to 1785. 

BERG. ALBERT, soldier, journalist, 
public official, was horn June 25, 1861, in 
Centre City, Minn. He was educated at 
the Carleton college of Northfield, Minn.; 
and for three years studied at Gustavus 
Adolphus college of St. Peter. For three 
years he was engaged in journalistic 
work on the Fargo Argus; and in 1886 
was elected register of deeds for Chisago 
county, serving for eight years. In 1892 
he was a delegate to the national repub¬ 
lican convention; and in 1894 was elected 
secretary of state of Minnesota, receiving 
the re-election in 1896. 

BERG, JOSEPH FREDERICK, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1812, on the isl¬ 
and of Antigua. He was a Dutch re¬ 
formed clergyman of Philadelphia and a 
once noted controversialist. He was the 
author of Lectures on Romanism; and 
Rome’s Policy towards the Bible. He died 
July 20, 1871, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

BERG, LOUIS DE COPPET, architect, 
engineer, author, was born in 1856. He is 
an architect and civil engineer of New 
York city, and has published a valuable 
work on Safe Building. 

BERGEN, CHRISTOPHER AUGUST¬ 
US, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
Aug. 2, 1841, in Bi-idge Point, N. J. He 
was educated at Harlingen school, at 
Edge Hill classical school, apd at Prince¬ 
ton college, graduating from the academic 
department in 1863; studied law, and was 
licensed by the supreme court of New 
Jersey as an attorney at law November, 
1866, and as a counselor at law November, 
1869. He was elected to the fifty-first and 
fifty-second congresses as a republican. 

BERGEN, FANNY DICKERSON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Feb. 4, 1846, in 
Mansfield, Ohio. Mrs. Bergen has drama¬ 
tized Longfellow’s poem of Miles Stand- 
ish (Boston, 1883). She is a regular con¬ 
tributor to the American Teacher and 
the Journal of Education, and has writ¬ 
ten for other periodicals. 

BERGEN, JOHN T., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1831 to 1833. 






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BERGEN, JOSEPH YOUNG, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 22, 1851, in Red 
Beach, Maine. He became professor of 
natural sciences in Lombard university, 
becoming, in 1883, principal of the Pea¬ 
body (Mass.) high school. He is a regu¬ 
lar contributor to the Journal of Educa¬ 
tion, and has written for the Engineering 
and Mining Journal. He is joint author 
with his wife of The Development Theo¬ 
ry: the Study of Evolution simplified for 
General Readers. 


BERGEN, TEUNIS G., soldier, survey¬ 
or, horticulturist, congressman, was born 
Oct. 6, 1806, in Gowanus, N. Y. He was a 
member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1846; was supervisor of the 
town of New Utrecht for twenty-three 
years; served in all the grades, from ser¬ 
geant to colonel, in the state militia; was 
a member of the Charleston and Balti¬ 
more conventions of 1860; and was, in 
1864, elected a representative from New 
York to the thirty-ninth congress. 


BERGH, HENRY, philanthropist, au¬ 
thor, was born May 8, 1823, in New York 
city, N. Y. He was a New York philan¬ 
thropist who founded the American So¬ 
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals. He was the author of The 
Streets of New York, a volume of sketch¬ 
es; Love’s Alternative, a drama; and 
Married Off, a poem. He died March 12, 
1888, in' New York city. 

BERGHMANN, CHARLES, musical di¬ 
rector, was horn in 1821 in Germany. For 
a time he was conductor of German opera, 
officiated as the musical head of the Arion 
singing society, and became alternate 
conductor of the Philharmonic. He died 
Aug. 10, 1876, in New York city. 


BERGHOFF, JOHN T., physician, sur¬ 
geon, inventor, was born Nov. 17, 1823, 
in Germany. After studying pharmacy he 
emigrated to the 
United States in 
1846. In 1850 he 
opened a drug store 
in St. Louis, Mo.; 
studied medicine in 
the St. Louis medi¬ 
cal college; and in 
1860 continued the 
practice of his pro¬ 
fession in St. Jo¬ 
seph, Mo. He served 
as a surgeon in the 
union army during 
the civil war. He held the position of 
professor of the principles.. and practice 
of surgery in the Northwestern medical 
college of St. Joseph, Mo., from 1879 un¬ 
til his death. He invented a universal 
apparatus or splint for the treatment of 
fracture of the leg, injuries and diseases 
of the hip, knee, and ankle joints. He 
delivered numerous papers before the 
Missouri state medical association, and 
other medical societies. 



BERHOWITZ, HENRY, rabbi, founder, 
and chancellor, was horn March 18, 1857, 
in Pittsburg, Pa. He is rabbi and founder 
of the Jewish Chautauqua society; and 
the author of Judaism and the Social 
Question; First and Second Hebrew 
Readers; Bible Ethics; Pulpit Message; 
and The Open Bible. 


BERNARD, FRANCIS, colonial gover¬ 
nor, was born in 1714 in England. He 
came to America in 1758 as governor of 
New Jersey, but in 1769 returned to Eng¬ 
land. He was the author of Select Let¬ 
ters on the Trade and Government of 
America; and Principles of Law and Pol¬ 
ity Applied to the Government of the 
British Colonies in America. He died 
June 16, 1799. 


BERNAYS, AUGUSTUS CHARLES, 
physician, author, was horn Oct. 13, 1854, 
in Highland, Ill. In 1883 he became pro¬ 
fessor of anatomy in the St. Louis College 
of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Bernays 
is the author of two embryological mono¬ 
graphs—one on the development of the 
valves of the heart, and one on the de¬ 
velopment of the knee-joint and joints 
in general; and also of a series of sur¬ 
gical papers, under the title of Chips from 
a Surgeon’s Workshop. 

BERNHARDT, WILHELM, educator, 
author, was born May 9, 1849, in Halle, 
Germany. Since 1881 he has been head 
of the German department in the Cen¬ 
tral high school of Washington, D. C.; 
and since 1892 director of German in¬ 
struction in the high schools of that city. 
He is the author of a series of German 
text-books for schools and colleges, and 
during the summer lectures on German 
literature in the Amherst Summer School 
of Languages. 

BERNHEIM, GOTTHARDT DELL- 
MAN, clergyman, author, was born in 
1827. He is a lutheran clergyman at Phil- 
lipsburg, N. J., and the author of The 
Success of God’s Work; Localities of the 
Reformation; and History of the German 
Settlements in North and South Carolina. 

BERNHISEL, JOHN M„ physician, 
congressman, was born June 23, 1799, in 
Cumberland county, Pa. He graduated 
in the medical department of Pennsyl¬ 
vania university; and engaged in the 
practice of medicine. He was elected a 
delegate to the thirty-fifth congress from 
the territory of Utah; and re-elected to 
the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh con¬ 
gresses. 

BERNON, GABRIEL. He was a French 
Huguenot, who resided in Providence, R. 
I. He founded the three first episcopal 
churches in America—one in Virginia, 
one in Newport, R. I., and St. John’s 
church in Providence, R. I. History states 
that the first English prayer book in 
America was brought here a'nd owned by 
Gabriel Bernon. 


BERRIAN, WILLIAM, clergyman, au- 
hor, was born in 1787, in New York city. 
3e was an episcopal clergyman who was 
•ector of Trinity church. New York city, 
830-62. He was the author of Travels in 
’ranee and Italy; Devotions for the Sick 
loom; On Communion; Enter thy Clos- 
>f The Sailors’ Manual; Recollections of 
Departed Friends; Family and Private 
3 rayers: and Historical Sketch, of Tnn- 
ty Church. He died Nov. 7. 1862. in New 

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BERRIEN, JOHN McPHERSON, was 
orn Aug. 23, 1781, in New Jersey In 
809 he was elected solicitor-general of 
Georgia, and the 
next year judge of 
the eastern circuit. 
During the war of 
1812 he had com¬ 
mand of a regiment 
of volunteer caval¬ 
ry; and served in 
the state legislature 
for several years. 
In 1824 he was elect¬ 
ed to the United 
States senate, where 





1829, when he took a seat in the cabinet 
of President Jackson as attorney-general. 
In 1840 he was again elected to the United 
States senate for six years. In 1845 he 
was elected one of the judges of the su¬ 
preme court of Georgia; and in 1847 was 
once more elected to the United States 
senate, resigning his seat in May, 1852. 
He died Jan. 1, 1856, in Savannah, Ga. 


BERRY, A. MOORE, lawyer, financier, 
was born Dec. 5, 1849, in Greenville, S. C. 
He was law reporter of the court of ap¬ 
peals for twelve years in St. Louis, and 
during his incumbency of that office he 
prepared and published twenty-eight vol¬ 
umes of Missouri Appeal Reports. He is 
president of the Southern Saving-Fund 
and Loan company. 

BERRY, ABRAHAM J., physician, was 
born in 1799 in New York city. At the 
time of the desolation of New York by 
Asiatic cholera in 1832, he was among 
the few that remained at the post of duty. 
For more than a century a considerable 
part of Williamsburg, now Brooklyn, had 
belonged to his family. He identified 
himself with the interests of the place 
when it was made a city, and became its 
first mayor. He also assisted very mate¬ 
rially in the establishment of the im¬ 
portant ferries connecting with New 
York. In 1861 Dr. Berry, although over 
sixty years of age, went out as surgeon 
of the thirty-eighth New York infantry. 
He died Oct. 22, 1865, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BERRY, ALBERT SE4T0N, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Campbell coun¬ 
ty, Ky. He was educated at Miami uni¬ 
versity, Oxford, Ohio, and attended Cin¬ 
cinnati law school. He served two terms 
in the state senate and five terms as may¬ 
or of Newport. He was elected to the 
fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and 
re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

BERRY, CAMPBELL P., was born Nov. 
7, 1834, in Jackson county, Ala. He re¬ 
moved to Arkansas in 1841, and thence to 
California in 1857; and graduated at the 
Methodist college of Vacaville, Cal. He 
was a representative in the state legisla¬ 
ture in 1869, 1871, 1875, and 1877, and the 
last term was speaker of the house. He 
was elected a representative from Cali¬ 
fornia to the forty-sixth and forty-sev¬ 
enth congresses as a democrat. 

BERRY, JAMES H., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, United States senator, 
was born May 15,1841, in Jackson county, 
Ala. He removed to Arkansas in 1848; 
entered the confederate army in 1861 as 
second lieutenant sixteenth Arkansas in¬ 
fantry; and lost a leg at the battle of 
Corinth, Miss., Oct. 4, 1862. He was elect¬ 
ed to the legislature of Arkansas in 1866; 
was re-elected in 1872; was elected speak¬ 
er of the house at the extraordinary ses¬ 
sion of 1874; was president of the demo¬ 
cratic state convention in 1876; and was 
elected judge of the circuit court in 1878. 
He was elected governor in 1882; was 
elected to the United States senate as a 
democrat, to fill a vacancy, and was re¬ 
elected in 1889 and 1895. His term of ser¬ 
vice will expire March 3, 1901. 

BERRY, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born April 26, 1833, in Crawford 
county, Ohio. He was educated at the 
common schools, and the Ohio Wesleyan 
university; and graduated at the law 
school of Cincinnati college. He was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1857; practiced his 
profession at Upper Sandusky; was prose¬ 
cuting attorney of Wyandot county in 
1862, and again in 1864; and was elected 
to the forty-third congress as a democrat. 

BERRY, LUCIEN W., college presi¬ 
dent, was born in 1815, in Alburg, Vt. At 
the age of thirty-four he was elected 
president of Indiana Asbury (DePauw) 
university for six years; resigned in 1855, 
and accepted the presidency of the Iowa 
Wesleyan university. After three years 
here he resigned and entered into the 
project of founding a methodist college at 
Jefferson City, Mo. He died July 23, 1858, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. 





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BERRY, NATHANIEL S., statesman. 
He was governor of New Hampshire for 
two years, from 1861 to 1863, taking an 
active interest in raising troops for the 
war of the rebellion. 

BERRY, ORVILLE E., lawyer, state 
senator, was born Feb. 16, 1852, in Mc¬ 
Donough county, Ill. In 1883 he was elect¬ 
ed mayor of Carthage, and was twice re¬ 
elected without opposition. He was sec¬ 
retary of the Hancock county agricultural 
board for four years. He has served with 
distinction as a member of the Illinois 
state senate, and is a noted parliamenta¬ 
rian. 

BERRY, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, rail¬ 
road manager, was born Feb. 2, 1844, in 
Biddeford, Maine. He is the second vice- 
president in charge of traffic of the Bos¬ 
ton and Maine railroad. For thirty-five 
years he has been engaged in railroad 
work, commencing as freight clerk and 
working his way through all grades to his 
present position. 

BERTRAM, GEORGE WEBB, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 21, 1847, in Salem, 
Mass. He attended the common schools 
and the agricultural college of Manhat¬ 
tan, Kan. He served as a union soldier 
during the civil war in company B. 
eighteenth regiment Kansas cavalry. For 
two years he was attorney for Mitchell 
county, Kan.; and during 1890-94 was 
judge of the seventeenth judicial district 
court of Kansas. He is a prominent mem¬ 
ber of the G. A. R., Knights Templars, and 
other fraternal bodies. 


BERWALD, WILLIAM HENRY, musi¬ 
cian, was born Dec. 26, 1864, in Germany. 
He was conductor.of orchestra and cho¬ 
rus for two years in Russia, after which, 
in 1892, he came to America and entered 
the Syracuse university as instructor 
upon the piano and professor in the his¬ 
tory of theory of music. In 1893 he was 
made full professor. 


BESHOAR, MICHAEL, physician, leg¬ 
islator, journalist, was born Feb. 25, 1833, 
near Mifflintown, Pa. He attended the 
Tuscarora academy, 
Philadelphia and 
Jefferson medical 
colleges, medical de¬ 
partments of the 
universities of Penn¬ 
sylvania and Michi¬ 
gan, graduating 
from the latter in¬ 
stitution in 1853. He 
was a representative 
in the legislatures of 
Arkansas, and the 
territory (and later 
the state) of Colorado. He was surgeon 
in the Arkansas state militia, surgeon of 
the provisional (and later the regular 
army) of the confederacy; and filled nu¬ 
merous other public offices as a physician. 
He was county judge for seven years; 
county superintendent of schools for two 
terms; founder and editor of the Pueblo 
Chieftain in 1868; founder and present 
editor and owner of the Daily Advertiser 
of Trinidad, Colo. He has been a member 
of the Pan-American medical congress. 



BESSEY, CHARLES EDWIN, botanist, 
author, was born May 21, 1845, in Milton, 
Ohio. He is a botanical professor in the 
university of Nebraska, and the author of 
Geography of Iowa; Botany for High 
Schools and Colleges; and The Essentials 
of Botany. 


BESSON, SAMUEL AUSTIN, lawyer, 
was born April 6, 1853, in Everittstown, 
N. J. In 1882 he was appointed corpora¬ 
tion counsel of the city of Hoboken; and 
in 1889 was chosen president of the Hud¬ 
son county bar association. 


BESSONIES, MONSIGNOR JOHN 
FRANCIS AUGUST DE, V. G. R. P., 
priest, was born June 17, 1815, in France. 
In 1840 he was ordained a priest at Vin¬ 
cennes, Ind. He has been pastor at Leo¬ 
pold, Ind.; of Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Jef¬ 
ferson, Ind.; and of St. John’s, Indianapo¬ 
lis, Ind. He was appointed vicar-general 
of the diocese of Vincennes in 1872; was 
nominated Roman prelate in 1884; and 
elected administrator of the diocese of 
Vincennes in 1887. 

BEST, EVA, author, poet, was born 
Dec. 19, 1851, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She 
is the author of several dramas entitled 
An American Princess; Sands of Egypt; 
A Rhine Crystal; and is the author of nu¬ 
merous short stories and poems. 

BEST, PHILIP, brewer, was born Sept. 
26, 1814, in Germany. He located in 
Milwaukee, and, together with his father 
and three brothers, he established the fa¬ 
mous brewery of Philip Best and Co. He 
was for many years major-general of the 
Wisconsin state militia. He died in 1869 
in Bavaria. 

BEST, SUSIE MONTGOMERY, educa¬ 
tor, poet, was born in Ireland. She is the 
author of nearly two thousand poems; 
and a volume in verse entitled The Fallen 
Fillar Saint. 

BETHUNE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
clergyman, author, was born in March, 
1805, in New York. He was a Dutch re¬ 
formed clergyman of Brooklyn of con¬ 
siderable note as a preacher. He was the 
author of Orations and Discourses; Fruits 
of the Spirit; History of a Penitent; and 
Lays of Love and Faith, a volume of 
verse, are some of his works. He was an 
ardent fisherman, and edited Walton's 
Complete Angler. He died April 27, 1862, 
in Florence, Italy. 

BETHUNE, LAUGHLIN. congressman, 
was born in North Carolina. He was for 
several years a senator in the state legis¬ 
lature, and from 1831 to 1833 a represent¬ 
ative in congress from Cumberland coun¬ 
ty, N. C. 

BETHUNE, THOMAS GREEN, musi¬ 
cian, was born May 25, 1849, near Colum¬ 
bus, Ga. He was blind from birth, and 
known as Blind Tohi. He was born a 
slave. At the age of five he was fa¬ 
miliar with the piano. He made his first 
public appearance in 1858, and made suc¬ 
cessful tours of the United States and 
Europe. 

BETTON, SILAS, congressman, was 
born in 1764. He graduated at Dart¬ 
mouth college in 1787, was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New Hampshire 
from 1803 to 1807; and held the office of 
sheriff of Rockingham county for several 
years. He died in 1822 in Salem, N. H. 

BETTS, B. FRANK, educator, was born 
Dec. 1, 1845, in Warminster, Pa. He has 
held a professorship in the Hahnemann 
Medical college of Philadelphia since 
1873. He is consulting gynecologist to 
the Homoeopathic hospital of Wilming¬ 
ton, Del., and to the out-patent depart¬ 
ment of the Children’s Homoeopathic hos¬ 
pital of Philadelphia. 

BETTS, BEVERLEY ROBINSON, 
clergyman, journalist, author, was born 
August, 1827, in New York city, N. Y. 
He was successively rector of several 
churches until 1865, when he was ap¬ 
pointed librarian of Columbia. Of the 
large library of that college he prepared a 
full catalogue. He has been a frequent 
contributor to the church journals, and 
for many years one of the editors of the 
New York Genealogical and Biographical 
Record. 


BETTS, CRAVEN LANGSTROTH, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1853 in New 
Brunswick. He was the author of Songs 
from Beranger; The Perfume Holder; A 
Persian Love Poem; and co-author with. 

A. W. H. Eaton of Tales of a Garrison. 
Town. 

BETTS, FREDERIC HENRY, lawyer, 
author, was born March 8, 1843, in New- 
burg, N. Y. In 1872 he was chosen con¬ 
sul for the New York state insurance de¬ 
partment; in 1873 was lecturer on patent 
law in the law department of the Yale 
university; and in 1879 published a 
pamphlet on Policy of Patent Law. He 
is the author of a work entitled The Life 
of Joseph Henry. 

BETTS, FREDERICK, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Oct. 15, 1859, in Hillsdale 
county, Mich. He received the degree of 

B. A. from the University of Michigan; 
and has attained success as one of the 
foremost lawyers of the west of Pueblo, 
Colo. During 1888-92 he served with dis¬ 
tinction as state senator in the Colorado 
legislature. 

BETTS, SAMUEL ROSSITER, lawyer, 
jurist,congressman, was born June 8, 1787, 
in Richmond, Mass. He took part in the 
war of 1812, and was appointed judge ad¬ 
vocate. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1815 to 1817; 
in 1823 was appointed a circuit jydge for 
the state; and in 1826 was appointed 
judge of the United States district court 
for the southern district of New York, 
which office he continued to hold until 
May, 1867. He was the author of Admir¬ 
alty Practice. He died Oct. 3, 1868, in 
New Haven, Conn. 

BETTS, THADDEUS, United States 
senator, was born in Norwalk, Conn. He 
was at one time lieutenant-governor of 
Connecticut, and was an influential mem¬ 
ber of the United States senate from lSSft’ 
to the date of his death. He died April 
8, 1840, in Washington, D. C. 

BETZ, JOHN FREDERICK, brewer, 
was born April 8, 1831, in Germany. His 
properties are the Riverside Mansion, Ly¬ 
ceum theater, Grand opera house, and the 
huge Betz building on South Broad 
street; and he is also connected with ^The 
Germania Brewing company, of Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

BEVAN, PHILIP, poet. He is a suc¬ 
cessful writer of Martinsburg, Ind.; and 
the author of Woman Lost and Gained; 
and Songs of the War for the Union. 

BEVERIDGE, JOHN, educator, poet, 
was born in Scotland. In 1752 he came 
to Boston and six years later removed 
to Philadelphia to accept the chair of 
languages in the college and academy, 
which was the real nucleus of the present 
university of Pennsylvania. In 1765 he 
published a collection of Latin poems. 

BEVERIDGE, JOHN L., lawyer, gov¬ 
ernor, was born July 6, 1824, in Green¬ 
wich, N. Y. From 1846 to 1851 he taught 
school in Tennessee and read law; he 
practiced in Chicago; he served four years 
in the union army as major and colonel 
of cavalry; and was sheriff of Cook coun¬ 
ty, Ill., two years; he was elected state 
senator in 1870; and was elected to 
fill a vacancy in the forty-second con¬ 
gress; he was elected governor of Illinois 
in 1873 for the term of four years. 

BEVERLEY, ROBERT, author,, was 
born about 1675 in Virginia. He was a 
writer whose one work, a History of the 
Present State of Virginia, 1705, is full of 
life and vigor; in it occurs the phrase 
“the almighty power of gold,” which an¬ 
ticipates Irving’s “almighty dollar.” He 
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BEVINS, PHILIP DENISON, educator, 
journalist, was born Feb. 3, 1862, in Pike 
county, Ky. He received a thorough ed¬ 
ucation and graduated from the State Col¬ 
lege of Lexington, Ky. He has attained 
success in educational work; has been 
county teachers’ examiner; and during 
1894-97 was superintendent of schools of 
Pike county, Ky. He was one of the or¬ 
ganizers of the first teachers’ associations 
in his county; and has been instrumental 
in the enactment of better educational 
laws in the Kentucky state legislature. 

BEVIS, MRS. S. HAZLETT, journalist, 
author, poet, was born July 17, 1846, in 
Zanesville, Ohio. As a journalist, she has 
attained fame in Cincinnati, Ohio, where 
she organized the Woman’s Press club; 
and was its first president. She has pub¬ 
lished a volume of poems; and is the 
author of biographical and other works. 

BEUTGEN, PETER JOHN, missionary, 
author, was born Oct. 7, 1861, in Te- 
cumseh, Canada. He graduated from the 
normal school in Canada; studied law 
and was admitted to the bar in the United 
States in 1886. He afterward studied 
theology at the Louvin university, Bel¬ 
gium; and was ordained priest. He be¬ 
came a missionary in Oregon and Texas; 
built the most westerly church in the 
United States at Cape Blanco, and two 
■other churches in Oregon. He built the 
Ursulian convent in Laredo, and St. Pe¬ 
ter’s church in the same place. He was 
the first professor of Mt. Angel college, 
Oregon; and the founder of the school for 
boys in Laredo, Texas. He is a great 
linguist; and speaks seven languages. He 
is the author of Our Lady of Guadalupe; 
and has contributed extensively to cur¬ 
rent periodicals. 

BIBB, GEORGE M„ lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born in 1772, 
in Virginia. He was a justice, and twice 
chief justice of the court of appeals of 
Kentucky; was in the state senate two 
years: held the position of chancellor of 
the court of chancery; was secretary of 
the treasury under President Tyler; and 
afterward practiced his profession in the 
city of Washington; and acted as an as¬ 
sistant in the ofiice of the attorney-gen¬ 
eral of the United States. He was a Uni¬ 
ted States senator from 1811 to 1814, and 
again from 1829 to 1835. He died April 
14, 1859, in Georgetown, D. C. 

BIBB, THOMAS, governor, was a kins¬ 
man of W. W. Bibb, whom he succeeded 
as governor of Alabama in 1820. 

BIBB, WILLIAM WYATT, governor, 
United States senator, was born Oct. 1, 
1780, in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Georgia from 1806 
to 1814; and a senator in congress from 
1813 to 1816. In 1817 he was appointed 
governor of the territory of Alabama; and 
was elected first governor under the con¬ 
stitution of that state in 1819. He died 
July 9, 1820, in Fort Jackson, Ala. 

BIBIGHAUS, THOMAS M„ congress¬ 
man, was born in 1816, in Pennsylvania. 
He was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1851 to the time of his 
death. He died June 18, 1853, in Leb¬ 
anon, Pa. 

BIBLE, GEORGE POTTER, educator, 
lecturer, was born Feb. 26. 1858, in Belle- 
fonte, Pa. He is known in his state as 
one of the most gifted institute instruc¬ 
tors, having lectured in nearly every in¬ 
stitute in the state. In Ohio, Delaware 
and Indiana, he has also been much in 
demand. He was professor of literature 
and elocution in the normal schools of 
Lock Haven and Indiana, Pa.; and for 
fifteen years past has been lecturer and 
instructor in the institutes of Pennsyl¬ 


vania. He is now organizer and principal 
of the state normal school of East 
Stroudsburg, Pa. For three years he was 
editor of the Bellefonte Central Demo¬ 
crat; and has written extensively for the 
educational papers of the east. 

BICKER, WALTER, soldier, was born 
Feb. 29, 1796, in New York city. He 
served in the war of 1812; and at the time 
of his death was its last surviving officer. 
He died June 3, 1886, in Far Rockaway, 
L. I. 

BICKFORD, LEVI F., clergyman, poet, 
was born January 9, 1840, in Hartford, 
Ind. He is a successful congregational 
clergyman of Brownwood, Texas; and fills 
the chair of mathematics and meta¬ 
physics in the Daniel Baker college of 
that city. 

BICKMORE, ALBERT SMITH, ethnol¬ 
ogist, author, was born March 1, 1839, in 
St. George, Maine. He is an ethnologist; 
and since 1885 has been the curator of 
the American Museum of Natural History 
in New York city. He is the author of 
Travels in the East Indian Archipelago; 
The Ainos or Hairy Men of Jesso, Sag- 
halien, etc.; and Sketch of a Journey from 
Canton to Hankow. 

BICKNELL, ALBION HARRIS, artist, 
was born March 18,1837, in Turner, Maine. 
He began the study? of art at an early 
age, and was a pupil of Thomas Couture 
and L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. 
He has painted portraits of a great num¬ 
ber of distinguished public men. His his¬ 
torical paintings—Lincoln at Gettysburg; 
and the Battle of Lexington—have a na¬ 
tional reputation, and are among the 
most important and meritorious paint¬ 
ings yet produced by an American artist. 

BICKNELL, BENNET, state senator, 
congressman, was born in Mansfield, 
Conn. He served in the assembly of the 
state in 1812; was a state senator from 
1815 to 1818; and was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1837 to 
1839. He died in 1863, in Morrisville, 
Madison county. 

BICKNELL, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was judge of the 
second judicial circuit of the state of In¬ 
diana in 1852, holding this position by 
successive re-elections for twenty-four 
years. From 1861 to 1870 he was pro¬ 
fessor of law at the university of Indiana. 
He was elected a representative from In¬ 
diana to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth 
congresses. 

BICKNELL, THOMAS WILLIAMS, ed¬ 
ucator, journalist, author, was born Sept. 
6, 1834, in Barrington, ft. I. He has been 
very active in educational journalism, 
and during the years 1874-86 he founded, 
edited, and owned The Journal of Educa¬ 
tion; The Primary Teacher; The Ameri¬ 
can Teacher; Education, a bi-month¬ 
ly magazine; and Good Times. The 
New England Bureau of Education and 
the National Council of Education were 
organized by him. He has published 
Biography of William Lord Noyes; His¬ 
torical Sketches of Barrington, R. I.; Re¬ 
ports of the Commissioner of Public 
Schools; and History of the Bicknell 
Family. 

BIDDLE, ANDREW PORTER, physi¬ 
cian, dermatologist, was born Feb. 25, 
1862, in Detroit, Mich. He studied in 
Geneva, Heidelberg and Leipzic; and in 
1892 was appointed lecturer on derma¬ 
tology in the Detroit college of medicine. 
He has been assistant dermatologist to 
tne St. Mary’s hospital clinics; and der¬ 
matologist to the Children’s Free hospi¬ 


tal clinics. During President Cleveland’s 
second administration he was United 
States pension examining surgeon. He 
has taken great interest in military or¬ 
ganizations; and is captain and assistant 
surgeon of the fourth regiment infantry 
Michigan national guard. Dr. Biddle is a 
prominent member of various medical as¬ 
sociations and other societies. 

BIDDLE, ANTHONY JOSEPH DREX- 
EL, journalist, author, was born in 1874, 
in Pennsylvania. He is a journalist and 
publisher of Philadelphia; and the author 
of A Dual Role, and Other Stories; An 
Allegory and Three Essays; The Madeira 
Islands; and The Froggy Fairy Book. 

BIDDLE, CHARLES JOHN, soldier, 
congressman, was born in 1819, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In the war with Mexico he 
was brevetted a major for gallant and 
meritorious services. In 1861 he was ap¬ 
pointed a colonel in the Pennsylvania re¬ 
serve volunteer corps; and while in the 
field in Virginia was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Pennsylvania to the thirty- 
seventh congress, to fill a vacancy. He 
was a son of Nicholas Biddle. He was a 
successful journalist; and the author of 
The Case of Major Andre. He died Sept. 
28, 1873, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BIDDLE, CLEMENT CORNELL, sol¬ 
dier, was born Oct. 24, 1784, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. In 1812 he raised a company of 
volunteers—the State Feucibles—was 
elected its captain, and subsequently was 
colonel of the first Pennsylvania infantry. 
At the conclusion of hostilities he de¬ 
voted himself to the study of political 
economy; and annotated an edition of 
« Say’s treatise on that science. He died 
Aug. 21, 1851. 

BIDDLE, EDWARD, soldier, lawyer, 
statesman, was born in 1739. He was an 
officer in the French war from 1756 to 
1763; became eminent as a lawyer in 
Reading, Pa.; and was a member of the 
assembly, and speaker. He was a delegate 
to the continental congress from 1774 to 
1775; and was one of the prominent ad¬ 
vocates of independence. He died Sept. 5, 
1779, in Baltimore, Md. 

BIDDLE, HORACE P., lawyer, jurist, 
author, poet, was born March 24, 1818, in 
Hocking county, Ohio. In his boyhood he 
received an elemen¬ 
tary English educa¬ 
tion, and afterward 
acquired a knowl¬ 
edge of Latin, Ger¬ 
man, French, Ital¬ 
ian, Spanish, Portu¬ 
guese. and several 
eastern languages. 
He studied law, was 
admitted to the bar, 
and in 1838 opened 
an office in Logans- 
port, Ind.; rose to 
the first rank in his profession, and re¬ 
ceived the highest judicial honors of the 
state. He was a member of the consti¬ 
tutional convention, which formed the 
present constitution of the state. He is 
the author of several books; in science— 
The Musical Scale; in philosophy—Ele¬ 
ments of Knowledge; in poetry—A Few 
Poems; Biddle’s Poems; American Boy¬ 
hood; and a Glance at the World; and a 
volume entitled Prose Miscellany. In 
childhood Mr. Biddle showed an intense 
love of music, and thirty years after the 
publication of his scientific work, en¬ 
titled The Musical Scale, his theory was 
proved to be true by demonstrative evi¬ 
dence. He still resides in his Island 
Home on an island in the Wabash river 
near Logansport, Ind. 





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BIDDLE, JACOB ALBERT, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born Dec. 
24, 1845, in Rochester, Ohio. He has held 
the position of president of the Philo¬ 
math college, of Oregon; and has filled 
pastorates in Milford and South Norwalk, 
Conn. He is the author of Social Regen¬ 
eration. 

BIDDLE, JAMES, soldier, was born 
Feb. 28, 1783, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1845 
he was United States commissioner to 
ratify a treaty with China; visited Japan 
in the Columbus; commanded the squad¬ 
ron on the west coast of Mexico during 
the war; and from 1838 to 1842 had 
charge of the naval asylum on the 
Schuylkill. He died Oct. 1, 1848, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

BIDDLE, JOHN, soldier, congressman, 
was born March 9, 1789, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was an officer in the war of 1812, 
acquitting himself with bravery; held the 
position of paymaster in the army; and 
also that of Indian agent. He was a dele¬ 
gate to congress from the territory of 
Michigan from 1829 to 1831, when he was 
appointed register of the land office at 
Detroit, Mich. He died Aug. 25, 1859, at 
White Sulphur Springs, Va. 

BIDDLE, NICHOLAS, naval officer, was 
horn Sept. 10, 1750, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
In 1775 congress passed a resolution ap¬ 
pointing nineteen naval officers, of whom 
five were captains. Nicholas Biddle, one 
of these, was assigned to the Andrea Do- 
ria, an armed brig. He died March 7, 
1778. 

BIDDLE, NICHOLAS, state senator, 
financier, was born Jan. 8, 1786, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a financier of Phila¬ 
delphia famous in 
political history as 
the president of the 
United States bank. 
He was a member 
of the Pennsylvania 
legislature in 1810- 
11; and of the state 
senate in 1814. He 
was the author of A 
Commercial Digest; 
and History of the 
Expedition under 
Lewis and Clark to 
the Missouri River. He died Feb. 27,1844, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BIDDLE, RICHARD, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, author, was born March 25, 1796, in 
Philadelphia, Pa., and was a brother of 
Nicholas Biddle. He served during the 
war of 1812, in the protection of Philadel¬ 
phia. He became a leader of the Pitts¬ 
burg bar; and was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1837 to 
1841. While in England he published an 
expose of Captain Basil Hall’s Travels 
in America; and his Life of Sebastian Ca¬ 
bot brought to light new and important 
facts in the discovery of America. He 
died July 7, 1847, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

BIDDLE, THOMAS, soldier, was born 
Nov. 21, 1790, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 
1814 he was brevetted major, and in De¬ 
cember became aide to General Izard. In 
1820 he was paymaster. He met his death 
at the hands of Spencer Pettis in a duel. 
In consequence of Major Biddle’s defect¬ 
ive eyesight, the distance was made five 
feet, and both men were mortally wound¬ 
ed at the first fire. He died Aug. 29, 1831, 
in St. Louis, Mo. 

BIDLACK, BENJAMIN A., congress¬ 
man, was born in Pennsylvania. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1841 to 1845. He died Feb. 
29, 1849, in New Grenada. 


BIDWELL, BARNABAS, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman'. From 1801 to 1805 he was a 
member of the Massachusetts legislature; 
was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1805 to 1807; and at¬ 
torney-general for the state from 1807 to 
1810. He died in 1833. 

BIDWELL, DANIEL D., soldier, was 
born about 1816 in Buffalo, N. Y. Colonel 
Bidwell took a prominent part in the bat¬ 
tles of Fredericksburg and Chancellors- 
ville, commanded a brigade at Gettys¬ 
burg, and when General Grant took com¬ 
mand of the armies in Virginia was again 
placed in charge of a brigade, partici¬ 
pating in the overland campaign. He was 
commissioned brigadier-general in July, 
1864, and served with honor in the Shen¬ 
andoah campaigns during the summer 
preceding the action at Cedar Creek, 
where he lost his life. He died Oct. 19, 
1864, near Cedar Creek, Va. 

BIDWELL, JOHN, soldier, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Aug. 5, 1819, 
in Chautauqua county, N. Y. He served 
in the war with Mexico until its close, 
rising from second lieutenant to major. 
He was the first man to find gold on 
Feather river, in 1848. In 1849 he was a 
member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention, and during the same year was 
elected to the senate of the new state. 
He was a brigadier-general of militia dur¬ 
ing the civil war, and in 1864 was elected 
a representative from California to the 
thirty-ninth congress; and in 1875 was a 
candidate for governor of California. 

BIDWELL, MARSHAL S., lawyer, 
banker, was born 1798 in New England. 
He was at the time of his death president 
of the oldest savings bank in New York 
city, a director in the American Bible so¬ 
ciety, and a prominent member of the 
historical society, before which he deliv¬ 
ered an address a short time before his 
death. He died Oct. 24, 1872, in New 
York city. 

BIDWELL, WALTER HILLIARD, cler¬ 
gyman, journalist, was born June 21, 1798, 
in Farmington, Conn. In 1841 he began a 
long editorial career, conducting the 
American National Preacher for about 
nineteen years. He also edited the New 
York Evangelist from 1843 till 1855, and 
in 1846 became proprietor of the Eclectic 
Magazine and the American Biblical Re¬ 
pository. He became publisher and pro¬ 
prietor of the American Theological Re¬ 
view in 1860, and kept it till 1862, when it 
was incorporated with the Presbyterian 
Quarterly Review. He died in November, 
1881. 

BIENVILLE, JEAN BAPTIST, colonial 
governor, was born Feb. 24, 1680, in Mon¬ 
treal, Canada. He was the founder of 
New Orleans; and French governor of 
Louisiana. He died in 1765 in France. 

BIERER, ANDREW GREGG CURTIN, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 24, 1862, in 
Uniontown, Pa. He has attained success 
in the legal profession; has been city at¬ 
torney of Garden City, Kan.; city attor¬ 
ney of Guthrie, Oklahoma; and in 1893 
was appointed by President Cleveland as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of 
Oklahoma Territory. 

BIERER, EVERARD, soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Jan. 9, 1827, in 
Uniontown, Pa. Since 1848 he has been 
principally engaged in the practice of 
law, and for three years was district at¬ 
torney of his county. He served as a 
union soldier during the civil war; was 
captain of company F, eleventh regiment 
Pennsylvania volunteer reserve corps, 
from April 23, 1861, to Nov. 18, 1862; 


and colonel of the 171st regiment Penn¬ 
sylvania volunteers from Nov. 18, 1862, to- 
Sept. 28, 1863; and in the reserve corps as 
captain until March 16, 1864. He was a 
Lincoln presidential elector in 1864; and 
in 1867-68 was a representative from 
Brown county in the Kansas state legis¬ 
lature. Mr. Bierer is a prominent mem¬ 
ber of the Masonic order Grand Army of 
the Republic, and other fraternal bodies. 

BIERMAN, E. BENJAMIN, educator, 
college president, was born Dec. 1, 1839, 
near Reading, Pa. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the Read¬ 
ing classical acade¬ 
my and the univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania. 
During 1867-81 he 
was professor of 
mathematics in Leb¬ 
anon valley college; 
and since 1890 has 
been president of 
that institution of 
learning. He has 
contributed valuable 
articles arid essays 
on educational topics, which have ap¬ 
peared in the periodical press and several 
standard works. 

BIERNE, ANDREW, congressman, was 
born in Ireland. He served as a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Virginia from 
1837 to 1841. 

BIERSTADT, ALBERT, landscape 
painter, was born Jan. 7, 1830, in Ger¬ 
many. Among his most celebrated works 
are Rocky Mountains; Looking Down 
the Yosemite; Storm in the Rocky Moun¬ 
tains; Valley of the Yosemite; Sunlight 
and Shadow; Emerald Pool; Great Trees 
of California; Landing of Columbus; and 
Last of the Buffalo. He has received nu¬ 
merous honors and medals. 

BIERY, JAMES S., educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 2, 1839, in 
Venango county, Pa. He received an 
academic education; 
taught school sev¬ 
eral years; studied 
theology and law; 
and was admitted to 
the bar in 1868. In 
1869 he was a candi- 
aate for the legisla¬ 
ture, running aheau 
of his ticket. He 
was elected to the 
forty-third congress, 
serving on the com¬ 
mittee on mileage. 
He was an able speaker; and took an ac¬ 
tive part in all progressive measures. He 
is a successful lawyer of Allentown, Pa.; 
and one of the foremost jurists of his 
state. 

BIGBY, JOHN SUMMERFIELD, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 
13, 1832, in Coweta county, Ga. He grad¬ 
uated from Emory college, Georgia, in 
1853; studied and practiced law; and was 
a member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1867-1868. He was solicitor- 
general of the Tallapoosa circuit in 1868; 
was judge of its superior court until 1871; 
and was elected to the forty-second con¬ 
gress. 

BIGELOW, ABIJAH, congressman, was 
born Dec. 5, 1775, in Westminster, Mass. 
He was a member of the general court of 
Massachusetts; and was a representative 
in congress from 1810 to 1815, In 1838 he 
was appointed a master in chancery for 
Worcester county; and held the office of 
justice of the peace for about fifty years. 
He died April 4, 1860. 










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BIGELOW, ANSON A., lumberman, 
was born Nov. 7, 1833, in Easton, N. Y. 
The firm of A. A. Bigelow and Co. now 
own a large area of pine forest near 
Washburn in Bayfield county, Wis., and 
have built capacious mills there. 

BIGELOW, ASA, merchant, was born 
Jan. 18, 1779, in Marlborough, Conn. He 
was engaged in a general shipping and 
commission business in Saugerties, N. Y., 
in which he was very prosperous. Subse¬ 
quently he removed to Bristol, N. Y., and 
continued in the same business. He died 
Feb. 12, 1850. 

BIGELOW, EDGAR ALTON, educator, 
farmer, business man, legislator, was 
born March 8, 1863, in Zumbrota, Minn. 
After receiving his education he taught 
school for several years. He has filled 
numerous public offices of trust in his na¬ 
tive county, and has been president of 
the Zumbrota Farmers’ Mercantile and 
Elevator company since its inception. In 
1896 he was elected republican represent¬ 
ative to the Minnesota state legislature; 
and in 1897 was elected president of the 
Minnesota Farmers’ Elevator association. 

BIGELOW, MRS. EDITH EVELYN, 
author, was born in 1861 in New York. 
She is the wife of P. Bigelow, and the au¬ 
thor of Diplomatic Disenchantments, a 
novel. 

BIGELOW, ERASTUS BRIGHAM, 
manufacturer, was born April 2, 1814, in 
West Boylston, Mass. He was a noted 
New England inventor of carpet looms, 
and the author of The Tariff Question 
considered in regard to the Policy of Eng¬ 
land and the Interest of the United 
States; and The Tariff Policy of England 
and the United States Contrasted. He 
died Dec. 6, 1879, in Boston, Mass. 

BIGELOW, FRANK GORDON, banker, 
was born Sept. 28, 1847, in Hartford, N. 
Y. This successful business man and 
financier has been trustee of the North¬ 
western Mutual Life Insurance company; 
receiver of the Northern Pacific Railroad 
company; and is the honored president of 
the First national bank of Milwaukee, 
Wis. 

BIGELOW, HENRY JACOB, physician, 
was born March 11, 1818, in Boston, Mass. 
He became professor of surgery in the 
medical school of Harvard university in 
1849; continuing to hold the chair of sur¬ 
gery until 1884. In 1846 he was appointed 
surgeon to the Massachusetts general 
hospital, a position which he resigned in 
1886. He died Oct. 30, 1890, in Newton 
Creek, Mass. 

BIGELOW, HOBERT B., statesman. He 
was governor of Connecticut from 1881 to 
1883. 

BIGELOW, HORACE RANSOM, law¬ 
yer, was born March 13, 1820, in Water- 
vliet, N. Y. He was attorney for the St. 
Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway 
Co.; and for the Chicago, Milwaukee and 
St. Paul Railway company. He was one 
of the commissioners in the construction 
of the county courthouse of St. Paul, and 
was for many years a director of the 
First national bank. He died Nov. 14, 
1894, in St. Paul, Minn. 

BIGELOW, JACOB, physician, author, 
was born Feb. 27, 1787, in Sudbury, Mass. 
He was a famous physician of Boston 
who established Mount Auburn cemetery. 
He was the author of History of Mount 
Auburn; A Brief Exposition of Rational 
Medicine; Modern Inquiries, classical, 
professional, anl miscellaneous; Re¬ 
marks on Classical and Utilitarian Stu¬ 
dies; American Medical Botany; and Na¬ 
ture in Disease. He died Jan. 10, 1879, in 
Boston, Mass. 


BIGELOW, JOHN, journalist, author, 
was born in 1817 in New York. He is a 
prominent New York journalist, at one 
time United States minister to France, 
and in 1875 was elected secretary of the 
state of New York. He is the author of 
Life of Benjamin Franklin; Life of Wil¬ 
liam Cullen Bryant; Life of Samuel Til- 
den; Jamaica in 1850; Les Etats Unis 
d’Amerique en 1863; Some Recollections 
of Antoine Pierre Berryer; France and 
Hereditary Monarchy; Wit and Wisdom 
of the Haytiens; Molinos the Quietist; 
France and the Confederate Navy; an 
International Episode; and The Mystery 
of Sleep. He has edited complete editions 
of the works of Franklin and Tilden. 

BIGELOW, JOHN, soldier, author, was 
born in 1854 in New York, and is a son of 
John Bigelow. He is a United States cav¬ 
alry officer, and the author of The Prin¬ 
ciples of Strategy, illustrated chiefly from 
American campaigns. 

BIGELOW, JOHN MILTON, physician, 
was born Aug. 22, 1847, in Albany, N. Y. 
He has lectured at Albany college since 
1869, and has been attending physician to 
Albany hospital and to St. Peter’s hos¬ 
pital for throat and nose diseases; and 
also to the Old Men’s Home. 

BIGELOW, JONATHAN GORDON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born July 16, 1839, in 
St. Albans, Maine. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the St. Albans and Bloomfield 
academies, and in 1863 graduated from 
Amherst college. During 1861-65 he was 
a commissioned officer in the federal 
army in the civil war. In 1866 he was 
admitted to the bar of the supreme judi¬ 
cial court of Maine, and since that time 
has practiced his profession in the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia. 

BIGELOW, LETTIE SALINA, reform¬ 
er, editor, poet, was born in 1849, in Pel¬ 
ham, Mass. She is the state superintend¬ 
ent of franchise for the Massachusetts 
Woman’s Christian Temperance union; a 
successful lecturer and editor of Holyoke, 
Mass.; and the author of a volume of 
poems. 

BIGELOW, LEWIS, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1783 in Petersham, 
Mass. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from his native state from 1821 to 
1823; and was the author of the Digest 
of the First Twelve Volumes of Massa¬ 
chusetts Reports. He died Oct. 3, 1838, in 
Peoria, Ill. 

BIGELOW, MELVILLE MADISON, 
lawyer, author, poet, was born Aug. 2, 
1846, in Eaton Rapids, Mich. He is a law¬ 
yer and law lecturer of Boston, and the 
author of The Law of Bills; English Pro¬ 
cedure in the Norman Period; The Law 
of Fraud; Elements of Equity; Elements 
of the Law of Torts; Placita Anglo- 
Normannica: Law Cases from William 
I. to Richard I.; Law of Wills, Notes and 
Cheques; The Law of Fraud on its Civil 
Side; The Law of Estoppel and its Ap¬ 
plication to Practice; and Leading Cases 
in the Law of Torts. He has also edited 
the 8th edition of Story’s Conflict of 
Laws, and published a volume of poems 
entitled Rhymes of a Barrister. 

BIGELOW, POULTNEY, author, was 
born in 1855, in New York, and is a son 
of John Bigelow. He is the author of 
The German Emperor and his Eastern 
Neighbors; The Borderland of Czar and 
Kaiser; History of the German Strug¬ 
gle for Liberty; and White Man’s Africa. 

BIGELOW, ROBERT PAYNE, zoolo¬ 
gist, was born July 10, 1863, in Baldwins- 
ville, N. Y. He received the degree of S. 
B from Harvard, and the degree of Ph.D. 
from the Johns Hopkins university. Since 


1893 he has been instructor of biology in 
the Massachusetts institute of technology 
of Boston; and its librarian since 1895. 
In 1897 he became editor of the American 
Naturalist. 

BIGELOW, TIMOTHY, soldier, was 
born Aug. 12, 1739, in Worcester, Mass. 
Hearing of the battle of Lexington, he led 
a company of minutemen to Cambridge. 
He was also at Valley Forge, West Point, 
Monmouth, and Yorktown. After the war 
Colonel Bigelow had charge of the arsenal 
at Springfield. He was one of the origi¬ 
nal grantees of Montpelier and a bene¬ 
factor of the Leicester, Mass., academy. 
He died March 31, 1790, in Worcester, 
Mass. 

BIGELOW, TIMOTHY, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born April 30, 1767, in Worces¬ 
ter, Mass. He was an active federalist; 
was elected to the Connecticut legislature 
in 1790, and served there twenty years, 
eleven years of the time as speaker of 
the house. He was also a member of the 
Hartford convention in 1814. 

BIGGER, SAMUEL, lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, governor, was born about 1800 in 
Warren county, Ohio. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the Indiana state legislature 
in 1834 and 1835, and afterwards judge of 
the circuit court. He was governor of 
Indiana from 1840 to 1843. The Indiana 
hospital was established by his influence. 
He died in 1845 in Fort Wayne, Ind. 

BIGGS, ASA, lawyer, jurist, United 
States senator, was born Feb. 4, 1811, in 
Williamstown, N. C. In 1835 he was 
elected a member of the constitutional 
convention of that state; in 1840, 1842, 
and 1844 was elected to the state legisla¬ 
ture; and was chosen a member of the 
twenty-ninth congress. In 1854 he went 
a second time into the state senate; and 
was elected a senator in congress in 1854 
for six years. In 1858 he became judge of 
the United States district court of North 
Carolina. He died March 6, 1878, in Nor¬ 
folk, Va. 

BIGGS, BENJAMIN T„ farmer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 1, 1821, in Sum¬ 
mit Bridge, Del. In 1847 he turned his 
attention to farming; was a member of 
the state constitutional convention of 
1852; subsequently took an interest in 
railroad operations, and was elected di¬ 
rector in a Maryland company. In 1868 
he was elected a representative from Del¬ 
aware to the forty-first congress. 

BIGGS, MARION, farmer, congressman, 
was born May 2, 1823, hi Pike county, 
Mo. He is a farmer by profession, and 
was elected sheriff of Monroe county. Mo., 
in 1852, and re-elected in 1854. He was 
elected to the California legislature in 
1867, and in 1869. He was elected to the 
fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the 
fifty-first congress as a democrat. 

BIGGS, WILLIAM HENRY, clergyman, 
was born June 23, 1786, in New Milford, 
Conn. He was pastor of the First church 
of Neiv Haven from 1812 to 1822; and 
from 1822 was Dwight professor of didac¬ 
tic theology at Yale. He died March 10, 
1858, in New Haven, Conn. 

BIGLER, DAVID, Moravian bishop, was 
born Dec. 26, 1806, in Hagerstown, Mass. 
He was a missionary in the West Indies 
in 1831-36, and then pastor in Philadel¬ 
phia, in New York, and at Bethlehem, 
Pa., until made a bishop in 1864. He died 
July 2, 1875, in Lancaster, Pa. 

BIGLER, JOHN, lawyer, legislator, 
governor, was born Jan. 8, 1804, in Cum¬ 
berland county, Pa. He moved to Cali¬ 
fornia in 1849, and was twice speaker of 
the assembly and governor of California 
in 1852-56. He died Nov. 30, 1871, in Sac¬ 
ramento, Cal. 


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BIGLER, WILLIAM, journalist, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born 
December, 1814, in Shermansburg, Pa. In 
1841 he was elected to the state conven¬ 
tion - was a member of the state senate 
up to 1847, and part of tue time speaker. 
In 1851 we was elected governor of Penn¬ 
sylvania; and subsequently became presi¬ 
dent of the Philadelphia and Erie Rail¬ 
road company. In 1855 he was elected a 
senator in congress for six years. He 
died Aug. 9, 1880, in Clearfield, Pa. 

BIGLOW WILLIAM, educator, author, 
was born Sept. 22, 1773, in Natick, Mass. 
He was an euucator of Boston, and the 
author of History of Natick; History of 
Sherburne; The Youth’s Library; and 
Introduction to the Making of Latin. He 
died Jan. 12, 1844, in Boston, Mass. 

BIGNEY, MARK FREDERICK, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1817, in Nova 
Scotia. In 1865 he became managing ed¬ 
itor of the New Orleans Times. In 1867 
he was one of the founders of the New 
Orleans City Item. His only published 
work is a volume of poems. 

BIGNOLD, LEWIS BRUCE, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Feb. 4. 1851, in Eng¬ 
land. In 1873 he emigrated to the United 
States; for ten years resided in Nebras¬ 
ka and since 1883 has practiced law in 
Montesano, Wash. In 1885 he was mayor 
of his city; during 1885-87 was city attor¬ 
ney; and has since taken an active part 
in ‘public affairs. In 1879 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the first state republican conven¬ 
tion held at Walla Walla. 

BIGNON, FLEMING GRANTLAND 
DU, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was 
born July 25, 1853, in Milledgeville, Ga. 
From 1877-79 he was county judge of 
Baldwin county, Ga.; in 1880 a membei 
of the state legislature; and in 1882 was 
a member of the Georgia state senate. 

BIGOT, WILLIAM VALENTINE, cler- 
gvman, was born Dec. 4, 1838, in Ger¬ 
many. He came to the United States in 
1847, and was placed in charge of the 
large congregation of St. Michael’s Lora- 
mie of Berlin, Ohio. He built the St. Mi- 
cnael’s church, which is admired for its 
beauty, solidity and minor equipment. 

BIKLE, PHILIP M., educator, editor, 
was born Dec. 1, 1844, in Smithsburg, Md. 
Since 1880 he has been editor of the Luth¬ 
eran Quarterly; since 1874 has been pro¬ 
fessor in the Pennsylvania college; and 
dean since 1889. 

BILL, BENEZET HOUGH, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, banker, was born Feb. 26, 1829, in 
New Milford, Pa. He received his edu- 
eatiqn in the aca¬ 
demies of Worces¬ 
ter and Wilbraham, 
Mass.; and the Suf- 
field literary insti¬ 
tution, Connecticut. 
He graduated from 
the law school in 
1854, and the same 
year was admitted 
to the bar, and has 
attained prominence 
as an able lawyer of 
Rockville, Conn. He 
was appointed state’s attorney for Tol¬ 
land county in 1869, and held that office 
for twenty-four years. He is now the 
present judge of the Rockville city court; 
corporation counsel for the city; and 
president of the savings bank of Rock¬ 
ville. Although Mr. Bill has devoted him¬ 
self very closely to his profession, he has 
taken time to travel extensively on the 
American continent and in Europe. 


BILL. LEDYARD, journalist, author, 
legislator, was born May 14, 1836, in Led- 
yard, Conn. After receiving his educa¬ 
tion he entered the 
publishing business 
in Louisville, Ky.; 
and subsequently 
continued the same 
business m New 
York. He resides 
in Paxton, Mass., 
except when serving 
in the legislature as 
a member of that 
body in Boston— 
having served one 
term in the house 
and two in the senate with the most hon¬ 
orable record. In his native city he has 
been a power. He started the free pub¬ 
lic library; it was at his sole expense that 
the soldiers’ monument of his native 
town was erected; and his name is well 
and favorably known throughout the 
state. He is the author of A Winter in 
Florida; A Work on Minnesota; and A 
Genealogy of His Family, which is vir¬ 
tually a history of Paxton. He is an en¬ 
thusiastic antiquarian, and discovered 
that the ancient bell in the village church 
of Paxton was made by Paul Revere. He 
is president of the Leicester Historical 
society, and a prominent member of sev¬ 
eral genealogical and historical societies. 

BILLINGHURST, CHARLES, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 27, 1818, in 
Brighton, N. Y. He moved to Wisconsin 
in 1847, and was a member of tne first 
legislature of that state in 1848. He was 
a presidential elector in 1852; was elected 
a representative to the thirty-fourth con¬ 
gress from Wisconsin, and was re-elected 
to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth con¬ 
gresses. He died Aug. 18,1865, in Juneau, 
Wis. 

BILLINGS, ADONIRAM JUDSON, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, state legislator, was born 
Dec. 3, 1826, in Newport, Maine. In 1862 
he was appointed surgeon of the nine¬ 
teenth Maine volunteers; and in 1864 
was appointed surgeon of enrollment. 
During 1862-68 he served with distinction 
as a member of the Maine state legisla¬ 
ture. He is one of the foremost physi¬ 
cians of New England at Freedom, Maine. 

BILLINGS, CHARLES EDWARD, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 
1825 in South Carolina. He fought in the 
civil war, and rose to the rank of colonel 
of cavalry in the confederate army. He 
was attorney-general of Mississippi in 
1865, and was re-elected in 1868. He 
served in congress from 1875 to 1883., 

BILLINGS, EDWARD C., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born in Massachusetts. He re¬ 
ceived a collegiate education; studied 
law, and engaged in practice, and later 
removed to Louisiana, settling at New 
Orleans. In 1876 he was appointed 
United States district judge for the east¬ 
ern district of Louisiana. 

BILLINGS, FREDERICK, lawyer, phil¬ 
anthropist, was born Sept. 27, 1823, in 
Royalton, Vt. His gifts to the university 
of Vermont amounted to $250,000; and he 
gave $50,000 to D. L. Moody’s Mount Her- 
mon school for boys, and $50,000 to Am¬ 
herst college. He died Sept. 30, 1890, in 
Woodstock, Vt. 

BILLINGS, GEORGE HERRICK, met¬ 
allurgist, inventor, was born Feb. 8, 1845, 
in Taunton, Mass. Since 1862 his atten¬ 
tion has been occupied with the study 
and practice of iron metallurgy and its 
chemistry. Of late he has been the gen¬ 
eral manager of the Norway Iron and 
Steel company in Boston. He has invent¬ 


ed improved forms of machinery for the 
manufacture of iron and steel, principally 
appliances for drawing iron and steel bars 
for shafting and finishing rods. 

BILLINGS, HAMMATT, architect, was 
born Nov. 14, 1784, in Boston. Mass. He 
lived in Boston for many years, and de¬ 
signed numerous churches and public 
buildings throughout the United States. 
The Pilgrims’ monument at Plymouth, 
and the case of the great organ in Boston 
music hall were after his designs. He 
died Nov. 14, 1874, in Boston, Mass. 

BILLINGS, JOHN SHAW, surgeon, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1838 in Indiana In 1894 
he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel 
and deputy surgeon-general of the United 
States army. Upon the consolidation of 
the New York city libraries, he was made 
chief librarian. His chief work is a vol¬ 
uminous Index Catalogue of the Library 
of the Surgeon-General’s Office. Others 
are Hygienics of the United States Army 
Barracks; Mortality and Vital Statistics 
of the United States Army. 

BILLINGS, SIMEON R., farmer, civil 
engineer, state senator, was born March 
17, 1835, in Orleans county, N. Y. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education in 
the common schools, and graduated from 
the Albion academy. In 1867 he moved 
to Michigan; has filled numerous offices 
of trust in Richfield; was county surveyor 
for six years; a member of the state leg¬ 
islature during 1875-78, and state senator 
during 1879-81. In 1893 he was appointed 
commissioner of railroads, and received 
the reappointment to the same office in 
1895, serving four years. 

BILLINGS, WILLIAM, composer, was 
born Oct. 7, 1746, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a zealous patriot, and during the 
revolution produced a number of patriotic 
pieces, including Lamentation Over Bos¬ 
ton; Retrospect; Independence; and Co¬ 
lumbia, as well as verses set to the air of 
Chester, which were popular in the camps 
of the revolutionary army. He died Sept. 
26, 1800, in Boston, Mass. 

BILLINGSLEY, AMOS STEVENS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Ncv. 14, 1818, 
near East Palestine, Ohio. In 1847 he 
graduated from the 
Jefferson college, 
Pennsylvania; and 
in 1850 from the Al¬ 
legheny Theological 
seminary. He filled 
many important 
pastorates; vras 
home missionary in 
Nebraska and Colo¬ 
rado; was chaplain 
in the army, and 
promoted to United 
States chaplain. He 
was president of the board of trustees of 
Biddle university. He was the author of 
Christianity in the War; Life of Rever¬ 
end George Whitfield; Sources of Pulpit 
Power. He died Oct. 12, 1897, in States¬ 
ville, N. C. 

BILLOW, GARRETT A., professor of 
dental pathology, was born Aug. 29, 1864, 
in Shelby, Ohio. For many years he was 
engaged in educational work, and is a 
graduate of the Ohio College of Dental 
Surgery. Since 1892 he has been profess¬ 
or of dental pathology, materia medica 
and therapeutics in the Ohio medical uni¬ 
versity of Columbus; and is prominent 
in various dental societies and contrib¬ 
utes extensively to current literature on 
pathological subjects. 

BINES, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1814 to 1815, and again 
from 1819 to 1820. 






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BINGHAM. CHARLES, clergyman, 
poet, was born June 16, 1828, in Geneseo, 
N. Y. He has been a clergyman since 
1870, and now fills a pastorate in the First 
congregational church of Daytona, Fla. 

BINGHAM, jEDWARD FRANKLIN, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Aug. 
13, 1828, in Concord, Vt. He received his 
education in the select and public schools 
and Peacham academy in Vermont, and at 
Marietta college, Ohio. During 1850-55 he 
was prosecuting attorney of Vinton, Ohio; 
and served as a representative in the 
Ohio legislature in 1855-57. In 1860 he 
was a delegate to the democratic national 
convention of Charleston, S. C., and Bal¬ 
timore by adjournment. For several years 
he was a member of the board of educa¬ 
tion of Columbus, Ohio; city solicitor 
during 1867-71; chairman of the demo¬ 
cratic examining committee of Ohio in 
1868, and as such conducted the cam¬ 
paign of that year. In 1873 he was elect¬ 
ed common pleas and district court judge, 
was twice re-elected and served until 
1887, when he was appointed by the presi¬ 
dent of the United States as chief justice 
of the supreme court, District of Colum¬ 
bia, in which office he is now serving. In 
1881 he was the nominee of the democrat¬ 
ic state convention of Ohio for supreme 
judge of that state. 

BINGHAM, HARRY, lawyer, legislator, 
author, was born March 30, 1821, in Con¬ 
cord, Vt. He graduated in 1843 from 
Dartmouth college; 
and since 1846 has 
been engaged in the 
practice of law. 
During 1862-68, 
1871-79, and also in 
1881, 1889 and 1891 
he was a member of 
the New Hampshire 
house of representa¬ 
tives for Littletown, 
and during 1883-87 
was a member of the 
state senate. In 1876 
he was a member of the constitutional 
convention. He was a delegate to the re¬ 
publican national conventions of 1868, 
1872, 1880, 1884 and 1892, and in all these 
conventions he was a member of the com¬ 
mittee on resolutions. He is the author 
of a number of works on legal, biographi¬ 
cal and general topics, and various ad¬ 
dresses and articles on important sub¬ 
jects. 

BINGHAM, HENRY H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 4, 1841, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He entered the union army 
as a lieutenant in the one hundred and 
fortieth Pennsylvania volunteers; was 
wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., in 1863, at 
Spottsylvania, Va., in 1864, and at Farm- 
ville, Va., in 1865; and was mustered out 
of service July, 1866, as brevet brigadier- 
general of volunteers. He was appointed 
postmaster of Philadelphia in 1867; and 
was delegate at large to the republican 
national convention at Philadelphia in 
1872, also delegate from the first congres¬ 
sional district to the republican national 
convention at Cincinnati in 1876, at Chi¬ 
cago in 1884 and 1888, at Minneapolis in 
1892, and at St. Louis in 1896. He was 
elected to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty- 
first, fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty- 
fourth congresses and re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

BINGHAM, JENNIE M., author, was 
horn March 16, 1859, in Fulton, N. Y. She 
is the author of two books entitled An¬ 
nals of the Round Table; and All Glo¬ 
rious Within. 

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BINGHAM, JOEL FOOTE, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 11, 1827, 
in Andover, Conn. In 1867 he was pas¬ 
tor of the First parish church at Augusta, 
Maine; in 1871 had charge as rector of St. 
John’s church of Portsmouth, N. H., and 
St. James church of New London, Conn. 
He is the author of Mediaeval Myth, Mel¬ 
ody and Mirth; and Historic Cameos of 
Gaul, Celt and Saracen. 

BINGHAM, JOHN A., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1815 in Pennsylvania. 
In 1854 he was elected a representative 
from Ohio in the thirty-fourth congress; 
and was re-elected to the thirty-fifth, 
thirty-sixth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty- 
first and forty-second congresses. 

BINGHAM, JUDSON DAVID, soldier, 
was born May 16, 1831, in Massena 

Springs, N. Y. He took part in the sup¬ 
pression of John Brown’s raid at Har¬ 
per’s Ferry in 1859. In 1865 he was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general for faithful and 
meritorious services during the rebellion. 
After the war he was successively chief 
quartermaster of the department of the 
lakes, assistant quartermaster-general at 
Washington, being in charge of the bu¬ 
reau a part of the time, as commissioner 
to audit the Kansas war accounts, and as 
chief quartermaster with the rank of lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel at the headquarters of the 
division of the Pacific and the depart¬ 
ment of the Missouri, and from 1886, at 
Chicago, Ill., as chief quartermaster of the 
division of the Missouri. 

BINGHAM, KINSLEY S., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, United States senator, governor, was 
born Dec. 16, 1808, in Camillus, N. Y. He 
was sleeted to the Michigan legislature in 
1835, and was five years a member of that 
body—three years as speaker. He was a 
representative in congress from Michigan 
from 1847 to 1851; was elected governor 
of Michigan in 1854 and 1856; and also 
held in other years the offices of postmas¬ 
ter, supervisor, prosecuting attorney, 
judge of probate, and brigadier-general of 
militia. In 1859 he was elected a senator 
in' congress from Michigan, for six years. 
He died Oct. 5, 1861, in Oak Grove, Mich. 

BINGHAM, WILLIAM, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1835 in North Carolina. 
In 1856 he graduated from the university 
of North Carolina and succeeded to the 
management of a classical school at Me- 
banesville, N. C., which had been conduct¬ 
ed with success by his father and grand¬ 
father. He has published A Grammar of 
the Latin Language; A Grammar of iue 
English Language; and Caesar’s Com¬ 
mentaries, with Notes and a Vocabulary. 

BINGHAM, WILLIAM, United States 
senator, was born in 1751* in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He graduated at the college of Phila¬ 
delphia in 1768; was agent for this coun¬ 
try at Martinique during the revolution; 
and in 1786 was a delegate to the conti¬ 
nental congress from Pennsylvania. He 
was elected a senator in congress in 1795. 
He died Feb. 7, 1804, in England. 

BINKLEY, LILLIE, educator, poet, 
was born Dec. 9, 1869, in Atchison coun¬ 
ty, Kan. She is a successful educator of 
Atchison, Kan.; and has contributed 
poems to Texas Siftings, and the periodi¬ 
cal press generally. 

BINMANN, ADOLPH, farmer, soldier, 
public official, was born Nov. 19, 1842, in 
Norway. He was collector of internal 
revenue for the district of Minnesota dur¬ 
ing 1885-90; and is now state auditor of 
Minnesota. He served three years as a 
soldier during the civil war; was demo¬ 
cratic nominee for congress in 1882 and 
in 1884; and for governor of Minnesota 
in 1883. 


BINNEY, AMOS, physician, author, was 
born Oct. 18, 1803, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a once prominent physician and nat¬ 
uralist of Boston, and the author of Ter¬ 
restrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the 
United States. He died Feb. 18, 1847, in 
Rome, Italy. 

BINNEY, HORACE, jurist, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 4, 1780, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a noted jurist 
of Philadelphia. He was a member of the 
Pennsylvania legislature in 1806-07; and 
a representative in congress in 1833-35. 
He was the author of Reports of Cases in 
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1799- 
1814; Leaders of the Old Bar of Phila¬ 
delphia; and Inquiry Into the Formation 
of Washington’s Farewell Address. He 
died Aug. 12, 1875, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BINNEY, JOSEPH GETCHELL, college 
president, was born Nov. 4, 1778, in Mil¬ 
ford, Mass. In 1822 he accepted the chair 
of theology in Waterville college, and re¬ 
mained there until 1828, when he became 
president of the Columbian college. He 
died Oct. 1, 1845. 

BINNEY, WILLIAM GREENE, con- 
chologist, author, was born in 1833, in 
Massachusetts. He is a well-known con- 
chologist of Burlington, N. J. Besides 
completing his father’s work on mollusks 
he has written Bibliography of North 
American Conchology; Land and Fresh 
Water Shells of North America; and 
Catalogues of the Terrestrial Air-Breath¬ 
ing Mollusks of North America. 

BINNS, JOHN, journalist, author, was 
born Dec. 22, 1772, in Ireland. From 1807 
to 1829 he conducted, at Philadelphia, the 
Democratic Press, the leading paper in the 
state. He was for twenty years an aider- 
man of Philadelphia. In 1854 he pub¬ 
lished Recollections of the Life of John 
Binns; Twenty-nine Years in Europe, and 
Fifty-three in the United States. He was 
also the author of Binns’ Magistrate’s 
Manual. He died June 16, 1860, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

BIRCH, THOMAS, artist, was born in 
1779, in London, England. During the war 
of 1812 he executed a series of historical 
paintings, representing the naval victo¬ 
ries of the United States. He also paint¬ 
ed landscapes, particularly snow scenes. 
The Harrison collection in Philadelphia 
contains his paintings of the engagement 
between the United States and the Mace¬ 
donian, and between the Constitution 
and the Guerriere. Three of his marine 
views are in the Claghorn collection. He 
died Jan. 14, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BIRCKHEAD. WILLIAM H., poet. He 
is the author of a volume of poems enti¬ 
tled Changing Moods. 

BIRD, FREDERICK MAYER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 28, 1838, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is an episcopal 
clergyman widely known as an hymnolo- 
gist. He has edited The Lutheran Minis- 
terium Hymns; Songs of the Spirit; 
published Charles Wesley Seen in His 
Finer and Less Familiar Pieces; and con¬ 
tributed extensively to the critical litera¬ 
ture of his subject. 

BIRD, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in Litchfield, Conn. He was 
early distinguished at the bar of New 
York state and in the legislature; and 
was a representative in congress from 
1799 to 1801. 

BIRD, JOHN T., lawyer, congressman, 
was born Aug. 16, 1829, in Hunterdon 
county, N. J. In 1863 he was appointed 
prosecuting attorney for Hunterdon coun¬ 
ty for five years; and in 1868 was elected 
a representative from New Jersey to the 
forty-first congress; and re-elected to the 
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BIRD, ROBERT MONTGOMERY, au¬ 
thor, was horn in 1803, in Newcastle, Del. 
His Nick of the Wood was his most popu¬ 
lar work. His two Mexican stories, Cala- 
var: a Knight of the Conquest; and The 
Infidel, or the Fall of Mexico, were com¬ 
mended by the historian Prescott. His 
other works include Peter Pilgrim, a col¬ 
lection of tales and sketches, notable as 
containing almost the earliest description 
of the Mammoth Cave; Sheppard Lee; 
The Hawks of Hawk Hollow; Adventures 
of Robin Day; and three successful dra¬ 
mas, The Broker of Bogota; Oraoosa; and 
The Gladiator. He died Jan. 22, 1854, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

BIRDSALL, AUSBURN, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress, from that state, 
from 1847 to 1849; and was subsequently 
appointed naval storekeeper in New York 
city. 

BIRDSALL, JAMES, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress, from 
New York, from 1815 to t 1817; and was a 
member of the assembly of that state in 
1837. 

BIRDSALL, SAMUEL, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress, from 
New York, from 1837 to 1839. 

BIRDSALL, WILLIAM RANDALL, 
physician, author, was born Jan. 1, 1852, 
in Greene, N. Y. He was graduated in 
medicine at the university of Michigan in 
1876, entered upon practice in New York 
city, subsequently studied neurology in 
Europe, and after his return was engaged 
as a clinical teacher on nervous diseases. 
Besides articles in medical journals and 
cyclopedias, he has written Electro-Ther¬ 
apeutics and Electro-Diagnosis. 

BIRDSELL, JOHN C., manufacturer, 
was born March 31, 1815, in Westchester 
county, N. Y. He was actively engaged in 
devising new improvements on the ma¬ 
chinery for threshing and hulling clover. 

BIRDSEYE, GEORGE, author, poet, 
was born Nov. 21, 1844, in New York 
city. The first volume of poems from his 
pen was entitled Woman and the War; 
and in 1892 appeared Vanities in Verse. 
He is the author of numerous popular 
songs, and a regular contributor to cur¬ 
rent publications. 

BIRDSEYE, VICTORY, state senator, 
congressman. He was a representative 
in congress, from New York, from 1815 to 
1817, and again from 1841 to 1843; a dele¬ 
gate to the state constitutional conven¬ 
tion of 1821; and a state senator in 1821 
and 1829, as well as member of the as¬ 
sembly for three years. He died Sept. 16, 
1853. 

BIRGE, EDWARD ASAHEL, educator, 
zoologist, was horn Sept. 7, 1851, in Troy, 
N. Y. He received the degrees of A. B. 
and A. M. from Williams college; and the 
degree of Ph.D. from Howard university. 
He is a successful educator and writer on 
Crustacea and life of fresh water lakes. 
He is professor of zoology in the univer¬ 
sity of Wisconsin, and dean of the col¬ 
lege of letters and science of the same in¬ 
stitution. 

BIRGE, HENRY WARNER, soldier, 
was born Aug. 25, 1825, in Hartford, 
Conn. Before the surrender of this 
stronghold General Birge vdlunteered to 
organize and lead a volunteer battalion 
to carry the confederate works by as¬ 
sault. His services .were recognized by 
the brevet of major-general of volunteers, 
and by a vote of thanks from the legisla¬ 
ture of his native state. He died June 1, 
1888, in New York city. 

BIRKBECK, MORRIS, traveler, author, 
purchased 16,000 acres of land in Illinois, 


founded the town of New Albion, and re¬ 
sided there. When the state was organ¬ 
ized in 1818 he opposed the introduction 
of slavery into it. He was the author of 
Notes on a Journey Through France; and 
Notes on a Journey in America, in which 
he gave sanguine accounts of Illinois; and 
of Letters from Illinois. He was drowned 
while returning from a visit to Robert 
Owen at New Harmony, Ind. He died in 
1825. 

BIRKMIRE, WILLIAM HARVEY, ar¬ 
chitect, engineer, author, was born June 
25, I860, at Falls of Schuylkill, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was educated in the public 
and private schools of Philadelphia, stud¬ 
ied architecture four years with Samuel 
Sloan, architect and author, and at the 
same time graduated from the Philadel¬ 
phia Academy of Music. In 1885 he re¬ 
moved to New York to take charge of the 
construction department of the Jackson 
architectural iron works; and in 1892 of 
the J. B. and J. M. Cornell iron works, 
the largest architectural iron works in 
America; and during this time he made 
the practical steel details for large com¬ 
mercial buildings and the Astor hotels. 
During 1894-98 he was architect and en¬ 
gineer for John T. Williams on the Cen¬ 
tral bank building, the Silk exchange 
building. Lord’s court building, and many 
other prominent buildings in New York 
city. He is the author of The Planning 
and Construction of High Office Build¬ 
ings; Saeleton Construction in Buildings; 
Architectural Iron and Steel; The Plan¬ 
ning and Construction of American Thea¬ 
ters; and other works. 

BIRNEY, DAVID BILL, soldier, was 
born May 29, 1825, in nuntsville, Ala. 
He enlisted in the U. S. army during the 
civil war; was first made brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers and afterward pro¬ 
moted major-general of volunteers. He 
died Oct. 18, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BIRNEY, JAMES, state senator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born June 7, 1817, in Dan¬ 
ville, Ky. He was a state senator in 
Michigan in 1859, and was lieutenant- 
governor of the state and acting governor 
in 1861-63. He was appointed by Presi¬ 
dent Grant, in 1876, minister at the 
Hague, and held that office until 1882. 

BIRNEY, JAMES GILLESPIE, states¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 4, 1792, in 
Danville, Ky. He was a statesman famous 
for his opposition to slavery, and the au¬ 
thor of Ten Letters on Slavery and Colo¬ 
nization; Addresses and Speeches; and 
American Churches the Bulwarks of 
American Slavery, are among his writ¬ 
ings. He died Nov. 25, 1857, in Perth 
Amboy, N. J. . 

BIRNEY, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
author, was born May 28, 1819, near 
Huntsville, Ala. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Greene 
academy, Centre col¬ 
lege, Miami univer¬ 
sity, and Yale col¬ 
lege. During the war 
he served as a pri¬ 
vate, captain, major, 
lieutenant colonel 
and colonel in the 
New Jersey volun¬ 
teers; and was brig¬ 
adier-general and 
brevet major-gener¬ 
al in the United 
States volunteers. He is a successful 
lawyer of Columbia, Washington, D. C., 
and the author of several books. 

BISBEE, FREDERICK A., clergyman, 
author, poet, was horn Feb. 28, 1855, in 
Nunda, N. Y. He is a distinguished cler¬ 
gyman of the universalist church of Phil¬ 


adelphia, Pa.; the editor of The Christian 
Leader; and the author of a number of 
excellent short stories and poems. 

BISBEE, HORATIO, JR., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born May 1, 1839, 
in Canton, Maine. He entered the union 
army in 1861 as a private and rose to the 
rank of colonel. He located at Jackson¬ 
ville, Fla., and commenced the practice of 
law there in 1865; was United States dis¬ 
trict attorney from 1869 to 1873; and was 
for a short time attorney-general of the 
state. He was elected a representative 
from Florida to the forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth con¬ 
gresses. 

BISHOP, JAMES, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born in New Brunswick, N. J. 
He was bred a merchant; and served in 
tne legislature of his native state; and 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1855 to j.o67. 

BISHOP, JAMES REMSEN, educator, 
was born Sept. 17, 1860, in New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. J. He undertook the difficult 
task of building up the preparatory school 
founded by Henry E. Marquand in Prince¬ 
ton. Success beyond all expectations re¬ 
warded his novel methods of school gov¬ 
ernment t and instruction. He was chosen 
principal in 1896 of the Walnut Hills high 
school in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

BISHOP, JOEL PRENTISS, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1814 in Volney, N. Y. 
He is an eminent jurist of Boston, and 
the author of Commentaries on Criminal 
Law; Marriage and Divorce; The Law of 
Married Women; Thoughts for the 
Times; First Book of the Law; Directions 
and Forms; Criminal Procedure; Statu¬ 
tory Crimes; Prosecution and Defense; 
and The Written Laws. 

BISHOP, LEVI, lawyer, author, poet, 
was born Oct. 15, 1815, in Russell, Mass. 
He was elected justice of the peace in 
1842, and from 1846_ till 1858 was presi¬ 
dent of the Detroit board of education. 
The largest school building in Detroit 
now bears his name, and he was a regent 
of the state university from 1857 till 1863. 
He was much interested in the early his¬ 
tory of the west, organized the Detroit 
Pioneer society in 1871, and was its presi¬ 
dent till his death. He lectured occasion¬ 
ally on litex-ary topics, and published The 
Dignity of Labor, a poem; and Teuchsa 
Grondie, a poem in twenty-eight cantos, 
devoted to the Indian lore of Detroit river 
in 1870. He died Dec. 23, 1881, in Detroit, 
Mich. 

BISHOP, NATHANIEL HOLMES, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1837 in Massachusetts. 
He is a writer of entertaining travels, 
and the author of A Thousand Miles’ 
Walk Across South America; The Voyage 
of the Paper Canoe; and Four Months in 
a Sneak Box. 

BISHOP, PHANUEL, state senator, 
congressman. From 1787 to 1791 he was 
a member of the Massachusetts state sen¬ 
ate; and in 1792, 1793, 1797, and 1798, a 
representative in the state legislature. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1 < 99 to 1807. 

BISHOP, RICHARD M., merchant, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Nov. 4, 1812, in Flem¬ 
ing county, Ky. In 1848 he removed to 
Cincinnati, Ohio, and engaged in the 
wholesale grocery business; was remark¬ 
ably successful, and amassed a fortune. 
In 1857 he was elected a member of the 
city council of Cincinnati, and in 1858 be¬ 
came president of the council; and in 1859 
was elected mayor of the city for a term 
of two years. In 1873 he was a member 
of the Ohio state constitutional conven¬ 
tion; and in 1877 was elected governor of 
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BISHOP, ROBERT HAMILTON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born July 26, 1777, in 
Scotland. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of Ohio, and president of Miami uni¬ 
versity, in 1824-41. He was the author of 
Sermons; Elements of Logic; Philosophy 
of the Bible; Science of Government; 
Western Peacemaker; and Memoirs of 
David Rice. He died April 29, 1855, in 
College Hill, Ohio. 

BISHOP, ROSEWELL P., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1843, 
in Sidney, N. Y. In 1861 he enlisted as 
a private in com¬ 
pany C, forty-third 
New York volunteer 
infantry; and in 
1862, he was wound¬ 
ed at Lees Mills, Va., 
necessitating the 
amputation of * his 
right arm. He com¬ 
menced practicing 
law at Ludington, 
Mich., and was elect¬ 
ed prosecuting at¬ 
torney of Mason 
county in 1876, 1878, and 1884. He was 
elected to the Michigan legislature in 1882 
and 1892, and was elected to the fifty- 
fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

BISHOP, SETH SCOTT, physician, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Feb. 7, 1852, in 
Fond du Lac, Wis. He has been profes¬ 
sor of Chicago post graduate medical 
school and hospital; professor in the Illi¬ 
nois medical college; surgeon to the 
Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear infirmary; 
and consulting surgeon to the Silver Cross 
hospital of Joliet. He has invented num¬ 
erous surgical instruments and apparatus, 
in general use by the medical profession. 

BISHOP, WILLIAM D., lawyer, railroad 
president, congressman, was born Sept. 
4, 1827, in Bloomfield, N. J. He graduat¬ 
ed at Yale college in 1849; studied law 
as a profession, but soon engaged almost 
exclusively in railroad business, being for 
several years president of the Naugatuck 
railroad company; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative to the thirty-fifth congress 
from Connecticut. In 1859, was appointed 
commissioner of patents. In 1866 he was 
again elected to the state legislature. 

BISHOP, WILLIAM HENRY, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 7, 1847, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. He is a professor in Yale 
university, and the author of Fish and 
Men in the Maine Islands; A Househunt- 
er in Europe; Writing to Rosina: a 
novelette; A Pound of Cure: a Story of 
Monte Carlo; Detmold; The House of a 
Merchant Prince; The Golden Justice; 
Choy Susan and Other Stories; The 
Brown Stone Boy and Other Queer Peo¬ 
ple; Old Mexico and her Lost Provinces, 
a volume of travel; and The Garden of 
Eden. 

BISPHAM, HENRY COLLINS, artist, 
was born in 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 
1869 he sent to the national academy On 
the Campagna; To the Front; and Noon¬ 
day Rest. In 1875 he exhibited A Misty 
Day; and in 1878 Tigris, and Landscape 
and Cattle. He excels in pastoral cattle- 
scenes and in wild landscapes with ani¬ 
mals. Among his other paintings are 
Dead in the Desert; Roman Bull; The 
Wine-Cart; The Raid; Hunted Down; 
Crouching Lion; and The Stampede. 

BISSELL, CLARK, lawyer, jurist, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1782 in Lebanon, Conn. 
He graduated at Yale college in 1806; 
studied law and settled at Norwalk. From 
1829 to 1839 he was judge of the supreme 
court of the state; in 1847 and 1848 was 
governor of the state; and was Kent pro¬ 


fessor of law in Yale college from 1847 
to 1855. He died Sept. 15, 1857, in Nor¬ 
walk, Conn. 

BISSELL, EDWIN CONE, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1832, in New York. 
He is a congregational clergyman of Chi¬ 
cago, and the author of Analysis of the 
Codes; The Historic Origin of the Bible; 
The Pentateuch: its Origin and Structure; 
Biblical Antiquities; Practical Introduc¬ 
tory Hebrew Grammar; and Genesis 
Printed in Colours, showing original 
sources of compilation. 

BISSELL, GEORGE HENRY, lawyer, 
was born Nov. 8, 1821, in Hanover, N. H. 
He retained his connection with the oil 
industry for many years, built a railroad 
in the oil regions and established several 
banks there. He died Nov. 19, 1884, in 
New York city. 

BISSELL, HERBERT PORTER, law¬ 
yer, was born Aug. 30, 1856, in New Lon¬ 
don, N. Y. In 1886 he joined the partner¬ 
ship of Brundage, Weaver & Bissell; and 
in 1887 became a member of the firm of 
Bissell, Sicard, Brundage & Bissell, with 
which he is still connected. He is a trus¬ 
tee to several colleges; and the president 
and founder of the Cleveland democracy 
of Buffalo. 

BISSELL, J. B., jurist. He is a judge 
of the court of appeals of Colorado. 

BISSELL, JOSEPH BIDLEMAN, phy¬ 
sician, was born Sept. 3, 1859, in Lake¬ 
ville, Conn. He received the appointment 
of instructor of surgery at the New York 
Polyclinic in 1886, and in 1889 at the New 
York post graduate medical schools and 
hospitals. In 1895 he received the ap¬ 
pointment of chief surgeon to the out¬ 
door department of St. Vincent’s hospital, 
with surgical work in the wards of the 
hospital. 

BISSELL, JOHN WILLIAM, clergyman, 
educator, college president, was born Aug. 
4, 1843, in Canada. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Northwestern university and 
graduated in 1867. He became professor 
of Latin and Greek in the Northern In¬ 
diana college in 1868; was principal of 
Brookston academy in 1869; and since 
1873 has been president of the Upper 
Iowa university of Fayette. 

BISSELL, JOSIAH WOLCOTT, engin¬ 
eer, was born May 12, 1818, in Rochester, 
N. Y. He was engaged before the civil 
war in banking, and in architectural and 
engineering work. During the war he 
was colonel of an engineer regiment at¬ 
tached to Gen. Pope’s army, and super¬ 
intended the construction of the canal 
that enabled the national gun-boats to ap¬ 
proach the confederate works on Island 
No. 10 in Mississippi river. 

BISSELL, MELVILLE R.. inventor, 
manufacturer, was born Sept. 25, 1843, in 
Hartwick, N. Y. He was the inventor of 
the Bissell carpet sweeper. In 1883 he or¬ 
ganized a stock company for manufactur¬ 
ing his carpet sweeper, and the business 
increased until it became the largest of 
its kind in the world. He died March 15, 
1889, in Grand Rapids, Mich. 

BISSELL, PELHAM ST. GEORGE, 
capitalist, was born Dec. 5, 1858, in New 
York city. The Adirondacks Pulp com¬ 
pany was organized by him, afterward 
being merged in The International Pulp 
company. 

BISSELL, SIMON B., naval officer, was 
born Oct. 28, 1808, in Vermont. He was 
attached to the sloop Albany, during the 
war with Mexico; and was present at the 
siege of Vera Cruz. He served with dis¬ 
tinction through the civil war and was 
promoted to commodore. He died Feb. 
18, 1883, in Paris, France. 


BISSELL, WILLIAM H., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, governor, was born 
April 25, 1811, in Hartwick, N. Y. In 1840 
he was elected to the Illinois state legis¬ 
lature. In 1844 was elected a prosecut¬ 
ing attorney. He served with distinction 
in the Mexican war; was a representative 
in congress from Illinois from 1849 to 
1855; and in 1856 was elected governor of 
Illinois for four years. He died March 
18, 1860, in Springfield, Ill. 

BISSELL, WILLIAM HENRY AUGUS¬ 
TUS, bishop, was born Nov. 14, 1814, in 
Randolph, Vt. He was elected Protestant 
Episcopal bishop of Vermont, and conse¬ 
crated in Christ’s church, Montpelier, 
June 3, 1868. 

BISSELL, WILSON SHANNON, post¬ 
master general, was born Dec. 31, 1847, in 
New London, N. Y. He is a leading law¬ 
yer of the state of New York at Buffalo; 
and a director in several railroad com¬ 
panies. 

BITTENBENDER, ADA M. COLE, law¬ 
yer, reformer, was born Aug. 3, 1848, in 
Bradford county, Pa. In 1881-82 she was 
secretary and president of the Nebraska 
State Suffrage association; and from 1879- 
82 was editor of the Record and Polk 
County Farmers’ Alliance. During 1887- 
92 she was superintendent of the legal de¬ 
partment of the National Woman’s Chris¬ 
tian Temperance union; and since 1894 
has been president of Uncle Sam’s Anti- 
Drunkard Factory concern of Lincoln, 
Neb. 

BITTENBENDER, HENRY CLAY, 
journalist, lawyer, reformer, was born 
June 19, 1851, in Afton, Pa. He received 
his education in the Bloomsbury normal 
college, Gettysburg college, and the 
Princeton college, N. J. He has attained 
prominence as a bright journalist and 
able lawyer of Lincoln, Neb. He has been 
secretary of the prohibition party of Ne¬ 
braska; and is the secretary of Uncle 
Sam’s Anti-Drunkard Factory concern, of 
which his wife is president. 

BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRAN¬ 
CIS, sculptor, was born Dec. 6, 1867, in 
Austria. He has attained success as a 
sculptor. Among his works that have 
claimed the attention of the public is the 
sculpture on the administration building 
and manufactures and liberal arts build¬ 
ing of the World’s Columbian exposition 
of Chicago, Ill. 

BITTINGER, JOHN LAWRENCE, 
journalist, statesman, was born Nov. 28, 
1833, near Chambersburg, Pa. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the common 
schools of Ohio, and removed to Missouri 
in 1855. During 1861-65 he was postmas¬ 
ter of St. Joseph; was a member of the 
twenty-second, twenty-sixth, twenty- 
seventh, and twenty-eighth, and thirty- 
eighth and thirty-ninth general assem¬ 
blies of Missouri; and has'always taken 
an active part in the public affairs of his 
city, county and state. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the republican national conven¬ 
tions of 1872 and 1896; and in 1897 was 
appointed consul-general at Montreal, 
Canada. He is also a successful journal¬ 
ist, and since 1860 has been the editor and 
owner of The Herald of St. Joseph, Mo. 

BIXBY, JAMES THOMPSON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 30, 1843, in 
Barre, Mass. He has filled important 
pastorates in the Unitarian church in 
Massachusetts, Maine, Pennsylvania, and 
New York; and during 1879-83 was pro¬ 
fessor of religioug philosophy in the 
Meadville theological school. He is the 
author of Religion and Science as Allies; 
and The Crisis in Morals. 



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BIXBY, JOHN MUNSON, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, w r as horn in February, 1800, in Fair- 
field, Conn. He was a lawyer of New 
York city, whose two novels were issued 
under a pseudonym. He was the author 
of Standish the Puritan; and Overing, or 
the Heir of Wycherly. He died Nov. 22, 
1876, in New York. 

BIXBY, MOSES HOMAN, missionary, 
clergyman, was horn Aug. 20, 1827, in 
Warren, N. H. He received the rudiments 
of his education in the public schools of 
his native city; attended Newbury semin¬ 
ary, Derby academy, and Montreal col¬ 
lege; received the degree of A. M. from 
Dartmouth college, and the degree of D. 
D. from the Central university of Iowa. 
He first served four years as a pastor in 
Vermont; then for twelve years was a 
missionary in Burmah, India, and for the 
past thirty-three years has been a pastor 
in the Baptist church of Providence, R. I. 

BIXBY, SAMUEL M., manufacturer, 
was born May 27, 1833, in Haverhill, N. 
H. He has made his name famous as 
manufacturer of shoe blacking; his busi¬ 
ness grew to gigantic proportions and 
now occupies the whole of an imposing 
structure; and extends to every quarter 
of the habitable globe. 

BLACK, ALEXANDER, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1859, in New York. He 
is a Brooklyn journalist, and literary 
editor of the Brooklyn Times. He is the 
author of The Story of Ohio; Photo¬ 
graphy Indoors and Out; Miss Jerry, and 
a Picture Play. 

BLACK, CHARLES C., lawyer, author, 
was born July 29, 1858, in Mount Holly, 
N. J. Since 1881 he has practiced law in 
Jersey City; and since 1891 has been a 
member of the state board of taxation. 
He is the author of Proof and Pleadings 
in Accident Cases; and New Jersey Law 
of Taxation. 

BLACK, EDWARD J„ lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1806 in Beaufort, S. C. 
He commenced his public life by going 
into the Georgia state legislature, where 
he served for several years; and was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Georgia in 1838, remaining there until 
1845. He died in 1846 in Barnwell, S. C. 

BLACK, FRANK S., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born March 8, 1853, 
in Limington, Maine. He was editor of 
the Johnstown Journal for a short time 
after graduating from Dartmouth; then 
removed to Troy, where he studied law 
and was a newspaper reporter. He was 
admitted to the bar in 1879 and since 
that time has followed his profession in 
Troy. He was elected to the fifty-fourtn 
congress as a republican; and has filled 
the high office of governor of the state 
of New York. 

BLACK, GEORGE R., soldier, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born March 
24, 1835, in Scriver county, Ga. He divid¬ 
ed his attention between the law and 
agriculture; and served in the confeder¬ 
ate army during the war of the rebellion, 
rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. 
He was a delegate to the state constitu¬ 
tional convention of 1865; and also to 
the democratic national convention of 
1872. He was a state senator from 1874 
to 1877; and was elected a representative 
from Georgia to the forty-seventh con¬ 
gress. 

BLACK, HENRY, jurist, congressman, 
was born Feb. 25, 1783, in Somerset coun¬ 
ty, Pa. He was the father of Judge J. S. 
Black. In 1815 he was elected to the state 
legislature, and for three successive years 
afterwards. In 1820 he was appointed an 


associate judge of his county, and held the 
office for twenty years. In 1841 he was 
chosen to fill the seat in congress to fill 
a vacancy. He died Nov. 28, 1841. 

BLACK, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1843 to 1847. 

BLACK, JAMES, prohibitionist, author, 
was born Sept. 23, 1823, in Lewisburg, Pa. 
He was a noted Pennsylvania advocate of 
temperance who was the presidential 
nominee of the prohibitionists in 1872. He 
is the author of Is Prohibition a Neces¬ 
sity; History of the Prohibition Party; 
and The Prohibition Party. 

BLACK, JAMES A., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in South Carolina. He 
served as a captain in the war of 1812; 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1843 .to the time of his 
death. He died April 5, 1848, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

BLACK, JAMES C. C., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 9, 1842, in 
Stamping Ground, Ky. He was a private 
soldier in company A, ninth Kentucky 
cavalry, confederate army; and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1866. He was elected 
to the fifty-third congress over Thomas 
E. Watson, and re-elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a democrat over Wat¬ 
son, but declined to enter on the term and 
resigned March 4, 1895; and was re-elect¬ 
ed at a special election held October 2, 
1895. 

BLACK, JAMES FRED, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 20, 1859, in Nova 
Scotia. He has attained success as a 
clergyman of the methodist episcopal 
church; has been secretary of the Al- 
gona district conference for five terms; 
and now fills a pastorate in Anamosa, 
Iowa. He is the author of The Bible Way, 
and contributes extensively to religious 
literature. 

BLACK, JAMES RUSH, physician, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born March 3, 1827, 
near Glasgow, Scotland. During the war 
he was surgeon in the one hundred and 
thirteenth regiment Ohio volunteer in¬ 
fantry, and director of Gen. Gilbert’s 
staff; and later became professor of hy¬ 
giene in the Ohio Medical college. He is 
the author of Ten Laws of Health; and 
has contributed numerous articles on hy¬ 
giene to current literature. 

BLACK, JEREMIAH S., jurist, was 
born Jan. 10, 1810, in Glades, Pa. In 1842 
he was appointed presiding judge of the 
judicial district in which he lived; in 
1851 was elected to the bench of the state 
supreme court, and made chief justice; 
and was re-elected in 1854. In 1857 he 
became attorney-general of the United 
States; and was secretary of state in 
1860-61, when he resumed the practice of 
law. He died Aug. 9, 1883, in York, Pa. 

BLACK, JOHN, congressman. He was 
at one time a resident of Louisiana, but 
removing to Mississippi, was elected a 
senator in congress, from 1832 to 1838. He 
died Aug. 29, 1854, in Winchester, Ya. 

BLACK, JOHN, state legislator, was 
born in France. He has lived in America 
since 1846, and in Milwaukee since 1857. 
He has always been a democrat, and has 
twice received the party nomination for 
congress. He was a member of the Wis¬ 
consin state legislature; and served with 
distinction as mayor of Milwaukee. 

BLACK, JOHN, diplomatist, was born 
in 1792 in New York. He was for forty 
years a resident of Mexico, where he was 
a consul of the United States, and also 
minister resident there during the Mexi¬ 
can war. He died Nov. 19, 1873, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. 


BLACK, JOHN CHARLES, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Jan. 27, 1839, in Lexing¬ 
ton, Miss. He graduated from the Wa¬ 
bash college of Crawfordsville. During 
the civil war he served as colonel in the 
thirty-seventh Illinois volunteers; and 
was brevetted brigadier-general United 
States volunteers. He was commissioner 
of pensions, congressman-at-large from Il¬ 
linois; and United States attorney for 
the northern district of Illinois. He is 
best known as an eminent lawyer, prac¬ 
ticing in Chicago and before the depart¬ 
ment in Washington, and in the supreme 
courts of Illinois and the United States. 

BLACK, JOHN FISHER, soldier, broker, 
was born Dec. 23, 1841, in New Orleans, 
La. He enlisted as a private in the Lou¬ 
isiana guards in 1861; and attained the 
rank of lieutenant. In 1869 he was en¬ 
gaged in the cotton brokerage business; 
was a member of the New York Cotton 
exchange; and one of the organizers of 
the Confederate Veteran camp of New 
York. 

BLACK, SAMUEL W., jurist, governor, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was ap¬ 
pointed from that state an associate jus¬ 
tice of the United States court for the 
territory of Nebraska; and was appointed 
governor of that territory in 1861, remain¬ 
ing in office until 1867. 

BLACK, WARREN COLUMBUS, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born May 
24, 1843, in Copiah county, Miss. He ac¬ 
quired a superior ed- 
u c a t i o n, chiefly 
through his own ef¬ 
forts; and was suc¬ 
cessively placed in 
charge of the lead¬ 
ing churches of his 
conference. In 1861 
he entered the con¬ 
federate army and 
served continuously 
until the close of the 
war in 1865. He was 
licensed to preach in 
May, 1864, being at that time a first lieu¬ 
tenant in the confederate service; and he 
distinguished himself as a soldier, as he 
has since in his ministerial career. In 
1886, 1890, and 1894 he was a delegate to 
the general conference. In 1886 he de¬ 
clined the presidency of Whitworth Fe¬ 
male college of Brookhaven, Miss.; and the 
same year declined the presidency of the 
Centenary college of Jackson, La. Since 
1893 he has been editor and owner of the 
New Orleans Christian Advocate. Dr. 
Black lectured in nine different states; 
and ttyree of his lectures—God in Nature; 
Genesis and Geology; Is Man Immortal— 
have attracted much attention. He is the 
author of Philosophy of Methodism; Tem¬ 
perance and Teetotalism; Christian Wom¬ 
anhood; and other works. 

BLACK, WILLIAM HENRY; clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
March 19, 1854, in Centerville, Ind. He 
was a graduate of the Waynesburg semi¬ 
nary, and has filled important pastorates 
in the presbyterian church. In 1890 he 
was elected president of the Missouri 
Valley college of Marshall, Mo. He is the 
author of God, Our Father; Womanhood; 
and Sermons for the Sunday School. 

BLACKBURN, GIDEON, clergyman, 
college president, was born Aug. 27, 1772, 
in Augusta county, Ga. He passed the 
last forty years of his life in the western 
states, in preaching, organizing churches, 
and, from 1803 to 1809, during a part of 
each year, in his mission to the Chero- 
kees, establishing a school at Hywassee. 
He established a school in Tennessee in 
1806, and from 1827 till 1830 was presi¬ 
dent of Center college, Ky. He died Aug. 
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BLACKBURN, JOSEPH C. S., lawyer, 
soldier, United States senator, was born 
Oct. 1, 1838, in Woodford county, Ky. He 
entered the confed¬ 
erate army in 1861 
and served through¬ 
out the war; and re¬ 
sumed the practice 
of law in 1865. He 
was elected to the 
state legislature of 
Kentucky in 1871 
and 1873; was elect¬ 
ed to the house in 
the fort y-fourth, 
forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh, 
and forty-eighth congresses; and was 
elected to the United States senate as a 
democrat, and served during 1885-97. 

BLACKBURN, JOSEPH E., druggist, 
state legislator, was born June 30, 1860, 
in Belmont county, Ohio. He attended 
the Ohio Normal university of Adair, 
which institution conferred upon him the 
degree of Ph. G.; and in 1887 he em¬ 
barked in the drug business. He served 
with distinction as a member of the 
seventy-second Ohio general assembly as 
a republican from Belmont county. In 
1896 he was elected state dairy and food 
commissioner, to which office he was re¬ 
elected in 1898. 

BLACKBURN, LUKE P., statesman. 
He was governor of Kentucky from 1879 
to 1883. 

BLACKBURN, WILLIAM, pioneer, was 
born in 1814 in Virginia. He went to 
California in 1845, took part as volunteer 
in the conquest of that country in 1846- 
47, and was appointed alcalde at Santa 
Cruz immediately thereafter. In this 
office he served two years, and in 1850 
was elected county judge of Santa Cruz 
county. He died in 1867 in California. 

BLACKBURN, WILLIAM JASPER, 
journalist, congressman, was born July 24, 
1820, in Arkansas. He was a printer, and 
became the editor of a newspaper in 
Louisiana, called the Homer Iliad; and 
was an occasional writer in prose and 
verse. He was a member of the state 
constitutional convention of 1868; and 
was elected a representative from Louis¬ 
iana to the fortieth congress. 

BLACKBURN, WILLIAM MAXWELL, 
clergyman, college president, author, was 
born Dec. 30, 1828, in Carlisle, Ind. He is 
a presbyterian clergyman, and since 1886 
has been president of Pierre university of 
South Dakota. Among his many works, 
chiefly on religion and biography, are 
History of the Christian Church; Gen¬ 
eva’s Shield; Exiles of Madeira; Judas 
the Maccabee; The Rebel Prince; College 
Days of Calvin; Young Calvin in Paris; 
St. Patrick and the Early Irish Church; 
Admiral Coligny and the Rise of the 
Huguenots; The Theban Legion; and 
the Uncle Alick series of juvenile tales. 

BLACKFORD, EUGENE GILBERT, 
merchant, banker, was born Aug. 8, 1839, 
in Morristown, N. J. Since 1879 he has 
been officially connected with the restock¬ 
ing of lakes and streams, and the hatch¬ 
ing of food fish, being for thirteen years 
president of the state fish commission. 
He is president of the Bedford bank in 
Brooklyn. 

BLACKFORD, ISAAC NEWTON, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Nov. 6, 1786, in 
Bound Brook, N. J. He was judge of the 
first district court of Indiana in 1814-15; 
speaker of the first state legislature in 
1816; judge of the supreme court of In¬ 
diana from 1819 to 1835; and judge of 
the United States court of claims from 
1855 until his death. He died Dec. 31, 
1859, in Washington, D. C. 


BLACKLEDGE, WILLIAM, legislator, 
congressman. He was for several years 
a member of the general assembly 
of North Carolina; and served that 
state as a representative in congress, 
from 1803 to 1809, and from 1811 to 1813. 
He died Oct. 19, 1828, in Spring Hill, N. C. 

BLACKLEDGE, WILLIAM S., congress¬ 
man, was born in Pitt county, N. C. He 
was a member of the general assembly 
of North Carolina; and was elected to 
congress from that state for the term 
from 1821 to 1823. He died March 21, 
1857, in Newbern, N. C. 

BLACKLOCK, THOMAS W., physician, 
surgeon, was born May 28, 1843, in Scot¬ 
land. He graduated from the college of 
Physicians and Surgeons of Keokuk, 
Iowa. He has been examining surgeon 
for three of the most prominent life in¬ 
surance companies; and for several local 
life insurance companies. He has neld 
the position of health officer for several 
years, and is an eminent physician and 
surgeon of New Boston, Ill. 

BLACKMAN, GEORGE CuRTIS, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, was born April 20, 1819, 
in Newtown, Conn. He was a bold and 
skillful operator, and an able writer and 
lecturer. He translated and edited Vidal’s 
Treatment on Venereal Disease; anu ed¬ 
ited a new edition of Mott’s translation 
of Velpeau’s Surgery, with notes and ad¬ 
ditions of his own. During the war he 
served as army surgeon. He died July 
19, 1871, in Avondale, Ohio. 

BLACKMAN, SAMUEL HALL, civil 
engineer, lawyer, state senator, was born 
April 6, 1814, in Aurora, Ohio. He moved 

to Michigan in 1842, 
and since 1844 has 
practiced law in Paw 
Paw. He has been 
a county surveyor; 
and for many years 
was a field engineer 
on the Michigan 
Central and other 
railroads. During 
1863-64 he was a 
member of the Mich¬ 
igan state senate; a 
delegate in the con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1867; and a rep¬ 
resentative in the Michigan house in 1873- 
74. 

BLACKMAR, ESBON, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York, 

from xrf48 to 1849, to fill a vacancy; and 

also served two years in the state as¬ 
sembly from Wayne county. 

BLACKMAR, FRANK WILSON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Nov. 3, 1854, in 
Springfield, Pa. He graduated from the 
Johns Hopkins uni¬ 
versity, and has be¬ 
come very prominent 
in educational work. 
He has been feuow 
in history and poli¬ 
tics, and instructor 
in history, in the 
Johns Hopkins uni¬ 
versity; and profes¬ 
sor of history and 
sociology in the uni¬ 
versity of Kansas. 
He is the author of 
Federal and State Aid to Higher Edu¬ 
cation in the United States; Spanish Col¬ 
onization in the Southwest; Spanish In¬ 
stitutions in the Southwest; The Story of 
Human Progress; Economics for Reading 
Clubs and Schools; and other works, be¬ 
sides numerous papers and magazine 
articles. 

BLACKSTONE, LORENZO, manufac¬ 
turer, was born in 1819, in Branford, 





Conn. In 1877 his company erected the 
Pequot Cotton mills in Montville, Conn. 

BLACKSTONE, TIMOTHY B., railroad 
president, was born March 28, 1829, in 
Branford, Conn. Since 1864 he has been 
president of the Chicago and Alton rail¬ 
road. 

BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM, pioneer. 
It is said that he planted the first orchard 
in Massachusetts, and also the first in 
Rhode Island. Although the first white 
settler of Rhode Island, he took no part 
in founding the colony. 

BLACKWELL, ANDREW JACKSON, 
soldier, railroad president, was born Jan. 
29, 1842, in Georgia. He entered the con¬ 
federate army in the third Georgia volun¬ 
teers. In 1882 he took up a site at what 
is now Blackwell, on the Cherokee strip 
in Oklahoma territory, a location not at 
the time highly prized by others. He has 
been its mayor and justice of the peace. 
He also founded the town of Rock Falls, 
O. T.; and he is president of the North 
Oklahoma railroad. 

BLACKWELL, MRS. ANTOINETTE 
LOUISA, minister, author, was born May 
20, 1825, in Henrietta, N. Y. She is a 
Unitarian minister prominent in the wom¬ 
an suffrage movement; and is the author 
of Studies in General Science; The Mar¬ 
ket Woman; The Island Neighbors: a 
novel of American life; The Sexes 
Throughout Nature; The Physical Basis 
of Immortality; and The Many and The 
One. 

BLACKWELL, ELIZABETH, physician, 
author, was born Feb. 3, 1821, in Bristol, 
England. She is a physician of New York 
city, who, with her sister Emily, organ¬ 
ized the woman’s medical college of the 
New York infirmary. She is the author 
of Laws of Life, or the Physical Educa¬ 
tion of Girls; Counsel to Parents in the 
Moral Education of Their Children; and 
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical 
Profession to Women. 

BLACKWELL, JAMES HEYWARD, 
educator, was born Feb. 5, 1862, in Mari¬ 
on, Va. He is an expert penman and pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics. He has taught in 
many leading educational institutions, 
and since 1888 has been principal of the 
public high school of Manchester, Va. 

BLACKWELL, JULIUS W., congress¬ 
man, was born in Virginia. He was a 
representative in congress from Tennes¬ 
see, from 1839 to 1841, and again from 
1843 to 1845. 

BLACKWELL, LUCY STONE, aboli¬ 
tionist, was born Aug. 13, 1818, in West 
Brookfield, Mass. By hard work between 
the hours of study she educated herself at 
Oberlin college; graduated with high hon¬ 
ors and became an agent and lecturer for 
the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery society, in 
which capacity she often pleaded for the 
rights of women as well as for those 
of the slave. In 1855 she was married to 
Henry B. Blackwell, but still retained her 
maiden name. She died Oct. 18, 1893, in 
Dorchester, Mass. 

BLACKWELL, SARAH ELLEN, artist, 
author, was born in 1828 in England. 
She is a successful writer, and the au¬ 
thor of The Life of Anna Ella Carroll. 
Her especial subjects of interest are land 
and labor reform, woman suffrage, and 
anti-vivisection. 

BLACKWOOD, ROBERT E. L., edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, was born Feb. 3, 1865, in 
Cabell county, W. Va. He graduated from 
the state university of West Virginia with 
the degree of B. L. For many years he 
has been engaged in educational work; 
and is now successfully engaged in the 
practice of his profession in Charleston, 
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BLACKWOOD, WILLIAM G., jurist, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He settled in 
Missouri, from which state he was ap¬ 
pointed a justice of the United States 
court for the territory of New Mexico. 

BLADEN, THOMAS, governor of Mary¬ 
land, lived in the eighteenth century. 
During his administration the western 
boundary of the province was fixed by 
treaty with the Indians, and the manu¬ 
facture of flour began to attract the at¬ 
tention of the government. 

BLAIKIE, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, 
was born May 24, 1843, in York, N. Y. 
He is a lawyer and athlete of New York 
city; and the author of How to Get 
Strong; and Sound Bodies for Our Boys 
and Girls. 

BLAINE, HARRY GORDON, physician, 
educator, author, was born Nov. 25, 1858, 
in Wheeling, W. Va. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the public schools of Attica, 
Ohio; at the Northwestern Normal uni¬ 
versity of Fostoria, and the Republic 
academy. In 1884 he founded the Ameri¬ 
can Medical Compend, of which he was 
editor and owner for the ten succeeding 
years. During 1885-92 he was professor 
of diseases of the mind and nervous sys¬ 
tem in the Toledo Medical college. He is 
the author of The Physician: His Rela¬ 
tion to the Law; A Manual on Venereal 
Diseases; Blaine’s Medical Footprints; 
and other works. 

BLAINE, JAMES GILLESPIE, states¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 31, 1830, in 
Pa. He graduated at 
Washington college 
in 1847; adopted the 
profession of an ed¬ 
itor; removed to 
Maine; and edited 
the Kennebec Jour¬ 
nal and Portland 
Advertiser for sever¬ 
al years. He served 
four years in the 
Maine legislature, 
two years as speak¬ 
er of the house. In 
1862 he was elected 
a representative from Maine to the thirty- 
eighth congress, serving as a member of 
the committee on post offices and post 
roads. Re-elected to the thirty-ninth 
congress, serving on the committee on 
military affairs, the special committee on 
the death of President Lincoln, and as 
chairman of the committee on the war 
debts of the loyal states. He was re¬ 
elected to the fortieth and forty-first con¬ 
gresses, and made speaker of the house, 
holding the same position during the 
forty-second and forty-third congresses. 
He was also re-elected to the forty-fourth 
congress; and in 1876 was elected United 
States senator, to fill a vacancy; and was 
re-elected for the term ending in 1883. 
He resigned in 1881, to accept the post of 
secretary of state in the cabinet of Presi¬ 
dent Garfield, serving from March until 
December of that year. He was an un¬ 
successful candidate for president of the 
United States in 1884. He was the author 
of Twenty Years of Congress. He died 
Jan. 27, 1893. in Washington, D. C. 

BLAINE, WALKER, diplomatist, was a 
resident of Maine. He received a col¬ 
legiate education; and in 1881 was ap¬ 
pointed third assistant secretary of state. 
The same year he was sent, in conjunc¬ 
tion with W. H. Triscott, as a special en¬ 
voy to Peru and Chili. 

BLAIR, ALBERT G., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born in January, 1844, in Syra¬ 
cuse, N. Y. Since 1896 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Wheeling and Lake Erie rail¬ 
way at Toledo, Ohio. 


BLAIR, ANDREW ALEXANDER, 
chemist, author, was born Sept. 20, 1846, 
in Woodford county, Ky. He is a 
chemist of Philadelphia; and the author 
of The Chemical Analysis of Iron; and 
Methods in Analysis of Iron, Steel, Cop¬ 
per, and Alloys of Copper, Zinc, and Tin. 

BLAIR, AUSTIN, lawyer, congressman, 
governor, was born Feb. 8, 1818, in Caro¬ 
line, N. Y. After holding the local offices 
of county clerk and prosecuting attorney 
for his county, he was elected to the 
Michigan legislature, and afterwards to 
the senate of the state. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Michigan from 1861 to 1865; and 
was elected a representative from that 
state to the fortieth, forty-first and forty- 
second congresses. 

BLAIR, BARNARD, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1841 
to 1843. 

BLAIR, CHAUNCEY B., banker, was 
born June 18, 1810, in Bianford, Mass. In 
1861 he removed to Chicago, and estab¬ 
lished a private bank, which in 1865 he 
organized into the Merchants National 
bank, becoming its president, which office 
he held until his death. He died Jan. 30, 
1890. 

BLAIR, MRS. ELIZA (NELSON), au¬ 
thor, was born in New Hampshire. She 
is a writer of Manchester, N. H. Her 
novel, ’Lisbeth Wilson, gives an excellent 
picture of New Hampshire rural life a 
half century ago. 

BLAIR, FRANCIS PRESTON, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, author, was born 
Feb. 19, 1821, in Lexington, Ky. He adopt¬ 
ed the profession of 
the law; and was a 
member of the Mis¬ 
souri legislature m 
1852-54. He was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive from Missouri 
to the thirty-fifth 
and thirty-seventh 
congresses. He was 
a colonel of volun¬ 
teers in 1861; in 1862 
was appointed a ma¬ 
jor-general in the 
army, and was subsequently re-elected to 
the thirty-eighth congress. In 1868 he 
was nominated for vice-president of the 
United States on the ticket with Horatio 
Seymour, and was defeated. He was a 
senator in congress to fill a vacancy in 
1871-73. In 1848 he published the Life 
and Public Services of General William A. 
Butler. He died July 8, 1875, in St. Louis, 
Mo. 

BLAIR, HENRY WILLIAM, was born 
Dec. 6, 1834, in Campton, N. H. He re¬ 
ceived an academic education; studied 
law; was admitted 
to the bar in 1859; 
and was prosecuting 
attorney for Grafton 
county in 1860. He 
served in the union 
army as lieutenant- 
colonel during the 
war of the rebellion. 
He was a representa¬ 
tive in the stale 
legislature in 1866, 
and a state senator 
in 1867 and 1868. He 
was elected a representative from New 
Hampshire to the forty-fourth and forty- 
fifth congresses; declined a renomination; 
and was elected a senator of the United 
States from New Hampshire, for the term 
of six years; and in 1885 was re-elected 
for a second term. He also served in the 
fifty-third congress. 


BLAIR, HUGH M., educator, clergy¬ 
man, was born Sept. 9, 1853, in Caldwell 
county, N. C. He graduated from the 
Rutherford college, and then commenced 
educational work. He was principal of 
the Hickory high school during 1876-81; 
and for awhile was editor of the West¬ 
ern Carolinian, of Hickory, N. C. In 1883 
he entered the ministry of the methodist 
episcopal church south. In 1895 he be¬ 
came editor of the North Carolina Chris¬ 
tian Advocate; and in 1896 was made pre¬ 
siding elder in the western North Caro¬ 
lina conference. 

BLAIR, JACOB B„ lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 11, 1821, in 
Parkersburg, Va. He was prosecuting at¬ 
torney for Ritchie county for several 
years; was elected a representative from 
Virginia to the thirty-seventh congress, 
and in 1863 was elected a representative 
from the new state of West Virginia to 
the thirty-eighth congress. In 1867 he 
was elected a representative in the state 
legislature; and was United States min¬ 
ister to Costa Rica from 1868 to 1872. In 
1876 he was appointed associate justice of 
the supreme court of Wyoming territory, 
and was reappointed in 1880, and again in 
1884. 

BLAIR, JAMES, congressman, was born 
in Lancaster, S. C. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1821 
to 1822, and from 1829 to 1834. He died 
by his own hand April 1, 1834, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

BLAIR, JAMES, clergyman, college 
president, was born in 1656 in Lancaster, 
S. C. He was an episcopal clergyman of 
Virginia who founded William and Mary 
college, and was its president for fifty 
years. He was the author of The State 
of His Majesty’s Colony in Virginia; and 
Our Savior’s Divine Sermon on the Mount, 
a series of sermons. He died Aug. 1, 1743, 
in Williamsburg, Va. 

BLAIR, JAMES, banker, was born May 
15, 1807, in Beaver Brooks, N. J. Among 
the properties in which he now has a 
large interest are The Lackawanna and 
Iron Steel Co.; The Belvidere National 
bank; The Scranton Savings bank, of 
which he is president; and The First Na¬ 
tional bank of Scranton. 

BLAIR, JAMES G., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1828. He received a 
common English education; is a lawyer 
by profession, and was elected to the 
forty-second congress as a liberal repub¬ 
lican. 

BLAIR, JOHN, statesman, congress¬ 
man, was born in Washington county, 
Tenn. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Tennessee from 1823 to 1837. 
Before entering congress he served in both 
branches of the Tennessee state legisla¬ 
ture. He died July, 1863, in Jones- 
borough, Tenn. 

BLAIR, JOHN, statesman, was born in 
1689 in Williamsburg, Va. He was a 
nephew of President James Blair. As 
early as 1736 he was a member of the 
house of burgesses, and he was president 
of the council, and acting governor of 
Virginia in 1757-58 and 1768. He died 
Nov. 5, 1771, in Williamsburg, Va. 

BLAIR, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was born 
in 1732 in Williamsburg, Va. He was a 
member of the legislature in 1765, and on 
the dissolution of the house in 1769, he, 
with Washington and other patriots, 
drafted the Non-Importation Agreement. 
He was elected a judge of the court of 
appeals, then chief justice, and in 1780 
chancery judge. In 1789 he was appointed 
a judge of the United States supreme 
court, and resigned this position in 1796. 
He died Aug. 31, 1800, in Williamsburg, 
Va. 


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BLAIR, SAMUEL, clergyman, was born 
June 14, 1712, in Ireland. He was one of 
the original members of New Brunswick 
presbytery, formed in 1738, and in 1739 
took charge of the church at New Lon¬ 
donderry, or Fogg’s Manor, Pa. Shortly 
after his settlement there he established a 
seminary, at which young men were edu¬ 
cated, some of whom were afterward 
prominent in the presbyterian church, 
among them Rev. Samuel Davies and 
Rev. John Rodgers. He died July 5, 1751. 

BLAIR, SAMUEL, clergyman, legis¬ 
lator, was born in 1741 in Fogg’s Manor, 
Pa. He was the principal founder of the 
English presbyterian church of German¬ 
town, Pa., and preached gratuitously for 
a season. He was several times a member 
of the Pennsylvania assembly, and was 
for two years chaplain to the continental 
congress. He died Sept. 24, 1818, in Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa. 

BLAIR, SAMUEL S., congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a 
representative from that state to the 
thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh con¬ 
gresses. 

BLAIR, WILLIAM, merchant. About 
1848, after the opening of the Illi¬ 
nois and Michigan canal, he closed 
the retail branch of his business, thus 
becoming the first to establish an 
exclusively wholesale hardware house 
in Chicago and being at the time the only 
one in the west outside of St. Louis. 

BLAIR, WILLIAM ALLEN, educator, 
lecturer, author, was born June 4, 1860, 
in High Point, N. C. After graduating in 
1882 from Harvard university, he entered 
actively into educational work. In 1889 
he was commissioned as state representa¬ 
tive of the Paris exposition, and has thor¬ 
oughly examined the school systems of 
Europe. He has been president of sever¬ 
al societies and in 1890 became president 
of the People’s National bank of Winston, 
N. C. He is the author of The History of 
North Carolina. 

BLAISDELL, DANIEL, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman. He was a state councilor from 
1803 to 1808, and a representative in con¬ 
gress from New Hampshire, from 1808 to 
1811. He died in 1832. 



BLAISDELL, ELIJAH WHITTIER, 
lawyer, state legislator, author, poet, was 
born July 18, 1826, in Montpelier, Vt. In 
1854 he moved to 
Rockford, Ill.; par¬ 
ticipated with Abra¬ 
ham Lincoln in the 
formation of the re¬ 
publican party in 
1856; and was the 
first editor in the 
United States who 
raised his name for 
the presidency of the 
United States. He 
canvassed the 
state of Illinois 
for General Grant and Governor Ogles¬ 
by; and was afterward a Cleveland 
elector. He was a candidate for con¬ 
gress three times in the sixth dis¬ 
trict of Illinois; was a member of the 
Illinois state legislature in 1859 and 1860; 
and has taken an active part in the pub¬ 
lic affairs of his city, county and state. 
For twenty years he was an editor; and 
for fifteen years has been a lawyer. He 
is the author of a successful story entitled 
The Hidden Record; a drama entitled 
Shabbona; The Rajah, a burlesque poem; 
Eva, the General’s Daughter, a drama in 
blank verse; and a volume of poems. 

BLAISDELL, H. G., governor. He was 
the first governor of Nevada after it be¬ 
came a state, and served as such from 
1864 to 1869. 


BLAKE, CLARENCE JOHN, physician, 
inventor, journalist, was born Feb. 23, 
1843, in Boston, Mass. He was president 
of the American Otological society in 
1876-77. He has invented several surgical 
instruments for use in the treatment of 
diseases of the ear, principally the mem- 
brana tympani phonautograph. 

BLAKE, EDWARD HARWOOD, law¬ 
yer, financier, railroad president. He had 
a course at Brown college and post-gradu¬ 
ate course at Harvard. He then attended 
the Albany Law school; practiced law in 
Bangor; and was made president of 
the Merchants’ National bank in 1887. 

BLAKE, ELI WHITNEY, inventor, was 
born Jan. 27, 1795, in Westborough, Mass. 
The ideas that he originated still char¬ 
acterize the forms of American locks, 
latches, casters, hinges, and other articles 
of house-furnishing hardware wherever 
manufactured. His crusher is now used 
in all parts of the world for breaking ores, 
road metal, and similar purposes. Mr. 
Blake was one of the founders, and for 
several years president, of the Connecticut 
Academy of Science. He is the author of 
Original Solutions of Several Problems in 
Aerodynamics. He died Aug. 18, 1886, in 
New Haven, Conn. 

BLAKE, ELI WHITNEY, educator, was 
born April 20, 1836, in New Haven, Conn. 
He has been professor of chemistry in the 
university of Vermont, at Cornell, at 
Columbia, and at Brown. He is a fellow 
of the American association for the Ad¬ 
vancement of Science, and member of 
other scientific bodies, to whose proceed¬ 
ings he has frequently contributed valu¬ 
able papers. 

BLAKE, ELLYN J., educator, scientist, 
was born Nov. 7, 1842, in Wilbraham, 
Mass. She graduated from the Wesleyan 
academy of her native city; and for many 
years was engaged in educational work 
at Wilbraham and Palmer, Mass. In 1886 
she began the treatment of hypertrichosis 
with electricity, and was the first woman 
to take legitimate instruction and make 
a specialty of the work. 

BLAKE, MRS. EUPHEMIA VALE, 
journalist, author, poet, was born May 7, 
1825, near Hastings, England. Her fath¬ 
er, Gilbert Vale, was 
well known as an 
author, publisher, 
inventor, public lec¬ 
turer and professor 
of astronomy and 
mathematics, who 
died in 1866 in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. 
Blake has written 
extensively for the 
North American Re¬ 
view, the Christian 
Examiner, the Bos¬ 
ton Transcript, and other well-known 
publications. Since 1857 she has lived in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., engaged in journalism. 
She is the author of Arctic Experiences; 
Teeth, Ether and Chloroform; History of 
Newburyport; and her latest work is A 
History of Tammany Hall, from its or¬ 
ganization in 1789 to the present time. 

BLAKE, GEORGE A. H., soldier, was 
born in September, 1812, in Pennsylvania. 
He served in the Seminole, Mexican and 
civil wars, and attained the rank of brig¬ 
adier-general. 

BLAKE, GEORGE SMITH, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born in 1803, in Worcester, 
Mass. In 1857-65 he was superintendent 
of the United States Naval academy. Soon 
after the civil war broke out, the acad¬ 
emy was removed to Newport. On the 
reorganization of the navy in 1862 he was 
promoted to commodore. 



BLAKE, HARRISON G., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born March 17, 
1818, in New Fane, Vt. He served four 
years in the Ohio legislature, and was 
president of the state senate in 1848 and 
1849. He was elected a representative 
from Ohio to the thirty-sixth congress, 
and re-elected to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. 

BLAKE, HENRY N., jurist. In 1875 
he was appointed one of the associate 
justices of the United States for the ter¬ 
ritory of Montana. 

BLAKE, JAMES, soldier, public offi¬ 
cial, was born March 3, 1791, in York 
county, Pa. He enlisted as a volunteer in 
the war of 1812. For thirty-five years he 
was the president of the Indianapolis 
Benevolent society. 

BLAKE, JAMES VILA, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1842 in New York. He 
is a Unitarian clergyman of Chicago; and 
the author of Poems; Essays; A Grateful 
Spirit; Anchor of the Soul; St. Solifer; 
and Legends from Story Land. 

BLAKE, JOHN, congressman, was born 
in New York. He was a representative in 
congress from New York state from 1805 
to 1809; and was a member of the New 
York assembly in 1819. 

BLAKE, JOHN B., financier, was born 
Aug. 12, 1802, in Colchester, Va. He was 
commissioner of public buildings during 
a part of the administration of President 
Pierce, and during the whole of that of 
President Buchanan. For many years he 
was president of the National Metropol¬ 
itan bank of Washington city; and was 
connected with the board of public works 
in Washington. 

BLAKE, JOHN B., railroad president, 
was born May 16, 1838, in Marlboro, Vt. 
Since 1892 he has been president of the 
West Virginia, Pineville and Tennessee 
railroad. 

BLAKE, JOHN LAURIS, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 21, 1788, 
in Northwood, N. H. He was an episcopal 
clergyman of Boston long prominent as 
an educator. He was the author of Text 
Book of Geography and Chronology; Fam¬ 
ily Encyclopaedia of Agriculture and Do¬ 
mestic Economy; Farmer’s Every-Day 
Book; Modern Farmer; Letters on Con¬ 
firmation; General Biographical Diction¬ 
ary; Book of Nature Laid Open; Won¬ 
ders of the Earth; and Wonders of Art. 
He died July 6, 1857, in Orange, N. J. 

BLAKE, JOHN L., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 25, 1831, in Boston, 
Mass. He removed to Orange, N. J., 
when fifteen years of age, and studied and 
practiced law. He was a member of the 
house of assembly in 1857; was a delegate 
to the republican national convention of 
1876, and a candidate for presidential 
elector in the same year. He was elected 
a representative from New Jersey to the 
forty-sixth congress. 

BLAKE, JOHN WALTER, banker, was 
born Aug. 6, 1858, in Leon county, Texas. 
He is prominently identified with the pub¬ 
lic affairs of his native state; was mayor 
of Mexico in 1895; president of the Texas 
Bankers’ association in 1891, and has 
filled various other public offices of honor. 

BLAKE, JOSEPH, governor, was born 
about 1620. He was governor of South 
Carolina in 1694, and from 1696 to his 
death in 1700. 

BLAKE, MRS. LILLIE DEVEREUX, 
reformer, author, was born Aug. 12, 1835, 
in Raleigh, N. C. She is a prominent 
advocate of woman suffrage, and is the 
author of Fettered for Life; Southwold; 
Rockford; Woman’s Place To-Day; and 
The Hypocrite, or Sketches of American 
Society. 





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BLAKE, MRS. MARY ELIZABETH, 
author, poet, was horn in 1840 in Iowa. 
She is the author of Poems; Youth in 
Twelve Centuries; Verses by the Way. 
Her prose includes On the Wing, sketches 
of American Travel; A Summer Holiday; 
travel experiences in Europe; Mexico: 
Picturesque, Political and Progressive. 

BLAKE, THOMAS HOLDSWORTH, 
congressman, was born June, 1792, in 
Calvert county, Md. He served at the 
battle of Bladensburg, • in 1814. For 
many years he was a member of the In¬ 
diana state legislature, and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Indiana from 
1827 to 1829. Under President Tyler’s ad¬ 
ministration he was commissioner of the 
general land office, and upon his resigna¬ 
tion was appointed president of the Wa¬ 
bash and Erie Canal company. He died 
Nov. 28, 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

BLAKE, UPTON CLARENCE, lawyer, 
was born Sept. 2, 1845, in Mount Vernon. 
Ohio. In 1865 he graduated from Ken¬ 
yon college of Gambier, Ohio, and has 
since attained prominence as an able and 
learned lawyer of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

BLAKE, WILLIAM PHIPPS, was born 
June 1, 1826, in New York city. He is 
a mineralogist of prominence and pro¬ 
fessor of geology in the University of 
Arizona. He is the author of Silver Ores 
and Silver Mines; California Minerals; 
Production of the Precious Metals; Iron 
and Steel; Ceramic Art and Glass; His¬ 
tory of Hamden, Conn.; and Life of Cap¬ 
tain Jonathan Mix. 

BLAKE, WILLIAM RUFUS, actor, 
was born in 1805 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 
txe was, at different times, stage manager 
of the Tremont theater, Boston; joint 
manager of the Walnut street theater, 
Philadelphia, and stage manager of the 
Broadway theater, New York. He was 
the author of the plays Nero; The Turned 
Head, and The Buggs. He died April 22, 
1863, in Boston, Mass. 

BLAKELEY, ARCHIBALD, soldier, 
lawyer, was born July 16, 1827, in Butler 
county, Pa. In 1852 he was admitted to 
the bar and served three years as district 
attorney of his native county. He served 
as a union soldier during the civil war 
as colonel of the seventy-eighth regiment 
of Pennsylvania infantry. He was presi¬ 
dent of the general court-martial and 
military commissioner in the capitol at 
Nashville in 1862. He was in the battles 
of Stone River, Dug Gap, Chickamauga, 
Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge, 
and commanded the brigade on Lookout 
Mountain during the winter of 1863-64. 
Since the close of the war he has prac¬ 
ticed law in Pittsburg, Pa. He declined 
the governorship of Utah, tendered by 
President Johnson; declined office of ad¬ 
jutant-general of Pennsylvania, tendered 
by Governor Geary. He is the president 
of the Pennsylvania commission for the 
construction of monuments in Chicka- 
mauga-Chattanooga National Military 
Park. 

BLAKELEY, JOHNSTON, commander 
United States navy, was born Oct., 1781, 
in Ireland. In 1807 he was made a lieu¬ 
tenant; in 1813 he was appointed a mas¬ 
ter commandant, and placed in command 
of the Wasp. In 1814 he was a captain 
but never enjoyed the promotion, as the 
Wasp was not heard of after Oct. 9, 1814. 

BLAKELOCK, RALPH ALBERT, 
artist, was born Oct. 15, ±847, in New York 
city. He has painted landscapes, Indian 
figures, and moonlight scenes. One of his 
pictures represents the Ta-vo-kok-i, or 
circle-dance of the Kavavite Indians. In 
1882 he exhibited at the national acad¬ 


emy Cloverdale, Cal.; Moonlight; and 
The Indian Fisherman; in 1884, A Land¬ 
scape; and On the Face of Quiet Waters; 
and in 1885. Cumuli. 

BLAKEMAN, ALEX. NOEL, journalist, 
was born July 18, 1840, in New York city. 
He received the rudiments of his educa¬ 
tion in the ward schools of New York city, 
and graduated from the College of the 
City of New York. During 1861-65 he was 
acting assistant-paymaster in the United 
States navy. He is the editor of the New 
York Shipping and Commercial List; 
president, of the board of education of 
Mount Vernon, N. Y., since 1890; re¬ 
corder of the New York Commandery 
Loyal Legion of the U. S., and was chief 
of staff under Grand Marshal Horace Por¬ 
ter in the inaugural parade at Wasning- 
ton on March 4, 1897. 

BLAKESLEE, JAMES I., railroad 
president, was born Feb. 10, 1815, in Sus¬ 
quehanna county. Pa. Since 1870 he has 
been president of the Montrose railroad 
at Mauch Chunk, Pa. 

BLAKESLEY, LOUIS WILLIAM, jour¬ 
nalist, was born April 8, 1868, in La¬ 
fayette, Ill. In 1885 he moved to Logan, 
Kan., and subsequently taught school in 
that state. In 1890 he moved to Wyo¬ 
ming, and during 1892-93 was principal of 
the Lander high school. In 1893 he 
founded The Otto Courier, of which he 
is the editor and owner. In 1896 he was 
appointed by Governor Richards as one 
of the commissioners to organize the 
county of Big Horn, Wyo. 

BLANCHARD, ALBERT G„ soldier, 
was born in 1810 in Charlestown, Mass. 
During the Mexican war he served as cap¬ 
tain of Louisiana volunteers, being at tne 
battle of Monterey and the siege of Vera 
Cruz. At the beginning of the civil war, 
in 1861, he was made a brigadier-general 
in the confederate army. Since the war 
General Blanchard has been a civil en¬ 
gineer and surveyor in New Orleans. 

BLANCHARD, AMY ELLA, author, 
was born in Baltimore, Md. For several 
years she taught school; then took up 
the study of art; and in 1881, in conjunc¬ 
tion with Ida Waugh, published her first 
book, entitled Holly Berries. She has 
since made a specialty of works for young 
people, more particularly for girls; and 
her best known works are Twenty Little 
Maidens; Taking a Stand; and the Blan¬ 
chard Library For Girls, consisting of 
Two Girls, Girls Together, and Betsy of 
Wye. 

ixuANCHARD, CHARLES A., educator, 
college president, was born Nov. 8, 18^8, 
in Galesburg, Ill. This eminent educator 
has been president of the Sabbath asso¬ 
ciation of Illinois; president of the Illi¬ 
nois Christian association, and president 
of the college section of the State Teach¬ 
ers’ association of Illinois. He is now the 
honored president of Wheaton college, 
Illinois. 

BLANcnARD, HELEN AUGUSTA in¬ 
ventor, was born in Portland, Maine. 
Among her numerous inventions are the 
Blanchard over-seaming machine, and tne 
crocheting and sewing machine; all of 
which are in use by immense manufac¬ 
tories, and are ranked among the most 
remarkable mechanical contrivances of 
the age. 

BLANCHARD. JAMES ARMSTRONG, 
soldier, lawyer, was born Aug. 16, 1845, 
in Henderson, N. Y. In 1864 he served 
in the civil war as a private in company 
I, second Wisconsin cavalry. In 1873 was 
admitted to the bar, and at once began 
the active practice of his profession in 
New York city. 


BLANCHARD, JOHN, educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 30, 1787, in 
Caledonia county, Va. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1845 to 1849. He died March 8, 1849, 
in Columbia, S. C. 

BLANCHARD, JONATHAN, congress¬ 
man. He was a delegate from New Hamp¬ 
shire to the continental congress in 1783 
and 1784. 

BLANCHARD, JOSEPH, soldier, jurist, 
was born Feb. 11, 1704, near Nashua, 
N. H. He was a mandamus councilor 
from 1740-58, and judge of the superior 
court of New Hampshire from 1749-58. 
He commanded a New Hampshire regi¬ 
ment in 1755, and was engaged at Crown 
Point. He died April 7, 1758. 

BLANCHARD, JUSTUS WARDWELL, 
soldier, was born in 1811, in Milford, N. H. 
Before the civil war he was captain of the 
Burgess corps of Albany, N. Y. He en¬ 
tered the national service as captain in 
the third New York volunteers in 1861, 
became lieutenant-colonel in 1863, and 
brevet brigadier-general of volunteers on 
March 13, 1865. He died Sept. 14, 1877, 
in Syracuse, N. Y. 

BLANCHARD, NATHANIEL WHIT¬ 
SON, farmer, legislator, was born Aug. 
19, 1849, in Hinds county, Miss. He is a 
successful farmer in Staffords, Miss., and 
has twice been a representative in the 
Mississippi state legislature. He has been 
a member of the county school board, 
chairman of the democratic executive 
committee, and filled various other public 
positions of trust in his city, county and 
state. 

BLANCHARD, NEWTON CRAIN, law¬ 
yer, jurist. United States senator, was 
born Jan. 29, 1849, in Rapids Parish, La. 

He received an acad- 
emic education; 
graduated as a bach¬ 
elor of laws at the 
University of Louisi¬ 
ana in 1870; and 
commenced practice 
at Shreveport, La., in 
1871. He was a del¬ 
egate to the state 
constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1879; was 
appointed a major in 
the state militia, and 
was made a trustee of the University of 
the South, at Sewanee, Tenn. He was 
elected a representative from Louisiana 
to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty- 
ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses, when he was ap¬ 
pointed United States senator to fill a 
vacancy, and received the election for 
term ending in 1897. In 1897 he was ap¬ 
pointed associate justice of the supreme 
court of Louisiana. 

BLANCHARD, NOAH FARWELL. 
financier, manufacturer, was born Jan. 22^ 
1821. The firm of Blanchard, Brother and 
Lane became one of the largest and best 
known manufacturers of patent leather 
in the United States. He died May 11 
1881, in Newark, N. J. 

BLANCHARD, SAMUEL GRAY, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, was born Oct. 25*, 1840, 
in Sandusky, Ohio. He received his edu¬ 
cation in Canada, and subsequently at¬ 
tended Eastman’s Business college of 
New York city. For eight years he was 
engaged in educational work; since 1868 
has been a clergyman of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, and now fills a pas¬ 
torate in Los Angeles, Cal. In 1886 he 
was appointed presiding elder of the 
Santa Barbara district. He has been edi¬ 
tor of several publications and contrib¬ 
utes extensively to current literature. 




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BLANCHARD, THOMAS, inventoi’, was 
born June 24, 1788, in Sutton, Mass. While 
engaged with his brother in the manufac¬ 
ture of tacks by hand, he invented a ma¬ 
chine which made 500 per minute, and 
sold the patent for $5,000. He also in¬ 
vented a lathe to turn the whole of a mus¬ 
ket-barrel from end to end, by the com¬ 
bination of one single self-directing oper¬ 
ation; the lathe for turning irregular 
forms, now in use in all armories, for 
making musket-stocks, also applied to 
busts, shoe lasts, handles, spokes, and 
a machine for bending timbers, called the 
compound bend. He died April 6, 1864, 
in Boston, Mass. 

BLAND, BALLARD, jurist, was born in 
Kentucky. He was educated for the legal 
profession, and while residing in Louis¬ 
ville was appointed United States judge 
for the district of Kentucky. 

BLAND, BESSIE, poet, was born Dec. 
8, 1863, in Lynn, Mass. She is a successful 
writer of Lynn, Mass.; and her poems 
have been given a place in several stand¬ 
ard works. 

BLAND, CHARLES CLELLAND, sol¬ 
dier, jurist, was born Feb. 9, 1837, in Hart¬ 
ford, Ky. During the civil war he was 
captain of company D, Missouri infantry 
volunteers. This eminent lawyer and 
jurist was elected in 1881 as judge of the 
circuit court of the nineteenth judicial 
circuit of Missouri, which position he still 
holds (1898). 

BLAND, RICHARD, statesman, was 
born May 6, 1710, in Virginia. He was 
for some years a leading member of the 
house of burgesses, and in 1768 was one 
of the committee appointed to remon¬ 
strate with parliament on the subject of 
taxation. In 1773 he was one of the com¬ 
mittee of correspondence, and was a dele¬ 
gate to the continental congress from 
1774 to 1776. He died in 1790. 

BLAND, RICHARD PARKS, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 19, 1835, near 
Hartford, Ky. He received an academic 

education; removed 
to Missouri in 1855, 
thence to California, 
and thence to that 
portion of Utah now 
Nevada, locating at 
Virginia City. He 
practiced law; was 
interested in mining 
operations in Cali¬ 
fornia and Nevada, 
and. was county 
treasurer of Carson 
county, Utah terri¬ 
tory, from 1860 until the organization of 
the state government of Nevada. He re¬ 
turned to Missouri in 1865; located at 
Rolla, Mo., and practiced law with his 
brother, C. C. Bland, until he removed 
to Lebanon in August, 1869, and contin¬ 
ued his practice there. He was elected to 
the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, 
forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, 
forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second 
and fifty-third congresses, and was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a silver dem¬ 
ocrat. In 1896 his name was prominently 
brought forward for president of the 
United States. 

BLAND, ROBERT LINN, journalist, 
lawyer, was born June 2, 1868, in Jane 
Lew, W. Va. He attended the public 
schools of Weston, W. Va.; learned the 
printer’s trade, and for a number of years 
was engaged in journalism. He founded 
the Buckhanon Dispatch, and was con¬ 
nected with different newspapers of his 
state. He was associated with R. H. 
Harrison in the publication of the Weston 
Democrat; has written extensively for 


city journals, and is now vice-president 
of the West Virginia Editorial associa¬ 
tion. He is the author of Mountain Mem¬ 
oirs, a local work of biographies. 

BLAND, THEODORIC, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1742 in Prince 
George county, Va. He rose to the rank 
of colonel, and had the command of a 
regiment of dragoons; in 1779 had com¬ 
mand of the troops at Albemarle bar¬ 
racks, and continued in that station until 
elected to a seat in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia, in 1780; served in that body three 
years, and was then chosen a member of 
the Virginia legislature. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in the first congress under 
the constitution, having voted for its 
adoption. He died June 1, 1790, in New 
York. 

BLAND, THEODORIC, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1777. He was a lawyer by 
profession; was judge of the county 
court in Baltimore; judge of the United 
States district court of Maryland; and 
was twenty-two years chancellor of the 
state. From 1836 to 1841 he published 
in Baltimore, Reports of Cases Decided 
in the High Court of Chancery of Mary¬ 
land. He died Nov. 16, 1846, in Annapolis, 
Md. 

BLAND, THOMAS A., physician, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born May 21, 1830, in 
Bloomfield, Ind. During the civil war he 
was a surgeon in the army. For twenty 
years he lived in Washington, D. C., with 
his wife and coworker, M. Cora Bland, 
M. D., also a skilful physician and able 
writer and a popular lecturer. He has 
been at the head of the Eclectic Medical 
society of the District of Columbia from 
the first; was its first president, and 
was re-elected by unanimous vote seven 
times since. He is the author of How to 
Get Well and How to Keep Well, and 
other works. As a physician and medical 
author, he has done much for progress 
in medicine and in a knowledge of the 
laws of health; and as a public lecturer 
he ranks high. 

BLANDEN, CHARLES G., banker, poet, 
was born Jan. 19, 1857, in Marengo, Ill. 
He is the author of a volume of poems 
entitled Tancred’s Daughter and Other 
Poems. 

BLANKS, JAMES BRAXTON, expert 
accountant, was born Jan. 9, 1839, in 
Petersburg, Va. He has been an account¬ 
ant the greater part of his life, and for 
fifteen years teller and assistant cashier 
of three different banks; and commis¬ 
sioner of the revenue of the city of Peters¬ 
burg for six years. He has been grand 
secretary of the Royal Arch Masons of 
Virginia; grand recorder of Knights 
Templars of Virginia, and grand secre¬ 
tary of Royal Arcanum of Virginia. 

BLASHFIELD, EDWIN HOWLAND, 
painter, was born Dec. 15, 1848, in New 
York city. His favorite subjects are fig¬ 
ures, with carefully studied landscape or 
architecture. Historical subjects and por¬ 
traiture, with particular devotion to ac¬ 
curacy of detail, also claim his attention. 
Some of his principal paintings are A 
Poet; Toreador; Monseigneur; The 
Augur; A Roman Emperor; The Fencing 
Lesson—Roman Ladies; and The Be¬ 
sieged, a fine picture, has been exhibited 
in the royal academies of London and 
Edinburgh. He has been president of the 
Society of American Artists. 

BLATLriFORD, ELIPHALET W., man¬ 
ufacturer, was born May 26, 1826, in Lan- 
singburgh, N. Y. In 1854, he began the 
manufacture of lead in Chicago, Ill. His 
firm of E. W. Blatchford & Co., now in¬ 
corporated, has been extremely successful. 


BLATCHFORD, RICHARD MILFORD, 
legislator, public official, was born April 
23, 1798, in Stratford, Conn. In 1826 
he was made a financial agent for the 
Bank of England, and in 1836 appointed 
to the same position by the Bank of the 
United States, and assisted in winding up 
its affairs. In 1855 he was elected to the 
state legislature; in 1859 commissioner of 
Central Park, and subsequently of the 
public parks generally. When the rebel¬ 
lion commenced he was entrusted with 
funds for the recruiting service, and in 
1862 was appointed minister to Italy. He 
died Sept. 3, 1875, in Newport. 

BLATCHFORD, SAMUEL, jurist, was 
born March 9, 1820, in New York city. 
He was private secretary to W. H. Seward 
from 1839 to 1841, and military secretary 
on governor’s staff up to 1843. He was 
made a counselor of the supreme court of 
the state in 1845. In 1855 he was ap¬ 
pointed a justice of the supreme court 
of the state for the first district, but de¬ 
clined; in 1867 was appointed district 
judge of the United States court for the 
southern district of New York, and in 
1882 was appointed an associate justice 
of the United States supreme court. He 
died July 7, 1893, in Newport, R. I. 

BLATT, WILLIAM MOSES, lawyer, 
author, was born April 29, 1876, in 
Orange, N. J. He graduated from the 
Boston university law school; has been 
assistant editor of the New England Cou¬ 
rier; librarian of the Boston university 
law school, and is the author of Leading 
and Important Cases in Massachusetts 
Common Law. 

BLAUVELT, AUGUSTUS, clergyman, 
author, was born April 7, 1832, in Covert, 
N. Y. He is a Dutch Reformed clergy¬ 
man of New Jersey, deposed from the 
ministry on account of his liberal doc¬ 
trinal views embodied in papers in the 
Century Magazine. He is the author of 
The Kingdom of Satan; and The Present 
Religious Crisis. 

BLAVATSKY, HELENA PETROVNA, 
theosophist, was born July 31, 1831, in- 
Southern Russia. Her father was Col. 
Peter Hahn, a descendant of the Von 
Rottenstern-Hahns of Mecklenburg, Ger¬ 
many. She studied the French and Eng¬ 
lish languages in Paris and London; and 
wandered in Africa, Europe, America, 
India and Central Asia. She acquired 
complete control of her psychic faculties, 
and entered upon her life work of ex¬ 
plaining the nature and source of sucn 
phenomena. In 1873 she came to Amer¬ 
ica, and five years later became an Amer¬ 
ican citizen by naturalization. In 187t> 
she founded the Theosophical society, 
with headquarters in New York city; 
and in 1879 began the publication of The 
Theosophist. In 1888 she published her 
monumental work, entitled The Secret 
Doctrine. The society which she founded 
now numbers over six hundred branches 
or lodges throughout the civilized world. 
She died May 8, 1891, in London, England. 

BLAYNEY, FRANCIS SCOTT, educator, 
clergyman, lecturer, was born July 31, 
1856, at Iberia, Ohio. He has been presi¬ 
dent of the University of Omaha, and or¬ 
ganized and built the Second Presbyterian 
church of that city, and the First Presby¬ 
terian church of Hebron, Neb. This 
noted lecturer of psychology and ethics 
since 1890 has been pastor of the First 
Presbyterian church of Abilene, Kan. 

BLECKLEY, LOGAN E., lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 3, 1827, in Rabun county, 
Ga. In 1864 he was appointed supreme 
court reporter; in 1875 was associate jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court, and in 1887 was 
made chief justice of the supreme court. 




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BLEDSOE, ALBERT TAYLOR, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 9, 1809, in 
Frankfort, Ky. He was a southern cler¬ 
gyman who left the episcopal for the 
methodist church, and wrote extensively 
on metaphysics and mathematics. He 
was the author of Liberty and Slavery; 
Examination of Edwards on the Will; 
Philosophy of Mathematics; Is Davis 
a Traitor? or was Secession a Con¬ 
stitutional Right previous to the War of 
1861? and Theodicy. He died Dec. 8, 
1877, in Alexandria, Va. 

BLEDSOE, JESSE, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born April 6, 
1776, in Culpeper county, Va. He was 
at one time a distinguished advocate and 
jurist of Kentucky. He was a senator in 
congress from that state from 1813 to 
j.815; was professor of law in the Univer¬ 
sity of Transylvania, and chief justice of 
the supreme court of Kentucky. He died 
June 30, 1837, in Nacogdoches, Tex. 

BLEECKER, ANN ELIZA, poet, was 
born in October, 1752, in New York city. 
Some years after her death her stories 
and poems were collected and published 
under the title of Posthumous W T orks of 
Ann Eliza Bleecker in Prose and Verse, 
with a memoir by her daughter, Marga- 
retta V. Faugeres. She died Nov. 23, 1783, 
in Tomhannock, N. Y. 

BLEECKER, ANTHONY, author, was 
born in October, 1770, in New York city. 
He was graduated at Columbia in 1791 
and studied law, but never was a success¬ 
ful practitioner on account of his uncon¬ 
querable diffidence. His natural tastes led 
him to the pursuit of letters, and for 
thirty years he was a prolific contributor 
•of both prose and verse to the periodical 
literature of New York and Philadelphia. 
The Narrative of the Brig Commerce is 
one of his best-known works. He was 
■one of the founders of the New York His¬ 
torical society. He died March 13, 1827, 
in New York city. 

BLEECKER, HERMANUS, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 19, 1779, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. He was a member of con¬ 
gress from New York from 1811 to 1813, 
•and was appointed, in 1839, charge d’af¬ 
faires at The Hague. He died July 19, 
1849, in Albany, N. Y. 

BLEISTEIN, GEORGE, journalist, was 
born Dec. 6, 1861, in Buffalo, N. Y. In 
1885 he was elected president and treasu¬ 
rer of the Courier company, which is 
said to have the largest and best equipped 
printing and lithographing establishment 
in the world. 

BLEWETT, BENJAMIN TURNER, ed¬ 
ucator, college president, was born Sept. 
17, 1820, in Bowling Green, Ky. He grad¬ 
uated from the Georgetown college, 
and has been president of the Bethel col¬ 
lege, Kentucky; and president of the Au¬ 
gusta college, Kentucky. This eminent 
■educator is now connected with the St. 
Louis seminary of Jennings, Mo. 

BLISH, GEORGE WILLIAM, elocu¬ 
tionist, was born March 1, 1837, in Rome, 
Ill. He is the founder of the Blish school 
of elocution, of Boston, Mass., and is one 
of the original organizers of Royal Ar¬ 
canum. He is a fine interpreter of dra¬ 
matic, humorous and dialect sketches. 

BLISS, AARON T., soldier, lumber 
merchant, congressman, was born May 22, 
1837, in Peterborough, N. Y. In 1861 he 
•enlisted as a private in the tenth New 
York cavalry, and was in the service three 
years and five months, six months of 
which time he was confined in the prisons 
•of Andersonville, Charleston, Macon and 
Columbia; he made his escape from Col¬ 
umbia, and after eighteen nights of tra¬ 
vel through rebel territory reached the 


union lines; he ros.e while in the service 
from private to captain. Since 1866 he 
has resided in Saginaw, Mich., where 
he engaged in the manufacture of lum¬ 
ber. He has held many positions of pub¬ 
lic trust in his own county, having been 
a supervisor, alderman, president of the 
school board for eleven consecutive years, 
and president of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ 
association of northern Michigan. In 
1882 he was elected a member of the state 
senate. He was elected to the fifty-first 
congress as a republican. 

BLISS, ARCHIBALD M., merchant, 
railroad president, congressman, was born 
Jan. 25, 1837, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He 
received an academic education and was 
for many years engaged in mercantile pur¬ 
suits. He was for four years an alderman, 
from 1864, and president of the board in 
1867, and was defeated for mayor in the 
latter year. He was a delegate to the Bal¬ 
timore convention in 1864, Chicago conven¬ 
tion of 1868, and the Cincinnati convention 
of 1872, and in 1869 and 1870 was commis¬ 
sioner of public works for Brooklyn. He 
was a director in several banks, vice- 
president and director in the New York 
and Long Island Bridge company, and 
president of the Bushwick Railroad com¬ 
pany. In 1874 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the forty- 
fourth congress, and was re-elected to 
the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, 
forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a 
republican. 

BLISS, CORNELIUS NEWTON, mer¬ 
chant, was born Jan. 26, 1833, in Fall 
River, Mass. He was a member of the 
Pan-American con¬ 
ference; was presi¬ 
dent of the Protect¬ 
ive Tariff league; 
was chairman of 
the republican state 
committees New 
York of 1887 and 
1888; was treasurer 
of the national re¬ 
publican committees 
in 1892 and 1896; de¬ 
clined to be a can¬ 
didate for the nom¬ 
ination for governor of his state in 1885, 
and refused to have his name presented 
to the convention for that position in 
1891. He was chairman of the business 
men’s committee which tried to nominate 
President Arthur for a second term in 
1884, and was chairman of the committee 
of thirty in 1893. He was appointed sec¬ 
retary of the interior March 5, 1897, and 
was confirmed by the senate March 5, 
1897. 

BLISS, DANIEL, missionary, author, 
was born June 17, 1823, in Georgia, Vt. 
He is a congregational missionary, and 
president of the Protestant college at 
Beyrout since 1864. He is the author of 
Mental Philosophy; and Natural Philoso¬ 
phy (in Arabic). 

BLISS, DON ALFONSO, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Dec. 14, 1854, in Artesia, Miss. 
He has attained success in the profession 
of law at Sherman, Tex.; has been aider- 
man of his city, and is now judge of the 
fifteenth judicial district of Texas. 

BLISS, EDWIN MUNSELL, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born Sept. 12, 
1848, in Turkey. He is a graduate of the 
Amherst college and Yale divinity school. 
He is the editor of the New York Inde¬ 
pendent, and the author of Turkey and 
the Armenian Atrocities; and Concise His¬ 
tory of Missions. 

BLISS, ELIPHALET WILLIAMS, man¬ 
ufacturer, was born April 12, 1836, in Fly 


Creek, N. Y. The corporation of the E. 
W. Bliss Co. now employs 600 men. The 
plant comprises extensive buildings and 
machine shops for the manufacture of 
tools, presses, dies, and patented arti¬ 
cles of various kinds. 

BLISS, GEORGE, state senator, was 
born Nov. 16, 1793, in Springfield, Mass. 
In 1827 he was elected to the lower 
branch of the legislature. He served for 
three successive terms, and also in 1853, 
when he was elected speaker. In 1835 he 
was elected president of the state sen¬ 
ate. His attention was subsequently oc¬ 
cupied with the completion of the Western 
railroad between Worcester and Albany, 
and prior to 1846 he was president of the 
road. He died April 19, 1873, in Spring- 
field, Mass. 

BLISS, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 1, 1813, in Jeri¬ 
cho, Vt. In 1850 he was appointed presi¬ 
dent judge of the eighth judicial district 
of Ohio, serving one year, until the state 
constitution was changed. In 1852 he was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
thirty-third congress, and in 1862 was 
elected to the thirty-eighth congress. 

BLISS, GEORGE, financier, was born 
April 21, 1816, in Northampton, Mass. In 
1869 he associated himself with the firm 
of Levi P. Morton & Co., in the business 
of banking, under the name of Morton, 
Bliss & Co. The firm, with their London 
branch of Morton, Rose & Co., now stand 
in the front rank among the financial in¬ 
stitutions of this country. 

BLISS, PHILEMON, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman,' was born July 28, 1814, in Can¬ 
ton, Conn. He was elected president 
judge of the fourteenth circuit court of 
Ohio; and in 1854 was elected a represent¬ 
ative to the thirty-fourth congress; 
re-elected to the thirty-fifth congress; 
and was subsequently appointed a terri¬ 
torial judge in Dakota. 

BLISS, PHILIP PAUL, singing evan¬ 
gelist, was born July 9, 1838, in Clear¬ 
field county, Pa. He was associated 
with Moody in his noted evangelical tours, 
was composer and singer of many of the 
sweet inspirational hymns which vivified 
their meetings. He was killed Dec. 30, 
1876, in a railroad disaster in Ashtabula, 
Ohio. 

BLISS, PORTER CORNELIUS, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 28, 1838, in Erie 
county, N. Y. He was a journalist and 
diplomat of some repute as a philblogist. 
He was the author of The Ethnography of 
Gran Chaco, a district of Argentina; His- 
toria Secreta de la mision, del ciudadano 
noto Americano, Charles A. Washburn, 
cerca de gobierno de la republica del 
Paraguay; and The Conquest of Turkey 
1877-78. He died Feb. 2, 1885, in New 
York city. 

BLISS, WILLIAM, railroad president, 
was born Dec. 11, 1834, in Springfield, 
Mass. Since 1880 he has been president of 
the Boston and Albany railroad. 

BLISS, WILLIAM DWIGHT PORTER, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1856. He 
is an episcopal clergyman of Boston, and 
prominent as a leader among Christian 
socialists. He is the author of A Hand¬ 
book of Socialism; The Social Faith of the 
Catholic Church; and What Is Christian 
Socialism? He has edited The Encyclo¬ 
paedia of Socialism. 

BLISS, WILLIAM ROOT, author, was 
born in 1825 in Connecticut. He is a 
business man of New York city, and the 
author of Side Glimpses from the Colonial 
Meeting-House; The Old Colony Town and 
Other Sketches; Colonial Times on Buz¬ 
zard’s Bay; Quaint Nantucket; and Para¬ 
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BLIZZARD, T. H., educator, lawyer, 
was born Sept. 23, 1871, in Russell county, 
Va. For several years he was professor 
in Wood’s academy; was admitted to the 
bar in 1894, and practices his profession 
in Flat Rock, Va. 

BLOCH, JOSEPH C., lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born Oct. 24, 1856, in Hungary. 
He took a complete course in the State 
University of Iowa, and was admitted to 
the practice of law in 1880. He was 
elected to the Ohio house of representa¬ 
tives in 1891 as a republican. He is now 
judge of the Cuyahoga county court of 
insolvency of Cleveland, Ohio. 

BLODGET, LORIN, statistician, author, 
was born May 25, 1823, near Jamestown, 
N. Y. He is an eminent statistician of 
Philadelphia who has published over 
150 volumes, mainly reports upon finance, 
revenue, and industrial progress. He is 
the author of The Climatology of the 
United States; and Commercial and 
Financial Resources of the United States. 

BLODGET, SAMUEL, inventor, was 
born April 11, 1724, in Woburn, Mass. He 
commenced the manufacture of duck. In 
1793 he removed to New Hampshire, and 
began the construction of the canal which 
bears his name around Amoskeag Falls. 
He died Sept. 1, 1807, in Haverhill, Mass. 

BLODGETT, DELOS ABIEL, capitalist, 
was born March 3, 1825, in New York. 
He is the owner of large timber lands in 
Michigan, Washington, Oregon and most 
of the gulf states, and is largely inter¬ 
ested in real estate in Grand. Rapids and 
Chicago. 

BLODGETT, HARRISON H., lawyer, 
business man, was born Sept. 4, 1850, in 
Copenhagen, N. Y. He graduated from 
the law department of the State 
University of Michigan; and has at¬ 
tained success in the profession of law 
at Lincoln, Neb. He is also engaged in 
several business enterprises, and is the 
owner of Blodgett’s park addition to Lin¬ 
coln, Neb. 

BLODGETT, HENRY WILLIAMS, law¬ 
yer, state senator, jurist, was born July 
21, 1821, in Amherst, Mass. He removed 
with his parents to Illinois in 1831; stud¬ 
ied law in Chicago, and was admitted to 
the bar in 1844. In 1845 he located at 
Waukegan in the practice of his profes¬ 
sion; was elected to the legislature of 
Illinois in 1852; to the state senate in 
1858, and was appointed judge of the 
United States court for the northern dis¬ 
trict of Illinois in 1870. He was the pio¬ 
neer in the building of the Chicago and 
Milwaukee railroad. 

BLODGETT, MRS. MABEL (FULLER), 
author, was born in 1869 in Maine. She 
is the author of The Aspen Shade, a novel; 
Fairy Tales; In Poppy Land, a book of 
fairy tales; and At the Queen’s Mercy, a 
tale of adventure. 

BLODGETT, RUFUS, banker. United 
States senator, was born Oct. 9, 1834, 
in Dorchester, N. H. He moved to New 
Jersey in 1866 and engaged in railroad 
business, and is so engaged at present. 
He is president of the First National 
bank of Long Branch; and was a member 
of the New Jersey legislature. He was a 
delegate to the democratic national con¬ 
vention at Cincinnati in 1880, and was 
elected to the United States senate as a 
democrat and served during 1887-93. 

BLOEDE, GERTRUDE, author, poet. 
She is a poet and novelist of Brooklyn 
■who has usually written under the pseu¬ 
donym of Stuart Sterne, and is the author 
of Angelo; Giorgio and Other Poems; Be¬ 
yond the Shadow; Piero da Castiglione. a 
tale in verse of the time of Savonarola, 
and The Story of Two Lives, a novel. 


BLOEDE, MARIE, author, was born in 
1821. Her poems and articles, both in 
English and German, attracted attention. 
Her husband, as the editor of the New- 
Yorker Demokrat, a daily republican 
paper, received assistance from her lit¬ 
erary labors. She died March 12, 1870, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BLOOD, ARETAS, manufacturer, was 
born Oct. 16, 1816, in Weathersfield, Vt. 
He is connected with the Nashua Iron 
and Steel Co.; the Manchester mills; the 
Amoskeag Paper mill; the Manchester 
Hardware company, and the Second Na¬ 
tional bank of Manchester, of which he is 
president. 

BLOOD, FRED GREELY, educator, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born May 4, 1856, in 
West Potsdam, N. Y. For many years he 
taught school, and is now a prominent 
lawyer of Mount Vernon, Ill. He was the 
organizer of the Farmers’ Alliance and 
Industrial Union of Illinois, of which in¬ 
stitution he was state secretary for two 
terms. He served with distinction as a 
member of the fortieth general assembly 
of the Illinois state legislature. 

BLOOD, HENRY A., poet. He is a suc¬ 
cessful writer of Washington, D. C., and 
the author of a volume of poems en¬ 
titled How Much I Loved Thee. 


BLOOD, JARED P., soldier, lawyer, a 
lineal descendant of Sir Isaac Newton 
on his maternal side, was born Jan. 18, 
1844, in Whitefield, 
N. H. He received 
his education at the 
Lancaster academy, 
N. H. He served as 
a union soldier dur- 
,ng the civil war, en¬ 
listing in the first 
New Hampshire 
heavy artillery, com¬ 
pany I, in August, 
1864, and served until 
the close of the war. 
He entered the clas¬ 
sical course at Lombard university in 
1866, and graduated in June, 1870, receiv¬ 
ing the degree of A. B.; and subsequently 
received the degree of A. M. from the 
same institution. He has been vice-presi¬ 
dent, director and general counsel for the 
T.inpnin Park romnanv and the Sioux City 



and Morningside Railway company, of 
which he was one of the promoters. He 
has become one of the foremost lawyers 
of the west, and has an extensive prac¬ 
tice in Sioux City, Iowa, where he is a 
prominent member of the Masonic order, 
G. A. R., and other fraternal bodies. He 
has also contributed extensively to law 
literature and various newspapers and 
magazines. 


BLOODGOOD, D„ medical director, was 
born in 1831 in New York. He entered the 
navy as assistant surgeon in 1857, and 
in 1884 was promoted medical director, 
with the relative rank of captain in the 
navy, and colonel in the army. 


BLOODGOOD, FREEMAN A., educator, 
author, was born July 17, 1867, in Cedar 
Rapids, Iowa. He has attained success 
in educational work, has been superin¬ 
tendent of city schools, and is now county 
superintendent of schools of Fayette 
county, Iowa. He is the author of a text¬ 
book ‘ entitled Civil Government and 
School Law, and contributes to educa¬ 
tional publications. 

BLOODGOOD, SIMEON DE WITT, mer¬ 
chant, author, was born in 1799 in Utica, 
N. Y. He wrote The Sexagenary, or 
Reminiscences of the American Revolu¬ 
tion: and a treatise On Roads, and con¬ 
tributed largely to the periodical press. 
A few months before his death he was 


appointed consul-general for the United 
States of Colombia. He died July 14, 1866, 
in New York city, N. Y. 

BLOODWORTH, TIMOTHY, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born, 1736, in 
North Carolina. He was a representative 
in congress from North Carolina in 1790 
and 1791; a senator of the United States 
from 1795 to 1801; and was one of those 
who voted for locating the seat of govern¬ 
ment on the Potomac. He died Aug. 24, 
1814. near Washington, N. C. 

BLOOM, JACOB, educator, musician, 
was born May 6, 1844, in Germany. For 
several years he has been teacher of the 
violin at Miss Baur’s conservatory, of 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He has instructed 
many talented pupils wno have become, 
in their turn, superior artists. 

BLOOMER, AMELIA JENKS, suffra¬ 
gist, journalist, author, was born May 27, 
1818, in Homer, N. Y. She married in 
1840,’ and resided in Seneca Falls, N. Y., 
where she wrote frequently on the enfran¬ 
chisement of women, and on Jan. 1, 1849, 
issued the first number of The Lily, a 
semi-monthly publication, devoted to tem¬ 
perance and woman's rights, which at¬ 
tained a circulation of 4,000. In the win¬ 
ter of 1855 Mrs. Bloomer addressed the 
territorial legislature of Nebraska on the 
subject of conferring the ballot on women. 
She took part in organizing the Iowa 
state suffrage association, and was at 
one time its president, but in later years 
withdrew entirely from public life. 

BLOOMFIELD-MOORE, MRS. CLARA 
SOPHIA, author, poet., was born in 1824 
in Pennsylvania. She is a Philadelphia 
writer who has lived much abroad, and 
chiefly in England, and is the author of 
Miscellaneous Poems; ’''On Dangerous 
Ground, a romance of American Society; 
Sensible Etiquette; Gondaline’s Lesson 
and Other Poems; Slander and Gossip; 
and The Warden’s Tale and Other Poems. 

BLOOMFIELD, JOSEPH, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, governor, was born in 
Woodbridge, N. J. He studied law until 
1775, when he became an active friend 
of the revolution. He was afterwards 
attorney-general for New Jersey; gov¬ 
ernor of that state from 1801 to 1812; was 
appointed a brigadier-general by Presi¬ 
dent Madison, and was a representative 
in Congress from New Jersey from 1817 
to 1821. He died Oct. 3, 1823, in Burling¬ 
ton, N. J. 

BLOOMINGDALE, JOSEPH B., mer¬ 
chant, was born Dec. 22, 1842, in New 
York city. For a while he was engaged 
in the dry goods bus¬ 
iness in New York 
city, and in 1860 
went to California. 
After working at 
various occupations 
in Nevada, Oregon, 
Idaho and Montana, 
he returned east and 
entered into busi¬ 
ness in New York 
city with his father 
and brother. Begin¬ 
ning in 1872 with 
three employes, they now employ nearly 
fifteen hundred workmen; and he is rec¬ 
ognized as one of the leading merchants 
of New York city. He is prominent in the 
Masonic fraternity and is noted for his 
many acts of benevolence and charity. 

BLOOMINGDALE, LYMAN G., soldier, 
merchant, was born Feb. 11, 1841, in New 
York. In 1872 he aided in organizing the 
firm of Bloomingdale Brothers of New 
York city, to transact a dry goods and 
general trade, and is senior partner of the 
firm. 




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BLOSS, JOHN M., soldier, educator, 
was born Jan. 21, 1839, in Washington 
county, Ind. He was a private in the 
twenty-seventh regiment Indiana volun¬ 
teer infantry, company F. He has been 
an active member in county institutes, 
and has been president of the State Teach¬ 
ers’ association. 

BLOT, PIERRE, instructor, author, was 
born in 1818 in France. He was a noted 
cooking instructor of New York city, 
and the author of What to Eat and How 
to Cook It; Lectures on Cookery; and 
Handbook of Practical Cookery. He died 
Aug. 26, 1874, in Jersey City, N. J. 

BLOUNT, AINSWORTH EMERY, agri¬ 
culturist, horticulturist, author, was born 
Feb. 6, 1831, near Chattanooga, Tenn. 
During 1849-59 he was in the schools cf 
New Hampshire and graduated from Dart¬ 
mouth college in July, 1859. From that 
date to the breaking out of the civil war, 
he was president of the Cleveland Female 
college, Tenn. He then enlisted and was 
captain of a company in the first East 
Tennessee cavalry for over three years; 
and in 1865 again assumed the presidency 
of the Cleveland Female college until 
1878. He then became professor of 
agriculture and horticulture in the Colo¬ 
rado Agricultural college, remained there 
until 1890, and has since occupied the 
same position in the New Mexico Agri¬ 
cultural college. He is the author of an 
important work on Agriculture and Hor¬ 
ticulture for the Farmer. He has given 
a special scientific investigation to the 
improvement of the cereals, as well as all 
agricultural and horticultural products, 
soils, and irrigation. 

BLOUNT, I. T., lawyer, legislator, was 
born Dec. 22, 1846, in Ripley, Miss. He 
graduated from the Law School University 
of Mississippi, and has attained promi¬ 
nence as an able lawyer of Water Valley, 
Miss., where he has been mayor and also 
held various other positions of trust. He 
has served with distinction as a member 
of the Mississippi state legislature, and 
was a Cleveland elector in 1893. 

BLOUNT, JaMES H., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 12, 1837, in Clinton, 
Ga. He received a classical education, 
graduating from the University of Geor¬ 
gia in 1857; studied law; was admitted 
to the bar in 1859, engaged in practice and 
settled in Macon, Ga. He was a member 
from Georgia to the forty-third, forty- 
fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-sev¬ 
enth, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, 
fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a 
democrat. 

BLOUNT, THOMAS, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1760 in Edgecombe, N. 
C. He was a general of militia, and a 
representative from his native state in the 
twelfth congress. He died Feb. 7, 1812, 
in Washington, D. C. 

BLOUNT, WILLIAM, United States 
senator, governor, was born in 1744 in 
North Carolina. He was a delegate to 
the continental congress in 1782, 1783, 
1786 and 1787, from North Carolina, and 
was governor of the territory south of the 
Ohio, having been appointed to that office 
in 1790. In 1796 he was chosen president 
of the convention of Tennessee, and was 
elected the same year, by that state, to a 
seat in the United States senate. While 
his impeachment trial was in progress in 
the United States senate he was elected 
a member of the state senate and made 
president thereof. He died March 10, 
1810, in Knoxville, Tenn. 

BLOUNT, WILLIAM G., congressman, 
was a representative in congress, from 
Tennessee, from 1815 to 1819. He died 
May 21, 1827. 


BLOUNT, WILLIE, legislator, governor, 
was born in 1767 in North Carolina. He 
was secretary to his brother William 
while territorial governor of Ohio. He 
was a member of the Tennessee legisla¬ 
ture; governor from 1809 to 1815, and a 
member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention in 1834. He died Sept. 10, 1835, 
in Clarksville. Tenn. 

BLOW, HENRY T., business man, stale 
senator, congressman, was born July 15, 
1817, in Southampton county, Va. He re¬ 
moved to.Missouri in 1830; graduated at 
St. Louis university; devoted himself to 
the drug and lead business, and served 
four years in the state senate. In 1862 he 
was elected a representative from Mis¬ 
souri to the thirty-eighth congress, and 
was re-elected to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress. He died Sept. 11, 1875, in Saratoga, 
N. Y. 

BLOWERS, SAMPSON SALTER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born March 22, 1742, in 
Boston, Mass. In 1785 he was appointed 
attorney-general and speaker of the house 
of assembly; and in 1797 chief justice of 
the supreme court, having had for some 
years a seat in the council. In 1801, he 
became presiding judge, which office he 
resigned in 1833. He died Oct. 25, 1842, 
in Halifax, N. S. 

BLOXAM, HENRY, physician, lawyer, 
was born March 17, 1831, in Philadelphia. 
Pa. He received his degree of medicine 
from the Kentucky school of medicine 
and attained success as a physician. In 
1861 he was admitted to the bar, and also 
attained success in that profession. He 
was a representative in the county board 
for several terms; prominent in public 
affairs, and died Dec. 23, 1889, in Mount 
Auburn, Ill. 

BLOXHAM, WILLIAM D„ legislator, 
governor, was born July 9, 1835, in Leon 
county, Fla. In 1860 he was elected a 
member of the Florida state legislature; 
was presidential elector in 1868, and in 
1870 was elected lieutenant-governor. In 
1876 he was a member of the state ex¬ 
ecutive committee; was appointed secre¬ 
tary of state in 1880 for a term of four 
years; and during 1886-90 was United 
States surveyor-general to Florida. Dur¬ 
ing 1890-96 he was state comptroller. In 
1896 he was elected governor of Florida 
for a second term of four years. 

BLUE, RICHARD WHITING, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 8. 
1841, in Wood county, Va. He enlisted 
in the third West Virginia volunteer in¬ 
fantry, and served first as a private and 
later as lieutenant in said regiment. He 
is a lawyer by profession and was in 
active practice when elected to congress. 
He has been probate judge of his county 
two terms, county attorney two terms, 
and a state senator of Kansas two terms, 
and was elected to the fifty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

BLUNT, EDMOND MARCH, author, 
was born June 20, 1770, in Portsmouth, 
N. H. He was a bookseller of Newbury- 
port whose chief work. The American 
Coast Pilot (1796), is still in use. He 
died Jan. 2, 1862, in Sing Sing, N. Y. 

BLUNT, EDMUND, hydrographer, in¬ 
ventor, was born Nov. 23, 1799, in New- 
buryport, Mass. In 1855-56 he furnished 
the points to determine the exterior line 
of New York harbor. While he was on 
the coast survey his attention was di¬ 
rected to the inferiority of the lights in 
the American lighthouses, and he was 
the proposer and advocate of the intro¬ 
duction of Fresnel’s system of signal- 
lights. He also invented the dividing- 
engine. He died Sept. 2, 1866, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 


BLUNT, GEORGE WILLIAM, hydro¬ 
grapher, author, was born March 11, 1802, 
in Newburyport, Mass. He was the au¬ 
thor of Atlantic Memoir; Sheet Anchor; 
Harbor Laws of New York; and Plan to 
Avoid the Center of Violent Gales. He 
died April 19, 1878, in New York city. 


BLUNT, JAMES G., soldier, physician, 
was born in 1826 in Hancock county, 
Maine. In 1861 he entered the army as 
lieutenant-colonel of 
the third Kansas 
volunteers. He com¬ 
manded the cavalry 
in Gen. James Lane’s 
brigade, and in 1862, 
was promoted brig¬ 
adier-general and as¬ 
signed to the com¬ 
mand of the military 
department of Kan¬ 
sas. On Oct. 22, 1862, 
in the battle of Old 
Foi't Wayne his Kan¬ 
sas and Cherokee troops routed the con¬ 
federate force concentrated at Maysville, 
on the western border of Arkansas. On 
Nov. 28 he attacked and defeated Mar- 
maduke’s forces at Cane Hill, Ark. On 
Dec. 7, 1862, he encountered and defeated, 
with the aid of Gen. Herron, the confed¬ 
erates under Hindman at Prairie Grove. 
He died in 1881 in Washington, D. C. 



BLYDENBURGH. CHARLES ED¬ 
WARD, engineer of mines, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born March 19, 1854, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments 
of his education in 
private schools; in 
1870 he entered the 
Princeton col¬ 
lege, and there grad¬ 
uated from the aca¬ 
demic department in 
1874. The same year 
he entered the Col¬ 
li mbia college 
school of mines, and 
in 1878 graduated 
therefrom with the degree of engineer of 
mines. During 1881-82 he was county 
superintendent of schools in Wyoming; 
and in 1888 was a member of the house 
of representatives of the tenth legislature 
of Wyoming territory. In 1889 he was 
admitted to the bar, and the following 
year became city attorney of Rawlins, 
Wyo., and served three terms. During 
1892-94 he was president of the city coun¬ 
cil; and in 1896 was chairman of the 
democratic state committee of Wyoming. 
In 1898 he was nominated a justice of the 
supreme court of Wyoming. 



BLYE, BIRDICE, pianist, was born in 
Iowa. When an infant she removed to 
Indiana, and her home has been prin¬ 
cipally in New York 
city. When ten years 
of age she played in 
concerts extensively 
in London and the 
chief continental 
cities; frequently 
playing before the 
royal families of 
England and Ger¬ 
many. She studied 
with the greatest of 
masters, and lastly 
with Rubinstein, 
who introduced her to the leading musi¬ 
cians of Germany as the coming great 
American pianist. She is thoroughly edu¬ 
cated and speaks several languages flu¬ 
ently. She has an extensive repertoire; 
and her playing is noted for the grace and 
poetry of her interpretations, beauty of 
tone, and perfection of finish. 





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BLYTHE, JAMES, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born Oct. 22, 
1765, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. 
He was president of Transylvania col¬ 
lege for several years, but resigned 
about 1818 and . established a semi¬ 
nary for young ladies. In 1832 he ac¬ 
cepted the presidency of South Hanover 
college, which he resigned in 1836. He 
died May 2, 1842, in Hanover, Ind. 


BOARDMAN, ARTHUR EDWIN, rail¬ 
road president, was born March 20, 1850, 
in Macon, Ga. Since 1894 he has been 
president of the Hendersonville and Bre¬ 
vard railway, at Brevard, N. C. 

BOARDMAN, DAVID SHERMAN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born in 1768. For several 
years he was chief justice of the supreme 
court of Connecticut. He died Dec. 2, 
1864, in New Milford, Conn. 


BOARDMAN, ELIJAH, merchant, legis¬ 
lator, United States senator, was born 
March 7, 1760, in New Milford, Mass. He 
became a successful merchant; was fre¬ 
quently a member of the legislature; was 
a member of the council; and was a 
senator in congress from Connecticut 
from 1821 to 1823. He died Oct. 8, 1823, 
in Boardman, Ohio. 

BOARDMAN, GEORGE DANA, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 18, 1828, in 
Burmah. He is a prominent baptist cler¬ 
gyman of Philadelphia; and the author 
of Coronation of Love; Studies in the 
Creative Week; Epiphanies of the Risen 
Lord; Studies in the Mountain Instruc¬ 
tion; University Lectures on the Ten 
Gommandments; and The Divine Man. 


BOARDMAN, GEORGE NYE, clergy¬ 
man, educator, was born Dec. 23, 1825, in 
Pittsford, Vt. In 1859 he accepted a call 
to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian 
church in Bingham, N. Y. In 1871 he re¬ 
signed this pastorate to accept a profes¬ 
sorship in Chicago Theological seminary, 
which post he still holds. 


BOARDMAN, HENRY AUGUSTUS, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 9, 1808, 
in Troy, N. Y. He was once a noted pres- 
byterian divine of Philadelphia; and the 
author of The Bible in the Family; The 
Bible in the Counting-House; The Chris¬ 
tian Ministry not a Priesthood; Earthly 
Suffering and Heavenly Glory; and A 
Handful of Corn. He died June 15, 1880, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 


BOARDMAN, SAMUEL WARD, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, was born 
Aug. 31, 1830, in Pittsford, Vt. He gradu¬ 
ated from the Castleton seminary in 
1847, Middlebury college in 1851, and An¬ 
dover Theological seminary in 1855; and 
has filled pastorates in the congregational 
and presbyterian churches. Since 1889 
he has been president of the Maryville 
college of Maryville, Tenn. 


BOARDMAN, WILLIAM W., lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 10, 1794, in New Milford, Conn. He 
was at one time judge of probate; foi 
several years in the state legislatuie, 
and speaker of the house; and was a 
representative in congress from Connecti 
cut from 1841 to 1843. 


BOARMAN, ALECK, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 10, 1839, in 
Yazoo City, Miss. He served throughout 
the war as an officer in the confederate 
army. He began to practice law in 18 bb, 
and settled in Louisiana. He was a repre¬ 
sentative from that state to the foi y- 
second congress to fill a vacancy; wa 
judge of the state district court foi one 
term; and in 1881 was appointed United 
States district judge for the western dis¬ 
trict of Louisiana. 


BOARMAN, CHARLES, naval officer, 
was born in Maryland. During the civil 
war he was on special service. He was 
retired with the rank of commodore on 
April 4, 1867, and made a rear-admiral on 
the retired list, Aug. 15, 1876. He died 
Sept. 13, 1879, in Martinsburg, W. Va. 


BOATMAN, J. AUSTIN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 7, 1848, in Jessamine 
county, Ky. He is a graduate of the 
De Pauw university, and has attained 
distinction as one of the foremost Iowa 
clergymen of the methodist episcopal 
church. He has filled pastorates in Iowa 
at Newton, Albia, Brooklyn, Washing¬ 
ton, Bloomfield, and is now at Fairfield. 
He is the author of The Holy Mother, 
a poem; and Paido-Theology, a study of 
the status of childhood under Christian¬ 
ity. 


BOATNER, CHARLES J., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 
1849, in Columbia, La. He was admitted 
to the bar in January, 1870; and was 
elected a member of the state senate in 
1876. He was elected to the fifty-first, 
fifty-second and fifty-third congresses, 
and received the certificate of election to 
the fifty-fourth congress, but his seat was 
declared vacant March 20, 1896. At a 
special election held June 10, 1896, he was 
elected to the short term of the fifty- 
fourth congress as a democrat. 

BOCKEE, ABRAHAM, jurist, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in North¬ 
east, N. Y. He was a member of the state 
legislature in 1820, a representative in 
congress from New York from 1829 to 
1831, and again from 1833 to 1837. He was 
a member of the state senate from 1842 
to 1845; and also held the position, in 
1846, of first judge of the Dutchess county 
court. He died June 1, 1865, in Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. 

BOCOCK, THOMAS S., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1815 in Bucking¬ 
ham county, Va. He sat for several terms 
in the house of delegates, was elected to 
congress as a democrat in 1846, and sat 
for seven successive terms, until the or¬ 
dinance of secession was enacted. In 1861 
he was elected to the confederate con¬ 
gress. 

BODEN ANDREW, congressman, was 
born in Carlisle, Pa. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1817 to 1821. 


Dec. 


BODINE, ROBERT N., educator, law¬ 
yer, legislator, congressman, was born 
17 1837 in Monroe county, Mo. He 
has held the office of 
prosecuting attorney 
and been elected 
twice a member of 
the Missouri legis¬ 
lature, in which ca- 
■ pacity he was a 
| member of the com¬ 
mittee on the revis¬ 
ion of the statutes. 
He was a member of 
the.board of regents 
of the Kirksville 
Normal school at the 
time of his nomination for congress; and 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a democrat. 



BODINE, WILLIAM BUDD, clergyman, 
college president, was born March 10, 
1841, in Burlington county, N. J. He has 
been rector of the Memorial church of 
Baltimore, Md.; president of Kenyon col¬ 
lege Ohio; and is now rector of the 
Church of the Savior of Philadelphia, Pa. 


BODLE, CHARLES, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1833 to 1835. He died in 
1836 in New York city. 


BODLEY, RACHEL L., physician, 
chemist, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
She was elected dean of the faculty of 
the Women’s Medical college of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and lecturer on chemistry in the 
Franklin institute of Philadelphia. She 
died in 1888. 

BODMAN, EDWARD CUSHMAN, mer¬ 
chant, was born March 22, 1840, in Charle- 
mont, Mass. He was in the grain trade 
in Toledo in 1865-85, being president of 
the Northern National bank there, 1873- 
82. He went to New York in 1885, and 
his firm of Milmine, Bodman and Co. 
have already won a name, ranking as a 
leading house in the grain trade. 

BODWELL, CHARLES, farmer, legis¬ 
lator, was born in Methuen, Mass. He 
was a successful farmer and millwright 
of Dracut, Mass.; and in 1821-zz was a 
member of the Massachusetts house of 
representatives. 

BODWELL, JOSEPH R., governor of 
Maine, was born June 18, 1818, in Me¬ 
thuen, Mass. He opened quarries in 1852 
on an island in Penobscot bay, and organ¬ 
ized the Bodwell, and, in 1870, the Hallo- 
well granite company. He served twice in 
the legislature, and in 1886 was elected 
governor by the republicans. He died 
Dec. 15, 1887, in Hallowell, Maine. 

BOEDECKER, G. A. W., poet, business 
man. He is a successful business man 
of Brooklyn, Kan.; and contributes ex¬ 
tensively both prose and verse to tne 
periodical press. 

BOEN, HALDOR E., educator, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 2, 1851, in Norway. 
In 1888 he was elected register of deeds 
and re-elected in 1890; was chairman of 
fifth congressional district alliance com¬ 
mittee in 1890; was chairman of the first 
congressional committee of the people’s 
party in the seventh district in 1892; and 
was elected to the fifty-third congress as 
the candidate of the people’s party. 

BOERUM, SIMON, congressman, was 
born Feb. 29, 1724, in New Lots, N. Y. 
He was a delegate from New York to the 
continental congress, from 1774 to 17(7. 
He died July 11, 1775, in BrooKiyn Ferry, 
N. Y. 

BOGARDUS, ABRAHAM, photograph¬ 
er, was born Nov. 29, 1822, in Fishkill, 
N. Y. Numerous improvements in the 
preparations of solutions, processes, and 
apparatus have been devised by him. 

BOGARDUS, CHARLES, soldier, legis¬ 
lator, wa>s born March 28, 1841, in Cayuga 
county, N. Y. In 1862 he enlisted as a 
private in the one hundred and fifty-first 
New York infantry; and was brevetted 
to a colonelcy for gallant and meritori¬ 
ous services before Petersburg. He was 
once severely wounded, and captured by 
the enemy. He has served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the Illinois state 
senate. 

BOGARDUS, JAMES, engineer, invent¬ 
or, was born March 14, 1800, in Catskill, 
N. Y. He made important improvements 
in cotton spinning, invented many useful 
mechanical instruments, and in 1847 he 
built in New York city the first iron build¬ 
ing in the United States. He died April 
13, 1874, in New York city, N. Y. 

BOGART, ELIZABETH, poet, was born 
about 1806 in New York city. She con¬ 
tributed to periodicals, chiefly the New 
York Mirror, under the pen-name of 
Estelle, her first pieces appearing in 1825. 
Specimens of her poetry are reprinted in 
Griswold’s Female Poets of America. 
She wrote two prize stories, entitled The 
Effect of a Single Folly, and The Forged 
Note, evincing constructive ability; and 
He Came Too Late, and other poems. 


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BOGART, G. HENRI, educator, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born Oct. 26, 1857, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as an educator and journalist. He 
is the author of about five hundred poems, 
including songs and recitation pieces. 

BOGART, WILLIAM HENRY, author, 
was born Nov. 28, 1810, in Albany, N. Y. 
He was the author of Life of Daniel 
Boone; and Who Goes There? or Men 
and Events. He died Aug. 21, 1888, in 
Aurora, N. Y. 

BOGGESS, CALEB, lawyer, was born 
April 29, 1822, in Lumberport, W. Va. In 
1842 he was appointed a cadet in the Vir¬ 
ginia Military insti¬ 
tute, from which he 
graduated three 
years later with the 
highest honors. He 
then returned to 
Clarksburg and stud¬ 
ied law, and prac¬ 
ticed his profession 
for more than thirty 
years. He was elect¬ 
ed as a union candi¬ 
date to represent 
Lewis county in the 
convention of Richmond. He was the 
chief counsel for West Virginia of the 
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He pos¬ 
sessed a rare legal and mathematical 
mind; had a large practice in the su¬ 
preme court of appeals of the state, and 
argued a number of important cases in 
the supreme court of the United States. 
He died April 14, 1889. 

BOGGS, CHARLES STUART, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born Jan. 28, 1811, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. He was promoted to 
the rank of captain on July 16, 1862, and 
was made a commodore July 25, 1866. He 
commanded the steamer De Soto, of the 
North Atlantic squadron, in 1867-68. In 
1869-70 he was assigned to the European 
fleet, and prepared a report on the condi¬ 
tion of steam-engines afloat. On July 1, 
1870, he received promotion to rear-ad¬ 
miral, and was appointed lighthouse in¬ 
spector of the third district. He was 
placed on the retired list in 1873. He died 
April 22, 1888, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

BOGGS, GEORGE BRENTON, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born Jan. 8, 1844, in Somer¬ 
ville, N. J. He entered the railroad ser¬ 
vice in 1862; and is now chief engineer 
and comptroller of the Perkiomen rail¬ 
road at Norristown, Pa. 

BOGGS, JULIUS E., railroad president, 
was born Feb. 14, 1854, in Pickens county, 
S. C. Since 1891 he has been president 
of the Pickens railroad. 

BOGGS, L. W., pioneer, governor, was 
born in 1798 in Kentucky. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Missouri in 1836, and took a 
prominent part in the expulsion of the 
Mormons. In 1846 he migrated to Cali¬ 
fornia, and in the years 1847-49 was al¬ 
calde of the Sonoma district. He died in 
1861 in California. 

BOGLE, JAMES, painter, was born in 
1817 in Georgetown, S. C. He came to 
New York in 1836 and entered the studio 
of Prof. Morse, inventor of the telegraph 
and the founder of the national academy 
of design. He executed portraits of John 
C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, 
Chief Justice Jones, Bishop Atkinson, of 
North Carolina, De Witt Clinton, and Rev. 
Dr. Budington. Among his later pictures 
were portraits of Gen. John A. Dix and 
Henry I. Raymond. He died Oct. 11, 1873, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BOGUE, GEORGE MARQUIS, capital¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 21, 1842, in Norfolk, 
N. Y. From 1875-76 he was a member of 


the Illinois legislature; in 1876 a member 
of the railroad and warehouse commis¬ 
sion for the state of Illinois; in 1889-90 
was president of the Chicago real estate 
board; and is also president of the pres- 
byterian hospital and director of a num¬ 
ber of business corporations. 

BOGY, LEWIS V., lawyer, legislator, 
United States senator, was born April 9, 
1813, in St. Genevieve, Mo. He was several 
times elected to the state legislature; and 
was commissioner of Indian affairs in 
1867 and 1868. He was one of the pro¬ 
jectors and friends of the St. Louis and 
Iron Mountain railroad, of which he was 
for two years president. He was elected 
to the United States senate for the term 
commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879. 
He died Sept. 20, 1877, in St. Louis, Mo. 

BOHMER, JOHN GEORGE, educator, 
college president, was born Nov. 9, 1848, 
in Rich Fountain, Mo. He received his 
education in the parish and public schools, 
from private tutors, and at the Jones 
Commercial college. He is one of the 
most prominent educators of the west; 
has filled the chairs of penmanship, book¬ 
keeping, commercial law and English; 
and is now the president and pro¬ 
prietor of the Jones Commercial college 
of St. Louis, Mo., which was estab¬ 
lished in 1841 by Prof. Jonathan Jones. 
This college is the only institution in St. 
Louis that teaches bookkeeping by actual 
business practice; and their system is 
protected both by patents and copyright. 
Prof. Bohmer has made his college the 
leading institution of its kind west of 
the Mississippi. 

BOIES, HENRY M., soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, philanthropist, author, was born 
in 1837, in Lee, Mass. In 1882 he was 
chosen president of the Dickson Manufac¬ 
turing company. He invented a new and 
improved steel-tired car wheel, t now 
manufactured by the Boies Steel Wheel 
company, of which company he is presi¬ 
dent. He is the author of a work en¬ 
titled Prisoners and Paupers. 

BOIES, HORACE, lawyer, governor, 
was born Dec. 7, 1827, in Aurora, N. Y. 
In 1857 he was a member of the state as¬ 
sembly, and later resided in Buffalo. Soon 
after the close of the war Mr. Boies re¬ 
moved to Waterloo, Iowa, where he quick¬ 
ly obtained a profitable law practice. In 
1884 he left the republican party and be¬ 
came a democrat, being elected by them 
governor of Iowa in 1890, to which office 
he was re-elected. In June, 1892, he was a 
prominent western candidate for the nom¬ 
ination to the presidency, and he is the 
democratic leader in his state. 

BOISE, JAMES ROBINSON, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 27, 1815, in Blan- 
ford. Mass. From 1852 to 1868 he was 
professor of Greek in the university of 
Michigan, and after 1868 in the university 
of Chicago. He published in Chicago 
Xenophon’s Anabasis, with English 
notes; the first six books of Homer’s 
Iliad; Greek Syntax; First Lessons in 
Greek; and other text-books; and in 18S4 
Notes Critical and Explanatory on St. 
Paul’s Epistles. 

BOK, EDWARD WILLIAM, journalist, 
author, was born in 1863. He is editor of 
the Ladies’ Home Journal; and the au¬ 
thor of The Young Man in Business; 
Successward; and a Young Man’s Book 
for Young Men. 

BOK, WILLIAM JOHN, journalist, was 
born May 11, 1861, in Netherlands. In 
1881, with his brother, he established the 
Bolt Literary Syndicate Press of New 
York; and in 1887 was associated with 
his brother in compiling the Beecher 
Memorial. 


BOKEE, DAVID A., naval officer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 6, 1805, in New 
York. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1849 to 1851. 
He died March 16, 1860, in Washington, 
D. C. 

BOKER, GEORGE HENRY, diploma¬ 
tist, author, poet, was born Oct. 6, 1823, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a poet and 
diplomat of Philadelphia, and United 
States minister to Turkey and Russia. He 
is the author of four tragedies, Calaynos; 
Anne Boleyn; Lenor de Guzman; Fran¬ 
cesca da Rimini, the first and last are the 
finest, the last having been revived with 
success in very recent years. His vol¬ 
umes of verse include The Lesson of Life; 
Poems of War; The Book of the Dead; 
Konigsmark; Street Lyrics; Our Heroic 
Themes. Plays of lesser rank are The 
Widow’s Marriage; and The Betrothal. 
He died Jan. 2, 1890, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BOLEN, DAVID WINTON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, legislator, was born Aug. 17, 1851, in 
Carroll county, Va. He was three times 
elected to the state legislature; was four 
years judge of the county court of Carroll 
county; and two years judge of the fif¬ 
teenth judicial circuit of Virginia. 

BOLES, THOMAS, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born July 16, 1837, 
in Clarksville, Ark. In 1863 and 1864 he 
served as a captain in the union army, 
experiencing many trials from ill-health 
and military arrests. In 1865 he was 
chosen judge of the fourth judicial district 
of Arkansas, which position he resigned 
early in 1868. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Arkansas to the fortieth 
and forty-first congresses. 

BOLL, JACOB, naturalist, author, was 
born May 29, 1828, in Switzerland. He 
was a pupil of Louis Agassiz, and was 
employed by Edward D. Cope to go to 
Texas and examine the fossiliferous*. and 
iron deposits of that state, with a view to 
determining their geological character. 
He made many important discoveries in 
the formations that he explored. He died 
Sept. 29, 1880, in Wilbarger county, Texas. 

BOLLAN, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, 
was born in England. He was an English 
lawyer who settled in Boston in 1740, and 
was subsequently colonial agent in Lon¬ 
don for Massachusetts. He was active 
in its behalf and wrote many political 
tracts for that end, among which The Mu¬ 
tual Interests of Great Britain and the 
American Colonies Considered, is a favor¬ 
able example. He died in 1776 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. 

BOLLER, ALFRED PANCOAST, engin¬ 
eer, author, was born Feb. 23, 1840, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is an engineer of 
note whose specialty is bridge construc¬ 
tion; and is the author of Practical 
Treatise on the Construction of Iron 
Highway Bridges; and Report on Thames 
River Bridge. 

BOLLES, ALBERT SIDNEY, educator, 
author, was born in 1845 in Connecticut. 
He is a political economist of prominence, 
and professor in the university of Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is the author of Chapters 
in Political Economy; The Conflict be¬ 
tween Labor and Capital; Industrial His¬ 
tory of the United States; Financial His¬ 
tory of the United States, 1774-1860; and 
Elements of Commercial Law. 

BOLLES, EDWIN CORTLANDT, mi- 
croscopist, lecturer, was born Sept. 19, 
1836, in Hartford, Conn. From 1870 to 
1875 he was professor of microscopy in St. 
Lawrence university, Canton, N. Y., and 
since 1870 has lectured on that subject in 
Tufts college at College Hill, Mass. He 
has contributed articles on his specialty 
to periodicals, and published sermons. 





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BOLLES, FRANK, author, was born in 
1856 in Massachusetts. He was a writer 
of nature studies of the school of Jef¬ 
feries and Thoreau, though with import¬ 
ant differences from either. He was the 
author of From Blomidon to Smoky; At 
the North of Bearcamp Water; Land of 
the Lingering Snow; and Chocorua’s 
Tenants, a volume of verse. He died in 
1894. 


BOLLES, JOHN A., soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born April 16, 1809, in Eastford, 
Conn. He was graduated at Brown in 
1829, admitted to the bar in Boston in 
1833, and in 1843 chosen secretary of state 
under Gov. Marcus Morton. He was a 
member of the harbor and back bay com¬ 
mission in 1852. From 1862 till 1865 he 
served as judge-advocate on the staff of 
Gen. John A. Dix, who was his brother- 
in-law. He was brevetted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers in 1865, and appointed 
naval solicitor the same year. He died 
May 25, 1878, in Washington, D. C. 

BOLLES, JOSHUA A., journalist. He is 
the editor and owner of The Gazette of 
New Milford, Conn. His paper was es¬ 
tablished in 1872; and is fearless and in¬ 
dependent in all that it advocates. He 
has taken an active part in the public 
affairs of his city, county and state. 


BOLLINGER, ALBERT C., lawyer, 
state senator, -was born Nov. 22, 1870, in 
Steelville, Ill. In 1892 he declined the 
nomination for state’s attorney of Ran¬ 
dolph county. Ill.; and subsequently 
served as a member of the Illinois state 
senate. 

BOLSTER, WILLIAM WHEELER, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1823 in Maine. 
He is a lawyer of Auburn, Maine; and 
the author of Digest of the Law of Tax 
Titles; and The Authority and Duty of 
Town Officers. 

BOLTON, CHANNING MOORE, soldier, 
civil engineer, was born Jan. 24, 1843, in 
Richmond, Va. He served in the civil 
war; and from 1863-65 was commissioned 
officer in the engineers corps, Confeder¬ 
ate States of America; from 1874-75 he 
located several small railroads in Virginia 
and North Carolina; and in 1876-79 was 
engineer in charge for the United States 
government. In 1887-88 he was president 
and manager of the Richmond City rail¬ 
road. 


BOLTON, CHARLES EDWARD, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born May 16, 1841, in 
South Hadley Falls, Mass. He has at¬ 
tained a national reputation as a brilliant 
lecturer; and is the author of a work 
entitled Realistic Travels. 


BOLTON, CHARLES KNOWLES, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Nov. 14, 1867, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. In 1887 he published a 
volume of poems en¬ 
titled From Heart 
and Nature; and has 
also published a 
genealogy of the 
Bolton Family. He 
has traveled exten¬ 
sively in Europe, 
and has given art 
entertainments of 
one thousand bril¬ 
liant views through¬ 
out America. His 
other works are: 
Gossiping Guide to Harvard; Saskia the 
Wife of Rembrandt; Notes on Special 
Collections in American Libraries (with 
W. C. Lane). Verse: Poems: froin Heart 
and Nature; The Wooing of Martha Pit¬ 
kin; and the Love Story of Ursula Wol¬ 
cott. 



BOLTON, HENRY CARRINGTON, edu¬ 
cator, scientist, author, was born Jan. 28, 
1843, in New York city. He is a scientist 
and professor of chemistry at Trinity col¬ 
lege; and the author of Application of 
Organic Acids to the Examination of 
Minerals; Literature of Uranium; Liter¬ 
ature of Manganese; Student’s Guide in 
Quantitative Analysis; and Counting-out 
Rhymes of Children: their Antiquity, 
Origin, and Wide Distribution. 

BOLION, JAMES, physician, surgeon, 
was born June 5, 1812, in Savannah, Ga. 
In 1855 he opened a private hospital in 
Richmond, Va.; was president of the 
Virginia State Medical society; and pub¬ 
lished many articles on subjects pertain¬ 
ing to surgery and medicine. He died 
May 15, 1869. 

BOLTON, MRS. SARAH KNOWLES, 
author, was born Sept. 15, 1841, in Farm¬ 
ington, Conn. She is a miscellaneous 
writer of Cleveland whose successive col¬ 
lections of biographical sketches have 
been extremely popular. She is the au¬ 
thor of Famous Givers and Their Gifts; 
How Success Is Won; Poor Boys who Be¬ 
came Famous; Girls who Became Fam¬ 
ous; Famous American Authors; Famous 
American Statesmen; Successful Women; 
Social Studies in England; Famous 
Types of Womanhood; Famous voyages 
and Explorers; Famous Leaders Among 
Men; and The Inevitable, a collection of 
pleasing, unpretentious verse. 

BOLTON, MRS. SARAH TITTLE, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Dec. 18, 1815, in 
Newport, Ky. She was a writer whose 
name is kept in mind by her oft quoted 
poem, Paddle Your Own Canoe. She was 
the author of The Songs of a Life Time; 
and Life and Poems. She died in 1893. 

BOLTWOOD, HENRY L., educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 17, 1831, in Amherst, 
Mass. In 1853 he graduated from the Am¬ 
herst college; and taught in the acad¬ 
emies of Pembroke and Drury, N. H. 
During the war he was in the sanitary 
commission; was ordained an army chap¬ 
lain, but never served. In 1865 he moved 
to Illinois, and two years later organized 
the first township high school in Illinois 
at Princeton. He is the author of several 
school books, and is still engaged in edu¬ 
cational work at Evanston, Ill. 

BOMBAUGH, CHARLES CARROLL, 
physician, author, was born Feb. 10, 18zd, 
in Harrisburg, Pa. At the outbreak of the 
civil war he entered the army and served 
as a medical officer in Gen. Stone’s di¬ 
vision on the Potomac, and afterward in 
Gen. Sedgwick’s division. In 1865 he es¬ 
tablished and has since successfully con¬ 
ducted the Baltimore Underwriter. 

BOMBERGER, JOHN HENRY AUGUS¬ 
TUS, theologian, college president, author, 
was born Jan. 13, 1817, in Lancaster, Pa. 
He was a German Reformed theologian, 
president of Ursinus college, 1870-90; and 
the author of Infant Salvation and Bap¬ 
tism; Revised Liturgy; and Reformed not 
Ritualistic. He died in 1890. 

BOMFORD, GEORGE, military officei, 
was born in 1780 in New York. The can¬ 
nons invented by him were further de¬ 
veloped by Dahlgrdn, but were supersed¬ 
ed by the Rodman type about the begin¬ 
ning of the civil war. In July, 1841, he 
conducted experiments to ascertain the 
expansive force of powder in a gun by 
firing bullets through tubes inserted in, 
the sides. He died March 25, 1848, m 
Boston, Mass. 

BONAPARTE, JOSEPH CHARLES, 
lawyer, was born June 9, 1851, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He graduated from Harvard 


in 1871, and at the Harvard Law school 
in 1874, was admitted to practice, and has 
attained a respectable rank at the Balti¬ 
more bar. 

BOND, ELIZABETH POWELL, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 25, 1841, in 
Clinton, N. Y. During 1865-70 she was 
director of physical culture in Vassar col¬ 
lege; since 1880 has been a member of 
the faculty of Swarthmore college, Penn¬ 
sylvania; and dean of that institution 
since 1890. She is the author of Words 
by the Way, and other works. 

BOND, FRANK STUART, was born 
Feb. 1, 1830, in Sturbridge, Mass. In 1886 
he was elected vice-president of the Chi¬ 
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway 
company, and has since then represented 
that company in the city of New York. 

BOND, GEORGE PHILLIPS, educator, 
astronomer, author, was born in 1825 in 
Massachusetts. He was an astronomer of 
note, and a professor in Harvard univer¬ 
sity. He was the author of On the Con¬ 
struction of the Rings of Saturn; The 
Method of Least Squares; and Mathe¬ 
matical Memoirs upon Mechanical Quad- 
rations. He died Feb. 17, 1865, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

BOND, HENRY, physician, genealo¬ 
gist, author, was born March 21, 1790, 
in Watertown, Mass. He was graduated 
at Dartmouth in 1813, studied medicine, 
and practiced in Concord, N. H., and from 
November, 1819, till his death, in Phila¬ 
delphia. For several years he was presi¬ 
dent of the Philadelphia board of health. 
Besides numerous contributions to medi¬ 
cal and other journals, he published a 
remarkably thorough genealogical work 
entitled Genealogies of the Families and 
Descendants of the Early Settlers of 
Watertown, Mass., including Waltham 
and Weston. He died May 4, 1859, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

BOND, HENRY HERRICK, lawyer, 
journalist, was born June 2, 1847, in Can¬ 
terbury, Conn. He was treasurer of the 
Florence Savings bank; and with his 
brother-in-law he established the North¬ 
ampton Journal. He died Oct. 22, 1881, in 
Millboro, Va. 

BOND, HUGH LENNOX, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Dec. 16, 1828, in Baltimore, Md. 
In 1860 he was appointed judge of the 
criminal court of Baltimore, and in 1861 
was elected to the same position, and 
served until 1868. In 1870 he was appoint¬ 
ed United States circuit judge for the 
fourth judicial circuit, and soon after as¬ 
suming the duties of his office he was 
called upon to preside in the famous Ku 
Klux trials. 

BOND, JOHN R. S., journalist, was 
born in 1822 in Ohio. In his youth he 
traveled on horseback through the wilder¬ 
ness to Kankakee river, and then in a skiff 
down that river and the Mississippi to St. 
Louis. He owned at different times as 
many as eight western newspapers, was 
the founder of the Louisville Courier- 
Journal, and at the time of his death was 
editor of the Scioto Gazette. He died De¬ 
cember, 1872, in Chillicothe, Ohio. 

BOND, LESTER L., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Oct. 27, 1829, in Ravenna, Ohio. 
During 1862-66 he was a member of the 
city council of Chicago; was presidential 
elector in 1868; and for two terms during 
1866-70 was a member of the Illinois state 
legislature. He was one of the founders 
of the West Chicago park system; a mem¬ 
ber of the Chicago board of education; 
and in 1872 was acting mayor of Chicago. 
He was past commander of the Chicago 
commandery, Knights Templars; and in 
1897 was elected vice-president of the 
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BOND, SHADRACK, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was Dorn in Mary¬ 
land. He was a member of the first legis¬ 
lative council of Ohio in 1799; was elect¬ 
ed a delegate to congress from the terri¬ 
tory of Illinois from 1811 to 1815; and 
was the first governor under the state con¬ 
stitution. In 1814 he was appointed re¬ 
ceiver of public moneys in Kaskaskia, Ill. 
He died April 13, 1832, in Kaskaskia, Ill. 

BOND, THOMAS, physician, lecturer, 
was born in 1712 in Maryland. He was a 
distinguished practitioner of Philadelphia, 
delivered the first clinical lectures in the 
Pennsylvania hospital, and was associated 
with Dr. Franklin and Dr. John Bartram, 
the botanist, in a literary society of that 
city. He died in 1784 in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BOND, THOMAS EMERSON, clergy¬ 
man, physician, author, was born in 1782 
in Baltimore, Md. In 1827 he published 
an Appeal to Methodists, directed against 
the proposed changes, in 1828 a Narrative 
and Defence of the Church Authorities, 
and in 1831 and 1832 he defended the pol¬ 
ity of episcopal methodism in a journal 
printed in Baltimore called the Itinerant, 
of which he was editor. He subsequently 
edited for twelve years the Christian Ad¬ 
vocate and Journal, the leading methodist 
organ, of which he assumed charge in 
1840. He died March 14, 1856, in New 
York. 

BOND, THOMAS EMERSON, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, was born in 1813 in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He became a local methodist 
preacher, and also studied medicine and 
took his degree in Baltimore. His father 
was editor of the Baltimore Christian Ad¬ 
vocate and Journal, and young Bond be¬ 
came his efficient assistant, distinguished 
for humor and sarcastic power. After the 
close of the war he was one of the origi¬ 
nators of the Episcopal Methodist, the 
organ of the southern church, but subse¬ 
quently severed his connection with that 
paper and established another journal 
in the same interest. After publishing 
that for a short time he consolidated it 
with the Southern Christian Advocate, 
published simultaneously in Baltimore 
and St. Louis, of which he was associate 
editor. He died Aug. 18, 1872, in Har¬ 
ford county, Md. 

BOND, WILLIAM CRANCH, astron¬ 
omer, was born Sept. 8, 1789, in Portland, 
Maine. He distinguished himself by his 
observations on Saturn and celestial 
photography. He, with his son, discov¬ 
ered a satellite of Neptune and the eighth 
satellite of Saturn. He died Jan. 29, 1859, 
in Cambridge, Mass. 

BOND, WILLIAM KEY, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in St. Marys coun¬ 
ty, Md. He emigrated to Ohio in 1812; 
studied law and settled in the practice of 
the profession at Chillicothe, and subse¬ 
quently at Cincinnati. He was at one 
time a colonel of militia; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Ohio from 1835 
to 1841. He died Feb. 17, 1864, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. 

BONEBRAKE, GEORGE HENRY, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, merchant, banker. He won 
brevet as lieutenant-colonel, and later re¬ 
ceived from the war department the 
medal of honor. In 1883 he established 
the Los Angeles National bank, of which 
he has since been president to date. He 
has also established first national banks 
in Pasadena, Pomona, Riverside, Santa 
Ana, and Santa Monica, a state bank in 
Santa Paula, and the Savings bank of 
Southern California and the State Loan 
and Trust Co. in Los Angeles. 

BONER, JOHN HENRY, poet, was born 
in 1845 in North Carolina. He is a poet 
and litterateur of New York city; and the 


author of Whispering Pines, a volume of 
poems. 

BONES, MARIETTA M., philanthropist, 
social reformer, was born May 4, 1842, in 
Clarion county, Pa. Mrs. Bones was elect¬ 
ed vice-president of 
the National Wom¬ 
an’s Suffrage asso¬ 
ciation, and annual¬ 
ly re-elected for nine 
years, when Susan B. 
Anthony with thirty 
of her friends voted 
the organization into 
another. In 1882 she 
made her first ap¬ 
pearance as a public 
speaker in Webster, 
S. D., where she now 
resides. She is an active temperance 
worker, and was secretary of the first 
Non-Partisan National Woman’s Chris¬ 
tian Temperance union in 1889; and she 
has taken great interest in all reform and 
charitable institutions. She is the wife of 
Hon. Thomas A. Bones, the president of 
the board of commissioners that built the 
Soldiers’ Home at Hot Springs, S. D. 

BONHAM, MILLEDGE L„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, governor, was born in 
South Carolina. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative to the thirty-fifth congress from 
his native state, and was re-elected to the 
thirty-sixth congress. He was a major- 
general of militia, and served in Mexico 
at the head of a battalion of South Caro¬ 
lina troops; and served as a major-gen¬ 
eral in the confederate army in 1861. He 
was governor of South Carolina from 
1862 to 1864; and was a delegate to the 
New York convention of 1868. He died 
Aug. 28, 1890, in White Sulphur Springs, 
Va. 

BONNELL, JOHN MITCHELL, college 
president, was born April 16, 1820, in 
Pennsylvania. He was a minister in 
Frankfort, Ky.; president of several fe¬ 
male colleges; and in 1859 accepted an 
election to the presidency of Wesleyan 
Female college, where he remained for 
the last eleven years of his life. He died 
at the college in September, 1871. 

BONNER, EDWARD L„ merchant, 
banker, was born Aug. 18, 1834, in Orwell, 
N. Y. He is the principal owner of the 
present Missoula Mercantile Co., the larg¬ 
est and most influential house of whole¬ 
sale and retail grocers in the northwest. 

BONNER, ROBERT, publisher, was 
born April 28, 1824, in Ireland. In 1839 
he was employed in the office of the 
Hartford Courant, 
where he gained the 
reputation of being 
the most rapid com¬ 
positor in Connecti¬ 
cut. In 1844 he re¬ 
moved to New York, 
and in 1851 pur¬ 
chased the Ledger, at 
that time an insig¬ 
nificant sheet. By 
printing the most 
popular class of in¬ 
teresting stories, he 
gave the paper a wide circulation, which 
was further extended by the contribu¬ 
tions of Fanny Fern, Edward Everett, 
Henry Ward Beecher, and other eminent 
authors and clergymen. He has made 
large gifts of money to Princeton college, 
and to various charities. 

BONNEVILLE, BENJAMIN L. E., ex¬ 
plorer, soldier, was born about 1795 in 
France. He was made brevet brigadier- 
general in 1865. He was the author of 
a Journal of an Expedition to the Rocky 
Mountains, edited by Washington Irving. 

He died June 12, 1878, in Fort Smith, Ark. 


BONNEY, CHARLES CARROLL, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Sept. 4, 1831, in 
Hamilton, N. Y. He is a lawyer of Chicago, 
and the author of Rules of Law for Car¬ 
riage and Delivery of Persons and Proper¬ 
ty by Railway; summary of the Law of 
Marine, Fire and Life Insurance; and Our 
Remedy in the Laws. 

BONNYCASTLE, CHARLES, educator, 
mathematician, author, was born in 1792 
in England. He was first professor of nat¬ 
ural philosophy in the University of Vir¬ 
ginia, and in 1827 was, at his own re¬ 
quest, transferred to the chair of mathe¬ 
matics. He was the author of a treatise 
on Inductive Geometry, and several me¬ 
moirs on scientific subjects. He died Octo¬ 
ber, 1840, in Virginia. 

BONSALL, HENRY LUMMIS, journal¬ 
ist, was born March 24, 1834, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He established the New Re¬ 
public in Camden, N. J., which he pub¬ 
lished for ten years; then left it to issue 
the Post as a daily in 1875. 

BONWILL, WILLIAM G. A., surgeon, 
inventor, was born Oct. 4, 1883, in Cam¬ 
den, Del. In 1871 he moved to Philadel¬ 
phia, where he soon took rank with the 
most skillful and accomplished of his 
profession. He gave to the world two 
inventions of the very highest utility, the 
surgical engine and the artificial tooth 
crown. 

BOODY, AZARIAII, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from that state to the thirty- 
third congress. 

BOODY, DAVID AUGUSTUS, banker, 
was born Aug. 13, 1837, in Jackson, Maine. 
Several large corporations have secured 
his interest, and he has been elected pres¬ 
ident of the Louisiana and Northwestern 
railway; and vice-president of the 
Sprague National bank. 

BOODY, HENRY HILL, business man, 
legislator, was born in November, 1816, in 
Jackson. In 1842 he graduated from the 
Bowdoin college; 
and in 1845 was elect¬ 
ed to the chair of 
rhetoric and oratory, 
which position he 
held for nine years. 
He was then elected 
to the senate of the 
Maine state legisla¬ 
ture, and subsequent¬ 
ly represented his 
town in the house of 
representatives.Since 
1855 he has been con- 
enterprises, and has 
held positions of great responsibility re¬ 
quiring administrative skill. 

BOOGHER, JOHN HOGAN, lawyer lec¬ 
turer, was born July 16, 1867, in St. Louis, 
Mo. He received the rudiments of his edu¬ 
cation in the public schools of his native 
city; and graduated from the University 
of Virginia and the Washington Univer¬ 
sity Law school. He is a fluent linguist 
and public speaker, and a noted law 
writer and lecturer; but is best known as 
an orator and skillful trial lawyer of St. 
Louis, Mo. 

BOOK, JOHN W., catholic priest, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 21, 1850, in Clark 
county, Ind. In 1873 he was ordained 
a catholic priest; and in 1886 was made 
dean of the Cannelton district, Indiana. 

He is the author of Short Line to the Ro¬ 
man Catholic Church; Side Switches of 
the Short Line; Thousand and One Ob¬ 
jections to Secret Societies; Mollie’s Mis¬ 
take, or Mixed Marriages; The Book of 
Books: and other works. 





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BOOKER, GEORGE WILLIAM, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 5, 1821,' in 
Patrick county, Va. He was justice of the 
peace, and then presiding justice of Henry 
county court, for ten years. He supported 
the government during the rebellion; and 
was elected to the house of delegates of 
Virginia in 1865. He was elected to the 
forty-first congress, in 1869, as a conserva¬ 
tive; and was re-elected to the forty- 
second congress. He died June 4, 1883, in 
Martinsville, Va. 

BOOMER. GEORGE BOARDMAN, 
bridge builder, soldier, was born July 26, 
1832, in Sutton, Mass. He settled at an 
early age at St. Louis, as a bridge builder. 
He laid out and partly built the town of 
Castle Rock on the Osage river. As col¬ 
onel of 22d Missouri volunteers he was 
present at the surrender of Island No. 10, 
and, at the battle of Iuka, was distin¬ 
guished, and severely wounded. He was 
killed in a charge on the fortifications of 
Vicksburg. He died May 22, 1863, in 
Vicksburg, Miss. 

BOON, RATLIFF, congressman, was 
born in 1781, in Franklin county, N. C. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Indiana from 1825 to 1827, and again from 
1829 to 1839. He died Nov. 20, 1844, in 
Louisiana. 

BOONE, ANDREW R.. lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, congressman, was born April 
4, 1831, in Davidson county, Tenn. In 
1854 he was elected a county judge for 
four years; and was re-elected, but re¬ 
signed. In 1861 he was elected to the 
legislature, but resigned and returned 
home, where he remained until the close 
of the war; in 1868 he was elected 
judge of the first district of Kentucky, 
holding the position for six years; and 
was elected a representative from Te 
nessee to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth 
congresses. 

BOONE, DANIEL, pioneer, hunter, 
was born Feb. 11, 1735, in Bucks county, 

Pa. His name is always associated with 

the settlement of 
Kentucky, whose 
wilds he was the 
first white man to 
penetrate. He was 
the son of Squire 
Boone, who came to 
America from Eng¬ 
land in 1717. His 
ruling passions were 
love of adventure 
and fondness for the 
hunt. In 1812 he re¬ 
ceived from the 
Kentucky legislature a grant of nearly 

one thousand acres. He died Sept. 26, 
1820, in Missouri. 

BOONE, ENOCH, was born in 1777, in 
Boonesborough, Ky. He was the first 
white male child born in Kentucky. Dan¬ 
iel Boone’s wife, with her daughters, went 
to live with her husband in his palisaded 
fort in 1776; but after Boone’s capture 
his family returned to North Carolina. 
He died March 8, 1862. 

BOONE, RICHARD GANSE, educator, 
college president, author, was born Sept. 
9, 1849, in Spiceland, Ind. He graduated 
from the Spiceland academy, and has at¬ 
tained success in educational work. He 
has been superintendent of schools of 
Frankfort, Ind.; professor of pedagogy in 
the Indiana university; and is now presi¬ 
dent of the state normal college of Ypsi- 
lanti, Mich. He is the author of Educa¬ 
tion in the United States; History of 
Education in Indiana; and other works. 

BOONE, WILLIAM F., jurist, was born 
in Maryland. He resided in Pennsylvania; 


and was appointed an associate justice of 
the United States court for the territory 
of New Mexico. 

BOONE, WILLIAM JONES, protestant 
episcopal bishop, was born in 1847, in 
Shanghai. He studied theology at the 
divinity school in Philadelphia. Having 
been appointed missionary bishop, he was 
consecrated in Shanghai, Oct. 28, 1884, 
by Bishop Williams, of Yedo, and Bishops 
Moule and Scott, English missionary 
bishops in China. 

BOORMAN. -JAMES, merchant, was 
born in 1783, in England. He was one of 
the pioneers in the construction of the 
Hudson river railroad, and was for many 
years its president. He was also one of 
the founders of the Bank of Commerce. 
The Institution for the Blind, the Protest¬ 
ant Half-Orphan asylum, the Southern Aid 
society, and the Union Theological semi¬ 
nary were among the recipients of his 
bounty. He died Jan. 24, 1866, in New 
York city. 

BOOTH, AGNES, actress, was born in 
South Wales. She has attained a national 
prominence as a noted actress; and has 
played in all the most popular cities in the 
United States. 

BOOTH, ALFRED, business man, was 
born Feb. 14, 1828, in Glastonbury, Eng¬ 
land. He became a large dealer in oysters, 
and, as time wore on, opened stores and 
packing houses in different parts of Chi¬ 
cago. In 1880 Alfred E. and William V. 
Booth, sons, came into partnership with 
their father under the title of A. Booth 
and Sons, and the concern is now incor¬ 
porated as The A. Booth Packing Co., 
capital, $1,000,000. 

BOOTH, BALLINGTON, soldier, Salva¬ 
tion army commander, was born in 1857, 
in England. He is the second son of 
General Booth, general of the Salvation 
army in England. Ballington took com¬ 
mand of the training school for the army 
at Hackney, London, in 1880; established 
the work in Australia in 1884; and in 
America in 1886. Being commanded by 
the general to leave America and go to 
another field of labor, Ballington resigned 
his command and organized the Volunteer 
army. 

BOOTH, BENJAMIN, merchant, author. 
He made known his system of keeping 
accounts in a volume entitled A Complete 
System of Book-keeping by an Improved 
Method of Double Entry, containing also 
a New Method of stating Factorage Ac¬ 
counts, adapted particularly to the Trade 
of the British Colonies. It was written 
humorously, with fanciful entries, under 
the names of noted persons to illustrate 
the new method. 

BOOTH, EDWIN, actor, was born Nov. 
13, 1833, in Bel Air, Md. He made his 
first regular appearance upon the stage 
at the Boston mu¬ 
seum in 1849. Edwin 
Booth continued to 
act with his father 
for more than two 
years after the ad¬ 
vent of the Boston 
museum. His father 
being ill, he sud¬ 
denly and promptly 
took the place of the 
elder tragedian, and 
for the first time in 
his life enacted 
Richard III. This effort, remarkably suc¬ 
cessful for a comparative novice, was 
hailed as the indication of great talent 
and as the augury of a brilliant future. 
He died June 7, 1893, in New York. 


BOOTH, EDWIN S., lawyer, legislator, 
was born March 24, 1865, in Keokuk, 
Iowa. He graduated from the Keokuk 
high school, and from the Keokuk college 
of law. He has attained prominence as 
an able lawyer of Butte, Mont., has 
been an attorney of Silver Bow county; 
and has served as a member of the fourth 
legislative assembly of Montana. 

BOOTH, EMMA SCARR, author, was 
born April 25, 1835, in England. She is 
the author of three volumes, entitled 
Karan Kringle’s Journal; A Willful 
Heiress; and Poems. She has also com¬ 
posed numerous songs and instrumental 
pieces. 

BOOTH, HENRY MATTHIAS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 3,1843, in New 
York city. He is an eminent presbyterian 
clergyman and the president of the Au¬ 
burn Theological seminary of New York. 
He is the author of The Heavenly Vision 
and other Sermons; Sunrise, Noonday, 
and Sunset of the Day of Grace; and 
First Communion. 

BOOTH, JOHN WILKES, actor, was 
born in 1838, in Bel Air, Md. He first 
appeared on the stage in St. Charles, Bal¬ 
timore, and proved himself to be an 
actor of earnestness and promise. His 
last appearance was at Ford’s theater, in 
Washington, which was attended by 
President Lincoln, who was assassinated 
by Booth the same night. He died April 
26, 1865. 

BOOTH, JUNIUS BRUTUS, actor, was 
born May 1, 1796, in London, England. 
He gained a triumph as a substitute for 
Edmund Kean in the character of Sir 
Giles Overreach, captivating an audience 
that was at first indignant at the young 
actor’s presumption. He continued to play 
at Worthing, and found influential ad¬ 
mirers, who prevailed upon the manager, 
Harris, to give him a trial as Richard III., 
at Covent garden, where he appeared in 
that character in 1817, and delighted the 
metropolitan audience. He died Nov. 3, 
1852. 

BOOTH, MARY A., microscopist, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 9, 1843, in Long- 
meadow, Mass. She is the editor of 
Practical Microscopy of Springfield, 
Mass.; and the author of several works 
on that subject. 

BOOTH, MARY LOUISE, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 19, 1831, in Yaphank, 
N. Y. She was the editor of Harper’s 
Bazar from its establishment in 1867 to 
1889. She made over thirty valuable 
translations from the French. A History 
of the City of New York was her only 
piece of original writing. She died March 
5, 1889, in New York city. 

BOOTH, NEWTON, merchant, lawyer, 
governor, United States senator, was born 
Dec. 25, 1825, in Salem, Ind. He graduated 
at the Asbury university in 1846; studied 
law in Terre Haute, and came to the bar 
in 1850. He was elected to the California 
state senate in 1863; and was elected 
governor of the state in 1871; elected a 
senator in congress from California, and 
served during 1875-81. 

BOOTH, WALTER, soldier, merchant, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born 
Dec. 8, 1791, in Woodbridge, Conn. For 
eighteen years he was president of the 
Meriden bank; was a member of the 
Connecticut general assembly and state 
senate; and in 1834 was associate judge 
of the county court. He was major-gen¬ 
eral of militia; and was elected a member 
of the thirty-first congress. 

BOOTHMAN, M. M., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1846, in 
Williams county, Ohio. He was elected to 
the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses. 






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BOOZE, WILLIAM S., physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 9, 1862, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. He was educated at the pub¬ 
lic schools and at the Baltimore City col¬ 
lege; graduated from the latter in 1879; 
and studied medicine and graduated from 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
1882. He was nominated for congress by 
the republicans of the third congressional 
district in 1894 against Harry Welles 
Rusk, whose election to the house of 
representatives he contested unsuccess¬ 
fully; and was renominated and elected 
in 1896 to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
republican. He is also president of The 
League of Republican clubs of Maryland. 

BORDEN, JOSEPH, congressman. He 
was a delegate from New Jersey to the 
colonial congress held in New York in 
1765. 

BORDEN, MATTHEW CHALONER 
DUFREE, merchant, manufacturer, was 
born July 18, 1842, in Fall River, Mass. 

Their mills contain 
about 200,000 spin- 
1 dies and more than 
I 5,000 looms, produc- 
j ing 35,000 pieces of 
print cloth weekly,or 
about one-half the 
whole amount re- 
quired by The Amer¬ 
ican Printing Co. 
The two companies 
are of enormous 
value to Fall River. 
He takes a promi¬ 
nent part in public affairs, and is identi¬ 
fied with various philanthropic move¬ 
ments. 

BORDEN, NATHANIEL B., legislator, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
April 15, 1801, in Fall River, Mass. He 
was a member of the state legislature in 
1831, 1834, and 1851; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from the Fall River 
district, in that state, from 1835 to 1839, 
and again from 1841 to 1843. He was a 
state senator from 1845 to 1848. He died 
April 10, 1865, in Fall River, Mass. 

BORDEN, SIMEON, inventor, was born 
Jan. 29, 1798, in Freetown, Mass. He de¬ 
vised and constructed, in 1830, an appar¬ 
atus for measuring the base line of the 
trigonometrical survey of Massachusetts, 
which was found to be more accurate and 
convenient than any instrument of the 
kind then in existence. He was employed 
as surveyor in the case of Rhode Island 
vs. Massachusetts, tried before the United 
States supreme court in 1844. After the 
case was decided he surveyed and marked 
the boundary line between the two states. 
He died Oct. 28, 1856, in Fall River, Mass. 

BORDLEY, JOHN BEALE, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born-Feb. 11, 1727, in Annapolis, 
Md. He was judge of the provincial court 
in 1766 and of the admiralty court in 
1767-76, and a commissioner to fix the 
boundary-line between Maryland and 
Delaware in 1768. He was one of the few 
members of the provincial councils who 
sympathized with the movement for in¬ 
dependence. Removing to Philadelphia 
in 1793, he established there the first agri¬ 
cultural society in the United States. By 
his experiments upon his estate in Wye 
island, Chesapeake bay, and by his writ¬ 
ings, he was instrumental in diffusing a 
knowledge of the art of husbandry. He 
published Forsyth on Fruit-Trees, with 
Notes; On Rotation of Crops; Essays 
and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Af¬ 
fairs, with Plates; and A View of the 
Courses of Crops in England and Mary¬ 
land. He died Jan. 26, 1804, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 


BOREMAN, ARTHUR INGHRAM, law¬ 
yer, jurist, United States senator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born July 24, 1823, in Waynes- 
burg, Pa. In 1855 he was elected to the 
bouse of delegates of Virginia, and was 
re-elected until 1860. He was also a mem¬ 
ber of the extra session of the legislature 
in 1861, taking an active part against the 
secession movement. He was president of 
the Wheeling convention of 1861, to re¬ 
organize the government of Virginia. He 
was elected a judge of the circuit court, 
and held the office until 1863, when he was 
elected governor of West Virginia. He 
was twice re-elected, and was still in that 
office when elected a senator in congress 
from West Virginia, for the term com¬ 
mencing in 1869, and ending in 1875. In 
1888 he was elected judge of the fifth cir¬ 
cuit of West Virginia; and died April 19, 
1896, while serving in that office. 

BOREMAN, JACOB E., journalist, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Aug. 4, 1831, in Mid¬ 
dletown, W. Va. He was elected city at¬ 
torney of Kansas City, Mo., in 1861; as¬ 
sisted in raising troops for the war: and 
in 1862 was appointed a judge of common 
pleas, and elected to the same by the peo¬ 
ple. He was elected a member of the 
Kansas state legislature in 1869. He sub¬ 
sequently purchased an interest in the 
Kansas City Bulletin and became its edi¬ 
tor. In 1873 he was appointed an associate 
justice of the United States court for the 
territory of Utah. 

BOREN, SAMUEL HAMPSON, pioneer, 
soldier, planter, was born Dec. 3, 1811, 
in Tennessee. In 1838 he removed to the 
republic of Texas; volunteered in 1846, 
and served in the Mexican war with dis¬ 
tinction as a lieutenant of cavalry under 
Gen. Zachary Taylor, and was in the 
battles of Monterey and Buena Vista. As 
a planter and cotton merchant he amassed 
a fortune. He died Sept. 28, 1881, and 
lies buried in Tyler, Texas, where his de¬ 
scendants live. 

BORIE, ADOLPH E., merchant, public 
official, was born in 1809, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. Though not an active politician, he 
was one of the originators, and jnoneyed 
supporters, of the Union league m Phila¬ 
delphia, and was elected vice-president of 
that body. In 1869 he was appointed to 
a seat in the cabinet as secretary of the 
navy. He died Feb. 5, 1880, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

BORLAND, CHARLES, congressman, 
was born in Orange county, N. Y. He 
was a member of the New York assembly 
in 1820; a representative in congress from 
that state from 1821 to 1823; and was 
again elected to the assembly in 1836. 

BORLAND, SOLON, soldier, United 
States senator, was born in Virginia. He 
served in the war with Mexico as a volun¬ 
teer; was a presidential elector in 1844; 
and was a senator in congress from Ar¬ 
kansas from 1848 to 1853. He was ap¬ 
pointed, by President Pierce, minister to 
Central America. He took part in the re¬ 
bellion of 1861 as a brigadier-general, and 
before the state had seceded raised troops 
and captured Fort Smith. He died Jan. 
31, 1864, in Texas. 

BORST, ALBERT, composer, was born 
July 22, 1841, in Liverpool, England. He 
graduated in Zurich, Switzerland. He 
has composed pianoforte and church mu¬ 
sic, and an operetta He is prominent in 
the musical affairs of Philadelphia, Pa. 

BORST, PETER I., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Schoharie county, N. Y., from 1829 to 1831. 
He died Nov. 14, 1848, in Middleburg, 
N. Y. 

BORUM, WILLIAM DRAKE LECH- 
LER, lawyer, philanthropist, was born 


Aug. 4, 1862, in Strasburg, Va. He grad¬ 
uated from the Randolph Macon college, 
and has attained prominence as an able 
lawyer of Baltimore, Md. During 1884-88 
he was journal clerk of the Virginia 
house of delegates. He is the assistant 
counsel to the Denver, Texas and Fort 
Worth Railroad company, and to the Fort 
Worth and Denver Railroad company. 
He devotes much of his time to Christian 
education and the reformation of children. 

BOSLER, CHARLES H., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Nov. 8, 1866, in Dayton, 
Ohio. Since 1873 he has practiced law 
in Dayton, Ohio. He was elected to the 
house of representatives of the seventy- 
first Ohio general assembly as a republi¬ 
can, re-elected to the seventy-second gen¬ 
eral assembly, and served as speaker pro 
tempore of the house. In April, 1896, he 
represented Ohio at the Tennessee centen¬ 
nial exposition of 1897. 

BOSLER, JAMES WILLIAMSON, mer¬ 
chant, was born April 4, 1833, in Hogues- 
town, Pa. He was the organizer and 
president of The Palo Blanco Cattle Co. 
of New Mexico. The election of Presi¬ 
dent Garfield was due to him as much as 
to any other man in the United States, 
the financial part of that campaign being 
organized by him, when it had begun to 
droop. The handsome James W. Bosler 
memorial building, of Dickinson college, 
perpetuates his name. He died Dec. 17, 
1883, in Carlisle, Pa. 

BOSS, JOHN L., congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Rhode 
Island from 1815 to 1819. 

BOSSIER, PETER E., state senator, 
congressman. After serving ten years in 
the state senate, he was elected a member 
of the twenty-eighth congress from that 
state. He died April 24, 1844, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

BOSTWICK, DAVID, educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 8, 1721, in 
New Milford, Conn. He was pastor of the 
church at Jamaica, L. I., from 1745 to 
1756, and of the presbyterian church in 
New York from 1756 till his death. He 
published a sermon, Self Disclaimed, and 
Christ Exalted; a Life of President Da¬ 
vies, prefixed to his sermon on the Death 
of George II.; and a Vindication of In¬ 
fant Baptism. He died Nov. 12, 1763, in 
New York city. 

BOSTWICK, MRS. HELEN LOUISE, 
poet, was born in 1826, in Charleston, N. 
H. She is the author of Buds, Blossoms 
and Berries. 

BOSWICK, WILLIAM L., politician, re¬ 
gent, was born March 15, 1837, in Enfield, 
N. Y. He was elected regent of the uni¬ 
versity of New York in 1876, and served 
the state as canal appraiser from 1879 to 
1882. He was appointed cashier of the 
United States custom house in 1889, which 
position he still holds. 

BOTELER, ALEXANDER R., congress¬ 
man, was born May 16,1815, in Shepherds- 
town, Va. In 1859 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Virginia to the thirty- 
sixth congress. During a part of the re¬ 
bellion he served as a representative in 
the so-called confederate congress; and in 
1875 was appointed a commissioner to the 
centennial exhibition. 

BOTKIN, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, 
lawyer, statesman, was born Oct. 13, 1842, 
in Madison, Wis. He was a graduate of 
the university of Wisconsin, and from the 
law department of the university of Al¬ 
bany. From 1878 to 1885 he was United 
States marshal of Montana; from 1893 
to 1897 was lieutenant-governor of Mon¬ 
tana; and in 1896 was republican candi¬ 
date for governor of that state. 




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BOTKIN, JEREMIAH D., clergyman, 
congressman, was born April 24, 1849, in 
Logan county, Ill. He has filled leading 
pulpits in his conference; served six years 
as presiding elder; was delegate to the 
general conference held in New York city 
in 1888, and to the ecumenical conference 
in Washington, D. C., 1891; was early 
imbued with abolition sentiments and was 
a republican until recent years. He made 
three attempts to enter the army during 
the last year of the war, but being under 
age and size was rejected. He was pro¬ 
hibition candidate for governor of Kan¬ 
sas in 1888; and having early espoused the 
populist cause, that party nominated him 
for congress in the third district in 1894, 
but he was defeated; and was elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a populist on 
the fusion ticket, as congressman at large. 

BOTSFORD, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in April, 1763, in New Haven, 
Conn. He was admitted to the bar in 
1795; was a judge of admiralty in New 
Brunswick in 1802-7; was elected to the 
assembly in 1812, and for every succeeding 
term until 1823, holding the office of 
speaker from 1817 to 1823; and in the 
latter year became judge of the supreme 
court. He died May 8, 1864, in Sackville, 
N. B. 

BOTTA, MRS. ANNE CHARLOTTE 
[LYNCH], author, was born in 1820, in 
Bennington, Vt. She was a well-known 
New York writer whose weekly receptions 
were for many years the nearest approach 
in New York city to a salon. She was the 
author of Handbook of Universal Litera¬ 
ture; Leaves from the Diary of a Re¬ 
cluse; and Poems. She died March 23, 
1891, in New York city. 

BOTTA, VINCENZO, educator, author, 
was born Nov. 11, 1818, in Italy. He was 
an Italian educator who came to the 
United States in 1853, and was for a 
long period a professor of Italian litera¬ 
ture in the university of New York. He 
was the author of The System of Educa¬ 
tion in Piedmont; Life of Cavour; His¬ 
torical Account of Modern Philosophy in 
Italy; and Dante as Philosopher, Patriot, 
and Poet. He died in 1894. 

BOTTOM, NORPHIE ERNEST, journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born Nov. 14, 1869, in Anna, 
Ill. He is the editor and owner of The 
Enterprise, of Ong, Neb.; and his poems 
have been given a place in several stand¬ 
ard works. 

BOTTS, JOHN MINOR, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Sept. 16, 1802, 
in Dumfries, Va. He served in the legis¬ 
lature from 1833 to 
1839, when he was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 
Virginia, and occu¬ 
pied that position 
until 1843. He was 
also elected to the 
thirtieth congress. 
During the rebellion 
he remained faithful 
to the government 
of the United States; 
and was a delegate 
to the Philadelphia loyalists’ convention 
of 1866. He was the author of Letters on 
the Nebraska Question; and The Great 
Rebellion. He died Jan. 7, 1869, in Cul¬ 
peper, Va. 



BOTTY, HENRY C., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Dec. 27, 1854, in New York city. 
He has been engaged in the general prac¬ 
tice of law in all its branches in his native 
city. In 1895 he was appointed chief jus¬ 
tice of the city court of New York. 

BOUCICAULT, DION, playwright, act¬ 
or, was born Dec. 26, 1822, in Ireland. He 
was a successful actor; and among his 
dramatic writings are Rip Van Winkle; 
Led Astray; Colleen Bawn; and many 
other noted plays. He died Sept. 18, 1890, 
in New York city. 

BOUCK, GABRIEL, soldier, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Dec. 16, 
1828, in Fulton, N. Y. He was attorney- 
general of the state of Wisconsin in 1858- 
59; and was a representative in the state 
legislature in 1860. He entered the union 
army in 1861 and rose to the rank of 
colonel. He was a delegate to the demo¬ 
cratic national conventions of 1868 and 
1872; was again a member of the assem¬ 
bly in 1874, and was speaker. He was 
elected a representative from Wisconsin 
to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth con¬ 
gresses. 

BOUCK, JOSEPH, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 
1831 to 1833. 

BOUCK, WILLIAM C., state senator, 
governor, was born in 1786, in Schoharie 
county, N. Y. He was a member of the 
state assembly in 1813, 1815 and 1817; 
state senator in 1820; canal commission¬ 
er from 1821 to 1840; and governor of 
the state from 1843 to 1845. In 1846 he 
was a member of the constitutional con¬ 
vention; and from 1846 to 1849 was as¬ 
sistant treasurer of the United States in 
New York city. He died April 19, 1859, 
in Schoh.arie, N. Y. 

BOUDE, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1803. 

BOUDINOT, ELIAS, philanthropist, 
author, was born May 2, 1740, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a philanthropist of 
Burlington, N. J., 
and the first 
president of the 
American Bible so¬ 
ciety. He was the 
director of the mint 
of Philadelphia i n 
1796-1805. He was 
the author of The 
Second Advent of the 
Messiah; The Age of 
Revelation, a reply 
to Paine; and The 
Star in the West, an 
attempt to identify the American Indians 
with the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. He 
died Oct. 24, 1821, in Burlington. 

BOUGHTON, GEORGE HENRY, artist, 
was born in 1836, in England. His works 
are popular and meet with a ready sale. 
They are marked by simplicity, tender¬ 
ness, and subdued, but not weak, color¬ 
ing. He excels in delineating Puritan life 
in New England. Among his pictures on 
American subjects are The Scarlet Letter; 
Return of the Mayflower; Puritans Go¬ 
ing to Church; and Rose Standish. The 
Testy Governor is in the Corcoran gallery 
at Washington, D. C. 



Boughton, an eminent educator and au¬ 
thor. In 1895 she was one of the Ohio 
delegates to the international convention 
of the Woman’s Christian Temperance 
union, held in London, England. She is 
the author of Memoir of John Motte Ar¬ 
nold (her father); and a volume of 
poems, entitled Stars Through Cypress 
Trees. 


ijuuuii i un, vv luuio, cuutaiui, auinur, 

was born April 17, 1854, in Victor, N. Y. 
In 1873-74 he was a student of the univer- 
s i t y of Illinois; 

_ .ifflP),. taught school i n 

western Illinois for 
three years before 
going to the univer¬ 
sity of Michigan, 
from which institu¬ 
tion he graduated in 
1881. During 1881-82 
he was editor of the 
Ann Arbor Courier; 
in 1886-88 was em¬ 
ployed as writer for 
„. ... . Allen’s History of 

Civilization; and in 1890-92 was joint- 

?oon° r v. 0f the Journal of Pedagogy. In 
1889 he was instructor in the technical 
school of Cincinnati, Ohio; during 1889-91 
filled the chair of history and English 
literature in the Ohio university; in 1891- 
92 was lecturer on English in the univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania; and since 1892 has 
filled the chair of rhetoric and English 
literature in the Ohio university. He is 
the author of Mythology in Art; History 
of Ancient Peoples; and other works 



BOUIC, WILLIAM VEIRS, lawyer, was 
born July 20, 1846, near Rockville, Md. 
He attended the Rockville academy until 
seventeen years of age; then attended the 
Columbian university of Washington 
graduating therefrom in 1868 as A. B., 
afterward receiving the degree of A m’ 
from the same university. He studied law 
under the instruction of his father, the 
late Judge William Veirs Bouic, and since 
his admission to the bar in 1870 has been 
engaged continuously in that profession, 
and is now the vice-president of the 
Maryland Bar association. For seventeen 
years he was mayor of Rockville, Md.; 
chairman of the judicial and congression¬ 
al conventions of the sixth district of 
Maryland; and presidential elector in 


BOULDIN, JAMES W., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Virginia from 
1833 to 1839, having been elected to the 
twenty-third congress in place of his 
brother, T. T. Bouldin, deceased. 

BOULDIN, POWHATAN, journalist, 
author, was born May 24, 1830, in Char¬ 
lotte county, Va. For thirty years he was 
editor and proprietor of The Weekly 
Times of Danville, Va. He is the author 
of Home Reminiscences of John Ran¬ 
dolph; and The Old Trunk, or Sketches 
of Colonial Days, which latter work has 
gone through two editions. 


BOULDIN, THOMAS T., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in Virginia. He 
was a member of congress from Virginia 
from 1829 to 1833. Before entering con¬ 
gress he had been a lawyer of high rank, 
and an able and upright judge, highly re¬ 
spected for his talents and integrity. He 
died Feb. 11, 1834, in Washington, D. C, 


BOTTSFORD, SHELDON E., clergy¬ 
man, poet, was born Nov. 15, 1868, in 
Edinburgh, Mo. For many years he was 
engaged in educational work; then be¬ 
came a lawyer; and subsequently was 
ordained a clergyman. 


BOUGHTON, MARTHA ARNOLD, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 18, 1857, in Corunna, 
Mich. In 1880 she graduated from the 
university of Michigan with the degree of 
Ph. B. She taught school in Detroit, 
Mich., until 1884, when she married Willis 


BOULIGNEY, DOMINIQUE, lawyer. 
United States senator, was born in Louis¬ 
iana. He was a lawyer by profession; 
and was a senator in congress from that 
state from 1824 to 1829. He died March 5, 
1833, in New Orleans, La. 







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BOULIGNEY, JOHN EDWARD, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 5, 1824, in New 
Orleans, La., of creole descent. He was 
elected a representative from Louisiana 
to the thirty-sixth congress; and of the 
representatives of twelve millions of peo¬ 
ple, Jie was the only one who refused to 
abandon his state to the leaders of the 
secession movement, and continued in 
congress until the close of his term. He 
died Feb. 20, 1864, in Washington, D. C. 

BOUND, FRANKLIN, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1829, 
in Milton, Pa. He was elected a state 
senator in 1860, and served three years, 
declining a renomination. He was a del¬ 
egate to the republican gubernatorial con¬ 
vention of the state in 1864; was a dele¬ 
gate to the republican national convention 
of 1868; and in 1884 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Pennsylvania to the forty- 
ninth congress; and was re-elected to 
the fiftieth congress as a republican. 

BOURGEOIS, CHARLES A., planter, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 1, 1853. 
in New Orleans, La. He graduated from 
the Staright university of his native city. 
He is a successful lawyer and planter of 
Killona, La., and since 1879 has repre¬ 
sented the parish of St. Charles in the 
general assembly of the Louisiana state 
legislature. 

BOURKE, JOHN GREGORY, soldier, 
author, was born in 1846, in Pennsylvania. 
He was a United States army officer; and 
the author of The Snake Dance of the 
Moquis of Arizona, a valuable contribu¬ 
tion to ethnology; An Apache Campaign 
in the Sierra Madre; and On the Border 
with Crook. He died in 1896. 

BOURNE, AUGUSTUS O.. soldier, man¬ 
ufacturer, state senator, governor, was 
born Oct. 1, 1834, in Providence, R. I. 
He engaged in the manufacture of india- 
rubber goods at Providence; and in 1867 
founded the National Rubber company, 
of Bristol, R. I., of which he be¬ 
came the executive head. In 1873 he re¬ 
moved to Bristol; in 1876 was elected 
state senator, and was annually re¬ 
elected, without opposition, until 1883, 
when he was elected governor of Rhode 
Island. For many years he was con¬ 
nected with the state militia, serving in 
every capacity from private to lieutenant- 
colonel. For four years he was consul- 
general for Italy. 

BOURNE, BENJAMIN, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 9, 1755, in Bris¬ 
tol, R. I. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from. Rhode Island from 1790 to 
1796, when he resigned, and was appointed 
judge of the United States district court 
of Rhode Island. He died Sept. 17, 1808. 

BOURNE, EDWARD EMERSON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born March 19, 1797, in 
Kennebunk, Maine. He was state’s attor¬ 
ney for York county in 1838 and 1841, and 
judge of the probate court from 1857 till 
1872. He was also for several years presi¬ 
dent of the Maine Historical society. He 
died Sept. 23, 1873, in Kennebunk, Maine. 

BOURNE, GEORGE, clergyman, author, 
was born about 1760, in England. He 
was an ardent and learned controversial¬ 
ist, and wrote works on Romanism and 
slavery. He died in 1845, in New York 
city. 

BOURNE, JONATHAN, capitalist, was 
born March 25, 1811, in Sandwich, Mass. 
Having made some investments in whal¬ 
ing ships, he sold his mercantile business 
and devoted his attention to vessel prop¬ 
erty and whaling industry. At one time 
he was the largest owner of whaling ton¬ 
nage in New Bedford, possibly in the 
United States. He died Aug. 7, 1889. 


BOURNE, RICHARD, missionary, was 
born in England. He acquired a knowl¬ 
edge of the Indian tongue, and in 1670 
was ordained pastor of an Indian church 
at Marshpee. In 1660 he obtained at his 
own expense a deed securing to those 
under his charge the possession of Marsh¬ 
pee. His son Shearjashub, his grandson 
Ezra, and his great-grandson Joseph, had 
charge after him of the settlement at 
Marshpee. He died in 1682, in Sandwich, 
Mass. 

BOURNE, SHEARJASUB, jurist, con¬ 
gressman. He was a graduate of Harvard 
college in 1764; was chief justice of the 
court of common pleas for Suffolk county, 
Mass.; and was a representative in 
congress from 1791 to 1795. He died in 
1806. 

BOUTELL, HENRY SHERMAN, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born in 1856, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was graduated from the 
Northwestern university in 1874; and 
while there he won the oratorical prize 
every year. Next he went to Harvard and 
was graduated in 1876, and was given the 
degree of A. M. in civil and international 
law. He was admitted to the bar in 1879. 
He has been a state legislator, with a good 
record, and has been successful as a law¬ 
yer. 

BOUTELLE, CHARLES ADDISON, 
naval officer, journalist, congressman, 
was born Feb. 9, 1839, in Lincoln county, 
Maine. He early adopted the profession of 
his father, a shipmaster. In 1862 he vol¬ 
unteered and was appointed acting master 
in the United States navy; and he served 
in the north and south Atlantic and west 
gulf squadrons. In 1870 he became man¬ 
aging editor and in 1874 proprietor of the 
Bangor Whig and Courier. He was elected 
representative at large to the forty-eighth 
congress; was elected as representative 
from the fourth district to the forty-ninth, 
fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, 
fifty-fourth, and fifty-fifth congresses as 
a republican. 

BOUTELLE, DE WITT CLINTON, 
artist, was born April 6, 1820, in Troy, N. 
Y. After painting in New York and Phila¬ 
delphia he removed his studio to Bethle¬ 
hem, Pa., where he lived for many years. 
He died Nov. 5, 1884. 

BOUTON, EMILY ST. J., journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in New Canaan, Conn. 
In 1877 she became a member of the edi¬ 
torial staff of the Toledo Blade, a posi¬ 
tion she still continues to occupy. She is 
the author of a volume entitled Health 
and Beauty. 

BOUTON, EUGENE, educator, author, 
was born Dec. 6, 1850, in Jefferson, N. Y. 
He is a successful educator, and has re¬ 
ceived the degrees of A. B., A. M. and 
Ph. D. He has been deputy superintendent 
of public instruction of the state of New 
York; superintendent of schools in va¬ 
rious cities; and is the author of several 
educational works. 

BOUTON, JOHN BELL, author, was 
born March 15, 1830, in Concord, N. H. 
He is the author of Loved and Lost: 
essays; Round the Block, a novel; Treas¬ 
ury of Travel and Adventure; Memoir of 
General Bell; Roundabout to Moscow, 
an Epicurean Journey; and Uncle Sam’s 
Church. 

BOUTON, NATHANIEL, clergyman, 
author, was born June 29, 1797, in Nor¬ 
walk, Conn. He was a state historian of 
New Hampshire. He is best known for 
his edition of ten volumes of Provincial 
Records and for a History of Concord, 
and New Hampshire. He died June 6, 
1878, in Concord, N. H. 


BOUTWELL, GEORGE SEWALL, gov¬ 
ernor, congressman, was born Jan. 28, 
1818, in Brookline, Mass. He was governor 
of the state in 1852-53; secretary of the 
treasury in 1869-73; and was seven years 
a member of the Massachusetts legisla¬ 
ture, in 1842-50. He was a member of the 
thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, and 
forty-first congresses; and during 1873-77 
was a United States senator. He is the 
author of Thoughts on Educational Top¬ 
ics; Manual of the Direct and Excise Tax 
System of the United States; The Tax- 
Payer's Manual; Speeches and Papers re¬ 
lating to the Rebellion; Why I am a Re¬ 
publican: a History of the Republican 
Party; The Lawyer, the Statesman, the 
Soldier; and the Constitution of the 
United States at the end of the First Cen¬ 
tury. 

BOUVE, EDWARD TRACY, author. He 
is the author of Centuries Apart; and 
other works. 

BOUVE, THOMAS TRACY, merchant, 
author, was born Jan. 14, 1815, in Boston, 
Mass. For many years he filled the of¬ 
fices of curator and councillor to the Bos¬ 
ton society of natural history, becoming 
its president in 1870, and continuing as 
such until 1880. He has contributed many 
scientific papers to the proceedings of 
that society, and is the author of a His¬ 
tory of the Boston Society of Natural 
History for the First Half Century of its 
Existence, ending in 1880. 

BOUVET, MARGUERITE, author, was 
born Feb. 14, 1865, in New Orleans, La. 
She is a writer of children’s books of 
notable excellence; and the author of 
Sweet William; Prince Tip-Top; Little 
Marjorie’s Love Story; My Lady; A 
Child of Tuscany; and Pierrette. 

BOUVIER, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1787, in Italy. He was 
a jurist of Philadelphia; and the author 
of Law Dictionary; and Institutes of 
American Law. He died Nov. 18, 1851, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

BOVEE. CHRISTIAN NESTELL, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 22, 1820, in New York 
city. He is an epigrammatic writer, some 
of whose sayings have been much quoted; 
and is the author of Thoughts, Feelings, 
and Fancies; and Intuitions and Sum¬ 
maries of Thought. 

BOVEE, MATTHIAS J., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1835 to 1S37. 

BOWDEN, GEORGE EDWIN, congress¬ 
man, was born July 6, 1852, in Williams¬ 
burg, Va. He was admitted to the bar, 
but never engaged in the practice. He 
was collector of customs for port of Nor¬ 
folk in 1879-85; and was elected to the 
fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

BOWDEN, JOHN, clergyman, educator, 
was born Jan. 7, 1751, in Ireland. He took 
charge of the Episcopal academy at 
Cheshire, Conn., where he remained six 
years. In 1802 he was elected professor 
of moral philosophy and logic in Co¬ 
lumbia college. He died July 31, 1817, 
in Ballston Spa, N. Y. 

BOWDEN, LEMUEL JACKSON, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born Jan 
16, 1815, in Williamsburg, Va. He served 
three sessions in the Virginia legislature; 
was a member of the convention for 
amending the state constitution in 1849; 
and was a presidential elector in 1861. In 
1863 he was elected a senator in congress 
from Virginia. He died Jan. 2, 1864, in 
Washington city. 


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BOWDITCH, CHARLES P., capitalist, 
was born Sept. 30, 1842, in Boston, Mass. 
Haying inherited means from his father, 
he invested them in corporations, and is 
president of The Pepperell Manufactur¬ 
ing Co., and The Laconia Co., which oper¬ 
ate large cotton mills in Biddeford, 
Maine. He is also an owner in The Mer¬ 
rimack Manufacturing Co., The Nashua 
Manufacturing Co., The Salmon Falls 
Manufacturing Co., The American Tele¬ 
phone and Telegraph Co., The Jackson 
Co., and The Massachusetts Hospital Life 
Insurance Co. 

BOWDITCH, HENRY INGERSOLL, 
physician, author, was born Aug 9, 1808 
in Salem, Mass. He was an eminent phy¬ 
sician of Boston; and the author of Life 
of Nathaniel Bowditch for the Young; 
The Young Stethoscopist; and Public Hy¬ 
giene in America. He died in 1892. 

BOWDITCH, HENRY PICKERING, 
soldier, physician, was born April 4, 1840, 
in Boston, Mass. Soon after the begin¬ 
ning of the civil war he was commissioned 
second lieutenant in the first Massachu¬ 
setts cavalry, and rose gradually until he 
attained the rank of major in the fifth 
Massachusetts cavalry, which office he re¬ 
signed in 1865. In 1871 he became as¬ 
sistant professor of physiology at Har¬ 
vard Medical college, and in 1876 was 
elected to the full chair. 

BOWDITCH, JONATHAN INGER¬ 
SOLL, merchant, financier, was born Oct. 
15, 1806, in Salem, Mass. By will he gave 
$10,000 for the maintenance of the Bow¬ 
ditch collection in the Boston library 
and the purchase of works on mathematics 
and astronomy. 

BOWDITCH. NATHANIEL, mathema¬ 
tician, was born March 26, 1773, in Sa¬ 
lem, Mass. He was a trustee of the Bos¬ 
ton Athenaeum, president of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a 
member of the corporation of Harvard 
university. He was twice elected to the 
state executive council of Massachusetts 
and held many offices of trust and honor. 
He was a famous mathematician of Sa¬ 
lem, Mass., whose translation of La 
Place’s Mecanique Celeste, with extensive 
commentary, was his greatest work. The 
New American Navigator was his original 
work of note. He died March 16, 1838, 
in Boston, Mass. 

BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL INGER¬ 
SOLL, conveyancer, author, was born 
Jan. 17, 1805, in Salem, Mass. He became 
noted for accuracy and industry, and it is 
said that scarcely a transfer of real estate 
was made in Boston without his examina¬ 
tion and approval of the title. He wrote 
altogether fifty-five folio volumes of land- 
titles, containing 30,000 pages, besides 
plans and maps. He published Suffolk 
Surnames. This work contains curious 
surnames met with by Mr. Bowditch in 
his business. Its peculiarity is in the au¬ 
thor’s system of classification by the deri¬ 
vation of the names. He died April 16, 
1861, in Brookline, Mass. 

BOWDOIN. JAMES, statesman, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Aug. 8, 1727, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. In 1756 he was state senator 
and councilor; in 1769 was removed by the 
governor from the position of councilor, 
for his opposition to the royal govern¬ 
ment, and was at once elected representa¬ 
tive. In 1785-86 was governor of Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was the author of a volume 
of poems. Bowdoin college, of Brunswick, 
Maine, was named in his honor, but en¬ 
dowed by his son James. He died Nov. 6, 
1790, in Boston. Mass. 


BOWDON, FRANKLIN W., lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Alabama. He 
was a representative in congress from his 
native state from 1846 to 1851. He died 
June 6, 1857, in Henderson, Texas. 

BOWEN, ANDREW JACKSON, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, legislator, was born April 
16, 1845, in Eastford, Conn. For many 
years he was engaged in educational work. 
In 1880 he served as a representative in 
the Connecticut legislature from Eastford; 
and served in the same position in 1895 
from Windham. He is now judge of the 
police court of the city of v» ..umantic, 
where he has an extensive law practice. 

BOWEN, ASA B., physician, surgeon, 
was born April 12, 1842, in Eastford, 

Conn. After a preparatory course in the 
Mexico academy. 
New York, he taught 
several terms in the 
district schools of 
that town. In 1864-65 
he served one year 
on the American 
man-of-war Neptune, 
in the medical de¬ 
partment, nearly all 
the time cruising 
about the West In¬ 
dies. In 1868 he 
graduated from the 
Albany Medical college, then devoted 
some time to clinical study in New 
'tork city; and since 1869 has prac¬ 
ticed his profession in Maquoketa, Iowa. 
He is a member of the Iowa State 
Medical society; of the American Medical 
association; of the National Association 
of Railway Surgeons; and of the Masonic 
fraternity, lodge, chapter and cornman- 
dery. During 1878-92 he was United 
States pension examining surgeon; in 
1872-85 commissioner of insanity for Jack- 
son county: for three years a member of 
me school board; and local surgeon for 
the Chicago and Northwestern railroad. 
He is the author of Typhoid Fever and Its 
Treatment; Management of Compound 
Fractures; Scarlatina ; and other valuable 
medical papers. 

BOWEN, CHRISTOPHER COLUM¬ 
BUS, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 
3, 1832, in Rhode Island. He settled in 
Charleston, S. C., in 1862; was a dele¬ 
gate to the state constitutional convention 
of 1867; and was elected a representative 
from South Carolina to the forueth and 
forty-first congresses. 

BOWEN, ELI, author, was born in Lan¬ 
caster, Pa., in 1824. He was the author 
cf Coal Regions of Pennsylvania; Pic¬ 
torial Sketch Book of Pennsylvania; 
Rambles in the Path of the Iron Horse; 
The Creation of the Earth; United States 
Postoffice System; and Coal and Coal Oil. 
He died about 1886, in Lancaster, Pa. 

BOWEN, FRANCIS, journalist, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Sept. 8, 1811, in 
Charlestown, Mass. He was a professor 
of philosophy at Harvard university for 
many years, and eminent both as philos¬ 
opher and political economist; and for 
eleven years he was the editor of the 
North American Review. He opposed the 
systems of Kant, Fichte, Cousin, Comte, 
and Mill, and was answered by the latter 
in a third edition of his Logic. He was 
the author of Critical Essays in Specu¬ 
lative Philosophy; Modern Philosophy 
from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hart¬ 
mann; Treatise on Logic; American Polit¬ 
ical Economy; Principles of Political 
Economy; A Layman’s Study of the Eng¬ 
lish Bible Considered in rs Literary and 
Secular Aspects: and Gleanings From a 
Literary Life. He died Jan. 22, 1890, in 
Boston, Mass. 


BOWEN, GEORGE THOMAS, chemist, 
was born March 19, 1803, in Providence, 
R. I. The results of his investigations 
were published in 1822 under the titles 
Oji the Electromagnetic Effects of Hare’s 
Calorimeter and On a Mode of Preserving 
in a Permanent Form the Coloring Mat¬ 
ter of Purple Cabbage as a Test for Acids 
and Alkalies. He died Oct. 25, isz8, in 
Nashville, Tenn. 

BOWEN, HELEN M., author, was born 
Dec. 5, 1865, in northern Illinois. She 
received her education in the high 
schools of Chicago and Englewood. She 
has traveled extensively in America and 
abroad, and her Sketches of English 
Places of Note were among her first ef¬ 
forts. Short stories followed this series 
of descriptive articles, including A 
Breath From a Cuban Battlefield; A 
Gypsy Musician; and A Summer Vaca¬ 
tion. Her most representative work is A 
Daughter of Cuba, a story dealing wim 
the great question of Cuban freedom, in¬ 
terwoven with romance. 

BOWEN, HENRY, soldier, farmer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 26, 1841, in Maid¬ 
en Spring, Va. He was educated at Emory 
and Henry college, Va.; entered the con¬ 
federate army at the outbreak of the 
civil war; was promoted to a captaincy; 
and was taken prisoner in 1864 and con¬ 
fined in Fort Delaware until the close of 
the war. He was elected a representative 
in the state legislature in 1869, and re¬ 
elected in 1871; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Virginia to the forty- 
eighth and fiftieth congresses. 

BOWEN, HENRY CHANDLER, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Sept. 11, 1813, in Wood- 
stock, Conn. In 1848 the New York In¬ 
dependent was founded by five men, of 
whom Mr. Bowen was one. Unprofitable 
at first, the property finally came into Mr. 
Bowen’s ownership, and he has been sole 
proprietor now for thirty years or more. 

BOWEN, JAMES, capitalist, soldier, 
was born in 1808 in New York city. He 
was the first president of the Erie rail¬ 
way. He was a member of the New York 
legislature in 1848 and 1849. At the be¬ 
ginning of the civil war he raised six or 
seven regiments, which were formed into 
a brigade, and took command of them, re¬ 
ceiving his commission as brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers in 1862. He died Sept. 
29, 1886, in Hastings-on-Hudson. 

BOWEN, JOHN ELIOT, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1858 in New York. He 
was a New York journalist; and the au¬ 
thor of The Conflict of East and West in 
Egypt; and Songs of Toil, a translation 
from Carmen Sylva. He died in 1890. 

BOWEN, JOHN H., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1813 to 1815. 

BOWEN, OLIVER, naval officer, was 
born in the last century. He was a revo¬ 
lutionary patriot of Augusta, Ga., and 
was successful, in the early days of the 
war, in seizing a large quantity of pow¬ 
der stored on Tybee island, near Savan¬ 
nah, July 10, 1775. He was a member of 
the provincial congress in 1775, and of the 
council of safety. He died August, 1800, 
in Providence, R. I. 

BOWEN, REES T., farmer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 10, 1809, in Taze¬ 
well county, Va. He received an academic 
euucation; and was a farmer and grazier. 
He was a representative in the legislature 
of Virginia in 1863 and 1864; a magis 
trate for several years prior to the war; 
and the presiding justice of the county 
court a portion of the time. He was 
elected to the forty-third congress. 



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BOWEN, MRS. SUE, author, was born 
in 1824 in South Carolina. She was the 
author of Sylvia’s World; Gerald Gray’s 
Wife; Lily; and Busy Moments of an idle 
Woman, a collection of stories. She died 
in 1875, in Charleston, S. C. 

BOWEN, THOMAS M., was born Oct. 
26, 1835, near Burlington, Iowa. He was 
a representative in the state legislature 
in 1856. In 1861 he entered the union 
army as captain; in 1862 was promoted 
to a colonelcy; served throughout the 
war, rising to the rank of brevet brigadier- 
general. And at the close of the war 
he settled in Arkansas. He was president 
of the constitutional convention of is 
and 1868; served four years as a justice of 
the state supreme court; resigned to ac¬ 
cept the appointment of governor of Idaho 
territory in 1871; resigned the governor¬ 
ship and returned to Arkansas, where he 
was defeated for United States senator. 
He removed to Colorado, where he served 
for four years as judge of the Leadville 
district;, was elected a United btates sen¬ 
ator from Colorado, and served during 
1883-89. 

BOWEN, WILLIAM MANUEL PEREZ, 
lawyer, was born Sept 8, 1864, in At¬ 
tleboro, Mass. He received his education 
in the public schools 
of Rhode Island, and 
in 1884 graduated 
from the Brown uni¬ 
versity. He has done 
considerable news¬ 
paper and literary 
work; and his po¬ 
ems have attracted 
favorable attention. 
He is best known in 
athletic circles; is on 
the editorial staff of 
The Triangle, pub¬ 
lished by the Providence Athletic asso¬ 
ciation, of which he is secretary; he has 
been a member of the national committee 
on improvement of highways, and his per¬ 
sistent and arduous labors in advancing 
the adoption of better public roads are 
well appreciated. Colonel Bowen is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity; Rhode 
Island Society of the Sons of the Ameri¬ 
can Revolution; the Massachusetts com- 
mandery of the Loyal Legion; the 
United Train of Artillery; and various 
other fraternal orders. 

BOWER. GUSTAVUS B., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Missouri from 
1843 to 1845. 

BOWER, WILLIAM HORTON, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, congressman, was born June 
6, 1850, in Wilkes county, N. C. In 1876 
he moved to California and remained there 
teaching till the summer of 1880, when 
he returned to his native state. In 1882 
he was elected representative in the leg¬ 
islature for Caldwell county; and in 1884 
was elected to the state senate. In 1885 
he was appointed solicitor of tenth ju¬ 
dical district, and in 1886 was elected for 
four years without opposition. He was 
elected to the fifty-third congress as a 
democrat. 

BOWERS, EATON JACKSON, lawyer, 
legislator, was born June 17, 1865, in Can¬ 
ton, Miss. In 1896 he was elected state 
senator in the Mississippi state legisla¬ 
ture. 

BOWERS, EZRA, journalist, poet, was 
born Sept. 20, 1863, in Bowersville, Ga. 
He is the editor and owner of the Ameri¬ 
can Union, a weekly newspaper which has 
become very popular in the south. He is 
^be author of a number of poems which 
l ave been incorporated in several stan- 
d. rd works. 



BOWERS, HENRY FRANCIS, lawyer, 
was born Aug. 12, 1837, in Baltimore, Md. 
During 1871-75 he was county recorder of 
Clinton county, Iowa; was a member of 
the city council of Clinton; and for three 
years was on the staff of Governor John 
H. Gear. In 1887 he founded the Ameri¬ 
can Protective association, and was its su¬ 
preme president for the first six years 
of its existence. He has attained promi¬ 
nence as an able lawyer, and has an ex¬ 
tensive practice in Clinton, Iowa. 

BOWERS, JOHN M., congressman, was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1813 to 1814. 

BOWERS, STEPHEN, clergyman, sci¬ 
entist, author, was born March 3, 1832, 
in Dearborn county, Ind. He recruited a 
company for the sixty-seventh Indiana 
volunteer infantry in 1862, and did valiant 
service for his country. He was ordained 
in the methodist episcopal church in 1866, 
and attained distinction as a revivalist. 
His early love for science led him to ac¬ 
cept a position in the United States geo¬ 
logical survey, and for many years he was 
connected with the California mineral- 
ogical and geological survey. He has 
written extensively on scientific subjects, 
and is now the editor of the California 
Voice, of Los Angeles. 

BOWERS, WILLIAM WALLACE, sol¬ 
dier, state senator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 20,1834, in Whitestown, N. Y. He en¬ 
listed as a private in company I, first 
Wisconsin cavalry in 1862; and was dis¬ 
charged from the service as second ser¬ 
geant Feb. 22, 1865. He removed to San 
Diego in 1869 and in 1873 was elected a 
member of the California legislature. In 
1874 he was appointed collector of cus¬ 
toms for the San Diego district, and held 
the office for eight years; in 1886 he was 
elected state senator for four years, and 
was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth congresses as a repub¬ 
lican. 

BOWERSOCK, JUSTIN D., manufactur¬ 
er, banker, legislator, was born Sept. 19, 
1842, in Columbiana county, Ohio. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
in the common 
schools of Ohio. He 
has been twice may¬ 
or of Lawrence, 
Kas.; in 1887 was a 
member of the Kan 
sas state house of 
representatives; and 
in 1896 became a 
member of the state 
senate, and served 
with distinction in 
that body. He is one 
of the most prominent business men of the 
west; and is president of the following in¬ 
stitutions: Bowersock Milling company; 
Kansas Water Power company; Lawrence 
Paper company; Lawrence National bank; 
Lawrence Gas and Electric Light com¬ 
pany; Commercial club; and the Consoli¬ 
dated Barb Wire company. 

BOWIE, JAMES, soldier, was born in 
1795 in Elliot Springs, Tenn. He entered 
the army during the Mexican war, and at¬ 
tained the rank of captain. He, with his 
brother, invented the celebrated instru¬ 
ment for more than two generations 
known as the Bowie knife. 

BOWIE, ODEN, farmer, soldier, state 
senator, governor, was born Nov. 10, 1826, 
in Prince George county, Md. He was edu¬ 
cated at St. Mary’s college, Baltimore; 
and his occupation was that of a farmer. 
He was a captain in the Mexican war: fre¬ 
quently served in the assembly and sen¬ 
ate of the state; and was gorernor of 


Maryland from 1867 to 1871. He was pres¬ 
ident of the Baltimore and Potomac rail¬ 
way company from the time of its con¬ 
struction, and was also president of the 
Baltimore City Passenger Railway com¬ 
pany. 

BOWIE, RICHARD I., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born June 23, 1807, in George¬ 
town, D. C. In 1836 and 1837 he was 
elected to the legislature of Maryland, in 
1840 was a delegate to the Harrisburg 
convention, called to nominate a presi¬ 
dent; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1849 to 1853. 

BOWIE, ROBERT, soldier, governor, 
was born in 1750, in Prince George county, 
Md. He was captain in the second bat¬ 
talion of the Maryland Flying artillery in 
1776; and was governor of Maryland from 
1803 to 1805, and from 1811 to 1812. He 
died Jan. 8, 1818, in Nottingham, Md. 

BOWIE, THOMAS F., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born April 7, 1808, in Queen 
Anne, Md. He served as deputy attorney- 
general for Prince George county sixteen 
years; served three terms in the legisla¬ 
ture of Maryland; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Maryland in the thirty- 
fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. He 
died Oct. 30, 1869, in Marlborough, Md. 

BOWIE, WALTER, congressman, was 
born in Maryland. He was a member of 
the Maryland convention of 1776; and was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1802 to 1805. 

BOWKER, RICHARD ROGERS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1848 in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He was the editor for some 
years of the Publishers’ Weekly; and the 
author of Work and Wealth: a Summary 
of Economics; A Primer for Political Ed¬ 
ucation; Economics for the People; The 
Library List; and Electoral Reform. 

BOWLER, METCALF, patriot, was born 
about 1730. He was a delegate from Rhode 
Island to the colonial congress of 1765, 
held in New York. He was speaker of the 
Rhode Island assembly in 1774, when the 
obnoxious royal decree reached Boston 
closing the port and transferring the 
board of customs to Marblehead, and the 
seat of government to Salem. He was 
thus the first to announce, in a public and 
official way, the first united action to¬ 
ward resistance to royal authority. 

BOWLES, ADA CHASTINA, minister, 
was born Aug. 2, 1836, in Gloucester, 
Mass. At the age of twenty-two she was 
married to the Rev. 
B. F. Bowles, a uni- 
versalist clergyman, 
under whose guid¬ 
ance she studied the¬ 
ology. In 1872 Mrs. 
Bowles was licensed 
to preach in Boston, 
and after three years’ 
experience upon the 
platform and pulpit 
was ordained and be¬ 
came pastor of the 
universalist church 
in Easton, Pa. She has ever since been 
actively engaged in church, reform and 
philanthropic work; has been pastor in 
Marlborough, Mass., in Pomona, Cal., 
and is now acting pastor of the univer¬ 
salist church in Kingston, N. H. Since 
1869 she has been actively at work for the 
advancement of woman’s suffrage. In 
1872 she was state lecturer for Massachu¬ 
setts; has been president of several state, 
county and city associations for its ad¬ 
vancement; was a member of the Pacific 
Coast Woman’s Press association, and for 
ten years was secretary of the Woman’s 
ministerial conference. 





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BOWLES, SAMUEL, journalist, was 
born June 8, 1797, in Hartford, Conn. In 
1824 he established The Republican, of 
which he was editor and proprietor. He 
died Sept. 8, 1851, in Springfield, Mass. 

BOWLES, SAMUEL, journalist, author, 
was born Feb. 9, 1826, in Springfield, 
Mass. He was a journalist of Springfield, 
Mass., and editor of the Springfield Re¬ 
publican. He was the author of Across 
the Continent; and Our New West. He 
died Jan. 16, 1878, in Springfield, Mass. 

BOWLES, SAMUEL, journalist, was 
born Oct. 15, 1851, in Springfield, Mass. 
He received his education at Yale college 
and the Berlin university. He is the editor 
and proprietor of the Springfield Repub¬ 
lican, and director of the City Library 
association of Springfield, Mass. 

BOWLES, THOMAS HENRY, under¬ 
writer, was born Oct. 16, 1854, in Flu- 
venna county, Va. He is president of the 
Life Underwriters’ association of Louis¬ 
iana; delegate from Louisiana to the 
Trans-Mississippi congress at Denver, 
Colo.; and has written on the science and 
practice of life insurance. 

BOWLIN, JAMES BUTLER, lawyer, 
congressman, diplomatist, was born in 
1804 in Spottsylvania county, Va. In 1835 
he was elected a member of the legisla¬ 
ture; in 1837 was made district attorney 
for St. Louis; and soon after attorney for 
the Bank of St. Louis. In 1839 he was 
elected judge of the criminal court; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Missouri from 1843 to 1851. In 1854 he was 
appointed minister resident to New Gran¬ 
ada, and in 1858 was appointed commis¬ 
sioner to Paraguay. 

BOWMAN, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, 
soldier, was born May 15, 1803, in Wilkes- 
barre. Pa. In 1826 he was appointed as¬ 
sistant engineer in the construction of the 
defenses and in the improvement of har¬ 
bors and rivers on the Gulf of Mexico. He 
was promoted first lieutenant in 1835, and 
served with distinction through the civil 
war. He died Nov. 11, 1865, in Wilkes- 
barre, Pa. 

BOWMAN, C. A., educator, college pres¬ 
ident, was born Aug. 29, 1861, in Dauphin, 
Pa. This eminent educator and teacher 
of psychology was president of the Fay¬ 
ette seminary, Oregon, and in 1896 be¬ 
came president of the Albright Collegiate 
institute of Myerstown, Pa. 

BOWMAN, CHARLES WESLEY, jour¬ 
nalist, educator, was born Feb. 23, 1840, 
in Cape Girardeau county, Mo. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
in the private and 
public schools of 
Iowa and Missouri. 
He served nearly 
four years as a 
Union soldier during 
the civil war, and 
won a first lieuten¬ 
ant’s and adjutant's 
commission. Nearly 
a quarter of a cen¬ 
tury of his life was 
spent in journalistic 
work, as editor and publisher; and in 
1873 he moved to Colorado, settled in 
Bent county, where he has filled the offices 
of superintendent of public instruction 
and probate judge. For three years he 
was secretary of the Pueblo board of 
trade; and for six years has filled the 
office of county superintendent of public 
schools, with rare ability and satisfaction. 

BOWMAN, ED. MORRIS, musician, was 
born July 18, 1848, in Barnard, Vt. He 
has been president for eight years of 
the American college of musicians; the 
editor of Weitzmann’s Manual of Music 


Theory; and from 1887-89 was conductor 
of the Newark Harmonic society. 

BOWMAN, FRANCIS CASWELL, sol-, 
dier, lawyer, musician, was born Dec. 29, 
1831. in New York city. At the beginning 
of the civil war he joined the seventh 
New York regiment, and subsequently be¬ 
came engaged in the organization and 
service of the United States sanitary com¬ 
mission at Washington. He was an ac¬ 
complished musician, founded the Men¬ 
delssohn Glee club, of New York, and 
was its president for five years. He con¬ 
tributed frequently to periodicals, and for 
seventeen years was musical editor of the 
New York Sun. He died Oct. 29, 1884, in 
New York city. 

BOWMAN, JAMES CLAYTON, educa¬ 
tor, was born June 11, 1862, near Roan 
Mountain, N. C. He received his education 
at the Globe academy, N. C., and at the 
Grant Memorial university of Athens, 
Tenn. He built the Bowman academy of 
Bakersville, N. C., where he is now en¬ 
gaged in educational work. He has been 
superintendent of public instruction, and 
has filled various positions of trust in his 
county and state. 

BOWMAN, OBADIAH, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1851 to 1853. 

BOWMAN, SAMUEL, protestant epis¬ 
copal bishop, was born May 21, 1800, in 
Wilkesbarre, Pa. In 1847 he was elected 
bishop of Indiana, but declined. He was 
chosen assistant bishop of Pennsylvania, 
and consecrated in Christ church, Phila¬ 
delphia in 1858. He died Aug. 3, 1861, 
near Butler, Pa. 

BOWMAN, SELWYN ZADOCK, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born May 
11, 1840, in Charlestown, Mass. He was 
a member of the state house of represen¬ 
tatives in 1870, 1871 and 1875; was city so¬ 
licitor of Somerville, Mass., in 1872 and 
1873; and was a state senator in 1876 and 
1877. He was elected a representative 
from Massachusetts to the forty-sixth and 
forty-seventh congresses. 

BOWMAN, THOMAS, bishop, was born 
July 15, 1817, in Berwick, Pa. He at¬ 
tended the Wilbraham academy, Massa¬ 
chusetts; Cazenovia 
seminary; and grad¬ 
uated from the Dick¬ 
inson college, Penn¬ 
sylvania. During 
1848-58 he was prin¬ 
cipal of the Dickin¬ 
son seminary of Wil¬ 
liamsport, Pa.; dur¬ 
ing 1858-72 was 
president of the De 
Pauw university of 
Greencastle, Ind.; 
and in 1864-65 was 
chaplain to the United States senate. 
Since 1872 the Rt. Rev. Thomas Bowman 
has been bishop of the methodist episco¬ 
pal church. In this office he has attended 
all the conferences in the United States 
and in Europe, India, Japan, China and 
Mexico. 

BOWMAN, THOMAS, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 25, 1848, in Wis- 
casset, Maine. He is a descendant of 
John Bridge, the puritan. He moved to 
Council Bluffs in 1868, where he engaged 
in commercial business; was elected treas¬ 
urer of Pottawattamie county in 1875, and 
re-elected in 1877 and 1879. He was elect¬ 
ed mayor of Council Bluffs in 1882; and 
was appointed postmaster in 1885 and 
served until 1889. He was elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a democrat. He 
was again appointed postmaster of Coun¬ 
cil Bluffs in 1894. 




BOWMAN, THOMAS FRANKLIN, law¬ 
yer, clergyman, was born May 22, 1857, in 
Rutherford county, N. C. He received his 
education at the Cumberland university of 
Lebanon, Tenn. During President Gar¬ 
field’s administration he was appointed 
United States commissioner for middle 
Tennessee. He is entirely a self-made 
man, and has attained an enviable reputa¬ 
tion in the south as an able lawyer and a 
successful minister of the gospel. 

BOWNE, BORDEN PARKER, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 14, 1847, in Leon- 
ardville, N. J. He is a philosophical writer 
and professor of philosophy in Boston 
university; and the author of The Philos¬ 
ophy of Herbert Spencer; Studies in The¬ 
ism; Metaphysics: a Study of First Prin¬ 
ciples; Introduction to Psychological The¬ 
ory; Philosophy of Theism; and Princi¬ 
ples of Ethics. 

BOWNE, SAMUEL S., jurist, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1795. He was a member 
of the New York assembly in 1834; a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1841 to 1843; and in 1857 was judge 
of Otsego county. He died July 15, 1865, 
in Otsego county, N. Y. 

BOWNE, WALTER, grand sachem. He 
represented New York in the senate for 
three successive terms, and was appointed 
mayor by the common council in 1827, 
and continued to hold that office for the 
four succeeding years. He died Aug. 31, 
1846, in New York. 

BOX, CHARLOTTE ANN, poet. She is 
a writer of Greeley, Iowa, and her poems 
have been given a place in several stan¬ 
dard collections. 

BOX, HENRY W., lawyer, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born April 23, 1839, in England. 
He stands among the leading criminal 
lawyers of his state, having for more than 
twenty years given special attention to 
that class of practice. He is a leader in 
philanthropic work; and the president of 
the Buffalo, Bellevue and Lancaster rail¬ 
road. 

BOYCE, JAMES, capitalist, was born 
April 7, 1833, in Belfast, Ireland. He is 
senior member of James Boyce and Co., 
manufacturers of baskets and D and 
long handles for shovels and spades, and 
the owner of large investments in real es¬ 
tate and other prosperous interests, treas¬ 
urer of the Boyce Rivet company, makers 
of rivets and machinists, and the Tap- 
pan Shoe Manufacturing company, and 
president of the National Gas Lines Heat, 
Light and Power company, and the Citi¬ 
zens’ Enterprise company. He has filled 
numerous public positions of honor in 
his city, county and state. 

BOYCE, WILLIAM H., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 28, 1855, in Sussex county, 
Del. He is a successful lawyer of George¬ 
town, Del.; has been president of the 
board of public education, and of the town 
commissioners of that place. In 1897 he 
was appointed secretary of the state of 
Delaware; and in the same year became 
an associate judge of the supreme court 
of Delaware. 

BOYCE, WILLIAM W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 24, 1819, in 

Charleston, S. C. He was a member of 
the legislature of South Carolina in 1842; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1853 to 1860, when he resigned. He took 
part in the rebellion as a member of rhe 
confederate congress. When re-elected 
to the thirty-sixth congress he served as 
a member of the committee on elections, 
and at the time of his leaving congress 
was a member of the committee of thir¬ 
ty-three on the rebellious states. 





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BOYD, ADAM, congressman. He was an 
active supporter of the revolution, and a 
man of strong natural ability. He was a 
representative in congress from New Jer¬ 
sey from 1803 to 1805, and again from 
1808 to 1813. He died in Hackensack, N. J. 

BOYD, ADAM, printer, preacher, was 
born Nov. 25, 1738, in Pennsylvania. He 
served in St. James church, Wilmington, 
N. C„ for several years, and also in 
Natchez, Miss. He published the second 
paper ever published in Wilmington, 
called Cape Fear Mercury. He died in 
1803 in Natchez, Miss. 

BOYD, ALEXANDER, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1813 to 1815. 

BOYD, A. HUNTER, lawyer, jurist, was 
born July 15, 1849, in Winchester, Va. He 
graduated from the law school of the 
Washington and Lee university, and is 
the associate judge of the court of ap¬ 
peals of Maryland. 

BOYD, JAMES E., governor, was born 
Sept. 9, 1834, in Ireland. In 1870 he or¬ 
ganized the Omaha and Northwestern rail¬ 
road, of which he was elected first presi¬ 
dent; in 1881-83 he was president of the 
board of trade; member of the Nebraska 
state legislature; and in 1890 was elected 
governor of Nebraska. 

BOYD, JAMES ROBERT, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born in 1804 in 
Hunter, N. Y. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman, formerly professor of moral 
philosophy at Hamilton college; and the 
author of Elements of Rhetoric and Liter¬ 
ary Criticism; Moral Philosophy; The 
Westminster Shorter Catechism, with 
Analysis; Elements of Logic; Last Days 
of a Christian Philosopher; and Memoir 
of Doddridge. He died Feb. 19, 1890, in 
Geneva, N. Y. 

BOYD, JOHN H., congressman, was 
born in New York. In 1840 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the state assembly from Washing¬ 
ton county; and was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1851 to 1853. 
He died July 2, 1868, in Whitehall, N. Y. 

BOYD, KATE PARKER, artist, was 
horn Oct. 23, 1836, in New York. She 
won a number of medals and prizes in the 
Centennial exposition in Philadelphia; 
and in various state and county exhi¬ 
bitions. She writes and draws for the 
American Garden, of New York city, and 
for other periodicals. 

BOYD, LINN, congressman, was born 
Nov. 22, 1800, in Nashville, Tenn. In 1827 
he was elected to the legislature of that 
state, from Calloway county, serving 
three sessions; and in 1831 was re-elected 
for another session from Trigg county. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1835 to 1837, and from 
1839 to 1855. He also served one term 
as lieutenant-governor of Kentucky. He 
died Dec. 16, 1859, in Paducah, Ky. 

BOYD, SAMUEL STILLMAN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1803 in Portland, 
Maine. In 1826 he graduated from Bow- 
doin college; and 
immediately moved 
west. In 1837 he be¬ 
came a resident of 
Natchez, Miss. He 
was one of the ab¬ 
lest lawyers of Mis¬ 
sissippi, and a great 
jurist. During 1849- 
50 he attended by 
legislative appoint¬ 
ment the famous 
Nashville conven¬ 
tion. He took a 
prominent part in all movements for the 
welfare of his adopted state, and drafted 
many of the legislative bills of that state. 


BOYD, SEMPRONIUS H„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born May 28, 1828, 
in Williamson county, Tenn. In 1861 he 
raised a regiment for the war, and be¬ 
came its commander. In 1862 he was 
elected a representative from Missouri to 
the thirty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-first congress, as a 
republican. 

BOYD, THOMAS A., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 25, 1830, in 
Adams county, Pa. He removed to Illi¬ 
nois in 1856; and entered the union army 
in 1861, and was commissioned captain. 
He was elected a state senator in 1866, 
and re-elected in 1870. He was elected a 
representative from Illinois to the forty- 
fifth and the forty-sixth congresses. 

BOYDEN, EMILY M. B., artist, com¬ 
poser, was born Dec. 14, 1828, in Morris- 
ville, N. Y. As a needle painting artist 
she received first premium at the World’s 
fair at New Orleans; and as a composer, 
many of her pieces are sung in the public 
schools of Chicago, Ill. 

BOYDEN, NATHANIEL, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 16, 1796, in 
Franklin township, Mass. He was elected 
a number of times to the North Carolina 
state legislature; and was in congress as 
a representative from North Carolina 
from 1847 to 1849. In 1868 he was elected 
to the fortieth congress. 

BOYDEN, SETH, inventor, was born 
Nov. 17, 1788, in Foxborough, Mass. He 
engaged in the leather manufacture in 
Newark in 1813, invented a machine for 
splitting leather, and began the manufac¬ 
ture of patent leather in 1819. He made 
the first malleable iron in 1826, perfected 
the first locomotive with the driving-rod 
outside the wheel, and produced the first 
daguerreotype in America. He died March 
31, 1870, in Middleville, N. J. 

BOYER, BENJAMIN M., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 22, 1823, in Mont¬ 
gomery county, Pa. He was district at¬ 
torney for his native county from 1848 
to 1850; and was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth 
and the fortieth congresses as a democrat. 

BOYER, HENRY KLINE, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Feb. 19, 1850. in Evans- 
burg, Pa. He was admitted to practice 
at the Philadelphia bar in 1837, and prac¬ 
ticed with success in the civil courts. 
In 1882 he was elected as a republican 
to the state legislature, securing a re- 
election in 1884 and 1886, and was chosen 
speaker in the session of 1887. He be¬ 
came the choice of republicans and demo¬ 
crats alike for the speakership in the 
session of 1889. 

BOYESEN, HJALMAR HJORTH, was 
born Sept. 23, 1848, in Norway. He was a 
writer of Norwegian birth, long resident 
in New York, and 
a professor in Co¬ 
lumbia college at the 
time of his death. 
He was one of the 
founders of the Au¬ 
thors’ club of New 
York city. His novels 
and sketches are 
pleasantly written, 
but as essays in fic¬ 
tion are not much 
above average merit. 
He was the author 
of Gunnar; A Norseman’s Pilgrimage; 
Tales from Two Hemispheres; Falcon- 
berg; A Daughter of the Philistines; 
Queen Titania; Ilka on the Hill Top and 
Other Stories; Goethe and Schiller, their 
Lives and Works; Literary and Social 
Silhouettes; The Story of Norway, an 


historical work; Social Strugglers; Es¬ 
says on Scandinavian Literature; Essays 
on German Literature; Idylls of Norway 
and Other Poems; the Norseland series 
of books for boys, including: Norseland 
Tales; Boyhood in Norway; The Modern 
Vikings; Against Heavy Odds; and The 
Golden Calf. He died in 1895. 

BOYKIN, JOHN T., physician, surgeon, 
was born April 17, 1869, in Troup county, 
Ga. He received the rudiments of his edu¬ 
cation in the West Point public schools, 
Ga.; and graduated in medicine from the 
Atlanta medical college. He has attained 
success as an eminent physician and sur¬ 
geon of Carrabelle, Fla., where he owns a 
drug store and takes a leading part in 
the public affairs of his county and state. 

BOYLAN, WILL MAI, merchant, poet, 
was born Dec. 4, 1859, in Hardin county, 
Iowa. He is a poet of rare genius and the 
author of a brochure entitled Life’s Pur¬ 
est Gold. Many of his poems have been, 
given a place in standard publications. 

BOYLAND, GEORGE HALSTED, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Jan. 19, 1845, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. During the Franco- 
Prussian war of 1870-71 he served in the 
surgical corps of the French army, and 
was decorated for his services. He was 
the first to introduce salicylic acid made 
from carbolic acid, as an antiseptic, in the 
United States. Dr. Boyland has been a 
frequent contributor to the medical and 
scientific press of this country, and is 
the author of Six Months under the Red 
Cross with the French Army. 

BOYLE, CHARLES E„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 4, 1836, in 
Uniontown, Pa. He was editor of the 
Genius of Liberty newspaper from 1856 
to 1861. He was elected district attorney 
for Fayette county, in 1862, and served 
three years; and was elected a represen¬ 
tative in the state legislature in 1865, and 
re-elected in 1866. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-eighth congress, and was re-elected 
to the forty-ninth congress, as a demo¬ 
crat. 

BOYLE, FRANK E., lawyer, was born 
Aug. 31, 1871, in Dunmore, Pa. After re¬ 
ceiving the rudiments of his education in 
the common schools, he attended the 
Mount St. Mary’s college of Emmettsburg, 
Md.; and has since attained success as a 
prominent lawyer of Scranton, Pa. 

BOYLE, JEREMIAH TILFORD, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, military governor, was born 
May 22, 1818, in Mercer county, Ky. In 
1849, he advocated with great zeal the 
emancipation of the slaves. For merit¬ 
orious conduct on the field in 1862 he 
was promoted brigadier-general. He was 
soon after placed in command of tne 
department of Kentucky, assuming the 
direction of military affairs in the 
state, and during 1862-64 was military 
governor of Kentucky. He was president 
of and organized the original company, 
and under his direction the first street 
railway was built in Louisville, of which 
he was president. He died July 28, 1871, 
in Louisville, Ky. 

BOYLE, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born Oct. 28, 1774, in 
Botetourt county, Va. He was a judge of 
the supreme court of Kentucky, also chief 
justice of the state; and was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Kentucky from 
1803 to 1809, when he was appointed gov¬ 
ernor of Illinois territory. He was a dis¬ 
tinguished and successful lawyer and able 
judge. During the eight years immediate¬ 
ly preceding his death he was judge of 
the United States district court for Ken¬ 
tucky. He died Jan. 28, 1834. in Ken¬ 
tucky. 




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BOYLE, JOHN J., sculptor, was born 
in 1853, in New York city. He studied in 
the art schools of Philadelphia and Paris, 
and is the professor at the academy of 
fine arts at Philadelphia, Pa. 

BOYLE, JOHN W., jurist, was born in 
Pennsylvania. He moved to Dakota, 
where he was appointed an assistant jus¬ 
tice of the United States court for that 
territory. 

BOYLE, JOSEPH, clergyman, was born 
May 10, 1812, in Baltimore, Md. He serv¬ 
ed the principal churches of St. Louis as 
pastor, and as presiding elder and official 
relation to them all. He died May 3, 
1872, in Lexington, Mo. 

BOYLE, JUNIUS J., naval officer, was 
born about 1802 in Maryland. After nine 
years of sea duty on board the frigates 
Delaware and Congress, most of the time 
in the Mediterranean, he served from 1843 
till 1855 on different store-ships and in 
the schooner Bonito of the home squad¬ 
ron. He was commissioned commodore 
in 1862. He died Aug. 11, 1870, in Norfolk, 
Va. 

BOYLE, THOMAS N., soldier, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, was born April 26, 1839, in 
Blairsville, Ind. In his youth he learned 
the printing business, and became editor 
of the democratic whig of Columbus, 
Ohio. He subsequently attended a theo¬ 
logical seminary, and in 1859 became a 
clergyman of the methodist episcopal 
church. During the fall of 1862 he re¬ 
cruited three hundred men, and enlisted 
in the one hundred and fortieth regiment 
Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and was 
elected captain of company H. He has 
received the degrees of D. D. and LL. D.; 
was presiding elder for nine years; twice 
a member of the general conference; a 
member of the Centennial conference in 
1884; and a member of the book com¬ 
mittee of his church for four years. As 
a lecturer he has few equals, being a 
forceful and eloquent speaker. He is a 
member of the Grand Army of the Repub¬ 
lic; and also a high degree mason, being 
grand prelate of the state of Ohio. He 
is now pastor of the West End methodist 
episcopal church of Pittsburg, Pa.; and is 
a constant contributor to current litera¬ 
ture. 

BOYLE, ST. JOHN, railroad president, 
financier, was born Sept. 6, 1847, in Dan¬ 
ville, Ky. In 1883 he became president 
of the Louisville, New Albany and Cory- 
don railway; and is now vice-president 
and treasurer of that company at Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. 

BOYLSTON, JABDIEL, physician, was 
born in 1684 in Brookfield, Mass. He was 
the first one to introduce the practice of 
inoculation for the smallpox, in 1720. He 
published several pamphlets on the sub¬ 
ject of inoculation. He died March 1, 
1766, in Brookline, Mass. 

BOYLSTON, NICHOLAS, merchant, 
was born in 1716 in Boston. Mass. At his 
decease he bequeathed £1,500 to found a 
professorship of rhetoric and oratory at 
Harvard, John Quincy Adams being in¬ 
stalled as the first professor in 1806. He 
died Aug. 18, 1771, in Boston, Mass. 

BOYNTON, ADELBERT W., railroad 
manager, was born Feb. 9, 1852, in Jay, 
N. Y. He was educated at the University 
of Vermont. He entered railway service 
in 1890 as secretary and passenger agent 
of the Keesville, Au Sable Chasm and 
Lake Champlain railroad, at Keesville, 
N. Y., and takes a prominent part in pub¬ 
lic affairs. 


BOYNTON, CHARLES BRANDON, 
clergyman, was born June 12, 1806, in 
Stockbridge, Mass. He took up the study 
of law, and, after filling one or two local 
offices, was elected to the Massachusetts 
legislature. During 1846-77 he was a pres- 
byterian pastor in Cleveland, Ohio, with 
the exception of his terms of service as 
chaplain of the house of representatives 
in the thirty-ninth and fortieth con¬ 
gresses. He died April 27, 1883, in oln- 
cinnati, Ohio. 

BOYNTON, EDWARD CARLISLE, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born about 1825 in Ver¬ 
mont. He is a United States army officer 
and the author of the History of West 
Point. 

BOYNTON, ELIAS, merchant, poet, 
was born Nov. 30,1832, in Peterboro, N.H. 
He received his education in the Peier- 
boro academy, and 
for many years was 
engaged in educa¬ 
tional work. He has 
been a justice of the 
peace; secretary of 
the American Boyn¬ 
ton association; di¬ 
rector of the city 
school board of New 
Lisbon, Wis., where 
he has also filled nu¬ 
merous public of¬ 
fices. He has writ¬ 
ten extensively for the periodical press, 
and his poems have been a valuable ac¬ 
quisition to current literature. 

BOYNTON. HENRY VAN NESS, sol¬ 
dier, was born in Massachusetts. He 
served in the civil war, and attained the 
rank of brigadier-general for gallant and 
meritorious conduct. He is president of 
the Chickamauga park commission. 

BOYNTON, JAMES S., soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born May 7, 1833, in Henry 
county. Georgia, ne attained the rank 
of colonel in the civil war; in 1866 was 
elected judge of county court, and in 
1883 was elected governor of Georgia. 

BOYNTON, JOHN FARNHAM, scien¬ 
tist, inventor, was born Sept. 20, 1811, 
in Groveland, Mass. He has traveled 
through every state in the union lectur¬ 
ing on Geology and Natural History of 
Creation He has invented a malleable 
iron and steel and was the original in¬ 
ventor of the oil-well torpedoes. He died 
Oct. 20, 1890, in Syracuse, N. Y. 

BOYNTON, JULIA B., poet. She is the 
author of a volume of poems entitled 
Lines and Interlines. 

BOYNTON. NATHAN SMITH, founder 
of the Order of the Knights of the Mac¬ 
cabees, was born June 23, 1837, in Port 
Huron, Mich. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
in the primitive dis¬ 
trict schools and in 
1852 passed through 
the high schools at 
Waukegan, Ill. In 
1856 he engaged in 
mercantile business 
in Port Huron, 
Mich.; the following 
year he went to 
Ohio; thence to 
Cincinnati, New Or¬ 
leans and St. Louis, Mo. In 1862 he en¬ 
listed as a private in company C, eighth 
regiment, Michigan cavalry, and was pro¬ 
moted to first lieutenant of company L; 
in 1863 was promoted to captain, and in 
the winter of 1864-65 was commissioned 
major of his regiment, making an honor¬ 
able record as a soldier. Lieutenant 
Boynton, at the head of a detachment of 


one hundred men, cut off the retreat of 
General John Morgan, whom he finally 
captured. In 1868 he was elected to the 
lower house of the Michigan state legis¬ 
lature; in 1874 he was elected mayor of 
Port Huron, receiving the re-election. 
For several years he was editor and own¬ 
er of the Port Huron Press, and since 
1883 has given his time, energy and abil¬ 
ity to buildiDg up the Order of the 
Knights of the Maccabees, of which he is 
past supreme commander and supreme 
record keeper and great commander. 

BOYTON, PAUL, nautical adventurer, 
was born June 29, 184S, in Ireland. He 
has achieved a world-wide reputation for 
his exploits, among which are his cross¬ 
ing the English channel in twenty-four 
hours, on May 28, 1875. 

BOZMAN, JOHN LEEDS, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1757 in Oxford, Md. He 
was a noted Maryland lawyer and was the 
author of a Historical Sketch of the 
Prime Causes of the Revolutionary War; 
and History of Maryland. He died in. 
1823. 

BRABB, MARVIL I., merchant, banker, 
was born Oct. 8, 1847, in Romeo, Mich. 
He is president of the First National 
bank of Romeo, Mich., president of the 
Burt and Brabb Lumber company, and 
prominently identified with various other 
business enterprises. 

BRABSON, REESE B., congressman, 
was born in Tennessee. He was elected 
a representative from that stale to the 
thirty-sixth congress. He died Septem¬ 
ber, 1863, in Tennessee. 

BRACE, CHARLES LORING, clergy¬ 
man, philanthropist, author, was born 
June 19, 1826, in Litchfield, Conn. He 
was a noted clergyman and philanthropist 
of New York city and founded the Chil¬ 
dren’s Aid society, and gave much of his. 
time to philanthropic work. He was the 
author of Norsefolk; Home Life in Ger¬ 
many; The Races of the Old World; Gesta 
Christi; and The Dangerous Classes of 
New York. He died Aug. 11, 1890, in 
Switzerland. 

BRACE, JOHN PEIRCE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 10, 1793, in Litch¬ 
field, Cohn. He was a prominent edu¬ 
cator of Litchfield, Conn., and was the 
author of Lectures to Young Converts; 
Tales of the Devil; The Fawn of the Pale 
Faces, a novel. He died Oct. 18, 1872, in 
Litchfield, Conn. 

BRACE, JONATHAN, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Nov. 12, 1754, in 
Harrington, Conn. He was elected a 
judge of probate, chief judge of the Hart¬ 
ford county court, and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1798 to 1800. He 
was also frequently in the state legisla¬ 
ture, at one time state attorney for Hart¬ 
ford county, and for nine years mayor of 
Hartford. He died Aug. 26, 1837, in 
Hartford, Conn. 

BRACKEN, JOHN, college president, 
bishop. He was a professor of humanity 
in William and Mary college. In 18^ 
he became president, and in 1814 was. 
elected bishop of the Episcopal churcn. 
He died July 15, 1818. 

BRACKENRIDGE, HENRY MARIE, 
jurist, author, was born May 11. 1786. in 
Pittsburg, Pa. He was a noted Florida 
jurist and the author of History of the 
Late War Between the United States and 
Great Britain (1816); Voyage to South 
America; Views of Louisiana; Recollec¬ 
tions of Persons and Places in the West; 
Essay on Trusts and Trustees; and His¬ 
tory of the Western Insurrection. He 
died Jan. 18. 1871, in Pittsburg, Pa. 





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BRACKENRIDGE, HUGH HENRY, 
lawyer, author, was born in lv^s in Scot¬ 
land. He was a Pennsylvania lawyer 
and humorist whose writing enjoyed 
great popularity in the early years of the 
nineteenth century. His principal work 
was Modern Chivalry, or the Adventures 
of Captain Farrago and Teague O’Regan, 
and His Servant, a rough, sharp piece of 
humorous fiction, partaking to some ex¬ 
tent of the nature of an autobiography. 
He died Jan. 25, 1816, in Carlisle, Pa. 

BRACKETT, ALBERT GALLATIN, 
soldier, author, was born Feb. 14, 1829, in 
Cherry Valley, N. Y. He is a United States 
cavalry officer, and the author of General 
Lane's Brigade in Central Mexico; and 
History of the United States Cavalry, 

1854. 

BRACKETT, ANNA CALLENDER, 
author, was born in 1836 in Massachu¬ 
setts. She is an educational writer, and 
the author of The Education of American 
Girls; Woman and the Higher Educa¬ 
tion; and The Technique of Rest. 

BRACKETT, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, 
sculptor, poet, was born cct. 1, 1819, in 
Vassalborough, Maine. He began his ca¬ 
reer in 1838, and has produced portrait 
busts of Washington Allston, Richard 
Henry Dana, Bryant, Longfellow, Rufus 
Choate, Charles Sumner, John Brown, 
William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phil¬ 
lips, General Butler, and others. His 
marble group of the Shipwrecked Mother 
and Child is now the property of the Bos¬ 
ton athenaeum. He is the author of a vol¬ 
ume of poems entitled Twilight Hours. 

BRACKETT, J. Q. A., lawyer, gover¬ 
nor, was born Sept. 6, 1857, in Cambridge, 
Mass. In 1881 he became a member of 
the common council, and two years later 
he became a member of the upper branch 
of the city government. In 1890 and 1891 
he was elected governor of Massachusetts. 

BRACKETT, J. RAYMOND, educator, 
was born April 1, 1854, in Raymond, 
Maine. He attended Bates college, and 
Y'ale college, and has received the de¬ 
grees of B. A., M. A., and Ph. D. For 
many years he was engaged in education¬ 
al work in New England, and since 1884 
has filled the chair of comparative and 
English literature in the university of 
Colorado, of which institution he is dean 
of the college of liberal arts. 

BRACKETT, JOSHUA, physician, was 
born May 5, 1773, in Greenland, N. H. 
He was a zealous patriot, a member of 
the state committee of safety, and during 
the revolution was judge of the New 
Hampshire maritime court. He was a 
founder of the state medical society, and 
its president from 1793 till 1799. He gave 
it 143 volumes of medical works at its 
establishment. He bequeathed a legacy 
to Harvard toward founding a professor¬ 
ship of natural history. He died July 17, 
1802, in .Portsmouth, N. H. 

BRACKETT, WALTER M., artist, was 
born June 14, 1823, in Unity, Maine. He 
gave his attention to portraits and ideal 
heads, and executed likenesses of Charles 
Sumner, Edward Everett, and Oliver 
Wendell Holmes. He also painted por¬ 
traits of the first four secretaries of war, 
for the war department at Washington. 

BRACKLIN, JAMES, business man, 
public official, was born April 28, 1839, in 
Patten, Maine. Since 1858 he has been 
connected with the business and public 
affairs of Menomonee, Wis., excepting 
eight years with the Northwestern Lum¬ 
ber company of Eau Claire. In 1886 he 
1 an for congress on the Democratic ticket. 
T 'e has filled numerous public offices of 
t' ust, and has twice been mayor of Rice 
I ake, Wis. 


BRADBURY, ALBERT WILLIAM, 
soldier, lawyer, was born in 1840 in Ca¬ 
lais, Maine. He served in the civil war 
in Sheridan’s army, and was appointed 
chief of the artillery of the army of the 
Shenandoah. He came to the bar in 1867; 
has been city solicitor of Portland; and 
was appointed U. S. district attorney for 
Maine in 1894. 

BRADBURY, GEORGE, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1770 
in Portland, Maine. From 1806 to 1810 
he was a member of the state legislature, 
and also in 1811 and 1812. In 1812 he was 
chosen to represent the Cumberland dis¬ 
trict, Massachusetts, in congress. Mr. 
Bradbury received the approbation of a 
second election in 1814. After this ser¬ 
vice he returneu to his profession, which 
he pursued to the time of his death. He 
was a state senator in 1822. He died Noy. 
7, 1823, in Portland, Maine. 

BRADBURY, GEORGE LEWIS, sol¬ 
dier, railroad manager, was born March 
10, 1843, in Nova Scotia. He served in 
the army from Massachusetts from 1861 
to 1865, serving from private up to cap¬ 
tain. Since then he has been in tne rail¬ 
road service as conductor, agent, general 
agent, general freight agent, general 
manager, and vice-president. 

BRADBURY, HENRY KNIGHT, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born October, 1827, in 
Hollis, Maine. He has held county and 
town offices, and has represented his 
town in the legislature of Maine for three 
terms. 

BRADBURY, JAMES WARE, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born in 1805 
in York county, Maine. In 1825 he grad¬ 
uated from Bowdoin 
college, and became 
a noted lawyer; and 
was county attorney 
during 1834-38. In 
1844 he was presi¬ 
dential elector; and 
during 1847-53 was 
United States sena¬ 
tor from Maine, 
serving as chair¬ 
man of the commit¬ 
tee on printing. He 
was county attorney 
during 1834-38, and filled many public 
positions of honor in his city, county and 
state. He has been president of the 
Maine Historical society. 

BRADBURY, OSGOOD N., physician, 
state senator, was born Oct. 28, 1828, in 
Norway, Maine. Since 1864 he has prac¬ 
ticed medicine and surgery. During the 
civil war he was surgeon of the United 
States army for two years; and for thir¬ 
teen years United States examining sur¬ 
geon for pensions. He served in the 
Maine state legislature for one year, and 
for two years was a member of the sen¬ 
ate. 

BRADBURY, THEOPHILUS, jurist, 
congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1739, in 
Newburyport, Mass. He was chosen to 
represent the Essex district in congress 
from 1795 to 1797, when he resigned. He 
was a presidential elector in 1801,-and in 
1797 was appointed a judge of the su¬ 
preme court of Massachusetts. He died 
Sept. 6, 1803. 

BRADBURY, WILLIAM BATCHEL- 
DER, musician, was born Oct. 6, 1816, in 
York, Maine. In 1840 he began teaching 
in flew York and Brooklyn, where he 
gained popularity by his free singing- 
schools, and by his concerts, at which the 
performers, all children, sometimes num¬ 
bered 1,000. He died Jan. 7, 1868, in 
Montclair, N. J. 


BRADBURY, V/ILLIAM FROTHING- 
HAM, educator, author, was born May 
17, 1829, in Westminster, Mass. He at¬ 
tended the West¬ 
minster academy, 
and in 1856 gradu¬ 
ated from Amherst 
college. He is one 
of the most promi¬ 
nent educators in 
America, and is now 
the head master in 
the Cambridge Lat¬ 
in school. He is the 
author of Sight 
Arithmetic; and 
several mathemati¬ 
cal text books. He is the inventor and 
patentee of a device for illustrating the 
metric system of weights and measures. 
He was a member of the Cambridge city 
government two years; and for thirty- 
three years has been a member of the 
Handel and Haydn society, and one of its 
directors for more than fifteen years past. 

BRADDOCK, JOHN S., business man, 
state senator, was born Dec. i3, 1844, 
near Mount Vernon, Ohio. He received 
his education in the public schools of his 
native town and county, and graduated 
from the high school of Fredericktown. 
He served with distinction as a represent¬ 
ative in the general assembly of the Ohio 
state legislature; and was subsequently 
a state senator, and served on several im¬ 
portant committees. In 1888 he was a 
candidate for congress from the ninth 
Ohio district. He is a successful real es¬ 
tate dealer, and president of the Brad- 
dock Land and Granite company of Little 
Rock, Ark. His home is still in the place 
of his nativity. 

BRADEN, MRS. EMILY, poet,- was 
born in England. She is a writer of 
Chariton, Iowa; and a constant contrib¬ 
utor of poems to the periodical press of 
the west. 

BRADEN, JOHN, clergyman, college 
president, was born Aug. 18, 1826, in 
New York city. He has attained promi¬ 
nence as a successful clergyman of the 
methodist episcopal church; and is the 
president of the Central Tennessee col¬ 
lege of Nashville. 

BRADFORD, ALDEN, author, was 
born Nov. 19, 1765, in Duxbury, Mass. He 
was secretary of state for Massachusetts 
in 1812-24. He was the author of Eulogy 
on Washington; History of Massachusetts, 
1764-1820; Life of Jonathan Mayhew; 
History of the Federal Government; Bi¬ 
ographical Notices of Distinguished Men 
of Massachusetts; and New England 
Chronology, 1497-1843. He died Oct. 26, 
1843, in Boston, Mass. 

BRADFORD, ALEXANDER WAR- 
FIELD, jurist, author, was born in 1815, 
in Albany, N. Y. He was a New York ju¬ 
rist of prominence. He edited American 
Antiquities, and prepared many volumes 
of legal reports, among which the six 
commonly called Bradford’s Reports have 
become standard authority. He died Nov. 

5, 1867, in New York city. 

BRADFORD, ALLEN A., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born July 23, 1815, 
in Friendship, Maine. In 1852 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the sixth judicial dis¬ 
trict of Iowa, which office he resigned in 

1855. He was a member of the legislative 
council of the territory of Nebraska in 

1856, 1857, and 1858. In 1860 he settled 
in Colorado, and in 1862 he was appoint¬ 
ed judge of the supreme court of that ter¬ 
ritory, which position he held until elect¬ 
ed a delegate from Colorado to the thir¬ 
ty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to 
the forty-first congress as a republican. 









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BRADFORD, AMORY HOWE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1846, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Montclair, N. J., and the author 
of The Pilgrim in Old England; Old 
Wine; New Bottles; Spirit and Life, 
Thought for To-Day; and Heredity and 
Christian Problems. 

BRADFORD, ANDREW SOWLES, 
printer, journalist, was born in 1686, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was the only prin¬ 
ter in Pennsylvania from 1712 to 1723. On 
Dec. 22, 1719, he began the publication of 
the first newspaper printed in the mid¬ 
dle colonies, the American Weekly Mer¬ 
cury. Benjamin Franklin, upon arriving 
in Philadelphia in 1723, found employ¬ 
ment as a compositor in his printing 
office. Andrew Bradford was postmaster 
of Philadelphia in 1732. He kept a book¬ 
store at the sign of the Bible in Second 
street in 1735, and in 1738 removed to 
South Front street. In 1741 he started a 
periodical called the American Magazine. 
He died Nov. 23, 1742. 

BRADFORD, AUGUSTUS W., gover¬ 
nor. was born about 1805, in Maryland. 
In 1862 he was elected governor of that 
state, serving as such until 1866. He died 
March 1, 1881. 

BRADFORD, EDWARD G., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born in Maryland. He adopted 
the profession of the law; settled at Wil¬ 
mington, Del.; and in 1871 was appointed 
United States judge for the district of 
Delaware. 

BRADFORD, ELLEN KNIGHT, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in Ypsilanti, Mich. 
Among the best known of her poems are 
the hymn Over the Line; Wearing of the 
Blue; Elberon; Centennial; and Songs of 
Real Children. 

BRADFORD, GAMALIEL, soldier, ju¬ 
rist, was born Sept. 2, 1731, in Duxbury, 
Mass. He was a descendant of Governor 
William Bradford and son of Judge Gam¬ 
aliel Bradford. He served in the French 
war as captain and rose to the rank of 
major. During the revolutionary war he 
commanded the fourteenth Massachusetts 
regiment of continentals. After the war 
lie was a member of the legislature and a 
judge. He died Jan. 9, 1807, in Duxbury, 
Mass. 

BRADFORD, GAMALIEL, political 
writer, was born Jan. 15, 1831, in Boston, 
Mass. He graduated from Harvard in 
1849. He is the principal advocate for 
the admission of cabinet officers to a seat 
and voice in congress, without the right 
<of voting. 

BRADFORD, IRA B„ lawyer, banker, 
legislator, was born June 24, 1851. in Ful¬ 
ton, Wis. He graduated from the New 
Hampshire conference seminary, and 
attained eminence as an able lawyer of 
Augusta, Wis., of which city he has been 
mayor. In 1880 he was a member of the 
Wisconsin assembly; and the following 
year was made speaker of that body. He 
■can trace his lineage back to the celebra¬ 
ted Gov. Bradford of the Massachusetts 
colony; and the republicans of Chippewa 
Valley have abiding faith in the future of 
Mr. Bradford, and insist that he will yet 
be made governor of Wisconsin. 

BRADFORD. JAMES HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, was born Aug. 24, 1836, in Grafton, 
Vt. He has been chaplain of Garfield 
post, G. A. R., of Washington, D. C., from 
its inception; and has served in the same 
capacity for one year in the department 
of the Potomac. He is director and treas¬ 
urer of the temporary home for soldiers 
and sailors; secretary of the Boys and 
Girls’ Home and Employment association 
and of the Manassas School for Colored 
Youth. 


BRADFORD, JOHN, journalist, state 
legislator, author, was born in 1749, in 
Fauquier county, Va. In 1789 he estab¬ 
lished the Kentucky Gazette; was elected 
several times to the Kentucky state leg¬ 
islature; and was the author of a work 
entitled Notes on Kentucky. He died in 
1830 in Lexington, Ky. 



BRADFORD, JOHN J., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born March 12, 1838, in Cone¬ 
cuh county, Ala. He received his educa¬ 
tion in Green coun¬ 
ty, Miss.; and grad¬ 
uated from the Sa¬ 
lem high school. He 
was educated a mer¬ 
chant; was clerk of 
court in Hancock 
county for eight 
years; and in 1871 
was elected to the 
Mississippi state 
legislature. During 
the war he served as 
a confederate cap¬ 
tain in Johnson’s army. In 1868 he was 
admitted to the bar, and practiced his 
profession for a quarter of a century. For 
ten years he was statistical agent of his 
county for the department of agriculture 
of Washington, D. C. He is now princi¬ 
pally engaged in farming, stock-raising, 
and fruit-growing at Augusta, Miss. 


BRADFORD, JOSEPH M„ naval officer, 
was born Nov. 4, 1824, in Sumner county, 
Tenn. He was fleet captain of the South 
Atlantic blockading squadron from No¬ 
vember, 1863, till June, 1865, during 
which period he saw severe service and 
performed his difficult duties to the satis¬ 
faction of his superior officers. He died 
April 14, 1872, in Norfolk, Va. 


BRADFORD, ROBERT, soldier, was 
born in 1750 in Plymouth, Mass. He 
served through the revolutionary war, 
from Bunker Hill to Yorktowm. and was 
present at many important engagements. 
He held the rank of major and was pre¬ 
sented by Lafayette with a sword for gal¬ 
lantry. He died in 1823 in Belpre, Ohio. 

BRADFORD, TAUL, soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 
20, 1835, in Mardisville, Ala. He prac¬ 
ticed law from the age of twenty, except¬ 
ing during the civil war, when he served 
in the confederate army. In 1871 he was 
elected to the Alabama legislature, and 
served two sessions; and in 1874 was 
elected a representative from Alabama to 
the forty-fourth congress. 

BRADFORD, THOMAS, soldier, prin¬ 
ter, journalist, was born May 4. 1745, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. After leaving the col¬ 
lege of Philadelphia he entered his fath¬ 
er's printing office, and became his part¬ 
ner and associate editor of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Journal, which he transformed into 
the True American in 1801. In 1775 he be¬ 
came captain of a military company in 
Philadelphia, and later was commissary- 
general of the Pennsylvania division of 
the continental army. After the estab¬ 
lishment of the federal government he 
became printer to congress. He was one 
of the founders of the Philosophical so¬ 
ciety. He died May 7, 1838, in Pniladel- 
phia, Pa. 

BRADFORD, THOMAS LINDSLEY, 
physician, author, was born June 6, 1847, 
in Francestown, N. H. He is a physician 
of Philadelphia, and the author of A 
Homeopathic Biography of the United 
States from the years 1825 to 1891; and 
is at present engaged on a Life of Hah¬ 
nemann. 

BRADFORD. WILLIAM, governor^au- 
thor, was born in March. 1588, in Eng¬ 
land. He was governor of the Plymouth 


colony, 1621-57. He left in manuscript a 
History of Plymouth Plantation, the lei¬ 
surely composition of twenty years, 
which was drawn from by Morton, 
Prince, and Hutchinson as a basis for 
their respective histories, and after be¬ 
ing lost for nearly a century was found 
in the library of the bishop of London in 
1855, and published soon after. He was 
the earliest American historian, and his 
work exhibits judicial impartiality, broad 
conceptions, and a direct, vigorous style. 
He died May 9, 1657, in Plymouth, Mass. 

BRADFORD, WILLIAM, soldier, prin¬ 
ter, journalist, author, was born in 1719, 
in New York. In l.ii he went to Eng¬ 
land, and the next year he returned to 
Philadelphia with printing material and 
a library, and on Dec. 2, 1742, issued the 
first number of the Pennsylvania Journal. 
When the revolutionary war began he 
joined the Pennsylvania militia. As a ma¬ 
jor, and afterward a colonel, he fought 
in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. 
He died Sept. 25, 1791, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BRADFORD, WILLIAM, physician, 
United States senator, was born Nov. 4, 
1729, in Plympton, Mass. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Rhode Island committee of cor¬ 
respondence in 1773, was chosen deputy 
governor of Rhode Island the same year, 
and was elected a delegate from Rhode 
Island to the continental congress, but 
never took his seat. In 1793 he was elect¬ 
ed United States senator from Rhode Isl¬ 
and. In 1797 he was chosen president of 
the senate pro tempore, and later in that 
year he resigned his seat. He died July 
6, 1808, in Bristol, R. I. 

BRADFORD, WILLIAM, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 14, 
1755, in Philadelphia, Pa. At the out¬ 
break of the revolution he entered the 
army as major of brigade and became 
lieutenant-colonel. In 1790 he was ap¬ 
pointed attorney-general of the state; 
and in 1791 was commissioned as judge 
of the supreme court, which office he held 
until 1794, when he was appointed at¬ 
torney-general of the United States. In 
1793 he published an Inquiry how Far the 
Punishment of Death is Necessary in 
Pennsylvania, with notes and illustra¬ 
tions; and in the earlier periods of his 
life some of his poetical productions were 
published in the Philadelphia Magazine. 
He died Aug. 23, 1795. 

BRADFORD, WILLIAM, painter, was 
born in 1827, in New Bedford, Mass. He 
began by painting ships at Lynn and in 
sketches of coasts not before visited by 
artists. He died April 25, 1892, in New 
Bedford, Mass. 

BRADISH, LUTHER, statesman, was 
born Sept. 15, 1783, in Cummington, Mass. 
He was a member of the New York as¬ 
sembly in 1827-30, and in 1835-8. He was 
lieutenant-governor in 1829-43; and as¬ 
sistant United States treasurer at New 
York during Fillmore’s administration. 
He died Aug. 30, 1863, in Newport, R. I. 

BRADLEE, CALEB DAVIS, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 24, 1831, in Boston, 
Mass. He was graduated at Harvard, in 
1852, and in 1854 became pastor of the 
Allen street church of Cambridge, where 
he remained for three years. In 1864 he 
took charge of the church of the Redeem¬ 
er, Boston, where he has since remained. 
He has published sermons, notably one 
on the death of Abraham Lincoln, and 
has also contributed prose and verse to 
newspapers and periodicals, especially 
the New England Historical and Genea¬ 
logical Register. He is the author of 
Sermons for the Church; Sermons for All 
Sects; and Life of Starr King. 



140 


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BRADLEY, ALEXANDER, manufac¬ 
turer, was born Oct. 31, 1812, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. In 1845, with his brother 
Charles, he formed the firm of A. Brad¬ 
ley and Co., and entered upon the manu¬ 
facture of stoves; and toward the end of 
his active management produced 21,000 
stoves a year. He finally retired from 
that industry, leaving the business to his 
thirtieth congress. He died Aug. 5, 1847. 
in New York city. 

BRADLEY, JAMES, jurist. He was a 
resident of Indiana; and was appointed 
an associate justice of the United States 
court for the territory of Nebraska. 

BRADLEY, JAMES, soldier, clergy¬ 
man, legislator, author, was born Sept. 
15, 1835, in Missouri. He served through 
the war as a private in Cockrell’s brig¬ 
ade. He is a clergyman and the author 
of a work entitled Confederate Mail Car¬ 
riers, or History of the War in Missouri, 
Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia 
and Tennessee. He has also served with 
distinction as a member of the Missouri 
state legislature. 

BRADLEY, JOHN E., educator, lectur¬ 
er, college president, was born Aug. 8, 
1839, in Lee, Mass. He graduated from 
Williams college in 1865, and at once 
entered the profession of teaching in the 
high schools of Pittsfield, Mass., Albany, 
N. Y„ and Minneapolis. Minn. In 1892 
he became president of the Illinois col¬ 
lege of Jacksonville, Ill.; and has become 
widely known as a speaker and writer 
on educational topics. 

BRADLEY, JOSEPH P., educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born March 14, 1813, in 
Berne, N. Y. He became associate jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of the United 
States in 1870; and was a presidential 
elector in 1868. He died Jan. 22, 1892, in 
Washington, D. C. 

BRADLEY, ALOYSIUS, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, lecturer, was born in 1866, in Ma¬ 
con, Ill. He attended St. Benedict’s col¬ 
lege of Atchison, Kan.; and graduated 
from the college of Ann Arbor, Mich. In 
1891 he founded the Abbey Student, a 
magazine of which he is editor and own¬ 
er. He fills the chair of professor of lit¬ 
erary criticism, belles-lettres and mental 
philosophy, in St. Benedict’s college, of 
which institution he has also served as 
librarian. 

BRADLEY, CHARLES TRUE WORTH, 
manufacturer, banker, was born Jan. 5, 
1818, in Haverhill, Mass. In 1843 he went 
to Milwaukee and established a jobbing 
and manufacturing business, which they 
have continued on the same ground for 
nearly fifty years; and he has been for 
more than twenty years president of the 
Milwaukee national bank. 

BRADLEY, DENIS, R. C. bishop, was 
born in 1846, in Ireland. He was or¬ 
dained in 1871, and stationed at the ca¬ 
thedral in Portland, Maine, where he re¬ 
mained nine years, filling the offices of 
chancellor of the diocese and rector of 
the cathedral. He was then appointed 
pastor of St. Joseph’s church, Manches¬ 
ter, N. H., and in 1884 was consecrated 
bishop of Manchester. 

BRADLEY, EDWARD, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
April, 1808, in East Bloomfield, N. Y. 
When twenty-eight years of age he was 
appointed associate judge of the common 
pleas of his native county; and in 1839 
he removed to Michigan and engaged in 
the practice of law. In 1842 he was elect¬ 
ed to the senate of Michigan; and was 
a representative from that state to the 
son. 


BRADLEY, LEONIDAS HAMALINE, 
lawyer, was born July 23, 1841, in Patriot, 
Ohio. In 1861 he graduated from the 
Ohio Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity, and re¬ 
ceived the degree of 
B. A.; and subse¬ 
quently received the 
degree of A. M. He 
served as a union 
soldier during the 
civil war for three 
years; and was as¬ 
sistant acting adju¬ 
tant-general at Fort 
Pickering, Memphis. 
Tenn. In 1866 he 
was admitted to the bar by the supreme 
court of Illinois. He lived in Springfield, 
Ill., during 1865-86, and there took an ac¬ 
tive part in local affairs; was a member 
of the city council, and assistant United 
States attorney for the southern district 
of Illinois, and was instrumental in 
breaking up the whisky r.ng during 1868- 
73. He then removed to Omaha, Neb., 
where he holds a place in the front ranks 
as an able lawyer. 

BRADLEY, LEWIS R., legislator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Feb. 18, 1805, in Osage 
county, Va. In 1860 he was elected to 
the California state legislature. In 1866 
he removed to Nevada; and in 1870 was 
elected governor of that state, and re¬ 
elected in 1874. 

BRADLEY, LUTHER PRENTICE, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born Dec. 8. 1822, 
in New Haven, Conn. He entered the 
volunteer army Oct. 15, 1861. as lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel fifty-first Illinois infantry. 

BRADLEY, MARY EMILY NEELY, 
author, poet, was born Nov. 29, 1834, in 
Easton, Md. For forty years she resided 
in New York city with her husband, and 
since his death, in 1893, has lived in 
Washington. She has been a frequent 
contributor to the best periodicals of 
the day, and has published many books 
well known in Sunday-school libraries 
for young people; and also a volume of 
poems entitled The Hidden Sweetness. 
Her most notable prose works are: Doug¬ 
lass Farm; Story of a Summer; Brave 
Girls; and Grace’s Visit. 

BRADLEY, NATHAN B., jurist, legis¬ 
lator, state senator, congressman, was 
born May 28, 1831, in Lee, Mass. He was 
elected a justice of the peace three terms; 
a supervisor one term; an alderman three 
terms; and was the first mayor of Bay 
City, Mich., declining a renomination. 
He was elected to the state senate in 1866, 
but declined a renomination; and was 
elected to the forty-third and forty- 
fourth congresses as a republican. 

BRADLEY, NATHANIEL LYMAN, 
manufacturer, was born Dec. 27, 1829, in 
Cheshire, Conn. He has served the city 
as alderman and 
acting mayor; is 
president of the 
Meriden Park com¬ 
pany, and president 
of the Meriden hos¬ 
pital. The Bradley 
and Hubbard Manu¬ 
facturing company, 
from a small con- 
c e r n , employing 
only six workmen, 
has grown to own 
and occupy an im¬ 
mense plant of brick buildings, with a 
floor area of nearly seven acres, employ¬ 
ing about 1,500 operatives, with offices 
and sales rooms in New York. Boston. 
Chicago and Philadelphia. 


BRADLJSY, SAMUEL, lawyer, was 
born in Fryeburg, Maine. In 1820 ne 
graduated from Bowdoin college, and at¬ 
tained success as one of the foremost 
lawyers of New England. During 1824- 
45 he practiced his profession at Hollis„ 
and died in 1849 in Saco, Maine. 

BRADLEY, STEPHEN ROE, soldier, 
lawyer, United States senator, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 20, 1754, in Walling¬ 
ford, Conn. He was the first senator 
from Vermont in the congress of the 
United States, serving from 1791 to 179o, 
and from 1801 to 1813. He died Dec. 9, 
1830, in Walpole, N. H. 

BRADLEY, THOMAS J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 2, 1870, in New 
York city. He taught in the public 
schools of New 
York city from 1887 
until 1891, at the 
same time attending 
the university law 
school, from which 
institution he was 
graduated as a 
bachelor of laws in 
1889. In 1891 he 
was appointed a 
deputy assistant dis¬ 
trict attorney of the 
county of New 
York, which position he held till July, 
1895, when he resigned to attend to ms 
private law practice. He was elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as the regular 
democratic candidate. 

BRADLEY. WARREN IVES, author, 
was born March 20, 1847, in Forestville, 
Conn. He published, under the pen-name 
of Glance Gaylord, books for children. 
These include Boys at Dr. Murray’s; Gil¬ 
bert Starr and his Lessons; Uncle Don¬ 
nie’s Home; Culm Rock, the Story of a 
Year, for which he received a prize of 
$350 over seventy-two competitors; Gay 
Cottage; Gilbert’s Last Summer at Rains- 
ford, and What it Taught; Will Rood’s 
Friendship; After Years; Donald Deane 
and his Cross; Jack Arcombe, the Story 
of a Waif; Miss Patience Hathaway; and 
Mr. Pendleton’s Cup. He died June 15, 
1868, in Forestville, Conn. 

BRADLEY, WILLIAM CZAR, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
23, 1782, in Westminster, Vt. In 1806 and 
1807 he was a representative in the state 
legislature; in 1812, a member of the 
state council; a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1813 to 1815; again in con¬ 
gress from 1823 to 1827; in 1850 again in 
the state legislature; in 1856 a president¬ 
ial elector; and in 1857 a member of the 
state constitutional convention. In 1858 
he took formal leave of the bar, at which 
he had practiced for fifty-four years. He 
died March 3, 1867, in Westminster, Vt. 

BRADLEY, WILLIAM L., manufactur¬ 
er, was born in 1826, in Cheshire, Conn. 
He built a factory in the back bay dis¬ 
trict of Boston, and transacted a business 
in the manufacture of fertilizers the first 
year, which now employs over fifteen 
hundred men and a capital of over $4,- 
000,000. In 1872 Mr. Bradley organized 
the Bradley Fertilizer company. 

BRADLEY, WILLIAM O’CONNELL, 
lawyer, legislator, was born March 18, 
1847, near Lancaster, Ky. In 1875 he was 
nominated for United States senator, and 
received the vote of his party in that 
body; and in 1876 made the race as the 
republican candidate for congress, but 
was defeated. In 1896 he was elected gov¬ 
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BRADSHAW, GEORGE S., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born April 5, 1856, in 
Alamance county, N. C. He received a 
thorough education, and soon attained 
prominence as an eminent lawyer in his 
native state at Greensboro. During 1881- 
83 he served with distinction as a mem¬ 
ber of the North Carolina state legisla¬ 
ture; was clerk of the superior court; 
and during 1883-94 was probate judge. 
He has taken an active part in the pub¬ 
lic affairs of his city, county and state; 
is trustee of the Trinity college of North 
■Carolina, and also of the university of 
North Carolina. He is also a successful 
editor, and has contributed extensively 
to periodical literature. 

BRADSHAW, SAMUEL C., physician, 
congressman, was born June 10, 1809, in 
Plumstead, Pa. He was a representative 
from his native state to the thirty-fourth 
congress. 

BRADSTREET, ALBION GILBERT, 
civil engineer, lawyer, was born Jan. 30, 
1852, in North Bridgton. In 1879 he was 
elected by Bridgton a representative in 
the Maine legislature, and re-elected in 
1880. In 1881 he was appointed acting 
general manager and chief engineer of 
the Tehuantepec Inter-Ocean Railroad 
company, a large and important organi¬ 
zation which is engaged in building a 
railroad in Mexico across the isthmus of 
Tehuantepec. 

BRADSTREET, MRS. ANNE DUDLEY, 
author, was born about 1612 in England. 
She was the first American woman of let¬ 
ters, and called by her contemporaries 
The Tenth Muse. Her prose work in¬ 
cludes a brief autobiographic sketch, Re¬ 
ligious Experiences; Meditations Divine 
and Moral, a series of shrewd, strong 
aphorisms. In her lifetime she was 
known only as a poet, and her verse, the 
bulk of which is considerable, comprises 
elegies, epitaphs. She was the author of 
The Four Monarchies, a rhymed chroni¬ 
cle of ancient history; The Four Ele¬ 
ments; The Four Humors of Man; The 
Four Ages of Man; The Four Seasons of 
the Year; Dialogue between Old England 
and New; and Contemplations. She fol¬ 
lowed artificial models, and her lines re¬ 
flect the grotesque conceits of the time, 
but here and there are gleams of real 
poetic vigor, while in the poem Contem¬ 
plations, the least labored of them all, 
she exhibits true poetic inspiration. She 
died Sept. 16, 1672. 

BRADSTREET, JOHN, soldier, was 
born in 1711, in England. He participa¬ 
ted in the attack on Ticonderoga in 1758, 
after -which he was made full quarter¬ 
master-general with the rank of colonel. 
He captured Fort Frontenac, which he 
razed to the ground, and destroyed such 
stores as could not be removed. He 
served under Amherst in his expedition 
against Ticonderoga and Crown Point in 
1759, received his colonelcy in February, 
1762, and was advanced to the rank of 
major-general in 1772. During Pontiac s 
war he commanded an expedition against 
the western Indians, with whom he nego¬ 
tiated a treaty of peace in Detroit in 
1764. He died Sept. 25, 1774, in New 
York city. 

BRADSTREET, SIMON, colonial gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1603 in England. He 
emigrated to Massachusetts in 1630, and 
in 1673 was chosen deputy governor, and 
held this position until 1679, when he 
was appointed governor. He resigned 
this office in 1686, but was chosen gover¬ 
nor again three years later, and served 
in that capacity until 1692. He died 
Itfarch 27, 1697. in Salem, Mass. 


BRADWELL, MYRA, lawyer, editor, 
was born Feb. 12. 1831, in Manchester, 
Vt. In 1852 she studied law under the in¬ 
struction of her husband, Judge James B. 
Bradwell, whose father was one of the 
leading pioneers of Illinois. She was the 
first woman in America to ask for admis¬ 
sion to the bar. About 1870 she founded 
the Legal News, the first weekly legal pa¬ 
per published in the western states. She 
died in 1895, in Chicago, Ill. 

BRADY, HUGH, soldier, was born in 
July, 1768, in Northumberland county, 
Pa. He was brevetted brigadier-general 
in 1822, and major-general in 1848. He 
distinguished himself at Lundy’s Lane, 
at Chippewa, and at Niagara, and was 
wounded in the two latter engagements. 
Stationed at Detroit during the patriot 
disturbances in Canada, he contributed 
greatly to the preservation of peace on 
the frontier. He died April 15, 1851, in 
Detroit, Mich. 

BRADY, JAMES D., soldier, jurist, 
congressman, was born April 3, 1843, in 
Portsmouth, Ya. He served throughout 
the civil war, rising through all the in¬ 
termediate grades, to the rank of colonel. 
In 1880 and 1884 he was a delegate to the 
republican national conventions; and has 
been a prominent member of all state re¬ 
publican conventions in Virginia since 
the close of the war. In 1884 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Virginia to the 
forty-ninth congress. 

BRADY, JAMES T., lawyer, was born 
April 9, 1815, in New York city. He was 
appointed district attorney in 1843 for 
New r York, and in 1845 corporation attor¬ 
ney. He died Feb. 9, 1869, in New York 
city. 

BRADY, JASPER E., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in New Jersey. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1847 to 1849.» He died Jan. 
23, 1870, in Washington, D. C. 

BRADY, JOHN R, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1821, in New r York city. He en¬ 
gaged in the practice of law in New 
York city, and in 1855 was elected judge 
of the court of common pleas. In 1869 
he was elected to the supreme bench, and 
in 1877 assigned to be a general term 
judge, which office he held till the time 
of his death. He died March 16, 1891, in 
New York city. 

BRADY, THOMAS J., soldier, lawyer, 
journalist, public official, was born Feb. 
12, 1839, in Muncie, Ind. He received a 
common school education: taught school 
for several years in Muncie and vicinity; 
studied law, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1860. He entered the union army in 
1861 as captain; was promoted major in 
1862, and to a colonelcy in 1863; served 
throughout the civil war, and was mus¬ 
tered out of service with the last regi¬ 
ment, in 1865, as brevet brigadier-general, 
for long and meritorious service. He re¬ 
sumed the practice of law at Muncie, 
Ind., and became the publisher of the 
Muncie Weekly Times. In 1870 he was 
appointed United States consul at St. 
Thomas, West Indies. In 1874 he was 
made chairman of the republican state 
central committee of Indiana; in 1875 was 
appointed supervisor of internal revenue; 
and in 1876 was appointed second assist¬ 
ant postmaster-general of the United 
States, and served until 1881, when he re¬ 
signed. 

BRAGDON, CHARLES CUSHMAN, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, was born Sept. 6, 1847, 
in Auburn, N. Y. He has been a success¬ 
ful educator, and is no\y principal of the 
Lasell Seminary for Young Women of 


Auburndale, Mass. This eminent clergy¬ 
man has traveled extensively in Europe; 
has made ten trips to Europe, Asia and 
Africa; and during 1890-91 traveled 
around the world. 

BRAGG, BRAXTON, soldier, was born 
March 22, 1817, in Warren county, N. 
C. He was present at the battle of 
Monterey, Sept. 21-23, and was bre¬ 
vetted major for gallant conduct there. 
In 1847 he was brevetted lieutenant- 
colonel for gallantry at the battle of 
Buena Vista. From 1848 till 1855 he was 
engaged in frontier service at Jefferson 
Barracks, Mo., Fort Gibson, and Washita. 
When the civil war began he was ap¬ 
pointed brigadier-general in the confeder¬ 
ate army in 1861, and placed in command 
at Pensacola, Fla. In February, 1862, he 
was promoted major-general and ordered 
to join the army of the Mississippi. He 
took part in the battle of Shiloh, April 
6-7, and was promoted general in place 
of A. S. Johnston, killed. After t'he evac¬ 
uation of Corinth he succeeded General 
Beauregard in command of the depart¬ 
ment. In August he led a formidable 
force, 45,000 strong, into Kentucky. He 
died Sept. 27, 1876, in Galveston, Tex. 

BRAGG, EDWARD S., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1827, in 
Unadilla, N. Y. He received a collegiate 
education; studied law and was admitted 
to the bar in 1848. He moved to Fond 
du Lac, Wis., commenced the practice of 
law in 1850, and was elected district at¬ 
torney in 1854. He served in the union 
army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the 
rank of brigadier-general. He was ap¬ 
pointed postmaster of Fond du Lac in 
1866; was a state senator in 1868 and 
1869; and was a delegate to the democrat¬ 
ic national convention of 1872. He was 
elected a representative from Wisconsin 
to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-sev¬ 
enth and forty-ninth congresses. 

BRAGG, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in North Carolina. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Alabama 
from 1851 to 1853. 

BRAGG, THOMAS, lawyer, United 
States senator, governor, was born Nov. 
9, 1810, in Warrenton, N. C. He was 
chiefly educated at the military academy 
at Middletown, Conn. In 1842 he was 
elected to the assembly of his state; and 
in 1853 was a presidential elector. He 
was governor of North Carolina for two 
terms, from 1855 to 1859; and was elected 
a senator in congress for the term com¬ 
mencing in 1859. He died Jan. 21, 1872, 
in Raleigh. 

BRAIN, EDWIN BELL, builder, poet, 
was born March 27, 1853, in London, Eng¬ 
land. He has served as county commis¬ 
sioner, and is now county treasurer of 
Rock county, Neb. Besides filling various 
offices of trust in his county and state, 
he is a successful builder and farmer; 
and has contributed both prose and verse 
for the past twenty years to the periodi¬ 
cal press. 

BRAINARD, DANIEL, surgeon, lectur¬ 
er, author, was born May 15, 1812, in 
Whitesborough, N. Y. He was the founder 
of Rush Medical college of Chicago, and 
occupied its chair of surgery from 1843 till 
his death. Under Presidents Pierce and 
Buchanan he was surgeon of the marine 
hospital, Chicago. He was a correspond¬ 
ing member of the societies of surgery of 
Paris and Geneva, and published a work 
on rattlesnake bites; Ununited Fractures 
and Deformities, the American medical 
association prize essay for 1854; and 
many articles in the Chicago Medical 
Journal. He died Oct. 10, 1866, in Chica¬ 
go, Ill. 


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BRAINARD, DAVID LEGG, soldier, 
explorer, was born Dec. 21, 1856, in Nor¬ 
way, N. Y. He participated in the In¬ 
dian campaigns under General Miles, and 
was wounded in the face in action with 
the Sioux at Muddy Creek, Montana, May 
7, 1877. In the following August he was 
one of the four men selected to act as 
escort to General Sherman and party in 
their tour through the national park. In 
July, 1879, he was promoted sergeant, 
and in May, 1880, recommended for de¬ 
tail on the Howgate polar expedition. 

BRAINARD, JOHN, clergyman, was 
born June 4, 1830, in Hartford, Conn. He 
has filled various pastorates in Connec¬ 
ticut and Maryland; and in 1863 accepted 
the rectorship at St. Peter’s of Auburn, 
N. Y. 

BRAINARD, JOHN GARDINER CAL¬ 
KINS, journalist, poet, was born Oct. 21, 
1796, in New London, Conn. He was for 
a time editor of the Connecticut Mirror, 
and produced a volume of poems. His 
Falls of Niagara, written while the prin¬ 
ter’s boy was waiting for his regular con¬ 
tribution to the paper, is generally con¬ 
sidered the best short poem written on 
that subject, and is one of the gems of 
American literature. He died Sept. 26, 
1828, in New London, Conn. 

BRAINE, DANIEL LAWRENCE, naval 
officer, was born May 18, 1829, in New 
York city. In 1861 he attacked the con¬ 
federate gunboats above Cape Hatteras 
and dispersed two regiments of infantry, 
sinking two barges filled with soldiers, 
and rescuing the twentieth Indiana regi¬ 
ment, who were cut off from Hatteras in¬ 
let by the enemy. On July 15, 1862, he 
received his commission as lieutenant- 
commander, and from that time till 1864 
was in numerous engagements. He be¬ 
came captain in December, 1874, and 
commodore in 1885. 

BRAINERD, DAVID, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born March 20, 1718, in Had- 
dam, Conn. He was a famous mission¬ 
ary among the Indians of New England. 
Selections from his journals have been 
printed, entitled Miriabilia Dei apud In- 
dicos; and Divine Grace Displayed. He 
died Oct. 9, 1747, in Northampton, Conn. 

BRAINERD, LAWRENCE, business 
man, United States senator, was born in 
1794. He was a senator in congress from 
Vermont during the session of 1854 and 
1855; and was for many years a leading 
business man in the town of St. Albans, 
Vt. He died May 9, 1870, in St. Albans, 
Vt. 

BRAINERD, SAMUEL M., congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 13, 1842, in Erie 
county, Pa. He received an academical 
education; was admitted to the bar in 
1869; and has since practiced his profes¬ 
sion in Erie, Pa. In 1872 he was elected 
district attorney of his county; and was 
elected to the forty-eighth congress as a 
republican. 

BRAINERD, THOMAS, clergyman, 
journalist, was born June 17, 1804, in 
Leyden, N. Y. He took charge of the 
Fourth presbyterian church in 1831. From 
1833 till 1836 he edited the Cincinnati 
Journal and the Youth’s Magazine, and 
also assisted in editing the Presbyterian 
Quarterly Review. He died Aug. 21, 1866, 
in Scranton, Pa. 

BRAKE, HEZEKIAH, farmer, author, 
was born Dec. 4, 1814, in England; is the 
author of a work entitled On Two Conti¬ 
nents. He has had a varied career; has 
filled various offices of trust in Council 
Grove, Kan., where he has attained suc¬ 
cess in various enterprises, and has al¬ 
ways been interested in educational work. 


BRAMAN, BENJAMIN, microscopist, 
journalist, was born Nov. 23, 1831, in 
Norton, Mass. During 1863-64 he was 
teaching at Astoria, and after that date 
taught drawing in the Cooper union and 
elsewhere in New York. He is a skillful 
microscopist, and from its first issue has 
edited the Journal of the New York Mi¬ 
croscopical Society, of which organization 
he has some time been president. 

BRAMLETTE, THOMAS E., soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Jan. 3, 
1817, in Cumberland county, Ky. He was 
appointed attorney for the common¬ 
wealth in 1848; resigned this position in 
two years, and resumed the practice of 
law. In 1856 he was elected judge of the 
sixth judicial district; and in 1861 re¬ 
signed this office to enter the federal 
army as colonel of the third Kentucky in¬ 
fantry. He was appointed United States 
district attorney, and resigned to accept 
the nomination for governor; and was 
elected, in 1863, for four years. He died 
Jan. 12, 1875, in Louisville, Ky. 

BRANCH, JOHN, lawyer, United States 
senator, governor, was born Nov. 4, 1782, 
in Halifax county, N. C. In 1811 he was 
elected a state senator; re-elected every 
year until 1817, and was then elected 
governor of the state. He again entered 
the state senate in 1822; served in the 
United States senate from 1823 to 1829; 
and was in the latter year appointed sec¬ 
retary of the navy. In 1831 he was elected 
to a seat in congress as representative 
from North Carolina; and in 1834 was 
again elected to the state senate. In 1835 
he was elected a member of the conven¬ 
tion to revise the state constitution; and 
in 1843 was appointed governor of the 
territory of Florida. He died Jan. 4, 1863, 
in Enfield, N. C. 

BRANCH, LAWRENCE O’BRIEN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 
7, 1820, in Halifax county, N. C. He was 
elected a representative from North Caro¬ 
lina to the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and 
thirty-sixth congresses. He took part in 
the great rebellion as a general, and was 
killed at the battle of Sharpsburg, Sept. 
17, 1862. 

BRANCH, MRS. MARY LYDIA BOL- 
LES, author, poet, was born June 13, 
1840, in New London, Conn. She is best 
known by her poem, The Petrified Fern, 
and is the author of The Kanter Girls, 
which is a story for young people. 

BRANCH, WILLIAM A. B., soldier, 
congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1847, in 
Tallahassee, Fla. He entered the Vir¬ 
ginia Military institute, remaining there 
a few months, when he joined the con¬ 
federate army; served as a courier on 
staff of general R. F. Hoke; and surren¬ 
dered with General Johnston’s army in 
1865. He studied law under governor 
Thomas Bragg, of North Carolina, but 
never practiced. At the age of twenty 
he took charge of his landed estate in 
Beaufort county, N. C., upon which he 
has lived ever since, engaged in agricul¬ 
ture. He was elected to the fifty-second 
and re-elected to the fifty-third congress 
as a democrat. 

BRANCH, WILLIAM ALPHEUS, edu¬ 
cator, was born Aug. 9, 1861, in Jefferson¬ 
ville, Ill. In 1888 he was elected princi¬ 
pal of schools in Menno, S. D.; at the end 
of three years was appointed county su¬ 
perintendent of schools, and in 1893 was 
elected to the same position. He has 
been most successful in his teachers’ in¬ 
stitutes, and is one of the foremost edu¬ 
cators in South Dakota. 

BRAND, JAMES, soldier, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 26, 1834, in Three 
Rivers, Canada. He served as a color- 


bearer of the twenty-seventh regiment 
Connecticut volunteer infantry; and 
fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville 
and Gettysburg. For four years he filled a 
pastorate in the Congregational cnurch 
at Danvers, Mass.; and since 18<3 has 
been pastor of the First Congregational 
church of Oberlin, Ohio. He is the author 
of two books entitled Sermons from a 
College Pulpit, and Beasts of Ephesus. 

BRANDEBURY, L. G., jurist, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He was appointed from 
that state chief justice of the Unued 
States court for the territory of Utah. 

BRANDEGEE, AUGUSTUS, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born July 15, 
1828, in New London, Conn. He was 
elected in 1854, 1858, 1859 and 1861, a mem¬ 
ber of the Connecticut legislature; and 
was chosen speaker in the latter year. 
In 1861 he was a presidential elector; and 
was elected a representative from Con¬ 
necticut to the thirty-eighth congress. 
He was a delegate to the Baltimore con¬ 
vention of 1864; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-ninth congress. 

BRANDEIS, FREDERICK, pianist, 
composer, was born July 5, 1835, in Vi¬ 
enna, Austria. In 1880 he became organ¬ 
ist of a synagogue in New York, and in 
1886 organist of St. Peter’s and St. Paul’s 
Roman Catholic church. His composi¬ 
tions include an introduction and cap- 
riccio; grand march and numerous others. 

BRANDON, GEORGE C., statesman. 
He was governor of Mississippi from 1827 
to 1831. 

BRANDRETH, BENJAMIN, manufac¬ 
turer, state senator, was born June 22, 
1808, in England. After coming to Amer¬ 
ica he graduated from the Eclectic Med¬ 
ical college of New York city. In 1857, 
he built the Brandreth house of New 
York city. The secret of the enormous 
sale of the Brandreth medicines lay in 
the fact that during the first fifteen years 
or more, he expended almost his entire 
profits of $150,000 a year in advertising. 
He was elected to the state senate in 
1849, and served four years. He was fre¬ 
quently a delegate to the conventions of 
his party. He died Feb. 19, 1880, in Sing 
Sing, N. Y. 

BRANDRETH, WILLIAM, capitalist, 
was born Oct. 22, 1842, in Sing Sing. N. Y. 

In 1868 he became interested in real es¬ 
tate, and established the firm of Howland 
and Brandreth of Sing Sing, N. Y. He 
was interested in the manufacturing of 
iron and steel directly from the ore by the 
action of flame, at a cost less than that 
of the ordinary methods of production, 
which led him to establish the Carbon 
Iron company. 

BRANDT, CARL LUDWIG, soldier, ar¬ 
tist, was born Sept. 22, lsal, in Hamburg, 
Germany. He served in the war of 1848- 
’50, between Germany and Denmark, and 
came to the United States in 1852. 
Among his works are A Dish of Alpine 
Strawberries; The Fortune Teller; Re¬ 
turn from the Alps; Monte Rosa at Sun¬ 
rise; Bay of Naples During Eruption of 
Vesuvius in 1867; Etna from Taurinino, 
Sicily; Resignation; and The Golden 
Treasures of Mexico. 

BRANDT, JOHN BAUGHMAN, soldier, 
clergyman, was born Aug. 29, 1838, near 
Lancaster, Ohio. For four years he 
served in the union army, and was pro¬ 
moted to captain. In 1886 he was or¬ 
dained a clergyman in the presbyterian 
church, and has filled pastorates princi¬ 
pally in Indianapolis and St. Louis. He 
has organized and built a number of 
churches, and is the founder of the gen¬ 
eral secretaries’ conference. 


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BRANNAN, SAMUEL, pioneer, journal¬ 
ist, was born in 1819, in Saco, Me. He was 
an elder in that church, and arrived in 
San Francisco in July, 1846, as leader of 
the Mormon colony sent out in the ship 
Brooklyn from New York. He began the 
publication of a newspaper, the Star, the 
second in California and the first pub¬ 
lished in the San Francisco district. 

BRANNAN, WILLIAM PENN, painter, 
was born in 1825 in Ohio. He was a 
portrait painter of Cincinnati, and the 
author of Vagaries of Vandyke Brown; 
and The Harp of a Thousand Strings, or 
Laughter for a Life Time. He died Aug. 
9, 1866, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

BRANNON, JOHN MILTON, soldier, 
was born in 1819 in Washington, D. C. 
He received the brevet of major-general 
of volunteers in 1865, and on March 13, 
1865, was brevetted brigadier-general in 
the regular army, and major-general for 
gallant and meritorious services during 
the war. 

BRANSFORD, CLIFTON WOOD, jour¬ 
nalist, orator, banker, was born Jan. 24, 
1858, in Owensboro, Ky. He attended 
Bransford institute (which was founded 
by his father) and graduated in 1887 from 
the Cumberland university of Lebanon, 
Tenn. In 1877-78 he attended the Louis¬ 
ville Law school; but subsequently aban¬ 
doned law to enter journalism; and for 
ten years he was editor of The Messenger 
of Owensboro, Ky. Since 1887 he has 
been successfully engaged in the milling 
business, and is the proprietor of the 
Bransford Mills and Elevator. He was 
instrumental in organizing the Owens¬ 
boro Banking company, of which he has 
always been president. He is also prom¬ 
inently identified with various business 
enterprises of his city; and was unani¬ 
mously chosen elector on the Bryan and 
Sewall ticket, but resigned before elec¬ 
tion. He has also attained prominence 
as an eloquent orator. 

BRANT, DAVID, journalist, legislator, 
was born July 6, 1850, in Shelbyville, Ind. 
He received his education in the state 
university of Iowa; and for twenty years 
has been a successful editorial writer and 
press correspondent. He served in the 
Iowa legislature in the regular and spe¬ 
cial sessions of the twenty-sixth general 
assembly, and took an active part in the 
deliberations of that body. 

BRANTLEY, WILLIAM G., lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 
18, 1860, in Blackshear, Ga. He repre¬ 
sented Pierce county in the Georgia house 
of representatives in 1884-85; represented 
third senatorial district in Georgia sen¬ 
ate in 1886-87; was elected solicitor-gen¬ 
eral of Brunswick circuit in 1888 for a 
term of four years, and re-elected in 1892 
for another term of four years. He was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

BRASHER, ABRAHAM, soldier, poet, 
was born Dec. 2, 1734, in New York city. 
He was one of the most active associates 
of the liberty boys of his native city, and 
wrote many of the popular ballads of the 
revolutionary period. Among his poet¬ 
ical productions were Another New 
Year’s Address, and the General’s Trip to 
Morristown, which were favorites in the 
American camp. He died in 1782. 

BRASWELL, THOMAS JEFFERSON, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 28, 1852, 
in DeKalb county, Tenn. In 1881 he be¬ 
came a member of the Missouri state 
legislature, and received the re-election 
the following year. During 1888-94 he 
was prosecuting attorney of Oregon coun¬ 
ty, Mo., and has attained prominence as 
one of the foremost lawyers of Missouri. 


BRATTLE, THOMAS, merchant, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1657, in Massachusetts. 
He was a once famous Boston merchant, 
and the author of Eclipse of the Sun and 
Moon Observed in New England; and 
Lunar Eclipse in New England, 1707. He 
died May 18, 1713, in Boston, Mass. 

BRATTLE, WILLIAM, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1763. He was pastor 
of the church in Cambridge, having been 
previously a tutor in Harvard college. 
He published a treatise on logic entitled 
Compendium Logicae Secundum Prin- 
cipia D. Renati Cartesii, which was long 
used as a recitation book in the college. 
He died Feb. 15, 1717. 

BRATTON, JOHi'., soldier, physician, 
congressman, was born March 7, 1831, in 
Winnsboro, S. C. He enlisted in the con¬ 
federate army in 1861 and served through¬ 
out the war, attaining the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general. He was a member of the 
state constitutional convention in 1865; 
was a member of the state senate in 1866; 
was chairman of the South Carolina dele¬ 
gation to the democratic national conven¬ 
tion in 1876, and a member of the demo¬ 
cratic state committee the same year. He 
was a delegate from South Carolina to the 
democratic national convention of 1880. 
In 1881 he was elected, by the legislature, 
comptroller-general of the state of South 
Carolina, to fill a vacancy, and in 1884 he 
was elected a representative from South 
Carolina to the forty-eighth congress. 

BRAUN, CHRISTIAN, business man, 
was born Sept. 5, 1858, in Paterson, N. J. 
He was made a candidate for mayor of 
the city of Paterson in 1893, and elected 
by an immense majority. 

BRAUNHART, SAMUEL, business 
man, state senator, was born Jan. 1, 
1848, in Germany. In 1880 he was elected 
a member of the assembly of the Cali¬ 
fornia state legislature, and in 1897 be¬ 
came a member of the state senate. He 
has filled numerous public offices in San 
Francisco. 

BRAWLEY, WILLIAM H„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born in 
1841 in South Carolina. He served in 
the confederate army, and was solicitor 
of the sixth judicial circuit. He served 
in the legislature of South Carolina, and 
was elected to the fifty-second congress 
as a democrat; was elected to the fifty- 
third congress and served until February, 
1894, when he was appointed United 
States judge for North Carolina by Presi¬ 
dent Cleveland. 

BRAXTON, CARTER, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 10, 1736, on the 
Mattapony river, Va. In 1760 he was 
elected to the house of burgesses, in which 
he was conspicuous. He was a delegate 
from Virginia to the continental congress 
in 1776, and signed the Declaration of In¬ 
dependence. After that service he fre¬ 
quently served in the Virginia legislature. 
He died Oct. 10, 1797, in Richmond, Va. 

BRAXTON, ELLIOTT M., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 
1823, in Matthews county, Va. He was 
elected to the state senate in 1851, and re¬ 
elected in 1853. He was elected to the 
common council of Fredericksburg in 
1866, and was elected a representative 
from Virginia to the forty-second con¬ 
gress. 

BRAY, ANDREW WATSON, insurance 
manager, was born July 24, 1855, in 
Rockaway, N. J. He was one of the val¬ 
ued agents of the Delaware, Lackawan¬ 
na and Western railroad; and subse¬ 
quently assumed the management in New 
Jersey for the Mutual Life Insurance 
company. 


BRAYMAN, MASON, soldier, lawyer, 
journalist, governor, was born May 23, 
1813, in Buffalo, N. Y. He was brought 
up as a farmer, but became a printer, 
edited the Buffalo Bulletin in 1834-35, 
studied law, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1836. In 1842 he opened a law office 
in Springfield, Ill. In 1844-45 he revised 
and published the statutes of Illinois un¬ 
der the appointment of the governor and 
the authority of the legislature. He af¬ 
terwards became interested in railroad 
enterprises. He served through the civil 
war; and in 1876-80 was governor of the 
territory of Idaho. 

BRAYTON, GEORGE BAILEY, invent¬ 
or, was born Oct. 23, 1829, in Crompton, 
R. I. He was the inventor of a safety 
steam boiler, and of the high pressure gas 
engine. 

BRAYTON, SAMUEL NELSON, edu¬ 
cator, physician, journalist, was born 
Jan. 11, 1839, in Queensbury, N. Y. He 
engaged in practice in Honeoye Falls, N. 
Y., removed to Buffalo in 1877, and be¬ 
came professor of the theory and practice 
of medicine in the Buffalo college of phy¬ 
sicians and surgeons upon its establish¬ 
ment, and dean of the faculty in 1881. 
He is also editor of the Eclectic Phy¬ 
sicians’ and Surgeons’ Investigator, a 
monthly homeopathic journal, published 
in Buffalo. 

BRAYTON, WILLIAM D., state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Nov. 6, 1815, 
in Warwick, R. I. In 1841 he was elected 
to the state assembly, serving two terms. 
In 1848 he was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate; again elected to the state assembly 
in 1851; and in 1855 was a second time 
elected state senator. He was presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1856; and was elected a 
member from Rhode Island to the thirty- 
fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. 

BRAZZA, CORA, author, was born in 
1862 in Louisiana. She is the author of 
An American Idyl; a Literary Farce; and 
Guide to the Old and New Race in Italy. 

BREARE, GEORGE W., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Feb. 28, 1858, in Newton, Ala. 
In 18S0 he moved to Florida, and the fol¬ 
lowing year was appointed justice of the 
peace, which he filled for eight years, in 
Suwannee county. In 1896 he was elected 
county judge of Lafayette county, Fla., 
and received the re-election the following 
year. 

BREARLY, DAVID, soldier, jurist, was 
born in 1745. He was lieutenant-colonel 
in the revolutionary army and a brave 
officer. He was a member of the state 
and federal constitutional conventions of 
New Jersey; chief justice in that state 
for nine years; and in 1789 was appointed 
United States judge for the district of 
New Jersey. He died Aug. 16, 1790, in 
Trenton, N. J. 

BREATHITT, JOHN, educator, lawyer, 
legislator, governor, was born Sept. 9, 
1786, in New London, Va. He was a sur¬ 
veyor and school teacher; and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1810. He was sev¬ 
eral years in the legislature; was lieuten¬ 
ant-governor from 1828 to 1832; and was 
governor of Kentucky from 1832 to 1834. 
He died Feb. 21, 1834, in Frankfort, Ky. 

BREATHITT, JOHN W., jurist, was 
born Jan. 9, 1825, in Hopkinsville, Ky. 
He has been postmaster of his native 
city; judge of Christian county; and has 
taken an active part in the public affairs 
of his city, county and state. 

BRECK, CHARLES HAMDEN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born June 26, 1837. He is a 
successful lawyer of Richmond, Va., 
where for a number of years he has been 
judge of the county court. 


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BRECK, DANIEL, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, legislator, congressman, was born in 
1788 in Boston, Mass. His first public 
position in Kentucky was that of judge 
of a county court. In 1824 he was elected 
to the state legislature; and was re¬ 
elected for five years. From 1835 until 
1840 he was president of the Branch bank 
of Kentucky at Richmond; in 1840 was a 
presidential elector; in 1843 was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the supreme court of 
Kentucky; and was a representative in 
congress from Kentucky from 1849 to 
1851. He died in 1871. 

BRECK, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Sept. 17, 1810, in Boston, Mass. In 
1834 he was admitted to the bar and for 
many years was a magistrate in the city 
of Baltimore. In 1849 he moved to New 
York city, where he has taken a promi¬ 
nent part in the public affairs of that 
city. 

BRECK, ROBERT, clergyman, author, 
was born July 25, 1713. He was gradu¬ 
ated at Harvard in 1(30, and was clergy¬ 
man of Springfield from July 26, 1736, till 
his death. He published funeral sermons 
and a century sermon on the burning of 
Springfield by the Indians. He died April 
23, 1784, in Springfield, Mass. 

BRECK, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born July 17, 1771, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1825. He died 
Sept. 1, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pa. . 

BRECK, SAMUEL, soldier, was born 
Feb. 25, 1834, in Middleborough, Mass. 
In 1851 he entered the United States mili¬ 
tary academy at 
West Point, N. Y.; 
he graduated four 
years later, and was 
promoted in the 
army to brevet sec¬ 
ond lieutenant of ar¬ 
tillery. He went 
through all the 
grades and was 
made brigadier gen¬ 
eral in the United 
States army in 1865, 
for diligent, faithful 
and meritorious services during the rebel¬ 
lion. Since 1870 he has served in Califor¬ 
nia, New York, Washington, D. C., Min¬ 
nesota, Omaha, and is now serving on 
Governor’s Island, N. Y. In 1887 he was 
appointed lieutenant-colonel, assistant 
adjutant general; and in 1893 was made 
colonel and assistant adjutant general. 

BRECK, WILLIAM, merchant, legis¬ 
lator, was born Dec. 17, 1825, in Croydon, 
N. H. In 1853 he established himself in 
business in California, and eventually re¬ 
turned to Claremont, N. H., where he 
died in 1889. He was a member of the 
state legislature. 

BRECKENRIDGE, CLIFTON R., sol¬ 
dier, business man, congressman, was 
born Nov. 22, 1846, in Lexington, Ky. He 
entered the confederate service. He en¬ 
gaged in cotton planting in Arkansas; 
also in the commission business at Pine 
Bluff, Ark.; and was elected a represent¬ 
ative from Arkansas to the forty-eighth 
and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat. 

BRECKENRIDGE, JAMES, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born March 7, 
1763, in Fincastle, Ya. In 1781 he was a 
soldier in Colonel Preston’s rifle regiment 
under General Greene. He was a promi¬ 
nent leader of the old federal party in the 
general assembly of the state; and was a 
member of the United States congress 
from 1809 to 1817. He was one of the 
originators of the Chesapeake and Ohio 
canal; and with Mr. Jefferson, a founder 
of the university of Virginia. He died 
Aug. 9, 1846, in Fincastle. Va. 


BRECKENRIDGE, JAMES D., con¬ 
gressman, was born in Jefferson county, 
Ky. He was a representative in congress 
from that state from 1821 to 1823. He 
died May, 1849. in Louisville, Ky. 

BRECKENRIDGE, JOHN, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, United States senator, author, was 
born Dec. 2, ±760, in Augusta county, Va. 
He was the author and advocate of the 
celebrated Resolutions of 1798-99, in the 
legislature of Virginia. He emigrated to 
Kentucky; and was elected united States 
senator in 1801. he was appointed at¬ 
torney general of the United States and 
served during 1805-06. He died Dec. 14, 
1806, in Lexington, Ky. 

BRECKENRIDGE, JOHN CABELL, 
soldier, general, vice-president of the 
United States, was born Jan. 16, 1821, 
near Lexington, Ky. 
He served as a ma¬ 
jor of infantry dur¬ 
ing the war with 
Mexico, and while in 
that country distin¬ 
guished himself as 
the counsel Of Ma¬ 
jor-General Pillow 
during the famous 
court martial. On his 
return from Mexico 
he was elected to 
the state legislature. 
He was a representative in congress from 
the Ashland district from 1851 to 1855. 
He was elected vice-president of the 
United States in 1856, on the ticket with 
James Buchanan, and entered upon the 
duties of his office in March, 1857, as 
president of the United States senate. In 
1860 he was nominated by the southern 
democratic party as their candidate for 
president. In 1861 he went into the sen¬ 
ate as the successor of Mr. Crittenden. 
He took part in the great rebellion as a 
general; and in 1865 was appointed sec¬ 
retary of war of the confederacy. He 
died May 17, 1875, in Lexington, Ky. 

BRECKENRIDGE, ROBERT JEFFER¬ 
SON, clergyman, author, was born March 
8, 1800, in Cabell’s Dale, Ky. He was a 
noted presbyterian clergyman of Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky.; and the author of Popery; In¬ 
ternal Evidence of Christianity; Memor¬ 
anda of Foreign Travel; and Travels in 
France, Germany, etc. His chief work 
was a system of theology, The Knowledge 
of God, Objectively and Subjectively Con¬ 
sidered. He was a writer of very posi¬ 
tive views, and one of the leaders in tne 
division of the presbyterian church into 
old and new school in 1837. He died Dec. 
27, 1871, in Danville, Ky. 

BRECKENRIDGE, WILLIAM CAMP¬ 
BELL PRESTON, soldier, journalist, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
Aug. 28, 1837, in Baltimore, Md. In 1862 
he entered the confederate army as cap¬ 
tain of cavalry; rose to the rank of col¬ 
onel, and, at the time of the surrender, 
was in command of a brigade of Ken¬ 
tucky cavalry. He was editor of the Lex¬ 
ington Observer and Reporter from 1866 
to 1868; county attorney from 18b6 to Ism; 
member of the city council of Lexington 
from 1870 to 1879; and professor of equity, 
jurisprudence and pleadings in the law 
department of the Kentucky university in 
1872. He was presidential elector in 
1S72; delegate to the democratic national 
conventions of 1876 and 1880, and was 
elected a representative from Kentucky 
to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fif¬ 
ty-second and fifty-third congresses as a 
democrat. 

BREED, DAVID RIDDLE, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1848 in Pennsylvania. 


He is a presbyterian minister of Chi¬ 
cago; and the author of More Light; 
Abraham, the Typical Life of Faith; His¬ 
tory of the Preparation of the World for 
Christ; and Heresy and Heresy. 

BREED, WILLIAM PRATT, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1816 in New York. He 
is a presbyterian clergyman of Philadel¬ 
phia. His works are mainly religious 
juveniles, and among them are Jenny 
Geddes; Home Songs for Home Birds; 
Grapes from the Great Vine; and A Board 
and Abroad. 

BREEDEN, MARSHALL A., lawyer, 
legislator, was born Feb. 22, 1848, in 
Maysville, Ky. He graduated from the 
Mount Ziam academy, Ill., and became 
a union soldier at the age of fifteen years. 
During Is (2-73 he was clerk of the su¬ 
preme court of New Mexico; during 18/3- 
84 was postmaster of Santa Fe, N. M.; 
and in 1884-88 was public prosecutor for 
the northern district of New Mexico. In 
1894 he was president of the Utah state 
senate, and now practices law in Ogden. 

BREESE, KIDDER RANDOLPH, naval 
officer, was born April 14, 1831, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. As passed midshipman he 
served in Commodore Perry’s Japan ex¬ 
pedition and was on the Macedonian, 
which visited the northern end of For¬ 
mosa to search for coal and inquire into 
the captivity of Americans on that island. 
He next served on the San Jacinto, which 
captured 1,500 slaves on the coast of Af¬ 
rica and took Mason and Slidell from 
on board the Trent in November, 1861. He 
died Sept. 13, 1881. 

BREESE, SAMUEL LIVINGSTON, na¬ 
val officer, was born in 1794 in Utica, 
N. Y. He was present at me battle of 
Lake Champlain in 1814; was present at 
the capture of Vera Cruz in 1847; and 
was promoted to rear admiral in 1862. He 
died Dec. 17, 1870, in Mt. Airey, Pa. 

BREESE, SIDNEY, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, legislator, author, was born July 15. 
1800, in Whitesborough, N. Y. In 1822 he 
was appointed state attorney, which office 
he held until 1827, when he was appoint¬ 
ed United States district attorney for Il¬ 
linois. In 1829 he published a volume 
of Decisions of the Supreme Court, which 
now bears his name, and was the first 
octavo volume published in the state. He 
served in the Black Hawk war as a lieu¬ 
tenant of volunteers; and in 1835 was 
elected a circuit judge. He was a sena¬ 
tor in congress from Illinois from 1843 to 
1849. In 1850 he became a member of the 
Illinois legislature, and was elected speak¬ 
er. He was one of the originators of the 
Illinois Central railroad and in 1855 was 
again placed on the circuit court bench, 
and made chief judge. He published a 
work on Illinois in 1869. He died June 
27, 1878, in Pinckneyville, Ill. 

BREHM, MIRIAM J., poet, was born 
Sept. 6, 1845, in Hinesburgh, N. Y. For 
many years she was engaged in education¬ 
al work, and is the author of many poems 
of merit, and several of her songs have 
become very popular. 

BREIDENBAUGH, EDWARD SWOY- 
ER, educator, author, was born Jan. 13, 
1849, in Newville, Pa. He is a professor 
of chemistry in Pennsylvania college; 
and the author of Notes on Inorganic 
Chemistry; and Mineralogy of the Farm. 

BREIDENTHAL, JOHN W., public offi¬ 
cial, was born June 22, 1857, in Sibley 
county, Minn. He has been prominent in 
political affairs; assisted in the for¬ 
mation of the union labor party at Cin¬ 
cinnati, in 1887; received a large vote for 
United States senator in January, 1893, 
and since February of that year has been 
state bank commissioner of Kansas. 






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BREIL, JOSEPH, lawyer, was born 
June, 1849, in Germany. He has attained 
success as a noted lawyer of Pittsburg, 
Pa.; is considered the best linguist at the 
Pittsburg bar; and can write and speak 
and transact business in six languages. 

BREITUNG, EDWARD, capitalist, leg¬ 
islator, state senator, congressman, was 
born Nov. 10, 1831, in Germany. He en¬ 
gaged in business at Negaunee, Mich., as 
a capitalist and land speculator, and in 
iron mining. In 1872 he was elected a 
representative in the state legislature for 
the term of two years; was state senator 
in 1877-78; and was elected mayor of 
Negaunee in 1878-80, and 1882. He was 
elected a representative from Michigan 
to the forty-eighth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. He died March 3, 1887. 

BREMAN, DOMINIC M., priest, poet, 
was born about 1865 in Albany, N. Y. 
After completing a preparatory course he 
studied philosophy and theology among 
the Passionist fathers, and was admitted 
to orders in 1892. For three years he has 
been associate editor of The Union and 
Times of Buffalo, N. Y. He is the author 
of Heart-Tones, a collected edition of his 
poems. 

BREMICKER, CHARLES, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 16, 1862, in Ger¬ 
many. He graduated from the Presbyter¬ 
ian seminary of Dubuque, Iowa; and 
from the McCormick Theological semi¬ 
nary of Chicago. He has filled pastorates 
in the presbyterian in Texas and 

Illinois; and is the author of the Life and 
Works of Vonder Lippe, a noted clergy¬ 
man of the presbyterian church. 

BRENEMAN, ABRAM ADAM, chemist, 
lecturer, author, was born April 28, 1847, 
in Lancaster, Pa. In 1875 he was ap¬ 
pointed assistant professor and lecturer 
on chemistry at Cornell, where from 1879 
till 1882 he was professor of industrial 
chemistry. Since then he has resided in 
New York, where he has been actively 
engaged in professional work as a writer, 
an analyst, and a chemical expert. He has 
written on the chemistry of ceramic man¬ 
ufactures and delivered a course of lec¬ 
tures on that subject in New York. With 
Prof. G. C. Caldwell t 10 has published A 
Manual of Introductory Laboratory Prac¬ 
tice. 

BRENGLE, FRANCIS, congressman, 
was born in Maryland. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1843 to 1845. He died Dec. 10, 1846. 

BRENNAN, EDGAR H., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born June 15, 1851, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. He is president of the Port 
Clinton Short Line, and he has also been 
president of various other railroads in 
Ohio. 

BRENNAN, JOHN R., man of affairs, 
was born May 22, 1848, in Ireland. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the common 
schools of Iowa county, Wis. For thirty- 
two years he was engaged in the hotel 
business in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas 
City and Denver. For nearly ten years 
he was postmaster of Rapid City, S. D.; 
has been its mayor; and is also president 
of the Dakota State School of Mines. Dur¬ 
ing 1892-96 he was railroad commissioner 
for the state of South Dakota. 

BRENNAN, THOMAS, lumberman, was 
born in November, 1838, in Ireland. He 
was superintendent of the Duluth road, 
but resigned the position in order to ac¬ 
cept the superintendency of the Manitoba 
railroad. In 1881 he gave up railroading 
to engage in the lumber business, and so 
successful was this venture that he be¬ 
came known as one of the largest oper¬ 
ators in the northwest. He died March 
1, 1890, in Hot Springs. 

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BRENNEN, WILLIAM JAMES, lawyer, 
was born Sept. 5, 1850, in Pittsburg, Pa. 
He was democratic candidate for auditor- 
general in 1886, and as a representative in 
the fifty-second congress from the twen¬ 
ty-second Pennsylvania district. He is 
the attorney for the Amalgamated Asso¬ 
ciation of Iron and Steel Workers of Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. 

BRENNER, JOHN L., business man, 
congressman, was born in 1832 in Ohio. 
He attended the Springfield, Ohio, acad¬ 
emy; and was engaged in farming until 
1862, when he engaged in the nursery bus¬ 
iness, which pursuit he followed quite 
successfully until 1874, when he then en¬ 
gaged in the leaf tobacco business. He 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a democrat. 

BRENT, HENRY JOHNSON, author, 
was born in 1811 in Washington, D. C. He 
contributed to Porter’s Spirit of the 
Times, over the well-known signature of 
Stirrup, and was the associate of Lewis 
Gaylord Clark in founding and editing 
the Knickerbocker, a magazine that en¬ 
joyed great popularity from 1833 until 
1864. He was also a painter. His best 
literary work was Life Almost Alone, 
published as a serial in the Knicker¬ 
bocker, and Was it a Ghost? a theory and 
discussion of the celebrated murder of the 
Joyce children. He died Aug. 3, 1880, in 
New York city. 

BRENT, RICHARD, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born in Virginia. He was a 
representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1795 to 1799, and again from 1801 to 
1803; and was a senator in congress from 
1809 to 1814. He died Dec. 30, 1814, in 
Washington, D. C. 

BRENT, WILLIAM L., congressman, 
was born in Charles county, Md. He was 
a representative in congress from Louis¬ 
iana from 1823 to 1829. He died in July, 
1848. 

BRENTANO, LORENZO, journalist, 
legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 
14, 1813, in Germany. He became editor 
of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, and in 
1862 was a member of the state legisla¬ 
ture. For five years he was president of 
the Chicago board of education. In 1868 
he was presidential elector on the Grant 
and Colfax ticket. He was appointed 
United States consul at Dresden in 1872, 
and served until 1876, when he was 
elected a representative from Illinois to 
the forty-fifth congress as a republican. 

BRENTON, ANDREW T., physician, 
was born Sept. 15, 1847, in Indianapolis, 
Ind. He received his education at the 
Iowa state university; and graduated in 
medicine from the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of Keokuk, Iowa. He has 
attained prominence as one of the lead¬ 
ing physicians of Iowa; and has held 
various public positions of honor in Sac 
City of that state. 

BRENTON, SAMUEL, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, congressman, was born 
Nov. 22, 1810, in Gallatin, Ky. He was a 
minister of the gospel from the age of 
twenty until 1848. He was elected to 
congress from Indiana in 1851, and again 
in 1855. He was also president of the 
Fort Wayne college. He died March 29, 
1857, in Fort Wayne, Ind. 

BRENTON, WILLIAM, governor of 
Rhode Island, was born in England. He 
was lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island 
prior to 1660, president of the colony be¬ 
tween 1660 and 1661, and governor under 
the charter obtained from Charles II. 
from 1666 till 1669. His original grant 
gave him a certain number of acres for 
every mile of land surveyed, and on the 
strength of this he secured much valuable 


property. He was one of the nine origi¬ 
nal proprietaries of Rhode Island. His 
name is preserved in Brenton’s Point and 
Brenton’s Reef, Narragansett Bay. He 
died in 1674, in Newport, R. I. 

BRENTS, THOMAS HURLEY, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 24, 1840, 
near Florence, Ill. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the common schools; the Bap¬ 
tist college of Oregon City; and the Mc¬ 
Minnville college, Oregon. He was ap¬ 
pointed justice of the peace, was the first 
postmaster of Canyon City; and the first 
county clerk of Grant county. In 1866 
he was elected a member of the Oregon 
state legislature. In 1870 he moved to 
Walla Walla, Wash., and was made prose¬ 
cuting attorney of that city. He was 
a member of the forty-sixth, forty- 
seventh, and forty-eighth congresses as 
a representative from Washington; and 
has served as judge of the superior court 
for Walla Walla county. 

BRETZ, JOHN L., educator, lawyer, 
jurist, banker, congressman, was born 
Sept. 21, 1852, near Huntingburg, Ind. 
He was educated in common country 
schools and Huntingburg high school; 
taught school 'three years; read law 
under Hon. W. A. Traylor, and graduated 
from the Cincinnati Law school in 1880. 
He located in Jasper the same year; was 
elected prosecuting attorney of the 
eleventh judicial circuit in 1884; and was 
re-elected in 1886 and 1888. He was 
elected to the fifty-second and re-elected 
to the fifty-third congress as a democrat; 
after retiring from congress in 1895, re¬ 
turned to the practice of law; is president 
of Farmers’ and Merchants’ bank of Jas¬ 
per, Ind.; and vice-president of Spring- 
field, Ohio River and South Atlantic Rail¬ 
way company. 

BREVARD, EPHRAIM, patriot, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born about 1750. He 
was the author of the Mecklenburg decla¬ 
ration of independence. In May, 1775, he 
was clerk of the convention held in Char¬ 
lotte, Mecklenburg county, and, as one 
of the committee to prepare resolutions, 
produced the famous document by which 
they anticipated by more than a year the 
declaration by congress. When the Brit¬ 
ish invaded the southern states, Dr. Bre¬ 
vard entered the continental army as a 
surgeon, and was taken prisoner at Char¬ 
leston in 1780. He died about 1783, in 
Charlotte, N. C. 

BREVARD, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in Iredell county, N. C. He was a 
representative in congress from South 
Carolina from 1819 to 1821. 

BREVOORT, HENRY, was born in 1791. 
He inherited a large landed estate on 
Manhattan island, which became extreme¬ 
ly valuable as the city increased in popu¬ 
lation. He was of literary taste and the 
life-long friend of Washington Irving, 
with whom he traveled in Europe and 
corresponded for half a century. He re¬ 
moved, in early life, to Yonkers, but re¬ 
turned to New York and was a member of 
the common council for many years. He 
died April 11, 1874, in Rye, N. Y. 

BREVOORT, JAMES RENWICK, paint¬ 
er, was born July 20, 1832, in Westchester, 
N. Y. He is very successful in the treat¬ 
ment of American landscape in a low tone 
of color, this being his favorite line of 
work. Among his pictures are Scene in 
Holland; Lake of Como; Storm on English 
Moor; May Morning, Lake Como; New 
England Scene; Morning in Early Winter; 
The Wild November Comes at Last; 
Windy Evening on the Moors; and Windy 
Day on a Moor. 


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BREWER, CHARLES MARTIN, law¬ 
yer, was born Nov. 4, 1860, in Rock Dell, 
Minn. In 1890 he was admitted to the 
bar; has been justice of the peace for 
four years; and is postmaster of Stacy, 
Minn., where he holds a high position as 
an able lawyer and public officer. 

BREWER, DAVID JOSIAH, associate 
justice of the United States supreme 
court, was born June 20, 1837, in Smyrna, 
Asia Minor. He is 
the son of Rev. Jo- 
siah Brewer and 
Emilia A. Field, sis¬ 
ter of David Dudley, 
Cyrus W., and Jus- 
t i c e Stephen J. 
Field; and his fath¬ 
er was an early mis¬ 
sionary to Turkey. 
He was graduated 
from Yale college in 
1856 and from the 
Albany Law school 
in 1858; and established himself in his 
profession at Leavenworth, Kan., in 1859, 
where he resided until he removed to 
Washington to enter upon his present du¬ 
ties. In 1861 he was appointed United 
States commissioner; from 1862 to 1865 
was judge of the probate and criminal 

courts of Leavenworth county; from 

1865 to 1869 was judge of the district 
court; and from 1869 to 1870 was county 
attorney of Leavenworth. In 1870 he was 
elected a justice of the supreme court of 
his state, and re-elected in 1876 and 1882; 
in 1884 was appointed judge of the circuit 
court of the United States for the eighth 
district; and was appointed to his pres¬ 
ent position, to succeed Justice Stanley 
Matthews, deceased, in December, 1889, 
and was commissioned December 18, 1889. 

BREWER, FRANCIS B., pioneer, physi¬ 
cian, legislator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 8, 1820, in Keene, N. Y. In connec¬ 
tion with others he organized the Penn¬ 
sylvania Rock Oil company, the pioneer 
petroleum enterprise. He then settled at 
Westfield, N. Y.; was a representative in 
the state legislature in 1873 and 1874; 
government director of the Union Pacific 
railroad from 1874 to 1878; and manager 
of the State Insane asylum at Buffalo in 
1881 and 1882. He was for ten years 
president of the First National bank of 
Westfield; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from New York to the forty-eighth 
congress as a republican. 

BREWER, J. HART, manufacturer, 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
29, 1844, in Hunterdon county, N. J. He 
engaged in the manufacture of pottery; 
was a member of the state house of repre¬ 
sentatives in 1876; and was elected a 
representative from New Jersey to the 
forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses 
as a republican. 

BREWER, JOSIAH, missionary, was 
born in 1796, in Berkshire, Mass. He was 
one of the first to volunteer as a mis¬ 
sionary to Turkey for the American 
board, and in 1830 sailed for the east. 
He died Nov. 19, 1872, in Boston, Mass. 

BREWER, LEIGH RICHMOND, bishop 
of Montana, was born Jan. 20, 1839, in 
Berkshire, Vt. He was rector of Grace 
church of Carthage, N. Y., for six years, 
when he became rector of Trinity church 
of Watertown, N. Y. He was then elected 
missionary bishop of Montana, and was 
consecrated in 1880. 

BREWER, MARK S., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1837, 
in Addison, Mich. He received an aca¬ 
demic education; read law with Governor 



Moses Wisner and the Hon. M. E. Cro- 
foot, and since 1864 has practiced law in 
Pontiac, Mich. He has been city attor¬ 
ney; was state senator in 1873-74; and 
has served with distinction as a member 
of the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, fiftieth and 
fifty-first congresses as a republican; de¬ 
clining a renomination. During 1881-85 
he was United States consul general to 
Berlin. He is an able lawyer and bril¬ 
liant orator; and is recognized as one of 
the most prominent republicans of Michi¬ 
gan. In 1896 he was a delegate at large 
to the republican national convention. 

BREWER, THEODORE FRELING- 
HUYSEN, clergyman, college president, 
was born Jan. 20, 1845, in Gibson county, 
Tenn. He received his edifcation at the 
Yorkville academy and the Andrew col¬ 
lege. He is a noted clergyman in the 
methodist episcopal church, and presi¬ 
dent of the Harrell International insti¬ 
tute of Muskogee, I. T. 

BREWER, THOMAS MAYO, ornitholo¬ 
gist, author, was born Nov. 21, 1814, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a Massachusetts 
ornithologist who was the principal au¬ 
thor of the History of North American 
Birds prepared with Ridgway and S. F. 
Baird; and Oology of North America is 
also by him. He died Jan. 24, 1880, in 
Boston, Mass. 

BREWER, WILLIAM HENRY, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Sept. 14, 1828, in 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He has been a pro¬ 
fessor of agriculture in the Sheffield 
Scientific school at New Haven since 1864; 
and is the author of Botany of California. 

BREWER, WILLIS, soldier, journalist, 
state senator, congressman, author, was 
born in Alabama. He entered the mili¬ 
tary service of the confederate states at 
the age of eighteen years; has been a 
journalist, has practiced law, has written 
books, and is now a planter. In 1871 he 
was county treasurer of Lowndes; was 
state auditor from 1876 to 1880; was state 
legislator from 1880 to 1882; state sena¬ 
tor from 1882 to 1890; state legislator 
from 1890 to 1894; and state senator from 
1894 till he resigned in 1897. He was 
elected for the state at large on the demo¬ 
cratic ticket in 1892, and was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

BREWERTON, GEORGE DOUGLAS, 
soldier, author, was born in 1820, in Cuba. 
He is a United States army officer; and 
the author of The War in Kansas, a 
Rough Trip to the Border; Fitzpoodle at 
Newport; Ida Lewis, the Heroine of 
Lime Rock; The Automaton Company; 
and The Automaton Battery. 

BREWSTER, BENJAMIN HARRIS, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 13, 1816, in 
Salem county, N. J. He was appointed, by 
President Polk, to adjudicate the claims 
of the Cherokee Indians against the 
United States; and in 1867 was appointed 
attorney-general of Pennsylvania. In 
1881 he was appointed, by President Gar¬ 
field, attorney-general of the United 
States. He died April 4, 1888, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

BREWSTER, CHARLES WARREN, 
journalist, author, legislator, state sena¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 13, 1812, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. He began to work for his 
living as an apprentice in the office of the 
Portsmouth Journal. In fifteen years he 
had become its proprietor, and when he 
died had been connected with his journal 
for more than fifty years. He served 
several terms in the legislature, and was 
a member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1850-51. He is the author of 
Fifty Years in a Printing Office; and 
Rambles about Portsmouth. He died 
Aug. 3, 1868, in Portsmouth, N. H. 


BREWSTER, DAVID P., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1839 to 1843. He died Feb. 21, 1876, in 
Oswego, N. Y. 

BREWSTER, FLORA ALZORA, jour¬ 
nalist, physician, surgeon, was born Feb. 
26, 1852, in Alfred, N. Y. In 1879 she 
edited The Newsboys’ Appeal of Chicago; 
in 1889-90 was editor of the Baltimore 
Family Health Journal; and in 1891 was 
assistant editor of the Homoeopathic Ad¬ 
vocate. She was the former physician in 
charge of the Home for Fallen Women, 
and the Female House of Refuge of Bal¬ 
timore; and is now the proprietor and 
surgeon in charge of The Sanitarium. 
She was also lecturer on physiology and 
hygiene at the Maryland Woman’s col¬ 
lege of Lutherville, Md. 

BREWSTER, FREDERICK CARROLL, 
lawyer, author, was born May 15, 1825, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was judge of the 
court of common pleas for three years; 
and in 1869 was appointed attorney-gen¬ 
eral of the common-wealth. He is the 
author of Moliere in Outline; Life of 
Disraeli; Condensation of Blackstone; 
Rule in Shelly’s Case; and Digest of Penn¬ 
sylvania Reports. 

BREWSTER, HENRY, manufacturer, 
was born May 19, 1824, in New Haven, 
Conn. He started in business for him¬ 
self in 1856, with partners, as Brewster 
and Co., and devoted himself to the con¬ 
struction of fine carriages. The firm 
soon became the largest of their class in 
the world. He was one of the organizers 
of the Union League club, and he stoutly 
espoused the cause of the union during 
the civil war. He died Sept. 20, 1887, in 
New York city. 


BREWSTER, HENRY C., banker, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 7, 1845, in Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. He became a bank clerk in 
1863, and bank of¬ 
ficer in 1868, which 
position he still oc¬ 
cupies. He also holds 
other important po¬ 
sitions in the busi¬ 
ness affairs of his 
native city. Has 
been president of 
the chamber of com¬ 
merce and also of 
the Clearing House 
association. He has 
always taken an ac¬ 
tive interest in the republican party, and 
has contributed largely of his time and 
means toward its success. He has been 
vice-president of the New York State 



League of Republican clubs and president 
of the Monroe County league, and vice- 
president of the National League of Re¬ 
publican clubs. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 


BREWSTER, LYMAN DENNISON, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born July 
31, 1832, in Salisbury, Conn. He was 
judge of probate in 1858; judge of court 
of common pleas from 1870 to 1874; 
member of the state legislature in 1870, 
1878 and 1879; and a prominent member 
of the state senate in 1880 and 1881. 


BREWSTER, SIMON LATHAM, mer¬ 
chant, banker, was born July 27, 1811, in 
Griswold, Conn. In 1863 he became presi¬ 
dent of what is now The Traders’ Nation¬ 
al bank of Rochester; and is the oldest 
president of a national bank in the state. 
He was one of the first promoters of the 
Hoosac Tunnel road; and is president of 
The Nashua, Acton and Boston railroad. 





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BREWSTER, WILLIAM, pilgrim, was 
born in 1560, in England. He negotiated 
a grant of land for his people somewhere 
near the mouth of the Hudson river; and 
early in 1620, with a number of persons, 
he embarked in the ship Mayflower at 
Plymouth, England, setting sail Sept. 16, 
and arriving in Cape Cod bay on Nov. 21, 
1620. He died April 16, 1644. 

BREWSTER, WILLIAM, ornithologist, 
author, was born July 5, 1851, in Wake¬ 
field, Mass. He has devoted his attention 
exclusively to the study of ornithology, 
becoming in 1880 assistant in charge of 
the collection of birds and mammals in 
the Boston society of natural history; and 
in 1885 curator of ornithology at the mu¬ 
seum of comparative zoology, Cambridge. 
Mr. Brewster is a fellow of the American 
association for the advancement of 
science, and in 1876 became president of 
the Nuttall ornithological club of Cam¬ 
bridge. He has published articles in the 
Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological 
Club; in the Annals of the New York 
Lyceum of Natural History; Proceedings 
of the Boston Society of Natural History; 
The Auk; and other periodicals. 

BREWSTER, WILLIAM R., soldier. 
He was a colonel in the Excelsior brigade, 
organized by Daniel E. Sickles in 1861, 
and after the promotion of that officer was 
made a brigadier-general of volunteers. 
He died Dec. 13, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BREYFOGEL, SYLVANUS C., clergy¬ 
man,bishop,author,was born July 20, 1851, 
near Pleasantville,Pa. He served as a pas¬ 
tor for fourteen years; as a presiding eld¬ 
er for five years; and since 1891 has been 
a bishop in the Evangelical association. 
Since 1895 he has also been president of 
the Evangelical School of Theology. For 
several years he was editor of a homi- 
letical monthly magazine; and is the 
author of a work entitled Evangelical 
Landmarks. He has visited Europe and 
Japan in the performance of his episcopal 
duties; and traveled extensively in the 
United States and Canada preaching, lec¬ 
turing, and presiding over ecclesiastical 
conferences. 

BRICE, BENJAMIN W., soldier, was 
born in 1809, in Virginia. He became a 
lawyer, and was a judge of common pleas 
in 1845, and adjutant-general of the state 
in 1846. He was promoted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral on July 28, 1866, and on Jan. 1, 1872, 
was retired from active service. 

BRICE, CALVIN STEWART, soldier, 
educator, lawyer, United States senator, 
was born Sept. 17, 1845, in Denmark, Ohio. 

He served through 
the civil war. He 
was delegate at large 
from Ohio to the St. 
Louis democratic na¬ 
tional convention in 
1888; was selected to 
represent Ohio on 
the national demo¬ 
cratic committee, 
and was chairman 
of the campaign 
committee for the 
ensuing national 
campaign. On the death of William H. 
Barnum he was unanimously elected 
chairman of the national committee in 
1889, and in January, 1890, was elected 
United States senator, to succeed Henry 
B. Payne, for the term of 1891-97. 

BRICE, JOHN JONES, naval officer, 
was born Jan. 23, 1842, in Ohio. He en¬ 
tered the navy as a volunteer officer in 
1861; and in 1882 was promoted lieuten¬ 
ant-commander. 


BRICHER, ALFRED THOMPSON, 
Painter, was born April 10, 1837, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. Among his more notable 
drawings are Sunset in October (1869); 
The Maiden’s Rock, Lake Pepin; Mt. 
Adams; On the Esopus (1874); Off Hali¬ 
fax Harbor; A Lift in the Fog (1876); 
St. Michael’s Mount; and What the Tide 
Left. 

BRICK, PETER, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in December, 1847, in Ontario, Can¬ 
ada. He has attained success as an able 
lawyer of St. Cloud, Minn.; has been 
county attorney; and served with dis¬ 
tinction as judge of probate of Stearns 
county. 

BRICKELL, JOHN, physician, his¬ 
torian. He lived at Edenton, N. C., and 
practiced his profession there. Later he 
returned to England and in 1737 published 
in Dublin, The Natural History of North 
Carolina, with an Account of the Trade, 
Manners and Customs of the Christian 
and Indian Inhabitants. 

BRICKELL, WILLIAM D., journalist, 
was born Nov. 19, 1852, in Steubenville, 
Ohio. In 1876 he established The Eve¬ 
ning Dispatch of Columbia, Ohio. 

BRICKETT, JAMES, soldier, surgeon, 
was born in 1837. He was made lieutenant- 
colonel May 20, 1775, was wounded at Bun¬ 
ker Hill, June 17, and in the following 
year was made brigadier in the expedi¬ 
tion preparing for Canada. After Bur- 
goyne’s surrender at Saratoga (Oct. 17, 
1777), Gen. Brickett was placed in com¬ 
mand of the escort, and marched the pris¬ 
oners, about 6,000 in number, from the 
battlefield on Hudson river to Cambridge, 
Mass. He died Dec. 9, 1818, in Haverhill, 
Mass. 

BRICKNER, GEORGE H., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 21, 1834, in 
Germany. He moved to Ohio in 1840; was 
educated in the common schools; and 
became a successful woolen manufacturer 
of Sheboygan Falls, Wis. He was elected 
to the fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty- 
third congresses as a democrat. 

BRIDEWELL, LEMUEL OWENS, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, journalist, was born Nov. 2, 
1829, in Port Gibson, Miss. He gradu¬ 
ated from the Union college of Schenec¬ 
tady, N. Y., with the degree of A. M. In 
1851 he was admitted to the bar; and the 
same year founded the Reveille of Port 
Gibson, Miss., of which he was editor until 
1854. In 1854-55 he was clerk in the in¬ 
terior department; and judge of the pro¬ 
bate and orphans’ court of his county in 
1855-58. In 1861 he became a captain in 
the confederate army, and subsequently 
was promoted to major. He is the author 
of several works, and still practices law 
in Beauregard, Miss. 

BRIDGE, HORATIO, naval officer, law¬ 
yer, journalist, was born April 8, 1806, in 
Augusta, Maine. He published The Jour¬ 
nal of an African Cruiser, the authorship 
of which is usually accredited to his class¬ 
mate, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book 
was, in fact, edited by Hawthorne from 
Bridge’s notes. He was assigned to duty 
as chief of the bureau of provisions and 
clothing, the duties of which he faithfully 
performed for nearly fifteen years, cov¬ 
ering the whole period of the civil war, 
and involving transactions and disburse¬ 
ments to the amount of many millions of 
dollars. He was retired with the rank of 
commodore. He died March 20, 1893, in 
Athens, Pa. 

BRIDGE, JAMES HOWARD, author, 
was born in 1858, in England. He is the 
author of A Fortnight in Heaven, an Un¬ 
conventional Romance; and Uncle Sam 
at Home. 


BRIDGES, ALBERT F., clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born Aug. 22, 1853, 
in Poland, Ind. During 1874-81 he filled 
pastorates in the Indiana conference of 
the methodist episcopal church. For nine 
years he was editor and owner of The 
Register of Brazil, Ind.; and is the au¬ 
thor of A History of Brazil and other 
works. 

BRIDGES, FIDELIA, artist, was born 
May 19, 1835, in Salem, Mass. She sent to 
the National academy, in oil, Winter Sun¬ 
shine and Wild Flowers in Wheat; Black¬ 
berry Bushes; Thistles, Yellow Birds, 
Cornfield, and Salt Marshes. She began 
painting in water-colors in 1871, in which 
she has been eminently successful. 

BRIDGES, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 
1821, in Athens, Tenn. He was attorney- 
general of the state in 1849 and in 1854, 
holding the office for eleven years. He 
held the positions of bank attorney and 
railroad director; was a presidential 
elector in 1860; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Tennessee in 
1861, to serve in the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. He died March 16, 1873. 

BRIDGES, ROBERT, editor, author, 
was born July 13, 1858, in Shippensburgh, 
Pa. He graduated from the Princeton col¬ 
lege in 1879. In 1881 he was connected 
with the New York Evening Post; in 
1887 became one of the editors of Scrib¬ 
ner’s Magazine; and since 1873 has been 
literary critic of New York Life. He is 
the author of Overheard in Arcady, and 
Suppressed Chapters; and Other Book¬ 
ishness. 

BRIDGES, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Jan. 27, 1802, 
in Colchester, Conn. For seven years he 
was deputy attorney-general of the state 
for Lehigh county. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1848 to 1849, and from 1853 to 1855; and 
was again a representative in the forty- 
fifth congress. He died Jan. 14, 1884, in 
Allentown, Pa. 

BRIDGMAN, FREDERICK ARTHUR, 
painter, was born Nov. 10, 1847, in Tuske- 
gee, Ala. In 1890 he opened a studio in 
Paris for the instruction of women stu¬ 
dents. His best known works are Funeral 
of a Mummy; The American Circus in 
Brittany; Bringing in the Maize; Pas¬ 
times of an Assyrian King; and Pro¬ 
cession of the Bull Apis. 

BRIDGMAN, JOHN LADD, farmer, 
public official, was born Nov. 26, 1817, in 
Hanover, N. H. He has been sheriff, 
county commissioner, vice-president and 
director of the National bank, and trustee 
of the Saving bank of his native city; and 
for twenty-seven years was chairman of 
the Board of Selectmen. He is a success¬ 
ful farmer, and has been a prominent 
factor in the public affairs in his city, 
county and state for more than half a 
century. 

BRIDGMAN, LAURA, blind deaf mute, 
was born Dec. 2, 1829, in Hanover, N. H. 
She was born with the enjoyment of all 
her faculties, but at two years old lost 
her sight, hearing, smell, and partially 
her taste by a severe fit of sickness. At 
eight years she was placed under the 
care of Dr. S. G. Howe, in the Perkins 
Institute for the Blind in Boston, with 
what results every one knows. She can 
read from raised letters, write, and skill¬ 
fully play the piano, make fine crochet- 
work, and select colors all by the sense 
of touch; being the first person so af¬ 
flicted who was educated. She died May 
24, 1889, in Boston, Mass. 



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BRIGGS, ANSEL, governor. He was 
elected governor of Iowa in 1846, and re¬ 
mained in the office until 1850. 

BRIGGS, CALEB, physician, geologist, 
was born May 24, 1812, in North Roches¬ 
ter, Mass. He was educated as a physician, 
but devoted himself to the study of geolo¬ 
gy and its allied sciences, and was engaged 
in the first survey of the coal and iron re¬ 
gions of Ohio. He entered upon the work 
in June, 1837, explored Scioto, Lawrence, 
Gallia, Athens, Jackson, Hocking, and 
afterward Wood, Crawford, and Tuscara¬ 
was counties, and, after the survey termi¬ 
nated in 1839, was employed in surveying 
the western counties of Virginia. He then 
settled at Ironton, Ohio, where he en¬ 
gaged in mining and gave $25,000 to found 
a public library. He died Sept. 28, 1884, 
in North Rochester, Mass. 

BRIGGS, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Jan. 15, 1841, 
in New York city. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman prominent among the leaders 
of newer religious thought and a professor 
at Union Theological seminary. New York, 
since 1875. In 1892 he was tried for her¬ 
esy and acquitted. He is the author of 
Biblical Study; American Presbyterian¬ 
ism; Messianic Prophecy, notable for its 
display of the true historical spirit; The 
Authority of Holy Scripture; The Mes¬ 
siah of the Apostles; The Messiah of the 
Gospels; The Higher Criticism of the 
Hexateuch; The Bible, the Church, and 
the Reason; Whither? and a Theologi¬ 
cal Question for the Times. 


BRIGGS, CHARLES E., artist, poet, was 
born Sept. 19, 1828, in Fairhaven, Mass. 
He is an artist in landscape and fruit 
painting, in Brewster, Mass.; and his 
poems occasionally appear in the periodi¬ 
cal press. 



BRIGGS, CHARLES FREDERICK, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1804, in 
Nantucket, Mass. He was a journalist 
and editor of New 
York city, and the 
valued friend of 
many of the promi¬ 
nent literary Ameri¬ 
cans of his time. He 
was the author of 
Adventures of Harry 
Franco, a Tale of 
the Great Panic; The 
Haunted Merchant; 
The Trippings of 
Tom Pepper; and 
Working a Passage, 
or Life on a Liner. He died June 20, 
1877, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 


BRIGGS, D. LUTHER, business man, 
public official, legislator, was born Jan. 12, 
1849, in Sackville, N. B. He has been suc- 

__ cessfully engaged in 

the wholesale meat 
|H business in Middle- 
town, Conn., for 
many years; has 
served as alderman 
for two years, and 
for four years was 
mayor of the city. 
He has also been 
chairman of the 
town committee, 
justice of the peace, 
and filled various 
other public offices of honor in his city, 
county and state. He has been president 
of the republican state league, and is a 
prominent member of various secret 
orders. In 1897 he served with distinction 
as a member of the Connecticut state leg¬ 
islature, and was a member of several 
important committees. 



BRIGGS, GEORGE, business man, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in 1805, 
in Fulton county, N. Y. He represented 
the city of New York in congress from 
1849 to 1853, and in 1858 was elected to the 
thirty-sixth congress. He died June 1, 
1869, in Saratoga, N. Y. 

BRIGGS, GEORGE, lawyer, legislator, 
was born April 26, 1844, in Brandon, Vt. 
In 1866 he graduated from the Hobart col¬ 
lege of Geneva, N. Y. He has served as a 
member of the Vermont house of repre¬ 
sentatives; and also as a member of the 
state senate. He has been vice-president 
of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance 
company; vice-president of the Rutland 
Savings bank; director of the National 
Life Insurance company; has been prom¬ 
inently identified with various other busi¬ 
ness enterprises; and is one of the fore¬ 
most attorneys of his state. 

BRIGGS, GEORGE NIXON, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, congressman, was born 
April 12, 1796, in Adams, Mass. He was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1831 to 1843; and from 
1844 to 1851 was governor of Massachu¬ 
setts. He was a member of the state con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1853; from 1853 
to 1859 held the position of judge of the 
court of common pleas; was a trustee of 
Williams college for sixteen years; and a 
noted advocate of the temperance cause. 
He died Sept. 12, 1861, in Pittsfield, Mass. 

BRIGGS, HENRY C., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born June 29, 1831, in 
West Haven, Vt. He is a noted lawyer of 
Kalamazoo, Mich.; was a member of the 
Michigan state senate in 1861-62; was 
prosecuting attorney of Kalamazoo for 
four years; and in 1868 was elected judge 
of probate of his county, and held that 
position for eight years. 

BRIGGS, HENRY SHAW, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Aug. 1, 1824. He graduated 
at Williams in 1844, and became a lawyer. 
At the beginning of the civil war he 
joined the army as colonel of the tenth 
Massachusetts volunteers, and distin¬ 
guished himself at the battle of Fair Oaks, 
where he was wounded. In 1862 he was 
made a brigadier-general. 

BRIGGS, JAMES F., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 1827, 
in England. He was a representative in 
the state legislature in 1856, 1857, 1858, 
and 1874. In 1871 he removed to Man¬ 
chester, N. H.; was a state senator in 
1876; and was elected a representative 
from New Hampshire to the forty-fifth, 
forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses 
as a republican. 

BRIGGS, LE BARON R., educator, was 
born December, 1855, in Salem, Mass. In 
1883 he was appointed instructor in Eng¬ 
lish at Harvard; professor in 1890; and in 
1891 dean of the college. 

BRIGGS, WILLIAM T„ clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Dec. 1, 1815, in Scit- 
uate, Mass. He was ordained in 1846 
as a congregationalist minister, and has 
filled important pastorates in Massachu¬ 
setts. During the war he served for a 
while as chaplain in the Finley hospital 
of Washington, D. C. He has published 
several sermons, many articles and ad¬ 
dresses, and a few poems. 

BRIGHAM, AMARIAH, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 26, 1798, in New Marl¬ 
borough, Mass. He was a physician of 
Hartford, and subsequently superinten¬ 
dent of the lunatic asylum of Utica, N. Y. 
He was the author of The Anatomy, 
Physiology, and Pathology of the Brain. 
He died Sept. 8, 1849, in Utica, N. Y. 

BRIGHAM, CHARLES HENRY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born July 27, 1820, in 


Boston, Mass. He became pastor of a 
Unitarian church in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 
1866, and in the same year was chosen 
professor of biblical archaeology and ec¬ 
clesiastical history at Meadville, Pa., 
Theological school, where he lectured 
twice a year for ten years. He has pub¬ 
lished Letters of Foreign Travel in two 
volumes, and Life of Rev. Simeon Dag¬ 
gett. He died Feb. 19, 1879, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 

BRIGHAM, ELIJAH, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1750 in Northbor- 
ough, Mass. He was a merchant and held 
many positions of trust and responsibil¬ 
ity. He was a representative in congress 
from Massachusetts from 1811 to 1816, 
when he resigned. He died April 22, 1816, 
in Washington city. 

BRIGHAM, JOSEPH H., soldier, state 
senator, was born Dec. 12, 1838, in Lodi, 
Ohio. He served in the war as a lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel, and subsequently was elected 
to the Ohio state senate. For ten years 
he was master of the State Grange, and 
has been prominent in the improvements 
of his state. 

BRIGHAM, LEWIS A., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1831, 
in York Mills, N. Y. He was elected su¬ 
perintendent of the public schools of the 
city of Bergen, N. J., from 1866 to 1870; 
was a member of the board of police com¬ 
missioners of Jersey City from 1874 to 
1876, and was a representative of the state 
legislature in 1877. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New Jersey to the forty- 
sixth congress as a republican. He died 
Feb. 20, 1886. 

BRIGHAM, PAUL, soldier, jurist, was 
born in 1745. He was four years a cap¬ 
tain in the revolutionary army, was high 
sheriff of Windsor county, Vt., for five 
years, major-general of militia, and chief 
judge of the county court for five years. 
He was lieutenant-governor of the state 
from 1796 till 1813, and again from 1815 
till 1820. From Aug. 25 till Oct. 16, 1797, 
he was acting governor. He died June 
16, 1824, in Norwich, Vt. 

BRIGHAM, WILLARD I. TYLER, 
lawyer, genealogist, was born May 31, 
1859, in Montpelier, Vt. For five years he 
was on the Shakespearian stage, with such 
stars as Booth and Barrett. He is the his¬ 
torian of the Brigham and Tyler Families’ 
associations of the United States; a mem¬ 
ber of the New England Historical Genea¬ 
logical society; Sons of the Revolution; 
Society Colonial Wars and various other 
societies. He is the author of a volume of 
verse and has followed his profession of 
law with success in Grand Rapids, Minne¬ 
apolis and Chicago. 

BRIGHAM, WILLIAM TUFTS, natural¬ 
ist, lawyer, author, was born in 1841 in 
Massachusetts. He is a lawyer and nat¬ 
uralist noy at Honolulu in charge of the 
government museum, and is the author of 
Volcanic Manifestations in New England; 
Guatemala: and the Land of the Quetzal, 
a volume of travels. 

BRIGHT, JESSE D., jurist, state sena¬ 
tor, lieutenant, governor, United States 
senator, was born Dec. 18, 1812, in Nor¬ 
wich, N. Y. He was circuit judge of In¬ 
diana; state senator; marshal of the 
United States for the district of Indiana; 
and lieutenant-governor of that state. 
He was a United States senator from In¬ 
diana from 1845 to 1857, and president of 
the senate during several sessions. He 
was elected for an additional term in 1857, 
for six years. He subsequently settled in 
Kentucky, and was elected to the senate 
of that state. He died May 20, 1875, in 
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BRIGHT, JOHN MORGAN, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 
1817, in Fayetteville, Tenn. He was a 
member of the legislature of Tennessee in 
1847 and 1848. He was elected to the 
forty-second congress; was re-elected to 
the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth 
and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat. 

BRIGHT, JONATHAN BROWN, author, 
was born April 23, 1800, in Waltham, 
Mass. He became interested in genealo¬ 
gy, and made many researches into his 
family history both here and in England, 
the results of which were published in a 
volume intended for private distribution, 
which has been pronounced a model for 
works of its kind. It is entitled The 
Brights of Suffolk, England, represented 
in America by the Descendants of Henry 
Bright, Jr., who settled at Watertown. 
Mass., about 1630. He left to Harvard 
college $50,000, the income to be divided 
between the purchase of books and the 
support of scholarships, to which Brights 
lineally descended from Henry Bright. 
Jr., should have priority of claim. He 
died Dec. 17, 1879, in Waltham, Mass. 

BRIGHT, MARSHAL H., soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 
18, 1834, in Hudson, N. Y. In 1854 he be¬ 
came assistant editor of the Albany Ar¬ 
gus, and was a reporter in the New 
York state senate. He was brevetted 
major for his services during the 
war, and, after resigning his commission 
at its close, engaged in silver mining in 
Nevada. In 1873 he became managing 
editor of the Christian at Work, of New 
York city, and in 1880 its editor-in-chief. 
He has contributed to periodicals on the¬ 
ological, scientific and philosophical sub¬ 
jects, and has delivered public addresses. 

BRIGHTLY, FRANCIS FREDERICK, 
author, was born Feb. 25, 1845, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He is the author of Digest 
of the Laws of Philadelphia, 1701-1887. 

BRIGHTLY, FREDERICK CHARLES, 
jurist, author, was born Aug. 26, 1812, in 
England. He is an eminent Philadelphia 
jurist, and the author of Treatise on 
Law of Costs; Nisi Prius Reports; Equit¬ 
able Jurisdiction of the Laws of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; Digest of the Laws of the United 
States, 1789-1869; Digest of the Decisions 
of the Federal Courts; Bankrupt Law of 
the United States; and Leading Cases in 
the Law of Elections, include the larger 
number of his legal writings. He died in 
1888. 

BRIGNOLI, PASQUALE, vocalist, was 
born in 1824, in Naples. He has attained 
a national reputation as a vocalist, and is 
the author of Martha; and Good-Bye, 
Sweetheart, Good-bye. He died Oct. 30, 
1884, in New York city. 

BRILL, HASCAL R., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Aug. 10, 1846, in Canada. He re¬ 
ceived his education at Hamlin univer¬ 
sity, and at the university of Michigan. 
In 1872 he was elected judge of the pro¬ 
bate court of Ramsey county, Minn., to 
which state he had moved in 1859. In 
1875 he was appointed judge of the court 
of common pleas, and received the re-elec¬ 
tion for seven years. He was elected 
judge of the second judicial district in 
1882, in 1888, and again in 1894, with 
headquarters in St. Paul. He is a bril¬ 
liant lecturer, and has contributed exten¬ 
sively to current literature. 

BRIMMER, MARTIN, author, was born 
in 1829 in Massachusetts. He was a prom¬ 
inent citizen of Boston, and the author of 
Egypt: Three Essays on the History, Re¬ 
ligion and Art of Ancient Egypt. He died 
in 1896, in Boston, Mass. 


BR1MSON, WILLIAM GEORGE, rail¬ 
road president. Since 1891 he has been 
president of the Eastern Chicago and Ke¬ 
nosha; the Joliet and Blue Island; and 
the Milwaukee and Bay View and Chi¬ 
cago railways. 

BRINKER, WILLIAM HUGH, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 23, 1851, in Craw¬ 
ford county, Mo. He was elected prose¬ 
cuting attorney of Johnson county, Mo., 
and was twice re-elected, serving three 
successive terms. In 1885 he was appoint¬ 
ed by President Cleveland an associate 
justice of the supreme court of the Terri- 
tory of New Mexico. 

BRINKERHOFF, HENRY R„ soldier, 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1788 
in Adams county, Pa. In the last war with 
England he served in command of a vol¬ 
unteer company, and distinguished him¬ 
self at the battle of Queenstown. He was 
twice elected to the New York legislature, 
and for many years held the office of 
major-general of the New York militia. 
In 1837 he removed to Ohio, and was elect¬ 
ed to congress as representative from that 
state in 1843. He died April 30, 1844, in 
Huron county, Ohio. 

BRINKERHOFF, JACOB, congressman, 
jurist, was born in 1810 in New York. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1843 to 1847. He died July 19, 
1880, in Mansfield, Ohio. 

BRINKERHOFF, ROELIFF, soldier, 
was born June 28, 1828, in Owasco, N. Y. 
He served in the civil war; and attained 
the rank of brigadier-general. In 1891 he 
was vice-president of the Mansfield Sav¬ 
ings bank of Ohio; and is also vice-presi¬ 
dent of the National Prison congress. 

BRINKERHOFF, WILLIAM, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, was born July 19, 
1843, in Jersey City, N. J. He served 
in the civil war as private. In 1865 he 
was elected mayor of New Jersey, and in 
1867 was elected counsel for Hudson 
county. In 1883 he was elected to the 
New Jersey senate; and in 1884 was ap¬ 
pointed corporation counsel of New Jer¬ 
sey. 

BRINLEY, CHARLES, surveyor, busi¬ 
ness man, was born Aug. 23, 1847, in 
Hartford, Conn. In 1864-65 he was at¬ 
tached to the field party of the California 
state geological survey, and was with 
the engineers employed by the United 
States government to survey a wagon- 
road to Colorado river. Since 1872 he has 
been superintendent of large steel works 
near Philadelphia, and of a sugar refinery 
in that city. 

BRINLEY, FRANCIS, soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, author, was born Nov. 10, 1800, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a member of 
the Boston common council for several 
years, and its president in 1850 and 1851. 
He was a member of the lower house of 
the legislature in 1832, 1850 and 1854, and 
in 1852, 1853 and 1863 of the state sen¬ 
ate. In 1853 he was a delegate to the 
state constitutional convention. He has 
published an Address before the Franklin 
Debating Society of Boston, and a life of 
his brother-in-law, William T. Porter, 
founder of the Spii’it of the Times. 

BRINTON, DANIEL GARRISON, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, author, was born May 
13, 1837, in Chester county. Pa. He is an 
archaeological writer and publisher, as 
well as physician, of Philadelphia, whose 
researches in aboriginal history and liter¬ 
ature have been very extensive. A profes¬ 
sor of archaeology in the university of 
Pennsylvania since 1880. He is the author 
of The Myths of the New World; The Re¬ 
ligious Sentiment; American Hero-Myths; 
Aboriginal American Authors; The Flori¬ 
dian Peninsula; Races and Peoples; Es¬ 


says of an Americanist; The Lenape and 
their Legends. He has edited the Maya 
Chronicles; The Comedy-Ballet of Giie- 
guence; and Aboriginal American Anthol¬ 
ogy. 

BRISBANE, ABBOTT HALL, soldier, 
military engineer, author, was born in 
South Carolina. He served in the Flori¬ 
da war against the Seminole Indians in 
1835-36 as colonel of South Carolina vol¬ 
unteers. He was the author of a political 
romance, Ralphton, or the Young Caro¬ 
linian of 1776. He died Sept. 28, 1861, in 
Summerville, S. C. 

BRISBANE, MRS. MARGARET HUNT, 
poet, was born Feb. 11, 1858, in Vicksburg, 
Miss. She is a popular poet of the south 
at Vicksburg, Miss. 

BRISBANE, WILLIAM HENRY, finan¬ 
cier, was born Nov. 23, 1851, in Allen¬ 
town, Pa. He received his education in 
the public and Quaker schools of Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa., and has been principally en¬ 
gaged in mining, real estate and cattle in 
Leadville, Colo. He has been the state 
treasurer of Colorado, and has filled nu¬ 
merous positions of honor in the republic¬ 
an party of that state. 

BRISBIN, JAMES A., soldier, was born 
May 23, 1837, in Boalsburg, Pa. He served 
in the civil war, and for his gallantry 
was made brigadier-general. 

BRISBIN, JAMES SANKS, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1837, in Boalsburg, Pa.. 
He was a United States cavalry officer; 
and the author of Campaign Lives of 
Grant and Colfax; The Beef Bonanza; 
and Trees and Tree Planting. He died in 
1892. 

BRISTED, CHARLES ASTOR, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Oct. 6, 1820, in New 
York city. He was a magazinist of New 
York city; and the 
author of Five Years 
in an English Uni¬ 
versity; The Upper 
Ten Thousand; The 
Interference Theory 
of Government; 
Pieces of a Broken- 
down Critic; and 
Anacreontics. He 
was a son of John 
Bristed, the noted 
clergyman and au¬ 
thor. He died Jan. 
15, 1874, in Washington, D. C. 

BRISTED, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1778 in England. He was an 
episcopal clergyman of Rhode Island. His 
principal works are Critical and Philo¬ 
sophical Essays; Resoui’ces of the United 
States, 1818; Anglo-American Churches; 
Edward and Anna: a Novel; and A Pedes¬ 
trian Tour through the Higlilands of Scot¬ 
land. He died Feb. 23, 1855, in Bristol, 
R. I. 

BR1STER, EDWIN M. P., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, poet, was born June 26, 1850, in Cadiz, 
Ohio. He first worked as a printer; sub¬ 
sequently attending 
the Denison univer¬ 
sity, from which he 
graduated in 1887, 
and was admitted to 
the bar three years 
later. He has prac¬ 
ticed his profession 
with success in New¬ 
ark, Ohio, where he 
has also filled the 
office of probate 
judge. His poems 
have appeared in the 
leading newspapei’s and magazines, and 
in several standard collections. 







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BRISTOL, MRS. AUGUSTA COOPER, 
educator, lecturer, poet, was born April 
17, 1835, in Croydon, N. H. She attended 
the Canaan Union 
academy and the 
Kimball Union acad¬ 
emy, and then began 
educational work. In 
1869 she published a 
volume of poems and 
has since contributed 
extensively, both 
prose and verse, to 
current literature. 
For several years she 
was president of 
the Ladies’ Social 
science class in Vineland, N. J.; in 1880 
she gave a course of lectures before the 
New York Positivist society on The Evo¬ 
lution of Character, and has since become 
well known throughout America as a lec¬ 
turer of great ability. Her works are: 
Poems; The Relation of the Maternal 
Function to the Woman’s Intellect; The 
Philosophy of Art; Science and its Rela¬ 
tions to Character; The Present Phase 
of Woman’s Advancement; and The Web 
of Life, a collection of verse. 

BRISTOL, JOHN BUNYAN, landscape 
painter, was born March 14, 1826, in 
Hillsdale, N. Y. At the beginning of his 
career he painted figures and portraits, 
but afterward turned his attention ex¬ 
clusively to landscapes. His studies were 
from nature. Among his works are Au¬ 
tumn Afternoon, Bolton, Lake George; 
Sunrise, Mount Mansfield; Adirondacks, 
from Lake Champlain; and On the St. 
John’s River, Florida. 

BRISTOL, WARREN, lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, state senator, was born March 
19, 1823, in Stafford, N. Y. He held suc¬ 
cessively the offices of district attorney 
and judge of probate, in Red Wing coun¬ 
ty, Minn.; and was president of the first 
republican state convention of Minnesota, 
in 1855, which was held at St. Paul, and 
at which the republican party was first 
organized in that state. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the republican national convention 
of 1864; was a representative in the state 
legislature in 1865: and was a state senator 
from 1866 to 1870. In 1872 he was ap¬ 
pointed, by President Grant, associate 
justice of the supreme court of New Mex¬ 
ico. and was re-appointed by President 
Grant in 1876 and bv President Haves in 
1880. 

BRISTOL, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1779 in Hamden, Conn. He 
was judge of the United States district 
court for the state of Connecticut; and 
was a member of the superior court of 
that state from 1819 to 1826. He died 
March 7, 1836, in New Haven. 

BRISTOL, WILLIAM HOAG, lawyer, 
poet, was born March 18,1828, in Ransom- 
ville, N. Y. He has edited and published 
various papers in Kankakee, Janesville, 
and Galena, Ill. In 1863-64 he wrote and 
published a valuable and interesting his¬ 
tory of Kankakee county, and later com¬ 
piled other historical works. 

BRISTOW. BENJAMIN H., soldier, law¬ 
yer. public official, was born June 20,1832, 
in Elkton. Ky. In 1861 he entered the 
army as lieutenant-colonel of the twenty- 
fifth Kentucky infantry; and subsequent¬ 
ly commanded the eighth Kentucky cav¬ 
alry. While serving in the field he was 
elected to the state senate for four years; 
1866 he was appointed United States dis¬ 
trict attorney for the district of Kentucky, 
and in 1870 was appointed solicitor-gen¬ 
eral of the United States. He was ap¬ 
pointed secretary of the treasury in 1871. 


BRISTOW, FRANCIS M., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Aug. 11, 
1804, in Nicholasville, Ky. In 1831 and 
1833 he was elected to the Kentucky legis¬ 
lature: in 1846 to the state senate; and 
in 1849 was a member of the state con¬ 
stitutional convention. In 1854 he was 
elected a representative in congress to fill 
a vacancy; and in 1859 was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Kentucky to the thirty- 
sixth congress. He died June 10. 1864, in 
Elkton, Ky. 

BRISTOW, FRANK L., musician, com¬ 
poser, was born April 25, 1844, in Jackson¬ 
ville, Ill. He has been secretary of the 
State Teachers’ association and president 
of the same; has taught instrumental and 
vocal music in most of the southern 
states, and has resided in Covington for 
twenty years. He is the author of sev¬ 
eral collections of singing books for 
classes, and two cantatas for ladies’ 
voices, Rainbow and Pleiades, as well as 
other compositions for chorus. 

BRISTOW, GEORGE F., musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Dec. 19, 1825, in New 
York. He is an organist and violinist, 
and the composer of the opera Rip Van 
Winkle. 

BRISTOW, JAMES TAZEWELL, sol¬ 
dier. business man. was born June 1. 1837, 
in Bennettsville, S. C. During the war 
he served as a soldier, and rose to the 
grade of colonel. After the war he went 
into business in Timmonsville, S. C.; and 
in 1876 he was appointed auditor of Darl¬ 
ington county, which position he filled for 
several terms. In 1885 he was elected 
secretary of the Darlington Manufactur¬ 
ing company, one of the largest cotton 
mills in the south, which position he held 
until his death, on April 21, 1892. 

BRISTOW. LOUIS JOHNSON, journal¬ 
ist. was born Jan. 19, 1876. in Florence, 
S. C. For several years he edited the 
Georgia Reporter, and is now the editor 
and owner of the County Record of Kings- 
tree, S. C. 

BRITTAN, NATHAN, educator, lawyer, 
inventor, was born Sept. 2, 1808, in spen¬ 
cer, Mass. In 1851 his attention was di¬ 
rected to the inadequacy of the lightning- 
rods in use in that part of the country, 
and he immediately devoted himself to 
the study of the laws of atmospheric elec¬ 
tricity, and invented a new conductor, 
known as the continuous copper-strip, 
which was patented and received with 
general favor. He died Jan. 3, 1872, in 
Adrian, Mich. 

BRITTON, ALEXANDER T., soldier, 
capitalist, lawyer, was born Dec. 29, 1835, 
in New York city. In 1861 he enlisted in 
the old national rifles of Washington. 
D. C. In 1865 he organized the law firm 
of Britton and Gray, and in 1877 was ap¬ 
pointed by President Hayes one of the 
commission to codify the public land 
laws. He is director in several large 
charitable institutions, street railroads 
and banks. 

BRITTS. MRS. MATTIE DYER, author, 
poet, was born in 1842 in New York city. 
She is the author of sixteen books for 
young people, two novels, and a number 
of poems and hymns. The most notable 
of her prose works are Edward Lee, and 
Nobody’s Boy. 

BROADDUS. ANDREW. clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 4, 1770. in Caro¬ 
lina county. Ya. He was a baptist cler¬ 
gyman once noted as a pulpit orator. He 
was the author of History of the Bible; 
Form of Church Discipline; and Letters 
and Sermons. He died Dee. 1, 1848, in Vir¬ 
ginia. 


BROADHEAD, GARLAND CARR, ge¬ 
ologist, author, was born Oct. 30, 1827, in 
Charlottesville, Va. In 1875 he was em¬ 
ployed by the Smithsonian institution to 
make collections in Missouri for the cen¬ 
tennial exhibition, and in 1884 collected 
objects for the New Orleans exhibition. 
The results of his geological investiga¬ 
tions in Missouri are published in Mis¬ 
souri Geological Reports, and Missouri 
Geological Survey. 

BROADHEAD. JAMES 0., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, state senator, congressman, was 
born May 29, 1819, in Charlottesville, 
Va. He was a member of the state 
house of representatives of Missouri 
in 1847; a state senator from 1850 
to 1854; a delegate to the state con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1861; and 
United States district attorney for the 
eastern district of Missouri in that year. 
He was provost-marshal-general of the 
department of the Missouri in 1863; mem¬ 
ber of the state constitutional conven¬ 
tion in 1875; and was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Missouri to the forty-eighth 
congress as a democrat. 

BROADHEAD, JOHN C., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1831 to 1833, and again 
from 1837 to 1839. 

BROADUS, JOHN ALBERT, clergyman, 
author, was born Jan. 24, 1827, in Virginia. 
He was a baptist clergyman, and presi¬ 
dent of the Southern Baptist Theological 
seminary. He was the author of Prepa¬ 
ration and Delivery of Sermons; Lectures 
on Preaching: Sermons and Addresses; 
and Jesus of Nazareth. He died in 1895. 

BROADWATER. CHARLES ARTHUR, 
banker, railroad president, was born Sept. 
25, 1840, in St. Charles, Mo. In 1882 he 
founded the Montana National bank, of 
which he was president. The Montana 
Central railroad, of which he was the 
president, was built by him, and he was 
president of banks in Great Falls, Living¬ 
ston and Neihart. and otherwise active in 
affairs. He died May 24, 1892. 

BROADWAY, AUGUSTINE W.. educa¬ 
tor. clergyman, was born Nov. 16, 1854. 
in England. He is a graduate of Syracuse 
university, and has received the degrees 
of A. B., A. M. and Ph. D. He taught 
school for three years, and in 1886 be¬ 
came pastor of the Methodist Episcopal 
church of Palmyra. N. Y. For six years 
he filled a pastorate in Syracuse, N. Y., 
and now fills a pastorate in Geneva. 

BROCHUS, PERRY E., jurist, was born 
in Virginia. He was an early emigrant 
to Utah, and in 1850 was appointed a 
United States judge for that territory. 

BROCK EUGENE, legislator, was born 
May 6. 1853, in Newbury, Vt. He went 
to California in 1874. and the following 
year to Washington. He has been active 
in the development of that state, and for 
four years was a member of the Washing¬ 
ton legislature. 

BROCK. SIDNEY G., lawyer, was born 
April 10. 1837, in Cleveland, Ohio. He 
was mayor of Macon three times, prose¬ 
cuting attorney of his county; chief of 
bureau of statistics, Washington, D. C.; 
and well known as a writer for various 
journals. 

BROCKENBOROUGH, WILLIAM, jur¬ 
ist, legislator, was born July 10, 1778. He 
represented Essex county in the legisla¬ 
ture. and was subsequently a councilor. 
He became judge of the general court in 
1809. and retained that office until 1834, 
when he was appointed one of the judges 
of the court of appeals, an office that he 
retained until his death. He died Dec. 10, 
1838, in Richmond, Va. 



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BROCKENBROUGH. JOHN, bishop co¬ 
adjutor of Virginia, was born Feb. 7, 
1839, in Westmoreland county, Va. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he was first an assistant 
and then a full surgeon in the Confeder¬ 
ate states army, and served throughout 
the war. When peace was restored, he 
practiced medicine for a time in West¬ 
moreland county. He was elected bishop- 
coadjutor in 1894, and consecrated the 
same year. 

BROCKENBROUGH, LAWRENCE 
RUSH, railroad manager, was born Nov. 
18, 1853, in Louisville, Ky. He has been 
connected with the management of sev¬ 
eral railroads; and since 1895 has been 
general passenger agent of the Ohio 
Southern railroad at Springfield, Ohio. 

BROCKENBROUGH, WILLIAM H., 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1813. He went to Flori¬ 
da, and under the territorial government 
he was a senator from the western dis¬ 
trict and at one time president of the 
senate. He was United States district at¬ 
torney. and also jifdge; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Florida from 
1845 to 1847. He was also a presidential 
elector on several occasions. He died 
June, 1850, in Tallahassee, Fla. 

BROCKETT. HATTIE FOSTER 
NOURSE, philanthropist, was born Feb. 
22, 1866, in Charleston, W. Va. She is 
prominently connected with various so¬ 
cieties; and is the vice-president of the 
National Society of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution. 

BROCKETT, LINUS PIERPONT, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Oct. 16, 1820. in 
Canton, Conn. He was a prolific writer 
of Hartford, among whose many produc¬ 
tions are History of Education; Our Great 
Captains; The Year of Battles: a History 
of the Franco-German War of 1870; Epi¬ 
demics and Contagious Diseases; The 
Silk Industry in America; Our Western 
Empire, an account of the resources of the 
United States west of the Mississippi; 
and The Great Metropolis. He died in 1893. 

BROCKLESBY, JOHN, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 8, 1811, in England. 
He was professor of mathematics and nat¬ 
ural philosophy in Trinity college, Hart¬ 
ford, from 1842 to 1873, and professor of 
natural philosophy and astronomy from 
1873 till 1882. He was acting president of 
the college in 1860, 1864, 1866, 1867 and 
1874. His works include Elements of 
Meteorology; Views of the Microscopic 
World; Elements of Astronomy; and Ele¬ 
ments of Physical Geography. 

BROCKWAY, JOHN HALL, educator, 
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was l orn 
in 1801 in Ellington, Conn. He frequently 
served in the state legislature; and was a 
representative in congress from Connecti¬ 
cut from 1839 to 1843. He died July 29, 
1870, in Ellington. 

BRODERICK, CASE, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 23, 
1839, in Grant county, Ind. He enlisted at 
Fort Scott, Kas., as 
a private soldier in 
the second Kansas 
battery, in 1862, and 
was mustered out at 
Leavenworth in Au¬ 
gust, 1865. He was 
elected probate judge 
of Jackson county in 
1868, and was twice 
re-elected; studied 
law and was admit¬ 
ted to the bar at 
Holton in 1870; and 
was elected county attorney of Jackson 
county in 1876 and re-elected in 1878. He 
was -elected state senator in 1880 to repre¬ 



sent Jackson and Pottawatomie counties 
and in 1884 was appointed by President 
Arthur associate justice of the supreme 
court of Idaho for the term of four years. 
He removed at once to Boise City, Idaho, 
assumed the duties of the position, and 
served until the fall of 1888, when he re¬ 
turned to Holton and resumed the prac¬ 
tice of law. He is largely interested in 
farming and stock raising and was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-second, fifty-third, and fif¬ 
ty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

BRODERICK, DAVID COLBRETH, 
United States senator, was born Dec. 4, - 
1820, in Washington, D. C. He removed 
to California in 1849, and engaged in the 
business of smelting and assaying gold. - 
He was a member of the convention which 
drafted the constitution of that state; 
served two years in the California sen¬ 
ate, and was president of that body in 
1851. He was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress from California in 1856, for the long 
term, taking his seat during the second 
session of the thirty-fourth congress. He 
died Sept. 16, 1859, near Lake Merced, Cal. 

BRODHEAD. DANIEL, soldier, was 
born in 1736 in Virginia. He raised in 
1775 a company of riflemen who served 
in the battle of Long Island. He was ap¬ 
pointed colonel of the eighth Pennsyl¬ 
vania regiment, and in April, 1778, led a 
successful expedition against the Mus¬ 
kingum Indians. He made two important 
treaties with the Indians, one of them 
July 22, 1779, with the Cherokees, and re¬ 
ceived the thanks of congress for his suc¬ 
cess. He was for many years surveyor- 
general of Pennsylvania. He died Nov. 15, 
1809, in Milford, Pa. 

BRODHEAD, MRS. EVA WILDER, au¬ 
thor. She is a popular novelist; and the 
author of One of the Visconti; Diana's 
Livery; An Earthly Paragon; Ministers 
of Grace; and Bound in Shallows. 

BRODHEAD, JOHN, clergyman, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1770. He was a 
minister of the methodist episcopal 
church for forty-four years; and was a 
representative in congress from New 
Hampshire from 1829 to 1833. He died 
April 7, 1838, in New Market, N. H. 

BRODHEAD, JOHN ROMEYN, author, 
was born Jan. 2, 1814, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was a painstaking, accurate writer, 
whose work, if somewhat lacking in pic¬ 
turesqueness, is of lasting value. He was 
the author of History of the State of New 
York; and The Government of Sir Ed¬ 
mund Andros over New England. His 
work consists of eighty volumes of infor¬ 
mation of the colonial history of New 
York. He died May 6, 1873, in New York 
city. 

BRODHEAD, RICHARD, congressman, 
United States senator, was born in 1811 
in Pike county, Pa. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from 1843 to 1849; and 
a senator of the United States senate from 
Pennsylvania from 1851 to 1857. He died 
Sept. 16, 1863, in Easton, Pa. 

BRODHEAD, THORNTON F„ soldier, 
lawyer, public official, was born in 1822 
in New Hampshire. He served through 
the Mexican war as an officer in the fif¬ 
teenth infantry, and was twice brevetted 
for bravery. Resuming the practice of his 
profession after the war, he was elected 
to the state senate, and in 1852 appointed 
postmaster of Detroit. At the beginning 
of the civil war he raised the first Michi¬ 
gan cavalry regiment, at the head of 
which he served under Gens. Banks, Fre¬ 
mont and Pope. He died Aug. 31, 1862, 
in Alexandria, Va., of wounds received at 
the second battle of Bull Run. 


BROGDEN, CURTIS H„ legislator, con¬ 
gressman, governor. He early took an in¬ 
terest in military affairs and became a 
general of militia. He was elected to the 
state legislature in 1838, and in one or the 
other of the two houses served therein 
for nearly twenty years. He was for ten 
years, from 1857, comptroller of the state. 
He was a presidential elector from 1868; 
and in 1869 was appointed a collector of 
internal revenue. After the additional 
service of four years in the state senate in 
1872, he was elected lieutenant-governor; 
and on the death of Governor Caldwell, in 
1874, became the governor of the state. 
He was also a justice of Wayne county; 
and was elected a representative from 
North Carolina to the forty-fifth congress. 


BROKAW, ISAAC VAIL, merchant, was 
born Nov. 27, 1835, in New Brunswick, 
N. J. He formed a partnership and be¬ 
gan a clothing busi¬ 
ness under the firm 
name of Dunham and 
Brokaw. This busi¬ 
ness was most suc¬ 
cessfully carried on 
from 1856 to 1861, 
when Mr. Dunham 
retired, and Mr. Bro¬ 
kaw continued the 
business under his 
own name. In 1866 
R|p|' he admitted to part¬ 
nership his brother, 
William Vail Brokaw, thereafter adopting 
the name of Brokaw Brothers, of New 
York city. 



BROMBERG, FREDERICK GEORGE, 
educator, congressman, was born June 19, 
1837, in New York city. He was appoint¬ 
ed treasurer of the city of Mobile in 1867, 
and served until 1869. He was a member 
of the state senate of Alabama from 1868 
to 1872; and was appointed postmaster of 
Mobile in 1869, and removed in 1871. He 
was elected to the forty-third and forty- 
fourth congresses. 


BROMFIELD, JOHN, merchant, philan¬ 
thropist, was born April 11, 1779, in 

Newburyport, Mass. In 1845 he gave to 
the Boston Athenaeum $25,000, and at his 
death he left munificent bequests to sev¬ 
eral charitable institutions. He died Dec. 
8, 1849, in Boston, Mass. 

BROMLEY, ISAAC HILL, journalist, 
legislator, author, was born March 6, 1833, 
in Norwich, Conn. In 1858 he began the 
publication of the Norwich Morning Bul¬ 
letin. He served as captain in 1862, and 
afterward was provost-marshal. In 1866 
he was a member of the legislature. In 
1868-72 he was editor and part proprietor 
of the Hartford Evening Post; in 1872 
a writer on the editorial staff of the New 
York Sun; and editorial writer on the New 
York Tribune from 1873 till 1883. He died 
Aug. 11, 1898. 


BROMWELL, HENRY P. H„ journalist, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
Aug. 29, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. From 
1852 to 1854 he was the publisher and edi¬ 
tor of the Age of Steam and Fire, at 
Vandalia. In 1853 he was elected judge 
of Fayette county for four years; and was 
a presidential elector in 1860. In 1864 he 
was elected a representative from Illinois 
to the thirty-ninth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the fortieth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

BROMWELL, JACOB H., educator, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born May 11, 1847, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. He taught in the Cin¬ 
cinnati high schools for seventeen years. 
He was assistant county solicitor of Ham¬ 
ilton county for four years; was elected to 
the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses. 



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BRONDEL, JOHN B., Roman catholic 
bishop, was born in 1842, in Belgium. He 
was consecrated bishop of Vancouver is¬ 
land in 1879, appointed administrator of 
the vicariate apostolic of Montana in 1883, 
and in 1884 consecrated bishop of Helena 
in the same territory. 

BRONSON, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, congressman. He was a member 
of the legislature as representative in 1832 
and 1834, and as senator in 1846. He was 
a representative in congress from Nor- 
ridgewoclr, Maine, from 1841 to 1843. From 
1854 to 1857 he was judge of probate for 
Sagadahock county. He died in Novem¬ 
ber, 1863, in Talbot county, Md. 

BRONSON, GREENE CARRIER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born in 1789, in Oneida, 
N. Y. In 1819 he was chosen surrogate 
of Oneida county; in 1822 was a member of 
the assembly, and in 1829 elected attorney- 
general, which office he held up to 1836, 
at which time he became one of the puisne 
judges of the supreme court of judicature. 
He was next appointed chief justice of the 
supreme court in 1845, and two years sub¬ 
sequently one of the judges of the court 
of appeals, then just organized. He died 
Sept. 3, 1863, in Saratoga, N. Y. 

BRONSON, ISAAC H., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1802, in 
Rutland, N. Y. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1837 to 
1839. In 1839 he was appointed one of 
the territorial judges of Florida, and from 
that time until his death served continu¬ 
ally on the bench, at the time of his 
death being district judge of the United 
States for northern Florida. He died Aug. 
13, 1855, in Palatka, Fla. 

BRONSON, SHERLOCK A., college 
president, was born April 21, 1807, in 
Waterbury, Conn. He was appointed pres¬ 
ident of Kenyon college in 1845, and held 
that office until 1850. In 1870 he began to 
supply the pulpit of Grace church of 
Mansfield, of which he became rector in 
1872; continuing in active pastoral work 
until 1889. He died May 17,1890, in Mans¬ 
field, Ohio. 

BRONSON, SILAS, philanthropist, was 
born in Middleborough, Conn. He ac¬ 
quired a fortune, and among other be¬ 
quests, left $200,000 to found a public li¬ 
brary in Waterbury, Conn. He died Nov. 
25, 1867, in New York. 

BROOKE, A. L., farmer, horticulturist, 
state legislator, was born Nov. 29, 1847, 
near Lancaster, Ohio. For fifteen years he 
taught school in his native state; and in 
1886 became a farmer and nurseryman in 
North Topeka, Kan. He has served as 
president of the American Association of 
Nurserymen; and in 1897 was elected a 
member of the Kansas state legislature. 

BROOKE, FRANCIS J., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Aug. 27, 1763, in Smith- 
field, Va. In 1780 he joined Harrison’s 
regiment of artillery as lieutenant, and 
afterward joined Greene’s army, and 
served until the end of the war. He was 
elected to the state house of delegates in 
1794, removed to Fredericksburg in 1796, 
and in 1800 was chosen to the state senate 
becoming its speaker. In 1804 he was 
elected a judge of the general court, and 
in 1811 a judge of the court of appeals, of 
which he was president for eight years. 
In 1831 he was re-elected judge of the 
same court, and retained the office until 
his death. He died March 3, 1851. 

BROOKE, FRANCIS KEY, bishop of 
Oklahoma, I. T., was born Nov. 2, 1852, in 
Gambier, Ohio. He served successively at 
College Hill, Portsmouth, Piqua, and San¬ 
dusky, Ohio. He was rector of St. Peter’s 
church of St. Louis from 1886 to 1888; 
and at Atchison, Kan., from 1888 to 1892. 


BROOKE, FRANCIS MARK, soldier, 
merchant, lawyer, was born July 4, 1836, 
in Radnor, Pa. He served in the civil 
war as a private; in 1863 was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney of Delaware county, Pa.; 
and in 1864 he formed the co-partnership 
of F. M. and H. Brooke, grain merchants 
of Valley Forge, Pa. 

BROOKE, GEORGE MERCER, soldier, 
was born in Virginia. His first brevet, 
.that of lieutenant-colonel, 1814, was for 
gallant conduct in the defense of Fort 
Erie; his second, that of colonel, 1814, 
was for distinguished services in the sor¬ 
tie from Fort Erie. He was made a bre¬ 
vet brigadier-general in 1824, and was 
brevetted major-general in 1848. He died 
March 9, 1851, in San Antonio, Texas. 

BROOKE, JOHN R., soldier, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He was promoted briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers in 1864, and al¬ 
so brevetted major-general of volunteers. 
In the regular army he received brevets 
as colonel and brigadier-general for gal¬ 
lantry in several battles. During the war 
with Spain he was commissioned major- 
general. 

BROOKE, ROBERT, statesman. He 
was governor of Virginia from 1794 to 
1796. 

BROOKE, WALKER, United States 
senator, was born Dec. 13, 1813, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was a senator in congress from 
Mississippi from 1852 to 1853, in place of 
H. S. Foote, resigned. He took part in the 
rebellion. He died Feb. 19, 1869, in Vicks¬ 
burg, Miss. 

BROOKES, JAMES HALL, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 27, 1830, in Pulaski, 
Tenn. He has filled pastorates in the 
Presbyterian churches of Dayton, Ohio; 
and St. Louis, Mo. He is the author of 
How to be Saved; May Christians Dance; 
Is the Bible True; The Way Made Plain; 
and many other works. 

BROOKES, WALTER W., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born March 28, 1858, in Barn¬ 
well county, S. C. Since 1891 he has been 
president of the Rome railroad at Rome, 
Ga. 

BROOKFIELD, WILLIAM, manufac¬ 
turer, was born May 24, 1844, in Green¬ 
back, N. J. In 1864 he, with his father, 
established the Bushwick Glass works, 
which is one of the largest in America. 

BROOKINGS, ROBERT SOMERS, mer¬ 
chant, was born Jan. 22, 1850, in Cecil, Md. 
He originated and developed the system of 
stores and warehouses known as Cupples 
Station, which stands unique as the only 
thing of the kind in the world. He is 
vice-president of both the Union Trust Co. 
and the St. Louis Savings Bank and Safe 
Deposit Co.; and president of Washington 
university. 

BROOKINGS, W. W., jurist, was an 
early emigrant to Utah. He was appointed 
an associate judge of the United States 
court for that territory. 

BROOKS, ARTHUR, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1845, in Massachusetts. He 
was an episcopal clergyman of New York 
city; and the author of —. A volume of 
his sermons was reprinted in London with 
the title, Christ for To-Day. He died in 
1895. 

BROOKS, BYRON ALDEN, inventor, 
author, was born Dec. 12, 1845, in Theresa, 
N. Y. He has invented four different 
kinds of typewriters and has also made 
many important inventions in printing 
mechanics. He is the author of King 
Saul; Those Children and Their Teachers; 
Phil Vernon and his Schoolmaster; and 
Earth Revisited. 

BROOKS, CHARLES, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 30, 1795, in Medford, Mass. 


He was a prominent Massachusetts edu¬ 
cator; and the author of History of Med¬ 
ford; The Christian in his Closet; Daily 
Monitor; Family Prayer-Book; Elements 
of Ornithology; Introduction to Ornith¬ 
ology; and ten volumes of biography. 
He died July 7, 1872. 

BROOKS, CAROLINE SHAWK, sculp¬ 
tor, was born April 28, 1840, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. In 1877 she secured a patent 
for improvements in the methods of pro¬ 
ducing lubricated moulds in plaster. In 
1878 she executed in butter at Washington 
a life-size statue of the Dreaming Io- 
lanthe, which was successfully transported 
to Paris and exhibited at the world’s fair 
of 1878. She subsequently opened a studio 
in New York, and executed portrait mar¬ 
bles of Emanuel Swedenborg, James A. 
Garfield, Thurlow Weed, George Eliot, and 
Thomas Carlyle. 

BROOKS, CHARLES TIMOTHY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 20, 1813, 
in Salem, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman of Newport, R. I., in 1837-73. 
His other work includes Songs of Field 
and Flood; The Simplicity of Christ; 
William Ellery Channing: a Centennial 
Memory; and Poems Original and Trans¬ 
lated. He died June 14, 1883, in Newport, 
R. I. 

BROOKS, CHAUNCEY, merchant, was 
born Jan. 12, 1794, in Burlington, Conn. 
In 1856 he was made president of the 
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Salt works 
in the Kanawha region and other forms of 
enterprise were promoted by him. Ho 
died May 18, 1880. 

BROOKS, DAVID, soldier, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1756. He entered 
the army in 1776 as a lieutenant in the 
Pennsylvania line; was captured at Fort 
Washington, and remained a prisoner for 
two years. He was a representative in 
congress from New York in 1797. He was 
subsequently first judge of Dutchess coun¬ 
ty for sixteen years. He died Aug. 30, 
1838, in Dutchess county, N. Y. 

BROOKS, EDWARD, educator, author, 
was born Jan. 16, 1831, in Stony Point, 
N. Y. He was the principal of the Mil- 
lersville Normal school in Pennsylvania 
from 1866 to 1886, and since then superin¬ 
tendent of the Philadelphia public schools. 
His writings are mainly, though not en¬ 
tirely, mathematical, and among them are 
The Normal Written Arithmetic; Philoso¬ 
phy of Arithmetic; Mental Science and 
Methods of Culture; The Story of the 
Iliad; and The Story of the Odyssey. 

BROOKS, ELBRIDGE GERRY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1816, in New 
Hampshire. He was a universalist clergy¬ 
man of Philadelphia; and the author of 
Universalism a Practical Power; Our New 
Departure; and Universalism in Life and 
Doctrine. He died in 1878. 

BROOKS, ELBRIDGE STREETER, au¬ 
thor, was born April 14, 1846, in Lowell, 
Mass. He has been editor of the Brooklyn 
Daily Times, St. Nicholas Magazine, and 
Wide Awake. He is the author of Life 
Work of Elbridge Gerry Brooks; In No 
Man’s Land; Historic Boys; In Leisler’s. 
Times; Chivalric Days; Storied Holidays; 
Historic Girls; Story of the American 
Indian; The Story of New York; Story 
of the American Sailor; Story of the- 
United States; The True Story of Colum¬ 
bus; Heroic Happenings; A Son of Issa- 
char; The True Story of George Wash¬ 
ington; The Century Book for Young 
Americans; A Boy of the First Empire; 
Great Men’s Sons; The Story of Miriam 
of Magdala; The True Story of Abraham 
Lincoln; The Story of the American Sol¬ 
dier; The Century Book of Famous. 
Americans; Under the Tamaracks; and’ 
The Long Walls. 


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BROOKS, ERASTUS, journalist, states¬ 
man, was born Jan. 31, 1815, in Portland, 
Maine. In 1835 he began in Washington, 
D. C., his career as correspondent, con¬ 
tributing news of the capital to the New 
York Express and other papers. In 1840 
he joined with his brother in the editorial 
management of the Express, subsequently 
assuming the entire control. He was a 
member of the state senate. 

BROOKS, GEORGE M., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born July 26, 
1824, in Concord, Mass. He was a member 
of the Massachusetts legislature in 1858; 
of the state senate in 1859; of the com¬ 
mittee chosen in 1859 to revise the stat¬ 
utes of Massachusetts; and was elected to 
the forty-first congress in 1869, to fill a 
vacancy. 

BROOKS, GEORGE W., jurist, was born 
in North Carolina. He resided at Eliza¬ 
beth City whence he was, in 1866, ap¬ 
pointed United States judge for the east¬ 
ern district of North Carolina. 

BROOKS, HARRY SAYER, journalist, 
was born Aug. 2, 1852, in Waverly, N. Y. 
He was one of the three young men to 
found the Elmira Telegram. From the 
inception of the paper Mr. Brooks was its 
business and editorial manager, soon be¬ 
coming the sole owner. 

BROOKS, HORACE, soldier, was born 
Aug. 14, 1814, in Boston, Mass. He served 
in the Seminole war of 1835-36, receiving 
the brevet of first lieutenant for gallantry 
and good conduct. For his services during 
the war he received two brevets—that of 
major and that of lieutenant-colonel. He 
was brevetted brigadier-general at the 
close of the war. From 1872 till 1877 he 
commanded the presidio at San Francisco, 
and on the latter date was retired from 
active service, being over sixty-two years 
of age. He died March 26, 1890, in De¬ 
troit, Mich. 

BROOKS, HORATIO G., locomotive 
builder, was born Oct. 30, 1828, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. He began business in 
Dunkirk, N. Y., in 1869, under the name 
of The Brooks Locomotive works. From 
one locomotive a month, under the im¬ 
pulse of his strong mind and unceasing 
activity, the works grew until they were 
producing about two hundred locomotives 
a year. In 1883 the company bought the 
works back again at a fair price. Mr. 
Brooks was three times mayor of Dun¬ 
kirk and a highly respected man. The 
works are yet in operation, employing 
1,200 men in busy times. He died April 
20, 1887, in Dunkirk, N. Y. 

BROOKS, JAMES, journalist, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 10, 1810, in Portland, 
Maine. In 1835 he was elected to the 
legislature of Maine; and in 1836 estab¬ 
lished the New York Daily Express, of 
which he was the chief editor and pro¬ 
prietor. In 1847 he was elected a member 
of the New York legislature; from 1849 
to 1853 was a representative in congress 
from the city of New York; and re¬ 
elected to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, 
fortieth, forty-first, forty-second and 
forty-third congresses. He died April 30, 
1873, in Washington, D. C. 

BROOKS, JAMES GORDON, journalist, 
author, was born Sept. 3, 1801, in Claver- 
ack, N. Y. In 1825 he established the 
Literary Gazette, which, after a few 
months, was united with the Athenaeum. 
He was connected with this paper about 
two years, and then with the Morning 
Courier for about the same period. In all 
these journals he published poems, which 
were much admired. He died Feb. 20, 
1841, in Albany, N. Y. 


BROOKS, JAMES WILTON, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born April 19, 1854, 
in New York city. He met with success 
in his practice at the start, and attained a 
just popularity, professionally and so¬ 
cially. In 1882-83 he was elected to the 
state legislature. 

BROOKS, JOHN WILLIAM, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Oct. 27, 1854, in Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. On July 15, 1863, he en¬ 
listed as a union soldier in company C, 
fifth regiment veteran reserve corps In¬ 
diana infantry, as a drummer, and was 
the youngest soldier of the war—less than 
nine years of age. In 1882 he graduated 
from the Iowa state university and two 
years later began the practice of law in 
Ellsworth, Kan. He was in the military 
band in the procession at the funeral of 
Abraham Lincoln. 

BROOKS, JOSEPH, clergyman, state 
senator, governor, was born Nov. 1, 1821, 
in Butler county, Ohio. When the civil 
war began, he became chaplain of the 
first Missouri artillery. He afterwards 
aided in raising the eleventh and thirty- 
third Missouri regiments, and was trans¬ 
ferred to the latter as chaplain. He re¬ 
moved to Little Rock in the autumn of 
1868, and was elected state senator in 
1870. In 1872 he became governor. He 
was appointed postmaster at Little Rock 
in March, 1875, and held the office till 
his death. He. died April 30,1877, in Little 
Rock, Ark. 

BROOKS, KENDALL, educator, clergy¬ 
man, was born Sept. 3, 1821, in Roxbury, 
Mass. In 1841 he graduated from the 
Brown university, 
and in 1845 from the 
Newton Theological 
institution. During 
1845-52 he was pas¬ 
tor of the Baptist 
church at Eastport, 
Maine; and for ten 
years was pastor in 
Fitchburg, Mass. In 
1852-55 he was pro¬ 
fessor of mathemat¬ 
ics in the Colby uni¬ 
versity; president of 
Kalamazoo college during 1868-87; and 
since 1888 has been professor of mathe¬ 
matics in the Alma college, Mich. For 
three years he was editor of the National 
Baptist of Philadelphia; and has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature. 

BROOKS, LEWIS, manufacturer, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born in 1793, in New 
Milford, Conn. He was a manufacturer 
of woolen cloth, and later in the mercan¬ 
tile business. In 1837 he retired, and de¬ 
voted his time chiefly to investing his 
money and looking after his real estate. 
He made various charitable bequests, 
among which was $10,000 to the Roches¬ 
ter City hospital, a like sum to St. Mary’s 
hospital, and $5,000 each to the industrial 
school and the Female Charitable society. 
He also bequeathed $120,000 to the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia, $31,000 alone being 
expended on the work of collecting a 
cabinet. He died Aug. 9, 1877, in Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. 

BROOKS, MRS. MARIA GOWEN, 
author, was born in 1795, in Massachu¬ 
setts. She is a poet whose fate it has 
been to be utterly neglected after being 
once extravagantly praised. Zophiel, or 
The Bride of Seven, her chief work, is 
a poem whose incidents are taken from 
the story of Sara in the apocryphal book 
of Tobit. It is a work of considerable 
power but extravagant sentiment. Ido- 
men, or the Vale of Yumuri, is to some 
extent autobiographic. She died Nov. 11, 
1845, in Cuba. 


BROOKS, MICAH, educator, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1775, in Cheshire, 
Conn. He was a justice of the peace in 
1806, and for twenty years thereafter was 
a county judge. He was a member of the 
New York assembly in 1808 and 1809; and 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1815 to 1817. He was a 
member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1821; and a presidential elector 
in 1824. He died July 7, 1857, in Living¬ 
ston county, N. Y. 

BROOKS, NATHAN COVINGTON, 
educator, author, was born Aug. 12, 1819„ 
in Maryland. He is a prominent educator 
of Baltimore, who, besides publishing an 
excellent series of classical text-books, 
chief among which are editions of Ovid’s 
Metamorphoses and Virgil’s .Eneid, is 
the author of A Complete History of the 
Mexican War. 

BROOKS, NOAH, author, was born Oct.. 
30, 1830, in Castine, Maine. He is a New 
York writer of popular books for boys; 
and the author of The Boy Emigrants; 
The Fairport Nine; Our Baseball Club; 
Abraham Lincoln; The Boy Settlers; 
American Statesmen; Tales of the Maine 
Coast; Abraham Lincoln and the Down¬ 
fall of American Slavery; How the Re¬ 
public is Governed; Short Studies in 
American Party Politics; Washington in 
Lincoln’s Time, a volume of gossipy re¬ 
collections; The Mediterranean Trip; and 
The Story of Marco. 

BROOKS, PETER CHARDON, mer¬ 
chant, state senator, was born Jan. 6_ 
1767, in Yarmouth, Maine. Engaging in 
the business of marine insurance, he ac¬ 
quired great wealth and was some years 
president of the New England Insurance- 
company. He was a member of both 
branches of the state legislature; and a 
delegate to the constitutional convention 
in 1820. He died Jan. 1, 1849, in Boston,. 
Mass. 

BROOKS, PHILLIPS, clergyman, bish¬ 
op, author, was born Dec. 13, 1835, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was the sixth protestant 
episcopal bishop of 
Massachusetts. He 
was rector of Holy 
Trinity church at 
Philadelphia in 1862- 
69; and of Trinity 
church, Boston, from 
1869 until his conse¬ 
cration as bishop in 
1891. He was a lead¬ 
er of broad church 
opinion, but had no 
hostility towards 
forms of thought op¬ 
posed to his. For many years before his. 
death he had been accounted the foremost 
preacher in America. He was the author- 
of The Influence of Jesus; Lectures on 
Preaching; The Candle of the Lord and 
Other Sermons; The Light of the World 
and Other Sermons; Sermons in English 
Churches; Twenty Sermons; Sermons, 
for the Principal Festivals and Fasts; 
Tolerance; A Century of Church Growth 
in Boston; Essays and Addresses; Let¬ 
ters of Travel; and The Oldest School in 
America. O Little Town of Bethlehem, 
is a popular poem by him. He died Jan. 
23, 1893, in Boston, Mass. 

BROOKS, PRESTON S., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in August, 1819, in 
Edgefield district, S. C. He was a state- 
representative in 1844; in 1846 raised a 
company of volunteers, was made captain, 
was elected to congress in 1853, and again 
in 1855. In 1856 he made a personal as¬ 
sault upon Charles Sumner in the United' 
States senate chamber, which event caused 
much excitement throughout the country. 
He died Jan. 27, 1857, in Washington, D. C., 






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BROOKS, THOMAS BENTON, engi¬ 
neer, author, was born June 15, 1836, in 
Monroe, N. Y. During the civil war he 
was captain in the first New York volun¬ 
teer engineers, afterward becoming major 
and aide on the general staff of the army. 
At the time of his resignation he held 
the brevet rank of colonel. From 1869 to 
1879 he was assistant geologist in charge 
of the surveys of the Lake Superior iron 
regions. In this connection he was as¬ 
sociated with Raphael Pumpelly, and pre¬ 
pared Geological Survey of Michigan; and 
Geology of Wisconsin. 

BROOKS, WILLIAM GRANT, educator, 
composer, poet, was born Feb. 26, 1869, 
in Saco, Maine. He is the author of a 
number of songs that 
ha\e become popular 
throughout the 
United States; and 
many of his poems 
have been incorpo¬ 
rated into several 
standard works. He 
is a good musician, 
and for many years 
was organist in the 
Universalist church 
of Biddeford, Maine. 
He is one of the most 
prominent members of the Maine grand 
lodge of Good Templars; Knights of 
Pythias, and other fraternal bodies. 

BROOKS, WILLIAM KEITH, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born March 25, 1848, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. He is a professor of 
morphology at Johns Hopkins university; 
and the author of Hand-Book of Inverte¬ 
brate Zoology; Development of the Amer¬ 
ican Oyster; Conifer, a Study in Mor¬ 
phology; Development of Lingula; and 
The Law of Heredity. 

BROOKS, WILLIAM MYRON, college 
president, legislator, was born March 5, 
1835, in La Porte. Ohio. He is a graduate 
from Oberlin college, and became presi¬ 
dent of Tabor college in 1866. He was 
the presidential elector in 1876, and the 
same year was elected a member of the 
Iowa legislature. In 1868 he was made 
president of the State Teachers’ associa¬ 
tion of Iowa. Since 1891 he has been 
president of the Tabor and Northern rail¬ 
way. 

BROOKS, WILLIAM ROBERT, as¬ 
tronomer, lecturer, was born June 11, 
1844, in England. He invented various 
improvements in astronomical, photo¬ 
graphic, and other scientific instruments. 
In 1870 he settled in Phelps, N. Y., where 
in 1874 he founded and became the di¬ 
rector of the Red House observatory. In 
1888 he removed to Geneva, N. Y., to take 
charge of Smith observatory. His work 
has consisted largely in the discovery of 
comets, and thirteen of these bodies have 
been credited to him since 1881. Six med¬ 
als have been conferred upon him. 

BROOKSHIRE, ELIJAH VOORHEES, 
farmer, congressman, was born Aug. 15, 
1856, in Ladoga, Ind. He was engaged in 
the practice of the law and farming when 
elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second 
congresses; and was re-elected to the 
fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

BROOM, JACOB, congressman, was 
born July 25, 1808, in Baltimore, Md. In 
1840 he was deputy auditor of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; and was elected a representative 
from that state to the thirty-fourth con¬ 
gress. He died in November, 1864, in 
Washington, D. C. 

BROOM, JAMES M., congressman, was 
born in 1778, in Delaware. He was gradu¬ 
ated at Princeton in 1794; and was a mem¬ 
ber of congress from Delaware from 1805 
to 1807. 


BROOMALL, JOHN M., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1816, 
in Upper Chichester, Pa. He served in the 
legislature of the state; was a presidential 
elector in 1861; and in 1862 was elected 
a. representati\ e from Pennsylvania to the 
thirty-eighth congress; was re-elected to 
the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. 

BROOME, JAMES E., governor, was 
born March 3, in Florida. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Florida from 1853 to 1857. 

BROOME, JAMES M., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Delaware from 1805 to 1807. 

BROOME, JOHN, merchant, was born in 
1738. He was a member of the New York 
state constitutional convention of 1777 
and lieutenant-governor of the state in 
1804. During the whole of his public 
career he was prominent in New York, 
and was for many years at the head of 
some of the most important charitable 
and commercial institutions of the city. 
An important thoroughfare bears his 
name. He died Aug. 8, 1810. 

BROOME, JOHN L., soldier, was born 
March 8, 1824,-in New York city. During 
the war with Mexico he served with his 
corps. In 1862 he commanded the marine 
guard of the Hartford, Farragut’s flag¬ 
ship, and was present at the passage of 
Forts Jackson and St. Philip (April 24); 
and in the various engagements at Vicks¬ 
burg and Port Hudson, which resulted in 
wresting the Mississippi river from the 
confederate forces. He was twice wounded 
during the war, and at its close received 
the brevets of major' and lieutenant-colo¬ 
nel for gallant and meritorious services. 

BROOME, LEWIS HENRY, architect, 
was born June 28, 1849, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He served in the civil war; and at¬ 
tained the rank of major. He has designed 
and erected many of the finest buildings 
in New Jersey and New York. 

BROREIN, WILLIAM G., educator, 
manufacturer, state senator, was born 
Oct. 31, 1861, in Marion, Ohio. After grad¬ 
uating from the Ohio Normal university 
he entered educational work, and for 
three years was superintendent of public 
schools at Cridersville. Since 1866 he has 
been a merchant and manufacturer of 
Buckland, Ohio, and in 1891 was elected 
its first mayor. He has served as a mem¬ 
ber of the seventy-first and seventy- 
second general assemblies of Ohio; and 
in 1897 was elected to the state senate. 

BRORUP, RASMUS PETERSON, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1851. He is the 
author of Christianity and Our Times; 
Truth and Poetry; and other works. 
For many years he has been engaged in 
the publishing business, with headquar¬ 
ters in Chicago, Ill. 

BROSIUS, MARRIOTT, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 7, 1843, in 
Lancaster county, Pa. He enlisted as a 
private in company 
K, ninety-seventh 
regiment Pennsyl¬ 
vania volunteers for 
three years; and 
was commissioned a 
second lieutenant for 
bravery on the field 
of battle. He was 
elected to the fifty- 
first, fifty-second, 
fifty-third, fi f t y- 
fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses as a re¬ 
publican. In 1893 he received the hon- 
oraiy degree of LL. D. from Ursinus col¬ 
lege. 

BROSS, WILLIAM, journalist, author, 
was born Nov. 4, 1813, in Montague, N. .T. 


He was a Chicago journalist; and the au¬ 
thor of History of Chicago (1866); Tom 
Quick, a romance of Indian warfare; and 
Chicago and Her Future Growth. He 
died in 1890. 

BROTHERTON, MRS. ALICE WIL¬ 
LIAMS, poet, was born in Cambridge, Ind. 
She is a magazine writer of Cincinnati, 
whose work is mainly in poetry; and she 
is the author of Beyond the Veil; The 
Sailing of King Olaf; and What the Wind 
Told the Tree-Tops, prose and verse for 
children. In 1876 she married William 
Ernest Brotherton of Cincinnati, Ohio, 
which city has since been her home. 
Many of her poems have been set to music 
in America and in England. 

BROUGH. CHARLES HENRY, soldier, 
legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 17, 1813. 
in Marietta, Ohio. He was a member of 
the Ohio legislature in 1840-41; command¬ 
ed the fourth Ohio regiment during the 
war with Mexico; and was presiding judge 
of the Hamilton county court of com¬ 
mon pleas at the time of his death. He 
died May 10, 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

BROUGH. JOHN, journalist, governor, 
was born Sept. 17, 1811, in Marietta. Ohio. 
In 1831 he published at Marietta the 
Washington County Republican, and in 
1833 the Lancaster Eagle. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature; from 1839 to 1845 
auditor; and in 1846 opened a law office 
in Cincinnati and published the Inquirer. 
In 1848 he was president of'the Madison 
and Indianapolis railway; and in 1853, 
of the Bellefontaine and Indianapolis 
road. In 1863 he was elected governor of 
Ohio. He died Aug. 29, 1865, in Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. 

BROUGHAM, JOHN, author, was born 
May 9, 1810, in Ireland. He was a noted 
dramatist, and the author of over a 
hundred comedies and farces, many of 
which, like Vanity Fair and The Irish 
Emigrant, have been very successful. He 
died June 7, 1880, in New York. 

BROUGHTON, E. P., railroad manager, 
was born in England. For a number of 
years he was a railroad telegraph oper¬ 
ator; and since 1879 has been connected 
with the Chicago and Eastern Illinois 
railroad, of which he is now general su¬ 
perintendent. 

BROUGHTON, THOMAS, lawyer, 
statesman. He was councilor and collect¬ 
or of customs in South Carolina in 1808; 
afterward lieutenant-governor; and in 
1855 was made governor, serving in that 
position until his death. He died in 1858. 

BROUN, THOMAS L., soldier, lawyer, 
was born in Loudoun county, Va. In 1848 
he graduated from the university of Vir¬ 
ginia; taught school 
two years; and was 
admitted to the bar 
in 1852. He entered 
the confederate ser¬ 
vice as a private in 
the Kanawha rifle¬ 
men; was promoted 
to major in the third 
Virginia regiment of 
Wise Legion; and 
severely wounded at 
the battle of Cloyd’s 
Mountain. After the 
war Major Broun was reinstated in his 
old position as president of the Navigation 
company of Charleston. During 1866-70 
he practiced law in New York city, when 
he returned again to Charleston. He has 
made a specialty of West Virginia lav/ 
and land titles; and has devoted his en¬ 
ergies to the development of the Coal 
river region, in which he has a large per¬ 
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BROUSSARD, ROBERT F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 17, 1864, in 
Iberia, La. He became the nominee of 
the anti-lottery wing of the democratic 
party for the district attorneyship of the 
nineteenth judicial district of Louisiana, 
to which position he was elected at the 
state election of 1892, he being the only 
one of that w T ing of the democratic party 
elected in the district at that election. In 
1894 he was unanimously renominated to 
the same position by the democratic party 
and re-elected at the election of that year; 
and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a democrat. 


BROWER, JOHN HAMIL, merchant, 
was born Aug. 12, 1801, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
The New York and Texas Packet line was 
his venture and, at one time, fifteen ves¬ 
sels belonged to him and traded to all 
parts of the world. His ship Harvey 
Birch, named after the noted spy of the 
American revolution, was the first vessel 
captured and destroyed by the confeder¬ 
ates during the civil war. He died June 
15, 1881, in New York city. 


BROWER, JOHN M., state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 19, 1845, in 
Greensborough, N. C. In 1878 he was 
elected to the state senate from the thirty- 
third district; and was elected to the 
fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

BROWN, AARON VAIL, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born Aug. 15, 
1795, in Brunswick county, Va. He served 
for a number of 
years in the legis¬ 
lature of Tennessee; 
in 1839 was elected 
a member of con¬ 
gress from Tennes¬ 
see, and re-elected in 
1841 and 1843. On 
his retirement from 
congress in 1845, he 
was elected governor 
of Tennessee. His 
last position was 
that of postmaster- 
general in the cabinet of President Bu¬ 
chanan. He died March 8, 1859, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

BROWN, ABRAM ENGLISH, author, 
was born in 1849 in Massachusetts. He is 
the author of Beneath Old Roof Trees, a 
volume of local history; Beside Old 
Hearthstones; History of Bedford; Bed¬ 
ford Old Families; Glimpses of New Eng¬ 
land Life; and Flag of the Minute Men. 



BROWN, ADDISON, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Feb. 21, 1830, in West Newbury, 
Mass. He attended Amherst college dur¬ 
ing l6 i i8-4»; grauu- 
ated from Howard 
college in 1852; and 
from the Harvard 
Law school in 1854. 
He then moved to 
New York city 
where he was active¬ 
ly engaged in the 
practice of law until 
his appointment in 
1881 as United States 
district judge for the 
southern district of 
New York. He was appointed by Presi¬ 
dent Garfield during recess of the sen¬ 
ate on June 2, 1881; and was again ap¬ 
pointed by President Arthur on Oct. 14, 
1881. He has ever since filled the office 
af United States district judge with great 
judicial ability and learning. 



BROWN, AGNES, artist, was born in 
Newburyport, Mass. She paints land¬ 
scapes, flower-pieces, and animals in oil- 
colors; her especial forte being cats. 


BROWN, ALBERT GALLATIN, lawyer, 
governor, United States senator, was born 
May 31, 1813, in Chester District, S. C. 

He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress 
from Mississippi in 
1840 and 1841; gov¬ 
ernor of Mississippi 
from 1844 to 184S; 
and was again elect¬ 
ed a representative 
in congress from 
1848 to 1854. He was 
a judge of the circuit 
superior court in 
1852 and 1853; was 
elected a United 
States senator from 1854 to 1858; and was 
re-elected for six years, commencing 
March 4, 1859, but was expelled in March, 
1861, and joined the great rebellion. He 
died June 12, 1880, near Jacksonville. 
Miss. 

BROWN, ALEXANDER, banker, was 
born Nov. 17,1764, in Ireland. He was the 
founder and president of the banking 
house of Alexander Brown and Sons, of 
Baltimore, Md.; Shipley and Company of 
Liverpool and London, England; and also 
of the Brown Brothers and Company of 
Philadelphia and New York. He died 
Dec. 17, 1834. 

BROWN, ALEXANDER, historian, was 
born Sept. 5, 1843, in Nelson county, Va. 
During 1861-65 he was a soldier in the con¬ 
federate service; a merchant during 1865- 
80; and for over a quarter of . a century 
has been interested in farming in his na¬ 
tive county. Since his youth he has been 
interested in literary work, and has re¬ 
ceived the degree of D. C. L., conferred by 
the university of the South. He is the 
author of The Genesis of the Lnited 
States; The Cabeils and Their Kin; and 
The History of the First Republic in 
America. 

BROWN, ALEXANDER, banker, was 
born Oct. 25. 1858, in Baltimore, Md. On 
the death of his father became head of 
the banking house of Alexander and Sons; 
is vice-president of the Canton company; 
president of the Macon and Northern rail¬ 
road; and director of the Mechanics’ Na¬ 
tional bank; Savings bank of Baltimore, 
and numerous other business organiza¬ 
tions. 

BROWN, ALICE, author, was born in 
New Hampshire. She is a Boston writer 
on the staff of the Youth’s Companion; 
and the author of Fools of Nature, a 
novel; Meadow Grass, a collection of New 
England stories; By Oak and Thorn, a 
volume of English travel; Robert Louis 
Stevenson, a study; and Life of Mercy 
Otis Warren. 

BROWN, ANDREW, soldier, journalist, 
was born in 1744 in Ireland. He fought on 
the patriot side at Lexington and Bunker 
Hill, was made general mustering officer 
in 1777, and served under Gates and 
Greene, with the rank of major. In 1788 
he established the Federal Gazette, the 
title of which was changed, in 1793, to 
the Philadelphia Gazette. This was the 
main channel through which the friends 
of the federal constitution addressed the 
public, and it was the first journal to pub¬ 
lish regular reports of the debates in con¬ 
gress. He died Feb. 4, 1797, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

BROWN, ANNA ROBESON, author, 
was born in 1873 in Pennsylvania. She 
is the author of Sir Mark; and The Black 
Lamb. 

BROWN, ANSON, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from that state during 
the years 1839 and 1840. He died June 
21, 1840, in Ballston, N. Y. 


BROWN, ARTHUR, lawyer, United 
States senator, was born March 8, 1843, 
in Kalamazoo county, Mich. He com¬ 
menced the practice of law in 1865 in 
Kalamazoo, Mich., and in 1879 removed 
to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he has 
since resided and engaged in the practice 
of law. Upon the admission of the state 
of Utah, he was elected as a republican to 
the United States senate Jan. 22, 1896, 
himself and colleague being elected at 
one and the same time and on the same 
vote. In drawing lots in the presence of 
the senate, he drew the short term. 

BROWN, ARTHUR R., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Sept. 26, 1850, in New York. 
He received his education in the Military 
school, Clinton, N. Y., and in Boston, 
Mass. For ten years he has served as 
county attorney; and has been deputy 
district attorney and city attorney, and 
for many years filled the office of county 
judge. He is a prominent lawyer of Red 
Cliff, Colo., where he is also engaged 
in mining and loans. 

BROWN, AUSTIN HAYMOND, journal¬ 
ist, was born March 19, 1828, in Milroy, 
Ind. Returning to Indianapolis, he be¬ 
came the proprietor of the State Sentinel 
newspaper, which he conducted ably for 
five years, first as a semi-weekly and then 
as a daily, assisted in the editorial man¬ 
agement by his father, William J. Brown. 
Since 1861 he has served thirteen consec¬ 
utive years in the city council, and nine 
years as one of the board of school com¬ 
missioners. 

BROWN, B. GRATZ, soldier, journalist, 
United States senator, was born May 28, 
1826, in Lexington, Ky. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Missouri 
legislature from 1852 
to 1858; assisted in 
establishing the Mis¬ 
souri Democrat, and 
edited that journal 
from 1854 to 1859. A 
speech that he deliv¬ 
ered in the legisla¬ 
ture in 1857 was the 
initial movement in 
behalf of freedom in 
that state. In 1861 
he volunteered and 
raised a regiment, which assisted in the 
capture of Camp Jackson, and which he 
commanded during its term of service. He 
was elected a senator in congress from 
Missouri for the term of 1863-67. In 1872 he 
received a complimentary vote for presi¬ 
dent of the United States. He died Dec. 
13, 1885. 

BROWN, BEDFORD, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born in 1795, in Caswell county, 
N. C. He was elected to the house of 
commons of that state in 1815, in which 
capacity he served many years; and was a 
senator in congress from that state from 
1829 to 1841. He was subsequently elected 
to the general assembly, and was first 
elected to the senate and served two 
terms. He died Dec. 6, 1870, in Caswell 
county, N. C. 

BROWN, BEDFORD, physician, was 
born Jan. 1, 1825, in Caswell county, N. C. 
When the civil war broke out he entered 
the army as a surgeon, and during the 
latter part of the war was an inspector 
of hospitals and camps. He was one of 
the founders of the Southern Surgical and 
Gynaecological association, and has served 
as president, vice-president and member 
of its judicial council. 

BROWN, BENJAMIN, congressman. He 
served in the state legislature in 1809, 
1811 and 1812; and was a representative 
in congress from Massachusetts from 1815 
to 1817. 





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BROWN, BUCKMINSTER, surgeon, 
author, was born July 13, 1819, in Boston. 
Devoting himself to orthopaedic surgery, 
he has attained experience and skill that 
places him among the foremost living 
specialists in that line. He is the author 
of many technical treatises, including a 
full account of the instance of the double¬ 
hip displacement. 

BROWN, CALVIN SCOTT, educator, 
clergyman, missionary, was born March 
23, 1859, in Winton, N. C. In 1886 he 
graduated from the Shaw university. He 
has been secretary and president of the 
baptist state convention; president of the 
Baptist State Ministers’ association, and 
has been pastor and is now president of 
Waters Normal institute and general mis¬ 
sionary secretary of the baptist state con¬ 
vention. He is connected with various 
societies as secretary, superintendent and 
grand chaplain; and is also the editor of 
the Baptist Pilot. 

BROWN, CHARLES, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1841 to 1843, and again from 1847 to 
1849. He subsequently held the office of 
collector of the port of Philadelphia; and 
was a delegate to the Philadelphia na¬ 
tional union convention of 1866. 

BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 17, 1771, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a novelist of Philadel¬ 
phia, and the first of 
native authors who 
adopted literature as 
a profession. In his 
novels probability 
plays a very small 
part, the local color 
is faint, though the 
scenes are American, 
and all are overshad¬ 
owed by an over¬ 
powering element of 
mystery. In spite of 
extravagances and 
faults, his work possesses undeniable 
power of a very high order, and does not 
deserve the neglect into which it has 
fallen. Wieland; Ormond, or the Secret 
Witness; and Arthur Mervyn, are in some 
respects the most powerful of his works. 
He is the author of Edgar Huntley, or 
the Memories of a Sleep Walker; Clara 
Howard, reprinted in England as Philip 
Stanley; and Jane Talbot. He died Feb. 
22, 1810. 

BROWN, CHARLES ELWOOD, lawyer, 
soldier, congressman, was born July 4, 
.1834, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1861 he en¬ 
listed in the union army; served through¬ 
out the civil war, attained the rank of colo¬ 
nel and brevet brigadier-general. In the 
Atlanta campaign, in 1864, he commanded 
his regiment and lost a leg. In 1872 he 
was appointed United States pension 
agent at Cincinnati, serving four years; 
and in 1884, was elected a representative' 
from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress, 
and re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a 
republican. 

BROWN, CHARLES LINCOLN, lawyer, 
state senator, was born July 6, 1864, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a successful law¬ 
yer of Philadelphia; was a member of the 
common council in 1891 and 1893; a mem¬ 
ber of the select council in 1894; and in 
1896 was elected a member of the Penn¬ 
sylvania state senate. 

BROWN, CHARLES RUFUS, theolog¬ 
ian, author, was born in 1849, in New 
Hampshire. He has been a professor of 
Old Testament interpretation at Union 
Theological seminary since 1883. He is 
the author of An Aramaic Method, a 
Text and Grammar. 


BROWN, D. RUSSELL, manufacturer, 
governor, was born March 28, 1848, in 
Connecticut. In 1880 he was elected to 
the common council 
of Providence, and 
served four years. In 
1886 he was tendered 
the nomination of 
mayor, but declined; 
and two years later 
was elected presiden¬ 
tial elector. In 1892 
he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Rhode Isl¬ 
and, and for many 
years filled that high 
office to the entire 
satisfaction of the people. In 1870 Mr. 
Brown moved to Providence and took 
charge of the Mill supply store of Cyrus 
White, which business he subsequently 
purchased. He is now the president of 
the Brown Brothers’ company, general 
mill furnishers. He is connected with 
numerous charitable and educational in¬ 
stitutions in his city and state; and a 
prominent member of various fraternal 
orders. 

BROWN, DAVID, was noted as the her¬ 
mit of Newfane. He was a noted book 
collector, and left one of the largest and 
most costly libraries in the state. He 
died Jan 31, 1873, in Newfane, Vt. 

BROWN, DAVID PAUL, lawyer, author, 
was born Sept. 28, 1795, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a Philadelphia lawyer and 
the author of two tragedies, Sestorius; 
and The Trial; a melodrama and a com¬ 
edy; and The Forum, or Forty Years’ 
Practice at the Philadelphia Bar. His 
Forensic Speeches were edited by his son 
in 1873. He died July 11, 1872, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

BROWN, DUNCAN, soldier, clergyman, 
college president, was born June 6, 1844, 
in Hannibal, Mo. He served as a union 
soldier from 1861 to 1865, and in 1868 
graduated from Pardee college, Mo.; and 
from the Princeton Theological seminary 
in 1871. He has held pastorates in Mound 
City, St. Joseph, Macon and Tarkio, Mo. 
He has been president of the Highland 
university of Kansas, and is now presi¬ 
dent of the Brookfield college of Tarkio, 
Mo. 

BROWN, E. SCOTT, lawyer, legislator, 
was born Dec. 3, 1846, in Allen county, 
Ky. During 1869-75 he was a merchant 
and postmaster in Scottsville, Ky.; and in 
1876 was one of the founders of the city 
of De Land, Fla. In 1879 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, and has since success¬ 
fully practiced that profession. For six 
years he was clerk of the Allen circuit 
court; and during 1886-91 was president cf 
the Bank of Allen County. In 1887-88 
he was a member of the lower house of 
the Kentucky legislature and served with 
distinction in that body. In 1888 he was 
chosen a delegate to represent the na¬ 
tional farmers’ congress in the Paris ex¬ 
position; the same year was a delegate 
to the republican national convention, and 
during 1894-97 was police judge of the city 
of Scottsville, Ky. 

BROWN, EDWARD JOSIAH, physician, 
surgeon, was born Jan. 14, 1851, in Burke, 
Vt. In 1874 he graduated from Dartmouth 
college, and graduated from the medical 
department of the university of New York 
in 1878. He also studied medicine in the 
university of Berlin. He has held chairs 
of chemistry, hygiene, ophthalmology and 
otology in the Minneapolis college of phy¬ 
sicians and surgeons. In 1888 he was 
president of the Hennepin County Med¬ 
ical society, and has held various other 
positions of honor. 


BROWN, EDWIN LEE, architect, busi¬ 
ness man, humanitarian, was born- 
in March, 1827. In 1860 he moved 
to Chicago, where he was engaged in 
the manufacture of sidewalk and vault 
lights. He has held other positions, as 
president of the Western Sand Blast and 
Western Seed companies, and the gas 
company of Evanston; he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Young Men’s Library asso¬ 
ciation. He was active in establishing the 
Western Lecture bureau; and has been 
president of the Interstate Industrial ex¬ 
position, the Illinois Humane society, 
and the American Humane association. 

BROWN, EDWIN N., educator, author, 
was born in 1860, in Lansing, Mich. He 
graduated from the university of Michi¬ 
gan, and has since been superintendent 
of the schools of Jonesville and Allegan, 
Mich., and Hastings, Neb. He is the 
author of Treasury of Latin Gems, and 
other works. 

BROWN, EGBERT BENSON, soldier, 
was born Oct. 24, 1816, in Brownsville, 
N. Y. He served through the civil war,, 
mainly in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, 
and left the army with one shoulder al¬ 
most wholly disabled and a bullet in his- 
hip. The legislature of Missouri officiallr 
complimented the troops of his command 
for their conduct at the battle of Spring- 
field. From 1866 till 1868 he was United' 
States pension agent at St. Louis. 

BROWN, ELIAS, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Mary¬ 
land from 1829 to 1831; and a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1820, 1828 and 1836. 

BROWN, ELLSWORTH LINCOLN, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Jan. 31, 1862, 
in Milan, Ill. He was elected to the Wash¬ 
ington state senate from the seventeenth 
district; was also court commissioner,, 
and has attained an enviable reputation 
as a brilliant lawyer. 

BROWN, EMMA ELIZABETH, author, 
poet, was born Oct. 18, 1847, in Concord, 
N. H. Her works include lives of Wash¬ 
ington; Grant; Garfield; Wendell Holmes; 
Russell Lowell; From Night to Light, a 
story of Bible times; The Child Toilers 
of Boston Streets; and An Hundred Years 
Ago, a volume of poems. 

BROWN, ETHAN ALLEN, jurist, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born 
July 4, 1776, in Darien, Conn. He was 
judge of the supreme court of Ohio from 
1810-18; governor of the state from 
1818-22; and United States senator from 
1822-25. He was United States minister 
to Brazil from 1830-34, and commissioner 
of the general land office in 1835-36. He 
removed to Indiana in 1836, and was a 
member of the Indiana legislature in 1842. 
He died Feb. 24,1852, in Indianapolis, Ind. 

BROWN, FLETCHER, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born Aug. 2, 1850, in 
Guernsey county, Ohio. He was educated 
at the Central university, Drew Theo¬ 
logical seminary, and Simpson college. 
He served as a member of the Des Moines 
conference for eight years; was vice-pres¬ 
ident of Simpson college for five years, 
and was also its president for five years. 

BROWN, FOSTER VINCENT, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1854, in 
White county, Tenn. He was elected at¬ 
torney-general of the fourth Chattanooga 
judicial district in 1886, and held the office 
for eight years, his term ending in 1894. 
He removed to Chattanooga in 1890, and 
continued the practice of law with Judge 
Charles D. Clark. He was a delegate to 
the republican national convention in 
1884 and voted for James G. Blaine for 
president; and was elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a republican. 





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BROWN, FRANCIS, third president of 
-Dartmouth college, was born Jan. 11, 1784, 
in Chester, N. H. He graduated from 
Dartmouth college, became a tutor, and 
in 1810 was ordained a pastor of the con¬ 
gregational church in North Yarmouth, 
Maine. In 1815 he was inaugurated presi¬ 
dent of Dartmouth college; and died 
July 27, 1820. 

BROWN, FRANCIS, educator, author, 
was born in 1849 in New Hampshire He 
has been professor of Hebrew and cognate 
languages at Union Theological seminary 
since 1890; and is the author of Assyriol- 
ogy; its Use and Abuse; and The Teach¬ 
ings of the Apostles. 

BROWN, FREDERIC ALDEN, banker, 
was born Sept. 16, 1851, in Cincinnati, 
•Ohio. In 1877 he became a member of 
the firm known as Walston H. Brown 

■ and Brothers. He was for eight years 
treasurer of the Rochester and Pittsburg 
railroad company, and was for the same 
length of time connected with the Roch¬ 
ester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron com¬ 
pany. 

BROWN, GEORGE, banker, was born 
April 17, 1787, in Ireland. The city of 
Baltimore is largely indebted to him, as 
well as his father for the condition of the 
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He do¬ 
nated his money liberally to the important 
institutions, and for many of them was 
• an active worker. He died Aug. 26, 1859, 
in Baltimore, Md. 

BROWN, GEORGE, naval officer, was 
born June 19, 1835. He participated in the 
hazardous ascent of the Mississippi river 
under Farragut, and in the first attack 
on Vicksburg in June, 1862. He was pro¬ 
moted lieutenant-commander in 1862, and 
shortly afterward placed in charge of the 
Yndianola iron-clad, of the Mississippi 
squadron. 

BROWN, GEORGE EUGENE, educator, 
college president, was born May 18, 1867, 
in Mason City, Iowa. He graduated with 
the degree of B. S. from the Iowa Agri¬ 
cultural college in 1892. He has occu¬ 
pied positions as teacher, county superin¬ 
tendent, editor and president of the Mid¬ 
land Normal school, and is well known as 

■ a writer on educational topics. 

BROWN, GEORGE H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New Jersey. He 
was a member of the convention which 
formed the state constitution of 1844; and 
was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1851 to 1853. 

BROWN, GEORGE LORING, painter, 
was born Feb. 2, 1814, in Boston, Mass. 
He spent twenty years in Antwerp, Rome. 
Florence, Paris and London, and returned 
to the United States in 1860, with a high 
reputation as a landscape painter at home 
and abroad. Among his more important 
pictures are The Bay of New York; The 
Crown of New England; Venice; Sunset, 
Genoa; Niagara by Moonlight; Capri; 
Doge’s Palace at Sunset; Sunrise, Venice; 
and Doge’s Palace at Sunrise. He died 
June 25, 1889, in Boston, Mass. 

BROWN, GEORGE THADDEUS, spe¬ 
cialist, was born July 16, 1863, in Belton, 
S.- C. He attended the North Georgia 
Agricultural college, Southern Medical 
college. New York Post Graduate, and 
the New York Polyclinic. He has attained 
a national reputation as a specialist in 
diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. 

BROWN, GEORGE WARREN, mer¬ 
chant, manufacturer, was born March 21, 
1853, in Granville, N. Y. He organized 
the first successful shoe manufacturing 
plant in St. Louis, commencing operations 
Dec. 1, 1878. He has been president of 
the Brown Shoe company since its first 
incorporation in 1882. 


BROWN, GLENN, architect, author, 
was born Sept. 13, 1854, in Fauquier coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was educated at the Washing¬ 
ton and Lee university, and at the Massa¬ 
chusetts Institute of Technology, of Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. Since 1879 he has been en¬ 
gaged in the architectural work in the 
District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland 
and South Carolina. He is the author of 
many books on sanitary, mechanical and 
historical topics. He is the author of a 
work entitled A History of the United 
States Capitol. 

BROWN, GOOLD, educator, author, was 
born March 7, 1791, in Providence, R. I. 
He was an educator of New York city and 
a famous grammarian. He was the au¬ 
thor of Grammar of English Grammars; 
Institutes of English Grammar; and First 
Lines of English Grammar. His works 
on grammar have probably had the most 
extensive circulation of any of the kind. 
He died March 31, 1857, in Lynn, Mass. 

BROWN, HELEN DAWES, lecturer, 
author, was born in Massachusetts. She 
was a lecturer on English literature in 
New York city, and the author of Thp 
Petrie Estate, a novel; Two College Girls; 
and Little Miss Phoebe Gay. 

BROWN, HENRY ARMITT, lawyer, 
orator, author, was born Dec. 1, 1844, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer and 
orator of Philadelphia, and the author of 
Four Historical Orations, which have been 
much admired. He died Aug. 21, 1879, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

BROWN, HENRY B., painter, was born 
in 1831, in Portland, Maine. He painted 
coast scenery; and in his wonderful ren¬ 
dering of the sea he stands among Ameri¬ 
can artists unrivalled. East Highlands; 
On the Androscoggin; and On the Coast 
of Maine are among the best of his works. 
He died in 1860, in Portland, Maine. 

BROWN, HENRY BILLINGS, associate 
justice of the supreme court of the United 
States, was born March 2, 1836, in South 
Lee, Mass. In 1861 he was appointed dep¬ 
uty marshal of the United States, and sub¬ 
sequently assistant United States attorney 
for the eastern district of Michigan, a 
position he held until 1868, when he was 
appointed judge of the state circuit court 
of Wayne county, to fill a vacancy. In 
1875 he was appointed by President Grant 
district judge for the eastern district of 
Michigan, and in 1890 was appointed as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court; and 
has served since 1891. He is the author of 
Admiralty Reports for Western Lake and 
River Districts. 

BROWN, HENRY CORBES, contractor, 
financier, was born Nov. 18, 1820, in St. 
Clairsville, Ohio. In Denver he grew rich 
by building contracts and operations in 
lands and mines. In th£ spring of 1864, he 
took up a homestead claim of one hun¬ 
dred and sixty acres, at $2.50 per acre. 
The property is now worth millions. He 
was one of the builders of the Denver 
street railroad, and built and owned 
Brown’s Palace Hotel, which cost $1,600;- 
000. In 1875, he gave ten acres for a site 
for the capitol of Colorado. 

BROWN, HENRY FRANCIS, financier, 
was born Oct. 10, 1838, in Baldwin, Maine. 
As a manufacturer of lumber in Min¬ 
neapolis he has amassed a fortune. He is 
now president of the Union National 
bank; vice-president of the Minneapolis 
Trust company, and president of the Min¬ 
neapolis Land and Investment company. 

BROWN, HENRY KIRKE, sculptor, 
was born Feb. 24, 1814, in Leyden, Mass. 
He attained distinction as one of the fore¬ 
most sculptors in America. He died July 
10, 1886, in Newburg, N. Y. 


BROWN, HENRY KIRKE BUSH, sculp¬ 
tor, was born April 21, 1857, in Ogdens- 
burgh, N. Y. He studied sculpture with 
Henry K. Brown of Newburg, N. Y., and 
with Mercie and Chapu in Paris. He was 
given high honors at the World’s Fair for 
his equestrian group of Indian Buffalo 
Hunt, and his equestrian statue of General 
Meade, erected by the state of Pennsyl¬ 
vania on the battlefield of Gettysburg, and 
dedicated June 5, 1896. 

BROWN, HENRY WILLIAM, educator, 
was born March 30, 1861, in Camden, 
Maine. For the past ten years he has 
filled the chair of psychology and ethics 
in the New Hampton literary institution, 
and is a constant contributor to current 
literature. 

BROWN, ISAAC VAN ARSDALE, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Nov. 4, 1784, in 
Somerset county, N. J. Among his pub¬ 
lications are “Life of Robert Finley, D. 
D.; The Unity of the Human Race; and 
also a Historical Vindication of the Abro¬ 
gation of the Plan of Union by the Pres¬ 
byterian Church in the United States of 
America. He was one of the founders of 
the American Colonization society, and 
worked for its advancement, and was one 
of the original members of the American 
Bible society. He died April 19, 1861, in 
Trenton,N. J. 

BROWN, J. APPLETON, artist, was 
born July 24, 1844, in Newburyport, Mass. 
Among his works are A View, Dives Cal¬ 
vados, France; Old Road Near Paris; On 
the Merrimac at Newburyport; Autumn; 
Storm at the Isle of Shoals; and Spring¬ 
time. 

BROWN, JACOB, soldier, was born May 
9, 1775, in Bucks county, Pa. When the 
war of 1812 broke out, he entered the 
army, and in 1813 was made brigadier- 
general in the regular army, and on Jan. 
24, 1814, assigned to the army of the Niag¬ 
ara, with the rank of major-general. In 
1821 he was appointed general-in-chief of 
the United States army, which position he 
held until his death. He died Feb. 24, 
1828, in Washington, D. C. 

BROWN, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, United 
States senator, was born Sept. 11, 1766, 
near Staunton, Va. He was secretary of the 
Territory of Louisiana after its acquisi¬ 
tion. This led him to New Orleans, which 
became his home. He was appointed 
United States attorney for the district of 
Louisiana, and rose to a high rank at the 
bar. He was appointed a territorial judge 
in 1804, and was chosen to the United 
States senate from Louisiana, and served 
from 1812 to 1817, and again from 1819 to 
1824. He died April 7, 1835, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

BROWN, JAMES, banker, was born 
in February, 1791, in Ireland. He became 
one of the representative bankers of New 
York. In the panic of 1837, the English 
branch of the firm was able to secure a 
loan of $10,000,000 from the Bank of Eng¬ 
land, which enabled the local firm to wea¬ 
ther the financial storm without suspen¬ 
sion, and placed them in the front rank of 
the bankers of the world. The house has 
branches in Baltimore and Philadelphia 
in this country, under different names, 
and in England under the name of Brown, 
Shipley and Co. He died Nov. 1, 1877, in 
New York city. 

BROWN, JAMES ALLEN, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1821, in 
Pennsylvania. He was a Lutheran cler¬ 
gyman and educator; professor in Get¬ 
tysburg seminary in 1864-77, and the au¬ 
thor of The New Theology. He died in 
1883. 


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BROWN, JAMES S., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 1, 1824, in Hampton, 
Maine. In 1846 he was chosen prose¬ 
cuting attorney for Milwaukee county, 
Wis.; in 1848 was elected attorney-gen¬ 
eral of the state; and in 1861 was mayor 
of Milwaukee. In 1862 he was elected a 
representative from Wisconsin to the thir¬ 
ty-eighth congress. He died in 1878, in 
Milwaukee, Wis. 

BROWN, JASON BREYOORT, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Feb. 26, 1839, in Dillsboro, Ind. He has 
taken part as a public speaker in all of 
the political campaigns in his state since 
1862; was elected to the Indiana house 
of representatives from Jackson county 
in 1862, and was re-elected in 1864. He 
was elected to the state senate in 1870 
from the counties of Jackson and Brown, 
and was re-elected in 1880 from the coun¬ 
ties of Jackson and Jennings. He was 
elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second 
congresses and re-elected to the fifty-third 
congress as a democrat. 

BROWN, JEREMIAH, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1776, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He served in the legislature of 
that state, and as a member of one or 
two state conventions. He was the first 
associate judge elected by the people, and 
was a representative in congress, from 
Pennsylvania, from 1841 to 1845. He died 
March 2, 1848, in Lancaster, Pa. 

BROWN, JESSE HUNTER, journalist, 
author, was born Aug. 31, 1861, in Hiram, 
Ohio. He received his education at Hiram 
college. He has been the editor of sev¬ 
eral publications, and is the author of 
Norman McDonald; A Woman’s Doing; 
Roderick Wayne; The Ironclad Pledge; 
and Runaway. 

BROWN, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Mary¬ 
land from 1809 to 1810. 

BROWN, JOHN, congressman, was born 
in Mifflin county, Pa. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1821 to 1825. 

BROWN, JOHN, congressman, was born 
Jan. 27, 1736, in Providence, R. I. He 
was one of the men who captured the 
Gaspee in Providence river, in 1772. He 
took an active part in the revolution, and 
was an ardent friend of the constitution. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Rhode Island from 1799 to 1801. He died 
Sept. 20, 1803. 

BROWN, JOHN, soldier, was born Oct. 
19, 1744, in Sandisfield, Mass. He was a 
lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary 
war. He was killed in battle Oct. 19, 1780, 
near the Mohawk river. 

BROWN, JOHN, lawyer, United States 
senator, was born Sept. 12, 1757, in Staun¬ 
ton, Va. He was elected a member of 
the Virginia legislature from the district 
of Kentucky, and was appointed a dele¬ 
gate from Virginia to the continental con¬ 
gress, from 1787 to 1788. He was a rep¬ 
resentative from Kentucky to the federal 
congress from 1789 to T<91; a United 
States senator from 1793 to 1805, and was 
the last survivor of the old congress, and 
the first member from the Valley of the 
Mississippi. He died Aug. 28, 1837, in 
Frankfort, Ky. 

BROWN, JOHN, clergyman, college 
president, was born June 15, 1763, in Ire¬ 
land. In 1779 he joined the revolutionary 
army as a volunteer and fought under 
General Sumter. In 1809 he was elected 
professor of logic and moral philosophy 
in the university of South Carolina. In 
1811 he became president of the university 
of Georgia. He died Dec. 11, 1842, in Fort 
Gaines, Ga. 


BROWN, JOHN, abolitionist, was born 
May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Conn. In 1855 
he emigrated to Kansas, where he took 
an active part in the contest of that state, 
caused by the passage of the Kansas- 
Nebraska bill, advocating squatter-sov¬ 
ereignty. In 1859 he formed the bold plan 
of freeing the slaves in Virginia, and on 
the night of Oct. 16 he surprised Harper’s 
Ferry, seized the arsenal and armory and 
took forty prisoners. But his small band 
was soon overpowered and captured. He 
was tried in November, and hanged Dec. 
2, 1859. 

BROWN, JOHN ALEXANDER, banker, 
was born May 21, 1788. He was elected a 
director of the old United States bank 
under the presidency of Nicholas Biddle. 
He acquired a large fortune, and gave 
more than $500,000 to benevolent objects. 
The Presbyterian hospital of Philadel¬ 
phia received a donation of $300,000. He 
died Dec. 31, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BROWN, JOHN BREWER, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born May 
13, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
elected to the state house of delegates in 
1870; was elected to the state senate in 
1887 and served three terms. He was 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat to fill a vacancy. 

BROWN, JOHN BUNDY, banker, state 
senator, was born May 31, 1805, in Maine. 
He was president of the Portland Sav¬ 
ings bank. The board of trade made Mr. 
Brown its first president; and he was 
president of Maine General hospital. He 
was prominent in the organization of the 
republican party in Maine, and was elected 
to the Maine senate in 1856 and a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1860. He died Jan. 10, 
1881, in Portland, Maine. 

BROWN, JOHN CALVIN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, governor, was born Jan. 6, 1827, in 
Giles county, Tenn. In 1861 he entered 
the confederate army, and was made 
captain; and served with distinction 
throughout the civil war, rising to the 
rank of major-general. He was a dele¬ 
gate to, and was elected president of the 
state constitutional convention of 1870; 
and in that year was elected governor of 
Tennessee, and was . re-elected in 1872. 
serving until 1875. In 1876 he was elected 
vice-president of the Texas and Pacific 
Railway company. He died Aug. 17, 1889, 
in Red Boiling Springs, Tenn. 

BROWN, JOHN GEORGE, artist, was 
born Nov. 11, 1831, in England. He is 
noted as a painter of strictly American 
suDjects, and particularly of the street 
boys and bootblacks of New York city. 
He was president of the American Water 
Color society for ten years, and chairman 
of art commission to judge of fine arts 
at the world’s fair. Among his best 
known works are His First Cigar; Curl¬ 
ing in Central Park; The Passing Show; 
The Dress Parade; A Merry Air and a 
Sad Heart; The Thrilling Moment; and 
The Old Folks at Home. 

BROWN, JOHN HAMILTON, inventor, 
was born July 28, 1837, in Liberty, Mains. 
In 1875 he conceived the idea of the seg¬ 
mental tube wire-wound gun, and since 
1886 he has given his entire time to the 
perfecting of the wire gun, whicn has 
been generally introduced in America and 
Europe. 

BROWN, JOHN HENRY, author, was 
born Oct. 29, 1820, in Pike county. Miss. 
He is the author of Two Years in Mexico; 
Early Life in the Southwest, Indian Wars 
and Pioneer of Texas; The Life and Times 
of Henry Smith; and is now completing 
a history of Texas from its discovery, 
1685, to 1885. 


BROWN, JOHN HENRY HOBART, 
protestant episcopal bishop, was born 
Jan. 1, 1831, in New York city. He was 
chosen to be the first bishop of the diocese 
of Fond du Lac, Wis., and was consecrated 
in Cohoes, Dec. 15, 1875. He published a 
number of sermons and addresses. He 
died May 2, 1888, in Fond du Lac, Wis. 

BROWN, JOHN JACKSON, educator, 
journalist, was born Feb. 7, 1820, in Amen- 
ia, N. Y. In 1865 he accepted the chair 
of natural science in the Falley seminary 
at Fulton, N. Y.; in 1870 was elected to the 
chair of chemistry and industrial mechan¬ 
ics in Cornell university; for five years 
was editor of the Humphrey Journal of 
Photography; and for eleven years editor 
of the scientific department of the North¬ 
ern Christian Advocate. He died Aug. 
15, 1891, in Syracuse, N. Y. 

BROWN, JOHN NEWTON, clergyman, 
was born June 29, 1803, in New London, 
Conn. In 1833 he moved to Boston, where 
he edited the Encyclopaedia of Religious 
Knowledge, which was republished in 
England. He died May 15, 1868, in Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa. 

BROWN, JOHN PORTER, oriental 
scholar, was born Aug. 17, 1814, in Chil- 
licothe, Ohio. He was a frequent con¬ 
tributor to American newspapers and mag¬ 
azines, and wrote Dervishes, or Oriental 
Spiritualism; and also translated Ahmed 
Ben Hemden’s Turkish Evening Enter¬ 
tainments; and Constantine’s Ancient and 
Modern Constantinople. He died April 28, 
1872, in Constantinople, Turkey. 

BROWN, JOHN R., soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 
1842, in Franklin county, Va. He entered 
the confederate army as a private in com¬ 
pany D, twenty-fourth Virginia volun¬ 
teers. In 1870 he formed a copartnership 
with his father as manufacturers of to¬ 
bacco at Shady Grove, and in 1882 removed 
to Martinsville, where the firm and busi¬ 
ness has since been continued. He was 
elected mayor of Martinsville in 1884, and 
was elected to the fiftieth congress as an 
independent republican. 

BROWN, JOHN SIDNEY, merchant, 
was born June 10, 1833, in Ohio. He and 
his brother built the first grain elevator 
and roller flour mill in Colorado, and they 
are now engaged in the grocery business 
under the firm name of J. S. Brown and 
Brother. He was president of the City 
National bank of Denver, and vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Union Pacific and Gulf railroad 
for several years. 

BROWN, JOHN W., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1797 in Dundee, 
Scotland. He was elected a justice of the 
peace in 1820; elected a representative in 
congress from New York in 1832, and re¬ 
elected in 1834. In 1849 he was elected a 
justice of the supreme court of that state, 
and re-elected in 1857, retiring from the 
bench in 1865. He died Sept. 6, 1875, in 
Newburg, N. Y. 

BROWN, JOHN WALKER, clergyman, 
poet, was born in 1814 in New York. He 
was an episcopal clergyman, and the au¬ 
thor of Christmas Bells, a Tale of Holy 
Tide, and Other Poems. He died in 1849. 

BROWN, JOHN WESLEY, journalist, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 15, 1852, 
in Lee Valley, Tenn. He received his 
education at the Hiwassee college, Ten¬ 
nessee, and for many years was engaged 
in the government service as pension 
clerk and file clerk. He was private sec¬ 
retary to Congressman A. H. Pettibone; 
delegate to the national republican con¬ 
vention in 1884; an alternate in 1880; and 
during 1884-87 served with distinction as 
state senator in the Tennessee legisla¬ 
ture. 


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BROWN, JOHN YOUNG, lawj r er, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 28, 1835, in 
Claysville, Ky. In 1859 he was elected to 
congress, but not having attained the con¬ 
stitutional age, declined to take his seat. 
In 1867 he was elected a representative 
from Kentucky to the fortieth congress, 
but in March, 1868, his claim to a seat was 
rejected by the house. He was elected 
to the forty-third and forty-fourth con¬ 
gresses, serving on various committees. 

BROWN, JOSEPH, manufacturer, scien¬ 
tist, was born Dec. 3, 1733, in Providence, 
R. I. He was greatly interested in the 
science of electricity, and his knowledge 
of that subject was remarkable for the 
time. At his death he left an electric 
machine of his own construction, then un¬ 
surpassed by any other in the country. 
He devoted considerable study to me¬ 
chanics and was proficient in astronomy. 
He died Dec. 3, 1785, in Providence, R. I. 

BROWN, JOSEPH, soldier, was born in 
1773 in North Carolina. He fought in the 
war of 1812, as colonel of the twenty- 
seventh Tennessee regiment. When 
eighty-six years of age he wrote an ac¬ 
count of his captivity and the destruction 
of Chickamauga. He died in 1862 in 
Tennessee. 

BROWN, JOSEPH EMERSON, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, United States senator, 
1821, in South Caro¬ 
lina. In 1849 he was 
elected to the 
Georgia state sen¬ 
ate; in 1852 he was 
a Pierce elector; in 
1855 he was elected 
judge of the superior 
courts of the Blue 
Ridge circuit; and in 
1857 he was elected 
governor. He was 
re-elected in 1859 
over Hon. Warren 
Aiken. He was a se¬ 
cessionist in 1860, and was active and en¬ 
ergetic as a war governor after the state 
had seceded. In 1861 he was again elected 
governor over the Hon. Eugenius A. Nis- 
bet, and in 1863 he was again elected. 
During 1868-70 he was chief justice of the 
supreme court of Georgia, which position 
he resigned to accept the presidency of 
the Western Atlantic Railroad company. 
During 1880-91 he was United States sen¬ 
ator. He died Nov. 30, 1894, in Atlanta. 
Ga. 

BROWN, JULIUS L., lawyer, business¬ 
man, was born May 31, 1848, in Canton, 
Ga. He was general counsel for the 
Western and Atlantic railroads; and is 
now master in chancery of the United 
States circuit court; and president of 
The Georgia Mining, Manufacturing and 
Investment company. 

BROWN, JUNIUS FLAG, merchant, 
was born Sept. 3, 1828, in Conneaut, Ohio. 
He went to Denver in 1870, and estab¬ 
lished a wholesale grocery business, under 
the firm name of J. S. Brown and Bro., 
which has greatly prospered. He was 
vice-president of the City National bank 
for fifteen years, and is a large share¬ 
holder in the Denver Tramway street car 
railroad. 

BROWN, LEWIS HENRY, legislator, 
public official, was born March 24, 1857, 
in Hayward, Cal. He has served as city 
treasurer of San Francisco, Cal.; has 
been a member of the state legislature; 
and filled the high office of secretary of 
state. 

BROWN, MARY L., poet, was born in 
Griswold, Conn. Has written extensively 
for the periodical press, and many of her 
poems have appeared in standard works. 


BROWN, MASON, jurist, was born Nov. 
10,1799, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was judge 
of the circuit court of his district for 
many years, and from 1855 till 1859, dur¬ 
ing the administration of Gov. Morehead, 
he vvas secretary of state. To his public 
spirit Frankfort was largely indebted for 
works of public utility and ornament. He 
died Jan. 27, 1867, in Frankfort, Ky. 

BROWN, MATTHEW, educator, college 
president, was born in 1776 in Northum¬ 
berland county, Pa. In 1801 he was or¬ 
dained pastor of the united congrega¬ 
tions of Mifflin and Lost Creek, and in 
1805 became pastor of the presbyterian 
church at Washington, Pa., and principal 
of the academy there. When the acad¬ 
emy was chartered as Washington college, 
in 1806, Mr. Brown was made its first 
president. He resigned in 1816, still re¬ 
taining his pastorate. After refusing the 
presidency of Centre college, Danville, 
Ky., he accepted, in 1822, that of Jeffer¬ 
son college, Cannonsburg, Pa. He died 
July 20, 1853, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

BROWN, MILTON, congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He removed to Tennessee; 
and was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1841 to 1847. 

BROWN, MILTON, lawyer, legislator, 
was born May 12, 1854, in Raysville, Ind. 
He received his education in the common 
schools of Indiana and at Knightstown 
academy. During 1876-80 he was deputy 
recorder and recorder; and the four suc¬ 
ceeding years was clerk of the circuit 
court in Indiana. During 1892-96 he served 
in the Kansas legislature as state senator 
with distinction. He is one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of Kansas; was vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Medico-Legal congress; and a 
member of the committee of the Ameri¬ 
can Bar association for the uniformity of 
land and code revision. 

BROWN, MORGAN W., jurist, was born 
in Tennessee. In 1834 he was appointed 
United States judge for the district com¬ 
prising that state. 

BROWN, NATHAN W„ soldier, was 
born Jan. 15, 1819, in Brownsville, N. Y. 
He entered the service as paymaster in 
1849; was made assistant paymaster-gen¬ 
eral with the rank of colonel in 1866; and 
in 1880 was appointed paymaster-general 
with the rank of brigadier-general. 

BROWN, NEILL S., soldier, legislator, 
governor, was born July, 1810, in Giles 
county, Tenn. He was a volunteer in the 
Florida war of 1836-37. In 1842 he was 
elected a representative in the Tennessee 
legislature, serving two years; in 1844 
was a presidential elector; in 1847 was 
the candidate of the whig party for gov¬ 
ernor of Tennessee, and was elected. In 
1850 he was appointed minister to Russia, 
serving four years. In 1855 he was elect¬ 
ed to the Tennessee legislature, and be¬ 
came speaker of the house. He died Jan¬ 
uary, 1886, in Nashville, Tenn. 

BROWN, NICHOLAS, philanthropist, 
was born April 4, 1769, in Providence, R. I. 
In honor of Nicholas Brown and in recog¬ 
nition of his gifts, amounting nearly to 
$100,000, Rhode Island college changed its 
name to Brown university. He afterward 
gave two buildings to the university. 
He died Sept. 27, 1841. 

BROWN, OBADIAH, merchant, phil¬ 
anthropist, was born July 15, 1771, in 
Providence, R. I. His benefactions were 
extended to worthy enterprises in all 
Christian bodies, although his principal 
donations were to the Friends’ boarding- 
school, founded by his father, to which 
he left $100,000 by his will, to form a 
permanent charitable fund. He died Oct. 
15,1822, in Providence, R. I. 


BROWN, OLIVER HUFF, merchant, 
was born Dec. 12, 1852, in Farmingdale, 
N. J. He established a house furnishing 
business in Spring Lake Beach, which is 
one of the largest of its kind on the New 
Jersey coast. He is a director of the 
Spring Lake and Sea Girt Land and Im¬ 
provement company, and the Deal Beach 
Land company. 

BROWN, OLYMPIA, minister, lecturer, 
was born Jan. 5, 1835, in Prairie Ronde, 
Mich. Entering the Universalist Theo¬ 
logical school at Canton, N. Y., she was 
graduated and ordained in 1863, and in 
1864 was installed as pastor of a church 
in Weymouth, Mass. In 1869 she became 
pastor of a church in Bridgeport, Conn., 
and afterward married Henry Willis. She 
has since been pastor of churches in the 
west, lectures frequently, and became 
president of the Wisconsin Woman Suf¬ 
frage association. 

BROWN, OREN BRITT, lawyer, jurist, 
was born June 22, 1853, in New Orleans 
county, N. Y. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Denison university of Gran¬ 
ville, Ohio; and the Princeton college. 
New Jersey. Since 1878 he has been en¬ 
gaged in the practice of law, and is one 
of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at Day- 
ton, where he is a judge of the city 
police court; and has filled various pub¬ 
lic offices of honor. 

BROWN, ORVON GRAFF, educator, 
college president, was born July 1, 1863, 
in Greensburg, Pa. In 1882 he was elect¬ 
ed professor of science in the Cincinnati 
Wesleyan college; and in 1885 was elect¬ 
ed president of Twin Valley college, which 
he named from its location in the Twin 
Valley. 

BROWN, PHILIP SHELLEY, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 14, 1833, in Bedford coun¬ 
ty, Pa. He engaged in the practice of 
law in Kansas City, Mo., and retained for 
years a prominent position at the bar. 

BROWN, MRS. PHOEBE (HINSDALE), 
hymn writer, was born in 1783, in Canaan, 
N. Y. She was a hymn writer remembered 
for her popular religious lyric, I Love to 
Steal Awhile Away. She died Oct. 10, 
1861, in Henry, Ill. 

BROWN, ROBERT, soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in 1745 in 
Northampton county, Pa. He was ap¬ 
pointed at the beginning of the revolu¬ 
tion an officer in the Pennsylvania flying 
camp, and was made prisoner on Long 
island. He was made brigadier-general 
of the state militia, filled several civil 
stations, and was a member of the state 
senate for some time. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Pennsylvania 
in 1798-1815. He died Feb. 26, 1823, in 
Northampton, Pa. 

BROWN, ROBERT C., merchant, was 
born in Cohocton, N. Y. He is a member 
of the Owl Cigar company of New York 
and Florida, and has been trustee of the 
Mercantile Benefit association, and of the 
Excelsior Savings bank. 

BROWN, SAMUEL, physician, was born 
Jan. 30, 1769, in Rockbridge county, Va. 
From 1819 till 1825 he was professor of 
the theory and practice of medicine at 
Transylvania university, Lexington, Ky. 
In medical practice Dr. Brown was instru¬ 
mental in introducing in the United 
States the process of lithotrity shortly 
after its first successful application by 
French surgeons. He established a medi¬ 
cal society in Lexington, and framed for 
it a code of medical ethics. This body, at 
first a secret society, was the original of 
the medical associations of Philadelphia, 
New York and Baltimore. He died Jan. 
12, 1830, in Alabama. 


was born April 15, 



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BROWN, SAMUEL GILMAN, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
Jan. 4, 1813, in North Yarmouth, Maine. 
He was a congregational clergyman and 
president of Hamilton college in 1867-81. 
He was the author of Biography of Self- 
Taught Men; and Life of Rufus Choate. 
He died in 1885. 

BROWN, SAMUEL R., soldier, author, 
was horn in 1775. He was a volunteer 
during the war of 1812. He was the author 
of A View of the Campaigns of the North¬ 
western Army; and History of the War 
of 1812, in two volumes. He died Sept. 15, 
1817, in Cherry Valley. 

BROWN, SAMUEL SMITH, soldier, 
merchant, was born Dec. 15, 1842, in Pitt, 
Pa. He studied at different normal schools 
and at Jefferson college in Canonsburg, 
Pa.; and then enlisted in the union army 
as a member of the tenth Pennsylvania 
reserves, serving through the early part 
of the war in the army of the Potomac. 
He is the owner of valuable coal lands. 

BROWN, SETH W., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 4, 1843, in 
He was a member of 
company H, seventy- 
ninth Ohio volunteer 
infantry. He was 
elected prosecuting 
attorney for Warren 
county in 1880 and 
re-elected in 1882. 
He was elected a 
representative in the 
general assembly in 
1883 and re-elected 
in 1885, being a 
member of the 
finance committee of 
the house for four years and chairman of 
that committee during his second term. 
He was chosen presidential elector on the 
Harrison ticket in 1888 and was elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

BROWN, SOLYMAN, author, was born 
Nov. 17, 1790, in Litchfield, Conn. He 
published an essay on American poetry, 
together with some miscellanies; and 
Dental Hygeia, a poem on the general 
laws of health. He was co-editor of the 
Journal of Dental Science. He died about 
1865 in New York. 

BROWN, TARLETON, soldier of the 
revolution, was born in 1754 in Barnwell 
district, S. C. He served through the war 
of independence, attaining the rank of 
captain. His Memoirs, with notes by 
Charles J. Bushnell, contain interesting 
and original information in relation to 
the events of his time in the Carolinas. 
He died in 1846. 

BROWN, THERON, clergyman, author, 
poet, was born April 29, 1832, in Willi- 
mantic, Conn. For ten years he was a 
clergyman of the baptist church in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. For over a quarter of a cen¬ 
tury he has been one of the editors of the 
Youth’s Companion. He has written a 
number of books for young people, the 
most notable of which are The Blount 
Family; and Walter Neil’s Example. He 
is also the author of a collection of poems 
entitled Life Songs. 

BROWN, THOMAS, statesman. He was 
governor of Florida from 1849 to 1853. 

BROWN, THOMAS, naval officer, was 
born in Delaware. He entered the service 
as midshipman in 1801, was promoted a 
lieutenant in 1807, master in 1815, and 
captain in 1825. He commanded the 
schooner Gov. Tompkins in several en¬ 
gagements with the enemy on Lake On¬ 
tario in 1814. In 1819-21 he commanded 
the ship Peacock in the Mediterranean. 
He died Nov. 28, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


BROWN, THOMAS, colonial author, 
was born about 1740. He was a resident 
of Charlestown, Mass. In 1757 he was 
captured by the Indians, after being 
wounded in an engagement between the 
French and English. He was held in 
captivity for nearly four years, and then 
returned to his father’s house. The nar¬ 
rative of his adventures, written by him¬ 
self, is perhaps the rarest of American 
books of its class. 

BROWN, THOMAS, lawyer, journalist, 
was born about 1819 in Ohio. He took a 
prominent part in the free-soil movement 
of 1848, and in 1850 abandoned the pro¬ 
fession of law, and, in connection with 
Col. John C. Vaughn, established the True 
Democrat, the free-soil organ of northern 
Ohio. In 1853 he withdrew from that 
paper, which, in the course of the next 
year, became the Cleveland Leader, and 
established the Ohio Farmer. He died 
June 13, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BROWN, THOMAS EDWIN, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1841 in District of 
Columbia. He is a baptist clergyman of 
Rochester, N. Y.; and the author of Stud¬ 
ies in Modern Socialism and Labor Prob¬ 
lems. 

BROWN, THOMAS H„ manufacturer, 
public official, was born April 3, 1839, in 
Milwaukee, Wis. He was mayor of Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis., from 1880 to 1884. His 
business is that of carriage manufacturer. 
He made an unsuccessful run on the re¬ 
publican ticket for congress. 

BROWN, THOMAS S., lawyer, author, 
was born June 5, 1852, in Zanesfield, Ohio. 
In 1873 he graduated from the Earlham 
college of Richmond, Ind.; and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1881. He practiced 
law in Bellefontaine, Ohio^ until 1889, 
when he moved to Topeka, Kan. In 1893 
he continued his law practice in Kansas 
City, Mo., giving special attention to pat¬ 
ent law and law of municipal bonds. He 
is the author of a number of articles and 
papers on Tariff and other economic and 
legal questions; and many poems of rare 
merit have emanated from his pen. 

BROWN, THOMPSON S., civil engin¬ 
eer, was born in 1807 in Brownsville, 
N. Y. He was chief engineer of the New 
York and Erie railroad in 1838-42, and 
subsequently employed as consulting en¬ 
gineer of the St. Petersburg and Moscow 
railroad in Russia. He died Jan. 30, 1855, 
in Naples, Italy. 

BROWN, THURLOW WEED, journal¬ 
ist, author. He was a Wisconsin journal¬ 
ist prominent as a temperance advocate; 
and the author of Why I Am a Temper¬ 
ance Man; Minnie Hermon, the Land¬ 
lord’s Daughter; and Temperance Tales. 
He died May 4, 1866, in Fort Atkinson, 
Wis. 

BROWN, TITUS, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, was born in 1786 in Che¬ 
shire county, N. H. He was a member of 
the legislature of New Hampshire from 
1820 to 1825; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New Hamp¬ 
shire from 1825 to 1829. In 1842 he was 
elected to the state senate and made 
president. He died Jan. 31, 1849, in Fran- 
cistown, N. H. 

BROWN, WALTER L., merchant, state 
senator, was born Sept. 5, 1845, in Carlisle, 
N. Y. For twenty years he conducted a 
hardware store in Oneonta, N. Y., cover¬ 
ing a whole block, and was the largest of 
its kind in his county. For a number of 
years he has been first lieutenant in the 
New York state guards; was president 
of the town board; and during 1888-91 
served with distinction in the New York 
state assembly; and subsequently was 
elected to the state senate. 


Waynesville, Ohio. 



BROWN, WILL GAY, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born April 8, 1867, in Warrick, 
Ga. He has attained success as one of the 
foremost lawyers of Alabama at Cullman; 
and in 1896 was elected a member of the 
state senate of the Alabama legislature 
for a term of four years. 

BROWN, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in Frederick county, Va. He was a 
representative in congress from Kentucky 
from 1819 to 1823. 

BROWN, WILLIAM G., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Sept. 25, 
1801, in Preston county, Va. In 1832 he 
was elected to the 
legislature of Vir¬ 
ginia; served again 
in that capacity from 
1840 to 1843; and 
was a representative 
in congress from 
Virginia from 1845 
to 1849. In 1850 he 
was a member of the 
Virginia state con¬ 
vention; in 1860 a 
delegate to the Char¬ 
leston convention, 
and also to that held in Baltimore; and 
was also a delegate to the Virginia con¬ 
vention of 1861, and opposed the action of 
the secessionists. On his return home he 
was elected a representative to the thirty- 
seventh congress; and in 1863 was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-eighth congress as a 
representative from West Virginia. 



BROWN, WILLIAM HILL, poet, was 
born in 1766. He wrote a tragedy, found¬ 
ed on the death of Major John Andrd, 
and a comedy. His Ira and Isabella was 
published in 1807. He died Sept. 10, 1793, 
in Murfreesborough, N. C. 

BROWN, WILLIAM J., journalist, pub¬ 
lic official, congressman, was born in 1805 
in Kentucky. He was at one time secre¬ 
tary of state for Indiana, and a member of 
the state legislature; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Indiana from 
1843 to 1845, and again from 1849 to 1851. 
He was assistant postmaster-general 
under President Polk. He was editor of 
the Indiana Sentinel; state librarian of 
Indiana; and, at the time of his death 
special agent of the post office department 
for Indiana and Illinois. He died March 
18, 1857, in Indianapolis, Ind. 


BROWN, WILLIAM KING, educator, 
lawyer, was born June 28, 1865, near Red 
Springs, N. C. He received his education 
at the university of North Carolina and 
the university of Nashville. For many 
years he was engaged in educational work 
as principal of the high school of Bur¬ 
lington, Ala.; and as instructor in the 
Centennial graded school of Raleigh, N. C. 
He has attained prominence as one of 
Alabama’s ablest lawyers; and has an ex¬ 
tensive practice in Birmingham. 



BROWN, WILLIAM MASON, landscape 
painter, was born Sept. 14, 1826, in Troy, 
N. Y. He received his education in the 
Lancasterian school 
of Troy, N. Y. At 
the age of twenty- 
five he began the 
study of art, and has 
attained eminence as 
a painter of land¬ 
scapes and still life. 
His paintings have 
been exhibited in the 
various expositions 
for the past quarter 
of a century; and he 
has received numer¬ 
ous awards. His studio is in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., in which city he is an honored 
member of the various art institutes. 




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BROWN, WILLIAM R., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born July 16, 1849, in 
Buffalo, N. Y. He became a lawyer, and 
settled in Kansas in 1862. He was elected 
judge of the ninth judicial district of Kan¬ 
sas in 1867; re-elected in 1872; and in 
1874 was elected a representative from 
Kansas to the forty-fourth congress as a 
republican. In 1892 he located in El Reno, 
Okla.; and in 1894 was elected judge of 
the probate court. 

BROWN, WILLIAM WALLACE, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 
22, 1836, in Summerhill, N. Y. He enlisted 
in the union army for a three-years’ 
term; and served with gallantry until the 
close of the war. He was elected district 
attorney in 1866. He was a representative 
in the state legislature from 1872 to 
1876; was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth congress as a republican. 

BROWN, WOLSTON RICHMOND, 
banker, lawyer, was born Oct. 6, 1860, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1886 he was elected to 
the city council of Passaic, N. J., and 
served two terms; in 1889 was appointed 
supreme court commissioner; in 1891 was 
elected mayor, and re-elected in 1893. 

BROWN, YARDLEY T.. journalist, 
poet, was born July 13, 1852, near Win¬ 
chester, Va. For nearly a quarter of a 
century he has been the editor and own¬ 
er of The Telephone of Loudon, Va. 

BROWNE, CAUSTEN, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1828 in the District of Colum¬ 
bia. He is a lawyer of Boston; and the 
author of Treatise on the Construction 
of the Statute of Frauds. 


BROWNE, CHARLES FARRAR, au¬ 
thor, was born April 26, 1834, in Water¬ 
ford, Maine. He was a very genuine 
though grotesque humorist, whose satire 
is invariably good-natured and whose 
humor is based on shrewd sense. While 
a printer in the office of The Plaindealer, 
in Cleveland, he began publishing his 
series of letters from Artemus Ward, 
Showman. Later he became known as a 
popular humorous lecturer, and was lec¬ 
turing in England with success at the time 
of his death. He was the author of Artemus 
Ward: His Book; Artemus Ward Among 
the Mormons; Artemus Ward in London; 
Artemus Ward: His Travels; and Ai- 
temus Ward’s Lecture at Egyptian Hall. 
He died March 6, 1867, in Southampton, 
England. 


BROWNE, FRANCIS FISHER, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born Dec. 1, 1843, in 
Windham county, Vt. He is a son of 
William Goldsmith 
Browne, the author 
of the popular poem, 
A Hundred Years to 
Come, and the pro¬ 
prietor of The 
Journal of Chicopee, 
Mass. He served 
through the civil 
war in the forty- 
sixth regiment Mas¬ 
sachusetts v o 1 u n- 
teers. He studied 
law; edited The 
Lakeside Monthly of Chicago during 1869- 
74; was afterward literary editor of The 
Alliance; and in 1880 founded The Dial, 
of which he is still editor and chief own¬ 
er. His principal works are Golden 
Poems by British and American Authors; 
Bugle Echoes; Laurel Crown; and a 
volume of his own poems entitled Volun¬ 
teer Grain. The Everyday Life of Abra¬ 
ham Lincoln, from his pen, is a valuable 
acquisition to historical literature. 



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BROWNE, FRANK J., lawyer, edu¬ 
cator, was born in 1860, in Eaton, Ohio. 
He is a noted educator, and in 1896 became 
superintendent of public instruction for 
the state of Washington at Olympia. 

BROWNE, GEORGE H„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1818 in Gloucester, 
R. I. He was elected to both the charter 
and suffrage legislatures of his state in 
1842; and was again elected to the Rhode 
Island legislature, and re-elected until 
1852. In 1852 he was appointed United 
States attorney for Rhode Island, which 
office he held until elected a representa¬ 
tive from Rhode Island to the thirty- 
seventh congress. 

BROWNE, GEORGE WALDO, lecturer, 
author, poet, was born Oct. 8, 1851, in 
Deerfield, N. H. He is the author of A 
Daughter of Maryland; Civil and Po¬ 
litical History of Manchester; Sent to 
Siberia; Lights and Shades of Russian 
Life; Captain of Honor; and Legends 
and Folklore of the Land of the Granite 
Hills. He is also the author of a volume 
of poems entitled Plain Poems of Heart 
and Home; has contributed poems to 
various standard collections; and is a 
popular writer of Manchester, N. H. 

BROWNE, HAMILTON, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Aug. 14, 1844, in New 
York Mills, N. Y. He is the president of 
the Boone Valley Coal and Railway com¬ 
pany at Boone, Iowa. 

BROWNE, IRVING, lawyer, author, was 
born Sept. 14, 1835, in Marshall, N. Y. 
He is the author of Humorous Phases of 
the Law; Short Studies of Great Lawyers; 
Judicial Interpretation of Common Words 
and Phrases; Law and Lawyers in Liter¬ 
ature; Iconoclasm and Whitewash; The 
Character of the Nurse’s Deceased Hus¬ 
band in Romeo and Juliet; Our Best So¬ 
ciety, a comedy; and The Elements of 
Criminal Law. 

BROWNE, JEFFERSON B., lawyer, 
lieutenant-governor, was born in Key 
West, Fla. He is one of the foremost 
lawyers of the south at Key West, 
Fla.; was lieutenant-governor of Flor¬ 
ida in 1891; and during 1893-97 was 
collector of the port of Key West. 

BROWNE, JOHN MILLS, surgeon, was 
born May 10, 1831, in Hinsdale, N. H. 
He entered the United States navy as an 
assistant surgeon in 1853. In 1855-56 he 
participated in the Indian war on Puget 
sound, and subsequently he took part in 
the survey of the northwest boundary. 

BROWNE, JOHN ROSS, traveler, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1817 in Ireland. He was 
a writer of amusing travels, illustrated 
by original drawings. He is the author 
of An American Family in Germany; Yu- 
sef, a Crusade in the East; Land of Thor, 
a volume of Icelandic experiences; Etch¬ 
ings of a Whaling Voyage; Crusoe’s 
Island; and Adventures in the Apache 
Country. He died Dec. 9, 1875, in Oak¬ 
land, Cal. 

BROWNE, JUNIUS HENRI, journalist, 
author, was born in 1833 in New York. 
He is a journalist of New York city; and 
the author of Four Years in Secessia; 
The Great Metropolis, a Memoir of New 
York; and Light and Sensations in 
Europe. 

BROWNE, MARIA J. B., educator, 
translator, author, was born in North¬ 
ampton, Mass. She has published Mar¬ 
garet; Laura Huntley; and Story of a 
Western Sunday School; and translated 
into Spanish The Borrowed Bible, written 
by her sister; and two other small vol¬ 
umes. She translated from the Spanish 


A History of Granada, by Jose Francisco 
de Luque. 

BROWNE, MARY FRANK, author, was 
born Sept. 9, 1835, in Warsaw, N. Y. Mrs. 
Browne is the president of the San Fran¬ 
cisco Presbyterian orphanage and farm; 
and the author of several works. 

BROWNE, SAMUEL BARNETT, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, was born Sept. 18, 1844, in 
Mt. Vernon, Ala. He served in the con¬ 
federate army; lost 
his right foot at 
Frazier’s Farm; 
again entered the 
army as a cavalry¬ 
man; and was rec¬ 
ommended as major 
by Gen. Robert E. 
Lee for distinguished 
valor on the battle¬ 
field. In 1868 he was 
admitted to the bar; 
subsequently he re¬ 
sided in Calvert, 
Texas, and became editor of the Central 
Texan. He again returned to Mobile, 
Ala., where he has become distinguished 
especially in criminal law, and is known 
as one of the most eminent lawyers of the 
Alabama bar. 

BROWNE, SAMUEL J., clergyman, 
philanthropist, was born March 19, 
1788, in England. He became a min¬ 
ister of the United Brethren, but 
parted with them on the question of 
secret societies, and joined the presbytery 
of Cincinnati about 1868. He accumu¬ 
lated a large fortune by the rise of real 
estate in that city, and bequeathed $150,- 
000 for the establishment of a university 
to bear his name, also land whereon to 
erect the building, and an endowment for 
professorships. He left other sums for 
the building of a church and for the es¬ 
tablishment of a free school in Cincinnati. 
He died Sept. 10, 1872, in Harrison Junc¬ 
tion, Ohio. 

BROWNE, SARA H., author, was born 
in Sunderland, Mass. She has published 
The Book for the Eldest Daughter; The 
Borrowed Bible; Philip Alderton; Mag¬ 
gie Menealy; and other volumes for the 
young; also A Manual of Commerce; and 
magazine articles in prose and poetry. 

BROWNE, THOMAS H. BAYLY, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 
1844 at Accomack, Va. He volunteered as 
a private in company F, thirty-ninth regi¬ 
ment Virginia infantry; afterward served 
as a private in Chew’s battery of the 
Stuart horse artillery; and was surren¬ 
dered with the army of northern Virginia 
in April, 1865. In 1873 he was elected at¬ 
torney for the commonwealth of Acco¬ 
mack county; was presidential elector on 
the Blaine ticket in 1884; was elected 
to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected 
to the fifty-first congress as a republican. 

BROWNE, THOMAS M., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born April 19, 1829, 
in New Paris, Ohio. He was prosecuting 
attorney for the thirteenth judicial cir¬ 
cuit of the state of Indiana from 1855 to 
1861; was secretary of the state sen¬ 
ate in 1861, and a state senator in 1863. 
He entered the union army as lieutenant- 
colonel, during the war of the rebellion, 
and was promoted to the rank of colonel 
and brevet brigadier-general. He was 
United States attorney for the district of 
Indiana from 1869 to 1872; and was an 
unsuccessful candidate for governor of 
the state in 1872. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Indiana to the forty-fifth, 
forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth-, 
forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 



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BROWNE, WILLIAM HAND, author, 
was born Dec. 31, 1828, in Baltimore, Md. 
He is an historical writer of Baltimore 
who, besides assisting Scharf and other 
writers, has also written Maryland, the 
History of a Palatinate; and George Cal¬ 
vert and Cecilius Calvert, Barons Balti¬ 
more. 

BROWNE, WILLIAM HARDCASTLE, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1840 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a lawyer of Philadelphia; 
and the author of Digest of the Law of 
Divorce and Alimony in the United States; 
Famous Women of History; and Bible 
Heroes. 

BROWNELL, CHAUNCEY W., lawyer, 
statesman, was born Oct. 7, 1847, in Wil- 
liston, Vt. He is a successful lawyer of 
Burlington, Vt.; and since 1890 has been 
secretary of state. 

BROWNELL, HENRY HOWARD, sol¬ 
dier, author, poet, was born Feb. 6, 1820, 
in Providence, R. I. He served in the civil 
war as ensign under Farragut, and was 
present in the two engagements described 
in his famous battle poems, The Bay 
Fight, and The River Fight, which rank 
among the finest verses of their kind. He 
was the author of Poems; People’s Book 
of Ancient and Modern History; Discov¬ 
erers of North and South America; Lyrics 
of a Day; and War Lyrics. He died Oct. 
31, 1872, in East Hartford, Conn. 

BROWNELL, SEYMOUR, soldier, busi¬ 
ness man, state senator, was born Feb. 27, 
1837, in Farmington, Mich. During 1858- 
61 he was postmaster of Utica, Mich.; 
raised company H, second Michigan cav¬ 
alry; served on the staffs of several gen¬ 
erals; and was brevetted colonel for 
meritorious services. He was the pro¬ 
moter and one of the directors of the De¬ 
troit and Bay City railroad, and in 1872 
built the first thirty miles of that road. 
In 1872 he was a member of the Michigan 
state senate; and was a delegate to the 
democratic national convention of 1868. 
In 1884 he engaged in iron mining, with 
headquarters in Detroit. He was the pro¬ 
moter of the Grand River Electric rail¬ 
way, of which he is managing director 
and one of the principal owners. 

BROWNELL, THOMAS CHURcH, 
bishop, author, was born Oct. 19, 1779, in 
Westport, Mass. He was the third pro- 
testant episcopal 
bishop of Connecti¬ 
cut; and the author 
of Family Prayer 
Book; Commentary 
on the Prayer Book; 
Youthful Christian’s 
Guide; Consolation 
for the Afflicted; 
Christian’s Walk and 
Consolation; and Re¬ 
ligion of Heart and 
Life. Many other re¬ 
ligious works also 
appeared from his pen. He died Jan. 13, 
1865, in Hartford, Conn. 

BROWNELL, WALTER A., educator, 
was born March 23, 1838, in Evans Mills, 
N. Y. In 1881 he was professor of miner¬ 
alogy in the vacation summer school for 
teachers at Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. He 
has held professorships in the Syracuse 
higll school; Red Creek seminary; Ful¬ 
ton seminary, and many other prominent 
colleges. 

BROWNELL, WILLIAM CRARY, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1851 in New 
York. He is a New York journalist and 
critic; and the author of Newport; French 
• Art; Classic and Contemporary Painting 
and Sculpture; and French Traits: an 
essay in Comparative Criticism. 



BROWNING, J. HULL, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Dec. 25, 1841, in Orange, 
N. J. Since 1887 he has been president 
of the Northern railroad of New Jersey. 


BROWNING, ORVILLE HICKMAN, 
lawyer, statesman, was born in 1810 in 
Harrison county, Ky. He served through 
the Black Hawk war in 1832; in 1836 was 
elected a senator in the Illinois legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1861 was appointed a senator 
in congress to fill the vacancy. He died 
Aug. 10, 1881, in Quincy, Ill. 


BROWNLEE, WILLIAM CRAIG, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1784 in Scot¬ 
land. In 1826 he was installed as one of 
the ministers of the Collegiate Reformed 
Dutch church in New York. He edited the 
Dutch Church Magazine through four con¬ 
secutive volumes, and published Inquiry 
into the Principles of the Quakers; The 
Roman Catholic Controversy; Treatise on 
Popery; Lights and Shadows of Chris¬ 
tian Life; The Christian Youths’ Book; 
Christian Father at Home; Deity of 
Christ; History of the Western Apostolic 
Church; The Converted Murderer; and 
The Whigs of Scotland, a romance, be¬ 
sides several pamphlets. He died Feb. 10, 
1860, in New York city. 


BROWNLEE, WILLIAM R., journalist, 
state senator, was born Oct. 14, 1846, in 
Coitsville, Ohio. In 1880 he was nomin¬ 
ated and elected state senator to the In¬ 
diana legislature. 



BROWNLOW, WALTER PRESTON, 
journalist, congressman, was born March 
27, 1851, in Abingdon, Va. In 1876 he 
purchased the Herald 
and Tribune, a re¬ 
publican newspaper, 
published at Jones¬ 
boro, of which he 
has been the editor 
and proprietor since. 
In 1882 he was elect¬ 
ed a member of the 
republican state 
committee and 
served as a member 
of said committee 
for eight years, two 
of which he was its chairman. He was 
appointed postmaster at Jonesboro in 
1881. He was a delegate from the state at 
large to the republican national conven¬ 
tion of 1884, and favored the nomination 
of James G. Blaine; and was unanimously 
selected at that time by the delegation 
from his state as Tennessee’s member of 
the national committee. He was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a protection¬ 
ist republican. 


BROWNLOW, WILLIAM GANNAWAY, 
clergyman, journalist, governor, author, 
was born Aug. 29, 1805, in Wythe county, 
Va. He was a meth- 
odist preacher and 
journalist of Knox¬ 
ville, Tenn.; con¬ 
spicuous for his 
fidelity to the union 
during the civil war; 
and known as Par¬ 
son Brownlow. At 
the close of the war 
he served two terms 
as governor of his 
state. He was the 
author of The Iron 
Wheel Examined and Its False Spokes 
Extracted, a reply to attacks upon 
methodism; Ought American Slavery to 
Be Perpetuated; and Sketches of the Rise, 
Progress, and Decline of Secession. He 
died April 29, 1877, in Knoxville, Tenn. 



BROWNSCOMBE, JENNIE, artist, was 
born Dec. 10, 1850, near Honesdale, Pa. 
She has devoted her studies mainly to 
genre figure painting, and has made a 
large number of portraits. Her most 
widely known pictures are Grandmother’s 
Treasures;' Blossom Time; The Glean¬ 
ers; and Sunday Morning in Sleepy Hol¬ 
low. She has exhibited pictures in the 
Academy of Design in New York city; 
and her pictures have been reproduced in 
etchings and engravings. 

BROWNSON, HENRY F„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Aug. 7, 1835, in 
Canton, Mass. He was educated at the 
college of the Holy Cross, and the univer¬ 
sity of Munich. He served as lieutenant, 
captain and major in the United States 
army for ten years. He is a successful 
lawyer of Detroit, Mich.; and the author 
of several works. 

BROWNSON, JAMES I., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 14, 1817, in Mercers- 
burg, Pa. He has been pastor of the pres- 
byterian church at Washington, Pa., since 
1849; and since 1852 has been connected 
with the Washington college as trustee 
and president of board of trustees. He has 
oublished Memorials of the Rev. Dr. 
David Elliott and the Rev. Dr. Charles C. 
Beatty, and various historical addresses 
and sketches. 

BROWNSON, NATHAN, physician, 
statesman. He was a member of the pro¬ 
vincial congress in 1775; was for some 
time a surgeon in the army; and speaker 
of the legislature of 1781, by which body 
he was chosen governor of Georgia. He 
was a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1776 to 1778; speaker of the Georgia 
house of representatives in 1788; presi¬ 
dent of the senate from 1789 to 1791; and 
in 1789 was a member of the convention 
that framed the state constitution. He 
died Nov. 6, 1796, in Liberty county, Ga. 

BROWNSON, ORESTES AUGUSTUS, 
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 16, 
1803, in Stockbridge, Vt. He was a promi- 
n e n t philosophical 
thinker who in early 
life was successively 
a presbyterian, a 
universalist clergy¬ 
man, a socialist 
leader associated 
with Robert Owen, 
and a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman, as well as an 
able political speak¬ 
er at all times. In 
1844 he became a 
Roman Catholic, and 
in Brownson’s Review, from that date 
until 1864, he ably defended the Roman 
Catholic faith from the standpoint of a 
liberal. His philosophy is more or less 
influenced by the thought of Cousin. He 
is the author of New Views of Chris¬ 
tianity, Society, and the Church; Charles 
Elwood, or the Infidel Converted (1840), a 
more or less autobiographic novel; Leaves 
from My Experience; Essays and Re¬ 
views; The Spirit-Rapper, an autobiog¬ 
raphy; The American Republic, a work 
on political ethics; and Conversations on 
Liberalism. He died April 17, 1876, in De¬ 
troit, Mich. 

BRUBACK, THEODORE, railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born March 7, 1851, in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. He was elected president and 
manager of the San Pete Valley railroad' 
in 1888, which position he still holds. He 
is organizer and president of the Marion 
Gold Mining Co., and vice-president and 
general manager of the Gold Belt Water 
company of Salt Lake City, Utah. 







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BRUCE, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, 
architect, was born March 16, 1835, in 
Fredericksburg, Va. He has designed a 
number of court houses and public build¬ 
ings in Knoxville, Tenn., prominent 
among them the Chattanooga courthouse. 
The finest buildings in Atlanta were de¬ 
signed by him, among them the Techno¬ 
logical institute, Kiser law construction, 
high school and county courthouse. 

BRUCE, ARCHIBALD, physician, edu¬ 
cator, wqs born in February, 1777, in New 
York. In 1807 he was appointed professor 
of materia medica and mineralogy in 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
being the first to fill such a chair in the 
United States. After 1812 he filled the 
same chair in Queen’s, now Rutgers, col¬ 
lege, New Jersey. He projected the Amer¬ 
ican Mineralogical Journal in 1810, and 
edited it until 1814. His chemical analysis 
of native magnesia from New Jersey made 
known to science the mineral now called 
after him, Brucite. He died Feb. 22, 1818, 
in New York. 

BRUCE, BLANCHE K., statesman, was 
born of slave parents March 1, 1841, in 
Prince Edward county, Va. He received a 
limited education; and became a planter 
in Mississippi in 1869. He was a member 
of the Mississippi levee board, and sheriff 
and tax collector of Bolivar county from 
1872 until his election to the United States 
senate in 1875, as a republican. For many 
years he was register of the treasury at 
Washington, D. C., and was filling that 
position when he died in 1898. 

BRUCE, DWIGHT HALL, journalist, 
author, was born June 21, 1834, in Lenox, 
N. Y. He became the managing editor of 
the Oswego Times; and in 1869 he be¬ 
came part owner and editor of the Syra¬ 
cuse Journal. He is the author of The 
Memorial History of the City of Syra¬ 
cuse. 

BRUCE, GEORGE, typefounder, was 
born July 5, 1781, in Scotland. In 1812 
David went to England and brought back 
the secret of stereotyping. The brothers 
introduced this process in New York, be¬ 
ing compelled to cast their own type, so as 
to give it a deeper shoulder. They in¬ 
vented various appliances to aid in stereo¬ 
typing, and in 1816 gave up publishing 
to start a type foundry. George gave his 
attention to type founding, David his to 
stereotyping. In this trade he made repu¬ 
tation and a fortune. With his nephew, 
David Bruce, Jr., he invented the only 
type-casting machine that has stood the 
test of time, and brought out many new 
and beautiful styles of letters. He died 
July 6, 1866, in New York city. 

BRUCE, GEORGE WASHINGTON LE¬ 
ROY, farmer, lecturer, was born July 6, 
1852, in Resel county, Ala. He is promi¬ 
nent in the political affairs of Louisiana; 
since 1892 has been state lecturer of the 
Farmers’ Alliance; and received the 
nomination for governor on the populist 
ticket in 1892. He has also attained suc¬ 
cess as a clergyman of the methodist 
episcopal church south. 

BRUCE, HENRY, naval officer, was 
born Feb. 12, 1798, in Machias, Maine. 
He was appointed to the navy as midship¬ 
man from Massachusetts in 1813, com¬ 
missioned commodore in 1862, and retired 
in 1867. 

BRUCE, JAMES, farmer, legislator, 
was born Nov. 3, 1827, in Harrison county, 
Ind. He was major commanding southern 
battalion of the Oregon mounted volun¬ 
teers in 1855-56, and during the centen¬ 
nial in 1876 was one of the judges of 
agricultural implements. He has twice 
been a member of the house of represent¬ 
atives in the Oregon legislature. 


BRUCE, JOHN, soldier, planter, jurist, 
was born Feb. 16, 1832, in Scotland. He 
entered the union army and served 
throughout the war, rising to the rank of 
colonel and brevet brigadier-general. He 
settled in Alabama as a cotton planter, 
and was a representative in the state 
legislature in 1872 and 1874. In 1875 he 
was appointed, by President Grant, United 
States district judge for the district of 
Alabama. 

BRUCE, PHINEAS, congressman, was 
born June 17, 1762. He was a member of 
the Massachusetts legislature in 1792,1793, 
1796, and 1800, and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Massachusetts 
from 1803 to 1805. He died Oct. 4, 1809. 

BRUCE, SANDERS DEWEES, soldier, 
journalist, author, was born Aug. 16, 1825, 
in Lexington, Ky. He served in the civil 
war, and attained the rank of colonel. 
He founded the widely known sporting 
journal, Turf, Field and Farm, and is the 
author of American Stud Book, and The 
Thoroughbred Horse. 

BRUCE, WALLACE, lecturer, author, 
poet, was born Nov. 10, 1844, in Hillsdale, 
N. Y. He is a poet and lecturer, and the 
author of From the Hudson to the Yose- 
mite; The Land of Burns; The Connecti¬ 
cut Daylight; in verse, The Hudson; Yo- 
semite; Old Homestead Poems; Wayside 
Poems; In Clover and Heather; and 
Here’s a Hand. 

BRUCKER, FERDINAND, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1858, in 
Bridgeport, Mich. He graduated from the 
law department of the university of Mich¬ 
igan in the class of 1881; is a lawyer by 
profession, and served as alderman of the 
city of East Saginaw in 1882-84. He held 
the office of judge of probate for Saginaw 
county two terms, from 1888 to 1896; and 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress. 

BRUIN, PETER BRYAN, jurist. He 
was appointed, in 1798, one of the first 
United States judges for the territory of 
Mississippi. 

BRUMBAUGH, HENRY BOYER, bish¬ 
op, college president, was born April 1, 
1836, in Huntingdon, Pa. He is president of 
Brethren’s Publishing company, and was 
for many years president of Juniata col¬ 
lege; vice-president of Orphans’ home, and 
vice-president of Union National bank. 
He is the bishop of his church and dean 
of the biblical department of Juniata col¬ 
lege. 

BRUMM, CHARLES N., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 9, 1838, in Potts- 
ville. Pa. He enlisted in the union army 
in 1861, and served 
throughout the war, 
being commissioned 
an assistant-quarter- 
master and detailed 
on staff duty. He 
was an unsuccessful 
candidate for a seat 
in the forty-sixth 
congress, and was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the forty- 
seventh, forty- 
eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-fourth 
and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. 
He was a prominent candidate for gov¬ 
ernor of Pennsylvania. 

BRUNDIDGE, STEPHEN, congressman, 
was born Jan. 1, 1857, in White county, 
Ark. In 1886 he was elected prosecuting 
attorney for the first judicial district of 
Arkansas, and re-elected in 1888 without 
opposition. Since 1890 he has served a 
term as member of the democratic state 
central committee of Arkansas, and was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 


BRUNER, JOHN SIMEON, poet, was 
born Feb. 11, 1863, in Hope, Ind.; has 
written extensively for the periodical 
press, and his poems have appeared in 
several standard works. 

BRUNNER, DAVID B., educator, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born March 7, 
1835, in Amity, Pa. In 1869 he was elected 
county superintendent of the public 
schools of the county, which office he filled 
until 1875; taught private school until 
1880, when he opened the Reading Busi¬ 
ness college, and has since been the prin¬ 
cipal of that institution. He is the author 
of an elementary work on English Gram¬ 
mar and Analysis, and a work entitled 
The Indians of Berks County, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, He has devoted much time to min¬ 
eralogy and microscopy, and has lai’ge col¬ 
lections of specimens in those depart¬ 
ments of science. He was elected to the 
fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a democrat. 

BRUNNER, JOHN HAMILTON, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born March 
2, 1825, in Greene county, Tenn. After 
receiving his educa¬ 
tion at Greenville 
and Tusculum col¬ 
lege, he entered the 
ministry, and subse¬ 
quently became pres¬ 
ident of Hiawassee 
college, Tennessee. 
He is a fellow of the 
society of science, 
letters and art of 
London, England, 
and prominent in 
educational affairs. 
He has contributed valuable articles to 
current literature on various educational 
and religious topics that have been in¬ 
corporated into standard collections. 

BRUNOT, FELIX R., business man, 
philanthropist, was born Feb. 7, 1820. 
Middle life found him a man of wealth, 
and he projected, founded and for many 
years served as president of the Mercan¬ 
tile library of Pittsburg, and is yet one 
of the managers of the Library hall of 
Pittsburg, which originated with him. 

BRUNS, JOHN DICKSON, surgeon, 
poet, was born Feb. 24, 1836, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. During the civil war he was 
surgeon of a general hospital of the con¬ 
federacy. In 1866 he was chosen pro¬ 
fessor of physiology and pathology in the 
New Orleans school of medicine. His 
poetical writings evince graceful versifi¬ 
cation and marked power of description. 
He died May 20, 1883, in New Orleans, La. 

BRUNSON, JOHN C., farmer, public 
official, state legislator, was born July 20, 
1822, in East Bloomfield, N. Y. He re¬ 
ceived an academic education; and since 
1845 has lived in Victor, Mich. He has 
attained success as a farmer and mer¬ 
chant; was justice of the peace for thir¬ 
ty-five years; postmaster for twenty-five 
years, and for two years was a representa¬ 
tive in the Michigan state legislature. 

BRUSE, JAMES E., lawyer, banker, was 
born April 14, 1860, in Brooklyn, Iowa. 
He has attained success as an able lawyer 
in his native state; has been county at¬ 
torney, president of the Citizens’ bank of 
Anita, and takes a prominent part in pub¬ 
lic affairs. 

BRUSH, ALEXANDER, manufacturer, 
was born Feb. 8, 1824, in New York. In 
1848, with his brother, he started in the 
brick business, in which they prospered 
and became the most extensive brick man¬ 
ufacturers in the western part of New 
York. He died June 1, 1892. 




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BRUSH, ALFRED ERSKINE, lawyer, 
was born Feb. 14, 1850, in Detroit, Mich. 
The management and improvement of his 
father’s large estate give him ample em¬ 
ployment. The Hotel Ste. Claire, the 
Lyceum theater and Detroit Driving club 
are properties in which he is largely in¬ 
terested, as well as the Michigan Peninsu¬ 
lar Car company. 

BRUSH, CHARLES FRANCIS, electri¬ 
cian, inventor, was born March 17, 1849, in 
Euclid, Ohio. The Brush system was a 
success from the 
start. Mr. Brush is 
a large owner in the 
General Electric and 
in several other 
large corporations. 
Among his inven¬ 
tions are the series 
arc lamp, having a 
shunt circuit of high 
resistance, which 
made lighting from 
central stations prac¬ 
ticable; copper-plat¬ 
ed carbons, the automatic cut-out for arc 
lights, the compound series shunt wind¬ 
ing for dynamos, the multiple carbon arc 
lamp, and the fundamental storage bat¬ 
tery. Fierce litigation has taken place 
over some of these inventions, but Dr. 
Brush’s patents have been, as a rule, fully 
sustained. He is president of the Euclid 
Avenue National bank of Cleveland, Ohio. 

BRUSH, MRS. CONSTANCE (CHAP¬ 
LIN), artist, author, was born in 1842 in 
Maine. She was an artist in water-colors 
whose home was in Brooklyn. Her most 
important book. The Colonel’s Opera 
Cloak, a novel, was first published anon¬ 
ymously. Her only other works are two 
stories, Inside Our Gate; and One Sum¬ 
mer’s Lessons in Perspective. She died in 
1892. 

BRUSH, GEORGE JARVIS, mineral¬ 
ogist, author, was born Dec. 15, 1831, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Since 1857 he has been 
identified with the Sheffield Scientific 
school. He has published a Manual of 
Determinative Mineralogy and has been 
a constant contributor to the American 
Journal of Science. 

BRUSH, GEORGE WASHINGTON, sol¬ 
dier, physician, surgeon, state senator, 
was born Oct. 4, 1842, in Huntington, N. Y. 

In 1861 he enlisted as 
a private in the 
forty-eighth regi¬ 
ment, New York vol- 
u n t e e r s ; served 
throughout the war, 
and attained the 
rank of captain. He 
received the congres¬ 
sional medal of 
honor for conspicu¬ 
ous gallantry in an 
engagement on the 
Ashepee river i n 
May, 1864. In 1876 he graduated from the 
Long Island Medical college, and has 
since practiced his profession in Brook¬ 
lyn. In 1894 he was elected a member of 
the New York assembly, and in 1897 was 
elected to the state senate. 

BRUSH, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1778 in Dutchess 
county, N. Y. He was a representative in 
congress from Ohio from 1819 to 1821, 
and was a judge of the supreme court of 
the state. He died Jan. 19, 1855. 

BRUYN, ANDREW D. W., congress¬ 
man, was born in New York. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
that state from 1837 to 1838. He died 
July, 1838, in Ithaca, N. Y. 


BRYAN, ANTHONY H., physician, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Aug. 22, 1832, in Monti- 
cello, Ky. He accepted a professorship of 
general pathology in the Evansville Medi¬ 
cal college in 1876. He has been a fre¬ 
quent contributor to the various medical 
journals in the country, and his articles 
are noted for singular clearness. 

BRYAN, EDWARD KNIGHT, educator, 
clergyman, was born in 1844, in Jamaica, 
West Indies. He was principal of one of 
the Houston city schools, principal of 
the Texarkana city school; and in 1887-88 
was chaplain of Mary Allan seminary. In 
1887 he was ordained a clergyman of the 
Presbyterian church, and has since filled 
several important pastorates in Texas and 
Arkansas. 

BRYAN, GEORGE, jurist, state legis¬ 
lator, was born in 1731 in Dublin, Ireland. 
He was a member of the Pennsylvania 
state assembly, and in 1765 was a dele¬ 
gate to the stamp-act congress, in which, 
and in the subsequent struggle, he took 
an active part. He was vice-president of 
the supreme executive council of Penn¬ 
sylvania from the period of the declara¬ 
tion of independence, and in May, 1778, 
was advanced to the presidency. In 1779 
he was elected' to the legislature. He 
was appointed a judge of the state su¬ 
preme court in 1780, and remained in 
that office until his death. He died Jan. 
27, 1791, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BRYAN, GEORGE S., jurist, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He settled in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C., and in 1866 was appointed 
United States judge for the district com¬ 
prising that state. 

BRYAN, GUY M., soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born June 12, 
1821, in Missouri. He bore a part in the 
military campaign of Texas in 1836; in 
1847 was elected to the Texas legislature, 
and served in the house and senate seven 
years. He was elected a representative 
from Texas to the thirty-fifth congress. 

BRYAN, HENRY H., congressman, was 
born in Martin county, N. C. He was a 
representative in congress from Tennes¬ 
see from 1819 to 1823. He died May, 1835, 
in Montgomery county, Tenn. 

BRYAN, JOHN A., public official, was 
born in Massachusetts. After holding a 
clerkship in the general postoffice, he 
was, in 1842, appointed second assistant 
postmaster general, holding the position 
about one year. A son of his was subse¬ 
quently connected with the postal service 
of the empire of Japan. 

BRYAN, JOHN H., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1798 in Newbern coun¬ 
ty, N. C. He served a number of years in 
the state legislature; and was a member 
of congress from North Carolina from 
1825 to 1827. 

BRYAN, JOSEPH, congressman, was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Georgia from 1803 to 1806. 

BRYAN, JOSEPH H., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina from i815 to 1819. 

BRYAN, MRS. MARY EDWARDS, 
journalist, author, was born in 1846, in 
Jefferson county, Fla. She is a journalist 
and has written the novels Manch; Wild 
Work, a story of the reconstruction pe¬ 
riod in Louisiana; The Bayou Bride; and 
Kildee. 

BRYAN, NATHAN, congressman, was 
born in 1791, in Jones county, N. C. In 
1791 he represented Jones county in the 
house of commons; and was a member of 
congress from North Carolina from 1795 
to 1798. He died June 4, 1798, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 


BRYAN, THOMAS BARBOUR, com¬ 
missioner, lawyer, was born Dec. 22, 1828, 
in Alexandria, Va. He entered the prac¬ 
tice of law in Chicago, Ill., and in 1893 
was first vice-president of the World’s 
Columbian exposition. 

BRYAN, THOMAS JEFFERSON, art 
collector, was born about 1800 in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He formed a valuable col¬ 
lection of paintings, which he bequeathed 
to the New York historical society. His 
favorite work was a beautiful .face and 
figure by Greuze. He died at sea May 15, 
1870. 

BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS, law¬ 
yer, congressman, candidate for the pres¬ 
idency of the United States, was born 
March j.0, 1860, in Salem, Ill. His boy¬ 
hood was passed on a farm near that 
place, and he attended the public schools 
for five years; he then took a course at 
Whipple academy and completed his edu¬ 
cation by a four years’ course at Illinois 
college. As a student in the law office 
of Lyman Trumbull, Lnicago, he attended 
the Union College of Law in Chicago till 
June, 1883, when he removed to Jackson¬ 
ville, Ill., and practiced law there for four 
years. In Oct.. 1887, he located in Lin¬ 
coln, Neb., and opened a law office. He 
was elected to congress in 1890, and his 
first speech gave him a national reputa¬ 
tion; he was re-elected in 1892, and his 
speech on the repeal of the Sherman act 
is considered a masterpiece on bimetal¬ 
lism. He was placed in nomination for 
the presidency by the democratic, free 
silver and populistic parties, in 1896, and 
led a brilliant campaign. He is the au¬ 
thor of The First Battle; and A Story 
of the Campaign of 1896. 

BRYANT, EDWIN, pioneer, author, was 
born in 1805 in Massachusetts. Before 1846 
he was for some time a journalist in Ken¬ 
tucky. In the summer of that year, chief¬ 
ly with a view to traveling, he acted as 
leader of a party of emigrants from Mis¬ 
souri to California. While various par¬ 
ties had gone overland to California since 
1841, the large numbers and the critical 
circumstances of this emigration gave it 
much historical importance. He was the 
author of What I Saw in California. He 
died in 1869 in Louisville, Ky. 

BRYANT, EDWIN EUSTACE, soldier, 
state legislator, college dean, was born 
Jan. 10, 1835, in Milton, Vt. In 1857 ne 
moved to Wisconsin, and entered upon 
the practice of law. In 1861 he entered 
the union army as a volunteer; served 
throughout the civil war, being succes¬ 
sively promoted an officer in line, staff 
and field. From 1868 to 1872 he was 
private and executive secretary to the 
governor of Wisconsin; from 1876 to 
1882 was adjutant general of Wisconsin; 
in 1878 was elected a representative in 
the Wisconsin legislature; and declined 
a re-nomination. In 1885 he was ap¬ 
pointed assistant attorney general of the 
United States for the postoffice depart¬ 
ment. Since 1889 he has been dean of 
the college of law of the university of 
Wisconsin. 

BRYANT. GEORGE E., farmer, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 11, 1832, 
in Templeton, Mass. He received his ed¬ 
ucation in the Norwich university, Vt. 
For eight years he was postmaster of 
Madison, Wis.; and six years quarter¬ 
master general of Wisconsin. In 1880 he 
was a delegate to the republican national 
convention, and was one of the 306 who 
voted for U. S. Grant. He has filled the 
high offices of judge, state senator, and 
secretary of the board of agriculture. 




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BRYANT, GRIDLEY, engineer, was 
born in 1789 in Scituate, Mass. In 1823 
he invented the portable derrick. He ob¬ 
tained the contract for building the 
United States bank in Boston, and other 
public buildings, and was master builder 
and contractor to supply stone for Bunker 
Hill monument. He died Jan. 13, 1867, in 
Scituate, Mass. 

BRYANT, JOEL, physician, author, 
was born Nov. 10, 1813, in Suffolk county, 
N. Y. He moved to Brooklyn in 1850, 
and became quite prominent as a practi¬ 
tioner. He was the author of several trea¬ 
tises on homeopathy, the best of which 
was The Pocket Manual, or Repertory of 
Homeopathic Practice. He died Nov. 20, 
1868, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BRYANT, JOHN HOWARD, farmer, 
poet, was born July 22, 1807, in Cumming- 
ton, Mass. He is the author of Poems; 
and Poems Written from Youth to Old 
Age. 

BRYANT, NATHANIEL C., naval of¬ 
ficer, was born March 27, 1823, in Noble- 
borough, Maine. He was appointed mid¬ 
shipman in the United States navy in 
1837; and attained the rank of com¬ 
mander in 1862. 


BRYANT, WILBUR FRANKLIN, law¬ 
yer, author, politician, was born March 
21, 1851, in Dalton, N. H. In 1873 he grad¬ 
uated from Kimball 
Union acaaemy of 
Meriden; and subse¬ 
quently attended 
Dartmouth college. 
He then entered ed¬ 
ucational work in 
Mississippi. In 1876 
he moved to Nebras¬ 
ka, and a year later 
was admitted to the 
bar. He has prac¬ 
ticed his profession 
in Nebraska at St. 
Helena, where he was postmaster for 
three years; and at West Point and Hart- 
ington. In 1882 he was elected district 
attorney for sixteen counties; for several 
years he was judge of Cuming county; 
and is now a member of Governor Hol¬ 
comb’s staff, with rank of colonel. He 
was one of the founders of the people’s 
party in Nebraska, and has been a mem¬ 
ber of every state convention since its 
foundation. He was a member of the bi¬ 
metallic congress of 1893; and is the state 
president of the Catholic Knights of 
America. 

BRY'ANT, WILLIAM, clergyman, poet, 
was born in 1850 in England. After re¬ 
ceiving his education he entered the min¬ 
istry, and since 1887 has been pastor of 
the First Presbyterian church of Mar¬ 
shalltown, Iowa. He has written numer¬ 
ous poems, many of which have appeared 
in various hymn books anu the secular 
and religious press generally. 



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BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, poet, 

was born Nov. 3, 1794, in Cummington, 

Mass. He was a jour- 
. i Mfc. nalist of New York. 

He early began the 
practice of law, 
but soon abandoned 
it for journalism 
and, removing to 
New York in 1825, 
became in 1828 the 
editor of the Even¬ 
ing Post, with which 
he remained asso¬ 
ciated until his 
death. His earliest 
poem, The Embargo, a political satire, 
was published when its author was but 
thirteen, but the first collection of his 



poems was not made until 1821, the fa¬ 
mous Thanatopsis being one of the eight 
which the volume comprised. The 
quantity of Bryant’s verse is small, the 
quality high, but not uniformly so. Its 
tone is usually calmly philosophic, and 
it rarely makes any very effective appeal 
to the sympathies, its coldness arising 
partly from lack of humor, partly from 
natural reserve. He is the author of The 
Embargo; The Spanish Revolution; The 
Ages; The Fountain of Youth, and Other 
Poems; The White-Footed Deer; The 
Flood of Years; Thirty Poems; transla¬ 
tions of the Iliad and Odyssey, both in 
unrhymed heroic pentameter; Letters of 
a Traveler, a prose work; and Orations 
and Addresses. He died June 12, 1878, in 
New York. 

BRYANT, WILLIAM McKENDREE, 
educator, author, was born in 1843, in In¬ 
diana. He is a prominent educator of St. 
Louis, and the author of Philosophy of 
Landscape Painting; The World Energy 
and its Self-Conservation; Syllabus of 
Psychology; Ethics and the New Educa¬ 
tion; and Text Books of Psychology. 

BRYANT, WILLIAM PERKINS, jurist, 
was born Aug. 3, 1806, in Mercer county, 
Ky. He was an early emigrant to Ore¬ 
gon when it was a territory; and in 1849 
was appointed chief justice of the United 
States court for that district. He died 
Oct. 10, 18.60. 

BRYANT, WILLIAM W., educator, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born July 11, 1860, in 
Breathitt county, Ky. For several years 
he was engaged in educational work, and 
in 1884 moved to Minnesota. In 1892 he 
was elected commissioner of Cass county; 
subsequently became treasurer and presi¬ 
dent of the board of education. 

BRYCE, JAMES PATERSON, soldier, 
designer, librarian, was born Dec. 19, 
1832, in Lanark, Scotland. He com¬ 
menced life as a designer of patterns for 
muslin, which he followed for ten years. 
He entered the union army in 1861 and 
was wounded the following year near 
Rolla, Mo. In 1887 he became librarian of 
the public library of Springfield, Ill., and 
has attained prominence as a cataloguer. 

BRYCE, LLOYD S., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1851, 
in Flushing, N. Y. He was appointed pay¬ 
master-general of the state of New York 
in 1886, and was elected to the fiftieth 
congress as a democrat. During 1889-96 
he was editor of the North American Re¬ 
view, and is the author of Paradise; A 
Dream of Conquest; The Romance of an 
Alter Ego; and Friends in Exile. 

BRYDE, ARCHIBALD M., state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born in Moore 
county, N. C. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1809 to 
1813; and subsequently a member of the 
state senate for two years. 

BRYSON, ANDREW, naval officer, was 
born July 22, 1822, in New York city. 
He entered the navy as midshipman in 
1837; was promoted lieutenant in 1851; 
commander in 1862; captain in 1866; com¬ 
modore in 1873; and rear admiral in 1880, 
with which rank he was retired in 1881. 
Previous to his retirement, after forty- 
three years of service, he was in com¬ 
mand of the South Atlantic station. 

BRY T SON, JOHN PAUL, educator, phy¬ 
sician, was born April 16, 1846, in Ma¬ 
con, Miss. He is consulting physician of 
the St. Louis hospital; surgeon of the St. 
Louis Murphy hospital; and for fifteen 
years professor of genito-urinary surgery 
in the St. Louis Medical college. 

BUCHANAN, ANDREW, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1835 to 1839. 


BUCHANAN, FRANKLIN, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Sept. 17, 1800, in Baltimore, 
Md. In 1861 he entered the confederate 
army as captain and for his services was 
tendered a vote of thanks by the confed¬ 
erate congress, and appointed admiral 
and senior officer of the confederate navy. 
He died May 11, 1874, in Maryland. 

BUCHANAN, HUGH, soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 15, 1823, in Scotland. He was elect¬ 
ed to the state senate of Georgia in 1855, 
and re-elected in 1857. He was a delegate 
to the democratic national convention of 
1856; was a presidential elector in 1860; 
delegate to the democratic national con¬ 
vention of 1868; was a judge of the supe¬ 
rior court from 1872 until 1880. He was 
a member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1877; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Georgia to the forty-sev¬ 
enth and forty-eighth congresses. 

BUCHANAN, JAMES, fifteenth presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born April 
22, 1791, in Franklin county, Pa. He 
graduated at Dick¬ 
inson college in 
1809, and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 
1812. He was elect¬ 
ed to the state legis¬ 
lature in 1814. In 
1820 he was elected 
representative t o 
congress, and held 
the office by re-elec¬ 
tions for ten years. 
In 1831 he was ap¬ 
pointed envoy ex¬ 
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary 
to Russia, and elected United States sena¬ 
tor in 1834. He was re-elected in 1840, 
and continued a member of that body un¬ 
til 1845, when he was appointed secretary 
of state, which office he held four years. 
Mr. Buchanan was appointed minister to 
England in 1853, and returned in April, 
1856. June 2, 1856, the national demo¬ 
cratic convention met at Cincinnati to 
nominate a candidate for the presidency. 
On the first ballot James Buchanan re¬ 
ceived 135 votes; Franklin Pierce, 122; 
Stephen Arnold Douglas, 33; Lewis Cass, 
5. On the ninth ballot the vote stood: 
Buchanan, 141; Pierce, 87; Douglas, 56; 
Cass, 7. On the sixteenth ballot Buchan¬ 
an had 168; Douglas, 121. On the seven¬ 
teenth Buchanan was unanimously nomi¬ 
nated. John Cabell Breckenridge was 
nominated for vice-president, and they 
were elected the following autumn. They 
were inaugurated March 4, 1857. At the 
close of his presidential term he retired 
to his home at Lancaster, Pa., and died 
June 1, 1868. Buchanan held office nearly 
thirty-eight years. He died worth about 
$ 200 , 000 . 

BUCHANAN, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born June 17, 1839, in 
Ringoes, N. J. He was a member of the 
board of education of Trenton, N. J., in 
1868-69; was presiding judge of Mercer 
county during 1874-79; and was a mem¬ 
ber of the common council of Trenton in 
1883-85. He was elected to the forty-ninth, 
fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

BUCHANAN, JOHN ALEXANDER, 
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Oct. 7, 1843, in Smyth county, Va. He 
served as a private in the Stonewall brig¬ 
ade, confederate army; was taken prison¬ 
er at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, and re¬ 
mained in prison until February, 1865. 
He was a member of the house of dele¬ 
gates of Virginia from 1885 until 1887; 
and was elected to the fifty-first and fifty- 
second congresses as a democrat. 






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BUCHANAN, JOHN P„ farmer, gover¬ 
nor, was born in 1847, in Tennessee. He 
has always been a farmer, but has taken 
an active interest in politics since he at¬ 
tained his majority, and since 1875 has 
been a delegate to all the democratic 
state conventions. He was governor of 
Tennessee from 1891 to 1893. 

BUCHANAN, JOSEPH, inventor, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 24, 1785, in Washing¬ 
ton county, Va. He was a once noted 
mechanical inventor of Kentucky who 
published The Philosophy of Human Na¬ 
ture. He died Sept. 29, 1829, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. 

BUCHANAN, JOSEPH RHODES, phy¬ 
sician, journalist, inventor, author, was 
born Dec. 11, 1814, in Frankfort, Ky. He 
is noted as a physician and claims to 
have invented the sciences of sarcognomy 
and psychometry. He published Bu¬ 
chanan’s Journal of Medicine, 1849-56. He 
is the author of Outlines of Lectures on 
the Neurological System of Anthropolo¬ 
gy; Eclectic Practice of Medicine and 
Surgery; The New Education; Therapeu¬ 
tic Sarcognomy; and Manual of Psychom¬ 
etry. 

BUCHANAN, McKEAN, actor, was 
born Feb. 28, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was educated for the navy, and served 
three years as midshipman on the sloop- 
of-war St. Louis. His first appearance as 
an actor was made at the St. Charles 
theatre, New Orleans, in the character of 
Hamlet, in which role he made his ap¬ 
pearance in New York in 1850. He visit¬ 
ed England twice, and also made tours 
in Australia and California. He died 
April 16, 1872, in Denver, Colo. 

BUCHANAN, ROBERT CHRISTIE, 
soldier, was born about 1810, in Mary¬ 
land. He served as lieutenant in the 
Black Hawk and Seminole wars. He was 
made captain in 1838, and in the war 
with Mexico took part in numerous bat¬ 
tles. In 1865 he was made brevet briga¬ 
dier-general of the United States army for 
gallant conduct at Malvern Hill, and bre¬ 
vet major-general for services at Freder¬ 
icksburg. He commanded the district of 
Louisiana from January, 1868, till Jan¬ 
uary, 1869, and on Dec. 31, 1870, was re¬ 
tired, on his own application, after thirty 
years of consecutive service. He died 
Nov. 29, 1878, in Washington, D. C. 

BUCHANAN, SARAH, pioneer. Dur¬ 
ing the war with the Creeks and Cumber- 
lands in 1792 the fort was attacked by the 
Indians. When the bullets gave out Mrs. 
Buchanan was at hand with an apronful 
molded from pewter plates and spoons 
during the progress of the fight. She 
died Nov. 23, 1831, at Buchanan’s Station, 
Tenn. 

BUCHANAN, WILLIAM I., author, 
diplomat. He has filled many positions 
of honor and was envoy extraordinary 
and minister plenipotentiary to Buenos 
Ayres. He is the author of an improved 
system of bookkeeping which has be¬ 
come very popular throughout the United 
States. 

BUCHER, FARY BUCHANAN, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, was born June 2, 1856, in 
Fremont, N. Y. After teaching for a 
while he was admitted to the bar, and 
has since practiced his profession in At¬ 
lanta, Ga. He takes an active part in 
public affairs; is a member of the town 
assembly, and a staunch democrat. 

BUCHER, JOHN C., jurist, congress¬ 
man. He was for many years a judge of 
the circuit court of Pennsylvania; and a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1831 to 1833. He died Oct. 26, 1851, 
in Harrisburg, Pa. 


BUCHTEL, JOHN R., philanthropist, 
was born Jan. 18, 1820, in Summit coun¬ 
ty, Ohio. In 1883 he helped to organize 
the Akron Iron company; was for many 
years president of the C. Aultman and 
Co.; and through his interest and means 
the Buchtel college was founded. 

BUCK, ALFRED E., soldier, educator, 
congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1832, in 
Foxcroft, Maine. He entered the army in 
1861 as captain in 
thirteenth Maine in¬ 
fantry; was lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel of nine¬ 
ty-first colored 
troops in 1863, and 
of the fifty-first col¬ 
ored troops in 1864. 
He was brevetted 
colonel of volun¬ 
teers for gallant 
conduct at the siege 
of Fort Blakely in 
1865. He was a 
member of the constitutional convention 
of Alabama in 1867. He was presidential 
elector in 1868; and was elected to the 
forty-first congress. 

BUCK, CHARLES FRANCIS, lawyer, 
legislator, orator, was born Nov. 5, 1841, 
in Germany. He received his education 
at the public schools and the Louisiana 
state university of Alexandria. For two 
terms he served as city attorney of New 
Orleans; has been a member of the 
school board; and held various other 
public positions of honor in that city. He 
served with distinction as a member of 
the fifty-fourth congress from the sec¬ 
ond Louisiana district. He is an able 
lawyer and a brilliant orator. His ora¬ 
tion on the Life and Death of James A. 
Garfield received publication in all the 
leading newspapers of America, and was 
highly eulogized. 

BUCK, CHARLES W., lawyer, jurist, 
diplomatist, was born March 17, 1849, in 
Vicksburg, Miss. In 1879 he was elected 
county judge of Woodford county, Ky., 
and served four years. In 1885 he was 
appointed envoy extraordinary and min¬ 
ister plenipotentiary of the United States 
to Peru. 

BUCK, DANIEL, lawyer, congressman. 
He was one of the earliest settlers in Ver¬ 
mont, and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1795 to 1797. 
He died in 1817. 

BUCK, DANIEL, lawyer, state senator, 
jurist, was born May 15, 1857, in Boon- 
ville, N. Y. He was a member of the 
Minnesota house of representatives in 
1866, and of the senate in 1879 and 1881; 
for five years member of state normal 
board, and four years prosecuting attor¬ 
ney of Blue Earth county. He was elect¬ 
ed associate justice of the supreme court, 
term commencing in January, 1894. 

BUCK, DANIEL AZRO A., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born in 1789, in 
Vermont. He established himself as a 
lawyer at Chelsea, Vt., and was for four¬ 
teen years a member of the state legisla¬ 
ture. He filled the office of state attor¬ 
ney for Orange county for six years; in 
1821 was a presidential elector; and was 
a representative in congress from Ver¬ 
mont from 1823 to 1825, and again from 
1827 to 1829. He died Dec. 24. 1841, in 
Washington, D. C. 

BUCK, DUDLEY, organist, author, was 
born March 10, 1839, in Hartford, Conn. 
He is a composer and organist of Brook¬ 
lyn. He is the author of Dictionary of 
Musical Terms; and The Influence of the 
Organ in History. 


BUCK, GURDON, physician, surgeon, 
author, was born May 4, 1807, in New 
York city. He was an eminent surgeon 
of New York city, and wrote much for 
medical journals and a treatise on Con¬ 
tributions to Reparative Surgery. He 
died March 6, 1877, in New York city. 

BUCK, JIRAH D., physician, author, 
was born Nov. 20, 1838, in Fredonia, N. 
Y. He has been the president of the 
state medical society of Ohio; was presi¬ 
dent of the American Institute of 
Homeopathy in 1891; and vice-president 
of Theosophical Society of America. He 
is the author of History of Man and the 
Way to Health. 

BUCK, JOHN R., lawyer, congressman, 
was born Dec. 6, 1836, in Glastonbury, 
Conn. He was treasurer of the county of 
Hartford from 1863 to 1881; was clerk of 
the state house of representatives in 
1865; clerk of the state senate in 1866; 
president of the common council of Hart¬ 
ford in 1868; city attorney in 1871 and 
1873; state senator in 1880 and 1881; and 
was elected a representative from Con¬ 
necticut to the forty-seventh and forty- 
ninth congresses as a republican. 

BUCK, NORMAN, soldier, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born April 13, 1833, in Lancas¬ 
ter, N. Y. He served in the union army 
from 1862 to 1865, rising to the rank of 
captain. He was judge of probate for 
Winona county, Minn., from 1865 to 1871. 
In 1873 he was elected prosecuting attor¬ 
ney for the same county; in 1878 was ap¬ 
pointed United States attorney for the 
territory of Idaho; and in 1879 was ap¬ 
pointed an associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of that territory, and was 
reappointed in 1884. Since 1892 he has 
been superior judge of Spokane county. 
Wash.; and in 1895 was elected com¬ 
mander of the Washington and Alaska 
Grand Army of the Republic. 

BUCKALEW, CHARLES R.. lawyer, 
diplomat, United States senator, was born 
Dec. 28, 1821, in Columbia county, Pa. He 
was prosecuting attorney for Columbia 
county from 1845 till 1847, and was elect¬ 
ed to the state senate in 1850, and re¬ 
elected in 1853. He was commissioner to 
exchange ratifications of a treaty with 
Paraguay in 1854, serving as such be¬ 
tween sessions of the legislature. He 
was a presidential elector in 1856; and 
was again elected to the state senate in 
1857. He was appointed minister resi¬ 
dent of the United States at the republic 
of Ecuador, which office he filled for three 
years. He was elected by the legislature 
in 1863 to the United States senate; was 
elected to the state senate in 1869, for the 
fourth time; and was the democratic can¬ 
didate for governor in 1872. In 1886 he 
was elected president of the Bloomsburg 
and Sullivan railroad; and in 1872 pub¬ 
lished a volume upon Proportional Rep¬ 
resentation, and in 1883 a work upon the 
Constitution of Pennsylvania. He was 
elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

BUCKELEY, MORGAN GARDNER, 
governor, was born Dec. 21, 1837, in East 
Haddam, Conn. During 1880-88 he was 
mayor of Hartford, Conn.; and in 1889- 
93 was governor of the state of Connec¬ 
ticut. Since 1879 he has been president 
of the JEtna Life Insurance company of 
Hartford, Conn. 

BUCKHAM, MATTHEW H„ educator, 
college president, was born in 1832, in 
England. In 1871 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the university of Vermont. His 
published works have principally ap¬ 
peared in the form of addresses, sermons 
and articles in the reviews and educa¬ 
tional journals. 







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BUCKHOUT, ISAAC CRAIG, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born in 1831, in Morrisania, 
N. Y. He designed tbe Grand Central 
station, as well as the improvement on 
Fourth avenue. He died Sept. 27, 1874, 
in White Plains, N. Y. 

BUCKINGHAM, CATHARINUS PUT¬ 
NAM, soldier, merchant, manufacturer, 
was born March 14, 1808, in Springfield, 
Ohio. He became brigadier-general of 
volunteers July 16, 1862, and served on 
special duty in the war department at 
Washington till 1863, when he resigned 
and became a merchant in New York city. 
From 1868 till 1873 he was occupied in 
building the Illinois Central grain eleva¬ 
tors at Chicago, and rebuilding them af¬ 
ter their destruction by the great fire. In 
1873 he became president of the Chicago 
steel works. 

BUCKINGHAM, CHARLES LUMAN, 
lawyer, was born Oct. 14, 1852, in Berlin 
Heights, Ohio. He is a leading counsel¬ 
or in the most recent patent contest of the 
Western Union Telegraph and the Dela¬ 
ware and Atlantic Telegraph and Tele¬ 
phone companies. He has contributed a 
series of electrical articles to various 
magazines. 

BUCKINGHAM, JOSEPH TINKER, 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 21, 1779, 
in Windham, Conn. He is a journalist of 
note who published in 1831-34 The New 
England Magazine, in which Dr. Holmes 
began his famous Autocrat, and the Bos¬ 
ton Courier in 1828-48. He is the au¬ 
thor of Specimens of Newspaper Litera¬ 
ture; and Personal Memoirs and Recol¬ 
lections of Editorial Life. He died April 
11, 1861, in Cambridge, Mass. 

BUCKINGHAM, WILLIAM A., mer¬ 
chant, United States senator, governor, 
was born May 28, 1804, in Lebanon, Conn. 
He was elected mayor of Norwich in 1849, 
1850, 1856, and 1857; was a presidential 
elector in 1856, and in 1858 was elected 
governor of Connecticut; re-elected for 
seven years, in which capacity he ren¬ 
dered important services in raising and 
forwarding troops during the progress of 
the rebellion. He was elected a senator 
in congress from Connecticut for six 
years, for the term commencing in 1869 
and ending in 1875. He died Feb. 3, 1875, 
in Norwich, Conn. 

BUCKLAND, CYRUS, inventor, was 
born Aug. 10, 1799, in Manchester, Conn. 
He produced his machine for making 
gunstocks about 1842; and is also the in¬ 
ventor of the machines for rifling musket 
barrels, for cutting the thread of the 
screw on the inside of the barrel, and for 
milling the breech-screw. 

BUCKLAND, RALPH POMEROY, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was 
born Jan. 20, 1812, in Leyden, Mass. He 
was elected to the senate of Ohio in 1855 
and 1857, serving four years. In 1861 he 
was appointed colonel of the seventy-sec¬ 
ond Ohio infantry, and fought in the bat¬ 
tle of Shiloh as the commander of a brig¬ 
ade; and was made a brigadier-general in 
the winter of 1862-63, and in that capacity 
fought at Vicksburg. During his absence 
on the field in 1864 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth 
congress, and re-elected to the fortieth 
congress as a republican. 

BUCKLES, ABRAHAM JAY, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 2, 1846, in 
Muncie, Ind. During 1861-65 he served 
as a union soldier in the civil war; was 
color bearer in the nineteenth regiment 
Indiana volunteer infantry; was promot¬ 
ed to second lieutenant of the twentieth 
regiment Indiana volunteer infantry; and 
received a medal of honor from congress 


for meritorious conduct in the Wilderness 
battle of May 5, 1864. He was wounded 
in the right thigh at the battle of Bull 
Run; in the right shoulder at the battle 
of Gettysburg; in the right side at the 
battle of the Wilderness; and by reason 
of gunshot wound in battle before Pe¬ 
tersburg, his right leg was amputated 
above the knee on March 25, 1865. He 
has attained prominence as an able law¬ 
yer of Fairfield, Cal.; was district attor¬ 
ney for five years; and superior judge of 
Solono county for twelve years. He is 
now department commander of the 
Grand Army of the Republic, and grand 
chancellor, Knights of Pythias. 

BUCKLES, JOSEPH S., state senator, 
was born July 29, 1819, in Springfield, 
Ohio. He was one of the originators of 
the Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington 
railroad, its attorney, and a member of 
its board of managers. He was also in¬ 
strumental in the construction of the 
Fort Wayne and Southern railway. He 
was chosen state senator from the district 
composed of the counties of Grant and 
Delaware. In 1858 he was elected judge 
of the seventh judicial circuit, and served 
twelve years. 

BUCKLEY, CHARLES W„ soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 8, 1835, in Ot¬ 
sego, N. Y. He served as a chaplain in 
the union army during a part of the re¬ 
bellion; and was subsequently an assist¬ 
ant superintendent of the Freedmen’s 
bureau. He was a delegate to the state 
constitutional convention of 1867; and 
was elected a representative from Ala¬ 
bama to the fortieth, forty-first and forty- 
second congresses as a republican. 

BUCKLEY, EDWARD, soldier, lumber¬ 
man, railroad president, was born Aug. 

8, 1842, in England. Enlisting in the 
twenty-fourth 'Wisconsin infantry, he 
served gallantly until the end of the war. 
About 1875 he became identified with 
lumbering interests, and in 1892 incor¬ 
porated the Buckley and Douglas Lumber 
Co., with the senior partner as president 
and treasurer. Since 1886 he has been 
president of the Manistee and Northeast¬ 
ern railway. 

BUCKLEY, JAMES MONROE, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born Dec. 16, 
1836, in Rahway, N. J. He is a methodist 
clergyman, and since 1881 editor of the 
New York Christian Advocate. He is the 
author of Two Weeks in the Yosemite 
Valley; Supposed Miracles: Christians 
and the Theatre; Oats or Wild Oats; The 
Land of the Czar and the Nihilist; Faith- 
Healing, Christian Science, and Kindred 
Phenomena; and Travels in Three Con¬ 
tinents, Europe, Africa and Asia. 

BUCKLEY, MORGAN G., soldier, bank¬ 
er, governor, was born Dec. 26, 1838, in 
East Haddam, Conn. He enlisted in the 
civil war; and served as a private in the 
thirteenth New York regiment. He was 
the prime factor in the formation of the 
United States Bank of Hartford, of which 
he was the first president; and in 1887 
was elected governor of Connecticut. 

BUCKLEY, SAMUEL BOTSFORD, nat¬ 
uralist, journalist, author, was born May 

9, 1809, in Torrey, N. Y. He was grad¬ 
uated at Wesleyan university, Middle- 
town, Conn. He was state geologist of 
Texas from 1866 till 1867, and again from. 
1874 till 1877, and prepared two geologi¬ 
cal maps of the state. He also published 
several valuable reports as state geolo¬ 
gist. A list of his scientific papers may 
be found in Alumni Record of Wesleyan 
University. He died Feb. 18, 1884, in 
Austin, Texas. 


BUCKLEY, THOMAS, merchant, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born Jan. 29, 1771, in 
Bristol, Pa. He was president of the 
Bank of America, and secretary of the 
first free school society in New York city. 
He died April 28, 1846. 

BUCKLIN, JAMES W., lawyer, state 
Nov. 13, 1856, in Big 
the first to take an 
active part in secur¬ 
ing the Australian 
ballot and woman’s 
suffrage in Colorado. 
For many years he 
has advocated the 
municipal owner- 
ship of water works; 
and he was largely 
instrumental in the 
erection of a quarter 
million dollar plant 
at Grand Junction, 
Colo., to bring water 
to that city; which 
and operated by the 
has been county and 
city attorney of Grand Junction; and 
served with distinction as a member of 
the Colorado state legislature. 

BUCKLIN, WILLIAM SAVERY, artist, 
was born in 1851 in Red Bank, N. J. He 
has attained prominence as a water color 
painter. 

BUCKLYN, JOHN KNIGHT, soldier, 
educator, lecturer, poet, was born in 
March, 1834, in Providence, R. I. He re¬ 
ceived his education at the Greenwich 
and Smithfield academies, and the Brown 
university. He served for nearly four 
years in the civil war, and was captain 
of the Rhode Island light battery. For 
twenty-eight years he has been principal 
of the M. V. institute of Mystic, Conn.; 
and was pastor of the North Stonington 
baptist church. He has lectured exten¬ 
sively, and contributed both prose and 
verse to periodical literature. 

BUCKMINSTER. JOSEPH, clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 14, 1751, in Rut¬ 
land, Vt. He was ordained in 1779, as 
pastor of the North church in Ports¬ 
mouth. N. H. He published about twen¬ 
ty-five sermons and a short sketch of Dr. 
McClintock, and was part author of the 
Piscataqua River Prayer Book. He died 
June 10, 1812, in Readsboro, Vt. 

BUCKMINSTER. JOSEPH STEVENS, 
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born 
May 26, 1784, in Portsmouth, N. H. He 
was a talented Unitarian clergyman of 
Boston, and the first appointed lecturer 
on biblical criticism at Harvard univer¬ 
sity. He is the author of Sermons, with 
Memoir by S. C. Thacher. He died June 
9, 1812, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

BUCKMINSTER, WILLIAM, soldier, 
was born Dec. 15, 1736, in Framingham, 
Mass. He commanded the minute men 
in 1774; was lieutenant colonel of Brew¬ 
er’s regiment at Bunker Hill; and re¬ 
ceived there a wound that crippled him 
for life. He died June 22, 1786. 

BUCKMINSTER. WILLIAM J., jour¬ 
nalist, was born in 1813, in Maine. He 
was a son of the founder of the Massa¬ 
chusetts Ploughman, and was for twenty- 
one years one of its editors and publish¬ 
ers. He died March 2, 1878, in Malden, 
Mass. 

BUCKNER, ALEXANDER, United 
States senator, was born in Indiana. He 
was a member of the Missouri convention 
which formed the constitution of that 
state; served several years in the state 
legislature; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Missouri from 1831 to 1833. 
He died June 15, 1833, in St. Louis, Mo. 


legislator, was born 
Rock, Ill. He was 



from the mountains 
plant will be owned 
city government. He 



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BUCKNER, AYLETT HAWES, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 14, 
1817, in Fredericksburg, Va. He was 
chosen attorney for the bank of tne state 
of Missouri in 1852; in 1854 was ap¬ 
pointed commissioner of public works; 
and in 1857 was elected judge of the third 
judicial circuit. He was elected to the 
forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fiftn, for¬ 
ty-sixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth 
congresses as a democrat. 

BUCKNER, AYLITT, congressman, 
was born in Greensburg, Ky. He was a 
member of the house of representatives 
of the state in 1842 and 1843; and was a 
representative in congress from Ken¬ 
tucky from 1847 to 1849. 

BUCKNER, RICHARD A., congress¬ 
man, was born in 1763, in Virginia. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1823 to 1829; and a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1841. He died Dec. 8, 
1847, in Greensburg, Ky. 

BUCKNER, RICHARD AYLETT, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Jan. 21, 1849, in 
Owenton, Ky. At the age of fourteen he 
was elected captain of the governor’s 
guards, a gallant young company of Ken¬ 
tuckians of some historical renown, and 
took part in the defense of Frankfort in 
the latter part of 1863. In 1876 he was 
admitted to the bar; and since 1884 has 
practiced his profession at Dermott, Ark., 
after having lived several years in the 
states of Missouri and Kentucky. In 
1880 and 1884 he was a delegate to the 
national republican conventions; and in 
1895 was nominated state senator from 
the fifteenth senatorial district of Arkan¬ 
sas. 

BUCKNER, SIMON BOLIVAR, lawyer, 
general, governor, was born in 1823, in 
Kentucky. He was graduated at the 
United States military academy in 1844. 
He was superintendent of construction of 
the Chicago custom house in 1855. In 
1861, he issued from Russellville an ad¬ 
dress to the people of Kentucky, calling 
on them to take up arms against the 
usurpation of Abraham Lincoln, after 
which he occupied Bowling Green. He 
was made a major-general, and was in 
the battles of Murfreesboro and Chicka- 
mauga, and surrendered with Kirby 
Smith's army. . He was elected governor 
of Kentucky in 1887. 

BUCKSTAFF, GEORGE A., lawyer, 
manufacturer, state legislator, was born 
Dec. 22, 1861, in Oshkosh, Wis. He was 
elected to the Wisconsin assembly in 
1894, and was re-elected to the assembly 
in 1896. He was elected speaker of the 
assembly, session of 1897. 

BUCKWALTER, MARY E„ educator, 
poet, was born Oct. 31, 1845, in Lancaster 
county, Pa. She has been engaged in 
educational work since her youth, and 
has attained eminent success. She is the 
author of a number of very fine poems, 
many of which have been incorporated 
into standard works. 

BUDD, HENRY, lawyer, author, was 
born Nov. 12, 1849, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is the author of Leading Cases on 
the American Law of Real Property, and 
of various law reports and articles in 
current law publications. 

BUDD, JAMES HERBERT, lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 18, 1851, in 
Janesville, Wis. He was a member of 
the governor’s staff from 1875 to 1879; 
served as United States commissioner for 
several years, and was also deputy dis¬ 
trict attorney of his county. In 1882 he 
was nominated for congressman and was 
elected a representative from California 
to the forty-eighth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 


BUEHRLE, ROBERT KOCH, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 24, 1840, in Ger¬ 
many. He displayed great ability in the 
organization and management of a 
graded system of education; was super¬ 
intendent of the schools of Allentown, 
Pa.; and is the author of a work entitled 
Grammatical Praxis. 

BUEL, ALEXANDER H., merchant, 
congressman, was born in Fairfield, N. Y. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1850 to 1853. He died 
Jan. 30, 1853, in Washington, D. C. 

BUEL, ALEXANDER W., lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1813, in Rut¬ 
land county, Vt. In 1836 he was attorney 
for the city of De¬ 
troit; in 1837 was 
elected to the state 
legislature; in 1843 
and 1844 was pros¬ 
ecuting attorney for 
Wayne county; and 
in 1847 was again 
elected to the legis¬ 
lature. From 1849 
to 1851 he was a 
representative i n 
congress from Mich¬ 
igan. He died April 
17, 1868, in Detroit, Mich. 

BUEL, CLARENCE CLOUGH, journal¬ 
ist, author. He was assistant editor of 
the Century magazine; associate editor 
of the Century’s War History, and a 
writer of thoughtful, polished prose and 
verse. 

BUEL, DON CARLOS, soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, was born March 23, 1818, near 
Marietta, Ohio. He was an officer of 
note in the Florida, 
Mexican and civil 
wars. He graduated 
from West Point 
military academy in 
1841. In 1861 he re¬ 
ceived the appoint¬ 
ment of brigadier- 
general of volun¬ 
teers, and in 1862 
became major-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers. 
In 1865 he became 
president of the 
Green River Iron works; and subse¬ 

quently held, until 1890, the office of 
pension agent at Louisville, Ky. 

BUEL, JAMES WILliAM, author, was 
born Oct. 22, 1849, in Golconda, Ill. He 
was employed as a reporter and editorial 
writer on various Kansas City and St. 
Louis newspapers. He is the author of 
The World’s Wonders; Sea and Land; 

The Beautiful Story, and various other 
books. 

BUEL, JESSE, agriculturist, journalist, 
author, was born Jan. 4, 1778, in Coven¬ 
try, Conn. He was a noted agriculturist 
of Albany, who effected many reforms in 
farming. He established the Albany Ar¬ 
gus, The Cultivator, and published The 
Farmer’s Instructor, in ten volumes; and 
also The Farmer’s Companion, or Essays 
in Husbandry. He died Oct. 6, 1839, in 
Danbury, Conn. 

BUEL, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1815, in New York. He was 
an episcopal clergyman of high church 
proclivities, and professor of divinity 
at the General Theological seminary of 
New York from 1871. He was the author 
of The Apostolic System Defended; 
Eucharistic Presence, Sacrifice and Ador¬ 
ation; and A Treatise on Dogmatic The¬ 
ology. He died in 1892. 


BUELL, ABEL, manufacturer, mechan¬ 
ic, inventor, was born about 1750, in Kill- 
ingworth, Conn. After the war he was 
employed by the state in coining coppers; 
for which he made all the apparatus. He 
then visited England, where he gained 
some knowledge of the machinery used 
in the manufacture of cloth, and, on his 
return, erected a cotton factory in New 
Haven, one of the first in the country. 
He died about 1825, in New Haven, Conn. 

BUELL, RICHARD HOOKER, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Nov. 9, 1842, in 
Cumberland, Md. He is the author of 
The Cadet Engineer; Safety Valves; and 
The Compound Steam Engine and its 
Steam Generating Plant. 

BUFFINGTON, ADELBERT R., sol¬ 
dier, inventor, was born Nov. 22, 1837, in 
Wheeling, Va. He has perfected the fol¬ 
lowing inventions: A magazine fire 
arm; carriages for light and heavy guns; 
parts of models of 1884 Springfield rifles, 
and several mechanical devices. He also 
introduced the gas-forging furnaces and 
improved methods, simplifying and re¬ 
ducing the cost of manufacture, at the 
national armory, of Springfield rifles, and 
was the originator of the nitre and man¬ 
ganese method of bluing iron. 

BUFFINGTON, JOSEPH, jurist, was 
appointed chief justice of the United 
States court in Utah, in 1850, and was the 
first who held that position. 

BUFFINGTON, JOSEPH, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1843 to 1847. 

BUFFINTON, JAMES, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 16, 1817, in 
Fall River, Mass. He was mayor of the 
city of Fall River during the years 1854 
and 1855. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Massachusetts to the thirty- 
fourth and thirty-fifth congresses; was 
also re-elected to the thirty-sixth, thirty- 
seventh, forty-first, forty-second, forty- 
third, and forty-fourth congresses, as a 
republican. He died July 7, 1875, at Fall 
River, Mass. 

BUFFUM, ARNOLD, philanthropist, 
was born in 1782, in Smithfleld, R. I. He 
was a noted lecturer on the anti-slavery 
cause, and his lectures were a good be¬ 
ginning, and he exerted a wholesome in¬ 
fluence. He died March 13, 1859. 

BUFFUM. BURT C., agriculturist, sci¬ 
entist, was born April 7, 1868, in South 
Bend, Ind. He attended the Colorado- 
Agricultural college; and is now profes¬ 
sor of agriculture and horticulture in the 
University of Wyoming; and vice-di¬ 
rector of the experiment station. He has 
made some important discoveries in sci¬ 
ence; and is quoted as an authority on 
irrigation. 

BUFFUM, EDWARD GOULD, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born about 1820 in Rhode 
Island. He served on the Pacific side of 
Mexico, and at the close of the war re¬ 
turned to California and took an active 
part in the explorations for gold. He 
published Six Months in the Gold Mines. 
He died Oct. 24, 1867, in Paris, France. 

BUFFUM, JOSEPH, JR., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 23, 1784, in 
Fitchburg, Mass. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New Hampshire 
from 1819 to 1821. 

BUFORD, JOHN, soldier, was born in 
1825 in Kentucky. He served in the civil 
war; was subsequently assigned to the- 
command of the army of the Cumberland, 
when he was taken sick and died, on the 
date of the receipt of his commission as 
major-general. He died Dec. 16, 1863, in 
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BUFORD, NAPOLEON B., soldier, was 
born Jan. 13, 1807, in Kentucky. He 
served in the civil war, received the bre¬ 
vet title of major-general of volunteers 
March 13, and was mustered out of the 
service on Aug. 24, 1865. He died March 
28, 1883. 

BUGBEE, LUCIUS HALEN, educator, 
college president, was born Nov. 25, 1830, 
in Gowanda, N. Y. He graduated from 
Amherst in 1854, became a teacher, and 
was ordained a minister in the methodist 
episcopal church. He was principal of 
Fayette seminary, Iowa, in 1857-60; pas¬ 
tor of a church in Chicago, Ill., in 1861-63; 
president of the Northwestern Female 
college at Evanston, Ill., in 1865-68; of 
Cincinnati Wesleyan college in 1868-75; 
and afterward of Alleghany college, 
Meadville, Pa. 

BUGG, ROBERT M., congressman, was 
born in Tennessee. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Tennessee from 
1853 to 1855. 

BUHL, THEODORE D., capitalist, 
banker, was born Aug. 20, 1844, in De¬ 
troit, Mich. He is president of the 
Michigan Malleable Iron Co.; and the 
Buhl Stamping Co. Mr. Buhl was one of 
the organizers of the Peninsular Car Co., 
and its president the first four years. 

BUIST, GEORGE, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1770, in Scotland. He was 
educated at Edinburgh university, at¬ 
tained great proficiency in philology, was 
called to a church in Charleston in 1793, 
and in 1805 became principal of the col¬ 
lege in that city. He published an abridg¬ 
ment of Hume’s History for schools, and 
a version of the Psalms; and contributed 
to the British Encyclopaedia. A volume 
of his sermons, with a memoir, was pub¬ 
lished in 1809. 

BUIST, HENRY, soldier, lawyer, state 
senator, was born Dec. 25, 1829, in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. He served several times in 
the house of representatives of South 
Carolina; was state senator; and dur¬ 
ing the civil war entered the confederate 
army as captain of infantry. He died 
June 9, 1887, in Charleston, S. C. 

BUIST, JOHN ROBINSON, physician, 
surgeon, was born Feb. 13, 1834, in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. In 1860 he settled in Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn.; and for four years was a 
surgeon in the confederate service. He 
has since practiced his profession with 
success in Nashville; was at one time 
professor of oval surgery in the Vander¬ 
bilt university; was also professor of sur¬ 
gery in the university of the South; and 
is at present professor of neurology in 
the medical department of the Vanderbilt 
university; and a prolific contributor to 
various medical journals. 

BULFINCH, CHARLES, architect, was 
born Aug. 8, 1763. In 1793 he built the 
first theater in Boston. He drew the 
plans for the state house and city hall in 
Boston, for the capitol at Washington, 
for Faneuil hall, and designed as many 
as forty churches and other build¬ 
ings in New England cities. He was the 
architect of the national capitol from 
1817 until it was completed in 1830. He 
died April 15, 1884, in Boston, Mass. 

BULFINCH, ELLEN SUSAN, artist, 
author, was born Oct. 11, 1844, in Fram¬ 
ingham, Mass., and is the daughter of the 
Rev. Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch. She is 
the author of The Life and Letters of her 
grandfather, Charles Bulfinch, the pio¬ 
neer of American architects; the designer 
of the state house of Boston, and under 
whose charge the capitol at Washington 
was completed in 1830. 


BULFINCH, STEPHEN GREENLEAF, 
clergyman, author, poet, was born June 
8, 1809, in Boston, Mass. He is the au¬ 
thor of Poems, Lays of the Gospel, Com¬ 
munion Thoughts; Contemplations of the 
Saviour; The Holy Land and Its Inhab¬ 
itants; The Harp and the Cross; Honour, 
or the Slave Dealer’s Daughter; Manual 
of the Evidences of Christianity; and 
Studies in the Evidences of Christianity. 
He died Oct. 12, 1870, in Cambridge, Mass. 

BULFINCH, THOMAS, banker, author, 
was born July 15, 1796, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a Boston banker, whose leisure 
was devoted to literary pursuits. He 
was the author of Hebrew Lyrical His¬ 
tory; The Age of Fable; The Age of 
Chivalry; Boy Inventors; Legends of 
Charlemagne; Poetry of the Age of 
Fable; Oregon and Eldorado, or Romance 
of the Rivers. He died May 27, 1867, in 
Boston, Mass: 

BULKELEY, ELIPHALET ADAMS, 
lawyer, jurist, was born June 29, 1803, in 
Colchester, Conn. In 1857 he was a sec¬ 
ond time elected to the state legislature, 
becoming speaker of the house. During 
the latter portion of his life he was inter¬ 
ested in the business of life insurance, 
and associated in the organizing of both 
the Connecticut Mutual company, becom¬ 
ing its first president, and the ./Etna Life 
Insurance company. He died Feb. 13, 
1872, in Hartford, Conn. 

BULKELEY, MORGAN GARDINER, 
financier, was born Dec. 26, 1838, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. On the death of his father 
he became president of the United States 
bank of Hartford, Conn., and later was 
elected to the presidency of the .Etna 
Life Insurance company. He is promi¬ 
nent in Connecticut politics as a repub¬ 
lican, and has four times been elected 
mayor of Hartford. 

BULKLEY, FRANK, mining engineer, 
legislator, was born July 10, 1857, in 
Washington, Iowa. He received his ed¬ 
ucation in Michigan, and has attained 
success as a noted mining engineer in 
Colorado. He is the general manager of 
the New Pittsburgh Mining company of 
Leadville; the Grand River Coal and 
Coke company of Garfield; the Aspen 
Mining and Smelting company; the Re¬ 
gent Mine; the Bushwhacker Mining 
company; and various other mining com¬ 
panies. He has served with distinction 
as a representative in the Colorado state 
legislature, and has taken an active paft 
in the public affairs of that state. 

BULKLEY, HENRY DAGGETT, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born April 20, 1803, in 
New Haven, Conn. He was a member of 
medical societies and some time president 
of the New York County Medical society 
and of the New York Academy of Medi¬ 
cine. Dr. Bulkley edited the American 
editions of Cazenave and Schedel’s Man¬ 
ual of Diseases of the Skin; and Greg¬ 
ory’s Eruptive Fevers. 

BULKLEY, PETER, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 31, 1583, in England. He 
is a congregational clergyman of Con¬ 
cord, Mass. His one work, The Gospel 
Covenant, or The Covenant of Grace 
Opened, is a ponderous series of sermons 
notable for its intellectual vigor. He 
died March 9, 1659, in Concord, Mass. 

BULL, CHARLES HENRY, railroad 
president, was born Dec. 16, 1822, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. Since 1888 he has been pres¬ 
ident of the Quincy, Omaha and Kansas 
City railway. 

BULL, HENRY, governor of Rhode 
Island, was born in 1609, in South Wales. 
He early emigrated to America, and after 
a short residence in Massachusetts, with 


a party of seventeen, purchased land and 
settled in Newport about 1638. In 1685 
and in 1689 he was governor. He died in 
1693, in Rhode Island. 

BULL, JOHN, congressman. He was- 
a representative in congress from Mis¬ 
souri from 1833 to 1835. 

BULL, JOHN, congressman. He was a 
delegate fr&m South Carolina to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1784 to 1787. 

BULL, JOHN, physician, was born in- 
1813, in Shelby county, Ky. He was 
doubtless the most successful compound¬ 
er of what are known as patent medicines^ 
in America. Although connected with 
the proprietary medicine business for 
many years, his final fortune was gath¬ 
ered during the last ten years of his life, 
his income at that time being greater 
than that of any other man in Kentucky. 
He died April 26, 1875, in Louisville, Ky. 

BULL, LORENZO, prominent business 
man, was born March 21, 1819, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. With the best interests of 
Quincy, Ill., he has always been identified; 
and, jointly with his son, is now proprie¬ 
tor of the Quincy water works. He is 
also president of the State Savings, Loan 
and Trust Co. 

BULL, MELVILLE, congressman, was 
born in 1854, in Newport, R. I. He was a 
member of the state legislature in 1883- 
85; senator in 1885-92; lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor in 1892-94; member of republican 
state central committee in 1885 to 1895; 
and was delegate to the republican na¬ 
tional convention in 1888. He took an 
active part in establishing the naval re¬ 
serve militia of the state; and has been 
one of the board of managers of the 
Rhode Island College of Agriculture and 
Mechanic Arts and Experiment station 
since its establishment in 1888. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth anu fitty-fifth 
congresses as a republican. 

BULL, ORVILLE AUGUSTUS, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Nov. 29, 1849, in La- 
Grange, Ga. He was a member of the 
Georgia state legislature; and has been 
prominent in the educational and polit¬ 
ical affairs of his state. 

BULL, WILLIAM LANMAN, stock 
broker, was born Aug. 23, 1844, in New 
York city. He has been twice president 
of the New York Stock Exchange; and 
is a director of the Northern Pacific rail¬ 
road. 

BULLARD, ASA, clergyman, author, 
was born March 26, 1804, in Northbridge, 
Mass. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Massachusetts, long prominent in 
Sunday-school work. His principal writ¬ 
ings are Sunnybank Stories; Shady Dell 
Stories; Fifty Years with the Sabbath 
School; and Incidents in a Busy Life, an 
autobiography. He died in 1888. 

BULLARD, E. F., educator, college 
president, was born May 1, 1840, in Jay, 
N. Y. He graduated from the University 
of Vermont in 1864; and subsequently 
became president of the Jacksonville Fe¬ 
male academy, of Illinois. 

BULLARD, HENRY ADAMS, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 9, 
1781, in Groton, Mass. In 1831 he was 
chosen a representative in congress from 
Louisiana, and served until 1834; and 
was then elevated to the supreme bench 
of Louisiana, and filled the office until 
1846. In 1847 he was appointed professor 
of the civil law in the Law School of 
Louisiana, and delivered two courses of 
lectures. In 1850 he was elected to the 
legislature; and was subsequently chosen 
a member of congress to fill a vacancy. 
He died April 17, 1851, in New Orleans. 
La. 


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BULLIONS, PETER, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 1, 1791, in Scotland. 
He was a united presbyterian clergyman 
of Troy, N. Y., well known as a classical 
scholar. Among his text books for 
schools are Principles of English Gram¬ 
mar; Principles of Greek Grammar; and 
Latin and English Dictionary. He died 
Feb. 13, 1864, in Troy, N. Y. . 

BULLIS, SPENCER S., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born July 7, 1849, in East Au¬ 
rora, N. Y. Since 1894 he has been pres¬ 
ident of the Buffalo, Attica and Arcade 
railroad. 

BULLITT, ALEXANDER SCOTT, leg¬ 
islator, lieutenant-governor, was born in 
1761, in Prince William county, Va. He 
was president of the Kentucay senate for 
several years; and in 1799 was president 
of the convention to amend the state 
constitution. He was lieutenant-governor 
from 1800 to 1804; and was again in the 
legislature until 1808. He died April 13, 
1816, in Jefferson county, Ky. 

BULLOCH, ARCHIBALD, lawyer, pub¬ 
lic official, was born about 1730, in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. In 1775 he was elected a 
member of the provincial congress, and 
became its president, and during the fol¬ 
lowing year he was again called upon to 
preside ov.er the second provincial con¬ 
gress, and sent as a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress meeting at Philadel¬ 
phia. He was chosen first republican 
president of Georgia, holding that office 
from 1776 till 1777, when the state con¬ 
stitution came into existence. Governor 
Bulloch was one of the most eminent 
men of his time, and had great influence 
in shaping the course of his state. He 
died Feb. 22, 1777, in Savannah, Ga. 

BULLOCH, JAMES R., jurist, was born 
in Rhode Island. He was appointed a 
judge of the United States court for that 
district. 

BULLOCH. WILLIAM BELLINGER, 
lawyer, banker, United States senator, 
was born in 1776, in Savannah, Ga. In 
1809 he was elected mayor of Savannah. 
Subsequently he became collector of the 
port, and during the war of 1812 served 
in the Savannah heavy artillery. He 
was appointed to fill a vacancy in the 
United States senate. From 1816 to 1843 
he was president of the state bank of 
Georgia, having been one of the founders 
of that institution. He died March 6, 
1852, in Savannah, Ga. 

BULLOCK, ALEXANDER HAMIL¬ 
TON, lawyer, state senator, governor, 
author, was born March 2, 1816, in Roy- 
alston, Mass. He was a member of the 
legislature in 1845, 1847, 1848, 1861, and 
1862; state senator in 1849; and commis¬ 
sioner of insolvency in 1853. He was 
judge of insolvency from 1856 to 1858; 
mayor of Worcester in 1859; and governor 
of Massachusetts from 1866 to 1869. He 
was the author of Intellectual Leader¬ 
ships, and several addresses and speech¬ 
es. He died Jan. 17, 1882, in Worcester, 
Mass. 

BULLOCK, ARCHIBALD, congress¬ 
man. He was a delegate from Georgia 
to the continental congress from 1775 to 
1776. 

BULLOCK, ARCHIBALD, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born about 1730, in 
Charleston, S. C. In 1772 was elected a 
member of the provincial general assem¬ 
bly of Georgia; in 1775 and 1776 was 
elected member and president of the 
Georgia provincial congresses; and from 
1776-77 was chosen governor of Georgia. 
He died Feb. 22, 1777, in Savannah, Ga. 


BULLOCK, CAROLINE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 27, 1845, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. She is the widow of Captain 
Walter R. Bullock, and the founder of the 
Wilford Home School for girls, which 
was established twenty years ago, and of 
which she is still principal. She is the 
author of several educational works. 

BULLOCK, CHARLES, educator, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born in 1826, 
in Wilmington, Del. Since 1885 he has 
been president of the Philadelphia College 
of Pharmacy. He is the author of a 
work entitled Alkaloids of Veratrum 
Virdie. 

BULLOCK, JONATHAN RUSSELL, 
lawyer, state senator, lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor, was born Sept. 6, 1815, in Bristol, 
R. I. In 1844 and the two succeeding 
years he was chosen first representative 
to the general assembly from the town of 
Bristol. In 1859 he was elected to the 
state senate, and in 1860 was chosen 
lieutenant-governor. 

BULLOCK, ROBERT, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1828, in 
Oxford, N. C. In 1862 he went into the 
war as lieutenant colonel of the seventh 
regiment Florida volunteers, and re¬ 
mained until the close of the war; and 
was promoted to brigadier-general in 
1864. He was elected judge of probate 
during Johnson’s reconstruction, and was 
appointed judge of county criminal courts 
by the governor. He was a Tilden elect¬ 
or in 1876; was elected to the legislature 
in 1879; and was elected to the fifty- 
first and fifty-second congresses as a 
democrat. In 1897 he was appointed 
judge of the county court. 

BULLOCK, RUFUS BROWN, busi¬ 
ness man, governor, was born March 28, 
1834, in Bethlehem, N. Y. He formed the 
Southern Express company, and became 
one of its active managers. During the 
civil war he continued this occupation 
under the direction of the confederate 
government, establishing railroads and 
telegraph lines on interior routes. After 
the cessation of hostilities, Mr. Bullock 
resumed the management of express af¬ 
fairs, and was elected one of the trustees 
and secretary of the Southern Express 
company. Its present magnitude is 
largely due to his management at that 
time. He was also associated in the or¬ 
ganization of the first national bank of 
Georgia, and was elected its president. 
Governor Bullock continued his residence 
in Georgia, and became president of one 
of the largest cotton mills in Atlanta. 
He has taken no public part in politics 
since his resignation of the office of gov¬ 
ernor. 

BULLOCK, STEPHEN, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1735, in Massachu¬ 
setts. He was a member of the conven¬ 
tion which formed the constitution of 
that state; frequently served in the state 
legislature; and was a representative in 
congress from Massachusetts from 1797 
to 1799. He subsequently became judge 
of the common pleas for Bristol county; 
served in the state senate, and was a 
member of the executive council of Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He died in 1816, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. 

BULLOCK, THOMAS SEAMAN, rail¬ 
road builder, was born Jan. 1, 1853, in 
Shelbyville, Ind. He built the Prescott 
and Arizona Central railroad, which con¬ 
nected the capital of the territory with 
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad. He 
also undertook the construction of the 
Monterey and Mexican Gulf railroad, 
which was completed in 1891. 


BULLOCK, WILLIAM A., inventor, 
was born in 1813, in Greenville, N. Y. 
He gave his energies to the problem of 
constructing a printing press that should 
embody in one machine accurate self-ad¬ 
justment and feeding, perfecting, or 
printing on both sides, with the highest 
rate of speed. He was successful in ac¬ 
complishing all these objects, and the 
Bullock web perfecting press revolution¬ 
ized the art of press building. Subse¬ 
quent modifications and improvements 
have brought the delivery up to thirty 
thousand an hour. He died April 14, 
1867, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BULLOCK, WINGFIELD, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman. He was elected a 
member of the Kentucky senate from 
Shelby county from 1812 to 1814; resigned 
in 1813; and was elected a representative 
in congress from Kentucky for the years 
1820 and 1821. He died Oct. 13, 1821. 

BUMP, ORLANDO FRANKLIN, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1841, in New 
York. He is a Baltimore lawyer, and 
the author of The Law and Practice of 
Bankruptcy. 

BUMSTEAD, FREEMAN JOSIAH, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born April 21, 1826, 
in Boston, Mass. He was the author 
of Pathology and Treatment of Venereal 
Diseases; and translations from the 
French of Ricord and Cullerier. He died 
Nov. 28, 1879, in Boston, Mass. 

BUMSTEAD, HORACE, soldier, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, was 
born Sept. 29, 1841, in Boston, Mass. Dur¬ 
ing 1864-65 he was a major of the forty- 
third regiment United States colored 
troops, and served in Virginia and Texas. 
He has attained eminence as a clergy¬ 
man and educator, and is now president 
of the Atlanta University of Georgia. 

BUMSTEAD, SAMUEL JOSIAH, sur¬ 
geon, oculist, author, was born June 13, 
1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was assist¬ 
ant surgeon of the twenty-ninth Illinois 
volunteer infantry; served three years 
during the civil war; and became second 
sergeant in company B, one hundred and 
eighth Illinois volunteer infantry. He is 
the author of two books: Riversom; and 
The Peacemaker of Bourbon. 

BUNCE, OLIVER BELL, journalist, 
author, was born Feb. 8, 1828, in New 
York city. He was the editor of Apple¬ 
ton’s Journal for the period of its exist¬ 
ence, and well known as the author of 
Don’t, a small volume of social nega¬ 
tions which was widely circulated. He 
wrote also Bachelor Bluff, his Opinions, a 
volume of essays; My House; Marco Boz- 
zaris, a drama; Love in ’76, a comedy; 
Romance of the Revolution; four stories, 
including Life Before Him; Bensly; A 
Bachelor’s Story; The Adventures of 
Timias Terrystone; and Happinolande 
and Other Legends, a collection of 
sketches. He died May 15, 1890, in New 
York city. 

BUNCE, WILLIAM GEDNEY, land¬ 
scape painter, was born Sept. 19, 1842, in 
Hartford, Conn. His principal paintings 
are Approach to Venice; Twilight in 
Holland; Watch Hill, Rhode Island; Sa- 
tucket Hillside, New England; Among 
the Sail, Venice; Bit of Harbor, Venice; 
Venetian Day; and Venetian Night. 

BUNCH, SAMUEL, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 4, 1786, in Granger 
county, Tenn. He commanded a regi¬ 
ment in the Indian war, under General 
Andrew Jackson, and, in the charge of the 
battle of the Horseshoe, was the first or 
second man over the breastworks of the 
enemy. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Tennessee from 1833 to 1837. 
He died Sept. 5,1849, in Rutledge, Tenn. 


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BUNDY, HEZEKIAH SANFORD, mer¬ 
chant, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Aug. 17, 1817, in Marietta, Ohio. He was 
in the mercantile 
business as clerk 
and proprietor from 
1835 to 1846; after 
that turned his at¬ 
tention to farming, 
and in 1854 became 
connected with the 
furnace business; 
during all these avo¬ 
cations he studied 
law, and came to the 
bar in 1850. He was 
elected to the state 
jegisiature in 1848; re-elected in 1850; in 
1855 was chosen a state senator; and was 
a presidential elector in 1860. He was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
thirty-ninth congress, and to the fifty- 
third to fill a vacancy. 

BUNDY, JONAS MILLS, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1835 in New Hampshire. 
He was a New York journalist, and prom¬ 
inent as editor of the Mail and Express 
from 1868. He was also the author oi 
State Rights; Are we a Nation?; and Life 
of Garfield. He died in 1891. 

BUNDY, SOLOMON, lawyer, congress¬ 
man. was born May 22, 1823, in Oxford, 
N. Y. He was district attorney of Che¬ 
nango county from 1862 to 1865; and was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-fifth congress. 

BUNGAY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
journalist, author, poet, was born Nov. 28, 
1826, in England. He was a New York 
journalist well known as a temperance 
lecturer. He wrote many poems, among 
which The Creeds of the Bells has long 
been popular. His other writings include 
The Abraham Lincoln Songster; The 
Poets of Queen Elizabeth’s Time; Off¬ 
hand Takings; Crayon Sketches; and Pen 
Portraits of Illustrious Abstainers. He 
died July 10, 1892, in Bloomfield, N. J. 

BUNKER, RUFUS A. W., educator, 
clergyman, lecturer, was born Oct. 23, 
1844, in Roxbury, Maine. During the war 
he served as a soldier in the fifth regi¬ 
ment Maine battery. In 1S71 he graduat¬ 
ed from the New Hampshire conference 
seminary and female college; and in 
1874 from the School of Theology of the 
Boston university. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as a clergyman of the methodist 
episcopal church; has lectured extensive¬ 
ly; and is the author of several hymns 
and numerous religious articles. 

BUNN, BENJAMIN II., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 19, 1844, near 
Rocky Mount, N. C. At the age of six¬ 
teen he enlisted in 
the confederate ar¬ 
ia y ; commanded 
fourth company 
shahpshooters, Mac- 
Rae’s brigade, army 
of Northern Virgin¬ 
ia; and was twice 
wounded. He was a 
member of the state 
constitutional con¬ 
vention in 1875; was 
a delegate to the na¬ 
tional democratic 
convention in 1880; and was a member of 
the state legislature in 1883. He was 
presidential elector in 1884; and was 
elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, and 
fifty-third congresses as a democrat. 

BUNN, HENRY GASTON, soldier, state 
senator, jurist, was born June 12. 1838, in 
Nash county, N. C. He served in the 


confederate army throughout the war; 
was third lieutenant, adjutant, lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel, and colonel of the fourth 
Arkansas infantry in the army of the 
Tennessee. In 1873-74 he served as state 
senator; and was a member of the con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1874. He was 
special judge of the circuit and supreme 
court, and since 1893 has been chief jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of Arkansas, his 
term expiring in October, 1904. 

BUNN, JACOB FREDERICK, lawyer, 
jurist, was born June 6, 1847, in Bellevue, 
Ohio. This eminent lawyer has filled va¬ 
rious high offices; and during 1879-85 was 
probate judge of Seneca county, Ohio. 

BUNN, ROMANZO, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born Sept. 24, 1829, 
in South Hartwick, N. Y. In 1859 lie was 
elected a representative in the Wisconsin 
state legislature; was elected circuit 
judge of the sixth judicial circuit for the 
term of six years, and was re-elected. 
In 1877 he was appointed United States 
district judge for the western district of 
Wisconsin. 

BUNNELL, FRANK C., soldier, banker, 
lawyer, congressman, was born March 19, 
1842, in Luzerne county, Pa. He enlisted 
in the union army as a private of the 
fifty-second regiment, Pennsylvania vol¬ 
unteers; and was made quartermaster’s 
sergeant in 1862. In 1872 he was elected 
a representative in congress to fill a va¬ 
cancy; in 1£75 was elected president of 
Wyoming county agricultural society 
and continued to be re-elected each year. 
He was a member of the board of educa¬ 
tion from 1881 to 1884; in 1881 was ap¬ 
pointed a member of the Pennsylvania 
Bi-Centennial association; in 1883 was 
elected treasurer of Tunkhannock for one 
year; and was burgess in 1883 and 1884. 
In 1884 he was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the forty-ninth 
congress; and was re-elected to the fif¬ 
tieth congress as a republican. 

BUNNELL, LAFAYETTE HOUGH¬ 
TON, soldier, author. He served in the 
Mexican war; was a pioneer in California 
in 1849; and was one of the discoverers 
of the Yosemite valley, and was in the 
Indian war of 1851. He is a resident of 
Minnesota, and the author of Winona and 
Its Environs. 

BUNNER, HENRY CUYLER, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born in 1855, in 
New York. He is a New York journalist, 
the editor of Puck, and well known as a 
writer of graceful, delicate verse and very 
readable fiction. He is the author of Jer¬ 
sey Street and Jersey Lane; Love in Old 
Clothes; Zadoc Pine and Other Stories; 
The Story of a New York House; The 
Midge; In Partnership (with J. B. Mat¬ 
thews) ; Short Sixes, a collection of hu¬ 
morous tales; and The Woman of Honour. 
His verse includes Airs from Arcady and 
Elsewhere; Rowen, second crop songs. 

BUNNER, RUDOLPH, congressman, 
was born in 1779. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 
1827 to 1829. He died July 23, 1837, in 
Otsego, N. Y. 

BUNTING. THOMAS L., merchant, 
banker, congressman, was born in 1844, 
in Eden, N. Y. He is president of the 
New York Packers’ association, and state 
president of the National Packers’ asso¬ 
ciation; is president of the Hamburg Wa¬ 
ter and Electric Light company, and In¬ 
vestment and Improvement company; is 
one of the city and county hall commis¬ 
sioners; is a member of the Erie County 
Farmers’ institute; and was elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a democrat. 




BUNTON, FREDERICK HENRY, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, was born Aug. 13, 1860, 
in Pass Christian, Miss. He received his 
education in the New Orleans university, 
and has received the degrees of A. M., 
Ph. D. For several years he was princi¬ 
pal of the high school in Summit, Mass.; 
and professor of mathematics in the New 
Orleans university. This eminent clergy¬ 
man of the methodist episcopal church 
is secretary of the upper Mississippi con¬ 
ference, and fills a pastorate in Starkville. 

BURBANKS, FRANK E., man of af¬ 
fairs, was born April 10, 1852, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. He received his education at 
the Olivet college of Michigan, in which 
state he has attained success in the in¬ 
surance business at Minden City. He has 
taken great interest in the public affairs 
of his county and state, and filled several 
important positions of honor. 

BURBAULT, J. E., soldier, legislator, 
was born Aug. 20, 1822, in Hanover, Pa. 
He participated in the Kansas troubles 
in 1857 with Lane, John Brown and oth¬ 
ers; and was one of the original founders 
of Falls City, Neb. He was instrumental 
in passing the bill to abolish slavery in 
the territory of Nebraska in 1859; and 
served as paymaster in 1863. He was ap¬ 
pointed in the regular army and served 
on the frontier during the rebellion, re¬ 
tiring through disability in 1875. He has 
also served with distinction as member 
of the Nebraska legislature. 

BURBECK, HENRY, soldier, was born 
June 8, 1754, in Boston, Mass. He served 
as major in the revolutionary war; and 
attained the rank of brigadier-general in 
the war of 1812. He died Oct. 2, 1848, in 
New London, Conn. 

BURBRIDGE, STEPHEN GANO, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born Aug. 19, 1831, in 
Scott county, Ky. General Burbridge was 
conspicuous at the capture of Port Gib¬ 
son, and was among the first to enter the 
place. Later he was placed in command 
of the military district of Kentucky, and 
defeated General John H. Morgan on his 
raid, driving him into Tennessee. For 
this service he received the thanks of 
President Lincoln, and in 1864 the brevet 
of major-general. 

BURCH, WILLIAM THOMAS, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Aug. 6, 1844, in Meade 
county, Ky. He served through the civil 
war as a private under General N. D. For¬ 
rest of the confederate service. For four 
years he was justice of the peace in his 
native county; and now successfully 
practices law in Louisville, Ky. 

BURCHARD, HORATIO C., merchant, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 22, 
1825, in Marshall, N. Y. He was engaged 
in mercantile business; and was school 
commissioner in Stephenson county, Ill., 
from 1857 to 1860. He was a member of 
the legislature in 1866; and was elected 
to the forty-first, forty-second, forty-third 
and forty-fifth congresses. In 1879, he was 
appointed director of the United States 
mint; and in 1885-86 was revenue com¬ 
missioner for the state of Illinois. 

BURCHARD, SAMUEL D„ soldier, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born 
July 17, 1836, in Leyden, N. Y. He was 
engaged in the manufacturing of woolen 
goods; was a lieutenant in the Missouri 
militia during the rebellion; was appoint¬ 
ed a captain in the volunteer service, and 
as quartermaster was assigned to duty in 
New York, where he had charge of the 
purchase of forage for the seaboard ar¬ 
mies; and was mustered out of service as 
a major. He returned to Wisconsin; and 
was elected to the state senate in 1872; 
and in 1874 was elected a representative 
to the forty-fourth congress. 




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BURCHARD, SAMUEL DICKINSON, 
clergyman, was born Sept. 6, 1812, in 
Steuben, N. Y. He was very successful as 
a pastor and lecturer, and was at differ¬ 
ent times chancellor of Ingham universi¬ 
ty and president of Rutgers female col¬ 
lege. He stigmatized the democrats as 
the party of Rum, Romanism, and Rebel¬ 
lion. He died Sept. 25, 1891, in Saratoga, 
N. Y. 

BURD, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born in 1794. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania, from 1831 to 
1835. He died Jan. 13, 1844, in Bedford, 
Pa. 

BURDEN, JAMES ABERCROMBIE, 
manufacturer, inventor, was born Jan. 6, 
1833, in Troy, N. Y. He became president 
of the Burden Iron company of Troy and 
New York. He has obtained eighteen pat¬ 
ents for inventions of his own for ma¬ 
chines used in the manufacture of iron, 
one of the most important being that for 
making horse and mule shoes, this ma¬ 
chine producing seventy finished shoes 
per minute, punched with holes and pre¬ 
pared in every other way, ready for the 
horse’s foot. In 1883 he became president 
of the Hudson River Ore and Iron compa¬ 
ny. His iron foundries and machine 
shops give employment to three thousand 
men. He has declined nominations as 
mayor of Troy, member of congress, and 
other offices, but has been twice a presi¬ 
dential elector. 

BURDETT, CHARLES, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1815, in New York. He 
was the author of Life of Kit Carson; 
The Second Marriage; The Beautiful Spy; 
Margaret Moncrieffe; Emma, or The Lost 
Found; Marion Desmond; The Gambler; 
The Adopted Child; Trials and Tri¬ 
umphs; Never too Late; and Chances and 
Changes. 

BURDETT, SAMUEL S., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Feb. 21, 1836, 
in England. In 1861 he entered the vol¬ 
unteer army as a 
private, and in 1864 
was promoted to 
captain. He was a 
presidential elector 
in 1864 from Iowa; 
in 1865 emigrated to 
St. Clair county, 
Mo.; in 1866 was 
made circuit attor¬ 
ney for the seventh 
judicial district; 
and was a delegate 
to the Chicago con¬ 
vention of 1868. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Missouri to the forty-first 
congress; and in 1874 he was appointed 
commissioner of the general land office 
in Washington. 

BURDETTE, ROBERT JONES, jour¬ 
nalist, author, lecturer, was born July 30, 
1844, in Greensborough, Pa. After serv¬ 
ing as a private through the war he re¬ 
turned to Peoria, where he was employed 
as clerk in the postoffice. Subsequently 
he became a proof-reader on the Peoria 
Transcript, and later filled the position of 
night editor on the same newspaper. In 
1874 he was engaged on the Burlington 
Hawkeye, where he soon gained for him¬ 
self and the journal a world-wide reputa¬ 
tion. Ten years later he left the edito¬ 
rial staff of the Hawkeye and engaged 
himself with the Brooklyn Eagle. The 
greatest success of Mr. Burdette has been 
as a lecturer; several of his humorous 
books, however, have attained fair cir¬ 
culations. His principal works are Hawk- 
eyes; Rise and Fall of the Mustache; 
Innach Garden and Other Comic Sketch¬ 
es; and Life of William Penn. 


BURDICK. CHARLES WILLIAMS, 
lawyer, public official, legislator, was 
born Aug. 15, 1860, in Toledo, Ohio. He is 
one of the foremost lawyers of. the west 
at Cheyenne, Wyo. He was a member of 
the Wyoming constitutional convention; 
a member of the upper house in the elev¬ 
enth territorial legislature; has been 
state auditor; and filled with distinction 
the office of secretary of state. 

BURDICK, THEODORE WELD, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1836, 
in Evansburg, Pa. He was deputy treas¬ 
urer and recorder of Winneshiek county 
from 1854 until 1857, and treasurer and 
recorder from 1857 until 1862, when he 
resigned to recruit a company for the 
union army. He was commissioned a cap¬ 
tain, and served throughout the war. Af¬ 
ter being mustered out he returned to De- 
corah and became cashier of the First na¬ 
tional bank of that place; and was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Iowa to the for¬ 
ty-fifth congress as a republican. 

BURFORD, JOHN H., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Feb. 29, 1852, in Parke county, 
Ind. He is associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court at El Reno, 0. T.; and for a 
number of years was registrar of land 
office at Oklahoma City. 

BURGDORF, AUGUST C., educator, 
college president, was born July 12, 1838, 
in Germany. He has taught school in Il¬ 
linois and Missouri, and for a number of 
years was principal of the Lutheran 
academy of St. Louis, Mo., which position 
he resigned to become president of Wal- 
ther college of the same city. 

BURGDORFF, WILLIAM F., mer¬ 
chant, was born March 19, 1846, in Ger¬ 
many. He attended the public schools 
and the Blackburn university. He is a suc¬ 
cessful merchant of Carlinville, Ill., of 
which city he has been mayor; and is 
president of the Carlinville national bank. 
In 1896 he was the republican candidate 
for state senator for the thirty-sixth dis¬ 
trict. 

BURGER, LOUIS, soldier, architect, 
was born Feb. 6, 1821, in Bavaria. In 
1854 he organized the engineer corps of 
the fifth regiment of the New York state 
national guards, and was elected captain. 
During the civil war he commanded his 
regiment in the short campaign of 1861. 
He died May 25, 1871, in New York city. 

BURGES, GIDEON ALBERT, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
May 29, 1854, in Providence, R. I. He 
is the president of Parker college of 
Winnebago City, Minn., and the author 
of The Free Baptist Cyclopedia. 

BURGES, TRISTAM, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1770, in 
Rochester, Mass. In 1818 he was elected 
chief justice of Rhode Island; occupied 
the chair of oratory in Brown university; 
and was a representative in congress from 
Rhode Island from 1825 to 1835. He died 
Oct. 13, 1853, in Providence, R. I. 

BURGESS, ALEXANDER, bishop of 
the diocese of Quincy, Ill., was born Oct. 
31, 1819, in Providence, R. I. When the 
new diocese of Quincy, Ill., was formed 
he was chosen to be its first bishop, and 
was consecrated in 1878. He published a 
memoir of his brother, the first bishop of 
Maine, in 1869, and is also the author of 
various sermons, addresses, and Sunday- 
school literature, with some carols and 
hymns. 

BURGESS, DEMPSEY, soldier, con¬ 
gressman. He was a member of the pro¬ 
vincial congress of North Carolina; a 
lieutenant-colonel of the militia; and a 
representative in congress from North 
Carolina from 1795 to 1798. 


BURGESS, EBENEZER, clergyman, 
author, was born April 1, 1790, in Ware- 
ham, Mass. He was the agent of the 
American colonization society in Africa 
from 1817-18, assisted in founding the col¬ 
ony of Liberia, and in 1818-19 was the- 
society’s agent in the United States. He 
published The Dedham Pulpit; and The 
Burgess Genealogy. He died Dec. 5, 1870, 
in Dedham, Mass. 

BURGESS, EDWARD, architect, author, 
was born June 30, 1S48, in West Sand¬ 
wich, Mass. He was a noted naval archi¬ 
tect of Boston, and the author of English, 
and American Yachts. 

BURGESS, GEORGE, bishop, author,, 
poet, was born Oct. 31, 1809, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He was the first protestant 
episcopal bishop of Maine, and the au¬ 
thor of Pages from the Ecclesiastical His¬ 
tory of New England; The Christian 
Life; The Book of Psalms in English 
Verse; The Last Enemy Conquering and 
Conquered; and Strife of Brothers, a. 
poem. He died April 23, 1866, in the West 
Indies. 

BURGESS, JOHN WILLIAM, educator, 
author, was born Aug. 26, 1844, in Cor- 
nersville, Tenn. He is the dean of the- 
school of physical science in Columbia 
college, and the author of the American 
University: When Shall it Be, Where- 
Shall it Be, and What Shall it Be? Po¬ 
litical Science and Comparative Constitu¬ 
tional Law; and The Middle Period. 

BURGESS, NEIL, actor, was born June 
18, 1851, in Boston, Mass. He made a 
marked success as Widow Bedott in the 
play Widow Bedott’s Papers, and for the 
subsequent seven years it was one of the 
most valuable pieces in his repertoire. 

BURK, JOHN DALY, lawyer, author, 
was born in 17—, in Ireland. He was an 
Irish author who came to America in 
1796, and for the last years of his life was 
a lawyer in Virginia. He was the author 
of History of the Late War in Ireland; 
History of Virginia; Bunker Hill, a once 
popular tragedy; and Bethlem Gaber, an 
historical drama. He died April 11, 1808, 
near Campbell’s Bridge, Va. 

BURK, JOHN JUNIUS, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1800, in Virginia. He went to 
Louisiana, where he studied law, and was 
for many years a prominent lawyer there, 
and judge of the state court. He died 
July 17, 1866, in Baton Rouge, La. 

BURK, JOSEPH CORNELIUS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Nov. 18, 1857, in St. 
Louis, Mo. In 1895 this eminent .lawyer 
was elected judge of the superior court 
of Keokuk, Iowa. 

BURKE, ANDREW H., governor, was 
born May 15, 1850, in New York city. In 
1884 he was elected treasurer of Cass 
county, N. D., and in 1890 was elected 
governor of that state. 

BURKE, BARTEMAS, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Aug. 29, 1845, in Richmond, 
Ind. He received his education in the 
Hartsville university. He served three 
years as a union soldier during the civil 
war; was an eye-witness of the surrender 
of Vicksburg by Pemberton to Grant; was 
taken prisoner in the Red river cam¬ 
paign; and made one of the most notable 
escapes of the war from Camp Ford pris¬ 
on, Tex., to the union lines at Natchez. 
He was prosecuting attorney for seven 
years in Indiana; and in California has 
been school trustee; assistant district at¬ 
torney; postmaster of Santa Cruz; com¬ 
missioner of Torrens Land Transfer Re¬ 
form; and during 1892-96 was state sen¬ 
ator in the California legislature from the 
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BURKE, CHARLES H., business man, 
was born Dec. 14, 1850, in Milford, N. H. 
He is president and stockholder in the 
Nashua Iron and Brass Foundry compa¬ 
ny; president of the Nashua Boot and 
Shoe Manufacturing company, and direc¬ 
tor of the Second national bank. In 1876 
he was elected to the New Hampshire 
state legislature; and in 1888 was elected 
mayor of Nashua, N. H. 

BURKE, EDARUS AEDANUS, jurist, 
congressman, was born June 16, 1743, in 
Ireland. In 1778 he was appointed a 
judge of the supreme court of South Caro¬ 
lina; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1789 to 1791. 
He died March 30, 1802, in Charleston, 
S. C. 

BURKE, EDMUND, journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 23, 1809, in 
Westminster, Vt. He was a member of 
congress in 1839-45; and commissioner of 
patents in 1845. He was the owner and 
-editor of The Spectator of Newport, N. 
H., where he died Jan. 25, 1882. 

BURKE, JAMES FRANCIS, lawyer, 
was born Oct, 21, 1867, at Petroleum Cen¬ 
ter, Pa. He founded the American Re¬ 
publican College league, and became its 
first president, establishing a branch or¬ 
ganization in every leading university of 
the United States. He began the practice 
•of law in Pittsburg in 1893. 

BURKE, JAMES L., lawyer, legislator, 
was born March 24, 1850, in Gordon coun¬ 
ty, Ga. In 1872 he was a member of the 
educational examining board of Gadsden, 
Ala.; deputy clerk of circuit court in 
1874 and the same year established the 
Etowah Shield. In 1876 he was admitted 
to the bar at Guntersville, Ala., of which 
'City he has been twice mayor. In 1884- 
85 he represented Marshall county in the 
general assembly of Alabama; and in 
1896 received the democratic nomination 
for state senator. He was a soldier in the 
-confederate army; the youngest member 
of the nineteenth regiment Alabama in¬ 
fantry; and was wounded at Chickamau- 
ga before he was fourteen years old. 

BURKE, JOHN EDMUND, clergyman, 
was born Jan. 22, 1852, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Becoming deeply interested in the spirit¬ 
ual condition of the colored Roman catho¬ 
lics of that city, and realizing their great 
need of church accommodation, he, in 
1878, voluntarily resigned his pastoral 
charge to devote himself to supplying this 
want of the colored Roman catholics. 

BURKE, JOHN WILLIAM, clergyman, 
journalist, was born Oct. 1, 1826, in Wat- 
kinsville, Ga. For twenty-five years he 
published the Christian Advocate; and 
was public printer of the state of Geor¬ 
gia for a number of years. 

BURKE, MAURICE FRANCIS, R. C. 
bishop, was born May 15, 1845, in Ire¬ 
land. He was assistant at St. Mary’s 
•church, Chicago, for the three subsequent 
years, and afterward pastor of St. Mary’s 
church, Joliet, Ill., till 1887. when he be¬ 
came bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming ter¬ 
ritory. 

BURKE, ROBERT EMMET, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
Aug. 1, 1847, in Tallapoosa county, Ala. 
He volunteered as a private in company 
D, tenth Georgia cavalry, at the age of 
sixteen, and seryed until the close of the 
war. He removed to Texas in 1866 and lo¬ 
cated at Jefferson; and was admitted to 
the bar in November, 1870. He was elect¬ 
ed county judge in 1878, serving three 
•consecutive terms; and was elected dis¬ 
trict judge in 1888, and was re-elected in 
1892 without opposition. He was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 


BURKE, STEVENSON, lawyer, jurist, 
railroad president, was born Nov. 26, 1826, 
in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Since 1887 
he has been president of the Toledo and 
Ohio Central railroad; and of the Kanaw¬ 
ha and Michigan railway, at Cleveland, 
Ohio. For seven years during 1862-69 he 
was judge of common pleas. 

BURKE, THOMAS, physician, lawyer, 
governor, author, was born in 1747, in 
Ireland. In 1776 he was a member of the 
provincial congress at Halifax, and a vol¬ 
unteer at the battle of Brandywine. He 
was a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1777 to 1781; in the latter year was 
chosen governor of North Carolina; while 
in that position was seized by the tories 
as a prisoner of state, and, being trans¬ 
ferred to Charleston, was sent, by General 
Leslie, to James’ island on parole, where 
he was detained as a hostage. Becoming 
exasperated, after four months’ imprison¬ 
ment, he determined to escape, in which 
purpose he was successful. He addressed 
a letter to General Leslie, informing him 
of his reasons for withdrawing, but con¬ 
sidered himself subject to the disposal of 
the British authority; an exchange was 
effected by General Greene, and he re¬ 
turned to his position as governor; re¬ 
tired from public life the next year. He 
died Dec. 2, 1783, in Hillsborough. 

BURKHART, JOSEPH ELIJAH, sol¬ 
dier, farmer, clergyman, was born Jan. 
3, 1838, in Butler, Pa. During the civil 
war he enlisted as a private soldier in 
company A, sixth regiment Pennsylvania 
heavy artillery, and served till the close 
of the war. In 1872 he was ordained a 
clergyman in the united brethren church, 
and followed that calling for twelve 
years. He has been a delegate several 
times to the Kansas congressional con¬ 
ventions; and in 1892 was a republican 
candidate for the legislature. He has 
filled the editor’s chair on several Kan¬ 
sas newspapers; and contributed exten¬ 
sively to the periodical press and several 
of his poems have been incorporated in 
standard works. 

BURKS, EDWARD C., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, jurist, was born May 20, 1821. In 
1842 he graduated from the law depart¬ 
ment of the university of Virginia. Dur¬ 
ing 1861-63 he served as a member of 
the Virginia state legislature. In 1876 he 
was elected judge of the supreme court 
of appeals. He was president of the Vir¬ 
ginia State Bar association; and in 1895 
became editor-in-chief of the Virginia 
Law Register. He died July 4, 1897, in 
Bedford City, Va., which is in the county 
of his birth. 

BURLEIGH, CHARLES, physician, 
genealogist, was born Feb. 26, 1855, in 
Lewiston, Maine. This eminent physician 
is the author of the Burleigh and Guild 
Genealogies, and a prolific contributor to 
historical and genealogical publications. 

BURLEIGH, CHARLES C., abolitionist, 
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Nov. 
10, 1810, in Plainfield, Conn. He, with his 
brother, edited an abolitionist newspaper 
called The Unionist. He was one of the 
earliest advocates of women’s rights and 
of liberalism in religion, as he was also 
of temperance principles, in behalf of 
which he spoke frequently. He was the 
author of Thoughts on the Death Penal¬ 
ty (1845), and a tract on'the Sabbath, 
which advanced anti-Sabbatarian views. 
He died June 14, 1878, in Florence, Mass. 

BURLEIGH, EDWIN C., state legisla¬ 
tor, governor, was born Nov. 27, 1843, in 
Linneus, Maine. In 1885 he was elected 
treasurer of the state of Maine; re-elected 
in 1887; and in 1888 was elected its gov¬ 
ernor. 


BURLEIGH, GEORGE SHEPARD, au¬ 
thor, was born March 26, 1821, in Plain- 
field, Conn. He is the author of Anti- 
Slavery Hymns; The Maniac and Other 
Poems; and Signal Fires, or The Trail of 
The Pathfinder. 

BURLEIGH, HENRY G., state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born June 2, 1832, 
in Canaan, N. Y. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the state legislature in 1875; was 
elected a representative, from New York, 
to the forty-eighth congress without op¬ 
position; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth congress. 

BURLEIGH, JOHN H., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1832, in 
South Berwick, Maine. He commanded 
a ship on foreign voyages seven years; 
left the sea in 1853 and engaged in man¬ 
ufacturing. He was a member of the 
state house of representatives in 1862, 
1864, 1866, and 1872; delegate-at-large to 
the national republican convention at 
Baltimore in 1864; and was elected to tue 
forty-third and forty-fourth congresses 
as a republican. 

BURLEIGH, WALTER A., congress¬ 
man, was a delegate from the territory of 
Dakota to the thirty-ninth congress, and 
re-elected to the fortieth congress. 

BURLEIGH, WILLIAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Rockingham, N. 
H. He was a representative in congress 
from South Berwick, Maine, for two 
terms, from 1823 to 1827. He died in 
July, 1827. 

BURLEIGH, WILLIAM HENRY, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born Feb. 2, 1812, in 
Woodstock, Conn. He is an anti-slavery 
journalist of Hartford and elsewhere who 
won some notice as a poet. He died 
March 18, 1871, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BURLESON, RUFUS COLUMBUS, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born Aug. 
7, 1823, near Decatur, Ala. He was edu¬ 
cated at the Nash¬ 
ville university and 
the Western Baptist 
Theological insti¬ 
tute. After gradu¬ 
ating in 1847 he im¬ 
mediately became 
pastor of the First 
baptist church of 
Houston, Tex. Af¬ 
ter three years of 
eminent success, he 
was elected presi¬ 
dent of Baylor uni¬ 
versity, which position he has filled for 
nearly half a century. Only two men in 
the United States have held the responsi¬ 
ble position as long as Dr. Burleson. He 
has instructed over eight thousand stu¬ 
dents, male and female, many of whom 
now occupy the most eminent positions 
in Texas and the adjoining states. He has 
preached and lectured on education in 
every town and city in Texas; and al¬ 
though seventy-five years of age he toils 
every day, and enjoys vigorous health. 

BURLESON, SOLOMON S., lawyer, 
missionary, was born Jan. 31, 1833, in 
Cortland, N. Y. He studied medicine un¬ 
der his father; taught school; and was 
admitted to the bar in 1855. In 1858 he 
moved to Wabasha, Minn., where he pub¬ 
lished the Minnesota Patriot, and the 
North Pepin Independent; and also suc¬ 
cessfully practiced law, and became dis¬ 
trict attorney. In 1862 he entered holy 
orders and became missionary to the 
Oneida Indians, in northern Wisconsin. 
He died in 1896. 

BURLING, GILBERT, painter, was 
born in 1843. He excelled in studies of 
game birds. He died in 1875. 




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BURLINGAME, ANSON, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Nov. 14, 
1820, in New Berlin, N. Y. In 1852 he was 
elected to the state senate; in 1853 was 
a member of the convention for revising 
the constitution of Massachusetts; and 
was elected a representative in the thir¬ 
ty-fourth, thirty-fifth, and thirty-sixth 
congresses. In 1861 he was appointed 
minister to Austria, and subsequently to 
China, and in 1867 accepted a diplomatic 
appointment from China to the European 
powers, as well as to the United States. 
He died Feb. 23, 1870, in St. Petersburg, 
Russia. 

BURLINGAME, EDWARD LIVER¬ 
MORE, journalist, author, was born May 
30, 1848, in Boston, Mass. He traveled 
extensively in Japan and China in 1866, 
and afterward in Europe. He was on the 
editorial staff of the New York Tribune 
in 1871, and on that for the revision of 
the American Cyclopaedia in 1872-76. In 
1879 he became connected editorially with 
the publishing house of Charles Scribner’s 
Sons, New York, and in 1886 was appoint¬ 
ed editor of its new magazine. He has 
translated and edited Art Life and Theo¬ 
ries of Richard Wagner. 

BURLINGAME, JAMES MONTGOM¬ 
ERY', lawyer, legislator, author, was born 
March 24, 1836, in Sterling, Conn. He 
was educated in the Plainfield academy, 
Connecticut, and the university of Michi¬ 
gan. During 1862-64 he taught in the Al¬ 
bany female seminary; in 1864-66 served 
in the federal army; and in 1866 he be¬ 
came editor of the Illinois Tribune of 
Decatur. During 1872-82 he was prose¬ 
cuting attorney in Minnesota; city attor¬ 
ney of Owatonna during 1872-80. In 1885 
he became a member of the Minnesota 
state legislature. 

BURNAP, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 30, 
1802, in Merrimack, N. H. He was a Uni¬ 
tarian clergyman of Baltimore; promi¬ 
nent as a controversialist; and was the 
author of Popular Objections to Unitarian 
Christianity Considered; What is a Uni¬ 
tarian; Lectures to Young Men; Lectures 
on the History, of Christianity; and 
Christianity, its Essence and Evidence. 
He died Sept. 8, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BURNELL, BARKER, state legislator, 
congressman, w r as born in Nantucket, 
Mass. When only twenty-two years of 
age he was chosen a member of the house 
of representatives in his native common¬ 
wealth; and a few years later passed into 
the senatorial body, where, in spite of his 
youth, he became a leading member. He 
sat also in the convention which framed 
the present constitution of Massachu¬ 
setts; took an active part in the Harris¬ 
burg convention of 1840; and served as a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1841 to 1843. He died June 
4, 1843, in Washington, D. C. 

BURNELL, GEORGE W., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born in December, 1838, in St. 
Albans, Vt. In 1862 he enlisted in the 
union army, taking part in the numerous 
engagements of the armies of the Po¬ 
tomac and James, as sergeant, lieutenant 
and captain. In 1865 he moved to 
Oshkosh, Wis., where he engaged in the 
practice of the law, and was for several 
terms district attorney of Winnebago 
county. He was appointed to the circuit 
judgeship by Governor Rusk in 1884. 

BURNES, DANIEL DEE, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, w r as born Jan. 4, 1851, in Ring- 
gold, Mo. He was elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. 

BURNES. JAMES NELSON, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 


v sum. eH P U I ‘Annoo ubSjok ui ‘gg8I 
presidential elector in 1856; circuit attor¬ 
ney in 1857; and in 1868 was unanimously 
elected judge of the court of common 
pleas, and served four years. He then 
engaged in railroad construction and 
other business; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Missouri to the forty- 
eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a 
democrat. 

BURNET, DAVID G., Texan politician, 
was born April 4, 1789, in Newark, N. J. 
In 1836 he gave over the government of 
Texas into the hands of Houston, the 
constitutionally elected president. He 
was afterward elected vice-president, and, 
after the admission of Texas into the un¬ 
ion, lived in retirement near the battle¬ 
field of San Jacinto. He remained in the 
south during the civil war, and at its 
close was elected, in 1866, to the United 
States senate from Texas, but congress 
refused to admit him. After that he re¬ 
sided in retirement on his plantation near 
Houston. He died Dec. 5, 1870, in Galves¬ 
ton, Texas. 

BURNET, JACOB, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, author, was born 
Feb. 22, 1770, in Newark, N. J. He was a 
member of the first legislative council of 
Ohio in 1799. In 1821 he was appointed 
one of the judges of the supreme court 
of Ohio, which commission he resigned in 
December, 1828, and was immediately af¬ 
terward elected to the senate of the 
United States, to fill a vacancy, serving 
until 1831. He was the first president of 
the Astronomical Society of Cincinnati, 
and was for many years the president of 
the Colonization Society of Hamilton 
county. In 1847 he published a volume 
entitled Notes on the Early Settlement 
of the Northwestern Territory, which 
contained much interesting information, 
especially as to Ohio, the progress of 
which he witnessed from a territory. He 
died May 10, 1853, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

BURNET, ROBERT, agriculturist, sol¬ 
dier, was born Sept. 22, 1762, in Little 
Briton, N. Y. He served in the revolu¬ 
tionary war and was promoted to the 
rank of major. He died Dec. 1, 1854. 

BURNET, WILLIAM, colonial gov¬ 
ernor, was born March, 1688, in Holland. 
He was governor of Massachusetts from 
1725 to 1729. He died Sept. 7,.1729. 

BURNET, WILLIAM, physician, con¬ 
gressman, ivas born Dec. 13, 1730, in Eliz¬ 
abeth, N. J. He held at different times 
various offices in the state government^ 
was elected to congress under the confed¬ 
eration in 1776; was a member of con¬ 
gress in 1780-81; and surgeon-general of 
the eastern district of the United States 
from 1776 till the close of the revolution¬ 
ary war. He died Oct. 7,1791, in Newark, 
N. J. 

BURNETT, CYNTHIA S„ educator, 
temperance reformer, was born May 1, 
1840, in Hartford, Ohio. She studied four 
years in the Western Reserve seminary, 
graduating therefrom in 1868. She then 
taught Latin in the Orwell Norman insti¬ 
tute, and three years later filled the chair 
of languages in Beaver college. She has 
since become a popular lecturer and or¬ 
ganizer in the cause of temperance. She 
is now preceptress in the Farmington col¬ 
lege, of Ohio. 

BURNETT* E., congressman, w T as born 
March 16, 1849, in Boston, Mass. He was 
elected to the fiftieth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

BURNETT, EDWIN CLARK, physi¬ 
cian, was born Jan. 19, 1854. in Mansfield, 
Ohio. In 1884 he moved to St. Louis, Mo., 
where he soon established a large and 
lucrative practice. 


BURNETT, MRS. FRANCES ELIZA 
(HODGSON), author, was born Nov. 24, 
1849, in England. She is a popular writer 
of fiction, whose first successful book was 
That Lass o’ Lowrie’s, a powerful tale of 
Lancashire life. Her other works, of 
varying degrees of excellence, include 
Earlier Stories, first and second series; 
Haworth; A Fair Barbarian; Through 
One Administration; Louisiana; Esmer¬ 
alda; Vagabondia, Surly Tim, and Other 
Stories; The Pretty Sister of Jose; A 
Lady of Quality. As a writer for young 
people her success has been very marked; 
and besides Little Lord Fauntleroy, the 
most popular of all her books, her juven¬ 
ile writings comprise Sara Crewe; Pie- 
cino and Other Child Stories; Little Saint 
Elizabeth; Two Little Pilgrims’ Progress; 
Giovanni and the Other; and The One I 
Knew the Best of All, an autobiographic 
tale. 

BURNETT, FRANK C., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born March 19, 
1842, in Wyoming, Pa. He enlisted in the 
fifty-second Pennsylvania volunteers; 
was promoted, and. after serving through 
the peninsular campaign, was discharged 
in 1863, on a surgeon’s certificate of dis¬ 
ability. He was in mercantile pursuits 
from 1864 to 1869; then engaged in bank¬ 
ing; and was elected a representative in 
the forty-second congress to fill a vacan¬ 
cy. 

BURNETT, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 5, 1825, 
in Essex county, Va. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the thirty-fourth and thirty- 
fifth, thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh con¬ 
gresses. He was expelled for treasonable 
conduct in 1861, and took part in the re¬ 
bellion. He died Oct. 1, 1866, in Hopkin- 
ton, Ky. 

BURNETT, .TAMES G., poet, was born 
in 1868, in New York. He was the author 
of Love and Laughter, a collection of 
poems. He died in 1893. 

BURNETT, JAMES KENNEDY, or- 
chardist, legislator, was born Jan. 24, 
1862, in San Louis, Cal. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the public 
schools, and attended the university of 
the Pacific and the university of Southern 
California. He is a successful orchardist 
of Paso Robles, Cal.; was a delegate of 
the people’s party to the national conven¬ 
tion of 1896; and in 1897 served with dis¬ 
tinction in the thirty-second session of the 
state assembly of the California legisla¬ 
ture. 

BURNETT, JOHN, lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, w r as born July 4, 1831, in Pike 
county, Mo. He has had a varied and 
successful career as a lawyer; has de¬ 
fended at different times thirty different 
men charged with the crime of muruer, 
none of whom were hung, and only five 
convicted of any offense. He has been 
county judge, circuit judge, supreme court 
judge, and served with distinction as a 
state senator of the Oregon legislature, 
taking an active part on some of the most 
important committees. 

BURNETT, PETER HARDEMAN, law¬ 
yer, governor, author, was born Nov. 15, 
1807, in Nashville, Tenn. He was a Cal¬ 
ifornia lawyer, who was the first gov¬ 
ernor of that state. He was also a judge 
of the United States court for the terri¬ 
tory of Oregon. He was the author of 
The Path Which Led a Px-otestant Law¬ 
yer to the Catholic church; The Amer¬ 
ican Theory of Government; Recollec¬ 
tions and Opinions of an Old Pioneer; 
and Reasons Why We Should Believe in 
God. He died in 1895. 


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BURNETT, SAWN MOSES, physician, 
lecturer, author, was born March 16, 1847, 
in New Market, Tenn. In 1878 he found¬ 
ed the eye and ear clinic at the Central 
Dispensary, and became ophthalmic and 
aural surgeon to the Garfield hospital. 
He was president of the Medical society of 
the District of Columbia. He is a noted 
lecturer, and the author of a work en¬ 
titled Treatise on Astigmatism. 

BURNETT, WALDO IRVING, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born July 12, 1828, in 
Southborough, Mass. He was a natural¬ 
ist of Boston, and the author of The Cell, 
its Physiology, Pathology, and Philos¬ 
ophy. He died July 1, 1854, in Boston, 
Mass. 

BURNETT, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He graduated at Princeton college in 1749, 
and was a delegate from New Jersey to 
the continental congress in 1780 and i781. 
He died in 1791. 

BURNEY, STANFORD GUTHRIE, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, author, was born in 
1814, in Tennessee. He is a Cumberland 
Presbyterian divine, and professor of 
systematic theology at Cumberland uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of Treatise on 
Elocution; Baptismal Regeneration; 
Atonement and Law Reviewed; Chart of 
Duty; Soteriology; Studies in Moral Sci¬ 
ence; Studies in Psychology; and Studies 
in Theology. 

BURNHAM, ALFRED A., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born March 8, 1819, in 
Windham, Conn. He was elected to the 
Connecticut legislature in 1844 and 1845; 
was subsequently appointed judge of pro¬ 
bate for the district of Danbury; and in 
1850 was again elected to the state legis¬ 
lature. In 1857 he was lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of Connecticut; and in 1858 was 
again elected to the legislature, and made 
speaker. In 1859 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Connecticut to the thirty- 
sixth congress, and re-elected to the thir¬ 
ty-seventh congress. 

BURNHAM, BENJAMIN F„ educator, 
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 2, 
1831, in Sharon, Vt. He graduated from 
Dartmouth college; was judge advocate, 
New Orleans, La.; and judge of the muni¬ 
cipal court of Boston, Mass. He is a 
successful lawyer, educator, and law and 
theological author. 

BURNHAM, MRS. CLARA LOUISE, 
author, was born May 25, 1854, in Newton, 
Mass. She is the author of No Gentle¬ 
men; A Sane Lunatic; Dearly Bought; 
Next Door; Young Maids and Old; The 
Mistress of Beech Knoll; Miss Bagg’s Sec¬ 
retary, a West Point Romance; Dr. Lat¬ 
imer, a story of Casco Bay; Sweet Clover; 
and The Wise Woman. 

BURNHAM, CURTIS F.. lawyer, state 
legislator, financier, was born May 24, 
1820, in Richmond, Ky. He was elected 
to the state legislature; and in 1852 was 
a presidential elector. In 1875 he was ap¬ 
pointed assistant secretary of the treas¬ 
ury. 

BURNHAM, FREDERICK A., lawyer, 
was born Jan. 7, 1851, in Burrillville, R. I. 
He has attained success as a noted law¬ 
yer of New York city. 

BURNHAM, GORDON WEBSTER, 
manufacturer, was born March 20. 1803, in 
Hampton, Conn. He became president of 
the Waterbury Clock Co., the Waterbury 
Watch Co., the Waterbury Brass Co., and 
the American Pin Co. In 1876 he pre¬ 
sented to New York city a heroic bronze 
statue of Webster by Thomas Ball, which 
was erected in Central park. His own 
monument in Greenwood, built some 
years prior to his death, is one of the fin¬ 
est in the cemetery. He died March 18, 
1885, in New York city. 


ENCYCLOPEDIA OP AMERICAN 

BURNHAM, HIRAM, soldier, was born 
in Maine. At the second battle of Fred¬ 
ericksburg he distinguished himself for 
bravery and courage, and again at Get¬ 
tysburg. In April, 1864, he was made 
brigadier-general, and during the cam¬ 
paign from the Wilderness to Petersburg 
he bore a conspicuous part. He was killed 
in battle Sept. 29, 1864. 

BURNHAM, JAMES C., soldier, was 
born about 1820, in New York. After the 
fall of Colonel Baxter he commanded the 
regiment at the storming of Chapultepec, 
was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel 
Sept. 27, 1847, and led the regiment 
through the several battles around the 
city of Mexico, distinguishing himself in 
the attack on the Belen gate. After the 
war Colonel Burnham was city marshal 
of New York under Mayor Wood, and was 
a prominent politician for several years. 
He died Sept. 2, 1866, in New York. 

BURNHAM, JOHN HOWARD, soldier, 
journalist, bridge builder, was born Oct. 
31, 1834, in Essex, Mass. He was captain 
in company A, thirty-third Illinois volun¬ 
teer infantry, during the civil wkr. In 
1864 he was superintendent of public 
schools at Bloomington, Ill., where for 
several years he was the editor of the 
Pantagraph. As a bridge contractor he 
has been instrumental in the building of 
some of the largest bridges in Illinois 
and the West. 

BURNHAM, MICHAEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 28, 1839, in Essex, 
Mass. This eminent congregational cler¬ 
gyman is now pastor of the Pilgrim 
church of St. Louis, Mo. He is the au¬ 
thor of numerous pamphlets and orations. 

BURNHAM, SAMUEL, author, was 
born in 1833, in Rindge, N. H. He wrote 
the history of East Boston, several small 
volumes for the American tract society 
on natural history, was one of the editors 
of the Congregationalist, literary editor 
of the Watchman and Reflector, a corre¬ 
spondent for periodicals, edited Charles 
Sumner’s works, and at the time of his 
death had nearly completed a history of 
the Old South church of Boston. He died 
June 22, 1873, in Boston, Mass. 

BURNHAM, SARAH MARIA, author, 
was born in 1818, in Chester, Vt. She is 
the author of Limestones and Marbles, 
their History and Uses; Struggles of the 
Nations; and Pleasant Memories of For¬ 
eign Travel; and other works. 

BURNHAM, SHERBURNE W., astron¬ 
omer, author, was born in 1838, in Ver¬ 
mont. He was astronomer at Lick Ob¬ 
servatory from its foundation to 1892; 
and is now connected with Yerkes’ Ob¬ 
servatory and the university of Chicago. 
He is the author of a number of scientific 
works, and has contributed valuable pa¬ 
pers to current magazines. 

BURNHAM, THOMAS BROWNELL, 
manufacturer, was born Jan. 30, 1866, in 
New York city. He is a director in the 
Benedict and Burnham Manufacturing 
Co., Holmes, Booth and Haydens, brass 
manufacturers, and The Waterbury 
Watch Co., all of Waterbury, Conn. He 
is also a large stockholder and director 
in The Sixth Avenue railroad of New 
York city. 

BURNHAM, VICTOR C., farmer, lawyer, 
public official, was born April 23, 1851, in 
Wayne county, Mich. He graduated from 
the university of Michigan. He has 
served as mayor of Rogers City; has been 
city attorney; circuit court commissioner; 
and prosecuting attorney of Alpena coun¬ 
ty. He has served as city attorney and 
city judge of Alpena; and also as United 
States commissioner. 


BIOGRAPHY. 

BURNS, JAMES AUSTIN, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 25, 1840, in 
Oxford, Maine. In August, 1861, he en¬ 
tered the United States volunteer service 
as lieutenant in the seventh Connecticut 
infantry, and was promoted to be cap¬ 
tain in 1862. Subsequent to the war he 
settled in Atlanta, Ga., where he has fol¬ 
lowed the profession of civil engineering 
and also filled the chair of chemistry in 
the Southern Medical college in Atlanta. 
He has published a series of Juxtalinear 
Translations of the Classics. 

BURNS, JOHN, soldier, was born Sept. 
5, 1793, in Burlington, N. J. He was 
among the first to volunteer for the war 
of 1812; was present in the actions at 
Plattsburg, Queenstown and Lundy’s 
Lane, in which last-named engagement he 
was one of Colonel Miller’s regiment that 
captured the British battery in the cen¬ 
ter and turned the tide in favor of the 
Americans. He volunteered promptly for 
the war with Mexico, and again for the 
civil war. He died Feb. 7, 1872, in Get¬ 
tysburg, Pa. 

BURNS, JOHN M., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, jurist, was born March 11, 1825, in 
Lawrence county, Ky. He has been a 
member of the Kentucky state legislature, 
state senator, and circuit court judge, em¬ 
bracing seven counties. A good portion 
of his time was spent in the revenue 
service of the government, and in public 
speaking on national and political is¬ 
sues. 

BURNS, JOSEPH, congressman, was 
born March 11, 1800, in Waynesborough, 
Va. He was elected from the state of 
Ohio a representative in the thirty-fifth 
congress. 

BURNS, ROBERT, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New Hampshire. 
He served three years in the state legisla¬ 
ture as senator and representative; and 
was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1833 to 1837. He 
died June 20, 1866, in Plymouth, N. H. 

BURNS, WILLIAM HENRY, railroad 
president, was born in July, 1848, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. Since 1890 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Montana Union railway at 
Butte, Mont. 

BURNS, WILLIAM WALLACE, soldier, 
was born Sept. 3, 1825, in Coshocton, 
Ohio. From 1843 till 1847 he was a cadet 
at the United States military academy. 
Joining the third infantry after gradu¬ 
ation, he served through the war with 
Mexico, and, after ten years of frontier, 
garrison and recruiting service, received 
a staff appointment as captain and com¬ 
missary of subsistence. 

BURNSIDE, AMBROSE EVERETT, 
general, manufacturer, governor, United 
States senator, was born May 23, 1824, in 
Liberty, Ind. He 
served with credit 
on the frontier as an 
officer of artillery; 
and in 1853 resigned 
his commission and 
turned his attention 
to the manufacture 
of guns, and invent¬ 
ed the rifle which 
bears his name. 
During the whole 
progress of the civil 
war his services as 
a general will always be treasured in the 
military history of his country. In 
1866 he was elected governor of Rhode 
Island; and iii 1875 took his seat in the 
senate of the United States for the term 
ending in 1881. He died Sept. 3, 1881 in 
Bristol, R. I. 



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BURNSIDE, JOHN, planter, was born 
about 1800, in Ireland. At the time of his 
death he was the largest sugar-planter 
in the United States. About 1852 he began 
to invest money in sugar lands, and 
eventually owned ten of the finest planta¬ 
tions in the sugar district of Louisiana, 
and the finest residence in New Orleans. 
In spite of the loss of more than two 
thousand slaves, he was among the first 
to try sugar-planting with free labor on 
a large scale, and his success had much 
influence in re-establishing the broken 
industries and credit of the south. He 
died June 29, 1881, in White Sulphur 
Springs, Va. 

BURNSIDE, THOMAS, jurist, congress¬ 
man. He was an associate justice of the 
supreme court of Pennsylvania; and was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1815 to 1816, when he resigned. 
He died March 25, 1827, in Germantown, 
Va. 

BURNZ, ELIZA B., educator, was born 
Oct. 31, 1823, in England. For three years 
she conducted classes in New York at the 
Mercantile library; and from 1872 to 1889 
instructed the free evening classes at 
Cooper union, which were established 
solely at her instigation. She was the or¬ 
ganizer of the League for Short Spelling, 
and is now its president. 

BURR, AARON, clergyman, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 4, 1716, in Fairfield, 
Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman, 
and was president of Princeton college. 
He married a daughter of Jonathan Ed¬ 
wards, and his son was the noted Vice- 
president Aaron Burr. His Latin Gram¬ 
mar was long in use at Princeton as the 
Newark Grammar. His only other work 
was The Supreme Divinity of our Lord 
Jesus Christ. He died Sept. 24, 1757. 

BURR, AARON, soldier, statesman, 

vice-president of the United States, was 

born Feb. 6, 1756, in Newark, N. J. In 
1 7 7 7 he was ap¬ 
pointed lieutenant- 
colonel, and distin¬ 
guished himself as 
an able and brave 
officer. He was ap¬ 
pointed attorney- 
general of New York 
in 1789; and from 
1791 to 1797 was a 
member of the 
United States sen¬ 
ate. At the election 
of president of the 
United States for the fourth presidential 
term Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr 
had each seventy-three votes, and the 
choice, was decided by congress, on the 
thirty-sixth ballot, in favor of Jefferson 
for president and Burr for vice-president. 
On the 12th of July, 1804, Colonel Burr 
gave Alexander Hamilton, long his pro¬ 
fessional rival and political opponent, a 
mortal wound in a duel. He died Sept. 
14, 1836, on Staten Island, N. Y. 

BURR, ALBERT G., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1829, in Illinois. 
He was elected to the Illinois legislature 
in 1861; was a member of the state con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1862; and author 
of the address to the people accompanying 
the constitution. He was re-elected in 
1863; and was elected a representative 
from Illinois to the fortieth and forty- 
first congresses. In 1877 he was elected 
judge of the seventh circuit of the state, 
and was re-elected in 1879 for the full 
term of six years. He died June 10, 1882, 
in Carrollton, Ill. 


BURR, ALFRED E., journalist, was 
born March 27, 1815, in Hartford, Conn. 
In 1841 he became the sole owner and pro¬ 
prietor of The Times of Hartford, Conn. 

BURR, CLEMENT FRANKLIN, farmer, 
legislator, was born Feb. 22, 1849, in 
Worthington, Mass. He is a successful 
farmer; has held numerous public of¬ 
fices of trust in his native city; and has 
served with distinction as a representa¬ 
tive in the general court of the Massa¬ 
chusetts state legislature. 

BURR, ENOCH FITCH, clergyman, au-, 
thor, was born Oct. 21, 1818, in Green’s 
Farms, Conn. He has been a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman of 
Lyme, Conn., since 
1850; and is the au¬ 
thor of Pater Mundi; 
Ad Fidem; Doctrine 
of Evolution; Ecce 
Coelum; Sunday 
Afternoons for Little 
People; About Spir¬ 
itualism; Toward 
the Strait Gate; Ecce 
Terra; Work in the 
Vineyard; From 
Dark to Day; Facts 
in Aid of Faith; Celestial Empires; Uni¬ 
versal Beliefs; Long Ago as Interpreted 
by the 19th Century; Tempted to Unbe¬ 
lief; Dio the Athenian; The Voyage, and 
Other Poems; and Aleph, the Chaldean. 

BURR, GEORGE LINCOLN, educator, 
clergyman, was born in 1857, in New 
York. He has been a professor of his¬ 
tory at Cornell university since 1892; and 
is the author of The Literature of Witch¬ 
craft; The Fate of Dietrick Flade; and 
Charlemagne. 

BURR, HENRY AARON, manufacturer, 
inventor, was born in 1810, in Canaan. N. 
Y. In 1845 he began to experiment with 
hat-making machines, finally obtaining 
a patent and beginning the manufacture 
of hats. His invention was eminently suc¬ 
cessful, giving him a virtual monopoly of 
the industry until his patents expired in 
1872. He died Dec. 25, 1884, in New York. 

BURR, PORTER WILEY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Feb. 1, 1852, in Mercer, 
Maine. He received his education in the 
Griswold college and the Iowa state uni¬ 
versity. He has attained prominence as 
a successful lawyer of Charles City, Iowa; 
has served with distinction as city attor¬ 
ney and mayor of that city. He has also 
been judge of the twelfth judicial district 
of Iowa; and takes a prominent part in 
public affairs. 

BURR, THEODOSIA, was born in 1783, 
in New York city. After her mother’s 
death in 1794 Theodosia became mistress 
of her father’s house and the companion 
of his leisure hours. On Feb. 2, 1801, she 
married Joseph Alston, a wealthy and 
talented young planter of South Carolina, 
who in after years became governor of 
his native state. The devotion of Theo¬ 
dosia to her father approached idolatry; 
through all the disasters of his career she 
clung to him with unshaken fidelity. She 
and her husband were cognizant of her 
father’s scheme to become emperor of 
Mexico; her son was to be the heir to the 
throne, and when Burr was brought to 
trial at Richmond his daughter was there, 
and, by the power of her beauty and in¬ 
tellectual graces, did much to stay the tor¬ 
rent of popular indignation and secure a 
favorable verdict. She died at sea. in 
January, 1813. 

BURR, WILLARD, musician, composer, 
was born Jan. 7, 1852, in Ravenna, Ohio. 
He is a noted physician of Boston, Mass.; 
and the composer of much chamber music, 
numerous piano pieces, and songs. 


BURR, WILLIAM HUBERT, civil engi¬ 
neer, author, was born in 1851, in Con¬ 
necticut. He is a civil engineer of promi¬ 
nence; and has been professor of engi¬ 
neering at Columbia college since 1893. 
He is the author of Stresses in Bridge and 
Roof Trusses; The Theory of the Mason¬ 
ry Arch; and Elasticity and Resistance 
of the Materials of Engineering. 

BURRAGE, HENRY SWEETSER, sol¬ 
dier, clergyman, journalist, author, was 
born Jan. 7, 1837, in Fitchburg, Mass. He 
is the editor of Zion’s Herald, Portland, 
Maine; and the author of Brown Univer¬ 
sity in the Civil War; The Act of Bap¬ 
tism in the History of the Christian 
Church; History of the Anabaptists in 
Switzerland; History of Baptists in New 
England; History of the 37th Massa¬ 
chusetts Regiment; and Baptist Hymn 
Writers and their Hymns. 

BURRALL, WILLIAM PORTER, law¬ 
yer, state senator, railroad president, was 
born in 1806, in Canaan, Conn. He prac¬ 
ticed law in his native town until October, 
1839, when he was chosen president of 
the Housatonic Railroad company, and re¬ 
moved to Bridgeport, Conn. He removed 
to Salisbury, Conn., in 1859; subsequently 
represented that town several times in 
the general assembly; and was also a 
member of the state senate. He died 
March 3, 1874, in Hartford, Conn. 

BURRELL, JONATHAN, soldier, was 
born in 1753. In 1776 he joined the north¬ 
ern army under Schuyler. His talents 
soon procured him the appointment of 
assistant paymaster. He was afterward 
assistant postmaster-general; and cashier 
of the United States branch bank of New 
York. He died Nov. 18, 1834, in Goshen, 
N. Y. 

BURRELL, J. M., jurist, was born in 
Pennsylvania. He was appointed a judge 
of the United States court for the terri¬ 
tory of Kansas. 

BURRELL, ORLANDO, soldier, jurist, 
congressman, was born in Bradford coun¬ 
ty, Pa. He raised a company of cavalry 
in 1861; was elected captain of it, and 
joined the first regiment Illinois cavalry. 
He was elected county judge in 1873, and 
re-elected in 1877; and was elected sheriff 
in 1886. His occupation has been farming 
and stock raising. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a republican. 

BURRILL, ALEXANDER MANS¬ 
FIELD, jurist, author, was born in 1807, 
in New York. He was a noted New York 
jurist; and the author of Practice of the 
Supreme Court of New York; Law Dic¬ 
tionary and Glossary; Law and Practice 
of Voluntary Assignments; and Circum¬ 
stantial Evidence. He died Feb. 7, 1869, 
in Kearney, N. J. 

BURRILL, JAMES, statesman, was born 
April 25, 1772, in Providence, R. I. He 
was attorney-general of Rhode Island 
from 1797 till 1813. He was a member of 
the legislature in 1813, speaker in 1814, 
and chief justice of the state supreme 
court in 1816. He was chosen United 
States senator in 1817; but died before 
the expiration of his term. He died Dec. 
25, 1820, in Washington, D. C. 

BURRILL, THOMAS JONATHAN, nat¬ 
uralist, was born April 25, 1839, in 
Pittsfield, Mass. From 1877 till 1884 
he was dean of the American Asso¬ 
ciation for the Advancement of Science; 
and in 1885-86 president of the Ameri¬ 
can Society of Microscopists. He edited 
the biennial reports of the university 
of Illinois during the years 1874 to 
1886, and has written many papers and 
pamphlets, among which are The Bac¬ 
teria; and the Uredineae, or Parasitic 
Fungi of Illinois. 





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BURRITT, ELIHU, reformer, linguist, 
author, was born Dec. 8, 1811, in New 
Britain, Conn. He was a famous linguist 
who was called The Learned Blacksmith, 
from the fact that much of his education 
was obtained while working at the forge 
in Worcester, Mass. He was a noted 
peace reformer, and was for some years 
consul at Birmingham. Few of his writ¬ 
ings have the literary quality to any ex¬ 
tent, and they form rather dry reading. 
He was the author of Sparks from the An¬ 
vil; A Voice from the Forge; Peace Pa¬ 
pers for the People; Olive Leaves; 
Thoughts of Things at Home and Abroad; 
Hand-book of the Nations; A Walk from 
John O'Groat’s to Land’s End; The Mis¬ 
sion of Great Sufferings; Walks in the 
Black Country; Lectures and Speeches- 
Ten-Minute Talks; Chips from Many 
Blocks; and Prayers and Devotional Med¬ 
itations. He died March 9, 1879, in New 
Britain, Conn. 

BURRITT, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born April 25, 
1772, in Providence, R. I. He was attor¬ 
ney-general of the state of Rhode Island 
from 1797 to 1813; was a member and 
speaker of the assembly in 1814; was chief 
justice of the state in 1816 and was elected 
to the United States senate in 1816. He 
died Dec. 25, 1820, in Washington, D. C. 

BL RROUGHS, CHARLES, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born Dec. 27, 1787, in 
Boston, Mass. He was for thirty years 
president of the New Hampshire insane 
asylum and was for nearly forty years an¬ 
nually elected president of the Portsmouth 
athenaeum. He was elected in 1842 corre¬ 
sponding member of the Massachusetts 
historical society, and was president of 
the general theological library of Boston 
from its establishment until his death. He 
published Memoirs of Horace B. Morse 
(1829), and The Poetry of Religion, and 
Other Poems. He died March 5, 1868, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. 

BURROUGHS, GEORGE STOCKTON, 
clergyman, educator, college president, 
was born Jan. 6, 1855, in Waterloo, N. Y. 
This eminent minister and educator was 
professor of biblical literature in Am¬ 
herst college from 1886-92, when he was 
elected president of Wabash college of 
Crawfordsville, Ind. He is a director of 
the American Institute of Hebrew, and of 
the American Institute of Sacred Litera¬ 
ture. 

BURROUGHS, JOHN, author, poet, 
was born April 3, 1837, in Roxbury, N. Y. 
He is a noted essayist of New York, whose 
keen, sympathetic studies of nature have 
been very popular both in America and 
England. He is the author of Wake-Rob¬ 
in; Winter Sunshine; Birds and Poets; 
Locusts and Wild Honey; Pepacton; 
Fresh Fields; Signs and Seasons; In¬ 
door Studies; Riverby; Whitman: A 
Study. 

BURROUGHS, JOHN CURTIS, educa¬ 
tor, was born Dec. 7, 1818, in Stamford, 
N. Y. In 1855 he began a movement in 
the interests of higher education, which 
resulted in the establishment, in 1857, of 
the university of Chicago. In 1856 he ac¬ 
cepted the presidency of the university 
of Chicago, which he resigned in 1874. 
Soon afterward he was appointed a mem¬ 
ber of the Chicago board of education, 
and in 1884 he was elected assistant su¬ 
perintendent of public schools in that city. 

BURROUGHS, SILAS M., state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born in New York. 
He served four years in the legislature of 
that state; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth 
congresses. He died June 3, 1860, in Me¬ 
dina, N. Y. 

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BURROWES, GEORGE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born April 3, 1811, in 
Trenton, N. J. He is a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman of San Francisco, and professor of 
Hebrew in the Presbyterian seminary 
there. He is the author of Commentary 
on the Song of Solomon; Octorara, a Po¬ 
em, and Occasional Pieces; and Advanced 
Growth in Grace. 

BURROWS, DANIEL, congressman, was 
born in Groton, Conn. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Connecticut 
from 1821 to 1823. 

BURROWS, JOSEPH H., state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born May 15, 1810, 
in England. He was a representative in 
the state legislature from 1870 to 1874, and 
from 1878 to 1880. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Missouri to the forty- 
seventh congress. 

BURROWS, JULIUS C., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
Jan. 9, 1837, in North East, Pa. He was 
an officer in the union army in 1862-64; 
and prosecuting attorney of Kalamazoo 
county in 1865-67. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative to the forty-third, forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses; and 
elected a delegate at large from Michigan 
to the national republican convention at 
Chicago in 1884. He was elected to the 
forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses, twice elected speaker pro tem¬ 
pore of the house of representatives dur¬ 
ing the fifty-first congress, and was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty- 
fourth congresses as a republican. He 
resigned his seat in the house in 1895 to 
assume the office of United States sena¬ 
tor from Michigan for term expiring in 
1899. 

BURROWS, LANSING, clergyman, 
journalist, was born April 10, 1843, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is editor of the 
American Baptist Year Book; is one of the 
leading pulpit orators of the country; and 
has won repute as a powerful minister in 
the best churches of the north and south. 

BURROWS, LORENZO, congressman, 
was born in Connecticut. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1849 to 1853; and in 1855 was elect¬ 
ed comptroller of New York. 

BURRUS, JOHN HOUSTON, educator, 
lawyer, was born Feb. 22, 1849, near Mur¬ 
freesboro, Tenn. He received his educa¬ 
tion in private schools and at the Fisk 
university. He has attained prominence 
as an able lawyer of Nashville, Tenn. Dur¬ 
ing 1877-79 he was an instructor in the 
Fisk university and during 1883-93 was 
president of the Ahorn A. and M. col¬ 
lege of Rodney, Miss. 

BURT, ARMISTEAD, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 16, 1802, in Edgefield, 
S. C. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from South Carolina from 1843 to 
1853; and during a part of the thirtieth 
congress officiated as speaker of the house 
of representatives. He was a delegate 
to the New York convention of 1868. He 
died Oct. 30, 1883, in Abbeville, S. C. 

BURT, FRANCIS, governor, was born 
in 1809 in Pendleton, S. C. He was ap¬ 
pointed third auditor of the treasury by 
President Pierce, but resigned that office 
in 1854 to accept the governorship of Ne¬ 
braska. He died Oct. .18, 1854, in Belle¬ 
vue, Neb. 

BURT, GRINNELL, railroad president, 
was born Nov. 7, 1822, in Bellvale, N. Y. 
He has been president of the Lehigh and 
Hudson railroad and the Cincinnati, Van 
Wert and Michigan railroad. He has 
been identified with many projects for 
bridging the Hudson, and has held many 
responsible public positions. 


BURT, MARY ELIZABETH, educator, 
author, was born in Lake Geneva, Wis. 
She was a member of the board of educa¬ 
tion in Chicago for three years. She is 
the author of Literary Landmarks; Sto¬ 
ries from Plato and other Classic Writers. 

BURT, NATHANIEL CLARK, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 23, 1825, in 
Fairton, N. J. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of Ohio; and was the author 
of Hours Among the Gospels; The Far 
East; and The Land and Its Story, the 
Sacred Geography of Palestine. He died 
March 4, 1874, in Rome, Italy. 

BURT, WILLIAM A., surveyor, was 
born June 13, 1792, in Worcester, Mass. 
He became United States deputy surveyor 
and in 1840-47 surveyed northern Mich¬ 
igan. He originated the idea of the solar 
compass; and also introduced important 
improvements in geological surveying. He 
was a judge of the Michigan circuit court 
and member of the legislature for sev¬ 
eral terms, and was chief mover in the 
construction of the Sault Ste. Marie canal. 
He died Aug. 18, 1858. 

BURTON, ASA, clergyman, author, was 
borfi Aug. 25, 1752, in Stonington, Conn. 
He was a congregational clergyman, 
pastor at Thetford, Vt., for more than 
fifty years; and was the author of Essays 
on Some of the First Principles of Meta¬ 
physics, Ethics, and Theology. He died 
May 1, 1836, in Thetford, Vt. 

BURTON, CHARLES GERMMAN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was 
born April 4, 1846, in Cleveland, Ohio. He 
enlisted as a private in company C, nine¬ 
teenth Ohio infantry, and was a corporal 
in company A, one hundred and seventy- 
first Ohio National guards, during the one 
hundred days’ campaign of 1864. He moved 
to Nevada, Mo., in 1871; has been circuit 
attorney and judge of the twenty-fifth cir¬ 
cuit; was a delegate to the national repub¬ 
lican convention at Chicago in 1884; and 
was elected to the fifty-fourth congress 
as a republican. In 1893 he was depart¬ 
ment commander of Missouri G. A. R. 

BURTON, ERNEST DE WITT, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1856 in Ohio. 
He is a professor of sacred literature in 
the university of Chicago; and the author 
of Records and Letters of the Apostolic 
Age; Syntax of Moods and Tenses in New 
Testament Greek; and A Harmony of the 
Four Gospels. 

BURTON, FREDERICK RUSSELL, 
composer, was born Feb. 23, 1861, in 

Jonesville, Mich. He held editorial posi¬ 
tions on leading newspapers in Boston, 
Troy and Fall River, and for five years 
was a reporter for the New York Sun. In 
1889 he went to England and became as¬ 
sistant editor of the London edition of the 
New York Herald. He returned to New 
York in 1892 and has since devoted him¬ 
self to writing fiction and composing 
music. 

BURTON, GEORGE DEXTER, inven¬ 
tor, was born Oct. 26, 1855, in Temple, 
N. H. He is the inventor of the Burton 
stock car; inventor and president of the 
American Electric Forge company, oper¬ 
ating the Burton Electric Liquid system 
of heating and working metals and ores. 
He has lectured upon the subject of Heat¬ 
ing and Working Metals by Electricity be¬ 
fore the Harvard Lecture club of the Jeff¬ 
erson physical laboratory of the Harvard 
college; before the Franklin institute of 
Philadelphia, Pa.; before the Society of 
Arts of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology; and various other learned 
scientific bodies. His liquid process of 
heating and welding by an electric cur¬ 
rent has been successfully adopted. 


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BURTON, GEORGE W., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born July 22, 1836, in Lawrence 
county, Ind. He was one of the origina¬ 
tors of the South Central and Normal 
school of Mitchell, Ind. He served with 
distinction during the civil war; and 
served on the medical staff. 

BURTON, HENRY S., soldier, was born 
in 1818 in New York. He was brevetted 
brigadier-general in 1865 for services at 
the capture of Petersburg. He died April 

4, 1869, in Fort Adams, R. I. 

BURTON, HUTCHINS G., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born in Granville 
county, N. C. In 1810 he represented 
Mecklenburg in the state legislature, and 
in 1816 the county of Halifax. For several 
years he was attorney-general of the 
state; and served as a representative in 
congress from North Carolina from 1819 
to 1824. He was elected governor of 
North Carolina from 1824 to 1827. He 
died April 21, 1836, in Iredell county, 
N. C. 

BURTON, JOHN E., miner, was born 
Oct. 19, 1847, in New Hartford, N. Y. He 
originated the American Fiber company, 
which aims to produce merchantable fiber 
from every form of vegetable which con¬ 
tains fiber, and became the chief promoter 
of the Aguan Navigation and Improve¬ 
ment company, whose object is to connect 
the Aguan River with the Caribbean sea. 

BURTON, LEWIS WILLIAM, bishop of 
Lexington, Ky„ was born Nov. 9, 1852, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. From April 13, 1884, 
until July 15, 1893, he was rector of St. 
John’s church, Richmond, Va. 

BURTON, RICHARD EUGENE, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born in 1859 in 
Hartford, Conn. He is a journalist of 
Hartford, Conn.; and the author of Dogs 
and Dog Literature; Dumb in June, and 
Other Poems; Memorial Day and Other 
Poems; and Men of Progress. 

BURTON, ROBERT, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1747, in Mecklenburg 
county, Va. He was a planter, removed 
to Granville about 1775, and served in the 
revolutionary army, attaining the rank 
of colonel. From 1787 till 1788 he was a 
member of congress under the confeder¬ 
ation. In 1801 he was a member of 
a commission to fix the boundary be¬ 
tween the Carolinas and Georgia. He died 
April 10, 1825, in Granville county, N. C. 

BURTON, THEODORE E., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 20, 1851, in Jeff¬ 
erson, Ohio. He began the practice of 
law at Cleveland in 1875. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the fifty-first congress, but was de¬ 
feated for re-election in 1890; and was 
elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

BURTON, WARREN, author, was born 
Nov. 13, 1800, in Wilton, N. H. He was 
an educational writer of Boston; and the 
author of Cheering Views of Man and 
Providence; My Religious Experience at 
my Native Home; The Divine Agency in 
the Material Universe; Uncle Sam’s Rec¬ 
ommendations of Phrenology; The Dis¬ 
trict School as it Was; Helps to Educa¬ 
tion; Culture of the Observing Faculties 
in the Family and School; and Scenery 
Showing. He died June 6, 1866, in Salem, 
Mass. 

BURTON, WILLIAM, governor, was 
born in Delaware. He was elected gov¬ 
ernor of that state in 1859, holding che 
office until 1863. 

BURTON, WILLIAM, clergyman, was 
born Sept. 5, 1874, in England. Since 
1895 he has filled pastorates in Wilmot, 

5. D.; and in the First Presbyterian 
church of Langford, in that state. 


BURTON, WILLIAM EVANS, actor, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 24, 1804, in Lon¬ 
don, England. He was a popular comedian 
of New York city; and the author of The 
Actor’s Alloquy; Waggeries and Vagaries; 
and Cyclopaedia of Wit and Humor. He 
died Feb. 10, 1860, in New York. 

BURUM, PETER GROVE, merchant, 
financier, was born June 13, 1839, in 
Blount county, Tenn. He is president of 
the Commercial bank; president of the 
Augusta Steamboat company; vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Augusta Exchange; and treas¬ 
urer of the Augusta opera house. 

BURWELL, WILLIAM A., congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in congress 
from Virginia from 1806 to 1821. He died 
Feb. 16, 1821, in Washington City. 

BUSCH, CARL, musician, was born 
March 29, 1862, in Denmark. He is a 
leading musician of Kansas City, Mo.; 
and for five seasons he has conducted the 
Kansas City Orchestral and Choral socie¬ 
ty. His orchestral suite Reverie Pastor¬ 
ale, which was played at the Music Teach¬ 
ers’ National association concerts in De¬ 
troit, at once put him in the front rank 
of American composers. 

BUSCHE, CHARLES F., manufacturer, 
state senator, was born Jan. 17, 1857, in 
Germany. He came to America in 1860, 
and since 1864 has resided in St. Louis, 
Mo., where he is a wholesale baker and 
president of the Confectioner and Baker 
Publishing company. In 1888 he was 
elected to the Missouri state senate; was 
re-elected in 1892, and again in 1896. 

BUSBY, GEORGE H., congressman, 
was born July 10, 1794, in Darstown, Pa. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1851 to 1853. 

BUSENBARK, W. R., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born in March, 1855, in Ann 
Arbor, Mich. Since 1894 he has been 
president of the Suwanee River railway. 

BUSEY, SAMUEL THOMPSON, soldier, 
banker, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 
1835, in Greencastle, Ind. He was first 
sergeant and first lieutenant of the Urbana 
Zouaves in 1861-62; was town collector in 
1862; was commissioned second lieuten¬ 
ant in the recruiting service by Gov. Yates 
in June, 1862, and helped to organize the 
seventy-sixth Illinois volunteer infantry, 
and became colonel and was brevetted 
brigadier-general. He was mayor and 
president of the board of education of 
Urbana in 1880-89; organized Busey’s 
bank in 1867, and conducted its business 
twenty-one years. He was elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a democrat. 

BUSH, ASAHEL, merchant, banker, 
was born June 4, 1824, in Westfield, Mass. 
He is now one of the most extensive land 
proprietors in America. He is connected 
with banks in Portland, Seattle and Ta¬ 
coma; is controlling owner of the First 
National bank of Salem, and has a large 
interest in mills in Oregon City and Port¬ 
land. In 1851 he began the publication of 
The Oregon Statesman in Salem, an in¬ 
fluential paper of the early days. 

BUSH, CHARLES PLATTE, state sen¬ 
ator, lieutenant-governor, was born March 
18, 1809, in Danby, N. Y. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the constitutional convention of 
Michigan; four years a member of the 
legislature; four years a member of the 
state senate; and lieutenant-governor of 
the state of Michigan. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector; delegate to several demo¬ 
cratic national conventions; the leader of 
the movement that located the capital of 
Michigan at Lansing; and one of the 
original platters of that city. He died 
July 4, 1857, in Lansing, Mich. 


BUSH, EDWARD A., clergyman, was 
born June 5, 1839, in Canada. In 1864 he 
was rector of St. Francis college, Lo- 
retto, Pa., where he remained until 1868, 
when he was called to St. Michael’s semi¬ 
nary. He became rector of St. Peter’s 
church of Allegheny, Pa., in 1894; and 
soon after promoted to the vicar general¬ 
ship of the diocese. 

BUSH, GEORGE, theologian, author, 
was born June 12, 1796, in Norwich, Vt. 
He was a Swedenborgian clergyman and 
a professor of Hebrew in the university 
of New York. Beside Commentaries on 
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, 
Joshua, Judges, and the Psalms, his writ¬ 
ings include Life of Mohammed; New 
Church Miscellanies; Priesthood and 
Clergy Unknown to Christianity; Mes- 
mer and Swedenborg; Treatise on the 
Millennium; and The Resurrection of 
Christ. He died Sept. 19, 1859, in Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y. 

BUSII, ISAAC- W., educator, merchant, 
business man, was born April 20, 1835, in 
Danby, N. Y. He received his education 
at the Michigan State Normal school. 
He has traveled extensively throughout 
America and British Columbia; and is 
now a successful merchant of Howell, 
Mich., where he has been supervisor, jus¬ 
tice of the peace, postmaster and commis¬ 
sioner of schools for his county. He was 
one of the organizers of the Detroit and 
Lansing Railroad company, of which he 
was director and secretary of the board 
of directors. He received the democratic 
nomination for state senator. 

BUSH, J. O. A., journalist, legislator, 
was born Dec. 1, 1854, in Pike county, 
Ark. He is a successful journalist of 
Prescott, Ark., served with distinction in 
the thirty-first general assembly of Ar¬ 
kansas, and was the author of the law 
passed by that body to build state rail¬ 
roads. 

BUSH, JAMES S., physician, legislator, 
was born Feb. 8, 1816, in New York. He 
practiced medicine in Scottsville, La.; 
represented his district a number of years 
in the state legislature; and helped to 
pass the ordinance of secession. He served 
in the confederate army as a surgeon, and 
died in 1867 at Trenton, La. 

BUSH, JOSEPH, artist, was born in 
1793 in Franklin, Ky. His most noted 
paintings are those of Zachary Taylor, 
Gov. John Adair, Dr. Benj. W. Dudley 
and Judge Thomas B. Moore. He died 
Nov. 11, 1865, in Lexington, Ky. 

BUSH, NORTON, artist, was born Feb. 
22, 1834, in Rochester, N. Y. Most of his 
life has been spent in San Francisco. He 
was elected, in 1877, director of the San 
Francisco Art association, of which he 
had been a member since 1874, and was 
president of the Sacramento Bric-a-Brac 
club from 1879 till 1882. Among his 
works are Mount Diablo, and City of Pan¬ 
ama. His Summit of the Sierras is in 
the Crocker gallery, Sacramento, and his 
Lake Nicaragua in the Stanford gallery 
of San Francisco. 

BUSH, RUFUS T., merchant, philan¬ 
thropist, was born in Tompkins county, 
N. Y. He attained success as a noted 
merchant of Chicago; donated the Hall 
Memorial library, supplied with more 
than one thousand volumes, to Ridgeway, 
Mich.; and wrote a short, pithy volume 
of European travels. He died Sept. 15, 
1890, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BUSH, STEPHEN, clergyman, was born 
May 30, 1818, in Nassau, N. H. In 1853 
he became pastor of the Presbyterian 
church of Cohoes, N. Y.; and in 1868-74 
was pastor of the presbyterian church of 
Green Island, N. Y. 


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BUSHMAN, M. V., lawyer, was born 
April 28, 1867, in Gettysburg, Pa. He at¬ 
tended the Gettysburg college, and grad¬ 
uated from the Law University of Mary¬ 
land. For two years he practiced law in 
Hagerstown, Md., and then moved to Ne¬ 
vada, Iowa, where he has attained success 
in his profession. 

BUSHNELL, ALLEN RALPH, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, congressman, was born 
July 18, 1833, in Hartford, Ohio. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
in the Hartford High 
school, and at the 
Oberlin and Hiram 
colleges. In 1861 he 
entered the union 
army and served as 
captain of company 
C, seventh regiment 
Wisconsin volunteer 
infantry, Iron brig¬ 
ade. He has been 
district attorney of 
Grant county, Wis., 
and United States attorney for western 
district of Wisconsin. He has served as a 
member of the Wisconsin state legisla¬ 
ture, and was a member of the fifty-sec¬ 
ond congress. In congress his speeches 
on silver and tariff questions were used 
as campaign documents in the presidential 
elections of 1892 and 1896. He especial¬ 
ly endeavored to have the United States 
constitution amended to elect senators by 
a direct vote of the people. 

BUSHNELL, ASA SMITH, soldier, man¬ 
ufacturer, governor, was born Sept. 16, 
1834, in Rome, N. Y. He served througn 
the civil war. He has been president 
since 1886 of the Warder, Bushnell and 
Glessner Co. Champion mowers and 
binders are manufactured by the com¬ 
pany, and the factory is one of the lar¬ 
gest industries in Springfield, Ohio, cover¬ 
ing over sixty acres of ground and em¬ 
ploying more than one thousand work¬ 
men. In 1886 Mr. Bushnell was appointed 
quartermaster-general of Ohio for four 
years, on the staff of Gov. Foraker. He 
is president of the First National bank 
and the Springfield Gas Light and Coke 
company. He is the fortieth governor of 
Ohio, being elected to that high office in 
November, 1895. 

BUSHNELL, CHARLES IRA, author, 
was born July 28, 1826, in New York city. 
He was an antiquarian writer of New 
York city, among whose works are 
Crumbs for Antiquarians; and Adventures 
of Sir Christopher Hawkins (edited). He 
died in 1883 in New York city. 

BUSHNELL, CORNELIUS S., inventor 
and railroad constructor, was born in 
1829. He won fame through his connec¬ 
tion with John Ericsson in the construc¬ 
tion of the Monitor. During the war he 
built more ships for the government than 
any other man, in his ship-yard at Fair 
Haven, where he and Ericsson built the 
Puritan and the Dictator. Later, when he 
turned his attention to railroads, he 
helped construct the Union Pacific. He 
died April 6, 1897, in New York city. 

BUSHNELL, DAVID, soldier, inventor, 
was born in 1742 in Say brook, Conn. Dur¬ 
ing his college course he matured plans 
that led to the production of what may 
be called the earliest of torpedoes. He in¬ 
vented several other machines for the an¬ 
noyance of the British shipping. He 
served continuously during the war, at¬ 
taining the rank of captain in the corps 
of sappers and miners, and was on duty at 
New York, Hudson Highlands, Philadel¬ 
phia, Yorktown, and elsewhere. He died 
in 1824 in Warrenton, Ga. 


BUSHNELL, HENRY, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 31, 1824, in Granville, 
Ohio. This eminent educator and clergy¬ 
man is the author of History of Granville, 
Ohio; and Following the Star. 

BUSHNELL, HORACE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 14, 1802, in Litchfield 
county, Conn. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Hartford, who was one of 
the foremost thinkers in his denomina¬ 
tion. He was a fearless reasoner, and his 
literary style exhibits both clearness and 
beauty. He was the author of Christian 
Nurture; God in Christ; Christ in The¬ 
ology; The Vicarious Sacrifice; Politics 
the Law of God; Nature and the Super- 
tatural; Moral Uses of Dark Things, his 
ablest work; Sermons for the New Life; 
Sermons on Living Subjects; Forgiveness 
and Law; The Age of Homespun; Woman 
Suffrage; Moral Tendencies and Results 
of Human History; Building Eras in Re¬ 
ligion; The Character of Jesus; Work and 
Play; and Christ and His Salvation. He 
died Feb. 17, 1876, in Hartford, Conn. 

BUSHNELL, WILLIAM, physician, 
state legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1800, 
in Hartford, Conn. He became inter¬ 
ested in the New York, Lake Erie and 
Western railroad, and, when the enter¬ 
prise was threatened with failure, devoted 
eight years to superintending the building 
of the road, securing the right of way, 
and raising the capital. He was a member 
of the Ohio legislature in 1849 and suc¬ 
ceeding years, and assisted in passing the 
Ohio school law. In 1878 he was a dele¬ 
gate to the international congress for 
prison reform at Stockholm. 

BUSHNELL, WILLIAM H., journalist, 
author, poet, was born June 4, 1823, in 
Hudson, N. Y. He is the author of Bio¬ 
graphical Sketches of the Early Settlers 
of Chicago; The Hermit of the Colorado 
Hills, a Story of the Texan Pampas; and 
Ah Meek the Beaver, or The Copper 
Hunters of Lake Superior. 

BUSIEL, CHARLES ALBERT, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Nov. 24,- 1842, in Mere¬ 
dith, N. H. He served with distinction 
as governor of New Hampshire during 
1895-97. He resided in Laconia; and his 
portrait hangs in the new library build¬ 
ing of the state capitol. 

BUSKIN, JAMES H., journalist, was 
born Feb. 17, 1845, in Atlanta, Ga. He 
served as a soldier in the confederate 
army. He is the editor and owner of the 
Journal of Scotland, S. D., in which city 
he has served as mayor for two terms. 
He has been sheriff of his county, and 
filled various other public positions of 
honor. 

BUSKIRK, CLARENCE A., lawyer, po¬ 
et, was born Nov. 8, 1842, in Friendship, 
N. Y. For two terms he served as attor¬ 
ney-general of In¬ 
diana, and has a lu¬ 
crative practice in 
Princeton. He is one 
of the foremost law¬ 
yers of Indiana, and 
many valuable arti¬ 
cles and papers have 
been contributed to 
law literature by this 
able lawyer. He is 
the author of a work 
entitled A Cavern 
for a Hermitage, a 
poem of some length. The story is ingen¬ 
ious, the meditations are deeply philo¬ 
sophical, which, together with the rich¬ 
ness of its rhythm, proves very interest¬ 
ing, and is a valuable acquisition to 
American literature. 


BUSKIRK, GEORGE A., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Aug. 10, 1829, in Monroe coun¬ 
ty, Ind. He practiced law until he was 
elected, in 1856, judge of the common 
pleas. 

BUSSEY, CYRUS, soldier, merchant, 
was born Oct. 5, 1833, in Hubbard, Ohio. 
In 1858 he was elected as a democrat to 
the Iowa state senate. In 1861 he en¬ 
tered the military service in the civil war, 
and rose to the rank of major-general. 

BUSTEED, RICHARD, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Feb. 16, 1822, in Cavan, 
Ireland. In 1862 he was appointed brig¬ 
adier-general of volunteers by President 
Lincoln. In 1863 he was appointed by 
President Lincoln to be United States dis¬ 
trict judge for Alabama. 

BLSTEED, WILLIAM W., journalist, 
legislator, was born in Denton, Md. He 
was elected a member of the legislature in 
1886 and 1890; was mayor of Centreville, 
Md., for ten years; and editor of The Ob¬ 
server of that city. 

BUTE, GEORGE HERING, physician, 
was born May 27, 1792, in Germany. He 
located in Philadelphia, and in two years 
he built up a large practice as the second 
homceopathist in the city. He made many 
important contributions to homoeopathy. 
He died Feb. 13, 1876, in Nazareth. 

BUTLER, ANDREW PICKENS, lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, was born 
Nov. 19, 1796, in South Carolina. He be¬ 
came a member of the legislature when 
quite a young man; and in 1835 was ap¬ 
pointed one of the judges of the general 
sessions of common pleas, which office he 
held until 1847, when he was appointed 
to fill a vacancy in the United States 
senate. He was subsequently elected and 
re-elected to the same position, and was 
in this office at the time of his death. He 
died May 25, 1857, near Edgefield, S. C. 

BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 14, 1795, 
in Kinderhook, N. Y. In 1821-he was ap¬ 
pointed district attorney for the city of 
Albany; in 1827 was elected to the state 
legislature; was attorney-general; and in 
1836-37 officiated as secretary of war. In 
1845 he was a presidential elector; and 
was subsequently twice appointed United 
States attorney for the southern district 
of New York. He died Nov. 8, 1858, in 
Paris, France. 

BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
general, governor. United States senator, 
was born Nov. 5, 1818, in Deerfield, N. H. 

In 1853 he was elect¬ 
ed to the state legis¬ 
lature; in 1859 was 
elected to the state 
senate; and in 1860 
was a delegate to the 
Charleston conven¬ 
tion. In 1861 he was 
appointed a briga¬ 
dier-general, and en¬ 
tered actively into 
the war movements. 
Before the close of 
that year he was 
made a major-general, serving as such in 
New Orleans and various other portions of 
the rebellious states. At the conclusion of 
the rebellion he resumed the practice of 
law in Lowell; in 1866 was elected a 
representative from Massachusetts to the 
fortieth congress; was one of the man¬ 
agers of the impeachment trial of An¬ 
drew Johnson; and was re-elected to the 
forty-first, forty-second, forty-third and 
forty-fifth congresses. In 1882 he was 
elected governor of Massachusetts; and 
also served his country as United States 
senator. He died Jan. 11, 1893, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 








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BUTLER, CALEB, educator, author, 
was born Sept. 13, 1776, in Pelham, N. H. 
He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1800, 
studied law in Groton, and was the prin¬ 
cipal instructor of the Groton academy 
for eleven years. He published a Masonic 
oration; Facts as to Affairs in Groton; 
Review Reviewed; and History of Groton. 
He died Oct. 7, 1854, in Groton, Mass. 

BUTLER, CHARLES, philanthropist, 
college president, was born Feb. 15, 1802, 
in Kinderhook, N. Y. In 1835 he was one 
of the founders and incorporators of the 
Union Theological seminary in New York 
city, and was made its president. In 1889 
he endowed a chair of biblical theology 
in that seminary in the sum of $100,000, 
in the memory of Prof. Edward Robin¬ 
son, the eminent biblical scholar. 

BUTLER, CHESTER, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born March, 
1798, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He served three 
terms in the legislature of Pennsylvania; 
and was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1850. He died 
Oct. 5, 1850, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BUTLER, CLEMENT MOORE, theolo¬ 
gian, author, was born Oct. 16, 1810, in 
Troy, N. Y. He was an episcopalian cler¬ 
gyman of the evangelical type, and pro¬ 
fessor of ecclesiastical history in the Epis¬ 
copal Divinity school of Philadelphia in 
1864-84. He was the author of Book of 
Common Prayer Interpreted by its His¬ 
tory; Old Truths and New Errors; The 
Flock Fed; St. Paul in Rome; Inner 
Rome; Manual of Ecclesiastical History 
from the First to the Eighteenth Cen¬ 
tury; and The Reformation in Sweden. He 
died March 5, 1890, in Germantown, Pa. 

BUTLER, CYRUS, philanthropist, was 
born in 1767. He gave $40,000 to endow 
the Butler hospital for the insane at 
Providence. He died Aug. 22, 1849, in 
Providence, R. I. 

BUTLER, DAVID, governor. He was 
elected the first governor of the state of 
Nebraska in 1867, and served one year. 

BUTLER, EZRA, was born in Septem¬ 
ber, 1763, in Vermont. He was a member 
of the Vermont assembly eleven years; 
first judge of the Chittendon county court 
from 1803 to 1806, and chief justice from 
1806 to 1811. He was chief justice of 
Jefferson county from 1814 to 1826; was 
a representative in congress from 1813 to 
1815; member of the Vermont constitu¬ 
tional convention in 1822 and governor of 
that state from 1826 to 1828, making fifty- 
three years of public service. He died 
July 12, 1838, in Waterbury, Vt. 

BUTLER, FREDERICK, author, was 
born in 1766. He was a writer of Hart¬ 
ford, Conn.; and the author of History 
of the United States to 1820; The Farm¬ 
er’s Manual; and Memorial of Lafayette 
and his Tour in the United States. He died 
in 1843. 

BUTLER, GEORGE BERNAND, artist, 
was born Feb. 8, 1838, in New York city. 
Since 1883 he has been engaged principal¬ 
ly in portraiture. In 1873 he was elected 
a National academician. His paintings 
include The Shepherd and Dogs on the 
Campagna; The Capri Rose, purchased by 
Alexander T. Stewart; The Lace-Maker; 
An Italian Peasant; and several striking 
groups of animals. 

BUTLER, HENRY, educator, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 17, 1843, in Pontiac, Mich. 
He received his education at the district, 
Union and State Normal schools of Ypsi- 
lanti, Mich. For nearly ten years he taught 
school; has been superintendent of 
schools and justice of the peace. He prac¬ 
tices law in Waverly, Va.; and has at¬ 
tained prominence as an able lawyer in 
that state. 


BUTLER, JAMES DAVIE, educator, lec¬ 
turer, was born March 15, 1815, in Rut¬ 
land, Vt. He held the chair of ancient 
languages in Wabash college, Ind.,in 1854- 
58, and in the university of Wisconsin in 
1858-67. Since then he has devoted him¬ 
self to lecturing and occasional preach¬ 
ing. His best known lectures are The 
Architecture of St. Peter’s; Prehistoric 
Wisconsin; The Hapax Legomena in 
Shakespeare; and Commonplace Books. 

BUTLER, JAMES GLENTWORTH, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1821 in 
New York. He is a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of New York; and the author of 
The Bible Work, an extended scriptural 
commentary; and The Fourfold Gospel. 

BUTLER, JOHN GEORGE, clergyman, 
orator, was born in 1826, in Cumberland, 
Md. In 1849 he accepted a call to the 
pastorate of the St. Paul English Lutheran 
church in Washington, D. C., in which 
city his ministry of over forty years has 
been spent. In 1867 he was elected chap¬ 
lain of the house of representatives; and 
in 1886 he was chosen chaplain of the 
senate. He is widely known as a pulpit 
orator, a successful pastor and influential 
member of the general synod of the Evan¬ 
gelical Lutheran church. 

BUTLER, JOHN JAY, theologian, au¬ 
thor, was born April 9, 1814, in Berwick, 
Maine. He is a free baptist clergyman of 
Michigan; and has been professor of sa¬ 
cred literature in Hillsdale college since 
1873. He is the author of Natural and 
Revealed Theology; and Commentary on 
the Gospels. 

BUTLER, JOSIAH, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1780 in Rocking¬ 
ham county, N. H. He was repeatedly 
elected to the state legislature and was 
elected a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire in 1817-23; and was then 
appointed judge of the superior court of 
New Hampshire, which position he held 
until the office was abolished. He died 
Oct. 9, 1854, in Deerfield. 

BUTLER, LOU GREER, artist, poet, 
was born Feb. 4, 1855, in Santa Rosa, 
Cal. She has attained success in crayon, 
pastel and landscape drawing and paint¬ 
ing, and for many years was proprietor 
of a photographic establishment. She 
has contributed both prose and verse to 
the periodical press, and several of her 
poems have been given a place in stan¬ 
dard works. 

BUTLER, MANN, author. He emigrated 
to Kentucky in 1806, and published a His¬ 
tory of Kentucky. He died in November, 
1835, in Missouri, in consequence of a 
railroad accident. 

BUTLER, MARION, journalist, United 
States senator, was born May 20, 1863, in 
Sampson county, N. C. He was elected 
to the state senate 
in 1890; was the 
leader of the Alli¬ 
ance forces in that 
body and succeeded 
in bringing about a 
number of needed re¬ 
forms. He was elect¬ 
ed president of the 
state farmers’ alli¬ 
ance in 1891, and re¬ 
elected in 1892; was 
elected vice - presi¬ 
dent of the national 
Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union in 
1893, and elected president of that organi¬ 
zation in 1894. His paper, The Caucasian, 
has been removed to Raleigh, N. C., and 
has probably the largest circulation and 
is one of the most influential papers in the 
state. He was elected to the United 
States senate as a populist for term expir¬ 
ing March 3, 1901. 


BUTLER, MATTHEW CALBRAITHE, 
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, 
was born March 8, 1836, near Greenville, 
S. C. He was elected to the legislature 
of South Carolina in 1860; entered the 
confederate service as captain of cavalry 
in the Hampton legion in June, 1861, and 
became a major-general through the reg¬ 
ular grades, and lost his right leg at the 
battle of Brandy Station on the ninth of 
June, 1863. He was elected to the legisla¬ 
ture of South Carolina in 1866; was a can¬ 
didate for lieutenant-governor of South 
Carolina in 1870; received the democratic 
vote of the South Carolina legislature for 
United States senator in 1870; and was 
elected to the United States senate as a 
democrat; was admitted to his seat in 
1877, and was re-elected in 1882 and again 
in 1889. 

BUTLER, MICHAEL J., contractor, leg¬ 
islator, was born June 24, 1851, in Carbon- 
dale, Pa. During 1859-81 he worked in 
the mines of Pennsylvania; then was em¬ 
ployed in a Chicago packing house for 
four years; and during 1885-87 was 
clerk of the health department. During 
1887-90 he was United States gauger; for 
three years corporation inspector; and for 
two years superintendent of sidewalks. 
Since 1895 he has been a successful con¬ 
tractor, and in the fall of 1896 was elected 
to the general assembly of the Illinois 
house of representatives. 

BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1862 in New 
Jersey. He is an educator of New York 
city, and professor of philosophy in Co¬ 
lumbia college. He is the author of Hor¬ 
ace Mann and American Systems of Edu¬ 
cation. 

BUTLER, NOBLE, educator, author, 
was born in 1819 in Washington county, 
Pa. He was a classical professor in the 
university of Louisville, and published A 
Practical and Critical English Grammar 
and other valuable text-books. He died 
Feb. 12, 1882, in Louisville, Ky. 

BUTLER, PERCIVAL, soldier, was born 
in 1760, in Pennsylvania. He rose to the 
rank of captain in the revolutionary war; 
and served as adjutant-general in the war 
of 1812. He died Sept. 11, 1821, in Port 
William, Ky. 

BUTLER, PIERCE,, soldier, United 
States senator, was born July 11, 1744, in 
Ireland. In 1778 he was a delegate from 
South Carolina to the old congress; and 
in 1788, a member of the convention 
which framed the constitution of the 
United States, and signed the same. In 
1802 he became again a senator in con¬ 
gress, but resigned in 1804. He died Feb. 
15, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

BUTLER, PIERCE MASON, soldier, 
was born April 11, 1798, in Edgefield, S. C. 
He was promoted to the rank of first lieu¬ 
tenant in 1823, and attained the grade of 
captain in 1825. After four years of serv¬ 
ice he resigned his commission, and in 
1829 became a resident of Columbia, S. C., 
and was elected president of a bank es¬ 
tablished at that place. He was killed 
in battle Aug. 20, 1847, in Churubusco, 
Mexico. 

BUTLER, RICHARD, soldier, was 
born in Ireland. He attained thfe rank of 
colonel in the revolutionary war, and in 
1791 was made a major-general. He was 
tomahawked and scalped Nov. 4, 1791, in 
an expedition against the Indians. 

BUTLER, RICHARD, soldier, merchant, 
manufacturer, was born Aug. 9, 1831, in 
Birmingham, Ohio. In 1879 he accepted 
the presidency of an extensive hard rub¬ 
ber company, which was organized in 1883 
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BUTLER, RODERICK R., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born April 
8, 1827, in Wytheville, Va. He was a jus¬ 
tice of the peace; a major of the militia; 
a postmaster under President Fillmore; 
served two years in the state assembly 
and one in the state senate. He was a 
county judge; was a lieutenant-colonel 
during the rebellion; and was subsequent¬ 
ly judge of the first judicial district of the 
state, holding the office from 1865 to 1867. 
He was elected a representative from 
Tennessee to the fortieth, forty-first, for¬ 
ty-second, forty-third and forty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

BUTLER, SAMSON H., congressman, 
was born in South Carolina. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1840 to 1843. 

BUTLER, SIMEON, publisher, manu¬ 
facturer, author, was born in 1770. In 
1792 he established the first publishing 
house in western Massachusetts at North¬ 
ampton. He printed the earliest Ameri¬ 
can edition of Vattel’s Law of Nations, 
and the first volume of Massachusetts su¬ 
preme court reports, and brought out 
Dwight’s School Geography. He also en¬ 
gaged in paper-making, and manufactured 
the first domestic letter paper used by 
the United States senate. He died in 1847 
in Northampton, Mass. 

BUTLER, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in Carlisle, Pa. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Louisiana from 
1818 to 1821. He died Aug. 14, 1847. 

BUTLER, THOMAS BELDEN, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, author, was born 
Aug. 22, 1806, in Wethersfield, Conn. He 
was a Connecticut jurist whose Philoso¬ 
phy of the Weather, 1856, appeared later 
in enlarged form as a Concise Analytical 
and Logical Development of the Atmos¬ 
pheric System. He served in the Con¬ 
necticut state legislature; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress in 1849-51. He 
died June 8, 1873, in Norwalk, Conn. 

BUTLER, THOMAS S„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 4, 1855, in 
Pennsylvania. He is a member of the 
Chester county bar, and was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

BUTLER, WALT H„ congressman, was 
born Feb. 13, 1852, in Springboro, Pa. He 
was elected to the fifty-second congress as 
a democrat. 

BUTLER, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in Columbia, S. C. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from South Caro¬ 
lina from 1841 to 1843. 

BUTLER, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Pennsylvania. In 1879 he was 
appointed United States district judge for 
the eastern district of Pennsylvania. 

BUTLER, WILLIAM, soldier, physi¬ 
cian, state legislator, was born in 1759 
in Prince William county, Pa. Soon after 
the war he was made a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral, and in 1796 majof-general of militia. 
He was a member of the United States 
congress from 1801 to 1811. He was a 
member of the convention which framed 
the constitution of South Carolina, and 
for some years a member of the legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1794 he was sheriff, and at 
one time magistrate. In the war of 1812 
he commanded the South Carolina troops 
for state defense. He died Nov. 15, 1821, 
in Columbus, S. C. 

BUTLER, WILLIAM, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1819 in Ireland. He is 
a methodist missionary, and the author 
of The Land of the Veda; From Boston 
to Bareilly and Back; and Mexico in 
Transition from the Power of Political 
Romanism to Civil and Religious Liber¬ 
ty. 


BUTLER, WILLIAM ALLEN, author, 
poet, was born Feb. 20, 1825, in Albany, 
N. Y. He is a lawyer of New York city, 
and has been presi¬ 
dent of the American 
bar association. He 
is well known as a 
writer of poetical sa¬ 
tires, among which 
Nothing to Wear has 
long been famous. 

Others are, Two Mil¬ 
lions; General Aver¬ 
age, a satire upon 

mercantile life; Bar- 
num's Parnassus. His 
prose writings in¬ 
clude Martin Van Buren, a Biography; 

Mrs. Limber’s Raffle, an able attack on 
the morality of church fairs; Domesticus, 
a Story; Oberammergau; and The His¬ 

tory of the Revision of the Statutes of 
New York. 

BUTLER, WILLIAM JOSEPH, lawyer, 
legislator, was born May 13, 1868, in 
Springfield, Ill. He has attained distinc¬ 
tion as a lawyer, and in 1895-96 was a 
member of the thirty-ninth general assem¬ 
bly of Illinois. 

BUTLER. WILLIAM O., soldier, public 
official, poet, was born in 1793 in Jessa¬ 
mine county, Ky. He enlisted as a soldier 
in the war of 1812. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Kentucky 
in 1839, and re-elected in 1841. During 
the war with Mexico he obtained such 
distinction that he was promoted to the 
position of major-general in the regular 
army; and a sword was voted to him by 
congress. In 1848 he was the democratic 
candidate for vice-president, on the ticket 
with Lewis Cass for president. He was 
appointed governor of Nebraska terri¬ 
tory, but declined the appointment. He 
was the author of many fugitive pieces 
of poetry, several of which possess un¬ 
common merit, and one, entitled The 
Boat Horn, attained great popularity. 

BUTLER, ZEBULON, soldier, was born 
in 1731 in Lyme, Conn. In 1769 he settled 
at Wyoming, Pa. In the early part of the 
revolutionary war he was a lieutenant- 
colonel in the Connecticut line, serving in 
New Jersey in 1777-78, and became colonel 
on March 13, 1778. On July 3, 1778, he 
commanded the weak garrison at Wyo¬ 
ming at the time of the massacre, which 
he was unable to prevent. He accom¬ 
panied Sullivan ia his Indian expedition 
in 1779, and served with distinction 
throughout the war. He died July 28, 
1795, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. 

BUTMAN,, SAMUEL, congressman, 
United States senator. He was a member 
of the Maine legislature in 1822, 1826 and 
1827, and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Penobscot county, Maine, from 
1827 to 1831. In 1853 he was again elected 
to the legislature, and made president of 
the senate. He died in 1864. 

BUTT, CYRUS M., soldier, farmer, law¬ 
yer, jurist, legislator, was born Sept. 30, 
1833, in Morgan county, Ohio. He served 
with distinction during the civil war; and 
was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He is 
a prominent lawyer of Viroqua, Wis.; has 
been district attorney for six years; was 
state senator for two years; county judge 
for twelve years; and for the past fifteen 
years has been a member of the board of 
education. In 1892 he was the people’s 
party candidate for governor of Wiscon¬ 
sin, and for congress in 1894. He has 
served as president of the farmers’ alli¬ 
ance of Wisconsin since its organization, 
excepting the first term. 


BUTTERFIELD, CHARLES HENRY, 
lawyer, jurist, was born May, 1833, in 
Farmington, Maine. During the war of 
the rebellion he served under the commis¬ 
sion of major and then lieutenant-colonel 
in an Indiana regiment. He has since held 
the office of judge of the Vanderburg 
county circuit court of that state, and of 
mayor of the city of Evansville. 

BUTTERFIELD, CONSUL WILL- 
SHIRE, educator, author, was born July 
28, 1824, in Mexico, N. Y. He is the au¬ 
thor of History of Seneca County, Ohio;. 
An Historical Account of the Expedition 
against Sandusky in 1782; The History 
and Biographical Annals of the Univer¬ 
sity of Wisconsin; and History of the Dis¬ 
covery of the Northwest by John Nicolet. 
He has edited the Washington-Crawford 
Letters; the Washington-Irvine Corre¬ 
spondence; and A Short Biography of 
John Leith. 

BUTTERFIELD, MARTIN, congress¬ 
man. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress. 

BUTTERS, MARY E., poet, was born in 
Exeter, Maine. She is the author of a vol¬ 
ume of poems entitled Harp of Hesper. 

BUTTERWORTH, BENJAMIN, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 
1837, in Warren county, Ohio. He was a 
state senator in 1873 and 1874; was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Ohio to the for¬ 
ty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses; 
and in 1884 was appointed commissioner 
of patents in the department of the in¬ 
terior. He was again elected a represen¬ 
tative in the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty- 
first congresses. 

BUTTERWORTH, DANIEL, soldier, 
merchant, was born Oct. 31, 1831, in Utica, 
N. Y. He became a merchant in New 
York city. He was colonel of the twelfth 
New York militia when the civil war be¬ 
gan. Accompanying his regiment to 
Washington in July, 1861, he led the ad- 
\ance into Virginia over the Long 
Bridge, joined Gen. Patterson on the up¬ 
per Potomac, and commanded a brigade. 
On the enlargement of the regular army, 
he was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel, 
and assigned to the twelfth infantry. 
May 14, 1861; appointed brigadier-general 
of volunteers in 1861. 

BUTTERWORTH, HEZEKIAH, author, 
poet, was born Dec. 22, 1839, in Warren, 
R. I. In 1870 he became connected with 
the Youth’s Compan¬ 
ion as assistant edi¬ 
tor, a position which 
he filled for a quarter 
of a century. He is 
best known as the 
author of Zigzag 
Journeys, of which 
nearly half a million 
copies have been 
sold. Besides pub¬ 
lishing several vol¬ 
umes of Zigzag Jour¬ 
neys, Great Com¬ 
posers, The Knight of Liberty, In the 
Boyhood of Lincoln; The Patriot School¬ 
master, and other popular juvenile books, 
he is the author of two collections of 
musical verse, Songs of History; Poems 
for Christmas, Easter, and New Year’s. 

BUTTERWORTH, THEODORE, pub¬ 
lisher, was born July 7, 1844, in Shelby 

county, Mo. He is the editor and pro¬ 
prietor of The Western Agriculturalist, of 
Chicago, III.; and has always been iden¬ 
tified with the improvement of live stock. 
He was chairman of good roads congress 
during the World’s Fair. 




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BUTTLER, CHARLES VOORHEES, 
physician, was born Jan. 18, 1869, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. He located in Norwich, 
Conn., and successfully practiced his pro¬ 
fession. 

BUTTRE, JOHN CHESTER, engraver, 
was born June 10, 1821, in Auburn, N. Y. 
In his youth he developed a talent for 
drawing; and in 1841 
moved to New York 
city, and thereafter 
gave his attention to 
steel-plate engrav¬ 
ing. He arose to the 
very head of his pro¬ 
fession; and he 
brought out steel en¬ 
gravings of Lincoln, 
Grant, Lee, Jackson, 
McClellan, Burnside, 
and other celebrities, 
of which the aggre¬ 
gate sale amounted to several million 
copies. He also made a specialty of 
mezzo-tints, and won considerable repu¬ 
tation through this style of work. He 
died Dec. 2, 1893, in Ridgewood, N. J. 

BUTTS, MRS. MARY FRANCES BAR¬ 
BER, author, poet, was born in 1836, in 
Rhode Island. She is a writer of popular 
juvenile works; and the author of Three 
Girls; Lottie; Nellie’s New Home; Liz¬ 
zie and Her Friends; and The Frolic 
Series. She is also the author of a vol¬ 
ume of poems, entitled Cockle Shells and 
Silver Bells. 

BUTTZ, CHARLES WILSON, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
Nov. 16, 1837, in Stroudsburg, Pa. He 
entered the union army in 1861 as second 
lieutenant, and rose to the rank of brevet 
major; and in 1863 resigned because of 
ill-health. He engaged in the practice of 
law at Norfolk, Va.; and was a delegate 
to the republican national convention of 
1864. In 1872 he was elected solicitor of 
the first judicial circuit of South Carolina 
for the term of four years; and was 
elected to fill the vacancy in the forty- 
fourth congress. 

BYERLY, WILLIAM ELLWOOD, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Dec. 13, 1849, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a professor of 
mathematics at Harvard university; and 
the author of Elements of Differential 
Calculus; and Elements of Integral Cal¬ 
culus. 

BYERS, ISAAC WINGERD, educator, 
lawyer, was born Dec. 16, 1868, in Cham- 
bersburg, Pa. He graduated with honors 
from the Princeton university, N. J.; and 
during 1893-94 was professor of mathe¬ 
matics in the Princeton college, Ky. He 
has served as city attorney of Iron River, 
Mich.; and as circuit court commissioner 
of Iron county. 

BYERS, SAMUEL HAWKINS MAR¬ 
SHALL, diplomat, author, poet, was born 
July 23, 1838, in Pulaski, Pa. He was a 
United States consul 
at Zurich, s u b se - 
quently a consul- 
general to Italy, and 
now a resident of 
Des Moines. He was 
the author of Swit¬ 
zerland; Switzerland 
and the Swiss: His¬ 
torical and Descrip¬ 
tive; Florence; His¬ 
tory of Switzerland; 
What I Saw in Dix¬ 
ie; Military History 
of Iowa; and The Happy Isles, and Other 
Poems. He is the author of the popular 
poem entitled Sherman’s March to the 
Sea. 


BYERS, WILLIAM NEWTON, civil 
engineer, journalist, state legislator, was 
born Feb. 22, 1831, in Madison county, 
Ohio. He has been United States deputy 
surveyor in Iowa, Oregon, Washington, 
Nebraska and Colorado. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the first Nebraska state legislature; 
of the first Colorado constitutional con¬ 
vention; and postmaster of Denver in 
1864-66 and 1879-83. He founded The 
Rocky Mountain News in 1859, of which 
he was editor and publisher for twenty 
years. 

BYFIELD, NATHANIEL, jurist, author, 
was born in 1653, in England. He was a 
jurist of note in Massachusetts in the co¬ 
lonial period; and the author of Account 
of the Late War in England, 1689. He 
died June 6, 1733, in Boston, Mass. 

BYFORD, HENRY T., educator, physi¬ 
cian, was born Nov. 12, 1853, in Evans¬ 
ville, Ind. He is a professor of gynaecol¬ 
ogy in the Chicago Post-Graduate Medi¬ 
cal school and professor of clinical gynae¬ 
cology in the Woman’s Medical college. 
He is gynaecologist to St. Luke’s hospital; 
and surgeon to the Woman’s hospital of 
Chicago, Ill. 

BYFORD, WILLIAM HEATH, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born March 20, 1817, in 
Eaton, Ohio. He was a physician of 
prominence in Chicago; and the author 
of Practice of Medicine and Surgery Ap¬ 
plied to Diseases and Accidents Peculiar 
to Women; Theory and Practice of Ob¬ 
stetrics; and Philosophy of Domestic 
Life. He died in 1890. 

BYINGTON, EZRA HOYT, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 3, 1828, in Hines- 
burgh, Yt. He graduated from the uni¬ 
versity of Vermont in 1852, and from An¬ 
dover Theological seminary in 1857. He 
was librarian at the New England His¬ 
torical and Genealogical society, and has 
filled pastorates in various cities. He is 
the author of The Puritan in England 
and New England, and a large number of 
local histories. 

BYINGTON, HORACE W., capitalist, 
was born in December, 1828, in Plymouth, 
Conn. Since 1849 he has been a resident 
of California; has been a successful busi¬ 
ness man of Santa Rosa; and is now a re¬ 
tired capitalist. He has been mayor of 
Santa Rosa; collector of internal reve¬ 
nue under President Harrison’s adminis¬ 
tration; and was a delegate to the re¬ 
publican national convention held in Chi¬ 
cago in 1888. . 

BYLES, CHARLES N., banker, public 
official, was born March 20, 1844, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. He is the president of the 
bank of Montesana, Washington; and has 
been auditor and treasurer of his county. 

BYLES, MATHER, clergyman, author, 
was born March 15, 1707, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Boston, famous both as preacher and wit. 
After forty-three years’ ministry in the 
Hollis Street church, his tory sympathies 
obliged him to give up his charge in 1776. 
He died July 5, 1788, in Boston, Mass. 

BYNNER, EDWIN LASSETTER, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1842, in New York. His 
best work is included in the three his¬ 
torical tales, Agnes Surriage; The Be¬ 
gum’s Daughter; and Zachary Phips. Of 
lesser importance are Nimport; Tritons; 
Damen’s Ghost; Penelope’s Suitors; and 
The Chase of the Meteor, a book for boys. 
He died in 1893. 

BYNUM, J. H. T., lawyer, state senator, 
was born Nov. 1, 1856, in North county’ 
Ga. He is a successful lawyer of Live 
Oak, Fla.; and in 1897 was elected a 
member of the Florida state senate. 


BYNUM, JESSE A., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in Halifax county, 
N. C. He served a number of years in 
the state legislature; and was a member 
of congress from North Carolina from 
1833 to 1841. While in congress he fought 
a duel with Daniel Jenifer, which termi¬ 
nated harmlessly. 

BYNUM, WILLIAM DALLAS, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born June 
26, 1846, in Newberry, Ind. In 1871-75 he 
was city attorney of Washington, Ind.; its 
mayor during 1875-79; and in 1876 he was 
a democratic elector. He subsequently 
moved to Indianapolis; was a member of 
the state legislature in 1882; and elected 
speaker of the house at the beginning of 
the session of 1883. He was elected to 
the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty- 
second, and fifty-third congresses as a 
democrat; and took an active part in 
important measures. He was instrumen¬ 
tal in the organization of the democratic 
sound money movement. 

BYRD, CHARLES W., jurist, was born 
in Virginia. In 1803 he was appointed 
United States judge for the district of 
Ohio. 

BYRD, WILLIAM, author, was born 
March 16, 1674, in Westover, Va. He was 
a colonial Virginian and man of letters, 
whose journals, first published in 1841, 
are known as The Westover Manuscripts, 
from Westover, the family mansion of 
Byrd. A fuller collection, styled The 
Byrd Manuscripts, was printed in 1866, 
edited by T. Wynne. They are well worth 
reading for their wit, keen observations, 
and vigorous style. They comprise The 
Story of the Dividing Line, an account of 
the expedition to fix the boundary be¬ 
tween Virginia and North Carolina; A 
Progress to the Mines; and A Journey to 
the Land of Eden. He died Aug. 26, 1744, 
in Westover, Va. 

BYRDE, EDWARD C., journalist, was 
born July 10, 1874, in Litchfield, Minn. 
He is the editor and owner of the Spink 
County Chronicle of Redfield, S. D. 

BYRN, MARCUS LAFAYETTE, physi¬ 
cian, author. He is the author of Com¬ 
plete Practical Brewer; Rattlehead’s 
Travels, or the Recollections of a Back¬ 
woodsman; Complete Practical Distiller; 
Repository of Wit and Humor; Book of 
Nature, an expositor of the Science of 
Life and Sexual Physiology; and Family 
Physician. 

BYRNE, JOHN, railroad president, was 
born in Maryland. He is the president of 
the Central New York and Western rail¬ 
road. 

BYRNE, WILLIAM, soldier, merchant, 
was born Oct. 10, 1838, in Ireland. He 
served in the civil war as a confederate; 
in 1880 he moved to Jacksonville, Fla., 
where he was engaged in the mercantile 
business; and also invested largely in 
phosphate lands, city lots and business 
blocks. He improves his city property, 
and has been one of the foremost citizens 
of Jacksonville in building and beautify¬ 
ing the city. 

BYRNS, SAM, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, was born March 4, 1848. in 
Jefferson county, Mo. He was elected in 
1876 a member of the twenty-ninth gen¬ 
eral assembly to represent Jefferson coun¬ 
ty; was elected state senator for the 
twenty-sixth senatorial district in 1878; 
and was elected to the fifty-second con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

BYRUM, ALMON COE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born March 31, 1861, in Jo Daviess 
county, Ill. He has attained success as a 
lawyer of Onida, S. D.; and served with 
distinction as judge of the county court. 




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BYRUM, ENOCH EDWIN, clergyman, 
journalist, author, poet, was born Oct. 13, 
1861, in Randolph county, Ind. He is 
editor of the Gospel Trumpet and Shin¬ 
ing Light; and is the author of The 
Secret of Salvation; Divine Healing; 
Boy’s Companion; and other works. 

CABANISS, ELBRIDGE GERRY, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born in 1802, in Greene 
county, Ga. He moved to Forsyth, Mon¬ 
roe county, Ga., and was elected judge of 
the court of ordinary; in 1858 he became 
judge of the supreme court, and in 1861 
was elected to the state legislature. He 
died in April, 1872, in Atlanta, Ga. 

CABANISS, HENRY HARRISON, jour¬ 
nalist, was born June 21, 1848, in Forsyth, 
Ga. He graduated from the university of 
Georgia; was assistant secretary of the 
Georgia senate for eighteen years, and is 
now the proprietor of The Journal, a 
daily newspaper of Atlanta, Ga. 

CABANISS, THOMAS B., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
in Forsyth, Ga. He entered the con¬ 
federate army in 1861, and surrendered 
with General Lee at Appomattox. He was 
elected to the house of representatives of 
Georgia in 1865, and four times subse¬ 
quently to the senate of that state. He 
was solicitor-general of the Flint circuit 
for a term of four years, and was elected 
to the fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

CABELL, EDWARD CARRINGTON, 
planter, congressman, was born Feb. 5, 
1816, in Richmond, Va. In 1837 he re¬ 
moved to the territory of Florida, where 
he settled as a cotton planter, and repre¬ 
sented the state of Florida in congress 
from 1847 to 1853. 

CABELL, GEORGE C., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was horn Jan. 25, 1837, in 
Danville, Va. He entered the confederate 
service in 1861, and at the end of the war 
held the rank of colonel. He was nom¬ 
inated for congress by the conservatives in 
1874, and elected as a representative to 
the forty-fourth congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, 
forty-seventh, forty-eighth and forty- 
ninth congresses as a democrat. 

CABELL, JAMES LAWRENCE, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Aug. 26, 1813, in 
Nelson county, Va. He was an eminent 
Virginia physician, and the author of 
The Testimony of Modern Science to the 
Unity of Mankind. He died in 1889. 

CABELL, JOSEPH, soldier, legislator, 
was born Sept. 19, 1732. For many years 
lie held important civil offices in his na¬ 
tive state, occupying a seat in the house 
of burgesses and serving as a member of 
the different conventions. During the war 
for independence he commanded the 
Buckingham county regiment. He died 
March 1, 1798, in Sion Hill. 

CABELL, MRS. JULIA MAYO, author, 
poet, was born in 18—, in Virginia. She 
was the author of An Odd Volume of 
Facts and Fiction in Prose and Verse; 
and Sketches and Recollections of Lynch¬ 
burg. She died about 1855. 

CABELL, SAMUEL J., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 15, 1756, in 
Amherst county, Va. He attained the 
rank of lieutenant-colonel in the continen¬ 
tal army. For many years he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Virginia assembly and was a 
representative in congress, from Virginia, 
from 1795 to 1803. He died Aug. 4, 1818, 
in Nelson county, Va. 

CABELL, WILLIAM, state senator, was 
born March 13, 1730, in Licking Hole, Va. 
About 1773 he aided in establishing iron¬ 
works on Hardware river. He was a 
member of the house of burgesses when 
the colonies revolted against Great Brit¬ 


ain, and a delegate to all the conven¬ 
tions looking toward national independ¬ 
ence. He was chosen first state senator 
from the eighth district, and was a mem¬ 
ber of the committee that prepared the 
famous declaration of rights. He died 
March 23, 1798, in Union Hill. 

CABELL, WILLIAM H., governor, was 
born Dec. 16, 1772, in Boston Hill, Va. 
He was governor of Virginia from 1805 
to 1808; afterward president of the court 
of appeals, and spent fifty years in public 
life. He died Jan. 17, 1853, in Richmond, 
Va. 

CABLE, BENJAMIN T., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 11, 1853, in 
Georgetown, Ky. He has been engaged 
in ranching and manufacturing; and was 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat. 

CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born Oct. 12, 1844, in 
New Orleans, La. He is a writer of fiction 
who has reproduced with much success 
the life and dialect among the creoles of 
Louisiana. He served in the confederate 
army during the civil war, and is now a 
resident of Northampton, Mass. He is 
the author of Old Creole Days; The Grand- 
issimes; Madame Delphine; Dr. Sevier; 
John March, Southerner; Bonaventure; 
Strange True Stories of Louisiana; The 
Creoles of Louisiana; The Silent South; 
The Busy Man’s Bible; and The Negro 
Question. 

CABLE, JOSEPH, congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1849 to 
1853. 

CABLE, RANSOM R., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born in 1834, in Athens county, 
Ohio. About 1859 he entered the coal and 
railroad business at Rock Island, and 
rose to be superintendent and finally pres¬ 
ident of the Peoria and Rock Island rail¬ 
road. In 1883 he was made president of 
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail¬ 
road, which’ caused him to select Chicago 
for his home. 

CABOT, GEORGE, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Dec. 3, 1751, in Salem, Mass. 
Before he was twenty-six years old he was 
elected a member of the provincial con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts, where he ad¬ 
vocated those principles of political eco¬ 
nomy for which he was afterward distin¬ 
guished. He was a member of the conven¬ 
tion which formed the constitution of that 
state, and also of that which ratified the 
constitution of the United States. In 1791 
to 1796 he served in the United States sen¬ 
ate, and was one of the most distinguished 
members of that body. He died April 8, 
1823, in Boston, Mass. 

CABOT, JAMES ELLIOT, journalist, 
author, was born in 1821 in Massachusetts. 
He is a Boston writer whose principal 
work is A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emer¬ 
son. 

CADILLAC, ANTOINE DE LA M., foun¬ 
der of Detroit, was born about 1660, in 
France. He was the founder of Detroit 
in 1704; laid out lots and streets, and 
built the first chapel. He died about 1720 
in France. 

CADMUS, CORNELIUS A., congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 1844, in Bergen coun¬ 
ty, N. J. He was elected a member of the 
house of general assembly from Passaic 
county in 1883; was elected sheriff of 
Passaic county in 1887 for three years, and 
was elected to the fifty-second and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-third congress as a 
democrat. 

CADWALADER, GEORGE, soldier, 
author. In 1862 he was appointed major- 
general of volunteers. He was one of the 
commission to revise the military laws 


and regulations. In 1862 His Services in 
the Mexican Campaign of 1847 was pub¬ 
lished in Philadelphia. 

CADWALADER, JOHN, general, was 
born in 1742 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
a member of the Pennsylvania convention 
in 1775, and an active member of the com¬ 
mittee of safety. In the autumn of 1777, 
at the request of Washington, he assisted 
in organizing the militia of the eastern 
shore of Maryland. He died Feb. 10, 1786, 
in Shrewsbury, Pa. 

CADWALADER, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born April 1, 1805, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1854 he was elected 
a representative in the thirty-fourth con¬ 
gress; declined a renomination and re¬ 
turned to the practice of his profession. 
In 1858 he was appointed judge of the dis¬ 
trict court of the United States for the 
eastern district of Pennsylvania. 

CADWALADER, LAMBERT, soldier, 
congressman, was born in Trenton, N. J. 
He commanded a regiment early in the 
revolution, and was a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1784 to 1787. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1791, and again 
from 1793 to 1795. He died Sept. 12, 1823, 
in Trenton, N. J. 

CADWALLADER, EMMA N., educator, 
poet. She is a writer of Oskaloosa, Iowa, 
and has contributed a number of meritori¬ 
ous poems to the periodical press. 

CADY, ALBEMARLE, soldier, was born 
Feb. 15, 1807, in Keene, N. H. He was 
graduated at the United States military 
academy in 1829; served against the In¬ 
dians in Florida until 1842, and was at 
the siege of Vera Cruz and in the battles 
of Cerro Gordo, Churubusco, and Molino 
del Rey. At the beginning of the civil 
war he was on duty on the Pacific coast, 
and remained there until 1864. He was 
retired for disability resulting from long 
and faithful service, and received the 
brevet of brigadier-general U. S. A., in 
1865. He died March 14, 1888, in New 
Haven, Conn. 

CADY, DANIEL, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 29, 1773, in 
Chatham, N. Y. He was a representative 
in congress from New York from 1815 to 
1817; previously served five years in the 
state legislature, and in 1846 was elected 
a judge of the supreme court of New 
York, which position he resigned in 1856. 
He died Oct. 31, 1859, in Johnstown, N. Y. 

CADY, ERNEST, merchant, governor, 
was born Sept. 6, 1842, in Stafford, Conn. 
In 1870 he established the grocery firm of 
Cummings and Cady, of Hartford, Conn.; 
and in 1892 he was elected lieutenant- 
governor of Connecticut. 

CADY, JOHN W., congressman. He was 
a member of the New York assembly in 
1822, and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1823 to 1825. 

CAFFERTY, JAMES H.. artist, was 
born in 1819. His most notable paintings 
are My Girl; My Father; and Brook- 
Trout. He died Sept. 9, 1869. 

CAFFERY, BONELSON, soldier, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born 
Sept. 10, 1835, in St. Mary, La. He served 
in the confederate army, first in the thir¬ 
teenth Louisiana regiment, and subse¬ 
quently on the staff of Gen. W. W. Walk¬ 
er. He practiced law and engaged in 
sugar planting after the war; was a mem¬ 
ber of the constitutional convention of 
1879; and was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate in 1892. He was appointed United 
States senator to fill a vacancy 

CAGE, HARRY, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Missis¬ 
sippi from 1833 to 1835. 


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CAHAN, ABRAHAM, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1860 in Russia. He is 
a New York city journalist, and editor 
of Zukunft. He is the author of Yekl, a 
Tale of the New York Ghetto; and Raph¬ 
ael Narizokh (Yiddish). 

CAHILL, JUAN F., diplomat, journalist, 
poet. His writings are better known 
throughout Spanish-America than at 
home; particularly through his editorials 
which have appeared in El Commercio del 
Valle, published in St. Louis, Mo., and 
of which he has been editor and propri¬ 
etor for the past fifteen years. 

CAHILL, LE ROY, manufacturer, inven¬ 
tor, was born Aug. 22, 1841, in Portage, 
Mich. He converted a common plow into 
a riding plow. He is the owner of a 
large manufacturing house in Kalamazoo, 
president of the electric light company, 
and director of a number of prosperous 
corporations. 

CAHOON, WILLIAM, jurist, statesman. 
He was a presidential elector in 1809; 
from 1815 to 1820 he was a state coun¬ 
cilor; county judge for nine years, and 
lieutenant-governor of Vermont in 1820 
and 1821. For seven years he was a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature, and a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Vermont from 
1829 to 1833. 

CAIN, RICHARD H., clergyman, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 12, 1825, in 
Greenbrier county, Va. He entered the 
ministry at an early age and was sent 
as a missionary to the freedmen in South 
Carolina. He was chosen a member of 
the constitutional convention of South 
Carolina; was elected a member of the 
state senate and served two years; edited 
a newspaper from 1868; and was elected 
to the forty-third and forty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

CAIN, WILLIAM, civil engineer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1847 in North Carolina. 
He is a professor of civil engineering in 
the university of North Carolina, and the 
author of Theory of Voussoir; Solid and 
Braced Arches; Maximum Stress in 
Framed Bridges; Solid and Braced Elas¬ 
tic Bridges; Symbolic Algebra; and Prac¬ 
tical Designing of Retaining Walls. 

CAINE, JOHN T., statesman, was born 
Jan. 8, 1829, in Isle of Man. He settled 
in Utah in 1852; engaged in various pur¬ 
suits; was secretary of the legislative 
council in 1856-60; was a delegate to the 
constitutional conventions of 1872 and 
1882; and served in the territorial coun¬ 
cil in 1874, 1876, 1880 and 1882. He was 
elected a regent of the Deseret univer¬ 
sity in 1876, 1878, 1880 and 1882; was 
elected recorder of Salt Lake City in 1876, 
and re-elected in 1878, 1880 and 1882. He 
was elected a delegate from Utah to the 
forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; 
and was re-elected to the forty-eighth, 
forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty- 
second congresses. 

CAINES, GEORGE, author, was born in 
1771. He was a reporter of the New York 
supreme court, and the author of Lex 
Mercatoria Americana; Cases in the Court 
of Errors; Forms of New York Supreme 
Court; Summary of Practice in New York 
Supreme Court; Cases in the Court for 
Trial of Impeachments; and New York 
Supreme Court Reports. He died July 
10, 1825, in Catskill, N. Y. 

CAIRNS, CHARLES S., lawyer, state 
legislator, was born July 4, 1856, in Mus¬ 
kingum county, Ohio. He attended Mus¬ 
kingum college and law department of the 
Michigan university. He was a member 
of the Minnesota legislature, and for years 
has taken an active part in the public 
affairs of the state of Minnesota, and 
with a view to improving the state and 
city governments. 


CAKE, HENRY L., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 6, 1827, in Northum¬ 
berland, Pa. He was elected brigadier- 
general of militia in 1854; on April 18, 
1861, arrived in Washington in command 
of the first five hundred soldiers enlisted 
to put down the rebellion, and was quar¬ 
tered in the capitol twenty-four hours 
before any other volunteers had arrived. 
Mr. Cake was twice a candidate for the 
state senate, and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Pennsylvania to the fortieth 
and forty-first congresses. 

CALDERHEAD, WILLIAM A., soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 26, 
1844, in Perry county, Ohio. He enlisted 
in 1862 as a private in company H, one 
hundred and twenty-sixth Ohio infantry; 
was transferred to company D, ninth 
veteran reserves, for disability incurred 
in the service, and discharged June 27, 
1865. In 1872 he settled on a homestead 
near Newton, Kan., and taught school 
one year in Newton. He was elected coun¬ 
ty attorney in the fall of 1888 and served 
two years; and was elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a republican. 

CALDWELL, ALEXANDER, jurist. He 
was for several years United States dis¬ 
trict judge for the western district of Vir¬ 
ginia. He died April 8, 1839, in Wheeling, 
W. Va. 

CALDWELL, ALEXANDER, soldier, 
congressman, was born March 1, 1830, in 
Huntington county, Pa. He enlisted in 
1847 as a soldier in the Mexican war, en¬ 
tering his father’s company, who was 
killed at one of the gates of the city of 
Mexico. He went in 1861 to Kansas, 
where he engaged in the transportation of 
military supplies to the various posts on 
the plains, and was afterward largely in¬ 
terested in the building of railroads and 
bridges. He was elected to the United 
States senate as a republican, and served 
during 1871-77. 

CALDWELL, ANDREW J„ soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born at Mon- 
tevallo, Ala. He served in the confed¬ 
erate army throughout the civil war. In 
1870 he was elected attorney-general for 
the criminal district of Nashville and 
Murfreesboro, Tenn., and served eight 
years. He was elected a representative 
from Tennessee to the forty-eighth and 
forty-ninth congresses as a democrat. 

CALDWELL, CHARLES, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born May 14, 1772, in Caswell 
county, N. C. He was a Kentucky phy¬ 
sician, who beside publishing some 200 
technical monographs and pamphlets, 
wrote The Life and Campaigns of Gen¬ 
eral Greene, and translated Blumen- 
bach’s Elements of Physiology. He died 
July 9, 1853, in Louisville, Ky. 

CALDWELL, D. W., railroad president, 
was born in 1830 in Massachusetts. Since 
1895 he has been president of the Lake 
Shore and Michigan Southern railroad; 
and he is also president of the Pittsburg 
and Lake Erie railroad at Cleveland, Ohio. 

CALDWELL, GEORGE A., congress¬ 
man, was born in Kentucky. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1843 to 1845, and again from 1849 
to 1851. He died Sept. 17, 1866, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. 

CALDWELL, GEORGE CHAPMAN, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Aug. 14, 1834, 
in Framingham, Mass. He is a professor 
of agricultural chemistry at Cornell uni¬ 
versity, and the author of Agricultural 
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis; 
Manual of Introductory Chemical Prac¬ 
tice (with A. Breneman); and Manual of 
Qualitative Chemical Analysis. 


CALDWELL, GREENE W„ soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born April 13, 
1811, in Gaston county, N. C. He served 
a number of years in the state legislature, 
and was a member of congress from North 
Carolina from 1841 to 1843. He was sub¬ 
sequently appointed superintendent of the 
United States mint at Charlotte, which 
position he resigned. He participated in 
the war with Mexico as volunteer captain 
of a company of dragoons. 

CALDWELL, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Sept. 4, 1832, in Marshall 
county, Va. He received his education 
at the common 
schools of Iowa; be¬ 
came prosecuting at¬ 
torney of Van Buren 
county, and a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature 
of Iowa from 1859 
till 1861. He served 
as a union soldier 
during the civil war, 
and became major, 
lieutenant - colonel, 
and colonel of the 
third regiment, Iowa 
volunteer cavalry. For a quarter of a 
century he faithfully served his country 
as United States district judge in Arkan¬ 
sas; and since 1890 has been judge of the 
United States circuit court of appeals for 
the eighth judicial circuit of Arkansas. 

CALDWELL, HENRY MARTYN, capi¬ 
talist, was born in 1836, in Greenville, Ala. 
He founded the Elyton Land company, 
formed with a capital of $200,000, which 
purchased a tract of several thousand 
acres in Jones valley at a railroad cross¬ 
ing, and laid it out in streets. Furnaces 
were built for smelting the iron from the 
neighboring hills, workmen were brought 
to the town, and houses, banks, and all the 
equipment of a center of industry were 
created near Birmingham, Ala. 

CALDWELL, JAMES, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1813 to 1817. 

CALDWELL, JOHN, soldier, was born 
in Prince Edward county, Va. He re¬ 
moved to Kentucky in 1781, served in the 
conflicts with the Indians, and became 
a major-general of militia. He was a 
member of the Kentucky state conventions 
of 1787 and 1788, and of the state senate 
in 1792 and 1793. He died Nov. 9, 1804, in 
Frankfort, Ky. 

CALDWELL, JOHN ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
April 21, 1852, in Fair Haven, Ohio. In 
1881-85 he served as prosecuting attorney 
of Cincinnati, Ohio, and was elected judge 
of the police court in 1887. He has been 
president of the Ohio republican league, 
and chairman of the national republican 
congressional committee. He was elected 
to the fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty- 
third congresses as a republican, and in 
1894 resigned to become mayor of Cin¬ 
cinnati. 

CALDWELL, JOHN CURTIS, soldier, 
diplomat, was born April 17, 1833, in 
Lowell, Vt. He was made brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers in 1862, and brevetted 
major-general in 1865. He was a member 
of the Maine senate; adjutant-general of 
the state in 1867; and in 1869 was United 
States consul at Valparaiso, Chili. From 
1873 till 1882 he was minister to Uruguay 
and Paraguay; and in 1885, having re¬ 
moved to Kansas, was president of the 
board of pardons of that state. 

CALDWELL, JOHN H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Huntsville, Ala. 
He was elected to the forty-third and 
forty-fourth congresses. 




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CALDWELL, JOHN MERRILL, soldier, 
clergyman, was born Aug. 29, 1839, in 
Rockland, Maine. He entered the union 
army in 1861, but 
was disabled after a 
few months of serv¬ 
ice. He joined the 
Rock River confer¬ 
ence and served as 
principal of the Rock 
River seminary. In 
1869 he went to the 
Princeton church, 
and since then he 
has been in charge 
of several prominent 
churches, among 
them the Ads, Street s,nd Western Avenue 
churches of Chicago. He is the presiding 
elder of the Chicago western district of 
the methodist episcopal church. 

CALDWELL, JOHN WILLIAM, soldier, 
congressman, was born Jan. 15, 1838, in 
Russellville, Ky. He entered the confed¬ 
erate army in 1861, as captain, and served 
throughout the war, rising to the rank of 
colonel. In 1866 he was elected county 
judge of Logan county, Ky., and was re¬ 
elected in 1870. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Kentucky to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses, and declined a renomination. 

CALDWELL, JOSEPH, educator, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born April 21, 
1773, in Lamington, N. J. He was a noted 
educator, who was president of the uni¬ 
versity of North Carolina, and the author 
of A Compendious System of Elementary 
Geometry; and Letters of Carleton. He 
died Jan. 24, 1835, in Chapel Hill, N. C. 

CALDWELL, JOSEPH, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1808 in Iredell 
county, N. C. He entered public life in 
1838, as a member of the state legislature, 
where he served a number of years, and 
was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina from 1849 to 1853. 

CALDWELL, LINUS BOUES, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Jan. 10, 
1834, in Wilna, N. Y. He is a methodist 
clergyman and educator of Tennessee, and 
the author of Wines of Palestine, or The 
Bible Defended; and Beyond the Grave. 

CALDWELL, MERRITT, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 29, 1806, in Hebron, 
Maine. He was a professor of metaphy¬ 
sics at Dickinson college, and the author 
of The Doctrine of the English Verb; 
Manual of Elocution; Philosophy of 
Christian Perfection; and Christianity 
Tested by Eminent Men. He died June 6, 
1848, in Portland, Maine. 

CALDWELL, PATRICK C., congress¬ 
man, was born in South Carolina. He was 
a representative in congress from South 
Carolina from 1841 to 1843. 

CALDWELL, ROBERT P., lawyer, 
soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 16, 
1821, in Adair county, Ky. He was elected 
to the legislature of 
Tennessee in 1847, 
and to the senate in 
1855. He was elected 
attorney-general in 
the sixteenth judi¬ 
cial circuit in 1858; 
was major of infan¬ 
try in the confeder¬ 
ate service; had his 
disabilities removed 
by act of congress, 
and was elected to 
the forty-second 
congress as a democrat, serving on the 
committee on revolutionary pensions. 


CALDWELL, SAMUEL LUNT, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was <born Nov. 
13, 1820, in Newburyport, Mass. He grad¬ 
uated from the Newton Theological In¬ 
stitute in 1845, and for five years was a 
professor of church history in that insti¬ 
tution. From 1878-85 he was president of 
Vassar college. He was the author of 
Cities of Our Faith and Other Discourses 
and Addresses. He died in 1889 in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. 

CALDWELL, TOD R., lawyer, state 
senator, governor, was born in 1818 in 
Morganton, N. C. He served in the state 
legislature from 1842 to 1844; was a state 
senator in 1850; lieutenant-governor in 
1868, and in 1872 was elected governor of 
the state. He died July 11, 1874, in Hills¬ 
borough, N. C. 

CALDWELL, WILLIAM PARKER, law¬ 
yer, legislator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 8, 1832, in Christmasville, Tenn. He 
attended the Bethel and Cumberland col¬ 
leges, and graduated from the Cumber¬ 
land university. He was twice a member 
of the Tennessee house of representatives; 
once a member of the Tennessee senate, 
and was a member of the forty-fourth and 
forty-fifth United States congresses. He 
served as a presidential elector twice, and 
has been a delegate to several national 
nominating conventions. He has had con¬ 
siderable experience as a judge—holding 
positions where the regular judges were 
under disabilities. 

CALDWELL, WILLIAM WARREN, 
business man, poet, was born Oct. 28, 1823, 
in Newburyport, Mass. He is a druggist 
and a graduate of Bowdoin college. He 
has published poems, original and trans¬ 
lated, and has translated many lyrics from 
the German. 

CALEF, ROBERT, merchant, author, 
was born in 1648 in Massachusetts. He 
was a Boston merchant who published 
in 1700 More Wonders of the Invisible 
World, a satirical reply to Cotton Math¬ 
er’s Wonders of the Invisible World. Its 
line of argument was in direct opposition 
to the witchcraft persecutions, and the 
book was publicly burnt by Increase 
Mather in the grounds of Harvard college. 
He died in 1719. 

CALHOUN, EDMUND ROSE, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born May 6, 1821, in Chambers- 
burg, Pa. He was appointed midshipman 
in 1869; was promoted commodore in 
1876; and rear-admiral in 1882. His final 
services were performed as commandant 
of the Mare Island navy yard, and as in- 
pector of .vessels on the California coast. 

CALHOUN, JAMES EDWARD, capital¬ 
ist, soldier, was born in 1798, in Abbe¬ 
ville, S. C. He became occupied with 
planting and interests in land, and accu¬ 
mulated a very large estate, amounting 
to something like 25,000 acres in Abbe¬ 
ville county, S. C., and Washington coun¬ 
ty, Ga., extending on both sides of the 
Savannah river. 

CALHOUN, JAMES S., governor, was 
born in Georgia. In 1851 he was appoint¬ 
ed the first governor of the territory of 
New Mexico. 

CALHOUN, JOHN, jurist, congressman, 
was born in Kentucky. For many years 
he was a circuit judge; in 1820 and 1821 
was a member of the legislature from 
Ohio county, and in 1829, 1830, and 1840, 
a member of the same from Brecken- 
ridge county. He was a representative 
in congress from Kentucky from 1835 to 
1839. The county-seat of McLean county 
was named for him in 1852. 


CALHOUN, JOHN CALDWELL, vice- 
president of the United States, author,, 
was born March 18, 1782, in Abbeville 
District, S. C. lie 
was a South Caro¬ 
lina statesman who 
was secretary of 
state under Monroe, 
and again under Ty¬ 
ler; vice-president 
under John Quincy 
Adams, and United 
States senator from 
1845 till his death. 
He was one of the 
ablest of political 
leaders, a great ora¬ 
tor, and a political thinker of the first 
rank. His literary style is both vigorous 
and concise, and displays at times a re¬ 
markable intensity of expression. He 
was the author of A Disquisition on Gov¬ 
ernment; and The Constitution and Gov¬ 
ernment of the United States. He died 
March 31, 1850, in Washington, D. C. 

CALHOUN, JOHN ERWIN, lawyer. 
United States senator, was born in 1749. 
He was for many years in the state legis¬ 
lature of South Carolina, and was a sen¬ 
ator in congress from South Carolina 
from 1801 to 1802. He was a member of 
the committee which was instructed to 
report a modification of the judiciary sys¬ 
tem of the United States. He died Nov. 
3, 1802, in Pendleton District, S. C. 

CALHOUN, JOSEPH, congressman, was 
a representative in Congress, from South 
Carolina, from 1807 to 1811. 

CALHOUN, PATRICK, financier, was 
born March 21, 1856, in Fort Hill, S. C. 
In 1889 he was appointed general counsel 
for the Terminal company, and the Rail¬ 
road company of Atlanta, Ga.; and soon 
after became its president. 

CALHOUN, WILLIAM BARRON, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Dec. 29, 1796, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a member of 
the state legislature from 1825 to 1835, 
and speaker for two years. He was a 
representative in congress, from his na¬ 
tive state, from 1835 to 1843; president of 
the state senate in 1846 and 1847; sec¬ 
retary of state from 1848 to 1851; bank 
commissioner from 1853 to 1855; presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1844; and mayor of Spring- 
field in 1859. He died Nov. 8, 1865, in 
Springfield, Mass. 

CALKIN, H. C., merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born March 23, 1828, in Malden, 
N. Y. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-first con¬ 
gress. 

CALKINS, FRANKLIN WELLES, au¬ 
thor, was born June 5, 1855, in Iowa coun¬ 
ty, Wis. He attended the Iowa Agricul¬ 
tural college in 1876; 
taught school and 
read law for the suc¬ 
ceeding three years. 
In 1880 he began con¬ 
tributing stories of 
adventure and 
sketches of western 
life and character in 
the Youth’s Compan¬ 
ion and other prom¬ 
inent publications. 
He is the author of 
a work entitled 
Tales of the West, in three volumes; and 
more than three hundred of his serials 
and short stories have been published. 
His power of vivid narration is conceded 
by the critics to be of the highest order 
of talent, and his stories are valuable for 
their lifelikeness and their truthfulness 
to character and environment. 









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CALKINS, NORMAN ALLISON, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Sept. 9, 1822, in New 
York. He was the first assistant superin¬ 
tendent of primary schools in New York 
city for thirty-three years, and was the 
author of Primary Object Lessons; How 
to Teach; Manual of Object Teaching; 
Aids for Object Teaching; Trades and 
Occupations; and Natural History Series 
for Children. 

CALKINS, WILLIAM H., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 
1842, in Pike county, Ohio. He entered 
the union army in 1861, and served al¬ 
most continuously until 1865. He was 
state’s attorney for the ninth judicial cir¬ 
cuit from 1866 to 1870; was a represent¬ 
ative in the state legislature in 1871; and 
was elected a representative from Indiana 
to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-sev¬ 
enth and forty-eighth congresses as a 
republican. 

CALL, DANIEL, lawyer, was born 
•about 1765. He was a brother-in-law of 
Chief Justice John Marshall, and pub¬ 
lished Reports of the Virginia Court of 
Appeals, in six volumes. He died May 
20, 1840, in Richmond, Va. 

CALL, JACOB, congressman. He was 
•a representative in congress from Indiana 
from 1824 to 1825. 

CALL, RICHARD KEITH, soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1791 in Kentucky. He 
was appointed brigadier-general of the 
Florida militia; was a member of the 
legislative council of Florida in 1822; a 
delegate to congress from that territory, 
from 1823 to 1825; and receiver of public 
money for the land office. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Florida from 1836 to 1839, and 
again from 1841 to 1844. He died Sept. 
14, 1862, in Tallahassee, Fla. 

CALL, RICHARD KEITH, soldier, in¬ 
ventor, author, was born in 1757. He was 
•a major in the revolutionary army. He 
gave attention to scientific studies, and 
invented and modeled a railroad train 
•and engine designed to minimize the at¬ 
mospheric resistance. He has published 
a lecture on Physical Education and an 
Essay on Religion and Science. He died 
in 1792. 

CALL, WILKINSON, lawyer, legislator. 
United States senator, was born in Rus¬ 
sellville, Ky., but removed to Florida 
when a child. He served as adjutant- 
general in the confederate army in the 
war between the states; was presidential 
elector for the state at large in 1872 and 
1876; was member of the national demo¬ 
cratic executive committee in 1876, and' 
delegate to the national democratic con¬ 
vention at St. Louis in 1876. He was 
chosen senator by the legislature of Flori¬ 
da under the provisional government es¬ 
tablished by President Johnson, but was 
■denied admission. He was elected sena¬ 
tor in 1879 and took his seat March 18, 
1879, and was re-elected in 1885 and 1891. 
He has been in the United States senate 
for eighteen years, and is one of the 
strongest anti-corporationists in the state 
■of Florida. 

CALLAHAN, ETHELBERT, farmer, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 17, 1829, 
in Licking county, Ohio. He has been a 
justice of the peace at Robinson, Ill.; a 
member of the state board of equalization, 
and a delegate to the general conference 
of the methodist episcopal church. He 
has twice been a presidential elector, and 
for four terms served with distinction as 
a member of the general assembly of the 
state of Illinois. He has been president 
•of the Illinois State Bar association, and 
a member of the commission to revise the 
laws of Illinois. 


CALLAHAN, JAMES, capitalist, was 
born Oct. 12, 1818, in New Scotland, N. 
Y. He was one of the founders of the 
Hawkeye Insurance company of Des 
Moines, Iowa, and has been its vice-presi¬ 
dent for over twenty years. 

CALLAHAN, JAMES YANCY, clergy¬ 
man, farmer, congressman, was born Dec. 
19, 1852, in Dent county, Mo. He was li¬ 
censed as a local minister in the methodist 
episcopal church in 1880, which relation 
he holds at the present time. He has 
been engaged principally in farming, 
sawmilling, and mining. He removed to 
Oklahoma in 1892 and settled on a farm, 
and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
by the populists and democrats on a free 
silver ticket. 

CALLAWAY, S. R., railroad president. 
He is the president of the New York, Chi¬ 
cago and St. Louis railroad. 

CALLENDER, FRANKLIN D., soldier, 
was born about 1817 in New York. During 
the civil war he was on foundry and gen¬ 
eral ordnance duty, and was brevetted 
major in 1862, receiving his promotion to 
the full grade in 1863. He died Dec. 13, 
1882, in Daysville, Ill. 

CALLENDER, JAMES THOMAS, au¬ 
thor, was born in England. He was a 
writer who was exiled from England on 
account of his pamphlet, The Political 
Progress of Great Britain. He was at first 
the friend and soon the violent political 
opponent of Thomas Jefferson. He was 
the author of Sketches of the History of 
America; and The Prospect Before Us. 
He was drowned in 1813 in the James 
river, near Richmond, Va. 

CALLENDER, JOHN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1706 in Boston, Mass. 
He was a baptist clergyman of Newport, 
R. I., whose Historical Discourse, 1739, is 
a careful monograph of Rhode Island his¬ 
tory for the first century of the colony’s 
existence. He died Jan. 26, 1748, in New¬ 
port, R. I. 

CALLENDER, WALTER, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, was born Nov. 24, 1847, in Colum¬ 
bus, Ga. He fought in the revolutionary 
war and rose to the rank of captain. At 
the close of the war he retired to organize 
the firm of Callender, McAuslan and 
Troup of Providence, R. I. 

CALLIS, JOHN BENTON, soldier, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 
1828, in Fayetteville, N. C. He studied 
medicine, but never 
went into active 
practice. He served 
in the civil war as 
captain of company 
F, seventh regiment 
Wisconsin volunteer 
infantry; was pro¬ 
moted to major, 
lieutenant - colonel, 
brevet-colonel, and 
brigadier-general for 
bravery during the 
war. He received a 
ball in the right lung at the battle of 
Gettysburg, July 1, 1863; and mustered 
out of volunteer service on Dec. 30 of the 
same year for disability. Six months later 
he was appointed major in the V. R. C.; 
and was assigned to duty as military su¬ 
perintendent of the war department in 
Washington, D. C. He was subsequently 
made captain in the forty-fifth United 
States infantry regular army; was pro¬ 
moted to brigadier-general of volunteers, 
and served until 1868. He was elected to 
the fortieth congress from Alabama, and 
served with distinction. During 1873-74 
he served in the legislature of Wisconsin. 


CALTHROP, SAMUEL ROBERT, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Oct. 9, 1829, in 
England. He is a Unitarian clergyman of 
Syracuse, and the author of Essay on 
Religion and Science; and The Rights of 
the Body. 

CALVERLEY, CHARLES, sculptor, 
was born Nov. 1, 1833, in Albany, N. Y. 
Among his works are The Little Compan¬ 
ions; Little Ida, a medallion; and bronze 
busts, heroic size, of John Brown; Hor¬ 
ace Greeley, on his monument at Green¬ 
wood. 

CALVERT, BENEDICT L., proprietary 
governor of Maryland, was born about 
1700 in England. He was appointed gov¬ 
ernor of Maryland in 1726, presiding at 
the first session of the assembly of Mary¬ 
land on Oct. 10, 1727. He died on his voy¬ 
age to England. 

CALVERT, CECIL, second baron of Bal¬ 
timore, was born in 1606 in Ireland. His 
father, the first lord of Baltimore, 
died in 1632, before his patent to the 
province of Maryland had passed the 
royal seal; and consequently all the rights 
and privileges given thereunder were se¬ 
cured to Cecil, with the title of Absolute 
lord of Maryland and Aralon, in addition 
to the baronial estates of Baltimore. He 
died Nov. 30, 1675, in London, England. 

CALVERT, CHARLES, third baron of 
Baltimore, was born in 1629 in London, 
England. He was sent to Maryland as 
governor in 1661, and on his father’s 
death in 1675, succeeded him as lord-pro¬ 
prietor, holding his title until it was 
wrested from him by the protestant revo¬ 
lution in 1688. He died Feb. 20, 1715, in 
England. 

CALVERT, CHARLES, fifth baron of 
Baltimore, was born Sept. 29, 1699. He 
was fourth palatine of Maryland, and 
proprietary governor. In 1732, finding 
his presence necessary to settle the boun¬ 
dary dispute with Pennsylvania, he ar¬ 
rived in the province and assumed the 
government in his own person, but re¬ 
turned to England in 1734. He died April 
24, 1751, in England. 

CALVERT, CHARLES B., state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Aug. 24, 
1808, in Prince George county, Md. He 
was elected to the legislature of Maryland 
in 1839, 1843, and 1844, and was elected 
a representative from Maryland to the 
thirty-seventh congress. He died May 
14, 1864, in Riverside, Md. 

CALVERT, FREDERICK, sixth baron 
of Baltimore, was born in 1731 in Eng¬ 
land. In 1751 he succeeded to the title 
of baron of Baltimore and to the pro- 
prietaryship of Maryland. He was the 
author of A Tour to the East in the Years 
1763 and 1764, with Remarks on the City 
of Constantinople; also Select Pieces of 
Oriental Wit, Poetry and Wisdom. He 
died Sept. 9, 1771, in Italy. 

CALVERT, GEORGE, first baron of Bal¬ 
timore, was born in 1581 in England. He 
explored the region of Chesapeake Bay, 
and on his return to England requested 
a grant for a district south of the James 
river. Meeting with opposition from the 
Virginia company, he applied for a grant 
north and east of the Potomac, but died 
before the grant was issued, and his son 
succeeded to his rights. He died April 15, 
1632, in London, England. 

CALVERT, GEORGE HENRY, author, 
poet, was born Jan. 2, 1803, in Prince 
George county, Md. He was the author 
of Goethe: His Life and Works; Dante 
and His Latest Translators; St. Beuve, 
the Critic; Count Julian, a tragedy; 
Three Score, and Other Poems, and a 
translation of Schiller’s Don Carlos. He 
died May 24, 1889, in Newport, R. I. 



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CALVERT, LEONARD, proprietary 
governor of Maryland, was born in 1606. 
In 1633 he was sent to found the colony 
in Maryland. He landed at Blackstone 
Island in 1634, and made the first settle¬ 
ment, which was named St. Mary’s. He 
died June 9, 1647. 

CALVERT, PHILIP, proprietary gov¬ 
ernor of Maryland. In 1660 he was com¬ 
missioned governor of Maryland. 

CALVIN, DELANO C., lawyer, author, 
was born Nov. 3, 1824, in Jefferson coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. He has attained success as a 
noted lawyer of New York city, and is 
the author of a number of works. 

CALVIN, SAMUEL, educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 30, 1811, in 
Washingtonville, Pa. In 1848 he was 
elected a member from Pennsylvania to 
the thirty-first congress, and in 1850 de¬ 
clined a re-election. 

CALVIN, SAMUEL, soldier, geologist, 
was born Feb. 2, 1840, in Scotland. He 
served as a private during the latter part 
of the civil war, and subsequently be¬ 
came professor of geology and structural 
zoology at the state university of Iowa. 

CALVO, HENRY CLAY WARMOTH 
CASA, lawyer, legislator, lecturer, was 
born June 29, 1869, in Baton Rouge, La. 
He is a great-grandson of Governor Casa 
Calvo, who was governor of the territory 
of Louisiana during 1799-1801. For sev¬ 
eral years he was engaged in educa¬ 
tional work, and in 1896 was elected to the 
state legislature of Louisiana. He has 
attained prominence as a successful law¬ 
yer in his native city, and as a lecturer 
is well known throughout the state. 

CAMBELL, ALEXANDER, physician, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
1779, in Virginia. He was a member of the 
Kentucky legislature in 1800. He moved 
to Ohio in 1803; was a member of the 
Ohio legislature in 1806; was a senator 
in congress from that state from 1809 to 
1813; and served as a state senator from 
1813 to 1823. He died Nov. 5, 1857, in 
Ripley, Ohio. 

CAMBELL, BROOKINS, state senator, 
congressman, was born in 1808 in Wash¬ 
ington county, Tenn. He was, for many 
years, a member of the state legislature, 
and in 1845 was unanimously elected 
speaker. He was an officer in the quar¬ 
termaster’s department in the war with 
Mexico, and was elected a representative 
from Tennessee to the thirty-third con¬ 
gress. He died Dec. 25, 1853, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

CAMBRELENG, CHURCHILL C., mer¬ 
chant, diplomat, congressman, was born 
in 1786 in Washington, N. C. At an early 
day he engaged 
in mercantile pur¬ 
suits with John Ja¬ 
cob Astor, and trav¬ 
eled extensively over 
the world. He was 
a representative in 
congress from New 
York from 1821 to 
1839, and in 1840 
was appointed min¬ 
ister plenipotentiary 
to Russia; his re¬ 
ports and political 
pamphlets were at on,e time very numer¬ 
ous, one of the former, on commerce and 
navigation, having gone through several 
editions and been republished in Lon¬ 
don. He died April 30, 1862, at West 
Neck, L. I. 

CAMDEN, JOHNSON N., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, United States senator, was born 
March 6, 1828, in Lewis county, W. Va. 
He was appointed a cadet to West Point 
in 1846; and resigned in 1848. He was 


admitted to the bar in 1851; appointed 
prosecuting attorney for Braxton county 
the same year, and was elected prosecut¬ 
ing attorney for Nicholas county in 1852. 
He was engaged in the banking business 
from 1854 to 1858, when he entered into 
the development of petroleum and manu¬ 
facturing interests at Parkersburg; and 
was made president of the First National 
bank of that city in 1862. He was the 
nominee of the democratic party for gov¬ 
ernor in 1868 and again in 1872; and was a 
delegate to the democratic national con¬ 
vention of 1868, 1872 and 1876. He was 
elected to the United States senate, and 
took his seat March 4, 1881, and served 
till March 3, 1887; and was in the United 
States senate in 1893-95, to fill a vacancy. 
He was instrumental in organizing the 
Ohio River Railroad company and building 
a road on the east bank of the Ohio river 
from Wheeling, by way of Parkersburg, to 
Huntington, and later he organized and 
built the railroad from Fairmont to 
Clarksburg, opening up a coal field which 
is now marketing over a million tons of 
coal and coke annually. He is president 
of the Monongahela River road, and the 
West Virginia and Pittsburg road; and 
is also the president of other railroads 
and business enterprises. 

CAMERON, ALEXANDER, manufactu¬ 
rer, was born Nov. 1, 1834, in Scotland. 
He extended the tobacco industry by or¬ 
ganizing the firm of Alexander Cameron 
and Company, of Richmond, in 1865; and 
established an Australian branch, and 
built large factories at Melbourne, Ade¬ 
laide, Sydney and Brisbane. 

CAMERON, ALEXANDER, lawyer, was 
born March 9, 1849, in Charleston, S. C. 
He was one of the incorporators of the 
New York and Jersey Telephone company, 
a director therein, its general counsel, 
and president of the Automatic Fire 
Alarm company of Long Island. 

• CAMERON, ANGUS, was born July 4, 
1826, in Caledonia, N. Y. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the New York state senate in 1863, 
1864, 1871 and 1872; was a member of the 
assembly in 1866 and 1867, and was speak¬ 
er of that body in 1867. In 1875 he was 
elected to the United States senate from 
Wisconsin for the term ending in 1881, 
and was re-elected in 1881 for the re¬ 
mainder of the term ending in 1885, to fill 
a vacancy. 

CAMERON, HENRY CLAY, educator, 
author, was Dorn Sept. 1, 1827, in Shep- 
herdstown, Va. Meanwhile he was princi¬ 
pal of the Edgehill school in Princeton in 
1851, and in 1852-55 tutor at the college. 
He was made adjunct professor of Greek 
in 1855, associate in 1860, and since 1877 
he has held the chair of the Greek lan¬ 
guage and literature in Princeton college. 
In addition he was instructor in French 
in 1859-70, and librarian in 1865-72. For 
more than twenty years he edited the 
General Catalogue of the College of New 
Jersey, and, in addition to cyclopaedia 
articles and essays, including one on Jon¬ 
athan Dickinson and the Rise of Col¬ 
leges in America, he has published Prince¬ 
ton Roll of Honor, a list of the grad¬ 
uates of that college that fought in the 
war for the union; and The History of the 
American Whig Society. 

CAMERON, I. W., poet. He has con¬ 
tributed many meritorious poems to the 
press of Iowa. 

CAMERON, JAMES, soldier, was born 
March 1, 1801, in Maytown, Pa. He took 
the colonelcy of the seventy-ninth New 
York highland regiment of volunteers, and 
at the first battle of Bull Run, July 21, 
1861, fell, at the head of his men, mortally 
wounded. 


CAMERON, JAMES DONALD, states¬ 
man, was born May 14, 1833, in Harris¬ 
burg, Pa. He was a delegate to the re¬ 
publican national convention at Chicago 
in 1880; and was elected a United States 
senator from Pennsylvania as a republi¬ 
can, to fill the vacancy caused by the res¬ 
ignation of his father, Simon Cameron, in 
1877, and was re-elected in 1879, in 1885 
and in 1890. 

' CAMERON, PAUL CARRINGTON, law¬ 
yer, financier, state senator, was born 
Sept. 25, 1808, in Stagville, N. C. He 
promoted the building of the North Caro¬ 
lina railroad, and served for one year as 
president. In 1856 Orange county sent 
him to the state senate. He died Jan. 6, 
1891, in Hillsboro, N. C. 

CAMERON, ROBERT ALEXANDER, 
physician, soldier, was born Feb. 22, 1828, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a member of 
the Indiana legislature in 1860-61. He en¬ 
tered the national service as a captain 
in 1861, and was made brigadier-general 
of volunteers in 1863. He was superintend¬ 
ent of the colony that founded the town of 
Greeley, Col., in 1870, and of the Colorado 
springs and Manitou colonies in 1871. 
In 1885 he was made warden of the state 
penitentiary at Canon City, Col. 

CAMERON, SIMON, journalist, states¬ 
man, was born March 8, 1799, in Lancas¬ 
ter county, Pa. Before entering congress 
he was the cashier of a bank, president of 
two railroad companies, and adjutant-gen¬ 
eral of the state. He was first elected a 
senator in congress in 1845. In 1860 he 
was prominently mentioned as a candi¬ 
date for the presidency; in 1861 became 
secretary of war under President Lincoln; 
and in 1862 resigned that position and 
was appointed minister to Russia. In 1867 
he was again chosen a senator in congress 
for the term ending in 1873, and was re¬ 
elected to the senate for a fourth term, 
and resigned in 1877. He died June 26, 
1889, in Lancaster county, Pa. 

CAMERON, WILLIAM E., governor. 
He was elected governor of Virginia for 
the term of four years, from 1882. 

CAMINETTI, ANTHONY, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was'born July 30, 1854, in Jack- 
son, Cal. He was elected district attorney 
of Amador county in 1877 for two years, 
re-elected in 1879 for three years; and was 
elected to the state assembly in 1883. He 
declined renomination, and was elected 
to the state senate in 1886. He has been 
engaged in practical fruit culture. He is 
the first native of California after it be¬ 
came a state elected to congress; was 
elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third 
congresses as a democrat. 

CAMP, DAVID NELSON, educator, 
banker, was born Oct. 3, 1820, in Durham, 
Ky. He received his education in the 
Durham, Meriden 
and Hartford Gram¬ 
mar schools. He has 
served as state su¬ 
perintendent o f 
schools; was profes¬ 
sor in St. John’s col¬ 
lege, and attained 
prominence as one 
of the foremost edu¬ 
cators of the New 
England states. He 
has filled numerous 
positions of honor in 
his city, county and state; was auditor of 
the National Council, and is a prominent 
member of various fraternal orders. For 
many years he has retired from active 
work, but holds the position of vice-presi¬ 
dent of the National bank of New Brit¬ 
ain, Conn. 






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CAMP, E. C., soldier, lawyer, was born 
Aug. 1, 1839, in Knox county, Ohio. He 
served in the civil war until 1864; in 1869 
was appointed United States district at¬ 
torney, and since 1868 has been president 
and manager of the Coal Creek Coal com¬ 
pany of Knoxville, Tenn. 

CAMP, JOHN H., lawyer, congressman, 
was born April 14, 1840, in Ithaca, N. Y. 
He was district attorney of Wayne county 
from 1867 to 1870; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

CAMP, WALTER, author, was born in 
1859 in Cincinnati. He is a writer of 
prominence on athletic matters, and the 
author of Book of College Sports; Ameri¬ 
can Football; Football Facts and Figures; 
and Football. 

CAMPAU, DANIEL J., lawyer, was born 
Aug. 20, 1852, in Detroit, Mich. Several 
times a delegate to local, state and na¬ 
tional conventions, he aided in nominat¬ 
ing and electing President Cleveland in 
1884, and has been treasurer of the Demo¬ 
cratic state committee since 1886. He 
was collector of customs at Detroit in 1886- 
90. He is the principal owner of the 
Detroit Driving club, president of the 
American Trotting association, and con¬ 
trolling owner of the newspaper called 
the Chicago Horseman. 

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, theologian, 
author, was born Sept. 12, 1788, in Ireland. 
He was a baptist clergyman of West Vir¬ 
ginia, who was the founder of the sect of 
Campbellites, or Disciples of Christ. He 
established Bethany college of Virginia in 
1841, and was its first president. His 
writings, mainly controversial, are nearly 
sixty in number, among them being Chris¬ 
tian Baptism; Infidelity Refuted by In¬ 
fidels; Essay on Life and Death; Popular 
Lectures and Addresses; Christianity as 
it Was; Familiar Lectures on the Penta¬ 
teuch; and Six Letters to a Sceptic. He 
died March 4, 1866, in Bethany, W. Va. 

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1814, 
in Concord, Pa. He was twice mayor of 
La Salle, Ill.; and served two terms 
in the Illinois legislature. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state constitutional convention 
of 1862; and was elected a representative 
from Illinois to the forty-fourth congress. 

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER AUGUS¬ 
TUS, physician, surgeon, author, was born 
Dec. 30, 1789, in Amherst county, Va. He 
was a presbyterian clergyman and physi¬ 
cian, once prominent in Tennessee, whose 
only book was a work on Scripture Bap¬ 
tism. He died May 27, 1846, in Jackson, 
Tenn. 

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER JAMES, 
author. He is the author of The Power 
of Christ to Save to the Uttermost; Amer¬ 
ican Practical Cyclopaedia; and A True 
Friend, reflections on Life, Character, and 
Conduct. 

CAMPBELL, ANDREW, inventor, was 
born Jan. 14, 1821, near Trenton, N. J. 
He was foreman of a printing press fac¬ 
tory; invented numerous devices; and in 
1858 began business on his own account. 
In 1866 he invented his two-revolution 
book press, and in 1868 his art-press for 
fine art illustrations. He constructed the 
first press ever built that printed, inserted, 
pasted, folded, and cut, in one continuous 
operation. His patents number about 
fifty, and are applied to every branch of 
press building. 

CAMPBELL, BARTLEY, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 12, 1843, in Alle¬ 
gheny City. He was a journalist of 
Pittsburg, who turned his attention to the 
stage and became a popular playwright. 


He was the author of My Partner; The 
Galley Slave; Matrimony; Siberia; The 
Big Bonanza; The White Slave; and 
Peril. He died July 30, 1888, in Middle- 
town, N. Y. 

CAMPBELL, CHARLES, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born May 1, 1807, in Petersburg, 
Va. He was an educator of Petersburg, 
Va., whose father, John Wilson Camp¬ 
bell, a bookseller there for many years, 
wrote a History of Virginia to 1781. The 
writings of Charles Campbell include 
History of the Colony of Virginia; Ge¬ 
nealogy of the Spotswood Family; The 
Bland Papers; and Memoir of John Daly 
Burk. He died July 11, 1876, in Staunton, 
Va. 

CAMPBELL, CHARLES THOMAS, sol¬ 
dier, state legislator, was born Aug. 10, 
1823, in Franklin county, Pa. He became 
second lieutenant in the eighth United 
States infantry, and served through the 
Mexican war. He was wounded three 
times at Fair Oaks, and twice at Freder¬ 
icksburg, and a horse was killed under 
him in each of these battles. He was 
promoted to brigadier-general on March 
13, 1863, and after the close of the war 
removed to Dakota. In 1852 he was a 
member of the Pennsylvania state legis¬ 
lature. 

CAMPBELL, DAVID, jurist. He was 
one of the first territorial judges ap¬ 
pointed after the adoption of the consti¬ 
tution. In 1811 he received the appoint¬ 
ment of judge for the territory of Missis¬ 
sippi. 

CAMPBELL, DAVID, soldier, governor. 
He was appointed major of the twelfth 
infantry in 1812; lieutenant-colonel of 
the twentieth infantry in 1813, and re¬ 
signed in 1814. He was governor of Vir¬ 
ginia from 1836 to 1839. He died March 
19, 1859, in Abingdon, Va. 

CAMPBELL. DOUGLAS, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1840 in New York. He 
was a lawyer of New York city, whose 
notable historical work, The Puritan in 
Holland, England, and America, has at¬ 
tracted much attention. He died in 1893. 

CAMPBELL, DOUGLAS HOUGHTON, 
botanist, author, was born in 1859 in 
Michigan. He is a professor of botany in 
Stanford university, and the author of 
Elements of Structural and Systematic 
Botany, and Structure and Development 
of the Mosses and Ferns. 

CAMPBELL, DUNCAN R., clergyman, 
college president, was born Aug. 14, 1814, 
in Scotland. He became a baptist, and 
accepted a pastorate. He afterward re¬ 
moved to Kentucky, and was elected pro¬ 
fessor of Hebrew and biblical literature 
in the theological seminary at Covington. 
In 1852 he became president of George¬ 
town college, and ably discharged the du¬ 
ties of that office until his death. He died 
Aug. 16, 1865, in Covington, Ky. 

CAMPBELL, EDNA JANE, educator, 
poet, was born March 17, 1855, in Alamo, 
Ind. Since her youth she has been en¬ 
gaged in educational work; has contrib¬ 
uted extensively to the periodical press; 
and is the author of a number of meritor¬ 
ious poems. 

CAMPBELL, ELIZABETH CATHAR¬ 
INE, educator, poet, was born Nov. 7, 
1860, in Ontario, Canada. After receiving 
her education she began educational work, 
and has taught in various schools in Can¬ 
ada and North Dakota, to which state she 
removed in 1886. For many years she has 
been county superintendent of schools of 
Foster county, N. D. Mrs. Campbell has 
written extensively for educational pa¬ 
pers and her poems have appeared in some 
of the leading magazines and newspapers 
of America. 


CAMPBELL, FELIX, congressman, was 
born Feb. 28, 1829, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
For thirteen years he was president of the 
board of trustees of the widows’ and or¬ 
phans’ fund of the fire department; for 
twelve years president of the board of 
trustees of the Brooklyn fire department; 
became a director in several corporations, 
and for twelve years was a member of 
the Brooklyn board of education. He was 
elected a representative, from New York, 
to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth 
and fifty-first congresses as a democrat. 

CAMPBELL, GEORGE TRUMAN, phy¬ 
sician, was born Oct. 13, 1826, in Camillus, 
N. Y. He was president of the Onondaga 
county medical society; for several terms 
supervisor of the town of Skaneateles, and 
for many years a member and president 
of the board of education. He died Feb. 
11, 1889, in Skaneateles, N. Y. 

CAMPBELL, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
jurist, diplomat, United States senator,, 
was born in 1768 in Tennessee. He was a 
representative in congress, from Tennes¬ 
see, from 1803 to 1809; was judge of the 
United States district court; was elected 
senator of the United States in 1811, and 
resigned on being appointed secretary of 
the treasury in 1814. He resumed his seat 
in the senate the following year, and 
served until 1818, when he was appointed 
minister to Russia, where he remained 
until 1821. In 1831 he was appointed one- 
of the commissioners to settle the claims, 
against France. He died Feb. 17, 1848, in 
Nashville, Tenn. 

CAMPBELL, MRS. HELEN STUART„ 
author, was born July 4, 1839, in Lockport, 
N. Y. She is a writer who is deeply con¬ 
cerned in philanthropic and social re¬ 
forms, and whose work covers a wide 
range of topics. She is the author of In 
Foreign Kitchens; The Easiest Way in 
Housekeeping, books for the house¬ 
keeper. Prisoners of Poverty; Prisoners 
of Poverty Abroad; Some Passages in the 
Life of Dr. Martha Scarborough; Women 
Wage-Earners; Problem of the Poor; 
Darkness and Daylight in New York, re¬ 
late to the social problems of the time. 
Six Sinners; His Grandmothers; Roger 
Berkeley’s Probation; Miss Melinda’s Op¬ 
portunity; Mrs. Herndon’s Income; The 
What-to-Do-Club; Under Green Apple- 
Boughs; Unto the Third and Fourth Gen¬ 
eration; Patty Pearson’s Boy, are fic¬ 
tion. Other works are Girls’ Handbook 
of Work and Play; A Sylvan City, a de¬ 
scription of Philadelphia; The Ainslee 
Stories, for juvenile readers, and Anne 
Bradstreet and her Time. 

CAMPBELL, HUGH GEORGE, naval 
officer, was born in 1760 in South Caro¬ 
lina. In 1775 he volunteered on board the 
first man-of-war commissioned by the 
council of South Carolina; in 1812 com¬ 
manded some gun-boats in St. Mary’s 
river during an insurrection against the 
Spanish rule in Florida. He died Nov. 
11, 1820, in Washington, D. C. 

CAMPBELL, JACOB MILLER, soldier, 
congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1821, in 
Somerset county, Pa. He was a delegate 
to the first republican convention, held 
at Philadelphia, in 1856. He served in the 
union army from 1861 to 1865, rising to 
the rank of brevet brigadier-general. He 
was elected surveyor-general of Pennsyl¬ 
vania in 1865, and re-elected, serving six 
years. He was a trustee of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania state college, and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-fifth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth 
and forty-ninth congresses as a repub¬ 
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CAMPBELL, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, 
"was born in 1813 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 
1842 he was a judge of common pleas, 
and held the position until 1850. In 1852 
he was made attorney-general for the 
state, and in 1853 went into the cabinet of 
President Pierce, as postmaster-general. 

CAMPBELL, JAMES A., physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 12, 1847, in Platteville, 
Wis. He was appointed oculist of the 
'Good Samaritan hospital in 1873. He was 
also chosen professor of ophthalmology 
and otology in the Home Medical college 
of Missouri. When the Children's free 
hospital of St. Louis was founded, in 
1879, he was appointed a member of its 
staff of physicians. 

CAMPBELL, JAMES E., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born July 17, 
1843, in Middletown, Ohio. He served in 
the United States Navy during the civil 
war, and was prosecuting attorney of But¬ 
ler county, Ohio, from 1876 to 1880. In 
1882 he was elected a representative from 
Ohio to the forty-eighth congress, and 
was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress 
as a democrat. In 1889 he was elected 
governor of Ohio. 

CAMPBELL, JAMES GARLAND, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Jan. 30, 1863, in Gallipo- 
lis, Ohio. He graduated from the De 
Pauw university, and from the Allegheny 
college; and has received the degrees of 
A. B. and Ph. D. He is a successful 
clergyman in the northwest Indiana con¬ 
ference of the methodist episcopal 
church, and has filled pastorates in many 
important churches in Indiana. He is the 
superintendent of the literary department 
of Epworth League for Indiana; was a 
delegate to the International Epworth 
League convention held in Cleveland in 
1893. and also in Toronto, Canada, in 
1897. 

CAMPBELL, JAMES H.. lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 8, 1820, in Wil¬ 
liamsport, Pa. He was a member of the 
Whig convention at Baltimore; was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1855 to 1857, and again from 
1858 to 1861. He was re-elected to the 
thirty-seventh congress; in 1864 was 
appointed minister resident to Sweden; 
and in 1866 was made minister to Bogota. 

CAMPBELL, JAMES R., journalist, 
congressman, was born May 4, 1853, in 
Hamilton county, Ill. In 1878 he pur¬ 
chased The Times of McLeansboro, Ill., 
and has since edited it. He was elected 
to the Illinois house of representatives in 
1884 and 1886; advanced to the senate in 
1888, and re-elected in 1892. During these 
twelve years’ continuous service in the 
general assembly of Illinois he partici¬ 
pated in the memorable Morrison-Logan 
contest for the United States senate, in 
the session of 1885; and was one of the 
101 democrats that elected Gen. John M. 
Palmer United States senator in 1891. 
He has served for the past twelve years as 
a member of the judiciary, appropriation, 
revenue, and agricultural committees, and 
during this time introduced and secured 
the passage of many important bills of 
interest to the citizens of Illinois. He 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

CAMPBELL, JAMES VALENTINE, 
jurist, author, was born Feb. 25, 1823, in 
Buffalo, N. Y. He was a Michigan jurist, 
and the author of Outlines of the Politifcal 
History of Michigan. He died March 26, 
1890, in Detroit, Mich. 

CAMPBELL, JEREMIAH ROCKWELL, 
business man, was born Nov. 26, 1827, in 
Boston, Mass. He has attained success in 
the hotel business; and was active in or¬ 
ganizing the Jacksonville loan and im¬ 
provement company. 


CAMPBELL, JESSE H., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 10, 1807, in McIntosh 
county, Ga. He is one of the most labor¬ 
ious and useful preachers in his native 
state. His chief literary work is Georgia 
Baptists—Historical and Biographical. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN, financier, was born 
in Virginia. In 1829 he was appointed 
treasurer of the United States, and re¬ 
mained in office until 1839. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN, jurist, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maryland from 1801 to 1811; 
and was judge of the orphans’ court in 
Charles county. He died June 23, 1828, in 
Charles county, Md. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in South Carolina. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1829 to 1831, and again from 1837 to 1845. 
He died May 19, 1845, in Marlborough, 
S. C. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1837 to 1843. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN, journalist, was 
born in 1653 in Scotland. He was a Bos¬ 
ton bookseller, and on April 24, 1704, is¬ 
sued the Boston News-Letter, the first 
permanent newspaper published in North 
America. He was postmaster of Boston 
for many years, ending with 1718, and was 
for several years justice of the peace for 
Suffolk county. He died March, 1728, in 
Boston, Mass. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN, surgeon, was born 
about 1822 in New York. He was pro¬ 
moted surgeon in 1861, acting through the 
civil war in that grade, and at its close 
received brevets of lieutenant-colonel and 
colonel, U. S. A., for faithful and meritor¬ 
ious services. He was advanced to the 
full rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1877; 
colonel in 1885, and placed on the retired 
list in 1885. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN ALLEN, soldier, 
governor, was born Oct. 8, 1835, in Salem, 
Ohio. He entered the volunteer army as 
second lieutenant, and was promoted to 
the rank of brigadier-general for cour¬ 
age in the field and marked ability and 
fidelity at Rich Mountain, Shiloh, Perry- 
ville, Murfreesborough, and through the 
Atlanta campaign. In 1866 he became as¬ 
sistant editor of the Cleveland Daily 
Leader; was soon appointed in the regu¬ 
lar army, and made a lieutenant-colonel, 
serving as adjutant on the staff of General 
Schofield. In 1869 he was appointed the 
first governor of the territory of Wy¬ 
oming; and reappointed in 1873. He died 
July 14, 1880, in Washington, D. C. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN ARCHIBALD, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born June 24, 1811, in 
Washington, Ga. He was appointed an 
associate justice of the supreme court of 
the United States, which office he re¬ 
signed in 1861, after the commencement of 
the rebellion. He was opposed to the se¬ 
cession of Alabama, and in 1864 did all in 
his power to bring the war to a close. 
He died March 12, 1889, in Baltimore, Md. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN G., statesman, was 
born June 25, 1827, at Glasgow, Scotland. 
In 1863 he settled in the territory of Ari¬ 
zona; filled various county offices; was a 
member of the territorial council in 1868 
and 1874; and was elected a delegate from 
the territory of Arizona to the forty-sixth 
congress. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN H., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1845 to 1847, 
declining the renomination. He died Jan. 
19, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN LYLE, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 7, 1818, in Rock¬ 


bridge county, Va. He was a professor of 
chemistry at Washington and Lee college, 
1851-86, and was the author of Manual of 
Scientific and Practical Agriculture; Ida¬ 
ho, Six Months in the New Gold Diggings; 
Guide to the Agricultural and Mineral 
West; and Geology and Mineral Re¬ 
sources of the James River Valley, Vir¬ 
ginia. He died Feb. 2, 1886, in Lexington, 
Va. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN P., congressman, 
was born in Kentucky. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state house of representatives 
from Christian county, in 1826; and a 
representative in congress from Kentucky 
to the thirty-fourth congress. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN POAGE, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1767 in Virginia. He 
was a popular clergyman on the Ohio bor¬ 
der, and the author of The Passenger; 
Strictures on Stone’s Letters on the 
Atonement; Vindex; Letters to the Rev. 
Mr. Craighead; The Pelagian Defeated; 
and An Answer to Jones. He died Nov. 4, 
1814, in Chillicothe, Ohio. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN PRESTON, lawyer, 
author, poet, was born April 8, 1847, in 
Boston, Mass. He attended the South 
Medfield and Wal¬ 
pole high schools, 
Massachusetts; and 
the Cornell college 
of Mount Vernon, 
Iowa. He served as 
a union soldier dur¬ 
ing the civil war 
in battery H, first 
Rhode Island light 
artillery; was cor¬ 
poral, and subse¬ 
quently brevetted 
sergeant, for bravery 
in battle. He was in the battles of the 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Petersburgh, 
Chantilla, and Sailors’ Creek. He was 
in the army of the Potomac, and was 
wounded three times. He is the author of 
the following novels: Merl of Medavon; 
My Mate Immortal; The Woman of Chalk; 
and others. He is also author of the fol¬ 
lowing poetical works: Queen Sylvia; 
The Summerless Sea; Republica; and The 
Land of Sun and Song. For many years 
he conducted a successful law business in 
Abilene, Kan.; and now devotes his time 
to literature in Washington, D. C. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN TYLER, soldier, 
lawyer, orator, author, was born Sept. 9, 
1843, in Bowling Green, Mo. He was edu¬ 
cated in the common 
! schools, and at the 
McGee college; and 
taught school. In 
1861 he entered the 
union army and at¬ 
tained the rank of 
captain in the thir¬ 
ty-second regiment 
Missouri volunteer 
infantry. After the 
war he was elected 
prosecuting attor¬ 
ney; and in 1870 was 
corporation attorney of Kansas City, Mo. 
Since 1874 he has practiced law in Santa 
Rosa, Cal.; and has served two sessions 
in the California state legislature, once as 
speaker of the house. He was appointed 
consul of the United States to New Zea¬ 
land, and again appointed consul to China. 
He was president of the board of free¬ 
holders appointed to frame a charter for 
Santa Rosa. He stands high in Masonic 
circles. He has traveled extensively in 
China, Japan, and the south seas; has 
written and published numerous short 
stories; and delivered orations and public 
lectures. 







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CAMPBELL, JOHN WILSON, jurist, 
congressman, was born Feb. 23, 1782, in 
Augusta county, Va. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Ohio from 1817 to 
1827; and was United States judge for the 
district of Ohio. He died Sept. 24, 1833, 
in Delaware, Ohio. 

CAMPBELL, JOSIAH A. P., lawyer, 
state legislator, jurist, author, was born 
March 2, 1830, in South Carolina. He has 
been a member of the Mississippi legisla¬ 
ture and speaker of the house; circuit 
judge, supreme judge for eighteen years, 
and chief justice. He has been in the 
confederate service as a captain, lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel, and colonel. He is the au¬ 
thor of the Mississippi Revised Code of 
1880, which emancipated married women 
from the disabilities of coverture. 

CAMPBELL, LEWIS D., was born Aug. 
9, 1811, in Franklin, Ohio. He was elected 
a member of congress from Ohio in 1848, 
and was re-elected to each successive con¬ 
gress, down to the thirty-fifth, when his 
seat was contested, and the house of rep¬ 
resentatives decided against his claim. 
In 1865 he was appointed minister to Mex¬ 
ico. He was subsequently elected to the 
forty-second congress. He died Nov. 26, 
1882. 

CAMPBELL, REMER CAIN, lawyer, 
was born Nov. 8, 1860, in Marlinsville, N. 
J. He attended the grammar school of 
Somerville, N. J.; and received an aca¬ 
demical course of education. He was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1885, and began the 
practice of law in Hamburg, Iowa; where 
he has served as city attorney, and attor¬ 
ney of his county. He is a member of the 
board of education; and takes a promi¬ 
nent part in the public affairs of his 
county and state. 

CAMPBELL, RICHARD, soldier, was 
born in Virginia. He was commissioned 
captain in 1776, and subsequently major, 
was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and 
commanded a Virginia regiment at Guil¬ 
ford, Hobkirk’s Hill, Ninety-Six, and 
Eutaw Springs, where he was mortally 
wounded while leading the charge that 
drove the British from the field. He died 
Sept. 8,1781, in Eutaw Springs, S. C. 

CAMPBELL, ROBERT, soldier, jurist, 
was born in 1755 in Virginia. He dis¬ 
played great bravery in many conflicts 
with the Cherokees, and commanded a 
regiment at the battle of King’s Mountain, 
in 1780. He was nearly forty years a 
magistrate of Washington county, Va., 
and in 1825 emigrated to Tennessee. He 
died February, 1832, near Knoxville, Tenn. 

CAMPBELL, ROBERT B., congress¬ 
man, was born in South Carolina. He 
was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1823 to 1825, and 
again from 1835 to 1837. 

CAMPBELL, SAMUEL, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in Mansfield, 
Conn. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1821 to 1823; 
and previously had served five years in 
the assembly of that state. 

CAMPBELL, SAMUEL L., educator, 
college president. He was second presi¬ 
dent of Washington and Lee university. 

CAMPBELL, THOMAS BLAKE, archi¬ 
tect, manufacturer, inventor, was born 
June 8, 1854, in Fayetteville, N. Y. He 
was the builder of the Memorial chapel, 
Franklin hall, Morse hall, Armory hall, 
and other buildings of the Cornell univer¬ 
sity. In 1889 he discovered a valuable 
deposit of clay in Tompkins county, N. Y., 
suitable for the manufacture of white and 
buff pressed brick and terra cotta; built 
extensive works for its manufacture; and 
has invented numerous devices to expe¬ 
dite the work of manufacture. 


CAMPBELL, THOMAS F., congress¬ 
man, was born in South Carolina. He 
was a representative in congress from that 
state from 1834 to 1835. 

CAMPBELL, THOMAS J., congress¬ 
man, was born in Tennessee. He was a 
member of congress from that state from 
1841 to 1843; and was a presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1837 and 1841. He died April 13, 
1850, in Washington, D. C. 

CAMPBELL, THOMAS J., educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born April 29, 1848, 
in New York city. In 1885 he was ap¬ 
pointed rector of St. John’s college; and 
in 1886 was chosen the thirteenth presi¬ 
dent of St. John’s college of Fordham, 
N. Y. 

CAMPBELL, THOMPSON, congress¬ 
man, was born in Pennsylvania. He was 
a representative in congress from Illinois, 
from 1851 to 1853. He died Dec. 7, 1868, 
in California. 

CAMPBELL, TIMOTHY J., congress¬ 
man, was born in 1840 in Ireland. He was 
a member of the New York assembly in 
1860-75; and was afterwards elected jus¬ 
tice of the fifth district civil court in 
New York city; and served six years in 
that capacity. In 1883 he was returned to 
the state assembly; and was nominated 
for state senator and elected. In 1885 he 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-ninth congress, to fill a 
vacancy; and was elected to the fiftieth, 
fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a 
democrat. 

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM, soldier, legis¬ 
lator, was born in 1745 in Augusta county, 
Va. In 1781 he was appointed brigadier- 
general in the revolutionary war; and in 
1780 was elected a member of the Virginia 
state legislature. He died Aug. 22, 1781, 
in Rocky Mills, Va. 

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM BOWEN, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, governor, was born 
Feb. 1, 1807, in Sumner county, Tenn. 
He was chosen attorney-general for the 
fourth district; was elected to the Ten¬ 
nessee legislature in 1835; and raised a 
company and served as captain in the 
Creek and Florida wars of 1836. He was 
a representative in congress from Tennes¬ 
see from 1837 to 1843; in 1844 was elected 
major-general of militia, and was colonel 
of the first regiment of Tennessee volun¬ 
teers in the Mexican war. From 1850 to 
1853 he was governor of Tennessee, and 
in 1857 was chosen, by a unanimous vote 
of the legislature, judge of the circuit 
court of Tennessee. In 1862 he was ap¬ 
pointed a brigadier-general in the union 
army. He was again elected a representa¬ 
tive to the thirty-ninth congress. He 
died Aug. 19, 1867, in Lebanon, Tenn. 

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM HENRY, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, author, was 
born Sept. 14, 1808, in Baltimore, Md. He 
was a Dutch Reformed clergyman, presi¬ 
dent of Rutgers college, 1863-82. He was 
the author of Subjects and Modes of Bap¬ 
tism; Influence of Christianity in Civil 
and Religious Liberty; and System of 
Catechetical Instruction. He died Dec. 7, 
1890, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM M„ farmer, sol¬ 
dier, state legislator, was born Sept. 17, 
1845, in Shelby county, Ind. He served 
three years as a soldier during the civil 
war in the seventh Indiana infantry and 
was severely wounded several times. He 
participated in the battles, of Fredericks¬ 
burg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the 
Wilderness, and was twice made a pris¬ 
oner of war. In 1888 he was elected a 
member of the Kansas legislature on the 
labor ticket; in 1890 on the Alliance 
ticket, and in 1892 and in 1894 on the 
populist ticket. 


CAMPBELL, WILLIAM W., jurist, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born June 10, 1806, 
in Cherry Valley, N. Y. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York from 
1845 to 1847; was later appointed a 
justice of the superior court of New York 
city, and served seven years; and was 
subsequently elected a judge of the su¬ 
preme court of the state. He was the au¬ 
thor of Annals of Tryon County, reissued 
as Border Warfare; Memoirs of Mrs. 
Grant, Missionary to Persia; Life and 
Writings of De Witt Clinton; and 
Sketches of Robin Hood and Captain 
Kidd. He died Sept. 7, 1881, in Cherry 
Valley, N. Y. 

CAMPLIN, MEREDETH B., lawyer, was 
born March 3, 1859, in Davies county, Mo. 
For three years he was city attorney of 
Douglas, Wyo., and for six years of New 
Castle; and for two years was prosecut¬ 
ing attorney of Weston county, Wyo. For 
two terms he has served his city as 
mayor; and in 1894 was the republican 
candidate for district judge. He is a 
noted criminal lawyer, and holds a high 
position in the public affairs of Wyoming. 

CANADA, LUCIUS TULLIUS MAR- 
CELLUS, lawyer, legislator, was born 
July 12, 1859, in Fayette county, Tenn. 
He attended the southwestern Baptist 
university of Jackson, Tenn., from which 
institution he received the degree of A. 
M. In 1887 he graduated in law from the 
Cumberland Presbyterian university of 
Lebanon, Tenn. He has been professor of 
mathematics and Greek in several large 
institutions; and since 1887 has success¬ 
fully practiced law in Memphis, Tenn. 
In 1894 he was elected a state senator in 
the Tennessee legislature; and received 
the re-election in 1896. 

CANBY, EDWARD RICHARD 
SPRIGGS, soldier, was born in 1819 in 
Kentucky. He served in the Mexican 
war; and during the civil war was pro¬ 
moted to brigadier-general. He was 
killed April 11, 1873, in Siskiyou county. 
Cal. 

CANBY, RICHARD S., congressman, 
was born in Ohio. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1847 
to 1849. 

CANDERS, ALBERT C., merchant, leg¬ 
islator, was born June 19, 1845, in New¬ 
port, R. I. He is a successful merchant of 
Newport, R. I.; and since 1873 has served 
as chairman of the republican city com¬ 
mittee; and as a member of the state cen- 
ti’al committee since 1882. During 1881- 
82 he served with distinction in the Rhode 
Island state legislature; and in 1883-84 
was appointed on Governor Bourne’s per¬ 
sonal staff. In 1892 he was elected state 
auditor and insurance commissioner for 
the state of Rhode Island. 

CANDLER, ALLEN D., soldier, edu¬ 
cator, college president, state senator, 
congressman, was horn Nov. 4, 1834, in 
Lumpkin county, Ga. He entered the 
confederate army as a private, and rose, 
through the intermediate grades, to the 
colonelcy of his regiment. He was presi¬ 
dent of Baily institute of Griffin, Ga., from 
1866 to 1870. He was a member of the 
state house of representatives from 1872 
to 1878; state senator from 1878 to 1880; 
and was elected a representative from 
Georgia to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth 
and fiftieth congresses as a democrat. 

CANDLER, ASA GRIGG-S, druggist, 
was born Dec. 30, 1851, in Villa Rica, Ga. 
In 1888 he entered upon a course of med¬ 
ical manufacturing in Atlanta, Ga. He 
conceived the idea of having experts make 
a summer beverage that was healthful 
and stimulating, and the result was the 
universally popular Coca Cola. 


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CANDLER, JOHN W., merchant, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 10, 
1828, in Boston, Mass. He was engaged 
in merchandising and maritime transpor¬ 
tation, and was a representative in the 
state legislature in 1866. He was president 
of the board of trade and of the Com¬ 
mercial club of Boston, and was elected 
a representative from Massachusetts to 
the forty-seventh congress, and subse¬ 
quently to the fifty-first congress. 

CANDLER, MILTON A., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 
1837, in Campbell county, Ga. He was a 
member of the state legislature from 1861 
to 1863, and of the state constitutional 
convention in 1865. He was elected to the 
state senate in 1868 for four years; and 
was elected a representative from Georgia 
to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth con¬ 
gresses. 

CANDLER, WARREN A., educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born Aug. 23, 1857, in 
Carroll county, Ga. In 1886 he was elected 
assistant editor of the Nashville Christian 
Advocate, and in 1888 was elected presi¬ 
dent of Emory college, being the youngest 
president ever elected to an American col¬ 
lege. 

CANFIELD, JAMES H., college presi¬ 
dent, was born March 18, 1847, in Dela¬ 
ware, Ohio. In 1877 he was called to the 
state university of Kansas and remained 
there as professor of English literature 
and history; then of history and political 
science, and lastly of American history 
and civics; until 1891, when he became 
chancellor of the university of Nebraska. 
He resigned in 1895 to become president 
of Ohio state university. 

CANFIELD, JOHN, railroad president, 
was born May 17, 1830, in Berkshire coun¬ 
ty, Mass. Since 1892 he has been president 
of the Manistee and Grand Rapids rail¬ 
way. 

CANN, JAMES FERRIS, lawyer, was 
born Dec. 11, 1868, in Savannah, Ga. He 
received the rudiments of his education 
in the public schools of Savannah, at¬ 
tended the Georgia Military academy, 
and graduated in law from the university 
of Virginia. He has attained prominence 
as an able lawyer of his native city, 
where he is president of the Citizens’ 
club, secretary of the Savannah volun¬ 
teer guards, and first lieutenant of com¬ 
pany C of that command. He is a prom¬ 
inent member of the Knights of Pythias 
and other fraternal bodies. 

CANNON, CHARLES JAMES, author, 
poet, was born Nov. 4, 1800, in New York 
city. Besides compiling a series of read¬ 
ers he published, among other works, 
Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous; Pen- 
cillings from the Web of Life, and a num¬ 
ber of dramas now forgotten. He died 
Nov. 9, 1860, in New York city. 

CANNON, CHARLES WESLEY, pio¬ 
neer, capitalist, was born July 1, 1836, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. He is the largest tax 
payer in Helena, Mont.; and is a leading 
spirit in gas, electric light and street 
railroad companies, and president of sev¬ 
eral of them. He is also vice-president 
of The Montana Central railway; and 
proprietor of a ranch of 3,000 acres, 
stocked with cattle, horses and sheep. 

CANNON, FRANK J., journalist, United 
States senator, was born Jan. 25, 1859, at 
Salt Lake City, Utah. He is a printer and 
newspaper writer. He was a delegate to 
the republican national convention at 
Minneapolis in 1892; was defeated for 
delegate to congress in 1892; and was 
elected delegate to congress in 1894; was 
elected to the United States senate Jan. 
22, 1896. 


CANNON, GEORGE Q., journalist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 
1827, in England. He was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the legislative council of Utah in 
1865, 1866, 1869, and the three succeed¬ 
ing years. In 1865 he was elected a re¬ 
gent of the Deseret university. At a con¬ 
stitutional^ convention held at Salt Lake 
City in 1872 he was elected a delegate to 
present the constitution and memorial to 
congress for the admission of the terri¬ 
tory into the union as a state; and was 
elected delegate from Utah to the forty- 
third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, 
and forty-seventh congresses. 

CANNON, HENRY W., banker, was 
born in 1850, in Delhi, N. Y. He organ¬ 
ized the Lumberman’s National bank, of 
which he was made cashier. He was also 
secretary of the chamber of commerce of 
Stillwater; and secretary, treasurer and 
general manager of the water and gas 
companies of the city. In 1884 he was ap¬ 
pointed comptroller of the currency in 
the United States treasury at Washing¬ 
ton; and resigned in 1886 to accept the 
position of vice-president of the National 
Bank of the Republic of New York city. 

CANNON, JAMES SPENCER, educator, 
clergyman, lecturer, was born in 1776, in 
West Indies. He was a Dutch reformed 
clergyman of New Jersey; and was pro¬ 
fessor of metaphysics at Rutgers college, 
1826-56. He is the author of Lectures on 
Chronology; and Lectures on Pastoral 
Theology. He died in 1852. 

CANNON, JOSEPH G„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 7, 1836, in Guil¬ 
ford, N. C. He was state’s attorney in 
Illinois from 1861 to 1868; and was 
elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, 
forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty- 
first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, 
and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. 

CANNON, MARION, congressman, was 
born Oct. 30, 1834, in Morgantown, W. Va. 
He was elected county recorder of Nevada 
county in 1869, and 
served two years. 
When the Farmers’ 
Alliance was intro¬ 
duced into California 
joined that order; 
and was unanimous¬ 
ly elected its first 
state president in 
1890. He organized 
the people’s party of 
California in 1891; 
was chosen a repre¬ 
sentative to the su¬ 
preme council at Indianapolis in 1891; 
was selected by that body to represent 
California in the industrial conference at 
St. Louis in 1892, and was chosen tem¬ 
porary chairman over that body; and was 
selected chairman of the California dele¬ 
gation to the national convention of the 
people’s party at Omaha in 1892. He was 
elected to the fifty-third congress. 

CANNON, NEWTON, congressman, 
governor, was born about 1781, in Guil¬ 
ford county, N. C. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Tennessee from 
1814 to 1817, and again from 1819 to 1823. 
He was governor of Tennessee from 1835 
to 1839. He died Sept. 29, 1842, in Har- 
peth, Tenn. 

CANNON, WILLIAM, state legislator, 
governor, was born in 1809, in Bridge- 
ville, Del. He was for some years in the 
state legislature of Delaware; and was 
state treasurer and member of the peace 
congress of 1861. He was governor of 
Delaware from 1864 to 1865. He died 
March 1, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


CANON, JOHN W., educator, was born 
Feb. 11, 1844, in Mercer county, Pa. He 
graduated from the state normal school 
of Edinboro, Pa., and there taught for 
several years. He has been principal of 
the high schools of Franklin, Pa., and is 
now superintendent of public schools in. 
Sharon, Pa. 

CANT, WILLIAM A., lawyer, state 
legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 23, 1863, 
in Westfield, Wis. In 1885 he graduated 
from the law department of the univer¬ 
sity of Michigan; and since 1886 has 
practiced his profession in Duluth, Minn. 
In 1894 he was elected a member of the 
Minnesota house of representatives; was 
city attorney of Duluth in 1895; and was 
elected for a term of six years from 1895 
a judge of the district court of Minne¬ 
sota. 

CANTINE, JOHN, congressman. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the eighth congress, but resigned 
soon after taking his seat. 

CAPEHART, -JAMES, congressman,, 
was born March 7, 1847, in Mason coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was president of the county 
court of Mason county, which position he 
held in 1871-72, and from 1880 to 1885. He 
was a delegate to the national democratic 
convention in 1888; and was elected to 
the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses 
as a democrat. 

CAPEN. ELMER HEWITT, clergyman,, 
college president, was born April 5, 1838, 
in Stoughton, Mass. He was a member of 
the Massachusetts legislature when only 
twenty-one years of age. He was or¬ 
dained to the ministry in 1865; and has 
filled important pastorates in St. Paul, 
Minn., and Providence, R. I. Since 1875 
he has been president of Tufts college. 

CAPEN, FRANCIS L., meteorologist, 
was born March 17, 1817, in Sterling, 
Mass. He made many astronomical dis¬ 
coveries and remarkable weather predic¬ 
tions, the latter gaining for him promi¬ 
nence on both sides of the Atlantic. He 
died July 31, 1889. 

CAPEN, JAMES A., poet, was born Jan. 
3, 1840, in Boston, Mass. In 1861 he 
moved from his eastern home to the 
Rocky mountains in 
Colorado, and subse¬ 
quently secured a 
position in the 
United States mail 
service, running be¬ 
tween Denver and 
Leavenworth, Kan. 
He served through 
the war, enlisting in 
the seventh Kansas 
volunteer cavalry, 
and serving as a 
volunteer soldier 
four years and four days. He then settled 
in Missouri, where he still resides, in 
Sedalia. He has taught school for twenty 
years; and is now serving as quarter¬ 
master of Gen. George R. Smith Post No. 
53, Department of Missouri, G. A. R.; and 
is assessor of his county. He is the au¬ 
thor of some very fine poems; and as an 
elocutionist he has become well known in 
his adopted state. 

CAPEN, NAHUM, journalist, author, 
was born April 1, 1804, in Canton, Mass. 
He was a Boston publisher who was post¬ 
master in 1857-61, and introduced the cus¬ 
tom of street letter-box collections. He 
was the author of The Republic of the 
United States; Reminiscences of Spurz- 
heim and Combe; and History of Dem¬ 
ocracy, or Political Progress Historically 
Illustrated. He died in 1886, in Dorches¬ 
ter, Mass. 








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CAPERS, ELLISON, bishop of South 
Carolina, was born Oct. 14, 1837, in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. He served throughout the 
war in the confederate service; and was 
three times severely wounded; and was 
pi’omoted colonel and brigadier-general. 
He was elected secretary of state in 1866. 

CAPERS, WILLIAM, bishop, author, 
was born Jan. 26, 1790, in St. Thomas 
parish, S. C. He was a methodist bishop 
once prominent in the south; and is the 
author of Cathechisms for Negro Miss¬ 
ions; and Short Sermons and True Tales 
for Children. He died Jan. 29, 1855, in 
Anderson, S. C. 

CAPERTON, ALLEN TAYLOR, state 
legislator, congressman, state senator, 
was born Nov. 21, 1810, in Union. Va. He 
served in the legislature of Virginia a 
number of years; in 1861 was a member 
of the state convention to consider the 
impending troubles, and took the side of 
the union, but when the state went out 
of the union he sided with the south. In 
1863 he was elected to the confederate 
senate; was pardoned by President John¬ 
son after the war; and in 1875 was elected 
a senator in congress from West Virginia. 
He died July 25, 1876, in Washington, 
D. C. 

CAPERTON, HUGH, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1780, in 1 ir- 
ginia. He was for many years a member 
of the state legislature; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from the Green¬ 
brier region of Virginia from 1813 to 1815. 
He died Feb. 9, 1847, in Monroe county, 
Va. 

CAPPELLER, WILLIAM S., public of¬ 
ficial, journalist, was born Feb. 23, 1839, 
in Somerset, Pa. During 1877-83 he was 
county auditor of 
Cincinnati, Ohio; 
and commissioner of 
railroads and tele¬ 
graphs of Ohio in 
1887-89. He was 
grand master of the 
Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows of 
Ohio in 1879-80; and 
in 1885 he estab¬ 
lished The Daily 
News of Mansfield, 
which is now one of 
the leading newspapers of Ohio. In 1895 
he became president of the National Edi¬ 
torial association. He is the president 
and general manager of the News Print¬ 
ing company of Mansfield, Ohio, and takes 
an active part in the public affairs of his 
city, county and state. 

CAPRON, ADIN BALLOU, soldier, 
congressman, was born Jan. 9, 1841, in 
Mendon, Mass. He enlisted as sergeant 
in second Rhode 
Island infantry in 
1861; promoted to 
sergeant-major and 
lieutenant, and or¬ 
dered on detached 
service in the signal 
corps in December, 
1861. He served in 
the signal corps until 
the close of the war, 
having been commis¬ 
sioned first lieuten¬ 
ant in the signal 
corps, United States army, in 1863, and 
receiving promotion to the rank of cap¬ 
tain and major by brevet. He was elected 
a representative to the general assembly 
of Rhode Island in 1887; served during 
1888-92; and was speaker in 1891-92. He 
subsequently was elected a member of the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 


CAPRON, ALLYN K.. soldier, was born 
in New York. In 1890 he enlisted as a 
private soldier in the fourth cavalry; was 
appointed second lieutenant of infantry 
in 1893; joined Theodore Roosevelt's 
rough riders as captain in 1898; and was 
killed in battle, near Santiago, Cuba. 

CAPRON, HORACE, soldier, agricultur¬ 
ist, was born in New York. He was ap¬ 
pointed to the charge of a factory in 
Maryland. He served in the army during 
the rebellion, and became a brigadier- 
general. In 1868 he was appointed com¬ 
missioner of agriculture; and in 1871 was 
invited by the Japanese government to 
take charge of certain agricultural experi¬ 
ments and improvements in Japan, where 
he remained four years; returning to the 
United States in 1875. He died Feb. 23, 
1885. 

CARDOZO, ISAAC N„ journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born June 17, 1786, in Savannah, 
Ga. He became editor of the Southern 
Patriot in Charleston in 1816, and its sole 
proprietor in 1823. He took an active 
part in 1823 in the establishment of the 
Charleston chamber of commerce. He 
sold his paper in 1845, and in the same 
year established the Evening News, of 
which he became the commercial editor. 
He was a contributor to the Southern 
Quarterly Review and other periodicals; 
and published Notes on Political Econ¬ 
omy. He was drowned Aug. 26, 1850, in 
James River, Va. 

CAREY, ASA B., soldier, was born July 
12, 1835, in Windham county, Conn. He 
was a cadet in the United States military 
academy in 1854; and in 1858 was bre- 
vetted lieutenant of the sixth infantry. 
United States army. He was constantly 
promoted and became lieutenant-colonel 
in 1865 for gallant and meritorious ser¬ 
vices in the war against the Navajo In¬ 
dians; and became paymaster in 1867. 
He was promoted lieutenant-colonel and 
deputy paymaster-general in 1895. 

CAREY, DANIEL GRAHAM, physician, 
journalist, was born Nov. 22, 1842, near 
Middletown, N. Y. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as a physician and surgeon, and as 
the manufacturer of the Carey proprietary 
medicines. In 1883 he established the 
Waverly Farmer; and is the author of 
Doctor Carey’s Guide to Health. 

CAREY, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born in Charles county, Md. He was a 
representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1823 to 1827. He died in 1844, in 
Upson county, Ga. 

CAREY, HENRY CHARLES, econo¬ 
mist, author, was born Dec. 15, 1793, in 
He was one of the 
foremost of Ameri¬ 
can political econo¬ 
mists who advocated 
protection as a pre¬ 
liminary step toward 
ultimate free trade. 
He opposed such 
theorists as Malthus 
and Ricardo, holding 
that human progress 
depends upon suc¬ 
cess in subjugating 
nature; that land 
values depend upon 
labor; and that the social well-being is 
directly dependent upon existing condi¬ 
tions. He was the author of Principles 
of Political Economy; The Credit Sys¬ 
tem; The Principles of Social Science; 
Lectures on the Currency; Letters on Po¬ 
litical Economy; Letters on International 
Copyright; Financial Crises; and The 
Unity of Law. He died Oct. 13, 1879, in 
Philadelphia. 


CAREY, HENRY DE WTTT, business 
man, jurist, was born March 24, 1844, 
near Middletown, N. Y. He was a suc¬ 
cessful merchant of Middletown, N. Y.; 
for the past quarter of a century has been 
the manager of the export department of 
the New Home Sewing Machine company 
with headquarters at 28 Union square, 
New York city. He has always taken an 
active interest in democratic politics, and 
is a member of the Tammany society and 
the Sagamore and Pequod clubs, and of 
the American Historical society. For 
four years he was a justice of the peace 
at City Island, N. Y.; and in 1889-90 
was judge of the court of general ses¬ 
sions of Westchester county, N. Y. He 
is a thirty-third degree member of the 
Masonic fraternity; and a member of the 
Society of the Sons of the American Rev¬ 
olution. Mr. Carey is president of the 
Pelham Park Street Railroad company; 
president of the Metropolitan dispensary; 
president of the board of trustees of the 
New York College of Midwifery, and 
other institutions. 

CAREY, JEREMIAH E., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 30, 1803, in 
Coventry, R. I. He w r as elected to con¬ 
gress from Cherry Valley county in 1842. 

CAREY, JOHN, jurist, state legislator, 
congressman, was born April 5, 1792, in 
Monongahela county, Va. In 1814 he as¬ 
sisted in building the first stone house in 
Columbus. In 1825 he was elected an asso¬ 
ciate judge, which office he held for seven 
years. He was elected to the Ohio legisla¬ 
ture in 1828, 1836, and 1843; and was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
thirty-sixth congress. 

CAREY, JOSEPH MAULL, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, and business man, was born July 
19, 1845, in Milton, Del. He attended the 
Union college of 
Schenectady, N. Y.; 
and in 1867 gradu¬ 
ated from the law 
department of the 
university of Penn¬ 
sylvania. In 1869 he 
was appointed by 
President Grant as 
United States dis¬ 
trict attorney for the 
territory of Wyo¬ 
ming; and in 1872 
he became associate 
justice of the supreme court of Wyoming, 
which position he filled with distinction 
for four years. In 1876 he was appointed 
a member of the United States centennial 
commission. Judge Carey was among the 
first to become interested in the great 
industry of cattle-raising on the plains; 
and for many years was president of the 
Wyoming Stockgrowers association. He 
was mayor of Cheyenne during 1880-82; 
and was instrumental in having Wyo¬ 
ming admitted to the union as a state. 
He was a member of the forty-ninth, 
fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses; and in 
1891 was elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate, serving with distinction in that body. 

CAREY, JOSHUA MULLOCK, soldier, 
physician, legislator, was born June 11, 
1834, in Orange county, N. Y. In 1862 he 
graduated from the Eclectic Medical in¬ 
stitute of Cleveland, Ohio. He served as 
a union soldier during the civil war, and 
was promoted to captain. He was justice 
of the peace for ten years; and in 1883-84 
was a member of the house of representa¬ 
tives of Pennsylvania. During 1887-93 
he practiced medicine in New York city, 
when he removed to Elmira. 




Philadelphia, Pa. 



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CAREY, MATTHEW, author, was born 
Jan. 28, 1760, in Ireland. He entered into 
politics, and established himself in Phila¬ 
delphia as a bookseller. His writings in¬ 
clude The Olive Branch, or Faults on 
Both Sides, Federal and Democratic, 
which soon entered a tenth edition; Vin- 
diciae Hibernicae; Thoughts on Peniten¬ 
tiaries and Prison Discipline; Essays on 
Political Economy; and The Yellow 
Fever of 1793. He died Sept. 16, 1839 in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

CARHART, HENRY SMITH, educator, 
author, was born March 27, 1844, in Coey- 
mans. N. Y. In 1869 he graduated from 
the Wesleyan university of Middletown. 
Conn. He is the author of Primary Bat¬ 
teries; Elements of Physics; Electrical 
Measurements; and University Physics. 

CARLE I ON, EZRA C., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 6, 1838, in St. 
Clair, Mich. He was engaged in the mer¬ 
cantile business at Port Huron. Mich., in 
1862; and was elected a representative 
from Michigan to the forty-eighth and 
forty-ninth congresses as a democrat. 

CARLETON, HENRY, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born in 1785, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He served as a lieutenant of 
infantry under Gen. Jackson in the cam¬ 
paign that terminated Jan. 8, 1815, and 
then actively engaged in the profession of 
law. Soon afterward, in connection with 
Mr. L. Moreau, he began the translation 
of those portions of Las Siete Partidas, a 
celebrated Spanish code of laws, that were 
observed in Louisiana. He became 
United States district attorney for the 
eastern district of Louisiana in 1832, and 
was subsequently appointed a judge of 
the supreme court of the same state, but 
resigned in 1839 on account of ill health. 
He published Liberty and Necessity; and 
read an Essay on the Will before the 
American Philosophical society a few 
•days before his death. He died March 28, 
1863, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CARLETON, HENRY GUY, journalist, 
author, was born in 1856, in New Mexico. 
He is a journalist of New York city who is 
best known as a writer of plays, among 
which are Memnon; The Pembertons; and 
Victor Durand. 

CARLETON, OSGOOD, mathematician, 
author, was born in 1742. He was a 
Massachusetts mathematician; and the 
author of American Navigator; South 
American Pilot; and Practice of Arith¬ 
metic. He died in June, 1816, in Litch¬ 
field, N. H. 

CARLETON, WILL, author, lecturer 
•and editor, was born Oct. 21, 1845, in 
Hudson, Mich. He received his education 
at the Hudson ele¬ 
mentary and high 
schools, and Hills¬ 
dale college, Michi¬ 
gan. After gradua¬ 
tion he did news¬ 
paper work in Hills¬ 
dale, Detroit and 
Chicago—writing lo¬ 
cals, sketches, sto¬ 
ries, editorials, and 
poems. His books 
are: Farm Ballads, 
Farm Legends, 
Farm Festivals; City Ballads, City Le¬ 
gends, City Festivals; Rhymes of Our 
Planet; and The Old Infant and simi¬ 
lar stories. He is also editor of an illus¬ 
trated magazine, entitled Everywhere, 
published in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he 
xesides. 

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CARLILE, JOHN SNYDER, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Dec. 16, 1817, 
in Winchester, Va. He was elected 
to the state senate in 1847; and served 
until 1851; and in 1850 was a mem¬ 
ber of the constitutional convention 
of Virginia. In 1855 he was elected a 
representative in congress; in 1861 was 
elected a representative from Virginia to 
the thirty-seventh congress, and was soon 
afterward transferred to the senate. He 
died Oct. 24, 1878, in Clarksburg, W. Va. 

CARLIN, JOHN, artist, was born June 
15, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was deaf 
and dumb from infancy. Among his re¬ 
cent contributions to the exhibitions of 
the Artists’ Fund society are The Village 
Gossips: The Admirer of Nature; 

The Twin Grandchildren; Old and 
loung; Going after Marshmallows; 
Solid Comfort; and The Grandfather’s 
Story. Mr. Carlin has also written some 
poetry. 

CARLIN, THOMAS, governor of Illi¬ 
nois, was born in 1791, in Kentucky. He 
was a pioneer to Illinois in 1813; served 
under Gen. Howard in that and the fol¬ 
lowing year during the war of 1812-14; 
and several times volunteered to perform 
most perilous undertakings against the 
Indians. He was governor of the state 
in 1838-42. He died Feb. 4, 1852. 

CARLIN, WILLIAM PASSMORE, sol¬ 
dier, was born Nov. 24, 1829, in Rich 
Woods, Ill. He participated in the march 
to the sea and through the Carolinas; and 
on March 13, 1865, was brevetted briga¬ 
dier-general for services at Bentonville, 
N. C., and major-general for services dur¬ 
ing the war. From 1867 till 1868 he was 
assistant commissioner of the freedmen’s 
bureau in Tennessee. 

CARLISLE, JOHN GRIFFIN, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman. United States 
senator, was born Sept. 5, 1835, in Ken¬ 
ton, Ky. He was a 
member of the state 
house of representa¬ 
tives in 1859-1861; 
was nominated for 
presidential elector 
on the democratic 
ticket in 1864, but 
declined; and was 
elected to the state 
senate in 1866, and 
re-elected in 1869. 
He was a delegate 
at large from Ken¬ 
tucky to the national democratic conven¬ 
tion at New York in 1868; was nominated 
for lieutenant-governor of Kentucky in 
1871; resigned his seat in the senate in 
1871; and was elected lieutenant-governor 
in 1871, serving until 1875. He was alter¬ 
nate presidential elector for the state at 
large in 1876; was elected to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty- 
eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first 
congresses; was elected speaker in 
the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, and fiftieth 
congresses; and was elected to the 
United States senate May 17, 1890, to fill a 
vacancy. He resigned to accept the port¬ 
folio of secretary of the treasury in Presi¬ 
dent Cleveland’s cabinet in 1893, and en¬ 
tered upon the duties of the office March 
7, 1893, and served until 1897. 

CARLL, JOHN FRANKLIN, civil engi¬ 
neer, inventor, was born May 7, 1828, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He devised the static 
pressure sand-pump, removable pump- 
chamber, and adjustable sleeve for piston- 
rods, now used in operating oil-wells. In 
1874 he became attached to the geological 
survey of Pennsylvania, and afterward 
was assistant in the oil and .gas region. 


CARLTON, ELAM B., lawyer, jurist, 
was bom April 3, 1864, in South Florida. 
For three years he was editor of the Pine 
Level Times, and for two years of the 
DeSoto County Times. During 1890-92 he 
was county attorney; and in 1892-94 was 
judge of the county court at Arcadia, Fla. 

CARLTON, FRANK H., lawyer, author, 
was born Oct. 8, 1849, in Newport, N. H. 
He has been editor of the St. Pauj Press] 
and other publications. In 1881 he was 
secretary to Governor John L. Pillsbury; 
and now practices law in Minneapolis’, 
Minn. His poems have appeared in 
standard works. 

C ARLI ON, HENRY HULL, soldier, 
journalist, lawyer, United States senator, 
congressman, was born May 14, 1835, in 
Athens, Ga. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive to the general assembly of Georgia in 
1872, and was successively re-elected till 
1877, inclusive, when he declined re-elec¬ 
tion. He was state senator in 1884-85, and 
president of the senate during that term. 
He was editor and proprietor of the Ath¬ 
ens Banner until 1880. when he com¬ 
menced the practice of law; and was 
elected city attorney of Athens. He was 
four years in the confederate army, under 
General R. E. Lee, holding the rank of 
lieutenant, captain, and major of artil¬ 
lery. He was elected to the fiftieth and 
fifty-first congresses as a democrat. 

CARLTON, PETER, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1807 to 1809. 

CARMACK, E. W., lawyer, journalist, 
congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1858, in 
Castalian Springs, Tenn. He was elected 
to the legislature as a democrat in 1884; 
in 1886 joined the editorial staff of the 
Nashville American; in 1888 founded the 
Nashville Democrat; and afterward be¬ 
came editor-in-chief of the Nashville 
American newspaper. In 1892 he became 
editor of the Memphis Commercial. He 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress. 

CARMACK, SAMUEL W., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 9, 1802, in Davidson 
county, Tenn. In 1S42 he was appointed 
a territorial judge. He died Dec. 18, 1849. 

CARMAN, WILLIAM BLISS, author, 
poet, was born in 1861, in Canada. He 
is a poet whose literary work has been 
done mainly in New York and Boston. 
He is the author of Low Tide on Grand 
Pre; A Seamark; Behind the Arras; 
Songs from Vagabondia; More Songs 
from Vagabondia; and Ballaas of Lost 
Haven, a Book of the Sea. 

CARMICHAEL, DANIEL L., soldier, 
educator, lawyer, stock raiser, was born 
Nov. 9, 1843, in Wayne county, N. Y. He 
received his education in the high schools 
and academy of Charlotte and Lansing, 
Mich. He served gallantly as a soldier 
during the civil war; and subsequently 
was engaged in educational work. He 
then took up the practice of law, and has 
served as prosecuting attorney. He is 
prominent in the Order of Foresters; 
grand dictator of the Knights of Honor of 
Illinois; and commander of the Whittier 
post of the Grand Army of the Republic. 

CARMICHAEL, HARTLE1, clergyman, 
author, was born April 25, 1854, in Dub¬ 
lin, Ireland. He has been rector of the 
Church of the Ascension in Hamilton, 
Canada; and is now rector of the St" 
Paul’s church of Richmond, Va. He is 

the author of several successful novels_ 

Rooted in Dishonor; and The Centuries 
of Castle-Craig. He is also a musical 
composer; and is high in the ranks of 
Freemasonry. 






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CARMICHAEL, RICHARD B„ lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Maryland. He 
was a representative from Maryland in 
the twenty-third congress, and was presi¬ 
dent of the courts of Queen Anne coun¬ 
ty in 18G1. 

CARMICHAEL, WILLIAM, diplomat, 
was born in Maryland. He was a delegate 
to the continental congress from 1778 to 
1780; .was secretary of legation during 
Mr. Jay’s mission to Spain; and remained 
as charge d’affaires after Mr. Jay left in 
1782, receiving a commission in 1780, and 
retained the office for about fifteen years. 
He died in February, 1795. 

CARMIENCKE, JOHN HERMANN, ar¬ 
tist, was born in 1810 in Germany. He 
was industrious in the pursuit of his art, 
and his paintings are faithful delineations 
of the forms of nature. He was a very 
successful teacher, a member of the Art 
association, and one of the earliest and 
most active members of the Brooklyn 
Academy of Design, and of the Artists’ 
Fund society of New York. He died June 
15, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

CARNAHAN, JAMES, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born Nov. 15, 1775, in 
Carlisle, Pa. He was ordained pastor of 
the united churches of Whitesborough 
and Utica, where he remained until 1814. 
He opened a classical academy in George¬ 
town, D. C., and taught for nine years, 
when he was elected to the presidency of 
Princeton college of New Jersey. He died 
March 2, 1859, in Newark, N. J. 

CARNEGIE, ANDREW, manufacturer, 
author, was born Nov. 2, 1835, in Scot¬ 
land. He is a noted steel manufacturer 
of Pittsburg who came to America in 1845. 
He has made many important gifts to his 
native Scotland and to Pittsburg, and as 
a writer is distinguished for the rather 
exuberant Americanism of his work. He 
is the author of An American Four-in- 
Hand in Europe; Round the World; and 
Triumphant Democracy, or Fifty Years’ 
March of the Republic. 

CARNES, THOMAS P., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in Maryland. He 
was solicitor-general, attorney-general, 
and judge of the supreme court, and was 
a representative in congress from Geor¬ 
gia from 1793 to 1795. He died May 8, 
1822, in Milledgeville, Ga. 

CARNEY, JULIA A., educator, author, 
was born April 6, 1823, in Lancaster, 
Mass. Her maiden name was Fletcher, 
under which name appeared the popular 
poem Little Drops of Water. Many of 
her poems have been set to music and 
published in school text-books, and used 
in the hymn-books of churches for more 
than half a century. 

CARNEY, THOMAS, governor. He was 
a governor of Kansas from 1861 to 1864. 

CARNOCHAN, JOHN MURRAY, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born July 4, 1817, in 
Savannah, Ga. He was noted as a sur¬ 
geon of distinction; and was the author 
of Treatise on Congenital Dislocations, 
and Contributions to Operative Surgery. 
He died Oct. 28, 1887, in New York city. 

CAROW, ISAAC, merchant, was born 
March 29, 1778, in the West Indies. He 
was a member of the firm of Kennit and 
Carow, shipping merchants of New York 
city; and from 1839 until 1842 was pres¬ 
ident of the chamber of commerce. He 
died Sept. 3, 1850, in New York city. 

CARPENDER, EDWARD WILLIAM, 
naval officer, was born Jan. 28, 1797, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He was placed on the 
reserved list in 1855, and became com¬ 
modore in 1862. During 1864-66 he was 
prize commissioner at Key West, Fla. He 
died May 16,. 1877, in Shrewsbury, N. J. 


CARPENTER, AMELIA WALSTEIN, 
author, poet, was born Feb. 23, 1840, in 
Stephentown, N. Y. She has contributed 
to Frank Leslie’s periodicals, is a corre¬ 
spondent of the Springfield Republican; 
editor of the New York Citizen; and as 
a poetess and novelist has gained a fa¬ 
vorable reputation. 

CARPENTER. BENJAMIN, patriot, 
was born in 1726 in Rehoboth, Mass. He 
was one of the founders of the town of 
Guilford in 1770, and served during the 
revolutionary war as a field officer. Later 
he was a member of the first constitution¬ 
al convention of Vermont and also a 
member of the council. In 1778 he was 
elected lieutenant-governor of the state, 
and afterward became one of the council 
of censors. He died March 29, 1823, in 
Guilford, Vt. 

CARPENTER, CHARLES KETCHUM. 
farmer, state legislator, governor, author, 
was born Jan. 23, 1826. in Hornellsville, 
N. Y. He settled in Michigan in 1837. 
In 1858 he was elected to the lower branch 
of the legislature. In 1874 he was nomi¬ 
nated as governor by the prohibition party 
in Michigan; and in 1876 was again nomi¬ 
nated for the same office on the first 
greenback ticket. He was the author of 
several works. He died Aug. 19, 1884, 
in Orion, Mich. 

CARPENTER, CYRUS CLAY, soldier, 
congressman, governor, was born Nov. 
24, 1820, in Hartford, Pa. In 1857 he was 
elected to the state legislature; in 1861 
entered the army, and as brevet colonel 
rendered important service during the 
war. In 1866 he was elected register of 
the state land office at Des Moines, and 
was re-elected. In 1871 he was elected 
governor of Iowa. He was a state com¬ 
missioner of railroads in 1878, and was 
elected a representative from Iowa to the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses 
as a republican. 

CARPENTER, DAVIS, soldier, physi¬ 
cian, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1799, 
in Walpole, N. H. He attained the posi¬ 
tion of colonel of a rifle corps; was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1853 to 1855. 

CARPENTER, EDMUND JAMES, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1845 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a noted journalist of Bos¬ 
ton, and the author of A Woman of 
Shawmut, a Romance of Colonial Times; 
and History of Roger Williams. 

CARPENTER, ELISHA, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Jan. 14, 1824, in Ashford, Conn. 
In 1845 he was elected judge of probate 
court and state’s attorney in Windham 
county, Conn.; from 1857-58 was a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate; 1861 was judge of 
the superior court; and in 1866 was judge 
of the supreme bench of the state. 

CARPENTER, ELLEN M., educator, ar¬ 
tist, was born Nov. 28, 1830, in Killingly, 
Conn. Much of her time is devoted to 
teaching art in Boston. Among her 
works are The Yosemite Valley; Temples 
of Pcestum; Venice, Grand Canal; and 
numerous portraits. 

CARPENTER, ESTHER BERNON, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1848 in Rhode Island. 
She was a writer of southern Rhode 
Island, whose South Country Neighbors 
is a series of sympathetic studies in fic¬ 
tion of Rhode Island types of character. 
She died in 1893. 

CARPENTER, FRANCIS BICKNELL, 
painter, author, was born in 1830 in New 
York. He is a portrait painter of New 
York city, who painted The Emancipation 
Proclamation in the Capitol at Washing¬ 
ton. He was the author of Six Months 
in the White House with Abraham Lin¬ 
coln. 


CARPENTER, FRANCIS WOOD, mer¬ 
chant, manufacturer, was born June 24, 
1831, in Seekonk, Mass. He is presi¬ 
dent of the Congo and Carpenter com¬ 
pany, and also the Rhode Island Perkins 
Horseshoe company. He is also president 
of the American National bank. 

CARPENTER, GEORGE MOULTON, 
lawyer, jurist, was born April 22, 1844, 
in Portsmouth, R. I. He was appointed 
one of a board of commissioners to re¬ 
vise the laws of Rhode Island in 1882; 
was elected a justice of the supreme 
court of the state in 1885; and was ap¬ 
pointed United States district judge for 
the district of Rhode Island. 

CARPENTER, GEORGE W„ scientist, 
was born July 31, 1802, in Germantown, 
Pa. He was a successful merchant in 
Philadelphia, and devoted his leisure to 
the study of sciences. His opinion on sub¬ 
jects in geology was of recognized value. 
He accumulated a choice collection of 
minerals, and showed considerable inter¬ 
est in the medical sciences. He died June 
7, 1860, in Germantown, Pa. 

CARPENTER. HENRY BERNARD, 
clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1840 
in Ireland. He was a Unitarian clergy¬ 
man of Boston, and brother of W. Boyd 
Carpenter, the Anglican bishop of Ri- 
pon. He wrote principally in verse, his 
only published books including The Oat¬ 
meal Crusaders; Liber Amoris, a Metri¬ 
cal Romance of the Middle Ages; and 
A Poet’s Last Songs. He died in 1890. 

CARPENTER, LEVI D., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York, from 1843 to 1845, to fill a va¬ 
cancy. 

CARPENTER, LEWIS CASS, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1836, 
in Putnam, Conn. He was appointed to 
a position in the treasury department; 
was correspondent for several newspa¬ 
pers; assisted in establishing the first 
daily paper in South Carolina, The Char¬ 
leston Republican, in 1868, and removed 
there in 1870 to become one of its editors. 
He established The Daily Union in 1870; 
and was elected to the forty-third con¬ 
gress to fill a vacancy. 

CARPENTER, MATTHEW H„ lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, was born 
Dec. 22, 1824, in Moretown, Vt. He was 
for several years a 
district attorney for 
the state of Wiscon¬ 
sin, and practiced 
his profession before 
the supreme court of 
the United States. He 
was elected a sena¬ 
tor in congress from 
Wisconsin for the 
term commencing in 
1869 and ending in 
1875, serving on the 
committees on the 
judiciary, patents, and revision of laws; 
and also served as president pro tem of 
the senate. He was again elected United 
States senator in 1878 for the term end¬ 
ing in 1885. He died Feb. 24, 1881, in 
Washington, D. C. 

CARPENTER, MIRON J., railroad 
president, was born April 12, 1850, in 
Caledonia, Ill. He is the president of 
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad. 

CARPENTER, NEWTON FRANCIS, 
lawyer, legislator, was born April 27, 1831, 
in Rehoboth, Mass. In 1866 he was a 
member of the Wisconsin legislature. He 
has been a justice of the peace for twen¬ 
ty years, and court commissioner four¬ 
teen years. 




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CARPENTER, ROLLA CLINTON, edu¬ 
cator, mechanical engineer, author,’ was 
born June 26, 1852, in Orion, Mich. He 
received his education at the Michigan 
Agricultural college, Michigan university, 
and Cornell university. After serving as 
a civil engineer on railroad construction 
he became professor of civil engineering 
and mathematics in the Michigan Agri¬ 
cultural college; and afterward professor 
of experimental engineering in the Cor¬ 
nell university. He has been consulting 
engineer for various important electrical 
railroads; and has made several import¬ 
ant investigations relating to applied me¬ 
chanics. He is the author of a work on 
Experimental Engineering; one on Heat¬ 
ing and Ventilating Buildings; and on 
Testing of Materials. 

CARPENTER, STEPHEN CUTTER, 
journalist, author, was born in England! 
He was an English journalist who came 
to America in 1803 and settled in Char¬ 
leston. He is the author of Memoir of 
Thomas Jefferson, containing a Concise 
History of the United States; and An 
Overland Journey to India. He died 
about 1820. 

CARPENTER. STEPHEN HASKINS, 
educator, author, was born Aug. 7, 1831, 
in Little Falls, N. Y. He was a Wiscon¬ 
sin educator; and professor of literature 
at the university of Wisconsin. He was 
the author of Evidences of Christianity; 
English of the Fourteenth Century; In¬ 
troduction to the Study of Anglo-Saxon; 
and Elements of English Analysis. He 
died Dec. 7, 1831, in Little Falls, N. Y. 

CARPENTER. WILLIAM, author, was 
born in 1830 in England. He was an ec¬ 
centric English printer and stenograph¬ 
er who removed from England to Balti¬ 
more in 1879. He strenuously advocated 
the theory that the earth is flat, re¬ 
volving on a central axis with the sun 
stationary over the center. Among his 
various writings are: The Earth Not a 
Globe, by Common Sense; Sir Isaac New¬ 
ton’s Theoretical Astronomy Examined 
and Refuted by Common Sense; Water 
not Convex; Proctor’s Planet Earth; and 
Something About Spiritualism. He died 
in 1896. 

CARPENTER, WILLIAM H„ soldier, 
business man, was born July 4, 1844, in 
Luray, Va. He received his education in 
the schools of his native city, and at St. 
Joseph, Mo. During 1861-65 he served 
in the confederate service from private to 
captain. He then traveled extensively as 
business representative of several large 
firms. Since 1889 he has been president of 
the Phoenix Loan association of St Jo¬ 
seph, Mo.; is prominently connected with 
various other business enterprises, and 
has taken an active part in the public af¬ 
fairs of his county and state. 

CARR, ELIAS, farmer, governor, was 
born Feb. 25, 1839, in Edgecombe coun¬ 
ty, N. C. He completed his education 
in the university of 
Virginia and North 
Carolina. With the 
exception of the time 
spent in the confed¬ 
erate army, his life 
has been pre-emi¬ 
nently that of the ag¬ 
riculturist, managing 
his large private in¬ 
terests in Edge¬ 
combe, his native 
county. He was the 
first county presi¬ 
dent of the Farmers’ Alliance; and for 
two terms was president of the State 
Alliance. In 1886 he was a delegate from 


North Carolina to the farmers’ national 
convention at St. Paul; and in 1892 was 
appointed commissioner to the World’s 
Fair. In 1892 he was elected governor of 
North Carolina by a majority of thirty 
thousand, which position he filled with 
distinction. 

CARR, FRANCIS, congressman, was 
born in 1752. He was a member of the 
Massachusetts legislature from 1806 to 
1811; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts from 1811 to 
1813. He died in October, 1821. 

CARR, JAMES, congressman. He served 
three years in the Massachusetts legis¬ 
lature from Bangor, and was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Massachusetts 
from 1815 to 1817. 

CARR, JOHN, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Indiana 
from 1831 to 1837, and again from 1839 
to 1841. He died Jan. 20, 1845, in Clark 
county, Ind. 

CARR, JOSEPH B., soldier, was born 
Aug. 16, 1826, in Albany, N. Y. When 
the civil war broke out he was made 
lieutenant-colonel, and then colonel of the 
second New York volunteers. In 1865 he 
was brevetted major-general, and in 1893 
appointed major-general. 

CARR, JOSEPH M., clergyman, was 
born March 9, 1836, in Damascus, Ohio. 
In 1854 he entered Mount Union college, 
and graduated therefrom in 1859. The 
same year he entered the Pittsburg con¬ 
ference, and since 1880 has been a mem¬ 
ber of the East Ohio conference of the 
methodist episcopal church. He secured 
one hundred thousand dollars for the 
Mount Union college, together with very 
valuable grounds and the president’s resi¬ 
dence. He was chairman of the East 
Ohio delegation, and of the general mis¬ 
sionary committee of the fourth general 
conference district; is a trustee of Mount 
Union college; president of the board of 
trustees of the East Ohio conference; sec¬ 
retary of the Ministerial Relief associa¬ 
tion of Pittsburg and East Ohio confer¬ 
ences; and has filled numerous other po¬ 
sitions in his church. He is now pastor 
of the Miles Park Avenue church, of 
Cleveland, Ohio. He is a descendant of 
Gov. Caleb Carr, whose ancestors came to 
America in 1635. 

CARR, JULIAN SHAKESPEARE, man¬ 
ufacturer, banker, philanthropist, was 
born Oct. 12, 1845, in Chapel Hill, N. C. 

He graduated from 
the university of 
North Carolina, of 
which institution he 
is a member of the 
executive committee 
of the board of trus¬ 
tees. He is also a 
member of the board 
of trustees of Trin¬ 
ity college; and a 
member of the board 
of directors of' the 
Oxford asylum. In 
1883-91 he was a delegate from the state 
at large to the democratic national con¬ 
ventions. He was a delegate to the 
Ecumenical conference of the Methodism 
of the World, held in London; and a dele¬ 
gate to the Robert Raike's centennial. Mr. 
Carr is the president of the following 
companies: Blackwell’s Durham Tobac¬ 
co company; First National bank of Dur¬ 
ham; Golden Belt Manufacturing com¬ 
pany; and the Greensboro Female College 
association. He served in the confed¬ 
erate army in Barringer’s brigade, Hamp¬ 
ton’s corps, in the army ol' Northern Vir¬ 
ginia. 


CARR, LUCIEN, archaeologist, author, 
was born in 1829, in Missouri. He is an 
archaeologist of Cambridge, and was cur¬ 
ator of the Peabody museum from 1876 to 
1894. He is the author of The Mounds 
of the Mississippi Valley Historically Con¬ 
sidered; Missouri, a brief History of the 
State; and Prehistoric Remains of Ken¬ 
tucky. 

CARR, NATHAN T., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1833, in 
Steuben county, N. Y. In 1858 he was 
elected a representative in the Michigan 
state legislature. He entered the union 
army in 1861 as first lieutenant. In 1863 
he moved to Indiana; and was subse¬ 
quently elected a representative from that 
state to the forty-fourth congress to fill 
a vacancy. 

CARR, ROBERT V., journalist, poet, 
was born July 15, 1877, in Chenoa, Ill. 
He received his education at the South 
Dakota School of Mines. He learned the 
printing business, and is a successful 
journalist of Rapid City, S. D. He is the 
author of numerous poems of merit, and 
is familiarly known as the Black Hills 
Poet. 

CARR, WILLIAM BROWN, educator, 
college president, author, was born Feb. 4, 
1820, in Leesburg, Va. For over half a cen¬ 
tury, 1841-92, Prof. Carr has been en¬ 
gaged in educational work as professor 
and president in various schools and col¬ 
leges, including Warren Green academy, 
Va.; New Lisbon institute, Va.; Madi¬ 
son Female college, Ga.; Wesleyan Fe¬ 
male college, N. C.; Randolph Macon col¬ 
lege, Va.; and president of Petersburg 
Female college. He is the author of Carr’s 
Plan with English Syntax; The Genealo¬ 
gy of the Carrs; and other works. 

CARRELL, GEORGE ALOYSIUS, Ro¬ 
man catholic bishop, was born in 1803 in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He performed mission¬ 
ary duty in Pennsylvania, New Jersey 
and Delaware, and founded an academy 
for young ladies. Between 1851 and 1853 
he was president of the Purcell Mansion 
college, Cincinnati. On the erection of 
the eastern portion of Kentucky into the 
see of Covington in 1853, Dr. Carrell was 
made bishop. He died in 1868 in Coving¬ 
ton, Ky. 

CARRIER, AUGUSTUS STILES, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1857 in New 
York. He is a presbyterian clergyman of 
Chicago; and professor of Hebrew in Mc¬ 
Cormick Theological seminary from 1892. 
He is the author of The Hebrew Verb, a 
Series of Tabular Studies. 

CARRIGAIN, PHILIP, lawyer, was born 
Feb. 20, 1772, in Concord, N. H. He was 
secretary of state of New Hampshire four 
years, and also clerk of the senate. He 
surveyed a great part of the state, of 
which he published an excellent map, in 
1816, and was the first to apply to New 
Hampshire the name of the granite state. 
He died March 16, 1842, in Concord, N. H. 

CARRINGTON, EDWARD, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 11, 1749, in 
Charlotte county, Va. He was an efficient 
officer during the revolution; was for 
some time quartermaster-general of the 
army under Gen. Greene, in the south, 
and greatly contributed to the advan¬ 
tage gained over the enemy. He was 
afterward attached to the army of the 
north, but previous to the evacuation 
of Charleston resumed his former sta¬ 
tion. He was a delegate to the conti¬ 
nental congress from Virginia from 1785 
to 1786; and was forlman of the jury 
which tried Aaron Burr for treason. He 
died Oct. 28, 1810, in Richmond, Va. 





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CARRINGTON, HENRY BEEBE, gen¬ 
eral, author, was born March 2, 1824, in 
Wallingford, Conn. He is a general in the 
United States army living in Boston. 
His principal writings include Crisis 
Thoughts; Battles of the American Revo¬ 
lution; Apsaraka, or Indian Operations on 
the Plains; Hints to Soldiers Taking the 
Field; and The Washington Obelisk and 
its Voices. 

CARRINGTON, PAUL, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1764. He became a 
lawyer, and served in both houses of the 
legislature and afterward on the bench of 
the superior court. He died Jan. 8, 1816. 

CARROL, JOHN, bishop, author, was 
born in 1735 in Maryland. He was the 
first Roman catholic archbishop of Bal¬ 
timore. His writings are mainly of a con¬ 
troversial cast. He is the author of Con¬ 
cise View of the Principal Points of Con¬ 
troversy between the Protestant and 
Catholic Churches; and Discourse on Gen¬ 
eral Washington. He died in 1817 in 
Georgetown, D. C. 

CARROLL, ALFRED L., physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 4, 1833, in New York 
city. He has been for many years prom¬ 
inently identified with the state health or¬ 
ganization. He organized the first state 
board of health in the state at Staten Is¬ 
land in 1872, and at New Brighton in 
1880. He is the author of Relation of Hy¬ 
giene to Therapeutics and Question of 
Quarantine. 

CARROLL, ANNA ELLA, military ge¬ 
nius, author, was born Aug. 29, 1815, in 
Somerset county, Md. She was sent by 
President Lincoln to St. Louis to en¬ 
deavor to form an opinion of the prob¬ 
able success or failure of a most import¬ 
ant expedition preparing to descend the 
Mississippi by means of gunboats. She 
reported the Mississippi as frowning 
with fortifications and tides as unfavor¬ 
able. She recommended the use of the 
Tennessee river as the true strategic line. 
In furtherance of this secret plan the 
western armies, to the amazement of the 
confederacy, were suddenly transferred 
from the Mississippi up to the Tennessee 
river. The most brilliant result followed. 
Fort Henry fell, Fort Donaldson was tak¬ 
en, the confederacy was divided, and the 
rebel armies cut off from their source of 
supplies. She was the author of The 
Great American Battle, or The Contest 
between Christianity and Political Ro¬ 
manism; The Star of the West, or Na¬ 
tional Men and National Measures; The 
Union of the States; The War Powers of 
the General Government; and The Rela¬ 
tion of the National Government to the 
Revolted Citizens Defined. She died in 
1894. 

CARROLL, CHARLES, of Carrollton, 
signer of the declaration of independence, 
was born Sept. 20, 1737, in Annapolis, Md. 

He became known as 
an advocate for lib¬ 
erty, and was one of 
the ablest political 
writers of Maryland; 
and in 1776 was 
elected a delegate to 
the old congress, and 
subscribed his name 
to the declaration of 
independence. At the 
time of his death he 
was the last surviv¬ 
ing signer of that 
document. In 1778 he left congress and 
devoted himself ta the councils of his na¬ 
tive state. In 1789 he was elected a sen¬ 
ator to the new congress. He died Feb. 
14, 1832, in Baltimore, Md. 


CARROLL, CHARLES H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1794 in Maryland. 
He was a member of the assembly of the 
state in 1836; a state senator in 1837; and 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1843 to 1847. He died in 
1865 in Groveland, N. Y. 

CARROLL, DANIEL, congressman, was 
born in Maryland. He was a delegate from 
Maryland to the continental congress 
from 1780 to 1784; signed the articles 
of confederation and also the constitu¬ 
tion, and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maryland from 1789 to 1791. 
He djed in 1829. 

CARROLL, DAVID L., clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born May 10, 
1787, in Fayette county, Pa. In 1829 he 
was installed pastor of the First Presby¬ 
terian church of Brooklyn, L. I.; and 
in 1835 he was elected the ninth presi¬ 
dent of Hampden Sidney college. He is 
the author of The Ministerial Officer, and 
other works. He died Nov. 23, 1851. 

CARROLL, DAVID WILLIAMSON, 
lawyer, jurist, was born March 11, 1816, 
in Baltimore, Md. In 1850 he was elected 
to the Arkansas legislature; in 1860 was 
elected prosecuting attorney; in 1861- 
62 he served in the civil war, and at¬ 
tained the rank of colonel. In 1864 he was 
elected to the lower house of the confed¬ 
erate congress; in 1866 was elected judge 
of Jefferson county; and in 1878 was 
elected chancellor of Pulaski chancery 
court at Little Rock, Ark. 

CARROLL, HENRY KING, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1847 in New Jersey. 
He is a methodist clergyman and relig¬ 
ious statistician; and the author of The 
World of Missions; The Catholic Dogma 
of Church Authority; and The Religious 
Forces of the United States. 

CARROLL, HOWARD, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1854 in Albany, N. Y. 
He was a subordinate reporter on the New 
York Times, but rapidly developed so 
marked a talent for journalism that he 
was promoted to the position of traveling 
correspondent of that journal. He is the 
author of A Mississippi Incident and 
Twelve Americans. 

CARROLL, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in Maryland. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1839 
to 1841. 

CARROLL, JAMES, lawyer, was born 
Feb. 26, 1856, in Washington county, Pa. 
In l&»0 he graduated from Penn college 
of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and three years later 
was admitted to the bar. He has attained 
success in the profession of law at Oska¬ 
loosa, Iowa; was elected county attorney 
in 1892 for two years; and received the 
re-election to the same office in 1897. 

CARROLL, JOHN JOSEPH, clergyman, 
scholar, was born June 24, 1856, in Ire¬ 
land. He was made an assistant at the 
Cathedral of the Holy Name, and by his 
zeal and proficiency was soon made pastor 
of St. Thomas parish, which has grown to 
be one of the most wealthy and popu¬ 
lous of Chicago. He is one of the most 
renowned Gaelic scholars in the world. 

CARROLL, JOHN LEE, state senator, 
governor, was born in 1830 in Baltimore, 
Md. He was elected to the state senate 
in 1867, and again in 1871. In 1875 he 
was elected governor of Maryland; the 
year that he entered upon his duties as 
such was the one hundredth after the date 
that his grandfather signed the declara¬ 
tion of independence. 



CARROLL, JOHN M„ lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born April 27, 1825, in Spring- 
field N. Y. He received an academic 



prominence as one 
yers in the state of 
town. 


education; graduat¬ 
ed at Union college, 
Schenectady, in 1846; 
studied law, and 
came to the bar in 
1848. He was elect¬ 
ed district attorney 
of Fulton county in 
1859, and held that 
office three years; 
and was elected to 
the forty-second con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 
He has also attained 
of the foremost law- 
New York at Johns- 


CARROLL, SAMUEL SPRIGG, soldier, 
was born Sept. 21, 1832, in Washington, 
D. C. In the Pennsylvania campaign he 
was present at the battle of Gettysburg, 
where he earned the brevet of lieutenant- 
colonel. In the battle of the Wilderness he 
won the brevet of colonel, and in the en¬ 
gagements near Spottsylvania was twice 
wounded and disabled for service in the 
field during the rest of the war. He was 
promoted brigadier-general of volunteers 
in 1864, and in 1865 received the 
brevet of brigadier-general, United States 
army, for gallantry at Spottsylvania, and 
that of major-general for services during 
the rebellion. In 1867 he became a lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel in the regular army. In 
1868 he was acting inspector-general of 
the division of the Atlantic, and in 1869 
retired as major-general for disability 
from wounds received in battle. He died 
Jan. 29, 1893, in Washington, D. C. 

CARROLL, T. K., statesman. He was 
elected governor of Maryland in 1830 
and 1831. 


CARROLL, U. S. G., clergyman, author, 
was born May 1, 1864, in Waterloo, Ohio. 
He received a thorough education; was 
for a time engaged in the mercantile busi¬ 
ness; and is now the pastor of a metho¬ 
dist episcopal church in Hundred, W. Va. 
He is the author of The Christian Respon¬ 
sibility of Parents to Their Children, and 
contributes extensively to religious litera¬ 
ture. 


CARROLL, WILLIAM, soldier, govern¬ 
or, was born in 1788 in Pittsburg, Pa. His 
fitness for military service attracted the 
attention of Gen. Jackson, and he made 
him captain and brigadier-inspector in his 
division of the army in 1813; and 
was colonel and inspector-general from 
1813 to 1814. He was governor of 
Tennessee from 1821 to 1827, and from 
1829 to 1835. He died March 22, 1844, in 
Nashville, Tenn. 

CARROLL, WILLIAM A., state legisla¬ 
tor, was born Jan. 1, 1836, in Albany, 
N. Y. He has held various positions of 
honor in his state, and has served with 
distinction as a member of the New York 
legislature. 

CARROLL, WILLIAM H„ soldier, was 
born about 1820. He commanded a brig¬ 
ade in Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston’s con¬ 
federate army. The Unionists rose in 
scattered bands, but dispersed at the ap¬ 
proach of the southern troops. On Nov. 
14, 1862, Gen. Carroll, commanding at 
Knoxville, proclaimed martial law, but 
on the twenty-fourth rescinded the order. 

CARItOW, HOWARD, lawyer, jurist, 
was born May 30, 1861, in Camden, Del. 
He was appointed judge of the district 
court of Camden in 1891 for a term of five 
years. He is president of the West Jersey 
democrat league, and solicitor for the 
board of trade of Camden. 



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CARRUTH, JAMES HARRISON, bot¬ 
anist, author, was born Feb. 10, 1807, in 
Phillipston, Mass. In 1824 he edited the 
United States Review at Boston. From 
1835 till 1840 he was a member either of 
the house or senate of Massachusetts, was 
chairman of the legislative committee on 
education, and in 1837 drafted the bill 
establishing the board of education. He 
was the author of Geography of Massa¬ 
chusetts, and the Geography of New 
Hampshire. 

CARRUTH, WILLIAM HERBERT, edu¬ 
cator, author, poet, was born in 1859 in 
Ossawatomie, Kan. He is a joint author 
of the History of Municipal Suffrage in 
Kansas, and co-editor of Sunflowers. 

CARRUTHERS, WILLIAM ALEXAN¬ 
DER, physician, author, was born in 1800 
in Virginia. He was a physician of Sa¬ 
vannah who wrote a number of romances 
now quite forgotten. He was the author 
of The Kentuckian in New York; The 
Cavaliers of Virginia; Knights of the 
Horse Shoe; and Life of Charles Cald¬ 
well. He died about 1850 in Savannah, Ga. 

CARRYL, CHARLES EDWARD, broker, 
author, was born in 1841 in New York! 
He is a broker of New York city, and the 
author of the popular juvenile tales. Davy 
and the Goblin; and The Admiral’s Cara¬ 
van. 

CARSE, MRS. MATILDA B„ temper¬ 
ance worker. She was the founder and 
president of the Woman’s Dormitory as¬ 
sociation of the World’s Columbian expo¬ 
sition. She founded the Woman’s Tem¬ 
perance Publishing association, and was 
one of the leaders in planning and carry¬ 
ing out the building of the Woman’s 
Temperance Temple of Chicago, Ill. 

CARSON, CHRISTOPHER [KIT CAR- 
SON], explorer, traveler, guide and trap¬ 
per, was born Dec. 24, 1809, in Madison 
county, Ky. He rendered important serv¬ 
ices as guide to Fremont in his noted 
western explorations. Serving in the civil 
war, he received the title of brigadier- 
general. He died May 23, 1868, in Fort 
Lynn, Colo. 

CARSON, GEORGE, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, jurist, was born Feb. 5, 1841, 

in Jennings county, Ind. He served 
in the civil war as a soldier; in 1878-80 
was a member of the Iowa legislature; 
served in the senate in 1884-S6; was on 
the district bench 1887-91, and in 1896 was 
elected mayor of Council Bluffs, Iowa. 

CARSON, HAMPTON LAWRENCE, 
lawyer, author, was born Feb. 21, 1852, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a prominent 
lawyer of Philadelphia and the author 
of The History of the One Hundredth An¬ 
niversary of the Promulgation of the Con¬ 
stitution of the United States, and The 
History of the Supreme Court of the 
United States. 

CARSON, JOSEPH, physician, author, 
was born in 1808. He was a medical pro¬ 
fessor at the university of Pennsylvania; 
and the author of Illustrations of Medi¬ 
cal Botany; and Lectures on Materia 
Medica and Pharmacy. He died in 1876. 

CARSON, LUELLA CLAY, educator, 
was born March 12, 1856, in Portland, 
Ore. Her father was a pioneer of the 
state, and for many years a member of 
the state senate. Since 1880 she has been 
closely identified with the educational 
work of Oregon; has been instructor in 
the Couch school of Portland; preceptress 
of the Pacific university, and since 1888 
has filled the chair of English literature 
and rhetoric in the State university of 
Oregon. 


CARSON, SALLIE, poet, was born 
March 12, 1847, in Beaver county, Pa. 
She is the author of a volume of her select 
poems entitled Wayside Flowers. 

CARSON, SAMUEL P., congressman, 
was born at Pleasant Garden, N. C. For 
several years he was a member of the 
state legislature; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from North Carolina from 
1825 to 1833. He killed Doctor Robert B. 
Vance in a duel in 1827. He died in 
November, 1840, in Arkansas. 

CARSWELL, FRANKLIN WASHING¬ 
TON, merchant, was born Aug. 6, 1860, in 
Burke county, Ga. He graduated from 
the high schools of Hephzibah, Ga., and 
from the university of Georgia. He is a 
successful merchant, and prominent in 
public affairs of Hephzibah, Ga. 

CARTER, CHARLES DAVIS, composer, 
was born April 25, 1857, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. He has composed some songs for 
chorus and solo; and is the director of 
Pittsburg Female college. 

CARTER, CHARLES IGNATIUS 
HARDMAN, clergyman, was born in 1803 
in Lebanon, Ky. He was stationed at St. 
Mary’s, Philadelphia, where he. built the 
Church of the Assumption in 1849, and 
also erected a convent and free schools. 
He afterward founded a convent and 
academy of the Sisters of the Holy Child 
Jesus at Sharon Hill. He died in 1879 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CARTER. CHARLES M., lawyer, au¬ 
thor. He is a successful lawyer of 
Washington, D. C.; and the author of 
Political Romance, and other works. 

CARTER, EDWARD J., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born Aug. 16, 1859, near Ports¬ 
mouth, Ohio. Since 1894 he has been 
president of the Suwannee River railway. 

CARTER, D. M., artist, was born in 
1827 in Ireland. He was one of the orig¬ 
inal members of the Artists’ Fund society, 
established in 1859. About 1850 he paint¬ 
ed a series of pictures illustrating Gold¬ 
smith’s Deserted Village. Among his 
most successful works are Decatur’s At¬ 
tack on Tripoli; and Moll Pitcher at the 
Battle of Monmouth; and portraits of 
Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, James K. 
Polk, and other distinguished persons. 

CARTER, DAVID, agriculturist, legis¬ 
lator, was born Nov. 18, 1837, in McIn¬ 
tosh county, Ga. In 1897 he served with 
distinction as a member of the Florida 
state legislature from Cartersville. 

CARTER, FRANCIS M„ educator, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Nov. 28, 1839, in 
Carter county, Mo. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Arcadia college, university 
of Missouri, and the university of North 
Carolina. He has been superintendent of 
public schools; prosecuting attorney; and 
a representative in the Missouri state leg¬ 
islature. He has been a candidate for 
judge of the circuit court; and was twice 
presented as a democratic nominee for 
congress. He is one of the foremost law¬ 
yers of Missouri, and has an extensive 
practice at Farmington. 

CARTER, FRANKLIN, educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born Sept. 30, 1837, 
in Waterbury, Conn. From 1865 till 1868 
he was professor of Latin and of French 
at Williams, then of Latin alone, till 1872, 
and then of German, at Yale, till 1881, 
when he became president of Williams. 
He has published a translation of Goethe’s 
Iphigenie auf Tauris, and Life of Mark 
Hopkins. 

CARTER, HARLEY H., jurist, was 
born in New York. He removed to Mich¬ 
igan, from which state he was appointed 
an associate justice of the United States 
court for the territory of Arizona. 


CARTER, JAMES COOLIDGE, lawyer, 
author, was born Oct. 14, 1827, in Lan¬ 
caster, Mass. He was a member of the 
commission appointed by Gov. Tilden, of 
New York, in 1875, to devise a form of 
municipal government for the cities of 
the state. He ranks among the leading 
lawyers of New York. He has published 
a monograph entitled The Codification of 
our Common Law, in which he opposes 
the scheme of codification. 

CARTER, JAMES GORDON, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 7, 1795, in Leo¬ 
minster, Mass. He was a prominent edu¬ 
cator of Massachusetts; and the author of 
Essays on Popular Education; Geography 
of New Hampshire; Geography of 
Massachusetts; and Letters to William 
Prescott on the Free Schools of New Eng¬ 
land. He died July 22, 1849, in Chicago, 
HI. 

CARTER, JOHN, pioneer of Tennessee. 
When the district of Washington, now 
the state of Tennessee, was annexed to 
North Carolina during the revolution, he 
was elected, with John Sevier and Charles 
Robertson, to the convention that assem¬ 
bled at Halifax, N. C., in 1785, and framed 
a constitution for the state of Frankland, 
which was reunited with North Carolina 
in 1788. 

CARTER, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Sept. 10, 1792, on Black River, 
S. C. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from South Carolina from 1822 to 
1829, when he declined a re-election. He 
died June 20, 1850, in Georgetown, D. C. 

CARTER, JOHN C., naval officer, was 
born in 1805, in Virginia. In 1862 he com¬ 
manded the steamer Michigan oh the 
lakes. After the war he was placed in 
command of the receiving-ship Vermont 
and of the naval rendezvous at San Fran¬ 
cisco. He was commissioned as commo¬ 
dore on the retired list on April 4, 1867. 
He died Nov. 24, 1870, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

CARTER, JOSEPH McKENDREE. edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, was 
born Jan. 1, 1852, near Huntingdon, Tenn. 
He attended the East Tennessee Wesleyan 
university, which institution is now 
known as the U. S. Grant university. He 
attained success in educational work, and 
became a college president; and has re¬ 
ceived the degree of D. D. For twenty- 
five years he has been a traveling 
clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, fourteen years of which he was 
presiding elder. He has twice been a 
member of the general conference, and 
has filled numerous positions of honor in 
the gift of his church. 

CARTER, JOSIAH MASON, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born June 19, 1813, 
in New Canaan, Conn. He practiced in 
New York city from 1840 till 1847, and 
afterward in Norwalk; and served three 
terms in the Connecticut legislature, dur¬ 
ing the last of which he was speaker of 
the house. From 1862 till his death he 
filled the office of state’s attorney for Fair- 
field county. He died March 22, 1868, in 
Norwalk, Conn. 

CARTER, LORENZO, pioneer, was born 
in 1767, in Rutland, Vt. He emigrated in 
1796 to the western reserve, and settled in 
Cleveland in the spring of 1797. He kept 
a hotel and a store for the sale of hunt¬ 
ing-supplies in the early days of Cleve¬ 
land, and built the first frame house, the 
first warehouse, and the first vessel con¬ 
structed in that town. In 1804 he was 
elected a major in the militia. He died 
Feb. 7, 1814, in Cleveland, Ohio. 


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CARTER, LUTHER C., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 25, 1805, in Beth¬ 
el, Maine. He settled in New York city, 
and devoted himself to mercantile pur¬ 
suits with success. He was a member of 
the board of education in that city; and 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the thirty-sixth congress. 

CARTER, MARY HELEN, educator, 
poet, was born Jan. 1, 1871, in Fillmore 
county, Minn. For several terms she 
taught school in Iowa; and her poems 
have received extensive publication in the 
periodical press. 

CARTER, NATHAN FRANKLIN, 
clergyman, author, poet, was born Jan. 6, 
1830, in Henniker, N. H. He is the author 
of The Native Minis¬ 
try of New Hamp¬ 
shire; and The Ride 
for Life and Other 
Poems. For several 
years he was one of 
the editors of the 
New Hampshire 
Journal of Educa¬ 
tion. His poems 
have constantly ap¬ 
peared in periodical 
literature, and in 
Poets of America, 
and other standard collections. He is al¬ 
so an authority on religious matters in his 
denomination. 

CARTER, NATHANIEL HAZELTINE. 
journalist, author, was born Sept. 17, 1787, 
in Concord, Mass. He was a New York 
journalist who published Letters from 
Europe, and wrote many poems of re¬ 
flection. He died Jan. 2, 1830, in Mar¬ 
seilles, France. 

CARTER, OLIVER STANLEY, mer¬ 
chant, banker, was born July 25, 1825, in 
New Hartford, Conn. He was elected a 
director of The North American Fire In¬ 
surance Co. in 1856, and The Home In¬ 
surance Co. about 1860, which positions he 
has since held. Since 1892 he has been 
president of The National Bank of the Re¬ 
public. He owns the Carter building at 
Broadway and Eighth street; and the 
Carter and Macy building at 140-142 Pearl 
street. 

CARTER. PETER, publisher, author, 
was born July 19, 1825, in Scotland. He 
is a prominent New York publisher; and 
author of Crumbs from the Land of Cakes, 
a volume of travels in Scotland; Scotia’s 
Bards; and three juvenile tales includ¬ 
ing Bertie Lee; Donald Fraser; and Ef- 
fie’s Home. 

CARTER, ROBERT, author, was born 
Feb. 5, 1819, in Albany, N. Y. He was a 
New York writer who was one of the 
editors of Appleton’s American Cyclo¬ 
paedia, to which he contributed many ar¬ 
ticles. He is the'author of A Summer 
Cruise on the Coast of New England. He 
died Feb. 15, 1879, in Cambridge, Mass. 

CARTER, RUSSEL KELSO, mathema¬ 
tician, author, was born Nov. 19, 1849, in 
Baltimore, Md. lie is a mathematician of 
Chester, Pa., prominent in the Holiness 
movement in the methodist church and 
as a faith healer. He is the author of 
The Atonement for Sin and Sickness; and 
Miracles of Healing. 

CARTER, SAMUEL, naval officer, was 
born in Carter county, Tenn. He served 
in the civil war; and in 1865 attained the 
rank of lieutenant commander in the 
navy. During the following three years 
he was commandant of the Naval acad¬ 
emy of Annapolis, receiving his promo¬ 
tion as captain in 1870. He died May 26, 
.1891, in Washington, D. C. 


CARTER, THOMAS HENRY, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Oct. 30, 1854. in Scioto county, Ohio. 

He was engaged in 
farming, railroading, 
and school teaching 
for a number of 
years; studied law 
and was admitted to 
the bar. In 1882 he 
removed from Bur¬ 
lington, Iowa, to He¬ 
lena, Mont.; and was 
elected delegate from 
the territory of Mon¬ 
tana to the fifty-first 
congress as a repub¬ 
lican, and upon the admission of the state 
was elected its first representative in con¬ 
gress. He was commissioner of the gen¬ 
eral land office from March, 1891, to July, 
1892; and in January, 1895, was elected 
to the United States senate by the legis¬ 
lature of Montana for the term beginning 
in 1895 and ending in 1901. In July, 1892, 
he was elected chairman of the republican 
national committee. 

CARTER, TIMOTHY J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman." He was secretary of the Maine 
senate in 1833; county attorney from 1833 
to 1837; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maine in 1837-38. He died 
March 14, 1838, in Washington, D. C. 

CARTER, W. H., clergyman, mission¬ 
ary, was born Oct. 27, 1829, in Utica, N. 
Y, He was chaplain of the sixteenth reg¬ 
iment of Indiana volunteers in 1862-63. 
He has filled various pastorates; and in 
1877 began missionary work in Florida, 
with headquarters at Tallahassee. 

CARTER, WILLIAM B., state senator, 
congressman, was born in 1812, in Tenn¬ 
essee. He was a member of the house and 
senate in the state legislature; and presi¬ 
dent of the constitutional convention. 
From 1835 to 1841 he was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from his native state. 
He died April 17, 1848, in Carter county, 
Tenn. ■ 

CARTER, WILLIAM FRANCIS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Sept. 5, 1830, in 
Northborough, Mass. In 1867 he was ap¬ 
pointed professor of ancient languages, 
and afterward of the Latin language and 
history in the university of Wisconsin. 
He was the author of Annals of Tacitus; 
and a Short History of the Roman People. 
He died Dec. 9, 1889. 

CARTER, WILLIAM T., coal miner, 
was born Aug. 23, 1827, in England. About 
1867 he founded the town of Redington 
on The Lehigh Valley railroad, below 
Bethlehem, built there two large blast 
furnaces for the manufacture of pig iron, 
and erected machine shops and other 
works and a large number of dwellings. 
He died Feb. 9, 1893, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CARTER, WILLIS McGLASCOE, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, was born Sept. 3, 1852, 
in Albemarle county, Va. For sixteen 
years he taught school; was president of 
the Augusta Teachers’ association; and 
is now the editor and owner of the Staun¬ 
ton Tribune, Virginia. 

CARTER, DAVID KELLOGG, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born June 22, 
1812, in Rochester, N. Y. He was elected 
to congress as a democrat, and served 
two terms, from 1849 till 1853. In 1861 he 
was appointed minister to Bolivia. In 
1863 he became chief justice of the su¬ 
preme court of the District of Columbia. 
He died April 16, 1887, in Washington, 
D. C." 


CARTWRIGHT, MARY J., poet, was 
born Feb. 5, 1856, in Portland, Ind. Her 
poems have appeared in the periodical 
press; in Sunday school and singing 
books, and in sheet music form. She still 
resides in the city of her nativity. 

CARTWRIGHT, PETER, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 1, 1785, in Am¬ 
herst county, Va. He was a famous meth¬ 
odist preacher of 
Illinois; and the au¬ 
thor of Controversy 
with the Devil; Au¬ 
tobiography of a 
Backwoods Preach¬ 
er; and Fifty Years 
a Presiding Elder. 
He filled many high 
positions in his 
church, and attended 
all the important 
conventions. H e 
died Sept. 25, 1872, 
near Pleasant Plains, Ill. 

CARTWRIGHT, SAMUEL ADOLPHUS, 
physician, was born Nov. 30, 1793, in Fair¬ 
fax county, Va. He removed to Natchez, 
Miss., where he labored for more than a 
quarter of a century, and served at one 
time under Gen. Jackson as surgeon. He 
removed to New Orleans in 1848, and in 
1862 was appointed to improve the sani¬ 
tary condition of the confederate soldiers 
near Port Hudson and Vicksburg. He died 
May 2, 1863, in Jackson, Miss. 

CARUTH, ASHER GRAHAM, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1844, in 
Scottsville, Ky. He was attorney of the 
board of trustees of the public schools of 
Louisville, by annual elections, from 1873 
until 1880; in 1880 was elected common¬ 
wealth's attorney for the ninth judicial 
district of Kentucky for the constitutional 
term of six years, and was re-elected 
without opposition in 1886. He was 
elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty- 
second and fifty-third congresses. 

CARIJTHERS, ELI WASHINGTON, 
clergyman, historian, wrns born Oct. 23, 
1793, in Rowan county, N. C. He became 
pastor of Buffalo and Allemance churches 
in 1820. He is the author of Life of Da¬ 
vid Caldwell; and two volumes of Revo¬ 
lutionary Incidents and Sketches of Char¬ 
acters, Chiefly in the Old North State. 
He died Nov. 14, 1865, in North Carolina. 

CARIJTHERS, ROBERT L„ soldier, 
jurist, congressman, was born July 31, 
1800, in Smith county, Tenn. In 1834 he 
was elected a brigadier-general of militia; 
was a member of the Tennessee legisla¬ 
ture in 1835; and was a presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1845, declining to run for governor. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1841 to 1843, declining a 
re-election; and in 1852 was called to a 
seat on the supreme bench of Tennessee, 
holding the position many years. He was 
a delegate to the peace convention of 1861. 
He died Oct. 4, 1882. 

CARUTHERS, SAMUEL, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 13, 1820, in Mad¬ 
ison county. Mo. He was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the hcfuse of representatives in con¬ 
gress from Missouri from 1853 to 1859. He 
died July 20, 1860, in Cape Girardeau, Mg . 

CARVER, JOHN, governor, was born 
about 1590 in England. He was the first 
governor of Plymouth from 1620 to 1621. 
He died April 5, 1621. 

CARVER, JONATHAN, traveler, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1732, in Stillwater, N. 
Y. He was of an adventurous disposition, 
and traveled through the interior parts of 
North America. He was the author of a 
work entitled Travels through the Inte¬ 
rior Parts of North America. He died 
Jan. 31, 1780, in London, England. 






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CARVER, NATHANIEL E., educator, 
was born Aug. 6, 1841, in Cape Vincent, 
N. Y. After graduating from the Massa¬ 
chusetts State Normal school he took up 
educational work in which he has been 
eminently successful. He has taught in 
Wisconsin schools in Richmond City, 
Lone Rock, Muscoda, Sextonville, Prairie 
du Chien, and Chetek; and for six years 
has been county superintendent of Barron 
county. 

CARY, ALBIGENCE WALDO, inventor, 
was born May 23, 1801, in Coventry, R. 
I. He was the inventor of Cary’s rotary 
force-pump, which was used on the first 
steam fire-engine in the United States, in 
reconstructing the southern railway after 
the civil war and in the mines of Cali¬ 
fornia. He died Aug. 30, 1862, in Brock- 
port, N. Y. 

CARY, ALICE, author, poet, was born 
April 26, 1820, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She 
was an Ohio writer who came with her 
sister Phoebe to New 
York city in 1S52, 
and as poet and nov¬ 
elist became promi¬ 
nent in literary cir- 
c 1 e s there. The 
weekly receptions of 
the sisters were at¬ 
tended by artists and 
writers for m a n y 
years. Her books of 
verse include Lyra, 
and Other Poems; A 
Lover’s Diary; Bal¬ 
lads, Lyrics, and Hymns; Early and Late 
Poems (with Phoebe Cary, infra). Her 
other works are Clovernook, a book of 
the type of Miss Mitford’s Our Village; 
Pictures of Country Life; the novels, Ha- 
gar; The Bishop’s Son; Married, not 
Mated. Snowberries, a juvenile; From 
Year to Year; and A Token of Remem¬ 
brance. She died Feb. 12, 1871, in New 
York. 

CARY, ANNIE LOUISE, singer, was 
born Oct. 22, 1842, in Wayne, Maine. 
During the most active part of her pro¬ 
fessional career, she sang at all the festi¬ 
vals given in New York, Boston, Cincin¬ 
nati, Chicago, and Worcester. She was 
always a favorite with the American pub¬ 
lic; and was equally popular as an opera 
singer in foreign countries. In 1882 she 
was married to Charles Monson Raymond 
of New York city; and has since sung 
only in private and for charity. 

CARY, ARCHIBALD, patriot, was born 
in 1730, in Virginia. He served mainly in 
the Virginia convention and was chosen 
president of the senate when its state 
government was organized. He died in 
September, 1786. 

CARY, EDWARD, journalist, author, 
was born in 1840, in New York. He is a 
journalist of New York city on the edi¬ 
torial staff of The Times; and the author 
of Life of George William Curtis. 

CARY, GEORGE B., congressman. He 
was a member of congress from the Pet¬ 
ersburg district, Virginia, in 1842 and 
1843. He died March 5, 1850, in South¬ 
ampton county, Va. 

CARY, GEORGE LOVELL, theologian, 
author, was born in 1830, in Massachu¬ 
setts. He has been professor of New Tes¬ 
tament literature at Meadville Theologi¬ 
cal seminary since 1862; and is the author 
of Introduction to the Greek of the New 
Testament. 

CARY, JOSEPH CLINTON, inventor, 
was born Oct. 12, 1828, in Alexander, N. 
Y. He built two steam fire-engines about 
1S60, to which his father’s pump was ap¬ 
plied, for use in New York city. He was 
the originator of the cross-town railroad 



running from Christopher street ferry to 
the East river at Twenty-third street. He 
died Aug. 7, 1884, in Martha’s Vineyard, 
Mass. 


CARY, OLIVER HAZARD P., soldier, 
state legislator, was born Feb. 26, 1819, 
in Connersville, Ind. He was in all the 
battles of the army of the Cumberland, 
and was wounded five times. In 1876 he 
was elected to represent Grant county in 
the legislature, and was re-elected in 
1878 from Marion, Ind. 

CARY, PHCEBE, author, poet, was born 
Sept. 4, 1824, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is 
the author of Poems and Parodies; Poems 
of Faith, Hope, and 
Love. She will be 
longest remembered 
by the well-known 
hymn, Nearer Home. 
Her father moved 
from Vermont short¬ 
ly before her birth. 
She and her sister 
Alice wrote a num¬ 
ber of exquisite 
poems. Her name is 
sometimes spelled 
Carey. She died 



July 31, 1871. 

CARY, SAMUEL FENTON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1814, in 
Cincinnati, Ohiq. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Ohio to the fortieth 
congress; and was the only member of 
his party who voted against the impeach¬ 
ment of President Andrew Johnson. 


CARY, SHEPARD, merchant, farmer, 
congressman. He was a member of the 
Maine legislature in 1832, 1833, from 1839 
to 1842, in 1S43, and from 1848 to 1854. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Maine from 1844 to 1845. He died in 
August, 1866, in Maine. 

CARY, TRUMBULL, soldier, legislator, 
banker, was born Aug. 11, 1787, in Mans¬ 
field, Conn. In 1805 he moved to Batavia, 
N. Y., and for thirty years was engaged 
in mercantile work. He was adjutant in 
the war of 1812; was elected to the as¬ 
sembly; served as state senator; and 
was the founder of the Bank of Genesee. 
He died June 20, 1869. 

CASE, CHARLES, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 21, 1817, in Austin- 
burg, Ohio. He was a representative from 
Indiana in the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth 


congresses. 

CASE, JEROME I., manufacturer, was 
born Dec. 11, 1819, in Williamstown, N. 
Y. The success of the Case machines was 
phenomenal. Repeated enlargements of 
the plant were needed, and these great 
and prosperous works now occupy forty 
acres of ground and ha\e an output of 
$2,000,000 worth of machines a year. In 
1880 the business was incorporated as The 
J 1 Case Threshing Machine Co., capital 
$1,000,000. He died Dec. 22, 1891, in Ra¬ 
cine, Wis. 


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C \SE MARIETTA STANLEY, poet, 
was born Aug. 22, 1845, in Thompson, 
Conn. She is the daughter of a clergy¬ 
man of Puritan and 
revolutionary ances¬ 
try; and she is re¬ 
gent of the Daugh- 
ters of the American 
Revolution. Shelias 
held various offices 
in home and foreign 
missionary work. 
Her best poems are 
entitled The Waning 
Century; and Amor- 
patioe, the latter be¬ 
ing written for the 
Daughters of the American Revolution. 
She was one of the Connecticut women 





authors given creditable mention at the 
Atlanta exposition. She is the wife of 
Mr. A. Willard Case, a prominent paper 
manufacturer of South Manchester, Conn. 

CASE, THEODORE SPENCER, soldier, 
physician, journalist, was born Jan. 26, 
1832, in Jackson, Butts county, Ga. From 
1860 till 1861 he edited the Medical Re¬ 
view of Kansas City, Mo. He became 
second lieutenant of the twenty-fifth Mis¬ 
souri infantry in 1861, and later captain 
and assistant quartermaster. In 1865 he 
was made colonel and quartermaster-gen¬ 
eral of Missouri, and from 1866 till 1868 
was curator of the university of Missouri. 
From 1873 till 1885 he was postmaster of 
Kansas City; and in 1885 became pro¬ 
fessor of chemistry in Kansas City Medi¬ 
cal college. He edited the Kansas City 
Review of Science and Industry from 1877 
till 1885; and in 1886 became president 
of the Kansas City real estate and stock 
exchange. 

CASE, WALTER, congressman, was 
born in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1819 to 1821. 

CASEBEER, JACOB, physician, was 
born April 11, 1839, in Auburn, Ind. He 
was commissioned a surgeon in the 
union army, and was mustered out of the 
service June 27, 1865. He is a member and 
president of the North-eastern Medical so¬ 
ciety of Indiana, and also belongs to the 
American Medical association. 

CASEY, JOSEPH, jurist, congressman, 
was born in Maryland. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1849 to 1851; and in 1863 was ap¬ 
pointed a judge of the court of claims. 

CASEY, LEVI, congressman, was born 
in 1749, in South Carolina. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from South Caro¬ 
lina from 1803 to 1807. He died Feb. 1, 
1807, in Washington, D. C. 

CASEY, LYMAN R., congressman, was 
born in 1837, in York, N. Y. In 1882 he 
removed to North Dakota, and has since 
been engaged in the management of the 
affairs of the Carrington and Casey Land 
company, whose business includes the 
cultivation of several thousand acres of 
land. He acted as commissioner on the 
organization of Foster county, Dakota 
territory; and was elected to the United 
States senate as a republican in 1889, and 
served till 1893. 

CASEY, SAMUEL, financier, was born 
in Kentucky. While residing in Washing¬ 
ton City he was appointed treasurer of 
the United States in 1853, and held the 
office until 1860. 

CASEY, SAMUEL L., congressman. He 
was elected a representative from Ken¬ 
tucky to the thirty-seventh congress. 

CASEY, SILAS, general, author, was 
born July 12, 1807, in East Greenwich, R. 
I. He was a general in the United States 
army who published 
Infantry Tactics; 
and Infantry Tactics 
for Colored Troops. 
In 1826 he graduated 
from the United 
States Military acad¬ 
emy; served in the 
Seminole war of 
1837-42; distin¬ 
guished himself in 
the war with Mexi¬ 
co; and was made 
brigadier-general of 
He subsequently at- 
major-general of the 
United States army; retired in 1868; and 
twice received the thanks of the Rhode 
Island legislature for distinguished ser¬ 
vices in the civil war. He died Jan. 22, 
1882, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 



volunteers in 1861. 
tained the rank of 



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CASEY, SILAS, naval officer, was born 
Sept. 11, 1841, in Rhode Island. He be¬ 
came master in 1861, lieutenant in 1862, 
lieutenant-commander in 1866, and com¬ 
mander in 1874. He' was attached to the 
steamer Wissahickon in 1861, and was in 
the first attack on Fort Sumter and var¬ 
ious engagements with the batteries in 
Charleston harbor. He was equipment of¬ 
ficer at the Washington navy-yard in 
1882-84. light-house inspector in 1885, and 
in 1886 commanded the receiving-ship 
Dale. He was made a captain in 1889; 
and promoted to commodore in 1898. 

CASEY, THOMAS LINCOLN, soldier, 
educator, was born May 10, 1831, in Saclc- 
ett’s Harbor, N. Y. In 1854-59 he was 
assistant professor of engineering in the 
United States Military academy. From 
1859 till 1861 he had command of the en¬ 
gineer corps on the Pacific coast. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he served at first as 
staff engineer at Fort Monroe, Va., be¬ 
came captain in the engineer corps on 
Aug. 6, 1861, and was superintending engi¬ 
neer of the permanent defences and field 
fortifications upon the coast of Maine. 

CjftSEY, ZADOC, congressman, was 
born in Georgia. He was a representative 
in congress from Illinois from 1833 to 
1843; and also held the office of lieuten¬ 
ant-governor of the state, and was a mem¬ 
ber of one of the state constitutional con¬ 
ventions. He died in 1862, in Caseyville, 


CASH, JOHN H., journalist, jurist, was 
born in January, I860, in St. Louis, Mo. 
He is the editor and owner of The Leader 
of Westfield, N. J.; has been, judge of 
the district court; and has filled various 
other public positions of honor. 

CASHEN. THOMAS V., manufacturer, 
was born Feb. 14, 1835, in Pictou, N. S. 
After the close of the war he came to 
Jacksonville, Fla., and for nine years was 
engaged in the business of contracting 
and building. In 1874 he became a part¬ 
ner of Alexander Wallace in the Alligator 
steam saw and planing mills; and in 1884 
became sole proprietor. 

CASILEAR. JOHN W., painter was 
born June 25, 1811, in New York.’ His 
principal works are Swiss Lake; Genesee 
Meadows; September Afternoon; Trout 
Brook; Autumn; Scene in New Hamp¬ 
shire; View on Chemung River; View of 
the Rocky Mountains; Scene on Long Is¬ 
land; Early Autumn; Genesee Valley; 
and Early Summer, Long Island Sound. 

CASKIE. JOHN S., congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from his native 
state from 1851 to 1855. He died Dec. 15 
1869, in Richmond, Va. 

CASON, THOMAS J., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 13, 1828, in Union county, Ind. From 
1861-64 was a mem¬ 
ber of the Indiana 
legislature; from 
1864-67 was a mem¬ 
ber of the state sen¬ 
ate; and in 1867 was 
appointed judge of 
common pleas, and 
re-elected to the 
same office for a 
term of four years. 
He was elected to 
the forty-third and 
forty-fourth c o n - 
gresses, serving on the committee on re¬ 
vision of laws. He still continues the 
practice of law at Lebanon, Ind., where 
he has attained a large practice. 


CASS, GEORGE N., artist. He studied 
with Inues, and has painted landscapes in 
oil and water-colors, exhibiting at the 
Boston Art club and elsewhere. Among 
his works which are specially popular in 
New England are Evening on the Ken¬ 
nebec River; and View in Medway, Mass. 
His wife is also an artist, and has painted 
fruit, flowers, and still-life, in oil. 

CASS, JOSEPH FORREST, banker, was 
born July 31, 1863, in Vernon county, Wis. 
He is president of the Tripoli Savings 
bank, Iowa; and vice-president of the 
bank of Sumner, Iowa. He is also presi¬ 
dent of the Western Electric Telephone 
system, consisting of two thousand miles 
of lines in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin 
and South Dakota. He is also a director 
in the Waterloo and Cedar Falls railway; 
and is interested in various other busi¬ 
ness enterprises. 

CASS, LEWIS, statesman, was born 
Oct. 9, 1782, in Exeter, N. H. He was a 
statesman of Michigan who was secretary 
of war in Jackson’s 
administration; am¬ 
bassador to France; 
and a democratic 
candidate for presi¬ 
dent in 1845. He was 
the author of Inqui¬ 
ries Concerning the 
History, Traditions 
and Languages of the 
Indians in the 
United States; and 
France, its King, 
Court, and Govern¬ 
ment, 1840. He died June 17, 1866, in 
Detroit, Mich. 

CASSADY, J. E., lawyer, legislator, was 
born July 8, 1859, in Roane county, Tenn. 
He received his education in the public 
schools, and at the Grant university of 
Athens. For eight years he was clerk of 
the circuit court; and in 1896 was elected 
a member of the Tennessee state legisla¬ 
ture in the fiftieth general assembly. 

CASSATT, ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, 
railroad president, was born Dec. 8, 1839, 
in Pittsburg, Pa. Since 1885 he has been 
president of the New York, Philadelphia 
and Norfolk railroad. 

CASSEDY, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born in Bergen county, N. J. He was a 
representative in congress from New Jer¬ 
sey from 1821 to 1827. He died Dec. 31. 
1842, in Hackensack, N. J. 

CASSEL, ABRAHAM HARLEY, edu¬ 
cator, antiquarian, author, was born Sept. 
21, 1820, in Kulpsville, Pa. He was the 
founder of the Cassel library, which con¬ 
sists of fifty thousand valuable books and 
documents. He presented about twenty- 
eight thousand books and documents to 
the Brethren’s Collegiate institute of 
Mount Morris, Ill.; and contributed to the 
historical society of Pennsylvania about 
three thousand books and papers relating 
to the early history of that state. 

CASSEL, FLORA H., temperance work¬ 
er. She is the author of a volume of 
poems entitled White Ribbon Vibrations. 

CASSELL, CHARLES E., journalist, 
was born Aug. 31, 1849, in Wakefield, Md. 
He is the editor and owner of The Clarion 
of Thurmont, Md., where he is a promi¬ 
nent business man and interested in the 
public affairs of his county and state. 

CASSERLY, EUGENE, lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born in 1822, in 
Ireland. He removed to California in 
1850, and identified himself with the press 
of San Francisco. He was elected a sena¬ 
tor in congress from California for the 


term commencing in 1869 and ending in 
1875. He died June 14, 1883, in San Fran¬ 
cisco, Cal. 

CASSIDY, GEORGE WILLIAMS, jour¬ 
nalist, state senator, congressman, was 
born April 25, 1836, in Bourbon county. 
Ky. He became a journalist, and settled 
in Nevada. He was a state senator from 
1872 to 1880; president of the senate dur¬ 
ing the session of 1879; and was elected 
a representative from Nevada to the 
forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses 
as a democrat. 

CASSIDY. PATRICK S„ journalist, 
poet, was born Oct. 31, 1850, in Ireland. 
In 1868 he became connected with the 
Associated Press, remaining with that 
association for ten years. He successively 
edited the New York Sunday Democrat, 
Illustrated Times and the Celtic Maga¬ 
zine, of which latter periodical he was 
part owner. Since 1881 he has been regu¬ 
larly connected with the Supday Mercury 
He has written song verse; and is the 
author of a work entitled Glenough, or 
the Victims of Vengeance. 

CASSIN, JOHN, naturalist, author, was 
born Sept. 6, 1813, in Chester, Pa. He 
was a naturalist of Philadelphia whose 
American Ornithology is a continuation 
of Audubon's work on that subject. Other 
works of his are Ornithology of the Japan 
Expedition; Mammalogy and Ornithology 
of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition; Il¬ 
lustrations of the Birds of California. 
Texas, etc.; and A General Synopsis of 
North American Ornithology. He died 
Jan. 10, 1869, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CASSIN. STEPHEN, naval officer, was 
born Feb. 16, 1783, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He served with distinction in the war with 
Tripoli, commanded the Ticonderoga in 
Macdonough’s victory on Lake Champlain, 
and was rewarded by congress with a gold 
medal for bravery in that action. He was 
a terror to the pirates that infested the 
West Indies, and captured four of their 
vessels in 1822. He died Aug. 29, 1857, in 
Georgetown, D. C. 

CASSODAY, JOHN B., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, jurist, author, was born July 7, 1830, 
in Herkimer county, N. Y. He pursued his 

_ early studies in the 

common schools, and 
at the academies in 
Wellsboro and 
Knoxville, graduat¬ 
ing from the Alfred 
academy. He subse¬ 
quently studied one 
year at the Michigan 
university, and at- 
tended the law 
school of Albany, N. 
Y. In 1857 he settled 
in Janesville, Wis.. 
where lie soon attained prominence as a 
great lawyer. He was a member of the 
Wisconsin state legislature in 1865 and 
again in 1877, when he was made speaker 
of that body. In 1864 he was a delegate 
to the Baltimore convention, that nomi¬ 
nated Lincoln for president; and in 1880 
to the Chicago convention that nominated 
Garfield, and was chairman of the Wis¬ 
consin delegation. In 1880 he was ap¬ 
pointed associate justice of the supreme 
court: received the re-election to that 
office in 1881 and again in 1889. He be¬ 
came chief justice of the supreme court 
of Wisconsin in 1895, and still fills that 
high position. He is also professor of 
constitutional law in the college of law 
at the university of Wisconsin. Chief 
Justice Cassoday is the author of Casso- 
day on Wills; and has contributed exten¬ 
sively to law journals. 







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CASSON, HENRY, journalist, secretary 
of state, was born Dec. 13, 1843, in 
Brownsville, Pa. Since 1873 he has been 
a resident of Viroqua, Wis., where he was 
editor and proprietor of the Vernon 
County Censor during 1875-85. During 
1885-89 he was private secretary to Gov¬ 
ernor Rusk; to Governor Hoard in 1889- 
91; and to the secretary of agriculture in 
1891-92. In 1894 he was elected secretary 
of state of Wisconsin; and takes an ac¬ 
tive part in the public affairs of his 
adopted state. 

CASTEEL, JOHN WILLIAM, journalist, 
was born Dec. 27, 1872, in La.urel county, 
Ky. He is the editor and owner of The 
Newton Herald of Jasper, Ark., of which 
city he has been mayor. 

CASTLE, CURTIS HARVEY, educator, 
physician, congressman, was born Oct. 4. 
1848, in Knox county, Ill. He was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as the fusion 
candidate of the populist and democratic 
parties. 


Taunton, Mass. He was a baptist clergy¬ 
man and educator; and for thirty-five 
years a professor at Brown university, 
and its president in 1868-72. He has lec¬ 
tured on Astronomy; and Meteorological 
Observations. He died Jan. 8, 1877, in 
Providence, R. I. 

CASWELL, LUCIEN B., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, born Nov. 27, 
1827, in Swanton, Vt. In 1855 he was dis¬ 
trict attorney; a dele¬ 
gate to the republican 
convention of 1868; 
and a member of the 
state legislature in 
1863, 1872, and 1874. 
He was elected a 
representative from 
Wisconsin to the for¬ 
ty-fourth, forty-fifth, 
forty-sixth, forty- 
seventh, forty-ninth, 
fiftieth and fifty-first 
congresses as a re¬ 
publican. He was on several important 
committees. 



CASTLE, HENRY ANSON, lawyer, 
journalist, was born Aug. 22, 1841, in Co¬ 
lumbus, Ill. In 1862 he graduated from 

..the McKendee col- 

lege, Ill. He then 
i enlisted as a private 
in the seventy-third 
regiment of Illinois 
volunteer infantry. 
He was made ser¬ 
geant-major of his 
regiment; was se¬ 
verely wounded in 
the battle of Stone 
River, and finally 
discharged. H e 

afterwards raised a 
company for the one hundred and seventh 
regiment Illinois infantry, which he 
commanded as captain during his term of 
service. For ten years he practiced law 
in St. Paul, and in 1876 was chosen editor- 
in-chief of the St. Paul Dispatch, of which 
he became owner. In 1885 he disposed of 
the Dispatch; and since 1895 has been 
president of the Provident Trust company. 
In 1873 he was a member of the Minne¬ 
sota legislature; in 1892-96 was post¬ 
master of St. Paul; and during 1872-75 
was commander of the department of 
Minnesota, G. A. R. 



CASTLE, JAMES N.. lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born May 23. 
1836, in Shefford, P. Q. He was elected 
district attorney and located in Stillwater, 
where he has been engaged in the prac¬ 
tice of law since. He was elected to the 
state senate in 1868, and re-elected in 1878 
and 1882, serving in all ten years. He was 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat. 


CASWALL, HENRY, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1810, in England. He 
was an episcopal clergyman of English 
birth, but ordained in the United States, 
where the most of his life was spent. 
He lived for a time in England, however, 
and was a prebend of Salisbury. He was 
the author of An Epitome of the History 
of the American Episcopal Church (1836); 
Didascalus, or The Teacher; Mormonism 
and its Author; The Jerusalem Chamber, 
or Convocation and its Possibilities; The 
Californian Crusoe, a Tale of Mormonism: 
Scotland and the Scottish Church; The 
Western World Revisited; The Martyr of 
the Pongas; and The American Church 
and the American Union. He died Dec. 
17, 1870, in Franklin, Pa. 

CASWELL, ALEXIS, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born in 1799, in 


CASWELL. RICHARD, soldier, state 
senator, governor, was born. Aug. 3, 1729, 
in Maryland. From 1754 to 1771 he was 
a member of the colonial assembly, and 
for the last two years was speaker of 
the house of delegates. He commanded 
the right wing of Tryon’s forces at the 
battle of Allamanc-e, in 1771; was a dele¬ 
gate to the continental congress from 1774 
to 1776; in 1775 was president of the 
provincial congress which framed the 
constitution of the state, and was elected 
first governor of North Carolina under it, 
holding that office until 1779. In 1780 he 
led the North Carolina troops in the bat¬ 
tle of Camden; in 1782 was speaker of the 
senate, and comptroller-general, perform¬ 
ing the duties of both offices until 1784, 
when he was again elected governor, and 
held that position until he became ineli¬ 
gible by the laws of the state. In 1787 
he was a delegate to the convention for 
framing the federal constitution; in 1789 
was elected state senator, and was a 
member of the convention which ratified 
the constitution; and was also speaker of 
the senate. He died Nov. 20, 1789, in 
Fayetteville, N. C. 

CATCHINGS, THOMAS CLENDENIN, 
soldier, lawyer, congressman, born Jan. 11, 
1847, in Hinds county, Miss. In 1875 he 
was elected state senator for atermoffour 
years; resigned in 1877, and was elected 
attorney-general of Mississippi for four 
years; and in 1881 was re-elected. He 
was elected a representative from Missis¬ 
sippi to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty- 
first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth 
and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat. 

CATE, GEORGE W., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in September, 1824, 
in Montpelier, Vt. He was district-at¬ 
torney; a member of the legislature 
for two terms; judge of the circuit 
court of the seventh judicial circuit in 
1854; was re-elected three terms, hold¬ 
ing the position twenty-one years; and 
in 1874 resigned, and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Vermont to the forty- 
fourth congress. 

CATE. GEORGE WASHINGTON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, legislator, was born March 10, 
1834, in Worthwood, N. H. In 1877-78 he 
served as a member of theNewHampshire 
senate, and since 1888 has been judge of 
the second district court of Essex county. 
He was a personal friend of the poet John 
Greenleaf Whittier, and from 1876 until 
Mr. Whittier’s death sat at Judge Cate’s 
table. 


CATER, WILLIAM H., soldier, farmer, 
stockman, was born May 6, 1842, in Bel¬ 
mont county, Ohio. In 1861 he enlisted 
as a union soldier; and still carries a ball 
in his right shoulder, which he received 
at the charge on Fort Wagoner, S. C., Juljr 
18, 1863. He has filled all the positions 
of honor in the gift of his town and 
county; and has served as the department 
commander of the Oklahoma G. A. R. 

CATE, WILLIAM HENDERSON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 
11, 1839, in Rutherford county, Tenn. He 
was elected to the legislature of 1871 and 
1873, including the extra session of 1874; 
was elected prosecuting attorney of the 
second circuit in 1878; was appointed 
judge of the second circuit in March, 1884„ 
and was elected to the same position with¬ 
out opposition in September, 1884. He or¬ 
ganized the bank of Jonesborough in 
1887; and received certificate of election 
to the fifty-first congress as a democrat; 
and was elected to the fifty-second con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

CATHCART, CHARLES W., surveyor, 
congressman, was born in 1809 in the 
Island of Madeira. He was for several 
years a United States surveyor; served in 
the state legislature; and was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1845. He was elected 
a representative in congress from Indiana 
from 1845 to 1849; and was a senator in 
congress from 1852 to 1853, by appoint¬ 
ment. 

CATHCART, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 8, 1826, in Ireland. He 
is a baptist clergyman of Philadelphia; 
and the author of The Baptists and the 
American Revolution; The Papal System; 
The Baptism of the Ages and the Na¬ 
tions; and The Baptist Encyclopaedia. 

CATHERWOOD, MRS. MARY [HART¬ 
WELL], author, was born Dec. 16, 1847, 
in Luray, Ohio. She is a writer of 
Hoopeston, Ill., whose historical ro¬ 
mances dealing with the early days of 
Canada and the northwest are as notable 
for their careful attention to historical 
details as for their graphic and pictur¬ 
esque style. She is the author of A Wo¬ 
man in Armour; The Lady of Fort St. 
John; and The Romance of Dollard. 

CATHRALL, ISAAC, physician, author, 
was born in 1764 in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was a surgeon of the city almshouse from 
1810 to 1816. He published Remarks on 
the Yellow Fever; Buchan’s Domestic 
Medicine, with Notes; Memoir on the 
Analysis of the Black Vomit. He died 
Feb. 22, 1819. 

CATLIN, AMOS P., lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born Jan. 25, 1823, in Dutchess, 
county, N. Y. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the Kingston academy, and has at¬ 
tained prominence as an able lawyer of 
Sacramento, Cal. He has been a mem¬ 
ber of the California state legislature; a 
member of the California state board of 
equalization; and judge of the superior 
court of Sacramento county. 

CATLIN, GEORGE, artist, author, was 
born in 1796 in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He 
was an artist who spent many years 
among the Indians; and the author of 
Notes of Eight Years in Europe; Illus¬ 
trations of the Manners, Customs, and 
Condition of the North American Indians; 
Notes for the Emigrant to America; Life 
Among the Indians, a Book for Youth; 
The Breath of Life, or Mal-Respiration 
and its Effects; O-Kee-Pa, a Religious 
Ceremony, and other Customs of the Man- 
dans; Last Rambles Among the Indians 
of the Rocky Mountains; and The Lifted: 
and Subsided Rocks of America. He 
died Dec. 23, 1872, in Jersey City, N. J. 


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CATLIN, GEORGE LYNDE, journalist, 
diplomat, author, was born in 1840 on 
Staten Island. He was a journalist and 
diplomat, consul at Limoges, Stuttgart, 
and Zurich; and the author of Bilbigheim, 
a story; The Presidential Campaign of 
1896, written in 1898; Titbits for Trav¬ 
elers; and The Postilion of Nagold, and 
Other Poems. 

CATLIN, GEORGE S., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1808 in Har- 
wington, Conn. He was a representative 
in congress from 1843 to 1845; was a 
number of years in the state legislature; 
and state’s attorney, and judge of the 
Windham county court. He died in De¬ 
cember, 1851. 

CATO, STERLING G., jurist, was born 
in Georgia. He removed to Alabama, 
from which state he was appointed an as¬ 
sociate justice of the United States court 
for the territory of Kansas. 

CATON. JOHN DEAN, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born March 19, 1812, in Morn- 
roe, N. Y. He gained a large and lucra¬ 
tive practice in Chicago, and in 1842 was 
elected judge of the Illinois supreme court, 
becoming chief justice in 1855. He re¬ 
signed that honorable position in 1864, 
in order to devote himself to private 
business. He is the author of A Summer 
in Norway, and Antelope and Deer of 
America, 

CATON. RICHARD, merchant, was 
born in England in 1763. He became a 
merchant in Baltimore, and in 1790 en¬ 
tered into an association for the manufac¬ 
ture of cotton. He was particularly in¬ 
terested in geological researches, and was 
one of the founders in 1795 of the library 
company, whose collection was merged 
in the library of the Maryland Historical 
society. He died May 19, 1845, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. 

CATRON, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1778 in Wythe' county, Va. In 
1824 he was appointed one of the judges 
of the supreme court of the state; and in 
1837 was appointed a justice of the su¬ 
preme court of the United States, which 
position ihe held until his death. He died 
May 30, 1865, in Nashville, Tenn. 

CATRON, THOMAS BENTON, . lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1840, 
in Lafayette county. Mo. He has served 
as district attorney, and United States 
attorney for New Mexico. He was four 
times a member of the New Mexico leg¬ 
islature, and served as a delegate to the 
fifty-fourth congress from that state. 

CATTELL. ALEXANDER GILMORE, 
merchant, United States senator, was 
born Feb. 12, 1816. in Salem, N. J. In 1840 
he was elected to the state legislature. 
In 1846 he settled in Philadelphia as a 
merchant; became a director in the Me¬ 
chanics’ bank; and was elected to the 
•city councils from 1850 to 1854. In 1855 he 
returned to New Jersey, but continued 
his business in Philadelphia. He was one 
of the early presidents of the Corn Ex¬ 
change association of that, city; in 1858 
organized the Corn Exchange bank, and 
was president of the same. In 1866 he 
was elected a senator in congress from 
New Jersey for the term ending 1871 to 
fill a vacancy. 

CATTELL, WILLIAM CASSIDY, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, was 
born Aug. 30, 1827, in Salem, N. J. From 
1855 till 1860 he was professor of Latin 
and Greek in Lafayette college, and in 
1863 became its president. Through his 
exertions more than $1,000,000 was ob¬ 
tained for the institution, extensive 
grounds were added and commodious 
buildings were erected. 


CAULDWELL, LESLIE GIFFEN, ar¬ 
tist, was born Oct. 18, 1864, in New York 
city. He is an artist of New York city, 
and has exhibited his paintings in Ber¬ 
lin, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and 
St. Louis. Several of his pictures were 
exhibited at the World’s Columbian expo¬ 
sition. 

CAULDWELL, WILLIAM, journalist, 
state senator, was born Oct. 12, 1824, in 
New York city. In 1867 he was elected 
state senator from New York, and re¬ 
elected in 1869. In 1876 he became the 
sole owner and proprietor of the Sunday 
Mercury of New York city. 

CAULFIELD. BERNARD G„ lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1828, in 
Alexandria, Va. He removed to Chicago 
in 1853, and was elected a representative 
to the forty-fourth congress from Illi¬ 
nois, having previously served in the for¬ 
ty-third congress to fill a vacancy. 

CAULKINS, FRANCES MAINWAR- 
ING, author, was born in 1796, in New 
London, Conn. She was a local historian 
of Connecticut; and the author of A 
History of Norwich; and A History of 
New London. She died Feb. 3, 1869, in New 
London, Conn. 

CAUSEY, JOHN WILLIAMS,fruit grow¬ 
er, state senator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 19, 1841, in Milford, Del. He is en¬ 
gaged in farming and fruit growing; and 
was elected to the state senate for 1875- 
77. He was delegate to the national dem¬ 
ocratic convention in 1884; was appoint¬ 
ed internal revenue collector for the dis¬ 
trict of Delaware by President Cleveland, 
and was elected to the fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses as a democrat. He 
took an active part in all movements 
which tended to the agricultural interests 
of the United States. 

CAUSEY, P. F., governor, was born in 
1801. He was a merchant by occupation, 
and was elected governor of Delaware in 
1854, and remained in office four years. 
He died Feb. 17, 1871, in Milford, Del. 

CAUSIN, JOHN M. S., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in Mary¬ 
land. He served several terms in the 
legislature; was a representative in con¬ 
gress from his native state from 1843 to 
1845, and in 1849 was a presidential elec¬ 
tor. He died Jan. 30, 1861, in Cairo, Ill. 

CAUTHORN, HENRY S., lawyer, was 
born Feb. 23, 1828, in Vincennes, Ind. In 
1854 he was elected prosecuting attorney; 
and in 1855 was elected city attorney of 
Vincennes, Ind. In 1870 he was the rep¬ 
resentative from Knox county, and was 
re-elected in the fall of 1872 and again in 
1878. 

CAVANAUGH, JAMES M., lawyer, min¬ 
er, congressman, was born July 4, 1823, in 
Springfield, Mass. He removed to Min¬ 
nesota in 1854, and was elected to the 
thirty-fifth congress. He moved to Colo¬ 
rado in 1861, and was a member of its 
constitutional convention. He removed 
to Montana in 1866, and was elected a 
delegate to the fortieth and forty-first 
congresses as a democrat. 

CAVANESS, JAMES M., journalist, lec¬ 
turer, poet, was born March 29, 1842, in 
Monrovia, Ind. He received his education 
at the Baker university; at the gradua¬ 
tion he received the degree of A. B., and 
three years later the degree of A. M. In 
1866-67 he was principal of the city 
schools at Butler, Mo., and later at Paola, 
Kas. He is now the editor and proprietor 
of The Advance of Chetopa, Kan.; and has 
published a volume of poems. 


CAVERLY, ROBERT BOODEY, lawyer, 
historian, poet, was born July 19, 1806, in 
Strafford, N. H. He attended the schools 
of his native town, 
Pembroke academy, 
and in 1837 graduat¬ 
ed from Harvard 
university. When 
quite young he held 
the office of colonel 
in the major-general 
staff, and inspector 
in the New Hamp¬ 
shire militia. In his 
younger days he 
taught school, and 
subsequently prac¬ 
ticed law in the courts of Maine, New 
Hampshire, Massachusetts, and in the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia; and in 1857 served as 
city solicitor of Lowell, Mass. He was 
the author of The Merrimack, in two 
volumes; Caverly’s Poems, two volumes; 
Poems, Epics, Lyrics and Ballads; The 
Voice; Hannah Duston and Indian Wars 
of New England; Indian Wars of New 
England and John Eliot; History of 
Barnstead; The Caverly Annals; The 
Boody Annals; and several other inter¬ 
esting books. He was instrumental in 
erecting a monument to the memory of 
Hannah Duston on Contoocook Island, in 
the Merrimac river, near Fisherville, N. 
H.; and also urged the erection of stones 
to the unmarked soldiers’ graves in the 
cemetery in Lowell. He died Oct. 20, 
1887. 

CAWEIN. MADISON JULIUS, account¬ 
ant, author, poet, was born in 1865 in 
Kentucky. He is a poet of Louisville, Ky., 
whose verse is very musical, and shows 
much individuality. He is the author of 
Days and Dreams; Moods and Memories; 
Intimations of the Beautiful; Blooms of 
the Berry; The Triumph of Music; Ac- 
colon of Gaul; Lyrics and Idyls; Poems 
of Nature and Love; Red Leaves and 
Roses; The Garden of Dreams; and Un¬ 
dertones. 

CAYVAN, GEORGIA EVA, actress, was 
born in 1860, in Bath, Maine. She has at¬ 
tained a national reputation as a noted 
actress. 

CECIL, ELIZABETH FRANCES, au¬ 
thor, was born in Virginia. She is an 
author of Virginia, who wrote Industrial 
Heroes; Literary Salons; Popular Suf¬ 
frage in Literature; and some fugitive 
verses. 

CESNOLA, LOUIS P. DI, soldier, diplo¬ 
mat, was born June 29, 1832, in Turin. 
Italy. In 1848 he took part in the Italian 
war against Austria, 
and was promoted to 
second lieutenant on 
the field at Novara 
in 1849. He was 
graduated from the 
military academy at 
Cheraseo, fought in 
the Crimean war, 
and emigrated to 
America in 1860. He 
served with distinc¬ 
tion in the civil war, 
and was sent as 
United States consul to Cyprus, where he 
remained for eleven years. On his return 
to America the consulate-general of Ha¬ 
vana was offered him, but he abandoned 
the consul service and accepted the ap¬ 
pointment as director of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art, a place which he has oc¬ 
cupied ever since with distinction. He is 
the author of Cyprus, its Ancient Cities. 
Tombs and Temples; Tne Metropolitan 
Museum of Art; and other works. 





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CESSNA, JOHN, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in Bedford 
county, Pa. In 1849 he was elected to the 
state legislature, and on being re-elected 
was made speaker. In 1861 he was again 
elected to the legislature, and again made 
speaker. He was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to tne forty-first and 
forty-third congresses. 

CHACE, JONATHAN, manufacturer, 
state senator, congressman. United States 
senator, was born Sept. 22, 1829, in Fall 
River, Mass. He was a member of the 
state senate of Rhode Island in 1876 and 
1877; and was elected a representative 
from Rhode Island to the forty-seventh 
and forty-eighth congresses. In 1885 he 
was elected a United States senator to fill 
a vacancy, and served during 1887-89. 

CHADBOURNE, PAUL ANSEL, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
Oct. 21, 1823, in North Berwick, Maine. 
He was a congregational clergyman, who 
was president of Williams college in 1872- 
81, and was the author of Relations of 
Natural History to Intellect, Taste, 
Wealth, and Religion; Natural Theology; 
Instinct in Animals and Men; Strength of 
Men and Stability of Nations; The Hope 
of the Righteous; and The Public Serv¬ 
ices of the State of New York. He died 
Feb. 23, 1883, in New York city. 

CHADWICK. GEORGE W., musician, 
was born Nov. 13, 1854, in Lowell, Mass. 
His overture. Rip Van Winkle, was per¬ 
formed at the Handel and Haydn festival 
in Boston in 1880, and his symphony in 
C in 1882, at a concert of the Harvard 
musical association. 

CHADWICK, HENRY, the father of 
baseball, was born in 1824, in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He is an authority on games and 
sports; and known as the father of base¬ 
ball. He is the author of Base Ball Play¬ 
ers’ Book of Reference; Base Ball, How 
to Learn, Play and Teach It; Base Ball 
Manual; and Sports and Pastimes of 
American Boys. 

CHADWICK, JOHN WHITE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 19. 1840, in 
Marblehead, Mass. He is a Unitarian 
clergyman of Brooklyn, prominent among 
the more radical thinkers of his denomi¬ 
nation. He is the author of The Man 
Jesus; The Faith of Reason; The Bible of 
To-day; Old and New Unitarian Belief; 
The Power of an Endless Life; The Rev¬ 
elation of God, and Other Sermons; 
Thomas Paine: the Method and Value of 
his Religious Teachings: George William 
Curtis: an Address; A Book of Poems; 
and In Nazareth Town, and Other Poems. 

CHADWICK, LAWRENCE C.. clergy¬ 
man, was born July 20, 1858, in Chautau¬ 
qua county, N. Y. He graduated from the 
Cornell university; and has attained suc¬ 
cess as a baptist clergyman. He has 
traveled extensively in Mexico. West In¬ 
dies, Central and South America, Europe 
and Africa. For twelve years he has 
been a member of the public school board 
of White Pigeon, Mich., and is its di¬ 
rector. 

CHADWICK, STEPHEN F., lawyer, 
jurist, governor. United States senator, 
was born Dec. 25, 1828, in Middletown, 
Conn. He was a member of the state 
constitutional convention; at different 
periods was a probate and county judge; 
and was a presidential elector in 1864 
and 1868. He was secretary of state from 
1870 to 1878, two terms; became governor 
in 1877, and, to fill a vacancy, became 
United States senator. He died in Janu¬ 
ary, 1895, in Salem, Ore. 


CHADWICK, WINFIELD SCOTT, rail¬ 
road president, was born March 18, 1848, 
in Beaufort, N. C. Since 1889 he has been 
president of the Atlantic and North Caro¬ 
lina railroad. 

CHAFFEE, ARTHUR BILLINGS, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, college president, was 
born June 19, 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He attended Princeton university, 1874- 
76, and Rochester Theological seminary 
1877-79. He filled the chair of Latin in 
Franklin college, Ind., in 1879-89. In 1889 
he entered the ministry; and in 1896 be¬ 
came president of Central university of 
Iowa. 

CHAFFEE, CALVIN C., congressman, 
was born Aug. 28, 1811, in Saratoga, N. Y. 
He was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts to the thirty- 
fourth and thirty-fifth congresses; in 1859 
was appointed librarian of the house of 
representatives. 

CHAFFEE, ELMER ASAHEL, farmer, 
lawyer, was born April 5, 1849, in Stock¬ 
holm, N. Y. He has attained success as 
an able lawyer of Anthony, N. M. He 
has filled the office of county attorney in 
Nolan county, Texas; and various other 
public offices of honor. He has written 
extensively for law journals and the 
periodical press generally. 

CHAFFEE, JAMES FRANKLIN, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Nov. 5, 1827, in Middle- 
bury, N. Y. He has been presiding elder 
of the Winona district since 1887, until 
one year ago, when he was appointed to 
the Minneapolis district to commence his 
third term. For the last five years he 
has been president of the board of trus¬ 
tees of Hamlin university, and is also 
president of Asbury hospital of Minne¬ 
apolis, Minn. 

CHAFFEE, JEROME BUNTY, miner, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born April 17, 1825, in Niagara county, 
N. Y. He served in the legislature of 
Colorado in 1861-63; and served as speak¬ 
er of the house. In 1865 he was elected 
as United States senator; was elected to 
the forty-second and two succeeding con¬ 
gresses as delegate from the territory of 
Colorado; and in 1876 was elected United 
States senator from that state for the 
short term, ending in 1879. He died March 
9, 1886, in Salem Centre, N. Y. 

CHAFFIN, WILLIAM ELMER, educat¬ 
or, was born Nov. 18, 1862, in Claremont, 
N. H. He graduated from the Stevens 
high school in 1882, and from Dartmouth 
college in 1886. He has been principal of 
grammar schools in several large cities, 
and since 1890 has been superintendent of 
schools of towns of Dennis and Yar¬ 
mouth, Mass. 

CHAFIN, EUGENE W., lawyer, author, 
was born Nov. 1, 1852, in East Troy, Wis. 
He attended the common schools of his 
native county, and in 1875 graduated from 
the Wisconsin State university. He has 
attained prominence as an able lawyer of 
Waukesha, Wis., where he has taken an 
active part in the public affairs of his 
county and state. He is the author of a 
work entitled Lives of the Presidents, the 
subject matter of which, by his permis¬ 
sion, has been incorporated into the pages 
of this work. For four years he was 
grand chief templar of the Wisconsin In¬ 
dependent Order of Good Templars; and 
is a prominent member of various other 
fraternal orders. 

CHA1LLE-LONG, CHARLES, explorer, 
author, was born in 1843, in Maryland. 
He is an African explorer of French par¬ 
entage, and the author of Central Africa.; 


the Three Prophets, Gordon, the Mahdi, 
and Arabi. 

CHAILLE, STANFORD EMERSON, A. 
M., M. D., medical educator, was born 
July 9, 1830, in Natchez, Miss. He was 
educated under pri¬ 
vate tutors until his 
mother’s death in 
1844. He then en¬ 
tered Phillip’s acad- 
e m y, graduating 
therefrom three 
years later; and in 
1851 graduated from 
Harvard college. In 
1853 he graduated 
from the medical 
department of the 
university of Louis¬ 
iana, now known as the Tulane university 
of Louisiana; in which institution he is 
now dean and professor of the medical 
department, and since 1851 has held many 
other official medical positions. During 
the war he was a private in the New Or¬ 
leans light horse, was acting surgeon- 
general of Louisiana, and was promoted 
to surgeon and medical inspector of the 
army of the Tennessee. His contribu¬ 
tions to medical literature were begun in 
1853, and have been numerous since that 
time. His principal works are Yellow 
Fever in Havana and Cuba; Laws of Pop¬ 
ulation and Voters; Living, Dying, Regis¬ 
tering, and Voting Population of Louisi¬ 
ana; Intimidation of Voters in Louisiana; 
and Origin and Progress of Medical Juris¬ 
prudence, 1776-1876. 

CHALMERS, JAMES RONALD, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, legislator, was born June 11, 
1831, in Halifax county, Va„ is the son of 
Joseph W. Chalmers, 
a noted United 
States senator from 
Mississippi. He re¬ 
moved to Mississip¬ 
pi; attended school 
at Holly Springs, 
and graduated at 
the South Carolina 
college in 1851; 
studied law and was 
admitted to the bar 
in 1853; was elected 
district attorney of 
the seventh judicial district of Mississippi 
in 1858; was a member of the secession 
convention of Mississippi in 1861; was 
promoted brigadier-general in 1862; and 
was transferred to the cavalry service in 
1863. He surrendered in May, 1865, in 
command of the first division of Forrest’s 
cavalry army corps, composed of Arm¬ 
strong’s, Adams’ and Stark’s brigades. 
General Chalmers was a member of the 
state senate of Mississippi in 1876 and 
1877; was elected to the forty-fifth con¬ 
gress, and was re-elected to the forty- 
sixth congress as a democrat, and re¬ 
elected to the forty-seventh and forty- 
eighth congresses as a democrat. He 
died in 1898. 

CHALMERS, JOSEPH W„ lawyer, 
United States senator, was born in 1807, 
in Halifax county, Va. In 1846 he was 
appointed from Mississippi to a seat in 
the United States senate to fill a vacancy; 
served the remainder of the term, but, 
declining a re-election, and was succeeded 
by Jefferson Davis. He died in June, 
1853, in Holly Springs, Miss. 

CHALMERS, LIONEL, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1715 in Scotland. He 
was a noted physician of Charleston, and 
the author of Treatise on the Weather 
and Diseases of South Carolina; and Es¬ 
say on Fevers. He died in 1777, in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. 






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CHALMERS, THOMAS, manufacturer, 
inventor, was born in 1815, in Scotland. 
In 1871 the firm of Fraser and Chalmers 
started. He invented and patented im¬ 
proved machines for milling, smelting 
and refining ores, which soon came into 
general demand, bringing to their works 
in Chicago an immense business. 

CHALMERS, WILLIAM J., manufac¬ 
turer, was born July 10, 1852, in Chicago, 
and is a son of Thomas Chalmers. In 
1871, when Fraser and Chalmers suc¬ 
ceeded to the Eagle works, William J. 
Chalmers took charge of the finances 
and has since steadily risen through in¬ 
termediate grades to the presidency of 
the concern. He is a director in the Com¬ 
mercial National bank and the Field 
Columbian museum of Chicago, Ill. 

CHAMBERLAIN, D. H., soldier, law¬ 
yer, governor, was born June 23, 1835, in 
West Brookfield, Mass. He served in the 
fifth Massachusetts cavalry from 1863 to 
1865; and settled in Charleston, S. C., in 
1866. He was elected attorney-general of 
the state in 1868; and in 1874 was elected 
governor of South Carolina. 

CHAMBERLAIN, EBENEZER M„ con¬ 
gressman, was born in Maine. He was a 
representative in congress from Indiana 
from 1853 to 1855. 

CHAMBERLAIN, HIRAM S., railroad 
president, was born Aug. 6, 1835, in 
Franklin, Ohio. He is the president of 
the Belt railroad of Chattanooga. 

CHAMBERLAIN. JACOB, missionary, 
author, was born in 1835, in Connecticut. 
He is a Reformed Dutch missionary to 
India; and The Bible Tested is his most 
important work. 

CHAMBERLAIN, JACOB P., congress¬ 
man, was born in Massachusetts. He was 
a representative from New York to the 
thirty-seventh congress. 

CHAMBERLAIN. JOHN C., congress¬ 
man, was born in 1772. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1809 to 1811. He died Dec. 8, 1834, in 
Utica, N. Y. 

CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAY/- 
RENCE, soldier, educator, college presi¬ 
dent, governor, was born Sept. 8, 1828, in 
Brewer, Maine. In 1856-62 he was pro¬ 
fessor of rhetoric in Bowdoin college; 
and in 1857 professor of modern lan¬ 
guages. In 1861 enlisted in the civil war, 
and in 1864 attained the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general. In 1866 he became gov¬ 
ernor of Maine, and in 1871 he became 
president of Bowdoin college. 

CHAMBERLAIN, NATHAN HENRY, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1830, in 
Massachusetts. He is an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of Massachusetts,- whose principal 
writings include The Autobiography of a 
New England Farm House; Samuel Sew¬ 
ell and the World He Lived In; and The 
Sphinx in Aubrey Parish. 

CHAMBERLAIN, SELAH, railroad 
builder, was born May 14, 1812, in Brat- 
tleborough,’ Vt. The construction of the 
lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. 
Paul system gave him a large amount of 
work. In 1871 he began building th,e 
Lake Shore and Tuscarawas Valley, now 
the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling rail¬ 
road. and was its president at his deaw. 
He died Dec. 27, 1890, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

CHAMBERLAIN, VviLLIAM, jurist, 
congressman. He was a presidential 
elector in 1801; was a representative in 
congress from Vermont from 1803 to 1805, 
and again from 1809 to 1811; and was a 
state councilor from 1796 to 1803. He 
served five years in the state legislature; 
was lieutenant-governor of Vermont from 
1813 to 1815; and was chief justice of a 
state court from 1801 to 1803, and in 1814. 


CHAMBERLAYNE, ISRAEL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1795, in New 
York. He was the author of Past and 
the Future; The Australian Captive; Sav¬ 
ing Faith: its Rationale; and The Great 
Specific Against Despair of Pardon. 

CHAMBERLIN, EDWARD PAYSON, 
merchant, was born Sept. 16, 1832, in 
Parisbville, N. Y. In 1866 he moved to 
Atlanta, Ga., and organized the dry goods 
firm of Chamberlin, Cole and Boynton. 
He was a member .of the city council in 
1876-77; and director of a number of 
prosperous corporations of Atlanta, Ga. 

CHAMBERLIN, FRANKLIN, lawyer, 
author, was born April 14, 1821, in Dal¬ 
ton, Mass. He is a successful lawyer of 
Hartford, Conn.; and in 1870 published 
a work on American commercial law. 

CHAMBERLIN, HUMPHREY BARK¬ 
ER, capitalist, philanthropist, was born 
Feb. 7, 1847, in England. In 1881 he was 
president of the shoe manufacturing com¬ 
pany of Denver, Colo.; in 1889 president 
of the Beaver Brook water company; and 
is also the president of the Denver, Colo¬ 
rado Canon and Pacific Railroad com¬ 
pany. He has donated large sums of 
money to university extensions, and the 
erection of a number of churches. 

CHAMBERLIN, JEKIEL WESTON, 
physician, was born Oct. 28, 1857, at Rock 
Falls, Wis. He is oculist and aurist on 
the staff of St. Luke’s hospital; the city 
and county hospital; and the Babies’ 
Home in St. Paul, Minn. 

CHAMBERLIN, JOSEPH EDGAR, 
journalist, author, was born in 1851, in 
Vermont. He is a Boston journalist on 
the staffs of the Transcript and the 
Youth’s Companion; and the author of 
The Listener in the Town; and The List¬ 
ener in the Country. 

CHAMBERLIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE, 
soldier, educator, college president, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Sept. 8, 1828, in Bangor, 
Maine. He was professor of Bowdoin 
college from 1855 to 1862, when he was 
appointed lieutenant-colonel of the twen¬ 
tieth Maine infantry, and was brevetted 
major-general. His command received 
the formal surrender of the arms and col¬ 
ors of Lee’s army. He resumed his pro¬ 
fessorship of modern languages in 1865; 
and in 1871 was elected president of Bow¬ 
doin college. He was governor of Maine 
from 1866 to 1870. 

CHAMBERLIN, THOMAS CHROW- 
DER, geologist, author, was born Sept. 
25, 1843, in Mattoon, Ill. He is a promi¬ 
nent geologist of Wisconsin; and the au¬ 
thor of Outline of a Course of Oral In¬ 
struction; and Geology of Wisconsin. 

CHAMBERS, CHARLES JULIUS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Nov. 21, 1850, in 
Bellefontaine, Ohio. He is a journalist 
long connected with the New York Her¬ 
ald. He is the author of A Mad V/orld 
and its Inhabitants, a description of luna¬ 
tic asylums founded on the author’s per¬ 
sonal experience in one in disguise; On 
a Margin, a Story of These Times; and 
Lovers Four and Maidens Five, a Story. 

CHAMBERS, DAVID, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1780, in Allentown, Pa. 
He was elected state printer; and when 
the seat of government was removed to 
Columbus, he was appointed secretary of 
the senate. During the years 1812 and 
1813 he was aid-de-camp to General Cass; 
and was a representative in congress 
from Ohio from 1821 to 1823. He subse¬ 
quently served a number of years in the 
state legislature of Ohio; was speaker in 
1844; was a member of the constitutional 
convention of 1851; and was also elected 
mayor of Zanesville. He died Aug. 8, 
1864, in Zanesville, Ohio. 


CHAMBERS, EZEKIEL F„ soldier, 
jurist, United States senator, was born 
Feb. 28, 1788, in Kent county, Md. He 
was elected to the state senate against his 
will. He was a senator in congress from 
Maryland from 1826 to 1834. In 1834 he 
was appointed chief judge of the second 
judicial district, and a judge of the court 
of appeals, which offices he held until 
1851. In 1864 he was the democratic 
candidate for governor of Maryland, tie 
died Jan. 30, 1867, in Chestertown, Md. 

CHAMBERS, GEORGE, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in IV a6, in Chambers- 
burg. Pa. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1833 to 
1837; was then elected a delegate to the 
Pennsylvania constitutional convention; 
and in 1851 was appointed a justice of the 
supreme court of the state. He died 
March 25, 1866, in Chambersburg, Pa. 

CHAMBERS, HENRY, United States 
senator, was born in 178f r . He was a sen¬ 
ator in congress from Alabama from 1825- 
to 1826. He died Jan. 25, 1826, in Meck¬ 
lenburg county, Va. 

CHAMBERS, JOHN, jurist, was born 
about 1710. He was a member of the 
executive council in 1754, and attended 
as one of the commissioners the congress 
at Albany in that year. He was soon af¬ 
terward appointed judge, and still later 
became the chief justice of New York. 
He died April 10, 1765, in New York. 

CHAMBERS, JOHN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born Dec. 4, 1779, in 
New Jersey. He was appointed governor 
of the territory of 
Iowa by President 
Harrison, manifest¬ 
ing great ability and 
prudence in his in¬ 
tercourse with the 
Indians, and was ap¬ 
pointed by President 
Taylor a commis¬ 
sioner to make a 
treaty with the 
Sioux Indians. He 
was a member of 
congress from Ken¬ 
tucky from 1827 to 1829, and again from 
1835 to 1839. He died Sept. 21, 1852, near 
Paris, Ky. 

CHAMBERS, JOHN WESLEY, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born May 17,. 
1857, at Toms River, N. J. He has at¬ 
tained eminence as a clergyman of the 
methodist episcopal church south, was 
financial agent of Millsaps college of 
Jackson, Miss.; and is now president of 
Whitworth Female college of Brook- 
haven, Miss. 

CHAMBERS, JULIUS, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 21, 1850, in Bellefon¬ 
taine, Ohio. He is the author of A Mad 
World; On a Margin; Lovers Four and 
Maidens Three; The Human Comedy of 
Balzac; and Missing. 

CHAMBERS, ROBERT CRAIG, miner, 
financier, state senator, was born Jan. 16, 
1832, in Lexington, Ohio. He is president 
of the Daly Mining Co., now engaged in 
working the Daly mine, near Park City, 
Utah; and is also largely interested in the 
Excelsior and Diamond mines of Eureka. 
Nev. He is a principal owner of the Salt 
Lake City Street Railway company. He 
was elected a state senator in 1896. 

CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM, ar¬ 
tist, author, was born in 1865, in Long 
Island. He is a novelist and artist of 
New York city, and the author of In the 
Quarter; The King in Yellow; The Red 
Republic; The Maker of Moons; The 
Mystery of Choice; A King and a Few 
Dukes; and With the Band, a book of 
ballads. 






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CHAMBERS, TALBOT WILSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 25, 1819, in 
Carlisle, Pa. He was a noted reformed 
Dutch clergyman of New York city, and 
the author of The Noon Prayer Meeting 
in Fulton Street; Memoir of Theodore 
Frelinghuysen; The Psalter a Witness to 
the Divine Origin of the Bible; and Com¬ 
panion to the Revised Version of the Old 
Testament. He died in 1896. 

CHAMBLISS, JOHN RANDOLPH, sol¬ 
dier, was born Jan. 23, 1833, in Hicksford, 
Va. He joined the confederate army at 
the beginning of the civil war as colonel 
of an infantry regiment, and afterward 
became colonel of the thirteenth Virginia 
cavalry. He was subsequently made a! 
brigadier-general, and was killed in ac¬ 
tion while leading a brigade of cavalry. 
He died Aug. 16, 1864, in Deep Bottom, 
Va. 

CHAMPE, JOHN, revolutionary soldier, 
was born in 1752, in Virginia. He en¬ 
tered the army in 17 76, and served 
through the revolutionary war as ser¬ 
geant-major. He died in Kentucky. 

CHAMPION, EPAPHRODITUS, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1757. He was a 
representative in congress from Connecti¬ 
cut from 1807 to 1817. He died Nov. 22, 
1835, in East Haddam, Conn. 

CHAMPLIN, CHRISTOPHER E., law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Sept. 24, 1860, 
in New Shoreham, R. I. He was admitted 
to the Suffolk county bar in 1884, and 
subsequently to the Rhode Island bar, 
where he has since practiced law. He 
has been senator since 1890. 

CHAMPLIN, CHRISTOPHER GRANT, 
banker, congressman, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born April 12, 1768, in Newport, 
R. I. He was a member of congress from 
Rhode Island from 1797 to 1801; and a 
senator of the United States from 1809 to 
1811. He died March 28, 1840, in New¬ 
port, R. I. 

CHAMPLIN, GEORGE, merchant, was 
born in 1738. He was a merchant of New¬ 
port, R. I.; an officer of the revolution; 
member of the continental congress from 
1785 to 1786, and of the convention that 
adopted the federal constitution. He died 
in 1809. 

CHAMPLIN, JAMES TIFFT, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
June 9, 1811, in Colchester, Conn. He is 
a baptist clergyman of Portland, Maine, 
and president of Colby university in 1857- 
73. He was the author of First Princi¬ 
ples of Ethics; Lessons on Political Econ¬ 
omy; Text-Book of Intellectual Philoso¬ 
phy; Scripture Reading Lessons; The 
Constitution of the United States, with 
Brief Comments; and a series of classical 
text-books. He died March 15, 1882, in 
Portland, Maine. 

CHAMPLIN, JOHN DENISON, author, 
was born Jan. 29, 1834, in Stonington, 
Conn. He is the author of Young Folks’ 
Cyclopaedia of Common Things; Young 
Folks’ Cyclopaedia of Persons and Places; 
Young Folks’ History of the War for the 
Union; Young Folks’ Catechism of Com¬ 
mon Things; Young Folks’ Cyclopaedia of 
Games and Sports; Young Folks Astrono¬ 
my; Chronicle of the Coach: Charing 
Cross to Ilfracombe. With W. F. Ap- 
thorp, he has edited Cyclopaedia of Music 
and Musicians, and with C. C. Perkins, 
a Cyclopaedia of Painters and Paintings. 

CHAMPLIN, JOHN W., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Feb. 17, 1831, in Kingston, N. 
Y. He received an academical education; 
practiced civil engineering for awhile; 
and in 1855 began the practice of law in 
Grand Rapids, Mich. In 1857 he drew up 
the revised city charter of Grand Rap¬ 


ids, and has been recorder, attorney, and 
mayor of that city. In 1884 he was elect¬ 
ed for eight years as justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Michigan; and was chief 
justice in 1890-91. During 1891-97 he was 
professor of law in the university of 
Michigan, lecturing on corporations and 
torts. 

CHAMPLIN, STEPHEN, naval officer, 
was born Nov. 17, 1789, in South King¬ 
ston. R. I. He was a commodore in the 
United States navy. He died Feb. 20, 
1870, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

CHAMPLIN, STEPHEN GARDNER, 
soldier, lawyer, was born July 1, 1827, in 
Kingston, N. Y. He was a noted lawyer; 
recorder of the city of Grand Rapids, 
Mich., and served as prosecuting attorney 
of Kent county. In April, 1861, he be¬ 
came major in the third regiment Michi¬ 
gan volunteers; was commissioned colo¬ 
nel in October of the same year; and in 
1862 became a brigadier-general. He died 
Jan. 24, 1864, from wounds received at 
Fair Oaks, Va. 

CHAMPNEY. MRS. ELIZABETH, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1850, in Ohio. She is a 
popular New York writer for young peo¬ 
ple, and wife of the artist, J. Wells 
Champney, who has illustrated many of 
her books. She is the author of The 
Three Vassar Girls Series; The Witch 
Winnie Books; The Bubbling Teapot; 
Howling Wolf and his Trick-Pony; All 
Around a Palette; Children’s Art Sketch¬ 
es; In the Sky Garden; Fables in Astron¬ 
omy, and other juveniles; and the novels. 
Bourbon Lilies; Sebia’s Tangled Web; 
and Rosemary and Rue. 

CHAMPNEY, JAMES Vv ELLS, soldier, 
painter, was born July 16, 1843. in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. In 1863 he served a short time 
in the forty-fifth Massachusetts volun¬ 
teers, and later taught drawing in Lex¬ 
ington, Mass. In 1876 he built a studio in 
Deerfield, Mass., where he has since spent 
most of his summers, his winter studio 
being in New York city. His works in¬ 
clude Which is Umpire; Sear Leaf (1874); 
and Not so Ugly as He Looks. 

CHAMPNEYS, BENJAMIN, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, legislator, was born in January, 
1800, in Bridgeton, N. J. He was attor¬ 
ney-general of his state, and a member of 
both houses of the state legislature. He 
died Aug'. 9, 1871, in Lancaster, Pa. 

CHANCELLOR, CHARLES WIL¬ 
LIAMS, physician, author, was born Feb. 
19, 1833, in Spottsylvania county, Va. He 
is an eminent physician of Baltimore, 
and the author of Prisons, Reformatories, 
and Charitable Institutions of Maryland; 
Mineral Waters and Seaside Resorts; 
Contagious and Infectious Diseases; 
Drainage of the Marsh Lands of Mary¬ 
land; Heredity; and The Sewerage of 
Cities. 

CHANCELLOR, EUSTATHIUS, physi¬ 
cian, author. In 1878 he was appointed 
assistant resident physician in the uni¬ 
versity hospital of Maryland; in 1885 was 
founder of the Beaumont Hospital Medi¬ 
cal college; and is the author of Re¬ 
searches Upon the Treatment of Delirium 
Tremens and numerous other works. 

CHANDLER, CHARLES HENRY, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, author, was born Aug. 25, 
1840, in Prescott, Mass. He served in the 
thirty-first Massachusetts infantry. He 
was connected with the Springfield Repub¬ 
lican, and later with the Boston Herald as 
an editorial writer. He published At¬ 
tractions of Northampton. He died Jan. 
4, 1885, in Boston, Mass. 

CHANDLER, CHARLES HENRY, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Oct. 25, 1840, in New 
Ipswich, N. H. From 1871 till 1877 he 
was professor of physics and chemistry, 


and from 1877 till 1881 professor of math¬ 
ematics and physics at Antioch college, 
Yellow Springs, Ohio. In 1881 he was ap¬ 
pointed to the chair of chemistry and 
physics at Ripon, Wis., college, and in 
1883 was transferred to the professorship 
of mathematics and physics. 

CHANDLER, ELIZABETH MARGA¬ 
RET, was born Dec. 24, 1807, in Wilming¬ 
ton, Del. She was a poetess whose themes 
were mainly those relating to the sub¬ 
ject of anti-slavery, in which she was 
greatly interested. She received a prize 
for her poem entitled The Slave-Ship. 
She died Nov. 22, 1834, in Michigan. 

CHANDLER, JOHN, soldier, states¬ 
man, was born in 1760, in Maine, when a 
part of Massachusetts, representing it in 
the state senate from 1803 to 1805, and in 
congress from 1805 to 1808. In 1812 he 
was appointed brigadier-general, and 
took an active part in the Canadian cam¬ 
paign. He was elected to the United 
States senate in 1820, being one of the 
first two senators from Maine after its 
separation from Massachusetts, serving 
until 1829. In 1829 he was appointed col¬ 
lector of the port of Portland, serving 
until 1837. He died Sept. 25, 1841, in Au¬ 
gusta, Maine. 

CHANDLER, JOSEPH RIPLEY, jour¬ 
nalist, diplomat, congressman, author, 
was born Aug. 25, 1792, in Kingston, 
Mass. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1849 to 
1855; and in 1858 
was appointed, by 
President Buchan¬ 
an, minister to Na¬ 
ples. After his re¬ 
turn he became ed¬ 
itor of the Philadel¬ 
phia North Ameri¬ 
can. In 1821 he pub¬ 
lished a Grammar of 
the English Language, and subsequently 
a large number of Essays and Addresses 
on subjects connected with Social Life 
and Literature. He died July 10, 1880, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

CHANDLER, OLIVER PHELPS, law¬ 
yer, banker, legislator, was born May 29, 
1807, in Peacham, Vt. He was a member 
of the Vermont state house of represent¬ 
atives for five years, and state senator 
for three years. From 1847 to 1868 he 
was the president of the Woodstock bank, 
and has held various important positions 
of honor in his state. 

CHANDLER, PELEG WHITMAN, law¬ 
yer, journalist, legislator, author, was 
born April 13, 1816, in New Gloucester, 
Maine. In 1834 he 
graduated from 
Bowdoin college; 
and in 1837 was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 
Boston, Mass. In 
1838 he established 
The Law Reporter, 
which he conducted 
for ten years. In 
1841 he published 
the first volume of a 
work called Ameri¬ 
can Criminal Trials, 
and a second volume appeared in 1844. He 
served as a member of the common coun¬ 
cil of Boston, and in 1844-45 was its 
president. In 1845-47 he served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the Massachu¬ 
setts state legislature. During 1846-53 he 
was city solicitor of Boston; and in 1854 
was a member of the executive council of 
Massachusetts. He died in 1889, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 






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CHANDLER, SAMUEL, soldier, state 
legislator, was born in 1794, in Massachu¬ 
setts. After being a member of both 
branches of the legislature, he was, in 
1840, elected sheriff of Middlesex, and held 
that office until 1855. He was also ma¬ 
jor-general of the state militia for many 
years. He died July 20, 1867, in Lexing¬ 
ton, Mass. 

CHANDLER, THOMAS, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 10, 1772, in 
Bedford, N. H. He was a justice of the 
quorum in 1808; and a captain of militia 
in 1815. He was a member of the New 
Hampshire legislature in 1827; and a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from his native 
state from 1829 to 1833. His brother, John 
Chandler, was also in congress, and he 
was the uncle of the senator, Zachariah 
Chandler. He died Jan. 28, 1866, in Bed¬ 
ford, N. H. 

CHANDLER, W. T., physician, poet, 
was born Dec. 12, 1852, in Campbellsville, 
Ky. This prominent physician is the au¬ 
thor of a volume of poems entitled Rus¬ 
tic Rhymes. 

CHANDLER, WILLIAM EATON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born Dec. 28, 1835, in Concord, N. H. Dur¬ 
ing 1862-64 he was 
a member of the 
New Hampshire 
house of representa¬ 
tives, and served as 
its speaker during 
the last two years. 
In 1865 he became 
solicitor and judge 
ad-vocate general of 
the navy depart¬ 
ment: and was sub¬ 
sequently appointed 
first assistant secre¬ 
tary of the treasury. In 1881 he was again 
a member of the state legislature; and 
in 1882-85 was secretary of the navy. In 
1887 he was elected to the United States 
senate to fill a vacancy, and was re-elect¬ 
ed to the same office for term expiring in 
1901. He resides in Concord, N. H., and 
his portrait hangs in the Library build¬ 
ing of the state capitol. 

CHANDLER, WILLIAM HENRY, 
chemist, was born Dec. 13, 1841, in New 
Bedford, Mass. In 1871 he became pro¬ 
fessor of chemistry at Lehigh university, 
and in 1878 was made director of the li¬ 
brary. In 1876 he was a juror at the Phil¬ 
adelphia centennial exhioition, and in 
1878 at the Paris exhibition. His con¬ 
tributions to chemical literature have ap¬ 
peared principally in the American Chem¬ 
ist, of which from 1870 till 1877 he and his 
brother, Charles F. Chandler, were ed¬ 
itors. 

CHANDLER, ZACHARIAH. statesman, 
was born Dec. 10, 1813, in Bedford, N. H. 
He was mayor of Detroit, Mich., in 1851; 
was elected a senator in congress, from 
Michigan, to succeed Senator Cass, tak¬ 
ing his seat in the thirty-fifth congress; 
and was re-elected to the senate in 1863, 
for the term ending in 1869. He was also 
a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists’ 
convention of 1866; and re-elected to the 
senate for the term ending in 1875. In 
1875 he was appointed secretary of the in¬ 
terior; served in that capacity until 
March, 1877; and in 1879 was elected 
United States senator, to fill a vacancy. 
He died Nov. 1, 1879, in Chicago, Ill. 

CHANEY, GEORGE LEONARD, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1826, in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He is a Unitarian clergyman, 
and pastor in Atlanta, Ga., where he ed¬ 
ited the Southern Unitarian in 1893-96. • 
He was the founder of the Church of Our 


Father in Atlanta. He is the author of 
F. Grant and Co., a story for boys; Tom, 
a Home Story; Aloha, travels in the 
Sandwich Islands; Every Day Life and 
Every Day Morals; and Belief. 

CHANEY, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Maryland. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Ohio from 1833 to 
1839. 

CHANEY, LUCIEN WEST, educator, 
biologist, author, was born June 26, 1857, 
in Hamilton, N. Y. He is a naturalist, 
professor of biology in Carleton college, 
Minnesota, since 1882, and is the author 
of Guides for the Laboratory. 

CHANFRAU, FRANK, actor, was born 
Feb. 22, 1824, in New York city. As Kit, 
in The Arkansas Traveller, first given in 
Buffalo, in 1869, he achieved the most 
enduring success of his professional ca¬ 
reer, and in this character he appeared 
continuously for thirteen years. He died 
Oct. 2, 1884. 

CHANLER, AMELIE RIVES, author, 
was born Aug. 23, 1863, in Richmond, Va. 
In 1888 she published her first novel, en¬ 
titled The Quick or the Dead; and in 1891 
published According to St. John. She is 
the author of several poems, the most no¬ 
table of which is Asmodeus, Son of Bel. 

CHANLER, JOHN WINTHROP, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1826, in New York 
city. He was a member of the New 
York assembly in 1859 and 1860, and de¬ 
clined a renomination. In 1862 he was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth 
congresses as a democrat. 

CHANNING, EDWARD, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born June 15, 1856, in Boston, 
Mass. He has been a professor of history 
at Harvard university since 1883; and is 
the author of Guide to the Study of Amer¬ 
ican History; Town and County Govern¬ 
ment of the English Colonies of North 
America; Narragansett Planters; and 
The United States of America. 

CHANNING, EDWARD TYRREL, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Dec. 12, 1790, in 
Newport, R. I. He was a professor of 
rhetoric and oratory at Harvard universi¬ 
ty; and was the author of Life of Wil¬ 
liam Ellery; and Lectures on Rhetoric 
and Oratory. He died Feb. 8; 1856, in 
Cambridge, Mass. 

CHANNING, WALifiR, educator, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born April 15, 1786, in 
Newport, R. I. He was a physician of 
prominence in Boston for many years, 
and medical professor in Harvard univer¬ 
sity. He was the author of The Preven¬ 
tion of Pauperism; Etherization in Child¬ 
birth; Professional Reminiscences of For¬ 
eign Travel; New and Old; Miscellaneous 
Poems; A Physician’s Vacation, or A 
Summer in Europe; and Reformation of 
Medical Science. He died July 27, 1876, 
in Boston, Mass. 

CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 7, 1780. in 
Newport, R. I. He was a Unitarian theo¬ 
logian of eminence, who became pastor of 
the Federal street church in Boston in 
1803. He was the foremost theologian in 
America in his time, and his influence is 
still great. He wrote upon philanthropic 
and social as well as religious and ethical 
questions, and was a noted opponent of 
slavery. His writings have been trans¬ 
lated into French, Italian, German, Ice¬ 
landic, Russian, and Hungarian. Evi¬ 
dences of Revealed Religion; Self-Cul¬ 
ture. He is the author of Essay on Mil- 
ton; and The Duty of the Free States, are 
among his most notable works. He died 
Oct. 2, 1842, in Bennington, Vt. 


CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born June 10, 1818, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He is the author of The Wan¬ 
derer; Near Home; Eliot; and John 
Brown. Thoreau, the Poet Naturalist; 
and Conversations in Rome between an 
Artist, a Catholic, and a Critic, are prose 
volumes. 

CHANNING, WILLIAM FRANCIS, 
physician, scientist, inventor, author, was 
born Feb. 22, 1820, in Boston, Mass. He 
is the author of Davis’ Manual of Magnet¬ 
ism; Medical Application of Electric¬ 
ity; and The American Fire Alarm Tele¬ 
graph. 

CHAPELLE, PLACIDUS L„ archbish¬ 
op, was born Aug. 28, 1842, in France. In 
1859 he emigrated to America, and fin¬ 
ished his theological studies at the St. 
Mary’s seminary of Baltimore, Md. In 
1865 he was ordained priest; was rector 
of a church at Rockville, Mo., for five 
years; and then rector of St. Joseph’s 
church of Baltimore until 1882. From 
that time he was rector of St. Matthew’s 
church of Washington, D. C., until 1891. 
He was then appointed assistant bishop 
of New Mexico, and in 1894 became the 
third archbishop of Santa Fe. 

CHAPIN, AARON LUCIUS, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
Feb. 6, 1817, in Hartford, Conn. He was 
a congregational clergyman of Wiscon¬ 
sin, who was president of Beloit college 
in 1849-86. He was the author of First 
Principles of Political Economy. He died 
in 1892. 

CHAPIN, ALFRED CLARK, congress¬ 
man, was born March 8, 1848, in Hadley, 
Mass. In 1887 he was elected mayor of 
Brooklyn; and in 1891 was chosen to rep¬ 
resent his district in the fifty-second con¬ 
gress. 

CHAPIN. ALONZO BOWEN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 10, 1808, in 
Somers, Conn. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of Hartford; and the author of 
Classical Spelling-Book; Organization 
and Order of the Primitive Church; 

Views of Gospel Truth; Glastonbury for 
200 Years; and Puritanism not Protest¬ 
antism. He died July 9, 1858, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

CHAPIN, BELA, journalist, author, 

poet, was born Feb. 19, 1829, in Newport, 

N. H. He was a printer, and in 1866 be¬ 
came proprietor of 
the Dartmouth 
printing and book¬ 
binding establish¬ 
ment in Hanover, 

N. H. In 1882 he 
edited and publish¬ 
ed Poets of New 
Hampshire, a very 
valuable collection. 
He has contributed 
numerous poems to 
current publica¬ 
tions; and has made 
a translation in verse ofVirgil’s Eclogues. 
He is the proprietor of the Granby Brook 
fruit and dairy farm of Claremont, N. H.; 
and has a library of two thousand vol¬ 
umes of standard works. 

CHAPIN, EDWIN HUBBELL, clergy¬ 
man. author, was born Dec. 29, 1814, in 
Union Village, N. Y. He was a univer- 
salist clergyman of New York city, long 
the foremost preacher in his denomina¬ 
tion. He is the author of The Crown of 
Thorns; Humanity in the City; Chris¬ 
tianity the Perfection of True Manliness; 
Moral Aspects of City Life; Discourses 
on the Lord’s Prayer; Hours of Commun¬ 
ion; Token for the Sorrowing; and Char¬ 
acters in the Gospels. He died Dec. 27, 
1880, in New York city. 






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CHAPIN, GRAHAM H., congressman, 
was born in Connecticut. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York 
from 1835 to 1837. He died in 1843. 

CHAPIN, HENRY, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, was born May 13, 1811, in Upton, 
Mass. In 1858 he was appointed judge of 
the court of probate and insolvency. For 
many years he was a member of the state 
board of education; also one of the trus¬ 
tees of the state lunatic asylum in Wor¬ 
cester, and a director of the city national 
bank. He was president of the American 
Unitarian association during several 
terms, and a member of the council of the 
national conference. He died Oct. 13, 1891, 
in Worcester, Mass. 

CHAPIN, HENRY AUSTIN, capitalist, 
was born Oct. 15, 1813, in Leyden, Mass. 
To Mr. Chapin belongs the fee of the land 
on the upper peninsula of Michigan, 
upon which the Chapin iron mine is now 
being operated. A royalty is paicj for 
every ton of ore taken out, and, it is said, 
Mr. Chapin’s revenue from that source 
has sometimes amounted to between 
$100,000 and $300,000 a year. 

CHAPIN, JAMES HENRY, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1832, in 
Indiana. He was a universalist clergy¬ 
man and educator, and professor of ge¬ 
ology in St. Lawrence university in 1871- 
92. He was the author of Sketches of the 
Huguenots; The Creation and Early De¬ 
velopment of Mankind; and From Japan 
to Granada, a Tour Around the World. 
He died in 1892. 

CHAPIN, STEPHEN, educator, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
Nov. 4, 1778, in Milford, Mass. In 1828 he 
was called to the presidency of Colum¬ 
bian college, Washington, D. C., an office 
which he held until 1841, when he retired 
on account of declining health. A few 
published sermons, tracts, and essays are 
all that remain to show his ability and 
culture. Among these are Letters on the 
Mode and Subjects of Baptism; and The 
Duty of Living for the Good of Posterity. 

CHAPLIN, MRS. ADA C., author, was 
born Jan. 25, 1842, in Falmouth, Mass. 
She was a Massachusetts writer of reli¬ 
gious juveniles, some of which are 
Christ’s Cadets; Charity Hurlburt; and 
Our Gold Mine, the Story of American 
Baptist Missions in India. She died Dec. 
9, 1883, in Mansfield, Conn. 

CHAPLIN, CHRISTINE, artist, poet, 
was born in 1842, in Bangor, Maine. Her 
specialty is painting wild flowers in wa¬ 
ter colors. Her pictures have been exhib¬ 
ited at the water-color society of New 
York, in Brooklyn, and at the Boston art 
club. She has written several little books 
of poetry, illustrated by herself. 

CHAPLIN, HEMAN WHITE, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1847, in Rhode Isl¬ 
and. He was a noted lawyer of Boston, 
whose Five Hundred Dollars, and Other 
Stories of New England Life, are excep¬ 
tionally faithful and delicate studies of 
character, and rank among the foremost 
of American short stories. 

CHAPLIN, MRS. JANE, author, was 
born Feb. 11, 1819, in Scotland. Among 
her various writings, mainly religious ju¬ 
veniles, are The Transplanted Shamrock; 
Black and White; and The Convent and 
the Manse. She died April 17, 1884, in 
Boston, Mass. 

CHAPLIN, JEREMIAH, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Jan. 2, 1776, in 
Georgetown, Mass. He was a baptist cler¬ 
gyman and educator, the first president of 
Colby university, in 1822-33. He was the 
author of The Evening of Life. He died 
May 7, 1841, in Hamilton, N. Y. 


CHAPLIN, JEREMIAH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1813, in Danvers, Mass. 
He was a baptist clergyman of Newton, 
Mass., who after leaving the ministry de¬ 
voted himself to literary pursuits in Bos¬ 
ton. He is the author of The Memorial 
Hour; The Hand of Jesus; Riches of Bun- 
yan; Life of Henry Dunster, First Presi¬ 
dent of Harvard College; Chips from the 
White House; Life of Benjamin Frank¬ 
lin; Life of Galen; Life of Duncan Dun¬ 
bar; and Life of Charles Sumner. He 
died March 5, 1886, in New Utrecht, N. Y. 

CHAPMAN, ALVAN WENTWORTH, 
botanist, author, was born Sept. 28, 1809, 
in Southampton, Mass. He was known 
as a botanist for whom the genus Chap- 
mannia was named, and the author of 
Flora of the Southern United States. 

CHAPMAN, ANDREW GRANT, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born in La Platte, 
Md., Jan. 17, 1839. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the state legislature in 1868, 1870, 
and 1872; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Maryland to the forty-seventh 
congress as a democrat. 

CHAPMAN, AUGUSTUS A., congress¬ 
man, was born in Virginia. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1843 to 1847. 

CHAPMAN, BIRD B., congressman, 
was born in Connecticut. He moved to 
Nebraska, and was elected a delegate 
from that territory to the thirty-fourth 
congress. 

CHAPMAN, CHARLES, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1799, in Newtown, 
Conn. He was three times elected to the 
legislature; from 1841 to 1845 was United 
States district attorney; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1851 to 1853. 
He was temperance candidate for gover¬ 
nor in 1854. He died Aug. 7, 1869, in 
Hartford, Conn. 

CHAPMAN, CHARLES HIRAM, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Oct. 28, 
1859, in Columbia county, Wis. He grad¬ 
uated from Johns Hopkins university, 
where for many years he filled the chair 
of professor of mathematics, which posi¬ 
tion he resigned to accept the presiden¬ 
cy of the university of Oregon. 

CHAPMAN, CHRISTOPHER E„ law- 
yer, legislator, was born Sept. 24, 1860, in 
New Shoreham, R. I. He attended Brown 
university, and in 1884 graduated in law 
from the Boston university. In 1887-89 
he was a member of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives of the Rhode Island legisla¬ 
ture; and in the senate from 1890 to 1897 
consecutively. He procured appropriations 
aggregating one hundred and seventy-five 
thousand dollars from the state of Rhode 
Island and the United States government 
for harbor refuge at New Shoreham 
Great Pond harbor, in his native town. 

CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER, orni¬ 
thologist, author, was born in 1864, in 
New Jersey. He is a well-known orni¬ 
thologist, and assistant curator of the de¬ 
partment of ornithology and mammalogy 
in the American Museum of Natural 
History, of New York city. He is the au¬ 
thor of Hand-book of Birds of Eastern 
North America; and Bird-Life: A Guide to 
the Study of Our Common Birds. 

CHAPMAN, GEORGE H„ soldier. He 
was appointed a brigadier-general in 
1864; and in 1865 received the brevet of 
major-general. 

CHAPMAN, GEORGE THOMAS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 21, 1786, 
in England. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man, and the author of Sketches of Alum¬ 
ni of Dartmouth College from 1771 to 
1868. He died Oct. 18, 1872, in Newbury- 
port, Mass. 


CHAPMAN, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
1805, in Pennsylvania. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate for three years, 
from January, 1843, and president judge 
of the fifteenth judicial district of Penn¬ 
sylvania for some years after leaving the 
senate. He was a representative in the 
thirty-fifth congress from Pennsylvania; 
and was elected president judge of the 
seventh judicial district of Pennsylvania 
in 1861. 

CHAPMAN, HENRY CADWALADER, 
physician, author, was born Aug. 17, 1845, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a noted phy¬ 
sician of Philadelphia, and the author of 
Evolution of Life; and History of the 
Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood. 

CHAPMAN. ISAAC NEWTON, civil 
engineer, inventor, was born Dec. 10,1838, 
in Lima, Ohio. He attended the public 
schools of his native county, and grad¬ 
uated from the Willamette university of 
Salem, Ore. In 1855-56 he served in the 
Indian wars of Oregon and "Washington. 
He has been United States deputy sur¬ 
veyor; city engineer of Alameda, Cal.; 
and has been successful as a surveyor of 
mines and mineral lands. He is the in¬ 
ventor of an automatic sewer flusher in 
use in Alameda and other cities. 

CHAPMAN, JACOB, clergyman, gene¬ 
alogist, was born in March, 1810, in Tam- 
worth, N. H. He received his education 
at the Dartmouth college, and the Ando¬ 
ver Theological seminary, and attained 
eminence as a clergyman. He is the au¬ 
thor of five volumes of Genealogy on the 
Folsom, Philbrick, Lane, Weeks, and 
Chapman Families. 

CHAPMAN, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1797 to 1799. 

CHAPMAN, JOHN, clergyman, was 
born Aug. 21, 1829, in Greenland, N. H. 
He served in various churches in New 
England, according to the assignment 
made by the conference, until 1871, when 
he was transferred to Brooklyn and New 
York. In 1891 he was elected chaplain to 
the university of Pennsylvania. 

CHAPMAN, JOHN A., soldier, author, 
poet, was born March 9, 1821, in Edgefield 
county, S. C. He served as a volunteer 
in the war, and was wounded. Since re¬ 
tiring from business in 1888 he has been 
closely engaged in the study and writing 
of the history of his own state. He is the 
author of a meritorious poem entitled 
The Ideal Man. In 1875 he published a 
volume of verse, The Walk and Other 
Poems; and in 1879 appeared Within the 
Vale. 

CHAPMAN, JOHN GRANT, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 5, 1798, in 
Charles county, Md. Between the years 
1824 and 1844 he 
was almost con¬ 
stantly in the legis¬ 
lature of Maryland. 
In 1845 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative 
in congress, and re¬ 
elected in 1847, serv¬ 
ing on important 
committees, and do¬ 
ing much good for 
his constituents and 
the public at large; 
was chosen presi¬ 
dent of the convention which framed the 
constitution of Maryland in 1851. His 
last public office was to preside as chair¬ 
man of the national whig convention 
which met in Baltimore in 1856, to nomi¬ 
nate Millard Fillmore for the presidency. 
He died Dec. 10, 1856. 










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CHAPMAN, JOHN GADSBY, painter, 
was born in 1808, in Alexandria, Va. He 
became a successful etcher and wood-en¬ 
graver, made illustrations for many 
books, among others Harper’s illustrated 
Bible, and published a Drawing-Book, 
which has passed through many editions 
in this country and in England. Among 
his works in oil are Baptism of Pocahon¬ 
tas, in the capitol at Washington; Etrus¬ 
can Girl; and Sunset on the Campagna. 
He died Nov. 28, 1889, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

CHAPMAN, JOSEPH GILBERT, man¬ 
ufacturer, philanthropist, was born in 
1840, in Oxford, N. Y. He has been promi¬ 
nently identified with the best life of St. 
Louis and its educational and philan¬ 
thropic movements, and has been a trus¬ 
tee of Washington university for the past 
^fifteen years. He was president of the 
•St. Louis Museum and School of Fine 
Arts, to whose endowment he contributed 
largely. 

CHAPMAN, MARIA WESTON, reform¬ 
er, was. born in 1806, in Weymouth, 
Mass. She was principal of the newly 
established young ladies’ high school in 
Boston in 1829-30. She returned to this 
country in 1856, and in 1877 published 
the autobiography of her intimate friend, 
Harriet Martineau. She died in 1885, in 
Weymouth, Mass. 

CHAPMAN, MILLIE J., educator, phy¬ 
sician, was born July 23, 1845, in Craw¬ 
ford county, Pa. She received her educa¬ 
tion in the public schools, at the state 
normal school, and the medical college. 
For twelve years she was engaged in edu¬ 
cational work. Since becoming a physi¬ 
cian she has held many official positions 
in local, state and national medical so¬ 
cieties. She is one of the physicians in 
the Homeopathic hospital; an attending 
physician for two Children’s homes; and 
lecturer on physics at a co-educational 
college of Pittsburg, Pa. 

CHAPMAN, NATHANIEL, educator, 
physician, author, was born May 28, 1780, 
in Summer Hill, Va. He was a Philadel¬ 
phia physician and professor of medicine 
in the university of Pennsylvania in 1814- 
50. He was the author of Materia Medi¬ 
na and Therapeutics, long a valued text¬ 
book; Select Speeches (edited); Lectures 
on Eruptive Fevers, Hemorrhages and 
Dropsies; and Lectures on Thoracic Vis¬ 
cera. He died July 1, 1853, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

CHAPMAN, PLEASANT T.. lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, state senator, was born Oct. 8, 1854, 
in Johnson county, Va. In 187T he was 
elected superintendent of the Johnson 
county schools, and reappointed for a 
short time in 1881. In 1882 he was elect¬ 
ed county judge; and in 1890-94 was elect¬ 
ed to the Illinois state senate. 

CHAPMAN, REUBEN, congressman, 
governor, was born July 15, 1799, in Ran¬ 
dolph county, Va. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Alabama from 1835 
to 1848; and was governor of that state 
from 1847 to 1849. He died May 17, 1882, 
in Huntsville, Ala. 

CHAPMAN, REUBEN ATWATER, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 20, 1801, in 
Russell, Mass. He practiced successively 
in Westfield, Monson, Ware, and Spring- 
field. He died June 28, 1873, in Switzer¬ 
land. 

CHAPMAN, THOMAS CORWIN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, was born Nov. 
12, 1844, in Conneaut, Ohio. He has filled 
the positions of prosecuting attorney, 
prohate judge, and served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the Missouri state 
legislature. 


CHAPMAN, WARREN HOSEA, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born May 5, 1821, in 
Tolland, Conn. He studied medicine and 
settled in Peoria, where he became emi¬ 
nent in his profession. Dr. Chapman was 
prominent in the arrangements that led 
to the establishment of a summer school 
of science in Peoria, and was president 
of the scientific association under whose 
direction the school was formed. He is 
the author of Geology of Peoria County; 
Chemistry of the Rocks; and Systems of 
Stratified Rocks. 

CHAPMAN, WILLIAM CARROLL, 
physician, journalist, was born June 17, 
1863, in Hartford, Ky. He is assistant to 
the chair of clinical medicine and to the 
chair of chemical physiology in the Ken¬ 
tucky school of medicine; secretary of the 
publication committee of the Kentucky 
State Medical society; and editor of the 
Medical Progress. 

CHAPMAN, WILLIAM W„ congress¬ 
man. He was a delegate to congress from 
the territory of Iowa from 1839 to 1841. 

CHAPPELL, ABSALOM HARRIS, law¬ 
yer, congressman, author, was born Dec. 
18, 1801, in Hancock county, Ga. He was 
a representative of the Georgia state leg¬ 
islature for three terms; a member of the 
state senate, and president of that body; 
and in 1842-43 became a member of the 
twenty-eighth congress. He died Dec. 11, 
1878. 

CHAPPELL, JOHN J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 19, 1782, in Fair- 
field, S. C. He was a solicitor of equity, 
colonel of militia, a trustee of the state 
college in 1809, and a bank director. He 
was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1813 to 1817. 

CHARLES, MRS. EMILY THORNTON, 
journalist, author, was born in 1845, in 
Indiana. She is a Washington journalist 
who has published two volumes of verse. 
Hawthorn Blossoms; and Lyrical Poems. 

CHARLTON, ROBERT MILLEDGE, 
lawyer, congressman, author, poet, was 
born Jan. 19, 1807, in Savannah, Ga. He 
served in the state legislature; became 
United States district attorney; and in 
his twenty-seventh year was appointed 
judge of the supreme court of eastern 
Georgia. He was a poet, and published 
a volume of poems in 1839; and also pub¬ 
lished a prose work entitled Leaves from 
the Portfolio of a Georgia Lawyer; as well 
as a variety of historical and other lec¬ 
tures and literary addresses. He served 
in congress as a senator from Georgia, by 
appointment, during a part of the years 
1852 and 1853. He died Jan. 18, 1854, in 
Savannah, Ga. 

CHARLTON, THOMAS USHER PU¬ 
LASKI, lawyer, jurist, legislator, author, 
was born in 1779, in South Carolina. In 
1803 he was a member of the Georgia 
state legislature; attorney-general during 
1804-8; and judge of the superior court 
of the eastern circuit of Georgia during 
1808-12. He was again a member of the 
legislature in 1812; mayor of Savannah 
in 1819-20; and again judge of the supe¬ 
rior court in 1824. He published a vol¬ 
ume of reports; a Life of James Jackson; 
and other works. He died in December, 
1835. 

CHARLTON, WALTER GLASCO, law¬ 
yer, was born June 5, 1851, in Savannah, 
Ga. He received his education at the 
Rock academy; the Pen-Lucy school of 
Baltimore county, Md.; and the university 
of Virginia. He has attained prominence 
as an able lawyer of Savannah, Ga., of 


which city he has served as alderman for 
three terms. He has been solicitor of 
the eastern circuit of Georgia; chairman 
of the democratic party of Chatham 
county for three terms; chairman of the 
democratic congressional convention of 
the first district in 1886; and temporary 
chairman of the state convention in 1885. 

CHASE, AARON AUGUSTUS, soldier, 
lawyer, journalist. He served with dis¬ 
tinction as a soldier during the civil war, 
and is a prominent member of the G. A. 
R. In 1863 he was admitted to the bar; 
and for many years was editor and pro¬ 
prietor of The Times of Scranton, Pa. His 
editorial championship of the working¬ 
men during the labor troubles of the sev¬ 
enties caused him to be twice imprisoned 
because of his attitude. In 1885 he re¬ 
sumed the practice of law, and is now one 
of the foremost members of that profes¬ 
sion in Pennsylvania at Scranton. 

CHASE, AARON W., soldier, poet, was 
born Jan. 19, 1841,'in St. Lawrence coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. He served through the war in 
company I, eighth Illinois cavalry; be¬ 
came first lieutenant, and was severely 
wounded. He has been school director, 
justice of the peace, and treasurer of Fill¬ 
more county, Neb. 

CHASE, ANN, patriot, was born 1809, 
in Ireland. Through her stratagems and 
secretly imparted information, the United 
States troops captured Tampico without 
the loss of a single man. The govern¬ 
ment gratefully acknowledged the ser¬ 
vice. She died Dec. 24, 1874, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

CHASE, BENJAMIN, clergyman, ge¬ 
ologist, was born in 1789, in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He was also a geologist, and pre¬ 
sented Oakland, Miss., college with a 
valuable collection of fossils, which he 
had gathered during his journeys. He 
died Oct. 11, 1870, in Natchez, Miss. 

CHASE, CHAMPION SPALDING, law¬ 
yer, statesman, was born March 20, 1820, 
in Cornish, N. H. In 1856 he was elected 
to the Wisconsin state senate; and in 
1862 was commissioned paymaster in the 
union army, with the rank of major of 
cavalry. In 1866 he went to Omaha, and 
was the first attorney-general of that 
state. In 1874 he was elected mayor of 
Omaha, and served seven years. He has 
held many positions of honor, and in 
1872 the Nebraska legislature named 
Chase county for him; and the citizens 
of Champion, a manufacturing town in 
that county, adopted his first name for 
their town. 

CHASE, CHARLES M., journalist, son 
of General E. B. Chase, was born Nov. 6, 
1839, in Lyndon, Vt. During 1857-61 he 
was police magistrate, lawyer and editor 
at Sycamore, Ill.; and in 1861 was the 
leader of the band in the thirteenth regi¬ 
ment Illinois volunteer infantry. In 1865 
he established The Vermont Union in 
Lyndon, and has ever since been its ed¬ 
itor and owner. In 1866 and 1868 he was 
democratic candidate for congress; dele¬ 
gate to the democratic national conven¬ 
tion in 1876. He has been a justice of the 
peace for twenty years in Lyndon, Vt., 
and president of the school board for 
fourteen years. Since 1892 he has been 
president of the Citizens’ Savings Bank 
and Trust company. 

CHASE, DENISON, inventor, was born 
April 13, 1830, in Concord, Vt. He has 
made several inventions. The most impor¬ 
tant, however, is the turbine water-wheel, 
which for years has been recognized as 
the best made. He is president of the 
Chase Turbine Manufacturing company, 
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CHASE, DUDLEY, lawyer, jurist. Unit¬ 
ed States senator, was born Dec. 30, 1771, 
in Cornish, N. H. He was state's attor¬ 
ney for Orange county; was a member of 
the constitutional conventions of 1814 and 
1822; was a representative from Randolph 
to the legislature of Vermont in 1805-12, 
during five years of which he was speaker. 
He was again elected representative from 
the same town in 1823 and 1824; and was 
elected United States senator from Ver¬ 
mont from 1813 to 1819. He resigned his 
seat in 1817; and was chief justice of the 
supreme court of Vermont in 1817-21. In 
1824 he was again chosen United States 
senator from 1825 to 1831. He died Feb. 
23, 1846. in Randolph, Vt. 

CHASE, EPAPHRAS B., soldier, legis¬ 
lator, was born Oct. 10, 1800, in Bradford. 
Vt. He was president of the Lyndon 
bank from its organization till his death. 
He was one of the organizers of the Ver¬ 
mont state agricultural society, and along 
time director. From 1833-36 he was gen¬ 
eral of the first Vermont brigade, and 
was a representative in the Vermont state 
legislature. He died in September, 1867. 

CHASE, FREDERIC AUGUSTUS, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, college president, was 
born Jan. 29, 1833, in King’s Ferry, N. Y. 
After being ordained as a presbyterian 
clergyman, he had charge of churches in 
Parishville and Lyndonville, N. Y. From 
1868 till 1870 he was president of a fe¬ 
male seminary in Lyons, Iowa; and in 
1872 became professor of natural sciences 
in Fisk university of Nashville, Tenn. 

CHASE. GEORGE, lawyer, author, was 
born Dec. 29, 1849, in Portland, Maine. He 
is a professor of criminal law at Colum¬ 
bia college, and the author of The Ameri¬ 
can Students’ Blackstone. 

CHASE, GEORGE COLBY, educator, 
college president, was born March 15. 
1844, in Unity, Maine. He has filled the. 
chair of professor of ancient classics in 
New Hampton literary institution, and 
from 1872-94 was professor of English lit¬ 
erature in Bates college, when he was ap¬ 
pointed president of that institution. 

CHASE. GEORGE LEWIS, underwrit¬ 
er, was born Jan. 13, 1828, in Millbury, 
Mass. In 1866 he became president of the 
Hartford Insurance company; and in 1876 
was elected president of the national 
board of fire underwriters. He has been 
a prominent directorate of many banking 
and financial institutions of Hartford, 
Conn. 

CHASE, GEORGE WINGATE, congress¬ 
man, author, was born in 1826 in Haver¬ 
hill, Mass. During 1853-55 he was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
state. He was the author of History of 
Haverhill, 1640-1860; The Freemason’s 
Monitor; Masonic Dictionary and Manual 
of Masonic Law; and Tactics for Knights 
Templars and Appendant Authors. He 
died May 1, 1867, in Maryland, N. Y. 

CHASE, HARRY, painter was born in 
1853 in Woodstock, Vt. His principal 
works are Breezy Afternoon off the Bat¬ 
tery in New York; Low Tide on the 
Welsh Coast; Outward-bound Whaler; 
Bringing the Fish Ashore; and New York 
Harbor. 

CHASE, HIRAM W., banker, was born 
Jan. 12, 1823, in Auburn, N. Y. He has 
been prominently identified with the rail¬ 
road interests of Lafayette, Ind. He was 
largely instrumental in establishing 4he 
Lafayette Savings bank in 1869. 

CHASE, HORACE, state legislator, 
was born in New England. He was a 
member of the first constitutional conven¬ 


tion of Wisconsin and a member of the 
first state legislature. He was mayor of 
Milwaukee in 1862-63. He died in 1887. 

CHASE, IRAH, clergyman, author, was 
born Oct. 5, 1793, in Stratton, Vt. He 
was a baptist clergyman of prominence 
who founded the theological seminary at 
Newton Centre, Mass., and was professor 
there in 1825-45. He was the author of 
Life of Bunyan; Design of Baptism; The 
Jewish Tabernacle; Infant Baptism an In¬ 
vention of Men; and The Constitutions of 
the Holy Apostles. He died Nov. 1, 1864, 
in Newton, Mass. 

CHASE, JEREMIAH T., congressman. 
He was a delegate from Mavyland to the 
continental congress from 1783 to 1784. 

CHASE, JULIA CLARKE, poet, was 
born April 9, 1856, in Neosho, Wis. She 
has written one thousand poems, besides 
a great deal of prose, stories and sketches 
for children. 

CHASE, LUCIEN B., congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 9, 1817, in Vermont. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1845 to 1847, and for a 
second term, ending in 1849. He was the 
author of a work entitled History of Pres¬ 
ident Polk’s Administration. He died 
Dec. 14, 1864, in Vermont. 

CHASE. LYMAN CLEVELAND, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 2, 
1839, in Rutland, Ohio. He attended the 
district schools in Ohio; commenced 
teaching at the age of iifteen, and in 1866 
graduated from the Hillsdaie college. The 
same year he entered Atwood institute, 
Ohio, as principal. In 1869 he was or¬ 
dained a clergyman in the free baptist 
church. In 1882 he moved to Kansas, and 
the following year became superintendent 
of missions in the freewill baptist church 
and has ever since been engaged in min¬ 
isterial work. He is the author of Con¬ 
tending for the Faith; and Christian’s 
Manual of His Essentials to Success in 
Christian Life and Work. 

CHASE, MARTHA ELLEN, educator, 
was born Dec. 5, 1846, in Lyndon, Vt. She 
is the daughter of General E. B. Chase; 
has always been engaged in educational 
work; and in 1877 established the Santa 
Rosa seminary, California, of which she is 
still principal. She has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to the educational literature of 
the times; and also on current topics. 

CHASE, PHILANDER, bishop, author, 
was born Dec. 14, 1775, in Cornish, N. H. 
He was the first protestant episcopal bish¬ 
op of Ohio, and later of Illinois. He 
founded Kenyon college at Gambier, Ohio. 
He was the author of A Plea for the 
West; Defence of Kenyon College; and 
Reminiscences. He died Sept. 20, 1852, at 
Jubilee College, Ill. 

CHASE, PHILIP STEPHEN, soldier, 
legislator, was born Nov. 3, 1843, in Ports¬ 
mouth, R. I. He was a soldier in the 
civil war, and in 1883 was appointed de¬ 
partment commander Grand Army of the 
Republic. In 1868 he was a member of 
the Rhode Island legislature, and in 1895 
was elected city auditor of Providence, 
R. I. He was an officer of the Rhode 
Island militia for fourteen years, thirteen 
of which was assistant adjutant general 
with rank of lieutenant colonel. 

CHASE. PLINY EARLE, educator, 
scientist, author, was born Aug. 18, 1820, 
in Worcester, Mass. He was an educator 
and scientist of Philadelphia and the au¬ 
thor of Numerical Relations of Gravity 
and Magnetism; Elements of Meteorol¬ 
ogy; Elements of Arithmetic; and Com¬ 
mon School Arithmetic. He died Dec. 17, 
1886, in Haverford, Pa. 


CHASE, SALMON PORTLAND, law¬ 
yer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born Jan. 13, 1808, in Cornish, N. H. His 
first public position 
was that of school 
examiner in Cincin¬ 
nati, in 1839; in 
1840 was a city coun¬ 
cilman; in 1845 pro¬ 
jected what was 
called a liberty con¬ 
vention; and was a 
member of the free- 
soil convention held 
at Buffalo in 1848. 
He was a senator in 
congress, from Ohio, 
from 1849 to 1855; was elected governor 
of Ohio in 1855, and re-elected in 1857. 
In 1860 he was again chosen a senator in 
congress. In 1864 he was appointed chief 
justice of the supreme court of the United 
States. By virtue of his position as chief 
justice he presided over the senate while 
acting as a court of impeachment, during 
the trial of President Andrew Johnson, in 
1868. He died May 7, 1873, in New York 
city. 

CHASE, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress, from New York from 
1827 to 1829. 

CHASE, SAMUEL, jurist, statesman, 
was born April 17, 1741, in Somerset 
county, Maryland. He was sent by Mary¬ 
land as a delegate 
to the continental 
congress, where he 
served from 1774 to 
1778, and in 1784 and 
1785. He was a signer 
of the declaration of 
independence. In 
1788 he was appoint¬ 
ed chief justice of 
the criminal court; 
was a member of 
the convention that 
ratified the federal 
1796 was appointed 
supreme bench. He 

CHASE, THOMAS, educator, college 
president, author, was born June 16, 1827, 
in Worcester, Mass. He was an educator 
of Pennsylvania, and president of Haver¬ 
ford college. He was co-editor with 
George Stuart of a series of classical text¬ 
books, and also published Hellas, her 
Monuments and Scenery, descriptive of 
his travels in Greece. He died m 1892. 

CHASE, WILLIAM EZRA, educator, 
lawyer, was born Jan. 1, 1872, in Fremont, 
Neb. He graduated from the Iowa col¬ 
lege in 1891, with the degree of A. B. For 
two years he was professor of ancient and 
modern languages in Hull academy, 
Iowa; in 1893-94 was instructor in the 
Calumet high school, Michigan; in 1894- 
95 was principal of public schools in Ben¬ 
jamin, Tex.; and in 1895-96 was connected 
with the Epworth seminary, Iowa. 

CHASE, WILLIAM MERRITT, painter, 
was born Nov. 1, 1849, in Franklin, Ind. 
Fish Market; The Dowager; Broken Jug; 
Ready for a Ride; The Apprentice; por¬ 
trait of General Webb; and portrait of 
Peter Cooper (1882). 

CHASE, WILLIAM THOMAS, clergy¬ 
man, was born July 11, 1839, in Hallowell, 
Maine. He occupied the pulpit of thfe 
famous Ruggles Street church for two 
and one-half years, when he was called, in 
1891, to the Fifth baptist church of Phila¬ 
delphia. He is trustee of the Newton 
Theological institution and president of 
the baptist education society of Maine. 




constitution, and in 
an associate on the 
died June 19, 1811. 


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CHASSAIGNAC, CHARLES LOUIS, 
surgeon, was born Jan. 25, 1862, in New 
Orleans, La. He attended the New Or¬ 
leans central high school; college of 
Brothers of the Sacred Heart; and gradu¬ 
ated in medicine from the university of 
Louisiana. He has been president of the 
Orleans parish medical society; and is 
now professor of genito-urinary and rec¬ 
tal diseases in the New Orleans poly¬ 
clinic. He is president of the New Or¬ 
leans sanitarium; editor of the New Or¬ 
leans Medical and Surgical Journal; and 
has held other medical positions of honor. 

CHASTAIN, EDWARD W., congress¬ 
man, was born in South Carolina. He was 
a representative in congress, from Geor¬ 
gia, from 1851 to 1855. 

CHATARD, FRANCIS SILAS, bishop, 
author, was born in 1834 in Baltimore, 
Md. He is the Roman catholic bishop of 
Vincennes, Ind., and the author of Chris¬ 
tian Truths. 

CHATFIELD, A. G., jurist. He was an 
early emigrant to Minnesota, and in 1853 
he was appointed an associate justice of 
the United States court for the territory 
of Minnesota. 

CHATFIELD - TAYLOR, HOBART 
CHATFIELD, author, was born in 1865 
in Illinois. He is the author of With 
Edge Tools; An American Peeress; Two 
Women and a Fool; and The Land of the 
Castanet. 

CHATTERTON, FENIMORE, lawyer, 
legislator, was born July 21, 1860, in Os¬ 
wego, N. Y. During 1870-78 he attended 
the public schools of Washington, D. C., 
and the preparatory department of the 
Columbia college. In 1888 he was treas¬ 
urer and probate judge of Carbon county, 
Wyo.; in 1890-92 was state senator for 
two terms; the latter year serving as 
vice-president of the state senate. In 
1894-96 he served two terms as prose¬ 
cuting attorney of Carbon; and is known 
as one of the foremost lawyers in the 
west, with a large practice at Rawlins, 
Wyo. 

CHAUNCEY, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, 
was born June 11, 1747, in Durham, Conn. 
He became state’s attorney in 1776. He 
was a judge of the superior court from 
1789 till 1793, and was for forty years a 
lecturer on jurisprudence. He was the 
principal founder and president of the 
first agricultural society in Connecticut. 
He died April 28, 1823, in New Haven, 
Conn. 

CHAUNCEY. ISAAC, naval officer, was 
born Feb. 20, 1772, in Black Rock, Conn. 
He made several successful voyages to the 
East Indies in the ships of John Jacob 
Astor. He distinguished himself in sev¬ 
eral actions off Tripoli and was thanked 
by congress for his services. He served 
with distinction in the war of 1812; and 
in 1833-40 was president of the board of 
navy commissioners in Washington, D. 
C., in which city he died Jan. 27, 1840. 

CHAUNCY, CHARLES, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born in 1592 
in England. He was a puritan clergy¬ 
man, vicar of Ware in 1627-35. tfe came 
to America in 1638, and was thirteen 
years minister at Scituate. He was the 
second president of Harvard college, suc¬ 
ceeding Henry Dunster in 1654. His most 
important work is a series of twenty-six 
Sermons on Justification. Antisynodalia 
Scripta America, a controversial pam¬ 
phlet, appeared in 1662. He died Feb. 19, 
1672. 

CHAUNCY, CHARLES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 1, 1705. in Boston. 
Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Re¬ 
ligion in New England; Discourse on En¬ 


thusiasm, directed against Whitefield, of 
whose teachings he was a strong oppo¬ 
nent; Letters to Whitefield; Complete 
View of Episcopacy; The Mystery Hid 
from the Ages; Benevolence of the Deity; 
Five Dissertations on the Fall and its 
Consequences; and Validity of Presby¬ 
terian Ordination. He died Feb. 10, 1787. 

CHAUVENET, REGIS, chemist, was 
born Oct. 7, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
From 1872 till 1875 he was chemist to the 
Missouri geological survey, and for some 
time held a similar relation to the city of 
St. Louis. In the year 1883 he became 
professor of chemistry and president of 
the Colorado state school of mines in 
Golden. 

CHAUVENET, WILLIAM, author, was 
born May 24, 1820, in Milford, Pa. He was 
a mathematician who was chancellor of 
Washington university, St. Louis, in 1862- 
69. He was the author of Binomial 
Theorem and Logarithms; Plane and 
Spherical Trigonometry; Manual of 
Spherical and Practical Astronomy; and 
Elementary Geometry. He died Dec. 13, 
1870, in St. Paul, Minn. 

CHAVEZ, J. FRANCISCO, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 27, 1833, in Pa¬ 
dillas, N. M. He was appointed major of 
the first regiment of infantry raised in 
New Mexico; after participating in sev¬ 
eral battles and see.ng much active serv¬ 
ice on the frontier he was promoted to the 
rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1865 he 
was elected a delegate from New Mexico 
to the thirty-ninth congress, and re-elect¬ 
ed to the fortieth and forty-first con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

CHAVIS, JORDAN DOUGLAS, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, was 
born Aug. 9, 1863, near Greensboro, N. C. 
Since 1893 he has been president of the 
Bennett college of Greensboro, N. C. He 
completed his college course in 1887, and 
attained success as an educator and meth- 
odist clergyman. 

CHEADLE, JOSEPH B., journalist, 
congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1842, in 
Perrysville, Ind. He entered the editorial 
profession, which occupation he has since 
followed. He was elected to the fiftieth 
congress and re-elected to the fifty-first 
congress as a republican. 

CHEATHAM. HENRY PLUMMER, 
congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1857, in 
Granville, N. C. He was elected principal 
of the Plymouth state normal school im¬ 
mediately after his graduation, and 
served in that capacity until 1885. He is 
the only colored representative in the 
fifty-first congress. He was elected to the 
fifty-first and re-elected to the fifty-sec¬ 
ond congress as a republican. In 1897 he 
was appointed recorder of deeds for the 
District of Columbia. 

CHEATHAM, RICHARD, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee, from 1837 to 1839. He died in 
September, 1845. 

CHECKLEY, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1680 in Boston, Mass. He 
was an episcopal clergyman of Rhode 
Island, noted in his day for his witty, 
reckless attacks on his theological op¬ 
ponents. He was the author of Choice 
Dialogues About Predestination. He died 
in 1753 in Providence, R. I. 

CHEESMAN, JOHN CUMMINGS, phy¬ 
sician. was born July 20, 1788, in New 
York city. He held many important of¬ 
fices, among which were surgeon to the 
Charity hospital on Blackwell’s island, 
and surgeon to Bellevue hospital. For 
forty years he was professionally con¬ 
nected with the New York hospital. He 
died Oct. 11, 1862, in New York city. 


CHEETHAM, JAMES, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1772 in England. He 
was an English journalist who came to 
America in 1798, and became editor of 
The American Citizen. He was the au¬ 
thor of Nine Letters on Burr’s Defection; 
Reply to Aristides; and Life of Thomas 
Paine, a work written from a hostile 
point of view. He died Sept. 10, 1810, in 
New York city. 

CHEEVER, ALONZO W., farmer, lec¬ 
turer, journalist, was born Feb. 27, 1831, 
in Wrentham, Mass. He was state cat¬ 
tle commissioner during 1885-92; and has 
lectured on agriculture in all the north¬ 
eastern states, state institute service. 
Since 1873 he has been agricultural editor 
of The New England Farmer. 

CHEEVER, EZEKIEL, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 25, 1614, in London, 
England. He was a colonial educator of 
Boston, who was master of the Latin 
school for many years, and was author of 
Scripture Prophecies Explained, an essay 
on the millennium; Latin Accidence, for 
a century a standard introductory Latin 
text-book in New England. He died Aug. 
21, 1708, in Boston, Mass. 

CHEEVER, GEORGE BARRELL, 
clergyman, author, was born April 17, 
1807, in Hallowell, Maine. He was a noted 
congregational clergyman of New York 
city, and the author or Deacon Giles’s 
Distillery; Studies in Poetry; Wanderings 
of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont 
Blanc; Lectures on Pilgrim’s Progress; 
Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth; 
God Against Slavery; Incidents and Mem¬ 
ories of the Christian Life; The Guilt 
of Slavery; The Republic or the Oli¬ 
garchy, Which?; Faith, Doubt, and Evi¬ 
dence; God’s Timepiece for Man’s Eter¬ 
nity; Lectures on Cowper; and Windings 
of the River of the Water of Life. He 
died Oct. 1, 1890, in Englewood, N. J. 

CHEEVER, HENRY MARI'YN, lawyer, 
was born June 20, in Stillwater, N. Y. He 
attained success as a lawyer; has lectured 
on Presbyterianism and Catholicity; was • 
organizer of the Westminster church of 
Detroit; and trustee of several large in¬ 
stitutions of Detroit, Mich. 

CHEEVER, HENRY THEODORE, 
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 6, 1814, 
in Hallowell, Maine. He was a congre¬ 
gational clergyman, and the author of 
Way Marks in the Moral War with Slav¬ 
ery; Correspondences of Faith and Views 
of Madame Guyon; The Island World of 
the Pacific; Life in the Sandwich Islands; 
The Whale and his Captors; The Pulpit 
and the Pew; Life of Nathaniel Cheever; 
Life of Walter Colton; and Captain Cau- 
gar. He died in 1897. 

CHEEVER, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 22, 1787, in North Brook¬ 
field, Mass. He was elected district at¬ 
torney at Troy, N. Y.; add was elected the 
first county judge of Albany, N. Y. He 
died Sept. 25, 1874, in Waterford, N. Y. 

CHENEY, ARTHUR, was born Jan. 14, 
1837, in South Manchester, Conn. He in¬ 
terested himself in the drama and built 
the Globe theater of Boston, originally 
called Selwyn’s theater, for the purpose of 
giving the best plays in a thorough and 
artistic way. He died in December, 1878, 
in South Manchester, Conn. 

CHENEY, BENJAMIN PIERCE, pio¬ 
neer, was born Aug. 12, 1815, in New 
England. In 1880 he merged his business 
into that of the American Express com¬ 
pany, taking stock in payment. He was 
promptly made a director of the Ameri¬ 
can Express company, and remained such 
the rest of his life, being the largest in¬ 
dividual stockholder in the company. He 
died July 23, 1895, in Wellesley, Mass. 


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CHENEY, BENJAMIN PIERCE, rail¬ 
road president, was born April 8, 1866, in 
Boston, Mass. He is president of the Na¬ 
tional City and Otay railway. 

CHENEY, CHARLES EDWARD, 
clergyman, was born Feb. 12, 1836, in 
Canandaigua, N. Y. Soon after his ordi¬ 
nation he became rector of Christ church, 
Chicago. Mr. Cheney was elected mis¬ 
sionary bishop of the northwest, for the 
new organization, in 1873. 

CHENEY, MRS. EDNAH DOW, edu¬ 
cator, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 27, 
1829, in Boston, Mass. She is a Boston 
writer, associated in early life with the 
prominent New England transcendental- 
ists, who has been active in the woman 
suffrage movement, and whose writing 
has had more or less to do with philosoph¬ 
ical themes. Her principal works com¬ 
prise Hand-book of American History for 
Colored People; Faithful to the Light, 
and Other Tales; Stories of the Olden 
Time; Gleanings in theFields of Art; Life 
of Louisa Alcott, supra; Life of Christian 
Daniel Rauch, Sculptor; Memoir of John 
Cheney, Engraver; Memoir of Dr. Susan 
Dimock; Nora’s Return, a sequel to Ib¬ 
sen’s Doll House; Sally Williams; and the 
Mountain Girl. 

CHENEY, EMELINE BURLINGAME, 
missionary, was born Sept. 22, 1836, in 
Smithfleld, R. I. She has been president 
of the Rhode Island Woman’s Christian 
Temperance union; and president of the 
Free Baptist Woman’s Missionary society. 
She is a licensed preacher, and was three 
times a delegate to the free baptist tri¬ 
ennial conference; and was editor of the 
Missionary Helper for many years. 

CHENEY, MRS. HARRIET VAUGHAN 
(FOSTER), author, was born in 1815 in 
Massachusetts. She is the author of Con¬ 
fessions of an Early Martyr; A Peep at 
the Pilgrims in 1636; The Rivals of Ar¬ 
cadia; Sketches from the Life of Christ; 
and The Sunday School, or Village 
Sketches. 

CHENEY, JOHN VANCE, librarian, 
author, poet, was born Dec. 29, 1848, in 
New York. He practiced law for a while; 
and subsequently became librarian of the 
public library in San Francisco, Cal. In 
1897 he was elected librarian of the New¬ 
berry library of Chicago. His poetical 
works include Thistle Drift; Wood 
Blooms; and Queen Helen and Other 
Poems. In prose, his best known works 
are The Old Doctor, a Romance of Queer 
Village; The Golden Guess, a series of 
critical essays; and That Dome in Air, a 
similar collection of critical studies. 

CHENEY, PERSON COLBY, manufac¬ 
turer, governor. United States senator, 
was born Feb. 25, .*.828, in Ashland, N. H. 
He was president of the Amoskeag Fibre 
Ware company; and in 1853 was a repre¬ 
sentative in the New Hampsnire legisla¬ 
ture. In 1862 he entered the union army 
as regimental quartermaster. In 1864 he 
was elected railroad commissioner, serv¬ 
ing three years. In 1871 he was elected 
mayor of Manchester, N. H.; in 1875 was 
elected governor of New Hampshire, and 
was re-elected in 1876; he was appointed 
United States senator to fill a vacancy, 
serving from 1886 to 1889. 

CHENEY, SETH WELLS, artist, was 
born Nov. 26, 1810. in South i.ianchester. 
Conn. He was one of the earliest Ameri¬ 
can artists in black and white, and ex¬ 
celled in giving spirituality to his por¬ 
traits and ideal female faces, which are 
still sought by collectors. Among his 
works are portraits of Theodore Parker 
with his wife; and Epnraim Peabody; 
Rosalie; and A Roman Girl. He died 
Sept. 10, 1856, in South Manchester, 
Conn. 


CHENEY, SIMON PEASE, musical edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1818 in New 
Hampshire. He was a once noted mu¬ 
sical educator of Vermont, and the au¬ 
thor of The American Singing Book; and 
M ood Notes Wild, notations of bird mu¬ 
sic. He died in 1890. 

CHENEY, THESEUS APOLEON, au¬ 
thor, was born March 16, 1830, in Leon, 
N. Y. He was a writer who devoted his 
attention to the history of the western 
portion of his native state. He was the 
author of Report on the Ancient Monu¬ 
ments of Western New York; Historical 
Sketch of the Chemung Valley; Histor¬ 
ical Sketch of Eighteen Counties of Cen¬ 
tral and Southern New York; Laron; Re¬ 
lations of Government to Science; and 
Antiquarian Researches. He died Aug. 2, 
1878, in Starkey, N. Y. 

CHENEY, WARD, pioneer manufac¬ 
turer, was born in 1813, in South Man¬ 
chester, Conn. His silk thread having 
been once accepted as excellent in quality, 
the Cheney factory gained ground every 
year in spite of many trials. Arthur, 
Charles and Frank W. Cheney, brothers, 
successively joined the founder. He died 
March 22, 1876, in South Manchester, 
Conn. 

CHENOWETH, JAMES Q., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, was born Feb. 9, 1841, 
in Louisville, Ky. He was elected a state 
senator of Kentucky; served three ses¬ 
sions and resigned. In 1875 he was ap¬ 
pointed district judge in Texas; and was 
elected a representative in the seven¬ 
teenth and eighteenth legislatures of Tex¬ 
as. In 1885 he was appointed first au¬ 
ditor of the United States treasury. 

CHENOWETH, WILLIAM J„ physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born Dec. 1, 1823, in 
Greensburg, Ky. In 1840 he graduated 
with the degree of A. B. from the Au¬ 
gusta college, Kentucky; and three years 
later received the degree of A. M. from 
the same institution. He has attained 
success in his profession at Decatur, Ill.; 
and is prominently connected with the 
leading medical societies and other insti¬ 
tutions. 

CHENOWITH, F. A., jurist, was born 
in Ohio. He was appointed associate jus¬ 
tice of the United States court for the ter¬ 
ritory of Washington. 

CHERRY, WILLIAM JOHN, lawyer, 
author, was born Jan. zci, 1859, in Chester 
county, South Carolina. He was edu¬ 
cated in his native state at Newberry col¬ 
lege; and in 1881 began educational work, 
subsequently adopting law as his profes¬ 
sion. Since 1885 he has practiced law in 
Rock Hill, S. C., where ne has been city 
attorney for a number of years, and is the 
legal adviser and attorney for a number 
of large corporations; and is also very 
prominent in politics. He has given con¬ 
siderable time to newspaper work, and is 
the author of a work entitled A Hand- 
Book of Rock Hill. 

CHESLuRO, CAROLINE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1820 in Canandai¬ 
gua, N. Y. She was a writer of stories and 
sketches who was during the latter part 
of her life a teacher in the Packer insti¬ 
tute of Brooklyn. Her writing displays 
much individuality, and the novel, The 
Foe in the Household, her finest work, is 
a careful study of some unfamiliar phases 
of Pennsylvania life. Her other works 
include The Beautiful Gate and Other 
Sketches; Peter Cantadine; The Children 
of Light; Susan, the Fisherman’s Daugh¬ 
ter; The Little Cross Bearers; Dream- 
Land by Daylight; Philly and Kit; Vic¬ 
toria; Amy Carr; and The Glen Cabin. 
She died Feb. 16, 1873. in Piermont, N. Y. 


CHESEBROUGH, AMOS SHEFFIELD, 
D. D., clergyman, author, was born Aug. 
22, 1813, in Stonington, Conn. In 1835 he 
graduated from Yale university; and 
from Yale Theological seminary in 1840. 
He has been pastor of congregational 
churches in Chester, Glastonbury and 
Durham, Conn.; and previously was prin¬ 
cipal of Hadley and Westfield academies. 
Massachusetts. He is a member of the 
corporation of Tale university, and au¬ 
thor of several works on Church Work 
and Christian Nurture. 

CHESEBROUGH, ELLIS SYLVESTER, 
civil engineer, was worn July 6, 1813, in 
Baltimore, Md. In 1855 he became en¬ 
gineer for the Chicago board of sewerage 
commissioners, and in that capacity 
planned the sewerage system of the city. 
In 1879 he resigned the officer of commis¬ 
sioner of public works. He achieved a 
high reputation as an authority on the 
water supply and sewage of cities, and in 
that capacity was consulted by the offi¬ 
cials of New York, Boston, Cambridge, 
Toronto, Detroit, Memphis, Milwaukee, 
and other cities. In 1877-78 he was presi¬ 
dent of the American society of civil en¬ 
gineers. He died Aug. 19, 1886, in Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. 

CHESEBROUGH, ROBERT AUGUS¬ 
TUS, manufacturer, inventor, was born 
Jan. 9, 1837, in England. As a result of 
continual experi¬ 
ments in distilling 
and filtering petro¬ 
leum, he discovered 
and patented, in 
1870, the substance 
now known as vas¬ 
eline. In 1881 he 
erected the huge of¬ 
fice building, which 
bears his name, in 
New York city. He 
introduced heating 
and ventilating ap¬ 
pliances of his own invention into this 
structure; and these have since attracted 
wide attention among architects and own¬ 
ers. The Real Estate exchange origin¬ 
ated with him. 

CHESHIRE, JOSEPH BLOUNT, bishop 
of North Carolina, author, was born 
March 27, 1850, in Tarborough, N. C. He 
has published several valuable mono¬ 
graphs. Among his works are: Early 
Conventions of the Lhurch in North Caro¬ 
lina; Fragments of North Carolina 

Church History; The Church in the 

Province of North Carolina; Decay and 
Revival; and Parson Miller and White 
Haven Church. 

CHESNEY, ELIJAH, clergyman, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born May 29, 1842, in 
Dumfries, Ontario, Canada. He graduat¬ 
ed with honors in 
the classical course 
from the Woodstock 
college in 1864; and 
completed the full 

theological course of 

studies in the same 

institution. He has 
filled pastorates in 
Canada and Michi¬ 
gan; he has many 
times held the posi¬ 
tion of moderator 
and president of re¬ 
ligious councils, associations and conven¬ 
tions; and by appointment preached ser¬ 
mons and delivered addresses at such as¬ 
semblies. For twelve years he has been 
a member of the Michigan state home 
mission board in connection with the 
baptist state convention, and was for sev¬ 
eral years its secretary. 




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CHESTER, ALBERT HUNTINGTON, 
educator, author, was born Nov. 22, 1843, 
in Saratoga Springs, N. Y. He is a pro¬ 
fessor of chemistry and metallurgy at 
Hamilton college, and the author of Dic¬ 
tionary of the Names of Minerals; and 
Catalogue of Minerals with their Chemi¬ 
cal Composition and Synonyms. 

CHESTER, FREDERICK DIXON 
WALTHALL, geologist, was born Oct. 8, 
1861, in West Indies. He is a geologist 
of Delaware who has written many mon¬ 
ographs upon local^tate geology. 

CHESTER, JOHN, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, was born Jan. 29, 1749, in Wethers¬ 
field, Conn. He was a representative in 
the legislature in 1772, served with dis¬ 
tinction as a captain at the battle of 
Bunker Hill, became a colonel, and con¬ 
tinued in the continental army until 1777. 
Afterward he sat in the Connecticut leg¬ 
islature, in which he was chosen speaa- 
er; was a member of the council in 1788- 
91 and 1803; supervisor of the district of 
Connecticut from 1791 to 1801. He died 
Nov. 4, 1809, in Wethersfield, Conn. 

CHESTER, JOSEPH LEMUEL, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born April 30, 1821, in 
Norwich, Conn. He was a Philadelphia 
journalist who went to England in 1858, 
living in London, and devoting himself to 
antiquarian research till he became one 
of the most famous genealogists of his 
day. His own writings include Green¬ 
wood Cemetery and Other Poems; Treat¬ 
ise on the Laws of Repulsion; Education¬ 
al Laws of Virginia: the personal narra¬ 
tive of Margaret Douglass, imprisoned for 
the crime of teaching free colored cnil- 
dren to read; John Rogers, the Compiler 
of the English Bible; and Preliminary In¬ 
vestigation of the Alleged Ancestry of 
George Washington. His most important 
antiquarian work is an edition of the 
Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Regis¬ 
ters of Westminster Abbey, with notes, 
on which he spent seventeen years’ labor. 
He edited also the parish registers of six 
London city churches. He died May 28, 
1882, in London, England. 

CHESTERMAN, ALONZO DECATUR, 
A. M., educator, was born Jan. 15, 1840, 
in Hanover county, Va. In 1860 he grad¬ 
uated from the Hampden Sidney college, 
Virginia. He has been principal of the 
Florence academy, Alabama; principal of 
the Marshall state normal college, West 
Virginia; principal of the Holly Springs 
normal institute, and of the classical 
school, Mississippi. 

CHESTNUT, JAMES, soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in 1815, in 
Camden, S. C. He was a member of the 
state legislature in 1842-52; from 1854 to 
1858 was a member of the state senate; 
and was appointed to the United States 
senate, taking his seat during the second 
session of the thirty-fifth congress. 

CHETLAIN, AUGUSTA 'LOUIS, soldier, 
banker, was born Dec. 26, 1824, in St. 
Louis, Mo. He attended the common 
schools of Galena, Ill.; became a mer¬ 
chant in that city; and was the first vol¬ 
unteer at a meeting held in response to 
the president’s call after the bombard¬ 
ment of Fon, Sumter in 1861. He was 
commissioned lieutenant-colonel in the 
twelfth regiment Illinois infantry; and in 
1863 was promoted brigadier-general. He 
raised a force of seventeen thousand 
men, for which service he was brevetted 
major-general; and served gallantly for 
five years in the war. During 1867-69 he 
was assessor of internal revenue for the 
district of Utah; and was then appointed 
United States consul at Brussels. During 
1872-93 he was engaged as a banker and 
stockbroker in Chicago. 


CHETWOOD, JOHN, lawyer, author, 
was born April 28, 1859, in Elizabeth, N. 
J. He graduated from the law school of 
the Columbia college, and has attained 
prominence as a lawyer. He is the au¬ 
thor of Immigration Fallacies; and has 
contributed extensively to current litera¬ 
ture. 

CHETWOOD, WILLIAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1769, in Elizabeth¬ 
town, N. J. He at one time served in the 
state council of New Jersey; and was 
elected to congress from that state, to fill 
a vacancy during the administration of 
President Jackson. He died Dec. 18, 1857, 
in Elizabethtown, N. J. 

CHEVERUS, JEAN L„ Roman catho¬ 
lic bishop, was born Jan. 28, 1768, in 
France. In 1808 the diocese of Boston 
was created, and in 1810 he was conse¬ 
crated first bishop of Boston. In 1818 he 
purchased and dedicated St. Augustine’s, 
the first catholic cemetery in Boston. In 
1823 he returned to France, and in 1836 
was proclaimed a cardinal. He died July 
19, 1836. 

CHEVES, LANGDON, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 17, 1776, in 
Rocky River, S. C. He was elected to the 
state legislature in 1808; was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1809; and afterward attor¬ 
ney-general of the state. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from South Caro¬ 
lina from 1811 to 1816, and was speaker 
during the second session of the thir¬ 
teenth congress. He was also a commis¬ 
sioner of claims under the treaty of 
Ghent; judge of the court of common 
pleas from 1816 to 1819, and for a time 
president of the United States bank. He 
died June 25, 1857, in Columbia, S. C. 

CHEW, BENJAMIN, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 29, 1722, in West River, 
Md. In 1774 he became chief justice of 
the state of Pennsylvania. For several 
years was speaker in the house of dele¬ 
gates; and in 1790 was appointed presi¬ 
dent of the high court of errors and ap¬ 
peals. He died Jan. 20, 1810. 

CHICKERING, CHARLES A., educator, 
state legislator,, congressman, was born 
Nov. 26, 1843, in Harrisburg, N. Y. He 
was a member of the assembly in 1879, 
1880, and 1881; was elected clerk of the 
assembly in 1884, and re-elected in 1885- 
90. He nas been chairman of the repub¬ 
lican county committee of Lewis county, 
secretary of the republican state commit¬ 
tee, and also a member of the executive 
committee of that body. He was elected 
to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty- 
fifth congresses as a republican. 

CHICKERING, JESSE, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 31, 1797, in Dover, N. 
H. He was a Boston physician who was a 
Unitarian minister in his earlier career, 
and later became a noted writer on politi¬ 
cal economy. He was the author of Sta¬ 
tistical View of the Population of Massa¬ 
chusetts, 1765-1840; Emigration into the 
United States; Reports on the Census of 
Boston; and Letter to the President on 
Slavery in Relation to Constitutional 
Government in Great Britain and the 
United States. He died May 29, 1855, in 
West Roxbury, Mass. 

CHICKERING, JOHN WHITE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1808, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Portland, Maine, in 1835-65, and 
the author of What it is to Believe in 
Christ, a very widely circulated tract; 
and The Hillside Church. 

CHICKERING, JONAS, manufacturer, 
inventor, was born April 5, 1797, in New 
Ipswich, N. H. He manufactured Chick- 
ering pianos; and invented various im¬ 


provements. He died Dec. 8, 1853, in 
Boston, Mass. 

CHICKERING, THOMAS EDWARD, 
soldier, manufacturer, was born Oct. 22, 
1824, in Boston, Mass. The Chickerings 
developed a piano of brilliant quality, 
which vied with the Steinway piano for 
the favor of musicians and the public, 
and has been practically the only Ameri¬ 
can rival of the Steinway among those 
who are content with nothing less than 
first-class instruments. The principal 
salesroom of the firm was in New York 
city. In 1862 he left Boston in command 
of the forty-first Massachusetts volun¬ 
teers, and at the close of the war was 
brevetted brigadier-general. He died 
Feb. 14, 1871, in Boston, Mass. 

CHILCOTT, GEORGE MILES, lawyer, 
legislator, United States senator, was 
born Jan. 2, 1828, in Huntingdon, Pa. He 
was elected to the territorial legislature. 
In 1859 he settled in Colorado; in 1861 
was elected to the legislature of that ter¬ 
ritory; in 1862 was admitted to the bar 
of the same; and in 1863 was appointed 
a register of the land office, serving four 
years. In 1866 he was elected a delegate 
from Colorado to the fortieth congress; 
and in 1882 was appointed a United States 
senator from Colorado, to fill a vacancy. 
He died March 6, 1891, in St. Louis, Mo. 

CHILD, DAVID LEE, journalist, was 
born July 8, 1794, in West Boylston, Mass. 
He was graduated at Harvard in 1817; 
was secretary of legation in Lisbon about 
1820, and was admitted to the bar. He 
edited the Massachusetts Journal about 
1830, and while a member of the legisla¬ 
ture denounced the annexation of Texas, 
afterward publishing a pamphlet on the 
subject, entitled Naboth’s Vineyard. With 
his wife he edited the Anti-Slavery 
Standard in New York in 1843-44. He was 
distinguished for the independence of his 
character, and the boldness with which 
he denounced social wrongs. He died 
Sept. 18, 1874, in Wayland, Mass. 

CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 1, 1825, in Boston. 
Mass. He was a professor at Harvard 
university in 1851-96, and the foremost 
authority upon all matters pertaining to 
ballad literature. He edited the Ameri¬ 
can edition of The British Poets, in 130 
volumes; English and Scottish Popular 
Ballads; The Debate between the Body 
and the Soul, and other specimens of me¬ 
diaeval literature. As a Chaucerian schol¬ 
ar he had few equals. He was the author 
of Observatious on the Language of Chau¬ 
cer; and Observations on the Language 
of Gower's Confessio Amantis. 

CHILD, MRS. LYDIA MARIA, author, 
was born Feb. 11, 1802, in Medford, Mass. 
She was a famous writer whose literary 
career began with the publication of Ho- 
bomok, a Tale of Early Times, in 1821, 
and closed with Aspirations of the World, 
in 1878. In 1833 she sacrificed much of 
her popularity by her Appeal for that 
Class of Americans Called Africans, and 
was ever after prominent as an abolition¬ 
ist, assisting her husband in editing the 
National Anti-Slavery Standard. Among 
her other works are included The Rebels, 
a novel in which occurs a speech by James 
Otis and a sermon by Whitefield, long 
supposed to be real and not imaginary; 
The First Settlers of New England; The 
Mother's Book; The Girl’s Book; Philo- 
thea, a Greek romance; The Power of 
Kindness; Isaac T. Hopper, a True Life, 
a popular biography of a noted Quaker 
abolitionist; The Progress of Religious 
Ideas; Autumnal Leaves; Looking To¬ 
ward Sunset; The Freedman’s Book; and 
Miria. a Romance of the Republic. She 
died Oct. 29, 1880, in Wayland, Mass. 


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CHILDS, GEORGE WILLIAM, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born May 12, 1829, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. He was a noted journalist 
of Philadelphia who 
established the Pub¬ 
lic Ledger in 1864, 
and was the author 
of Recollections of 
General Grant; and 
Personal Recollec¬ 
tions. For nearly 
two years, in 1842- 
43, he was an ap¬ 
prentice on board 
the ship Pennsyl¬ 
vania of the United 
States navy. In 1850 
he became a member of the publishing 
firm of Peterson and Co., which was 
changed to Childs and Peterson. In 1864 
he purchased The Public Ledger of Phila¬ 
delphia. As a philanthropist he was very 
liberal; and gave freely of his means to 
many charitable institutions. He died 
Feb. 3, 1894, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CHILDS, HENRY HALSEY, physician, 
was born June 7, 1783, in Pittsfield. Mass. 
He organized the Berkshire medical insti¬ 
tute, which became a college in 1837, and 
of which he was professor of the theory 
and practice of medicine, and president 
until 1863. He represented Pittsfield in 
the legislature of 1816 and 1827; in the 
constitutional convention of 1820; state 
senator in 1837, and was lieutenant gover¬ 
nor of Massachusetts in 1843. He died 
March 22, 1868, in Boston, Mass. 

CHILDS, HENRY WARREN', lawyer, 
was born Nov. 24, 1848, in Belgium, N. Y. 
In 1887 he was appointed assistant attor¬ 
ney-general and took up his residence in 
St. Paul, Minn. In 1892 he was elected 
attorney-general; and in 1894 was re¬ 
elected to the same office. 

CHILDS, JOHN LEWIS, horticulturist, 
journalist, was born May 13, 1856. He es¬ 
tablished The Mayflower, which is made 
up of the prominent floriculturists, horti¬ 
culturists and agriculturists in the world. 

CHILDS, ORVILLE WHITMORE, en¬ 
gineer, was born Dec. 27, 1802, in Still¬ 
water, N. Y. He was chief engineer of 
the Terre Haute and Alton railroad in 
1855-58, and was afterward employed by 
the state to fix the boundaries of the city 
and county of New York. He was presi¬ 
dent of the Central Transportation com¬ 
pany and of the Philadelphia car-works. 
He died Sept. 6, 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CHILDS, ROBERT A., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 22, 1845, in 
Malone, N. Y. He enlisted in General 
Stephen A. Hurlbut’s company, which 
subsequently became a part of the fif¬ 
teenth Illinois infantry volunteers, and 
served throughout the war. In 1884 he 
was presidential elector; and was elected 
to the fifty-third congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

CHILDS, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa¬ 
tive from that state during the thirty- 
fourth congress. 

CHILDS, TIMOTHY, congressman, was 
born in Massachusetts. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the assembly of New York in 1828 
and 1833; and was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1829 to 
1831, from 1835 to 1839, and again from 
1841 to 1843. He died in November, 1847, 
in Santa Cruz. 

CHILDS, WILLIAM H., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Nov. 4, 1841, in Paris, 
Ky. This eminent lawyer was a member 
of the Montana territorial legislature in 
1866; and became president of the upper 
house the following year. 


CHILES, MRS. MARY ELIZA, author, 
poet, was born in 1820, in Kentucky. 
Among her writings are Louisa Elton, a 
reply to Uncle Tom; Bandits of Italy; 
Oswyn Dudley; and Select Poems. 

CHILLSON, WILLIAM DEEL, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Nov. 19, 1825, in Ticonde- 
roga, N. Y. In early life he was steam 
engineer and steam sawmill builder, and 
sawed the first board cut by steam power 
in Minnesota, at St. Paul, in 1850. He has 
traveled and lectured on Science and the 
Bible, and is the author of a religious 
work. He has attained success in the 
practice of law, and has twice filled the 
office of county judge. 

CHILSON, GARDNER, inventor, was 
born in 1804, in Thompson, Conn. He 
went to Boston in 1837, and engaged in 
the manufacture of stoves and furnaces 
at Mansfield, Mass. As early as 1844 he 
devised a furnace that received a prize 
medal at the London world’s fair in 1851. 
Among his numerous inventions are coni¬ 
cal radiators, applied to stoves and fur¬ 
naces. He died Nov. 21, 1877. 

CHILTON, HORACE, lawyer, United 
States senator, was born in Tyler, Tex. 
He was a delegate at large from Texas to 
the national democratic convention at St. 
Louis in 1888; and served one term as as¬ 
sistant attorney-general of Texas by ap¬ 
pointment. He was elected to the United 
States senate without practical opposi¬ 
tion, as the successor of Hon. Richard 
Coke. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 1901. 

CHILTON, SAMUEL, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1804, in Virginia. He 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1843 to 1845; and after 
retiring from congress was a member of 
the state constitutional convention. He 
died Jan. 14, 1867, in Fauquier county, Va. 

CHILTON, THOMAS, clergyman, was 
born July 30, 1798, in Garrard county, Ky. 
He was a member of the Kentucky state 
legislature for several sessions, and for 
four terms a member of congress from 
Kentucky, during 1829-37. While prac¬ 
ticing law with success he became a bap¬ 
tist preacher, and moved to Alabama, and 
was elected president of the Alabama 
baptist state convention, and soon aban¬ 
doned the law. He died Aug. 15, 1854, in 
Montgomery, Tex. 

CHILTON, WILLIAM P., jurist, lawyer, 
statesman, was born in Kentucky. He 
was, at different times, a member of each 
house of the Alabama legislature. In 
1848 he was elected to the supreme court 
of Alabama, serving part of the time as 
chief justice for a term of ten years. Dur¬ 
ing the existence of the confederate gov¬ 
ernment, 1861-65, he was a member of its 
congress. He died Jan. 20, 1871, in Ala¬ 
bama. 

CHINN, JOSEPH W., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1831 to 1835. He died Dec. 
5, 1840, in Richmond, Va. 

CHINN, THOMAS W., congressman, 
was born in Kentucky. He was elected a 
representative in congress from Louisiana 
from 1839 to 1841. 

CHIPMAN, DANIEL, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 22. 1765, in 
Salisbury, Conn. He was for many years 
in the legislature, and was frequently 
speaker of the house of representatives 
of his state. He was a member of the last 
state constitutional convention; was the 
first reporter of the decisions of the su¬ 
preme court, and author of an able work 
on Law Contracts for the Sale of Spe¬ 
cific Articles. He was a member of con¬ 
gress from 1815 to 1817. He died April 
23, 1850, in Ripton, Vt. 



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•CHIPMAN, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1785, in Vermont. He was ap¬ 
pointed a judge of the United States for 
the territory of Michigan; removed to 
Detroit, and from that time until his 
death was one of the most influential citi¬ 
zens of the state. He died April 27, 1867, 
in Detroit, Mich. 

CHIPMAN, .1. LOGAN, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born June 5, 1830, in 
Detroit, Mich. In 1856 he was elected city 
attorney of Detroit, and held that position 
till 1861. In 1863 he was elected to the 
Michigan legislature; and in 1865 was ap¬ 
pointed attorney of the police board of 
Detroit. In 1879 he was elected judge of 
the superior court of Detroit, to which po¬ 
sition he was re-elected at the end of six 
years. He was elected to the fiftieth, fif¬ 
ty-first and fifty-second congresses as a 
democrat. 

CHIPMAN, JOHN S., congressman, was 
born in Vermont. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Michigan from 1845 
to 1847; and subsequently moved to Cali¬ 
fornia. 

CHIPMAN, MARCELLUS A., lawyer, 
jurist, was born Sept. 27, 1852, in Nobles- 
ville, Ind. In 1873 he graduated from the 
law school of the Indiana state universi¬ 
ty, receiving the degree of LL. B. In 
1882 he was appointed judge of the Madi¬ 
son circuit court, Indiana, which position 
he filled with distinction for eight years; 
and out of over twelve hundred cases 
tried and decided, only two were re¬ 
versed by the supreme court. He is the 
grand master of the grand lodge of Odd 
Fellows of the state of Indiana. 

CHIPMAN, NATHANIEL, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, educator, author, was born Nov. 15, 
1752, in Salisbury, Conn. He was professor 
of law for twenty-eight years in Middle- 
bury college. In 1786 he was elected a 
judge of the supreme court; in 1789 was 
chosen chief justice; and in 1791 was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the United States district 
court. He was subsequently again elected 
chief justice; and from 1797 to 1803 was a 
member of the United States senate from 
Vermont. In 1793 he published Sketches 
of the Principles of Government; and Re¬ 
ports and Dissertations. He died Feb. 13, 
1843, in Tinmouth, Vt. 

CHIPMAN, NORTON P., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 7, 1834, 
in Milford Centre, Ohio. At the close of 
the war he was brevetted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral; and settled at Washington city, 
where he had previously been on duty for 
two years. He was appointed secretary 
of the territorial government of the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia at its organization; and 
was elected a delegate to the forty-sec¬ 
ond and forty-third congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

CHISHOLM, ALEXANDER R., soldier, 
journalist, was born Nov. 19, 1834, in 
Beaufort, S. C. He served in the civil war 
as a confederate soldier; and rose to the 
rank of colonel. In 1869 he removed to 
New York city, and established The Fi¬ 
nancial and Mining Record, in connection 
with a bond and stock brokerage busi¬ 
ness. 

CHISHOLM, WALTER SCOTT, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Nov. 17, 1836, in Colum¬ 
bus, Ga. He was judge of Savannah city 
court during 1863-78; was president of the 
Alabama Midland railroad; and director 
of a number of business corporations. He 
died Dec. 5, 1890, in New Yora. 

CHISHOLM, WILLIAM, manufacturer, 
inventor, was born Aug. 12, 1825, in Fife- 
shire, Ohio. He invented machinery for 
the manufacture of steel shovels, spades 
and scoops; and established The Chis¬ 
holm steel shovel works of Cleveland. 


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CHITTENDEN, EZRA P., educator, 
clergyman, poet, was born Feb. 22, 1851, 
in Westbrook, Conn. As an educator be 
has been professor of mental and physical 
sciences in the St. John’s school of Salina, 
Kan.; and he has filled many important 
pastorates in the congregational church. 
The work of his life is The Pleroma, a 
Poem of the Christ, the brilliancy of 
which proves him to be a musical and 
scholarly poet. 

CHITTENDEN, LUCIUS EUGENE, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1824, in Ver¬ 
mont. He is the author of Personal Remi¬ 
niscences; Recollections of Lincoln and 
his Administration; An Unknown He¬ 
roine, an historical episode of the war 
between the states; and The Capture of 
Ticonderoga. 

CHITTENDEN, MARTIN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born March 12, 
1769, in Salisbury, Conn. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the convention that adopted the 
United States constitution; in 1790 was 
elected county clerk and representative, 
to which position he was re-elected for 
six years successively, and also at occa¬ 
sional subsequent intervals. He was judge 
of the county court from 1793 to 1795; 
chief justice from 1796 to 1803; and was a 
representative in congress from 1803 to 
1813. He was governor of Vermont in 
1813 and 1814; and was judge of probate 
in 1821 and 1822. He died Sept. 5, 1841, 
in Williston, Vt. 

CHITTENDEN, RUSSELL HENRY, 
educator, author, was born Feb. 18, 1856, 
in New Haven, Conn. He is a professor 
of chemistry in the Sheffield scientific 
school at Yale university, and the author 
of Studies from the Laboratory of Physi¬ 
ology and Chemistry in Sheffield Scien¬ 
tific School; and On Digestive Proteolysis. 

CHITTENDEN, SIMEON BALDWIN, 
railroad president, congressman, was born 
March 29, 1814, in Guilford, Conn. He 
was vice-president of the New York Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce from 1867 to 1869; one 
of the directors in the Continental bank, 
and New London Shore-Line Railroad of 
Connecticut. He was elected to the forty- 
third congress, to fill a vacancy, and was 
re-elected to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth 
and forty-sixth congresses. He died April 
14, 1889, in Brooklyn, N. Y. • 

CHITTENDEN, SIMEON DUDLEY, 
railroad manager, was born July 20, 1851, 
in Guilford, Conn. During 1873-94 he was 
connected with the Delaware, Lackawan¬ 
na and Western railroad; and since 1895 
has been general manager of the Carra- 
belle, Tallahassee and Georgia railroad. 

CHITTENDEN, T. C., congressman, was 
born in Massachusetts. He was elected a 
representative from that state to the 
twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh con¬ 
gresses. 

CHITTENDEN, THOMAS, soldier, leg¬ 
islator, governor, was born Jan. 6, 1730, 
in East Guilford, Conn. He was for many 
years a representative in the legislature, 
and justice of the peace. In 1774 he moved 
to the New Hampshire grants, as Vermont 
was then called, and settled at Williston, 
on the Onion river. He rendered service 
to the state in the councils during the rev¬ 
olution; was a member of the convention 
in 1777 which declared Vermont an inde¬ 
pendent state, and was one of the commis¬ 
sioners to solicit admission into the con¬ 
federacy. In 1777 he was a member of the 
state constitutional convention; president 
of the council of safety; and in 1778 was 
chosen governor of the state, and, with 
the exception of one year, filled that office 
until his death. He died Aug. 24, 1797, in 
Williston, Vt. 


CHITTICK, OLIVER USHER FUN- 
STON, clergyman, was born Oct. 13, 1870, 
in Canada. He received a thorough col¬ 
legiate education; has attained distinc¬ 
tion as an eloquent clergyman of the 
methodist church, and now fills a pastor¬ 
ate in Washta, Iowa. 

CHIVERS, THOMAS HOLLEY, physi¬ 
cian, poet, was born in 1807. He was a 
Georgia physician and poet, and the au¬ 
thor of Virginalia, or Songs of My Sum¬ 
mer Nights; Atlanta, a Paul Epic in 
Three Lustra; and The Lost Pleiad. He 
died in 1858. 

CHOATE, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1796. He served in both branches 
of the Massachusetts legislature. He held 
the office of trial justice for many years 
in Essex, and was an active supporter 
of benevolent institutions. He died Dec. 
15, 1872, in Essex, Mass. 

CHOATE, ISAAC BASSETT, educator, 
poet, was born July 12, 1833, in Naples, 
Maine. He is an educator of Boston, and 
the author of Elements of English Speech; 
and Wells of English. 

CHOATE, JOSEPH HODGES, lawyer, 
was born Jan. 24, 1832, in Salem, Mass. 
As one of the old committee of seventy, 
which routed the Tweed ring, he obtained 
the reinstatement of Gen. Fitz John Por¬ 
ter to his rank in the army after a pro¬ 
longed struggle, and successfully de¬ 
fended the Cesnola collection of ancient 
statuary in the Metropolitan Museum of 
Art against imputations affecting its in¬ 
tegrity. 

CHOATE, RUFUS, lawyer, statesman, 
author, was born Oct. 1, 1799, in Essex, 
Mass. In 1825 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive to the Massa¬ 
chusetts legislature; 
and in 1827 was in 
the senate of the 
same state. In 1832 
he was elected a 
member of congress 
from the Essex dis¬ 
trict; declined a re- 
election in 1834, and 
removed to Boston, 
to devote himself to 
his profession. On 
the retirement of Mr. 
Webster from the senate, Mr. Choate was 
elected to fill the vacancy. He was the 

author of Addresses and Orations. He 

died July 13, 1850, in Halifax, N. S. 

CHOATE, WILLIAM GARDINER, jur¬ 
ist, was born about 1830 in Massachusetts. 
For some time he was United States judge 
of the southern district of New York, an 
office which he resigned to resume the 
practice of his profession in New York 
city. 

CHOPE, EDWARD B., soldier, entomol¬ 
ogist, was born in 1839, in Detroit, Mich. 
He served three years in the army during 
the civil war; and was severely wounded 
at the battle of Gettysburg. In 1888 he 
became connected with the Milwaukee 
Public museum, and since 1896 with the 
Field Columbian museum of Chicago; and 
has attained prominence as a noted ento¬ 
mologist. 

CHOPIN, MRS. KATE, author, was born 
in 1851 in Missouri. She is a writer of St. 
Louis, and the author of Bayou Folk; 
and At Fault, a novel. 

CHOULES, JOHN OVERTON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 5, 1801, in 
England. He was a baptist clergyman of 
Newport, and the author of History of 
Missions; Christian Offering; Young 
Americans Abroad; and Cruise of Steam 
Yacht North Star. He died Jan. 5, 1856, 
in New York city. 


CHOUTEAU, PIERRE, fur merchant. 
About 1806 he visited Dubuque in a canoe 
to trade with the Sac and Fox Indians. 
Several other large dealers in furs were 
at times the partners of Mr. Chouteau, 
among them, John Jacob Astor of New 
York. In 1834 his associates and he pur¬ 
chased Mr. Astor’s interest in the Ameri¬ 
can Fur company. 

CHRISMAN, JAMES S., congressman, 
was born in Kentucky. He was a member 
of the constitutional convention of that 
state in 1849; and a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1853 to 1855. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the executive council of the state 
from 1861 to 1865, and was a member of 
the confederate congress during its ex¬ 
istence. 

CHRISTENSEN, CHRISTIAN T„ sol¬ 
dier, was born Jan. 26, 1832, in Denmark. 
He served in the civil war and attained 
the rank of brigadier-general. In 1890 he 
was elected president of the Brooklyn 
Trust company. 

CHRISTIAN, GEORGE CLARK, soldier, 
lawyer, lecturer, politician, was born Feb. 
20, 1841, in Elkton, Ky. He served during 
the war in the confederate army, and 
rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He 
has taken an active part in politics, and 
was for many years one of the leaders of 
the prohibition party in the United States. 
For twenty years he was professor of 
medical jurisprudence and insanity in the 
Bennett Medical college of Chicago, and 
was one of the founders of that insti¬ 
tution. He founded the Inter-State Sum¬ 
mer Normal and Educational assembly 
of Eureka Springs, Ark., and was its man¬ 
ager for three years. 

CHRISTIAN, GEORGE HENRY, miller, 
was born Jan. 14, 1839, in Alabama. In 
1867 he moved from Chicago to Minneap¬ 
olis; and later, with C. C. Washburn, en¬ 
gaged extensively in the flouring indus¬ 
try there. The business was conducted 
under the name of Geo. H. Christian and 
Co. until 1875, when the senior partner 
retired, and his properties were trans¬ 
ferred to the Northwestern Consolidated 
Milling company. He is now president 
and chief owner of the Hardwood Manu¬ 
facturing company of Minneapolis, Minn. 

CHRISTIAN, JOSEPH, state senator, 
jurist, was born July 10, 1828, in Middlesex 
county, Va. Before and during the war 
he was a member of the senate of Vir¬ 
ginia, and at its close he was made a 
district judge, and soon advanced to the 
supreme court of appeals. His name has 
been prominent as a candidate for the 
United States senate, and also for the su¬ 
preme court of the United States. 

CHRISTIANCY, ISAAC P.. lawyer, 
statesman, was born March, 1812, in 
Johnstown, N. Y. He was prosecuting 
attorney for Monroe county, and in 1848 
attended the free soil convention in Buf¬ 
falo. In 1849 he was elected to the state 
senate; in 1852 was the candidate for gov¬ 
ernor of the free soil party, and was a 
prime mover in the political combinations 
of 1854. He was a delegate to the Phila¬ 
delphia convention of 1856, and soon after¬ 
wards purchased The Monroe Commer¬ 
cial and became its editor. In 1857 he 
was elected a judge of the supreme court 
of the state, and in 1865 re-elected for 
eight years by the unanimous vote of all 
parties. He served as an officer on the 
staffs of Generals A. A. Humphreys and 
G. A. Custer during the rebellion; and 
was elected a senator in congress from 
Michigan for the term ending in 1881, and 
resigned in January, 1879, to accept the 
appointment of United States minister to 
Peru. He died Sept. 8, 1890, in Lansing, 
Mich. 




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AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


CHRISTIANSEN. CHARLES, clergy¬ 
man. He has attained eminence as a 
prominent minister in the congregational 
church, and has filled many important pas¬ 
torates in Illinois, and now resides in 
Danway. 

CHRISTIE, GABRIEL, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1793 to 1797. and from 
1799 to 1801. 

CHRISTIE, WILLIAM H., soldier, phy¬ 
sician, was born March 31, 1844, in Ber¬ 
gen county, N. J. In 1868 he graduated 
from the Rush Medical college of Chicago. 
Ill. He served as a private soldier during 
the civil war. In 1884 he was a delegate 
to the national republican convention. 
Since 1890 he has filled the chair of ma¬ 
teria medica and principles of therapeu¬ 
tics in the Omaha Medical college, Neb. 
He is a member of the national, state, 
district, and other medical societies; and 
has contributed extensively to medical 
literature and the periodical press gen¬ 
erally. 

CHRISTY, EDWIN P., minstrel, was 
born in 1815. He organized the original 
Christy’s Minstrels, in Buffalo, N. Y., in 
1842, and was afterward their manager. 
He took the troupe to London, met with 
great success both here and there, and 
retired with a fortune in 1854. He died 
May 21, 1862, in New York city. 

CHRISTY, GEORGE N., minstrel, was 
born Nov. 6, 1827, in Palmyra, N. Y. He 
made his first appearance in Buffalo in 
1839, under E. P. Christy’s management. 
After the organization of the Christy min¬ 
strels he was the star of the troupe, and 
was the original Lucy Long and Cachuca. 
He died May 12, 1868, in New York city. 

CHRISTY, JOHN H., congressman. He 
was elected a representative from Georgia 
to the fortieth congress. . 

CHRISTY, SAMUEL W., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born June 20, 1856, in Keokuk, 
county, Iowa. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative of the Nebraska legislature in 
1889, and in 1896 was a delegate to the 
republican national convention at St. 
Louis. 

CHRISTY, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
author, was born Dec. 6, 1791, in George¬ 
town, Ky. He served under Harrison in 
the war of 1812, and became a merchant 
in New Orleans. He published a Digest of 
the Decisions of the Supreme Court of 
Louisiana. 

CHRYSLER, MORGAN HENRY, sol¬ 
dier, was born Sept. 30, 1826, in Ghent, N. 
Y. He was present at the capture of 
Mobile, with its surrounding defences, was 
brevetted brigadier-general in 1864, and 
made brigadier-general of volunteers and 
brevet major-general in 1865. 

CHUBB, HENRY STEDMAN, state leg¬ 
islator, was born March 24, 1858, in Edger- 
ton, Wis. He was director and general 
manager of the Heather Island Orange 
company; was president of a building and 
loan association. He served two years in 
the state legislature; and has been presi¬ 
dent of the council and mayor of his town. 

CHUBBUCK, SAMUEL W„ inventor, 
was born in 1800 in Vermont. He made, it 
is said, the first telegraphic instrument 
ever manufactured. One of his inventions 
was that by which the .paper on the reel 
could be used forty times. The circuit- 
closer attachment to the key, and the 
famous pony sounder, were also invented 
by him. He was a collector of coins and 
scientific instruments, and at one time 
had a coin collection valued at .$30,000. 
He died June 28, 1875, in Utica, N. Y. 


ENCYCLOPEDIA 01" 

CHURCH, ALBERT ENSIGN, educator, 
author, was born in 1807 in Salisbury, 
Conn. He was a mathematical professor 
at West Point, 1833-78, and the author of 
Elements of Differential Calculus; Ele¬ 
ments of the Calculus of Variations; Ele¬ 
ments of Analytical Geometry; Elements 
of Descriptive Geometry; and Elements of 
Analytical Trigonometry. He died March 
30, 1878, in West Point, N. Y. 

CHURCH, AUSTIN, manufacturer, was 
born Jan. 8, 1799, in East Haddam, Conn. 
During the practice of his profession in 
Ithaca, Rochester, Utica and Coopers- 
town, N. Y., he originated the notion of 
substituting bi-carbonate of soda in place 
of the kindred preparation of potash for 
baking purposes, and in 1832 established 
in Rochester the pioneer factory in this 
line. Success rewarded his enterprise, 
and, in 1845, he removed the business to 
New York city, where his firm of Church 
and Co. rose during the thirty years fol¬ 
lowing to a leading position in the trade. 
He died Aug. 7, 1879, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

CHURCH, BENJAMIN, soldier, author, 
was born in 1639 in Duxbury, Mass. * He 
was a famous colonial soldier, the con¬ 
queror of King Philip, and the founder of 
Little Compton, Rhode Island. Enter¬ 
taining Passages Relating to Philip's War 
is a personal narrative of his adventures. 
He died Jan. 17, 1718, in New Compton, 
R. I. 

CHURCH, BENJAMIN, physician, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1734 in Rhode 
Island. He was a Boston physician of con¬ 
siderable note as a political satirist and 
poet; and is the author of The Times, a 
political satire; Elegy on Dr. Mayhew; 
Address to a Provincial Bashaw; and 
Elegy on the Death of Whitefield. He 
died in 1776. 

CHURCH, BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, civil 
engineer, was born April 17, 1836, in Bel- 
videre. He has had charge of the water 
supply of the city of New York from 
time to time during the past thirty years. 
His greatest achievement has been the 
projecting and constructing of the new 
Croton aqueduct, the source of the water 
supply of New York city. 

CHURCH, EDWARD B., educator, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Sept. 7, 1844, in Gren¬ 
ville, Miss. In 1880 he established the 
Irving institute for the higher education 
of women at San Francisco, Cal. 

CHURCH, MRS. ELLA RODMAN, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1831 in New York. She 
is a popular and prolific writer of mis¬ 
cellaneous works, among which are 
Flights of Fancy; Grandmother’s Recol¬ 
lections; The Catanese; Christmas 
Wreath; Golden Days; Flyers and Crawl¬ 
ers, or Talks About Insects; Talks by 
the Seashore; Among the Trees at Elm- 
ridge; Flower Talks at Elmridge; Home 
Animals; Some Useful Animals; How to 
Furnish a Home; and Money-Making for 
Ladies. 

CHURCH, FRANCIS PHARCELLUS, 
journalist,-was born Feb. 22, 1839, in Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. He became one of the editors 
and publishers of the Army and Navy 
Journal, and later, with his brother, 
founded and edited the Galaxy magazine. 
He is also a leading editorial writer for 
New York daily journals. 

CHURCH, FREDERICK E., artist, was 
born May 4, 1826, in Hartford, Conn. He 
is well known as a landscape painter, 
and his View of Niagara Falls, now in the 
Corcoran art gallery of Washington, D. C., 
won a prize at the French exhibition in 
1867. 

CHURCH, FREDERICK S., painter, 
was born in 1842 in Grand Rapids, Mich. 


He paints in oil and water-color, and 
draws in black and white, and has fur¬ 
nished many illustrations for books and 
periodicals. His principal works are Sea 
Princess; Back from the Beach; Muskrat’s 
Nest; Foggy Day; A Willing Captive; 
Retaliation; Peacocks in the Snow; The 
Sorceress; and Pegasus Captured. 

CHURCH, IRVING PORTER, educator, 
author, was born July 22, 1851, in An- 
sonia. Conn. He is a professor of en¬ 
gineering at Cornell university, and the 
author of Statics and Dynamics for En¬ 
gineering Students; Mechanics of Ma¬ 
terials; Hydraulics and Pneumatics, three 
works which were afterwards published 
as Mechanics of Engineering; and Notes 
and Examples in Mechanics. 

CHURCH, JARVIS S., lawyer, jurist, 
was born April 2, 1830, in Springboro, 
Crawford county. Pa. He received his 
education at the 
Kingsville academy, 
Ohio; and the Ober- 
lin college. He was 
admitted to the bar 
in Waterloo, Iowa, 
in 1857, and has at¬ 
tained prominence 
as an able lawyer of 
Auburn, Neb. For 
three years he was 
county judge in Cer- 
ro Gordo county, 
Iowa; and ten years 
served as county judge of Nebraska coun¬ 
ty, Neb. His decisions have shown him to 
possess a clear legal mind, for judicial 
fairness and justice. He is prominent in 
the public affairs of his county and state. 

CHURCH, JOHN ADAMS, mining en¬ 
gineer, author, was born April 5, 1843, in 
Rochester, N. Y. He is the author of The 

Mining Schools of the United States; 

Notes on a Metallurgical Journey in Eu¬ 
rope; The Comstock Lode; Report on the 
Striking of Artesian Water; and Arizona. 

CHURCH, LEONARD C., soldier, state 
legislator, was born Jan. 31, 1846, in Wal¬ 
worth, Wis. He served during the civil 
war in company L, third Wisconsin cav¬ 
alry. He was county treasurer for three 
terms, and in 1896 was elected a member 
of the Wisconsin state assembly. 

CHURCH, LOUIS KOSSUTH, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, was born Dec. 11, 1846, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was the son of 
Judge Rodney C. Church, a noted jurist 
of Brooklyn, who died in 1871. He fin¬ 
ished his education in the Columbia Law 
college, and became a noted lawyer in 
New York city. He served in the state 
legislature during 1882-85; was a Cleve¬ 
land reformer, and with Theodore Roose¬ 
velt was active in bringing about muni¬ 
cipal reforms. In 1885 his name was men¬ 
tioned for the office of secretary of state, 
and also for congress, but he accepted 
from President Cleveland an appointment 
as associate judge of the supreme court 
in the fifth judicial district of Dakota 
territory. He filled this position until 
December, 1886, when he was appointed 
territorial governor. In 1889 he resigned, 
and a year later entered the practice of 
law in Seattle, Wash., and in 1891 moved 
to Everett, where he died Nov. 25, 1897. 

CHURCH, PHARCELLUS, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 11, 1801, in Seneca, 
N. Y. He was the author of Philosophy of 
Benevolence; Religious Dissensions, their 
Cause and Cure; Antioch, or Increase of 
Moral Power in the Church; Mapleton, or 
More Work for the Maine Law; Seed- 
Truths; and Theodosia. He died June 5, 
1886, in Tarrytown, N. Y. 



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CHURCH, SAMUEL HARDEN, author, 
was born in 1858 in Pennsylvania. He is 
the author of Oliver Cromwell, a careful 
historical study. 

CHURCH, SANFORD ELIAS, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, was born April 18, 1815, 
in Milford, N. Y. In 1842 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the state assembly from Orleans 
county, and from that time he was active 
in the support of the democratic party. 
He was district attorney for his county in 
1846-47, lieutenant-governor in 1851-55, 
comptroller of the state, 1858-59, and a 
member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1867, serving as chairman of 
the committee on finance. He died May 
14, 1880, in Albion, N. Y. 

CHURCH, WILLIAM CONANT, soldier, 
journalist, was born Aug. 11, 1836, in 
Rochester, N. Y. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Rochester Collegiate insti¬ 
tute and the Public Latin school at Bos¬ 
ton. During the war he served as cap¬ 
tain and brevet lieutenant-colonel of the 
United States volunteers. He served as 
government inspector of the Northern Pa¬ 
cific Railroad company; was vice-com¬ 
mander of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion; chairman of the committee to in¬ 
vestigate the care of the insane, and has 
filled various other public positions of 
honor. He is now the editor of the Army 
and Navy Journal of New York city. 

CHURCH, WILLIAM E„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Dec. 7, 1841, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He enlisted in the union 
army in 1862, and was promoted to the 
rank of captain and assistant adjutant- 
general. In 1883 he was appointed asso¬ 
ciate justice of the supreme court of Da¬ 
kota territory. 

CHURCHILL, JOHN CHARLES, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 
17, 1821, in Mooers, N. Y. From 1857 to 
1859 he was the district attorney for Os¬ 
wego county, and was county judge of 
the same county from 1860 to 1863. In 
1866 he was elected a representative from 
New York to the fortieth congress, and 
re-elected to the forty-first congress. 

CHURCHILL, THOMAS J., statesman. 
He was governor of Arkansas from 1881 
to 1883. 

CHURCHMAN, JOHN, author, was 
born in Maryland. He belonged to the 
Society of Friends, and was noted for 
his investigations into the causes of the 
variations of the magnetic needle. In ad¬ 
dition to several philosophical treatises, 
he also published a variation-chart of the 
Globe, Magnetic Atlas, and Explanation. 
He died July 24, 1805. 

CHURCHWELL, WILLIAM M., con¬ 
gressman, was born in Tennessee. He 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1852 to 1855. 

CHUTE, HORATIO NELSON, educator, 
author, was born Dee. 26, 1847, in Canada. 
He graduated from the university of Mich¬ 
igan; and since 1873 has been an instruct¬ 
or of science in the Ann Arbor High 
school. He is the author of Elements of 
Physics; Physical Laboratory Manual, and 
Laboratory Work. 

CHUTE, WILLIAM EDWARD, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born April 24, 1832, 
in Nova Scotia. He has taught school and 
given singing lessons for forty years in 
New York, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan 
and Maine. He is the author of the 
Chute Genealogy and other works; and 
has assisted in the editing of the Baptist 
Hymn Writer; American Musicians; and 
other musical and hymnal works. 

CILLEY, BRADBURY, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1813 to 1817. 


CILLEY, JONATHAN, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born July 2, 
1802, in Nottingham, N. H. He was at 
one time speaker of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives of Maine, of which he was a 
member from 1832 to 1837; and was a 
presidential elector in 1832. He was a 
member of congress from Maine from 
1837 to the time of his death. He died 
Feb. 24, 1838, in Bladensburg, Md. 

CILLEY, JONATHAN PRINCE, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 29, 1835, 
in Thomaston, Maine. He attended the 
Military academy of Pembroke, N. H., and 
in 1858 he graduated from Bowdoin col¬ 
lege, and has since attained prominence 
as an eminent lawyer of Rockland, Maine. 
During the civil war he served in the first 
regiment of the Maine cavalry, and be¬ 
came captain, major, colonel, and brevet 
brigadier-general. He served as a mem¬ 
ber of the Maine state legislature, and in 
1876-78 was adjutant-general of Maine. 
He is the author of a genealogy of the 
Cilley. family. 

CILLEY, JOSEPH, soldier, was born in 
1735, in Nottingham, N. H. He was a 
colonel in the first New Hampshire regi¬ 
ment in the revolutionary war, and major- 
general of militia in 1786. He died Aug. 
25, 1799, in Nottingham, N. H. 

CILLE1, JOSEPH, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Jan. 4, 1791, in Nottingham, 
N. H. He was a senator in congress from 
that state from 1846 to 1847. He died Sept. 
16, 1887, in Nottingham, N. H. 

CIST, CHARLES, journalist, author, 
was born Aug. 15, 1738, in Russia. He 
began the publication of The American 
Herald in 1784, and of the Columbian 
Magazine in 1786. Mr. Cist aided the col¬ 
onial government during the revolution by 
endorsing large amounts of continental 
currency, which later he was compelled 
to redeem. He was the first person to in¬ 
troduce anthracite coal into general use 
in the United States. In 1792 he was a 
member of the Lehigh Coal company. 
He died Dec. 2, 1805, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CIST, CHARLES, journalist, author, 
was born April 24, 1793, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was the editor of Cist’s Advertiser 
in 1844-53, and of three volumes of Annals 
of Cincinnati in 1841-51 and in 1859, and 
a work entitled Cincinnati Miscellany. He 
died Sept. 8, 1868, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

CIST, HENRY MARTYN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Feb. 20, 1839, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a Cincinnati law¬ 
yer who served in the federal army during 
the civil war and became brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He is the author of The Army of the 
Cumberland. 

CIST, LEWIS JACOB, banker, author, 
was born Nov. 20, 1818, in Harmony, Pa. 
He was known as a banker of St. Louis 
and Cincinnati who published Trifles in 
Verse. He died March 30, 1885, in Cin- 
. cinnati, Ohio. 

CLAFLIN, MRS. MARY BUCKLIN, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1825 in Massachusetts. 
She was the author of Brampton Sketch¬ 
es; Personal Recollections of Whittier; 
Real Happenings; and Under the Elms’. 
She died in 1896. 

CLAFLIN, WILLIAM, business man, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
March 6, 1818, in Milford, Mass. He was 
a representative in the legislature from 
1849 to 1852; a state senator in 1860 and 
1861, and the last year president of the 
senate. He was lieutenant-governor from 
1866 to 1869; governor from 1870 to 1872, 
and was elected a representative from 
Massachusetts to the forty-fifth and forty- 
sixth congresses. 


CLAGGETT, CLIFTON, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1773 in Rock¬ 
ingham county, N. H. He was judge of 
probate of Hillsborough county from 1823 
to 1827; judge of the superior court one or 
two years; and was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1803 to 1805, 
and again from 1817 to 1821. He died in 
1829. 

CLAGGETT, THOMAS JOHN, bishop, 
author, was born Oct. 2, 1742, in Prince 
George county, Md. He was elected the 
first bishop of Maryland, and was conse¬ 
crated in New York, Sept. 17, 1792, Bishop 
Seabury joining in the consecration. In 
1800 Bishop Claggett was chaplain to the 
United States senate, this being the first 
session of congress held in Washington 
city. He died Aug. 2, 1816, in Croom, Md. 

CLAGGETT, WILLIAM H„ state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 
1838, in Marlborough, Md. He was a 
member of the legislature of Nevada in 
1862, 1863 and 1865, and was elected to the 
forty-second congress from Montana. 

CLAIBORNE, JOHN FRANCIS HAM- 
TRAMCK, journalist, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 24, 1809, in Natchez, 
Miss. During three sessions he was a 
representative of the Mississippi legis¬ 
lature, and during 1835-38 was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state. He 
was a successful journalist, and for many 
years conducted the Natchez Free Trader, 
and also the Louisiana Courier. He was 
the author of Mississippi as a Province, 
Territory and State; Life of General 
Dale, and Life of Quitnam. He died May 
17, 1884, in Natchez, Miss. 

CLAIBORNE, JOHN HERBERT, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born March 16, 1828, 
in Brunswick county, Va. He is a noted 
physician of Virginia, and the author of 
Diphtheria; Dysmenorrhea; and Clinical 
Reports from Private Practice. 

CLAIBORNE, NATHANIEL HER¬ 
BERT, congressman, author, was born 
Nov. 14, 1777, in Sussex county, Va. He 
served many years in the legislature of 
that state; and was also a member of the 
executive council. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1825 to 
1837. He was the author of Notes on the 
War in the South. He died Aug. 15, 1859, 
in Franklin county, Va. 

CLAIBORNE, THOMAS, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1793 to 1799, and again from 
1801 to 1805. 

CLAIBORNE, THOMAS, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1817 to 1819. 

CLAIBORNE, WILLIAM CHARLES 
COLE, was born in 1775 in Sussex county, 
Va. He was the first governor of the 
state of Louisiana. 
He was a lawyer by 
profession; was 
judge of the supreme 
court of law and 
equity in Tennessee, 
and in 1797 was a 
representative i n 
congress, and re¬ 
elected to a second 
term as a member 
from Tennessee. In 
1801 he was appoint¬ 
ed governor of the 
Mississippi territory. In 1803 he was 
commissioned to accept the transfer 
of the province of Louisiana to the 
United States; and was appointed 
governor-general for three years, and 
served until 1817. He was twenty years 
in the public service. He died Dec. 23, 
1817, while a representative in the United 
States senate. 



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CLANCY, JOHN M., capitalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 7, 1837, in Ire¬ 
land. He immigrated with his parents to 
New York; was ed¬ 
ucated in the public 
schools of Brooklyn, 
N. Y.; and is in the 
real estate business; 
He served as an al¬ 
derman of the city of 
Brooklyn from 1868 
to 1875, and was a 
member of the state 
assembly from 1878 
to 1881. He was 
elected to the fifty- 
first, fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses as a democrat, 
receiving 20,697 votes, against 13,593 votes 
for Grace, republican. 

CLAP, NATHANIEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 20, 1669, in Dorches¬ 
ter, Maine. He was clergyman of New¬ 
port, of some distinction in his day, and 
is the author of Advice to Children; and 
The Lord’s Voice Crying to the People 
in Some Extraordinary Dispensations. 
He died Oct. 30, 1745, in Newport, R. I. 

CLAP, ROGER, author, was born April 
6, 1609, in England. He was a colonist of 
Dorchester, whose Memoirs, written for 
his children, have been several times re¬ 
printed, and possess considerable histori¬ 
cal value. He died Feb. 2, 1691, in Boston, 
Mass. 

CLAP, THOMAS, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born June 26, 1703, 
in ScitUate, Mass. He was a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman of distinction, and pres¬ 
ident of Yale college in 1740-66. He is 
the author of The Nature and Foundation 
of Moral Virtue and Obligation; History 
of Yale College; Vindication of the Doc¬ 
trines of New England Churches; Nature 
and Motion of Meteors; and The Religious 
Constitutions of Colleges, especially Yale. 
He died Jan. 7, 1767, in New Haven, Conn. 

CLAPP, ASA, merchant, legislator, was 
born March 15, 1762, in Mansfield, Mass. 
He was a state councilor, a delegate to the 
convention for framing the constitution 
of Maine in 1819, and several years a 
representative in the state legislature. 
He was noted for benevolence and recti¬ 
tude. He died May 17, 1848, in Portland, 
Me. 

CLAPP, ASA W. H., congressman, was 
born in Maine. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1847 to 
1849. 

CLAPP, OZRO WRIGHT, journalist, 
banker, was born Dec. 31, 1836, in Lee 
Center, Ill. In 1887 he moved to New 
York and opened the banking and broker¬ 
age house of Clapp and Company, and 
later on he established the Clapp and 
Company Daily and Weekly Market Let¬ 
ters. 

CLAPP, THEODORE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 29, 1792, in East- 
hampton, Mass. He was a Unitarian min¬ 
ister of New Orleans for many years, and 
the author of Autobiographical Sketches 
of 35 Years’ Residence in New Orleans; 
Theological Views; and Slavery, a Ser¬ 
mon. He died May 17, 1866, in Louisville, 
Ky. 

CLAPP, WILLIAM WARLAND, journa¬ 
list, was born April 11, 1826, in Boston, 
Mass. In 1847 he became editor and pub¬ 
lisher of the Saturday Evening Gazette; 
and in 1865 became editor-in-chief of The 
Journal of Boston. He has served as 
councilman, alderman and state senator, 
and trustee of the Boston public library. 
He died Sept. 13, 1891. 



CLARDY, JOHN D., business man, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 30, 1828, in 
Smith county, Tenn. He was elected to 
represent Christian 
county in the consti¬ 
tutional convention 
in 1890. He was ap¬ 
pointed and served 
as one of the state 
commissioners to the 
Columbian exposi¬ 
tion at Chicago in 
1893; and was elected 
to the fifty-fourth 
and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a demo¬ 
crat. 



CLARDY, MARTIN LINN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 26, 1844, in St. 
Genevieve county, Mo. He was elected a 
representative from Missouri to the forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty- 
ninth and fiftieth congresses as a demo¬ 
crat. 


CLARE, ADA, actress, author, was born 
about 1835 in the southern states. She 
made her debut as an actress at the Acad¬ 
emy of Music of New York in 1855. as 
Ophelia in Hamlet, but soon became bet¬ 
ter known as a writer than as an actress. 
She was the author of a volume entitled 
Only a Woman’s Heart. She died March 
4, 1874. 


CLARE, ISRAEL SMITH, historian, 
born Nov. 24, 1847, in Lancaster county, 
Pa. He received the rudiments of his ed- 
u c a t i o n in the 
schools of his coun¬ 
ty, and graduated 
from the State Nor¬ 
mal school of Mill- 
ersville, Pa. In his 
earlier years he was 
engaged in educa¬ 
tional work; and 
subsequently held a 
position on the edi¬ 
torial staff of The 
New Era of Lancas¬ 
ter, Pa., which city 
is still his place of residence. He is the 
author of the following works: Illus¬ 
trated Universal History, published in 
1876; Complete Historical Compendium, 
published in 1884; and Library of Univer¬ 
sal History, in five volumes, published in 
1890. He is also the author of several 
smaller works; and many articles on 
historical and foreign political subjects 
for current publications have appeared 
in the Geographical News of Chicago, 
and other prominent newspapers and 
magazines. 



CLARK, ABRAHAM, signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence, was born Feb. 
13, 1726, near Elizabethtown, N. J. He 
was sheriff and clerk of the colonial as¬ 
sembly, one of the delegates to the con¬ 
tinental congress, and a signer of the 
declaration of independence; after the 
adoption of the constitution, he was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress, from New Jersey, 
from 1791 to 1794, when he resigned. He 
died Sept. 15, 1794, in Rahway, N. J; 


CLARK, ADDISON, educator, college 
president, clergyman, was born Dec. 11, 
1842, in Titus county, Texas. He grad¬ 
uated from Carlton college, and subse¬ 
quently became a minister of the gospel; 
and is now the president of the Addkan 
university of Waco, Texas. 

CLARK, ALEXANDER, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 10, 1834, in Jeffer¬ 
son county, Ohio. He was a methodist 
protestant clergyman of Pittsburg, and 
the author of The Old Log Schoolhouse; 
Workaday Christianity; The Red Sea 


Freedman; School Day Dialogues; The 
Gospel in the Trees; Rambles in Europe; 
Starting Out, a Story of the Ohio Hills; 
and Ripples on the River, a collection of 
verses. He died July 6, 1879, in Georgia. 

CLARK, ALONZO, educator, physician, 
author, was born March 1, 1807, in Ches¬ 
ter, Mass. From 1849-55 he was profes¬ 
sor of physiology and pathology in the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons of 
New York city; was consulting physician 
of the Northeastern dispensary and of the 
Northern dispensary, and in 1861 was 
made president of the medical board of 
St. Luke’s hospital. He was a noted lec¬ 
turer, and the author of a number of arti¬ 
cles on medical subjects. He died Sept. 
13, 1887, in New York. 

CLARK, ALONZO HOWARD, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born April 13, 1850, in 
Boston, Mass. He is a naturalist in the 
United States National museum at Wash¬ 
ington, who has published Statistics of 
Fisheries of New Hampshire, Rhode Isl¬ 
and, and Connecticut; Statistics of Fish¬ 
eries of Massachusetts; and History of the 
Mackerel Fishery. 

CLARK, ALVAH A., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 13, 1840, in Lebanon, 
N. Y. He became a councilor-at-law in 
1867; and was elected a representative, 
from New Jersey, to the forty-fifth and 
forty-sixth congresses as a democrat. 

CLARK, ALVAN, optician, was born 
March 8, 1804, in Ashfield, Mass. He was 
the first person in the United States to 
overcome the difficulties of the achromatic 
lens, and achieved such skill that the 
most important telescopes of modern 
times have been made in his factory in 
Cambridge. He died Aug. 19, 1887, in 
Cambridgeport, Mass. 

CLARK, ALVAN GRAHAM, astrono¬ 
mer, inventor, was born July 10, 1832, in 
Fall River, Mass. During 1886 the 36-inch 
refractor, the largest in the world, was 
made for the Lick observatory on Mount 
Hamilton, near San Francisco, Cal. Mr. 
Clark accompanied the total-eclipse ex¬ 
pedition to Jerez, Spain, in 1870, and also 
the similar expedition to Wyoming in 
1878. As an independent observer he has 
discovered fourteen intricate double stafs, 
including the companion to Sirius, for 
which the Lalande gold medal was award¬ 
ed him by the French academy of sciences 
in 1862. He has also made numerous in¬ 
ventions connected with the manufacture 
of refracting telescopes. 

CLARK, AMBROSE W., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, diplomat, was born Feb. 19, 
1810, near Cooperstown, N. Y. He pub¬ 
lished for five years the Otsego Republi¬ 
can; established and published for eight 
years the Northern Journal; and also 
published for sixteen years the Northern 
New York Journal. In 1859 he was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elect¬ 
ed to the thirty-eighth congress in 1862. 
In 1865 he was appointed consul at Val¬ 
paraiso. 

CLARK, AMOS, banker, state senator, 
congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1827, in 
Westfield, N. Y. He was banker in Eliza¬ 
beth, and largely interested in real es¬ 
tate. He was elected a state senator from 
1866 to 1869; was an elector in 1872, and 
was elected to the forty-third congress 
as a republican. 

CLARK, ARTHUR WELLINGTON, 
physician, surgeon, genealogist, was born 
Dec. 7, 1859, in Lawrence, Kan. He was 
professor of obstetrics and gynaecology in 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
of Boston; and is the author of a Geneal¬ 
ogy of the Houghton Family. 








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CLARK, BILLY JAMES, reformer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Jan. 4, 1728, in North¬ 
ampton, Mass. He organized what is 
claimed to have been the first temperance 
society in the world, at Moreau, Saratoga 
county, N. Y., in 1808. Dr. Clark was a 
member of the legislature from Saratoga 
county in 1821, and was a member of the 
electoral college in 1848. He died March 
20, 1867, in Glens Falls, N. Y. 

CLARK, CHAMP, lawyer, legislator, 
lecturer, author, was born March 7, 1850, 
near Lawrenceburg, Ky. In 1873 he 
graduated with highest honors from the 
Bethany college, W. Va.; and became 
president of the Marshall college of Hunt¬ 
ington, W. Va. He has been city attorney 
of Louisiana and Bowling Green, Mo.; 
prosecuting attorney of Pike county, Mo.; 
and he has served as special judge of the 
Louisiana (Mo.) court of common pleas. 
He was a member of the Missouri state 
legislature, and a member of the fifty- 
third and fifty-fifth congresses. In 1891 
he was a delegate to the Trans-Missis¬ 
sippi congress at Denver, and was chair¬ 
man of the Missouri delegation and vice- 
president. 

CLARK, CHARLES B., soldier, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, was born Dec. 28, 1837, 
in Saguoit, N. Y. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the High school 
and graduated from the Iowa Wesleyan 
university at Mount Pleasant. During the 
civil war he served in the twenty-fifth reg¬ 
iment Iowa volunteer infantry, and in 
1897 was elected department command¬ 
er for South Dakota of the Grand Army 
of the Republic. 

CLARK, CHARLES B., congressman, 
was born Aug. 24, 1844, in Theresa, N. 
Y. He moved to Wisconsin in 1855, and 
settled in Neenah, where he has since re¬ 
sided. He was elected to the fiftieth and 
le-elected to the fifty-first congress as a 
republican. 

CLARK, CHARLES B., educator, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, was born Jan. 1, 1854, in 
Hubbard, Ohio. Early in life he was a 
successful school teacher and principal, 
and in 1880 was admitted to the bar. He 
subsequently was on the editorial staffs 
of different newspapers, and has pub¬ 
lished directories of several cities in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is the author of several 
county and town histories; and has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature. 
He is now solely engaged in the prac¬ 
tice of law in Altoona, Pa. 

CLARK, CHARLES COTESWORTH 
PINCKNEY, physician, author, was born 
March 20, 1822, in Tinmouth, Vt. He 
is a physician, and at one time collector 
of customs at Oswego, and the author of 
The Commonwealth Reconstructed. 

CLARK, CHARLES E., naval officer, 
was born in Vermont about 1848. He was 
a cadet in the naval academy when the 
civil war began and was made a mid¬ 
shipman. He has long been attached to 
ships in Pacific waters, in the Pacific and 
Asiatic squadrons. As commander of the 
first-class battleship Oregon, he was the 
first naval officer to bring a great modern 
battleship around Cape Horn; and his 
gallant w r ork in destroying the Spanish 
fleet in 1898 has made his name a house¬ 
hold word throughout the civilized world. 

CLARK, CHARLES HEBER, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 18—. He is a 
Philadelphia journalist who has written 
several works of a humorous character 
which have been popular. Some of his 
works are Out of the Hurly Burly; Elbow 
Room, a Novel without a Plot; Random 


Shots; and Fortunate Island and Other 
Stories. 

CLARK, CHARLES N., congressman, 
was born Aug. 21, 1827, in Cortland coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. He was made a member of the 
executive committee 
for the improvement 
of . western water¬ 
ways, and at his mo¬ 
tion the national 
convention was held 
in Washington, D. C. 
He was elected to 
the fifty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a republic¬ 
an, and was placed 
on the river and har¬ 
bor committee, 
where he served with 

distinction. 

CLARK, CHARLES PETER, railroad 
president, was born Aug. 11, 1836, in 
Nashua, N. H. Since 1887 he has been 
president of the New York, New Haven 
and Hartford railway, and since 1895 pres¬ 
ident of the Hartford and New England 
railroad. 

CLARK, CHRISTOPHER, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress, from 
Virginia, from 1804 to 1806. 

CLARK, CLARENCE D., congressman, 
United States senator, was born April 16, 
1851, in Sandy Creek, N. Y. He was 
prosecuting attorney for Uinta county four 
years, and was appointed associate justice 
of the territory of Wyoming in 1890, but 
declined the office. Upon the admission 
of Wyoming as a state he was elected to 
the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses. 
He was elected in 1895 to the United 
States senate for the term ending 1899, to 
fill a vacancy. 

CLARK, DANIEL, lawyer, jurist, United 
States senator, was born Oct. 24, 1809, in 
Stratham, N. H. He was elected United 
States senator in 1857; and was president 
of the New Hampshire constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1876. 

CLARK, DANIEL A., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 1, 1779, in Rahway, 
N. J. In 1820 he was installed pastor of 
the West parish of Amherst, Mass., and 
became one of the founders of the college 
there. His complete works, with a bio¬ 
graphical sketch by George Shepard, were 
published in 1846. He died March 3, 1840, 
in New York. 

CLARK, DAVIS WASGATT, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 12, 1812, in Maine. 
He was a methodist bishop of some note 
as a preacher, and the author of Mental 
Discipline; Death-Bed Scenes; Man all 
Immortal; Life of Bishop Hedding; Ser¬ 
mons; and Elements of Algebra. He died 
May 23, 1871, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

CLARK, EDMUND C„ soldier, lawyer, 
author, was born in Binghamton, N. Y. 
He served as a union soldier during the 
civil war in company 
E, thirty-second reg¬ 
iment volunteer in¬ 
fantry, and was pro¬ 
moted to first ser¬ 
geant, and subse¬ 
quently re-enlisted 
in company H, sixth 
regiment, New York 
cavalry. He is a 
scientist and writer 
on political econo¬ 
my; the author of 
several prose works 
and a volume of poems. He has attained 
prominence as an eminent lawyer of Hut¬ 
chinson, Kan., and has taken an active 
part in the public affairs of his county 
and state. 


CLARK, EDSON LYMAN, clergyman, 
author, was born April 1, 1827, in East 
Hampton, Mass. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Massachusetts and the au¬ 
thor of The Arabs and the Turks; The 
Races of European Turkey; Turkey; and 
Fundamental Questions chiefly relating to 
Genesis and the Hebrew Scriptures. 

CLARK, EMMONS, soldier, merchant, 
author. In 1857 he enlisted as a private 
in the New York state militia; served gal¬ 
lantly through the civil war, and was pro¬ 
moted colonel of his regiment. He is the 
author of a History of the Seventh Regi¬ 
ment of the New York State Militia. 

CLARK, EZRA, congressman, was born 
in Vermont. He was elected a represent¬ 
ative to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth 
congresses. 

CLARK, F. O., lawyer, legislator, was 
born Dec. 18, 1843, in Girard, Pa. In 1862 
Superior, Mich., and 
joined the corps of 
the Chicago and 
Northwestern Rail¬ 
road company as 
civil engineer. In 
1870 he was admitted 
to the bar, first prac¬ 
ticing that profes¬ 
sion in Escanaba 
and then in Mar¬ 
quette, Mich., and is 
considered one of the 
most eminent law¬ 
yers in the Upper 
Peninsular. He takes an active part in 
the business and public affairs of his city, 
county and state; is a stockholder in the 
Dexter Mining company, and president of 
the Marquette City Electric Street Rail¬ 
road company. In 1874-75 he served with 
distinction as a member of the Michigan 
state legislature, and has served two 
terms as mayor of his city. 

CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1851, in Canada. 
He is a congregational minister who dur¬ 
ing his pastorate in Portland, Maine, in 
1881, established the Christian Endeavor 
society. He is the author of Danger Sig¬ 
nals, the Enemies of Youth; Looking Out 
on Life, a book for girls; Our Vacations, 
Where to Go, etc.; Young People’s Prayer 
Meeting in Theory and Practice; The 
Children and the Church; Mossback Cor¬ 
respondence; Our Business Boys; and 
Ways and Means, a history of the Chris¬ 
tian Endeavor movement. 

CLARK, FRANK E., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Nov. 12, 1860, in Wausau, Wis. 
In 1882 he graduated as a civil engineer; 
and in law in 1888. For ten years he was 
engaged in educational work; and for sev¬ 
eral years was county surveyor of Green 
Lake county, Wis. During 1895-97 he was 
a member of the Wisconsin state as¬ 
sembly; and now practices law in Prince¬ 
ton, Wis. 

CLARK, FRANKLIN, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Maine. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1847 to 1849; before entering con¬ 
gress served in the state legislature; and 
was a member of the executive council in 
1855. 

CLARK, FREDERICK THICKSTUN, 
author, was born in 1858 in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He is a novelist of Denver, Colo., 
whose stories deal with phases of western 
life; and the author of A Mexican Girl; 
In the Valley of Havilah; On Cloud 
Mountain; and The Mistress of the 
Ranch. 




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CLARK, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, was 
born July 18, 1841, in Eutaw, Ala. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education in 
the local school and graduated from the 
university of Alabama. During the civil 
war he served as captain of infantry in 
the Virginia army from Alabama, and 
emigrated to Texas in 1867. He has at¬ 
tained prominence as one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of the west at Waco, Texas. 
He has been secretary of state, attorney- 
general, commissioner to codify the laws, 
and has filled with honor the high office 
of judge of court of appeals. 

CLARK, GEORGE A., manufacturer, 
was born in 1824, in Scotland. In 1865 the 
Passaic Thread Co. was organized by him, 
with George A., Alexander and William 
Clark and Thomas Barbour as incorpo¬ 
rators. Gigantic works were construct¬ 
ed and put into operation in 1866. He 
died Feb. 13, 1873. 

CLARK, GEORGE HENRY, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 7, 1819, in New- 
buryport, Mass. In November, 1860, he 
made in Savannah an appeal for the pres¬ 
ervation of the union, which was pub¬ 
lished at the request of southern gentle¬ 
men. His connection with St. John's par- 
i. h was dissolved in 1861, and in 1862 his 
property, including his library, was sold 
by an agent of the confederate govern¬ 
ment as the property of an alien enemy. 

CLARK, GEORGE HUNT, author, poet, 
was born in 1809 in Northampton, Mass. 
He was an iron merchant of Hartford, of 
local fame as a poet; and the author of 
Now and Then; The News; and Under¬ 
tow of a Trade Wind Surf. He died Aug. 
20, 1881, in Hartford, Conn. 

CLARK, GEORGE ROGERS, soldier, 
was born Nov. 19, 1752, in Albemarle 

county, Va. He was one of the earliest 

surveyors in Ken¬ 
tucky, where the 

frequent conflicts 
with the Indians 
gave him an ex¬ 
perience of the 

greatest value to 
himself and his 

people. He grew to 
be recognized as the 
protector of all the 
settlements in Ken¬ 
tucky, Indiana, Ohio, 
Pennsylvania, and a 
terror to the redmen. In 1776 he was ap¬ 
pointed major of militia; and was chosen 
a delegate to the Virginia convention. In 
1777 was promoted to lieutenant-colonel; 
and in 1781 was commissioned brigadier- 
general of the continental army. He died 
Feb. 18, 1818, in Louisville, Ky. 

CLARK, GEORGE WHITFIELD, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 15, 1831, in 
South Orange, N. J. He is a baptist cler¬ 
gyman of New Jersey; and the author 
of Harmony of the Four Gospels in En¬ 
glish; Notes on Matthew, Mark, Luke, 
and John; Harmonic Arrangement of 
the Acts of the Apostles; Brief Notes on 
the New Testament; and History of the 
First Baptist Church in Elizabeth, N. J. 

CLARK, GILBERT J., lawyer, author. 
He is a successful lawyer of Kansas City, 
Mo.; and the author of Eminent Ameri¬ 
can, English and Canadian Lawyers. 

CLARK, GUY ASHLEY, manufacturer, 
was born Feb. 17, 1823, in Onondaga, N. Y. 
In 1860 he was appointed agent of the 
Onondaga Salt company, which position 
he held for ten years. In 1870 he was 
elected city supervisor of Syracuse; and 
was twice re-elected to the same office. 


CLARK, HENRY A., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Aug. 3, 1815, in Sidney, N. Y. 
The early history of Bainbridge contains 
in part the history of 
Henry A. Clark. 
While representing 
his district in the 
state senate in 1863- 
65, he was the friend 
of the governor, 
Horatio Seymour, 
and was one of the 
first to vote for the 
appropriation for 
the new state capi- 
tol. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state re¬ 
publican committee for many years. Mr. 
Clark was one of the organizers of the 
one hundred and fourteenth regiment; al¬ 
though unable to enlist himself, gave lib¬ 
erally toward the advancement of the 
cause of the union. 

CLARK, HENRY JAMES, naturalist, 
author, was born June 22, 1826, in Easton, 
Mass. He was a naturalist of Cambridge; 
and the author of Mind in Nature; and 
A Claim for Scientific Property. He died 
July 1, 1873, in Amherst, Mass. 

CLARK, HENRY S., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Beaufort county, N. C. 
He was a member of the state legislature 
in 1834; and was solicitor for the state in 
1842. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from North Carolina from 1845 
to 1847; and was at one time acting gov¬ 
ernor of the state. He died April 14, 1874, 
in Tarborough, N. C. 

CLARK, HENRY TOOLE, governor, 
was born in 1808. He was elected state 
senator in 1850, a position he continued to 
occupy for eleven years; and in 1861 was 
appointed governor of North Carolina. 
He died April 14, 1874. 

CLARK, HORACE FRANCIS, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 29, 1815, in 
Southbury, Conn. He was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the thirty-fifth congress from New 
York; and was re-elected to the thirty- 
sixth congress. He died June 19, 1873, in 
New York city. 

CLARK, ISAAC, soldier, jurist, was 
born in 1749. He was a soldier of the 
revolution, a member of the constitutional 
convention, and for many years chief 
judge of the Vermont county court. He 
became colonel of the eleventh United 
States infantry in 1812, and in 1813 com¬ 
manded a successful expedition against 
Massequoi, Canada. He died Jan. 31, 1822, 
in Castleton, Vt. 

CLARK, JAMES, soldier, was born 
in July, 1730. He was a captain in Put¬ 
nam’s regiment, and was present at Bun¬ 
ker Hill. He was made lieutenant-colonel 
of Huntington’s regiment in 1775, and 
took part in the battles at Harlem 
Heights and White Plains in 1776. He 
died Dec. 29, 1826, in Lebanon, Conn. 

CLARK, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, governor, was born in 1779 in 
Bedford county, Va. He was several 
times a member of the state legislature; 
and in 1810 was appointed judge of the 
court of appeals. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Kentucky from 1813 
to 1816; and from 1817 to 1824 was judge 
of the circuit court. He was again a 
member of congress from 1825 to 1831. 
In 1832 he was state senator and chosen 
sneaker; and was elected governor in 
1836. He died Sept. 27, 1839, in Frank¬ 
fort, Ky. 


CLARK, JAMES, farmer, stockman, 
was born Nov. 20, 1838, near Springfield, 
Ohio. For over a quarter of a century 
continuously he has 
been township treas¬ 
urer; and for ten 
years a member of 
the county board of 
agriculture. He has 
been a successful 
breeder of trotting 
horses, some of 
which have sold as 
high as twenty 
thousand dollars 
each; and he bred 
and sold the fastest 
yearling trotter in the world to Frank 
Rockefeller, vice-president of the Stan¬ 
dard Oil company. He resides in New 
Moorefield, Ohio. 

CLARK, JAMES GOWDY, the poet of 
the people, was born June 28, 1829, in 
Constantia, N. Y. At the age of twenty- 
one he drifted into the concert field; was 
for many years connected with the Min¬ 
neapolis Daily Star; and became prom¬ 
inent as a poet, singer and composer. He 
is chiefly known as the author of Leona; 
Marion Moore; The Infinite Mother; 
The Old Mountain Tree; The Mount 
of the Holy Cross; and the Ever¬ 
green Mountains of Life. For many 
years he has been a prominent and vigor¬ 
ous prose writer, especially in the cause of 
reform, every vital phase of which he has 
heartily espoused; and has lectured ex¬ 
tensively on kindred subjects. 

CLARK, JAMES HENRY, physician, 
author, was born June 23, 1814, in Living¬ 
ston, N. Y. He was a physician of New¬ 
ark, N. J.; and the author of History of 
the Cholera in Newark in 1847; Sight and 
Hearing, How Preserved, How Lost; Med¬ 
ical Topography of Newark; and The 
Medical Men of New Jersey in Essex Dis¬ 
trict, 1666-1866. He died March 6, 1869. 
in Montclair, N. J. 

CLARK, JAMES W., state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Bertie county, 
N. C. He was a presidential elector in 
1812; three years a member of the state 
senate; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from North Carolina from 1815 to 
1817. He died in January, 1844. 

CLARK, JOHN, soldier, governor, was 
born in 1766 in North Carolina. He 
served in the revolutionary war; and 
rose to the rank of major-general in the 
war of 1812. He was elected governor of 
Georgia in 1821. He died Oct. 15, 1832. 

CLARK, JOHN ALONZO, clergyman, 
author, was born May 6, 1801, in Pitts¬ 
field, Mass. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man of Philadelphia; and the author of 
The Young Disciple; The Pastor’s Testi¬ 
mony; A Walk about Zion; Gathered 
Fragments; Awake, Thou Sleeper; and 
Glimpses of the Old World. He died Nov. 
27, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CLARK, JOHN B., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was horn April 17, 1802, in Madison 
county, Ky. In 1832 he commanded a 
regiment of mounted militia, during the 
Black Hawk war; and was made major- 
general of militia in 1848. He was elect¬ 
ed to the legislature during the session of 
1850 and 1851. He was a member of the 
thirty-fifth congress; was re-elected to 
the thirty-sixth and to the thirty-seventh 
congresses. He took part in the rebel¬ 
lion of 1861 as a colonel, having been ex¬ 
pelled from the house in July, 1861. He 
died Oct. 29, 1885. in Fayetteville, Mo. 





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CLARK, JOHN B., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 14, 1831, in Fayette, 
Mo. He entered the confederate army; 
served as a lieutenant, and was promoted 
successively to be captain, major, colonel, 
and brigadier-general. He was elected 
a representative from Missouri to the 
forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth con¬ 
gresses. 

CLARK, JOHN BATES, political econ¬ 
omist, author, was born Jan. 26, 1847, in 
Providence, R. I. He has filled the chair 
of political economy in various colleges, 
and was lecturer in Johns Hopkins uni¬ 
versity. For two years he was the presi¬ 
dent of the American Economic associa¬ 
tion. He is the author of The Philosophy 
of Wealth, and of numerous publications 
on political economy. 

CLARK, MRS. KATE UPSON, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1851 in Alabama. 
She is a journalist of Brooklyn, who has 
written mainly for young people; and the 
author of That Mary Ann. 

CLARK, LABAN, clergyman, was born 
July 19, 1778, in Haverhill, N. H. He was 
one of the founders of the Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity, and president of its trustees. He 
died Nov. 28, 1868, in Middletown, Conn. 

CLARK, LEWIS GAYLORD, journalist, 
author, was born June 12, 1810, in Otisco, 
N. Y. He was a once prominent maga- 
zinist of New York city, and editor of the 
Knickerbocker Magazine. He was the 
author of Knick-Knacks, a collection of 
brief sketches contributed to that period¬ 
ical. He died Nov. 3, 1873, in Piermont, 
N. Y. 

CLARK, LINCOLN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Massachusetts. He • 
was a judge in Alabama for several years; 
and on removing to Iowa was elected a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1851 to 1853. 

CLARK, LOT, congressman, was born 
in New York. He was a representative 
in congress from 1823 to 1825, when he 
was appointed postmaster at Norwich, 
N. Y.; and was a member of the New 
York assembly in 1846. 

CLARK, M. S., congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania during the years 1820 and 1821. 

CLARK, MARY J., poet, was born Dec. 
25,1833, in Ellisburgh, N. Y. She received 
her education in the public schools; and 
attended Sister 
school of Utica. N. 
Y., where her father 
was a methodist 
clergyman. She is 
the author of the 
Record of a Minis¬ 
tering Angel, which 
had an extensive 
sale. She has writ¬ 
ten extensively in 
prose and poetry for 
the periodical press; 
and many of her 
poems have been incorporated in stan¬ 
dard publications. She has traveled ex¬ 
tensively in America and Europe. Since 
the death of her husband she has managed 
a^large manufacturing concern at Utica, 

CLARK, MRS. MARY, author, was 
born in 1831 in Maine. She is a 
New England writer of religious juve¬ 
niles, among which are The Mayflower 
Series; and Daisy’s Mission. 

CLARK, MYRON HOLLEY, governor 
of New York, was born Oct. 23, 1806, in 
Naples, N. Y. He served as lieutenant- 
colonel of state militia. He was sheriff 
of Ontario county for two years. 


CLARK, N. NORTON, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 2, 1841, near Bangor, 
Maine. He is a graduate of the Garrett 
Biblical institute; and for a quarter of a 
century has been a clergyman of the 
methodist episcopal church. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Helper for Young People’s 
Societies; and has contributed exten¬ 
sively to religious publications. 

CLARK, NATHANIEL GEORGE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 18, 1825, in 
Calais, Vt. He was the foreign secretary 
of the American board of foreign mis¬ 
sions from 1866. In earlier life he was 
of some note as an educator, and pub¬ 
lished Elements of the English Language. 
He died in 1896. 

CLARK, NEWCOMB, soldier, state 
legislator, was born Sept. 25, 1840, in Sul¬ 
livan county, N. Y. He graduated from 
the Clarkston academy and the Oxford in¬ 
stitute. He served as major and lieu- 
tenant-colonel during the civil war in the 
one hundred and second United States 
cavalry troop; and was for some time in 
command of the regiment. He also had 
command of the fifty-fourth New York 
infantry; subsequently commanded a 
brigade; and was brevetted brigadier- 
general for meritorious conduct in the 
field. He was the first president of We- 
nona, now West Bay City; in 1883 he 
was elected a member of the Michigan 
state legislature; received the re-election 
in 1885; and now devotes his time to 
literary pursuits. 

CLARK, RICHARD H., lawyer, author, 
was born July 3, 1827, in Washington, 
D. C. He has attained success as 
a lawyer; and is the author of So¬ 
cialism in America; Father Sebastian 
Rale; Illustrated History of the Catholic 
Church in the United States; and other 
works. 

CLARK, ROBERT, physician, congress¬ 
man, was born in Washington county, 
N. Y. He was a member of the assembly 
of that state from 1812 to 1815; and a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1819 to 1821. 

CLARK, RUFUS A., educator, college 
president, was born Nov. 20, 1846, in Cof¬ 
fer county, Tenn. He filled the chair as 
professor of mathematics in Winchester 
Normal college for ten years, and in 
1889 was made president of that insti¬ 
tution. 

CLARK, RUFUS WHEELWRIGHT, 
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 17, 1813, 
in Newburyport, Mass. He was a Re¬ 
formed Dutch clergyman of Albany. 
Among his more than a hundred publica¬ 
tions are Lectures to Young Men; Heaven 
and Its Scriptural Emblems; Life Scenes 
of the Messiah; Romanism in America; 
The African Slave Trade; and Heroes of 
Albany. He died Aug. 9, 1886, in Nan¬ 
tucket, Mass. 

CLARK, RUSH, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Oct. 1, 1834, in Schellsburg, Pa. 
He was a representative in the state legis¬ 
lature from 1860 to 1864, serving as speak¬ 
er the last two years; was a member of 
the governor’s staff in 1861 and 1862. He 
was again elected to the state assembly 
in 1876; was elected a representative from 
Iowa to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth 
congresses. He died April 28, 1879. 

CLARK, S. H. H., railroad president. 
He is president and receiver of the Union 
Pacific railroad at Omaha, Neb. 

CLARK, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 1833 
to 1835. On removing to Michigan he was 
elected a representative in congress from 
that state from 1853 to 1855. He died Oct. 
2, 1870, in Kalamazoo, Mich. 


CLARK, SAMUEL ADAMS, clergyman, 
author, was born Jan. 27, 1822, in New¬ 
buryport, Mass. He became in 1848 rec¬ 
tor of the Church of the Advent, Phila¬ 
delphia, where he continued till 1856. 
He was then called to St. John’s church, 
Elizabeth, N. J., where he remained till 
his death. He published Memoir of Al¬ 
bert W. Day, prefixed to Day’s sermons; 
and History of St. John’s Church, Eliza¬ 
bethtown, N. J. He died Jan. 28, 1875, in 
Elizabeth, N. J. 

CLARK, SAMUEL M., soldier, lawyer, 
journalist, congressman, was born Oct. 11, 
1842, in Van Buren county, Iowa. He en¬ 
listed as a private in company H, nine¬ 
teenth Iowa infantry, but was not mus¬ 
tered in because of ill health. He has 
been editor of the Keokuk Gate City for 
thirty-one years; was a delegate to the 
national republican conventions of 1872, 
1876, and 1880; and was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses. 

CLARK, SIMEON TUCKER, physician, 
author, poet, was born Oct. 10, 1836, in 
Canton, Mass. He is a successful phy¬ 
sician of Lockport, N. Y.; and professor 
of medical jurisprudence in Niagara uni¬ 
versity. He is also a noted lecturer and 
a member of the leading scientific soci¬ 
eties in the United States. His poems 
have appeared in current publications; 
and he is the author of a work entitled My 
Garden. 

CLARK, MRS. SUSANNA REBECCA 
GRAHAM, author, was born July 2, 1848, 
in Nova Scotia. She is a writer of Port¬ 
land, Maine, who has written much juve¬ 
nile literature. Among her works are 
Yensie Walton; Our Street; The Triple 
E.; Achor; Herbert Gardenell's Chil¬ 
dren; Tom’s Street; and Go’s Goings. 

CLARK, THEODORE MINOT, archi¬ 
tect, author, was born in 1845 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is an architect in Boston, 
formerly instructor in the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology. He is the au¬ 
thor of Architect, Owner and Builder Be¬ 
fore the Law; Building Superintendence; 
and Rural School Architecture. 

CLARK, THOMAS, educator, author, 
was born in 1787 in Lancaster, Pa. He 
was an educator of Philadelphia; and the 
author of Naval History of the United 
States from the Commencement of the 
Revolutionary War, 1814; and Sketches 
of United States Naval History. He died 
in 1860 in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CLARK, THOMAS MARCH, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born July 4, 1812, in Newbury¬ 
port, Mass. He is the second protestant 
episcopal bishop of 
Rhode Island, and 
prominent among 
theologians of the 
broad church school. 
He is the author of 
Primary Truths; 
The Dew of Youth 
and Other Lectures 
to Young Men and 
Women; Early Dis¬ 
cipline and Culture; 
The Efficient Sunday 
School Teacher; and 
Reminiscences; and various other relig¬ 
ious works. 

CLARK, WALTER, soldier, author, jur¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 19, 1846, in Halifax 
county, N. C. He was lieutenant-colonel 
in the confederate service. In 1885 he was 
elected judge of the superior court of 
North Carolina, then as judge of the 
supreme court of North Carolina, receiv¬ 
ing the re-election to the same office in 
1894. He is the author of several law 
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CLARK, WELLINGTON, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Sept. 3, 1860, in Marys¬ 
ville, Cal. He is a successful lawyer of 
Walla Walla, Wash.; was a member of 
the territorial assembly of Washington 
in 1887-88, and speaker of the house. He 
has been prosecuting attorney of his 
■county; court commissioner of the su¬ 
perior court; and master in chancery of 
the circuit court of the United States for 
the ninth district of Washington. He has 
been inspector-general on the governor's 
staff, and judge advocate general of the 
national guard of Washington. 

CLARK, WILLIAM, congressman. In 
1828 he was appointed treasurer of the 
United States; and from 1833 to 1837 he 
was a member of the house of representa¬ 
tives in congress from Pennsylvania. He 
•died April 28, 1841, in Dauphin county, Pa. 

CLARK, WILLIAM, jurist, governor. 
In 1800 he was appointed chief justice of 
the territory of Indiana; and was subse¬ 
quently commissioned as the second gov¬ 
ernor of the territory of Missouri. 

CLARK, WILLIAM, explorer, soldier, 
was born Aug. 1, 1770, in Virginia. He 
was a noted explorer; served in the war 
■of 1812; and was appointed governor of 
Missouri. 


CLARK, WILLIAM ADOLPHUS, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 2, 1825, in New Or¬ 
leans, La. He received his education in 
various institutions; 
and attended the 
Boston Latin school, 
and the Dane Law 
school of Cambridge, 
Mass. He has been 
a merchant in New 
Orleans,La.; a miner 
in Southern Cali¬ 
fornia; and has filled 
numerous public po¬ 
sitions of trust and 
honor. He is the au¬ 
thor of a volume 
of select poems entitled Intellectual Peo¬ 
ple, and has contributed extensively, both 
prose and verse, to the leading newspapers 
and magazines in America. 

CLARK. WILLIAM ARTHUR, educat¬ 
or, was born May 23, 1853, in Manchester. 
Ohio. He received his education at the 
National Normal university and the Har¬ 
vard university. He has received the de¬ 
grees B. A., A. M., and Ph. D. He has 
been superintendent of various public 
schools, and for two years had charge of 
the Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors' Orphan 
Home schools or Xenia, Ohio; professor 
of mathematics in the National Normal 
university; and professor of psychology 
in the Nebraska Normal school. He is a 
member of the Nebraska Academy of 
Science and one of its board of directors. 
His work in the normal school has been 
principally in psychology and the history 
of education. 


CLARK, WILLIAM B., president of the 
.Etna Fire Insurance company of Hart¬ 
ford, Conn., was born June 29, 1841, in 
Hartford, Conn. For many years he was 
connected with the Hartford Courant, of 
which his father was the proprietor. In 
1857 he became a clerk with the Phcenix 
Fire Insurance company; was elected sec¬ 
retary in 1863; and after serving that 
company for twenty-five years he became 
assistant secretary of the .Etna. In 1888 
he was made vice-president, and in 1892 
became president. He holds a prominent 
and important place in the business af¬ 
fairs of Hartford, and has filled numer¬ 
ous offices of honor. 

CLARK. WILLIAM SMITH, soldier, ed¬ 
ucator, college president, was born July 
31, 1826, in Ashfield, Mass. At the begin¬ 
ning of the civil war he was commissioned 
major of the twenty-first Massachusetts 
infantry, and in 1862 was appointed col¬ 
onel. In 1867 he was elected president of 
the Massachusetts Agricultural college; 
and in 1864-67 was a representative to the 
Massachusetts legislature. He died March 
9, 1886, in Amherst, Mass. 

CLARK, WILLIAM T„ soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 29, 1834, in 
Norwalk, Conn. He served in the union 
army in all grades up to brevet major- 
general, and commanded a division in 
Texas until mustered out in 1866, when 
he went into business at Galveston. He 
took an active part in reconstruction; and 
was elected to the forty-first congress as 
a republican. 

CLARK. WILLIS GAYLORD, poet, was 
born in 1810 in New York, and was twin 
brother of L. G. Clark. He was a popular 
poet in his day. He died June 12, 1841, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CLARKE, ALFRED, public official, law¬ 
yer, was born July 27, 1832, in Ireland. 
He arrived at San Francisco by way of 
Cape Horn in 1850. During 1856-87 he 
was connected with the police department 
of San Francisco; was really the father 
of the police, having made it a credit to 
the city. In 1877 he was admitted to the 
bar of the supreme court, and has since 
attained success as one of the foremost 
lawyers of the Pacific coast. He was one 
of the founders of Calvary Presbyterian 
church in 1854. He was also one of 
the founders of the Police Benevolent 
society in 1879, and for five years was its 
president. 

CLARKE, ALMON TAYLOR, clergy¬ 
man, poet, was born Feb. 19, 1840, in 
Ticonderoga, N. Y. He received his edu¬ 
cation in several in¬ 
stitutions, and in 
1872 graduated in 
theology from An¬ 
dover Theological 
seminary, and was 
ordained the same 
year as a minister. 
He has held pastor¬ 
ates in Tiverton, R. 
I.; Crown Point, N. 
Y.; Parishville. N. 
Y.; Sheldon and 
Franklin, Vt.; in 
Florida; and in Shelby, Ala. In 1889 
he became editor of the Southern Con- 
gregationalist of Atlanta, Ga.; and is now 
pastor of the Church of the Covenant of 
Shelby, Ala., and editor of The Helper, a 
general religious organ of the congrega- 
tionalist churches of the south. He has 
filled many positions of honor; was chosen 
a delegate of the league to the peace con¬ 
gress in Paris; and was urged to be a 
candidate for congress. He is the au¬ 
thor of a number of very fine poems. 


CLARKE, ARCHIBALD S., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was born 
in 1778. He was a member of the New 
York senate for four years, beginning 
with 1813; and was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1816 to 
1817. He held the several positions of 
clerk, surrogate and judge of Saratoga 
county. He died Dec. 4, 1821, in Clarence, 
N. Y. 

CLARKE, AUGUSTUS PECK, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born Sept. 24, 1833, in 
Pawtucket, R. I. In 1856 he entered 
Brown university, 
and in 1861 received 
the degree of A. M. 
from that institu¬ 
tion; and the degree 
of M. D. from Har¬ 
vard university in 
1862. He served dur¬ 
ing the civil war and 
was promoted to the 
rank of surgeon; and 
in 1864 to surgeon- 
in-chief; and was 
brevetted lieutenant- 
colonel and also colonel for gallant 
and meritorious conduct during his 
term of service. In 1865 he traveled 
abroad and attended the various med¬ 
ical schools and hospitals in Lon¬ 
don, Paris and Leipzic. In 1886 he mojred 
to Cambridge, Mass., and soon estab¬ 
lished a high reputation as a practitioner. 
He has been dean and professor in the 
college of Physicians and Surgeons of 
Boston since 1893; and has held numer¬ 
ous high positions of honor in medical 
bodies and other societies. He is the au¬ 
thor of Clarke’s Kindred Genealogies; 
Book of Poems; and has contributed 
valuable articles and papers to various 
medical journals and magazines. 

CLARKE, BAYARD, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born March 17, 1815, in New 
York city. He served in the second regi¬ 
ment of dragoons through the Florida 
war; resigned in 1843, and settled at 
Westchester, N. Y., which district he rep¬ 
resented in the thirty-fourth congress. 

CLARKE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ed¬ 
ucator, college president, was born July 
14, 1831, in Newport, Maine. He gradu¬ 
ated from the Brown university, in which 
institution he has been professor and 
acting president for many years. 

CLARKE, BEVERLY L., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a member 
of the state legislature in 1841 and 1842; 
and was a member of the state constitu¬ 
tional convention in 1849. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Kentucky 
from 1847 to 1849; and in 1858 was ap¬ 
pointed minister to Guatemala and Hon¬ 
duras. He died March 7, 1860, in Hon¬ 
duras. 

CLARKE, CHARLES E„ congressman, 
was born in 1789 in New York. In 1839 
and 1840 he was a member of the New 
York assembly from Jefferson county; 
and was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1849 to 1851. He died Dec. 
29, 1863. 

CLARKE, CHARLES J., business man, 
was born March 15, 1833, in Pittsburg, 
Pa. He was president for sixteen years 
of the Mercantile Library Hall Co.; and 
is vice-president of the Pennsylvania Col¬ 
lege for Women. He is a director of the 
Pittsburg Safe Deposit and Trust Co.; the 
Western Insurance Co.; and a member of 
the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburg. 

CLARKE, DANIEL, congressman. He 
was a delegate to congress from the terri¬ 
tory of Orleans or Louisiana from 1806 to 
1809. 






CLARK, WILLIAM, manufacturer, was 
born in 1841 in Scotland. In 1860 he 
joined his brother, George A. Clark, in the 
general agency of 
the Clark threads in 
America. In 1864 
the brothers started 
a cotton thread fac¬ 
tory in Newark, be¬ 
ing identified with 
the Passaic Thread 
Co. from the start. 
In 1873 William 
Clark rose to senior¬ 
ity in the house. The 
works now occupy 
ten acres of ground 
•on the banks of the Passaic river. 






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CLARKE, DORUS, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 2, 1797, in Westhampton, 
Mass. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Boston; and the author of Let¬ 
ters to Horace Mann; Oneness of the 
Christian Church; Orthodox Congrega¬ 
tionalism and the Sects; Saying the 
Catechism Seventy-five Years Ago and 
the Historical Results; Review of the 
Oberlin Council; Letters to Young Peo¬ 
ple in Manufacturing Villages; Revision 
of the English Version of the Bible; and 
Essay on the Tri-Unity of God. He died 
March 8, 1884, in Boston, Mass. 

CLARKE, EDWARD FIELDING, law¬ 
yer, was born March 19, 1873, in More- 
head, Ky. He studied law in his fath¬ 
er’s office; was admitted to the bar in 
1894, and practices his profession in his 
native city. 

CLARKE, EDWARD HAMMOND, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Feb. 2, 1820, in 
Norton, Mass. He was a prominent phy¬ 
sician and medical writer of Boston; and 
the author of Sex in Education; The 
Building of a Brain; Visions: a Study of 
False Sight; and Nature and Treatment 
of Polypus of the Ear. He died Nov. 30, 
1877, in Boston, Mass. 

CLARKE, ELIJAH, soldier, was born 
in North Carolina. He became a captain 
in 1776, and distinguished himself in en¬ 
gagements both with Indians and British 
on the frontiers of Georgia. He after¬ 
ward fought many battles, and made sev¬ 
eral treaties with the Creek Indians. He 
died Dec. 15, 1809, in Wilkes county, Pa. 

CLARKE, FRANK GAY, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 
10, 1850, in Wilton, N. H. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state house of representatives 
of 1885; of the state senate in 1889; re¬ 
elected to the former in 1891, and was 
chosen speaker of that body. He was ap¬ 
pointed colonel on the military staff of 
Governor Hale, and served in that ca¬ 
pacity from 1885 to 1887. He was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

CLARKE, FRANK WIGGLESWORTH, 
chemist, author, was born March 19, 1847, 
in Boston, Mass. He is the chief chemist 
of the United States geological survey at 
Washington; and the author of Weights, 
Measures, and Money of All Nations; and 
Elements of Chemistry. 

CLARKE, FREEMAN, merchant, bank¬ 
er, railroad president, congressman, was 
born March 22, 1809, in Troy, N. Y. In 
1862 he was elected a representative from 
New York to the thirty-eighth congress. 
In 1865 he was appointed comptroller of 
the currency; and in 1867 was elected to 
the New York state constitutional con¬ 
vention. In 1870 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the forty- 
second congress, and in 1872 was re-elect¬ 
ed to the forty-third congress. 

CLARKE, GEORGE ROGERS, soldier, 
was born in 1752 in Virginia. He was one 
of the most accomplished and useful offi¬ 
cers of the western pioneers during the 
revolution. He died in 1848 near Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. 

CLARKE, HENRY J., lawyer, jurist, 
was born March 31, 1845, in Southbridge, 
Mass. He is a descendant of Jacob 
Clarke, who came from Bristol, England, 
in 1679, and settled in Providence, R. I. 
In 1875 he graduated from the Boston 
University Law school with the degree 
of LL. B.; and has attained prominence 
as an able lawyer of Webster, Mass. He 
has been a justice of the peace, and held 
other prominent positions in his county 
and state. 

CLARKE, ISAAC A., soldier, educator, 
was born March 22, 1837, in Overton coun¬ 


ty, Tenn. During the war he served as a 
quartermaster, with the rank of captain, 
in the confederate army. He was one of 
the founders of Clarke’s academy of 
Berryville, Ark.; has been county exam¬ 
iner; and is prominent in educational af¬ 
fairs in the state of Arkansas. 

CLARKE, ISAAC EDWARDS, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1830 in Massachusetts. 
He has been a lawyer in the United States 
civil service since 1871; and is the author 
of Tribute to Bayard Taylor; and Indus¬ 
trial and High Art Education in the 
United States. 

CLARKE, JAMES, journalist, governor, 
was born in 1806 in Westmoreland, Pa. 
He conducted the Territorial, now State 
Gazette of Burlington, Iowa, during 1837- 
39; was appointed secretary of the ter¬ 
ritory; and from 1843 to 1845 resumed 
the Gazette. He was governor of the ter¬ 
ritory in 1846; and again edited the Ga¬ 
zette from 1848 until his death. He died 
July 28, 1850, in Burlington, Iowa. 

CLARKE, JAMES C., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born in 1824 in Montgomery 
county, Md. Since 1895 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Mobile and Ohio railroads. 

CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 4, 1810, in 
Hanover, N. H. He was a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman of Boston, who founded there the 
Church of the Disciples, and was its pas¬ 
tor from 1841 till his death. He was es¬ 
pecially prominent among Unitarian writ¬ 
ers of the latter half of the century, the 
tone of his thought being tnai of the 
liberal conservative. His first important 
work was Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Er¬ 
rors (1866). Other works of his include 
Ten Great Religions, Part I, an Essay in 
Comparative Theology; Ten Great Re¬ 
ligions, Part II, a Comparison of All Re¬ 
ligions; Christian Doctrine of Prayer; 
Thomas Didymus; Common Sense in Re¬ 
ligion; Steps of Belief; Events and 
Epochs in Religious History; Self-Cul¬ 
ture; Every Day Religion; The Ideas of 
the Apostle Paul; Memorial and Bio¬ 
graphical Sketches; Vexed Questions in 
Theology; and Anti-Slavery Days. He 
died June 8, 1888, in Jamaica Plains, Mass. 

CLARKE, JOHN, governor. He was 
governor of Delaware in 1816 and 1817. 
He died in August, 1821, in Smyrna, Del. 

CLARKE, JOHN, physician, author, and 
one of the founders of Rhode Island, was 
born Oct. 8, 1609, in England. He died 
April 20, 1676, in Newport, R. I. 

CLARKE, JOHN, soldier, governor, 
was born in 1766. He fought under 
his father. General Elijah Clarke, in 
the revolutionary army. At the siege 
of Augusta and at the battle of 
Jack’s Creek, in 1787, he greatly dis¬ 
tinguished himself, and attained the rank 
of major-general of the state militia. He 
was governor of Georgia from 1819 to 
1823. He died Oct. 15, 1832, in West 
Florida. 

CLARKE, JOHN B., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born April 14, 1833, near Au¬ 
gusta, Ky. He was elected county attor¬ 
ney in 1858, and served four years; and 
was elected to the state senate of Ken¬ 
tucky in 1867, and served four years. He 
was elected a representative from Ken¬ 
tucky to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth 
congresses as a democrat. 

CLARKE, JOHN C., congressman, was 
born in 1793, in Connecticut. He served 
in the assembly of New York in 1826; and 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1827 to 1829, and again 
from 1837 to 1843. In 1849 he was appoint¬ 
ed first auditor of the treasury. He died 
in 1852. 


CLARKE, JOHN H., lawyer, United 
States senator, was born in 1791 in Eliza¬ 
bethtown, N. J. He served in the state 
legislature; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Rhode Island, from 1847 to 
1853. 

CLARKE, JOHN MASON, geologist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 15, 1857, in Canan¬ 
daigua, N. Y. From 1881 till 1884 he was 
professor of geology and mineralogy at 
Smith college, Northampton, Mass., after 
which he filled a similar chair in the 
Massachusetts Agricultural college at Am¬ 
herst, and in 1886 became assistant pale¬ 
ontologist of the state of New York. His 
published papers include New Devonian 
• Crustacea; On Devonian Spores; The 
Geological Succession in Ontario County, 
N. Y.; and On the Higher Devonian 
Faunas of Ontario County, N. Y. 

CLARKE, JOHN SLEEKER, actor, was 
born Sept. 3, 1833, in Baltimore, Md. His 
professional debut was made as Frank 
Hardy in Paul Pry at the Howard Athe¬ 
naeum of Boston when he was eighteen 
years of age. In 1867 he went to reside in 
London, England. He played Toodles. 
which is perhaps his finest creation, for 
two hundred nights without interrup¬ 
tion when it was first introduced at the 
Strand theater, London. 

CLARKE, JOHN T., jurist, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Jan. 12, 1834, in Putnam 
county, Ga. He served as judge of the 
superior courts of the Pataula circuit in 
Georgia; and in 1878 was a member of 
the Georgia state senate. 

CLARKE, JOSEPH MORRISON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Oct. 6, 1827, in 
Bethany, Conn. This eminent clergyman 
is the author of Letters on Christian 
Union; Annual Addresses; and numer¬ 
ous contributions to church literature. 

CLARKE, MAC DONALD, author, poet, 
was born June 18, 1798, in Bath, Maine. 
He was an eccentric, unbalanced verse- 
writer of New York city, who was com¬ 
monly styled the mad poet; and was the 
author of Poems; Sketches in Verse; 
Death in Disguise, a Temperance Poem: 
The Gossip; Afara, or the Belles of 
Broadway; A Cross and a Coronet; Elixir 
of Moonshine; and Review of the Eve of 
Eternity. He died March 5, 1842, in New 
York city. 

CLARKE, MRS. MARY BAYARD 
DEVEREUX, author, was born about 1830 
in Raleigh, N. C. She published Remin¬ 
iscences of Cuba; Mosses from a Rolling 
Stone; Clytie and Zenobia, a poem; and 
, Wood Notes, a compilation of North Caro¬ 
lina verse. 

CLARKE, MARY H. G., author, poet, 
was born March 28, 1835, in Bristol, R. I. 
Some of her books are: Effie; Fairy 
Queen of Dolls; Prince Puss-in-Boots; 
Golden Hair and Her Knight of the Bean 
Stalk in the Enchanted Forest; and nu¬ 
merous others. She died May 31, 1892, in 
Cambridge, Mass. 

CLARKE, MATTHEW’ ST. CLAIR, 
journalist, state legislator, was born in 
Pennsylvania. In 1843 he was appointed 
sixth auditor of the treasury, and held 
that office two years. He was the pub¬ 
lisher of the great work called the Ameri¬ 
can Archives, edited by Peter Force, who 
was also directly interested in its publi¬ 
cation. He died in Washington, D. C. 

CLARKE, NATHAN DANE APPLE- 
TON, lawyer, was born April 15, 1852, in 
Alfred, Maine. He graduated from the 
Bowdoin college, and has attained prom¬ 
inence as one of the foremost lawyers of 
Massachusetts, and practices his profes¬ 
sion in Lynn. 


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CLARKE, NEWMAN S., soldier, was 
born in Connecticut. He commanded a 
brigade in Mexico in 1847, and received 
the brevet of brigadier-general, March 
29, 1847, for gallant conduct at the siege 
of Vera Cruz. He died Oct. 17, 1860, in 
San Francisco, Cal. 

CLARKE, READER WRIGHT, state 
legislator, congressman, was born May 
18, 1812, in Bethel, Ohio. He was elected 
to the Ohio legislature in 1840-41; was a 
delegate, in 1844, to the Baltimore con¬ 
vention, and was a presidential elector 
at the ensuing election. In 1864 he was 
elected a representative from Ohio to 
the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. 
In 1869 he was appointed third auditor of 
the treasury, and afterwards a collector 
of internal revenue in Ohio. He died May 
23, 1872. 

CLARKE, REBECCA SOPHIA, author, 
was born Feb. 22, 1833, in Norridgewock, 
Maine. She is a popular writer of stories 
for children and young people, who was 
born and has always lived at Norridge¬ 
wock, Maine. Of the former class are the 
Little Prudy Books; Dotty Dimple Series; 
and Flaxie Frizzle Stories. Of the lat¬ 
ter class are Her Friend’s Lover; Janet; 
The Asbury Twins; In Old Quinnebasset; 
Quinnebasset Girls; and The Doctor's 
Daughter. 

CLARKE, RICHARD, merchant, was 
born in 1708. He became a merchant in 
Boston, and he and his sons were con¬ 
signees of part of the tea that was thrown 
overboard by the tea-party in Boston har¬ 
bor in December, 1773. He died in 1795, 
in England. 

CLARKE, RICHARD H., lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born July 3, 1827, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. He is a prominent Roman 
Catholic lawyer of Washington, and, later, 
of New York, who has written many con¬ 
troversial papers, and published Illus¬ 
trated History of the Catholic Church 
in the United States; and Lives of De¬ 
ceased Roman Catholic Bishops of the 
United States. 

CLARKE, RICHARD H., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1843, 
in Marengo county, Ala. He served as a 
lieutenant in the first battalion of Ala¬ 
bama artillery. He was prosecuting at¬ 
torney for Marengo county from 1872 to 
1876, and was prosecuting attorney of the 
seventh judicial circuit from 1876 to 1877. 
He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-sec¬ 
ond, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses 
as atdemocrat. 

CLARKE, ROBERT, surveyor, was born 
in London, England. In 1639 he sat as a 
freeman in the Maryland legislature, in 
1640 was deputy surveyor, and in 1649 
surveyor-general of the province. He 
died in Maryland. 

CLARKE, ROBERT, journalist, author, 
was born May 1, 1829, in Scotland. He 
edited Col. George Rogers Clarke’s Cam¬ 
paign in the Illinois in 1778-79; James 
McBride’s Pioneer Biographies; Captain 
James Smith’s Captivity with the Indians; 
and is the author of a pamphlet entitled 
The Pre-Historic Remains Which Were 
Found on the Site of the City of Cin¬ 
cinnati, with a Vindication of the Cin¬ 
cinnati Tablet. 

CLARKE, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1599 in England. He 
published, besides theological works and 
a famous General Martyrology, A True 
and Faithful Account of the Four Chief - 
est Plantations of the English in America, 
and New Description of the World. He 
died in 1682. 

CLARKE, SAMUEL FESSENDEN, nat¬ 
uralist, author, was born June 4, 1851, in 


Geneva, Ill. During 1874-75 he was as¬ 
sistant to the United States fish commis¬ 
sion, and from 1879 till 1881 assistant in 
the biological laboratory at Johns Hop¬ 
kins university. In 1882 he became lec¬ 
turer in biology at Smith college, and 
also professor of natural sciences at Will¬ 
iams college. 

CLARKE, SARA J., author, was born 
Sept. 12, 1840, in Norridgewock, Maine. 
She is the author of the Little Miss 
Weezy Series and the Silver Gate Series, 
which have become very popular. 

CLARKE, SIDNEY, soldier, journalist, 
congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1831, in 
Southbridge, Mass. He published the 
Southbridge Press. In 1858 he moved to 
Kansas, and settled in Lawrence. He 
was a member of the state legislature in 
1862; and subsequently rendered military 
service against the rebellion as a captain 
of volunteers, and assistant provost mar¬ 
shal-general. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Kansas to the thirty-ninth, 
fortieth and forty-first congresses as a 
republican, and made chairman of Indian 
affairs. 

CLARKE, STALEY N., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1841 to 1843. 

CLARKE, WALTER. He was a col¬ 
onial governor of Rhode Island and lived 
in the seventeenth century. 

CLARKE, WILLIAM, soldier, explorer, 
governor, was born Aug. 1, 1770, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was associated with Lewis, 
and conducted the first exploring expedi¬ 
tion across the American continent to the 
Columbia river, and gave the names of 
Lewis and Clarke to the two tributaries 
of that river. He was promoted to brig¬ 
adier-general, and was governor of Louis¬ 
iana territory from 1813-20. He died 
Sept. 1, 1838, in St. Louis, Mo. 

CLARKSON, FLOYD, soldier, was born 
Feb. 27, 1831, in New York city. He 
served through the civil war, and in 1866 
was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for faith¬ 
ful and meritorious services. He was a 
trustee of the Union Dime Savings bank 
of New York city, and president of the 
Riverside bank. He died Jan. 2, 1894, in 
New York city. 

CLARKSON, JAMES SULLIVAN, jour¬ 
nalist, was born May 17, 1842, in Brook- 
ville, Ind. He has been first assistant 
postmaster - general, 
and chairman of the 
republican national 
committee. He has 
a natural aptitude 
and love for politics. 
He was mad° chair¬ 
man of the republi¬ 
can state committee 
when but twenty- 
four years of age; 
and when twenty- 
five was offered the 
Swiss mission by 
President Grant. In 1871 he was appoint¬ 
ed postmaster at Des Moines, Iowa, which 
he filled until 1877. He began life as a 
school teacher; learned the printing busi¬ 
ness and worked on the Daily State Reg¬ 
ister of Des Moines, of which he became 
foreman, reporter, night editor, city edi¬ 
tor, and editor-in-chief. This publication, 
with his brother, he purchased in 1870, 
which he has made the leading paper of 
Iowa. He is president of the Republican 
league of the United States, and one of 
the foremost political leaders in America. 

CLARKSON, MATTHEW, congressman. 
He was a delegate to the continental 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1785 to 
1786. 


CLARKSON, ROBERT HARPER, bish¬ 
op, author, was born Nov. 19, 1826, in 
Gettysburg, Pa. He was consecrated mis¬ 
sionary bishop of Nebraska and Dakota, 
in Chicago in 1865, and three years later, 
when Nebraska was organized as a dio¬ 
cese and admitted into union with the 
general convention, he was chosen to be 
the bishop of the new diocese. He died 
March 10, 1884, in Omaha, Neb. 

CLARY, JOSEPH MONROE, educator, 
lawyer, author, was born July 28, 1861, 
in Saline county. Ill. He is the author of 
a work entitled Our Nation’s History and 
Song. 

CLARY, ROBERT EMMET, soldier, was 
born March 21, 1805, in Ashfield, Mass. 
He served in the Florida war of 1840-41; 
and at various posts till the civil war. 
In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral for his services during the war. He 
died Jan. 19, 1890, in Washington, D. C. 

CLASON, ISAAC STARR, educator, 
actor, author, poet, was born in 1789 in 
New York. He was the author of Horace 
in New York, a collection of poems, full 
of the New York gossip of the day, and 
celebrating, among others, Madame Mali- 
bran, then the chief operatic singer. He 
died in 1834 in London, England. 

CLAWSON, ISAIAH D„ congressman, 
was born March 30, 1822, in Woodstown, 
N. J. He was a member of the New Jer¬ 
sey assembly in 1853, and was elected a 
representative from that state to the thir¬ 
ty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. 

CLAXTON, KATE, actress, was born 
in 1848 in New York city. She first ap¬ 
peared with Lotta in Chicago, but at¬ 
tracted no attention until the production 
of Led Astray, in 1873. 

CLAY, ALEXANDER STEPHENS, 
United States senator, was born Sept. 25 

-, in Cobb county, Ga. He was elected 

a member of the city council in 1880 and 
re-elected in 1881; and in 1884-85 and 
1886-87 represented Cobb county in the 
general assembly of the state. In the lat¬ 
ter term he was elected speaker pro- 
tempore; was re-elected for 1889-90, and 
served as speaker for two years. In 1892 
he was elected to the state senate, and 
served as president of that body for two 
years. In 1894 he was elected chairman 
of the state democratic executive com¬ 
mittee, and conducted the state campaign 
between the democrats and populists that 
year, and was re-elected to the same posi¬ 
tion in 1896, and still occupies the place. 
He was elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate as a democrat for term of 1897-1903. 

CLAY, BRUTUS J., state legislator, 
congressman, was born July 1, 1808, in 
Madison county, Ky. In 1840 he served in 
the Kentucky state legislature. He was 
elected a representative from Kentucky to 
the thirty-eighth congress. 

CLAY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS, states¬ 
man, was born Oct. 19, 1810, in Madison 
county, Ky. He was a member of the 
Kentucky legislature 
in 1835, 1837 and 

1840, and of the na¬ 
tional whig conven¬ 
tion of 1840, at Har¬ 
risburg. He stumped 
the northern states 
for Henry Clay for 
the presidency in 
1844; in 1845, issued, 
in Lexington, The 
True American, a 
weekly anti-slavery 
paper; in August his 
press was seized by a mob, and the paper 
was afterwards printed in Cincinnati and 
published in Lexington, whither he had 
removed in 1840, and later in Louisville. 







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CLAY, CLEMENT CLAIBORNE, JR., 
state legislator, United States senator, 
was born in 1819 in Madison, Ala. He 
served in the legislature of Alabama in 
1842, 1844 and 1845, and was elected in 
1846 a judge of the Madison county court. 
In 1852 he was a presidential elector, and 
in 1853 was elected a senator in congress 
from Alabama. In 1859 he was re-elected 
for the term of six years, receiving every 
vote in the legislature. He was expelled 
from the senate March 14, 1861, and took 
part in the rebellion of that year, and 
was subsequently confined in Fortress 
Monroe as a prisoner of state. 

CLAY, CLEMENT COMER, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, governor, was born 
Dec. 17, 1789, in Halifax county, Va. He 
was elected a member of the territorial 
council of Alabama, and in 1819 was 
elected one of the judges of the circuit 
court, and in 1820 was chosen chief justice 
of that court. In 1828 he was elected to 
the state legislature, and was made 
speaker. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Alabama from 1827 to 1835, 
and in 1835 was elected governor of Ala¬ 
bama, serving two years. In 1837 he was 
elected a senator in congress for the term 
ending in 1842. He died Sept. 9. 1866, in 
Huntsville, Ala. 

CLAY, GREEN, soldier, surveyor, state 
legislator, was born Aug. 14, 1757, in Pow¬ 
hatan county, Va. He was a represent¬ 
ative of the Kentucky district in the Vir¬ 
ginia legislature; a member of the con¬ 
vention that ratified the federal consti¬ 
tution, and a leading member of the Ken¬ 
tucky constitutional convention of 1799. 
He died Oct. 31, 1826, in Kentucky. 

CLAY, HENRY, statesman, orator, was 
born April 12, 1777, in Hanover county, 
Va. He was sent to the senate from 
Kentucky in 1806, 
and from that date, 
his life, time and 
talents were inter¬ 
woven with the po¬ 
litical welfare of his 
country. He was 
thrice a candidate 
for the presidency, 
but his adherence to 
principle instead of 
party lost for him 
the unanimous vote. 
When warned by his 
friends that his compromise bill would 
lessen hia> chances for the presidency, he 
gave his ever-remembered reply: I would 
rather be right than president. He be¬ 
came a United States senator for nearly 
half a century. He died June 29, 1852, in 
Washington, D. C. 

CLAY, HENRY DE B., soldier, was 
born June 22, 1843, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 
1860 he graduated from Mount Pleasant 
military academy of 
Sing Sing, N. Y. He 
served through the 
civil war as captain, 
and after the war ac¬ 
companied his regi¬ 
ment to the frontier, 
and served in Ari¬ 
zona, California, Ore¬ 
gon and Washington 
territory, and re¬ 
signed from the 
army in 1870. In 
1876 he was called to 
organize and command as colonel the 
Centennial Guards, a semi-military police 
of twelve hundred men. In 1883 he was 
president of the Eastern Lunatic asylum 
of Williamsburg, Va., and for two years 
was collector of customs at Newport News. 
In 1885 he was commander of the G. A. R. 


department of Virginia and North Caro¬ 
lina, and received the re-election the fol¬ 
lowing year. During 1891-96 he was pres¬ 
ident of the state league of republican 
clubs of Virginia, and for three years was 
again collector of customs at Newport 
News, during 1890-93. 

CLAY, JAMES BROWN, congressman, 
was born in Washington City, D. C., Nov. 
9, 1817. He was elected to congress in 
1857, serving one term on the committee 
on foreign affairs, and was a member of 
the peace convention of 1861, held in 
Washington. He was identified with the 
rebellion of 1861. He died Jan. 26, 1864, in 
Montreal, Canada. 

CLAY, JAMES F., state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 29, 1840, in Hen¬ 
derson, Ky. He was a state senator from 
1872 to 1875, and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Kentucky to the forty- 
eighth congress as a democrat. 

CLAY, JAMES RALPH, educator, was 
born Aug. 19, 1867, near Camden Pt., Mo. 
He attended the Gem City Business col¬ 
lege of Quincy, Ill., and the Normal 
school of Chillicothe, Mo. He has prin¬ 
cipally been engaged in educational work, 
and is the vice-president of the Epworth 
league at Dearborn, Mo. 

CLAY, JOHN RANDOLPH, diplomat, 
was born in 1808 in Philadelphia, Pa. 
In 1830 he went to Russia as secretary 
of legation, and in 1836 was appointed 
charge d’affaires to the same country. 
In 1838 he was made secretary of lega¬ 
tion to Austria; and in 1845 went back 
to Russia in the same capacity. In 1847 
he was appointed charge d'affaires to 
Peru, and in 1853 raised to the rank of 
minister plenipotentiary to the same coun¬ 
try, remaining there until 1860. 

CLAY, JOSEPH, jurist, congressman, 
was born in 1741. He was a delegate 
from Georgia to the continental congress 
from 1778 to 1780, and was judge of the 
district court of Georgia from 1796 to 
1801. He was paymaster-general of the 
southern department during the revolu¬ 
tion. He died Jan. 16, 1805, in Savannah, 
Ga. 

CLAY, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, clergy¬ 
man, was born Aug. 16, 1764, in Savannah, 
Ga. He was a leading member of the 
state constitutional convention, and was 
United States district judge of Georgia 
from 1796-1801. He died Jan. 11, 1811, in 
Boston, Mass. 

CLAY, MATTHEW, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1797 to 1813. He died in 
1815. 

CLAY, THOMAS H., diplomat, was born 
in 1803, in Kentucky, and son of Henry 
Clay. In 1862 he was appointed minister 
resident to Nicaragua, where he remained 
until 1866. During the same period he 
was accredited as minister to Honduras. 
He died March 18, 1871, in Lexington, Ky. 

CLAYPOOL, BENJAMIN F„ congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 12, 1825, in Conners- 
ville, Ind. He was in 1856 a delegate to 
the Philadelphia 
convention that 
nominated John C. 
Fremont. In 1860 
he was elected Sena¬ 
tor from the counties 
of Fayette and 
Union. In 1874 he 
was the nominee for 
congress in the then 
fifth congressional 
district. Became 
president of the Na¬ 
tional Farmers’ con¬ 
gress. 


CLAYTON, ALEXANDER M., jurist. 
He was an early emigrant to Arkansas 
when it was a territory, and in 1835 was 
appointed one of the United States judges 
for that district. 

CLAYTON, AUGUSTIN SMITH, jurist, 
state legislator, author, was born Nov. 27, 
1783, in Fredericksburg, Va. He was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the superior court; was 
a presidential elector in 1829, and was a 
representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1831 to 1835. He died June 21, 1839, 
at Athens, Ga. 

CLAYTON, BENJAMIN F„ farmer, 
state legislator, was born in 1839, near 
Carlisle, Ky. He moved to Indiana in 
1855, and to Iowa in 
1873. He is a suc¬ 
cessful farmer and 
business man; has 
lectured extensively, 
and contributed to 
current literature. 
He has been a mem¬ 
ber of the Iowa house 
o f representatives 
for three terms; and 
has been president 
of the board of trus¬ 
tees of Simpson col¬ 
lege of Indianola, Iowa. For four years 
he has been president of the Farmers’ 
National congress of the United States; 
and in 1895 was president of the Pan- 
American Agricultural parliament at At¬ 
lanta, Ga. In 1896 he was prominently 
identified as a nominee for the governor¬ 
ship of Iowa. 

CLAYTON, CHARLES, surveyor, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1825 
in England. He was a member of the 
state legislature in 1863-66; a member of 
the board of supervisors of San Francisco 
from 1864 to 1869; and in 1870 was ap¬ 
pointed surveyor of customs of the port 
and district of San Francisco. He was 
elected to the forty-third congress, serv¬ 
ing on the committees on commerce and 
the centennial celebration. 

CLAYTON. HENRY D., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Barbour county, 
Ala. He was elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

CLAYTON. JOHN MIDDLETON, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born July 
24, 1796, in Sussex county, Del. He was 
elected to the state legislature, and subse¬ 
quently secretary of the state of Delaware. 
In 1829 he was chosen a senator in con¬ 
gress and re-elected in 1835. He was ap¬ 
pointed chief justice of Delaware, and 
was again elected to the federal senate in 
1845, and was a senator until 1849, when 
he became secretary of state under Presi¬ 
dent Taylor. During this period he nego¬ 
tiated the famous Clayton-Bulwer treaty, 
and was for the third time elected to the 
senate, taking his seat in March, 1851. 
He died Nov. 9, 1856, in Dover, Del. 

CLAYTON, JOSHUA, United States sen¬ 
ator, governor. He was president of 
Delaware from 1789 to 1793; governor 
from 1793 to 1796; and was chosen senator 
of the United States in 1798. He died Aug. 
11, 1798, in Middletown, Del. 

CLAYTON, POWELL, soldier, railroad 
president, United States senator, governor, 
was born Aug. 7, 1833, in Bethel, Pa. He 
entered the union army in Kansas, and 
was promoted to brigadier-general in 
1864. He settled in Arkansas at the close 
of the war as a planter; was elected gov¬ 
ernor in 1868, and United States senator 
in 1871, for the term ending in 1877. Since 
1888 he has been president of the Eureka 
Springs railway. 









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tLA\TON, THOMAS, jurist, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born 
March 9, 1778, in Newcastle, Del. He was 
a representative in congress from Dela¬ 
ware from 1813 to 1817; United States sen¬ 
ator from 1823 to 1826, and again from 
1837 to 1847. He was, at different periods, 
a member of the Delaware legislature, 
chief justice of the court of common pleas, 
and of the superior court. He died Aug. 
21, 1854, in Newcastle, Del. 

CLAYTOR, GRAHAM, lawyer, author, 
poet, was born Oct. 27, 1852, in Bedford 
county, Va. For many years he taught 
school; then engaged in the practice of 
law at Bedford City, Va.; and in 1895 was 
elected the commonwealth’s attorney. He 
is the author of two novels of southern 
life, and a book of pastoral poems. 

CLEARY, KATE PHELIM. author, 
poet, was born Aug. 20, 1863, in Canada. A 
number of excellent short stories and 
poems have appeared from the pen of this 
author in standard collections and in 
current magazines. 

CLEAVELAND, J. F., merchant, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from Georgia from 1836 to 1839. 
He subsequently removed to Charleston, 
where he became a merchant. He died 
May 19, 1841. 

CLEAVELAND, JOHN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 22, 1722, in Canter¬ 
bury, Conn. He was a congregational min¬ 
ister of Massachusetts, and the author of 
The Work of God at Chebacco (now Es¬ 
sex) in 1763; Essay to Defend Christ’s 
Sacrifice and Atonement against Asper¬ 
sions Cast on the Same by Dr. Mayhew; 
Reply to Dr. Mayhew’s Letter of Reproof; 
and Treatise on Infant Baptism. He died 
April 22, 1799, in Ipswich, Mass. 

CLEAVELAND, MOSES, pioneer, was 
born Jan. 29, 1754, in Canterbury, Conn. 
He was commissioned captain of a com¬ 
pany of sappers and miners in 1779, served 
for several years, and then resumed legal 
practice. He was several times elected to 
the legislature, and in 1796 was commis¬ 
sioned brigadier-general of militia. He 
died Nov. 16, 1806, in Canterbury, Conn. 

CLEAVELAND, NEHEMIAH, educator, 
author, was born in 1796 in Topsfield, 
Mass. He was an educator of Massachu¬ 
setts, who published a History of Bow- 
doin College, with Biographical Sketches 
of Its Graduates, 1806-79, which was edited 
and completed by A. S. Packard. He died 
in 1877. 


CLEAVELAND, PARKER, educator, 
scientist, author, was born Jan. 15, 1780, 
in Rowley, Mass. In 1799 he graduated 
from Bowdoin col¬ 
lege; and then en¬ 
tered educational 
work. In 1805 he 
became professor of 
mathematics and 
natural philosophy 
in Bowdoin college; 
and subsequently lec¬ 
tured extensively on 
the sciences of chem¬ 
istry and mineral- 
_ogy. He was the au¬ 
thor of a work on 
Mineralogy; and contributed extensively 
to scientific journals. He gained the title 
of the father of American mineralogy. 
He died Oct. 15, 1858, in Brunswick, Maine. 



CLEAVELAND, WILLIAM WALDO, 
manufacturer, was born Jan. 8, 1864, in 
Lake City, Fla. In 1893 he organized a 
stock company to handle and manufac¬ 
ture furniture on a scale never before at¬ 
tempted in Florida. 

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CLEAVES, HENRY BRADSTREET, 
lawyer, legislator, governor. He was ed¬ 
ucated in the common schools of Maine, 


and at Bridgton and 
Lewiston Falls acad¬ 
emies. He served un¬ 
der Grant and Sheri¬ 
dan in the war for 
the preservation of 
the union, and at 
its close was offered 
a commission in the 
regular army by sec¬ 
retary of war Stan¬ 
ton, which was de¬ 
clined. He served as 
city solicitor of Port¬ 
land, Maine, and represented that city in 
the state legislature two terms. He 
served five years as attorney-general of 
Maine. In 1893 he was elected governor 
of Maine, and served with distinction for 
two terms, and upon Governor Cleaves’ 
retiring from this oflice in January, 1897, 
both branches of the legislature unan¬ 
imously passed resolutions commending 
his honorable service. 



CLEAVES, NATHAN, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born in January, 1835, 
in Bridgton, Maine. He was elected city 
solicitor of Portland, Maine, in 1869; and 
has represented that city twice in the 
legislature, and been judge of probate for 
the county. 


CLELAND, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor. was born May 22, 1778, ‘in Fairfax 
county, Va ; He was a Presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman of Kentucky, much inclined to con¬ 
troversy, who published Letters on Camp- 
bellism; The Socini-Arian Detected; and 
Unitarianism Unmasked. He died Jan. 31, 
1858, in Fairfax county, Va. 

CLEMENS, JEREMIAH, soldier, United 
States senator, author, was born Dec. 28, 
1814, in Huntsville, Ala. In 1830-41 he 
was elected a member of the state legis¬ 
lature; in 1842 raised a company of vol¬ 
unteer troops and went to Texas, having 
been appointed lieutenant-colonel, and 
was subsequently appointed to the same 
oflice in the regular army. In 1843 and 
1844 he was again elected to the legis¬ 
lature; in 1844 was a presidential elector, 
and in 1848 was appointed governor of the 
civil and military department of purchase 
in Mexico, which position he held until 
the close of the war. He was a senator in 
congress from Alabama from 1849 to 1853. 
He was the author of Bernard Lile; 
Mustang Gray; The Rivals; and Tobias 
Wilson. He died May 21, 1865, in Hunts¬ 
ville, Ala. 

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. 
author, was born Nov. 30, 1835, in Flor¬ 
ida, Mo. He is a celebrated humorist, 
who, after an eventful experience as a 
journalist, rose to fame by the publication 
of The Innocents Abroad, a volume of ex¬ 
travagantly humorous travels, which still 
remains his most popular book. Only a 
very small portion of his writing has any 
place as literature, but as an author he is 
one of the most popular and successful 
of his time. Other works of his are: A 
Tramp Abroad; Roughing It; Tom Saw¬ 
yer; The Gilded Age (with C. D. War¬ 
ner); The Jumping Frog; Life on the 
Mississippi; Huckleberry Finn; Merry 
Tales; A Connecticut Yankee at King Ar¬ 
thur’s Court; Tom Sawyer Abroad; 
Pudd’nhead Wilson; The American Claim¬ 
ant. The Prince and the Pauper; and Joan 
of Arc, are works in a serious vein, the 
first being his most finished production. 

CLEMENS, SHERRARD, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 28, 1826, in 
Wheeling, Va. He was elected a member 
of congress from 1852 to 1853, and was 


elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty- 
sixth congresses. 

CLEMENS, WILLIAM M., journalist 
author, was born in 1859. He is a jour¬ 
nalist of Cleveland; and the author of 
Life and Times of John Brown, and The 
Nemesis of Passion. 

CLEMENT, MRS. CLARA ERSKINE, 
author, was born Aug. 28, 1834, in St.’ 
Louis, Mo. Her first work, the’ Simple 
Story of the Orient, was printed private¬ 
ly in 1869. She has published Legendary 
and Mythological Alt; Painters, Sculp¬ 
tors, Architects, Engravers, and their 
Works; Artists of the Nineteenth Cen¬ 
tury and their Works, in conjunction with 
Laurence Hutton; Eleanor Maitland a 
novel; History of Egypt; three Hand- 
Books of Painting, Sculpture and Archi- 
tectuie, Christian Symbols and Stories of 
the Saints; and Stories of Art and Ar¬ 
tists. 

CLEMENTS, ANDREW J., physician, 
congressman, was born in 1832 in Jack- 
son county, Tenn. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Tennessee in the thir¬ 
ty-seventh congress, and in 1866 was 
elected to the legislature of Tennessee. 

CLEMENTS, CHARLES WESLEY, 
merchant, legislator, was born July 22,’ 
1851, near Church Hill, Md. He is a suc¬ 
cessful merchant of Crumpton, Md.; 
served with distinction as a member of 
the house of delegates of Maryland in 
1894; and has always taken an active part 
in politics. 

CLEMENTS, EMMA NEWBOLD, tem¬ 
perance reformer. She became greatly in¬ 
terested in temperance reform in 1884; 
has been the president of two local unions 
of the WOman’s Christian Temperance 
union, and one of its national superin¬ 
tendents. 

CLEMENTS, ISAAC, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1837 in Frank¬ 
lin county, Ind. He entered the union 
army as second lieutenant of infantry 
in 1861, and remained in the service three 
years. He was appointed register in 
bankruptcy in June, 1867, and was elected 
to the forty-third congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

CLEMENTS, JUDSON C., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 12, 1846, in 
Walker county, Ga. He was elected a 
representative in the state legislature in 
1872 for the term of two years, and was 
re-elected in 1874. He was elected a 
state senator in 1877, and was elected a 
representative from Georgia to the forty- 
seventh, forty-eighth and forty-ninth con¬ 
gresses. 

CLEMENTS, NEWTON N., merchant, 
congressman, was born Dec. 23, 1837, in 
Tuskaloosa county, Ala. He was pres¬ 
ident of the Tuskaloosa Manufacturing 
company, and was a representative in the 
legislature of Alabama in 1870-78. He 
was elected a representative from Ala¬ 
bama to the forty-sixth congress to fill a 
vacancy. 

CLEMENTS, SAMUEL, educator, cler 
gyman, was born Oct. 20, 1825, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 1870 he had the care for 
a year of a missionary training school; 
at the end of that time he was led to es¬ 
tablish, near Philadelphia, the Chelten¬ 
ham academy, a military school for boys, 
where hundreds have been educated for 
lives of usefulness. He died Dec. 9, 1888. 

CLEMMER, MARY, author, poet, was 
born in 1838. She was one of America’s 
best newspaper correspondents; and the 
author of Memorial of Alice and Phoebe 
Cary, His Two Wives, a volume of poems. 
She died in 1884. 


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CLENDENEN, DAVID, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1814 to 1815 to fill a vacancy; 
and again from 1815 to 1817. 

CLENDENING, JAMES H„ lawyer, was 
born March 17,1834, in Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
He graduated from the Columbia law 
college and has attained prominence as 
an able lawyer of Fort Smith, Ark. 
He was postmaster of his city for eight 
years; and for eight years president of 
the Fort Smith chamber of commerce; 
and in 1893 he served as a national com¬ 
missioner to the World’s Fair. He served 
with distinction during the civil war; en¬ 
listed from Iowa in 1862, and mustered 
out as lieutenant-colonel in 1865. 

CLENDENING, JOHN, engineer, rail¬ 
road manager, was born July 15, 1854, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1870 he has been 
in the railway service; and has filled 
numerous important positions. He is now 
roadmaster of the Southern Pacific com¬ 
pany at San Francisco, Cal.; and also 
takes an active part in the public affairs 
of his city, county and state. 

CLEPHANE, JAMES O., lawyer, inven¬ 
tor, was born Feb. 21, 1842, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. In 1892 he was elected vice- 
president of the Linotype Reporting and 
Printing company, and he devoted a large 
amount of capital and enterprise toward 
the development of the graphophone. 

CLEVELAND, AARON, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 3, 1744, in Haddam, 
Conn. He was a poet who late in life 
became a congregational minister. He 
was the great-grandfather of President 
Cleveland. He was the author of The 
Philosopher and Boy, and Slavery Con¬ 
sidered, both productions in verse. He 
died Sept. 21, 1815. 

CLEVELAND, BENJAMIN, soldier, jur¬ 
ist, was born March 26, 1738, in Virginia. 
He served in the revolutionary war, and 
attained the rank of captain. At the 
close of the war he settled in Tugalo 
Valley, and was judge in old Pendleton 
county for many years. He died October, 
1806, in Tugalo Valley, S. C. 

CLEVELAND, CHARLES DEXTER, 
educator, author, was born Dec. 3, 1802, in 
Salem, Mass. He was an educator of 
Philadelphia, who published Compen- 
diums of English, American, and Classical 
Literature; English Literature of the 
Nineteenth Century; and critical edition 
of Milton, with notes and life. He died 
Aug. 18, 1869, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CLEVELAND, CHAUNCEY FITCH, 
was born Feb. 16, 1799, in Hampton, Conn. 
He was in the Connecticut legislature for 
ten terms, 1826-1848; and was twice 
elected speaker. He was appointed at¬ 
torney for the state in 1832; was govern¬ 
or of Connecticut in 1842-43, and represen¬ 
tative in congress from 1849 to 1853. He 
died June 6, 1887, in Hampton, Conn. 

CLEVELAND, CYNTHIA ELOISE, law¬ 
yer, lecturer, was born Aug. 13, 1845, in 
Canton, N. Y. She received her educa¬ 
tion in the public schools, and at the Me¬ 
dina academy. She has been eminently 
successful as a lawyer, lecturer and 
writer; was vice-president of the Wo¬ 
man’s National Temperance union, and 
director of the American Author’s guild. 
She lectured in 1884 on the public plat¬ 
form in behalf of Grover Cleveland. She 
is the only woman ever appointed to clas¬ 
sified service from civil service register 
upon the law examination. She now is 
auditing money order accounts in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. She is the author of a politi¬ 
cal novel entitled See Saw, or Civil Serv¬ 
ice in the Departments; and Is It Fate? 


CLEVELAND, GROVER, twenty-second 
president of the United States, was born 
March 18, 1837, in Caldwell, N. J. In 
1855 he entered a 
law office in Buffalo 
as clerk, at four dol¬ 
lars a week, and was 
admitted to the bar 
in 1859. He was as¬ 
sistant district attor¬ 
ney of Erie county 
for three years, be¬ 
ginning January 1, 
1863. In 1865 he was 
a candidate for dis¬ 
trict attorney, and 
was beaten. He was 
elected sheriff of Erie county in 1870 for 
three years. He was elected mayor of 
Buffalo in 1881 for the term beginning 
Jan. 1, 1882. In November, 1882, he was 
elected governor of New York by 192,854 
plurality over Charles J. Folger, and took 
the oath of office Jan. 1, 1883. July 8, 1884, 
the democratic national convention met 
at Chicago. The rules required a two- 
thirds vote to nominate. On the first 
ballot Grover Cleveland received 392 
votes; Thomas F. Bayard, Delaware, 170; 
Allen G. Thurman, Ohio, 88; Samuel J. 
Randall, Pennsylvania, 78; Joseph Mc¬ 
Donald, Indiana, 56; John G. Carlisle, 
Kentucky, 27; Roswell P. Flower, New 
York, 4; George Hoadly, Ohio, 3; Samuel 
J. Tilden, New York, 1, and Thomas A. 
Hendricks, Indiana, 1 vote. The second 
vote stood: Cleveland, 683; Bayard, 
81%; Hendricks, 45%; Thurman, 4; Ran¬ 
dall, 4, and McDonald, 2. Cleveland’s 
nomination was made unanimous by 
Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, who 
was then nominated for vice-president 
by acclamation. The election in Novem¬ 
ber was very close, the popular vote be¬ 
ing 4,911,017 for Cleveland and 4,848,334 
for Blaine, giving Cleveland 62,683 plu¬ 
rality. In the state of New York the 
Cleveland electors carried the state by 
1,047 plurality, giving him the 36 electoral 
votes of that state and a majority of 37 
in the electoral college. He resigned as 
governor of New York Jan. 6, and was 
inaugurated President March 4, 1885. The 
democratic national convention met at St. 
Louis June 5, 1888, and unanimously re¬ 
nominated Cleveland for president. Al¬ 
len G. Thurman was nominated for vice- 
president. They were beaten at the No¬ 
vember election. Grover Cleveland was 
again elected to the presidency of the 
United States and served during 1893-97. 

CLEVELAND, HENRY RUSSELL, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1809. He was the author 
of The Classical Education of Boys; and 
Life of Henry Hudson. He died June 12, 
1843, in St. Louis, Mo. 

CLEVELAND, HORACE WILLIAM 
SHALER, author, was born Dec. 16, 1814, 
in Lancaster, Mass. He is a noted land¬ 
scape gardener of Minneapolis; and the 
author of Hints to Riflemen; Landscape 
Architecture; and Voyages of a Merchant 
Navigator. 

CLEVELAND, JESSE, merchant, pat¬ 
riarch, was born in February, 1785, in 
Spartanburg, S. C. He settled in Spar¬ 
tanburg in 1810; opened the second store 
in that place, and was its leading mer¬ 
chant for forty-one years. He became the 
patriarch of the county, and the founder 
of the largest, wealthiest and most in¬ 
fluential families of northern South Caro¬ 
lina. He died Dec. 3, 1851, in Spartan¬ 
burg, S. C. 

CLEVELAND, ORESTES, merchant, 
congressman, was born March 2, 1829, in 
Duanesburg, N. Y. He was in the city 


councils of Jersey City in 1861-62; presi¬ 
dent of the board of aldermen one year; 
was mayor of the city in 1864, 1865 and 
1866; and rendered the union cause some 
financial help -in 1864. He was elected 
a representative from New Jersey to the 
forty-first congress, serving on the com¬ 
mittees on territories and manufactures. 

CLEVELAND, RICHARD JEFFREY, 
author, was born in 1773 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He was the author of Voyages and 
Commercial Enterprises; and Voyages of 
a Merchant Navigator of the Days tnat 
are Past. He died in 1860. 

CLEVELAND, ROSE ELIZABETH, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1846 in Fayette¬ 
ville, N. Y.; and is the daughter of the 
Rev. Richard Cleveland, a noted presby- 
terian clergyman. She received her edu¬ 
cation at the Houghton seminary. She 
was the mistress of the White House dur¬ 
ing the first administration of her brother, 
ex-President Grover Cleveland. She is the 
author of a number of essays, poems and 
novels, the principal of which are George 
Eliot’s Poetry and Other Studies; and The 
Long Run, a novel. 

CLEVENGER, SHOBAL VAIL, sculp¬ 
tor. was born Oct. 23. 1812, in Middle- 
town, Ohio. Specimens of his work are 
now preserved in the art-galleries of the 
Boston athenaeum, the New York and 
Philadelphia Historical societies, the Met¬ 
ropolitan Museum of Art in New York, 
and the Academy of Fine Arts in Phila¬ 
delphia. His bust of Daniel Webster, 
recognized as the most faithful likeness 
of the great statesman, was selected by 
the postofflce department as best adapted 
for representation on the fifteen-cent 
United States postage-stamp. He died 
Sept. 23, 1843, in Chicago, Ill. 

CLEVENGER, SHOBAL VAIL, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born March 24, 1843, in 
Florence, Italy. He is a physician of Chi¬ 
cago, and son of the noted sculptor of 
the same name. .He is the author of 
Treatise on Government Surveying; Com¬ 
parative Physiology and Psychology; and 
Lectures on Artistic Anatomy and 
Sciences Useful to the Artist. 

CLEVER, CHARLES P., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1830, 
in Germany. He filled the offices in New 
Mexico of United States marshal, attor¬ 
ney-general, adjutant-general, as well as 
several others; and was elected a delegate 
from New Mexico to the fortieth congress. 
In 1868 he published a small work on the 
Resources of New Mexico. 

CLEWS, HENRY, financier, author, was 
born Aug. 14, 1840, in England. In 1859 
he became a member of Livermore, 
Clews and Company, bankers; and be¬ 
came the largest negotiator of railroad 
loans in America or Europe. He is the 
author of a work entitled Twenty-Eight 
Years in Wall Street. 

CLIFFORD, BRANCH GREENLEAF, 
educator, clergyman, college president, 
was born Dec. 1, 1843, in Haverhill, N. H. 
He received a thorough education, and 
has had the degrees of A. B., A. M., and 
Ph. D. conferred upon him. He has at¬ 
tained eminence as a clergyman of the 
Presbyterian church, and is the president 
and proprietor of the Clifford seminary 
of Union, S. C. 

CLIFFORD, JOHN HENRY, lawyer, 
state legislator, governor, was born Jan. 
16, 1809, in Providence, R. I. He was a 
member of the legislature in 1835; and 
attorney-general of Massachusetts from 
1849 to 1853, and from 1854 to 1858. He 
was governor of the state in 1853-54; and 
president of the state senate in 1862. He 
died Jan. 2, 1876, in New Bedford, Mass. 




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CLIFFORD, NATHAN, lawyer, jurist, 
diplomat, congressman, was born Aug. 18. 
1803, in Rumney, N. H. He was elected 
to the legislature from York county in 
1830, and re-elected for three years, dur¬ 
ing the last two occupying the post of 
speaker. In 1834 he was appointed at¬ 
torney-general for the state of Maine; 
was a representative in congress from 
1839 to 1843; and in 1846 was appointed 
attorney-general of the United States. In 
1847 he was appointed commissioner to 
Mexico; and when peace was declared be¬ 
tween this country and Mexico he was ap¬ 
pointed minister to that republic. In 1858 
he was appointed an associate justice of 
the supreme court of the United States. He 
published United States Court Reports. 
He died July 25, 1881, in Cornish, Maine. 

CLIFT, JOSEPH WALES, physician, 
congressman, was born Sept. 1, 1836, in 
Marshfield, Mass. He was appointed reg¬ 
ister of that city, and was elected in 
1868 a representative from Georgia to the 
fortieth congress. 

CLIFTON, JOSEPHINE, actress, was 
born in 1813, in New York city. She was 
the first American actress to visit Eng¬ 
land as a star, and her reception was a 
very cordial one. In 1837 N. P. Willis 
wrote for her the tragedy Bianca Vis- 
cante, which was first produced at the 
Park theater of New York city. She died 
Nov. 22, 1847, in New Orleans, La. 

CLIFTON, WILLIAM, poet, was born 
in 1772 in Philadelphia, Pa. During the 
excitement produced by Jay’s treaty, Clif¬ 
ton used his pen in support of the admin¬ 
istration, contributing to the newspapers 
many satires in prose and verse. His 
poems were collected and published after 
his death with Introductory Notes of His 
Life and Character (New York, 1800). He 
died in December, 1799. 

CLINCH, CHARLES POWELL, author, 
poet, was born Oct. 20, 1797, in New York 
city. For many years Mr. Clinch was an 
editorial writer for the press, and a liter¬ 
ary and dramatic critic. He also wrote nu¬ 
merous poems, theatrical addresses, and 
plays, including The Spy; The Expelled 
Collegians; and The First of May. In 
1835 he was elected a member of the state 
legislature. He died Dec. 16, 1880, in 
New York city. 

CLINCH, DUNCAN LAMONT, soldier, 
legislator, congressman, was born April 
6, 1787, in Edgecombe county, N. C. He 
was a general in the United States army; 
and from 1843 to 1845 was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Georgia. He died 
Oct. 27, 1849, in Macon, Ga. 

CLINE, CHARLES EDWARD, journal¬ 
ist, state legislator, was born July 8, 1858, 
in Danville, Ill. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools of Danville; 
and subsequently attended a polytechnic 
institute in St. Louis, Mo. In 1876 he 
moved to Nebraska, where he took an ac¬ 
tive interest in the campaign of that year 
for Peter Cooper. In 1880 he was a dele¬ 
gate to the state greenback convention, 
and also to the national greenback con¬ 
vention which nominated Weaver in that 
year. In 1884 he settled in Lynden, Wash., 
elected a representative of the Washing¬ 
ton state legislature by the people’s par¬ 
ty; and received the re-election in 1896. 
For a number of years he was a justice of 
the peace; edited The Farm and Fruit 
Grower; and in 1897 established The 
Washington State Journal of Olympia. 

CLINGAN, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the 
continental congress from 1777 to 1779, 
and was a signer of the articles of con¬ 
federation. 


ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN 

CLINGMAN, THOMAS L., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, author, was born in 
1812, in Huntsv ille, N. C. He was soon 
elected to a seat in the state senate of 
North Carolina; in 1843 was elected to 
congress, and with the exception of one 
term, was a member of the house of rep¬ 
resentatives until the thirty-fifth congress. 
He was appointed a senator in congress 
to fill a vacancy. He made contributions 
to the science of geology and mineralogy, 
and brought to light many facts connected 
with the mountains of North Carolina, one 
of the highest peaks of which it was his 
fortune to explore and measure, and 
which now bears his name. His works 
are: Speeches, and Follies of the Posi¬ 
tivist Philosophers. 

CLINTON, CHARLES, ancestor of the 
Clintons in the United States, soldier, jur¬ 
ist, was born in 1690 in Ireland. He was 
justice of the peace, county judge and 
lieutenant-colonel of the Ulster county mi¬ 
litia. He was made a lieutenant-colonel 
in Oliver DeLancy’s regiment on March 
24, 1758, and served under Col. Bradstreet 
at the siege and capture of Fort Fonte- 
nac. He died Nov. 19, 1773, in Orange 
county, N. Y. 

CLINTON, DE WITT, lawyer, govern¬ 
or, author, was born March' 2, 1769, in 
Little Britain, N. Y. He was elected to 
the senate of New 
York in 1799; and in 
1802 fought a duel 
with Mr. Swartwout., 
arising from a politi¬ 
cal controversy con¬ 
cerning Mr. Burr. He 
was a senator of the 
United States from 
1802 to 1803; and was 
chosen mayor of 
New York in 1803, 
holding this office 
until 1815. He was 
for several years a state senator and the 
lieutenant-governor; and in 1812 he con¬ 
sented to become the candidate of the 
peace party for the presidency of the 
United States. In 1824 he was elected 
governor of the state, and in 1826 was 
re-elected to the same office. He was the 
author of Memoir of Antiquities of West¬ 
ern New York; Natural History and In¬ 
ternal Revenues of New York; and 
Speeches to the Legislature. He died 
Feb. 11, 1828, in Albany, N. Y. 

CLINTON, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a member of 
the New York assembly in 1801 and 1802; 
and was representative in congress from 
that state from 1804 to 1809. 

CLINTON, GEORGE, soldier, states¬ 
man, was born July 26, 1739, in Ulster 
county, N. Y. *He was a member of the 
colonial assembly, 
and also of the prov¬ 
incial congress iu 
1775; was appointed 
a brigadier-general 
in 1777; and was 
governor of New 
York for eighteen 
years. From 1795 to 
1800 he lived in re¬ 
tirement, and was 
again chosen govern¬ 
or in 1804. He was 
elected vice-presi¬ 
dent of the United States during the year 
1804, and retained the office until his 
death. He died April 20, 1812, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

CLINTON, JAMES G., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a fep- 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1841 to 1845. 




BIOGRAPHY. 

CLINTON, JOHN W., journalist, was 
born in 1836, in Andes, N. Y. He is the 
editor and proprietor of the Ogle Coun¬ 
ty Press, and president of the Illinois 
Press association. 

CLINTON, JOSEPH JACKSON, bishop, 
was born Oct. 3, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was missionary bishop in the south 
during and after the war, and very suc¬ 
cessful in the establishment there of mis¬ 
sions and annual conferences. He died 
May 25, 1881, in Atlantic City, N. J. 

CLINTON, THOMAS, congressman, 
was born in Kentucky. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1827 to 1831; and for a second term from 
1833 to 1835. 

CLITZ, HENRY BOYNTON, soldier, 
was born July 4,1824, in Sackett’s Harbor, 
N. Y. He was made colonel of the tenth 
infantry Feb. 22, 1869, and placed on the 
retired list July 1, 1885, at his own re¬ 
quest, having been in the service forty 
years. He died Oct. 13, 1889. 

CLITZ, JOHN MELLEN BRADY, 
naval officer, was born Dec. 1, 1821, in 
Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y. He entered the 
navy as a midshipman in 1837; was pro¬ 
moted to rear-admiral in 1880; command¬ 
ed the Asiatic station, and was placed on 
the retired list in 1884. 

CLODFELTER, N. J., author, poet, was 
born Dec. 14, 1852, in Alamo, Ind. He is 
known as The Wabash Poet, and is the 
author of Early Vanities, and Snatched 
from the Poorhouse. 

CLOPTON, DAVID, congressman, was 
born in 1820 in Georgia. He was elected 
a representative from Alabama to the 
thirty-sixth congress. He resigned in 
February, 1861, to take part in the rebel¬ 
lion of that year. 

CLOPTON, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1795 to 1799, and again 
from 1801 to 1816. He died Sept. 11, 1816. 

CLOSE, FRED J., railroad president, 
was born March 21, 1849, in Snyder coun¬ 
ty, Pa. Since 1895 he has been president 
of the Gulf and Interstate railway of 
Kansas. 

CLOUGH, EDGAR E., soldier, legisla¬ 
tor, clergyman, was born Aug. 23, 1840, 
in Homer, N. Y. He entered the civil 
war as a private in company A, one hun¬ 
dred and forty-eighth regiment New York 
volunteers, and became first lieutenant, 
adjutant and captain of the thirty-ninth 
regiment United States colored troops. In 
1887 he was a colonel in the Wisconsin 
National guard. In 1889 he was a member 
of the constitutional convention of South 
Dakota. He has been vice-president of 
the trustees of the university of Dakota, 
and president of the board of commis¬ 
sioners of the South Dakota Soldiers’ 
home for eight years. He began minis¬ 
terial work in La Crosse, Wis., and has 
filled pastorates in Eau Claire, Chippe¬ 
wa Falls, Mineral Point, Platteville, and 
Black River Falls. In 1887 he was trans¬ 
ferred to Dakota, and is now presiding 
elder of the methodist episcopal church 
in the Black Hills conference of Dead- 
wood, S. D. He has been grand chap¬ 
lain and senior vice-commander of the 
Grand Army of the Republic, department 
of South Dakota. 

CLOUGH, GEORGE L., painter, was 
born Sept. 18, 1824, in Auburn, N. Y. In 
1850 he went to Europe and copied pic¬ 
tures in the principal galleries of the con¬ 
tinent, and after his return he generally 
resided near New York, where he found a, 
ready sale for his paintings. 





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HERRINGSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


CLOUGH, JOHN E., missionary, was 
born July 16, 1836, in Chautauqua coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. He was appointed by the 
American Baptist Missionary union a 
missionary to India in 1865. 

CLOUGH, MILO M., educator, journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born July 13, 1862, in 
Carlisle, Iowa. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the university of Des Moines; has 
been principal of various high schools, 
and professor of English literature and 
mathematics. He is the editor and pro¬ 
prietor of The Herald of Abercrombie, 
N. D., and the author of a number of 
meritorious poems. 

CLOUGH, MOSES T., lawyer, was born 
Nov. 22, 1814, in Hopkinton, N. H. He is 
a successful lawyer of Troy, N. Y. He was 
the postmaster at Ticonderoga under the 
administration of Gen. Polk, and mas¬ 
ter in chancery and supreme court com¬ 
missioner of the state of New York. 

CLOVER, B. H„ farmer, congressman, 
was born Dec. 22, 1837, in Franklin 
county, Ohio. He has twice been chosen 
president of the Kansas State Farmers’ 
Alliance and Industrial union, and twice 
vice-president of the national organiza¬ 
tion of that order. He was elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a candidate of 
the Farmers’ Alliance. 

CLOVER, LEWIS P„ painter, was born 
Feb. 20, 1819, in New York city. The 
titles of some of his best known paint¬ 
ings are The Rejected Picture, The Idle 
Man, Repose by Moonlight, and The 
Phrenologist. These were all exhibited 
in the National Academy of Design. 

CLOWNEY, WILLIAM K., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in South Carolina. He 
was commissioner in equity of South Car¬ 
olina; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1833 to 1835, 
and again from 1837 to 1839. 

CLUBB, HENRY STEPHEN, journal¬ 
ist, clergyman, was born June 21, 1827, 
in Colchester, England. During 1862-66 
he was assistant quartermaster, with rank 
of captain, in the United States volun¬ 
teer service. In 1873-74 he was a state 
senator in the Michigan legislature; and 
the latter year was also secretary of the 
constitutional convention of Michigan. He 
then became editor and owner of the 
Grand Haven Herald, which he founded in 
1869. In 1876 he was called to the pas¬ 
torate of the Bible Christian church of 
Philadelphia; became president of the 
Vegetarian society of America in 1888; 
and since 1889 has been editor of Food, 
Home and Garden. 

CLUFF, BENJAMIN, educator, college 
president, was born Feb. 7, 1858, in Pro¬ 
vo City, Utah. He attended the Brig¬ 
ham Young academy, and the university 
of Michigan; and has received the de¬ 
grees of B. S. and M. S. During 1873-82 
he was a traveling missionary in the 
Sandwich Islands; and in 1883-86 was 
president of the Young Men’s Mutual Im¬ 
provement association of Utah. He has 
been an instructor and vice-president of 
the Brigham Young academy; and since 
1892 has been president of that institu¬ 
tion. 

CLUNIE, THOMAS JEFFERSON, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 25, 
1852, in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He 
was elected to the legislature in 1875, 
and was appointed brigadier-general of 
the fourth brigade of the National guard 
of California in 1876. He was a delegate 
at large to the national democratic con¬ 
vention at Chicago in 1884, and repre¬ 
sented California democrats on the com¬ 
mittee on platform and resolutions. He 


served one term in the state senate, and 
was elected to the fifty-first congress as a 
democrat. 

CLUSERET, GUSTAVE PAUL, soldier, 
author, was born June 13, 1823, in France. 
He served in the civil war and was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general in 1862. He is 
the author of Mexico and the Solidarity 
of Nations. 

CLUTE, HENRY ALSON, farmer, mer¬ 
chant, soldier, state legislator, was born 
March 24, 1840, in Wayne county, N. Y. 
His ancestors settled on the Hudson 
river soon after the settlement of New 
York. His father was born in 1804 in 
Johnstown, N. Y., where his grandfather 
had settled before the revolutionary war. 
He moved to Michigan with his parents 
when four years of age; and during the 
civil war served for three years in the 
second Missouri cavalry or Merrill Horse. 
He has filled numerous public offices of 
trust in Calhoun county; and in 1897 was 
elected a member of the Michigan state 
legislature from Marshall. 

CLYMER, ALBERT, farmer, poet, was 
born Dec. 10, 1827, in Fairfield county, 
Ohio. He was the author of a volume of 
poems entitled Echoes of the Woods and 
other works. He died in 1897. 

CLYMER, MRS. ELLA MARIA DIETZ, 
author, poet, was born in 1856 in New York 
city. She is a New York writer, once an 
actress, and for some time the president 
of the Woman’s club of New York, So- 
rosis. She has written three volumes of 
poems: The Triumph of Love; The Tri¬ 
umph of Time; and The Triumph of Life. 

CLYMER. GEORGE, signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence, was born in 1739 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was one of the 
first continental treasurers; in 1776 was 
a member of congress, and signed the dec¬ 
laration of independence. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the old congress in 1780, 
and a representative, under the con¬ 
stitution from 1789 to 1791, from 
Pennsylvania. He was also a mem¬ 
ber of the convention which formed the 
federal constitution, and signed that in¬ 
strument. In 1791 he was placed at the 
head of the excise department in Penn¬ 
sylvania; and in 1796 was sent to Georgia 
to negotiate a treaty with the Creek and 
Cherokee Indians. He was afterwards 
president of the Philadelphia bank and 
of the Academy of Fine Arts. He died 
Jan. 23, 1813, in Morrisville, Pa. 

CLYMER, HIESTER, congressman, 
was born Nov. 3, 1837, in Berks county, 
Pa. He was a member of the state sen¬ 
ate of Pennsylvania in 1860-66 when he 
was a candidate for governor of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He was elected to the forty-third, 
forty-fourth, and re-elected to the forty- 
fifth and forty-sixth congresses. He died 
June 12, 1884. 

CLYMER, MEREDITH, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in June, 1817, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a distinguished physi¬ 
cian and medical writer of New York city; 
and the author of Diseases of the Respira¬ 
tory Organs (with Williams); Pathology, 
Diagnosis and Treatment of Fevers; 
Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous 
System; Palsies and Kindred Disorders; 
Ecstasy and Other Dramatic Disorders 
of the Nervous System; Hereditary Gen¬ 
ius; Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis; and Le¬ 
gitimate Influence of Epilepsy on Crim¬ 
inal Responsibility. 

CLYMER. ROBERT S., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Aug. 23, 1855, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He has filled numerous public of¬ 
fices of trust in New Jersey; is a promi¬ 
nent lawyer of Woodbury; and president 
law judge of Gloucester county. 


COAL, P. ABRAM, journalist, was 
born Nov. 28, 1856, in Washington, Pa. 
He is the editor and owner of The Daily 
and Weekly Enterprise of Gibson City. 

COALE, ROBERT DORSEY, chemist, 
was born Sept. 13, 1857, in Baltimore, Md. 
During 1883-84 he was lecturer on chem¬ 
istry, and in 1884 became professor of 
chemistry and toxicology in the univer¬ 
sity of Maryland. His original scientific 
researches were published in the Ameri¬ 
can Chemical Journal. 

COAN, SHERWOOD, singer, was born 
about 1830, in New Haven, Conn. He 
sang with Clara Louise Kellogg, Parepa- 
Rosa, Zelda Harrison, William Castle and 
other well-known singers, and went with 
the Rosas to England, where he attract¬ 
ed much attention. He died Nov. 25, 1874, 
in Chicago, Ill. 

COAN, TITUS, missionary, author, was 
born Feb. 1, 1801, in Killingsworth, Conn. 
He is a missionary of note in the Sand¬ 
wich Islands, who wrote Life in Hawaii; 
and Adventures in Patagonia. He died 
Dec. 1, 1882, in Hawaii. 

COAN, TITUS MUNSON, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born Sept. 27, 1836, 
in the Hawaiian Islands. He is an emi¬ 
nent physician of New York city; and for 
many years was a distinguished surgeon 
in the United States navy. He is a direc¬ 
tor of the New York bureau of revision, 
and is the author of Ounces of Preven¬ 
tion: and Topics of the Times. 

COANN, EZRA T.. banker, was born 
March 25, 1829, in Byron, N. Y. Dur¬ 
ing the war he was a military command¬ 
er under appointment of Gov. Morgan. 
He was director and vice-president of the 
Niagara Falls International Bridge com¬ 
pany; was a merchant during 1850-68; and 
then traveled extensively in foreign coun¬ 
tries. In 1870 he established Coann’s 
bank of Albion, N. Y., which merged into 
the Citizens’ National bank in 1895, of 
which he is president. 

COATES, MRS. FLORENCE E„ poet. 
She has gained a national reputation as 
a genuine poet, and as a musician she 
possesses an insight and power of inter¬ 
pretation of the great masters. She is 
the wife of Mr. E. H. Coates, president 
of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine 
Arts. 

COATES, KERSEY, pioneer, was born 
Sept. 15, 1823, in Salisbury, Pa. He lo¬ 
cated in Kansas City, and in 1857, when 
the city began to show signs of business 
life and activity, Col. Coates uniting his 
efforts with those of other enterprising 
citizens, newspapers were established, 
railroads projected, favorable legislation 
was secured, and important municipal im¬ 
provements were started, the result of 
which was a stream of migration that 
speedily filled up Kansas City. He died 
April 24, 1887. 

COATES, KINNEY, poet. He is the au¬ 
thor of a volume of poems entitled Ly¬ 
rics of the Ideal and the Real. 

COBB, AMASA, soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 27, 1823, in 
Crawford county, Ill. During the civil 
war he was a colonel in the fifth regiment 
Wisconsin volunteer infantry and became 
brevet brigadier-general United States vol¬ 
unteers. He led the troops which turned 
the enemy’s left at Williamsburg, May 5, 
1862; and commanded Hancock’s brigade 
at the Battle of Antietam. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from the third dis¬ 
trict of Wisconsin for four terms—thirty- 
eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth and forty- 
first congresses. He was judge of the 
supreme court of Nebraska for fourteen 
years, during 1878-92, four years of which 
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COBB, STEPHEN ALONZO, soldier, 
congressman, was born June 17, 1833, in 
Madison, Maine. He served through the 
war, rising to the rank of lieutenant-col¬ 
onel. He was mayor of Wyandotte in 
1862 and 1868; a member of the state 
senate in 1862, 1869, and 1870; ^nd speaker 
of the house in 1872. He was elected to 
the forty-third congress. He died in Aug¬ 
ust, 1878. 

COBB, SYLVANUS, clergyman, author, 
was born in July, 1799, in Norway, Maine. 
He was a universalist clergyman of Massa¬ 
chusetts; and editor for many years of 
The Christian Freeman. He was the au¬ 
thor of The New Testament, with Explan¬ 
atory Notes; Compend of Divinity; and 
Discussions. He died Oct. 31, 1866, in East 
Boston, Maine. 

COBB, SYLVANUS, author, was born in 
1823, in Waterville, Maine. He was the 
author of The King’s Talisman; The Pa¬ 
triot Cruiser; Ben Hamed; and other 
works. He died July 20, 1887, in Hyde 
Park, Mass. 

COBB, THOMAS R., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born July 2, 1828, in Lawrence 
county, Ind. He was a state senator from 
1858 to 1866; removed to Vincennes, Ind.. 
in 1867; was president of the democratic 
state convention in 1876, and a delegate 
to the democratic national convention of 
that year. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Indiana to the forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and 
forty-ninth congresses as a democrat. 

COBB, THOMAS READ ROOTES, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, author, was born April 10, 
1823, in Cherry Hill, Ga. He was a Georgia 
lawyer who served as brigadier-general in 
the confederate army during the civil war. 
He was the author of Digest of the Laws 
of Georgia; Historical Sketch of Slavery 
from the Earliest Periods; and Inquiry 
into the Law of Negro Slavery in the 
United States. He was killed Dec. 13, 
1862, in the battle of Fredericksburg, Va. 


COBB, CLINTON L., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 25, 1842, in Eliza¬ 
beth City, N. C. He was elected to the 
forty-first, forty-second, and forty-third 
congresses, serving on the committees on 
revolutionary pensions, war claims and 
chairman of freedmen’s affairs. 

COBB, CYRUS, artist, author, poet, was 
born Aug. 6, 1834, in Malden, Mass. He is 
an artist and sculptor of Boston who, 
besides writing much occasional verse, 
has published Veterans of the Grand 
Army, a novel. 

COBB, DARIUS, artist, was born Aug. 
6, 1834, in Malden, Mass. In 1879 he paint¬ 
ed Christ Before Pilate, and the reputa¬ 
tion gained by this painting was instan¬ 
taneous. Some of his other works are: 
For Their Sakes; Death of Judas; and 
King Lear. 

COBB, DAVID, soldier, jurist, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 14, 1748, in Attle¬ 
borough, Mass. He was judge of a county 
court; was elected to the legislature; and 
served as speaker from 1789 to 1793; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1793 to 1795. He was 
president of the state senate from 1801 to 
1805; and lieutenant-governor of the state 
in 1809. He died April 17, 1839, in Taun¬ 
ton, Mass. 

COBB, EMORY, banker, was born Aug. 
30, 1831, in Dryden, N. Y. He received 
his education in the common schools of 
his county, Burt’s Select school, and at 
the academy of Ithaca, N. Y. For many 
years he was president of the First Na¬ 
tional bank of Kankakee, 111.; and has 
filled many important public offices in his 
city, county and state. 

COBB, GEORGE POMROY, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born April 13, 1841, in York, 
N. Y. He graduated from the law de¬ 
partment of the university of Michigan, 
and served as a soldier in the civil war. 
In 1881-82 !he served as a member of the 
Michigan legislature from Bay county; 
and for six years, from 1888, was circuit 
judge of the eighteenth judicial circuit 
court of Michigan. 

COBB, GEORGE T., congressman, was 
born in October, 1813, in Morristown, N. 
J. He was elected a representative from 
that state to the thirty-seventh congress. 
He died Aug. 6, 1870. 

COBB, HOWELL, farmer, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1770, in Granville, 
N. C. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Georgia from 1807 to 1812; 
and during the last war with England 
served with credit as a captain in the 
army. He died about 1820 in Georgia. 

COBB, HOWELL, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, was born in 1795 in Sa¬ 
vannah, Ga. He was a Georgia lawyer; and 
the author of Penal Code of Georgia; and 
a state senator in 1830. 

COBB, HOWELL, lawyer, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born Sept. 7, 
1815, in Cherry Hill, Ga. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1836; and was elected 
a representative in congress in 1842; re¬ 
elected in 1844, 1846 and 1848, and dur¬ 
ing his latter term was elected speaker. 
On his retirement from congress he was 
chosen governor of Georgia. In 1855 he 
was again elected to congress, and on the 
accession of Mr. Buchanan to the presi¬ 
dency, went into his cabinet as secretary 
of the treasury. He took a prominent 
part in the rebellion of 1861, and was a 
member of the so-called confederate con 
gress, and a brigadier-general. He died 
Oct. 9, 1868, in New York city. 

COBB, ISAAC, journalist, poet, was 
born April 28, 1825, in Gorham, Maine. 


Since 1865 he has been connected with 
the Portland Transcript. He has contrib¬ 
uted to the leading magazines and news¬ 
papers of America, and is at present en¬ 
gaged in compiling a genealogy of the 
Cobb family. He has attained a national 
reputation in the world of literature. 

COBB, JAMES E., soldier, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 5, 1835, in Thom- 
aston, Ga. He was chosen one of the cir¬ 
cuit judges of the state; and was re¬ 
elected in 1880 and again in 1886. He was 
elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty- 
second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

COBB, JONATHAN HOLMES, manu¬ 
facturer, author, was born July 8, 1799, in 
Sharon, Mass. He was a manufacturer of 
Dedham, who founded the silk industry 
in the United States, and whose Manual 
of the Mulberry Tree and the Culture of 
Silk was once well known. He died March 
12, 1882, in Dedham, Mass. 

COBB, JOSEPH BECKHAM, author, 
was born April 11, 1819, in Oglethorpe 
county, Ga. He was a southern author 
whose writings include The Creole, or the 
Siege of New Orleans, a novel; Mississippi 
Scenes; and Leisure Labors. He died 
Sept. 15, 1858, in Columbus, Ga. 

COBB, LYMAN, educator, author, was 
born in 1800, in Massachusetts. He was a 
once prominent educator who, besides 
many text-books on spelling and mathe¬ 
matics, published The Evil Tendency of 
Corporal Punishment; and Just Standard 
for Pronouncing the English Language. 
He died Oct. 26, 1864, in Colesburg, Pa. 

COBB, R. W., lawyer, state senator, 
governor, was born Feb. 25, 1829, in As'h- 
ville, Ala. He was elected state senator 
in 1872; was a delegate to the state con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1875; was re¬ 
elected state senator in 1876; and was 
elected president of the senate. He was 
elected governor of Alabama in 1878, and 
re-elected in 1880, serving until 1882. 

COBB. SETH WALLACE, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born Dec. 5, 
1838, in Southampton county, Va. In 1861 
he joined a volunteer 
company from his 
native county, and 
served throughout 
the war in the army 
of northern Virginia. 
In 1867 he moved to 
St. Louis, Mo., com¬ 
mencing as a clerk 
in a grain commis¬ 
sion house; and since 
1870 has continued 
in that business on 
his own account. He 
is president of the Merchants’ exchange 
of St. Louis; and president of the Mer¬ 
chants’ Bridge company. He has served 
with distinction in the fifty-second, fifty- 
third and fifty-fourth congresses as a 
democrat. 

COBB, SILAS B., pioneer, merchant,, 
philanthropist, was born Jan. 23, 1812, in 
Montpelier, Vt. For years he was the 
controlling spirit in the Chicago and Ga¬ 
lena railroad, now the Chicago and North 
Western, and in the Beloit and Madison 
railroad. When the new university of 
Chicago sought to secure $1,000,000 for its 
buildings, Mr. Cobb came forward at the 
critical moment and gave $150,000, which 
assured the success of the undertaking. 
The Cobb Lecture hall now stands on the 
university campus, a monument to his lib¬ 
erality, and the university is pledged to 
replace it. should it ever be destroyed. 


COBB, THOMAS W., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
in 1784, in Columbia county, Ga. He was 
a representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1817 to 1821, and again from 1823 to 
1824. He was a senator in congress from 
1824 to 1828; and was subsequently chosen 
a judge of the superior court. He was the 
author of many political essays. He died 
Feb. 1, 1830, in Greensborough, Ga. 

COBB, WILLARD ADAMS, journalist, 
was born July 20, 1842, in Rome, N. Y. In 
1864 he graduated from Hamilton college 
of Clinton, N. Y.; was regent of the New 
York state university in 1884; and in 
1895 was appointed state civil service com¬ 
missioner, and is still a member and pres¬ 
ident of that body. He is the author of 
The Daily Journal of Lockport, N. Y. 

COBB, WILLIAMSON R. W., congress¬ 
man, was born in 1807, in Ray county, 
Tenn. In 1845 he was elected to the state 
legislature, where he remained two years. 
In 1847 he was elected a representative in 
congress from Alabama, in which capacity 
he served his adopted state by successive 
re-elections down to 1860. He was killed 
by the accidental discharge of a pistol in 
November, 1864, in Alabama. 

COBBETT, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1608, in England. He 
was a nonconformist English clergyman 
who came to America in 1637, and was 
minister at Ipswich from 1656 till his 
death. He was the author of Infant Bap¬ 
tism; Civil Magistrate’s Power in Matters 
of Religion; Practical Discourse of Pray¬ 
er; and The Honor Due from Children 
to Their Parents. He died Nov. 5, 1685, in 
Ipswich, Mass. 



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COBBS, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Aug. 5, 1826, in Raleigh, N. C. As 
early as 1867 he was recognized as one 
of the most distin¬ 
guished criminal 
lawyers in the state 
of Alabama. H e 
practiced law in all 
its branches until 
1880, when he was 
chosen one of the 
chancellors of the 
Chancery court of 
Alabama. He was 
re-elected in 1886, 
and again in 1892, 
both times without 
opposition. His division until 1895 com¬ 
prised sixteen counties. In the years he 
has been upon the bench he has had to 
decide almost every kind of question 
known to equity jurisprudence. His writ¬ 
ten opinions are clear and logical; and his 
style is terse and vigorous. His contribu¬ 
tions to law literature have been exten¬ 
sive, and are conceded to be valuable ac¬ 
quisitions to judicial literature. 

COBERN, CAMDEN M.. clergyman, 
theologian, archaeo’ogist, author, was born 
April 19, 1855, in Uniontown, Pa. He is a 
distinguished clergyman, and is now the 
popular pastor of the Trinity Metnodist 
Episcopal church of Denver, Col. He is 
the author of an extensive work on An¬ 
cient Egypt; a Commentary on Ezekiel 
and Daniel; and is a constant contribu¬ 
tor to the archaeological and theological 
reviews of America and Europe. 

COBUN, MARSHAL W., soldier, farmer, 
legislator, was born March 1, 1838, in Vir¬ 
ginia. During the war he served in the 
federal army; has served two terms in 
the Kansas house of representatives, and 
one term in the state senate. He is a suc¬ 
cessful farmer of Hoisington, Kan.; and 
was president of the board of commis¬ 
sioners for Kansas at the World’s Colum¬ 
bian exposition. 

COBURN, ABNER, merchant, governor, 
philanthropist, was born March 22, 1803, 
in Skowhegan, Maine. In 1838 he was 
elected as a whig to the Maine legisla¬ 
ture, and again in 1840. In 1860 he was 
an elector on the Lincoln ticket and cho¬ 
sen governor of Maine in 1862. He died 
June 4, 1885, in Skowhegan, Maine. 

COBURN, FRANK POTTER, farmer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1858, in 
Hamilton, Wis. He was the democratic 
candidate for congress in the seventh dis¬ 
trict in 1888, and was defeated; and was 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat. 



COBURN, GEORGE FRANCIS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 29, 1841, in Brown 
county, Ohio. He received his education 
in the common 
schools of his county 
and commenced life 
as a school teacher, 
and taught with 
great success for five 
years. He then stud¬ 
ied law, and was ad¬ 
mitted t'o the bar in 
18§7, and has since 
practiced his profes¬ 
sion in Danville, Ill. 
In 1889 he was elected 
justice of the peace; 
and has since disposed of six thousand 
cases. He has always taken an interest 
in the public affairs of his county and 
state; and has filled many important 
offices of honor and trust. 

COBURN, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Philadelphia. He was appointed 



judge of the territory of Orleans, and 
held his courts in St. Louis. He died in 
February, 1823. 

COBURN, JOHN, lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born Oct. 27, 1825, in Indian¬ 
apolis, Ind. He served as a union soldier 
during the civil war, 
and was in command 
of the thirty-third 
regiment Indiana 
volunteer infantry; 
and served with dis¬ 
tinction. After the 
war he was elected 
circuit judge; and in 
1866 was elected to 
congress, and served 
for four terms in 
succession. He took 
an active part in the 
important debates of reconstruction, pub¬ 
lic debt, currency, military affairs, elec¬ 
tion laws and tariff. He was the author 
of the measure for printing the rebellion 
records, and carried through the house the 
law for soldiers’ headstones. He served 
as one of the supreme judges of the ter¬ 
ritory of Montana; and has filled various 
other public positions of honor. 

COBURN, STEPHEN, congressman, was 
born in Maine. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from that state to the thirty- 
sixth congress to fill a vacancy. 

COCHRAN, ALEXANDER G„ lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 20, 1845, in 
Allegheny City, Pa. In 1874 he was elected 
a representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-fourth congress. 

COCHRAN; CHARLES F., lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, was born Sept. 27, 
1848, in Kirksville, Mo. During 1860-85 
he lived in Atchison, Kan., where he was 
engaged as a practical printer, newspaper 
man, and lawyer; and was four years 
prosecuting attorney of his county. He 
is now one of the foremost lawyers of his 
state at St. Joseph; has been a member of 
the Missouri senate for four years; and 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

COCHRAN, DAVID HENRY, educator, 
scientist, college president, was born July 
5, 1828, in Springville, N. Y. He attended 
the Springville academy, and in 1850 grad¬ 
uated from Hamilton college. He has 
been professor of natural sciences in the 
Clinton Liberal institute; principal of the 
Fredonia academy; and professor of nat¬ 
ural science in the State Normal school 
of Albany, N. Y., of which institution he 
was also principal. In 1864 he accepted 
the presidency of the Brooklyn Collegiate 
and Polytechnic institute, which has 
flourished under his able management. He 
is a brilliant lecturer; and the author of 
numerous educational and scientific re¬ 
ports. 

COCHRAN, JAMES, soldier, congress¬ 
man. He was a major of militia and rep¬ 
resented the state of New York in con¬ 
gress from 1797 to 1799. He was at one 
time postmaster of Oswego, N. Y. He 
died Nov. 7, 1848, in Oswego, N. Y. 

COCHRAN, JAMES, inventor, was born 
in 1763, in Batavia, N. Y. He was a brass- 
founder in Philadelphia, and Franklin fre¬ 
quently visited his shop. He invented the 
art of making cut nails, and also claimed 
to have made the first copper cents in this 
country. He died Dec. 31, 1846. 

COCHRAN, JEROME, physician, was 
born Dec. 4, 1831, in Moscow, Tenn. From 
1868-73 he was professor of chemistry in 
the Medical College of Alabama; was a 
noted physician of Mobile, Ala.; and has 
written many articles on yellow fever. 


COCHRAN, JOHN, surgeon, was born 
Sept. 1, 1730, in Sudsbury, Pa. In 1781 he 
became director-general of the hospitals 
of-the United States. He died April 6, 
1807, in Palatine, N. Y. 

COCHRAN, JOHN P., statesman. He 
was governor of Delaware from 1875 to 
1879. 

COCHRAN, JOHN WEBSTER, inventor, 
was born May 16, 1814, in Enfield, N. H. 
In 1834 he invented a revolving, breech¬ 
loading rifled cannon, in which the cylin¬ 
der was automatically rotated by the 
cocking of the hammer—the same princi¬ 
ple that afterward secured the success of 
the re\olving pistol. 

COCHRANE, AARON V. S., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born March 14, 
1858, in Coxsackie, N. Y. In 1887 and 1888 
he was police justice of Hudson; and was 
elected district attorney of Columbia 
county in 1889, and served three years. 
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 

COCHRANE, ALEXANDER G., lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 20, 1845, 
in Allegheny City, Pa. He was elected to 
the forty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

COCHRANE, CLARK B„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 31, 1815, in New 
Boston, N. H. He was a member of the 
New York legislature in 1843 and 1844; 
and was a representative in the thirty- 
fifth congress from New York. He was 
re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress; 
and again elected to the assembly in 1865. 
He died March 5, 1867, in Albany, N. Y. 

COCHRANE, CLARK B„ lawyer, poet, 
was born Feb. 9, 1843, in New Boston, N. 
H. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar, 
and ten years later engaged in mercantile 
pursuits. He is the author of a volume 
entitled Minora and Other Poems. 

COCHRANE, ELIZABETH, journalist, 
was born in 1867, in Cochrane’s Mills, Pa. 
She has attained a national reputation as 
a contributor of journalistic work. 

COCHRANE, JOHN, soldier, surveyor, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in Pala¬ 
tine, N. Y. He was surveyor of the port 
of New York for four years; and was 
elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth 
congresses. He served as a general of 
volunteers in the union army in 1861 and 
1862; and was subsequently elected at¬ 
torney-general of the state of New York. 
In 1864 he was nominated for the office 
of vice-president of the United States on 
the ticket with J. C. Fremont. 

COCHRANE, SAMUEL B„ lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Jan. 17, 1860, in Kittan¬ 
ning, Pa. He has attained success in the 
practice of law in his native city; and 
since 1889 has been a member of the house 
of representatives of the Pennsylvania 
state legislature. 

COCK, THOMAS, physician, was born 
in 1782, in Glen Cove, L. I. He was vis¬ 
iting physician to the New York hospital 
from 1819 till 1834, and consulting physi¬ 
cian after that year; became a fellow of 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
1820; was its vice-president from 1827 
until 1855; its president from 1855 till 
1858; and president of the New York 
academy of medicine in 1852. He was 
also professor of anatomy and physiology 
in Queen’s (now Rutgers) college, N. J., 
from 1812 till 1826. He died June 14, 1869, 
in New York city. 

COCKE, JAMES RICHARD, physician, 
author, was born in 1863. He is a physi¬ 
cian of Boston; and the author of Hyp¬ 
notism; and Blind Leaders of the Blind, 
a novel. 




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COCKE, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in 1772, in Brunswick, Va. He 
became a member of the first legislature 
of the state in 1796; was speaker of the 
house for many years; and was also a 
member of the senate. From 1819 to 1827 
he was a representative in congress from 
his adopted state. He died Feb. 16, 1854, 
in Rutledge, Tenn. 

COCKE, PHILIP ST. G., soldier, was 
born in 1809, in Virginia. He was made 
brigadier-general in the confederate army 
in 1861, and commanded the fifth brigade 
at the first battle of Bull Run. He died 
Dec. 26, 1861. 

COCKE, WILLIAM, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born in 1740, in Virginia. 
He became a general of militia; served 
In the state legislature in 1813; and be¬ 
came one of the judges of the circuit 
court. He was again a senator f^om 1799 
to 1805; and in 1814 was appointed Indian 
agent for the Chickasaw nation. 

COCKE, WILLIAM M., congressman, 
was born in Tennessee. He was a repre- 
sentath e in congress from that state from 
1845 to 1849. 

COCKE, ZITELLA, poet, was born in 
1836, in Alabama. She is a> poet whose 
contributions to periodicals have been 
collected in a volume of verse entitled 
A Doric Reed. 

COCKER, WILLIAM JOHNSON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1846, in Eng¬ 
land. He is an educator of Michigan; 
and the author of Handbook of Punctua¬ 
tion; and The Government of the United 
States. 

COCKERILL, JOHN A., journalist, was 
born Dec. 5, 1845, in Adams county, Ohio. 
In 1865 he became owner and editor of 
the True Telegraph of Hamilton, Ohio; 
and in 1891 established the Commercial 
Advertiser of New York city. 

COCKERILL, JOSEPH R., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was elected a 
representative to the thirty-fifth congress 
from Ohio. He died Oct. 23, 1875, in West 
Union, Ohio. 

COCKRAN, JAMES, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina from 1809 to 1813. 

COCKRAN, WILLIAM BOURKE, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 
28, 1854, in Ireland. He was principal of 
a public school in Westchester county, N. 
Y. He was a member of the fiftieth con¬ 
gress; and was elected to the fifty-second 
and fifty-third congresses as a democrat. 

COCKRELL, FRANCIS MARION, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born Oct. 
1, 1834, in Warrensburg, Mo. He was 
elected a senator in congress from Mis¬ 
souri in 1875, and was re-elected three 
times. His term expires in 1899. 

COCKRELL, JEREMIAH VARDAMAN, 
lawyer, congressman, was born May 7, 
1832, in Johnson county, Mo. He was 
appointed district judge by Governor Ire¬ 
land, to which position he was elected in 
1886, and re-elected in 1890. He was 
•elected to the fifty-third and re-elected to 
the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

COCKRILL, STERLING ROBERTSON, 
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. .25, 
1847, in Nashville, Tenn. At the age of 
sixteen he was sergeant of light artillery 
in the army of the Tennessee, confederate 
service. At the age of thirty-seven he 
became chief justice of the supreme court 
-of Arkansas; received the re-election, 
but resigned to give his attention solely 
to the practice of his profession at Little 
Rock, Ark. 


CODDING, JAMES H., merchant, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born July 8, 1849, 
in Bradford county, Pa. Since 1854 he has 
been a resident of 
Towanda, and was 
educated at the Sus¬ 
quehanna Collegiate 
institute. For ten 
years he was en¬ 
gaged in the hard¬ 
ware business; and 
since 1878 has been 
engaged in the prac¬ 
tice of law. He has 
taken an active part 
in public affairs; 
and was elected to 
the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses 
as a republican. He is also one of the 
foremost lawyers of Pennsylvania at To¬ 
wanda. 

CODDINGTON, WILLIAM, governor, 
author, was born in 1601, in Lincolnshire, 
England. He was the first governor of 
Rhode Island; and the author of Demon¬ 
strations of True Love unto the Rulers 
of Massachusetts. He died Nov. 1, 1678. 

CODINGTON, WILLIAM R„ lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, was born Feb. 24, 
1853, in Somerset county, N. J. He was 
city judge of Plainfield for three years. 

CODMAN, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 3, 1782, in Easton, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Dorchester; and the author of Sermons; 
and Visit to England. He died Dec. 23, 
1847, in Dorchester, Mass. 

CODMAN, JOHN, sailor, author, was 
born Aug. 16, 1814, in Dorchester, Mass. 
He is a noted captain in the merchant 
marine; and the author of Sailors’ Life 
and Sailors’ Yarns; Ten Months in Bra¬ 
zil; The Mormon Country; The Round 
Trip by Way of Panama; A Solution of 
the Mormon Problem; and Winter 
Sketches from the Saddle. 

CODY, CLAUDE C., educator, author, 
was born Nov. 5, 1854, in Covington, Ga. 
He is professor of mathematics in the 
Southwestern university of Georgetown, 
Tex.; and is the author of a work en¬ 
titled The Life of Dr. Wood. 

CODY, WILLIAM FREDERICK, scout, 
was born Feb. 26, 1845, in Iowa. He was 
employed as an Indian scout, and served 
till the close of the war with the seventh 
Kansas cavalry. After the Indian war he 
proceeded to collect Indians, cow-boys, 
scouts, trappers, and buffaloes, and pro¬ 
duced the Wild West show for the first 
time in Omaha in 1883. Since then he 
has exhibited in all the principal cities 
in the world with overwhelming success. 
He is known as Buffalo Bill. 

COE, GEORGE SIMMONS, banker, was 
born March 27, 1817, in Newport, R. I. 
In 1860 he became president of the Ameri¬ 
can Exchange bank, which office he held 
until 1894. It was Mr. Coe who conceived 
the idea of combining the local banks in 
the clearing house, and of making use of 
clearing house certificates. Clearing house 
certificates have since been resorted to in 
the years 1873, 1884, 1890 and 1893, on 
each occasion with good results. 

COFFEE, JOHN, congressman, was 
born June 2, 1772, in Prince Edward 
county, Va. He was a member of congress 
from Georgia from 1833 to 1837. He did 
good service in the war of 1812 as a gen¬ 
eral, and in the subsequent campaigns 
among the Indians. He died Sept. 25, 
1836, in Telfair county, Ga. 



COFFEE, WILLIAM BRYAN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 27, 1863, in Law- 
renceville, Va. He received his education 
in Loganville, and 
at the university of 
Nashville. He is a 
prominent lawyer of 
El Dorado, Ark.; and 
special judge of the 
circuit court. He has 
attained a wide rep¬ 
utation as one of the 
rising and foremost 
lawyers of the west 
at El Dorado, Ark. 
He has contributed 
valuable articles to 
current and judicial literature. 

COFFEEN, HENRY A., educator, labor 
advocate, congressman, was born in 1841, 
in Gallia county, Ohio. In 1889 he was a 
member of the constitutional convention 
that framed the present constitution of 
the new state of Wyoming; and in 1885 
he organized at Big Horn and presided 
over the first agricultural fair ever held 
in the state. He was elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. 



COFFIN, ABRAHAM BURBANK, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born March 31, 1831, 
in Gilead, Maine. He attended Andover 
and Phillips acad¬ 
emy; and in 1856 
graduated from 
Dartmouth college. 
In 1858 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar; 
and has a law office 
in Boston, Mass. He 
has held various 
public offices in Win¬ 
chester, Mass.; in 
1875 was a member 
of the Massachusetts 
house of representa¬ 
tives; and in 1877-78 was a member of 
the state senate. In 1886-87 he was a 
member of the governor’s council; and 
for four years was chairman of the Mass¬ 
achusetts state board of gas, fuel, electric 
commissioners. 



COFFIN, CHARLES CARLETON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born July 26, 1823, in 
Boscawen, N. H. He was a Boston jour¬ 
nalist who became famous as the war 
correspondent of the Boston Journal dur¬ 
ing the civil war, over the signature Car- 
leton. His writings, mainly though not 
exclusively for young people, include My 
Days and Nights on the Battlefield, a nar¬ 
rative of personal experience; Following 
the Flag; Winning his Way; Building 
the Nation; Old Times in the Colonies; 
The Boys of ’76; The Story of Liberty; 
The Drumbeat of the Nation; Marching 
to Victory; Redeeming the Republic; 
Our New Way Round the World; and 
Daughters of the .Revolution. He died 
March 2, 1896, in Brookline, Mass. 

COFFIN, CHARLES E., manufacturer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
July 18, 1841, in Boston, Mass. He pur¬ 
chased a tract of 
land in Muirkirk, 
Md., on which he 
found iron ore. In 
1864 he took charge 
of the iron works, 
which were built by 
the Ellicotts in 1847. 
In 1884 he was 
elected to the house 
of delegates of Mary¬ 
land; and in 1890 
was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the Maryland 
state senate, serving four years. He was 
elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth 
congresses as a republican. 







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COFFIN, CHARLES G„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from Ohio from 1838 to 1839. 

COFFIN, ISAAC FOSTER, educator, 
author, was born in 1787, in Maine. He 
was an educator of Roxbury, Mass.; and 
the author of Journal of a Residence in 
Chili during the revolutionary scenes of 
1817-19. He died in 1861. 

COFFIN, JAMES HENRY, astronomer, 
author, was horn Sept. 6, 1806, in Wil¬ 
liamsburg, Mass. He was a meteorologist 
who was professor of astronomy at Lafay¬ 
ette college. He was the author of Solar 
and Lunar Eclipses Illustrated and Ex¬ 
plained; Winds of the Northern Hemis¬ 
phere; Psychometrical Table; Orbit and 
Phenomena of a Meteoric Fire Ball; Ele¬ 
ments of Conic Sections and Analytical 
Geometry; and Winds of the Globe. He 
died Feb. 6, 1873, in Easton, Pa. 

COFFIN, JOHN HUNTINGTON 
CRANE, mathematician, author, was born 
Sept. 14, 1815, in Wiscasset, Maine. He 
was a mathematician of distinction; and 
the author of Observations with the Mu¬ 
ral Circle at the United States Naval Ob¬ 
servatory; The Compass; and Naviga¬ 
tion and Nautical Astronomy. He died 
in 1890. 

COFFIN, JOSHUA, antiquarian, author, 
was born Oct. 12, 1792, in Newbury, Mass. 
He was a Massachusetts antiquary promi¬ 
nent among the abolitionists, and one of 
the poet Whittier’s early instructors. He 
published a History of Ancient Newbury; 
and The Toppans of Toppan’s Lane, a 
genealogy. He died July 24, 1864, in New¬ 
bury, Mass. 

COFFIN, LEVI, philanthropist, was born 
Oct. 28, 1798, in New Garden, N. C. He 
was active in the underground railroad, 
a secret organization, whose purpose was 
the transportation of slaves from member 
to member until a place was reached 
where the negro was free. In 1863 he was 
associated in the establishment of the 
freedmen’s bureau, and during the fol¬ 
lowing year was sent to Europe as agent 
for the Western Freedmen’s Aid commis¬ 
sion. He died Sept. 16, 1877, in Avondale, 
Ohio. 

COFFIN, PELEG, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in September, 1756. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1793 to 1795; served 
a number of years in the state senate; and 
was state treasurer from 1797 to 1802. 
He died March 6, 1805. 

COFFIN, ROBERT ALLEN, educator, 
author, was born Aug. 23, 1801, in Wil¬ 
liamsburg, Mass. He was an instructor 
in western Massachusetts; and the author 
of Compendium of Natural Philosophy; 
Town Organization; and History of Con¬ 
way, Massachusetts. He died Sept. 4, 
1878, in Conway, Mass. 

COFFIN, ROBERT BARRY, journalist, 
author, was born July 21, 1826, in Hud¬ 
son, N. Y. He was a New York journal¬ 
ist whose books were popular at one time 
but are now nearly forgotten. Their 
humor is somewhat forced, and the style 
has no very marked merits. He is the 
author of Matrimonial Infelicities; Who 
Is the Heir? Out of Town, a Rural Epi¬ 
sode; Cakes and Ale at Woodbine; Cas¬ 
tles in the Air; Left in the Lurch; and 
The Home of Cooper. He died June 10, 
1886, in Fordham, N. Y. 

COFFIN, ROBERT STEVENSON, au¬ 
thor, was horn July 14, 1797, in Bruns¬ 
wick, Maine. He was a poet of Boston 
who published The Oriental Harp; and 
Poems of the Boston Bard. He died May 
7, 1827, in Rowley, Mass. 


COFFIN, ROLAND FOLGER, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born March 8, 1826, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a marine re¬ 
porter in New York city; and the author 
of An Old Sailor’s Yarns; The America’s 
Cup; and History of American Yacht¬ 
ing. He died July 17, 1888, on Shelter 
Island, N. Y. 

COFFIN, SELDEN JENNINGS, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Aug. 3, 1838, in Og- 
densburg, N. Y. He succeeded his father 
as professor of astronomy at Lafayette 
college in 1873, and completed the latter’s 
Winds of the Globe. He has also pub¬ 
lished Record of the Men at Lafayette. 

COFFIN, TIMOTHY GARDNER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Nov. 1, 1788, in Nan¬ 
tucket, Mass. He was graduated at Brown 
in 1813; was admitted to the Bristol bar 
in 1816, and obtained the foremost rank 
in the profession. He was judge advo¬ 
cate of Massachusetts militia under Gen. 
Lincoln. He died Sept. 19, 1854, in New 
Bedford, Mass. 

COFFIN, TRISTRAM, colonist, was 
born in 1605, in England. He was the 
founder and the first chief magistrate of 
Nantucket colony. He died in 1681, in 
Nantucket, Mass. 

COFFIN, WILLIAM ANDERSON, 
painter, was born Jan. 31, 1855, in Alle¬ 
gheny City, Pa. In 1886 he was awarded 
the Hallgarten prize of $200 for his pic¬ 
ture in the National academy. His most 
notable works are The Close of Day; 
Portrait of a Gentleman; Reflections; 
Five O’Clock in the Morning; Moonlight 
in Harvest; and The Hayfield. 

COFFINSBERRY, JAMES M„ jurist, 
was born May 16, 1818, in Mansfield, Ohio. 
He was prosecuting attorney of Lucas 
county for several years, but later re¬ 
moved to Cleveland; and in 1861 he was 
elected judge of the court of common 
pleas. He was principal secretary of the 
great union convention of Ohio, and was 
for several years the standing candidate 
of his party for representative in con¬ 
gress. He died Nov. 29, 1891, in Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. 

COFFROTH, ALEXANDER H„ lawyer, 
legislator, was born May 18, 1828, in Som¬ 
erset, Pa. He attended the public and the 
old Somerset acad¬ 
emy; then engaged 
in teaching; and in 
1851 was admitted to 
the bar. In 1862 he 
was elected to con • 
gress and was the 
youngest member in 
the house. He re¬ 
ceived the re-election 
and declined a third 
nomination. How¬ 
ever, in 1878 he was 
again sent to con¬ 
gress; and since 1881 has devoted his 
entire attention to his profession of law 
in Somerset, Pa. During his career in 
congress he was known as a true friend 
for the soldier. He was the warm per¬ 
sonal friend of Stanton and Lincoln, and 
was one of the pallbearers of the mur¬ 
dered president. During the past ten 
years he has been chairman of the Bar 
association of Somerset county, Pa.; and 
as a lawyer Mr. Coffroth is acknowledged 
one of the strongest men in southern 
Pennsylvania. 

COFFROTH, JOHN R., lawyer, was 
born Aug. 11, 1828, in Greencastle, Pa. 
He has been several times a member of 
the Indiana legislature; and in 1866 he 
was a candidate for the office of attorney- 
general. In 1878 he was the unanimous 


choice of his party for congress, but de¬ 
clined on account of his private business. 

COGGESHALL, GEORGE, author, poet, 
was born in 1784, in Connecticut. He was 
a sea captain, of some prominence as a 
writer; and the author of Voyages to 
Various Parts of the World; History of 
American Privateers and Letters of 
Marque During Our War with England, 
1812-14; Historical Sketch of Commerce 
and Navigation from the Christian Era 
to 1860; and Religious and Miscellaneous 
Poetry. He died about 1850. 

COGGESHALL, HENRY J.. lawyer, 
state senator, was born April 28, 1845, in 
Waterville, N. Y. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1866; in 1872 was elected state 
legislator; and in 1883 state senator. 

COGGESHALL, WILLIAM TURNER, 
journalist, author, was born in 1824, in 
Pennsylvania. He was a journalist of 
Cincinnati, whose principal writings in¬ 
clude Signs of the Times, a work on spirit 
rappings; Home Hits and Hints; and 
Stories of Frontier Adventure. He died 
Aug. 2, 1867, in Ecuador, where he was 
serving as United States minister. 

COGHLAN, JOHN M., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 8, 1835, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. He was a member of the Cali¬ 
fornia legislature in 1865; and was 
elected to the forty-second congress as a 
representative of his adopted state, serv¬ 
ing on the committees on private land 
claims and naval affairs. 

COGSWELL, CHARLES NORTHEND, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1797, 
Maine. In 1814 he 
graduated from Bow- 
doin college; and 
subsequently opened 
a law office in his 
native city. He be¬ 
came one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of New 
England; and was an 
acknowledged leader 
in the democratic 
party. During the 
latter part of his life 
he served two terms 
in the Maine state 
senate, and one term in congress. In 
these bodies he had the weight which al¬ 
ways belongs to a man of solid learning 
and judgment and of useful business hab¬ 
its. His name was brought forward for 
governor at the time of his death, which 
occurred Oct. 11, 1843. 

COGSWELL, FREDERICK HILL, law¬ 
yer, author, was born March 11, 1859, in 
New Preston, Conn. He attended the 
Connecticut Literary institution of Suf- 
field; took a special course of studies in 
the Yale university; and graduated from 
the university of Michigan. Since 1884 
he has been official reporter of the supe¬ 
rior court at New Haven, Conn. He has 
written numerous short stories for lead¬ 
ing magazines. In 1884 he published Cogs¬ 
well’s Compendium of Phonography; and 
is the author of The Regicides, an histori¬ 
cal novel; apd a second novel entitled 
Newgate. He has also lectured extensively 
on historical and literary subjects. 

COGSWELL, JONATHAN, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 3, 1782, in Rowley, 
Mass. He was a noted congregational 
clergyman of New England and New Jer¬ 
sey; and the author of The Necessity of 
Capital Punishment; Discourses; He¬ 
brew Theocracy; Calvary and Sinai; 
Godliness a Great Mystery; and The Ap¬ 
propriate Work of the Holy Spirit. He 
died Aug. 1, 1864, in New Brunswick, 
N. J. 



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COGSWELL, JOSEPH GREEN, bibli¬ 
ographer, author, was born Sept. 27, 1786, 
in Ipswich, Mass. He, with the historian 
Bancroft, founded the celebrated Round 
Hill school at Northampton, Mass. He 
died Nov. 26, 1871, in Cambridge, Mass. 

COGSWELL, MASON FITCH, physician, 
was born Sept. 28, 1761, in Canterbury’ 
Conn. He was chiefly instrumental in 
founding the asylum for the deaf and 
dumb, and was a friend and supporter of 
the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, 
and was ten years president of the State 
Medical society. He died Dec. 10, 1830, at 
Hartford, Conn. 

COGSWELL, MASON FITCH, physi¬ 
cian, was born Nov. 10, 1807, in Hartford, 
Conn. He served as assistant surgeon 
and surgeon in the volunteer army of the 
United States during the civil war. He 
died Jan. 21, 1865, in Albany, N. Y. 

COGSWELL, MILTON, soldier, was 
born Dec. 4, 1825, in Noblesville, Ind. 
After his retirement with the rank of 
brevet colonel in the regular army for 
gallant services, he was deputy governor 
of the Soldiers’ home in Washington. He 
died Nov. 20, 1882, in Washington, D. C. 

COGSWELL, NATHANIEL, soldier, 
was born Jan. 19, 1773, in Haverhill, Mass. 
He had a strong desire for military life, 
offered his services to the patriot army in 
Mexico, and died holding a general’s com¬ 
mission. He died near the Red river, 
Louisiana. 

COGSWELL, THOMAS, soldier, jurist, 
was born Aug. 4, 1746, in Haverhill, Mass. 
He was captain of a company in Col. Ger- 
rish’s regiment at Bunker Hill; became 
major of Vose’s regiment, and lieutenant- 
colonel of the fifteenth Massachusetts 
regiment. After national independence 
was secured, he settled on a farm near 
Gilmanton, N. H., and became a promi¬ 
nent citizen of the community, serving 
as a judge in the court of common pleas 
from 1784 till 1810. He died Sept. 3, 
1810, in Gilmanton, N. H. 

COGSWELL, WILLIAM, surgeon, was 
born July 11, 1760, in Haverhill, Mass. He 
was one of the founders of the New 
Hampshire Medical society and of Atkin¬ 
son academy, giving the land on which 
the academy was built. He died Jan. 1, 
1831, in Atkinson, N. H. 

COGSWELL, WILLIAM, clergyman, 
author, was born June 5, 1787, in Atkin¬ 
son, N. H. He was a congregational 
clergyman of New Hampshire, among 
whose works are Manual of Theology 
and Devotion; Assistant to Family Re¬ 
ligion; Christian Philanthropist; Theo¬ 
logical Class Book; Harbinger of the Mil¬ 
lennium; and Letters to Young Men Pre¬ 
paring for the Ministry. He died April 18, 
1850, in Gilmanton, N. H. » 

COGSWELL, WILLIAM, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1838, 
in Bradford, Mass. He was mayor of the 
city of Salem, Mass., in 1867, ’68, ’69, ’73, 
and ’74; was a member of the Massa¬ 
chusetts house of representatives in 1870- 
71, 1881-83, and a member of the state 
senate in 1885-86. He served in the union 
army from 1861 till 1865; and held com¬ 
missions as captain, lieutenant-colonel, 
and colonel in the second Massachusetts 
infantry, and brigadier-general by brevet, 
and assigned by special order of the war 
department to the command of the third 
brigade, third division, twentieth army 
corps. He was elected to the fiftieth, fifty- 
first, fifty-second, and fifty-third congress¬ 
es as a republican. 


COHEN, JACOB DA SILVA SOLIS, phy¬ 
sician, lecturer, author, was born in 1838, 
in New York. He is a Philadelphia phy¬ 
sician and medical lecturer of promi¬ 
nence; and the author of Treatise on In¬ 
halations; Diseases of the Throat; Croup 
in Its Relations to Tracheotomy; and The 
Throat and the Voice. 

COHEN, LOUIS, railroad president, 
was born Jan. 7, 1849, in Germany. Since 
1894 he has been president of the San- 
dersville railroad at Sandersville, Ga. 

COIT, ELIZABETH GREER, lecturer, 
was born Jan. 10, 1820, in Worthington, 
her education in the 
Worthington Female 
seminary; and for 
many years was en¬ 
gaged in educational 
work in that institu¬ 
tion. She has be¬ 
come prominent as a 
lecturer and writer 
on topics relating to 
the human welfare. 
She was the presi¬ 
dent of the first W. 
R. A. in Columbus; 
and treasurer of the 
O. W. T. A. ever since its reorganization. 
She was also president of the First church 
of spiritualists in Columbus, Ohio. 

COIT, HENRY AUGUSTUS, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1831. 
He entered the ministry of the protestant 
episcopal church, and on the foundation 
of St. Paul’s school in Concord, N. H., by 
Dr. George Shattuck, was chosen its first 
rector. He has published numerous ser¬ 
mons and addresses, and has contributed 
to periodical literature. 

COIT, JAMES MILNOR, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 31, 1845, in Harris¬ 
burg, Pa. He was an instructor in chem¬ 
istry at St. Paul’s school, Concord; and 
the author of Elements of Chemical Arith¬ 
metic; and Short Manual of Qualitative 
Analysis. 

COIT, JOSEPH HOWLAND, educator, 
author. He was professor of mathematics 
and natural science in St. James’ college, 
Md., until the closing of that institution 
in 1865, when he became associated with 
his brother in St. Paul’s school, Concord, 
of which he is now vice-principal. He has 
edited a Life of Bishop Kerfoot. 

COIT, JOSHUA, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1758, in 
New London, Conn. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Connecticut from 
1793 to 1798; and served a number of 
years in the legislature of Connecticut. 
He died Sept. 5, 1798, in New London, 
Conn. 

COIT, ROBERT, railroad president, 
was born April 26, 1830, in New London, 
Conn. Since 1881 he has been president 
of the New London and Northern rail¬ 
road. 

COIT, THOMAS WINTHROP, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 28, 1803, in 
New London, Conn. He was an episcopal 
clergyman, and professor in Berkeley Di¬ 
vinity school at Middletown from 1872 to 
1885. He was the author of Necessity of 
Preaching Doctrine; Theological Com¬ 
monplace Book; Puritanism in New Eng¬ 
land and the Episcopal Church; and 
Lectures on the Early History of Christi¬ 
anity in England. He died June 21, 1885, 
in Middletown, Conn. 

COKE, RICHARD, lawyer, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Virginia from 1829 to 1833, and 
for many years a prominent member of 
the bar. He died March 30, 1851, in Abing¬ 
don, Va. 


COKE, RICHARD, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, United States senator, was born 
March 13, 1829, in Williamsburg, Va. He 
served in the confederate army as a com¬ 
missioned officer. He was appointed dis¬ 
trict judge in 1865 and in 1866 was elected 
a judge of the state supreme court. In 
1873 he was elected governor of Texas, 
and was re-elected in 1876. He resigned 
in 1877, having been elected a United 
States senator from Texas for the term of 
six years from March 4, 1877; was re¬ 
elected in 1883 and 1889, serving till 1895. 

COLAW, JOHN MARVIN, educator, 
journalist, lawyer, was born March 16, 
1860, in Crabbottom, Va. He received 
his education at the Roanoke college, 
Va.; the Dickinson college, Pa.; and the 
university of Virginia. For many years 
he was engaged in educational work; was 
associate editor of the American Mathe¬ 
matical Monthly; and has served as com¬ 
monwealth’s attorney of Highland coun¬ 
ty, Va. He is well versed in all parts of 
the science of mathematics, and a promi¬ 
nent member of the American Mathemati¬ 
cal society. He is a noted lawyer of 
Monterey, Va., and a forcible speaker. 

COLBORN, A. R., lumberman, was 
born Dec. 9, 1847, in Canada. In 1863 
he enlisted as a volunteer in the thirtieth 
Michigan infantry at 
Detroit; a few weeks 
after he was detailed 
headquarters’ clerk, 
at Fort Gratiot, Port 
Huron; and shortly 
after he was made 
commissary of the 
regiment, holding 
that position until 
they were mustered 
out. He carries a 
stock of from five 
to ten million feet of 
lumber, and is to-day the largest lumber 
dealer in Michigan City. His sale of 
shingles alone—one of his specialties— 
amounts to fifty millions a year. 

COLBURN, JEREMIAH, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1815 in Boston, Mass. 
In 1857 he contributed articles to the 
Historical Magazine on American coins 
and coinage, which were followed for 
several years by short articles on these 
subjects in Notes and Queries. He is one 
of the founders of the Boston numismatic 
society, has been president, and since 1871 
has been one of the editors of the Ameri¬ 
can Journal of Numismatics. 

COLBURN, MARTHA K„ artist, poet, 
was born Oct. 4, 1846, in Garrettsville, 
Ohio. She received her education at the 
Waterford academy, and has attained 
prominence as an artist and poet. She 
has contributed both prose and verse to 
the periodical press, and many of her po¬ 
ems have been given a place in standard 
publications. 

COLBURN, WARREN, mathematician, 
author, was born March 1, 1793, in Ded¬ 
ham, Mass. He was a noted mathema¬ 
tician of Massachusetts, whose First Les¬ 
sons <n Intellectual Arithmetic was trans¬ 
lated into many languages. He died Sept. 
13, 1833, in Lowell, Mass. 

COLBURN, ZERAH, engineer, author, 
was born Sept. 1, 1804, in Cabot, Vt. He 
was a well known mechanical engineer 
who published The Locomotive Engine; 
Steam Boiler Explosions; Nature of Heat 
and Its Mode of Action in the Phenomena 
of Combustion, etc.; and Treatise on the 
Principles of the Locomotive Engine. He 
died May 4, 1870, in Massachusetts. 


Ohio. She received 







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COLBY, ANTHONY, state legislator, 
governor, was born in 1793 in New Lon¬ 
don, N. H. In 1828 he was elected to the 
state legislature, and served through 
twelve terms. In 1846 he became govern¬ 
or of New Hampshire; in 1861 was made 
adjutant-general of the state; and was 
subsequently a provost-marshal. He was 
a trustee of Dartmouth college; founded 
an academy at New London; and also 
endowed a baptist literary and theologi¬ 
cal institution in that town. He died 
July 13, 1873, in New London, N. H. 

COLBY, CHARLES LEWIS, capitalist, 
was born May 22, 1839, in Roxbury, now 
part of Boston. In 1858 he graduated from 
the Brown univer¬ 
sity. Until 1870 he 
was engaged in the 
shipping and ware¬ 
house business in 
New York city; 
after that was inter¬ 
ested in railroad 
construction and 
mining. In 1876 he 
served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of 
the Wisconsin state 
legislature. He has 
been president of the following institu¬ 
tions: Wisconsin Central railroad; Min¬ 
nesota, St. Croix and Wisconsin railroad; 
Milwaukee and Lake Winnebago railroad; 
Chicago, Wisconsin and Minnesota rail¬ 
road; Chicago and Great Western rail¬ 
road; Chippewa Falls and Western rail¬ 
road; and various other business corpora¬ 
tions. He resides in New York city, and 
is one of its most influential citizens. 

COLBY, FREDERICK MYRON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Dec. 9, 1848, in 
Warner, N. H. He is a journalist of 
New Hampshire; and the author of The 
Daughter of Pharaoh, a Tale of the Ex¬ 
odus; and Brave Lads and Bonnie Lassies, 
a juvenile. 

COLBY, GARDNER, philanthropist, 
was born Sept. 2, 1810, in Bowdoinham. 
Maine. During the civil war he was a 
large contractor for the supply of cloth¬ 
ing to the national army, and in 1870 be¬ 
came president of the Wisconsin Central 
railroad. A gift from him of $50,000 to 
Waterville college, Maine, caused the 
name of that institution to be changed to 
Colby university. He died April 2, 1879, 
in Newton Centre, Mass. 

COLBY, HENRY FRANCIS, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 25, 1842, in Boston, 
Mass. He has been pastor of the First 
Baptist church in Dayton, Ohio, since his 
ordination in 1868, and in 1883 was presi¬ 
dent of the Ohio baptist convention. He 
has published a class poem and sketches 
of Gardner Colby, Caleb Parker, and 
Ebenezer Thresh. 

COLBY, LEONARD W.. soldier, lawyer, 
was born in Cherry Valley, Ohio. He 
graduated in the regular, classical and 
law courses of the 
university of Wis¬ 
consin. He has 
served two terms in 
the state senate of 
the Nebraska legis¬ 
lature; has been as¬ 
sistant attorney of 
the United States; 
and is acknowledged 
to be one of the ab¬ 
lest lawyers in the 
western states. He 
served in the war of 
the rebellion, had command of a company 
in the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian war 
in 1863, commanded a battalion in the In¬ 
dian campaign of 1876-78; was colonel in 


command of the regular and state troops 
during the strike in Omaha in 1882, and 
was brigadier-general in command of the 
Nebraska military forces in the Sioux In¬ 
dian war in the winter of 1890-91. He 
has served in the infantry, cavalry and 
artillery, and in every military capacity 
from private to brigadiei’-general. He has 
been three years captain, six years colo¬ 
nel, and nine years brigadier-general. 

COLBY, STODDARD B„ United States 
treasurer, was born in 1816 in Vermont. 
In 1864 he was appointed register of the 
United States treasury at Washington. 
He died Sept. 21, 1867, in Haverhill, N. H. 

COLCLEUGH, EMMA S„ lecturer, poet, 
was born Sept. 3, 1846, in Thompson, 
Conn. She has traveled extensively, and 
her lectures on Alaska, Hawaii, and 
From Ocean to Ocean have won her na¬ 
tional fame. Her poems occasionally ap¬ 
pear in the periodical press. 

COLCOCK, WILLIAM F„ lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1823 
in South Carolina. He was a member of 
the state legislature and speaker of the 
house; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from South Carolina from 1849 to 
1853. 

COLCORD, EDWARD JOHN, educator, 
poet, was born July 28, 1849, in Parsons- 
fleld, Maine. In 1883 he became a teacher 
of ancient languages and general history 
in the Vermont academy; and since 1889 
has been professor in a college at Colum¬ 
bia, S. C. His poems have appeared quite 
extensively in the periodical press, and 
his name appears in Poets of Maine. 

COLCORD, ROSWELL K., governor, 
was born April 25, 1839, in Searsport, 
Maine. He has been engaged in mining 
and milling in Nevada; and in 1890 was 
elected governor of Nevada. 

COLDEN, CADWALLADER, physician, 
governor, author, was born Feb. 17, 1688, 
in Scotland. He was a colonial physician, 
lieutenant-governor of the province of 
New York, 1761-76, and a prominent loy¬ 
alist of his day. The History of the Five 
Indian Nations is his chief work. Among 
his many lesser writings is Principles of 
Actions on Matter. He died Sept. 28, 1776. 
in Long Island, N. Y. 

COLDEN, CADWALLADER D., lawyer, 
state legislator, author, was born April 
4, 1769, in Springfield, N. Y. He served 
in the legislature of that state; held the 
post of district attorney of the United 
States for many years; and was at one 
time mayor of New York. He was a mem¬ 
ber of congress from 1821 to 1823; and 
was an early and intimate friend of Rob¬ 
ert Fulton, and wrote his biography. He 
published Life of Robert Fulton; and Vin¬ 
dication of the Steamboat Right Granted 
by the State of New York. He died Feb. 
7, 1834, in Jersey City, N. J. 

COLE, CHESTER C., lawyer, jurist, 
was born June 4, 1824, in Oxford, N. Y. 
He received the rudiments of his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools, and pursued 
his studies in the Oxford academy. In 
1849 he was admitted to the bar, after 
completing a thorough course in the Har¬ 
vard law school. In 1857 he moved to Des 
Moines, Iowa, where he soon won a repu¬ 
tation as an astute lawyer by his logical 
and forcible arguments. In 1864 he was 
appointed judge of the supreme court of 
Iowa, and was twice elected to that high 
office. He resigned his position as chief 
justice to devote his entire time to the 
practice of law. In 1892 he was made 
dean of the Iowa College of Law, a de¬ 
partment of the Drake university. 


COLE, CORDELIA THROOP, prohibi¬ 
tionist, was born Nov. 17, 1833, in Ham¬ 
ilton, N. Y. She attended the Hamilton 
academy, now known 
as the Colgate semi¬ 
nary. For five years 
she was engaged in 
educational work in 
the Collegiate insti¬ 
tute of Keokuk, 
Iowa; and the North 
Illinois institute of 
Henry, Ill. For seven 
years she was secre¬ 
tary of the Iowa Uni¬ 
tarian association; 
nine years state and 
national superintendent of the Purity de¬ 
partment of the W. C. T. U., and lecturer 
on White Cross and Social Purity, and 
speaker for Total Abstinence and Prohibi¬ 
tion for more than twenty years. She is 
also one of the managing editors of the 
Dial of Progress of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. 

COLE, CORNELIUS, journalist, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Sept. 17, 1822, in Lodi, N. Y. He 
was district attorney of Sacramento for 
two years; and in 1863 was elected a rep- 
resentath e from California to the thirty- 
eighth congress. He was elected to the 
United States senate for the term com¬ 
mencing in 1867 and ending in 1873. 

COLE, FRANCIS RICHARD, lawyer, 
orator, author, poet, was born prior to the 
great fire in Chicago, Ill. He was given 
a thorough educa¬ 
tion in the public 
schools; received the 
degree of LL. B. 
from the Lake For¬ 
est university; and 
subseque ntly re¬ 
ceived the degrees of 
Ph. D. and LL. D. He 
is one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of his 
native city; and in 
1892 was a candi¬ 
date for judge of the 
supreme court on the labor reform ticket. 
He is a lecturer on medical jurisprudence 
in the Dutton Medical college; is presi¬ 
dent of the Citizens’ Sovereignty associa¬ 
tion; and is the author of a large amount 
of poetry and prose; and in 1896 wrote 
a work entitled Civilization, Bryan and 
the Times. 

COLE, GEORGE E„ congressman, was 
born Dec. 22, 1826, in Oneida county, N. Y. 
He was a member of the Oregon legisla¬ 
ture in 1851-53; and during the years 1859- 
60 was clerk of the United States district 
court for Oregon. He moved to Washing¬ 
ton territory in 1861; and in 1863 was 
elected a delegate from Washington Ter¬ 
ritory to the thirty-eighth congress. 

COLE, JOSEPH FOXCROFT, artist, 
was born Nov. 9, 1837, in Jay, Maine. His 
professional life has been spent in Paris 
and Boston. Among his paintings are 
Scene in Normandy, exhibited in the Paris 
salon of 1875; Norman Farm; and Sheep¬ 
washing in Normandy. Coast Scene in 
Normandy, shown at the Centennial ex¬ 
hibition of 1876, received a medal and 
diploma. 

COLE, NATHAN, banker, congressman, 
was born July 26, 1825, in St. Louis, Mo. 
He became vice-president of two leading 
banks in his native city, and director in 
a number of other corporations. He was 
mayor of St. Louis from 1869 to 1871; 
was president of the Merchants’ Exchange 
of that city in 1876; and was elected a 
representative from Missouri to the forty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 













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COLE, ORSAMUS. lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 23, 1819, in 
Cazenovia, N. Y. He was appointed 
United States judge for Wisconsin terri¬ 
tory; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Wisconsin from 1849 to 1851. 

COLE, RICHARD BEVERLY, surgeon, 
was born Aug. 12, 1829, in Manchester, 
Va. He served in 1856 as surgeon-gen¬ 
eral of the vigilance committee; and from 
1860 to 1864 as surgeon-general of the 
state. In 1869 he was called to the chair 
of obstetrics and gynaecology in the uni¬ 
versity of California, and three years 
later was elected president, which posi¬ 
tion he still holds. 

COLE, THOMAS, artist, was born Feb. 
1, 1801, in England. He has painted nu¬ 
merous pictures, and was engaged upon 
another. ambitious series, entitled The 
Cross and the World, at the time of his 
death. He wrote an unpublished dra¬ 
matic poem, a novel, and some sketches 
of travel. He died Feb. 11, 1847, in Cats- 
kill, N. Y. 

COLE, ULYSSES D., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Sept. 19, 1841, in Marysville, 
Ohio. He served as a captain in the 
union army, 1862-65. In 1877 he was 
elected a member of the Indiana house of 
representatives. 

COLE, WILLIAM HINSON, journalist, 
congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1837, in 
Baltimore, Md. He served on the medi¬ 
cal staff of the confederate army through¬ 
out the civil war. At its close he en¬ 
gaged in journalism in Baltimore; be¬ 
came editor and proprietor of the Evening 
Journal and subsequently city editor of 
the Baltimore Gazette. In 1884 he was 
elected a representative from Maryland to 
the forty-ninth congress. He died July 
8, 1886, in Washington, D. C. 

COLEMAN, A. A., legislator, jurist, 
poet, was born in Camden, S. C. At 
the age of twenty-seven years he was 
appointed judge of 
the seventh judicial 
circuit of Alabama, 
where - he made a 
splendid record for 
learning and legal 
ability. In 1862 he 
organized a regi¬ 
ment known as the 
fortieth Alabama, 
which he command¬ 
ed for one year, 
when he resumed his 
seat on the bench. In 
1884-85 he represented Hale county in the 
general assembly; and now practices law 
in Birmingham, Ala. He is the author of 
a number of meritorious poems, some of 
which have been given a place in Poets 
of America and other standard works. 



COLEMAN, ALBERT LORING, lawyer, 
state senator, was born in Junius, N. Y. 
He taught school for a number of years, 
and is a successful 
lawyer of Centralia, 
Mo. In 1887 he was 
a representative in 
the Missouri state 
legislature; and in 
1896 was elected to 
the state senate. He 
has been prominent 
in all reform move¬ 
ments for the wel¬ 
fare of his state; 
and has been instru¬ 
mental in passing 
numerous bills of importance. As a law¬ 
yer he is one of the best known west of 
the’Mississippi. 



COLEMAN, ANN M. B., author, was 
born May 5, 1813, in Russellville, Ky. She 
has translated various French works for 
American publishers; and is the author 
of a volume entitled Life and Letters of 
J. J. Crittenden. She died Feb. 13, 1891, 
in Louisville. Ky. 

COLEMAN, AUGUSTUS L„ surveyor, 
legislator, was born May 23, 1855, in 
Exeter, N. Y. In 1890-91 he served as a 
member of the first state legislature of 
Wyoming; was United States deputy sur¬ 
veyor during 1891-94; and in 1896 was 
elected to the state senate for four years. 
He is now also connected with the United 
States geological surv ey. 

COLEMAN, HAMILTON DUDLEY, sol¬ 
dier, manufacturer, congressman, was 
born May 12, 1845, in New Orleans, La. 
He enlisted in Washington artillery, army 
of northern Virginia, as a private, and 
served as such throughout the war. He 
has been engaged in the business of man¬ 
ufacturing and dealing in plantation ma¬ 
chinery over twenty years. He was ac¬ 
tive in the organization of the World’s 
Industrial and Cotton Centennial expo¬ 
sition; was one of the organizers of the 
first electric lighting company established 
in New Orleans, and served as vice-presi¬ 
dent and afterward as president. He 
served two terms as president of the New 
Orleans chamber of commerce, and was 
elected November, 1888, one of the vice- 
presidents of the national board of trade. 
He was elected to the fifty-first congress 
as a republican. 


COLEMAN, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Feb. 11, 1803, in Baltimore, Md. 
He published Faber’s Difficulties of Ro¬ 
manism; and The Episcopal Manual. For 
many years he was the editor of the Ban¬ 
ner of the Cross, of Philadelphia, Pa. He 
died Sept. 16, 1869, in St. Louis, Mo. 


COLEMAN, JULIA, temperance reform¬ 
er, philanthropist, was born Feb. 16,-, 

in Fulton county, N. Y. For upward of 



largely attended 
ence. 


twenty years she has 
studied the subject 
of alcohol in all its 
phases, and is at the 
front in the scientific 
educational temper¬ 
ance work, being au¬ 
thor of leading sci¬ 
entific text books for 
both old and young. 
Her conferences, 
conducted in connec¬ 
tion with grove camp 
meetings, are very 
1 exert a wide influ- 


COLEMAN, LEIGHTON, clergyman, 
bishop, author, was born May 3, 1837, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was educated at the 
Episcopal academy 
of Philadelphia, and 
the General Theolog¬ 
ical seminary of New 
York city. He was 
rector in several par¬ 
ishes; and in 1888 
was consecrated pro- 
testant episcopal 
bishop of Delaware. 
In 1896 he founded 
the Sisterhood of All 
Angels, whose moth¬ 
er house is in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. He is also chaplain-gen¬ 
eral of the Society of the War of 1812, 
and chaplain of the Delaware State Socie¬ 
ty of the Cincinnati. He is the author of 
The Church in America, a history of the 
American episcopal church; and various 
other works. 



COLEMAN, LEWIS MINER, educator, 
was born Feb. 3, 1827, in Hanover county, 
Va. At the beginning of the war he 
raised an artillery company for the con¬ 
federate service, became its captain, and 
in 1862 was appointed major of artillery. 
He died in March, 1863. 

COLEMAN, LUCY NEWHALL, reform¬ 
er, was born July 26, 1817, in Sturbridge, 
Mass. She obtained a school in Rochester, 
N. Y., composed exclusively of colored 
children; and under the auspices of the 
New York Aid society, became president 
of the colored schools in the District of 
Columbia. 

COLEMAN, LYMAN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 14, 1796, in Middle- 
field, Mass. He was a congregational 
clergyman who was a classical professor 
at Lafayette college in 1861-82. He was 
the author of Ancient Christianity Ex¬ 
emplified; Prelacy and Ritualism; The 
Apostolical and Primitive Church; His¬ 
torical Geography of the Bible; Text- 
Book and Atlas of Bible Geography; and 
Genealogy of the Lyman Family. He 
died March 16, 1882, in Easton, Pa. 

COLEMAN, NICHOLAS D., congress¬ 
man, was born in 1800 in Harrison coun¬ 
ty, Ky. In 1825 he was elected to the 
state legislature; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1829 to 1831. He was 
soon afterward appointed postmaster of 
Marysville, and to the same position in 
Vicksburg from 1841 to 1844. He was also 
for a time president of the Southern Pa¬ 
cific railroad. He died in May, 1874, in 
Vicksburg, Ky. 

COLEMAN, OBED M., inventor, was 
* born Jan. 23, 1817, in Barnstable, Mass. 
He removed to Saratoga in 1842, and in¬ 
vented improvements in the accordion. He 
also began here to construct his aeolian 
attachment to the piano-forte, which gave 
him high rank among inventors. He sold 
his patent for $100,000 in this country, 
and for about $10,000 in England. He 
died April 5, 1845, in Saratoga, N. Y. 

COLEMAN, THOMAS, banker, state sen¬ 
ator, was born June 16, 1808, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. From 1852 to 1863 he was di¬ 
rector of the Bank of Troy, resigning 
therefrom to assume the presidency of the 
First National bank. In 1872 he was pres¬ 
idential elector of the state; and in 1875 
was state senator. 

COLEMAN, THOMAS MOORE, civil en¬ 
gineer, poet, was born May 15, 1830, in 
Parke county, Ind. For seven years he 
was justice of the peace at Glendon, Iowa; 
a member of the county board of super¬ 
visors; county surveyor; and has filled 
various positions of trust in his county 
and state. He has written extensively 
for the periodical press, and his poems 
have been given a place in several stan¬ 
dard works. 

COLEMAN, THOMAS WILKES, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, was born March 31, 
1834, in Eutaw, Ala. In 1853 he graduat¬ 
ed from the Princeton college, N. J. In 
1865 he was a member of the constitu¬ 
tional con\ention of Alabama; was state’s 
solicitor for many years; and chancellor 
of Alabama. He has served as associate 
justice of the supreme court of the state 
of Alabama, and still holds that position. 

COLEMAN, WILLIAM, lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, was born Feb. 14, 1766, in Boston, 
Mass. He studied law, began practice 
in Greenfield, Mass., and during Shay’s 
rebellion served against the insurgents. 
He removed to New York city about 1794, 
and was for a short time a law partner 
of Aaron Burr. He died July 13, 1829, in 
New York city. 







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COLEMAN, WILLIAM EMMETTE, sol¬ 
dier, lecturer, orientalist, was born June 
19, 1843, in Shadwell, Va. During 1854- 
57 he was assistant 
librarian of the 
Richmond library. 
He was president of 
the board of regis¬ 
tration of Bland 
county, Va., under 
the federal recon¬ 
struction law; a 
member of three 
state conventions; 
and vice-president of 
the Virginia state 
Woman’s Rights As¬ 
sociation in 1870. He is now chief of the 
quartermaster’s office, United States army, 
San Francisco, Cal. During 1862-1874 he 
was an actor and stage manager; and 
adapted several novels for the stage, no¬ 
tably that of East Lynne, in 1864. He is 
the author of a number of government 
publications; has lectured on Evolution, 
Darwinism, Spectrum Analysis; and for 
thirty years has been an active writer 
and speaker for higher spiritualism. For 
many years he has been student of Orien¬ 
talism, and has written numerous treat¬ 
ises on Oriental subjects, Mythology, Phi¬ 
lology, Archaeology, and kindred sub¬ 
jects; and is a member of the principal 
Oriental societies of America and Eu¬ 
rope. 

COLERICK, JOHN, lawyer, was born 
Sept. 20, 1837, in Indianapolis, Ind. He 
was elected district attorney for the twen¬ 
tieth common pleas district of Indiana. 
In 1870 he was unanimously put in nomi¬ 
nation as the democratic candidate for . 
congress in the ninth congressional dis¬ 
trict. He died March 7, 1872, at Fort 
Wayne, Ind. 

COLERICK, WALPOLE G„ lawyer, 
member of congress, was born Aug. 1, 
1845, in Fort Wayne, Ind. He received 
his education in the 
public schools of his 
native city; and has 
attained success as 
one of the foremost 
lawyers of Indiana. 
He served with dis¬ 
tinction as a mem¬ 
ber of the house of 
representatives of 
the United States in 
the forty-sixth and 
forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses in 1879-83. 
In 1883 he became one of the supreme 
court commissioners of the state of In¬ 
diana, and served until the expiration of 
the commission by limitation of law cre¬ 
ating the court. 

COLES, ABRAHAM, physician, author, 
was born Dec. 26, 1813, in Scotch Plains, 
N. J. He was a New Jersey physician 
who published a volume containing thir¬ 
teen original translations of the Dies Irae. 
His other works include Stabat Mater Do¬ 
lorosa; Stabat Mater Speciosa; Old Gems 
in New Settings; The Microcosm, a psy¬ 
chological poem; The Evangel in Verse; 
The Light of the World; and The Psalms 
in Verse, with notes. He died May 3, 
1891, in Monterey, Cal. 

COLES, EDWARD, governor, author, 
was born Dec. 15, 1786, in Albemarle 
county, Va. He was private secretary to 
President Madison, who sent him on a 
mission to Russia in 1817. On his re¬ 
turn in 1818 he removed to Illinois, tak¬ 
ing with him his slaves, whom he had 
liberated. He was governor of that state 
from 1823 to 1826. He died July 7, 1868, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 




COLES, GEORGE, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1792 in England. He was 
a methodist clergyman who published The 
Antidote, or Revelation Defended; Con¬ 
cordance of the Scriptures; and Heroines 
of Methodism. . 

COLES, ISAAC, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1789 to 1791, and again from 
1793 to 1797. 

COLES, JONATHAN A., physician, was 
born May 6, 1843. In 1891 he was elected 
president of the Union Medical society; 
and has filled various offices of responsi¬ 
bility and trust both in and out of his 
profession in Newark, N. J. 

COLES, WALTER, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1835 
to 1845. 

COLESWORTHY, DANIEL CLEMENT, 
author, poet, was born July 14, 1810, in 
Portland, Maine. He was a noted book¬ 
seller of Boston, who was also a writer. 
Some of his poems for children, like Don’t 
Kill the Birds, and Little Words of Kind¬ 
ness, have been extremely popular. He 
is the author of Sunday School Hymns; 
Advice to an Apprentice; Opening Buds; 
Chronicles of Casco Bay; A Group of 
Children, and Other Poems; School is 
Out; The Year; and A Day in the Woods, 
in verse, comprise the most of his writ¬ 
ings. He died in 1893. 

COLEY, WILLIAM XENOPHON, jour¬ 
nalist, was born May 7, 1868, in Farming- 
ton, N. C. He is the editor and owner 
of the Times of Mocksville, N. C., of 
which city he is mayor; and he has 
filled many important offices in his town, 
county and state. 

COLFAX, SCHUYLER, journalist, vice- 
president of the United States, was born 
March 23, 1823, in New York city. In 1850 
he was a member of 
the state constitu¬ 
tional convention; 
in 1848 and 1852 a 
delegate to the whig 
national conventions 
of those years, and 
was secretary to 
each; and was elect¬ 
ed a representative 
from Indiana to the 
thirty-fourth con¬ 
gress, and to suc¬ 
cessive congresses, 
including the fortieth, serving as chair¬ 
man of the committee on postoffices, and 
as regent of the Smithsonian institution. 
He was chosen speaker during the thirty- 
eighth congress, and was twice re-elect¬ 
ed to the same position. In 1868 he was 
elected to the office of vice-president of 
the United States on the ticket with Gen. 
Grant for president. After the close of 
his term he devoted himself to lecturing. 
He died Jan. 13, 1885, in Mankato, Minn. 

COLFELT, LAWRENCE M., clergyman, 
was born Dec. 22, 1849, in Reedsville, Pa. 
He is a noted clergyman of Oxford church 
of Philadelphia, and in 1885 Hampden 
Sidney college gave him the degree of 
D. D. 

COLGATE, JAMES BOORMAN, banker, 
was born March 4, 1818, in New York 
city. He is a son of William Colgate, 
who came to America in 1798, settled in 
Harford county, Md., and in 1804 removed 
to New York, where he established the 
now widely known industry of manufac¬ 
turing Colgate’s soaps. James B. Colgate 
has been for many years a banker and 
dealer in securities and bullion. He has 
given large sums to Colgate university; 



and built and liberally endowed Colgate- 
academy. 

COLGATE, ROBERT, manufacturer, 
was born in 1812. While long connected 
with his father’s firm, his greatest 
achievement was the manufacture of 
white lead by corrosion for use in paints. 
About 1845 he organized the firm of Rob¬ 
ert Colgate and Company, and built works 
in the city of Brooklyn under the name 
of The Atlantic White Lead and Linseed 
Oil company. He died July 4, 1885. 

COLGATE, SAMUEL, manufacturer, 
was born March 22, 1822, in New York 
city. He is a son of the late William Col¬ 
gate. At an early age he took a position 
in the works of Colgate and Company, 
manufacturers of soap, and has since de¬ 
voted his business life to this industry, 
now being senior partner in the concern. 
In conjunction with his brother, James 
B. Colgate, he erected the Colgate acad¬ 
emy building, in Hamilton, N. Y., at an 
expense of $60,000. He is president of the 
New York Baptist Education society, and 
of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. 

COLGATE, WILLIAM, manufacturer, 
was born Jan. 25, 1783, in England. He 
emigrated to Maryland in 1795; and in 
1804 became apprentice to a soap boiler 
of New York city, whose business he sub¬ 
sequently followed with success. He died 
March 25, 1857, in New York city. 

COLHOUN, EDMUND R., naval officer, 
was born May 6, 1821, in Pennsylvania. 
In 1863 he commanded the steamer La- 
dona, and afterward the monitor Wee- 
hawken, of the south Atlantic blockad¬ 
ing squadron, in her various engagements 
with Forts Sumter, Wagner and Beaure¬ 
gard, in the summer of 1863. He was com¬ 
mandant at Mare Island navy-yard, Cal., 
in 1879-80, and inspector of vessels in 
California at the time of his retirement. 

COLHOUN, JOHN, naval officer, was 
born in 1802 in Pennsylvania. He en¬ 
tered the navy as midshipman in 1821, 
and was subsequently promoted to the 
rank of commodore in 1867. He died Nov. 
30, 1872, in New York city. 

COLLAMER; JACOB, lawyer, jurist. 
United States senator, was born in 1792 
in Troy, N. Y. He was a member of 
the state legislature, 
and from 1833 to 
1841 was judge of the 
supreme court of 
Vermont; and in 
1843 took his seat as 
a representative in 
congress from Ver¬ 
mont, serving by 
re-elections until 
1849. In March of 
that year he was ap¬ 
pointed postmaster- 
general in the cabi¬ 
net of President Taylor, and was soon 
afterward appointed on the supreme 
bench of his state, which office he held 
until 1854, when he was elected a sena¬ 
tor in congress from Vermont for six 
years from 1855. In 1861 he was re-elect¬ 
ed for the term ending in 1867. He died 
Nov. 8, 1865, in Woodstock, Vt. 

COLLAMORE, DAVIS, merchant, man¬ 
ufacturer, was born Oct. 7, 1820, in 

Scituate, Mass. In 1842 he established 
himself in business in New York city, and 
in 1886 the business was reorganized as 
a stock company, of which he continued 
president until the time of his death. He 
died Aug. 13, 1887. 

COLLBRAN, HENRY, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Dec. 24, 1852, in London, 
England. He is president of the Midland 
Terminal railway at Denver, Colo. 






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COLLENS, THOMAS "WHARTON, jur¬ 
ist, author, was born June 23, 1812, in 
New Orleans, La. He was a well-known 
jurist of New Orleans, who wrote The 
Martyr Patriots, a tragedy; Humanics; 
Views of the Labour Movement; and The 
Eden of Labour. He died Nov. 3, 1879, in 
New Orleans, La. 

COLLES, CHRISTOPHER, engineer, 
philosopher, was born about 1738 in Ire¬ 
land. During the war of 1812 he ’was the 
projector and attendant of the telegraph 
erected on Castle Clinton. He is said to 
have built the first steam engine in 
America. 

COLLETT, JOHN, geologist, state sen¬ 
ator, jurist, was born Jan. 6, 1828, in 
Eugene, Ind. He was state senator in 
1871; assistant state geologist in 1870-78; 
a member of the state house commission 
in 1878-79; chief of the bureau of statis¬ 
tics and geology in 1879-80; and geologist 
in 1881-85. From 1870 till 1879 he pub¬ 
lished annually his reports as assistant 
geologist, and as geologist from 1881 till 
1884, and for the years 1879 and 1880 re¬ 
ports of the bureau of statistics and geol¬ 
ogy. 

COLLIER, MRS. ADA LANGWORTHY, 
author, poet, was born in 1843 in Iowa. 
She is a writer of Dubuque, whose Lilith, 
the Legend of the First Woman, is a 
poem of merit. 

COLLIER, CHARLES A., banker, was 
born July 1, 1848, in Atlanta, Ga. In 1887 
he was president of the Piedmont expo¬ 
sition; alderman of that city in 1888; and 
was engaged extensively in mercantile 
and banking pursuits. 

COLLIER, GEORGE X. M., lawyer, was 
born Sept. 27, 1838, in Claremont, N. H. 
He attended the public schools, and grad¬ 
uated from the university of Michigan. He 
has attained prominence as one of the 
foremost lawyers of Michigan, and prac¬ 
tices his profession at Detroit. 

COLLIER, HENRY WATKINS, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, was born Jan. 17, 1801, 
in Lunenburg county, Va. He was judge 
of the circuit court of Tuscaloosa, Ala., 
district from 1827 to 1837; chief justice 
of Alabama from 1837 to 1849; and gov¬ 
ernor from 1849 to 1853. He died Aug. 
28, 1855, at Bailey’s Springs, Ala. 

COLLIER, JOHN A., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1787 in Broome county, 
N. Y. He practiced law at Binghamton, 
was elected to congress as a Clay demo¬ 
crat, serving from 1831 till 1833; was 
state comptroller in 1845-46, and was com¬ 
missioner to revise the code in 1847. He 
died March 24, 1873, in Binghamton, N. Y. 

COLLIER. JOSEPH AVERY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 26, 1828, in 
Plymouth, Mass. He was a reformed Dutch 
clergyman of Kingston, N. Y.; and the 
author of The Right Way, or the Gospel 
Applied to the Intercourse of Individ¬ 
uals and Nations; The Christian Home; 
The Young Men of the Bible; Pleasant 
Paths for Little Feet; Little Crowns; and 
Dawn of Heaven. He died Aug. 13, 1864, 
in Kinderhook, N. Y. 

COLLIER, PETER, chemist, author, 
was born Aug. 17, 1835, in Chittengo, N. 
Y. He is a chemist of distinction for 
several years attached to the department 
of agriculture at Washington; and the 
author of Sorghum, Its Culture and Manu¬ 
facture Economically Considered; and In¬ 
vestigations of Sorghum as a Sugar Pro¬ 
ducing Plant. 

COLLIER, ROBERT LAIRD, clergyman, 
-author, was born Aug. 7, 1837, in Salis¬ 
bury, Md. He was a Unitarian clergy¬ 


man who in his later years was a Lon¬ 
don correspondent of the New York Her¬ 
ald; and the author of Every-Day Sub¬ 
jects in Sunday Sermons; Meditations on 
the Essence of Christianity; Henry Irv¬ 
ing: a Sketch and a Criticism; and En¬ 
glish Home Life. He died July 28. 1890 
in Salisbury, Md. 

COLLIER, THOMAS S., naval officer, 
physician, poet, was born Nov. 14, 1842, in 
New \ork city. He entered the American 
navy at an early age, in which he served 
through the civil war, and was retired in 
1883. His poems have appeared in many 
standard publications, which have been 
collected in one complete volume, entitled 
Song Spray. He died in 1893. 

COLLIN, JOHN F., state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 30, 1802, in 
Hillsdale, N. Y. He served in the state 
legislature in 1834; was a member of 
the county board of supervisors; and was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1845 to 1847. 

COLLINS, CHARLES, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 17, 1813, in 
North Yarmouth, Maine. He was a meth- 
odist preacher and educator of Tennes¬ 
see, who published Methodism and Cal¬ 
vinism Compared. He died July 10, 1875, 
in Memphis, Tenn. 

COLLINS, CHARLES, merchant, was 
born April 2, 1817, in Blandford, Mass. 
In 1842 he established a business in St. 
Louis, Mo., and was also at the head of 
a large cotton manufactory in Glaston¬ 
bury, Conn. After the war he closed his 
business in St. Louis and established a 
dry goods commission house in New York 
city, from which he retired in 1878. He 
died Nov. 30, 1891. 

COLLINS, CLARENCE LYMAN, was 
born Feb. 22, 1848, in Hartford. Conn. In 
1878 he conducted a wholesale commis¬ 
sion business under the firm name of 
Whitin and Collins; and in 1878 was 
elected a member of the chamber of com¬ 
merce of New York city. 

COLLINS, DAVID EDWARD, banker, 
poet, was born May 8, 1850, in Scotland. 
He is a banker of high standing in Oak¬ 
land, Cal., where he now resides. He 
has written more than one hundred com¬ 
mendable poems that have received ex¬ 
tensive publication in the University Jour¬ 
nal and the periodical press generally. 

COLLINS, EDWARD K., shipowner, 
was born Aug. 5, 1802, in Cape Cod, Mass. 
He established the Dramatic line of sail¬ 
ing packets to Liverpool in 1836. The 
first steamer of the Collins line between 
New York and Liverpool sailed from 
New York on April 27, 1849. He died 
Jan. 22, 1878, in New York city. 

COLLINS, EDWIN RALPH, explorer, 
author, was born in 1859, in Newark, N. 
J. He has traveled extensively and has 
attained prominence as an explorer of 
the Hudson Bay regions. He has been 
editor of the Texas Siftings, and is the 
author of several novels. 

COLLINS, ELA, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Feb. 14, 1786, in Meriden, Conn. 
He was for twenty years district attor¬ 
ney, displaying ability as an advocate, 
and during the latter part of his life de¬ 
voted much attention to farming. He 
commanded a regiment of militia near 
Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y., in 1814; repre¬ 
sented Lewis county in the legislature of 
the state, and in 1821 was a member of 
the state constitutional convention. He 
was in congress from New York from 1823 
to 1825. He died Nov. 23, 1848, in Low- 
ville. Conn. 


COLLINS, FRANCIS D., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 5, 1844, in Sau- 
gerties, N. Y. He was elected a district 
attorney in 1869; was elected to the state 
senate in 1872, 1873 and 1874, and in the 
latter year was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth 
and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat. 

COLLINS, FRANK W., lawyer, lecturer, 
was born Feb. 9, 1860, in Pompey Hill, 
N. Y. He attended the Dryden Union 
school and academy, 
and graduated from 
the Syracuse univer¬ 
sity. During 1894-96 
he was president of 
the Nebraska Repub¬ 
lican league, and 
has been assistant 
prosecuting attorney 
of Lincoln, Neb. Dur¬ 
ing the campaign of 
1896 he was kept in 
constant service by 
the national republi¬ 
can committee, and lectured in the prin¬ 
cipal cities of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illi¬ 
nois and Nebraska, and his lectures gen¬ 
erally abound with an inexhaustible fund 
of wit. 

COLLINS, GEORGE J., soldier, was 
born Oct. 25, 1839, in New York city. He 
attained the rank of lieutenant in the 
civil war; in 1882 was elected alderman of 
the twenty-first ward of Brooklyn, and 
in 1890 postmaster of Brooklyn. 

C OLLINS, GEORGE T., soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1842, in Scot¬ 
land county, Mo. During tfie civil war 
he served in company F, forty-fifth Iowa 
infantry; and has since attained prom¬ 
inence as a noted lawyer of Memphis, 
Mo. He served with distinction as a 
member of the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth 
and thirty-ninth general assemblies of 
Missouri. 

COLLINS, GILBERT, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Aug. 26, 1846, in Stonington, 
the rudiments of his 
education in the 
public schools; and 
was prepared by 
David Hart, A. M.. 
for Yale college. He 
has attained success 
as one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of the 
east, and has a 
large practice in 
Jersey City, N. J., 
of which city he was 
mayor during 1884- 
86. In 1897 he was 
appointed a justice of the supreme court 
of New Jersey, and his decisions have 
shown great judicial ability and learning. 

COLLINS, HOLDRIDGE OZRO, lawyer, 
author, was born Dec. 10, 1844, in Cayuga 
county, N. Y. He was instrumental in 
the creation of the first regiment infan¬ 
try, Illinois national guard, and he was 
one of the six captains who was first 
elected. He was promoted to lieutenant- 
colonel, and had a large command in Chi¬ 
cago during the railroad riots of 1877. 
In 1884 he published a history of the 
Illinois National Guards. 

COLLINS, ISAAC, publisher, was born 
Feb. 16, 1746, in Delaware. In 1770 he 
was appointed public printer in New Jer¬ 
sey, and removed to Burlington. In 1771 
he began the publication of an almanac, 
which he issued annually for more than 
twenty years. In 1778 he removed to 
Trenton, and there printed 5,000 copies of 
a family Bible that was remarkably free 
from typographical errors. He died March 
21, 1817, in Burlington, N. J. 



Conn. He received 





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COLLINS, JEREMIAH BUCKLEY, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born April 2, 1865, at 
Renovo, Pa. In 1890 he graduated from 
the northern Indiana law school, and 
three years later was elected a member 
of the Indiana legislature. 

COLLINS, JOHN, governor. He was 
governor of Delaware from 1820 to his 
death, which occurred April 15, 1822, in 
Wilmington, Del. 

COLLINS, JOHN, congressman, govern¬ 
or, was born June 8, 1717. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Rhode Island from 1786 to 1789. 
He was a patriot of the revolution, a dele¬ 
gate to the old congress from 1778 to 1783, 
and a signer of the articles of confedera¬ 
tion. He was elected a representative in 
congress in 1789. He died March 8, 1795, 
in Newport, R. I. 

COLLINS, LEWIS, journalist, jurist, 
was born Dec. 25, 1797. He was proprietor 
and editor of the Maysville Eagle for 
twenty-seven years, and from 1851-54 was 
first presiding judge of the Mason county 
court. He died Jan. 29, 1870, in Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky. 

COLLINS, LORIN WARREN, soldier, 
state legislator, jurist, was born in 1838 
in Lowell, Mass. He moved to Minnesota 
in 1854; served through the civil war in 
the seventh Minnesota, and was brevetted 
captain in 1865. He was county attorney 
of Stearns county for ten years; and a 
member of the Minnesota house of rep¬ 
resentatives in 1881-83. In 1883 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the seventh judicial dis¬ 
trict; and was elected the following year. 
Since 1887 he has been associate justice of 
the supreme court. 

COLLINS, NAPOLEON, naval officer, 
was born May 4, 1814, in Pennsylvania. 
He entered the navy as midshipman in 
1840, attained the rank of rear-admiral, 
and in 1874 was made commander of the 
Pacific squadron. He died June 7, 1875, 
in Washington, D. C. 

COLLINS, PATRICK A., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born March 12, 
1844, in Ireland. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the public 
schools of Chelsea, Mass., and graduated 
from the Harvard law school. He is a 
successful lawyer of Boston, Mass.; was 
a member of the Massachusetts house of 
representatives in 1868-69; of the Massa¬ 
chusetts senate in 1870-71; and in 1875 
was judge advocate-general of Massachu¬ 
setts. He was a representative in the 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth con¬ 
gresses, and served on various important 
committees. During 1893-97 he was con¬ 
sul-general of the United States at Lon¬ 
don, England. _ 

COLLINS, SPENCER, lawyer, was born 
April 10, 1861, near Glenville, W. Va. 
In 1883 he graduated from the Glenville 
State Normal school, and subsequently 
engaged in educational work. In 1887 he 
was admitted to the bar and has become 
prominent in his profession in his native 
city. 

COLLINS, THOMAS, soldier, jurist, 
governor, was born in 1732, in Delaware. 
He was a member of the council for four 
years; brigadier-general of militia from 
1776 to 1783; a member of the assembly, 
and chief justice of the court of common 
pleas; and was governor of Delaware 
from 1786 to 1789. He died March 29, 
1789, near Ducks Creek, Del. 

COLLINS, THOMAS WHARTON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born June 
23, 1812, in New Orleans, La. He was re¬ 
porter and clerk of the state senate in 
1834, then edited the True American. 
He was district attorney for the Orleans 
district in 1840-42; judge of the city court 
in 1842-46, a member of the constitutional 


convention in 1852, and in 1856 was elected 
judge of the first district court of New 
Orleans. In 1867 he was made judge of 
the seventh district court. He was the 
author of a tragedy called The Martyr 
Patriots, which was successfully per¬ 
formed; also of Humanics; The Eden 
of Labor; and essays on sociology, ethics, 
and politics, published in periodicals. He 
died Nov. 3, 1879. 

COLLINS, TRUMAN D., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born March 7, 1831, in Cortland, 
N. Y. Since 1891 he has been president 
of the Tronesta Valley and Hickory rail¬ 
road at Nebraska, Pa. 

COLLINS, MRS. W. LESLIE, poet. She 
is the author of a volume entitled Sea 
Waifs and Other Poems. 

COLLINS, WILLIAM, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Oneida county, N. Y. 
He was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1847 to 1849, and was 
district attorney for Lewis county until 
he removed to Cleveland, Ohio. 

COLLINS, ZACCHEUS, philanthropist, 
was born Aug. 26, 1764, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a member of the society of 
Friends, a promoter of the advancement 
of the natural sciences, and an officer or 
member of many philosophical, humane 
and religious societies. 

COLLYER, ROBERT, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 8, 1823, in England. 
He is a Unitarian clergyman of New York 
and one of the leading men among the 
clergy of his faith. • He was born in York¬ 
shire, and learned the blacksmith’s trade, 
which he still followed after coming to 
America in 1849. He was then a Wesleyan 
local preacher, but his views changing 
he became a Unitarian, and in 1860 found¬ 
ed Unity church in Chicago, over which 
he remained pastor until he went to 
New York in 1879. His influence, both 
within and without the Unitarian body, 
has been very great. He is the author 
of The Life that Now Is; Nature and 
Life; A Man in Earnest; The Simple 
Truth, a Home Book; Lectures to Young 
Men and Women; History of Ilkley, in 
Yorkshire. 

COLMAN, BENJAMIN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 19, 1673, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a famous congregational 
minister of Boston, whose theological 
views were much more liberal than those 
of his contemporaries, and whose literary 
style was far more polished and flexible. 
Evangelical Sermons Collected; Twenty 
Sacramental Sermons. He died Aug. 29, 
1747, in Boston, Mass. 

COLMAN, ELIHU, attorney, legislator, 
was born May 11, 1841, in Oneida, Wis. 
He graduated from the Lawrence uni¬ 
versity in 1865, and was elected to the 
Wisconsin legislature in 1872. He was 
United States district attorney for the 
eastern district of Wisconsin during Pres¬ 
ident Harrison’s administration. 

COLMAN, HENRY, author, was born 
Sept. 12, 1785, in Boston, Mass. He was 
an agricultural writer of Massachusetts, 
who was a congregational minister at 
Hingham, 1807-20, and afterwards a Uni¬ 
tarian minister at Salem; and the author 
of Report on Silk Culture; European 
Agriculture and Rural Economy; Agricul¬ 
ture and Rural Economy of France, Bel¬ 
gium, Holland, and Switzerland; and Eu¬ 
ropean Life and Manners. He died Aug. 
14, 1849, in England. 

COLMAN, HENRY, clergyman, was 
born May 14, 1834, in Bridport, Vt. He 
is an eminent clergyman of the methodist 
episcopal church, and since 1868 has been 
trustee of the Lawrence university of 
Appleton, Wis. 


COLMAN, NORMAN J., # journalist, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, was born in 1827, 
near Richfield Springs, N. Y. He moved 
to St. Louis, Mo., in 1853, and founded 
Colman’s Rural World, an agricultural 
paper. He was elected a member of the 
board of aldermen for the city of St. 
Louis in 1855, and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the legislature of Missouri 
in 1865. He was elected lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of Missouri in 1874, and was presi¬ 
dent of the Missouri State Horticultural 
society. In 1885 he was appointed United 
States commissioner of agriculture. 

COLMAN, SAMUEL, painter, was born 
in 1832, in Portland, Me. He began early 
to sketch from nature in and around New 
York, where his father was a publisher, 
and became a pupil of Asher B. Durand. 
His studio is in New York, and he was 
the first president of the American water 
color society. His pictures include Bay 
of Gibraltar; Misty Afternoon in Ven¬ 
ice; Ruins of Mosque in Algeria; and 
Tower of Giralda. 

COLQUILLARD, ALEXIS, manufactu¬ 
rer, capitalist, was born April 27, 1825, 
in Detroit, Mich. He kept on increasing 
his landed possessions until 1865, when he 
established the Colquillard Wagon works 
of South Bend, Ind. 

COLQUITT, ALFRED HOLT, soldier, 
lawyer. United States senator, governor, 
was born April 20, 1824, in Walton coun¬ 
ty, Ga. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Georgia from 1853 to 1855; 
and was a presidential elector in 1860. He 
entered the confederate army as colonel, 
and, by distinguished gallantry, won pro¬ 
motion to the rank of major-general. He 
was elected governor of Georgia in 1876 
by the largest majority ever received 
by a candidate in that state, and continued 
in office, by re-election, until 1882, when 
he was elected a senator of the United 
States from Georgia for the term of six 
years; and received the re-election in 1888 
and served until 1895. 

COLQUITT, WALTER T., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 
27, 1799, in Halifax county, Va. He 
served as a brigadier-general of militia 
at the age of twenty-one, and in 1826 
was appointed a district judge, and held 
the first court ever held in Columbus. 
He was appointed to the same office in 
1829, and was a member of the state sen¬ 
ate in 1834 and 1837. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from Georgia from 1839 
to 1843; and a senator in congress from 
1843 to 1849. He died May 7, 1855, in 
Macon, Ga. 

COLSON, DAVID GRANT, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 1, 1861, at Yel¬ 
low Creek, Ky. In 1887 he was elected to 
the Kentucky house of representatives, 
session of 1887-88; and was the republi¬ 
can nominee for state treasurer in 1889. 
He was elected mayor of Middlesboro in 
1893, for four years, which position he 
resigned to accept a seat in the fifty- 
fourth congress; and was re-elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

COLSTON, EDWARD, congressman, 
was born in 1788, in Berkeley county, Va. 
He served for a long time as magistrate of 
the county, and in the capacity of high 
sheriff. He was frequently a member of 
the state legislature, and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Virginia from 
1817 to 1819. He died April 23, 1851. 

COLT, LE BARON BRADFORD, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, was born June 25, 
1846, in Dedham, Mass. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the state legislature of 
Rhode Island in 1879 and 1880, and in 
1881 was appointed United States district 
judge for the district of Rhode Island. 


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COLT, SAMUEL, inventor, was born 
July 19, 1814, in Hartford, Conn. While a 
sailor, Mr. Colt had whittled out a wooden 
model of a pistol, which should fire several 
shots before reloading, and in 1835 ob¬ 
tained a patent for this weapon, both in 
America and in England and France. A 
new plant was created in 1852 upon a 
tract of 250 acres in Hartford, and in 
1855 the Colt Patent Fire Arms company 
was organized to carry on the business. 
He died Jan. 10, 1862, in Hartford, Conn. 

COLTON, CALVIN, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1789 in Longmeadow, Mass. 
He was an episcopal clergyman of some 
note in his day as a political writer, and 
the author of Manual for Emigrants to 
America; History of American Revivals; 
Protestant Jesuitism; Public Economy for 
the United States, a plea for protection; 
Life of Henry Clay; and Junius Tracts. 
He died March 13, 1857, in Savannah, Ga. 

COLTON, GARDNER QUINCY, invent¬ 
or, author, was born Feb. 7, 1814, in Geor¬ 
gia, Vt. He discovered the remarkable 
properties and made a practical appli¬ 
cation of the use of nitrous oxide; and 
commenced a series of lectures on the 
effect of nitrous oxide upon the human 
system. He has also achieved some celeb¬ 
rity as a writer on various theological 
subjects. 

COLTON, GEORGE HOOKER, poet, 
was born Oct. 27, 1818, in Westford, N. Y. 
He was a noted writer and the author of 
a poem entitled Tecumseh. He died Dec. 
1, 1847, in New York city. 

COLTON, WALTER, journalist, author, 
was born May 9, 1797, in Rutland, Vt. 
He was a journalist and educator who 
established the first newspaper in Califor¬ 
nia, and built the first schoolhouse there. 
As chaplain in the United States navy he 
visited many parts of the world. He is 
the author of Visit to Athens and Con¬ 
stantinople; Land and Lee in the Bos¬ 
phorus and HDgean; and other works. He 
died Jan. 22, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER - discov¬ 
erer, w r as born about 1436. He discovered 
America on Oct. 12, 1492. He died May 20, 
1506, in Valladolid. 


COLVER, NATHANIEL, clergyman, 
was born May 10, 1794, in Orwell, Vt. He 
was eminent as an anti-mason and abol¬ 
itionist; was an able preacher and had 
great power with the masses. He founded 
and put in successful operation at Rich¬ 
mond, the Colver institute for educat¬ 
ing young men of color for the minis¬ 
try. He died Sept. 25.1870, in Chicago, Ill. 


COLVIN, ADDISON B., journalist, pub¬ 
lic official, was born in 1858 in the state 
of New York. He attended school in 
the Glens Falls acad¬ 
emy, and at the age 
of eighteen years he 
was the editor and 
proprietor of the 
Glens Falls Daily 
Times, and was at 
that time the young¬ 
est editor of a daily 
paper in the United 
States. Since 1894 
he has been treasu¬ 
rer of the state of 
New York; and is 
the president of the New York State 
league of Republican clubs. He is sec¬ 
retary and treasurer of the Queensbury 
republican town committee; secretary and 
treasurer of the Warren county republi¬ 
can committee; treasurer of the Republi¬ 
can league of the State of New York; 
was for several years director and vice- 
president of the Warren County Agricul¬ 



tural society; is a stockholder of the 
Glens Falls Gas Company; was one of the 
organizers of the People’s National bank 
of Sandy Hill; is a director of the Cran¬ 
dall Free library of Glens Falls; was one 
of the organizers and is a charter member 
of the United Press association; is a 
member and ex vice 7 president of the New 
York Press association; was one of the 
organizers and first vice-president of the 
Commercial Union Telegraph company; 
is ex-chief engineer of the Glens Falls 
fire department; was organizer and presi¬ 
dent of the Glens Falls Messenger Serv¬ 
ice company; was one of the organizers 
and vice-presidents of the Glens Falls 
board of trade, and is a member of the 
Glens Falls Business Men’s association. 

COLVIN, VERPLANCK, engineer, sur¬ 
veyor, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 4, 
1847, in Albany, N. Y. In 1872 he applied 
to the legislature for aid, and in conse¬ 
quence the Adirondack survey was in¬ 
stituted, with himself as superintendent. 
His work during that year included the 
discovery of Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds, the 
most elevated lake spring and source of 
the Hudson river. About 1881 he deliv¬ 
ered at Hamilton college a series of lec¬ 
tures on geodesy, surveying, and topo¬ 
graphical engineering. 

COLWELL, J. B., clergyman, was born 
July 19, 1834, in Herefordshire, England. 
In 1862 he graduated from the Garret 
Biblical institute of Evanston, Ill.; has 
since attained eminence as one of the 
foremost clergymen of the methodist epis¬ 
copal church in Illinois, and now fills a 
pastorate at Ridge Farm. 

COLWELL, STEPHEN, merchant, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1800 in Vermont. He 
was an iron merchant of Philadelphia, 
who wrote much on current topics, espe¬ 
cially matters relating to political econ¬ 
omy. He was the author of Ways and 
Means of Commercial Payment; Money on 
Account; Removal of the Deposits from 
the Bank of the United States; Domestic 
Production and Internal Trade; Hints to 
Laymen; Charity and the Clergy; Poli¬ 
tics for American Christians; and New 
Themes for Protestant Clergy. He died 
Jan. 15, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

COLYAR, ARTHUR ST. CLAIR, law¬ 
yer, was born June 23, 1818, in Washing¬ 
ton county, Tenn. He was self-educated, 
and achieved success as a lawyer. He 
opposed secession in 1861, but became 
a member of the confederate congress 
and served till 1865. After the war he 
reorganized the Tennessee Coal and Rail¬ 
road company, becoming its president, and 
also engaged in manufacturing; and has 
done much to develop the resources of the 
south. 

COLYER, VINCENT, painter, was born 
in 1825, in Bloomington, N. Y. His works 
include Johnson Straits, British Colum¬ 
bia; Columbia River; Pueblo; Passing 
Shower; Rainy Day on Connecticut 
Shore; and Winter on Connecticut Shore. 
He died July 12, 1888, in Connecticut. 

COMAN, CHARLOTTE B., painter, was 
born about 1845 in Waterville, N. Y. After 
painting in France and Holland for six 
years, she returned to the United States, 
and opened a studio in New York. Her 
best works are French Village; Sunset at 
the Seaside, France; Peasant Home in 
Normandy; Cottage in Picardy; Old 
Windmills in Holland; Spring-Time in 
Picardy; and Poppy-Field in Normandy. 

COMAN, KATHERINE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1857 in Ohio. She is a 
professor of history at Wellesley college, 
and the author of Outlines in Constitu¬ 
tional History of England; Outlines in 
Industrial History; and The Growth of 
the English Nation. 


COMBES, RICHARD C., underwriter, 
was born May 17, 1827, in New York city. 
He was secretary of the Exchange Fire 
Insurance company of New York city, and 
in 1870 was its president. He is the 
president of the National Switch and Sig¬ 
nal company, and of Palmer’s Torpedo 
Machine company. 

COMBS, JOHN ALFRED, lawyer, lec¬ 
turer, was born Jan. 22, 1851, in Canada. 
He was educated at the public schools of 
Stony Creek, Alexander’s private acad¬ 
emy, and the High school of Hamilton, 
Canada; and has attained success as a 
prominent lawyer of Saginaw, Mich. Dur¬ 
ing 1890-94 he was chairman of the re¬ 
publican committee for Saginaw county, 
Mich.; in 1895-97 was state lecturer of the 
Orange lodge, and for one year was the 
worthy preceptor of the Royal Black 
Knights of the Camp of Israel. 

COMEGYS, BENJAMIN BARTIS, bank¬ 
er, author, was born in 1819 in Delaware. 
He is a banker of Philadelphia, and the 
author of Tour Round My Library, and 
Other Papers; Advice to Young Men and 
Boys; A Primer of Ethics; Talks with 
Boys and Girls; How to Get On, a Book 
for Boys; Turn Over a New Leaf; An 
Order of Worship; and Old Stories with 
New Lessons. 

COMEGYS, CORNELIUS P„ governor, 
was born in Delaware. He was governor 
of that state from 1837 to 1840. 

COMEGYS, JOSEPH PARSONS, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born Dec. 
29, 1813, in St. Jones’s Neck, Del. He was 
elected a member of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives of the state in 1842 and 1848. 
In 1851 he was appointed one of a com¬ 
mittee of three to revise the statutes of 
the state and in 1856 was chosen to fill 
a vacancy in the United States senate. 

COMER, JOHN, clergyman, was born 
in 1704 in Boston, Mass. He left a diary 
in manuscript, which contains interest¬ 
ing information of the early history of 
the baptists in America. He died May 
23, 1734, in Old Rehoboth, Mass. 

COMER, THOMAS, actor, was born Dec. 
19, 1790, in England. In 1827 he came to 
the United States, and was successively 
musical director at the Tremont theater, 
the Museum, and the Boston theater. 
His forte was acting eccentric parts and 
Irish impersonations. He was also skilled 
in musical composition. He died July 27, 
1802, in Boston, Mass. 

COMFORT, AARON IVINS, physician, 
surgeon, was born March 4, 1827, in 
Penn’s Manor, Pa. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the public 
schools, Williston 
seminary, Amherst 
college, and the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He was as¬ 
sistant instructor of 
the classics and 
higher mathematics, 
and assistant dem¬ 
onstrator of anatomy 
in the university of 
Pennsylvania; con¬ 
sulting accoucheur of 
the Philadelphia Lying-in Charity hospi¬ 
tal; and consulting physician of the South¬ 
ern dispensary of Philadelphia. During the 
civil war he was captain and assistant 
surgeon of the United States volunteers, 
and acting assistant surgeon United States 
army during 1865-92. He is now first as¬ 
sistant surgeon in the National Home for 
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Milwaukee, 
Wis. Dr. Comfort has contributed mono¬ 
graphs on Indian mounds to the Smithson¬ 
ian institution; and contributed valuable 
papers and articles to medical literature. 




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COMFORT, MRS. ANNA MANNING, 
physician, author, was born in 1845 in 
New Jersey. She is a physician of Syra¬ 
cuse, who has written Woman’s Education 
and Woman’s Health, a reply to Dr. 
Clarke’s once famous Sex in Education. 

COMFORT, GEORGE FISK, educator, 
author, was born in 1833 in New York. 
He has been a professor at Syracuse uni¬ 
versity since 1872; and has published a 
series of German text-books and The 
Hand Troubles in Ireland. 

COMINGO, ABRAM, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 29, 1820, in Mercer 
county, Ky. He was elected a member 
of the Missouri state convention in 1861; 
appointed provost-marshal in May, 1863; 
and was elected to the forty-second and 
forty-third congresses. 

COMINS, LINUS B., manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1817 in Charlton, 
Mass. He was a member of the Roxbury 
city council in 1846, and in 1847 and 1848 
was president of the council; and in 1854 
was mayor of Roxbury. He was soon after 
elected to congress from Massachusetts, 
and continued in that position to the close 
of the thirty-fifth congress, serving on 
the committee on commerce. 

COMLY, JOHN, educator, author, was 
born in 1774 in Pennsylvania. He was a 
Pennsylvania educator among the 
Friends, who prepared a speller that was 
phenomenally popular, and also a gram¬ 
mar and other text-books. He died Aug. 
17, 1850, in Ryeberry, Pa. 

COMMAGER, HENRY' S., soldier, was 
born about 1825. He was a prominent 
democratic politician in Toledo, Ohio, and 
in 1864 was an unsuccessful candidate 
for congress. He was colonel of the sixty- 
seventh Ohio regiment during the eivil 
war, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier- 
general of volunteers. He died Sept. 5, 
1867, in Galveston, Texas. 

COMMONS, JOHN ROGERS, educator, 
author, was born in 1862 in Ohio. He has 
been a professor of sociology at Syracuse 
university since 1895; and is the author 
of The Distribution of Wealth; Social 
Reform and the Church; and Propor¬ 
tional Representation. 

COMPTON. BARNES, was born Nov. 16, 
1830, in Port Tobacco, Md. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative in the state legislature 
in 1859 without opposition; in 1866 was 
elected state senator for four years; and 
was elected president of the senate. At 
the end of two years he was re-elected 
for a full term and was again elected 
president of the senate. In 1874 he was 
elected treasurer of the state, and served 
by re-election more than eleven years. 
In 1877 he became a member of the board 
of managers of the state hospital for the 
Insane; and in 1879 was made treasurer 
of the board. In 1884 he was elected a 
representative from Maryland to the 
forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected 
to the fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second 
congresses. 

COMPTON, ISAAC M., legislator, was 
born March 30, 1832, in Hamilton county, 
Ohio. In 1876 he was elected to the state 
legislature; and re-elected in 1878. He 
was the author of Compton’s ventilation 
bill. 

COMSTOCK, ADDISON J., pioneer, was 
born Oct. 17, 1802, in Palmyra, N. Y. In 
1826 he built the first log house and saw¬ 
mill in Adrian, Mich.; and in 1828 laid 
out the town of Adrian. He was ap¬ 
pointed postmaster in 1829, and in 1832, 
with his father, projected the Erie and 
Kalamazpo railroad. He was elected 
mayor of Adrian in 1853. He died Jan. 20, 
1867. 


COMSTOCK, ANDREW, elocutionist, 
author, was born in 1795 in New York. 
He was a professor of elocution, a lecturer 
on oratory, and is the author of a New 
System of Phonetics, Phonetic Speaker, 
Phonetic Testament; Reader; Historia 
Sacra; and Elocution. 

COMSTOCK, ANDREW WESTBROOK, 
pioneer, lumber manufacturer, was born 
Oct. 5, 1838, in Port Huron, Mich. He has 
been mayor of Alpena, and is now presi¬ 
dent of the Alpena Banking Co., and a 
partner in H. S. Robinson and Co., manu¬ 
facturers of boots and shoes, as well as in 
a warehouse firm. His lumber firm oper¬ 
ate not only in Alpena but in Canada and 
Mississippi. 

COMSTOCK, CHARLES C., manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born March 5, 
1818, in Sullivan, N. H. He was elected 
mayor of Grand Rapids in 1863, and re¬ 
elected in 1864. He was the democratic 
candidate for governor of Michigan in 
1870, the people’s candidate for congress 
in 1873, and the greenback candidate for 
congress in 1878, but was defeated in 
each instance. In 1884 he was elected a 
representative from Michigan to the forty- 
ninth congress. 

COMSTOCK, CYRUS BALLOU, soldier, 
civil engineer, author, was born Feb. 3, 
1831, in West Wrentham, Mass. He is a 
colonel of the engineer corps in the United 
States army, and brevet major-general of 
United States volunteers, who has made 
a number of important government sur¬ 
veys. He is the author of Notes on 
European Surveys; Surveys of the North¬ 
western Lakes; and Primary Triangula¬ 
tion of United States Lake Survey. 

COMSTOCK, GEORGE CARLTON, law¬ 
yer, was born May 13, 1856, in New York 
city. He is manager of several large 
estates, and carries on an extensive court 
practice. He is president of the B. S. 
Comstock Manufacturing company, and 
the Penobscot Granite company. 

COMSTOCK, GEORGE CARY', astron¬ 
omer, was born Feb. 12, 1855, in Madison, 
Wis. He received his education at the 
university of Michigan; has gained prom¬ 
inence as a noted astronomer; and is 
director of the Washburn observatory of 
Madison, Wis. 

COMSTOCK, GEORGE F., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 24, 1811, in Williams- 
town, N. Y. He was appointed reporter of 
the decisions of the court of appeals, and 
published four volumes; and in 1852 was 
appointed solicitor of the United States 
treasury. In 1855 he was elected judge of 
the court of appeals, remaining on the 
bench until 1861, and was chief justice 
during the last year. He was a member 
of the state constitutional convention of 
1867. 

COMSTOCK, HELEN MARIA FIELD, 
poet, philanthropist, was born Sept. 3, 
1840, in Chesterfield, N. H. She attended 
the public schools, 
and the academy of 
her native city. She 
has been a writer for 
the Chicago Tribune 
and other leading 
publications of the 
east and west, and 
her poems have been 
incorporated in 
Poets of America 
and other standard 
works. Her poems 
have been collected 
and published in a large volume, which 
has called forth favorable comments from 
the leading newspapers of the west. 


COMSTOCK, JOHN HENRY', educator, 
author, was born Feb. 24, 1849, in Janes¬ 
ville, Wis. He is a professor of entomo¬ 
logy and general invertebrate zoology at 
Cornell university; and the author of 
Notes on Entomology; Report on Cotton 
Insects; and Introduction to Entomology. 

COMSTOCK, JOHN LEE, author, was 
born in 1789 in Lyme, Conn. He was an 
educational compiler of Hartford, among 
whose many scientific text-books are The 
Elements of Chemistry; Introduction to 
Mineralogy; System of Natural Philos¬ 
ophy; History of the Precious Minerals; 
and Natural History of Quadrupeds. He 
wrote also A History of the Greek Revo¬ 
lution. He died Nov. 21, 1858, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

COMSTOCK, OLIVER C., congressman, 
was born in 1784. He was a member of 
the New York assembly in 1810 and 1812; 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1813 to 1819; and subsequently 
officiated as chaplain of the house of 
representatives. He died Jan. 11, 1860, in 
Marshall, Mich. 

COMSTOCK, SOLOMON G., lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born May 
9 1842, in Argyle, Maine. He was county 
attorney for Clay 
county from 1872 to 
1878; was elected a 
representative to the 
Minnesota legisla¬ 
ture in 1875-81; and 
was state senator 
from 1882 to 1888, 
when he resigned. 
He was elected to 
the fifty-first con¬ 
gress as a republic¬ 
an; and was a mem¬ 
ber on several im¬ 
portant committees while in congress. 

COMSTOCK, THEODORE BRYANT, 
educator, author, was born July 27, 1849, 
in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He is a geolo¬ 
gist of distinction, professor in Illinois 
university; and the author of Outlines of 
General Geology; and Classification of 
Rocks. 

CONANT, ALBAN JASPER, artist, 
archaeologist, author, was born Sept. 24, 
1821, in Chelsea, Orange county, Vt. He 
received a thorough 
education at the 
Randolph academy of 
Vermont, and the 
Goveneur Wesleyan 
seminary. He was 
curator of the state 
university of Mis¬ 
souri through three 
administrat ions — 
eight years in all. 
He was chairman of 
the commission to 
locate and establish 
the school of Mines and Metallurgy under 
the congressional land grant; and was 
the Delegui correspondent for Missouri 
of the Institution Ethnographi of Paris. 
France. Mr. Conant is the author of 
Footprints of Vanished Races in the Mis¬ 
sissippi Valley; Archaeology of the Mis¬ 
sissippi Valley; and other works. As an 
artist and archaeologist he has attained 
national prominence, and resides in New 
York city. 

CONANT, EDWARD, educator, author, 
was born May 10, 1839, in Pomfret, Vt. 
His educational work began in 1861 and 
continued for fourteen years, and be¬ 
came state superintendent for Vermont. 
He is the author of The Drill Book in 
the Elements of the English Language; 
and Conant’s Vermont. 












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CONANT, MRS. HANNAH O’BRIEN 
author, was born in 1809 in Danvers! 
Mass. She was an oriental scholar who 
assisted her husband in his literary work, 
made important translations from the 
German of Strauss, Neander, and Ululen, 
and was the author of History of the En¬ 
glish Bible; Popular History of English 
Bible Translation; and The Earnest Man, 
a sketch of Judson, the missionary. She 
died Feb. 18, 1865, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

CONANT, MRS. HELEN, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 9, 1839, in Methuen. 
Mass. She is a magazinist of New York 
city; and the author of The Butterfly 
Hunters: and Primers of German and 
Spanish Literature. 

CONANT, JOHN, manufacturer, legis¬ 
lator, was born in Ashburnham, Mass. 
He represented the town of Brandon in 
the legislature for many years, was a 
member of the convention for revising the 
constitution of the state, and a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1840. He erected in Bran¬ 
don a large baptist seminary. He died 
in 1856 in Brandon, Vt. 

CONANT, SAMUEL STILLMAN, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Dec. 11, 1831, in 
Waterville, Maine. He was a journalist 
of New York, managing editor of Harper’s 
Weekly in 1869-85, and translator of Ler- 
montoff’s Circassian Boy. He died in 1885. 

CONANT, THOMAS JEFFERSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Dec. 13, 1802, in 
Brandon, Vt. He was a baptist clergyman 
who was one of the foremost Hebrew 
scholars of his time. He was the author 
of Baptism, Its Meaning and Its Use 
Philologically and Historically Consid¬ 
ered. His editions of The Book of Job; 
The Book of Proverbs; Genesis; Psalms; 
Prophecies of Isaiah; Historical Books of 
the Old Testament from Joshua to Sec¬ 
ond Kings; and The Gospel by Matthew, 
constitute a scholar’s version of the Scrip¬ 
tures, amply illustrated with critical and 
philological notes. He died April 30, 1891, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

CONARD, DAVID RUDOLPH, farmer, 
surveyor, legislator, was born Feb. 5, 
1811, in Lincoln county, N. C. In 1820 he 
moved to Missouri; became justice of 
the peace; county court judge during 
1854-56; and state senator during 1866-70. 
He died in 1890 in Bollinger county, Mo. 

CONATY, THOMAS JAMES, Catholic 
priest, was born Aug. 1, 1847, in Ireland. 
He came to America with his parents in 
1851/ and received his education in the 
public schools of Taunton, Mass. In 
1869 he graduated from Montreal semi¬ 
nary, and was ordained priest in 1872. 
From that time he filled various pastor¬ 
ates, and is now rector of the Catholic 
university of Washington, D. C. He has 
filled numerous positions of honor in 
liis church, and has contributed exten¬ 
sively to religious literature. 

CONDE, SWIFTS, manufacturer, was 
born April 2, 1844, in Oswego county, 
N. Y. In 1867 he engaged in the manu¬ 
facture of knit goods in Oswego, and 
through inventions and processes of his 
own has developed a large and successful 
industry. He has taken out about twenty- 
five patents, all utilized in his own shops. 

CONDICT, IRA, clergyman, was born 
Feb. 21, 1764, in Orange, N. J. It was 
chiefly through his efforts that Queen’s 
(now Rutgers) college, which had been 
closed for several years, was reopened in 
1807. In 1809 he was regularly appointed 
professor of moral philosophy and vice- 
president, having declined the presidency. 
He died June 1, 1811, in New Brunswick, 

N. J. 


CONDICT, JOHN, surgeon, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born in 
1755. He was a member of the New 
Jersey legislature for several years; and 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1799 to 1803. He was a 
senator in congress from 1803 to 1817; and 
was again a representative during the 
years 1819 and 1820. He died May 4 
1834, in Orange, N. J. 

CONDICT, LEWIS, physician, congress¬ 
man, was born in March, 1773, in Morris¬ 
town, N. J. He was a member of the New 
Jersey legislature, the two latter years 
officiating as speaker. In 1807 he was a 
commissioner for settling the boundary 
between New York and New Jersey. He 
was a representative in congress from 
1811 to 1817 and from 1821 to 1833; in 
1841 was a presidential elector; and was 
also at one time sheriff of Morris county. 
He died May 26, 1862, in Morristown, N. J. 

CONDICT, SILAS, congressman. He 
was a delegate from New Jersey to the 
continental congress from 1781 to 1784. 
His son bearing the same name was a 
representative in the federal congress. 


CONEY, PATRICK H., journalist, law¬ 
yer, was born March 10, 1848, in New¬ 
bury, Vt. At the age of fifteen years he 



the companies A and 
H of the one hun¬ 
dred and eleventh 
regiment. New York 
volunteer infantry, 
from 1863-65; and in 
June of the latter 
year was transferred 
to company H, 
fourth regiment New 
York heavy artillery. 
He was wounded in 
front of Petersburg, 
\a., on June 16, 1864; and in October, 
1864, he was detailed as dispatch bearer 
for General Nelson A. Miles. In 1880 he 
established the National Banner at To¬ 
peka, Kan.; and became associated with 
the Topeka Daily Capital, and in 1885 he 
was admitted to the bar; practices his 
piofession at Topeka; and is now presi¬ 
dent of the Republican Silver Leaf of the 
state. During the World’s Columbian ex¬ 
position he was president of the Lapland 
Exhibit company. 


CONDICT, SILAS, banker, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in 1777 in 
Newark, N. J. He was a representative in 
congress from New Jersey from 1831 to 
1833; and was a member of the conven¬ 
tion which formed the state constitution 
of 1844. He was for many years president 
of the Newark Banking company; and 
was frequently elected to the legislature 
of New Jersey. He died Nov. 29, 1861, in 
Newark, N. J. 

CONDIE, DANIEL FRANCIS, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born May 12, 1796, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a physician and 
medical writer of Philadelphia; and the 
author of Course of Examination for Med¬ 
ical Students; Catechism of Health; Epi¬ 
demic Cholera; and Diseases of Children. 
He died March 31, 1875, in Delaware 
county. Pa. 

GONE, HELEN GRAY, educator, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born March 8, 1859, in 
New York city. She assisted Jeanette L. 
Gilder in editing Pen Portraits of Liter¬ 
ary Women. £(he is the author of two 
volumes of poems, entitled Oberon and 
Puck, and The Ride of the Lady and 
Other Poems. 

CONE, ORELLO, author, college presi¬ 
dent, was born Nov. 16, 1835, in Line- 
plain, N. Y. He was professor of biblical 
languages in St. Lawrence university, 
New York, during 1865-80; and since 
1880 has been president of Brown col¬ 
lege. He is the author of Gospel Criti¬ 
cism and Historical Christianity; and 
The Gospel and Its Earliest Interpreta¬ 
tions. 

CONELY, EDWIN F., lawyer, state 
legislator, was born Sept. 7, 1847, in New 
York city. He moved to Michigan with 
his parents when six years of age; re¬ 
ceived a thorough education; and gradu¬ 
ated from the law department of the 
university of Michigan. During 1891-93 
he was professor of law in the university 
of Michigan. In 1877 he served as a repre¬ 
sentative in the Michigan state legis¬ 
lature. In 1880-92 he was a delegate to 
the national democratic conventions; and 
during 1890-96 he was a member of the 
Detroit board of library commissioners. 
For thirteen years he was connected with 
the Michigan troops, and attained the 
rank of colonel and president of the state 
military board. 


CONGAR, SAMUEL HAYES, antiquar¬ 
ian, was born Dec. 10, 1796, in Newark, 
N. J. About 1845 he began his researches 
among the genealogies of Newark fam¬ 
ilies, and soon became possessed of more 
antiquarian and genealogical information 
concerning the northern part of New Jer¬ 
sey, especially the county of Essex, than 
any other person. His articles, many 
of which were historically valuable, ap¬ 
peared principally in the Newark Daily 
Advertiser. He also prepared the genea¬ 
logical notices of first settlers in the His¬ 
torical society’s volume on the bicenten¬ 
nial of Newark. He died July 29, 1872, 
in Newark, N. J. 

CONGDON, CHARLES TABOR, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born April 7, 1821, in 
New Bedford, Mass. He was a journalist 
of New York city for some years on the 
staff of the Tribune; and the author of 
Tribune Essays; Reminiscences of a 
Journalist; Recollections of a Reader; 
and Autobiographical Papers. He died 
Jan. 18, 1891, in New York city. 

CONGDON, CHARLES TYLER, author, 
was born Dec. 3, 1814, in Walton, N. Y. 
He has published many popular biog¬ 
raphies and histories, and his books of 
travel have been widely circulated. Nota¬ 
ble among his works are Napoleon and 
His Marshals; and Washington and His 
Generals. 

CONGDON, CLEMENT HILLMAN, 
journalist, was born July 25, 1868, in 
Harrisburg, Pa. He has been manager 
of the Western Union Telegraph office, 
newspaper district, of Philadelphia; is 
now president of The Century Syndicate; 
president of The Sun company; presi¬ 
dent of The Packet System company; and 
is the author of an elaborate History of 
The Master Builders’ Exchange. 

CONGDON, OSSIAN M., lawyer, orator 
was born Dec. 21, 1872, in Lee county, 
Ill. He graduated from the Northwest¬ 
ern university law school; and is now a 
prominent lawyer of Dundee, Ill. He has 
attained prominence as an orator; and 
has also contributed extensively to law 
literature. 

CONGER, CHAIJNCY S., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist. He has been a member of 
the Illinois legislature; and has filled the 
positions of circuit and appellate judge 
at Carmi, Ill. 


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CONGER, EDWIN HURD, soldier, law¬ 
yer, diplomat, congressman, was born 
March 7, 1843, in Knox county, Ill. He 
enlisted in 1862 as a 
private in company 
I, one hundred and 
second Illinois vol¬ 
unteer infantry, in 
which he served 
until the close of the 
war, attaining the 
rank of captain, and 
receiving from the 
president the brevet 
of major for gallant 
an“d meritorious con¬ 
duct in the field. He 
was elected treasurer of Dallas county in 
1877 and re-elected in 1879; was elected 
state treasurer of Iowa in 1880 and re¬ 
elected in 1882. He was elected to the 
forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses as a republican. He was envoy 
extraordinary and minister plenipoten¬ 
tiary of the United States of America to 
Brazil, 1890-93; presidential elector at 
large, Iowa, 1896; and minister to Brazil, 
1897. 

CONGER, HARMON S., congressman, 
was born in Connecticut. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York from 
1847 to 1851. 

CONGER, JAMES L., farmer, congress¬ 
man, was born in New Jersey. He set¬ 
tled in Belvidere, Mich., as early as 1836; 
was a successful farmer, and a brilliant 
writer. He was elected a representative 
in congress from 1851 to 1853. 

CONGER, JOHN W., educator, college 
president, was born Feb. 20, 1857, in Jack- 
son, Tenn. He has been president of the 
Odd Fellows’ college of Humboldt, Tenn.; 
president of Searcy college of Arkansas; 
and is now the president of the Ouachita 
Baptist college of Arkadelphia, Ark. 

CONGER, OMAR DWIGHT, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, United States senator, was born in 
1818 in Cooperstown, N. Y. He was en¬ 
gaged in the geological survey of the 
Lake Superior iron and copper region 
from 1845 till 1847, and in 1848 became 
a lawyer in Port Huron, Mich. He was 
elected judge of the St. Clair county court 
in 1850, and was a state senator from 1855 
till 1861, being president pro tempore of 
the senate in 1859. He was a presidential 
elector on the republican ticket in 1864, a 
member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention in 1866, and a member of congress 
from 1869 till 1881, when he was chosen 
to the United States senate. 

CONKLIN, JANE ELIZABETH DEX¬ 
TER, poet, was born July 7, 1831, in Utica, 
N. Y. She is a great-granddaughter of 
Gregor Grant, who 
was ‘a chieftain of 
Clan Grant, who 
came from Scotland 
and entered the con¬ 
tinental army. Her 
education was ac¬ 
quired in Utica and 
Albany; and at the 
early age of fourteen 
a volume of her 
poems was issued 
from the press. Her 
marriage in 1865 to 
Cramer H. Conklin, a war veteran, led to 
her removal to Binghamton. She has 
taken a deep interest in all matters per¬ 
taining to the G. A. R„ and for three 
years served as president of the Relief 
corps. She has attained a good reputation 
as an elocutionist; and is the author of 
three volumes of poems. 


CONKLIN, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, 
journalist, naturalist, was born March 16, 
1837, in New York city. He has been con¬ 
nected with Central park since 1858, and 
director of the zoological department 
since 1870. He possesses one of the most 
complete libraries in the country on the 
subjects of mammalia and ornithology. 
He is editor of the Journal of Compara¬ 
tive Medicine and Surgery in New York, 
and has written articles on natural his¬ 
tory for various periodicals. 

CONKLIN, WILLIAM JUDKINS, phy¬ 
sician, was born Dec. 1, 1844, in Sidney, 
Ohio. He was physician to the Dayton 
hospital for the insane from 1869 till 1871, 
and afterward became secretary of its 
board of trustees. He was professor of 
physiology in Starling Medical college, 
Columbus, Ohio, from 1875 till 1878, and of 
diseases of children from 1878 till 1884. 
He is visiting surgeon to St. Elizabeth’s 
hospital, Dayton, and a member of vari¬ 
ous medical societies. He has contributed 
frequently to medical journals, and has 
published several monographs, including 
History of the Discovery of the Circula¬ 
tion of the Blood. 

CONKLING, ALFRED, jurist, author, 
was born Oct. 12, 1789, in East Hampton, 
N. Y. He was a jurist of New York whose 
son was the noted statesman, Roscoe 
Conkling. He was the author of Treatise 
on Organization and Jurisdiction of Su¬ 
perior, Circuit, and District Courts; Ad¬ 
miralty Jurisdiction; Powers of the Ex¬ 
ecutive Department of the United States; 
and Young Citizen’s Manual. He died 
Feb. 5, 1874, in Utica, N. Y. 

CONKLING, ALFRED RONALD, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Sept. 28, 1850, in 
New York city. He is a lawyer of New 
York city; and the author of Appleton’s 
Guide to Mexico; City Government in 
the United States; Handbook for Voters 
in New York City; and Life of Roscoe 
Conkling. 

CONKLING, FREDERICK A., mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 
1816, in Montgomery county, N. Y. He 
was a member of the assembly of New 
York in 1854, 1859, and 1860; and was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the thirty-seventh congress. He died 
Sept. 18, 1891, in New Yprk city. 

CONKLING (MRS. STEELE), MAR¬ 
GARET COCKBURN, author, was born 
Jan. 27, 1814. She has published Me¬ 
moirs of the Mother and Wife of Wash¬ 
ington; Isabel, or Trials of the Heart; 
and a translation of Florian’s History of 
fhe Moors of Spain. 

CONKLING, ROSCOE, lawyer, states¬ 
man, was born Oct. 30, 1828, in Albany, 
N. Y. He was appointed district attorney 
for Oneida county; 
in 1858 was elected 
mayor of Utica, to 
•which place he had 
removed in 1846; and 
at the close of 1858 
was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New 
York to the thirty- 
sixth congress. He 
was re-elected to the 
thirty-seventh, thir¬ 
ty-eighth, thirty- 
ninth and fortieth 
congresses. In 1867 he was chosen a sen¬ 
ator in congress for the term ending in 
1873. He was president of the republican 
state convention of 1867; and was re¬ 
elected to the senate for the term ending 
in 1879; and was also re-elected for the 
term ending in 1885. He died April, 1888, 
in New York. 


CONLEY, BENJAMIN, merchant, gov¬ 
ernor, was born March 1, 1815, in Newark, 
N. J. In 1869 he was elected state sen¬ 
ator and president of the senate; and in 
1871-72 was elected governor of Georgia. 
He died in 1885 in Atlanta, Ga. 

CONLEY, ELI PHILIP, educator, was 
born Aug. 25, 1868, in Smoketown, Pa. 
He received his education in the schools 
of his native county, and graduated from 
the Uiiester State Normal school. He has 
been successful in educational work, and 
is principal of schools at Parkesburg, Pa. 

CONLEY, JOHN DIKEMAN, scientist, 
was born Sept. 14, 1843, in Rockport, N. Y. 
He was elected to the chair of chemistry 
and natural sciences in Blackburn uni¬ 
versity, Carlinville, Ill. He has published 
a series of geological charts of all the 
ages and epochs, illustrated with two hun¬ 
dred figures of characteristic fossils. 

CONLEY, JOHN E., lawyer, was born 
Sept. 7, 1868, in Warren, R. I. During 
1889-91 he was clerk of committee on cor- 
noration in the Rhode Island house of 
representatives; and in 1894 was clerk 
of the house. Since 1892 he has been 
secretary of the democratic state com¬ 
mittee; and was a delegate at large to 
the democratic national convention in 
1896. He is a prominent member of vari¬ 
ous secret organizations; and has a 
successful law practice in his native city. 

CONLEY, JOHN WESLEY, clergyman, 
was born Nov. 20, 1852, in Cedar Rapids, 
Iowa. He resigned his pastorate in 1892, 
to accept the chair of missions in the 
divinity school of the university of Chi¬ 
cago, and the presidency of city missions. 
In 1893 he accepted a call to the First 
Baptist church of St. Paul, Minn. 

CONLEY, WILLIAM G., lawyer, editor, 
politician, was born Jan. 8, 1866, in King- 
wood, W. Va., of Scotch-Irish parentage. 

He received a thor¬ 
ough education and 
graduated from the 
West Virginia uni¬ 
versity with the de¬ 
gree of LL. B. For 
many years he was 
engaged in educa¬ 
tional work, and has 
been county superin¬ 
tendent of the free 
schools of Preston 
county, W. Va. He 
was also mayor of 
Parsons for one term. He is one of the 
rising lawyers of his state, and is now 
state’s attorney for Tucker county, W. 
Va. He is also the editor of the Par¬ 
sons City Advocate, and contributes ex¬ 
tensively to current literature. Mr. Conley 
was a member of the congressional com¬ 
mittee of the second West Virginia dis¬ 
trict; chairman of the republican execu¬ 
tive committee of his county; and one 
of the assistant secretaries of the St. 
Louis convention that nominated McKin¬ 
ley for president in 1896. 

CONN, CHARLES GERARD, soldier, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born in 
1844, in Phelps, N. Y. In early boyhood 
he moved with his parents to Elkhart, 
Ind., where he has since resided. He 
served throughout the civil war as a sol¬ 
dier in the union army. He is a successful 
manufacturer of musical instruments, 
which were awarded the highest honors 
and the best diploma at the World’s Col¬ 
umbian exposition. He has taken an ac¬ 
tive part in tne public affairs of his adopt¬ 
ed state; and served with distinction as 
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CONN, HERBERT WILLIAM, edu¬ 
cator, scientist, was born in 1859 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a biologist whose spe¬ 
cialty is the bacteriology of milk; and 
has been instructor and professor of 
biology at Wesleyan university since 1884. 
He is the author of Evolution of To-Day; 
The Living World; and Whence It Came 
and Whither It is Drifting. 

CONNELL, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born Sept. 10, 1827, in Cape Breton, 
N. S. He was placed in charge of the 
mines of the Susquehanna and Wyoming 
Valley Railroad and Coal company, with 
offices at Scranton; and in 1870, the char¬ 
ter of that company lapsing, he purchased 
the plant with his savings and organized 
the firm of William Connell and Co. He 
is president of the Third National bank 
of Scranton, and has been prominent in 
charitable and religious work. He was a 
delegate to the republican national con¬ 
vention of 1896, and is a member of the 
Pennsylvania republican committee. He 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress. 

CONNELL, WILLIAM J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 6, 1846, in Can¬ 
ada. He received an academic education, 
and for many years 
was engaged in mer¬ 
cantile pursuits in 
Massachusetts and 
Vermont, and since 
1867 has lived in 
Omaha, Neb. In 1870 
he was admitted to 
the bar; was elected 
district attorney in 
1872, and received 
the re-election two 
years later. In 1883 
he was appointed 
city attorney of Omaha, and held that 
office for four years. While in that posi¬ 
tion he saved Omaha nearly a million dol¬ 
lars by his successful defense of suits for 
damages, and by his sound legal advice 
on important questions. In 1888 he was 
elected to the fifty-first United States con¬ 
gress, and has served on numerous im¬ 
portant committees. In 1890 he was de¬ 
feated for congress by William J. Bryan. 
Since 1892 he has been city attorney of 
Omaha. 

CONNELLY, MRS. CELIA LOGAN, 
journalist, dramatist, was born in 1839 
in Pennsylvania. She is a journalist and 
playwright of Washington; and the au¬ 
thor of An American Marriage. 

CONNELLY, EMMA M„ author, was 
born in 18— in Kentucky. She is a writer 
of New York city; and the author of Un¬ 
der the Surface; Tilting at Wind Mills, a 
Story of the Blue Grass Country; and 
The Story of Kentucky. 

CONNELLY, HENRY, governor, was 
born in Virginia. He moved to Kansas 
and in 1861 was appointed governor of the 
territory of New Mexico, residing in 
Santa Fe, and remaining in office until 
1865. 

CONNER, DAVID, naval officer, was 
born in 1792 in Harrisburg, Pa. He en¬ 
tered a counting-house in Philadelphia 
in 1806, became a midshipman in the navy 
in 1809, and, as acting lieutenant, took 
part in the action between the Hornet 
and the Peacock, 1813. He died March 
20, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CONNER, JAMES, typefounder, was 
born April 22, 1798, in Hyde Park, N. Y. 
He did much for the art of printing, in¬ 
venting among other things a new kind 
of type called agate, and a process for pro¬ 
ducing matrices for casting type by chem¬ 
ical precipitation. He died in May, 1861, 
in New York city. 


CONNER, JOHN C., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 27, 1842, in Nobles- 
ville, Ind. He entered the army in 1862 
as a lieutenant, and served until the close 
of the war; and upon the reorganization 
of the army in 1866 was appointed a cap¬ 
tain in the forty-first infantry, and served 
in Texas. He was elected to the forty- 
first and forty-second congresses. He died 
in Washington. 

CONNER, SAMUEL S„ soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New Hampshire. 
He was a lieutenant-colonel in the United 
States army in 1812. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Massachusetts 
from 1815 to 1817; and held the office of 
surveyor-general in Ohio in 1819. He died 
Dec. 7, 1820, in Covington, Ky. 

CONNERS, MARIA W., poet. She is 
the author of a volume of poems en¬ 
titled A Wreath of Maple Leaves. For 
many years she was a resident of Wash¬ 
ington, and was there known as the Puget 
Sound poetess. 

CONNESS, JOHN, merchant, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 
1821, in Ireland. He was elected to the 
state legislature, and was re-elected three 
times. In 1859 he was candidate for lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of California, and in 1861 
a candidate for governor. In 1863 he was 
elected a senator in congress from Cali¬ 
fornia, for the term ending in 1869. 

CONNOLLY, DANIEL WARD, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born April 24, 
1847, in Cohocton, N. Y. Upon the or¬ 
ganization of the new county of Lacka¬ 
wanna, in 1878, he was elected president 
judge, but the state supreme court de¬ 
cided there was no vacancy. He was an 
unsuccessful candidate for congress in 
1880; and in 1882 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Pennsylvania to the forty- 
eighth congress. 

CONNOLLY, JAMES AUSTIN, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born March 8, 
1843, in Newark, N. J. He entered the 
United States army in 1862 as a private in 
the one hundred and twenty-third Illinois 
volunteers, and was afterward captain, 
major, and brevet lieutenant-colonel. He 
served as a member of the Illinois house 
of representatives in 1873-75; and was 
United States attorney for the southern 
district of Illinois from 1876 to 1885 and 
again from 1889 to 1893. He was elected 
to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

CONNOLLY, WILLIAM J., farmer, edu¬ 
cator, state legislator, was born Feb. 27, 
1860, in Washington, Ohio. He taught 
school for fifteen years, and in 1888-89 
was in the railway mail service. He was 
a member of the seventy-second general 
assembly of Ohio as a democrat. 

CONNOR, HENRY W., congressman, 
was born in August, 1793, in Prince George 
county, Va. He was aid-de-camp to Gen¬ 
eral Joseph Graham in the Creek war; 
and was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina from 1821 to 1841, when he 
declined a re-election. In 1848 he served 
in the general assembly; and declined a 
re-election. He died Jan. 15, 1866, in 
North Carolina. 

CONNOR, PATRICK EDWARD, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, was born March 17, 1820, 
in Ireland. He served in the Florida war; 
and also in the Mexican war. In 1863 he 
was commissioned a brigadier-general; 
and at the close of the war was brevetted 
major-general. He located the first silver 
mine in Utah; wrote the first mining 
law; introduced navigation on the Great 
Salt lake; built the first silver-lead smelt¬ 
ing works; and founded the town of 
Stockton. 


CONNOR, SELDEN, soldier, educator, 
was born Jan. 25, 1839, in Fairfield, Maine. 
He enlisted in 1860 as a private in a Ver¬ 
mont regiment. He subsequently became 
lieutenant-colonel of a Maine regiment; 
was promoted to the rank of colonel; was 
severely wounded in the battle of the 
Wilderness in 1864; and was then made a 
brigadier-general. In 1868 he was ap¬ 
pointed an assessor of internal revenue; 
in 1873 a collector of internal revenue; 
and in 1875 was elected governor of the 
state of Maine. 

CONNOR, WASHINGTON EVERETT, 
financier, was born Dec. 15, 1849, in New 
York city. Having attracted the notice of 
Jay Gould, Mr. Connor was entrusted by 
him with various commissions, which he 
executed with brilliant energy and entire 
success. The great financier was a com¬ 
petent judge of men, and, in 1881, he 
formed a partnership with the young 
broker, under the name of W. E. Connor 
and Co., and, in time, pleased with his 
adroitness, energy and audacity, admitted 
him to intimate friendship. George J. 
Gould became a member of the firm upon 
attaining his majority. For many years, 
both before and after 1881, Mr. Connor 
was the confidential representative of 
Jay Gould and was intrusted with the 
management of many important opera¬ 
tions in Wall street. He was also a 
favorite broker of Russell Sage and other 
leading capitalists in Wall street. Dur¬ 
ing recent years, Mr. Connor has gained 
an interest in the Louisville, New Albany 
and Chicago and the Wheeling and Lake 
Erie railroads, and various other corpora¬ 
tions, and devoted himself to improving 
his properties. 

CONNOVER, SIMON BARCLAY, phy¬ 
sician, United States senator, was born 
Sept. 23, 1840, in Middlesex county, N. J. 
He was appointed assistant surgeon in the 
army of the Cumberland, in 1863, and sta¬ 
tioned at Nashville, Tenn.; after sev¬ 
eral promotions, was ordered to Lake City, 
Fla., in 1866, and shortly afterward re¬ 
signed his commission. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the convention which framed the 
state constitution in 1868; was appointed 
state treasurer; was a member of the 
Chicago convention in 1868; and was ap¬ 
pointed a member of the national repub¬ 
lican committee, on which he served four 
years. He was elected to the state legis¬ 
lature from the county of Leon, and pre¬ 
sided over that body. He was elected to 
the United States senate for the term 
commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879. 

CONRAD, CHARLES M., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
in 1804 in Winchester, Va. He served a 
number of years in the state legislature; 
was a senator in congress in 1842 and 
1843; and was a member of the state con¬ 
stitutional convention in 1844. He was a 
representative in congress from Louisiana 
from 1849 to 1850, when he became secre¬ 
tary of war under President Fillmore. 
He served in the southern rebellion as a 
brigadier-general. He died Feb. 11, 1878, 
in New Orleans, La. 

CONRAD, F., abbot, was born in 1833 
in Switzerland. Having received direc¬ 
tions to found a monastery of his order in 
the United States in 1873, he embarked 
for this country and founded the Bene¬ 
dictine monastery of New Engleberg, at 
Conception, Mo., which was erected into 
an abbey in 1881. In 1885 Father Conrad 
was chosen as its first abbot. 

CONRAD, FREDERICK, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1803 to 1807. 






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CONRAD, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
clergyman, journalist, was born Jan. 3, 
1816, in Orwigsburg, Pa. He received a 
thorough education, and graduated from 
the Mount Airy college of Germantown, 
Pa.; and subsequently from the Theo¬ 
logical seminary of Gettysburg. He has 
been a successful pastor of Lutheran 
churches in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and 
Ohio; and for several years was pro¬ 
fessor of modern languages at the Witten- 
burg college of Springfield, Ohio. He is 
the editor of the Lutheran Observer of 
Philadelphia, Pa., and a trustee of the 
Lutheran Publication society. ■ He is the 
author of The Lutheran Doctrine of Bap¬ 
tism; Analysis of Luther’s Small Cate¬ 
chism; The Evangelical Lutheran Church; 
The Call to the Ministry; and The Li¬ 
turgical Question. 

CONRAD, GEORGE ELIHU, lawyer, 
was born March 22, 1852, in Bollinger 
county, Mo. He graduated from the Mis¬ 
souri State university, and has received 
the degrees of bachelor of arts, bachelor 
of pedagogies, and bachelor of laws. In 
1885-86 he was prosecuting attorney of his 
county; and has attained prominence as 
an able lawyer of Marble Hill, Mo. 

CONRAD, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, was 
born April 25, 1852, in Bridesberg, Pa. He 
was elected president of the city council 
of Wilmington in 1882; and for ten years 
from 1880 acted as United States chief 
supervisor of elections of the district of 
Delaware. 

CONRAD. JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1815. 

CONRAD, JOSEPH SPEED, soldier, 
was born Aug. 23, 1833, in Ithaca, N. Y. 
He received three brevets, as major, lieu- 
tenant-colonel, and colonel of volunteers. 

CONRAD, ROBERT TAYLOR, lawyer, 
jurist, poet, was born June 10, 1810, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of 
Philadelphia and 
mayor of that city 
in 1854, who was 
once noted as a dra¬ 
matic poet. He was 
the author of Ayl- 
mere, or the Bond- 
m a n of Kent, a 
tragedy in which 
Jack Cade is the- 
chief figure, a role 
in which Edwin For¬ 
rest was very suc¬ 
cessful. Conrad of 
Naples, another tragedy, had also a meas¬ 
ure of popularity. He died June 27, 1858, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CONRAD, TIMOTHY ABBOTT, con- 
chologist, author, was born in August, 
1803, in New Jersey. He was a conchol- 
ogist who published Fossil Shells of the 
Tertiary Formations of North America; 
New Fresh-Water Shells of the United 
States; Miocene Shells of the United 
States; and Palaeontology of State of New 
York. He died Aug. 9, 1877, in Trenton, 
N. J. 

CONRAD, WILLIAM, clergyman, was 
born Aug. 11, 1808, in Pennsylvania. He 
was one of the founders of Westmoreland 
college, Mount Pleasant, Pa., to which he 
presented his large collection of geologi¬ 
cal specimens, was a frequent contributor 
to religious journals, and published a vol¬ 
ume on Baptism. He died Feb. 16, 1865. 

CONRAD, WILLIAM GEORGE, banker, 
was born Aug. 3, 1848, in Clarke county, 
Va. He is principal owner and president 
of the Connell Coal company, of Scranton. 
In 1872 he founded the Third National 
bank of Scranton. 


CONSTABLE, ALBERT, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in Maryland. He 
was a presidential elector in 1832; was 
a representative in congress from 1845 to 
1847; and elected judge of the circuit 
court of Maryland in 1851. He died in 
September, 1855, in Camden, N. J. 

CONSTIEN, WILLIAM WALLACE, 
clergyman, was born Sept. 10, 1869, in 
Lancaster, Pa. He graduated from the 
Ohio Wesleyan university, and from the 
Boston university, and has received the 
degrees of A. B. and A. M. He has at¬ 
tained distinction as a successful cler¬ 
gyman of the methodist episcopal church, 
has filled pastorates in Toledo and Bowl¬ 
ing Green, Ohio, and now fills a pastorate 
in Pemberville. 

CONTEE, BENJAMIN, clergyman, was 
born in 1755 in Maryland. He became a 
clergyman of the protestant episcopal 
church. In 1776 he was an officer in the 
third Maryland battalion. He was a 
member of the continental congress in 
1787-88, and was elected to the first con¬ 
gress under the constitution, in which 
body he voted in 1790 for establishing the 
seat of government on the Potomac. Sub¬ 
sequently he became the presiding judge 
of the Charles county, Md., testamentary 
court. He died Nov. 3, 1815, in Charles 
county, Md. 

CONTEMO, OTTAVIO D., soldier, musi¬ 
cian, was born Sept. 29, 1835, in France. 
During the civil war he was a captain 
in the volunteer army of the United 
States. He has been a bandmaster in the 
United States army, and a custom house 
officer at Wilmington, Cal. He is major 
of the first regiment Union Battlefield 
Veterans’ association of San Jose, Cal., 
where he is a music teacher and band¬ 
master of the fifth regiment band. 

CONVERSE, AMASA, clergyman, jour¬ 
nalist, was born in 1795 in Virginia. He 
founded the Christian Observer, a Pres¬ 
byterian weekly organ of old-school doc¬ 
trine and southern political sympathies. 
When the civil war began he removed 
his.paper to Richmond, Va., and after the 
war to Louisville, Ky., where it contin¬ 
ued to be the organ and exponent of the 
southern presbyterian church. He died 
Dec. 9, 1872, in Louisville, Ky. . 

CONVERSE, CHARLES CROZAT, mus¬ 
ical composer, was born in 1834, in War¬ 
ren, Mass. His musical compositions 
have appeared under the anagrammatic 
pen-names C. O. Nevers, Karl Reden, and 
E C Revons. He has published a can¬ 
tata; New Method for the Guitar; Musi¬ 
cal Bouquet; The One Hundred and Twen¬ 
ty-sixth Psalm; Sweet Singer; Church 
Singer; and Sayings of Sages. 

CONVERSE, ELISHA, manufacturer, 

• was born July 28, 1820, in Boston, Mass. 
He is considered by those who know him 
the best financier in the state of Mon¬ 
tana. He was the first mayor of Fort 
Benton and territorial senator. 

CONVERSE, GEORGE L., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born June 4, 
1827, in Georgesville, Ohio. He was a 
member of the state house of representa¬ 
tives from 1860 to 1863; state senator in 
1864 and 1865; again in the lower house 
of the legislature from 1873 to 1876, serv¬ 
ing as speaker in 1873 and 1874; and was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth 
congresses. 

CONVERSE, MRS. HARRIET, author, 
poet, was born in 1846 in Elmira, N. Y. 
She is a writer of poetry and prose in 
New York city, and the author of Sheaves, 
a collection of verses; The Religious Fes¬ 
tivals of the Iroquois Indians; and Myth¬ 
ology and Folk-Lore of the North Ameri¬ 
can Indian. 


CONVERSE, JOEL NEWTON, physi¬ 
cian, railroad builder, was born Dec. 13, 
1820, in Madison county, Ohio. In 1864 
he began the build¬ 
ing of the road from 
Union City to Lo- 
gansport, Ind., which 
was completed i n 
1865. Of this line 
he was president and 
general superintend¬ 
ent until he resigned 
in 1870. He began 
the contract of build¬ 
ing the Midland 
Pacific railway, ex¬ 
tending from Ne¬ 
braska City via Lincoln to some point on 
the Union Pacific. 

CONVERSE, JULIUS, governor, was 
born in 1799 in Staffoi-d, Conn. He was 
governor of Vermont from 1872 to 1874. 
He died Aug. 18, 1885. 

CONWAY, ELIAS N., governor. He 
was governor of Arkansas for eight years 
from 1860 to 1868. 

CONWAY, HENRY W., congressman, 
was born in Greene county, Tenn. He 
was a delegate to congress from the ter¬ 
ritory of Arkansas from 1823 to 1829. 

CONWAY, JAMES S., governor. He 
was governor of Arkansas from 1836 to 
1840, having been the first elected under 
the state constitution. 

CONWAY, JOHN WILLIAM, journalist, 
poet, was born June 22, 1851, in Portage- 
ville, N. Y. He graduated from the Iowa 
State Agricultural college, and was sub¬ 
sequently deputy recorder of Allamakee 
county, Iowa. He is the editor and owner 
of the Champion of Norton, Kan., and 
is the author of many poems of merit. 

CONWAY, KATHERINE ELEANOR, 
journalist, poet, was born in 1853 in New 
York. She is a journalist of Boston, on 
the editorial staff of the Pilot, and the 
author of Songs of the Sunrise Slope; A 
Dream of Lilies, a volume of poems; A 
Lady and Her Letters; and Making 
Friends and Keeping Them. 

CONWAY, MARTIN F., printer, lawyer, 
congressman, was born about 1803 in 
Charleston, S. C. He took part in orig¬ 
inating the National Typographical union. 
He was elected to the council of the first 
territorial legislature; under the Topeka 
convention was chosen chief justice of the 
supreme court; and in 1856 was presi¬ 
dent of the Leavenworth constitutional 
convention. In 1859 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Kansas to the thirty- 
seventh congress. He died Feb. 17, 1882. 

CONWAY, MONCURE DANIEL, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, was born March 17, 
1832, in Stafford county, Va. He is a Uni¬ 
tarian clergyman of extremely radical 
views, who has for many years been in 
charge of a congregation in London. He 
has been a prolific writer in several fields, 
the larger number of his writings being 
The Rejected Stone; Idols and Ideals; 
Demonology and Devil Lore; The Wan¬ 
dering Jew; Sketch of Carlyle; The Earth¬ 
ward Pilgrimage; Sacred Anthology, a 
compilation; Emerson at Home and 
Abroad; George Washington and Mount 
Vernon; Omitted Chapters in Life and 
Letters of Edmund Randolph; Life of 
Thomas Paine; Tracts for To-Day; 
Natural History of the Devil; The Gold¬ 
en Hour; Testimonies Concerning Slav¬ 
ery; Human Sacrifices in England; Les¬ 
sons for the Day; Travels in South Ken¬ 
sington; A Necklace of Stories; Pine and 
Palm, a novel; and Prisms of Air, a 
novel. 


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CONWAY, THOMAS, soldier, was born 
Feb. 27, 1733, in Ireland. He was a brig¬ 
adier-general in the revolutionary war. 
He was obnoxious to Washington, and 
out of Conway’s anger against Washing¬ 
ton grew the Conway cabal. 

CONWELL, RUSSELL H., clergyman, 
author, was born in 1842 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is a baptist clergyman of Phil¬ 
adelphia, and the author of Why the 
Chinese Emigrate; Woman and the Law; 
Life of President Hayes; Life of Bayard 
Taylor; Life of President Garfield; and 
Joshua Giavencola, the Captain of the 
Vineyards of Lucerna. 

CONY, SAMUEL, state legislator, jurist, 
governor, was born Feb. 27, 1811, in Au¬ 
gusta, Maine. He was a member of the 
Maine legislature in 1835 and 1862; mem¬ 
ber of the council in 1839; and judge of 
probate from 1840 to 1847. He was 
state treasurer from 1850 to 1855; mayor 
of Augusta in 1854, and governor of Maine 
from 1864 to 1867. He died Sept. 5, 1870, 
in Augusta, Maine. 

CONYNGHAM, DAVID POWER, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1840 in Ire¬ 
land. He was a New York journalist, 
and editor of The Tablet, and the author 
of Sherman’s March Through the South; 
Lives of the Irish Saints and Martyrs; 
The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns. 
In fiction: Sarsfield, or the Last Great 
Struggle for Ireland; The O’Donnells of 
Glen Cottage; O’Mahoney, Chief of the 
Commeraghs; and Rose Parnell, the 
Flower of Avondale. He died in 1883. 

CONYNGHAM, JOHN BUTLER, soldier, 
was born in 1827. While a prisoner at 
Charleston he was one of the number se¬ 
lected as hostages to be shot in case of a 
bombardment of the city by our forces. 
In 1871 he was brevetted major and lieu- 
tenant-colonel for gallant service in the 
field. During his term of service in the 
regular army he was mostly employed on 
the Indian frontier. He died May 27, 1871, 
in Wilkesbarre, Pa. 

COOK, ALBERT JOHN, naturalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 30, 1842, in Owasso, 
Mich. He was a professor of zoology at 
Michigan Agricultural college, and the au¬ 
thor of Injurious Insects of Michigan; 
and Manual of the Apiary. 

COOK, ALBERT STANBURROUGH, 
educator, author, was born March 6, 
1853, in Montville, N. J. In 1879-81 he 
was associate in English in the Johns 
Hopkins university; was professor of 
English language and literature in the 
university of California during 1882-89, 
and since 1889 has filled the same chair 
in the Yale university of New Haven, 
Conn. In 1897 he became president of the 
Modern Language association of Amer¬ 
ica. He has edited Siever’s Old English 
Grammar; Judith, an Old English Epic 
Fragment; and Sidney’s Defence of Poesy. 

COOK, BURTON C., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born May 11, 1819, 
in Monroe county, N. Y. He was elected 
state’s attorney for the ninth circuit in 
1846, for two years, and was re-elected, in 
1848, for four years. He was a member of 
the state senate from 1852 to 1860, and in 
1864 was elected a representative from 
Illinois to the thirty-ninth congress, and 
re-elected to the fortieth and forty-first 
congresses as a union republican. 

COOK, CLARENCE CHATHAM, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Sept. 8, 1828, in 
Dorchester, Mass. He is an art critic of 
New York city, and editor of The Studio. 
He has edited Lubke’s History of Art, 
and published also The House Beautiful; 
Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and 
Candlesticks; and The Central Park. 


COOK, DANIEL P., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1795 in Scott county, 
Ky. He moved to the territory of Illinois 
in 1815; and was the first attorney-gen¬ 
eral of the state of Illinois. During 1820- 
27 he represented Illinois in congress, 
and was considered by such men as Mr. 
Calhoun and Judge McLean as a man of 
remarkable talents. He died Oct. 16, 1827. 

COOK, FREDERICK WASHINGTON, 
legislator, railroad president, was born 
Feb. 1, 1832, in Washington, D. C. He 
was elected as representative from Van- 
derburg county to the legislature of In¬ 
diana. In this capacity he served during 
the called session of 1864, and also dur¬ 
ing the regular session of 1864-65. He is 
president of the Evansville Suburban and 
Newburg railway, at Evansville, Ind. 

COOK, GEORGE HAMMELL, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 5, 1818, in Han¬ 
over, N. J. He was a professor of geology 
at Rutgers college and state geologist, 
whose only published work is The Geo¬ 
logy of New Jersey. He died Sept. 22, 
1889, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

COOK, JOEL, journalist, author, was 
born in 1842, in Pennsylvania. He is a 
Philadelphia journalist, and financial edi¬ 
tor of the Public Ledger. He is the au¬ 
thor of Brief Summer Rambles near Phil¬ 
adelphia; An Eastern Tour at Home; A 
Holiday Tour in Europe; England, Pic¬ 
turesque and Descriptive; and The Siege 
of Richmond. 

COOK, JOHN, soldier, legislator, was 
born June 12, 1826, in Belleville, Ill. In 
1854 he was elected mayor of Springfield, 
Ill.; two years later became sheriff of 
Sangamon county, and in 1858 was ap¬ 
pointed quartermaster-general of Illinois. 
He became a general during the civil war. 
In 1868 he was a member of the Illinois 
state legislature, and was instrumental 
in securing the second appropriation foi 
the erection of the new state house. 

COOK, JOHN C., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 26, 1846, in Sen¬ 
eca county, Ohio. He settled in I°wa, 
and in 1878 was elected judge of the sixth 
judicial district. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Iowa to the forty-seventh 
congress. 

COOK, JOHN P., congressman, was . 
born in New York. On taking up his 
residence in Iowa, he was elected a lep- 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1853 to 1855. 

COOK, JOHN WILLISTON, educator, 
college president, was born April 20, 1846, 
in Oneida county, N. Y. He graduated 
from the Illinois State university, in 
which institution he was an instructor 
from 1868-90, when he was appointed 
president. 

COOK, JOSEPH, lecturer, author, was 
born Jan. 26, 1838, near Ticonderoga, N. 
Y. In 1874 he began a series of Monday 
lectures in Boston, 
Mass., on the rela¬ 
tions of religion and 
science; and subse¬ 
quently delivered 
them in the princi¬ 
pal cities of the 
United States. He 
has lectured through¬ 
out the principal 
countries of Europe, 
and in India, China, 
Japan, Australia, and 
the Sandwich Isl¬ 
ands. His published works, comprising 
his lectures, carefully written out, have 
been very successful, some of which have 
passed through as many as sixteen 
editions. His works are Boston Monday 
Lectures, in ten volumes; and Current Re¬ 


ligious Perils, with Other Addresses on 
Leading Reforms. 

COOK, MARC, journalist, author, poet, 
was born in 1854 in Rhode Island. 
He was a journalist of New York, and 
the author of The Wilderness Cure; and 
Vandyke Brown Poems. He died Oct. 4, 
1882, in Utica, N. Y. 

COOK, MARTHA ELIZABETH DUN¬ 
CAN WALKER, author, poet, was born 
July 23, 1806. She was a good lin¬ 
guist, and translated several works from 
the German and French. Among these 
were Liszt’s Life of Chopin, translated 
from the French; The Undivine Comedy, 
and Other Poems, by Count Sigismund 
Krasinski, translated from the Polish 
through the German and French; and 
Life of Joan of Arc. She died Sept. 15, 
1874, in Hoboken, N. J. 

COOK, MAY AMY, pianist, was born 
Dec. 4, 1869, in Paw Paw, Mich. She has 
studied under private teachers, and spent 
three years in Berlin during 1891-94. She 
has attained prominence as a concert 
pianist; was organist at the First Meth¬ 
odist church of Portiana, Ore., during 
1889-91; and now gives recitals and piano 
instruction in that city. 

COOK, ORCHARD, merchant, con¬ 
gressman. He was a merchant by occu¬ 
pation, and for some years sheriff of 
Lincoln county, Mass. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Massachusetts 
from 1805 to 1811. 

COOK, PHILIP, soldier, state senator, 
congressman, was born July 31, 1817, in 
Twiggs county, Ga. He was elected to 
the state senate in 1859, 1860 and 1863. He 
entered the confederate service in 1861 as 
a private, and rose to be brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He was a member ’of the state con¬ 
vention of 1865, and was elected to the 
thirty-ninth congress, but not allowed to 
take his seat. He was elected to the 
forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a 
democrat. 

COOK, RICHARD BRISCOE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1838, in Mary¬ 
land. He is a baptist clergyman of Wil¬ 
mington, Del., and the author of The 
Story of the Baptists in All Ages and 
Countries. 

COOK, RUSSELL S., clergyman, was 
born March 16, 1811, in New Marlborough, 
Mass. He devoted himself to the service 
of the American Tract society; in 1839 
was appointed one of its corresponding 
secretaries, and labored as such for eight¬ 
een years in New York city. He died 
Sept. 4, 1864, in Pleasant Valley, N. Y. 

COOK, SAMUEL A., soldier, farmer, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 
28, 1849, in Ontario. He enlisted as a 
private in company A, second Wisconsin 
cavalry, served’ under General Custer, and 
was mustered out at the close of the war. 
He engaged in manufacturing, and moved 
to Neenah, Wis„ in 1881. He was elected 
mayor of Neenah in 1889, and a member of 
the state legislature in 1891-92. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

COOK, SETH, miner, was born in 1830, 
in Byron, N. Y. He was among the first 
of the men to establish themselves on the 
Comstock ledge, and with his brother 
Daniel made a great deal of money in 1886 
in the Crown Point deal. He obtained 
control of the Standard mine at Bodie, 
and finally returning to the Comstock 
ledge, became controlling owner of the 
Alta group of mines at the southern end 
of the lode. He also had mines on Max¬ 
well creek and large interests in land, in¬ 
cluding a stock ranch in Contra Costa 
county. 




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COOK, THEODORE PEASE, soldier, 
journalist, poet, was born Dee. 21, 1844, 
in Boston, Mass. He entered the army 
at the age of eighteen and served through 
the civil war, being finally on the staff 
of Gen. John C. Robinson. He was grad¬ 
uated at Columbia law school in 1867, but 
devoted himself to journalism in Utica. 
During the presidential canvass of 1876 
he wrote the Lives of Tilden and Hen¬ 
dricks. The best known of his poems 
are Blue-Beard and An Ode for Decoration 
Day. 

COOK, WILLIAM HENRY, physician, 
author, was born in 1832, in New York. 
He is a physician of Cincinnati, and the 
author of Physio-Medical Surgery; Wo¬ 
man’s Book of Health; Physio-Medical 
Dispensatory; Spermatorrhoea; and Sci¬ 
ence and Practice of Medicine. 

COOK, ZADOCK, congressman, was 
born in 1769. He was frequently in the 
legislature of Georgia; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1817 to 1819. 

COOK, ZEBEDEE, legislator, insurance 
manager, was born Jan. 11, 1786, in New- 
buryport, Mass. He was among the first 
to introduce into this country the system 
known as mutual insurance. He was made 
president in 1822 of the Eagle Insurance 
company, and held the office until 1828. 
During the next ten years he developed 
his ideas so thoroughly that in 1838 he 
was invited to New York to become presi¬ 
dent of the Mutual safety insurance com¬ 
pany. By his efforts the Isabella grape 
was introduced into New England. He 
procured the cuttings and began the cul¬ 
ture. He served in the Massachusetts 
legislature from 1835 till 1839. He died 
Jan. 24, 1858, in Framingham, Mass. 

COOKE, ANSON S., farmer, educator, 
legislator, was born Aug. 13, 1849, in Lake 
county, Ill. In his youth he taught school 
and in 1872 settled in Kansas, where he 
was elected a state senator from the thir¬ 
ty-third district. 

COOKE. AUGUSTUS PAUL, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Feb. 10, 1836, in Coopers- 
town, N. Y. He served in the navy dur¬ 
ing the civil war, and rose to the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel. In 1890 he was or¬ 
dered to New York as president of the 
board of inspection of merchant vessels. 
He retired from service in 1892. 

COOKE, BATE, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1831 to 1833; from 1839 to 
1841 held the office of comptroller of New 
York, and was bank commissioner in 
1840. He died in 1841. 

COOKE, MRS. DORCAS F., poet, was 
born May 25, 1839, in Somerset county, 
Maine. In 1888 she published, in con¬ 
junction with Mrs. Julia Ellen Jenkins, 
a volume of poems entitled Memories. 

COOKE, EDWARD, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Jan. 
19, 1812, in Bethlehem, N. H. From 1864 
till 1874 he was principal of the Wesleyan 
academy at Wilbraham, Mass., and from 
that year till 1884 president of Claflin uni¬ 
versity and State Agricultural college at 
Orangeburg, S. C. 

COOKE, EDWARD DEAN, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 17, 1849, in Cascade, Iowa. He was 
elected a representative in the Illinois 
legislature in 1882 as a republican, and 
was a member of the judiciary commit¬ 
tee and committee on banks and banking 
and chairman of the committee on elec¬ 
tions. He was elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress from what is known as the 
North Side district in the city of Chica¬ 
go and re-elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress. 


COOKE, ELEUTHEROS, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 25, 1787, in Gran¬ 
ville, N. Y. He was a representative in 
congress from Ohio from 1831 to 1833, and 
served for many years in the legislature 
of that state before and after entering 
congress. He died Dec. 27, 1865, in San¬ 
dusky, Ohio. He was the father of the 
distinguished bankers, Jay, Pitt, and 
Henry D. Cooke. 

COOKE, GEORGE WILLIS, clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born April 23, 1848, 
in Comstock, Mich. He is a Unitarian 
clergyman of Lexington, Mass., who has 
done much excellent work in criticism, 
and has attained prominence as a lec¬ 
turer. He is the author of George Eliot, 
a Critical Study; Ralph Waldo Emerson: 
his Life, Writings, and Philosophy; Poets 
and Problems, Studies of Tennyson, Rus- 
kin, and Browning; Guide Book to 
Browning; and The Clapboard Trees Par¬ 
ish, Dedham, a History. 

COOKE, HENRY D., journalist, mer¬ 
chant, was born Nov. 23, 1825, in San¬ 
dusky City, Ohio. The idea of a steam¬ 
ship line from New York to California by 
way of Panama was suggested by him. 
He subsequently resided in California; 
had much to do with the shipping of the 
Pacific, and was the first to announce, 
through a despatch from the military gov¬ 
ernor of California to Washington, the 
discovery of gold in the Sacramento Val¬ 
ley. He returned to the east, and was as¬ 
sociated with the United States Gazette, 
Sandusky Register, and the Ohio State 
Journal; was a presidential elector in 
1856; in 1861 became a partner in the 
house of Jay Cooke and Co.; frequently 
visited Europe on business; and in 1870 
was appointed the first governor of the 
District of Columbia, which office he re¬ 
signed in 1873. He was the son of Eleu- 
theros Cooke, a distinguished orator and 
congressman, and brother of Jay Cooke, 
the eminent financier. He died Dec. 29, 
1881, in Georgetown, D. C. 

COOKE, ISABELLE W., artist, poet, 
was born March 15, 1834, in Meriden, 
Conn. She is an instructor in painting 
and drawing and the author of a volume 
of poems entitled Tears and Victory. 

COOKE, J. EDMUND V., author, poet, 

' was born June 5, 1866, in Canada. He has 
attained prominence as a lecturer and 
platform reader of his own writings. He 
is the author of A Patch of Pansies, a 
volume of his collected poems. 

COOKE, JAY, financier, was born Aug. 
10, 1821, in Sandusky, Ohio. In 1861 he 
started the banking firm of Jay Cooke and 
Company; is the owner of Ogontz college, 
and also owns Gibraltar Island and its 
beautiful mansion. 

COOKE, JOHN ESTEN, lawyer, author, 
was born Nov. 3, 1830, in Winchester, Va. 
He was a noted Virginia author who 
served in the confederate army during the 
civil war. He wrote much historical fic¬ 
tion, The Virginia Comedians being the 
most famous of his romances. He was the 
author of Leather Stocking and Silk; 
The Youth of Jefferson; Surry of Eagle’s 
Nest; Wearing the Gray; My Lady Poka- 
hontas; Henry St. John, reissued as Bon- 
nybel Vane; Mohun, or the Last Days of 
Lee and His Paladins; Her Majesty the 
Queen; Pretty Mrs. Gaston; Stories of 
the Old Dominion; The Maurice Mystery; 
Mr. Grantley’s Idea; Professor Pressen- 
see; Virginia Bohemians; Hammer and 
Rapier; Hilt to Hilt, include the greater 
part of his work in fiction. He wrote also 
Life of General Lee; Stonewall Jackson, 
a Biography; and Virginia, a History of 
the People. He died Sept. 27, 1886, in 
Boyce, Va. 


COOKE, JOSEPH P., congressman, was 
born in 1730. He was a delegate from 
Connecticut to the continental congress 
from 1784 to 1788. He died in 1816, in 
Danbury, Conn. 

COOKE, JOSIAH PARSONS, chemist, 
author, was born Oct. 12, 1827, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a chemist of distinction 
who was professor of chemistry at Har¬ 
vard university from 1850, and lectured in 
many places on scientific topics. He was 
the author of Religion and Chemistry; 
Scientific Culture; Elements of Chemical 
Physics; Chemical Problems and Reac¬ 
tions; Principles of Chemical Philosophy; 
The New Chemistry; The Credentials of 
Science the Warrant of Faith; and Labor¬ 
atory Practice. He died in 1894. 

COOKE, MARTIN WARREN, lawyer, 
author, was born March 2, 1840, in White¬ 
hall, N. Y. He has been practitioner in 
the United States courts; and in the 
United States supreme court; and is also 
the official attorney of the university of 
Rochester. He is the author of a work 
entitled The Human Mystery in Hamlet. 

COOKE, NICHOLAS, governor, was 
born Feb. 3, 1717, in Providence, R. I. 
He was deputy-governor of the state in 
1775; and governor from that date to 1778. 
He died Sept. 14, 1782, in Providence, R. I. 

COOKE, NICHOLAS FRANCIS, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Aug. 25, 1829, in 
Providence, R. I. He was a prominent 
physician of Chicago, and the author of 
Satan in Society; and Antiseptic Medica¬ 
tion. He died Feb. 1, 1885, in Chicago, Ill. 

COOKE, PARSONS, clergyman, author, 
was born Feb. 18, 1800, in Hadley, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Lynn, strongly Calvinisuc in doctrine and 
controversially inclined. He was the au¬ 
thor of History of German Anabaptism; 
and A Century of Puritanism and a Cen¬ 
tury of Its Opposites. He died Feb. 12, 
1864, in Lynn, Mass. 

COOKE. PHILIP PENDLETON, lawyer, 
poet, was born Oct. 26, 1816, in Martins- 
burg, Va. He was a Virginia lawyer 
whose poetry was once very much ad¬ 
mired, and whose Florence Vane still lin¬ 
gers in the anthologies. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Froissart Ballads, and Other 
Poems. He died Jan. 20, 1850. 

COOKE, PHILIP ST. GEORGE, soldier, 
author, was born June 13, 1809, near 
Leesburg, Va. He was a brigadier-general 
in the United States army who reared 
in 1873. He was the author of Scenes and 
Adventures in the Army; Handy Book 
for United States Cavalry; Cavalry Tac¬ 
tics; and Conquest of New Mexico and 
California. He died in 1895. 

COOKE, MRS. ROSE TERRY, author, 
poet, was born in 1827 in Connecticut. 
She was a New England writer well 
known both as a poet and a writer of 
short stories of notable excellence. She 
was the author of Poems by Rose Terry; 
Happy Dodd; Somebody’s Neighbors; The 
Sphinx’s Children and Other People’s; 
Steadfast; and Huckleberries. In 1888 a 
complete collection of her poems was 
made, including the contents of her early 
volume and her later work in verse. The 
Two Villages is her best known poem, as 
it is one of her best. She died in 1892. 

COOKE, THOMAS BURRAGE, lawyer, 
banker, jurist, congressman, was born 
in 1780 in Northford, Conn. He became 
a judge of the court of common pleas, was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1811 to 1813, and served in the 
New York legislature in 1838 and 1839. 
He was for many years president of the 
Catskill bank, and was one of the earliest 
‘ projectors of railroads in this country. 
He died in Catskill, N. Y. 


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COOKINS, JAMES, artist, was born 
about 1835 in Terre Haute, Ind. He has 
much talent as a landscape painter, and 
his illustrations of fairy tales show great 
power of invention. 

COOKMAN, ALFRED, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1828. He was a metho- 
dist clergyman who published Stayed on 
God. He died Nov. 13, 1871, in Newark, 
N. J. 

COOLBRITH, INA DONNA, poet, was 
born in Illinois. She is a California poet, 
and formerly librarian of the Oakland 
Public library. Her work is nearly al¬ 
ways musical. She is the author of The 
Perfect Day and Other Poems; and Songs 
•of the Golden Gate. 

COOLEY, ABIEL A., inventor, was born 
in 1782. He was a physician, and invented 
improvements in friction matches, an in¬ 
genious shingle machine, and one of the 
first power presses in use. He was also 
the first to apply the cam movement to 
pumps. He died Aug. 18, 1858, in Hert¬ 
ford, Conn. 

COOLEY, ALICE KINGSBURY, actress, 
author, poet, was born Dec. 31, 1840, in 
England. For several years she was an 
actress in such plays as Fanchon, Juli¬ 
ette and others, and starred over the 
United States and Canada. She is the 
author of a child’s book entitled Ho for 
Elfland; and a work for adults entitled 
Asaph, an historical novel of ancient 
Jerusalem. 

COOLEY, LE ROY CLARK, educator, 
authoi', was born Oct. 7, 1833, in Point 
Peninsula, N. Y. He is a professor of 
physics at Vassal' college, and the author 
of a series of text-books entitled Text- 
Book of Physics; Text-Book of Chem¬ 
istry; Easy Experiments in Physical 
Science; Natural Philosophy; Elements of 
Chemistry; Students’ Guide Book; Be¬ 
ginners’ Guide to Chemistry; and Labora¬ 
tory Studies in Elementary Chemistry. 

COOLEY, THOMAS McINTYRE, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 6, 1824, 
in Attica, N. Y. He is a jurist of promi¬ 
nence in Michigan, and professor of his¬ 
tory in the university of Michigan. He 
is the author of Law of Taxation; Law 
of Torts; General Principles of Consti¬ 
tutional Law in the United States; Treat¬ 
ise on Constitutional Limitations of the 
Legislative Power in the Several States; 
annotated editions of Blackstone’s Story s 
Commentaries; and Michigan, a History 
•of Governments. He died in September, 
1898. 

COOLIDGE, CARLOS, lawyer. ^ state 
senator, governor, was born in 1792 in 
Windsor, Vt. He was state attorney for 
the county from 1831 to 1836; representa¬ 
tive from 1834 to 1837, and from 1839 to 
1842; and was speaker in 1836, and during 
the last term. He was governor of Ver¬ 
mont from 1849 to 1851; and was a state 
senator from 1855 to 1857. He died Aug. 
15, 1866, in Windsor, Vt. 

COOLIDGE, FREDERICK SPAULD¬ 
ING, manufacturer, congressman, was 
born Dec. 7, 1841, in Westminster, Mass. 
He is a manufacturer of chairs and chair 
cane, and is the manager of the Boston 
Chair Manufacturing company and of the 
Leominster Rattan works. He was demo¬ 
cratic elector in 1888; and was representa¬ 
tive to the general court of Massachusetts 
in 1875. He was elected to the fifty-sec¬ 
ond congress as a democrat. 

COOLIDGE, SIDNEY, scientist, was 
born in 1830 in Boston, Mass. After work¬ 
ing in the nautical-almanac office and in 
the Cambridge observatory, he was ap¬ 
pointed in 1853 assistant astronomer to 
'Commodore Perry’s Japan exploring ex¬ 


pedition. Being in Mexico in 1858, he 
took part in the civil war of that year. 
He took part in an Arizona land survey in 
1860, and in 1861 became major in the 
sixteenth United States infantry. He was 
superintendent of the regimental recruit¬ 
ing service in 1862, commanded regiments 
at different posts and camps, and was en¬ 
gaged at the battles of Hoover’s Gap and 
Chickamauga, where he was killed. For 
his services in the latter fignt he received 
the brevet of lieutenant-colonel. He died 
Sept. 19, 1863, near Chickamauga, Ga. 

COOMBE, THOMAS, clergyman, author, 
was born Oct. 21, 1748, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. In 1772 he was assistant rector of 
Christ’s church in Philadelphia, being 
transferred later to St. Peter’s. He went 
to England, and in 1794 was made pre¬ 
bendary of Canterbury and chaplain-in¬ 
ordinary to the king. He was the author 
of a volume entitled Peasant of Auburn. 
He died Aug. 15, 1822, in London, Eng¬ 
land. 

COOMBS, ANNIE LINMERE, poet, was 
born Nov. 7, 1844, in Frederick, Ohio. 
She received her education in the Pitts¬ 
burg high schools and seminary. She 
has written over five hundred poems for 
the leading magazines and newspapers. 

COOMBS, MRS. ANNIE SHELDON, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1858 in New York. She 
was a novelist of New York city, and 
the author of As Common Mortals; A 
Game of Chance; and The Garden of 
Armida. She died in 1890. 


COOMBS, WILLIAM J., merchant, con¬ 
gressman. was born Dec. 24, 1833, in Jor¬ 
dan, N. Y. He is one of the pioneers in 
the business of exporting American goods, 
having been engaged in that business over 
thirty-five years. He was the unsuccess¬ 
ful independent and democratic candidate 
for congress in 1888; and was elected to 
the fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. 


COON, JOHN HENRY, manufacturer, 
financier, was born March 24, 1831, in 
Johnstown, N. Y. In 1889 he helped to 
organize the Coon, Cluett and Company, 
manufacturers of collars and cuffs, which 
developed into immense proportions. He 
is also a director of several business cor¬ 
porations of Buffalo, N. Y. 



COONEY, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1848 in Ireland. 
He was educated in the public schools 
and at the state uni¬ 
versity of Missouri; 
taught school for a 
few years after he 
left the university, 
and in 1875 located 
in Marshall, Mo., 
and engaged in the 
practice of law. He 
was elected to the 
office of probate 
judge of his county; 
in 1882, and again in 
1884, was elected 
prosecuting attorney of his county, and 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a democrat. 


COONS, ALONSO B., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Sept. 3, 1841, in Montgomery 
county, N. Y. He has filled the office of 
district attorney of Schoharie county, N. 
Y., and during 1888-90 was a member of 
the New York state assembly. 


COOPER, BENJAMIN, naval officer, 
was born in 1793 in New Jersey. He was 
appointed to the United States navy as 
midshipman in 1809, and served with dis¬ 
tinction during the war of 1812. He was 
promoted and attained the grade of cap¬ 
tain in 1828. He died June 1, 1850, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 


COOPER, CHARLES, poet, was born 
April 23, 1822, in England. He is the 
author of Signs of the Day, and other 
poems of merit. He lives in Salt Lake 
City, Utah, where he has taken an active 
part in public affairs. 

COOPER, CHARLES M., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 16, 
1856, in Athens, Ga. He was elected to 
the lower house of the legislature in 1880, 
and was elected to state senate in 1884. 
He was appointed attorney-general of the 
state in 1885 for term of four years, and 
was appointed in 1889 one of three com¬ 
missioners • to revise the statutes of the 
state. He was elected to the fifty-third 
congress and re-elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress as a democrat. 

COOPER, DAVID, jurist. He was ap¬ 
pointed a judge of the United States 
court of Minnesota in 1850. 

COOPER, EDMUND, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Sept. 11, 
1821, in Franklin, Tenn. He was elected 
to the Tennessee legislature, was elected 
a union delegate to the state convention 
proposed in 1861, and was again elected 
to the state legislature in 1865, but re¬ 
signed on being elected a representative 
from Tennessee to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress. In 1867 he was appointed assistant 
secretary of the treasury. 

COOPER, EDWARD, manufacturer, 
was born Oct. 26, 1824, in New York city. 
The success of the Trenton iron-works 
and of the New Jersey iron and steel¬ 
works is largely due to his painstaking 
and careful study of the subject. He was 
an active member of the committee of 
seventy, through whose efforts the Tweed 
ring was overthrown. In national politics 
he has served as a delegate to the Charles¬ 
ton convention of 1860, and to the St. 
Louis convention of 1876. He is a trustee 
of the Cooper union, and is a member of 
various corporations. 

COOPER, ELIAS SAMUEL, surgeon, 
was born in 1821 in Butler county, Ohio. 
He took an active part in the organization 
of the medical department of the univer¬ 
sity of the Pacific, the first medical school 
on the Pacific coast; and at the time of 
his death was professor of surgery and 
president of the medical faculty. He es¬ 
tablished the San Francisco Medical 
Press, and was a contributor to eastern 
medical journals. He died Oct. 13, 1862, 
in San Francisco, Cal. 

COOPER, ELLWOOD, horticulturist, 
author, was born May 24, 1829, in Sads- 
bury, Pa. He is a horticulturist of south¬ 
ern California, president of the state 
board of horticulture; and the author of 
Statistics of Trade with Hayti; Forest 
Culture and Eucalyptus Trees; and Treat¬ 
ise on Olive Culture. 

COOPER, GEORGE, poet, composer, 
was born May 14, 1840, in New York city. 
He studied law in the office of Chester A. 
Arthur, was admitted to the bar, but 
never practiced to any extent. He is the 
author of the words of many popular 
ballads, such as Beautiful Isle of the Sea; 
Sweet Genevieve; Mother Kissed Me in 
My Dream; Must We then Meet as Stran¬ 
gers; and While the Days Are Going By. 
He is the author of The Chaplet, and Gos¬ 
pel Melodies, two volumes of hymns. 

COOPER, GEORGE B., congressman, 
was born June 6, 1808, in Long Hill, N. J. 
He served in the two houses of the Mich¬ 
igan state legislature; served two terms 
as state treasurer of Michigan; and was 
elected a representative from Michigan 
to the thirty-sixth congress. He died in 
1866 in Shark river, N. J. 


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COOPER, GEORGE HENRY, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born June 27, 1821, in New York. 
He commanded the Pensacola navy yard; 
and from 1878 to 1880 was president of the 
board of inspection. In 1880 he took 
command of the navy yard ac Brooklyn, 
and was promoted to be rear-admiral. 
He was commander-in-chief of the Atlan¬ 
tic squadron, until his retirement in 1884. 
He died Nov. 17, 1891, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

COOPER, GEORGE WILLIAM, lawyer, 
legislator, was born May 21, 1851, in 
Bartholomew county, Ind. He graduated 
from the Indiana university and has at¬ 
tained prominence as one of the foremost 
lawyers of Indiana. He has been mayor 
and prosecuting attorney of Columbus, 
Ind., and prosecuting attorney of his coun¬ 
ty. He served as a member of the fifty- 
first, fifty-second and fifty-third con¬ 
gresses as a democrat; and has always 
advocated a tariff measure limited to the 
wants of the government, administered 
with simplicity and economy; an advocate 
of sound finance; and in favor of all mea¬ 
sures necessary for a stable government. 

COOPER, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born Aug. 22, 
1827, in Columbia, Tenn. He was elected 
to the state legisla¬ 
ture in 1853 and 1857, 
and in 1862 appoint¬ 
ed judge of the sev¬ 
enth judicial circuit 
of Tfennessee; re¬ 
signed in 1866. He 
was chosen professor 
in the law school at 
Lebanon, Tenn., in 

1866, and resigned in 

1867, when he re¬ 
moved to Nashville. 
He was elected to 

the state senate in 1869 and 1870, and was 
elected to the United States senate for 
the term ending in 1877. 

COOPER, HENRY ALLEN, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
Walworth county, Wis. He was elected 
district attorney of Racine county, and 
was re-elected without opposition in 1882 
and 1884. He was a delegate to the na¬ 
tional republican convention of 1884; a 
member of the board of education of the 
city of Racine in 1886-87, and was a mem¬ 
ber of state senate 1887-89. He was elected 
to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

COOPER, HENRY M., manufacturer, 
public official, was born May 13, 1841, in 
Chester, N. J. Since 1871 he has resided 
in Little Rock, Ark.; has been receiver 
of public moneys and collector of internal 
revenue, which latter position he filled for 
three terms. For twelve years he was 
secretary of the republican state commit¬ 
tee, and has been its chairman several 
terms. For the past twenty years he has 
been engaged in manufacturing, and is 
the president of the Little Rock Cooperage 
company, one of the largest corporations 
in that business in the state. He is also 
president of the Union Compress com¬ 
pany, a wealthy corporation of his state. 

COOPER, HORACE CLARK, JR., mer¬ 
chant, printer, publisher, was born May 
6, 1849, in Lake Mills, Wis. He has com¬ 
piled and published a number of biogra¬ 
phical works; and since 1873 has been 
president of the American Biographical 
Publishing company of Chicago, Ill. He 
is closely identified with the foremost pub¬ 
lishing houses of Chicago, as president 
of the Brown-Cooper Typesetting com¬ 
pany, the largest and most complete lino¬ 
type composing establishment west of New 
York. 


COOPER, JAMES, soldier, lawyer, Unit¬ 
ed States senator, was born May 8, 1810, 
in Frederick county, Md. He was elected 
a representative in 
congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania in 1838, and 
re-elected in 1840. In 
1843 he was elected 
to the state legisla¬ 
ture, and re-elected 
in 1844, 1846 and 

1848, serving as 
speaker in 1847. In 
1848 he was appoint¬ 
ed attorney-general 
of Pennsylvania; and 
in 1849 was chosen a 
senator in congress for the term of six 
years. He afterwards became a brigadier- 
general in the army. He died March 28, 
1863, in Columbus, Ohio. 

COOPER, JAMES B., naval officer, was 
born March 6, 1753, in Bucks county, Pa. 
In 1812 he entered the navy as master, and 
served in that capacity during the war. 
He was promoted to lieutenant in 1822, 
and became commander in 1841. He died 
Feb. 5, 1854, in Haddonfield, N. J. 

COOPER, JAMES CAMPBELL, mineral¬ 
ogist, was born June 16, 1832, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He has taken great interest 
in the study of geology and mineralogy, 
and has collected, located, and named 
fully 50,000 specimens of minerals, in¬ 
cluding a collection of 9,000 specimens 
that he presented the university of Kan¬ 
sas. 

COOPER, JAMES E., showman, was 
born Nov. 4, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He entered the circus business in part¬ 
nership with P. T. Barnum, W. W. Cole 
and James L. Hutchinson, the show tak¬ 
ing the name of P. T. Barnum and Com¬ 
pany's Greatest Show on Earth. At the 
close of 1887 he sold his interest to James 
A. Bailey and retired with the intention of 
devoting the remainder of his days to 
the enjoyment of the fortune he had 
amassed, but the fascination and excite¬ 
ment of the circus arena tempted him 
forth once more, and, in 1890, he pur¬ 
chased the Adam Forepaugh shows, and 
he died while in the harness. He died 
Jan. 1, 1892, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE, author, 
was born Sept. 15, 1789, in Burlington, N. 
J. He was the first American writer to 
gain general Euro¬ 
pean recognition, 
and the first native 
novelist who won a 
national reputation. 
Although much that 
he wrote is nearly 
forgotten, the best of 
his work survives 
and is still popular. 
His first novel, Pre¬ 
caution, a conven¬ 
tional, mediocre 
piece of writing, ap¬ 
peared in 1820, and was followed, in 1821, 
by The Spy, the most famous of all his 
books, having been translated into all 
the principal languages of Europe. Al¬ 
most as famous is The Last of the Mohi¬ 
cans, a much greater work. Among his 
tales of the sea, The Pilot, and The Red 
Rover are the best, as the five Leather 
Stocking Tales—the Deerslayer, The Last 
of the Mohicans, • The Pathfinder, The 
Pioneers, The Prairie—are the best of his 
stories of Indian life. His other fictions 
include The Bravo; Lionel Lincoln, or 
The Leaguer of Boston; The Water- 
Witch; The Two Admirals; The Wept of 
Wish-ton-Wish; The Heidenmauer; The 
Headsman; Homeward Bound; Home as 


Found; The Monikins, the weakest of all 
his works; Mercedes of Castile; Wing- 
and-Wing; Wyandotte; Alloat and 
Ashore; Satanstoe; The Chainbearer; 
The Red Skins; Jack Tier; The Crater; 
The Oak Openings; The Sea Lions; The 
Ways of the Hour; and Miles Walling¬ 
ford. He wrote, also, History of the 
United States Navy; Sketches of Switzer¬ 
land; Gleanings in Europe, and Notions of 
the Americans. He died Sept. 14, 1851, in 
Cooperstown, N. Y. 

COOPER, JOB A., banker, governor, 
was born Nov. 6, 1843. Hi’s inter¬ 

est in public affairs led to his serv¬ 
ice in the Denver city council in 1876 and 
his election as treasurer of the state uni¬ 
versity at Boulder. In 1889 he was made 
governor of the state for two years. He 
was for some time president of the First 
National bank, and is now president of 
the National Bank of Commerce. 

COOPER, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a delegate from New Jersey to the con¬ 
tinental congress in 1776. 

COOPER, JOSEPH ALEXANDER, sol¬ 
dier, was born Nov. 25, 1823, in Somerset, 
Ky. He served during the Mexican war. 
In 1864 he was made a brigadier-general, 
in which capacity he commanded on the 
march through Georgia, receiving the 
brevet of major-general in 1865. He held 
the office of collector of internal revenue 
in Tennessee from 1869 till 1879, and later, 
again resumed his farming in Kansas. 

COOPER, MARK ANTHONY, congress¬ 
man, was born April 20, 1800, in Hancock 
county, Ga. He was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1839 to 1843. 
He died March 17, 1885. 

COOPER, MARY CATHERINE RYAN, 
educator, artist, poet, was born in 1863, 
in Louisiana. After receiving a thorough 
education from the Wheeling Female col¬ 
lege of West Virginia, she entered educa¬ 
tional work. She is the author of a vol¬ 
ume entitled Poems of Hope; has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature, 
and is an artist of rare ability. 

COOPER, MYLES, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1735 in England. He was an 
episcopal clergyman who came to America 
in 1762, and was president of Columbia 
college in 1763-75. Being an ardent loy¬ 
alist, he was obliged to leave the colony, 
and returned to England. He was the 
author of Friendly Advice to All Reason¬ 
able Americans on Our Political Confu¬ 
sions; Poems on Several Occasions; Ad¬ 
dress to the Episcopalians of Virginia; 
and The American Querist. He died in 
1785. 

COOPER, PETER, manufacturer, phil¬ 
anthropist, was born Feb. 12, 1791, in New 
York city. He was apprenticed to a coach 
maker; then he man¬ 
ufactured machines 
for shearing cloth; 
then made furni¬ 
ture; then conducted 
a grocery; and then 
began the manufac¬ 
ture of glue and isin¬ 
glass, which he con¬ 
tinued for fifty years. 
He also erected iron 
mills, and manufac¬ 
tured railroad iron 
and architectural 
beams, and built the first locomotive en¬ 
gine in America. H,e became wealthy and 
built the Cooper institute. He was one 
of the six capitalists who formed the first 
Atlantic Telegraph company in 1854. He 
was the author of Ideas for a System of 
Good Government; and Financial Opin¬ 
ions, with Autobiography. He died April 
4, 1883, in New York city. 











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COOPER, RICHARD M., banker, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1768 in Gloucester 
county, N. J. He was a member of the 
Society of Friends, and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New Jersey from 
1829 to 1833; served in the legislature; 
and was president of the state bank at 
Camden. He died March 10, 1844. 

COOPER, SAM BRONSON, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 30, 1850, in 
Caldwell county, Ky. In 1876 he was 
elected county attorney of Tyler county; 
and was re-elected in 1878. In 1880 he 
was elected to the state senate; elected 
to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a democrat. 

COOPER, SAMUEL, soldier, author, was 
born June 12, 1798, in New Jersey. He was 
appointed adjutant and inspector-general 
of the confederate army, of which he was 
the ranking officer, standing first on the 
list of generals. He was the author of A 
Concise System of Instructions and Reg¬ 
ulations for the Militia and Volunteers of 
the United States. He died Dec. 3, 1876, 
in Cameron, Va. 

COOPER, MRS. SARAH BROWN IN- 
GERSOLL, philanthropist, author, poet, 
was born Dec. 12,1836, in Cazenovia, N. Y. 

She graduated in 
1853 from the Caze¬ 
novia seminary and 
subsequently attend¬ 
ed the Troy Female 
seminary. During 
the civil war Mrs. 

Cooper was elected 
president of the So¬ 
ciety for the Aid of 
Refugees; and taught 
a Bible class of three 
hundred soldiers. In 
1869 she moved to 

there won a national 
reputation in religious and educational 

work. While the credit of establishing 

the first free kindergarten in San Fran¬ 
cisco is due to Prof. Felix Adler, yet the 
credit of the extraordinary success of the 
work is almost entirely due to Mrs. 
Cooper. Nearly half a million dollars 
was given to her to carry on kindergarten 
work in San Francisco, and thousands of 
little children have been trained in these 
schools. She was the founder and presi¬ 
dent of the Golden Gate Kindergarten as¬ 
sociation; and has written many works of 
vital importance on the subject of kin¬ 
dergartens. She died in 1896. 

COOPER, SUSAN FENIMORE, author, 
was born in 1813 in Scarsdale, N. Y. She 
was a writer of rural sketches, whose 
life was passed at Cooperstown, N. Y., 
and was the author of Rural Hours; 
Country Rambles; Rhyme and Reason; 
Country Life; The Shield, a Narrative; 
and Mount Vernon and the Children of 
America. She died in 1894. 

COOPER, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Delaware from 1813 to 1817. 

COOPER, THOMAS, scientist, author, 
was born Oct. 22, 1759, in London, Eng¬ 
land. He was a noted scientist who came 
to America in 1795 with Dr. Priestly, 
and was president of the college of 
South Carolina, 1820-34. He was the au¬ 
thor of Letters on the Slave Trade; 
Tracts Ethical, Theological, and Political; 
Information Concerning America; Ihe 
Bankrupt Law of America compared with 
that of England; Tracts on Medical Juris¬ 
prudence; Elements of Political Econo¬ 
my; and An English Version of the In¬ 
stitutes of Justinian. He died May 11, 
1840, in Columbia, S. C. 


COOPER, THOMAS B., physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 29, 1823, in 
Cooperstown, Pa. He adopted the profes¬ 
sion of a physician, and was elected a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania, for the term ending in 1863. He 
died April 4, 1862, in Cooperstown, Pa. 

COOPER, W. R., congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Jersey from 1839 to 1841. 

COOPER, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in New Jersey. He removed to Ot¬ 
sego county, New York, and became the 
founder of Cooperstown. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1795 to 1797, and again from 1799 
to 1801. He was the father of the eminent 
author, James Fenimore Cooper. 

COOPER, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1694 in Boston, Mass. 
He was a famous congregational minister 
of Boston, and the author of Tract De¬ 
fending Inoculation for the Small Pox; 
and The Doctrine of Predestination unto 
Life. He died Dec. 13, 1743, in Boston, 
Mass. 

COOPER, WILLIAM, patriot, was born 
in 1720 in Boston, Mass. He was dis¬ 
tinguished for his patriotic services dur¬ 
ing the revolutionary war, and for forty- 
nine years was town clerk of Boston. He 
died Nov. 28, 1809. 

COOPER, WILLIAM B., governor, was 
born in Delaware. He was governor of 
the state from 1840 to 1844. He died 
April 27, 1849. 

COOPER, WILLIAM C., was born Dec. 
18, 1832, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was 
prosecuting attorney for Mount Vernon 
from 1859 to 1863; was mayor of Mount 
Vernon from 1862 to 1864; was a repre¬ 
sentative in the state legislature from 
1872 to 1874; and was judge-advocate- 
general of Ohio from 1879 to 1884. In 
1881 he became a member of the board of 
education of the city of Mount Vernon. 
In 1882 he was elected president of the 
board. In 1884 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the forty-ninth 
congress, and was re-elected to the fif¬ 
tieth and fifty-first congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

COOPER, WILLIAM R., lawyer, was 
born Feb. 13, 1847, in Campbell county, 
Tenn. He is a noted lawyer of Knoxville, 
Tenn., and a charter member of the 
Peace commandery and other orders. He 
has been supreme keeper of records of 
United Order of the Golden Cross since 
1879; and has contributed extensively to 
current literature. 

COOTE, RICHARD, colonial governor, 
was born in 1636 in Ireland. He became 
governor of the provinces of New York 
and New Jersey in 1698, and a year later 
went to Boston and succeeded to the 
governorship of Massachusetts. He died 
March 5, 1701, in New York. 

COOTER, JAMES THOMAS, clergyman, 
educator, college president, was born Dec. 
2, 1858, in Monticello, Mo. He attended 
the Monticello seminary; graduated in 
1884 from the Wabash college; and stud¬ 
ied theology for two years at the Prince¬ 
ton college, New Jersey, and one year 
at the McCormick’s seminary of Chicago. 
He filled a pastorate in the Presbyterian 
church at Baxter Springs, Kan., during 
1887-90, and since 1891 has been president 
of Washington college, Tennessee. 

COOTER, JOHN PATTEN, farmer, edu¬ 
cator, was born March 12, 1838, in Green 
county, Tenn. He has attained promi¬ 
nence in educational work; has written 
extensively for the periodical press, and 
many of his poems have been given a 
place in standard works. 


COPE, CALEB FREDERICK, mer¬ 
chant, financier, was born July 18, 1797, 
in Greensburg, Pa. In 1864 he became 
president of The Philadelphia Savings 
Fund Society, of which he had been a 
director since 1841, and gave to this in¬ 
stitution the last twenty-four years of his 
life. He died May 12, 1888, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

COPE, EDWARD DRINKER, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born July 28, 1840, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a noted Phila¬ 
delphia naturalist, and the author of 
Origin of Genera; Extinct Batrachia and 
Reptilia of North America; Primary 
Groups of Batrachia Anura; Systematic 
Relations of the Fishes; Vertebrate 
Palaeontology of New Mexico; Tertiary 
Vertebrata of the West; and The Origin 
of the Fittest. He died in 1897. 

COPE, GILBERT, genealogist, author, 
was born in 1840 in Pennsylvania. He is 
a genealogist of Pennsylvania, and the 
author of Record of the Cope Family; 
The Browns of Nottingham; Genealogy 
of the Dutton Family; Genealogy of the 
Sharpless Family; and History of Ches¬ 
ter County, Pennsylvania. 

COPE, THOMAS PYM, merchant, was 
born Aug. 26, 1768, in Lancaster county. 
Pa. He began business for himself in 
1790, importing his goods latterly in his 
own vessels, the first of which he built in 
1807, and established in 1821 the first line 
of packets between Philadelphia and 
Liverpool. He was a member of the 
Philadelphia city council about 1800, an 
efficient member of the committee for 
introducing water into the city, served in 
the legislature in 1807, and in the state 
constitutional convention, was president 
of the board of trade for many years, and 
of the Mercantile library company from 
its foundation until his death. He died 
Nov. 22, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

COPELAND, ALFRED BRYANT, 
painter, was born about 1840 in Boston, 
Mass. He became art professor in the 
University of St. Louis, but about 1877 
opened a studio in Paris, where he worked 
in crayon and oils. He exhibited church 
interim’s in the Paris salon in 1877-78, 
and sent to Boston a collection of street 
scenes in Paris. 

COPELAND, GEORGE D., business 
man, lawyer, poet, was born in Wadding- 
ton, N. Y. For ten year’s he practiced law 
in Goshen, Ind.; and for two years edited 
The Times of that city. In 1873 he moved 
to San Diego, Cal.; was its postmaster in 
1881-86; and was instrumental in secur¬ 
ing for that city its bountiful supply of 
pure mountain water, which is brought 
from the mountains fifty miles away. He 
is the president of the electric railway 
and lighting firm of that city. 

COPELAND, JOSEPH, business man, 
banker, was born in 1836, in Ulster, Ire¬ 
land. For many years he was engaged in 
mining in California and Oregon, and fi¬ 
nally secured controlling interest in sev¬ 
eral gold mines. He made over twenty 
trips to the Pacific coast; organized the 
First National bank of Shellsburg, Wis., 
of which he was president until his death 
in 1893. 

COPELAND, JOSEPH T., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born May 6, 1813, in New 
Castle, Maine. During 1846-49 he was 
judge of the St. Clair county court of 
Michigan; was elected circuit judge in 
1851; and served during 1851-57 as a 
judge of the supreme court. He served 
with distinction through the civil war, 
and was promoted brigadier general of 
volunteers. 



San Francisco, and 



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COPELAND, JOSEPH T„ soldier, was 
born in 1830 in Michigan. He served 
through the civil war and was appointed 
a brigadier general of volunteers. 

COPELAND, PATRICK, pioneer, edu¬ 
cator. He was employed as a chaplain in 
the service of the East India company. 
He first suggested the idea of a college in 
America, and may be justly considered as 
the pioneer of education. 

COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON, artist, 
was born July 3, 1737, in Boston, Mass. 
He is said to have been the only native 
painter of real skill which the New World 
could boast before the Revolution, and to 
possess one of his portraits is America’s 
best title to nobility. The Death of Lord 
Chatham is his masterpiece. He died 
Sept. 9, 1815, in London, England. 

COPLEY, LIONEL, colonial governor, 
was born probably in England. After the 
province of Maryland had been delivered 
over to the crown by the protestant as- 
sociators, he was in 1691 commissioned its 
first royal governor. He died Sept. 12, 
1693. 

COPP, MRS. HELEN RANKLIN, sculp¬ 
tor, was born Aug. 4, 1853, in Atlanta, Ill. 
She studied at the art institute of Chi¬ 
cago, Ill., and received the only medal 
ever given by that institution for sculp¬ 
ture. She has modeled portraits of a 
number of prominent citizens of Chicago, 
besides many ideal works. 

COPPEE, HENRY, soldier, educator, 
college president, author, was born Oct. 
13, 1821, in Savannah, Ga. He was a 
prominent educator, president of Lehigh 
university, 1866-75, and professor there 
until his death. During the Mexican war 
he served as an officer in the American 
army. His most important work is a 
History of the Conquest of Spain by the 
Arab Moors, which takes up the narrative 
at the period reached at the close of 
Irving’s Mahomet and his Successors. 
His other works comprise Elements of 
Logic; Elements of Rhetoric; Grant and 
his Campaigns; Manual of Battalion 
Drill; Evolutions of the Line; and Man¬ 
ual of Court Martial. He died in 1895. 

COPPIN, LEVI J., journalist, author, 
was born Dec. 24, 1848, in Cecil county, 
Md. He is the manager of the A. M. E. 
Church Review, and the author of The 
Relations of Baptized Children to the 
Church. 

COPPINGER, JOHN J., soldier, was 
born in 1835 in Ireland. He joined the 
papal guards to fight against Victor Em¬ 
manuel. He came to America with let¬ 
ters from Archbishop Hughes, and in 1861 
was made captain in the fourteenth in¬ 
fantry. At the close of the war he was 
colonel of the fifteenth New York cavalry. 
He made a brilliant record and was brev- 
etted lieutenant-colonel at Trevillians, 
Va. After the war he was transferred to 
the twenty-third United States infantry, 
.and was brevetted colonel in battles with 
the Indians in 1866, 1867 and 1868. He 
•was commissioned major-general in 1898. 

COPWAY, GEORGE, author, poet, was 
born in August, 1820, in Michigan. He is 
an Indian of the Ojibway tribe who was a 
journalist in New York city, and was 
well known as a lecturer. He was the 
author of Recollections of a Forest Life; 
Copway’s American Indian; The Tradi¬ 
tional History of the Ojibway Nation; 
The Ojibway Conquest, a poem; and 
Running Sketches of Men and Places in 
Europe. 

CORAY, GEORGE Q., educator, librar¬ 
ian, was born in November, 1857, in 
Provo, Utah. He is a graduate of Cornell 
and librarian of the university of Utah. 


CORBETT, HENRY WINSLOW, mer¬ 
chant, was born Feb. 18, 1827, in West- 
borough, Mass. While successful as a 
merchant he has not 
confined his enter¬ 
prise to that field, 
but has also engaged 
in steam transporta¬ 
tion, and was at one 
time mail contractor 
between Oregon and 
California overland, 
stocking the road in 
1866 with Concord 
coaches for 740 
miles. His contract 
with the government 
amounted to $179,000 per year. As he 
gained the means he then became a large 
buyer of choice real estate in Portland, 
and has recently built a number of busi¬ 
ness blocks. He is now one of the largest 
owners of improved property in the city, 
and pays taxes on about $850,000 worth of 
realty. He served during 1867-73 in the 
United States senate as a union republi¬ 
can. 

CORBIN, AUSTIN, railroad president, 
financier, was born July 11, 1827, in New¬ 
port, N. H. He is now president of the 
Long Island railroad, the Elmira, Cort¬ 
land and Northern railroad, the Manhat¬ 
tan Beach company, the Manhattan Beach 
Hotel and Land company, and the New 
York and Rockaway Beach railway. 

CORBIN, MRS. CAROLINE ELIZA¬ 
BETH, author, was born in 1835 in Con¬ 
necticut. She is a Chicago writer of fic¬ 
tion and other works, and the author of 
Rebecca; His Marriage Vow; Belle and 
the Boys; and A Woman’s Philosophy of 
Love, a psychological treatise. 

CORBIN, D. C., railroad president, was 
born in 1837 in New Hampshire. He is 
president of the Spokane Falls and North¬ 
ern railway; and also of the Nelson and 
Fort Sheppard railway. 

CORBIN, HENRY CLARK, soldier, was 
born in Ohio. He was the adjutant at 
the inaugurations of Garfield, Cleveland, 
Harrison and McKinley. He headed the 
remarkable procession of the centennial 
at New York in 1889 and has been the 
marshal in other great affairs of that 
kind. He entered the army as a volun¬ 
teer. After the civil war he passed a sat¬ 
isfactory examination and was accepted 
as an officer in the regular army. He has 
always, since the time of Lincoln, been 
very near the person of the president. 
He is adjutant to President McKinley in 
the president’s capacity as commander-in- 
chief of the army. 

CORBIN, HORACE, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, was born May 21, 1827, in Tioga 
county, Ind. In 1852 he was elected prose¬ 
cuting attorney, and 
in 1862 he was 
chosen to the state 
senate, where he 
served four sessions. 
In 1873, when Ply¬ 
mouth first became a 
city, he was elected 
its mayor. In 1875 
he was tendered by 
Governor Hendricks 
the appointment of 
judge of the circuit 
court, which he ac¬ 
cepted, filling the office with credit to 
himself and the satisfaction of the dis¬ 
trict, until the fall of 1876, when he was 
named by the democratic party for the 
same position. < 

CORBIN, JOHN, author, was born in 
1870 in Illinois. He is the author of The 
Elizabethan Hamlet. 




CORBIN, JOSEPH CARTER, educator, 
college president, was born March 26, 
1833, in Chillicothe, Ohio. He graduated 
in 1853 from the Ohio university. He 
has been state superintendent of educa¬ 
tion of Arkansas and for the past twenty 
years president of the Branch Normal col¬ 
lege of Pine Bluff, Ark. He is a promi¬ 
nent member of the Masonic order, of 
which he has been grand secretary. 

CORBUSIER, WILLIAM HENRY, sur¬ 
geon, ethnologist, was born April 10, 1844, 
in New York city. He graduated in medi¬ 
cine from the Bellevue hospital and medi¬ 
cal college of New York city. During the 
civil war he served in the field as acting 
assistant surgeon. He is now surgeon in 
the United States army, stationed at Fort 
Monroe, Va. While doing duty on the 
frontier he wrote vocabularies of the 
Mojave and Yavapai dialects of the Yuma 
language; discovered several winter 
counts, counts back, or calendars among 
the Dakotas; and studied the symbols, 
pictographs and sign language of the 
North American Indians. 


CORBY, WILLIAM, educator, college 
president, was born Oct. 2, 1833, in De¬ 
troit, Mich. As chaplain of a New York 
cavalry regiment he 
left for the army of 
the Potomac. He 
was through Mc¬ 
Clellan’s campaign 
on the peninsula, 
and was afterwards 
commanded by Burn¬ 
side, Hooker, Meade, 
and Grant. In 1866 
he was made presi¬ 
dent and local su¬ 
perior at Notre 
Dame. In 1872 he 
was appointed the pastor at Watertown, 
Wis., holding this place until 1877, when 
he was chosen president of Notre Dame 
for a second time. 




CORCORAN, JOHN WILLIAM, lawyer, 
jurist, public official, was born June 14. 
1853, in Batavia, N. Y. He received 
the rudiments of 
his education in 
the Clinton public 
schools; attended 
the College of the 
Holy Cross of Wor¬ 
cester, Mass.; the 
St. John’s university, 
and the Boston uni¬ 
versity. He has a 
large law business in 
Boston, Mass., and 
resides in Clinton. 
He has been judge of 
the superior court; judge advocate gen¬ 
eral; was chairman of the democratic 
state committee four times; and was 
twice the chairman of the state delega¬ 
tion to the national convention. For 
twenty-two years he has been a member 
of the Clinton school committee, serving 
fifteen years as chairman. He was city 
solicitor of Clinton for ten years; water 
commissioner, secretary, treasurer and 
chairman for fifteen years; was chairman 
of the Massachusetts board of managers 
at the World’s Columbian exposition; 
and has filled numerous positions of 
honor in his city, county and state. 


CORCORAN, MICHAEL, soldier, was 
born Sept. 21, 1827, in Ireland. During the 
civil war he served with distinction; or¬ 
ganized the Corcoran legion, and was 
made brigadier-general of volunteers. He 
died Dec. 23, 1863, near Sawyer’s Station, 
Va. 




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CORCORAN, WILLIAM WILSON, 
banker, philanthropist, was born Dec. 27, 
1798, in Georgetown, D. C. The state 
department selected him as its financial 
agent in 1841; and in 1842 George W. 
Riggs and he founded the afterward fa¬ 
mous banking house of Corcoran and 
Riggs, which rose into prominence 
through sales of government bonds at the 
time of the Mexican war and later. He 
earned the title of philanthropist by num¬ 
berless gifts, which amounted during his 
lifetime ' to about $4,000,000. He died 
Feb. 24, 1888, in Washington, D. C. 

CORDLEY, RICHARD, clergyman, was 
born Sept. 6, 1829, in Nottingham, Eng¬ 
land. During 1850-54 he attended the 
Michigan university; 
and the three years 
following studied at 
the Andover Theolog¬ 
ical seminary; and 
graduated with hon¬ 
ors from both insti¬ 
tutions. In 1857 he 
moved to Kansas 
and preached his 
first sermon as pas¬ 
tor of the Plymouth 
church of Lawrence, 
which position he 
filled for eighteen years. During 1875-78 
he was pastor of the congregational 
church of Flint, Mich.; during 1878-84 in 
the congregational church of Emporia, 
Kan.; when he again became pastor for 
the second time of the Plymouth church 
of Lawrence, Kan. During all the busy 
years of his ministry he has been a fre¬ 
quent and valued correspondent of the 
religious press. He is often called The 
Nugget Preacher, because his short and 
original sermons teem with golden nug¬ 
gets of thought. 

CORDOVA. ALFRED DE, stock broker, 
was born Aug. 19, 1848, in Jamaica. First 
a broker in petroleum, he purchased a 
seat in the stock exchange of New York 
city in 1875, and his firm of Alfred de 
Cordova and Son have since been suc¬ 
cessful in the brokerage of stocks. In 
1894 he was elected a governor of the 
stock exchange of New York city. 

CORE, JESSE FRANKLIN, soldier, 
clergyman, was born Sept. 15, 1846, in 
Hillsboro, Pa. He served gallantly as a 
soldier in the civil war, and was twice 
wounded. He attended the Methodist 
college of Millersburg, Ky.; and received 
the degree of D. D. from Waynesburg 
college. He was twice presiding elder in 
the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist 
Episcopal church; and twice a member 
of the General conference of that denomi¬ 
nation. He is also well known as a 
brilliant pulpit orator and lecturer; has 
served many of the best churches in his 
conference; and was offered the nomina¬ 
tion for congress. 

COREY, CHARLES HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, was born Dec. 12, 1834, in Canaan, 
N. B. In 1867 he was appointed principal 
of the Augusta institute, Augusta, Ga., 
and in the next year was transferred to 
Richmond, Va., as president of an insti¬ 
tution for the training of colored preach¬ 
ers and teachers. 

CORLET, ELIJAH, educator, was born 
in 1611 in London, England. He estab¬ 
lished himself in Cambridge soon after 
the settlement of the town, and taught 
the grammar school there for forty-six 
years. The society for the propagation 
of the gospel compensated him for pre¬ 
paring Indian scholars for the univer¬ 
sity. He died Feb. 24, 1687, in Cambridge, 
Mass. 


CORLETT, WILLIAM W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 10,1842, in Con¬ 
cord, Ohio. He was appointed postmaster 
at Cheyenne, Wyoming territory, in 1870; 
and was a member of the council in the 
territorial assembly in 1871. He was 
elected prosecuting attorney for Laramie 
county in 1872, 1873 and 1875; and was 
elected a delegate from the territory of 
Wyoming to the forty-fifth congress as a 
republican. 

CORLEY. MANUEL SIMEON, mer¬ 
chant, legislator, congressman, was born 
Feb. 10, 1823, in Lexington county, S. C. 
During 1854-56 he was editor and owner 
of the South Carolina Temperance Stand¬ 
ard. In his youth he was apprenticed to 
learn the tailor’s trade, and became a suc¬ 
cessful merchant tailor of Lexington, 
S. C. In 1868 he was a member of 
the South Carolina constitutional conven¬ 
tion; and in 1868-69 a member of the for¬ 
tieth congress. He has been United 
States treasury agent; chief of South 
Carolina bureau of agricultural statistics; 
and treasurer of his county. From boy¬ 
hood he has loved freedom and hated 
slavery, and his utterances on these ques¬ 
tions for a long time imperiled his life. 

CORLISS, GEORGE HENRY, inventor, 
was born June 2, 1817, in Easton, N. Y. 
He invented many ingenious devices, 
among which is a machine for cutting 
the cogs of bevel-wheels, an improved 
boiler, with condensing apparatus for ma¬ 
rine-engines, and pumping-engines for 
water works. He was a member of the 
Rhode Island legislature in 1868-70, and 
was a republican presidential elector in 
1876. He died Feb. 21, 1888, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. 

CORLISS. GUY C. H., lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 4, 1858, in Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. In 1879 he was admitted to the 
bar; and in 1886 moved to Grand Forks, 
N. D. In 1889 he was elected chief jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of North Da¬ 
kota, which office he still fills. 

CORLISS, JOHN B., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Richford, Vt. He was 
elected city attorney of Detroit in 1881 
and re-elected in 1883; during his four 
years’ incumbency of the office of city 
attorney he prepared the first complete 
charter of Detroit, which was passed by 
the legislature in 1884 and is still the fun¬ 
damental law of the municipality. He 
was elected to the fifty-fourth and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

CORLISS, MRS. MARY E., was born 
Dec. 22, 1832, in Great Falls, N. H. Her 
poems have appeared in the periodical 
press. She has collected her poems and 
published them in book form. 

CORNABY, MRS. HANNAH, poet, was 
born March 17, 1822, in England. In 1881 
she published a volume entitled Autobi¬ 
ography and Poems, which attracted 
considerable attention in her native state. 

CORNELIUS, ELIAS, physician and pa¬ 
triot, was born in 1758 on Long Island. 
He obtained the appointment of surgeon’s 
mate in the second Rhode Island regi¬ 
ment. He was captured and confined in 
the prison-ship Jersey, but escaped in 
March, 1778, rejoined the army, and con¬ 
tinued with it till 1781. In later years he 
obtained a large practice. He died June 
13, 1823, in Somers, N. Y. 

CORNELIUS, ELIAS, educator, mis¬ 
sionary, author, was born July 31, 1794, in 
Somers, N. Y. He was a missionary to 
the Cherokee Indians who wrote The 
Little Osage Captive, an Authentic Nar¬ 
rative. He died Feb. 12, 1832, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 


CORNELL, ALONZO BARTON, gover¬ 
nor of New York during 1880-83, was born 
Jan. 22, 1832, in Ithaca, N. Y. He re¬ 
ceived an academic 
education, and at an 
early age engaged in 
the telegraph busi¬ 
ness, and became 
operator, manager, 
superintendent, di¬ 
rector, vice-president 
and acting president 
of the Western 
Union Telegraph 
company. He is the 
son of the late Ezra 
Cornell, the founder 
of the Cornell university, who was asso¬ 
ciated with Prof. Morse in the early 

development of the electric telegraph. In 

1872 he was elected to the legislative as¬ 
sembly of the state of New York, and 
was chosen speaker. Jan. 1, 1880, he was 
inaugurated governor of the state of New 
York, and served with distinction for 

three years. He has been a trustee of 
Cornell university from its foundation; 
and president of the Cornell library as¬ 
sociation. His only publication is True 
and Firm, a Biography of Ezra Cornell, 
a Filial Tribute. 

CORNELL, EZEKIEL, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Scituate, R. I. 
He was a member of the continental con¬ 
gress in 1780-83, and chairman of the mili¬ 
tary committee. He was a mechanic be¬ 
fore the war, but was self-educated, and 
established a valuable library in his na¬ 
tive town. 

CORNELL, EZRA, pioneer, was born 
Jan. 11, 1807, in Westchester, N. Y. When 
congress had appropriated $30,000 to build 
a telegraph line from Washington to Bal¬ 
timore, and Mr. Cornell invented a ma¬ 
chine to be drawn by eight mules for lay¬ 
ing the wires underground and was em¬ 
ployed as superintendent to carry out his 
idea. Next year a line was built by him 
under contract from New York to Phila¬ 
delphia, and in 1846 one from New York 
to Albany. In 1847 he organized a com¬ 
pany and built a telegraph line from Troy 
to Montreal, and in 1848 formed the New 
York and Erie and the Erie and Michigan 
Telegraph companies, to construct lines 
from New York to Lake Erie and thence 
to Milwaukee. He gave a $75,000 building 
to Ithaca for a free library and made a 
further gift for books. For the founding 
of Cornell university he gave nearly a 
million dollars and so located the agri¬ 
cultural college land grant, which New 
York state had transferred to the univer¬ 
sity, that it produced three or four times 
its original value. 

CORNELL, JOHN BLACK, manufact¬ 
urer inventor, was born Feb. 7, 1821, in 
Long Island, N. Y. In 1847, with his 
brother, W. W. Cornell, he opened a fac¬ 
tory in New York, which subsequently 
grew to large proportions. At these 
works the proprietors made an immense 
amount of architectural iron, including 
the iron for the elevated railroads in New 
York city. He died Oct. 27, 1887, in Lake- 
wood, N. J. 

CORNELL, JOHN HENRY, musician, 
composer, was born May 8, 1828, in New 
York city. He was a musician and or¬ 
ganist of New York city, and the author 
of Primer of Modern Musical Tonality; 
Practice of Sight Singing; Easy Method 
of Modulation; Theory and Practice of 
Musical Form; A Manual of Roman 
Chant; and Congregational Tune Book. 
He died in 1894. 







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CORNELL, JOHN M., iron manufac¬ 
turer, was born Aug. 27, 1846, in New 
York city. He was taken into partner¬ 
ship with J. B. and J. M. Cornell, and 
since 1887 has been sole proprietor of the 
works. Some of the most conspicuous 
buildings in New York city, erected since 
the era of gigantic structures began, about 
twenty years ago, have been supplied with 
the interior frame work, which supports 
all the rest, from the Cornell shops. 

CORNELL, THOMAS, banker, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 27, 1814, in 

White Plains, N. Y. He was elected a 
representative from New York to the 
fortieth congress in 1866; and in 1880 was 
elected to the forty-seventh congress as a 
republican. 

CORNELL, WILLIAM MASON, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Oct. 16, 1802, in 
Berkley, Mass. He was a physician of 
Boston and elsewhere, and the author of 
Robert Raikes, the Founder of Sunday 
Schools; Life of Horace Greeley; Gram¬ 
mar of the English Language; Consump¬ 
tion Prevented; Treatise on Epilepsy; 
and History of Pennsylvania. He died in 
1895. 

CORNELL, WILLIAM W., manufac¬ 
turer, was born Jan. 1, 1823, on Long 
Island. He established an extensive busi¬ 
ness as an iron-founder in New York city, 
was a liberal giver to benevolent objects, 
especially for the erection of churches 
for the methodist denominations, and 
founded Cornell college at Mount Vernon, 
Iowa. He died March 17, 1870, in New 
York city. 

CORNING, ERASTUS, railroad presi¬ 
dent, banker, congressman, was born Dec. 
14, 1794, in Norwich, Conn. In 1814 he 
moved to Albany, and continue^ in the 
hardware business, establishing the well- 
known house, still in existence, of Erastus 
Corning and Co. His first public posi¬ 
tion was that of alderman of the city of 
Albany; from that he was promoted to 
mayor; and was also for several years an 
influential railroad, bank, and canal com¬ 
pany president. For several terms he was 
a member of the state legislature; and 
was elected a representative to the thirty- 
fifth congress. In 1860 he was elected to 
the thirty-seventh congress; and re¬ 
elected to the thirty-eighth congress. He 
died April 9, 1872, in Albany, N. Y. 

CORNING, WARREN HALMES, was 
born Feb. 18, 1841, in Painesville, Ohio. 
In 1887 he sold the Monarch Distilling 
Co., of Peoria, Ill., upon satisfactory 
terms to the Distilling and Cattle Feeding 
Co., and retired with well earned laurels 
from the company. Released from the 
exacting routine of daily attention to a 
large establishment, Mr. Corning then 
gave his attention to other things. He 
made large investments in various insti¬ 
tutions, including the Standard Sewing 
Machine Co., the Wick Banking and Trust 
Co., the First National bank, and the 
Guardian Trust Co. of Cleveland. 

CORNISH, JOHNSTON, manufacturer, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
Hunterdon county, N. J. He entered the 
Cornish Piano and Organ company as 
junior partner, and became the manager 
of that institution. He was elected mayor 
of Washington in 1884, when only twenty- 
five years old, and re-elected in 1886. He 
was elected state senator in 1890, and to 
the fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

CORNWALL, HENRY BEDINGER, 
mineralogist, author, was born July 29, 
1844, in Southport, Conn. He is a pro¬ 
fessor of mineralogy at Princeton college 
since 1873, who has published A Manual 
of Blow-Pipe Analysis. 


CORNWALLIS, IvINAHAN, journalist, 
author, was born Dec. 24, 1837, in London, 
England. He published in London fifteen 
novels of travel, history and poetry prior 
to coming to America. During 1860-66 he 
was editor and owner of the Knicker¬ 
bocker Magazine, and also financial editor 
of the New York Herald during'1861-69. 
He then became editor and proprietor of 
The Albion, and in 1886 established The 
Daily Investigator of New York city, of 
which he is still editor and proprietor. 
In 1892 he published a volume of poems, 
and in 1893 The Conquest of Mexico and 
Peru. His other works are Yarra Yarra, 
or the Wandering Aborigine, a Poetical 
Narrative; The New Eldorado of British 
Columbia; Wreck and Ruin, or Modern 
Society; My Life and Adventures, an Au¬ 
tobiography; Adrift with a Vengeance; 
Pilgrims of Fashion; and The Gold Room 
and the New York Stock Exchange. 


CORNWELL, HENRY SYLVESTER, 
physician, author, poet, was born in 1831 
in New Hampshire. He was a physician 
of New London, Conn., who wrote 
much thoughtful verse. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Land of Dreams and Other 
Poems (1879), which is the only collec¬ 
tion that has been made of his poems. He 
died in 1896. 

CORNWELL, WILLIAM CARYL, bank¬ 
er, was born Aug. 19, 1851, in Lyons, N. Y. 
He organized the City bank of Buffalo in 
1893, and was made president of the insti¬ 
tution. 

CORR, ALBERT C., physician, was 
born Feb. 10, 1840, in Carlinville, Ill. In 
1868 he graduated in medicine from the 
Northwestern university of Chicago. For 
seventeen years he practiced general 
medicine; and since 1886 has restricted 
his practice to diseases of the eye, ear 
and throat. He is a member of the lead¬ 
ing medical societies, and president of 
Illinois State Medical society. He has 
contributed papers to the deliberations of 
many medical and scientific bodies. 

CORR, LUCINDA H., physician, was 
born March 9, 1844, in Carlinville, Ill. 
She graduated in 1874 from the Woman’s 
medical department of the Northwestern 
university of Chicago. After five years’ 
general practice she restricted her prac¬ 
tice to diseases of women and girls. She 
is the wife of Dr. Albert C. Corr, and a 
pioneer in the state of Illinois. 

CORRICK, FRANK PERLEY, journal¬ 
ist, was born July 17, 1866, in Appanoose 
county, Iowa. He is the editor and owner 
of The Tribune of Cozad, Neb. He has 
filled several public positions; and has 
been lieutenant-colonel and colonel of 
the Nebraska division of the Sons of 
Veterans. 


CORRIGAN, MICHAEL AUGUSTINE!, 
Roman catholic prelate, was born Aug. 13, 
1839, in Newark, N. J. In 1885 Arch¬ 
bishop Corrigan became metropolitan of 
the diocese of New York. 

CORRIGAN, THOMAS, capitalist, was 
born Dec. 31, 1825, in Canada. He was 
owner of all the street railways, except 
one, in Kansas City; but in 1883 he sold 
his entire railway system to the Metro¬ 
politan Street Railway company. He died 
March 1, 1894, in Kansas City, M.o. 

CORSE, JOHN MURRAY, soldier, was 
born April 27, 1835, in Pittsburg. Pa. He 
attended West Point and served through 
the civil war. He 
was colonel of the 
sixth regiment Iowa 
volunteer infantry, 
and distinguished 
himself at • Chicka- 
mauga. In 1863 he 
was made brigadier- 
general of volun¬ 
teers. In 1864 he 
defended Altoona 
with success against 
a superior force of 
confederates, and 
commanded a division of Sherman's army 
in its march to Georgia and the Caro- 
linas. In 1864 he received the brevet of 
major-general. In 1867-69 he was collec¬ 
tor of internal revenue in Chicago, Ill.; 
and subsequently built several hundred 
miles of railroad in the neighborhood of 
Chicago. In 1886 he was appointed post¬ 
master of Boston, Mass. He died April 
27, 1893. 

CORSE, MONTGOMERY DENT, sol¬ 
dier, banker, was born March 14, 1816, in 
Alexandria, D. C. He was a captain in 
the Mexican war, and lived in California 
from 1849 till 1856, when he returned to 
Virginia and became a banker in Alexan¬ 
dria. He entered the confederate service 
in 1861 as colonel; and was commissioned 
a brigadier-general in 1862. After the 
war he resumed the business of a banker 
and broker at Alexandria till 1874. 

CORSON, GEORGE NORMAN, soldier, 
lawyer, lecturer, journalist, poet, was 
born March 11, 1833, in Montgomery 
county. Pa. He received his education 
at the Freemont seminary of Norristown, 
and the Ursinus college of Collegeville. 
During the war he enlisted as a private 
soldier under the first call issued by 
Abraham Lincoln in April, 1861, till term 
of enlistment expired. In 1856 he was 
admitted to the bar, and has attained suc¬ 
cess in his profession at Norristown, Pa. 
He has been a member of the city coun¬ 
cil; register in bankruptcy for Lehigh 
and Montgomery counties; and a member 
of the constitutional convention of Penn¬ 
sylvania of 1872 and 1873. He has trav¬ 
eled extensively in Europe, and is the au¬ 
thor of many lectures and poems; and 
wrote the poem for the celebration of the 
one hundredth anniversary of Montgom¬ 
ery county in 1884. For two years he 
edited the Norristown Independent. 

CORSON, HIRAM, educator, author, 
was born Nov. 6, 1828, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is a Chaucerian and Early Eng¬ 
lish scholar, professor at Cornell univer¬ 
sity since 1870, and the author of The 
Voice and Spiritual Education; Elocu¬ 
tionary Manual; Jottings on the Text of 
Hamlet; Introduction to the Study of 
Browning; Lectures on English Lan¬ 
guage and Literature; The Aims of Lit¬ 
erary Study; Vocal Culture in Relation 
to Literary Study; Thesaurus of Early 
English; and Handbook of Anglo-Saxon 
and Early English. He has also edited 
Chaucer’s Legende of Goode Women. 




CORNWELL. GEORGE RATHBUN, 
bookseller, legislator, was born Feb. 24, 
1836, in Penn Yan, N. Y„ where for over 
forty years he was 
successfully engaged 
in business. During 
1872-97 he was trus¬ 
tee of the Union 
school; and in 1891- 
94 president of the 
board of education. 
During 1882-84 he 
was chairman of the 
Yates republican 
committee; national 
delegate to the re¬ 
publican convention 
of 1884; member of the New York as¬ 
sembly in 1887-88; a member of the state 
constitutional convention in 1894; and 
in 1884, 1886, and 1888 was a candidate for 
congress from Yates county. 


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CORSON, JULIET, instructor, author, 
"was horn Feb. 14, 1842, in Boston, Mass. 
She was a cooking instructor of New 
York, founder of the School of Cooking 
there in 1876; and was the author of 
Cooking Manual; Cooking School Text- 
Book; Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for 
Families of Six; Meals for the Million; 
Practical American Cookery; Family 
Living on Five Hundred Dollars a Year; 
■and Diet for Invalids and Children. She 
■died in 1897. 

CORT, THOMAS, manufacturer, was 
born in 1834 in England. He settled in 
Newark in 1847, and began business for 
himself in the manufacture of high grade 
walking and lawn tennis shoes, being 
among the first engaged in this specialty 
in America. 

CORTHELL, ELMER LAWRENCE, 
■civil engineer, author, was born Sept. 30, 
1840, in Massachusetts. He is a civil en¬ 
gineer of distinction, and the author of 
History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the 
Mississippi. 

CORWIN, EDWARD T., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born July 12, 1834, in New York 
•city. Since 1857 he has filled pastorates 
in various cities in the Reformed church, 
and is the official historian of the Re¬ 
formed Church in America. He is the au¬ 
thor of several works, and since 1897 has 
been engaged in historical researches at 
Amsterdam, Holland. His works are: 
Manual of the Reformed Protestant 
Dutch Church in North America; Manual 
of the Reformed Church in America; and 
Corwin Genealogy. 

CORWIN, FRANKLIN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 12, 1818, in 
Lebanon, Ohio. He served several years 
In the state legislature of Ohio, and part 
of the time in the senate. He moved to 
Illinois in 1857; and was elected to the 
legislature of that state, serving two years 
as speaker. He was elected to the forty- 
third congress as a republican. 

CORWIN, MOSES B., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 5, 1790, in Bourbon 
county, Ky. In 1838 and 1839 he was 
elected to the legislature; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Ohio from 
1849 to 1851, and from 1853 to 1855. He 
died April 7, 1872, in Urbana, Ohio. 

CORWIN, THOMAS, lawyer, statesman, 
was born July 29, 1794, in Bourbon county, 
Ky. He was elected to the Ohio legisla¬ 
ture in 1822, and a representative to con¬ 
gress from the Warren district in 1831, 
in which position he continued until 1840. 
He was chosen governor of Ohio in Oc¬ 
tober of that year. In 1845 he was elected 
United States senator, which office he held 
until his appointment in the cabinet, in 
1850, as secretary of the treasury, under 
President Fillmore. He died Dec. 18,1865, 
in Washington, D. C. 

CORWINE, AMOS BRECKINRIDGE, 
journalist, was born in 1815 in Maysville, 
Ky. He served during the Mexican war, 
being a lieutenant in the Mississippi regi¬ 
ment commanded by Jefferson Davis, and 
was severely wounded at Buena Vista. 
After that war, in partnership with his 
brother Samuel, he edited the Cincinnati 
Chronicle. During the administrations of 
Presidents Tyler and Fillmore he was 
United States consul at Panama. In 1856 
he was sent by President Pierce to inves¬ 
tigate the Panama massacres, and on his 
report were based the treaty and adjust¬ 
ment of damages between the United 
States and New Granada. He was reap¬ 
pointed consul, and remained in Panama 
until 1861. He died June 22, 1880, in New 
Rochelle, Ohio. 


CORY, SALLY MORRIS, artist, de¬ 
signer, was born Feb. 21, 1863, in New 
York city. She has attained success as 
an artist and designer; is the illustrator 
for the Armstrong Press Syndicate of 
New York city; and holds an art medal 
for book-cover designing. 

COSAND, SAMUEL W„ soldier, lawyer, 
was born June 27, 1843, in Boone county, 
Ind. In 1860 he graduated from the 
Thorntown academy with the degree of 
B. S. He served as a union soldier dur¬ 
ing the civil war in Company B, seventy- 
second regiment Indiana volunteer infan¬ 
try. He is a prominent lawyer of Gettys¬ 
burg, S. D.-, and has served as state’s at¬ 
torney of Potter county. 

COSBY, FORTUNATUS, journalist, 
poet, was born May 2, 1801, in Louisville, 
Ky. He was a member of the first school 
board of trustees, and later superinten¬ 
dent of public schools in Philadelphia. 
In 1846 he edited the Examiner, the first 
Kentucky paper devoted to the cause of 
negro emancipation. His best known 
poems are Ode to the Mocking Bird; The 
Traveler in the Desert; A Dream of Long 
Ago; and Fireside Fancies. 

COSBY, WILLIAM, governor of New 
York, was born about 1695. After serving 
as a colonel in the army, and being gover¬ 
nor of Minorca and of the Leeward 
islands, he became governor of New York 
in 1731, and held the office till his death. 
He died March 10, 1736, in New York city. 

COSGROVE, HENRY, Roman catholic 
bishop, was born in 1834 in Williamsport, 
Pa. He removed with his parents to Du¬ 
buque when eleven 
years old. He was 
ordained in 1857, and 
appointed assistant 
pastor of St. Mary’s, 
Davenport. He be¬ 
came pastor of Dav¬ 
enport, Iowa, in 
1862, and shortly af¬ 
terward erected a 
church and school. 
He was appointed 
vicar-general of the 
diocese in 1882. On 
McMullen he was se¬ 
lected as administrator; and in 1884 was 
proposed to the holy see as his successor 
in the bishopric of Davenport. He is the 
first native of the United States that has 
been appointed bishop west of the Mis¬ 
sissippi. 

COSGROVE, JOHN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 12, 1839, in Alexan¬ 
dria, N. Y. In 1865 he removed to Boon- 
ville, Mo., and engaged in the practice 
of his profession. He was twice elected 
city attorney; and in 1872 was elected 
prosecuting attorney of Cooper county. 
He was a delegate to the democratic 
national conventions of 1872 and 1880; 
and was elected a representative from 
Missouri to the forty-eighth congress as 
a democrat. 

GOSSETT, FRANCEWAY RANNA, 
clergyman, author, was born April 24, 
1790, in Claremont, N. H. He was a 
Cumberland presbyterian clergyman of 
Tennessee. He published The Life and 
Times of Ewing, which gives a history of 
the beginnings of the Cumberland pres¬ 
byterian denomination. He died July 3, 
1863, in Lebanon, Tenn. 

COSTER, CHARLES HENRY, banker, 
was born July 22, 1852, in Newport, R. I. 
In 1884 he was admitted to partnership 
in the great banking house of Drexel, 
Morgan and Co. of New York city; Drexel 
and Co. of Philadelphia, and Drexel, 
Harjes and Co. of Paris, resident in New 
York. 


COSTER, ROBERT JOHN, educator, 
clergyman, was born Oct. 20, 1836, near St. 
Leonards, Md. He was educated at the 
College of St. James, 
and received the de¬ 
gree of B. A. in 1862; 
and the degree of M. 
A. from Trinity col¬ 
lege in 1868. He was 
ordained a deacon in 
1863, and a priest in 
1866. For over a 
quarter of a century 
he has been rector 
of the Bishop Bow¬ 
man institute of 
Pittsburg, Pa., and 
rector of the Grace church almost the 
same time. He has also devoted his time 
to educational work. He has been a 
member of the standing committee of the 
diocese of Pittsburgh for twenty years, 
and president of the same for four years. 
He has traveled extensively in Europe; 
and is the author of a memorial sermon 
on the Life of the Rev. Thomas Crump¬ 
ton, D. D.; and is now publishing a His¬ 
tory of Grace Church of Pittsburgh, Pa. 

COTHEAL, ALEXANDER ISAAC, di¬ 
plomatist, was born in 1804 in New York, 
N. Y. He was an oriental scholar of New 
York city who published Sketch of the 
Language of the Mosquito Indians; and 
Atoff the Generous, a translation from the 
Arabic. He died in 1894. 

COTHRAN, JAMES S., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 8, 
1830, in Abbeville county, S. C. He en¬ 
tered the confederate service as a private 
soldier; and was at the surrender of the 
army of northern Virginia at Appomat¬ 
tox, having attained to the rank of cap¬ 
tain. He was appointed to fill the judge- 
ship of the circuit to fill a vacancy caused 
by the death of Judge Thomson in 1881; 
and was elected by the legislature to the 
same office the following winter, and re¬ 
elected in 1885. He was elected to the 
fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a 
democrat. 

COTTERAL, J. L. T., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Alabama from 1846 to 1847. 

COTTING, JOHN RUGGLES, scientist, 
author, was born in 1783 in Acton, Mass. 
He was a noted Georgia scientist, and 
the author of Introduction to Chemistry; 
Lectures on Geology; and Soils and Ma¬ 
nures. He died in 1867. 

COTTMAN, JOSEPH S., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 16, 1803, in Som¬ 
erset county, Md. He served in the Mary¬ 
land legislature; was a presidential elect¬ 
or in 1849, and was a member of congress 
from 1851 to 1853. He died in 1863 in 
Somerset county, Md. 

COTTMAN, VINCENDON LEZARE, 
naval officer, was born Feb. 13, 1852, in 
Ascension Parish, La. In 1884 he was 
appointed lieutenant of the United States 
navy, and in 1889 was secretary of the in¬ 
ternational marine conference at Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

COTTON, AYLETT R„ educator, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Nov. 29, 1826, 
in Austintown, Ohio. He removed to Iowa 
in 1844, and crossed the plains to Cali¬ 
fornia in 1849, and returned to Iowa in 
1851. He was appointed judge of Clinton 
county in 1851, and was prosecuting at¬ 
torney of the same county in 1854. He 
was a member of the state constitutional 
convention in 1857, and was a member of 
the state legislature in 1868 and 1870, serv¬ 
ing as speaker. He was elected to the 
forty-second and forty-third congresses as 
a republican. 



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COTTON, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born Dec. 4, 1585, in England. He was the 
foremost clergyman of his century in New 
England. He came to the Massachusetts 
colony in 1633, having been for twenty 
years vicar of St. Botolph’s church in 
Boston, Lincolnshire. He was at once 
made teacher of the church in the new 
settlement of Boston, and until his death 
exercised an influence in church and state 
unequaled by any one since in New Eng¬ 
land. His principal works comprise The 
Bloody Tenet Washed and Made White in 
the Blood of the Lamb, a reply to Roger 
Williams’s famous Bloody Tenet of Per¬ 
secution; A Brief Exposition upon Eccle¬ 
siastes; The Covenant of Grace; The Keys 
of the Kingdom of Heaven; The Way of 
the Congregational Churches Cleared; The 
Way of Life; Treatise Concerning Predes¬ 
tination; The New Covenant; and Meat 
for Strong Men, Spiritual Milk for Babes. 
He died Dec. 23, 1652, in Boston, Mass. 

COTTON, JOHN, clergyman, was born 
March 13, 1640, in Boston, Mass. He was 
minister for thirty years in Plymouth, 
Mass., and afterward in Charleston, S. C. 
He was eminent for his acquaintance with 
the Indian language, frequently preached 
to the aborigines at Martha’s Vineyard 
and Plymouth, and revised and corrected 
the whole of Eliot’s Indian Bible. He died 
Sept. 18, 1699, in Charleston, S. C. 

COTTRELL, CALVERT BYRON, man¬ 
ufacturer, inventor, was born Aug. 21, 
1821, in Westerly, R. I. He has devoted 
himself exclusively to invention and im¬ 
provement in matters belonging to print¬ 
ing and press manufacture. One of his 
latest and most important inventions is a 
shifting tympan for a Web perfecting 
press. 

COUCH, DARIUS NASH, soldier, was 
born July 23, 1822, in South East, N. Y. 
He was graduated at the United States 
military academy in 

1846, and assigned to 
the fourth artillery, 
with which he served 
in the Mexican war, 
gaining the brevet of 
first lieutenant, in 

1847, for gallant con¬ 
duct at Buena Vista. 
He served against 
the Seminoles in 
1849-50, and in 1853, 
when on a leave of 
absence, made an ex¬ 
ploring expedition into Mexico, which is 
mentioned in the United States senate re¬ 
ports. 

COUCHMAN, WESLEY, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, poet, was born Aug. 25, 1853, in 
Margaretville, N. Y. In 1878 he graduated 
from the Wesleyan university of Middle- 
town, Conn., and was the class poet. He 
had previously attended the Claverack 
academy, New York. Many years of his 
life have been devoted to educational 
work; and fifteen years as a mechanic. 
He has attained eminence as a clergyman 
of the methodist episcopal church, and has 
filled pastorates in New York and Penn¬ 
sylvania. He has also given much of 
his time to literary work, and many of 
his poems have appeared in current liter¬ 
ature and various standard works. 

COUDERT, FREDERICK RENE, law¬ 
yer, was born in 1832, in New York city. 
He was elected president of the Bar Asso¬ 
ciation of New York city, and represented 
the Chamber of Commerce at the inter¬ 
national congress at Antwerp, for the 
framing of international rules of general 
average. He recently represented the 
United States as one of its counsel be¬ 
fore the international tribunal appointed 
to determine the Behring Sea controversy. 


COUES, ELLIOTT, naturalist, author, 
was born Sept. 9, 1842, in Portsmouth, N. 
H. He is an eminent naturalist connected 
with the Smithsonian institution. He is 
the author of Key to North American 
Birds; Field Ornithology; Birds of the 
Northwest; Fur-Bearing Animals; Check 
List of North American Birds; Birds of 
the Colorado Valley; New England Bird 
Life (with W. A. Stearns); Biogen, a 
Speculation on the Origin of Life; The 
Daemon of Darwin; and Our Native Birds. 

COULDOCK, CHARLES WALTER, 
actor, was born April 26, 1815, in England. 
His first appearance in this country was 
at the Broadway theater. He subsequent¬ 
ly supported Charlotte Cushman, and was 
successful as Jacques in As You Like It, 
and as Luke Fielding in The Willow 
Copse. His rendition of Dunstan Kirke 
in Hazel Kirke at the Madison Square the¬ 
ater was especially powerful. 

COULTER, JOHN MERLE, botanist, 
author, was born Nov. 20, 1851, in China. 
He is a botanist and was president of the 
Indiana State university in 1891-93. He 
is the author of Synopsis of the Flora of 
Colorado (with T. C. Porter); Manual of 
Rocky Mountain Botany; Manual of Tex¬ 
an Botany; and Text-Book of Western 
Botany. 

COULTER, RICHARD, jurist, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania from 1827 to 
1835. At the time of his death was judge 
of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. He 
died April 21, 1852, in Westmoreland 
county, Pa. 

COUNCILL, WILLIAM HOOPER, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born July 12, 
1848, in Fayetteville, N. C. He was 
brought to Alabama by the traders of 1857 
through the famous Richmond slave pen. 
In 1883 he was admitted to the bar, but 
has never left the profession of teaching 
for a day. He has occupied high posi¬ 
tions in the church, temperance and char¬ 
itable organizations. By earnest toil, 
self-denial and hard study he has built 
up the State Normal Industrial school of 
Alabama, of which he is president, and 
which is one of the largest institutions in 
the south. He is also the president of the 
Agricultural and Mechanical college of 
Alabama for Negroes. 

COUNCILMAN, WILLIAM THOMAS, 
physician, author, was born in 1854, in 
Maryland. He is a physician and instruc¬ 
tor at the Harvard Medical school, and the 
author of Contribution to the Study of 
Inflammation; On Arterio Sclerosis; 
Syphilis of the Lungs; and On the eti¬ 
ology of Malaria; and other works. 

COURTENAY, AUSTIN MATLACK, 
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born 
April 22, 1850, in St. Louis, Mo. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education in 
the public schools of his native city, in 
various private schools and academies, 
and graduated from the Virginia Theolog¬ 
ical seminary. He has filled pastorates in 
the methodist episcopal churches in Mary¬ 
land, Baltimore City, Pittsburg and Mead- 
ville, Pa. He has been a lecturer of Chris¬ 
tian Evidences in the Allegheny college, 
and is a noted public lecturer and ora¬ 
tor of unusual ability. He has received 
the degree of doctor of divinity from 
Dickinson college; and is the author of 
numerous articles which have appeared in 
current magazines and church papers. 

COURTENAY, EDWARD HENRY, 
mathematician, author, was born in 1803 
in Maryland. He was a civil engineer and 
was professor of mathematics in the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia from 1842-53. He pub¬ 
lished a Treatise on Differential Calculus 
and the Calculus of Variations. He died 
Dec. 21, 1853, in Charlottesville, Va. 


COURTER, FRANKLIN C., artist, was 
born July 20, 1854, in Caldwell, N. J. In 
1888 he was appointed professor of draw¬ 
ing and painting in Albion college, 
Albion, Mich. His best known ideal pic¬ 
ture is his painting of Lincoln Showing 
Sojourner Truth the Bible Presented Him 
by the Colored People of Baltimore. 

COURTNEY, THEODORE. He has at¬ 
tained prominence as one of the fore¬ 
most men of Kansas, and has taken an 
active part in the political affairs of that 
state. 

COURTRIGHT, SAMUEL W., lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 9, 1842, in Pickaway 
county, Ohio. He is a prominent lawyer 
of Circleville, Ohio; was city solicitor for 
two terms; president of the board of edu¬ 
cation for five years; and prosecuting at¬ 
torney of his county for two terms. He 
has filled various public positions of 
honor, and for five years was judge of the 
court of common pleas. 

COUSINS, JAMES, agriculturist, legis¬ 
lator, was born March 3, 1849, in England. 
For many years he was engaged in the 
manufacture of brick; and since 1884 has 
been a farmer in Pittsford, Mich. He was 
a member of the Michigan house of rep¬ 
resentatives in 1895-96, and received the 
re-election in 1897-98. 

COUSINS, ROBERT G., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1859 in Cedar 
county, Iowa. In 1886 he was elected to 
the Iowa legislature, and was elected by 
the house of representatives as one of the 
prosecutors for the Brown impeachment, 
tried before the senate during 1887. In 
1888 he was elected prosecuting attorney 
and also presidential elector for the fifth 
congressional district. He was elected to 
the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses 
and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a republican. 

COUTLER, JOHN F., farmer, legislator, 
state senator, was born Nov. 15, 1840, in 
Cass county, Mich. In 1870 he was elected 
a member of the Michigan state legislat¬ 
ure. He moved to Nebraska in 1874, and 
was there elected to the state senate in 
1878. In 1882 he moved to Kansas, and 
was elected to the legislature of that state 
in 1884, and again in 1892. 

COVELL, ALTON GILES, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, financier, was born June 8, 1854, in 
Erie, Pa. He received an academic edu¬ 
cation and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 
1880. In 1883 he 
moved to North Da¬ 
kota, where he has, 
financially, large and 
extensive interests in 
wheat and stock 
farms, and in a gen- 
e r a 1 mercantile 
house. He served two 
terms as state’s at¬ 
torney for Wells 
county; and he has 
been prominently connected with the pub¬ 
lic affairs of his county and state; and has 
served one term as a member of the North 
Dakota state legislature. He is interested 
in numerous business enterprises, and has 
contributed extensively to various chari¬ 
table institutions. 

COVELL, JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 4, 1796, in Marblehead, 
Mass. He was a methodist clergyman of 
New York and Vermont who published a 
Dictionary of the Bible. He died May 15, 
1845, in Troy, N. Y. 

COVERT, GEORGE, physician, surgeon, 
was born Dec. 7, 1829, in Ovid, N. Y. He 
is a graduate of the Bennett College of 
Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, Ill.; 






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has been school superintendent, president 
of the State Medical society, president of 
the National Medical association, and pro¬ 
fessor of obstetrics in his alma mater. He 
is well known as a frequent contributor to 
medical literature, and is a successful phy¬ 
sician and surgeon of Clinton, Wis, 

COVERT, JAMES W., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1842, in 
Oyster Bay, N. Y. In 1867 he was elected 
* school commissioner and served three 
years, at the same time acting as assist¬ 
ant district attorney of his county. He 
was surrogate of Queen’s county from 1870 
to 1874; and was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty- 
third congresses as a democrat. 

COVINGTON, GEORGE W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 12, 1838, in Ber¬ 
lin, Md. In 1867 he was elected a member 
of the constitutional convention of Mary¬ 
land from Worcester county, and served 
in said body as a member of the judiciary 
committee. In 1880 he was nominated 
over eight competitors, and was elected 
to the forty-seventh congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-eighth congress as a 
democrat. 

COVINGTON, LEONARD, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 30, 1768, in 

Aquasco, Md. He was a member of the 
legislature of Maryland, and was elected a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1805 to 1807. In 1813 he was ordered 
to the northern frontier, and appointed 
by President Madison, brigadier-general. 
He died Nov. 14, 1813, in French Mills, 
N. Y. 

COVODE, JOHN, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born March 17, 1808, in West¬ 
moreland county, Pa. He was elected 
from Pennsylvania a representative to 
the thirty-fourth congress, and re-elected 
to the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, thirty- 
seventh and fortieth congresses as a re¬ 
publican. He died Jan. 11, 1871, in Har¬ 
risburg, Pa. 

COWAN, EDGAR, lawyer, United States 
senator, was born Sept. 19, 1815, in West¬ 
moreland county. Pa. He was chosen a 
senator in congress, from Pennsylvania, 
for the term ending in 1867. In 1860 he 
was a presidential elector and was a del¬ 
egate to the Philadelphia National Union 
convention of 1866. He died Aug. 29, 1885, 
in Greensburg, Pa. 

COWAN, FRANK, lawyer, journalist, 
author, was born Dec. 11, 1844, in Greens¬ 
burg, Pa. He is a Pennsylvania lawyer 
and journalist, who has traveled exten¬ 
sively and who entered Corea before that 
country had made any treaties with for¬ 
eign nations. He is the author of Curious 
Facts in the History of Insects; Zornara, 
a Romance of Spain; Southwestern Penn¬ 
sylvania in Song and Story; The City of 
the Royal Palm, and Other Poems; A 
Visit in Verse to Honolulu; and Fact 
and Fancy in New Zealand. 

COWAN, JACOB P., physician, banker, 
United States senator, was born March 20, 
1823, in Florence, Pa. He was a member 
of the state legislature; practiced medi¬ 
cine, but became a dealer in real estate 
and president of a private bank. In 1874 
he was elected a representative from Ohio 
to the forty-fourth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

COWARDIN, JAMeS A., journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 6, 1811, near Hot 
Springs, Va. In 1865 he founded the Rich¬ 
mond Dispatch, and became editor and 
part owner. He was the author of Old 
Virginia Ham; Olde Virginia Fiddlers, 
and other works. He died Nov. 21, 1882, 
in Richmond, Va. 


COWDERY, JACOB E., soldier, archi¬ 
tect, builder, poet, was born Dec. 20, 1836, 
at Adams Mill, Ohio. During the war he 
served in the four- 
t e e n t h regiment 
Iowa volunteer in¬ 
fantry. For many 
years he was en¬ 
gaged in educational 
work; and is now a 
successful architect 
and builder in Rich¬ 
mond, Mo. He is a 
contributor to the 
Scientific American 
and other publica¬ 
tions; and is the au¬ 
thor of a number of meritorious poems. 
His wife, Mrs. Louisa Cowdery, is also a 
poet of Missouri. 

COWDERY, JONATHAN, surgeon, was 
born April 22, 1767, in Sandisfield, Mass. 
He served in the frigate Philadelphia, 
which was stranded on the coast of Tri¬ 
poli in 1803, and was a prisoner in the 
hands of the Turks nearly two years. In 
1806 he published a journal of his cap¬ 
tivity. He died Nov. 29, 1852, in Norfolk, 
Va. 

COWDIN, JASPER BARNETT, poet. 
He is the author of Esther’s Wedding and 
Other Poems. 

COWELL, BENJAMIN, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born in 1781 in Wrentham, 
Mass. He was a clerk of the federal 
courts, and for a time chief justice of the 
court of common pleas in Providence, R. 
I. In 1850 he published a volume of his¬ 
tory entitled The Spirit of ’76. He died 
May 6, 1860, in Providence, R. I. 

COWEN, BENJAMIN RUSH, soldier, 
public official, was born Aug. 15, 1831, in 
Moorfield, Ohio. In 1861 he enlisted in 
the volunteer army, and became an ad¬ 
ditional paymaster, serving under McClel¬ 
lan and Rosecrans, and in the same year 
was elected secretary of state, but re¬ 
signed in 1862. He was appointed ad¬ 
jutant-general of Ohio in 1864, and served 
as such for four years, receiving three 
brevets. He was also an inspector of mil¬ 
itary prisons, and subsequently went into 
the iron and coal business at Bellaire. He 
was a delegate to the National Philadel¬ 
phia convention of 1866, and the Chicago 
convention of 1868, of which he was sec¬ 
retary. In 1871 he was appointed assistant 
secretary of the interior department, and 
was also a leading member of the repub¬ 
lican committee of Ohio, and chairman of 
the state committee. 

COWEN, BENJAMIN S., physician, 
journalist, congressman, was born in 1793 
in Washington county, N. Y. In 1839 he 
was a delegate to the convention that 
nominated General Harrison for president, 
and in 1840 was elected to congress. Dur¬ 
ing 1845-46 he was a member of the Ohio 
legislature, and from 1847 till 1852 was 
presiding judge of the court of common 
pleas. He died Sept. 27, 1869, in St. Clairs- 
ville, Ohio. 

COWEN, ESEK, jurist, author, was 
born Feb. 24, 1787, in Rhode Island. In 
1812 he was one of the founders, in North¬ 
umberland, Saratoga county, N. Y., of the 
first tempei-ance society in the United 
States. He was the author of Civil Juris¬ 
diction of Justices of the Peace in New 
York; New York Reports, 1823-28; and a 
Digested Index of Reports, and edited 
Phillipps on Evidence. 

COWEN, JOHN K., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, railroad president, was born Oct. 28, 
1844, in Millersburg, Ohio. He removed to 
Baltimore, Md., in 1872, and has been prac¬ 
ticing law in that city since that date. He 
was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as 
a democrat. Since 1896 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. 


COWEN, PATRICK H„ author. He was 
the author of Digest of Criminal Decisions 
of the Court of New York; Reports of 
Criminal Cases; and The Poor Laws of 
the State of New York. 

COWGILL, CALVIN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 7, 1819, in Clinton 
county, Ohio. He moved to Wabash coun¬ 
ty, Ind., in 1846, and practiced his profes¬ 
sion. He was a representative in the state 
legislature in 1851; was county treasurer 
from 1855 to 1859; was provost-marshal 
from 1862 to 1865; and again in the legis¬ 
lature during the special session in 1865. 
He was elected a representative from Indi¬ 
ana to the forty-sixth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

COWHERD, WILLIAM STROTHER, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 
1860, in Jackson county, Mo. He was ap¬ 
pointed assistant prosecuting attorney of 
Jackson county in 1885, and served four 
years in that capacity. He was appointed 
first assistant city counselor of Kansas 
City in 1890, and served for two years. He 
was elected mayor of Kansas City in 1892, 
and served one term of two years. He 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

COWLES, ANDREW D., lawyer, state 
legislator, was born July 31, 1856, in Elk- 
ville, N. C. He has attained success as 
one of the foremost lawyers of North Car¬ 
olina at Statesville. He has been post¬ 
master of his city; held a position in the 
revenue service, and was lieutenant and 
then captain of the Iredell Blues. In 1898 
he organized the North Carolina quota for 
the Spanish-American war, and was sub¬ 
sequently appointed colonel of the second 
regiment of the North Carolina volun¬ 
teers. 

COWLES, AUGUSTUS WOODRUFF, 
clergyman, educator, college president, 
was born July 12, 1819, in Reading, N. Y. 
In 1847-56 he was pastor of the Presbyte¬ 
rian church in Brockport, and was then 
made president of Elmira college, where 
he still remains. 

COWLES, EDWARD PITKIN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1815 in Canaan, Conn. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1839, and 
entered into practice at Hudson, N. Y„ 
with his brother, Colonel Cowles, of the 
one hundred and twenty-eighth New York 
volunteers, who was killed at Port Hud¬ 
son. He died Dec. 2, 1874, in Chicago, Ill. 

COWLES, GEORGE W., educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born in 
Otisco, N. Y. He was elected a represent¬ 
ative from New York to the forty-first 
congress, and served as judge of Wayne 
county, N. Y., during 1863-70. 

COWLES, GILES HOOKER, clergyman, 
was born Aug. 26, 1766, in Farmington, 
Conn. In 1810 he was appointed by the 
Connecticut missionary society to travel 
through Ohio, and formed or assisted in 
forming most, if not all, of the congrega¬ 
tional churches in the northeastern part 
of that state. He died July 16, 1835, in 
Austinburg, Ohio. 

COWLES, HENRY, clergyman, theolog¬ 
ian, author, was born April 24, 1803, in 
Norfolk, Conn. He was a congregational 
clergyman who was professor of theology 
at Oberlin college in 1835-48. He was the 
author of Gospel Manna for Christian Pil¬ 
grims; Hebrew History; and Critical 
Notes on the Old and New Testament, in 
sixteen volumes. He died Sept. 6, 1881. 

COWLES, HENRY B., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 18, 1798, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. He served as a member of 
the New York legislature from Putnam 
county. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1829 to 1831. 





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COWLES, W. H. H., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 22, 1840, in 
Hamntonville, N. C. He served in the 
confederate army; and was twice wound¬ 
ed. He was reading clerk of the senate of 
North Carolina from 1872 to 1874; and in 
the latter year was elected solicitor of the 
tenth judicial district of the state, in 
which position he served four years. He 
was a member of the democratic state ex¬ 
ecutive committee for eight years; and 
in 1884 was elected a representative from 
North Carolina to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress; and received the re-election to the 
fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

COWLES, WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, 
lawyer, journalist, was born Aug. 14, 1866, 
in Evanston, Ill. In 1887 he graduated 
from Yale college with the degree of A. 
B.; in 1889 graduated from the Yale Law 
school, and the same year was admitted 
to the Connecticut bar. He is the editor 
and owner of the Morning Spokane Re¬ 
view of Spokane, Wash. 

COWLEY, CHARLES, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1832 in England. He is a 
lawyer of Lowell, and the author of Mem¬ 
ories of the Indians and Pioneers of Low¬ 
ell; Illustrated History of Lowell; Famous 
Divorces of all Ages; and Our Divorce 
Courts. 

COWLEY, GEORGE B„ physician, jour¬ 
nalist, state legislator, poet, was born 
May 16, 1861, near Rio, Wis. In 1882 he 
graduated from the 
Missouri Medical col¬ 
lege of St. Louis. He 
is the editor and 
owner of The Chief 
of Cowgill, Mo. He 
has filled many im¬ 
portant public offices 
in his county and 
state; and in 1897 
was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the Missouri 
state legislature. He 
is the author of a 
number of religious and historical poems. 
His poems have appeared in Poets of 

America, and other standard collections. 

COX, ABRAHAM SIDDON, surgeon, 

was born in 1800 in New York. He had 
been for many years one of the most emi¬ 
nent medical practitioners of New York 
city. At the beginning of the war he be¬ 
came a surgeon in the army, and at the 
time of his death was surgeon-in-chief of 
the first division, twentieth corps, army of 
the Cumberland. He died July 29, 1864, 
at Lookout Mountain, Tenn. 

COX, ALBERT HILL, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, was born Dec. 25, 1848, in Troup 
county, Ga. He was solicitor-general of 
the Coweta circuit in 1872-76; in 1876-78 
was elected state representative in the 
general assembly; and in 1888 was a dele- 
gate-at-large to the national democratic 
convention. 

COX, ALLEN M., lawyer, public official, 
was born Sept. 30, 1843, in St. Lawrence 
county, N. Y. For eight years he was 
mayor of Conneaut, Ohio; has been prose¬ 
cuting attorney, and for several years was 
United States commissioner. 

COX, ARGUS, lawyer, jurist, was born 
Nov. 26, 1856, in Van Buren county, Iowa. 
In 1887 he was elected prosecuting attor¬ 
ney of Wright county, Mo., and in 1892 
was elected judge of the eighteenth cir¬ 
cuit. 

COX, BENJAMIN H., lawyer, was born 
March 16, 1851, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He 
graduated from the Cincinnati Law school, 
and has become one of the foremost law¬ 
yers of Ohio. He has been a member of 
the Cincinnati city council, and a mem¬ 
ber of the board of education of his native 
city. 


COX, CHRISTOPHER C., physician, 
lieutenant-governor, was born Aug. 16, 
1816, in Baltimore, Md. He was appointed 
commissioner of pensions in 1868; a mem¬ 
ber of the board of health in 1871, acting 
as president of the board for several 
years. His special line of study was med¬ 
icine, and he practiced both as a physician 
and a surgeon; and was for one year a 
professor in one of the Philadelphia col¬ 
leges. He served as president of a medi¬ 
cal society; as a surgeon in the army dur¬ 
ing the rebellion, and was surgeon-general 
of the state of Maryland. Before the close 
of the war he was elected lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of Maryland. 

COX, E. ST. JULIAN, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Feb. 21, 1833, in Switzerland, 
during a temporary sojourn of his father’s 
family, who was vice-consul at that time. 
He was educated at the Academy of the 
Protestant Episcopal church of Philadel¬ 
phia; studied law, moved to Wisconsin in 
1852, and was subsequently admitted to 
the bar. In 1857 he practiced law in St. 
Peter, Minn., and the following year was 
appointed United States court commis¬ 
sioner. During the war he was commis¬ 
sioned first lieutenant of company E, sec¬ 
ond regiment Minnesota volunteer infan¬ 
try, and has done good service for his 
country as captain of company E, first 
regiment Minnesota Rangers, cavalry, in 
charge of frontier posts. He has been 
judge of Waukesha county, Wis.; United 
States commissioner of Minnesota, and 
judge of the ninth judicial district of 
Minnesota. He now practices his profes¬ 
sion in Los Angeles, Cal., to which city 
he moved on account of ill health. 

COX, EDWARD TRAVERS, geologist, 
was born April 21, 1821, in Virginia. He 
is a geologist of New York city who made 
a number of important surveys, and pub¬ 
lished Annual Reports of the Geological 
Survey of Indiana. 

COX, HANNAH, abolitionist, was born 
in 1796 in Philadelphia, Pa. She joined 
the first movement in favor of emancipa¬ 
tion, being a co-laborer with Benjamin 
Lundy, Garrison, Lucretia Mott, and John 
G. Whittier. For years she and her hus¬ 
band, who survived her in his ninety-first 
year, received fugitive slaves. She died 
April 15, 1876, in Longwood, Pa. 

COX, ISAAC NEWTON, congressman, 
was born Aug. 1, 1846, in Fallsburgh, N. Y. 
He has been frequently sent as delegate 
to democratic conventions, state and local. 
In 1886 he was appointed chairman of the 
commission to make an examination of 
the Northern Pacific railroad, and was 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat. 

COX, JACOB DOLSON, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, author, was born Oct. 27, 
1828, of American parents, in Montreal, 
Canada. In 1861 he was appointed a brig¬ 
adier-general of Ohio volunteers; and w r as 
promoted to the rank of major-general. 
He was chosen governor of Ohio for the 
years 1866-67; and in 1869 was appointed 
secretary of the interior department. He 
was elected a representative from Ohio to 
the forty-fifth congress. He is the author 
of Atlanta; The March to the Sea; and 
The Second Battle of Bull Run as Con¬ 
nected with the Fitz-John Porter Case. 

COX, JAMES, artist, was born in 1751 in 
England. For many years he was the 
fashionable drawing-master in Philadel¬ 
phia and did much to advance the fine 
arts. He made a remarkable collection of 
works on the fine arts, numbering over 
5,000 volumes, which he sold, during the 
latter part of his life, to the Library com¬ 
pany of Philadelphia, for an annuity of 
$400. He died in 1834 in Philadelphia, 
Pa. 


COX, JAMES, soldier, congressman, was 
born in 1753 in Montgomery county, N. J. 
He was a member of the state legislature, 
and speaker of the assembly. He com¬ 
manded a company of militia in the revo¬ 
lution; and was subsequently a brigadier- 
general of militia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New Jersey during 
the years 1809 and 1810. He died Sept. 12, 
1810, in Monmouth county, N. J. 

COX, JAMES FARLEY, marine under¬ 
writer, was born Feb. 1, 1830, in Locust 
Valley, L. I. He originated, established 
and carried to success the system of in¬ 
dividual underwriting in America, and 
with Douglas Robinson, at that time his 
partner, created the United States Lloyds. 

COX. JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, was born 
Aug. 4, 1822, in Chambersburg, Pa. In 
1830 he moved with his parents to Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio, which city has since been 
his home. He received his education in 
the Miami university of Oxford, and grad¬ 
uated from the Cincinnati Law school, 
from which institution he received the de¬ 
grees of A. M. and LL. D. He has been 
prosecuting attorney of his county at Cin¬ 
cinnati; judge of the court of common 
pleas for fifteen years; and judge of the 
first circuit court for fourteen years. 
Judge Cox is an honorary member of the 
celebrated Literary club of Cincinnati, and 
a prominent member of several literary, 
historical and archaeological societies. He 
has been prominent as a lecturer on those 
subjects, many of which have received 
publication in book form. 

COX, KENYON, painter, was born Oct. 
27, 1856, in Warren, Ohio. He has painted 
portraits and landscapes, but prefers the 
decorative treatment of the human figure. 
Has also illustrated and written on artis¬ 
tic subjects. His principal works in public 
places are: Venice, a decorative painting 
in Walker art building, Bowdoin college 
of Brunswick, Maine; and The Art and 
The Science, two decorations in the Li¬ 
brary of congress in Washington, D. C. 

COX, LEANDER M., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in Virginia. Moving to 
Kentucky, he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from that state to the thirty-third and 
thirty-fourth congresses. He served as a 
captain in the Mexican war; was grand 
master of the order of Free Masons in 
1843, and a presidential elector in 1853. 

COX. LEMUEL, master mechanic, was 
born in 1736 in Boston, Mass. He was 
the inventor of a machine for cutting 
card-wire, the first projector of a powder- 
mill in Massachusetts, and the first to sug¬ 
gest employing the prisoners on Castle isl¬ 
and to make nails. He died Feb. 18, 1806. 
in Charlestown, Mass. 

COX, NICHOLAS NICHOLS, soldier, 
farmer, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Jan. 6, 1837, in Bedford county, Tenn. He 
was a confederate 
colonel and served 
during most of the 
war with General 
Forrest. He was an 
elector on the Breck¬ 
inridge and Lane 
ticket in 1860, and 
was elector on the 
Greeley ticket in 
1872. He was elected 
to the fifty-second, 
fifty r third and fifty- 
fourth congresses 
and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a democrat. 

COX, PALMER, artist, author, was 
born April 28, 1840, in Canada. He be¬ 
came famous the world over as the author 
of a series of books entitled The Brown¬ 
ies, Their Book; Another Brownie Book, 









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and other works. His articles and poems 
have appeared constantly in St. Nicholas, 
Wide Awake, Harper’s Young People, Lit¬ 
tle Folks, and various other well-known 
publications. A volume entitled Queer 
People contains a collection of many of 
his contributions to juvenile literature. In 
his younger days he lived on the Pacific 
coast, and there published Squibs of Cali¬ 
fornia and various other works. He illus¬ 
trates his own works, and has a studio 
and sanctum on Broadway, New York 
city. His other works are: Hans Von 
Petter’s Trip to Gotham; How Columbus 
Found America; That Stanley; Queer 
People, such as Goblins, etc.; Queer Peo¬ 
ple with Claws and Wings; Queer People 
with Wings and Stings. 


COX, SAMUEL HANSON, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 25, 1793, in Rah¬ 
way, N. J. He was a presbyterian clergy- 
man of the new 
school party noted 
for his eccentricities 
and fondness for 
controversy. He was 
the author of Qua¬ 
kerism not Christi¬ 
anity; Theopneus- 
ton, or Select Scrip¬ 
tures Considered; 
Interviews Memora¬ 
ble and Useful; and 
a number of other 
works. He died Oct. 
2, 1881, in Bronxville, N. Y. 



COX, SAMUEL SULLIVAN, statesman, 
author, was born in 1824 in Ohio. He was 
a noted democratic congressman from 
Ohio, and later from 
New York, who was 
a popular lecturer, 
humorist, and writer 
of travels. He was 
minister to Turkey 
in 1885-86. He is the 
author of Eight 
Years in Congress; 
Why We Laugh; 
Three Decades of 
Federal Legislation; 
Diversions of a Dip¬ 
lomat in Turkey; A 
Buckeye Abroad; Search for Winter Sun¬ 
beams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers, 
and Spain; Arctic Sunbeams; Orient Sun¬ 
beams; and Free Land and Free Trade. 
He died Sept. 10, 1889, in New York city. 

COX, THOMAS BOLIN, soldier, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 14, 1838, in Greensboro, 
Ala. He attended the Howard college, 
Alabama, and in 1870 completed his law 
course at the university of Virginia. He 
served as a soldier in behalf of the con¬ 
federacy; fought at the battles of Shiloh, 
Corinth, Port Gibson, Atlanta and Nash¬ 
ville; was wounded twice, captured once, 
and surrendered with Gen. Johnston at 
Greensboro, N. C. He practices law in 
Waco, Tex., in which state he has prac¬ 
ticed his profession for nearly twenty 
years. He was one of the founders and 
builders of Baylor university, and also 
the First Baptist church of Waco. 

COX, THOMAS LILLARD, educator, 
merchant, was born Oct. 18, 1859, in De¬ 
catur, Tenn. In 1882 he was elected 
president of Clinton college, Arkansas, 
for four years; and in 1886 he became 
superintendent of the public schools of 
Morrillton. In 1895 he purchased the old¬ 
est and largest book and stationery house 
in Arkansas, and became president of the 
company at Little Rock. 

COX, WALTER S., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Oct. 25, 1826, in Georgetown, D. C. 
In 1879 he was appointed an associate 
justice of the supreme court of the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia. 



17 


COX, WILLIAM RUFFIN, soldier, 

planter, legislator, congressman, was 

born March 11, 1832, in Scotland Neck, 

N. C. He received 
his education at the 
Franklin college, 
Tennessee, and at 
the Lebanon Law 
school. During the 
war he became a 
brigadier-general in 
the confederate ser¬ 
vice. He attained 
success as a lawyer, 
and was solicitor of 
the *sixth judicial 
circuit court. He 
served wrth distinction as judge of the 
fourth judicial district court of North 
Carolina. He was a member of the forty- 
seventh, forty-eighth and forty-ninth con¬ 
gresses; and served as secretary of the 
United States senate. He has been a suc¬ 
cessful planter and is now largely en¬ 
gaged in agriculture. 

COX, WINFRED DOUGLASS, clergy¬ 
man, was born Feb. 12, 1858, in Monroe 
county, W. Va. After receiving the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the public 
schools he attended the Northwestern 
university of Evanston, Ill.; and the Law¬ 
rence university of Appleton, Wis. Since 
1881 he has been engaged in the minis¬ 
try, and has filled pastorates in the 
Methodist Episcopal church in various 
cities in Wisconsin, and is now at Me¬ 
nominee Falls. He has contributed many 
valuable articles to current literature. 

COXE, ALFRED C., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Auburn, N. Y. In 1882 he was 
appointed United States district judge for 
the northern district of New York, his 
grandfather, Hon. Alfred Conkling, hav¬ 
ing formerly held the same position. 

COXE, ARTHUR CLEVELAND, bishop, 
author, poet, was born May 10, 1818, in 
Mendham, N. J. He was the second pro- 
testant episcopal bishop of western New 
York. He was the author of Christian 
Ballads; Halloween; Athanasius and 
Other Poems; Advent, a Mystery; Saul, a 
Mystery; Athwold, a Romaunt; St. Jona¬ 
than, the Lay of a Scald; and Letters to 
Monsignore Satolli. His other works com¬ 
prise Impressions of England; Thoughts 
on the Services; Apollos, or the Way of 
God; The Criterion, a Means of Distin¬ 
guishing Truth from Error; Institutes of 
Christian History; Signs of the Times; 
L’Episcopat de l’Occident, a defense of 
Anglican theology; and The Penitential. 
He died in 1896. 

COXE, ECKLEY BRINTON, mining en¬ 
gineer, author, was born June 4, 1839, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Pennsylvania 
mining engineer who has published Theo¬ 
retical Mechanics. 

COXE, FRANK, banker, capitalist, was 
born Nov. 2, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is president of the Commercial Na¬ 
tional bank of Charlotte, N. C.; and the 
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago rail¬ 
way. He is the sole owner of the Battery 
Park hotel of Asheville, N. C., and the 
Battery Park bank. 

COXE, FRANK MORRELL, soldier, 
was born in 1845, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
During the civil war he was promoted to 
captain, and in 1866 transferred to the 
regular army as captain of infantry. In 
1876 he was appointed major, and is now 
lieutenant-colonel and deputy paymaster- 
general. His principal service during the 
past thirty years has been on line and 
staff duty on the plains and frontier of 
Texas, Arizona and the Pacific slope. 



COXE, JOHN REDMAN, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1773 in Trenton, N. J. 
He was a noted physician who was the 
first to introduce the practice of vaccina¬ 
tion in Philadelphia, and was the author 
of Inflammation; Importance of Medi¬ 
cine; Vaccination; Combustion; Ameri¬ 
can Dispensatory; Recognition of Friends 
in Another World; Agaricus Atramenta- 
rius; The Writings of Hippocrates and 
Galen Epitomized; Refutation of Har¬ 
vey’s Claim to the Discovery of the Cir¬ 
culation of the Blood; and Appeal to the 
Public. He died March 22, 1864, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

COXE, MARGARET, author, was born 
in 1800 in Burlington, N. J. She was the 
author of Claims of the Country on 
American Females; Wonders of the 
Deep; and Ladies’ Companion. 

COXE, TENCH, political economist, au¬ 
thor, was born May 22, 1755, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a once noted Philadel¬ 
phia writer on commerce and political 
economy, and the author of Inquiry into 
the Principles of a Commercial System for 
the United States; View of the United 
States; On the Navigation Act; Thoughts 
on Naval Power; and Address on Ameri¬ 
can Manufactures. He died July 17, 1824, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

COXE, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1813 to 1815; served in 
the state legislature, and was chosen 
speaker of the assembly. He died in Bur¬ 
lington, Vt. 

COY, EDWARD GUSTIN, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 23, 1844, in Ithaca, 
N. Y. He was a professor in Phillips 
academy of Andover until 1892, when he 
was elected headmaster of Hotchkiss 
school of Lakeville, Conn. He is the au¬ 
thor of Greek for Beginners; and First 
Greek Reader. 


COYLE, JOHN HENRY, lawyer, author, 
was born Feb. 5, 1856, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1880, and 
practices his profession at Antelope, Cal., 
where he has served as justice of the 
peace. He is the author of Mining Booms 
Past and Present; Bobnot’s Ups and 
Downs in Politics; and other works. 

COYLE, JOHN PATTERSON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1852 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a congregational clergy¬ 
man, formerly of North Adams, Mass., 
but settled in Denver at the time of his 
death. The Imperial Christ, with a Bi¬ 
ographical Introduction by George A. 
Gates; and The Spirit in Literature and 
Life. He died in 1895. 



COYNER, CHARLES LUTHER, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Feb. 8, 1853, in 
Long Glade, Va. In 1877 he was admitted 
to the bar. He has 
been town clerk, 
deputy surveyor, 
county attorney for 
ten years, and spe¬ 
cial district attorney. 
He has served as 
special district 
judge; judge of the 
probate; and judge 
of the county courts 
of Duval county, 
Tex. He was a dele¬ 
gate from his county 
to the Deep Water national convention in 
1892; and a delegate to the World’s Fair 
at Chicago. He is the author of The Life 
of Captain S. B. Coyner (his brother); 
Twenty Years in Texas; A Greenhorn in 
Texas; and a Tribute, a poem on the 
Coyner Family. 


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COZZENS, FREDERICK SCHILLER, 
artist, author, was born Oct. 11, 1846, in 
New York city. He has published a ser¬ 
ies of lithographed 
drawings of Ameri¬ 
can Yachts, accom¬ 
panied with descrip¬ 
tions by Lieut. 
James D. J. Kelley. 
He has also pro¬ 
duced a series of 
outline-drawings of 
vessels of all kinds, 
comprising steamers 
from 1819 to the 
present, American 
and English yachts, 
and all varieties of American craft pro¬ 
pelled by sails, oars, or paddles. 

COZZENS, FREDERICK SWARTOUT, 
merchant, author, was born March 5, 
1818, in New York city. He was a wine 
merchant of New York city, once noted as 
a humorist, but now neglected. He is the 
author of The Sparrowgrass Papers; 
Acadia, or a Sojourn among the Blue 
Noses; Sayings of Dr. Bushwhacker and 
Other Learned Men; Stone House on the 
Susquehanna; Prismatics; and Fitz- 
Greene Halleck, a Memorial. He died 
Dec. 23, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

COZZENS, ISSACHAR, mineralogist, 
author, was born in 1781 in Newport, R. I. 
He was a mineralogist who published 
History of New York Island. 

COZZENS, SAMUEL WOODWORTH, 
lawyer, author, was born April 14, 1834, in 
Marblehead, Mass. He was a lawyer of 
Arizona, and the author of Nobody’s Hus¬ 
band; The Marvellous Country, or Three 
Years in Arizona; The Young Trail 
Hunters; The Young Silver Seekers; and 
Crossing the Quicksands. He died Nov. 
4, 1878, in Thomaston, Ga. 

COZZENS, WILLIAM COLE, merchant, 
governor, was born Aug. 26, 1811, in New¬ 
port, R. I. He became the head of the 
dry goods firm of William C. Cozzens and 
Co., and about 1857 president of the Rhode 
Island Union bank. In 1854 he was mayor 
of Newport, subsequently a representative 
in the general assembly, and in 1861 a 
senator. In 1862 the governor and lieu¬ 
tenant-governor having resigned, Mr. 
Cozzens, who had been chosen president 
of the senate, became acting governor of 
the state for about three months. He died 
in December, 1876, in Newport, R. I. 

CRABB, GEORGE W., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Alabama from 
1839 to 1841. 

CRABB, JEREMIAH, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1795 to 1796. 

CRABBE, THOMAS, naval officer, was 
born in 1788 in Maryland. He was retired 
as commodore in 1862, officiated as prize 
commissioner in 1864-65, and was made a 
rear-admiral on the retired list in 1866. 
He died June 29, 1872, in Princeton, N. J. 

CRABTREE, JOHN D., lawyer, soldier, 
legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 19, 1837, 
in England. He entered tne civil war as 
a private and was promoted to second 
lieutenant, captain, and brevet-major. In 
1887 he was elected state senator; in 1888 
became judge of circuit court thirteenth 
judicial circuit of Illinois; and since 1896 
has been judge of the appellate court 
second district of Illinois. 

CRABTREE, LOTT A M., actress, was 
born Nov. 7, 1847, in New York city. 
At the age of eleven she played the part of 
Gertrude in the Loan of a Lover, at Peta¬ 
luma. Her chief successes have been as 
Topsy; Sam Willoughby; Firefly; Zip; 
Bob; The Little Detective; and Nitouche. 



CRADLEBAUGH, JOHN, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Ohio. He was 
elected a delegate from the territory of 
Nevada to the thirty-seventh congress; 
and was subsequently appointed United 
States judge for the territory of Utah/ 

CRAFT, WILLIAM S., clergyman, was 
born July 13, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He acquired the rudiments of his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools of his native 
city; and subsequently received a col¬ 
legiate training. For the past fifteen 
years he has been a member of the upper 
Iowa conference of the Methodist Epis¬ 
copal church; lias attained distinction as 
an eloquent clergyman of that denomina¬ 
tion; and now fills a pastorate in Daven¬ 
port, Iowa. 

CRAFTS, CLAYTON E., lawyer, state 
legislator, was born July 8, 1848, in Au¬ 
burn, Ohio. In 1882 he was elected to the 
state legislature; has been five times re¬ 
elected; and in 1891 was speaker of the 
house. He is regarded as one of the best 
lawyers and safest counselors in Chicago. 

CRAFTS, EBENEZER, pioneer, was 
born in 1740 in Pomfret, Conn. In 1790 
he emigrated with his family to the wil¬ 
derness of Vermont and there founded the 
town that is called after him. He died in 
1810 in Craftsbury, Vt. 

CRAFTS, JAMES MASON, chemist, 
educator, was born March 8, 1839, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. In 1868-70 he was profes¬ 
sor of chemistry at Cornell, and from 1870 
till 1880 a member of the faculty in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 
Boston, although from 1874 till 1880 a 
non-resident professor. 

CRAFTS, SAMUEL C., statesman, was 
born Oct. 6, 1768, in Woodstock, Vt. In 
1796, 1800, 1801, 1803, and 1805 he was 
elected a member of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives of the state. In 1800 he was 
appointed a judge of Orleans county court, 
and remained such till 1816, during the 
last six years as chief judge. From 1825 
to 1828 he was again chief judge. In 1816 
he was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress, and was re-elected for the three 
succeeding terms. In 1828 he was elected 
governor of Vermont, and was re-elected 
in 1829 and 1830. In 1829 he was presi¬ 
dent of the constitutional convention; in 
1842 was appointed by Governor Paine, 
and afterwards elected by the legislature, 
a senator in congress for the unexpired 
term of one year; thus filling every office 
in the gift of Vermont. He died Nov. 19, 
1853, in Craftsbury, Vt. 

CRAFTS, SARAH J. TIMANUS, author. 
She has published Letters to Primary 
Teachers; treatises on kindergarten teach¬ 
ing; and religious books for the young. 

CRAFTS, WALTER, mining engineer, 
was born Jan. 21, 1839, in Newton, Mass. 
In 1877 he was appointed treasurer and 
manager of the Crafts Iron company in 
the Hocking valley, Ohio, and in 1883 be¬ 
came an official in the Columbus and 
Hocking Coal and Iron company. 

CRAFTS, WILBUR FISK, was born 
Jan. 12, 1850, in Fryeburg, Maine. He is 
a congregational clergyman of New York 
city and elsewhere; and is now superin¬ 
tendent of the National Reform Bureau 
of Washington, D. C. He is the author of 
Through the Eye to the Heai't; Child¬ 
hood; The Ideal Sunday School; The 
Rescue of Child Soul; Must the Old Tes¬ 
tament Go? The Sabbath for Man; 
Talks to Boys and Girls about Jesus; Suc¬ 
cessful Men of To-Day; and Practical 
Christian Sociology. 

CRAFTS, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1819. He is 


the author of Life of General Grant; His¬ 
tory of the United States; and Pioneers 
in the Settlement of America. 


CRAGIN, AARON H„ lawyer, United 
States senatoi - , was born Feb. 3, 1821, in 
Weston, Vt. He was a member of the 
New Hampshire legislature from 1852 to 
1855; was elected a representative from 
that state to the thirty-fifth congress, and 
was re-elected to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress. In 1859 he was again elected a 
member of the state legislature; and in 
1864 was elected a senator in congress 
from New Hampshire for the term of six 
years from 1865; and re-elected for the 
term ending in 1877. 


CRAGIN, DANIEL, manufacturer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Dec. 31, 1836, in Merri¬ 
mack, N. H. During 1875-76 he served as 
a representative iix 
the New Hampshii’e 
state legislature. He 
is a successful me¬ 
chanic and manufac¬ 
turer of wooden 
ware; and has taken 
a prominent part in 
the public affiairs of 
J Wilton, N. H. While 
a member of the 
; New Hampshire 
| state legislature he 
took an active part 
in the passage of numerous bills that 
tended to the welfare and prosperity of 
his state; and as a successful manufac¬ 
turer he has become one of the foremost 
and best known in the New England 
states. 



CRAGIN, FRANCIS WHITTEMORE, 
naturalist, was born Sept. 4, 1858, in 

Greenfield, N. H. He has attained na¬ 
tional prominence as a successful natural¬ 
ist of Topeka, Kan. 

CRAIDER, FREDERICK, revolutionary 
veteran. He fought in the continental 
army, and was a veteran also of the war 
of 1812-15. He died in August, 1866, in 
Meadville, Miss. 

CRAIG, CRAIG, soldier, legislator, jur¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 10, 1823, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He represented Philadelphia in 
the legislature in 1849-50. In 1875 he was 
appointed a judge of the court of common 
pleas of Philadelphia, and in the follow¬ 
ing autumn was elected to the same office. 

CRAIG, ALEXANDER JOHNSON, edu¬ 
cator, was born Nov. 11, 1823, in Goshen, 
N. Y. He became principal of a Milwau¬ 
kee school in 1854, and in 1858-59 edited 
the Wisconsin Journal of Education at Ra¬ 
cine and Madison, Wis. In 1859-60 he was 
a member of the legislature. He was pres¬ 
ident of the state teachers’ association, and 
was chosen assistant state superintendent 
of schools in 1860, and from 1868 till his 
death was superintendent-in-chief. He 
died July 5, 1870, in Madison, Wis. 

CRAIG, ALLEN, lawyer, state senator, 
was born Dec. 25, 1835, in Carbon county. 
Pa. In 1859 he was elected district attor¬ 
ney of Carbon county, and in 1878 was 
elected state senator for the district com¬ 
prising Carbon, Monroe and Pike coun¬ 
ties. 

CRAIG, GEORGE H„ soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 
1848, in Cahaba, Ala. He was promoted 
to first lieutenant of infantry, and as 
such, in 1863, again entered the confeder¬ 
ate service, serving until the end of the 
war. He was appointed, in 1874, judge of 
the first judicial circuit to fill an unex¬ 
pired term; and was elected, in 1874, 
judge of the first judicial circuit for six 
years, served the term out, and retired to 
practice in Selma. He was elected to the 
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CRAIG, HECTOR, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1823 to 1825; and again 
from 1829 to 1830. 

CRAIG, ISAAC B., lawyer, legislator, 
was born April 28, 1857, in Charleston, 
Ill. He was a member of the Illinois 
house of representatives of thirty-sixth 
and thirty-seventh general assemblies; 
state senator of thirty-eighth and thirty- 
ninth general assemblies; and again a 
member of the house of representatives of 
the fortieth general assembly. 

CRAIG, JAMES, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 7, 1820, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was a member of the Mis¬ 
souri legislature in 1847; and was a cap¬ 
tain of a volunteer company in the Mexi¬ 
can war. He was circuit attorney for the 
twelfth judicial circuit in Missouri from 
1852 to 1856. He was a representative in 
the thirty-fifth congress from Missouri; 
and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress. He was appointed a brigadier- 
general of volunteers in 1862, and em¬ 
ployed in the west. He died Oct. 21, 1888, 
in St. Joseph, Mo. 

CRAIG, JOHN, philanthropist, was born 
in 1797 in Goffstown, N. H. Besides giv¬ 
ing liberally during his lifetime, he be¬ 
queathed sums amounting to $105,000 to 
various universalist educational institu¬ 
tions. He died July 19, 1872, in Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y. 

CRAIG, JOHN ENSTER, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born March 14, 1853, in Clays- 
ville. Pa. He attended the common 
schools, and in 1887 graduated from the 
Washington and Jefferson college. In 
1878 he moved to Keokuk, Iowa, and was 
admitted to the bar the following year. 
In 1886 he was elected a member of the 
Iowa legislature; received the re-election 
in 1888; and during his service took a 
prominent part among the lawmakers of 
the state. In 1889 and again in 1891 he 
was elected mayor of Keokuk; and un¬ 
der his administration great improve¬ 
ments were made in that city. His name 
was suggested as a candidate for governor 
at the convention held at Sioux City in 
1889, but he declined to permit his name 
to be used in connection with the candi¬ 
dacy of that office. He is prominent in 
educational and business circles, and has 
always taken an active part in all matters 
pertaining to the welfare of his adopted 
city. 

CRAIG, JOSEPH H., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Oct. 3, 1850, in Windsor, 
N. Y. He received his education at the 
Glen Roy academy, Lenox college, and in 
1875 graduated from the Rush Medical 
college of Chicago. He has served as 
United States examining surgeon; medi¬ 
cal examiner for ten old line insurance 
companies; and health physician for three 
townships in Clayton county, Iowa. 

CRAIG, ROBERT, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1829 
to 1833; and again from 1835 to 1841. 

CRAiG, ROBERT H„ actor, artist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 24, 1842, in New 
York city. He had talent as a painter, 
and was the author of burlesques on Don 
Juan, Faust, Hamlet, and Camille. He 
died Dec. 8, 1872, in St. Louis, Mo. 

CRAIG, SAMUEL ALFRED, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 19, 
1839 in Brookville, Pa. He was commis¬ 
sioned captain in the veteran reserve 
corps, United States army, and served 
continuously four years and three 
months. He was elected district attor¬ 
ney; and was elected to the fifty-first 
congress as a republican. 


CRAIG, SAMUEL THOMAS, soldier, 
merchant, was born March 22, 1835, in 
Corydon, Ind. In his youth he learned 
the trade of a carriage maker; and in 
1860 crossed the Rocky mountains. He 
served gallantly through the civil war, en¬ 
listing as a private in company H, first 
regiment Iowa volunteer cavalry; was 
promoted through all grades and brevet- 
ted brigadier-general. He participated in 
nearly all of the scouting and battles 
with the enemy in southwestern Missouri, 
and in Arkansas and other states; crossed 
the Ozark mountains; and was mustered 
out in 1866. He remained • one year in 
Texas, and then returned home to Iowa. 
He was county auditor for four terms; 
and has principally been engaged in mer¬ 
cantile business at Albia, Iowa. 

CRAIG, WILLIAM, artist, was born in 
1829 in Dublin, Ireland. Toward the end 
of his life he painted rapidly, and so his 
later works were Ruins of Fort 
Ticonderoga; On the Hudson (1870); 
Hudson River near West Point (1871); 
and Falls on the Boquet River. He died 
in 1875 in New York. 

CRAIGE, BURTON, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 13, 1811, in 
Rowan county, N. C. He was a member 
of the state legislature in 1832 and 1834; 
and was elected to the thirty-third, thir¬ 
ty-fourth. thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth 
congresses. He died Dec. 30, 1875, in 
Concord, N. C. 

CRAIK, JAMES, physician, was born in 
1731 in Ireland. During the revolutionary 
war Dr. Craik served in the medical de¬ 
partment, and rose to the first rank. 
After the war he removed to the neigh¬ 
borhood of Mount Vernon at Washing¬ 
ton’s request, and attended him in his 
last illness. He died Feb. 6, 1814, in Fair¬ 
fax county, Va. 

CRAIK, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1796 to 1801. 

CRAIN, WILLIAM H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 25, 1848, in Gal¬ 
veston, Tex. He settled at Cuero, Tex.; 
and in 1872 was elected district attorney 
for the twenty-third judicial district of 
Texas. In 1876 he was elected a state 
senator; and in 1884 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Texas to the forty-ninth 
congress; and was re-elected to the fifti¬ 
eth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and 
fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat. 

CRALLE, RICHARD K., author, was 
born in South Carolina. He was previ¬ 
ously an editor and Swedenborgian cler¬ 
gyman in Washington. He published 
Works of John C. Calhoun, with a me¬ 
moir, in six volumes; and several polem¬ 
ical works on new church doctrines. He 
died June 10, 1864, in Virginia. 

CRAM, RALPH ADAMS, architect, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1863 in New 
Hampshire. He is an architect of Bos¬ 
ton, and the author of The Decadent, be¬ 
ing’the Gospel of Inaction; Black Spirits 
and White, a book of ghost stories; and 
In the Island of Avalon, a book of poems. 

CRAM, THOMAS JEFFERSON, soldier, 
was born about 1807 in New Hampshire. 
In 1866 he was brevetted brigadier-general 
and major-general in the regular army for 
his services during the civil war. After 
this he served on boards of engineers for 
the improvement of harbors on the great 
lakes, and on Feb. 22. 1869, was retired. 
He died Dec. 20, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

CRAMER, JOHN, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 26, 1779, in 
Waterford, N. Y. He was a presidential 
elector in 1805; served three years in the 
assembly, and three years in the senate 
of the state of New York. He was a 


member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1821; and was a representative 
in congress from New York from 1833 to 
1837. He died June 1, 1870, in Waterford, 
N. Y. 

CRAMER, MICHAEL JOHN, clergy¬ 
man, diplomat, was born Feb. 6, 1835, in 
Switzerland. He was chaplain in the 
United States army from 1864 to 1867; 
and in the latter year he was appointed 
United States consul at Leipsic, Germany. 
In 1870 he was appointed United States 
minister to Denmark; in 1881 was trans¬ 
ferred in a like capacity to the republic 
of Switzerland. 

CRAMER, WILLIAM E., journalist, was 
born Oct. 29, 1817, in Waterford, N. Y. 
He was admitted to the bar, but adopted 
the career of journalism. In 1847 he be¬ 
came the editor and senior proprietor of 
the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, in 
which position he has continued for half 
a century. When he came to Wisconsin, 
the state had not adopted its constitu¬ 
tion, and he was instrumental in incorpo¬ 
rating into its organic law the homestead 
exemption clause, and the section provid¬ 
ing for the right of married women to re¬ 
tain possession of their property. 

CRAMP, CHARLES HENRY, was born 
May 9, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1879 
he became president of the William 
Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Build¬ 
ing Co., and is now the most conspicuous 
shipbuilder of the United States. 

CRAMP, WILLIAM, shipbuilder, was 
born in 1806, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was a member of the firm incorporated in 
1872 under the name of William Cramp 
and Sons Ship and Engine Building com¬ 
pany. Until 1860 the Cramps were en¬ 
gaged in the building of wooden vessels 
and ships; and in 1862 they built the iron¬ 
clad battleship New Ironsides. He died 
July 6, 1879, in Atlantic City, N. J. 

CRAMTON, JOHN WILLEY, merchant, 
state senator, was born Nov. 10, 1826, in 
Tinmouth, Vt. His firm of John W. 
Cramton and Co. carry on a large trade 
in stoves and hardware, and the Bardwell 
house in Rutland has belonged to him for 
the last thirty years. He is now president 
of the Baxter National bank, the Steam 
Stone Cutter Co., the True Blue Marble 
Co. and the Rutland Street railroad. He 
was a state senator in 1886; state prison 
director in 1882-92; and president of Rut¬ 
land village for several terms. 

CRANCH, CAROLINE A., artist, a 
daughter of Christopher Pearse Cranch. 
She paints figure pieces with success, and 
has a large clientage in Cambridge, Mass. 

CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEARSE, 
clergyman, artist, poet, was born March 
8, 1813, in Alexandria, Va. His best 
known poem. Thought, was written for 
The Dial His work as a poet is uneven, 
but at its best is excellent. It never 
strongly appealed to popular tastes, but 
was always appreciated by thoughtful 
minds. He is the author of Poems, 1844; 
The Bird and the Bell, and Other Poems; 
Ariel and Caliban, and Other Poems; 
Satan: a Libretto; The ^Eneid in English 
Blank Verse. The Last of the Hugger- 
muggers; and Kobboltzo, are juvenile 
prose tales. He died Jan. 20, 1892, in 
Cambridge, Mass. 

CRANCH, GEORGE, painter. He was a 
portrait painter of Washington, D. C.; 
and was an associate in the National 
academy. He died in 1891. 

CRANCH, RICHARD, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1726 in England. He was a 
lawyer of Braintree, Mass., and the author 
of Views of the Prophets concerning Anti- 
Christ. He died in 1811. 


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CRANCH, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born July 17, 1769, in Wey¬ 
mouth, Mass. He was a noted jurist who 
was chief justice of 
the District of Co¬ 
lumbia in 1805-55. 
He was the author 
of Reports of Cases 
in the United States 
district court of the 
District of Columbia, 
1801-41; and Su¬ 
preme Court Re¬ 
ports, 1800-1815. His 
decisions have 
shown great legal 
learning and a clear 
judicial mind. He died Sept. 1, 1855, in 
Washington, D. C. 

CRANDALL, CHARLES HENRY, au¬ 
thor, poet, w f as born in 1858 in New York. 
He is the author of Wayside Music, a 
volume of poems. 

CRANDALL, CHARLES L., educator, 
author, w r as born July 20, 1850, in Bridge- 
water, N. Y. He was appointed instruc¬ 
tor in civil engineering, assistant profes¬ 
sor of engineering, and associate professor 
of Cornell university. He is the author 
of Tables for the Computation of Railway 
and Other Earthworks; and Notes on De¬ 
scriptive Geometry. 

CRANDALL, LUCIAN STEPHEN, in¬ 
ventor, was born May 4, 1844, in New 
York. He invented the Crandall type¬ 
writer; and in 1886 he organized the Par¬ 
ish Manufacturing company of Parish, 
N. Y., and began the manufacture of the 
American Standard and Victoria. They 
were all eventually superseded by the In¬ 
ternational, which is his most original 
and best work. 

CRANDALL, ORESTES AUGUSTUS, 
lawyer, financier, author, was born Feb. 25, 
1833, near Syracuse, N. Y. He moved to 
Illinois in infancy 
with his father; 
learned the wagon- 
maker’s trade; and 
subsequently became 
a prominent member 
of the Missouri bar. 
In 1868 and in 1872 
he was a member of 
the Missouri demo¬ 
cratic state execu¬ 
tive committee; and 
in 1868 was a candi¬ 
date for state sena¬ 
tor. In 1880 he organized the Missouri 
Trust company, at Sedalia, Mo., and is 
still its president. In 1897 he was ap¬ 
pointed by the governor of Missouri a 
member of the board of managers of the 
state geological bureau. His chief liter¬ 
ary works are a book on Money, and sev- 
-eral monographs on scientific subjects. 

CRANDALL, PRUDENCE, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born »ept. 3, 1803, in Hopkin- 
ton, R. I. She opened a school in Canter¬ 
bury, Conn., for young ladies; and was 
soon after imprisoned for accepting col¬ 
ored girls. She died Jan. 28, 1889, in Elk 
Falls, Kan. 

CRANDALL, REUBEN, physician, was 
born about 1805, in Westchester, N. Y. 
He went to Washington, D. C., to teach 
botany in 1835, and was arrested and sent 
to prison on the charge of circulating in¬ 
cendiary pamphlets. He died Feb. 1, 
1838, in Jamaica, W. I. 

CRANE, ANNE MONCURE, author, 
was born Jan. 7, 1838, in Baltimore, Md. 
In 1858 she began her first story, entitled 
Emily Chester, which was published sev¬ 
eral years later. She was also the au¬ 
thor of Opportunity and Reginald Archer. 
She died Dec. 10, 1873. 


CRANE, CEPHAS BENNETT, clergy¬ 
man,, author, was born in 1833. He is a 
baptist clergyman of Boston, and the au¬ 
thor of The Spiritual Court of the Chris¬ 
tian Church. 

CRANE, ELVIN WILLIAMSON, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, w r as born Oct. 20, 
1853, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1888 he was 
appointed prosecutor of Sussex county, 
N. Y., and in 1886 was elected to the state 
legislature. 

CRANE, FRANK IRVING, lumber mer¬ 
chant, was born Sept. 26, 1848, in Sharon, 
Ohio. He received his education at the 
public schools and the academy of his 
native city. He is a successful lumber 
merchant of Austin, Minn.; and has for 
more than a quarter of a century been 
identified with the business interests and 
prosperity of that city. He has served 
with distinction as mayor; and unani¬ 
mously received the nomination and 
election to a second term by all the party 
conventions of that city. 

CRANE, HENRY C., clergyman, poet, 
was born Nov. 30, 1845, in Norton, Mass. 
He was ordained in 1873 as a congrega¬ 
tional minister, and has filled pastorates 
at Franklin, Mass., Allegheny City, Pa., 
and Springfield, Mo. His poems have ap¬ 
peared from time to time in the religious 
and secular press. 

CRANE, JONATHAN TOWNLEY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 18, 1819, in 
Elizabeth, N. J. He was a methodist 
clergyman of New Jersey, and the author 
of Methodism and its Methods; The Right 
Way; Essay on Dancing; Popular Amuse¬ 
ments; Arts of Intoxication; and Holiness 
the Birthright of all God’s Children. He 
died Feb. 16, 1880, in Port Jervis, N. Y. 

CRANE, JOSEPH H., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in Elizabethtown, 
N. J. For many years he was president 
judge of the court of common pleas; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1829 to 1837. He died Nov. 12, 
1852, in Dayton, Ohio. 

CRANE, OLIVER, clergyman, oriental 
and classical scholar, was born July 12, 
1822, in Montclair, N. J. He prepared for 
college in his native 
city; graduated 
from Yale university 
in 1845; and from 
the Union Theologi¬ 
cal seminary in 1848. 
He then spent sev¬ 
eral years in the 
orient, and subse¬ 
quently filled pastor¬ 
ates in Huron and 
Waverly, N. Y., and 
in Carbondale, Pa. 
He is. the author of 
a critical translation of Virgil’s ^Eneid; 
a volume of verse entitled Minto and 
Other Poems; and has prepared an elab¬ 
orate Encyclopedia Class Record, as Class 
Secretary; besides many articles on vari¬ 
ous subjects. He died in 1896, in Boston, 
Mass. 

CRANE, RICHARD T., manufacturer, 
was born in 1832, in Paterson, N. J. He 
incorporated the business with $1,000,000 
capital as the Northwestern Manufactur¬ 
ing Co., reorganized it as the Crane 
Bro.’s Manufacturing Co. and later 
changed it to the Crane Co. 

CRANE, SIBYLLA BAILEY, educator, 
composer, author, was born July 30, 1851, 
in Boston, Mass. She is a director and 
treasurer of the Massachusetts Society for 
the University Education of Women; di¬ 
rector of the Women’s Educational and 
Industrial union; and the New England 
Woman’s club. She is the author of a 
volume entitled Glimpses of the Old 
World. 


CRANE, STEPHEN, congressman. He 
was a delegate from New Jersey to the 
continental congress from 1774 to 1776. 

CRANE, STEPHEN, author, was born 
in 1870 in New Jersey. He is a popular 
novelist of New York city, and the author 
of George’s Mother; The Black Riders and 
Other Lines, a collection of wilfully ec¬ 
centric verse; The Red Badge of Courage, 
a striking historical romance of the Civil 
War in America; and Maggie, a story 
of slum life. 

CRANE, THOMAS FREDERICK, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1844 in New 
York. He is a professor of Romance lan¬ 
guages at Cornell university, and the au¬ 
thor of Italian Popular Tales; The Ex- 
empla, or Illustrative Stories from the 
Sermones of Jacques de Vitry; Tableaux 
de la Revolution Frangaise; Le Roman- 
tisme Frangaise; La Socidtd Fran- 
gaise au Dixseptieme Siecle; and Chan¬ 
sons Populaires de la France. 

CRANE, WILLIAM CAREY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 17, 1816, in 
Richmond, Va. He was a baptist clergy¬ 
man of Texas, president of Baylor univer¬ 
sity in 1863-85, which was renamed Crane 
college in his honor in 1885. He was the 
author of Discourses; Life of Sam. Hous¬ 
ton, and lesser works. He died Feb. 27, 
1885, in Independence, Tex. 

CRANE, WILLIAM H., actor, was born 
April 30, 1845, in Leicester, Mass. He 
made his first appearance in 1876 in New 
York city; and has attained success in 
The Senator, a play written for him by 
David D. Lloyd, which has been played in 
all the large cities of the United States. 

CRANE, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, 
naval officer, was born Feb. 1, 1776, in 
Elizabethtown, N. J. He was appointed 
navy commissioner in 1841, and in 1842 
chief of the bureau of ordnance and hy¬ 
drography. He died by his own hand 
March 18, 1846, in Washington. 

CRANE, ZENAS, manufacturer, was 
born Dec. 6, 1814, in Dalton, Mass. He is 
a partner in Z. and W. M. Crane, Crane 
and Co. and the Berkshire Mills Co., and 
also has an interest in the Dalton Shoe 
Co. 

CRANFILL, JAMES BRITTON, clergy¬ 
man, prohibitionist, was born Sept. 12, 
1858, in Parker county, Tex. He is the 
editor of the Texas Baptist Standard, and 
has filled many prominent positions in 
the baptist denomination. In 1892 he was 
a candidate for vice-president of the 
United States on the prohibition ticket. 

CRANFORD, JOHN WALTER, lawyer, 
congressman, was born near Grove Hill, 
Ala. He was elected to the state senate 
in 1888 for a term of four years, and re¬ 
elected in 1892. He served in the senate 
as chairman of judiciary committee No. 
1, and was elected president pro tempore 
of the twenty-second senate. He was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat after one of the hottest joint 
canvasses ever known in the state. 

CRANK, WILLIAM J. L., lawyer, was 
born June 2, 1867, in Stewartsville, Mo. 
He attended the Kansas Normal college, 
and graduated in law from the state uni¬ 
versity of Kansas in 1889. He practiced 
his profession a while in Hill City; then 
in Laramie City, Wyo.; and in 1892 
moved to Denver, Colo., where he has at¬ 
tained eminent success, and stands at the 
head of the bar as a trial lawyer and ad¬ 
vocate. He has taken an active interest 
in local and national politics, and has con¬ 
tributed to the success of the republican 
party in numerous state campaigns. 











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CRANSTON, HENRY YOUNG, lawyer, 
3 tate senator, congressman, was born Oct. 

9, 1789, in Newport, R. I. In 1818 he was 
elected clerk of the court of common 
pleas, and held the office until 1833. He 
was for twenty-five years annually elected 
moderator for the town of Newport; and 
was a member of the lower branch of the 
legislature; and was a representative in 
congress from 1843 to 1847, when he was 
returned to the legislature, and w T as sev¬ 
eral times speaker of that body until 1854. 
He died Feb. 12, 1864, in Newport, R. I. 

CRANSTON, JOHN, president of Rhode 
Island. He was attorney-general of the 
colony; was deputy governor in 1672, 
which he filled until elected governor in 
1678, which office he held until his death, 
March 12, 1680. 

CRANSTON, JOHN SAMUEL, president 
of Rhode Island, was a son of John Crans¬ 
ton. In 1698 he became governor, and 
was thirty times successively chosen to 
that place, holding the office until his 
death in 1727. 

CRANSTON, ROBERT BENNIE, bank¬ 
er, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1791, 
in Newport, R. I. He was a banker for 
several years, was postmaster, and a 
member of the state legislature, serving 
for one term as speaker. Subsequently 
he was sent to congress as a law-and-or- 
der whig, and served in 1847-49. He be¬ 
queathed $75,000 to those poor of Newport 
who are too honest to steal and too proud 
to beg. He died Jan. 27, 1873, in New¬ 
port, R. I. 

CRAPO, HENRY HOWLAND, lumber 
manufacturer, state senator, governor, 
was born May 24, 1804, in Dartmouth, 
Mass. He moved to Michigan in 1857, 
was for a time mayor of Flint, and 
served in the state senate. He was twice 
elected governor of the state, in 1864 and 
1866, performing important services dur¬ 
ing the progress of the rebellion. He 
died July 23, 1869, in Flint, Mich. 

CRAPO, PHILIP M., soldier, statesman, 
financier, was born June 30, 1844, in Free¬ 
town, Mass. He received his education 
at the public and 



high schools of New 
Bedford, Mass. He 
has become promi¬ 
nent in the business 
and public affairs of 
Burlington, Iowa, 
where he has filled 
various important 
offices, including that 
of president of the 
board of trustees of 
the free public li¬ 
brary, president of 
the boayd of park commissioners, presi¬ 
dent of the board of trade, president of 
the board of commissioners, who had 
charge of the Iowa semi-centennial 
celebration at Burlington during October 
1896, and president of the Commercial 
club. He has been prominent in Grand 
Army of the Republic affairs; was chief- 
ly instrumental in the establishment of 
the Iowa soldiers’ home; and was also 
one of the chief promoters of the Iowa 
soldiers’ monument. He has been a can¬ 
didate for the state senate and for gov¬ 
ernor of Iowa. For four years he was 
chairman of the congressional commit¬ 
tee, and is now the financial correspon¬ 
dent for the Connecticut Mutual Life in¬ 
surance company. He has secured tor 
Burlington one of the most beautiful Pub¬ 
lic parks in the west, which bears his 
name. He has also built for the city the 
finest public library building in the state 
of Iowa, paying one-half the cost. 


CRAPO, WILLIAM WALLACE, lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 16, 1830, in 
Dartmouth, Mass. He was a member of 
the Massachusetts legislature in 1857; 
and in 1875 was elected a representative 
to the forty-fourth congress to fill a va¬ 
cancy; and was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

CRAPO, WILLIAM WALLACE, rail¬ 
road president, was born May 16, 1830, 
in Dartmouth, Mass. Since 1882 he has 
been president of the Flint, Pere and Mar¬ 
quette railway. 

CRARY, HORACE H., tanner, was born 
Aug. 29, 1824, in Liberty, N. Y. In dif¬ 
ferent firms he is interested in tanneries 
at Sheffield, and in the Penn and the 
Union Tanning companies, each of them 
virtually a syndicate of tanners. He was 
active in forming the United States Leath¬ 
er company, and his interests are n«w 
merged therein. 

CRARY, ISAAC E., soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Preston, Conn. 
He moved to the territory of Michigan, 
and was appointed a general of militia. 
He was elected a delegate to congress 
from the territory in 1835 and 1836; and 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from the time of its admission 
into the union in 1836 to 1841. He died 
May 8, 1854, in Marshall, Mich. 

CRAVATH, ERASTUS MILO, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, was born 
July 1, 1833, in Homer, N. Y. He received 
his education at the 
Homer academy, Ob- 
erlin college, and the 
Theological semi¬ 
nary. He has been 
pastor of the congre¬ 
gational church of 
Berlin Heights, 
Ohio, and served as 
chaplain of the one 
hundred and first 
regiment Ohio vol¬ 
unteer infantry dur¬ 
ing the civil war. He 
has been the field agent, district secre¬ 
tary and general field secretary of the 
American Missionary association of New 
York. He has been eminently success¬ 
ful in all his labors, and is now the hon¬ 
ored president of the Fisk university of 
Nashville, Tenn. 

CRAVEN, BRAXTON, college president, 
author, was born Aug. 26, 1822, in Deep 
River, N. C. He was first and third pres¬ 
ident of Trinity college; and the author 
of Bullion’s English Grammar; An Histor¬ 
ical Sketch of Trinity College, and one or 
two sermons and novelettes. He died 
Nov. 7, 1882, in Trinity college. 

CRAVEN, CHARLES HENDERSON, 
naval officer, was born Nov. 30, 1843, in 
Portland, Maine. In 1874 he became 
executive officer of the Kearsarge, of the 
Pacific squadron, and later of the Mono- 
cacy. 

CRAVEN, ELIJA RICHARDSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 28, 1824, 
in Washington, D. C. He has filled pas¬ 
torates in the presbyterian churches of 
Somerville and Newark, N. J.; and is the 
author of many articles for reviews. 

CRAVEN, HENRY SMITH, civil en¬ 
gineer inventor, was born Oct. 14, 1845, in 
Bound Brook, N. J- He took charge of 
the construction of the new Croton aque¬ 
duct in New York, up to 1886. He is the 
inventor of an automatic trip for mining 
buckets, and of a tunneling machine. 

CRAVENS, JAMES A., soldier, agricul¬ 
turist, congressman, was born Nov. 4. 
1818, in Rockingham county, Y a. In 184S- 



49 he was elected to the legislature of In¬ 
diana; in 1850 elected to the state sen¬ 
ate, serving three years; and in 1854 was 
commissioned a brigadier-general of mi¬ 
litia. In 1860 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Indiana to the thirty-seventh 
congress; and was re-elected to the thir¬ 
ty-eighth congress. 

CRAVENS, JAMES H., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1798 in Rocking¬ 
ham county, Va. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Indiana from 1841 
to 1843; and was subsequently a candi¬ 
date of the free-soil party for the office 
of governor. He served as colonel of an 
Indiana regiment during the war for the 
suppression of the rebellion. 

CRAVENS, JORDAN E., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 7,< 1830, in Fredericktown, Mo. He 
was a representative in the state legisla¬ 
ture in 1860; and served in the confed¬ 
erate army throughout the war, rising to 
the rank of colonel. He was a state sena¬ 
tor in 1866; was a presidential elector in 
1872; and was elected a representative 
from Arkansas to the forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a 
democrat. 

CRAWFORD, MRS. ALICE [ARNOLD], 
author, poet, was born in 1850, in Wis¬ 
consin. She was a Milwaukee writer who 
published A Few Thoughts for a Few 
Friends, a collection of poems. She died 
in 1874. 

CRAWFORD, ANDREW J., railroad 
president, was born Nov. 7, 1837, in Mont¬ 
gomery county, Pa. Since 1891 he has 
been president of the Nashville and Knox¬ 
ville railroad. 

CRAWFORD, DUGAL, merchant, was 
born Feb. 2, 1830, in Scotland He came 
to St. Louis, Mo., commenced the dry 
goods business, which is now one of the 
largest concerns in the country. He is 
one of the trustees of Drury college, and 
is the first and only president since the 
starting of the Congregational City Mis¬ 
sionary society of St. Louis in 1887. 

CRAWFORD, FRANCIS MARION, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 2, 1854, in Italy. He 
is the author of Mr. Isaacs; Dr. Claudius 
A Roman Singer; To Leeward; An Aniei 
can Politician; Zoroaster; Adam John¬ 
stone’s Sin; A Tale of a Lonely Parish. 
Saracinesca; Marzio s Crucifix, Paul 
Patoff- With the Immortals; Greifenstein, 
Sant’ Ilario; A Cigarette-Makers Ro¬ 
mance; Khaled; The Witch of Prague 
The Three Fates; Don Orsmo; Childien 
of the King; Pietro Ghisleri; Marion 
Darche; The Ralstons; Katherine Lau¬ 
derdale; Casa Braccio; Love in Idleness 
a Tale of Bar Harbour; The Novel. What 
it Is; Constantinople, a book of travels; 
and Taquisara. 

CRAWFORD, GEORGE WASHING¬ 
TON lawyer, congressman, governor, was 
born’ Dec. 22, 1798, in Columbia county, 
Ga. In 1827 he was 
elected attorney-gen¬ 
eral, and continued 
in that office until 
1831. He was in the 
state legislature 
from 1837 to 1842; 
and in 1843 was 
elected to congress 
to fill a vacancy. He 
was elected governor 
of the state in 1843, 
and re-elected in 
1845. He was a mem¬ 
ber of President Taylor’s cabinet as sec¬ 
retary of war. He died July 22, 1872, in 
Richmond county, Ga. 




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CRAWFORD, HENRY CLAY, business 
man, legislator, was born in 1857 in Bain- 
bridge, Ga. He is a successful dealer in 
real estate at Tallahassee, Fla. In 1885 
he served with distinction as a member 
of the Florida state legislature, and is 
now assistant secretary of state. 

CRAWFORD, J. P., physician, lecturer, 
was born Aug. 27, 1855, near Cedar Rap¬ 
ids, Iowa. Since 1883 he has practiced 
medicine and surgery continuously in 
Davenport, Iowa. For many years he 
was president of the Iowa and Illinois 
District Medical association, and has writ¬ 
ten pamphlets and important articles for 
current medical publications. 

CRAWFORD, JOEL, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 15, 1783, in 
Columbia county, Ga. In 1813 he joined 
the army of Gen. Floyd, and served 
throughout the whole campaign as aid- 
de-camp to the general. He served three 
years in the state legislature; and was a 
representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1817 to 1821. He died April 5, 1858. 

CRAWFORD, JOHN G., lawyer, orator, 
legislator, was born April 21, 1834, in 
Oakham, Mass. At the breaking out of 
the war he enlisted 
in the second regi¬ 
ment of the Michi¬ 
gan cavalry and be¬ 
came a sergeant-ma¬ 
jor and colonel. On 
his return from the 
war he was elected a 
member of the Mich¬ 
igan state senate. 
Since then he has 
held numerous im¬ 
portant elective and 
appointive offices, 
and was a consul in Canada during Pres¬ 
ident Garfield's administration. As a 

platform speaker, Col. Crawford has no 

equal, and has been a speaker in every 
political campaign since 1856. He has 
resided in New Hampshire most of the 
time since 1870. He knew John Brown 

personally, and escaped lynching more 
than once during the bleeding Kansas 
troubles in 1855-56, in which he was a 
prominent factor. 

CRAWFORD, JOHN LOUICK, physi¬ 
cian, legislator, was born in Covington, 
Ga. He received his education at the 
Emory college and the university of 
Georgia. He has attained success as one 
of the foremost physicians of the south 
at Crawfordsville, Fla. He served with 
distinction as a state senator in the Flor¬ 
ida legislature; and is now secretary of 
state for the state of Florida. 

CRAWFORD, LEONARD J„ lawyer, 
politician, was born April 29, 1860, in 
Newport, Ky. In 1882 he graduated from 
the Cincinnati Law school, and since that 
time has practiced in his native city. In 
1892 he was a candidate for attorney-gen¬ 
eral; was president of the, republican 
state league of Kentucky during 1892-95; 
and in 1897 was elected president of the 
national republican league. 

CRAWFORD. MARTIN JENKINS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born March 
17, 1820, in Jasper county, Ga. He was a 
member of the Georgia '■legislature from 
1845 to 1847; and in 1853 was appointed 
judge of the superior court. He was 
elected a member of the thirty-fourth and 
thirty-fifth congresses; and was also 
elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He 
joined the great rebellion of that year as 
a member of the confederate congress, and 
was a commissioner to Washington. He 
died July 22, 1883, in Columbus, Ga. 


AMERICAN 

CRAWFORD, NATHANIEL MORTON, 
clergyman, college president, author, was 
born March 22, 1811, in Oglethorpe coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was a baptist minister of Ken¬ 
tucky; president of Georgetown college, 
Ky., in 1865-71, and the author of Chris¬ 
tian Paradoxes. He died Oct. 27, 1871, 
in Walker county, Va. 

CRAWFORD, S. J., governor. He was 
governor of Kansas from 1864 to 1869. 

CRAWFORD, SAMUEL WYLIE, sol¬ 
dier, physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 8, 
1829’ in Franklin county, Pa. In 1851 he 
became an assistant 
surgeon in the Unit¬ 
ed States army. He 
served with distinc¬ 
tion in the Shenan¬ 
doah campaign, be¬ 
ing present at the 
battles of Winches¬ 
ter and Cedar Moun¬ 
tain, losing one-half 
of his brigade in the 
last named action. 
At the battle of An- 
tietam he had com¬ 
mand of a division, and was severely 
wounded. 

CRAWFORD, THOMAS, sculptor, was 
born March 22,1814, in New York city. He 
has attained a national reputation as a 
sculptor. Some of his most celebrated 
works are: The Genius of Mirth; Vesta; 
Adam and Eve; David Before Saul; and 
Flora. He died Oct. 16, 1857, in London, 
England. 

CRAWFORD, THOMAS HARTLEY, 
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Nov. 
14, 1786, in Chambersburg, Pa. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1829 to 1833, and during the 
last named year was elected to the state 
legislature. In 1838 he was appointed com¬ 
missioner of Indian affairs, and took up 
his residence in Washington, holding that 
office for seven years. In 1845 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the criminal court of the 
District of Columbia. He died Jan. 27, 
1863, in Washington, D. C. 

CRAWFORD, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Virginia. He moved to Ala¬ 
bama in 1810; held a number of federal 
and state offices; was receiver of moneys 
for public lands; and a commissioner to 
settle certain claims under a treaty with 
England, France and Spain. He was 
elected to the state senate; was United 
States district attorney for Alabama; and 
was judge of the United States district 
court for Alabama. He died April 28, 
1849, in Mobile, Ala. 

CRAWFORD, WILLIAM, physician, 
congressman, was born in 1760 in Scot¬ 
land. He was the pioneer physician of 
Marsh Creek, Pa.; became interested in 
politics, and was a representative in 
congress from 1809 to 1817. He died in 
1823. 

CRAWFORD, WILLIAM HARRIS, law¬ 
yer, jurist. United States senator, was 
born Feb. 24, 1772, in Amherst county, Va. 

In 1799 he was ap¬ 
pointed to prepare a 
digest of the laws of 
Georgia. He served 
four years in the 
state legislature; and 
was a senator in 
congress from Geor¬ 
gia from 1807 to 
1813. In 1815 he be¬ 
came secretary of 
war; and in 1817 was 
appointed secretary 
of the treasury, 
where he served with marked ability un¬ 
til 1825. In 1827 he was appointed judge 
of the northern circuit of Georgia, which 


office he held until his death. He died 
Sept. 15, 1834, in Albert county, Ga. 

CRAWFORD, WILLIAM HENRY, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, was 
born Oct. 6, 1855, in Milton Center, Ill. 
He is an active worker in the Epworth 
league, and as a lecturer has gained an 
enviable reputation. Since 1893 he has 
been president of the Alleghany college of 
Meadville, Pa. 

CRAWFORD, WILLIAM THOMAS, 
merchant, lawyer, congressman, was 

born .Tune 1, 1856, in Haywood county, 

N. C. He was elect¬ 
ed to the state legis¬ 
lature in 1884 and in 
1886; was a demo¬ 
cratic elector in 
, 1888; and was en¬ 
grossing clerk of the 
state house of repre¬ 
sentatives in 1889. 
He was elected to 
the fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses 
as a democrat. He 
graduated in law 
from the state university of North Caro¬ 
lina. 

CREAMER, THOMAS J., merchant, state 
senator, congressman, was born May 26, 
1843, in Ireland. He was elected to the 
state legislature in 1864, 1865 and 1866; 
to the state seriate in 1867 and 1869; and 
was appointed tax commissioner for New 
York city in 1869, serving until 1873. He 
was president of the young democrats’ 
general committee in 1870; delegate to the 
Baltimore national convention in 1872; 
and was elected to the forty-third con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

CREBS, JOHN M., soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 7, 1832, in Lon¬ 
don county, Va. In 1862 he entered the 
volunteer army as lieutenant-colonel; par¬ 
ticipated in all the Mississippi movements 
until the capture of Vicksburg, and was 
also in the Arkansas campaign, command¬ 
ing a brigade of cavalry in the depart¬ 
ment of the gulf. In 1868 he was elected 
a representative from Illinois to the for¬ 
ty-first congress, and was re-elected to the 
forty-second congress. 

CREEDE, NICHOLAS C., gold miner, 
was born April 4, 1842, in Fort Wayne, 

■ Ind. In 1862 he went to Colorado in 
search of adventure, and found it in seven 
years of ser\ ice as a United States scout, 
holding the rank of first lieutenant. He 
has since become famous as the founder 
of the Creede mining camp in Colorado, 
.together with quite a number of other 
flourishing camps. 

CREEL, HEBER MANSFIELD, soldier, 
legislator, was born Nov. 30, 1856, in La 
Fayette county, Mo. He attended the 
United States mili¬ 
tary academy at 
West Point, N. Y., 
and was subsequent¬ 
ly appointed second 
lieutenant of the 
seventh United 
States cavalry. He 
has been chairman 
of the Boone county 
commissioners, N. D.; 
register of deeds for 
eight years in North 
Dakota; chairman of 
the county and state republican commit¬ 
tees; and has filled various other political 
offices of honor. He has been inspector 
and judge advocate general of the North 
Dakota National guard; and president of 
the state military board. He received the 
election as state senator of the twenty- 
first district of North Dakota for four 
years, commencing in January, 1897. 










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CREELY, JOHN V., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 14, 1839, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He served in the army as an 
officer of light artillery throughout the 
late rebellion. He was a member of the 
councils of Philadelphia for four years; 
and was elected to the forty-second con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

CREERY, WILLIAM RUFUS, educator, 
college president, author, was born May 
9, 1824, in Baltimore, Md. He was elected 
city superintendent of public instruction 
of Baltimore for a term of four years, and 
in 1872 was re-elected. In conjunction 
with Prof. M. A. Newell he prepared the 
Maryland series of school-books, which 
includes Primary-School Spelling-Book; 
Grammar-School Spelling-Book; a series 
of six Readers; and Catechism of United 
States History. He died May 1, 1875, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

CREIGHTON, HUGH L., soldier, busi¬ 
ness man, was born Jan. 27, 1837, in 
Louisa county, Iowa. During the civil 
war he served as a soldier in company A, 
thirtieth regiment Iowa volunteer infan¬ 
try, and was promoted to captain. He 
served with distinction in the battles of 
Wilson’s Creek, Mo.; Chicasaw Bayou, 
Miss.; Arkansas Post; Siege of Vicks¬ 
burg; Lookout Mountain; Missionary 
Ridge, and other battles. For many years 
he was a public school teacher; and is 
now engaged in business in Oakville, 
Iowa, where he takes a prominent part in 
the public affairs of his county and state. 

CREIGHTON, JOHNSTON BLAKE¬ 
LEY, naval officer, was born Nov. 12, 1822, 
in Rhode Island. He became a commo¬ 
dore in 1874; was commandant of the 
Norfolk navy-yard in 1879, and was re¬ 
tired with the rank of rear-admiral in 
1883. He died Nov. 12, 1883, in Morris¬ 
town, N. J. 

CREIGHTON, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born Oct. 29, 1778, in Berkeley coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was the first secretary of 
state for Ohio; and was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1813 to 
1817, and again from 1827 to 1833. He 
died Oct. 8, 1851, in Chillicothe, Ohio. 

CREIGHTON, WILLIAM, JR., lawyer, 
jurist. He was appointed United States 
judge for the district of Ohio. 

CRELE, JOSEPH, centenarian, was 
born in 1725, in Detroit, Mich. He bore 
arms at Braddock’s defeat, and before the 
revolution was employed in carrying let¬ 
ters between Prairie du Chien and Green 
Bay. He settled in Wisconsin during the 
revolutionary w'ar. He died Jan. 27, 1866, 
in Caledonia, Wis. 

CRENSHAW, WALTER HENRY, law¬ 
yer, jurist, legislator, was born July 7, 
1817, in Abbeville district, S. C. He was 
from 1838 till 1867 a member of either 
the upper or lower house of the Alabama 
legislature, officiating as speaker of the 
house in 1861-65, and president of the sen¬ 
ate in 1865-67. He died in 1878, in Ala¬ 
bama. 

CRESSEY, GEORGE CROSWELL, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born April 
1, 1856, in Buxton, Maine. He graduated 
from Bowdoin college, the university of 
Wooster, the university of Leipzig, and 
the Andover Theological seminary; and 
has received the degree of Ph. D. For a 
while he was engaged in educational work, 
and filled the chair of modern languages 
in the Washburn college. He is a suc¬ 
cessful clergyman of the Unitarian 
church; and now fills the pastorate in 
Northampton, Mass. He is the author of 
The Essential Man; Mental Evolution; 
Philosophy of Religion; The Doctrine of 
Immortality of Liberal Thought; and nu¬ 
merous published sermons and addresses. 


CRESSON, JOHN CHAPMAN, farmer, 
educator, civil engineer, was born in 
1806, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
given the chair of mechanics and 
natural philosophy in Franklin insti¬ 
tute in 1837, and in 1855 was made 
its president. He was president of the 
Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Rail¬ 
road company in 1847-76, and one of 
the original Fairmount park commission¬ 
ers, afterward becoming chief engineer of 
that park. He died in 1876, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

CRESWELL, JOHN A. J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
Nov. 18, 1828, in Port Deposit, Md. He 
was a member of the Maryland house of 
delegates in 1861 and 1862; and was 
elected a representative from Maryland to 
the thirty-eighth congress; and in 1865 
was chosen a senator in congress to fill a 
vacancy. He was a delegate to the Phila¬ 
delphia loyalists’ convention of 1866, the 
border states convention, held in Balti¬ 
more in 1867, and the Chicago convention 
of 1868. In 1869 he entered the cabinet of 
President Grant as postmaster-general. 
He died Dec. 23, 1891, in Elkton, Ind. 

CRESWELL, MRS. JULIA PLEAS¬ 
ANTS, author, poet, was born Aug. 21, 
1827, in Huntsville, Ala. She was a south¬ 
ern writer who published Aphelia and 
Other Poems by Two Cousins; and Cal- 
lamura, an allegorical novel. She died 
June 9, 1886, in Shreveport, La. 

CREW, HENRY, educator, author, was 
born June 4, 1859, in Richmond, Ohio. 
He has filled the chair of physics in the 
Johns Hopkins university, and in the 
Haverford college of Philadelphia, Pa. In 
1891-92 he was astronomer at the Lick 
observatory, and since 1892 has been pro¬ 
fessor of physics in the Northwestern 
university. He is the author of various 
papers on spectroscopy. 

CREWES, RICHARD, clergyman, re¬ 
ceived his education at the Northwestern 
university, the Garrett Biblical institute, 
and the' Illinois Wesleyan university. 
For several years he was a member of 
the joint board of trustees and visitors 
of the Illinois Wesleyan university. He 
is a successful clergyman of the Metho¬ 
dist Episcopal church in the central Illi¬ 
nois conference; and now fills a pastor¬ 
ate in Dwight, Ill. During 1892-96 he was 
the first president of the Eighth General 
Conference District Epworth League. 

CREWSON, EVANDER A., poet, was 
born Dec. 8, 1849, in Washington county, 
Ohio. He is the author of a volume of 
poems entitled Old Times. 

CRILL, LOUIS N., merchant, poet, was 
born June 3, 1867, in Spragueville, Iowa. 
He has attained success as a merchant in 
Richland, S. D. He is the author of a 
number of poems which have been pub¬ 
lished in the periodical press and given a 
place in several standard works. 

CRIMMINS, JOHN DANIEL, con¬ 
tractor, was born May 18, 1844, in New 
York city. He laid the foundations for 
the Manhattan rail¬ 
way, built the elec¬ 
trical subway, has 
laid many miles of 
gas mains, built the 
tank foundations for 
various gas compa¬ 
nies and constructed 
the Broadway and 
the street railroads 
on Lexington, Lenox 
and Columbus aven¬ 
ues. He is also a 
director in various 
corporations in New York city. 


CRIPPEN, GEORGE D., educator, min¬ 
ing engineer, state legislator, was born 
May 13, 1861, in Washtenaw county, Mich. 

Received the rudi¬ 
ments of his educa¬ 
tion in ihe district 
schools, and subse¬ 
quently attended the 
State Normal school 
of Ypsilanti for 
three ye a r s. For 
many years he was 
engaged in educa¬ 
tional work as prin¬ 
cipal of the Stam- 
baugh schools. He is 
a successful mining 
engineer; has been a justice of the peace, 
county surveyor, and filled various other 
public positions of trust. During 1897-98 
he served with distinction as a member 
of the Michigan state legislature. 

CRISFIELD, JOHN W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 6, 1808, in Kent 
county, Md. He was elected to the Mary¬ 
land legislature in 1836; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Maryland 
from 1847 to 1849. In 1850 he was a dele¬ 
gate to the state constitutional conven¬ 
tion; in 1861 was a delegate to the peace 
congress; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Maryland to the thirty-seventh 
congress. 

CRISP, CHARLES FREDERICK, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was 
born Jan. 29, 1845, in England. He was a 
lieutenant in the confederate army from 
1861 to 1864, when he was taken prisoner. 
In 1872 he was appointed solicitor-general 
of the southwestern circuit; and in 1873 
was reappointed for a term of four years. 
In the latter year he moved to Americus, 
Ga.; in 1877 was appointed judge of the 
superior court of the southwestern judi¬ 
cial circuit; and in 1878 was elected to 
the same office; and in 1880 was re¬ 
elected for a term of four years. He re¬ 
signed in 1882 and was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Georgia to the forty-eighth 
congress; and received the re-election to 
the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty- 
second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth as a 
democrat; and served as speaker of the 
house in the fifty-second and fifty-third 
congresses. 

CRISP, CHARLES R., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, w r as born Oct. 19, 1870, 
in Ellaville, Ga. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a democrat, with¬ 
out opposition, to fill the vacancy caused 
by the death of his father, the Hon. 
Charles F. Crisp. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as a lawyer in Americus, Ga., where 
he is a member of the law firm of Hooper 
and Crisp. While in congress he took an 
active part in debates on various meas¬ 
ures which affected the welfare of his 
state; and as a rising lawyer has al¬ 
ready attained eminence at the bar of 
the south. 

CRISPIN, SILAS, soldier, was born 
about 1830, in Pennsylvania. He received 
successive brevets to include that of colo¬ 
nel in the regular army at the close of 
the civil war, but did not receive his pro¬ 
motion as major of ordnance until 1867. 
In 1875 he was promoted lieutenant-colo¬ 
nel, and colonel in 1881. 

CRIST, HENRY, manufacturer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1764, 
in Virginia. He became extensively en¬ 
gaged in the manufacture of salt in Bullitt 
county, Ky. He was a member of the Ken¬ 
tucky legislature in 1795; a state sena¬ 
tor from 1800 to 1804; and a representa¬ 
tive from Kentucky in congress from 1809 
to 1811. He died in 1844, in Bullitt county, 
Ky. 





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CRITCHER, JOHN, soldier, planter, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
March 11, 1820, in Westmoreland county, 
Va. He received his education at Brent’s 
Classical school, the university of Vir¬ 
ginia, and the university of France. He 
is a successful planter and lawyer of his 
native state at Alexandria, and Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. He has been commonwealth 
attorney of his county; twice a member 
of the state senate of Virginia; was a 
member of the secession convention of 
Virginia in 1861; served as lieutenant-col¬ 
onel of the fifteenth Virginia cavalry dur¬ 
ing the civil war; and commanded the 
Lomax brigade at Cold Harbor. He has 
been judge of the tenth judicial circuit 
of Virginia, and was a member of the 
forty-second congress of the United 
States. For the last eighteen years he 
has practiced law in the city of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C.; and in the seventy-fifth 
year of his age his cash professional re¬ 
ceipts amounted to nearly forty thousand 
dollars. 

CRITCHETT, CLARA A., educator, 
poet, was born in Maine. She has at¬ 
tained success as an educator; and is the 
author of several poems of merit which 
have generally appeared under the nom de 
plume of Ferae Arland. 

CRITTENDEN, GEORGE BIBB, soldier, 
state librarian, was born March 20, 1812, 
in Russellville, Ky. In 1861 he entered 
the confederate service; was commis¬ 
sioned brigadier-general; and became 
major-general. During 1867-71 he was 
state librarian in Frankfort, Ky. He died 
Nov. 27, 1880, in Danville, Ky. 

CRITTENDEN, JOHN JORDAN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, governor, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Sept. 10, 
1787, in Woodford 
county, Ky. He 
served during the 
war of 1812 as a 
major. He became a 
lawyer and served a 
number of years in 
the state legislature; 
and in 1817-1 9 as a 
member of the 
United States senate 
from Kentucky. In 
1835 he was again 
elected to the United 
States senate; and in 1841 was appointed 
attorney general by President Harrison. 
During 1843-49 he was again a member 
of the United States senate; and again 
received the re-election in 1855. In 1860 
he was elected a representative from Ken¬ 
tucky to the thirty-seventh congress. He 
was also governor of Kentucky in 1848-50. 
He died July 26, 1863, in Frankfort, Ky. 

CRITTENDEN, THOMAS LEONIDAS, 
soldier, lawyer, merchant, was born May 
15, 1815, in Russellville, Ky. In 1842 he 
became attorney for the commonwealth. 
He served in the Mexican war as a lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel. During 1849-53 he was 
United States consul to Liverpool, Eng¬ 
land. He served with distinction through 
the civil war, and was promoted major- 
general. 

CRITTENDEN, THOMAS T„ lawyer, 
congressman, governor, was born about 
1828, in Alabama. He was appointed at¬ 
torney-general of Missouri in 1864 to fill 
an unexpired term; and was elected to 
the forty-third and forty-fifth congresses 
from Missouri. He was elected governor 
of Missouri for the term of four years, 
and served during 1881-84. 

CROCHERON, AUGUSTA J„ author, 
poet, was born Oct. 9, 1844, in Boston, 


Mass. She has been very prominent in 
Women’s Mutual Improvement associa¬ 
tions; and has been recording secretary 
of more than a score of associations. In 
1881 she published a volume of poems en¬ 
titled Wild Flowers of Deseret; and in 
1884 appeared Representative Women of 
Deseret, a biographical work. She has 
taken three gold medals and several cash 
prizes for Christmas stories. 

CROCHERON, HENRY, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1815 to 1817. 

CROCHERON, JACOB, congressman, 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1829 to 1831; and in 1837 
was a presidential elector. 

CROCKER, ALVAH, manufacturer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 
14, 1801, in Leominster, Mass. He be¬ 
came proprietor of a paper manufactory; 
was president of the Boston and Fitch¬ 
burg railroad; and a commissioner of the 
Hoosac tunnel. He was a member of the 
state legislature in 1836, 1842, and 1843; 
was a member of the state senate two 
terms; and was elected to the forty- 
second congress to fill a vacancy, and was 
re-elected to the forty-third congress as a 
republican. He died Dec. 26, 1874, in 
Fitchburg, Mass. 

CROCKER, CHARLES, merchant, state 
legislator, was born Sept. 16, 1822, in Troy, 
N. Y. He engaged in mercantile pursuits 
in Sacramento in 1852, with one of his 
brothers, and eventually made his store 
the leading dry goods house of the city. 
In 1854 he was elected to the common 
council of Sacramento, and in 1860 to the 
legislature. 

CROCKER, GEORGE GLOVER, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1843, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a lawyer of Boston; and 
the author of Principles of Procedure in 
Deliberative Assemblies. 

CROCKER, GEORGE LOUIS, lawyer, 
orator, was born Nov. 6, 1864, in Copper 
City, Cal. In 1890 he graduated from the 
college at Ann Arbor, Mich.; and has 
since attained prominence as an able law¬ 
yer of Merced, Cal., and a leading orator 
of that state. He has been editor of the 
Merced Express; and has filled several 
positions of honor in his county and 
state. 

CROCKER, MRS. HANNAH MATHER, 
author, was'born in 1765, in Boston, Mass. 
She was the author of Letters on Free 
Masonry; The School of Reform; and 
Observations on the Rights of Woman. 
She died July 10, 1847, in Roxbury, Mass. 

CROCKER, MARCELLUS M„ soldier, 
was born Feb. 6, 1830, in Franklin, Ind. 
He entered the army in 1861; and was 
appointed brigadier-general in 1861. He 
died Aug. 26, 1865, in Washington, D. C. 

CROCKER, MARTIN, lawyer, state 
senator, was born in 1858, in New Balti¬ 
more, Mich. Since 1880 he has practiced 
law in Mt. Clemens, Mich.; and for sev¬ 
eral years served as city attorney. In 
1886 he was elected to the Michigan house 
of representatives; and in 1891 served 
with distinction as a member of the state 
senate. In 1896 he was a delegate to the 
democratic national convention held in 
Chicago. 

CROCKER, NATHAN BOURNE, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, was born July 4, 1781, in 
Barnstable, Mass. He was elected rector 
of St. John’s church in Providence, over 
which he presided until his death. He 
was secretary of the corporation of Brown 
university from 1837 till 1843. He died 
Oct. 19, 1865, in Providence, R. I. 


CROCKER, RUTH M.. poet, dress re¬ 
former. She studied physiology under 
the late Calvin Cutter; and has alwa-ys 
advocated dress reform for women. She 
has written considerably on moral 
science; and her poems have constantly 
appeared in current literature. 

CROCKER, SAMUEL L„ manufacturer, 
congressman, was born March 31, 1804, in 
Taunton, Mass. In 1849 he was elected 
a member of the executive council of 
Massachusetts; and was a representative 
from Massachusetts to the thirty-third 
congress. 

CROCKER, URIEL HASKELL, lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born in 1832, in 
Massachusetts. He is a lawyer of Boston: 
and the author of The Cause of Hard 
Times; Notes on Common Forms; Book 
of Massachusetts Law; Excessive Saving 
a Cause of Commercial Distress; and 
Notes on General Statutes of Massachu¬ 
setts. 

CROCKETT, DAVID, soldier, congress¬ 
man, pioneer, author, poet, was born Aug. 
17, 1786, in Limestone, Tenn. He is a 
noted hunter and 
pioneer who enlisted 
in the Texan army 
in the revolt against 
Mexico, and was 
slain in the massacre 
at the Alamo, in San 
Antonio. He served 
as a member of the 
Tennessee legisla¬ 
ture; and served as 
a member of con¬ 
gress during 1827-31, 
and 1833-35. He was 
the author of Tour to the North and 
Down East; Life of David Crockett, by 
Himself (1834); Colonel Crockett’s Ex¬ 
ploits in Texas; Life of Martin Van Bu- 
ren, Heir Apparent; and Leisure Hour 
Musings in Rhyme. 

CROCKETT, JOHN W., congressman, 
was the son of the celebrated David 
Crockett. He was a representative in 
congress from Tennessee from 1838 to 
1843. He died Nov. 24, 1852, in Memphis, 
Tenn. 

CROES, JOHN, bishop, was born June 
1, 1762, in Elizabethtown, N. J. He was 
the first protestant episcopal bishop of 
the diocese of New Jersey. He died July 
30, 1832, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

CROES, JOHN J. R., civil engineer, 
was born Nov. 25, 1834, in Richmond, Va. 
He is a noted civil engineer of New York 
city; and the suburban rapid transit road 
in the northeastern part of New York 
city was built after his plans and under 
his supervision. 

CROFFUT, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, 
journalist, author, poet, was born Jan. 29, 
1835, in Redding, Conn. He is a well- 
known journalist attached to many jour¬ 
nals, east and west, and connected with 
the United States geological survey since 
1888. He is the author of The War His¬ 
tory of Connecticut; A Helping Hand; 
Bourbon Ballads; Deseret, an opera; A 
Midsummer Lark, a humorous volume of 
travels; The Vanderbilts; The Folks Next 
Door; and The Prophecy and Other 
Poems. 

CROFT, CHARLES WILLIAM, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 2, 1855, in Corsicana, Texas. 
He first practiced law in Colorado City, 
Texas, then in Midland till 1887; since 
which time he has practiced his profession 
in his native city. He has acquired a good 
reputation as a practitioner in both civil 
and criminal law. 






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CROFTS, GEORGE W., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born April 9, 1842, In Le¬ 
roy, Ill. He was the poet of the national 
farmers’ congress; and the author of 
Golden Rod, a volume of meritorious 
poems. 

CROGHAN, GEORGE, soldier, was born 
Nov. 15, 1791, in Louisville, Ky. He 
fought in the war of 1812 under Gen. 
Proctor and gained the promotion of 
lieutenant-colonel brevet. In 1825 he was 
appointed inspector-general of the army, 
with the rank of colonel. He died Jan. 8, 
1849, in New Orleans, La. 

CROLY, DAVID GOODMAN, journalist, 
author, was born Nov. 3, 1829, in New 
York city; and was the husband of Jennie 
June. He was a journalist of New York 
city; and the author of Life of Horatio 
Seymour; History of Reconstruction; The 
Positivist Primer; and Glimpses of the 
Future. He died in 1889. 

CROLY, MRS. JANE CUNNINGHAM, 
author, and known as Jennie June, was 
born Dec. 19, 1831, in England. She is 
the founder of Sorosis, and editor of 
Demorest’s Magazine in 1860-87. She is 
the author of Talks on Women’s Topics; 
For Better or Worse; Knitters and 
Crochet; Letters and Monograms; Cook¬ 
ery Book for Young Beginners; and 
Thrown upon her Own Resources. 

CROMPTON, GEORGE, manufacturer, 
inventor, was born March 23, 1829, in 
England. In 1851 he engaged in the 
manufacture of fancy looms in Worcester, 
Mass., where the Crompton loom works 
have since been established. 

CRONIN, J. FRANCIS, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Sept. 1, 1865, in Augusta, 
Ga. He graduated from the university of 
Georgia, and has attained success as a 
physician in Florida. He has been quar¬ 
antine officer at Tampa, Punta Gorda, and 
Appalachicola, Fla., and filled other posi¬ 
tions of trust. 

CRONKHITE, HENRY M., soldier, sur¬ 
geon, poet, was born March 14, 1834, in 
Little Falls, N. Y. He became acting as¬ 
sistant surgeon in the army until 1866; 
and since 1867 has been a surgeon in the 
United States army. He is the author of 
a volume of poems entitled Reymond. 

CROOK, HARRISON, physician, was 
born April 13, 1850, in Maryland. In 1878 
he received his medical degree from the 
Georgetown Medical college, in which in¬ 
stitution he was demonstrator of anato¬ 
my in 1878-82; and still holds the chair 
of clinical surgery. For the past ten 
years he has been surgeon to the Provi¬ 
dence hospital of Washington, D. C. He 
is one of the leading physicians of the 
nation’s capital. 

CROOK, ISAAC, clergyman, educator, 
college president. He has been president 
of the university of the Pacific; chancel¬ 
lor of the Nebraska Wesleyan university; 
and is now president of the Ohio univer¬ 
sity of Athens. He is a constant con¬ 
tributor to current literature. 

CROOKE, PHILIP S., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 2, 1810, in 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was elected a 
presidential elector in 1852, and a member 
of the state legislature in 1863. He served 
forty years in the national guard of the 
state of New York, from private to briga¬ 
dier-general; and commanded the fifth 
brigade in Pennsylvania in 1863. He was 
elected to the forty-third congress. 

CROOKER, JABEZ C., soldier, lawyer, 
was born Jan. 16, 1820, in Woodstock, 
Vt. He graduated from the military uni¬ 


versity of Vermont, and served as a cap¬ 
tain in the fifty-fifth regiment Illinois 
volunteer infantry. In 1847 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, and has practiced in all 
state and federal courts. 

CROOKS, GEORGE RICHARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 3, 1822, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a methodist 
clergyman and religious journalist; and 
the author of Life of John McClintock, 
Life of Matthew Simpson; First Books 
in Latin and Greek (with J. McClintock); 
and Latin-English Lexicon. 

CROOKS, SAMUEL STEARNS, manu¬ 
facturer, was born April 30, 1851, in Hop- 
kinton, Mass. In 1892 he started the busi¬ 
ness known as Sharood and Crooks, man¬ 
ufacturers of fine shoes and slippers, and 
in 1894 more than 2,000 persons were en¬ 
gaged in this factory in St. Paul, Minn. 

CROPPER, JOHN, soldier, was born in 
1756, in Virginia. He served in the revo¬ 
lutionary war; and attained the rank of 
colonel. He died Jan. 15, 1821. 

CROPSEY, ANDREW GEORGE, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born Feb. 10, 1850, in 
New Utrecht, N. Y. In 1874-1880 he was 
justice of the peace and school commis¬ 
sioner of Kings county, N. Y. He served 
as a private in the civil war. 

CROPSEY, JASPER FRANCIS, artist, 
was born Feb. 18, 1823, in Staten Island. 
N. Y. In 1837, at the age of thirteen, he 
received a diploma from Mechanics and 
American Institute fairs of New York 
city for architectural modeling. He re¬ 
ceived a medal and diploma for painting 
from the Philadelphia Centennial expo¬ 
sition, and a medal for services in the 
London exhibition of 1862. His principal 
works are Autumn on the Hudson; and 
A Showery Day. 

CROSBIE, HENRY R., jurist. He was 
an associate justice of the United States 
court for the territory of Utah. 

CROSBY, ALPHEUS, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 13, 1810, in Sandwich, N. H. 
He was an educator of Massachusetts who 
published Greek Lessons; Greek Fables; 
Greek Tables; and First Lessons in Geo¬ 
metry; an edition of Xenophon’s Ana¬ 
basis. He died April 17, 1874, in Salem, 
Mass. 

CROSBY, EBENEZER, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, physician, was born Sept. 30, 1753, 
in Braintree, Mass. He served through 
the revolutionary war as surgeon of Gen. 
Washington’s guards, and was one of the 
original members of the Society of the 
Cincinnati. He died July 16, 1788. 

CROSBY, ENOCH, patriot, was born 
Jan. 4, 1750, in Harwich, Mass. The story 
of his secret-service life, which was 
thought to be incorporated in Cooper’s 
Spy, was dramatized, and Mr. Crosby was 
on one occasion present at a representa¬ 
tion of the play in New York city, and, 
as the hero, received the plaudits of the 
multitude. He died June 20, 1835, in 
Brewster, N. Y. 

CROSBY, HENRY CLAY, clergyman, 
educator, college president, was born in 
1853 in Longtown, S. C. He received, his 
primary education in private schools and 
in Sherley’s institute, S. C.; and attended 
the Shaw university, and the Leonard 
Medical college of Raleigh, N. C. For 
four years he was a justice of the peace 
of Vance county, N. C.; during 1879-87 
was principal of the Garfield Graded 
schools of Raleigh, N. C.; and for ten 
years was president of the Plymouth 
State Normal school. North Carolina. He 
was licensed to preach in 1887 and was 
ordained a clergyman at the baptist 
church in 1892. He died Nov. 29, 1897, in 
Raleigh, N. C. 


CROSBY, HOWARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 27, 1826, in New York. 
He was a presbyterian clergyman long 
prominent in New York city who was 
chancellor of the university of New York 
city in 1870-81. He was the author of 
The Christian Preacher; Notes on the 
New Testament; Life of Jesus; Christ 
and Science; At the Lord’s Table; Ser¬ 
mons; Lands of the Moslem; G3dipus 
Tyrannus of Sophocles, with Notes; Bible 
Manual; Bible Companion; Bible View 
of the Jewish Church; The Seven 
Churches of Asia, or Worldliness in the 
Church; Thoughts on the Pentateuch; 
and Commentary on the New Testament, 
which include his principal works. He 
died March 29, 1891, in New York. 

CROSBY, JOHN CRAWFORD, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 15, 1859, in 
Sheffield, Mass. In 1885 he was elected 
a member of the school committee of 
Pittsfield and served six consecutive years 
in that office. He was elected a member 
of the Massachusetts house of representa¬ 
tives in 1885 and re-elected in 1886. In 
1887 he was elected a member of the 
Massachusetts senate. He was elected to 
the fifty-second congress as a democrat. 

CROSBY, JOHN SCHUYLER, soldier, 
governor, was born Sept. 19, 1839, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. He was appointed a first 
lieutenant in the first United States ar¬ 
tillery in 1861; and served with gallantry 
in many of the most important engage¬ 
ments of the civil war. He received a 
life-saving medal of the first class, by act 
of congress, for heroic daring and saving 
life during the foundering of the yacht 
Mohawk in 1876. In 1876 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States consul at Florence, 
Italy, and served until 1882, when he was- 
appointed governor of Montana. 

CROSBY, JOSIAH, lawyer, legislator, 
was born Nov. 24, 1816, in Dover, N. H. 
He has practiced law in Dexter since 1845. 
In 1856, 1863 and 1865 he was a member 
of the house of representatives of Maine; 
and in 1867-68 was a member of the state 
senate, and in the latter year was presi¬ 
dent of that body. 

CROSBY, NATHAN, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 12, 1798, in Sand¬ 
wich, N. H. He was a prominent lawyer 
and jurist of Lowell, who published First 
Half Century of Dartmouth College. He 
died Feb. 9, 1885, in Lowell, Mass. 

CROSBY, WILLIAM GEORGE, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1806, in Belfast, Maine. 
He was governor of Maine from 1853 to- 
1855. He died in 1881, in Belfast: Maine. 

CROSBY, WILLIAM OTIS, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 14, 1850, in Decatur, 
Ohio. He is a professor of geology in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
and has published Common Minerals and 
Rocks; and Contributions to the Geology 
of Eastern Massachusetts. 

CROSS CHARLES ROBERT, educator, 
author, was born March 29, 1848, in Troy, 
N. Y. He is a professor of physics in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 
and the author of Course in Elementary 
Physics; and Lecture Notes on Mechanics 
and Optics. 

CROSS, DAVID W., lawyer, author, was 
born Nov. 17, 1814, in Pulaski, N. Y. He 
is a Cleveland lawyer of local fame as a 
sportsman; and the author of Fifty Years 
with the Rod and Gun. 

CROSS, EDWARD, jurist, congressman, 
was born in Tennessee. He was ap¬ 
pointed United States judge for the terri¬ 
tory of Arkansas; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1839 to 1845. 


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CROSS, EDWARD EPHRAIM, soldier, 
journalist, was born April 22, 1832, in 
Lancaster, N. H. In 1854 he was editor 
of the Cincinnati Times. He took the 
first steam engine and printing press 
across the Rocky Mountains in 1858. He 
served in the Mexican army as a lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel; and served during 1860-63 
as a colonel in the fifth regiment New 
Hampshire volunteers. He died July 2, 
1863, near Gettysburg, Pa. 

CROSS, GEORGE DILWYN, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 24, 
1799, in Westerly, R. I. He served six 
terms in the general assembly; was state 
senator in 1826-35 and 1848-50; chief jus¬ 
tice of the court of common pleas for 
Washington county in 1837-49; and in 
1840 was one of the commissioners for 
fixing the boundary line between Connec¬ 
ticut and Rhode Island. He died Oct. 1, 
1872, in Westerly, R. I. 

CROSS, JAMES B., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1817, in Geneva, N. Y. In 1841 he 
moved to Milwaukee, Wis.; and served as 
mayor of that city during 1855-58. He 
was the first probate judge under the state 
law; and in 1857 came within five hun¬ 
dred votes of defeating Alexander W. 
Randall for governor. He died in 1876, in 
Milwaukee, Wis. 

CROSS, MRS. JANE TANDY [CHINN] 
[HARDING], author, was born in 1817, in 
Harrodsburg, Ky. She is the author of 
Wayside Flowerets; Heart Blossoms for 
My Little Daughters; Bible Gleanings; 
Driftwood; Gonzalo de Cordova, a trans¬ 
lation from the Spanish; and Duncan 
Adair, a novel. She died in October, 1870, 
in Elizabethtown, Ky. 

CROSS. JOHN S., civil engineer, state 
legislator, was born May 4, 1849, in Ban¬ 
gor, Mich. During 1870-84 he was en¬ 
gaged as a civil and mining engineer; and 
since the latter date has been engaged in 
the real estate and insurance business at 
Bangor. During 1887-88 he served with 
distinction as a member of the Michigan 
state legislature. 

CROSS, JOSEPH, clergyman, author, 
was born July 4, 1813, in England. He 
was an episcopal clergyman who from 
1829-1856 was a prominent methodist di¬ 
vine. The more important of his writings 
include Headlands of Faith; Pisgah 
Views of the Promised Inheritance; A 
Year in Europe; Coals from the Altar; 
Pauline Charity; Prelections on Charity; 
and Old Wine and New. He died in 
1893. 

CROSS, JUDSON NEWELL, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Jan. 16, 1838, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He served in the civil war; 
was made assistant provost marshal on 
the staff of the military governor of 
Washington in 1864; and soon after 
special mustering officer. He was three 
times elected city attorney of Minneapolis, 
and held the office during 1883-87. 

CROSS, OSBORNE, soldier, was born in 
1803, in Maryland. He was made deputy 
quartermaster-general in 1863; in 1865 
was brevetted brigadier-general in the 
regular army. He was promoted to colo¬ 
nel in 1866. He died July 15, 1876, in New 
York city. 

CROSS, ROSELLE THEODORE, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 
21, 1844, in Richville, N. Y. For four years 
he was principal of the academic depart¬ 
ment of Oberlin college; has filled pas¬ 
torates in various large cities; and is the 
author of Home Duties; Clear as Crystal; 
History of Colorado Congregationalism; 
and also numerous articles, poems and 
lectures. 


CROSS, SAMUEL CREED, author, edu¬ 
cator, lecturer, was born Oct. 10, 1871, in 
Great Cacapon, W. Va. He graduated 
from the northern Indiana university, 
and was retained as a teacher in that col¬ 
lege; and is now professor in the Grand 
Rapids Business college, Mich. 

CROSS, TRUEMAN, soldier, author, 
was born in Maryland. He was chief of 
the quartermaster’s department of the 
army of occupation from 1845 till his 
death, which he met at the hands of 
Mexican banditti. He published Military 
Laws of the United States. He died April 
21, 1846. 

CROSSLAND, EDWARD, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born June 30, 1827, in 
Hickman county, Ky. He was a member 
of the state legislature in 1857; elected 
judge of the court of common pleas in the 
first district for six years in 1867; and 
was elected to the forty-second and forty- 
third congresses as a democrat. 

CROSWELL, ANDREW, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1709, in Charlestown. 
Mass. He was a Boston clergyman, very 
active as a controversialist; and the au¬ 
thor of The Apostle’s Advice to the Jailor 
Improved; and Heaven shut against Ar- 
minians and Antinomians. He died April 
12, 1785, in Boston, Mass. 

CROSWELL, CHARLES M., lawyer, 
state senator, governor, was born Oct. 31, 
1825, in Newburg, N. Y. He was elected 
register of deeds of Lewanee county, 
Mich., in 1850, and re-elected in 1852; in 
1854 was a member and secretary of the 
state convention at Jackson, Mich., from 
which sprung the republican party. In 
1862 he was appointed city attorney, and 
the same year was elected mayor of Ad¬ 
rian. He was a state senator in 1863,1865, 
and 1867; and was speaker of the state 
house of representatives in 1873. He was 
elected governor of Michigan in 1876, and 
re-elected in 1878. He died Dec. 13, 1886, 
in Adrian, Mich. 

CROSWELL, HARRY, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 16, 1778, in West 
Hartford, Conn. He was an episcopal 
clergyman and rector of Trinity church of 
New Haven in 1816-58, but in earlier 
life was a political journalist noted for 
his scathing editorials. He was the au¬ 
thor of Young Churchman’s Guide; Man¬ 
ual of Family Prayers; Guide to the Holy 
Sacrament. He died March 13, 1858, in 
New Haven, Conn. 

CROUCH, EDWARD, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1815. 

CROUNSE, LORENZO, governor, sol¬ 
dier, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 27, 
1834, in Sharon, N. Y. For awhile he 
was employed with 
his father in the 
tanning business; 
then taught school; 
and was admitted to 
the bar in 1857. 
During the war he 
was captain of bat¬ 
tery K, first regi¬ 
ment New York light 
artillery; and he 
was severely 
wounded during the 
> second Bull Run bat¬ 
tle. In 1866 he served in the territorial 
legislature of Nebraska; in 1867 he was 
elected a justice of the supreme court; 
and for several years was supreme court 
reporter. He served in the forty-third 
and forty-fourth congresses as a republi¬ 
can; and in 1892 was elected governor of 
the state of Nebraska. 


CROUSE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was 
born Nov. 23, 1832, in Tallmadge, Ohio. 

He has been promi- 
n e n 11 y identified 
with the business 
and public affairs of 
Akron, Ohio; and 
during the war was 
a sergeant in com¬ 
pany F, one hundred 
and sixty-fourth reg¬ 
iment Ohio volunteer 
infantry. During 
1885-87 he was a 
member of the Ohio 
state senate; when 
he resigned and was elected to the fiftieth 
congress as a republican. He is now 
president of the City National bank; the 
Akron Twine and Cordage company; the 
Akron Printing and Publishing company; 
the Akron Water Works company; and 
numerous other business enterprises. 

CROUTER, A. L. EDGERTON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in Canada. He is 
superintendent of the Pennsylvania In¬ 
stitution for the Deaf and Dumb; and is 
the author of Statistics of Articulation 
Teaching in America; and numerous 
other works. 

CROW, MOSES ROCKWELL, lawyer, 
capitalist, was born in 1855, in Seneca 
Falls, N. Y. He became a water expert, 
a water engineer, and a water capitalist, 
in connection with water works for the 
city of Mexico and several South Ameri¬ 
can cities. He also controls the New 
York and Westchester Water company, 
the Pocantico Water Works company, 
and the New York City District Water 
Supply company. 

CROWDER. JOHN S., clergyman, was 
born June 27, 1872, in Richmond, Va. He 
graduated from the De Pauw university 
of Greencastle, Ind.; and is attaining 
prominence as one of the foremost clergy¬ 
men in the methodist episcopal church in 
Indiana. 

CROWE, JOHN FINLEY, clergyman, 
educator, was born June 16, 1787, in Tenn¬ 
essee. He founded Hanover college and 
the Indiana Theological seminary; and 
was vice-president of the college, besides 
filling the professorships of rhetoric, log¬ 
ic, and history from 1832-60. He died 
Jan. 17, 1860, in Hanover, Ind. 

CROWE, WINFIELD SCOTT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1850, in Indiana. 
He is a universalist clergyman of New¬ 
ark, N. J.; and editor of the Universalist 
Monthly. He is the author of The Man of 
Evolution; The God of Evolution; and 
The Lordship of Jesus. 

CROWELL, EUGENE, author, was born 
in 1817, in New York. He was a writer 
of San Francisco, and later of New York 
city, and was a zealous defender of spirit¬ 
ualism. He was the author of The Iden¬ 
tity of Primitive Christianity with Mod¬ 
ern Spiritualism; The Spirit World; The 
Philosophy of Death; Spiritualism and 
Insanity; and The Religion of Spiritual¬ 
ism. He died in 1894. 

CROWELL, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Halifax county, Ala. He was 
chosen delegate to congress when the 
territory of Alabama was established in 
1817, and served till 1819, when the state 
constitution was formed. He was elected 
the first representative to congress, serv¬ 
ing until 1821. He died June 25, 1846, in 
Fort Mitchell, Ala. 

CROWELL, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Connecticut. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Ohio from 1847 to 
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CROWELL, JOHN FRANKLIN, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Nov. 1, 
1857, in York, Pa. He was appointed 
president of Trinity college, North Caro¬ 
lina, and still occupies the presidency, 
with the chair of political and social 
science. 

CROWELL, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1806, in Middlefield, 
Mass. He was a baptist clergyman who 
published The Church Member’s Manual 
of Ecclesiastical Principles; Church Mem¬ 
ber’s Handbook; and History of Baptist 
Literature for Fifty Years. He died Aug. 
19, 1871, in Flanders, N. J. 

CROWL, MARGARET A., poet, was 
born Sept. 14, 1849, in Canada. Her poems 
have appeared in several magazines and 
the local press generally. 

CROWL. THEODORE, soldier, clergy¬ 
man, was born July 22, 1844, in Darling¬ 
ton, Pa. He served as a union soldier 
during the civil war in the one hundred 
and seventy-eighth regiment Ohio volun¬ 
teer infantry; was promoted to second 
lieutenant; and was judge advocate of 
general court martial United States army 
at Tullahoma and Murfreesboro, Tenn., 
during the winter of 1864-65. In 1868 he 
graduated from the Washington and Jef¬ 
ferson college; and in 1871 from the 
Western Theological seminary of Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. In 1873 he organized the First 
Presbyterian church of Tacoma, Wash. 
He has filled pastorates in Seattle, Wash.; 
Zanesville, Ohio; and is now pastor of the 
First Congregational church of Sterling. 
111. He has contributed extensively to re¬ 
ligious literature. 

CROWLEY, DENIS O., philanthropist, 
poet. He was elevated to the priesthood 
in 1883. In 1887 he was transferred to 
San Francisco, where the city waifs were 
confided to his care. Since then he has 
built a large and beautiful home for the 
destitute and homeless boys of the city 
and state. He is the author of A Chaplet 
of Verse. 

CROWLEY, MILES, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1859, 
in Boston, Mass. He was elected chief 
engineer of the Galveston fire department 
for two terms; was a member of the 
house of representatives of the twenty- 
second legislature of the state of Texas; 
and a state senator of the twenty-third 
and twenty-fourth legislatures. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
democrat. 

CROWLEY, RICHARD, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Dec. 14, 
1836, in Lockport, N. Y. He was city 
attorney in 1865; was a state senator 
from 1866 to 1870; was United States dis¬ 
trict attorney from 1871 to 1879, when he 
resigned; and was elected a represen¬ 
tative from New York to the forty-sixth 
and forty-seventh congresses as a repub¬ 
lican. 

CROWLEY, WINFIELD S., journalist, 
was born Feb. 15, 1861, in Saco, Maine. 
He is the editor and manager of the 
Globe-Star of Westbrook, Maine. He has 
been chairman of the board of registra¬ 
tion, and is prominently identified with 
the democratic party of his county and 
state. 

CROWNINSHIELD, BENJAMIN WIL¬ 
LIAMS, secretary of the navy, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 27, 1772, in Boston, 
Mass. In 1820 he was a presidential elec¬ 
tor; and in 1826 was elected a represen¬ 
tative in congress from the Salem district 
of Massachusetts, and continued in that 
position until 1831. He died Feb. 3, 1851, 
in Boston, Mass. 


CROWNINSHIELD, JACOB, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born March 31, 
1770, in Salem, Mass. He was a member 
of the Massachusetts legislature in 1801; 
was elected a representative in congress 
from Massachusetts from 1803 to 1805; 
and was appointed secretary of the navy 
in 1805. He died April 14, 1808, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

CROWTHER, GEORGE C., soldier, bus¬ 
iness man, congressman, was born Jan. 26, 
1849. In 1862 he entered the federal army, 
and was mustered out of service in 1865. 
In 1869 he was elected secretary of the 
Kansas state senate, and was re-elected 
in 1871 and 1873. From 1875 to 1886 he 
was engaged on newspapers and in the 
printing business; in 1887 was appointed 
deputy sheriff of Buchanan county, Mo.; 
in 1888 was elected city treasurer of St. 
Joseph, and re-elected in 1890. He was 
elected to the fifty-fburth congress as a 
republican. 

CROXTON, JOHN THOMAS, soldier, 
journalist, lawyer, was born Nov. 20, 1837, 
in Bourbon county, Ky. He participated 
in the battles of Sherman’s army, and at 
the close of the war was put in command 
of the military district of southwest 
Georgia, with headquarters at Macon. He 
established the Louisville Commercial as 
a republican journal. He died April 16, 
1874, in Bolivia. 

CROXTON, THOMAS, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 15, 1822, in 
Tappahannoek, Va. He was common¬ 
wealth attorney for his native county 
from 1852 to 1865; was a presidential 
elector in 1880; and in 1884 was elected 
a representative from Virginia to the 
forty-ninth congress as a democrat. 

CROZIER, JOHN H., congressman, was 
born in Tennessee. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1845 
to 1849. 

CROZIER, MRS. M. P. A., poet, was 
born Feb. 23, 1834, in Richmond Centre, 
N. Y. In 1887 a small volume of her 
poems was published by her son. 

CRUDUP, JOSIAH, congressman, was 
born in Wake county, N. C. He was a 
representative in congress from North 
Carolina from 1821 to 1823. 

CRUFT, CHARLES, soldier, was born 
in Indiana. He was commissioned an of¬ 
ficer of volunteers from Indiana in 1862, 
and became a major-general of volunteers 
in 1865. He died March 23, 1883, in Terre 
Haute, Ind. 

CRUGER, DANIEL, congressman. He 
was a member of the New York assembly 
a number of years; and was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1817 to 1819. 

CRUGER, JOHN, colonist, was born 
July 18, 1710, in New York city. He was 
an alderman for twenty-two years, and in 
1739-44 was mayor of the city of New 
York. He was the author of the famous 
Declaration of the Rights and Grievances 
of the Colonist of America; and in 1768 
was elected the first president of the New 
York Chamber of Commerce. He died 
Dec. 27, 1792, in New York city. 

CRUGER, MRS. JULIA GRINNELL, 
author. She is a popular novelist of New 
York city; and the author of A Diplo¬ 
mat’s Diary; Poppaea; A Successful 
Man; A Wedding and Other Stories; 
Mademoiselle Reseda; and A Puritan 
Pagan. 

CRUGER, MARY, author, was born in 
1834, in New York. She is a writer of 
Montrose, N. Y.; and the author of Hy- 
persesthesia; A Den of Thieves, or the 
Lay Reader of St. Mark’s; The Vander- 
heyde Manor House; How She Did It; 
and Brotherhood. 


CRUGER, STEPHEN VAN RENS¬ 
SELAER, soldier, public official, was born 
May 9, 1844, in New York city. He served 
in the civil war, and was brevetted major 
and lieutenant-colonel. He is trustee and 
treasurer of St. Stephen’s college of New 
York city, and of the New York Protest¬ 
ant Episcopal Public school. He was ap¬ 
pointed park commissioner in 1895, and 
later president of the board. 

CRUM, JOHN DARIUS, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Aug. 1, 1866, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. He received the rudiments 
of his education in 
the primary schools; 
graduated from the 
Avery institute in 
1884; and in 1887 
graduated in the 
medical department 
from the Howard 
university of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He 
was at one time 
druggist-in-chief of 
the Freedmen’s hos¬ 
pital of Washington, 
D. C.; and has attained prominence as a 
successful physician and surgeon of Jack¬ 
sonville, Fla., where he has a lucrative 
practice. He is a member of the Ameri¬ 
can Pharmaceutical association; a mem¬ 
ber of the Florida Medical association; 
and other prominent medical bodies. 

CRUMMELL, ALEXANDER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1819, in New 
York. He is a colored episcopal clergy¬ 
man of Washington; and the author of 
The Future of Africa; Greatness of 
Christ, and Other Sermons; and Africa 
and America. 

CRUMP, GEORGE WILLIAM, physi¬ 
cian, congressman, was born in Powhatan 
county, Va. He was a member of the leg¬ 
islature; and was a representative in 
congress from Virginia from 1826 to 1827 
to fill a vacancy. He died in 1850. 

CRUMP, JOSEPHINE B„ poet, was 
born Sept. 13, 1841, in Blount county, 
Tenn. Her poems have appeared quite 
extensively in the local press. 

CRUMP, ROUSSEAU O., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born May 20, 1843, in 
Pittsford N. Y. In 1884 the corporation 
of the Crump Manu¬ 
facturing company 
was formed by him. 
He is a member of 
the Wenona Lodge, 
Blanchard Chapter, 
Bay City Command- 
ery, the Michigan 
Sovereign Consistory 
of Detroit, and Mos¬ 
lem Temple; and al¬ 
so a member of the 
Ancient Order of 
United Workmen, 
Royal Arcanum, and Knights of Pythias. 
He cast his first vote for Lincoln; has 
served West Bay City as alderman for 
four years, and in the spring of 1892 was 
nominated and elected mayor of West 
Bay City and was re-elected in 1894. He 
was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty- 
fifth congresses as a republican. 

CRUMPACKER, EDGAR D., lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born May 27, 
1851, in Laporte county, Ind. He was 
prosecuting attorney for the thirty-first 
judicial district of Indiana from 1884 to 
1888; served as appellate judge in the 
state of Indiana from 1891-93; and was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 




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CRUMRINE, BOYD, soldier, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 9, 1838, in Washing¬ 
ton county, Pa. In 1861-62 he served in 
the civil war, in the eighty-fifth Pennsyl¬ 
vania volunteers. From 1865-68 he was 
district attorney of Washington county, 
Pa. He is the author of a work entitled 
Omnium Gatherum; and in 1882 he com¬ 
posed a large part and edited the whole 
of The History of Washington County. 

CRUNDEN, FREDERICK MORGAN, li¬ 
brarian, author, was born Sept. 1, 1847, 
in England. In 1877 he was appointed li¬ 
brarian Qf the public library of St. Louis, 
which position he still holds. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively to the Library Jour¬ 
nal and other periodicals. 

CRUSE, CHRISTIAN FREDERICK, 
clergyman, author, was born June 27, 
1794, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an 
episcopal clergyman of New York city 
whose translation of the Ecclesiastical 
History of Eusebius is a standard English 
version. He died Oct. 5, 1864, in New 
York city. 

CRUSE, MARY ANNE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 18— in Alabama. Be¬ 
sides a novel of the Civil War, Cameron 
Hall, she has written several popular Sun¬ 
day-school books, such as The Little 
Episcopalian, and Bessie Melville. 

CRUTCHFIELD, WILLIAM, farmer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 16, 1826, in 
Greeneville, Tenn. He was elected to the 
forty-third congress from Tennessee. 

CRUTTENDEN, DANIEL HENRY, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Feb. 27, 1816, 
in Galway, N. Y. He was an educator 
of New York city, among whose text¬ 
books are Systematic Arithmetic Series; 
The Philosophy of Language; and Rhetor¬ 
ical Grammar. He died June 21, 1874, 
in Castleton, N. Y. 

CUBBISON, JAMES K., lawyer, state 
legislator, was born in 1861 in Harris- 
ville, Pa. He is a successful lawyer of 
Kansas City, Mo.; was elected to the 
Kansas state legislature in 1892, and re¬ 
elected in 1894 and in 1896. 

CUCKSON, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1846 in England. He is a 
Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of 
the Arlington Street church from 1892; 
and the author of Faith and Fellowship. 

CUDAHY, MICHAEL, packer, was 
born Dec. 7, 1841, in Ireland. He is the 
oldest of four brothers. William died 
when thirty-seven years of age. John and 
Patrick succeeded John Plankinton and 
Company, of Milwaukee, in their pack¬ 
ing business, under the firm name of 
Cudahy Brothers. 

CUDMORE, P., soldier, lawyer, histor¬ 
ian, poet, was born June, 1831, in Ire¬ 
land. After leaving the monastery of 
Dungarvan, he stud¬ 
ied mathematics at 
the best academy in 
Munster. He emi¬ 
grated to America in 
1846; studied law; 
took a course of lec¬ 
tures on anatomy at 
Bellevue hospital; 
and a course of lec¬ 
tures at the Cooper 
institute. He then 
traveled in Cuba, 
Mexico, Central and 
South America. In 1853 he moved to 
Dane county, Wis., and in 1855 was elect¬ 
ed a justice of the peace, and became a 
popular lawyer and public speaker. In 
1856 he moved to Minnesota, and the fol¬ 
lowing year settled in Faribault. In 1860 
he commenced delivering lectures on Ire¬ 
land, Mexico and Peru; and in 1862 mus¬ 


tered in as a soldier and served three 
years, first in company H, tenth regi¬ 
ment, Minnesota infantry volunteers, 
which he was instrumental in raising; 
and subsequently joined the sixteenth 
army corps. He is the author of Cud- 
more’s Constitutional History; Cudmore’s 
Irish Republic; Cudmore’s Poems and 
Songs; Cudmore’s Battle of Clontarf and 
Other Poems; Buchanan’s Conspiracy, the 
Nicaragua Canal and Reciprocity; Cud¬ 
more’s Cleveland’s Mai-Administration; 
and other works. 

CULBERSON, DAVID B„ was born 
Sept. 29, 1830, in Troupe county, Ga. He 
was elected to the Texas legislature in 
1859. He entered the confederate army 
in 1862 as a private, and rose to be an ad¬ 
jutant-general, with the rank of colonel. 
In 1864 he was elected to the legislature 
of Texas, and subsequently to the state 
senate. In 1874 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Texas to the forty-fourth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty- 
eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fif¬ 
ty-second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

CULBERTSON, KENNEDY RUSSELL, 
soldier, iron manufacturer, was born May 
12, 1840, in Knightstown, Ind. He is one 
of the owners of the Cherokee iron 
works in Alabama; is one of the most 
skillful and successful iron men in the 
country; and has been largely concerned, 
with his brother and others, in bringing 
about many valuable changes in iron man¬ 
ufacture. 

CULBERTSON, MATTHEW SIMPSON, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 18, 1818, 
in Chambersburg, Pa. He was a presby- 
terian missionary to China; and is the au¬ 
thor of Darkness in the Flowery King¬ 
dom, or Religious Notions in North China. 
He died in August, 1862, in China. 

CULBERTSON, WILLIAM C., farmer, 
lumberman, congressman, was born Nov. 
25, 1825, in Erie county, Pa. He is a 
successful farmer and lumberman of Gir¬ 
ard, Pa. He was elected to the fifty- 
first congress as a republican. 

CULBERTSON, WILLIAM WIRT, sol¬ 
dier, state senator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 23, 1835, in Mifflin county, Pa. 
He removed to Ohio; entered the union 
army as a captain in 1861, and served 
three years. He was elected state sen¬ 
ator, and served four years, and was 
elected a representative from Kentucky 
to the forty-eighth congress. He built 
and started the ferry at Ashland, Ky., 
and has been prominently identified with 
the business development of Kentucky. 

CULBRETH, THOMAS, congressman, 
was born in Kent county, Del. He was a 
representative in congress from Maryland 
from 1817 to 1821. 

CULLEN, ELISHA D., congressman, 
was born in Delaware. He was elected a 
representative from that state to the thir¬ 
ty-fourth congress. 

CULLEN, WILLIAM, farmer, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born March 4, 1826, 
in Ireland. In 1846 he moved to Illinois, 
and was sheriff of La Salle county, and 
held other local offices. He became part 
owner and senior editor of the Ottawa 
Republican newspaper. He was elected 
a representative from Illinois to the for¬ 
ty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as 
a republican. 

CULLOM, ALVAN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Kentucky. He served 
frequently in the legislature of Tennessee; 
was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1845 to 1847; and was a 
delegate to the peace congress of 1861. 


CULLOM, SHELBY MOORE, lawyer, 
legislator, governor, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Nov. 22, 1829, in Wayne 
county, Ky. He was elected city attorney 
of Springfield; was elected a representa¬ 
tive in the state legislature in 1856; was 
again elected to the legislature in 1860, 
and was chosen speaker. He was elected 
a representative from Illinois to the thir¬ 
ty-ninth congress, and re-elected both to- 
the fortieth and forty-first congresses. He 
was again elected to the lower house of 
the state legislature in 1872, and again 
chosen speaker; was re-elected in 1874; 
and in 1876 was elected governor of Illi¬ 
nois for the term of four years, and was 
re-elected in 1880. In 1883 he was elected 
a senator of the United States for the 
term of six years from March 4, 1883, and 
resigned the office of governor. His term 
expires in 1901. 

CULLOM, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1851 to 1855. 

CULLUM, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
soldier, author, was born Feb. 25, 1809, 
in New York city. He is a brevet major- 
general in the United States army; and 
the author of Military Bridges with India- 
Rubber Pontoons; Biographical Regis¬ 
ter of the Officers and Graduates of the 
United States Military academy at West 
Point, 1802-90; and System of Military 
Bridges. He died Feb. 28, 1892, in New 
York city. 

CULPEPPER, JOHN, clergyman, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Anson county, 
N. C. He represented that state in con¬ 
gress from 1807 to 1808, when his seat was 
vacated by resolution of the house. He 
was re-elected, and served from 1813 to 
1817, from 1819 to 1821, and from 1823 to 
1825. He was a baptist preacher; and 
was elected to the general assembly, but 
his seat was vacated on constitutional 
grounds. 

CULVER, CHARLES VERNON, busi¬ 
ness man, congressman, was born Sept. 
6, 1830, in Logan, Ohio. He was elected 
a representative from Pennsylvania to 
the thirty-ninth congress. 

CULVER, ERASTUS D., congressman, 
was born in New York. He served in the 
assembly of New York in 1838 and 1841; 
and was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1845 to 1847. 

CULWER, DANIEL, pioneer, was born 
in 1793 in Maryland. He was the first 
American that went to upper Califor¬ 
nia, and the first that built a house in 
San Francisco (on the same ground now 
occupied by the Palace hotel). He was 
also the founder of the town of Santa 
Barbara. He died in 1857 in California. 

CULYER, JOHN YAPP, civil engineer, 
was born May 18, 1839, in New York city. 
He has acted in the capacity of associate 
engineer to the Albany parks, to the 
parks and the riverside improvement in 
Chicago, and to the state capitol grounds 
in Nashville. 

CUMBACK, WILL, educator, lawyer, 
congressman, poet, was born March 24, 
1829, in Franklin county, Ind. He taught 
school for one or two years; attended 
the law school at Cincinnati, and adopted 
the legal profession; and was elected 
a representative from Indiana in the thir¬ 
ty-fourth congress. He was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1861; and during that year 
was appointed an additional paymaster 
in the army. In 1868 he was elected lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of Indiana. He is also 
a successful lecturer and the author of 
a number of meritorious poems. 



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CUMMER, WELLINGTON WILLSON, 
lumberman, was born Oct. 21, 1846, in 
Canada. Among his investments are two 
lumber companies which are operating a 
large acreage of pine and cypress lands 
in Louisiana and Florida, and the Elec¬ 
tric Light and Water company of Cadillac. 
Mich. He has been mayor of Cadillac, 
Mich.; a republican presidential elector 
in 1888; and a member of the school 
board for ten years. 

CUMMING, ALFRED, governor, was 
born about 1802. He served as governor 
of Utah. He died Oct. 9, 1873, in Augusta, 
Ga. 

CUMMING, KATE, author, was born in 
1835 in Alabama. She is a resident of 
Mobile, prominent during the civil war 
as an organizer of field hospitals in the 
confederate army. She is the author of 
Hospital Life in Tennessee from the Bat¬ 
tle of Shiloh to the End of the War. 

CUMMING, THOMAS W., congressman, 
was born in Maryland. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York 
during 1853-1855. 

CUMMING, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a delegate from North Carolina 
to the continental congress in 1784. 

CUMMINGS, A. B., naval officer, was 
born June 22, 1830, in Pennsylvania. He 
was a naval commander in the civil war, 
who died during the engagement of the 
batteries at Port Hudson. His self-forget¬ 
fulness after falling mortally wounded 
was nearly equal to that of the noted 
Sir Philip Sidney. He died March 14, 
1863, at Port Hudson. 

CUMMINGS, ALEXANDER, governor, 
was born in Pennsylvania. In 1865 he 
was appointed governor of the territory 
of Colorado. 

CUMMINGS, ALEXANDER W., jour¬ 
nalist. He is the editor and owner of 
The Derby Game Bird, of Derby, Ind. He 
has written extensively for the periodi¬ 
cal press, and is a well-known bird fancier 
and poulterer. 

CUMMINGS, ALFRED, soldier, was 
born Jan. 30, 1829, in Augusta, Ga. He 
was on the Utah expedition of 1859- 
60; and in 1861 resigned and was soon 
•commissioned lieutenant-colonel in the 
confederate army. He rose to the rank 
of brigadier-general, and served until dis¬ 
abled by wounds received at the battle of 
Jonesboro, Ga., Aug. 31, 1864. 

CUMMINGS, AMOS J., soldier, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, author, was born May 
15 1841, in Conklin, N. Y. He was ser¬ 
geant-major in the 
twenty-sixth New 
Jersey regiment of 
infantry, second- 
brigade, second di¬ 
vision, sixth corps, 
army of the Poto¬ 
mac; and received 
the congressional 
medal of honor for 
gallantry on the bat¬ 
tlefield. He was ed¬ 
itor of the Evening 
Sun when elected to 
the fiftieth congress. He declined a re¬ 
nomination, preferring to give his whole 
attention to editorial work. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-first congress to fill a vacan¬ 
cy caused by the death of Samuel Sullivan 
Cox; and was elected to the fifty-second, 
fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and 
was re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a democrat. He is the author of Hor¬ 
ace Greeley Campaign Songster; Sayings 
of Uncle Rufus; and Ziska Letters. 


CUMMING, GILBERT W., lawyer, was 
born in 1817 in Delaware county, N. Y. 

He removed, in 1853, to Janesville, Wis., 
and in 1858 to Chicago. In September, 
1861, he raised the fifty-first Illinois regi¬ 
ment, and was appointed its colonel. 

CUMMINGS, ASA, clergyman, journal¬ 
ist, was born Sept. 29, 1791, in Ando¬ 
ver, Mass. He attended Phillips academy 
of Andover, and graduated from Bow- 
doin college. He was a clergyman for six 
years, when he became editor of the 
Christian Mirror, and for thirty years was 
its editor. He died at sea June 5, 1856. 

CUMMINGS, EBENEZER EDSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Nov. 9, 1800, in 
Claremont, N. H. He was president of the 
board of trustees of the New Lon¬ 
don institution from its beginning, 
and for some time a trustee of Col¬ 
by university. He published several ser¬ 
mons, and left in manuscript The Bap¬ 
tist Ministry of New Hampshire for the 
First Century of our History. He died 
Feb. 22, 1886, in Concord. 

CUMMINGS, EBENEZER HARLOW, 
clergyman, jurist, author, was born in 
1790 in North Carolina. He was a clergy¬ 
man and magistrate of Baltimore; and 
the author of Geography of Alabama; and 
History of the Late War (1820). He died 
Jan. 17, 1835, in Washington, D. C. 

CUMMINGS, EPHRAIM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1825 in Albany, N. Y. 
He served as chaplain in a Vermont regi¬ 
ment more than a year during the war. 
In 1872 and 1873 he was provisional pro¬ 
fessor of mental and moral philosophy in 
the college. He has published a volume, 
Birth and Baptism. 

CUMMINGS, GEORGE J., educator, was 
born July 6, 1838, in Groton, N. H. He 
was fitted for college at the Kimball 
Union academy, and graduated from 
Dartmouth college in 1869. He has been 
associate teacher in the Kimball Union 
academy for six years, and then princi¬ 
pal of the same institution for five years, 
resigning in 1880 to accept a similar 
position in the Monson academy. In 1885 
he accepted the professorship of ancient 
languages, and the deanship of the pre¬ 
paratory department of the Howard uni¬ 
versity of Washington, D. C., which posi¬ 
tion he still fills. 

CUMMINGS, HENRY J. B„ soldier, 
journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born 
May 21, 1831, in Newton, N. J. He served 
with distinction through the civil war; 
was captain of the fourth regiment, Iowa 
volunteer infantry, in 1861-62; and colonel 
of the thirty-ninth regiment during 1862- 
65. He was twice solicitor of Winterset, 
Iowa; twice served as its mayor; and was 
twice county attorney of Madison coun¬ 
ty, Iowa. Since 1869 he has been the edi¬ 
tor and proprietor of The Winterset Madi¬ 
sonian. He served with distinction as a 
member of the forty-fifth congress from 
the Des Moines district. 

CUMMINGS, JEREMIAH W. D., cler¬ 
gyman, author, poet, was born April 5, 
1823, in Washington, D. C. He was a 
popular Roman catholic clergyman of 
New York city; and the author of Italian 
Legends; Songs for Catholic Schools; 
Spiritual Progress; and The Silver Stole. 
He died Jan. 4, 1866, in New York. 

CUMMINGS, JOHN, tanner, was born 
Feb. 26, 1785, in Woburn, Mass. He 
probably taught more young men the 
business of tanning, aiding them to es¬ 
tablish themselves, than any other leather 
manufacturer in Massachusetts. He died 
June 8, 1867, in Woburn, Mass. 

CUMMINGS, JOSEPH, educator, the¬ 
ologian, was born March 3, 1817, in Fal¬ 


mouth county, Maine. He was professor 
of theology in the Methodist general bibli¬ 
cal institute in Concord, N. H. 

CUMMINGS, JOSEPH FRANKLIN, sol¬ 
dier, educator, was born July 16, 1851, in 
Brownsville, Texas. In 1876 he graduated 
from the United States Military academy 
of West Point, N. Y.; and during 1876- 
83 was an officer in the United States 
cavalry. In 1883-86 he was railroading 
in Mexico; in 1886-88 was a teacher in 
the public school at Galveston, Texas; and 
since that time has been superintendent 
of public schools in Brownsville. In 1887 
he received the thanks of Gen. George 
Crook in a general order for the capture of 
an Indian village. 

CUMMINGS, JUSTELLE, poet, was 
born Dec. 19, 1848, in Falmouth, Maine. 
She is the author of Faithe, a Story of 
Falmouth, in \erse; and has contributed 
extensively to current literature. She is 
the widow of the late Isaac I. Cummings, 
a noted physician of Falmouth, Maine. 

CUMMINGS, MARCUS FAYETTE, 
architect, author, was born March 11, 
1836, in Utica, N. Y. For thirty years 
he was a successful architect in the city 
of Troy, N. Y. He is the author of Cum¬ 
mings’ Architectural Details; Sanctum 
Shots; and associate author of Architect¬ 
ure, and Modern Architecture. He is now 
associate editor of Martha’s Vineyard 
Herald, of Vineyard Haven, Mass. 

CUMMINGS, MOSES, clergyman, jour¬ 
nalist, was born about 1816 in Haver¬ 
hill, Mass. From 1854 to 1862 he had 
editorial control of The Christian Messen¬ 
ger and The Palladium, the central or¬ 
gans of the sect of which he was a mem¬ 
ber. He died Jan. 6, 1867, in New York 
city. 

CUMMINGS, THOMAS SEIR, artist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1804 in England. He 
was a New York artist who was author 
of the Historic Annals of the National 
Academy from its Foundation to 1865. He 
died in 1894. 

CUMMINS, FRANCIS, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, was born in 1732 near Shippens- 
burg. Pa. He filled the office of pastor 
to twenty parishes in different localities 
in Georgia and the Carolinas. In 1778 
he was a member of the South Carolina 
convention held to decide upon the con¬ 
stitution of the United States, and voted 
for its adoption. He died Feb. 22, 1832, in 
Greensborough, Ga. 

CUMMINS, GEORGE DAVID, bishop, 
was born Dec. 11, 1822, in Smyrna. While 
rector of Trinity church of Chicago, he 
was consecrated as¬ 
sistant bishop of 
Kentucky in 1866. In 
1873 he resigned his 
office in the episco¬ 
pal church, and be¬ 
came a member of 
what is known as the 
Reformed Episcopal 
church. His low 
church views were 
decided, and he took 
occasion to censure 
the ritualistic ten¬ 
dency and proceedings of some of the 
churches in the see of Kentucky. He 
died June 26, 1876, in Baltimore county, 
Md. 

CUMMINS, HESTER V., educator, po¬ 
et, was born April 6, 1862, in Crane’s 
Grove, Ill. She has attained success in 
educational work in primary and kinder¬ 
garten teaching in Minnesota. She is the 
author of two volumes of poems, and has 
contributed extensively to current liter¬ 
ature. 







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CUMMINS, HOLMES, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Aug. 7,1844, in Tipton coun¬ 
ty, Tenn. He served during the war in 
the confederate 
states army; was ad¬ 
jutant of the ninth 
Tennessee regiment, 
and adjutant of the 
brigade confederate 
states army. During 
1872-76 he served as 
a representative in 
the Tennessee state 
legislature. For sev¬ 
eral years he was ed¬ 
itor and owner of 
the Tipton Record 
of Covington, Tenn. He attained success as 
an able lawyer, and was the general coun¬ 
sel of the Chesapeake, Ohio and South¬ 
western railroad, and of the Louisville, 
New Orleans and Texas railroad. He 
served as vice-president of the Memphis, 
Arkansas and Texas railroad; and as 
president of the Memphis, Paducah and 
Northern railroad. He always took an ac¬ 
tive part in public affairs; in 1878 he was 
chairman of the democratic state conven¬ 
tion of Tennessee, and in 1892-96 was na¬ 
tional democratic committeeman for Ten¬ 
nessee. 

CUMMINS, JOHN, jurist, was born in 
Indiana. He was appointed an associate 
justice of the United States court for Ida¬ 
ho territory, residing at Boise City. 

CUMMINS, JOHN D., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative from Ohio during the thir¬ 
tieth congress. He died Sept. 11, 1848, 
in Milwaukee, Wis. 

CUMMINS, MARIA SUSANNA, author, 
was born April 10, 1827, in Salem, Mass. 
She was a famous novelist of Massachu¬ 
setts, whose first book, The Lamplighter, 
enjoyed for a time a phenomenal popu¬ 
larity. Her subsequent stories include 
El Fureidls, a Tale of Palestine; Haunted 
Hearts; and Mabel Vaughan. She died 
Oct. 1, 1866, in Dorchester, Mass. 

CUMMINS, MARY STUART, educator, 
philanthropist, was born May 31, 1854, 
in Jonesborough, Tenn. For four years 
she was state president for Montana of 
the Woman’s Christian Temperance 
union, and is a member of the state 
board of charities and reforms for Mon¬ 
tana. 

CUNARD, LUDWELL M., soldier, far¬ 
mer, litterateur, was born Dec. 31,1834, in 
Loudon county, Va. He served as a 
union soldier during the civil war, and 
mustered out a lieutenant in the thirty- 
ty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. 
He has principally been engaged in agri¬ 
cultural pursuits, but has now retired 
from active work. He has taken a great 
interest in the public affairs of his coun¬ 
ty and state; and resides in Mt. Gilead, 
Ohio, where for many years he has given 
his attention to literary work. 

CUNDELL, WILLIAM, poet, was born 
in July, 1816, in England. In 1850 he 
moved to Clinton county, Iowa, which 
was then quite a wilderness. His poems 
appear in Poets of America and other 
standard works. 

CUNNINGHAM, E. W., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Aug. 31, 1842, in Clarksfield, 
Ohio. He has served as probate judge of 
Lyon county, Kas.; has many times been 
a delegate to republican state conven¬ 
tions; has contributed valuable papers to 
various legal publications; and is promi¬ 
nently identified with the religious affairs 
of Emporia, Kas. 


CUNNINGHAM, FRANCIS A., con¬ 
gressman, was born in South Carolina. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1845 to 1847. 

CUNNINGHAM. JOHN DANIEL, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born March 28, 1840, in 
Oak Bowery, Ala. In 1868 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of a state court of unlimit¬ 
ed jurisdiction in Montgomery county, 
Ala. He became one of the leading fruit 
planters in Georgia. 

CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM LITTLE¬ 
TON, clergyman, educator, author, was 
born Feb. 26, 1869, near Mulberry Grove, 
Ill. He received his education at the Mc- 
Kendree university of Lebanon, Ill.; the 
Terre Haute Business college; and the 
Vandalia School of Stenography. For 
several years he was an instructor in ste¬ 
nography; has taught school; and was 
editor of the College Journal. He is a 
successful clergyman, and fills a pastorate 
at St. Elmo, Ill. He is ’the author of a 
work of fiction, and has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to current periodicals. 

CURLINE, J. V., educator, college pres¬ 
ident, was born Nov. 9, 1847, in Union 
City, Tenn. He received his education at 
the Kentucky university of Lexington; 
and has been a college president for a 
quarter of a century. 

CURME, GEORGE OLIVER, educator, 
philologist, author, was born in 1860, in 
Richmond, Ind. During 1884-96 he was 
connected with Cornell college of Mount 
Vernon, Iowa, and now fills the chair of 
Germanic philology in the Northwestern 
university of Evanston, Ill. He is the 
author of a work entitled The Historic 
Grammar of the German Language, the 
largest and most extensive work of the 
kind in America. 

CURRAN, CHARLES COURTNEY, ar¬ 
tist, was born Feb. 13, 1861, in Hart¬ 
ford, Ky. This noted artist has received 
numerous awards. In 1893 he was award¬ 
ed a medal at the World’s Columbian ex¬ 
position, and a medal at the Cotton States 
exposition at Atlanta. 

CURREN, JAMES E., journalist, was 
born July 4, 1855, in Dubuque, Iowa. He 
started in life as a practical printer, and 
has been the editor and founder of a score 
of different country newspapers in the 
west. He is now the editor and owner 
of The Enterprise, of Clayton, N. M. 

CURREY, AUGUSTUS, poet, was born 
Dec. 17, 1836, in Detroit, Mich. In 1863 
he became connected with the Western 
Union Telegraph 
company, and with 
the Chicago, Bur¬ 
lington and Quincy 
railroad at Chicago, 
and remained in that 
city for nearly twen¬ 
ty years. He then 
returned to Detroit, 
Mich., where he is 
manager of the De¬ 
troit Car Service as¬ 
sociation. He has 
contributed numer¬ 
ous meritorious poems to leading publica¬ 
tions, and have also appeared in Poets of 
America and other standard collections. 
He is also the author of a volume of po¬ 
ems entitled The Sower. 

CURREY, JOHN THOMAS, farmer, hor¬ 
ticulturist, legislator, financier, was born 
Oct. 28, 1837, in Harrodsburg, Ky. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education in 
the common schools, and graduated from 
the Asbury university of Greencastle, Ind. 
He commenced life as a day laborer, and 
now owns a farm of two thousand acres, 
fifty acres of which are in orchards. He 


has served as a member of the Texas 
state legislature in the house of repre¬ 
sentatives for four sessions, thus devot¬ 
ing eight years of his time to the man¬ 
agement of the state revenues and ap¬ 
propriations, educational and stock inter¬ 
ests. He has been president of the Far¬ 
mers’ County Alliance of Van Zandt 
county, Texas, and has been vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Dallas state fair. 

CURRIER, FRANK DUNKLEE, legis¬ 
lator, was born Oct. 30, 1853, in Canaan, 
N. H. He served with distinction in the 
New Hampshire state senate in 1887, and 
was made president of that body. He 
still resides in the place of his nativity, 
and his portrait hangs in the new library 
building of the state capitol. 

CURRIER, MOODY, educator, lawyer, 
banker, governor, poet, was born April 
22, 1806, in Boscawen, N. H. He es¬ 
tablished the Amoskeag National bank 
and the Amoskeag Savings bank in Man¬ 
chester, N. H. He was for several years 
a member of the city government of Man¬ 
chester; was twice clerk of the state sen¬ 
ate of New Hampshire; and served two 
terms as a state senator. He was twipe 
a member of the governor’s council; was 
a presidential elector in 1876; and in 1884 
was elected governor of New Hampshire 
for two years from June, 1885. 

CURRY, DANIEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 26, 1809, in Peekskill, N. Y. 
He was a methodist divine of note; and 
the author of New York, an Historical 
Sketch; Life Story of Rev. D. W. Clark; 
Fragments, Religious and Theological; 
and Platform Papers. He died Aug. 17, 
1887, in New York city. 

CURRY, GEORGE LAW, journalist, 
governor, was born July 2, 1820, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. In 1846 he moved to Ore¬ 
gon, and two years later founded the Ore¬ 
gon Free Press, the first weekly paper on 
the Pacific coast. In 1849 he was ap¬ 
pointed the first secretary of the territory. 
In 1854 he was appointed governor of 
Oregon territory, which office he filled un¬ 
til 1859, when the territory was admit¬ 
ted as a state. He died July 28, 1878, in 
Portland, Ore. 

CURRY, JABEZ LAMAR MONROE, 
soldier, educator, clergyman, legislator, 
author, was born June 5, 1825, in Lincoln 
county, Ga. He attended the academies 
in Georgia and Alabama, and subse¬ 
quently received the degree of LL. D. 
from the university of Georgia; and was 
a graduate of the Harvard Law school. He 
served as a representative in the state 
legislature of Alabama; and was a mem¬ 
ber of congress during 1857-61. He served 
as a member of the confederate con¬ 
gress; and during the war was a lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel of a cavalry regiment. He 
has been president of Howard college, 
Ala.; professor in Richmond college; and 
was president of trustees of Richmond 
college. He has served as a minister 
plenipotentiary to Spain; and has been 
trustee and general manager of the John 
F. Slater fund, and the Peabody Educa¬ 
tion fund. He is the author of Baptists 
and Pedobaptists, their Radical Differ¬ 
ences in Faith and Practice; Constitu¬ 
tional Government in Spain; Gladstone, 
a Study; and Southern States of the 
American Union. 

CURRY, JAMES L., soldier, lumber¬ 
man, state senator, was born Dec. 30, 
1825, in Enfield, N. Y. He served from 
1861'to 1864 in an Ohio regiment, rising 
to the rank of colonel. He was a Michi¬ 
gan representative from Genesee county 
in 1869-70, and state senator in 1873-74. 




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CURRY, JOHN ROAKE, merchant, 
journalist, legislator, was born Nov. 5, 
L847, in Yorktown, N. Y. He served as 
i member of the sixth general assembly 
>f Colorado; was clerk in the district 
jourt of Montezuma bounty, Colo.; and a 
pioneer newspaper publisher. He is now 
i successful merchant of Cortez, Colo. 


CURRY, OTWAY, journalist, poet, was 
born March 26, 1804, in Greenfield, Ohio. 
He was an Ohio journalist who published 
Love of the Past, a poem. He died Feb. 
17, 1855, in Maysville, Ohio. 

CURRY, ROBERT-PEASE, business 
man, legislator, was born Aug. 3, 1848, 
in Holderness, N. H. He is a successful 
shoe manufacturer; for many years has 
been postmaster, justice of the peace, and 
a member of the board of education of his 
native city. He is also serving as a rep¬ 
resentative in the New Hampshire state 
legislature. 


CURRY, SAMUEL SILAS, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1847, in Tennessee. He 
is an educator of Boston whose special¬ 
ty is the culture of expression; and the 
author of The Province of Expression; 
Lessons in Vocal Expression; and Imag¬ 
ination and Dramatic Instinct. 


CURRY, SOLOMON S., business man, 
legislator, was born June 12, 1839, in 
Canada. In 1862 he moved to northern 
Michigan and en¬ 
gaged in mining, and 
also in exploring for 
the Sault Ste. Marie 
Canal company, and 
subsequently ex¬ 
plored for the same 
company at Mar¬ 
quette. In 1879 he 
went to Menominee, 
where he opened the 
Curry mine, and sub¬ 
sequently the Beau- 
ford mine. He has 
been identified with Ironwood, and was 
one of its founders. He was the first 
president of the First National bank 
of that city; established and was 
first president of the People’s bank; 
and is president of the Metropolitan Iron 
and Land company. In 1875 he repre¬ 
sented Marquette county in the Michigan 
state legislature, and in 1886 was the dem¬ 
ocratic candidate for lieutenant-governor. 



CURRY, THOMAS ALLAN, lawyer, 
was born Dec. 28, 1869, in Kempville, 
Ala. He received his education at the 
Howard college of Birmingham, Ala. He 
has attained success as an able lawyer 
of Clanton, Ala,, and has served as prose¬ 
cuting attorney for Chilton county. 

CURRY, WALKER, physician, surgeon, 
was born Oct. 24, 1835, in Lincoln coun¬ 
ty, Ga. He served in the civil war; in 1862 
was promoted to surgeon; and was given 
charge of a general hospital in Jackson, 
Miss. In 1869 he moved to New York 
city, where he soon acquired a lucrative 
practice. 

CURTIN, ANDREW GREGG, lawyer, 
congressman, governor, was born April 22, 
1815, in Bellefonte, Pa. In 1855-58 he was 
secretary of state and superintendent of 
common schools for Pennsylvania. In 
1860 he was elected governor; and was re¬ 
elected governor in 1863, and was active 
in the election of Gen. Grant to the presi¬ 
dency by whom he was appointed min¬ 
ister to Russia in 1869. He was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty- 
ninth congresses as a democrat. 

CURTIN, JEREMIAH, author, was born 
in 1838 in Milwaukee, Wis. He is the au¬ 


thor of Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland; 
Hero Tales of Ireland; Tales of the Fair¬ 
ies and the Ghost World, collected from 
Oral Tradition in South Munster; Myths 
and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western 
Slavs, and Magyars. His translations in¬ 
clude Tales of Three Centuries, from the 
Russian of Zagoskin; and The Romances 
of Sienkiewicz, from the Polish. 

CURTIS, ALVA, physician, author, was 
born June 3, 1797, in Columbia, N. H. He 
was an Ohio physician and medical 
writer; and the author of Medical Discus¬ 
sions; Lectures on Midwifery; Theory 
and Practice of Medicine; and Medical 
Criticisms. He died in 1881, in Ohio. 

CURTIS, BENJAMIN ROBBINS, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, author, was born 
Nov. 4, 1809, in Watertown, Mass. He set¬ 
tled in Boston in 1834; and served two 
years in the state legislature. In 1851 he 
was appointed a justice of the supreme 
court of the United States, which posi¬ 
tion he resigned in 1857. In March, 1868, 
he acted as one of the counsel for Presi¬ 
dent Andrew Johnson, before the high 
court of impeachment. He was the au¬ 
thor of Reports of Cases in the Circuit 
Courts of the United States; United States 
Supreme Court Decisions; and Digest and 
Decisions of United States Supreme Court. 
He died Sept. 15, 1874, in Newport, R. I. 

CURTIS, BENJAMIN ROBBINS, jurist, 
author, was born in 1855 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He was a municipal court judge 
of Boston; and the author of Dottings 
Round the Circle, a volume of travels. He 
died in 1891. 

CURTIS, CARLTON B„ soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 17, 1811, in 
Madison county, N. Y. He was elected 
to the legislature in 1836, 1837 and 1838, 
and was elected to the thirty-second and 
thirty-third congresses. He served in the 
war of the rebellion as colonel of a 
Pennsylvania regiment. He was elected 
to the forty-third congress. He died 
March 17, 1883, in Erie, Pa. 

CURTIS, MRS. CAROLINE GARD¬ 
INER, author, was born in 1827 in New 
York. She is the author of From Madge 
to Margaret; and The Love of a Life¬ 
time. 

CURTIS, CHARLES, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 25, 1860, in North To¬ 
peka, Kas. He was elected county at¬ 
torney of Shawnee county in 1884 for a 
term of two years and was re-elected in 
1886. He was elected to the fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

CURTIS, EDWARD, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Vermont. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1837 to 1841; and was appointed col¬ 
lector of New York by President Harrison. 

CURTIS, EDWARD, physician, author, 
was born June 4, 1838, in Providence, R. 
I. He is a physician of New York who 
has published Manual of General Medical 
Technology. 

CURTIS, FREDERIC C., soldier, ed¬ 
ucator physician, was born Oct. 19, 1843, 
in Unionville, S. C. He served in the 
civil war as private in the forty-first Wis¬ 
consin regiment; in 1872 was appointed 
physician to Albany; in 1877 lecturer in 
the summer course of the Albany Medical 
college; and in 1880 was professor of der¬ 
matology in the college. 

CURTIS, GEORGE, banker, was born 
about 1793 in Massachusetts. He was ap¬ 
pointed president of the Continental bank 
of New York. He died in 1856 in Jack¬ 
sonville, Fla. 


CURTIS, GEORGE M., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born April 1, 1844, near 
moved to Clinton, 
Iowa, in 1867, since 
which time he has 
been engaged in the 
manufacture of 
doors, sash, blinds 
and lumber. He was 
a member of the 
twenty-second gen¬ 
eral assembly of 
Iowa; and delegate 
to the republican na¬ 
tional convention in 
1892. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fourth 
and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 

CURTIS, GEORGE TICKNOR, lawyer, 
author, was born Nov. 28, 1812, in Water- 
town, Mass. He was an eminent lawyer 
of New York city, well known as a legal 
writer and biographer. He was the au¬ 
thor of Digest of English and American 
Admiralty Decisions; Digest of Decisions 
of Courts of Common Law and Admiralty 
in the United States; American Convey¬ 
ancer; Law of Patents; Equity Prece¬ 
dents; Inventor’s Manual; Law of Copy¬ 
right; Rights and Duties of Merchant Sea¬ 
men; Commentaries on the Jurispru¬ 
dence, Practice, and Peculiar Jurisdiction 
of United States Courts; A History of the 
Constitution of the United States; Life of 
James Buchanan; Life of Daniel Web¬ 
ster; Creation or Evolution; Last Years 
of Daniel Webster; and John Charaxes, a 
novel. He died in 1894. 

CURTIS, GEORGE W., poet, was born 
Feb. 18, 1858, in Garden Valley, Wis. He 
is the author of a number of meritorious 
poems which have appeared in various 
Wisconsin publications. He is in the ho¬ 
tel business at Duluth. 

CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM, journal¬ 
ist, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 24, 
1824, in Providence, R. I. To Putnam’s 
Monthly he contrib¬ 
uted The Potiphar 
Papers, a spirited 
satire upon society; 
and Prue and I, a 
story far superior to 
his more ambitious 
novel, Trumps. For 
thirty-five years he 
filled the Easy Chair 
department of Har¬ 
per’s Monthly, and 
from 1863-92 he was 
the political editor of 
Harper’s Weekly. Besides the volumes al¬ 
ready named, his writings include Nile 
Notes of a Howadji; Lotus Eating; The 
Howadji in Syria; James Russell Lowell, 
an Address; Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; 
From the Easy Chair; and Literary and 
Social Essays. He died Aug. 31, 1892, on 
Staten Island, N. Y. 

CURTIS, HARVEY, clergyman, college 
president, was born May 30, 1806, in Ad¬ 
ams, N. Y. From 1843 till 1858 he held 
pastorates in Madison, Ind., and Chicago, 
Ill. He was chosen president of Knox 
college at Galesburg, Ill., in 1858. He 
died Sept. 18, 1862, in Galesburg, Ill. 

CURTIS, JAMES LANGDON, presiden¬ 
tial candidate, was born Feb. 19, 1816, in 
Stratford, Conn. He was nominated by 
the labor party for governor of Connecti¬ 
cut in 1884, and in 1888 became the candi¬ 
date of the national American party for 
president. 



Oxford, N. Y. He 





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CURTIS, JEREMIAH, manufacturer, 
was born in 1804, in Hampden, Maine. 
He established a bank in Calais, Maine, 
and later built the first railroad in Maine, 
from Calais to Middletown, and accepted 
the abolition nomination for governor of 
his state. The owner of several formulas 
for medicines, he manufactured largely, 
and from the sale of Winslow’s Soothing 
Syrup, Brown’s Bronchial Troches, etc., 
amassed a large fortune. He died March 
24, 1883, in New York city. 

CURTIS, JULIUS B., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born Dec. 10, 1825, in 
Newton, Conn. He was appointed probate 
judge for the district of Stamford in 1867, 
and held the office for three successive 
elections. He was elected judge of the 
borough of Stamford in 1867, and as such 
acted as judge of the court of common 
pleas in Fairfield county.- He was elected 
to the senate of Connecticut in 1850, and 
again in 1860. 

CURTIS, LEMUEL J., manufacturer, 
philanthropist, was born Jan. 15, 1814, in 
Meriden, Conn. Engaging in the manu¬ 
facture of this ware, he was in 1852 one 
of the organizers of the Meriden Britan¬ 
nia company. He accumulated a large for¬ 
tune by diligent industry, and at his death 
in 1888 left between $700,000 and $800,000 
to found an asylum for destitute children 
and old women, which he called Curtis 
home and is located in Meriden. 

CURTIS, MOSES ASHLEY, botanist, 
author, was born in 1808, in Massachu¬ 
setts. He was a botanist and episcopal 
clergyman of North Carolina; and the 
author of Edible Fungi of North Caro¬ 
lina; Contributions to Mycology of North 
America; Catalogue of the Plants of 
North Carolina; Esculent Fungi; and 
Indigenous and Native Plants of North 
Carolina. He died in 1872. 

CURTIS, NEWTON MARTIN, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born May 21, 
1835, in Depeyster, N. Y. He was ap¬ 
pointed major-general by brevet for gal¬ 
lant and meritorious services during the 
war and assigned duty as chief of staff 
of Major-General Ord. He was a member 
of the assembly from 1884 to 1890, inclu¬ 
sive; and was elected to the fifty-second 
and fifty-third congresses, and re-elected 
to the fifty-fourth congress as a republi¬ 
can. 

CURTIS, SAMUEL IVES, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 5, 1844, in Union, 
Conn. He is a congregational clergyman 
and professor in the Theological semi¬ 
nary of Chicago. He is the author of 
The’ Name Maccabee; The Levitical 
Priests; Ingersoll and Moses; and The 
Date of our Gospels. 

CURTIS, SAMUEL RYAN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Feb. 3, 1807, 
in Ohio. He studied and practiced law in 
Ohio. He was elected 

§ from Iowa as a mem¬ 
ber of the house of 
representatives i n 
the thirty-fifth con- 

1 elected to the thirty- 
sixth and thirty-sev¬ 
enth congresses. He 
resigned in 1861 to 
serve as a brigadier 
and major-general in 
the union army dur¬ 
ing the rebellion. He 
died Dec. 25, 1866, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. 

CURTIS, THOMAS, clergyman, was 
born in 1780, in England. He was pastor 
for some years in Charleston, S. C., and 
subsequently established a young ladies’ 
school at Limestone Spring. He died in 
1858. 


CURTIS, THOMAS F., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 26, 1815, in England. 
He was a baptist divine who was for some 
years president of Lewisburg university, 
Pennsylvania. He was the author of Pro¬ 
gress of Baptist Principles in the Last 
Hundred Years (1857); and The Human 
Element in the Inspiration of the Sacred 
Scriptures, a work which occupies the Co- 
lenso position on the subject and is in 
places more advanced. He died Aug. 9, 
1872, in Cambridge, Mass. 

CURTIS, WILLIAM EDMUND, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1824, in Litchfield, 
Conn. In 1871 he was elected judge of the 
New York supreme court, and at the time 
of his death was chief justice of the su¬ 
perior court. He died July 6, 1880, in 
Watertown, Conn. 

CURTIS, WILLIAM ELEROY, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Nov. 5, 1850, in Ak¬ 
ron, Ohio. He was envoy extraordinary 
and minister plenipotentiary to the re¬ 
public of Central and South America; 
special envoy to the Vatican; special en¬ 
voy to the court of Spain, and executive 
officer international American conference. 
He is the author of The United States and 
Foreign Powers; Life of Zachariah 
Chandler; The Capitals of Spanish 
America; The Land of the Nihilist; 
Venezuela; The Yankees of the East; and 
Japan Sketches. 

CURTIS, WILLIAM WOODSIDE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Dec. 22, 1858, in 
Freeport, Maine. He has been principal 
of high schools in Maine and Massachu¬ 
setts; and is now principal of the high 
school of Pawtucket, R. I. He is one of 
the authors of the English Classics Series; 
and contributes extensively to current 
literature. 

CURTISS, MRS. ABBEY, poet, was born 
Sept. 15, 1820, in Pomfret, Conn. She is 
the author of a volume of poems entitled 
Home Ballads. 

CURTISS, FRANK H., educator, college 
president, was born Oct. 2, 1857, in Cold- 
water, Mich. In 1879 he graduated from 
the New York Normal school; and was 
instructor in the training department of 
that institution for two years. For two 
years he was president of the Brunson 
Military academy, South Carolina; for 
four years was president of the Aiken 
institute. South Carolina; and for one 
year was president of the Thomasville 
Female college, North Carolina. He has 
taught in the city schools of Titusville, 
Pa., and Kansas City, Mo.; and for the 
past seven years has been superintendent 
of city schools of Shelby, Tenn. 

CURTISS, GEORGE LEWIS, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 21,1835, 
in Columbia, Ohio. He attended the 
Baldwin university of Berea, Ohio, and 
the Medical college of Indiana. For two 
years he filled the chair of mathematics 
in Moore’s Hill college; for ten years 
filled the same chair in the Medical col¬ 
lege of Indiana; for seven years was pro¬ 
fessor of historical theology in the De 
Pauw university; and for six years was 
professor of diseases of the nervous sys¬ 
tem in the Medical college of the New 
Orleans university. During all this time 
he filled pastorates in the Methodist Epis¬ 
copal church; and now fills a pastorate 
in Columbus, Ind. He is the author of 
Monograph on Methodism; Sketches from 
the Romances of American History; Man¬ 
ual of Methodist Episcopal Church His¬ 
tory; Evolution of Christian Doctrine; 
Interrogatory Studies of the Bible; and 
A Study of the Constitution of the Metho¬ 


dist Episcopal church. He has received 
the degi’ees of A. M., M. D. and D. D. 

CURTISS, MARILLA S., poet, was born 
May 27, 1822, in Oswego, N. Y. Her 
poems have appeared in the leading news¬ 
papers and magazines of America, and 
have been a valuable acquisition to cur¬ 
rent literature. 

CURTISS, ROMAINE J., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Oct. 1, 1840, in Richland 
county, Ohio. He has been professor of 
bacteriology, hygiene and general path¬ 
ology in the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons of Chicago. He has attained 
eminent success as a physician and sur¬ 
geon at Joliet, Ill., where he is surgeon 
in charge of St. Joseph’s hospital; health 
commissioner; and surgeon to the Joliet 
Steel company. 

CURWEN, SAMUEL, author, was born 
in 1715, in Massachusetts. He was a loy¬ 
alist who lived in England during the 
American revolution, but returned after 
its close to his native town of Salem. 
While an exile he kept a journal which 
contains much valuable information con¬ 
cerning loyalist exiles. It was first pub¬ 
lished in 1842, with the title Journal and 
Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Judge 
of Admiralty, an American Refugee in 
England, 1775-1784. He died in 1802. 

CUSACK, MARY E., philanthropist, was 
born in 1830. She is known as The Nun 
of Kenmare. 

CUSHING, CALEB, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Jan. 17, 1800. 
in Salisbury, Mass. In 1825 and 1826 he 
served in the state 
legislature. He was 
a representative in 
congress from 1835 
to 1843; was ap¬ 
pointed, by Presi¬ 
dent Tyler, commis 
sioner and envoy to 
China, and as such 
negotiated an im¬ 
portant treaty. In 

1846 he was elected 
to the legislature; in 

1847 was chosen col¬ 
onel of the Massachusetts regiment of 
volunteers for the Mexican war; and was 
afterward appointed a brigadier-general. 
In 1850 he was for the fifth time elected 
to the legislature; and in 1851 was made 
a justice of the supreme court of the state. 
He was attorney-general from 1853-57. 
He was again elected to the legislature of 
his native state. He was the author of 
Historical and Political Review of the 
Late Revolution in France, 1833; Practi¬ 
cal Principles of Political Economy; Life 
of William Henry Harrison; Growth and 
Territorial Progress of the United States, 
1837; Reminiscences of Spain; History 
of Newburyport; and The Treaty of 
Washington. He died Jan. 2, 1879, in 
Newburyport, Mass. 

CUSHING, FRANK HAMILTON, eth¬ 
nologist, author, was born July 22, 1857. 
in Northeast, Pa. He was curator of the 
entire Indian collection of the National 
museum for the centennial exposition at 
Philadelphia. In 1879 he was assistant 
ethnologist of the United States bureau of 
ethnology of the Smithsonian institution. 

CUSHING, JONATHAN PETER, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born March 
12, 1793, in Rochester, N. H. He became 
a tutor in Hampden Sydney college in 
1818, and professor of chemistry and nat¬ 
ural philosophy two years later. This 
chair he held for two years, when he be¬ 
came the president of the college. He 
died April 25, 1835, in Raleigh, N. C. 




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CUSHING, LUTHER STEARNS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born June 22, 1803, 
in Lunenburg, Mass. He was a well-known 
authority on parliamentary practice and 
a Massachusetts jurist who was lecturer 
on Roman law in Harvard university in 
1848-56. He was the author of Massachu¬ 
setts Reports, 1848-53; Manual of Parlia¬ 
mentary Practice; Trustee Process; Re¬ 
medial Law; Reports of Controverted 
Election Cases in Massachusetts; Intro¬ 
duction to the study of Roman Civil Law; 
Elements of the Law and Practice of Leg¬ 
islative Assemblies in the United States; 
Lex Parliamentaria Americana; and Rules 
of Proceeding and Debates in the De¬ 
liberative Assemblies. He died June 22, 
1856, in Boston, Mass. 

CUSHING, RICHARDSON ERNEST, 
educator, librarian, was born Feb. 9, 1857. 
He graduated from Amherst college in 
1880; and subsequently from the Hart¬ 
ford Theological seminary. He is engaged 
in educational work, and fills a chair in 
the Hartford Theological seminary. He 
is also librarian of the Princeton univer¬ 
sity, New Jersey. 

CUSHING, THOMAS, patriot, was born 
March 24, 1725, in Boston, Mass. He was 
so prominent a member of the colonial 
congress that he was regarded in Great 
Britain as one of the leaders of sedition. 
He died Feb. 28, 1788, in Boston, Mass. 

CUSHING, THOMAS HUMPHREY, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1755. He served during 
the revolutionary war, beginning as a 
sergeant; was in Arnold’s naval battle on 
Lake Champlain, and for his bravery was 
successively advanced until in 1812 he had 
reached a brigadier-generalship. He died 
Oct. 19, 1822, in New London, Conn. 

CUSHING, THOMAS PARKMAN, mer¬ 
chant, was born in 1787, in Ashburnham, 
Mass. He was a successful merchant and 
philanthropist of Boston, Mass. He died 
Nov. 23, 1854, in Boston, Mass. 

CUSHING, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
was horn March 1. 1732, in Scituate, Mass. 
In 1772 he became judge of the superior 
court of Massachusetts; in 1777 was pro¬ 
moted to chief judge; and in 1789 was 
appointed, by President Washington, 
a justice of the supreme court of the 
United States, in which position he con¬ 
tinued until his death. He died Sept. 13, 
1810, in Scituate, Mass. 

CUSHING, WILLIAM, author, was born 
May 15, 1811, in Lunenburg, Mass. He 
went to Cambridge in 1868, became li¬ 
brary assistant in the Harvard library, 
and since 1878 was engaged in literary 
pursuits. His published books are Index 
to the North American Review; Index to 
the Christian Examiner; Initials and 
Pseudonyms; and Anonyms. He died in 
1895. 

CUSHMAN, CHARLOTTE SAUNDERS, 
actress, was born July 23, 1816, in Boston, 
Mass. She is generally admitted to be the 
greatest of American actresses and read¬ 
ers, and by her stainless life, worked for 
the elevation of the stage. Her farewell 
to the stage was a great ovation, and she 
received from the noble and venerable 
poet Bryant, a laurel crown. She died 
Feb. 18, 1876, in Boston, Mass. 

CUSHMAN, JOHN PAINE, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born in 1784, 
in Pomfret, Conn. He served in congress 
from New York from 1817 to 1819; and in 
1838 was appointed judge of the circuit 
court, having previously been recorder of 
the city of Troy, and one of the regents 
of the state university. He died Sept. 16, 
1848, in Troy, N. Y. 

CUSHMAN, JOSHUA, state senator, 
congressman, was born in Plymouth, 

18 


Mass. He was a state senator in 1809, 
1810, 1819 and 1820, and a member of the 
assembly in 1811 and 1834. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Massachu¬ 
setts from 1819 to 1821; and represented 
Maine in congress from 1821 to 1825, after 
its separation from Massachusetts. He 
died in 1834. 

CUSHMAN, PAULINE, actress, spy, 
was born June 10, 1833, in New Orleans, 
La. She was employed by the government 
as a detective to discover the southern 
sympathizers and spies in Louisville, and 
their methods of conveying information 
and medical supplies across the lines, and 
frequently also as a scout. 

CUSHMAN, SAMUEL, jurist, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1783. He was judge of 
the police court of Portsmouth, N. H.; 
held several offices of trust in the state, 
such as councilor from 1833 to 1835, coun¬ 
ty treasurer from 1823 to 1828, and navy 
agent at Portsmouth from 1845 to 1849. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1835 to 1839. He 
died May 20, 1851, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

CUSHMAN, SETH LEONARD, banker, 
was born Aug. 13, 1849, in Taunton, Mass. 
For many years he served as a book¬ 
keeper in a large mercantile house. He 
then entered the banking business, and 
since 1877 has been president of the Bris¬ 
tol county National bank of Taunton, 
Mass. 

CUSSONS. JOHN, explorer, journalist, 
author, was born April 6, 1837, in Horn- 
castle, England. He came to Virginia in 
April, 1861, as. lieu¬ 
tenant in the gov¬ 
ernor’s guard, fourth 
Alabama regiment. 
He scouted for Gen. 
Bernard until the 
death of that officer. 
He was then as¬ 
signed to scouting by 
Gen. Whiting until 
appointed on the 
staff of Gen. Law, at 
the battle of Seven 
Pines; and served 
with distinction throughout the war. He 
is an honored member of the Richmond 
Chamber of Commerce; member of the 
history committee; grand commander of 
the confederate veterans of Virginia; and 
founder of Glen Allen, near Richmond, 
Va., where he has a beautiful country 
seat called Forest Lodge. 

CUSTER, MRS. ELIZABETH, author, 
was born in Monroe, Mich., and was the 
wife of the late Gen. George A. Custer. 
She is the author of Boots and Saddles, 
or Life in Dakota with General Custer; 
Tenting on the Plains, or General Custer 
in Kansas and Texas; and Following the 
Guidon. 

CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG, gen¬ 
eral, author, was born Dec. 5, 1839, in 
New Rumley, Ohio. He was a famous 
general in the feder¬ 
al army during the 
civil war, who after¬ 
wards became noted 
in campaigns against 
the Indians, and was 
killed with his en¬ 
tire command in a 
battle with the Sioux 
in the Black Hills. 
My Life on the 
Plains was his only 
publication. He died 
June 25, 1876, i n 

Montana. Mrs. Elizabeth Custer, his wife, 
is a noted author. 




CUSTER, THOMAS WARD, soldier, 
was born March 15, 1845, in New Rumley, 
Ohio. He enlisted as a private in an Ohio 
regiment, and served in the west until he 
was made aide-de-camp on his brother’s 
staff, then with the army of the Potomac. 
He died June 25, 1876, in Montana. 

CUSTIS, GEORGE WASHINGTON 
PARKE, author, was born April 30, 1781. 
in Mount Airy, Md. He was an adopted 
son of General Washington; and the au¬ 
thor of Recollections of Washington. He 
died Oct. 10, 1857, in Arlington House, Va. 

CUSTIS, J. B. GREGG, homoeopathic 
physician, was born Sept. 20, 1855, in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. He spent his youth in New 
Jersey and there attended private schools. 
In 1875 he graduated from the Columbian 
university of Washington, D. C., with the 
degree of A. B.; and in 1878 from the 
Homceopathic Medical college and hospi¬ 
tal. He has been professor of obstetrics 
in the Southern Homoeopathic Medical 
college of Baltimore; president of the 
Alumni association of the New York 
Homceopathic Medical college and hospi¬ 
tal; president of the homoeopathic board 
of medical examiners of Washington, D. 
C., and is now president of the American 
Institute of Homoeopathy in that city. 

CUTBUSH, JAMES, chemist, educator, 
author, was born in Pennsylvania. He 
was professor of chemistry at West Point. 
He published the Useful' Cabinet, 1808; 
Philosophy of Experimental Chemistry; 
and Treatise on Pyrotechnics. He died 
Dec. 15, 1823, in West Point, N. Y. 

CUTCHEON, BYRON M., was born May 
11, 1836, in Pembroke, N. H. He served in 
the civil war; was assigned to the com¬ 
mand of the second brigade, first division, 
ninth army corps, army of the Potomac, 
in 1864; and was mustered out in 1865. He 
was a member of the board of control of 
railroads of Michigan in 1866-83; was 
presidential elector in 1868; was city at¬ 
torney in 1870-71; was county attorney 
in 1873-74; was regent of the Michigan 
university in 1875-83; was postmaster at 
Manistee City in 1877-83; and was elected 
to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, and 
fiftieth congresses, and was re-elected to 
the fifty-first congress as a republican. 
During 1895-96 he was an editorial writer 
on the Detroit Daily Tribune; and since 
1896 he has practiced law in Grand Rap¬ 
ids, Mich. 

CUTHBERT, ALFRED, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
about 1781, in Savannah, Ga. He was first 
elected to the state legislature, then a 
representative from Georgia in the thir¬ 
teenth and fourteenth congresses, serving 
till 1816, when he resigned. He was again 
elected to the seventeenth, eighteenth and 
nineteenth congresses, serving from 1821 
till 1827. He was elected United States 
senator from Georgia to fill a vacancy, 
and was re-elected for a full term, serving 
from 1835 till 1843. He died July 9. 1856, 
near Monticello, Ga. 

CL THBERT, JAMES HAZARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 13, 1823, in 
Beaufort, S. C. He is a baptist clergyman 
of Washington; and the author of Our 
Mission as Baptists; and Life of Richard 
Fuller. 

CLTHBERT, JOHN A., congressman, 
was born June 3, 1788, in Savannah. Ga. 
He was a representative in congress from 
his native state from 1818 to 1821; and 
was appointed in 1822 a commissioner to 
treat with the Creek and Cherokee In¬ 
dians. He died Sept. 22, 1881, in Mobile. 
Ala. 



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CUTLER, AUGUSTUS W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1829, in Morris¬ 
town, N. J. He was a prosecutor for 
Morris county; in 1871 was elected to the 
state senate; and in 1874 was elected a 
representative from New Jersey to the 
forty-fourth congress, and was re-elected 
to the forty-fifth congress. 

CUTLER, CARROLL, fourth president 
of Western Reserve and Adelbert college, 
was horn Jan. 31, 1829, in Windham, N. 
H. He was elected to the chair of phil¬ 
osophy and ethics in the Western Reserve 
college in 1860, and became president in 
1871. During his administration the col¬ 
lege was removed from Hudson to Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio, and its name changed to Adel¬ 
bert college. He served as its president 
until 1886. He is the author of The Be¬ 
ginning of Ethics, and other works. He 
died Jan. 25, 1894, in Talladega, Ala. 

CUTLER, ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON, 
educator, poet, was born Dec. 28, 1831, in 
Holliston, Mass. He was a professor of 
modern languages at Harvard university 
in 1865-1870; and the author of War 
Poems; and Stella. He died Dec. 27, 1887, 
in Cambridge, Mass. 

CUTLER, MRS. HANNAH MARIA, 
physician, author, was born Dec. 25, 1815, 
in Becket, Mass. She is a prominent 
woman suffragist who became a physi¬ 
cian in 1879, and practiced in Cobden, Ill. 
She is the author of Woman as She Was, 
Is, and Should Be; Phillipia, or A Wo¬ 
man’s Question; and The Fortunes of Mi¬ 
chael Doyle, or Home Rule for Ireland. 

CUTLER, HENRY STEPHEN, musi¬ 
cian, was born Oct. 7, 1824, in Boston, 
Mass. He was organist and choir-master 
in Trinity church, N. Y., from 1860 to 
1868. He compiled The Psalter, with 
Chants; Trinity Psalter; and Trinity An¬ 
thems. 

CUTLER, JERVIS, pioneer, author, was 
born Sept. 19, 1768, in Edgartown, Mass. 
He was a western pioneer who published 
Topographical Description of the Western 
Country. He died June 25, 1844, in Evans¬ 
ville, Ind. 

CUTLER, MRS. LIZZIE PETIT, author, 
was born in 1836, in Milton, Va. She is 
the author of Light and Darkness; House¬ 
hold Mysteries, a romance of Southern 
life; and The Stars of the Crowd, or Men 
and Women of the Day. 

CUTLER, LYSANDER, soldier, was 
born about 1806 in Maine. He offered his 
services to the government at the begin¬ 
ning of the civil war, and was given com¬ 
mand of the sixth Wisconsin regiment. 
Subsequently he was in command of the 
Iron Brigade of the army of the Poto¬ 
mac, to which his regiment was attached, 
and won the promotion of brigadier-gen¬ 
eral and afterward major-general. He died 
July 30, 1866, in Milwaukee, Wis. 

CUTLER, MANASSEH, clergyman, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 3, 1742, in Kill- 
ingly, Conn. He was one of the first scien¬ 
tific explorers of the White mountains; 
and in 1787 he organized an expedition to 
the northwest territory. He served a 
number of years in the legislature; was 
pastor of the church at Hamilton, Mass., 
until his death; and in 1800 he was elect¬ 
ed to a seat in congress, and retained it 
until 1804. He died July 28, 1823, in Ham¬ 
ilton, Mass. 

CUTLER, NATHAN, governor, was 
• born May 29, 1775, in Lexington, Mass. In 

1828 and 1829 he Was a member of the 
Maine senate from Kennebec county. In 

1829 he was president of that body, by vir¬ 
tue of which office he became governor for 
the unexpired term of Gov. Lincoln. He 
died June 8, 1861, in Farmington, Maine. 


CUTLER, TIMOTHY, clergyman, was 
born in 1683 in Charlestown, Mass. From 
1719-22 he was rector of Yale college. He 
died Aug. 17, 1765, in Boston, Mass. 

CUTLER, WILLIAM P., railroad presi¬ 
dent, congressman, was born July 12, 1813, 
near Marietta, Ohio. He was elected to 
the Ohio legislature in 1844, 1845 and 
1846, officiating as speaker of the house 
during the last term. He was a member 
of the constitutional convention of 1850; 
and from that period until elected to con¬ 
gress was president of the Marietta and 
Cincinnati Railroad company. He was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
thirty-seventh congress. 

CUTT, CHARLES, lawyer, United 
States senator, was born Jan. 31, 1769, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. In 1804 he was elected 
to the New Hampshire legislature, becom¬ 
ing speaker of that body during the same 
year. He was elected a senator from New 
Hampshire. He died Jan. 25, 1846, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. 

CUTTS, RICHARD, state legislator, 
congressman, was born June 22, 1771, on 
Cutts Island, near Saco, Maine. After 
serving two terms as a member of the 
general court of Massachusetts, he was 
elected in 1800 a member of the house of 
representatives of the United States, and 
served through six successive congresses 
as a democrat. In 1813 he was appointed 
superintendent of military supplies, and 
during 1817-29 was second comptroller of 
the treasury. He died April 7, 1845, in 
Washington, D. C. 

CUTT, RICHARD DOMINICUS, soldier, 
surveyor, was born Sept. 21, 1817, in 
Washington, D. C. In 1855 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States surveyor upon the 
international fisheries commission for the 
settlement of the limits of the fishing 
grounds between the United States and 
the British dominions in North America. 
In the civil war he was on the staff of 
Gen. Henry W. Halleck, and received the 
brevet rank of brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers in March, 1865. He died Dec. 13, 
1883, in Washington, D. C. 

CUTTER, CALVIN, physician, surgeon, 
author, was born May 1, 1807, in Jaffrey, 
N. H. He commanded forces in Kansas 
in 1856; and was president of the military 
council of that state. During 1861-64 he 
was surgeon of the twenty-first regiment 
Massachusetts volunteer infantry. He was 
the author of Cutter’s Physiology. He. 
died March 25, 1880, in Greene, Maine. 

CUTTER, CHARLES AMMI, librarian, 
author, was born March 14, 1837, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. In 1855 he graduated from 
Harvard; and since 
1869 has been librar¬ 
ian of the Boston 
Athenaeum. He has 
prepared a new clas¬ 
sification for librar¬ 
ies; and written 
Rules for a Printed 
Dictionary Cata¬ 
logue. He is also the 
author of Boston 
Athenaeum: How to 
Get Books, with an 
explanation of the 
new way of marking books; and has edit¬ 
ed Catalogue of the Library of the Boston 
Athenaeum, in five volumes. Since 1881 he 
has edited the Library Journal of New 
York city. 

CUTTER, EPHRAIM, physician, inven¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 1, 1832, in Woburn, 
Mass. He practiced his profession in New 
York; and in 1887 the degree of LL. D. 


was conferred upon him by the faculty 
of Iowa college for his inventions, im¬ 
provements and contributions to medical 
science. 

CUTTER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
poet, was born in 1801 in Massachusetts. 
He was the author of Buena Vista, and 
Other Poems; Song of Steam; and Poems 
National and Patriotic. He died Dec. 24, 
1865, in Washington, D. C. 

CUTTING, FRANCIS BROCKHOLST. 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 
1805 in New York city. In 1836 and 1837 
he was a member of the New York legis¬ 
lature; from 1853 to 1855 was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from his native state; 
and was leading counsel in almost all im¬ 
portant commercial questions in New 
York from 1840 to 1855. He died June 26, 
1870, in New York city. 

CUTTING, HIRAM ADOLPHUS, geolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Dec. 23, 1832, in 
Concord, Vt. He is state geologist of Ver¬ 
mont; and the author of Mining in Ver¬ 
mont; Climatology of Vermont; Micro¬ 
scopic Revelations; Farm Pests; Notes on 
Building Stones; Lectures on Plants, Fer¬ 
tilization, etc.; Lectures on Milk, etc.; 
Farm Lectures; and Vermont Agricultur¬ 
al Reports. 

CUTTING, JAMES AMBROSE, inven¬ 
tor, was born in 1814 in Massachusetts. 
Turning his attention to the new art of 
making daguerreotypes, he discovered the 
process of making pictures on glass, 
which after his own name he called am- 
brotypes. He died July 31, 1867, in Wor¬ 
cester, Mass. 

CUTTING, JOHN TYLER, soldier, 
business man, congressman, was born 
Sept. 7, 1844, in Westport, N. Y. He en¬ 
listed in Taylor’s Chicago battery at the 
breaking out of the civil war and served 
until 1862; re-enlisted in 1864 in the Chi¬ 
cago Mercantile battery, in which he 
served until the expiration of the war. 
He removed to California in 1877 and es¬ 
tablished a wholesale fruit and commis¬ 
sion business under the title of The John 
T. Cutting and company. He was elected 
to the fifty-second congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

CUTTING, SEWALL SYLVESTER, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 
19, 1813, in Windsor, Vt. He was a bap¬ 
tist clergyman and religious journalist; 
and the author of Historical Vindications; 
Struggles and Triumphs of Religious Lib¬ 
erty; and Ancient Baptistries. He died 
Feb. 7, 1882, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

CUTTS, CHARLES, lawyer, United 
States senator, was born in 1769 in Mass¬ 
achusetts. He was elected a member of 
the legislature in 1804, and then speaker 
of the house. He was sent to the United 
States senate in 1810 from New Hamp¬ 
shire, and served until 1813. He was sec¬ 
retary of the senate from 1814 to 1825. 
He died in 1846 in Virginia. 

CUTTS, MARSENA E., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 22, 1833, in Or¬ 
well, Vt. He was prosecuting attorney 
of Poweshiek county, Iowa, in 1859; was 
a member of the state house of represen¬ 
tatives in 1861; was a state senator from 
1864 to 1866; and was again in the state 
house of representatives from 1870 to 1872. 
He was attorney-general of the state from 
1872 to 1877, and was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Iowa to the forty-seventh and 
forty-eighth congresses. 

CUYLER, JEREMIAH, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Georgia. In 1821 he was ap¬ 
pointed district judge of the United States 
court for the district of Georgia. He died 
May 7, 1839, in Savannah, Ga. 



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CUYLER, THEODORE LEDYARD, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 10, 1822, 
in Aurora, N. Y. He is one of the lead¬ 
ing divines of Amer¬ 
ica, and for nearly 
forty years has been 
pastor of the Lafay¬ 
ette Avenue Presby¬ 
terian church of 
Brooklyn, N. Y. In 
1846 he graduated 
from the Princeton 
Theological semi¬ 
nary, and has filled 
pastorates in Bur¬ 
lington and Trenton, 
N. J.; New York city; 
and in Brooklyn since 1860. He is author 
of a dozen books on religious sub¬ 
jects; and one of his temperance 
tracts, entitled Somebody’s Son, has had 
a circulation of nearly a million copies. 
His force in preaching lies in picturesque 
description and the weaving in of scenes 
and illustrations from scripture and from 
daily life. His principal works are: Stray 
Arrows; Cedar Christian; The Empty 
Crib; Wayside Springs; Right to the 
Point; Thought Hives; God’s Light on 
Dark Clouds; Pointed Papers; Heart Life; 
From the Nile to Norway; Newly Enlist¬ 
ed, or Talks to Young Converts; The 
Young Preacher; Stirring the Eagle’s 
Nest; How to Be a Pastor; and Christian¬ 
ity in the Home. 

DABNEY, CHARLES WILLIAM, diplo¬ 
mat, was born March 19, 1794, in Alexan¬ 
dria, Va. In 1826 he became United States 
consul to Fayal. In the famines that vis¬ 
ited the island from time to time during 
his residence, some of which were very 
severe, he furnished the inhabitants with 
food, assisted them to replant their fields, 
advised and suggested the culture of new 
and more varied crops. He died March 12, 
1871, in the Azores. 

DABNEY, CHARLES WILLIAM, edu¬ 
cator, chemist, author, was born June 19, 
1855, in Hampden Sidney College, Va. He 
received his education at the Hampden 
Sidney college, university of Virginia and 
the universities of Germany. He has been 
state chemist and director of the North 
Carolina agricultural experiment station; 
and director of the Tennessee agricul¬ 
tural experiment station. He has been 
president of the university of Tennessee, 
and is the author of a number of scien¬ 
tific works. 

DABNEY, RICHARD, educator, poet, 
was born in 1787 in Louisa county, Va. 
He was a noted instructor in Richmond, 
Va., whose Poems, Original and Trans¬ 
lated, contain scholarly translations from 
Euripides, Alcaeus, and other classic po¬ 
ets. He died in November, 1825, in Lou¬ 
isa county, Va. 

DABNEY, RICHARD HEATH, author, 
was born in 1859 in Virginia. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Causes of the French Revolu¬ 
tion. 

DABNEY, ROBERT LEWIS, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born March 5, 
1820, in Louisa county, Va. He is a pres- 
byterian clergyman; and since 1882 pro¬ 
fessor of moral philosophy in the univer¬ 
sity of Texas. He is the author of Life of 
T. S. Sampson; Life and Campaigns of 
Gen. Stonewall Jackson; Sacred Rhet¬ 
oric, or Lectures on Preaching; Defense 
of Virginia and the South; The Sensual- 
istic Philosophy of the Nineteenth Cen¬ 
tury; A Course of Systematic and Pole¬ 
mic Theology; The Christian Sabbath; 
and Collected Discussions. 


DABNEY, VIRGINIUS, soldier, author, 
was born Feb. 15, 1835, in Gloucester 
county, Va. He was a staff officer in the 
confederate service during the civil war, 
who published Don Miff, a Symphony of 
Life; and Gold That Did Not Glitter. 

DABOLL, CELADON LEEDS, mer¬ 
chant, inventor, was born July 18, 1818, 
in Centre Groton, Conn. He conceived 
the idea of applying the principle of the 
clarionet to a large trumpet, to serve as 
a fog signal for mariners. He died Oct. 
13, 1866, in Groton, Conn. 

DABOLL, DAVID AUSTIN, journalist, 
state legislator, state senator, was born 
in 1813 in Groton, Conn. He sat contin¬ 
uously in the state house of representa¬ 
tives from 1846 till 1871, and then served 
a term in the senate. He assisted his 
father in the preparation of the New 
Arithmetic, and since his father’s death 
has continued the publication of the New 
England Almanac. 

DABOLL, NATHAN, educator, author, 
was born about 1750. He published a 
treatise on arithmetic, entitled the School¬ 
master’s Assistant; and also the Practical 
Navigator. In 1773 he began the annual 
publication of the Connecticut Almanac. 
He died March 9, 1818, in Groton, Conn. 

DABOLL, NATHAN, jurist, state legis¬ 
lator, author, was born in 1782 in Gro¬ 
ton, Conn. He was a member of the Con¬ 
necticut house of representatives in 1832- 
33, of the senate in 1835-36, and judge of 
probate in 1843-45. He was joint author 
of Daboll’s New Arithmetic, and compiled 
the New England Almanac from his fath¬ 
er’s death in 1818 until his own death. He 
died in 1863 in Groton, Conn. 

DABOLL, SHERMAN, soldier, lecturer, 
jurist, was born May 18, 1844, in Rensse¬ 
laer county, N. Y. He served in the civil 
war in the one hundred and seventeenth 
New York volunteers. In 1887 he was 
appointed quartermaster-general of Mich¬ 
igan, receiving the reappointment two 
years later; and in 1889 he was elected as 
judge of the twenty-ninth judicial cir¬ 
cuit of Michigan. 

DA COSTA, JACOB MANDES, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Feb. 7, 1833, in 
the West Indies. He is a Philadelphia 
physician connected with Jefferson Med¬ 
ical college since 1864, and a specialist in 
diseases of the throat and lungs. He is 
the author of Epithelial Tumors and 
Cancers of the Skin; The Pathological 
Anatomy of Acute Pneumonia; The Phy¬ 
sicians of the Last Century; Serous Apo¬ 
plexy; Medical Diagnosis; Inhalation in 
Treatment of Diseases of the Respiratory 
Passages; Strain and Over-Action of the 
Heart; and Harvey and his Discovery. 

DADD, GEORGE H., surgeon, author, 
was born in 1813 in England. He is a vet¬ 
erinary surgeon who has published The 
Modern Horse Doctor; Manual of Veterin¬ 
ary Science; Anatomy and Physiology of 
the Horse; and The American Cattle Doc¬ 
tor. 

DADE, FRANCIS LANGHORN, soldier, 
was born in Virginia. He was appointed 
third lieutenant in the twelfth infantry 
in 1813; became first lieutenant in 1816, 
captain in 1818, and brevet major in 1828. 
He was killed by the Indians Dec. 28, 
1835, near Fort King, Fla. 

DAGG, JOHN LEADLEY, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born Feb. 
13, 1794, in Middleburg, Va. He was a 
baptist clergyman who retired from the 
ministry in 1833, and was president of 
Mercer university, Ga., in 1844-56. He was 
the author of Manual of Theology; Ele¬ 
ments of Moral Science; Evidences of 
Christianity; and English Grammar. He 
died June 11, 1884, in Haynesville, Ala. 


DAGGETT, AARON S., soldier, was born 
June 14, 1839, in Greene Corner, Maine. 
He served through the civil war, and re¬ 
ceived the rank of major and lieutenant- 
colonel. 

DAGGETT, DAVID, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, was born 
Dec. 31, 1764, in Attleborough, Mass. He 
was state’s attorney and mayor of New 
Haven, and frequently a member of the 
legislature and member of the council. He 
served as a presidential elector on sev¬ 
eral occasions; and from 1813 to 1819 was 
a senator in congress from Connecticut. 
From 1826 to 1832 he was a judge of the 
supreme court of the state; and was chief 
judge from 1832 to 1834. He died April 

12, 1851, in New Haven, Conn. 

DAGGETT, NAPHTALI, clergyman, 

author, was born Sept. 8, 1727, in Attle¬ 
borough, Mass. In 1756 he became pro¬ 
fessor of divinity at Yale, which post he 
retained until his death. He published 
several sermons and an account of the 
famous dark day in New England. He died 
Nov. 25, 1780, in New Haven, Conn. 

DAGGETT, OLIVER ELLSWORTH, 
educator, clergyman, author, poet, was 
born Jan. 14, 1810, in New Haven, Conn. 
He assisted in compiling a book of 
psalms and hymns, and left a small vol¬ 
ume of poems, printed posthumously. He 
died Sept. 1, 1880, in Hartford, Conn. 

DAGGETT, ROLLIN M., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1831, in Richville, 
N. Y. In 1862 he removed to Virginia 
City, Nev.; was elected to the territorial 
council in 1863; was a presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1876; and was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Nevada to the forty-sixth con¬ 
gress. In 1882 he was appointed United 
States minister to the Hawaiian Islands. 

DAHLGREN, CHARLES B„ engineer, 
was born Oct. 16, 1839, in Philadelphia. 
After the civil war he was engaged in en¬ 
gineering; wrote several papers, and a 
standard technical works on the Historic 
Mines of Mexico. He was also a captain 
of the United States navy. 

DAHLGREN, JOHN ADOLPH, naval 
officer, inventor, author, was born Nov. 

13, 1809, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
a famous United States naval officer, 
made admiral in 1863, who invented the 
cannon bearing his name, and conducted 
the siege of Charleston during the civil 
war. He was the author of Thirty-Two 
Pounder Practice for Rangers; System of 
Boat Armament in the United States 
Navy; Naval Percussion Locks and Prim¬ 
ers; Ordnance Memoranda; Shells and 
Shell Guns; Memoir of Ulric Dahlgren; 
and Notes on Maritime International Law. 
He died in 1870. 

DAHLGREN, MADELINE VINTON, 
author, poet, was born in Gallipolis, 
Ohio. She is the widow of Admiral John 
A. Dahlgren, of the 
United States navy, 
who died in 1870. She 
accompanied her 
husband on his 
cruise in the South 
Pacific ocean, where 
he was stationed 
during the war be¬ 
tween Chili and Pe¬ 
ru, as commander of 
the United States 
squadron in those 
waters. She is the 
author of Idealities; Thoughts on Female 
Suffrage; South Sea Sketches; Etiquette of 
Social Life in Washington; Memoir of Ad¬ 
miral Dahlgren; South Mountain Magic, 
a Narrative; A Washington Winter, a So¬ 
ciety Novel; The Lost Name; Divorced; 
and Lights and Shadows of a Life. 







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DAHLGREN, ULRIC, soldier, was born 
in 1842, near Philadelphia. He served in 
the civil war and attained the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel. He died March 4, 

1864. 

DAIL, CHARLES C., lawyer, author, po¬ 
et. was born Jan. 5, 1851, in Kentucky. He 
was left an orphan when an infant, and 
at seven years of age became a newsboy 
and bootblack in the streets of Cincinnati. 
He became a citizen of Kansas at matur¬ 
ity, and has ever since made that state 
his home, and he has attained success as 
an able lawyer of Kansas City. He is the 
author of a volume entitled A Hundred 
Poems; and Willmoth the Wanderer, a 
work of fiction, which have gained for 
him a good reputation as a poet and nov¬ 
elist. 

DAILY, SAMUEL G., congressman, was 
born in 1819 in Indiana. He was elected 
a delegate from the territory of Nebraska 
to the thirty-seventh congress, and re¬ 
elected to the thirty-eighth congress; and 
was subsequently appointed a deputy-col¬ 
lector in New Orleans. He died Sept. 14, 

1865, in New Orleans, La. 

DAKE, ALVIN CHAMBERLIN, capital¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 1, 1849, in Allenburg, 
N. Y. In 1878 he commenced the man¬ 
ufacture of charcoal at Leadville; and in 
1883 moved to Dalte, Colo., where he con¬ 
tinued the business, and was one of the 
largest charcoal dealers in the state. The 
town of Dake was named after him. 

DAKE, DUMONT CHARLES, physi¬ 
cian, was born June 11, 1838, in Nunda, 
N. Y. He has attained success as a prom¬ 
inent physician of New York city. 

DAKIN, GEORGE M„ was born May 13, 
1827, in Oakland, Ohio. He devoted both 
time and means to the establishment and 
successful continuance of the Laporte Li¬ 
brary and Natural History association, 
over which he presided for twelve years. 

DAKIN, THOMAS SPENCER, soldier, 
merchant, was born in 1831 in Orange 
county, N. Y. He was elected captain 
in the thirteenth regiment, Brooklyn, in 
1862, and served in the Virginia cam¬ 
paign as a member of the staff of Gen. 
Crook, who then commanded the fifth 
brigade. After the war he became major- 
general of militia, and was widely known 
as a member of the American rifle team. 
He died May 13, 1878, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

DALCHO, FREDERICK, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1770 in London, Eng¬ 
land. He was an episcopal clergyman of 
•Charleston, rector of St. Michael’s church 
there in 1819-36, but in earlier life suc¬ 
cessively a physician and journalist. He 
was the author of The Evidence of the 
Divinity of Our Savior; Historic Account 
■of the Episcopal Church in South Caro¬ 
lina; and Ahiman Rezon, a work for free¬ 
masons. He died in 1836. 

DALE, ALPHEUS, contractor, state leg¬ 
islator, was born Jan. 7, 1844, in Union 
county, Pa. In 1853 he moved to Illinois; 

and in 1865 settled in 
Minnesota at North 
Minneapolis as a car¬ 
penter and contrac¬ 
tor. He has served 
as a member of the 
Minnesota house of 
representatives for 
two terms, in 1895 
and in 1897. He has 
taken an active part 
in debates in the 
state legislature and 
done much toward 
the carrying out of all progressive meas¬ 
ures. 


DALE, JAMES WILKINSON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 16, 1812, in 
Odessa, Del. He was a clergyman of 
eastern Pennsylvania; and the author of 
The Cup and the Cross, or the Baptism 
of Calvary; Classic Baptism; Judaic Bap¬ 
tism; Johannic Baptism; and Christie and 
Patristic Baptism. 

DALE. RICHARD, naval officer, was 
born Nov. 6, 1756, near Norfolk, Va. In 
1775 he rose to the command of a vessel. 

He was promoted to 
a captaincy in 1794; 
and in 1801 was sent 
to the coast of Trip¬ 
oli with a squadron 
as commodore. Lord 
Nelson observed 
Dale’s handling of 
American vessels, 
and said that the 
Americans, with 
such men might 
make trouble for 
England. He died 
Feb. 24, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa., in 
which city he was one of the foremost 
citizens. 

DALE, SAMUEL, pioneer, was born in 
1772 in Rockbridge county, Va. In 1816 
he was a member of the convention to di¬ 
vide the Mississippi territory, and served 
several terms in the Alabama legislature. 
He died May 23, 1841, in Lauderdale coun¬ 
ty, Miss. 

DALE, WILLIAM JOHNSON, soldier, 
physician, surgeon, was born Sept. 5, 1815, 
in Gloucester, Mass. In 1863 he was raised 
to the rank of brigadier-general, in con¬ 
nection with his appointment as surgeon- 
general of Massachusetts. 

DALES, JOHN BLAKELY, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1815 in New York. He 
is a united presbyterian clergyman of 
Philadelphia, whose principal writings in¬ 
clude Roman Catholicism; Dangers and 
Duties of Young Men; and The Gospel 
Minister. 

DALEY, ANDREW J., lawyer, was born 
May 25, 1857, in Iowa county, Wis. He 
attended the Monona academy and Theo¬ 
logical seminary of Madison, Wis.; and 
has attained prominence as an able law¬ 
yer of Luverne, Minn. 

DALEY, GEORGE HENRY, was born 
Nov. 1, 1844, in Albany, N. Y. He en¬ 
tered as clerk in the office of Devlin and 
Company, one of the leading clothing 
houses in New York, rising to a partner¬ 
ship in the firm, and was president of the 
corporation issuing the Gazette and Senti¬ 
nel for several years. He is a director in 
the Staten Island Savings bank. 

DALL, MRS. CAROLINE WELLS 
[HEALEY], author, was born June 22, 
1822, in Boston, Mass. She is a Wash¬ 
ington writer whose early efforts were 
mainly in the line of social reforms, 
while her later works were concerned 
with general literature. She is the au¬ 
thor of Essays and Sketches; Historical 
Pictures Retouched; Life of Dr. Marie 
Zakrzewski; Woman’s Rights under the 
Law; The Romance of the Association, or 
One Last Glimpse of Charlotte Temple 
and Eliza Wharton; What We Really 
Know About Shakespeare; Woman’s Place 
in History; Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee; 
College, Market and Court; Woman’s 
Right to Labor; Essays on Confucius; 
Patty Gray’s Journey to the Cotton Is¬ 
lands; My First Holiday, or Letters from 
Colorado; and Egypt’s Place in History, 
which include her principal works. 

DALL, CHARLES HENRY APPLE- 
TON, missionary, author, was born Feb. 
12, 1816, in Baltimore, Md. He was a Uni¬ 


tarian missionary to Calcutta; and the 
author of The Temperance Movement in 
Modern Times; and Theism in Questions 
and Answers. He died July 18, 1886. 

DALL, WILLIAM HEALEY, naturalist, 
author, was born Aug. 21, 1845, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He is a naturalist of distinc¬ 
tion who has been connected with the 
United States coast survey and the geo¬ 
logical survey. He is the author of Alas¬ 
ka and its Resources; Tribes of the Ex¬ 
treme Northwest; Scientific Results of the 
Exploration of Alaska; Coast Pilot of 
Alaska; Pacific Coast Pilot; and Re¬ 
ports on the Mollusca of the Blake Ex¬ 
pedition. 

DALLAS, ALEXANDER JAMES, 
statesman, author, was born June 21, 1759, 
on the Island of Jamaica. He was a noted 
statesman who was secretary of state in 
1796-1801, and secretary of the treasury 
under Madison. He was the author of 
Features of Jay’s Treaty; Speeches on 
the Trial of Blount; Address to Consti¬ 
tutional Republicans; and Causes and 
Character of the Late War. He died Jan. 
14, 1817, in Trenton, N. J. 

DALLAS, GEORGE MIFFLIN, vice- 
president of the United States, was born 
July 10, 1792, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was an eminent law¬ 
yer, and assisted his 
father in his duties 
as secretary of the 
treasury. In 1825 he 
was elected mayor of 
Philadelphia; and in 
1829-31 was district 
attorney. In 1831 he 
was chosen to fill a 
vacancy in the 
United States sen¬ 
ate, and took part in 
the debates of the 
stormy session of 1832-33. He declined a 
re-election; and in 1837-39 was ambassa¬ 
dor to Russia. In 1844 he was elected 
vice-president of the United States. Dur¬ 
ing 1856-61 he was United States minister 
to England. He was the author of a Series 
of Letters from London; Eulogy on An¬ 
drew Jackson; and numerous speeches 
and addresses. He died Dec. 31, 1864, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

DALLAS, ROBERT FRANK, artist, was 
born June 6, 1855, in Camillus, N. Y. In 
1886 he was made instructor in oil paint¬ 
ing and modeling in the College of Fine 
Arts, and was in 1893 elected professor of 
these classes. 

DALLINGER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
politician, author, was born in 1871 in 
Massachusetts. He is a politician of Cam¬ 
bridge; and the author of Nominations 
for Elective Office in the United States. 

DALSHEIMER, ALICE, educator, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Dec. 1, 1845, in New 
Orleans, La. Her writings consist of 
numerous sketches, short stories and po¬ 
ems, principally the latter, all of which 
appeared in the daily papers of New Or¬ 
leans under the pseudonym of Salvia 
Dale. She died Jan. 15, 1880, in New Or¬ 
leans, La. 

DALTON, EDWARD BARRY, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Sept. 21, 1834, in 
Lowell, Mass. In 1869 he originated the 
present city ambulance system for the 
transportation of the sick and injured. 
He published papers on The Disorder 
known as Bronzed Skin, or Disease of the 
Supra-renal Capsules; The Metropolitan 
Board of Health (1868); and Reports of 
the Sanitary Superintendent of the Metro 
politan Board of Health from 1866 to 
1869. He died May 13, 1872, in Santa Bar¬ 
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DALTON, JOHN CALL, educator, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Feb. 2, 1825, in 
Chelmsford, Mass. He was a physician 
of note who was a professor in various 
medical colleges. He was the author of 
Observations on Trichina Spiralis; The 
Experimental Method in Medical Science; 
Doctrines of the Circulation; Topograph¬ 
ical Anatomy of the Brain; History of the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
New York city; Treatise on ^jluman 
Physiology; and Treatise on Physiology 
and Hygiene. He died in 1889. 

DALTON, TRISTAM, state legislator, 
United States senator, was born in May, 
1743, in Newbury, Mass. He was a rep¬ 
resentative, speaker of the house of rep¬ 
resentatives, and a senator in the legis¬ 
lature of Massachusetts; and became a 
senator of the United States in the first 
congress after the adoption of the fed¬ 
eral constitution. He died May 30, 1817, 
in Boston, Mass. 

DALY, AUGUSTIN, dramatist, theat¬ 
rical manager, was born July 20, 1838, in 
Plymouth, N. C. He has opened to the 
American stage the rich field of German 
farcical comedy. His productions of Tam¬ 
ing the Shrew and As You Like It have 
been accepted in England as the finest of 
this generation. 

DALY, CHARLES PATRICK, jurist, 
author, was born Oct. 31, 1816, in New 
York city. He is a prominent jurist of 
New York city, and the author of His¬ 
torical Sketch of the Judicial Tribunals of 
New York, 1823-46; Reports of Cases in 
Court of Common Pleas, City and County 
of New York; First Settlement of Jews 
in North America; and What we Knew 
of Maps and Map Drawing before Mer¬ 
cator. 



DALY, ISAAC SHAW, lawyer, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Feb. 6, 1848, in 
Livermore, Maine. He attended the pub¬ 
lic schools of Maine, 
and was admitted to 
the bar in 1878 at 
Cambridge, Mass. He 
is the author of an 
ode entitled All Hail 
Our Home, America; 
and several songs 
and military music 
that is largely played 
by the United States 
army bands. In 1895 
he was awarded a 
diploma by the Ca¬ 
nadian northwest territorial exhibition 
for music to the song, When You Come 
Back Again. He is a successful lawyer 
of Idaho. 


DALY, JOHN AUGUSTIN, dramatist, 
author, was born in 1838 in North Caro¬ 
lina. He is a dramatist and theatrical 
manager of New York city who, besides 
adapting many plays from the German 
and French, has written Divorce; Pique; 
Horizon; Under the Gaslight, and other 
plays, as well as Peg Woffiington, a 
Tribute to the Actress and the Woman. 

DALY, JOHN J„ mine owner, was born 
Oct. 18, 1853, in Morris, Ill. He is pres¬ 
ident and principal owner of the Daly 
West Mining company, which operates 
one of the greatest mines of the state. 
He is also president of the First National 
bank of Park City, Utah. 

DALY, JOSEPH F., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Dec. 3, 1840, in Plymouth. In 1870 
he was elected judge of the court of com¬ 
mon pleas of New York city, and was re¬ 
elected again in 1884. He was chosen by 
his associates chief judge of the court in 
1890. to serve until 1899. 


DALY, WTLLIAM H., journalist, was 
born June 28, 1870, in Tonawanda, N. Y. 
He graduated from the Wesleyan univer¬ 
sity of Lincoln, Neb.; and is now the ed¬ 
itor and owner of The Graphic of Lem- 
ley, Neb. 

DALZELL, JAMES, soldier. He was a 
companion of Israel Putnam in some of 
the most adventurous passages of that 
rough veteran’s life, and afterward an 
aide-de-camp to Gen. Jeffrey Amherst. He 
died July 30, 1763, near Detroit, Mich. 

DALZELL, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born April 19, 1845, in New York city. 
For years he was one of the attorneys for 
the Pennsylvania Railroad company and 
for all its western lines; and was also at¬ 
torney for many corporations in Alle¬ 
gheny county. He never held any office 
until he was elected to the fiftieth con¬ 
gress; and was elected to the fifty-first, 
fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth 
congresses and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 

DALZELL. ROBERT M., inventor, was 
born in 1793, near Belfast, Ireland. He 
was a millwright, unusually skilful and 
ingenious, and many of the flour mills 
in the city of Rochester were built under 
his supervision. He invented and intro¬ 
duced the elevator system in handling and 
stowing grain, which is now in general 
use. He died Jan. 22, 1873, in Rochester, 
N. Y. 

DAME, MRS. ABBIE H., poet, was born 
July 10, 1847, in Lowell, Mass. She is the 
author of many poems, one of the pub¬ 
lic exercises of New Hampshire day at the 
New Orleans exposition, and many others 
for reunions. 

DAME, HARRIET PATIENCE, nurse, 
was born Jan. 5, 1815, in Barnstead, N. H. 
She joined the second New Hampshire 
regiment as hospital matron in June, 1861, 
and remained with it until it was mus¬ 
tered out in December, 1865. In August, 
1867, she was appointed to a clerkship in 
the treasury department, where she still 
remains. 

DAMEN, ARNOLD, clergyman, was born 
about 1800 in Holland. In 1857 he erect¬ 
ed a Jesuit establishment in Chicago; he 
also built the great church of the Holy 
Trinity, and founded the college of St. 
Ignatius in the same city. 

DAMON, HOWARD FRANKLIN, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born in 1833 in Scit- 
uate. Mass. He was a hospital physician 
of Boston; and the author of Leucocy- 
thaemia; Neurosis of the Skin; and Gen¬ 
eral Remarks on the Frequency of Skin 
Diseases. He died Sept. 17, 1884, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

DAMON, JOHN ADAMS, merchant, 
state legislator, was born June 4, 1850, 
in Madison, Ohio. He is a successful 
merchant of Weidman, Mich.; and during 
1887-89 served with distinction as a mem¬ 
ber of the Michigan state legislature. 

DAMRELL, WILLIAM S„ congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 20, 1809, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Massachusetts to the 
thirty-fourth and to the thirty-fifth con¬ 
gresses. He died May 17, 1860, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

DAMROSCH, LEOPOLD, musician, was 
born Oct. 22, 1832, in Prussia. In 1871 
he came to New York city, where he was 
director of a successful orchestra. He 
was prominent in the musical affairs of 
America. He died Feb. 15, 1885, in New 
York city. 

DAMROSCH, WALTER J., musician, 
was born Jan. 30, 1862, in Prussia. He 
has attained a national reputation as a 
musician; has devoted himself success¬ 


fully to the production of the works of 
Wagner; and is in much demand as a 
lecturer on musical themes. 

DANA, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1807 in Eng¬ 
land. He was a lawyer of New York 
state; and the author of Ethical and Phy¬ 
siological Inquiries; Inductive Inquiries in 
Physiology; Ethics and Ethnology; and 
Enigmas of Life, Death and the Future 
State. He died in 1887. 

DANA, AMASA, congressman. He 
was a member of the New York assem¬ 
bly in 1828 and 1829; and a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 
1839 to 1841, and again from 1843 to 1845. 

DANA, CHARLES ANDERSON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Aug. 8, 1819, in 
Hinsdale, N. H. He was a distinguished 
journalist of New York city. He was as¬ 
sistant secretary of war in 1863-65, and 
from 1868 until his death was editor of the 
New York Sun. With J. G. Wilson he pre¬ 
pared a Life of Gen. Grant, and was co¬ 
editor with George Ripley of the Ameri¬ 
can Cyclopaedia. The Household Book of 
Poetry was edited by him. He died in 
1897. 

DANA, CHARLES LOUIS, neurologist, 
author, was born in 1852 in Vermont. He 
is a physician of note as a neurologist, 
who has published a Text-Book on Ner¬ 
vous Diseases. 

DANA, DANIEL, fourth president of 
Dartmouth college. He was inaugurated 
president in 1820, and died Aug. 26, 1859. 
He was an eminent clergyman, and an ex¬ 
cellent theologian and scholar. 

DANA, EDMUND TROWBRIDGE, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Aug. 29, 1818, in 
Cambridge, Mass. He devoted special at¬ 
tention to Roman civil law, and to history 
and philosophy in their bearings upon 
law. He died May 18, 1869, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

DANA, EDWARD SALISBURY, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, author, was born Nov. 
16, 1849, in New Haven, Conn. He has 
been assistant professor of natural phi¬ 
losophy at Yale university since 1879, and 
curator of the mineral cabinet in the 
Peabody museum there. Since 1875 he has 
been one of the editors of Silliman’s 
Journal. He is the author of Text-Book 
of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Elementary 
Mechanics; and Appendix II. and Appen¬ 
dix III. of Dana’s System of Mineralogy. 

DANA, FRANCIS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 13, 1743, in 
Charlestown, Mass. He was a delegate 
from Massachusetts to the continental 
congress from 1776 to 1779 and in 1784; 
signed the articles of confederation; was 
secretary of legation at Paris under John 
Adams; and was appointed minister to 
Russia, but not officially received. He 
was chief justice of the state from 1792 to 
1806, when he resigned. In 1797 he was 
appointed minister to France. His father 
was Richard A. Dana, the poet. He died 
April 25, 1811, in Cambridge, Mass. 

DANA, ISRAEL THORNDIKE, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born June 6, 1827, in 
Marblehead, Mass. He was one of the 
founders of the Portland School of Medi¬ 
cal Instruction. He became one of the 
foremost physicians of New England; and 
was the author of a number of medical 
works. 

DANA, JAMES, clergyman, author, was 
born May 11, 1735, in Cambridge, Mass. 
He was a famous congregational clergy¬ 
man of New Haven; who wrote An Ex¬ 
amination of Edwards on the Will. He 
died Aug. 18, 1812, in New Haven, Conn. 


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DANA, JAMES DWIGHT, mineralogist, 
author, was born Feb. 12, 1813, in Utica, 
celebrated geologist, 
and professor at 
Yale university from 
1850. He was the 
author of System of 
Mineralogy; Manual 
of Mineralogy; Text- 
Book of Geology; 
Corals and Coral Is¬ 
lands; and The Geol¬ 
ogical Story Briefly 
Told. In 1854 he was 
president of the 
American Associa¬ 
tion for the Ad¬ 
vancement of Science. He died in 1895. 
DANA, JAMES FREEMAN, chemist, 

physician, author, was born Sept. 23, 1793, 
in Amherst, N. H. He was a chemist 
and physician, and the first professor of 
chemistry at Dartmouth college. He is 
the author of Epitome of Chemical Philo¬ 
sophy, and Outlines of the Mineralogy 
and Geology of Boston and its Vicinity. 
He died April 14, 1827, in New York city. 

DANA, JOHN C., librarian, was born 
Aug. 19, 1856, in Woodstock, Vt. In 1889 
he was appointed librarian of the Denver 
public library of Denver, Colo., which po¬ 
sition he now fills. 

DANA, JOHN WINCHESTER, govern¬ 
or, was born Jan. 21, 1808, in Fryeburg, 
Maine. He was governor of Maine from 
1847 to 1850; and went to South Ameri¬ 
ca to reside in 1861. He died Dec. 22, 1867, 
in New Granada, South America. 

DANA, JUDAH, lawyer, jurist, United 
States senator, governor, was born April 
25, 1772, in Pomfret, Conn. He was judge 
of probate for twenty years; judge of the 
common pleas for nine years; one of the 
committee which drafted the constitution 
of Maine; and a member of the executive 
council of the state in 1834. By appoint¬ 
ment of the governor he was a senator in 
congress from Maine during the years 
1836 and 1837. He died Dec. 27, 1845, 

in Fryeburg, Maine. 

DANA, MRS. KATHARINE, author, 
was born in 1835 in Long Island, N. Y. 
She was a writer of New York city; and 
the author of Our Phil and Other Stories. 
She died in 1886. 

DANA, NAPOLEON JACKSON TE- 
CUMSEH, soldier, was born April 15, 1822, 
in Eastport, Maine. Here is a man who 
was discovered after the battle of Cerro 
Gordo lying on the field, and men were 
digging his grave, when a fellow-officer 
examined him and discovered he was 
breathing. He was also carried off the 
field of Antietam for dead, but recovered 
and fought again. He is a resident of 
Washington, D. C., still hale and hearty. 

DANA, RICHARD, jurist, was born 
July 7, 1699, in Cambridge, Mass. He was 
prominent in the anti-revolutionary 
movement; and was one of the associ¬ 
ated Sons of Liberty. He died May 17, 
1772. 

DANA, RICHARD HENRY, critic, poet, 
was born Nov. 15, 1787, in Cambridge. 
Mass. He was a poet and critic who was 
one of the founders of the North Ameri¬ 
can Review in 1815. As a critic his Lec¬ 
tures on Shakespeare represent him fair¬ 
ly, and it must not be forgotten that he 
is one of the earliest in America to ap¬ 
preciate the genius of Wordsworth. The 
Idle Man, a publication begun in 1821, 
and extending to six numbers, includes 
his two novels, Tom Thornton; Paul Fel¬ 
ton. His later publications include The 
Buccaneer, and Other Poems; Poems 
and Prose Writings. He died Feb. 2, 1879. 


DANA, RICHARD HENRY, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 1, 1815, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He was a noted lawyer of 
Boston, best known in literature by the 
famous Two Years before the Mast, a nar¬ 
rative of personal adventure, which first 
appeared in 1840, and was re-issued, en¬ 
larged, in 1869. His other works include 
The Seaman’s Friend, known in England 
as The Seaman’s Manual; Letters on Ital¬ 
ian Unity; To Cuba and Back; Letters on 
the Somers Mutiny; Life of Major Vin¬ 
ton; and Enemy Property and Enemy 
Territory. He died Jan. 7, 1882, in Rome, 
Italy. 

DANA, RICHARD HENRY, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 3, 1851, in Cambridge, 
Mass. While continuing the practice of 
law, he has been a regular contributor to 
the Civil Service Record, besides writing 
occasionally for the press on questions of 
political reform. 

DANA, SAMUEL, clergyman, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 14, 
1739, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1787 he was 
made judge of probate for Hillsborough 
county; and in 1793 was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the New Hampshire state senate. 
He died April 1, 1798, in Amherst, N. H. 

DANA, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, congressman, was born June 26, 
1767, in Groton, Mass. He was a member 
of the Massachusetts senate, and its pres¬ 
ident for eight years, and served in con¬ 
gress in 1814-15. Subsequently he received 
the appointment of chief justice of the cir¬ 
cuit court of common pleas. He died Nov. 
20, 1825, in Charlestown. Mass. 

DANA, SAMUEL LUTHER, chemist, 
author, was born July 11, 1795, in Am¬ 
herst, N. H. He was a noted chemist of 
Lowell, who made many improvements in 
cotton printing, and was one of the fore¬ 
most agricultural writers of his time. He 
was the author of Chemical Changes in 
the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid; 
Muck Mineral for Manures; and Essay on 
Manures. He died March 11, 1868, in 
Lowell, Mass. 

DANA, SAMUEL WHITTLESEY, Unit¬ 
ed States senator, was born Feb. 13, 1760, 
in Wallingford, Conn. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1797 to 1810; 
and a senator in congress from Connecti¬ 
cut from 1810 to 1821. For many years 
he was mayor of Middletown, Conn. He 
died July 21. 1830, in Middletown, Conn. 

DANA, WILLIAM COOMBS, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1810 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He was a presbyterian clergyman 
of Charlestown; and the author of Hymns 
for Public Worship; A Transatlantic 
Tour; and Life of Samuel Dana. He died 
in 1873. 

DANBRIDGE, MRS. DANSKE, author, 
poet, was born in 1858. She is the au¬ 
thor of several volumes of poems, the 
most notable of which is entitled Joy and 
Other Poems. 

DANDY, GEORGE B., soldier, was born 
Feb. 11, 1830, in Georgia. He served in 
the civil war, and attained the rank of 
brigadier-general in the United States 
army. In 1892 he took charge of the gen¬ 
eral depot of the quartermaster’s depart¬ 
ment at Washington, D. C. 

DANE, JOHN, lawyer, was born Sept. 
22, 1835, in Westford, Mass. He is coun¬ 
sel for a large number of extensive cor¬ 
porations, some of which he has served 
continuously and successfully for a quar¬ 
ter of a century. He is a director in sev¬ 
en corporations and president of three. 

DANE, JOSEPH, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 25, 1778, in Bev¬ 
erly, Mass. He was a member of the state 


constitutional convention of 1816 and 
1819; and in 1820 was elected to con¬ 
gress to fill a vacancy. From 1821 to 1823 
he represented the York district of Maine 
in congress. He was subsequently in the 
legislature as a member of the house for 
six years; and was a member of the sen¬ 
ate in 1829. He died May 1, 1858, in Ken¬ 
tucky. 

DANE, NATHAN, lawyer, congressman, 
author, .was born Dec. 27, 1752, in Ipswich, 
Mass. He was a delegate from Massachu¬ 
setts to the continental congress from 1785 
to 1788; was the framer of the celebrated 
ordinance passed by congress in 1787; 
and though devoted to the practice of 
law, found time to prepare a Digest of 
American Law in nine volumes. He died 
Feb. 15, 1834, in Beverly, Mass. 

DANEHY, MRS. MAGGIE MAY, poet, 
was born July 5, 1862, in Fairfield, Ohio. 
Her poems have appeared in the Cincin¬ 
nati and Lancaster papers. 

DANENHOWER, JOHN WILSON, ex¬ 
plorer, author, was born Sept. 30, 1849, in 
Chicago, Ill. He was an Arctic explorer 
who was second in command of the De 
Long expedition in 1879, and published 
The Narrative of the Jeannette, 1882. He 
died in 1887. 

DANES, RUFUS R., soldier, legislator, 
author, was born July 4, 1838, in Malta, 
Ohio. He served in the civil war and 
was brevetted brigadier-general for meri¬ 
torious service. He was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the forty-seventh congress, and in¬ 
troduced and secured the passage of the 
law establishing diplomatic relations with 
Persia. He is the author of a work en¬ 
titled Service with the Sixth Wisconsin 
Volunteers. 

DANFORD, LORENZO, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1829, in 
Belmont county, Ohio. He was elected 
prosecuting attorney of Belmont county 
in 1857 and 1859. He entered the army; 
served as private, lieutenant, and captain 
until 1864, when he resigned on account 
of sickness. He was a presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1864; and was elected to the forty- 
third and forty-fourth congresses. He 
was re-elected to the forty-fifth, fifty- 
fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

DANFORTH, CHARLES, inventor, was 
born about 1797 in Massachusetts. He in¬ 
vented in 1824 a counter-twister, spinning- 
speeder, and a throstle-frame. He died 
March 22, 1876, in Paterson, N. J. 

DANFORTH, ELLIOT, financier, bank 
president, was born March 6, 1850, in 
Middleburgh, N. Y. He was appointed 
deputy state treasurer, a position which 
he occupied for four years; and in 1889 
was elected state treasurer. He is presi¬ 
dent of the First National bank of Bain- 
bridge, N. Y. 

DANFORTH, FREDERICK LYMAN, 
railroad president, was born June 17, 1833. 
in Middletown, Conn. In 1883 he became 
president of the Buffalo Creek railroad. 

DANFORTH, GEORGE FRANKLIN, 
lawyer, jurist, was born July 5, 1819, in 
Boston, Mass. In 1876 he was the repub¬ 
lican candidate for judge of the court of 
appeals of the state of New York, but 
was defeated by Robert Earl. Two years 
later he was elected, and took his seat 
on the bench Jan. 1, 1879. 

DANFORTH, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
poet, was born Nov. 8, 1660, in Roxbury, 
Mass. He was a noted congregational 
clergyman of Dorchester, Mass., who pub 
lished many single sermons and occasion¬ 
al poems. He died May 26, 1730, in Dor 
Chester, Mass. 


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DANFORTH, JOSHUA NOBLE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 1, 1798, in 
Pittsfield, Mass. He was a congregational 
minister of Massachusetts and Virginia, 
who published Gleanings and Groupings 
from Pastor’s Portfolio. He died Nov. 14, 
1861, in New Castle, Del. 

DANFORTH, MOSELEY ISAAC, en¬ 
graver, was born Dec. 7, 1800, in Hartford, 
Conn. He was one of the founders of the 
New York Drawing association in 1825: 
and in 1826 of the National Academy of 
Design. He subsequently became a part¬ 
ner in a bank-note engraving firm, which 
in 1858 was merged in the American 
Bank-Note company, of which he was 
vice-president at the time of his death. 
He died Jan. 19, 1862, in New York city. 

DANFORTH, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in September, 1626, in Eng¬ 
land. He was once a famous Puritan 
clergyman of Roxbury, Mass., in 1650-74; 
and was the author of An Astronomical 
Description of the Comet of 1664: An 
Election Sermon; and The Cry of Sodom 
Inquired Into. He died Nov. 19, 1674, 
in Roxbury, Mass. 

DANFORTH, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 18, 1666, in Roxbury. 
Mass. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Taunton, Mass., famous for his 
great learning and wide influence. He is 
the author of Eulogy on Thomas Leon¬ 
ard, and Essay Concerning the Singing of 
Psalms. The manuscript of his Indian 
Dictionary is now the property of the 
Massachusetts Historical society. He died 
in 1727. 

DANIEL, HENRY, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was horn in 1793 in \ irginia. 
He was a volunteer in the war of 1812, 
with rank of captain; was a state repre¬ 
sentative from Montgomery county in 
1812, 1819 and 1826; and was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Kentucky from 
1827 to 1833. He died Oct. 5, 1873, in Mt.. 
Sterling, Ky. 

DANIEL, JOHN MONCURE, journalist, 
author, was born Oct. 24, 1825, in Staf¬ 
ford county, Va. He was a noted Vir¬ 
ginia journalist who edited The Richmond 
Examiner, and was minister to Italy in 
1853-60. He died March 30, 1865. 

DANIEL, JOHN REEVES JONES, law- 
yer congressman, was born about 1802 
in Halifax county, N. C. He served for 
several years in the general assembly; 
was elected attorney-general of the state; 
and was a representative in congress 
from North Carolina from 1841 to 18o3. 
He removed to Louisiana, where he died. 

DANIEL, JOHN WARWICK, soldier, 
lawyer United States senator, congress¬ 
man. was born Sept. 5. 1842, in Lynch¬ 
burg, Va. He entered 
the confederate army 
in 1861, and served 
throughout the civil 
war, rising to the 
rank of major and 
adjutant-general. In 
1875 he was elected 
a state senator, and 
was re-elected in 
1879. In 1881 he re¬ 
signed the office of 
state senator to ac¬ 
cept the nomination 



of the democratic party for governor of 
Virginia; but was defeated at the elec¬ 
tion. In 1884 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Virginia to the forty-ninth 
congress. In 1887 he took his seat as a 
member of the United States senate, and 
re-elected for term ending in 1899. He is 
the author of Attachments Under the 
Code of Virginia; and Negotiable Instru¬ 
ments. 


DANIEL, JOSEPH A., physician, spe¬ 
cialist, was born Dec. 27, 1866, in Fill¬ 
more, Ind. He attended the De Pauw 
university, Central Normal college, uni¬ 
versity of Kentucky, Indiana Medical col¬ 
lege, and the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons. He has attained prominence as a 
specialist in diseases of the eye, ear. 
nose, throat and lungs; and is a member 
of the Academy of Science. He has filled 
many positions of honor in Davenport, 
Iowa; and is medical examiner for sev¬ 
eral life insurance companies. 

DANIEL, JOSEPHUS, journalist, public 
official, was born May 18, 1862, in Wash¬ 
ington, N. C. He has been public printer 
of the state of North Carolina; and is at 
present a member of the national demo¬ 
cratic executive committee from North 
Carolina. For several years he was chief 
clerk of the interior department at Wash¬ 
ington, D. C.; and is now the editor of 
the News and Observer of Raleigh, N. C. 

DANIEL, JUNIUS, soldier, was born 
June 27, 1828, in Halifax county, N. C. He 
served through the civil war and re¬ 
ceived the rank of colonel. He died May 
12, 1864, in Spottsylvania, Pa. 

DANIEL, PETER VYVIAN, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, was born April 24, 
1784, in Stafford county, Va. He was a 
member of the state legislature in 1809 
and 1810; in 1812 was a member of the 
privy council, and served as such until 
1835. He frequently served as lieutenant- 
governor. In 1836 he was appointed judge 
of the United States district court for 
Virginia; and in 1840 was appointed a jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of the United 
States. He died June 30, 1860, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. 

u RALEIGH TRAVERS, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 15, 1805, 
in Stafford county, Va. For several years 
he was commonwealth attorney for Hen¬ 
rico county in which Richmond is situat¬ 
ed; and was repeatedly elected to repre¬ 
sent that city in the state legislature. In 
1872 he was elected attorney-general of 
Virginia. He died Aug. 16, 1877, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. 

DANIEL, WILLIAM, jurist, was born 
in 1770, in Cumberland county, Va. He 
was a member of the Virginia house of 
delegates, and gained reputation as an 
orator by his defence of the resolutions of 
’98 He became circuit judge and ex- 
officio member of the old general court 
of Virginia. He died Nov. 20, 1839, in 
Lynchburg, Va. 

DANIEL, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, was born Nov. 26, 1806, in Win¬ 
chester Va. He was elected to the Vir¬ 
ginia house of delegates before he was 
of age He was a judge of the supreme 
court of appeals of Virginia from 1847 to 
1865. He died March 28, 1873, in Lynch¬ 
burg, Va. 

DANIEL, WILLIAM, candidate for the 
vice-presidency of the United States, was 
born Jan. 24, 1826, in Somerset county, 
Md. He attained prominence as a states¬ 
man of Maryland. 

D 4NIEL WILLIAM T„ educator, law¬ 
yer was born Aug. 17, 1859, in Butler 
county, Ala. Ten years of his youth were 
spent in Florida; and in 1875 he moved 
to Texas. After receiving his education 
he spent several years in educational 
work! and since 1887 has been engaged in 
the practice of law at Dublin, Texas. 

DANIELL, WARREN FISHER, state 
senator, congressman, was born June 2b. 
1826 in Newton Lower Falls, Mass. He 
was a member of the state house of iep- 
resentatives and of the state senate; and 
was elected to the fifty-second congress as 
a democrat. 


DANIELS, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1826, in New 
York city. He was elected to the supreme 
court in 1863; was appointed by Governor 
Seymour to hold the office of justice of 
that court till January 1, 1864, when the 
term to which he had been elected com¬ 
menced; and was twice re-elected and 
held the office till the last of December, 
1891, a period of upward of twenty-eight 
years. He was elected to the fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth congresses as a republi¬ 
can, and declined to be a candidate in 
1896. 

DANIELS, MRS. CORA LINN, author, 
was born in 1852, in Massachusetts. She 
is a novelist of Franklin, Mass.; and the 
author of Sardia, a Story of Love; and As 
It Is to Be. 

DANIELS, FRANCES B„ poet, was 
born in Maine. She is a poet of note in 
California. Her poems have received ex¬ 
tensive publication in the leading papers, 
and several have been incorporated into 
standard works. 

DANIELS, IONE G.. author, poet, was 
born in Wisconsin. She is the author of 
a novel entitled Under the Ban, and a 
volume of Temperance Songs. 

DANIELS, THURSTON, journalist, lieu¬ 
tenant governor, was born June 10, 
1858, in Yamhill county, Ore. In 1874 he 
moved to Vancouver, Wash. He there 
learned the printing trade, and is now 
proprietor of the Vancouver Register, 
which he established in 1881. He has 
served with distinction as lieutenant gov¬ 
ernor of the state of Washington, and is 
a prominent leader in the people’s party. 

DANIELS, WILLIAM HAVEN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born May 18, 1836, in 
Franklin, Mass. He is a methodist clergy¬ 
man, prominent as an evangelist; and 
the author of D. L. Moody and his Work, 
That Boy, who Shall Have Him?; The 
Temperance Reform and its Great Re¬ 
formers; Moody, his Words, Work, and 
Workers; Illustrated History of Metho¬ 
dism in the United States; Graduated 
with Honor; Memorials of Gilbert Ha¬ 
ven; and Short History of the People 
called Methodists. 

DANIELSON, TIMOTHY, patriot, was 
born in 1733, in Brimfleld, Mass. His 
chief service was in the legislature, of 
which he continued a member several 
years. He was a member of the state 
constitutional convention in 1779, and 
afterward of the state senate and execu¬ 
tive council; and chief justice of Hamp¬ 
shire county. He died Sept. 19, 1791, in 
Brimfleld, Mass. 

DANKS, HART PEASE, musician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1834, in New Haven, 
Conn. His first musical composition was 
inserted in Bradbury’s Jubilee, under the 
name of Lake Street, and is well known. 
In 1856 his first song, The Old Lane, was 
published in Chicago, since which time 
he has issued several hundred. Two of 
them, Silver Threads among the Gold, 
and Don’t be Angry with Me, Darling. He 
resides in New York city. 

DANNELLY, MRS. ELIZABETH OTIS, 
artist, poet, was born June 13, 1838, in 
Monticello, Ga. In 1855 she graduated 
from the Madison Female college, and 
subsequently spent a year in New York 
city receiving instruction in oil painting. 
She was the widow of F. O. Dannelly, at 
one time a surgeon in the United States 
army. She was the author of Cactus, or 
Thorns and Blossom; and Wayside Flow¬ 
ers. She died in 1896. 

DANNER, JOEL B„ congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1850 to 1851. 



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DA PONTK, LORENZO, dramatist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 10, 1749, in Venice, 
Italy. He was an Italian dramatist who 
furnished libretti for Mozart’s operas, Don 
Giovanni and Nozze di Figaro. He came 
to America in 1805, and after 1828 was 
professor of Italian in Columbia college. 
He published his own Life; and History 
of the Florentine Republic and the Medi¬ 
ci. He died Aug. 17, 1838, in New York 
city. 

DAPPER. EMIL A., soldier, lawyer, 
was born Feb. 21, 1844, in New York city. 
He received his education in the public 
schools of New York 
city. In 1861 he en¬ 
listed in company B, 
fifty-ninth regiment 
New York volunteer 
infantry as a pri¬ 
vate; and was hon¬ 
orably discharged in 
1865 as captain of 
company B of the 
same regiment. As 
the senior officer in 
his regiment present 
for duty, he com¬ 
manded the regiment at the time of Lee’s 
surrender. In 1871 he was admitted to . 
the bar at Grand Rapids, Mich., where he 
has ever since practiced his profession 
with success. He is a prominent member 
of the G. A. R.; and takes an active part 
in the public affairs of his county and 
state. 

DARBY, EZRA, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Jersey from 1804 to 1808. He died Jan. 
28, 1808. 

DARBY, JOHN, educator, author, was 
born Sept. 3, 1804, in North Adams, Mass. 
He was an educator who was connected 
with various colleges north and south. 
Manual of Botany; The Botany of the 
Southern States; and Chemistry, are some 
of his publications. He died Sept. 18, 1877, 
in New York city. 

DARBY, JOHN FLETCHER, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 
10, 1803, in Person county, N. C. He was 
four times chosen mayor of the city of 
St. Louis, and once a member of the state 
senate. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1851 to 1853 from Missouri. 

DARBY, WILLIAM, geographer, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born in 1775, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was a geographer who pub¬ 
lished Geographical Dictionary of Louis¬ 
iana; Plan of Pittsburg and Adjacent 
Country; Emigrant’s Guide to the West¬ 
ern Country; Tour from New York to 
Detroit; Geography and History of Flori¬ 
da; View of the United States; Lectures 
on the Discovery of America; Mnemoni- 
ca, a Register of Events from the Earliest 
Period; and Geographical Dictionary. He 
died Oct. 9, 1864, in Washington, D. C. 

DARCEY, JOHN S., physician, state 
legislator, was born Feb. 24, 1788, in 
Hanover, N. Y. He was a member of the 
state legislature in 1819. In 1835-41 he 
was United States marshal for New Jer¬ 
sey. On the incorporation of the New 
Jersey Railroad company he was elected 
its president, and held the office till his 
death, a period of over thirty years. He 
died Oct. 22, 1863, in Newark, N. J. 

DARDEN, MRS. FANNIE BAKER, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1829, in Alabama. 
She is the author of Romances of the 
Texas Revolution; and Poems. 

DARDEN, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
educator, lawyer, was born Nov. 17, 1865, 
near Lafayette, Ala. He taught school 
for several years; and is now a promi¬ 


nent lawyer of Oneonta, Ala., of which 
city he was mayor in 1892. 

DARE, VIRGINIA, was born in August, 
1587, in Roanoke, Va. She was the first 
child of English parents born in the new 
world. 

DARGAN, CLARA VICTORIA, author, 
poet, was born about 1840, in Winnsboro, 
S. C. After the close of the civil war 
she became a teacher in Yorkville, S. C. 
She is the author of Riverlands, a story 
of life on the River Ashley, which origi¬ 
nally appeared as a prize story in the 
Southern Field and Fireside; and of 
another novel that obtained a prize and 
was published as a serial. 

DARGAN, EDMUND SPAWN, jurist, 
statesman, was born April 15, 1805, in 
Montgomery county, N. C. In 1847 he 
was elected to fill a vacancy on the bench 
of the supreme court of Alabama; and in 
1849 he became chief justice, which office 
he resigned in 1852, and resumed the 
practice of law in Mobile. He died in 
November, 1879, in Mobile, Ala. 

DARGAN, GEORGE W., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1841, in Dar¬ 
lington county, S. C. He was a represen¬ 
tative in the state legislature in 1877; and 
was elected solicitor of the fourth judicial 
circuit in 1880. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from South Carolina to the 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fif¬ 
ty-first congresses as a democrat. 

DARGAN, THEODORE A., physician, 
surgeon, author, was born in 1823, in 
Sleepy Hollow, S. C. At the beginning of 
the civil war he entered the confederate 
service as surgeon, and served until the 
end. In 1859 he published a paper on the 
subject of Typhoid Fever, which was ex¬ 
tensively noticed. 

DARGON, GEORGE W„ lawyer, state 
senator, was born in 1801, in South Caro¬ 
lina. He was a member of the state sen¬ 
ate for several years; commissioner in 
equity for Charleston; and from 1847 to 
the time of his death, the chancellor of 
South Carolina. He died June 12, 1859, 
in Columbia, S. C. 

DARLEY, FELIX OCTAVIUS CARR, 
artist, author, was born June 23, 1822, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a well-known 
artist and illustrator whose home was at 
Claymont, Del. His only writing is in¬ 
cluded in Sketches Abroad with Pen and 
Pencil. He died in 1888. 

DARLING, ALFRED B„ was born 
March 23, 1821, in Burke, Vt. He is the 
senior proprietor of the Fifth Avenue 
hotel of New York 
city, for many years 
the most famous and 
successful of Ameri¬ 
can houses. In 1852 
he became associated 
with Mr. Stevens, as 
partner, in the man¬ 
agement of the Bat¬ 
tle house in Mobile, 
Ala., then one of the 
finest and most cost¬ 
ly hotels in the 
south. He has 
served from time to time as director in 
important institutions, among them being 
the Second National bank, the Fifth 
Avenue Safe Deposit Co., and The Union 
Dime Savings bank, all of New York city. 

DARLING, CHARLES W., soldier, was 
born Oct. 11, 1830, in New Haven, Conn. 
He served through the civil war and re¬ 
ceived the rank of colonel. In 1867 he 
was elected military engineer-in-chief of 
the state of New York. 


DARLING, EDWARD IRVING, com¬ 
poser, author, the only child of the 
late General Edward I. Darling of Louis¬ 
iana, who was killed 
in the confederate 
service of 1864, and 
of Mrs. Flora Adams 
Darling, was born 
Oct. 9, 1862, in Lan¬ 
caster, N. H. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
in the Kentucky 
Military institute, 
and later at Mount 
Pleasant Military 
academy. At the age 
of nineteen his first 
opera was produced, which won for him 
a prominent place in musical circles. He 
died in New York. 

DARLING, FLORA ADAMS, founder 
general of the Daughters of the Revolu¬ 
tion, was born July 25, 1840, in Lancaster, 
N. H. She received 
her education at the 
Lancaster academy 
and from private in¬ 
structors. She is a 
member of the well- 
known Adams fami¬ 
ly, and inherits many 
traits of her ances¬ 
tors. Her husband 
was killed while 
serving in the con¬ 
federate army. She 
is the author of a 
number of books, the chief of which is 
Mrs. Darling’s Letters, or Memories of the 
Civil War. She is also the author of A 
Wayward Winning Woman; The Bourbon 
Lily; Was it a Just Verdict; A Social 
Diplomat; From Two Points of View; 
The Senator’s Daughter; Letters or Me¬ 
moirs of the Civil War; and other nov¬ 
els. She has received the college degrees 
of A. M. and A. B. in recognition of her 
literary work. 

DARLING, HENRY, clergyman, college- 
president, author, was born Dec. 27, 1823. 
in Reading, Pa. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman who was president of Hamil¬ 
ton college in 1881-91. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Close Walk; Slavery and the 
War; Conformity to the World; and Not 
Doing but Receiving. He died in 1891. 

DARLING, LUPI I., poet, was born in 
Westminster, Mass. She is the author of 
a volume of poems entitled Messages 
From the Watch Tower. 

DARLING, MARY GREENLEAF, au¬ 
thor. She is the author of Battles at. 
Home; In the World; and Gladys, a Ro¬ 
mance. 

DARLING, MASON C., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born May 18, 1801, in 
Bellingham, Mass. He aided in establish¬ 
ing the towns of Sheboygan and Fond du 
Lac, Wis. He has been judge of probate, 
mayor of Fond du Lac, and a member for 
several years of the territorial legislature. 
He was a representative in congress from 
the state of Wisconsin from 1847 to 1849. 

DARLING, NOYES, merchant, agricul¬ 
turist, jurist, was born in 1782, in Wood- 
bridge, Conn. He was a distinguished ag 
riculturist who passed the latter portion 
of his life in New Haven, of which city he 
was mayor, having served long as county 
surveyor, and was at the time of his 
death judge of the county court. He died 
Sept. 17, 1846, in New Haven, Conn. 

DARLING, WILLIAM, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1815, in Scotland. He 
was a distinguished New York physician 
who published Anatmography, or Graphic 
Anatomy; and Essentials of Anatomy. 
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DARLING, WILLIAM A., merchant, 
soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 17. 
1817, in Newark, N. J. From 1847 to 1854 
he was deputy receiver of Texas for New 
York; and from 1854 to 1865 was president 
of a railroad company in New York. He 
was a presidential elector in 1860; and in 
1863 and 1864 was president of the Union 
and Republican organization of New York 
city. In 1864 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative from New York to the thirty-ninth 
congress. 

DARLINGTON, EDWARD, congress¬ 
man, was born in Pennsylvania. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1833 to 1839. 

DARLINGTON, ISAAC, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 13^ 
1781, in Westtown, Pa. In 1807 he was 
elected to the state legislature; served 
as a volunteer lieutenant in the last war 
with England; and was a member of 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1817 to 
1819. In 1820 he was appointed deputy 
attorney-general for Chester county; and 
in 1821 was appointed president judge of 
the county court, which office he held un¬ 
til his death. He died April 27, 1839. 

DARLINGTON, JAMES HENRY, 
clergyman, was born June 9, 1856, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He became pastor of 
Christ church of Brooklyn in 1883; is a 
trustee of Rutgers College for Women of 
New York city; and is an officer in many 
working associations. 

*~DARLINGTON, SMEDLEY, educator, 
congressman, was born Jan. 24, 1827, in 
Pocopson, Pa. He has resided in West 
Chester since 1864, during which time he 
has conducted an extensive business as 
broker; and was elected to the fiftieth 
and fifty-first congresses as a republican. 

DARLINGTON, THOMAS, physician, 
journalist, was born Sept. 24, 1857, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1888 he was appointed 
surgeon to the Copper Queen Consoli¬ 
dated Mining company of Bisbee, Ariz.; 
and also of the Southeastern Railroad 
company. He is the editor of The Mail 
and Express of New York city; and the 
author of various articles which have ap¬ 
peared in current literature. 

DARLINGTON, WILLIAM, botanist, 
author, was born April 28, 1782, in Bir¬ 
mingham, Pa. He was - a famous botanist 
of West Chester, Pa., in whose honor 
Darlingtonia, a genus of pitcher-plants, 
was named. He was the author of Mutual 
Influence of Habits and Disease; Agri¬ 
cultural Botany; Flora Cestrica; and Me¬ 
morials of John Bartram and Humphrey 
Marshall. He died in 1863. 

DARNALL, G. D., physician, surgeon, 
legislator, was born May 28,1843, in Paris, 
Ill. He is a successful physician and sur¬ 
geon of West Union, Iowa; was elected 
a member of the twenty-second general 
assembly of Iowa; and has filled many 
important offices in his city, county and 
state. 

DARNELL, ELI LAWSON, educator, 
lawyer, was born March 17, 1856, in Pick- 
ins county, Ga. For many years he was 
engaged in educational work; studied 
law, and is now a prominent lawyer of 
Jasper, Ga. 

DARNELL, HENRY FAULKNER, 
clergyman, author, was born June 24, 
1831, in London, England. He is the au¬ 
thor of Philip Hazelbrook; Flossie; The 
Craze of Christian Angelhart; A Na¬ 
tion’s Thanksgiving; Songs of the Sea¬ 
sons; Kindesliebe; besides numerous 
short stories, sermons and poems. 

DARRAGH, CORNELIUS, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1843 to 1847. He died in January, 
1855. 


DARRAGH, EDWARD J„ lawyer, 
statesman, was born June 20, 1869, in 
Painesville, Ohio. He graduated from the 
university of Notre Dame of South Bend, 
Ind., graduating therefrom in 1886. In 
1890 he was admitted to the bar at St. 
Paul, Minn., of which city he is corpora¬ 
tion attorney. In 1894 he was honored by 
the unanimous nomination for congress 
from his district. 

DARRALL, CHESTER B„ physician, 
surgeon, state senator, congressman, was 
born June 24, 1842, in Somerset county, 
Pa. He entered the army as assistant sur¬ 
geon of volunteers, promoted to be sur¬ 
geon, and served throughout the war. He 
was elected to the state senate of Louis¬ 
iana in 1860; and was elected to the 
forty-first, forty-second, forty-third, forty- 
fourth, forty-fifth and fifty-seventh con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

DARROW, ALLEN R., author, poet, 
was born April 20, 1826, in New London, 
Conn. He has contributed both prose and 
verse to various journals and magazines; 
and is the author of Iphigenia and Other 
Poems. He is engaged in business in Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y. 

D’ARUSMONT, MADAME FRANCES, 
reformer, author, was born in 1795, in 
Scotland. She was a very energetic and 
versatile Scottish reformer who came sev¬ 
eral times to America, and finally settled 
in Cincinnati. She was the author of 
Popular Lectures on Free Inquiry; Bio¬ 
graphical Notes and Political Letters of 
Fanny Wright D’Arusmont (1844); Al- 
torf: a tragedy; Views of Society and 
Manners in America; and A Few Days in 
Athens include her principal works. She 
died in 1852. 

DARVIN, THEOPHILUS, physician, 
surgeon, was born Jan. 9, 1829, in South 
America. He was professor in the Medi¬ 
cal college of Ohio from 1864 to 1869, and 
filled a similar position in the medical 
department of the university of Louis¬ 
ville from 1869 to 1872. He is now pro¬ 
fessor of obstetrics and diseases of women 
and children in the college of Physicians 
and Surgeons of Indiana. 

DARWIN, C. B., jurist. He was a resi¬ 
dent of Iowa, from which state he was 
appointed an associate justice of the 
United States court for the territory of 
Washington. 

DASSLER, CHARLES F. W., lawyer, 
author, was born April 3, 1852, in SI. 
Louis, Mo. Since 1873 he has practiced 
law in Leavenworth, Kan.; has been city 
attorney for two terms; served in the city 
council for two terms, and was president 
one year. He is the author of Dassler’s 
Kansas Digest; Dassler’s Kansas Stat¬ 
utes; Kansas Addendum; and Leaven¬ 
worth City Ordinances; and also editor 
and compiler of a number of other legal 
works. 

DAUGHERTY, JAMES A., farmer, 
jurist, state legislator, was born Aug. 30, 
1847, in McMinn county, Tenn. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
in the public schools 
of East Tennessee; 
and in 1867 moved to 
Missouri. During 
1891-95 he served 
two terms as judge 
of the county court 
of Jasper county; 
and in 1896 was 
elected a member of 
the Missouri state 
legislature. He has 
taken an active part 
in public affairs; and is also a successful 
farmer and stock raiser of Webb City, Mo. 


DAUVRAY, HELEN, actress, was born 
Feb. 14, 1859, in San Francisco, Cal. She 
made her first appearance on the stage 
in San Francisco as Eva in Uncle Tom’s 
Cabin. She subsequently was announced 
as a child star and took part in such plays 
as Fidela, No Name, and Katy Did. 

DAVEE, THOMAS, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 9, 1797, in Plymouth, 
Mass. He served six years in the Maine 
legislature; and during his second term 
in the assembly was chosen speaker. He 
was a representative in congress from 
1837 to 1841; was also for many years 
a postmaster in Maine and at the time of 
his death was a senator elect of the state 
legislature. He died Dec. 9, 1841. 

DAVEIS, CHARLES STEWART, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state senator, was born May 
10, 1788, in Portland, Maine. In 1839 he 
was a candidate for the state senate and 
the following year was elected a member 
of that body. In 1848 he was a member 
of the national convention, which nomi¬ 
nated General Taylor for the presidency. 
He wrote extensively for current publica¬ 
tions, and on genealogical subjects; and 
was vice-president general of the Massa¬ 
chusetts Society of the Cincinnati. He 
died March 29, 1865, in his native town. 

DAVEIS, EDWARD HENRY, lawyer, 
author, was born in April, 1818, in Port¬ 
land Maine. Since 1860 he has been man¬ 
ager’of the Portland Gas Light company, 
and for a time was financial agent of the 
Portland Company of Locomotive and 
Marine Engine builders. He published 
Daveis’ Reports; and an enlarged edition 
of Ware’s Reports. He has been commis¬ 
sioner of the United States courts and of 
the court of claims. 

DAVEISS, JOSEPH HAMILTON, law¬ 
yer, was born March 4, 1774, in Bedford 
county, Va. In 1795 he was appointed 
United’ States attorney for the state of 
Kentucky. In 1811 he joined Gen. Har¬ 
rison’s army in the campaign against the 
Indians, and received the command of 
major. He died Nov. 7, 1811. 

DAVEISS, MRS. MARIA THOMPSON, 
author, was born Oct. 31, 1814, in Harrods- 
burg, Ky. She is a Kentucky author who 
has written much for agricultural jour¬ 
nals, and has published Roger Sherman, 
a Tale of ’76; Woman’s Love; Histoi’y of 
Mercer and Boyle Counties, Kentucky, 
and Cultivation and Uses of the Chinese 
Sugar Cane. 

DAVENPORT, ADDINGTON, jurist, 
was born Aug. 3, 1670, in Boston, Mass. 
He was clerk of the house of representa¬ 
tives, supreme court, and court of com- 
mon pleas, was elected a member of the 
council, served as a representative in 
1711-13, and was judge of the supreme 
court from 1715 till the time of his death. 
He died April 2, 1736, in Boston, Mass. 

DAVENPORT, ADOLPHUS HOYT, act¬ 
or, was born Aug. 4, 1828, in Stamford, 
Conn. His first appeai-ance in Philadel¬ 
phia was at the old Chestnut street thea¬ 
ter, and he was a member of the company 
during 1853-54. He was manager of the 
Mobile theater during 1872, and was con¬ 
nected with Bidwell’s academy of music. 
He died Oct. 22, 1873, in New Orleans, La. 

DAVENPORT, AMZI BENEDICT, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 30, 1817, in 
New Canaan, Conn. In 1836 he estab¬ 
lished a private academy at Brooklyn, N. 
Y., of which he was principal for sixteen 
years. In 1851 he prepared a history of 
the Davenport family. 




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DAVENPORT, BENNETT FRANKLIN, 
physician, surgeon, public official, was 
born May 28, 1845, in Cambridge, Mass. 
During 1879-86 he filled the chair of 
chemistry in the Massachusetts College 
of Pharmacy; was chemist to the Massa¬ 
chusetts state board of health during 
1882-92; dairy inspector for the city of 
Boston in 1882-85; was appointed a justice 
of the peace in 1893; and has filled various 
other public positions of honor. He is 
a charter member of the Historical so¬ 
ciety of Watertown, Mass.; and a mem¬ 
ber of various learned societies of Ameri¬ 
ca and Europe. 

DAVENPORT, EDWARD LOOMIS, 
actor, was born Nov. 15, 1814, in Boston. 
Mass. In 1859 he became manager of 
the Howard athenaeum in Boston, and ten 
years later took the management of the 
Chestnut street theater in Philadelphia. 
He died Sept. 1, 1877, in Canton, Mass. 

DAVENPORT, FANNY LILLY GIPSY, 
actress, was born April 10, 1850, in Eng¬ 
land. She was a noted actress; and dur¬ 
ing her professional career was in the 
leading female role in She Stoops to Con¬ 
quer; Maids as They Are; The Good 
Natured Man; Caste; and various other 
plays. She died Sept. 26, 1898, in South 
Duxbury, Mass. 

DAVENPORT, FRANCIS M.. lawyer, 
was born May 1, 1840, in Gallia county, 
Ohio. He received his education at the 
Iowa Wesleyan university, from which he 
graduated in 1864; and subsequently 
graduated from the law department of 
the Michigan university. For twenty 
years he practiced law in Oskaloosa, Iowa; 
and since 1889 in Carroll, Iowa. He has 
been city attorney of Oskaloosa; county 
attorney of Carroll county; and has at¬ 
tained distinction as an astute lawyer of 
national reputation. 

DAVENPORT, FRANKLIN, soldier, 
jurist, congressman, was born in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a revolutionary soldier; 
a judge; and was a senator in congress 
from New Jersey from 1798 to 1799. He 
was a representative in congress from 
1799 to 1801. 

DAVENPORT, HENRY GEORGE BRY¬ 
ANT, actor, was born Jan. 19, 1866, in 
New York city. He has played at the 
Walnut street theater, Philadelphia, as 
Hendrick, with Joseph Jefferson in the 
comedy of Rip Van Winkle, and in 1879 
he appeared at Wallack’s theater, New 
York, as Sir Joseph Porter in the juvenile 
Pinafore troupe. 

DAVENPORT, IRA, congressman, was 
born June 28, 1841, in Hornellsville, N. Y. 
He was a state senator in 1878-81; was 
state comptroller in 1882-83; and in 1884 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-ninth congress. In 1885 
he was an unsuccessful candidate for gov¬ 
ernor of the state. He received the re- 
election to the fiftieth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

DAVENPORT, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Oct. 12, 1758, in 
Stamford, Conn. He served in the com¬ 
missary department in the war of the 
revolution. He was a judge of the court 
of common pleas, and a representative in 
congress during 1796-97. He died Aug. 
3, 1797, in Stamford, Conn. 

DAVENPORT, JAMES J., jurist, was 
born in Virginia. He was appointed from 
Missouri chief justice of the United States 
court for New Mexico. 

DAVENPORT, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1827 to 1829. 


DAVENPORT, JOHN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1597, in England. He 
was a famous puritan divine who, before 
coming to America in 1637, was a cele¬ 
brated London preacher. In 1638 he was 
one of the founders of New Haven, and in 
1660 concealed the noted regicides, Goffe 
and Whalley, from their pursuers. In 
1666 he became pastor of the First church 
in Boston. He was the author of Instruc¬ 
tions to Elders of the English Church; 
Catechism containing the Chief Heads of 
the Christian Religion; and Discourse 
about Civil Government in New England. 
He died March 15, 1670, in Boston, Mass. 

DAVENPORT, JOHN, merchant, jurist, 
was born in 1635, in England. In May, 
1657, he was admitted a freeman in New 
Haven, and later appears to have been 
one of the judges in the courts of New 
Haven. He removed to Boston in 1668, 
and was register of probate in 1675-76, 
and also a merchant. He died March 21, 
1677, in Boston, Mass. 

DAVENPORT, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 16, 1752, in 
Stamford, Conn. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Connecticut from 
1799 to 1817. He served with credit in the 
revolutionary war as a major in the com¬ 
missary department. He died Nov. 28, 
1839, in Stamford, Conn. 

DAVENPORT, NICHOLAS T„ actor, 
was born in 1831. He was a careful and 
conscientious actor, and maintained a 
good position in society by his talents and 
integrity. Mr. Davenport was likewise an 
excellent sketch-writer. He died Aug. 26, 
1867, in Boston, Mass. 

DAVENPORT, S. A., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Jan. 15, 1834, in Schuyler county, 
N. Y. He was elected district attorney 
for the county of 
Erie, and is now a 
practicing attorney. 
In 1888 he was 
elected idistrict dele¬ 
gate to the republi¬ 
can national conven¬ 
tion at Chicago; and 
in 1892 was elected 
one of the delegates 
at large to the na- 
t i o n a 1 republican 
convention at Min¬ 
neapolis. He was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress from the 
state at large by a majority of nearly 
three hundred thousand. 

DAVENPORT, THOMAS, congressman, 
was born in Cumberland county, Va. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1825 to 1835. He died in 
November, 1838, in Halifax county. 

DAVENPORT, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
born in North Carolina. He was appointed 
captain in the sixteenth infantry in 1812, 
and distinguished himself at Chippewa 
and Lundy’s Lane in the war with Great 
Britain. He died April 12, 1858, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

DAVENPORT, WILLIAM, surveyor, 
legislator, jurist, philanthropist, was born 
Oct. 12, 1769, in Culpeper county, Va. He 
held numerous offices of trust; and con¬ 
tributed largely to the erection of the Fe¬ 
male college of Lenoir, which bears his 
name. He died Aug. 19, 1859, in Walnut 
Fountain, N. C. 

DAVENPORT, WILLIAM, clergyman, 
was born in 1797, in Kentucky. In 1848, 
with his brother, he established a school 
at Walnut grove, which afterward became 
Eureka college. He was a union man 
during the civil war, and was taken pris¬ 
oner by Gen. John Morgan’s men. He 
died June 24, 1869, in Nebraska City, Neb. 


DAVENPORT, WILLIAM BATES, law¬ 
yer, was born March 10, 1847, in New 
York city. In 1889 he was appointed pub¬ 
lic administrator of Kings county; and 
has attained prominence as a successful 
lawyer of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

DAVEY, ROBERT C„ congressman, 
was born Oct. 22, 1853, in New Orleans. 
La. He was a member of the state sen¬ 
ate in 1879, and re-elected in April, 1884, 
and again elected in 1892. He was presi¬ 
dent pro tempore of the senate during the 
sessions of 1884 and 1886. He was elected 
judge of the first recorder’s court in 1880. 
re-elected in 1882, re-elected in April, 1884, 
and served until May, 1888. He was de¬ 
feated for mayor of the city of New Or¬ 
leans in 1888; and was elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. He also re¬ 
ceived the re-election to the fifty-fourth 
and fifty-fifth congresses. 

DAVID, EDWARD LIVINGSTON, man¬ 
ufacturer, was born April 22, 1834, in Wor¬ 
cester, Mass. Of the Washburn Iron Co., 
formed in 1857 to carry on the business, 
he was treasurer until 1882. He served as 
mayor of Worcester in 1874, and state 
senator in 1876; he has declined other po¬ 
litical honors. 

DAVID, JEAN BAPTISTE, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1761, in France. He was 
a Roman catholic bishop of Bardstown. 
Ky.; and the author of Vindication of 
Catholic Doctrine concerning Images; Ad¬ 
dress to Brethren of Other Professions; 
On the Rule of Faith; and True Piety. 
He died in 1841. 

DAVIDGE, WILLIAM PLEATER, act¬ 
or, was born April 7, 1814, in London, 
England. Among his best parts were 
Bishopriggs in Man and Wife; Old Hardy 
in the Belle’s Stratagem; Hardcastle in 
She Stoops to Conquer; and Croaker in 
The Good-Natured Man. He died Aug. 7, 
1888, in Cheyenne, Tenn. 

DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER, inventor, 
was born Sept. 23, 1826, in Pruntytown, 
W. Va. He designed a paddle-wheel for 
boat propulsion, which was patented in 
1881. To him and his genius are owing 
many of the most important improve¬ 
ments now embraced in the leading type¬ 
writers. In 1887 he sold out his various 
patents to the Yost Writing Machine 
company. 

DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER C., planter, 
state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 
26, 1826, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. He 
engaged in cotton planting in 1879; and 
was elected a representative in the state 
legislature, where he served until elected 
a state senator. In 1884 he was elected 
a representative from Alabama to the 
forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected 
to the fiftieth congress. 

DAVIDSON, ARNOLD, lawyer, expert 
accountant, was born Aug. 24, 1840, in 
Germany. He served in the civil war as 
a private, and was honorably discharged 
in 1863. He settled in New York city, 
where he is an expert accountant. 

DAVIDSON, CHARLES, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1852, in Ohio. He is 
an instructor of Belmont, Cal.; and the 
author of The Phonology of the Stressed 
Vowels of Beowulf; and Studies in the 
English Mystery Plays. 

DAVIDSON, GEORGE, astronomer, au¬ 
thor, was born May 9, 1825, in England. 
He is an astronomer of distinction, and 
founder of the Davidson observatory in 
San Francisco. He is the author of The 
United States Coast Survey of the Pacific 
Coast; Coast Pilot of Alaska; and Voy¬ 
ages of Discovery on the Northwest Coast 
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DAVIDSON, JAMES H., educator, was 
born June 18, 1858, in Colchester, Del. 
He was a teacher in the public schools 
of Delaware and Sul¬ 
livan counties, N. Y., 
for several years, and 
for one year was en¬ 
gaged at the same 
occupation at Prince¬ 
ton, Wis. He was 
elected district at¬ 
torney of Green Lake 
county in 1888, and 
in 1890 was chosen 
chairman of the re¬ 
publican congres¬ 
sional committee for 
the sixth district of Wisconsin, and con¬ 
tinued in that position until nominated 
for the fifty-fifth congress. In 1892 he 
removed to Oshkosh; Wis.; and in 1895 
was appointed city attorney of that city 
for a term of two years. He was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

DAVIDSON, JAMES WOOD, educator, 
author, was born March 9, 1829, in New¬ 
berry, S. C. He is an educator of South 
Carolina and elsewhere; and the author 
of Living Writers of the South; School 
History of South Carolina; The Corres¬ 
pondent; The Poetry of the Future; and 
Florida of To-day. 

DAVIDSON, JOHN S., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born about 1845, in Augusta, 
Ga. In 1884 and 1886 he was elected state 
senator, and in 1886 president of the sen¬ 
ate; and also grand master of Masons of 
Georgia. He was subsequently elected 
president of the Richmond county board 
of education, and city attorney of Augusta. 

DAVIDSON, JOHN WYNN, soldier, was 
born Aug. 18, 1824, in Fairfax county, Va. 
He served in the Mexican war; and in the 
war against the Apache and Utah In¬ 
dians. He served with distinction through 
the civil war; was promoted brigadier- 
general of volunteers in 1862; and in 1865 
was made major-general for meritorious 
services. 

DAVIDSON, LUCRETIA MARIA, poet, 
was born Sept. 27, 1808, in Plattsburg, N. 
Y. She was the author of Amir Khan and 
Other Poems, issued in 1829. She died 
Aug. 27, 1825. 

DAVIDSON, MARGARET MILLER, 
poet, was born March 26, 1823, in Platts¬ 
burg, N. Y. She was a juvenile prodigy 
whose immature verses were lauded by 
contemporary writers. She died Nov. 25, 
1838, in Saratoga, N. Y. 

DAVIDSON. MARION R., lawyer, jurist, 
was born April 4, 1847, in Macon county, 
Ill. He received the rudiments of his 
education from the common schools, and 
graduated from the Mount Zion academy. 
For several years he was engaged in edu¬ 
cational work, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1876. Since 1878 he has practiced 
his profession with success in Monticello, 
Ill. He has filled the office of county 
judge, and has taken an active part in 
the public affairs in his county and state. 

DAVIDSON, ROBERT, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1750, in Maryland. He 
was a presbyterian clergyman who was 
president of Dickinson college, Carlisle. 
Pa.. 1804-09. He was the author of 
Epitome of Geography in Verse for 
Schools; The Christian’s A, B, C, or the 
119th Psalm in Meter; and New Metrical 
Version of the Psalms, with Notes. He 
died Dec. 13, 1812. 

DAVIDSON, ROBERT, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 23, 1808, in Carlisle, 
Pa. He was a presbyterian minister in 


Kentucky and other states, among whose 
writings are Elijah, a Sacred Drama, and 
Other Poems; and The Christ of God, or 
the Relation, of Christ to Christianity. 
He died April 6, 1876, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DAVIDSON, ROBERT C., financier, 
public official, was born Dec. 25, 1850, in 
Lunenburg county, Va. In 1865 he moved 
to Baltimore, received employment in the 
wholesale dry goods house of Daniel Mil¬ 
ler and Co., and became financial manager 
of that concern. In 1889 he was elected 
mayor of Baltimore, and served with dis¬ 
tinction. He declined a re-election, and 
accepted the presidency of the Baltimore 
Trust and Guarantee Co., which position 
he still fills. 

DAVIDSON, ROBERT H. M., soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 23, 1832, in Gadsden, Fla. He 
served two terms as a representative in 
the state legislature; and was elected a 
state senator in 1860. He retired from 
the senate in 1862 and entered the con¬ 
federate army, rising to the rank of lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel. He was a member of the 
state constitutional convention of 1865; 
and was elected a representative from 
Florida to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, for¬ 
ty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, 
fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses as a 
democrat. 

DAVIDSON, ROBERT PARKS, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, was born Oct. 26, 1826, 
in Kentucky. He was district prosecuting 
attorney for four years; was common 
pleas judge for the district composed of 
Clinton and Carroll counties; and repre¬ 
sented Tippecanoe county in the lower 
house in the session of 1870-72. 

DAVIDSON, SAM HOUSTON, lawyer, 
college president, legislator, was born Jan. 
29, 1848, in Camden, Tenn. He was in 
the confederate service during the war. 
In 1877-79 he was a representative of the 
Arkansas house of representatives; in 
1889-91 served as state senator, and in 
1889 was a candidate for lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of his state. He was president of 
the Pacific and Great Eastern Railroad 
company, and president of the Evening 
Shade college. 

DAVIDSON, THOMAS, philosopher, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 25, 1840, in Scotland. 
He is a writer on art and philosophy who 
came to the United States in 1866 and set¬ 
tled at Cambridge, and the author of The 
Parthenon Frieze and Other Essays; 
The Place of Art in Education; Giordano 
Bruno and the Relation of his Philosophy 
to Free Thought; Handbook of Dante, 
from the Italian of Scartazzini, with 
Notes and Additions; Prolegomena to 
Tennyson’s In Memoriam; Aristotle, and 
Ancient and Modern Educational Ideals; 
and The Education of the Greek People 
and its Influence on Civilization. 

DAVIDSON, THOMAS G., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 6, 1805, in Jef¬ 
ferson county, Miss. He was elected to 
the legislature of Louisiana in 1833, where 
he served, from different parishes, some 
thirteen years. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Louisiana in 
1855; re-elected in 1857; and re-elected to 
the thirty-sixth congress, but withdrew in 
February, 1861. 

DAVIDSON, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
born in 1746 in Lancaster county, Pa. At 
the beginning of the revolution he was 
appointed major in one of the first regi¬ 
ments raised in North Carolina, and was 
in the engagements at Brandywine, Ger¬ 
mantown. and Monmouth. He died Feb. 
1, 1781, in Cowan’s Ford, N. C. 

DAVIDSON, WILLIAM, planter, state 
senator, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 
1778 in Mecklenburg county, N. C. He 


represented that county in the state legis¬ 
lature as senator in 1813, 1815, 1816, and 
1817. He was a representative in congress 
from his native state from 1818 to 1821; 
and served again in the state senate in 
1827, 1828, and 1829. He died Sept. 16, 
1857, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. 

DAVIDSON, WILLIAM M., farmer, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born April 8, 
1851, in Sullivan county, Tenn. He has 
been engaged in educational work for 
nearly twenty years; was superintendent 
of schools for Lee county, Va.; and presi¬ 
dent of Cumberland college for three 
years. 

DAVIE, WILLIAM R., jurist, was born 
in North Carolina. In 1790 he was ap¬ 
pointed a judge of the United States dis¬ 
trict court for the district of North Caro¬ 
lina. 

DAVIE, WILLIAM RICHARDSON, sol¬ 
dier, legislator, was born June 20, 1756, 
near White Haven, England. He settled 
at Halifax, N. C., and was for many years 
a member of the state legislature and in 
1787 was delegate to the convention which 
framed the federal constitution. He died 
Nov. 8, 1820, in Camden, S. C. 

DAVIE, WINSTON JONES, present 
state commissioner of agriculture, was 
born April 3, 1824, in Kentucky. He was 
prominently connected with grange 
movements in Kentucky and Tennessee, 
and was vice-president of the National 
Agricultural congress of Kentucky. He 
was for a time agricultural editor of the 
Louisville Ledger, and subsequently edi- 
tor-in-chief of the National Granger. 

DAVIES, CHARLES, educator, author, 
was born Jan. 22, 1798, in Washington. 
Conn. He was a noted professor of 
mathematics in Columbia college from 
1857. Beside a notable series of mathe¬ 
matical text-books, from A Primary 
Table Book to Elementary Geometry and 
Trigonometry, he published also editions 
of Legendre’s Geometry and Bourdon’s 
Algebra. Other works by him comprise 
Practical Mathematics; Elements of Sur¬ 
veying; Analytical Geometry; Differential 
and Integral Calculus; Logic and Utility 
of Mathematics; The Metric System; and 
Mathematical Dictionary. He died Sept. 
17, 1876, in Fishkill Landing, N. Y. 

DAVIES, CHARLES WILLIAM, en¬ 
graver, was born June 21, 1854, in Whites- 
boro N. Y. He has attained prominence 
as a noted steel and copper plate en¬ 
graver: and is also a successful business 
man of Grand Rapids, Ohio. 

DAVIES, EDWARD, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1837 to 1841. 

DAVIES, HENRY EUGENE, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Feb. 8, 1805, in Black 
Lake, N. Y. In 1859 he was elected to the 
court of appeals, where he served from 
1860 till 1869, being the chief justice for 
several years. He died Dec. 17, 1881, in 
New York city. 

DAVIES, HENRY EUGENE, soldier, 
lawyer, was born July 2, 1836, in New 
York city. He entered the army in 1861 
as a captain, and was made a brigadier- 
general of volunteers in 1863. He was 
public administrator of New York city in 
1866-69; assistant district attorney of the 
southern district of New York in 1870-72; 
and since 1873 has been engaged in law 
practice. 

DAVIES, JULIEN TAPPAN. lawyer, 
was born Sept. 25, 1845, in New York city. 
For many years he has been counsel for 
the elevated railroads in the city of New 
York; and since 1881 has been trustee 
and counsel for the Mutual Life Insurance 
company. 



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DAVIES, MARIANNE, musician, was 
born in 1736 in New England. She was 
a noted player on the harmonica; and 
with her sister Cecilia made a successful 
tour of Europe. She died in 1792. 

DAVIES, SAMUEL, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born Nov. 3, 1724, 
in Summit Ridge, Del. He was a presby- 
terian clergyman of great renown in his 
day as a preacher, and the fourth presi¬ 
dent of Princeton college. He wrote a 
number of hymns still in use, and his Ser¬ 
mons, in five volumes, appeared in Lon¬ 
don in 1767. He died Feb. 4, 1761, in 
Princeton, N. J. 

DAVIES, THOMAS, clergyman, was 
born Dec. 21, 1736, in England. He was 
the first episcopalian in the town, and by 
his efforts the present parish of St. Mich¬ 
ael’s was organized in 1745. He gave it a 
tract of land, and contributed largely to 
the erection of a church. He died May 12, 
1766, in Milford, Conn. 

DAVIES, THOMAS ALFRED, soldier, 
author, was born in December, 1809, in 
St. Lawrence county, N. Y. He was a fed¬ 
eral officer in the civil war, and is the 
authpr of Cosmogony, or Mysteries of Cre¬ 
ation; Adam and Ha-Adam; Genesis Dis¬ 
closed; Answer to Hugh Miller and The¬ 
oretical Geologists; and How to Make 
Money and How to Keep It. 

DAVIES, THOMAS FREDERICK, bish¬ 
op of Michigan, -was born Aug. 31, 1831, in 
Fairfield, Conn. He was professor of 
Hebrew in the Berkeley Divinity school, 
from 1856 to 1862; rector of St. John’s 
church of Portsmouth, N. H., from 1862 
to 1868; and rector of St. Peter’s church of 
Philadelphia, from 1868 to 1880. He has 
published occasional sermons, episcopal 
addresses, pastorals, and other official 
papers. 

DAVIES, WILLIAM, jurist, was born in 
Georgia. Prior to the year 1820 he was 
appointed a judge of the United States 
district court for the district of Georgia. 

DAVIES, WILLIAM GILBERT, lawyer, 
was born March 21, 1842, in New York 
city. He entered the service of the Mu¬ 
tual Life Insurance company of New York 
city, and in 1870, when the law depart¬ 
ment of the company was organized, he 
became assistant. He held that position 
until 1885, when he was elected head of 
the department. 

DAVIESS, JOSEPH HAMILTON, law¬ 
yer. was born March 4, 1774, in Bedford 
county, Va. He served for six months as 
a volunteer in the Indian campaign of 
1793, and then studied law. He died Nov. 
7, 1811. 

DAVIS. AARON GREEN, journalist, 
poet, was born March 8, 1865, in Camden, 
Tenn. In 1889 he began the publication 
of The Southern; and in 1890 was elected 
county lecturer of the Agricultural Wheel, 
now known as the Farmers’ Alliance, 
which position he filled until 1892. He has 
editorial control of The Dyersburg Times. 

DAVIS, AARON JASPER, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, was born June 21, 1847, in Clarion 
county, Pa. He served as a union soldier 
during the civil war; and for twenty-three 
years has been a member of the National 
Guard of Pennsylvania. His life has been 
spent principally in educational work. He 
was county superintendent of schools for 
eight years; was an officer in the depart¬ 
ment of public instruction at Harrisburg, 
Pa.; superintendent of the Industrial and 
Training school of Sitka, Alaska, and is 
now principal of the State Normal school 
of Clarion, Pa. 

DAVIS, ALEXANDER HENRY, propri¬ 
etor, was born Oct. 19, 1839, in Syracuse, 


N. Y. When the civil war broke out he 
went to the front in 1861 as lieutenant of 
artillery. He was promoted to be captain 
and assistant adjutant-general in 1863, 
and major and assistant inspector-general 
in 1864. 

DAVIS, ALEXANDER JACKSON, arch¬ 
itect, was born July 24,1803, in New York. 
He designed the executive department and 
patent-office in Washington, the capitols 
of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and North Caro¬ 
lina, the university of Michigan, and the 
Virginia military institute. 

DAVIS, AMOS, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in Mount Sterling, Ky. He was 
a member of the Kentucky legislature 
from Montgomery county in 1819, 1825, 
1827 and 1828; and was a representative in 
congress from Kentucky from 1833 to 
1835. He was a brother of Garrett Davis. 
He died June 5, 1835, in Owingsville, Ky. 

DAVIS, ANDREW JACKSON, author, 
was born Aug. 11, 1826, in Blooming 
Grove, N. Y. He is a noted spiritualist of 
Poughkeepsie, among whose many mys¬ 
tical rhapsodical writings the following 
may be considered the most important: 
The Great Harmonia; Harmonial Man; 
Present Age and Inner Life; Philoso¬ 
phy of Spiritual Intercourse; The Princi¬ 
ples of Nature; The Penetralia; Genesis 
and Ethics of Conjugal Love, and Auto¬ 
biography. 

DAVIS, ANDREW McFARLAND, anti¬ 
quarian and author, was born Dec. 30, 
1833, in Worcester, Mass. After practic¬ 
ing a short time in Massachusetts he went 
to California, and was for several years 
a partner of his brother in the manufac¬ 
turing business. He published articles in 
the Overland and Atlantic Monthly maga¬ 
zines. 

DAVIS, ASAHEL, author, was born in 
1791 in Massachusetts. He is a Massa¬ 
chusetts antiquary who published Ancient 
America and Researches of the East; and 
History of New Amsterdam. 

DAVIS, AUGUSTA CORDELIA, poet, 
was born in 1836 in Maine. She is the 
author of Poems from Yare. 

DAVIS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1832 in Alabama. He 
distinguished himself in both the infantry 
and cavalry service in New Mexico. In 
1862 he became colonel of the eighth New 
York cavalry. He died June 9, 1863, in 
Beverly Ford, Va. 

DAVIS, BOOTHE COLWELL, educator, 
college president, author, was born July 
12, 1863, in Jane Lew, W. Va. He was 
made president of Alfred university, in 
which institution he also fills the chair of 
philosophy and college pastor. He has 
written numerous papers, lectures and ad¬ 
dresses, and is the author of Catholicism 
in America; The Beginnings of History; 
and The Narrative of the Flood and the 
Lessons It Teaches. 

DAVIS, MRS. CAROLINE E„ author, 
was born in 1831 in Northwood, N. H. She 
is a prolific writer of Sunday-school tales, 
and is the author of N® Cross, No Crown; 
Little Conqueror Series; Miss Wealthy’s 
Hope; and That Boy. 

DAVIS, CHARLES, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, was born Jan. 1, 1789, in Mansfield, 
Conn. In 1841-45 he was United States 
district attorney of Vermont, and in 1845 
was elected judge of probate for the dis¬ 
trict of Caledonia, and re-elected in 1846. 
He died in 1863 in Vermont. 

DAVIS, CHARLES C., soldier, was born 
Aug. 15, 1830, in Harrisburg, Pa. He 
served as a union soldier during the civil 
war; was second and first lieutenant dur¬ 
ing three months’ service in 1861, and cap¬ 


tain and major during three years’ service 
in seventh regiment Pennsylvania caval¬ 
ry, army of the Cumberland. He is now 
connected with the postoffice of his native 
city. 

DAVIS, CHARLES HENRY, naval offi¬ 
cer, author, was born Jan. 16, 1807, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a rear-admiral in the 
United States navy, and a noted hydro- 
grapher. Besides editing the American 
Nautical Almanac, he published Law of 
Deposit of Flood Tide; Geological Action 
of Tidal and Other Ocean Currents; and 
translated Gauss’s Theoria Motus Corpo- 
rum Ccelestium. He died in 1877. 

DAVIS. CHARLES HENRY, naval offi¬ 
cer, author, was born Aug. 28, 1845, in 
Cambridge, Mass. He was a United States 
naval officer, and the author of Chrono¬ 
meter Rates as Affected by Temperature 
and Other Causes; and Telegraphic Deter¬ 
mination of Longitudes. 

DAVIS, CHARLES HENRY STANLEY, 
physician, author, was born in 1840 in 
Connecticut. He is a physician of Meri¬ 
den, Conn., and the author of History of 
Wallingford and Meriden; The Voice as a 
Musical Instrument; Education and 
Training of Feeble Minded Children; and 
Index to Periodical Literature. 

DAVIS, CLAUDE BERNARD, educator, 
was born March 18,1873, in Mohican, Ohio. 
In 1892 he graduated from the Bethany, 
W. Va.; and the next year studied at Har¬ 
vard university. He then became city ed¬ 
itor of the Ashland Times, Ohio; and 
since 1894 has been director of the School 
of Oratory of the university of Wooster, 
with phenomenal success. 

DAVIS, CLINTON B., manufacturer, 
legislator, was born July 27, 1843, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. In 1867 he established the 
wholesale hardware firm of Davis, Tracy 
and Co., and subsequently began the man¬ 
ufacture of plows. In 1883 he was elected 
to the Connecticut general assembly as 
representative from the town of Haddam, 
receiving the re-election in 1884 and 1887; 
and during the latter two terms was 
speaker of the house. 

DAVIS, CUSHMAN KELLOGG, soldier, 
lawyer, United States senator, author, 
was born June 16, 1838, in Henderson, N. 
Y. He was first lieutenant in the twenty- 
eighth Wisconsin infantry in 1862-64. He 
was a member of the Minnesota legisla¬ 
ture in 1867; was United States district 
attorney for Minnesota in 1868-73; was 
governor of Minnesota in 1874-75; and 
was elected to the United States senate as 
a republican, to succeed S. J. R. McMil¬ 
lan, republican, and took his seat March 4, 
1887; was re-elected in 1893. His term of 
service will expire March 3. 1899. He is 
the author of The Law in Shakespeare. 

DAVIS, DANIEL, lawyer, jurist, author, 
was born May 8, 1762, in Barnstable, Mass. 
He was a Massachusetts jurist who "was 
solicitor-general of his state in 1800-32. 
He is the author of Criminal Practice; and 
Precedents of Indictments. 

DAVIS, DANIEL F., governor. He was 
governor of Maine in 1880-81. 

DAVIS, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, United 
States senator, was born March 9, 1815, 
in Cecil county, Md. He was elected to 
the Illinois state legislature; and in 1848 
was elected judge of the eighth judicial 
circuit of the state; re-elected in 1855 and 
also in 1861. He was appointed a justice 
of the supreme court of the United States; 
and was a delegate-at-large to the Chi¬ 
cago convention of 1860, which nominated 
Mr. Lincoln for president. He resigned 
from the supreme bench in 1877 to take 
his seat as United States senator from Ill¬ 
inois for the term of six years. He died 
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DAVIS, DAVID, vocalist, composer, was 
born May 3, 1855, in South Wales. About 
1881 he established himself as a teacher 
of singing in Cincinnati, Ohio, in which 
■city he has ever since been choirmaster 
of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church. 
He has also been tenor of the Plum street 
Jewish synagogue; tenor of the Scottish 
Rite choir; director of the Welsh Choral 
society, and director of the Cambrian Male 
chorus. He has appeared in numerous 
concerts in London and in many of the 
principal cities of the United States. 

DAVIS, EDMUND J., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, was born in Florida. He 
was collector of customs on the Texas 
frontier, bordering on the Rio Grande, 
from 1850 to 1852; was a district attorney 
in 1853 and 1854, and was district judge 
from 1855 to 1860. In 1861 he entered the 
union army as colonel; served throughout 
the civil war, rising to the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general. After the close of the war 
he returned to Texas; in 1866 was a mem¬ 
ber of the first reconstruction convention; 
was president of the second reconstruc¬ 
tion convention, and was governor of 
Texas from 1870 to 1874. 

DAVIS, EDWIN HAMILTON, archaeol¬ 
ogist, author, was born Jan. 22, 1811, in 
Ross county, Ohio. He was an archaeol¬ 
ogist whose chief work is Monuments of 
the Mississippi. He died May 15, 1888, in 
New York city. 

DAVIS, ELIAS G., business man, public 
official, was born Oct. 15, 1841, in South 
Wales. In 1868 he emigrated to the United 
States, and for the past ten years has 
lived in Colorado. He has been postmas¬ 
ter for eight years, and in 1888 was ap¬ 
pointed commissioner by Governor Coop¬ 
er; re-elected two terms; and served two 
years as chairman of the board. He is 
also a successful cattle ranchman on the 
south fork of the Republican river, Col- 
•orado. 

DAVIS, EMERSON, clergyman, author, 
was born July 15, 1798, in Ware, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman who 
was president of Williams college in 1861- 
68. He was the author of Historical 
Sketch of Westfield, Massachusetts; The 
Teacher Taught; and The First Half Cen¬ 
tury, or Events and Changes, 1800-50. He 
•died June 8, 1866, in Westfield, Mass. 

DAVIS, GARRETT, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born 
Sept. 10, 1801, in Mt. Sterling, Ky. He 
was elected to the state legislature, and 
was twice re-elected. In 1839 he was a 
member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention; and from 1839 to 1847 was a 
representative in congress from Ken¬ 
tucky, and declined a re-election. In 1861 
he was elected a senator in congress from 
Kentucky for the term ending in 1867. In 
1867 he was re-elected to the senate for 
the term ending in 1873. He died Sept. 3, 
1872, in Paris, Ky. 

DAVIS, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born Nov. 8, 1858, in 
Fayetteville, Ga. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Middle Georgia college, and 
the Atlanta Medical college, Georgia. He 
was president of the Fayetteville County 
Medical association, and a member of the 
leading medical associations. He has a 
large practice in De Land, Fla., where he 
is also a prominent druggist. 

DAVIS, GEORGE R., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 3, 1840, in Three Riv¬ 
ers, Mass. He entered the union army in 
1862 and was promoted from captain to 
major, serving until the close of the war. 
He settled in Chicago, Ill., and engaged 
in various pursuits. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Illinois to the forty- 


sixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth 
congresses as a democrat, and declined 
further nominations. 

DAVIS, GEORGE THOMAS, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 
12, 1810, in Sandwich, Mass. He was 
elected to the senate of Massachusetts in 
1839 and 1840; and was a representative in 
congress from Massachusetts from 1851 to 
1853. His speeches in congress were pub¬ 
lished in 1852. He died in 1877. 

DAVIS, GILBERT ASA, merchant, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Dec. 18, 1835, in 
Chester, Vt. In 1872 he was elected a 
member of the Vermont house of repre¬ 
sentatives, and in 1876 was elected to the 
state senate. He has been state’s attor¬ 
ney for Windsor county, and for fifteen 
years has practiced law with success in 
Windsor. He is the owner of the Wind¬ 
sor Drug Store, and is prominently iden¬ 
tified with various other business enter¬ 
prises. 

DAVIS, HASBROUCK, soldier, lawyer, 
was born April 19, 1827, in Worcester, 
Mass. He was mustered into the United 
States service in 1862 as lieutenant-colonel 
of the eleventh Illinois cavalry, and at the 
close of the war was brevetted brigadier- 
general. After returning to Chicago, he 
was elected city attorney. He died Oct. 10, 
1870. , 

DAVIS, HENRY, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born Sept. 15, 1771, 
in East Hampton, N. Y. He was appointed 
president of Hamilton college, where he 
remained until his resignation in 1833. He 
published a Narrative of the Embarrass¬ 
ments and Decline of Hamilton College. 
He died March 8, 1852, in Clinton, N. Y. 

DAVIS, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, was 
born March 4, 1837, in Franklin county, 
Vt. He received his education in the com¬ 
mon schools of Vermont, and has attained 
distinction as one of the leading lawyers 
of the west; and now practices his pro¬ 
fession at Yuma, Ariz. 

DAVIS, HENRY EUGENE, lawyer, sol¬ 
dier, was born July 2, 1836, in New York 
city. He attended Harvard and Williams 
colleges, and gradu¬ 
ated from the Col¬ 
umbia Law school in 
1857. At the com¬ 
mencement of the 
civil war he became 
captain of the fifth 
New York volunteer 
infantry; rose rapid- 
1y through a 11 
grades; and was 
bi - e vetted brigadier- 
general of the United 
States volunteers. 
For three years he was public administra¬ 
tor of New York city, and during 1870-73 
was assistant district attorney of the 
United States. 

DAVIS, HENRY G., railroad presi¬ 
dent, banker, United States senator, 
was born Nov. 16, 1823, in Howard 

county, Md. He settled in West Vir¬ 
ginia, and in 1858 became president of 
a bank. In 1865 he was elected to the 
legislature; in 1868 was a delegate to the 
democratic national convention; in the 
same year was elected to the state senate; 
and in 1870 was re-elected. He was elected 
a senator in congress from West Virginia 
for the term ending in 1877, and was re¬ 
elected for the term ending in 1883. In 
1881 he became president of the West Vir¬ 
ginia Central and Pittsburg railway, and 
also of the Piedmont and Cumberland 
railway. 


DAVIS, HENRY LYON, college presi¬ 
dent, was born about 1775 in Maryland. In 
1816 he was elected vice-president of St. 
John’s college of Annapolis, Md.; in 1818 
was appointed to the chair of mathemat¬ 
ics, and in 1820 was elected president of 
this institution. In 1826 he moved to 
Delaware, where he became president of 
the college at Wilmington. He died in 
1837 in Georgetown, Md. 

DAVIS, HENRY WINTER, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Aug. 16, 1817, 
in Annapolis, Md. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Maryland to the thirty- 
fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth con¬ 
gresses; and also elected to the thirty- 
eighth congress. In 1864 he was appointed 
a regent of the Smithsonian institution. 
He was conspicuously loyal to the union 
during the civil war. He was the author 
of The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in 
the Nineteenth Century; and Speeches and 
Addresses in Congress. He died Dec. 30. 
1865, in Baltimore, Md. 

DAVIS, HORACE, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born March 16. 
1831, in Worcester, Mass. He was elected 
a representative from California to the 
forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as 
a republican. He is the president of the 
Sperry Flour company of San Francisco, 
which has a capital of ten million dollars. 
He is the author of Dolor Davis, a Sketch 
of His Life; American Constitutions and 
the Relation of the Three Departments as 
Adjusted by a Century; and Shakespeare’s 
Sonnets, an Essay. 

DAVIS, ISAAC, patriot, was born in 
1745. He was captain of the Acton min¬ 
ute-men, and led them against the British 
at Concord bridge. He died April 19, 1775, 
in Concord, Mass. 

DAVIS, ISAAC, lawyer, state senator, 
was born June 2, 1799, in Northborough, 
Mass. He was mayor of Worcester for 
three years, and for eleven years a mem¬ 
ber of the Massachusetts senate. He died 
April 1, 1883, in Worcester, Mass. 

DAVIS, JAMES, colonial printer, was 
born Oct. 21, 1721, in Virginia. He re¬ 
moved with his printing outfit to New- 
bern, N. C., in 1749, and established the 
first press in that state. He was the only 
printer in the province until 1764, and 
did nearly all the book and pamphlet 
printing prior to and during the revolu¬ 
tion. He died in 1785 in Newbern, N. C. 

DAVIS, JAMES, jurist, poet, was born 
Jan. 28, 1815, in Gloucester, Mass. In 
1877 he published a volume of his verse 
entitled Pleasant Water, a Song of the 
Sea and Shore. For thirty years he was a 
judge in his native city. 

DAVIS. JAMES C., physician, author, 
was born March 16, 1863, in Grand coun¬ 
ty, Mo. He graduated from the high 
school in 1883; and 
from the university 
of Michigan in 1885; 
after which he en¬ 
tered the Bellevue 
Hospital Medical 
college of New York 
city, where the de¬ 
gree of doctor of 
medicine was con¬ 
ferred upon him. He 
then attended the 
hospitals of New 
York city for one 
year, then studied abroad for two years; 
and has attained eminence as a successful 
practitioner of gynaecology, obstetrics and 
surgery in Rochester, N. Y. He is widely 
known by his valuable contributions to 
medical literature, and is a prominent 
member of the leading medical societies 
of both America and Europe. 




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DAVIS, JEFFERSON, statesman, presi¬ 
dent of the confederacy, was born June 3, 
1808, in Christian county, Ky. In 1844 
he was a presidential 
elector, and in 1845 
was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress 
from Mississippi. He 
resigned in 1846 to 
become colonel of a 
volunteer regiment 
to serve in Mexico, 
and in Mexico re¬ 
ceived the appoint¬ 
ment of brigadier- 
general. In 1847 he 
was appointed a sen¬ 
ator in congress to fill a vacancy, 
and was elected for the term ending 
in 1851; and resigned in 1850, and was 
re-elected for a term of six years, but re¬ 
signed. He was appointed secretary of 
war by President Pierce, serving through¬ 
out his administration. In 1857 he again 
took his seat in the United States senate 
for the term of six years. He wrote the 
Rise and Fall of the Confederate Govern¬ 
ment. He died in 1889. 

DAVIS, JEFFERSON C., soldier, was 
born March 2, 1828, in Clark county, Ind. 
In 1848 he was made second lieutenant for 
gallant conduct at 
Buena Vista; arid in 
1852 became first 
lieutenant, and had 
charge of the garri¬ 
son in Fort Sumter, 
S. C., and was there 
during the bombard¬ 
ment of 1861. At 
the battle of Pea 
Ridge he command¬ 
ed as brigadier-gen¬ 
era 1 of volunteers 
one of the four divi¬ 
sions of General Curtis’ army. On Sept. 
2;», 1862, he chanced to meet in Louisville, 
Gen. William Nelson, from whom he 
claimed to have received treatment un¬ 
duly harsh and severe. An altercation en¬ 
sued, and in a moment of resentment he 
shot Nelson, instantly killing him. He 
was arrested, and held for a time, but no 
trial was ordered, and he was released and 
assigned to duty at Covington, Ky. He 
died Nov. 30, 1879, in Chicago, Ill. 

DAVIS, JOHN, congressman, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1839 
to 1841. 

DAVIS, JOHN, lawyer, legislator, jurist, 
was born Jan. 25, 1761, in Plymouth, Mass. 
He was some years in the state legisla¬ 
ture; a member of the convention to adopt 
the federal constitution, and member of 
the state senate in 1795. He was appoint¬ 
ed comptroller of the United States treas¬ 
ury in 1795; district attorney for Massa¬ 
chusetts in 1796, and was United States 
district judge from 1801 until his death. 
He died Jan. 14, 1847, in Boston, Mass. 

DAVIS, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, governor, 
United States senator, was born Jan. 13, 
1787, in Northborough, Mass. He was a 
representative i n 
congress from 1825 
to 1834; governor of 
Massachusetts dur¬ 
ing the years 1834 
and 1835, and 1841 
and 1842, and a sen¬ 
ator in congress 
from 1835 to 1841, 
and again from 1845 
to 1853. He died 
April 19, 1854, in 

Worcester, Mass. He 
was noted for his 
great philanthropy and kindness. 


DAVIS, JOHN, journalist, congressman, 
author, was born Aug. 9, 1826, in Sanga¬ 
mon county, Ill. For a quarter of a cen¬ 
tury he was actively 
engaged in journal¬ 
ism, and served as a 
member of the fifty- 
second and fifty- 
third congresses. He 
is the author of a 
large number of 
pamphlets and 
speeches on the 
monetary question 
and political econo¬ 
my; and the author 
of The Conquest of 
the Prairies by Abraham Lincoln in 1830; 
Sketch of Napoleon Bonaparte; and vari¬ 
ous other works, which are highly valued. 

DAVIS, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was born 
Sept. 16, 1851, in Newton, Mass. He was 
appointed assistant counsel for the United 
States before the French-American claims 
commission in 1881; in 1882 was appointed 
assistant secretary of state, and in 1885 
was appointed an associate justice of the 
United States court of claims. 

DAVIS, JOHN A. G., lawyer, author, 
was born in 1801 in Middlesex county, Va. 
He was a Virginia lawyer, professor of 
law in the university of Virginia in 1830- 
40, and the author of Estates Tail, Execu¬ 
tive Devises, and Contingent Remainders 
under Virginia Statutes; and Treatise on 
Criminal Law. He died Nov. 4, 1840, in 
Williamsburg, Va. 

DAVIS, JOHN CHANDLER BAN¬ 
CROFT, diplomatist, author, was born 
Dec. 29, 1822, in Worcester, Mass. He is a 
diplomatist who was agent for the United 
States before the Geneva court of arbi¬ 
tration on the Alabama claims, and after¬ 
wards, 1873-77, minister to Germany. He 
is the author of The Massachusetts Jus¬ 
tice; The Case of the United States Be¬ 
fore the Tribunal of Arbitration at Gen¬ 
eva; Treaties of the United States, with 
Notes; United States Supreme Court Re¬ 
ports; and Mr. Fish and the Alabama 
Claims. 

DAVIS, JOHN G., congressman, was 
born Oct. 10, 1810, in Fleming county, Ky. 
He was a representative from Indiana to 
the thirty-second, thirty-third and thirty- 
fifth congresses, and was re-elected to the 
thirty-sixth congress. He died Jan. 18, 
1866, in Terre Haute, Ind. 

DAVIS, JOHN H., lawyer, was born Feb. 
9, 1869, in Gaddiston, Ga. In 1892 he was 
admitted to the bar, and is attaining dis¬ 
tinction as an able lawyer of Hiawassee, 
Ga. He has served as county adminis¬ 
trator, and takes an active part in the 
public affairs of his county and state. 

DAVIS, JOHN J., lawyer, congressman, 
was born May 1, 1835, in Clarksburg, Va. 
He was a member of the state legislature 
of Virginia in 1861, and of West Virginia 
in 1870. He was a presidential elector in 
1864, and was one of the delegates from 
the state at large to the national demo¬ 
cratic convention at New York in 1868. 
He was elected to the forty-second and 
forty-third congresses as a democrat. 

DAVIS, JOHN LEE, naval officer, was 
born Sept. 3, 1825, in Carlisle, Ind. He 
entered the United States service as a 
midshipman in 1841; was commissioned 
lieutenant-commander in 1862, and in 1863 
sank the blockade running steamer 
Georgina. He died Sept. 3, 1889, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

DAVIS, JOHN W., physician, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born July 17, 1799, 
in Lancaster, Pa. He served as a surro¬ 
gate, and then in the legislature of In¬ 


diana; and was speaker of the lower 
branch in 1832 and 1841. He was also a 
commissioner to make a treaty with the 
Indians, and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Indiana from 1835 to 1837, from 
1839 to 1841, and again from 1843 to 1847. 
He was speaker of the house of represent¬ 
atives during the twenty-ninth congress. 
In 1848 he was appointed minister to 
China. He subsequently held the position 
of governor of Oregon territory during 
1853-54. He died Aug. 22, 1859, in Carlisle, 
Ind. 

DAVIS, JOHN WOODBRIDGE, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Aug. 19, 1854, in 
New York city. He is a civil engineer 
who, besides contributing much to en¬ 
gineering journals, has published Formu¬ 
lae for the Calculation of Railroad Earth 
Work and Average Haul, which speedily 
came into use as a text-book. 

DAVIS, JOSEPH JOHN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 13, 1828, in 
Franklin county, N. C. He was elected 
to the state legislature in 1866, and was 
elected a representative from North Caro¬ 
lina to the forty-fourth congress, and was 
re-elected to the forty-fifth and forty- 
sixth congresses as a democrat. 

DAVIS, JOSEPH SLOCUM, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 21, 1812, in Pickaway 
county, Ohio. He settled in Mount Ver¬ 
non, and there practiced his profession in 
connection with Columbus Delano. He 
was twice elected judge, and held other 
offices, both national and local. He died 
Dec. 21, 1884, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. 

DAVIS, LEMUEL CLARKE, journalist, 
author, was born Sept. 25, 1835, near San¬ 
dusky, Ohio. He is a Philadelphia jour¬ 
nalist, editor of The Inquirer, and author 
of The Stranded Ship, a Story of Sea and 
Shore. 

DAVIS, LOWNDES H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 14, 1836, in Jack- 
son, Mo. He was state’s attorney for the 
tenth judicial circuit of Missouri from 1868 
to 1872; was a presidential elector in 1872, 
and was a member of the state constitu¬ 
tional convention of 1875. He was elected 
a member of the state house of represent¬ 
atives in 1876, and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Missouri to the forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

DAVIS, MRS. MARY EVELYN, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1852 in Alabama. 
She is a prominent writer of New Or¬ 
leans, on the editorial staff of the Pica¬ 
yune, and the author of Minding the Gap, 
and Other Poems; In War Times at La 
Rose Blanche, sketches for young people; 
Under the Man-Fig, a novel; and An Ele¬ 
phant’s Track and Other Stories. 

DAVIS, MATTHEW L., journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1766 in New York. He 
was a Washington journalist who pub¬ 
lished a Life of Aaron Burr. He died 
June 2, 1850, in Manhattanville, N. Y. 

DAVIS, MINNIE S., lecturer, was born 
March 25, 1835, in Baltimore, Md. For 
many years she was assistant editor of the 
Ladies’ Repository of Boston, Mass. She 
has lectured upon the Philosophy of Men¬ 
tal Healing and since 1885 has been de¬ 
voted to the work of healing and teaching 
mental science and healing, at Hartford, 
Conn., with great success. 

DAVIS, NATHAN SMITH, physician, 
author, was born Jan. 9, 1817, in Greene, 
N. Y. He is a Chicago physician, dean of 
the Northwestern university, whose prin¬ 
cipal writings include Lectures on Various 
Important Diseases; Principles and Prac¬ 
tice of Medicine; Verdict of Science Con¬ 
cerning the Effects of Alcohol on Man; 
and Medical Education and Reform. 








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DAVIS, NELSON HENRY, soldier, was 
born Sept. 20, 1821, in Oxford, Mass. He 
served in the war with Mexico, and re¬ 
ceived the brevet of brigadier-general 
for his services in the civil war. He was 
retired in 1885 as brigadier-general. He 
died May 15, 1890, on Governor’s Island, 
N. Y. 

DAVIS, NOAH, lawyer, jurist, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 10, 1818, in Haverhill, 
N. H. He was a justice of the supreme 
court of the state from 1857 to 1868. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-first and forty-second 
congresses, but resigned to become United 
States attorney for the district of New 
York. In 1873 he was again elected judge 
of the supreme court. 

DAVIS, NOAH KNOWLES, educator, 
author, was born May 15, 1830, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is a professor of moral 
science in the university of Virginia, and 
the author of The Theory of Thought, a 
Treatise on Deductive Logic; the Ele¬ 
ments of Inductive Logic; and the Ele¬ 
ments of Deductive Logic. 

DAVIS, OZORA STEARNS, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born July 30, 1866, 
in Wheelock, Vt. He received a thorough 
education, and has the degrees of A. B., 
A. M. and Ph. D. For several years he was 
principal of graded schools of White Riv¬ 
er Junction, Vt., and is now pastor of the 
First Congregational church of Spring- 
field, Vt. He is the author of Dartmouth 
Lyrics; A Vocabulary of New Testament 
Words; John Robinson; and other works. 

DAVIS, PETER SEIFERT, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1828 in Maryland. 
He is a German reformed clergyman who 
has written The Young Parson. 

DAVIS, MRS. REBECCA BLAINE, 
author, was born June 24, 1831, in Wash¬ 
ington, Pa. She is a novelist whose first 
story, Life in the Iron Mills, a powerful 
but sombre study of laboring-class life, 
attracted great attention in the earlier 
pages of the Atlantic Monthly. Her later 
works in fiction include Margret Howth; 
Waiting for the Verdict; Dallas Gal¬ 
braith; A Law Unto Herself; Kitty’s 
Choice; John Andross; Doctor Warrick’s 
Daughters; Silhouettes of American Life; 
Kent Hampden, a Story of a Boy; Natas- 
qua; The Faded Leaf of History; and 
Frances Walstrup. 

DAVIS, REUBEN, lawyer, jurist, gen¬ 
eral, congressman, author, was born Jan. 
18, 1813, in Tullahoma, Tenn. He was in 
the Mexican war as colonel commandant 
of the Mississippi rifles, but resigned on 
account of sickness. He was elected to the 
lower branch of the state legislature from 
1855 to 1857; and was elected a member of 
the thirty-fifth congress, and re-elected to 
the thirty-sixth congress, and was a mem¬ 
ber of the special committee of thirty- 
three; joined the rebellion in 1861. He 
was the author of Recollections of Missis¬ 
sippi and the Mississippians. He died in 
1890. 

DAVIS, RICHARD BINGHAM, poet, 
was born Aug. 21, 1771, in New York city. 
He was the author of numerous meritori¬ 
ous poems, which were collected and pub¬ 
lished, with memoir, by John T. Irving. 
He died in 1799 in New Brunswick, N. J. 

DAVIS, RICHARD D„ congressman, 
was born in New York. He graduated 
from Yale college in 1818, and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from his native 
state from 1841 to 1845. 

DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING, author, 
was born in 1864 in Pennsylvania. He is 
a popular New York writer whose first 
book, Gallegher and Other Stories, 
brought him very suddenly into notice in 
1890. He is the author of Van Bibber and 


Others; The Princess Aline; The Exiles; 
The West from a Car Window; Our Eng¬ 
lish Cousins; About Paris; The Rulers 
of the Mediterranean; Three Gringos in 
Venezuela; and Stories for Boys. 

DAVIS, ROBERT STEWART, journal¬ 
ist, was born in 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He has held the position of editor of sev¬ 
eral newspapers in Philadelphia and New 
York; and in 1883 established The Call, 
which is one of the best and most popular 
one cent papers in America. 

DAVIS, ROBERT T., congressman, was 
born Aug. 28, 1823, in County of Down, 
Ireland. He settled at Fall River, Mass., 
in 1850; was a representative in the state 
legislature in 1853; and state senator in 
1859-61. He was elected mayor of Fall 
River in 1873, and was elected a represent¬ 
ative from Massachusetts to the forty- 
eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses 
as a republican. 

DAVIS, ROBERT W., lawyer, legislator, 
congressman, was born March 15, 1849, in 
Lee county, Ga. His father was an ex¬ 
tensive planter and an eminent baptist 
divine. In 1863 he entered the confederate 
service, and surrendered witn the army of 
General Johnston. In 1868 he was admit¬ 
ted to the bar, and soon took rank among 
the most eminent members of the bar in 
his native state. In 1879 he moved to 
Florida, where he now also stands at the 
head of his profession. In 18»4 he was 
elected a member of the Florida state leg¬ 
islature, of which body he was made 
speaker. In 1888 he received a very flat¬ 
tering vote as a candidate for governor. 
He is now serving with distinction as a 
member of the fifty-fifth congress from 
the second congressional district of Flor¬ 
ida. 

DAVIS, ROGER, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1811 to 1815. 

DAVIS, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born in Massachusetts. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
in 1803-12, and in 1815-16 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature. 

DAVIS, SAMUEL B., congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Louisiana from 1853 
to 1855. 

DAVIS, SAMUEL POST, journalist, was 
born April 4, 1850, in Branford, Conn. 
He attended the common schools and 
graduated from the Racine college, Wis¬ 
consin. He began his literary career as 
a humorous writer; wrote for the New 
York Sun, Chicago Times, San Francisco 
Examiner, New York Journal, and other 
prominent newspapers. He was the first 
writer to advocate the formation of a 
political party having for its platform 
the principles of bimetallism solely, and 
he is the author of several essays on that 
subject. In 1896 he was a member of the 
St. Louis bimetallic convention. He is the 
editor and owner of the Carson Appeal, of 
Carson City, Nev., and the author of a 
volume of Short Stories. 

DAVIS, SAMUEL T., soldier, physician, 
legislator, was born March 6, 1838, in 
Huntingdon county, Pa. He served in the 
civil war and attained the rank of assist¬ 
ant adjutant-geperal. He is a physician 
of Lancaster, Pa., and president of the 
state board of health of Pennsylvania. 
In 1884 he was elected to the state legis¬ 
lature and re-elected in 1886. 

DAVIS, SAMUEL TAYLOR, D. D., cler¬ 
gyman, missionary, was born March 4, 
1845, in Washington, Pa. He is a Presby¬ 
terian clergyman and has been largely en¬ 
gaged in mission work in the United 
States and China. 


DAVIS, SYLVANUS, pioneer. He com¬ 
manded Fort Loyal, Falmouth, and after 
a five days’ defence was obliged to sur¬ 
render it to the French and Indians in 
May, 1690. He was a counsellor in 1691- 
92. He died in 1704, in Boston, Mass. 

DAVIS, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in Ireland. He emigrated to Rhode 
Island, and was elected a representative in 
congress from 1853 to 1855. 

DAVIS, THOMAS FREDERICK, clergy¬ 
man, was born Feb. 8, 1804, in Wilming¬ 
ton, N. C. In 1846 he moved to South Car¬ 
olina, and became rector of Grace church, 
Camden. He was elected bishop of the 
diocese, and consecrated in St. John’s cha¬ 
pel, New York, in 1853. He died Dec. 2, 

1871, in Camden, S. C. 

DAVIS, THOMAS KIRBY, clergyman, 
librarian, was born Feb. 11, 1826 in Cham- 
bersburg, Pa. In 1845 he graduated from 
Yale college; during 1846-49 he studied 
theology at the Princeton Theological 
seminary, and has attained eminence as a 
clergyman of the Presbyterian church. He 
was a home missionary in California for 
many years. He has filled pastorates in 
Pennsylvania and Ohio, and is now libra¬ 
rian of the Wooster university. He has 
been professor of languages in the Ver¬ 
milion institute of Hayesville, Ohio; has 
been trustee of that institution, and also 
of Wooster university. He has been a 
frequent contributor to periodical liter¬ 
ature. 

DAVIS, THOMAS T., jurist. He was ap¬ 
pointed in 1803 United States judge for the 
territory of Indiana. 

DAVIS, THOMAS T., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 22, 1810 in 
Middlebury, Vt. In 1862 he was elected a 
representative from New York to the thir¬ 
ty-eighth congress, and was re-elected to 
the thirty-ninth congress. He died May 2 

1872. 

DAVIS, THOMAS W., lawyer, was born 
Oct. 15, 1850, in Uniontown, Ala. He re¬ 
ceived his education at the commdn 
schools, and graduated from the law 
school of the university of Alabama. He 
has attained distinction as an able lawyer 
of Thomasville, Ala., and takes an active 
part in the public affairs of his county 
and state. 

DAVIS, THOMAS WESTON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 15, 1859, in 
Sturges, Miss. He graduated from the 
Rust university, and from the Gammon 
Theological seminary. He nas attained 
prominence as one of the leading divines 
of the methodist episcopal church in 
Mississippi; is an orator of distinction, 
and the author of From the Selling Block 
to the Senate. 

DAVIS, TIMOTHY, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in March, 1794, in Newark, 
N. J. He spent twenty years of his life 
in Missouri, and having removed to Iowa, 
was elected a representative from that 
state to the thirty-fifth congress. 

DAVIS, TIMOTHY, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 12, 1821, in 
Gloucester, Mass. In 1854, by an unusual¬ 
ly large majority, he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from his native 
district, and was re-elected to the thirty- 
fifth congress. 

DAVIS, TITUS ELWOOD, clergyman, 
author, was born April 15, 1851, in Flat- 
bush, N. Y. He has edited several publi¬ 
cations and was appointed historian of 
Washington Camp Ground association. 
He is the author of Master’s Call; First 
Houses of Bound Brook; Battle of Bound 
Brook, and other works. 


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DAVIS, VARINA ANNE JEFFERSON, 
author, was born in 1864 in Virginia. She 
is the author of An Irish Knight of the 
Nineteenth Century, a Sketch of Robert 
Emmet; and The Veiled Doctor. She died 
Sept. 19, 1898. 

DAVIS, WARREN R., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1793 in South Carolina. 
He was appointed solicitor for South Car¬ 
olina in 1818, and was a representative in 
congress from South Carolina from 1825 
to 1835. He died Jan. 29, 1835, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

DAVIS, WERTER RENICK, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, was born 
April 1 1818, in Circleville, Ohio. He was 
elected 'president of Baker university, but 
afterward resigned, and for fourteen con¬ 
secutive years was appointed to a presid¬ 
ing eldership. During the civil war he 
went to the front as chaplain of the 
twelfth Kansas infantry. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the first state legislature of Kansas. 

DAVIS, WILLIAM BRAMWELL, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born July 22, 1832, in 
Ohio. He is a physician and surgeon of 
Cincinnati, and the author of Report on 
Vaccination; Consumption and Life Insur¬ 
ance; Revaccination; Intestinal Obstruc¬ 
tion; Progress of Therapeutics; and The 
Alcohol Question. 

DAVIS, WILLIAM HOPE, physician, 
author, was born Sept. 1, 1837, in Attica, 
N. Y. He attended tin? public schools of 
Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
subsequently gradu¬ 
ated in medicine. He 
has attained promi¬ 
nence as one of the 
leading physicians of 
the west, and now 
has a lucrative prac¬ 
tice in Springfield, 
Ill. In 1858 he was 
in the government 
employ as mail 
agent, and took the 
first mail that was 
ever taken across the continent. He has 
been a member of the board of health, and 
organized and was secretary of the Ec¬ 
lectic Medical association of Illinois. He 
was appointed secretary of the National 
Medical association for ten years, and 
read papers before that body on various 
topics. In 1892 he was appointed a mem¬ 
ber of the advisory council of the world’s 
congress of eclectic physicians, and has 
filled numerous other positions of honor 
in medical bodies, and has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to medical literature. 

DAVIS, WILLIAM M., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected 
a representative from that state to the 
thirty-seventh congress. 

DAVIS, William MORRIS, educator, 
author, was born in 1850 in Pennsylvania. 
He is a professor of physical geography 
in Harvard university, and the author of 
Nimrod of the Sea, or the American 
Whaleman; Whirlwinds, Cyclones, and 
Tornadoes; and Elementary Meteorology. 

DAVIS, WILLIAM WATTS HART. He 
is the author of El Gringo, or New Mexico 
and Her People; History of the One Hun¬ 
dred and Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment; 
The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico; 
and History of the Doylestown Guards. 

DAVIS, WOODBURY, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born July 25, 1818, in Standish, 
Maine. In 1866 he was appointed post¬ 
master of Portland, and relinquished law 
practice. He published The Beautiful 
City, a religious book. He died Aug. 15, 
1871, in Portland, Maine. 

DAVISON, ANDREW, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was elect¬ 
ed in 1853 one of the judges of the su¬ 
preme court of the state of Indiana. 


DAVISON, GEORGE MOSBY, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born March 23, 
1856, in Stanford, Ky. In 1881 he was ap¬ 
pointed to a position in the interna^ rev¬ 
enue service, which he held until 1885. In 
1886 he was appointed master of chancery, 
or commissioner, of the Lincoln circuit 
court, and resigned in 1893. In 1887 he was 
elected to the legislature from Lincoln 
county as a republican. He was elected 
judge of the Lincoln county court in 1894, 
and for ten consecutive years has been 
chairman of the Lincoln county republi¬ 
can committee. He was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

DAVY, JOHN M., lawyer, congressman, 
was born June 29, 1835, in Ontario. He 
was elected district attorney for Monroe 
county for three years; in 1872 was ap¬ 
pointed collector of customs for the port 
of Genesee, which office he held until 1874, 
when he was elected a representative from 
New York to the forty-fourth congress as 
a republican. 

DAWES, ANNA LAURENS, author, was 
born in 1851 in Massachusetts. She has 
written much for journals and periodicals, 
and is the author of How We Are Gov¬ 
erned; The Modern Jew, His Present and 
Future; and Biography of Charles Sum¬ 
ner. 

DAWES, HENRY LAURENS, journal¬ 
ist, lawyer, congressman, United States 
senator, was born Oct. 30, 1816, in Cum- 
mington, Mass. He edited a paper called 
the Greenfield Gazette; was a member of 
the legislature of Massachusetts during 
the years 1848, 1849, and 1852; of the state 
senate in 1850, and of the state constitu¬ 
tional convention in 1853. He was district 
attorney for the western district of his 
native state, from 1853 until elected to the 
thirty-fifth congress. He was re-elected 
to the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirty- 
eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, 
forty-second and forty-third congresses; 
and was elected a senator in congress for 
the term commencing in 1875, and was re¬ 
elected for another term of six years for 
term ending in 1889. 

DAWES, JAMES W., merchant, lawyer, 
state senator, governor, was born Jan. 8, 
1845, at McConnellsville, Ohio. He was a 
member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1875; and was elected state sen¬ 
ator in 1876. In 1882 he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Nebraska for the term of two 
years, and was re-elected governor in 
1884. 

DAWES, RUFUS, jurist, author, was 
born Jan. 26, 1803, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a witty jurist of Massachusetts, who 
won notice both as orator and poet. He 
is the author of The Valley of the Nash- 
away, and Other Poems; Athena of Da¬ 
mascus, a tragedy; Nix’s Mate, an Histori¬ 
cal Romance; and Miscellaneous Poems. 
He died Nov. 30, 1859, in Washington, 
D. C. 

DAWES, RUFUS R., soldier, merchant, 
congressman, was born July 4, 1838, in 
Malta, Ohio. He entered the union army 
in 1861, as captain, and served throughout 
the war, rising to the rank of colonel and 
brevet brigadier-general. He engaged in 
business at Marietta, Ohio, and was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Ohio to the forty- 
seventh congress as a republican. 

DAWES, THOMAS, soldier, state sena¬ 
tor, was born Aug. 5, 1731, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a mechanic. During the 
controversy with Great Britain he was 
made colonel of the Boston regiment in 
1773, serving until 1778. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the house and of the senate, as well 
as state councillor. He died Jan. 2, 1809. 
in Boston, Mass. 


DAWES, THOMAS, jurist, was born 
July 8, 1757, in Boston, Mass. He was 
judge of the supreme court of Massachu¬ 
setts from 1792 till 1803, judge of the mu¬ 
nicipal court from 1803 till 1823, and judge 
of probate until his death. He published 
an Oration on the Boston Massacre; and 
the Law Given on Mount Sinai. He died 
July 22, 1827, in Boston, Mass. 

DAWES, THOMAS, educator, clergy¬ 
man, was born March 11, 1818, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He attended the Chauncy 
Hall school and the 
public Latin school 
of Boston, Mass.; 

• graduated from Har- 

yard university in 
C f 1839, from the Divin- 

degrees of A. B. and 

1 has always taken an 
active part in educational affairs. He is 
a successful clergyman of the Unitarian 
church, and for a quarter of a century has 
filled a pastorate in Brewster, Mass. 

DAWES, WILLIAM, patriot, of Lexing¬ 
ton. He was despatched to Lexington, 
with Paul Revere, on April 18, 1775, and 
rode through Roxbury, Revere going by 
way of Charlestown. In the morning of 
April 19 the message from Warren reached 
Adams and Hancock. Revere and Dawes, 
joined by Samuel Prescott, from Concord, 
rode forward, calling the inhabitants. 

DAWSON, ANDREW H. H„ soldier, 
lawyer, orator, was born Nov. 26, 1819, in 
Cynthiana, Ky. For ten months he spent 
hunting buffalo and fighting Indians un¬ 
der Kit Carson, the renowned old hunter. 
He studied law under Thomas F. Mar¬ 
shall, was admitted to the bar and set¬ 
tled in St. Louis, and subsequently be¬ 
came the leading lawyer of Georgia. In 
1866 he moved to New York city. He has 
been attorney-general of Georgia, assist¬ 
ant district attorney of New York city and 
county. He is now engaged as a Mason in 
editing an Analysis of the facts which 
make the full and complete history of the 
Maybrick case. 

DAWSON. BENJAMIN FREDERICK, 
surgeon, inventor, journalist, author, was 
born June 28, 1847, in New York city. He 
invented a new galvanic battery for gal- 
vano-caustic surgery in 1876. In 1868 he 
founded the American Journal of Obstet¬ 
rics and Diseases of Women and Children, 
which he edited until 1874. 

DAWSON, DANIEL L., manufacturer, 
poet, was born in 1855 in Lewistown, Pa. 
He was the author of a book of poems en¬ 
titled The Seekers in the Marshes, and 
Other Poems. He died Oct. 31, 1893. 

DAWSON, GEORGE, journalist, author, 
was born March 14, 1813, in Scotland. He 
was an influential Albany journalist, edi¬ 
tor of the Evening Journal in 1846-77, and 
author of The Pleasures of Angling. He 
died in 1883. 

DAWSON, HENRY BARTON, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born June 8, 1821, in 
England. He was an historical writer of 
New York city, editor of the Historical 
Magazine in 1866-77, and editor of the 
Federalist, reprinted from the original 
text. He was the author of Battles of the 
United States by Sea and Land; Current 
Fictions Tested by Uncurrent Facts; Rut¬ 
gers against Waddington; and Westches¬ 
ter County in the Revolution. He died 
May 23, 1889, in Morrisania, N. Y. 






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DAWSON, JOHN, soldier, congressman, 
was born in 1762 in Virginia. He was a 
presidential elector in 1793 and was a 
representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1797 to 1814. He rendered service in 
the war of 1812, as aid to the commanding 
general, on the lakes, and was appointed 
bearer of dispatches to Prance, in 1801, by 
President Adams. He died March 30, 1814, 
in Washington, D. C. 

DAWSON, JOHN B., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1800 in Nashville, 
Tenn. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Louisiana from 1841 to 1845; 
and had repeatedly served in the legis¬ 
lature of Louisiana. He was a militia 
general of the state, and was judge of 
the parish court in which he resided be¬ 
fore his election to congress. He died 
June 26, 1845, at St. Francisville, La. 

DAWSON, JOHN LITTLETON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1813, in 
Uniontown, Pa. He was appointed in 
1845 United States attorney for the west¬ 
ern district of Pennsylvania, and was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the thirty-second and thirty- 
third congresses. In 1862 he was elected 
to the thirty-eighth congress, and was the 
author of the homestead bill, which passed 
in 1854. He was a delegate to the Balti¬ 
more conventions of 1844, 1848, and 1860, 
and to the Cincinnati convention of 1856. 
He was re-elected in 1864 to the thirty- 
nintli congress, and was a delegate to the 
New York convention of 1868. He died 
Sept. 18, 1870, in Fayette county, Pa. 

DAWSON, SAMUEL KENNEDY, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1818, in Fayette county. 
Pa. During the civil war he was pro¬ 
moted to be brevet colonel, and subse¬ 
quently brevet brigadier-general. He 
died April 17, 1889, in Orange, N. J. 

DAWSON, THOMAS, college president. 
He was president of William and Mary 
college from 1755 to 1761. 

DAWSON, WILLIAM, college president, 
was born in 1707 in Virginia. He was 
elected master of the grammar school in 
William and Mary college, chaplain of 
the house of burgesses; and in 1752 presi¬ 
dent of the college. He died Sept. 19, 1755. 

DAWSON, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born March 17, 1848, in New Madrid, 
Mo. He was elected in 1878 to the lower 
house of the general assembly of Missouri, 
and re-elected in 1880 and 1882. He was 
elected to the forty-ninth congress as a 
democrat, and declined renomination. 

DAWSON, WILLIAM C., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
Jan. 4, 1798, in Greene county, Ga. Sev¬ 
eral times he was 
senator and repre¬ 
sentative in the 
Georgia legislature; 
and was a represent¬ 
ative in congress 
from Georgia, from 
1837 to 1842. In 
1845 he was appoint¬ 
ed judge of the Ock- 
mulgee circuit. From 
1849 to 1855 he was 
a senator of the 
United States. He 
died May 5. 1856, in Georgia. 

DAWSON, WILLIAM J., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina from 1793 to 1795. 

DAY, GEORGE EDWARD, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born March 19, 1815, 
in Pittsfield, Mass. In 1866 he was ap¬ 
pointed professor of the Hebrew language, 
literature, and biblical theology in the 
theological department of Yale. He ed 

19 


ited the Theological Eclectic from 1863 till 
1871. He was a contributor to Smith’s 
Bible Dictionary, and has published ar¬ 
ticles in periodicals and Reports on the 
Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. 

DAI, GEORGE TIFFANY, clergyman, 
journalist, was born Dec. 8, 1822, in Con¬ 
cord, N. Y. He was editor-in-chief of the 
Morning Star, a free-will baptist weekly 
paper, published in Dover, N. H., and 
afterward removed to Boston. He died 
May 21, 1875, in Providence, R. I. 

DAY, HANNIBAL, soldier, was born in 
1804, in Vermont. He commanded a bri¬ 
gade of the fifth corps in the Pennsylvania 
campaign in 1863, taking part in the bat¬ 
tle of Gettysburg. In 1865 he was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general for long service. 
He died March 25, 1891, in Morristown, 
N. J. 

DAY, HENRY, lawyer, author, was born 
Dec. 25, 1820, in South Hadley, Mass. He 
was formerly devoted to the old school 
branch of the Presbyterian church; earn¬ 
estly advocated union between the old and 
new schools; and when this was effected, 
in 1869, he drafted the articles. He wrote 
much for publication, among his works 
being The Lawyer Abroad; and From the 
Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules. He 
died Jan. 9, 1893, in New York city. 

DAY, HENRY NOBLE, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born in 1808 
in Connecticut. He was a congregational 
clergyman, for many years a western rail¬ 
way president, and president of Ohio Fe¬ 
male college, 1858-64. He is the author of 
The Art of Rhetoric, reprinted as Art of 
Discourse; Elements of Logic; Science 
of .Esthetics; The Art of Elocution; Rhe¬ 
torical Praxis; Logical Praxis; Science of 
Thought; Elements of Mental Science; 
The Logic of Sir William Hamilton; In¬ 
troduction to the Study of English Litera¬ 
ture, which include the greater number of 
his writings. 

DAY, HORACE H., manufacturer, in¬ 
ventor, was born in 1813. He was iden¬ 
tified with the india-rubber trade from its 
inception, and was involved in lawsuits 
with Charles Goodyear on his rubber pat¬ 
ents. He died Aug. 23, 1878, in Manches¬ 
ter, N. H. 

DAY, JAMES ROSCOE, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born Oct. 17, 1845, in 
Whitneyville, Maine. He is a noted cler¬ 
gyman of the methodist episcopal church 
and has filled pastorates in Portland, Bos¬ 
ton and New York. Since 1893 he has 
been chancellor of the Syracuse univer¬ 
sity. 

DAY, JEREMIAH, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 26, 1738, in Colchester, 
Conn. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Connecticut, whose Sermons Col¬ 
lected were issued in 1797. He died Sept. 
12, 1806, in Connecticut. 

DAY, JEREMIAH, mathematician, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born Aug. 3, 
1773, in New Preston, Conn. He was a 
noted mathematician 
who was president of 
Yale college, 1817- 
46. He is the au¬ 
thor of Introduction 
to Algebra; Mensu¬ 
ration of Superficies 
and Solids; Examin¬ 
ation of Edwards’s 
Freedom of the Will; 
Plane Trigonometry; 
Navigation and Sur¬ 
veying; and Inquiry 
Respecting the Self- 
Determining Power of the Will and Con¬ 
tingent Volition. He died Aug. 22, 1867, 
in New Haven, Conn. 


DAY, MAHLON, publisher, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born Aug. 27, 1790, in Morris¬ 
town, N. J. He acquired wealth as a pub¬ 
lisher and for fifteen years before his 
death had devoted his life to charitable 
and educational objects. He died at sea 
Sept. 27, 1854. 

DAY, MARTHA, poet, was born Feb. 13, 
1813, in New Haven, Conn. She attained 
great proficiency in mathematics and the 
languages, and wrote poetry of merit. 
Her Literary Remains, with memorials of 
her life and character, was published in 
1834. She died Dec. 2, 1833, in New 
Haven, Conn. 

DAY, RICHARD EDWIN, journalist, 
poet, was born April 27, 1852, in Granby, 
N. Y. Since 1880 he has been on the edi¬ 
torial staff of the Syracuse Daily Stand¬ 
ard. He is the author of Lines in the 
Sand; Thor, a Lyrical Drama; Lyrics and 
Satires; and Poems. 

DAY, ROWLAND, congressman. He 
was a member of the New York assembly 
in 1816 and 1817, and was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1823 to 
1825, and again from 1833 to 1835. 

DAY, RUFUS, journalist, poet, was 
born Jan. 26, 1803, in Boston, Mass. He 
is the author of several volumes of poems, 
the most notable of which were Geraldine, 
and Ode on the Death of Walter Scott. 

DAY, SAMUEL D., physician, surgeon, 
was born March 2, 1811, in Berkshire 
county, Ind. He was a practicing physi¬ 
cian of Shelbyville, Ind., for fifty years, 
and attained a celebrity which has not 
been confined to his own county. 

DAY, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, author, 
was born July 6, 1777, in New Preston, 
Conn. He was judge of the city court of 
Hartford from 1818 to 1831; and was one 
of the committee to prepare the stat¬ 
utes of 1808, 1821, and 1824. He reported 
the decisions of the court of errors, from 
1805 to 1853, published in twenty volumes. 
He was an original member of the Con¬ 
necticut Historical society, and president 
of it from 1839 till his death. He died 
March 1, 1855, in Hartford, Conn. 

DAY, TIMOTHY C., congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from that state to the thirty- 
fourth congress. 

DAY, WILLIAM A., lawyer, legislator, 
was born June 11, 1850, in Wilmington, 
Del. He was twice elected corporation 
counsel of Champaign, served two terms 
as a representative in the Illinois state 
legislature, and in 1883 he was elected 
mayor of Champaign for the term of two 
years. 

DAY, WILLIAM HOWARD, educator, 
clergyman, was born Oct. 16, 1831, in New 
York. In 1860 he became editor of The 
Standard and Review of New York city; 
in 1866 was ordained an elder in the Vir¬ 
ginia conference, and in 1884 was elected 
presiding elder of the Baltimore district. 
He is now intellectual instructor of con¬ 
ferences and supervisor of missions. 

DAY, WILSON MILES, journalist, pub¬ 
lisher, was born Nov. 5, 1850, in Clarion, 
Pa. He was night editor of the Cleveland 
Leader, and editor of the Iron Trade Re¬ 
view of Cleveland, Ohio. 

DAYAN, CHARLES, educator, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
July 16, 1792, in Amsterdam, N. Y. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1831 to 1833, and a state 
senator in 1827 and 1828. He was acting 
lieutenant-governor in 1829; a member of 
the assembly in 1835 and 1836, and was 
also district attorney for Lewis county for 
five years. He died Dec. 25, 1877. in Low- 
ville, N. Y. 






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DAYTON, ALSTON GORDON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1857, in 
Philippi, W. Va. In 1879 he was ap¬ 
pointed to fill out an unexpired term as 
prosecuting attorney of Upshur county, 
W. Va., and was elected and served as 
prosecuting attorney of Barbour county 
for a four-years’ term beginning Jan. 1, 
1884 He was elected to the fifty-fourth 
and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a republican. 

DAYTON, AMOS COOPER, clergyman, 
author was born Sept. 4, 1813, in Plain- 
field, N. J. He was a baptist clergyman 
and physician of Tennessee, whose novel 
Theodosia, or the Heroine of Faith, was 
very popular. His other works comprise 
The Infidel’s Daughter, a novel; Baptist 
Facts and Methodist Fiction; Baptist 
Question Book; Children Brought to 
Christ; and Pedobaptist and Campbellite 
Immersion. He died June 11, 1865, in 
Perry, Ga. 

DAYTON, ELIAS, soldier, congressman, 
was born in 1735, in Elizabethtown, N. J. 
He was a major-general of militia, and 
was a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1787 to 1788. He died in July, 1807, 
in Elizabethtown, N. J. 

DAYTON, JONATHAN, statesman, was 
born Oct. 16, 1760, in Elizabethtown, N. J. 
He was a member of the convention, in 
1787, which formed the constitution, and 
signed that instrument. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1791 to 1799; 
speaker of the house of representatives 
from 1795 to 1797, and was a senator of 
the United States from New Jersey from 
1799 to 1805. He died Oct. 9, 1824, in 
Elizabethtown, N. J. 

DAYTON, WILLIAM LEWIS, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman. United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Feb. 17, 1807, in Basking- 
ridge, N. J. He was 
a member of the 
state senate of New 
Jersey in 1837; was 
appointed one of the 
justices of the supe¬ 
rior court of the 
state in 1838, and re¬ 
signed in 1841. He 
was a senator in 
congress from 1842 
to 1851; and in 1856 
was the republican 
candidate for vice- 
president on the ticket with J. C. Fremont. 
In 1857 he was appointed attorney-general 
of New Jersey, which office he held until 
1861, when he was appointed a minister 
to France. He died Dec. 2, 1864, in Paris, 
France. 

DAYTON, WILLIAM LEWIS, was born 
April 13, 1839, in Trenton, N. J. He was 
secretary to the governor of New Jersey 
from 1865 to 1868. He was president of 
the common council of Trenton from 1876 
to 1879; city solicitor from 1879 to 1881; 
and in 1882 was appointed United States 
minister resident at The Hague, Nether¬ 
lands, serving until 1885. In 1896 he was 
appointed a judge of the court of errors 
and appeals, and his term will expire in 
1902. 

DEADY, MATTHEW P., educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state senator, was born May 
12, 1824, near Easton, Md. In 1850 he was 
elected to the lower house of the legisla¬ 
ture of Oregon and in 1851 to the upper 
house, serving as president. In 1853 he 
was appointed associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of the territory, serving until 
the state was established, when he was 
appointed judge of the United States dis¬ 
tinct court for Oregon. In 1857 he was 
elected a member of the constitutional 


convention which formed the state consti¬ 
tution, and was president of that body. 
In 1862 and 1864, by authority of the leg¬ 
islature, he prepared the Codes of Crim¬ 
inal and Civil Procedure, and the Penal 
Code of the State; and in 1865 published 
the General Laws of the State, and assist¬ 
ed in the same work in 1874. 

DE AHNA, EDWARD MANFRED, 
journalist, w r as born in Washington, D. C. 
He is the son of Col. H. C. De Ahna, pro¬ 
fessor of chemistry and civil engineer. 
He is the publisher and manager of The 
Anchor of Sequin, Texas. 

DEALY, PATRICK F., clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, lecturer, was born April 7, 
1827, in Ireland. He has been president of 
St. John’s college of Fordham, N. Y. In 
1882 he founded the Fordham College 
Monthly. He died Dec. 22, 1891, in New 
York city. 

DEAN, AMOS, lawyer, author, was born 
Feb. 16, 1803, in Barnaru, Vt. He was a 
jurist of Albany, and the author of Lec¬ 
tures on Phrenology; Manual of Law; 
Philosophy of Human Life; Medical Juris¬ 
prudence; Bryant and Stratton’s Commer¬ 
cial Law; and History of Civilization. He 
died in 1868. 

DEAN, BENJAMIN, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1824, 
in England. He moved to Boston, was a 
member of the state senate in 1862, 1863 
and 1869, and successfully contested the 
seat of Walbridge A. Field as a repre¬ 
sentative from Massachusetts to the forty- 
fifth congress, and took his seat in 1878. 

DEAN, EZRA, congressman, was born 
in New York. He was a representative 
in congress from Ohio from 1»41 to 1845. 

DEAN, GILBERT, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 14, 1819, in Plea¬ 
sant Valley, N. Y. He was elected a 
representative in, 
congress from New 
York from 1851 to 
L853. He was re¬ 
elected for a second 
term but resigned, in 
1855, to accept the 
office of judge of the 
supreme court of the 
state, and in 1862 
was elected to the 
assembly. He died 
Oct. 12, 1870, in 

Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

DEAN, HENRY MUNSON, physician, 
surgeon, was born Nov. 8,1836, in Canaan, 
Conn. He was, a surgeon in the United 
States army during the civil war. He has 
been president of the Iowa and Illinois 
Central Medical association; and of the 
Muscatine Academy of Medicine. 

DEAN, JAMES, educator, was born Nov. 
26, 1776, in Windsor, Vt. He was pro¬ 
fessor in the university of Vermont, hold¬ 
ing that office from 1821 till 1824. He 
published a Gazetteer of Vermont; and an 
address delivered on his induction as pro¬ 
fessor. He died Jan. 20, 1849, in Burling¬ 
ton, Vt. 

DEAN, JOHN, physician, author, was 
born in 1831, in Massachusetts. He was 
a physician who published Microscopic 
Anatomy of the Lumbar Enlargement of 
the Spinal Cord; and Gray Substance of 
the Medulla Oblongata. He died in 1888. 

DEAN, JOHN WARD, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 13, 1815, in Wisca- 
set, Maine. He was vice-president of the 
American Statistical association, and its 
recording secretary during 1860-72. He 
was one of the founders of the Prince so¬ 
ciety in 1858, and for ten years was its 
president. He is now the librarian of the 
New England Historic-Genealogical so¬ 


ciety of Boston, Mass.; has been the sole 
editor of the New England Historical and 
Genealogical Register since 1876; the ed¬ 
itor of The New England Bibliopolist 
since 1880. He is the author of Memoir 
of Nathaniel Ward; Memoir of Michael 
Wigglesworth; Life of John H. Shep¬ 
pard; Life of William Blanchard Towne; 
Brief Memoir of Giles Firmin; and The 
Embarkation of Cromwell for New Eng¬ 
land. 

DEAN, JOSIAH, state senator, congress¬ 
man, was born March 16, 1748, in Bayn- 
ham, Mass. He was a presidential elector 
in 1805; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts from 1807 to 
1809. From 1804 to 1807 he was a state 
senator; and in 1810 and 1811 was a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature. He died Oct. 
14, 1818. 

DEAN, JULIA, actress, was born July 
22, 1830, in Pleasant Valley, N. Y. She ap¬ 
peared first as Lady Ellen in The Lady of 
the Lake, during 1845, in Louisville, Ky. 
She died March 6, 1868, in New York city. 

DEAN, OLIVER HAYES, lawyer, was 
born in 1845, in Washingtonville, Pa. He 
is a member of the law firm of Warner, 
Dean and Hageman, Kansas City, Mo.; 
and is one of the leading members of his 
profession in his state. 

DEAN, PAUL, clergyman, author, was 
born in 1789 in Barnard, Vt. He was a 
Unitarian clergyman, pastor in Boston, in 
1813-40, and the author of Lectures on 
Final Restoration. He died Oct. 1, 1860, 
in Framingham, Mass. 

DEAN, RICHARD E., journalist, poet, 
was born Jan. 18, 1862, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He attended the public schools of his 
native city and Iowa, and took a course in 
journalism in a college at Detroit. He has 
written extensively both prose and verse 
for the periodical press, and is well known 
as an Iowa poet. 

DEAN, SIDNEY, manufacturer, clergy¬ 
man, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 1818, 
in Glastonbury, Conn. He served one 
year in the legislature of Connecticut; and 
was elected a representative in congress 
from that state in 1855, and re-elected in 
1857. 

DEAN, WALTER L., artist, was born 
in 1854 in Lowell, Mass. His principal 
paintings are: The Dutch Fishing Creek; 

Summer Day on the 
Dutch Shore; and 
he exhibited at the 
World’s Columbian 
exposition a large 
marine paint¬ 
ing entitled Peace, 
which attracted fa¬ 
vorable notice. He 
has exhibited at the 
principal expositions 
in America and Eu¬ 
rope, and has re- 
c e i v e d numerous 
medals from the leading art expositions. 

DEAN, WILLIAM, missionary, author, 
was born June 21, 1807, in Eaton, N. Y. 
He is the author of Revision of the Penta¬ 
teuch; Commentary on Matthew; Com¬ 
mentary on Genesis; Commentary on 
Mark; Commentary on Exodus; Stow’s 
Daily Manna; and smaller tracts. 

DEANE, CHARLES, author, was born 
Nov. 10, 1813, in Biddeford, Maine. He 
was an antiquarian writer of Cambridge, 
who published Some Notices of Samuell 
Gorton, with Memoir; First Plymouth 
Patent; and edited Bradford’s History of 
Plymouth Plantation; John Smith’s True 
Relation of Virginia, and other specimens 
of early American literature. He died 
Nov. 13, 1889, in Cambridge, Mass. 
















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DEANE, GARDNER ANDRUS ARM¬ 
STRONG, soldier, was born June 23, 1840, 
in Franklin, Mass. He served through 
the civil war; and received the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel. In 1891 he accepted 
the position of land commissioner of the 
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, 
and Little Rock and Fort Smith rail¬ 
roads, at Frankfort, Kan. 

DEANE, JAMES, physician, naturalist, 
author, was born Feb. 24, 1801, in Coler¬ 
aine, Mass. In 1835 he made public his 
discovery of the fossil footprints in the 
red sandstone of the Connecticut valley; 
and at the time of his death was engaged 
in publishing an illustrated work upon 
the subject, the result of twenty-four 
years’ investigation and labor. He died 
June 8, 1858, in Greenfield, Mass. 

DEANE, JOHN H., soldier, lawyer, phil¬ 
anthropist, was born in Canada. He has 
been especially distinguished for his gifts 
to benevolent institutions under the con¬ 
trol of baptists. To Rochester university 
he has given $100,000, besides considerable 
sums to the Rochester Theological semin¬ 
ary and to Yassar college. 

DEANE, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born March 30, 1784, in Mansfield, 
Mass. He was a baptist clergyman of 
Scituate, Mass.; and the author of The 
Populous Village, a poem; History of 
Scituate. He died in August, 1834. 

DEANE, SILAS, was born Dec. 24, 1737, 
in Groton, Conn. He was a delegate to 
congress in 1774; and a diplomatist, who, 
with Franklin and Lee, negotiated a 
treaty of peace and amity between France 
and the United States. He was the author 
of Letters to Robert Morgan; and Paris 
Papers, or Mr. Silas Deane’s Late Inter¬ 
cepted Letters to His Brother and Other 
Friends. He died Aug. 23, 1789, in Eng¬ 
land. 

DEANE, WILLIAM REED, antiquarian, 
author, was born Aug. 21, 1809, in Mans¬ 
field, Mass. He was an antiquary of 
Mansfield, Mass., who published gene¬ 
alogies of the families of Deane, Leonard, 
and Watson. He died June 16, 1871, in 
Mansfield, Mass. 

DEARBORN, BENJAMIN, educator, in¬ 
ventor, was born in 1755 in Portsmouth, 
N. H. He opened an academy for girls; 
and in 1790 he removed his school to 
Boston. He was the inventor of the 
spring balance. He died Feb. 22, 1838, in 
Boston, Mass. 

DEARBORN, HENRY, soldier, physi¬ 
cian, congressman, was born Feb. 23, 1751, 
in Northampton, N. H. In 1789 Wash¬ 
ington appointed him marshal of the dis¬ 
trict of Maine. He was a member of con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts from 1793 to 
1797. In 1801 he was appointed secretary 
of war, and held the office till 1809, when 
he was appointed to the office of collector 
of Boston. In 1812 he received a commis¬ 
sion as senior major-general in the army 
of the United States. He died in 1829 in 
Roxbury, Mass. 

DEARBORN, HENRY ALEXANDER 
SCAMMELL, soldier, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 3, 1783, in Exeter, 
N. H. In 1812 he was brigadier of militia, 
and had the command of the troops in 
Boston harbor; in 1821 was a member of 
the convention for revising the constitu¬ 
tion of Massachusetts; and in 1829 was a 
representative in the legislature from 
Roxbury; and the following year a state 
senator. From 1831 to 1833 he was a 
representative in congress; and was soon 
appointed adjutant-general of Massachu¬ 
setts, and continued in that office till 1843. 
In 1847 he was chosen mayor of Roxbury, 
which office he held until his death. He 
died July 29, 1851, in Portland, Maine. 


DEARBORN, NATHANIEL, engraver, 
author, was born in 1786. He was one of 
the earliest engravers on wood in Boston, 
and published The American Text-Book 
for Making Letters; Boston Notions; An 
Account of That Village from 1630 to 1847; 
Reminiscences of Boston, and Guide 
through the City and Environs; and 
Guide through Mount Auburn. He died 
Nov. 7, 1852, in South Reading, Mass. 

DE ARMON, DAVID A., jurist, state 
senator, congressman, was born March 
18, 1844, in Blair county. Pa. He 

was presidential elector in 1884; was 
state senator, circuit judge, and Missouri 
supreme court commissioner; and was 
elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third, and 
fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

DEARTH, ELMER H., journalist, in¬ 
surance commissioner, was born June 6, 
Maine. After gradu¬ 
ating in 1878 from 
Foxcroft academy of 
Maine, he taught 
school for two years. 
He then began an 
active career in the 
newspaper profes¬ 
sion with The Ban¬ 
gor Daily Whig and 
Courier; and in 1883 
became connected 
with The Pioneer 
Press of St. Paul, 
Minn. For two years 
he was editor and business manager of 
The Independent of Henderson; and for 
four years prior to 1890 was the editor 
and proprietor of The LeSueur News. In 
1889 he received the appointment of dep¬ 
uty insurance commissioner of the state. 
In this new post he soon developed a large 
amount of executive ability, and he filled 
it with great credit to himself and honor 
to the insurance department. He re¬ 
signed this office at the end of three years 
to accept a position with the Equitable 
Life Assurance society of New York city, 
N. Y. In 1897 he received from Governor 
Clough the appointment of insurance com¬ 
missioner of Minnesota. 

DEAS, CHARLES, painter, was born in 
1818, in Philadelphia. Among his more 
important pictures that have become 
widely known through engravings are 
The Turkey Shoot; Walking the Chalk; 
Long Jake; The Wounded Pawnee; ‘In¬ 
dian Guide; A Group of Sioux; Hunters 
on the Prairie; and The Last Shot. His 
Council of the Shawnees at North Bend 
portrays an incident in the life of Gen. 
George Rogers Clarke. He died while in¬ 
sane. 

DEAVITT, THOMAS JEFFERSON, 
lawyer, financier, was born Feb. 17, 1840, 
in Richmond, Vt. In 1866 he was admit¬ 
ted to the Vermont 
bar; and was a 
member of the Ver¬ 
mont constitutional 
convention. He has 
been superintendent 
of schools; justice 
of the peace; and 
president of the Cap¬ 
itol Savings Bank 
and Trust company 
since its organiza¬ 
tion in 1891. He is 
the manager and 
treasurer of the Watchman Publishing 
company; and a director in several other 
corporations. He has given considerable 
attention to commercial law, and has 
made and edited several Digests of Ver¬ 
mont Laws. He has a large patent and 
pension office practice at Montpelier, Vt. 


DE BARDELEBEN, HENRY F., finan¬ 
cier, was born in 1840, in Prattville, Ala. 
He was vice-president of the St. Louis 
Trust Co. The annual Veiled Prophet’s 
show in St. Louis was organized by him, 
among others, and he belongs to the St. 
Louis and University clubs and the Mer¬ 
chants’ exchange. 

DEBERRY, EDMUND, congressman, 
was born Aug. 14, 1787, in Mount Gilead, 
N. C. In 1806 he was a member of the 
state legislature, and continued to serve 
there, with occasional intermissions, until 
xc28. He was a representative in congress 
from North Carolina from 1829 to 1831, 
from 1833 to 1845, and again from 1849 to 
1851. He died Dec. 12, 1859, in Mount 
Gilead, N. C. 

DE BLOIS, AUSTIN KENNEDY, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Dec. 17, 

1866, in Nova Scotia. He engaged in edu¬ 
cational work, and in 1894 became presi¬ 
dent of Shurtliff college of Upper Alton, 
Ill. 

DEBOE, WILLIAM J., physician, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was Dorn in 
1849, in Crittenden county, Ky. He has 
served seven years as a member of the 
republican state central committee and 
was a member of the state campaign com¬ 
mittee in 1896. In 1893 he was elected 
state senator for a term of four years. 
He was elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate after one of the most sensational and 
memorable sessions of the legislature of 
the state. His term of service will ex¬ 
pire March 3, 1903. 

DE BOLT, REZIN A., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 
1828, in Fairfield county, Ohio. He re¬ 
moved to Missouri in 1858; and was for 
two years a commissioner of public 
schools. He entered the volunteer army 
as a captain; and re-entered the army in 
1864 as a major. He was elected circuit 
judge, and continued in the office until 
elected a representative from Missouri to 
the forty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

DE BOW, JAMES DUNWOODY 
BROWNSON, lawyer, journalist, author, 
was born July 10,1820, in Charleston, S. C. 
He was professor of political economy and 
commercial statistics in the university of 
Louisiana in 1848; and was for three 
years at the head of the census bureau of 
Louisiana. In 1853 he was appointed su¬ 
perintendent of the United States census; 
was president of the commercial conven¬ 
tion at Knoxville in 1857; contributed 
several articles to the Encyclopedia Bri- 
tannica; was one of the founders of the 
Louisiana Historical society, now the 
Academy of Science. He was the author 
of Encyclopedia of the Trade and Com¬ 
merce of the United States; The South¬ 
ern States, Their Agriculture. Commerce, 
etc.; Industrial Resources of the South¬ 
west; and Compendium of the Seventh 
United States Census. He died Feb. 27, 

1867, in Elizabeth, N. J. 

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DEBS, EUGENE VICTOR, legislator, 
labor leader, was born Nov. 5, 1855, in 
Terre Haute, Ind. He commenced life as 
a locomotive fireman; became general 
secretary of the Brotherhood of Locomo¬ 
tive Firemen, and edited its periodical. 
He ultimately became president of the 
American Railway- union, which was 
merged into the Social Democracy of 
America, of which he is still president. In 
1889 he was elected a member of the In¬ 
diana state legislature. His name has 
become known throughout the United 
States as the champion of the rights of 
labor. 


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DE CAMP, JOHN, naval officer, was 
born in 1812, in New Jersey. He was 
promoted to the rank of commodore in 
1866, commanded the store-ship Potomac 
at the Pensacola navy-yard during 1866- 
67, and the receiving-ship Potomac at 
Philadelphia during 1868-69, and was re¬ 
tired in 1870 with the rank of rear-ad¬ 
miral. He died June 25, 1875, in Burling¬ 
ton, N. J. 

DECATUR, STEPHEN, naval officer, 
was born Jan. 5, 1779, in Sinneputent, Md. 
He entered the navy at the age of nine¬ 
teen, and rose to the rank of commodore. 
He died in 1820. 

DE CHARMS, RICHARD, clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 17, 1796, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a Swedenborgian 
clergyman of Baltimore and New York 
city; and the author of Freedom and 
Slavery in the Light of the New Jeru¬ 
salem; The New Churchman Extra; and 
Lectures at Charlestown. He died March 
20, 1864. 

DECHERT, HENRY M., lawyer, finan¬ 
cier, was born March 11, 1832, in Read¬ 
ing, Pa. He graduated from Yale college 
and has attained distinction as a great 
lawyer and financier of Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is the president of The Commonwealth 
Title, Insurance and Trust company of 
Philadelphia, composed of lawyers and 
conveyancers only. He is also the presi¬ 
dent of the Pennsylvania State Asylum 
for Chronic Insane; and has occupied 
many positions of honor in his city, 
county and state. 

DECKER, ROBERT M., artist, was born 
June 8, 1847, in Troy, N. Y. He has at¬ 
tained prominence as a landscape painter. 

DE COSTA, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
clergyman, author, was born July 10, 
1831, in Charlestown, Mass. He is a prom¬ 
inent episcopal clergyman of New York 
city, well known as an historical writer. 
He is the author of The Pre-Columbian 
Discovery of America, illustrated by 
translations from the Icelandic Sagas; 
The Northmen in Maine; The Moabite 
Stone; Verrazano, the Explorer; The 
Rector of Roxburgh, a novel; and a num¬ 
ber of historical monographs. 

DE COURSEY, SAMUEL GERALD, 
railroad president, was born Sept. 28, 1839, 
in Queenstown, Md. In 1895 he became 
president of the Western New York and 
Pennsylvania railroad. 

DEEMS, CHARLES FORCE, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
Dec. 4, 1820, in Baltimore, Md. He was a 
methodist clergyman, promihent for many 
years in New York city as pastor of the 
■Church of the Strangers. He was presi¬ 
dent of several different colleges in the 
south. He was the author of Triumphs of 
Peace, and Other Poems; Home Altar; 
Twelve College Sermons; Life of Dr. 
Adam Clarke; Devotional Melodies; 
Weights and Wings; The Light of the 
Nations; The Gospel of Common Sense 
as Contained in the Epistle of James; The 
Gospel of Spiritual Insight; A Scotch Ver¬ 
dict in Re-Evolution; My Septuagint, 
which comprise the larger number of his 
writings. He died in 1893. 

DEERE, CHARLES H., manufacturer, 
was born March 28, 1835, in Vermont. 
His companies are Deere and Co., or the 
Moline Plow works, and the Deere and 
Mansur Co. He held the office of the pres¬ 
ident of the board of labor statistics of 
the state; was presidential elector dur¬ 
ing the first Harrison campaign; and 
served as state commissioner to the 
World’s Columbian exposition. 


DEERING, JOHN WILLIAM, merchant, 
congressman, was born Aug. 7, 1833, in 
Saco, Maine. Since 1867 he has been en¬ 
gaged in the southern pine lumber busi¬ 
ness and in building vessels. In 1883 he 
was elected mayor of Portland, Maine; 
and in 1894 was a representative in con¬ 
gress. 

DEERING, NATHANIEL, author, was 
born June 25, 1791, in Maine. He was the 
author of Carabasset, a tragedy; The 
Clairvoyants, a comedy performed both 
in Portland and Boston; and Bozzaris, a 
tragedy. He died in 1881 in Portland, 
Maine. 

DEERING, NATHANIEL C., congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 2, 1827, in Denmark, 
Maine. He was a representative in the 
state legislature in 1855 and 1856. He 
removed to Osage, Iowa, in 1857; was a 
clerk in the United States senate for sev¬ 
eral years; and then a special agent of 
the postoffice department, serving until 
1869. He was a national bank examiner 
from 1872 to 1877; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Iowa to the forty-fifth, 
forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses 
as a republican. 

DEERING, WILLIAM, manufacturer, 
financier, philanthropist, was born April 
24, 1826, in Oxford county, Maine. Con¬ 
trolling a good patent and pushing his 
business with spirit, he found himself, in 
1880, compelled to move the works to 
Chicago and build a larger plant. In 1894 
the old firm of William Deering and Co. 
took out a charter as the Deering Har¬ 
vested Co., of which he is controlling pro¬ 
prietor. 

DE FONTAINE, FELIX, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1832 in Massachusetts. 
He was a journalist of Charleston during 
the civil war, but subsequently, and for 
the greater part of his career, on the 
staff of the New York Herald. He was 
the author of Gleanings from a Confeder¬ 
ate Army Notebook; Army Letters of 
Personne, 1861-1865; and News from the 
Front. He died in 1896. 

DE FOREST, HENRY W., railroad 
president, was born Oct. 29, 1855, in New 
York city. In 1889 he became president of 
the New Jersey and New York railroad. 

DE FOREST, JESSE, was born about 
1575 in France. He was the first settler 
of New Amsterdam, now New York city. 
He died about 1626. 

DE FOREST, JOHN WILLIAM, soldier, 
author, was born March 31, 1826, in Sey¬ 
mour, Conn. He is a novelist of New 
Haven who was a federal officer in the 
civil war. He is the author of History of 
the Indians of Connecticut to 1850; Ori¬ 
ental Acquaintances, or Travels in Asia 
Minor; European Acquaintances; Witch¬ 
ing Times; The Lauson Tragedy; Sea- 
cliff, Miss Ravenal’s Conversion from Se¬ 
cession to Loyalty; Overland; Kate Beau¬ 
mont; Honest John Vane; The Bloody 
Chasm; The Wetherel Affair; Justine 
Vane; Irene Vane; Irene the Missionary; 
and Playing the Mischief. 

DE FOREST, ROBERT E., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was born 
Feb. 20, 1845, in Guilford, Conn. In 1874 
he was elected by the legislature of Con¬ 
necticut judge of the court of common 
pleas for Fairfield county, which position 
he held for three years. In 1878 he was 
elected mayor of Bridgeport; in 1880 was 
elected to the legislature; and in 1882 
was elected to the state senate. He was 
corporation counsel for the city of Bridge¬ 
port; and was elected mayor in 1889, and 
re-elected in 1890. He was elected to the 
fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. 


DEFREES, JOHN D., journalist, state 
legislator, was born Nov. 8, 1811, in 
Sparta, Tenn. He settled at South Bend, 
Ind., in 1831; served in the legislature of 
that state for eight years; and was for 
many years the owner and editor of the 
Indiana State Journal. In 1861 he was ap¬ 
pointed, by President Lincoln, superin¬ 
tendent of public printing. 

DEFREES, JOSEPH H., merchant, state 
legislator, congressman, was born May 13, 
1812, in Carthage, Tenn. He turned his 
attention to merchandising in Indiana; in 
1836 was elected sheriff of Elkhart county, 
and was re-elected in 1838. In 1849 he 
was elected to the Indiana legislature; in 
1850 to the state senate; and in 1864 was 
chosen a representative from Indiana to 
the thirty-ninth congress. 

DE GARMO, CHARLES, college presi¬ 
dent, author, was born Jan. 7, 1849, in 
Mukwanago, Wis. In 1891 he was elected 
president of Swarthmore college. He is 
the author of Essential of Methods; Lind¬ 
ner’s Empirical Psychology; Herbert and 
Pedagogy; and other works. 

DEGENER, EDWARD, farmer, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born Oct. 20, 
1809, in Germany. He was a member of 
the Texas constitutional convention in 
1866, in which he favored universal suf¬ 
frage; and was again a member of the 
constitutional convention in 1868. He was 
elected to the forty-first congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

DE GRAFF, JOHN I., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1827 to 1829, and again 
from 1837 to 1839. 

DE GROOT, ALBERT, seaman, was 
born in 1813 on Staten Island. He pro¬ 
moted the erection of the Vanderbilt 
bronzes, and presented to the printers of 
New York the statue of Benjamin Frank¬ 
lin, which stands in front of the Times 
and Tribune buildings. He died Sept. 17, 
1887, in Richfield Springs, N. Y. 

* DE HAAS, MAURICE FREDERICK 
HENDRICK, artist, was born in 1832. 
Among his numerous pictures are Farra- 
gut’s Fleet Passing the Forts Below New 
Orleans; and The Yacht Dauntless off 
Dover. 

DE HAAS, WILLIAM FREDERICK, 
marine painter, was born in 1830 in Hol¬ 
land. He emigrated to New York in 1854, 
and devoted himself to painting coast- 
scenery. He exhibited at the National 
academy, Sunrise on the Susquehanna, 
and Fishing-Boats Off Mt. Desert. He 
died July 16, 1880, in Fayal, Azores. 

DE HART, WILLIAM CHETWOOD, 
soldier, author, was born in 1800 in New 
York state. He was an officer in the 
United States army who published Ob¬ 
servations on Military Law and Constitu¬ 
tion and Practice of Courts Martial. He 
died April 2, 1848, in Elizabethtown, N. J. 

DE HART, WILLIAM HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, was born March 21, 1837, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. He has been pastor of 
the reformed church in various cities; and 
has served as stated clerk of the general 
synod of the reformed church in America. 

DE HAVEN, EDWIN J., arctic explorer, 
was born in 1819 in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
served in Wilkes’ exploring expedition 
from 1839 till 1842, and commanded the 
first expedition fitted out, at the expense 
of Henry Grinnell, of New York, to search 
for Sir John Franklin. He died Oct. 2, 
1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DE HAVEN, JOHN JEFFERSON, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, was born March 12, 
1845, in St. Joseph, Mo. In 1849 he moved 
to California, received his education in 
the common schools of that state, and was 
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was elected district attorney of Humboldt 
county; was elected a member of the state 
assembly in 1869; and a state senator in 
1871 for the term of four years. For two 
years he was city attorney for Eureka; 
was republican candidate for congress in 
1882; and in 1884 was elected judge of 
the superior court of Humboldt county 
for a term of six years. In 1888 he was 
elected to congress; and in 1890 was 
elected associate justice of the supreme 
court of the state of California for the 
term ending Jan. 5, 1895. He then re¬ 
sumed the practice of law in San Fran¬ 
cisco; and since June 8, 1897, has been 
United States district judge for the north¬ 
ern district of California. 

DEHON, THEODORE, bishop, author, 
was born Dec. 18, 1776, in Boston, Mass. 
He was the second protestant episcopal 
bishop of South Carolina; and the author 
of Ninety Sermons on the Public Means 
of Grace. He died Aug. 6, 1817, in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. 

DEITZ, WILLIAM, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Schoharie county, 
N. Y. He was a member of the' New York 
assembly in 1814 and 1815; was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1825 to 1827; and a state senator from 
1830 to 1833. 

DEITZLER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
soldier, legislator, was born Nov. 30, 1826, 
in Pine Grove, Pa. He was a member of 
the Kansas house of representatives in 
1857-58, and was re-elected in 1859-60. 
During the civil war he was promoted to 
brigadier-general. He died April 11, 1884, 
near Tucson, Ariz. 

DE JARNETTE, DANIEL C., farmer, 
congressman, was born in 1822, in Caro¬ 
line county, Va. He served many years 
in the legislature of Virginia; and was 
elected a representative from that state to 
the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh con¬ 
gresses. He withdrew in 1861. 

DE KAY, CHARLES, journalist, author, 
poet, was born July 25, 1848, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. He is a New York journalist 
and poet, and literary editor of the Times 
since 1877. He is the author of Hesperus; 
Vision of Nimrod; Vision of Esther; Love 
Poems of Louis Barnaval; The Bohemi¬ 
ans, a Tragedy of Modern Life; and 
Barye, His Life and Works. 

DE KAY, JAMES ELLSWORTH, phy¬ 
sician, naturalist, author, was born in 
1792 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a phy¬ 
sician and naturalist of Oyster Bay, Long 
Island; and the author of Sketches of 
Turkey; and Natural History of New 
York. He died Nov. 21, 1851, in Oyster 
Bay, N. Y. 

DE KONZA, ELIZABETH MAY, poet, 
composer, was born Nov. 27, 1870, in 
Geary county, Kan. She has attained suc¬ 
cess as a poet, composer of music, and 
dramatic writer; and her productions 
have appeared in current periodicals. 

DE KOVEN, JAMES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 19, 1831, in Middle- 
town, Conn. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man of Wisconsin, very prominent at one 
time as a leader of ritualistic thought. 
Sermons Preached on Various Occasions 
was issued after his death. He died 
March 19, 1879, in Racine, Wis. 

DE KOVEN, REGINALD, musician, 
composer, was born April 3, 1859, in Mid¬ 
dletown, Conn. In 1887 his first opera, 
the Begum, was brought out by the Mc- 
Caull Opera company, and was a decided 
success. As an operatic composer it may 
be said with truth that he has accom¬ 
plished more than any other contem¬ 
porary. 


DE KROYFT, MRS. SARAH HELEN, 
author, was born Oct. 29, 1818, near Ro¬ 
chester, N. Y. She is a writer living in 
Dansville, N. Y., who became blind soon 
after her marriage in 1845, her husband 
having died on their wedding day. Her 
works are: A Place in Thy Memory, a 
very popular collection of letters; Darwin 
and Moses, a lecture; and Little Jakey, 
a story. 

DELAFIELD, EDWARD, physician, 
was born May 17, 1812, in New York city. 
In 1865 he founded the New York Opkthal- 
mological society, and was its first presi¬ 
dent; and from 1858 until his death he 
was president of the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons. He was also president of 
the Roosevelt hospital. He died Feb. 13, 
1875, in New York city. 

DELAFIELD, FRANCIS, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 3, 1841, in New York 
city. He is a physician and surgeon of 
New York city, who was the first presi¬ 
dent of the Association of American Phy¬ 
sicians and Pathologists. He is the au¬ 
thor of Handbook of Post Mortem Exam¬ 
inations and Morbid Anatomy; Studies 
in Pathological Anatomy; and Handbook 
of Pathological Anatomy. 

DELAFIELD, JOHN, merchant, was 
born March 16, 1748, in England. He was 
a founder and director of the Mutual In¬ 
surance company of New York city, which 
was established in 1787. He was also one 
of the founders of the United Insurance 
company, of which he was president for 
many years. He died July 3, 1824, in New 
York city. 

DELAFIELD, RICHARD, merchant, 
banker, was born Sept. 6, 1853, in New 
Brighton, N. Y. In 1880 he commenced 
business in California; and has been for 
many years recognized as one of the lead¬ 
ing and most prosperous merchants of 
New York. He was president of the New 
York Mercantile exchange; and director 
of National Park bank of New York city. 

DELAHAY, MARK W., jurist. He was 
appointed judge of ,the United States dis¬ 
trict court for the district of Kansas. 

DE LA MAR, JOSEPH RAFAEL, was 
born in 1848 in Holland. He became a 
submarine contractor with headquarters 
at Vineyard Haven, Mass., but operating 
along the entire coast to the West Indies. 
He has a record of having added many 
millions to the gold and silver reserves of 
the world. 

DE LAMATER, CORNELIUS HENRY, 
manufacturer, was born Aug. 30, 1821, in 
Rhinebeck, N. Y. He joined with H. B. 
Cromwell and C. H. Mallory in the lines 
running to Galveston and New Orleans. 
One of the undertakings which illustrated 
his energy was the contract he filled for 
the Spanish government for furnishing 
thirty gunboats inside of eight months. 
He died Feb. 7, 1889, in New York city. 

DELAMATER, JOHN, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born April 18, 1787, in Chatham, 
N. Y. He was instrumental in establish¬ 
ing the Willoughby Medical institute, 
Ohio, which was subsequently removed to 
Cleveland, and became known as the 
Cleveland Medical cftllege. He died March 
28, 1867, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

DE LA MATYR, GILBERT, soldier, 
congressman, was born July 8, 1825, in 
Pharsalia, N. Y. He has been an itinerant 
elder of the methodist episcopal church; 
was a member of the general conference 
in 1868; and for one term filled the office 
of presiding elder. In 1862 he helped to 
enlist the eighth regiment of New York 
heavy artillery, and was its chaplain three 
years. He was elected to the forty-sixth 
congress as a national democrat. 


DE LANCEY, EDWARD FLOYD, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Oct. 23, 1821, in 
Mamaroneck, N. Y. In 1879 he was elect¬ 
ed domestic corresponding secretary of 
the New York Historical society, which 
office he still holds. He has edited Jones’ 
History of New York during the Revolu¬ 
tionary War; and the Secret Correspond¬ 
ence of Sir Henry Clinton. He is the au¬ 
thor of Memoir of the Hon. James De 
Lancey, Lieutenant-Governor of the Prov¬ 
ince of New York; and other works. 

DE LANCEY, WILLIAM FLOYD, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in loZl in New 
York. He is a lawyer and historical writ¬ 
er of New York city; and the author of 
Memoir of James De Lancey; The Cap¬ 
ture of Fort Washington the Result of 
Treason; Memoir of James W. Beekman; 
Memoir of William Allen, Chief Justice of 
Pennsylvania; Origin and History of 
Manors in the Province of New York; and 
History of Mamaroneck, New York. 

DE LANCEY, WILLIAM HEATHCOTE, 
clergyman, educator, was born Oct. 8, 
1797, in Mamaroneck, N. Y. In 1828 he 
was elected provost of the university of 
Pennsylvania, from which he resigned in 
1834. In 1839 he was chosen the first 
bishop of the diocese of western New 
York. He aided in founding De Vaux col¬ 
lege at Niagara and the Training school 
at Geneva. He died April 5, 1865, in 
Geneva, N. Y. 

DE LAND, CHARLES VICTOR, soldier, 
journalist, was born July 25, 1826, in 
Brookfield, Mass. He served through the 
civil war and attained the rank of briga¬ 
dier. He established the Daily Enterprise, 
and in 1876 he established the Courier 
Herald of Saginaw, Mich. 

DELAND, ELLEN DOUGLASS, author, 
was born in 1860 in New York. She is a 
popular writer of stories for young peo¬ 
ple: and the author of Oakleigh; In the 
Old Herrick House; and Malvern, a 
Neighborhood Story. 

DELAND, MRS. MARGARETTA 
WADE, author, poet, was born Feb. 23, 
1857, in Allegheny, Pa. She is a novelist 
and poet of Boston who became suddenly 
famous on the publication of John Ward, 
Preacher, a story upon lines similar to 
Mrs. Ward’s Robert Elsmere. Other 
works by her include The Old Garden and 
Other Verses; Sydney; The Story of a 
Child; Mr. Tommy Dove and Other 
Stories; Philip and His Wife; and Flor¬ 
ida Days, a volume of travels. 

DE LANEY, DANIEL A., lawyer, was 
born Nov. 2, 1862, in Washington, Mich. 
In 1886 he was admitted to the bar at 
Detroit, Mich., where he has attained 
prominence as an able lawyer. 

DELANO, AMASA, sea captain, author, 
was born Feb. 21, 1763, in Duxbury, Mass. 
He was a Massachusetts sea captain who 
was an extensive traveler, and published 
Narrative of Voyages and Travels. He 
died in 1817. 

DEbANO, CHARLES, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1820 in Braintree, Mass. 
He was elected a representative from Mas¬ 
sachusetts to the thirty.-sixth and thirty- 
seventh congresses. 

DELANO, COLUMBUS, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born June 5, 
1809, in Shoreham, Vt. In 1817 he moved 
to Mt. Vernon, Ohio; was a candidate for 
governor in 1847; and in 1861 was com¬ 
missary-general of Ohio. In 1863 he was 
a member of the state legislature; and 
served as a member of the twenty-ninth, 
thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses as a 
republican. 


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DE LANO, MILTON, merchant, manu¬ 
facturer, banker, congressman, was born 
Aug. 11, 1844, in Wampsville, N. Y. He 
was twice elected sheriff of Madison coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. He was a delegate to the na¬ 
tional republican convention in 1884; and 
was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first 
congresses as a republican. 

DELAPLAINE, ISAAC CLASON, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 1817, 
in New York city. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from that state to the thirty- 
seventh congress. He died July 17, 1866, 
in New York city. 

DELAPLAINE, JOSEPH, publisher, was 
born Dec. 20, 1777, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
In 1813 he began the serial publication of 
his Repository of the Lives and Portraits 
of Distinguished Americans, a series of 
engravings with biographical notices. He 
died May 31, 1824, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DE LARGE, ROBERT C., congressman, 
was born March 15, 1842, in Aiken, S. C. 
He was a member of the state legislature 
from 1868 to 1870; and was one of the 
state commissioners of the sinking fund. 
He was elected in 1870 state land com¬ 
missioner; and was elected to the forty- 
second congress. 

DELAVAN, EDWARD CORNELIUS, 
merchant, author, was born in 1793 in 
Schenectady county, N. Y. He was a re¬ 
tired wine merchant of Schenectady, con¬ 
spicuous as a temperance reformer; and 
the author of Adulterations of Liquors; 
and Temperance in Wine Countries. He 
died Jan. 15, 1871, in Schenectady, N. Y. 

DE LA VERGNE, JOHN C., manufac¬ 
turer, inventor, was born Sept. 6, 1840, in 
Schoharie county, N. Y. In 1880 he com¬ 
menced business as manufacturer of re¬ 
frigerating and ice-making plants in New 
York city, making improvements, and ex¬ 
panding the business until his machines 
are used in all parts of the world. 

DE LEON, EDWIN, journalist, author, 
was born in 1828 in South Carolina. He 
was a Washington journalist who was an 
European diplomatic agent of the con¬ 
federacy during the civil war period. He 
was the author of Thirty Years of My Life 
on Three Continents; The Khedive’s 
Egypt; Askaros Kassis, the Captain, a 
novel; and Under the Star and Under 
the Crescent. He died in 1891. 

DE LESTRY, LOUIS EDMUND, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Jan. 1, 1860, in 
Louisiana. He received his education in 
Europe, passing 
through the Royal 
Military academy of 
Frankfurt, Germany, 
and graduating in 
1887 from Heidel¬ 
berg university 
in the classical 
course with the de¬ 
gree of A. M. His 
first journalistic en¬ 
gagement was dur¬ 
ing the Russo-Turk- 
ish war. In 1878 he 
returned from Europe and entered jour¬ 
nalism, principally in the northwest. In 
1890 he published a History of Helena, 
Mont.; and in ±897 he compiled an elab¬ 
orate historical work of St. Paul, Minn., 
for the Pioneer Press of that city. He 
is also the author of Leaves From a Note¬ 
book, a collection of his short stories. In 
1897 he established De Lestry’s Western 
Magazine of St. Paul, Minn. 

DELL, JOHN C., railroad president, was 
born May 31, 1841, near Gascom, Ga. In 
1888 he became president of the Sylvania 
railroad. 


DELLET, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1788 in Ireland. 
He moved to Alabama in 1818, where he 
was appointed a judge of the circuit court, 
and frequently represented his county in 
the state legislature. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Alabama from 
1839 to 1841, and again from 1843 to 1845. 
He died Dec. 21, 1848, in Claibourne, Ala. 

DELMAR, ALEXANDER, journalist, 
author, was born Aug. 9, 1836, in New 
York city. He was editor of the Social 
Science Review in 1864; and in 1866 was 
appointed director of the bureau of statis¬ 
tics, which he assisted in organizing, hold¬ 
ing the office until it was abolished. He 
was the author of Gold Money and Paper 
Money; Essays on Political Economy; 
The Great Paper Bubble; What Is Free 
Trade?; Resources, Productions, and So¬ 
cial Condition of Egypt; Why Should the 
Chinese Go?; History of the Precious 
Metals; History of Money in China; His¬ 
tory of Money in Various Countries; The 
Science of Money; Money and Civiliza¬ 
tion; Statistical Handbook; and The Na¬ 
tional Banking System. 

DELMAR, JOHN, jurist, financier, was 
born Sept. 6, 1838, in Ireland. In 1867 ne 
became a justice of the peace; and was 
one of the organizers of The Citizen in 
1886, but did not assume the presidency 
until 1887. He is a director in the City 
Savings bank and of the Fifth Avenue 
bank of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

DE LONG, ARTHUR H„ clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born March 23, 1862, 
in Napoleon, Ohio. He graduated from 
the Northwestern university and the Gar¬ 
rett Biblical institute, and has attained 
eminence as a successful clergyman in the 
Northwestern Indiana conference of the 
methoaist episcopal church. He is also a 
brilliant lecturer, and the author of sev¬ 
eral works. 

DE LONG, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
naval officer, explorer, author, was born 
Aug. 22, 1844, in New York city. He was 
an Arctic explorer who was a lieutenant- 
commander in the United States navy, 
from 1869 to 1881. The Voyage of the 
Jeannette, including his journals of his 
latest expedition, edited by his wife, ap¬ 
peared in 1884. He died Oct. 30, 1881, in 
Siberia. 

DEMAND, HERMAN D„ educator, was 
born March 10. 1856, in Smithton, Mo. 
He received his education in the public 
schools and at Central Wesleyan college; 
and has attained prominence as a suc¬ 
cessful educator. He has taught schools 
in Illinois; has been school commissioner 
of La Fayette county, Mo.; and for the 
past twelve years has been superintendent 
of public schools of Lexington, Mo. 

DEMAREST, DAVID D., clergyman, 
theologian, author, was born July 30, 
1819, in Oradell, N. J. Since 1865 he has 
been professor of pastoral theology and 
sacred rhetoric in the Theological semi¬ 
nary and also a clergyman of New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. J. He is the author of History 
and Characteristics of the Reformed Prot¬ 
estant Dutch Church; Practical Cateche- 
tics; and The Huguenots on the Hacken¬ 
sack. 

DEMAREST, JAMES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 28, 1832, in Williams¬ 
burg, L. I. He has held pastorates in 
Hackensack and Newark, N. J., Chicago, 
Ill., and Kingston and Fort Plain, N. Y., 
and has published numerous sermons, 
including Duty of the Reformed Church 
in tue Future as Foreshown by Its 
Course in the Past. 

DEMAREST, JOHN TERHUNE, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1813 in New 


Jersey. He is a Dutch reformed clergy¬ 
man, and the author of Exposition of 
the Efficient Cause of Regeneration; 
Exposition of the First Epistle of Peter; 
Commentary on Second Epistle of Peter; 
Commentary on the Catholic Epistles; 
and Christocracy. 

DEMAREST, MRS. MARY AUGUSTA, 
poet, was born June 26, 1838, in New York 
city. She was the author of My Ain 
Countree and Other Poems. She died in 
1888. 

DEMBY, EDWARD THOMAS, edu¬ 
cator, lecturer, clergyman, was born in 
1869 in Wilmington, Del. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the city 
schools of Wilmington, and subsequently 
attended the Lincoln university of Penn¬ 
sylvania, the Howard university of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., and the Wilberforce uni¬ 
versity of Ohio. He has been a success¬ 
ful professor of Hebrew, Greek and 
French; has been dean of a theological 
college; and is at present head master of 
St. Paul’s academy of Mason, Tenn. He 
has traveled extensively; is a well-known 
lecturer, and the author of several works. 

DEMING, BENJAMIN F., congressman, 
was born at Danville, Vt. He was clerk 
of the court in his native county for six¬ 
teen years; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Vermont for the 
term from 1833 to 1835. He died July 11, 
1834, in Saratoga Springs. 

DEMING, HENRY CHAMPION, lawyer, 
soldier, congressman, author, was born in 
1815 in Middle Haddam, Conn. He was a 
member of the Connecticut legislature in 
1849 and 1850, and also from 1859 to 1861, 
serving as speaker during the latter year; 
and in 1851 was a member of the state 
senate. He subsequently presided over 
the city of Hartford as mayor for six 
years. In 1861, as colonel of the twelfth 
regiment of Connecticut volunteers, he 
went to New Orleans and participated in 
the capture of that city. In 1862 he was 
appointed mayor of New Orleans. He 
was elected a representative from Con¬ 
necticut to the thirty-eighth and thirty- 
ninth congresses. He published a Life of 
General Grant. He died Oct. 9, 1872, in 
Hartford, Conn. 

DEMING, PHILANDER, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1829, in Carlisle, N. Y. 
He succeeded in introducing the use of 
shorthand into the supreme courts of 
New York in 1886. He is the author of 
several volumes of stories—Adirondack 
Stories; and Tompkins and Other Folks, 
being the best known or his woras. 

DE MORSE, CHARLES, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Jan. 31, 1816, in Leices¬ 
ter, Mass. He served in the .civil war 
and attained the rank of colonel. He ed¬ 
ited the first daily paper in Texas in 1842, 
and established The Clarksville Standard 
in 1842. He was reporter of the house of 
congress in 1841-42. He died in 1887. 

DE MOTT, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in New Jersey. He was a member 
of the New York assembly in 1833; and 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1845 to 1847. 

DE MOTTE, HARVEY CLELLAND, 
soldier, educator, college president, was 
born July 17, 1838, near Carrollton, Ill. 
He served as a lieutenant in the union 
army during the civil war, and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1882. For twenty- 
three years he was professor of mathe¬ 
matics in the Illinois Wesleyan univer¬ 
sity; for three years was president of 
Chaddock college; and for six years was 
superintendent of the Illinois Soldiers’ 
Orphans’ home of Normal, Ill. He is 
president of the Central Union Building 
and Loan association at Bloomington, Ill. 



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DE MOTTE, MARK L., soldier, lawyer, 
journalist, congressman, was born Dec. 
28, 1832, in 'Rockville, Ind. He was 
elected prosecuting attorney in 1856; and 
served as a captain in the union army 
during the war of tne rebellion. He was 
editor and proprietor of the Lexington 
Register of Missouri for eight years; was 
an unsuccessful candidate for congress in 
1872 and 1876; and in the latter year was 
a delegate to the republican national con¬ 
vention. He returned to Valparaiso, Ind., 
in 1877, and was elected a representative 
from Indiana to the forty-seventh con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

DEMPSEY, JOHN B„ lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born April 29, 1861, in St. 
Louis, Mo. He is a successful lawyer of 
his native city, and principally engaged as 
an advocate in labor cases. In 1889 he 
was a member of the revising session 
of the Missouri state legislature; and in 
1886-89 was secretary for the state of Mis¬ 
souri of the state and district assemblies 
of the Knights of Labor. 

DEMPSTER, JOHN, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 2, 1794, in 
Florida, N. Y. He is a noted methodist 
preacher and educator, and one of the 
founders of the theological school of Bos¬ 
ton university. He is the author of Lec¬ 
tures and Addresses, which was issued in 
1864. He died Nov. 28, 1863, in Evanston, 
Ill. 

DEMPSTER, WILLIAM RICHARD¬ 
SON, musician, was born in 1809 in Scot¬ 
land. He set Tennyson’s May Queen to 
music, which became popular, and after¬ 
ward composed music for most of the 
songs introduced in Tennyson’s longer 
poems, which were his favorites for his 
concerts. He died March 7, io71, in Lon¬ 
don, England. 

DE NAVARRO, MRS. A. F„ actress, 
was born July 28, 1859, in Sacramento, 
Cal. Her first appearance in New York 
was in 1877 at the Fifth Avenue theater, 
and again in 1878, at the close of which 
she made her first European tour. She 
abandoned the stage permanently in 1891. 

DENBY, CHARLES, soldier, journalist, 
lawyer, diplomatist, was born June 16, 
1830, in Mount Joy, Va. In 1853 he went 
to Evansville, Ind., and became assistant 
editor of the Evansville Enquirer. In 
1856 he was elected a representative in 
the Indiana legislature. In 1861 he was 
prominent in raising volunteers for the 
union army and was commissioned lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel of an Indiana regiment; 
served until 1863, and was promoted col¬ 
onel for gallant conduct. In 1885 he was 
appointed United States minister to 
China. 

DENGLER, FRANK, sculptor, was 
born in 1853, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He 
was for a short time an instructor in 
modelling in the Boston museum art 
school. Among his works are Azzo and 
Melda; an ideal head of America, and 
several portrait busts. 

DENHARD, CHARLES EDWARD, 
physician, was born July 15, 1849, in 
Germany. He helped to found the Ger¬ 
man poliklinik of New York city, of 
which he is an attending physician. 

DENHOLM, ROBERT M., journalist, 
was born July 20, 1852, in Scotland. He 
has established several papers in the 
west, and is now the editor and owner 
of The Western Disciple of De Soto, Mo. 

DENIO. HIRAM, jurist, author, was 
born May 21, 1799, in Rome, N. Y. He 
was a Utica jurist who published Reports 
of Cases in the Supreme Court; and The 
Court for Correction of Errors. He died 
in 1871. 


DENISE, DAVID D., horticulturist, was 
born Sept. 23, 1840, in Freehold, N. Y. 
He is treasurer of the state board of agri¬ 
culture, and a member of the executive 
committee. 

DENISON, ANDREW WOODS, soldier, 
was born Dec. 15, 1831, in Baltimore, Md. 
He served in the civil war and attained 
for gallant and meritorious services the 
rank of brigadier-general. In 1869 he 
was appointed postmaster of Baltimore, 
Md., which he held until his death. He 
died Feb. 24, 1877, in Baltimore, Md. 

DENISON, CHARLES, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 23, 1818, in Wy¬ 
oming Valley, Pa. He was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth and fortieth 
congresses. He died June 27, 1867, in 
Wilkesbarre. 

DENISON, CHARLES, physician, in¬ 
ventor, author, was born Nov. 1, 1845, in 
Royalton, Vt. He is the inventor of the 
air pressure inhaler and exhaler, and the 
binaural stethoscope, now used exten¬ 
sively by the medical profession. He is 
the author of Climates of the United 
States in Colors, and various other works 
on health and hygiene. 

DENISON, CHARLES WHEELER, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 11, 
1809, in New London, Conn. He was a 
clergyman who as a young man was ed¬ 
itor of The Emancipator, an anti-slavery 
journal of New York. During the civil 
war he served as chaplain in the federal 
army. He is the author of The Amer¬ 
ican Village and Other Poems; Paul St. 
Clair, a temperance tale; Antonio, the 
Italian Boy; The Child Hunters, an ex¬ 
posure of the padrone system; Life of 
General Grant; Out at Sea, a volume of 
verse; Sunshine Castle, a tale. The Tan¬ 
ner Boy; The Bobbin Boy; and Winfield, 
the Lawyer’s Son, form a series of bi¬ 
ographies of noted men for juvenile read¬ 
ing. He died Nov. 14, 1881. 

DENISON, DANIEL, soldier, author, 
was born in 1613, in England. He was a 
famous colonial soldier of Massachusetts, 
and the author of Irenicon, or Salve for 
New England’s Sore. He died Sept. 20, 
1682, in Ipswich, Mass. 

DENISON, DUDLEY CHASE, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1819, in 
Royalton, Ind. He was a state senator 
in 1853 and 1854; state’s attorney from 
1858 to 1860; and a member of the state 
bouse of representatives in 1861, 1862, and 
1863. He was United States district at¬ 
torney for the district of Vermont; and 
was elected a representative from Ver¬ 
mont to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth 
congresses as a republican. 

DENISON, FREDERIC, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 28, 1819, in Stoning, 
Conn. He is a baptist clergyman of 
Rhode Island, and the author of The Sup¬ 
per Institution; The Sabbath Institution; 
History of the First Rhode Island Caval¬ 
ry; Westerly and Its Witnesses, 1627- 
1876; and Picturesque Narragansett and 
Picturesque Rhode Island. 

DENISON, JOHN HENRY, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1841, in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is a congregational clergyman 
retired from active service, but at one 
time college pastor at Williamstown, 
Mass. He is the author of Christ’s Idea 
of the Supernatural. 

DENISON, JOHN LEDYARD, publish¬ 
er, author, was born in 1826, in Connecti¬ 
cut. He is a publisher of Norwich, Conn., 
and the author of Picturesque History of 
the Wars of the United States; and Il¬ 
lustrated History of the New World. 


DENISON, MRS. MARY ANDREWS, 
author, w r as born May 26, 1826, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. She is the author of Op¬ 
posite the Jail; That Husband of Mine, 
which was issued anonymously and en¬ 
joyed an extraordinary popularity for a 
short time; That Wife of Mine; Roth- 
mell; His Triumph; Old Slip Warehouse; 
Home Pictures; Like a Gentleman; and 
If She Will, She Will. 

DENNETT, JOHN RICHARD, journal¬ 
ist, was born in 1837, in Chatham, N. B. 
Besides writing frequently for the Nation, 
he was assistant professor of rhetoric at 
Harvard. He died Nov. 26, 1874, in West- 
borough, Mass. 

DENNIE, JOSEPH, journalist, author, 
was born Aug. 30, 1768, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a journalist and essayist of Phila¬ 
delphia, whose reputation in his day vast¬ 
ly exceeded his deserts, and the author of 
The Lay Preacher, or Short Sermons for 
Idle Readers. He died Jan. 7, 1812, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

DENNIS, GEORGE R„ physician. 
United States senator, was born April 8, 
1822, in White Haven, Md. He was presi¬ 
dent of the Eastern Shore railroad; was 
a delegate from the state at large to the 
national whig convention at r-niladelphia 
in 1856; and also to the democratic na¬ 
tional convention at New York in 1868. 
He was elected to the state senate of 
Maryland in 1854; and to the house of 
delegates in 1867, and again to the senate 
in 1871. He was elected to the United 
States senate for the term 1873-79. 

DENNIS, GRAHAM, BARCLAY, finan¬ 
cier, was born June 1, 1855, in England. 
From 1875-77 he was city editor of The 
Daily Journal of Dayton, Ohio; and in 
1885 organized tne Muscovite Mica Min¬ 
ing company, of which he is still man¬ 
ager. He has been president of the Do¬ 
minion Mining and Concentrating com¬ 
pany of Spokane, Wash.; and is still pres¬ 
ident of the Idler Mining company; and 
the Summit Mining company. 

DENNIS, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Dec. 17, 1771, in Somerset coun¬ 
ty, Md. He was elected a representative 
in congress from Maryland in 1796; and 
was re-elected to five successive con¬ 
gresses. He died Aug. 17, 1807, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

DENNIS, JOHN, farmer, state legislat¬ 
or, congressman, was born in 1807, in 
Somerset county, Md. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1837 to 1841; and was twice elected 
to the state legislature. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Maryland state convention in 
1850. He died Nov. 1, 1850. 

DENNIS, LITTLETON P„ congress¬ 
man. He served many years in the legis¬ 
lature of Maryland; was a presidential 
elector in 1800, 1812, 1816, 1824, and 1828; 
and was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maryland in 1833. He died 
April 14, 1834, in Washington, D. C. 

DENNIS, RODNEY, underwriter, was 
born Jan. 14, 1826, in Topsfield, Mass. In 
1864 the Travellers’ Life and Accident In¬ 
surance company was organized, and Mr. 
Dennis accepted the secretaryship, and 
held that important position for many 
years. He is also a director and trustee 
of several insurance and business corpo¬ 
rations of Hartford, Conn. 

DENNIS, THOMAS HAMNER, soldier, 
journalist, legislator, was born Feb. 20, 
1846, in Charlotte county, Va. He was a 
soldier in the confederate service in 1864- 
65; and in 1865 was elected speaker of the 
house of delegates. He has become a 
prominent lawyer, and is the editor of 
The Independent of Lewisburg, W. Va. 


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DENNIS, W. BICKHAM, journalist, 
miner, was born Dec. 8, 1864, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. He attended the public schools 
of Cincinnati and 
Dayton, Ohio; and 
graduated from the 
Central university of 
Richmond, Ky. In 
1891 he emigrated to 
the state of Wash¬ 
ington, where he is 
the president of the 
Port Townsend 
board of trade, and 
vice-president of the 
Northwest Mining 
association. For 
many years he was engaged in newspaper 
work, and was president of the Middle- 
West Journals’ association; and held oth¬ 
er offices of honor. He is now at the head 
of several mining companies, and other 
business enterprises; and is the owner 
of the Dennis-Halteman block of Port 
Townsend, Wash.; and president of the 
Eureka Consolidated Mining company. 

DENNISON, GEORGE, cougressman, 
was born in Luzerne county, Pa. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1819 to 1823; was for many 
years register and recorder of Luzerne 
county; and before, as well as after his 
service in congress, was frequently re¬ 
turned to the legislature. He died in 
1831 in Wilkesbarre, Pa. 

DENNISON, WILLIAM, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, governor, was born Nov. 23, 1816, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1862 he was a 
presidential elector; about that time was 
made president of the Exchange bank of 
Columbus, and also president of the Co¬ 
lumbus and Xenia Railroad company. In 
1860 and 1861 he was governor of Ohio, 
and did much toward organizing the vol¬ 
unteer army for subduing the rebellion. 
In 1864 he became a member of President 
Lincoln’s cabinet as postmaster-general. 
He died June 15, 1882. 

DENNISTON, WILLIAM H., merchant, 
legislator, was born March 10, 1850, in 
Rochester, N. Y. During 1891-94 he was 
a member of the New York legislature 
from the third (Monroe county) district. 
He is a successful merchant and promi¬ 
nent in public affairs of his county and 
state. 

DENNY, ARTHUR A., surveyor, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in 1822 in 
Indiana. He was a member of the Wash¬ 
ington territorial legislature from 1853 to 
1861; and was four years register of the 
land office at Olympia. He was elected a 
delegate from Washington territory to 
the thirty-ninth congress. 

DENNY, HARMAR, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1794 in Pittsburg, 
Pa. He was a member of the legislature 
of his native state; was a representative 
in congress from 1829 to 1837; and was a 
member of the convention which formed 
the present constitution of Pennsylvania. 
He died Jan. 29, 1852, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

DENNY, THOMAS, banker, was born 
in 1804 in Leicester, Mass. In 1852 he be¬ 
came a member of the New York stock 
exchange, and in 1858 formed the bank¬ 
ing house of Thomas Denny and Co. He 
died Oct. 21, 1874, in New York city. 

DENNY, WALTER McKENNON, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Oct. 28, 1S53, 
in Moss Point, Miss. In 1883 he was 
elected to the office of clerk of the circuit 
and chancery courts of Jackson county, 
Miss., and served eleven years. In 1890 
he was elected and served as a delegate 
from Jackson county in the state con¬ 
stitutional convention; and was elected 
to the 4ifty-fourth congress as a democrat. 


DENOYELLES, PETER, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1813 to 1815. 

DENSLOW, WILLIAM M., educator, 
journalist, legislator, was born Aug. 9, 
1858, in Grundy county, Mo. For ten years 
he taught school; was township treasurer 
for ten years; and in 1898 was appointed 
collector of internal revenue. He has been 
justice of the peace; is a successful jour¬ 
nalist of Spickard; and has served two 
terms as a member of the Missouri gen¬ 
eral assembly. 

DENSMORE, AMOS, inventor, promo¬ 
ter, was born Jan. 28, 1825, in Rochester, 
N. Y. He made many suggestions and 
improvements in the Shole and Glidden 
type-writer, which at a later date cul¬ 
minated in the Densmore machine. 

DENSMORE, JAMES, journalist, pro¬ 
moter, was born Feb. 3, 1820, in Moscow, 
N. Y. He established the first paper in 
Oshkosh, Wis., and was the editor of sev¬ 
eral other papers. In 1867 his attention 
was directed to the Sholes and Glidden 
machine, ana from that time onward he 
devoted his time, energies and wealth to 
the development of the Shole machine. 
He died Sept. 16, 1889, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

DENSON, WILLIAM H„ lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
4, 1846, in Russell county, Ala. He was 
elected a member of the lower house of 
the general assembly of Alabama. In 1884 
he was Cleveland elector, and was ap¬ 
pointed United States district attorney 
for the northern and middle districts of 
Alabama. In 1890 he was chairman of 
the democratic state convention; and was 
elected to the fifty-third congress as a 
democrat. 

DENT, FREDERICK T., soldier, was 
born Dec. 17, 1820, in White Haven, Mo. 
For his gallant and meritorious services 
in the field during the civil war he was 
brevetted brigadier-general United States 
army and brigadier-general of volunteers. 

DENT, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born about 1760 in Maryland. He was a 
representative in congress from Mary¬ 
land from 1793 to 1801; was in the latter 
year appointed United States marshal for 
the Potomac district; and during the 
third session of the fifth congress was 
elected speaker of the house of represent¬ 
atives. 

DENT, JOHN HERBERT, naval officer, 
was born in 1782 in Maryland. He was 
commissioned a master commander in 
1804, and a captain in 1811. He died July 
31, 1823, in Bartholomew, Md. 

DENT, WILLIAM B. W., congressman, 
was born in Maryland. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Georgia from 
1853 to 1855. 

DENTON, FRANKLIN EVERT, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born in 1859 in Ohio. 
He is a journalist of Cleveland; and pub¬ 
lished in 1883 The Early Poems of Frank¬ 
lin Denton. 

DENVER, JAMES W., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born in 1818 in 
Winchester, Va. He served in the Mexi¬ 
can war as a cap¬ 
tain. He was a rep¬ 
resentative from 
California in the 
thirty-fourth con¬ 
gress; and was ap¬ 
pointed commission¬ 
er of Indian affairs, 
which office he re¬ 
signed to accept the 
appointment of gov¬ 
ernor of the terri¬ 
tory of Kansas. In 
1866 he was a dele¬ 
gate to the Cleveland soldiers’ convention. 


DE PAUW, NEWLAND TALBOT, 
banker, manufacturer, was born Sept. 5, 
1856, in Salem, Ind. Large interests 
throughout Indiana come in part under 
his administration, including The W. C. 
De Pauw company, of which he is presi¬ 
dent; The New Albany national bank, the 
Ohio Falls Iron works, the Merchants’ na¬ 
tional bank, of which he is also president; 
the New Albany Manufacturing company, 
and the New Albany Rail Mill company. 
He is also connected with two institu¬ 
tions in Indianapolis, the Bank of Com¬ 
merce, of which he is president, and the 
Union Trust company, in which he is a 
director. 

DE PAUW, WASHINGTON CHARLES, 
manufacturer, philanthropist, was born 
Jan. 4, 1822, in Salem, Ind. He devoted 
himself to the manufacture of plate-glass, 
and The De Pauw Plate-Glass works of 
New Albany became one of the greatest 
industries of Indiana. He gave a million 
and a half dollars to the De- Pauw uni¬ 
versity of Greencastle, Ind.; and founded 
the De Pauw female college of New Alba¬ 
ny. He died May 5, 1887, in Chicago, Ill. 

DEPEW, CHAUNCEY MITCHELL, 
lawyer, legislator, railroad president, was 
born April 23, 1834, in Peekskill, N. Y. 
In 1861 he was elected to the New York 
state legislature; was re-elected; and be¬ 
came secretary of state. In 1875 he became 
counsel of the Vanderbilt railway sys¬ 
tem; and subsequently its president. He 
is the author of two works entitled Ora¬ 
tions and After-Dinner Speeches; and La¬ 
ter Speeches. In 1885 he became president 
of the New York Central and Hudson 
River railroad. 

DE PEYSTER, ABRAHAM, jurist, was 
born July 8, 1658, in New York city. He 
was mayor of New York in 1691-95, and 
subsequently became chief justice of the 
province, and president of the king’s 
council, in which latter capacity he acted 
(in 1701) as governor. He died Aug. 10, 
1728, in New York city. 

DE PEYSTER, FREDERIC, lawyer, 
philanthropist, was born Nov. 11, 1796, in 
New York city. He was a founder and 
director of the Home for Incurables, and 
vice-president of the Society for the Pre¬ 
vention of Cruelty to Cnildren, founder of 
the Soldiers’ home erected by the Grand 
Army of the Republic, and a trustee of 
the New York society library. He died 
Aug. 17, 1882, in Tivoli, N. Y. 

DE PEYSTER, FREDERICK, soldier, 
was born Dec. 12, 1843. He served in the 
civil war, and for his conduct attained 
the rank of major of United States volun¬ 
teers; and colonel of New York volun¬ 
teers. He died Oct. 30, 1874, in Red Hook, 
N. Y. 

DE PEYSTER, JOHN LIVINGSTON, 
soldier, legislator, was born June 14, 1846, 
in Tivoli, N. Y. He served in the civil 
war and attained the rank of major and 
lieutenant of the United States volun¬ 
teers. In 1889 he was elected to the New 
York state assembly. 

DE PEYSTER, JOHN WATTS, soldier, 
author, was born March 9, 1821, in New 
York city. He is an historical writer of 
New York city, and a general of the state 
militia. He is the author of Life of Tors- 
tenson; The Dutch at the North Pole and 
the Dutch in Maine; Decisive Conflicts of 
the Late Civil War; Personal and Mili¬ 
tary History of General Kearney; Life of 
Sir John Johnston; Mary, Queen of 
Scots, a Study; The Character of Mary 
and a Justification of Bothwell; Bothwell, 
a drama; The Thirty Years’ War; Before, 
At, and After Gettysburg; Life of Baron 
Cohorn; Caurausius, the Dutch Augustus; 
and Tne Real Napoleon Bonaparte. 






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DE PEYSTER, JOHNSTON W„ soldier, 
was born Dec. 2, 1841, in New York city. 
He served in the civil war and rose to 
the rank of colonel. 

DE PUY, HENRY WALTER, lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born in 1820 in 
Pompey Hill, N. Y. He is a lawyer and 
journalist, and the author of Kossuth and 
his Generals; Louis Napoleon and his 
Times; and Ethan Allen and the Green 
Mountain Boys of ’76. 

DE PUY, WILLIAM HARRISON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1821 in New 
York. He is a methodist clergyman of 
western New York, and the author of 
Threescore Years and Beyond; Statistics 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Home 
and Health; and Home Economics, a very 
popular book. 

DERBIGNY, PIERRE, fifth governor of 
Louisiana. He was elected to that office 
in 1828. He was a member of the first 
state legislature; judge of the supreme 
court; and was twice secretary of state. 
He died Oct. 6. 1829, from injuries re¬ 
ceived by being thrown from his carriage. 

DERBY, ELIAS HASKET, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 24, 1803, in Salem, 
Mass. He was a noted railway attorney 
of Boston, and the author of Two Months 
Abroad; Catholic Letters; The Overland 
Route to the Pacific; and Position and 
Prospects of the United States with Re¬ 
spect to Finance, Commerce, and Prosper¬ 
ity. He died March 30, 1880, in Boston, 
Mass. 

DERBY, GEORGE, physician, author, 
was born Feb. 13, 1819, in Salem, Mass. 
He was a physician of Boston, prominent 
as a sanitarian, who published Anthracite 
and Health. He died in 1874. 

DERBY, GEORGE HORATIO, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born April 3, 1823, in 
Salem, Mass. He was a topographical en¬ 
gineer in the United States army who was 
a popular humorist in his day, and the 
author of Phcenixiana; and Squibob Pa¬ 
pers. He died May 15, 1861, in New York 
city. 

DERBY, JAMES CEPHAS, publisher, 
author, was born July 20, 1818, in Little 
Falls, N. Y. He was a noted publisher of 
New York and San Francisco, and the au¬ 
thor of Fifty Years Among Authors, 
Books, and Publishers. He died in 1892. 

DERBY, JOHN BARTON, poet, was 
born Nov. 30, 1792, in Salem, Mass. He 
was a poet whose later years were spent 
in Boston; and was the author of Musings 
of a Recluse; The Sea; and The Village. 
He died in 1867 in Boston, Mass. 

DERBY, ROSWELL, lawyer, poet, was 
born Feb. 4, 1854, in Fulton county, Ohio. 
He attended the public schools of Wau- 
seon, Ohio; and sub¬ 
sequently was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 
Ohio. For five years 
he was secretary and 
attorney for the Peo¬ 
ple’s Mutual Life In¬ 
surance company of 
Wakeman, Ohio. 
For many years he 
was engaged in seed 
growing at Florence, 
Ohio, and was also a 
successful manufac¬ 
turer of maple syrup. He has attained 
prominence as a successful lawyer, and 
has a lucrative practice in his state. He 
has contributed extensively both prose 
and verse to the periodical press; and 
many of his poems have been incorpora¬ 
ted into standard works. 


DERBY, SAMUEL CARROLL, educa¬ 
tor, college president, was born in Dub¬ 
lin, N. H. In 1877 he received a profes¬ 
sorship in Antioch college, which he held 
until 1887, when he became president of 
the college. He held the position until 
1881, when he accepted the position of pro¬ 
fessor of Latin language and literature in 
the Ohio state university. 

DE ROALDES. ABEL, physician, was 
born June 10, 1804, in France. In 1850 
he moved to New Orleans, where for thir¬ 
ty years he practiced his profession, num¬ 
bering among his patients and friends a 
large number of tne creole population 
He died Feb. 4. 1894. in New Orleans. La. 

DE ROALDES, ARTHUR WASHING¬ 
TON, surgeon, author, was born Jan. 25, 
1849, in St. Landry, La. He attained 
prominence as a successful surgeon of 
New Orleans. He is the author of Post 
Nasal Adenoid Growths arid Their Treat¬ 
ment; Atresia of the Larynx; and other 
works. 

DE RUSSY, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, 
was born Nov. 3, 1818, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He was mustered out of the volunteer ser¬ 
vice in 1866; promoted to be major in 
the regular army in 1866; lieutenant-colo¬ 
nel in 1879; colonel in 1882; and was re¬ 
tired by operation of law in 1882. He 
died May 29, 1891, in Detroit, Mich. 

DE RUSSY, LOUIS G., soldier, state 
senator, was born in 1796 in New York. 
From 1851 to 1853 he was' a member of the 
Louisiana house of representatives, and 
from 1853 till 1855 of the senate. He was 
major-general of Louisiana militia from 
1848 till 1861, when he entered the con¬ 
federate army. He died Dec. 17, 1864, in 
Grand Ecore, Fla. 

DE RUSSY, RENE EDWARD, soldier, 
was born Feb. 22, 1789, in Hayti, W. I. He 
was superintendent of the United States 
military academy from 1833 till 1838, and 
lieutenant-colonel of engineers from 1838 
till 1863. In 1865 he was brevetted major- 
general in the U. S. army for long and 
faithful service. He died Nov. 23, 1865, 
in San Francisco, Cal. 

DE SAUSSURE, HENRY WILLIAM, 
jurist, author, was born Aug. 16, 1763, in 
Pocotaligo, S. C. He was a jurist of South 
Carolina, who was director of the United 
States mint in 1794, and published Re¬ 
ports of the Courts of Chancery and Equi¬ 
ty in South Carolina from the Revolution 
to 1813. He died March 29, 1839, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

DE SAUSSURE, WILLIAM F., lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1792, in 
Charleston, S. C. He adopted the profes¬ 
sion of the law; and was a senator in 
congress from his native state from 1852 
to 1853. 

DESBROSSES, ELIAS, was born in 
1718, in New York city. He was one of 
the founders of the chamber of commerce 
in 1768, and its president in 1771 and 1772. 
Desbrosses street of New York city is 
named in his honor, fte died in March, 
1778. 

DESHA, JOSEPH, soldier, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born Dee. 9, 1768, in 
Pennsylvania. He served for a time in 
the state legislature; fought at the battle 
of the Thames as a major-general; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1807 to 1819. He was 
governor of Kentucky for four years from 
1824. He died Oct. 13, 1842, in George¬ 
town, Ky. 

DESHA, ROBERT, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born in Pennsylvania. He was 
a representative in congress from Tennes¬ 
see from 1827 to 1831. He died Feb. 8, 
1849. 


DESHON, GEQRGE, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 30, 1823, in New Lon¬ 
don, Conn. He is a Roman catholic priest 
of the redemptorist order, whose Guide 
for Young Catholic Women has had a 
very extended circulation. 

DESIREE, sister superior, was born in 
1815 in Belgium. After taking her vows 
in 1845, she came to the United States, 
and was stationed at Cincinnati until 
1852, when she was sent to Lowell to 
found a convent and school for catholic 
girls. She died in 1879 in Lowell. Mass. 

DE SMET, PETER JOHN, missionary, 
author, was born Dec. 31, 1801, in Bel¬ 
gium. He was a noted Roman catholic 
missionary to the Indians, who came to 
the United States in 1821. His writings, 
originally published in French, include 
The Oregon Missions and Travels over 
the Rocky Mountains; Indian Letters 
and Sketches; Western Missions and Mis¬ 
sionaries; and New Indian Sketches. He 
died in May, 1872, in St. Louis, Mo. 

DESMOND, HUMPHREY J., lawyer, 
legislator, author, was born Sept. 14, 
1860, in Ozaukee county, Wis. In 1891 he 
was elected a member of the Wisconsin 
legislature, and drafted the Desmond 
law, which was enacted in place of the 
famous Bennett law. He is the author of 
Mooted Questions of History, and several 
other works. 

DESNOYER, PETER, pioneer, was 
born April 21, 1773, in France. Congress, 
in 1807, gave him a tract of land on De¬ 
troit river, in return for his loyalty to 
the United States. He subsequently be¬ 
came United States marshal for the ter¬ 
ritory of Michigan, and in 1839 state treas¬ 
urer. He died March 6, 1880, in Detroit,. 
Mich. 

DE SOLA, ABRAHAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 18, 1825, in London. 
He was an eloquent expounder of con¬ 
servative Judaism. His published works 
include Scripture Zoology; The Sanitary 
Institutions of the Hebrews; Mosaic Cos¬ 
mogony; Sinaitic Inscriptions; Notes on 
the Jews of Persia;' and minor writings 
on Jewish history and literature. He died 
June 5, 1882, in New York. 

DE STEFANI, RAFAEL E., operatic 
artist and vocal teacher, was born in 
Cuba. He decided to settle in Brooklyn,. 
N. Y., and there opened his Italian con¬ 
servatory on Fulton and Gould streets, 
which in a short time became one of the 
leading institutions in the city. 

DESTREHAN, JEAN NOEL, states¬ 
man, was born about 1780. He was a citi¬ 
zen of Louisiana, and in 1805 one of the 
authors of a pamphlet attacking the ter¬ 
ritorial government. In 1812 he was elect¬ 
ed to the United States senate, but re¬ 
signed the office before taking his seat. 

DETMOLD, CHRISTIAN EDWARD, 
civil engineer, was born Feb. 2, 1810, in 
Germany. He built the works of the New 
Jersey Zinc company, at Newark, N. J., 
being president of the company, and de¬ 
veloped the manufacture of spiegel iron 
from the residue of zinc ore. He died 
July 2, 1887, in New York city. 

DETMOLD, WILLIAM LUDWIG, sur¬ 
geon, was born Dec. 27, 1808, in Ger¬ 
many. He became professor of military 
surgery and hygiene at Columbia in 1862, 
and was made professor emeritus in 1866. 
He introduced orthopedic surgery into the 
United States. 

DE TROBRIAND, PHILIP REGIS, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born June 4, 1816, in 
France. He is a military writer who came 
to the United States in 1841, entered the 
army, and, after serving through the civil 
war, retired from active service in 1879, 
and resided in New Orleans. He is the 
author of several novels in French. 





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DETWILER, JACOB SNARE, educator, 
elocutionist, journalist, was born Jan. 28, 
1863, in Philadelphia, Pa. He toured the 
country for several years as an elocu¬ 
tionist and impersonator, and became fa¬ 
vorably known as an orator and lecturer. 
He is now editor and proprietor of The 
Sun, of Osage, Iowa. 

DETWILLER, HENRY, physician, mer¬ 
chant, was born Dec. 18, 1795, in Switzer¬ 
land. He was the pioneer of homeopathy 
in Pennsylvania, and the first to suc¬ 
cessfully practice it in America. He 
founded the iron industry at Bingen, Pa., 
and became president of the company. He 
died April 21, 1887, in Easton. 

DEUSTER, PETER VICTOR, journal¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was 
born Feb. 13, 1831, in Germany. In 1847 
he settled at Milwaukee, Wis., and be¬ 
came editor and publisher of a newspa¬ 
per. He was a member of the state house 
of representatives in 1862; state senator 
in 1870 and 1871; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Wisconsin to the forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth 
congresses as a democrat. 

DEVENS, CHARLES, lawyer, soldier, 
state senator, was born April 4, 1820, in 
Charlestown, Mass. He was a member 
of the state senate in 1848-49; and for 
several years was attorney-general of the 
United States. He served with distinc¬ 
tion through-the civil war; and was made 
a brigadier-general in 1862. He died Jan. 
7, 1891, in Boston, Mass. 

DE VERE, MARY AINGE, known as 
Madeline Bridges, author, poet, was born 
in New York. She is a successful writer 
of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and the author of 
Love Songs and Other Poems; and a sec¬ 
ond volume entitled Poems. 

DE VERE, MAXIMILIAN SCHELE, 
philologist, author, was born in 1820 in 
Sweden. He is a philologist of note who 
came from Sweden to the United States 
in 1843, and since 1844 has been a profes¬ 
sor in the university of Virginia. He is 
the author of Outlines of Comparative 
Philology; Studies in English; Ameri- 
isms; Wonders of the Deep; Grammar of 
the Spanish Language; Stray Leaves from 
the Book of Nature; and Romance of 
American History. 

DEVEREUX, JOHN HENRY, president 
of railroads, was born April 5, 1832, in 
Boston, Mass. He received a thorough 
education in the 
Portsmouth acade¬ 
my, New Hamp¬ 
shire; and in 1848 
commenced life as a 
civil engineer on 
construction of the 
Cleveland, Colum¬ 
bus and Cincinnati 
railroad, and the 
Cleveland, Paines- 
ville and Ashtabula 
railroad. In 1853 he 
went to Tennessee 
to engage in the construction of the 
Tennessee and Alabama railroad; and 
during the great rebellion entered the 
United States service, and was made 
superintendent of the United States rail¬ 
roads of Virginia. He became presi¬ 
dent, until consolidation, of all the 
lines between Bunalo and Chicago; at 
which time he was made general man¬ 
ager of the entire lines. In 1873 he be¬ 
came president of the Cleveland, Colum¬ 
bus and Cincinnati railroad: and also 
president of the Atlantic and Great West¬ 
ern railroad. He was instrumental in 
building the Pittsburg and Lake Erie 
railroad, and remained a trustee and di¬ 
rector until his death, on March 17, 1886, 
in Cleveland, Ohio. 



DEVEREUX, ' THOMAS POLLOCK, 
lawyer, author, was born Dec. 17, 1793, in 
Newbern, N. C. He was a North Caro¬ 
lina lawyer who published Reports of 
North Carolina Supreme Court in 1826-34; 
Reports in the Superior Court in 1834-40; 
and Equity Reports in 1826-40. He died 
March 24, 1869, in North Carolina. 

DEVIN, THOMAS C., soldier, was born 
in 1822 in New York city. He entered the 
regular army as lieutenant-colonel, and 
was made brigadier-general for services 
at Sailor’s creeK. He died April 4, 1878, 
in New York city. 

DE VINNE, DANIEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 1, 1793, in Ireland ; He 
was a methodist clergyman of New York 
city; and the author of The Methodist 
Episcopal Church and Slavery; Recollec¬ 
tions of Fifty Years in the Ministry; and 
Irish Primitive Church. He died Feb. 10, 
1883, in Morrisania, N. Y. 

DE VINNE, THEODORE LOW, printer, 
author, was born Dec. 25, 1828, in Stam¬ 
ford, Conn. He is a noted printer of New 
York city, and the author of Printer’s 
Price List; Invention of Printing; and 
Historic Types. 

DEVOE, FREDERICK WILLIAM, mer¬ 
chant, manufacturer, was born Jan. 26, 
1828, in New York city. His product, 
called Devoe’s Brilliant Oil, enjoyed a 
very extended sale, and the present com¬ 
pany of which he is president and treas¬ 
urer is one of the leading concerns in the 
country. 

DEVOL, WILLIAM STOWE, educator, 
scientist, was born March 24, 1860, near 
Marietta, Ohio. He is the director of the 
Arizona experiment 
station, professor of 
agriculture, horti¬ 
culture and veteri¬ 
nary science in the 
university of Arizo¬ 
na. He graduated 
from the Ohio state 
university in 1886 
with the degree of 
bachelor of agricul¬ 
ture, and upon grad¬ 
uation was placed 
in charge of the 
university farm, and in 1882 was chosen 
botanist. In 1889 he went to Reno, Nev., 
to accept the chair of agriculture in the 
university of Nevada. On account of fail¬ 
ing health he went to southern California, 
and there remained for five years, en¬ 
gaged in newspaper work. In 1895 he ac¬ 
cepted his present position at the univer¬ 
sity of Arizona. He is the president of 
the Arizona Agricultural association; and 
a member of various horticultural, pomo- 
logical and scientific associations. In 
1896 he became territorial veterinarian, 
stamping out an extensive outbreak of 
swine plague. 



DE VRIES, MARION, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 15, 1865, in Wood- 
bridge, Cal. He acted as assistant dis¬ 
trict attorney for 
San Joaquin county 
from January, 1893, 
to February, 1897; 
and was elected to 
the fifty-fifth con- 
gress as a. democrat 
and indorsed by the 
people’s party. He 
is a member of sev¬ 
eral important com¬ 
mittees; and always 
takes an active part 
in all debates tend¬ 
ing to the industrial advancement of the 
United States. 


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DEW, THOMAS RODERICK, educator, 
college president, author, was born Dec. 

5, 1802, in Virginia. He was an educator 
of Virginia, and president of William and 
Mary college in 1836-46. A Digest of the 
History and Laws of Ancient and Modern 
Nations is his chief work. Other writings 
of his include The Policy of the Govern¬ 
ment; Lectures on History; Usury; and 
Essay in Favour of Slavery. He died Aug. 

6, 1864, in Paris, France. 

DE WAELE, CHARLES LEONARD, 
lawyer, poet, was born Oct. 24, 1839, in 
Belgium. In 1869 he emigrated to Ameri¬ 
ca, and for a num¬ 
ber of years was in 
the lumber business 
in northern Michi¬ 
gan. During 1876- 
90 he served as a 
justice of the peace; 
and for two terms 
was superintendent 
of schools. In 1889 
he was admitted to 
the bar; and is now 
circuit court com¬ 
missioner for the 
county of Roscommon, Mich. As an au¬ 
thor and lawyer Mr. De Waele occupies a 
high place amongst the literary and legal 
fraternity of Michigan. He is the author 
of a volume of poems published in his 
native language. He is a linguist, and 
speaks the Dutch, German and French 
languages, and has done service as inter¬ 
preter in several prominent trials in the 
state. 

DE WALDEN, THOMAS BLAIDES, ac¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1811, in London, 
England. He was a New York actor of 
some note as an author and adapter of 
many plays, among which are The Up¬ 
per Ten and the Lower Twenty; and Kit; 
The Jesuit. He died Sept. 26, 1873, in 
New York city. 

DEWART, LEWTS, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1831 to 1833. 

DEWART, WILLIAM L., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He 
was a member of the thirty-fifth con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania. 

DEWEES, WILLIAM POTTS, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Nov. 5, 1768, in 
Pottsgrove, Pa. He was a popular physi¬ 
cian of Philadelphia, and professor of ob¬ 
stetrics in the university of Pennsylvania. 
He was the author of Medical Essays; 
Physical and Medical Treatment of Chil¬ 
dren; System of Midwifery; and Practice 
of Medicine. He died May 18, 1841, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

DEWEESE, JOHN T., lawyer, soldier, 
congressman, was born June 4, 1835, in 
Arkansas. He entered the volunteer army 
in 1861; promoted to the rank of colo¬ 
nel in 1863; and after the war was com¬ 
missioned a lieutenant in the regular 
army, and stationed in North Carolina. 
After holding the olnce of register in 
bankruptcy for a time he was elected a 
representative from North Carolina to the 
fortieth congress, and was re-elected to 
the forty-first congress. 

DEWEY, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born March 13, 1793, in 
Williamstown, Mass. He served as United 
States district attorney from 1830 till 1837, 
when he was appointed the fifth judge of 
the supreme court of Massachusetts. He 
died Aug. 22, 1866, in Northampton, Mass. 









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DEWEY, CHESTER, botanist, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Oct. 25, 1784, in 
Sheffield, Mass. He was a botanist who 
as an educator was connected with va¬ 
rious colleges, and lastly with the univer¬ 
sity of Rochester. Besides a History of 
Herbaceous Plants of Massachusetts, he 
wrote an elaborate monograph on the 
Carices of North America, the result of 
many years’ labor. He died in 1867. 

DEWEY, DANIEL, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 29, 1766, in 
Sheffield, Mass. He was a representative 
in congress from Massachusetts in 1813 
and 1814, when he resigned; and was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the supreme court of 
Massachusetts in 1814. He died June 3, 
1815. 

DEWEY, FREDERIC PERKINS, chem¬ 
ist, was born Oct. 4, 1855, in Hartford, 
Conn. He was appointed in 1882 curator 
of Metallurgy in the United States na¬ 
tional museum in Washington. 

DEWEY, GEORGE, naval officer, was 
born in Vermont. He attended the naval 
academy during 1854-58; and during 1858- 
59 was attached to the steam frigate Wa¬ 
bash; and to the Mississippi in 1861-63. 
He was at the capture of New Orleans in 
1862; of Port Hudson in 1863; and dur¬ 
ing 1864-65 was in the North Atlantic 
Blockading squadron. He was commis¬ 
sioned lieutenant in 1861; lieutenant- 
commander in 1865; commander in 1872; 
and captain in 1884. He was secretary of 
the light-house board during 1877-82; and 
chief of the bureau of equipment and re¬ 
cruiting, with rank of commodore, dur¬ 
ing 1889-90. He has attained world-wide 
fame by his destruction of the Spanish 
fleet in Manila Bay on May 1, 1898; was 
given a vote of thanks by congress; pre¬ 
sented with a golden sword; and was 
promoted to rear admiral. 

DEWEY, HENRY S., lawyer, was born 
Nov. 9, 1856, in Hanover, N. H. He has 
attained eminence as a lawyer of Boston, 
Mass. 

DEWEY, ISRAEL OTIS, soldier, legis¬ 
lator, was born March 9, 1824, in Berlin, 
Vt. In 1860 he was a member of the New 
Hampshire legislature; and a justice of 
the peace for many years. He served in 
the civil war and attained the rank of 
major. He died May 12, 1888, in Boston, 
Mass. 

DEWEY, JAMES ALFRED, educator, 
reformer, was born Nov. 10, 1860, in Ar¬ 
menia, Pa. He graduated in 1882 from 
the state normal school of Mansfield, Pa.; 
and subsequently from tne medical de¬ 
partment of the university of Michigan. 
He has been a successful educator and 
reformer; and is now superintendent of 
schools at Wanamie, Pa. 

DEWEY, JOHN J., railroad president, 
was born April 8, 1846, in Quechee, Vt. 
In 1894 he became president of the Wood- 
stock railway. 

DEWEY, LOUIS MARINUS, genealo¬ 
gist, was born Aug. 27, 1865, in Westfield, 
Mass. He is the author of a genealogy 
of the Dewey family. 

DEWEY, MaRY E., author, was born 
in Sheffield, Mass. She has translated 
George Sand’s Miller of Angibault, and 
edited The Life and Letters of Catherine 

M. Sedgwick. 

DEW’EY. MELVIL, librarian, author, 
was born Dec. 10, 1851, in Adams Centre, 

N. Y. He is the librarian of Columbia 
college and director of the New York 
state library. He is the author of Li¬ 
brary School Rules; and The Decimal 
Classification and Relation Index. 


DEWEY, NE* SON, governor. He was 
the first governor of Wisconsin after it 
became a state, serving as such from 1848 
to 1851. 

DEWEY, ORVILLE, clergyman, author, 
was born March 28, 1794, in Sheffield, 
Mass. He was a Unitarian clergyman of 
conservative opinions, once prominent as 
a pastor in New York and Boston. He 
was the author of Unitarian Belief; Dis¬ 
courses on Human Life; The Old World 
and the New; Letters on Revivals; Prob¬ 
lems of Human Life and Destiny; and 
Education of the Human Race. He died 
March 21, 1882, in Sheffield, Mass. 

DEWING, MRS. MARIA RICHARDS, 
artist, was born Oct. 27, 1855, in New 
York. She has painted numerous figure 
and flower pieces, among which are Vio¬ 
lets; and Mother and Child; and a num¬ 
ber of portraits, including Portrait of a 
Boy; Portrait of Her Father; and Sleep¬ 
ing Child. 

DEWING. THOMAS WILMER, artist, 
was born May 4, 1852, in Boston, Mass. 
His more important paintings are Young 
Sorcerer; Morning; Prelude; A Garden; 
The Days, which gained the Clarke prize; 
and Tobias and the Angel. 

DE WITT. ALEXANDER, manufac¬ 
turer, banker, congressman, was born 
April 2, 1797, in Worcester, Mass. He 
was a bank president; was a state senator 
in 1842, 1844, 1850, and 1851; a member of 
the constitutional convention of 1853; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1853 to 1857. 

DE WTTT, BENJAMIN, physician, sci¬ 
entist, author, was born in 1774. He was 
a New York physician and scientist who 
published Oxygen; and Minerals in New 
York. He died in 1819, in New York city. 

DE WITT, CHARLES, congressman, 
was born in 1728. He was a delegate 
from New York to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1783 to 1785. He died Sept., 
1787, in Kingston, N. Y. 

DE WITT, CHARLES G., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1829 to 1831; and was ap¬ 
pointed charge d’affaires for Central 
America in 1833. He died April 13, 1839, 
in Newburg, N. Y. 

DE WITT, DAVID MILLER, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1837, in 
Paterson, N. J. He was elected district 
attorney of Ulster county in 1862, and re¬ 
elected in 1865. He was elected to the 
forty-third congress as a democrat. 

DE WITT, FRANCIS B., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 11, 
1849, in Jackson county. Ind. He enlisted 
in the forty-sixth Ohio regiment at the 
age of twelve, and served at the battle of 
Shiloh and during the Corinth campaign. 
He was elected on the republican ticket 
in 1891 to represent Paulding county in 
the Ohio legislature, and re-elected in 
1893. He was elected to the fifty-foui'th 
congress as a republican. 

DE WITT, JACOB H., congressman, 
was born in 1784, in Ulster county, N. Y. 
He was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1819 to 1821; and a mem¬ 
ber of the New York assembly in 1839 and 
in 1847. He died Jan. 30, 1857, in Kings¬ 
ton, N. Y. 

DE WITT, JOHN, clergyman, educator, 
was born August, 1789, in Catskill, N. Y. 
In 1825 he assumed the professorship of 
belles-lettres, criticism and logic in Rut¬ 
gers college. He died Oct. 11, 1831, in 
New Brunswick, N. J. 

DE WITT, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Oct. 19, 1821, in Albany, N. Y. 
He is a reformed Dutch clergyman, and 
professor in the Theological seminary at 
New Brunswick, N. J., in 1863-92. He is 


the author of The Sure Foundation and 
How to Build on It; The Psalms, a New 
Translation; and What is Inspiration? 

DE WITT, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1842, in Pennsylvania. He is 
a presbyterian clergyman, professor at 
Princeton Theological sAiinary since 
1892, and the author of Sermons on the 
Christian Life. 

DE WITT, JOHN, clergyman, was born 
Dec. 23, 1867, in Harrisburg, Pa. He is 
an eminent clergyman of Cincinnati, Ohio. 

DE WITT, SIMEON, surveyor, author, 
was born Dec. 25, 1756, in Ulster county, 
N. Y. He was a famous surveyor who is 
commonly held responsible for the class¬ 
ical nomenclature of places in central and 
western New York. He published Ele¬ 
ments of Perspective. He died Dec. 3, 
1834, in Ithaca, N. Y. 

DE WITT, SUSAN LINN, author, poet, 
was born in 1778. She wrote Justinea, a 
novel; and The Pleasures of Religion, a 
poem. She died in 1824. 

DE WOLF, AUSTIN, lawyer, author, 
was born April 29, 1838, in Deerfield, 
Mass. He is the author of The Town 
Meeting, a manual of Massachusetts law. 

DE WOLF, EDWARD P„ merchant, 
was born Jan. 12, 1848, in Chicago, Ill. 
He attended the public and high schools 
of his native city, and for many years was 
there engaged in business. His father, 
William F. De Wolf, was once city treas¬ 
urer and a prominent lawyer of Chicago. 
In 1882 he moved to Waukegan, and in 
time became prominent as a public cit¬ 
izen. In 1895 was elected mayor, and his 
administration has been eminently satis¬ 
factory. He is a director in the Lake 
County Agricultural society, and has held 
various other positions of honor. 

DE WOLFE, JAMES, United States 
senator, was born in 1763, in Bristol, R. I. 
He was a senator of the United States 
from Rhode Island from 1821 to 1825, 
when he resigned. He died Dec. 21, 1837, 
in New York city. 

DEXTER, FRANKLIN, lawyer, state 
legislator, was born Nov. 5, 1793, in Char¬ 
lestown, Mass. He was elected to both 
branches of the state legislature. He 
served as United States district attorney 
from 1841 till 1845, and was re-appointed 
by President Taylor in 1849. He died 
Aug. 14, 1857, in Beverly, Mass. 

DEXTER, HENRY, sculptor, was born 
Oct. 1, 1806, in Nelson, N. if. Among , 
some of his moaels are President Felton, 
Governor Wisner, Joseph Warren, S. P. 
Chase, the Governors of 1860, the Pinney 
Child, and The Backwoodsman, The 
Young Naturalist, and The First Lesson. 
His studio was at Cambridge, Mass. 

DEXTER, HENRY, president of the 
American News company, was born 
March 14, 1813, in West Cambridge, Mass. 
He originated the conception of the 
American News company, which he was 
finally able, with the aid of others in the 
same business, to realize, in 1864. 

DEXTER, HENRY MARTYN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 13, 1821, in 
Plympton, Mass. He was a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman of prominence in Bos¬ 
ton as editor of The Congregationalist 
in 1867-90. His most important work is 
The Congregationalism of the Last Three 
Hundred Years. He was the author of 
Handbook of Congregationalism; Pilgrim 
Memoranda; The Verdict of Reason; As 
to Roger Williams and His Banishment, 
a marked example of special pleading; 
History of the Old Plymouth Colony; His¬ 
tory and the Study of History; The Right 
Use of Books; and The Study of Politics. 
He died Nov. 13, 1890, in New Bedford, 
Mass. 


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DEXTER, SAMUEL, merchant, was 
born in 1726. He was a member of the 
governor’s council before the revolution, 
and for several years between 1765 and 
1775 served on the more important com¬ 
mittees of both the house and the coun¬ 
cil. He died iA 1810, in Mendon, Mass. 

DEXTER, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
statesman, author, was born May 14, 1761, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a member of 
the house of representatives in congress 
from Massachusetts from 1793 to 1795, 
and was elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate, serving from 1799 to 1800. During 
the administration of John Adams he was 
appointed secretary of war in 1800, and 
secretary of the treasury in 1801; and for 
a short time had charge of the depart¬ 
ment of state. He was the author of 
Letters on Free Masonry; Progress of Sci¬ 
ence, a poem; and Speeches and Political 
Papers. He died May 3, 1816, in Athens, 
N. Y. 

DEXTER, SEYMOUR, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, banker, jurist, was born March 20, 
1841, in Independence, N. Y. He served 
as a soldier in the civil war; has been a 
member of the New York state assembly; 
has been county judge, and judge of the 
circuit court. He is also a prominent 
banker of Elmira. 

DEXTER, SIMON NEWTON, manufac¬ 
turer, was born May 11, 1785, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He was president of the 
Whitestown bank in 1833-53; canal com¬ 
missioner in 1840; and manager of the 
state lunatic asylum from 1849 till 1862. 
He died Nov. 18, 1862, in Whitesboro, 
N. Y. 

DEXTER, TIMOTHY, merchant, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 22, 1743, in Malden, 
Mass. He has attained prominence as a 
successful merchant of Charlestown, 
Mass. He was the author of a work en¬ 
titled A Pickle For the Knowing One. 
He died Oct. 22, 1806, in Newburyport, 
Mass. 

DEXTER, WILLIAM HENRY, mer¬ 
chant, was born Jan. 11, 1823, in Charlton, 
Mass. In 1873 he was made councilman 
in the Massachusetts government, and 
again in 1877. In 1874 he was elected a 
trustee of the Worcester academy and for 
many years was its treasurer. 

DEYO, ISRAEL T„ educator, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Jan. 28, 1854, in 
Union, N. Y. He was professor in New 
, York state normal school. He was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1883 at Albany, N. Y., 
and during 1890-93 was a member of the 
New York state legislature. 

DE YOUNG, MICHAEL HENRY, jour¬ 
nalist, was born in 1848, in St. Louis, Mo. 
Since 1879 the San Francisco Chronicle 
has been conducted solely by M. H. De 
Young, who has made it the largest and 
probably the most prosperous west of St. 
Louis. He has served several times on 
the republican national committee, and 
been prominently named for United 
States senator. 

DEZENDORF, JOHN F., surveyor, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 10, 1834, in 
Lansingburg, N. Y. In 1863 he moved to 
Norfolk. Ya. He was assistant assessor 
of internal revenue from 1869 to 1871; 
and was a delegate to the republican na¬ 
tional convention of 1876. He was de¬ 
feated for congress in 1878; and was 
elected a representative from Virginia to 
the forty-seventh congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

DIAZ, MRS. ABBY MORTON, author, 
was born in 1821, in Massachusetts. She 
is a Boston writer who in youth was one 
of the famous company at Brook farm, 
and has since been prominent in relation 


to social reforms. Her books for juvenile 
readers, which are characterized by a 
strong vein of humor, include The Wiliam 
Henry Letters; William Henry and His 
Friends; Chronicles of the Stimpcett 
Family; The Cats’ Arabian Nights; The 
John Spicer Lectures; Lucy Maria; Polly 
Cologne; Jimmyjohns; A Story-book for 
Children. Other works are Bybury to 
Beacon Street, a discussion of social top¬ 
ics; Domestic Problems; and Only a Flock 
of Women. 

""DIBBLE, SAMUEL, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1837, in 
Charleston, S. C. He served in the con¬ 
federate army during the war of the re¬ 
bellion; and was elected a representative 
in the state legislature in 1877. He was 
elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, 
fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a 
democrat. 

DIBBLE, SHELDON, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 23, 1809, in Skan- 
eateles, N. Y. He was a missionary to 
the Sandwich Islands, who published His¬ 
tory of the Sandwich Island Missions. He 
died Jan. 22, 1845, in the Hawaiian Is¬ 
lands. 

DIBRELL, GEORGE GIBBS, soldier, 
merchant, congressman, was born April 
12, 1822, in White county, Tenn. In 1861 
was elected to the legislature, but volun¬ 
teered in the confederate service, and was 
made brigadier-general in 1864. He was 
elected president of the Southwestern 
railroad; and in 1874 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Tennessee to the forty- 
fourth congress; and was re-elected to the 
forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh and 
forty-eighth congresses as a democrat. 

DIBRELL, JAMES A., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Aug. 20, 1846, in Van 
Buren, Ark. In 1865 he commenced the 
study of medicine, and five years later 
graduated from the university of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, in which institution he subse¬ 
quently attended a course of lectures. In 
1870 he commenced the practice of his 
profession in Little Rock, Ark., and has 
been eminently successful. For fifteen 
years he was physician to the Arkansas 
Deaf and Mute institute; and is now pro¬ 
fessor of anatomy, president and dean of 
the medical department of Arkansas In¬ 
dustrial university; also local surgeon for 
several railroads, and United States ex¬ 
amining surgeon for pensions. 

DICHMAN, ERNEST, naval officer, 
lawyer, banker, was born in 1845. He 
served in the South Atlantic squadron 
until the close of the civil war; rose, 
through the intermediate grades, to the 
rank of lieutenant-commander. He was 
United States minister to Columbia from 
1878 to 1881. 

DICK, JAMES T., artist, was born in 
1834, in New York city. He was one of 
the originators of the Brooklyn art school 
and a founder of the academy of design. 
Among his best efforts are Cooling Off; 
Leap-Frog; and At Mischief. He died 
Jan. 19, 1868, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

DICK, JOHN, jurist. He was a citizen 
of Louisiana, and in 1821 was appointed 
judge of the United States court for the 
District of Louisiana. 

DICK, JOHN, merchant, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a 
member of congress from that state in 
1854 and 1855; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. 

DICK, ROBERT P., lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, was born Oct. 5, 1823, in Greens¬ 
boro, N. C. He was appointed United 
States district attorney for the district of 
North Carolina in 1853, and remained in 


that office until 1861. He was elected a 
delegate to the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1861 and 1865. He was a state 
senator in 1864-65; was an associate jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of North Caro¬ 
lina in 1868-72; when he was appointed 
United States district judge for the west¬ 
ern district of North Carolina. 

DICK, SAMUEL, physician, congress¬ 
man. He was a delegate iO the conti¬ 
nental congress from New Jersey in 1783 
and 1784. He died in November, 1812, in 
New Jersey. 

DICK, SAMUEL B„ soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 26, 1836, in Meadville, 
Pa. He was a presidential elector in 
1864; and was mayor of his native city 
in 1870. He commanded a brigade of 
Pennsylvania state militia in West Vir¬ 
ginia in 1873; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Pennsylvania to the forty- 
sixth congress. 

DICK, WALLACE PEI ER, educator, 
composer, was born Sept. 9, 1857, in Low¬ 
ell, Mass. In 1891 he accepted the posi¬ 
tion of professor of languages in the state 
normal school at Westchester, Pa. He is 
a thorough musician, and has composed 
a number of instrumental pieces and sev¬ 
eral songs, among the most popular of 
which are Little Sunbeam; and Light of 
My Life. 

DICKENS, SAMUEL, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina during the years 1816 and 
1817. 

DICKENSON, ANNA ELIZABETH, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born Oct. 28, 1842, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. She gained great dis¬ 
tinction during the civil war by her pub¬ 
lic speeches against slavery, and has been 
considered one of the most popular lec¬ 
turers of the United States. 

DICKENSON, BAXTER, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1795, in Massachu¬ 
setts. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Boston, and the author of Letters 
to Students. He died in 1875. 

DICKENSON, DANIEL S., lawyer, 
statesman, was born Sept. 11, 1800, in 
Goshen, Conn. He became so distin¬ 
guished for his Biblical knowledge and 
apt quotations irom the Scripture in his 
speeches in senate and court, that his 
friends familiarly applied to him the sob¬ 
riquet of Scripture Dick. He died April 
12, 1866. 

DICKERMAN, BENONI, poet, was born 
July 9, 1810, in Naugatuc, Conn. He is 
the author of a volume entitled The 
Blood-Stained Cross; and also two book¬ 
lets, besides various lyrics, psalms, 
hymns and spiritual songs. 

DICKERMAN, CHARLES HEBER, 
manufacturer, banker, was born Feb. 3, 
1843, in Hartford, Pa. He is secretary 
and treasurer of'Murray, Dougal and Co., 
Limited, manufacturers of freight cars; 
and president of the First National bank 
of Milton, Pa. 

DICKERMAN, WATSON BRADLEY, 
stockbroker, was born Jan. 4, 1846, in 
Mount Carmel, Conn. He established the 
firm of Dominick and Dickerman in New 
York city. In 1890 and 1891 he was elect¬ 
ed president of the Stock Exchange, and 
he is president of the Norfolk and South¬ 
ern railroad. 

DICKERSON, JAMES STOKES, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, was born July 6, 1825, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. Removing in 1875 to 
Chicago, he became joint proprietor and 
editor of the Standard, a baptist weekly 
paper. He died in March, 1876, in Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. 


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DICKERSON, MAHLON, lawyer, jurist, 
governor, United States senator, was 
born Anril 17, 1770, in Morris county, 
N. J. He was re¬ 
corder of the city of 
Philadelphia, and 
subsequently quar¬ 
termaster-general of 
the state. He re¬ 
turned to New Jer¬ 
sey, and was elected 
to the legislature of 
that state. He was 
judge of the su¬ 
preme court of New 
Jersey; was elected 
governor of that 
state in 1815, and held the office until 
1817, when he was chosen United States 
senator from New Jersey, and continued 
in that office for sixteen years. In 1834 
he became secretary of the navy in the 
cabinet of President Jackson, and held 
that office until 1838, some two years after 
the accession of President Van Buren. 
For two years he was president of the 
American institute. He died Oct. 5, 1853, 
in Morris county, N. J. 

DICKERSON, PHILEMON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, governor, was born in 
1788, in Morris county, N. J. He was a 
representative in congress from the Pat¬ 
erson district, in that state, from 1833 to 
1835, and again from 1839 to 1841. .In 
1836 he was governor of New Jersey; and 
was subsequently appointed judge of the 
United States district court for New Jer¬ 
sey. He died Dec. 10, 1862, in Paterson, 
N. J. 

DICKERSON, W. W., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Nov. 29, 
1851, in Grant county, Ky. He was elect¬ 
ed county attorney in 1874 for a term of 
four years; and was elected a member of 
the state house of representatives in 1885. 
He was elected a member of the state sen¬ 
ate in 1887 for a term of four years. He 
was elected as a democrat to the fifty-first 
congress in 1890, and was re-elected to 
the fifty-second congress. 

DICKERSON, WILLIAM FISHER, 
bishop, was born Jan. 18, 1844, in Wood¬ 
bury. N. J. In 1880 he was elected thir¬ 
teenth bishop and given charge of the 
work in South Carolina and Georgia. He 
founded Allen university, Columbia, S. C., 
in 1880, of which he was president for 
four years. He died in December, 1884, 
in Columbia, S. C. 

DICKEY, EBENEZER, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 12, 1772, near Ox¬ 
ford, pa. He published A Tract to Par¬ 
ents; a pamphlet entitled Plea for Chris¬ 
tian Communion; and wrote for the 
Christian Advocate a series of letters on 
Travels in Europe for Health in 1820, that 
were widely read. He died May 31, 1831, 
in Oxford, Pa. 

DICKEY, HENRY L., civil engineer, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 29, 1832, in South Salem, Ohio. 
He jvas a representative in the state leg¬ 
islature in 1861; was a state senator in 
1867 and 1868; ana was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the forty-fifth and 
forty-sixth congresses as a democrat. 

DICKEY, JESSE C., congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1849 to 1851. 

DICKEY, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a member of congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1843 to 1845, and from 1847 to 1849. 
At the time of his death he was United 
States marshal for western Pennsylvania. 
He died March 14, 1853, in Beaver county. 
Pa. 


DICKEY, JOHN McELROY, clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 16, 1789, in York 
district, S. C. He went on missionary 
tours, organized many new churches in 
Indiana, and his connection with the be¬ 
ginnings of the presbyterian church in 
that territory caused him to be widely 
known in his denomination. He pub¬ 
lished a History of the Presbyterian 
Church in Indiana, and was preparing a 
continuation of it at the time of his 
death. He died Nov. 21, 1849, near Wash¬ 
ington, Ind. 

DICKEY, JOHN MILLER, clergyman, 
educator, was born Dec. 15, 1806, in Ox¬ 
ford, Pa. He conducted the Oxford Fe¬ 
male seminary for fifteen years in addi¬ 
tion to his pastoral duties. He took the 
principal part in establishing the Ash- 
mun institute, afterward Lincoln univer¬ 
sity, at Oxford, and was president of the 
board of trustees from 1854«till his death. 
He died March 21, 1878, in Philadelphia, 

DICKEY, MOSES R., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Nov. 4, 1827, in Richland 
county, Ohio. He served as lieutenant- 
colonel in the fifteenth regiment Ohio vol¬ 
unteer infantry, and as colonel in the 
same regiment. He has served as judge 
of court of common pleas. 

DICKEY, OLIVER J., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born April 6', 1823, in Brighton, 
Pa. He was district attorney for Lan¬ 
caster county from 1856 to 1859; was 
elected to fill a vacancy in the fortieth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
first and forty-second congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

DICKEY, THEOPHILUS LYLE, law¬ 
yer^ jurist, was born Nov. 12, 1812, near 
Paris, Ky. He read law in his native 
state, removed to Ohio, liberated the 
slaves that he had inherited, and after¬ 
ward established himself in practice in 
Illinois. During the Mexican war he 
served as a captain in Colonel Hardin’s 
regiment, and in the civil war he was 
colonel of the eleventh Illinois cavalry, 
and served for two years under General 
Grant, on whose staff he served for some 
months as chief of cavalry. From 1868 
till the close of President Johnson’s ad¬ 
ministration he was assistant attorney- 
general of the United States. From 1876 
till his death he was judge of the Illinois 
supreme court. He died July 22, 1885, in 
Atlantic City, N. J. 

DICKIE, SAMUEL, astronomer, lec¬ 
turer, was born June 6, 1851, in Oxford 
county, Canada. For ten years he was 
professor of astronomy and physics in the 
Albion college, Mich. He is prominent in 
political affairs as a prohibitionist; and 
has lectured extensively on scientific sub¬ 
jects. 

DICKINS, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 24, 1747, in London, Eng¬ 
land. He suggested the plan of Cokes- 
bury college, New Abingdon, Md., the first 
methodist academic institution in this 
country. He issued the Arminian Maga¬ 
zine in Philadelphia in 1789-90, and the 
Methodist Magazine from 1797 till his 
death. He died Sept. 27, 1798, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

DICKINSON, ALFRED ELIJAH, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Dec. 3, 1830, in Orange 
county, Va. He associated himself with 
the Rev. Dr. Jeter as joint owner and ed¬ 
itor of the Religious Herald, of Rich¬ 
mond, Va., and since the death of Dr. 
Jeter has been editor-in-chief of that jour¬ 
nal. 

DICKINSON, ANDREW GLASSEL, sol¬ 
dier, was born April 15, 1835, in Bowling 
Green, Va. He served through the civil 
war as a confederate; and for gallant and 


meritorious services received the rank of 
colonel. 

DICKINSON, ANNA ELIZABETH, suf¬ 
fragist, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 
28, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. She is a 
famous lecturer, and the author of A Pay¬ 
ing Investment, a Plea for Education; A 
Ragged Register of People, Places and 
Opinions; What Answer? a novel; and 
two plays, Mary Tudor; The Crown of 
Thorns. 

DICKINSON, CHARLES MONROE, 
journalist, poet, was born in November, 
1842, in Lowville, N. Y. He is the editor 
and proprietor of the Binghamton Re¬ 
publican, one of the most influential 
newspapers in the state of New York. He 
is the author of a volume of poems en¬ 
titled The Children, and Other Verses. 

DICKINSON, CORNELIUS EVARTS, 
clergyman, author, was born April 23, 
1835, in Heath, Mass. He has filled pas¬ 
torates in the congregational church at 
Oak Park and Elgin, Ill., and at Marietta, 
Ohio. He is the author of A Century of 
Church Work. 

DICKINSON, DANIEL STEVENS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, United States 
senator, author, was born Sept. 11, 1800, 
in Goshen, Conn. In 1836 he was elected 
to the state senate, serving from 1837 to 
1840; was judge of the court of errors 
from 1836 to 1841; and from 1842 to 1844 
was president of that court. He was lieu¬ 
tenant-governor and president of the sen¬ 
ate. He was a senator in congress from 
New York from 1844 to 1851. He was a 
delegate to the Baltimore conventions of 
1848 and 1852; and in 1861 was elected 
attorney-general of the state of New 
York. He was a delegate to the Balti¬ 
more convention of 1864; and in 1865 was 
appointed United States district attorney 
for the southern district of New York. 
His Speeches and Correspondence, with a 
biography of him by his brother, ap¬ 
peared in 1867. He died April 12, 1866, in 
New York city. 

DICKINSON, DAVID W., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1833 to 1835; and again 
from 1843 to 1845. He died April 27, 1845, 
in Franklin, Tenn. 

DICKINSON, DONALD MCDONALD, 
cabinet officer, lawyer, politician, was 
born Jan. 17, 1847, in Port Ontario, N. Y. 
In 1888 he became postmaster-general of 
the United States. 

DICKINSON, EDWARD, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 
1803, in Amherst, Mass. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature in 1838 and 
1839; of the state senate in 1842 and 1843; 
of the governor’s council in 1846 and 1847; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1853 to 1855. He was again elected to the 
state legislature in 1873. He died June 
16, 1874. 

DICKINSON, EDWARD F„ soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
Jan. 21, 1829, in Fremont, Ohio. He served 
three years in the union army as a lieu¬ 
tenant and regimental quartermaster. He 
was elected judge of probate for Sandusky 
county in 1866; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the forty-first con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

DICKINSON, EMILY, poet, was born 
in 1830, in Massachusetts. She was a poet 
whose entire life was passed in Amherst, 
Mass., in great seclusion, and who rarely 
published any of her work. Since her 
death attention has been drawn to the 
strikingly original nature of her poetry 
by the publication of three volumes of 
poems, selected from her manuscripts. 
She died in 1886. 






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DICKINSON, HESTER A., journalist, 
poet, was born in Ohio. She is the author 
of two volumes of poems entitled Vesta; 
and Fagots. She is engaged in newspaper 
work, and president of the Pacific Coast 
Women’s Press association. 

DICKINSON, JOHN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 13, 1732, in 
Maryland. In 1764 he was a member of 
the assembly, and in 
1765 of the general 
congress. He was a 
delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress 
from 1774 to 1776. 
From 1776 to 1777 he 
was a delegate to 
congress from Dela¬ 
ware, and again 
from 1779 to 1780, 
and signed the ar¬ 
ticles of confedera¬ 
tion as well as the 
constitution. In 1781 he was president of 
that state; and in 1782 was chosen presi¬ 
dent of Pennsylvania, and filled that of¬ 
fice until 1785. He was a political writer 
of great influence during the period of the 
revolution. Dickinson college, which he 
helped to found, was named in his honor. 
He wrote vigorously against the stamp 
act, and his various state papers display 
both eloquence and dignity. His works 
are Petition to the King; Second Petition 
to the King; Letters from a Pennsylvania 
Farmer; Letters of Fabius. He died Feb. 
14, 1808, in Wilmington. 

DICKINSON, JOHN D., congressman, 
was born in 1767, in Middlesex county, 
Conn. He was a member of congress from 
New York from 1819 to 1823, and again 
from 1827 to 1831. He died Jan. 28, 1841, 
in Troy, N. Y. 

DICKINSON, JONATHAN, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born in England. He was a 
chief justice of Pennsylvania, who came 
to the colony in 1696. His book, entitled 
God’s Protecting Providence Man’s Surest 
Help in Times of Danger, is a narrative 
of personal adventure, and has been sev¬ 
eral times reprinted since its first appear¬ 
ance in 1699. He died in 1722. 

DICKINSON, JONATHAN, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born April 
22, 1688, in Hatfield, Mass. He was a 
Presbyterian clergyman of Elizabethtown, 
N. J., who was one of tne chief American 
theologians of his day, and the first presi¬ 
dent of the college of New Jersey, now 
Princeton college. He was the author of 
Familiar Letters Upon Important Sub¬ 
jects in Religion; Reasonableness of 
Christianity; and True Scripture Doc¬ 
trine. He died Oct. 17, 1747, in Elizabeth¬ 
town, N. J. 

DICKINSON, JULIAN G., soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Nov. 20, 1843, in Erie coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. He received his education in 
the union schools of Jonesville and Jack- 
son, Mich.; and in 1856 graduated from 
the university of Michigan. He served 
as a union soldier during the civil war; 
served three years in the army of the 
Cumberland; was promoted to adjutant 
of the fourth regiment Michigan cavalry, 
and brevetted captain United States vol¬ 
unteers for meritorious service in the cap¬ 
ture of Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1865. 
Since 1867 he has practiced law in Detroit, 
Mich., and has attained eminent success 
in his profession. 

DICKINSON, MARQUIS FAYETTE, 
educator, business man, lawyer, was born 
Jan. 16, 1840, in Amherst, Mass. He is 
descended from Nathaniel Dickinson, one 
of the Winthrop colony of 1630, who set¬ 
tled Weathersfield, Conn., and in 1658 
was one of the adventurers who founded 
the town of Hadley, Mass. The subject of 


this sketch received a thorough educa¬ 
tion and graduated from the Williston 
seminary in 1858; from Amherst college 
in 1862; and studied law at the Harvard 
law school. He was a teacher of classics 
in the Williston seminary during 1862-65; 
was a trustee of that institution; and was 
a member of the boaru of overseers of 
charity fund of Amherst college. He has 
been president of the Nashawannuck 
Manufacturing company, and a director 
of the Williston mills, both of Easthamp- 
ton, Mass.; and president of the Whit- 
comb Envelope company. He is now a 
noted lawyer of Boston, Mass; was presi¬ 
dent of the Boston common council in 
1872; and has filled numerous public po¬ 
sitions of honor in his native state. He 
is the author of Legislation on the Hours 
of Labor; and Amherst Centennial Ad¬ 
dress. 

DICKINSON, PHILExvlON, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was 
born April 5, 1739, in Dover, Del. He 
commanded the Jersey militia at the bat¬ 
tle of Monmouth; and was a delegate 
from Delaware to the continental congress 
from 1782 to 1783. After the organization 
of the national government in its pres¬ 
ent form, he was appointed a senator in 
congress from 1790 to 1793. He died Feb. 
4, 1809, in Trenton, N. J. 

DICKINSON, RICHARD WILLIAM, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 21, 
1804, in New York city. He was a presby- 
terian clergyman of New York city, and 
the author of Scenes from Sacred His¬ 
tory; Responses from the Sacred Oracles; 
Religious Teaching by Example; Life and 
Times of John Howard; and The Resur¬ 
rection of Christ Historically and Logic¬ 
ally Viewed. He died Aug. 16, 1874, in 
Fordham, N. Y. 

DICKINSON, RODOLPHUS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1787, in Deer¬ 
field, Mass. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man in Deerfield, Mass., who published a 
much criticised New and Corrected Ver¬ 
sion of the New Testament; and Geo¬ 
graphical and Statistical View of Massa¬ 
chusetts. He died in 1863, in Deerfield, 
Mass. 

DICKINSON, RUDOLfHLo, congress¬ 
man, was born in Massacnusetts. Having 
removed to Ohio, he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1847 to 1849. He died in August, 
1849. 

DICKSON, ANDREW FLINN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 9, 1825, in 
Charleston, S. C. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of Alabama, and the author of 
Plantation Sermons; The Temptation in 
the Desert; and The Light, is It Waning? 
He died in 1879, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. 

DICKSON, CYRUS, clergyman, was 
born Dec. 20, 1816, in Erie county. Pa. 
He was chosen permanent clerk of the 
general assembly, and soon afterward 
secretary of the board of home missions, 
also representing the board at the pan- 
presbyterian council in Edinburgh, Scot¬ 
land, in 1877. He died Sept. 11, 1881, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

DICKSON, DAVID, congressman. He 
was a member of congress from Missis¬ 
sippi in 1835 and 1836. He died July 31, 
1836, in Little Rock, Ark. 

DICKSON, JOHN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, author, was born in 1783, in Keene, 
N. H. He was a New York congressman, 
early prominent in opposition to slavery, 
and served in congress during 1831-35. 
He is the author of Remarks on the Pre¬ 
sentation of Petitions for the Abolition of 
Slavery in the District of Columbia. He 
died Feb. 22, 1852, in West Bloomfield, 
N. Y. 


DICKSON, JOHN J., soldier, farmer, 
poet, was born Sept. 8, 1826, in Scott coun¬ 
ty, Ind. During the civil war he was with 
Sherman’s army on its famous march to 
the sea. He is a successful farmer of 
West Grove, Iowa; has gained a reputa¬ 
tion as a poet; and some of his produc¬ 
tions appear in Poets of America and 
other standard works. 

' DICKSON, SAMUEL, physician, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from New York during the thir¬ 
ty-fourth congress. 

DICKSON, SAMUEL HENRY, educator, 
physician, author, was born Sept. 20, 1798, 
in Charleston, S. C. He was a physician 
of eminence in Charleston, and after¬ 
wards in Philadelphia, where, from 1858 
to 1872 he was a professor in the Jeffer¬ 
son Medical college. He was the autnor 
of Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain and Death; 
On the Correlation of Forces; H5sthetics 
of Suicide; Elements of Medicine; Den¬ 
gue, its History, Pathology, and Treat¬ 
ment; Manual of Pathology; Practice of 
Medicine; Essays on Pathology and 
Therapeutics; and Studies in Pathology 
and Therapeutics. He died March 31, 
1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DICKSON, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1801 to 1807. 

DIDIER, EUGENE LEMOINE, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 22, 1838, in 
Baltimore, Md. He is the author of Life 
of Poe; Life and Letters of Madame 
Bonaparte; Primer of Criticism; and The 
Political Adventures of James G. Blaine. 

DIDIER, FRANKLIN JAMES, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born in 1794, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was a Baltimore physician 
who was the autnor of Didier’s Letters 
from Paris; and Franklin’s Letters to His 
Kinsfolk. He died in 1840, in Baltimore, 
Md. 

DIEKEMA, GERRIT J., lawyer, state 
legislator, was born March 27, 1859, in 
Holland, Mich. He is a successful lawyer 
of Holland; served with distinction as a 
member of the Michigan state legislature 
during 1885-92; and was speaker of the 
house in 1889. 

DIELMAN, FREDERICK, artist, was 
born Dec. 25, 1847, in Germany. He 
served as a topographer and draughtsman 
of United States engineers in Fortress 
Monroe and Baltimore, and in the survey 
of canal routes over the Alleghanies of 
Virginia. 

DIETERICH, LOUIS PHILIP, artist, 
was born April 8, 1842, in Germany. He 
studied in the best scbools of Baltimore, 
Md., and has attained prominence as a 
portrait painter. 

DIETZ, ELLA, poet. She is the author 
of a volume of poems entitled The Tri¬ 
umph of Time. 

DILL, JAMES HERON HORTON, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Jan. 1, 1821, in Ply¬ 
mouth, Mass. He filled a pastorate in 
Spencerport, N. Y., for eight years, then 
moved to Chicago, where he became pas¬ 
tor of the South Congregational church. 
He died Jan. 14, 1863. 

DILLARD, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Aug. 23, 1846, in Amherst coun¬ 
ty, Va. He received his education at the 
Virginia Military institute and at the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia. He has attained 
prominence as an able lawyer of his na¬ 
tive state; and since 1880 has served with 
distinction as judge of Amherst county 
court, Va. 

DILLAYE, STEPHEN DEVALSON, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1820, in New York. He 
was the author of The Money and Fi¬ 
nances of the French Revolution in 1789. 
He died in 1884. 




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DILLER, JOSEPH SILAS, educator, 
geologist, author, was born Aug. 27, 1850, 
in Plainfield, Pa. In 1883 he became as¬ 
sistant geologist on the United States 
geological survey, and in that capacity 
has traveled extensively throughout the 
United States. He is the author of Notes 
on the Geology of the Troad; Diamonds 
in the United States; and Notes on the 
Geology of Northern California. 

DILLINGHAM, FRED AUGUSTINE, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 27, 1851, 
in Auburn, Maine. He is a distinguished 
clergyman of New England; fills a pas¬ 
torate in Bridgeport, Conn.; and is the 
author of a work entitled Life of Jesus. 

DILLINGHAM, PAUL, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, governor, was 
born in August, 1800, in Shutesbury, 
Mass. He was justice of the peace eight¬ 
een years; was state’s attorney for Wash¬ 
ington county from 1835 to 1838; and was 
a member of the constitutional conven¬ 
tion in 1836 and 1837. He was a repre¬ 
sentative to the general assembly six 
years; state senator in 1841 and 1842; and 
was elected a representative in congress 
from 1843 to 1847; and was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Vermont for the year 1866. 

DILLMAN, FREDERICK, artist, was 
born Dec. 25, 1847, in Germany. He stud¬ 
ied art in the Royal academy of Munich, 
and was secretary of the international 
board of jury for fine arts at the World’s 
Columbian exposition. 

DILLON, JOHN FORREST, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Dec. 25, 1831, in 
Washington county, N. Y. He went to 
Iowa, and was elected prosecuting at¬ 
torney; in 1858 judge of the seventh ju¬ 
dicial district of Iowa; and re-elected in 
1862 for a second term. In 1869 he was 
commissioned United States circuit judge 
for the eighth judicial circuit. Since 1879 
he has resided in New York city. He is 
the author of United States Circuit Court 
Reports; Municipal Corporations; Re¬ 
moval of Causes from State to Federal 
Courts; Municipal Bonds; and Laws and 
Jurisprudence of England and America. 

DILLON, ROBERT MATHEW, clergy¬ 
man, theologian, was born Oct. 29, 1859, 
in Madison, Ind. He attended Oberlin 
college in 1883-84; Hanover college in 
1884-89; and McCormick Theological sem¬ 
inary of Chicago in 1889-92. He then en¬ 
tered the presbyterian ministry, and has 
filled pastorates in Greencastle, Ind., and 
Bowling Green, Ohio. He has contributed 
extensively to religious literature. 

DILLON, SIDNEY, railroad president, 
was born May 7, 1812, in Northampton, 
N. Y. He was twice president, at inter¬ 
vals, of the Union Pacific railroad, and 
other railroad systems. He died June 9, 
1892, in New York city. 

DILLWYN, GEORGE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 26, 173*, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was the author of Dillwyn’s 
Reflections. He died June 23, 1821. 

DIMAN, BYRON, manufacturer, state 
senator, governor, was born in 1795, in 
Bristol, R. I. He was for many years 
either a state senator or a member of the 
lower house, and was lieutenant-governor 
of the state for three years. In 1846 he 
was elected governor. He died Aug. 1, 
1865, in Bristol, R. I. 

DIMAN, JEREMIAH LEWIS, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born May 1, 1831, 
in Bristol, R. I. He was a congregational 
clergyman, who was professor of history 
and political economy in Brown univer¬ 
sity from 1864. He is the author of Ora¬ 
tions and Essays; The Theistic Argument 
as Affected by Recent Theories. He died 
Feb. 3, 1881, in Providence, R. I. 


DIMICK, JUSTIN, soldier, was born 
Aug. 5, 1800, in Hartford county, Conn. 
He served with distinction during the 
civil war; and in 1865 received the brevet 
of brigadier-general in the United States 
army. From 1864 until his death he was 
governor of the Soldiers’ home near 
Washington, D. C. He died in October, 
1871. 

DIMITRY, ALEXANDER, educator, 
was born Feb. 7, 1805, in New Orleans, 
La. In 1842 he organized the free school 
system in Louisiana, and for three years 
was state superintendent of public in¬ 
struction. Under the confederate gov¬ 
ernment he was chief of the finance bu¬ 
reau in the postoffice department. He 
was afterward prominently identified 
with educational work, and in 1870 was 
elected professor of ancient languages in 
the Christian Brothers college of Missis¬ 
sippi. He died Jan. 30, 1883. 

DIMITRY, CHARLES PATTON, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, author, was born July 31, 
1837, in Washington, D. C. During the 
civil war he served in the confederate 
army as a private in the Louisiana 
Guards. Since the war he has been con¬ 
nected with the press of Baltimore, Wash¬ 
ington, Richmond and New Orleans. He 
is the author of Guilty or Not Guilty; 
Angela’s Christmas; The Alderly Trag¬ 
edy; and The House in Balfour Street. 

DIMITRY, JOHN BULL SMITH, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Dec. 27, 1835, in 
Washington, D. C. He served as a con¬ 
federate soldier during the civil war. For 
seven years he was the dramatic and lit¬ 
erary critic of the New Orleans Times; 
and during 1881-89 was editorially con¬ 
nected with the New York Mail and Ex¬ 
press. He is the author of History and 
Geography of Louisiana from Its Earliest 
Settlement to the Close of the Civil War. 

DIMM, JONATHAN ROSE, educator, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
Aug. 28, 1830, in Hughesville, Pa. He was 
principal of the Missionary institute of 
Selins Grove, Pa., for twelve years, up to 
1894, when he became president of that 
institution, which developed into the Sus¬ 
quehanna university. 

DIMMICK, FRANCIS MARION, clergy¬ 
man, was born Jan. 23, 1827, in Union- 
dale, Pa. For a while he taught school; 
and graduated in 1860 from the Lane 
Theological seminary of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
He tnen went to Omaha, Neb., where he 
organized the First Presbyterian church, 
of which he was pastor for twelve years. 
In 1872 he moved to Santa Rosa, Cal., and 
in 1884 to Los Angeles, where he estab¬ 
lished the Grand View Presbyterian 
church, of which he is still pastor. 

DIMMICK, MILO M., congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1849 to 1853. He died Nov. 21, 1872, 
in Mauch Chunk, Pa. 

DIMMICK, WILLIAM H„ lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 
1815, in Milford, Pa. He was prosecuting 
attorney for the commonwealth of Penn¬ 
sylvania for Wayne county in 1836 and 
1837; and was a member of t'he state sen¬ 
ate in 1845, 1846 and 1847. He was elected 
a representative from Pennsylvania in 
the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth con¬ 
gresses. He died Aug. 2, 1861, in Hones- 
dale, Pa. 

DIMMOCK, GEORGE, zoologist, author, 
was born May 17, 1852, in Springfield, 
Mass. He received his education at Har¬ 
vard college and the universities of Paris 
and Leipzie. He has written consider¬ 
ably on biological subjects, especially on 
insects. For a number of years he was 


editor of Psyche, a journal of entomology. 
He is the author of Anatomy of Mouth 
Parts of Some Insects of the Order of 
Diptera. He is also the author of a gene¬ 
alogical work on the Dimmock family. 

DIMOCK, DAVIS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1841 to 1842. He died 
Jan. lo, 1842. 

DIMON, NATHAN H., soldier, educator, 
clergyman, poet, was born Nov. 18, 1846, 
in Bridge Hampton, N. Y. In 1861 he en¬ 
listed and served for three years as a 
private in company G, eighty-first regi¬ 
ment New York infantry, and was wound¬ 
ed at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va. For 
many years he was engaged in educational 
work, and since 1873 nas been a baptist 
clergyman. 

DIMOND, FRANCIS M., governor. He 
was governor of Rhode Island for one 
year, beginning in 1853. 

DINGEE, WILLIAM JACKSON, cap¬ 
italist, philanthropist, was born July 22, 
1853, near Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
organizer of the Piedmont Water compa¬ 
ny in 1891, and was its president until 
1894. 

DINGLEY, E. N., journalist, politician, 
was born Aug. 21, 1862, in Auburn, Maine. 
Since 1888 he has been the editor and part 
owner of the Daily Telegraph of Kalama¬ 
zoo, Mich. In 1897 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the Michigan republican league, 
and takes an active part in political af¬ 
fairs. 

DINGLEY, NELSON, lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 
15, 1832, in Durham, Maine. In 1856 he 
became the proprie¬ 
tor and editor of the 
Lewiston Journal. 
Between the years 
1862 and 1873 he was 
six times elected to 
the state legislature, 
serving as speaker 
in 1863 and 1864. In 
1873 and also in 1874 
he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Maine. He 
was a delegate to the 
republican national 
convention of 1876; and was elected a 
representative from Maine to the forty- 
seventh congress, to fill a vacancy; and 
was re-elected to the forty-eighth, forty- 
ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fif¬ 
ty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

DINNIES, MRS. ANNA PEYRE 
SHACKELFORD, poet, was born in 1816 
in Georgetown, S. C. She was a poet of 
New Orleans who published The Floral 
Year, a collection of one hundred poems. 
She died Aug. 8, 1886, in New Orleans, La. 

DINSMOOR, ROBERT, poet, author, 
was born Oct..7, 1757, in Windham. N. H. 
He was known as The Rustic Bard, and 
published Incidental Poems, strongly imi¬ 
tative of Burns. He died in 1836. 

DINSMOOR, SAMUEL, soldier, jurist, 
congressman, governor, author, was born 
July 1, 1766, in Londonderry, N. H. He 
was for many years a major-general of 
militia; a presidential elector in 1821; 
and a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1811 to 1813. He 
was a judge of probate; and served as 
governor of his native state during the 
years 1831-1833. He died March 15, 1835, 
at Keene, N. H. 

DINSMOOR, SAMUEL, lawyer, gover¬ 
nor, was born May 8, 1799, in Keene, N. 
H. He was governor of New Hampshire 
from 1849 to 1853. He died Feb. 24, 1869, 
in Keene, N. H. 




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DINSMORE. MRS. B. A., educator, poet, 
was born in 1836 in Guilford, Maine. She 
is a teacher of vocal music in Foxcroft, 
Maine; and has written a number of 
meritorious poems. 

DINSMORE, HUGH ANDERSON, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1850, 
in Benton county, Ark. In 1878 he was 
elected prosecuting 
attorney of the 
fourth judicial dis¬ 
trict of Arkansas; 
was re-elected in 
1880, and againwith- 
out opposition in 
1882. In 1887 he was 
appointed minister 
resident and con¬ 
sul-general of tne 
United States in the 
kingdom of Korea 
and served in that 
capacity until 1890. He was elected to the 
fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

DINSMORE, WILLIAM B., president of 
the Adams Express company, was born in 
1810, in Boston, Mass. He made the ac¬ 
quaintance of Alvin Adams, who sent him 
to New York to take charge of the Adams 
express business there. He afterward took 
John Hoey into his employment, and 
from that time these two men toiled un¬ 
tiringly to build up the Adams Express 
company. In a few years they had ex¬ 
tended the route of the company to all 
parts of the country, he died April 20, 
1888, in New York city. 

DIRCK, CORNELIUS LANSING, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 3, 1785, 
in Lansingburg, N. Y. He was a presby- 
terian clergyman for many years con¬ 
nected with Auburn Theological semi¬ 
nary, who published Sermons on Impor¬ 
tant Subjects. He died March 19, 1857. 

DISHAROON, JOHN H., educator, was 
born Aug. 17, 1873, in Marble Hill, Ga. 
He has attained success as an educator, 
and is now engaged in that profession at 
Huntsville, Tex. 

DISNEY, DAVID T., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1803, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, 
in 1820; was frequently a member of the 
state legislature of Ohio, and three times 
elected speaker. He represented his 
adopted state in congress from 1849 to 
1855. He died March 14, 1857, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

DISOSWAY, GABRIEL POILLON. anti¬ 
quarian, author, was born Dec. 6, 1799, in 
New York city. He was an antiquary of 
New York city, and the author of The 
Children’s Book of Sermons; and The 
Earliest Churches of New York and its 
Vicinity. He died July 9, 1868, in Staten 
Island, N. Y. 

DISSTON, HENRY, manufacturer, in¬ 
ventor, was born May 21, 1819, in Eng¬ 
land. He invented more than twenty im¬ 
provements in saw manufacture, among 
them the movable or inserted teeth. He 
was the inventor and manufacturer of 
the Disston saw. He died March 16, 1878, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DISTURNELL, JOHN, journalist, - au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 6, 1801, in New York 
city. He was a map publisher of New 
York city who was an industrious com¬ 
piler of guide books and similar litera¬ 
ture. He is the author of New York as 
it Was and Is, 1876; Influence of Climate 
in North and South America; The Great 
Lakes of America; and Traveller’s Guide 
to Hudson River; Tourist’s Guide to the 
Upper Mississippi; and other works. He 
died Oct. 1, 1877, in New York city. 



DITSON, CHARLES HEALY, publish¬ 
er, was born Aug. 11, 1845. He is treasur¬ 
er of the now incorporated firm of The 
Oliver Ditson company of Boston, which 
owns the branch house in Philadelphia, 
and is part owner of Lyon and Healy of 
Chicago. 

DITSON, GEORGE LEIGHTON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Aug. 5, 1812, in 
Westford, Mass. He is a noted traveler 
who published Circassia, or a Tour to the 
Caucasus; Crimora; The Para Papers, or 
France, Egypt, and Ethiopia; The Cres¬ 
cent and the French Crusaders; and The 
Fedariti of Italy, a Romance of Circas¬ 
sian Captivity. 

DITSON, OLIVER, music publisher, 
was born Oct. 20, 1811, in Boston, Mass. 
He established the publishing firm of Oli¬ 
ver Ditson and Co., wnich has become 
known throughout the United States. For 
twenty-five years he was president of the 
Continental bank of his city. He died 
Dec. 21, 1888, in Boston, Mass. 

DITTENHOEFER, ABRAM J., lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1836, in Charleston, S. 
C. In 1862 he was appointed judge of the 
city court of Columbia, and in 1864 was 
judge of the district court of South Caro¬ 
lina. 

DIVEN, ALEXANDER S., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 15, 
1809, in Catharine, N. Y. He was a sen¬ 
ator in the New York legislature in 1858; 
and was elected a representative from 
New York to the thirty-seventh congress. 

DIVOL, IRA, educator, was born in Oc¬ 
tober, 1820, in Topham, Vt. He was elect¬ 
ed state superintendent of public schools 
in Missouri. He laid the foundation of 
the public school library, which afterward 
became the public library in St. Louis. 
He died June 22, 1871, in Baraboo, Wis. 

DIX, AUGUSTUS J., educator, was 
born April 13, 1831, in Albany, N. Y. He 
moved to Elizabeth, N. J., and was one 
of the incorporators, and for three years 
president of the city hospital. Since 1880 
he has been superintendent of public in¬ 
struction of the city of Elizabeth. 

DIX, CHARLES TEMPLE, artist, was 
born Feb. 25, 1838, in Albany, N. Y. His 
Sunset in Capri is a spirited study of sea 
and shore. He died March 11, 1873, in 
Rome, Italy. 

DIX, DOROTHEA LYNDE, philan¬ 
thropist, author, was born about 1794 in 
Worcester, Mass. She was a famous Mas¬ 
sachusetts philanthropist the greater part 
of whose life was spent in efforts to im¬ 
prove the condition of the insane. Her 
writings, except Prisons and Prison Dis¬ 
cipline, are intended for children, and in¬ 
clude The Garland of Flora; Conversa¬ 
tions about Common Things; Alice and 
Ruth; and Evening Hours. She died July 
19, 1887, in Trenton, N. J. 

DIX, JOHN ADAMS, statesman, was 

born July 24, 1798, in Boscawen, N. H. He 
was a general and statesman who, while 

secretary of the 
treasury in 1861, is¬ 
sued the celebrated 
order. If any one 
attempts to haul 
down the American 
flag, shoot him on 
the spot. He was a 
United States sen¬ 
ator, and governor 
of New York during 
1873-75. He was the 
author of A Winter 
in Madeira, and A 
Summer in Spain and Florence; Speeches 
and Occasional Addresses; and Resources 
of the State of New York. He died April 
21. 1879. 


DIX, JOHN HOMER, oculist, aurist, 
author, was born about 1810. He was an 
oculist’ and aurist of Boston who pub¬ 
lished Changes of the Blood, a translation 
from the French of Gibert; Treatise on 
Strabismus; Morbid Sensibility of the 
Retina; and The Ophthalmoscope and its 
Uses. He died in 1884. 

DIX, MORGAN, clergyman, author, was 
born Nov. 1, 1827, in New York city. 
He is a prominent episcopal clergyman of 
New York city conspicuous among High 
church theologians, and rector of Trinity 
church since 1859. He is the author of 
Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical; Lec¬ 
tures on the Calling of a Christian Wom¬ 
an; Memoir of J. A. Dix, his father; Gos¬ 
pel and Philosophy; The Sacramental Sys¬ 
tem; The Seven Deadly Sins; Lectures 
on the First Prayer Book of King Ed¬ 
ward VI.; and The Two Estates—Wed¬ 
ded in the Lord, Single for the Kingdom 
of Heaven’s Sake. 

DIXEY, HENRY E., actor, was born 
Jan. 6, 1839, in Boston, Mass. In 1875 he 
played the Heifer in Evangeline at the 
Globe theatre. Other roles in which he 
has been seen are: Dr. Syntax in Cinde¬ 
rella at School, Lorenzo in The Mascot, 
Sir Mincing Lane in Billee Taylor, Bun- 
thorne in Patience, Sir Joseph Porter in 
Pinafore, Peter Papyms in The New 
Evangeline, and Boss Knivett in The 
Romany Rye. 

DIXON, ARCHIBALD, lawyer, state 
legislator, United States senator, was 
born April 2, 1802, in Caswell county, N. 
C. In 1830 he was a representative in the 
legislature, and in 1836 in the state sen¬ 
ate. He was again in the lower house in 
1841; and in 1843 was elected lieutenant- 
governor of Kentucky. He was a member 
of the United States senate from 1852 to 
1855, having been elected to fill a vacan¬ 
cy. He died April 23, 1876, in Henderson, 
Ky. 

DIXON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
comic singer, was born about 1808. He 
first appeared in 1827 as a comedian in 
small parts at the amphitheatre in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. Thence he went to New 
York, Philadelphia and other large cities, 
singing his famous songs, The Coal-Black 
Rose and Zip Coon, to admiring throngs. 
He died in March, 1861, in New Orleans, 
La. 

DIXON, JAMES, lawyer, legislator, 
United States senator, was born Aug. 5, 
1814, in Enfield, Conn. He was a member 
of the house in the legislature of Con¬ 
necticut in 1837, 1838, and 1844; and of 
the state senate in 1849 and 1854. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Connecticut from 1845 to 1849; and was 
elected a senator in congress for six years 
from 1857. He was re-elected in 1863 for 
the term ending in 1869. He died March 
27, 1873, in Hartford, Conn. 

DIXON, JAMES MAIN, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1856 in Scotland. He 
has been a professor of English literature 
in Washington university, St. Louis, since 
1892, and the author of A Dictionary of 
Idiomatic English Phrases. 

DIXON, JAMES PAYSON, educator, 
college president, was born in September, 
1842, in West Lebanon, Maine. He is a 
successful educator, and the president of 
Colby academy of New London, N. H. 

DIXON, JOSEPH, inventor, was born 
Jan. 18, 1799, in Marblehead, Mass. He 
was entirely self-educated, and early 
showed unusual mechanical ingenuity, 
inventing a machine for cutting files be¬ 
fore he was twenty-one. He died June 
17, 1869, in Jersey City, N. J. 





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DIXON, JOSEPH, merchant, jurist, 
congressman, was born April 29, 1828, in 
Greene county, N. C. He has been a mag¬ 
istrate and judge of the county court; 
and was a member of the state legislature 
in 1868 and 1869. He was elected to the 
forty-first congress to fill a vacancy. 

DIXON, JOSEPH HENRY, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from North Carolina from 1799 to 
1801. 

DIXON, LUTHER C., jurist. He was 
an early emigrant to the territory of 
Wisconsin; and was appointed a justice 
of the United States court for the terri¬ 
tory of Wisconsin. 

DIXON, NATHAN FELLOWS, lawyer. 
United States senator, was born in 1774, 
in Plainfield, Conn. In 1813 he was elect¬ 
ed a member of the general assembly of 
that state, and continued to serve in that 
capacity for seventeen years; and from 
1839 to 1842 was a senator of the United 
States. He died Jan. 29, 1842, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

DIXON, NATHAN FELLOWS, lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 1, 1812, in 
Westerly, R. I. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Rhode Island to the thir¬ 
ty-first congress. He was again elected 
to the general assembly of his state in 
1851, and with the exception of two years 
held the office until 1859. In 1863 he was 
elected to the thirty-eighth congress; and 
was re-elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth 
and forty-first congresses. 

DIXON, NATHAN FELLOWS, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Aug. 28, 1847, in Westerly, R. I. In 
1877 he was appointed United States dis¬ 
trict attorney for the district of Rhode 
Island; and was reappointed in 1881. In 
1885 he was elected a representative from 
Rhode Island to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress, to fill a vacancy; and was elected 
in 1889 to the United States senate. 

DIXON, SAM H.. author. He published 
a collection of poems with biographies, 
entitled Poets and Poetry of Texas. 

DIXON, WILLIAM WIRT, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 3, 1838, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a member of the 
legislative assembly of Montana territory 
in 1871-72; was a member of the con¬ 
stitutional conventions of Montana of 
1884-89; and has held no other office. He 
was elected to the fifty-second congress 
as a democrat. 

DOAK, ARCHIBALD A., college presi¬ 
dent, was born July 13, 1815, in Washing¬ 
ton county. Tenn. During 1840-50, and 
1853-56 he was president of Washington 
college, Tennessee. He died May 26, 1866, 
in Clarksville, Tenn. 

DOAK. JOHN WHITEFIELD, college 
president, was born Oct. 17, 1778, in Rock¬ 
bridge county, Va. In 1818 he was elect¬ 
ed president of Washington college, Ten¬ 
nessee, serving until 1820. He died Oct. 
6. 1820, in Green Springs, Va. 

DOAK, SAMUEL, was president of Tus- 
culum college, Tennessee, in 1857. 

DOAK, SAMUEL WITHERSPOON, col¬ 
lege president, was born March 24, 1785. 
in Salem, Tenn. In 1838 he was elected 
president of Washington college, Ten¬ 
nessee, serving until 1840. He died Feb. 
3. 1864, in Nashville, Tenn. 

DOAN, ROBERT E., journalist, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Clinton county, 
Ohio. He was editor of the Wilmington 
Watchman in 1859 and 1860; and was ap¬ 
pointed prosecuting attorney for Clinton 
county in 1862. He was elected a Garfield 
presidential elector for the third congres¬ 
sional district in 1880; and was elected to 
the fifty-second congress as a republican. 

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DOANE, AUGUSTUS SIDNEY, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born April 2, 1808, in 
Boston, Mass. He was appointed- chief 
physician of the marine hospital. He ed¬ 
ited Good’s Study of Medicine; translated 
Maygrier’s Midwifery; Dupuytren’s Sur¬ 
gery; Lugol’s Scrofulous Diseases; Vay- 
lis’s Descriptive Anatomy; Blandin’s Top¬ 
ographical Anatomy; Ricord’s Syphilis; 
Chaussier on The Arteries; and Scoutetten 
on Cholera. He died Jan. 27, 1852, on 
Staten Island, N. Y. 

DOANE, GEORGE HOBART, prelate, 
author, was born Sept. 5, 1830, in Boston, 
Mass. He has been a prelate of the papal 
household at Rome since 1886, with the 
title of monsignore. He is the author of 
First Principles; Exclusion of Protestant 
Y/orship from Rome; and Manual of In¬ 
structions and Prayers. 

DOANE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
bishop, author, poet, was born May 27, 
1799, in Trenton, N. J. He was the sec¬ 
ond protestant episcopal bishop of New 
Jersey; and was consecrated bishop in 
1832. He was the author of Songs by the 
Way; and Sermons on Various Occasions. 
The familiar hymn beginning Softly now 
the light of day is one of his most noted 
poems. He died April 27, 1859. 

DOANE, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in Maine. Having removed to Ohio, 
he was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1839 to 1843. 

DOANE, WILLIAM CROSWELL, bish¬ 
op, poet, author, was born March 2, 1832, 
in Boston, Mass. He is tne first protest¬ 
ant episcopal bishop of Albany. He is the 
author of a number of poems, among 
which The Sculptor Boy is often quoted, 
and has published several works, includ¬ 
ing Sermons; Mosaics, or the Harmony 
of Collect Epistle and Gospel for the Sun¬ 
days of the Christian Year. As a theolo¬ 
gian his place is amongst liberal high 
churchmen. 

DOANE. WILLIAM HOWARD, musical 
composer, was born Feb. 3, 1831, in Pres¬ 
ton, Conn. His works include Sabbath- 
School Gems; Little Sunbeams; Silver 
Spray; and Songs of Devotion. 

DOBBIN, JAMES, D. D., rector of Shat- 
tuck school of Faribault, Minn., was born 
June 29, 1833, in Salem, N. Y. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
at the Salem Wash¬ 
ington academy, the 
Argyle academy; 
and in 1859 graduat¬ 
ed from Union col¬ 
lege with the de¬ 
gree of A. B. The 
same year he moved 
to Faribault as as¬ 
sistant in the mis¬ 
sion school estab¬ 
lished by Dr. Breck 
the previous year. 
Returning to New York in 1860 he had 
charge successively of the academies of 
Argyle and Greenwich until 1864. He then 
returned to Faribault for the purpose of 
studying for orders; resumed his old 
place as assistant to Dr. Breck, and in 
1867 succeeded him as resident head of 
this combined institution; and a year la¬ 
ter was ordained to the priesthood by 
Bishop Whipple. The upbuilding of 
Shattuck school has been his life work. 
He has administered its affairs almost 
from the beginning with such great fore¬ 
sight and executive ability that after 
thirty-one years of incessant labor on his 
part this great institution of learning has 
become one of the largest and most suc¬ 
cessful schools in America. In 1888 he 
received the degree of D. D. from Trinity 
college of Hartford. 


DOBBIN, JAMES COCHRANE, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1814 in Fay¬ 
etteville, N. C. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from his native 
state in 1845, and declined a re-election. 
He served in the state legislature in 1848 
and 1850, and during the last session offi¬ 
ciated as speaker; and in 1852 was a pres¬ 
idential elector. He was secretary of the 
navy during the whole of President 
Pierce’s administration. He died Aug. 4, 
1857, in Fayetteville, N. C, 

DOBBIN, JOSEPH L., soldier, lawyer, 
was born March 11, 1845, in Manchester, 
Ill. He served as a private during the 
civil war; is president of the Union Vete¬ 
ran league of Minnesota; and one of the 
foremost lawyers ®f the west at Minneap¬ 
olis. 

DOBBIN, ROBERT ARCHIBALD, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born March 17, 1839, 
in Baltimore, Md. During 1880-82 he 
served as a member of the house of dele¬ 
gates of Maryland. Since 1893 he has 
been postmaster in the United States sen¬ 
ate. During 1862-65 he was in the con¬ 
federate service; and subsequently at¬ 
tained prominence as an able lawyer of 
Maryland. 

DOBBINS, DANIEL, naval officer, was 
born July 5, 1776, in Mifflin, Pa. He was 
of great service in fitting out Perry’s fleet 
on Lake Erie, and was with the expedi¬ 
tion under Commodore Sinclair that at¬ 
tempted to recapture Mackinaw. He died 
Feb. 29, 1856, in Presque Isle. 

DOBBINS, SAMUEL A., farmer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born April 
14, 1814, in Burlington county, N. J. He 
was high sheriff of Burlington county 
from 1854 to 1857; was a member of the 
state legislature from 1859 to 1862; and 
was elected to the forty-third and the for¬ 
ty-fourth congresses as a republican. 

DOBBS, ARTHUR, governor, author, 
was born in 1684 in Ireland. He was the 
author of An Account of the Countries 
Adjoining Hudson’s Bay; Trade and Im¬ 
provement of Ireland; and Captain Mid¬ 
dleton’s Defense. In 1744 he emigrated 
to North Carolina; and was chosen gov¬ 
ernor in 1754, serving until his death. He 
died March 28, 1765, in Towm Creek, N. C. 

DOCKERY, ALEXANDER MONROE, 
physician, congressman, was born Feb. 11. 
1845, in Daviess county, Mo. In 1874 he 
moved to Gallatin, Mo., and assisted in 
organizing the Farmers’ Exchange bank, 
of which organization he was cashier un¬ 
til elected to congress. He was one of the 
curators of the university of Missouri 
from 1872 to 1882, and in 1870, 1871 and 
1872 president of the board of education 
of Chillicothe, Mo. He was a member of 
the city council of Gallatin for the five 
years previous to April, 1883, serving the 
last two years as mayor. He was elected 
to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, 
fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty- 
fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a dem¬ 
ocrat. 

DOCKERJ, ALFRED, congressman, 
was born in North Carolina. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1845 to 1847, and again from 1851 to 
1853; and was a delegate to the Chicago 
convention of 1868. 

DOCKERY, OLIVER H.. farmer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 12, 1830, in 
Richmond county, N. C. He was elected 
to the state legislature in 1858 and 1859: 
was a presidential elector in 1860; and 
in 1868 was elected a representative from 
North Carolina to the fortieth congress. 
He was re-elected to the forty-first con¬ 
gress. 



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DOD, ALBERT BALDWIN, clergyman, 
author, was born March 24, 1805, in Mend- 
ham, N. J. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man and professor of mathematics at 
Princeton college in 1830-45. Theological 
Essays was his only published work. He 
died Nov. 20, 1845, in Princeton, N. J. 

DOD, DANIEL, mechanician, was born 
Sept. 28, 1788, in Virginia. He removed, 
in 1821, to New York city, where he was 
reputed the most successful engine build¬ 
er in the United States. He died May 9, 
1823, in New York city. 

DODD, AMZI, lawyer, jurist, was born 
March 2, 1823, in Bloomfield, N. J.^ He 
served one term from Bloomfield, N. J., 
in the assembly of the state legislature; 
in 1871 he filled the office of vice chancel¬ 
lor; in 1878 was judge of the court of er¬ 
rors and appeals; and in 1882 became 
president of the Mutual Benefit Life In¬ 
surance company of Bloomfield, N. J. 

DODD, MRS. ANNA BOWMAN, author, 
was born in 1855 in Long Island. She is 
a New York writer whose volumes of 
travels have been very popular. She is 
the author of The Republic of the Fu¬ 
ture, or Socialism a Reality; Cathedral 
Days; Glorinda: a Story; Three Norman¬ 
dy Inns; and in the Norfolk Broads. 

DODD, EDWARD, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1805 in Salem, N. Y. 
He was a member of the constitutional 
convention of New York in 1846; and was 
a representative in congress from that 
state in 1855. 

DODD, JAMES B., mathematician, was 
born in 1807 in Virginia. He was chosen 
professor of mathematics, natural philos¬ 
ophy and astronomy in Centenary college, 
Mississippi, in 1841; and in Transylvania 
university in 1846, of which institution 
he was acting president from 1849 till 
1855. He died March 27, 1872, in Greens- 
burg, Ky. 

DODD, MARY ANN HANMER, poet, 
was born March 5, 1813, in Hartford, 
Conn. Among her best poems were The 
Lament; The Dreamer; The Mourner; 
and To a Cricket. A volume of her poems 
was published in Boston in 1843. 

DODD, STEPHEN, clergyman, author, 
was born March 8, 1777, in Bloomfield, N. 
J. He was a founder and trustee of the 
Connecticut theological institution at 
East Windsor, and gave it his valuable li¬ 
brary. He published a History of East 
Haven (1824); Family Record of Daniel 
Dodd; and Revolutionary Memorials. He 
died Feb. 5, 1856, in Morristown, N. J. 

DODDRIDGE, JOSEPH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1769 in Pennsylvania. 
He was an episcopal clergyman of west¬ 
ern Virginia, and the author of Logan, a 
drama; and Notes on the Settlement and 
Indian Wars of the Western Country, 
1763-83. He died in November, 1826, in 
Wellsburg, Va. 

DODDRIDGE, PHILIP, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1772, in Brooke 
county, Va. He was a delegate from 
Brooke county to the legislature of Vir¬ 
ginia in 1815, and was a member for 
some years. He was a representative in 
congress from Virginia from 1829 to 1832. 
He died Nov. 19, 1832, in Washington, 
D. C. 

DODDRIDGE, WILLIAM BROWN, 
railroad manager, was born Oct. 19, 1848, 
in Circleville, Ohio. In 1884 he was en¬ 
gaged in the Anaconda Copper Smelting 
company, as business manager. In 1886 
he became superintendent of the Central 
branch Union Pacific railroad of Atchi¬ 
son, Kan.; and in 1889 was appointed 
general manager of the St. Louis, Ark¬ 
ansas and Texas railroad. 


DODDS, OZRO J., soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 22, 1840, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He was promoted lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel of the first Alabama cav¬ 
alry. After the war he studied law and 
was admitted to practice. ^ He was elect¬ 
ed to the legislature of Ohio in 1869; and 
was elected to the forty-second congress. 

DODDS, SUSANNA W„ physician, au¬ 
thor. She is the author of a work en¬ 
titled Health in the Household, which has 
become very popular. She has attained 
prominence as an eminent hygienic phy¬ 
sician of St. Louis, Mo. 

DODGE, AUGUSTUS CAESAR, was 
born Jan. 2, 1812, in Ste. Genevieve, Mo. 
He was a delegate to congress from tne 
territory of Iowa from 1841 to 1847; a 
presidential elector for the state of Iowa 
in 1848; and a senator in congress from 
the state of Iowa from 1848 to 1855. He 
was a delegate to the Chicago convention 
of 1864, and also to the Philadelphia na¬ 
tional union convention of 1866, as well 
as the New York convention of 1868; and 
from 1838 to 1841 he held the office of reg¬ 
ister of the land office at Burlington, 
Iowa. He died Nov. 20, 1883, in Burling¬ 
ton, Iowa. 

DODGE, DAVID LOW, merchant, au¬ 
thor, was born June 14, 1774, in Brooklyn, 
Conn. He was a New York merchant 
who was the first president of the New 
York Peace society, and was the author 
of The Mediator’s Kingdom not of this 
World; and War Inconsistent with the 
Religion of Jesus Christ. He died April 
23, 1852, in New York city. 

DODGE, EBENEZER, educator, author, 
was born April 22, 1819, in Salem, Mass. 
He was a baptist clergyman, president of 
Madison (now Colgate) university, 1868- 
90, and the author of Evidences of Chris¬ 
tianity; and Christian Theology. He died 
Jan. 4, 1890, in Hamilton, N. Y. 

DODGE, GEORGE DUDLEY, manufac¬ 
turer, poet, was born May 4, 1836, in 
Hampton Falls, N. H. He is a successful 
cotton manufacturer and merchant; and 
in 1880 was the nominee of the prohibi¬ 
tion party for governor of Georgia. He 
was afterward chairman of the state ex¬ 
ecutive committee, and a delegate to the 
national convention of that party in 1884. 

DODGE, GRENVILLE, MELLEN, sol¬ 
dier, railroad president, civil engineer, 
congressman, was born April 12, 1831, in 
Danvers, Mass. In 1862 he was appointed 
brigadier-general for services at Pea 
Ridge; was promoted to be a major-gen¬ 
eral on the recommendations of Generals 
Grant, Sherman, and McPherson. He was 
subsequently in command of the depart¬ 
ments of Wisconsin, Kansas and the 
Plains. Soon after resigning his com¬ 
mission in the army he was elected a 
representative from Iowa to the fortieth 
congress. He is president of the Fort 
Worth and Denver City railway. 

DODGE, HENRY, soldier, statesman, 
was born Oct. 12, 1782, in Vincennes, Ind. 
He was brigadier-general of Missouri 
troops in 1812; and 
distinguished him¬ 
self especially in the 
Black Hawk war. He 
was appointed gov¬ 
ernor of Wisconsin 
territory, and super¬ 
intendent of Indian 
affairs, serving as 
such from 1836 to 
1841, and from 1845 
to 1848. He was a 
delegate to congress 
from Wisconsin 
from 1841 to 1845; and a senator in con¬ 
gress from the state of Wisconsin from 
1848 to 1857. He died June 19, 1867, in 
Burlington, Iowa. 


DODGE, HORACE O., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Dec. 13, 1840, in Milton. 
Ill. He is one of the foremost physicians 
of the west at Boulder, Colo.; was presi¬ 
dent of the Colorado State Medical asso¬ 
ciation in 1886; and department com¬ 
mander of the Grand Army of the Re¬ 
public in 1896-97. 

DODGE, MARTIN, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, was born in 1851 in Auburn, Ohio. He 
attended Hiram college for four years. 

and the Buchtel 
college for one year. 
He then entered the 
Ohio State and 
Union Law college, 
and was admitted to 
the bar in 1877. Dur¬ 
ing 1879-82 he prac¬ 
ticed law in Kan¬ 
sas, and since that 
time in Cleveland, 
Ohio. For six years 
he was engaged in 
real estate and 
building operations; and for three years 
was business manager of The Sun and 
Voice. In 1891 he was elected a member 
of the Ohio house of representatives from 
Cleveland; and in 1893 was appointed 
chairman of the Ohio road commission. 
He received the re-election to the seven¬ 
ty-first and seventy-second general as¬ 
semblies; and in 1897 was elected a state 
senator. In 1898 he was a candidate for 
congress. 

DODGE, MARY ABIGAIL—Gail Ham¬ 
ilton—essayist, magazinist, was born in 
1838 in Hamilton, Mass. She was a noted 
essayist and magazinist of Hamilton, 
Mass. She is the author of a A New At¬ 
mosphere; Gala Days; Woman’s Wrongs; 
Red-Letter Days; Summer Rest; Battle of 
the Books; Twelve Miles from a Lemon; 
Sermons to the Clergy; First Love is 
Best; What Think ye of Christ?; Country 
Living and Country Thinking; Skirmishes 
and Sketches; Wool-Gathering; Woman’s 
Worth and Worthlessness; Little Folk 
Life; Nursery Noonings; Our Common 
School System; Divine Guidance; The 
Insuppressible Book; A Washington Bi¬ 
ble Class; and Biography of James G. 
Blaine. She died in 1896. 

DODGE, MRS. MARY BARKER, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in Pennsylvania. She 
is the author of Belfry Voices; and The 
Gray Masque and Other Poems. 

DODGE, MRS MARY (MAPES), au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1838 in New York 
city. She is a writer of New York city , 
who has edited the Saint Nicholas Maga¬ 
zine since 1873. Her writings for young 
people include Hans Brinker; Donald and 
Dorothy; Rhymes and Jingles; Irvington 
Stories; A Few Friends; The Land of 
Pluck; When Life is Young, poems for 
young people. She has also written The- 
ophilus and Others; Along the Way; and 
a volume of Short Poems. 

DODGE, NATHANIEL SHATSWELL, 
author, was born Jan. 10, 1810, in Haver¬ 
hill, Mass. He was a Boston litterateur 
who was the author of Stories of a 
Grandfather about American History. 

DODGE, NEHEMIAH, was born in 
Providence, R. I. He was the first manu¬ 
facturing jeweler in America. Jabez Gor¬ 
ham and other noted jewelers and sil¬ 
versmiths served apprenticeship with 
him. His work was of the finest quality 
of gold and silver, and of choicest de¬ 
sign. Mr. Dodge married Miss Crawford 
of Providence, a lady of the old school, 
who was descended from Gabriel Bernon. 
Mr. Dodge, through his success in the 
manufacture of jewelry, became one of 
the wealthiest citizens of Providence. 








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DODGE, OSSIAN EUCLID, vocalist, 
was born Oct. 22, 1820, in Cayuga, N. Y. 
He was the first to take a company over¬ 
land from New York to San Francisco, 
and was the first manager that ever gave 
an entertainment in the Mormon taberna¬ 
cle at Salt Lake City. He died Nov. 4, 
1876, in London, England. 

DODGE, RICHARD IRVING, soldier, 
author, was born May 19, 1827, in Hunts¬ 
ville, N. C. He is a colonel in the United 
States army who saw much service in 
Indian campaigns, and made careful 
study of the Indian character. He was 
the author of The Black Hills; The Plains 
of the Great West; Our Wild Indians; 
and A Living Issue. He died in 1895. 

DODGE, THEODORE AYRAULT, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born May 28, 1842, in 
Pittsfield, Mass. He is a captain and 
brevet lieutenant-colonel in the United 
States army, and prominent as a military 
historian. He is the author of The Cam¬ 
paign of Chanceliorsville; A Bird’s-Eye 
View of our Civil War; Great Captains; 
Alexander, a History of the Origin and 
Growth of the Art of War from the Earl¬ 
iest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, B. C. 
301, with a detailed account of the Cam¬ 
paigns of the Great Macedonian; Hanni¬ 
bal; Caesar; Gustavus Adolphus; Patro- 
clus and Penelope, a Chat in the Saddle; 
and Riders of Many Lands. 

DODGE, THOMAS H., lawyer, inventor, 
philanthropist, author, was born Sept. 27, 
1823, in Eden, Vt. He puDlished in 1850 
a book entitled A Review of The Rise 
and Progress and Present Importance of 
the Cotton Manufactures of the United 
States. He made several valuable inven¬ 
tions, including a printing press. He be¬ 
came interested in the large manufactur¬ 
ing enterprises of Worcester, Mass. 

DODGE, WALTER PHELPS, author, 
was born in 1869. He is a litterateur now 
living in London, and practicing at the 
English bar. He is the author of Three 
Greek Tales; As the Crow Flies from 
Corsica to Charing Cross; and A Strong 
Man Armed. 

DODGE, WILLIAM EARLE, merchant, 
congressman, philanthropist, was born 
Sept. 4, 1805, in Hartford, Conn. He was 
elected a representative from New York 

to the thirty-ninth congress. He was 

also a delegate to the Philadelphia loyal¬ 
ists’ convention of 1866. He died Feb. 9, 
1883. 

DODGE, WILLIAM WALLACE, banker, 
state senator, was born April 25, 1854, in 
Burlington, Iowa. In 1876 he graduated 
from the law depart¬ 
ment of the state 
university of Iowa, 
and was awarded 
the literary prize for 
the best written ar¬ 
gument on a given 
thesis of law. He has 
since won distinc¬ 
tion as a brilliant 
lawyer of his na¬ 
tive city, where he is 
in partnership with 
his brother, under 
the firm name of Dodge and Dodge. Dur¬ 

ing 1885-93 he served with distinction for 
eight years as a member of the state sen¬ 
ate of the Iowa state legislature. He has 
taken an active part in the political af¬ 
fairs of his state, and has been a delegate 
to various local and state conventions. 
While a member of the state senate he 
was instrumental in passing a bill creat¬ 
ing the first Monday in September as a 
legal holiday, to be known as Labor Day; 
and consequently he is known throughout 
the state of Iowa as the Father of Labor 
Day. 


DODS, JOHN BOVEE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1795 in New York city. 
He was a clergyman of New York city 
whose published works include Thirty 
Sermons; Philosophy of Mesmerism; 
Philosophy of Electrical Psychology; Im¬ 
mortality Triumphant; and Spirit Mani¬ 
festations Examined and Explained. He 
died March 21, 1872, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

DODWORTH, TIJOMAS, musician, was 
born in 1790 in England. He came to the 
United States in 1826, and organized in 
New York the city band, which be¬ 
came by his efforts the national brass 
band, and was the first independent mili¬ 
tary band of music in the city. He died 
April 30, 1876, in Morrisania, N. Y. 

DOE, CHARLES HENRY, journalist, 
author, was born Nov. 28, 1838, in 

Charlestown, Mass. He is a journalist of 
Worcester, Mass., and the author of Buf¬ 
fets, a novel. 

DOE, NICHOLAS B., congressman, was 
born in New York. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from that state to the twen¬ 
ty-sixth congress to fill a vacancy. 

DOGGETT, DAVID SETH, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1810 in Virginia. He 
was a methodist bishop who lived at 
Richmond, Va., and published The War 
and its Close. He died Oct. 27, 1880, in 
Richmond, Va. 

DOGGETT, KATE, reformer, was born 
Nov. 5, 1828, in Castleton, Vt. She was 
elected a member of the academy of 
science in 1869, and given charge of its 
herbarium. She translated the Grammar 
of Painting and Engraving. She died 
March i2, 1884, in Cuba. 

DOIG, ANDREW W., educator, survey¬ 
or, congressman, was born in Washington 
county, N. Y. In 1832 he was in the state 
assembly; and held the office of surro¬ 
gate from 1835 to 1840. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1839 to 1843. 

DOLAN, THOMAS, manufacturer, was 
born Oct. 27, 1834, in Montgomery county, 
Pa. In 1866 he became a pioneer in the 
use of the finest worsted yarns in his fab¬ 
rics, especially in Berlin shawls. The 
goods of the Keystone Knitting mills 
which he founded attained celebrity. He 
is president of The Quaker City Dye 
works; and The United Gas Improvement 
company. 

DOLBEAR, AMOS EMERSON, phy¬ 
sicist, author, was born Nov. 10, 1837, in 
Norwich, Conn. He has been a professor of 
physics and astronomy at Tufts college 
since 1874, and is the author of The Art 
of Projecting; The Speaking Telephone; 
and Sound and its Phenomena, Matter, 
Ether, and Motion. 

DOLE, CHARLES FLETCHER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1845 in Maine. 
He is a Unitarian clergyman of Boston, 
and the author of The Citizen and the 
Neighbour; Jesus and the Men about 
Him; A Catechism of Liberal Faith; and 
The American Citizen. 

DOLE, EDMUND PEARSON, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1850 in Maine. He is 
assistant attorney-general of the Hawaii¬ 
an Islands, and the author of Talks About 
Law. 

DOLE, NATHAN HASKELL, author, 
poet, was born in 1852 in Massachusetts. 
He is a litterateur of Boston who, besides 
publishing translations from the Russian 
of Tolstoi and other writers, is the author 
of A Score of Famous Composers; The 
Hawthorn Tree and Other Poems; Not 
Angels Quite; History of the Turko-Rus- 
sian War of 1877-1878; On the Point, a 
Summer Idyl; and Flowers from Foreign 
Gardens. One of his most important 
works is a variorum edition of the Ru¬ 
baiyat of Omar Khayyam. 


DOLES, GEORGE PIERCE, soldier, 
was born May 14, 1830, in Milledgeville, 
Ga. His commission as brigadier-general 
bore date of Nov. 2, 1862. During the 
overland campaigns he commanded a di¬ 
vision in General Ewell’s corps, and was 
killed in the battle of Cold Harbor. He 
died June 2, 1864, in Cold Harbor, Va. 

DOLGE, ALFRED, manufacturer, was 
born Dec. 22, 1848, in Germany. He is 
now the head of the great firm of Alfred 
Dolge and Son; a 
partner in C. F. 
Zimmerman and Co., 
manufacturers of 
autoharps; and Dan¬ 
iel Green and Co., 
second vice-presi¬ 
dent of The Little 
Falls and Dolgeville 
railroad, and in New 
York city, trustee of 
The German Savings 
bank. The village 
of Dolgeville, found¬ 
ed by him, has beeome the model indus¬ 
trial town of American origin, both in its 
social and economic aspects. 

DOLLARD, ROBERT, soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born March 14, 1842, in 
Fall River, Mass. He entered the union 
army from Massachusetts with the fourth 
regiment of that state, which composed 
in part what is known as the minute men 
of that period who were the first to re¬ 
spond to the call for troops to save the 
union. He served with credit and dis¬ 
tinction throughout the war, rising to the 
rank of major and the command of his 
regiment. He was a member of the con¬ 
stitutional conventions of South Dakota 
of 1883 and 1885; was district attorney; 
member of the legislature of Dakota ter¬ 
ritory in 1889; state senator in 1893; and 
a member of the state legislature in 1897. 

DOLLIVER, JONATHAN P., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 6, 1858, in 
Kingwood, Va. He was elected to the 
fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fif¬ 
ty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to 
the fifty-fiftli congress as a republican. 

DOLPH, JOHN HENRY, artist, was 
born April 18, 1835, in Fort Ann, N. Y. 
His works include Knickerbocker Farm- 
Yard (1869); The Season of Plenty; The 
Antiquarian; The Rehearsal (1878); Prin¬ 
cess; and A June Day (1886). 

DOLPH, JOSEPH NORTON, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Oct. 19, 1835, in 
Schuyler county, N. Y. He practiced his 
profession in Schuy¬ 
ler county during 
the winter of 1861- 
62, and in 1862 en¬ 
listed in Captain M. 
Crawford’s compa¬ 
ny, known as the 
Oregon Escort, rais¬ 
ed under an act of 
congress for the pur¬ 
pose of protecting 
the emigration of 
that year to the Pa¬ 
cific coast against 
hostile Indians, filling the position of or¬ 
derly sergeant. He settled in Portland, 
Ore., in 1863; and in 1864 was elected 
city attorney of the city of Portland, and 
the same year was appointed by Presi¬ 
dent Lincoln district attorney for the 
district of Oregon. He held both posi¬ 
tions until he resigned them to take his 
seat in the state senate of Oregon. He 
was a member of the state senate in 1866- 
74. He was elected to the United States 
senate as a republican in 1883, and was 
re-elected in 1889. 











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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


DONAHOE, DANIEL J., lawyer, jurist, 
poet, was born Feb. 27, 1853, in Brimfield, 
Mass. He is a successful member of the 
Connecticut bar; and a well-known jurist 
of Meriden. In 1888 his first volume of 
poems was issued, entitled Idyls of Israel 
and Other Poems; and later appeared A 
Tent by the Lake and Other Poems. 

DONAHOE, JOHN P., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, legislator, was born Aug. 12, 1841, 
in county Tyrone, Ireland. He received 
his education at St. Joseph parochial 
school of Brandywine Banks, Del. Dur¬ 
ing 1861-65 he served as a soldier in the 
union army through the entire war. In 
1891 he served with distinction as a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate of the Delaware 
legislature, and was elected speaker. In 
1896-97 he was a member of the constitu¬ 
tional convention, and the same year was 
national commander of the Union Vete¬ 
ran legion. He is a successful merchant 
of Wilmington, Del., and is prominent in 
the public affairs of his city, county and 
state. 

DONAHUE, PETER, capitalist, was 
born Jan. 11, 1822, in Scotland. In 1850 
with his brother he organized the great 
establishment now known as the Union 
Iron works; and was one of the origina¬ 
tors of the San Francisco and San Jose 
railroad. He died Nov. 26, 1885. 

DONALD, ELIJAH WINCHESTER, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1843 in 
Massachusetts. He is an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of Boston, rector of Trinity church 
from 1892, and the author of The Expan¬ 
sion of Religion. 

DONALDSON, EDWARD, naval officer, 
was born Nov. 17, 1816, in Baltimore, Md. 
He served in the United States navy dur¬ 
ing tne civil war; and in 1876 was com¬ 
missioned rear admiral. He died May 15, 
1889, in Baltimore, Md. 

DONALDSON, FRANK, educator, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born July 23, 1823, in 
Baltimore, Md. He was a Baltimore phy¬ 
sician, professor of hygiene in the univer¬ 
sity of Maryland since 1866, and the au¬ 
thor of Influence of City Life and Occupa¬ 
tions in Consumption. He died in 1891. 

DONALDSON, FRANK C., lawyer, was 
born Sept. 26, 1852, in Terre Haute, Ind. 
He received the rudiments of his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools of his native 
city, and graduated from the state uni¬ 
versity of Bloomington, Ind. He has at¬ 
tained eminence as a successful lawyer of 
Terre Haute, Ind.; has been mayor of his 
city; and has held high Masonic posi¬ 
tions. 

DONALDSON, JAMES LOW’RY, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born March 17, 1S14, in 
Baltimore, Md. He was a colonel and 
brevet major-general in the United States 
army who published Sergeant Atkins, a 
tale of the Florida war. He died Nov. 4, 
1885, in Baltimore, Md. 

DONALDSON, WASHINGTON H., aero¬ 
naut, was born in 1840 in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. From 1857 till 1871 he traveled 
through the United States, appearing not 
fewer than 1,300 times in his various spe¬ 
cialties. He died July 15, 1875. 

DONELSON. ANDREW JACKSON, 
diplomat, journalist, planter, lawyer, was 
born Aug. 25, 1800, near Nashville, Tenn. 
He was aid-de-camp to General Jackson 
in 1820 and 1821; and his private secre¬ 
tary from 1829 to 18o7. He was charge 
d’affaires to Texas in 1844 and 1845; en¬ 
voy extraordinary and minister plenipo¬ 
tentiary to Prussia from 1846 to 1848; 
and to Germany in 1848 and 1849. He 
was editor of the Washington Union in 
1851 and 1852; and candidate of the Amer¬ 
ican party for vice-president in 1852. He 
died June 26. 1871. in Memphis. Tenn. 


DONIPHAN. ALEXANDER WILLIAM, 
soldier was born July 9, 1808, in Mason 
county, Ky. In 1838 he had risen in the 
state militia to the grade of brigadier- 
general. When war began with Mexico, 
in 1846, he entered the United States ser¬ 
vice. He died Aug. 8, 1887, in Richmond, 
Mo. 

DONLEY, JOSEPH B., educator, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 
10, 1838, in Mount Morris, Pa. He be¬ 
came professor in Abingdon college; and 
served in the Illinois army as captain of 
volunteers from 1862 to 1865. In 1867 he 
was appointed a register in bankruptcy 
in Pennsylvania, holding the office until 
elected a representative from that state 
to the forty-first congress as a republican. 

DONNAN, WILLIAM G., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
June 30, 1834, in West Charlton, N. 
Y. He was elected treasurer and re¬ 
corder of Buchanan county, Iowa, and 
held the office until 1862. He en¬ 
tered the union army as a private 
in 1862, and rose to the rank of brevet 
major for efficient services in the field, 
serving to the close of the rebellion. He 
was a member of the state senate in 1868 
and 1870; and was elected to the forty- 
second congress, and re-elected to the 
forty-third congress as a republican. 

DONNELL, EDWARD J., soldier, sur¬ 
geon, legislator, poet, was born May 11, 
1835, in Lvndeboro, N. Y. During the war 
he served as second lieutenant in company 
C, sixteenth New Hampshire infantry; 
and also as first assistant surgeon in the 
thirteenth Maryland infantry. He is now 
a prominent physician of Stockton, Kan.; 
and during 1884-88 served as a member of 
the state senate of Kansas. 



DONNELL, RICHARD S„ congress¬ 
man, was born in North Carolina. He 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1847 to 1849; and in 1863 
published a Letter on the Rebellion, 
which attracted great attention. 

DONNELLY. ELEaNOR CECILIA, 
author, poet, was born Sept. 6, 1838, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. She is a Pniladelphia 
~ writer of religious 

poetry, the greater 
part of which is oc¬ 
cupied with Roman 
catholic themes. 
Among her many 
volumes are Domus 
Dei; Out of Sweet 
Solitude; Hymns of 
the Sacred Heart; 
and Children of the 
Golden Sheaf and 
Other Poems. She is 
a constant contribu¬ 
tor to the leading newspapers and maga¬ 
zines. 

DONNELLY, IGNATIUS, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, lieutenant-gover¬ 
nor, author, was born Nov. 3, 1831, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 
1857 he moved to 
Minnesota; was 
elected lieutenant- 
governor of that 
state in 1859; and 
re-elected in 1861. 

-—320 He was elected to 

the thirty-eighth 
cgra . and thirty-ninth 

and con- 

| ‘ grosses as a repub- 

BBR 4 lican; was state sen¬ 

ator during 1874-78; 
member of the national executive com¬ 
mittee and an eloquent speaker. He is 
the author of An Essay on the Sonnets 
of Shakespeare; Atlantis: the Antedilu¬ 
vian World; Caesar’s column; Ragna- 



rok: the Age of Fire and Gravel; and The 
Great Cryptogram. In this work he 
claims to have discovered a cipher in the 
plavs of Shakespeare which sufficiently 
establishes the fact that they were writ¬ 
ten bv Lord Bacon. 

DONOVAN, DENNIS D., educator, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born Jan. 31, 
1859, near Texas. Ohio. He attended the 
Northern Indiana 
Normal school at 
Valparaiso, Ind.: 
taught school three 
years, and then en¬ 
gaged in mercantile 
and timber business. 
He was appointed 
postmaster at Desh- 
ler by President 
Cleveland, which po¬ 
sition he resigned 
when elected to the 
legislature from 
Henry county in 1887; and was re-elected 
to the legislature in 1889. He was elected 
to the fifty-second and re-elected to the 
fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

DONOVAN, JOHN, educator, contract¬ 
or, legislator, was born May 26, 1843, in 
Canada. When two months old he moved 
with his parents to 
Youngstown, N. Y.. 
where he received 
his education. He 
was principal of the 
schools of Youngs¬ 
town for one year; 
moved to Michigan 
in 1865, and there 
•taught school for 
twelve years. In 
1873 he moved to 
Flint, Mich.; five 
years later to Bay 
City; and is a successful contractor and 
builder. He served with distinction in 
the Michigan state legislature in 1895-96. 
and received the re-election to the legis¬ 
lature of 1897-98, serving on several im¬ 
portant committees. 

DONOVAN, JOHN F., lawyer, public 
official, was born Nov. 1, 1847, in New 
York city. He has been mayor oi Kin- 
mundy, Ill., for twelve years; president 
of the county G. A. R. for ten years; and 
president of the South Illinois Emigra¬ 
tion and Improvement association. 

DONOVAN, JOSEPH M., lawyer, au¬ 
thor. was born April 28, 1866, in Littleton. 
N. H. He graduated from the George¬ 
town university of Washington, D. C.. 
with the degree of A. M., and from the 
same institution in 1889 with the degree 
of LL. B. He at once took up the prac¬ 
tice of law in Sioux Falls, S. D., where he 
has attained distinction as an able law¬ 
yer. He is the author of Law of Divorce 
and Domestic Relations, and other works. 

DOOLITTLE, AMOS, engraver, was 
born in 1754 in Cheshire, Conn. While 
a volunteer at Cambridge he visited the 
battle ground of Lexington, and on his 
return to New Haven made an engraving 
of the action, his first attempt in that art. 
He died Jan. 31, 1832, in New Haven. 
Conn. 

DOOLITTLE. BENJAMIN, clergyman, 
author, was born July 10, 1695, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a clergyman of North- 
field, Mass., in 1718-49, and the author of 
Narrative of the Mischief of the French 
and Indians, 1744-48; and Inquiry into 
Enthusiasm. He died Jan. 9, 1749. 

DOOLITTLE, CHARLES CAMP, sol¬ 
dier, was born March 16, 1832, in Burling¬ 
ton. Vt. In 1865 he was made brigadier- 
general of volunteers, and on June 13 he 
was brevetted major-general. Since 1871 
he has been cashier of the Merchants’ na¬ 
tional bank. Toledo. Ohio. 






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DOOLITTLE, JAMES ROOD, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1815, 
in Hampton, N. Y. He was for several 
years district attorney in Wyoming coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. He moved to Wisconsin in 1851; 
was chosen judge of the first judicial cir¬ 
cuit of that state in 1853; and resigned in 
1856. In 1857 he was elected a senator of 
the United States for six years. He was 
a member of the peace congress of 1861; 
and in 1863 was re-elected to the senate 
for the term ending in 1869. 

DOOLITTLE, LELON ANSIL, lawyer, 
was born July 22, 1853, in Russell, N. Y. 
During 1879-85 he practiced law in Neills- 
ville, Wis.; and since 1885 has practiced 
his profession in Eau Claire. He has been 
president of the board of directors of the 
Eau Claire public library; of the Eau 
Claire republican club; and other institu¬ 
tions. 

DOOLITTLE, MARY ANTOINETTE, 
lecturer, was born Sept. 8, 1810. in New 
Lebanon, N. Y. In 1873-75 she edited, 
with Frederick W. Evans, the Shaker and 
Shakeress, a periodical published at 
Mt. Lebanon college, and is author of an 
Autobiography and of a series of remark¬ 
able inspirational songs. She died Dec. 
31, 1886, in Lebanon. N. Y. 

DOOLITTLE, THEODORE. SAND- 
FORD, educator, author, was born Nov. 
31, 1836, in Ovid, N. Y. In 1864 he accept¬ 
ed the chair of rhetoric, logic and meta¬ 
physics at Rutgers, which he has since 
held, becoming also associate editor of 
the Christian at Work in 1873. 

DOOLITTLE, WILLIAM HALL, law¬ 
yer. congressman, was born in Erie coun¬ 
ty, Pa. He served one term in the Ne¬ 
braska legislature in 1876-77; served in 
that state as assistant United States dis¬ 
trict attorney; and in 1880 moved from 
Nebraska to Washington Territory. He 
was elected to the fifty-third and re-elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fourth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

DOOLY, JOHN MITCHELL, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born about 1772, in 
Lincoln county, Ga. He was appointed 
solicitor-general of the western circuit of 
Georgia in 1802, to fill a vacancy, and in 
1804 was elected to the same office by the 
legislature. In 1816 he was elected judge 
of the same circuit, and in 1822 chosen 
first judge of the northern circuit, to 
which latter place he was re-elected in 
1825. He died May 26, 1827, in Lincoln 
county, Ga. 

DORCHESTER, DANIEL, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1827, in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is a prominent methodist cler¬ 
gyman of Pittsburg, and the author of 
Concessions of Liberalists to Orthodoxy; 
Problem of Religious Progress; Latest 
Drink Sophistries; The Liquor Problem 
in All Ages; The Why of Methodism: 
Christianity in the United States; and 
Romanism versus the Public Schools. 

DOREMUS, CHARLES AVERY, chem¬ 
ist, was born Sept. 6, 1851, in New York 
city. He became assistant to the chair of 
chemistry and physics in the college of 
the city of New York. Meanwhile he had 
received the appointmencs in New York 
city of lecturer on practical chemistry 
and toxicology in Bellevue hospital med¬ 
ical college, and professor of chemistry in 
the American Veterinary college. 

DOREMUS, ELIAS OSBORN, builder, 
legislator, was born Jan. 17, 1831, in 
Orange, N. J. He engaged in the nuilding 
business in Orange and successfully con¬ 
ducted the business for twenty-five years. 
In 1873 was elected a member of tfie leg¬ 
islature, and re-elected in 1874. 


DOREMUS, ROBERT OGDEN, chemist, 
was born Jan. 11, 1824, in New York city. 
The cartridges patented by him require 
no serge envelopes, as are ordinarily used 
in muzzle-loading cannon, and hence no 
sponging of the gun after firing is neces¬ 
sary. 

DOREMUS, SARAH PLAT!', philan¬ 
thropist, was born Aug. 3. 1802, in New 
York. In 1842, with Miss Catherine Sedg¬ 
wick, she established a home for women 
from prison, now called the Isaac T. 
Hopper Home. She was also one of the 
founders of the House and School of In¬ 
dustry. She died Feb. 5, 1877. 

DOREN, DENNIS, constructor of tele¬ 
graph lines, was born Feb. 10, 1830, in 
Wooster, Ohio. He was appointed gen¬ 
eral superintendent of construction of the 
Western Union Telegraph company’s en¬ 
tire system; was president of the Amer¬ 
ican Cable Construction company; and is 
a stockholder and director in various cor¬ 
porations of New York city. 

DORGAN, JOHN AYLMER, lawyer, 
poet, was born Jan. 12, 1836, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a lawyer and verse 
writer of Philadelphia, whose only pub¬ 
lication was a collection of verse entitled 
Studies. He died Jan. 1, 1866, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

DORHMAN, ARNOLD HENRY, mer¬ 
chant, was born in 1748, in Portugal. In 
view of his services and the losses he had 
sustained in his devotion to the young re¬ 
public, congress voted him a money com¬ 
pensation and a western township, be¬ 
sides appointing him United States agent 
in Lisbon. He died March 21, 1813, in 
Steubenville, Ohio. 

DORMAN, ALLEN, poet, was born 
Sept. 9, 1857, in Field’s Creek, Mo. He is 
the author of a volume of poems pub¬ 
lished by the American Publishers’ asso¬ 
ciation of Chicago, containing over five 
hundred pages. He is prominent in the 
public affairs of his county and state, 
and was honored as a candidate for con¬ 
gress from the sixth district of Missouri. 

DORMER, MRS. L. ISABELLE, poet, 
was born July 9, 1854, in Lee county, 
Iowa. She is the author of numerous 
prose articles and stories; and is a well 
known poet and writer of Stockton, Cal. 

DORR, BENJAMIN, clergyman, author, 
was born March 22, 1796, in Salisbury, 
Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman 
who was rector of Christ cnurch, Phila¬ 
delphia, in 1837-69; and was the author 
of The Churchman’s Manual; The His¬ 
tory of a Pocket Prayer-Book; Recogni¬ 
tion of Friends in Another World; Sun¬ 
day-School Teacher's Encouragement; 
Prophecies and Types Relative to Christ; 
Memorials of Christ Church; Travels in 
the East; and Memoir of John Fanning 
Watson. 

DORR, CHARLES PHILIP, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 12, 1852, in 
Monroe county, Ohio. He began the prac¬ 
tice of law in West Virginia in 1874, 
where he has since resided. He was 
elected a member of the West Virginia 
house of delegates from the fourth dele¬ 
gate district in 1884, and again in 1888, 
and was chosen sergeant-at-arms of that 
body in the intervening session of 1887. 
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 

DORR, EBENEZER PEARSON, sea 
captain, was born March 13, 1817, in 
Hartford, Vt. He was the first to organ¬ 
ize a regular system of wreckage on the 
lakes, and did much to improve the con¬ 
dition of seamen and to obtain recogni¬ 
tion of their acts of heroism. He died 
April 29, 1881, in Buffalo, N. Y. 


DORR, MRS. JULIA CAROLINE, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Feb. 13, 1825, in 
Charleston, S. C. She is a poet and novel¬ 
ist of Rutland, Vt. Her verse, much of 
which reaches a high degree of excellence, 
includes Daybreak, an Easter poem; Ver¬ 
mont; Friar Anselmo; Afternoon Songs; 
Legend of the Baboushka; and Poems. 
Her other writings comprise four novels, 
Lanmere; Sibyl Huntington; Expiation; 
Farmingdale; Bermuda, a volume of 
travel; Bride and Bridegroom, or Letters 
to a Young Married Couple; The Flower 
of England’s Face; and A Cathedral Pil¬ 
grimage. 

DORRANCE, GORDON, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1765, in Sterling, Conn. 
He was pastor of the congregational 
church at Windsor, Mass., in 1795-1834, 
and afterward preached in Sunderland. 
Mass., and its vicinity. He published a 
History of Windsor. He died in 1846, in 
Attica, N. Y. 

DORSEY, MRS. ANNA HANSON, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Dec. 12, 1815, in 
Georgetown, D. C. She was a prolific- 
writer of dramas, novels, poems, and es¬ 
says, long resident in Washington, and 
from 1840 an ardent Roman catholic 
Among her works are May Brooke; Guy 
the Leper, an epic poem; The Old House 
at Glenarra; Palms; and Warp and Woof. 
She died in 1896. 

DORSEY, CLEMENT, congressman, 
was born in Anne Arundel county, Md. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1825 to 1831. He died 
Aug. 6, 1846. 

DORSEY, ELLA LORAINE, author, 
was born in 1856, in Washington, D. C. 
She is a Washington writer of stories for 
boys, and the author of Midshipman Bob; 
Saxty’s Angel; and The Two Tramps. 

DORSEY, GEORGE W. E., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Jan. 25, 1842. 
in Loudon county, Va. He recruited a 
company and enter¬ 
ed the union army 
in 1861 as first lieu¬ 
tenant, sixth West 
Virginia infantry: 
and was promoted 
to the rank of cap¬ 
tain and of major, 
and was mustered 
out with the army 
of the Shenandoah 
in 1865. He moved 
to Nebraska in 1866; 
and was admitted to 
the bar in 1869. He was a member of the 
board of trustees of the insane hospital; 
a member and vice-president of the state 
board of agriculture of Nebraska; and 
was also chairman of the republican state 
central committee of .Nebraska. In 1884 
he was elected a representative from Ne¬ 
braska to the forty-ninth congress, and 
was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty- 
first congresses as a republican. 

DORSEY, GODWIN VOLNEY, physi¬ 
cian, was born Nov. 17, 1812, in Oxford, 
Ohio. He was for many years president 
of the Miami county medical society. He 
was an elector on the democratic presi¬ 
dential ticket in Ohio in 1848; and a mem¬ 
ber of the Ohio constitutional conven¬ 
tions of 1850 and 1873. 

DORSEY, JAMES OWEN, ethnologist, 
author, was born Dec. 31, 1848, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was an ethnologist who 
for a time was an episcopal missionary 
to the Ponka Indians, but for many years 
has been engaged in linguistic studies for 
the bureau of ethnology. He was the 
author of Omaha Sociology; Osage Tra¬ 
ditions; Kansas Mourning and War Cus¬ 
toms; and The Dhegiha Language. 





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DORSEY, JESSE HOOK, manufacturer, 
was born in 1849, in Beallsville, Pa. He 
purchased and conducted the Tampa 
Lumber company, the largest lumber 
manufacturing business in Florida. 

DORSEY, MRS. SARAH ANNE ELLIS, 
author. She was the amanuensis of Jeffer¬ 
son Davis, to whom she bequeathed her 
estate of Beauvoir on the Gulf of Mex¬ 
ico, where he died. She was the author 
of Lucia Dare; Agnes Graham, both stor¬ 
ies of the civil war; Panola, a tale of 
Louisiana; Atalie, or a Southern Villeg- 
giatura; and Life of Governor Allen of 
Louisiana. She died July 4, 1879, in New 
Orleans, La. 

DORSEY, STEPHEN W., soldier, rail¬ 
road president, congressman, was born 
Feb. 28, 1842, in Benson, Vt. He was 
elected president of the Arkansas Cen¬ 
tral Railway company; and, removing to 
Arkansas, was chosen chairman of the 
republican county and state committees. 
He was elected United States senator 
from Arkansas for the term commencing 
in 1873 and ending in 1879. 

DORSHEIMER, WILLIAM, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, author, was born Feb. 
5, 1832, in Lyons, N. Y. He was a 
major in the United States army during 
the civil war; and in 1867 was appointed 
United States attorney for the north¬ 
ern district of New York. In 1874 
he was elected lieutenant-governor of 
New York; received the re-election in 
1876; and was elected to the forty-eighth 
congress as a democrat. He was the au¬ 
thor of A Life of Grover Cleveland. He 
died March 26, 1888, in Savannah, Ga. 

DOSTER. CHARLES S. G., soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Aug. 21, 1830, in 
Autauga county, Ala. He received his 
education at the East Tennessee univer¬ 
sity, and graduated j.rom the Centenary 
college, Louisiana. He served during the 
war as colonel of the reserves; and was 
militia colonel before the war. He was 
county superintendent of education for 
eight years; a representative in the Ala¬ 
bama state legislature for four years; and 
state senator for four years. Since 1850 
he has practiced law with success, and is 
still engaged in that profession in Pratt¬ 
ville, Ala. 

DOTEN, LIZZIE, author, poet, was 
born April 1, 1829, in Plymouth, Mass. 
She is a Boston spiritualist trance me¬ 
dium, whose verses are claimed to be in¬ 
spired by the spirits of Shakespeare, 
Burns, Poe, and other poets of the past. 
She is the author of Poems of Progress; 
and Poems from the Inner Life. 

DOTON, HOSEA, educator, author, was 
born Nov. 29, 1809, in Pomfret, Vt. From 
1866 till his death he was chief engineer 
of the Woodstock railroad. He was a 
member of the state senate in 1865-66, 
and in the latter year the legislature es¬ 
tablished his method of computing inter¬ 
est, known as the Vermont rule. He 
died Jan. 19, 1886, in Woodstock, Vt. 

DOTY, ALICE, musician, was born Jan. 
10, 1862, in Plano, Ill. She studied music 
in America, and in Berlin, Germany; and 
in 1888 passed the associated examination 
of the American College of Musicians. 
She has attained success as an organist 
and concert pianist. She is also a suc¬ 
cessful teacher in Aurora, Ill.; and has a 
studio in me Auditorium of Chicago. 

DOTY, JAMES DUANE, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born in 1799, in 
Salem, N. Y. He was a delegate to con¬ 
gress from the territory of Wisconsin 
from 1839 to 1841; from 1841 to 1844 was 
governor of Wisconsin; and for many 
years was United States judge for north¬ 
ern Michigan. He was also superintend¬ 
ent of Indian affairs; and was a repre¬ 


sentative in congress from the state of 
Wisconsin from 1849 to 1853. In 1864 he 
was appointed governor of Utah, of which 
territory he had previously been treas¬ 
urer. He died in June, 1865, at Salt Lake 
City, Utah. 

DOTY, LOCKWOOD LYON, lawyer, 
was born May 15, 1827, in Groveland, N. 
Y. He founded the state military bureau 
at Albany, which collected the histories 
of the volunteer regiments and provided 
for the care of the sick and wounded. 
In 1871 he was appointed pension agent 
in New York city. He died Jan. 18, 1873, 
in Jersey City, N. J. 

DOUBLEDAY, ABNER, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born June 26, 1819, in Ballston 
a colonel and brevet 
major-general in the 
United States army, 
who retired from 
active service in 
1873. He is the au¬ 
thor of Reminis¬ 
cences of Forts Sum¬ 
ter and Moultrie; 
Chancellorsville and 
Gettysburg; and 
Gettysburg Made 
Plain. He died Jart. 
27, 1893, at his home 
at Mendham, near 

DOUBLEDAY, CHARLES. WILLIAM, 
soldier, author, was born Jan. 28, 1829, 
in England. He was a soldier who ac¬ 
companied Walker on the famous Nicara¬ 
gua expedition, and later served as acting 
brigadier-general in the United States 
army. He is the author of Reminiscences 
of the Filibuster War in America. 

DOUBLEDAY, ULYSSES F„ journalist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 15, 1792, in 
New Lebanon, Conn. For twenty years 
he edited a journal in the city of Auburn; 
and was elected a representative to con¬ 
gress in 1831, and was again elected in 
1835. He died March 11, 1866, in Belvi- 
dere. Ill. 

DOUCET. EDWARD, college president, 
was born March 12, 1825, in Canada.' In 
1863 he was elected president of St. Johns 
college. He died Dec. 9, 189o, in Ford- 
ham, N. Y. 

DOUEY, CARL GREGG, lawyer, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born July 24, 1867, in 
Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from the 
Ohio State university, and from Harvard 
university. He was admitted to the bar, 
and practiced the profession of law in 
Columbus, Ohio. He has since attained 
distinction as an eminent clergyman of 
the methodist episcopal church; has filled 
a pastorate in Bainbridge, Ohio; and 
since 1896 has filled a pastorate in Gran¬ 
ville, Ohio. He is the author of several 
stories; and a constant contributor to 
the religious press. 

DOUGHERTY, CHARLES, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 
1850, in Athens, Ga. In 1876 he was 
elected a representative in the Florida 
legislature; was re-eleetea in 1878, and 
was elected speaker of the house. He 
was again re-elected in 1880 and 1882, 
and in the latter year was again elected 
speaker. He resigned in 1884 on being 
elected a representative from Florida to 
the forty-ninth congress; and received 
the re-election to the fiftieth congress as 
a democrat. . 

DOUGHERTY, DANIEL, lawyer, ora¬ 
tor, was born Oct. 15, 1826, in Philadel¬ 
phia. Pa. He attained prominence in 
New York as a successful lawyer, and 
was also a noted orator, being known 
throughout the country as the Silver- 
tongued Orator. He died Sept. 5. 1892, 
in Philadelphia. Pa. 


DOUGHERTY, HUGH, banker, legis¬ 
lator, was born July 28, 1844, in Darke 
county, Ohio. He served as a union sol¬ 
dier during the civil 
war, enlisting as. a 
member of company 
F, ninety-fourth reg¬ 
iment of Ohio vol¬ 
unteer infantry. He 
was made prisoner 
of war, and sent to 
Camp Chase, Ohio, 
until his exchange. 
After his military 
career he entered 
business pursuits; 
became assistant 
cashier in the First National bank of 
Bluffton, of which his uncle, John Studa- 
baker, was president. The title of this 
bank was subsequently changed to the 
Studabaker bank, of which institution 
Mr. Dougherty has been president since 
1895. He was largely instrumental in the 
building of several railroads, and has 
been active and liberal in the promotion 
of all material interests in his city and 
county, and has been equally conspicu¬ 
ous in advancing the cause of education 
and morality. In 1870 he was elected to 
the state senate, and served with distinc¬ 
tion in that body. In 1878 he was a can¬ 
didate for congress; and was a delegate 
to the democratic national convention in 
1884 and again in 1892. 

DOUGHERTY, JOHN, business man, 
was born April 8, 1840, in Ireland. In 
1888 he became general manager of the 
Colorado Coal and Iron company of Pu¬ 
eblo, Colo.; and has been director and 
trustee of numerous railroad corporations 
of New York city. 

DOUGHERTY, THOMAS E., merchant, 
manufacturer, was born in 1858, in Port 
Byron, N. Y. Since 1895 he has been de¬ 
voting nearly all his 
time to an extensive 
oil business in In¬ 
diana. He joined 
the Ashland club of 
Chicago in 1890, and 
served on the board 
of directors for two 
successive years. In 
1895 he was chosen 
president of the 
club, and made one 
of the best executive 
officers the organiza¬ 
tion ever had. He is also a member of 
the Chicago Athletic and Illinois clubs. 

DOUGHTY, THOMAS, artist, was born 
July 19, 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was one of the earliest American artists 
to make evident the charm of what is 
called the silvery tone, and to reproduce 
autumnal effects with genuine grace and 
emphasis. His works include A Peep at 
the Catskills; View on the Hudson; Lake 
Scene; Old Mill; Delaware Water-Gap: 
and Scene on the Susquehanna. He died 
July 24, 1856, in New York city. 

DOUGHTY, WILLIAM HENRY, sur¬ 
geon. was born Feb. 5, 1836, in Augusta. 
Ga. From 1867 till 1875 he three times 
held the professorship of materia medica 
and therapeutics in the medical college 
of Georgia (now the medical department 
of the state university). 

DOUGLAS, ALICE MAY, educator, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born June 28, 1865, in 
Bath, Maine. She is a writer of poetry 
and juvenile tales, whose home is at Batli. 
Maine. Her poems include Phlox; May 
Flowers; and Gems Without Polish. 
Jewel Gatherers; The Peacemaker; and 
Self-Exiled from Russia, are among her 
tales for young readers. 


Spa, N. Y. He was 



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DOUGLAS, AMANDA MINNIE, author, 
was born July 14, 1838, in New York city. 
She is a popular novelist of Newark, N. J., 
whose more than thirty works of fiction 
have obtained a wide circulation. Among 
them are In Trust; Stephen Dane; 
Claudia; With Fate Against Him; Sher¬ 
burne House; In Wild Rose Time; Seven 
Daughters; Larry; and Hope Mills. 

DOUGLAS, BENJAMIN, manufacturer, 
inventor, governor, was born April 3, 
1816, in Northford, Conn. William Doug¬ 
las died in 1858, and in 1859 a company 
was formed of which Benjamin became 
president. He was mayor of Middletown 
for several years, a republican presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1860, and lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of the state in 1861-62. 

DOUGLAS, BEVERLY B„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Dec. 21, 1822, 
in Providence Forge. Va. In 1850 he was 
a member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention; was elected a member of the 
state senate under the amended constitu¬ 
tion, and was a member of that body un¬ 
til 1865. In 1861 he entered the confeder¬ 
ate service as first lieutenant in Lee’s 
mounted rangers, of which he was made 
captain; then major of the fifth Virginia 
cavalry, army of northern Virginia; and 
resigned in 1863 to resume his legislative 
duties. He was elected to the forty- 
fourth congress as representative from 
Virginia; and was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth congress. He died Dec. 22, 1878. 

DOUGLAS, GEORGE, physician, was 
born May 7, 1823, in Franklin, N. Y. He 
commenced the practice of his profession 
at Oxford, N. Y., where he entered at 
once upon a large and lucrative practice. 
During tne civii war he was appointed 
surgeon of the examining board of the 
nineteenth district of New York at Ox¬ 
ford. 

DOUGLAS, JOHN. He was commis¬ 
sioned lieutenant-colonel early in the war, 
rose to the rank of colonel, and finally 
to that of general, and served with dis¬ 
tinction throughout the war. 

DOUGLAS, MARION, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Sept. 29, 1854, in Dixfield, 
Maine. In i«76 he graduated from tne 
Bates college; and was admitted to the 
bar in 1874. During 1876-79 he was prin¬ 
cipal of the normal school; moved to Da¬ 
kota territory in 1880; and the same year 
was elected judge of probate court of 
Brown county. In 188o he moved to 
Duluth, Minn., where he has since prac¬ 
ticed law continuously with eminent suc¬ 
cess. 

DOUGLAS, ORLANDO BENAJAH, phy¬ 
sician, was born Sept 12, 1836, in Corn¬ 
wall, Vt. In 1885 he was elected sur¬ 
geon and director of the Manhattan Eye 
and Ear hospital; and in 1888 was elected 
professor of diseases of the nose and 
throat in the Post-Graduate Medical 
school and hospital. He is tne author of 
a work entitled Is the Cure of Chronic 
Nasal Catarrh as Difficult as has been 
Supposed? 

DOUGLAS, ROBERT MARTIN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Jan. 28, 1849, in Rock¬ 
ingham county, N. C., and is the son of 
the late Senator Stephen A. Douglas, of 
Illinois. He received his education at the 
Gonzaza college and the Georgetown uni¬ 
versity of Washington, D. C.; and the 
degrees of A. B., A. M. and LL. D., were 
conferred upon him. He has attained 
success as one of the foremost lawyers 
of the south at Greensboro, N. C. He 
was private secretary to the governor of 
North Carolina; and was private secre¬ 
tary to President Grant. He has served 
as United States marshal for the west¬ 
ern district of North Carolina; was col¬ 
onel in the North Carolina militia; stand¬ 


ing master in chancery of the United 
States circuit court; and is now associate 
justice of the supreme court of North 
Carolina. 

DOUGLAS, SILAS HAMILTON, edu¬ 
cator, atithor, was born Oct. 16, 1816, in 
Fredonia, N. Y. He was a professor of 
chemistry at the university of Michigan 
in 1844-79, and is the author of Tables for 
Qualitative Chemical Analysis; and Qual¬ 
itative Chemical Analysis. 

DOUGLAS, STEPHEN A., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman. United States senator, 
was born April 23, 1813, in Brandon, Vt. 

He was elected at¬ 
torney-general of Il¬ 
linois; in 1837 was 
appointed by Presi¬ 
dent Van Buren reg¬ 
ister of the land of¬ 
fice at Springfield, 
Ill.; in 1840 was 
elected secretary of 
state, and the fol¬ 
lowing year judge of 
the supreme court. 
This office he re¬ 
signed, in conse¬ 
quence of ill-health, after sitting upon 
the bench for two years. In 1843 was 
elected to congress, and continued a mem¬ 
ber of the lower house for four years. 
In 1847 he w'as elected to the United 
States senate for the term ending in 1853; 
and was re-elected for the term ending 
in 1859. He died June 3. 1861, in Chicago, 
Ill. 

DOUGLASS. BENJAMIN F„ lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, was born July 22, 1820, 
in Shenandoah county, Va. In 1857 he was 
elected as representative to the state leg¬ 
islature from Harrison county, Ind. 

DOUGLASS, DAVID BATES, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born March 21, 1790, in 
Pompton, N. J. In 1814 he commanded a 
company on the northern frontier, and 
was brevetted captain. His introduction 
of inclined planes in place of locks for 
canal navigation proved a success in the 
Morris canal, of which he was chief en¬ 
gineer. In 1833 he began his surveys for 
supplying New York with water; and in 
his report showed how to obtain it from 
the Croton river. 

DOUGLASS, FREDERICK, orator, au¬ 
thor, was born in February, 1817, in 
Tuckahoe, Md. He was a famous orator 
and the most dis¬ 
tinguished member 
of the African race 
in America. He was 
born in slavery, but 
escaped to the north 
in 1838, educated 
himself, and soon 
became prominent as 
an anti-slavery 
speaker. As time 
went on, his style, 
always picturesque 
and eloquent, be¬ 
came polished and elegant. He is the au¬ 
thor of My Bondage and My Freedom; 
Narrative of My Experience in Slavery; 
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. 
He died in 1895. 

DOUGLASS, GEORGE LYON, lawyer, 
legislator, was born April 3, 1853, in 

Erie, Pa. He served with distinction as 

a member of the Kansas legislature, and 
in 1893 was speaker of what was known 
as the Douglass house, which the su¬ 
preme court decided was the lawful house 
of representatives of the state. He is 
one of the ioremost lawyers of the west 
at Y/ichita, Kan., and in 1891 was coun¬ 
sel for the state in the impeachment 
trial of Judge Botkin before the Kansas 
state senate. 


DOUGLASS, JOHN W., lawyer. He has 
attained success as a lawyer, and has a 
large practice in Washington, D. C. 

DOUGLASS, MARGARET CRITTEN¬ 
DEN, educator, was born in Washington, 
D. C. She opened a school for the in¬ 
struction of colored children, but it was 
broken up by the authorities in 1853, and 
she herself was imprisoned for a month 
in the common jail. She published a 
Personal Narrative, relating her expe¬ 
riences. 

DOUGLASS, MYRA, poet, was born in 
1844, in Adrian, Mich. Since her child¬ 
hood she has written stories and verse for 
the Waverly and Ballou Magazines of 
Boston, and other prominent periodicals. 
Her poems are included in nearly all 
standard collections of American verse. 

DOUGLASS, SAMUEL J., jurist. He 
was an emigrant to Florida while yet a 
territory; and in 1842 was appointed one 
of the judges of the United States for 
that district. 

DOUGLASS, WILLIAM, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1691, in Scotland. 
He was a Scottish physician who came 
to America and settled in Boston in 1718. 
His principal work is a Summary, His¬ 
torical and Political, of the British Set¬ 
tlements in America. Others of less note 
are Mercurius Novanglicanus. He died 
Oct. 21, 1752, in Boston, Mass. 

DOUTHAT, ROBERT WILLIAM, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born April 13, 1840, in 
Christiansburg, Va. He graduated from 
Emory and Henry college, and has at¬ 
tained success as an educator. For eleven 
years he was professor of language in the 
Missouri University School of Mines; was 
a college president for ten years; and is 
now professor of Latin in the West Vir¬ 
ginia university of Morgantown, W. Va. 
He is the author of several educational 
works, and contributes extensively to cur¬ 
rent literature. 

DOVENER, BLACKBURN BARRETT, 
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born 
April 20, 1842, in Cabell county, W. Va. 
He raised a company of loyal Virginians 
and served in the United States volunteer 
infantry during the war. He was elected 
as a representative of Ohio county in the 
legislature of 1883; and was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a 
republican. 

DOW, DANIEL, clergyman, author, was 
born Feb. 19, 1772, in Ashford, Conn. He 
was a congregational clergyman of 
Thompson, Conn., and the author of 
Familiar Letters to Rev. John Sherman; 
The Pedobaptist Catechism; The Sinaitic 
and Abrahamic Covenants; and Free In¬ 
quiry Recommended on the Subject of 
Free Masonry. He died July 19, 1849, in 
Thompson, Conn. 

DOW, LORENZO, clergyman, author, 
was born Oct. 16, 1777, in Coventry, Conn. 
He was an eccentric methodist traveling 
preacher, especially vehement against the 
Jesuits. He was the author of Polemical 
Works; The Stranger in Charleston, or 
the Trial and Confession of Lorenzo Dow; 
A Short Account of a Long Travel; Jour¬ 
nal and Miscellaneous Writings: and His¬ 
tory of a Cosmopolite, an autobiographic 
work. He a.ed Feb. 2, 1834, in George¬ 
town, D. C. 

DOW, MARY E. H. G., business woman, 
was born Dec. 15, 1848, in Dover, N. H. 
She attended the Dover academy and 
graduated from the high school in 
Charlestown, Mass. She is the first woman 
president of a street railroad, having 
been president of the Dover Street Rail¬ 
way company. She is now engaged in 
real estate, and manages her own real 
estate. 







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DOW, MILTON, merchant, was born 
Sept. 18, 1855, in Kansas. He received 
his education in the common schools of 
Iowa and Kansas. Since 1882 he has been 
postmaster in Shilili, N. M., where he is 
a successful merchant, and is prominent¬ 
ly identified with the public affairs of his 
county and state. 

DOW, MOSES A., publisher, was born 
in 1810, in Littleton, N. H. In 1850 he 
began the publication of the Waverly 
Magazine, the circulation of which for 
many years was 50,000 copies. He died 
June 22, 1886, in Charlestown, Mass. 

DOW, NEAL, prohibitionist, was born 
March 20, 1804, in Portland, Maine. He 
was of Quaker parentage; was a mer¬ 
chant and manufac¬ 
turer; and was twice 
elected mayor of 
Portland. About 
1857 he became the 
champion of prohib- 
i t i v e legislation, 
which resulted in 
the passage of the 
celebrated Maine 
liquor law of 1861, 
in honor of which 
he was called the 
father of the Maine 
Liquor Law. He was elected to the state 
legislature; served gallantly in the union 
army during 1861-64: and was eight 
months in Libby prison. He several 
times visited England, lecturing on tem¬ 
perance. He died in 1897. 

DOW D, CHARLES FERDINAND, edu¬ 
cator, was born April 25, 1825, in Madi¬ 
son, Conn. He was president of Temple 
Grove seminary of Saratoga Springs, N. 
Y. He conceived the idea of adopting 
one standard for railway time, and after 
submitting it to a railway convention in 
New York city in October, 1869, he de¬ 
vised a complete plan, which he published 
with a map in 1870. 

DOWD, CLEMENT, lawyer, banker, 
congressman, was born Aug. 27, 1832, in 
Moore county, N. C. He was mayor of 
Charlotte from 1869 to 1871. He was 
elected president of the Commercial Na¬ 
tional bank of that city in 1871, and con¬ 
tinued in that position. He was elected 
a representative from Nortn Carolina to 
the forty-seventh and forty-eighth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

DOWD, DANIEL L., educator, inventor 
was born Jan. 23, 1854, in Cazenovia, n! 
Y. In 1883 he moved to New York city, 
where he opened a school for physical 
and vocal culture, the only school of its 
kind in the country. He has invented a 
number of health exercise machines, 
which he has manufactured on a large 
scale. 

DOWD, MARY' ALICE, educator, poet, 
was born Dec. 16, 1855, in Frankfort, W. 
Va. She is an educator of Stamford, 
Conn., and the author of a volume en¬ 
titled Vacation Verses. 

DOWDALL, EDW'ARD, painter, sculp¬ 
tor, was born May 17, 1857, in Ireland. 
In 1865 he emigrated to the United States. 
He attended grammar school No. 24 of 
New York city; Cooper Institute; Nation¬ 
al Academy of Design; and the Art Stu¬ 
dents’ League of New York city, of which 
latter institution he is a life member. 
He painted ihe large picture of Charles 
the First and Cromwell, which was ex¬ 
hibited in 1890 at tne National Academy 
of Design; and has painted numerous 
portraits of prominent people of the 
United States. He also modeled in clay 
many busts which are now exhibited in 
various parts of tne United States. 


DOWDELL, JAMES F., lawyer, planter, 
congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1818, in 
Jasper county, Ga. He moved to Ala¬ 
bama in 1846, and took charge of a female 
college for one year. In 1848 he was a 
presidential elector; and was a represent¬ 
ative from Alabama in the thirty-third, 
thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. 

DOWDNEY, ABRAHAM, soldier, con¬ 
tractor, builder, congressman, was born 
in October, 1840, in Ireland. He served in 
the union army during the civil war as 
captain in the one hundred and thirty- 
second regiment New York volunteers. 
He was chairman of the board of school 
trustees of the nineteenth ward of New 
York city from 1882 to 1885; and in 1885 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-ninth congress. He 
died Dec. 10, 1886, in New York city. 

DOWELL, GREENSVILLE, physician, 
author, was born Sept. 1, 1822, in Albe¬ 
marle county, Va. He originated the 
Dowell system for the treatment of her¬ 
nia; and was the author of several books 
on that subject and yellow fever. He died 
in 1881 in Galveston, Texas. 

DOWLER, BENNET, physician and 
physiologist, was born April 16, 1797, in 
Moundsville, Ohio. In 1854 he began in 
New Orleans the Medical and Surgical 
Journal. He was noted for his experi¬ 
ments upon the human body soon after 
death, the results of which were given to 
the world in a series of essays in 1843-44. 

DOWLING, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born May 12, 1807, in England. He 
was a baptist clergyman of New York 
city, whose writings had a large circula¬ 
tion. He was the author of Vindication 
of the Baptists; History of Romanism; 
Defence of the Protestant Scriptures; 
Power of Illustration; Nights and Morn¬ 
ings; Judson Offering; and Exposition of 
the Prophecies Concerning the Second 
Coming of Christ. He died July 4, 1878, 
in Middletown, N. Y. 

DOWLING, LEE, clergyman, physician, 
author, poet, was born May 18, 1844, in 
Bellville, Ohio. During the civil war he 
was the youngest chaplain in the service. 
For many years he was a professor of 
physiology in medical colleges. He is 
the author of The Crown of Sunday 
School Songs; The Psalm of Victory; and 
other music books that have attained a 
wide circulation. 

DOWNES, JOHN, mathematician, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 4, 1799, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. He was a mathematician of Wasa- 
ington, and the author of Peter Parley s 
Almanacs for Old and Young; Logar¬ 
ithms and Logarithmic Lines and Tan¬ 
gents; and United States Almanac Com¬ 
plete, or Ephemeris. He died in 1882. 

DOWNES, WILLIAM HOWE, journal¬ 
ist, autnor, was born in 1854, in Connecti¬ 
cut. He is a Boston journalist, for many 
years on the staff of the Transcript, and 
the author of Spanish Ways and By- 
Ways; and The- Tin Army of the Poto¬ 
mac, or a Kindergarten of War. 

DOWNEY, ALEXANDER C., lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, was born Sept. 10, 
1817, in Hamilton county, Ohio. In 1862 
he accepted, as a war democrat, the nom¬ 
ination for the state senate on the union 
ticket, and was elected. 

DOWNEY, JOHN, educator, author, 
was born in 1770, in Germantown, Pa. In 
1817 he was a member of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania legislature. He was the author of a 
series of humorous sketches under the 
signature of Simon the Wagoner. He 
compiled a work entitled The Justice’s 
Assistant. He died July 21, 1827, in 
Harrisburg, Pa. 



DOWNEY, JOHN G., statesman. He 
was governor of California from 1860 to 
1862. 

DOWNEY, S. W., soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 25, 1839, in 
Westernport, Md. He served in the union 
army during the war of the rebellion. 
He removed to the territory of Wyoming 
in 1869; was elected a member of the ter¬ 
ritorial council in 1871, 1875, and 1877; 
was treasurer of the territory for three 
years, and was auditor of the territory at 
the time of his election as a delegate 
from the territory of Wyoming to the 
forty-sixth congress. 

DOWNEY, WILLIAM D., merchant, 
was born March 18, 1834, near Princeton, 
Ind. In 1861 he went to Princeton, Ind., 
and engaged in mercantile business. 

DOWNIE, DAVID, missionary, author, 
was born in 1838, in Scotland. He is a 
baptist missionary to India who has pub¬ 
lished a History of the Telugu Mission. 

DOWNING, ANDREW JACKSON, 
landscape gardener, author, was born Oct. 
20, 1815, in Newburg, N. Y. He was a 
noted horticulturist and landscape gar¬ 
dener of New York, who did much to 
popularize a knowledge of rural art. He 
was the author of Theory and Practice of 
Landscape Gardening; Fruit and Fruit 
Trees of America; Architecture of Coun¬ 
try Houses; Cottage Residences; and 
Rural Essays. He died Aug. 28, 1852, near 
Y'onkers, N. Y. 

DOWNING, CHARLES, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a delegate 
to congress from the territory of Florida 
from 1837 to 1841. He died Oct. 24, 1841. 

DOWNING, EDWARD C., educator, 
poet, was born Feb. 24, 1862, in Wooster, 
Ohio. He has been professor of Greek and 
Latin in several large colleges. In 1888 
he published a volume of poems entitled 
Minutes With the Muses. 

DOWNING, FINIS EWING, lawyer, 
journalist, congressman, was born Aug. 
24, 1846, in Virginia, Ill. Since 1891 he 
has published the Virginia Enquirer. He 
was elected secretary of the senate in 
1893 for the thirty-eighth general assem¬ 
bly of Illinois; and was elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

DOWNING, MRS. FRANCES, author, 
poet, was born in 1835, in Portsmouth, 
Va. She published Pluto, or the Origin of 
Mint Julep, a story in verse after the 
manner of the Ingoldsby Legends; and 
several novels, including Nameless; Per¬ 
fect Througn Suffering; Florida; and Five 
Little Girls and Two Little Boys. She 
died in 1894, in Charlottesville, N. C. 

DOWNS. ASHBEL FAIRCHILD, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Sept. 7, 1854, in 
New Geneva, Pa. He attended the West 
Virginia university; and has attained suc¬ 
cess in the profession of law at Union- 
town, Pa. He is the author of Heroes and 
Heroic Deeds, or Uncrowned Kings: and 
various addresses and other papers. 

DOWNS, SOLOMON W.. lawyer. United 
States senator, was born in 1801, in Ten¬ 
nessee. He was United States district 
attorney from 1845 to 1847; a presidential 
elector in 1844; collector of the port of 
New Orleans; and from 1847 to 1853 was 
a senator in congress from Louisiana. 
He died Aug. 14. 1854. in Orchard Springs. 
Ky. 

DOWS. STEPHEN LELAND, contrac¬ 
tor, state senator, was born Oct. 9, 1832, 
in New York city. After the war he en¬ 
gaged in railroad building under con¬ 
tract and was then rewarded for a long 
and patient effort by abundant success. 
He has been elected several times to the 
state senate and was at one time consid¬ 
ered for governor of the state of Iowa. 


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DOWSE, EDWARD, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1819 to 1821. 

DOWSE, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the thirteenth congress, but died 
before taking his seat, Feb. 18, 1813. 

DOX, PETER MYNDERT. lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born Sept. 11, 1813, 
in Geneva, N. Y. He was elected to the 
legislature in 1841; and was judge of the 
Ontario county courts. He removed to 
Alabama in 1855, and engaged in agricul¬ 
tural pursuits; and in 1865 was elected, as 
a union man, to represent Madison coun¬ 
ty in the convention called for the re¬ 
vision of the state constitution; and took 
an active part in the restoration of the 
state to its place in tne union. He was 
elected to the forty-first and forty-sec¬ 
ond congresses as a democrat. 

DOXEY, CHARLES T., congressman. 
He was elected a representative from In¬ 
diana to the forty-seventh congress to fill 
a vacancy. 

DOYLE, EDWARD, poet. He is the au¬ 
thor of a volume of poems entitled Moody 
Moments. 

DOYLE, JAMES, gold miner, was born 
Dec. 20, 1868, in Portland, Maine. He 
holds official relations with several im¬ 
portant concerns, 
and'is secretary and 
assistant manager of 
the Portland Gold 
Mining company, 
president and owner 
of the Unita Mining 
and Transportation 
company. He is also 
a director in vari¬ 
ous mining com¬ 
panies and business 
enterprises; and 
takes an active part 
in public affairs of his city and state. 

DOYLE, JOHN T.. lawyer, was born 
Nov. 26, 1819, in New York city. He has 
been for three successive terms viticul- 
tural commissioner for the state at large, 
and during his last term president of the 
board. He has also been for over thirty 
years trustee of the San Francisco law 
library, and for several years back presi¬ 
dent of that institution. 

DOYLE, RICHARD DEVEREUX, law¬ 
yer, poet, was born Oct. 8, 1850, in Nor¬ 
folk, Va. After receiving the degree of 
bachelor of law at the university of Vir¬ 
ginia, and graduating in moral philoso¬ 
phy and logic, he went to Indianapolis 
and there practiced law and edited a 
weekly newspaper. He lately became as¬ 
sistant attorney-general of the state of 
Indiana. He is still engaged in the prac¬ 
tice of law in his native city, where be 
has filled all the high offices in the gift 
of his city and county. His poems have 
been incorporated in several standard 
works. 

DRAKE, ALEXANDER WILSON, en¬ 
graver, art director, was born in 1843, in 
Westfield, N. J. -In 1865 he established 
himself in the business of wood-engrav¬ 
ing, doing work for publishers; and in 
1870 he was made art superintendent of 
Scribner’s Monthly, which in 1881 be¬ 
came known as the Century Magazine, 
and with which he has since been con¬ 
tinuously connected. 

DRAKE, BENJAMIN, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1794, in Mason county, 
Ky. He was a Cincinnati journalist 
whose writings include Cincinnati in 
1820; Tales and Sketches from the Queen 
City; Life of Black Hawk; Life of Wil¬ 
liam Henry Harrison; anu Life of Te- 
cumseh. He died April 1, 1841, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. 


DRAKE, BENJAMIN M., clergyman, 
college president, was born Sept, ll! 
1800, in North Carolina. He was instru¬ 
mental in building the first methodist 
church in New Orleans; was president of 
Elizabeth Female academy, the first 
methodist school established in that 
state; and was also president of Cente¬ 
nary college. He died in 1860 in Missis¬ 
sippi. 

DRAKE, CHARLES DANIEL, lawyer. 
United States senator, author, was born 
April 11, 1811, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 
1859 he was elected to the Missouri legis¬ 
lature; and in 1861 and 1862 he took an 
active and conspicuous part against the 
secession movement. In 1863 he was 
elected to the Missouri stale convention; 
was a presidential elector in 1864; and in 
1865 was a member and vice-president of 
the convention that formed the present 
constitution of Missouri. In 1867 he was 
elected a senator in congress from Mis¬ 
souri for the term ending in 1873; and in 
1871 was appointed chief justice of the 
court of claims. He was the author of a 
Treatise on the Law of Suits by Attach¬ 
ment in the United States; and a Life of 
Daniel Drake. 

DRAKE, DANIEL, physician, author, 
was born Oct. 20, 1785, in Plainfield, N. J. 
He was a distinguished physician of Cin¬ 
cinnati and Philadelphia who is best 
known by his valuable work on The Dis¬ 
eases of the Interior Valley of North 
America, which embodies a vast amount 
of patient research. His other works in¬ 
clude Pictures of Cincinnati and the Mi¬ 
ami Country; History of the Prevention 
and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera; Es¬ 
says on Medical Education; Discourses: 
and Pioneer Life in Kentucky. He died 
Nov. 6, 1852, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

DRAKE, ELIAS FRANKLIN, cap¬ 
italist, state senator, was born Dec. 21, 
1813, in Urbana, Ohio. He was president 
of the Dayton and Xenia railroad, and of 
the Dayton and Western railroad. He 
served in the state legislature; in 1838 
accepted the presidency of the Columbus 
Insurance company; in 1864 he built the 
St. Paul and Sioux City railroad; and in 
1873 he was elected to the state senate of 
Minnesota. He died Feb. 14, 1892, in San 
Diego, Cal. 

DRAKE, FRANCIS MARION, soldier, 
merchant, lawyer, railroad president, 
banker, governor, was born Dec. 30. 1830, 
in Rushville, Ill. In 
1852 he crossed the 
plains to Sacramen¬ 
to, Cal.; and while 
g — . crossing Shell Creek, 

f Neb., in command of 
twenty men, he had 
a severe engagement 
with three hundred 
Pawnee Indians, 
which were defeated 
with heavy loss in 
killed and wounded. 
He subsequently was 
connected with his father, John Adams 
Drake, in the mercantile and milling 
business in Draheville and Centerville, 
Iowa. In 1861 he enlisted and was com¬ 
missioned captain of a company; served 
with distinction throughout the civil war, 
and was brevetted brigadier-general of 
volunteers. After the war he became a 
noted lawyer, and subsequently was en¬ 
gaged in the railroad and banking busi¬ 
ness. He projected, constructed and put 
into operation five railroads; and has been 
president of the Indiana,Illinois and Iowa 
Railroad company; president of the Albia 
and Centerville Railroad company; presi¬ 
dent of Centerville national bank. In 
1895 he was elected governor of the state 
of Iowa. 


DRAKE, FRANCIS SAMUEL, author, 
was born Feb. 22, 1828, in Northwood, N. 
H. He prepared without aid a Dictionary 
of American Biography, the materials for 
which he was twenty years in collecting. 
He also published a Memorial of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts Society of the Cincinnati 
(1873); Life of Gen. Henry Knox (1873); 
The Town of Roxbury (1873); Tea-Leaves 
(1884); and Indian History for Young 
Folks (1885). He edited Schoolcraft’s 
History of the Indians; and contributed 
articles on Brighton, Watertown, and 
Roxbury to the Memorial History of Bos¬ 
ton. His Dictionary of American Biogra¬ 
phy, with his latest corrections and all 
the materials that he had gathered for a 
new edition, was incorporated in Apple¬ 
ton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 
He died Feb. 22, 1885, in Washington, 
D. C. 

DRAKE, J. MADISON, soldier, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born March 25, 1837, in 
Somerset county, N. J. In 1861 he organ¬ 
ized the first company of United States vol¬ 
unteers which was raised in New Jersey 
for three months’ service; and was the 
first who unfurled the first federal flag on 
confederate soil. He was wounded and 
made a prisoner of war, and received a 
congressional medal. After the war he be¬ 
gan the publication of the Daily Monitor 
at Elizabeth, N. J.; in 1889 he started The 
Sunday Leader, and the same year be¬ 
gan the issue of The Daily Leader. Gen¬ 
eral Drake is the author of a History of 
the Ninth New Jersey Volunteers; Fast 
and Loose in Dixie; Across me Conti¬ 
nent; and other works. 

DRAKE, JAMES PERRY, soldier, leg¬ 
islator, was born Sept. 11, 1797, in Rob¬ 
ertson county, N. C. In 1832 he was ap¬ 
pointed brigade inspector. While in Mex¬ 
ico he was made civil and military gover¬ 
nor of Matamoras, and commander of 
all forces of the lower Rio Grande. He 
was sent to the legislature from Marion 
county, and then elected treasurer of 
state. 

DRAKE, JOHN ADAMS, merchant, 
banker, state legislator, was born in 1804, 
in Nash county, N. C. He was of English 
descent, and traced his ancestry back to 
Sir Francis Drake; and also to the dis¬ 
tinguished Adams family. In 1837 he 
moved from Rushville, Ill., to Fort Madi¬ 
son, Iowa, and subsequently was probate 
judge of Lee county. In 1846 he moved 
to Davis county, where he founded Drake- 
ville, and there built up a large mercan¬ 
tile, packing and milling business in con¬ 
nection with his two sons, John Hamilton 
and Francis Marion. In 1866 he com¬ 
menced the banking business in Drake- 
ville; and ten years later removed to Cen¬ 
terville; and was president of the Cen- 
tervine National bank at the time of his 
death. During 1852-53 he was a member 
of the Iowa state legislature. He died in 
May, 1880, in Centerville, Iowa. 

DRAKE. JOHN BURROUGHS, hotel 
man, was born Jan. 17, 1826, in Lebanon, 
Ohio. In 1874 he leased the Grand Pa¬ 
cific hotel and managed the house suc¬ 
cessfully until the spring of 1895, retiring 
then on account of the high rent demand¬ 
ed. He was president of the Chicago and 
Joliet railroad. He died Nov. 12, 1895, in 
Chicago, Ill. 

DRAKE, JOHN R., jurist, congressman, 
was born in 1783. He was one of the 
earnest settlers in Tioga county, N. Y.; 
and was a representative in congress 
from that state from 1817 to 1819. He was 
elected judge of Tioga county in 1833; 
and was a member of the New York as¬ 
sembly in 1834. He died March 21, 1857, 
in Oswego, N. Y. 





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DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN, physi¬ 
cian, author, poet, was born Aug. 7, 1795, 
in New York city. He was a talented 
physician of New York city, co-author 
with Halleclt of The Croaker Papers in 
the Evening Post. His poetical fame rests 
on The Culprit Fay; and The American 
Flag. He died Sept. 21, 1820. 

DRAKE, SAMUEL ADAMS, author, 
was born Dec. 20, 1833, in Boston, Mass. 
He is the author of Around the Hub, a 
Boy’s Book About Boston; The Heart of 
the White Mountains; Old Landmarks 
and Historic Personages of Boston; 
Nooks and Corners of the New England 
Coast; Old Landmarks and Historic 
Fields of Middlesex; Captain Nelson; 
The Y/atch Fires of ’76; Burgoyne’s In¬ 
vasion of 1777; The Taking of Louisburg; 
The Battle of Gettysburg; Our Colonial 
Homes; New England Legends and Folk- 
Lore; The Making of New England, 1580- 
1643; The Making of Virginia and the 
Middle Colonies, 1578-1701; The Making 
of the Ohio Valley States, 1660-1837; The 
Making of the Great West, 1512-1853; 
History of Middlesex County; and The 
Pine-Tree Coast. 

DRAKE, SAMUEL GARDINER, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 11, 1798, in Pittsfield, 
N. H. He was a Boston bookseller of 
antiquarian tastes who, beside editing 
several historical works, was the author 
of Memoir of Cotton Mather; Entertain¬ 
ing History of King Philip’s War; Book 
of the Indians; Old Indian Chronicle; Ac¬ 
count of the Family of Drake; Memoir 
of Walter Raleigh; History and Antiqui¬ 
ties of Boston; Indian Biography; Indian 
Captivities; Annals of Witchcraft in the 
United States; and History of the French 
and Indian War. He died in 1875. 

DRAKE, THOMAS J., lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, jurist, was born April 18, 1799, in 
Scipio, N. Y. In 1822 he settled at Pon¬ 
tiac, Mich., and was a leading lawyer 
for more than fifty years. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the territorial council from 1828 
to 1831. He was senator in 1839-41, and 
acting governor in 1841-42. He was pros¬ 
ecuting attorney; register of probate; 
presidential elector in 1840 and 1856; 
chief justice of Utah from 1862 to 1869; 
and publisher of a paper first at Flint, 
then at Pontiac. He died April 20, 1875. 

DRAPER, ANDREW SLOAN, lawyer, 
educator, college president, author, was 
born June 21, 1848, in Westford, N. Y. 
He was a lawyer and educator of Albany, 
and since 1894 president of the university 
of Illinois. He is the author of What 
Ought the Common Schools to Do?; How 
to Improve the Country Schools; Powers 
and Obligations of Teachers; School Ad¬ 
ministration in Large Cities; Origin of 
the New York Common School System; 
A Teaching Profession; Authority of the 
State in Education; Legal Status of the 
Public Schools; Normal and Training 
School System of New York; Responsibil¬ 
ity and Authority of Trustees; American 
Schools and American Citizenship; and 
Public School Pioneering in New York 
and Massachusetts. 

DRAPER, DANIEL, meteorologist, was 
born April 2, 1841, in New York city. He 
has invented numerous self-recording in¬ 
struments, including the photographic 
barograph and thermographs (dry and 
wet), pencil gauges for rain and snow, 
for direction of the wind, and for the ve¬ 
locity and force of the wind. 

DRAPER. HENRY', educator, author, 
was born March 7, 1837, in Prince Ed¬ 
ward county, Va. He was the author of 
The Construction of a Silvered Glass Tel¬ 
escope; and Text-Book of Chemistry. He 
died Nov. 20, 1882, in New York city. 


DRAPER, JOHN CHRISTOPHER, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born March 31, 1835, 
in Mecklenburg county, Va. He was a 
New York physician, professor in the uni¬ 
versity of New York; and the author of 
Text-BooK in Anatomy; Physiology and 
Hygiene; Practical Laboratory Course in 
Physics; and Text-Book of Medical Phys¬ 
ics. He died Dec. 20, 1885, in New York 
city. 

DRAPER, JOHN WILLIAM, scientist, 
author, was born May 5, 1811, near Liver¬ 
pool, England. He was a distinguished 
scientist who came from England to the 
United States in 1832, and from 1839 to 
1881 was connected with the univer¬ 
sity of New York. He was the author of 
History of the Civil War in America; 
History of tne Intellectual Development 
of Europe; The Future Civil Policy of 
America; Human Physiology; Elements 
of Chemistry; Text-Book of Natural Phi¬ 
losophy; Text-Book on Physiology; Re¬ 
searches in Actino-Chemistry; Scientific 
Memoirs; and History of the Conflict be¬ 
tween Religion and Science. He died Jan. 
4, 1882, in Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y. 

DRAPER, JOSEPH, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1830 to 1833. 

DRAPER, LY'MAN COPELAND, anti¬ 
quarian, author, was born Sept. 4, 1815, in 
Adams, N. Y. He was an antiquarian 
writer of Madison, Wis.; and the author 
of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin; 
and King’s Mountain and its Heroes. He 
died Aug. 27, 1891, in Madison, Wis. 

DRAPER, THOMAS JEFFERSON, 
physician, was born Oct. 7, 1852, near 
Mineral Springs, Ark. He attended the 
South Arkansas college; and in 1878 
graduated in medicine from the univer¬ 
sity of Louisville. He has received a clas¬ 
sical education; and is well read in litera¬ 
ture, science and political economy, as 
well as in medicine. He has been mayor 
of Mineral Springs, Ark.; president of the 
Howard County Medical society; exam¬ 
iner for four life insurance companies; a 
member of the board of medical exami¬ 
ners, and of various other medical bodies. 

DRAPER, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, sol¬ 
dier, manufacturer, congressman, was born 
April 9, 1842, in Lowell, Mass. He served 
in the union army 
during 1861-64, and 
held commissions as 
second lieutenant, 
first lieutenant, cap¬ 
tain, major, and 
lieutenant - colonel, 
commanding, also as 
colonel and briga¬ 
dier-general b y 
brevet. He is a 
manufacturer of cot¬ 
ton machinery and 
has made and pat¬ 
ented many improvements in such ma¬ 
chinery. He was president of the Home 
Market club in 1891 and 1892; was a dele¬ 
gate to the republican national conven¬ 
tion in 1876; was colonel on staff of Gov¬ 
ernor Long from 1880 to 1883. He was a 
candidate for governor before the repub¬ 
lican state convention of 1888 and chosen 
presidential elector at large the same 
year; and was elected to the fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth congresses as a repub¬ 
lican, and declined a re-election. In 1897 
he was appointed ambassador to Italy. 

DRAPIER, WILLIAM H., journalist, 
author, was born Sept. 4, 1832, in Boston, 
Mass. In 1861 he was elected and com¬ 
missioned colonel of the state militia. 
For thirty years he was an official ste¬ 
nographer in the constitutional conven¬ 
tions of several states, and various politi¬ 


cal bodies, and edited several newspapers. 
He is now the proprietor of the Indiana 
Journal of Commerce of Indianapolis, 
Ind. He has been elected and re-elected 
frequently as an officer of the Indiana 
Editors’ and Publishers’ association. 

DRAYTON, HENRY b., journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 16, 1840, in New Jer¬ 
sey. He is connected with the publish¬ 
ing house of Fowler and Wells; and is 
the editor of the Phrenological Journal 
and Science and Health. Besides his ed¬ 
itorial work that would fill volumes, he is 
author of several books, among them. 
Light in Dark Places; and Brain and 
Mind. 

DRAYTON, JOHN, governor, author, 
was born in 1766, in South Carolina. He 
was governor of South Carolina from 
1800 to 1802, and from 1808 to 1810; and 
was district judge of the United States 
for some years previous to his death. He 
published A View of South Carolina; Me¬ 
moirs of the Revolution in South Caroli¬ 
na, in two volumes; and Letters Written 
During a Tour Through the Northern and 
Eastern States. He died Nov. 27, 1822, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

DRAY'TON, WILLIAM, jurist, was 
born in 1733, in South Carolina. In 1789 
he was appointed the first United States 
judge for the district of South Carolina. 
He died May 18, 1790. 

DRAYTON, WILLIAM, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 30, 1776, in St. 
Augustine, Fla. He was a captain in the 
South Carolina militia; in 1812 was com¬ 
missioned a colonel in the United Stares 
army, and inspector-general in 1814. He 
assisted Generals Scott and Macomb in 
preparing a System of Infantry Tactics 
for the army. He was elected recorder of 
Charleston in 1819; and was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from South Carolina 
from 1825 to 1833. He was chosen presi¬ 
dent of the United States bank in 1840. 
He died May 24, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DRAYTON, WILLIAM HENRY, jurist, 
statesman, author, was born in 1742, in 
South Carolina. In 1771 he was appoint¬ 
ed a judge; was president of the provin¬ 
cial congress; and was made chief justice 
in 1776. He was a leading member of the 
South Carolina assembly; was a delegate 
to the continental congress from 1778 to 
1779, and was a signer of the articles of 
confederation. He was the author of a 
History of the American Revolution, 
which was afterward published in three 
volumes by his son. He died in 1779. 

DREHER, JULIUS DANIEL, educator, 
college president, was born Oct. 28, 1846, 
in Lexington county, S. C. He graduated 
with honors from the Roanoae college of 
Salem, Va.; of which institution he has 
been president since 1878; ana for seven 
years prior to that time was professor 
in the same college. 

DRESSER, HORACE, lawyer, author. 
He wrote much on constitutional ques¬ 
tions, and published The Battle Record of 
the American Rebellion; and Internal 
Revenue Laws as Amended to July, 1866. 
He died Jan. 27, 1877. 

DREW, DANIEL, capitalist, was born 
in 1788, in Carmel, N. Y. In 1866 he was 
treasurer of the Erie Railroad company, 
to which he. lent the sum of $3,500,000, re¬ 
ceiving as security $3,000,000 of shares of 
unused stock and $3,000,000 of bonds con¬ 
vertible into stock. In 1866 he. gave $250,- 
000 to found the Drew Theological semi¬ 
nary of Madison, N. J., and increased this 
sum by successive donations to nearly 
$1,000,000. He died Sept. 19, 1879, in New 
York city. 



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DREW, FRANKLIN MELLEN, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born July 19, 1837, in 
Turner, Maine. In 1858 he graduated 
from Bowdoin college. He was a union 
soldier for over three years during the 
civil war, and was promoted to major and 
brevet colonel. During 1868-71 he was 
secretary of the state of Maine. In 1889 
he was elected department commander, 
department of Maine, of the Grand Army 
of the Republic. Since 1889 he has served 
with distinction as judge of probate. He 
is one of the foremost lawyers of his na¬ 
tive state, and has a law office in Lewis¬ 
ton, Maine. 

DREW, GEORGE F., statesman. He 
was governor of Florida from 1877 to 1881. 

DREW, JOHN, comedian, was born 
Nov. 13, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has 
created more than forty parts in comedy, 
personating all with skill and care, and 
many with brilliant success. Petruchio, 
in Taming the Shrew, is his favorite char¬ 
acter. 

DREW, THOMAS S., statesman. He 
was governor of Arkansas from 1844 to 
1848. 

DREXEL, ANTHONY JOSEPH, bank¬ 
er, philanthropist, was born in 1826, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is president of the 
banking establishment of the New York 
Drexel, Morgan and Co.; and founded 
and heavily endowed the Drexel institute, 
which has achieved a wide reputation. 

DREXEL, JOSEPH WILHELM, bank¬ 
er, was born Jan. 24, 1831, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. After his father's death he re¬ 
turned to Philadelphia, and in 1871, with 
Junius S. Morgan of London, established 
in New York city the banking house of 
Drexel, Morgan and Co., becoming its 
head. He died March 25, 1888, in New 
York city. 

DRIGGS, JOHN F., congressman, was 
born March 8, 1813, in Kinderhook, N. Y. 
In 1844 he was appointed superintendent 
of the New York penitentiary; and in 
1850 settled in East Saginaw, Mich. He 
was president of that village in 1858; and 
during the two succeeding years was a 
member of the Michigan legislature. 
He was elected a representative from 
Michigan to the thirty-eighth, thirty- 
ninth and fortieth congresses as a repub¬ 
lican. He died Dec. 17, 1877. 

DRINKER, MRS. ANNA, author, poet, 
was born Dec. 3, 1827, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. She is the author of Poems by Edith 
May; Tales and Verses for Children; and 
Katy’s Story. 

DRISCOL, MICHAEL, clergyman, was 
born in 1805 in Ireland. He was superior 
of the theological seminary at Fordham, 
and afterward president of St. Francis 
Xavier college, New York. He erected 
the church of St. Michael in Troy, N. Y. 
He died in 1880 in Troy, N. Y. 

DRISLER, HENRY, educator, author, 
was born Dec. 27, 1818, on btaten Island, 
N. Y. He is a classical scholar of dis¬ 
tinction, professor at Columbia college 
since 1843, whose Greek and English Lex¬ 
icon has long been a standard authority. 

DROMGOOLE, GEORGE C., lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Virginia. 
He served for many years in the two 
houses of the state legislature, and 
was president of the senate. He was a 
member of the second constitutional con¬ 
vention of Virginia; add was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from Virginia from 1835 
to 1841, and from 1843 to 1847. He died 
April 27, 1847. 

DRONE, EATON SYLVESTER, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was^born Jan. 25, 1842, in 
Zanesville, Ohio. He is a legal writer on 
the staff of the New York Herald; and 
the author of The 'Law of Property in In- 


ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN 

tellectual Productions, embracing Copy¬ 
right and Playright. 

DRUM, AUGUSTUS, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1853 to 1855. 

DRUMMOND, JOSIAH HAYDEN, law¬ 
yer, amuor, was born in 1827. He is a 
lawyer who was attorney-general of 
Maine for some years, and published 
Maine Masonic Text-Book for Use of 
Lodges; and History of Masonic Jurispru¬ 
dence. 

DRUMMOND, THOMAS, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Oct. 16, 1809, in 
Bristol, Maine. He removed to Galena, 
Ill., in 1835; was elected to the house of 
representatives of Illinois in 1840; was 
appointed judge of the district court of the 
United States for Illinois in 1850. He re¬ 
moved to Chicago in 1854; became judge 
of the uistrict court of the United States 
for the northern district of Illinois. In 
1868 he moved to Winfield, where he died 
in 1897. 

DRUMMOND, WILLIAM V/., jurist. He 
was a resment of Illinois; and was ap¬ 
pointed an associate justice of the United 
States court for the territory of Utah. 

DRURY, AUGUSTUS WALDO, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1851. He is a 
clergyman of the sect of united brethren 
in Christ who has written a Life of Otter- 
bein, the founder of the sect. 

DRURY, JOHN BENJAMIN, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 15, 
1838, in Rhinebeck, N. Y. He attended 
the Rhinebeck academy, Rutgers college, 
and the New Brunswick Theological sem¬ 
inary; and has received the degree of D. 
D. He has been president of the general 
synod of tne reformed church of Amer¬ 
ica; was Vedder lecturer in 1883; and 
since 1887 has been editor of the Chris¬ 
tian Intelligencer of New York city. He 
is the author of Trutns and Untruths of 
Evolution; and various other works. 

DRURY, MARION RICHARDSON, 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 27, 1849, 
in Pendleton, Ind. In 1889 he was ap¬ 
pointed editor of The Religious Tele¬ 
scope of Dayton, Ohio. He is the author 
of The Pastor’s Pocket Book; Handbook 
for Workers; and At Hand. 

DRURY, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
inventor, was born Jan. 12, 1842, in Wor¬ 
cester, Mass. In 1865 he graduated from 
Yale college, aDd since 1873 has been a 
successful lawyer in Boston, Mass. He 
is the inventor of the system of spinning 
yarn, by which numerous strands of 
twisted and completed yarn are made di¬ 
rectly from the ring-doffers of a card¬ 
ing machine without any subsequent pro¬ 
cess or spinning. 

DRYDEN, JOHN FAIRFIELD, presi¬ 
dent of the Prudential Insurance Company 
of America, was born Aug. 7, 1839, in 
Farmington, Maine. 
In 1875 the real 
birth of industrial 
insurance in Ameri¬ 
ca took place. On 
that day was form¬ 
ed what is now 
The Prudential In¬ 
surance Company of 
America. Into it 
were merged all the 
rights, titles, inter¬ 
ests and obligations 
of The Friendly so¬ 
ciety, and Mr. Dryden accepted the nomi¬ 
nally modest but all important office of 
secretary. From the first he has been the 
chief guide and motive power of the insti¬ 
tution. 


BIOGRAPHY. 

DRYSDALE, THOMAS MURRAY, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Aug. 31, 1831, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1862 he delivered a 
course of lectures on the microscope in 
the Franklin institute. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the international medical con¬ 
gress in 1876, and one of the founders of 
the American gynecological society. 

DUANE, JAMES, jurist, statesman, was 
born Feb. 6, 1733, in New York city. He 
was a member of the continental con¬ 
gress from 1774 to 1784, and signed the 
articles of confederation. He attended the 
Indian treaty at Albany in August, 1775; 
was a member of the constitutional con¬ 
vention in 1776 and 1777, and on the com¬ 
mittee which drafted it. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the committee of safety; in 1783 
returned to New York city on its evacua¬ 
tion. by the British, and became a mem¬ 
ber of the council. He was state senator 
in 1783 and 1784; first mayor of New 
York in 1784; member of the convention 
to adopt the federal constitution in 1788; 
United States district judge from 1789 to 
1794. He died Feb. 1, 1797, in Duanesburg. 
N. Y. 

DUANE, JAMES CHATHAM, general, 
author, was born June 30, 1824, in Schen¬ 
ectady, N. Y. He is a retired brigadier- 
general of the United States army; and 
the author of A Manual for Engineer 
Troops. 

DUANE, RUSSELL, lawyer, was born 
June 15, 1866, in Gloucester county, N. J. 
In 1892 he was appointed junior counsel 
for the government in the Behring sea ar¬ 
bitration proceedings. 

DUANE, WILLIAM, journalist, author, 
was born in 1760 near Lake Champlain, 
N. Y. He was a prominent journalist and 
politician of Philadelphia; and the au¬ 
thor of Military Dictionary; The Missis¬ 
sippi Question; An Epitome of the Arts 
and Sciences; Visit to Colombia in 1822; 
American Military Library; Handbook 
for Riflemen; and Handbook for Infan¬ 
try. He died Nov. 24, 1835, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

DUANE, WILLIAM, author, was born 
in 1807 in Pennsylvania. He is a Phila¬ 
delphia writer who published Relation of 
Landlord to Tenant in Pennsylvania; Law 
of Roads in Pennsylvania; Canada and 
the Continental Congress; and Ligan, a 
collection of tales and essays. 

DUANE, WILLIAM JOHN, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1780 in Ireland. He was 
an eminent lawyer of Philadelpnia who 
was secretary of the treasury in 1833, and 
was dismissed from office by President 
Jackson for declining to order the deposits 
removed from the bank of the United 
States. He was the author of The Law 
of Nations Investigated; Letters on In¬ 
ternal Improvement; and Narrative and 
Correspondence Concerning the Removal 
of the Deposits, 1838. He died Sept. 27, 
1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DUBBS, JOSEPH HENRY, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born Oct. 5, 1838, in Al¬ 
lentown, Pa. He is a German reformed 
clergyman, and has 
been professor of 
history in Franklin 
and Marshall college, 
Lancaster, Pa., since 
1875. He is the au¬ 
thor of Otterbein 
and the Reformed 
Church; Historic 
Manual of the Re¬ 
formed Church; 
Home Ballads and 
Metrical Versions; 
and Why Am I Re¬ 
formed? He is also the author of a num¬ 
ber of poems. 






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DU BIGNON, FLEMING G^, lawyer, 
state senator, was born July 25, 1853, in 
MUledgeville, Ga. He was county judge 
of Baldwin county, Ga.; state senator and 
chairman of the judiciary committee in 
1882; solicitor-general in 1884; and state 
senator and president of the senate in 
1888. 

DU BOIS, AUGUSTUS JAY, educator, 
author, was born April 25, 1849, in New¬ 
ton Falls, Ohio. He has been a pro¬ 
fessor of engineering at Yale university 
since 1877; and is the author of Ele¬ 
ments of Graphical Statics; The New 
Method of Graphical Statics; Strains in 
Framed Structures; and Mechanics. 

DUBOIS, CHARLES EDWARD, artist, 
was born Oct. 19, 1847, in Hoboken, N. J. 
At the Philadelphia exhibition he exhibit¬ 
ed Willows at East Hampton and The 
Palisades of the Hudson; at the Paris 
exposition of 1878, Morning in Venice, 
View on the Hudson, and Autumn. He 
died March 6, 1885, in Italy. 

DUBOIS, FRED T., congressman. 
United States senator, was born May 29, 
1851, in Crawford county, Ill. He was 
United States marshal of Idaho from 1882 
till 1886, and was elected to the fiftieth 
and fifty-first congresses as a republican 
delegate, being the last delegate from the 
territory. He was elected to the United 
States senate as a republican for term of 
1891-97. 

DU BOIS, HENRY K., physician, was 
born Aug. 31, 1847, in New Berlin, Wis. 
During 1870-76 he was connected with the 
hospitals in New York city; since 1889 he 
has been a member of the board of medi¬ 
cal examiners for Florida; and in 1895 
became president of the Florida State 
Medical association. 

DUBOIS, JOHN, Roman catholic bishop, 
was born Aug. 24, 1764, in Paris, France. 
He was the founder of Mount St. Mary’s 
college of Emmittsburg, Va., and also its 
president. He was appointed bishop of 
New York in 1826, and at his instance the 
sisters of charity from Emmittsburg 
founded the first female academy in the 
city of New York in 1829. He died Dec. 
20, 1842, in New York city. 

DU BOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD BURG- 
HARDT, educator, author, was born in 
1868. He is an educator of African de¬ 
scent, assistant professor of sociology in 
the university of Pennsylvania, and the 
author of The Suppression of the African 
Slave Trade to the United States, 1638- 
1810. 

DU BOIS, WILLIAM EWING, numis¬ 
matist. author, was born Dec. 15, 1810. in 
Doylestown, Pa. He was a Philadelphia 
numismatist, assayer at the mint, and 
the author of Manual of Gold and Silver 
Coins of All Nations; and Pledges of His¬ 
tory, an account of the Antique Coins in 
the United States Mint. He died July 14. 
1881, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DU BOIS, WILLIAM H., legislator, 
banker, financier, was born March 24. 
1835, in Randolph, Vt. In 1875 he organ¬ 
ized the Randolph National bank, and has 
been its president since. In 1876 he was 
a member of the Vermont general assem¬ 
bly from Randolph, and of the senate 
from Orange county in 1892. In 1882 he 
was elected state treasurer, and held the 
office eight years consecutively. 

DTTBOISE, DUDLEY M., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 23, 1834, in Shel¬ 
by county, Tenn. He served as a gen¬ 
eral in the confederate army, and was 
elected a representative from Georgia to 
the forty-second congress. He died March 
2. 1883. 


DU BOSE, MRS. CATHERINE ANNE 
(RICHARDS), author, poet, was born 
Sept. 19, 1826, in England. She is a Geor¬ 
gia writer who published The Pastoi s 
Household, or Lessons on the Eleventh 
Commandment, a juvenile tale. 

DU BOSE, DUDLEY McIVER, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 28, 
1834, in Shelby county, Tenn. At the be¬ 
ginning of the civil war he entered the 
confederate army and rose to the rank of 
brigadier-general. After the war he rep¬ 
resented Georgia in the forty-second con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

DU BOSE, HORACE MELLARD, cler¬ 
gyman, poet, was born Nov. 7, 1858, near 
Mobile, Ala. He has been the chief edi¬ 
tor of the Pacific Methodist Advocate, the 
leading religious newspaper on the Pa¬ 
cific coast. He is the author of a volume 
entitled Rupert Wise, a poetic romance in 
eight cantos; and Psyche, a symbolic 
poem. 

DUBOURG, LOUIS GUILLAUME VAL¬ 
ENTIN, bishop, was born Feb. 14, 1766. 
In 1815 he was appointed the first Roman 
catholic bishop of New Orleans. He died 
Feb. 12, 1833, in France. 

DUBUIS, CLAUDE MARIE. Roman 
catholic bishop, was born in 1817, in 
France. In 1862 he was appointed bishop 
of Galveston, Texas. 

DUCACHET, HENRY WILLIAM, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Feb. 17, 1796, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. He filled the office of rector of 
the Burd Orphan asylum, an institution 
which owes its origin to his exertions. 
He died Dec. 13, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DUCATEL, JULIUS TIMOLEON, chem¬ 
ist, educator, author, was born June 6, 
1796, in Baltimore, Md. He was a chem¬ 
ist of Baltimore, professor in the univer¬ 
sity of Maryland and author of a Manual 
of Toxicology. He died in 1849. 

DUCEY, THOMAS JAMES, clergyman, 
was born Feb. 4, 1843, in Ireland. He 
purchased property, and for three years 
maintained the work to which he had de¬ 
voted himself out of his own resources. 
In 1880 he founded the church of St. Leo 
at a cost of $200,000. 

DU CHAILLU, PAUL BELLONI, au¬ 
thor, was born July 31, 1835, in France. 
He is a noted French traveler who has 
become a naturalized citizen of the United 
States, and is the author of Ivar the Vik¬ 
ing; Explorations and Adventures in 
Equatorial Africa; A Journey to Ashango 
Land; My Apingi Kingdom; Wild Life 
Under the Equator; Lost in the Jungle; 
The Country of the Dwarfs; Land of the 
Midnight Sun; Age of the Vikings; and 
Stories of the Gorilla Country. 

DUCHE, JACOB, clergyman, was born 
in 1737 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an 
episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, and 
the author of several works. He died Jan. 
3, 1798, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DUCHESNE, LEON C.. journalist, 
statesman, was born Feb. 7, 1840, in Cald¬ 
well parish, La. He is now proprietor and 
publisher of The Republican of Natchez. 
Miss.; and publisher of The Baptist Sig¬ 
nal. He was nominated for the fifty-first 
congress by the republicans of the sixth 
Mississippi district. 

DUCHESNE, PHILIPPA ROSE, was 
born in 1769 in France. She was the 
foundress of the first houses of the Society 
of the Sacred Heart in America. She died 
in 1852 in St. Charles, La. 

DUCKETT, ALLEN B., jurist, was born 
in Maryland. In 1806 he was appointed 
judge of the circuit court of the United 
States for the District of Columbia. 


DUDLEY, AUGUSTUS P., physician, 
surgeon, author, was born July 4, 1853, in 
Phippsburg, Maine. In 1887 he was ap¬ 
pointed instructor at the Post-Graduate 
Medical school, and for eighteen years 
was surgeon in the Women’s hospital of 
New York city. He is the author of Sur¬ 
gical Treatment, and other articles. 

DUDLEY, MRS. BLANDINA, philan¬ 
thropist, was born in 1783 in New York. 
In 1856’ she gave seventy-five thousand 
dollars toward the endowment and erec¬ 
tion of Dudley observatory in Albany, in 
memory of her husband. At the time of 
her death she had given more than one 
hundred thousand dollars toward its com¬ 
pletion. She died in January, 1863, in 
Albany, N. Y. 

DUDLEY, CHARLES BENJAMIN, 
chemist, was born July 14, 1842, in Oxford. 
N. Y. In 1874 he became instructor of 
physics in the university of Pennsylvania, 
but resigned at the end of the year. He 
became chemist to the Pennsylvania Rail¬ 
road company. 

DUDLEY, CHARLES EDWARD, mer¬ 
chant, United States senator, was born 
May 23, 1780, in England. He was state 
senator from 1820 to 1825; mayor of Al¬ 
bany, N. Y., from 1821 to 1828, and United 
States senator from 1829 to 1833. He died 
Jan. 23, 1841, in Albany, N. Y. 

DUDLEY, DEAN, lawyer, author, was 
born May 23,1823, in Kingfield, Maine. He 
is a Boston lawyer of antiquarian tastes; 
and the author of Pictures of Life in Eng¬ 
land and America; The Dudley Genealo¬ 
gies; Social and Political Aspects of Eng¬ 
land and the Continent; History of the 
First Council of Nice; Officers of the 
Army and Navy; and History of the Dud¬ 
ley Family. 

DUDLEY, EDWARD B., congressman, 
governor. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from North Carolina, from 1829 u» 
1831; and in 1836 was elected the first gov¬ 
ernor of North Carolina under the amend¬ 
ed constitution of that state. He was sub¬ 
sequently appointed president of >.he Wil¬ 
mington and Raleigh Railroad company. 
He died Oct. 30, 1855, in Wilmington.. 
N. C. 

DUDLEY, JAMES G., lawyer, politician, 
orator, was born April 8, 1848, in Hanni¬ 
bal. Mo. He was educated at the public 
schools at St. Louis, 
Mo. He has attained 
distinction as a pro¬ 
found lawyer and a 
successful advocate; 
and has been counsel 
in the leading civil 
and criminal cases in 
Texas, in. which 
state he has a law 
office in Paris. He 
has filled all the po¬ 
litical offices o f 
honor in the demo¬ 
cratic party of his state; and as a plat¬ 
form speaker and orator has gained a 
national reputation. 

DUDLEY, JOSEPH, colonial governor 
of Massachusetts, was born Sept. 23, 1647. 
in Roxbury, Mass. From 1677 to 1681 he 
was one of the commissioners for the 
united colonies. In 1687 he was appointed 
chief justice of the superior court, and 
was made chief justice of New York in 
1690. From 1702 to 1715 he was captain- 
general and governor-in-chief of Massa¬ 
chusetts Bay. He died April 2, 1720, in 
Roxbury, Mass. 

DUDLEY, PAUL, jurist, was born Sept. 
3, 1675. In 1745 he became chief justice 
of Massachusetts. He represented Rox¬ 
bury for several years in the legislature. 
He died January, 1751, in Roxbury, Mass. 







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DUDLE\, PEMBERTON, educator, phy¬ 
sician, was born Oct. 17, 1837, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is professor of institutes 
of medicine and hygiene in Hahnemann 
college. He was editor of the Hahne- 
mannian Monthly for eight years, and has 
written and published numerous articles 
in the journals- of his school of medicine. 

DUDLEY, SARAH MARIE, artist, busi¬ 
ness woman, was born in 1849, in Carlton. 
Mich. She has attained success as an 
artist; and has a stu¬ 
dio in Detroit, Mich. 
She is also an inven¬ 
tor, but it is as an 
architect, designer 
and builder she has 
won her greatest 
success. She bought 
land in what proved 
to be one of the best 
locations in Detroit, 
and designed and 

built a graceful 
group of residences, 
among which is one of the most palatial 
stone mansions in the city. She took all 
the responsibility of the planning and 
building, and receives a large income from 
the rentals. 

DUDLEY, THOMAS, governor, was 

born in 1576 in England. In 1630 he came 
to Massachusetts with the commission of 
deputy governor, which office he held 
from 1634 till 1640, and again from 1645 
till 1650. He died July 31, 1652, in Rox- 
bury. Mass. 

DUDLEY, THOMAS UNDERWOOD, 

bishop, author, was born Sept. 26, 1837, 
in Richmond, Va. He is the second prot- 
estant episcopal bishop of Kentucky. He 
served in the confederate army as a col¬ 
onel, and afterwards entered the ministry. 
He is the author of A Wise Discrimina¬ 
tion the Church’s Need; and A Sunday- 
School Question Book. 

DUDLEY, WILLIAM HENRY, physi¬ 
cian, was born Oct. 7, 1811, in Ireland. 
In 1851 he was elected curator of the New 
York Medical college, holding the office for 
several years. He died Oct. 9, 1886, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

DUDLEY, WILLIAM LOFLAND, chem¬ 
ist, was born April 16, 1859, in Covington, 
Ky. In 1886 he became professor of chem¬ 
istry in Vanderbilt university, Nashville. 
The electro-metallurgy of iridium has 
been principally developed through his 
work. He has published scientific papers 
in various journals, and wrote the article 
Iridium, in Mineral Resources of the 
l nited States, 1883-84 (Washington). 

DUDLEY, WILLIAM RUSSELL, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born March 1, 1849, in 
Guilford, Conn. He is a professor of bot¬ 
any at Cornell university, who has pub¬ 
lished The Cayuga Flora. 

DUDLEY, WILLIAM WADE, soldier, 
miller, financier, was born Aug. 7, 1842, in 
W eathersfield, Vt. In 1860 he removed to 
Richmond, Ind., and 
engaged i-n the busi¬ 
ness of milling. He 
entered the union 
army in 1861 as cap¬ 
tain, and served with 
gallantry throughout 
the war, rising to the 
rank of colonel and 
brevet brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. In 1879 he was 
appointed United 
States marshal for 
Indiana; and in 1881 
was appointed commissioner of the pen¬ 
sion bureau, at Washington. 


DUELL, ROBERT HOLLAND, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1823, in 
Warren, N. Y. He was district attorney 
for Cortland county in 1850-56; and in 
1856 was elected county judge for said 
county. In 1858 he was elected a rep- 
i esentative from New York to the thirty- 
sixth congress, and was re-elected to the 
thirty-seventh, forty-second and forty- 
third congresses. 

DUER, EDWARD LOUIS, physician, 
author, was born Jan. 19, 1836, in Cross¬ 
wicks, N. J. He is a physician of Phila¬ 
delphia, and the author of Post-Mortem 
Discoveries; and Treatment of Diphtheria. 

DUER, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, author, 
was born Oct. 7, 1782, in Albany, N. Y. 
He was a once prominent New York jurist 
whose specialty was insurance law, and 
was the author of Duer’s Reports; and 
Laws and Practice of Marine Insurance. 
He died Aug. 8, 1858, on Staten Island. 

DUER, WILLIAM, jurist, congressman, 
was born March 18, 1747, in England. He 
was appointed colonel of militia; and 
judge of the county courts. He was a 
member of the provincial congress, and of 
the committee of safety; and also a mem¬ 
ber of the committee to draft the state 
constitution in the convention of 1777. He 
was a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1777 to 1778; secretary of the treas¬ 
ury board until the organization of the 
department in 1789; a member of the state 
legislature, and assistant secretary of the 
treasury under Hamilton, until 1790. He 
died May 7, 1799, in New York city. 

DUER, WILLIAM, lawyer, congressman, 
was born May 25, 1805, in New York city. 
He served in the legislature of New York 
on two occasions; was district attorney 
for Oswego county, and was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from New York from 
1847 to 1851. 

DUER. WILLIAM ALEXANDER, jur¬ 
ist, college president, author, was born 
Sept. 8, 1780, in Rhinebeck, N. Y. He was 
president of Columbia college in 1829-42; 
and the author of Constitutional Juris¬ 
prudence of the United States. He died 
May 30, 1858, in New York. 

DUFF, PETER, educator, author, was 
born Feb. 16, 1802, in Canada. He was an 
educator of Pittsburg, where he founded 
Duff’s Mercantile college, one of the earli¬ 
est institutions of the kind. The North 
American Accountant was his only publi¬ 
cation of note. He died Sept. 13, 1869, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. 

DUFFEL, MARY GORDON, author, was 
born in 1840 in Alabama. She is a resi¬ 
dent of Alabama, and has published A 
History of Alabama; and Guide to the 
Mammoth Cave. 

DUFFIELD, DIVIE BETHUNE, lawyer, 
poet, was born Aug. 29, 1821, in Carlisle. 
Pa. He has been a member of the board 
of education of Detroit for thirteen years, 
and is active in all educational interests 
throughout the state. 

DUFFIELD. GEORGE, jurist. He was 
appointed in 1805 United States judge for 
the territory of Orleans. 

DUFFIELD, GEORGE, clergyman, was 
born Oct. 7, 1732, in Lancaster county, Pa. 
His only published works are An Account 
of a Missionary Tour Through Western 
Pennsylvania in 1766, by order of the 
synod; and a Thanksgiving Sermon on 
Peace. He died Feb. 2, 1790, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

DUFFIELD, GEORGE, clergyman, was 
born July 4, 1794, in Strasburg, Pa. In 
1838 he became pastor of the First Pres¬ 
byterian church of Detroit, which he re¬ 
tained until his death. In 1844-52 he was 
regent for the Michigan State university. 

A full review of his life would embrace a 


large share of the history of the Presbyte¬ 
rian church for thirty years. He died 
June 26, 1868, in Detroit, Mich. 

Dl FFIELD, GEORGE, clergyman, poet, 
was born Sept. 12, 1816, in Carlisle, Pa. 
He held important pastorates in Brook¬ 
lyn, Philadelphia, and in Michigan, where 
he resided after 1861. He died June 6, 
1888, in Bloomfield, N. J. 

DLI FIELD, HENRY MARTIN, soldier, 
lawyer, orator, was born May 15, 1842, in 
Detroit, Mich. He was assistant provost- 
marshal-general of the army of the Cum¬ 
berland on General Thomas’s staff. He 
has been corporation counsel for Detroit 
since 1876, and is also president of the 
state military board of Michigan. 

DUFFIELD, JOHN THOMAS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 19, 1823, in 
McConnellsburg, Pa. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman who was professor of mathe¬ 
matics in Princeton college for many 
years, and published The Princeton Pul¬ 
pit and many religious monographs. 

DUFFIELD, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS 
WILLOUGHBY, clergyman, author, was 
born in 1843, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was 
a presbyterian clergyman of Bloomfield, 
N. J., and the author of English Hymns, 
their Authors and History; Latin Hymn- 
Writers and their Hymns; and Warp and 
Woof, a Book of Verse. He died May 12, 
1887, in Bloomfield, N. J. 

DUFFIELD, WILLIAM WARD, soldier, 
civil engineer, author, was born Nov. 19, 
1823, in Carlisle, Pa. He is an engineer 
of Kentucky who was a brigadier-general 
in the federal army during the civil war. 
and is the author of School of the Brigade 
and Evolutions of the Line. 

DUGANNE, AUGUSTINE JOSEPH 
HICKEY, journalist, author, poet, was 
born in 1823 in Boston, Mass. He was a 
journalist of New York city chiefly known 
as a poet. During the civil war he served 
in the federal army, and was for some 
time a captive in southern prisons. 
Among his writings are Prison Life in the 
South; Camps and Prisons; History of 
Governments; The Lydian Queen, a tra¬ 
gedy; Home Poems; and Parnassus in 
Pillory, a satire. He died Oct. 20, 1884, 
in New York. 

DUGDALE, RICHARD L., sociologist, 
author, was born in 1841 in France. He 
was a writer on sociology, and the au¬ 
thor of The Jukes, or Heredity in Crime; 
and Further Studies of Criminals. He 
died July 23, 1883, in New York city. 

DUGGAN, JAMES, Roman catholic bish¬ 
op, was born in 1825 in Ireland. He was 
consecrated coadjutor archbishop in 1857, 
with the title of Bishop of Antigone, and 
was afterward nominated bishop of Chi¬ 
cago. 

DUGRO, PHILIP HENRY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Oct. 2, 1855, in 
New York city. In 1878 he was elected to 
the New York assembly from the four¬ 
teenth district as a democrat, and de¬ 
clined a renomination. In 1886 he was 
elected judge of the superior court. He is 
the owner of the Hotel Savoy on the Plaza 
at the entrance to Central park. 

DUHAMEL, WILLIAM, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1827 in Maryland. He 
served as chief physician for ten years 
to the United States prisons in the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia. He wrote a treatise on 
the National Hotel Disease. He died Aug. 
15, 1883, in Washington, D. C. 

DUHRING, JULIA, essayist, author, was 
born Feb. 23, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa 
She is an essayist who has published Phil 
osophers and Fools; Gentlefolks and Oth¬ 
ers; Amor in Society; and Mental Life 
and Culture. 




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DUHRING, LOUIS ADOLPHUS, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Dec. 23, 1845, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a physician of 
Philadelphia, prominent as a dermatol¬ 
ogist, and the author of Atlas of Skin Dis¬ 
eases; Practical Treatise on Diseases of 
the Skin; Epitome of Skin Diseases; and 
Cutaneous Medicine. 

DUKE, RICHARD T. W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 6, 1822, in Albe¬ 
marle county, Va. He was elected attor¬ 
ney for the county of Albemarle in 1858, 
and continued in that office until 1869. 
He was elected to the forty-first congress 
to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to 
the forty-second congress. 

DUKE, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 15, 1757, in Patapsco, Md. 
He was an episcopal clergyman and edu¬ 
cator of Maryland who published A Clew 
to Religious Truth. He died in 1840 in 
Elkton, Md. 

DULANEY, WOODFORD HECTOR, 
capitalist, railroad president, was born 
May 16, 16*2, in Loudon county, Va. He 
was several times elected to the general 
council of the city of Louisville, and has 
been president of the Elizabethtown and 
Paducah railroad; the Cumberland and 
Ohio railroad; the Kentucky National 
bank; and is now serving his twentieth 
year as director of the Bank of Kentucky. 

DU L ANY, DANIEL, statesman, au¬ 
thor, was born in July, 1721, in Maryland. 
He was a noted Maryland statesman, and 
the author of Considerations on the Pro¬ 
priety of Imposing Taxes on the British 
Colonies. He died March 19, 1797, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. 

DULLES, CHARLES WINSLOW, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born in 1850 in the East 
Indies. He is a surgeon of Philadelphia, 
and the author of What to Do First in 
Accidents or Poisoning; What to Do First 
in Accidents and Emergencies; and Acci¬ 
dents and Emergencies. 

DULLES, JOHN WELSH, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 4, 182<s, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman of Philadelphia, at one time a mis¬ 
sionary to India, and the author of The 
Soldier’s Friend; Life in India; and The 
Ride Through Palestine. He died April 
13, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DUMMER, JEREMIAH, author, was 
born in 1680 in Boston, Mass, ne was a 
noted scholar who was colonial agent for 
Massachusetts in London in 1710-21, and 
was a political friend of Bolingbroke. He 
was the author of A Letter to a Noble 
Lord Concerning the Late Expedition to 
Canada; and A Defence of the New Eng¬ 
land Charters. He died May 19, 1739. 

DUMMER. WILLIaM, governor, was 
born in 1677 in Boston, Mass. In 1716 he 
was commissioned lieutenant-governor of 
Massachusetts; and during 1723-28 acted 
as governor and commander-in-chief. He 
conducted the war against the Indians 
with skill. He died Oct. 10, 1761, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

DUMONT, EBENEZER, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 23, 1814, in 
Vevay, Ind. He was a member of the 
state legislature in 1838; and from 1839 to 
1845 was treasurer of his county. He 
served in the war with Mexico as a lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel, and was in several hat- 
ties. He was a presidential elector in 
1852, and in 1850 and 1853 was again 
elected to the legislature. He was presi¬ 
dent for nine years of the State Bank of 
Indiana. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Indiana to the thirty-eighth and 
thirty-ninth congresses. He died April 16, 
1871, in Indianapolis, Ind. 

DUMONT, MRS. JULIA LOUISA, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in October, 1794, 
in Waterford, Ohio. She was a noted ed¬ 
ucator of Vevay. Ind., and the auinor of 


Life Sketches from Common Paths. She 
died in 1857. 

DUN, ROBERT GRAHAM, merchant, 
founder, was born in 1826 in Chillicothe, 
Ohio. An existence of over half a century 
has enabled the Mercantile Agency of R. 
G. Dun and Co. to acquire an experience 
and accumulate an amount of capital, 
which enable it to fulfill to the satisfac¬ 
tion of the mercantile community the im¬ 
portant duties which it is called on to 
discharge. 

DUNBAR, CHARLES FRANKLIN, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born in 1830 in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He was professor of political 
economy at Harvard university from 
1871, and the author of Chapters on the 
Theory and History of Banking. 

DUNBAR, GEORGE TOWERS, civil 
engineer, ichthyologist, was born Feb. 11, 
1812, in Baltimore, Md. He was one of 
the surveyors of the Baltimore and Ohio 
railroad, Portsmouth and Welden railroad, 
and the New Orleans and Nashville rail¬ 
road. In 1842 was appointed engineer of 
the state of Louisiana, and in 1848 dep¬ 
uty surveyor-general of that state. His 
great love of natural history led him to 
make a large collection of insects, birds 
and plants of the United States. He gave 
the classical names to the streets in the 
upper portion of New Orleans, and Dun¬ 
bar, a town in Pennsylvania, was named 
after him. 

DUNBAR, JAMES HARVEY, lawyer, 
politician, was born Feb. 15, 1868, in 
Nicholas county, W. Va. In 1894 he was 
admitted to the bar, and in 1897 was 
elected mayor of Montgomery, W. Va. He 
is prominent in the business affairs of 
his city, and takes an active part in the 
public affairs of his county and state. 

DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE, poet, 
was born in 1872 in Ohio. He is a poet of 
Dayton, Ohio, of African descent, and the 
author of Lyrics of Lowly Life. 

DUNBAR, R. O., lawyer, jurist, was 
born April 26, 1845, in Schuyler county, 
Ill. He has been city attorney of Golden- 
dale, Wash., for several terms and pros¬ 
ecuting attorney for his district. In 1885 
he was speaker of the territorial house, 
and in 1889 was elected supreme judge. In 

1893 he was chosen chief justice, and in 

1894 was again re-elected to the supreme 
bench for a six-year term. 

DUNBAR, RICHARD S., farmer, poet, 
was born March 4, 1857, in Canada. He 
has lived in Wisconsin, Missouri, Colo¬ 
rado, and is now en¬ 
gaged in farming in 
Farlington, Kan. He 
is a member of the 
Farmers’ Alliance, 
and has been promi¬ 
nently identified with 
the populist party. 
He has contributed 
both prose and verse 
to the periodical 
press; is special cor¬ 
respondent for the 
Inter-State Press as¬ 
sociation, and is the author of several 
stories, sketches, and works of fiction. 

DUNBAR, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Louisiana from 1853 to 1855. 

DUNBAR, WILLIAM S„ soldier, physi¬ 
cian, legislator, was born Nov. 18, 1823, 
in Fincastle, Va. He served as captain of 
company H, eighth regiment West Vir¬ 
ginia infantry, in the union army. In 
1863 he was a member of the house of del¬ 
egates of West Virginia, and in 1864-65 
was a member of the state senate. He 
made a great stand against secession; and 
took a company of forty well-armed men 
outside of the rebel line, held elections 


and elected delegates to the constitutional 
convention, and helped to divide the state 
of Virginia, and formed the state of West 
Virginia. He has been successful as a 
physician, and now resides in Clear Creek, 
W. Va. 

ulNCAN, ALEXANDER, congressman. 
He was a member of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives in congress from Ohio, from 
1837 to 1841, and from 1843 to 1845. He 
died March 2, 1852, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

DUNCAN, CHARLES, jurist. He was 
appointed an associate justice of the Unit¬ 
ed States court for the territory of Wis¬ 
consin. 

DUNCAN, DANIEL, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 22, 1806, in Ship- 
pensburg, Pa. In 1843 he was elected to 
the legislature of Ohio from Licking coun¬ 
ty; and was a representative in congress 
from 1847 to 1849. He died June 18, 1849, 
in Washington, D. C. 

DUNCAN, FRANCIS MARION, educa¬ 
tor, college president, legislator, was born 
Dec. 23, 1839, in Copp county, Ga. During 
1873-76 he was a representative in the 
general assembly of Georgia, and during 
1877-80 was a member of the state senate. 
Since 1873 he has been president of the 
Hamilton college of Bremen, Ga. 

DUNCAN, GARNETT, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Kentucky. He was a 
representative in congress from Kentucky 
from 1847 to 1849. He died May 25, 1875, 
in Louisville. 

DUNCAN, JAMES, soldier, was born 
Sept. 10, 1810, in Cornwall, N. Y. He be¬ 
came first lieutenant in 1836 and there¬ 
after served on frontier and garrison duty 
till 1845. In 1846 he was made captain. 
He died July 3, 1849, in Mobile, Ala. 

DUNCAN, JAMES ARMSTRONG, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born April 
14, 1830, in Norfolk, Va. From 1868 until 
his death he was president of Randolph- 
Macon college. For many years he was 
editor of The Richmond Christian Advo¬ 
cate. He died Sept. 23, 1877, in Ashland. 
Va. 

DUNCAN, JAMES H., lawyer, clergy¬ 
man, congressman, was born Dec. 5, 1793, 
in Haverhill, Mass. He served four years 
in the state legislature, was a state sen¬ 
ator from 1828 to 1831, and state councilor 
in 1840 and 1841. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1849 to 1853. He 
subsequently became a baptist minister, 
and was a trustee of the Newton Theo¬ 
logical seminary. He died Feb. 8, 1869, in 
Haverhill, Mass. 

DUNCAN, JOHNSON KELLY, soldier, 
was born March 19, 1827, in York, Pa. In 
1849 he graduated from West Point, and 
subsequently was in the confederate serv¬ 
ice as brigadier-general. He died in Jan¬ 
uary, 1863, in Knoxville, Tenn. 

DUNCAN, JOSEPH, soldier, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born Feb. 22, 1789, in 
Paris, Ky. He was an ensign at the bril¬ 
liant defense of Fort Stephenson under 
Colonel Croghan, for which he received 
from congress the testimonial of a sword, 
Feb. 13, 1835. He settled in Illinois, and 
was soon elected major-general of militia. 
He was state senator, and in the session of 
1824-25 originated the law which first 
established common schools in the state. 
He was a representative in congress from 
1827 to 1835, and was governor of Illinois 
from 1834 to 1838. He died Jan. 15, 1844, 
in Jacksonville, Fla. 

DUNCAN, MAY C., musician, artist, 
poet, was born Nov. 24, 1860, in Calaveras 
county, Cal. She graduated from the state 
university of California, and subsequently 
married Dr. M. P. Duncan. Her poems 
have been widely published in the papers 
of California, and many of them have been 
given a place in standard works. 






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DUNCAN, SHELBY PATTERSON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born March 2, 1856, in 
Fayette county, Ky. In 1874 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, and has served as city 
attorney of Fairview, Ill. For many years 
he taught school; in 1884 moved to Kan¬ 
sas, and since 1888 has practiced his pro¬ 
fession at Coldwater. He has been police 
judge of his city; four years United States 
circuit court commissioner for district of 
Kansas; and judge of probate of his coun¬ 
ty. He has also served two years as pros¬ 
ecuting attorney, and filled various other 
positions in his county and state. 

DUNCAN, THOMAS E., lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, was born Nov. 21, 1837, in 
Holmes county, Ohio. He is an eminent 
lawyer and jurist of Mt. «ilead, Ohio; 
has been representative in the general as¬ 
sembly of Ohio, and judge of the court of 
common pleas. 

DUNCAN, WILLIAM A., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman. was born Feb. 2, 1836, in Adams 
county, Pa. He was elected district at¬ 
torney in 1862, and again in 1868, and was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the forty-eighth congress. 

DUNCAN, WILLIAM CECIL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 24, 1824, in 
New York city. He was a baptist clergy¬ 
man of New Orleans, and the author of 
Life of John the Baptise; History of the 
Baptists for the First Two Centuries of 
the Christian Era; The Years of Jesus; 
and Brief History of the Baptists. He 
died May 1, 1864, in New Orleans, La. 

DUNCAN, WILLIAM STEVENS, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born May 24, 1834, in 
Brownsville, Pa. He is a physician of 
Brownsville, Pa., and the author of Medi¬ 
cal Delusions; and Physiology of Death. 

DUNCAN, WILLIAM WALLACE, edu¬ 
cator, bishop, was born Dec. 20, 1839, in 
Boydton, Va. He is an eminent clergy¬ 
man; was a member of the Virginia con¬ 
ference, and has been a college professor 
and bishop in the methodist episcopal 
church south at Spartanburg, S. C. 

DUNCANSON, HENRY BRUCE, biol¬ 
ogist, author, was born Feb. 4, 1860, in 
Scotland county. Mo. He has been pro¬ 
fessor of biology in the Nebraska State 
Normal school for several years, and is 
the author of Suggestive Lessons in Ele¬ 
mentary Zoology. 

DUNCOMBE, JOHN FRANCIS, lawyer, 
legislator, lecturer, was born Oct. 22, 1831, 
He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Alle¬ 
ghany college, Penn¬ 
sylvania, from which 
institution he re¬ 
ceived the degrees of 
A. B. and A. M.; re¬ 
ceived the degree of 
A. M. from the Cen¬ 
ter college, Ky.; and 
the degree of LL. D. 
from Griswold col¬ 
lege, Iowa. He has 
served as a repre¬ 
sentative and sena¬ 
tor in the Iowa legislature for seven terms, 
general and special sessions. For eight¬ 
een years he was regent of the Iowa State 
university, and tor twelve years lectured 
on Law of Railroads in that institution. 
For twenty-four years he was curator of 
the State Historical society of Iowa. Dur¬ 
ing the Spirit Lake Indian war he served 
as captain of company B. He has been 
general attorney of the Mason City and 
Fort Dodge Railroad company, and was 
the organizer of that company, and for 
thirty years he has been district attorney 
of the Central Railroad company, which 
position he still holds. 


DUN DAS, JAMES, banker, was born in 
1<88 in Alexandria, Va. He early settled 
m Philadelphia, where he became a bank¬ 
er, and was president of the Pennsylvania 
bank. He died July 4, 1865, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

DUNDAS, JOHN H., journalist, state 
senator, was born in 1845, in Aurora, Ill. 
He is the editor and owner of The Granger 
of Auburn, Neb., which he founded in 
1884. In 1896 he was elected a member of 
the Nebraska state senate. 

DUNDY, ELMER S., lawyer, jurist, was 
born March 5, 1830, in Trumbull county, 
Ohio. He was elected a member of the 
upper house of the territorial legislature 
of Nebraska, in which capacity he served 
four years. In 1863 he was appointed an 
associate justice of the supreme court of 
Nebraska territory; held the office until 
the territory became a state, in 1867, and 
in 1868 was appointed United States dis¬ 
trict judge for rhe district of Nebraska. 

DUNGAN, IRVINE, soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in Canons- 
burg, Pa. He was elected mayor of Jack- 
son in 1869; was elected state senator 
from the seventh senatorial district in 
1877; and was the author of the first law 
in Ohio against the truck system. He 
was elected to the fifty-second congress as 
a democrat. 

DUNGLISON, RICHARD JAMES, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Nov. 13, 1834, in 
Baltimore, Md. He is a physician of Phil¬ 
adelphia who has issued Practitioner’s 
Reference Book; and Elementary Physi¬ 
ology. 

DUNGLISON, ROBLEY, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 4, 1798, in England. 
He was an eminent Philadelphia physi¬ 
cian, professor in Jefferson Medical col¬ 
lege from 1836, and one of the most learn¬ 
ed men of his profession. His most im¬ 
portant work is his Medical Dictionary, 
which has a very wide reputation, v^uer 
works are, Human Physiology; Elements 
of Hygiene; General Therapeutics; The 
Medical Student; The Practice of Medi¬ 
cine; and Commentaries on Diseases of 
the Stomach and Bowels in Children. He 
died April 1, 1869, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DUNHAM, CARROLL, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 29, 1828, in New York 
city. He was a once prominent homeopa¬ 
thic physician of New York, and the au¬ 
thor of Homoeopathy the Science of Ther¬ 
apeutics; and Lectures in Materia Medica. 
He died Feb. 18, 1877, in Irvington-on- 
Hudson, N. Y. 

DUNHAM, CYRUS L., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in New York. He' was 
elected to the legislature of Indiana in 
1846 and 1847; was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1849 to 1855, 
and served again in the legislature at a 
subsequent period. 

DUNHAM, EMMA B. S., poet, was born 
in 1826, in Auburn, Maine. She has com¬ 
posed a number of cantatas, and is the 
author of a work entitled The Home 
Opera Margaret. 

DUNHAM, HARRISON M., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born April 25, 1857, in Highland, 
Mich. He was judge of his county court 
for eight years; judge of police court, of 
Cadillac, Mich., for three terms; and jus¬ 
tice of the peace for thirteen years. 

DUNHAM, JOHN, pioneer, clergyman, 
was born Aug. 7, 1827, in Chesterfield, N. 
H. In 1852 he was ordained a clergyman 
and spent fifteen years in pioneer work in 
Indiana along the Wabash river and its 
branches. He next preached to the Miami 
Indians, which resulted in the formation 
of a mission school and several baptist 
churches. He has attained prominence as 
a gospel singer, and now resides in Cass 
City, Mich. 


DUNHAM, LEWIS B., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Oct. 6, 1806, in Mansfield, 
Conn. He served as a member of the 
Pennsylvania state legislature. He sub¬ 
sequently moved to Iowa, where he served 
in the legislature of that state, and died 
Jan. 1, 1892, in Maquoketa. 

DUNHAM, RANSOM W., merchant, 
congressman, was born March 21, 1838, in 
Savoy, Mass. He was president of the 
Chicago board of trade in 1882, and was 
elected a representative from Illinois to 
the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth 
congresses as a republican. 

DUNHAM, WARREN JEROME, clergy¬ 
man, was born July 25, 1872, in Ripley, 
Ohio. He graduated from the Ohio Wes¬ 
leyan university of Delaware; has at¬ 
tained distinction as a successful clergy¬ 
man of the methodist church, and now fills 
a pastorate at Cleves, Ohio. 

DUNHAM, WILLIAM RUSSELL, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Dec. 15, 1833, in 
Chesterfield, N. H. He is a physician of 
Keene, N. H., who has published Theory 
of Medical Science. 

DUNIWAY, ABIGAIL SCOTT, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Oct. 22, 1834, in 
Groveland, Ill. She is the editor of The 
Pacific Empire, a 
weekly journal de¬ 
voted to the inter¬ 
ests of women, and 
for nearly twenty 
years was editor and 
owner of The New 
Northwest. She is 
the state president 
of the Oregon State 
Equal Suffrage asso¬ 
ciation, vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Oregon 
Woman’s National 
Press association, and of various other re¬ 
form clubs and associations. She is the 
author of Captain Gray’s Company, a pio¬ 
neer novel; David and Anna Watson, and 
Other Poems; and numerous serial sto¬ 
ries, sketches and poems, which have ap¬ 
peared in her own publications and in the 
leading newspapers and magazines in 
America. 

DUNKLIN, DANIEL, governor, was 
born in 1790. He was governor of Mis¬ 
souri from 1832 to 1836. He died Aug. 25. 
1844, in Jefferson county, Miss. 

DUNLAP, ALEXANDER, physician, 
was born Jan. 12, 1815, in Brown county, 
Ohio. He was one of the first surgeons in 
the country to perform the difficult oper¬ 
ation of ovariotomy. 

DUNLAP, ANDREW, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1794 in Salem, Mass. He was 
United States district attorney for Mas¬ 
sachusetts from 1829 till just before his 
death. He published Admiralty Practice 
in Civil Cases of Maritime Jurisdiction, 
which was pronounced by competent 
judges to be learned, accurate, and well 
digested. He died in 1835 in Boston, Mass. 

DUNLAP, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 22, 
1813, in Fayette county, Ky. He was a 
member of the Kentucky legislature, also 
of the border state convention, held in 
1861. He was elected a representative 
from Kentucky to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. In 1864 he was a presidential elec¬ 
tor. He died June 6, 1880, in Lancaster 
Ky. 

DUNLAP, HENRY M., farmer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Nov. 14, 1853, in Leyden, 
Ill. For two years he was president of 
the State Horticultural society, and secre¬ 
tary of that body during the world's fair. 
He has served as a state senator in the 
Illinois legislature from the thirtieth dis¬ 
trict. 


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DUNLAP, JOHN. printt., was born in 
1747 in Ireland. He was appointed printer 
to congress, and first printed the Declara¬ 
tion of Independence. He died Nov. 27, 
1812, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DUNLAP, JOHN A., jurist, author, was 
born about 1793. He was a justice of the 
peace in New York city, and the author of 
Practice of the Superior Court of New 
York in Civil Actions; and Abridgment 
of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Books 
of Coke’s Reports. He died in 1858. 

DUNLAP, ROBERT, hatter, was born 
Oct. 17, 1834, in New York city. His firm 
of R Dunlap and Co. of New York city, 
of which he is sole partner, is now the 
leading hatters of New York city. 

DUNLAP, ROBERT PINCKNEY, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, govern¬ 
or was born Aug. 15, 1796. in Brunswick, 
Maine. He was a 
member of the state 
legislature; in 1823 
was elected a state 
senator, serving nine 
years, and presided 
over that body four 
years. In 1833 he 
was a member of the. 
executive council of 
Maine; in 1834 was 
elected governor of 
Maine, and served 
four years; and was 
a representative in congress from 1843 to 
1847. During the years 1848 and 1849 he 
was collector of customs at Portland, and 
from 1853 to 1857 postmaster of Bruns¬ 
wick. He died Oct. 20, 1859, in Brunswick. 
Maine. 



DUNLAP, SAMUEL FALES, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1825 in Boston, Mass. 
He is a lawyer of Boston, and the author 
of Origin of Ancient Names; and Vesti¬ 
ges of the Spirit History of Man. 

DUNLAP, WILLIAM, dramatist, artist, 
author, was born in 1766 in Perth Amboy, 
N. J. He was a prominent artist, dra¬ 
matist, and theatrical manager of New 
York city. He is the author of Life of 
George Frederick Cooke; Life of Charles 
Brockden Brown; The American Theater; 
History of New York; History, Rise, and 
Progress of the Arts of Design in the 
United States; Thirty Years Ago, a novel; 
New Netherlands, Province of New York; 
The Father, a comedy; and Leicester, a 
tragedy. He died Sept. 28, 1839, in New 
York city. 


DUNLAP, WILLIAM C., congressman, 
was born in Tennessee. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1833 to 1837. 

DUNLAP, WILLIAM FREDERICK, 
journalist, was born Dec. 28, 1859, in Ovid, 
N. Y. He is the editor and owner of The 
Times-Record of Valley City, N. D. 


DUNLOP, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, was 
born March 28, 1793, in Georgetown, D. C. 
In 1838 he was appointed judge of the 
United States circuit court, was made as¬ 
sistant judge in 1845, and chief justice in 
1856, which position he occupied until 
1863, when the court was abolished. He 
died May 6, 1872, in Georgetown, D. C. 


DUNLOP, JAMES, lawyer, author, was 
born in 1795 in Pennsylvania. He was a 
Pittsburg lawyer, prominent as an op¬ 
ponent of slavery, and the author of Laws 
of Pennsylvania, 1700-1853, and Digest of 
the General Laws of the United States. 
He died April 9, 1856, in Baltimore, Md. 

DUNN, CHARLES, jurist. He was an 
early emigrant to Wisconsin, residing at 
Elk Grove, and was appointed one of the 
judges of the United States for that ter¬ 
ritory. 


DUNN, ELIAS BOUND, meteorologist, 
was born March 23, 1855, in Brooklyn N. 
Y In 1883 he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, 
as chief weather observer; and in 1884 
was made chief of the weather bureau un¬ 
der the United States department of agri¬ 
culture in New York city. 

DUNN, GEORGE G., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, orator, was born in 1813. He was 
a representative in congress from Indiana 

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1857. 

DUNN GEORGE H., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from In¬ 
diana from 1837 to 1839. 

DUNN, JACOB PIATT, state librarian, 
author He is the state librarian of Indi¬ 
ana, and the author of History of Indiana; 
and Massacres of the Mountains, a His¬ 
tory of Indian Wars in the Far YV est. 

DUNN, JAMES H., physician, surgeon, 
was born May 29, 1853, in Fort Wayne, 
Ind After graduating in 1871 from the 
medical department 
of the university of 
New York city, he 
took a two years’ 
post-graduate study 
at Heidelberg and 
Vienna. He has been 
professor of clinical 
surgery in the medi¬ 
cal department of 
the university of 
Minnesota; surgeon 
to St. Mary’s hospi¬ 
tal of Minneapolis; 
to the city hospital; the Asbury Methodist 
hospital, and consulting surgeon to the 
Great Northern Railroad company. He is 
an ex-president of the Minnesota State 
Medical association; and has filled many 
positions of honor in various other medi¬ 
cal bodies. 

DUNN, JOHN F., banker, state senator, 
was born in 1844 in South Carolina. In 
1887 he was president of the Merchant’s 
National bank of Ocala, Fla.; became 
president of the Heather Island Orange 
company, and has served in the Florida 
state senate. 

DUNN, JOHN V., lawyer, congressman, 
was born in 1838. He was elected aider- 
man of Elizabeth, N. J., in 1878, and was 
four times elected to the legislature of 
New Jersey; was speaker of the house in 
1882; and was elected to the fifty-third 
congress as a democrat. 



DUNN, LEWIS ROMAINE, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1822 in New Jersey. 
He was a methodist divine of New Jersey, 
and the author of Lizzie Hagar, the Or¬ 
phan Girl; The Mission of the Spirit; 
Angels of God; and Sermons on the High¬ 
er Life. He died in 1876. 


DUNN, POINDEXTER, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 3, 1834, in 
Wake county, N. C. He was a represent¬ 
ative in the state legislature in 1858; 
served in the confederate army, and com¬ 
menced the practice of law in 1867. He 
was a presidential elector in 1872 and 1876. 
and was elected a representative from Ar¬ 
kansas to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

DUNN, WILLIAM McKEE, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Dec. 12, 1814, 
in Hanover, Ind. He was elected to the 
Indiana legislature in 1848, and was a 
member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention in 1850. In 1858 he was elected a 
representative from Indiana to the thirty- 
sixth congress, and was re-elected to the 
thirty-seventh congress. He became as¬ 
sistant judge advocate in the army; was 
also a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyal¬ 
ists’ convention of 1866, and in 1875 was 
appointed judge advocate-general. 


DUNNE, EDMUND FRANCIS, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, was born in 1835 in 
Little Falls, N. Y. He removed to Ne¬ 
vada in 1863; was a delegate to the con¬ 
stitutional convention of that state, and 
was elected a district judge- ^ 1 ^ T 74 .. h ® 
was appointed chief justice of the United 
States court for Arizona. 

DUNNELL, MARK HILL, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, state senator, congressman, was 
norn July 2, 1823, in Buxton, Maine. In 
1854 he was elected to the state legisla¬ 
ture, and in 1855 to the state senate. Dur¬ 
ing the years 1855-59 he was state super¬ 
intendent of common schools, and in 1856 
was a delegate to the national convention 
at Philadelphia. In 1861 he entered the 
union armv as colonel of infantry. In 
1862 he was United States consul at Vera 
Cruz, Mexico. In 1865 he went to Minne¬ 
sota; was a member of the legislature 
of that state in 1867; was state superin¬ 
tendent of public instruction from 1867 to 
1870- and was elected to the forty-second, 
forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty- 




republican. 

DUNNING, ALBERT ELIJAH, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born in 1844 
in Connecticut. He is a congregational 
clergyman of Boston, editor of the Con¬ 
gregationalism and the author of The 
Sunday-School Library; Bible Studies; 
and Congregationalists in America. 

DUNNING, MRS. ANNIE KETCHUM, 
author, was born Nov. 2, 1831, in New 
York city. She is a prolific writer of Sun- 
dav-school tales, mainly for the presbyte- 
rian board of publication. Among them 
are Clementina’s Mirror; A Story of Four 
Lives; Broken Pitchers; and Contradic¬ 


tions. 

DUNNING, FRANCES, author, poet, 
was born Oct. 13, 1841, in Kenosha, Wis. 
She is the author of a volume of poems 
which was published in 1877. She is also 
a prose writer of Madison, Wis., and her 
contributions for the past ten years have 
made her name well known in the literary 
world. 


DUNNING, HOMER N„ clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born July 17, 1827, in 
Brookfield. Conn. For thirteen years he 
was pastor of the First Congregational 
church of Gloversville, N. Y., and from 
1866-83 was pastor of his church at South 
Norwalk, Conn. His poems have appeared 
in the secular and religious press, and in 
several standard works, such as Edwards' 
Fifth Reader, and Foster’s Cyclopedia. 

DUNNING, KATE W., educator, poet, 
was born March 31, 1871, in Chicago, Ill. 
In 1878 she moved with her parents to 
Nebraska, where she is now engaged in 
educational work at Anselmo. She is the 
author of a number of meritorious poems. 

DUNNING, PARIS C., governor. He was 
governor of Indiana in 1848 and 1849 to 
fill a vacancy. 

DUNNINGTON, FRANCIS PERRY, 
educator, chemist, author, was born 
March 3, 1851, in Baltimore, Md. He 
is the author of numerous chemical 
investigations, accounts of which have ap¬ 
peared in the Chemical News, American 
Chemical Journal, the transactions of var¬ 
ious societies and elsewhere. 

DUNPHY, EDWARD J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 12, 1856, in New 
York city. He was elected to the fifty- 
first, fifty-second and fifty-third con¬ 
gresses as a Tammany democrat. 

DITNROY. W. REED, journalist, poet, 
was born Oct. 1, 1869, in Galesburg, Ill. 
He began his literary work as reporter on 
a daily newspaper, and has contributed 
numerous meritorious poems to current 
literature. 


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DUNSTER, EDWARD SWIFT, physi¬ 
cian, was born Sept. 2, 1834, in Springvale, 
Maine. He was professor of obstet¬ 
rics and the diseases of women and 
children in the university of Vermont in 
1868-71. He subsequently held the same 
chair in Long Island Medical college, in 
the medical department of Dartmouth col¬ 
lege, and after 1873 in the university of 
Michigan. He died May 3, 1888, in Ann 
Arbor, Mich. 

DUNSTER, HENRY, college president, 
author, was born in 1612, in England. 
From 1640-54 he was president of Harvard 
college, serving as its first president. He 
is the author of Advantages of Schools; 
and A Faithful Ministry.. 

DUNTON, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
railroad promoter, was born June 9, 1851. 
in Northville, N. H. He enjoys the dis¬ 
tinction of being at the head of the first 
and only bicycle electric railroad yet built, 
a section of which has recently been com¬ 
pleted near Patchogue, N. Y. 

DUNTON, JOHN, author, was born May 
14, 1659, in England. In 1705 appeared the 
Life and Errors of John Dunton, by him¬ 
self, in which are to be found the lives and 
characters of more than one thousand 
contemporary characters of literary emi¬ 
nence, and a description of many of the 
ministers, booksellers and other citizens 
of Boston and Salem. He died in 1733 in 
New England. 

DUNTON, LARKIN, educator, was born 
July 22, 1828, in Concord, Maine. He at¬ 
tended the town schools, Hallowell acad¬ 
emy, and the Colby 
university. For two 
years he was princi¬ 
pal of the Newcastle 
academy; for seven 
years principal of 
the Bath High 
school, Maine; for 
four years master of 
the Lawrence school 
of Boston, Mass.; 
and for the past 
quarter of a century 
has been head mas¬ 
ter of the Boston Normal school; and 
prominent in the educational affairs of 
New England. 

DUPONCEAU, PIERRE ETIENNE, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1760 in 

France. He was a Frenchman who came 

to America as aid to Baron Steuben, set¬ 
tled in Philadelphia, and became eminent 
as a lawyer. He was president of the 
American Philosophical society, and his 
Memoir on the Indian Languages of North 
America attracted much attention among 
scholars. He died in 1844 in Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

DU PONT, HENRY ALGERNON, sol¬ 
dier, railroad president, was born July 30. 
1838, in Wilmington, Del. He served 
through the civil war, and received the 
rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1879 he 
was elected president of the Wilmington 
and Northern Railroad company. 

DUPRE, LUCIUS GARLAND, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 18, 1868, in Opelousas, La. 
He has attained prominence as an able 
lawyer of the city of his nativity, w r here 
he has filled many public offices with 
honor. 

DUPUY, ELIZA ANN, author, was born 
about 1814 in Petersburg, Va. She was 
a sensational novelist of Kentucky, for 
many years a regular contributor of serial 
stories to the New York Ledger. Among 
them are The Conspirator, a story of 
Aaron Burr; The Huguenot Exiles; and 
The Concealed Treasure. She died in Jan¬ 
uary, 1881, in New Orleans, La. 

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DUPUY, ELIZABETH, poet, was born 
in 1868, in Prospect, Va. Her poems have 
appeared extensively in the St. Louis, Cin¬ 
cinnati, and Louisville journals, and in 
several standard collections. 

DU PUY, RAYMOND, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Jan. 4, 1860, in Pittsburg, 
Pa. In 1895 he became president of the 
De Kalb and Great Western railway. 

DURAND, ASHER BROWN, artist, was 
born Aug. 21, 1796, in Jefferson, N. J. He 
has attained a national reputation as an 
artist. Among his best known works are 
Notch of the Primeval Forest, and Clove 
in the Catskills. 

DURAND. CYRUS, engraver, inventor, 
was born Feb. 27, 1787, in Jefferson vil¬ 
lage, N. J. He invented a machine for 
ruling straight and wave lines for bank 
notes, and subsequently invented similar 
machines for drawing water-lines and 
plain ovals. He then devoted himself to 
bank-note engraving; was a genius in that 
art; and was considered capable of work¬ 
ing in twenty-two different occupations. 
He died Sept. 18, 1868, in Irvington, N. J. 

DURAND, GEORGE H., lawyer, mayor, 
congressman, was born Feb. 21, 1838, in 
Cobleskill, N. Y. He served as alderman 
of the city of Flint for three consecutive 
terms; was elected mayor in 1873; re¬ 
elected in 1874, and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative to the forty-fourth congress. 

DURAND, HENRY SMITH, underwrit¬ 
er, banker, founder, was born Feb. 13, 
1817, in Cheshire, Conn. In 1856 he or¬ 
ganized the Commercial bank of Racine, 
Wis., of which he was president for sev¬ 
eral years; was chosen president of the 
Racine and Mississippi railroad, which he 
founded. He was one of the founders of 
the city of La Crosse, Wis., and did much 
to aid its development into the second 
largest city in Wisconsin. 

DURANG, CHARLES, author, was born 
in 1796 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was actor, 
author, stage manager, prompter, ballet- 
master, and finally opened a dancing acad¬ 
emy. He was the author of a History of 
the Philadelphia Stage from 1752 to 1854. 
He died Feb. 15, 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DURANT, CHARLES S., aeronaut, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1805. He was the 
author of several books of a scientific 
character, one of which was a Treatise 
on Shells and Sea-Weeds. He died March 
2, 1873, in Jersey City, N. J. 

DURANT, CHARLES W., railroad 
president, was born April 23, 1821, in 
Hinsdale, Mass. In 1859 he became in¬ 
terested in the Chicago, Rock Island and 
Pacific railroad, and was its president for 
many years. He afterward engaged in the 
sugar refining business with his sons un¬ 
der the name of Charles W. Durant and 
Sons. He died April 5, 1885, in New York 
city. 

DURANT, HENRY, college president, 
was born June 17, 1803, in Acton, Mass. 
In 1870 he founded and became the first 
president of the university of California, 
serving until 1871. In 1872 he was elected 
mayor of Oakland, Cal., serving until his 
death. He died Jan. 22, 1875, in Oakland, 
Cal. 

DURANT, HENRY TOWLE, lawyer, 
philanthropist, was born Feb. 20, 1822, in 
Hanover, N. H. He devoted his life to 
the cause of the Christian religion, and 
was instrumental in providing a college 
whei-e women could obtain superior edu¬ 
cation. His plans were put into execution 
and Wellesley college resulted. This in¬ 
stitution, built and equipped at an ex¬ 
pense of $1,000,000, was opened in Sep¬ 
tember, 1875. and has since been main¬ 
tained at an expense of $50,000 per an¬ 
num. He died Oct. 3, .1881, in Wellesley, 
Mass. 


DURANT, HORACE BLAIR, soldier, 
physician, journalist, prohibitionist, poet, 
was born Dec. 27, 1828, in Washington 
county, Pa. He grad¬ 
uated from Jefferson 
college of Canons- 
burg^ Pa., and for 
several years taught 
school. He then prac¬ 
ticed medicine for 
about twenty years. 
In 1861 he enlisted 
with the first troops 
from Pennsylvania, 
serving for awhile in 
the ranks as a pri¬ 
vate soldier, until 
assistant surgeon of 
his regiment. Dr. Durant has for many 
years been a pronounced advocate of po¬ 
litical prohibition, being one of the St. 
John electors in 1884. In 1878, in con¬ 
junction with his wife, he published the 
first newspaper devoted to prohibition in 
Pennsylvania;, and in 1884 wrote the first 
song-book of the prohibition party. He 
has been editor and founder of four papers 
in Pennsylvania. The poems of Dr. Du¬ 
rant have attracted considerable atten¬ 
tion, and have been given a. place in sev¬ 
eral standard works. 

DURANT. THOMAS JEFFERSON, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Aug. .8, 1817, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He removed to New 
Orleans and was elected state senator; 
afterward appointed United States dis¬ 
trict attorney for Louisiana, and then be¬ 
came attorney-general of the state. He 
died Feb. 4, 1882, in Washington, D. C. 

DURBIN, JOHN PRICE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1800 in Bourbon county, 
Ky. He was a methodist clergyman noted 
for his eloquence, who w r as missionary 
secretary of the methodist episcopal 
church, in 1850-72. He was the author of 
Observations in Europe; and Observations 
in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor. 
He died in 1876. 

DURBOROW, ALLAN CATHCART, 
merchant, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 
1857, in Philadelphia, Pa. After two years’ 
residence in Indianapolis he moved to 
Chicago, where he has since been engaged 
in business. He has always been active 
in local politics; and was elected to the 
fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. 

DURELL, DANIEL M., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1769 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New Hampshire from 1807 to 
1809; and held the post of United States 
district attorney from 1830 to 1834. He 
died in 1841. 

DURELL, EDWARD HENRY, jurist, 
was born July 14, 1810, in Portsmouth, 
N. H. In 1863 he was appointed United 
States judge for the district of Louisiana. 

DURFEE. BRADFORD MATTHEW 
CHALONER, merchant, was born June 
15, 1843, in Fall River, Mass. Durfee hall, 
one of the finest college dormitories in 
the United States, was his gift to Yale, 
which honored him with the degree of 
A. M. in 1871. He died Sept. 13, 1872, in 
'Fall River, Mass. 

DURFEE, JOB, lawyer, jurist, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Sept. 20, 1790, in 
Tiverton, R. I. He was for a long time 
chief justice of Rhode Island, and for 
many years was a member of the state 
legislature and speaker of the house. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Rhode Island from 1821 to 1825. He was 
the author of What Cheer? or, Roger 
Williams in Exile; and Panidea, a philo¬ 
sophical treatise. He died July 26, 134?, 
in Tiverton, R. I. 






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DURFEE, NATHANIEL B., agricultur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Sept. 29, 1812, 
in Tiverton, R. I. He represented the 
town of Warwick several years in the 
state legislature, and the town of Tiver¬ 
ton four years. He was elected a member 
of the thirty-fourth congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-fifth congress. 

DURFEE, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, en¬ 
gineer, was born Nov. 15, 1833, in New 
Bedford, Mass. In 1853 he became an en¬ 
gineer and architect in his native town, 
and for five years held the appointment 
of city surveyor. He was chosen as one 
of the representatives of New Bedford in 
the legislature of 1861, and, as secretary 
of its military committee, was active in 
forwarding legislation for the equipment 
of troops at the beginning of the civil 
war. He equipped at Wyandotte, Mich., 
the first analytical laboratory built as an 
adjunct to steel works in the United 
States. 

DURFEE, ZOHETH SHEARMAN, man¬ 
ufacturer, inventor, was born April 22, 
1831, in Fall River, Mass. In 1866 the 
Pneumatic Steel association was formed, 
of which he was elected secretary and 
treasurer, and remained its active man¬ 
ager until 1879. He has made numerous 
inventions in machinery for the manufac¬ 
ture of steel industry than any other 
American of his generation. He died 
June 8, 1880, in Providence, R. I. 

DURG1N, MARY LYLE, artist, was 
born Feb. 3, 1850, in Wilmington, Mass. 
She studied art in Paris, France, where 
her pictures were exhibited in the French 
salons in 1884 and 1886. In 1890 she paint¬ 
ed four large mural paintings for the 
walls of the First Congregational church 
of Detroit, Mich. Her studio is in Boston. 

DURHAM, JOHN STEPHENS, diplo¬ 
mat, was born July 18, 1861, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was editor of the University 
Journal of Philadelphia, Pa.; and re¬ 
porter on the Philadelphia Times. In 1890 
he was appointed United States consul to 
San Domingo; and in 1891 was United 
States minister to the republic of Hayti. 

DURHAM, JUDSON P., educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Aug. 2, 1853, in 
Canada. For six years he was a mission¬ 
ary on the plains; and now fills a pastor¬ 
ate in Vermontville, Mich. He is the au¬ 
thor of one published work, and is a 
constant contributor to current literature. 

DURHAM, MILTON JAMISON, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born May 16, 
1824, in Mercer county, Ky. He was a cir¬ 
cuit judge of Kentucky in 1861-62. He 
was elected to the forty-third congress, 
and re-elected to the forty-fourth con¬ 
gress. In 1875 he was appointed chairman 
of the committee on revision of laws; and 
re-elected to the forty-fifth congress. In 
1885 he was appointed first comptroller of 
the United States treasury. 

DURIVAGE, FRANCIS ALEXANDER, 
author, was born in 1814 in Massachusetts. 
He was a magazinist of Boston, among 
whose writings are The Fatal Casket; 
Life Scenes from the World Around Us; 
and Cyclopedia of History. He died in 
1881. 

DURKEE, CHARLES, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, govern¬ 
or, was born Dec. 5, 1807, in Royalton, Vt. 
He was a merchant; removed to Wiscon¬ 
sin; and was elected to the legislature of 
that state in 1837 and 1838. He was a 
representative in congress in 1848 and 1850 
from Wisconsin; and was a United States 
senator for six years, commencing in 1855. 
He was a delegate to the peace congress 
of 1861; and in 1865 was appointed gov¬ 
ernor of Utah. He died Jan. 14, 1870, in 
Omaha, Neb. 


DURKEE, JOHN, sQldier, was born in 
1728 in Windham, Conn. He distinguished 
himself at Bunker Hill, and commanded 
a regiment in the battles of Long Island, 
Germantown, Harlem, White Plains, 
Trenton, and Monmouth, and was in Gen. 
'John Sullivan’s expedition against the 
Six Nations in 1779. He died May 29, 1782, 

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DURKEE, JOSEPH HARVEY, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, was born July 16, 
1837, in Oneida county, N. Y. He served 
in the civil war and attained the rank of 
captain. He took up his residence in 
Jacksonville, and was subsequently elect¬ 
ed state senator, resigning before the close 
of his second term to accept the position 
of United States marshal, which position 
he held until 1885, when he resigned to 
take that of master in chancery in the 
United States courts. 

DUROCHER, LAURENT, soldier, law¬ 
yer, statesman, was born in 1786 at St. 
Genevieve Mission, Mo. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the first constitutional convention 
in 1835; state senator in 1835 and 1836; 
and representative in 1839. He also held 
the offices of justice of the peace, probate 
judge, circuit clerk, and clerk of the city 
of Monroe, where he died Sept. 21, 1861. 


DURRETT, REUBEN THOMAS, law¬ 
yer, orator, author, was born Jan. 22, 1824, 
in Henry county, Ky. After studying at 
the Georgetown col¬ 
lege, he graduated in 
1849 from the Brown 
university; and at 
the law department 
of the university of 
Louisville a year 
later. During 1857- 
59 he was editor and 
part owner of the 
Louisville Courier. 
During 1850-80 he 
practiced his profes¬ 
sion in Louisville; 
was founder of the public library of Ken¬ 
tucky; founder of the Louisville Abstract 
and Loan association; and founder of the 
Filson club of Louisville. He is president 
of the associations that he has formed, 
and a member of various historical socie¬ 
ties. He is the author of The Life and 
Writings of John Filson, the first historian 
of Kentucky; and a series of articles on 
the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798-99. He 
has distinguished himself as a lawyer, 
speaker, writer, and author; and received 
the degrees of A. B., A. M., and LL. D. 
from Brown university. 



DURRIE, DANIEL STEELE, educator, 
antiquarian, author, was born Jan. 2, 1819, 
in Albany, N. Y. In 1858 he became li¬ 
brarian of the State Historical society of 
Wisconsin. He has been superintendent 
of public schools at Roxbury, and secre¬ 
tary of the Madison board of education. 
Among his publications are genealogical 
histories of the Steele and Holt families; 
Bibliographica Genealogica Americana, or 
Index to American Pedigrees; History of 
Madison, Wis., and the Four-Lake Coun¬ 
try (with W. B. Davis); History of Mis¬ 
souri; and Wisconsin Biographical Dic¬ 
tionary. 

DURSTON, ALFRED S., clergyman, 
was born May 1, 1848, in England. He 
has filled pastorates in Berlin, Mass.; and 
at Borodino and Syracuse, N. Y. In 1883 
he became general secretary of the Syra¬ 
cuse Young Men’s Christian association. 

DURTHALLER, JOSEPH, clergyman, 
college president, was born Nov. 28, 1819, 
in Alsace. In 1860 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of St. Francis Xavier college, serving 
until 1863. He died May 3, 1885, in New 
York city. 


DURYEA, HARMANUS B., soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born July 12, 1815, in 
Newtown, N. Y. In 1847 he was district 
attorney for Queens county, N. Y.; and in 
1857 was elected a member of the assem¬ 
bly for Kings county. He served in the 
civil war and organized the thirteenth, 
fourteenth and twenty-eighth regiments 
of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

DURYEE, ABRAM, soldier, was born 
April 29, 1815, in New York city. He ac¬ 
cumulated a fortune as a mahogany mer¬ 
chant in New York. 
He entered the New 
York state militia in 
1833, and served in 
the one hundred and 
forty-second regi¬ 
ment. Five years 
later he joined the 
twenty-seventh regi- 
ment (now the 
seventh) as a pri¬ 
vate, and rose grad¬ 
ually until he be¬ 
came its colonel in 
office for fourteen 
Astor place riots he 
commanded his regiment and was twice 
wounded. 

DURYEE, WILLIAM RANKIN, soldier, 
clergyman, author, was born April 10, 
1838, in Newark, N. J. In 1864 he became 
pastor of the Reformed church at Lafay¬ 
ette, Jersey City, N. J. He has published 
a premium tract for soldiers, entitled 
Sentinels for the Soul; Our Mission Work 
Abroad; Centennial Discourses of the Re¬ 
formed Church; and critical essays and 
poems in religious journals. His song 
of The Kingdom of Home was awarded 
a prize. 

DUSENBERRY, FRANCES L„ publish¬ 
er, author, was born in Rochelle, Ill. In 
1887 she founded, in conjunction with her 
sister, Lucy Ella Dusenberry, the Purdy 
Publishing company of Chicago. They at¬ 
tained success in publishing books on 
metaphysical subjects, securing the con¬ 
trol of these books by paying the au¬ 
thors a royalty. For several years she 
edited and published The Chicago Wom¬ 
an’s News; and now publishes The Chi¬ 
cago Vegetarian. 

DUSS, JOHN SAMUEL, philanthropist, 
was born Feb. 22, 1860, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He is the senior trustee of the Har¬ 
mony society of Economy, Pa., one of 
the most unique and at one time wealthy 
and picturesque communistic organiza¬ 
tions that has ever existed. 

DUSTIN, DANIEL, soldier. He served 
during the war as commander of the sec¬ 
ond brigade, third division of the twen¬ 
tieth army corps, with distinction. Dur¬ 
ing President Harrison’s term of office 
General Dustin served as assistant United 
States treasurer in Chicago, until his 
death, which occurred in 1893. 

DUSTIN, HANNAH, heroine of New 
England, was born about 1655. She was 
the mother of thirteen children. When 
the Indians attacked Haverhill, March 15, 
1698, her husband, with the children, 
escaped, and she, with an infant and her 
nurse, was captured. After proceeding a 
short distance, the infant was killed. Mrs. 
Duston was taken to an island at the junc¬ 
tion of the Merrimack and Contoocook 
rivers, being assigned to an Indian family 
of twelve persons. With the aid of a 
nurse and a boy, also a prisoner, she 
killed the Indians with a hatchet, all but 
a favorite boy and a wounded squaw, who 
escaped, and returned safely to Haverhill 
with their scalps. Her house, occupied by 
Thomas Dustin, a descendant, was stand¬ 
ing in 1816. 



1849, holding that 
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DUSTIN, WILLIAM G., journalist, was 
born June 7, 1850, in Corinth, Vt. He is 
the editor and owner of the Star and 
Herald of Dwight, Ill.; is prominent in 
republican politics; and was a delegate 
to the state conventions of 1892 and 1896. 
In 1896 he was elected commander of the 
Illinois division Sons of Veterans; and 
has filled numerous positions of honor in 
his county and state. 

DUTCHER, ADDISON PORTER, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Oct. 11, 1818, in 
Durham, N. Y. He was a physician of 
Cleveland; and the author of Selections 
from My Portfolio, essays on Popular and 
Scientific Subjects; Pulmonary Tubercu¬ 
losis; Sparks from the Forge of a Rough 
Thinker; and Two Voyages to Europe. 
He died Jan. 30, 1884, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

DUTCHER, JACOB C., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1820. He is a Dutch 
reformed clergyman of New York; and 
the author of Requisites of National 
Greatness; The Prodigal Son; Our Fall¬ 
en Heroes; The Old Home by the River; 
and Frank Lyttleton, or Winning His 
Way. 

DUTCHER, JOHN BOWDISH, capital¬ 
ist, legislator, was born Feb. 13, 1830, in 
Dover, N. Y. He was a member of the 
New York assembly in 1861 and 1862; and 
of the state senate in 1864 and 1865. He is 
president of the Union Stock Yard and 
Market Co. of New York; president of 
the National bank of Pawling; and pres¬ 
ident of the village of Pawling and the 
New York State Agricultural society. 

DUTCHER, SILAS B., banker, was born 
July 12, 1829, in Springfield, Ohio. In 1884 
he was elected president of the Union 
Dime Savings institution of New York; 
and in 1891 became president of the Ham¬ 
ilton’s Trust company of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

DUTTON, CLARENCE EDWARD, sol¬ 
dier, surveyor, author, was born May 15, 
1841, in Wallingford, Conn. He is an of¬ 
ficer in the United States army associ¬ 
ated with the geological survey. He is 
the author of Geology of the High Pla¬ 
teaus of Utah; Tertiary History of the 
Grand Canon District; Hawaiian Vol¬ 
canoes; Mount Taylor and the Zuni Pla¬ 
teau; and The Charleston Earthquake of 
1886. 

DUTTON, EVERELL FLETCHER, sol¬ 
dier, banker, was born Jan. 4, 1838, in 
Charlestown, N. H. During the civil war 
he served as first lieutenant and captain 
of the thirteenth Illinois volunteers; was 
major and colonel in the one hundred and 
fifth Illinois infantry; and brevet briga¬ 
dier-general United States volunteers. He 
is president of the National bank of Syca¬ 
more, Ill. 

DUTTON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
soldier, physician, author, was born Dec. 
18, 1826, in Sheldon, Vt. He enlisted in 
1846 in an Ohio regiment of volunteers, 
and served during the Mexican war in the 
commissary and medical departments. 
Among his contributions to medical liter¬ 
ature is a paper on Treatment of Fracture 
of the Femur, printed in the Transactions 
of the California Medical society for 1874. 

DUTTON, HENRY, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, governor, author, 
was born Feb. 12,1796, in Plymouth, Conn. 
He was attorney for the state, professor 
of law in Yale college; and served five 
years in the legislature and one year in 
the state senate. He was elected gofernor 
of Connecticut in 1854; from 1861 to 1866 
was judge of the superior court, and of 
the supreme court of errors. He died 
April 12, 1869, in New Haven, Conn. 


DUTTON, HENRY WORTHINGTON, 
journalist, was born April 17, 1796, in 
Lebanon, Conn. For twenty-five years 
the firm of Dutton and Wentworth in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass., had been state printers, the 
contract terminating in 1852. He died 
April 15, 1875, in Boston, Mass. 

DUTTON, SAMUEL WILLIAM SOUTH- 
MAYD, clergyman, author, was born 
March 14, 1814, in Guilford, Conn. • In 1843 
upon the establishment of the New Eng¬ 
lander, he became one of the associate 
editors. He published various addresses, 
and a History of the North Church dur¬ 
ing the Last Century. He died Jan. 26, 
1866, in Milbury, Mass. 

DUVAL, GABRIEL, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 6, 1752, in Prince 
George county, Md. He served as a clerk 
to the first legislature of Maryland, before 
the declaration of independence; and was 
a representative in congress from Mary¬ 
land from 1794 to 1796. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1796 and 1800; comp¬ 
troller of the United States treasury in 
1802; and in 1811 was appointed a judge 
of the supreme court of the United States, 
which office he held for twenty-five years. 
He died March 6, 1844, in Prince George 
county, Md. 

DUVAL, HENRY REMAN, railroad 
president, was born Oct. 17, 1842, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was receiver of the Florida 
Railway Navigation Co. from 1885 to 1889 
when the property of that company passed 
to the Florida Central and Peninsular R. 
R. Co., of which he became president. 

DUVAL, ISAAC H., soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 1824, 
in Wellsburg, Va. He entered the volun¬ 
teer army from Virginia in 1861 as a 
major; and was brevetted a major-gen¬ 
eral. He subsequently served two years 
in the state senate of West Virginia; also 
two years as adjutant-general of the state; 
and in 1868 was elected a representative 
from West Virginia to the forty-first con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

DUVAL, JOHN POPE, soldier, lawyer, 
author, was born June 3, 1790, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. He served as a first lieuten¬ 
ant in the war of 1812; and was pro¬ 
moted to captain in 1814. He served with 
the rank of brigadier-general in the 
Texan service. He then returned to 
Florida as secretary of the territory; and 
subsequently published a Digest of the 
Laws of Florida. He died about 1855 in 
Florida. 

DUVAL, THOMAS H., jurist, was born 
in Virginia. He emigrated to Texas, and 
settled at Austin; and in 1857 was ap¬ 
pointed United States judge for the west¬ 
ern district of Texas. 

DUVAL, WILLIAM P., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1784 in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Kentucky from 1813 to 1815; 
and in 1822 was appointed governor of 
Florida. He served as a captain of 
mounted volunteers in 1812; and in 1848 
removed to Texas. He died March 19, 
1854, in Washington, D. C. 

DUVALL, ALVIN, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, was born March 20, 1813, in 
Georgetown, Ky. In 1850 he was elected 
a member of the Kentucky legislature; 
two years later was appointed circuit 
judge; and in 1854 was elected judge of 
the court of appeals. He died Nov. 17, 
1891, in Frankfort, Ky. 

DUVENECK, FRANK, artist, was born 
about 1845 in Covington, Ky. He sent 
five portraits to the Boston Art club in 
1875; and has since attained high rank 
as a successful artist. 


DUYCKINCK, EVERT AUGUSTUS, 
author, was born Nov. z3, 1816, in New 
York city. He was a literary critic of 
New York city, who with his brother 
George, was the author of an Encyclo¬ 
paedia of American Literature, first issued 
in 1855. Other works by the elder Duyc- 
kinck are History of the War for the 
Union; and Biography of Eminent Men 
and Women of Europe and America. He 
died in 1878. 

DUYCKINCK, GEORGE LONG, author, 
was born Oct. 17, 1823, in New York city. 
He was a writer of New York city who, 
beside his share in The Encyclopaedia of 
American Literature, was the author of 
Lives of George Herbert; Bishop Ken; 
Jeremy Taylor; and Bishop Latimer. He 
died in 1863. 

DWIGHT, BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE, 
educator, author, was born April 5, 1816, 
in New Haven, Conn. He was an educator 
of New York city; and the author of 
The Higher Christian Education; Mod¬ 
ern Philosophy; Modern . Philology; 
Woman’s Higher Culture; The True Doc¬ 
trine of Divine Providence; History of 
the Dwight Family in America; and His¬ 
tory of the Strong Family. He died in 
1889. 

DWIGHT, BENJAMIN WOOLSEY, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Feb. 10, 1780, in 
Northampton, Mass. He w r as treasurer 
of Hamilton college in 1831-50. He pub¬ 
lished the first article ever published in 
this country on Chronic Debility of the 
Stomach. He died May 18, 1850, in Clin¬ 
ton, N. Y. 

DWIGHT, EDMUND, merchant, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 3, 1824, in Boston, 
Mass. In 1871 he went abroad to super¬ 
intend the distribution of the fund raised 
by subscription in Boston for the relief 
of the suffering caused in France by the 
war with Germany, and on his return 
he published an interesting Report to the 
Executive Committee of the French Relief 
Fund. 

DWIGHT, EDWIN WELLES, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1789 in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He was a congregational cler¬ 
gyman of Richmond, Mass., whose only 
publication was a History of Berkshire 
County. He died in 1841. 

DWIGHT, FRANCIS, lawyer, educator, 
journalist, was born March 14, 1808, in 
Springfield, Mass. In 1840 he established 
in Albany The District School Journal, 
under state patronage, which he conducted 
until his death. He was active in de¬ 
vising and establishing the present code 
of public instruction in the state of New 
York. He died Dec. 15, 1845, in Albany, 
N. Y. 

DWIGHT, HARRISON GRAY OTIS, 
missionary, author, was born in 1803 in 
Massachusetts. He was a congregational 
missionary to Armenia; and the author 
of Researches of Smith and Dwight in 
Armenia; Christianity Revived in the 
East; and Catalogue of Armenian Litera¬ 
ture in the Middle Ages. He was killed in 
a railroad accident Jan. 25, 1862. 

DWIGHT, HENRY EDWIN, educator, 
author, was born April 19, 1797, in New 
Haven, Conn. He was an educator of 
New Haven who published Travels in the 
North of Germany. He died Aug. 11, 1832, 
in New Haven, Conn. 

DWIGHT, HENRY OTIS, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1843 in Turkey. He was 
a federal officer during the civil war, who 
was a correspondent of the New York 
Tribune from Constantinople, 1876-79. He 
is the author of Turkish Life in War 
Times. 


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DWIGHT, HENRY WILLIAMS, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 
26, 1788, in Stockbridge, Mass. He was a 
member of the Massachusetts legislature 
in 1818 and 1834; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Massachusetts from 
1821 to 1831. He died Feb. 21,1845, in New 
York. 

DWIGHT, JEREMIAH W., business 
man, state legislator, congressman, was 
born in Cincinnatus, N. Y. He was a 
member of the state house of representa¬ 
tives in 1860 and 1861; and was a dele¬ 
gate to the republican national conven¬ 
tion of 1868. He was president of the 
Dwight Farm and Land company of Da¬ 
kota; and was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a 
republican. He died Nov. 26, 1885. 

DWIGHT, JOHN SULLIVAN, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born May 13, 1813, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a distinguished 
musical critic of Boston, and the editor 
of Dwight’s Journal of Music in 1852-81. 
He was the author of a History of Music 
in Boston and the poem God Save the 
State. He died in 1893. 

DWIGHT, JOSEPH, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, was born Oct. 16, 1703, 
in Dedham, Mass. He was a distinguished 
jurist of Worcester and Berkshire coun¬ 
ties, Mass., during 1733-61. He served at 
the head of a brigade of militia at Lake 
Champlain in the second French war. 
For eleven years he was a representative 
in the state legislature, and was speaker 
of the house in 1749. He died June 9, 
1765, in Great Barrington, Mass. 

DWIGHT, MARY ANN, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1806 in Massachusetts. 
She was a teacher of drawing and paint¬ 
ing in New York city; and the author of 
Grecian and Roman Mythology; Intro¬ 
duction to the Study of Art; and Art as 
a Branch of Education. She died in De¬ 
cember, 1858, in Morrisania, N. Y. 

DWIGHT, NATHANIEL, physician, 
clergyman, author, was borri in 1770 in 
Massachusetts. He was a physician and 
clergyman of Rhode Island and Connecti¬ 
cut, who published the first school geog- 
raphv in America, and was author also 
of The Great Question Answered; and A 
Compendious History of the Signers of 
the Declaration of Independence. He died 
in 1831. 

DWIGHT, SERENO EDWARDS, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born in 
1786 in Connecticut. He was a congrega¬ 
tional clergvman and educator; and the 
author of Life of David Brainerd; The 
Hebrew Wife; and Select Discourses. He 
edited the Works of Jonathan Edwards. 
He died Nov. 30,1850, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

DWIGHT, SUSAN EDWARDS, author, 
was born in 1788. She aided her husband 
in preparing the works of Jonathan Ed¬ 
wards; and published an Abridgment of 
the Memoirs of Mrs. Susan Huntington. 
She died in 1851 in Boston, Mass. 

DWIGHT, THEODORE, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, state senator, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 6, 1764, in Northamp¬ 
ton, Mass. For a number of years he was 
a state senator in Connecticut; and was 
a representative in congress from Con¬ 
necticut during the years 1806 and 1807. 
In 1815 he established the Albany Daily 
Advertiser; and in 1817 founded the New 
York Daily Advertiser, which he con¬ 
ducted with signal ability until 1836, when 
he removed to Hartford, Conn., and re¬ 
tired from active life. He was one of the 
founders of the American Bible society; 
and wrote a Life of Thomas Jefferson; A 
Dictionary of Roots and Derivations; and 
A History of the Hartford Convention. 
He died June 11, 1846, in New York. 


ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


DWIGHT, THEODORE, author, was 
born March 3, 1796, in Hartford, Conn. He 
was a New York litterateur whose varied 
writings include Tour in Italy; New Gazet¬ 
teer of the United States; History of Con¬ 
necticut; Summer Tour of New England; 
The Northern Traveler; The Roman Re¬ 
public of 1849; The Kansas War; Life of 
Garibaldi; The Father’s Book; First Les¬ 
sons in Modern Greek; and School Dic¬ 
tionary of Roots and Derivatives. He died 
Oct. 16, 1866, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

DWIGHT, THEODORE WILLIAM, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born 
July 18, 1822, in Catskill, N. Y. He was a 
jurist of note who was professor of 
municipal law in Columbia college; and 
the author of Argument in the Rose Will 
Case; Trial by Impeachment; and Pris¬ 
ons and Reformatories. He died June 28, 
1892, in Clinton, N. Y. 

DWIGHT, THOMAS, educator, state 
senator, congressman. He was a member 
of the Massachusetts legislature in 1794 
and 1795; a state senator from 1796 to 
1803 and in 1813; a member of the execu¬ 
tive council in 1808 and 1809; and was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1803 to 1805. He died in 
1819. 

DWIGHT, THOMAS, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 13, 1843, in Boston, Mass. 
He is a physician of Boston, and successor 
to O. W. Holmes as professor of anatomy 
in the Harvard Medical school. He is the 
author of Anatomy of the Head; and The 
Intracranial Circulation. 

DWIGHT, TIMOTHY, educator, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
May 14, 1752, in Northampton, Mass. He 
was a congregational clergyman who was 
a very prominent figure in the early his¬ 
tory of the republic, and as president of 
Yale college, 1795-1817, of great influence 
as an educator as well. His most im¬ 
portant work is Theology Explained and 
Defended in a Course of One Hundred and 
Seventy-three Sermons, which has gone 
into more than one hundred editions. 
Other prose works are Genuineness and 
Authenticity of the Old Testament; Ob¬ 
servations on Language; Essay on Light; 
Travels in New England and New York, 
which still furnishes entertaining reading. 
His writings in verse include The Con¬ 
quest of Canaan, a very ponderous epic; 
Greenfield Hill, a pastoral; and The Tri¬ 
umph of Infidelity, a satire. He died Jan. 

11, 1817, in New Haven, Conn.^ 

DWIGHT, TIMOTHY, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born in 1822 
in Connecticut. He is a congregational 
clergyman, president of Yale university 
from 1886, and one of the members of the 
New Testament Revision company. He is 
the author of The True Ideal of an Amer¬ 
ican University. 

DWIGHT, WILLIAM BUCK, scientist, 
was born May 22, 1833, in Turkey. He is 
a scientist who has been curator of Vassar 
College museum for many years. 

DWINELL, JUSTIN, congressman. He 
was a member of the New York assembly 
in 1821 and 1822; and was a representa- 
tive in congress, from that state from 1823 
to 1825. 

DWYER, EDWARD A., was born May 

12, 1858, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is prom¬ 
inent in railroad unions, and was presi¬ 
dent of the local union of the Switch¬ 
men’s Mutual Aid association of North 
America in 1894. 

DWYER, JEREMIAH, manufacturer, 
was born Aug. 22, 1837, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
In 1871 Mr. Dwyer and others organized 
the well-known Michigan Stove company, 
of which he is president. He is also a 
director of the People’s Savings bank of 


Detroit; and vice-president of Buck Stove 
and Range company. 

DYATT HUGH, miner, legislator, was 
born‘July 19, 1850, in County Antrim 
Province Ulster, Ireland. He is of Scotch 
and Irish descent; 
attended the country 
schools; and was 
reared in the presby- 
terian belief. His 
early days were 
spent in agricultural 
pursuits; and in 
1877 moved to Colo¬ 
rado, where he has 
since been principal¬ 
ly engaged in min¬ 
ing. In 1892 he was 
elected a member of 
the ninth general assembly of the state of 
Colorado, receiving the unanimous nom¬ 
ination of both republican and populist 
conventions. He is a man of strong con¬ 
victions, and takes advanced ground in all 
public matters; and is interested in every¬ 
thing pertaining to the public welfare of 
his state. He has been successful in his 
mining operations and owns extensive 
mining property near Leadville, Colo. 
He was the organizer of the Merchants 
State bank of Almena,and is its vice-presi¬ 
dent. In 1898 he was a candidate for the 
Colorado state senate. 





DYCKMAN, JACOB, physician, author, 
was born in 1788 in New York. He was 
a physician of New York city who was 
the author of Pathology of Human Fluids. 
He died in 1822. 


DYE, WILLIAM McENTYRE, soldier, 
author, was born Jan. 26, 1831, in Wash¬ 
ington, Pa. He was brevetted brigadier- 
general in 1865. He served in the army 
until 1879; when he entered the civil ser¬ 
vice in Washington, D. C. He is the au¬ 
thor of Moslem Egypt and Christian Abys¬ 
sinia, or Military Service under the Khe¬ 
dive. 


DYER. ALEXANDER BRYDIE, soldier, 
was born Jan. 10, 1815, in Richmond, Va. 
In 1837 he graduated from West Point; 
and for the following ten years performed 
garrison and ordnance in different parts 
of the country. For his services during the 
Mexican war he was brevetted first lieu¬ 
tenant and captain. In 1864 he was pro¬ 
moted to be chief of ordnance, with the 
rank of brigadier-general. And in 1865 
he was brevetted major-general for faith¬ 
ful, meritorious and distinguished ser¬ 
vices. He held the position of chief of 
ordnance until his death, and during his 
incumbency he increased in many ways 
the efficiency of the service. He died 
May 20, 1874, in Washington, D. C. 

DYER, MRS. CATHERINE CORNELIA 
(JOY), author, was born in Ludlowville, 
N. Y. She is the author of Henry and 
the Bird’s Nest; Sunny Days Abroad; 
Brief History of the Joy Family; and 
Records of the Dyer Family. 

DYER, CHARLES E., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 5, 1824, in Cicero, N. Y. In 
1859 he was elected city attorney of Ra¬ 
cine, Wis.; and was re-elected in 1860. 
In 1866 he was elected a representative in 
the state legislature, and was re-elected 
in 1867. In 1875 he was appointed United 
States district judge for the eastern dis¬ 
trict of Wisconsin. 

DYER, CHARLES VOLNEY, abolition¬ 
ist, was born June 12, 1808, in Clarendon, 
Vt. He removed in 1835 to Chicago, and 
soon became acting surgeon in Fort Dear¬ 
born. ‘ He was successful in his practice 
and business adventures, retiring from the 
former in 1854, and becoming agent for 
the underground railroad in Chicago. He 
died April 24, 1878, in Lake View, Ill. 



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DYER, DAVID PATTERSON, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born 
Feb. 12, 1838, in Henry county, Va. He 
moved to Missouri, and was elected a dis¬ 
trict prosecuting attorney in 1860; and 
was elected to the state legislature in 
1862 and 1865. He had command of the 
forty-ninth Missouri volunteers during 
a part of the rebellion. He was elected 
secretary of the state senate in 1866; was 
a delegate to the Chicago convention of 
1868; and was elected a representative 
from Missouri to the forty-first congress. 

DYER, ELIPHALET, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1721, in 
Windham, Conn. He was a representative 
to the general court; and was appointed 
to the command of a Connecticut regi¬ 
ment during the French war in 1755. He 
was elected a member of the council in 
1762; and was a delegate to the stamp 
act congress of 1765. He was a delegate 
to the continental congress in 1774, and 
held a seat in that body during the war, 
excepting 1779. He was appointed judge 
of the supreme court in 1766; was chief 
justice from 1789 to 1793. He died May 13, 
1807, in Windham, Conn. 

DYER, ELISHA, governor. He was 
governor of Rhode Island for two years, 
beginning with 1857. 

DYER, HEMAN, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 24, 1810, in Shaftsbury, Vt. 
He is an episcopal clergyman of New York 
city; and the author of Voice of the Lord 
upon the Waters; and Records of an Ac¬ 
tive Life, an autobiography. 

DYER, JOHN J., jurist. He was an 
early emigrant to Iowa; and prior to the 
year 1850 was appointed United States 
judge for the three districts of Iowa. 

DYER, OLIVER, journalist, author, was 
born April 26, 1824, in Porter, N. Y. He 
became an expert in phonography, and 
went to Washington in 1848 as a reporter 
in the United States senate. In 1871 he 
was engaged to write exclusively for the 
New York Ledger. He was ordained a 
minister in 1876, and became pastor of the 
New Church society in Mount Vernon, N. 
Y. He is the author of the Wickedest 
Man in New York; and Great Senators. 

DYER, SIDNEY, clergyman, author, 
poet, was born Feb. 11, 1814, in Cam¬ 
bridge, N. Y. He is a baptist clergyman 
of Philadelphia, well known as a song¬ 
writer. He is the author of Voices of 
Nature and Thoughts in Rhyme; Psalm¬ 
ist for Use of Baptist Churches; Songs 
and Ballads; The Drunkard’s Child; Ruth, 
a Cantata; Black Diamonds; Home and 
Abroad; Hoofs and Claws; Ocean Gar¬ 
dens and Palaces; Elmdale Lyceum; and 
The Beautiful Ladder, or the Two Stu¬ 
dents. 

EADES, HARVEY L., founder, author, 
was born in 1806, in Logan county, Ky. 
He was one of the founders and a leader 
of the Shaker society of Kentucky. He 
was also the author of a number of re¬ 
ligious and metaphysical books and 
pamphlets. 

EADS, JAMES BUCHANAN, was born 
May 23, 1820, in Lawrenceburg, Ind. He 
was a civil engineer of distinction and the 
designer of the Mississippi jetties. He 
was the author of System of Naval De¬ 
fence; Mouth of the Mississippi, the Jetty 
System Explained; and Discussion on Up¬ 
right Bridges. He died March 8, 1887, in 
the Bahama Islands. 

EAGAN, DENNIS, soldier, legislator 
was born Feb. 4, 1844, in Ireland. He 
served as a soldier during the civil war. 
He served as a member of the state senate 
of Florida for two terms, and for many 
years was United States commissioner 
under several administrations. 


EAGER, DeWITT, merchant, state leg¬ 
islator, was born April 20, 1850, in Sang- 
ersfield, N. Y. He is a successful mer¬ 
chant of Beaver 
Crossing, Neb.; and 
in 1897 was elected a 
member of the Ne¬ 
braska state legisla¬ 
ture. He has trav¬ 
eled extensive ly 
throughout the west 
and Alaska. In the 
Nebraska state legis¬ 
lature he takes a 
prominent part in 
all debates, and 
serves on the most 
important committees. 

EAGER, S. W., congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1829 to 1831. 

EAGLE, HENRY, naval officer, was 
born April 7, 1801, in New York city. In 
1818 he entered the navy as midshipman; 
was promoted commodore. He died Nov. 
26, 1882. 

EAGLE, JAMES P., soldier, governor, 
was born Aug. 10, 1837, in Tennessee. He 
served in the civil war and attained the 
rank of lieutenant-colonel. He represent¬ 
ed Lonoke county in the legislature of 
1877 and 1885; and in 1888 was elected 
governor of Arkansas. 

EAKINS, THOMAS, painter, sculptor, 
was born July 25, 1844, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He has been director of schools of 
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; lec¬ 
turer on artistic anatomy at the National 
Academy of Design; Art Students’ league 
of New York; and the Cooper institute. 
Among his noted pictures are A Lady 
Singing; The Chess Players; and Mend¬ 
ing the Net. 

EAMES, BENJAMIN T., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 4, 1818, in Tud- 
ham, Mass. He was a member of the 
state senate in 1854, 1855, 1856, 1859, and 
1863; and of the legislature in 1859, 186S, 
and 1869, serving the last year as speaker. 
He was a delegate to the convention at 
Chicago in ,1860; and was elected to the 
forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth, and 
forty-fifth congresses, and declined a re- 
election. 

EAMES, EMMA, prima donna, was born 
in China. She made her debut in Gou¬ 
nod’s Romeo and Juliet in Paris, and dur¬ 
ing her engagement there she was deco¬ 
rated by the president of the French re¬ 
public with the decoration of officer of 
the academy. 

EAMES, MRS. JANE ANTHONY, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 21, 1816, in Welling¬ 
ton, Mass. She was a writer of Concord, 
N. H.; and the author of A Budget of 
Letters; The Budget Closed; My Moth¬ 
er’s Jewel; The Christmas Gift; and Let¬ 
ters from Bermuda. 

EARL, ADAMS, railroad builder, was 
born in 1820, in Fairfield county, Ohio. 
In 1870 the Cincinnati, Lafayette and Chi¬ 
cago Railroad com¬ 
pany was organized, 
to construct and 
operate a railroad 
from Lafayette to 
Kankakee, Ill., con¬ 
necting at the latter 
place with the Illi¬ 
nois Central railroad, 
and thus forming 
the connecting link 
in the through line 
from Cincinnati to 
Chicago. This road 
was built and owned by Adams Earl, 
Moses Fowler, and Gustavus Ricker; Mr. 
Earl being president, general manager, 
and builder. 


EARL, NATHANIEL CHURCHILL, 
clergyman, was born Dec. 22, 1832, in 
Canada. He graduated from the Meadville 
Theological school, and for thirty years 
has been a successful clergyman in Mich¬ 
igan, Indiana and Wisconsin, in the Uni- 
versalist and Unitarian churches. 

EARLE, MRS. ALICE MORSE, author, 
was born in 1851, in Massachusetts. She 
is a writer on American antiquarian 
themes; and the author of Curious Pun¬ 
ishments of Bygone Days; Margaret Win- 
throp, a biography; Costume of Colonial 
Times; Customs and Fashions in Old New 
England; The Sabbath in Puritan New 
England; China-Collecting in America; 
Colonial Dames and Goodwives; and Co¬ 
lonial Days in Old New York. 

EARLE, ELIAS, congressman, was born 
in Frederick county, Va. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from South Caro¬ 
lina from 1805 to 1807, from 1811 to 1815, 
and again from 1817 to 1821. 

EARLE, JOHN B., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1803 to 1805. 

EARLE, JOSEPH HAYNSWORTH, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, United States 
senator, was born April 30, 1847, in Green¬ 
ville, S. C. For six years he served as a 
member of the South Carolina state leg¬ 
islature; and for two years was a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate. During 1886-90 
he served with distinction as attorney- 
general of South Carolina; and in 1890 he 
ran for governor against B. R. Tillman. 
In 1894 he was elected circuit judge; and 
in 1896 was elected to the United States 
senate as a democrat. He took his seat 
March 4, 1897, for term expiring in 1903. 

EARLE, JULIUS RICHARD, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Nov. 3, 1863, in An¬ 
derson county, S. C. He entered into the 
practice of law, and as editor of various 
newspapers. He has served as a member 
of the general assembly of the state of 
South Carolina. 

EARLE, PARKER, horticulturist, was 
born in 1831, in Mt. Holly, Vt. He has 
been president of the Illinois state horti¬ 
cultural society, and is now president of 
the Mississippi Valley and the American 
horticultural societies. 

EARLE, PLINY, inventor, was born 
Dec. 17, 1762, in Leicester, Mass. He in¬ 
vented a machine for pricking twilled 
cards for carding cotton and wool, by 
which the labor of a man for fifteen hours 
could be performed in as many minutes. 
This machine was in general use for 
years, until it was superseded by the 
machine that both pricks the letter and 
sets the teeth. He died Nov. 19, 1832, in 
Leicester, Mass. 

EARLE, PLINY, physician, author, 
was born Dec. 31, 1809, in Leicester, Mass. 
He was the author of Marathon and Other 
Poems; Institutions for the Insane in 
Prussia, Germany, and Austria; Visits to 
Thirteen Insane Asylums in Europe; The 
Curability of Insanity; Blood-Letting in 
Disorders; The Earle Family; and Ralph 
Earle and his Descendants. He died Nov. 
19, 1892, in Leicester, Mass. 

EARLE, SAMUEL, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1795 to 1797. 

EARLE, THOMAS, lawyer, philanthro¬ 
pist, journalist, author, was born April 21, 
1796, in Leicester, Mass. He was a law¬ 
yer and philanthropist of Philadelphia; 
and the author of Essay on Penal Law; 
Right of States to Alter and Annul their 
Charters; Railroads and Internal Com¬ 
munications (1830); and Life of Benjamin 
Lundy. He died July 14, 1849, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 






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EAELL, JONAS, congressman, was born 
in 1786. He was at one time a senator 
in ithe New York legislature; and was a 
member of congress from that state from 
1827 to 1831. He was a canal commission¬ 
er at the time of his death. He died in 
October, 1846, in Syracuse, N. Y. 

EARLL, NEHEMIAH H., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1839 to 1841. 

EARLY, CHARLES, real estate oper¬ 
ator, was born Jan. 16, 1851, in Lynch¬ 
burg, Ya. In 1883 he came to Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., and became a real estate oper¬ 
ator. He has originated and promoted 
several land syndicates, and those en¬ 
gaged with him have substantial proof 
of his foresight and good sense. 

EARLY, JOHN, bishop, was born Jan. 
1, 1786, in Bedford county, Va. Though 
sixty-nine years of age, he was elected 
bishop in 1854, and served his church with 
great zeal and fidelity for nineteen years. 
He died Nov. 5, 1873, in Lynchburg, Ya. 

EARLY, JOHN, clergyman, college 
president, was born in 1814, in Ireland. 
He was appointed president of Worcester 
college, Mass., where he remained sev¬ 
eral years. Subsequently he was trans¬ 
ferred to the presidency of Georgetown 
college. He died in 1874, in Georgetown, 
D. C. 

EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON, general, 
author, was born Nov. 3, 1816, in Frank¬ 
lin county, Va. He was a distinguished 
general in the confederate army who set¬ 
tled in New Orleans after the close of the 
civil war. He was the author of Memoir 
of the Last Year of the War for Inde¬ 
pendence in the Confederate States; Cam¬ 
paigns of General Lee; and Jackson’s 
Campaign against Pope. He died in 1894. 

EARLY, LEWIS JOHNSON, educator, 
journalist, author, was born Feb. 2. 1865, 
in Ohio county, Ky. He commenced life 
as a teacher in Hawesville, Ky.; and sub¬ 
sequently was instructor of elocution in 
the West Kentucky college. He is the 
editor and proprietor of The Telephone 
of Cannelton, Ind.; and is also the au¬ 
thor of a book of selections entitled The 
Elocutionist’s Favorite. 

EARLY, PETER, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born June 20, 
1773, in Madison county, Va. He served 
in the United States house of represen¬ 
tatives from Georgia from 1802 to 1807. 
On his return to Georgia he was made a 
judge of the supreme court of the state; 
in 1813 was elected governor; and was 
subsequently a state senator. He died 
Aug. 15, 1817, in Greene county, Ga. 

EASON, JAMES HENRY, educator, 
clergyman, editor, was born Oct. 24, 1866, 
in Sumterville, Ala. He attended the Sel¬ 
ma university, and the Richmond Theo¬ 
logical seminary, Virginia, from which 
institution he received the degree of B. D. 
in 1890. He was principal of the Auburn 
academy, Alabama; missionary of the 
American Baptist Home Mission society 
of New York city; and professor of 
mathematics and metaphysics in Selma 
university. He reads Greek and Hebrew 
fluently, and has made some original in¬ 
vestigations in ancient history; and is the 
author of a work on that subject entitled 
The March of Civilization. He is a suc¬ 
cessful clergyman, and the editor of The 
Baptist Leader. 

EAST, THOMAS SADLER, business 
man, was born Aug. 11, 1879. He gradu¬ 
ated from the Military academy of Clin¬ 
ton, La., in which city he is successfully 
engaged in business. 


EASTBURN, GEORGE, educator, was 
born Nov. 25, 1838, in Bucks county, Pa. 
In 1862 he enlisted in the eleventh regi¬ 
ment Pennsylvania 
volunteer infantry, 
and subsequently 
left the military ser¬ 
vice on account of 
sickness. In 1868 he 
graduated from Yale 
college, with the de¬ 
gree of B. A.; and 
the same year 
founded an English 
and classical school 
on Broad street, 
Philadelphia, known 
as The Eastburn academy, which he has 
since conducted with great success. He 
was offered the vice-presidency of Girard 
college. He has lectured extensively on 
the metric system, and other subjects. In 
1871 Yale college gave him the degree of 
M. A.; and in 1890 the degree of Ph. D. 
was conferred on him by Princeton col¬ 
lege. 

EASTBURN, JAMES WALLIS, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born Sept. 26, 
1797, in London, England. At the age of 
eighteen he wrote the hymn O Holy, Holy, 
Holy Lord! and was a contributor to 
various periodicals. He published, in 
conjunction with Robert C. Sands, Yam- 
oyden, a romantic poem, founded on the 
history of King Philip, the sachem of the 
Wampanoags. He died at sea Dec. 2, 
1819. 

EASTBURN, MANTON, bishop, author, 
was born Feb. 1, 1801, in England. He 
was the fourth protestant episcopal 
bishop of Massachusetts. He was the au¬ 
thor of Lectures on Hebrew, Latin, and 
Greek Poetry; Lectures on the Epistles to 
the Philippians; and Essays and Disser¬ 
tations on Biblical Literature. He died 
Sept. 11, 1872, in Boston, Mass. 

EASTERBROOK, EXPERIENCE, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born April 30, 1813, 
in Lebanon, N. H. He was a member of 
the convention that formed the constitu¬ 
tion of Wisconsin; served also in the leg¬ 
islature, and was attorney general of the 
state. In 1854 he was appointed United 
States district attorney for the territory 
of Nebraska, which office he held until 
1859, when he was elected a delegate from 
Nebraska to the thirty-sixth congress. 

EASTLAND, MRS. CLARA F., poet, was 
born June 16, 1835, in Rutland, Vt. She 
is the author of a number of poems. 

EASTMAN, ALVAH, legislator, journal¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 22, 1858, in Lovell, 
Maine. In 1889 he was elected a member 
of the Minnesota legislature; and during 
1890-93 was United States revenue agent. 
He is the editor and owner of the Daily 
and Weekly Journal of St. Cloud; and 
president of the Minnesota Editorial as¬ 
sociation. 

EASTMAN, BENJAMIN C„ congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Wisconsin from 1851 to 1855. 
He died Feb. 5, 1856, in Platteville, Wis. 

EASTMAN, CHARLES GAMAGE, poet, 
was born June 1, 1816, in Frysburg, Maine. 
He was a poet of Montpelier, Vt., who 
published in 1848 a volume of Poems, de¬ 
scriptive of rural life in New England. 
He died in 1861 in Burlington, Vt. 

EASTMAN, CHARLES ROCHESTER, 
scientist, author, was born in 1868 in In¬ 
diana. He is a scientist of Cambridge, an 
assistant in the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology. He edited and translated from 
the German of Karl von Zittel a Text- 
Book of Palaeontology. 


EASTMAN. DAVID WALLACE, legis¬ 
lator, financier, was born Sept. 18, 1839, 
in Republic, Ohio. He received a thorough 
education and taught 
school until gradua¬ 
tion in Battle Creek. 
Mich. He enlisted 
in 1861 and served 
with distinction in 
fifteen battles and 
skirmishes. He re¬ 
enlisted in 1864, and 
resigned the follow¬ 
ing year. He served 
in the second regi¬ 
ment Missouri caval¬ 
ry (Merrill’s Horse); 
was sergeant of company H, and rapidly 
promoted to sergeant-major, first lieuten¬ 
ant, and adjutant of his regiment. In 
1871 he moved to Kansas, and since that 
time has resided in Emporia, where he 
has attained success in the real estate 
business, as a financier, and in public af¬ 
fairs. He has been assistant postmaster; 
a member of the board of education; 
treasurer of his county twice; mayor of 
Emporia; cashier of the Citizens’ bank; 
and in 1893 was a member of the famous 
Kansas house of representatives, and did 
some important work for the cause of 
good government. In 1894 he was a can¬ 
didate for state treasurer before the re¬ 
publican convention, and has taken an 
active part in the public affairs of his 
city, county and state. He is now secre¬ 
tary and treasurer of the Building and 
Loan association of Emporia, Kas. 

EASTMAN, EDWARD, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born in April, 1837, in Harrison, 
Maine. He is a successful lawyer; and 
represented his city in the state legisla 
ture in 1876. 

EASTMAN, MRS. ELAINE GOODALE. 
educator, author, poet, was born Oct. 9. 
1863, in Berkshire county, Mass. She be¬ 
came a teacher at various Indian schools, 
and in 1891 married Dr. Charles East¬ 
man, a Sioux Indian. She is now su¬ 
pervisor of schools in St. Paul, Minn. She 
is the author of Journal of a Farmer’s 
Daughter; The Coming of the Birds; and 
a volume of poems entitled Apple Blos¬ 
soms. 

EASTMAN, GEORGE, inventor, was 
born July 12, 1854, in Waterville, N. Y. As 
an amateur photographer and experiment¬ 
er during this period he perfected a pro¬ 
cess for making dry plates, and in 1881 
began to manufacture dry plates on a 
small scale. The Eastman Dry Plate com¬ 
pany now employs 700 people, and has a 
branch factory in Harrow, England. The 
Kodak was the greatest hit, and the East¬ 
man Kodak company, formed to produce 
it, capital $5,000,000, is sending its goods 
all over the world. 

EASTMAN, HARVEY GRIDLEY, edu¬ 
cator, was born Nov. 16, 1832, in Marshall, 
N. Y. He opened a commercial school in 
St. Louis in 1855, and four years later the 
Eastman National Business college at 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1871, and again 
in 1873, Mr. Eastman was elected to the 
New York assembly, and he also served 
three terms as mayor of Poughkeepsie. 
He died July 13, 1878, in Denver, Colo. 

EASTMAN, IRA A., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He served in the state legisla¬ 
ture, and was speaker of the house from 
1837 to 1839; and was at one time sec¬ 
retary of the state senate. He was regis¬ 
ter of probate; from 1844 to 1859 was a 
judge of the circuit and the supreme 
courts; and was elected a representative 
in congress from New Hampshire from 
1839 to 1843. 







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EASTMAN, JOHN ROBIE, astronomer, 
was born July 29, 1836, in Andover, N. H. 
In February, 1865, he was appointed pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics in the United States 
navy, with the relative rank of comman¬ 
der, and assigned to astronomical work 
in the United States observatory in Wash¬ 
ington. He has accompanied various 
astronomical expeditions throughout the 
United States, and in 1870 was sent to 
Syracuse, Sicily, to observe the total 
eclipse of the sun that took place on Dec. 
22 of that year. 

EASTMAN, JULIA ARABELLA, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born July 17, 1837, in 
Fulton, N. Y. She is a Massachusetts 
teacher who has written a number of ju¬ 
venile tales, among which are Short Com¬ 
ings and Long Goings; Young Rick; and 
Kitty Kent’s Trouble. 

EASTMAN, MACARTHUR EASTMAN, 
capitalist, was born June 8, 1810, in Gil- 
manton. He introduced the patent spin¬ 
ning jenny into England; sold patent of 
breech-loading cannon to British govern¬ 
ment in 1856; and contracted for fire¬ 
arms to the United States and other gov¬ 
ernments. He planned the direct ocean 
cable, laid in 1874. He died Sept. 3, 1877, 
in Manchester, N. H. 

EASTMAN, MRS. MARY HENDER¬ 
SON, author, was born in 1818 in Warren- 
ton, Va. She is the author of Romance 
of Indian Life; Dacotah, or Life and Leg¬ 
ends of the Sioux; American Aboriginal 
Portfolio; Chicora and other Regions of 
the Conquerors and the Conquered; Tales 
of Fashionable Life; and Aunt Phillis’s 
Cabin, a reply to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 

EASTMAN, NEHEMIAH, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1785 in Strafford 
county, N. H. He settled at Farmington, 
N. H. He was a senator in the state leg¬ 
islature from 1820 to 1825; and a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New Hamp¬ 
shire from 1825 to 1827. He died Jan. 11, 
1850. 

EASTMAN, ORNAN, clergyman, was 
born March 27, 1796, in Amherst, Mass. 
He entered the service of the American 
Tract society in Boston in 1825-28. In the 
latter year he was transferred to New 
York, first as general agent for the Mis¬ 
sissippi valley, and from 1832 as finance 
secretary, which office he continued to 
fill till he retired in 1870. He died April 
24, 1874, in New York city. 

EASTMAN, PHILIP, jurist, author, was 
born Feb. 5, 1789, in Chatham, N. H. He 
served as a commissioner to locate claims 
of settlers on the northeastern boundary 
of Maine. He published General Statutes 
of Maine in 1840, and Digest of the First 
Twenty-Six Volumes of Maine Law Re¬ 
ports in 1849. He died Aug. 7, 1869, in 
Saco, Maine. 

EASTMAN, SANFORD, physician, was 
born in 1821 in Lodi, N. Y. He began 
to practice in Buffalo, and was in 1858 
appointed to the professorship of anatomy 
in the university, to which was added in 
1867 that of clinical surgery, which posi¬ 
tion he resigned in 1870. He died Jan. 
8, 1874, in Riverside, Cal. 

EASTMAN, SETH, soldier, author, was 
born Jan. 24, 1808, in Brunswick, Maine. 
He was an officer in the United States 
army stationed at Fort Snelling and other 
places on the western frontier; after¬ 
wards a lieutenant-colonel and brevet 
brigadier-general. He was the author of 
History, Condition and Future Prospects 
of the Indians of the United States; and 
Topographical Drawing. He died Aug. 31, 
1875, in Washington, D. C. 


EASTON, CARROLL F„ banker, was 
born Aug. 31, 1857, in Lowville, N. Y. 
He received his education in the schools 
of West Martinsburg, N. Y., and has at¬ 
tained prominence as a successful ban¬ 
ker. For many years he lived in Minne¬ 
sota, and is now a prominent banker of 
Aberdeen, S. D., and general financial 
agent of the western department of the 
Fidelity and Deposit company of Mary¬ 
land. 

EASTON, JOHN, governor. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Rhode Island in 1690-95, and 
wrote a Narrative of the Causes which led 
to Philip’s Indian War of 1675-76. 

EASTON, NICHOLAS, governor of 
Rhode Island, was born in 1593 in 
Rhode Island. He was governor of the 
united colonies of Rhode Island and Prov¬ 
idence in 1650-52. He died Aug. 15, 1675, 
in Newport, R. I. 

EASTON, RUFUS, jurist, congressman. 
He was appointed United States judge for 
the territory of Louisiana in 1805; and 
was elected a delegate to congress from 
Missouri territory from 1814 to 1816. 

EATON, AMOS, scientist, author, was 
born May 17, 1776, in Chatham. N. Y. H“ 
was a prominent scientist whose writings 
include Index to Geology of the Northern 
States; Natural History of New York; 
Geological Survey of the Erie Canal Dis¬ 
trict; Philosophical Instructor; and Man¬ 
ual of Botany of North America. He died 
May 6, 1842, in Chatham, N. Y. 

EATON, AMOS BEEBE, soldier, was 
born May 12, 1806, in Catskill, N. Y. He 
was brevetted major-general in 1865, and 
was placed on the retired list in 1874. He 
died Feb. 21, 1877, in New Haven, Conn. 

EATON, ARTHUR WENTWORTH 
HAMILTON, clergyman, educator, author, 
was born Dec. 10, 1849, in Nova Scotia. 
He is an episcopal clergyman and instruc¬ 
tor of New York city. He is the author 
of The Heart of the Creeds, a notable 
contribution to Broad church literature; 
Acadian Legends and Lyrics; Letter-Writ- 
ing, its Ethics and Etiquette; The Church 
of England in Nova Scotia; and Tales of 
a Garrison Town. 

EATON, ASA, clergyman, author, was 
born July 25, 1778, in Plaistow. He was 
rector of Trinity church, Bridgewater, 
Mass.; and wrote History of Christ 
Church, Boston. He died March 24, 1858, 
in Boston, Mass. 

EATON, BENJAMIN H., farmer, man¬ 
ufacturer, governor, was born Dec. 15, 
1833, in West Bedford, Ohio. He served 
as justice of the peace, county commis¬ 
sioner, and as representative and sena¬ 
tor in the territorial legislature; and in 
1884 was elected governor of the state of 
Colorado. 

EATON, CHARLES HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 15, 1852, in 
Beverly, Mass. He attended Dean acad¬ 
emy, Tufts’ college, and Tufts’ Divinity 
school. He has attained success as a uni- 
versalist clergyman, and has filled pastor¬ 
ates in St. Paul’s church of Palmer, Mass.; 
and in the Church of the Divine Paternity 
of New York city. He has written ex¬ 
tensively on reform and social economics. 

EATON, CYRUS, educator, author, po¬ 
et, was born Feb. 11, 1784, in Framing¬ 
ham, Mass. He was an educator of Maine 
who was totally blind for the last thirty 
years of his life; and for five years was 
a representative in the Massachusetts leg¬ 
islature. He was the author of Annals 
of Warren, Maine; Woman, a poem; and 
History of Thomaston, Maine. He died 

Jan. 21, 1875, in Warren, Maine. 


EATON, DANIEL CADY, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 12, 1834, in Fort 
Gratiot, Mich. He was a professor of bot¬ 
any at Yale university; and the author of 
The Ferns of North America; and Ferns 
of the Southwest. He died in 1895. 

EATON, DANIEL CADY, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born June 16, 1837, in Johns¬ 
town, N. Y. He was a professor of the 
history of art at Yale university in 1869- 
76; and the author of Handbook of Greek 
and Roman Sculpture. 

EATON, DORMAN BRIDGMAN, jurist, 
author, was born June 27, 1823, in Hard¬ 
wick, Vt. He is a jurist of New York 
city, prominent in civil service reform, 
who has published Civil Service in Great 
Britain, and edited the seventh edition of 
Kent’s Commentaries. 

EATON, EDWARD DWIGHT, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, was born 
Jan. 12, 1851, in Lancaster, Wis. This 
eminent clergyman and educator has filled 
pastorates in the congregational church 
at Newton, Iowa, and at Oak Park, Ill.; 
and in 1886 became president of the Be¬ 
loit college, Wis. 

EATON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
July 3, 1804, in Henderson, Pa. He was 
president of Madison university from 1850 
till 1861, and at the same time professor 
of systematic-theology. From 1861 to 1871 
he was president of Hamilton Theological 
seminary and professor of homiletics. He 
died Aug. 3, 1872, in Hamilton, N. Y. 

EATON, HORACE, educator, governor, 
was born June 22, 1804, in Barnard, Vt. 
He was for some years a member of the 
legislature; lieutenant-governor from 1843 
to 1846; superintendent of public schools 
from 1845 to 1850; governor of the state 
from 1846 to 1849; and was a member of 
the constitutional convention in 1848. He 
died July 4, 1855, in Middlebury. 

EATON, ISAAC, educator, was born in 
1724, in Montgomery, Pa. He was for 
twenty-six years pastor of the baptist 
church in Hopewell, N. J., and was the 
first teacher among American baptists to 
open a school for the education of young 
men for the ministry. He died July 4, 
1772. 

EATON, JAMES R., clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, was born Dec. 11, 1834, at Hamilton, 
N. Y. In the spring of 1869 he became 
professor of natural science in William 
Jewell college, Liberty, Mo. He died 
March 20, 1897, in Cairo, Egypt, while on 
a trip to the Holy Land. 

EATON, JOHN, educator, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Dec. 5, 1829, in Sutton, 
N. H. He was commissioned a colonel in 
the volunteer service, and brevetted a 
general. He established and edited the 
Daily Post at Memphis, Tenn.; and in 
1870 was appointed United States commis¬ 
sioner of education. 

EATON, JOHN HENRY, was born in 
1790 in Tennessee. He was a senator in 
congress from Tennessee from 1818 to 
1829; and was secretary of war under 
President Jackson from 1829 to 1831. From 
1834 to 1836 was governor of the territory 
of Florida; and from 1836 to 1840 was 
minister plenipotentiary to Spain. He 
was the author of a Life of Andrew Jack- 
son. He died Nov. 17, 1856, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

EATON, JOSEPH ORIEL, artist, was 
born Feb. 8, 1829, in Licking county, Ohio. 
He was an effective genre and portrait 
painter, both in oil and water colors. The 
works that he exhibited at the National 
academy are Landscape View on the Hud¬ 
son; and Moral Instruction. He died Feb. 
7, 1875, in Yonkers, N. Y. 


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EATON, LEWIS, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1823 to 1825. 

EATON, NATHANIEL, educator, was 
born about 1609, in England. He was the 
first master of the school afterward called 
Harvard college. He died in 1660, in Eng¬ 
land. 

EATON, SAMUEL JOHN MILLS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 15, 1820, 
in Fairview, Pa. During 1848-82 he was 
pastor of a church in Franklin, Pa.; held 
the office of stated clerk of the presby¬ 
tery of Erie since 1853, and has held high 
positions in his church. In 1871 he visit¬ 
ed Egypt, Palestine, Greece and Turkey. 
He was the author of History of the Pres¬ 
bytery of Erie; Lakeside; Jerusalem; Pal¬ 
estine; and other works. 

EATON, SHERBURNE BLAKE, law¬ 
yer, was born Feb. 23, 1840, in Lowell, 
Mass. In 1884 he was made general coun¬ 
sel and president of the Edison Electric 
Light company of New York city. 

EATON, THEOPHILUS, first governor 
of New Haven colony, was born about 
1591 in England. In 1643 he was chosen 
the first governor of the New Haven col¬ 
ony. He died June 7, 1658, in Columbia, 

5. C. 

EATON, THOMAS TREADWELL, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Nov. 16, 1845, 
in Murfreesborough, Tenn. He is a 
baptist minister of Louisville; and the 
author of My Angels; Talks to Children; 
Marriage and Law; and Talks on Getting 
Married. 

EATON, WILLIAM, soldier, diplomat, 
was born Feb. 23, 1764, in Woodstock, 
Conn. In 1797 he was appointed consul 
to Tunis, and arrived there in March, 1799. 
Pie died June 1, 1811, in Brimfield, Mass. 

EATON, WILLIAM W., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born October, 
1816, in Tolland, Conn. He was elected 
a member of the house of representatives 
of Connecticut in 1847, 1848, 1853, 1863, 
1868, 1870, 1871, 1873, and 1874; and was 
elected speaker in 1853 and 1873. He was 
elected state senator in 1850; in 1874 was 
elected United States senator for the term 
erring in 1881; and in 1882 was elected a 
representative from Connecticut to the 
foriy-eighth congress as a democrat. 

EATON, WYATT, artist, was born May 

6, 1849, in Canada. He studied art in New 
York Academy of Design; and in Paris, 
France. In 1878 he painted portraits of 
the poets Bryant, Whittier, Longfellow, 
Emerson and Holmes; a portrait of Pres¬ 
ident Garfield for the Union League club; 
and a portrait of Bishop Horatio Potter, 
and of other eminent men. He was one 
of the organizers of the Society of Ameri¬ 
can Artists, of which he has been pres¬ 
ident. 

EBAUGH, ZACHARIAH CORNELIUS, 
educator, was born Aug. 7, 1854, in 
Houcksville, Md. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools of Maryland, 
the Reisterstown High school, and the 
Normal classes in Illinois. He has been 
principal of various schools in Mary¬ 
land, and is now principal and professor 
of mathematics in the Franklin High 
school of Reisterstown, Md. He is also a 
member of the state board of education of 
Maryland. 

EBERHARD, ERNST G„ musician, 
was born May 30, 1839, in Germany. In 
1857 he emigrated to America, and has 
become one of the finest orchestral con¬ 
ductors of the age. During 1859-63 he 
was organist of St. Ann’s church of 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; during 1864-76 was or¬ 
ganist of St. Paul’s church of New York 


city; and in 1874 he founded the grand 
conservatory of music, of which he is still 
the president. He is the author of many 
musical works; among them the course 
of studies for the piano in twelve books; 
and also a method in two books; and 
many miscellaneous works. His lectures 
on the science and history of music, com¬ 
menced in 1894, have become very pop¬ 
ular in the east. 

EBERHART, GILBERT L., soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, poet, was born in 
Beaver county, Pa. He was educated at 
Mercer academy and 
Washington college. 
He served four years 
in the union army 
during the war, a 
part of that time be¬ 
ing on the staff of 
Gen. George G. 
Meade. Since enter¬ 
ing upon the practice 
of law he has always 
been active in public 
affairs; has served as 
county superinten¬ 
dent of the public schools; two terms as 
a member of the legislature of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; was twice mayor of New Brighton; 
and in 1891 was elected a delegate to a 
proposed convention for the revision of 
the state constitution. He is a member 
of the Bars of Beaver, Lawrence, Mer¬ 
cer and Butler counties, and of the su¬ 
preme court of Pennsylvania. He has 
been strongly urged to stand for nomina¬ 
tion to the bench in the thirty-sixth ju¬ 
dicial district. He is the author of a 
number of meritorious poems. 

EBERLE, JOHN, physician, author, was 
born Dec. 10, 1787, in Lancaster county, 
Pa. He was a noted physician of Phila¬ 
delphia, and later of Cincinnati; and the 
author of Botanical Terminology; Dis¬ 
eases and Physical Education of Children; 
Therapeutics and Materia Medica; and 
Notes on Theory and Practice of Medi¬ 
cine. He died Feb. 2, 1838, in Lexington, 
Ky. 

EBERSOLE, EZRA C., educator, col¬ 
lege president, lawyer, was born Oct. 18, 
1840, in Mt. Pleasant, Pa. He was pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics; and became pres¬ 
ident of the Western college, Iowa. For 
several years he was supreme court re¬ 
porter of Iowa; and has practiced law 
since 1870 with success, principally in To¬ 
ledo, Iowa. 

ECCLESON, SAMUEL, Roman catholic 
archbishop, was born in 1801 in Mary¬ 
land. He successively filled the offices 
of vice-president and president of St. 
Mary’s college. In 1834 he was con¬ 
secrated coadjutor archbishop of Balti¬ 
more, and succeeded Archbishop Whit¬ 
field in the same year. He died in 1851 in 
Georgetown, D. C. 

ECKARD, JAMES READ, missionary, 
author, was born Nov. 22, 1805, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a presbyterian mis¬ 
sionary to India; and the author of 
Faith and Justification; The Hindoo Trav¬ 
eler; and Outline of English Law from 
Blackstone. He died in 1887. 

ECKER, JOHN EMIL, musician, author, 
was born April i4, 1853, in Austria. He is 
the author of a concert overture for a 
full orchestra, and other compositions. 

ECKERT, GEORGE N., physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He 
was a representative in congress from that 
state from 1847 to 1849, after which he was 
appointed director of the United States 
mint from 1851 to 1853. He died in July, 
1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


ECKFELDT, JACOB REESE, assayer, 
was born March, 1803, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He early entered the United States 
mint, where his father was chief coiner, 
and by his capabilities rapidly rose until 
he was made chief assayer. He died Aug. 
9, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ECKFORD. HENRY, naval architect, 
was born March 12, 1775, in Scotland. In 
the second war with Great Britain, 1812- 
15, he was employed by the government 
to construct ships of war on the lakes, 
and filled the contract with expedition and 
skill. He died Nov. 12, 1832, in Constan¬ 
tinople. 

ECKLES, DELANE R., jurist, was born 
in Kentucky. He removed to Indiana and 
was appointed chief justice of the United 
States court for the territory of Utah. 

ECKLES, JOHN BROOKS, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Sept. 6, 1868, in Pleas¬ 
ant Grove. Miss. He is a son of a Vir¬ 
ginia family. In 1889 he graduated from 
the university of Mississippi, with the de¬ 
gree of LL. B. In 1892 he was elected for 
four years and served with distinction as 
a member of the Mississippi house of rep¬ 
resentatives, but resigned Nov. 1, 1894, 
to accept the appointment of superinten¬ 
dent of education for Panola county, 
Miss., receiving the reappointment in 1896 
for four years. He is also a successful 
lawyer, and operates planting interests. 

ECKLEY, EPHRAIM R., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
Dec. 9, 1812, in Jefferson county, Ohio. He 
was a member of the Ohio senate in 1843, 
1845 and 1849, serving until 1851; and in 
1853 was elected to the state house of rep¬ 
resentatives. During the rebellion he 
was a colonel, and at the battle of Corinth 
commanded a brigade. In 1862 he was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
thirty-eighth congress, and was re-elected 
to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses 
as a republican. 

EDDY, ANSEL DOANE, clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 15, 1798, in Will- 
iamstown, Mass. He was a presbyteuian 
clergyman of New York who published 
the Christian Citizen; Duties, Dangers 
and Securities of Youth. He died Feb. 

7, 1875, in Lansingburg, N. Y. 

EDDY, CLARENCE, organist, author, 
was born in 1851. He is an organist of 
Chicago; and the author of The Church 
and Concert Organist; and The Organ in 
Church. 

EDDY, DANIEL CLARK, clergyman, 
author, was born May 21, 1823, in Salem, 
Mass. He was a baptist clergyman of Bos¬ 
ton, and subsequently of Brooklyn, who 
wrote extensively, some of his books hav¬ 
ing been very popular. Among them are 
The Percy Family, and Walter’s Tour in 
the East, two series of volumes for young 
readers; Young Man’s Friend; Young 
Woman’s Friend; The Burman Apostle, a 
Life of Judson; Roger Williams and the 
Baptists; The Unitarian Apostasy; Eu- 
ropa, or Scenes in the Old World; Wait¬ 
ing at the Cross; and Angel Whispers. 

EDDY, EBENEZER J. FOSTER, sol¬ 
dier, scientist, was born Jan. 15, 1847, in 
Moretown, Vt. He has held various posi¬ 
tions in the Grand Army of the Republic; 
and has been president of the National 
Christian Scientists’ association. 

EDDY, EDWARD, actor, was born in 
1821 in Troy, N. Y. He came to New 
York in 1851, and was successively man¬ 
ager of the Metropolitan theater, Bur¬ 
ton’s Chambers street theater, the Old 
Bowery, and the old Broadway theater. 
He died Dec. 19, 1875, in Jamaica. 






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EDDY, FRANK M., educator, business 
man, congressman, was born April 1, 1856, 
in Pleasant Grove, Minn. He was elected 
clerk of the district court of Pope county, 
and he has held this position, also that 
of court reporter of the sixteenth judi¬ 
cial district, continuously ever since. He 
was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty- 
fifth congresses as a republican. 

EDDY, HENRY CLARENCE, musician, 
was born June 23, 1851, in Greenfield, 
Mass. He has attained success as a mu¬ 
sician of Chicago, Ill. 

EDDY, HENRY TURNER, educator, 
mathematician, author, was born June 9, 
1844, in Stoughton, Mass. He is a mathe¬ 
matician, and since 1874 a professor in 
the university of Cincinnati; and the au¬ 
thor of Analytical Geometry; Researches 
in Graphical Statics; Thermodynamics; 
and Maximum Stress under Concen¬ 
trated Loads. 

EDDY, JOHN H., geographer, was 
born in 1782. He published a circular map 
of the country for thirty miles around 
New York in 1814; a map of the western 
part of New York; a map to illustrate the 
communication between Lake Erie and 
the Hudson; and a map of the state of 
New York; and was engaged on a gen¬ 
eral atlas of America at the time of his 
death. He died Dec. 22, 1817. 

EDDY, MRS. MARY BAKER GLOVER, 
author. She is a resident of Concord, 
N. H., widely known as the founder of 
the sect of Christian 
Scientists. Besides 
Christian Science; 
Science and Health, 
she has published a 
number of pamphlets 
on the general sub¬ 
ject of Christian 
Science. She has lec- 
t u r e d extensively 
throughout the 
United States on 
Christian Science; 
and has also con¬ 
tributed extensively to current publica¬ 
tions on that subject. 

EDDY, NORMAN, congressman, was 
born Dec. 10, 1810, in Scipio, N. Y. He re¬ 
moved to Indiana; and was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1853 to 1855. He died Jan. 28, 1872, in 
Indianapolis, Ind. 

EDDY, RICHARD, clergyman, author, 
was born June 21, 1828, in Providence, 
R. I. He is a universalist clergyman of 
Melrose, Mass.; and the author of Univer- 
salism in America; History of the Six¬ 
tieth New York Regiment; and The Mar¬ 
tyr to Liberty. 

EDDY, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 31, 1769, in 
Providence, R. I. In 1798 he was chosen 
secretary of state and held the office for 
twenty-one years, when he resigned. He 
was elected a representative in congress 
from his native state from 1819 to 1825; 
and was subsequently chief justice of the 
supreme court of Rhode Island for eight 
years. He died Feb. 2, 1839, in Providence, 
R. I. 

EDDY, THOMAS, philanthropist, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 5, 1758, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a philanthropist whose 
efforts were chiefly in the direction of 
prison reform, and was the author of 
The State Prisons of New York. He died 
Sept. 16, 1827, in New York city. 

EDDY, THOMAS MEARS, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 7, 1823, in New¬ 
town, Ohio. He was a methodist minis¬ 
ter of Chicago, who published Patriotism 
of Illinois, a history of that state during 
the civil war. He died Oct. 7, 1874, in 
New York city. 



EDDY, ZACHARY, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 19, 1815, in Stockbridge, Vt. 
He was a presbyterian minister of Augus¬ 
ta, Ga.; and the author of Immanuel, or 
the Life of Christ; Hymns of the Church; 
and Songs of the Church. He died in 1891. 

EDEN, CHARLES, governor, was born 
in 1674. He was governor of North Caro¬ 
lina from 1713 to 1722. He died March 
26, 1722, in North Carolina. 

EDEN, JOHN R., lawyer, congressman, 
was born Feb. 1, 1826, in Bath county, 
Ky. In 1856 he was appointed state at¬ 
torney for the seventh district, which of¬ 
fice he held four years. In 1862 he was 
elected a representative from Illinois to 
the thirty-eighth congress; and was elect¬ 
ed to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty- 
fifth and forty-ninth congresses as a dem¬ 
ocrat. 

EDEN, ROBERT, governor, was born in 
England. In 1768 he became governor of 
Maryland; advised the repeal of the tax 
on tea; and when the colonel of militia 
demanded the arms and ammunition, he 
readily gave them up. He died Sept. 2, 
1786, in Annapolis, Md. 

EDES, BENJAMIN, journalist, was 
born Oct. 14, 1732, in Charlestown, Mass. 
In 1755 he was the editor and proprietor 
of the Boston Gazette and Country Jour¬ 
nal, a patriotic newspaper that exerted a 
powerful influence before the revolution 
and during that struggle. He was one of 
the Sons of Liberty. In his house the pat¬ 
riots comprising the Boston tea party as¬ 
sembled on the afternoon of Dec. 16, 1773, 
and drank punch from a bowl that was 
subsequently given by Mr. Edes’s family 
to the Massachusetts Historical society, 
afterward disguising themselves as In¬ 
dians in the Gazette office. During the 
siege of Boston, Mr. Edes escaped to Wat¬ 
ertown, where he continued the publica¬ 
tion of the Gazette. After forty-three 
years of editorship he discontinued it in 
1798. He died Dec. 11, 1803, in Boston, 
Mass. 

EDES, HENRY HERBERT, genealogist 
and historian, was born March 29, 1849, 
in Charlestown, Mass. Since 1892 he has 
been director and treasurer of the Con¬ 
veyancers’ Title Insurance company of 
Boston, Mass. He was the founder of 
the Colonial society of Massachusetts. He 
is the author of a Genealogy of the Edes 
Family; Charlestown Historic Points; and 
Memorial of Josiah Barker. 

EDES, RICHARD SULLIVAN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 24, 1810, in 
Providence, R. I. He published a memoir 
of Peter Edes in the New England His¬ 
torical and Genealogical Register; Jour¬ 
nal and Letters relative to Two Journeys 
to the Ohio Country in 1788 and 1789 made 
by Col. John May, with a biographical 
sketch, and assisted in the preparation of 
A Genealogy of the Descendants of John 
May. He died Aug. 26, 1877, in Boston, 
Mass. 

EDES, ROBERT THAXTER, physician, 
author, was born Sept. 23, 1838, in East- 
port, Maine. He is a physician of Wash¬ 
ington; and the author of Nature and 
Time in the Cure of Diseases; Physiology 
and Pathology of the Sympathetic or 
Ganglionic Nervous System; Therapeuti¬ 
cal Handbook of United States Pharma¬ 
copoeia; and Text-Book of Therapeutics 
and Materia Medica. 

EDGAR, CORNELIUS HENRY, clergy- 
gan, author, was born April 11, 1811, in 
Rahway, N. J. He was a Dutch reformed 
clergyman of Easton, Pa.; and the author 
of Lectures on Slavery; Discourses on the 
Death of Lincoln; Curse of Canaan Right¬ 
ly Interpreted; and Exposition of the 
Nine Last Wars (1867). He died Dec. 23, 
1884, in Easton, Pa. 


EDGAR, JOHN TODD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 13, 1792, in Sussex 
county, Del. He became pastor of the 
First Presbyterian church in Nashville, 
Tenn., in 1833, and remained there till his 
death. At one time he edited the Ameri¬ 
can Presbyterian, published at Nashville. 
He died Nov. 13, 1860, in Nashville, Tenn. 

EDGECOMB, WILLARD W., diplomat. 
He was a citizen of Maine, and while hold¬ 
ing the position of consul at Cape Town, 
Africa, was empowered to negotiate a 
treaty of friendship and commerce with 
the Orange Free State, in 1871. 


EDGERTON, A. J., soldier, jurist, Unit¬ 
ed States senator, was born June 7, 1827, 
in Rome, N. Y. He graduated from the 
Wesleyan university 
of Ohio. During the 
civil war he served 
nearly five years in 
the union army; and 
was promoted to col¬ 
onel and brevetted 
brigadier-general of 
the United States 
volunteers. He was 
senator from Minne¬ 
sota in 1881; chief 
justice of Dakota; 
president of the con¬ 
stitutional convention, which adopted the 
constitution of South Dakota; was United 
States district judge of South Dakota; 
and became chief justice. He died in 1896. 



EDGERTON, ALFRED P„ journalist, 
statesman, was born Jan. 11, 1813, in 
Plattsburgh, N. Y. In 1845 he was elected 
to the state senate of Ohio; and in 1848 
was a delegate at large to the democratic 
national convention. In 1850 he was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
thirty-second congress; and in 1852 was 
re-elected to the thirty-third congress. In 
1885 he was appointed United States civil 
service commissioner, and became the 
president of the commission. 

EDGERTON, JAMES ARTHUR, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born Jan. 30, 1869, in 
Plantsville, Ohio. For several years he 
was managing edi¬ 
tor of the Evening 
Herald of Kalama¬ 
zoo, Mich.; then be¬ 
came connected with 
The Register of Mar¬ 
ietta; and subse¬ 
quently moved to 
Lincoln, Neb., where 
he is the editor and 
owner of the Ne¬ 
braska Independent. 
He is prominent in 
political affairs; has 
been chairman of the people’s party state 
committee of Nebraska; and secretary of 
the people’s party national committee. He 
is the author of two volumes of poems, 
and has contributed extensively to the 
periodical press, principally on reform 
matters. 



EDGERTON, JESSE, business man, 
poet, was born July 12, 1845, in Barnes- 
ville, Ohio. He is the secretary of the 
Columbiana Handle company of Columbi¬ 
ana, Ohio; and is the author of a number 
of poems. 

EDGERTON, JOSEPH KETCHUM, law¬ 
yer, railroad president, congressman, was 
born Feb. 16, 1818, in Vorgennes, Vt. In 
1855 he was president of the Fort Wayne 
and Chicago Railroad company, and sub¬ 
sequently financial agent of the same 
when consolidated with the Pittsburg 
road. In 1862 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Indiana to the thirty-eighth 
congress. 









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EDGERTON, SIDNEY, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, governor, was born in 1818 
in Cazenovia, N. Y. He was a prosecut¬ 
ing attorney for four years in Summit 
county. He was elected a representative 
from Ohio to the thirty-sixth congress, 
and re-elected to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. He was appointed a judge for the 
territory of Idaho, and subsequently gov¬ 
ernor of Montana. 

EDGREN, AUGUST HJALMAR, sol¬ 
dier, educator, author, was born Oct. 18, 
1840, in Sweden. He is a Swedish scholar 
who came to the United States in 1862, 
and served for a time in the federal army, 
and afterwards in the Swedish army. 
Since 1884 he has been professor of lan¬ 
guages in the university of Nebraska. He 
is the author of Complete Sanskrit Gram¬ 
mar; German and English Dictionary 
(with William D. Whitney); The Liter¬ 
ature of America (in Swedish); Public 
Schools and Colleges of the United States; 
Swedish Literature in America; and 
American Antiquities. 

EDHOLM, MARY G. CHARLTON, jour¬ 
nalist, evangelist, author, was born Oct. 
28, 18^4, in Freeport, Ill. For several 
years she was a re¬ 
porter on the Oak¬ 
land and San Fran¬ 
cisco papers. She 
had previously trav¬ 
eled extensively and 
done special work 
for the papers of 
eastern cities; and 
also for a number of 
magazines. For years 
she was the press su¬ 
perintendent of the 
World’s Woman’s 
■ Christian Temperance union, and is now 
superintendent of the Florence Critten- 
ten missions, and author of Traffic in 
Girls, and Florence Crittenten Missions. 
She has lectured extensively on Social 
Purity; is a most zealous and enthusi¬ 
astic worker, and has dedicated her life to 
the great cause. 

EDICK, SAMUEL STEARNS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born June 17, 1834, in Colum¬ 
bia, N. Y. In 1855 he was admitted to 
the bar, and in 1864 moved to Coopers- 
town, N. Y. The following year he was 
elected district attorney of Otsego county, 
and received the re-election in 1868. In 
1871 he was elected county judge, served 
a term of six years, and refused the re¬ 
nomination. 

EDIE, JOHN R., congressman, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative to the thirty-fourth and thir¬ 
ty-fifth congresses from that state. 

EDISON, THOMAS ALVA, inventor, 
was born Feb. 11, 1847, in Erie county, 
Ohio. He started life as a train boy at 
the age of twelve. While on the train he 
published a weekly paper, which was the 
first paper ever published on a train. One 
day he grabbed the station-master’s child 
from in front of an approaching train. 
The station-master was so pleased that 
he taught young Edison how to tele¬ 
graph. He then became a telegraph 
operator, and invented a system by which 
he could send two or more messages over 
the same wire at the same time. His 
principal inventions are the telephone, 
phonograph and electric light. He is 
now perfecting a system of taking iron 
out of solid rock by electricity. 

EDMANDS, J. WILEY, congressman, 
was born in Massachusetts. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1853 to 1855. 


EDMOND, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 
1755, in South Britain, Conn. He was 
chosen a member of the legislature; mem¬ 
ber of the council; and judge of the su¬ 
preme court of that state. He was a 
member of congress from Connecticut 
from 1798 to 1801. He died Aug. 1, 1838, 
in Newton, Conn. 

EDMONDS, ELIAS, soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Feb. 1, 1833, in Lan¬ 
caster county, Pa. He was a lieutenant 
in the fortieth Virginia regiment, army of 
northern Virginia; and served as a mem¬ 
ber of the Virginia state legislature in 
1864-65. 

EDMONDS, EVERETT E., farmer, edu¬ 
cator, legislator, was born Jan. 23, 1848. 
in Kansas. At the age of twenty-six 
years he was elected to the Washington 
state legislature. He has taught school 
for many years, and is a farmer. 

EDMONDS, JOHN CARTER, lawyer, 
was born Nov. 30, 1848, in Fauquier coun¬ 
ty, Va. In 1870 he graduated from the 
Virginia Military institute. He served in 
the confederate service with Mosby’s army 
as a private, and was wounded at Drains- 
ville, Va., in February, 1864. The ball 
lodged in the thigh bone, and was not ex¬ 
tracted until 1895. In 1874 he moved to 
Texas, where he has attained success as 
a lawyer at Sherman, Texas. He has been 
chairman of the faculty of Austin college; 
and has served his city as mayor for two 
terms. 

EDMONDS, JOHN WORTH, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, author, was born March 
13, 1799, in Hudson, N. Y. He was a 
member of the legislature in 1831; and 
of the senate from 1832 to 1836. He was 
circuit judge from 1845 to 1847; 
judge of the superior court from 1847 to 
1852; and a member of the court of ap¬ 
peals in 1852 and 1853. He became an ad¬ 
vocate of Spiritualism in 1853 and pub¬ 
lished Spiritualism; Reports of Select Law 
Cases; and Letters and Tracts on Spirit¬ 
ualism. He died April 5, 1874, in New 
York city. 

EDMONDSON, HENRY A., congress¬ 
man, was born' in Virginia. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
that state in 1849; and was re-elected to 
each successive congress down to the 
thirty-sixth congress. 

EDMUNDS, G., jurist. He moved to 
Utah, and was appointed an associate 
judge of the United States court for that 
territory. 

EDMUNDS, GEORGE F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was 
born Feb. 1, 1828, in Richmond, Vt. He 
was a member of the 
state legislature of 
Vermont in 1854-59, 
serving three years 
as speaker; and was 
a member of the 
state senate, and its 
presiding officer pro 
tempore in 1861-62. 
He was appointed to 
the United States 
senate as a republic¬ 
an to fill a vacancy 
in 1866, and has 
since been successively re-elected four 
times. He was a member of the elec¬ 
toral commission of 1876. He was the au¬ 
thor of the two acts passed by congress 
in 1882 and 1887 which effected the de¬ 
struction of the polygamous system in 
Utah. His term of service in the senate 
would have expired March 3, 1893, but he 
resigned his office of senator on Nov. 1, 
1891, and retired to private life.- 


EDMUNDS, JAMES M., statesman, was 
born Aug. 23, 1810, in Niagara county, 
N. Y. In 1839’ he was elected to the state 
senate; and in 1846 to the lower house. 
From 1857 to 1861 he was comptroller of 
Detroit, which office he resigned to be¬ 
come the commissioner of the general 
land office in Washington. In 1869 he be¬ 
came postmaster of Washington city; 
from 1855 to 1861 was chairman of the re¬ 
publican state central committee of Mich¬ 
igan; and president of the Michigan Sol¬ 
diers’ Relief association in Washington 
city, from its first organization in 1861. 

EDMUNDS, NEWTON, governor, was 
born in New York. He was an early emi¬ 
grant to Dakota; and in 1863 was ap¬ 
pointed governor of that territory, resid¬ 
ing in Yankton, and serving in that office 
until 1866. 

EDMUNDS, PAUL CARRINGTON, law¬ 
yer, farmer, congressman, was born Nov. 
1, 1836, in Halifax county, Va. He was 
elected to the senate of Virginia in 1881, 
and served four years; and was re-elect¬ 
ed in 1884. He was a delegate from the 
sixth district to the democratic national 
convention at Chicago in 1884; and was 
elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second 
congresses and re-elected to the fifty-third 
congress as a democrat. 

EDMUNDSON, JAMES DEPEW, ban¬ 
ker, was born Nov. 23,1838, in Des Moines 
county, Iowa. He is president of the 
Citizens’ State bank, and is also connect¬ 
ed with the State Savings bank, the Sioux 
Valley bank of Correctionville, Iowa; and 
the Bankers’ National bank of Chicago; 
and the Pioneer Implement company of 
Council Bluffs, Iowa. 

EDSALL, JOSEPH E., congressman, 
was born in Sussex county, N. J. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
that state from 1837 to 1839; and was a 
member of the state legislature, and of 
the convention which framed the last 
state constitution. 

EDSEN, EDWARD P., lawyer, author, 
was born in Germany. In 1889 the firm 
of Thompson, Edsen and Humphries was 
established, which is now one of the lead¬ 
ing law firms of the Pacific coast. He has 
made numerous creditable contributions 
to periodical literature in both prose and 
verse. 

EDSON, CYRUS, physician, author, 
was born in Albany, N. Y. In 1882 he was 
appointed on the medical staff of the 
health department of the city of New 
York as assistant sanitary inspector, 
and promoted through all the different 
grades to his present position as chief 
inspector. He is the author of Poisons 
in Food and Drink; Disinfection; and De¬ 
fenses against Contagious Diseases. 

EDSON, FRANKLIN, merchant, was 
born April 5, 1832, in Chester, Vt. He 
has been three times president of the 
Produce exchange, in 1873, 1874 and 1878. 
His political affiliations have been with 
the county democracy, and in 1882 he was 
elected mayor of New York city. 

EDWARD, MANIGAULT GABRIEL, 
zoologist, geologist, was born Jan. 7, 1833, 
in Charleston, S. C. He is professor of 
zoology and geology, and curator of 
museum, college of Charleston, S. C.; and 
also president of the Carolina Art associa¬ 
tion. 

EDWARDS, ALBERT G., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, was born Oct. 15, 1812, in Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky. In 1862 he was appointed com¬ 
mander of the St. Louis division of state 
guards; and for some time had command 
of the troops of St. Louis, Mo. He has 
been bank commissioner of Missouri; and 
sub-treasurer of the United States at St. 
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EDWARDS, BELA BATES, clergyman, 
author, was born July 4, 1802, in South¬ 
ampton, Mass. He was a congregational 
clergyman, professor in Andover Theolog¬ 
ical seminary, and editor of the Biblio¬ 
theca Sacra. He published an Eclectic 
Reader; Biography of Self-made Men; 
and Memoirs of E. Cornelius. He died 
April 20, 1852, in Athens, Ga. 

EDWARDS, BENJAMIN, farmer, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born in 1752 in 
Stafford county, Va. He was a member 
of the Maryland legislature; also of the 
state convention which ratified the fed¬ 
eral constitution; and was a member of 
congress from Maryland from 1794 to 1795 
to fill a vacancy. He died Nov. 13, 1826, 
in Todd county, Va. 

EDWARDS, BENJAMIN STEVENSON, 
lawyer, state legislator, jurist, was born 
June 3, 1818, in Edwardsville, Ill. In 1869 
he was elected circuit judge of Sanga¬ 
mon county, Ill., but resigned after eigh¬ 
teen months’ service, preferring the ac¬ 
tive practice of his profession. He died 
Feb. 5, 1886, in Springfield, Ill. 

EDWARDS, CHARLES, lawyer, author, 
was born March 17, 1797, in England. He 
was a New York lawyer who was coun¬ 
sel to the British consulate. He was the 
author of The Juryman’s Guide; Parties 
to Bills and Other Pleadings; Feathers 
from My Own Wings; Receivers in Chan¬ 
cery; Reports of Chancery Cases; Receiv¬ 
ers in Equity; Referees; History and 
Poetry of Finger Rings; and Pleasantries 
about Courts and Lawyers. He died May 
30, 1868, in New York city. 

EDWARDS, CHARLES, journalist, was 
born July 6, 1846, in Springfield, Ill. In 
1863 he filled a position in the commissary 
department of the United States army. 
After the war he was an instructor in 
Bryant and Stratton’s Commercial college 
in Springfield for a short time. He was 
connected with the Illinois State Jour¬ 
nal, and at one time was one of the pro¬ 
prietors of the Illinois State Register. 

EDWARDS, CHARLES JEROME, un¬ 
derwriter, was born May 8, 1866, in Wayne 
county, N. Y. In 1888 he became metro¬ 
politan manager of the Equitable Life 
Assurance society. 

EDWARDS, CLARENCE J., physician, 
journalist, legislator, was born Oct. 3, 
1858, in Springfield, Ark. He is principal¬ 
ly known as the editor and owner of The 
Meridional of Abbeville, La., although he 
has attained prominence as a physician; 
and has been a representative of the 
Louisiana state legislature. 

EDWARDS, EDGAR S., farmer, stock- 
man, was born March 4, 1839, in Buffalo, 
N. Y. For four years he was engaged in 
mining in Colorado; and four years at the 
same business in Montana. He moved to 
Idaho in 1867, where he has attained 
success in mining, farming and stock- 
raising. 

EDWARDS, EMORY, naval engineer, 
author, was born in 1841 in Virginia. He 
is a naval engineer who served in the 
United States navy as assistant engineer 
in 1864-68. He is the author of A Cate¬ 
chism of the Marine Steam Engine; Mod¬ 
ern American Locomotive Engines; Mod¬ 
ern American Marine Engines, Boilers 
and Screw Propellers; and The Practical 
Steam Engineer’s Guide. 

EDWARDS, FRANCIS S., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born May 28, 1818, 
in Norwich, Conn. Removing to New 
York he was appointed a master in chan¬ 
cery in 1841 for the county of Chenango; 
in 1851 was elected surrogate of Chautau¬ 
qua county; and in 1854 was elected to 
the thirty-fourth congress from New 
York. 


EDWARDS, GEORGE WHARTON, ar¬ 
tist, author, was born in 1860 in Connecti¬ 
cut. He is an artist and writer of short 
stories living at 
♦Plainfield, New Jer¬ 
sey. His works are 
P’tit Matinic’, and 
Other Monotones; 
Thumb-Nail Sketch¬ 
es; The Rivalries of 
Long and Short Co- 
diac; and Break o’ 
Day and Other Stor¬ 
ies. In art he has 
treated principally 
Holland subjects; 
and has received nu¬ 
merous medals and diplomas. 

EDWARDS, HARRY STILLWELL, 
journalist, author, was born in 1854 in 
Georgia. He is a journalist of Macon, 
Ga.; and the author of Two Runaways 
and Other Stories; and Sons and Fathers. 

EDWARDS. HAYDEN, merchant, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born in 1710. He was 
several times in the legislature from 
Stafford and Westmoreland counties, Va. 

EDWARDS, HENRY PIERREPONT, 
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1809. He was 
a judge of the supreme court of New York 
for over seven years, and sustained a high 
reputation for independence and legal abil¬ 
ity. He died Feb. 24, 1855, in New York 
city. 

EDWARDS, HENRY W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, governor, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born in 1779 in New Haven, Conn. 
He was a representative in congress from 
1819 to 1823; and United States senator 
from 1823 to 1827. He was a member of 
the state senate in 1828 and 1829; speaker 
of the Connecticut house of representa¬ 
tives in 1830; and governor in 1833, and 
from 1835 to 1838. He died July 22, 1847, 
in New Haven, Conn. 

EDWARDS, JAMES THOMAS, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born in 1838. 
in New Jersey. He is a methodist clergy¬ 
man and educator of Baltimore; and the 
author of The Grass Family; The Voice 
Tree; and The Silva of Chautauqua Lake. 

EDWARDS, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1837 to 1843. 

EDWARDS, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1839 to 1843. He died 
June 25, 1843, in Chester, Pa. 

EDWARDS, JOHN, legislator. United 
States senator. He was a member of the 
Kentucky legislature from Fayette coun¬ 
ty in 1781, 1782, 1783 and 1785; and was a 
commissioner who chose the seat of gov¬ 
ernment at Frankfort in 1785. He was 
United States senator from Kentucky from 
1792 to 1795. He died in 1837 in Bour¬ 
bon county, Ky. 

EDWARDS, JOHN, legislator, United 
States senator, was born in 1755 in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was a member of the state 
convention of Virginia which ratified the 
federal constitution, and was one of the 
first two senators from Kentucky. 

EDWARDS, JOHN, poet, was born 
April 15, 1806, in Wales. He was a Welsh 
poet who came to America in 1828, and 
settled in central New York. He was 
long prominent among Welsh residents 
of the United States, and published two 
volumes of verse, The Crucifixion; and 
The Omnipresence of God. He died Jan. 
20, 1887, in Rome, N. Y. 

EDWARDS, JOHN, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, was born Oct. 24, 1815, in Jefferson 
county, Ky. He was a member of the leg¬ 
islature of Indiana from 1845 to 1849, and 
filled numerous other offices of honor. 


EDWARDS. JOHN C., congressman, 
governor. He was a representative in 
congress from Missouri from 1841 to 1843; 
and governor of that state from 1844 to 
1848. 

EDWARDS, JOHN ELLIS, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 1, 1814, in Guilford 
county, N. C. He is a methodist clergy¬ 
man of Richmond, Va., and the au¬ 
thor of Life of John Wesley Childs; Ran¬ 
dom Sketches and Notes of European 
Travel; The Confederate Soldier; and 
Log Meeting-House. 

EDWARDS, JONATHAN, theologian, 
author, was born Oct. 5, 1703, in East 
Windsor, Conn. From 1751 to 1758 he 
served as missionary to the Stockbridge 
Indians, and the last month of his life 
was president of the college of New Jer¬ 
sey, now Princeton university. His chief 
work is the celebrated Inquiry into the 
Freedom of the Will, a masterpiece of 
acute, precise, and original thinking. His 
other works include Notes on the Mind 
and Natural Science; The Religious Af¬ 
fections; Distinguishing Marks of a Work 
of the Spirit; Nature of True Virtue; 
God’s Last End in the Creation; Treatise 
on Grace; Doctrine of Original Sin De¬ 
fended; Inquiry into the Qualifications 
for Communion; Thoughts for the Revival 
of Religion; History of the Redemption; 
and Life of David Brainerd. He died 
March 22, 1758, in Princeton, N. J. 

EDWARDS, JONATHAN, clergyman, 
author, was born May 26, 1745, in North¬ 
ampton, Mass. He was a congregational 
clergyman of great ability who was presi¬ 
dent of Union college. He was the author 
of Treatise on Liberty and Necessity; 
and Discourses on the Atonement. He 
died Aug. 1, 1801, in Schenectady, N. Y. 

EDWARDS, JONATHAN, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, legislator, was born Sept. 7, 1798, in 
Hartford, Conn. He practiced for many 
years in Hartford, where he held the of¬ 
fice of judge of probate. About 1840 he 
removed to Troy, N. Y., of which city he 
was subsequently chosen mayor. He was 
also several times elected to the state 
legislature. He died Aug. 23, 1875, in New 
Haven, Conn. 

EDWARDS, JONATHAN, clergyman, 
college president, was born July 19, 1817, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has filled pas¬ 
torates in the presbyterian churches in 
Ohio, Kentucky, New Jersey and Mary¬ 
land; and from 1855-57 was president of 
Hanover college. He died July 13, 1891, 
in Peoria, Ill.- 

EDWARDS, JULIAN, composer, was 
born Dec. 17, 1855, in England. He is the 
author of Brian Boru, which created a 
sensation on its production at the Broad¬ 
way theater on Oct. 19, 1896, and estab¬ 
lished his fame as one of America’s fore¬ 
most composers of light opera. He has 
written many songs, notably a collection 
entitled Sunlight and Shadow. 

EDWARDS, JUSTIN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 25, 1787, in West- 
hampton, Mass. He was a congregational 
clergyman, prominent in the temperance 
movement. Beside a Sabbath Manual; and 
Temperance Manual, he published a great 
number of tracts. He died July 23, 1853, 
in Bath Alum, Va. 

EDWARDS, MORGAN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born May 6, 1722, in Wales. 
He was one of the founders of Brown 
university; and the author of Materials 
Toward a History of the Baptists in Penn¬ 
sylvania; and Materials Toward a His¬ 
tory of the Baptists in New Jersey. He 
died Jan. 28, 1795, in Pencador, Del. 



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EDWARDS, NINIAN, lawyer, jurist, 
governor, United States senator, was born 
in March, 1775, in Montgomery county, 
Md. Removing to Kentucky, he was 
twice elected to the legislature; was ap¬ 
pointed a circuit clerk, and subsequently 
judge of the general court of Kentucky, 
of the circuit court, of the court of ap¬ 
peals, and finally, chief justice of the 
state, all before reaching the thirty-second 
year of his age. In 1809 President Madi¬ 
son appointed him governor of the terri¬ 
tory of Illinois, to which office he was 
three times reappointed. When Illinois 
became a state he was elected a senator 
in congress, serving from 1818 to 1824. In 
1826 was elected governor of the state of 
Illinois, which office he filled until 1831. 
He died of cholera July 20, 1833, in Belle¬ 
ville, Ill. 

EDWARDS, NINIAN W„ lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born April 15,1809, near Frank¬ 
fort, Ky. In 1834 he was appointed at¬ 
torney-general of Illinois. In 1836 he was 
elected a representative in the legislature, 
and he served in the legislature, either in 
the senate or the house, from 1836 to 1852. 
In 1854 he received the appointment of 
state superintendent of public instruction 
and was the first incumbent of that office. 
During 1862-65 he was United States 
commissary with the rank of major. He 
wrote a History of Illinois and Ninian 
Edwards. He died Sept. 2, 1889. 

EDWARDS, OGDEN, lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born in 1781, in Connecticut. 
He \yas a member of the legislature, and 
in 1821 sat in the convention called to re¬ 
vise the constitution of the state. He 
was appointed circuit judge of the su¬ 
preme court, and continued in that office 
until 1841. He died April 1, 1862, on 
Staten Island, N. Y. 

EDWARDS, OLIVER, soldier, was born 
Jan. 30, 1835, in Springfield, Mass. In 
1864 he was brevetted brigadier-general 
for gallant and distinguished services; 
and was made major-general the year fol¬ 
lowing. 

EDWARDS, PIERREPONT, soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, congressman, was born 
April 8, 1750, in Northampton, Mass. He 
was frequently elected to the Connecticut 
legislature; and was administrator of the 
estate of Benedict Arnold at the time of 
his treason. He was a delegate from Con¬ 
necticut to the continental congress in 
1787 and 1788; and subsequently filled the 
office of United States judge for the state 
of Connecticut, which he held at the time 
of his death. He died April 5, 1826, in 
Bridgeport, Ky, 

EDWARDS, SAMUEL, congressman, 
was born in Delaware county, Pa. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1819 to 1827. 

EDWARDS, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
was born April 24, 1839, in Glenville, N. 
Y. He attained prominence as an able 
lawyer, and became justice of the supreme 
court of the state of New York. 

EDWARDS, SANFORD, surgeon, was 
born in 1742. He served with distinction 
as surgeon-general in General Marion’s 
army. He died in 1815. 

EDWARDS, THOMAS M., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 
Cheshire county, N. H. He served eight 
years in the New Hampshire legislature 
between the years 1834 and 1856; and was 
a presidential elector in 1856. In 1859 he 
was elected a representative from New 
Hampshire to the thirty-sixth congress; 
and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh 
congress. He was a delegate to the Phila¬ 
delphia loyalists’ convention of 1866. 


EDWARDS, TIMOTHY, merchant, 
judge, was born July 25, 1738, in North¬ 
ampton, Mass. He removed to Stockbridge 
about 1770, where he was a leading citi¬ 
zen for forty-three years, and sat as judge 
of probate for Berkshire county. 

EDWARDS, TOM 0., congressman, was 
born in Maryland. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Ohio from 
1847 to 1849. He died in February, 1876, 
in Wheeling, W. Va. 

EDWARDS, TRYON, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 7, 1809, in Hartford, 
Conn. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man who edited the Works of Joseph 
Bellamy, with Memoir; the works of his 
grandfather, Jonathan Edwards; and pub¬ 
lished, among other works, Christianity 
a Philosophy of Principles; Self-Culti¬ 
vation; Light for the Day; Wonders of 
the Word; and Anecdotes for the Family. 
He died in 1894. ( 

EDWARDS, WAKEMAN W„ lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 13, 1826, 
in Charlton, N. Y. He attended the pub¬ 
lic schools of his native village and pre¬ 
pared for college at the Schenectady ly- 
ceum. In 1850 he graduated from the 
Union college with honors, being third in 
his class. In 1851 he moved south, and 
taught a classical school in Camden, 
Miss. In 1855 he was admitted to the 
bar, and moved to Arkansas, where he 
practiced until the civil war; and in 1858 
was a representative in the Arkansas state 
legislature. In 1865 he moved to Louis¬ 
iana; practiced law first in New Orleans, 
and then at Abbeville. He has been judge 
of the twenty-fifth judicial court of Louis¬ 
iana, and has had the management of all 
the public schools of the county under his 
charge. 

EDWARDS, WELDON NATHANIEL, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1788, in 
Warren county, N. C. He was in the 
legislature for two years; was a member 
of congress from North Carolina from 
1816 to 1827; and again went into the 
legislature, serving there from 1833 to 
1844. He was again elected in 1850; was 
made president of the state senate; and 
was president of the state convention in 
1861. He died Dec. 18, 1873, in Warren, 
N. C. 

EDWARDS, WILLIAM, inventor, was 
born Nov. 11, 1770, in Elizabethtown, N. 
J. To him belongs the honor of the suc¬ 
cess in the United States of the manufac¬ 
ture of leather, both by his method and 
the improved machinery. His first tan¬ 
nery was built at Northampton, Mass. He 
died Dec. 1, 1851, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

EDWARDS, WILLIAM EMORY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 10, 1842, in 
Prince Edward county, Va. He is a meth- 
odist clergyman of Virginia who is the 
author of John Newson, a Tale of Col¬ 
lege Life. 

EDWARDS, WILLIAM H., soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Nov. 30, 1841, in Lawrence 
county, Ind. He enlisted as a private in 
the sixty-seventh regiment Indiana vol¬ 
unteers. In 1872 he was elected to repre¬ 
sent Lawrence county in the Indiana leg¬ 
islature, and served during the regular 
and special sessions. 

EDWARDS, WILLIAM HENRY, natu¬ 
ralist, author, was born in 1822, in New 
York. He is a naturalist of Coalburgh, 
W. Va.; and the author of The Butter¬ 
flies of North America; and Voyage up 
the Amazon. 

EDWARDS, WILLIAM P., congressman, 
was born in Georgia. He was elected a 
representative from that state to the for¬ 
tieth congress. 


EDWARDS, WYNN, farmer, soldier,, 
legislator, was born Nov. 9, 1842, in Den¬ 
bighshire, North Wales. He received his 
education in Wales, 
and subsequently 
took a business 
course in Bryant 
and Stratton’s col¬ 
lege of Chicago, Ill. 
H e emigrated t o 
America in 1859, and 
has since lived at 
Rosendale, Wis. He 
is a successful farm¬ 
er; has taken an 
active interest in the 
tramp problem, and 
through his influence a tramp workhouse 
has been erected in Fond du Lac. During 
the war he served in company F, twenty- 
first regiment Wisconsin volunteer infan¬ 
try; was with General Sherman all 
through the Atlanta campaign, until 
wounded by a gun-shot on Aug. 7, 1864. 
He again joined the regiment at Savan¬ 
nah, and marched through the Carolinas. 
He was treasurer of his town for seven 
years; was postmaster during President 
Harrison’s administration; is now serv¬ 
ing his seventh year as chairman of his 
town; and in 1896 was elected a member 
of the Wisconsin state assembly. 

EDWIN, DAVID, engraver, was born in 
December, 1776, in England. He was em¬ 
ployed by Edward Savage, the painter, 
and soon became the most eminent artist 
of the time. He ‘died Feb. 22, 1841, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

EELLS, DANIEL PARMELEE, banker, 
was born April 16, 1825, in Westmoreland, 
N. Y. He graduated from the Hamilton 
college in 1848. He 
is prominent in the 
business and public 
affairs of Cleveland, 
Ohio, where he has 
been president of the 
Commercial National 
bank since 1868; and 
his connection with 
this institution cov¬ 
ers a period of half 
a century. He was 
one of the projectors 
of the Ohio Central 
railroad, and its first president. He was 
prominent in the construction of the St. 
Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern railway; 
the New York, Chicago and St. Louis rail¬ 
way; the Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette 
railroad; and the East Tennessee, Vir¬ 
ginia and Georgia railroad. In connection 
with others, he has built and consolidated 
railroads, along whose lines villages 
sprang up, manufactories were started, 
and the whole country benefited. 

EELLS, JAMES, clergyman, was born 
Aug. 27, 1822, in Westmoreland, N. Y. 
He attained success as a clergyman of the 
Presbyterian church; and filled pastor¬ 
ates in Penn Yan, N. Y.; Cleveland, Ohio; 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; San Francisco, and Oak¬ 
land, Cal. He was professor of theology 
in the San Francisco Theological semi¬ 
nary; and also in the Lane seminary of 
Cincinnati; and in 1878 was president of 
the general assembly at Chicago. He 
died March 9, 1886, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

EELLS, MYRON, clergyman, mission¬ 
ary, author, poet, was born Oct. 7, 1843, 
in Walker’s Prairie, Wash. Since 1875 
he has been a missionary to the Indians 
in the state of Washington. He has a 
collection of geological, Indian, Chinese, 
and other specimens of antiquity. He is 
the author of several prose works and a 
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EELLS, SAMUEL, lawyer, was born in 
1811, in Westmoreland, N. Y. He was a 
successful lawyer and founded the Alpha 
Delta Phi fraternity in 1832. He died 
March 13, 1842, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

EFFNER, VALENTINE, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a member 
of the assembly of that state in 1829; and 
was a representative in congress from 
1835 to 1837. 

EFIRD, CYPRIAN M„ lawyer, state 
senator, was born Dec. 18, 1856, in Lex¬ 
ington, S. C. During 1892-96 he served 
as state senator for Lexington county in 
the South Carolina legislature. He is a 
lawyer of prominence and has been re¬ 
porter for the state supreme court. 

EGAN, MAURICE FRANCIS, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born May 28, 1852. 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a journalist 
and is now professor at the Roman Cath¬ 
olic university of Notre Dame, Ind. His 
prose writings include That Girl of Mine: 
That Lover of Mine; A Garden of Roses; 
Stories of Duty; The Life Around Us; The 
Theater and Christian Parents; Modern 
Novelists; Lectures on English Litera¬ 
ture; The Disappearance of Mr. Long¬ 
worthy; A Primer of English Literature; 
A Gentleman; A Marriage of Reason; The 
Success of Patrick Desmond; and The 
Flower of the Flock. In verse he has 
published Preludes; and Songs and Son¬ 
nets, and Other Poems. 

EGAN, MICHAEL, bishop, was born in 
Ireland. He was appointed pastor of St. 
Mary’s church of Philadelphia; and in 
1810 was consecrated bishop of the newly 
created diocese of Philadelphia. He died 
June 22, 1814, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

EGAN, THOMAS W., soldier, was born 
in 1836, in New York city. In 1862 he 
was promoted colonel, and participated in 
all the battles of the army of the Potomac. 
At the battle of Boydton plankroad he 
commanded the division, and was bre- 
vetted major-general. He died Feb. 24, 
1887, in New York city. 

EGAR, JOHN HODSON, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1832, in England. He 
is an episcopal clergyman of Rome, N. Y.; 
and the author of The Threefold Grace of 
the Holy Trinity; and Christendom, Ec¬ 
clesiastical and Political. 

EGBERT, A. G., physician, farmer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 13, 1828, in 
Mercer county, Pa. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Pennsylvania to the for¬ 
ty-fourth congress. 

EGBERT, JOSEPH, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1841 to 1843. 

EGE, GEORGE, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania during the years 1796 and 1797 
to All a vacancy. 

EGGLESTON, BENJAMIN, was born 
Jan. 3, 1816, in Corinth, N. Y. He was 
president of the Cincinnati city council; 
and was for some years a member of the 
state legislature. In 1864 he was elected 
a representative from Ohio to the thirty- 
ninth congress; and was re-elected to the 
fortieth congress. He was the author of 
several novels. 

EGGLESTON, EDWARD, author, was 
born Dec. 10, 1837, in Vevay, Ind. He is 
a novelist now living near Lake George, 
N. Y., who, in the early part of his career, 
was a methodist minister. His first im¬ 
portant work, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, 
attracted widespread notice. Other fic¬ 
tion by him include The End of the 
World; The Circuit Rider; Roxy; The 


Graysons, a story of Illinois; The Faith 
Doctor; The Hoosier Schoolboy; Queer 
Stories for Boys and Girls; Schoolmasters’ 
Stories; Mr. Blake’s Walking Stick; 
Duffels. Still other works are Sunday- 
school Manual; Counsel for Teachers; 
School History of the United States; 
Household History of the United States; 
First Book in American History; Stories 
of Great Americans; and The Beginners 
of a Nation, the first volume in a History 
of Life in the United States. With his 
daughter, Mrs. Seelye, he has written Te- 
cumseh and the Shawnee Prophet; Poca¬ 
hontas; Brandt and Red Jacket; and 
Montezuma. 

EGGLESTON. GEORGE CARY, soldier, 
journalist, author, was born Nov. 26, 1839, 
in Vevay, Ind. He is a brother of Edward 
Eggleston. During the civil war he 
served in the confederate army, and after¬ 
wards filled several journalistic positions 
in New York city, becoming editor of the 
Commercial Advertiser in 1886. He is the 
author of How to Educate Yourself; A 
Man of Honor; A Rebel’s Recollections; 
How to Make a Living; How to Make 
Money; The Big Brother, or a Story of 
the Indian War; Captain Sam; Signal 
Boys; The Wreck of the Red Bird; 
Strange Stories from History for Young 
People; Red Eagle; and Juggernaut: A 
Veiled Record. 

EGGLESTON, JOSEPH, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 24, 1754, in 
Amelia county, Va. He served in the 
revolutionary war as a captain and major 
of cavalry under Colonel Henry Lee; and 
was in several of the battles fought by 
Gates and Greene. He served in the Vir¬ 
ginia assembly for several years; was a 
representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1798 to 1801; and from the time of 
his leaving congress until his death was 
a justice of the peace. He died Feb. 13, 
1811. 

EGLE, WILLIAM H., physician, state 
librarian, historian, was born Sept. 17, 
1830, in Harrisburg, Pa. For three years 
he served in the civil war; and since 1870 
has been surgeon in the national guard 
of Pennsylvania. In 1887 he was ap¬ 
pointed state librarian of Pennsylvania. 
He is the author of a History of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; History of Dauphin County; His¬ 
tory of Lebanon County; Historical Re¬ 
gister; Pennsylvania Genealogies, Scotch- 
Irish and German; Pennsylvania in the 
Revolution; Notes and Queries relative to 
Interior Pennsylvania; and Pennsylvania 
Archives in twelve volumes. 

EGLESTON, AZARIAH, soldier, state 
senator, jurist, was born Feb. 23, 1757, 
'in Sheffield, Mass. He served in the revo¬ 
lutionary war, and attained the rank of 
major. In 1807-09 he was elected state 
senator; and in 1808 he was appointed 
associate justice of the court of sessions. 
He died Jan. 12, 1822. 

EGLESTON, THOMAS, mining engi¬ 
neer, author, was born Dec. 9, 1832, in 
New York city. He is a metallurgist of 
note; and has been professor of miner¬ 
alogy at Columbia college from 1864. He 
is the author of Metallurgy of Silver; Cat¬ 
alogue of Minerals; Lectures on Mineral¬ 
ogy; and Life of John Patterson, Major- 
General in the Army of the Revolution. 

EHNINGER, JOHN WHETTON, artist, 
was born July 22, 1827, in New York city. 
The subject of his first painting, Peter 
Stuyvesant (1850), was taken from Irv¬ 
ing’s Knickerbocker’s History of New 
York, and was engraved by the American 
Art union. He died Jan. 22, 1889, in Sara¬ 
toga, N. Y. 


EHRHARDT, JOHN ADAM, lawyer, 
was born Dec. 6, 1848, in Germany. He 
received his education at the Western 
Union college and the Illinois Military 
academy. He has gained distinction as 
an able lawyer of Stanton, Neb., and has 
been prosecuting attorney of his county. 
In 1897 he was elected department com¬ 
mander of the Grand Army of the Repub¬ 
lic of Nebraska; and has also served as 
grand master of Masons in Nebraska. 

EICHELBERGER, ABDIEL W., rail¬ 
road president, was born Dec. 6, 1819, in 
Hanover, Pa. He is president of the 
Baltimore and Harrisburg railway; and is 
also president of the Berlin Branch rail¬ 
road. 

EICKHOFF, ANTHONY, journalist, 
congressman, was born April 11, 1827, in 
Westphalia, Germany. He had editorial 
charge of newspapers at St. Louis, 
Louisville, and finally at New York, where 
he located permanently in 1852. In 1863 
he was appointed commissary general of 
subsistence of the state of New York; 
and was subsequently elected a represen¬ 
tative in the New York legislature. He 
was elected coroner of the city of New 
York in 1873; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the forty- 
fifth congress. 

EIDL1TZ, CYRUS LAZELLE WARN¬ 
ER, architect, was born July 27, 1853, in 
New York city. Among the buildings 
that he has designed are the Michigan 
Central railway station in Detroit; the 
Dearborn station in Chicago; and the 
Buffalo library. 

EIDLITZ, LEOPOLD, architect, author, 
was born March 29, 1823, in Prague, Bo¬ 
hemia. He was an architect of New York 
city; and the author of The Nature and 
Function of Art. He died in 1896. 

EIGHMEY, CHARLES HENRY, law¬ 
yer, banker, was born Nov. 28, 1834, in 
Saratoga, N. Y. He was educated at 
Cornell college of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Dur¬ 
ing 1861-71 he practiced law with success. 
He has been vice-president, cashier, and 
president of the First National bank of 
Dubuque since 1871: and still is its hon¬ 
ored president. Mr. Eighmey has been 
prominently identified with religious in¬ 
stitutions, and has been a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church of Dubuque, 
Iowa, half a century. He is a trustee and 
chairman of the building committee of the 
new St. Luke’s Methodist church of Du¬ 
buque, to the construction of which he 
was a liberal donor. 

EILAND, CHARLES LEVI, clergyman, 
legislator, was born March 20, 1852, near 
Troy, Ala. He is a successful clergyman 
of the baptist church; served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the Alabama 
state legislature in 1892-93, and again in 
1895-96. For ten years he has been mod¬ 
erator of the New Providence association; 
and now fills a pastorate in Brantley, 
Ala. 

EILERS, FREDERIC ANTON, metal¬ 
lurgist, was born Jan. 14, 1839, in Ger¬ 
many. He is considered one of the fore¬ 
most experts in the United States in his 
branch of metallurgy. 

EINSTEIN. EDWIN, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 18, 1842, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from New York to the forty-sixth 
congress. 

EISEMAN, BENJAMIN, merchant, was 
born Nov. 16, 1833, in Germany. In 1879 
he moved to St. Louis, Mo., where he es¬ 
tablished a large dry goods house. He as¬ 
sisted in organizing several insurance 
companies and the First National bank. 
He was also for two years president of the 
Chamber of Commerce of Memphis. Tenn. 


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ELA, JACOB H., journalist, congress¬ 
man, was born July 18, 1820, in Rochester, 
N. H. He established and edited the Her¬ 
ald of Freedom, and also participated in 
establishing the Independent Democrat. 
In 1857-58 he was a member of the state 
legislature, and filled several other state 
offices. In 1861 he was appointed United 
States marshal for his state, holding the 
office until 1866. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New Hampshire to the 
fortieth and forty-first congresses; and 
in 1872 was appointed fifth auditor of the 
United States treasury; and in 1881 was 
appointed sixth auditor of the treasury. 

ELAM, JOSEPH B„ lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born June 12, 1821, in Hemp¬ 
stead county, Ark. He was admitted to 
practice law in Alexandria, La., in 1843; 
served two terms in the state legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1851 removed to De Sota 
parish. In 1861 he was a delegate to the 
state constitutional convention; again 
served in the legislature during the civil 
war; and was elected a representative 
from Louisiana to the forty-fifth and for¬ 
ty-sixth congresses as a democrat. 

ELBERT, SAMUEL, soldier, governor, 
was born in 1743, in Prince William par¬ 
ish, S. C. He served in the revolutionary 
war and attained the rank of brigadier- 
general; and in 1785 was elected governor 
of Georgia. He died Nov. 2, 1788, in Sa¬ 
vannah, Ga. 

ELBERT, SAMUEL HITT, state legis¬ 
lator, governor, was born April 3, 1833, 
in Logan county, Ohio. In 1869 he was 
elected to the Colorado legislature; and 
in 1873 was elected governor of Colorado, 
serving until 1874. 

ELDER, CYRUS, public official, author, 
poet, was born June 16, 1833, in Somerset, 
Pa. He was a revenue commissioner of 
Pennsylvania; and the author of Dream 
of a Free-Trade Paradise; Man and La¬ 
bor; Short Studies; and May Gift, a vol¬ 
ume of poems. 

ELDER, GEORGE A. M., priest, college 
president, author, was born in 1794, in 
Hardin’s Creek, Ky. He was a Roman 
catholic priest who founded the college 
of St. Joseph at Bardstown, Ky., and was 
its first president. He wrote Letters to 
Brother Jonathan; and other works. He 
died in 1838, in Bardstown, Ky. 

ELDER, JOHN, clergyman, was born in 
1706, in Ireland. He trained his parish¬ 
ioners for cavalry service against the In¬ 
dians, and afterward received a colonel’s 
commission from the proprietaries and 
had charge of the block-houses from Eas¬ 
ton to the Susquehanna. He died in 1792, 
near Harrisburg, Pa. 

ELDER, JOSEPH FREEMAN, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, was born March 10, 1839. 
in Portland, Maine. Since 1870 he has 
been pastor of the Baptist church of the 
Epiphany of New York city. In 1885 he 
became president of the New York Bap¬ 
tist City mission. 

ELDER, MRS. SUSAN BLANCHARD, 
educator, author, was born about 1835, in 
Fort Jessup, La. She has written ex¬ 
tensively for Roman catholic periodicals; 
and is the author of The Loss of the 
Papacy; James the Second; Savonarola; 
and Ellen Fitzgerald, a southern tale. 

ELDER, WILLIAM, physician, author, 
was born July 23, 1806, in Somerset, Pa. 
He was a Philadelphia physician, promi¬ 
nent as an abolitionist; and the author 
of Periscopics, a volume of miscellanies; 
The Enchanted Beauty; The Life of Dr. 
Kane; The Debt and Resources of the 
United States (1863); Questions of the 
Day, Economic and Social; and Conver¬ 
sations on the Principal Subjects of Po¬ 
litical Economy. He died in 1885. 


ELDER, WILLIAM HENRY, bishop, 
was born March 22, 1819, in Baltimore, 
Md. He was made a bishop in 1857, be¬ 
ginning his active duties in charge of the 
see of Natchez. In 1880 he was nomi¬ 
nated coadjutor bishop of Cincinnati, and 
in 1883 became archbishop. 

ELDRED, NATHANIEL B„ congress¬ 
man, was born in 1795, in Orange county, 
N. Y. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania from 1822 to 
1828; was for a time canal commissioner 
of Pennsylvania; and naval officer at 
Philadelphia from 1852 to 1856. He died 
Jan. 27, 1867, in Bethany, Pa. 

ELDREDGE, BARNABAS, manufactur¬ 
er, was born June 19, 1843, in Munson, 
Ohio. In 1879 the Eldredge Manufactur¬ 
ing company was organized, and he was 
chosen its first president. In 1886 the 
company was consolidated with the Na¬ 
tional Sewing Machine company, and the 
two corporations removed from Chicago 
to Belvidere, Ill., where they built a large 
plant for the manufacture of their ma¬ 
chines. 

ELDREDGE, NATHANIEL B., physi¬ 
cian, lawyer, congressman, was born 
March 28, 1813, in Auburn, N. Y. He was 
a state senator of Michigan in 1848; and 
judge of probate from 1852 to 1856. In 
1861 he raised a company of volunteers 
and joined the seventh Michigan infantry; 
and became a lieutenant-colonel in 1862. 
In 1865 he removed to Adrian, Mich., and 
was elected mayor in 1870. In 1874 he 
was elected sheriff of Lenawee county; 
and was elected a representative from 
Michigan to the forty-eighth congress; 
and was re-elected to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

ELDRIDGE, CHARLES A., was born 
Feb. 27, 1821, in Bridgeport, Vt. In 1848 
he removed to Fond du Lac, Wis. In 1854 
and 1855 he was a 
member of the state 
senate; and in 1862 
was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Wis¬ 
consin to the thirty- 
eighth congress. He 
was re-elected to the 
thirty-ninth, fortieth, 
forty-first, forty- 
second and forty- 
third congresses as a 
democrat. He served 
on several important 
committees while a member of congress. 

ELDRIDGE, EDWIN, capitalist, was 
born in 1811. He became president of the 
Elmira Iron and Steel company, and was 
long connected with the Erie railroad. He 
gave a public park to Elmira, and con¬ 
tributed materially to the progress of that 
town. He died Dec. 16, 1876, in Elmira, 
N. Y. 

ELDRIDGE, EDWIN R., educator, lec¬ 
turer, college president, was born Aug. 31, 
1843, in Burnettsville, Ind. He received 
his education at the Indiana common 
schools; Burnettsville seminary; Wash¬ 
ington college, Iowa; and subsequently 
received the degree of doctor of laws from 
the Drake university of Des Moines, Iowa. 
He has always been prominently identified 
with educational work; has been county 
superintendent of schools; for fourteen 
years was president of the Eastern Iowa 
Normal school; and for nineteen years 
was lecturer in normal institutes in con¬ 
nection with county superintendency and 
normal school presidency. He is now pres¬ 
ident of the State Normal college of Troy, 
Ala., which position he has filled since 
1888. 


ELIOT, ANDREW, clergyman, was born 
Dec. 28, 1718, in Boston, Mass. In 1742 
he was ordained pastor of the new North 
church in Boston, where he remained un¬ 
til his death. He was a great student of 
literature and science, and was influential 
in the cause of American freedom. He 
died Sept. 30, 1778, in Boston, Mass. 

ELIOT, CHARLES, author, was born in 
1791, in Boston, Mass. His first writings 
appeared in the General Repository, a Bos¬ 
ton periodical, and he was specially in¬ 
terested in the preparation of Scheusner’s 
Lexicon. His Miscellaneous Writings were 
edited by Andrews Anton. He died in 
1813. 

ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM, educator, 
college president, was born March 20, 
1834, in Boston, Mass. He was a distin¬ 
guished educator who has been president 
of Harvard university since 1869. He is 
the author of a Manual of Qualitative 
Chemical Analysis; and Manual of In¬ 
organic Chemistry. 

ELIOT, EPHRAIM, druggist, author. 
He published Historical Notices of the 
New North Religious Society, with Anec¬ 
dotes of Rev. Andrew Eliot and John 
Eliot. 

ELIOT, JARED, clergyman, scientist, 
author, was born Nov. 7, 1685, in Guil¬ 
ford, Conn. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Killingworth, Conn., in 1707- 
63. He was awarded a medal by the Lon¬ 
don institute in 1756 for producing mal¬ 
leable iron from American black sand. He 
was the author of Essays upon Field and 
Husbandry, and many single sermons. He 
died April 22, 1763, in Killingworth, Conn. 

ELIOT, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born Aug. 5, 1604, in England. He was a 
puritan minister of Roxbury vvho came to 
America in 1631, and is famous in history 
as the Indian apostle. He is chiefly re¬ 
membered for his famous translation of 
the Bible into the Indian language, but 
he was the author of other works, among 
which are the Communion of Churches; 
The Harmony of the Gospels; Dying 
Speeches of Several Indians; The Indian 
Primer; and Indian Logic Primer. He 
died May 21, 1690, in Roxbury, Mass. 

ELIOT, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born May 31, 1754, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a clergyman of Boston, pastor of the 
New North Congregational church in 1779- 
1813, and author of the New England Bio¬ 
graphical Dictionary. He was also a mis¬ 
sionary to the Indians; and translated the 
first Bible into the Indian dialect, which 
translation was also the first Bible printed 
in America. He died Feb. 14, 1813, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

ELIOT, SAMUEL, educator, college 
president, author, was born Dec. 22, 1821, 
in Boston, Mass. During 1856-64 he filled 
the chair of history and political science 
in Trinity college of Hartford, Conn.; 
was its president in 1860-64; and was a 
lecturer on constitutional law during 1864- 
74. For two years he was superintendent 
of the Boston public schools. He is the 
author of History of Liberty; Manual of 
the United States History; and Life and 
Times of Savonarola. 

ELIOT, SAMUEL AITKINS, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, author, was born 
March 5, 1798, in Bostofl, Mass. He was 
mayor of Boston from 1837 to 1839; and 
a representative and senator in the legis¬ 
lature for three or four years. He was a 
representative in congress from 1850 to 
1851; and was also treasurer of Harvard 
college for eleven years. He published 
Observations on the Bible for the Use of 
Young Persons; and Sketch of the His¬ 
tory of Harvard College. He died Jan. 29, 
1862, in Cambridge, Mass. 



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ELIOT, THOMAS DAWES, was born 
March 20, 1808, in Boston, Mass. He 
served in both houses of the Massachu¬ 
setts legislature; was a representative in 
congress to fill a vacancy; and re-elected 
to the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirty- 
eighth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. He died June 12, 
1870, in New Bedford, Mass. 

ELIOT, WILLIAM GREENLEAF, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Aug. 5, 1811, 
in New Bedford, Mass. He was a Unita¬ 
rian clergyman of St. Louis, and chancel¬ 
lor of Washington university there in 
1872-87. He was the author of Doctrines 
of Christianity; Early Religious Educa¬ 
tion; Lectures to Young Men; Lectures 
to Young Women; Discipline of Sorrow; 
Manual of Prayer; The Unity of God; The 
Story of Archer Alexander from Slavery 
to Freedom; and Home Life and Influence. 
He died Jan. 23, 1887, in Pass Christian, 
Miss. 

ELKINS, HENRY ARTHUR, artist, 
was born May 30, 1847, in Vershire, Vt. 
He removed to Chicago in 1856, taught 
himself to paint, and achieved some suc¬ 
cess. Among his pictures are Mount Shas¬ 
ta; The Thirty-eighth Star; Storm at 
Shasta; New Eldorado; and Crown of 
the Continent. He died July 25, 1884, in 
Georgetown, Col. 

ELKINS, STEPHEN BENTON, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman. United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 26, 1841, in Perry 
county, Ohio. He 
was a member of the 
territorial legislative 
assembly of New 
Mexico in 1864 and 
1865. He held the 
offices of territorial 
district attorney, at¬ 
torney-general, and 
United States district 
attorney; was 
elected to the forty- 
third congress as a 
republican, and while 
abroad was renominated and elected to 
the forty-fourth congress. After leaving 
congress he removed to West Virginia and 
devoted himself to business affairs; was 
appointed secretary of war in 1891; and 
in 1894 was elected to the United States 
senate as a republican. His term of ser¬ 
vice will expire March 3, 1901. 

ELKINS, WILLIAM LEWIS, astrono¬ 
mer, was born April 29, 1855, in New Or¬ 
leans, La. He has attained note as an 
eminent astronomer. 

ELKINS, WILLIAM LUKENS, finan¬ 
cier, was born May 2, 1832. He went to 
Philadelphia and became one of the first 
to engage in the refining of crude oil. 
Several small refineries were purchased, 
the Belmont Oil works were leased and 
control of the entire local industry of oil 
refining had soon been obtained by Mr. 
Elkins. 

ELLEDGE, WILLIAM MADISON, 
clergyman, was born March 17, 1862, in 
Perry, Ill. In 1891 he graduated from the 
Fremont Normal school, Nebraska; and 
in 1896 from the Chicago Theological 
seminary. For many years he taught 
school ; has been editor of a newspaper, 
and was at one time a candidate for the 
Nebraska state legislature. He now fills 
a pastorate in the Congregational church 
at Overbrook, Kan. 

ELLENBECKER, JOHN G., educator, 
college president, poet, was born Jan. 29, 
1869, in Hancock, Mich. When two years 
of age his parents moved to Kansas, 
where he was educated, and graduated 
from the Marysville High school in 1888. 


He taught school for awhile, and subse¬ 
quently graduated from the scientific class 
of the Kansas Normal college, with the 
degree of B. S.; subsequently receiving 
the degree of B. A. He organized the 
Modern Normal college of Marysville, 
Ivan., of which institution he is president. 
Some of his poems appear in Poets of 
America, and other standard works. 

ELLERY, CHRISTOPHER, United 
States senator, was born Nov. 1, 1768, in 
Newport, R. I. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Rhode Island from 1801 to 
1805; and in the latter year was ap¬ 
pointed United States commissioner of 
loans. He was appointed collector of New¬ 
port in 1828. He died Dec. 2,1840, in New¬ 
port, R. I. 

ELLERY, FRANK, naval officer, was 
born July 23, 1794, in Newport, R. I. He 
commanded the steamer Enterprise in 
1840, was put on the reserved list in 1855, 
commanded the Boston rendezvous again 
in 1861, and was commissioned commo¬ 
dore on the retired list in 1867. 

ELLERY, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 22, 1727, in 
Newport, R. I. He was a delegate to the 
continental congress from 1776 to 1780, 
and from 1783 to 1785. He was a signer 
of the declaration of independence, and al¬ 
so of the articles of confederation. In 
1786 he was appointed commissioner of 
loans for Rhode Island; and was elected 
chief justice of the state. In 1789 he was 
appointed, by President Washington, col¬ 
lector of Newport, which office he held 
until his death, which occurred Feb. 15, 
1820, in Newport, R. I. 

ELLET, ALFRED W., soldier, was born 
in Penn Manor, Pa. He served during the 
civil war; and for gallant and meritorious 
services received the rank of brigadier- 
general. 

ELLET, CHARLES, soldier, civil engi¬ 
neer, author, was born Jan. 1, 1810, in 
Penn’s Manor, Pa. He was an engineer 
of note who built the first wire suspen¬ 
sion bridge in America. He served during 
the civil war as a colonel in the federal 
army, and was killed in an engagement 
on the Mississippi. He was the author of 
Physical Geography of the Mississippi 
Valley; Coast and Harbor Defences; and 
The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, with 
Plans for Protecting the Delta from Inun¬ 
dation. He died June 21, 1862, in Cairo, 
Ill. 

ELLET, CHARLES RIVERS, soldier, 
was born in 1843, in Georgetown, D. C. 
He served during the civil war and at¬ 
tained the rank of colonel. He died Oct. 
29, 1863, in Bunker Hill, Ill. * 

ELLET, MRS. ELIZABETH FRIES 
LUMMIS, author, poet, was born in 1818, 
in Sodus Point, N. Y. She was the author 
of Domestic History of the American Rev¬ 
olution; Women of the American Revolu¬ 
tion; Court Circles of the Republic; 
Queens of American Society; Pioneer 
Women of the West; Novelettes of the 
Musicians; Rambles in the West; The 
Practical Housekeeper; Family Pictures 
from the Bible; Evenings at Woodlawn; 
Poems, Original and Selected; Teresa 
Contarini, a tragedy; Scenes in the Life 
of Joanna of Sicily; The Characters of 
Schiller; and Women Artists in All Ages. 
She died June 3, 1877. 

ELLET, MARY, patriot, was born June 
17, 1779, in Philadelphia, Pa. She has 
been termed the Cornelia of America. 
She won the name by her heroic reply 
to one who sympathized with her in the 
loss of sons and grandsons during the 
civil war. 


ELLET, WILLIAM HENRY, chemist, 
was born Nov. 1, 1806, in New York city. 
For his discovery of a new and cheap 
method of preparing gun-cotton the legis¬ 
lature of South Carolina presented him 
with a vote of thanks and a pension. He 
died Jan. 26, 1859, in New York city. 

ELLETT, TAZEWELL, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 1, 1856, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. He was presidential elector in 
1888 on the democratic ticket; was a mem¬ 
ber of the state democratic committee of 
fifty for about twelve years, and during a 
part of the time acting as a member of 
the executhe committee of ten. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
democrat. 

ELLICOTT, ANDREW, civil engineer, 
was born Jan. 24, 1754, in Bucks county, 
Pa. In 1790 he was employed by the gen¬ 
eral government to survey and lay out 
the city of Washington; and in 1792 was 
appointed surveyor-general of the United 
States. In 1812 he became a professor of 
mathematics at West Point. He died Aug. 
29, 1820. 

ELLICOTT, BENJAMIN, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1817 to 1819. 

ELLICOTT, JOSEPH, civil engineer, 
was born in Bucks county, Pa. In 1797 he 
was employed by the Holland Land com¬ 
pany and three years later was appointed 
its general agent, with a grant of six 
thousand acres of land, and five per cent, 
commissions on the sale of land. In 1803 
he located the land office in Batavia, N. 
Y.; and the surveys of the Holland Land 
company were all made in his name. He 
died Aug. 19, 1826, in Batavia, N. Y. 

ELLINGTON, CLARENCE H., farmer, 
state senator, was born July 22, 1853, in 
Elberton, Ga. He has been state senator 
of the Georgia legislature; and for two 
years was president of the Georgia State 
Farmers’ alliance. 

ELLINWOOD, FRANK FIELDS, 
clergyman, author. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman, secretary of the Presbyterian 
board of foreign missions; and the author 
of The Great Conquest; and Oriental Re¬ 
ligions and Christianity. He died in 1826, 
in New York. 

ELLINWOOD, TRUMAN J., educator, 
editor, was born June 11, 1831, in Smith- 
field, N. Y. He has taught in district 
schools and in the 
Brooklyn Adelphi 
academy and high 
schools; in the Mar¬ 
tha’s Vineyard Sum¬ 
mer institute, and in 
the Ellinwood School 
of Phonography, of 
which he is proprie¬ 
tor. For thirty years 
he was official re¬ 
porter of the Rev. 
Henry Ward Beech¬ 
er’s Discourses; and 
since 1887 Mr. Ellinwood has been trans¬ 
cribing his unpublished shorthand notes 
of this great preacher’s pulpit and other 
utterances; and has caused to be issued 
three volumes of the same entitled A 
Book of Prayer; Bible Studies; and 
Metaphors and Similes. He is the editor 
and owner of The Students’ Journal; and 
has contributed extensively to periodical 
literature. 

ELLIOT, BENJAMIN, jurist, author, 
was born in 1786, in Charleston, S. C. 
He was a South Carolina jurist who pub¬ 
lished Refutation of Calumnies respect¬ 
ing the Institution and Existence of Slav¬ 
ery; and The Militia System of South 
Carolina. He died in 1836. 







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ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD, ornitholo¬ 
gist, author, was born in 18... He is an 
ornithologist of Chicago, at one time 
president of the American Ornithologists’ 
union, and is the author of Monograph of 
the Pittidae or Family of the Ant Thrush¬ 
es; The New and Heretofore Unfigured 
Species of the Birds of North America 
(1869); The Life and Habits of Wild Ani¬ 
mals; Classification and Synopsis of the 
Trochilidse; and North American Shore 
Birds. 

ELLIOT, GEORGE HENRY, military 
engineer, author, was born March 31, 1831, 
in Lowell, Mass. He is a military engi¬ 
neer in the service of the United States, 
and the author of European Light-House 
Systems; and The Presidio of San Fran¬ 
cisco. 

ELLIOT, GEORGE THOMSON, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born May 11, 1827, in 
■New York city. In 1857 he was chosen 
visiting physician of the Lying-in hospit¬ 
al in New York, and in 1861 was elected 
to fill the chair of obstetrics and diseases 
of women and children and of clinical 
midwifery in the Bellevue hospital col¬ 
lege. His principal medical work is El¬ 
liot’s Obstetric Clinic. He died Jan. 29, 
1871, in New York city. 

ELLIOT, HENRY RUTHERFORD, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1849. He 
is a journalist of New York city; and the 
author of The Basset Claim, a Story of 
Life in Washington; and The Common 
Chord, a Story of the Ninth Ward. 

ELLIOT, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a senator in congress from Georgia from 
1819 to 1825, serving on several impor¬ 
tant committees. He died Aug. 9, 1827, 
in Sunbury, Ga. 

ELLIOT, SAMUEL HAYES, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1809 in Vermont. He 
was a congregational clergyman of New 
Haven; and the author of Rolling Ridge, 
or the Book of Four-and-Twenty Chap¬ 
ters; The Parish Side; Dreams and Reali¬ 
ties; New England’s Chattels, or Life in 
a Northern Poor-House; and The Attrac¬ 
tions of New Haven. He died in 1869. 

ELLIOT, WILLIAM HORACE, geneal¬ 
ogist, was born in 1824 in New Haven, 
Conn. He compiled a Genealogy of the 
Eliot Family. He attained prominence as 
a lawyer. He died Dec. 8, 1852, in St. 
Croix, W. I. 

ELLIOTT, ANNA, patriot of the revo¬ 
lution. American prisoners that were 
brought into Charleston were aided and 
relieved by her assiduous ministrations. 

ELLIOTT, CHARLES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1792 in Ireland. He was 
a methodist clergyman, and at one period 
was president of Iowa Wesleyan universi¬ 
ty. He was the author of Treatise on Bap¬ 
tism; Delineation of Roman Catholicism; 
Life of Bishop Roberts; History of the 
Great Secession from the Methodist Epis¬ 
copal Church; Political Romanism; Rem¬ 
iniscences of the Wyandotte Mission; 
Southwestern Methodism; The Bible and 
Slavery; and Sinfulness of American 
Slavery. He died Jan. 6, 1869, in Mount 
Pleasant, Iowa. 

ELLIOTT, CHARLES, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1815 in Scot¬ 
land. He was a presbyterian minister, 
professor of Hebrew at Lafayette college, 
Easton, Pa. He was the author of The 
Sabbath; The Inspiration of the Holy 
Scriptures; and Vindication of the Mosaic 
Authorship of the Pentateuch. 

ELLIOTT, CHARLES LORING, paint¬ 
er, was born in December, 1812, in Sci- 
pio, N. Y. He was a successful portrait 
painter of Albany, N. Y., where he died 
Aug. 25, 1868. 


ELLIOTT, CHARLES WYLLYS, au¬ 
thor, was born May 27, 1817, in Guilford, 
Conn. He was a New York writer, at one 
time a landscape gardener of note, and 
the author of The Book of American In¬ 
teriors; Pottery and Porcelain; Remark¬ 
able Characters and Places in the Holy 
Land; Cottages and Cottage Life; Myste¬ 
ries, or Glimpses of the Supernatural; St. 
Domingo, its Revolution and its Hero, 
Toussaint l’Ouverture; New England His¬ 
tory, from its Discovery by the North¬ 
men; and Wind and Whirlwind, a novel. 
He died in 1883. 

ELLIOTT, EUGENE STANHOPE, law¬ 
yer, journalist, was born Aug. 13, 1842, in 
Vermilion county, Ill. In 1868 he pur¬ 
chased a half interest in the Milwaukee 
Journal of Commerce, and in 1868 as¬ 
sumed the entire charge. In 1886 he was 
nominated for the office of city attorney. 

ELLIOTT, EZEKIEL BROWN, statis¬ 
tician, author, was born July 16, 1823, in 
Sweden, N. Y. He was a government 
statistician of note, and the author of 
Unification of International Coinage. He 
died in 1888. 

ELLIOTT. FRANKLIN REUBEN, hor¬ 
ticulturist, author, was born April 27, 
1817, in Guilford, Conn. He was a horti¬ 
culturist of Cleveland, and the author of 
The Western Fruit Book; Popular De¬ 
ciduous and Evergreen Trees; Handbook 
for Fruit Growers; and Handbook of 
Practical Landscape Gardening. He died 
Jan. 10, 1878, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

ELLIOTT, GILBERT MOLLESON, sol¬ 
dier, was born Oct. 7, 1840, in Thompson, 
Conn. In April, 1861, when Fort Sumter 
was fired upon, he unfurled the stars and 
stripes from the college building, and in 
his address declared he would defend his 
country’s honor with his life’s blood. He 
died Nov. 24, 1863, in Lookout Mountain, 
Tenn. 

ELLIOTT, HENRY WOOD, artist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 13, 1841, in Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. He is an artist in the employ 
of the Smithsonian institution, and the 
author of Monograph of the Seal Islands 
of Alaska; and Our Arctic Provinces. 

ELLIOTT, JAMES, congressman, was 
born Aug. 9, 1770, in Guilford, Vt. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Vermont from 1803 to 1809. He died Nov. 
10, 1830, in Newfane, Vt. 

ELLIOTT, JAMES M., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Nov. 12, 1854, in Rome, Ga. 
In 1889 he became president of the Gads¬ 
den and Attalla Union railroad. 

ELLIOTT, JAMES T., lawyer, jurist, 
journalist, congressman, was born April 
22, 1823, in Monroe county, Ga. He was 
chosen president of a railroad company 
in 1858; and was elected a circuit judge 
in Arkansas in 1866. He established a 
newspaper at Camden, in that state, in 
1867, called the South Arkansas Journal; 
and was elected a representative from 
Arkansas to the fortieth congress to fill 
a vacancy. 

ELLIOTT, JESSE DUNCAN, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born July 14, 1782, in Maryland. 
In 1804 he entered the navy as a mid¬ 
shipman; was in the war with Great Brit¬ 
ain; and captured two armed British 
brigs. In 1813 he succeeded Perry in com¬ 
mand of Lake Erie. He died Dec. 18, 1845, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ELLIOTT, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 24, 1768, in Clinton, Conn. 
He was a congregational minister at Mad¬ 
ison, Conn., during 1791-1824, and co-au¬ 
thor with S. Johnson of the first Ameri¬ 
can dictionary of the English language. 
He died Dec. 17, 1824, in Madison, Conn. 


ELLIOTT, JOHN G., legislator, was 
born Oct. 7, 1850, in Alleghany county, N. 
Y. He received his education in the 
schools of northern Indiana and at the 
normal college of Valparaiso. For foui 
years he was county recorder of Merced 
county, Cal., and also its county clerk for 
four years. He is now a member of the 
California state assembly, and takes an 
active part in public affairs. 

ELLIOTT, JOHN M., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born‘May 16, 1820, in Scott 
county, Va. He was elected to the state 
legislature in 1847; and in 1853 was elect¬ 
ed a representative in congress. 

ELLIOTT, JONATHAN, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1784 in Eng¬ 
land. For thirteen years he edited and 
published the Washington Gazette, and 
was the author of American Diplomatic 
Code; Debate on Adoption of the Consti¬ 
tution; Funding System of the United 
States; Statistics of the United States; 
The Comparative Tariffs; and Sketches 
of the District of Columbia. He died in 
1802 in Washington, D. C. 

ELLIOTT, MRS. MAUD (HOWE), au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 9, 1855, in Boston, 
Mass. She is a fiction writer of Chicago, 
and the author of Atalanta in the South; 
Mammon; A Newport Aquarelle; The San 
Rosario Ranch; Honor; and Pnyllida. 

ELLIOTT, MORTIMER F., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 
1842, in Cherry Flats, Pa. He commenced 
the practice of law at Wellsboro, Pa., and 
in 1870 was an unsuccessful candidate for 
president judge. He was a member of the 
state constitutional convention of 1873; 
and was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth congress 
as a democrat. 

ELLIOTT, ROBERT BROWN, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 11, 1842, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a member of the 
state constitutional convention of South 
Carolina in 1868; and was a member of 
the house of representatives of South Car¬ 
olina from 1868 to 1870. In 1869 he was 
appointed assistant adjutant-general, 
which position he held until elected to 
the forty-second congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-third congress. He 
died in 1884, in New Orleans, La. 

ELLIOTT, ROBERT WOODWARD 
BARNWELL, was born Aug. 16, 1840, in 
Beaufort, S. C. He was ordained a priest 
in Savannah, Ga., in 1871, and in Novem¬ 
ber of that year became pastor of St. 
Philip's church in that city. In 1874 he 
was consecrated missionary bishop of 
western Texas. He died Aug. 26, 1887, 
in Sewanee, S. C. 

ELLIOTT, SAMUEL MACKENZIE, 
oculist, was born April 9, 1811, in Scot¬ 
land. In 1835 he opened an office in New 
York city and devoted himself to the cure 
of eye diseases. He died May 1, 1875, in 
Brighton, N. Y. 

ELLIOTT, SARAH BARNWELL, au¬ 
thor, was born in 18—. She was the 
author of Jerry; John Paget, a novel of 
New York and Newport; and The Fel- 
meres. 

ELLIOTT, STEPHEN, naturalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 11, 1771, in Beau¬ 
fort, S. C. He was a naturalist of South 
Carolina, and a professor in the state 
medical college. He was the author of 
The Botany of South Carolina and 
Georgia. He died March 28, 1830, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

ELLIOTT, STEPHEN, lawyer, bishop, 
was born Aug. 31, 1806, in Beaufort, S. C. 
He practiced law in Charleston and Beau¬ 
fort until 1833. In 1841 he was conse¬ 
crated protestant episcopal bishop of 
Georgia. He died Dec. 21, 1866, in Savan¬ 
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ELLIOTT, THEODORE BATES, law¬ 
yer, was born July 12, 1836, in Wayne 
county, N. Y. He attained success as one 
of the most prominent lawyers of Mil¬ 
waukee county, Wis. He died Jan. 11, 
1883, in Wisconsin. 

ELLIOTT, WARREN G., railroad pres¬ 
ident. In 1890 he became president of the 
Wilmington and Weldon railroad; and 
the same year became president of the 
Petersburg railroad. 

ELLIOTT, WILLIAM, patriot of the 
revolution, was born in 1761, in Beaufort, 
S. C. He served in the patriot army 
while still a youth, and was taken pris¬ 
oner at the surprise of John’s Island, and 
confined in the prison ship. He died in 
1808, in Beaufort, S. C. 

ELLIOTT, WILLIAM, author, was born 
April 27, 1788, in Beaufort, S. C. His 
published works include an Address Be¬ 
fore the St. Paul’s Agricultural Society; 
and Carolina Sports by Land and Water. 
He was also the author of Fiesco, a trag¬ 
edy. He died in February, 1863, in Beau¬ 
fort, S. C. 

ELLIOTT, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 3, 18is8, in 
Beaufort, S. C. He served as an officer 
throughout the war in the confederate 
army; and in 1866 was elected a member 
of the South Carolina legislature and in- 
tendant of Beaufort. He was elected to 
the fiftieth and fifty-second congresses; 
received the certificate of election to the 
fifty-first congress, but was unseated by 
the house; was given the certificate of 
election to the fifty-fourth congress, but 
was unseated June 4, 1896, and the seat 
given to his republican opponent. He 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a democrat. 

ELLIS, ABNER, patriot, was born in 
Dedham, Mass. He represented that town 
in the provincial congresses of October, 
1774, and February and May, 1775, taking 
a prominent part in the proceedings. 

ELLIS, CALEB, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1767, 
in Walpole, Mass. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1805 to 1809; was a 
member of the council, and in 1811 elect¬ 
ed to the state senate. In 1812 he was 
one of the electors of president and vice- 
president; and in 1813 was judge of the 
supreme court of New Hampshire. He 
died May ». 1816. 

ELLIS, CALVIN, physician, was born 
in 1826, in Boston, Mass. In 1863 he be¬ 
came adjunct professor of the theory and 
practice of medicine in Harvard, and in 
1865 adjunct, and in 1867 regular, profes¬ 
sor of clinical medicine, which chair he 
held till his death. Among his publica¬ 
tions the most important are papers on 
Obstruction of Lung, Caused by Pressure 
on the Primary Bronchus; and The Ten¬ 
dency of Disease in One Part to Excite it 
in Another; and clinical lectures on 
Capillary Bronchitis. He died Dec. 14, 
1883, in Boston, Mass. 

ELLIS, CHARLES, founder, was born 
Jan. 31, 1800, in Muncy, Pa. He was one 
of the founders of the college of phar¬ 
macy of Philadelphia, and was its fourth 
president from 1854 to 1869. He died 
May 16, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ELLIS, CHARLES MAYO, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 23, 1818, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a Boston lawyer of prom¬ 
inence as an abolitionist, who published 
a History of Roxbury. He died Jan. 26, 
1878, in Brookline, Mass. 

ELLIS, CHESELDEN, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1843 to 1845. 


ELLIS, EDWARD SYLVESTER, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born April 11, 1840, in 
Geneva, Ohio. He was trustee and super¬ 
intendent of schools of Trenton. He is 
the author of thirty juvenile works, and 
still issues two annually. He is the au¬ 
thor of two arithmetics and various other 
educational works, and also The Youth’s 
History of the United States, and The 
Standard History of the United States. 
His other works include From the Throt¬ 
tle to the President’s Chair; Lost in 
Samoa; The Camp Fires of General Lee; 
The Hunters of the Ozark; The Last War 
Trail; Righting the Wrong; Up the Tapa- 
jos; Down the Mississippi; Life of Daniel 
Boone; and Storm Mountain. 

ELLIS, ELEAZER HOLMES, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Aug. 26, 1826, in Green 
Bay, Wis. He has been justice of the 
peace, alderman and mayor of Green Bay, 
Wis., of which city he was appointed post¬ 
master in 1896. For eight years, during 
1871-79, he was judge of the circuit court 
of Wisconsin in the tenth judicial cir¬ 
cuit. 

ELLIS, EZEKIEL JOHN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1841, 
in Covington, La. He served throughout 
the civil war in the confederate army as 
private to captain. From 1867 until his 
death he practiced law in New Orleans, 
La. In 1874 he was elected to the forty- 
fourth congress; and received the re-elec¬ 
tion to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty- 
seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a 
democrat. He died April 19, 1889, in 
Washington, D. C. 

ELLIS, GEORGE EDWARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1814, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a Unitarian clergyman 
of Boston, who was pastor of the Har¬ 
vard church in Charlestown in 1840-69, 
and for many years president of the 
Massachusetts Historical society. He was 
the author of A Half Century of the Uni¬ 
tarian Controversy; Evidences of Chris¬ 
tianity; The Red Man and the White in 
North America; The Organ and Church 
Music; Aims and Purposes of the Found¬ 
ers of Massachusetts; Memoirs of Count 
Rumford, Jared Sparks, Jacob Bigelow, 
Luther Bell, and others; Lives of John 
Mason, Anne Hutchinson, and William 
Penn, in Sparks’s American Biography; 
and History of the Battle of Bunker Hill. 
The Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony 
of the Massachusetts Bay is his most im¬ 
portant work. He died in 1894. 

ELLIS, JOHN, physician, inventor, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 26, 1815, in Ashfield, 
Mass. He lectured for six years in the 
Homeopathic Medical college of Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio, and was professor of the the¬ 
ory and practice of medicine for two 
years in the New York Homeopathic Med¬ 
ical college. He invented a process for 
refining petroleum; and in 1881 purchased 
a tract of land at Edgewater, N. J., and 
constructed one of the most complete oil 
refineries in the world. 

ELLIS, JOHN BRECKENRIDGE, edu¬ 
cator, author, poet, was born Feb. 11, 1870, 
in Marion county, Mo. He received his 
education at the Woodland college, and 
in 1886 graduated from the Plattsburg 
college. He has filled the chair in Platts¬ 
burg college, in which institution he is 
now professor of English literature. He 
is the author of several novels entitled 
Hand of Fire; The Flitterfleds; Mizzouri 
Ville Sketches; a volume of poems, and 
other works. 

ELLIS, JOHN MILLOT, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, was born July 14, 1793, in Keene, 
N. H. He moved to Illinois and was pas¬ 
tor at Kaskaskia and Jacksonville, where 


he established a female seminary. He 
died Aug. 6, 1855. 

ELLIS, JOHN WASHINGTON, banker, 
was born Aug. 15, 1817, in Williamsburg, 
Ohio. When the national bank act was 
passed in 1863, he organized the First 
National bank of Cincinnati. The most 
important operation of his life was the 
resuscitation of the Northern Pacific Rail¬ 
road company in 1879-80, after the fail¬ 
ure under Jay Cooke’s management in 
1873. Mr. Ellis formed a syndicate, which 
took $40,000,000 of Northern Pacific bonds 
and finished the road to the Pacific. 

ELLIS, JOHN WILLIAM, educator, 
lawyer, lecturer, author, college president, 
was born Dec. 29, 1839, in Carthage, Ill. 
When an infant he removed to Kentucky; 
and in 1869 to Missouri, where he has 
attained distinction as an able lawyer, 
being a member for ten years of the bar 
at St. Louis, and subsequently of Platts¬ 
burg. He has been president of the 
Warsaw college, Kentucky; president of 
the Woodland college, Missouri, and is 
now president of Plattsburg college, Mis¬ 
souri. He is author of The Life Mission, 
a poem of great merit; and translator into 
English of a metrical translation of The 
Song of Solomon. He has conducted 
Chautauqua assemblies, and in 1889 re¬ 
ceived the degree of LL. D. from that in¬ 
stitution. 

ELLIS, JOHN WILLIS, lawyer, jurist, 
governor, was born Nov. 23, 1820, in 
Rowan, N. C. He was a member of the 
house of commons of North Carolina 
from 1844 to 1848; and then judge of the 
superior courts of law and equity; and 
was governor of North Carolina from 
1859 until his death. He died in 1861, in 
Raleigh, N. C. 

ELLIS, LOUIS F., soldier, patriot, was 
born July 17, 1843, in Sing Sing, N. Y. 
His grandfather came from England; was 
a prominent whole¬ 
sale merchant in 
New York city, 120 
years ago. He grad¬ 
uated from the pub¬ 
lic schools of New 
York city, and was 
just entering Rut¬ 
gers college when 
the war broke out. 
He went to the front 
in a militia regi¬ 
ment, and later en¬ 
listed for three years 
in the one hundred and thirty-first New 
York volunteer infantry, and was rapidly 
promoted and commanded his company 
in all the engagements of his regiment 
in the department of the Gulf. He volun¬ 
teered as a member of the Port Hudson 
Forlorn Hope Storming Column, and 
was voted a medal by congress for gal¬ 
lant and meritorious conduct. He served 
as department commander of Ohio two 
terms; and also as national commander 
of the union veterans. He has been chair¬ 
man of the republican county committee; 
a delegate to state and national conven¬ 
tions, and received the unanimous en¬ 
dorsement for congress. He is connected 
with the Standard Oil company at Lima, 
Ohio. 

ELLIS, PERRY CANBY, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 21, 1867, in Boone 
county, Ky. He received his education in 
the Woodland college, and in 1885 he 
graduated from the Plattsburg college. 
He was on the editorial staff of the St. 
Louis Star, Kansas City Times and the 
Kansas City World. He is the author of 
a Political Handbook, and several short 
stories. 



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ELLIS, POWHATAN, lawyer, jurist. 
United States senator, was born about 
1794, in Virginia. He became one of the 
judges of the supreme court of that state; 
in 1825 was appointed to a seat in the 
United States senate, but was displaced 
by the legislature. In 1827, however, the 
legislature elected him a senator in con¬ 
gress, where he served until 1833, after 
which he was appointed United States 
judge for the district of Mississippi. In 
1836 he was appointed charge d’affaires 
to Mexico; and in 1839 minister to that 
republic. He died about 1844. 

ELLIS, RUFUS, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 14, 1819, in Boston, Mass. 
He was lecturer in the Harvard divinity 
school in 1869 and 1871, and for several 
years before his death was editor of the 
Religious Monthly Magazine. He died 
Sept. 23, 1885, in England. 

ELLIS, SUMNER, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1828, in Massachusetts. He 
was a universalist clergyman of Boston 
and Chicago, and the author of At Our 
Best, and Other Essays; Life of E. H. 
Chapin; and Hints on Preaching. He 
died Jan. 26, 1886, in Chicago, Ill. 

ELLIS, THEODORE GUNVILLE, civil 
engineer, soldier, was born Sept. 25, 1829, 
in Boston, Mass. Prior to the civil war 
he was chief engineer of the Saratoga 
railroad; and had charge of silver mines 
in Mexico. At Gettysburg his regiment 
captured five battle flags in a bayonet 
charge; and he subsequently attained the 
rank of brigadier-general. In 1867 he 
was surveyor-general of Connecticut; and 
at the time of his death had charge of 
the government works on the Connecti¬ 
cut river. He died Jan. 8, 1883, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

ELLIS, WILLIAM C., congressman. 
He was a representative m congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1825. 

ELLIS, WILLIAM R., educator, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, was born April 23, 
1850, in Waveland, Ind. He moved to 
Oregon in 1883; has lived in Heppner 
since 1884; and served one term as coun¬ 
ty superintendent of schools and three 
terms as district attorney of the seventh 
judicial district of Oregon. He was 
elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth 
congresses, and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 

ELLIS, WILLIAM T., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born July 24, 1845, in Daviess 
county, Ky. He was elected county at¬ 
torney of Daviess county in 1870; and 
was re-elected in 1874. He was presi¬ 
dential elector for the second congres¬ 
sional district in 1876; and was elected to 
the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses, 
and was re-elected to the fifty-third con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

ELLISON, ANDREW, congressman, 
was born in Ireland. He was elected a 
representative in congress from Ohio 
from 1853 to 1855. 

ELLISON, WILLIAM H., college presi¬ 
dent, was born Dec. 4, 1805, in Charleston, 
S. C. In 1838 he was chosen professor of 
mathematics in Wesleyan Female college 
at Macon; two years later he was elected 
president, in which position he remained 
until 1851. He died Dec. 26, 1884, in 
Clayton, Ala. 

ELLMAKER, AMOS, jurist, was born 
Feb. 2, 1787, in New Holland, Pa. He was 
deputy attorney-general for Dauphin 
county in 1809-12, and served in the legis¬ 
lature in 1812-14. He was appointed 
president judge of his judicial district in 
1815. He died Nov. 28, 1851, in Lancaster, 
Pa. 


ELLMORE, ALFRED, clergyman, poet, 
was born Aug. 11, 1838, in Frankfort, Ind. 
For thirty-five years he has been a suc¬ 
cessful clergyman; for twenty years was 
field editor on the American Christian 
Review; for seven years co-editor of ine 
Christian Leader; and since 1892 has been 
editor of the Gospel Echo. He is the au¬ 
thor of a large number of tracts, and a 
volume of verse, entitled Maple \ alley 
Poems. 

ELLSBERRY, WILLIAM W., physi¬ 
cian, congressman, was born Dec. 18, 
1833, in New Hope, Ohio. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the county military board of Brown 
county; settled at Georgetown, Ohio; and 
was three times chosen county auditor. 
In 1884 he was elected a representative 
from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress. 

ELLSWORTH, CHARLES C., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1824, in 
Berkshire, Vt. He was appointed piose- 
cuting attorney of Livingston county, 
Mich., in 1850. He moved to Montcalm 
county in 1851, and was a member of the 
state house of representatives from 1852 
to 1854. He served two terms as prose¬ 
cuting attorney of Montcalm county, and 
was appointed a paymaster m the army 
in 1862, and served until the close of the 
war. He was elected a representative 
from Michigan to the forty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 

ELLSWORTH, EPHRAIM ELMER, 
soldier, was born April 23, 1837, in Me- 
chanicsville, N. Y. In 1860 he organized 
a regiment of zouaves, which became re¬ 
nowned for the perfection of their disci¬ 
pline, and of which he was commissioned 
colonel. He died May 24, 1861, in Alex¬ 
andria, Ya. 

ELLSWORTH, ERASTUS WOLCOTT, 
inventor, poet, was born Nov. 27, 1822, 
in East Windsor, Conn. He is an in¬ 
ventor of Connecticut, who published in 
1855 a volume of poems of very uneven 
excellence, some of which were popular 
for a time. 

ELLSWORTH, EUGENE STAFFORD, 
was born Nov. 2, 1848, in Milwaukee 
county, Wis. He served in the war as a 
drummer boy in the 
company' which his 
father commanded. 
He subsequently did 
a very extensive 
business in loaning 
money for eastern 
capitalists on Iowa 
improved farms. In 
1880 he organized 
the Cedar Rapids, 
Iowa Falls and 
Northwestern Land 
an( j >p own Lot com¬ 
pany, which purchased lands and town 
sites for over three hundred miles along 
the Burlington railroad; and he justly 
claims to be the founder of more than 
thirty cities and towns in Iowa. He is 
a prominent financier and the president 
of numerous business enterprises. Ells¬ 
worth college of Iowa Falls was named 
in his honor. 

ELLSWORTH, HENRY LEAVITT, 
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 10, 1791, in 
Windsor, Conn. He was appointed resi¬ 
dent commissioner among the Indian 
tribes in Arkansas; and was United States 
commissioner of patents from 1836 to 
1845. His reports to congress during this 
period added greatly to the improvement 
of agriculture. He then settled in La¬ 
fayette, Ind., where he was a purchaser 
of United States land. He was the au¬ 
thor of Digest of Patents from 1770 to 
1859. He died Dec. 27, 1858, in Fair 
Haven, Conn. 


ELLSWORTH, HENrlY W., lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1814, in Windsor, Conn. 
He moved to Indiana in 1835; was coun¬ 
sel for S. F. B. Morse in some of his suits 
connected with telegraph patents, and 
was appointed charge d’affaires to Swe¬ 
den in 1845. He was the author of 
Sketches of the Upper Wabash Valley; 
and American Swine Breeder. He died 
August, 1864, in New Haven, Conn. 

ELLSWORTH, JAMES WILLIAM, cap¬ 
italist. He is president of ihe Ohio Coal 
company, at St. Paul, and president of 
the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Dock com¬ 
pany, in Cleveland. 

ELLSWORTH, MARY WIGGINS, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 7, 1830, in Exeter, 
N. H. She wrote biographical articles for 
Cypress Leaves, and was the author of 
Peace or the Stolen Will; An Hour with 
the Children; Smith’s Saloon; and com¬ 
piled Juvenile Miscellany. She died 

Aug. 12, 1870, in Newton, Mass. 

ELLSWORTH, OLIVER, jurist, United 
States senator, was born April 29, 1745, 
in Windsor, Conn. In 1780 he was elected 
to the council of 
Connecticut, and 
was a member of 
that body until 1784, 
when he was ap¬ 
pointed a judge of 
the superior court 
of that state; and in 
1787 was elected a 
member of the con- 
v e n t i o n which 
framed the federal 
constitution. When 
the federal govern¬ 
ment was organized, in 1789, he was a 
member of the senate from Connecticut; 
and in 1796 was appointed by President 
Washington chief justice of the supreme 
court of the United States, but resigned 
the office on account of ill-health in 1800. 
In 1799 he was appointed by President 
Adams envoy extraordinary to France, 
for the purpose of concluding a treaty 
with that nation. He died Nov. 26, 1807. 

ELLSWORTH, SAMUEL S., congress¬ 
man, was born in Vermont. He was a 
member of the New York assembly in 
1840; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1845 to 1847. 

ELLSWORTH, WILLIAM WOLCOTT, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, 
was born Nov. 10, 1791, in Windsor coun¬ 
ty, Conn. He was professor of law m 
Trinity college; and was a representative 
in congress from Connecticut from 1829 
to 1833. In 1838 he was elected governor 
of Connecticut, and re-elected for four 
years; and was a judge of the supreme 
court of Connecticut for many years. He 
died Jan. 15, 1868, in Hartford, Conn. 

ELLWANGER, GEORGE, nurseryman, 
was born Dec. 2, 1816, in Wurtemberg. 
He came to America in 1835 and settled 
in Rochester, where in 1839 he established 
the firm of Ellwanger and Barry for the 
raising of fruit and shade trees, shrubs, 
and flower and foliage plants. This was 
the pioneer nursery of the west, and be¬ 
ing located just beyond the city limits on 
the Mount Hope road, took the name of 
the Mount Hope nursery. He built and 
owns the large Ellwanger and^ Barry of¬ 
fice building of Rochester, N. Y. 

ELLWANGER, GEORGE HERMAN, 
journalist, author, poet, was born July 10, 
1848, in Rochester, N. Y. For many years 
he was the editor of the Rochester Post- 
Express, and is the author of The Gar¬ 
den’s Story; The Story of My House; In 
Gold and Silver; Idyllists of the Country- 
Side; Love’s Demesne; and A Garland of 
Contemporary Love Poems. 




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ELLWANGER, HENRY BROOKS, hor¬ 
ticulturist, author, was born in 1851 in 
New York. He was a horticulturist of 
Rochester, N. Y., and the author of The 
Rose, a Treatise on Cultivation; and His¬ 
tory of Roses. He died in 1883. 

ELLWOOD, REUBEN, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 21, 1821, in 
New York. He located at Sycamore,' Ill.; 
engaged largely in manufacturing; and 
became president of several manufactur¬ 
ing companies. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Illinois to the forty-eighth 
congress as a republican. 

ELLYSON, HENRY KEELING, jour¬ 
nalist, legislator, was born July 31, 1823, 
in Richmond, Va. In 1854-55 he served 
his native city in the Virginia legislature; 
from 1857 till 1865 was sheriff of Henrico 
county; and in 1870 was elected mayor 
of Richmond. He has long been connect¬ 
ed, as associate proprietor and editor, 
with the Richmond Dispatch, one of the 
most widely circulated journals in the 
south. 

ELMENDORF, JOHN JAMES, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 27, 1827, in 
New York city. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman, and professor of philosophy in 
Racine college, Wisconsin, in 1867-88, and 
later connected with the Western Theo¬ 
logical seminary at Chicago. He was the 
author of Manual of Rites and Ritual; 
History of Philosophy; Outlines of Logic; 
Aspects of Modern Philosophy; and Moral 
Philosophy. He died in 1896. 

ELMENDORF, LUCAS, was born in 
1758. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1797 to 1803; 
a member of the assembly of that state 
in 1804 and 1805; and a state senator from 
1814 to 1817. He died Aug. 17, 1843. 

ELMER, EBENEZER, soldier, physi¬ 
cian, state senator, congressman, was 
born in 1752, in Cedarville, N. J. He was 
a field officer of the revolutionary war; 
and also a surgeon in the army. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Jersey from 1801 to 1807; and served a 
number of years in the state assembly, 
and was chosen speaker. He was also 
for a long time adjutant-general of the 
New Jersey militia; and during the war 
of 1812 commanded the troops on the 
Delaware. In 1807 and 1815 he was a 
member and vice-president of the state 
council; and in 1808 was appointed col¬ 
lector of Bridgeton, and held the office 
for many years. He died Oct. 18, 1843, 
in Brighton, N. J. 

ELMER, JONATHAN, physician, jurist, 
congressman, was horn Nov. 29, 1745, in 
Fairfield, N. J. He was a member of the 
continental congress; and a senator in 
congress under the federal constitution 
from New Jersey from 1789 to 1791. Dur¬ 
ing the war of the revolution he was a 
sheriff, a surrogate, and a judge; and was 
a member of the Philosophical Society of 
America. He died Sept. 3, 1807, in Bur¬ 
lington, N. J. 

ELMER, LUCIUS QUINTIUS CINCIN- 
NATUS, lawyer, jurist, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 3, 1793, in Bridgeton, 
N. J. For many years he was prosecutor 
for the state; and was in the assembly 
from 1820 to 1823, the last year being 
speaker of that body. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from New Jersey from 
1843 to 1845. In 1852 he was appointed one 
of the justices of the supreme court of his 
state, which office he continued to hold 
until 1859. He was the author of A Digest 
of the Laws of New Jersey, commonly 
styled Nixon’s Digest; Genealogy of the 
Elmer Family; History of Cumberland 
County; and History of New Jersey. He 
died March 11, 1883, in Bridgeton, Conn. 


ELMORE, FRANKLIN HARPER, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, banker, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Jan. 16, 1799, in Laurens, 
S. C. He was a colonel of militia; and 
also a trustee of the South Carolina col¬ 
lege. In 1822 he was elected solicitor of 
the southern circuit, and was continued 
in this office, by re-elections, until 1837, 
when he was elected to the house of rep¬ 
resentatives in congress, and served until 
1839. He was in that year elected presi¬ 
dent of the bank of the State of South 
Carolina, which office he held till his ap¬ 
pointment to the United States senate in 
1850, to fill a vacancy. He died May 29, 

1850, in Washington, D. C. 

ELMORE, RUSH, jurist, was born 
about 1810 in Alabama. He settled in 
Kansas; and was appointed an associate 
justice of the United States court for that 
territory, residing at Lecompton. 

ELSBERG, LOUIS, physician, author, 
was born April 2, 1836, in Iserloin, Prus¬ 
sia. He was a physician of New York 
city, and the author of Laryngoscopal 
Medication; and The Throat and Its 
Functions. He died Feb. 1, 1885, in New 
York city. 

ELSHEMUS, LOUIS M., artist, poet, 
was born in 1864, in Laurel Hill, N. J. 
He has studied art in New York and 
Paris; and has exhibited paintings in 
several art exhibftions in this country 
and abroad. He has contributed to New 
York magazines, and has published two 
volumes of verse, Moods of a Soul; and 
Songs of Spring and Blossoms of Unre¬ 
quited Love, the latter issued with illus¬ 
trations by the author. 

ELSON, LOUIS CHARLES, journalist, 
author, was horn April 17, 1848, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He is a Boston journalist, ed¬ 
itor of the Vox Humana; and the author 
of History of Music; History of German 
Song; and Curiosities of Music. 

ELTON, JOHN PRINCE, manufacturer, 
legislator, was born April 24, 1809, in 
Watertown, Conn. In 1832 he went into 
business in Waterbury, Conn., and in 
1833 his firm began the manufacture of 
brass wire, being the first in the country 
to take up that industry. In 1840, 1849, 

1851, and 1863 he served in the state 
legislature. He died Nov. 10, 1864, in 
Waterbury, Conn. 

ELWELL, EDWARD HENRY, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 14, 1825, in 
Portland, Maine. Since 1848 he has been 
editor and manager of the Portland 
Transcript. He is the author of Portland 
and Vicinity; The Boys of Thirty-five, a 
story of a seaport town; and Fraternity 
Papers, a volume of essays and sketches. 

ELWELL, JOSEPH C., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 19, 1850, in Milford Center, 
Ohio. He has served as district attorney 
of the third district of Colorado; and as 
judge of the district court of the tenth 
judicial district of Colorado. 

ELWELL, MARIA HUNTINGTON, lec¬ 
turer, was born March 9, 1845, in Hadley, 
Mass. Many of her ancestors distin¬ 
guished themselves in colonial and revo¬ 
lutionary times—Governor Samuel Hunt¬ 
ington, signer of fhe Declaration of Inde¬ 
pendence, was one of them. She attended 
the best academies of Hadley, Mass., and 
Farmington, Conn., and subsequently 
taught in Cambridge and in Philadel¬ 
phia. In 1870 she married John D. El- 
well, and has since lived in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. She has been president of the 
Brooklyn Woman’s club; vice-president 
of the Christian Socialist society; his¬ 
torian-general of the Daughters of the 
Revolution; secretary of the New York 
League of Unitarian Women; and lecturer 


for the American Humane Education so¬ 
ciety. 

ELWYN, ALFRED LANGDON, philan¬ 
thropist, author, was born July 9, 1804, 
in Portsmouth, N. H. he originated the 
Pennsylvania Agricultural Society and 
Farm School, and was president in 1850. 
He was president of the Pennsylvania 
Institution for Instruction of the Blind; 
Training School for Feeble Minded Chil¬ 
dren; Society for Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals. He wrote Bonaparte; Glos¬ 
sary of Supposed Americanisms; Letters 
to Hon. John Langdon During and After 
the Revolution; Melancholy and its Mus- 
ings; and A Few Hints to the City on In¬ 
temperance. He died March 15, 1884, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

ELY, ALFRED, lawyer, congressman, 
author, was born Feb. 18, 1815, in Lyme, 
Conn. In 1858 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the thirty- 
sixth congress, and was re-elected to the 
thirty-seventh congress. He published a 
Journal of Alfred Ely, a Prisoner of War 
in Richmond. 

ELY, CHARLES WRIGHT, educator, 
soldier, was born March 14, 1839, in 
Madison, Conn. He served with distinc¬ 
tion as a soldier during the civil war. 
Since 1870 he has been principal and su¬ 
perintendent of the Maryland state school 
for the deaf. 

ELY, EZRA STILES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 13, 1786, in Lebanon, 
Conn. He was a presbyterian minister of 
Philadelphia, and the author of Contrast 
Between Calvinism and Hopkinsianism; 
Endless Punishment; The Science of the 
Human Mind; Sermons on Faith; Visits 
of Mercy; Memoir of Zebulon Ely; The 
Contrast; and Ely’s Journal. He died 
June 18, 1861, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ELY, FREDERICK DAVID, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 24, 1838, in Wrentham, Mass. 
At Dedham, Mass., he was a trial justice 
from 1867 to 1885; was a representative 
in the Massachusetts legislature in 1873; 
and was a state senator in 1878 and 1879. 
He was a member of the school commit¬ 
tee of Dedham from 1882 to 1885; and in 
1884 he was elected a representative from 
Massachusetts to the forty-ninth congress 
as a republican. 

ELY, GEORGE H., manufacturer, bank¬ 
er, state senator, was born Nov. 15, 1844, 
in Elyria, Ohio. He organized the Elyria 
Stone company; and is now president of 
the National Bank of Elyria. He has 
served with distinction as a state senator 
in the seventy-first and seventy-second 
general assemblies of Ohio. 

ELY, GRISWOLD LORD, merchant, 
was born Sept. 1, 1842, in New York city. 
In 1863 he was appointed assistant pay¬ 
master in the United States navy; and 
in 1875 established the cutlery firm of 
Ely and Wray of New York city. 

ELY, JOHN, congressman, was born 
in Connecticut. He was a representative 
in congress from New York from 1839 to 
1841, having previously served two years 
in the assembly of that state. 

ELY, MELVIN G., educator, journalist, 
lawyer, was born Aug. 22, 1865, in Beech 
Spring, Va. After receiving his educa¬ 
tion at the Cumberland college of Rose. 
Hill, Va., he began educational work; 
was professor in Turkey Cove seminary 
during 1887-90; and the two succeeding 
years was principal of Mt. Pleasant high 
school, Ky. He then entered journalism 
as editor of the Weekly Bulletin of Har¬ 
lan C. H., Ky.; and is now successfully 
engaged in the practice of law at Jones- 
ville, Va. 


340 


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ELY, RICHARD THEODORE, educator, 
author, was born April 13, 1854, in Rip¬ 
ley, N. Y. Since 1892 he has been profes¬ 
sor’ of political economy and director of 
the school of economics, political science 
and history in the university of Wiscon¬ 
sin. He is the author of French and Ger¬ 
man Socialism in Modern Times; The 
Past and Present of Political Economy; 
Taxation in American States and Cities; 
Problems of To-Day; Political Economy; 
Social Aspects of Christianity; and Out¬ 
lines of Economics. 

ELY, SMITH, merchant, congressman, 
was born in 1825, in New Jersey. He was 
elected a school trustee; in 1857 to the 
state senate; and was elected a represent¬ 
ative from New York to the forty-second 
and forty-fourth congresses as a demo¬ 
crat. He died July 28, 1884. 

ELY, WILLIAM, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1805 to 1815. He died in 
1817. 

ELY, WILLIAM G., soldier, was born 
about 1835. He served in the civil war 
and was brevetted a brigadier-general. 

ELY, WILLIAM MATHER, farmer, 
merchant, legislator, was born in 1818, 
in Binghamton, N. Y. He was for sev¬ 
eral years president of the state agricul¬ 
tural society. In 1868 he was elected to 
the legislature, and served till his death. 
He died Feb. 5, 1872, in Binghamton, 
N. Y. 

ELZEY, ARNOLD, soldier, was born 
Dec. 18, 1816, in Somerset county, Md. 
In 1861 he entered the confederate service 
with the rank of colonel; and was subse¬ 
quently promoted major-general. He died 
Feb. 21, 1871, in Baltimore, Md. 

EMANUEL, DAVID, governor, was born 
in 1742. He settled in Burke county, Ga.; 
was president of the senate; and in 1801 
governor of Georgia. He died in ±808, 
in Burke county, Ga. 

EMBREE, ELISHA, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 28, 1801, in 
Lincoln county, Ky. He was elected to 
the state senate of Indiana; and in 1835 
was chosen circuit judge, which office he 
held for ten years. In 1847 he was elect¬ 
ed representative in the thirtieth congress 
from Indiana. He died Feb. 28, 1863, in 
Princeton, N. J. 

EMBRY, JAMES CRAWFORD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 2, 1834, in 
Knox county, Ind. He is the author of 
Condition and Prospects of the Colored 
American. 

EMBURY, MRS. EMMA CATHARINE 
MANLY, poet, author, was born in 1806, 
in New York city. She was a writer of 
poetry and prose whose home was in 
Brooklyn. Her various works include 
Guido and Other Poems; The Blind Girl 
and Other Tales; The Waldorf Family, 
a Fairy Tale; Female Education; 
Glimpses of Home Life; Pictures of Early 
Life; Poems; Token of Flowers; Nature’s 
Gems, or American Wild Flowers; and 
Love’s Token Flowers, a collection of 
poems. She died Feb. 10, 1863, in New 
York. 

EMERSON, ALFRED, archaeologist, 
educator, author, was born in 1859, in 
Pennsylvania. He is an archaeologist; 
and professor at Cornell university since 
1891. He is the author of Dissertatio de 
Hercule Homerico. 

EMERSON, BENJAMIN KENDALL, 
geologist, author, was born Dec. 20, 1843, 
in Nashua, N. H. For many years he 
held the chair of geology and mineralogy 
in Amherst college, and subsequently be¬ 
came United States geologist. He is the 
author of several works on geology. 


EMERSON, BROWN, clergyman, was 
born Jan. 8, 1778, in Ashby. Mass. He 
was ordained in 1805 as Dr. Daniel Hop¬ 
kins’ colleague in the pastorate of the 
old South church of Salem, where he re¬ 
mained till his death, being sole' pastor 
from 1816 till 1849. He died July 25, 
1872, in Salem, Mass. 

EMERSON, CHARLES FRANKLIN, 
educator, was born Sept. 28, 1843, in 
Chelmsford, Mass. In 1869 he became in¬ 
structor in mathematics in the college 
proper, and in 1872 associate professor of 
natural philosophy, succeeding in 1878 
to full possession of that chair. His work 
has consisted largely in the development 
of the physical laboratory in Dartmouth, 
for which purpose he traveled extensively 
through Europe during 1883-84. 

EMERSON, CHARLES NOBLE, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Feb. 6, 1821, in 
Massachusetts. He was a Massachusetts 
lawyer, commissioner of revenue, who 
published Internal Revenue Guide; and 
Handbook of Internal Revenue for Popu¬ 
lar Use. He died April 15, ±869, in New 
York city. 

EMERSON, EDWARD WALDO, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1844, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is an instructor in art anat¬ 
omy, living at Concord, Mass., and the 
author of Emerson in Concord. 

EMERSON, MRS. ELLEN RUSSELL, 
author, was born Jan. 16, 1837, in New 
Sharon, Maine. She is the author of In¬ 
dian Myths; and has always taken deep 
interest in Indian history. Her latest 
work is entitled Masks, Heads, and Faces, 
with Some Considerations Respecting the 
Rise and Development of Art. 

EMERSON, FREDERICK, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 28, 1788, in Hamp¬ 
stead, N. H. He was a prominent Bos¬ 
ton educator, and superintendent of 
schools, who published a series of popu¬ 
lar arithmetics, chief among which was 
the North American Arithmetic. He died 
in 1857, in Boston, Mass. 

EMERSON, FREEMAN O., merchant, 
legislator, was born Jan. 12, 1855, in Gor¬ 
ham, N. H. He is a successful merchant 
of Boston, Mass.; was a member of the 
city council during 1894-96; and in 1897 
served with distinction as a member of 
the Massachusetts state legislature. 

EMERSON, GEORGE BARRELL, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Sept. 12, 1797, in 
Kennebunk, Maine. He was an educator 
of Boston, of much prominence and wide 
influence, and the author of Lectures on 
Education; The School and the School¬ 
master (with A. Potter); Manual of Agri¬ 
culture (with C. L. Flint); Report on 
the Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts; 
and Reminiscences of an Old Teacher. 
He died March 14, 1881, in Newton, Mass. 

EMERSON, IRVING, composer, was 
born Nov. 4, 1842, in Brighton, Maine. 
He is chorus director and supervisor of 
music in the public schools of Hartford. 
Conn. He is the author of a number of 
anthems; a few songs and piano pieces; 
and several singing books for public 
schools. 

EMERSON, JAMES E., machinist, in¬ 
ventor, was born Nov. 2, 1823, in Maine. 
For many years he manufactured edge 
tools in Trenton, N. J.; and received 
large contracts for swords and sabres 
from the government during the civil 
war. He afterward became superintend¬ 
ent of the American Saw company, which 
was organized to manufacture his cir¬ 
cular saws with movable teeth. He also 
invented a combined anvil, shears and 
punching machine; and other mechan¬ 
ical appliances. 


EMERSON, JOHN SMITH, missionary, 
author, was born Dec. 28, 1800, in Chester, 
N. H. He published five volumes of ele¬ 
mentary works, three of which were in 
the Hawaiian language. He also pub¬ 
lished an English-Hawaiian Dictionary. 
He died March 28, 1867, in the Sandwich 
Islands. 

EMERSON, JOSEPH, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born in 1777, in Hollis, 
N. H. He established an academy at By¬ 
field, Mass.; wrote Lectures on the Millen¬ 
nium; Lectures on Pollock’s Course of 
Time; and an edition of Watts on the 
Mind. He died May 14, 1833, in Weathers- 
field, Conn. 

EMERSON, LUTHER ORLANDO, mu¬ 
sician, was born Aug. 3, 1820,* in Parsons- 
field, Maine. He has written and com¬ 
piled many collections of church music. 
Among them The Romberg Collection, 
The Golden Wreath; The Golden Harp; 
The Sabbath Harmony; The Harp of 
Judah; Merry Chimes; Jubilate; and sun¬ 
dry other collections. 

EMERSON, PHILIP H., lawyer, state 
senator, jurist, was born Feb. 15, 1834, in 
Danby, Vt. He was city attorney ^ol 
Battle Creek, Mich., from 1865 to 1873; 
trustee and president of school board 
from 1868 to 1873; served in the state 
senate; and United States associate jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of Utah from 
1873 to 1885. 

EMERSON, RALPH, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Aug. 18, 1787, in 
Hollis, N. H. He was a congregational 
clergyman, professor in Andover Theo¬ 
logical seminary in 1829-53, and author of 
Life of Joseph Emerson; and translation 
of Wisgon’s Augustinianism and Pelag- 
ianism. He died May 20, 1863, in Rock¬ 
ford, Ill. 

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, was born May 25, 
1803, in Boston, Mass. He was the most 
distinguished o f 
American essayists, 
and by some critics 
ranked as the fore¬ 
most American poet 
when the substance 
of his poetry is con¬ 
sidered apart from 
its form. He was 
ordained in 1829 as 
a Unitarian minister 
in Boston, but re¬ 
tired from the pro¬ 
fession in 1833, and 
the next year settled in Concord, Mass., 
where the remainder of his life was spent. 
He succeeded Margaret Fuller as editor 
of The Dial, and was the most prominent 
figure among the transcendentalists. As 
a lecturer he was frequently before the 
public, and in his writings faced a world¬ 
wide public as a philosophical thinker. 
His first volume of poems appeared in 
1847, followed in 1867 by May-Day and 
Other Pieces. His prose writings are 
comprised in Nature; Essays, first and 
second series; Representative Men; Eng¬ 
lish Traits; Conduct of Life; Society and 
Solitude; Letters and Social Aims; Lec¬ 
tures and Biographical Sketches; Miscel¬ 
lanies; and Natural History of Intellect, 
and Other Papers. He died April 27, 1882. 

EMERTON, EPHRAIM, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1851 in Massachusetts. 
He is professor of history at Harvard uni¬ 
versity, and the author of Introduction to 
the Study of Mediaeval History; Synopsis 
of the History of Continental Europe; 
The Practical Method in Higher Histori¬ 
cal Instruction; Sir William Temple and 
die Tripleallianz vom Jahre, 1668; and 
Mediaeval Europe. 





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EMERTON, JAMES HENRY, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1847 in Salem, 
Mass. He is a naturalist of eminence, 
and the author of Structure and Habits 
of Spiders; and Life on the Seashore. 

EMERY, BRAINERD P., journalist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born March 25, 1865, in 
Southport, Conn. He is the author of In 
Sunshine and Shadow; and In the Haunts 
of Bloom ana Bird. 

EMERY, CHARLES EDWARD, civil 
engineer. He has invented numerous ap¬ 
pliances for the use of civil engineers. 

EMERY, GEORGE ADDISON, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, was horn in November, 
1839, in Saco, Maine. He has been jus¬ 
tice of the peace, commissioner for Mas¬ 
sachusetts, judge of the municipal court 
and recorder and trial justice. He has 
represented Saco in the state legislature. 

EMERY, GEORGE W., governor, was a 
citizen of Tennessee. In 1875 he was ap¬ 
pointed governor of Utah, serving until 
1880. 

-EMERY, LEWIS, petroleum producer, 
was born in 1839, in Cherry Creek, N. Y. 
In advance of oil development in Brad¬ 
ford, Pa., he leased about fourteen thou¬ 
sand acres of land. Sinking the first 
well at Toad Hollow, two miles south of 
the present city of Bradford, in 1875, he 
obtained a flow of forty barrels of oil per 
day. 

EMERY, MATTHEW GAULT, archi¬ 
tect, was born Sept. 28, 1818, in Pem¬ 
broke, N. H. He is a well-known archi¬ 
tect of New York city. From 1845 he 
has been identified as incorporator, di¬ 
rector or officer in nearly all the fire and 
life insurance companies organized in 
Washington. 

EMERY, ORIN C.. journalist, author, 
was born Jan. 19, 1860, in Compton, Ill. 
In 1896 he was elected a representative 
in the Oregon state legislature. He is the 
editor of the Yamhill Independent of 
Newburg, Ore., and has attained promi¬ 
nence in the political affairs of his state. 

EMMERTON, JAMES ARTHUR, gene¬ 
alogist* physician, author, was born Aug. 
28, 1834, in Salem, Mass. He is a New 
England genealogist and physician, and 
the author of Eighteenth Century Bap¬ 
tisms in Salem, Massachusetts; Record of 
the 23d Massachusetts Regiment; and 
Materials towards an Emmerton Genealo- 
gy. 

EMMET, EMMA, artist, was born in 
1854. She has attained national promi¬ 
nence as an artist. 

EMMET, JOHN T., Roman catholic 
priest, was born Feb. 13, 1854, in Pitts- 
town, N. Y. In 1890 he was appointed 
pastor of St. Mary’s church of Waterford, 
N. Y. 

EMMET, JOSEPH KLINE, actor, was 
born March 13, 1841, in St. Louis, Mo. He 
visited in Australia in 1877, and in Eu¬ 
rope in 1881 and 1885, in the latter year 
fulfilling engagements in England, Ire¬ 
land and Scotland. His final appearance 
on the stage was made in the spring of 
1891. He died June 15, 1891, in Cornwall- 
on-Hudson, N. Y. 

EMMET, ROSINA, artist. She received 
a first prize medal in London in 1878, for 
heads on china. She has illustrated a 
book for children, entitled Pretty Peggy, 
collecting and arranging for it the poems 
and music, ana Mrs. Burton Harrison’s 
Old Fashioned Tales. 

EMMET, THOMAS ADDIS, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born April 24, 1764, in Ireland. 
He was an Irish patriot who came to the 
United States in 1804 and settled in New 
York city, where he practiced law. He is 
the author of Pieces of Irish History. He 
died Nov. 14, 1827, in New York city. 


EMMET, THOMAS ADDIS, civil engi¬ 
neer, author, was born June 4, 1818, in 
New York city. In 1858 he was appointed 
by the North Carolina legislature to con¬ 
duct the geological survey of that state. 
He published valuable reports in connec¬ 
tion with the surveys of New York and 
North Carolina; A Manual of Mineralogy 
and Geology; and American Geology. 

EMMET, THOMAS ADDIS, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born May 29, 1828, 
in Virginia. He is a physician and sur¬ 
geon of New York city, whose chief work 
is The Principles and Practice of Gyne¬ 
cology. 

EMMETT,. H. HUNTINGDON, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, was born Jan. 31, 1852, in 
the state of Maine. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the schools of Maine and New 
Hampshire; and has filled pastorates in 
New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. He 
has attained distinction as a popular ora¬ 
tor; and his lectures on the North Amer¬ 
ican Indian and other subjects have gain¬ 
ed for him a national reputation as one 
of the most fluent, dramatic and cultured 
men on the platform. He has been grand 
worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temper¬ 
ance of western New York; and grand 
chaplain of the Independent Order of 
Good Templars of the state of Ohio. 

EMMONS, EBENEZER, geologist, au¬ 
thor, was born May 16, 1799, in Middle- 
field, Mass. He was a noted geologist who 
in the latter part of his life was attached 
to the state geological survey of North 
Carolina. He was the author of Manual 
of Mineralogy and Geology; and Ameri¬ 
can Geology. He died Oct. 1, 1863, in 
Brunswick, N. C. 

EMMONS, GEORGE FOSTER, naval 
officer, author, was born Aug. 23, 1811, in 
Clarendon, Vt. He was a rear-admiral in 
the United States service who wrote The 
Navy of the United States from 1775 to 
1853. He died July 2, 1884, in Princeton, 
N. .1. 

EMMONS, NATHANIEL, clergyman, 
author, was born April 20, 1745, in East 
Haddam, Conn. He was a once noted 
congregational minister at Franklin, 
Mass., in 1773-1840. His theological works 
in six volumes, with Memoir by J. Ide, 
appeared in 1842. He died Sept. 23, 1840. 

EMMONS, SAMUEL FRANKLIN, ge¬ 
ologist, author, was born March 29, 1841, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a geologist in 
government service, and the author of 
Descriptive Geology; Geological and Min¬ 
ing Industries of Leadville; and Statistics 
and Technology of the Precious Metals. 

EMMONS, WILLIS TALMON, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 27, 1858, in Bidde- 
ford, Maine. He graduated from the law 
school of Harvard university, and has at¬ 
tained success in his profession at Saco, 
Maine. He has been city auditor; was 
mayor for three terms; and during 1883- 
91 was judge of the municipal court. Dur¬ 
ing 1891-95 he was deputy collector of 
customs, port of Portland, Maine; and 
since 1894 has been county attorney'of 
York county. 

EMORY, JOHN, bishop, author, was 
born April 11, 1789, in Queen Anne coun¬ 
ty, Md. He was a methodist bishop of 
prominence in his denomination, and the 
author of The Divinity of Christ Vindica¬ 
ted; and Defence of Our Fathers. He 
died Dec. 17, 1835, in Reisterstown, Md. 

EMORY, ROBERT, clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born July 29, 1814, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was the president 
of Dickinson college of Carlisle, Pa., in 
1842-48. He was the author of Life of 
Bishop Emory; and History of the Dis¬ 
cipline of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. He died May 18, 1848, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. 


EMORY, WILLIAM HELMSLEY, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born Sept. 9, 1811, in 
Queen Anne county, Md. He was an army 
officer who retired from the United States 
service in 1876 with the rank of brigadier- 
general, and was the author of Notes of a 
Military Reconnoissance in Missouri and 
California, 1848; and Report on the Unit¬ 
ed States and Mexican Boundary Commis¬ 
sion. He died Dec. 1, 1887, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

EMORY, WILLIAM HELMSLEY, naval 
officer, graduated at the United States 
naval academy in 1866; became master in 
1869; lieutenant in 1870; and in 1884 
commanded the Bear of the Greely relief 
expedition. 

EMOTT, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 14, 1771, in 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was a distin¬ 
guished member of the bar; under the old 
constitution of New York, for several 
years, filled the office of first judge of the 
court of common pleas for his county, 
and in that capacity gave that court a 
rank among the best of the state. He was 
a representative in congress from his na¬ 
tive state from 1809 to 1813; and under 
the constitution of 1821 was appointed 
judge for the second district. He died 
April 7, 1850, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

EMOTT, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, was 
born April 23, 1823, in Poughkeepsie, N. 
Y. In 1854-55 he served as the first may¬ 
or of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He then be¬ 
came justice of the New York supreme 
court for the second judicial district; 
was appointed presiding judge in 1852; 
and judge of the court of appeals in 1863. 
He died Sept. 11, 1884, in Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. 

EMPIE, ADAM, college president, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Sept. 5, 1785, in Sche¬ 
nectady, N. Y. In 1827 he was elected 
president of William and Mary college, 
and continued in that office until 1836. 
He resigned the presidency to become 
rector of St. James’ church in Richmond, 
Va. He died Nov. 6, 1860, in Wilming¬ 
ton. 

EMRIE, J. REECE, congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from that state to the thirty- 
fourth congress. 

EMSWILER, GEORGE P., merchant, 
author, was born Jan. 15, 1835, in York, 
Pa. Since his youth he has been employed 
in various capaci¬ 
ties—as dry goods 
clerk, bank clerk, 
school teacher, 
freight and ticket 
agent; and for 
twelve years was 
proprietor of a 
wholesale and retail 
business, in which 
he has been emi¬ 
nently successful. 
He has a most ex¬ 
tensive collection of 
coins; and a large collection of mound 
builders’ relics which he donated to 
Eastham college of Richmond, Ind. He 
is the author of a volume entitled Poems 
and Sketches; and has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to periodical literature. 

ENDICOTT, CHARLES MOSES, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1793 in Danvers, Mass. 
He was a writer of Salem, Mass., who was 
at one time commander of a merchant¬ 
man, and the author of Life of John En- 
dicott; The Persian Poet, a tragedy; 
Rights and Duties of Nations; and Three 
Orations. He died in lo63 in Northamp¬ 
ton, Mass. 




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ENDICOTT, JOHN, governor, was 
born in 1588, in England. He became 
governor of the Massachusetts colony in 
1644. He died March 15, 1665, in Boston, 
Mass. 

ENDICOTT, WILLIAM CROWNIN- 
SHIELD, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 

19, 1827, in Salem, Mass. In 1873 he was 
appointed associate justice of the su¬ 
preme judicial court of Massachusetts, 
which office he held until 1882, when he 
resigned. He was the democratic candi¬ 
date for governor of that state in 1884, 
and was defeated; and in 1885 was ap¬ 
pointed secretary of war in the cabinet 
of President Cleveland. 

ENDRESS, CHRISTIAN, clergyman, 
author, was born March 12, 1775, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He was a lutheran clergy¬ 
man of Lancaster, Pa., who published in 
German The Kingdom of Heaven not 
Susceptible of Union with Temporal Mon¬ 
archy and Aristocracy. He died Sept. 30, 
1827, in Lancaster, Pa. 

ENGELHARD, JOSEPH ADOLPHUS, 
soldier, journalist, was born Sept. 27, 
1832, in Monticello, Miss. He entered the 
confederate army as captain and quar¬ 
termaster in 1861, and in 1862 was 
promoted to be major and quartermaster 
of Branch’s brigade. He became the ed¬ 
itor of the Wilmington Journal in 1865, 
and was afterward elected secretary of 
state, which office he held till his death. 
He died Feb. 17, 1879, in Raleigh, N. C. 

ENGELHARDT, FRANCIS ERNEST, 
cnemist, was born June 23, 1835, in Han¬ 
over. In 1886 he became chemist to the 
Genesee Salt company, and is one of the 
experts for the state board of health. 

ENGELMANN, GEORGE, physician, 
botanist, was born Feb. 2, 1809, in Ger¬ 
many. He made a specialty of botany; 
and a list of his botanical papers num¬ 
ber about one hundred titles. His bo¬ 
tanical collection was given to Shaw’s 
Botanical garden; and his gift led to the 
founding of the Shaw School of Botany as 
a department of the Washington univer¬ 
sity of St. Louis, Mo. He died Feb. 11, 
1884, in St. Louis, Mo. 

ENGELMANN, GEORGE JULIUS, phy- 
sycian, author, was born July 2, 1847, in 
St. Louis, Mo. He is a St. Louis physi¬ 
cian, founder of the Polyclinic School of 
Medicine in that city, and the author of 
Labor among Primitive Peoples, or the 
Development of Obstetric Science. 

ENGLAND, JOHN, bishop, author, was 
born Sept. 23, 1786, in Ireland. He was 
a Roman catholic prelate who was ap¬ 
pointed bishop of Charleston in 1820, and 
came to America in that year. He is the 
author of Letters on Slavery. He died 
April 11, 1842, in Charleston, S. C. 

ENGLE, FREDERICK, naval officer, 
was born in 1799 in Delaware county, Pa. 
In 1814 he entered the navy as a mid¬ 
shipman and was retired in 1866 as rear 
admiral. Prior to his death he was gov¬ 
ernor of the naval asylum. He died Feb. 
12, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ENGLE, PERRY, physician, journalist, 
legislator, was born July 16, 1841, in Ben¬ 
ton Ridge, Ohio. He served as a member 
of the Ohio state senate; and was presi¬ 
dent of the National Liberty league. 

ENGLES, WILLIAM MORRISON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Oct. 12, 1797, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a presbyterian 
minister of Philadelphia, for many years 
editor of The Presbyterian, and author of 
Records of the Presbyterian Church; En¬ 
glish Martyrology; Sick-Room Devotion; 
Bible Dictionary; Sailor’s Companion; 
and Soldier’s Pocket Book. He died Nov. 
27, 1867. 


ENGLISH, CHARLES J., journalist, 
clergyman, was born Jan. 30, 1855, in No- 
dana county, Mo. Since 1886 he has been 
a clergyman of the methodist episcopal 
church, and now fills a pastorate in Col¬ 
fax, Iowa. He has filled various offices 
in the Iowa State Epworth league, and 
served one year as its president. 

ENGLISH, EARL, naval officer, was 
born Feb. 18, 1824, in Crosswick, N. J. 
He was commissioned captain in 1871, 
commodore in 1880, and rear admiral in 
1884, at which time he resigned the office 
of chief of the bureau of equipment and 
recruiting, which he had held for six 
years. He then took command of the 
European station, and was retired in 1886. 

ENGLISH, GEORGE BETHUNE, ad- 
ven'turer, author, was born March 7, 
1787, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a ver¬ 
satile adventurer who wrote The Grounds 
of Christianity Examined, which was an¬ 
swered by Edward Everett, and this 
brought a rejoinder from English enti¬ 
tled Five Smooth Stones Out of the 
Brook. He published also Narrative of 
the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar. 
He died Sept. 20, 1828, in Washington, 
D. C. 

ENGLISH, JAMES EDWARD, manu¬ 
facturer, merchant, congressman, gover¬ 
nor, was born March 13, 1812, in New Ha¬ 
ven, Conn. In 1855 he was a member of 
the legislature of Connecticut; in 1856 
was elected to the state senate, and de¬ 
clined a re-election. He was elected -a 
representative from his native state to 
the thirty-seventh congress, and re-elect¬ 
ed to the thirty-eighth congress. He was 
elected governor of Connecticut in 1867, 
1868, and 1870; and in 1875 was appointed 
a senator in congress to fill a vacancy. 

ENGLISH, JOSIAH GIBERTON, sol¬ 
dier, clergyman, poet, was born in No¬ 
vember, 1838, in Williamstown, N. Y. He 
served as a union soldier during the civil 
war. He has filled a pastorate in Xenia, 
Ohio; and is the author of a law text¬ 
book entitled The Origin and End of Civil 
Government; a novel; and a volume of 
poems. 

ENGLISH, ROBERT BRECKEN- 
RIDGE, lawyer, state legislator, was born 
Dec. 30, 1853, in Jersey county, Ill. He 
is a successful lawyer of Hardin, Ill.; and 
in 1897 was elected a member of the Illi¬ 
nois state legislature. 

ENGLISH, THOMAS DUNN, lawyer, 
physician, congressman, journalist, author, 
poet, was born June 29, 1819, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. For several 
years he practiced 
medicine; and in 
1842 was admitted to 
the bar. In 1844 he 
edited a daily paper 
in New York; and 
since that time has 
principally been en¬ 
gaged in journalism 
and authorship in 
Newark, N. J. In 
1863-64 he served in 
the New Jersey leg¬ 
islature; and was subsequently elected to 
the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses 
as a democrat. His principal novels are 
Walter Wolf; Ambrose Fecit; and Jacob 
Schuyler’s Millions. His poems have been 
published in volumes known as American 
Ballads; Boys’ Book of Battle Lyrics; 
and Select Poems; and also a collection 
of his fairy tales called Once Upon a 
Time. His song of Ben Bolt, written in 
1843, has achieved world-wide renown; 
and his patriotic ballad of 1860-64 at¬ 
tracted much attention. 


ENGLISH, WARREN B., soldier, state 
senator, congressman, was born May 1, 
1846, in Charlestown, Va. He served in 
the confederate army. He afterward 
moved to Oakland, Cal.; and in 187 i was 
elected a member of the board of super¬ 
visors of Contra Costa county, and served 
four years. He was elected state sena¬ 
tor in 1882; in 1884 was a delegate to the 
national democratic convention in Chi¬ 
cago; and subsequently was elected to 
the fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

ENGLISH, WILLIAM E., business man, 
legislator, author, is a son of William H. 
English, statesman and historian, and 
was born Nov. 3, 
1854, in Lexington, 
Ind. Since his child¬ 
hood he has resided 
in Indianapolis, Ind., 
where he controls 
large financial inter¬ 
ests, being the own¬ 
er of English’s Op¬ 
era-house, English’s 
hotel, English’s block 
and numerous other 
buildings. In 1878 
he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in the Indiana state legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1882 was elected a represent¬ 
ative in the United States congress. He 
was a delegate to the national democrat¬ 
ic conventions of 1892 and 1896. He is 
park commissioner of the city of In¬ 
dianapolis. He is the author of The His¬ 
tory of Early Masonry in Indiana, and 
various other works. 

ENGLISH, WILLIAM H., lawyer, 
statesman, historian, financier, was born 
Aug. 27, 1822, in Lexington, Ind. He was 
secretary of the In¬ 
diana constitutional 
convention in 1850; 
speaker of the In¬ 
diana house of rep¬ 
resentatives in 1851; 
a member of the 
United States con¬ 
gress during 1852-60; 
and in 1880 was the 
democratic nominee 
for vice-president of 
the United States. 
For fourteen years 
he was president of the First National 
bank of Indianapolis; was president of 
the Indiana Historical society; and the 
author of the noted work entitled Con¬ 
quest of the Northwest and History of 
Indiana. He died Feb. 7, 1896, in In¬ 
dianapolis, Ind. 

ENLOE, BENJAMIN AUGUSTINE, 
lawyer, journalist, congressman, was 

born Jan. 18, 1848, in Clarksburg, Tenn. 

He was elected a member of the house of 
representatives of the general assembly of 
the state, at the age of twenty-one years; 
and re-elected under the new constitution 
of 1870. He was president of the Tennes¬ 
see Press association in 1883-84; and ed¬ 
ited the Jackson Tribune and Sun from 
1874 till 1886. He was elected to the fif¬ 
tieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty- 
third congresses as a democrat. 

ENNEKING, JOHN JOSEPH, artist, 
was born Oct. 4, 1841, in Minster, Ohio. 
Among his notable works are November 
Twilight; Winter Twilight; Summer Twi¬ 
light; Cloudy Day in Summer; The Com¬ 
ing Storm; and Indian Summer. 

ENOCHS, WILLIAM H., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 29, 
1842, in Middleburg, Ohio. He served 
through the civil war as private, corporal, 
sergeant, lieutenant, captain, lieutenant- 
colonel, colonel, and brevet brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He was elected to the fifty-second 
and fifty-third congresses as a republican. 
He died July 13, 1893, in Ironton, Ohio. 











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ENOS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, law¬ 
yer, was born Oct. 1, 1851, in Defiance, 
Ohio. He attended the union schools of 
his native city, and graduated from the 
business college of Toledo, Ohio. In 1873 
he was admitted to the bar; was elected 
city solicitor of Defiance in 1879, and 
held that position for eight successive 
terms; and in 1880 was elected as prose¬ 
cuting attorney, which position he filled 
with distinction for two terms. 

ENSOR, THOMAS HERA, lawyer, ora¬ 
tor, was born Nov. 13, 1855, in Baltimore 
county, Md. For many years he was a 
high school professor; has been railroad 
attorney; and for five years was attorney 
for several large Chicago corporations. 
He has been prominent in political af¬ 
fairs, and in the campaign of 1896 lectured 
extensively under the direction of the 
national democratic committee, and 
gained a national reputation as an able 
orator. For twenty years he has been a 
regular contributor to law literature and 
the periodical press; and is one of the 
leading lawyers of Missouri. 

ENYART, CHARLES FRANCIS, educa¬ 
tor, college president, clergyman, was 
born Feb. 9, 1865, near Logansport, Ind. 
He reorganized the Hillsboro college of 
Ohio, and was its president in 1895. He 
now fills a pastorate in the methodist 
episcopal church at Georgetown, Ohio. 

EPES, JAMES FLETCHER, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born May 33, 
1842, in Nottoway county, Va. He re¬ 
ceived a thorough 
education and grad¬ 
uated from the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia. 
During the civil war 
he served in the 
cavalry branch of 
the confederate ser- 
vice; had three 
horses shot from 
under him and re¬ 
ceived two bullet 
wounds. After the 
war he became a 
prominent member of the bar; and served 
with distinction in the fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses as a democrat. He 
has now retired from active life and lives 
on a farm owned in former years by his 
father, in Nottoway county, Va. 

EPES, SYDNEY P., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 20, 1865, in Not¬ 
toway county, Va. He was elected in 1891 
a member of the general assembly to rep¬ 
resent the counties of Nottoway and 
Amelia; was appointed in 1895 register 
of the land office to fill an unexpired 
term, and at the following session of the 
general assembly was elected by accla¬ 
mation for the full term; and before the 
expiration of his term he was elected to 
the finy-fifth congress as a democrat. 

EPPERSON, ELMER H., farmer, state 
legislator, was born Nov. 11, 1852, in Ben¬ 
ton county, Iowa. In 1870 he moved to 
Kansas, where he is a successful farmer 
in Scott county. During 1896-97 he was 
a member of the Kansas state legislature. 

EPPES, JOHN WAYLES, congressman. 
United States senator, was born in 1773 
in Virginia. He was a representative in 
congress from Virginia from 1803 to 1811, 
and again from 1813 to 1815. He was a 
senator in congress from 1817 to 1819, 
when he resigned because of ill health. 
He died Sept. 20, 1823, in Richmond, Va. 

ERBEN, PETER, organist, was born in 
1771, in Philadelphia, Pa. He became an 
organ builder; and was also organist in 
Trinity parish from 1807 till 1839. He 
died in 1863 in New York city. 



ERDMAN, CONSTANTINE J., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1846, in 
Lehigh county, Pa. He attended the 
common schools of 
the district and a 
classical school at 
Quakertown; enter¬ 
ed Pennsylvania col¬ 
lege, Gettysburg, in 
1861, and graduated 
in 1865; read law, 
and was admitted to 
the bar of Lehigh in 
1867, and since has 
practiced there. He 
was elected district 
attorney in 1874; 
and was elected to the fifty-third and fif¬ 
ty-fourth congresses as a democrat. 






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ERDMAN, JACOB, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1845 to 1847. He died July 20, 1867, 
in Lehigh county, Pa. 

ERICSSON, JOHN, engineer, inventor, 
was born July 31, 1803, in Sweden. To 
this skilled inventor belongs much of the 
success of the late civil war, by the build¬ 
ing of his iron-clad turret, the Monitor, 
just in time to defeat the Merrimac, and 
thus save the ports of the north from 
southern or from foreign invasion. He 
died in 1896. 

ERMENTROUT, DANIEL, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 
24, 1837, in Reading, Pa. He was elected 
district attorney of 
Berks county for 
three years in 1862; 
was solicitor for the 
city of Reading in 
1867-1870. He was 
elected to the state 
senate of Pennsyl¬ 
vania in 1873 for a 
term of three years, 
and re-elected in 
1876 for four years. 
He was a member of 
the board of school 
control of Reading for many years; and 
was appointed in 1877 a member of the 
Pennsylvania statutory commission. He 
was in 1880 elected as a democrat to rep¬ 
resent Berks county in the forty-seventh 
congress, and successively in the forty- 
eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-fifth 
congresses. 

ERNST, LOUIS, soldier, financier, was 
born July 19, 1825, in Germany. He served 
in the civil war and attained the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel. From 1874-76 he was 
president of the Rochester German Insur¬ 
ance company. He died April 3, 1892, in 
Rochester, N. Y. 

ERNST, OSWALD HUBER’l, engineer, 
author, was born June 27, 1842, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. He is a military engineer 
with the rank of major, and the author of 
A Manual of Practical Military Engineer¬ 
ing. 

ERRANI, ACHILLE, musician, was 
born Aug. 20, 1823, in France. He settled 
in New York as a teacher of the Italian 
style of singing. His most famous pupils 
are Minnie Hauck, Miss Thursby, Mme. 
Durand and Stella Bonheur. 



ERRETT, ISAAC, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 2, 1820, in New York city. 
He was a Campbellite clergyman of Cin¬ 
cinnati and the author of Debate on Spir¬ 
itualism; Brief View of Missions; Walks 
about Jerusalem; Talks to Bereans; Let¬ 
ters to Young Christians; and Evenings 
with the Bible. He died Dec. 19, 1880, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

ERRETT, RUSSELL, journalist, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1817 in 


New York. He adopted the profession of 
an editor; was comptroller of Pittsburg 
in 1860; and clerk of the state senate in 
1860 and 1861. He served in the union 
armv, as additional paymaster, from 1861 
to 1866. He was a state senator in 1867; 
was assessor of internal revenue from 
1869 to 1873; and again clerk of the state 
senate from 1872 to 1876. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Pennsylvania to 
the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-sev¬ 
enth congresses as a republican. 

ERSKINE, EBENEZER, clergyman, 
was born Jan. 31, 1821, in Ridley Park, 
Pa. In 1870 he was called to the church 
in Newville, Pa. He was moderator of 
the synod of Harrisburg, and in 1878 be¬ 
came a director of the Princeton Theolog¬ 
ical seminary. 

ERSKINE, JOHN, jurist, was born in 
Ireland. He resided at Atlanta, Ga.; and 
in 1866 was appointed United States judge 
for the district of Georgia. 

ERSKINE, MASSENA BERTHIER, 
manufacturer, was born Dec. 19, 1819, in 
Royalton, Mass. He is president of the 
Racine Wagon and Carriage company and 
the Manufacturers’ National bank of Ra¬ 
cine, Wis. In all the affairs of Racine he 
has taken a lively interest, and served as 
mayor in 1869-70, 1871 and 1879. 

ERVIN, JAMES, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Oct. 17, 1778, in Williamsburg 
district, S. C. He served in the state leg¬ 
islature in 1801 and 1802, and from 1804 
to 1816; was a solicitor of the northern 
circuit; and for eight years was a trustee 
of the South Carolina college. He was a 
representative in congress from South 
Carolina from 1817 to 1821. He died July 
7, 1841, near Darlington, S. C. 

ERVING, GEORGE WILLIAM, diplo¬ 
mat, was born in 1771 in Bostoii, Mass. 
He was made consul to London by Jeffer¬ 
son; was secretary of legation to Spain 
in 1804; special minister to Denmark in 
1811; and minister to Spain in 1814. He 
died in July, 1850, in New York. 

ERVING, JOHN, merchant, was born 
in 1693 in Scotland. He was one of the 
wealthiest and most distinguished mer¬ 
chants of Boston, and was a member of 
the council of Massachusetts for twenty 
years. He died Aug. 12, 1786, in Boston, 
Mass. 

ERWIN, ALEXANDER R., clergyman, 
educator, was born Jan. 12, 1820, in Louisi¬ 
ana. He occupied a high rank in the 
ministry, and presided over the Clarks¬ 
ville Female academy and the Huntsville 
Female college. He died Jan. 10, 1860, in 
Huntsville, Ala. 

ERWIN, DAVID, jurist. He was an 
early emigrant to Michigan; and in 1832 
was appointed judge for the territory of 
Michigan. 

ERWIN, GEORGE Z., lawyer, state 
senator, was born Jan. 15, 1840, in Madi¬ 
son, N. Y. He has been trustee of the 
village, chief of the fire department, and a 
member of the local board of the normal 
training school of Potsdam, N. Y. In 1881 
he was elected to the assembly from St. 
Lawrence county, and in 1887 to the state 
senate. 

ERWIN, ROBERT WESLEY, physician, 
surgeon, was born May 24, 1842, in Lacey- 
ville, Ohio. In 1868 he graduated from the 
Ohio university with the degree of B. S.; 
and in 1870 from the Bellevue Hospital 
Medical college of New York city, with 
the degree of M. D. During the civil war 
he served as a volunteer soldier in an 
Ohio regiment. He has attained success 
as a physician in Bay City, Mich.; and 
has served as United States examining 
surgeon. 





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ESHER, JOHN JACOB, clergyman, 
bishop, was born Dec. 11, 1823, in France. 
He was the first agent ot the Northwest¬ 
ern college, and started that institution 
of learning. He has been editor of sever¬ 
al German religious publications; and has 
edited the Sunday-School and Juvenile 
Literature of his church, of which denom¬ 
ination he has been bishop for the past 
thirty-four years. 

ESKRIDGE, THOMAS P., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist. He was appointed United States 
judge for the territory of Arkansas, serv¬ 
ing in that capacity as late as 1831. 

ESLING, MRS. CATHERINE HAR- 
BESON, author, was born April 12, 1812, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. She was a poet of 
Philadelphia who published The Broken 
Bracelet and Other Poems in 1850. 

ESLING, CHARLES HENRY AUGUS¬ 
TINE, lawyer, diplomat, author, poet, was 
born Jan. 21, 1845, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
For twenty years he practiced law in his 
native city; and has been honored on two 
occasions with diplomatic commissions 
abroad. He is the author of Life of Saint 
Germaine Cousin, The Shepherdess of 
Pibrae. 

ESPY, JAMES POLLARD, meteorolo¬ 
gist, author, was born in 1785 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was a meteorologist of Phil¬ 
adelphia, sometimes called the storm 
king, who published The Philosophy of 
Storms. He died' Jan. 24, 1860, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. 

ESPY, JOHN BOYD, soldier, lecturer, 
clergyman, legislator, was born July 13, 
1838, in Espyville, Pa. During the civil 
war he served as captain in company H, 
one hundred and forty-fifth regiment 
Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. He was 
twice a member of the Pennsylvania state 
legislature. Since 1876 he has been a 
clergyman in the methodist episcopal 
church. 

ESSICK, SAMUEL V., soldier, lawyer, 
inventor, was born Jan. 19, 1841, in New 
Franklin, Ohio. He served in the civil 
war as a private. The most important 
effort on which he entered was the inven¬ 
tion of the Essick printing telegraph, and 
in 1889 a company was organized under 
the name of the Essick Printing Tele¬ 
graph company. 

ESTABROOK, E., lawyer, legislator, 
congressman, poet, was 'born April 30, 
1813, in Lebanon, N. H. In 1851 he was 
elected attorney-general of Wisconsin; in 
1854 was appointed United States attorney 
for Nebraska by President Pierce; and in 
1859 was elected to congress. 

ESTABROOK, FRANCIS M., clergy¬ 
man, financier, was born Aug. 25, 1842, 
in Rushville, Ill. For thirty years he has 
been a successful clergyman of the meth¬ 
odist episcopal church in Nebraska. He 
is now the financial agent and treasurer 
of the Nebraska Wesleyan university. 

ESTE, DAVID KIRKPATRICK, jurist, 
was born in 1785 in Morristown, N. J. He 
removed to Ohio in 1809, settled in Cin¬ 
cinnati in 1814, and became a noted law¬ 
yer and jurist. He died April 1, 1875, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

ESTE, GEORGE PEABODY, soldier, 
was born April 24, 1829, in Nashua, N. H. 
He was a colonel in the fourteenth Ohio 
infantry in 1862; and was promoted to 
brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865. 
tie died Feb. 6, 1881, in New York city. 

ESTEP, EPHRAIM JAMES, lawyer, 
was born Feb. 12, 1820, in Ohio. In 1853 
he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he 
remained for forty-two years, and became 
one of the ablest lawyers in Ohio. 


ESTERLY, GEORGE, inventor, was 
born Oct. 17, 1809, in Plattekill, N. Y. He 
built a harvesting machine, and soon be¬ 
gan to manufacture various agricultural 
implements. Subsequently he obtained 
numerous patents, and his establishment 
at Whitewater, Wis., has become one of 
the largest of its kind in the United 
States. 

ESTES, CHARLES, financier, was born 
Feb. 2, 1819, in Vincent, N. Y. The Au¬ 
gusta canal, which yields 14,000 horse 
power, was built practically through his 
influence while he was mayor in 1870-76. 
For seventeen years he managed the Au¬ 
gusta Land company as its president, and 
of several other companies he is a direc¬ 
tor. The J. P. King Manufacturing com¬ 
pany, capital $1,000,000, which operates 
large cotton mills in Augusta, Ga., is one 
of his enterprises and he is its presi¬ 
dent. 

ESTEY, JACOB, president and founder 
of the Estey Organ company, was born 
Sept. 30, 1814, in Hinsdale, N. H. The 
works, now the largest of their class in 
the world, form the nucleus of the village 
of Esteyville, which derives its very exist¬ 
ence and daily bread from the operations 
of the factory. 

ESTEY, JULIUS JACOB, manufactur¬ 
er, state senator, was born Jan. 8, 1845, 
in Brattleboro, Vt. He is a successful 
manufacturer, and president of the Estey 
Organ company. In 1876 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Vermont legislature, and in 
1882 a state senator. He has been lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel and colonel of the nation¬ 
al guard of Vermont; and was elected 
brigade commander in 1892, 1894 and 
1896. 


ESTIL, BENJAMIN, congressman, was 
born in Washington county, Va. He was 
a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1825 to 1827. 




ESTILL, JOHN HOLBROOK, journal¬ 
ist, was born Oct. 28, 1840, in Cnarleston, 
S. C. In 1851 his father moved to Sa¬ 
vannah, where the 
son learned the 
printing business. 
. During the war he 
served with distinc- 
tion in the confeder¬ 
ate army. In 1867 
he secured control of 
the well known 
southern newspa¬ 
per, the Savannah 
Morning News, and 
built up one of the 
most complete print¬ 
ing houses in the south. He is president 
or director in a dozen corporations; coun¬ 
ty commissioner, member of the board of 
education, and represents Georgia on the 
national committee of the democratic par¬ 
ty. He has been lieutenant-colonel on the 
governor’s staff; is president of the Be- 
thesda Orphan home; and is active in 
many local enterprises. 



ESTORGE, JOSEPH LEONARD, phy¬ 
sician, was born in 1830, in Opelousas, 
La. He was appointed a surgeon in the 
confederate army in the trans-Mississip¬ 
pi department, but was made a prisoner 
at Fort de Russey. He died Aug. 21, I860, 
in Opelousas, La. 

ESTY, CONSTANTINE C., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Dec. 26, 
1824, in Framingham, Mass. He was a 
member of the state senate in 1857 and 
1858, and of the house in 1867; and was 
appointed a member of the state board 
of education in 1871; and was elected to 
the forty-second congress, as a represent¬ 
ative from Massachusetts. 


ETHERIDGE, EMERSON, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 28, 1819, in 
Currituck county, N. C. He was elected 
to the state legislature for two years; 
and in 1853 was elected a representative 
from Tennessee to the thirty-third con¬ 
gress. He was re-elected to the thirty- 
fourth and thirty-sixth congresses. 

ETUE, PETER D., journalist, poet, was 
born June 29, 1846, in McDonald county, 
Mo. He established the Kansas City 
Live Stock Indicator in 1878. He has 
held many political positions in Kansas 
City, Mo., including that of alderman 
and member of the school board. His 
poems have appeared in current newspa¬ 
pers and magazines. 

EUSTIS, ABRAHAM, soldier, was born 
March 28, 1786, in Petersburg, Va. He 
was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for meri¬ 
torious services in 1813, became lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel of the fourth artillery in 1822, 
brigadier-general in 1834, and a few 
months later colonel of tne first artillery. 
He died June 27, 1843, in Portland, Maine. 

EUSTIS, GEORGE, jurist, was born 
Oct. 20, 1796, in Boston, Mass. He was 
attorney-general of Louisiana, a member 
of the constitutional convention of 1845, 
and chief justice of the supreme court till 
1852. He died Dec. 23, 1858 in New Or¬ 
leans. 

EUSTIS, GEORGE, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 28, 1828, in New Or¬ 
leans, La. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth 
congresses. During the rebellion he serv¬ 
ed as private secretary to John M. Mason, 
when the latter was confederate commis¬ 
sioner to France. He died March 15, 1872, 
in France. 

EUSTIS, JAMES BIDDLE, soldier, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born Aug. 
27, 1834, in New Orleans, La. He served 
in the confederate army throughout the 
war of the rebellion. He was elected a 
representative in the legislature prior 
to the passage of the reconstruction acts; 
and was a representative in the state leg¬ 
islature in 1872. He was elected to the 
state senate for four years in 1874. He 
was elected to the United States senate 
to fill a vacancy, and served from 1877 to 
1879; and in 1885 was elected United 
States senator from Louisiana for the full 
term of six years. 

EUSTIS, WILLIAM, soldier, physician, 
congressman, governor, was born June 
10, 1753, in Cambridge, Mass. At the be¬ 
ginning of the war he was appointed sur¬ 
geon of a regiment, and afterwards hos¬ 
pital surgeon. At the termination of the 
war he commenced the practice of his 
profession in Boston. In 1800 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative in congress from Mas¬ 
sachusetts, serving until 1805. In 1809 he 
was appointed secretary of war by Presi¬ 
dent Madison, and continued in office un¬ 
til 1813. In 1815 he was sent as ambas¬ 
sador to Holland. After his return he 
was a representative in congress from 
1820 to 1823; and was chosen governor of 
Massachusetts in 1823. He died Feb. 6, 
1825, in Boston, Mass. 

EUSTIS, WILLIAM HENRY, states¬ 
man, was born July 17, 1845, in Oxbrow, 
N. Y. In 1890 he was elected mayor of 
Minneapolis. 

EVANS, ALBERT H., farmer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born June 2, 1851, in Morrow 
county, Ohio. He is a successful farmer 
of Tamawa, Ill.; and in 1890 was elected a 
member of the Illinois state legislature. 

EVANS, ALEXANDER, civil engineer, 
congressman, was born in Elkton, Md. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1847 to 1853. 


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EVANS, ALEXANDER, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, poet, was born Nov. 9, 1814, in 
Middletown, Ky. He served in the army 
in 1847-48, and in 1861 became major in 
the confederate service. He is the author 
of two volumes of poems entitled iEneas; 
and Fashions. 

EVANS, ALONZO, journalist, was born 
July 18,1866, in Winneshiek county, Iowa. 
He is the editor and owner of The Sun 
of Lime Springs, Iowa; and takes a prom¬ 
inent part in the public affairs of his 
county and state. 

EVANS, CHARLES I., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 29, 1843, in Noxu¬ 
bee county, Miss. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Baylor university, Texas; and 
the university of Virginia. In 1861 he en¬ 
tered the confederate army as a private; 
served four years; and was promoted to 
first lieutenant of artillery in 1863. He is 
one of the leading lawyers of Texas, and 
is prominently identified with the public 
affairs of Dallas, where he has served 
with distinction as district judge. 

EVANS, DAVID E., congressman. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the twentieth congress, but re¬ 
signed. 

EVANS, DAVID REID, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 
1769, in England. He served in the state 
legislature from 1800 to 1803; and from 
1804 to 1811 was solicitor for the middle 
district of South Carolina. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1813 to 1815; and in 1818 and 1822 
was a member of the state senate. He 
died March 8, 1843, in South Carolina. 

EVANS, DE SCOTT, artist, was born 
March 28, 1847, in Boston, Ind. He opened 
a studio in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, and 
became instructor and co-director in the 
Academy of Fine Arts of Cleveland, Ohio. 
He is especially skillful in painting dra¬ 
peries. His genre pictures include The 
First Snowfall; Grandma’s Visitors; and 
Day Before the Wedding. 

EVANS, DUDLEY, legislator, was born 
Jan. 27, 1838, in Monongalia county, W. 
Va. During the war he was a member of 
the Virginia legislature. In 1891 he was 
elected one of the board of directors, and 
made second vice-president of the Wells- 
Fargo and Co. of New York city. 

EVANS, EDWARD PAYSON, author, 
was born Dec. 8, 1833, in Remsen, N. Y. 
He is an Oriental scholar who has lived 
chiefly in Europe, and the author of Ab- 
riss der Deutschen Literaturgeschichte; 
Progressive German Reader; and transla¬ 
tion of Stahr’s Life and Works of Les¬ 
sing. 

EVANS, MRS. ELIZABETH EDSON 
(GIBSON), author, was born March 8, 
1833, in Newport, N. H. She is the author 
of The Abuse of Maternity; Laura, an 
American Girl; The Story of Kaspar Hau¬ 
ser; and The Story of Louis XVII. of 
France. 

EVANS, ELIZABETH HEWLINGS, 
poet, was born in 1818, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. A volume of her poems, with a pref¬ 
ace by her brother, the Rev. Thomas H. 
Stockton, was published shortly before 
her death. She died in 1855 in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

EVANS, FREDERICK WILLIAM, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born June 9, 1808, in 
England. He was an elder among the 
Shakers of Lebanon, N. Y., from 1838. 
He is the author of Compendium of Ori¬ 
gin, History and Doctrines of Shakers; 
Shaker Communism; Autobiography of a 
Shaker; Second Appearing of Christ; and 
Test of Divine Inspiration, which are his 
chief works. He died in 1893. 


EVANS, GEORGE, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born Jan. 
12, 1797, in Hallowell, Maine. In 1825 he 
was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the Maine 
state legislature, and 
acted a leading part 
for four consecutive 
years, and was elect¬ 
ed speaker of the 
house in the latter 
year. In 1829 he 
was elected to con¬ 
gress; served seven 
successive terms; 
and was then elect¬ 
ed to the senate of 
the United States. He was a candidate for 
the vice-presidency when General Taylor 
was put in nomination for president. Af¬ 
ter eighteen years of service in congress 
he returned to his own state and his pro¬ 
fession; and was attorney-general of 
Maine for three years. He was the first 
president of the Portland and Kennebec 
railway; and was a trustee and a mem¬ 
ber of the board of overseers of Bowdoin 
college. He died April 6, 1867, in Port¬ 
land, Maine. 

EVANS, GEORGE SPITTELL, clergy¬ 
man, litterateur, was born June 3, 1869, 
in England. He studied at St. Mark’s and 
afterward at St. 
John’s national 
schools of London, 
England; and subse¬ 
quently took a theo¬ 
logical course in the 
O b e r 1 i n college, 
Ohio. During 1887- 
90 he preached with 
success in North 
Kensington, Lon¬ 
don, England; dur¬ 
ing 1890-92 he filled 
a pastorate in Black 
Creek, N. Y.; Lake Benton, Minn., in 
1894; when he took charge of a church at 
Hudson, S. D. He has lectured extensive¬ 
ly in Europe and America; and has held 
the position of instructor of political 
economy for Lincoln county, Minn.; and 
as state visitor for Carleton college, Min¬ 
nesota. He has contributed extensively 
to church literature. 

EVANS, H. CLAY, soldier, manufactur¬ 
er, congressman, was born June 18, 1843, 
in Juniata county, Pa. He was an en¬ 
listed man in the forty-first Wisconsin 
infantry during the late war; and was 
twice elected mayor of Chattanooga. He 
w r as elected to the fifty-first congress as 
a republican. 

EVANS, HENRY G., journalist, was 
born in 1812. He was co-editor and pro¬ 
prietor of the New York Evening Mirror 
alfnost from the b'eginning of its career 
to its close, and was one of the best wri¬ 
ters for the daily press in the city. He 
died Aug. 14, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

EVANS, HUGH DAVY, lawyer, author, 
was born April 26, 1792, in Baltimore, Md. 
He was a Baltimore lawyer, conspicuous 
for loyalty to the union during the civil 
war, who wrote on legal and high church 
topics. He was the author of Essay on 
Pleading; Maryland Common Law Prac¬ 
tice; Essay on the Episcopate; Treatise 
on the Christian Doctrine of Marriage; 
Essays on the Validity of Anglican Ordi¬ 
nation; and Theophilus Americanus. He 
died July 16, 1868, in Baltimore, Md. 

EVANS, I. NEWTON, physician, bank¬ 
er, congressman, was born July 29, 1827, 
in Chester county, Pa. He was president 
of the Hatboro National bank; and was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the forty-fifth, forty-eighth and 
forty-ninth congresses as a republican. 


EVANS, JAMES LAFAYETTE, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born March 27, 
1825, in Harrison county, Ky. He was 
elected a representative from Indiana in 
the forty-fourth congress. He was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

EVANS, JERVICE G., clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Dec. 19, 
1833, in Marshall county, Ill. In 1854 he 
entered the ministry 
of the methodist 
episcopal church. In 
1872 he accepted the 
presidency of Hed- 
ding college of Ab¬ 
ingdon, Ill., which 
he filled for six 
years. He was then 
elected president of 
the Chaddock col¬ 
lege, but returned to 
the pastorate the 
following year. In 
1889 he accepted for the second time the 
presidency of Hedding college, which posi¬ 
tion he still fills. Dr. Evans holds his mem¬ 
bership in the Central Illinois conference, 
in which ne has held numerous positions 
of honor. His published writings have been 
largely in the form of pamphlets, lec¬ 
tures and sermons; and a volume entitled 
The Pulpit and Politics. His other publi¬ 
cations have been: The Woman Ques¬ 
tion; Tobacco; The Liquor Traffic Indict¬ 
ed; Pleas for License; The Sources of 
Culture; Genesis and Geology; and the 
Divine Foreknowledge. He has been 
prominently identified with the prohibi¬ 
tion party; in 1888 he was chairman of 
the Illinois state convention of that par¬ 
ty; and chairman or the state delegation 
to the national convention; and in 1894 
was their candidate for United States sen¬ 
ator. 

EVANS, JOE, artist, was born in 1857 
in New York city. During 1891-94 he was 
president of the Art Students’ league of 
New York; 1892-94 was secretary of the 
Society of American Artists; and since 
1894 vice-president of the American Fine 
Arts society. 

EVANS, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a delegate to the continental congress 
from Delaware, from 1776 to 1777. 

EVANS, JOHN, geologist, was born 
Feb. 14, 1812, in Portsmouth, N. H. He 
discovered fossil bones of extinct species; 
made geological surveys of Washington 
and Oregon; and was geologist to Chi- 
riqui commission. He died April 13, 1861, 
in Washington, D. C. 

EVANS, JOHN, physician, governor, 
was born March 9, 1814, in Waynesville, 
Colo. Becoming known for public spirit, 
he was elected to tne Chicago city council 
in 1852. The city of Evanston was found¬ 
ed by him as a site for the Northwestern 
university, and his extensive real estate 
investments there brought him a large 
return. The Chicago and Fort Wayne rail¬ 
road was projected and built by him and 
others. In 1862 an important change in 
his career grew out of an appointment by 
President Lincoln as governor of the then 
territory of Colorado. 

EVANS, JOHN G., planter, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, governor, was born Oct. 15, 1863, 
in Cokesbury, S. C. He is a successful 
lawyer and planter of Aiken, S. C. In 
1888 he became a member of the house 
of representatives of South Carolina; was 
re-elected in 1890; and in 1892 was elect¬ 
ed to the state senate. In 1894 he was 
elected governor of the state of South 
Carolina, and served in that office with 
distinction. 







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EVANS, JOHN H., banker, state sena¬ 
tor, was born Dec. 12, 1848, in North 
Wales. In 1866 he located in Racine, 
Wis.; and for many 
years was connected 
with his father, 
Richard J. Evans, in 
the tanning busi¬ 
ness. In 1878 he en¬ 
gaged in the steam 
laundry business in 
Omaha, Neb., and is 
now president of the 
Evans Laundry com¬ 
panies of Omaha, 
Lincoln and Council 
Bluffs. He is also 
president of the National Bank of Com¬ 
merce of Omaha; and president of various 
other business institutions in Nebraska 
and Florida. In 1895 he was elected a 
member of the lower house of the Nebras¬ 
ka state legislature; and in 1896 was 
elected to the state senate. 

EVANS, JOSHUA, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1833. 

EVANS, JOSIAH JAMES, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, United States senator, 
was born Nov. 27, 1786, in Marlborough, 

S. C. In 1812, 1813, and 1816 he was elect¬ 
ed to the legislature; and by that body 
was made solicitor for the state from his 
district, which position he held for thir¬ 
teen years. In 1830 he was chosen a 
judge of the supreme court, which office 
he held until 1852, when he was elected 
to the United States senate for the term 
ending in 1859. He died May 6, 1858. 

EVANS, LEMUEL D., congressman, 
was born in Tennessee. He was elected 
a representative from Texas to the thirty- 
fourth congress. 

EVANS, LEWIS, surveyor, author, was 
born about 1700. He was a surveyor and 
geographer of Philadelphia, who pub¬ 
lished Geographical, Historical, Political, 
and Mechanical Essays. He died in June, 
1756. 

EVANS, MRS. LIZZIE PHELPS ES- 
TERBROOK, author, was born in 1846, in 
Massachusetts. She is a writer of Somer¬ 
ville, Mass., and the author of Aunt Nab- 
by; and From Summer to Summer. 

EVANS, MARY LOUISE FROST 
ORMSBY, educator, journalist, lecturer, 
was born in 1848, in Albany, N. Y. After 
completing a classical course in Vassar 
college, she became principal of the Sea- 
bury seminary of New York city. She 
was a delegate of the Human Freedom 
league; the peace congress of 1892; and 
in 1893 a delegate for the educational con¬ 
gress; and subsequently a delegate to the 
woman’s congress, and was eight times a 
delegate to Europe. She has been presi¬ 
dent of the International Peace league; 
vice-president of the Universal Peace 
union; and vice-president of the Wo¬ 
man’s National Press association. She 
has made a national reputation as a lec¬ 
turer, journalist and philanthropist, and 
is now associate editor of The Rhode 
Islander, of which her husband is editor 
and owner. 

EVANS, NATHAN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born June 24, 1804, in Belmont 
county, Ohio. He was prosecuting at¬ 
torney for Guernsey county for four years. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1847 to 1849. 

EVANS, NATHAN GEORGE, soldier, 
was born Feb. 6, 1824, in Marion, S. C. 
He distinguished himself in the war of 
1858; and resigned in 1861 to enter the 
confederate service. He attained the rank 
of brigadier-general; and surrendered 
with Lee in 1865. He died Nov. 30, 1868, 
in Midway, Ala. 


EVANS, OLIVER, inventor, author, 
was born in 1755, in Newport, Del. He 
was a once famous inventor who con¬ 
structed the first high-pressure steam- 
engine; and the author of The Young 
Engineer’s Guide; and Miller and Mill¬ 
wright’s Guide. He died April 21, 1819, 
in New York city. 

EVANS, PERCY NORTON, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 6, 1869, in Mon¬ 
treal, Canada. Since 1895 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of chemistry in the Purdue univer¬ 
sity of Lafayette, Ind. He is the author 
of An Introductory Course in Quantita¬ 
tive Analysis; and has contributed to va¬ 
rious scientific journals. 

EVANS, ROBLEY D., naval officer, was 
born in Iowa. He had command of the 
flagship Iowa during the Spanish-Ameri- 
can war of 1898. 

EVANS, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1797 to 1801. 

EVANS. THOMAS, author, was born in 
1798, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Qua¬ 
ker controversialist of Philadelphia who 
was an active opponent of the doctrines of 
Thomas Hicks; and published an Expo¬ 
sition of the Faith of the Religious So¬ 
ciety of Friends. He died May 25, 1868. 

EVANS, THOMAS WILTBERGER. den¬ 
tist, author, was born Dec. 23, 1823, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a famous den¬ 
tist, resident in Paris since 1848, through 
whose aid the Empress Eugenie escaped 
from that city in 1870. He is the author 
of History of the American Ambulance in 
Paris during the Siege, 1870-71; Sanitary 
Institutions during the Austro-Prussian- 
I tali an Conflict, 1868; Lettres sur le Gouv- 
ernement des Etats Unis; and La Com¬ 
mission Sanitaire des Etats Unis. 

EVANS, WALTER, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 18, 1842, in 
Barren county, Ky. He entered the union 
army in 1861 and 
served throughout 
the civil war. After 
the close of the war 
he was engaged in 
the practice of law 
at Hopkinsville, Ky.; 
was a delegate to the 
republican national 
conventions of 1868, 
1872, and 1880; and 
in 1871 was elected 
a representative in 
the state legislature. 
In 1872 he was elected a state senator. He 
removed to Louisville; and in 1883 was 
appointed commissioner of internal reve¬ 
nue in the treasury department at Wash¬ 
ington. He was elected to the fifty-fourth 
and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. 
He was one of the committee that pre¬ 
pared the Dingley tariff bill. 

EVARTS, JEREMIAH, philanthropist, 
was born Feb. 3. 1781, in Sunderland, Vr. 
He taught school; practiced law; and in 
1820 edited the Missionary Herald. He 
wrote twenty-four essays on the Rights 
of Indians, which appeared under the sig¬ 
nature of William Penn. He died May 10, 
1831, in Charleston, S. C. 

EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born Feb. 
6, 1818, in Boston, Mass. He was the lead¬ 
ing counsel employed to defend President 
Johnson in his trial before the senate; 
and was attorney-general of the United 
States from 1868 to 1869, when he re¬ 
signed. He was one of the three lawyers 
appointed to defend the interests of the 
United States before the tribunal of arbi¬ 
tration at Geneva in 1871 to settle the 
Alabama claims; and was one of the 


counsel who defended Henry Ward Beech¬ 
er in 1875. In 1875 he was invited by the 
centennial commission to deliver the 
opening oration at the exposition in 18/6. 
He was secretary of state under President 
Hayes from 1877 to 1881. In 1885 he was 
elected United States senator from New 
York for six years from March 4, 1885, 
and has since been re-elected twice to the 
same office. 

EVE, MARIA LOU, author, poet, was 
born about 1848 near Augusta, Ga. In 1879 
she wrote a prize poem entitled Conquered 
at Last, expressing gratitude for north¬ 
ern aid during the yellow-fever epidemic 
of 1878. 

EVE, PAUL FITZSIMMONS, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born June 27, 1806, 
near Augusta, Ga. He was a distinguished 
surgeon of Nashville during the civil war, 
surgeon-general of the confederate army 
of Tennessee; and the author of Collec¬ 
tion of Remarkable Cases in Surgery; One 
Hundred Cases of Lithotomy; and The In¬ 
humanity of Capital Punishment by 
Hanging. He died Nov. 3, 1877, in Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn. 

EVE, ROBERT CAMPBELL, educator, 
physician, author, was born May 15, 1843, 
in Augusta, Ga. He became professor of 
materia medica and medical jurisprudence 
in the Georgia Medical college. He has 
written on the Influence of the Ovaria 
in Uterine Disorders; Epilepsy; and Ton¬ 
ic Properties of Mercury in Minute Doses. 

EVELEIGH, NICHOLAS, congressman. 
He was a delegate from South Carolina to 
the continental congress from 1781 to 1782. 

EVERALL, JOHN, farmer, educator, 
state senator, was born April 20, 1839, in 
England. He is a successful farmer of 
Farmersburg, Iowa; and was county su¬ 
perintendent of schools for four years; 
county auditor for six years; and served 
with distinction as a member of the Iowa 
state senate for eight years. 

EVERARD, RICHARD, governor, was 
born in England. He was governor of 
North Carolina during 1725-29. He died 
Feb. 17, 1733, in London, England. 

EVEREST, CHARLES W., clergyman, 
educator, poet, was born May 27, 1814, 
in East Windsor, Conn. He was a suc¬ 
cessful clergyman and educator; and for 
many years had charge of the Rectory 
School of Hamden, Conn. His poems 
have been a valuable acquisition to Amer¬ 
ican literature. 

EVEREST, HARVEY WILLIAM, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born in 
1831 in New York. He is a clergyman 
and educator of the Christian denomina¬ 
tion; and the author of The Divine Dem¬ 
onstration; and a Text-Book of Christian 
Evidence. 

EVERETT, ALEXANDER HILL, diplo¬ 
mat, journalist, author, was born March 
19 1792, in Boston, Mass. He became 
charge d’affaires at 
Brussels in 1818; 
and from 1825 to 
1829 was minister. In 
1829 he was editor 
and principal pro¬ 
prietor of the North 
American Review, 
to which he had long 
been a contributor. 
From 1830 to 1835 he 
was a member of the 
state legislature; and 
from 1845 until his 
death was commissioner to China. He 
published Europe; America; New Views 
on Population. He died June 29, 1847, in 
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EVERETT, AMBROSE SPRAGUE, sol¬ 
dier, physician, surgeon, was born May 17, 
1841, in West Almond, N. Y. He served 
as a union soldier during the civil war; 
was first lieutenant of company B, one 
hundred and eighth regiment, New York 
state volunteers; and captain of company 
G of the same regiment. He was acting 
inspector-general of the second brigade, 
third division of the second army corps. 
He has attained distinction as one of the 
leading physicians and surgeons of the 
United States, and has a large practice in 
Denver, Colo. He has been professor of 
surgical anatomy; president of the West¬ 
ern Academy of Homoeopathy; is a mem¬ 
ber of the leading medical bodies; and has 
been surgeon-general of the Grand Army 
of the Republic and various fraternal or¬ 
ders. 

EVERETT, CHARLES CARROLL, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was horn in June, 1829, in 
Brunswick, Maine. He is a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman of Cambridge, dean of the theolog¬ 
ical faculty of Harvard university from 
1878, and a profound and independent 
philosophical thinker. He is the author of 
The Science of Thought; Religions before 
Christianity; Fichte’s Science of Knowl¬ 
edge, a Critical Exposition; Poetry, Com¬ 
edy, and Duty; Ethics for Young People; 
and The Gospel of Paul. 

EVERETT, DAVID, journalist, author, 
was born March 29, 1770, in Princeton, 
Mass. He was a Boston journalist; and 
the author of Common Sense in Desha¬ 
bille, or the Farmer’s Monitor; and Dar- 
anzel, or the Persian Poet, a tragedy. He 
died Dec. 21, 1813, in Marietta, Ohio. 

EVERETT, EDWARD, educator, college 
president, governor, was born April 11, 
1794, in Dorchester, Mass. He was a dis¬ 
tinguished Massa¬ 
chusetts statesman 
famous for his ora¬ 
tory. He was or¬ 
dained to the Unitar¬ 
ian ministry in 1813, 
but soon retired from 
the profession and 
entered political life, 
becoming a congress¬ 
man in 1825. After 
that date he was suc¬ 
cessively governor of 
Massachusetts, pres¬ 
ident of Harvard college, and secretary of 
state. He achieved a wide popularity, 
and his literary style was greatly ad¬ 
mired. His work has, however, failed to 
retain its hold upon attention, and his 
polished sentences now find a constantly 
lessening circle of readers. He is the au¬ 
thor of Defense of Christianity; Orations 
and Speeches; Mount Vernon Papers; and 
Importance of Practical Education. He 
died Jan. 15, 1865, in Boston, Mass. 

EVERETT, EDWARD FRANKLIN, 
genealogist, was born May 28, 1840, in 
Northfield, Mass. He is a Boston geneal¬ 
ogist who has published genealogies of 
the families of Capen and Everett. 

EVERETT, ERASTUS, educator, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1813 in Princeton, 
Mass. He is an educator once prominent 
in Brooklyn; and the author of System 
of English Versification; and Progress, a 
poem. 

EVERETT, HORACE, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1780 in Vermont. He 
was state’s attorney for Windsor county 
from 1813 to 1817; and served in the state 
legislature in 1819-24, and in 1834. He 
was a prominent member of the state 
constitutional convention of 1828; and 
was a representative in congress from 
1829 to 1843. He died Jan. 30, 1851, in 
Windsor, Vt. 


EVERETT, JOHN, author, was born 
Feb. 22, 1801, in Dorchester, Mass. His 
poetical abilities were considerable, as is 
shown by his Ode to St. Paul’s Church, 
and by one written for the Washington 
society, and sung at Concert hall, July 4, 
1825. He is the author of articles in the 
North American Review. He died in 1826 
in Boston, Mass. 

EVERETT, ROBERT WILLIAM, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born March 3, 
1839, in Hayneville, Ga. He entered the 
confederate army, and served until the 
close of the war. He served two years as 
commissioner of revenue; served twelve 
years on the board of education, the last 
four as president of the board; and served 
four years, from 1882 to 1885, as a mem¬ 
ber of the general assembly of Georgia. 
He was elected to the fifty-second con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

EVERETT, WILLIAM, educator, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Oct. 10, 1839, 
in Watertown, Mass. He was admitted to 
the bar in 1867; licensed to preach in 1872 
by the Suffolk association of (Unitarian) 
ministers. He was tutor in Harvard col¬ 
lege in 1870-73; assistant professor of 
Latin in 1873-77; and master of Adams 
academy, Quincy, Mass., in 1878-93. He 
engaged in political speaking, on the re¬ 
publican side, in 1864-1883; and was an 
early civil service reformer. He was chos¬ 
en at the by-election to congress. He 
withdrew his name from nominating con¬ 
vention in 1894; took part in convention 
of national democrats at Indianapolis in 
1896; and nominated for governor of 
Massachusetts by that organization in 
1897. His books are College Essays; On 
the Cam; Lecture on Cambridge Univer¬ 
sity; the poem Hesione, or Europe Un¬ 
changed; School Sermons. His books for 
boys include Thine not Mine; Changing 
Base; and Double Play. 

EVERETT, WILLIS MEAD, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 18, 1863, in Randolph, 
N. Y. For many years he filled the chair 
of mathematics and German in the Cham¬ 
berlain institute of Randolph, N. Y. He 
has practiced law in Cincinnati, Chicago 
and Atlanta, and has been director and of¬ 
ficer in many large corporations. He is 
the author of The Georgia Section of Law 
of Incorporated Companies. 

EVERHARD, CAROLINE McCUL- 
LOUGH, woman suffragist, was born Sept. 
14, 1843’ in Massillon, Ohio. For eleven 
years she was secretary of the Humane 
society of her native city; has been trus¬ 
tee of the charity Ratch school; a direc¬ 
tor of the Union National bank of Mas¬ 
sillon; and a member of the county visit¬ 
ing board to charitable and correctional 
institutions. In 1891 she was elected 
president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage 
association, and still holds the office. She 
has written extensively for the periodical 
press on woman suffrage and kindred 
subjects. 

EVERHART, BENJAMIN MABLACK, 
botanist, author, was born April 24, 1818, 
in West Chester, Pa. He is a Pennsyl¬ 
vania botanist, and co-author with J. B. 
Ellis of The North American Pyreno- 
mycetes. 

EVERHART, ISAIAH FAWKES, physi¬ 
cian naturalist, was born Jan. 22, 1840, 
in Berks county, Pa. He served in the 
civil war as a surgeon, and was promoted 
to the rank of major. He served as a 
member of the medical staff of the Lacka¬ 
wanna hospital; a member of the Scran¬ 
ton board of health, and surgeon of the 
ninth regiment of militia. 

EVERHART, JAMES BOWEN, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, author, poet, 


was born July 26,1821, in West Chester, Pa. 
In 1876 he was elected a state senator, 
and was re-elected in 1880. He was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected 
to the forty-ninth congress. He is the au¬ 
thor of two volumes of poems entitled Po¬ 
ems; and The Fox Chase. 

EVERHART, JAMES MARION, manu¬ 
facturer, inventor, was born June 7, 1828. 
in Berks county, Pa. In 1874 he gained 
entire control of the Scranton Brass 
works, and has introduced many improve¬ 
ments and inventions; and has been pres¬ 
ident of two coal companies. 

EVERHART, JOHN ROSKELL, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born in 1828 in West 
Chester, Pa. He served in the civil war, 
retiring with the rank of brevet lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel. He has traveled extensively, 
and in 1892 published By Road and Rail. 

EVERHART, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born May 17, 1785, in Chester county, 
Pa. He was elected to the lower house 
of congress in 1852, and declined a re-elec¬ 
tion in 1854. He died Oct. 30, 1867. 

EVERS, JOHN, artist, was born Aug. 
17, 1797, in Newtown, L. I. He was one of 
the founders of the National Academy of 
Design. His best known pictures are Cre¬ 
ation; New York City; and Crystal Pal¬ 
ace, London. He died in Hempstead, L. I. 

EVERTS, ORPHEUS, physician, author, 
was born Dec. 26, 1826, in Union county, 
Ind. He is a physician of Cincinnati; 
and the author of Giles and Co., or Views 
and Interviews concerning Civilization; 
and What Shall we Do with the Drunkard. 

EVERTS, WILLIAM WALLACE, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 13, 1814, 
in Granville, N. Y. He is a baptist cler¬ 
gyman of Chicago, and later of Jersey 
City, among whose many published works 
are included The Pastor’s Hand-Book; Bi¬ 
ble Prayer-Book; The Voyage of Life; 
Manhood, its Duties and Responsibilities; 
Promiseand TrainingofChildhood; Words 
in Earnest; The Baptist Layman’s Book; 
The Sabbath; The Christian Apostolate; 
and Life of John Foster. 

EVINS, JOHN H., soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 18, 1830, in 

Spartanburg county, S. C. He served in 
the confederate army during the war of 
the rebellion, rising to the rank of lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel. He served as a member of 
the state house of representatives for two 
terms; and was elected a representative 
from South Carolina to the forty-fifth, for¬ 
ty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth 
congresses as a democrat. 

EVRETT, ISAAC, journalist, author, 
was born Jan. 2, 1820, in New York city. 
In 1866 he established and became editor 
of the Cincinnati Christian Standard. He 
was the author of Walks about Jerusalem; 
Letter to a Young Christian; Evenings 
with the Bible; and other works. He died 
Dec. 18, 1888, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

EWAN, MARY C., actress, was born in 
1836. She attained a national reputation 
as an actress; and played in the principal 
cities of the United States. She died in 
1866. 

EWART, HAMILTON GLOVER, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 
1849, in Columbia, S. C. He was appoint¬ 
ed by Chief Justice Waite register in 
bankruptcy for the ninth congressional 
district; and was twice elected mayor of 
Hendersonville. He was district elector 
on the Hayes ticket in 1876; and received 
the nomination for congress in 1884. He 
was elected to the lower house of the leg¬ 
islature in 1886, in which body he was an 
active member. He was elected to the 
fifty-first congress as a republican. 





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EWART, THOMAS WEST, lawyer, was 
born Feb. 27, 1816, in Grand View, Ohio. 
He was a member of the convention that 
formed the present constitution of Ohio. 
He was a trustee of Denison university, 
president of the Ohio baptist state con¬ 
vention, and vice-president of the Ameri¬ 
can Baptist Missionary union. He died 
Oct. 8, 1881, in Granville, Ohio. 

EWBANK, THOMAS, scientist, author, 
was born March 11, 1792, in England. He 
was a scientist of New York, at one pe¬ 
riod commissioner of patents; and the au¬ 
thor of Thoughts on Matter and Force; 
Hydraulics; The World a Workshop; Life 
in Brazil; Experiments in Marine Propul¬ 
sion; and Reminiscences in the Patent Of¬ 
fice. He died Sept. 16, 1870, in New York. 

EWELL, BENJAMIN STODDART, sol¬ 
dier, educator, college president, was 
born June 10, 1810, in Washington, D. C. 
During the civil war he served in the con¬ 
federate army. In 1865 he became a sec¬ 
ond time president of the William and 
Mary college, which position he retained 
until his death. 

EWELL, JOHN LOUIS, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Sept. 4, 1840, in 
Rowley, Mass. He filled the chair of 
Latin in the Washington university of St. 
Louis; is a successful congregational 
clergyman; and since 1890 has been dean 
of the theological department, and pro¬ 
fessor of church history and biblical 
exegesis in the Howard university of 
Washington, D. C. 

EWELL, MARSHALL DAVIS, educator, 
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 18, 1844, 
in Oxford, Mich. He is a lawyer of Chi¬ 
cago, and professor of law in Union Col¬ 
lege of Law in Chicago; and the author 
of Blackwell on Tax Titles; Treatise on 
the Law of Fixtures; Essentials of the 
Law; and Manual of Medical Jurispru¬ 
dence. 

EWELL, PHILANDER, merchant, 
manufacturer, was born March 3, 1809, 
in Middlebury, N. Y. In 1855 he was a 
representative in the New York state leg¬ 
islature; subsequently he engaged in 
farming in Michigan; and since 1869 has 
been the proprietor of the Stony Creek 
Woolen mills of Rochester, Mich. 

EWELL, RICHARD STODDERT, sol¬ 
dier, was born Feb. 18, 1817, in George¬ 
town, D. C. During the civil war he 
served in the confederate army; and was 
promoted to major-general. He died Jan. 
25, 1872, in Springfield, Tenn. 

EWEN, MARY CECILIA, actress, was 
born in 1836 in New York city. Among 
her greatest successes in the various the¬ 
aters where she played were Life in New 
York; Child of the Regiment; and Pride 
of the Market. She died Nov. 10, 1866, in 
New York city. 

EWEN, WILLIAM, patriot, was born 
about 1720 in England. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the council of safety, and as first 
president of the executive council per¬ 
formed the duties of governor in 1775. He 
died soon after the revolution in Georgia. 

EWER, FERDINAND CARTWRIGHT, 
clergyman, author, was born May 22, 1826, 
in Nantucket, Mass. He was an episco¬ 
pal clergyman of New York city of the 
extreme ritualistic school, whose Sermons 
on the Failure of Protestantism attracted 
much attention at the time of their deliv¬ 
ery. His other writings include The Oper¬ 
ation of the Hc> Spirit; Grammar of 
Theology; Two Eventful Nights, or the 
Fallibility of Spiritualism Exposed; and 
Sanctity and Other Sermons. He died Oct. 
10, 1883, in Canada. 


EWING, ANDREW, congressman, was 
born in Tennessee. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1849 to 1851; and 
took part in the rebellion as a confeder¬ 
ate. He died June 16, 1864, in Atlanta, 
Ga. 

EWING, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, was 
born July 8, 1780, in Burlington county, 
N. J. He graduated at the New Jersey 
college in 1798; was 
admitted to the bar 
in 1802, and prac¬ 
ticed law at Trenton. 
He became a council¬ 
or in 1812; was chief 
justice of the state 
from 1824 to his 
death. He received 
the degree of LL. D. 
from Jefferson col¬ 
lege. He was a 
brilliant lawyer and 
astute judge. He 
died Aug. 5, 1832, in Trenton, N. J. 

EWING, EDWIN H., congressman, was 
born in Tennessee. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Tennessee from 1845 
to 1847; and took part in the rebellion. 

EWING, ELIE METCALF, lawyer, cap¬ 
italist, was born Jan. 9, 1856, in Eliza- 
ville, Ky. In 1879 he W;as admitted to the 
bar, and the following year moved to 
Waco, Texas. In 1879 he was assistant 
chief clerk of the Kentucky state senate. 
He has attained success as an expert ex¬ 
aminer of land titles; and has been 

prominently identified with the financial 
prosperity of his adopted state. 

EWING, ELMORE E., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, poet, was born Feb. 16, 1840, in 
Ewington, Ohio. He entered college at 

the age of twenty, 

and two years later 

enlisted as a private 
soldier in the civil 
war. He was soon 
afterward promoted 
to lieutenant, served 
with distinction, and 
was severely wound¬ 
ed in 1864. Since the 
war he has been en¬ 
gaged in mercantile 
pursuits, and is now 
a successful mer¬ 
chant of Portsmouth, Ohio. He takes a 
leading part in the public affairs of his 
county and state, and is prominent in 
several fraternal orders. He has contrib¬ 
uted both prose and verse to the periodi¬ 
cal press, and is the author of a volume of 
poems entitled Bugles and Bells, contain¬ 
ing incidents of the war and other 
themes. 

EWING, FINIS, clergyman, author, was 
born June 10, 1773, in Bedford county, Pa. 
He was a presbyterian clergyman who 
with two others organized the Cumber¬ 
land presbyterian church in 1810. He was 
the author of Lectures on Divinity, which 
is an exposition of the doctrines of his 
sect. He died July 4, 1841, in Lexington, 
Mo. 

EWING, HUGH BOYLE, soldier, diplo¬ 
mat, author, was born Oct. 31, 1826, in 
Lancaster, Ohio. He was a general in 
the federal army during the civil war, 
and minister to the Netherlands in 1866- 
70. Heis the author of A Castle in the Air; 
and Ladron, a Tale of Early California. 

EWING, JAMES, soldier, was born Aug. 
3, 1736, in Lancaster, Pa. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the general assembly from 1771 
till 1775. At the outbreak of the revolu¬ 
tion he was on the committee of safety 
for York county, and was chosen one of 
the two brigadier-generals of the Penn¬ 




sylvania associators, July 4, 1776. He 
served as vice-president of Pennsylvania 
from 1782 till 1784. In the latter year, 
and under the constitution of 1789-90, he 
was a member of the assembly of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and served as state senator from 
1795 till 1799. He died March 1, 1806, in 
Hellam, Pa. 

EWING, JOHN, congressman, was born 
at sea, while his parents were on their 
way from Ireland to Baltimore. He served 
in both branches of the legislature of In¬ 
diana; and was a representative of that 
state in congress from 1833 to 1835, and 
again from 1837 to 1839. He died in 1857 
in Vincennes, Ind. 


EWING, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born June 22, 1732, in Nottingham, Md. He 
was a presbyterian clergyman of Phila¬ 
delphia, provost of the university of Penn¬ 
sylvania, 1777-1802, and eminent in his 
day as a scientific observer. He published 
an Account of the Transit of Venus, and 
his Lectures on Natural Philosophy were 
issued after his death. He died Sept. 8, 
1802, in Nottingham, Md. 

EWING, JOHN H., congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1845 to 1847. 

EWING, NATHANIEL, lawyer, jurist, 
was born June 17, 1848, in Uniontown, 
Pa. In 1869 he graduated from the 
Princeton college, N. 
J. He has served 
with distinction as 
additional law judge, 
and president judge 
of the fourteenth ju¬ 
dicial district of 
Pennsylvania. He 
has gained a good 
reputation as an able 
lawyer of Union- 
town, Pa., the city of 
his birth. His grand¬ 
father, Nathaniel W. 
Ewing, and his father, John K. Ewing, 
also filled the office of president judge in 
the same district; and his great-grand¬ 
father, John Kennedy, was one of the 
judges of the supreme court of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 



EWING, PRESLEY, congressman, was 
born in Kentucky. He twice served in the 
legislature of Kentucky; and was a rep¬ 
resentative from that state to the thirty- 
third congress. He died Sept. 27, 1854, 
at Mammoth Cave, Ky. 

EWING, THOMAS, lawyer, United 
States senator, was born Dec. 28, 1789, in 
West Liberty, Va. In 1830 he was elect¬ 
ed to a seat in the 
United States senate 
from Ohio, where he 
remained until 1837. 
He was a member of 
President Harrison’s 
cabinet as secretary 
of the treasury in 
1841; and on the ac¬ 
cession of President 
Taylor to the presi¬ 
dency, in 1849, was 
invited into the cab¬ 
inet, and took charge 
of the new department of the interior. In 
1850 he was appointed to a seat in the 
United States senate, where he remained 
until 1851, when he retired from political 
life and resumed the practice of his pro¬ 
fession in Ohio. He was a delegate to the 
peace congress of 1861; also chosen a 
delegate to the Philadelphia national 
union convention in 1866, but did not 
take part in its proceedings. He died 
Oct. 26, 1871, in Lancaster, Ohio. 











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EWING, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 7, 1829, in Lan¬ 
caster, Ohio. He removed to Kansas in 
1856, and was appointed chief justice of 
the United States court for that terri¬ 
tory. He was a member of the constitu¬ 
tional convention of the new state; and 
in 1862 entered the union army as a colo¬ 
nel, and was promoted to the rank of ma¬ 
jor-general in 1864. After the rebellion 
he settled in Washington, where he prac¬ 
ticed law. Returning to Ohio he was a 
member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1873; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the forty-fifth and 
forty-sixth congresses as a democrat. 

EWING, THOMAS DAVIS, educator, 
■clergyman, college president, was born 
Dec. 28, 1832, in Lewisville, Pa. During 
1860-62 he was principal in Dunlap’s 
Creek academy, Pa.; was ordained in 1864 
by the presbytery, and during 1864-89 
filled pastorates in Pennsylvania and 
Iowa. Since 1889 he has been pastor of 
the presbyterian church of Corning, Iowa, 
and president of the Corning Collegiate 
institute. 

EWING, WILLIAM BELLFORD, physi¬ 
cian, was born in 1776 in Greenwich, N. 
J. He settled in Greenwich, where he 
practiced for twenty-eight years. For 
many years he was presiding judge of 
the county courts, for ten years a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature, and a member of 
the New Jersey constitutional convention 
of 1841. He died April 23, 1866, in Green¬ 
wich, N. J. 

EWING, WILLIAM LEE DAVIDSON, 
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, 
was born in 1795.' In 1826-27 he 
was United States surveyor of public 
lands and general of state militia. He 
served as major of the Spy battalion in 
the Black-Hawk war in 1832; became a 
member of the state senate in that year, 
and was its speaker in 1834. In 1835 he 
was chosen to the United States senate to 
fill a vacancy. He was speaker of the 
state house of representatives in 1840, and 
in 1843 was chosen state auditor, which 
office he held until his death. He died 
March 25, 1846, in Ohio. 

EYSTER, C. S., jurist, was born in 
Pennsylvania. He was appointed from 
that state an associate justice of the 
United States court for the territory of 
Colorado, residing in Denver. 

EYSTER, MRS. NELLIE BLESSING, 
author, was born in 1831 in Frederick, 
Md. She is a writer for young people, for¬ 
merly living in Pennsylvania, now iu 
California. She is the author of Sunny 
Hours; Chincapin Charlie; Tom Harding; 
Lionel Wintour’s Diary; and A Colonial 
Boy. 

EYTINGE, ROSE, actress, was born in 
1835 in Philadelphia, Pa. She has attained 
a national reputation as an actress. 

EZEKIEL, MOSES JACOB, sculptor, 
was born Oct. 28, 1844, in Richmond, Va. 
He has attained national repute as a suc¬ 
cessful sculptor. 

FABBRI, CORA RANDALL, poet, was 
born in 1871 in New York. She was a 
poet of Italian descent whose volume of 
Lyrics was published but a few days be¬ 
fore her death. She died in 1892. 

FABENS, JOSEPH WARREN, diplo¬ 
mat, author, poet, was born in 1821, in 
Salem, Mass. He was an envoy extraor¬ 
dinary and minister plenipotentiary to the 
Dominican republic; and the author of 
The Camel Hunt, a Narrative of Personal 
Adventure; Story of Life on the Isth¬ 
mus; Facts about Santo Domingo; The 
Last Cigar, and Eight Other Poems; and 
In the Tropics. He died in 1875. 


FABER, EBERHARD, manufacturer, 
was born Dec. 6, 1822, in Bavaria. In 1861 
he built the first lead-pencil factory 
in the United States. He also in¬ 
troduced the manufacture of penholders, 
gold pens and rubber goods of all varie¬ 
ties, connected with the stationery trade. 
He died March 2, 1879, in New York city. 

FAHNESTOCK, ALFRED HAMILTON, 
educator, clergyman, author, poet, was 
born Feb. 26, 1842, in Warren, Pa. During 
1870-73 he was pro¬ 
fessor of Latin in the 
college of New Jer¬ 
sey. He studied the¬ 
ology for three years 
at Princeton college, 
from which institu¬ 
tion he graduated in 
1871. Since 1875 he 
has been pastor of 
the First Ward Pres¬ 
byterian church of 
Syracuse, N. Y., and 
has attained distinc¬ 
tion as an eloquent clergyman. He is the 
author of The Autograph Thanksgiving 
Souvenir; The Bride’s Gift to Her 
Friends; has translated Dies Brae; and 
his poems have appeared in various stan¬ 
dard works. 

FAILING, HENRY, merchant, was born 
Jan. 17, 1834, in New York city. In 1869 
Mr. Corbett and Mr. Failing purchased 
the First National bank of Portland, Ore. 
The bank is probably the most important 
in the northwest; and Mr. Failing finally 
took the presidency. 

FAIR, CAMPBELL, clergyman, theo¬ 
logical writer, was born April 28, 1843, 
in Holymount, Ireland. He was a curate 
of Birkenhead, England; and a mission¬ 
ary in Ireland. He has been a rector in 
New Orleans, New York city, Baltimore, 
and Grand Rapids; and is now dean of 
Trinity cathedral of Omaha, Neb. This 
eminent protestant episcopal clergyman 
has gained distinction as a scholastic the¬ 
ological writer; and for many years was 
editor of the Conservative Churchman 
and other publications. 

FAIR. JAMES GRAHAM, miner, United 
States senator, was born Dec. 3, 1831, near 
Belfast, Ireland. He was elected a sena¬ 
tor of the United States from Nevada for 
the term 1881-87. 

FAIRBAIRN, HENRY ARNOLD, phy¬ 
sician, was born May 5, 1855, in Cats- 
kill. N. Y. He began the practice of his 
profession at Brooklyn, N. Y.; where 
continuous devotion has won for him a 
leading position among the celebrated 
physicians of that city. 

FAIRBAIRN, ROBERT BRINCKER- 
HOFF, clergyman, author, was born in 
1818, in New York. He is an episcopal 
clergyman, and warden of St. Stephen's 
college, Annandale, N. Y. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Child of Faith; Sermons 
Preached at St. Stephen’s; Morality in its 
Relation to the Grace of Redemption; 
and Unity of Faith as Influenced by Spec¬ 
ulative Philosophy. 

FAIRBANK, NATHANIEL K„ mer¬ 
chant, was born in 1829, in Sodus, N. Y. 
Mr. Fairbank is now a director in the 
Commercial National bank, president and 
principal owner of the Elk Rapids Iron 
company of Michigan, and vice-president 
of the Auditorium association. He was 
formerly president of the Chicago board 
of trade, and for thirteen years president 
of the Chicago club. 

FAIRBANKS, CHARLES H., philolo¬ 
gist linguist, was born July 3, 1866, in 
Oxb’ou, N. Y. He took up the study of 
languages as a pastime, first mastering 
French and German; then leai ning Ital¬ 


ian, Norwegian, Russian, and other lan¬ 
guages. He also understands Dutch, Swed¬ 
ish, Danish,* Portuguese, Polish, Arabic, 
Japanese, Volopuk, Finnish, Aztec of Mex¬ 
ico, and several others of less importance. 

FAIRBANKS, CHARLES WARREN, 
lawyer. United States senator, was born 
May 11,1852, near Unionville Center, Ohio. 

He was a delegate at 
large to the republic¬ 
an national conven¬ 
tion at St. Louis in 
1896, and was tem¬ 
porary chairman of 
the convention. He 
was elected to the 
United States senate 
as a republican. His 
term of service will 
expire March 3, 1903. 
He has been a mem¬ 
ber of several im¬ 
portant committees; and is one of the 
leaders of his party. 

FAIRBANKS, ERASTUS, manufacturer, 
governor, was born Oct. 28, 1792, in Brim- 
field, Mass. Hewasamemberof the legisla¬ 
ture from 1836 to 1838; president of the 
Passumpsic and Connecticut River Rail¬ 
road company in 1849; and governor of 
Vermont in 1852 and 1853, and again in 
1860 and 1861. He died Nov. 24, 1864, 
in St. Johnsbury, Vt. 

FAIRBANKS, GEORGE RAINSFORD, 
soldier, lawyer, legislator, author, was 
born July 5, 1820, in Watertown, N. Y. He 
has been mayor of St. Augustine, Fla., 
and a member of the state senate of his 
state. He has always been prominent in 
educational and religious work; and is the 
author of two books: A History of St. 
Augustine; and A History of Florida. He 
was a confederate officer in the civil war. 

FAIRBANKS, HENRY, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, inventor, was born May 6, 1830, 
in St. Johnsbury, Vt. In 1859 he became 
professor of natural philosophy at Dart¬ 
mouth. He exchanged this chair for that 
of natural history in 1865, and since 1868 
has resided at St. Johnsbury, giving his 
time to mechanical experiments. 

FAIRBANKS, HIRAM FRANCIS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born May 25, 1845, in 
Leon, N. Y. Since 1880 he has been pas¬ 
tor of the St. Patrick’s church of Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis. He is the author of A Visit 
to Europe and the Holy Land, which has 
passed through four editions. 

FAIRBANKS, HORACE, manufacturer, 
state senator, governor, was born March 
21, 1820, in Barnet, Vt. In 1825 he re¬ 
moved with his father’s family to St. 
Johnsbury, Vt., and became president of 
the E. and T. Fairbanks Scale company. 
He was a presidential elector in 1868; a 
state senator in 1869; and a delegate to 
the republican national conventions of 
1864 and 1872. In 1876 he was elected 
governor of Vermont and served two 
years. He died March 18, 1888, in New 
York city. 

FAIRBANKS, JONATHAN, educator, 
was born Jan. 7, 1828, in Andover, Mass. 
He has been engaged in educational work 
in Massachusetts, Delaware, Ohio and Mis¬ 
souri; has been superintendent of city 
schools of Springfield, Mo., and since 1875 
has been county school superintendent. 

FAIRBANKS, THADDEUS, manufac¬ 
turer, inventor, was born Jan. 17, 1796, 
in Brimfield, Mass. He was the origina¬ 
tor and patentee of the platform scale, 
gave to mankind the first real improve¬ 
ment in the methods of weighing articles 
of commerce, invented since the days of 
the old Roman steelyard, and made his 
name known in every part of the world 
where goods are bought and sold or for¬ 
warded by weight. 






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FAIRCHILD, ASHBEL GREEN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born May 1, 1795, in 
Hanover, N. J. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of Pennsylvania, among whose 
writings are The Great Supper, long a 
popular defense of Calvinism; Baptism; 
Faith and Works; and Confession of 
Faith. He died in 1864, in Smithfield, Pa. 

FAIRCHILD, BEN L., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was horn Jan. 5, 1863, in Sweden, 
N. Y. He is a successful lawyer of New 
York city, and has large real estate in¬ 
vestments in Westchester county, adjoin¬ 
ing New York city. He was the candidate 
of his party for delegate to the state con¬ 
stitutional convention in 1893; and was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

FAIRCHILD, CHARLES STEBBINS, 
lawyer, financier, was born April 30, 1842, 
in Cazenovia, N. Y. In 1874 he was ap¬ 
pointed deputy attorney general of the 
state of New York; and became attorney 
general. In 1885 he was appointed assist¬ 
ant secretary of the United States treas¬ 
ury department. He is a successful law¬ 
yer of New York city; has been president 
of the State Charities Aid association; 
and is now president of the New York 
Security and Trust company. 

FAIRCHILD, HERMAN LE ROY, edu¬ 
cator, geologist, lecturer, was born April 
29, 1850, in Montrose, Pa. In 1888 he was 
called to the chair of geology in the uni¬ 
versity of Rochester. Since 1889 he has 
been president of the Rochester Academy 
of Science. He is the author of a His¬ 
tory of the New York Academy of 
Sciences. 

FAIRCHILD, JAMES HARRIS, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
Nov. 25, 1817, in Stockbridge, Mass. He 
is a congregational 
clergyman; was 
president of Oberlin 
college in 1866-89; and 
the author of Moral 
Philosophy; Needed 
Phases of Christian¬ 
ity; Oberlin, the Col¬ 
ony and the College; 
Elements of Theol¬ 
ogy; and Woman’s 
Right to the Ballot. 
He has also con¬ 
tributed extensively 
to current periodicals. 

FAIRCHILD, LUCIUS, soldier, diplo¬ 
mat, governor, was born Dec. 27, 1831, in 
Kent, Ohio. He was appointed lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel of second Iowa infantry in 
June, 1861; and was made brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers in August, 1862. He 
was secretary of state of Wisconsin in 
1864 and 1865; governor in 1866 and 
1867; and in 1880 was appointed minister 
plenipotentiary to Spain, where he re¬ 
mained until 1882. 

FAIRCHILD, MARIA AUGUSTA, phy¬ 
sician, lecturer, was born in 1834 in New 
Jersey. She was physician to women in 
the late Dr. Troll’s 
Health institution of 
New York city; and 
is now physician and 
proprietor in her 
own sanitarium at 
Quincy, Ill. She is 
the editor of The 
Health Magazine, 
and lectures upon the 
Science of Health, 
Happiness and Pros¬ 
perity, and Meta¬ 
physical subjects; 
and contributes to the leading medical 
publications. 


FAIRFIELD, FRANCIS GERRY, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Aug. 18, 1844, in 
Stafford, Conn. He was a New York city 
journalist who was in early life a Luth¬ 
eran minister. He was the author of The 
Clubs of New York; and Ten Years with 
Spiritual Mediums. He died April 4, 1887, 
in New York city. 

FAIRFIELD, GENEVIEVE GENEVRA, 
author, was born in 1832 in New York 
She is the author of Genevra, or the His¬ 
tory Fair of a Portrait; The Vice-presi¬ 
dent’s Daughter; The Wife of Two Hus¬ 
bands; The Innkeeper’s Daughter; and 
Irene. 

FAIRFIELD, MRS. JANE FRAZEE, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1810 in New Jersey. 
She was the wife of S. L. Fairfield, the 
poet, of whom she wrote a Life in 1846. 
She afterwards published an Autobiog¬ 
raphy. 

FAIRFIELD, JOHN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man governor, United States senator, 
was born Jan. 30, 1797, in Saco, Maine. In 
1832 he was appointed reporter of the de¬ 
cisions of the supreme court. From 1835 
to 1839 he was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maine; and was governor of 
the state during the years 1839, 1840, 1842, 
and 1843. He was elected a senator in 
congress in 1843 to fill a vacancy; and 
in 1845 was re-elected for a term of six 
years. He died Dec. 24, 1847, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

FAIRFIELD, SUMNER LINCOLN, edu¬ 
cator, author, poet, was born June 25, 
1803, in Warwick, Mass. He was an edu¬ 
cator and poet of Philadelphia and else¬ 
where. He was the author of Abaddon, 
the Spirit of Destruction; Lays of Melpo¬ 
mene; The Sisters of St. Clara; Cities of 
the Plain; The Heir of the World; The 
Last Night of Pompeii; Poems and Prose 
Writings; and Select Poems. He died 
March 6, 1844, in New Orleans, La. 

FAIRHEAD, JOHN STERLING, soldier, 
lumber manufacturer, was born Dec. 23, 
1841, in New Hartford, N. Y. He served 
for three years during the civil war in the 
one hundred and seventeenth New York 
volunteer infantry. He came to Jackson¬ 
ville in 1885, and became a partner in a 
large lumber exporting firm, which is now 
known as Fairhead, Straw and Company. 

FAIRLAMB, JAMES REMINGTON, 
musician, was born Jan. 23, 1839, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. Between 1867 and 1880 he 
was successively director of the music in 
different churches in Washington, D. C. 
He was called to a similar office in the 
Church of the Ascension, New York city, 
and a year later to that of St. Ignatius. 
His published works, chiefly sacred com¬ 
positions and songs, number nearly a 
hundred, exclusive of Valerie and Leon- 
ello, two operas. 

FAIRMAN, GIDEON, engraver, was 
born June 26, 1744, in Newtown, Conn. In 
the war of 1812 he entered the army as 
captain, and rose to a colonelcy. He con¬ 
tributed much toward the elevation of the 
art of engraving in the United States. He 
died March 18, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

FALES, ALMIRA L„ philanthropist, 
was born in New York. At the beginning 
of the war she entered, fully prepared, on 
the care of sick and wounded soldiers, 
and at Pittsburg Landing and other bat¬ 
tlefields of the west was busy in minis¬ 
tering to the wants of the sufferers. She 
died Nov. 8, 1868, in Washington, D. C. 

FALES, EDWARD LIPPITT, poet. He 
is the author of Underneath the Mistletoe, 
and Other Poems; and Songs and Song 
Legends of Dahkotah Land. 


FALK, BENJAMIN JOSEPH, photo¬ 
graphic artist, was born Oct. 14, 1853, in 
New York city. He has made many im¬ 
provements in photography, the most im¬ 
portant of which was that of photo¬ 
graphing stage scenes by the aid of elec¬ 
tric light in large masses. Among his 
best compositions and studies from life 
are: The Fisher Maiden; Judith; and 
The Curfew Shall not Ring To-Night. 

FALKNER, JOHN W. T., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born Sept. 2, 1848, in Ripley, 
Miss. In 1890 he became president of the 
Gulf and Chicago railroad. 

FALL, CHARLES GERSHOM, lawyer, 
poet, was born in 1845 in Massachusetts. 
He is a lawyer of Boston; and the author 
of Dreams, a volume of poetry; A Village 
Sketch, and Other Poems; and Employ¬ 
ers’ Liability for Personal Injuries to 
their Employes. 

FALL, DELOS, educator, author, was 
born Jan. 29, 1848, in Ann Arbor, Mich. 
Since 1879 he has been professor of chem¬ 
istry in the Albion college, Mich. He 
has been a member of the Michigan state 
board of health; a member of the board 
of education of Albion; and in 1897 was 
president of the State Teachers’ associa¬ 
tion. He is the author of Laboratory 
Manual in Qualitative Chemistry, and 
other works. 

FALLIGANT, ROBERT, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Jan. 12, 1839, in Sa¬ 
vannah, Ga. As soldier, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor and judge, he has been successful, and 
is one of the best public speakers in the 
state of Georgia. He was chosen state 
representative in 1882, and as state sena¬ 
tor in 1884. 

FALLOON, GEORGE, civil engineer, 
merchant, state senator, was born April 
3, 1852. He was educated as a civil en¬ 
gineer and surveyor; elected county sur¬ 
veyor of Athens county in 1875 and 1881; 
and was elected to the Ohio state senate 
in 1895. 

FALLOWS, SAMUEL, bishop, author, 
was born Dec. 13, 1835, near Manchester, 
England. He is a bishop of the reformed 
episcopal faith. In early life he was a 
methodist minister, and during the civil 
war a brigadier-general in the federal 
army. He left methodism for the reformed 
episcopal church in 1875, and was ad¬ 
vanced to the episcopate the next year. 
He is the author of The Bible Story for 
Young People; Complete Hand-Book of 
Synonyms and Antonyms; Hand-Book of 
Abbreviations and Contractions; Hand- 
Book of Briticisms, Americanisms, etc.; 
The Home Beyond, or Views of Heaven; 
Past Noon; and Complete Dictionary of 
Synonyms and Antonyms. He has edited 
a Supplemental Dictionary of the English 
Language. 

FANCHER, FANNY L., musician, po¬ 
et, was born June 21, 1849, in Litchfield, 
Ohio. She has attained success as an 
instructor of music. She has contributed 
to Godey’sLady’s Magazine; Ladies’ Home 
Journal, and the periodical press, and 
her poems have been given a place in sev¬ 
eral standard works. 

FANCHER, FREDERICK BARTLETT, 
business man, public official, was born 
April 2, 1852, in Orleans county, N. Y. He 
is a successful business man of James¬ 
town, N. D.; has been president of the 
North Dakota Hospital for the Insane; 
president of the constitutional conven¬ 
tion of North Dakota in 1889; and in 1894 
became commissioner of insurance of 
North Dakota. 








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FANBUIL, PETER, founder, was born 
in 1700, in New Rochelle, N. Y. He was 
the founder of Faneuil hall, which, with 
the exception of the capitol at Washing¬ 
ton, is probably the best known building 
in the United States. He died March 3, 
1743, in Boston, Mass. 

FANNING, DAVID, free-booter, author, 
was born in 1756 in Johnston county, N. C. 
He was a famous free-booter who acted 
with the royalists during the American 
revolution, and was one of those per¬ 
sons exempted by name from benefits of 
the general pardon. He was the author of 
a Narrative of Adventures in North Caro¬ 
lina, edited by J. H. Wheeler, and printed 
privately in 1861. He died in 1825 in Dig- 
by, N. S. 

FANNING, JOHN THOMAS, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Dec. 31, 1837, 
in Norwich, Conn. He is a distinguished 
civil engineer of Minneapolis, whose Trea¬ 
tise on Water Supply Engineering has had 
wide circulation. 

FARAN, JAMES J., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Ohio. He was a 
representative from Ohio to the thirtieth 
congress; and subsequently became one 
of the proprietors of the Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer. 

FARFAX, DONALD MACNEILL, naval 
officer, was born Aug. 10, 1822, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He served in the United States 
navy during the civil war; for gallant 
and meritorious services attained the rank 
of rear admiral. 

FARGO, JAMES CONGDEL, was born 
May 5, 1829, in Pompey, N. Y. In 1866 he 
came to New York city as the general 
superintendent and manager of the Fargo 
Express company; and succeeded to the 
presidency in 1881. He is also the presi¬ 
dent of the Merchants’ Despatch Trans¬ 
portation company, and director of sev¬ 
eral important railroad and express com¬ 
panies. 

FARIS, GEORGE W., educator, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born June 9, 1854, 
in Jasper county, Ind. In 1884 he was the 
republican nominee for the circuit judge- 
ship, but was defeated by a slender ma¬ 
jority. He has been active in republican 
politics; and was elected to the fifty- 
fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

FARLEE, ISAAC G., congressman, was 
born in New Jersey. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1843 to 1845. 

FARLEY, E. WILDER, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1818, in 
Maine. He was in the state legislature 
in 1845, and from 1851 to 1853. He was a 
representative in congress from Maine 
from 1853 to 1855; and served in the state 
senate in 1856. 

FARLEY, HARRIET, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1815, in Claremont, N. 
H. She was a factory operative of Low¬ 
ell who, in 1841 and subsequently, edited 
The Lowell Offering. A selection from 
its pages, Mind among the Spindles, was 
published in London in 1849. Shells from 
the Strand of Genius is partly original 
and partly selected. Fancy’s Frolics, a 
juvenile work, appeared many years later. 

FARLEY, JAMES THOMPSON, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 6, 1829, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was a member of the Cali¬ 
fornia assembly in 1855 and 1856, and the 
latter year speaker of the house. He was 
elected a state senator in 1860 and served, 
by re-elections, eight years. He was elected 
a senator of the United States from Cali¬ 
fornia for the term 1879-85. He died Jan. 
23, 1886, in Jackson, Cal. 


FARLEY, MICHAEL, patriot, was born 
in 1719 in Ipswich, Mass. He was 
a delegate to the provincial congress of 
Massachusetts in 1774-75, and was after¬ 
ward a member of the house of represen¬ 
tatives, July, 1775. He died June 20, 1789, 
in Ipswich, Mass. 

FARLIN, DUDLEY, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1835 to 1837. He died 
Sept. 26, 1837, in Warrensburg, N. Y. 

FARLOW, WILLIAM GILSON, educa¬ 
tor, botanist, author, was born Dec. 17, 
1844, in Boston, Mass. He has been a 
professor of botany in Harvard univer¬ 
sity since 1874, and the foremost Ameri¬ 
can authority on cryptogamic botany. He 
is the author of Marine Algae of New Eng¬ 
land; The Black Knot; The Gymnospo- 
rangia of the United States; Index of Fun¬ 
gi; The Potato Rot; and Diseases of 
Orange and Olive Trees. 

FARMAN, ELBERT ELI, lawyer, jurist, 
diplomat, was born April 23, 1831, in New 
Haven, N. Y. He was chiefly instru¬ 
mental in securing from Egypt the gran¬ 
ite obelisk known as Cleopatra’s needle, 
which stood so long in front of the tem¬ 
ple of Caesar in Alexandria, and is now in 
Central Park, N. Y. 

FARMER, AARON D., type-founder, 
was born Jan. 18, 1816, in Bolton, Conn. 
He entered the type-foundry of Eli 
White; was promoted manager of the 
manufacturing department; and later be¬ 
came a member of the firm, which was 
changed to Farmer, Little and Company, 
of New York city. 

FARMER, GEORGE EDGAR, soldier, 
was born in 1840 in New York city. He 
served in the civil war, and attained the 
rank of lieutenant-colonel. He died Feb. 
16, 1870, in New York city. 

FARMER, HANNAH T. S., philan¬ 
thropist, was born March 20, 1823, in 
Berwick, Maine. In 1888 she erected in 
Eliot, Maine, a large edifice, Rosemary 
cottage, which institution was trans¬ 
ferred by her to the care of the City Mis¬ 
sionary society of Boston. She died June 
27, 1891, in Eliot, Maine. 

FARMER, HENRY TUDOR, author, po¬ 
et, was born in 1782 in England. He was 
the author of Imagination; The Maniac’s 
Dream, and Other Poems. He died Jan¬ 
uary, 1828, in Charleston, S. C. 

FARMER, JOHN, genealogist, author, 
was born July 12, 1789, in Chelmsford, 
Mass. He was a genealogist of New 
England, whose Genealogical Register of 
the First Settlers of New England is a 
much valued work. His other writings 
include History of Billerica; History of 
Amherst; Gazetteer of New Hampshire; 
and an edition, with notes, of Belknap’s 
History of New Hampshire. He died Aug. 
13, 1839, in Concord, N. H. 

FARMER, JOHN, author, was born Feb. 
9, 1798, in Half Moon, N. Y. He was a 
noted cartographer of Detroit who pub¬ 
lished A Gazetteer of Michigan. He died 
March 24, 1859, in Detroit, Mich. 

FARMER, LUTHER M., educator, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Dec. 31, 1856, 
in Coneta county, Ga. In 1883 he grad¬ 
uated from the university of Georgia, and 
then became principal of schools; and in 
1885-86 was professor in the Howard col¬ 
lege of Marion, Ala. He then moved to 
Newman, Ga., was admitted to the bar, 
and has’ since practiced his profession 
with success in that city. He was pres¬ 
ident of the board of education until 1894; 
when he resigned that position to be¬ 
come a member of the general assembly 
of Georgia. While a member of the leg¬ 


islature, he was the author of the school 
bill under which public schools of Geor¬ 
gia are now conducted. 

FARMER, MRS. LYDIA HOYT, author, 
poet, was born July 19, 1842, in Cleveland, 
Ohio. She is the author of Aunt Belin- 
dy’s Points of View; Boys’ Book of Fa¬ 
mous Rulers; A Story Book of Science; 
Girls’ Book of Famous Queens; The 
Prince of the Flaming Star, an Operetta; 
Life of Lafayette; A Short History of the 
French Revolution; A Knight of Faith; A 
Moral Inheritance; and The Doom of the 
Holy City. 

FARMER, SILAS, publisher, antiquar¬ 
ian, author, was born June 6, 1839, in 
Detroit, Mich. He is a publisher and an¬ 
tiquarian of Detroit; and the author of 
History of Detroit and Michigan. 

FARNAM, CHARLES HENRY, arch¬ 
aeologist, author, was born Sept. 12, 1846, 
in New Haven, Conn. He has been for 
several years assistant in archaeology in 
the Peabody museum of Yale, and has 
published a History of John Whitman 
and his Descendants. 

FARNAM, HENRY, philanthropist, 
railroad president, was born Nov. 9, 1803, 
in Scipio, N. Y. He removed to New 
Haven in 1839, and in 1846-48 built the 
railroad that took the place of the canal. 
He went to Illinois in 1850, and with Jo¬ 
seph E. Sheffield built the Chicago and 
Rock Island road, of which he was pres¬ 
ident in 1854-63. He died Oct. 4, 1883, in 
New Haven, Conn. 

FARNAM, HENRY WOLCOTT, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Nov. 6, 1853, in New 
Haven, Conn. He is a professor of po¬ 
litical economy at Yale university; and 
the author of Die Innere Franzosische 
Gewerpolitik von Colbert bis Turgot. 

FARNELL, GEORGE, lawyer, was 
born in 1854 in Yorkshire, England. In 
1881 he emigrated to America. He was a 
factory operative until twenty-eight 
years of age; then becariie a newspaper 
reporter; teacher of shorthand; and offi¬ 
cial shorthand writer in Rhode Island. In 
1893 he was admitted to the bar, and 
practices his profession in Johnston, R. I. 

FARNHAM, MRS. ELIZA WOODSON 
(BURHANS), philanthropist, author, was 
born Nov. 17, 1815, in Rensselaerville, N. 
Y. She was a philanthropist who from 1844 
to 1848 was matron at the prison of Sing 
Sing, and later a resident of California. She 
was the author of Woman and her Era, 
which is her most important work. Oth¬ 
ers are Life in Prairie Land; My Early 
Days; The Ideal Attained; and Califor¬ 
nia Indoors and Out. She died Dec. 15, 
1864. 

FARNHAM, ELLEN W., philanthropist, 
was born in 1848. She has attained a na¬ 
tional reputation as a philanthropist. 

FARNHAM, GEORGE LOOMIS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 9, 1824, in 
Richfield, N. Y. He has been eminently 
successful as a teacher and principal in 
female seminaries and public schools. He 
has been superintendent of schools in 
Syracuse, N. Y.; Binghamton, N. Y.; 
Council Bluffs, Iowa; and for ten years 
was principal of the Nebraska State Nor¬ 
mal schools. In 1857 he was president of 
the New York State Teachers’ associa¬ 
tion; and in 1886 was president of the 
Nebraska State Teachers’ association. He 
is the author of The Thought and Sen¬ 
tence Method of Teaching, which he con¬ 
siders his most important work in educa¬ 
tional lines. The system was first de¬ 
veloped and applied during 1871-75 in the 
schools of Binghamton; and it has since 
received recognition and endorsement by 
the leading educators in America. 


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FARNHAM, HORACE PUTNAM, physi¬ 
cian, was born May 7, 1822, in Salem, 
Mass. He settled in the city of New 
York as a general practitioner; and in 
1861-63 he was attending physician to the 
Northern dispensary of New York. He 
died June 9, 1886, in New York city. 

FARNHAM, JOHN MARSHALL WIL¬ 
LOUGHBY, clergyman, author, was born 
in 1829, in Maine. He is a presbyterian 
missionary to China; and the author of 
Homeward; Farnham Genealogy; and 
The Missionary Complaint and Appeal. 

FARNHAM, LUTHER, clergyman, au¬ 
thor was horn Feb. 5, 1816, in Concord. 

N H. In 1862 he was chosen secretary of 
the General Theological library of Boston. 
He has published A Glance at Private Li¬ 
braries; and has also prepared a History 
of the Massachusetts Horticultural So¬ 
ciety. 

FARNHAM, NOAH LANE, soldier-, was 
born June 4, 1829, in New Haven, Conn. 
In 1856 he was elected assistant engineer 
of the New York Fire department, and in 
1857 joined the seventh regiment, soon 
attaining the rank of first lieutenant. He 
died Aug. 11, 1861, in Washington, D. C. 

FARNHAM, RALPH, soldier, was born 
July 7, 1756, in Lebanon, Maine. He was 
the last survivor of the battle of Bunker 
Hill. In 1780 he settled in Acton, being 
the first white inhabitant of that town¬ 
ship. He died Dec. 26, 1861, in Acton, 
Maine. 

FARNHAM, ROSWELL, soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, governor, was born 
Dec. 23, 1827, in Boston, Mass. He was 
elected state’s attorney for Orange county, 
Vt., in 1859, and re-elected in 1860 and 
1861. He served in the union army from 
1861 to 1863, rising to the rank of lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel. He was elected state sen¬ 
ator in 1868 and 1869; and was a member 
of the state board of education in 1873-75. 
He was a Delegate to the republican na¬ 
tional convention of 1876, and a presiden¬ 
tial elector the same year. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Vermont from 1880 to 1882. 

FARNHAM, THOMAS JEFFERSON, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1804, in Bos¬ 
ton. Mass. He was a lawyer who in 1839 
headed an expedition to Oregon; and is 
the author of Travels in Oregon Terri¬ 
tory (1842); Travels in California; Me¬ 
morial of the Northwest Boundary Line; 
and Mexico, its Geography, People, and 
Institutions. He died in September, 1848, 
in California. 

FARNSWORTH, JOHN F„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 27, 1820, in 
Eaton, Canada. He was a representative 
to the thirty-fifth congress from Illinois, 
and was a member of the committee on 
revolutionary pensions. He was re-elected 
to the thirty-sixth congress, and in 1862 
to the thirty-eighth congress, serving on 
the committee on military affairs. In 
1861 he took part in the war as colonel 
of volunteers; raised and took into the 
field the eighth regiment of Illinois cav¬ 
alry, serving in the army of the Potomac 
until 1863. In 1863 and 1864 he raised the 
seventeenth regiment of Illinois volun¬ 
teers by order of the war department; and 
was brevetted a brigadier-general in 1862. 
He was re-elected to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress; was a regent of the Smithsonian 
institution; was a delegate to the Pitts¬ 
burg soldiers’ convention of 1866; and was 
re-elected to the fortieth, forty-first, and 
forty-second congresses as a republican. 

FARNSWORTH, PHILO JUDSON, 
physician, was born Jan. 9, 1832, in West- 
ford, Vt. He is one of the foremost phy¬ 
sicians of Iowa at Clinton. 


FARQUHAR. ARTHUR B., manufac¬ 
turer, author, was born Sept. 28, 1838, in 
Montgomery county, Md. In 1889 he or¬ 
ganized the A. B. Farquhar company, 
manufacturers of agricultural implements. 
He is the author of a work entitled Eco¬ 
nomic and Industrial Delusions. 

FARQUHAR, JOHN H., soldier, civil 
engineer, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 
1818, in Frederick county, Md. In 1861 
he was commissioned as captain in the 
nineteenth United States infantry, in 
which capacity he served until 1864, when 
he resigned. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Indiana to the thirty-ninth 
congress. 

FARQUHAR, JOHN M., soldier, journal¬ 
ist, manufacturer, congressman, was born 
April 17, 1832, in Scotland. He served 
throughout the civil war, rising to the 
rank of major, and acting as judge-advo¬ 
cate and as inspector on staff duty. In 
1884 he was elected a representative from 
New York to the forty-ninth congress, and 
was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty- 
first congresses as a republican. 

FARR, ELIZA, poet. She has written 
extensively for the periodical press, and 
several of her poems have been given a 
place in standard collections. 

FARR, EVARTS W., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1840, in 
Littleton, N. H. He served throughout the 
war, rising to the rank of major. He was 
appointed assessor of internal revenue in 
1870, and continued to serve until the oflice 
was abolished in 1873. He was prosecut¬ 
ing attorney for Grafton county in 1873 
and 1876; "and was a member of the 
executive council in 1876. He was elected 
a representative from New Hampshire 
to the forty-sixth congress. He died Nov. 
30, 1880. 

FARRAGUT, DAVID GLASGOW, was 
born July 5, 1801, near Knoxville, Tenn. 

great admiral. His 
capture of New Or¬ 
leans and Mobile 
during the civil war 
created for him a 
name equal in fear¬ 
less bravery to Nel¬ 
son; and in gran¬ 
deur of character to 
the illustrious Col- 
lingwood. He died 
Aug. 14, 1870, i n 

Portsmouth, N. H. A 
monument to his 
honor stands in Mad¬ 
ison square, New York city. 

FARRAND, SAMUEL ASHBEL, edu¬ 
cator, was born June 4, 1830, in Bridport, 
Vt. For twenty-eight years he has been 
head-master of the Newark academy, 
Newark, N. J.; and is one of the fore¬ 
most educators of the east. 

FARRAR, CHARLES A. J., author. He 
was a New England writer who published 
Moosehead Lake and the North Maine 
Wilderness; Camp Life in the Wilder¬ 
ness; The Lake and Forest Series; Wild- 
Woods Life; and From Lake to Lake. He 
died in 1893. 

FARRAR, MRS. ELIZA WARE 
[ROTCH], author, was born in 1791, in 
Flanders. She was a writer of Cambridge 
who was the wife of a professor of math¬ 
ematics in Harvard university. She was 
educated in England, where her first book, 
Congo in Search of his Master, was writ¬ 
ten. Her other works include The Chil¬ 
dren’s Robinson Crusoe; The Young 
Lady’s Friend; Life of Howard; The 
Story of Lafayette; Youth’s Love-Let¬ 
ters; and Recollections of Seventy Years. 
She died April 22, 1870, in Springfield, 
Mass. 


FARRAR, FERDINANDO R., lawyer, 
jurist, lecturer, was born Jan. 7, 1828, in 
Prince Edward county, Va. He received 
his education at the Princeton college 
and the university of Virginia. He served 
with distinction as a judge for twenty- 
seven years; and for thirty years as a 
lecturer. He began his professional ca¬ 
reer as lecturer in 1866 with his famous 
Johnny Reb as his only subject, to which 
he has added since Lights and Shadows; 
Rip Van Winkle; The American Eagle; 
and four others, all popular and clever 
creations. 

FARRAR, HENRY, artist, was born 
March 23, 1843, in London, England. His 
principal works are On the East River; A 
Hot Day; A Calm Afternoon; Sunset, 
Coast of Maine; The Silent Tongue; The 
Old Homestead at Twilight; and a No¬ 
vember Day. 

FARRAR, JOHN, educator, was born 
July 1, 1779, in Lincoln, Mass. He pub¬ 
lished for the use of his pupils a trans¬ 
lation of Lacroix’s Elements of Algebra 
(1818), which he followed by selections 
from Legendre, Biot, Bezant, and others. 
These works were at once adopted as 
text-books by Harvard, the United States 
Military academy, and other institutions. 
He died May 8, 1858, in Cambridge, Mass. 

FARRAR. SAMUEL, lawyer, banker, 
was born in 1784, in Lincoln, Mass. He 
was one of the chief founders of the An¬ 
dover Theological seminary, and for 
thirty-eight years was treasurer of that 
institution and of Phillips academy. He 
was the first president of the Andover 
bank, and held the office thirty years. 
He died May 13, 1864, in Andover, Mass. 

FARRAR. THOMAS CHARLES, artist, 
was born Dec. 16, 1838, in London. He 
came to New York in 1858; and attained 
success as an instructor in his art. He 
served in the union army during the civil 
war, and in 1869 returned to London, 
where he has since resided. Among his 
works exhibited at the National academy 
in New York were Field-Lily, and Twi¬ 
light on the Hudson (1867); Beach at Has¬ 
tings, and English Farm. 

FARRAR. TIMOTHY, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born July 11, 1747, in Concord, 
Mass. He was a major in the revolution¬ 
ary army, and after the war became a 
justice of the court of common pleas of 
New Hampshire. He died Feb. 21, 1849, 
in Hollis, N. H. 

FARRAR, TIMOTHY, jurist, author, 
was born March 17, 1788, in New Ipswich, 
N. H. He was a New Hampshire jurist; 
and the author of Report of Dartmouth 
College Case; Reviews of the Dred Scott 
Decision; and Manual of the United 
States Constitution. He died Oct. 27, 1874, 
in Boston, Mass. 

FARREL, FRANKLIN, manufacturer, 
was born Feb. 17, 1828, in Waterbury, 
Conn. The Bridgeport Forge Co., a con¬ 
cern of which Mr. 
Farrel is president 
and principal owner, 
was organized and 
located in Ansonia, 
Conn. The Bridge¬ 
port Copper Co. was 
organized soon after¬ 
ward through the ef¬ 
forts of Mr. Farrel, 
and its first buildings 
erected in the same 
locality. He became 
identified with the 
Parrot Silver and Copper Co., of Butte 
City, Mont., and the first mine was worked 
in 1877. 


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FARRELL, JEREMIAH W., railroad 
contractor, was born Jan. 22, 1861, in Jef¬ 
ferson county, N. Y. For ten years he 
was a member of the democratic state 
central committee; was judge of awards 
at the World’s Columbian exposition; and 
was a member of the state board of trans¬ 
portation. He is a successful railroad con¬ 
tractor of Orleans, Neb. 

FARRELLY, HUGH P., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Sept. 2, 1858, in Greene 
county, Ill. He is one of the foremost 
lawyers of Kansas at Chanute, and in 
1887 and 1890 was its city attorney. Dur¬ 
ing 1891-94 he was county attorney of 
Neosho county; and is now a member of 
the state senate from the thirteenth dis¬ 
trict, consisting of Neosho and Wilson 
counties. 

FARRELLY, JOHN W., state senator, 
congressman, was born in July, 1809, in 
Meadville, Pa. He was a member of the 
state legislature in 1828; a state senator 
from 1838 to 1841; and a representative 
in congress from that state from 1847 to 
1849. He was sixth auditor of the treas¬ 
ury from 1849 to 1853. He died in Wash¬ 
ington. 

FARRELLY, PATRICK, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1760, in Ireland. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1821 to 1826. He died 
Jan. 12, 1826, in Meadville, Pa. 

FARRINGTON, JAMES, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1791, in New 
Hampshire. He was a member of the 
state legislature in 1830, 1832, and 1833, 
and was a representative in congress from 
1837 to 1839. He died Oct. 29, 1859, in 
Rochester, N. Y. 

FARRIS, JOHN W., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, was born Jan. 20, 1846, in 
Marion county, Ill. He served during the 
civil war in the forty-eighth Illinois in¬ 
fantry, and attained the rank of second 
lieutenant and adjutant. He was a state 
senator in 1882; prosecuting attorney in 
1890; and a member of the Missouri state 
legislature in 1896. 

FARROW, EDWARD SAMUEL, soldier, 
civil engineer, author, was born in 1855, 
in Maryland. He was an army officer and 
engineer; and the author of West Point 
and the Military Academy; A Military 
System of Gymnastic Exercises; Moun¬ 
tain Scouting; Pack Mules and Packing; 
and Farrow’s Military Encyclopedia. 


FARROW, SAMUEL, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1760, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was elected to congress from 
South Carolina as a representative for the 
terms from 1813 to 1817, but resigned in 
1816. He served in the state legislature 
from 1817 to 1821. He died Nov. 18, 1824, 
in Columbia, Va. 


FARWELL, CHARLES B„ merchant, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born July 1, 1823, in Painted Post, N. Y. 

He was elected coun- 
ty clerk in 1853, and 
re-elected in 1857. 
He was appointed 
a member of the 
state board of equal- 
i z a t i o n in 1867; 
chairman of board of 
supervisors in 1868; 
and was appointed 
national bank exam¬ 
iner in 1869. He was 
elected to the forty- 
second, forty-third, 
forty-fourth and forty-seventh congresses, 
and was subsequently elected to the 
United States senate. 



FARWELL, JOHN VILLIERS, mer¬ 
chant, capitalist, was born July 29, 1825, 
in Mead’s Creek, N. Y. He is vice-presi¬ 
dent and treasurer of the John V. Farwell 
Co., one of the largest dry goods jobbing 
houses in the northwest; and has been 
identified with the commercial life of Chi¬ 
cago about fifty years. He is also presi¬ 
dent of the Colorado Consolidated Land 
and Water Co., which is building a long 
irrigating canal in Montezuma county, 
Col. He was Indian commissioner during 
General Grant’s first term as president. 

In 1887, in company with his brother 
Charles, he built the state house of Texas 
in exchange for three million acres of 
land. 


and for a while was temporary president 
of the senate. In 1888 he was a delegate 
to the republican national convention; in 
1891 was nominated by the republicans 
for governor of New York; and has al¬ 
ways taken a prominent part in public 
affairs. He is engaged in several large 
business enterprises; controls the El¬ 
mira Daily Advertiser; and the manage¬ 
ment of the Second National bank; and 
is the responsible manager of the little 
mining town of Banner, Idaho. 

FAULK, ’ANDREW J., governor, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed 
governor of the territory of Dakota in 
1866, residing at Yankton, and remaining 
in office until 1869. 


FARWELL, NATHAN ALLEN, United 
States senator, was born in 1812, in Unity, 
Maine. He was a member of the state sen¬ 
ate in 1853, 1854, 1861, and 1862; presiding 
as president of that body during the lat¬ 
ter year. He was elected to the state leg¬ 
islature in 1860, 1863, and 1864; and was 
a delegate to the Baltimore convention in 
1864. In October of that year he was ap¬ 
pointed. and soon afterwards elected, a 
senator in congress from Maine to fill a 
vacancy. 

FARWELL, SAMUEL, contractor, was 
born about 1800. He was a resident of 
Utica, N. Y., and was known throughout 
the United States for fifty years as a con¬ 
tractor for the building of public works. 
He died Nov. 17, 1875, in Saginaw, Mich. 

FARWELL, SEWALL S., soldier, state 
senator, congressman, was born April 26, 
1834, in Coshocton county, Ohio. He 
served as a captain in the union army 
from 1862 to 1865. He was elected a state 
senator in 1865 and served four years; 
was assessor of internal revenue from 
1869 to 1873; and was collector of inter¬ 
nal revenue from 1875 to 1881. He was 
elected a representative from Iowa to the 
forty-seventh congress. 

FASNACHT, CHARLES H., soldier, was 
born March 27, 1842, in Lancaster county, 
Pa. He enlisted in 1861 in the ninety- 
ninth Pennsylvania regiment, and mus¬ 
tered out of service in July, 1865, as first 
lieutenant. For his gallantry he received 
the United States medal of honor, a silver 
medal from the directors of the sanitary 
fair at Philadelphia, and the bronze 
Kearny badge. 

FASQUELLE, JEAN LOUIS, educator, 
author, was born in 1808, in France. He 
was a French educator who came to 
America in 1834, and was professor of 
modern languages at Michigan university 
in 1846-62. He was the author of Lessons 
in French; French Course; Telemaque, 
with Notes and Grammatical References; 
and General and Idiomatic Dictionary of 
the French and English Languages. He 
died in 1862, in Michigan. 

FASSETT, CORNELIA ADELE, artist, 
was born Nov. 9, 1831, in Owasco, N. Y. 
She has executed portraits of Vice-Presi¬ 
dent Henry Wilson, Justices Miller and 
Field, Chief-Justice Waite, President Gar¬ 
field, John A. Logan, Clara Barton, and 
others, and in 1877-80 painted The Elec¬ 
toral Commission in Open Session, con¬ 
taining portraits of about two hundred 
persons. 

FASSETT, JACOB SLOAT, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Nov. 13, 1853, in Elmira, 
N. Y. In 1875 he graduated from the 
Rochester university; and in 1878 was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar. The same year he was 
commissioned district attorney for the 
county of Chemung; and subsequently 
studied abroad. During 1884-92 he was a 
member of the New York state senate; 


FAULKNER, CHARLES JAMES, was 
born about 1806, in Martinsburg, W. Va. 
In 1841 he was elected to the senate of 
Virginia, and in 1848 was elected to the 
house of delegates. In 1850 he was a 
member of the convention formed to re¬ 
vise the constitution of the state. In 1851 
he was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to four suc¬ 
cessive congresses. In the civil war he 
acted as chief of staff for General Stone¬ 
wall Jackson, and wrote all his reports 
and dispatches; and in 1872 was a mem¬ 
ber of the convention to frame a consti¬ 
tution for West Virginia. He was also 
elected to the forty-fourth congress. He 
died Nov. 1, 1884, in Boydville, W. Va. 

FAULKNER. CHARLES JAMES, sol¬ 
dier, jurist. United States senator, was 

born Sept. 21, 1847, in Martinsburg, W. 

Va. In 1880 he was 
elected judge of the 
thirteenth judicial 
circuit, composed of 
the counties of Jef¬ 
ferson, Morgan, and 

Berkeley; and was 

elected to the United 
States senate as a 
democrat, and took 
his seat March 4, 
1887. He was re¬ 
elected in 1893. He 

was permanent 
chairman of the democratic state conven¬ 
tion of West Virginia in 1888, and was 
both temporary and permanent chairman 
of the democratic state convention of 
1892; and was chairman of the democratic 
congressional campaign committee in 1894 
and 1896. 

FAUNCE, DAVID WORCESTER, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Jan. 3, 1829, 
in Plymouth, Mass. He is a baptist min¬ 
ister of New England; and the author of 
Words and Works of Jesus; Words and 
Acts of the Apostles; The Christian in 
the World; A Young Man’s Difficulties 
with his Bible; and The Resurrection in 
Nature and Revelation. 

FAUNTLEROY, THOMAS TURNER, 
soldier, was born Oct. 6, 1796, in Rich¬ 
mond county, Va. He was commissioned 
a lieutenant in the war of 1812-15 when 
but seventeen years old. He studied law 
in Winchester, practiced in Warrenton, 
and in 1823 was elected to the legislature. 
In 1836 he was commissioned a major of 
dragoons in the regular army, and served 
in the Seminole war. In 1861 he entered 
the confederate service. He was commis¬ 
sioned a brigadier-general by the conven¬ 
tion of Virginia, and placed in command 
of Richmond and its defences. He died 
Sept. 12, 1883, in Leesburg, Va. 

FAUQUIER, FRANCIS, governor, was 
born about 1720. He succeeded Dinwiddie 
as governor of Virginia in 1758; and after 
that was lieutenant-governor until his 
death. He died March 3, 1768, in Virginia. 



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FAVILLE, HENRY, clergyman, and 
founder of the Sunday Evening Club 
movement was born July 7, 1847, in Mil¬ 
ford, Wis. He is a distinguished clergy¬ 
man of Wisconsin, and now fills a pas¬ 


torate in La Crosse. 

FAWCETT, EDGAR, author, was born 
May 26, 1847,’ in New York city. He is 
the author of An Ambitious Woman; Fa¬ 
bian Dimitry; A Gentleman of Leisure, 
\ Hopeless Case; Olivia Delaplame; 
Asses’ Ears; A New York Family; The 
Confessions of Claude; Purple and Fine 
Linen; A Mild Barbarian; The House 
at High Bridge; Social Silhouettes; The 
Adventures of a Widow; Tinkling Cym¬ 
bals; Rutherford; Douglas Duane; Ellen 
Stor’v A Demoralizing Marriage; A 
Man's’ Will; Miriam Balestier. In verse 
he has published Short Poems for Short 
People- The Buntling Ball, a satire; 
Poems of Fantasy and Passion; Romance 
and Revery; Song and Story; Songs of 
Doubt and Dream; and The New King 
Arthur. He has also written Agnosticism, 
and Other Essays. 


FAWCETT, LEMUEL S., soldier. _law- 
ver, jurist, was born June 24, 1845, in 
Overton, Pa. He served as a soldier in 
the union army; and since 1873 has prac¬ 
ticed law in Houston, Texas, where he is 
judge of his county. He is a logical 
speaker and a well known political writer. 

FAWCETT, MARY HUESTIS, author, 
poet, was born in May, 1843, in Ohio. 
She was educated in the Mount Pleasant 
seminary of Ohio, and for many years 
has contributed both prose and verse to 
periodical literature. In 1880 she pub¬ 
lished a volume of poems; and in 1890 
appeared a second volume entitled Ernest¬ 
ine and Other Poems. 


FAXON, EDGAR WADE, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, legislator, was born Jan. 22, 18oi. 
near Plano, Ill. He attended the com¬ 
mon schools and col¬ 
leges of Normal and 
Naperville, Ill., and 
graduated in the 
Latin scientific 
course, and from the 
Chicago College of 
Law. He served 
with distinction as a 
member of the thir¬ 
ty-fifth general as¬ 
sembly of Illinois; 
and was chairman of 
the committee of ag¬ 
riculture. He was the owner and pub¬ 
lisher of The Journal of Amboy, Ill., dur¬ 
ing 1879-81; and since 1880 has owned and 
conducted a farm at Fox, Ill. He is now 
the owner and editor of the Kendall Coun¬ 
ty News of Plano, Ill.; and is a promi¬ 
nent and able lawyer of that city. 



FAXON, HENRY W., journalist, was 
born about 1830, in Buffalo, N. Y. In 
1861 he became an army correspondent for 
New York papers. Among his most 
noted efforts were the Silver Lake Snake 
Story; and the A. P. L. Parin Papers. 
He died Sept. 11, 1864, in Washington, 
D. C. 

FAXON, WILLIAM, journalist, public 
official, was born April 27, 1822, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. He was one of the editors and 
proprietors of the Hartford Courant; and 
in 1856 established the Hartford Press, the 
first republican paper in Connecticut. He 
was chief clerk of the navy department 
from 1861 to 1866; and assistant secretary 
of the navy from 1866 to 1869. 


FAY, AMY, musician, author, was born 
in 1844, in Louisiana. She is a Chicago 
musician; and the author of Music Study 
in Germany. 


FAY. EDWARD ALLEN, educator, au¬ 
thor was born Nov. 22, 1843, in Morris¬ 
town, N. J. He has been prominent in 
educational work, and was editor of 
American Annals of the Deaf. He is the 
author of Concordance of the Divina 
Commedia, and other works. 

FAY, FRANCIS BALL, merchant, state 
senator, congressman, was born June 12, 
1793, in’ Southborough, Mass. He was a 
member of the Massachusetts senate in 
1842 and 1845; mayor of Chelsea in 1S57; 
and was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1852 to 1853. He died 
Oct. 6, 1876, in South Lancaster, Mass. 

FAY, FRANKLIN BRIGHAM, state 
senator, was born Jan. 24, 1821, in South- 
boro, Mass. In 1851 he was a member of 
the Massachusetts state legislature; and 
in 1867 served with distinction as a state 
senator. During 1861-63 he was mayor of 
Chelsea, Mass. 

FAY, GEORGE H., soldier, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born Feb. 24, 1842, in 
Hudson. N. H. During 1861-65 he served 
as a soldier in the civil war and became 
captain of the Lnited States volunteers. 
He was a member of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives of the constitutional conven¬ 
tion of North Dakota in 1891; and has 
been state’s attorney and county judge of 
McIntosh county, N. D. 

FAY, JAMES A., lawyer, jurist, was 
born May 10, 1813, in Northampton, N. Y. 
In 1867 he was appointed judge of the 
criminal court. He died April 9, 1876. 

FAY, JOHN, congressman, was born in 
Worcester county, Mass. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1819 to 1821. 

FAY, JONAS, surgeon, jurist, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 17, 1737, in Hard¬ 
wick, Mass. He was author of the declar¬ 
ation submitted to congress. He was sec¬ 
retary of the state constitutional conven¬ 
tion of that year, and a member of the 
council of safety; and a member of the 
state council from 1778 to 1785. He was 
judge of the supreme court in 1782; judge 
of probate from 1772 to 1787; and agent 
of the state to congress in 1777, 1779, 1781, 
and 1782. He died March 6, 1818, in Ben¬ 
nington, Vt. 

FAY, JOSEPH STORY, merchant, farm¬ 
er, was born Dec. 8, 1812, in Cambridge, 
Mass. He was a successful merchant of 
Savannah, Ga., and for over forty years 
has been a farmer at Woods Holl, Mass. 
He has reclaimed by cultivating several 
hundred acres of land into a magnificent 
forest of pine trees; and is a member of 
the American forestry congress. 


c. 


FAY, ORLIN PRENTICE, soldier, gen¬ 
ealogist, was born Sept. 13, 1820, in 
Plattsburgh, N. Y. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Frank¬ 
lin academy of his 
native city. He was 
a soldier in the 
union army during 
^ the civil war; and is 
^ n o w a pensioner. 

For many years he 
?'ifiwTv H? has been a band 

teacher at Vermont- 
ville, Mich. He has 
been county and 
state deputy grand 
worthy chief Templar 
of New York state; and has filled nu¬ 
merous other positions of trust. For sev¬ 
eral years he has been engaged on a Gen¬ 
ealogy of the Fay Family, which will be 
published in 1898. 




and Reveries of 


FAY THEODORE SEDGEWICK. jour¬ 
nalist, diplomat, author, was born Feb. 10, 
1807 in New York. He is a writer who 
belongs to the gen¬ 
eration of literary 
New Yorkers which 
included Halleck, 
Willis, and Bryant. 
He was secretary of 
legation at Berlin, 
1837-53, minister to 
Switzerland 1853-61. 
He has since lived in 
Berlin. The novel 
Norman Leslie is his 
best known work. 
Others are, Dreams 

_ _ a Quiet Man; The 

Minute Book, a record of travel; Coun¬ 
tess Ida; Hoboken, a romance of New 
York; Sidney Clifton; Robert Rueful; Ul- 
ric a volume of verse; Views of Christi¬ 
anity; Great Outlines of Geography; His¬ 
tory of Switzerland; and History of the 
Three Germanys. 

FAYERWEATHER, LUCY, philanthro¬ 
pist. She attained note as a philanthro¬ 
pist. She died in 1892. 

FE4.RING, BENJAMIN DANA, soldier, 
was born Oct. 10, 1837, in Harmar, Ohio. 
In 1862 he was made lieutenant-colonel of 
the ninety - second 
Ohio, which he had 
assisted in raising, 
and was promoted to 
colonel in 1863. He 
defended Hoover’s 
Gap at the head of 
three regiments, and 
distinguished him¬ 
self at Chickamauga, 
where he was severe¬ 
ly wounded. He was 
brevetted brigadier- 
general of volun¬ 
teers; and commanded a brigade in Sher¬ 
man’s march to the sea. He died Dec. 
9, 1881, in Harmar, Ohio. 

FEARING, DANIEL BUTLER, capital¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 14, 1859, in Newport, 
R. I. He has been school commissioner 
and alderman of Newport, R. I.; was 
elected mayor in 1893; and is a director 
of the National Bank of Rhode Island. 

FEARING, LILLIEN B„ lawyer, poet. 
She is the author of The Sleepy World 
and Other Poems; In the City by the 
Lake; and Roberta. 

FEARING, PAUL, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 28, 1762, in 
Wareham, Mass. He was appointed 
United States attorney for Washington 
county, Ohio territory; and in 1797 was 
appointed judge of probate for his county. 
He was a member of the first legislative 



chosen a delegate to congress, serving un¬ 
til 1803. In 1814 he was appointed master 
commissioner in chancery, and from 1810 
to 1817 was judge in one of the state 
courts. He died Aug. 21, 1822. 

FEARX, WALTER, soldier, lawyer, dip¬ 
lomat, was born Jan. 13, 1832, in Hunts¬ 
ville, Ala. He went as secretary to the 
United States minister to Belgium; and 
in 1856 was appointed secretary of the le¬ 
gation of the United States at Mexico. 
He was professor of Spanish and Italian 
in the university of Louisiana, when, in 
1885, he was appointed United States min¬ 
ister resident and consul general to 
Greece, Roumania, and Servia. 

FEASTER, THOMAS J., physician, 
banker, state legislator, was born Oct. 12, 
1860, in Warsaw, Mo. He is a successful 
physician and banker of China Springs, 
Mo.; and has served with distinction as a 
representative in the thirty-ninth general 
assembly of Missouri. 











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FEATHERSTON, LEWIS PORTER, 
planter, congressman, was born July 28, 
1851, in Oxford, Miss. He removed to St. 
Francis county. Ark., where he engaged 
in planting. He was elected to the state 
house of representatives in 1886 for the 
term of 1887-88. He was elected to con¬ 
gress it? 1888, but counted out; contested 
and was seated March 5, 1890. 

FEATHERSTON, WINFIELD SCOTT, 
soldier, congressman, was born Aug. 8, 
1821, in Rutherford county, Tenn. He was 
elected to congress as a democrat, and 
served in 1847-51, but was defeated for a 
third term by the union candidate. He 
took part in the rebellion of 1861-65 as a 
brigadier-general. 

FEBIGER, CHRISTIAN, soldier, was 
born in 1746, in Denmark. He served in 
the revolutionary war, retiring from ac¬ 
tive service Jan. 1, 1783, and was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general in the following 
September. He died Sept. 20, 1796, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

FEBIGER, JOHN CARSON, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born Feb. 14, 1821, in Pittsburg. 
Pa. He served in the United States navy 
during the civil war; attained the rank 
of commodore; and in 1882 he was made 
rear admiral in the United States navy. 

FECHTER, CHARLES ALBERT, actor, 
was born Oct. 23, 1824, in London, Eng¬ 
land. He came to New York and appeared 
for the first time on the American stage 
at Niblo’s garden in 1870, as Ruy Bias. 
The last part which he created was Karl 
in Lover’s Penance, produced at the Park 
theater in 1874. He died Aug. 5, 1879. 

FEEHAN, PATRICK A., Roman catho¬ 
lic archbishop, was born in 1829, in Ire¬ 
land. He acquired great reputation as 
pastor of the Church of the Immaculate 
Conception in St. Louis, and in 1865 was 
consecrated bishop of Nashville, Tenn.; 
and is now archbishop of Chicago. 

FEGELY, WILLIAM OLIVER, clergy¬ 
man, poet, was born Jan. 8, 1867, in Brein- 
igsville, Pa. After receiving his educa¬ 
tion at the Keystone Normal school of 
Kutztown, Pa., he taught school. In 1887 
he entered Muhlenberg college of Allen¬ 
town and graduated in 1890. He then 
studied theology at the Lutheran Theo¬ 
logical seminary; and has since attained 
success as a clergyman. His poems have 
been given a place in several standard 
works. 

FEGLEY, HARRY WINSLOW, educa¬ 
tor, librarian, was born July 2, 1871, in 
Hereford, Pa. He attended Ursinus and 
Eastman colleges; taught school for sev¬ 
eral years; and was elected president of the 
Hereford Literary society, the oldest so¬ 
ciety of its kind in eastern Pennsylvania, 
and which office he still fills, being also 
its librarian. 

FEHR, FRANK, brewer, was born 
March 3, 1844, in Germany. He founded 
the firm of Brohm and Fehr of Louis¬ 
ville, Ky.; soon became sole proprietor, 
and so continued until the firm was in¬ 
corporated in 1890, when he generously 
admitted to partnership every man who 
had been with him five years. He died 
March 15, 1891. 

FEHR, HERMAN, lawyer, was born 
Feb. 27, 1865, in Milwaukee, Wis. Since 
1886 he has been engaged in the practice 
of law in his native city, and has achieved 
eminence at the bar. 

FEHR, JULIUS, physician, pharmacist, 
was born March 29, 1825, in Germany. 
After experimenting for several years, he 
succeeded in perfecting his celebrated 
preparation of compound talcum. From 
a small beginning in 1873, the manufac¬ 


ture of Fehr's compound talcum grew to 
be a large and increasing business, extend¬ 
ing not only through the United States, 
but to foreign lands. 

FEININGER, CHARLES WILLIAM 
FREDERICK, composer, was born July 
31, 1844, in Germany. He has written 
symphonies and overtures for orchestra 
and operetta choruses and songs. 

FELCH, ALPHEUS, lawyer, jurist, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born 
Sept. 28, 1806, in Limerick, Maine. He 
was a member of the 
Michigan state legis¬ 
lature in 1836 and 
1837; was appointed 
bank commissioner 
of Michigan in 1838, 
and resigned in 1839; 
for a short time in 
1842 was auditor 
general of the state, 
but relinquished that 
position for a seat on 
the bench of the su¬ 
preme court of Mich¬ 
igan. In 1845 he was elected governor; 
resigned in 1847, and was elected a sen¬ 
ator in congress for six years; and was a 
delegate to the Chicago convention of 
1864. For many years he was professor 
of law in the university of Michigan. 

FELCH, WILL FARRAND. author, 
poet, was born in Columbus, Ohio. He 
has written several works of fiction, a few 
dramas, and a volume of poems entitled 
Legends and Lyrics. 

FELDER, JOHN MYERS, soldier, law¬ 
yer. congressman, was born July 7, 1782, 
in Orangeburg, S. C. He was a member 
of the state assembly in 1812, and subse¬ 
quently of the senate. He was a trustee 
of South Carolina college; served as a 
major of militia; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from South Carolina from 
1831 to 1835. He died Sept. 1, 1851, in 
Union Point, Ga. 

FELKER, CHARLES W„ soldier, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, was born Nov. 25, 1834, in 
Penn Yan, N. Y. He received a liberal 
education, and attended the Brockport 
Collegiate institute. During the civil war 
he served gallantly as captain of the for¬ 
ty-eighth regiment Wisconsin volunteer 
infantry. Since 1875 he has been actively 
engaged in the profession of law at Osh¬ 
kosh, Wis. He has served as postmaster 
of his city; as alderman; and as superin¬ 
tendent of schools. 

FELL, GEORGE E., physician, surgeon, 
was born July 10, 1849, in Chippewa, On¬ 
tario, Canada. He has been professor of 
physiology and microscopy in the univer¬ 
sity of Niagara. He was the first to prac¬ 
tically demonstrate the value of forced 
respiration in saving human life. 

FELL, JOHN, congressman. He was a 
delegate from New Jersey to the conti¬ 
nental congress from 1778 to 1780. 

FELL, THOMAS, clergyman, college 
president, was born July 15, 1851, in Liv¬ 
erpool, England. He is best known as the 
honored president of the St. John’s col¬ 
lege of Annapolis, Md. 

FELLOWS, ISAIAH, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Aug. 20, 1860, in England. In 1S68 
he emigrated with his parents to Ameri¬ 
ca, and has since lived in Cohoes, N. Y. 
In 1891 he was elected school commission¬ 
er; and the same year was appointed a 
member of the hospital commission. In 
1896 he was appointed for a term of four 
years judge of the recorder’s court of 
his city, with criminal jurisdiction. He 
has a large practice in railroad and life 
insurance litigation. 


FELLOWS, JOHN, soldier, was born in 
1733, in Pomfret, Conn. He served in the 
French and Indian war; and wap a mem¬ 
ber of the Massachusetts provincial con¬ 
gress in 1775. He died Aug. 1, 1808, in 
Sheffield, Mass. 

FELLOWS, JOHN, author, was born in 
1760, in Sheffield, Mass. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Veil Removed; and Mysteries 
of Free Masonry. He died in 1844. 

FELLOWS, JOHN R., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 29, 1832, in 
Troy, N. Y. He settled in Arkansas, 
and was elected to the state senate. He 
removed to New York city in 1868; was 
appointed assistant district attorney in 
1869; and was elected district attorney in 
1887. He was elected to the fifty-second 
congress as a democrat. 

FELLOWS, SAMUEL M., college presi¬ 
dent, was born Nov. 23, 1818, in North 
Sandwich, N. H. In 1859 he was elected 
president of Cornell college of Mt. Ver¬ 
non, Iowa, serving until 1863. He died 
June 26, 1863. 

FELT, DAVID P., journalist, was born 
Aug. 7, 1860, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He 
is prominent in the newspaper world, and 
is editor and owner of the Independent of 
fepringville, L tah. In 1897 he was elected 
president of the Utah Press association. 

FELT, JOSEPH BARLOW, clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 22, 1789, in Salem, 
Mass. He was a congregational minister 
of Massachusetts who, after retiring from 
the ministry, devoted himself to anti¬ 
quarian research at Salem. He was the 
author of Annals of Salem; History of 
Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton; Histori¬ 
cal Account of Massachusetts Currency- 
Memoirs of Hugh Peters; The Customs of 
New England; and Ecclesiastical History 
of New England. He died in 1869. 

FELTON, CHARLES N., public official, 
congressman, was born in 1832, in Erie 
county, N. Y. He was under-sheriff of 
Yuba county, Cal., in 1857; was elected 
tax collector of that county; and served 
two terms as a representative in the Cali¬ 
fornia legislature. He served as officer 
of the United States mint at San Fran¬ 
cisco for six years, a part of the time as 
assistant treasurer, and the remainder as 
treasurer of the mint. In 1884 he was 
elected a representative from California 
to the forty-ninth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the fiftieth as a republican; and 
in 1891-93 served as United States senator 
to fill a vacancy. 

FELTON, CORNELIUS CONWAY, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Nov. 6, 1807, in 
West Newbury, Mass. He was a Greek 
scholar of eminence 
who was president of 
Harvard college in 
1860-62. Besides his 
many translations 
from the Greek, 
among which The 
Clouds and The 
Birds of Aristo¬ 
phanes are the most 
noteworthy, he pub¬ 
lished Selections 
from Modern Greek 
Writers, with Notes; 
Familiar Letters from Europe; and 
Greece, Ancient and Modern. He died 
Feb. 26, 1862, in Chester, Pa. 

FELTON, JOHN BROOKS, lawyer, was 
born in 1827, in Sangus, Mass. He was 
mayor of Oakland, where he lived; and 
was for many years a regent of the uni¬ 
versity of California, of which he was one 
of the founders. He died May 3, 1877, in 
Oakland, Cal. 





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FELTON SAMUEL MORSE, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born July 17, 1809, in New¬ 
bury, Mass. He became superintendent 
and engineer of the Fitchburg railroad in 
1843, and left it in 1851 to become the 
president of the Philadelphia, Wilming¬ 
ton and Baltimore road, where he re¬ 
mained until 1865. He died Jan. 24, 1889, 
in Harvard, Pa. 

FELTON, SAMUEL MORSE, railroad 
president, was born Feb. 3, 1853, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is president of the Cin¬ 
cinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific 
railway. 

FENDALL, JOSIAS, governor, was born 
in England. In 1657 he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Maryland, serving until 1660. 

FENN F. M. O., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Nov. 9, I860, in Fort Bend county, 
Texas. He attended the Roanoke college, 
Virginia, and the university of Virginia; 
and is the holder of the orator's medal 
from both institutions. He has attained 
success as an able lawyer of Richmond 
Texas, where he has always taken great 
interest in the public affairs of his county 
and state. In 1895 he was appointed 
special judge for Fort Bend county, Tex., 
by Governor C. A. Culberson; but he de¬ 
clined to serve in that office, preferring to 
give his large legal practice the benefit 
of his time and ability. 

FENN, HARRY, artist, was born Sept. 
14, 1838,’ in Surrey, England. He has 
achieved great success as an illustiatoi of 
books. Some of his best work is con¬ 
tained in Picturesque America, Pictur¬ 
esque Europe, and Picturesque Palestine. 

FENN, STEPHEN S., farmer, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 28, 1820, 
in Watertown, Conn. He was a member 
of the legislative council of Idaho in 1864 
and 1865; district attorney in 1869; and 
again in the assembly in 1872, and seived 
as speaker of the house of representa¬ 
tives He was elected a delegate from 
Idaho to the forty-fourth congress; and 
re-elected to the forty-fifth congress. 

FENNER, ARTHUR, governor, was 
born in 1745, in Providence, R. I. He was 
clerk of the superior court of the state; 
and was chosen governor in 1789, and 
served until his death. He died Oct. 15, 
1805, in Providence, R. I. 

FENNER, CORNELIUS GEORGE, cler¬ 
gyman, poet, was born Dec. 30, 1822,^ in 
Providence, R. I. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman at one time in charge of a 
church at Cincinnati; and the author of 
Poems of Many Moods. He died Jan. 4, 
1847, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

FENNER, JAMES, governor, United 
States senator, was born in 1771, in Prov¬ 
idence R. I* He was United States sena¬ 
tor from 1805 to 1807, when he was 
elected governor of Rhode Island, which 
office he held for four years. He was again 
elected in 1824, and served seven years; 
and was again elected in 1844. He was a 
presidential elector in 1821, 1827, and 1837; 
and was president of the convention that 
framed the state constitution in 1842. He 
died April 17, 1846, in Providence, R. I. 

FENNER, MRS. MARY GALENTINE, 
poet, was born May 17, 1839, in Rush, N. 
Y. She has written extensively both prose 
and verse for current publications; and 
is the author of a volume of Poems. 

FENNO, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, actor, 
was born March 1, 1814, in Boston, Mass. 
He appeared in Philadelphia in 1848, at 
the Arch Street theater, as Romeo; visited 
California in 1850, and went to England 
in 1864. He died Feb. 14, 1873, in New 
York city. 


FENTON, LUCIEN J., banker, congress¬ 
man, was born May 7, 1844, in Winchester, 
Ohio. He was superintendent of public 
schools in Ohio for a 
number of years, 
serving a portion of 
the time as one of 
the school examiners 
for Adams county; 
and was awarded a 
high-school life cer¬ 
tificate by the Ohio 
state board of school 
examiners in 1878. 
He organized the 
Winchester bank in 
1884, and still retains 
connection therewith. He was appointed 
a trustee of the Ohio university by Gov¬ 
ernor McKinley in 1892; and was elected 
to the fifty-fourth, and re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

FENTON, REUBEN EATON, congress¬ 
man governor. United States senator, was 
born July 1, 1819, in Carroll, N. Y. He 
was elected a representative in the thirty- 
third and thirty-fifth congresses from 
New York; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, and thirty- 
eighth congresses. He resigned to accept 
the governorship of New York for 1865 
and 1866, to which he had been elected; 
and was re-elected to the same position 
in 1869. He was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress for the term ending in 1875. He died 
Aug. 25, 1885, in Jamestown, N. Y. 

FENTON WILLIAM MATTHEW, law¬ 
yer, was born Dec. 19, 1808, in Norwich, 
N. Y. In 1848 he was elected lieutenant- 
governor of Michigan, and re-elected in 
1850 and 1851. He died May 13, 1871, in 
Flint, Mich. 

FENWICK, BENEDICT JOSEPH, 
bishop, was born Sept. 3, 1782, in Leonard- 
town, Md. In 1817 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of Georgetown college; and was at 
the same time rector of Trinity college. 
In 1825 he was appointed second Ro¬ 
man catholic bishop of Boston. He died 
Aug. 11, 1846, in Boston, Mass. 

FENWICK, CUTHBERT, was born in 
England. He sat in the assembly of 1648, 
and in several others. He was speaker 
of the house of burgesses when it sat 
separate from the council in 1649. He 
died in 1655, in Fenwick Manor, Md. 

FENWICK, EDWARD D., Roman cath¬ 
olic bishop, was born in 1768, in St. Mary’s 
county, Md. In 1805 Father Fenwick 
traversed the entire valley of the Missis¬ 
sippi on a tour of observation with the 
view of finding a suitable center for his 
missionary labors. He selected a farm 
in Kentucky, paid for it out of his pri¬ 
vate fortune, and in the spring of 1806 
built on it the Dominican convent of St. 
Rose of Lima. He died Sept. 26, 1832, in 
Wooster, Ohio. 

FENWICK, JOHN R., soldier, was born 
in 1780, in Charleston, S. C. He was 
appointed lieutenant of United States ma¬ 
rines in 1799. He was commissioned 
colonel of the fourth artillery in 1822, 
and brevet brigadier-general in 1823. He 
died March 19, 1842, in France. 

FERDON, JOHN W., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in 1828, in 
Piermont, N. Y. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the state legislature in 1855; a 
state senator in 1856 and 1857; and dele¬ 
gate to the republican national conven¬ 
tions of 1864 and 1876. He was elected a 
representative from New York to the 
forty-sixth congress as a republican. He 
died Aug. 6, 1884. 


FERGUSON, BENJAMIN H. S., clergy¬ 
man, was born July 14, 1861, in Pickens- 
ville Ala. He received his education at 
the Rust university of Holly Springs. 
Miss., and subsequently received the de¬ 
gree of LL. D. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as a clergyman in the methodist epis¬ 
copal church; and has been pastor in vari¬ 
ous cities in the Upper Mississippi con¬ 
ference. 

FERGUSON, ELIZABETH, poet, was 

born in 1739 in Philadelphia, Pa. She was a 

writer of poems and a translator of 
French verse. She died Feb. 23, 1801, in 
Graeme Park, Pa. 

FERGUSON, EMORY C., contractor, 
miner, legislator, was born March 5, 1833, 
in Westchester county, N. Y. He moved 
to San Francisco in 1854, arriving there 
one year later. He engaged in mining 
and mercantile business, but subsequent- 
ly settled in Washington, where he be¬ 
came a successful carpenter and builder. 
In 1864 he was elected to the territorial 
legislature, has since served seven ses¬ 
sions, and was speaker of the house for 
one term. In 1884-85 he was a commis¬ 
sioner to the cotton centennial exposition 
held in New Orleans. He has been mayor 
of the city of Snohomish for six terms, 
and is now engaged in quartz mining. 

FERGUSON, FENNER, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 25, 1814, in 
Nassau, N. Y. He was master in chan¬ 
cery in Albany, N. Y., in 1844; also mas¬ 
ter in chancery in Michigan, and a mem¬ 
ber of the Michigan legislature, and pros¬ 
ecuting attorney. In 1854 he was appoint¬ 
ed chief justice of the territory of Ne¬ 
braska, which office he resigned, ^er be¬ 
ing elected a delegate to the thirty-fifth 
congress from that territory. He died in 
November, 1859, in Bellevue, Nebraska 
territory. 

FERGUSON, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, 
W as born Dec. 1, 1846, in Butler county, 
Ky He has attained success as one of the 
leading lawyers of Texas, where he has 
a large practice in Denton. 

FERGUSON, JAMES, civil engineer, 
astronomer, was born Aug. 31, 1797, in 
Scotland. He has been a valued contrib¬ 
utor to discoveries in astronomy and an 
assistant in determining the boundary 
of the United States. He died Sept. 26, 
1867. 

FERGUSON, SAMUEL DAVID, bishop, 
was born Jan. 1, 1842, in Charleston, S. C. 
In 1885 he came to the United States, and 
was consecrated in Grace church, New 
York city, in 1885. Soon afterward he re¬ 
turned to Cape Palmas, Liberia, and en¬ 
tered upon the duties of his office. 

FERGUSSON, H. B., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 9, 1848, in Alabama. 
He belongs to a family that settled in the 
south in colonial days, several members of 
which distinguished themselves in the 
civil and military offices of the colonies 
and later in the service of the young re¬ 
public; his father was an officer in the 
confederate army, and did excellent serv¬ 
ice under Gen. Lee until the close of the 
struggle; graduated from the Washington 
and Lee university, Lexington, Va., with 
the degree of M. A., in 1873. He graduated 
from the law department of that univer¬ 
sity in 1874, and commenced the practice 
of his profession at Wheeling, W. Va., 
where he remained until the year 1882. 
In 1884 he located in Albuquerque, N. M., 
where he has since successfully practiced 
his profession. He was elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a democrat. 








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FERNALD, BENJAMIN F., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born July 10, 1841, in Exeter, 
Maine. For many years he was super¬ 
intendent of schools in his native state; 
has been trial justice; justice of the 
peace; and filled various other positions 
of honor in his native state. He has con¬ 
tributed both prose and verse to the 
periodical press. 

FERNALD, CHARLES HENRY, natur¬ 
alist, author, was born March 16, 1838, 
in Mount Desert, Maine. He is a natur¬ 
alist who has been professor of zoology at 
Massachusetts Agricultural college since 
1886; and is the author of Tortricidse of 
North America; Butterflies of Maine; 
Grasses of Maine; and Sphingidse of New 
England. 

FERNALD, CHESTER BAILEY, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1&68. He is a litterateur 
of San Francisco; and the author of 
The Cat and the Cherub, and Other 
Stories. 

FERNALD, JAMES CHAMPLIN, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1838 in Maine. He is 
the author of The Economics of Prohibi¬ 
tion; and The New Womanhood. 

FERNALD, MERRITT CALDWELL, 
educator, was born May 25, 1838, in South 
Levant, Maine. He has attained success 
as a noted educator. 

FERREL, WILLIAM, meteorologist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1817 in Pennsylvania. 
He was a distinguished meteorologist em¬ 
ployed at various times in the coast sur¬ 
vey and the signal service. He was the 
author of Recent Advances in Meteorol¬ 
ogy; Popular Treatise on the Winds; 
and Motions of Fluids and Solids on the 
Earth’s Surface. He died in 1891. 

FERRELL, THOMAS M., state senator, 
congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1844, in 
Glassboro, N. J. He was a member of the 
state assembly in 1879 and 1880; a state 
senator in 1881; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New Jersey to the forty- 
eighth congress as a democrat. 

FERRIN, CHESTER M., soldier, physi¬ 
cian, was born Sept. 27, 1837, in Holland, 
Vt. He has filled the positions of school 
trustee, superintendent of schools, com¬ 
missioner of insane for the state of Ver¬ 
mont, and for thirty years has been sec¬ 
retary of the Eighth Vermont Regiment 
association. He served three years in the 
civil war, and is now commander of Sher¬ 
man post, Grand Army of the Republic, at 
Essex, Vt. He has been successfully en¬ 
gaged in the practice of medicine since 
1865, and since 1872 at Essex Junction, 
Vt. In 1897 he was elected a member of 
the Vermont state legislature. 

FERRIS, A. F., banker, state legislator, 
was born in 1865 in Perrysburg, N. Y. In 
1872 he moved to Minnesota, where he is 
president of the First National bank of 
Brainerd. In 1891 he was secretary of 
the game and fish commission, and vice- 
president of the Brainerd board of trade. 
He has also served two terms as a member 
of the state legislature. 

FERRIS, BENJAMIN, author. He was 
a watchmaker, lived for many years in 
Philadelphia, and was clerk of the Phila¬ 
delphia meeting of Friends. He published 
History of the Early Settlements on the 
Delaware, from its Discovery to the Col¬ 
onization under William Penn. He died 
in 1867 in Wilmington, Del. 

FERRIS, CHARLES G., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1841 to 1843. 

FERRIS, GEORGE TITUS, author. He 
was the author of Great German Compo¬ 
sers; Great Italian and French Compo¬ 
sers; Great Singers; Great Violinists 
and Pianists; and Great Leaders. 


FERRIS, GEORGE W., civil engineer, 
inventor, was born in 1858. He was the 
inventor of the Ferris wheel that was the 
wonder of engineering at the world’s fair 
in Chicago. He died of typhoid fever Nov. 
22, 1896, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

FERRIS, ISAAC, clergyman, was born 
Oct. 9, 1798, in New York city. He set¬ 
tled in Albany in 1824-36, and at the Mar¬ 
ket street church, New York, in 1836-53. 

FERRIS, JOHN CHARLES, horticul¬ 
turist, author, lecturer, was born Jan. 2, 
1835, in Chenango Forks, N. Y. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the common 
schools of New York and Illinois. He 
served as a member in the third territor¬ 
ial legislature of Wyoming. He served for 
over three years in the civil war, and is 
the present commander of the J. W. Mc- 
Kinzie post number 81, Grand Army of 
the Republic, department of Iowa. For 
three terms he was president of the 
Northern Iowa Horticultural society, and 
is now connected with the Iowa State Hor¬ 
ticultural society. He has written exten¬ 
sively on subjects of horticulture and has 
lectured on that and kindred topics. 

FERRIS, JOHN MASON, clergyman, 
was born Jan. 17, 1825, in Albany, N. Y. 
He became editor of the Christian Intelli¬ 
gencer in 1883, and treasurer of the for¬ 
eign mission board in 1886. He is the 
author of a History of Foreign Missions. 

FERRISS, ORANGE, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1814, in 
Glens Falls, N. Y. He was appointed sur¬ 
rogate of his county for four years; in 
1851 was elected, under the new consti¬ 
tution, judge of Warren county, and twice 
re-elected, holding the oflice twelve years 
in all. In 1866 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the fortieth 
congress, and was re-elected to the forty- 
first congress. In 1880 he was appointed 
second auditor of the United States treas¬ 
ury. 

FERRY, DEXTER MASON, seedsman, 
was born Aug. 8, 1833, in Lowville, N. Y. 
He organized the firm of D. M. Ferry and 
Co. in 1867. In 1879 the house was in¬ 
corporated with Mr. Ferry as president. 
He is also president of the First National 
bank, the Union Trust company, the 
American Harrow company, the American 
Blower company, the National Pin com¬ 
pany, and other corporations. 

FERRY, ELISHA P., governor, was 
born Aug. 9, 1825, in Monroe, Mich. He 
resided at Waukegan until 1869, when he 
removed to the territory of Washington. 
In 1872 he was appointed governor of the 
territory, and reappointed in 1876, serving 
until 1880; and was elected again in 1889. 

FERRY, ORRIS SANFORD, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States 
senator, was born Aug. 15, 1823, in Bethel, 
Conn. In 1849 he was appointed judge of 
probate for the district of Norwalk, and 
was elected to the state senate in 1855 and 
1856. In 1856 he was appointed state’s at¬ 
torney for the county of Fairfield, which 
position he continued to fill until 1859, 
when he was elected a representative to 
the thirty-sixth congress from Connecti¬ 
cut. He served with distinction as a col¬ 
onel and brigadier-general in the war for 
the union. In 1866 he was elected a sena¬ 
tor in congress for the term commencing 
March, 1867, and ending in 1873. He was 
a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists’ 
convention of 1866 and to the soldiers’ 
convention, held at Pittsburg in 1872. He 
was re-elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate for six years, for a second full term. 
He died Nov. 21, 1875, in South Norwalk, 
Conn. 


FERRY, THOMAS WHITE, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born June 
1, 1827, in Mackinaw, Mich. He was elect¬ 
ed to the state legis¬ 
lature and to the 
state senate in 1856. 
In 1864 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative 
from Michigan to the 
thirty - ninth con¬ 
gress; was re-elected 
to the fortieth, forty- 
first and forty-sec¬ 
ond congresses, but 
did not take his seat 
in the latter, as he 
was chosen a sena¬ 
tor in congress for the term ending in 
1877, and was re-elected senator for the 
term ending in 1883. 

FERRY, WILLIAM MONTAGUE, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Sept. 8, 1796, in Granby, 
Mass. In 1834 he purchased, with others, 
a tract of land in the Grand river valley, 
where he founded a settlement and went 
extensively into the manufacture of lum¬ 
ber. He died Dec. 30, 1867, in Grand Ha¬ 
ven, Mich. 

FESS, SIMEON DAVIDSON, educator, 
lecturer, author, was born Dec. 11, 1861, 
in Lima, Ohio. He is favorably known 
as a popular lecturer. He is the author of 
A Compendium of United States History, 
and Outlines of Physiology and Hygiene. 

FESSENDEN, FRANCIS, lawyer, sol¬ 
dier, was born March 18, 1839, in Portland, 
Maine. He served with distinction 
through the civil war, and was bre- 
vetted major-general. He was subse¬ 
quently appointed secretary of the treas¬ 
ury, and now practices his profession of 
law in Portland, Maine. 

FESSENDEN, SAMUEL, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born in Rockland, Maine. He 
was appointed second lieutenant in the 
fifth Maine battery, Jan. 18, 1865. He is 
a lawyer and politician in Stamford, Conn. 

FESSENDEN, SAMUEL, lawyer, phil¬ 
anthropist, was born July 16, 1784, in 
Fryeburg, Maine. In 1815-16 he was in the 
general court of Massachusetts, and in 
1818-19 represented his district in the 
Massachusetts senate. For fourteen years 
he was major-general of the twelfth divi¬ 
sion of Massachusetts militia. He died 
March 13, 1869, in Portland, Maine. 

FESSENDEN, SAMUEL CLEMENT, 
clergyman, lawyer, congressman, was 
born March 7, 1815, in New Gloucester, 
Maine. In 1856 he established the Maine 
Evangelist; in 1858 entered upon the 
practice of law; and soon after was elect¬ 
ed judge of the municipal court of Rock¬ 
land. He was elected a representative 
from Maine to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. In 1865 he was appointed a mem¬ 
ber of the board of examiners of the pat¬ 
ent office. 

FESSENDEN, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1739 in Cambridge, 
Mass. He became pastor in Walpole, N. 
IT., which charge he held from 1767 till 
1813. He was author of The Science of 
Sanctity, and The Boston Self-Styled Gen- 
tlemen-Reviewers Reviewed. He died in 
1813. 

FESSENDEN, THOMAS AMORY DE- 
BLQISE, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Jan. 23, 1826, in Portland, Maine. In 1858 
he was appointed aide-de-camp to the gov¬ 
ernor of Maine. In 1860 he was elected 
to the Maine legislature, and in 1861 was 
chosen attorney for the county of Andros¬ 
coggin, which position he held until 1862, 
when he was elected a representative from 
Maine to the thirty-seventh congress to 
fill a vacancy. He died Sept. 28, 1868, in 
Lewiston, Maine. 




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FESSENDEN, THOMAS GREEN, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born April 22, 1771, in 
Walpole, N. H. He was an agricultural 
writer of Boston who edited the New Eng¬ 
land Farmer and similar journals, hut in 
earlier life won considerable attention as 
a satirical poet under the name of Chris- 
tonher Caustic. He was the author of 
Country Lovers and the Terrible Tracto- 
ration; poems by which he is re¬ 
membered. He published Original Poems; 
The Ladies’ Monitor; American Clerk’s 
Companion; Democracy Unveiled; Pills, 
Poetical, Political, and Philosophical; 
and Laws of Patents for New Inventions. 
He died Nov. 11, 1837, in Boston, Mass. 

FESSENDEN, WILLIAM PITT, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Oct. 16, 1806, in Boscawen, N. H. 

He was a member of 
the Maine legislature 
in 1832 and in 1840; 
was a representative 
in congress from 
1841 to 1843, declin¬ 
ing further service; 
and was again in the 
state legislature in 
1845 and 1846, and in 
1853 and 1854. He 
was elected a senator 
in congress for six 
years, from 1853; 
and in 1859 was re-elected for the term of 
six years. In 1864 he was elected a sena¬ 
tor in congress for the term 1865-71. He 
died Sept. 8, 1870, in Portland, Maine. 

FESSENGER, JOHN G., physician, sci¬ 
entist, inventor, was born Nov. 24, 1844, 
in Trenton, Ohio. He served as a union 
soldier during the civil war as first lieu¬ 
tenant, and was subsequently promoted to 
lieutenant-colonel. After the close of the 
war he graduated in medicine, and during 
1888-93 served as surgeon and physician in 
the United States service. He has pat¬ 
ented several articles of merit, and has 
taken a great interest in scientific sub¬ 
jects. 

FESSENLER, ORVILLE DAVID, mer¬ 
chant, legislator, was born April 11, 1865, 
in Boston, Mass. He is a successful mer¬ 
chant of Brookline, N. H.; has filled nu¬ 
merous public offices of trust, and served 
with distinction as a member of the New 
Hampshire legislature. 

FESTETITTS, MRS. KATE NEELY, 
author, was born in 1837 in Virginia. She 
is a writer of children’s books whose 
home has been in Washington since 1885. 
She is the author of Ellie Randolph; and 
A Year at Dangerfield. 

FETHERS, OGDEN HOFFMAN, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, was born Sept. 20, 1845, in 
Sharon, N. Y. In 1863 he graduated from 
the Fort Edward Collegiate institute, and 
subsequently received the degrees of A. 
M. and LL. D. For many years he was 
regent of the university of Wisconsin, and 
in 1889 was commissioner from Wisconsin 
to the celebration centennial of constitu¬ 
tional government. He has attained emi¬ 
nence as one of the foremost lawyers of 
Wisconsin, and is the senior member of 
the leading law firm of Janesville. 

FETTER, GEORGE W., educator, was 
born Jan. 22,1827, in Montgomery county, 
Pa. For eighteen years he taught gram¬ 
mar schools in Philadelphia, where he 
was in 1864 elected principal of the girls’ 
normal school. 

FETTEROLF, ADAM H., educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born Nov. 24, 1841, in 
Montgomery county, Pa. Since 1883 he 
has been president of Girard college of 
Philadelphia. 


FEUCHTWANGER, LEWIS, chemist, 
author, was born Jan. 11, 1805, in Bavaria. 
He was a noted chemist of New York city 
who came to America from Germany in 
1829. He was the author of Popular 
Treatise on Gems; Elements of Mineral¬ 
ogy; Treatise on Fermented Liquors; and 
Practical Treatise on Soluble or Water 
Glass. He died June 25, 1876, in New 
York city. 

FEW, IGNATIUS A., college president, 
was born April 11, 1789, in Georgia. He 
was elected to the presidency of Emory 
college in 1837, opened the new institu¬ 
tion in 1838, and resigned in 1839, because 
of failing health. He died Nov. 28, 1845, 
in Athens, Ga. 

FEW, WILLIAM, soldier, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
June 8, 1748, in Maryland. In 1778 he was 
surveyor-general of the state, and presid¬ 
ing judge of the Richmond county court. 
In 1780 he was sent as delegate to congress 
and was again appointed in 1786. In the 
next year he assisted in forming the na¬ 
tional constitution, which he duly signed. 
After its adoption he was elected a sen¬ 
ator in congress, serving from 1789 to 
1793. In 1796 he was a member of the 
convention which framed the constitution 
of the state of Georgia. He subsequently 
served upon the bench in the legislature 
of that state. During the latter years of 
his life he resided in the city of New 
York, of which he was mayor; and was 
elected to the legislature of New York. He 
also held the office of commissioner of 
loans. He died June 16, 1828, in Fishkill, 
N. Y. 

FEWKES, JESSE WALTER, ethnolo¬ 
gist, author, was born in 1850 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is an ethnologist of Boston 
who has written valuable professional 
monographs; and edited the Journal of 
American Ethnology and Archaeology. 

FEY, CONRAD, business man, state leg¬ 
islator, was born June 17, 1831, in Ger¬ 
many. In 1847 he settled in Detroit, Mich., 
and since 1862 has resided in East Sagi¬ 
naw, where he has been justice of the 
peace for eight years, and police justice 
seven years. In 1873-74 he served with 
distinction as a member of the Michigan 
state legislature. 

FICKEN, JOHN F., lawyer, legislator, 
was born June 16,1843, in Charleston, S. C. 
For six successive terms he served with 
distinction as a member of the state leg¬ 
islature of South Carolina; and was mayor 
of Charleston for one term of four years. 

FICKETT, FRED WILDON, lawyer, 
jurist, explorer, was born Aug. 29, 1867, in 
Dixmont, Maine. During 1882-85 he was 
in charge of the United States signal ser¬ 
vice stations in Southeast Alaska. In 
1895 he represented his department of the 
government on the famous Copper river 
expedition. For two years he served as 
judge of police court of Galveston, Texas. 

FICKLEN, JOHN ROSE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 14, 1858, in Falmouth, 
Va. He filled the chair of history and 
rhetoric in Tulane university for a num¬ 
ber of years, and in 1893 was appointed 
professor of history and political science 
in the same university. He has recently 
published A History of Louisiana, writ¬ 
ten with Miss Grace Elizabeth King as 
joint author. 

FICKLIN, JOSEPH, educator, author, 
was born Sept. 9, 1833, in Winchester, Ky. 
He is a professor of mathematics in the 
university of Missouri who has published 
The Complete Algebra; and Elements of 
Algebra, and a series of arithmetical text¬ 
books. 

FICKLIN, ORLANDO B., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1808 in Kentucky. 


In 1834 he was a member of the Illinois 
legislature, and was attorney for the Wa¬ 
bash circuit in 1835. In 1838 and in 1842 
he was again elected to the legislature. 
In 1843 he was elected a representative 
in congress from Illinois, serving six con¬ 
secutive years, and was again elected in 
1850. In 1853 he was colonel of militia, 
and in 1856 was a presidential elector. 

FIEDLER, WILLIAM FREDERICK, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 8, 1862, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. He has attained success 
as one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio 
at Cleveland; has been prosecuting at¬ 
torney and judge of the police court, and 
takes an active part in public affairs. 

FIEDLER, WILLIAM H. F., merchant, 
state legislator, congressman, wds born 
Aug. 25, 1847, in New York city. In 1877 
he was elected a representative in the 
state legislature, and was re-elected in 
1878. In 1879 he was elected mayor of 
Newark, serving two years. In 1882 he 
was, a third time, elected to the state as¬ 
sembly to fill a vacancy, and was elected 
a representative from New Jersey to the 
forty-eighth congress as a democrat. 

FIELD, AARON W. He is a noted law¬ 
yer of New Marlborough, Mass., and takes 
an active part in all public affairs. 

FIELD, ARCHELAUS G., physician, 
was born Nov. 15, 1829, in Ontario county, 
N. Y. He is an eminent physician and 
surgeon of Des Moines, Iowa. 

FIELD. BENJAMIN, state senator, was 
born June 12, 1816, in Dorset, Vt. In 1854- 
55 he was elected to the New York state 
senate, and in 1867 was a member of the 
constitutional convention. He died in 
August, 1876, in Albion, N. Y. 

FIELD, BENJAMIN HAZARD, philan¬ 
thropist, was born May 2, 1814, in Win¬ 
chester county, N. Y. He was president 
in 1886 of the Historical society, an in¬ 
corporator of the American museum of 
natural history, the Sheltering Arms, and 
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
to Children, and was president of the free 
circulating library and the eye and ear in¬ 
firmary. He died March 17, 1893, in New 
York city. 

FIELD, MRS. CAROLINE LESLIE 
WHITNEY, author, poet, was born in 
Massachusetts. She is a writer of Guil¬ 
ford, Conn., and the author of High 
Lights, a novel; The Unseen King, and 
Other Poems. 

FIELD, CYRUS WEST, merchant, cap¬ 
italist, was born Nov. 30, 1819, in Stock- 
bridge, Mass. He organized his first At¬ 
lantic Telegraph company in 1856, and 
in 1857-58, after repeated trials and fail¬ 
ures, was successful; and a message was 
sent from the queen and a reply transmit¬ 
ted from the president. He died April 9, 
1892, in Hudson, N. Y. 

FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY, clergyman, 
author, was born May 20, 1781, in Madi¬ 
son, Conn. He was a congregational cler¬ 
gyman of Stockbridge, Mass., and the au¬ 
thor of History of Pittsfield; Genealogy of 
the Brainerd Family; and Histories of 
the Counties of Berkshire and Middlesex. 
He died April 15, 1867, in Stockbridge, 
Mass. 

FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, author, was born Feb. 13, 1805, in 
Haddam, Conn. He studied law; was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced 
practice in New York city. In 1857 he 
was appointed, by the legislature, chair¬ 
man of a commission to prepare a new 
code of laws. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the forty- 
fourth congress to fill a vacancy. His 
Speeches and Miscellaneous Papers have 
been published in three volumes. He died 
in 1894. 




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FIELD, EUGENE, journalist, author, 
poet, was born in 1850 in Maine. He was 
a journalist and author of Chicago whose 
writing has received much undiscriminat¬ 
ing and damaging praise. He was the 
author of The Denver Tribune Primer; 
Culture’s Garland; A Little Book of Pro¬ 
fitable Tales; A Little Book of Western 
Verse; Second Book of Verse; Love Songs 
of Childhood; "With Trumpet and Drum 
(verse); Echoes from the Sabine Farm 
(with R. M. Field); Songs and Other 
Verse; A Second Book of Verse; and The 
Holy Cross, and Other Tales. He died in 
1895 in Chicago, Ill. 

FIELD, GEORGE WASHINGTON, law¬ 
yer, author. He was the author of Iowa 
County and Township Officers; Law of 
Damages; Private Corporations for Pe¬ 
cuniary Gain; Law of Private Corpora¬ 
tions; Constitution and Jurisdiction of 
United States Supreme Courts; Field's 
Lawyers’ Briefs; Field’s Medico-Legal 
Guide for Doctors and Lawyers; and 
Legal Relations of Infants in the State of 
New York. He died in 1889. 

FIELD, HENRY MARTYN, clergyman, 
author, was born April 3, 1822, in Stock- 
bridge, Mass. He is a congregational 
clergyman, and editor of the New York 
Evangelist, whose writings are chiefly 
concerned with his extensive travels. He 
is the author of From the Lakes of Kil- 
larney to the Golden Horn; From Egypt 
to Japan; Story of the Atlantic Tele¬ 
graph; Among the Holy Hills; Our West¬ 
ern Archipelago; The Barbary Coast; On 
the Desert; Old Spain and New Spain; 
Gibraltar; Bright Skies and Dark Sha¬ 
dows; Summer Pictures, from Copenha¬ 
gen to Venice; Blood is Thicker than 
Water; and The Irish Confederates, or the 
Rebellion of 1798. He is a brother of 
Cyrus W. Field. 

FIELD, HENRY MARTYN, physician, 
educator, author, was born Oct. 3, 1837, 
in Brighton, Mass. He is a physician and 
professor in Dartmouth Medical school. 
Evacuant Medication is his only publica¬ 
tion. 

FIELD. JAMES GAVEN, lawyer, was 
born Feb. 24, 1826, in Walnut, Va. He 
was attorney for the commonwealth in 
his native county from 1860 till 1865. 
Since the war he has been attorney-gen¬ 
eral of the state. 

FIELD, JESSE SOUTHWICk. lawyer, 
was born Oct. 3, 1862, in River Falls, Wis. 
In 1886 he graduated from the law depart¬ 
ment of the university of Wisconsin, and 
received the degree of LL. B. He is a 
successful lawyer of Prescott, Wis.; has 
been district attorney of his county, and 
takes a prominent part in the public af¬ 
fairs of his city, county and state. 

FIELD, JOSEPH M., actor, dramatist, 
author, was born in 1810 in London, Eng¬ 
land. He was an actor and dramatist of 
St. Louis, and the author of The Drama in 
Pokerville, and Other Stories. He died 
Jan. 30, 1856, in Mobile, Ala. 

FIELD, KATE, journalist, author, was 
born in 1854, in St. Louis, Mo. In 1890 she 
established a literary and critical jour¬ 
nal at Washington, which she entitled 
Kate Field’s Washington. She died in 
1897. 

FIELD. MARSHALL, merchant, was 
born in 1835, in Conway, Mass. His stone 
building is believed to be the largest 
wholesale store in the world. He recently 
gave $1,000,000 towards the great museum 
in the art building at the world’s fair 
grounds, now known as the Field Colum¬ 
bian museum. 


FIELD, MARTHA REINHARD CATH¬ 
ERINE COLE, journalist, was born May 
25, 1855, in Lexington, Mo. In 1881 she 
became associated with the Picayune, and 
her Correspondence Club in that journal 
has attracted national attention. 

FIELD, MARY KATHERINE KEM¬ 
BLE, journalist, author, was born in 1838 
in St. Louis, Mo. She was a journalist 
of Washington, and the author of Plan- 
chette’s Diary; Ten Days in Spain; Pen 
Photographs of Dickens’s Readings; Hap- 
Hazard, Travel Sketches; History of 
Bell’s Telephone;. Adelaide Ristori, a 
Biography; and Life of Fechter. 

FIELD, MATTHEW C., journalist, was 
born in 1812 in London, England. He was 
for several years one of the editors of 
the New Orleans Picayune, and contrib¬ 
uted numerous articles in prose and verse 
to southern periodicals. He died in 1844, 
at sea. 

FIELD, MAUNSELL BRADHURST, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1822 in New 
York. He was a lawyer of New York city, 
and in 1864 was second assistant secre¬ 
tary of the treasury. He was the author 
of Adrian (with G. P. R. James); Poems; 
and Memories of Many Men and Some 
Women, a volume of entertaining gossip. 
He died Jan. 24, 1875, in New York city. 

FIELD, MOSES W., merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 10, 1828, in Water- 
town, N. Y. He was elected to the forty- 
third congress as a republican. In 1875 
he presented to the city of Detroit a lot 
of forty acres of land for a public park. 

FIELD, NATHANIEL, physician, was 
born Nov. 7, 1805, in Jefferson county, Ky. 
In 1829 he moved to Jeffersonville, Ind., 
where he practiced his profession until 
his death. In 1838-39 he was a member of 
the state legislature. He organized the 
city government of Jeffersonville, estab¬ 
lished several churches, serving as pastor 
for forty years without compensation. He 
was the" author of numerous medical 
works and lectures. He died Aug. 28, 
1888, in Jeffersonville, Ind. 

FIELD, RICHARD STOCKTON, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 30, 1803, in White 
Hill, N. J. He held a seat in the United 
States senate from that state, for a few 
months, in 1862-63 to fill a vacancy, and 
was then appointed judge of the district 
court of the United States for the district 
of New Jersey. He died May 25, 1870, in 
Princeton, N. J. 

FIELD, SAMUEL, merchant, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Aug. 12, 1823, in Dela¬ 
ware county, Pa. For many years he has 
belonged to the presbyterian board of 
education, and has taken a leading part 
in the establishment of the hospital under 
the management of that denomination. 

FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 4, 1816, 
in Haddam, Conn. He located in Marys¬ 
ville, Cal., in 1850, 
and was elected first 
alcalde of that city. 
He was elected to 
the second legisla¬ 
ture, and was a 
member of the judi- 
c i a r y committee 
and framed the laws 
creating the judicial 
system of that state. 
From 1851 to 1857 he 
practiced his profes¬ 
sion, and was then 
elected a judge of the supreme court for 
six years, from Jan. 1, 1858. A vacancy 
occurring on the bench, he was appointed 
judge to fill it on the 13th of October, 
1857; became chief justice in 1859, and in 
1863 was appointed to his present position. 



FIELD, THOMAS WARREN, educator, 
author, was born in 1820 in Onondaga 
Hill, N. Y. He was an educator of Brook¬ 
lyn who was superintendent of public 
schools there, 1873-81, and was the author 
of Pear Culture; Historic and Antiquarian 
Scenes in Brooklyn; and Essay Toward an 
Indian Bibliography. He died Nov. 25, 
1881, in Onondaga Hill, N. Y. 

FIELD, WALBRIDGE ABNER, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 26, 1833, in 
Springfield, Vt. He was assistant United 
States attorney in Boston from 1865 to 
1869; was then appointed assistant attor¬ 
ney-general of the United States, and re¬ 
signed in 1870. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Massachusetts to the forty- 
fifth congress, but his seat was success¬ 
fully contested by Benjamin Dean. He 
was elected to the forty-sixth congress as 
a republican. 

FIELD, WILLIAM HILDRETH, lawyer, 
author, was born April 16, 1843, in New 
York city. In 1863 he graduated from 
Union college, and 
two years later grad¬ 
uated from the Col¬ 
umbian college law 
school, with the de¬ 
gree of B. L. The 
same year he was 
admitted to the bar, 
and has attained 
success in the prac¬ 
tice of law. He ed¬ 
ited the ninth vol¬ 
ume of Edmonds’ 
Statutes, and has 
tried many cases in which his construc¬ 
tion has settled the law of the state by 
the decision of the court of appeals. In 
1887 he was president of the Xavier Union, 
which, under his administration, was 
transformed into the Catholic club of the 
City of New York. 

FIELDER, GEORGE B., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 24, 1842, in Jer¬ 
sey City, N. J. He served in the civil 
war. He was elected register of the coun¬ 
ty of Hudson in 1884, and re-elected in 
1889. He was elected to the fifty-third 
congress as a democrat. 

FIELDER. MRS. LIZZIE DAVIS, poet, 
was born Jan. 20, 1856, in Wytheville, Va. 
She is the author of a number of poems. 



FIELDS, MRS. ANNIE ADAMS, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1834 in Massachu¬ 
setts. She is a Boston litterateur, and the 
author of Under the Olive, a volume of 
verse; The Singing Shepherd, and Other 
Poems; A Shelf of Old Books; Whittier, 
Notes of his Life and Friendships; Me¬ 
moir of J. T. Fields; How to Help the 
Poor; and Authors and Friends. 

FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS, publisher, 
author, poet, was born Dec. 31, 1817, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. He was a well-known 
publisher of Boston 
who edited the At¬ 
lantic Monthly in 
1862-70; and was the 
author of Yesterdays 
with Authors; Un¬ 
derbrush, a collec¬ 
tion of essays; and 
Ballads, and Other 
Verses. Reminiscen¬ 
ces of his life were 
published in A Me¬ 
moir by Mrs. Fields. 
He died April 24. 
1881, in Boston, Mass. 

FIELDS, WILLIAM C., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 13, 1804, in New 
York city. He was sixteen years a jus¬ 
tice of the peace in the town of Laurens, 
and subsequently supervisor of the town. 
In 1866 he was elected a representative 
from New York to the fortieth congress. 







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FIBSTER, S. F., educator, poet, was 
born Jan. 17, 1855, in Williamsport, Pa. 
He received his education at the Williams¬ 
port high school, and 
the Iowa State Nor¬ 
mal school. At the 
age of fifteen he en¬ 
tered educational 
work; was county 
superintendent for 
eight years in Wa- 
verly, Iowa, and is 
now a professor in 
Washington, D. C. 
He has traveled in 
every state of the 
Union, and across 
British America; has contributed both 
prose and verse to the periodical press; 
and his poems have been incorporated in 
several standard works. 

FILBERT, LUDWIG SPANG, physician, 
inventor, was born March 12, 1825, in 

Berks county, Pa. In 1871 he gave up 

the practice of medicine, and organized 
the Vulcanized Paving company of Phil¬ 
adelphia, of which he has since been presi¬ 
dent. He invented an artificial stone 
paving, that is recognized as the best 
known lining for the largest reservoir 
basis. 

FILLMORE, JOHN COMFORT, musi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1843 in Con¬ 
necticut. He was a musician of Milwau¬ 
kee, and the author of History of Piano- 
Forte Music; New Lessons in Harmony; 
and Lessons in Musical History. 

FILLMORE, MILLARD, thirteenth 
president of the United States, was born 
Jan. 7, 1800, in Cayuga county, N. Y. In 
1829 he was elected 
to the New York as¬ 
sembly, and held the 
office three years. 
He was married to 
Abigail Powers in 
1826. In 1832 he was 
elected to the na¬ 
tional house of rep¬ 
resentatives. He was 
again elected in 1836, 
and re-elected in 
1838-40. He was de¬ 
feated for governor 
of New York in 1844. In 1847 he was 
elected comptroller of the state, and in 
1848 was elected vice-president of the 
United States. Upon the death of Presi¬ 
dent Taylor he became president, and took 
the oath of office July 10, 1850. At the 
expiration of his term, March 4, 1853, he 
returned to his home in Buffalo, and in 
1856 was a candidate for the presidency, 
but was beaten. He died March 8, 1874. 
Fillmore held office sixteen years. He was 
economical, and died rich. 

FILON, MICHAEL, banker, railroad 
president, was born March 3, 1820, in 
Auburn, N. Y. He was president of the 
Rochester and Lake Ontario railroad; 
mayor of Rochester in 1862-63, and in 
1889 was elected president of the East Side 
Savings bank. He died July 14, 1893. 

FILSON, JOHN, author, explorer, was 
born in 1747 in Chester county, Pa. He 
was an early explorer of the western 
country, and the author of The Discov¬ 
ery, Settlement and Present State of Ken¬ 
tucky; Map of Kentucky; and Topograph¬ 
ical Description of the Western Territory. 

FINCH, CHARLES J., farmer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Aug. 28, 1862, in Story 
county, Iowa. He was elected a member 
of the third state legislature of Wyoming 
in 1894, and received the re-election in 
1896. 


FINCH, FRANCIS MILES, jurist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born June 9, 1827, in Ith¬ 
aca, N. Y. He was a New York jurist and 
dean of the law school of Cornell univer¬ 
sity since 1892. He has published a num¬ 
ber of poems, among which Nathan Hale 
and The Blue and the Gray are well 
known. 

FINCH, H. STANLEY, lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 24, 1853, in Stamford, Conn. 
In 1879 he was admitted to the bar, and 
has attained success in the practice of law 
in his native city. He has been justice of 
the peace, and since 1887 has been judge of 
the court of probate. 

FINCH, ISAAC, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New York. He 
was a member of the assembly of that 
state in 1822 and 1824, and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York from 
1829 to 1831. 

FINCK, HENRY THEOPHILUS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Sept. 22, 1854, in 
Bethel, Mo. He is a musical journalist of 
New York city, and the author of Wagner 
and Other Musicians; Romantic Love and 
Personal Beauty; Chopin, and Other Mu¬ 
sical Essays; Lotus-Time in Japan; The 
Pacific Coast Scenic Tour; and Spain and 
Morocco. 

FINDLAY, JAMES, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in 1775 in 
Franklin county, Pa. He was receiver of 
public moneys in Cincinnati district from 
the first establishment of land offices until 
1824. He was colonel of the second Ohio 
volunteers in 1812, serving under General 
Hull at Detroit. He was a representative 
in congress from 1825 to 1833; and was 
candidate for governor in 1834. He died 
Dec. 28, 1835, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

FINDLAY, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Franklin county. Pa. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania, from 1823 to 1827. 

FINDLAY, JOHN KING, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born May 12, 1803, in Mer- 
cersburg, Pa. He was recorder of Lan¬ 
caster in 1841-45, judge of the Philadel¬ 
phia district court in 1845-51, and presi¬ 
dent of the third judicial district of Penn¬ 
sylvania in 1857-62. He published an en¬ 
larged edition of Archbold’s Law of Nisi 
Prius in two volumes. He died Sept. 13, 
1885, in Spring Lake, N. J. 

FINDLAY, JOHN VAN LEAR, state 
legislator, was born Dec. 21, 1839, in 
Williamsport, Md. He was a represent¬ 
ative in the state legislature in 1861 and 
1862; and in 1866 was appointed collector 
of internal revenue at Baltimore. He was 
city solicitor from 1876 to 1878; and was 
the orator for Maryland at the centennial 
exposition in 1876. He was elected to the 
forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses 
as a democrat. 

FINDLAY, WILLIAM, governor, was 
born June 20, 1768, in Mercersburg, Pa. 
In 1807 he was chosen treasurer of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and in 1817 became governor of 
that state. 

FINDLEY, SAMUEL, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 26, 1818, in 
West Middletown, Pa. He was an asso¬ 
ciate reformed clergyman and educator, 
and the author of Rambles Among the In¬ 
sects. 

FINDLEY, THOMAS MASKELL, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, was 
born September 29, 1847, in West Ma¬ 
honing, Pa. In 1883 he was appointed 
president of the university of southern 
Dakota, at Pierre, which he had founded 
and organized. In 1885 he became pastor 
of the Ninth Presbyterian church, St. 
Paul, Minn. 


FINDLEY, WILLIAM, governor, United 
States senator, was born in Franklin 
county, Pa. He was governor of Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1817 to 1820, and was a sen¬ 
ator in congress from that state from 1821 
to 1827. He died Nov. 14, 1846. 

FINDLEY, WILLIAM, congressman, 
author, was born about 1758 in Ireland. 
He was a member of congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1791 to 1799 and from 1803 
to 1817. He published a Review of the 
Funding System in 1794, and a History of 
the Insurrection of the Four Western 
Counties of Pennsylvania, in 1796. He 
died April 5, 1821, in Greensburg, Pa. 

FINDLEY, WILLIAM THORNTON, 
clergyman, was born June 2, 1814, in West 
Middletown, Pa. He has held pastorates 
at Chillicothe, Springfield, and Xenia, 
Ohio, and Newark, N. J.; and in 1867-68 
edited the Family Treasure, published in 
Cincinnati. 

FINE, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 26, 1784, in 
New York city. He settled in St. Law¬ 
rence county, N. Y., and was a judge in 
that county for eighteen years, from 1821 
to 1839, and again in 1844. He was county 
treasurer from 1821 to 1833, and a state 
senator in 1848. He was a representative 
in congress from 1839 to 1841. He pub¬ 
lished a volume of law lectures. He died 
Jan. 4, 1867, in Ogdensburg. 

FINERTY, JOHN F., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 10, 1846, in Ire¬ 
land. He settled in Chicago, Ill.; was 
field correspondent of the Chicago Times 
in four Indian wars, including the cam¬ 
paign against Sitting Bull in 1876, and 
the famous Sibley scout in the Big Horn 
Mountains. Hp was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Illinois to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress. 

FINGER, MICHAEL SIDNEY MICH¬ 
AEL, merchant, banker, state senator, 
was born in May, 1837, in Lincoln county, 
N. C. He is a successful merchant and 
banker of Newton, N. C. He has served 
as a member of the house of representa¬ 
tives, and in 1880 was elected for a sec¬ 
ond time to the state senate. 

FINK. ALBERT, civil engineer, was 
born Oct. 27, 1827, in Frankfort-on-the- 
Main. He designed and supervised the 
building of the first important iron 
bridges in this country, that over the 
Monongahela river and the viaduct over 
Trey Run. 

FINK, FREDERICK, artist, was born 
Dec. 18, 1817, in Little Falls, N. Y. He 
painted many excellent genre pictures, the 
most notable of which are The Artist’s 
Studio; The Shipwrecked Mariner; and 
The Negro Wood-Sawyer. He died in 
1849. 

FINK, WILLIAM E., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in 1822 in 
Ohio. He was elected to the senate of 
Ohio, and in 1852 was a member of the 
national convention which nominated 
General Scott for the presidency. In 1861 
he was again elected a state senator. In 
1862 he was chosen a representative from 
Ohio to the thirty-eighth congress, and 
was re-elected to the thirty-ninth and the 
forty-third congresses. 

FINKELNBURG, GUSTAVUS A., sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 
6, 1837, in Prussia. He served one year 
in the volunteer army during the rebel¬ 
lion. He was elected to the Missouri 
state legislature in 1864, and re-elected, 
and acted as speaker pro tem. In 1868 he 
was elected a representative from Mis¬ 
souri to the forty-first congress, and was. 
re-elected to the forty-second congress. 






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FINLEY, EBENEZER R., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born July 31, 1833, 
in Orrville, Ohio. He served in the union 
army as an officer during the war of the 
rebellion, and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Ohio to the forty-fifth and forty- 
sixth congresses as a democrat. 

FINLEY, H. F., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 18, 1833. He was 
elected to the state legislature in 1861- 
62. He was elected commonwealth’s at¬ 
torney in 1862 for six years, which office 
he resigned in 1866; was re-elected in 
1867, and again in 1868 for six years. He 
was elected to the state senate in 1875; 
was appointed United States district at¬ 
torney for Kentucky in 1876, and was 
elected judge of the fifteenth circuit in 
1880, for six years. He was elected to the 
fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

FINLEY, JAMES BRADLEY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 7, 1781, in 
North Carolina. He was a methodist cler¬ 
gyman of Ohio, and at one time chaplain 
in the state penitentiary. He was the au¬ 
thor of History of the Wyandot Mission; 
Memorials of Prison Life; Sketches of 
Western Methodism; and Life Among the 
Indians. He died in 1856. 

FINLEY, JESSE JOHNSON, soldier, 
state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 
18, 1812, in Wilson county, Tenn. He was 
elected to tl^e state senate of Arkansas in 

1841. He removed to Memphis, Tenn., in 

1842, and was elected mayor of Memphis 
in 1845. He removed to Marianna, Fla., 
in 1846, and was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate of Florida in 1850. He was elected a 
presidential elector on the whig ticket in 
1852, and was appointed judge of the 
western circuit of Florida in 1853, and 
was elected to the same office in 1855 and 
again in 1859. He was appointed judge of 
the confederate states court for the dis¬ 
trict of Florida in 1861. He resigned and 
volunteered as a private in the army of 
the confederate states in March, 1862, and 
was successively promoted to the rank of 
captain, colonel, and brigadier-general. He 
located at Lake City, Fla., in 1865, and 
resumed the practice of law; removed to 
Jacksonville, Fla., in 1871, and continued 
practice there, and was elected to the 
forty-fourth congress. 

FINLEY, JOHN, soldier, Indian trader. 
He was a major in the continental army, 
and afterward became an Indian trader. 

FINLEY, JOHN, journalist, author, poet, 
was born Jan. 11, 1797, in Brownsburg, 
Va. He was a journalist of Richmond, 
Ind., mayor of that town for a number 
of years. He was the author of The 
Hoosier’s Nest and Other Poems. He died 
Dec. 23, 1866, in Richmond, Ind. 

FINLEY, JOHN BARCLAY, legislator, 
banker, was born Nov. 17, 1845, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. During 1887-92 he was a 
member of the Pennsylvania legislature 
and resigned from that position in 1892. 
In 1887 he was a member of the revenue 
commission of Pennsylvania, and subse¬ 
quently of the coast defence commission. 
He has been president of the Fifth Na¬ 
tional bank of Pittsburg, Pa.; an officer in 
a number of corporations, and is now 
president of the People’s bank of Monon- 
gahela, Pa. 

FINLEY, JOHN PARK, soldier, author, 
was born in 1854 in Michigan. He was a 
lieutenant in the signal service. He is the 
author of Tornadoes; Manual of Instruc¬ 
tion in Optical Telegraphy; and Sailors’ 
Handbook of Storm Track. Fog and Ice 
Charts of the North Atlantic and Gulf of 
Mexico. 


FINLEY, MRS. MARTHA, author, was 
born April 26, 1828, in Chillicothe, Ohio. 
She is a voluminous writer of religious 
and moral tales for girls, including more 
than twenty Elsie Books; The Mildred 
Books; Casella; Wanted—a Pedigree; and 
others. 

FINLEY, ROBERT, clergyman, college 
president, philanthropist, was born in 1772 
in Princeton, N. J. He originated the plan 
of colonizing emancipated blacks in 
Africa, and was instrumental in framing 
the constitution, and in organizing the 
Colonization society. In 1817 he became 
president of Franklin college of Athens, 
Ga. He died Oct. 3, 1817, in Athens, Ga. 

FINLEY, SAMUEL, college president, 
was born Nov. 3, 1723, in Summit Bridge, 
Del. He was ordained an evangelist in 
1747. In 1758 he was elected president of 
the College of New Jersey. He died Feb. 
4, 1761. 

FINN. HENRY J., actor, was born in 
1782 in New York city. In 1811 he ap¬ 
peared in Montreal, and thereafter played 
at other places, being in Savannah, Ga., 
in 1818-20. He died Jan. 13, 1840, on Long 
Island Sound. 

FINNEY, CHARLES GRANDISON, 
clergyman, college president, author. He 
was a congregational clergyman famous 
during his earlier career as a revivalist. 
He was president of Oberlin college in 
1852-66. He is the author of Lectures on 
Revivals; Systematic Theology; Lectures 
to Professing Christians; Character of 
Free Masonry; and Sermons on Gospel 
Themes. 

FINNEY, DARWIN A., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1814 
in Shrewsbury, Vt. He was a member for 
several years of the assembly and senate 
of Pennsylvania, and in 1866 was elected 
a representative from that state to the 
fortieth congress. He died July 25, 1868, 
in Europe. 

FINNEY, DAVID W., soldier, merchant, 
miner, miller, legislator, was born Aug. 
22, 1839, in Parke county, Ind. He served 
in the army during the civil war, and was 
promoted from fifth corporal to first ser¬ 
geant for meritorious service. He has 
been justice of the peace, and mayor of 
Neosho Falls, Kan.; a member of the 
Kansas legislature for one term; a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate for two terms; and 
lieutenant-governor for two terms. He 
was the elector nominated by the fourth 
congressional district on the McKinley 
and Hobart ticket. For many years he 
was engaged in the mercantile business 
and stock-raising; two years were spent 
in securing the right-of-way for the Santa 
Fe railway, and he is now engaged in the 
milling business. 

FINNEY, FREDERICK NORTON, rail¬ 
road president, was born in Boston, Mass. 
He is president of the Wisconsin Trust 
company. 

FINNEY, THOMAS M., clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born July 13, 1827, 
in St. Louis, Mo. In 1876 he settled in 
St. Louis, where he has filled pastorates 
in the methodist episcopal churches. From 
1869-72 he was editor of the St. Louis 
Christian Advocate. He is the author of a 
work entitled Life of Bishop E. M. Marvin. 

FINOTTI, JOSEPH MARIA, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1817 in Italy. He was 
a Roman catholic clergyman who was in 
charge of a Colorado parish at the time of 
his death. He was the author of French 
Grammar; A Month of Mary; Life of 
Blessed Paul of the Cross; Italy in the 
Fifteenth Century; Diary of a Soldier; 
The French Zouave; Herman the Pianist; 
and The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales. 


Bibliographia Catholica Americana, his 
most important work, was never com¬ 
pleted. He died in 1879 in Denver, Col. 

FIRM, JOSEPH L., inventor, was born 
March 19, 1837, in Williamsburg, N. Y. 
In 1859 he was engaged in the Frank Les¬ 
lie publishing house, and since that date 
his connection with the house has been 
continuous. He is the inventor of a pro¬ 
cess of printing on glass from electrotype 
plates, in colors or otherwise. 

FISCHER, ISRAEL F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 17, 1858, in New 
York city. He was elected to the fifty- 
fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

FISH, FRED STARR, educator, lawyer, 
was born Feb. 23, 1860, in Litchfield, N. Y. 
He is a graduate of the Cornell university, 
and has had a suc¬ 
cessful career in ed¬ 
ucational work. In 
1893 he was police 
justice at Richland 
Center, Wis., and 
was attorney for the 
St. Paul Railroad 
company at Spring 
Green, Wis. For sev¬ 
eral years he was en¬ 
gaged in business in 
Wisconsin with suc¬ 
cess; and has always 
taken an active part in the political affairs 
of that state. He studied law in Madison, 
Wis., and is now engaged in the practice 
of law in Milwaukee, Wis. 

FISH, HAMILTON, soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, governor, was 
born Aug. 3, 1808, in New York city. For 
several years he was a commissioner of 
deeds for the city and county of New 
York; and in 1837 was elected to the state 
legislature. He was a representative in 
congress from 1843 to 1845, and in 1847 
was elected to the state senate to fill a 
vacancy. He was governor of New York 
from 1848 to 1850, and was a senator in 
congress from 1851 to 1857. In 1869 he 
went into the cabinet of President Grant 
as secretary of state. He died Sept. 7, 
1893, in Garrison, N. Y. 

FISH, HENRY CLAY, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 27, 1820, in Halifax, 
Vt. He was a baptist clergyman of New¬ 
ark, N. J., and the author of Primitive 
Piety Revived; The Price of Soul Liberty; 
Harry’s Conversion; Harry’s Conflicts; 
Handbook of Revivals; Bible Lands Il¬ 
lustrated, and several compilations. 

FISH, MELANTHON WILLIAMS, phy¬ 
sician was born March 20, 1828, in Kort- 
right, Del. He settled in Oakland, Cal., 
where he became in 1872 professor of 
physiology in the medical department of 
the university of California. 

FISH, NICHOLAS, soldier, was born 
Aug. 28, 1758, in New York city. He was 
appointed adjutant-general of the state 
in 1786, and was a supervisor of the rev¬ 
enue under Washington in 1794. He died 
June 20, 1833, in New York city. 

FISH. NICHOLAS, lawyer, diplomat, 
banker, was born Feb. 19, 1846, in New 
York city. He was charge d’affaires to the 
Swiss confederation in 1877-81, and United 
States minister to Belgium in 1882-86. 

FISH, PRESERVED, shipping mer¬ 
chant, banker, was born July 3, 1766, in 
Portsmouth, R. I. He has attained prom¬ 
inence as a successful shipping merchant 
of New Bedford. He was elected presi¬ 
dent of the Tradesman’s bank, and was a 
member of the chamber of commerce from 
1801, serving until his death. He died 
July 23, 1846, in New York city. 




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FISH, ■STUYVESANT, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born June 24,1851, in New York 
city. In 1883 he was made second vice- 
president of the Illinois Central, becom¬ 
ing president in 1887. He is also presi¬ 
dent of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley 
railroad and other corporations affiliated 
with the Illinois Central. 

FISHBACK, WILLIAM MEADE, law¬ 
yer, legislator, governor, was born Nov. 5, 
1831, in Culpeper county, Va. He grad¬ 
uated from the university of Virginia, 
and soon obtained a good reputation as 
an able lawyer of Arkansas. He was a 
member of the Arkansas legislature dur¬ 
ing two constitutional conventions; was 
elected United States senator in 1864 by 
the union legislature, but declined to 
serve. In 1895 he was elected governor 
of Arkansas and served with distinction. 

FISHBURN, WILLIAM, soldier, state 
legislator, was born in 1760. He was on 
the staff of Gen. Anthony Wayne, to 
whom he was aide-de-camp at the capture 
of Stony Point, and afterward attained 
the rank of major-general. He died Nov. 

3, 1819, in Walterborough, S. C. 

FISHER. ALEXANDER METCALF, 
educator, journalist, was born in 1794 in 
Franklin, Mass. He became professor of 
mathematics, natural philosophy and as¬ 
tronomy in Yale. He died April 22, 1822. 

FISHER, ALVAN, artist, was born Aug. 
9, 1792, in Needham, Mass. In 1814 he 
began as a portrait-painter, and soon af¬ 
terward undertook barn-yard scenes, win¬ 
ter landscapes, and cattle-pieces. One of 
his best works is a portrait of Spurzheirh, 
painted after death, from recollection, in 
1832. He died Feb. 16, 1863, in Dedham, 
Mass. 

FISHER. CARMON, poet. He has con¬ 
tributed both prose and Verse to the peri¬ 
odical press, and his poems have been in¬ 
corporated in several standard collections. 

FISHER, CHARLES, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 20, 1789, in Row¬ 
an county, N. C. He commenced public 
life by going into the state senate in 1818; 
and in 1819 was elected to congress from 
North Carolina. In 1821 he was again 
elected to the state legislature, where he 
served almost continuously until 1836. 
From 1839 to 1841 he was again a repre¬ 
sentative in congress. He died May 7, 
1849, in Hillsborough, Miss. 

FISHER, CHARLES, actor, was born in 
1816 in England. In 1872 he joined the 
company of Augustin Daly, playing Old 
Dorton and Falstaff as his first parts. He 
continued with this company until his 
retirement from the stage in 1890. He 
died June 11, 1891, in New York city. 

FISHER, CHARLES HARRIS, physi¬ 
cian, was born June 30, 1822, in Killingly, 
Conn. He served in the state senate in 
1869-70 and 1877-79. He prepared the an¬ 
nual reports of the vital statistics of 
Rhode Island from 1878 to 1885, and those 
of the state board of health since 1879. 

FISHER, DANIEL W., clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born Jan. 17, 1838, in 
Arch Spring, Pa. He has filled pastor¬ 
ates in the presbyterian churches at Madi¬ 
son, Ind.; Wheeling, W. Va.; New Or¬ 
leans, La.; and Allegheny City, Pa. 
Since 1879 he has been president of Han¬ 
over college. 

FISHER, DAVID, clergyman, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 3, 1794, in Somerset 
county. Pa. He was elected to the legis¬ 
lature of Ohio; and was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1845 
to 1847. He died May 7, 1886, near Mount 
Holly, Pa. 


FISHER, EBENEZER, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born Feb. 6, 
1815, in Charlotte, Maine. He was a uni- 
versalist clergyman who was the first 
president of the theological seminary at 
Canton, N. Y. He is the author of The 
Christian Salvation. He died Feb. 21, 
1879, in Canton, N. Y. 

FISHER, GEORGE, congressman. He 
was a reoresentative in congress from 
New York from 1829 to 1830; and a mem¬ 
ber of the New York assembly from Tioga 
county in 1835. 

FISHER, GEORGE JUDSON, physician, 
author, was born Nov. 27, 1825, in North 
Castle, N. Y. He was a physician, for 
many years medical director at Sing Sing 
prison; and the author of Biographical 
Sketches of Distinguished Physicians of 
Westchester County, N. Y.; Animal Sub¬ 
stances Employed as Medicines by the 
Ancients; and Diploteratology. 

FISHER, GEORGE P., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Oct. 13, 1817, in 
Kent county, Del. In 1843 and 1844 he 
was elected to the Delaware house of rep¬ 
resentatives; in 1846 became secretary of 
state of Delaware; and in 1849 went into 
the state department at Washington as 
the confidential clerk of Secretary Clay¬ 
ton. In 1850 he was appointed by Presi¬ 
dent Taylor a commissioner to settle 
claims against Brazil, which office ex¬ 
pired in 1852. From 1857 to 1860 he held 
the position of attorney-general of the 
state of Delaware; and was elected a 
representative from that state to the 
thirty-seventh congress. He was subse¬ 
quently appointed a judge of the supreme 
court for the District of Columbia, which 
position he resigned to accept that of 
district attorney. 

FISHER, GEORGE PARK, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 10, 1827, 
in Wrentham, Mass. He is a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman, and has been professor 
of ecclesiastical history at Yale univer¬ 
sity since 1861. He is the author of The 
Supernatural Origin of Christianity; The 
Reformation; The Beginnings of Chris¬ 
tianity; Faith and Rationalism; Discus¬ 
sions in History and Theology; Life of 
Benjamin Silliman; The Grounds of The- 
istic and Rationalistic Belief; History of 
the Christian Church; The Christian Re¬ 
ligion: Manual of Natural Theology; 
Manual of Christian Evidences; Outlines 
of Universal History; Nature and Meth¬ 
od of Revelation; and The Colonial Era. 

FISHER. HENDRICK, congressman. 
He was a delegate from New Jersey to the 
colonial congress which met in New York 
in 1765. 

FISHER, HORATIO G„ state senator, 
congressman, was born April 21, 1838, in 
Huntingdon, Pa. He was a member of 
councils from 1862 to 1865: county auditor 
from 1865 to 1868; and burgess from 
1874 to 1877. In 1876 he was elected a 
state senator for the term of four years; 
and was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-sixth and forty- 
seventh congresses as a republican. 

FISHER. JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Maryland. He settled in Dela¬ 
ware; and was appointed United States 
judge for that district in 1812 by Presi¬ 
dent Madison. 

FISHER, JOHN, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 13, 1806, in 
Londonderry, N. H. In' 1856 he settled 
at Batavia, N. Y.; and was subsequently 
engaged as a state commissioner in erect¬ 
ing the buildings for the New York State 
Institution for the Blind, in Batavia. In 
1868 he was elected a representative from 
New York to the forty-first congress. 


FISHER, JOHN DIX, physician, author, 
was born in 1799. He aided in organizing 
the Perkins institution for the blind in 
Boston, Mass. He was the author of a 
Description of the Distinct, Confluent, 
and Inoculated Small-pox, Varioloid Dis¬ 
ease, Cow-pox, and Chicken-pox. He died 
March 3, 1850. 

FISHER, JOSEPH W., jurist, was born 
in Pennsylvania. In 1871 he was appoint¬ 
ed United States chief justice of the su¬ 
preme court for the territory of Wy¬ 
oming. 

FISHER, JOSHUA, physician, author, 
was born May 17, 1749, in Dedham, Mass. 
He was a zealous student of natural his¬ 
tory, and bequeathed twenty thousand 
dollars to the Hanover university to found 
a professorship of that science. He was 
the author of a Discourse on Narcotics. 
He died March 21, 1833, in Beverly, Mass. 

FISHER, JOSHUA FRANCIS, reformer, 
author, was born Feb. 17, 1807, in Phila¬ 
delphia. Pa. He was a municipal reform¬ 
er of Philadelphia; and the author of 
The Degradation of Our Representative 
System and Its Reform; Reform of 
Municipal Elections; and Nomination of 
Candidates. He died Jan. 21, 1873, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

FISHER, MICHAEL MONTGOMERY, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
Oct. 8, 1834, in Rockville, Ind. He is a 
presbyterian clergyman and educator, and 
has been professor of Latin at the uni¬ 
versity of Missouri since 1871. He is the 
author of The Three Pronunciations of 
Latin; and Education. 

FISHER, NATHANIEL, clergyman, 
was born July 8, 1742, in Dedham, Mass. 
He was prominent in organizing the 
protestant episcopal church in New Eng¬ 
land. He died Dec. 20, 1812, in Salem, 
Mass. 

FISHER, OSCAR L., clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born Aug. 12, 1844, in 
Freeport, Ill. He has for many years been 
president of the Fort Worth university, 
Texas. 

FISHER. REBECCA JANE GILLI¬ 
LAND, was born Aug. 31, 1832, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. She has been president of 
the following asso¬ 
ciations: Mission¬ 

ary, Church Aid, W. 
C. T. U., Literary, 
and the Ladies’ Pro¬ 
hibition club of Aus¬ 
tin, Texas, where 
she now resides, and 
is a highly honored 
member of society. 
She has also been 
president of the 
Daughters of the 
Republic of Texas 
for seven years; and a member of the 
Woman’s State Press association, and 
other organizations. Her parents were 
killed by the Indians in 1839; herself and 
little brother were taken prisoners, but 
rescued in a few hours by the Texas 
rangers. In 1848 she became the wife of 
the Rev. O. Fisher, a noted author and 
clergyman of the methodist church. She 
has written extensively for current news¬ 
papers and magazines, and her writings 
have been described as prose poems. 

FISHER, REDWOOD S., merchant, 
journalist, author, was born in 1782 in 
Philadelphia, Pa, He published several 
volumes on political economy and statis¬ 
tical subjects, one of which is The Prog¬ 
ress of the United States of America from 
the Earliest Periods, Geographical, Sta¬ 
tistical, and Historical. He also edited a 
Gazetteer of the United States. He died 
May 17, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa. 



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FISHER, SAMUEL REED, clergyman, 
author, was born June 2, 1810, in Norris¬ 
town, Pa. He was a German reformed 
clergyman of Chambersburg, Pa.; and 
the author of Exercises in the Heidel¬ 
berg Catechism; The Rum Plague, a 
translation from Zschokke; The Family 
Assistant; and Heidelberg Catechism Sim¬ 
plified. He died June 5, 1881, in Tiffin, 
Ohio. 

FISHER, SAMUEL SPARKS, soldier, 
lawyer, author, was born April 11, 1832, in 
St. Joseph county, Mich. He published six 
volumes of Reports of Cases Arising 
under Letters-Patent for Inventions in 
the Circuit Courts of the United States. 
He died Aug. 14, 1874, in Luzerne county, 
Pa. 

FISHER, SAMUEL WARE, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born April 
5, 1814, in Morristown, N. J. He was a 
Presbyterian clergyman and educator, who 
was president of Hamilton college in 
1858-67. He was the author of Three 
Great Temptations of Young Men; and 
Occasional Sermons and Addresses. He 
died Jan. 18, 1874, near Cincinnati, Ohio.. 

FISHER, SPENCER O., merchant, 
banker, congressman, was born Feb. 3. 
1843, in Camden. Mich. He was mayor of 
West Bay City from 1881 to 1884. He was 
a delegate to the democratic national con¬ 
vention in 1884; and in the same year 
was elected a representative from Michi¬ 
gan to the forty-ninth congress, and was 
re-elected to the fiftieth congress. 

FISHER, SIDNEY GEORGE, lawyer, 
author, was born Sept. 11, 1856, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is the author of The 
Making of Pennsylvania; The Evolution 
of the Constitution of the United States; 
The Men, Women and Manners in Colon¬ 
ial Times; and other works. 

FISHER. THEODORE WELLES, edu¬ 
cator, physician, author, was born May 
29, 1837, in Westboro, Mass. He is a phy¬ 
sician, and since 1881 has been clinical in¬ 
structor in mental disease at Harvard uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of Plain Talks 
About Insanity. 

FISHER, THOMAS, author, poet, was 
born Jan. 21, 1801, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was a Philadelphia writer who pub¬ 
lished Dial of the Seasons; Song of the 
Sea Shells; and Mathematics Simplified 
and Made Attractive. He died Feb. 12, 
1856, in Philadelphia. Pa. 

FISHER. WILLIAM MARK, painter, 
was born Dec. 15, 1841, in Boston, Mass. 
He has painted landscapes from studies 
In the neighborhood of Paris, also genre 
paintings and cattle-pieces, including 
Noon; On the Cam: and The Meadows. 

FISK, ARCHIE CAMPBELL, soldier, 
capitalist, was born Oct. 18, 1836, in Steu¬ 
ben county, N. Y. ne served through the 
civil war, and received the rank of ad¬ 
jutant-general. He is president of the 
Denver Land and Improvement Co.; the 
Fisk Real Estate and Improvement com¬ 
pany; and the Denver Circle Real Estate 
company in Denver, Colo. 

FISK, CHARLES J., lawyer, jurist, was 
born March 11, 1862, in Whiteside coun¬ 
ty, Ill. This rising lawyer has served 
as judge of the district court of the first 
judicial district of North Dakota. 

FISK, CLINTON BOWEN, lawyer, sol¬ 
dier, merchant, reformer, statesman, was 
born Dec. 8. 1828, in York, N. Y. He 
served with distinction through the civil 
war; was promoted brigadier-general in 
1862, and brevetted major-general of vol¬ 
unteers in 1865. He actively aided in es¬ 
tablishing the Fisk university of Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn., which was named for him. 
In 1886 he was the prohibition candidate 


for the governorship of New Jersey; and 
for sixteen years was president of the 
board of Indian commissioners. He died 
July 9, 1890, in New York city. 

FISK, EZRA, clergyman, author, was 
born Jan. 10, 1785, in Shelburne, Mass. 
He became in 1813 pastor of the presby- 
..erian church in Goshen, N. Y., where he 
remained twenty years. k He published an 
oration, delivered at Williams college in 
1825; a lecture on the Inability of Sin¬ 
ners. He died Dec. 5, 1833, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

FISK, FIDELIA, missionary, author, 
was born May 1, 1816, in Shelburne, Mass. 
In 1843 she went to Persia as a mission¬ 
ary among the Nestorians, where she la¬ 
bored fifteen years, much of the time as 
teacher in a female seminary. She was 
the first principal of the seminary at 
Oroomiah. She published Memorial of 
Mount Holyoke Seminary, and Woman 
and Her Savior in Persia, and at the time 
of her death was engaged in writing Rec¬ 
ollections of Mary Lyon. She died Aug 9, 
1864, in Shelburne, Mass. 

FISK, GEORGE CLEMENT, manufac¬ 
turer, was born March 4, 1831, in Hins¬ 
dale, N. H. He entered the office of T. W. 
Watson, car builder, as a bookkeeper; 
this firm was reorganized in 1862, and in 
1871 he was elected president. He is 
president of two other companies, and 
proprietor of the Brightwood paper mills 
in New Hampshire. 

FISK, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born 
about 1762. He was a representative in 
congress from Vermont from 1805 to 1809, 
and from 1811 to 1815, when he was ap¬ 
pointed one of the judges of the supreme 
court of Vermont. He was a senator in 
congress during the years 1817 and 1818, 
and resigned; and in 1812 was appointed 
judge of the territory of Indiana, and in 
1817 collector of the port of Alburg, which 
office he held eight years. He died Dec. 
1, 1844, in Swanton, \t. 

FISK. JONATHAN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1809 to 1811, 
and again from 1813 to 1815, when he was 
appointed United States attorney for the 
southern district of New York. 

FISK, PLINY, missionary, was born 
June 24. 1792, in Shelburne, Mass. After 
traveling extensively in Greece, Egypt, 
Palestine, and Syria, he joined, in 1825, 
the mission already established at Beirut, 
and died there of fever in the following 
October. He died Oct. 23, 1842, in Syria. 

FISK, SAMUEL, soldier, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born July 23. 1828. in Shelburne, 
Mass. He was a congregational clergyman 
who served as a soldier in the federal 
army, and was killed at the battle of the 
Wilderness. He is the author of Mr. Dunn 
Browne’s Experiences in the Army. He 
died May 22, 1864. in Fredericksburg, Va. 

FISK, WILBUR, clergyman, college 
president, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 
31, 1792, in Brattleboro, Vt. He was a 
methodist clergyman once famous as a 
pulpit orator, and the first president of 
Wesleyan university in 1831-39. He was 
the author of Calvinistic Controversy; 
Travels in Europe; and Sermons on Uni- 
versalism. He died Feb. 22, 1839, in Mid¬ 
dletown, Conn. 

FISKE, JOHN, naval oflicer, was born 
April 10, 1744, in Salem, Mass. He was 
master mariner during the revolutionary 
war, and fought in many conflicts. After 
the ’war he engaged in commerce; was 
made major-general of militia in 1792; 
and acquired fame and fortune. He died 
Sept. 28, 1797, in Salem, Mass. 


FISKE, JOHN, philosopher, lecturer, 
author, was born March 30, 1842, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. He is a philosopher and his¬ 
torian of Cambridge, who has lectured ex¬ 
tensively upon American history, and is a 
thinker of the school of Darwin and 
Spencer. He is the author of Myths and 
Myth-Makers; Outlines of Cosmic Phil¬ 
osophy; The Unseen World; Darwinism 
and Other Essays; Tobacco and Alcohol; 
Excursions of an Evolutionist; The Des¬ 
tiny of Man; The Idea of God as Af¬ 
fected by Modern Knowledge; American 
Political Ideas from the Standpoint of 
Universal History; The Critical Period of 
American History, 1783-89; The Begin¬ 
nings of New England; Civil Govern¬ 
ment in the United States; The War of 
Independence, a work for young readers; 
The American Revolution; The Discov¬ 
ery of America; United States History for 
Schools; Life of Edward L. Youmans; 
and Virginia and Her Neighbors. 

FISKE, LEWIS RANSOM, clergyman, 
educator and college president, was born 
Dec. 24, 1825, in Albion, Mich. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
at the Michigan uni¬ 
versity, from which 
institution he re¬ 
ceived the degrees of 
A. B. and A. M., and 
subsequently the de¬ 
gree of LL. D. The 
degree of D. D. was 
conferred by the Al¬ 
bion college. During 
1875-77 he was ed¬ 
itor of the Michigan 
Christian Advocate. 
In 1850-53 he was professor of natural 
science at Albion college; in 1853-56 filled 
the same chair in the Michigan State 
Normal school; and during 1856-63 was 
professor of chemistry at the Michigan 
State Agricultural college. During 1863- 
77 he was pastor of churches in Jackson, 
Ann Arbor and Detroit; and since 1877 
has been president of Albion college. 

FISKE, NATHAN, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 9, 1733, in Weston, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Brookfield, Mass., who was a prolific au¬ 
thor of essays and addresses. Beside sep¬ 
arate sermons, his published works in¬ 
clude Sermons; and The Moral Monitor, 
a collection of essays once very popular 
as a school reader. He died Nov. 24, 1799, 
in Brookfield, Mass. 

FISKE, NATHAN WELBY, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born April 17, 
1798, in Weston, Mass. He was a congre¬ 
gational clergyman, and professor at Am¬ 
herst college in 1824-47. He was the au¬ 
thor of Manual of Classical Literature; 
Sermons; Young Peter’s Tour Around the 
World: and Story of Aleck, or the His¬ 
tory of Pitcairn's island. He died May 27, 
1847, in Jerusalem. Palestine. 

FISKE, OLIVER, soldier, physician, 
author, was born Sept. 2, 1762. He served 
in the army during the revolutionary war. 
He began practice in Worcester, Mass., 
in 1790, and in 1803 was appointed special 
justice of the court of common pleas. He 
died in 1836 in Boston, Mass. 

FITCH, ASA, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1811 to 1813. 

FITCH, ASA, naturalist, agriculturist, 
author, was born Feb. 24, 1809, in Salem, 
N. Y. He was made New York state en¬ 
tomologist in 1854, and for many years 
published annual reports on insects in¬ 
jurious to vegetation. He died April 8, 
1878, in Salem, Mass. 




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FITCH, ASHBEL PARMELEE, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1848, in 
was admitted to the 
bar in November, 
1869, and has since 
practiced his pro¬ 
fession in New York 
city. He was elected 
to the fiftieth, fifty- 
first, fifty-second and 
fi f t y-t h i r d con¬ 
gresses. In 1893 Mr. 
Fitch resigned his 
seat in congress, and 
was elected comp¬ 
troller of the city of 
New York, serving 
in that capacity for four years. 

FITCH, BENJAMIN, merchant, philan¬ 
thropist, was born June 13, 1802, in New 
York. In 1866 he founded the Fitch home 
in Darien, Conn., for soldiers’ orphans. 
He added a public hall and an art gallery, 
and also built a church in Darien. In 
1881 he founded the Fitch institute, which 
was organized on the plan of the Cooper 
institute of New York city. He died Nov. 
7, 1883, in New York city. 

FITCH, CHARLES ELLIOTT, journal¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 3, 1835, in Syracuse, N. 
Y. In 1865 he became editor of The 
Syracuse Daily Standard; and in 1873 of 
The Daily Democrat and Chronicle. In 
1890 he was appointed United States col¬ 
lector of internal revenue; has been a 
voluminous writer on many subjects; and 
is the author of numerous pamphlets. 

FITCH, EBENEZER, educator, was 
born Sept. 26, 1756, in Norwich, Cohn, In 
1791 he became principal of Williamstown 
academy, and when this became Williams 
college, in June, 1793, he was elected its 
first president, an office which he held 
until 1815, when he resigned to become 
pastor of the presbyterian church in West 
Bloomfield, N. Y. He died March 21, 1833, 
in Bloomfield, N. Y. 

FITCH, ELEAZAR THOMPSON, edu¬ 
cator, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 1, 
1791, in New Haven, Conn. For many 
years he was professor of divinity at 
Yale. He wrote theological reviews and 
other articles for periodicals, and a vol¬ 
ume of his sermons was published in 
1871. He died Jan. 31, 1871, in New 
Haven, Conn. 

FITCH, ELIJAH, clergyman, author, 
poet, was born in 1745. He became a min¬ 
ister of the congregational church in 
Hopkinton in 1771, where he remained 
till his death. He was the author of 
The Beauties of Religion, a long poem ad¬ 
dressed to youth; and also of a short 
poem entitled The Choice. He died Dec. 
16, 1788, in Hopkinton, Mass. 

FITCH, GRAHAM NEWELL, physi¬ 
cian, congressman, United States senator, 
was born Dec. 5, 1809, in Le Roy, N. Y. 
He was a medical professor in the Rush 
Medical college at Chicago, Ill., from 1844 
to 1849. In 1844, 1848, and 1856, he was 
chosen a presidential elector, and in 1836 
and 1839 was elected to the legislature of 
Indiana. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1849 to 1853; 
and in 1857 was chosen a senator of the 
United States for the term ending in 1861. 

FITCH, JAMES, clergyman, author, was 
born Dec. 24, 1622, in England. He was 
pastor at Saybrook in 1646-60, and was 
afterward installed as the first minister 
of Norwich. He published First Prin¬ 
ciples of the Doctrine of Christ, and sev¬ 
eral sermons. He died. Nov. 18, 1702, in 
Lebanon, Conn. 

FITCH, JOHN, inventor, was born Jan. 
21, 1743, in Windsor, Conn. He is said 
by authorities to be the originator of run¬ 


ning vessels by steam as early as 1785. 
He died in 1798 in Bardstown, Ky. 

FITCH, JOHN LEE, artist, was born 
June 25, 1836, in Hartford, Conn. He has 
achieved reputation as a painter of forest 
scenes, and is a close student of nature. 
His largest picture, In the Woods, was 
exhibited at Philadelphia in 1876. Among 
his other works are On Gill Brook; A 
Mountain Brook; The Outlet; Waiting 
for a Bite; A Stray Sunbeam; Cliff Side; 
Willows on the Croton; and Near Carmel, 
N. Y. 

FITCH, LEROY, naval officer, was born 
in 1835 in Indiana. He served in the Mis¬ 
sissippi squadron during the civil war, 
taking part in the capture of Forts Donel- 
son and Pillow, the reduction of Island 
No. 10, and the victory over the confed¬ 
erate fleet at Memphis, Tenn. He died 
April 13, 1875, in Logansport, Ind. 

FITCH, THOMAS, jurist, governor, was 
born in June, 1699, in Norwalk, Conn. He 
was chancellor, judge of the superior 
court, and chief justice of his state. His 
principles were loyal, and, notwithstand¬ 
ing the growing unpopularity of his opin¬ 
ions, he was elected governor in 1754, 
and held office till 1766. He died in July, 
1774. 

FITCH, THOMAS, merchant, journalist, 
congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1838, in 
New York city. He went to California in 
1860, and became editor of the San Fran¬ 
cisco Times; and also of the Placerville 
Republican. In 1862 he was elected to the 
state assembly. He removed to Nevada 
territory in 1863, and edited the Virginia 
Union; and in 1864 was elected to the 
first constitutional convention of Nevada. 
He subsequently settled in Washoe City 
and practiced law; and in 1865 was ap¬ 
pointed a district attorney. In 1861 he 
settled in Belmont; and was elected a 
representative from Nevada to the forty- 
first congress as a republican. 

FITCH, THOMAS DAVIS, physician, 
surgeon, author, lecturer, was born July 
14, 1829, in Troy, Pa. He has been sur¬ 
geon and lecturer on obstetrics in various 
Chicago hospitals, and was one of the 
originators in 1870 of the Woman’s hos¬ 
pital medical college in the same city, in 
which institution he has filled the chair 
of gynecology. 

FITCH, WILLIAM CLYDE, dramatist, 
author, was born in 1865. He is a dram¬ 
atist of New York city, the author of Beau 
Brummell and other plays; The Knight¬ 
ing of the Twins, and Ten Other Tales; 
and Some Correspondence and Six Con¬ 
versations. 

FITHIAN, GEORGE W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 4, 1854, near 
Willow Hill, Ill. He was elected state’s 
attorney of Jasper county in 1876, and 
was re-elected in 1880. He was elected to 
the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses 
and re-elected to the fifty-third congress 
as a democrat. He also served as railroad 
and warehouse commissioner of Illinois. 

FITLER. EDWIN HENRY, manufac¬ 
turer, mayor of Philadelphia, was born 
Dec. 2, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. . In 1859 
he reorganized the concern under the 
name of Edwin H. Fitler and Co. The 
business steadily grew until, in 1880, the 
works were removed to Bridesburg and 
fitted with the newest appliances of the 
trade, and they now occupy fifteen acres 
of ground space. 

FITTON. JAMES, clergyman, was born 
in 1803 in Boston, Mass. He was instru¬ 
mental in establishing the college of the 
Holy Cross at Worcester, and the first 


Roman catholic newspaper. He died SepL 
15, 1881, in Boston, Mass. 

FITTON, SAMUEL D., banker, was 
born June 21, 1846, in Hamilton, Ohio. 
After receiving his education, he entered 
the First National bank of Hamilton, 
Ohio. He held each successive position 
from messenger up to president, being 
elected to that responsible office in May,. 
1895. 

FITTS, JAMES HARRIS, lawyer, bank¬ 
er, manufacturer, was born Oct. 12, 1830, 
near Jackson, Ala. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the university of Alabama. He 
became bank attorney of the Old State 
bank, a depository of the confederate state 
government. During 1865-68 he was 
trustee of the university of Alabama. He 
has been treasurer of the diocese, trustee 
and treasurer of the bishop's fund of the 
diocese of Alabama; and for the past 
quarter of a century has been treasurer 
of the university of Alabama. He organ¬ 
ized and was president of the Tuscaloosa 
Cotton mills, which manufactured the 
first colored cotton plaids made in the 
south; and in 1865 he established the 
banking house of J. H. Fitts and Com¬ 
pany. 

FITTS, OLIVER, jurist. He was a citi¬ 
zen of Mississippi; and in 1810 was ap¬ 
pointed United States judge for the ter¬ 
ritory of Mississippi. 

FITZ, HENRY, telescope-maker, was 
born in 1808 in Newburyport, Mass. In 
1835 he made his first reflecting telescope, 
and in the winter of 1844 invented a meth¬ 
od of perfecting object-glasses for refract¬ 
ing telescopes, constructing the first one 
out of the bottom of an ordinary tumbler. 
He died Nov. 6, 1863, in New York city. 

FITZGERALD, DAVID C., lawyer, ora¬ 
tor, was born June 8, 1868, in Limerick, 
Ireland, where his ancestors have been 
prominent in nation¬ 
al affairs since early 
in the fourteenth 
century. His educa¬ 
tion was completed 
in Oxford university, 
where he received 
the degrees of B. A. 
and LL. B. In 1890 
he was admitted to 
the bar of New York, 
and subsequently to 
the bar of the United 
States. He has at¬ 
tained note as a successful lawyer, and 
has a large practice in Buffalo, N. Y. He 
is considered one of the best authorities 
on international law; and is prominent in 
the councils of the democratic party. 

FITZGERALD, JOHN F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was Dorn Feb. 11, 1865, In Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a member of the Bos¬ 
ton common council of 1892; and was 
elected a member of the Massachusetts 
state senate in 1893 and 1894. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses as a democrat. 

FITZGERALD, LOUIS, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, was born May 31, 1838, in New 
\ork city. He entered the United States 
service as first lieutenant in the eleventh 
regiment New York volunteers, served 
throughout the war anti attained the rank 
of brigadier-general. He was for sev¬ 
eral years president of the New York Mer¬ 
cantile Trust company, and is connected 
with a number of prominent corporations 
of that city. 

FITZGERALD, MARCELLA A., poet, 
was born Feb. 23, 1845, in Canada. She 
is the author of Poems, a volume which 
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FITZGERALD, OSCAR PENN, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, author, was born Aug. 24, 
1829, in Caswell county, N. C. This em¬ 
inent'clergyman has 
been superintendent 
of public instruction 
of the state of Cali¬ 
fornia; editor of the 
Christian Advocate 
of Nashville, Tenn.; 
and bishop of the 
methodist episcopal 
church south. He is 
the author of Cali- 
fornia Sketches; 
Centenary Cameos; 
Glimpses of Truth; 
Christian Growth; Life of McFerrin: Dr. 
Summers, A Life Study; Eminent Meth¬ 
odists; The Epworth Book; and other 
works. 

FITZGERALD, THOMAS, soldier, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born April 
10, 1796, in Germantown, N. Y. In 1848 
and 1849 he was a senator in congress 
from Michigan under the appointment of 
the governor. He died March 25, 1855, in 
Niles, Mich. 

FITZGERALD, THOMAS, journalist, 
dramatist, was born Dec. 22, 1819, in New 
York city. He began the publication of 
The Daily Item in 1852, and for the next 
forty years of his life his great energies 
were devoted to building up the interests 
of the paper in Philadelphia. He was a 
successful dramatist, his first play. Light 
at Last, being produced in 1868. He died 
June 25, 1891, in London, England. 

FITZ GERALD, THOMAS JOSEPH, 
lawyer, journalist, was born March 1, 
1857, in Canada. He practiced law for 
five years in Chicago; and since 1887 has 
been engaged in journalism as Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., correspondent, and writer for 
magazines and newspapers generally. 

FITZGERALD, WILLIAM, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Tennessee. He 
was a representative in congress from that 
state from 1831 to 1833, and was a mem¬ 
ber of the committee on expenditures in 
the treasury department. He was also 
judge of the circuit court of Tennessee. 

FITZHUGH, EDWARD HENRY, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Sept. 21, 1816, in 
Caroline county, Va. He removed to 
Richmond, Va., in 1861, and served in an 
important capacity in the quartermaster's 
department of the confederate army from 
1861 till 1865. 

FITZHUGH, GEORGE, lawyer, author, 
was born July 2, 1807, in Prince William. 
Va. He was a lawyer of Port Royal, Va.; 
and was the author of Sociology for the 
South; and Cannibals All, or Slaves with¬ 
out Masters. He died July 30, 1881, in 
Huntsville, Texas. 

FITZHUGH, NICHOLAS, jurist, came 
of a Virginia family. In 1803 he was ap¬ 
pointed a judge of the circuit court of the 
United States for the District of Columbia. 

FITZHUGH, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in 1726 in Stafford county, Va. 
He was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1779 to 1780. He died in 1809. 

FITZHUGH, WILLIAM HENRY, phil¬ 
anthropist, author, was born March 8, 
1792, in Chatham, Va. He was elected 
vice-president of the American coloniza¬ 
tion society, and took an active interest 
in it, supporting it both with voice and 
pen. In 1826 he published a series of es¬ 
says in behalf of the cause, over the sig¬ 
nature of Opimius, in the columns of the 
Richmond Inquirer. He died May 21, 
1830, in Cambridge, Md. 

FITZPATRICK, BENJAMIN, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, United States senator, 
was born June 30, 1802, in Greene county, 


Ga. In 1841 he was elected governor of 
Alabama; and in 1843 was re-elected to 
the same position. In 1852 he was ap¬ 
pointed a senator in congress to fill a 
vacancy; and in 1855 was elected to the 
same position for the term ending in 
1861. He retired from the senate in 1861, 
and took part in the rebellion. He died 
in November, 1870, in Antonaga county, 
Ala. 

FITZPATRICK, JOHN BERNARD, 
bishop, was born Nov. 1, 1812, in Boston, 
Mass. He erected one of the finest or¬ 
phan asylums in America, a large re¬ 
formatory, a hospital, and a college. He 
died Feb. 13, 1866, in Boston, Mass. 

FITZPATRICK, T. Y„ lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1850, in 
Floyd county, Ky. He has filled the po¬ 
sitions of county judge, county attorney, 
and representative in the state legisla¬ 
ture; was democratic elector in 1884, and 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

FITZPATRICK, THOMAS P., educator, 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born 
Feb. 11, 1827. He served four years as a 
member of the Virginia state senate soon 
after the war. In 1884 he was elected 
judge of the county court of Nelson coun¬ 
ty, and received the re-election in 1890 to 
the same office. 

FITZ SIMONS, CHARLES, soldier, 
business man, was born Dec. 26, 1834, in 
New York city. He served in the civil 
war and attained the rank of brigadier- 
general. He is a successful business man 
of Chicago, Ill. 

FITZSIMONS, THOMAS, congressman, 
was born in 1741 in Ireland. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1789 to 1795; and was a 
member of the legislature for many years. 
He was president of the Philadelphia 
Chamber of Commerce and of other local 
institutions. He died in August, 1811. 

FLAGET, BENEDICT JOSEPH, bishop, 
was born Nov. 7, 1763, in France. In 1841 
he was ordained Roman catholic bishop, 
Bardstown, Louisville, Ky. He died Feb. 
11, 1850, in Nazareth, Ky. 

FLAGG, EDMUND, lawyer, journalist, 
author, poet, was born Nov. 24, 1815, in 
Maine. He was a lawyer and journalist 
of St. Louis and elsewhere, living in West 
Salem, Va., in recent years. He was the 
author of Venice, the City of the Sea, a 
history, his most important work. Oth¬ 
er writings of his include North Italy 
since 1849; Commercial Relations of the 
United States; Blanche of Artois; and 

Edmond Dantes, a sequel to Monte 

Cristo. 

FLAGG, EDWARD OCTAVUS, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, poet, was born Dec. 18, 
1824, in Georgetown, S. C. He is a grand¬ 
son of Dr. Flagg, a 
surgeon in the war 
of the revolution; 
and the son of Henry 
C. Flagg, a lawyer 
and formerly mayor 
of New Haven, Conn. 
Previous to taking 
orders he studied 
law. After having 
pursued a course of 
civil engineering he 
entered Trinity col¬ 
lege, then studied 
divinity; and at the age of twenty-five 
was ordained deacon. On being admitted 
to the priesthood, he became rector of 
Trinity church of Norwich, Conn., and 
while there established a church at Yan- 
tie. Dr. Flagg has been the founder of 
several parishes; was rector of the New 
York All Saints’ church; and for six 


years was assistant of Grace church. For 
several years he was chaplain of the ninth 
regiment New York national guard. He 
has delivered a course of lectures on 
literature and history in New York and 
elsewhere. A collection of his poetical 
works was published in 1889; and six 
years later a second volume was issued, 
entitled Poems and Later Poems. He was 
made a doctor of law by St. John’s college 
of Annapolis in 1898. He is the author of 
Rejoice for Liberty, a patriotic hymn. 

FLAGG, GEORGE WHITING, artist, 
was born June 26, 1816, in New Haven, 
Conn. Among his pictures are Landing 
of the Pilgrims; Landing of the Atlantic 
Cable; and Columbus and the Egg. 

FLAGG, HENRY COLLINS, lawyer, 
journalist, was born Jan. 5, 1792, near 
Charleston, S. C. He took an active part 
in politics, opposing the federalist party 
in Connecticut, both as a public speaker 
and as editor and proprietor of the Con¬ 
necticut Herald. He died March 8, 1863, 
in New Haven, Conn. 

FLAGG, ISAAC, educator, author, was 
born in 1843 in Massachusetts. He was a 
professor of Greek at Cornell university 
in 1871-88, and has been a professor at the 
university of California since 1891. He is 
the author of The Hellenic Orations of 
Demosthenes; Versicles; The Seven 
Against Thebes, of HSschylus; and Iphige- 
nia among the Taurians, of Euripides. 

FLAGG, JARED BRADLEY, clergy¬ 
man, artist, author, was born June 16, 
1820, in New Haven, Conn. He studied 
for a short time with 
his brother George, 
and subsequently 
with his uncle, 
Washington Allston. 
When but sixteen 
years old he exhib¬ 
ited in the National 
Academy of Design a 
portrait of his father 
which received fa¬ 
vorable notice from 
the artists and art 
critics of the time. 
He settled in Hartford, where he became 
prominent as a portrait painter. He was 
called to the rectorship of Grace church 
of Brooklyn Heights, where he remained 
eight years. In his later life, while still 
pursuing his art, he devoted a portion 
of his time to literary work, and in 1892 
published his first book, The Life and 
Letters of Washington Allston. 

FLAGG, JOHN FOSTER BREWSTER, 
physician, author, was born May 12, 1804, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a Philadelphia 
physician; and the author of Ether and 
Chloroform and Their Employment in 
Surgery, Dentistry, Midwifery, etc. He 
died Sept. 8, 1872, in West Chester, Pa. 

FLAGG, RUFUS CUSHMAN, clergy¬ 
man, educator, was born Aug. 3, 1846. 
This eminent educator and clergyman is 
well known as the president of Ripon 
college of Wisconsin. 

FLAGG. WILLARD CUTTING, agricul¬ 
turist, was born Sept. 16, 1829, in Moro, 
Ill. He became prominent in local poli¬ 
tics, was collector of internal revenue for 
the twelfth district of Illinois in 1862-69, 
and a member of the state senate in 1869- 
73. He died March 30, 1878, in Moro, Ill. 

FLAGG, WILSON, naturalist, author, 
was born Nov. 5, 1805, in Beverly, Mass. 
He was a naturalist of Cambridge; and 
the author of Studies in the Field and 
Forest; Woods and By-Ways of New 
England; Halcyon Days; A Year among 
the Trees; and A Year among the Birds. 
He died May 6, 1884, in North Cambridge, 
Mass. 










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FLAGLER, HENRY N., oil producer, 
refiner, was born about 1830 in Canandai¬ 
gua, N. Y. When be was admitted to 
partnership in the oil refining firm of 
Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler of that 
city, his future was assured. The Stan¬ 
dard Oil Co. succeeded the firm to which 
Mr. Flagler belonged, and he has been 
prominently identified with its manage¬ 
ment since its organization. 

FLAIG, ANDREW, merchant, banker, 
was born Aug. 24, 1852, in Germany. He 
was the first mayor of the city of Colby, 
Wis., where he has held high positions in 
the public affairs of his county and state. 
He is a successful merchant and banker, 
and interested in various business enter¬ 
prises of his city. 

FLANAGAN, JAMES WINRIGHT, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, United States 
senator, was born Sept. 5, 1805, in Albe¬ 
marle, Va. He was a member of the state 
legislature in 1851 and 1852; and of the 
senate in 1855 and 1856. He was an elec¬ 
tor in 1857; and a member of the state 
constitutional conventions of 1866 and 
1868. He was elected to congress for the 
state at large in 1869; elected lieutenant- 
governor in 1869; and was elected to the 
United States senate for the term com¬ 
mencing in 1870, and ending in 1875. 

FLANAGAN, WEBSTER, farmer, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Jan. 9, 1832, in 
Cloverport, Ky. In 1851 he was admitted 
to the bar; and at 
the beginning of the 
civil war was com¬ 
missioned brigadier- 
general of volunteers 
in the confederate 
service. In 1865 he 
was appointed judge 
of the fifth judicial 
district of Texas. He 
was elected to the 
state constitutional 
convention in 1869; 
and two years later 
became lieutenant-governor of the state. 
In 1875 he served as a member of the 
Texas state senate. He has been a dele¬ 
gate to the republican conventions of 1872, 
1880, 1884, 1888, 1892, and 1896. In 1890 
he was candidate for governor of Texas; 
and in 1891 was appointed collector of 
customs for El Paso, which position he 
resigned in 1893. During 1876-80 he was 
president of the Henderson and Overton 
Railroad company. 

FLANDERS, ALVIN, journalist, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born in 1825 in 
Hopkinton, N. H. He took part in es¬ 
tablishing the San Francisco Daily Times, 
with which he was connected until 1861. 
Luring that year he was elected to the 
state legislature; spent two years in the 
United States branch mint; and in 1862 
was appointed register of the Humboldt 
Bay Land office, which office he resigned. 
He then removed to Washington terri¬ 
tory, from which he was elected a dele¬ 
gate to the fortieth congress. In 1869 he 
was appointed governor of Washington 
territory. 

FLANDERS, BENJAMIN FLANDERS, 
congressman, governor, was born Jan. 26, 
1816, in Bristol, N. H. He became the ed¬ 
itor of the Tropic newspaper of New Or¬ 
leans; served as a member of the city 
government; was superintendent of a 
public school, and also of a railroad com¬ 
pany. Towards the close of the year 1861 
he was elected, under a new order of 
things, a representative from Louisiana 
to the thirty-seventh congress, taking his 
seat within a fortnight of its final ad¬ 
journment; and in 1867 he was appointed, 
by military authority, governor of Louisi¬ 


ana. In 1870-73 he was mayor of New 
Orleans; and in 1873 was appointed 
United States treasurer of that city. 

FLANDERS, HENRY, lawyer, author, 
was born Feb. 13, 1826, in Plainfield, N. H. 
He is a lawyer of Philadelphia; and the 
author of Maritime Law; The Law of 
Shipping; Lives of the United States 
Chief Justices (1858); Memoirs of Cum¬ 
berland; Exposition of the United States 
Constitution; The Law of Fire Insurance; 
and Adventures of a Virginian. 

FLANDRAU, THOMAS MACOMB, phy¬ 
sician, was born July 8, 1826, in New York. 
He settled in Rome, N. Y., in 1853, making 
specialties of surgery. 

FLANDRAW, CHARLES E„ jurist, was 
born in New York. He removed to Min¬ 
nesota territory. He was appointed an 
associate justice of the United States court 
for that district. 

FLANNERY, JOHN, soldier, merchant, 
banker, was born Nov. 24, 1835, in Ire¬ 
land. He served in the civil war and at¬ 
tained the rank of captain. He has been 
president of the Savannah Cotton ex¬ 
change, and is president of the Southern 
bank of the state of Georgia. He is a 
leader in the cotton trade of the city of 
Savannah, Ga. 

FLANNIGAN, HARRIS, legislator, gov¬ 
ernor. He was for many years a lead¬ 
ing man in the state of Arkansas; a mem¬ 
ber of the last constitutional convention; 
and was elected governor of the state in 
1873. He died Oct. 23, 1874, in Arkadel- 
phia. 

FLASH, HENRY LYNDEN, soldier, 
poet, was born Jan. 20, 1835, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. In 1852 he graduated from the 
Western Military institute of Kentucky. 
He served in the confederate service dur¬ 
ing the civil war as a volunteer aide on 
the staffs of Gen. Hardee and Gen. Wheel¬ 
er. At the close of the war he edited The 
Confederate of Macon, Ga. During 1866- 
86 he was engaged in business in New Or¬ 
leans; and since 1887 has resided in Los 
Angeles, Cal. In 1860 he published a 
volume of poems; and has written ex¬ 
tensively under the pen names of Lynden 
Eclair and Harry Flash. 

FLAVIN, JOHN T., educator, was born 
Sept. 19, 1850, in Watertown, Wis. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education in 
the public schools, and graduated from 
the Northwestern university. He has been 
county superintendent of schools of Dodge 
county, Wis., for a quarter of a century, 
without interruption, and is well known 
throughout the state as a successful edu¬ 
cator. For seven years he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Wisconsin Teachers’ Reading 
circle, and contributes extensively to cur¬ 
rent literature on educational topics. 

FLEEGER, GEORGE W., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 13, 
1839, in Sutler county, Pa. He served in 
the union army as a lieutenant. He was 
a representative in the Pennsylvania leg¬ 
islature in 1871 and 1872; and in 1884, 
was elected a representative from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the forty-ninth congress as a 
republican. 

FLEET, THOMAS, printer, journalist, 
was born Sept. 8, 1685, in England. He 
was the father of the celebrated Mother 
Goose Melodies. He was the editor and 
proprietor of The Boston Evening Post 
from 1733, which was conducted until 
1757 by himself and two sons. He died 
July 21, 1758, in Boston, Mass. 

FLEISCHHAUER, ALFRED M.. mer¬ 
chant, state legislator, was born March 
31, 1867, in Canada. He is a successful 
merchant of Reed City, Minn.; and dur¬ 
ing 1897-98 served with distinction as a 
member of the Michigan house of repre¬ 
sentatives. 


FLEISCHMANN, CHARLES, merchant, 
manufacturer, state senator, was born 
Nov. 3, 1834, in Hungary. He originated 
the extensive establishment wnich manu¬ 
factures Fleischmann’s compressed yeast; 
is interested in numerous other business 
enterprises; and is the president of the 
Market National bank. In 1880 he was 
elected a member of the Ohio state senate; 
and in 1895 was re-elected to the same 
office. 

FLEMING, ANDREW MAGNUS, law¬ 
yer, author, was born April 2, 1858, in 
Plymouth, Mass. He is a prominent law¬ 
yer of Delaware county, Iowa, and is the 
author of Joe Bowers; Captain Kiddle 
Wreckleback’s Hotel; and Gleanings of a 
Tyro Bard. 


FLEMING, DAVID C., educator, public 
officer, was born March 22, 1855, in Hunt¬ 
ington, Ind. He was a farmer and teacher 
until 1883 in his native state, and then 
emigrated to Colorado. He has been 
county superintendent of schools and 
has filled numerous other public offices in 
Sterling, Col. 

FLEMING, FRANCIS P., soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Sept. 28, 1841, in Pana¬ 
ma, Fla. He served in the civil war and 
attained the rank of first lieutenant. He 
was elected governor of Florida in 1888, 
and was inaugurated in 1889. 

FLEMING, JOHN, printer. He was one 
of the publishers of the Boston Chronicle 
in 1767, the first paper that was published 
twice a week in New England. 

FLEMING, JOHN, lawyer, was born 
June 1, 1842, in Ireland. In 1883 he was 
appointed by Governor Cleveland as dis¬ 
trict attorney of Queens county, N. Y., 
and was then elected to the same office 
for three years. He was again appointed 
to that office in 1887 by Governor Hill; 
and was subsequently elected twice to that 
position. He is one of the foremost crim¬ 
inal lawyers in the state of New York. 

FLEMING, LUCY WARD RANDOLPH, 
author, poet, was born in 1847 in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. She is the author of Alice 
Withrow; and Talks to Little Mission¬ 
aries; and since her youth has contrib¬ 
uted articles of interest on foreign mis¬ 
sions, church work and domestic duties. 

FLEMING, MRS. MAY AGNES EARLY, 
author, was born in 1840 in New Bruns¬ 
wick. She was a prolific author of sensa¬ 
tional romances, some of which were is¬ 
sued under the pseudonym of Cousin May 
Carleton. Among them are Guy Earls- 
court’s Wife; Lost for a Woman; and 
Pride and Passion. She died in 1880. 




FLEMING, ARETAS BROOKS, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, was born Oct. 29, 1839, in 
Fairmont, W. Va. He was a member of 
the house of dele¬ 
gates of the West 
Virginia legislature 
in 1872, and again in 
1875. During 1878- 
89 he was judge of 
the judicial circuit 
court of West Vir¬ 
ginia. He was elect¬ 
ed governor of West 
Virginia, his term of 
office to commence 
March 4, 1889, but he 
did not get the office 
until Feb. 6, 1890, owing to the noted 
gubernatorial contest for the office before 
the legislature in 1889 and 1890, wherein 
he was contestant and General Nathan 
Goff was contestee. He served with dis¬ 
tinction as governor until March 4, 1893. 
He is one of the leading lawyers of the 
south, and is interested in extensive coal 
mines in the upper Monongahela Valley. 




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FLEMING, MAYBURY, dramatic critic. 
He is a dramatic critic, on the editorial 
staff of the New York Mail and Express. 

FLEMING, THOMAS, soldier, was born 
in 1727, in Botetourt county, Va. He was 
a revolutionary soldier, and attained the 
rank of colonel. He died in August, 1776. 

FLEMING, WILLIAM, jurist, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1734. He became judge 
of the general court and presiding judge 
of the court of appeals; and served as a 
delegate from Virginia to the continental 
congress in 1779-81. He died February 2, 
1824. 

FLEMING, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1866, in 
Augusta, Ga. He was elected superintend¬ 
ent of the public schools of Augusta' and 
Richmond county, Ga., in 1877-80. He 
was elected to the state legislature from 
Richmond county in 1888, 1890, and 1892, 
and again elected in 1894, and was speaker 
of the house. He was elected president 
of the Georgia State Bar association in 
1894, and at the annual meeting in 1895 
delivered an address on the Ethics of the 
Bar in Relation to the State. He was 
chosen in 1895 grand commander of the 
Knights Templar for the state of Georgia, 
and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a democrat. 

FLEMING, WILLIAM MAYBURY, 
actor, was born Sept. 29, 1817, in Danbury, 
Conn. He became known chiefly for his 
personations of Romeo, Claude Melnotte, 
Edgar , in King Lear, the Bastard in King 
John, Hamlet, Richelieu, Sir Giles Over¬ 
reach, Sir Edward Mortimer, Mathias in 
The Bells, Rolla, Jack Cade, and a few 
special roles of poetic character. He died 
May 7, 1866, in New York. 

FLEMING, WILLI AMIN A PATON, as¬ 
tronomer, author, was born May 15, 1857, 
in Scotland. In 1879 she became connected 
with the Harvard college observatory. 
She is the author of a work entitled An¬ 
nals of the Observatory. 

FLENNIKER, ROBERT P., jurist, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed 
a justice of the United States court for 
the territory of Utah, residing at Salt 
Lake City, 

FLETCHER, ALICE CUNNINGHAM, 
ethnologist, was born about 1845 in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. Under the care of the Wom¬ 
an’s National Indian association, Miss 
Fletcher established a system by which 
small sums of money were lent to such 
Indians as wished to buy tracts of land 
and build houses. She has published nu¬ 
merous papers and monographs. 

FLETCHER, ASAPH, physician, was 
born June 28, 1746, in Westford, Mass. 
He was elected in 1780 to the convention 
that framed the constitution of Massa¬ 
chusetts, and labored earnestly to intro¬ 
duce into that instrument the principle of 
absolute freedom of worship. He died 
Jan. 5, 1839, in Cavendish, Vt. 

FLETCHER, AUSTIN BARCLAY, law¬ 
yer, was born March 13, 1852, in Mendon, 
Mass. He was treasurer and later presi¬ 
dent of the leading corporation in the 
wool and leather business in New York 
city. 

FLETCHER, BENJAMIN. He was gov¬ 
ernor of New York, and lived in the 
seventeenth century. 

FLETCHER, CHARLES, manufacturer, 
was born Nov. 20, 1840, in England. He 
has erected one building after another, 
until six large mills now stand upon the 
grounds of the Providence Worsted Mill 
company. Other industrial interests have 
been managed and promoted by him, in¬ 
cluding the Saranac, the National and the 
Fulton Worsted mills, and in 1886 he 
bought the Narragansett hotel, the prin¬ 
cipal public house in Providence. 


FLETCHER, DUNCAN UPSHAW, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Jan. 6, 1859, in 
Sumter county, Ga. He is a successful 
lawyer of Jacksonville, Fla.; was presi¬ 
dent of the city council in 1889-91; mayor 
of that city in 1893-95; and in 1893 served 
with distinction as a member of the Flori¬ 
da state legislature. 

FLETCHER, GEORGE HENRY, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Feb. 18, 1860, in 
Mankato, Minn. In 1881 he graduated 
from the university of Michigan with the 
degree of B. A.; and in 1883 was admit¬ 
ted to the practice of law in Minneapolis, 
Minn. During 1887-91 he was president of 
the Union League of Minneapolis; and in 
1893 served with distinction as a member 
of the Minnesota house of representatives, 
and was chairman of the judiciary com¬ 
mittee. 

FLETCHER, GEORGE NICHOLS, lum¬ 
berman, was born Dec. 13,1813, in Ludlow, 
Vt. He is president of the International 
Sulphite Fiber and Paper company of De¬ 
troit, and of the Rumford Falls Power 
company of Maine. He is also working 
gold mines in Arizona. 

FLETCHER, HORACE, clergyman, was 
born Oct. 28, 1796, in Cavendish, Vt. He 
was one of the most useful and respected 
ministers in his native state. He was 
chosen state senator in 1855. He died No¬ 
vember 27, 1871. 

FLETCHER, ISAAC, congressman. He 
was formerly a member of the Vermont 
legislature; was a member of congress 
from that state from 1837 to 1841. He 
died Oct. 19, 1842, in Lyndon, Vt. 

FLETCHER, JAMES COOLEY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1823 in Indian¬ 
apolis, Ind. He is a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man, missionary to Brazil in 1851-54, and 
author with D. P. Kidder of the once 
very popular work, Brazil and the Bra¬ 
zilians, which first appeared in 1857, and 
reached an eighth edition in 1868. 

FLETCHER, JOSIAH MOODY, manu¬ 
facturer, poet, was born Jan. 14, 1828, in 
Halifax, Mass. In 1843 he engaged in the 
bookselling and publishing business in 
Nashua, N. H.; and since 1854 has been 
engaged in the manufacture of furniture. 
He is president of the Fletcher and Web¬ 
ster Furniture company, and proprietor 
of the Nashua Novelty works. He is the 
editor of several gift books, and in 1890 
published a volume of poems entitled A 
Thousand Songs of Life, Love, Home and 
Heaven. 

FLETCHER, JULIA CONSTANCE 
(GEORGE FLEMING), author, was born 
in 1859. She is a novelist whose home' 
is in Rome, and is the author of Kismet; 
The Head of Medusa; Mirage; Vestigia; 
Andromeda; The Truth About Clement 
Ker; and For Plain Women Only. 

FLETCHER, LOREN, manufacturer, 
merchant, state senator, congressman, 
was born April 10, 1833, in Mount Ver¬ 
non, Maine. He was elected to the state 
legislature in 1872 and re-elected seven 
times; the last three terms served as 
speaker, having been unanimously elected 
the last term. He was elected to the 
fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and 
re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress. 

FLETCHER, MILES J.. was born in 
1828, in Indianapolis, Ind. In 1860 he was 
elected superintendent of public instruc¬ 
tion for the state of Indiana. 

FLETCHER, RICHARD, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 
1788, in Cavendish, Vt. He was a member 
of the Massachusetts legislature; a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1837 to 1839, 
and judge of the supreme court of Mas¬ 
sachusetts from 1848 to 1853. He died 
June 21, 1869, in Boston, Mass. 


FLETCHER, ROBERT, anthropologist, 
author, was born in 1823, in England. He 
is an eminent anthropologist of Washing¬ 
ton and the author of Paul Broca and the 
French School of Anthropology; Prehis¬ 
toric Trephining and Cranial Amulets; 
Human Proportion in Art and Anthro¬ 
pometry; Some Recent Experiments in 
Serpent Venom; The New School of 
Criminal Anthropology; and Tattooing 
Among Civilized People. 

FLETCHER, RYLAND, state senator, 
governor, was born Feb. 18, 1799, in Cav¬ 
endish, Vt. He was governor of Vermont 
from 1856 to 1858; served in each branch 
of the legislature of Vermont; and was a 
presidential elector in 1864. He died Dec. 
19, 1885, in Proctorsville, Vt. 

FLETCHER, THOMAS, soldier, con¬ 
gressman. He was a member of the Ken¬ 
tucky legislature from Montgomery coun¬ 
ty in 1803, 1805, and 1806; and was a gen¬ 
eral in the war of 1812. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Kentucky in 
1816 and 1817; and again a member of the 
legislature in 1817, 1820, 1821, and 1825. 

FLETCHER, THOMAS CLEMENT, sol¬ 
dier, governor, was born Jan. 21, 1827, in 
Jefferson county, Mo. In 1865-69 he was 
governor of Missouri, and issued the proc¬ 
lamation abolishing slavery in that state. 

FLETCHER, WILLIAM BALDWIN, 
physician, author, was born Aug. 18, 1837, 
in Indianapolis, Ind. He is a physician, 
and since 1883 has been superintendent 
of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane. 
He is the author of Cholera, Its Charac¬ 
teristics, History, etc. 

FLETT, FLORENCE LILLIAN GIL¬ 
LETTE, dramatist, poet, was born Oct. 3, 
1851, near Birmingham, Mich. She is the 
only child of Mrs. Lucia Fidelia Woolley 
Gillette, an eminent divine and poet. She 
received a thorough education in music 
and in languages; was a successful teach¬ 
er; and attained success in the dramatic 
profession in England, the continent and 
the United States. After her marriage to 
Mr. George A. Flett of England, she re¬ 
tired to domestic life. In conjunction 
with her mother she has published a vol¬ 
ume entitled Floating Leaves. 

FLICK, JAMES P., soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 28, 1845, in 
Bakerstown, Pa. He was a member of 
the seventeenth general assembly of Iowa; 
and served as district attorney of the 
third judicial district of Iowa for six 
years. He was elected to the fifty-first 
congress, and re-elected to the fifty-sec¬ 
ond congress as a republican. 

FLICKINGER, DANIEL KRUMLER. 
clergyman, bishop, author, was born in 
1824, in Sevenmile, Ohio. He is a clergy¬ 
man' belonging to the sect of united 
brethren, and since 1885 a foreign mis¬ 
sionary bishop of that faith. He is the 
author of Off-hand Sketches of Men and 
Things in Western Africa; Ethiopia; and 
The Church’s Marching Orders. 

FLICKINGER, SAMUEL JACOB, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Feb. 14, 1848, near Mill¬ 
ville, Ohio. For two years he was tele¬ 
graph editor of the 
Dayton Journal; and 
in 1878 became a re¬ 
porter on the Ohio 
State Journal of Co¬ 
lumbus. In 1884 he 
assumed charge of 
that publication as 
managing editor, 
and his life work is 
shown in that jour¬ 
nal. He is consid¬ 
ered an authority on 
Ohio politics, and 
renders good service to the republican 
committees. 




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FLIESS, WILLIAM MAYNARD, cap¬ 
italist, was born Sept. 7, 1833, in Prussia. 
He was one of the first capitalists to open 
mines in Utah. He i3 president of the 
California Mining and Water company; 
the Hollywood Distillery company; and 
of the St. Joseph and Kansas railroad. 

FLINT, ABEL, clergyman, author, was 
born Aug. 6,1765, in Windham, Conn. He 
was a congregational clergyman of Hart¬ 
ford, who published a Geometry and Tri¬ 
gonometry, with a Treatise on Surveying. 
He died March 7, 1825, in Hartford, Conn. 

FLINT, ALBERT STOWELL, astron¬ 
omer, was born Sept. 12, 1853, in Salem, 
Mass. He has been computer of the 
United States transit of Venus commis¬ 
sion at Washington, D. C.; and is now 
assistant astronomer at the Washburn 
Observatory of the university of Wiscon¬ 
sin. 

FLINT, AUSTIN, physician, author, 
was born Oct. 20, 1812, in Petersham, 
Mass. He was a distinguished physician 
of New York city who held professorships 
in several New York medical colleges, 
and was the author of Practice of Medi¬ 
cine; Continued Fever; Chronic Pleurisy; 
Dysentery; Physical Explanation and 
Diagnosis of Diseases of the Respiratory 
Organs; Diseases of the Heart; Essays on 
Conservative Medicine; Phthisis; Clinical 
Medicine; Manual of Auscultation and 
Percussion; Medical Ethics and Eti¬ 
quette; and Medicine of the Future. He 
died March 13, 1886, in New York city. 

FLINT, AUSTIN, physician, author, 
was born March 28, 1836, in Northamp¬ 
ton, Mass. He is an eminent physician 
of New York city, connected with several 
hospitals and medical colleges, and is the 
author of Text-Book of Human Physiol¬ 
ogy; Manual of Chemical Examinations 
of Urine in Disease; Physiological Effects 
of Severe and Protracted Muscular Exer¬ 
cise; The Source of Muscular Power; and 
Physiology of Man. 

FLINT, CHARLES LOUIS, author, was 
born May 8, 1824, in Middleton, Mass. 
He was secretary of the Massachusetts 
board of agriculture in 1853-81, and one 
of the founders of the Massachusetts Ag¬ 
ricultural college. He is the author of 
The Agriculture of Massachusetts; Grass 
and Forage Plants; Milch Cows and 
Dairy Farming; and Manual of Agricul¬ 
ture. 

FLINT, CHARLES RANLETT, mer¬ 
chant, was born Jan. 24, 1850, in Thomas- 
ton, Maine. In 1871 he organized the firm 
of Gilchrist, Flint 
and Company, ship- 
chandlers; and in 
1872 established the 
firm of W. R. Grace 
and Company, trans¬ 
acting a general 
shipping and com¬ 
mission business 
with the west coast 
of South America, 
principally Peru. In 
1876 he was appoint¬ 
ed consul in New 
York for the republic of Chili; and in 
1880 he became president of the United 
States Electric Lighting company. In 
1876 he established a business in Peru; 
and in 1884 established a large rubber 
business on the Amazon. In 1885 he en¬ 
tered the firm of Flint and Company, 
composed of his father, Benjamin Flint; 
and his brother, Wallace Benjamin Flint; 
and of this firm he is now senior member. 
He is a director of several railroad and 
steamship companies, and of various 
financial institutions; and was recently 
elected one of the council of the univer¬ 
sity of the city of New York. 


FLINT, DAVID BOARDMAN, mer¬ 
chant, was born May 1, 1816, in Troy, 
N. H. He is the founder of the well 
known firm of Flint and Hall, dealers in 
lumber. He built the Channing Chapel 
of Winter Harbor, Maine, and deeded it 
to the American Unitarian association. 

FLINT, HENRY, educator, author, was 
born in 1675, in Dorchester, Mass. He 
was appointed a fellow of Harvard col¬ 
lege in 1700, and in 1705-54 was a tutor 
there. He died Feb. 13, 1760. 

FLINT, HENRY MARTYN, journalist, 
author, was born March 24, 1829, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a journalist of Chi¬ 
cago, and the author of Life of Stephen A. 
Douglas; History and Statistics of United 
States Railroads; and Mexico Under Max¬ 
imilian. He died Dec. 12, 1868, in Cam¬ 
den, N. J. 

FLINT, JACOB, clergyman, author, was 
born Aug. 7, 1767, in Reading, Mass. He 
published a history of Cohasset in the 
Massachusetts historical collection, and 
two discourses on the history of Cohasset. 
He died Oct. 11, 1835, in Marshfield, Mass. 

FLINT, JOSHUA BARKER, educator, 
surgeon, author, was born Oct. 13, 1801, 
in Cohasset, Mass. He was a surgeon of 
Boston and subsequently of Louisville, 
where he was professor of surgery in the 
Kentucky school of medicine from 1849 
till his death. He published The Practice 
of Medicine. He died March 19, 1864, in 
Louisville, Ky. 

FLINT, MICAH P., lawyer, poet, was 
born in 1807, in Lunenburg, Mass. He 
was the author of The Hunter, and Other 
Poems. He died in 1830. 

FLINT, TIMOTHY, clergyman, author, 
was born July 11, 1780, in Reading, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
New England. His most important work 
in some respects, the Geography and His¬ 
tory of the Mississippi Valley, materially 
advanced the settlement of that region. 
His other works include Recollections of 
Ten Years in thef Valley of the Missis¬ 
sippi; Indian Wars in the West; Memoir 
of Daniel Boone; Lectures on Natural 
History, etc. Fiction: Francis Berrian; 
Arthur Clenning; George Mason; and 
The Shoshonee Valley. He died Aug. 16, 
1840, in Salem, Mass. 

FLINT, WALLACE BENJAMIN, ship¬ 
ping merchant, was born Oct. 10, 1863, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1888 he was admitted 
to partnership by his father in the firm of 
Flint and Co., commission merchants, of 
which he is yet a member. He has been 
the consul of Uruguay in New York. 

FLIPPIN, MANLIUS T., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, poet, was born July 29, 1841, 
in Monroe county, Ky. After receiving 
his education he 
taught school for 
eight years; and was 
admitted to the bar 
in 1865. He has 
served several ses¬ 
sions as a repub¬ 
lican member of the 
Kentucky state leg¬ 
islature. In 1874 he 
was elected judge of 
the county court for 
four years; received 
the re-election in 
1878, and again in 1886. He has practiced 
law with success at Tompkinsville, the 
county seat of his native county; and has 
held various positions of public trust in 
his county and state. He is the author of 
a volume entitled Poems and Addresses, 
published by the American Publishers’ 
association of Chicago, Ill.; and has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature. 


FLITCRAFT, ALLEN J., educator, 
journalist, author, was born May 14, 1854, 
in Woodstown, N. J. For many years he 
was engaged in educational work, and be¬ 
came superintendent of public schools of 
Doylestown, Pa. In 1878 he was made 
a special agent of the Provident Life and 
Trust company, and traveled in its inter¬ 
ests throughout the .eastern states. He 
has ever since been identified with insur¬ 
ance business, and in 1888 published a 
work on insurance which became very 
popular; and subsequently issued a valu¬ 
able work entitled Life Insurance Manual, 
which has run through many editions; 
and he has since published other works 
on insurance lines. He is the editor and 
owner of The-Life Insurance Courant, one 
of the leading publications of its kind. 

FLOHR, GEORGE DANIEL, clergy¬ 
man, was born in 1759, in Germany. He 
was licensed to preach by the synod of 
Pennsylvania, and immediately engaged 
in missionary service in southwestern 
Virginia. He died in 1826, in Wytheville, 
Va. 

FLOOD, HENRY DELAWARE, lawyer, 
state senator, was born Sept. 2, 1865, in 
Appomattox, Va. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the schools of 
Appomattox and Richmond; and grad¬ 
uated from the Washington and Lee uni¬ 
versity, and the university of Virginia. 
In 1887-91 he served as a member of the 
Virginia house of delegates; and in 1891 
was elected a member of the state senate; 
and subsequently was the democratic 
nominee for congress, but was defeated 
by a majority of only forty-eight. He 
has attained success as an able lawyer 
of his native city; and has served with 
distinction as commonwealth attorney of 
his county. 

FLOOD. JAMES CLAIR, capitalist, was 
born in 1825, in Ireland. He made money 
by speculating in mining stock, and sev¬ 
eral years later formed a partnership 
with James G. Fair and John W. Mackay, 
who were then young miners. Flood and 
O’Brien agreed to furnish money for tools 
and outfit, while Fair and Mackay pros¬ 
pected in the Sierras. The result was 
the discovery of the Comstock lode, 
which made them four of the wealthiest 
men in the world. They subsequently es¬ 
tablished the Nevada bank in San Fran¬ 
cisco. He died Feb. 21, 1888, in Germany. 

FLOOD, THOMAS S., business man, 
congressman, was born April 12, 1844, in 
Lodi, N. Y. He was elected to the fiftieth 
and fifty-first congresses as a republican. 

FLOOK, JACOB, clergyman, poet, was 
born April 18, 1855, in England. He has 
filled pastorates in the congregational 
churches at New Haven. Mich.; Atlanta, 
Ga.; Cambridge, Ill.; and Indianola, Neb. 
He is the author of a number of poems. 

FLORENCE, ELIAS, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He having taken up his 
residence in Ohio, was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1843 to 1845. 

FLORENCE, THOMAS BIRCH, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, was born Jan. 26, 
1812, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1850 he was 
elected to congress, where he served con¬ 
tinuously until 1861. He established and 
edited, in Washington, a Sunday paper 
called the Gazette. He died July 3, 1875, 
in Washington, D. C. 

FLORENCE, WILLIAM JERMYN, act¬ 
or, was born July 26, 1831, in Albany, 
N. Y. He made his first appearance in 
Richmond in 1849, as Peter in The 
Stranger, and ^oon acquired distinction 
as a versatile comic actor. He died Nov. 
19, 1891, in Philadelphia, Pa. 





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FLOURNOY, THOMAS STANHOPE, 
soldier, congressman, was born in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1847 to 1849; 
and participated in the great rebellion. 
He died March 13, 1883, in Pittsylvania 
county, Va. 

FLOWER. BENJAMIN ORANGE, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1859, in Illi¬ 
nois. He is the author of Civilization’s 
Inferno, or Studies in the Social Cellar; 
Lessons Learned from Other Lives; The 
New Time; Persons, Places and Ideas; 
The Century of Sir Thomas More; and 
Gerald Massey, Poet, Prophet, and Mys¬ 
tic. 

FLOWER. FRANK ABIAL, curator, 
author, was born May 11, 1854, in Cottage, 
N. Y. He is a Wisconsin statistician, 
curator of the state historical society, and 
the author of Old Abe, the Wisconsin 
War Eagle; Life of Matthew H. Carpen¬ 
ter; and History of the Republican Party. 

FLOWER, GEORGE, pioneer, was born 
about 1780, in England. He founded the 
city of Albion; and built the first build¬ 
ing, of the log cabin order, being a tavern 
and blacksmith shop combined. He died 
Jan. 15, 1862, in Grayville, Ill. 

FLOWER, ROSWELL PETTABONE, 
merchant, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 
1835, in Theresa, N. Y. He was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; 
declined a renomination. He gave fifty 
thousand dollars to the St. Thomas Home 
of New York city. 

FLOWERS, SAMUEL BRYCE, soldier, 
physician, was born Oct. 31, 1835, in 
Wayne county, S. C. He served as sur¬ 
geon in the confederate army during the 
civil war. He has contributed to the Phil¬ 
adelphia Medical and Surgical Reports, 
and to the Virginia Medical Monthly. 

FLOY, JAMES, clergyman, botanist, 
author, was born Aug. 20, 1806, in New 
York city. He was a methodist clergy¬ 
man of New York city; prominent as a 
botanist and as an anti-slavery leader, 
and the author of Guide to the Orchard 
and Fruit Garden; Occasional Sermons, 
etc.; and Literary Remains. He died 
Oct. 14, 1863, in New York city. 

FLOYD, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, 
journalist, was born Nov. 16, 1857, in 
Granville county, N. C. He is the editor 
of the Daily News of Chattanooga, Tenn. 

FLOYD, CHARLES A., congressman, 
was born in New York. He served in the 
assembly of that state in 1836 and 1838; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1841 to 1843. 

FLOYD, DAVID RICHARD FLOYD- 
JONES, lawyer, state senator, lieutenant- 
governor, was born in 1813. He was a 
member of assembly for New York in 
1841, 1843, and in 1857; state senator in 
1844-47; and lieutenant-governor of New 
York in 1863-64. He died Jan. 8, 1871. 

FLOYD, ESCAR, lawyer, was born July 
22, 1873, in Pittsburg. He received his ed¬ 
ucation in the common schools, Bellview 
academy, and the university of Virginia. 
He has attained success as an able lawyer 
of Birmingham, Ala., where he takes a 
prominent part in the public affairs of 
his county and state. 

FLOYD, JOHN, soldier, congressman, 
was born Oct. 3, 1769, in Beaufort, S. C. 
He was brigadier-general of militia from 
1813-14; and subsequently major-general. 
He served several terms in the state leg¬ 
islature; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Georgia from 1827 to 1829. 
He died June 24, 1839, in Camden county, 
Ga. 


FLOYD, JOHN, congressman, governor, 
was born in 1770, in Jefferson county, Va. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1817 to 1829; served many 
years in the legislature of that state; and 
was governor of Virginia from 1829 to 
1834. He died Aug. 16, 1837, in Sweet 
Springs, Va. 

FLOYD, JOHN B., soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, governor, was born June 1, 1807, in 
Blacksburg, Va. From 1847 to 1849 he 
served in the Virginia legislature; and. 
was governor of Virginia from 1849 to 
1852. He was secretary of war in the ad¬ 
ministration of President Buchanan. He 
was one of the first to join the rebellion, 
in which he took a leading part as a brig¬ 
adier-general. He died Aug. 26, 1863, in 
Abingdon, Va. 

FLOYD, JOHN G., congressman, was 
born in New York. He served in the as¬ 
sembly of that state; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York 
from 1839 to 1843, and from 1851 to 1853. 

FLOYD, RICHARD, colonist, was born 
about 1620, in Wales. He was the first of 
the Floyd family on Long Island, and a 
man of intelligence and vigor. He died 
about 1690, in Setauket, N. Y. 

FLOYD, RICHARD, soldier, jurist, was 
born May 12, 1661, in Setauket, N. Y. 
He was appointed judge of the common 
pleas in 1723, and was also colonel of the 
militia of Suffolk county. He died Feb. 
28, 1737, in Setauket, N. Y. 

FLOYD, RICHARD, legislator, was 
born Dec. 29, 1703. He served in the state 
legislature in 1847-49 and 1853, and was 
governor of Virginia in 1850-53. 

FLOYD, RICHARD, jurist, was born in 
1736. He was judge of the common pleas 
in 1764, and colonel of the militia of Suf¬ 
folk county. He died June 30, 1791, in 
New Brunswick, Maine. 

FLOYD, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born Dec. 17, 1734, in Brookhaven, N. Y. 
He was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1774 to 1783, and signed the 
Declaration of Independence. He was a 
representative in congress from New 
York from 1789 to 1791; and was for three 
years a member of the New York state 
senate. He died Aug. 4, 1821, in Oneida 
county, N. Y. 

FLUGLER, THOMAS T., congressman, 
was born in New York. He served in the 
assembly of that state in 1842 and 1843; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1853 to 1857. 

FLUSSER, CHARLES W., naval officer, 
was born in 1833, in Annapolis, Md. In 
1847 he was a midshipman; and in 1861 
took command of the gunboat Commo¬ 
dore Perry. He subsequently took part 
in the shelling of Franklin, Va. He was 
killed April 18, 1864, in a naval engage¬ 
ment near Plymouth, N. C. 

FLYE, EDWIN, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born March 4, 1817, in New¬ 
castle, Maine. He was a member of the 
state house of representatives in 1858; 
and was elected a representative from 
Maine to the forty-fourth congress, to fill 
a vacancy. 

FLYNN, DENNIS T., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 13, 1862, in 
Phoenixville, Pa. He removed to Okla¬ 
homa territory in 1889, and was commis¬ 
sioned postmaster of the city of Guthrie, 
which position he still held when elected 
a delegate to the fifty-third congress. 
He was re-elected to the fifty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 


FLYNN, PATRICK, soldier, business 
man, was born May 11, 1834, in Ireland. 
In 1844 he emigrated to America; received 
his education in the 
Buffalo schools, and 
removed to Rock¬ 
ford, Ill., in 1859. In 
1861-62 he recruited 
and raised two full 
companies for the 
nineteenth regiment 
Illinois volunteer in¬ 
fantry. He was the 
original captain of 
the Mulligan guards; 
served under Gen¬ 
eral Sherman; and 
was severely wounded at the battle of 
Ezra’s Church, near Atlanta, in 1854; 
and was promoted to major. He has 
served as sheriff of Winnebago county, 
Ill., for two terms; and for twenty-eight 
years has been connected with the Rock¬ 
ford Insurance company. 

FOBES, PEREZ, educator, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 21, 1752, in Bridge- 
water, Mass. He was the author of Topo¬ 
graphical Description of Raynham, Mass.; 
and other historical works. He died 
Feb. 23, 1812, in Bridgewater, Mass. 

FOBES, PHILENA, educator, was born 
Sept. 10, 1811, in Onondaga county, N. Y. 
In 1843 she was chosen principal of Mon- 
ticello seminary, holding that position 
until 1866. 

FOGG, GEORGE G., lawyer, diplomat, 
United States senator, was born May 26, 
1815, in Meredith, N. H. In 1846 he was 
elected to the state legislature, and soon 
afterwards secretary of state, when he 
became editor oi the Independent Demo¬ 
crat. In 1861 he was appointed minister 
resident to Switzerland, returning in No¬ 
vember, 1865; and in 1866 was appointed a 
senator in congress from New Hamp¬ 
shire, to fill a vacancy. He died Oct. 5, 
1881, in Concord, N. H. 

FOGO, WILLIAM, soldier, journalist, 
state legislator, was born June 18, 1841, 
in Columbiana county, Ohio. He served 
as a soldier during the civil war. After 
the war he resumed newspaper work, and 
is now one of the veteran editors of Wis¬ 
consin. He has also served as a member 
of the Wisconsin state legislature. 

FOLEY, JAMES B., congressman, was 
born in Kentucky. Having taken up his 
residence in Indiana, he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
in 1827. 

FOLEY, JOHN SAMUEL, Roman cath¬ 
olic bishop, was born Nov. 5, 1833, in 
Baltimore, Md. He was commissioned by 
Archbishop Spalding to establish a new 
congregation in the western part of Balti¬ 
more, and built for it the church of St. 
Martin, one of the finest in the ci'ty, also 
taking an active interest in educational 
matters. 

FOLEY, MARGARET E., sculptor, was 
born in New Hampshire. She made por¬ 
trait busts of S. C. Hall, Charles Sumner, 
and Theodore Parker. She executed 
cameo work, medallions of William and 
Mary Howitt, Longfellow, Bryant; and 
ideal statues of Cleopatra, Excelsior, and 
Jeremiah. She died in 1877, in Austria. 

FOLEY, STEPHEN A., lawyer, jurist, 
banker, was born Aug. 27, 1840, in Logan 
county, Ill. For nine years he was county 
judge, and a resident at Lincoln, which is 
the county seat; he declined office there¬ 
after, and has since operated in land with 
success. The Lincoln National bank is 
managed by him as president, and the 
stocks of local gas and electric light com¬ 
panies. 



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FOLEY, THOMAS, Roman catholic 
bishop, was born in 1823, in Baltimore,Md. 
After 1848 he was chancellor of the arch¬ 
diocese of Baltimore; in 1867 he was ap¬ 
pointed vicar-general, and subsequently 
of the diocese of Chicago, Ill. He died 
in 1879, in Baltimore, Md. 

FOLGER, CHARLES JAMES, lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 16, 1818, in Nan¬ 
tucket, Mass. In 1844 he was appointed 
first judge of the court of common pleas 
of Ontario county; and was elected coun¬ 
ty judge of Ontario county in 18ol. He 
was elected a state senator in 1861, and 
was four times re-elected. He resigned 
in 1869 and was appointed United States 
assistant treasurer at New York city. He 
was elected associate judge of the state 
court of appeals in 1870, and served until 
1880; was then chief judge of that court; 
and resigned in 1881 on being appointed 
secretary of the United States treasury. 
He died Sept. 4, 1884, in Geneva, N. Y. 

FOLGER, PETER, author, was born in 
1617, in England. He settled successively 
at Watertown, Martha’s Vineyard, and in 
1663 at Nantucket. He is remembered as 
the author of A Looking-Glass for the 
Times, a ballad. He died in 1690, in Nan¬ 
tucket, Mass. 

FOLGER, WALTER, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 12, 1765, in Nan¬ 
tucket, Mass. He was a member of the 
Massachusetts senate from 1809 to 1815, 
and also in 1822; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 
1817 to 1821. He died Sept. 8, 1849. 

FOLLEN, CHARLES THEODORE 
CHRISTIAN, educator, author, was born 
Sept. 4, 1796, in Germany. He was a 
German scholar who came to America in 
1824. He was German instructor at Har¬ 
vard university in 1830-34, but lost his 
position on account of his anti-slavery 
opinions, and in 1836 was ordained as a 
Unitarian clergyman. He published a 
German Reader; and Practical German 
Grammar. He died Jan. 13, 1840, in 
Long Island Sound. 

FOLLEN, MRS. ELIZA LEE CABOT, 
author, was born Aug. 1, 1787, in Boston, 
Mass. She was a popular author for 
many years, and the author of Sketches 
of Married Life; Twilight Stories, a vol¬ 
ume of excellent juvenile tales. The Well- 
spent Hour; The Skeptic; Poems; To 
Mothers in the Free States; Anti-Slavery 
Hymns and Songs; Home Dramas; Little 
Songs for Little People; and The Old 
Garret Stories. She died Jan. 26, 1860, in 
Brookline, Mass. 

FOLLETT, DAVID LYMAN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born July 17, 1836, in Sher¬ 
burne, N. Y. In 1874 he was elected a jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court; and has been 
chief judge of the court of appeals of the 
state of New York. 

FOLLETT, JOHN F., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Franklin county, Vt. 
He was elected a representative in the 
Ohio state legisla¬ 
ture in 1865, and re¬ 
elected in 1868. In 
the latter year he 
was nominated for 
the speakership by 
acclamation, and 
was elected. He re¬ 
moved to Cincinnati 
the same year, con¬ 
tinuing the practice 
of his profession; 
and in 1882 was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive from Ohio to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress. 


FOLSOM, ABBY, reformer, author, was 
born about 1792, in England. She came 
to the United States about 1837, became 
noted as an advocate of anti-slavery re¬ 
form, and published a Letter from a Mem¬ 
ber of the Boston Bar to an Avaricious 
Landlord. She died in 1867, in Rochester, 
N. Y. 

FOLSOM, CHARLES, scholar, was born 
Dec. 24, 1794, in Exeter, N. H. He be¬ 
came chaplain in the United States navy, 
and midshipman’s teacher of mathematics 
on the ship Washington in 1816. He was 
charge d’affaires in Tunis in 1817-19. He 
died Nov. 8, 1872, in Cambridge, Mass. 

FOLSOM, CHARLES FOLLEN, physi¬ 
cian, educator, author, was born April 3, 
1842, in Haverhill, Mass. He is a phy¬ 
sician of Boston, and a professor in the 
Harvard Medical school in 1877-85. He 
is the author of Mental Diseases; and 
Present Aspect of the Sewage Question 
Applied to Boston. 

FOLSOM, GEORGE, state senator, dip¬ 
lomat, author, was born May 23, 1802, in 
Kennebunk, Maine. He was an anti¬ 
quarian writer of New York city; and in 
1844 was a member of the state senate. 
He was the author of Sketches of Saco 
and Biddeford, Maine; Dutch Annals of 
New York; Letters and Dispatches of 
Cortes, translated from the Spanish; and 
Political Condition of Mexico. He died 
March 27, 1869, in Rome, Italy. 

FOLSOM, JOSEPH L., soldier, was born 
May 19, 1817, in Meredith, N. H. He was 
one of the first to appreciate the discov¬ 
ery of gold in California and to impart 
the news officially to the government. 
Folsom City, on the American river, near 
the locality where gold was discovered, 
was named for him. He died July 19, 
1855, in San Jose, Cal. 

FOLSOM, MRS. L. A., poet, was born 
July 23, 1844, in Milford, Maine. She is 
the author of a number of poems, and is 
engaged as a writer for various news¬ 
papers. 

FOLSOM, MONTGOMERY M„ journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born Jan. 31, 1857, in Ha- 
hira, Ga. He was employed on the At¬ 
lanta Constitution, and is now on its edi¬ 
torial staff. In 1888 he published Scraps 
of Song and Southern Scenes, a collec¬ 
tion of poems and sketches. 

FOLSOM, NATHANIEL, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1726, in Exeter, 
N. H. He was a brigadier-general during 
the siege of Boston in 1775. He was a 
delegate to the continental congress in 
1774-80; was a councilor in 1778; and was 
president of the convention which framed 
the constitution of New Hampshire in 
1783. He died May 26, 1790, in Exeter, 
N. H. 

FOLSOM, NATHANIEL SMITH, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 12, 1806, 
in Portsmouth, N. H. He has contributed 
to current literature, and published Crit¬ 
ical and Historical Interpretation of the 
Prophecies of Daniel, and other works. 

FOLSOM, MRS. SUSANNAH SARAH, 
author, poet. She edited volumes thir¬ 
teen and fourteen of the Child’s Friend, 
and wrote an Ode for Ladies Fair. She 
also contributed to Miss A. W. Abbot’s 
Autumn Leaves, and to Arthur Gilman’s 
The Cambridge of 1776. 

FOLTZ, MRS. CLARA SHORTRIDGE, 
lawyer, lecturer, was born July 16, 1849, 
in Henry county, Ind. She went before 
the California legislature of 1877-78, and 
secured the passage of an act permitting 
women to practice' law, and was the first 
to take advantage of it. 


FOLTZ, JONATHAN MESSERSMITH, 
surgeon, was born April 25, 1810, in Lan¬ 
caster, Pa. In 1870-71 he was president 
of the naval medical board. He became 
medical director in 1871, and chief of the 
bureau of medicine and surgery, with the 
rank of commodore. He died April 12, 
1877, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

FOLTZ, SAMUEL, merchant, was born 
Sept. 18, 1859, in Hillsdale, Mich. In 
1888 he opened branch stores in Otsego 
and Schoolcraft, Mich.; but in 1892 ne 
consolidated his three stores, and estab¬ 
lished the largest clothing house in Kala¬ 
mazoo county. 

FOLWELL, WILLIAM WATTS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Feb. 14, 1833, in 
Romulus, N. Y. He is an educator of 
Minnesota, and the author of Public In¬ 
struction in Minnesota; and Lectures on 
Political Economy. 

FONERDEN, JOHN, physician, edu¬ 
cator, was born in 1804, in Baltimore, Md. 
He was professor of obstetrics in Wash¬ 
ington university of Baltimore in 1845-46; 
and resident physician of the Maryland 
hospital for the insane from 1846 till his 
death. He died May 6, 1869, in New York 
city. 

FONES, DANIEL GILBERT, merchant, 
banker, was born Aug. 19, 1837, in De¬ 
catur, Ga. Upon the outbreak of the civil 
war he entered the confederate service. 
After the war he resumed business at 
Little Rock, Ark., under the firm name of 
Fones Brothers Hardware company. He 
is also president of the German National 
bank. 

FONES, JAMES A., merchant, was born 
Nov. 6, 1839, in Decatur, Ga. He was 
president of the Little Rock Electric Light 
company; and for thirty years was prom¬ 
inently connected with the business af¬ 
fairs of Little Rock. 

FONTAINE, EDWARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1814, in Virginia. He 
was an episcopal clergyman of Missis¬ 
sippi, and the author of How the World 
Was Peopled, a series of ethnological lec¬ 
tures. He died in 1884. 

FONTAINE, FRANCIS, author. He 
was the author of The Exile; and Etowah, 
a Romance of the Confederacy. 

FOOT, SAMUEL ALFRED, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, legislator, was born Dec. 17, 1790, in 
Watertown, N. Y. He was district at¬ 
torney for Albany county in 1819-21. He 
was judge of the court of appeals in 1851, 
and in 1856-57 served two terms in the 
legislature, where he introduced resolu¬ 
tions condemning the Dred Scott decision. 
He died May 11, 1878, in Geneva, N. Y. 

FOOT, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS, lawyer, 
congressman, governor, was born Nov. 8, 
1780, in Cheshire, Conn. He was chosen 
a representative in congress from Con¬ 
necticut in 1819, 1823, and 1833; was 
speaker of the Connecticut house of rep¬ 
resentatives in 1825 and 1826; and was 
a senator in congress from 1827 to 1833. 
In 1834 he was elected governor of the 
state. He died Sept. 16, 1846. 

FOOT, SOLOMON, educator, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Nov. 19, 1802, in Cornwall, Vt. He 
was a member of the Vermont legislature 
in 1833, 1836, 1837, 1838, and 1847; and was 
speaker of the house during his last three 
terms. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1843 to 1847, and was elected 
a senator in congress from Vermont for 
the term 1851-57. He was re-elected for 
the term ending in 1863; also for a third 
term ending in 1869. He died March 28, 
1866, in Washington. 




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FOOTE. ANDREW HULL, naval of¬ 
ficer, author, was born Sept. 12, 1806, in 
New Haven, Conn. His father was Sam¬ 
uel Augustus Foote, 
known in United 
States political his¬ 
tory as the mover of 
Foote’s resolutions. 
In 1868 he was 
placed in command 
of the Brooklyn 
navy yard; in 1862 
was made rear ad¬ 
miral; and received 
the surrender of Is¬ 
land No. 10. He was 
the author of Africa 
and the American Flag. He died June 6, 
1863, in New York city. 

FOOTE, ARTHUR WILLIAM, musi¬ 
cian, was born March 5, 1853, in Salem, 
Mass. His published works include about 
twenty compositions for the piano-forte, 
songs, vocal quartettes, three pieces for 
violoncello and piano-forte, three pieces 
for violin and piano-forte, a string quar¬ 
tette, a trio for piano-forte, violin and 
violoncello. 

FOOTE, CHARLES A., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1823 to 1825. He died Aug. 1, 1828, 
in Delaware county. 

FOOTE, EDWARD BLISS, physician, 
journalist, author, was born Feb. 20, 1829, 
in Cleveland, Ohio. In his practice he 
has made a specialty of chronic diseases. 
He is editor of Dr. Foote’s Health Month¬ 
ly; and is the author of Medical Common 
Sense; and Science in Story. 

FOOTE, EDWARD BOND, physician, 
inventor, journalist, author, was born 
Aug. 15, 1854, in Cleveland, Ohio. He in¬ 
vented and patented a wonder camera, 
which has become widely known under 
the name of polyopticon. 

FOOTE, ELIAL TODD, physician, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born May 1, 1796, in 
Gill, Mass. He was a member of the 
New York legislature in 1820 and in 1826- 
27; associate judge of common pleas in 
1818-23, and in the latter year became 
first judge of Chautauqua county, holding 
the office till 1843, when he retired. He 
died Nov. 17,1877, in New Haven, Conn. 

FOOTE, ELISHA, lawyer, jurist, in¬ 
ventor, was born Aug. 1, 1809, in Lee, 
Mass. In 1864 he was appointed to the 
board of appeals at the United States 
patent office, and in 1868-69 was com¬ 
missioner. He died Oct. 22, 1883, in St. 
Louis, Mo. 

FOOTE, GEORGE ANDERSON, phy¬ 
sician, was born Dec. 16, 1835, in Warren 
county, N. C. He was a surgeon in the 
confederate army during the civil war. 

FOOTE, HENRY STUART, lawyer, 
statesman, author, was born Sept. 20, 
1800, in Fauquier county, Va. In 1847 he 
was elected from Mississippi a senator in 
congress, where he remained until 1852; 
and was elected governor of Mississippi 
in 1852. He was the author of Texas and 
the Texans; The War of the Rebellion, 
or Scylla and Charybdis; Bench and Bar 
of the South and Southwest; and Personal 
Reminiscences. He died May 20, 1880, in 
Nashville, Tenn. 

FOOTE, HENRY WILDER, clergyman, 
author, was born June 2, 1838, in Salem, 
Mass. He was a Unitarian clergyman of 
Boston, minister of King’s Chapel from 
1861 till his death; and the author of 
Annals of King’s Chapel; Thy Kingdom 
Come, ten sermons on the Lord’s prayer; 
and The Insight of Faith. 


FOOTE, JOHN HOWARD, musical ex¬ 
pert, poet, was born Nov. 11, 1833, in 
Canton, Conn. In 1863 he established the 
firm of John H. Foote and Company, im¬ 
porters of musical instruments; in which 
business he has attained success. 

FOOTE, JOHN JOHNSON, druggist, 
state senator, was born Feb. 11, 1816, in 
Hamilton, N. Y. He engaged in the drug 
business in Hamilton; and in 1857 was 
elected to the senate of the state of New 
York. In 1865 he moved to Belvidere, Ill. 

FOOTE, LUCIUS H., soldier, lawyer, 
diplomat, was born April 10, 1826, in 
Winfield, N. Y. He was judge of the mu¬ 
nicipal court of Sacramento, Cal., from 
1854 to 1860; and in 1861 was appointed 
collector of the port of Sacramento. He 
was adjutant-general of the state from 
1872 to 1876; was appointed United States 
consul at Valparaiso, Chili, in 1879; and 
was acting charge d’affaires to Chili in 
1882. In 1883 he was appointed envoy 
extraordinary and minister plenipotenti¬ 
ary of the United States to Corea. 

FOOTE, MRS. MARY HALLOCK, ar¬ 
tist, author, was born Nov. 19, 1847, in 
Milton, N. Y. She is the author of The 
Led Horse Claim, a Romance of a Mining 
Camp; In Exile, and Other Stories; John 
Bodewin’s Testimony; The Chosen Val¬ 
ley; Cceur d’Alene; The Last Assembly 
Ball; and The Cup of Trembling, and 
Other Stories. 

FOOTE, THOMAS MOSES, journalist, 
diplomat, was born in 1809, in Clinton, 
N. Y. In 1849 he was appointed charge 
d’affaires to New Grenada; and in 1852 
was appointed to the same position near 
the government of Austria. He died Feb. 
20, 1858, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

FOOTE, WALLACE TURNER, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 7, 1864, in 
Port Henry, N. Y. He is now at the head 
of the firm of Foote, Stokes and Owen, 
doing a general law business at that 
place. He was elected to the fifty-fourth 
and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 

FOOTE, WILLIAM HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Dec. 20, 
1794, in Colchester, Conn. He was a 
Presbyterian clergyman and educator of 
West Virginia, and the author of Sketches 
of North Carolina; Sketches of the Pres¬ 
byterian Church in Virginia; The Hugue¬ 
nots, or Reformed French Church; and 
Sketches of Virginia. He died Nov. 18, 
1869, in Romney, W. Va. 

FORAKER, JOSEPH BENSON, soldier, 
lawyer, governor. United States senator, 
was born July 5, 1846, near Rainsboro, 
Highland county, 
Ohio. He enlisted 
July 14, 1862, as a 
private in company 
A, eighty-ninth reg¬ 
iment Ohio volun¬ 
teer infantry, with 
which organization 
he served until the 
close of the war, at 
which time he held 
the rank of first 
lieutenant and brev¬ 
et captain. Pie was 
elected judge of the superior court of 
Cincinnati in April, 1879; resigned on ac¬ 
count of ill-health in 1882. He was the 
republican candidate for governor of Ohio 
in 1883, but was defeated; and was elected 
to that office in 1885, and re-elected in 
1887. He was again nominated for gov¬ 
ernor and defeated in 1889; and was elect¬ 
ed United States senator and took his 
seat March 4, 1897. 


FORAN, MARTIN AMBROSE, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
Nov. 11, 1844, in Susquehanna county, Pa. 
He was city prosecutor of Cleveland from 
1875 to 1877; was an unsuccessful candi¬ 
date for police judge in 1881; and was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected 
to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses 
as a democrat. 

FORBES, CHARLES EDWIN, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Aug. 25, 1795, in 
Bridgewater, Mass. He attained a na¬ 
tional prominence as a philanthropist. 
He died Feb. 13, 1881, in Northampton, 
Mass. 

FORBES, EDWIN, artist, was born in 
1839, in New York city. Since 1878 he 
has devoted himself to landscape and 
cattle pictures. His later works are Early 
Morning in an Orange County Pasture; 
Roughing; On the Meadows; and Even¬ 
ing in the Sheep Pasture. 

FORBES, ELI, clergyman, was born in 
October, 1726, in Westborough, Mass. In 
1758-59 he twice acted as chaplain of a 
provincial regiment, and in 1762 conduct¬ 
ed a successful mission to the Oneida In¬ 
dians, among whom he established a 
church and two schools. He died Dec. 
15, 1804, in Gloucester, Mass. 

FORBES, MRS. HARRIETTE (MER- 
RIFIELD), author, was born in 1856, in 
Massachusetts. She is a writer of West- 
borough, Mass., and the author of The 
Hundredth Town, a series of historical 
sketches of Westborough; and A Lily 
Stalk, studies of child life. 

FORBES, JAMES, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Maryland to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1778 to 1780. 

FORBES, JOHN, liDrarian, was born in 
1771, in Scotland. He was librarian of 
the New York society library, being 
prominent during that time among liter¬ 
ary men in New York city. He died Oct. 
4, 1824, in New York. 

FORBES, JOHN FRANKLIN, educator, 
college president, was born June 13, 1853, 
in Middlesex, N. Y. He was professor of 
Greek and Latin in the state normal 
school at Brockway, N. Y., which position 
he resigned in 1885 to accept the presi¬ 
dency of the recently established De Land 
academy, subsequently John B. Stetson 
university, of De Land, Fla. 

FORBES, JOHN MURRAY, clergyman, 
was born in 1806. In 1869 he was elected 
’dean of the General Theological semina¬ 
ry, resigning from that office in 1872. He 
died in 1885 in Elizabeth, N. J. 

FORBES, ROBERT, clergyman, lectur¬ 
er, was born Nov. 13, 1844, in Canada. He 
is a successful clergyman of the method- 
ist episcopal church, and now fills a pas¬ 
torate in Duluth, Minn. He has been a 
presiding elder; chaplain of the Minneso¬ 
ta senate; and orator and grand chaplain 
of the grand lodge of the A. F. and A. M. 
He is a brilliant public lecturer, and has 
contributed extensively to current litera¬ 
ture. 

FORBES, ROBERT BENNET, mer¬ 
chant, author, was born in 1804, in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He was a sea captain, and 
subsequently a Boston merchant. He was. 
the author of China and the China Trade; 
Construction of Ships for the Merchant 
Service; Life Boats, Projectiles, and Oth¬ 
er Means for Saving Life; Seamen Past 
and Present; Rambling Reminiscences; 
and Notes on Some Few Wrecks and Res¬ 
cues. 

FORBES, SAMUEL FRANKLIN, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born June 8, 1829, in 
Canton, Conn. In 1886 he was mayor of 
Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of several 
medical works. 





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FORBES, STEPHEN ALFRED, natur¬ 
alist, author, was born May 2d, 1844, in 
Silver Creek, 111. He is a professor of 
zoology in the university of Illinois and 
state entomologist, and the author of Stu¬ 
dies of the Food of Birds, Fishes, and In¬ 
sects; and Contagious Diseases of In¬ 
sects. 

FORCE, MANNING FERGUSON, sol¬ 
dier, jurist, author, was born Dec. 17, 
1824, in Washington, D. C. In 1845 he 
graduated from Har- 
bmhhb vard; and three 
years later from 
the law school of 
that institution. In 
JSgMH #6*. 1861 he was appoint- 

.mu e( j ma j or 0 f the 

twentieth Ohio regi¬ 
ment, promoted to 
lieutenant - colonel, 
and was engaged at 
Fort Donelson and 
Shiloh. He was 
then made colonel, 
took part in the siege of Vicksburg, and 
was made brigadier-general of volunteers. 
He was with Sherman on his march to 
Meridian in his Atlanta campaign, his 
march to the sea, and across the Caroli- 
nas; and brevetted major-general of vol¬ 
unteers in 1865. During 1867-77 he was 
judge of the court of common pleas of 
Hamilton county, Ohio; and from that 
time till 1887 was judge of the superior 
court of Cincinnati. In 1888 he was ap¬ 
pointed commandant of the Ohio Soldiers’ 
and Sailors’ home, which position he still 
holds. He is the author of From Fort 
Henry to Corinth; Marching Across Caro¬ 
lina; The Mound Builders; Prehistoric 
Man; and Recollections of the Vicksburg 
Campaign. 

FORCE, PETER, journalist, historian, 
was born Nov. 26, 1790, near Little Fails, 
N. J. He was a journalist and historian of 
Washington who began in 1833 a docu¬ 
mentary history of the American colonies. 
Thirty years’ labor was spent upon the 
task, and nine volumes completed, enti¬ 
tled American Archives. His other works 
include Tracts and Other Papers relating 
to the Origin of the North American Col¬ 
onies; and Grinnell Land. His immense 
and valuable library was purchased by 
congress in 1867. He died Jan. 23, 1868, 
in Washington, D. C. 

FORCE, WILLIAM QUEREAU, meteor¬ 
ologist, author, was born March 7, 1820, 
in Washington, D. C. He was a meteor-' 
ologist of Washington who assisted his 
father in preparing American Archives, 
and published Builder’s Guide; and The 
Picture of Washington. He died Dec. 15, 
1880, in Washington, D. C. 

FORD, CORYDON LA, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 29, 1813, in Lexing¬ 
ton, N. Y. He is a physician of note who 
has held several medical professorships, 
and since 1886 has been professor emer¬ 
itus in the Long Island College hospital. 
He is the author of Questions on Anato¬ 
my, etc.; Questions on the Structure and 
Development of the Human Teeth; and 
Syllabus of Lectures on Odontology, Hu¬ 
man and Comparative. 

FORD, DANIEL ROBERTS, clergyman, 
was born June 8, 1836, in North Berwick, 
Maine. He has filled various positions in 
mercantile and manufacturing business¬ 
es; and has attained success as a clergy¬ 
man in his native state. 

FORD, DANIEL S., journalist, was 
born April 15, 1822, in Cambridgeport, 
Mass. He purchased from N. P. Willis 
The Youth’s Companion, and has now for 
thirty-five years, under the business nom 
de plume of Perry Mason and Co., edited 
and published that paper. 


FORD, EDWARD LLOYD, publisher, 
was born March 10, 1845, in England. In 
1867 he became a partner in the newly 
established publishing house of J. B. Ford 
and Co., and contributed largely to the 
success of the Christian Union. He died 
Dec. 16, 1880, in Morristown, N. J. 

FORD, MRS. EMILY ELLSWORTH 
(FOWLER), author, poet, was born Aug. 
26, 1826, in Greenfield, Mass. She is a 
Brooklyn writer who has published My 
Recollections, a volume of poetry. 

FORD, GABRIEL HOGARTH, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Jan. 3, 1765, in Morris¬ 
town, N. J. He became presiding judge of 
tne court of common pleas for the eastern 
district of New Jersey; and in 1820-40 was 
a justice of the supreme court. He died 
Aug. 27, 1849, in Morristown, N. J. 

FORD, GEORGE, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Jan. 11, 1846, in South Bend, 
Ind. He was prosecuting attorney in 
South Bend from 1875 until 1885, when 
he resigned, having been elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Indiana to the forty- 
ninth congress as a democrat. 

FORD, GORDON LESTER, lawyer, 
railroad president, was born Dec. 16, 1823, 
in Lebanon, Conn. From 1873 till 1881 
he was the business manager of the New 
York Tribune; and in 1885 became presi¬ 
dent of the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney 
Island railroad. He died Nov. 14, 1891, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

FORD, JAMES, congressman, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He served two years in 
the Pennsylvania legislature, and was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1829 to 1833. He died in Aug¬ 
ust, 1850, in Lawrence, Pa. 

FORD, JAMES LAUREN, journalist, 
author, was born in 1854, in Missouri. He 
is a journalist and litterateur of New 
York city, and the author of Dr. Dodd’s 
School; The Third Alarm, are tales for 
juvenile readers. Other works of his are 
Hypnotic Tales; The Literary Shop; Bo¬ 
hemia Invaded; and Dolly Dillenback. 

FORD, JASON P., educator, jurist, was 
born Jan. 19, 1855, in Marion county, Ala. 
He has filled various public positions of 
trust; and is now judge of probate court 
of his native county. 

FORD, JOHN S., soldier, congressman, 
was born May 26, 1815, in Greenville, S. 
C. In 1844 he was a representative in 
congress from Texas; and in 1850 was a 
member of the state senate. He served 
through the civil war and attained the 
rank of colonel. 

FORD, JOHN THOMSON, theatrical 
manager, was born April 16, 1829, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. He has been a state director 
of the Maryland penitentiary for eighteen 
years, and is active in philanthropic work 
in Baltimore. 

FORD, JOSHUA EDWARDS, mission¬ 
ary, author, was born Aug. 3, 1825, in Og- 
densburg, N. Y. He edited several books 
in the Arabic language, and wrote a work 
in that tongue, entitled Fasting and Pray¬ 
er. He died April 3, 1866, in Geneseo, 
N. Y. 

FORD, MELBOURNE H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 30, 1849, in Sa¬ 
line, Mich. He has been official stenog¬ 
rapher of several Michigan courts since 
1874; was a member of the Michigan leg¬ 
islature in 1885-86, and was elected to the 
fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

FORD, NICHOLAS, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Ireland. He emi¬ 
grated to the United States in 1848, and 
was elected a representative from Missou¬ 
ri to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh 
congresses. 


FORD, PAUL LEICESTER, author, was 
born March 23, 1865, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He is a resident of Brooklyn; and the au¬ 
thor of Bibliotheca Hamiltonia; Franklin 
Bibliography; The Honorable Peter Stir¬ 
ling, a novel of New York society; and 
The True George Washington. 

FORD, MRS. SALLIE ROCHESTER, 
author, was born in 1828 in Rochester 
Springs, Ky. She is a St. Louis writer 
whose early writings were very popular, 
Grace Truman, her first book, having an 
extensive sale. Other works of hers are: 
Romance of Freemasonry; Raids and Ro¬ 
mance of Morgan and His Men; Mary 
Bunyan, the Dreamer’s Blind Daughter; 
Evangel Wiseman; and Ernest Quest. 

FORD, SAMUEL HOWARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1823, in Missou¬ 
ri. He was a baptist clergyman of Mem¬ 
phis, Mobile and elsewhere, living in re¬ 
tirement in St. Louis since 1887. He is 
the author of The Origin of the Baptists; 
and Servetus, Hero and Martyr. 

FORD, SEABURY, state legislator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Oct. 15, 1801, in Pomfret, 
Conn. He served several terms in the 
state legislature, and was at different 
times speaker in each branch. He was 
governor of Ohio in 1848 and 1850; and 
major-general of militia. He died May 8, 
1855, in Burton, Ohio. 

FORD, SMITH THOMAS, clergyman, 
was born Feb. 3, 1851, in Camden, N. Y. 
He has filled pastorates in numerous bap¬ 
tist churches in Hamilton, Greene, Alba¬ 
ny, and Syracuse, N. Y. 

FORD, THOMAS, lawyer, governor, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1804. He was a judge 
of the superior court of Illinois; and was 
the author of a History of Illinois from 
1818 to 1847. He was governor of the 
state from 1842 to 1846. He died in Jan¬ 
uary, 1851, in Peoria, Ill. 

FORD, TIMOTHY, lawyer, was born 
Dec. 4, 1762, in Morristown, N. J. He 
was a member of the legislature and the 
Charleston city council; a trustee of 
Charleston college, and president of va¬ 
rious literary societies. He died Dec. 7, 
1830. 

FORD, WILLIAM D., congressman, was 
born in Providence, R. I. He served in 
the New York assembly in 1816 and 1817, 
and was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1819 to 1821. 

FORD, WILLIAM HENRY, surgeon, 
author, was born Oct. 7. 1839, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is a Philadelphia surgeon, 
and twice president of the municipal 
board of health. He has published 
Healthy Dwelling-Houses and How to 
Build Them. 

FORD, WORTHINGTON CHAUNCEY, 
author, was born Feb. 16, 1858, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He is a government statisti¬ 
cian at Washington, and the author of 
American Citizens’ Manual; and The 
Standard Silver Dollar. 

FORDYCE, SAMUEL WESLEY, sol¬ 
dier, financier, was born Feb. 7, 1840, in 
Guernsey county, Ohio. He was a pri¬ 
vate in the civil war, and steadily rose 
to a captaincy of cavalry. Ai the close 
of the war he established the banking 
house of Fordyce and Rison of Hunts¬ 
ville, Ala.; and is the president of the St. 
Louis Southwestern Railway company. 

FOREPAUGH, JOSEPH LYBRANDT, 
merchant, was born Jan. 6, 1834, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 1865, with Mr. Justice, he 
established the firm of J. L. Forepaugh 
and Co. of Philadelphia, Pa., the first ex¬ 
clusively wholesale dry goods house in 
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FORESMAN, JOHN OAKES, educator, 
clergyman, was born May 18, 1835, in Ly¬ 
coming county, Pa. After receiving uis 
education at the Western Reserve college 
of Ohio he entered into educational work. 
In 1858 he became a teacher in the Dela¬ 
ware Indian Mission school, and in 1860 
a missionary in the Rocky mountains. He 
is a successful clergyman of the method- 
ist episcopal church of Horton, Kan. 

FOREST, JOHN ANTHONY, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born Dec. 25, 1838, in 
France. He was pastor for thirty-three 
years at Halletsville, Tex.; and in 1895 
was consecrated catholic bishop of San 
Antonio. 

FORESTER, JOHN B., congressman, 
was born in Tennessee. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1833 to 1837. He died Aug. 31, 1845. 

FORKER, SAMUEL C., congressman, 
was born March 16, 1821, in Mount Holly, 
N. J. He was cashier of the Bordentown 
Banking company; and was elected to the 
forty-second congress. 

FORMAN, DAVID, soldier, jurist, was 
born near Englishtown, N. J. He com¬ 
manded the New Jersey militia at Ger¬ 
mantown. After the war he was a judge 
of the county court, and a member of the 
council of state. He died about 1812. 

FORMAN, EMILY SHAW, author, poet. 
She is the vice-president of the Boston 
Browning club; and the author of a vol¬ 
ume of poems illustrated by Fidelia 
Bridges. 

FORMAN, GEORGE W., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Dec. 18, 1820, in Nelson 
county, Ky. In 1869 he received the ap¬ 
pointment of deputy internal revenue col¬ 
lector for the fourth Kentucky district, 
and in 1873 accepted the additional duties 
of assessor. 

FORMAN, JOSHUA, manufacturer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Sept. 6, 1777, in Pleas¬ 
ant Valley, N. Y. In 1807 he was elected 
to the New York legislature; and in 1808 
founded the celebrated Plaster company 
of Camillus. He was the founder of the 
city of Syracuse. He died Aug. 4, 1848, in 
Rutherfordton, N. C. 

FORMAN, WILLIAM S., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 
1847, in Natchez, Miss. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate, thirty-fourth and 
thirty-fifth general assemblies; and was 
elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second 
congresses and re-elected to the fifty-third 
congress as a democrat. 

FORNANCE. JOSEPH, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1839 to 1841. 

FORNEY, DANIEL M., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in May, 1784, in Lin¬ 
coln county, N. C. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from North Carolina 
from 1815 to 1818, and in 1820 was ap¬ 
pointed commissioner to treat with the 
Creek Indians. From 1823 to 1826 he was 
a member of the state legislature. He 
died in October, 1847, in Lowndes county, 
Ala. 

FORNEY, JOHN WEISS, journalist, 
author, was born Sept. 30, 1817, in Lan¬ 
caster, Pa. He was a journalist of Phila¬ 
delphia and Washington of prominence, 
and a politician, and secretary of the 
United States senate in 1861-68. He was 
the author of Life of General Hancock; 
Anecdotes of Public Men; The New No¬ 
bility, a story of England and America; 
What I Saw in Texas; A Centennial Com¬ 
missioner in Europe; Letters from 
Europe; and Forty Years of American 
Journalism. He died Dec. 9, 1881, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 


FORNEY, PETER, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in April, 1756, in Lincoln 
county, N. C. He served as a member of 
the state legislature for several years; 
and was a representative in congress 
from North Carolina from 1813 to 1815. 
He died Feb. 1, 1834, in Lincoln county, 
N. C. 

FORNEY, WILLIAM HENRY, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 9, 
1823, in Lincolnton, N. C. In 1859 he was 
elected to the state legislature. He served 
in the confederate army during the rebel¬ 
lion, rising to the rank of brigadier- 
general. In 1865 he was elected a state 
senator. In 1874 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Alabama to the forty- 
fourth congress; ana was re-elected to 
the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty- 
first and fifty-second congresses as a 
democrat. 

FORREST, EDWIN, actor, was born 
March 9, 1806, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was one of the most successful of Ameri¬ 
can actors. He died Dec. 12,1872, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

FORREST, FRENCH, naval officer, was 
born in 1796, in Maryland. At the begin¬ 
ning of the civil war, when Virginia se¬ 
ceded, he joined the confederates, and 
was given the command of the navy. He 
died Dec. 22, 1866, in Georgetown, D. C. 

FORREST, HERBERT ARTHUR, law¬ 
yer, was born March 10, 1860, in Colling- 
wood, Ontario, Canada. He received his 
education in the schools of Michigan, and 
has attained success as an able lawyer of 
Saginaw. He has been a member of the 
Michigan state board of corrections and 
charities; in 1892 he was lay delegate to 
the general conference of the methodist 
episcopal church; and has filled various 
positions of honor connected with edu¬ 
cational and religious institutions. 

FORREST, THOMAS, congressman, 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1819 to 1821, and again from 1822 to 
1823, to fill a vacancy. He died March 20, 
1825. 

FORREST, URIAH, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1756, in St. Mary’s 
county, Md. He was a general in the rev¬ 
olutionary war. He was a delegate to 
the continental congress from 1786 to 
1787; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maryland during the years 
1793 and 1794, and resigned. He died in 
April, 1805, near Georgetown, D. C. 

FORRY, SAMUEL, physician, surgeon, 
author, was born June 23, 1811, in Berlin, 
Pa. He was a physician and surgeon of 
New York city, and the author of The Cli¬ 
mate of the United States and its Endemic 
Influences; and Meteorology. He died 
Nov. 8, 1844. 

FORSHEY, CALEB GOLDSMITH, en¬ 
gineer, was born July 18, 1812, in Somer¬ 
set county, Pa. In 1855 he established the 
Texas military institute and conducted it 
till 1861, when, though opposed to seces¬ 
sion, he entered the confederate service 
as a lieutenant-colonel of engineers. He 
died July 25, 1881, in Carrollton, La. 

FORSHEY, JOHN ARAD, soldier, 
stock-raiser, legislator, was born July 7, 
1845, in Danville, Mo. He received a 
thorough education, and attended the 
Texas State Military institute. He served 
through the civil war in the confederate 
army under General Sterling Price, and 
held a captain’s commission at the close 
of the war. He then drifted west, and 
in 1870 settled in Wyoming. He has filled 
numerous public offices of trust, and is 
now a member of the fourth legislature 


of Wyoming. He is also a successful 
rancnman and stock-grower of Uinta 
county, Wyo. 

FORSTER, WILLIAM, missionary, was 
born in 1784, in England. In 1803 he be¬ 
came a minister of the society of Friends, 
and thenceforth his life was devoted to 
missionary and benevolent labors 
throughout the British Isles, the conti¬ 
nent of Europe, and the United States. He 
died in 1854, in Knox county, Tenn. 

FORSYTH, ALEXANDER, business 
man, state senator, was born Aug. 16, 
1860, in Adelaide, Canada. Since 1876 he 
has been engaged principally in educa¬ 
tional work and the fire insurance and 
banking business at Standish, Mich. In 
1897-98 he served as a member of the 
Michigan state senate. 

FORSYTH, BENJAMIN, soldier, state 
legislator, was born in Stokes county, N. 
C. He was a member of the legislature of 
North Carolina in 1807-8. He commanded 
in the successful assault on Gananoque, 
Upper Canada, in 1812, and also at the 
capture of the British guard at Elizabeth¬ 
town, Canada, in 1813. He died June 28, 
1814, in Oldtown, N. Y. 

FORSYTH, JAMES W., soldier, was 
born about 1835, in Ohio. He served in 
the civil war and was brevetted briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers in 1864; colo¬ 
nel in the regular army in 1865; and brig¬ 
adier-general for services during the war. 

FORSYTH, JOHN, lawyer, statesman, 
was born Oct. 22, 1780, in Fredericksburg, 
Va. He was attorney-general of the state; 
was a representative in congress from 
Georgia from 1813 to 1818, and from 1823 
to 1827. He was a senator in congress 
during the years 1818 and 1819, and from 
1829 to 1837. He was governor of Georgia 
in 1827, 1828, and 1829; minister to Spain 
from 1819 to 1822; and was secretary of 
state under President Jackson. He died 
Oct. 21, 1841, in Washington City. 

FORSYTHE, ALBERT P„ soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 24, 1830, in New 
Richmond, Ohio. He was a first lieutenant 
in the union army during the war of the 
rebellion. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Illinois to the forty-sixth con¬ 
gress. 

FORSYTHE, JOHN AULD, soldier, 
journalist, meteorologist, was born July 
10, 1834, in Zanesville, Ohio. He received 
a liberal education, and his early years 
were devoted to educational work and lit¬ 
erature. His military service began with 
the march of the army of the invasion to 
Utah in 1857. He served as a union sol¬ 
dier during the civil war; and was pro¬ 
moted to lieutenant of artillery and aide- 
de-camp. At the close of the war he en¬ 
tered journalism, and is now the editor 
and owner of The Democrat of Seymour, 
Ind. He is a practical meteorologist; the 
observer for the weather bureau at Sey¬ 
mour, Ind.; and is the inventor of a code 
of steam whistle signals for the more 
general dissemination of the weather 
forecast. 

FORT. GEORGE FRANKLIN, gover¬ 
nor, author, was born in May, 1809, in 
Pemberton, N. J. He was a governor of 
New Jersey in 1850-54, and the author of 
Early History and Antiquities of Freema¬ 
sonry. He died April 22, 1872, in New 
Egypt, N. J. 

FORT, GREENBERRY LAFAYETTE, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 11, 1825, in Sciota county, Ohio. 
In 1834 he moved to Illinois. In 1866 he 
was elected to the state senate; and was 
elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, 
forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a 
republican. He died Jan. 13, 1883, in La- 
con, Ill. 


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FORT, JAMES MADISON, journalist, 
lawyer, was born July 1, 1846, near Lacon, 
Ill. Since 1869 he has practiced law in 
Minonk, Ill.; and has been city attorney 
for a number of terms. For nearly twen¬ 
ty years he has been editor and owner of 
the Minonk Blade and other newspapers. 

FORT, TOMLINSON, physician, bank¬ 
er, congressman, was born July 11, 1787, 
in Warren county, Ga. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Georgia from 
1827 to 1829; and was at one time a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature of Georgia. He was 
president of the Central bank of Georgia 
from 1832 until his death. He died May 
11, 1859, in Milledgeville, Ga. 

FORTIER, ALCEE, educator, author, 
was born June 5, 1856, in St. James, La. 
He was an educator of Louisiana, pro¬ 
fessor in Tulane university, and the au- 
tnor of Le Chateau de Chambord; Gabriel 
d’Ennerich, an historical novelette; Bits 
of Louisiana Folk-Lore; Sept Grands Au¬ 
teurs de XIX SiScle; Historie de la 
Literature Francaise; Louisiana Studies; 
and Louisiana Folk Tales. He has also 
annotated college editions of several 
French texts. 

FORWARD, CHAUNCEY, physician, 
clergyman, congressman, was born at Old 
Granby, Conn. He was frequently elect¬ 
ed to the state legislature, serving in both 
houses. In 1825 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress for an unexpired 
term, and was twice re-elected, serving 
until 1831. He died in October, 1839, in 
Somerset, Pa. 

FORWARD, WALTER, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1786, in Con¬ 
necticut. He was elected to congress from 
Pennsylvania as a representative, where 
he continued till 1825. In 1841 he was 
appointed first comptroller of the treas¬ 
ury, which post he held until appointed, 
by President Tyler, secretary of the treas¬ 
ury. He was president judge of the dis¬ 
trict court of Allegheny county for many 
years. He died Nov. 24, 1852, in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. 

FORWOOD, WILLIAM STUMP, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Jan. 27, 1830, in 
Darlington, Md. He is a physician of 
Darlington, Md., and the author of His¬ 
tory and Descriptive Account of Mam¬ 
moth Cave, with Full Scientific Details of 
the Eyeless Fishes. 

FOSDICK, CHARLES AUSTIN, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 6, 1844, in Randolph, 
N. Y. He received his education in Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., and graduated from the Cen¬ 
tral high school of that city. He left 
school to enter the navy, and held all the 
positions there from landsman to receiver 
and superintendent of coal for the Mis¬ 
sissippi squadron. He has attained a 
national reputation as a juvenile writer, 
and under the nom de plume of Harry 
Castlemon has published The Gunboat 
Series; Rocky Mountain Series; Rough¬ 
ing It Series; and The Steel Horse, or the 
Rambles of a Bicycle, which are but a 
few of the whole number. 

FOSDICK, NICOLL, public official, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 9, 1785, in New 
London, Conn. In 1818 he was a member 
of the legislature of New York; again in 
1819, and declined a re-election. He was 
a representative from New York in the 
nineteenth congress. He returned to his 
native place in 1843; and from 1849 to 
1853 was collector of customs for the dis¬ 
trict of New London. He died May 7, 
1868, in New London, Conn. 

FOSDICK, PHILIP C., manufacturer, 
legislator, was born April 21, 1858, in 
Louisville, Ky. He is a manufacturer 
and president of the Fosdick and Plucker 
Machine Tool company in Cincinnati, 


Ohio. In 1895 he served with distinction 
as a member of the Ohio general assem¬ 
bly. 

FOSDICK, WILLIAM WHITEMAN, 
lawyer, author, poet, was born Jan. 28, 
1825, in Cincinnati. He was a lawyer of 
Cincinnati, who published Malmiztic the 
Toltec, a novel; and Ariel and Other 
Poems. He died March 8, 1862, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. 

FOSNES, C. A., lawyer, state legislator, 
was born in 1862, in Norway. Since 1884 
he has practiced law in Montevideo, Minn. 
He has been city attorney; village may¬ 
or; and in 1896 was elected a member of 
the Minnesota state legislature. 

FOSS, CYRUS DAVID, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, bishop, author, was born Jan. 17, 
1834, in Kingston, N. Y. In 1854 he grad¬ 
uated from the Wes¬ 
leyan university; 
and for three years 
was an instructor in 
Amenia seminary, 
New York. In 1857 
he entered the trav¬ 
eling ministry; was 
for six years in the 
city of Brooklyn, 
and for ten years 
pastor in churches 
in New York city. In 
1875 he was elected 
president of the Wesleyan university; 
served until May, 1880, when he was elect¬ 
ed and ordained a bishop of the method- 
ist episcopal church. His duties have 
since been at Minneapolis, Minn., and 
Philadelphia, Pa. He has published Ser¬ 
mons and Addresses, and other works. 

FOSS, GEORGE EDMUND, was born 
July 2, 1863, in Berkshire, Vt. He began 
the practice of iaw in Chicago; and never 
held any political office until elected to 
the fifty-fourth congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

FOSS, SAMUEL WALTER, author, 
poet, was born in 1858 in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He is a writer of popular dialect 
and other poems, whose home is in Som¬ 
erville, Mass. He is the author of Back 
Country Poems; and Whiffs from Wild 
Meadows. 

FOSTER, A. LAWRENCE, congress¬ 
man, was born in New Yora. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1841 to 184o. 

FOSTER, ABBY KELLEY, reformer, 
abolitionist, was born Jan. 15, 1811, in 
Pelham, Mass. She was a noted reform¬ 
er, and an ardent abolitionist. She died 
Jan. 14, 1887, in Worcester, Mass. 

FOSTER, ABIEL, clergyman, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 8, 1735, in Andover, 
Mass. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New Hampshire from 1789 to 
1791; and was again a representative in 
the legislature. He was a member of the 
state senate from 1793 to 1794, and in both 
years was president of that body. He 
was again elected to congress from 1795 
to 1803. He died Feb. 6, 1806, in Canter¬ 
bury, N. H. 

FOSTER, BENJAMIN, clergyman, was 
born June 12, 1750, in Danvers, Mass. He 
was an accomplished scholar, particularly 
in the Greek, Hebrew and the Chaldean 
languages, and was eminent as a preach¬ 
er. He died Aug. 26, 1798, in New York 
city. 

FOSTER, CASSIUS G., soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 22, 1837, 
in Webster, N. Y. During 1863-64 he was 
a member of the Kansas state legislature; 
mayor of Atchison in 1867; and was com¬ 


missioned United States district judge for 
the district of Kansas in 1874, which po¬ 
sition he still retains, with headquarters 
at Topeka. 

FOSTER, CHARLES, merchant, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, governor, was born 
April 12, 1828, near Tiffin, Ohio. He was 
taken by his father 
in his fifth year to 
what is now Fosto- 
ria, Ohio, then a wil¬ 
derness; he received 
his education at 
Norwalk academy, 
and became a suc¬ 
cessful merchant. In 
1870 he was chosen 
to congress as a re¬ 
publican, and was 
three times re-elect¬ 
ed, serving in the 
forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth and 
forty-fifth congresses. In 1879 he was 
elected governor of Ohio; and received 
the re-election in 1881, serving four years 
in all. His administration was marked 
by efforts to regulate the sale of intoxi¬ 
cating liquors. In 1891 he became secre¬ 
tary of the treasury, which position he 
filled with distinction. 

FOSTER, CHARLES HUBBS, actor, 
author, was born in 1833, in New York. 
He was an actor and playwright of New 
York city, who wrote more than seventy- 
five plays, mostly melodramas, among 
which are: Twins of London; Twenty 
Years Dead; and The Chain Gang. He 
died in 1895. 

FOSTER, CHARLES JAMES, journal¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 24, 1820, in England. 
He wrote for The Spirit of the Times, 
and in 1876 established the New York 
Sportsman, in New York city. He died 
Sept. 12, 1883, in Astoria, N. Y. 

FOSTER, DAVID SKAATS, author, 
poet. He is the author of Rebecca the 
Witch, and Other Tales in Metre, first is¬ 
sued as The Romance of tne Unexpected; 
Spanish Castles by the Rhine; and a 
Triptychal Yarn. 

FOSTER, DWIGHT, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was 
born Dec. 7,1757, in Brookfield, Mass. He 
was county sheriff and judge and after¬ 
wards chief justice of common pleas; and 
was for some years a member of the 
house and senate of Massachusetts. He 
was a member of the executive council 
of Massachusetts; and w r as a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1793 to 1799, and 
United States senator from 1800 to 1803, 
when he resigned. He died April 29, 1823, 
in Brookfield. Mass. 

FOSTER, EPHRAIM H., United States 
senator, was born about 1795. He was 
speaker of the house of representatives of 
Tennessee in 1820; in 1837 was elected to 
the United States senate, but in 1839 re¬ 
signed his seat because he could not obey 
the instructions of the state legislature. 
In 1843 he was re-elected for two years; 
on his return from Washington was a 
candidate for governor, but failed of an 
election. He died Sept. 4, 1854, in Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn. 

FOSTER, EUGENE, physician, was 
born April 7, 1850, in Augusta, Ga. He 
has become one of the most prominent 
physicians in his state at Augusta. 

FOSTER, FOUNTAIN HEATH, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Jan. 20, 1847, in Salem, 
Ill. He has attained success as an emi¬ 
nent lawyer of Arkansas. He has been 
mayor of Bentonville; judge of Benton 
county; and judge of the probate court 
of Benton county, Ark. 







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FOSTER, FRANK HUGH, clergyman, 
theologian, author, was born June 18, 
1851, in Springfield, Mass. He filled the 
chair of philosophy in Middlebury college 
in 1882-84; of church history in the Ober- 
lin Theological seminary in 1884-92; and 
since 1892 has been professor of system¬ 
atic theology in the Pacific Theological 
seminary of Oakland, Cal. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Seminary Method of Study 
in the Historical Sciences; and other 
works. 

FOSTER, MRS. HANNAH WEBSTER, 
author, was born in 1759, in Massachu¬ 
setts. She was a writer who was the wife 
of John Foster, minister at Brighton, 
Mass., in 1784-1827, and after his death a 
resident of Montreal. She wrote The 
Boarding School; Letters of a Precep¬ 
tress; but is remembered chiefly for hav¬ 
ing been the author of the once famous 
story. The Coquette, or the History of 
Eliza Wharton. She died in 1840, in 
Montreal, Canada. 

FOSTER, HENRY ALLEN, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was 
born May 7, 1800, in Hartford, Conn. He 
served in the senate of that state from 
1831 to 1834, and from 1841 to 1844. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1837 to 1839; and was a 
senator in congress during the years 1844 
and 1845, by appointment of the governor. 
He was subsequently a judge of the su¬ 
preme court of New York. 

FOSTER, HENRY DONNEL, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 19, 1812, in 
Mercer, Pa. He was elected to the twen¬ 
ty-eighth and twen¬ 
ty-ninth congress¬ 
es; and was elected 
to the legislature of 
Pennsylvania i n 
1846 and 1847. He 
was the democratic 
candidate for gover¬ 
nor of Pennsylvania 
in 1860; and was 
elected to the forty- 
second congress. He 
served on the com¬ 
mittee of claims, and 
other important committees. 

FOSTER, ISAAC, physician, surgeon, 
was born about 1740, in Charlestown, 
Mass. He was a delegate to the first pro¬ 
vincial congress of Massachusetts in 1744. 
He was at the head of the military medi¬ 
cal department during the revolutionary 
war, and was director-general of the 
American hospital department. He died 
in February, 1781. 

FOSTER, JACOB POST GIRAUD. law¬ 
yer, was born April 8, 1827, in New York 
city. He practiced in New York city, 
and gained a high reputation, especially 
as an insurance lawyer, He died Feb. 
26, 1886, in New York city. 

FOSTER, JAMES PEERS, lawyer, was 
born Aug. 31, 1848, in Flushing, N. Y. 
He was chosen the first president of what 
is now the republican league of the 
United States. He is a trustee and di¬ 
rector in various corporations and insti¬ 
tutions of New York city. 

FOSTER, JEDEDIAH, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1726, in 
Andover, Mass. In 1776 he was appointed 
a judge of the superior court; and was 
for many years a judge of probate, and 
also of the court of common pleas. He 
died Oct. 17, 1779, in Brookfield, Mass. 

FOSTER, JOHN G., educator, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 14, 1868, in Morgan county, 
Ohio. He attended the National Normal 
. school of Lebanon, Ohio; and graduated 
from the law department of the West Vir¬ 
ginia university. He attained success in 
educational work, and became county 


superintendent of schools. He is now en¬ 
gaged in the practice of law at Fayette¬ 
ville, W. Va. 

FOSTER, JOHN GRAY, soldier, civil 
engineer, was born May 27, 1823, in 
Whitefield, N. H. He received the brevets 
of first lieutenant 
and captain for gal¬ 
lantry. He was as¬ 
sistant engineer in 
Maryland in 1848-52, 
and on coast survey 
duty in Washington, 
D. C., in 1852-54. He 
served with distinc¬ 
tion through the 
civil war. He died 
Sept. 2, 1874, in 

Nashua, N. H. For 
many years he serv¬ 
ed as a professor of engineering at West 
Point. 

FOSTER, JOHN HAMILTON, physi¬ 
cian, legislator, was born in 1826, in Guil¬ 
ford county, N. C. He was a member of 
the territorial legislature of Oregon in 
the early fifties, and was known as a 
prominent physician and one of the pion¬ 
eers of that profession in central Iowa, 
where he located in 1853. He died Dec. 
7, 1894, in Iowa Falls, Iowa. 

FOSTER, JOHN WATSON, lawyer, dip¬ 
lomat, was born March 2, 1836, in Peters¬ 
burg, Ind. He served in the union army 
throughout the war of the rebellion, ris¬ 
ing to the rank of colonel and brevet 
brigadier-general. In 1869 he was ap¬ 
pointed postmaster at Evansville; and in 
1873 was appointed United States Min¬ 
ister to Mexico. In 1880 he was trans¬ 
ferred to St. Petersburg, as minister to 
Russia; and 1883 was appointed United 
States minister to Spain. He served as 
secretary of state under President Harri¬ 
son in 1^92-96. He now practices law in 
Washington, D. C. 

FOSTER, JOHN WELLS, geologist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 4, 1815, in Brum¬ 
field, Mass. He was a geologist employed 
by the United States in a geological sur¬ 
vey of the Lake Superior region, and sub¬ 
sequently a resident of Chicago. He was 
the author of The Mississippi Valley; 
Mineral Wealth and Railroad Develop¬ 
ment; Prehistoric Races of the United 
States; and Geology and Topography of 
the Lake Superior Land District. He died 
June 29, 1873, in Chicago, Ill. 

FOSTER, MRS. JUDITH ELLEN HOR¬ 
TON, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 3, 
1840, in Lowell, Mass. She is a lawyer 
and prominent temperance advocate of 
Iowa, and the author of The Crime 
Against Ireland; Amendment Manual 
(Prohibition); The American Renais¬ 
sance; and Republican Contentions and 
Supreme Court Decisions. 

FOSTER, LA FAYETTE SABINE, law¬ 
yer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born Nov. 22, 1806, in Franklin, Conn. 
He was a member of the general assem¬ 
bly of Connecticut in 1839 and 1840, in 
1846, 1847, and 1848, and 1854; and was 
speaker of the house in 1847,1848 and 1854. 
He was chosen a senator in congress for 
the term 1855-61. In 1860 he was re¬ 
elected for the term ending in 1867. In 
1869 he was elected professor of law in 
Yale college, and in 1870 to a seat on the 
bench of the supreme court of Connecti¬ 
cut. He died Sept. 19, 1880, in Norwich, 
Conn. 

FOSTER, MURPHY J. He was born 
Jan. 12, 1849, in Franklin, La. In 1892 
he was elected governor of Louisiana, af¬ 
ter the most memorable campaign ever 
known in Louisiana—the anti-lottery 
campaign. He has practiced law with 
success; has declined nomination for con¬ 


gress; and the appointment of associate 
justice on the supreme bench. 

FOSTER, N. C., railroad president, was 
born in Owego, N. Y. He entered rail¬ 
way service in 1882, as owner of the 
Chicago, Fairchild and Eau Claire River 
railroad; of which he has been president 
and general manager since 1891. He was 
also president and general manager of 
the Sault Ste. Marie and Southwestern 
railway from 1886 for several years. He 
has taken an active part in the public af¬ 
fairs of Fairchild, Wis.; and in all meas¬ 
ures for the welfare of his state. 

FOSTER, NATHANIEL G., lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 
25, 1809, in The Fork, Ga. He served 
three years as solicitor-general of the 
Ocmulgee circuit; five years in the state 
senate, and one year in the house; and 
was a representative in the thirty-fourth 
congress. 

FOSTER, RANDOLPH SINKS, educat¬ 
or, college president, bishop, author, was 
born Feb. 22, 1820, in Williamsburg, Ohio. 

He has been presi¬ 
dent of the North¬ 
western university 
of Evanston, Ill.; 
president of the 
Drew Theological 
seminary of Madi¬ 
son, N. J.; and is 
now a bishop of the 
methodist episcopal 
church at Roxbury, 
Mass. He is the au¬ 
thor of Objections to 
Calvinism; Chris¬ 
tian Purity; Ministry Needed for the 
Times; Theism; Beyond the Grave; Cen¬ 
tenary Thoughts; and Studies in Theol¬ 
ogy. 

FOSTER, ROBERT SANDFORD, sol¬ 
dier, was born Jan. 27, 1834, in Vernon, 
Ind. He served in the civil war and at¬ 
tained the rank of 
major-general. Since 
the war he has re¬ 
sided in Indianapo¬ 
lis, and was its 
treasurer from 1867 
till 1872. He was 
United States mar¬ 
shal for the district 
of Indiana from 1881 
till 1885. He was 
detailed as a member 
of the commission 
that tried the con¬ 
spirators and assassins of President Lin¬ 
coln. While serving in the civil war his 
regiment was daily engaged with the con¬ 
federate forces; and during the cam¬ 
paign the first battle of Winchester was 
fought by him. He was engaged in the 
operations in front of Richmond and Pet¬ 
ersburg; and was in the final pursuit 
and capture of Lee’s army at Appomat¬ 
tox. 

FOSTER, ROBERT VERRELL, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born in 1845, 
in Tennessee. He is a Cumberland pres- 
byterian clergyman and educator; and 
has been professor of Hebrew in the The¬ 
ological seminary at Lebanon, Tenn., 
since 1877. He is the author of Intro¬ 
duction to the Study of Theology; Old 
Testament Studies; and Commentary on 
the Epistle to the Romans. 

FOSTER. STEPHEN, educator, college 
president, was born Feb. j. 5, 1798, in An¬ 
dover, Mass. In 1827 he took the chair 
of Latin and Greek in the East Tennessee 
college, now the university of Tennessee, 
of Knoxville, and became president of the 
college in 1834. He died Jan. 11, 1835, in 
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FOSTER, STEPHEN C., lumber mer¬ 
chant, ship builder, congressman, was 
born Dec. 24, 1799, in Machias, Maine. 
He was in the Maine legislature from 
1834 to 1837, again in 1840, when he was 
president of the senate, and again in 1847. 
He was elected to congress from Maine 
in 1856, serving through the thirty-fifth 
congress. He was re-elected to the thir¬ 
ty-sixth congress; and was a member of 
the peace congress of 1861. 

FOSTER, STEPHEN COLLINS, author, 
poet, was born July 4, 1826, in Pittsburg, 
Pa. He was a famous song writer and 
composer of Pittsburg and New York city. 
He set to music one hundred and twenty- 
five or more songs, the words in nearly 
all cases being his own. Some of them, 
like the Suwanee River, My Old Kentucky 
Home, and Nelly Bly, are known in all 
English-speaking lands. He died Jan. 13, 
1864, in New York city. 

FOSTER STEPHEN SYMONDS, aboli¬ 
tionist, author, was born Nov. 17, 1809, 
in Canterbury, N. H. He was a noted anti¬ 
slavery agitator of Worcester, Mass. He 
was the author of The Brotherhood of 
Thieves, a True Picture of the American 
Church and Clergy. He died Sept. 8, 
1881, in Worcester, Mass. 

FOSTER, THEODORE, lawyer, United 
States senator, was born April 29, 1752, 
in Brookfield, Mass. He was a senator in 
congress from Rhode Island from 1790 to 
1803. He died Jan. 13, 1828, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. 

FOSTER, MRS. THEODOSIA (TOLI)— 
FAYE HUNTINGTON—educator, author, 
was born in 1838, in New York. She is 
an educator of Verona, N. Y., who has 
written extensively for young people. She 
is the author of In Earnest; What Fide 
Remembers; A Baker’s Dozen; A Modern 
Exodus; and other works. 

FOSTER, THOMAS FLOURNOY, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Nov. 23, 1790, 
in Greenborough, Ga. He was for many 
years a member of the Georgia legisla¬ 
ture; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Georgia from 1829 to 1835, 
and again from 1841 to 1843. He died in 
1847, in Columbus, Ga. 

FOSTER, WILDER D., merchant, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 
1821, in Monroe, N. Y. He was city treas¬ 
urer and alderman of Grand Rapids, 
Mich.; and in ls54 was elected mayor. 
He was elected state senator for 1855 and 
1856; again elected mayor in 1865 and 
1866, and was elected to the forty-second 
congress to fill a vacancy, and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-third congress. He 
died Sept. 20, 1873. 

FOSTER, WILLIAM EATON, author, 
was born in 1851, in Vermont. He is a 
librarian of Providence, and the author of 
The Civil Service Reform Movement; 
The Literature of Civil Service Reform m 
the United States; Stephen Hopkins, a 
Rhode Island Statesman; and Town Gov¬ 
ernment in Rhode Island. 

FOSTER, WILLIAM PRESCOTT, law¬ 
yer, poet. He is a successful lawyer of 
Bar Harbor, Maine; and the author of a 
number of meritorious poems. 

FOUKE, PHILIP B., soldier, journalist, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 
1818, in Kaskaskia, Ill. He was elected 
prosecuting attorney for his district, and 
was re-elected. In 1851 he was elected 
a member of the Illinois legislature; and 
in 1856 was again elected prosecuting at¬ 
torney. In 1858 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Illinois to the thirty-sixth 
congress; and re-elected to tne thirty- 
seventh congress. 

FOULKE, WILLIAM DUDLEY, lawyer, 
legislator, author, was born Nov. 20, 1848, 


in New York city. He has served as a 
member of the Indiana state senate; pres¬ 
ident of the Indiana Civil Service Re¬ 
form association; and as president of the 
American Woman’s Suffrage association. 
He is the author of Slav and Saxon. 

FOUSE, LEVI G., underwriter, was 
born Oct. 21, 1850, in Morrison’s Cove, 
Pa. He is president of the American 
Faculty of Actuaries; and is the author 
of a system of life insurance which has 
become popularly known as the Fouse 
plan. 

FOUTE, ROBERT CHESTER, naval of¬ 
ficer, clergyman, was born April 14, 1841, 
in Greenville, Tenn. He served in the 
United States navy during the civil war; 
and attained the rank of lieutenant. He 
was ordained priest in 1874 in the Christ 
church of Savannah, Ga.; and in 1883 was 
elected rector of Grace church of San 
Francisco, Cal. 

FOUTS, L. M., railroad president, was 
born July 22, 1854, in New Washington, 
Ind. Since 1891 he has been president of 
the Weatherford, Mineral Wells and 
Northwestern railway. 

FOWLE, DANIEL, printer, journalist, 
was born about 1715, in Charlestown, Mass. 
From 1742 to 1750 he was a partner with 
Gamaliel Rogers, and in 1748-50 joint 
publisher with him of the Independent 
Advertiser. They were the first in Amer¬ 
ica to print the New Testament. He died 
June, 1787, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

FOWLE, ROBERT, journalist. He was 
a partner with his uncle in the publica¬ 
tion of the New Hampshire Gazette, 
which was the only newspaper in New 
Hampshire at the beginning of the revo¬ 
lution. 

FOWLE, WILLIAM BENTLEY, edu¬ 
cator, was born Oct. 17, 1795, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a member of the Massa¬ 
chusetts legislature in 1843. About 1851 
he opened a monitorial school in Boston, 
which he conducted successfully till 1860. 
He died Feb. 6, 1865, in Medford, Mass. 

FOWLER, ANDREW, clergyman, was 
born about 1765, in Guilford, Conn. After 
residing on Long Island and in Philadel¬ 
phia, he became rector of churches in 
Spotswood, Shrewsbury, and Middletown, 
N. J. He died in 1851, in Charleston, S. C. 

FOWLER, CHARLES HENRY, bishop, 
was born Aug. 11, 1837, in Canada. In 
1876 he was elected editor of the New 
York Christian Advocate; and in 1884 
was elected methodist episcopal bishop. 

FOWLER, CHARLES NEWELL, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Nov. 2, 1852, 
in Lena, Ill. He is a successful lawyer 
of Elizabeth, N. J.; and was elected to 
the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses 
as a republican. 

FOWLER, EDWIN, educator, founder, 
was born Dec. 15, 1847, in England. In 
1876 he moved to New York city, where 
he established a semi-military school, 
which is especially associated with his 
name and reputation as an educator. In 
3878 he founded the Columbian institute 
of New York city. 

FOWLER, MRS. FANNIE H., poet, was 
born Jan. 19, 1838, in Will county, Ill. 
She has edited for several years the wo¬ 
man’s department of one of the leading 
newspapers of Manistee, Mich. She has 
written poems and articles for magazines 
and papers, and has recently published 
a volume of Society Poems. 

FOWLER, FRANK, artist, was Dorn 
July 12, ±852, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He 
has attained a national reputation as a 
successful artist; and has represented art 
in well-timed and valuable articles pub¬ 
lished in periodicals and books. 


FOWLER, GEORGE BINGHAM, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Oct. 23, 1847, in 
Macon county, Ala. He was a professor 
of physiology in the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons; established The Dietetic 
Gazette; and for six years was associate 
editor of The American Journal of Ob¬ 
stetrics. He is the author of Detection of 
Sugar in Urine; Use and Value of Arti¬ 
ficially Digested Food; and other works. 

FOWLER, GEORGE RYERSON, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Dec. 25, 1848, in 
New York city. He has filled the high¬ 
est positions in medical colleges and hos¬ 
pitals of Brooklyn and New York city. He 
is the author of a dozen medical works on 
Diseases and Surgery. 

FOWLER, HARRIET PUTNAM, au¬ 
thor, was born July 25, 1842, in Danvers- 
port, Mass. She received her education at 
the schools of her 
native town; and at 
Bradford Female 
seminary, where she 
excelled in rhetoric 
and composition. In 
1879 she published a 
work entitled Vege¬ 
tarianism, the Rad¬ 
ical Cure for Intem¬ 
perance. Then ap¬ 
peared from her pen 
a novel entitled Our 
Smoking Husbands 
and What to Do With Them. She is now 
collating a series of ancestral books of 
genealogy and heraldry, which will form 
a rich legacy to posterity. She is able to 
trace her descent through sixteen gen¬ 
erations to Catherine Chaucer, sister of 
Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English 
poetry. She has fine poetic talent and is 
the author of a book of poems entitled 
Puritan Bluebells. 

FOWLER, HENRY, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1824, in Stockbridge, Mass. 
He was a presbyterian clergyman of Au¬ 
burn, N. Y., and the author of The Amer¬ 
ican Pulpit, a collection of sketches of 
American preachers. He died Aug. 4, 
1872, in Vineyard Haven, Mass. 

FOWLER, INMAN H., lawyer, state 
senator, was born June 7, 1834, in Eaton, 
Ohio. In 1876 he was elected to the In¬ 
diana state senate from the district com¬ 
posed of the counties of Owen and Clay, 
serving in the regular and special ses¬ 
sions of 1877 and 1879. 

FOWLER. JOHN, soldier, congressman, 
was born in 1755. He was a soldier in the 
war of the revolution; and attained the 
rank of captain. He was a member of 
congress from Kentucky from 1797 to 
1807. He died Aug. 22, 1840, in Lexington, 
Ky. 

FOWLER, JOHN EDGAR, educator, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 
county, N. C. He 
read law at the uni¬ 
versity of North 
Carolina, and was 
admitted to the bar 
in 1894. He was 
formerly a free sil¬ 
ver democrat, but 
upon the nomination 
of Mr. Cleveland in 
1892, left the demo¬ 
cratic and allied 
himself with the 
populist party. He 
was nominated for 
the state house of representatives the 
same year as a populist, but was defeated 
by seven votes. He was nominated as a 
populist for the state senate in 1894, and 
was elected. He was elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a populist. 



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FOWLER, JOSEPH SMITH, mathe¬ 
matician, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Aug. 31, 1822, in Steubenville, Ohio. In 
1865 he was elected a senator in congress 
from Tennessee for six years, but was 
not admitted to his seat until July, 1866. 

FOWLER, LORENZO NILES, journal¬ 
ist, lecturer, author, was born June 23, 
1811, in Cohocton, N. Y. He was one of 
the founders of the firm of Fowler and 
Wells, and the author of several phrenolo¬ 
gical works, the principal of which are 
Marriage, its History and Ceremonies; 
and Lectures on Man. He died in 1896. 

FOWLER, MRS. LYDIA FOLGER, 
physician, author, was born in 1823, in 
Nantucket, Mass. She was the wife of 
Lorenzo Niles Wells, and a practicing 
physician for some years. She was the 
author of Nora, the Lost and Redeemed; 
The Pet of the Household and How to 
Save It; Familiar Lessons on Phrenol¬ 
ogy and Physiology; and Familiar Les¬ 
sons on Astronomy. She died Jan. 26, 
1879, in London, England. 

FOWLER, MOSES, farmer, banker, 
philanthropist, was born April 30, 1815, 
in Circleville, Ohio. In 1874 the county 
seat of Benton county was removed from 
Oxford to Fowler, a town laid out by 
Messrs. Fowler and Earl. To aid in the 
cost of removal and to construct a court¬ 
house, Mr. Fowler donated forty thousand 
dollars. 

FOWLER, ORIN, clergyman, congress¬ 
man, author, was born July 29, 1791, in 
Lebanon, Conn. For twenty years he 
was a pastor at Fall River, which he rep¬ 
resented in both branches of the legis¬ 
lature for several years. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1849 to the 
time of his death. He published a trea¬ 
tise on Baptism in 1835, and Historical 
Sketch of Fall River. He died Sept. 3, 
1852, in Washington, D. C. 

FOWLER, ORSON SQUIRE, publisher, 
phrenologist, author, was born Oct. 11, 
1809, in Cohocton, N. Y. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the New York publishing house of 
Fowler and Wells in 1844-63. He was the 
author of Memory and Intellectual Im¬ 
provement; Physiology, Animal and Men¬ 
tal; Matrimony; Self-Culture; Hereditary 
Descent; Love and Parentage; Sexual 
Science; Amativeness; Human Science; 
Creative Science; and The Self-Instructor 
in Phrenology. He died Aug. 18, 1887, in 
Connecticut. 

FOWLER, PHILEMON HALSTEAD, 
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 9, 1814, 
in Albany, N. Y. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of Utica, and the author of 
History of Presbyterianism in Central 
New York; and The Presbyterian Ele¬ 
ment in Our National Life and History. 
He died Dec. 19, 1879, in Utica, N. Y. 

FOWLER, RALPH, farmer, legislator, 
was born Oct. 8, 1808, in Trenton, N. Y. 
He settled in 1836 on a farm in Handy, 
Mich., and was the founder of the village 
of Fowlerville. He was a justice for twen¬ 
ty-five years, and during 1845-51 was 
a member of the Michigan legislature. 
He died Sept. 26, 1887. 

FOWLER, SAMUEL, physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 30, 1779, in New- 
burg, N. J. He was a distinguished mem¬ 
ber of tne medical profession; and was a 
representative in congress from New Jer¬ 
sey from 1833 to 1837. He died Feb. 21, 
1844, in Franklin, N. J. 

FOWLER, SAMUEL, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 22, 1851, in Frank¬ 
lin. N. J. Since 1876 he has practiced law 
in Newark and Newton, N. J. He was 
elected to the fifty-first congress, and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat. 


FOWLER, SAMUEL PAGE, antiquar¬ 
ian, was born April 22, 1800, in Danvers, 
Mass. He learned of his father the trade 
of tanner, and from 
early manhood to 
1 8 7 5 successfully 
carried on that busi¬ 
ness in his native 
town. He made a 
study of our native 
birds, and contrib¬ 
uted numerous inter¬ 
esting articles on 
horticultural sub¬ 
jects; on The Culti¬ 
vation of Native 
Trees and Shrubs; 
Birds of New England; Destruction of In¬ 
sects Injurious to Vegetation; Ornitholo¬ 
gy; and other subjects. He was one of the 
organizers of the Essex County Natural 
History society; was its curator during 
1846-48; and was curator of Essex insti¬ 
tute during 1848-56. He represented Dan¬ 
vers in the general court in 1837-39; and 
was a member of the Massachusetts con¬ 
stitutional convention in 1853. He died 
in 1895, in Danvers, Mass. 

FOWLER, SMITH W., soldier, lawyer, 
journalist, state legislator, was born 
April 5, 1829, in New Berlin, N. Y. He 
served with distinction through the civil 
war in the sixth Michigan infantry. While 
a member of the Michigan state legisla¬ 
ture he was the author of and secured the 
passage of the Soldiers’ Voting bill. Dur¬ 
ing 1867-85 he published the Manistee 
Times, afterward known as the Standard. 
He was three times the democratic can¬ 
didate for state senator; and was a col¬ 
onel on the governor’s staff. He died Oct. 

3, 1894. 

FOWLER, SYLVESTER, journalist, 
poet, was born March 2, 1853, in Williams 
county, Ohio. He is the editor of the 
County Times, of Louisville, Kas.; and 
the author of Sex and Other Poems. 

FOWLER, THOMAS POWELL, lawyer, 
railroad president, was born Oct. 26, 1851, 
in Newburg, N. Y. Since 1886 he has 
been president of the New York, Ontario 
and Western railway. 

FOWLER, WILLIAM CHAUNCEY, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born 
Sept. 1, 1793, in Killingworth, Conn. He 
was a congregational clergyman and ed¬ 
ucator of New England. He is the author 
of Memorials of the Chaunceys; The Sec¬ 
tional Controversy, or Passages in United 
States Political History; History of Dur¬ 
ham, Connecticut; Local Law in Massa¬ 
chusetts and Connecticut; Essays; Eng¬ 
lish Grammar; and The English Lan¬ 
guage in Its Elements and Forms. He 
died Jan. 15, 1881, in Durham, Conn. 

FOWLER, WILLIAM WORTHINGTON, 
lawyer, journalist, author, was born June 
24, 1833, in Middlebury, Vt. He was suc¬ 
cessively a lawyer, broker and journalist 
of New York city, and the author of Ten 
Years in Wall Street; Fighting Fire, the 
Great Fires of History; Woman on the 
American Frontier; and Twenty Years of 
Inside Life in Wall Street. He died Sept. 
18, 1881, in Durham, Conn. 

FOWLES, JAMES H., clergyman, was 
born in 1812, in Nassau, N. P. He preach¬ 
ed in South Carolina till 1845, when he 
succeeded Stephen H. Tyng in Philadel¬ 
phia. 

FOX, ANDREW FULLER, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
April 26, 1849, in Clay county, Miss. He 
was elected state senator in 1891, which 
position he resigned to accept the office 
of United States attorney for the north¬ 
ern district of Mississippi, to which he 


was appointed in 1893; resigned the lat¬ 
ter office in 1896, and was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

FOX, CHARLES JAMES, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, author, was born Oct. 11, 1811, 
in Antrim, N. H. In 1837 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the New Hampshire legislature; 
was county solicitor in 1835-44; and in 
1841-42 was one of the commission to re¬ 
vise the New Hampshire statutes. He 
was the author of The New Hampshire 
Book of Prose and Poetry; The History of 
Dunstable; and The Town Officer. 

FOX,CHARLES JAMES, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Dec. 21, 1854, in Weath- 
ersfield. Conn. He received the diploma 
with high honors from the New York 
university medical college in 1876. He had 
been previously fitted for Yale college, 
and was a graduate from the Hartford 
high school. He has been physician-in- 
chief of the city hospital of Hartford, 
Conn.; a member of the United States 
examining board of Windham county; 
and is now surgeon-general of the state 
of Connecticut. He has been president 
of the Windham County Medical society, 
and is a member of the leading medical 
associations of America. He is a thor¬ 
ough student in his professional and liter¬ 
ary works, and as a contributor to state, 
national and international medical jour¬ 
nals, his writings have received marked 
and widespread attention. 

FOX, CHARLES KEMBLE, actor, was 
born Aug. 15, 1833, in Boston, Mass. His 
first appearance in New York was made 
at the old National theater in 1853, as 
Cute in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. He died Jan. 
17, 1875. 

FOX, CHARLES NELSON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born March 9, 1829, in Detroit, 
Mich. He began practice in San Fran¬ 
cisco. In 1889 he accepted an appoint¬ 
ment to fill a vacancy on the bench of tne 
supreme court. 

FOX, EBENEZER, author, was born in 
1763, in East Roxbury, Mass. He was a 
Bostonian, who was postmaster of his 
city in 1830-36, and the author of The 
Revolutionary Adventures of Ebenezer 
Fox. He died in 1843, in East Roxbury, 
Mass. 

FOX, EDWARD, jurist, was born in 
Maine.’ He was a resident of Portland, 
and in 1866 was appointed United States 
judge for the district of Maine. He died 
Dec. 14, 1881. 

FOX, ELIAS WILLIAMS, journalist, 
legislator, was born Oct. 28, 1828, in Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y. He was the first president of 
the St. Louis board of trade; in 1865 was 
a member of the Missouri legislature; and 
in 1885 he bought The National Republic 
of Washington, D. C., which he edited with 
eminent ability for several years. 

FOX FRANCIS, lawyer, lecturer, was 
born June 28, 1858, in Porter, Maine. Dur¬ 
ing 1880-90 he served with distinction as 
a member of the Maine legislature. He is 
a successful lawyer of Kezar Falls, Maine, 
and a brilliant lecturer. 

FOX, FRANK, educator, clergyman, 
was born Jan. 28, 1859, in Knox county, 
Ohio. During 1890-91 he was principal of 
public schools of Dodge, Neb.; and has 
always taken a deep interest in education¬ 
al work. In 1895 he graduated from the 
Chicago Theological seminary with the 
degree of B. D.; and is now pastor of the 
congregational church at Three Oaks, 
Mich. 

FOX, GEORGE, founder, was born in 
July 1624, in England. He was the foun¬ 
der of the Society of Friends, commonly 
called Quakers. He died Nov. 13, 1690, in 
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FOX. GEORGE HENRY, physician, 
was born Oct. 8, 1846, in Ballston Spa, N. 
Y. He has been unusually successful in 
the adaptation of new photographic pro¬ 
cesses to the illustration of medical works, 
and has published Photographic Illustra¬ 
tions of Skin Diseases; Photographic Il¬ 
lustrations of Cutaneous Syphilis; Illus¬ 
trated Medicine and Surgery; and Electro¬ 
lysis in the Removal of Superfluous Hair, 
etc. 

FOX, GEORGE L., actor, was born 
July 3, 1825, in Boston, Mass. In 1867-68 
he was stage manager of the Olympic, and 
made an immediate success in the part 
of the clown in the pantomime Humpty- 
Dumpty. He died Oct. 24, 1877, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

FOX, GUSTAVUS VASA, manufacturer, 
diplomat, was born June 13, 1821, in 
Saugus, Mass. In an official capacity he 
was sent to Russia to deliver in person 
the resolutions of congress passed upon 
the escape of the emperor from assassi¬ 
nation. He died Oct. 29, 1883, in New 
York city. 

FOX, JOHN, mechanic, congressman, 
was born June 30, 1835, in New York. In 
1866 he was elected a representative from 
New York to the fortieth congress, and 
re-elected to the forty-first congress 
as a democrat. 

FOX, MARY HEWINS, actress, was 
born in 1842 in Hartford, Conn. She made 
her first appearance on the stage at the 
old museum in Troy, N. Y., and after¬ 
ward appeared at Laura Keene’s Varie¬ 
ties in New York. 

FOX, NORMAN, clergyman, author, was 
born in 1836 in New York. He is a baptist 
clergyman of New York and Missouri; 
author of George Fox and the Early 
Friends; Rise of the Use of Pouring and 
Sprinkling for Baptism; A Layman’s 
Ministry; and Inspiration of the Apos¬ 
tles in Speaking and Writing. 

FOX, OSCAR C., soldier, inventor, was 
born Aug. 23, 1830, in Pitcher, N. Y. He 
served in the civil war, and attained the 
rank of major. He is an inventor in 
calorifics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics 
and surgery, and is also an examiner in 
the United States patent office. 

FOX. ROBERT CLAYBROOK, educator, 
was born Dec. 12, 1834, in Virginia. In 
1881 he was chosen secretary and treas¬ 
urer of the Columbian university, and sec¬ 
retary and auditor of the Columbian In¬ 
stitution for the Deaf and Dumb, both 
of which positions he now fills. 

FOX, THOMAS BAILEY, clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born in 1808 in 
Boston, Mass. He was for three years the 
editor of the Christian Register in Bos¬ 
ton, and for a much longer period an as¬ 
sistant editor and contributor to the 
Christian Examiner. He was the author 
of The Ministry of Jesus (Boston); The 
Sunday-School Prayer-Book; Hints for 
Sunday-School Teachers; Allegories and 
Christian Lessons for Children; and The 
Acts of the Apostles. He died in 1876 
in Dorchester, Mass. 

FOX, TIMOTHY J„ lawyer, legislator, 
was born Dec. 24, 1847, in Ireland. He 
received the rudiments of his education 
in the public schools of New Haven, Conn., 
and graduated from Yale university in 
1869. He has attained success as a law¬ 
yer; and has been city attorney of New 
Haven, Conn. In 1882 he served as a 
member of the Connecticut house of rep¬ 
resentatives; was a state senator during 
1891-95; and served as chairman of the 
judiciary committee. 


FOXCROFT, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, hu¬ 
morist, was born in 1815 in Boston, Mass. 
He wrote many articles for the daily press 
on monetary topics, under the pen-name 
of Job Sass. He may be regarded as the 
originator of what has been called pho¬ 
netic humor. He died March 13, 1878. 

FOXCROFT, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 26, 1697, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. In 1717 hebecame pastor of the 
First Congregational church in Boston, 
where he remained till his death. He 
published thirty-two sermons, including 
Observations, Historical and Practical, on 
the Rise and Primitive State of New Eng¬ 
land, a Century Sermon. He died June 18, 
1769, in Boston, Mass. 

FOYE, JAMES CLARK, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born March 1, 1841, in Great 
Falls, N. H. He is an educator who has 
been professor of chemistry at Lawrence 
university since 1867. He is the author of 
Chemical Problems; Handbook of Min¬ 
eralogy; and Tables for Determination of 
United States Minerals. 

FRACKER, CORA ROBINS, musician, 
composer, was born Aug. 11, 1849, in 
Iowa City, Iowa. She has taught music 
for a quarter of a century, principally the 
guitar; and is the author of a number of 
musical compositions for the guitar and 
piano. 

FRACKLETON, MRS. SUSAN STU¬ 
ART, artist, inventor, was born in 1851, 
in Milwaukee, Wis. She has invented and 
patented a portable gas-kiln for firing 
artistic work; and is the author of Tried 
by Fire, a successful text-book on China 
Painting. 

FRADENBURGH, J. N., educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 4, 1843, 
in Gouverneur, N. Y. He graduated from 
Genesee Wesleyan 
seminary and the 
Genesee college; and 
has received the de¬ 
grees of Ph. D., D. D. 
and LL. D. He has 
filled the chair of 
mathematics in the 
Genesee Wesleyan 
seminary; for four 
years taught ancient 
languages at the State 
Normal school at 
Fredonia, N. Y.; and 
for two years was principal of the State 
Normal school at Mansfield, Pa. He has 
filled pastorates in the methodist episco¬ 
pal church at Cleveland, Ohio, and other 
cities; and since 1896 has filled a pastor¬ 
ate in Clarion, Pa. For awhile he was 
president of the Red River Valley univer¬ 
sity of North Dakota. He is the author 
of numerous religious works, the most no¬ 
table of which are The Bible Illustrated 
from the Monuments; Living Religions; 
Old Heroes; Beauty Crowned; Departed 
Gods; Light from Egypt; and Studies 
Upon the Life and Times of Abraham. 

FRANCE. LEWIS B., lawyer, author, 
was born in the District of Columbia. He 
is a lawyer and litterateur of Denver; 
and the author of Over the Old Trail; 
Pine Valley, a volume of short stories; 
and Mountain Trails and Parks in Colo¬ 
rado. 

FRANCHOT, RICHARD, civil engin¬ 
eer, railroad president, congressman, was 
born in 1816 in Morris, N. Y. He was 
president of the Albany and Susquehanna 
Railroad company; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the thir¬ 
ty-seventh congress. He died Nov. 23, 
1875, in Schenectady, N. Y. 


FRANCIS, CHARLES EDWARD, den¬ 
tist, was born Jan. 24, 1828, in Hartford, 
Conn. He was president and one of the 
founders of the New York Odontological 
society, and of the First District Den¬ 
tal society of New York. He also helped 
to establish the New York College of 
Dentistry. 

FRANCIS, CONVERS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 9, 1795, in West 
Cambridge, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman of Watertown, Mass., and sub¬ 
sequently Parkman professor of pulpit 
eloquence at Harvard university in 1843- 
63. He was the author of Life of John 
Eliot; Historical Sketch of Watertown; 
and Errors of Education. He died April 
7, 1863, in Cambridge, Mass. 

FRANCIS, DAVID ROWLAND, mer¬ 
chant, governor, was born Oct. 1, 1850, in 
Richmond, Ky. In 1885 was elected mayor 
of St. Louis and served until 1889, when 
he was inaugurated governor of Missouri, 
having been elected to that office the pre¬ 
ceding fall. He served as governor until 
January, 1893, and then returned to St. 
Louis, where he was engaged in commer¬ 
cial pursuits until appointed secretary of 
the interior in 1896. 

FRANCIS, HARRY H., journalist, state 
senator, was born Feb. 24, 1852, in Mich¬ 
igan City, Ind. From 1886 to 1890 he was 
a member of the Indiana state senate; 
and was the founder and publisher of the 
Michigan City Daily and Weekly Dispatch. 
He was state bank examiner from 1890 
until his death, which occurred Sept. 15, 
1891. 

FRANCIS, JAMES BICHENO, engineer, 
author, was born May 18, 1815, in Eng¬ 
land. He was a noted hydraulic engin¬ 
eer of Lowell; and the author of Lowell 
Hydraulic Experiments; and The Strength 
of Cast Iron Columns. He died in 1892. 

FRANCIS, JOHN BROWN, governor, 
United States senator, was born May 31, 
1794, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature from 1821 to 
1829; state senator in 1831; and govern¬ 
or from 1833 to 1838. He was state sen¬ 
ator in 1842; United States senator in 1844 
and 1845, and state senator again from 
1849 to 1856. He died Aug. 9, 1864, in 
Rhode Island. 

FRANCIS, JOHN FRANCIS, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Aug. 29, 1839. He was 
commissioned colonel of the eighty-first 
United States colored troops, served in the 
department of the gulf, and was brevetted 
brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865. He 
died Aug. 31, 1871, in Bangor, Maine. 

FRANCIS, JOHN MORGAN, journalist, 
diplomat, was born March 6, 1823, in 
Prattsburgh, N. Y. In 1851 he estab¬ 
lished the Daily Times at Troy. He was 
appointed United States minister to 
Greece in 1871; and was appointed United 
States minister to Portugal in 1882. 

FRANCIS, JOHN WAKEFIELD, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Nov. 17, 1789, in 
New York city. He was a physician of 
much prominence at 
one time in medical 
and literary circles 
of New York city. He 
was the author of 
Use of Mercury; 
Cases of Morbid 
Anatomy; Febrile 
Contagion; The An¬ 
atomy of Drunken¬ 
ness; and Old New 
York, a volume of 
pleasant reminis¬ 
cences. He died Feb. 
8, 1861, in New York city. 




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FRANCIS, JOSEPH, inventor, was born 
March 12, 1801, in Boston, Mass. To him 
may be conceded the first use of iron 
floating vessels. In 1850 two hundred 
persons were saved by his life-car from 
the British emigrant vessel Ayreshire, 
which was wrecked on Swan Beach. 

FRANCIS, ORIN W., lawyer, business 
man, legislator, was born Jan. 14, 1848, 
in Lewis county, N. Y. He received a 
thorough education and graduated from 
the high school of Faribault, Minn. He is 
a successful lawyer and real estate dealer 
of Fargo, N. D. He served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the legislature of 
North Dakota in 1896-97, and was chair¬ 
man of the judiciary committee. He was 
president of the first board of trustees of 
the North Dakota Agricultural college, 
and has held several public positions of 
honor. He received the second highest 
number of votes in the republican legisla¬ 
tive caucus for United States senator in 
January, 1897. 

FRANCIS, SAMUEL WARD, physician, 
author, was born Dec. 26, 1835, in New 
York city. He was a physician of New 
York city and subsequently of Newport, 
R. I. He was the author of Mott’s Clin¬ 
ics; Water; Inside and Out; Biographi¬ 
cal Sketches of New York Surgeons and 
Physicians; Life and Death; and Curious 
Facts Concerning Man and Nature. He 
died March 25, 1886, in Newport, R. I. 

FRANCIS, TENCH, merchant, was born 
in Fansley, Md. He became the first 
cashier of the Bank of North America, 
which office he held until his death. He 
died May 1, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

FRANCIS, TENCH, lawyer. He set¬ 
tled in Philadelphia, was attorney-general 
of Pennsylvania from 1741 to 1755, and 
recorder of Philadelphia from 1750 to 1755. 
He died Aug. 16, 1758, in Philadel¬ 

phia, Pa. 

FRANCIS, TURBUTT, soldier, was born 
in 1740. He was a lieutenant in the 
British army, but during the revolution¬ 
ary war fought for independence, and 
rose to the rank of colonel. He pur¬ 
chased one thousand acres of land in 
Maryland. He died in 1797. 

FRANCIS, VALENTINE MOTT, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born April 25, 1834, in 
New York city. He was a physician of 
Newport who has published Hospital Hy¬ 
giene. 

FRANCIS, WILLIAM H., lawyer, state 
senator, jurist, was born Aug. 29, 1839, 
in South Norwalk, Conn. He was corpor¬ 
ation counsel of Newark, N. J., in 1871-75; 
and represented Essex county in the New 
Jersey senate in 1879-81. In 1884 he was 
appointed associate justice of the supreme 
court of Dakota territory. 

FRANCISCO, PETER, soldier, was 
born in 1761. He served as a soldier in 
the continental army. He saved the life 
of Col. Mayo, and received a present from 
that officer of one thousand acres of land 
on Richland Creek, Ky. He died in 1832 
in Richmond, Va. 

FRANCKE, KUNO, ’educator, author, 
was born in 1855 in Schleswig. He is a 
professor in Harvard university; and the 
author of Social Forces in German Liter¬ 
ature; and A Study in the History of 
Civilization. 

FRANK, AUGUSTUS, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 17, 1826, in War¬ 
saw N. Y. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive’ from New York to the thirty-sixth 
congress, and was re-elected to the thirty- 
seventh and thirty-eighth congresses. 


FRANK, GEORGE P., manufacturer, 
was born June 11, 1852, in Granville, N. 

Y. In 1875 with his brother he moved to 
San Francisco, where he embarked in the 
agricultural implement business, under 
the firm name of Frank Brothers. In 1895 
he was elected mayor of Portland, Ore. 

FRANK, MELVIN PORTER, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Dec. 26, 1841, in Gray, 
Maine. He was twice a member of the 
Maine house of representatives, and for 
one term was speaker of the house. 

FRANK, NATHAN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 23, 1852, in 
Peoria, Ill. He was elected to the fifty- 
first congress as a republican. 

FRANK, ROYAL T., soldier, was born 
in Maine. He is the successor of Gen. 
Merritt as commandant of Governor’s Is¬ 
land. 

FRANK, THOMAS, bishop coadjutor 
of Tennessee, was born Sept. 17, 1856, in 
Jackson, Miss. He was elected professor 
of ecclesiastical history in the university 
of the South in 1882, chaplain of the uni¬ 
versity in the following year, and vice- 
chancellor in 1890. 

FRANKLIN, B. J., soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Mason county, Ky. 
He served in the confederate army as a 
captain; and in 1871 was elected circuit 
attorney for the twenty-fourth circuit of 
Missouri. In 1874 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Missouri to the forty- 
fourth congress; and was re-elected to the 
forty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, philosopher, 
statesman, scientist, author, was born 
Jan. 17, 1706, in Boston, Mass. After vari¬ 
ous vicissitudes, 
when seventeen years 
of age he went to 
Philadelphia, and be¬ 
came a printer. With 
the help of Gov. Sir 
William Keith, he 
visited England, 
where he remained 
nearly two years. In 
1732 he commenced 
the publication of 
Poor Richard’s Al¬ 
manac, which he con¬ 
tinued until 1737; and after that estab¬ 
lished a newspaper. He held the various 
offices of state printer, clerk of the gen¬ 
eral assembly, and postmaster of Phila¬ 
delphia. He was the father and patron 
of the Philosophical society, and of the 
Pennsylvania university and hospital. In 
1741 he published the General Magazine. 
In 1744 he was elected to the provincial 
assembly, holding the office ten years; in 
1758 concluded a treaty with the Indians 
at Carlisle. He became postmaster-gen¬ 
eral of America. He was sent to England 
as an advocate and agent for the province 
on two occasions, remaining there eleven 
years. On the breaking out of the revolu¬ 
tion he returned to America, and took 
an active and important part in public 
affairs; was a signer of the declaration of 
independence; a delegate to the continen¬ 
tal congress in 1775 and 1776; and in 
1778 was sent to France in a diplomatic 
capacity, where he remained until 1785. 
He was next elected governor of Pennsyl¬ 
vania and was a member of the convention 
which framed the federal constitution, 
and signed that instrument. He made im¬ 
portant discoveries in electricity; wrote 
and published much on a variety of 
themes and his Life, Writings and Cor¬ 
respondence, issued in ten volumes, are 
an important feature in all the best li¬ 
braries of the country. He died April 17, 
1790, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1819 in Rhode Is¬ 
land. He is an episcopal clergyman 
of Shrewsbury, N. J.; and the author of 
The Creed and Modern Thought; and The 
Church and the Era. 

FRANKLIN, EDWARD C., physician, 
author, was born March 12, 1822, in 

Flushing, N. Y. He has attained promi¬ 
nence as a successful physician and sur¬ 
geon of Michigan, and served during the 
civil war as a surgeon of the Missouri 
volunteers. He is the author of a work 
entitled The Science and Art of Surgery. 

FRANKLIN, JESSE, soldier, governor, 
United States senator, was born March 
24, 1760, in Orange county, Va. He rep¬ 
resented Virginia in congress from 1795 
to 1797, and then returned to the legisla¬ 
ture. From 1799 to 1805, and from 1807 
to 1813, he was a United States senator. 
In 1820 he was elected governor of North 
Carolina. He died in September, 1823, in 
Surry county, N. C. 

FRANKLIN, JOHN, soldier, legislator, 
jurist, was born Sept. 26, 1749, in Canaan, 
Conn. He was a captain during the revolu¬ 
tionary war; and subsequently was several 
times a member of the Connecticut as¬ 
sembly. He died March 1, 1831, in Athens, 
Pa. 

FRANKLIN, JOHN H., lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, was born July 5, 1853, in Macomb, Ill. 
At the age of twenty-one he was admit¬ 
ted to the bar; and in 1876-77 was city 
attorney of his native city. In 1879 he 
moved to Junction City, Kas., and the 
following year was elected state’s attor¬ 
ney for Geary county. In 1882 he was 
the republican nominee for state senator 
from that district; and the same year es¬ 
tablished The Junction City Republican, 
now one of the leading papers of Kansas. 
In 1885 he became connected with The 
Record, and subsequently with The Jour¬ 
nal, of Russell, Kas. He served for five 
years as a regent of the State Normal 
school; was city attorney of Russell in 
1884, and the following year was mayor 
of the city. In 1889 he was appointed 
deputy auditor in the war department in 
Washington, D. C., and is now auditor. 
Since 1893 he has made Toluca his place 
of residence. 

FRANKLIN, JOHN P., farmer, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, was born July 26, 1859, 
in Clinton, La. He graduated from the 
Gammon seminary of Atlanta, Ga.; has 
attained success as a school teacher and a 
clergyman, and now fills a pastorate in 
Lumberton, N. C. 

FRANKLIN, JOHN R., lawyer, -con¬ 
gressman, was born May 6, 1820, in Wor¬ 
cester, Md. He served in the state legis¬ 
lature of Maryland in 1843, and also in 
1849, when he was elected speaker. In 
1851 he was chosen president of the board 
of public works of the state; and was 
a representative in congress from Mary¬ 
land from 1853 to 1855. 

FRANKLIN, MESHACK, state senator, 
congressman. He was a representative in 
congress from North Carolina from 1807 
to 1815. He served in the house of com¬ 
mons of that state in 1800; and in the 
state senate in 1828 and 1829. He died 
Dec. 18, 1839, in Surry county, N. C. 

FRANKLIN, ROBERT STILLMAN, 
state senator, was born Aug. 4, 1836, in 
Newport, R. I. For many years he has 
been secretary of the board of health 
of his native city; president of the com¬ 
mon council, and for four terms was its 
mayor. He served with distinction for 
two years in the Rhode Island state sen¬ 
ate. 



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FRANKLIN, ROSS B., journalist, poet, 
was born Dec. 8, 1863, in Boston, Mass. 
He has traveled extensively in Mexico 
as a newspaper correspondent, and was a 
special correspondent for New York 
papers during the late Chilean war. He 
is also a poet of acknowledged excellence. 

FRANKLIN, SAMUEL RHOADS, naval 
officer, was born Aug. 25, 1825, in York, 
Pa. In 1841 he was appointed a mid¬ 
shipman; served in the Mexican war; 
was a commander during the civil war; 
and in 1880 was promoted to commodore. 
In 1885 he became rear admiral; and a 
few years later was placed on the retired 
list. 

FRANKLIN, THOMAS LEVERING, 
clergyman, author, was born April 10, 
1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is an epis¬ 
copal clergyman of western New York, 
and more recently of Philadelphia. His 
writings include an important work on 
The Creed, and several tractates on Di¬ 
vorce. 

FRANKLIN, WALTER M., railroad 
president, was born April 26, 1852, in 
Lancaster City, Pa. Since 1890 he has 
been president of the Lancaster, Oxford 
and Southern railroad. 

FRANKLIN, WILLIAM, governor, was 
born in 1729 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
the last royal governor of New Jersey. 
He published several political works. He 
died Nov. 17, 1813, in England. 

FRANKLIN, WILLIAM BUEL, soldier, 
manufacturer, was born Feb. 27, 1823, in 
York, Pa. He served through the Mexi¬ 
can and civil wars, 
and was in the regu¬ 
lar service when he 
resigned in 1866. He 
was brevetted briga¬ 
dier-general and ma¬ 
jor-general for gal¬ 
lant services during 
the war. For many 
years he was presi¬ 
dent of the Colt 
Arms company of 
Hartford, Conn. He 
was president of the 
National Home for Disabled Soldiers in 
1880-87. 

FRANKLIN, WILLIAM M„ lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Feb. 13, 1820, in Mon¬ 
roe county, N. C. On his retirement from 
the Indiana legisla¬ 
ture he was elected 
prosecutor of the 

seventh judicial cir¬ 
cuit. Two years later 
he was elected judge 
of the common pleas 
court for the district 
composed of the 

counties of Greene, 
Owen, Sullivan and 
Clay, serving four 

years. In 1860 he was 
again elected to the 
same position, and in 1870 elected circuit 
judge of his district. 

FRANKLIN, WILLIAM TEMPLE, au¬ 
thor. He accompanied his grandfather 
to Paris, acting as his secretary. He pub¬ 
lished editions of Franklin’s works. He 
died May 25, 1823, in Paris, France. 

FRANTZ, MRS. VIRGINIA, educator, 

poet, was born in 1838 in Brandon, Miss. 

For many years she has been engaged in 
educational work; and is the author of a 
volume entitled Ina Greenwood and Other 
Poems. 

FRASER, CHARLES, artist, was born 
Aug. 20, 1782, in Charleston, S. C. He pro¬ 
duced many landscape and genre pictures. 
In 1857 his works were exhibited in 


Charleston. He died Oct. 5, 1860, in 

Charleston, S. C. 

FRASER, PHILIP, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He adopted the 
profession of the law and settled at 
Jacksonville, Fla.; and in 1862 was ap¬ 
pointed United States judge for the north¬ 
ern district of Florida. 

FRASER, THOMAS BOONE, jurist, 
state senator, was born Oct. 27, 1825, in 
Sumter county, S. C. In 1878 he was 
elected judge of the third judicial district 
of South Carolina; in 1877 was elected 
state senator. 

FRAZAR, DOUGLAS, soldier, author, 
was born in 1836 in Massachusetts. He 
was a colonel in the federal army during 
the civil war, brevetted brigadier-general 
of volunteers at the close of the war, and 
subsequently a citizen of Somerville, 
Mass. He was the author of The Log 
of the Maryland; Perseverance Island; 
and Practical Boat-Sailing. He died in 
1896. 

FRAZEE, JOHN, sculptor, was born 
July 18, 1790, in Rahway, N. J. In 1834 
he modeled several busts of eminent men 
for the library of the Boston athenaeum, 
among which were those of Daniel Web¬ 
ster, Prescott, Lowell, Story, Bowditch, 
and T. H, Perkins. Subsequently he made 
busts of John Marshall, Lafayette, De 
Witt Clinton, John Jay, Gen. Jackson, 
Bishop Hobart, Dr. Stearns, and Dr. Mil- 
nor. He died Feb. 24, 1852, in Comp¬ 
ton Mills, R. I. 

FRAZER, JOHN FRIES, soldier, scien¬ 
tist, was born July 8, 1812, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He served as a soldier during 
the revolutionary war. In 1836 he became 
a state geologist; and subsequently was 
professor of chemistry and natural philos¬ 
ophy in the Philadelphia high school and 
other institutions. He died Oct. 12, 1872, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

FRAZER, PERSIFOR, geologist, author, 
born July 24, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is a distinguished geologist attached 
to the state geological survey of Penn¬ 
sylvania, who has published Tables forthe 
Determination of Minerals; and The Geo¬ 
logy of Lancaster County. 

FRAZIER, SAMUEL ROBINSON, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, lecturer, was born Feb. 
23, 1846, in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Before 
graduation he enlisted three times in the 
union army, and each time was sent back 
as too young; and finally he went into the 
service of the Christian commission, and 
was with Sherman’s army on the march 
to Atlanta. He then became a success¬ 
ful clergyman, and filled pastorates in 
Monroe, near Cincinnati; and six years 
later became pastor of the Third United 
Presbyterian church of Pittsburg. In 1879 
he resigned and went to Japan. He there 
became acting secretary and interpreter 
in the American legation, and taught in 
the Osaka school and Imperial university 
at Tokio. In 1883 he became pastor of 
the First United Presbyterian church of 
Youngstown, Ohio, and is still its pas¬ 
tor. In 1896 he was a delegate to the pan- 
presbyterian council, which met at Glas¬ 
gow, Scotland; and subsequently made his 
second tour of the world. 

FRAZIER, WILLIAM C., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1776 in Lancaster, Pa. He 
was appointed an associate justice of the 
territory of Wisconsin. He died Oct. 18, 
1838, in Milwaukee, Wis. 

FREAR, WILLIAM HENRY, merchant, 
was born March 29, 1841, in Troy, N. Y. 
His store is the largest in Troy, N. Y.; 
has fifty-five departments; and is known 
by the attractive name of Frear’s Troy 
Cash Bazaar. 


FREDERIC, HAROLD, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1856 in New York. He 
is a novelist and journalist who has been 
the London correspondent of the New 
York Times since 1884. He is the author 
of Marsena, and Other Stories; The Cop¬ 
perhead; The Lawton Girl; In the Valley; 
Seth’s Brother’s Wife; The Damnation of 
Theron Ware; and March Hares. 

FREDERICK, BENJAMIN TODD, man¬ 
ufacturer, congressman, was born Oct. 5, 
1835, in Fredericktown, Ohio. In 1882' 
he was elected a representative from 
Iowa to the forty-eighth congress, but 
only secured his seat on March 3, 1885, 
after a contest; and was re-elected to 
the forty-ninth congress as a democrat. 

FREDERICK, GEORGE A., architect, 
was born Dec. 16, 1842, in Baltimore, Md., 
in which city he was educated. For many 
years he has been a fellow and a director 
in the American Institute of Architects. 
For over thirty years he has been actively 
and successfully engaged in his profession 
in the city of Baltimore. He was archi¬ 
tect of the new city hall, which cost two- 
and a half millions, and is said to be the 
best municipal structure in America. He 
was architect of the state house of Mary¬ 
land, and the Maryland state house of cor¬ 
rection; the Baltimore City college; St. 
James Rornan catholic church; St. Pius’ 
Roman catholic church; St. Joseph hos¬ 
pital; United States Marine hospital; 
First National bank of Baltimore; and a 
score of other public buildings of Balti¬ 
more. 

FREDET, PETER, clergyman, author,, 
was born in 1801 in France. He was a 
Roman catholic priest who came from 
France to America in 1831, and was pro¬ 
fessor in St. Mary’s seminary at Balti¬ 
more from that date until his death. He 
is the author of Ancient History; Modern 
History; Original Texts and Translations 
of the Bible; Treatise on the Eucharistic 
Mystery; Lay Baptism; Inspiration and 
Canon of Scripture; Interpretation of 
Scripture; Doctrine of Exclusive Salva¬ 
tion; Necessity of Baptism; and Effect of 
Baptism. He died in 1856 in Ellicott’s 
Mills, Md. 

FREEDLEY, EDWIN TROXELL, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born July 28, 1827, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1845 he studied law 
at Harvard college; then moved to Cin¬ 
cinnati; and in 1851 settled in Philadel¬ 
phia. For ten years he published The 
Manufacturers’ Gazette. He is the author 
of Practical Treatise on Business; The 
Business Man’s Legal Adviser; Leading 
Pursuits and Leading Men; Philadelphia 
and Its Manufactures; Opportunities for 
Industry; Common Sense in Business; 
Home Comforts; and other works. 

FREEDLEY, JOHN, lawyer, business, 
man, congressman, was born May 22, 1793, 
in Norristown, Pa. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1847 to 1851. He died Dec. 8, 1851. 

FREEMAN, ALICE ELVIRA, educator, 
college president, was born Feb. 21, 1855, 
in Colesville, N. Y. She was one of the 
pioneers when the university of Michigan 
opened its doors to women. In 1882 she 
became president of Wellesley college. 

FREEMAN, BARNARDUS, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1660. He was a Dutch 
reformed clergyman of Long Island who 
came to America in 1700 and was especial¬ 
ly noted for his influence over the In¬ 
dians. He was the author of De Spizel der 
Self Kennis (Mirror of Self-Knowledge); 
and De Weegshale der Gerade Gods (Bal¬ 
ance of God’s Grace). He died January, 
1743, in New Utrecht, L. I. 




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FREEMAN, CHAPMAN, naval officer, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 
1832, in Philadelphia, Pa. He entered the 
navy as assistant paymaster in 1863. He 
was elected a representative from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the forty-fourth congress; re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

FREEMAN, CHESTER HAYDEN, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 28, 1822, 
in Williamstown, N. Y. He has been very 
prominent in educational affairs; has 
been county superintendent of schools in 
New York and Michigan. He has attained 
success as a lawyer of Bay City, Mich., 
where he has been justice of the peace 
and prosecuting attorney of his county. 

FREEMAN, DANIEL, capitalist, ^phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born June 30, 1837, in 
Canada. He is now the owner of the 
Freeman block in Los Angeles, and is con¬ 
nected with the Continuous Brick Kiln 
company. During 1892-95 he was presi¬ 
dent of the local chamber of commerce. 

FREEMAN, DOSSIE C., poet, was born 
Feb. 24, 1872, in Bainbridge, Ohio. He 
is the author of a number of meritorious 
poems. 

FREEMAN, FLORENCE, sculptor, was 
born in 1836 in Boston, Mass. In 1862 
she opened a studio in Rome, where she 
has spent her professional life. She has 
executed several bas-reliefs of Dante; a 
bust of Sandalphon; The Sleeping Child; 
Thekla, or the Tangled Skein; and several 
chimney-pieces, one of which, Children 
and the Yule Log and Fireside Spirits, 
was at the centennial exhibition in Phila- 
'delphia, in 1876. 

FREEMAN, FORTUNATUS, sea-cap¬ 
tain, was born in England. He came to 
the United States at an early age, first 
commanded vessels sailing from Balti¬ 
more, and was subsequently commander 
of the ships Sea, Marmion, Resolute, Guy 
Mannering, and Silas Wright, all of New 
York. He died July 22, 1874, in New 
York city. 

FREEMAN, FREDERICK, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born in 1800 in 
Sandwich, Mass. He was an episcopal 
clergyman and educator who was a pres- 
byterian minister in the earlier portion of 
Lis career. He was the author of History 
of Cape Cod; Annals of Barnstable Coun¬ 
ty; Freeman Genealogy; and Civiliza¬ 
tion and Barbarism illustrated by Espe¬ 
cial Reference to Metacomet and the Ex¬ 
tinction of his Race. He died in 1883 in 
Sandwich, Mass. 

FREEMAN, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
protestant episcopal bishop, was born 
June 13, 1789, in Sandwich, Mass. He was 
elected missionary bishop of Arkansas 
and the Indian Territory, and was conse¬ 
crated in St. Peter’s church, Philadelphia, 
in 1844. He died April 29, 1858, in Little 
Rock, Ark. 

FREEMAN, JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born April 22, 1759, in Charlestown, 
Mass. He was the first clergyman in the 
United States to bear the name Unitarian. 
His Sermons and Charges were published 
in 1832. He died Nov. 14, 1835, in New¬ 
ton, Mass. 

FREEMAN, JAMES C., planter, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 1, 1820, in 
Jones county, Ga. He was elected to the 
forty-third congress, serving on the com¬ 
mittee on land claims. 

FREEMAN, JAMES MIDWINTER, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1827 in 
New York. He is a methodist clergyman 
of New York city who published many 
books for children under the pseudonym 
Robert Ranger. Other works of his in¬ 


clude Illustration in Sunday-School 
Teaching; Handbook of Bible Manners 
and Customs; Short History of the Eng¬ 
lish Bible; and Book of Books. 

FREEMAN. JOHN D., congressman, 
was born in New Jersey. He removed to 
Mississippi; and was elected a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1851 to 1853. 

FREEMAN, JONATHAN, congressman, 
was born in 1745. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New Hampshire 
from 1797 to 1801; and from 1789 to 1797 
was a state councilor. He died in 1808. 

FREEMAN, NATHANIEL, soldier, phy¬ 
sician, congressman, was born April, 
1741, in Dennis, Mass. He performed vari¬ 
ous services in the legislature and as a 
brigadier-general of militia. He was also 
a judge of probate for forty-seven years, 
and a judge of the common pleas for 
thirty years. He was a member of con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts from 1795 to 
1799. He died Sept. 20, 1827, in Sandwich, 
Mass. 

FREEMAN, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born June 15, 1743, in Port¬ 
land, Maine. He was a member of the 
provincial congress in 1775; of the Massa¬ 
chusetts house of representatives in 1776 
and 1778; and in 1775, on the reorgani¬ 
zation of the courts, was appointed clerk, 
and held that office forty-five years. He 
was register of probate until commis¬ 
sioned judge in 1804, continuing until 
1820; was postmaster of Portland from 
1776 to 1805; and an efficient friend of 
Bowdoin college. He published The Town 
Officer; The Massachusetts Justice; and 
Probate Directory. He edited the Journal 
of Rev. Thomas Smith in 1821. He died 
Sept. 2, 1831, in Portland, Maine. 

FREEMAN, WILLIAM, farmer, manu¬ 
facturer, lawyer, was born Nov. 17, 1822, 
in Portland, Maine. During 1861-68 he 
was deputy collector 
for the port of Cher- 
ryfield, Maine; and 
was also inspector 
for measuring ves¬ 
sels. During 1880- 
85 he was a member 
of the Maine legisla¬ 
ture. He has held 
various offices of 
trust in his town, 
county and state; 
and since 1891 has 
been a member of 
the Farmers’ National congress, under ap¬ 
pointments and commissions from the 
governors of Maine; and is the vice-presi¬ 
dent of that body for the state of Maine; 
and for two years was its treasurer. He 
has been a successful lawyer, manufac¬ 
turer of lumber, and is now interested 
in agricultural pursuits. While deputy col¬ 
lector of customs he seized a blockade 
runner in the employ of the confederacy. 
He is the author of a work on the life 
and services of his grandfather, Samuel 
Freeman. 

FREEMAN, WILLIAM GRIGSBY, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1815 in Virginia. He 
was chief of staff to Gen. Scott, com¬ 
manding the army headquarters at New 
York. He was brevetted major in 1847, 
and lieutenant-colonel in 1848. He died 
Nov. 12, 1866, in Cornwall, Pa. 

FREEMAN, WILLIAM L., physician, 
surgeon, legislator, was born Sept. 3, 1856, 
in Page county, Iowa. He has attained 
eminence in his profession in the state 
of Washington at La Center; and in 1897- 
98 served with distinction as a member 
of the state legislature. 


FREER, CHARLES H., elocutionist, po¬ 
et, was born Jan. 14, 1849, in Washington 
county, Wis. He is a painter and decor¬ 
ator of Blue Earth, 
Minn. Most of his 
writings are of an 
elocutionary style, 
composed purposely 
for recitations and 
character speaking. 
His poems have re¬ 
ceived extensiv e 
publication in the 
periodical press. In 
1892 appeared a vol¬ 
ume of his poems 
from the press of the 
American Publishers’ association, entitled 
The Missionary, which has received high 
praise from the press and public general¬ 
ly. Charles H. Freer is often called the 
poet-soldier, and is a universal favorite 
of the old veterans down in Blue Earth 
county, Minn. He is a fine elocutionist 
and recites some of his poems at pub¬ 
lic entertainments. 

FREER, FREDERICK W., artist, was 
born June 16, 1849, in Chicago, Ill. He 
studied at the Royal Academy of Fine 
Arts of Munich, and has become distin¬ 
guished as a genre and portrait painter. 

FRELIGH, LOUIS HENRY, composer, 
was born July 1, 1838, in Mechanicsville, 
N. Y. He is the author of about fifty 
piano pieces and songs; and is a success¬ 
ful pianist of St. Louis, Mo. 

FRELINGHUYSEN, FREDERICK, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 
13, 1753, in New Jersey. He was captain 
of a volunteer corps of artillery at the 
battles of Trenton and Monmouth, and it 
is said that it was he who killed Rhalle, 
the Hessian commander at Trenton. He 
was a senator in congress from 1793 to 
1796. He died April 13, 1804. 

FRELINGHUYSEN, FREDERICKTHE- 
ODORE, lawyer, United States senator, 
was born Aug. 4, 1817, in Millstown, N. J. 
He was appointed attorney general of New 
Jersey in 1861, and reappointed in 1866. He 
was subsequently appointed a senator in 
congress from New Jersey to fill a va¬ 
cancy; and was re-elected to the senate 
for the term ending in 1875. He was 
again re-elected to the senate for the un¬ 
expired term ending in 1877; and in 1881 
was appointed secretary of state in the 
cabinet of President Arthur. He died 
May 20, 1885, in Newark, N. J. 

FRELINGHUYSEN, JOHN, was born in 
1727 in Three Mile Run, N. J. He under¬ 
took the education of young men for the 
ministry, and to his labors in this direc¬ 
tion- Queen’s college, now Rutgers, is 
largely indebted for its establishment. He 
died in September, 1754, in Long Island. 

FRELINGHUYSEN, JOHN, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born March 21, 
1776, near Millstone, N. J. For many years 
he was a member of the state council, 
and for fifteen years was surrogate of his 
county. During the war of 1812 he was 
promoted brigadier-general. He died April 
10, 1833, in Millstone, N. J. 

FRELINGHUYSEN, THEODORE, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born 
March 28, 1787, in Millstown, N. J. He 
was attorney general of New Jersey from 
1818 to 1829; a presidential elector in 
1829; and a senator in congress from New 
Jersey from 1829 to 1835. He was chan¬ 
cellor of the university of New York from 
1839 to 1850. He was the candidate of 
the Whig party for vice-president upon 
the ticket with Henry Clay; and in 1850 
was elected president of Rutgers college, 
where he officiated until his death. He 
died April 12, 1862, in New Brunswick. 









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FREMONT, MRS. JESSIE BENTON, 
author, was born in 1824 in Virginia. She 
is a resident of Los Angeles; and the au¬ 
thor of The Story of the Guard, a Chron¬ 
icle of the War; A Year of American 
Travel; Souvenirs of My Time; Sketch of 
Senator Benton; Far West Sketches; and 
Will and the Way Stories. 

FREMONT, JOHN CHARLES, soldier, 
author, was born Jan. 21, 1813, in Sa¬ 
vannah, Ga. He was a famous soldier and 
politician who in 1856 was the first re¬ 
publican candidate for the presidency, and 
served during the civil war as a major- 
general in the federal army. He was the 
author of Report of the Exploring Expe¬ 
dition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842, 
and to Oregon and Northern California in 
1843-44; Fremont’s Explorations; and 
Memoirs of My Life. He died in 1890. 

FRENCH, A. C., lawyer, governor, was 
born in New Hampshire. He was for sev¬ 
eral years the president of -the board of 
trustees of McEndree college, Ill., and 
professor of law in that institution. He 
was governor of Illinois from 1846 to 1853. 
He died Sept. 4, 1864, in Lebanon, Ill. 

FRENCH, ALICE, author, was born 
March 19, 1850, in Andover, Mass. She is 
a writer of novels and short stories 
whose home has been in Davenport, Iowa, 
and also in Arkansas. She is the author 
of Knitters in the Sun; Otto the Knight, 
and other Trans-Mississippi Stories; 
Stories of a Western Town; An Adven¬ 
ture in Photography; and Expiation. 

FRENCH, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, au¬ 
thor, was born June 8, 1799, in Richmond, 
Va. He was a writer of New Orleans and 
subsequently of New York city; and the 
author of Biographia Americana; Me¬ 
moirs of Eminent Female Writers; His¬ 
torical Collections of Louisiana; His¬ 
tory of the Iron Trade in the United 
States; and Historical Annals of North 
America. He died May 30, 1877, in New 
York city. 

FRENCH, C. E. G., lawyer, jurist. He 
was an early emigrant to California, and 
in 1875 was appointed from that state as 
chief justice for the United States court 
for the territory of Utah. 

FRENCH, CARLOS, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 6, 1835, in Sey¬ 
mour, Conn. In 1859 he undertook the 
manufacture of car springs in Seymour, 
Conn., and has gradually acquired an in¬ 
terest in a variety of other profitable 
manufactures in that vicinity and the 
state. He was a member of the Connecti¬ 
cut house of representatives in 1860 and 
1868; and was elected to the fiftieth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

FRENCH, CHARLES GRAFTON WIL- 
BERTON, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, 
was born Aug. 22, 1820, in Berkeley, 
Mass. He was for many years trustee of 
the state library of Sacramento, Cal.; was 
a representative in the state legislature 
in 1872; and in 1875 was appointed chief 
justice of the supreme court of Arizona, 
and was reappointed in 1880. 

FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER, sculp¬ 
tor, was born April 20, 1850, in Exeter, 
N. H. His sculptures include The Minute 
Man of Concord, an heroic statue in 
bronze, which was unveiled in Concord 
in 1875; The May Queen; Elsie Venner; 
The Waking of Endymion; and a life- 
size statue of Gen. Lewis Cass, for the 
National Memorial gallery at Washing¬ 
ton. 

FRENCH, EDWIN RUTHVEN, clergy¬ 
man, state senator, was born Dec. 13, 
1828, in Chesterville, Maine. He has 
served two terms as a member of the 
Maine state senate. 


FRENCH, EZRA B., congressman, was 
born in New Hampshire. He became sec¬ 
retary of state of Maine; and was a rep¬ 
resentative from Maine to the thirty-sixth 
congress. He was also a member of the 
peace congress of 1861; and was appoint¬ 
ed second auditor of the United States 
treasury. He died April 24, 1880. 

FRENCH, FRANCIS ORMOND, ban¬ 
ker, was born Sept. 12, 1837, in Chester, 
N. H. In 1867 he was a member of the 
banking firm of Foote and French; and 
in 1888 became president of the Man¬ 
hattan Trust company of New York city. 

FRENCH, GEORGE BRADFORD, man¬ 
ufacturer, lawyer, jurist, was born July 
28, 1853, in Randolph, Mass. His father, 
Calvin French, was for more than forty 
years a leading manufacturer of shoes and 
prominent in local affairs. His education 
was acquired in the public schools of his 
town, the Chautauqua course at the Boston 
University Law school, and in the office 
of Judge Charles J. Mclntire. From 1873 
to 1880 Mr. French was associated with 
his father in manufacturing, but since 1885 
has practiced law; and since 1887 has 
been connected with the law department 
of the city of Cambridge. In local affairs 
he has gained prominence, having served 
several years as one of the trustees of the 
public library, as collector of taxes, and 
as special justice. He was one of the or¬ 
ganizers in 1891 of the Commercial club, 
and has ever since acted as its secretary, 
and holds that position in several other 
societies. In politics he is a republican, 
and in 1882, 1883 and 1884 was the chair¬ 
man of the town committee. 

FRENCH, GEORGE H., merchant, state 
senator, was born Jan. 18, 1820, in Junius, 
N. Y. For awhile he was engaged in edu¬ 
cational work; and 
in 1848 became a 
merchant at Homer, 
Mich. He has filled 
numerous local of¬ 
fices, and has taken 
a prominent part in 
the public affairs of 
his city, county and 
state. During 1861- 
64 he served with 
distinction as a mem¬ 
ber of the Michigan 
state senate from Cal¬ 
houn county; and while in the senate he 
introduced the first resolution to free the 
slaves as a war measure. He also intro¬ 
duced the resolution which resulted in the 
roll of honor, a lasting record of the sol¬ 
diers who died for the union. 

FRENCH. GEORGE HAZEN, educator, 
author, was born March 19, 1841, in Onon¬ 
daga county, N. Y. Since 1878 he has 
been curator of the museum of the south¬ 
ern Illinois State Normal university of 
Carbondale, Ill. He is the author of But¬ 
terflies of Eastern United States, besides 
a great many articles contributed to lead¬ 
ing entomological journals. 

FRENCH, HENRY FLAGG, banker, 
lawyer, jurist, college president, author, 
was born Aug. 14, 1813, in Chester, N. H. 
He was appointed assistant district 
attorney for Suffolk county in 1862, 
and held the office until 1865, when he 
was elected the first president of the 
Massachusetts Agricultural college. in 
1876 he was appointed assistant secretary 
of the United States treasury, at Wash¬ 
ington, and continued in that office under 
successive administrations. In 1857 he 
published a treatise on Farm Drainage. 

FRENCH, HENRY WILLARD, lectur¬ 
er, author, was born in 1853 in Connecti¬ 
cut. He is a lecturer and miscellaneous 
writer of Boston; and the author of Art 


and Artists in Connecticut; Our Boys in 
China; Our Boys in India; Through Arc¬ 
tics and Tropics; Gems of Genius; Nuna 
the Brahmin Girl; Lance of Kehama; Os¬ 
car Peterson; Colonel Thorndike’s Adven¬ 
tures; and the novels, The Only One; Cas¬ 
tle Foam; and Ego. 

FRENCH, JOHN R., journalist, public 
official, congressman, was born May 28, 
1819, in Gilmanton, N. H. He removed to, 
Ohio in 1854, and there edited newspa¬ 
pers called the Telegraph, the Press, and 
the Cleveland Leader. He was elected to 
the Ohio legislature in 1858 and 1859; and 
in 1861 was appointed a government clerk 
in Washington. In 1864 he was a tax 
commissioner for North Carolina. He was 
a delegate to the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1867; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from North Carolina to the 
fortieth congress as a republican. 

FRENCH, JOHN RAYMOND, educator, 
was born April 21, 1825, in Pulaski, N. Y. 
In 1849 he graduated from Union college; 

and subsequently at¬ 
tained success in ed¬ 
ucational work. In 
1859 he was admitted 
to the bar, and be¬ 
gan the practice of 
his profession in 
Mexico, N. Y. In 1864 
he was called to the 
chair of mathematics 
in Genesee college of 
Lima, N. Y., which 
was subsequently 
merged into the Sy¬ 
racuse university; and since 1872 until 
his death he was dean of its College of 
Liberal Arts. 

FRENCH, JOHN WILLIAM, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1810 in 
Connecticut. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of Washington in 1842-56, and 
from the latter date till his death profes¬ 
sor of ethics at West Point. He was the 
author of a work on Practical Ethics. He 
died July 8, 1871, in West Point, N. Y. 

FRENCH, MRS. L. VIRGINIA [SMITH], 
educator, author, was born in 1830 in Vir¬ 
ginia. She is a writer and educator of 
Memphis; and the author of Wind Whis¬ 
pers, a collection of poems; Legend of 
the South; Iztalixo, a Tragedy; and My 
Roses, the Romance of a June Day. She 
died March 31, 1881, in McMinnville, Tenn. 

FRENCH, MANSFIELD, clergyman, 
educator, college president, journalist, 
was born P"eb. 21, 1810, in Manchester, Vt. 
He was the founder of Marietta college, 
Granville Female seminary, and princi¬ 
pal of Circleville Female college. Ohio. 
He was president of the Xenia Female 
college and agent for Wesleyan univer¬ 
sity. He died March 15, 1876, in Pear¬ 
salls, L. I. 

FRENCH, RICHARD, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He 
became a prominent judge in that state, 
and the town of Frenchburg was named for 
him. He was a member of the legislature 
from Clark county in 1820 and 1822; a 
presidential elector for Jackson in 1829; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1835 to 1837; and again from 1847 to 1849. 

FRENCH, SAMUEL GIBBS, soldier, 
planter, was born Nov. 22, 1818, in Glou¬ 
cester county, N. J. In 1843 he gradu¬ 
ated from the United States Military acad¬ 
emy. He was a lieutenant in the third 
regiment of the United States artillery 
in the war with Mexico; became a cap¬ 
tain in the general staff in 1848; resigned 
in 1856; and then became a planter near 
Greenville, Miss. He was a major-general 
in the confederate army during the civil 
war; and served gallantly in thirty-five 
battles. He now lives in Pensacola, Fla. 




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FRENCH, SEWARD, lawyer, was born 
Feb. 28, 1856, in East Bloomfield, N. Y. 
He was educated in the common schools 
and prepared for 
Hamilton college at 
the Canandaigua 
academy. He became 
master in the public 
schools; was deputy 
sheriff, and obtained 
prominence as a de¬ 
tective. As a lawyer 
he soon attained suc¬ 
cess, especially in 
criminal cases, i n 
which he has gained 
a national reputa¬ 
tion. He is one of the foremost lawyers 
of North Dakota at Milnor. He has suc¬ 
cessfully defended three homicide cases; 
and always shows tact and tenacity in his 
profession. 

FRENCH, THOMAS N., journalist, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Aug. 14, 1837, in 
Randolph, Mass. In 1884 he founded The 
Commercial Advertiser and Gazette of La- 
Fayette, Ind., of which he was editor and 
owner; and in 1886 became the editor and 
owner of The Times of Alexandria, Ind. 
He is a successful lawyer of Alexandria; 
and in 1894 was elected justice of the 
peace. 

FRENCH, WILLIAM A., lumber mer¬ 
chant, manufacturer, legislator, was born 
March 2, 1849, in Pelham, Ontario, Cana¬ 
da. During 1882-83 he served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the Michigan 
state legislature. He has attained success 
as a lumber merchant and manufacturer 
at Dundee, Mich. In 1894 he was ap¬ 
pointed state land commissioner by Gov¬ 
ernor John T. Rich; and has since been 
nominated and elected twice to the same 
position, his last term expiring on Jan. 1, 
1899. 

FRENCH, WILLIAM HENRY, soldier, 
author, was born Jan. 13, 1815, in Balti- 
more, Md. He was an officer who served 
in the army of the United States during 
the Mexican, Seminole, and civil wars. 
His only published work is a manual of 
Instruction for Field Artillery. He died 
March 20, 1881, in Baltimore, Md. 

FRENEAU, PHILIP, journalist, author, 
poet, was born Jan. 2, 1762, in New York 
city. He was the author of Poems of 
Philip Freneau, written chiefly during 
the Late War (1786); Poems Written be¬ 
tween the Years 1768 and 1794; Poems 
Written and Published during the Ameri¬ 
can Revolution; and Collection of Poems 
on American Affairs. Among his prose 
writings are, The Philosopher of the For¬ 
est; and Essays by Robert Slender. He 
died Dec. 18, 1832, near Freehold, N. J. 

FREW, CALVIN HAMILL, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Nov. 30, 1836, in Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. He received his education in 
the common schools 
and the Beaver acad¬ 
emy; and attended 
the Vermillion insti¬ 
tute of Haysville, 
Ohio, for one year. 
He entered educa¬ 
tional work and was 
principal of several 
schools in Illinois; 
and attained success 
in educational work. 
He served as a repre¬ 
sentative in the 
twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, and thirty- 
first general assemblies of Illinois with 
distinction. In 1873-74 he was alderman 
of Paxton, Ill.; and in 1896 was again 
elected to the same office, with the largest 
majority ever attained before. 


FREY, ALBERT ROMER, author, was 
born in 1858, in New York. He is a 
writer of New York city upon Shakes- 
perean and dramatic topics, who has also 
published a work upon Sobriquets and 
Nicknames. 

FREY, JOSEPH, congressman, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1827 
to 1831. 

FREY, JOSEPH SAMUEL CHRISTIAN 
FREDERICK, missionary, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1773, in Germany. He 
was for some ten years a presbyterian 
minister and subsequently a baptist 
preacher, especially activ e as a missionary 
to the Jews. He was the author of Nar¬ 
rative of My Life; Hebrew Bible; He¬ 
brew Grammar; Judah and Israel; Joseph 
and Benjamin; The Passover; and Scrip¬ 
ture Types. He died June 5, 1850, in Pon¬ 
tiac, Mich. 

FRICK, CHARLES, physician, author, 
was born Aug. 8, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. 
In 1847 he organized the Maryland Medi¬ 
cal institute; and subsequently filled 
chairs in various medical institutions. He 
was the author of a volume on Renal Dis¬ 
eases. He died March 25, 1860, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. 

FRICK, HENRY, journalist, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1795, in Northumber¬ 
land county, Pa. He became an editor of 
a newspaper at Milton; served for three 
sessions in the state legislature; and was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania. He died March 1, 1844, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

FRICK, JOHN HENRY, soldier, educa¬ 
tor, legislator, author, was born March 13, 
1845, in Clay county, Mo. He served asji 
soldier in the civil war; and from 1871 
to the present time has been professor of 
mathematics and natural science. 

FRIEDLEY, GEORGE W„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Jan. 1, 1840, 
in Harrison county, Ind. He entered the 
army as a private in company K, fourth 
Iowa infantry; and he was immediately 
elected first lieutenant. In 1870 he was 
elected to the lower house of the legis¬ 
lature. He served through a term of four 
years as senator. 

FRIES, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a 
representative in congress from Ohio from 
1845 to 1847, and for a second term ending- 
in 1849. He died Nov. 13, 1866. 

FRIEZE, HENRY SIMMONS, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 15, 1817, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a professor of Latin 
in the university of Michigan from 1854 
until his death. He published editions of 
Quintilian and Virgil’s ^Eneid, and was 
the author of The Story of Giovanni Du- 
prA He died Sept. 7, 1889, in Ann Arbor, 
Mich. 

FRINK, JOHN, physician, justice, was 
born Sept. 7, 1731, in Rutland, Mass. He 
was a member of the convention that 
framed the constitution of Massachusetts, 
and the first president of the Worcester 
County Medical society. He died in 1807, 
in Rutland, Mass. 

FRISBIE, LEVI, clergyman, author, 
was born July 6, 1748, in Branford, Conn. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Ipswich, Mass., who published Sermons 
and Orations. He died in 1806, in Ips¬ 
wich, Mass. 

FRISBIE, LEVI, educator, author, was 
born Sept. 15, 1783, in Ipswich, Mass. He 
was a tutor and professor at Harvard col¬ 
lege from 1805 till his death; and the 
author of Miscellaneous Writings of Pro¬ 
fessor Frisbie, edited with Memoir by An¬ 
drews Norton. He died in 1822. 


FRISBY, EDGAR, educator, astrono¬ 
mer, author, was born May 22, 1837, in 
England. He was sent to California by 
the United States government to observe 
the total solar eclipse on Jan. 11, 1880. 
His principal work is the computation of 
the orbit of the great comet of 1882. 

FRISTOE, EDWARD T„ soldier, educa¬ 
tor, was born Dec. 16, 1830, in Rappahan¬ 
nock county, Va. In 1860 he was called 
to the professorship of mathematics and 
astronomy in the state university of Mis¬ 
souri. Two years later he entered the 
confederate army as assistant adjutant- 
general, and was constantly promoted. 

FRITSCHEL, CONRAD SIGMUND, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 2, 
1833, in Bavaria. He has published Iowa 
and Missouri, a controversial pamphlet, 
and a number of essays, sermons, etc. 
With his brother, he has edited, since 
1876, Kirchliche Zeitschrift, a theological 
bimonthly magazine. 

FRITSCHEL, GOTTFRIED LEON¬ 
HARD WILHELM, educator, clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 19, 1836, in Bavaria. 
He is a lutheran clergyman who came 
from Germany to the United States in 
1857, and has been professor of theology 
in the seminary at Mendota, Ill., since 
that time. He has published Meditations 
on the Passion of Christ; and History of 
Protestant Missions among North Ameri¬ 
can Indians in the Seventeenth and 
Eighteenth Centuries. 

FRITTER, ENOCH ABRAM, educator, 
lecturer, was born May 25, 1855, near 
Lancaster, Ohio. In 1869 he moved to 
Illinois; and in 1872 
began his career as 
a teacher. In 1884 
he entered the Illi¬ 
nois State Normal 
university, from 
which institution he 
graduated in 1889; 
and in 1892 received 
the degree of A. B. 
from Findlay col¬ 
lege of Ohio. He 
was superintendent 
of city schools in 
Assumption, Warren and Monticello, Ill.; 
principal of the normal department of 
Findlay college; and is now superinten¬ 
dent of city schools of Normal, Ill. As 
an instructor in teachers’ institutes he has 
been eminently successful; and has lec¬ 
tured extensively on educational subjects. 

FROEHLICH, WILLIAM H„ merchant, 
legislator, was born June 22, 1857, in Jack- 
son, Wis., his present home. He received 
his education in the 
public, private and 
parochial schools of 
his native town, and 
graduated from the 
Spencerian Business 
college of Milwau¬ 
kee, Wis. For sev¬ 
eral years he was 
employed in Milwau¬ 
kee, and since 1880 
has been a dealer in 
general merchandise 
and grain in his na¬ 
tive city. He was postmaster during 
1881-93; has been a justice of the peace 
since 1887; and a member of the school 
board since 1891. Since 1893 he has been 
town clerk; was elected a member of the 
assembly of the Wisconsin state legisla¬ 
ture in 1894, and received the re-election 
in 1896. During his second term he was 
chairman of the dairy and food commit¬ 
tee, and was very active in passing im¬ 
portant dairy and pure food laws. 










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FROELICH, SOLOMON, clergyman, au¬ 
thor. was born May 29, 1750, in Red Hook, 
N. Y. He was the author of The Trial 
of Universal Charity by a Jury; and other 
religious works. He died Oct. 8, 1827, in 
New Jersey. 

FROMENTIN, ELIGIUS, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, United States senator. He was a 
senator of the United States from Louis¬ 
iana from 1813 to 1819; and in 1821 was 
judge of the criminal court of New Or¬ 
leans, and was appointed judge of the 
western district of Florida. He died Oct. 
6, 1822, in New Orleans, La. 

FRONABARGER, BENJAMIN 
FRANKLIN, educator, clergyman, college 
president, was born March 10, 1860, in 
Butler county, Ala. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Masonic Male and Female 
institute, and at the Eagleville college, 
Tennessee. He has attained success as 
a baptist clergyman, and has filled pas¬ 
torates in four churches. Since 1885 he 
has been president of the Springtown 
Male and Female institute, Texas, and 
still fills that position. 

FROST, CHARLES CHRISTOPHER, 
botanist, author, was born in 1806, in 
Brattleboro, Vt. He devoted his leisure 
hours to astronomy, geology, mineralogy, 
meteorology, and botany, especially the 
last named study, to which he gave the 
last half of his life. He was joint author 
with Edward Tuckerman of a Catalogue 
of Plants growing without Cultivation 
within Thirty Miles of Amherst College. 
He died in 1880. 

FROST, GEORGE, jurist, was born 
April 26, 1720, in New Castle, N. H. He 
was judge of the court of common pleas 
of Stafford county from 1773 to 1791; was 
for many years chief justice; and was a 
delegate to the continental congress from 
1777 to 1779, and councilor from 1781 to 
1784. He died June 21, 1796, in Durham, 
N. H. 

FROST, JOEL, congressman, was born 
in New York. He served in the state 
assembly in 1806 and 1808; and was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1823 to 1825. 

FROST, JOHN, soldier, jurist, was born 
May 5, 1738, in Kittery, Maine. He served 
in the revolutionary war, and attained the 
rank of colonel. He was appointed one 
of the justices of the court of sessions in 
York county, Maine, and was a member of 
the council of the governor of Massachu¬ 
setts. He died in July, 1810, in Kittery, 
Maine. 

FROST, JOHN, educator, author, was 
born Jan. 26, 1800, in Kennebunk, Maine. 
He was an educator of Philadelphia; and 
the author of Beauties of English His¬ 
tory; Beauties of French History; Wild 
Scenes in a Hunter’s Life; Pioneer Moth¬ 
ers in the West; The Presidents of the 
United States; Pictorial History of the 
United States; and History of the World. 
He died Dec. 28, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

FROST, MARGARET FULTON AL¬ 
CORN, educator, philanthropist, was born 
in 1809, in Ireland. She attained success 
in educational work as principal of the 
Westerly academy, Rhode Island; and as 
principal of the Seabury seminary of New 
York city. She was a philanthropist, and 
a pioneer for woman’s advancement; was 
one of the first women of her time to 
obtain a classical education, and through¬ 
out her life worked for temperance, peace 
and social purity. She died in 1891. 

FROST, RICHARD GRAHAM, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 29, 1851, in 
St. Louis, Mo. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Missouri to the forty-sixth 
and forty-seventh congresses as a demo¬ 
crat. 


FROST, RUFUS SMITH, merchant, 
state senator, congressman, was born July 
18, 1826, in Marlborough, N. H. He was 
state senator in 1871 and 1872; and was a 
member of the governor’s council in 1873 
and 1875. He was for many years a di¬ 
rector of the North National bank of Bos¬ 
ton, and a trustee of the Boston Five Cent 
Savings bank. In 1874 he was elected a 
representative from Massachusetts to the 
forty-fourth congress. 

FROST, WILLIAM GOODELL, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, college president, was 
born July 2, 1854, in Le Roy, N. Y. During 
1879-91 he was professor of Greek in the 
Oberlin college; and since 1892 has been 
president of Berea college, Ky. 

FROTHINGHAM, ELLEN, author, was 
born March 25, 1835, in Boston, Mass. 
She has published several fine translations 
from Lessing, Auerbach, Goethe, and 
Grillparzer. 

FROTHINGHAM, JAMES, painter, was 
born in 1781, in Charlestown, Mass. His 
works had sale chiefly in New York and 
Salem. His copy of Stuart’s Washington 
was much admired, and his original port¬ 
raits were praised for fidelity of color¬ 
ing. He died Jan. 6, 1864. 

FROTHINGHAM, NATHANIEL LANG- 
DON, clergyman, author, was born July 
23, 1793, in Boston, Mass. He was a Uni¬ 
tarian clergyman of Boston whose writing 
displays singular grace and refinement. He 
was the author of Deism or Christianity; 
Sermons in the Order of a Twelvemonth; 
and Metrical Pieces, Original and Trans¬ 
lated. He died April 3, 1870, in Boston, 
Mass. 

FROTHINGHAM, OCTAVIUS BROOKS, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 26, 1822, 
in Boston, Mass. He was at one period 
art critic for the New York Tribune. He 
was the author of Stories from the Lips 
of the Teacher; Stories from the Old Tes¬ 
tament; The Religion of Humanity; The 
Cradle of the Christ; Memoir of W. H. 
Channing; The Safest Creed; Beliefs of 
the Unbelievers; Creed and Conduct; The 
Spirit of the New Faith; The Rising and 
the Setting Faith; Visions of the Fu¬ 
ture; Lives of Gerrit Smith, George Rip¬ 
ley, Theodore Parker; History of New 
England Transcendentalism; Boston Uni- 
tarianism; and Recollections and Impres¬ 
sions. He died in 1895. 

FROTHINGHAM, RICHARD, journalist, 
author, was born Jan. 31, 1812, in Charles¬ 
town, Mass. He was a journalist and lo¬ 
cal historian of Charlestown, Mass.; and 
the author of History of the Siege of Bos¬ 
ton; The Rise of the Republic; History 
of Charlestown; Life of General Joseph 
Warren; and The Command in the Bat¬ 
tle of Bunker Hill. He died Jan. 20, 1880, 
in Charlestown, Mass. 

FROTHINGHAM, WASHINGTON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 28, 1822, 
in Fonda, N. Y. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman of Albany; and the author of 
Atheos, or Tragedies of Unbelief; The 
Martel Papers; and Scenes in the Reign 
of Terror. 

FRUITNIGHT, JOHN HENRY, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Nov. 9, 1851, in 
New York city. He was among the’or¬ 
ganizers of St. John’s Guild for Children, 
is the author of numerous papers and 
monographs. 

FRY, CARY HARRISON, soldier, was 
born Aug. 20, 1813, in Garrard county, 
Ky. He was brevetted brigadier-general 
United States army in 1867, and from 
1869 till his death was chief paymaster 
of various military divisions. He died 
March 5, 1873, in San Francisco, Cal. 


FRY, GEORGE THOMSON, lawyer, 
orator, legislator, was born March 12, 1843, 
in Mossy Creek, Tenn. He received his 
education at the Halston college of New 
Market, Tenn. During 1861-65 he was a 
confederate soldier; and was in all the 
principal battles; and was desperately 
wounded and disabled for field service at 
the battle of Jonesboro, Ga. He was first 
lieutenant in company C, thirty-seventh 
regiment, Tennessee volunteers, C. S. A.; 
was promoted in 1862 to captain of com¬ 
pany H, of the same regiment; and in 
1863 was made colonel of the seventh 
confederate regiment. In 1866 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar and practiced in Atlan¬ 
ta, Ga. During 1876-78 he represented 
Fulton county in the Georgia legislature. 
In 1890 he moved to Chattanooga, Tenn. 
He has distinguished himself as an able 
advocate in both civil and criminal law; 
is a democratic orator of renown; and 
celebrated as a writer on the Science of 
National Finance, and Political Economy. 

FRY, JACOB, congressman, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1835 to 1839; and was at one time audi¬ 
tor-general of the state. He died Nov. 
28, 1866, in Norristown, Pa. 

FRY, JAMES BARNET, soldier, author, 
was born Feb. 22, 1827, in Carrollton, Ill. 
He was a colonel and brevet major-gen¬ 
eral in the United States army, and was 
retired from active service in 1881, and 
thereafter lived in New York city. He was 
the author of Sketch of the Adjutant-Gen¬ 
eral’s Department in 1775-1875; Historical 
and Legal Effects of Brevets in Great 
Britain and the United States from their 
Origin in 1692; Army Sacrifices; Me 
Dowell and Tyler in the Campaign of Bull 
Run; Operations of the Army under Bu¬ 
ell; and New York and Conscription. He 
died in 1894. 

FRY, JOSEPH REESE, banker, com¬ 
poser, author. He was largely instrumen¬ 
tal in raising the Union League brigade at 
a gloomy period of the civil war. He was 
the author of A Life of Zachary Taylor. 
He died in June, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

FRY, JOSHUA, soldier, was born in 
England. He made a map of Virginia; 
and in 1752 was a commissioner to treat 
with the Indians at Logstown. He died 
May 31, 1754, while conducting an expedi¬ 
tion against the French. 

FRY, SPEED SMITH, soldier, jurist, 
was born Sept. 9, 1817, in Mercer county, 
Ky. At the beginning of the civil war 
he organized the fourth Kentucky regi¬ 
ment in the national army, and served as 
its colonel till March 21, 1862, when he 
was promoted to brigadier-general of vol¬ 
unteers. 

FRY, WILLIAM HENRY, journalist, 
composer, was born in August, 1815, in 
Philadelphia. He was editor of the Phil¬ 
adelphia Ledger; The Sun; and the New 
York Tribune. He was the author of 
Leonora, an opera produced at the Chest¬ 
nut Street theater in 1845. He died Dec. 
21, 1864, in the West Indies. 

FRYE, JAMES, soldier, was born in 
1709, in Andover, Mass. He served at the 
capture of Louisburg in 1745, and com¬ 
manded the Essex regiment at the begin¬ 
ning of the revolution, taking an active 
part in the battle of Bunker Hill. He 
died Jan. 8, 1776. 

FRYE, JOSEPH, soldier, jurist, was 
born March 30, 1712, in Andover, Mass. 
He was a justice of the peace and a mem¬ 
ber of the general court of Massachusetts, 
and was an ensign in Hale’s regiment at 
the capture of Louisburg in 1745. He died 
in 1794, in Fryeburg, Maine. 


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FRYE, WILLIAM PEARCE, lawyer, 
congressman. United States senator, was 
born Sept. 2, 1831, in Lewiston. Maine. 

He served three 
terms as a member 
of the state legisla¬ 
ture during 1861-67; 
was mayor of the 
city of Lewiston in 
1866 and 1867, and 
was attorney general 
of the state of Maine 
during 1867-69. In 
1864 he was a presi¬ 
dential elector; and 
was a delegate to the 
national republican 
conventions of 1872, 1876, and 1880. He 
was elected a representative to the forty- 
second, forty-third, forty-fourth, forty- 
sixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a 
republican. In 1881 he was elected to the 
United States senate to fill a vacancy; 
and was re-elected in 1883, in 1888, and 
again in 1895 for term ending in 1901. 

FRYER, L. P., lawyer, jurist, was born 
Jan. 10, 1864, in Butler, Ky. He has 
served as police judge of Falmouth, Ky.. 
for two terms; and for three years was 
attorney of Pendleton county. In 1897 
he was elected commonwealth attorney of 
the eighteenth judicial district, and is 
serving with distinction. 

FRYHOFER, WILLIAM, farmer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Aug. 9, 1846, in Seymour, 
tnd. He is a successful farmer of Ran¬ 
dolph, Kan.; and during 1886-87 served 
as a member of the Kansas state legis¬ 
lature. 

FUERTES, ESTE VAN ANTONIO, 
civil engineer, was born May 10, 1838, in 
St. John’s, Porto Rico, W. I. In 1861 he 
was assistant engi¬ 
neer in public works; 
and in 1862-63 was 
director of the west¬ 
ern district of public- 
works on the island 
of Porto Rico. In 
1863-64 he was as¬ 
sistant engineer in 
the Croton aqueduct 
of New York city; 
and during 1864-69 
was engineer to the 
Croton aqueduct 
board. In 1870-71 he was engineer in 
chief of the United States Ship Canal ex¬ 
pedition to Tehuantepec and Nicaragua; 
and in 1871-73 was consulting engineer 
in New York city. During 1873-90 he was 
dean of the department of civil engineer¬ 
ing of Cornell university; and since 1890 
has been director of the college of civil 
engineering at the same university. He 
performed a great engineering feat, in 
preparing the plans for improving the 
sanitation of the Brazilian city of Santos, 
which checked yellow fever and other epi¬ 
demics. 

FULKERSON, ABRAM, soldier, state 
senator, congressman, was born in May, 
1834, in Washington county, Va. He 
served in the confederate army from 1861 
to 1865, rising to the rank of colonel. He 
was elected a representative in the state 
legislature in 1871 and 1873, and a state 
senator in 1877 and 1879. He was elected 
a representative from Virginia to the for¬ 
ty-seventh congress. 

FULLER, ANDREW S., horticulturist, 
journalist, author, was born in 1828, in 
New York. He was a horticultural 
writer and journalist of New York city, 
and editor of Woodward’s Record of Hor¬ 
ticulture. He is the author of The Fruit 
Tree Culturist; The Grape Culturist; The 

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Small Fruit Culturist; The Strawberry 
Culturist; Practical Forestry: The Prop¬ 
agation of Plants; and The Nut Cultur¬ 
ist. He died in 1896. 

FULLER, ANNA, author. She is a Bos¬ 
ton novelist; and the author of Pratt 
Portraits; A Literary Courtship; Peak 
and Prairie; and A Venetian June. 

FULLER. BENJAMIN A P T H O R P 
GOULD, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, 
was born in May, 1818, in Augusta, Maine. 
In 1850-54 he was judge of the municipal 
court; and in 1856 was a member of the 
state legislature. Since 1864 he has prac¬ 
ticed his profession in Boston, Mass. 

FULLER, BENONI STINSON, educa¬ 
tor, state senator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 13, 1825, in Warrick county, Ind. 
In 1862 he was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate, serving four years; and in 1866 and 
1868 elected to the lower house of the 
legislature. In 1870 and 1872 he was 
elected to the senate for a second and 
third term; and was then elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Indiana to the forty-fourth 
and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat. 

FULLER, CEYLON CANFIELD, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, was born 
June 25, 1832, in Chardon, Ohio. He is 
a successful lawyer of Big Rapids, Mich.; 
and in 1869-70 was a member of the 
Michigan state legislature. He has been 
postmaster, prosecuting attorney, judge 
of probate, circuit court commissioner; 
and in 1882 was elected judge of the twen¬ 
ty-seventh judicial circuit court. 

FULLER, CHARLES E., lawyer, state 
senator, was born March 31, 1849, in 
Flora, Ill. As a lawyer he has filled the 
positions of city attorney of Belvidere, 
Ill., and state’s attorney of Boone county. 
For six years he served as a representa¬ 
tive in the general assembly of Illinois; 
and eight years as senator. 

FULLER, EDWARD, journalist, author, 
was born in 1800, in New York. He is a 
Boston journalist, subsequently on the 
staff of the Providence Journal; and the 
author of The Complaining Millions of 
Men, a novel of social conditions in Bos¬ 
ton. 

FULLER, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1843 to 1845. 

FULLER, GEORGE, artist, was born in 
1822, in Deerfield, Mass. A memorial ex¬ 
hibition of his works was held at the 
Boston Museum of the Fine Arts in 1884. 
He died March 21, 1884, in Brookline, 
Mass. 

FULLER, GEORGE EPHRAIM, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born Dec. 25, 1838, in 
Wilbraham, Mass. He graduated in 1859 
from the Williston 
academy; and in 
1863 from Amherst 
college. During 
1861-64 he was hos¬ 
pital steward in the 
twenty-seventh regi¬ 
ment Massachusetts 
volunteer infantry; 
and in 1864-66 was 
hospital steward in 
the United States 
army, stationed at 
Washington, D. C. 
In 1866-68 he practiced medicine in Brim- 
field, Mass.; and since that time has been 
located at Monson. In 1880-94 he was 
president of the Eastern Hampden Medi¬ 
cal association, and has been president of 
several other medical bodies. He is the 
author of a number of valuable medical 
papers on Typhoid Fever, Diphtheria, and 
other diseases. 





FULLER, GEORGE M., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born in Pittsfield, Vt. He is 
prominent as a lawyer and district attor¬ 
ney of his county. He served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the Vermont leg¬ 
islature. 

FULLER, HENRY BLAKE, author, was 
born in 1857, in Illinois. He is the author 
of The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani; The 
Chatelaine of La Trinite; The Cliff Dwell¬ 
ers; With the Procession; and The Pup¬ 
pet-Booth, twelve one-act plays. 

FULLER, HENRY M., lawyer. United 
States senator, was born Jan. 3, 1820, in 
Bethany, Pa. In 1848 he was elected to 
the legislature of Pennsylvania; and was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1851 to 1853, and from 1855 to 
1857. He died Dec. 26, 1860, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

FULLER, HIRAM, journalist, author, 
was born about 1815, in Halifax, Mass. 
He was a journalist of New York city 
who at the outset of the civil war sup¬ 
ported the confederate cause, and emi¬ 
grated to England on that account. Sub¬ 
sequently he became an adventurer in 
Paris. He was the author of The Groton 
Letters; Belle Brittan on a Tour; Sparks 
from a Locomotive; and Grand Transfor¬ 
mation Scenes in the United States. He 
died in 1880. 


FULLER, HOMER TAYLOR, educator, 
college president, was born Nov. 15, 1838. 
in Lempster, N. H. In 1864 he graduated 
from Dartmouth college; and from the 
Union Theological seminary in 1869. Dur¬ 
ing 1870-82 he was principal of St. Johns- 
bury academy, Vermont; president of the 
Worcester Polytechnic institute, Massa¬ 
chusetts, during 1882-94; and since that 
time has been president of the Drury col¬ 
lege of Springfield, Mo. 

FULLER, HOWARD G., educator, jur¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 5, 1851, in Warren coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. He has been principal of public 
schools of Union, Iowa, and county super¬ 
intendent of Hardin county, Iowa. He 
has been judge of the sixth judicial circuit 
of South Dakota, and is now judge of the 
supreme court of South Dakota. 

FULLER, J. C., railroad president. He 
is president of Hunter’s Run and Slate 
Belt railroad. 


FULLER, JEROME, jurist. He was an 
early emigrant to Minnesota; and in 1851 
was appointed chief justice of the United 
States court for that territory. 


FULLER. JOHN WALLACE, soldier, 
was born July 28, 1827, in England. He 
was brevetted major-general of volunteers 
in 1865. He was appointed collector of 
the port of Toledo, Ohio, by President 
Grant, in 1874, and reappointed in 1878. 
He died March 12, 1891, in Toledo, Ohio. 

FULLER. LEVI KNIGHT, manufactur¬ 
er, governor, was born Feb. 24, 1841, in 
Westmoreland, N. H. He organized in 
_ 1874, and until inau¬ 

gurated governor, 
commanded the Ful¬ 
ler light battery of 
the Vermont Nation¬ 
al guard. He has 
held various town 
and village offices, 
elected to state sen¬ 
ate in 1880, and lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of 
the state in 1886. 
He was president of 
trustees at the Ver¬ 
mont academy at Saxton’s River, Vt., an 
educational institution he had largely sup¬ 
ported. He was nominated for governor 
of Vermont at the republican state con¬ 
vention held at Burlington, Vt., June 22. 
1892. and inaugurated Oct. 6. 1892. 







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FULLER, MELVILLE WESTON, chief 
justice of the United States, was born I eh. 
11, 1833, in Augusta, Maine. He removed 
to Chicago, Ill., in 1856, where he prac¬ 
ticed law until appointed chief justice. 
In 1862 he was a member of the state 
constitutional convention; and was a 
member of the state legislature from 1863 
to 1865. He was appointed chief justice 
in 1888, confirmed July 20, 1888, and took 
the oath of office Oct. 8, same year. 

FULLER, OLIVER FRANKLIN, drug¬ 
gist, was born Oct. 19, 1829. in Sherman. 
Conn. In 1852 he entered the drug busi¬ 
ness in Chicago, Ill., and in 1871 took 
into partnership Henry W. Fuller of 
Maine, and continued the business under 
the firm name of Fuller and Fuller. At 
the great fire of 1871 his store, comprising 
numbers 20-28 Market street, was the only 
wholesale building of any kind left stand¬ 
ing in the city. 

FULLER. ORAMEL BAUM, lumberman, 
legislator, was born Jan. 22, 1858, in Jer¬ 
sey City, N. .1. In 1869 he moved to 
Michigan; has been justice of the peace; 
and served three terms as a representative 
in the state legislature from Ford River. 

FULLER. OSCAR A., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Jan. 17, 1844, in Alfred, N. Y. 
When seventeen years of age he enlisted 
as a union soldier during the civil war. 
He has attained success as an able lawyer 
of Wellsville, N. Y.; and for six years 
was district attorney of his county. In 
1894 he served with distinction as a mem¬ 
ber of the New York constitutional con¬ 
vention. 

FULLER. PHILO C., congressman, was 
born Aug. 13, 1787, in New Marlborough, 
Mass. He was a member of the New York 
assembly in 1830; and a representative 
in congress from New York from 1833 to 
1837. He was the second assistant post¬ 
master-general from 1841 to 1843; and 
comptroller of New York in 1851. He 
died Aug. 16, 1855, in Geneva, N. Y. 

FULLER. RICHARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 22, 1804, in Beaufort. 
S. C. He was a baptist clergyman of 
Charleston, and subsequently of Balti¬ 
more; and the author of Argument on 
Baptist Close Communion; Sermons; and 
Scriptural Baptism. He died Oct. 20, 1876, 
in Baltimore, Md. 

FULLER, RICHARD FREDERICK, 
lawyer, author, was born May 15, 1821, in 
Cambridge, Mass. He was a lawyer of 
Boston who published Visions in Verse; 
and Chaplain Fuller, a life of his brother 
Arthur. He died May 30. 1869, in Way- 
land, Mass. 

FULLER, RICHARD HENRY, artist, 
was born Oct. 19. 1822, in Bradford, N. H. 
He had excellent natural gifts, and such 
a retentive memory that he is said to have 
made a clever copy of a Lambinet, which 
he had seen only for a few moments. He 
died Dec. 24, 1871, in Chelsea, Mass. 

FULLER, SAMUEL, educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1802, in New 
York. He was an episcopal clergyman, 
professor at the Berkeley Divinity school, 
Middletown, Conn.; and the author of 
Confirmation, its Authority and Nature; 
and The Revelation of St. John Self-Inter¬ 
preted. 

FULLER. SAMUEL RICHARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1850, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is an episcopal clergyman 
of Massachusetts; and the author of Per¬ 
sonality, a volume of Sermons. 

FULLER, SARAH MARGARET, author, 
was born May 23, 1810, in Cambridgeport, 
Mass. Women in the Nineteenth Century 
was her most important work. In Rome, 
she married Marquis d'Ossoli, an Italian. 


On her return to America with her hus¬ 
band and infant child, the vessel was 
wrecked off Fire island, and the Ossoli 
family perished. She died July 16, 1850, 
on Fire Island Beach. 

“FULLER, THOMAS J. D., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 17, 1808, in 
Hardwick, Vt. He was elected state’s at¬ 
torney for his county for three years. 
He was elected a representative from 
Maine to the thirty-first, thirty-second, 
thirty-third, and thirty-fourth congresses; 
and in 1857 was appointed second auditor 
of the treasury, which office he held until 
1861. He died Feb. 13, 1876, near Upper- 
ville, Va. 

FULLER. TIMOTHY, state senator, 
congressman, was born July 11, 1778, in 
Chilmark, Mass. He was a member of the 
Massachusetts senate from 1813 to 1817; 
and speaker of the lower house in 1825. 
He was again a state representative in 
1831; a state councilor in 1831; and was 
a representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1817 to 1825. He died Oct. 
1. 1835, in Groton, Mass. 

FULLER, WILLIAM E., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 30, 1846, in 
Howard, Pa. He was a representative in 
the Iowa legislature in 1876 and 1877. In 
1884 he was elected a representative from 
Iowa to the forty-ninth congress: and 
was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a 
republican. 

FULLER, WILLIAM K., congressman. 
He was a member of the assembly of 
New York in 1829 and 1830. At one time 
he was adjutant-general of the state mil¬ 
itia; and from 1833 to 1837 a representa¬ 
tive in congress. 

FULLERTON. DAVID, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1771. He was 
for several years a member of the legisla¬ 
ture of Pennsylvania; and represented 
that state in congress from 1819 to 1820. 
when he resigned. He died Feb. 1. 1843, 
in Greencastle, Pa. 

FULLERTON, GEORGE STUART, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 
1859. He is an episcopal clergyman and 
professor of moral philosophy in the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania. He is the author 
of The Conception of the Infinite and the 
Solution of the Mathematical Antinomies, 
a psychological treatise; and A Plain 
Argument for God. 

FULLERTON, WILLIAM MORTON, 
journalist, author, was born in 1865, in 
Connecticut. He was a journalist in Bos¬ 
ton for several years, and since 1890 a 
member of the Paris staff of the London 
Times. He is the author of Cairo, a de¬ 
scriptive essay; and Patriotism and 
Science, a collection of essays. 

FULMORE, ZACHARY TAYLOR, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Nov. 
11, 1846, in Robeson county, N. C. He 
attended the country school; North Caro¬ 
lina Military institute, and the university 
of Virginia. He served as a soldier in 
the confederate army; was in the en¬ 
gagement at Fort Fisher, and from Jan¬ 
uary until June, 1865, was a prisoner of 
war. He has been a member of the board 
of trustees of the Texas Institute for the 
Blind, county judge of Travis county for 
six years; and a trustee of the public 
schools of Austin, Tex. He is a success¬ 
ful lawyer; and author of a History of 
the Geography of Texas, and other works. 

FULTON, ANDREW S., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1847 to 1849. 

FULTON, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born April 2. 1834. in Scotland. He 


is an episcopal clergyman noted as an able 
exponent of canon law, and professor of 
that subject at the Episcopal Divinity 
school in Philadelphia. He is the author 
of Letters on Christian Unity; Index 
Canonum; The Laws of Marriage; Doc¬ 
umentary History of the Episcopal Church 
in the Confederate States; The Beautiful 
Land, a description of Palestine; and The 
Chalcedonian Decree. 

FULTON. JOHN H., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1833 to 1835. He died Jan. 28, 
1836, in Abingdon. 

FULTON, JUSTIN DEWEY, clergy¬ 
man. lecturer, author, was born March 1. 

1828, in Earlville, N. Y. He received a 
liberal education, 
and graduated from 
the university of 
Michigan, and from 
the Theological sem¬ 
inary of Rochester. 
N. Y. In 1853 he 
became the editor of 
The Gospel Banner 
of St. Louis, Mo. He 
has filled pastorates 
in St. Louis, San¬ 
dusky, Albany; was 
for ten years pastor 
of Tremont temple of Boston, Mass.; and 
thence was pastor of the Hanson place 
and Centennial church of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He there took a prominent part in anti- 
Roman catholic work; became president 
of the Pauline propaganda; and subse¬ 
quently resigned his pastorate in order to 
give all his time to that work in Somer¬ 
ville. Mass. He is a brilliant lecturer 
on religious subjects; and has received 
the appellation of the Luther of the nine¬ 
teenth century. He is the author of The 
Roman Catholic Element in American 
History; The True Woman; Show Your 
Colors, a Story of Boston Life; The Way 
Out: Witnessing for the Truth, or the 
0\erthrow of the Papacy; and Rome in 
America. 

FULTON. ROBERT, engineer, inventor, 
was born July 26, 1765, in Lancaster coun¬ 
ty. Pa. He invented a machine for spin- 
n i n g flax, another 
for making ropes, 
and was proprietor 
of the first panorama 
exhibited in Paris. 
Though others had 
previously conceived 
the idea of steam 
navigation, Fulton 
was the first who 
successfully realized 
it. The Clermont, 
sometimes called 
Fulton’s Folly, 
launched in 1807, was the first steamboat 
on the Hudson river. He died Feb. 21, 
1815, in New York. 

FULTON, WILLIAM S., soldier, lawyer, 
governor. United States senator, was born 
June 2, 1795, in Cecil county, Md. In 1829 
he was appointed secretary of the terri¬ 
tory of Arkansas, and in 1835 governor 
of the same, which office he held until 
that territory was admitted into the union 
as a state, when he was elected a senator 
from Arkansas, serving from 1836 to 1844. 
He died Aug. 15. 1844, in Little Rock. Ark. 

FUNK, BENJAMIN F., soldier, con¬ 
gressman. was born Oct. 17, 1838, in Funk's 
Grove, Ill. He served during the civil war 
as a private in the sixty-eighth Illinois 
infantry. He removed to Bloomington in 
1869; and was elected mayor of that city 
in 1871, and was re-elected six times con¬ 
secutively. He was elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a republican. 






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FUNKHOUSER, A. PAUL, educator, 
journalist, statesman, was born Dec. 10, 
1853, near Dayton, Va. Although licensed 
to preach since he was sixteen years of 
age, he is best known as an educator. 
He founded the Shenandoah institute of 
Dayton, Va., and was superintendent of 
the Rockingham county schools for three 
years, winning the only Peabody silver 
medal given for the most efficient school 
work in the state. He also served as 
president, of Western college, Iowa: and 
for fifteen years has been manager of the 
Shenandoah Valley Chautauqua assembly, 
which he founded. He started the State 
Republican in 1883. He was a delegate to 
the national republican convention at Chi¬ 
cago in 1888; presidential elector in 1892; 
state canvasser in 1896; and republican 
candidate for, the state senate in 1895. 

FUNSTON, C. M., journalist, jurist, was 
born in 1854, in Washington county, N. Y. 
He is the editor and owner of The Sun of 
Flagstaff, Ariz. He has been county 
judge, commissioner of immigration, and 
has held various other public positions 
of honor. 

FUNSTON. EDWARD H., soldier, farm¬ 
er, congressman, was born in 1836, in 
Clark county. Ohio. In 1861 he entered 
the union army as a lieutenant, and 
served throughout the civil war. He was 
a representative in the Kansas legislature 
in 1873-75, and in the latter year was 
speaker of the house. In 1880 he was 
elected a state senator, and was made 
president of the senate pro tempore. In 
1884 he was elected a representative from 
Kansas to the forty-eighth congress, to 
fill a vacancy, and was re-elected to the 
forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, and fifty- 
second congresses as a republican. 

FURMAN, GABRIEL, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Jan. 23, 1800, in Brooklyn. 
N. Y. In 1827 he was appointed a justice 
of the Brooklyn municipal court, which 
office he held for three years. He served 
as state senator in 1839-42. He published 
Notes, Geographical and Historical, rela¬ 
tive to the Town of Brooklyn. He died 
Nov. 11. 1854. in Brooklyn. N. Y. 

FURMAN. JAMES CLEMENT, educa¬ 
tor, college president, was born Dec. 5. 
1809, in Charleston, S. C. In 1843 he 
accepted a professorship in the Furman 
Theological institution. When the insti¬ 
tution was expanded into Furman univer¬ 
sity at Greenville, S. C., he was made its 
president. 

FURNAS. ELWOOD, educator, public 
official, was born Feb. 22, 1840. in Mont¬ 
gomery county, Ohio. He received his 
education in the dis¬ 
trict schools of his 
county; and at the 
age of nineteen be¬ 
gan teaching school. 
He lias filled all the 
public positions of 
honor in the gift of 
the public, including 
township, county, 
state and national 
public offices of hon¬ 
or. He was chair¬ 
man of the auditing 
board of the Story County Farmers’ Mu¬ 
tual Fire and Lightning association, and 
vice-president and director of the same: 
president of the Story County Farmers 
institute, and organizer of the same: and 
since 1893 has been president of the Farm¬ 
ers’ National alliance. He has written ex¬ 
tensively for the leading agricultural pub¬ 
lications in America: and has addressed 
various agricultural bodies and societies. 


FURNASS, R. W., governor. He was 
governor of Nebraska from 1873 to 1875. 

FURNESS, MRS. HELEN KATE ROG¬ 
ERS, author, was born July 26, 1837, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. She was a Shakespear¬ 
ean scholar of Philadelphia who published 
A Concordance to the Poems of Shakes¬ 
peare. She died Oct. 30, 1883. 

FURNESS, HORACE HOWARD, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 2, 1833, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is a distinguished Shakes¬ 
pearean scholar of Philadelphia, widely 
known in the literary world for his schol¬ 
arly and exhaustive variorum editions of 
King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and 
Juliet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, As 
You Like It, and Midsummer Night's 
Dream. 

FURNESS. WILLIAM HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 20, 1802, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a Unitarian clergy¬ 
man of Philadelphia: and from 1825 to 
1875 pastor of the Unitarian church in that 
city. A theologian of radical views, but 
reverent temper. He was the author of 
The Unconscious Truth of the Four Gos¬ 
pels; Jesus and His Biographers; His¬ 
tory of Jesus; Thoughts on the Life and 
Character of Jesus; The Story of the 
Resurrection Told Once More; The Power 
of Spirit; Discourses; The Veil Lifted and 
Jesus becoming Visible; Verses; Trans¬ 
lations and Hymns; The Faith of Jesus; 
and a much-admired translation of 
Schiller’s Song of the Bell. 

FURNESS, WILLIAM HENRY, artist, 
was born May 21, 1828, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He established himself in Philadel¬ 
phia as a portrait-painter, but later re¬ 
moved to Boston, Mass., where he attained 
a high rank in his profession. He died 
March 4, 1867, in Cambridge. Mass. 

FURNISS. JOHN P., physician, surgeon, 
was born Sept. 24, 1841, in Columbus. 
Miss. In 1860 he graduated from the uni¬ 
versity of Mississippi, and received the 
degree of B. A. He served as assistant 
surgeon in the confederate service during 
the civil war. He has been state medical 
referee for the Mutual Benefit Life In¬ 
surance company of Newark, N. .7.; mem¬ 
ber of the state board of health; and is 
now one of the leading physicians of Ala¬ 
bama, in which state he has a large prac¬ 
tice at Selma. 

FURST, CHARLES SIEGFRIED, mer¬ 
chant, journalist, was born in May. 1850, 
in Germany. In 1873 he established a 
large mercantile house in Jersey City. 
N. .1.; and in 1893 he became president 
of the Jersey City Daily Democrat associa¬ 
tion. He has been prominently identified 
with every public movement for the bene¬ 
fit and improvement of Jersey City. 

FUTHEY. JOHN SMITH, lawyer, anti¬ 
quarian, author, born Sept. 3, 1820, in Ches¬ 
ter county, Pa. He was a lawyer and an¬ 
tiquarian of Eastern Pennsylvania; and 
the author of History of Chester County; 
and Historical Collections of Chester 
County. He died in 1888. 

FYAN, ROBERT W., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born March 11. 
1835, in Bedford county. Pa. He served 
in the union army during the civil war, 
rising to the rank of colonel; and at the 
close of the war was appointed circuit 
attorney of the fourteenth judicial cir¬ 
cuit of Missouri. In 1866 he was elected 
judge of that circuit, and was re-elected 
in 1868, 1874 and 1880. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state constitutional convention 
of 1875; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Missouri to the forty-eighth, 
fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as 
a democrat. He died July 28. 1896, in 
Marshfield. Mo. 


GABB, WILLIAM MORE, paleontolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Jan. 16, 1839, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1868 he undertook 
a survey in Santo Domingo for the Santo 
Domingo Land and Mining company, re¬ 
maining on the island from 1869 to 1872. 
He published an extended memoir On the 
Topography and Geology of Santo Do¬ 
mingo. He died May 30, 1878, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

GABRIELS. HENRY, educator, bishop, 
was born Oct. 6. 1838, in Belgium. For 
thirty years he was the professor of the¬ 
ology and president of St. Joseph semi¬ 
nary of Troy, N. Y. In 1892 he was con¬ 
secrated bishop of Ogdensburg. 

GADSDEN, CHRISTOPHER, congress¬ 
man. was born in 1724 in Charleston. S. 

C. He was elected to the New York con¬ 
gress of 1765, to petition against the 
stamp act; and a delegate from that state 
to the continental congress from 1774 to 
1776. He was elected governor of the 
state, but declined to serve on account of 
his age. He died Aug. 28, 1805. in Charles¬ 
ton. S. C. 

GADSDEN. CHRISTOPHER ED¬ 
WARDS, journalist, bishop, author, was 
born Nov. 25, 1785, in Charleston, S. C. 
He was elected bishop, and was conse¬ 
crated in Trinity church, Boston, Mass., 
in 1840. He edited for several years the 
Gospel Messenger, published a tract on 
The Prayer-Book as it Is, and three val¬ 
uable charges to the clergy, and an es¬ 
say on the life of Bishop Dehon. He died 
June 24, 1852. in Charleston, S. C. 

GADSDEN, JAMES, soldier, merchant, 
diplomat, was born May 15, 1788, in 
Charleston. S. C. In 1820 he was appoint¬ 
ed inspector-general of the army, with 
rank of colonel. He was appointed miri- 
ister to Mexico in 1853, and negotiated 
the Gadsden Purchase, now known as 
Arizona, for ten million dollars. He died 
Dec. 26. 1858. in Charleston. S. C. 

GADSDEN, JOHN, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, was born March 4, 1787. He was a 
member of the South Carolina legisla¬ 
ture, and also held the office of United 
States district attorney. He died Jan. 31, 
1831. 

GADSDEN, PHILIP HENRY, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Oct. 4, 1867, in Char¬ 
leston. S. C. He has served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the South Carolina 
state legislature; and is president of the 
Charleston Street Railway company. 

GAFFNEY, MARGARET, philanthro¬ 
pist. was born about 1825, in Baltimore, 
Md. In 1852 she opened an orphan asylum 
in New Orleans, and gave to orphans of 
whatever denomination her three largest 
. homes for children, and a home for the 
aged and infirm. She was the first wo¬ 
man in this country to be honored by the 
erection of a marble statue to her mem¬ 
ory. She died Feb. 9, 1882. 

GAGE. ALFRED PAYSON. educator, 
author, was born April 15, 1836, in Hop- 
kinton. N. H. He is engaged in educa¬ 
tional work, and is the author of a series 
of Text-Books on Physics. 

GAGE, MRS. FRANCES DANA | BAR¬ 
KER], suffragist, lecturer, author, was 
born Oct. 12, 1808, in Marietta, Ohio. She 
was a prominent advocate of woman suff¬ 
rage who lectured much on that subject 
as well as upon temperance and anti-sla¬ 
very. She was the author of Elsie Ma- 
goon, a temperance story; Poems; Ger¬ 
tie's Sacrifice; Nightcaps, a Series of 
Boo.hs: and Sparks Upward. She wrote 
much over the signature Aunt Fanny. She 
died Nov. 10. 1884. in Greenwich. Conn. 



388 HERRINGS 

GAGE, JOSHUA, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman. He was a member of the leg¬ 
islature from 1805 to 1808, in 1813, 1814, 
1820 and 1821; a representative in con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts from 1817 to 
1819; and a state councilor in 1822 and 
1823. 

GAGE LYMAN JUDSON, banker, finan¬ 
cier. was born June 28. 1836, in Deruyter 
N Y. He became cashier of the First 
National bank of Chicago in 1868. Its 
charter expiring, the bank was reotgan- 
ized in 1882. with a capital of three mil¬ 
lion dollars, and Mr. Gage was made vice- 
president and general manager, and in 
1891 he was elected president. In 1897 he 
resigned the presidency of the bank in 
order to accept the portfolio of the United 
States treasury. 

GAGE, MRS. MATILDA JOSLYN, suff¬ 
ragist, author, was born March 24, 1826, 
in Cicero, N. Y. She is a noted woman 
suffragist of Fayetteville, N. Y.; and the 
author of Woman’s Rights Catechism; 
Woman as an Inventor; Woman, Church 
and State; and History of Woman Suff¬ 
rage. 

GAGE. SIMON HENRY, physiologist, 
author, was born May 20, 1857. in Main¬ 
land, N. Y. He is a physiologist who has 
been professor of physiology at Cornell 
university; and is the author of The Mic¬ 
roscope and Histeology; and Anatomical 
Technology. 

GAGE THOMAS, soldier colonial gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1721 in England. He 
was governor of Massachusetts in 1774-75. 
He died April 2, 1787, in England. 

GAGE, WILLIAM LEONARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1832 in New 
Hampshire. He was a Unitarian cleigy- 
man of Hartford in 1868-84. He is the 
author of Trinitarian Sermons to a Uni¬ 
tarian Congregation; Songs of War Time; 
Light in Darkness; Life of Carl Ritter; 
Studies in Bible Lands; Verses-, The 
Home of God's People; A Leisurely Jour¬ 
ney; Palestine, Historic and Descriptive; 
The Salvation of Faust; and a number of 
translations from the German. • 

GAIL, FREDERICK W„ lawyer, was 
born Jan. 17. 1860, in Aurora, N. Y. He 
started in life as a newspaper reporter; 
and in 1882-84 was official stenographer 
for the first judicial district of Minnesota; 
and since 1884 has practiced law at Still¬ 
water, Minn. 

GAILLARD, EDWIN SAMUEL, soldier, 
educator, physician, journalist, was born 
Jan. 16, 1827, in Charleston, S. C. In 1865 
he established the Richmond Medical 
Journal, which he removed to Louisville 
in 1868, and published there under the 
title of the Richmond and Louisville Med¬ 
ical Journal. In 1874 he also established 
the American Medical Weekly. He died 
Feb. 1, 1885, in Louisville, Ky. 

GAILLARD, JOHN, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Sept. 5, 1765, in St. Steph¬ 
en’s, S. C. He was a senator of the 
United States from South Carolina from 
1804 to 1826; voted for the war of 1812; 
and was repeatedly called to preside over 
the senate in the absence of the vice- 
president. He died Feb. 26, 1826, in 
Washington, D. C. 

GAILLARD, THEODORE, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. He was one of the earliest judges of 
the United States circuit court, having in 
1801 been appointed chief justice of the 
fifth circuit. In 1813 he was appointed 
a district judge of the United States for 
Louisiana. 

GAILOR, THOMAS FRANK, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born Sept. 17, 1856, in 
Jackson, Miss. In 1880 he was ordained 
a priest, and is now assistant bishop of 
Tennessee. 


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GAINE, HUGH, journalist, was born in 
1726 in Ireland. He began business as a 
printer and bookseller in New York city 
in 1750, and in 1752 established the Mer¬ 
cury, a weekly publication. He died April 
25, 1807, in New Y r ork city. 

GAINES, EDMUND PENDLETON, sol¬ 
dier, was born March 20, 1777, in Culpep¬ 
er county, Va. He entered the army in 
1799, and rose gradually until he was 
made major-general for his gallantry at 
Fort Erie in 1814. He remained in the 
army until his death. He died June 6, 
1849, in New Orleans, La. 

GAINES, JOHN P.. soldier, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born in Walton, Ky. 
He was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1847 

congress he advocat¬ 
ed numerous measures of importance to 
his state, and served on several commit¬ 
tees. He died in 1858 in Oregon. 

GAINES. JOHN WESLEY, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 24, 1861, in 
Nashville, Tenn. In 1892 he was elector 
on the Cleveland ticket and led in the 
ballot; afterwards became a leading ex¬ 
ponent of free siher in his district, and 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a democrat. 

GAINES, WESLEY J., bishop, author, 
was born Oct. 4, 1840, in Washington, Ga. 
In 1888 he was ordained bishop at Indian¬ 
apolis. He is the author of a valuable 
work entitled African Methodism in the 
South. 

GAINES, WILLIAM EMBRE, soldier, 
banker, congressman, was born Aug. 30. 
1844, in Charlotte county, Va. In 1861 he 
enlisted as a private in company K, eigh¬ 
teenth Virginia regiment, and was en¬ 
gaged in all the battles fought by the 
army of Northern Virginia up to the 
Maryland campaign. He was elected to 
the Virginia state senate in 1883, and was 
the leader of his party in that branch 
three years, when he resigned. He was 
elected to the fiftieth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

GAITHER, BURGESS SIDNEY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 16, 1807. 
in Iredell county, N. C. He was superin¬ 
tendent of the mint at Charlotte, N. C.; 
and was a member of the state senate in 
1840 and 1844. He was also a member 
of both sessions of the confederate con¬ 
gress. He died Feb. 23, 1892, in Mor¬ 
gantown, N. C. 

GAITHER. GEORGE FRANKLIN, far¬ 
mer, educator, politician, was born March 
6, 1856, in Iuka, Miss. After graduating 
from the Iuka Male institute he taught in 
the public schools of Etowah county, 
Ala.; and in 1886 was elected county su¬ 
perintendent of education for that county, 
receiving the re-election in 1888. He is 
a successful farmer and populist politi¬ 
cian; and helped to organize that party in 
1891 at Cincinnati, Ohio. 

GAITHER. HENRY, soldier, was born 
in 1751 in Montgomery county, Md. He 
was a captain in the revolutionary army, 
and took part in nearly every battle of 
the war. He died June 22, 1811, in George¬ 
town. D. C. 


IOGRAPHY. 

GAITHER, HENRY CHEW, patriot, 
state legislator, was born in 1777 in 
Maryland. He represented his county in 
the legislature for many years, but is 
chiefly remembered for his heroic conduct 
in defense of free speech during the dis¬ 
graceful assault by a mob on the office of 
the Baltimore Federalist, July 26, 1812. 
He died Feb. 12, 1845, in Locust Grove, 
Md. 

GAITHER, NATHAN, physician, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1785 
in Columbia, Ky. He was a member of 
the state legislature from Adair county 
in 1815, 1816, 1817, and 1818; and was a 
presidential elector in 1829. He was 
elected a representative from Kentucky 
to the twenty-first and twenty-second con¬ 
gresses; was a member of the constitu¬ 
tional convention of the state in 1849; and 
was again a presidential elector in 1861. 

GAITHER. WILLIAM LINGAN, soldier, 
state legislator, governor, was born Feb. 
21, 1813, in Locust Grove, Md. He was 
early elected to the legislature, and 
served sixteen years, a portion of the time 
in each branch. In 1851 he was chosen 
president of the senate. He died Aug. 
2, 1858, in Berkley Springs, Va. 

GALBERRY, THOMAS, Roman catho¬ 
lic bishop, was born in 1833, in Ireland. 
He was ordained priest in 1856. His first 
mission was at Lansingburg, N. Y., where 
he built a Gothic church at an expense of 
over $33,000, and near it a convent for 
the Sisters of St. Joseph. He died Oct. 10. 
1878, in New Y'ork city. 

GALBRAITH, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born in 
Pennsylvania. He served several terms in 
the legislature of Pennsylvania, and was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1833 to 1837, and again from 
1839 to 1841. He also held the office of 
United States president judge for the 
sixth district of Pennsylvania. He died 
June 15, 1860, in Erie, Pa. 

GALBRAITH, WILLIAM J„ soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 18, 1837, in 
Freeport, Pa. He served as an officer in 
the United States signal corps from 1861 
to 1864. In 1879 he was appointed an as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of the 
territory of Montana, and was reappointed 
in 1883. 

GALE, BENJAMIN, physician, author, 
was born in 1715, on Long Island, N. Y. 
He was the author of A Dissertation on 
Inoculation, and other works. He died 
May 21, 1790, in Killingworth, Conn. 

GALE, CHRISTOPHER, lawyer, jurist, 
was born about 1670 in England. In 1712 
he became chief justice of North Carolina 
He died at Edenton, N. C. 

GALE, GEORGE, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Mary¬ 
land from 1789 to 1791. 

GALE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, edu¬ 
cator, was born Dec. 3, 1789, in Northeast, 
Pa. He established the Oneida manual 
labor institute at Whitesboro, N. Y., 
where he remained from 1827 till 1834. 
His life work was the organization of 
Knox college at Galesburg, Ill., in 1835 
He died Sept. 13, 1862, in Galesburg, Ill. 

GALE, LEVIN, congressman, was born 
in 1824 in Cecil county, Md. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1827 to 1829. He died April 28, 1875, 
in Baltimore, Md. 

GALE, THEOPHILUS, theologian, phil¬ 
osopher. He was a doctor of divinity, a 
classical scholar, and a learned theologian 
and philosopher. He died in 1677. 

GALE, WILLIAM H., jurist. He whs 
appointed an associate justice of the 
United States court for the territory of 
Colorado. 



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GALEENER. CHRIS., clergyman, was 
born Feb. 27, 1854, in Warren county, 
Ohio. He is one of the foremost clergy¬ 
men of the west and has filled pastorates 
in the leading churches of Illinois. He 
has been secretary of the Illinois confer¬ 
ence; was twice a delegate to the general 
conference of the methodist episcopal 
church, and has been presiding elder. 

GALES, JOSEPH, journalist, was horn 
in 1760 in England. He was originally a 
printer and bookseller at Sheffield, where 
he established and published the Register. 
He died Aug. 24, 1841, in Raleigh, N. C. 


GALES, JOSEPH, journalist, was born 
April 10, 1786, in England. In 1810 he 
succeeded to the sole proprietorship of the 
National Intelligencer of Washington, D. 

C. He died July 21. 1860, in Washington, 

D. C. 

GALES. SEATON, soldier, journalist, 
was born May 17, 1828, in Raleigh, N. C. 
On the death of his father he took edi¬ 
torial charge of the Raleigh Register; 
and from 1866 till 1869 was connected with 
the Raleigh Sentinel. He died Nov. 29, 
1878, in Washington, D. C. 

GALLAGHER. CHARLES WESLEY, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
Feb. 3, 1846, in Boston, Mass. During 
1889-93 he was president of the Lawrence 
university of Wisconsin; and since 1893 
has been president of the Maine Wesleyan 
seminary and college of Kent’s Hill. 

GALLAGHER, HUGH P., clergyman, 
philanthropist, was born in 1815, in Ire¬ 
land. In 1844 he was made president of 
the Theological seminary of Pittsburg, 
Pa. The same year he founded St. Fran¬ 
cis’ college for boys, and also founded 
and edited the Pittsburg Catholic. In 1850 
he introduced the sisters of mercy, for 
whom he established St. Aloysius’ acad¬ 
emy for girls. In 1852 he moved to Cali¬ 
fornia, built a church in Benicia; and in 
1853 established the Catholic Standard. 
He died in March. 1882, in San Francisco. 


Cal. 

GALLAGHER, JAMES NESTOR, mer¬ 
chant, author, poet, was born July 5, 1848. 
in Concord, N. H. He is the author of 
a humorous work entitled Let ’er Go, Gal¬ 
lagher; and a volume of poems. 

GALLAGHER. NICHOLAS ALOYSIUS, 
college president, bishop, was born Feb. 
19, 1846, in Temperanceville, Ohio. He 
was ordained priest in 1868, and conse¬ 
crated bishop of Galveston, Texas, in 1882. 
For many years he was president of St. 
Aloysius seminary of Columbus, Ohio. 




GALLAGHER. PATRICK S„ educator, 
was born in May, 1855, in Ireland. He 
attended the Business college of La 
Crosse, Wis., and has attained success in 
educational work. For the past eight 
years he has been superintendent of 
schools in Swift county, Minn. 

GALLAGHER, WILLIAM DAVIS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 21, 
1808, in Philadelphia. Pa. He received his 
education at the 
Lancasterian semi¬ 
nary of Cincinnati. 
Ohio. He commenced 
life as a printer, 
then became a proof¬ 
reader; and subse¬ 
quently filled the edi¬ 
torial chair on a Cin¬ 
cinnati daily news¬ 
paper. He published 
The Quarterly Re¬ 
view, and was prom¬ 
inent in the early 
literary annals of the Ohio valley. He 
was the author of Miami Woods, and 
Other Poems; A Golden Wedding, and 
Other Poems; and Erato, a volume of 
verse. He died in 1894 in Louisville, Ky. 



GALLATIN, ALBERT, diplomat, states¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 29, 1761, in 
Geneva, Switzerland. In 1793 he was^ 
elected a senator in 
congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania, serving 
from 1795 to 1801. In 
the latter year he 
was appointed secre¬ 
tary of the treasury. 
He was president of 
the National hank 
of New Yoi-k, and 
advocated the estab¬ 
lishment of the New 
York university. He 
was the author of 
Considerations on the Currency and 
Banking System of the United States; 
Synopsis of the Indian Tribes; Notes on 
the Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico, Yu¬ 
catan and Central America; Peace with 
Mexico; and War Expenses. His writings 
have been edited in six volumes. He died 
Aug. 12, 1849, in Astoria, N. Y. 

GALLAUDET, EDWARD MINER, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was born 
Feb. 5, 1837, in Hartford, Conn. During 
1857-64 he was superintendent of the Col¬ 
umbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb of 
Washington, D. C., and since 1864 has 
been president of that institution, and also 
ot Gallaudet College for the Deaf. He is 
the author of a Popular Manual of Inter¬ 
national Law; and Life of T. H. Gallaudet, 
his father. 



GALLAUDET, THOMAS, clergyman, 
philanthropist, author, was born June 3, 
1822, in Hartford. Conn. In 1852 he found¬ 
ed St. Ann's Church for Deaf Mutes in 
Hartford, Conn., and in 1859 added a 
church and rectory. In 1885 he founded 
the Gallaudet Home for Deaf Mutes on a 
farm on the Hudson river. 


GALLAUDET, THOMAS HOPKINS, ed¬ 
ucator. philanthropist, author, was born 
Dec. 10 1787, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 



lish Congregation in 
ries for the Young, 
in Hartford. Conn. 


was a celebrated ed¬ 
ucator of deaf mutes, 
who was superin¬ 
tendent of the Insti¬ 
tution for Deaf 
Mutes at Hartford, 
the first in the Unit¬ 
ed States, in 1817-30. 
He is the author of 
Child’s Book of the 
Soul; The Youth’s 
Book of Natural 
Theology; Sermons 
Preached to an Eng- 
Paris; and Bible Sto- 
He died Sept. 9, 1851, 


GALLAWAY, ROBERT MACY. mer¬ 
chant, banker, was born Aug. 4, 1837 in 
New York city. He was elected president 
of the Merchants’ National bank of New 
York city in 1892, and has since conducted 
the affairs of this institution with pru¬ 
dence and success. 

GALLEGOS, JOSE M., soldier, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 14, 
1815, in Rio Arriba county, N. M. He 
was a member of the legislative assembly 
of Mexico in 1843-46; a member of the 
first legislative assembly of the territory 
of New Mexico in 1850-51, and was elected 
delegate to congress in 1854. He was 
Speaker of the territorial house of repre¬ 
sentatives in 1860-62; quartermaster-gen¬ 
eral of the territorial militia, and treasu¬ 
rer of the territory for five years. _H-e was 
superintendent of Indian affairs in New 
Mexico in 1868, and was elected delegate 
to the forty-second congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 


GALLEHER, JOHN NICHOLAS, bish¬ 
op. was born Feb. 17, 1839, in Mason coun¬ 
ty, Ky. He was the third protestant epis¬ 
copal bishop of the diocese of Louisiana. 

He died Dec. 7,1891, in New Orleans, La. 

GALLIGAN, MATTHEW J., lawyer, 
jurist, was born Aug. 25, 1854, in Wash¬ 
ington county, Wis. He has attained suc¬ 
cess in his profession at Pueblo, Col., and 
served two terms as judge of the county 
court. 

GALLINGER, JACOB H„ journalist, 
physician, congressman, United States 
senator, was born March 28, 1837, in Can¬ 
ada. He practiced 
medicine and surgery 
from 1858 until he 
entered public life, 
and is a member of 
various state and na¬ 
tional medical so¬ 
cieties. He was a 
member of the house 
of representatives of 
New Hampshire in 
1872-73 and 1891; 
and was a member of 
the state senate in 
1878-80, being president of that body the 
last two years. He was surgeon-general 
of New Hampshire with the rank of brig¬ 
adier-general in 1879-80. He was chair¬ 
man of the delegation from his state to 
the republican national convention of 
1888. He was elected to the forty-ninth 
and fiftieth congresses as a republican, 
and declined renomination to the fifty- 
first congress, and was elected United 
States senator in 1890, and was re-elected 
in 1896. 

GALLISON, HENRY HAMMOND, art¬ 
ist, was born in 1850 in Boston, Mass. He 
graduated from Harvard college, studied 
art in Paris, and has attained prominence 
as a painter. 

GALLITZIN, DEMETRIUS AUGUST¬ 
INE, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 22, 
1770, in Holland. He was the son of the 
Russian ambassador to France, he came 
to America in 1792, was educated as a 
Sulpitian priest, and founded the Roman 
catholic colony of Loretto in Pennsyl¬ 
vania in 1803. He was the author of De¬ 
fence of Catholic Principles; Appeal to 
the Protestant Public; Six Letters of Ad¬ 
vice; and Letter to a Protestant Friend 
on the Holy Scriptures. He died in 1841. 

GALLOWAY, CHARLES BETTS, bish¬ 
op, author, was born about 1849 in Mis¬ 
sissippi. He is a bishop of the methodist 
church south, and the author of Method¬ 
ism a Child of Providence; and Aaron’s 
Rod in Public Morals. 

GALLOWAY, JACOB SCUDDER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, legislator, was born Feb. 14. 
1838, in Mendham, N. J. In 1858 he grad¬ 
uated from the Princeton university; was 
admitted to the bar, and has attained suc¬ 
cess as one of the foremost lawyers of the 
south at Memphis, Tenn. He has been 
a member of the Tennessee state senate, 
judge of the probate court, judge of the 
second circuit court of Shelby county, and 
filled various other public positions of 
honor. 

GALLOWAY, JOSEPH, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was horn in 
1730, near West River, Md. He was a 
member of the assembly of Pennsylvania 
in 1764, officiating as speaker; was a dele¬ 
gate to the continental congress in 1774 
and 1775, and a signer of the declaration 
of independence. He was the author of 
Historical and Political Reflections on the 
American Rebellion; and The Prophetic 
History of the Church of Rome. He died 
Aug. 29, 1803, in England. 







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GALLOWAY, SAMUEL, educator, law¬ 
yer, orator, congressman, was born March 
20, 1811, in Gettysburg, Pa. He was a 
professor in the Miami university as well 
as in Hanover college, Indiana. He was at 
one time secretary of state; and was elect¬ 
ed a representative in the thirty-fourth 
congress. He died April 5, 1872, in Col¬ 
umbus, Ohio. 

GALLOWAY, W. T., physician, surgeon, 
business man, public official. He was ed¬ 
ucated at Ogdensburg, N. Y., and was a 
graduate of the Cas- 
tleton Medical col¬ 
lege of Vermont. In 
1857-60 he was regis¬ 
trar of the United 
States land office at 
Eau Claire, Wis., and 
filled various other 
public positions of 
trust. In 1890 he 
was appointed dep¬ 
uty United States 
marshal of Arizona, 
where he is also ac¬ 
tively interested in mining. 

GALLOWAY, WALTER A., soldier, 
merchant, legislator, was born Nov. 22, 
1844, in Little Rock, Ark. He was a sol¬ 
dier during the civil war, and has served 
as a member of the Arkansas state legis¬ 
lature. 

GALLUP, ALBERT, congressman. He 
was at one time sheriff of Albany county, 
N. Y. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1837 to 1841, 
and was appointed collector of Albany. 
He died in November, 1851, in Providence, 
R. I. 

GALLUP, JOSEPH ADAMS, educator, 
physician, author, was born March 30, 
1769, in Stonington, Conn. He was a Ver¬ 
mont physician, and professor in Vermont 
Medical college, which he founded. He 
was the author of Epidemic Diseases in 
Vermont; and Outlines of the Institutes of 
Medicine. He died Oct. 12, 1849, in Wood- 
stock, Vt. 

GALT, E. T„ railroad president, was 
born May 24, 1850, in Canada. He is 
president of the Alberta Railway and Coal 
company, and of the Great Falls and Can¬ 
ada railway at Great Falls, Mont. 

GALtTSHA, JONAS, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, governor, was born Feb. 11, 1753, in 
Norwalk, Conn. He was a revolutionary 
soldier, and served at Bennington, Vt. He 
was a member of the council from 1793 to 
1798, and again from 1801 to 1805. He was 
a member of the general assembly in 1800; 
judge of the state supreme court from 
1795 to 1797, and from 1800 to 1806; and 
governor of Vermont from 1809 to 1813, 
and from 1815 to 1820. He died Oct. 8, 
1834, in Shaftsbury, Vt. 

GALVANI, WILLIAM H„ civil en¬ 
gineer, vegetarian, was born June 27, 1861, 
in Russia. He emigrated to the United 
States in 1882, and 
since that time has 
been engaged in en¬ 
gineering works on 
nearly all of the 
principal railways in 
the Pacific north 
west; and in literary 
work, as an editorial 
writer, publisher and 
contributor to peri¬ 
odical literature. He 
is well known as an 
exponent of Panthe¬ 
ism. and as an ardent defender of the 
rights of all animals to life and liberty, on 
which subject he has written and lec¬ 
tured extensively. He is a member of the 
Universal Theosophical society, and is 
strictly a vegetarian. 


GAMBLE, HAMILTON McSPARRIN, 
physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 25, 1838, 
in Moorefield, W. Va. During the war he 
served in the confederate army as a sur¬ 
geon, and was in charge of the second 
corps hospital. Since the war he has 
practiced medicine in Moorefield, Va. 

GAMBLE, HAMILTON ROWAN, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Nov. 29, 1798, in Winches¬ 
ter, Va. He was an active member of the 
constitutional convention of Missouri at 
the opening of the rebellion in 1861, and 
was made acting and provisional governor 
of that state, when the regular governor 
joined the confederacy. He died Jan. 31, 
1864, in Jefferson City, Mo. 

GAMBLE, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 28, 1809, in Ly¬ 
coming county, Pa. He was elected to the 
legislature in 1841, and re-elected in the 
following year. He was then elected to 
congress as a democrat, serving from 1851 
till 1855. He was elected president-judge 
of Lycoming district in 1868, and served 
ten years. He died Feb. 22, 1882, in Will¬ 
iamsport, Pa. 

GAMBLE, ROBERT J., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 7, 
1851, near Akron, N. Y. He has been dis¬ 
trict attorney; city 
attorney of Yankton 
for two terms.' and 
state senator in 1885. 
He represented South 
Dakota as congress¬ 
man-at-large in the 
fifty-fourth congress, 
and was the unani¬ 
mous nominee of his 
party for re-election 
to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress in the year 
1896, but was defeat¬ 
ed by a plurality of one hundred and 
eighty-two votes out of a total vote of 
eighty-three thousand. He has been an 
active member of the republican organiza¬ 
tion of his state for many years. 

GAMBLE, ROGER L., jurist, congress¬ 
man. He was a member of the house of 
representatives in congress from Georgia 
from 1833 to 1835, and from 1841 to 1843, 
and afterward judge of the superior court 
of that state. He died Dec. 20, 1847. 

GAMBLE, THOMAS, naval officer. He 
was appointed midshipman in 1804, lieu¬ 
tenant in 1810, and commander in 1816. 
He died October 10, 1818. 

GAMBRELL, JAMES BRUETON, jour¬ 
nalist, college president, was born Aug. 
21, 1841, in Anderson county, S. C. In 
1877 he became editor of the Baptist Rec¬ 
ord, which position he filled for fifteen 
years. In 1893 he was elected president 
of Mercer university of Macon, Ga. 

GAMMELL, WILLIAM, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 10, 1812, in Medfield, 
Mass. He was an educator of Rhode Isl¬ 
and, and professor at Brown university 
in 1835-64. He was the author of Life of 
Roger Williams; and History of American 
Baptist Missions. He died in 1889. 

GANESVOORT, PETER, soldier, was 
born July 17, 1749, in Albany, N. Y. He 
served in the revolutionary war, and in 
1781 the state of New York appointed 
him brigadier-general. He died in 1812 
in Albany, N. Y. 

GANNAWAY, WILLIAM TRIGG, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born June 10, 
1825, in Virginia. In 1857 he was elected 
professor of Greek and Latin in Trinity 
college, and in 1863 was chosen president. 

GANNETT, BARZILLA, congressman. 
He served four years in the state legisla¬ 
ture, and was a representative in congress 
from Massachusetts from 1809 to 1811. 


GANNETT, EZRA STILES, clergyman, 
author, was born May 4, 1801, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He was a Unitarian clergy¬ 
man of prominence in Boston for many 
years, who published a great number of 
single sermons and addresses. He died 
Aug. 26, 1871. 

GANNETT, GEORGE, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, was born Oct. 29, 1819, in East 
Bridgewater, Mass. He devoted himself 
to the education of women; established a 
school in Boston, where it became known 
as Gannett institute. 

GANNETT, HENRY, topographer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1846 in Maine. He has 
been chief topographer of the United 
States geological survey since 1882, and is 
the author of Boundaries of the United 
States; The Building of a Nation; Dic¬ 
tionary of Altitudes in the United States; 
Results of Primary Triangulation; Man¬ 
ual of Topographical Methods; and Geo¬ 
graphic Dictionaries of Massachusetts, 
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey. 

GANNETT, WILLIAM CHANNING, 
clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1840. 
He is a Unitarian clergyman of Minneap¬ 
olis, and subsequently of Rochester, N. Y., 
and the author of A Year of Miracle, a 
poem in Four Sermons; Memoir of E. S. 
Gannett; and The Thought of God in 
Hymns and Poems. 

GANNETT, WILLIAM HENRY, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Feb. 10, 1854, in Augusta, 
Maine. He commenced in 1888 the publi¬ 
cation of The Comfort, a family paper of 
Augusta, Maine. 

GANNON, MARY, actress, was born 
Oct. 8, 1829, in New York city. For years 
she played child’s parts, and later ap¬ 
peared in medley performances that in¬ 
volved song, dance and rapid changes of 
charactei’. She died Feb. 22, 1868. in New 
Yoi'k city. 

GANNON, THOMAS JOSEPH, college 
president, lecturer, was born July 14, 
1853, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1891 ue was 
appointed president of St. John’s college 
of Fordham, N. Y. v 

GANNT, E. W., lawyer, congressman, 
author, was born March 17, 1832, in Ten¬ 
nessee. He was elected a representative 
from Arkansas in congi-ess in 1860, but 
does not appear to have taken his seat. In 
1873 he prepared a digest of the laws of 
Arkansas, and soon afterwards was ap¬ 
pointed commissioner to the centennial 
exhibition. He died June 10, 1874. 

GANO, JOHN, clei-gyman, was born 
July 22, 1727, in Hopewell, N. J. In 1762 
the First Baptist church in New York was 
organized, and he became its pastor and 
continued successfully in this relation for 
twenty-six years. He died in 1804 near 
Lexington, Ky. 

GANO, STEPHEN FRANKLIN, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born April 2, 1807, in 
Georgetown, Ky. In 1837 he was elected 
to the legislature, and again in 1847, and 
in 1862. He acted as surgeon of the sev¬ 
enth district of Kentucky during the civil 
war. 

GANONG, JANE K., poet, was born 
Aug. 26. 1835, in Carmel, N. Y. She has 
contributed extensively to current litera¬ 
ture, and her poems have been given a 
place in several standard collections. 

GANSE, HERVEY DODDRIDGE, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 7, 1822, in 
Fishkill, N. Y. In 1883 he became first 
secretary of the presbytei’ian board of aid 
for colleges and academies, in Chicago, 
Ill. He is the author of Bible Slave-hold¬ 
ing not Sinful. 

GANSEVOORT, HENRY SANFORD, 
soldier, lawyer, was born Dec. 15, 1834, in 
Albany, N. Y. In 1865 he was promoted to 
brigadier-general. He died in 1871. 






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GANSEVOORT, LEONARD, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1751 in Albany, N. Y. 
He was a delegate from New York to the 
continental congress in 1787 and 1788. He 
died in 1810, in Albany, N. Y. 

GANSEVOORT, PETER, soldier, was 
born July 17, 1749, in Albany, N. Y. 
He was commissioner of Indian affairs; 
military agent, and in 1809 was made a 
brigadier-general in the United States 
army. He died July 2, 1812, in Albany, 
N. Y. 

GANSON, JOHN, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1818, 
in Le Roy, N. Y. He was a member of 
the state legislature in 1862; and was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the thirty-eighth congress. He died 
Sept. 28, 1874, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

GANTZ, MARTIN K., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 28, 1862, in Bethel, 
Ohio. He was elected mayor of the city 
of Troy; and was elected to the fifty-sec¬ 
ond congress as a democrat. 

GARARD, LOUIS FORD, soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Nov. 25, 1847, in 
Columbus, Ga. He served as a private in 
the civil war. He was a member of the 
Georgia legislature in 1878-81. and framed 
the famous baby bond bill. 

GARBER, SILAS, governor. He was 
governor of Nebraska from 1875 to 1879. 

GARCELON, ALONZO, physician, sur¬ 
geon, governor, was born in 1813 in Maine. 
He served in the house of representatives 
of the Maine legislature, and was surgeon- 
general on the staff of the governor of 
Maine during the civil war. He was an 
unsuccessful candidate for congress in 
1868 and tor governor in 1878. There hav¬ 
ing been no choice for governor at the 
election in 1878, he was elected to that 
office by the state legislature. 

GARD, ERNEST CHAPIN, journalist, 
poet, was born March 22, 1857, in Ring- 
gold county, Iowa. In 1880 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, but preferred literary 
pursuits. In 1884 he established the Gosh¬ 
en Gazette; four years later moved to 
Colorado, where he established the Her¬ 
ald at Palmer Lake, and in 1891 he found¬ 
ed the Cripple Creek Crusher. He has 
contributed extensively to the Denver 
daily newspapers, and is the author of a 
collection of humorous articles entitled 
Life’s Panorama. 

GARDEN, ALEXANDER, clergyman, 
author, was born about 1685 in Scotland. 
He was an episcopal clergyman of 
Charleston remembered for his vigorous 
opposition to Whitefield. He was the au¬ 
thor of Six Letters to the Reverend 
George Whitefield; and Two Sermons. He 
died Sept. 27, 1756, in Charleston, S. C. 

GARDEN. ALEXANDER, naturalist, 
author, was born about 1728 in Scotland. 
He is a botanical writer of Charleston for 
whom Linnaeus named the genus Gar¬ 
denia. He went to England as a loyalist 
in 1783, and became vice-president of the 
Royal society. He died April 15, 1791, in 
London, England. 

GARDEN, ALEXANDER, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 4, 1757, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. He was an officer in the Ameri¬ 
can army during the revolution, and the 
author of Anecdotes of the Revolutionary 
War. He died Feb. 28, 1829, in Charles¬ 
ton. S. C. 

GARDENIER, BARENT, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1807 to 1811. 


GARDENIER, WILSON H., educator, 

lawyer, was born Sept. 26, 1838, in Mid¬ 
dletown, N. Y. He received his educa¬ 

tion at the Falley 
seminary of Fulton, 
Oswego, N. Y. Dur¬ 
ing the war he 
raised a company of 
volunteers and gave 
his assistance to the 
Union. During 1865- 
66 he was principal 
of one of the public 
schools in Oswego. 
He was admitted to 
the bar in 1864 and 
has attained success 
as a lawyer of Oswego, N. Y. 

GARDINER, ADDISON, lawyer, jurist, 
was born March 19, 1797, in Rindge, N. H. 
In 1844 and 1846 he was lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of New York, but resigned his office 
in the latter year, having been elected a 
judge of the court of appeals. He died 
June 5, 1883, in Rochester, N. Y. 



GARDINER, FREDERICK, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1822 in Maine. He 
was an episcopal clergyman, professor in 
the Berkeley Divinity school at Middle- 
town from 1869, and the author of The 
Island of Life, an Allegory; Commentary 
on Epistle of Jude; Harmony of the Four 
Gospels in Greek; Harmony of the Four 
Gospels in English; Diatessaron; The 
Principles of Textual Criticism; The Old 
and New Testaments in their Mutual Re¬ 
lations, and Aids to Scripture Study. 

GARDINER, JAMES TERRY, civil en¬ 
gineer. was born May 6, 1842, in Troy, N. 
Y. From 1876 till 1886 he was director of 
the state survey of New York, and from 
1880 till 1886 a member of the New York 
state board of health. 

GARDINER, JOHN, legislator, lawyer, 
was born in 1731 in Boston, Mass. He 
moved to Pownalboro’, Maine, and repre¬ 
sented that town in the Massachusetts 
legislature until his death. He died Oct. 
15, 1793, in Cape Ann, Mass. 


GARDINER, JOSEPH WARREN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, poet, was born March 2, 1836, 
in North Kingstown, R. I. He studied 
medicine for two 
years and subse¬ 
quently engaged in 
educational work. 
He has lived in vari¬ 
ous states of the 
Union; has published 
several newspapers, 
and was the editor 
and owner of the 
Dixie Optic of Jeffer¬ 
son, N. C. In 1869 
he was admitted to 
the bar, and has at¬ 
tained success as a lawyer of Brewster, 
Neb., where he has been prosecuting at¬ 
torney, and a successful judge. He has 
served as United States pension agent and 
has filled various public positions of 
honor. He has contributed extensively 
both prose and verse to the periodical 
press, and many of his poems have been 
incorporated into standard works. 



GARDINER, MILLS, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Jan. 30, 1830, 
in Russellville, Ohio. He was prosecut¬ 
ing attorney for Fayette county for four 
years; a state senator from 1862 to 1864; 
and a presidential elector in 1864. He was 
a representative in the legislature from 
1866 to 1868; a member of the state con¬ 
stitutional convention in 1873; and was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
forty-fifth congress. 

GARDINER, SYLVESTER, physician, 
pioneer, was born June 29, 1707, in South 


Kingston, R. I. He became proprietor of 
a part of Plymouth purchase on the Ken- 
nebeck river. About the middle of the 
century he colonized it with Germans, 
and settled ihe town of Pittston, from 
which the present city of Gardiner, Maine, 
was afterward set off. He died Aug. 8. 
1786, in Newport. 

GARDNER, AUGUSTUS KINSLEY, 
physician, author, was born July 13, 1812, 
in Roxbury, Mass. He was a physician 
of New York city, and the author of The 
French Metropolis; Causes of Sterility; 
Conjugal Sins; Our Children; a Handbook 
for Parents; Old Wine in New Bottles; 
Ships and Shipbuilders of New York; and 
translation of Scanonzi’s Diseases of Fe¬ 
males. He died April 7, 1876, in New York 
city. 

GARDNER, CHARLES KITCHELL. 
soldier, author, was born in 1787 in Mor¬ 
ris county, N. J. He was a United States 
army officer who was postmaster of Wash¬ 
ington in President Polk's administration. 
He was the author of Dictionary of Unit¬ 
ed States Army Commissioned Officers 
from 1789 to 1853; Compendium of Mili¬ 
tary Tactics; and Permanent Designation 
of Companies, and lesser works. He died 
in 1869. 

GARDNER. CHARLES L., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born May 27, 1839, in Cum- 
mington, Mass. He has attained success 
as a prominent lawyer in Palmer, Mass. 
In 1875-76 he was a representative in the 
Massachusetts state legislature and in 
1878-79 was a state senator. He has been 
United States revenue assessor, and dis¬ 
trict attorney since 1892. 

GARDNER, DENNIS J., educator, law¬ 
yer, banker, was born Feb. 26, 1853, in 
Platteville, Wis. He has been vice-presi¬ 
dent of board of regents of normal schools 
of Wisconsin and president of the State 
bank of Platteville. 

GARDNER, DORSEY, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 1, 1842, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a journalist of New 
York city who was one of the revisers of 
the Webster International Dictionary. He 
was the author of Quatre Bras, Ligny. 
and Waterloo; and Condensed Etymologi¬ 
cal Dictionary of the English Language. 
He died in 1894. 

GARDNER, ELIZABETH JANE, artist, 
was born in 1842 in Exeter, N. H. Her 
specialty is ideal figure-pieces. Among 
her important works are Cornelia and Her 
Jewels; Cinderella; Corinne; Moses in the 
Bulrushes; and Maud Muller. The For¬ 
tune Teller and Corinne received a medal 
at the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876. 

GARDNER, EUGENE C., architect, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1836 in Massachusetts. 
He is an architect of Springfield, Mass., 
and the author of Homes and All About 
Them; The House that Jill Built; Homes 
and How to Make Them; Illustrated 
Homes; Home Interiors; Common Sense 
in Church Building; and Town and Coun¬ 
try School Buildings. 

GARDNER, FRANCIS, congressman, 
was born Dec. 27, 1771, in Leominster, 
Mass. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New Hampshire from 1807 to 
1809. He died June 25, 1835, in Roxbury, 
Mass. 

GARDNER, GIDEON, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1809 to 1811. 

GARDNER, HENRY, statesman, was 
born about 1730 in Stowe, Mass. He 
served in the congresses of February and 
May, 1775, which met in Watertown. 
Mass., and was chosen treasurer of the 
province by the first congress. He died 
in 1782 in Boston, Mass. 



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GARDNER, HENRY J., governor. He 
was governor of Massachusetts from the 
year 1855 to 1858. 

GARDNER, JOHN J., soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1845, 
in Atlantic county, N. J. He served three 
years in the civil war. He was a member 
of the New Jersey state senate fifteen 
years, from 1878 to 1893; and was elected 
to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses and re-elected to the .fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

GARDNER, JOHN LANE, soldier, was 
born Aug. 1, 1793, in Boston, Mass. In 
1813 he was appointed lieutenant of in¬ 
fantry; was brevetted colonel, and in 
1865 was brevetted brigadier-general. He 
died Feb. 19, 1869, in Wilmington, Del. 

GARDNER, JOSEPH, congressman, was 
born in 1752 in Chester county, Pa. He 
was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the 
continental congress in 1784 and 1785. He 
died in 1794 in Elkton, Md. 

GARDNER, SAMUEL JACKSON, law¬ 
yer, journalist, was born in 1788 in 
Brookline, Mass. He was a lawyer of 
Boston, and subsequently a journalist of 
Newark, N. J., whose essays over the sig¬ 
nature Decius were issued in book form 
with the title Autumn Leaves. He died 
July 14, 1864, in White Mountain, N. J. 

GARDNER. THOMAS, soldier, was 
born in 1724 in Cambridge, Mass. In 
1775 he raised a regiment according to 
the instructions of the provincial con¬ 
gress, and was commissioned its colonel. 
He died June 18, 1775, in Boston, Mass. 

GARFIELD, JAMES ABRAM, twenti¬ 
eth president of the United States, was 
in Cuyahoga county. 
Ohio. He learned 
the carpenter’s trade 
at the age of four¬ 
teen; attended Geau¬ 
ga seminary, Hiram 
college, and gradu¬ 
ated at Williams col¬ 
lege, Massachusetts, 
in 1856, and earned 
the necessary money 
at his trade and 
teaching school. He 
then became profes¬ 
sor in Hiram college, 
and in 1857 was made its president. He 
married Miss Lucretia Rudolph in 1858. 
In 1859 he was elected state senator. Stud¬ 
ied law and was admitted to the bar in 
1861. Enlisted Aug. 16, 1861, and Sept. 5 
was commissioned colonel of the forty- 
second Ohio infantry. On Jan. 10, 1862, he 
was promoted to the rank of brigadier- 
general, and afterward to that of major- 
general. Having been elected to congress 
in 1862, while absent in the field, he re¬ 
signed his commission in the army upon 
taking his seat in congress in December, 
1863. He was re-elected eight times in 
succession, and was finishing his eight¬ 
eenth year when elected president. In 
January, 1880, the Ohio legislature elected 
him United States senator for six years 
from March 4, 1881. The republican na¬ 
tional convention met at Chicago June 2, 
1880. General Garfield headed the Ohio 
delegation, and presented the name of 
John Sherman as a candidate for presi¬ 
dent. The first ballot was taken June 7, 
and stood: U. S. Grant, 304; James G. 
Blaine, 284; John Sherman, 93; George 
F. Edmunds, 34; Elihu B. Washburne, 30. 
and William Windom, 10 votes. On the 
third ballot Garfield received one vote, 
and from one to two on each succeeding 
ballot up to the thirty-third, except five 
ballots, when he received none. The bal¬ 
loting continued until June 8. On the 
thirty-fourth ballot Garfield got 17 votes. 


born Nov. 19, 1831, 



The thirty-fifth stood: Grant, 213; Blaine. 
257; Sherman, 99; Edmunds, 11; Wash¬ 
burne, 23; Windom, 3, and Garfield, 50. 
The thirty-sixth and last vote gave Gar¬ 
field, 399; Grant, 307; Blaine, 42; Wash¬ 
burne, 5, and Sherman, 3. After an ad¬ 
journment, Chester A. Arthur, who was 
also a delegate to the convention, was 
nominated for vice-president. They were 
elected Nov. 4. Garfield was then repre¬ 
sentative in congress, United States sena¬ 
tor-elect and president-elect. Nov. 8 he 
resigned his seat in congress, declined the 
office of senator, and remained at his 
home at Mentor, Ohio, until his inaugura¬ 
tion, March 4, 1881. On July 2 he was 
shot by Charles J. Guiteau in a railroad 
depot in Washington. He was removed 
to Long Branch, N. J., Sept. 6, where he 
died from the effects of the wound Sept. 
19, 1881. He held political offices about 
twenty-one years, and died poor. 

GARFIELD, LUCRETIA RUDOLPH, 
was born April 19, 1832, in Hiram, Ohio. 
She first met her husband, James A. Gar¬ 
field, when both were students at Hiram. 
Ohio, and was married Nov. 11, 1858, in 
Hudson, Ohio, soon after his accession 
to the presidency of the college. 

GARFIELDE, SELUCIUS, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 
1822, in Shoreham, Vt. He emigrated to 
California in 1851; was elected a member 
of the legislature of that state in 1852, and 
in 1853 was selected to codify the laws of 
the state. He removed to Washington 
territory in 1857, where he filled the posi¬ 
tion of receiver of public moneys in 1860; 
was surveyor-general from 1866 to 1869; 
and was elected a delegate to the forty- 
first congress and re-elected to the forty- 
second congress as a republican. He died 
April 13, 1883, in Washington, D. C. 

GARLAND. AUGUSTUS HILL, was 
born June 11, 1832, in Tipton county, 
Tenn. He served in the confederate con¬ 
gress, and subsequently was chosen to the 
United States senate, but refused admis¬ 
sion. In 1874 he was for a short time act¬ 
ing secretary of state of Arkansas, and 
was elected governor of that state in 1874. 
In 1876 he was elected United States sena¬ 
tor from Arkansas for the term of six 
years from 1877, and was re-elected for 
another term in 1882. In 1885 he was ap¬ 
pointed attorney-general of the United 
States in the cabinet of President Cleve¬ 
land. 


GARLAND, DAY T ID S., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Virginia, from 1809 to 1811. He died in 
October, 1841. 

GARLAND. HAMLIN, author, was born 
in 1860 in Wisconsin. He is a novelist 
who was for some years a resident of 
Boston, and then returned to the Western 
states. He is the author of Main Trav¬ 
eled Roads; A Spoil of Office; Prairie 
Folks; Prairie Songs; Crumbling Idols; 
Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly; and Little 
Norsk. 


GARLAND, HUGH A., lawyer, author, 
was born June 1, 1805, in Nelson county. 
Ya. He was professor of Greek in the 



Louis. Mo., greatly 
lie of that city. 


Hampden Sidney 
college for five years, 
studied law, * and 
came to the bar in 
1841; and served 
five years in the state 
legislature. Two 
books which h e 
published, the Lives 
of John Randolph 
and Thomas Jeffer¬ 
son, were eminently 
successful. He died 
Oct. 15, 1854, in St. 
mourned by the pub- 


GARLAND, HUGH A., soldier, lawyer. 
He joined the confederate army, was made 
a colonel, participated in the actions be¬ 
tween the forces of Generals Hood and 
Thomas in middle Tennessee, and fell 
at Franklin, Tenn., while leading his com¬ 
mand. He died Nov. 30, 1864, in Franklin, 
Tenn. 

GARLAND, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state, from 
1845 to 1847. 

GARLAND, JAMES GRAY, inventor, 
was born March 31, 1827, 4n Saco, Maine. 
He is a cotton mill manager and the in¬ 
ventor of original and first system of at¬ 
mosphere moistening for textile manufac¬ 
turing, a system which is in use in Ameri¬ 
ca, Europe and India. 

GARLAND. JOHN, soldier, was born in 
1792 in New York. He served through the 
war with Great Britain, and attained the 
full rank of major in 1836, and that of 
lieutenant-colonel in 1839. He died June 
5, 1861, in New York city. 

GARLAND, LANDON CABELL, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born March 21, 1810, 
in Nelson county, Va. He is a mathe¬ 
matician who held professorships in sev¬ 
eral southern colleges, and published Trig¬ 
onometry, Plane and Spherical. 

GARLAND. RICE, jurist, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He removed to 
Louisiana, and was a representative in 
congress from that state, from 1834 to 
1840. He resigned to become judge of the 
superior court of Louisiana. 

GARLAND, SAMUEL, soldier, was born 
Dec. 16, 1830, in Lynchburg, Va. He 
was chosen captain of a volunteer com¬ 
pany that was organized in 1859; was 
commissioned a colonel by the governor 
of Virginia on the secession of the state, 
and was engaged at the first battle of 
Bull Run. He died Sept. 14, 1862, in 
South Mountain, Md. 

GARMAN. SAMUEL, naturalist, au¬ 
thor, was born June 5, 1846, in Indiana 
county. He is a naturalist of Cambridge, 
assistant in the Agassiz museum there, 
and the author of The Reptiles and Batra- 
ehians of North America; and Reptiles 
and Batraehians of Bermuda. 

GARNER. PETER M., abolitionist, edu¬ 
cator, was born Dec. 4. 1809, in Lancaster 
county. Pa. From 1847 till 1860 he taught 
in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus, and 
during the war had charge of the military 
prisoners. He died June 12, 1868, in Col¬ 
umbus. Ohio. 

GARNER. W. SCOTT, journalist, poet, 
was born Jan. 16. 1848, in Preston county_. 
W. Va. He has established and edited 
several newspapers, and his poems have 
appeared in the leading newspapers and 
magazines of America. 

GARNETT, ALEXANDER YELVER- 
TON PEYTON, physician, was born Sept. 
20, 1820, in Essex county, Va. In 1861 he 
left Washington and became a member 
of the examining board of surgeons for 
the confederate army, and afterward sur¬ 
geon in charge of the two military hos¬ 
pitals in Richmond. He died July 11,1888. 
in Rehoboth Beach, Del. 

GARNETT, JAMES M., agriculturist, 
congressman, was born June 8, 1770, in 
Elmwood. Va. He was a member of the 
legislature of his native state, and was a 
representative in congress from Virginia, 
from 1805 to 1809. He was president of 
the Society of Fredericksburg for more 
than twenty years, and toiled laboriously 
for the formation of a National Agricul¬ 
tural society. He died in May, 1843, in 
Elmwood, Va. 



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GARNETT, MUSCOE RUSSELL HUN¬ 
TER, lawyer, congressman, was born in 
Essex county, Ya. He was a member of the 
house of delegates in 1853-56. He was 
eiected to the thirty-fifth congress as a 
representative from Virginia, and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-sixth congress. 

GARNETT, RICHARD BROOKE, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1819 in Virginia. He 
became a captain in 1855; was engaged 
in Kansas in 1856-57, and in the Utah ex¬ 
pedition of 1858, and resigned in 1861 to 
join the confederate army. He died July 
3, 1863, in Gettysburg. 

GARNETT, ROBERT SELDEN, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Essex county, 
Va. He was a representative in congress 
from that state from 1817 to 1827, being 
re-elected four times. He died July 13. 
1861, in Virginia. 

GARNSEY. DANIEL G., congressman, 
was born in Saratoga county, N. Y. He 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1825 to 1830. 

GARRARD, JAMES, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, governor, was born Jan. 14, 1749, 
in Stafford county, Ky. He was an officer 
•of the revolution; afterward a member of 
the legislature of Virginia, where he was 
an advocate of the religious freedom bill. 
He was, for several terms, a member of 
the Kentucky legislature, and was govern¬ 
or of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804. He 
died Jan. 9, 1822, in Mount Lebanon, Ky. 

GARRARD, KENNER, soldier, was born 
in 1830 in Columbus, Ohio. He served as 
instructor and commandant of cadets at 
West Point. He served in the civil war, 
and was brevetted major-general of the 
United States army. 

GARRARD, THEOPHILUS TOULMIN. 
soldier, state senator, was born June 7, 
1812, near Manchester, Ky. He was a 
member of the lower house of the Ken¬ 
tucky legislature in 1843-44, and served 
through the Mexican war. He was elected 
to the state senate and served with dis¬ 
tinction. 

GARRETSON. FREEBORN, clergyman, 
was born Aug. 15, 1752, in Maryland. He 
was eminently successful as a minister, 
and preached in almost all the eastern 
states from Nova Scotia to the Gulf of 
Mexico. He died Sept. 26, 1827, in New 
York. 

GARRETSON. GARRET JAMES, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born July 16, 1847, in 
Newtown, N. Y. He has been surrogate of 
Queens county, and for many years has 
been justice of the supreme court of the 
state of New York. 

GARRETSON, JAMES EDMUND, phy¬ 
sician, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 4, 
1828, in Wilmington, Del. He is a phy¬ 
sician of Philadelphia, and dean of the 
dental college there from 1879. He is the 
author of System of Oral Surgery; Odd 
Hours of a Physician; Thinkers and 
Thinking; Two Thousand Years Ago; 
Hours with John Darby; Brushland; and 
Nineteenth Century Common Sense. 

GARRETT, ABRAHAM E., soldier, 
farmer, state senator, congressman, was 
born March 6, 1830, in Overton. He was 
elected to the legislature of Tennessee in 
1865, and to the state senate in 1867. He 
was elected to the forty-second congress 
as a democrat. 

GARRETT, ALEXANDER CHARLES, 
bishop of Dallas, Texas, was born Nov. 

4, 1832, in Ireland. He organized his mis¬ 
sionary jurisdiction as the diocese of 
Dallas, and was elected the first bishop of 
Dallas in 1895. The bishop’s writings 
include: Historical Continuity, a series 
of sketches on the church; The Eternal 
Sacrifice, and Other Sermons; and The 
Philosophy of the Incarnation. 


GARRET T, ANDREW, conchologist. 
author, was born April 9, 1823, in Albany. 
N. Y. He has explored many of the At¬ 
lantic and Pacific coasts of South Ameri¬ 
ca, the East and West Indies, and pub¬ 
lished the Andrew Garrett Fische de Sud- 
see. He died Nov. 1, 1887. 

GARRETT, EDMUND H„ artist, author, 
born Oct. 19, 1853, in Albany, N. Y. He 
has devoted much time to illustration and 
water color painting, and in 1890 received 
a medal at Boston. He has edited im¬ 
portant collections of the Elizabethan 
and Victorian poets, and translated nu¬ 
merous works from the French. 

GARRETT, EMMA, educator, philan¬ 
thropist, was born in 1848. She attained 
a national reputation as an educator of 
the deaf and dumb. She died in 1893. 

GARRETT. JAMES G., soldier, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, lawyer, was born March 
14, 1837, in Edgecombe county, N. C. He 
graduated^ from the university of Alaba¬ 
ma in 1856; and the following year was 
admitted to the bar. He has taught 
school; was a soldier and officer in the 
confederate army of northern Virginia in 
1862-65; has been successfully engaged in 
journalism, and is now a prominent law¬ 
yer of Birmingham, Ala. 

GARRETT, JOHN WORK, railroad 
president, was born July 31, 1820, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. He took a great interest in 
the development of the Baltimore and 
Ohio railroad. He was elected one of its 
directors in 1857, and was its president 
from 1858 till his death. He died Sept. 
26, 1884, in Deer Park, Md. 

GARRETT, ROBERT, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born April 9, 1847, in Baltimore, 
Md. For many years he was president of 
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, resign¬ 
ing in 1887. 

GARRETT. THOMAS, abolitionist, was 
born Aug. 21, 1783, in Upper Darby, Pa. 
He assisted all fugitive slaves who ap¬ 
plied to him on their way to freedom. He 
died Jan. 20, 1871, in Wilmington, Del. 

GARRIGUES, HENRY JACQUES, edu¬ 
cator, physician, author, was born June 
6, 1831, in Denmark. He is a Danish phy¬ 
sician who came to America in 1875, and 
since 1886 has been professor of practical 
obstetrics in the post-graduate medical 
school of New York city. He is the au¬ 
thor of Gastro-Elytrotomy; and Practical 
Guide in Antiseptic Midwifery. 

GARRIGUS, MILTON, soldier, educator, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 27, 1831, 
in Wayne county, Ind. For seventeen 
terms he taught school, and in 1859-60 
was school examiner, and also postmaster 
at Greentown. During the war he served 
with distinction—was captain and acting 
adjutant on the staff of General Mason 
of the regular army during 1864-65. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1859, and since 
1889 has been president of the Howard 
County Bar association. For three years 
he was superintendent of schools, and in 
1878 was elected state senator, serving 
with distinction for four years. He was 
twice elected county auditor, his second 
term of four years expiring in 1900. He 
has been chairman of the republican 
county committee for fifteen terms. He 
is one of the Indiana commissioners to 
erect monuments for Indiana troops on 
Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Look¬ 
out Mountain battlefields. He was twice 
commander of his post of the Grand Army 
of the Republic, and has been inspector- 
general of Indiana. 

GARRISON, CHARLES GRANT, phy¬ 
sician, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 3, 
1849, in Swedesboro, N. J. He was made 
judge advocate general of New Jersey in 


1884, and in 1882 he was. made chancellor 
of the southern diocese of the protestant 
episcopal church of New Jersey. He was 
appointed to the supreme court bench in 
1888 for a full term of seven years; and 
was reappointed in 1895. 

GARRISON, CORNELIUS KINGS- 
LAND, capitalist, was born March 1, 1809. 
at Fort Montgomery, N. Y. He was one 
of the founders of the Gas Light com¬ 
pany of Chicago; chief organizer of the 
Equitable Gas Light company of Balti¬ 
more; and president of the Missouri 
Pacific railroad. He died May 1. 1885. in 
New York city. 

GARRISON, DANIEL, congressman, 
was born in Salem county, N. J. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Jersey from 1823 to 1827. 

GARRISON, GEORGE TANKARD, law 
yer, jurist, state senator, congressman, 
was born Jan. 14, 1835, in Accomac coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was a representative in the 
state legislature and a state senator dur¬ 
ing the existence of the confederacy. He 
was circuit judge from 1870 to 1880; and 
was elected a representative from Vir¬ 
ginia to the forty-seventh congress; and 
was re-elected to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

GARRISON, JAMES HARNEY, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born in 1842 
in Missouri. He is a clergyman and ed¬ 
itor of religious journals; and the author 
of Heavenward Way; and Alone with 
God. 

GARRISON, JOSEPH FITHIAN, edu 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 
20, 1823, in Fairton, N. J. He was an 
episcopal clergyman of Camden, N. J.. 
professor of canon law at the Philadelphia 
Episcopal Divinity school for some years; 
and the author of The Formation of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States; and The American Prayer Book 
He died in 1892. 

GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD, jour¬ 
nalist, philanthropist, author, poet, was 
born Dec. 10, 1804, in Newburyport, Mass. 
He was a very celebrated anti-slavery 
journalist of Boston who established The 
Liberator in 1831, and was its editor for 
the thirty-five years of its existence. 
He was the author of Thoughts on African 
Colonization; and Sonnets and Other 
Poems. He died May 24, 1879, in New 
York city. 

GARRISON, WILLIAM RE TALLACK 
financier, was born June 18, 1834, in Can¬ 
ada. He was for many years president of 
the Metropolitan and New York railroad 
of New York city. 

GARRISON, WENDELL PHILLIPS, au¬ 
thor, editor, was born June 4, 1840, in 
Cambridgeport, Mass. He is literary ed¬ 
itor of The Nation, New York; and the 
author of Genealogy of the Berson Fam¬ 
ily of Newport, R. I.; Life of William 
Lloyd Garrison; and also compiled Bed¬ 
side Poetry. 

GARROW. NATHANIEL, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1827 to 1829. 

GARTH, WILLIAM W„ lawyer, con 
gressman, was born Oct. 28, 1827, in Mor¬ 
gan county, Ala. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Alabama to the forty-fifth 
congress. 

GARTLAND, FRANCIS XAVIER, bish¬ 
op, was born in 1805, in Dublin, Ireland. 

In 1850 he was consecrated the first Rom¬ 
an catholic bishop of Savannah, Ga. He 
died Sept. 20, 1854. 

GARTLIN, ALFRED, congressman, was 
born in North Carolina. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from North Caro¬ 
lina from 1823 to 1825. 


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GARTRELL, LUCIUS J., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Jan. 7, 1821, in 
Wilkes county, Ga. In 1843 he was elected 
by the general assembly of Georgia solic¬ 
itor-general of the northern judicial cir¬ 
cuit. He resigned in 1847, on being elect¬ 
ed a representative to the legislature; and 
was re-elected in 1849. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector for the state of Georgia in 
1856; and in 1857 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the thirty-fifth congress from 
Georgia; and was re-elected to the thirty- 
sixth congress. 

GARVER, JOHN EDWARD, physician 
and surgeon, was born Jan. 19, 1858, in 
Sheldon, Vt. He graduated from the state 
university of Iowa; and from the Chicago 
Polyclinic institute. He has attained suc¬ 
cess in the profession of medicine at 
Storm Lake, Iowa; and takes an active 
part in the public affairs of his county 
and state. 

GARVIN, T. M., lawyer, legislator, was 
born Aug. 1, 1854, in Ohio county, W. Va. 
After receiving his education in Cleveland, 
Ohio, he studied Spanish in Phillippe's 
College of Languages of San Francisco, 
Cal. He was one of the organizers of the 
West Virginia Bar association. He has 
compiled and published a book contain¬ 
ing all the commercial laws of the states 
and territories; and for the past ten 
years has delivered lectures each week to 
the students of the Wheeling Business 
college on commercial and international 
law. In 1896 he was elected a member of 
the West Virginia state legislature, and 
served with distinction in that body. 

GARVIN, WILLIAM S,, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1847. 

GARY, ELBERT H., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Oct. 8, 1846, near Wheaton, Ill. He 
attended the public schools and Wheaton 
college; and in 1867 graduated from the 
law department of the Chicago university. 
He has been county judge for two terms; 
president of the town of Wheaton for 
three terms; and mayor of that city for 
three terms. He has also been president 
of the board of education; held the office 
of state’s attorney and various other pub¬ 
lic offices of honor; and was the presi¬ 
dent of the Chicago Bar association. He 
is a successful lawyer and general coun¬ 
sel for several railroads and other cor¬ 
porations. 

GARY, FRANKLIN NEWMAN, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Nov. 26, 1828, in South 
Carolina. In i852 he graduated from 
Maryville college, Tennessee. He became 
district attorney of Tyler, Texas, and was 
one of the best known lawyers in that 
state. During the civil war he served as 
captain in the twenty-third Texas in¬ 
fantry, C. S. A.; and died in 1886. His 
son, Hanson Gary, is a successful lawyer 
of Tyler, Texas. 

GARY, GEORGE, clergyman, was born 
Dec. 8, 1793, in Middlefield, N. Y. In 1836 
he was transferred to the Black River 
conference, and in 1844 was appointed 
missionary superintendent of Oregon. He 
died March 25, 1855. 

GARY. JAMES ALBERT, manufacturer, 
postmaster-general, was born Oct. 22, 1833, 
in Uncasville, Conn. He became a part¬ 
ner with his father in the Alberton Cot¬ 
ton mills, located at Alberton, in 1861; his 
father dying in 1870 he succeeded to the 
head of the business, and has conducted it 
since. He was confirmed as postmaster- 
general March 5, 1897. 

GARY, WILLIAM THEODORE, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 10, 
1841, in Cokesbury, S. C. He served as 
first lieutenant of the South Carolina 
college cadets in 1861. and was major in 


the confederate army. During 1882-83 he 
was a member of the general assembly 
of Georgia; presidential elector in 1892; 
and since 1893 has been United States at¬ 
torney. 

GASKILL, FRANCIS ALMON, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Jan. 3, 1846, in Black- 
stone, Mass. He was district attorney 
of the Massachusetts middle district dur¬ 
ing 1887-95; and since that time has been 
justice of the Massachusetts superior 
court. 

GASKILL, SILAS B., lawyer, jurist, was 
born April 18, 1824, in Gainesville, N. Y. 
He was a noted lawyer and jurist of La¬ 
peer, Mich., where he died May 29, 1895. 

GASTON, SAMUEL BURNS, farmer, 
legislator, was born Dec. 19, 1855, near 
Roanoke, Ala. He has taken a prom¬ 
inent part in the religious and social af¬ 
fairs of his community, and in 1892 and 
again in 1896 represented his county in 
the state democratic conventions. In 1896- 
97 he served with distinction as a mem¬ 
ber of the Alabama state legislature. He 
writes extensively for the periodical press, 
and is a successful farmer of Wildwood, 
Ala. 

GASTON, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 19, 1778, in 
Newberne, N. C. He served a number of 
years in the state 
legislature, one term 
as speaker; and was 
a presidential elector 
in 1808. He was a 
represent a t i v e in 
congress from North 
Carolina from 1813 
to 1817; and in 1834 
was appointed judge 
of the supreme court. 
In 1835 he was a 
member of the state 
convention to amend 
the constitution. He died Jan. 23, 1844. 

GASTON, WILLIAM, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, state senator, governor, was born 
Oct. 3, 1820, in South Killingiy, Conn. He 
was city solicitor of Roxbury, Mass., from 
1856 till 1860, and mayor in 1861-62. He 
was a member of the Massachusetts legis¬ 
lature in 1853-54 and 1856, and of the state 
senate in 1868. He was elected governor 
of Massachusetts in 1875. 

GATES, HORATIO, soldier, was born 
in 1728 in England. He was the first ad¬ 
jutant-general of the continental army, 
and was made major-general in 1776. He 
died in 1806 in New York. 

GATES, MERRILL EDWARDS, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born in 1848 
in Warsaw, N. Y. In 1882 he became pres¬ 
ident of Rutgers college, and served eight 
years, when he was elected to the presi¬ 
dency of Amherst college. He is presi¬ 
dent of the American Missionary associa¬ 
tion. 

GATES, SETH MERRILL, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 
1800, in Winfield, N. Y. He was elected to 
the state legislature in 1832, declining a 
re-election. In 1838 he purchased and be¬ 
came editor of the Le Roy Gazette. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the twenty-sixth congress, and 
was re-elected to the twenty-seventh con¬ 
gress. He died Aug. 24, 1877, in Warsaw, 
N. Y. 

GATES, THOMAS, was one of the earli¬ 
est colonial governors of Virginia. 

GATES, WILLIAM, soldier, was born 
in 1788 in Massachusetts. He served in 
the war with Mexico as colonel; and from 
1846 till 1848 acted as governor of Tam¬ 
pico, Mexico. He was brevetted briga¬ 
dier-general in 1865 for long and faithful 
service. He died Oct. 7, 1868, in New 
York. 


GATLING, RICHARD JORDAN, in¬ 
ventor, was born Sept. 12, 1818, in Hert¬ 
ford county, N. C. Among his many in¬ 
ventions is a machine for sowing wheat 
in drills, which is very popular in the 
large wheat farms of the west. But his 
greatest invention is the repeating ma¬ 
chine gun, known as the* Gatling gun, 
which can be made to fire four hundred 
shots per minute. 

GAULT, FRANKLIN B„ educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born May 2, 1851, in 
Wooster, Ohio. He graduated from the 
Cornell college of Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Dur¬ 
ing 1887-91 he was superintendent of 
schools in Tama City, Iowa; and has 
filled the same position in Mason City, 
Iowa; in South Pueblo, Colo.; and 
in Tacoma, Wash. Since 1892 he has 
been the president of the university 
of Idaho. He has been president of 
the Idaho State Teachers’ association; 
and is a member of the leading education¬ 
al and scientific bodies in America. 

GAULT, GILBERT WILLIAM, artist, 
was born March 31, 1855, in Jersey City, 
N. J. Among his works are Stories of 
Liberty to the Confined; Charging the 
Battery; and Holding the Line at All 
Hazards, which received the first medal 
of the American Art association. 

GAUSE, LUCIEN COTESWORTH. sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 
25, 1838, at Laurel Hill, N. C. He enlisted 
in the infantry service of the confederate 
army in 1861; and rose to the rank of 
colonel. He returned to Jacksonport in 
July, and resumed the practice of law. 
In 1866 he served one term in the general 
assembly. In 1874 he was elected to the 
forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected 
to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

GAUSE, OWEN B., educator, founder, 
was born June, 1825, in Wilmington,. Del. 
He was one of the founders of the 
Homoeopathic Medical society of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and was its president in 1869. 

GAVENEY, JOHN C., lawyer, was born 
June 30, 1863, in Arcadia, Wis. He grad¬ 
uated from the university of Wisconsin, 
and has attained success as an able law¬ 
yer. For three terms he served with dis¬ 
tinction as mayor of his native city; and 
was a member of the committee of the 
Wisconsin Semi-Centennial exposition. 

GAWLEY, ECCLES W., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Nov. 20, 1850, in Ireland. 
He received his education at the Michigan 
university and from the Detroit Medical 
college. He is a successful physician and 
surgeon of Anamosa, Iowa; has been 
secretary of the board of pension exam¬ 
iners; and has filled various other po¬ 
sitions of honor. 

GAY, EBEN HOWARD, banker, author, 
was born in 1858 in Massachusetts. He is 
a banker of Boston who has published A 
Treatise on Municipal Bonds. 

GAY, EBENEZER, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 26, 1696, in Dedham. Mass. 
He was a Unitarian clergyman of Hing- 
ham from 1718 until his death; and the 
author of The Old Man’s Calendar, a ser¬ 
mon preached on his eighty-fifth birth¬ 
day, which went through several editions 
in America and England, and was trans¬ 
lated into several continental languages. 
He died in 1787 in Hingham, Mass. 

GAY, EDWARD J., merchant, manu¬ 
facturer, congressman, was born Feb. 3, 
1816, in Liberty, Va. In 1883, upon the 
foundation of the Louisiana Sugar ex¬ 
change, at New Orleans, he was elected 
its first president; and in 1884 was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Louisiana to the 
forty-ninth congress, and received the re- 
election to the fiftieth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 




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GAY, MARTIN, physician, chemist, was 
born Feb. 16, 1803, in Boston, Mass. He 
had a high reputation as an analytical 
chemist, and his frequent testimony as a 
witness in courts of justice, in cases of 
death by poisoning, marks an era in the 
history of medical jurisprudence in this 
country. He died Jan. 12, 1850, in Hing- 
ham, Mass. 

GAY, SYDNEY HOWARD, journalist, 
author, was born in 1814 in Hingham, 
Mass. He was a journalist of New York 
and Chicago, and during the civil war the 
managing editor of the New York Tri¬ 
bune. He was the author of Life of James 
Madison; and Bryant and Gay’s Popular 
History of the United States, of which the 
preface only was the work of Mr. Bryant. 
He died June 25, 1888, in New Brighton, 
N. Y. 

GAY, WALTER, artist, was born Jan. 
22, 1856, in Hingham, Mass. His Fall 
Flowers was exhibited at the Philadelphia 
Centennial exhibition. His works include 
The Trained Pigeons; Troubles of a 
Bachelor; The Knife-Grinder; Conspir¬ 
acy under Louis XVI; The Spinners; The 
Weaver; and Richelieu. 

GAYARRE, CHARLES E. A., lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, author, was 
born Jan. 3, 1805, in Louisville, Ky. In 
IbrfO he was elected to the legislature; in 
1831 was appointed deputy attorney-gen¬ 
eral; and in 1833 presiding judge of the 
city court of New Orleans. In 1835 he was 
elected a senator in congress. In 1843 he 
was again returned to the state legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1846 was appointed secretary 
of state, in which capacity he served seven 
years. His leading works are History of 
Louisiana; Romance of the History of 
Louisiana; Spanish Domination in Louis¬ 
iana; a dramatic novel called The School 
of Politics; and a work on The Influence 
of the Mechanic Arts. He died in 1895. 

GAYLE, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born Sept. 11, 1792, in 
Sumter, S. C. In 1817 he was appointed a 
member of the territorial legislature; and 
in 1823 was elected judge of the supreme 
court of the state. In 1829 he was elected 
to the state legislature, and was speaker 
of the house. In 1831 he was elected gov¬ 
ernor, and re-elected in 1833. In 1847 he 
was elected from Mobile county a repre¬ 
sentative in congress; and in 1849 was 
appointed judge of the United States dis¬ 
trict court of Alabama. He died July 21, 
1859, near Mobile, Ala. 

GAYLER, CHARLES, dramatist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 1, 1820, in New York 
city. He was a dramatist of New York 
city, among whose many plays are, The 
Gold Hunters; Taking the Chances; Fritz. 
Among his various novels are The Ro¬ 
mance of a Poor Young Man; and Out 
of the Streets, both of which were drama¬ 
tized by their author. He died in 1892. 

GAYLORD. FRED, engineer, state leg¬ 
islator, was born Sept. 2, 1860, in Ottum¬ 
wa, Iowa. For many years he was en¬ 
gaged as an engineer 
and railroad con¬ 
tractor in Nebraska; 
and subsequently be¬ 
came superintendent 
of the gas works of 
Kearney, Neb. In 
1887 he was elected a 
member of the Ne¬ 
braska state legisla¬ 
ture, and has served 
on various important 
committees. He has 
also filled various lo¬ 
cal offices of honor in his city, county and 
state. 

GAYLORD. JAMES M., congressman, 
was born in Ohio. He was a repre¬ 


sentative in congress from that state 
from 1851 to 1853. 

GAZLEY, JAMES W., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1823 to 1825. 

GAZZAM, JOSEPH M., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Dec. 2, 1842, in Pittsburg, 
Pa. He received a thorough education 
and graduated from 
the Western univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania. 
He has attained suc¬ 
cess as one of the 
foremost lawyers of 
his native state, and 
now has a large 
practice in Philadel¬ 
phia. For many 
years he held vari¬ 
ous high offices in 
the city of Pittsburg, 
and served as a 
member of the city council. He has 
served with distinction in the state sen¬ 
ate of the Pennsylvania legislature. He is 
president of the Quaker City National 
bank, and an officer or director in thirty 
different companies. 

GEAR. JOHN HENRY, merchant, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born 
April 7, 1825, in Ithaca, N. Y. He moved 
to Burlington in 1843, where he engaged 
in merchandising. He was a member of 
the Iowa house of representatives of the 
fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth gen¬ 
eral assemblies of the state, serving as 
speaker for the last two terms. He was 
elected governor of Iowa in 1878-79, and 
again in 1880-81. He was elected to 
the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses; 
was assistant secretary of the treas¬ 
ury; and was elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a republican. He was 
elected in 1894 a senator in congress from 
the state of Iowa for six years, beginning 
March 4, 1895. 

GEARY, EDWARD RATCHFORD, sol¬ 
dier, was born Sept. 14, 1845, in West¬ 
moreland county, Pa. He became captain 
of Hampton battery, and subsequently a 
lieutenant in Knapp’s battery, which post 
he held at the time of his death. He died 
Oct. 30, 1863. 

GEARY, JOHN WHITE, soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Dec. 30, 1819, near Mount 
Pleasant, Pa. In 1849 he removed to Cali¬ 
fornia, and was post¬ 
master of San Fran¬ 
cisco; and was first 
alcalde of that city, 
and its first mayor. 
He was governor of 
Kansas; and in 1861 
returned to Pennsyl¬ 
vania and raised and 
equipped the twenty- 
eighth Pennsylvania 
volunteers. He com¬ 
manded in several 
engagements in that 
year; occupied Leesburg, Va., in 1862; 
and was brigadier-general of volunteei’s 
in 1862. He was appointed military 
governor of Savannah on its capture in 
1864; and was chosen governor of Penn¬ 
sylvania in 1867. He died Feb. 8, 1873, in 
Harrisburg, Pa. 

GEARY, THOMAS J., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 18, 1854, in Boston, 
Mass. He was elected district attorney of 
Sonoma county in 1882, and served two 
years. He was elected as a democi’at and 
American to the fifty-first congress to fill 
a vacancy; and was elected to the fifty- 
second congress and re-elected to the 
fifty-third congress as a democrat and 
American. 


GEBHARD, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Claverack, N. Y. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York 
tYom 1821 to 1823. 

GEDDES, GEORGE, engineer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Feb. 14. 1809, in Fairmont. 
N. Y. He was a member of the senate of 
the state of New York in 1847, and re¬ 
elected in 1849. He had charge of lower¬ 
ing the canal of Seneca river, from 1853 
till 1856. He died Oct. 8, 1883, in New 
York. 

GEDDES, GEORGE W., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born July 16, 1824, in 
Mount Vexrnon, Ohio. He was judge of 
the court of common pleas for the sixth 
judicial district from 1856 to 1866, and 
again from 1868 to 1873. He was elected a 
representative from Ohio to the forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and 
forty-ninth congresses as a democrat. 

GEDDES, JAMES, manufacturer, jurist, 
congressman, was born July 22, 1763, in 
Carlisle, Pa. He was elected a magis¬ 
trate in 1804, and in 1821 was in the state 
legislatiu-e. In 1809 he was an associate 
county justice; and in 1812 judge of the 
common pleas. He was a representative 
in congress from New York from 1813 to 
1815. In 1822 he was appointed chief en¬ 
gineer of the Ohio canal; and in 1827 as¬ 
sisted in locating the Chesapeake and 
Ohio canal, as well as the Pennsylvania 
canal. He died Aug. 19, 1838, in Onon¬ 
daga county, N. Y. 

GEDDES, JAMES LORRAINE, soldier: 
was born March 19, 1827, in Scotland. In 
1857 he emigi-ated to Iowa; and there en¬ 
gaged in educational work. During the 
civil war he served gallantly in the union 
army, and was promoted a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He died Feb. 21, 1887, in Ames, 
Iowa. 

GEDDES, JOHN, governor, was born 
about 1773 in Charleston, S. C. He was 
governor of South Carolina from 1818 to 
1820; and speaker of the South Carolina 
house of representatives. He died March 
5, 1828, in Charleston, S. C. 

GEDDES, NORMAN, lawyei’, jurist, 
public official, was born April 14, 1823, in 
Livonia, N. Y. He has been justice of 
the peace of Adrian, Mich.; mayor of his 
city; and for nine years judge of pro¬ 
bate for his county. 

GEDNEY, JONATHAN HAIGHT, in¬ 
ventor, was born Feb. 25, 1798, in Rye. 
N. Y. He invented the wooden cogs used 
in the cotton manufactories. He died 
Aug. 7. 1886, in Mamai’onock, N. Y. 

GEE, JOSHUA, clergyman, author, was 
born June 29, 1698, in Boston, Mass. He 
is the author of a Sermon on the Death of 
Cotton Mather; and two discourses en¬ 
titled The Strait Gate and the Narrow 
Way Infinitely Preferable to the Wide 
Gate and the Broad Way. He died May 
22, 1748, in Boston, Mass. 

GEER, GEORGE JARVIS, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 24, 1821, in Water- 
bury, Conn. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man, long rector of St. Timothy’s church 
of New York city, and the author of The 
Conversion of St. Paul, a series of Dis¬ 
courses. He died March 16, 1885, in New 
York. 

GEER, WALTER, lawyer, manufactur¬ 
er, was born Aug. 19, 1857, in Williams- 
town, Mass. In 1886 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the newly organized New York 
Architectural Terra-Cotta company. 

GEIGER, LEVI, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Marcli 14, 1824, in Greencastle, Pa. 
He is a prominent lawyer of Ui’bana. 
Ohio; has been prosecuting attorney for 
Champaign county; and for five years 
was judge of the court of common pleas. 







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GEIS, BENJAMIN F., lawyer, was born 
April 27, 1860, in Blairsville, Pa. He re¬ 
ceived his education at St. Vincent’s and 
Iron City college, Pa. He has attained 
success as an eminent lawyer of Glenn 
county, Cal.; has been city attorney of 
Willows for several years; and served 
with distinction as district attorney of 
his county. 

GEISSENH AINER, JACOB AUGUS¬ 
TUS, lawyer, congressman, was born in 
New York city. He commenced the prac¬ 
tice of law in 1863 in New York city. He 
was elected to the fifty-first and fifty- 
second congresses and re-elected to the 
fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

GEIST, JACOB M. W., journalist, was 
born Dec. 14, 1824, in Lancaster county. 
Pa. In 1877 he founded The New Era of 
Lancaster, Pa. 

GEMUNDER. GEORGE, violinmaker. 
author, was born April 13, 1816, in Ger¬ 
many. He is a violinmaker who came to 
America from Wiirtemberg in 1847, and 
settled in New York city in 1852. He 
published Progress in Violin-Making. 

GENIN, JOHN NICHOLAS, merchant, 
author, was born Oct. 19, 1819, in New 
York city. He was a noted hatter of New 
York city who wrote a History of the Hat 
from the Earliest Stages. He died April 
30, 1878, in New York city. 

GENTH, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born May 17, 1820, in 
Germany. He was a professor of chemis¬ 
try at the university of Pennsylvania from 
1872; and was the author of Ammonia 
Cobalt Bases; Minerals of North Caro¬ 
lina; and First and Second Preliminary 
Reports on the Mineralogy of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He died in 1893. 

GENTRY, MEREDITH POINDEXTER, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 15, 
1809, in Rockingham county, N. C. He 
was elected to the 
legislature of Ten¬ 
nessee in 1835 and 
1837; w r as a repre¬ 
sentative in con¬ 
gress from that state 
from 1839 to 1843, 
and from 1845 to 
1853. He took part 
in the rebellion as a 
member of the con¬ 
federate congress. 
He died Nov. 2, 1866, 
in Rockingham 
county, N. C. His death was greatly de¬ 
plored in his state. 

GENUNG, JOHN FRANKLIN, educat¬ 
or, author, was born in 1850 in New York. 
He is a professor at Amherst college; and 
the Author of A Study of In Memoriam; 
The Epic of the Inner Life, an annotated 
translation of Job; Practical Elements of 
Rhetoric; and The Study of Rhetoric in 
College Courses. 

GEORGE, CHARLES H., merchant, 
banker, was born July 14, 1839, in Fox- 
boro, Mass. In 1880 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the Roger Williams National 
bank; for several years was president 
of the Providence board of trade; and is 
now president of the mercantile house of 
Charles H. George and Company. 

GEORGE. ENOCH, methodist episcopal 
bishop, was born in 1767 in Lancaster 
county, Va. In 1816 he was elected and 
ordained a bishop, in which office he 
served with zeal and effectiveness for 
twelve years. He died in August, 1828, in 
Staunton, Va. 

GEORGE, HENRY, journalist, author, 
was born Sept. 2, 1839, in Philadelphia. 
Pa. He was a candidate for mayor of 
New York in 1897, but died a few days 
prior to the election. His works are: 
Progress and Poverty; Our Land and 


Land Policy; The Subsidy Question and 
the Democratic Party; Protection or Free 
Trade; The Irish Land Question; The 
Land Question; and Social Problems. 

GEORGE, JAMES ZACHARIAH, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer. United States senator, was 
born Oct. 20, 1826, in Monroe county, Ga. 
He was a captain in the twentieth regi¬ 
ment of Mississippi volunteers in the con¬ 
federate states army, afterward a briga¬ 
dier-general of state troops, and later col¬ 
onel of the fifth regiment of Mississippi 
cavalry in the confederate states army. In 
1879 he was appointed one of the judges 
of the supreme court of Mississippi and 
elected chief justice. He has been a 
United States senator since 1881. his sec¬ 
ond term expiring in 1899. 

GEORGE, MELVIN CLARKE, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born May 
13, 1849, in Noble county, Ohio. He was a 
state senator for four years; and was 
elected a representative from Oregon to 
the forty-seventh and forty-eighth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

GEORGE, NATHAN DOW. clergyman, 
author, was born in 1808 in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He was a methodist clergyman, 
long prominent in Maine, and subsequent¬ 
ly in Massachusetts. He was the author 
of An Examination of Universalism; Uni- 
versalism Not of God; Materialism Anti- 
Scriptural; and Annihilation Not of the 
Bible. He died in 1896. 

GEORGE, SAMUEL CARR, missionary, 
educator, was born July 8, 1832, in Alle¬ 
gheny county, Pa. In 1861-73 he was a 
missionary in Siam. In 1886 he was elect¬ 
ed professor of the Sanskrit and cognate 
tongues in Wilson Female college at 
Chambersburg, Pa. 

GEORGE, SAMUEL WESLEY, public 
official, state senator, was born April 26, 
1862, in Meredith. N. H. In 1893 he was 
elected a member of the Massachusetts 
state legislature; received the re-election 
four consecutive years and in 1897 was 
elected a member of the state senate. 

GERARD, JAMES WATSON, lawyer, 
philanthropist, was born in 1794 in New 
York city. It was through his efforts that 
the institution now known as the house 
of refuge for juvenile delinquents was 
founded in New York, which was the first 
institution of its kind in the United 
States. He died Feb. 7, 1874, in New York 
city. 

GERARD, JAMES WATSON, lawyer, 
author, was born about 1822 in New York 
city. He is a lawyer of New York city; 
and the author of The Pelican Papers, 
a satire; Titles to Real Estate in New 
York City; Title of the Corporation and 
Others to the Streets, Wharves, Lands, 
and Franchises in New York City; The 
Peace of Utrecht; Aquarelles (verse); and 
Ostrea, or the Loves of the Oysters, a 
collection of humorous verse. 

GERE. CHARLES HENRY, lawyer, 
legislator, journalist, was born Feb. 18. 
1838, in Gainesville, N. Y. He received his 
education at the Oxford academy, N. Y.; 
and in 1861 graduated from the Dickinson 
college, Pennsylvania. During 1863-65 
he served as a union soldier in the tenth 
and eleventh regiments Maryland volun¬ 
teer infantry. In 1865 he was admitted 
to the bar in Baltimore, and removed the 
same year to Nebraska and became prose¬ 
cuting attorney of Pawnee county. In 
1866 he served as a member of the Ne¬ 
braska state legislature; was state sen¬ 
ator in 1869-70 and 1881-82. In 1885-87 he 
was secretary of the state railway com¬ 
missioners; and in 1892 was a delegate to 
the republican national convention. He 
is the editor-in-chief of the Nebraska 
Daily State Journal, and president of the 
State Journal company. 


GERE, GEORGE GRANT, surgeon, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 27, 1848, in Greene, 
N. Y. In 1886 he was appointed to the 
chair of surgery in the California Medical 
college. He has published a series of 
Lectures on Callopractic Surgery. 

GERE, GEORGE W., lawyer, prohibi 
tionist, was born March 22, 1843, in 
Clark county, Ill. He is a prominent 
lawyer of Champaign, Ill.; and in 1896 was 
a candidate for governor on the prohibi¬ 
tionist ticket. 

GEREND, M. M., clergyman, college 
president, author, was born June 17, 1858, 
in Sheboygan, Wis. He became president 
of the St. Francis college, and in 1895 
president of St. John's institute for deaf 
mutes. He is the author of Eugene Chris¬ 
tian; A Tale of College Life; In and 
About St. Francis; and the editor of The 
Good Child. 

GERHARD, BENJAMIN, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1812 in Philadelphia. 
Pa. As a lawyer he ranked high, and pub¬ 
lished several carefully edited text-books, 
among which are Starkie on Evidence; 
and Joshua Williams’s Principles of the 
Law of Personal Property. He died June 
18, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GERHARD, WILLIAM PAUL, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born July 30, 1854, in 
Germany. He is a sanitary engineer of 
New York city; and the author of The¬ 
ater Fires and Panics; Anlagen von Haus- 
Erwasserungen; Diagram for Sewer Cal¬ 
culations; House Drainage and Sanitary 
Plumbing; Guide to General House In¬ 
spection; Domestic Sanitary Appliances; 
and Prinzipien der Haus-Kanalization, his 
principal writings. 

GERHARD, WILLIAM WOOD, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born July 23, 1809, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Philadelphia 
physician; and the author of Diagnosis 
of Chest Diseases; Spotted Fever; Fevers: 
and Clinical Guide. He died April 28, 
1872, in Philadelphia. Pa. 

GERHART, EMANUEL VOGEL, edu¬ 
cator, college president, clergyman, au¬ 
thor. was born June 13, 1817, in Freeburg, 
Pa. He is a German reformed clergyman 
of Lancaster, Pa., professor of theology in 
Franklin and Marshall college; and the 
author of Philosophy and Logic; Mono¬ 
graph of the Reformed Church; Child’s 
Heidelberg Catechism; and Institutes of 
the Christian Religion. 

GER1NG, HENRY R„ pharmaceutical 
chemist, was born April 27, 1868, in Cedar 
Falls, Iowa. He is president of the Ne¬ 
braska State Pharmaceutical association, 
city treasurer of Plattsmouth, Neb.; sec¬ 
retary of the board of trade; and exam¬ 
iner to the Nebraska board of pharmacy. 

GERMAN. OBADIAH, United States 
senator, was born in 1767 in Dutchess 
county. N. Y. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1809 to 1815 
He died Sept. 24, 1842. 

GERRISH, THEODORE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1846. He is a clergyman 
of Portland, Maine; and the author of 
Army Life; Will Newton, the Young Vol¬ 
unteer; Life in the World’s Wonder¬ 
land; and The Blue and the Gray, an 
army history. 

GERRY. CHARLES F., educator, state 
senator, author, poet, was born June 3. 
1823, in Sudbury, Mass. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the Massachusetts state legis¬ 
lature in 1887; and for some years was 
president of the Hyde Park Savings bank. 
He moved to his native city, and again 
went to the legislature, serving one year 
in the house and two years in the senate. 
He is the author of two prose works en¬ 
titled Boy Life in the Country; and Tom’s 
Island; and a volume of poems entitled 
Meadow Melodies. 



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GERRY, ELBR1DGE, signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence, was born July 
17, 1744, in Marblehead, Mass. He was a 
member of the legislature in 1773, and was 
appointed on the committee on corre¬ 
spondence. From 1776 to 1785 he was a 
delegate to the continental congress, and 
signed the declaration of independence; 
and also the articles of confederation. He 
was a representative in the federal con¬ 
gress from 1789 to 1793; and in 1797 was 
appointed minister to France. He was 
governor of Massachusetts in 1810 and 
1811. In 1813 he was inaugurated vice- 
president of the United States; and filled 
the office until his death. He died Nov. 
23, 1814, in Washington, D. C. 

GERRY, ELBRIDGE, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 6, 1815, in Waterford, 
Maine. In 1840 he was clerk of the house 
of representatives of Maine; and in 1843 
was elected state’s attorney for Oxford 
county. In 1846 he was elected to the 
state legislature; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Maine from 1849 to 
1851. 

GERRY, ELBRIDGE THOMAS, lawyer, 
was born Dec. 25, 1837, in New York city. 
In 1867 he served the state as a member 
of the convention to revise the state con¬ 
stitution. In 1874 he was conspicuous in 
founding the society for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Children, and since 1879 has 
been its president. 

GERRY, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in Maryland. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1839 to 1843. 

GERRY, SAMUEL LANCASTER, art¬ 
ist, was born May 10, 1813, in Boston, 
Mass. He was an original member of the 
Boston Art club, and its president in 
1858. Among his works are The Gorge of 
the Rhine; The Old Man of the Moun¬ 
tain; Pasture Gate; and Land of Beu¬ 
lah. 

GERVAIS, JOHN LEWIS, congressman, 
was born Oct. 8, 1753, in Germany. He 
was a delegate from South Carolina to the 
continental congress from 1782 to 1783. 
He died Oct. 2, 1798, in Charleston, S. C. 

GESCHEIDT, LOUIS ANTHONY, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Feb. 19, 1808, in 
Germany. He came to this country in 
1835, and settled in New York, where he 
became prominent in his profession, and 
in 1870 retired with a fortune. He pub¬ 
lished a work on Diseases of the Eye. He 
died Aug. 20, 1876, in Hastings, N. Y. 

GEST, WILLIAM H., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 7, 1838, in Jackson¬ 
ville, Ill. He has been engaged in the 
practice of law since 1862 in his native 
city. He was elected to the fiftieth con¬ 
gress, and was re-elected to the fifty-first 
congress as a republican. 

GETTY, GEORGE FRANKLIN, law¬ 
yer, was born Oct. 17, 1855, in Grantsville, 
Md. He received his education at the 
Smithville academy, Ohio; graduated 
from the Ohio Normal university in 1879; 
and from the law department of the 
Michigan university in 1882. He is one 
of the leading lawyers of Minnesota, and 
has a lucrative practice in Minneapolis. 
He has been circuit court commissioner; 
master in chancery, and is general coun¬ 
sel for several of the largest life insurance 
companies. 

GETTY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, sol¬ 
dier, was born Oct. 20, 1819, in George¬ 
town, D. C. He fought against the Semi- 
noles in 1849-50 and 1856-67; and took 
part in quelling the Kansas disturbances 
of 1857-58. During the civil war he at¬ 
tained the rank of brigadier-general. 

GETZ, J. LAWRENCE, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, was born Sept. 14. 
1821, in Reading, Pa. He was for twenty 


years the editor of the Reading Gazette 
and Democrat. In 1856 he was elected to 
the state legislature; and in 1857 re-elect¬ 
ed and made speaker of the house. In 
1866 he was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the fortieth congress; 
and was re-elected to the forty-first and 
forty-second congresses as a democrat. 

GEYER, HENRY SHEFFIE, soldier, 
lawyer, United States senator, was born 
Dec. 9, 1790, in Fredericktown, Md. He 
was an active member of the first two ses¬ 
sions of the state legislature, and was 
chosen speaker during his second term. 
He served from 1 851 to 1857 in the United 
States senate; and while in Washington 
participated as attorney in the Dred Scott 
case. He died March 5, 1859, in St. Louis, 
Mo. 

GHERARDI, BANCROFT, naval officer, 
was born Nov. 10, 1832, in Jackson, La. 
He entered the navy from Massachusetts 
as midshipman in 1846. He was made 
lieutenant-commander in 1862. 

GHiSELIN. GEORGE R., diplomat, was 
born in 1824, in Staunton, Va. During the 
civil war he was ambassador to England 
for the southern confederacy. He died 
Sept. 11, 1890, in New York city. 

GHOLSON. JAMES H., congressman, 
was born in 1798 in Virginia. He was a 
representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1833 to 1835. He died July 2, 1848, 
in Brunswick, Va. 

GHOLSON. SAMUEL JAMESON, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born May 19, 1808, 
in Madison county, Ky. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Mississippi 
from 1837 to 1838; and was subsequently 
appointed United States judge for the dis¬ 
trict of Mississippi. He died Oct. 16. 1883, 
in Aberdeen, Miss. 

GHOLSON. THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1808 to 1816. 

GHOLSON, WILLIAM YATES, jurist, 
author, was born in 1807 in Virginia. He 
was an Ohio jurist who published 
Speeches on Payment of the Public Debt 
of the United States. He died Sept. 21, 
1870, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

GIANQUE, FLORIEN, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1843 in Ohio. He is a Cin¬ 
cinnati lawyer of Swiss descent; and the 
author of Laws of Election in Ohio; Elec¬ 
tion and Naturalization Laws of the 
United States; Manual for Ohio Road Su¬ 
pervisors; Manual for Guardians and 
Trustees; Manual for Assignees, Insol¬ 
vent Debtors, etc.; Laws of Ohio Relating 
to Roads, Ditches, Bridges, and Water- 
Courses; Manual for Notaries, etc.; and 
Appendix to Ohio Revised Statutes. 

GIBBENS, ALVARO FRANKLIN, his¬ 
torian, journalist, poet, was born March 1, 
1837, in Parkersburg, W.Va. He graduated 
in 1860, and received the degree of A. M. 
in 1865 from Jefferson college, Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He studied law but never prac¬ 
ticed; taught in Baptist college of La 
Grange, Mo., in 1861; was editor of Park¬ 
ersburg Gazette in 1865; of West Virginia 
Journal, 1870 to 1876; of State Tribune, 
1881 to 1885; elder in Kanawha Presby¬ 
terian church; was corresponding mem¬ 
ber of the international executive com¬ 
mittee of the Young Men’s Christian as¬ 
sociation in 1873; was postmaster at Char¬ 
leston for years; member of the republic¬ 
an state executive committee eight years; 
contributor to Masonic Review and other 
fraternal and literary magazines of poems 
and prose articles; delivered in 1885, at 
class reunion, the quarter-centennial 
poem; co-editor of Prominent Men of 
West Virginia; and editor of a History 
of Wood County; and is vice-president 
and charter member of the West Virginia 
State Historical and Antiquarian society. 


G1BBES, ROBERT WILSON, physician, 
educator, journalist, scientist, was born 
July 8, 1809, in Charleston, S. C. He was 
a physician, educator and journalist of 
Columbia, S. C.; and the author of Mono¬ 
graph of the Squalidse; Typhoid Pneu¬ 
monia; Documentary History of South 
Carolina; and Documentary History of 
the American Revolution. He died in 
] 866 . 

G1BBES, ROBERT WILSON, surgeon, 
was born June 10, 1831, in Columbia, S. C 
He was professor of surgery in the uni¬ 
versity of South Carolina in 1872-73, and 
was a frequent contributor to the litera¬ 
ture of his profession. He died Oct. 23. 
1875, in Columbia, -S. C. 

GIBBES, WILLIAM HASELL, soldier, 
lawyer, was born March 16, 1754, in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. He was one of the thirty 
native Americans residing in London who 
petitioned the king against the series of 
acts of parliament that were the immedi¬ 
ate cause of the revolution. He died in 
1831. 

GIBBON, JOHN OLIVER, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born April 20, 1827, in Holmes- 
burg, Pa. He was a major-general in the 
federal army during the civil war who 
published The Artillerist’s Manual. He 
died in 1896. 

GIBBONS, ABIGAIL HOPPER, philan 
thropist, was born Dec. 7, 1801, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. She was one of the founders 
of the Isaac T. Hopper home in New 
York. She died in 1893. 

GIBBONS, CHARLES, lawyer, state sen 
ator, was born March 30, 1814, in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. He was for several years 
a member of the state senate and its pres¬ 
ident in 1847; chairman of the first re¬ 
publican state committee; one of the 
founders of the Union league; and the 
author of its constitution. 

GIBBONS, EDWARD, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, state legislator, was born in Eng¬ 
land. He was a merchant in Boston, and 
a state representative during 1838-47. He 
served in the Mexican war during 1849-51 
as major-general. He died Dec. 9, 1854, in 
Boston, Mass. 

GIBBONS, HENRY, physician, author, 
was born Sept. 20, 1808, in Wilmington. 
Del. He was a physician of San Fran¬ 
cisco, professor in the Pacific Medical col¬ 
lege and was the author of an anti-tobacco 
treatise, Tobacco and Its Effects. He died 
Nov. 5, 1884, in Wilmington, Del. 

GIBBONS, JAMES, educator, was born 
May 18, 1736, in Westtown, Pa, He was a 
member of the general assembly of Penn¬ 
sylvania for the three years immediately 
preceding the declaration of independ¬ 
ence. He died Oct. 17, 1823, in Birming¬ 
ham, Pa. 

GIBBONS. JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born July 23, 1834, in Baltimore, 
Md. He is a cardinal of the Roman 
catholic church since 1886; and the au¬ 
thor of The Faith of Our Fathers; Our 
Christian Heritage; and The Ambassador 
of Christ. 

GIBBONS, JAMES SLOAN, merchant, 
author, was born July 1, 1810, in Wilming¬ 
ton, Del. He was a prominent financier 
and philanthropist of New York city. He 
was the author of The Banks of New 
York; and The Public Debt of the United 
States. He wrote the popular war song. 
We Are Coming, Father Abraham. 

GIBBONS, JOSEPH, journalist, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Aug. 14, 1818, near 
Lancaster, Pa. He was the first candidate 
of the liberty party for vice-president of 
the United States in 1840. He was regard¬ 
ed as one of the founders of the republi¬ 
can party in his native state. He estab¬ 
lished the Friends’ Journal in 1873. He 
died Dec. 9, 1883, in Lancaster, Pa. 


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GIBBONS, MRS. PHOEBE EARLE, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1826 in Pennsylvania. 
She is an author of Lancaster county, Pa., 
and the author of Pennsylvania Dutch, 
and Other Essays; and French and Bel¬ 
gians. 

GIBBONS, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist. 
He was a citizen of Georgia; and in 1801 
he was appointed district judge of the 
United States court for the state of Geor¬ 
gia. 

GIBBONS, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Georgia to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1784 to 1786. 

GIBBONS. WILLIAM, philanthropist, 
author, was born Aug. 10, 1781, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a philanthropist and 
scientist of Wilmington. Del. He wrote 
Truth Vindicated, a notably clear exposi¬ 
tion of the principles of the Friends. He 
died July 25, 1845, in Wilmington, Del. 

GIBBS, ADDISON C., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, was born July 9, 1825, in 
East Otto, N. Y. In 1851 he was a volun¬ 
teer in the Indian war in Oregon. He was 
a representative in the legislature during 
the session of 1852-53. In 1862 he was 
elected governor of Oregon, and served 
four years. He was twice elected district 
attorney; was deputy United States dis¬ 
trict attorney for four years, and United 
States district attorney for two years. 

GIBBS, EBENEZER L., educator, was 
born Oct. 1, 1822, in East Windsor, Conn. 
After receiving his education at the Alle¬ 
gheny college he entered educational 

work and for years taught select schools. 

He was appointed postmaster of Orwell, 
Ohio, under General Harrison, which he 
held through both parties. Since 1859 he 
has filled various public positions of trust 
in his town, county and state. 

GIBBS, FRED C., merchant, writer, and 
political reformer, was born Aug. 28, 1856, 
in St. Paul, Minn. His parents were 
among the pioneers 

r ||^ of Minnesota. He 

received his educa¬ 
tion in the common 
and high schools of 
A* * Schuylerville, N. Y. 

He is a successful 
merchant of Water- 
ville, Minn.; has 
been city councilman 
and served as chair¬ 
man of the People’s 
party of the state 
central committee. 
He has written extensively on political 
reform; has been a thoughtful student 
of political and social economics; and is 
a nationalist in the fullest and broadest 
sense of the term. He is one of the 
thinkers of his day, and a leader of the 
people in his state. 

GIBBS. GEORGE, mineralogist, was 
born Jan. 7. 1776, in Newport, R. I. On 
his return from abroad to Rhode Island 
he brought with him the most extensive 
and valuable collection ever seen in the 
United States up to that time. It con¬ 
sisted of the collection of Gigot d’Orcy. 
containing 4,000 specimens, and that of 
Count Gregoire de Razamowsky, contain¬ 
ing 6,000 specimens. He died Aug. 6. 
1833, in Sunswick, L. I. 

GIBBS. GEORGE, lawyer, antiquarian, 
author, was born July 17, 1815, in Astoria. 
L. I. He was a lawyer and antiquarian 
of New York city, and the author of The 
Judicial Chronicle; Dictionary of the 
Chinook Jargon, or Trade Language of 
Oregon; Comparative Vocabulary; Re¬ 
search Relative to the Ethnology and 
Philology of America; and Suggestions 
Relating to Scientific Observation in Rus¬ 
sian America. He died April 9. 1873. in 
New Haven. Conn. 



GIBBS. JOHN L., farmer, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, lieutenant-governor, was born 
May 3, 1838, in Bradford county, Pa. He 
received the rudiments of his education 
in the common schools of South Hill, 
Pa., and attended the Le Raysville acad¬ 
emy' and the Susquehanna Collegiate in¬ 
stitute. In 1861 he graduated from the 
Ann Arbor Law school, and settled in 
Minnesota the same year. He has taught 
school in Pennsylvania, Iowa and Minne¬ 
sota. In 1862 he was elected county at¬ 
torney of Freeborn county, and served one 
term. He has served six terms in the 
legislature of Minnesota, beginning with 
the session of 1864; was speaker of the 
house of representatives in 1877 and also 
in 1885; was appointed railroad commis¬ 
sioner in 1887 and served four years. He 
was raised on a farm, and since 1864 has 
had no other occupation. In 1896 he was 
elected lieutenant-governor of Minnesota. 
He is known all over the state as an en¬ 
thusiastic advocate of co-operative dairy¬ 
ing, and he has himself one of the largest 
dairy interests in the state. 

GIBBS, JOSIAH WILLARD, philologist, 
educator, author, was born April 30, 1790. 
in Salem. Mass. He was a philologist who 
was professor of sacred literature at Yale 
university in 1824-61, and the author of 
Philological Studies; New Latin Analyst; 
and Teutonic Etymology. He died March 
25, 1861, in New Haven, Conn. 


GIBBS, JOSIAH WILLARD, educator, 
scientist, author, was born Feb. 11, 1839, 
in New Haven. Conn. He is a professor 
of physics at Yale university, and the au¬ 
thor of scientific papers and monographs. 

GIBBS. LAMBERT FRANCIS HEBER. 
clergyman, educator, journalist, was born 
Nov. 9, 1866, in Ware, Mass. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the high schools 
of Ware and Amherst, and attended Am¬ 
herst college. He was pastor in Wash¬ 
ington and Idaho in 1890-91; was princi¬ 
pal of the Union Town schools. Washing¬ 
ton. during 1891-95; and since then has 
been editor and owner of the News-Let¬ 
ter of Colton. Wash. 

GIBBS, MIFFLIN W1STER. jurist, was 
born April 17, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
In 1872 he was a delegate to the national 
convention of col¬ 
ored men at New 
Orleans; was presi¬ 
dential elector in 
1876, and the same 
year was appointed 
register of the Unit¬ 
ed States land office 
by President Hayes, 
being re-appointed 
to the same office in 
1881 by President 
Arthur. In 1884 he 
was delegate at 
large to the national republican conven¬ 
tion, and also in 1892 and in 1896. He was 
appointed receiver of public moneys at 
Little Rock in 1890; and was appointed a 
commissioner to sell government reserve 
lands at Hot Springs in 1892; and in 1897 
was appointed by President McKinley 
United States consul to Tamatave, Mad¬ 



agascar. 

GIBBS, OLIVER WOLCOTT, educator, 
chemist, author, was born Feb. 21, 1822. 
in New York city. He is a chemist of dis¬ 
tinction, Rumford professor at Harvard 
university', and author of scientific papers. 


GIBBS. WILLIAM CHANNING. gov¬ 
ernor. was born in 1787. He was governor 
of Rhode Island from 1821 to 1824. He 
died Feb. 21, 1871, in Newport, R. I. 

GIBBS. WILLIAM J., lawyer, was born 
Feb. 15. 1847, in Bienville Parish, La. He 
graduated in law from the Washington 
and Lee university with the degree of 
B. L. He is a prominent lawy'er and real 


estate dealer of Corsicana, Texas, where 
he has held the office of city attorney for 
three terms. He has served as mayor of 
Mexia; and has been justice of the peace 
of Limestone county, Texas. 

GIBBS, WOLCOTT, scientist, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Feb. 21, 1822, in New 
York city. He is a noted scientist and 
author of many valuable researches, and 
one of the editors of the American Jour¬ 
nal of Science and Arts. 

GIBNEY, VIRGIL PENDLETON, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, author, was born Sept. 
29, 1847, in Jessamine county, Ky. He 
has been for several years consulting or¬ 
thopedic surgeon to the Nursery and 
Child's hospital of New York city. He is 
the author of a work entitled The Hip and 
Its Diseases. 

GIBSON, CHARLES BELL, surgeon, 
was born Feb. 16, 1816, in Baltimore, Md. 
When the state of Virginia seceded he 
was made surgeon-general, became the 
chief consulting surgeon and operator in 
Richmond, and died from heart disease 
induced by excessive labor and fatigue. 
He died April 23, 1865, in Richmond, Va. 

GIBSON, CHARLES HOPPER, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Jan. 19, 1842, in Queen Anne county. 

Md. In 1869 he was 
appointed auditor 
and commissioner in 
chancery; in 1870 re¬ 
signed to accept the 
office of state’s attor¬ 
ney for Talbot coun¬ 
ty, Md., to which he 
was appointed by the 
court, and was elect¬ 
ed to the office, in 
1871, for a full term, 
and was re-elected 
in 1875. In 188'4 he 
was elected a representative from Mary¬ 
land to the forty-ninth congress, and was 
re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. In 1891-97 he 
was a United States senator. 

GIBSON. ELLA ELVIRA, lecturer, poet, 
was born Ylay 8, 1821, in Winchendon. 
Mass. During the early part of the civil 
war Miss Gibson was engaged in organ¬ 
izing soldiers’ ladies’ aid societies in Wis¬ 
consin. She was connected with the 
eighth Wisconsin regiment volunteers, 
known as the Live Eagle regiment. In 
1864 she was appointed chaplain of the 
first Wisconsin heavy artillery. She is 
the author of a number of meritorious 
poems. 

GIBSON, EUSTACE, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1841, in 
Culpeper, Va. In 1876 he was elected a 
lepresentative in the state legislature, 
and was chosen speaker. He was elected 
a representative from West Virginia to 
the forty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-ninth congress as a 
democrat. 

GIBSON, GEORGE, soldier, was born 
Oct. 10, 1747. in Lancaster, Pa. When the 
revolution began he raised a company of 
one hundred men, and was appointed cap¬ 
tain of a state regiment. In 1791 he took 
command of a regiment in the St. Clair 
expedition against the Ohio Indians. He 
died Dec. 14, 1791. in Fort Jefferson, Ohio. 

GIBSON. GEORGE, soldier, was born in 
1783 in Pennsylvania. He entered the 
army from civil life, and was appointed 
captain of infantry in 1808; and was pro¬ 
moted major in 1811. He died Sept. 29. 
1861, in Washington, D. C. 

GIBSON, GEORGE RUTLEDGE, finan¬ 
cier. author, was born Jan. 20, 1853, in Au¬ 
burn. 111. He is the author of The Berlin 
Bourse; and The Stock Exchange of Lon¬ 
don, Paris and New York. 



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GIBSON, HENRY R., lawyer, jurist, 
journalist, congressman, author, was born 
Dec. 24, 1837, in Kent Island, Md. In 1865 
he was admitted to the bar; in 1870 was 
a member of the Tennessee constitutional 
convention; a member of the state senate 
in 1871-72; and a member of the house of 
representatives in 1875. During 1886-94 
he was judge of the chancery court of 
Tennessee; and in 1890 was elected pro¬ 
fessor of medical jurisprudence in the 
Tennessee Medical college. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. He is the edi¬ 
tor of the Republican and Chronicle of 
Knoxville, Tenn.; and the author of 
Suits in Chancery. 

GIBSON, HORATIO GATES, soldier, 
was born May 22, 1827, in Baltimore. Md. 
He is a noted United States army officer 
now retired. He was brevetted second 
lieutenant to colonel of the third artillery; 
and was brevetted brigadier-general. 

GIBSON. JAMES, soldier, journalist, 
jurist, state senator, was born Sept. 5, 
1816, in Salem, N. Y. In 1850 he was 
elected county judge; and in 1866 he was 
elected state senator; and served gallant¬ 
ly through the civil war. His name is 
closely identified with the business affairs 
of Salem, Mass., where he was the editor 
of The Review-Press. He died June 6, 
1897. 

GIBSON, JAMES KING, soldier, far¬ 
mer, merchant, congressman, was born 
Feb. 18, 1812, in Abingdon, Va. He was 
postmaster at Abingdon from 1838 until 
1849. He was teller in the Exchange 
bank of Virginia at Abingdon in 1849, and 
notary public. He was elected to the 
forty-first congress as a democrat. 

GIBSON, JAMES W., lawyer, soldier, 
journalist, was born Oct. 26, 1845, in 
Detroit, Mich. He served with distinc¬ 
tion as a union sol¬ 
dier during the civil 
war. Has practiced 
law successfully for 
more than a quarter 
of a century, and for 
nine years served as 
county judge. He is 
the editor and joint 
owner of The Week¬ 
ly Press of Newton. 
Ill. His poems have 
been given a place in 
Poets of America, 
and other standard collections. 

GIBSON, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
was born May 23, 1740, in Lancaster, Pa. 
He served in the revolutionary war. He 
was a judge of the court of common pleas 
and a general of militia. In 1800 he was 
appointed secretary of the territory of 
Indiana, holding the position until it be¬ 
came a state. He was acting governor of 
Indiana from 1811 to 1813. He died April 
10, 1822, near Vincennes, Ind. 

GIBSON, JOHN BANNISTER, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, was born Nov. 8, 
1780, in Carlisle, Pa. In 1810-11 he was a 
member of the Pennsylvania state legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1813 was appointed a judge 
of the eleventh district. He died May 3. 
1853, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GIBSON. LOUIS HENRY, architect, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1854 in Indiana. He is 
an architect of Indianapolis; and the au¬ 
thor of Beautiful Houses, a Study in 
House-building; Convenient Houses; 
Gradual Reduction Milling: and Artistic 
Houses at Moderate Cost. 

GIBSON, RANDALL LEE. soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, United States senator, 
was born Sept. 10. 1832, in Springfield, 
Ky. He attained the rank of major-gen¬ 
eral in the confederate army: and after¬ 


ward settled in the practice of law in 
New Orleans, La. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Louisiana to the forty- 
fourth congress; was re-elected to the for¬ 
ty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses; and was elected a senator of the 
United States from Louisiana in 1882; and 
was re-elected in 1888. He died Dec. 15, 
1892. 

GIBSON, ROBERT WILLIAMS, archi¬ 
tect, was born Nov. 17, 1854, in England. 
He has attained a national reputation as 
an architect. 

GIBSON, TOBIAS, pioneer, was born 
Nov. 10, 1771, in Liberty, S. C. He made 
four trips while a missionary through 
the wilderness to the Cumberland, and 
laid the foundations of methodism in the 
southwest. He died April 10, 1804, in 
Natchez. Tenn. 

GIBSON, WILLIAM, physician, educa¬ 
tor, was born in 1788 in Baltimore, Md. 
He was a famous physician of Philadel¬ 
phia. professor of surgery in the univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania in 1819-55; and the 
author of Principles and Practice of Sur¬ 
gery; and Rambles in Europe. He died 
March 2, 1868, in Savannah, Ga. 

GIBSON, WILLIAM, naval officer, au¬ 
thor. was born in 1826 in Maryland. He 
was a United States naval officer retired 
in 1879; and the author of Sailing Di¬ 
rections for the Kattegat, etc.; Poems of 
Many Years; Vision of Faery Land, and 
Other Poems; a translation of the Mis¬ 
cellaneous Poems of Goethe. He died in 
1887. 

GIBSON, WILLIAM HAMILTON, ar¬ 
tist, author, was born Oct. 5, 1850, in San¬ 
dy Hook. Conn. He was an artist and 
author of New York city who has illus¬ 
trated his own writings; and the author 
of The Complete American Trapper; Pas¬ 
toral Days; Highways and Byways; 
Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine; Happy 
Hunting-Grounds; Sharp-Eyes, a Ram¬ 
bler's Calendar; Camp Life in the Woods; 
and Our Edible Toadstools and Mush¬ 
rooms. 

GlDDINGS. ALMENA. educator, au¬ 
thor. was born April 14, 1838, in Hart- 
land, Conn. She wrote under various 
names, and published a volume of poems 
entitled My Welcome Beyond and Other 
Poems. 

GlDDINGS. ARMIN. lawyer, legislator, 
was born May 31, 1822, in Sherman, Conn. 
For fourteen years he was judge of pro¬ 
bate; was a member of the state legisla¬ 
ture during 1851-56; state senator during 
1857-64; and in 1864 he was appointed as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of 
Montana. He died Feb. 13, 1882, in Sher¬ 
man, Conn. 

GlDDINGS, DE WITT C., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born July 18, 1827. 
in Susquehanna county, Pa. He served 
as a soldier in the 
confederate army. He 
was a member of the 
state constitutional 
convention of 1866. 
He was elected to the 
forty-second con¬ 
gress, and re-elected 
to the forty-third 
congress, and re¬ 
elected to the forty- 
fifth congress as a 
democrat. He served 
on numerous im¬ 
portant committees while a member of 
congress. 

GlDDINGS. EDWARD FULLER, law¬ 
yer, journalist, was born May 1, 1859, in 
Eaton, N. Y. He was the one-time editor 
of the Springfield Union, Mass.; and is 
now an able lawyer of Chicago. Ill. 


GlDDINGS. EDWARD JONATHAN, 
clergypian, author, was born Nov. 24, 1831, 
in Great Barrington, Mass. He is clergy¬ 
man of the congregationalist church; and 
the author of Christian Rulers of America. 

GlDDINGS. FRANKLIN HENRY, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, author, born March 23, 
1855, in Sherman, Conn. In 1888, after 
years of editorial work, he was appointed 
to the chair of political science in Bryn 
Mawr college. Pa. While holding that 
position he delivered a series of lectures 
on Sociology at Columbia college, N. Y.; 
and since 1891 has filled the chair on that 
subject in that institution. He is the au¬ 
thor of a very able work entitled Prin¬ 
ciples of Sociology. His other works are: 
Report on Profit Sharing; and The Mod¬ 
ern Distributive Process. 

GlDDINGS, .J. WIGHT, journalist, law¬ 
yer. state senator, was born Sept. 27. 1858. 
in Romeo, Mich. He is the editor and 
owner of The News of Cadillac, Mich. 
During 1886-90 he served as a member of 
the Michigan state senate; was lieuten¬ 
ant-governor of Michigan during 1893-95; 
and has been judge of the recorder’s court. 

GlDDINGS. JOSHUA REED, lawyer, 
abolitionist, diplomat, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 6. 1795, in Athens, Pa. 

He was elected to the 
Ohio legislature in 
1826; was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress 
from Ohio from 1838 
to 1859; and for 
many years recog¬ 
nized as one of the 
leaders of the anti¬ 
slavery party. In 
1861 he was ap¬ 
pointed consul-gen¬ 
eral of British North 
America. He was the 
author of The Exiles of Florida; The Re¬ 
bellion: its Authors and its Causes; 
Speeches in Congress; and Essays of 
Pacificus. He died May 27, 1864. in Mont¬ 
real, Canada. 

GlDDINGS, MARSH, lawyer, governor, 
was born Nov. 9, 1815, in Sherman, Conn. 
For eight years he was probate judge of 
Kalamazoo county, Mich. In 1871 he was 
appointed governor of New Mexico, and 
died while in office on June 3,1875. in San¬ 
ta Fe. 

GlDDINGS, MINOT S., merchant, au¬ 
thor, was born March 19, 1837, in Sher¬ 
man, Conn. He was a candidate for state 
representative, and several times a mem¬ 
ber of state conventions. In 1882 he pub¬ 
lished a genealogy of the Giddings Fam¬ 
ily. 

GlDDINGS. ORIEN NOBLE, legislator, 
jurist, was born Feb. 21, 1814, in Beek- 
man, N. Y. He was one of the first mag¬ 
istrates of Charleston, Mich., and in 1845- 
46 was a member of the Michigan state 
legislature. In 1865 he was appointed 
quartermaster-general of his state. 

GIDDINGS, ROCKWOOD, clergyman, 
college president, was born Aug. 8, 1812, in 
Plymouth, N. H. In 1838 he was ap¬ 
pointed president of the Baptist college 
of Georgetown. Ky. He died Oct. 29. 
1839. 

GIDDINGS, SALMON, clergyman, mis¬ 
sionary, was born March 2, 1782, in Hart- 
land, Conn. In 1817 he organized the 
First Presbyterian church in St. Louis. 
Mo., and died Feb. 1, 1828, and his re¬ 
mains were deposited in a vault construct¬ 
ed for the purpose under the pulpit of his 
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GIESSLER, HENRY FRANKLIN, law¬ 
yer, banker, state legislator, was born Oct. 
15, 1853, near Hanover, Pa. In 1886 he 
moved to Kansas, and there founded with 
his brother the Bank of Oakley. In 1897 
he was elected a member of the Kansas 
house of representatives. 

G1FFE, WILLIAM T., musician, com¬ 
poser, was born June 28, 1848, in Port¬ 
land, Ind. He is the author of Giffe’s 
Practical Course in Harmony and Musi¬ 
cal Composition, and a number of popu¬ 
lar music books for singers. He is the 
president of the Home Music company of 
Logansport, Ind. 

GIFFORD, ARCHER, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1797 in Newark, N. J. He 
published a Digest of the Statutory and 
Constitutional Constructions delivered in 
the Supreme Court and Court of Errors 
and Appeals of New Jersey; and Unity 
of the Liturgy. He died May 12, 1859. in 
Newark, N. J. 

GIFFORD, FRED W., lawyer, jurist, 
was born March 8, 1857, in East Arling¬ 
ton, Vt. He received his education in the 
schools of Iowa. For several years he 
wasa justice of the peace at Independence, 
Iowa; and subsequently served as police 
judge of Kansas City, Mo. He is one of 
the leading lawyers of Missouri; and has 
tilled numerous positions of honor in Kan¬ 
sas City. 

GIFFORD, HARRY ELLSWORTH, 
genealogist, was born Jan. 27, 1865, in 
New Bedford, Mass. He is the author of 
The Gifford Genealogy. 

GIFFORD, MIRAM W., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 3, 1851, in Canada. 
For over a quarter of a century he has 
been actively engaged in the ministry of 
the methodist episcopal church, and now 
tills a pastorate in Howell, Mich. He has 
received the degrees of M. A. and Ph. D.; 
and is the author of several scientific and 
philosophical works, the most notable of 
which is Laws of the Soul, or the Science 
of Religion and the Future Life. 

GIFFORD, ORIN P., clergyman, reform¬ 
er, was born April 15, 1847, in Montague, 
Mass. Since 1894 he has filled a pastor¬ 
ate in Brooklyn, N. Y. Besides his church 
work he has always taken an active part 
in municipal reform work. 

GIFFORD, OSCAR SHERMAN, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 20. 
1842, in Watertown, N. Y. He served in 
the union army as 
private in the Elgin 
(Illinois) battery 
from 1863 to 1865; 
studied law; was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 
1870, and engaged in 
the practice of law 
at Canton, Dakota. 
He was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney for 
Lincoln county in 
1874; and in 1882 
and 1883 was mayor 
of the city of Canton. He was a member 
of the constitutional convention of Da¬ 
kota which convened at Sioux Falls in 
1883; and was elected delegate from Da¬ 
kota to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty- 
first congresses as a republican. 

GIFFORD. ROBERT SWAIN, artist, 
was born Dec. 23, 1840, in Naushon, Mass. 
He made an extensive sketching tour in 
Oregon and California in 1869, and fur¬ 
nished views from these states to Pic¬ 
turesque America. 

GIFFORD, SANFORD ROBINSON, 
landscape painter, was born in Saratoga 


county, N. Y. His best works are The 
Storm; and Camp of the Seventh Regi¬ 
ment. 

GIGER. GEORGE MUSGRAVE, cler¬ 
gyman, was born June 6. 1822, in Phila¬ 
delphia. Pa. He was elected adjunct pro¬ 
fessor of Greek in 1846, and professor of 
Latin in 1854 in Princeton university. He 
bequeathed his books and thirty thou¬ 
sand dollars to that college. He died Oct. 
11. 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GIHON, ALBERT LEARY', surgeon, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 28, 1833, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 1872 he was medical in¬ 
spector; and in 1879 medical director. He 
completed forty years of active service in 
1895. and was retired from active duty by 
limitation of age with rank of commo¬ 
dore. His principal works are; Practical 
Suggestions in Naval Hygiene; Need of 
Sanitary Reform in Ship Life; Sanitary 
Commonplaces Applied to the Navy; and 
Prevention of Venereal Disease by Legis¬ 
lation. 

GILBERG. CHARLES ALEXANDER, 
chess-player, was born June 17, 1835, in 
Camden, N. J. He is widely known as an 
amateur chess-player, and has served as 
judge in almost e\ery public contest that 
has taken place. His chess library of 
more than 1,500 volumes is the largest in 
this country with the exception of that of 
John G. White, of Cleveland, Ohio. 

GILBERT. ABIJAH. merchant, United 
States senator, was born June 18, 1806, in 
Gilbertsville, N. Y. He was a student at 
Hamilton college, but 
ill-health prevented 
him from graduating. 
He engaged in mer¬ 
cantile pursuits in 
New Y'ork and else¬ 
where. He removed 
to Florida for the 
health of his family; 
and was elected a 
senator in congress 
from that state for 
the term commenc¬ 
ing in 1869 and end¬ 
ing in 1875. He died Nov. 23, 1881, in Ot¬ 
sego county, N. Y. 

GILBERT, ALEXANDER, banker, was 
born Aug. 10, 1839, in Elizabeth, N. J. In 
1883 he was elected vice-president of the 
Market's bank of New York; and in 1890 
was elected mayor of Plainfield, N. J. 

GILBERT. BENJAMIN, miller, author, 
was born in 1711 near Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was a miller of Northumberland, Pa., 
who wrote on theological themes. Truth 
Defended; Discourses on Perfection; and 
Further Discourses on Sin. Election, Rep¬ 
robation and Baptism. He died June 8, 
1780, on St. Lawrence River. 

GILBERT, CHARLES HENRY, zoolo¬ 
gist, author, was born in 1859 in Illinois. 
He is an ichthyologist, professor of zoology 
at Stanford university; and the author of 
Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 

GILBERT, DAVID McCONAUGHY, 
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 4, 1836, 
in Gettysburg, Pa. He is a lutheran 
clergyman of Virginia; and the author of 
The Lutheran Church in Virginia, 1776- 
1876; The Synod of Virginia; The Anni¬ 
hilation Theory Briefly Examined; and 
Muhlenberg's Ministry in Virginia. 

GILBERT, EDWARD, journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Albany, N. Y'. He 
founded and became editor-in-chief of 
the daily Alta California, thus being the 
pioneer of the daily press of San Fran¬ 
cisco. He served as a representative in 
congress from 1850 to 1851. He died in 
1862 in California. 


GILBERT, EZEKIEL, congressman,, 
was born in 1755 in Middletown, Conn. 
He was a member of congress from New 
York from 1793 to 1797. He died in July, 
1842, in Hudson, N. Y'. 

GILBERT. FRANK M„ journalist, poet, 
was born July 1, 1846, in Mobile, Ala. He 
is the editor and owner of The Evening 
Tribune of Evansville, Ind.; is a well 
known humorist; and the author of a vol¬ 
ume of poems. 

GILBERT, GROVE KARL, artist, au¬ 
thor, was born May 6, 1843, in Rochester, 
N. Y. He is a geologist attached to the 
United States geological survey; and the 
author of Geology of the Henry Moun¬ 
tains; Topographical Features of Lake 
Shores; Geology of Nevada, Utah; and 
Lake Bonnevill?. 

GILBERT, GROVE SHELDON, artist, 
was born Aug. 5, 1805, in Clinton, N. Y. 
He attained distinction as a portrait 
painter. He died March 23. 1885, in Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y'. 

GILBERT. JOHN GIBBS, actor, was 
born Feb. 27, 1810, in Boston, Mass. He 
attained prominence in his profession both 
in Europe and America. He died June 
17. 1889. in Boston. Mass. 

GILBERT, LINDA, philanthropist, was 
born May 13, 1847, in Rochester, N. Y. 
She has attained a national reputation as 
a philanthropist. 

GILBERT, MAHLON NORRIS, protes- 
tant episcopal bishop, was born March 23, 
1848, in Morris, N. Y'. In 1881 he was 
called to the rectorship of Christ church, 
St. Paul, Minn. He was a deputy to the 
general convention of 1886, and was elect¬ 
ed assistant bishop of Minnesota in the 
same year. 

GILBERT, NATHAN STRONG, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Jan. 28, 1852. 
in Iowa. He is a noted organist and piano 
instructor of Leavenworth, Kas. He has 
composed for the voice a Serenade and 
Polka Caprice, and a number of anthems 
and hymns. 

GILBERT, PARMIUS C., educator, law- 
24, 1865, in Newberg, 
the public schools of 
his county, and grad¬ 
uated from the high 
school of Traverse 
City. He then at¬ 
tended the commer¬ 
cial department of 
the Normal school of 
Y^alparaiso, Ind.; 
and subsequently 
graduated from the 
law department of 
the university of 
Michigan. He entered 
into educational work 
public schools of his 
nativ e city, where he has also attained 
success as an able lawyer in probate prac¬ 
tice and commercial law. He has served 
with distinction as city attorney; and is 
a member of the board of education of 
Traverse City, Mich. 

GILBERT, RUFUS HENRY, surgeon, 
was born Jan. 26, 1832, in Guilford, N. Y. 
At the beginning of the civil war he 
joined the Duryea zouaves as surgeon, and 
served through the war. He was after¬ 
ward made medical director and superin 
tendent of the United States army hos¬ 
pitals. He died July 10, 1885, in New 
York city. 

GILBERT, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS, sol¬ 
dier, civil engineer, was born Aug. 25, 
1825, in Zanesville, Ohio. In 1863 he be¬ 
came engineer on the staff of Gen. John G. 
Foster; and subsequently commanded a 
brigade in Kentucky. He died June 9, 
1868, in St. Paul, Minn. 




yer, was bora May 
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GILBERT, SYLVESTER, lawyer, jurist, 
•congressman, was born in 1756 in Heb¬ 
ron, Conn. In 1780 he was a member of ‘ 
the general assembly, being the youngest 
member in the house; and in 1788 was ap¬ 
pointed state’s attorney for Tolland coun¬ 
ty, and filled that office twenty-one years. 
In 1807 he was appointed chief judge of 
the county court and judge of probate, 
which offices he held until 1825, with the 
exception of his term as representative in 
congress from Connecticut in 1818-19. In 
1826 he was again elected to the legisla¬ 
ture, and was then the oldest member 
in the house, to which body he had, from 
Ihe year 1780, been re-elected thirty times. 
He died in January, 1846. 

GILBERT, WALTER BOND, musician, 
composer, was born April 21, 1829, in 
England. In 1869 he was appointed or¬ 
ganist of Trinity chapel, New York. His 
compositions and publications are numer¬ 
ous, and include two oratorios, St. John, 
and the Restoration of Israel. 

GILBERT, WILLIAM A., congressman, 
was born in Connecticut. Moving to New 
York he was elected a representative from 
that state to the thirty-fourth congress. 

GILBERT, WILLIAM KENT, physician, 
was born Dec. 28, 1830, in Gettysburg, Pa. 
He attained prominence as one of the 
foremost physicians and surgeons of his 
native state at Philadelphia, where he 
died June 28, 1880. 

GILCHRIST, JOHN JAMES, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Feb. 16, 1809, in 
Medford, Mass. He was a member of the 
New Hampshire legislature; register of 
probate; and associate judge in 1840. He 
was chief justice of the state supreme 
•court in 1848, and of the United States 
court of claims in 1855. He published a 
Digest of New Hampshire Reports. He 
■died April 29, 1858, in Washington, D. C. 

GILCHRIST, ROBERT BUDD, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Sept. 28, 1796, in South 
Carolina. About 1841 he was appointed 
United States judge for the district of 
■South Carolina; and for a time held the 
same position in Georgia. He died May 1, 
1856, in Charleston, S. C. 

GILCHRIST, WILLIAM WALLACE, 
musician, composer, was born in 1846 in 
Jersey City, N. J. He has won three 
prizes for compositions from the Mendels¬ 
sohn Glee club of New York city, and in 
1882 the Cincinnati May festival prize 
was awarded him. 

GILDER, JEANNETTE LEONARD, 
journalist, dramatist, author, poet, was 
born in 1850 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1875 
she joined the staff of the New York Her¬ 
ald as a book reviewer; and in 1880, in 
connection with her brother, Richard 
Watson Gilder, started The Critic. In 
1876 she wrote a play entitled Quits, 
which was brought out in the Chestnut 
Street theater of Philadelphia. She dra¬ 
matized a Wonderful Woman for Rose 
Eytinge; Sevenoaks for John T. Ray¬ 
mond; and a Comedy for Harry Becket. 

GILDER, JOHN FRANCIS, pianist, 
composer, was born April 3, 1837, in 

Philadelphia, Pa. He is noted for his cor¬ 
rect interpretation of Gottschalk’s com¬ 
positions, and as a concert pianist he has 
been heard in the principal cities and 
towns of the United States. 

GILDER, RICHARD WATSON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 8, 1844, 
in Bordentown, N. J. He is a writer of 
New York city well known both as a poet 
and as the editor of The Century Maga¬ 
zine, of which, with its predecessor, Scrib¬ 
ner’s Monthly, he has been editor-in-chief 
since 1881. He is the author of The New 
Day, The Poet and his Master, Lyrics; 

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The Celestial Passion; Two Worlds; The 
Great Remembrance, and Other Poems; 
and Five Books of Song, which include all 
of his collected poems up to the year 1894. 

GILDER, WILLIAM HENRY, explorer, 
author, was born Aug. 16, 1835, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is an Arctic explorer; 
and the author of Schwatka’s Search; and 
Ice Pack and Tundra. 

GILDERSLEEVE, BASIL LANNEAU, 
educator, journalist, author, was born Oct. 
23,1831, in Charleston, S. C. He has been a 
professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins uni¬ 
versity from 1876, and editor of the Amer¬ 
ican Journal of Philology from its estab¬ 
lishment. He is the author of Essays and 
Studies, and has published a Latin Gram¬ 
mar, and editions of Justin Martyr and 
the Odes of Pindar. 

GILE, FRANCIS ALFRED, physician, 
surgeon, was born July 19, 1845, in 

Franklin, N. H. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the New Hampshire seminary, and 
attended the New York Medical college. 
He is a veteran of the civil war, and a 
well-known physician and specialist of 
Orange, N. J. He has been medical ex¬ 
aminer and surgeon, coroner of Essex 
county, and filled various other public of¬ 
fices of honor. 

GILES, CHAUNCEY, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born May 11, 1813, in Charles- 
mont, Mass. He was a Swedenborgian 
clergyman of Philadelphia, and of much 
prominence in his denomination. He was 
the author of The Nature of Spirit; The 
Second Coming of Our Lord; Perfect 
Prayer; Man as a Spiritual Being; The In¬ 
carnation; The Wonderful Pocket; The 
Magic Spectacles, a fairy tale; The Gate of 
Pearl; The Magic Shoes, and Other Stor¬ 
ies; Heavenly Blessedness; The New Je¬ 
rusalem; The Spiritual World; and The 
Valley of the Diamonds, and Other Stor¬ 
ies. He died in 1893. 

GILES, ELLA AUGUSTA, author, was 
born in 1851 in Wisconsin. She is a 
writer of Madison, Wis.; and the author 
of Bachelor Ben; Out from the Shadows; 
Maiden Rachel; and Flowers of the Spirit. 

GILES, HENRY, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 1, 1809, in Ireland. He 
was a Unitarian minister of Liverpool, 
England, and after 1840 a literary lec¬ 
turer in the United States. He was the 
author of Lectures and Essays; Christian 
Thought on Life; Illustrations of Genius; 
Human Life in Shakespeare; and Lec¬ 
tures on the Irish, and Other Subjects. 
He died July 10, 1882, in Boston, Mass. 

GILES, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born about 1788 in North Carolina. In 
1829 he was elected a member of the house 
of representatives in congress from North 
Carolina, but resigned before taking his 
seat, on account of ill-health. He died 
March 2, 1846, in Stanley county, N. C. 

GILES, WILLIAM BRANCH, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Aug. 12, 1762, in Amelia 
county, Va. He was a representative in 
congress from 1790 to 1798, and again 
from 1801 to 1802. In 1801 and 1805 he 
was a presidential elector; and was a 
United States senator from 1804 to 1816. 
He was subsequently a member of the leg¬ 
islature. From 1826 to 1829 he was gov¬ 
ernor of his native state. He died Dec. 
4, 1830, in Albemarle county, Va. 

GILES, WILLIAM FELL, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born April 8, 1807, 
in Harford county, Md. He was elected 
to the state legislature in 1837 to 1839; in 
1845 was elected to congress; declined a 
renomination; and in 1853 was appointed 
United States district judge for the dis¬ 
trict of Maryland. 


GILFILLAN, CALVIN W„ educator, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 
1832, in Mercer county, Pa. In 1857 he 
was elected superintendent of public in¬ 
struction for Mercer county; in 1861 was 
appointed district attorney for Venango 
county; and in 1862 was elected to the 
same position. In 1868 he was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-first congress as a republican. 

GILFILLAN, CHARLES DUNCAN, 
lawyer, was born July 4, 1831, in New 
Hartford, N. Y. St. Paul sent him three 
times to the lower house of the Minneso¬ 
ta legislature and three times to the 
senate, and he has also been president 
of the St. Paul water board. The Gil- 
fillan block and other business buildings 
in the city belong to him. 

GILFILLAN, JAMES, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 9, 1829, in Ban¬ 
nockburn, Scotland. He served in the 
south till the end of the civil war, and in 
1864 was commissioned colonel of the 
eleventh Minnesota. He was treasurer of 
the United States during 1877-83. 

GILFILLAN, JOHN B., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 
1835, at Barnet, Vt. He was prosecuting 
attorney of Hennepin county, Minn., from 
1863 to 1867, and from 1869 to 1873; and 
was city attorney of Minneapolis from 
1861 to 1864. He was a member of the 
state senate of Minnesota from 1875 to 
1885; became regent of the state univer¬ 
sity of Minnesota in 1880, and continued 
in that office. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Minnesota to the forty-ninth 
congress as a republican. 

GILFILLAN. JOSEPH A., clergyman, 
missionary. He has been a noted mis¬ 
sionary of the protestant episcopal church 
for twenty-five years among the Chippe- 
way Indians at White Earth, Minn. He is 
superintendent of all the six thousand 
Chippeways scattered in northern Min¬ 
nesota. 

GILL, MOSES, lieutenant-governor. He 
was elected lieutenant-governor of Massa¬ 
chusetts in 1797; and was acting govern¬ 
or of the state from 1799 to 1800. 

GILL, ROSALIE LORRAINE, artist, 
was born Sept. 2, 1867, in Elmira, N. Y. 
She paints landscapes and still life, as 
well as portraits. 

GILL, THEODORE NICHOLAS, educa¬ 
tor, naturalist, author, was born March 
21, 1837, in New York city. He is a nat¬ 
uralist, professor of zoology in the Colum¬ 
bian university, Washington, D. C.; and 
the author of Arrangement of the Fami¬ 
lies of Mollusks; Arrangement of the 
Families of Fishes; Arrangement of the 
Families of Mammals; Catalogue of the 
Fishes of the East Coast of North Ameri¬ 
ca; and Scientific and Popular Views of 
Nature Contrasted. 

GILL, WILLIAM B., telegraph man¬ 
ager, was born Dec. 27, 1847, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. During 1866-81 he was with the 
Western Union company, rising through 
all the grades to the superintendency. In 
1881 he accepted a contract to build the 
Bankers’ and Merchants’ telegraph line 
between Philadelphia and New York, 
which he completed within four months; 
and then took another contract to erect 
a line to Pittsburg. In 1882 he became the 
general superintendent of the Delaware 
and Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone 
company, which he resigned two years 
later to accept the superintendency of the 
sixth district of the Western Union Tele¬ 
graph company. He is vice-president and 
director in a number of local telegraph 
and telephone companies in sundry towns 
within his district. 


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GILL, WILLIAM IRELAND, author. 
He is the author of Evolution and Prog¬ 
ress; Analytical Processes; and Christian 
Conception and Experience. 

GILL, WILLIAM FEARING, author. He 
is the author of The Martyred Church; 
Home Recreations; and Life of Poe. 

GILLAM, GEORGE F., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born Nov. 7, 1836, in 
Middlesex, N. Y. He was a member of the 
Michigan state legislature in 1871-72. 
Since 1872 he has practiced law in Lan¬ 
sing; was justice of the peace during 
1877-81; and probate judge of his county 
during 1881-85. 

GILLEM, ALVAN CULLEM, soldier, 
state legislator, w^as born July 29, 1830, in 
Jackson county, Tenn. He was a member 
of the first legislature of Tennessee. He 
served on the Texas frontier and in Cali¬ 
fornia; and led the troops in the Modoc 
campaign. He died Dec. 2, 1875, in Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn. 

GILLESPIE, EUGENE P., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 24, 1852, in 
Greensville, Pa. He is a successful law¬ 
yer in his native city; and was elected to 
the fifty-second congress as a democrat. 

GILLESPIE, GEORGE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, born in 1683 in Glasgow, Scotland. 
He was a presbyterian clergyman, once 
prominent in Delaware; and the author of 
Treatise Against Deists and Free Think¬ 
ers; Letters to the Presbytery of New 
York; and Remarks upon Mr. George 
Whitefield. He died Jan. 2, 1760. 

GILLESPIE, GEORGE DE NORMAN¬ 
DIE, bishop of western Michigan, was 
born June 14, 1819, in Goshen, N. Y. The 
bishop has published, besides sermons 
and tracts, Manual and Annals of the 
Diocese of Michigan. 

GILLESPIE, HENRY LA FAYETTE, 
merchant, clergyman, reformer, was born 
Sept. 4, 1863, in Delaware county, Iowa. 
He graduated from the Lumbard univer¬ 
sity; has attained eminence as a success¬ 
ful missionary of the universalist church 
in Iowa. Prior to entering the ministry 
he was engaged in mercantile business. 

GILLESPIE, JAMES, congressman. He 
was a member of the provincial congress 
of North Carolina; and was a represen¬ 
tative in the United States congress from 
that state from 1793 to 1799, and from 
1803 to 1805. He died Jan. 10, 1805. 

GILLESPIE, JOHN A., educator, was 
born June 5, 1845, in Newville, Pa. He 
received his education at the Iowa State 
university. For six years he was a teach¬ 
er in the Iowa School for the Deaf; and 
for twenty years has been superintendent 
of the Nebraska School for the Deaf, at 
Omaha. He is prominent in educational 
affairs; and president of the American 
Association to Promote Auricular Train¬ 
ing. 

GILLESPIE, NEAL HENRY, college 
president, educator, clergyman, was born 
in 1832 in Brownsville, Pa. In 1859 he was 
made president of the College of St. Mary 
of the Lake of Chicago. He was for sev¬ 
eral years editor of The Ave Maria, and 
was also spiritual director of several re¬ 
ligious and literary societies connected 
with the university of Notre Dame. He 
died Nov. 12, 1874, in St. Mary’s, Ind. 

GILLESPIE, WILLIAM MITCHELL, 
educator, author, was born in 1816 in New 
York. He was a professor of civil en¬ 
gineering at Union college in 1845-68; and 
the author of Rome as seen by a New 
Yorker; Roads and Railroads; Manual for 
Roadmaking; Principles and Practice of 
Land Surveying; Levelling; Topography 
and Higher Surveying; and Philosophy 
of Mathematics. He died Jan. 1, 1868, in 
New York. 


GILLET, CHARLES W., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 26, 1840, in Ad¬ 
dison, N. Y. He enlisted as a private in 
the eighty-sixth reg¬ 
iment New York vol¬ 
unteers, August, 
1861; was made ad¬ 
jutant of the regi¬ 
ment in 1861, and 
served as adjutant 
until discharged from 
the service for disa¬ 
bilities in 1863. He 
was elected to the 
fifty-third, fifty- 
fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses as a re¬ 
publican; and is a member of several im¬ 
portant committees. 

GILLET, RANSOM H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Jan. 27, 1800, 
in New Lebanon, N. Y. In 1827 he was 
appointed brigade-major and inspector of 
militia. In 1830 he was appointed post¬ 
master of Ogdensburg, which office he filled 
three years. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress; and re-elected in 
1834. In 1845 he was appointed register 
for the treasury, serving until 1847, when 
he was appointed solicitor of the treasury, 
in which office he continued until the au¬ 
tumn of 1849. In 1855-58 he was assistant 
to the attorney-general of the United 
States. He was the author of History of 
the Democratic Party; The Federal Gov¬ 
ernment; and Life of Silas Wright. 

GILLETT, EZRA HALL, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born July 15, 1823, in 
Colchester, Conn. He was a presbyter¬ 
ian clergyman of New York city, and 
professor of political economy in the uni¬ 
versity of New York from 1868. He was 
the author of History of the Presbyterian 
Church in the United States; Life of John 
Huss; God in Human Thought; The Moral 
System; Life Lessons in the School of 
Christianity; What Then? or the Soul’s 
To-Morrow; and Ancient Cities and Em¬ 
pires. He died Sept. 2, 1875, in Harlem, 
N. Y. 

GILLETT, FREDERICK HUNTING- 
TON, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 
16,1851, in Westfield, Mass. He graduated 
at Amherst college in 
1874 and at Harvard 
Law school in 1877; 
and was admitted to 
the bar in Springfield 
Ztif in 1877. He was as- 
\ sistant attorney-gen¬ 

eral of Massachus¬ 
etts from 1879 to 
1882; and was elected 
to the Massachu¬ 
setts house of repre¬ 
sentatives in 1890 
and 1891. He was 
elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth 
congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

GILLETT, OREN M., lawyer, banker, 
was born March 12, 1850. in Bergen, N. Y. 
In 1875 he was admitted to the bar in In¬ 
dependence, Iowa. During 1881-90 he was 
clerk of the district and circuit courts of 
Buchanan county, Iowa; in 1890-92 he 
was cashier of the Commercial State bank 
of Independence, Iowa; and since the lat¬ 
ter date has been president of that finan¬ 
cial institution. 

GILLETTE, ABRAM DUNN, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 8, 1807, 
in Cambridge, Washington county, N. Y. 
He published a History of the Eleventh 
Baptist Church of Philadelphia; Memoir 
of the Rev. Daniel H. Gillette; and Pas¬ 
tor s Last Gift, and edited Social Hymns 
and the minutes of the Philadelphia Bap¬ 


tist association from 1707 till 1807. He 
died Aug. 24, 1882, in Lake George, N. Y. 

GILLETTE, EDWARD HOOPER, far¬ 
mer, journalist, legislator, congressman, 
was born Oct. 1, 1840, in Bloomfield, Conn. 

He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Hart¬ 
ford High school and 
the New York State 
Agricultural college. 
He served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member 
of the forty-sixth 
congress from the 
Des Moines district, 
Iowa. As an advocate 
of populist and other 
reforms he has 
gained a national 
reputation; and has been successful as a 
farmer, editor and public speaker. His 
father was Francis Gillette, a farmer and 
United States senator from Connecticut: 
and an associate of Charles Sumner, and 
the frequent candidate of the old free 
soil party for governor of Connecticut. 

GILLETTE, FRANCIS, United States 
senator, was born Dec. 14, 1807, in Bloom¬ 
field, Conn. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Connecticut during the session 
of 1854-55, to fill a vacancy. He died Sept. 
30, 1879, in Hartford, Conn. 

GILLETTE, MRS. LUCIA FIDELIA 
WOOLLEY, minister, lecturer, author, po¬ 
et, was born in 1827 in Madison county, N. 
Y. She received her education at the Caze- 
novia seminary and the Bridgewater 
academy. She was the daughter of a noted 
universalist minister; and was herself or¬ 
dained to the ministry in 1873. She has 
held the office of state missionary and of 
pastor; and for many years was promi¬ 
nent in the lecture field. In her youth she 
contributed to the Boston Repository and 
the New York Tribune. She is the au¬ 
thor of A Memoir of Her Father; Peb¬ 
bles From the Shore; Editorials and 
Other Waifs; and in connection with her 
daughter published a volume entitled 
Floating Leaves. 

GILLETTE, WILLIAM HOOKER, act¬ 
or, author, was born July 24, 1853, in 
Hartford, Conn. He was an actor and 
playwright, among whose plays are Held 
by the Enemy; The Professor; Esmeral¬ 
da; and The Private Secretary. 

GILLEY, SILAS ALFRED, soldier, 
clergyman, prohibitionist, was born April 
21, 1845, in Farmersville, N. Y. For three 
years he served in the union army, and 
was promoted while in his teens. He is 
now pastor of the methodist church of 
Marengo, Iowa; and editor of the Sun¬ 
day-school Quarterlies of his denomina¬ 
tion. 

GILLHAM, ROBERT, civil engineer, 
was born Sept. 25, 1854, in New York city. 
He is vice-president of the Kansas City 
Elevated Railway 
company, and de¬ 
signed and built the 
road as chief engi¬ 
neer. He organized 
the Kansas City Ca¬ 
ble Railway c o m - 
pany, and as chief 
engineer constructed 
the railway, includ¬ 
ing the steep incline 
at the Union depot, 
Kansas City; also 
the Eighth Street 
Tunnel and Elevated railway, near the 
Union depot, which are monuments to 
his engineering skill and science. Among 
other noted engineering works executed 
by him are the Omaha Cable Railway svs- 








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tem, the Denver City Cable Railway sys¬ 
tem, the Montague Cable railway of 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; the Cleveland City Cable 
railway, Cleveland, Ohio. He is a recog¬ 
nized authority on the subject of com¬ 
pressed air, and visited Europe in the in¬ 
terests of a wealthy syndicate and made 
extensive experiments and tests of the 
various applications in the use of com¬ 
pressed air abroad. He has made suc¬ 
cessful demonstrations of the feasibility 
of operating street cars by the use of 
compressed air. He was elected president 
of the Engineers’ club of Kansas City, and 
is a member of various other engineering 
and scientific societies. He is president 
of the Armourdale Foundry company, 
Kansas City, and one of the park com¬ 
missioners of Kansas City, Mo. 

GILLIAM, DAVID TOD, educator, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born April 3, 1844, in 
Hebron, Ohio. He was elected president 
of the Columbus Academy of Medicine. 
He is the author of Essentials of Path¬ 
ology, and A Pocket-Book of Medicine. 

GILLIG, GEORGE, brewer, was born 
Oct. 9, 1809, in Germany. He began the 
brewery business in New York city in 
1840, and was the first to brew lager beer 
in 1846. 

GILLIGAN, JOHN PHILIP, surgeon, 
was born Jan. 14, 1897, in Elizabethtown, 
N. Y. He graduated from the Medical 
Union university, and has attained prom¬ 
inence as one of the foremost surgeons 
of the west. He has been surgeon to sev¬ 
eral large railway corporations; secre¬ 
tary to the LTnited States pension board; 
a member of the insanity commission; 
and has held various other public posi¬ 
tions of honor. He has a large practice 
in Nebraska, and resides in O’Neill. 

GILLIN, CHARLES WESLEY, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born Sept. 9, 1865, in 
Ebensburg, Pa. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Waterloo college, Iowa; and 
graduated in medicine from the Rush 
Medical college of Chicago. He is one of 
the most successful physicians and sur¬ 
geons of his native state. He has been 
president of the local board of health; is 
local railroad surgeon; and a member 
of various local and state medical so¬ 
cieties. 

GILLIS, JAMES HENRY LAWRENCE, 
naval officer, was born May 14, 1831, in 
Ridgeway, Pa. He served in the United 
States navy during the civil war; and 
received the rank of commodore. 

GILLIS, JAMES L., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 2, 1792, in Heb¬ 
ron, N. Y. He was commissioned in 1814 
a lieutenant by the governor of New 
York. In 1840 he was elected to the leg¬ 
islature of Pennsylvania; and in 1842 was 
appointed one of the judges of Jefferson 
county. In 1845 he was elected to the 
state senate; and in 1851 was again re¬ 
elected to the lower house; and was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania in the thirty-fifth congress. 

GILLISS, JAMES MELVILLE, astrono¬ 
mer, author, was born Sept. 6, ,1811, in 
Georgetown, D. C. He was an astronomer 
of distinction in charge of the naval ob¬ 
servatory at Washington; and the author 
of United States Astronomical Expedition 
to the Southern Hemisphere; and Obser¬ 
vations at the Naval Observatory. He 
died Feb. 9, 1865, in Washington, D. C. 

GILLMAN, HENRY, scientist, diplo¬ 
mat, author, was born Nov. 16, 1833, in 
Ireland. He served as United States con¬ 
sul at Jerusalem until 1891. He is the 
author of The Wild Flowers and Gardens 
of Jerusalem and Palestine. 


GILLMORE, QUINCY ADAMS, soldier, 
author, was born Feb. 28, 1825, in Black 
River, Ohio. He was a military engineer 
in charge of the fed¬ 
eral bombardment of 
Charleston in 1863. 
He was a major-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers in 
the civil war, and a 
high authority o n 
engineering matters. 
He was the author of 
Siege and Reduction 
of Fort Pulaski; 
Limes, Hydraulic 
Cements, and Mor¬ 
tars; Engineer and 
Against the Defences 
of Charleston; and Compressive Strength, 
etc., of Building Stones of the United 
States. He died April 8, 1888, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 

GILLMORE, ROBERT HAMILTON, 
journalist, lawyer, was born Nov. 14, 
1822, in Newark, Ohio. He graduated 
from the university 
of Ohio, and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 

1855 at Zanesville, 
where he edited the 
Zanesville Gazette 
during 1854-55. In 

1856 he moved to 
Keokuk, Iowa, where 
he became one of the 
leading lawyers of 
the state. In 1864-65 
he was assistant 
United States dis¬ 
trict attorney; and in 1867 formed a part¬ 
nership with James H. Anderson, which 
continued until Mr. Gillmore’s death. 

GILLON, ALEXANDER, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1793 to 1794. He 
died in 1794. 

GILMAN, ARTHUR, architect, was 
born Nov. 5, 1821, in Newburyport, Mass. 
He designed and built the Boston city 
hall, which is regarded as his best work. 
He died July 11, 1882, in Syracuse, N. Y. 

GILMAN, ARTHUR, educator, author, 
was born June 22, 1837, in Alton, Ill. He 
is an educator of Cambridge, and the or¬ 
ganizer of Radcliffe college. He is the 
author of First Steps in English Litera¬ 
ture; Seven Historic Ages; First Steps 
in English History; History of the Amer¬ 
ican People; Rome from the Earliest 
Times; Tales of the Pathfinders; Short 
Stories from the Dictionary; The Sara¬ 
cens; Colonization of America; The Dis¬ 
covery of America; and The Making of 
the American Nation. He has also edited 
the Riverside Chaucer. 

GILMAN, ARTHUR B., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born June 18, 1856, in Haver¬ 
hill, Mass. Since 1893 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Phillips and Rangeley railroad 
at Haverhill, Mass. 

GILMAN, MRS. CAROLINE HOWARD, 
author, poet, was born Oct. 8, 1794, in 
Boston, Mass. She is the author of Recol¬ 
lections of a Southern Matron; Recollec¬ 
tions of a New England Housekeeper; 
The Sibyl, or New Oracles from the Poets; 
Verses of a Lifetime; Poetry of Traveling 
in the United States; Ruth Raymond; and 
Stories and Poems. 

GILMAN, CHANDLER ROBBINS, phy¬ 
sician, educator, author, was born Sept. 6, 
1802, in Marietta, Ohio. He was a physi¬ 
cian of New York city, and professor from 
1841 in the college of Physicians and Sur¬ 
geons. He was the author of Legends of 
a Log Cabin; Life on the Lakes; Life 
of J. B. Beck; The Relations of the 
Medical to the Legal Profession; and 


Tracts on Generation. He died Sept. 26, 
1865, in Middletown, Conn. 

GILMAN, CHARLES J., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He served in the legislature of 
that state in 1854. He removed to Maine; 
and was elected a representative to the 
thirty-fifth congress from that state. 

GILMAN, DANIEL COIT, educator, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born July 6, 
1831, in Norwich, Conn. He is an edu¬ 
cator of prominence; was president of 
the university of California; and is now 
the honored president of Johns Hopkins 
university from 1875. He is the author 
of Our National Schools in Science; and 
Life of James Monroe. 

GILMAN, JOHN TAYLOR, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born Dec. 19, 
1753, in Exeter, N. H. He was a volunteer 
in the revolutionary army; a delegate 
from New Hampshire in 1780 to the Hart¬ 
ford convention; a delegate to the conti¬ 
nental congress in 1782 and 1783, the 
latter year succeeding his father as 
treasurer of New Hampshire. He was 
governor of New Hampshire from 1794 
to 1805, and again from 1813 to 1815, when 
he declined a re-election. He died Sept. 
1, 1828, in New Hampshire. 

GILMAN, NICHOLAS, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Aug. 3, 
1775, in Exeter, N. H. He was a delegate 
from New Hampshire to the continental 
congress from 1786 to 1788. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
1789 to 1797; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from New Hampshire from 1805 to 
1814. He died May 2, 1814, in Exeter, 
N. H. 

GILMAN, NICHOLAS PAINE, educator 
author, was born Dec. 21, 1849, in Quincy, 
Ill. Since 1895 he has filled the chair of 
sociology in the Meadville Theological 
school, Pennsylvania. He is the author 
of Profit-Sharing between Employer and 
Employee; The Laws of Daily Conduct; 
and Socialism and the American Spirit. 

GILMAN, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Feb. 16, 1791, in Gloucester, 
Mass. He was a Unitarian clergyman of 
Charleston in 1819-58. He published Me¬ 
moirs of a New England Choir; The His¬ 
tory of a Ray of Light; Pleasures and 
Pains of a Student’s Life; Contributions 
to Literature; and was the author of 
the noted college song, Fair Harvard. He 
died Feb. 9, 1858, in Kingston, Mass. 

GILMAN, MRS. STELLA SCOTT, au¬ 
thor, was born in Alabama. She is the 
author of Mothers in Council. 

GILMER, GEORGE ROCKINGHAM, 
soldier, congressman, governor, was born 
April 11, 1790, in Oglethorpe county, Ga. 

He was first lieuten¬ 
ant of the forty-third 
regiment, United 
States army, and 
participated in the 
Creek war. In 1818 
he entered upon the 
practice of his pro¬ 
fession; and was 
elected to the state 
legislature in 1818, 
1819, and 1824. He 
was a representative 
in congress from 
Georgia from 1821 to 1823, from 1827 to 
1829, and from 1833 to 1835; and was gov¬ 
ernor of the state for the terms com¬ 
mencing in 1829 and 1837. He was the 
author of a book entitled The Georgians, 
which contains much useful and interest¬ 
ing information touching the early settle¬ 
ment of his native state. He died Nov. 
15, 1859, in Lexington, Ga. 



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GILMER. JEREMY FRANCIS, soldier, 
civil engineer, was born Feb. 23, 1818, in 
Guilford county, N. C. He was appointed 
major of engineers in 1861, and in 1863 
was promoted major-general. 

GILMER, JOHN ALEXANDER, soldier, 
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Nov. 4, 1805, in Guilford county, N. C. 
He was a member of the state senate from 
1846 to 1856, and was elected a represen¬ 
tative to the thirty-fifth congress. He 
was re-elected to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress, and withdrew in 1861. He died 
May 14, 1868, in Greensborough. 

GILMER, THOMAS WALKER, lawyer, 
journalist, congressman, governor, was 
born in Virginia. He served frequently 
in the legislature, and was speaker of the 
house. He was governor of the state in 
1840; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Virginia from 1841 to 1843. 
He was secretary of the navy under Pres¬ 
ident Tyler. He died Feb. 28, 1844, near 
Washington, D. C. 

GILMOR, HARRY, soldier, author, was 
born Jan. 24, 1838, in Baltimore county, 
Md. He joined the confederate army; was 
rapidly promoted; and was appointed pro¬ 
vost marshal of Gettysburg. In 1874 he 
was elected police commissioner of Balti¬ 
more. He was the author of Four Years 
in a Saddle. He died March 4, 1883, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

GILMORE, ALFRED, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1849 to 1853. 

GILMORE, JAMES ROBERTS, mer¬ 
chant, journalist, author, was born Sept. 
10, 1823, in Boston, Mass. In earlier life 
he was a shipping merchant in New York 
city, but during and since the civil war 
a journalist and miscellaneous writer. He 
is the author of Among the Pines; My 
Southern Friends; Down in Tennessee; 
Life of Garfield; Among the Guerrillas; 
Adrift in Dixie; On the Border; Patriot 
Boys; The Rear Guard of the Revolu¬ 
tion; John Sevier as a Commonwealth 
Builder; and The Advance Guard of West¬ 
ern Civilization. 

GILMORE, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1833. He died 
May 18, 1845. 

GILMORE, JOHN C., soldier, was born 
April 18, 1837, in Canada. He served as 
captain, major, and lieutenant in the six¬ 
teenth regiment New York volunteer in¬ 
fantry; and received the medal of honor 
for distinguished conduct in the battle of 
Salem Heights for seizing the colors of 
his regiment and gallantly rallying his 
men under a very severe fire of the ene¬ 
my while serving as major. In 1866 he 
entered the regular army, and became a 
lieutenant-colonel in 1867. He will be re¬ 
tired in 1901. 

GILMORE, JOSEPH ATHERTON, rail¬ 
road builder, state senator, governor, was 
born June 10, 1811, in Weston, Vt. He 
was superintendent of the Manchester and 
Lawrence railroad from 1853 to 1856; and 
also of the Concord and other connecting 
lines until 1866. He was state senator in 
1858 and 1859; president of that body in 
1859; and was governor of New Hamp¬ 
shire from 1863 to 1865. He died April 
17, 1867, in Concord, N. H. 

GILMORE, JOSEPH HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 20, 1834, in 
Boston, Mass. He is a baptist minister of 
Rochester, N. Y.; professor of rhetoric 
in the university of Rochester since 1867; 
and is the author of Outlines of the Art 
of Expression; Outlines of Logic; Eng¬ 
lish Language and its Early Literature; 
English Literature; and He Leadeth Me, 
and Other Poems. 


GILMORE, PATRICK SARSFIELD, 
musician, bandmaster, was born Dec. 25, 
1830, in Ireland. His first great feat as 
leader of a jubilee was on the fourth of 
March, 1864, after the restoration of New 
Orleans to the union, when he collected 
ten thousand children and five hundred 
instruments to inaugurate the first union 
governor of Louisiana. He died Sept. 24, 
1892, in St. Louis, Mo. 

GILPIN, EDWARD WOODWARD, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born July 15, 1805, in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. He was attorney-general 
of Delaware in 1840-50; and from 1857 
till his death was chief justice of the 
state. He died April 29, 1876, in Dover, 
Del. 

GILPIN, HENRY DILWOOD, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 14, 1801, in England. 
He was a jurist of Pennsylvania who was 
attorney-general of the United States in 
1840-41. He edited The Atlantic Souvenir, 
the first American literary annual, and 
published Reports of Cases in the United 
States District Court for Eastern Penn¬ 
sylvania; and Opinions of the Attorneys- 
General. He also edited the Papers of 
President Madison in three volumes. He 
died Jan. 29, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GILPIN, JOSHUA, author, poet, was 
born Nov. 8, 1765, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was a Philadelphia writer who pub¬ 
lished Verses at the Fountain of Vau- 
cluse; Farm of Virgil, and Other Poems; 
and Memoir on a Canal from the Chesa¬ 
peake to the Delaware. He died in 1840, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GILPIN, THOMAS, manufacturer, was 
born March 18, 1728, in Chester county. 
Pa. He aided in establishing Wilmington 
college, Delaware, and labored for the 
construction of a canal between the Ches¬ 
apeake and the Delaware. He died April 
30, 1778, in Winchester, Va. 

GILPIN, THOMAS, manufacturer, in¬ 
ventor, was born Sept. 10, 1776, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He became an extensive 
paper-manufacturer, and in 1817 con¬ 
structed a machine for making paper con¬ 
tinuously. He died March 3, 1853, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

GILPIN, WILLIAM, soldier, governor, 
was born Oct. 4, 1822, in Brandywine, Pa. 
He was appointed first governor of Colo¬ 
rado by President Lincoln and was, with 
Benjamin F. Hall, the chief justice, and 
other officers, instrumental in saving the 
territory to the union. He died Jan. 20, 
1894. 

GILSON, FRANK RINDGE, journalist, 
was born Dec. 30, 1848, in Charlestown, 
Mass. He is editor and owner of the Pal¬ 
ladium Daily of Benton Harbor,Mich.; and 
president of the Michigan Republican 
Newspaper association. 

GILSTRAP, WILLIAM HENRY, port¬ 
rait and landscape painter, prohibitionist, 
was born April 24, 1849, in Effingham 
county, Ill. He was one of the incorpo-- 
rators of the Bloomington Art association, 
and was one of its first trustees. He has 
a studio in the Ferry museum of Tacoma, 
Wash., of which institution he is the 
curator. Since 1870 he has been an active 
prohibitionist; in 1892 organized and 
was made chairman of the prohibition 
party of Tacoma; and has filled numerous 
high positions in that party. For several 
years he was editor and proprietor of the 
Pacific Lancet; and is the author of sev¬ 
eral works. 

GIRARD. CHARLES, naturalist, author, 
was born March 9, 1822, in France. He 
is a naturalist who came to the United 
States with Agassiz in 1847; and is the 
author of Life in its Physical Aspects; 
Contributions to the Fauna of Chili; and 
Herpetology of the Wilkes Expedition. 


GIRARD, STEPHEN, merchant, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born May 24, 1750, near 
Bordeaux, France. In 1780 he engaged in 
the West India trade, and acquired a for¬ 
tune. He founded the Girard college of 
Philadelphia for the education and main¬ 
tenance of orphans. He died Dec. 26, 1831, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GIRARDEAU, JOHN L., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1825, in South Carolina. 
He is a presbyterian clergyman of South 
Carolina, and professor of systematic 
theology in Columbia Theological semi¬ 
nary from 1876. He is the author of Cal¬ 
vinism and Evangelical Arminianism 
Compared; and The Will in its Theologi¬ 
cal Relations. 

GIST, JOSEPH, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in 1775, in South Carolina. He 
served in the legislature of his native 
state for eighteen years: and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from South Caro¬ 
lina from 1821 to 1827. He served as a 
trustee of the state college. He died May 
8, 1835. 

GIST, MORDECAI, soldier, merchant, 
planter, was born ir. 1743, in Baltimore, 
Md. He served with distinction through 
the revolutionary 
war, was promoted 
to brigadier-general, 
and was present at 
the surrender o f 
Cornwallis. With the 
cessation of hostili¬ 
ties he purchased a 
plantation at Char¬ 
leston, S. C., where 
he resided until the 
close of his life. He 
died Sept. 2, 1792, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

GIST, WILLIAM H., governor, was 
born in South Carolina. He was governor 
of that state from 1858 to 1860. 

GITHENS, COURNELLI E., poet, was 
born Dec. 27, 1863, in Cameron, Ohio. He 
is the author of numerous poems which 
have appeared in current periodicals. 

GITTINGS, ELLA PAMELA BEECH¬ 
ER, educator, author, poet, was born Feb. 
18, 1852, in Oberlin, Ohio. She received 
her education at the Oberlin and Iowa 
colleges, and prior to her marriage taught 
school. She has attained success as a 
writer of stories and poems; and has 
taken an active part in the world’s con¬ 
gress, etc. 

GIVEN, WILLIAM, naval officer, was 
born Dec. 5, 1832, in Columbus, Ohio. He 
entered the United States navy as a mid¬ 
shipman, and was successively promoted 
lieutenant and lieutenant-commander. 
He died Jan. 3, 1863. 

GLADDEN, ADLEY H„ soldier, was 
born in South Carolina. In 1861 he was 
appointed a brigadier-general in the con¬ 
federate army; was wounded at the battle 
of Shiloh; and died soon afterward. 

GLADDEN. WASHINGTON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 11, 1836, in 
Pittsgrove, Pa. He is a congregational 
clergyman of Columbus, Ohio. He is the 
author of The Lord’s Prayers; Seven 
Homilies; The Christian League of Con¬ 
necticut; Things New and Old; Amuse¬ 
ments, their Uses and Abuses; Plain 
Thoughts on the Art of Living; From the 
Hub to the Hudson; Being a Christian; 
Working-People and their Employers; 
The Christian Way; The Young Man and 
the Church; Applied Christianity; Parish 
Problems; Tools and the Man; Who 
Wrote the Bible?; Ruling Ideas of the 
Present Age; The Cosmopolis City Club; 
and Burning Questions, a volume of ser¬ 
mons. 





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GLASCOCK. JOHN RAGLAND, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 25, 1845, in 
Panola county, Miss. He was district at¬ 
torney of Alameda county, Cal., in 1875- 
77; and was elected to the forty-eighth 
congress as congressman at large' from 
California as a democrat. 

GLASCOCK, THOMAS, soldier, con¬ 
gressman. He was appointed colonel of 
the troops ordered out by the legislature 
in defense of the state against the In¬ 
dians on the western frontier, and was 
afterwards elected general of militia. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Georgia from 1836 to 1839. He died May 
9, 1841, in Decatur, Ga. 

GLASGOW, ELLEN, author, was born 
in 1875, in Virginia. She is a novelist of 
Richmond, Va.; and the author of The 
Descendant: a Novel. 

GLASGOW, HUGH, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1817. 

GLASGOW, S. L., soldier, legislator, 
was born in 1838, in Winchester, Ohio. 
He served in the civil war; and in 1863 
for meritorious services received the rank 
of brigadier-general. In 1879 he was 
elected to the Iowa state legislature. 

GLASS, PRESLEY T.. merchant, jour¬ 
nalist, legislator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 18, 1824, in Halifax county, Va. He 
received his educa¬ 
tion at the Dresden 
academy, Tennessee; 
and at the Lexington 
Law school. During 
the war he was in 
the confederate ser¬ 
vice; was a commis¬ 
sary, with the rank 
of major. He served 
as a member of the 
Tennessee legisla¬ 
ture in 1847; and 
again in 1883. Dur¬ 
ing his second term in the Tennessee leg¬ 
islature he introduced and secured the 
passage of the bill to create the agri¬ 
cultural experiment station at Knoxville, 
Tenn. He served as a member from 
Tennessee in the forty-ninth and fiftieth 
congresses; and while a member of that 
body he was the author of the law to ele¬ 
vate agriculture to the level of commerce 
and manufactures. He has been a suc¬ 
cessful merchant and journalist of Rip¬ 
ley, Tenn. 

GLASSCOCK. JOHN R., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 25, 1845, in 

Panola county. Miss. In 1875 he was 

elected district attorney of Alameda 
county, Cal., and served one term, declin¬ 
ing a renomination. He was elected a 
representative from California to the 
forty-eighth congress. 

GLASSMANN, WILLIAM, journalist, 
politician, was born Nov. 12, 1858, in 

Davenport, Iowa. In 1871 he left home 
and went west to 
seek his fortune. In 
1890 he was one of 
the first republican 
organizers in the 
state of Utah; and 
has always taken an 
active part in politi¬ 
cal affairs. He is 

now the editor and 
proprietor of The 
Daily Standard of 
Ogden, Utah, a silver 
republican news- 
paper, which has become very popular in 
the west. He has filled many positions of 
honor in his adopted state, and is an ard¬ 
ent exponent of silver. 


GLASSON, JOHN J., naval officer, was 
born in New York city. He commanded 
the store-ship Lexington in Perry’s Japan 
expedition in 1853-54; was appointed com¬ 
mander in 1855, and stationed at New 
Bedford, Mass., from 1861 till 1863. He 
died March 12, 1882, in New York city. 

GLAZEBROOK, OTIS A., clergyman, 
was born Oct. 13, 1845, in Richmond, Va. 
In 1875 he was made chaplain of the fa¬ 
mous fifth Maryland regiment; and built 
the church of the Holy Trinity. In 1885 
he was called to St. John’s church of 
Elizabeth, N. J. 

GLAZIER, GEORGE WILLIAM, civil 
engineer, inventor, was born Sept. 2, 1838, 
in Gardiner, Maine. He is the inventor 
of spool cotton and paper-box machinery; 
and is also engaged in their manufacture. 

GLAZIER, WILLARD, soldier, author, 
was born Aug. 22, 1841, in Fowler, N. Y. 
He was a captain in the federal army 
during the civil war. He is the author of 
Captured, Prison-Pen, and Escape; Three 
Years in the Federal Cavalry; Battles for 
the Union; Heroes of Three Wars; Pe¬ 
culiarities of Great Cities; and Down the 
Great River. 

GLEASON, FREDERIC GRANT, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Dec. 17, 1848, 
in Middletown, Conn. In 1876 he went to 
Chicago, where he is musical critic of the 
Tribune. His chief compositions are two 
operas of the grand romantic type, Otho 
Visconti and Montezuma. 

GLEASON, MRS. RACHEL BROOKS, 
physician, author, was born in 1820, in 
Vermont. She is a physician of Elmira, 
N. Y., for many years in charge of the 
Gleason sanitarium. She has published 
Talks to My Patients. 

GLEASON, WILLIAM E„ jurist, was 
born in Maryland. He emigrated to Dako¬ 
ta, where he was appointed United States 
judge for that territory, residing at Yank¬ 
ton. 

GLEIM, CHRISTIAN, journalist, was 
born Jan. 10, 1780, in Lancaster county, 
Pa. He settled in Harrisburg in 1812, and 
was appointed to print the senate journal 
in English. Afterward he established and 
edited The Pennsylvanian. He died Sept. 
21, 1861, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

GLEIM, GEORGE CHRISTIAN, soldier, 
was born in 1736. He took part in the 
war of the revolution and was severely 
wounded near Philadelphia. He died July 
21, 1817, in Lancaster county, Pa. 

GLEN, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was born 
in Maryland. He was for many years a 
judge of the United States district court 
of Maryland. He died July 8, 1853, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

GLENDY, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born June 24, 1755, in Ireland. In 
1806 he served as chaplain of the United 
States house of representatives, and in 
1815 and 1816 of the senate. He published 
an Oration in Commemoration of Wash¬ 
ington, delivered in Staunton in 1800. He 
died Oct. 4, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GLENDY, WILLIAM MARSHALL, 
naval officer, was born in 1801, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was promoted to the rank of 
commodore in 1862, and in the following 
year was made prize commissioner in 
Washington, D. C. He died July 16, 1873, 
in Baltimore, Md. 

GLENN, ELIAS, jurist, was born in 
Maryland. He was appointed judge of the 
United States court for that state. 

GLENN, HENRY, congressman, was 
born in 1741. He took an active part in 
the revolutionary war; and was a repre¬ 
sentative from NewYork in congress from 
1793 to 1801. He died in 1814, in Schenec¬ 
tady. 


GLENN, JAMES, governor, author. He 
was governor of South Carolina from 
1744 till 1755. He published A Descrip¬ 
tion of South Carolina. 

GLENN, JOHN THOMAS, lawyer, was 
born March 21, 1846, in Walton county, 
Ga. He has served as city attorney of 
Atlanta; solicitor-general; mayor of At¬ 
lanta; and member of the board of edu¬ 
cation. 

GLESSNER, DOUGLAS, journalist, 
public official, was born in Delaware, 
Ohio. In 1882 he moved to Griffin, Ga., 
where he is the editor and proprietor of 
the News and Sun. 

GLESSNER, OLIVER J., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born Oct. 11, 1828. In 
1864 he was elected judge of the eighth 
judicial district, 
composed of the 
counties of Morgan, 
Shelby, Johnson, 
Brown, and Monroe. 
In 1870 he was 
elected by his party 
to the state senate, 
as a member for the 
counties of Shelby 
and Bartholomew, 
serving as such for 
four years. He has 
also filled numerous 
public offices in the gift of his county and 
state. 

GLICK, GEORGE W., farmer, lawyer, 
governor, was born July 4, 1827, in Green- 
castle, Ohio. He served nine sessions in 
the house and senate of the Kansas legis¬ 
lature. He served with distinction as 
governor of Kansas for one term; and 
was twice United States pension agent for 
the Topeka district by appointment of 
President Cleveland. 

GLIDDEN, CHARLES JASPER, bank¬ 
er, was born Aug. 29, 1857, in Lowell, 
Mass. He is president of the Traders’ 
National bank of Lowell. 

GLISAN, RODNEY, physician, author, 
was born Jan. 29, 1827, in Linganore, Md. 
He is a physician of Portland, Ore., emeri¬ 
tus professor of obstetrics in Willamette 
university; and the author of Journal of 
Army Life; Modern Midwifery; and Two 
Years in Europe. 

GLISSON, OLIVER S., naval officer, 
was born Jan. 18, 1809, in Ohio. In 1826 
he was made a midshipman; captain in 
1862; commodore in 1866; and rear-ad¬ 
miral in 1870. He was retired in 1871. 

GLONINGER, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative from that state in the twelfth 
congress; and resigned before the expira¬ 
tion of his term. 

GLORIEUX, ALPHONSUS JOSEPH, 
catholic bishop, was born Feb. 1, 1844, 
in Belgium. He received his education at 
the college of Cour- 
trai, Belgium; at the 
American College of 
Louvain, Belgium; 
and at the university 
of Louvain. In 1867 
he was ordained to 
the priesthood; and 
served as a mission¬ 
ary in the south¬ 
western diocese of 
Oregon. He has been 
rector of St. Paul’s 
church, Oregon; 
principal of St. Michael’s college of Port¬ 
land, Ore.; and on April 19, 1885, was 
principal of St. Michael’s college, of Port¬ 
land, Ore.; and on April 19, 1885, was 
consecrated catholic bishop of Boise City, 
Idaho. The Right Rev. Glorieux is a scho¬ 
lastic man, and has contributed largely to 
the religious literature of his church. 









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GLOSSBRENNER, ADAM J., journalist, 
congressman, was born Aug. 31, 1810, in 
Hagerstown, Md. In 1861 he was private 
secretary to President Buchanan; and in 
1863 became one of the founders of the 
Philadelphia Age. In 1864 he was elected 
a representative from Pennsylvania to 
the thirty-ninth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the fortieth congress. 

GLOVER. JOHN MILTON, was born 
June 23, 1836, in St. Louis, Mo. He was 
elected a representative from Missouri to 
the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as 
a democrat. 

GLOVER, JOHN MONTGOMERY, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 
4, 1834, in Mercer county, Ky. He was 
appointed a colonel of cavalry; and was 
commissioned colonel of the third Mis¬ 
souri volunteer cavalry in 1861. In 1866 
he was appointed collector of internal 
revenue for the third district of Missouri; 
and was elected to the forty-third, forty- 
fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a 
democrat. 

GLOVER, WILLIAM, governor, was 
born about 1670. He was governor of 
North Carolina during 1706-10. 

GLUCK, JAMES FRASER, lawyer was 
born April 28, 1852, in Niagara Falls N 
Y. He is curator of the Buffalo library 
and has presented that library with one 
of the most valuable collections of auto¬ 
graphs, manuscripts, and letters in the 
United States. 

GMEINER, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 5, 1847, in Bavaria. He 
is a Roman catholic priest of Milwaukee; 
professor of homiletics in St. Francis de 
Sales seminary; and is the author of 
Die Katholische Kirche in den Vereinig- 
ten Staaten, Sind wir den IVeltende 
nahe ?, Modern Scientific Views and 
Christian Doctrines Compared; The 
Spirits of Darkness and their Manifesta¬ 
tions on Earth; and The Church and 
the Various Nationalities in the United 
States. 


GOBBLE, AARON EZRA, educator, 
college president, was born Feb. 14 1856' 
in Center county. Pa. Since 1887 lie has 
been president of the Central Pennsylva¬ 
nia college at New Berlin. 

GOBIN, HILLARY ASBURY, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, was 
bom March 25, 1842, in Terre Haute, Ind. 
For six years he was president of the 
Baker university of Baldwin, Kan.; and in 
1895 became president of the De Pauw 
university of Greencastle, Ind. 


GOBIN, JOHN P. S., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, was born in 1838, in Sun- 
bury, Pa. He was admitted to the bar 
just before the war 
began, and he en¬ 
tered the service as 
first lieutenant. He 
was soon appointed 
to the command of 
the regiment, and 
fought with the 
nineteenth army 
corps in the Red 
river campaign, and 
with Sheridan in the 
Shenandoah valley; 

, . ,. aa d was brevetted 

bngadier-genenu. H e was provost judge 
of South Carolina during the early recon- 
stiuction penod. He settled at Lebanon, 
in 1866 , and organized Post 42. He 
was state senator for sixteen years, and 
for several years president of the senate. 
He has also long been prominent in Ma- 
and Grand Army circles; and in 
lay/ was elected commander in chief. 



GOBRIGHT, LAWRENCE AUGUSTUS, 
journalist, author, was born May 2, 1816, 
in Baltimore, Md. He for some years 
owned and edited the Washington Star. 
He also won fame as an author and lec¬ 
turer, Men and Things in Washington 
During the Third of a Century being his 
best known book. He died May 22, 1879, 
in Washington, D. C. 

GODBEY, EDGAR W., lawyer, was born 
March 2, 1861, in Morristown, Tenn. He 
received his education at the Hiwassee 
college, Tenn., and at the university of 
Alabama. He has devoted himself entire¬ 
ly to the law, and has had a large prac¬ 
tice involving many novel and intricate 
questions. 

GODDARD, CALVIN, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born July 17, 1768, in 
Shrewsbury, Mass. In 1790 he settled in 
Plainfield, from which place he was 
elected a representative in the legislature 
for nine sessions, during three of which 
he was speaker of the house. He removed 
to Norwich in 1807; and from 1801 to 
1805 was a representative in congress. 
From 1815 to 1818 he was judge of the 
superior court; and was state’s attorney 
for the county of New London for five 
years, and mayor of Norwich for seven¬ 
teen years. He died May 2, 1842, in Nor¬ 
wich, Conn. 

GODDARD, CALVIN LUTHER, invent¬ 
or, was born Jan. 20, 1820, in Covington, 
N. Y. He patented solid packing burring 
machines, and feed-rolls as an attachment 
for the carding-machine; and has devised 
several valuable improvements for this 
machine. 

GODDARD, JOSIAH, clergyman, mis¬ 
sionary, was born Oct. 27, 1813, in Wen¬ 
dell, Mass. In 1838 he was appointed a 
missionary to the Chinese in Siam. He 
prepared several tracts, an English and 
Chinese vocabulary, and a translation of 
the New Testament into Chinese. He died 
Sept. 4, 1854, in China. 

GODDARD, PAUL BECK, physician, 
author, was born Jan. 26, 1811, in Balti¬ 
more. He acquired reputation through 
his work as an editor of medical books. 
These include a series of twelve plates 
On the Arteries, and a similar series On 
the Nerves. He died July 3, 1866, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

GODDARD, WILLIAM, printer, jour¬ 
nalist, was born in 1740, in New London, 
Conn. In 1766 he removed to Philadel¬ 
phia, where he published the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Chronicle. In 1773 he went to Bal¬ 
timore and established a daily news¬ 
paper. He died Dec. 23, 1817, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. 

GODEY, LOUIS ANTOINE, journalist, 
author, was born June 6, 1804 in New 
York, city. In 1830 he founded Godey’s 
Lady’s Book, the first periodical of the 
kind published, which was continued by 
him with great success until 1877, when it 
was sold to a stock company. He died 
Nov. 29, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GODFREY, BENJAMIN, founder of 
Monticello seminary of Godfrey, Ill., was 
born Dec. 4, 1794, in Chatham, Mass. At 
the age of nine years he ran away to sea; 
went to Ireland, and there remained until 
the war of 1812 brought him home again 
After a brief service in the navy he ac¬ 
quired an education; and subsequently 
a fa>*s aile d the seas as a shipmaster. In 
1826 he had acquired a fortune of nearly 
a quarter of a million of dollars in silver 
in Mexico, of which he was robbed bv 
Mexican bandits. In 1832 he settled in 
Alton; and there became a successful 
wholesale merchant. Gradually the plans 
of an institution for religious and mental 


education of girls and young women took 
shape in his mind; and in 1838 Monti¬ 
cello seminary opened its doors, to which 
institution he gave over one hundred 
thousand dollars. He died Aug. 13, 1862, 
in Godfrey, Ill. 

GODFREY, THOMAS, soldier, author, 
poet, was born Dec. 4, 1736, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a lieutenant in the co¬ 
lonial militia who possessed much poetic 
ability, and was the first dramatic author 
in America. He was the author of The 
Court of Fancy; and Juvenile Poems on 
Various Subjects, with The Prince of Par- 
thia, a Tragedy. He died July 26, 1763, 
near Wilmington, N. C. 

GODKIN, EDWIN LAWRENCE, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Oct. 2, 1831, in 
Ireland. He is a prominent journalist of 
New York city. He came to America in 
1856, and since 1865 has been editor of The 
Nation, and from 1881 of the Evening 
Post. He is the author of Government; 
History of Hungary; Reflections and 
Comments; and Problems of Democracy. 

GODMAN, JOHN D., physician, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 20, 1794, in 
Annapolis, Md. He was a physician and 
naturalist of Cincinnati and New York. 
He was the author of Rambles of a Natu¬ 
ralist; American Natural History; Ir¬ 
regularities of Structure and Morbid 
Anatomy; and Anatomical Investiga¬ 
tions. He died April 17, 1830, in Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa. 

GODON, SYLVANUS WILLIAM, naval 
officer, was born June 18, 1809, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was appointed midship¬ 
man in 1819. He was made commander 
in 1855, and captain in 1861. He died May 
10, 1879, in France. 

GODSHALK, WILLIAM, merchant, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 

25, 1817, in East Nottingham, Pa. He 
was associate judge of Bucks county from 
1871 to 1876; and was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Pennsylvania to the forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a 
republican. 

GODWIN, PARKE, journalist author, 
was born Feb. 25, 1816, in Paterson, N. J. 

He is a journalist of New York city, the 
son-in-law of the poet Bryant, whose 
writings he has edited. He was long 
connected with the Evening Post, and was 
the editor of Putnam’s Monthly Magazine 
in 1853-55 and in 1867-70. He is the author 
of Pacific and Constructive Democracy; 
Popular View of the Doctrines of Fou¬ 
rier; Vala, a mythological tale; Political 
Essays; History of France; Life of Wil¬ 
liam Cullen Bryant; Out of the Past, a 
collection of essays; Commemorative Ad¬ 
dresses; and Handbook of Universal 
Biography. 

GOEBEL, JULIUS, educator, philolo¬ 
gist, author, was born in 1857, in Ger¬ 
many. He has been a philologist, and pro¬ 
fessor at Leland Stanford Junior univer¬ 
sity since 1892. He is the author of a 
number of German works. 

GOERZ, DAVID, clergyman, educator, 
was born June 2, 1849, in Southern Rus¬ 
sia. During 1874-75 he taught in a Ger¬ 
man school in Illinois, near St. Louis, 

Mo. In 1880 he organized the Mennonite 
Mutual Fire Insurance company in Kan¬ 
sas; in 1887 organized the Bethel College 
coiporation of Newton, Kan., in which 
institution he is now a clergyman. 

GOESBRIAND, LOUIS DE, Roman 
catholic bishop, was born Aug. 4, 1816, 
in France. When the see of Burlington 
was created in Vermont, he was nomi¬ 
nated its first bishop. 


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GOESSMANN, CHARLES ANTHONY, 
educator, chemist, author, was born June 
13, 1827, in Germany. He was elected in 
1869 to the chair of chemistry in the 
Massachusetts Agricultural college. 

GOFF. MRS. HARRIET NEWELL 
[KNEELAND], reformer, author, was 
born in 1828, in New York. She is a noted 
reformer of Brooklyn and elsewhere. She 
is the author of Was it an Inheritance?; 
Who Cares?; and Episodes in the Life 
of Mary Campbell. 

GOFF, ISAAC LEWIS, banker, capita¬ 
list, was born Aug. 29, 1852, in Taunton, 
Mass. He was instrumental in establish¬ 
ing the Home Investment company of 
Providence, R. I. He is president of the 
People’s Trust company, and director of 
various banking and business corpora¬ 
tions. 

GOFF, NATHAN, soldier, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1842, 
in Clarksburg, W. Va. He entered the 
union army, and served throughout the 
war, rising to the rank of brevet briga¬ 
dier-general. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative in the state legislature in 1867; re¬ 
elected in 1868; and was appointed United 
States district attorney and served in that 
capacity until January, 1881. In 1881 he 
became secretary of the navy. He was 
elected a representative from West Vir¬ 
ginia to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, and 
fiftieth congresses. 

GOFORTH, JOHN, lawyer, was born in 
Pennsylvania. In 1873 he was appointed 
an attorney-general of the United States. 

GOGGIN, WILLIAM L., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 31, 1807, in Bed¬ 
ford county, Va. He practiced in several 
of the circuit and district courts of the 
state; in 1836 was a member of the legis¬ 
lature, and in 1837 declined a re-election. 
In 1839 he was elected a representative in 
congress from Virginia, and was re-elected 
in 1841, 1843, and 1847. In 1859 he was 
nominated as the whig candidate for gov¬ 
ernor of Virginia. He died Jan. 5, 1870, 
in Richmond, Va. 

GOING, JONATHAN, college president, 
founder, was born March 7, 1786, in Read¬ 
ing, Vt. He was one of the founders of 
the Baptist Theological seminary of New¬ 
ton, Mass. He died in November, 1844. 

GOLD, THOMAS R., state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New York. He 
was a member of the state senate from 
1797 to 1802; a member of the assembly 
in 1808; and a representative in congress 
from New York from 1809 to 1813, and 
again from 1815 to 1817. He died in 1826. 

GOLDENSMITH, WILLIAM RUSSELL, 
mineralogist, legislator, was born Sept. 
12, 1862, in Nevada county, Cal. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education in 
the schools of San Juan, Cal., and gradu¬ 
ated from the state university of Califor¬ 
nia. He served with distinction as a rep¬ 
resentative in the fourth session of the 
state legislature of Idaho; and is a noted 
mineralogist of that state. 

GOLDSBOROUGH, CHARLES WASH¬ 
INGTON, congressman, governor. He 
was governor of the state of Maryland; 
and was a representativ e in congress 
from 1805 to 1817. He died Dec. 13, 1834, 
in Shoal Creek, Md. 

GOLDSBOROUGH, JOHN RODGERS, 
naval officer, was born July 2, 1808, in 
Washington, D. C. He became midship¬ 
man in 1824, lieutenant in 1837, com¬ 
mander in 1855, captain in 1862, and com¬ 
modore in 1867. He died June 22, 1877, 
in Washington, D. C. 


GOLDSBOROUGH, LOUIS MALES- 
HERBES, naval officer, was born Feb. 
18, 1805, in Washington, D. C. He en¬ 
tered the navy in his 
youth, and was made 
rear-admiral in 1862. 
At the time of his 
death he had been in 
the service longer 
than any other naval 
officer then living. 
He took an active 
part in all the prin¬ 
cipal naval battles of 
the civil war. He 
died Feb. 20, 1877, in 
Washington, D. C. 
His death was a great loss to the navy. 

GOLDSBOROUGH, ROBERT, physi¬ 
cian, congressman, was born in 1733, in 
Cambridge, Md. He was a delegate from 
Maryland to the continental congress 
from 1774 to 1775. He died Dec. 31, 1788, 
in Cambridge, Md. 

GOLDSBOROUGH, ROBERT HENRY, 
United States senator, was born in 1780, 
in New Easton, Md. He was elected 
United States senator as an anti-Jackson 
democrat, and served from 1813 till 1819. 
He was again elected as a whig without 
opposition, to fill a vacancy, and served 
from 1835 till his death. He died Oct. 5, 
1836, in New Easton, Md. 

GOLDTHWAITE, GEORGE, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, United States senator, was born Dec. 
10, 1809, in Boston, Mass. He was on the 
bench of the circuit court, and afterward 
of the supreme court, of which he was 
chief justice for some years. He was ad¬ 
jutant-general of Alabama during the 
war. He was elected to the United States 
senate in 1870 for the term ending in 
1877. He died March 18, 1879, in Mont¬ 
gomery, Ala. 

GOLDTHW AITE, HENRY, journalist, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born 
in 1798, in Boston, Mass. He edited a 
newspaper, and served in the Alabama 
state legislature several terms. From 
1839 until his death he was a judge of the 
supreme court of Alabama. He died in 
1847, in Mobile, Ala. 

GOLDZIER, JULIUS, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 20, 1854, in Austria. 
In 1890 he became a member of the city 
council of Chicago, and served until the 
end of his term in 1892. He was elected 
as a democrat to the fifty-third congress. 

GOLLADAY, EDWARD I., soldier, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Sept. 9, 1831, in Lebanon, Tenn. He 
graduated at Cum¬ 
berland university; 
taught school; 
studied law, and was 
admitted to the bar 
in 1852. He was 
elected to the state 
legislature in 1857; 
and was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1860. 
He served in the 
confederate army as 
colonel, and partici¬ 
pated in several im¬ 
portant engagements. He was elected to 
the forty-second congress as a democrat. 

GOLLADAY, JACOB S., state senator, 
congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1819, in 
Lebanon, Tenn. He was a member of the 
legislature of that state from Logan coun¬ 
ty in 1850, 1851, and 1853; and state sena¬ 
tor from 1853 to 1855. In 1867 he was 
elected a representative in congress to fill 
a vacancy. He resigned in 1870; and 
was also elected to the forty-first congress 
to fill a v acancy. 


GOOCH, DANIEL W., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 8, 1820, in Wells, 
Maine. In 1852 he was elected to the 
legislature of Massachusetts; in 1853 to 
the constitutional convention of the state, 
and subsequently a representative in the 
thirty-fifth congress from Massachusetts, 
for an unexpired term. He was re-elected 
to the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirty- 
eighth, and thirty-ninth congresses; and 
was again elected to the forty-third con¬ 
gress. 

GOOCH, FANNY CHAMBERS, author, 
was born Dec. 9, 1847, in Hinds county, 
Miss. She is the author of Face to Face 
with the Mexicans; and other works. 

GOOCH, FRANK AUSTIN, educator, 
chemist, author, was born May 2, 1852, 
in Watertown, Mass. From 1881 till 1884 
he was chief chemist of the northern 
transcontinental survey, and from 1884 
till 1886 assistant chemist to the United 
States geological survey in Washington. 
In 1886 he was appointed professor of 
chemistry in Yale. 

GOOD, JAMES ISAAC, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1850, in Pennsylvania. 
He is a German reformed clergyman and 
educator of Reading, Pa., professor in 
Ursinus Theological seminary in 1890-93; 
and the author of Origin of the Reformed 
Church of Germany; and Rambler Around 
Reformed Lands. 

GOOD, JAMES MICHENER, pharma¬ 
cist, educator, was born Jan. 12, 1842, in 
Bucks county, Pa. He has taught phar¬ 
macy in Philadelphia and St. Louis; and 
in 1895 was elected president of the Amer¬ 
ican Pharmaceutical association. 

GOOD, JOHN, manufacturer, inventor, 
was born in 1844, in Ireland. He is an 
inventor and manufacturer of cordage. 

He now manufac¬ 
tures on an extended 
scale, and besides the 
establishment a t 
Ravenswood, oper¬ 
ates a large cordage 
factory at Millwall, 
near London, and 
another at Great 
Grimsby. He has in 
contemplation the 
building of works in 
France, Germany 
and Italy. He is the 
inventor of the machinery now in general 
use for the making of binding twine. He 
has large manufacturing establishments 
in America and Europe. 

GOODALE, DORA READ, poet, was 
born Oct. 29, 1866, in Mt. Washington, 
Mass. She is the author of Verses from 
Sky-Farm; Apple Blossoms; and In 
Berkshire with the Wild Flowers. She has 
contributed much verse to The Century 
and other periodicals, and has also pub¬ 
lished Heralds of Easter. 

GOODALE, ELAINE, poet, was born 
Oct. 9, 1863, in Mt. Washington, Mass. 
She and her sister, Dora Read Goodale, 
three years younger, by their precocity 
as poets have won the endearing name 
of the sweet children poets. Their poems 
have been published in three volumes; 
Apple Blossoms in 1878, and since that 
time, In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers, 
and All Round the Year. 

GOODALE, GEORGE LINCOLN, educa¬ 
tor, botanist, author, was born Aug. 3, 
1839, in Saco, Maine. He is a botanist of 
prominence, and professor of botany at 
Harvard university from 1878. He is the 
author of The Wild Flowers of America; 
Physiological Botany; Concerning a Few 
Common Plants; and Useful Plants of the 
Future. 





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GOODALL, ALBERT GALLATIN, en¬ 
graver, was born Aug. 31, 1826, in Mont¬ 
gomery, Ala. He attained prominence as 
a bank-note engraver of New York city, 
where he died Feb. 19, 1887. 

GOODALL, CHARLES, shipping mer¬ 
chant, legislator, was born Dec. 20, 1824, 
in England. He served in the California 
state legislature. He is part owner of the 
Pacific Steam Whaling Co.; two salmon 
canneries in Alaska, and the Arctic Oil 
works; and his firm now own the Oregon 
Coal and Navigation Co. 

GOODE, GEORGE BROWN, ichthyolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Feb. 13, 1851, in 
New Albany, Ind. He was an ichthyolo¬ 
gist in the government service; and the 
author of Catalogue of the Fishes of the 
Bermudas; Annual Resources of the 
United States; Game Fishes of the 
United States; Beginnings of Natural His¬ 
tory in America; Britons, Saxons, and 
Virginians; American Fishes, a popular 
treatise; Fisheries and Fishing Indus¬ 
tries of the United States; and Oceanic 
Ichthyology. He died in 1896. 

GOODE, GEORGE W., lawyer, was born 
March 13, 1868, in Manchester, England. 
He received his education in the episco¬ 
pal academy of his native city; and at 
Willamette university of Salem, Ore. In 
1892 he was admitted to the bar in Ore¬ 
gon; and has attained success as an emi¬ 
nent lawyer of Moscow, Idaho, where he 
has filled various public positions of 
honor. 

GOODE, JOHN, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born May 27, 1829, in 
Bedford county, Va. He was elected a 
member of the legislature of Virginia in 
1851, and again in 1866. He was elected 
to the confederate congress in 1861; re¬ 
elected in 1863, and served in that po¬ 
sition until the close of the war. He was 
a member of the electoral college in 1852, 
and again in 1856. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Virginia to the forty- 
fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

GOODE, PATRICK G., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was elected 
a representative in congress from Ohio 
from 1837 to 1843. 

GOODE, SAMUEL, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1799 to 1801. 

GOODE, SAMUEL WATKINS, lawyer, 
capitalist, orator, was born June 11, 1847’ 
in Stewart county, Ga. He was elected 
first president of the Atlanta real estate 
board; and has attained note as an ora¬ 
tor. 

GOODE, WILLIAM O., state legislator, 
congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1798, in 
Inglewood, Va. He was elected for several 
terms a member of the state legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1829 was a member of the 
state reform convention of Virginia. In 
1832 he was again elected to the state leg¬ 
islature; and again elected to the legisla¬ 
ture in 1838. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Virginia in 1841, 
serving until 1843. He was subsequently 
again elected to the legislature, and was 
speaker of the house of delegates for sev¬ 
eral sessions. In 1853 he was again elect¬ 
ed a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia, and was regularly re-elected until 
the thirty-fifth congress. He died July 3, 
1859, near Boydtown, Va. 

GOODELL, HENRY HILL, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was born 
May 20, 1839, in Constantinople. He taught 
the modern languages at Williston semi¬ 
nary of Easthampton, Mass., in 1864-67, 
and afterward in the Massachusetts Agri¬ 
cultural college at Amherst, of which in¬ 


stitution he was chosen president in 1866. 
He is the author of a Biographical Rec¬ 
ord of the Class of Sixty-two; and of a 
Compilation of Historic Fiction. 

GOODELL, LYMAN PAYSON, soldier, 
business man, was born Sept. 7, 1848, in 
Chaplin, Conn. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Appleton academy of New Ips¬ 
wich, N. H.; and at Phillips academy of 
Andover, Mass. At the age of fifteen 
years he entered the union army, serv¬ 
ing with the army of the James in the 
tenth corps, and has been past post com¬ 
mander department of Texas G. A. R. In 
1893 he was elected vice-presiderit of the 
State Republican league, and has taken 
a prominent part in the public affairs of 
Texas, where he is engaged in the real 
estate and insurance business at Fort 
Worth. 

GOODELL, WILLIAM, educator, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Oct. 17, 1829, in 
Malta. He was a Philadelphia physician, 
medical professor in the university of 
Pennsylvania, and author of Lessons in 
Gynaecology. 

GOODENOW, IRVING G., journalist. 
He is the editor and owner of The Journal 
of White Pigeon, Mich., a popular repub¬ 
lican newspaper which was established in 
1876. He has filled several public posi¬ 
tions of honor; and takes an active part 
in the public affairs of his city, county 
and state. 

GOODENOW, JOHN ELLIOT, clergy¬ 
man, legislator, was born March 23, 1812, 
in Springfield, Vt. He is a pioneer of 
Maquoketa, Iowa, and is called the Father 
of Maquoketa. He served for two years 
as a member of the first state legisla¬ 
ture. 

GOODENOW, JOHN M., lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born in 1782 in Massachusetts. 
He was an Ohio jurist and a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state in 1821- 
1831. He was the author of American 
Jurisprudence in Contrast with the Doc¬ 
trine of English Law. He died in 1838, in 
Steubenville, Ohio. 

GOODENOW, ROBERT, financier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born in 1800 in Far¬ 
mington, N. H. He was county attorney 
from 1828 to 1834, and in 1841. Having 
taken up his residence in Maine, he was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1851 to 1853; and in 1857 was 
appointed bank commissioner for the 
state. 

GOODENOW, RUFUS K., soldier, state 
legislator, congressman, was born April 
24, 1790, in Henniker, N. H. He entered 
the army in 1812 as captain in the thirty- 
third regiment of United States infantry, 
and served in that capacity until 1815. 
Upon the organization of a state govern¬ 
ment he was appointed clerk of the courts 
of Oxford county, and removed to Paris, 
and held this office sixteen years. He 
was a member of the Maine legislature; a 
presidential elector in 1840; and repre¬ 
sented his district in the thirty-first con¬ 
gress. He died March 24, 1863 in Paris 
Ky. 

GOODFELLOW, EDWARD, surveyor, 
journalist, was born Feb. 23, 1828, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. In 1882 he became editor of 
the publications of the survey, and in that 
capacity has edited the annual reports for 
the years from 1882 till 1886. 

GOODHI E, BENJAMIN, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Oct. 1. 
Ii48, in Salem, Mass. He represented 
his native county in t'he state senate from 
1784 to 1789, when he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative to congress under the new 
constitution. In 1796 he was elected a 
senator of the United States. He died 
July 28, 1814, in Salem, Mass. 


GOODHUE, BERTRAM GROSVENOR, 
architect, author, was born in 1869 in Con¬ 
necticut. He is an architect of Boston 
whose border designs and initials for 
book illustration are of notable excel¬ 
lence. He is the author of Mexican 
Memories. 

GOODIN, JOHN R., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 14, 1836, in Tiffin, 
Ohio. In 1859 he removed to Hum¬ 
boldt, Kas.; and in 1866 was elected a. 
representative in the state legislature. In 
1867 he was elected judge of.the seventh 
judicial district for the term of four 
years; was re-elected in 1871; and re¬ 
signed in 1875, to take his seat as a rep¬ 
resentative from Kansas to the forty- 
fourth congress. 

GOODING, A. A., soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Feb. 20, 1833, in Cannon 
county, Tenn. He was sergeant in com¬ 
pany B, second regiment Tennessee in¬ 
fantry, and was a prisoner of war on 
Belle Isle, Va., for five months. For 
eight years he was United States clerk 
of the circuit court; and for four years 
was judge of the county court. He is a 
successful lawyer of Jamestown, Tenn.; 
and was postmaster of his city during 
1889-93. 

GOODKNIGHT, JAMES LINCOLN, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
Aug. 24, 1846, in Allen county, Ky. Since 
1895 he has been president of the West 
Virginia university at Morgantown. 

GOODLAND, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Aug. 10, 1831, in Taunton, England. 
In 1849 he emigrated to the United States 
and lived in the state of New York un¬ 
til 1854; and since that time he has re¬ 
sided in Wisconsin. During 1854-64 he 
lived in Sharon; then entered the serv¬ 
ice of the Chicago and Northwestern rail¬ 
road in Chicago. In 1867 he went to Ap¬ 
pleton as their local agent, and resigned 
in 1874. He then studied law, and in 1888 
was elected district attorney of Outagamie 
county. Wis. In 1891 he was elected cir¬ 
cuit judge-of the tenth circuit, and re¬ 
ceived the re-election in 1897. 

GOODLOE, WILLIAM C., diplomat. He 
was a resident of Kentucky; and in 1878 
was appointed United States minister to 
Belgium. 

GOODMAN, JOHN, physician, author, 
was born July 22, 1837, in Frankfort, Ky. 

In 1860 he became demonstrator of anat¬ 
omy in the Kentucky School of Medicine. 

GOODMAN, WARREN WATSON, law¬ 
yer, was born June 29, 1869, in Roanoke 
county, Va. He received his education at 
the Allegheny institute, and graduated 
from the Bethel Military academy, with 
the rank of captain. He subsequently 
graduated in law from the Washington 
and Lee university; and is now a lead¬ 
ing lawyer of Deer Lodge, Mont., and its 
distinguished city attorney. 

GOODNIGHT, ISAAC HERSCHEL, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 31, 
1849, in Allen county, Ky. He represented 
Simpson county in the general assembly 
in 1877-78; was a member of the fifty-first, 
fifty-second and fifty-third congresses. He 
is now judge of the seventh circuit court 
district of Kentucky. 

GOODNO, WILLIAM COLBY, was born 
in Kenosha, Wis. He was the originator 
of the Pennsylvania Homoeopathic Hos¬ 
pital for Children. 

GOODNOW, FRANK JOHNSON, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1859 in Long 
Island. He has been professor of admin¬ 
istrative law in Columbia university since 
1884; and is the author of Comparative 
Administrative Law; and Municipal Home 
Rule. 


HERRINGSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


GOODRICH, AARON, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born July 6, 1807, in Sempron- 
ius, N. Y. In 1849 he was appointed chief 
justice of the United States district court 
for the territory of Minnesota, and was 
the first judge appointed for that dis¬ 
trict. He published a History of the So- 
Called Christopher Columbus. 

GOODRICH, ALFRED BAILEY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 22, 1828, in 
Rocky Hill, Conn. He is the author of 
a service and tune book for Sunday 
Schools. 

GOODRICH, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1790 in 
Ridgefield, Conn. He was a congregation¬ 
al clergyman of Hartford, and the author 
of Lives of the Signers of the Declaration 
of Independence; History of the United 
States; View of Religions; Family Tour¬ 
ist; Great Events of American History; 
Outlines of Geography; and Universal 
Traveler. He died Jan. 4, 1862, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

GOODRICH, CHARLES RUSH, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born March 16, 1829, in 
Troy, N. Y. He edited, with Prof. Benja¬ 
min Silliman, Jr., The World of Science, 
Art and Industry, illustrated with five 
hundred drawings from the New York ex¬ 
hibition of 1853; and was one of the edi¬ 
tors of Practical Science and Mechanism. 
He died Aug. 22, 1855, in Flushing, N. Y. 

GOODRICH, CHAUNCEY, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 20, 1759, in Dur¬ 
ham, Conn. He was a representative in 
the Connecticut legislature in 1793; and 
a representative in congress from 1795 to 
1801. From 1802 to 1807 he was a coun¬ 
cilor of the state, and was elected United 
States senator from 1807 to 1813. He was 
elected mayor of Hartford in 1812, and 
resigned his seat in congress. He was 
elected lieutenant-governor of the state in 
1813, and was a delegate to the Hartford 
convention in 1814. He died Aug. 18, 1815, 
in Hartford, Conn. 

GOODRICH, CHAUNCEY, clergyman, 
was born July 20, 1817, in Middletown, 
Conn. He resided in New Haven, occu¬ 
pied with literary labors, chief among 
which was the continuation of his father's 
work in the revision of Webster’s dic¬ 
tionary. He died March 27, 1868, in New 
Haven, Conn. 

GOODRICH, CHAUNCEY ALLEN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Oct. 23, 1790, in 
New Haven, Conn. He was a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman and professor at Yale 
university, in 1817-60. He published 
Greek and Latin Lessons; A Greek 
Grammar; was the editor and reviser of 
Webster’s Dictionary, and also edited Se¬ 
lect British Eloquence, with careful crit¬ 
ical notes. He died Feb. 25, 1860, in New 
Haven, Conn. 

GOODRICH, ELIZUR, clergyman, as¬ 
tronomer, author, was born Oct. 26, 1734, 
in Wethersfield, Conn. He was an able 
astronomer, and spent much of his time 
in calculating the eclipses of each suc¬ 
cessive year, and published the fullest and 
most accurate account of the aurora bo¬ 
realis of 1780. He was a candidate for 
governor of Connecticut; and was the 
author of a volume of sermons and ad¬ 
dresses. He died Nov. 22, 1797, in North 
Norfolk, Conn. 

GOODRICH, ELIZUR, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born March 24, 1761. 
in Durham, Conn. He was professor of 
law in Yale college, and for many years 
the efficient mayor of New Haven. He 
was twice elected to the state legislature; 
was a judge of the county and probate 
courts for fifteen years; was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1797; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Connecticut from 
1799 to 1801. He died Nov. 1, 1849. in New 
Haven, Conn. 


GOODRICH, FRANK BOOT, author, 
was born Dec. 14, 1826, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a dramatist and miscellaneous 
writer of New York city, and the author 
of The Court of Napoleon; Man Upon the 
Sea; Tri-Colored Sketches of Paris; The 
Tribute Book; World-Famous Women; 
Women of Beauty and Heroism; and His¬ 
tory of Maritime Adventure. 

GOODRICH, JOHN Z., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 27, 1801, in 
Sheffield, Mass. He was a presidential 
elector in 1841; served in the state legis¬ 
lature in 1848 and 1849, and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1851 to 1855, 
from his native state. In 1861 he was ap¬ 
pointed collector of Boston, and was a 
delegate to the peace congress of 1861. 

GOODRICH, MILO, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 13, 1820, in Homer, N. 
Y. He was a member of the state con¬ 
stitutional convention in 1867, and was 
elected to the forty-second congress as a 
a republican. 

GOODRICH, RALPH LELAND, lawyer, 
philologist, author, was born Aug. 27, 
1840, in Oswego, N. Y. In 1873 he was 
appointed clerk of the United States cir¬ 
cuit and district courts. He is a proficient 
Sanskrit scholar, and has published sev¬ 
eral excellent translations from the Vedas. 

GOODRICH, SAMUEL GRISWOLD, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 19, 1793, in Ridgefield, 
Conn. He was a once famous writer and 
compiler of Boston and New York. He 
published nearly two hundred volumes, 
mainly juvenile and educational, some of 
which achieved a wide popularity. Among 
them are. History of All Nations; Tales 
of Peter Parley about America; and Rec¬ 
ollections of a Lifetime, an autobiography. 
He died May 9, 1860, in New York city. 

GOODRICH, WILLIAM HENRY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Jan. 19, 1825, in 
New Haven, Conn. He held pastorates in 
Bristol, Conn.; Binghamton, N. Y., and 
Cleveland, Ohio. He was a brilliant pul¬ 
pit orator and published sermons and ad¬ 
dresses. He died July 17, 1874, in Swit¬ 
zerland. 

GOODSELL, DANIEL AYRES, bishop, 
author, was born Nov. 5, 1840, in New- 
burg, N. Y. He was a delegate to every 
general conference from 1876 till 1888, 
and at the one in New York city in 1888 
was elected bishop. He has been literary 
editor and editorial contributor of the New 
York Christian Advocate since 1880. 

GOODSON. JOHN, physician, jurist, was 
born in England. From 1686 till 1701 he 
was one of the proprietaries commission¬ 
ers of property, and in 1694 was appointed 
deputy-governor of Pennsylvania. He 
died Dec. 28, 1727, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GOODWIN, ALEXANDER CAMP¬ 
BELL, educator, college president, was 
born June 3, 1846, in Utica, Ind. He has 
been superintendent of schools in Indiana 
and Kentucky for more than twenty 
years, and for three years was president 
of the Owensboro Female college. 

GOODWIN, DANIEL, lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, was born Nov. 24, 1799, in 
Geneva, N. Y. He was United States 
district attorney for Michigan in 1834-41; 
judge of the supreme court in 1843-50; 
president of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1850, and a member of that of 
1867. In 1850-81 ne was circuit judge for 
the upper peninsula of Michigan. He 
served repeatedly in the legislature. He 
died Aug. 24, 1887, in Detroit, Mich. 

GOODWIN, DANIEL, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1832 in New York. He is a 
lawyer of Chicago, and the author of 
James Pitts and His Sons in the American 
Revolution; The Dearborns; The Lord’s 
Table; and Provincial Pictures. 


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GOODWIN, DANIEL RAYNES, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born April 
12, 1811, in North Berwick, Maine. He 
was an episcopal clergyman who was a 
professor in the Philadelphia Divinity 
school, and of much prominence as a low 
churchman. He was the author of South¬ 
ern Slavery in Its Present Aspects; Chris¬ 
tianity Neither Ascetic nor Fanatic; The 
Christian Ministry; Shall We Return to 
Rome? The Perpetuity of the Sabbath; 
The New Ritualistic Divinity; and Chris¬ 
tian Eschatology. He died March 12, 1890, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GOODWIN, ELLA DIMMICK, poet, was 
born Jan. 7, 1869, in Schuyler county, Ill. 
In 1880 she removed to Kansas with her 
parents, and three years later was married 
to Thomas J. Goodwin of Ludell. Her 
poems have appeared in current litera¬ 
ture, Poets of America, and other stand¬ 
ard works. 

GOODWIN, GEORGE FRANCIS, law¬ 
yer, prohibitionist, was born Jan. 12, 1849, 
in Groton, Vt. In 1880 he was state’s at¬ 
torney of Mower county, Minn.; attorney- 
general of North Dakota in 1889, and is 
now a prominent prohibition worker of 
Salt Lake City, Utah. 

GOODWIN, MRS. HANNAH ELIZA¬ 
BETH BRADBURY, author, was born in 
1827 in Massachusetts. She is a Boston 
writer for young people, among whose 
works are Madge; Christine’s Fortune: 
Dorothy Gray; Dr. Howells’s Family; and 
Fortunes of Miss Follen. She died in 
1893. 

GOODWIN, HENRY C., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 25, 1824, in De 
Ruyter, N. Y. In 1847 he was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney of Madison county, and held 
the oflice three years. He was a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the second 
session of the thirty-third congress, and 
was re-elected to the thirty-fifth congress. 
He died Nov. 12, 1860, in Hamilton, N. Y. 

GOODWIN, ICHABOD, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 25, 1743, in South 
Berwick, Maine. He was a member of the 
provincial congress in 1775 and 1777; and 
was lieutenant-colonel of Gerrish s York 
county regiment, having charge of the 
Saratoga prisoners. He was major-gene¬ 
ral of militia from 1783 to 1815; a member 
of the general court in 1792; and sheriff of 
York county, Maine, from 1793 to 1820. 
He died May 25, 1820, in South Berwick. 

GOODWIN, ICHABOD, governor, was 
born Oct. 10, 1796, in North Berwick, N. 
H. He was governor of New Hampshire 
from 1860 to 1861. 

GOODWIN, ISAAC, author, was born 
June 28, 1786, in Plymouth, Mass. He 
was a writer of Worcester, Mass., and the 
father of Mrs. Jane Goodwin Austin. He 
was the author of History of the Town of 
Stirling; The Town Officer; and The New 
England Sheriff. He died Sept. 16, 1832, 
in Worcester, Mass. 

GOODWIN, JOHN ABBOTT, author, 
was born May 21, 1824, in Stirling, Mass. 
He was a Lowell writer who published 
The Pilgrim Fathers Neither Puritans 
nor Persecutors; and The Pilgrim Repub¬ 
lic, an historical review of the Plymouth 
colony. He died in 1884. 

GOODWIN, JOHN NOBLE, lawyer, 
congressman, governor, was born Oct. 18, 
1824, in South Berwick, Maine. He was 
elected to the senate of Maine; and in 1860 
was a representative from Maine to the 
thirty-seventh congress. He was subse¬ 
quently appointed chief justice of the ter¬ 
ritory of Arizona; afterwards was govern¬ 
or, and was elected a delegate from Ari¬ 
zona to the thirty-ninth congress. 


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GOODWIN, MRS. LAVINA STELLA, 
educator, author, was born Feb. 4, 1833, 
in St. Jolmsbury, Vt. Since 1869 she has 
been associate editor of The Watchman of 
Boston, Mass. She is the author of three 
juvenile volumes, entitled Little Folks’ 
Own; The Little Helper; and The Mys¬ 
terious Miner. 

GOODWIN, MRS. MAUD WILDER, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1856 in New York. She 
is an historical novelist of New York city, 
and the author of The Colonial Cavalier, 
or Southern Life Before the Revolution; 
The Head of a Hundred; White Aprons, 
an historical romance; and Dolly Madi¬ 
son, a biography. 

GOODWIN, MYRON HENRY, educator, 
writer, was born Oct. 23, 1860, in Baldwin, 
Maine. In 1882 he graduated from Bow- 
doin college. In 1884 he was admitted to 
the bar at Denver, Col., but has not prac¬ 
ticed. He has taught Greek and Latin in 
New York, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, 
and has contributed both prose and verse 
to the leading newspapers and magazines 
of America. 

GOODWIN, NATHANIEL, genealogist, 
author, was born March 5, 1782, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. He was a Hartford geneal¬ 
ogist and probate judge, and the author 
of Genealogical Notes of Some of the 
First Settlers of Connecticut and Massa¬ 
chusetts. He died May 28, 1855, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

GOODWIN, NATHANIEL C., comedian, 
was born July 25, 1857, in Boston, Mass. 
Among the plays in which he has been 
seen to advantage on the American stage 
are: Hobbies; Warranted; Ourselves; 
Major Wellington De Boots; Mascot; 
Pinafore; Patience; Big Pony, and 
others. 

GOODWIN, PETERSON, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1803 to 1818. He died in 
November, 1818. 

GOODWIN, WILLIAM FREDERICK, 
soldier, author, was born Sept. 27, 1823, in 
Limington, Maine. He was the author of 
a History of the Constitution of New 
Hampshire of 1776, 1784, 1792; and Rec¬ 
ords of Narragansett Township. He died 
March 12, 1872, in Concord, N. H. 

GOODWIN, WILLIAM WATSON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born May 9, 1831, in 
Concord, Mass. He is an eminent Greek 
scholar, Eliot professor of Greek at Har¬ 
vard university from 1860. He has pub¬ 
lished Syntax of Moods and Tenses of the 
Greek Verb; and A Greek Grammar. 

GOODWYN, ALBERT TAYLOR, sol¬ 
dier, farmer, state senator, congressman, 
was born Dec. 17, 1842, in Robinson 
Springs, Ala. He 
was educated a t 
South Carolina col¬ 
lege and the univer- 
s i t y of Virginia, 
from which latter in¬ 
stitution of learning 
he was graduated in 
1867; and is a farm¬ 
er. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state 
house of represent¬ 
atives i n 1886-87, 
and a member of the 
state senate from 1892 to 1896, and was 
state inspector of convicts from 1874 to 
1880. He was in the confederate army 
from the beginning of the war to the end; 
participating in the bombardment of Fort 
Sumter in April, 1861, and was mustered 
out at the close of the war as captain of a 
company of sharpshooters. He took his 
seat in the fifty-fourth congress April 
a.2, 1896. 

GOOD\EAR, CHARLES, inventor, was 
born Dec. 29, 1800, in New Haven, Conn. 
He produced the vulcanized or ebonized 


india-rubber, which immortalized his 
name, and he lived long enough to see his 
material applied to nearly five hundred 
uses. He died July 1, 1860, in New York 
city. 

GOODYEAR, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, 
banker, congressman, was born April 26, 
1805, in Cobbeskill, N. Y. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state assembly in 1839. In 1841 
he was appointed first judge of Schoharie 
county; and was a representative from 
New York in the twenty-ninth congress. 
In 1864 he was elected a representative 
from New York to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress. 

GOODYEAR, FRANK HENRY, finan¬ 
cier, was born March 17, 1849, in Groton, 
N. Y. He settled in Buffalo in the coal 
and lumber trade, and has since built 
eleven saw mills in woodland regions of 
Pennsylvania, Through other methods, 
his coal trade has also grown to large 
proportions. 

GOODYEAR, WILLIAM HENRY, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1846 in Con¬ 
necticut. He is an art educator of New 
York city, and the author of Roman and 
Mediaeval Art; Renaissance and Modern 
Art; History of Art; The Grammar of the 
Lotus; and Ancient and Modern History. 

GOOGINS, GEORGE, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born in October, 1822, in Han¬ 
cock, Maine. In 1847 he graduated from 
the Maine Medical college of Brunswick. 
For several years he has been United 
States examining surgeon; and is one of 
the oldest and most reliable physicians 
in eastern Maine, and for nearly half a 
century has practiced his profession at 
Milbridge. • In 1871-72 he served as a 
member of the Maine state legislature, 
and has been active in politics all his 
life, and a prominent member of the whig 
and republican parties. 

GOOGINS, GEORGE EDGAR, lawyer, 
author, was born Feb. 25, 1863, in Mil- 
bridge, Maine. He received the rudiments 
of his education in the public schools of 
his native city, and in 1882 graduated from 
the East Maine Conference seminary of 
Bucksport, and in 1886 from the Colby uni¬ 
versity. During 1892-95 he was superin¬ 
tendent of public schools of Milbridge, 
Maine, where he is engaged in the prac¬ 
tice of law. He has written numerous 
stories and poems for the press, and is 
the author of a novel entitled Strange Ad¬ 
ventures of a Summer Tourist. 

GOOKIN, CHARLES, soldier, states¬ 
man. He attained the rank of colonel, 
and was deputy-governor of Pennsylvania 
under William Penn during 1709-17. 

GOOKIN, DANIEL, author, was born 
in 1612 in England. For the last thirty 
years of his life he was superintendent of 
the Indians in Massachusetts. His writ¬ 
ings include Historical Collections of the 
Indians in New England; and Account of 
the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian 
Indians in New England. He died March 
19, 1687, in Cambridge, Mass. 

GOOKINS, SAMUEL BARNES, journal¬ 
ist. legislator, jurist, was born May 30, 
1809, in Rupert, Conn. Just twenty years 
after he went to Vincennes to aid in es¬ 
tablishing the Vincennes Gazette, he went 
to the same place to hold his first term 
as judge of the circuit court. He repre¬ 
sented Vigo county in the Indiana legis¬ 
lature. 

GORDON, ADON1RAM JUDSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 19, 1836, in 
New Hampton. N. H. He was a baptist 
clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Clar¬ 
endon church from 1869 until his death; 
and the author of Grace and Glory; In 
Christ; Ministry of Healing; The Ministry 
of the Spirit; The Life that Now Is and 
That to Come; The Holy Spirit in Mis¬ 
sions; and Ecce Venit. He died in 1895. 


GORDON, ANNA ADAMS, author, was 
born July 21, 1853, in Boston, Mass. She 
was the private secretary of Frances E. 
Willard from 1877 until her death. She 
prepared the song books of the Loyal 
Temperance Legions and also the songs 
for Woman’s temperance work and the 
white ribbon hymnal. She is the author 
of Questions Answered; The White Rib¬ 
bon Birthday Book; and other pamphlets 
and booklets. 

GORDON, ARCHIBALD D., author, was 
born in 1848 in Ireland. He was a dra¬ 
matic critic and playwright of New York 
city, and the author of The Ugly Duck¬ 
ling; Is Marriage a Failure?; and That 
Girl From Mexico. He died in 1895. 

GORDON, ARMISTEAD CHURCHILL, 
lawyer, poet, was born in 1855 in Albe¬ 
marle county, Va. He is the author of a 
volume of dialect poems entitled Befo’ de 
War. He is an able lawyer of Staunton, 
Va., of which city he has been mayor. 

GORDON, CHARLES BENJAMIN 
WILLIAM, clergyman, journalist, author, 
was born Nov. 1, 1861, in Colerain, N. C. 
He has attained success as a pastor of the 
baptist church of Petersburg, Va., and 
since 1886 he has been editor of The Na¬ 
tional Pilot. He is the founder of the 
American and The National Orphan 
Home; and has been president of the Na¬ 
tional Orphan and Educational associa¬ 
tion since 1886. 

GORDON, CLARENCE, author, was 
born April 28, 1835, in New York city. 
He is a writer of Newburg, N. Y. His 
writings, intended for juvenile reading, 
include Christmas at Under Tor; Our 
Fresh and Salt Tutors; Two Lives in 
One; and Boarding-School Days. 

GORDON, EDWARD CLIFFORD, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born Sept. 

1, 1842, in Richmond, Va. He is president 
of the Westminster college of Fulton, Mo. 

GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1853 in Scot¬ 
land. He is a prominent congregational 
clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old 
South church from 1884, and the author 
of The Christ of To-Day; The Witness to 
Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and 
Life; and Immortality and the New The¬ 
odicy. 

GORDON, GEORGE HENRY, lawyer, 
soldier, author, was born July 19, 1823, in 
Charlestown, Mass. He was a lawyer of 
Boston who served as a brigadier-general 
in the federal army during the civil war, 
and was the author of History of the Sec¬ 
ond Massachusetts Infantry; The Cam¬ 
paign of the Army of Virginia under Gen¬ 
eral Pope; War Diary of Events in the 
War of the Great Rebellion; and Brook 
Farm to Cedar Mountain. He died Aug. 
30, 1886, in Framingham, Mass. 

GORDON, GEORGE PHINEAS, printer, 
manufacturer, inventor, was born April 
21, 1810, in Salem, N. H. His fame arose 
from his invention of the Gordon job 
press. The Gordon Press works, having a 
factory at Rahway, N. J., of which he 
was proprietor, produced an immense 
number of these machines, which found 
their way into nearly every job office in 
the United States. He died Jan. 27, 1878, 
in Norfolk, Va. 

GORDON, J. WRIGHT, governor, was 
born in 1807 in Virginia. He was lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of Michigan during the 
administration of Governor Woodbridge; 
and upon the latter’s resignation, became 
governor. He died in December, 1853. 

GORDON, JAMES, state senator, con¬ 
gressman. He was for seven years a 
member of the state senate of New York; 
and twelve years in the state assembly. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1791 to 1795. 



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GORDON, JOHN BROWN, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, governor. United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Feb. 6, 1832, in Upson coun¬ 
ty, Ga. He entered the army as captain of 
infantry in the confederate army. He 
was elected to the United States senate for 
the term commencing in 1873 and ending 
in 1879, and was re-elected for the term 
ending in 1885. He was elected governor 
in 1886, and re-elected in 1888. He was 
elected United States senator for the 
term 1891-97. 

GORDON, LAURA DE F„ journalist, 
lawyer, orator, was born Aug. 17, 1843, in 
Erie county. Pa. In 1873 she founded 
the Daily Leader at Oakland, Cal. In 1879 
she was admitted to the bar of the su¬ 
preme court of California. 

GORDON, M. LAFAYETTE, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1843 in Pennsylvania. 
He is a congregational clergyman and 
physician, formerly a missionary to 
Japan, and subsequently a professor in 
Doshisha university, Kyoto. He is the 
author of An American Missionary in 
Japan. 

GORDON, MERRITT J., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born in March. 1857, 
in Canada. For ten years he resided in 
Dakota, where he served as district attor¬ 
ney and as a member of the legislature. 
Since 1889 he has resided in Olympia, 
"Wash.; was elected in 1892 to the superior 
bench of Thurston county, and in 1884 
was elected to the supreme bench. 

GORDON, PATRICK, soldier, governor, 
author, was born in 1644, in England. In 
1726 he was elected governor of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and in 1728 he published Two In¬ 
dian Treaties at Conestogo. He died Aug. 
5, 1736, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GORDON, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born in New York. He served in the state 
assembly in 1834 and was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1841 to 
1843, and again from 1845 to 1847. In 
1863 he was appointed provost-marshal for 
the nineteenth district of New York. 

GORDON, THOMAS, statesman, was 
born in Scotland. He came to New Jersey 
in 1684. and settled in Scotch Plains. He 
was elected attorney-general of the east¬ 
ern district in 1698, chief secretary and 
register in 1702; elected to the legislature, 
and became speaker of the assembly. In 
1709 he became chief justice, and was af¬ 
terward receiver-general and treasurer of 
the province. He died in 1722 in Amboy, 
N. J. 

GORDON, THOMAS F„ lawyer, anti¬ 
quarian, author, was born in 1787 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was a Philadelphia lawyer 
and antiquarian, and the author of Digest 
of the Laws of the United States; History 
of Pennsylvania to 1776; History of New 
Jersey to 1789; History of America; Cab¬ 
inet of American History; History of An¬ 
cient Mexico; and Gazetteers of New 
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He 
died Jan. 17, 1860, in Beverly, N. J. 

GORDON. THOMAS W., lawyer, poet. 
He served two terms as vice-president of 
the board of pension examiners of George¬ 
town, Ohio, where he practices his profes¬ 
sion with success. He nas written exten¬ 
sively for medical journals, and his poems 
have been given a place in several stand¬ 
ard works. 

GORDON, WALTER SCOTT, inventor, 
was born Aug. 21, 1742, in Greenwich, R. 
I. In 1883 he founded the vigorous city 
of Sheffield, Ala. He invented a coal 
mining machine and a cotton screw. He 
died Oct. 16, 1886, in New York city. 

GORDON, WILLIAM, lawyer, congress¬ 
man. He was attorney-general for the 
state of New Hampshire, and a represent¬ 
ative in congress from New Hampshire 


from 1797 to 1800, when he resigned. He 
died in May, 1802, in Boston, Mass. 

GORDON, WILLIAM, lawyer, was born 
Dec. 15, 1862, near Oak Harbor, Ohio. He 
received the rudiments of his education 
in the public schools of his native city; 
attended the Toledo Business college, and 
graduated from the university of Michi¬ 
gan in 1891. He had subsequently taught 
school. In 1894 he was elected prose¬ 
cuting attorney of his county; was ap¬ 
pointed a member of the board of county 
school examiners, and in 1895 removed to 
Port Clinton, the county seat. In 1896 he 
was elected a delegate to the democratic 
national convention; and has taken an 
active part in the public affairs of his 
county and state. 

GORDON, WILLIAM F., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1828 to 1835. He is said to have been the 
originator of the sub-treasury system. He 
died July 2, 1858, in Albemarle county. 

GORDON, WILLIAM ROBERT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 19, 1811, in 
New York city. He was a Dutch reformed 
clergyman of New York and New Jersey, 
and the author of Supreme Godhead of 
Christ; Particular Providence, A Three¬ 
fold Test of Modern Spiritualism; The 
Peril of Our Ship of State; t Revealed 
Truth Impregnable; The Reformed Church 
in America; and Christocracy. He died 
March 30, 1896, in Manhasset, N. Y. 

GORE, CHRISTOPHER, lawyer, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born in 
1758 in Boston, Mass. In 1789 he was ap¬ 
pointed district attorney for the district of 
Massachusetts. He was chosen governor 
in 1809, and in 1813 was chosen a senator 
of the United States, in which capacity he 
served until 1816. He died March 1, 1827. 

GORE, DAVID, farmer, was born April 
5, 1827, in Kentucky. He has been a state 
senator and president of the state board of 
agriculture, and in 1896 was elected audi¬ 
tor of state at Springfield, Ill. 

GORE, JAMES HOWARD, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1856 in Virginia. He 
is a professor of mathematics in Colum¬ 
bian university, Washington, D. C. He is 
the author of Geodesy; Elements of 
Geodesy; and several annotated editions 
of German works for college study. 

GORGAS, FERDINAND J. S„ dentist, 
author, was born in 1834 in Virginia. He is 
a Baltimore dentist, professor in the col¬ 
lege of Dental Surgery since 1860, and the 
author of Lectures on Dental Science and 
Therapeutics; and Dental Materia Medica. 

GORGAS, JOSIAH, soldier, college pres¬ 
ident, was born July 1, 1818, in Dauphin 
county, Tenn. He was placed at the head 
of the confederate ordnance department 
with the rank of brigadier-general. He 
was made president of the university of 
Alabama in 1878. He died May 15, 1883, 
in Tuscaloosa, Ala. 

GORHAM, BENJAMIN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 13, 1775, in 
Charlestown, Mass. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from the Suffolk district 
from 1820 to 1823, and from 1827 to 1831, 
and from 1833 to 1835. He was afterward 
for a short time a member of the state 
legislature. He died Sent. 27, 1855, in 
Boston, Mass. 

GORHAM. JOHN, physician, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 24, 1783, in Boston, 
Mass. In 1809 he was appointed adjunct 
professor of chemistry and materia medi¬ 
ca in Harvard, and in 1815 was made pro¬ 
fessor of chemistry and mineralogy. He 
published an Inaugural Address and Ele¬ 
ments of Chemical Science. He died 
March 29, 1829, in Boston, Mass. 


GORHAM, NATHANIEL, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born May 27, 1738, in 
Charlestown, Mass. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the legislature from 1771 to 1775; 
was a delegate to the provincial congress 
in 1774 and 1775; and again a member of 
the legislature, and a member of the board 
of war from 1778 until its dissolution. 
He was a delegate to the state constitu¬ 
tional convention in 1779; a delegate to 
the continental congress in 1782 and 1783, 
and from 1785 to 1787, and was chosen 
president of that body in 1786. He was 
for several years a judge of the court of 
common pleas. He died June 11, 1796, in 
Charlestown, Mass. 

GORHAM. WALLACE A., poet, was 
born Oct. 27, 1833, in Pittsford, Vt. In 
1846 he moved with his parents to Rock¬ 
ford, Ill., and in 1869 to Iowa, and since 
1887 has resided in Spirit Lake. He is 
the author of a number of poems, which 
have appeared in the periodical press, and 
in several standard works. 

GORLEY, HUGH ALEXANDER, sol¬ 
dier, merchant, orator, author, poet, was 
born Nov. 25, 1833, in Uniontown, Pa. He 
attended the Madi¬ 
son college of his 
native city; and dur¬ 
ing the civil war was 
captain in company 
B, first regiment Cal¬ 
ifornia volunteer in¬ 
fantry, attached to 
the column from Cal¬ 
ifornia. In 1881 he 
served with distinc¬ 
tion in the California 
state legislature as a 
representative from 
San Francisco. He has been a successful 
merchant of San Rafael, Cal., is pres¬ 
ident of the society of California Vol¬ 
unteers; a prominent member of the 
Grand Army of ihe Republic; and a mem¬ 
ber of the California Commandery of the 
Military Order, Loyal Legion of the 
United States. 

GORMAN, ARTHUR PUE, United 
States senator, was born March 11, 1839, 
in Howard county, Md. In 1869 he was 
elected a member of the house of dele¬ 
gates of the Maryland legislature as a 
democrat; was re-elected in 1871, and 
then elected speaker of the house of dele¬ 
gates at the ensuing session. In 1875 he 
was elected to represent Howard county 
in the Maryland state senate, and was re¬ 
elected in November, 1879, for a term of 
four years. He was elected in 1880 to the 
United States senate as a democrat; was 
re-elected in 1886 and in 1892. His term of 
service will expire March 3, 1899. 

GORMAN, JAMES SEDGWICK, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 
28, 1850, in Lyndon, Mich. He was elected 
to the lower house of the Michigan legis¬ 
lature in 1880, and in 1886 was elected to 
the state senate from the fourth district, 
and re-elected in 1888. He was elected to 
the fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. 

GORMAN, JOHN BERRY, physician, 
artist, author, was born Feb. 22, 1793, in 
Newberry district, S. C. He owned a 
valuable library, was fond of painting, 
and left a picture entitled the Nightmare. 
He published the Philosophy of Animated 
Existence. He died Nov. 12, 1864, in Tal¬ 
bot county, Ga. 

GORMAN. WILLIS ARNOLD, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born 
Jan. 12, 1814, near Flemingsburg, Ky. 
For several years he was a member of the 
Indiana state legislature. He was major 
of the third Indiana volunteers in the 
Mexican war, and in 1848 was civil and 
military governor of Puebla. He was a 




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representative in congress from 1849 to 
1853, from Kentucky. He was governor of 
Minnesota from 1853 to 1857. He was ap¬ 
pointed brigadier-general in 1861, and was 
in the battles of Ball’s Bluff and West 
Point. He died May 20, 1876, in St. Paul, 
Minn. 

GORRIE, PETER DOUGLAS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 21, 1813, in 
Glasgow, Scotland. He was a methodist 
clergyman of New York, and the author of 
Churches and Sects in the United States; 
Episcopal Methodism as It Was and Is; 
and Lives of Eminent Methodists. He 
died Sept. 12, 1884, in Potsdam, N. Y. 

GORRINGE. HENRY HONEYCHURCH, 
naval officer, author, was born Aug. 11, 
1841, in Barbadoes, W T . I. He was a United 
States naval officer who superintended the 
removal of the obelisk from Egypt to 
New York, and after leaving the navy 
engaged in ship-building. His only publi¬ 
cation is a work on Egyptian Obelisks. 
He died July 7, 1885, in New York. 

GORSHIRE. WILLIAM R., jurist, was 
born in New York. He moved to Colo¬ 
rado, where he was appointed United 
States judge for the territory of Colorado, 
residing at Denver. 

GORTNER, JOHN NARVER, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, poet, was born Feb. 16, 
1874, in St. Charles, Ill. He attended the 
Garrett Biblical in¬ 
stitute and has at¬ 
tained prominence as 
a lecturer and cler¬ 
gyman of the meth- 
odist episcopal 
church of Newman 
Grove, Neb. He is 
the author of a vol¬ 
ume of poems en¬ 
titled Dust From the 
Chariot Wheels; and 
a memorial poem en¬ 
titled Across the 
Wave, to the memory of his father, a mis¬ 
sionary who died in Africa. 

GORTNER. JOSEPH ROSS, clergyman, 
missionary, poet, was born Jan. 24, 1846, 
in Williamsport, Pa. He graduated from 
the Dickinson seminary, and became an 
eminent clergyman of the methodist epis¬ 
copal church. He went as a missionary 
to Africa during the latter part of his 
life, and died March 8, 1888, on the wqst 
coast of Africa. 

GORTON, DAVID ALLYN, physician, 
author, was Dorn in 1832 in New York. 
He is a physician of Brooklyn, and the au¬ 
thor of The Monism of Man, or the Unity 
of the Divine and Human; The Principles 
of Mental Hygiene; The Drift of Medical 
Philosophy; and Neurasthenia. 

GORTON. SAMUELL, author, was born 
in 1592 in England. He was the founder 
of a small sect sometimes called Nothing¬ 
arians, which survived him for about a 
century. He was the author of Simplici- 
tie’s Defence Against Seven-Headed Pol¬ 
icy; An Incorruptible Key Composed of 
the CX. Psalm; Saltmarsh Returned from 
the Dead; An Antidote Against the Com¬ 
mon Plague of the World; and Certain 
Copies of Letters. He died in 1677 in 
Rhode Island. 

GOSACK, GEORGE MECHLIN, lawyer 
legislator, was born Oct. 7, 1866, in Day- 
ton, Pa. He is a successful lawyer of 
Pittsburg, Pa.; and in 1897 was elected 
a member of the Pennsylvania house of 
representatives. 

GOSNELL, JAMES, clergyman, was 
born Sept. 14, 1857, in Ireland. He attend¬ 
ed the university of Rochester, and the 
Syracuse university, and has received the 
degrees of A. B„ A. M. and Ph. D. Since 
1880 he has been a clergyman of the meth¬ 


odist episcopal church in Rochester and 
vicinity, and since 1895 in Lockport, N. Y. 

GOSPER, JOHN J., soldier, orator, was 
born April 8, 1841, in Knox county, Ohio. 
During the civil war he served gallantly 
in the union army as first lieutenant of 
the United States colored troops, and lost 
a leg in the war. He was president of the 
city council of Lincoln, Neb., and secre¬ 
tary of state of Nebraska in 1873. Gosper 
county, Neb., was named for him. In 
1877 he was appointed by President Hayes 
to the secretaryship of Arizona territory, 
and served five years, most of the time as 
acting governor. He has been a member 
of the school board of Los Angeles, Cal. 

GOSS, ELBRIDGE HENRY,author, was 
born in 1830 in Massachusetts. He is a 
writer of Melrose, Mass., and the author 
of Life of Colonel Paul Revere; and Mel¬ 
rose Memorial. 

GOSS, JAMES H., merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 9, 1820, in Union 
Court House, S. C. He was a delegate 
to the state constitutional convention of 
1867, and was elected a representative 
from South Carolina to the fortieth con¬ 
gress. 

GOSS, WARREN LEE, author, was 
born in 1838 in Massachusetts. He is a 
writer of Norwich, Conn., and more re¬ 
cently of Rutherford, N. J. He is the 
author of 'The Soldier’s Story of the Cap¬ 
tivity at Andersonville; Jack Alden; Tom 
Clifton; Jed; and Recollections of a Pri¬ 
vate. 

GOTT, DANIEL, congressman, was born 
in Connecticut. On moving to New York 
he was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1847 to 1851. 

GOTTLIEB, ERNEST, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1743 in England. He 
was a Moravian missionary who made ex¬ 
tended studies of Indian customs. He is 
the author of History, etc., of the Penn¬ 
sylvania Indians; Mission of the United 
Brethren Among the Delawares; and 
Names which the Delawares Gave to 
Rivers and Streams, with their Signifi¬ 
cation. He died in 1823. 

GOUCHER, JOHN FRANKLIN, clergy¬ 
man, college president, philanthropist, 
was born June 7, 1845, in Waynesboro, 
Pa. He was one of the original incorpor¬ 
ators of the Woman’s college of Balti¬ 
more, of which he is president. 

GOUDY, WILLIAM C., lawyer, state 
senator, was born May 15, 1824, in Indi¬ 
ana. In 1853 he became state’s attorney, 
and in 1856 was sent to the state senate. 
In 1859 he opened an office in Chicago and 
for thirty-four years made unhalting prog¬ 
ress. He died April 27, 1893, in Chicago, 
Ill. 

GOUGAR, HELEN M., lawyer, lecturer, 
author, was born July 18, 1843, in Litch¬ 
field, Mich. She is the author of the law 
granting municipal suffrage to women in 
Kansas, and has published Women Wealth 
Winners, and other works. 

GOUGE, WILLIAM M., author, was 
born Nov. 10, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was a financial writer and for thirty 
years was in the treasury department at 
Washington. He was the author of His¬ 
tory of the American Banking System; 
Expediency of Dispensing with * Bank 
Paper; and Fiscal History of Texas. He 
died July 14, 1863, in Trenton, N. J. 

GOUGH, JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, 
temperance lecturer, author, was born 
Aug. 22, 1817, in England. He was a cele¬ 
brated temperance lecturer, and was the 
author of Autobiography; Temperance 
Lectures; Sunlight and Shadow, or Glean¬ 
ings from My Life Work; Temperance 
Dialogues; and Platform Echoes. He died 
Feb. 18, 1880, in Frankford, Pa. 


GOULD, ALTA ISADORE, poet, is a na 
tive of Michigan. She is the author of The 
Veteran’s Bride; and has contributed both, 
prose and verse to the periodical press. 
Her poems have been incorporated in sev¬ 
eral standard works. 

GOULD, AUGUSTUS ADDISON, con- 
chologist, author, was born April 23, 1805* 
in New Ipswich, N. H. He was a conchol- 
ogist of Boston, and the author of System 
of Natural History; Mollusca and Shells; 
Olia Conchologia; The Mollusca of the 
North Pacific Expedition; and The Inver- 
tebrata of Massachusetts. He died Sept. 
15, 1866, in Boston, Mass. 

GOULD, BENJAMIN APTHORP, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 15, 1787, in 
Lancaster, Mass. He was an educator of 
Massachusetts who published The Prize 
Book; Adam’s Latin Grammar; and edi¬ 
tions of Horace, Ovid, and Virgil. He 
died Oct. 24, 1859, in Boston, Mass. 

GOULD, BENJAMIN APTHORP, as¬ 
tronomer, author, was born Sept. 24, 1824, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a distinguished 
astronomer, from 1868-85 director of the 
Argentine RepuDlic national observatory 
at Cordova, and subsequently a resident 
of Cambridge. He was the author of 
Lranometry of the Southern Heavens; 
and Trans-Atlantic Longitude as Deter¬ 
mined by the Coast Survey. He died in 
1896. 

GOULD. EDWARD SHERMAN, mer¬ 
chant, author, was born May 11, 1808, in 
Litchfield, Conn. He was a merchant of 
New York city, and the author of The 
Sleep Rider; The Very Age, a comedy; 
John Doe and Richard Roe, a tale of New 
York life; Classified Elocution; and Good 
English. He died Feb. 21, 1885, in New" 
York city. 

GOULD, EDWIN B., lawyer, was born 
Jan. 24, 1839, in Hillsborough, N. H. He 
received his education at the Frances- 
town academy and at the Appleton acad¬ 
emy of Mount Vernon, N. H. For many 
years he was town clerk of Pembroke, and 
is now a "prominent lawyer of Nashua, N. 
H., where he has filled many prominent 
public positions of trust in the gift of his- 
county and state. 

GOULD, ELIZABETH PORTER, poet. 
In 1889 she published Gems from Walt 
Whitman, which brought her merited 
praise as a critic. In 1891 she published 
a volume of her poems entitled Stray Peb¬ 
bles from Shores of Thought. She has 
been president of several woman’s or¬ 
ganizations, and a leader in woman’s, 
progress and social affairs in Boston* 
Mass. 

GOULD. EZRA PALMER, clergyman* 
author, was born in 1841 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is an episcopal clergyman; pro¬ 
fessor of New Testament literature in the 
Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity school; 
and the author of Commentary on Corin¬ 
thians; and Notes on the Lessons of 1885. 

GOULD, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Sept. 2, 1807, in Litchfield, Conn. 
In 1855 he was elected judge of the su¬ 
preme court of the state of New York* 
He died Dec. 6, 1868, in Troy, N. Y. 

GOULD, GEORGE J.,railroad president. 
Since 1893 he has been president of the 
Missouri Pacific railway. 

GOULD, HANNAH FLAGG, poet, was 
born Sept. 3, 1789, in Lancaster, Mass. 
She was a poet of Newburyport, Mass., 
and the author of The Snow Flake and the 
Frost; Hymns and Poems for Children; 
The Golden Vase; The Youth’s Coronal; 
Mother’s Dream, and Other Poems; Dios- 
ma, poems original and selected; and 
Gathered Leaves, a volume of prose. She 
died Sept. 5, 1865, in Newburyport, Mass. 




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GOULD, HERMAN D., congressman, 
"was born in Connecticut. Having taken 
up his residence in New York he was 
■elected a representative in congress from 
that state, from 1849 to 1851. He died in 
1852 in Delhi, N. Y. 

GOULD, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Dec. 5, 1770, in Branford, Conn. He 
was a jurist of Connecticut who published 
The Principles of Pleading in Civil Ac¬ 
tions. He died May 11, 1836, in Litch¬ 
field, Conn. 


GOULD, JAY, financier, was born May 
27, 1836, in Roxbury, N. Y. He made sur¬ 
veys of Ulster, Albany and Delaware 
counties, and from 
these surveys he ac¬ 
cumulated five thou¬ 
sand dollars. In 1856 
he published a His¬ 
tory of Delaware 
County. In 1857 he 
became the largest 
stockholder and a di¬ 
rector inthe Strouds¬ 
burg (Pa.) bank; 
bought the bonds of 
the Rutland and 
Washington railroad 
at ten cents on the dollar, and in 1859 es¬ 
tablished himself in New York city as a 
broker. He invested heavily in Erie rail¬ 
way stock, and subsequently controlled 
ten thousand miles of railroad. He ac¬ 
cumulated over fifty millions of dollars. 
He died Dec. 2, 1892, in New York city. 

GOULD, JOHN W., author, was born 
Nov. 5, 1814, in Litchfield, Conn. He was 
the author of Forecastle Yarns; and Pri¬ 
vate Journal of Voyage from New York 
to Rio Janeiro. He died Oct. 1, 1838, at 



sea. 

GOULD, NATHANIEL DUREN, ^musi¬ 
cian, author, was born March- 26, 1781, in 
Bedford, Mass. He was a musician and 
penman of Boston who published A His¬ 
tory of Church Music. He died May 2S, 
1864, in Boston, Mass. 

GOULD. OZRO BARNES, soldier, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, jurist, was born April 
17, 1840, in Canada. In 1861 he enlisted in 
the fifty-fifth Ohio infantry, served 
throughout the war, and attained the rank 
of captain. In 1867 he settled in Winona, 
Minn., in the practice of law. In 1881 he 
was a. member of the Minnesota state 
house of representatives, and in 1895 was 
appointed judge of the third judicial dis¬ 
trict. 

GOULD, THOMAS R., sculptor, was 
born in 1818 in Boston, Mass. Among the 
works that he produced were two colossal 
heads, Christ and Satan, both of which 
were exhibited at the Boston athenaeum in 
1863, but afterward removed to his studio 
in Florence. He died Nov. 26, 1881, in 
Florence, Italy. 

GOULD, WILL DANIEL, educator, law¬ 
yer, was born Sept. 17, 1845, in Cabot, 
Vt. He received the rudiments of his 
education at the pub¬ 
lic and high schools 
of his native city; 
the academies of St. 
Johnsbury and 
Barre, Vt.; and in 
1871 graduated from 
the university of 
Michigan. He be¬ 
came principal of 
the graded schools at 
Passumpsic, Marsh¬ 
field and Plainfield, 
Vt.; and was super¬ 
intendent of schools in his native town 
when twenty-one years of age. In 1872 
he settled in Los Angeles, Cal., where he 
has since been successfully engaged in the 
active practice of law. 



GOULDING, FRANCIS ROBERT, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 28, 1810, 
in Midway, Ga. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of Georgia whose Young Mar- 
ooners on the Florida Coast, a tale for 
boys, has long been popular. Other works 
of his include Marooner’s Island; Frank 
Gordon; Fishing and Fishes; Woodruff 
Stories; Little Josephine; Cousin Aleck; 
Adventures Among the Indians; and Boy 
Life on the Water. He died Aug. 22, 1881, 
in Roswell, Ga. 

GOULEY, JOHN WILLIAM SEVERIN, 
physician, author, was born March 11, 
1832, in New Orleans, La. He is a phy¬ 
sician, professor in the university of New 
York, and the author of External Perineal 
Urethrotomy; Diseases of the Urinary 
Organs; and Diseases of Man. 

GOURDIN, THEODORE, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1813 to 1815. He 
died Jan. 17, 1826. 

GOVAN, A. R., congressman, was born 
in Orangeburg, S. C. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from South Carolina 
from 1822 to 1827, having first been elect¬ 
ed to fill a vacancy. 

GOVE, SAMUEL F„ soldier, merchant, 
congressman, was born March 9, 1822, 
in Weymouth, Mass. He was a captain 
and assessor of taxes for Bibb county in 
the confederate service; and was elected a 
representative from Georgia to the for¬ 
tieth congress as a republican. 

GOVE, WILLIAM HAZELTINE, orator, 
legislator, was born July 10, 1817, in 
Weare, N. H. He became well known as a 
stump speaker, and gained the title of the 
silver-tongued orator of New Hampshire. 
He was elected a member of the legisla¬ 
ture in 1851, 1852, and 1855. He died March 
11, 1876, in Weare, N. H. 

GOWAN, ALBERT W., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, was born May 16, 1846, in 
Rushford, N. Y. During the civil war 
he enlisted in battery M, first regiment 
United States artillery, and served three 
years. In 1871 he moved to Osborne 
county, Kan., and helped to organize that 
county, and in 1881 was its representative 
in the Kansas state legislature. In 1882 
he moved to Oregon and in 1890 settled 
in Burns, where he is engaged in the 
practice of law. During 1893-96 he was 
captain of troop A of the Oregon National 
Guard. 

GOWANS, WILLIAM, bookseller, anti¬ 
quarian, author, was born March 29, 1803, 
in Scotland. From 1828 until his death he 
was identified with the book business 
of New York city. He died Nov. 27, 1870, 
in New York city. 

GOWER, CORNELIUS A., educator, 
manufacturer, was born in 1845 in Abbott, 
Maine. He was superintendent of public 
instruction during 1878-81; and the suc¬ 
ceeding eleven years was superintendent 
of the State Reform school. He is presi¬ 
dent and general manager of the Building 
and Loan association of Lansing, Mich. 

GRACE, GEORGE AZARIAH, lawyer, 
was born Dec. 9, 1845, in Johnson county, 
Tenn. After receiving his education, he 
graduated from the Albany Law school, 
N. Y. He has been assistant United States 
attorney for the western district of Arkan¬ 
sas, and is one of the leading lawyers of 
that state, and practices his profession at 
Fort Smith. 

GRACE, THOMAS L., bishop, was born 
Nov. 16, 1814, in Charleston, S. C. He at¬ 
tained eminence in the Roman catholic 
church, and for many years was a bishop 
of St. Paul, Minn. 

GRACE, WILLIAM RUSSELL, mer¬ 
chant, was born May 10, 1832, in Ireland. 
In 1881 he established the New York and 
Pacific Steamship company. 


GRACEY, JOHN TALBOT, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 16, 1831, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. For eight years he was a 
missionary to India. He is a noted lec¬ 
turer, the author of several works, and the 
editor of The Missionary Review of the 
World. 

GRADY, BENJAMIN F., soldier, edu¬ 
cator, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 
1831, in Dublin county, N. C. He Was 
elected professor of mathematics and nat¬ 
ural sciences in Austin college. He re¬ 
mained in Austin college till he enlisted 
in a Texas confederate regiment. He 
located in North Carolina at the close of 
the war. He was superintendent of public 
schools of Dublin county from 1881 to 
1888, and justice of the peace from 1879 to 
1890. He was one of the trustees of the 
North Carolina State university from 1873 
to 1890; and was elected to the fifty-sec¬ 
ond and re-elected to the fifty-third con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

GRADY, HENRY WOODWARD, jour¬ 
nalist, was born May 24, 1850, in Athens, 
Ga. In 1880 he bought an interest in the 
Atlanta Constitution, and remained a 
part owner and editor of that paper until 
his death. He died Dec. 23, 1889. 

GRADY, JOHN C„ lawyer, United States 
senator, was born Oct. 8, 1847, in East- 
port, Maine. In 1876 he was elected to 
represent the seventh district of Penn¬ 
sylvania in the state senate from Phila¬ 
delphia, and in 1881 was elected United 
States senator. 

GRADY, JOHN E., lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, was born in Franklin county, Fla. He 
has been collector of customs for the port 
of Key West, and served with distinction 
as a member of the Florida state senate. 

GRAEBNER, AUGUSTUS L„ clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1849, in Michi¬ 
gan. He is a lutheran clergyman, pro¬ 
fessor in the Theological seminary at St. 
Louis from 1887, and is the author of 
Half a Century of Sound Lutheranism in 
America. 

GRAFF, FREDERICK, civil engineer, 
was born Aug. 27, 1775, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. In 1811 he recommended Fairmount 
as the proper place for the waterworks of 
Philadelphia, and was entrusted with their 
construction. For forty-two years he 
was in the service of the city of Philadel¬ 
phia, and a monument to his memory was 
erected in the grounds at Fairmount 
waterworks. He died April 13, 1847, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

GRAFF, JOSEPH V., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born July 1, 1854, in Terre 
Haute, Ind. He moved to Illinois; and 
was a delegate to the national republican 
convention at Minneapolis in 1892. He 
has engaged in the practice of law ever 
since his admission to the bar. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

GRAFFENRIED, R. C. DE, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1859 in Franklin, 
Tenn. He was elected county attorney 
of Longview, Texas; in 1888 was elector 
on the democratic ticket; made the race 
for congress in 1890; and was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

GRAFTON, CHARLES CHAPMAN, 
bishop of Fond du Lac, Wis., was born 
April 12, 1830, in Boston, Mass. He intro¬ 
duced into America the Sisterhood of St. 
Margaret, East Grinstead, establishing the 
community in Boston. He also founded 
the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity. He 
was consecrated bishop of Fond du Lae 
in the cathedral at Fond du Lac on April 
25, 1889. His writings comprise; Voca¬ 
tion, or the Call of the Divine Master to 
a Sister’s Life; Plain Suggestions for a 
Reverent Celebration of the Holy Com¬ 
munion; and various essays, sermons, 
and tracts. 


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GRAFTON, EDWARD C., naval officer, 
was born in Boston, Mass. He was com¬ 
missioned lieutenant in 1855; lieutenant- 
commander in 1862; commander in 1866; 
and was retired in 1871. He died June 24, 
1876, in New York city. 

GRAFTON, JOSEPH, clergyman, was 
born June 9, 1757, in Newport, R. I. He 
accepted a call to Newton, Mass., and was 
ordained as pastor of the baptist church 
in that place in 1788. He died Sept. 16, 
1836, in Newton, Mass. 

GRAHAM, CHARLES KINNA1RD, civil 
engineer, was born June 3, 1824, in New 
York city. At the beginning of the civil 
war he volunteered in the national army, 
about four hundred men in his employ in 
the navy yard following his example. In 
1862 he was commissioned brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He died April 18, 1889, in New York 
city. 

GRAHAM, CHRISTOPHER BRIAN, ed¬ 
ucator, journalist, clergyman, was born 
May 19, 1850, in Charleston, W. Va. He 
was a successful school teacher and a pros¬ 
perous merchant; and in 1879 became a 
clergyman of the methodist episcopal 
church. For six years he was presiding 
elder of the Charleston district; and there 
published The Charleston Advocate. He 
has held important offices in his confer¬ 
ence, and now fills a pastorate in Wheel¬ 
ing, W. Va. 

GRAHAM, CURTIS, author, was born 
March 11, 1872, in Ormsby, Nev. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the San Francisco 
schools and the university of California. 
He has filled several positions of trust, 
and is attaining success as a magazine 
writer and author. 

GRAHAM, DAVID, lawyer, author, was 
born Feb. 8, 1808, in London, England. 
He was a lawyer of New York city; and 
the author of Practice of the Supreme 
Court of New York State; New Trials; 
and Courts of Law and Equity in New 
York State. He died May 27, 1852, in Nice, 
France. 

GRAHAM, GEORGE, soldier, public of¬ 
ficial, was born about 1772 in Dumfries, 
Va. He was acting secretary of war dur¬ 
ing the last two years of President Madi¬ 
son’s administration. He became presi¬ 
dent of the Washington branch of the 
United States bank; and in 1823 was ap¬ 
pointed commissioner of the land office. 
He died in August, 1830, in Washington, 

D. C. 

GRAHAM, GEORGE REX, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Jan. 18, 1813, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 1846 he purchased the 
North American, and in 1847 the United 
States Gazette, which he incorporated 
with the North American. 

GRAHAM, HENRY HALE, jurist, was 
born July 1, 1731, in London, England. 

In 1789 Delaware county in Pennsylvania 
was created, and he was commissioned 
president judge of its court of common 
pleas. He died Jah. 24, 1790, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

GRAHAM, ISABELLA, philanthropist, 
was born July 29, 1742, in Scotland. 
Among the more important of the institu¬ 
tions established by her are the Widows’ 
and Orphans’ Asylum societies, the so¬ 
ciety for the Promotion of Industry, and 
the first Sunday school for ignorant 
adults. She died July 27, 1814, in New 
York city. 

GRAHAM, JAMES, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in January, 1793, in Lin¬ 
coln county, N. C. He served four years 
in the state legislature; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from North Carolina 
from 1833 to 1843, and from 1845 to 1847. 

He died Sept. 25, 1851. 


GRAHAM, JAMES H., congressman. 
He was elected a representative from New 
York to the thirty-sixth congress. 

GRAHAM, JAMES S., soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, legislator, was born May 28, 
1836, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He served 
as a soldier in the civil war, and was pro¬ 
moted to captain and brevetted major, 
and in 1896 was elected commander de¬ 
partment of the New York Grand Army 
of the Republic. He served as a member 
of the New York legislature for three 
terms; and is a successful manufacturer 
of machinery in Rochester, N. Y. 

GRAHAM, JOANNA, author. Of the 
Life and Letters of Mrs. Graham, more 
than 50,000 copies have been sold in Amer¬ 
ica, and many editions issued in England 
and Scotland. 

GRAHAM, JOHN, diplomat. He was a 
citizen of Virginia. In 1819 he was ap¬ 
pointed minister plenipotentiary to Portu¬ 
gal. He also went to Brazil on diplomatic 
business; and returned to the United 
States in 1820. He died July 31, 1820. 

GRAHAM, JOHN, clergyman, was born 
in 1694 in Scotland. He was the author 
of A Ballad against the Church of Eng¬ 
land in Connecticut. He died in Decem¬ 
ber, 1774, in Woodbury, Conn. 

GRAHAM, JOHN ANDREW, lawyer, 
author, was born June 10, 1764, in South- 
bury, Conn. He was a lawyer of Rut¬ 
land, Vt.; and the author of Descriptive 
Sketch of Present State of Vermont; 
Speeches; and Memoirs of Horne Tooke. 
He died Aug. 29, 1841, in New York city. 

GRAHAM, JOHN HODGES, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born March 9, 1794, in Vermont. 
He entered the navy as midshipman in 
1812; was promoted to be lieutenant in 
1817; and captain in 1849. He died March 
15, 1878, in Newbury, N. H. 

GRAHAM, JOHN H., soldier, merchant, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born 
April 1, 1835, in Ireland. In the fall of 
1861 he recruited company A, fifth regi¬ 
ment heavy artillery, New York volun¬ 
teers, and served three years as its cap¬ 
tain, and was commissioned as major 
and brevetted lieutenant-colonel. In 1889 
he was selected by the hardware board of 
trade to represent their interests and was 
named as one of the incorporators of the 
proposed World’s Columbian exposition 
to be held in New York. He was elected 
to the fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

GRAHAM, JOHN LORIMER, soldier, 
lawyer, was born March 20, 1797, in Lon¬ 
don, England. In 1834 he was appointed 
regent of the state university, and from 
1840 till 1844 was postmaster of New 
York city. He died July 22, 1876, in 
Flushing, N. Y. 

GRAHAM, LOYAL M., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Nov. 20, 1860, in Butler 
county, Pa. He is a successful lawyer 
of Stockville, Neb.; has been county at¬ 
torney of his county for two terms; and 
served with distinction as a senator in the 
Nebraska state legislature. 

GRAHAM, MRS. MARGARET COL¬ 
LIER, author, was born in 1850 in Iowa. 
She is a California writer who has pub¬ 
lished Stories of the Foot-Hills. 

GRAHAM, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 
soldier, journalist, was born June 14, 1846, 
in Benton, Tenn. He served as a soldier 
in the federal army; and was a candidate 
for the Tennessee legislature. He is the 
editor and owner of The Gazette of Duck- 
town, Tenn. 

GRAHAM, NEIL F., physician, surgeon, 
was born Feb. 9, 1840, in Canada. He 
served as a surgeon in the army until the 
close of the war; and was elected pro¬ 
fessor of surgery at Howard university, 
Washington, D. C., in 1872. 


GRAHAM, ROBERT, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Aug. 14, 
1822, in Liverpool, England. He was the 
president and founder of the Arkansas 
college; has been president of the Ken¬ 
tucky university; and until 1896 was pres¬ 
ident of College of the Bible of Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky. 

GRAHAM, ROBERT D., agriculturist, 
lawyer, state legislator, was born Nov. 11, 
1855, in Canada. He has attained success 
in the practice of law in Grand Rapids, 
Mich. He served with distinction as a 
member of the Michigan state legislature 
in 1897-98. 

GRAHAM, SYLVESTER, vegetarian, 
author, was „ born in 1794 in Suffield, 
Conn. He was a well-known vegetarian 
and lecturer upon temperance. He was 
the author of Lectures on the Science of 
Human Life; Bread and Breadmaking; 
and Philosophy of Sacred History. He 
died Sept. 11, 1851, in Northampton, Mass. 

GRAHAM, WILLIAM, college president, 
was born Dec. 19, 1745, in Harrisburg, Pa. 
He was first president of Liberty Hall 
academy, afterward Washington college 
and Washington and Lee university. He 
died June 8, 1799, in Richmond, Va. 

GRAHAM, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in 1783. He was a member of 
the convention which framed the state 
constitution of Indiana; and served many 
years in both branches of the state legis¬ 
lature, and was speaker in 1820. He was 
a representative in congress from Indiana 
from 1837 to 1839. He died in 1857 near 
Valonia, Ind. 

GRAHAM, WILLIAM A., lawyer, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born 
Sept. 5, 1804, in Lincoln county, N. C. He 
served in the state 
legislature from 1833 
to 1836, and also in 
1839 and 1840. He 
was a senator in con¬ 
gress from North 
Carolina from 1841 
to 1843. In 1844 he 
was elected governor 
of the state, and re¬ 
elected in 1846. He 
was secretary of the 
navy under Presi¬ 
dent Filmore; and 
subsequently was nominated for the office 
of vice-president on the ticket with Win¬ 
field Scott. He was a delegate to the 
Philadelphia national union convention of 
1866; and subsequently held the position 
of arbitrator between the states of Vir¬ 
ginia and Maryland. He died Aug. 11, 
1875, in Saratoga, N. Y. 

GRAHAM, WILLIAM A., farmer, sol¬ 
dier, state senator, was born Dec. 26, 1839, 
in Hillsborough, N. C. He was a soldier 
in the civil war, and for two terms was 
a member of the North Carolina state 
senate. 

GRANBERY, JOHN COWPER, bishop, 
author, was born Dec. 5, 1829, in Norfolk, 
Va. He is a bishop of the methodist 
church south, who published a Bible Dic¬ 
tionary. 

GRANGER, AMOS PHELPS, soldier, 
farmer, merchant, congressman, was born 
in June, 1789, in Suffield, Conn. He 
served as a captain of militia at Sackett’s 
Harbor in 1812; and subsequently be¬ 
came a general of militia. He was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. 

He died Aug. 20, 1866, in Syracuse, N. Y. 

GRANGER, BRADLEY F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New York. He was 
elected a representative from Michigan 
to the thirty-seventh congress. 





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GRANGER, FRANCIS, congressman, 
was born Dec. 1, 1792, in Suffield, Conn. 
He was for five years from 1826 a member 
of the New York general assembly. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1835 to 1837, and again 
from 1839 to 1841, when he resigned to ac¬ 
cept from President Harrison the ap¬ 
pointment of postmaster-general. He was 
a member of the peace convention of 1861. 
He died Aug. 28, 1868, in Canandaigua, 
N. Y. 

GRANGER, GIDEON, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born July 19, 1767, in Suffield, 
Conn. In 1793 he was elected a member 
of the legislature, and continued in that 
body several years. In 1801 he was ap¬ 
pointed postmaster-general of the United 
States, and continued in that office until 
1814, when he removed to the state of 
New York. In 1819 he was elected to the 
state senate. He gave one thousand acres 
of land in aid of the canal. He died Dec. 
21, 1822, in Canandaigua, N. Y. 

GRANGER, GORDON, soldier, was born 
in 1821 in New York. During the civil 
war he became a colonel, and was placed 
in command of the army of Kentucky. 
He died Jan. 10, 1876, in Santa Fe, N. M. 

GRANGER, MILES TOBEY, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 12, 
1817, in New Marlborough, Mass. He was 
elected judge of the superior court of Con¬ 
necticut; and in 1876 was elected judge of 
the supreme court, which he held till 1887, 
when he resigned. He was a member of 
the Connecticut house of representatives 
in 1857; and of the senate in 1866-67. He 
held the office of judge of the superior 
court nineteen and a half years consecu¬ 
tively, and was elected to the fiftieth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

GRANGER, ROBERT SEAMAN, sol¬ 
dier, was born May 24, 1816, in Zanesville, 
Ohio. He served in the Florida, Mexican 
and civil wars, and attained the brevet of 
major-general in the United States army. 

GRANNIS, GEORGE W., soldier, cler¬ 
gyman, reformer, was born Aug. 24, 1847, 
in Butler county, Pa. During the civil 
war he served in company E, one hundred 
and ninety-third regiment Pennsylvania 
volunteer infantry; and is now an active 
member of the Grand Army of the Repub¬ 
lic. Since 1869 he has been a clergyman 
of the methodist episcopal church; has 
served as presiding elder; and is now 
filling a pastorate in Salem, Ore. He has 
always taken an active part in temper¬ 
ance and other reform movements, and 
contributes extensively to current liter¬ 
ature. 

GRANT, ABRAHAM, bishop, was born 
Aug. 25, 1848, in Lake City, Fla. In 1888 
he was elected bishop of the African 
methodist episcopal church. 

GRANT, ABRAHAM P., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1837 to 1839. 

GRANT, AMARIAH J., soldier, clergy¬ 
man, was born May 23, 1841, in Hastings, 
N. Y. He was the inventor of the auto¬ 
matic bar locking de¬ 
vice, which to-day 
may be found on 
nearly every desk 
manufactured. I n 
1863 be enlisted in 
the twenty-fourth 
regiment New York 
volunteer cavalry, 
and was promoted to 
sergeant. In 1876 he 
left his trade of cab¬ 
inetmaker for the 
ministry; and has 
since been a successful clergyman of the 
methodist episcopal church in his native 
state. 


GRANT, ASAHEL, physician, author, 
was born Aug. 17, 1807, in Marshall, N. Y. 
He was a physician who was a mission¬ 
ary in Persia; and the author of The Nes- 
torians, or the Lost Tribes. He died 
April 25, 1844, in Turkey. 

GRANT, CHARLES S., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Nov. 29, 1845, in Hobart, 
N. Y. He was one of the founders of the 
State Medical association; and in 1885 he 
erected at Saratoga Springs a sanitarium. 

GRANT, CLEMENT ROLLINS, artist, 
was born July 10, 1849, in Freeport, Maine. 
His specialty is landscape and portrait 
painting. Among his pictures are Amy 
Wentworth, an illustration of Whittier’s 
poem, Marguerita; and O for the Touch 
of a Vanished Hand. 

GRANT, FREDERICK DENT, soldier, 
was born May 30, 1850, in St. Louis, Mo. 
He is the son of General Grant, and in 
1873 was commissioned lieutenant-colonel, 
in which capacity he served eight years. 

GRANT, FREDERICK ELSWORTH, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 14, 1854, in 
College Hill, Ohio. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the schools of Rossville, Ill.; 
and has attained success as an able law¬ 
yer of Huron, S. D. Since 1890 he has 
been commissioner of the United States 
circuit court; and is the present county 
judge of Beadle county, at Huron, S. D. 

GRANT, JAMES BENTON, miner, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Jan. 2, 1848, in Russell 
county, Ala. He built the first large 
smelting works at Leadville in 1878, under 
the name of J. B. Grant and Co.; and 
when the fire in that mining camp de¬ 
stroyed the works, he constructed in Den¬ 
ver in 1882, a finer plant than the original 
one, consolidating his business with an¬ 
other company, under the name of the 
Omaha and Grant Smelting Co. In 1882 
he was nominated for governor and was 
elected by an overwhelming majority. 

GRANT, JOHN T„ railroad builder, 
state senator, was born Dec. 13, 1813, near 
Grantville, Ga. After graduating in 1833 
from the state uni¬ 
versity, he became a 
railroad builder in 
Georgia, Alabama, 
Tennessee, Mississip¬ 
pi, Louisiana and 
Texas. In 1856 he 
was elected state 
senator from Walton 
county: became col¬ 
onel on the staff of 
Governor H o w e 1 i 
Cobb; and built the 
handsomest r e s i- 
dence in Atlanta, Ga. He was a lover of 
art, music and literature; and was both a 
composer and performer on flute and 
violin. He died Jan. 18, 1887, in Atlanta, 
Ga. His only son, Captain W. D. Grant, 
succeeded his fatner in carrying on his 
various enterprises. 

GRANT, JULIA DENT, wife of Presi¬ 
dent Grant, was born Jan. 26, 1826, in St. 
Louis, Mo. When America called Grant 
to the presidential chair, she stood with 
dignity at his side, and commanded the 
respect of all who beheld her; and this 
respect has been enhanced by her con¬ 
tinued dignity through the trials and suf¬ 
ferings of Grant’s last days. 

GRANT, LEMUEL PRATT, railroad 
president, was born Aug. 11, 1817, in 

Frankfort, Maine. In 1873 he became 
president of the Georgia Pacific railroad; 
and in 1883 was president of the Western 
railroad of Alabama. 

GRANT, ROBERT, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 24, 1852, in Boston, 
Mass. He is a lawyer of Boston well known 
as a litterateur; from 1893 a judge of 


probate and insolvency for Suffolk county, 
Mass. He has written several satirical 
works, including The Little Tin Gods on 
Wheels; The Lambs; Yankee Doodle; 
and the juvenile tales, Jack Hall; Jack in 
the Bush. In fiction he has published 
Confessions of a Frivolous Girl; The 
Carletons; Mrs. Harold Stagg; An Aver¬ 
age Man; The Knave of Hearts; A Ro¬ 
mantic Young Lady; Face to Face; The 
Bachelor’s Christmas, and Other Stories; 
The Opinions of a Philosopher; Reflec¬ 
tions of a Married Man. Other works of 
his are The Art of Living; and The Old¬ 
est School in America. 

GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON, eight¬ 
eenth president of the United States, was 
born April 27, 1822, in Clermont county, 
Ohio. He graduated 
at the Military acad¬ 
emy at West Point in 
1843, and entered the 
United States regu¬ 
lar army as a brevet 
second lieutenant. 
He was afterward 
promoted to captain, 
and served in the 
Mexican wdr under 
Generals Scott and 
Taylor. He partici¬ 
pated in the battles 
of Palo Alto, Monterey, Vera Cruz and 
Molino del Rey. At the close of the war 
Grant’s company was sent to Oregon. In 
1848 he married Miss Julia T. Dent. In 
1854 he resigned his connection with the 
army, and settled near St. Louis. In 1859 
he moved to Galena, Ill., and engaged in 
the leather trade until the breaking out 
of the rebellion. He then entered the 
union army as colonel, and distinguished 
himself at the battles of Fort Donelson, 
Shiloh, Vicksburg, Richmond and others. 
He was promoted from time to time, until 
February, 1864, when he received the com¬ 
mission of lieutenant-general from Presi¬ 
dent Lincoln’s own hand, and continued 
in the field until he received the sword 
which General Robert Edward Lee sur¬ 
rendered at Appomattox Court House, 
April 9, 1865. The republican national 
convention met at Chicago May 21, 1868. 
On the first ballot Grant was unanimously 
nominated for president, with Schuyler 
Colfax for vice-president. Being duly 
elected, they were inaugurated March 4, 
1869. At the republican national conven¬ 
tion held in Philadelphia June 5, 1872, 
President Grant was renominated by 
acclamation. Henry Wilson was nomin¬ 
ated for vice-president. Being elected, 
they took the oath of office March 4, 1873. 
He completed his term of eight years as 
president March 4, 1877. On May 17 he 
left Philadelphia for a tour around the 
world, and landed in San Francisco Sept. 
20, 1879. In the republican national con¬ 
vention in 1880 his name was presented 
as a candidate for president, and he re¬ 
ceived from 302 to 313 votes during the 
thirty-six ballots taken. He removed to 
New York city in 1881. Just previous to 
his death he wrote his memoirs, which 
were published in two volumes, and 
brought a large fortune to his widow. 
He completed this last work of his life 
but four days before his death, which oc¬ 
curred July 23, 1885, on Mount McGregor, 
near Saratoga, N. Y. He was the author 
of Report of the Armies of the United 
States; and Personal Memoirs. 

GRANT, WILLIAM DANIEL, capitalist, 
was born Aug. 16, 1837, in Athens, Ga. He 
is the largest owner of Atlanta real estate 
and one of the wealthiest men of Georgia. 

GRANTLAND, SEATON, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was elected a 
representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1835 to 1839; and was also a presi¬ 
dential elector. 







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GRATACAP, LOUIS POPE, naturalist, 
author, was born Nov. 1, 1850, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He is a naturalist connected 
with the American Museum of Natural 
History in New York city who has pub¬ 
lished Philosophy of Ritualism, or Apol¬ 
ogia Pro Ritu. 

GRATKE, JOHN EDWARD, journalist, 
legislator, was born Feb. 16, 1872, in Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis. He is the editor and pro¬ 
prietor of The Budget of Astoria, Ore.; 
and in 1897 was elected a member of the 
Oregon state legislature. 

GRAVELY, JOSEPH J., soldier, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1828 
in Henry county, Va. In 1853 and 1854 
he was elected to the Virginia legislature. 
In 1854 he moved to Missouri, and was 
elected to the convention of that state in 
1860. In 1862 he was elected to the senate 
of the state, and re-elected in 1864. Dur¬ 
ing a part of the rebellion he was colonel 
of the eighth regiment of Missouri cav¬ 
alry. After the close of the war he turned 
his attention to the practice of law; and 
in 1866 was elected a representative from 
Missouri to the fortieth congress. 

GRAVES, ABBOTT FULLER, artist, 
was born April 15, 1859, at Weymouth, 
Mass. Among his well-known floral 
paintings are Chrysanthemum Show; 
Peonies; Grandmother’s Window; and 
his most noted figure compositions are 
The Silent Partner; Next of Kin; Saved 
from the Wreck; A Dawn of Hope; The 
Light in the Window; and A Labor of 
Love. 

GRAVES, MRS. ADELIA CLEOPATRA, 
educator, author, poec, was born March 
17, 1821, in Kingsville, Ohio. She gradu¬ 
ated from the Kingsville academy; en¬ 
tered educational work; and for thirty- 
one years filled the chair of literature in 
the Mary Sharp college of Winchester, 
Tenn. In 1841 she was married to Prof. 
Z. C. Graves, president of Soule college, 
and founder and president of the Mary 
Sharp college. She is the author of sev¬ 
eral books; has contributed extensively 
both prose and verse to periodical litera¬ 
ture; and is one of the most popular 
writers of the south. Her best-known 
works are: Life of Columbus; Poems for 
Children; Seclusarval, or the Arts of 
Romanism; and Jephtha’s Daughter, a 
drama. 

GRAVES, ALEXANDER, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1844, 
in Mississippi. He entered the confeder¬ 
ate army, serving throughout the war. In 
1872 he was elected city attorney of Lex¬ 
ington; and in 1874 was elected prosecut¬ 
ing attorney of Lafayette county. He was 
elected a representative from Missouri to 
the forty-eighth congress as a democrat. 

GRAVES, ANSON ROGERS, clergyman, 
bishop, was born April 13, 1842, in Wells, 
Vt. When five years of age he moved 
with his parents to 
Illinois; received 
the rudiments of his 
education in the 
common schools; 
and subsequently 
graduated from the 
Rutland high school 
and Hobart college. 
In his junior year he 
took both the White 
and Cobb essay 
prizes. After gradu¬ 
ating in 1866 he stud¬ 
ied law and taught school; but after two 
years he entered the General Theological 
seminary. After twelve years of work as 
a clergyman in the episcopal church in 
parishes east and west, he became rector 
of the Gethsemane church of Minneapolis, 
Minn.; and in 1890 was consecrated mis¬ 


sionary bishop of western Nebraska. He 
has received the degrees of S. T. D. and 
LL. D. 

GRAVES, CHARLES W., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 29, 1854, in East Aurora, 
N. Y. He studied law with his father, 
was admitted to the bar in 1876, and 
practiced law in Sparta until 1879, then 
he removed to Viroqua. Since 1894 he 
has been county judge of Vernon county. 

GRAVES, EDWARD OZIEL, public of¬ 
ficial, banker, was born Aug. 3, 1843, in 
Gravesville, N. Y. In 1883-85 he was as¬ 
sistant treasurer of the United States at 
Washington, D. C.; and during 1885-89 
was chief of the bureau of engraving and 
printing. He is president of the Wash¬ 
ington National bank of Seattle. 

GRAVES, FRANK R., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born March 13, 1852, in Shelby 
county, Texas. He attended the common 
schools of Ellis coun¬ 
ty, and graduated 
from the university 
of Texas. He served 
as a member of the 
twenty-second and 
twenty-third legisla¬ 
tures of Texas with 
distinction. He was 
a member of the 
democratic state ex¬ 
ecutive committee of 
Texas; was county 
attorney of Karnes 
county; and is one of the leading law¬ 
yers of his native state. 

GRAVES, JOHN CARD, business man, 
was born Nov. 18, 1839, in Herkimer, N. Y. 
In 1862 he graduated from the Hamilton 
college. He has been 
clerk of the superior 
court of Buffalo; 
brigadier-general of 
the eighth brigade; 
president of the Mer¬ 
chants’ exchange; 
and is now president 
of the Elevator com¬ 
pany of Buffalo, N. 
Y. He organized 
municipal reform in 
the city of Buffalo; 
was president of the 
Citizens’ association; and president of 
the New York Siate Municipal league. He 
is a director of the Buffalo Historical so¬ 
ciety and Art gallery; and has served 
twenty years in the national guard of the 
state. 

GRAVES, JAMES ROBINSON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 10, 1820, in 
Chester, Vt. He is a baptist clergyman 
of Nashville, prominent as a controver¬ 
sialist; and is the author of The Great 
Iron Wheel, or Republicanism Backward; 
The Little Iron Wheel; The Intermediate 
State; Old Landmarks; Intercommunion 
of Churches; The Redemptive Work of 
Christ; The New Great Iron Wheel; De¬ 
nominational Sermons; and Parables and 
Prophecies of Christ. 

GRAVES, JAMES S., lawyer, public offi¬ 
cial, was born Aug. 3, 1860, in Columbia 
City, Ind. He is a successful lawyer of 
Kendallville, Ind.; has been city treas¬ 
urer; and in 1894 was elected mayor for 
a term of four years. 

GRAVES. JOHN TEMPLE, journalist, 
was born Nov. 9, 1856, in Willington, S. C. 
For three years he was editor of The 
Rome Tribune; and in 1887 was chief 
editor of the Atlanta Journal. 

GRAVES. NATHAN FITCH, financier, 
was born Feb. 17, 1813, in Oneida county, 
N. Y. In 1852 he became the first presi¬ 
dent of the Burnet bank; and was one of 
the founders of the Buchtel college. 


GRAVES, THOMAS, naval officer, was 
born June 6, 1605, in Ratcliffs, England. 
As a reward for his capture of a Dutch 
privateer in the English channel, during 
Cromwell’s protectorate, he was appointed 
to command a ship-of-war and made a 
rear-admiral. He died July 31, 1653, in 
Charlestown, Mass. 

GRAVES, VIRGINIA, educator, was 
born Sept. 11, 1848, in Jacksonville, Ill. 
In 1869 she received the degree of B. D. 
from the Iowa State university; and from 
the same institution the degree of A. B. 
in 1870, and the degree of A. M. in 1873. 
She has attained eminent success in edu¬ 
cational work, and for many years has 
been principal of the Washington high 
school of her native city. 

GRAVES, WILLIAM JORDAN, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1805 in Newcastle, 
Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky 
legislature from Henry county in 1834; 
and was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1835 to 1841. In 1838 he 
engaged in a duel at Bladensburg, Md., 
with Jonathan Cilley, in which the latter 
was killed. He was again a member of 
the legislature in 1843 from Jefferson 
county; and was a presidential elector in 
1848. He died Sept. 27, 1848, in Louisville, 
Ky. 

GRAVES, ZWINGLIUS CALVIN, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born in 1816 
in Chester, Vt. In 1850 he was called to 
take charge of the Mary Sharpe Female 
college of Winchester, Tenn. 

GRAY, ALBERT, manufacturer, banker, 
state senator, was born July 22, 1844, in 
Middletown Springs, Vt. He is a well- 
known manufacturer of horse-power 
thrashing machines; and a successful 
banker in his native city. In 1876 he was 
elected a representative to the Vermont 
state legislature; and in 1886 served with 
distinction as a state senator. 

GRAY, ALBERT ZAVRISKIE, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born March 2, 
1840, in New York city. He was an epis¬ 
copal clergyman and educator, and war¬ 
den of Racine college, Wisconsin, in 1882- 
88. He is the author of Racine and Her 
Labor of Love; The Land and the Life; 
Jesus Only, and Other Devotional Poems; 
and Mexico as It Is. He died Feb. 16, 1889, 
in Chicago, Ill. 

GRAY, ALFRED G., naval officer, was 
born in 1818, in Norfolk, Va. In 1865 he 
entered the service of the Pacific Mail 
Steamship company, by whom he was 
made commodore in 1874. He died Nov. 
10. 1876, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

GRAY, ASA, educator, botanist, author, 
was born Nov. 18, 1810, in Paris, N. Y. 
He was professor at Harvard university 
in 1842-88, and was in charge of the bo¬ 
tanical garden at Cambridge. He is the 
author of Elements of Botany, now called 
Structural and Systematic Botany; How 
Plants Grow; A Free Examination of 
Darwin’s Origin of bpecies; Darwiniana; 
Natural Science and Religion; Manual of 
the Botany of the Northern United States; 
Synoptical Flora of North America; How 
Plants Behave; Field, Forest, and Gar¬ 
den Botany; Lessons in Botany; School 
and Field Book of Botany; Botany of the 
United States Pacific Exploring Expedi¬ 
tion; and Scientific Papers selected by C. 
S. Sargent. He died Jan. 30, 1888, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

GRAY, DAVID, journalist, poet, was 
born Nov. 9, 1836, in Edinburg, Scotland. 
He was a journalist of Buffalo, on the ed¬ 
itorial staff of The Courier in 1856-82; and 
was the author of a volume of poems. He 
died March 18, 1888, in Binghamton, N. Y. 







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GRAY, EDGAR HARKNESS, clergy¬ 
man, was born Nov. 28, 1815, in Bridge¬ 
port, Vt. After the beginning of the 
thirty-ninth congress he was elected chap¬ 
lain of the United States senate, and con¬ 
tinued in that office four years. He was 
one of the four clergymen who officiated 
at the funeral services of President Lin¬ 
coln in Washington. 

GRAY, EDWARD, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1799 to 1813. 

GRAY, ELISHA, electrician, inventor, 
author, was born Aug. 2, 1833, in Barnes- 
ville, Ohio. He is an electrician and in¬ 
ventor who has published Experimental 
Researches in Electric Harmonic Tele¬ 
graphy. 

GRAY, FRANCIS CALLEY, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 19, 1790, in Salem, 
Mass. He was a Boston lawyer prominent 
as an enlightened patron of arts and edu¬ 
cation who published a work on Prison 
Discipline. He died Dec. 29, 1856, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

GRAY, GEORGE, was born Oct. 26, 1725, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He took an active in¬ 
terest in the affairs of the colony, and 
served in the assembly as delegate from 
Philadelphia from 1772 until 1775. He 
died in 1800 in Whitby hall, near Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

GRAY, GEORGE, lawyer, United States 
senator, was born May 4, 1840, in New 
Castle, Del. He was appointed attorney- 
general of the state of Delaware in 1879, 
and reappointed in 1884. He was elected 
to the United States senate to fill a 
vacancy and took his seat March 19, 1885, 
and was re-elected in 1887 and in 1893, his 
term of service expiring in 1899. 

GRAY, GEORGE EDWARD, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born Sept. 12, 1818, in Verona, 
N. Y. He has been chief engineer of the 
Southern Pacific railroad of Arizona, of 
the Southern Pacific railroad of New 
Mexico, and directed the location and con¬ 
struction of the Galveston, Harrisburg 
and San Antonio railroad from El Paso 
to San Antonio, Texas. 

GRAY, GEORGE SEAMAN, business 
man, clergyman, author, was born in 1835 
in New York. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman who, after, retiring from the 
ministry, engaged in business in Cincin¬ 
nati. He was the author of Eight Etudies 
of the Lord’s Day. He died in 1885. 

GRAY, GEORGE ZABRISKIE, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born July 
14, 1838, in New York city. He was an 
episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, dean 
of the Theological school, 1876-89, and 
prominent among broad church thinkers. 
He was the author of The Scripture Doc¬ 
trine of Recognition; The Children’s Cru¬ 
sade: An Episode of the Thirteenth Cen¬ 
tury; Husband and Wife; and The 
Church’s Certain Faith. He died Aug. 5, 
1889, in Sharon Springs, N. Y. 

GRAY, GILES H., lawyer, legislator, 
was born May 16, 1834, in New York city. 
He attended the free college of the city of 
New York; was one of its first graduates, 
and has received the degrees of A. B. and 
A. M. from that college. He is a success¬ 
ful lawyer, and practices in all the courts 
of California. He has been a member of 
the city council of San Francisco; a mem¬ 
ber of the board of education of that city, 
and also of Oakland. He has served with 
distinction as a member of the California 
state legislature, and has been United 
States surveyor of customs for the port of 
San Francisco. 

GRAY, HENRY PETERS, artist, was 
born June 23, 1819, in New York city. 
Cleopatra; Charity; The Birth of Our 
Flag; and Twilight Musings. He died 
Nov. 12, 1877, in New York city. 

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GRAY, HIRAM, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 10, 1802, in 
Salem, N. Y. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1837 to 
1839; in 1846 was judge of the sixth judi¬ 
cial district, and in 1847 one of the justices 
of the supreme court, serving in that 
capacity until 1860. 

GRAY, HORACE, associate justice of 
the supreme court of the United States, 
was born March 24, 1828, in Boston, Mass. 

He was graduated 
D'om Harvard col¬ 
lege in the class of 
1845 and from the 
Harvard Law school 
in 1849. He was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 
1851, and was ap¬ 
pointed reporter of 
the supreme judicial 
court of Massachu¬ 
setts in 1854 and 
held the position un¬ 
til 1861. He was ap¬ 
pointed associate justice of the supreme 
judicial court of Massachusetts in 1864, 
and chief justice of that court in 1873; 
and was commissioned an associate jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of the United 
States in 1881. 

GRAY, ISAAC PUSEY, soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, governor, was born Oct. 18, 
1828, in Chester county, Va. In 1862 he 
was appointed colonel of the fourth Indi¬ 
ana cavalry, and in 1864 raised the one 
hundred and forty-seventh regiment of 
Indiana infantry. In 1868 he was elected 
a state senator. In 1876 he was elected 
lieutenant-governor of Indiana; became 
governor on the death of Governor James 
D. Williams; and in 1884 was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Indiana for the term of four 
years. 

GRAY, JAMES, clergyman, author, was 
born Dec. 25, 1770, in Ireland. He pub¬ 
lished Mediatorial Reign of the Son of 
God; Dissertation on the Priesthood of 
Jesus Christ and Melchisedec, together 
with the Life of Christ; and sermons. He 
died Sept. 20, 1824, in Gettysburg, Pa. 

GRAY, JAMES J., lawyer, was born 
Nov. 23, 1861, in Chicago, Ill. He received 
a thorough education and graduated from 
the Kent College of Law. He has been 
deputy probate clerk and circuit court 
clerk in the city of Chicago, where he 
has attained prominence as one of its 
leading lawyers. 

GRAY, JAMES M., clergyman, theolog¬ 
ian, lecturer, was born in 1851, in New 
York city. For fifteen years he was rec¬ 
tor of the First Reformed Episcopal 
church of Boston, Mass. He occupies the 
chair of lectures on the English Bible in 
the Reformed Episcopal seminary of Phil¬ 
adelphia. He is also the author of a 
series of lectures on How to Master the 
Bible. 

GRAY, JOHN, soldier, was born Jan. 
6, 1764, in Fairfax Courthouse, Va. He 
entered the continental army, and served 
throughout the entire war. He was re¬ 
puted to be the last survivor of the Ameri¬ 
can revolution. He died March 29, 1868, 
in Hiramsburg, Ohio. 

GRAY, JOHN C., congressman, was 
born in Southampton county, Va. He 
was a representative in congress from that 
state from 1820 to 1821 to fill a vacancy. 

GRAY, JOHN CHIPMAN, educator, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1839, in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He is a lawyer of Boston, 
and Royall professor of law at Harvard 
university since 1883. He is the author of 
Restraints on the Alienation of Property; 
Rule Against Perpetuities, and Select 
Cases. 


GRAY, JOHN F., physician, was born in 
September, 1804, in Sherbourne, N. Y. He 
was the first physician in America who 
adopted homeopathy, or the medical sys¬ 
tem of Hahnemann. 

GRAY, MORRIS, lawyer, author, was 
born in 1856 in Massachusetts. He is a 
Boston lawyer, and the author of A 
Treatise on the Law of Communication by 
Telegraph. 

GRAY, ROBERT, discoverer, was born 
in 1755 in Tiverton, R. I. In 1791 he dis¬ 
covered the mouth of a great river to 
which he gave the name Columbia, after 
his own vessel. He died in 1806 in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. 

GRAY, SOLOMON S., manufacturer, in¬ 
ventor, was born in 1820 in Bowdoinham, 
Maine. He devised Gray and Wood’s 
planing machine. He was the inventor of 
the molded collar. 

GRAY, TRUMAN, planter, merchant, 
state senator, was born April 5, 1854, in 
Wayne county, Miss. He received a 
thorough education and attended the Mis¬ 
sissippi college at Clinton. He has been 
county superintendent of public instruc¬ 
tion, and is now state senator from the 
second senatorial district of Mississippi. 
He is a successful planter and merchant 
of Boyce, and takes an active part in the 
public affairs of his city, county and state. 

GRAY, WILLIAM, merchant, state sen¬ 
ator, lieutenant-governor, was born June 
27, 1750, in Lynn, Mass. He removed to 
Boston, became a state senator, and in 
1810 was elected lieutenant-governor. He 
died Nov. 4, 1825, in Boston, Mass. 

GRAY, WILLIAM CRANE, bishop of 
southern Florida, was born Sept. 6, 1836, 
in Lambertville, N. J. He founded a 
church school for girls in Bolivar, Tenn.; 
rebuilt St. James’s church and built St. 
Philip’s chapel for colored people. 

GRAYBILL, WILLIAM M., educator, 
college president, author, was born June 
25, 1851, in Pincastle, Va. Since 1890 he 
has been president of the Rogersville Syn¬ 
odical college, Tenn. He is the author of 
Charts of History and Civil Government. 

GRAYDON, ALEXANDER, author, was 
born April 10, 1752, in Bristol, Pa. He 
was a citizen of Harrisburg who published 
Memoirs of a Life Passed Chiefly in Penn¬ 
sylvania within the last Sixty Years, a 
lively, entertaining autobiography. He 
died May 2, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GRAYDON, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, 
was born Sept. 4, 1759, near Bristol, Pa. 
He was a lawyer of Harrisburg, and the 
author of Digest of the Laws of the 
United States; Justice and Constable’s As¬ 
sistant; and Forms of Conveyancing, he 
died Oct. 13, 1840, in Harrisburg, Pa. 

GRAYSON, WILLIAM, soldier, United 
States senator, was born in Prince Will¬ 
iam county, Va. He was appointed aide- 
de-camp to General Washington in 1776; 
colonel of a Virginia regiment in 1777, 
and commissioner of the board of war in 
1780 and 1781. He was a delegate to the 
continental congress from 1784 to 1787; 
member of the Virginia convention to 
consider the federal constitution in 1788, 
and in 1789 and 1790 was United States 
senator from Virginia. He died March 12, 
1790, at Dumfries, Va. 

GRAYSON, WILLIAM, state legislator, 
governor, was born in 1786 in Maryland. 
He was a planter; served in both branches 
of the state legislature, and took an active 
part in the successful struggle to obtain 
a new state constitution in 1838. He was 
governor of Maryland from 1838 to 1841. 
He died July 9, 1868, in Queen Anne 
county, Md. 





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GRAYSON, WILLIAM JOHN, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, author, was born 
Nov. 10, 1788, in Beaufort, S. C. He was 
a commissioner in equity of South Cafo- 
lina for many years; a member of the 
state legislature in 1813; and a represent¬ 
ative in congress from 1833 to 1837. He 
was appointed, by President Taylor, col¬ 
lector of the customs of Charleston, hold¬ 
ing the office until 1853. He subsequently 
devoted himself to planting; published 
The Hireling and the Slave; Chicora, and 
Other Poems; and was the author of a 
Life of J. L. Petigru. He died Oct. 4, 
1863, in Newberne, S. C. 

GREATON, JOHN, soldier, was born 
March 10, 1741, in Roxbury, Mass. Dur¬ 
ing the siege of Boston he led an expedi¬ 
tion which destroyed the buildings on 
Long Island in Boston harbor. Congress 
made him a brigadier-general in 1783. He 
died Dec. 16, 1783, in Roxbury, Mass. 

GREATOREX, ELIZABETH ELEAN¬ 
OR, artist, was born May 26, 1854, in New 
York. She has decorated china, and il¬ 
lustrated books, but now gives her chief 
attention to painting. She has exhibited 
at the National academy The Bath; and 
Color that Burns as if no Frost could 
Tame. 

GREATOREX, HENRY WELLINGTON, 
musician, composer, was born in 1816 
in England. For some years he was or¬ 
ganist and conductor of the choir at St. 
Paul’s chapel of New York city. He pub¬ 
lished a Collection of Psalm and Hymn 
Tunes, Chants, Anthems, and Sentences. 
He died in September, 1858, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. 

GREATOREX, KATHLEEN HONORA, 
artist, was born Sept. 10, 1851, in Hobo¬ 
ken, N. J. Many of her paintings have 
been flower-pieces, and she has exhibited 
The Last Bit of Autumn; Goethe’s Foun¬ 
tain, Frankfort; panels with Thistles and 
Corn and Hollyhocks. 

GREATSINGER, JACOB L„ railroad 
president, was born July 1, 1859, in El¬ 
mira, N. Y. Since 1892 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Duluth and Iron Range rail¬ 
road. 

GREELEY, HORACE, journalist, states¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 3, 1811, in 
Amherst, N. H. In 1831 he obtained work 
as a journeyman 
printer in New York 
city. In 1834, in con¬ 
nection with Jonas 
Winchester, he start¬ 
ed the New Yorker, 
a weekly journal of 
literature and gen¬ 
eral intelligence, and 
became its editor; 
after struggling on 
several years the 
journal was aban¬ 
doned. During its 
existence, Mr. Greeley published several 
political campaign papers, the Constitu¬ 
tion, the Jeffersonian, and the Log Cabin. 
In 1841 he commenced the publication of 
the New York Tribune, and in 1848 was 
chosen to fill a vacancy in the thirtieth 
congress. In 1851 he visited Europe, and 
was chosen chairman of one of the juries 
at the world’s fair; gave an account of his 
travels in a series of letters to the Trib¬ 
une, which were afterwards collected into 
a volume. He also published a collection 
of his addresses, essays, etc., under the 
title of Hints Toward Reforms; and a 
work entitled The American Conflict. In 
1864 he was a presidential elector; was a 
delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists’ 
convention of 1866, and to the state con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1867. He was 
one of those who gave bail for Jefferson 


Davis in May, 1867. In 1872 he was nom¬ 
inated by the conservative party for the 
office of president, but was defeated. His 
most popular book was Recollections of a 
Busy Life. He died Nov. 29, 1872, near 
Pleasantville, N. Y. 

GREELY, ADOLPHUS WASHINGTON, 
explorer, author, was born March 27, 1844, 
at Newburyport, Mass. He is an arctic 
explorer in the United States service. In 
1887 he was appointed chief of the signal 
service corps, with the rank of brigadier- 
general, and was thus at the head of the 
weather bureau until its transfer to the 
department of agriculture in 1891. He is 
the author of Three Years of Arctic Ser¬ 
vice; American Weather; Handbook of 
Arctic Discoveries; and Explorers and 
Travelers. 

GREEN, ALEXANDER LITTLE PAGE, 
clergyman, author, was born June 6, 1806, 
in Sevier county, Tenn. He was a meth- 
odist clergyman of Nashville who was the 
author of The Church in the Wilderness. 
He died July 15, 1874, in Nashville, Tenn. 

GREEN, ASHBEL, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born July 6, 1762, 
in Hanover, N. J. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman, president of Princeton college 
in 1812-22. He is the author of Sermons 
from 1790 to 1836; Sermons on the Assem¬ 
bly’s Catechism; and History of Pres¬ 
byterian Missions. He died May 19, 1848, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GREEN, BARTHOLOMEW, printer, 
journalist, was born Oct. 12, 1666, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. In 1704 he issued the first 
number of the Boston News Letter, which 
for fifteen years was the only newspaper 
in the colonies. For about forty years 
he was printer for the government, and 
the foremost publisher in Boston. He 
died Dec. 28, 1732, in Boston, Mass. 

GREEN, BERIAH, reformer, author, was 
born in 1794 in New York state. He was 
a reformer and anti-slavery leader of 
Ohio and New York. He is the author of 
History of the Quaker§; and Sermons and 
Discourses. He died May 4, 1874, in 
Whitestown, N. Y. 

GREEN, BYRAM, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New York. He 
served five years in the assembly of that 
state; was a representative in congress 
from 1843 to 1845; and was subsequently 
judge of a county court. He died Oct. 18, 
1865, in Sodus, N. Y. 

GREEN, CALEB SMITH, lawyer, jurist, 
banker, was born Feb. 18, 1819, in Law- 
renceville, N. J. He gained a large and 
profitable practice, and was elected in 
1873 a judge of the court of errors and 
appeals, serving for eleven years. He 
died Feb. 19, 1891, in Trenton, N. J. 

GREEN, CHARLES, naval officer, was 
born in 1814 in Connecticut. He entered 
the United States navy in 1826, became 
past midshipman in 1832, lieutenant in 
1837, commander in 1855, captain in 1862, 
and commodore in 1867. He died April 7, 
1887, in Providence, R. I. 

GREEN, CHARLES GORDON, journal¬ 
ist, was born July 1, 1804, in Boscawen, 
N. H. He was editor of the Free Press of 
Taunton, Mass.; the National Palladium 
of Philadelphia in 1827; The Boston 
Statesman in 1829, and was the founder 
and editor of the Boston Morning Post. 
He died Sept. 27, 1886, in Boston, Mass. 

GREEN, CHARLES HENRY, inventor, 
business man, was born Oct. 21, 1837, in 
Dayton, Ohio. His hektograph is said 
to be the best invention ever used for 
reproducing writings and facsimile copies. 
In 1889 he was elected president of the 
Washington City and Point Lookout Rail¬ 
way company. 


GREEN, DUFF, lawyer, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 15, 1791, in Kentucky. 
He was a Washington lawyer and journal¬ 
ist, and the author of Facts and Sugges¬ 
tions; and How to Pay off the National 
Debt. He died June 10, 1875, in Dalton, 
Ga. 

GREEN, EDWARD HOWARD, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, public official, was born 
March 1, 1837, in Aurora, Ind. During 
the civil war he enlisted in company I, 
sixteenth regiment Indiana volunteers, 
and was elected first sergeant of the com¬ 
pany. He next entered the eleventh regi¬ 
ment of Kentucky volunteer cavalry as 
second lieutenant, was promoted to first 
lieutenant, and finally to captain. In 1866 
he was elected a member of the Indiana 
state legislature, and during 1877-79 
served as mayor of Aurora, Ind. In 1886 
he was elected prosecuting attorney of 
his county, and in 1890 was again elected 
mayor of his city, and again in 1892. He 
died Sept. 7, 1893. 

GREEN, EDWARD HOWLAND ROB¬ 
INSON, railroad president, was born Aug. 
22, 1868, in London, England. Since 1893 
he has been president of the Texas Mid¬ 
land railroad. 

GREEN, ERNEST SHERMAN, journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born April 30, 1866, in Wase¬ 
ca, Minn. He is the editor of Mexican and 
South American poems; and the author of 
a volume entitled Poems of the Past, Pres¬ 
ent and Future. 

GREEN, EZRA, soldier, physician, was 
born June 17, 1746, in Malden, Mass. In 
1775 he joined the continental army as 
surgeon. He was a delegate to the New 
Hampshire constitutional convention of 
1820. He died July 25, 1847, in Dover, 
N. H. 

GREEN, FRANCIS MATTHEWS, naval 
officer, author, was born Feb. 23, 1835, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a United States 
naval commander, and the author of The 
Navigation of the Caribbean Sea; Tele¬ 
graphic Determination of Longitudes; and 
List of Geographical Positions. 

GREEN,, FREDERICK W., congress¬ 
man, was born in Maryland. He removed 
to Ohio, and was elected a representative 
in congress from that state from 1851 to 
1855. 

GREEN, GEORGE WALTON, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1854 in New York. He 
is a lawyer of New York city and the au¬ 
thor of Repudiation. 

GREEN, HARRY H., clergyman, poet, 
was born March 13, 1839, in England. In 
1869 he began the study of law, but on the 
breaking out of the 
war at that time ne 
enlisted as a private 
in company I, second 
regiment Iowa vol¬ 
unteer infantry. At 
the battle of Corinth 
ne was recommend¬ 
ed for promotion, 
and commissioned 
captain of his com¬ 
pany. Since 1865 he 
has filled important 
pastorates in the 
methodist episcopal church. He has served 
with distinction as a representative in the 
Iowa state legislature, on the prohibition 
issue. He was appointed presiding elder 
of the Dubuque district for six years, and 
in 1890 was re-appointed presiding elder 
and placed on the Decorah district. He 
has been a member of the board of trus¬ 
tees of the Upper Iowa university, and 
also of the Epworth seminary. The de¬ 
gree of doctor of divinity was conferred 
upon him by the Iowa Wesleyan univer¬ 
sity, and also by the university of the 
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GREEN, HENRY WOODHULL, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, was born Sept. 20, 
1802, in Lawrenceville, N. J. He was a 
member of the legislature in 1842, of the 
constitutional convention of 1844, and was 
appointed afterward chancery reporter. 
He was chief justice of the state supreme 
court from 1846 till 1860, when he became 
chancellor. He died Dec. 19,1876, in Tren¬ 
ton. 

GREEN, HORACE, physician, college 
president, author, was born Dec. 24, 1802, 
in Crittenden, Rutland county, Vt. He 
was a physician of New York city, presi¬ 
dent of the New York Medical college in 
1850-60, and the author of Diseases of the 
Air Passages; Pathology and Treatment 
of Croup; Surgical Treatment of the 
Polypi of the Larynx; and Report of a 
Hundred Cases of Pulmonary Diseases. 
He died Nov. 29, 1866, in New York. 

GREEN, HORTON BUXTON, educator, 
clergyman, composer, was born Oct. 29, 
1852, in Johnstown, Ohio. In 1853 he 
moved with his par¬ 
ents to Carroll coun¬ 
ty, Ill. He received 
the rudiments of his 
education in the 
common schools, 
and attended the 
Northern college of 
Fulton, and subse¬ 
quently the Cum¬ 
nock School of Ora- 
tory of Evanston, 

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was engaged in edu¬ 
cational work, and since 1885 has been a 
clergyman of the methodist episcopal 
church. He has filled pastorates in the 
Northwest Iowa conference in Ashton, 
Inwood, Rock Valley and Sutherland. 
He is the author of a number of sacred 
and popular songs, both of the words and 
music, which have appeared in sheet- 
form and in several standard collections. 

GREEN, I. L., congressman, was born 
in Massachusetts. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Massachusetts from 
1805 to 1809, and again from 1811 to 1813. 
He died in 1841. 

GREEN, INNIS, congressman, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 
1827 to 1831. 

GREEN, JACuB, patriot, clergyman, 
author, was born June 22, 1722, in Mal¬ 
den, Mass. He was sent to the provincial 
congress in 1775; and was chairman of the 
committee which drafted the state con¬ 
stitution. He died May 24, 1790, in Han¬ 
over, Mass. 

GREEN, JACOB, educator, scientist, 
author, was born July 26, 1790, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia sci¬ 
entist who was professor of chemistry 
in Jefferson Medical college. He was the 
author of Chemical Diagrams; Chemical 
Philosophy; Astronomical Recreations; 
Trilobites; The Botany of the United 
States; Notes of a Traveler; and Diseases 
of the Skin. He died Feb. 1, 1841, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

GREEN, JAMES STEPHEN, lawyer, 
congressman. United States senator, was 
born Feb. 28, 1817, in Fauquier county, 
Va. He was elected a member of congress 
in 1846, serving through two terms. In 
1853 President Pierce appointed him 
charge d’affaires, and subsequently min¬ 
ister resident, at Bogota, New Granada. 
He was again elected a member of con¬ 
gress in 1856, but before taking his seat 
was chosen by the legislature to repre¬ 
sent the state of Missouri in the senate 
of the United States, where he remained 
until 1861. He died Jan. 9, 1870, in St. 
Louis, Mo. 


^GREEN, JOHN, physician, was born in 
1784, in Worcester, Mass. He established 
a large practice in Worcester, accumu¬ 
lated a valuable professional library, and 
in 1859 presented 7,000 miscellaneous 
works to the city oi Worcester as a basis 
lor a public library. He died Oct. 17, 
1865, at Worcester, Mass. 

GREEN, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, was born May 20, 1807, in Yan¬ 
cey county, N. C. In 1656 he was elected 
to the Indiana state senate. At the ex¬ 
piration of his senatorial term he was 
elected judge of the common pleas court. 

GREEN, JOHN, surgeon, was born 
April 2, 1835, in Worcester, Mass. He 
became surgeon to the St. Louis eye and 
ear infirmary in 1872, and ophthalmic 
surgeon to St. Luke’s hospital in 1874. 

GREEN, JOHN CLEVE, merchant, was 
born April 14, 1800, in Lawrenceville, N. 
J. He endowed Princeton seminary with 
the Helena professorship of history, built 
one of the professor’s houses, and be¬ 
queathed to the institution $50,000. He 
also founded at Princeton the John C. 
Green school of science, and was liberal 
in his gifts to the university of New York. 
He died April 28, 1875, in New York city. 

GREEN, JOHN ORNE, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born May 14, 1799, in Malden, 
Mass. From 1868 till his death he was 
senior physician of St. John’s hospital. 
He published History of Smallpox in 
Lowell; Memorial of John C. Dalton; An 
Address Before the Citizens of Lowell at 
the Dedication of the Green School House; 
Lowell and Harvard College. He died 
Dec. 23, 1886, in Lowell, Mass. 

GREEN, JOHN ORNE, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born June 7, 1841, in Lowell, 
Mass. In 1869-70 he was instructor in 
aural surgery in Harvard, and since that 
date has been aural surgeon in the Bos¬ 
ton city hospital. 

GREEN, JOHN THOMPSON, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, was born Oct. 18, 
1827, in Mechanicsville, S. C. He fre¬ 
quently served in the state legislature be¬ 
tween 1850 and 1865. On the reconstruc¬ 
tion of the state government he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the third judicial district, 
and held office till his death. He died 
Jan. 27,1875, in Sumter, S. C. 

GREEN, JOHN WITHERS, soldier, 
railroad president, was born Nov. 14, 1834, 
in Darien, Ga. He served in the civil 
war, and since 1881 he has been general 
manager of the Georgia railroad. 

GREEN, JOSEPH, loyalist, author, 
poet, was born 1706, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a Boston loyalist, widely known 
in his day for his political lampoons and 
his ready wit. He was the author of The 
Wonderful Lament of Old Mr. Tanner; 
and Poems and Satires. He died Dec. 11, 
1780, in London, England. 

GREEN, JULIA BOYNTON, author, 
poet, was born May 25, 1861, in South 
Byron, N. Y. She is the author of a 
volume of poems entitled Lines and Inter¬ 
lines. 

GREEN, LEWIS W., college president, 
author, was born Jan. 28, 1806, in Boyle 
county, Ky. From 1848-56 he served as 
president of Hampden Sidney college. He 
was the author of a work entitled Lec¬ 
tures on the Evidences of Christianity. 
He died May 26, 1863, in Kentucky. 

GREEN, MARTIN R., jurist, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Sept. 27, 1809, in Enfield, 
N. H. In 1838 he was elected to the In¬ 
diana state senate. In 1848 he was again 
elected a member of the Indiana state sen¬ 
ate for a term of three years. 

GREEN, MARY ELIZABETH, physi¬ 
cian, lecturer, author, was born in 1844, 
in Machias, N. Y. She was judge of food 


products at the World’s Columbian ex¬ 
position, and is the author of a work en¬ 
titled Food Products of the World. 

GREEN, NORVIN, railroad president, 
state legislator, was born April 17, 1818, 
at New Albany, Ind. In 1840 and after¬ 
ward he served three terms in the Ken¬ 
tucky legislature. He was president of 
the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington 
railroad in 1869-73. 

GREEN, ROBERT STOCKTON, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 25, 
1831, at Princeton, N. J. He was city at¬ 
torney of the city of Elizabeth, N. J.. 
from 1857 to 1868; was surrogate of 
Union county from 1862 to 1867; and was 
presiding judge of Union county court of 
common pleas from 1868 to 1873. He 
was a delegate to the democratic national 
conventions of 1860 and 1880; and in 
1884 was elected a representative from 
New Jersey to the forty-ninth congress 
as a democrat. 

GREEN, ROBERT STOCKTON, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born Oct. 16, 1865, 
in Elizabeth, N. J. In 1896 he was ap¬ 
pointed by the governor of New Jersey 
as a member of the state board of as¬ 
sessors. In 1897 he was elected to the 
state legislature. 

GREEN, RUFUS SMITH, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born in 
1848, in New York. He is a presbyterian 
minister, president of Elmira College for 
Women since 1893, and the author of 
History of Morristown, New Jersey; Our 
Church at Work; The Christian Steward; 
and Both Sides, or Jonathan and Abso- 
lom. 

GREEN, SAMUEL A., physician, au¬ 
thor, was born March 16, 1830, in Groton, 
Mass. He has attained success as a 
noted physician of Boston; and is the 
author of The Early Records of Groton; 
History of Medicine in Massachusetts; 
Groton Historical Series; and other works. 

GREEN, SAMUEL B., educator, horti¬ 
culturist, author, was born Sept. 15, 1859, 
in Chelsea, Mass. After graduating from 
the Massachusetts Agricultural college in 
1879, he took a special course in horticul¬ 
tural work. He has been foreman in two 
nurseries; horticulturist for the Hough¬ 
ton Farm Experiment Station; super¬ 
intendent of the horticultural department 
of the Massachusetts Agricultural college; 
and for ten years professor of horticulture 
in the university of Minnesota. He is the 
author of Amateur Fruit Growing; Vege¬ 
table Gardening; and other works. 

GREEN, SAMUEL SWETT, librarian, 
author, was born Feb. 20, 1837, in Wor¬ 
cester, Mass. In 1858 he graduated from 
the Harvard college; 
and from the divin¬ 
ity school of Har¬ 
vard university in 
1864. For several 
years he was teller 
of the Worcester 
National bank; and 
in 1871 was chosen 
librarian of the free 
public library of 
Worcester, having’ 
previously been a di¬ 
rector of the library. 
He was one of the founders of the 
American Library association, and its 
president in 1891; and was the orig¬ 
inal member and first president of 
the council of that association. He has 
lectured at the school of literary econ¬ 
omy of Columbia college. He is a mem¬ 
ber of numerous historical societies, and 
an officer in many institutions. He is the 
author of two books, and has published 
many articles in magazines and news¬ 
papers, and delivered a great number of 
addresses. 






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GREEN, SANFORD MOON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, author, was born May 30, 1807, in 
Rensselaer county, N. Y. He was elected 
to the Michigan state senate for two 
years, receiving the election in 1845. In 
1848 he was appointed a judge of the 
supreme court, and performed the duties 
of circuit judge for ten years. He subse¬ 
quently served as circuit judge for nearly 
twenty-five years. He is the author of 
A Treatise on the Practice of the Circuit 
Courts of Michigan; A Treatise on the 
Practice of the Courts of Common Law 
of Michigan, in two volumes; A Treatise 
on Townships and the Power and Duties 
of Township Officers; and A Treatise on 
the Nature, Causes, Treatment and Pre¬ 
vention of Crime. 

GREEN, SETH, pisciculturist, author, 
was born March 19, 1817, in Rochester, 
N. Y. He was a noted pisciculturist, and 
from 1870 until his death the superintend¬ 
ent of the New York fish commission. 
He is the author of Trout Culture; Home 
Fishing and Home Waters; and Fish 
Hatching and Fish Catching. He died 
Aug. 20, 1888, in Rochester, N. Y. 

GREEN, THOMAS, governor of Mary¬ 
land, was born in England. He was one 
of the Roman catholic pilgrims that ac¬ 
companied Leonard Calvert to Maryland 
in 1634; was appointed privy councillor 
in 1639, and governor in 1637. He died in 
Maryland. 

GREEN, THOMAS, soldier, was born 
in 1816, in Virginia. He joined the con¬ 
federate army and was appointed major- 
general for distinguished services. He 
died April 14, 1864, in Blairs Plantation, 
La. 

GREEN, THOMAS ANDRE, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 21, 1840, in Blair county. 
Pa., a son of Thomas and Martha Green. 

He received the rud¬ 
iments of his educa¬ 
tion in the excellent 
common schools of 
Pennsylvania, at an 
academy at Butler, 
and graduated from 
the Alleghany col¬ 
lege, Pa. In 1861 he 
was admitted to the 
bar of the supreme 
court of Pennsyl¬ 
vania at Pittsburg. 
During the civil war 
he was captain of company F, ninety- 
sixth Illinois volunteer infantry, and 
served with distinction. He has given his 
whole life to the study and practice of 
law, and has also been a close and earnest 
student of belles lettres. He is the au¬ 
thor of a standard work on Pleading and 
Practice, which has received the highest 
eulogiums from the most eminent lawyers 
and jurists in America. He was attorney 
for the people of Leadville in a suit in¬ 
volving the title to the entire townsite, 
the legal questions involved of which 
affected the titles to three hundred mill¬ 
ions worth of mining property. He was 
the attorney in one mining suit in the 
United States circuit court in Denver, in¬ 
volving an interest in the Emma mine, 
valued at some ten millions, which suit 
he successfully gained, and from this suit 
he realized a fee of two million dollars, 
the largest fee ever made by an at¬ 
torney in the United States. Dur¬ 
ing 1879-80 Mr. Green located and pat¬ 
ented over one thousand acres of min¬ 
eral claims in the Leadville mining dis¬ 
trict, and is still heavily interested there¬ 
in. He is intolerant of wrong; and al¬ 
though possessed of a keen, subtle and 
incisive intellect, he always uses the ar¬ 
gument that is right, just and equitable. 


GREEN, THOMAS E., clergyman, bish¬ 
op, was born in 1857, in Pennsylvania. 
He fills a pastorate in the Grace episcopal 
church of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and has 
built up the largest parish in the state. 
He was elected bishop of Iowa in 1898. 

GREEN, THOMAS JEFFERSON, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1801, in Warren county, 
N. C. He removed to Texas early in life, 
and served as brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers in the war of Texan independence. 
He died Dec. 13, 1863, in Warren county, 
N. C. 

GREEN, THOMAS R., soldier, journal¬ 
ist, was born May 6, 1845, in Ireland, 
Ind. He served as a union soldier during 
the civil war in company G, forty-second 
regiment Indiana volunteer infantry. He 
was with Sherman from Chattanooga to 
Atlanta, and from Fayetteville to Wash¬ 
ington, D. C.; and thence to Louisville, 
Ky. He also served two years in the In¬ 
diana state militia. He has served as 
postmaster of Duff, Ind.; is a prominent 
member of the Grand Army of the Repub¬ 
lic; and the editor and owner of the Ban¬ 
ner of Lutesville, Mo. 

GREEN, TRAILL, physician, chemist, 
educator, was born May 25, 1813, in Eas¬ 
ton, Pa. He was for a year physician to 
the Philadelphia dispensary, and then 
settled in Easton, where he has since 
practiced. In 1837 he was elected profes¬ 
sor of general and applied chemistry in 
Lafayette. 

GREEN, WHARTON JACKSON, sol¬ 
dier, agriculturist, congressman, was born 
about 1840, in St. Marks, Fla. Upon the 
breaking out of the civil war he enlisted 
in the confederate army; and was pro¬ 
moted to lieutenant-colonel. He was a 
delegate to the democratic national con¬ 
ventions of 1868 and 1876; and was a 
presidential elector in 1868. He pur¬ 
chased the famous Tokay Vineyard, in 
Cumberland county, N. C., and settled 
there. He was elected a representative 
from North Carolina to the forty-eighth 
and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat. 

GREEN, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, sol¬ 
dier, physician, author, was born Jan. 5, 
1834, in Augusta, Ga. He was the in¬ 
ventor of a hypodermic syringe, the de¬ 
signer of a hypodermic syringe-needle, 
and of Green’s pocket cases. He is the 
author of papers on the Small-Pox; Vac¬ 
cination and Its Results; and The Use of 
the Hypodermic Syringe. 

GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jah. 27, 1825, in 
Groveville, N. J. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman, and professor of biblical liter¬ 
ature at Princeton college from 1851. He 
is the author of The Pentateuch Vindi¬ 
cated; Grammar of the Hebrew Lan¬ 
guage; A Hebrew Chrestomathy; Argu¬ 
ment of Job Unfolded; Moses and the 
Prophets; Newton Lectures for 1885; The 
Hebrew Feasts; The Higher Criticism of 
the Pentateuch; and The Unity of the 
Book of Genesis: 

GREEN, WILLIAM MERCER, bishop, 
author, was born May 2, 1798, in Wilming¬ 
ton, Del. He was the first protestant. 
episcopal bishop of Mississippi, and the 
author of Lives of Bishop Ravenscroft 
and Bishop Otey. He died Feb. 13. 1887, 
in Sewanee, Tenn. 

GREEN, WILLIAM WILKINSON, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Aug. 1, 1820, in 
Hindostan. This successful lawyer has 
been editor and owner of the Daily Syra¬ 
cuse Democrat, and of the Weekly Onon¬ 
daga Democrat, and other publications. 
He is the author of a work on Morals; 
a prize essay on The American Govern¬ 
ment; and a number of meritorious 
poems. 


GREEN, WILLIS, surveyor, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in the 
Shenandoah valley, Va. He represented 
Kentucky county in the legislature of 
Virginia; and was a member of the Dan¬ 
ville convention in 1785, and of the first 
state constitutional convention of 1792. 
He was a surveyor for locating land war¬ 
rants; was a member of the Kentucky 
legislature in 1836 and 1837; and was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1839 to 1845. 

GREEN, WILLIS DUFF, physician, 
was born Jan. 18, 1821, in Danville, Ky. 
He attended the Center college of his na¬ 
tive city, and graduated in medicine from 
the medical department of the Transyl¬ 
vania university of Lexington, Ky., and 
the Medical college of Ohio. He is a suc¬ 
cessful physician of Mount Vernon, Ill.; 
grand master of the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows of Illinois, and a representa¬ 
tive to the grand lodge of the United 
States. 

GREENE, AELLA, journalist, author, 
was born in 1838, in Massachusetts. He 
is a journalist of Spi’ingfield, Mass., and 
the author of Rhymes of Yankee Land; 
Into the Sunshine, and Other Poems; 
Stanza and Sequel, and Other Poems; 
John Peters; and Gathered from Life. 

GREENE. ALBERT COLLINS, soldier, 
lawyer. United States senator, born April 
15, 1791, in East Greenwich, R. I. In 1815 
he was elected to the general assemDly 
of the state; in 1816 was elected a briga¬ 
dier-general of militia, and subsequently 
became a major-general. From 1822 to 
1825 he served again in the legislature of 
the state, and was chosen speaker. From 
1825 to 1843 he was attorney-general of 
the state; and from 1845 to 1851 was a 
senator in congress from Rhode Island. 
He died Jan. 8, 1863, in Providence, R. I. 

GREENE, ALBERT GORTON, lawyer, 
jurist, author, poet, was born Feb. 10, 
1802, in Providence, R. I. He was for 
many years president of the Rhode Island 
Historical society. He will be long re¬ 
membered by his popular lyric. Old 
Grimes is Dead. He published Canonchet. 
He died Jan. 3, 1868, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

GREENE, ASA, humorist, author, was 
born in 1788, in Ashburnham, Mass. He 
was a bookseller of New York city of note 
among his contemporaries as a humorist, 
and the author of Life and Adventures of 
Dr. Dodimus Duckworth; Perils of Pearl 
Street; A Yankee Among the Nullifiers; 
A Glance at New York; Debtor’s Prison; 
and Travels of Ex-Barber Fribbleton in 
America. He died in 1837, in New York 
city. 

GREENE, CHARLES EZRA, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 12, 1842, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He has been a professor of 
civil engineering in the university of 
Michigan from 1872, and is the author of 
Graphical Method for Analysis of Bridge 
Trusses; Trusses and Arches; and Notes 
on Rankine’s Civil Engineering. 

GREENE. CHARLES GORDON, jour¬ 
nalist, state legislator, was born July 1, 
1804, in Boscawen, N. H. He founded, in 
1831. the Boston Morning Post, which he 
conducted until he sold it in 1875. He 
was 'at one time a member of the state 
legislature; and naval officer of the port 
of Boston for two terms. He died Sept. 
27, 1886, in Boston, Mass. 

GREENE, CHARLES WARREN, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Aug. 17, 1840, in 
Belchertown, Mass. He is a Massachu¬ 
setts physician, and the author of Ani¬ 
mals, their Homes and Habits; and Birds, 
their Homes and Habits. 



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GREENE, CHRISTOPHER, soldier, 
state legislator, was born May 12, 1737, 
in Warwick, R. I. He served in the Rhode 
Island legislature in 1772-74, and was 
chosen a lieutenant in the Kentish Guards 
in 1774. In 1775 he was appointed by the 
legislature a major in the army of ob¬ 
servation. He dieci May 13, 1781, in West¬ 
chester county, N. Y. 

GREENE, CLARA M., artist, poet, was 
born in Buckfield, Maine. She has at¬ 
tained success as a portrait painter. In 
1889 she published a volume of poems 
entitled Magdalen and Other Poems. 

GREENE, DAVID MAXSON, educator, 
consulting engineer, was born July 8, 
1832, in Brunswick, N. Y. He attended 
the common schools, Adams seminary, 
and Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, 
from which latter institution he grad¬ 
uated in 1851; and subsequently received 
private instruction at West Point. He 
has been instructor, professor and direct¬ 
or of the Rensselaer Polytechnic insti¬ 
tute; chairman, assistant leveler, divi¬ 
sion engineer, and deputy state engineer 
on public works in the state of New York. 
He has been third assistant, second as¬ 
sistant and first assistant engineer in the 
United States navy; and colonel of en¬ 
gineers, N. G. S. N. Y. He has also served 
as school commissioner of Troy, N. Y.; 
and is a director in the Troy City Nation¬ 
al bank, and in the Citizens’ Steamboat 
company. 

GREENE, DASCOM, educator, was 
born June 15, 1825, in Richmond, N. Y. 
In 1855 he was professor of mathematics 
and astronomy in the Rensselaer Poly¬ 
technic institute; and since 1864 has been 
its librarian. He is the author of a work 
entitled Spherical Practical Astronomy. 

GREENE. EDWARD LEE, educator, 
author, was born in 1843, in Rhode Is¬ 
land. He is a professor of botany in the 
university of California, and the author of 
Illustrations of West American Oaks; and 
Flora Franciscan®. 

GREENE, FRANCIS VINTON, soldier, 
author, was born June 27, 1850, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He was a captain in the 
United States army who resigned in 1886. 
He is the author of The Russian Army 
and Its Campaigns in Turkey in 1877-78; 
Sketches of Army Life in Texas; The Mis¬ 
sissippi, a military work; and Life of 
General Greene. 

GREENE, GEORGE SEARS, soldier, 
civil engineer, was born May 6, 1801, in 
Warwick, R. I. In 1836 he became a civil 
engineer, building many railroads in the 
states of Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Is¬ 
land, New York, Maryland, and Virginia. 
He designed and built the reservoir in 
Central Park, of New York city. He 
served with distinction through the civil 
war, and in 1865 was brevetted major- 
general of volunteers. 

GREENE. GEORGE SEARS, civil engi¬ 
neer, surveyor, was born Nov. 26, 1837, in 
Lexington, Ky. In 1875 he was appointed 
engineer in chief of the department of 
docks, New "iork city, in which capacity 
he designed and executed river walls, 
wharves and piers in difficult situations. 

GREENE, GEORGE W., educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, author, born July 
4, 1831, in Orange county, N. Y. He came 
to the bar in 1860; and in 1861 was elect¬ 
ed judge of Orange county for three years. 
He was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-first congress. 

GREENE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
educator, author, was born April 8, 1811, 
in East Greenwich, R. I. He was an his¬ 
torian who was professor of American 
history at Cornell university from 1872. 


He was the author of Historical Studies; 
The German Element in the American 
War of Independence; Short History of 
Rhode Island; Historical View of the 
American Revolution; Life of General 
Nathaniel Greene; Biographical Studies; 
and History and Geography of the Middle 
Ages. He died Feb. 2, 1883, in East 
Greenwich, R. I. 

GREENE, HOMER, lawyer, author, 
poet, was born in 1853, in Pennsylvania. 
He is a story writer of Honesdale, Pa., 
and the author of The Blind Brother; 
Burnham Breaker; Coal and the Coal 
Mines; and The Riverpark Rebellion. 

GREENE, HUGH WENTWORTH, 
journalist, state senator, was born Julv 5, 
1811, in Concord, N. H. During 1857-58 he 
served in the New Hampshire senate. In 
1869 he moved to Minneapolis, Minn., 
where he became part owner and editorial 
manager of a daily paper. He died Feb. 
1, 1888, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

GREENE, MRS. ISABELLA CATHER¬ 
INE (COLTON), author, was born in 1844 
in Vermont. She is a novelist and wri¬ 
ter for young people, long a resident of 
Nashua, N. H., and the author of A New 
England Conscience; Adventures of an 
Old Maid; A New England Idyl; and The 
Hobbledehoy. 

GREENE, JACOB W., surgeon, poet, 
was born Jan. 18, 1839, in Harrison coun¬ 
ty, Ind. Since 1861 he has followed the 
profession of a dental surgeon, and is now 
located in Chillicothe, Mo. He has writ¬ 
ten quite extensively for the periodical 
press; and is the author of a work enti¬ 
tled Philosophies of Betsy Spoon. 

GREENE. JAMES L., educator, was 
born May 18, 1869, in Duquoin, Ill. He is 
a descendant of General Nathaniel 
Greene. After graduating from the Kan¬ 
sas normal college of Fort Scott he en¬ 
tered educational work. He was also en¬ 
gaged in mercantile work, and the real es¬ 
tate business at Danville, Ill.; and for 
the past three years has been in the medi¬ 
cal department of the United States army. 

GREENE, JOSEPH CHASE, physician, 
was born July 31, 1829, in Lincoln, Vt. In 
1888 he left Buffalo for a tour of the 
world, and during his travels he collected 
a museum of more than three hundred 
originals and copies, illustrating the po¬ 
litical, religious and social history of an¬ 
cient Egypt, Syria and other oriental 
countries. 

GREENE, MILLEN SANFORD, educa¬ 
tor, business man, poet, was born Dec. 23, 
1825, in North Stonington, Conn. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
in the common 
schools of his native 
county; engaged in 
agricultural pur¬ 
suits; and for six 
years went to sea as 
a sailor. He attained 
success in educa¬ 
tional work, which 
he followed for 
twelve years. He 
then entered a 
counting room; and 
since 1869 has been engaged in the insur¬ 
ance and real estate business in Westerly, 
R. I. Early in life he developed a taste 
for poetry and music; and is the author of 
a series of Fireside Stories in verse, with 
sketches of social chat. 

GREENE, MOSES H., poet, was born 
March 10, 1843, in Chester, N. H. He has 
been principally engaged in mercantile 
pursuits. He has contributed both prose 
and verse to the periodical press, and 
some of his poems have been given a 
place in standard works. 


GREENE, NATHANIEL, soldier, was 
born May 27, 1742, in Warwick, R. I. He 
never gained a decided victory, yet his re¬ 
treats, for which he 
is noted, had the ef¬ 
fect of successes. 

Congress voted him 
the highest honors, 
and he was consider¬ 
ed, next to Washing¬ 
ton, the greatest 
general of the revo¬ 
lution. He died 
June 19, 1786, near 
Savannah, Ga. Con¬ 
gress voted that a 
monument be erect¬ 
ed to his memory in Washington, D. C., 
which has not yet been done. 

GREENE, NATHANIEL, journalist, 
author, was born May 20, 1797, in Boscaw- 
en, N. H. He was a Boston journalist, 
postmaster of Boston in 1829-40 and 1845- 
49. He published a translation of Sforzo- 
si’s History of Italy; Tales from the Ger¬ 
man; and Tales and Sketches from the 
German, Italian and French. He died Nov. 
29, 1877, in Boston, Mass. 

GREENE, RAY, United States senator, 
was born Feb. 2, 1765, in Warwick, R. I. 
He was a senator in congress from Rhode 
Island from 1797 to 1801, when he re¬ 
signed. He died Jan. 11, 1849, in War¬ 
wick, R. I. 

GREENE, ROGER SHERMAN, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 14, 1840, in 
Boston, Mass. He entered the union army 
for the war of the rebellion, and was pro¬ 
moted to first lieutenant. He was judge 
advocate of the district of Vicksburg at 
the close of 1864 and beginning of 1865, 
and judge advocate of the western divis¬ 
ion of Louisiana from 1865 until retire¬ 
ment from service. While residing in Ke¬ 
nosha, Wis., he was appointed associate 
justice of the supreme court of Washing¬ 
ton territory, residing at Olympia; and 
was twice reappointed, holding the office 
until 1879, when he was appointed chief 
justice of the same court, residing at Se¬ 
attle, Washington territory. In 1883 he 
was reappointed cnief justice. 

GREENE, SAMUEL DANA, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Feb. 11, 1839, in Cumber¬ 
land, Md. He received a vote of thanks 
from the legislature of Rhode Island for 
his gallant services in the action between 
the Monitor ana Merrimac. He died Dec. 
11, 1884, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

GREENE. SAMUEL HARRISON, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, was 
born Dec. 25, 1845, in Enosburgh, Vt. Dur¬ 
ing 1894-95 he was president of the Co¬ 
lumbian university. 

GREENE, SAMUEL STILLMAN, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born May 3, 1810, in 
Belchertown, Mass. He was an educator 
of Providence, professor at Brown univer¬ 
sity in 1851-83, and published Analysis 
of the English Language; and several 
text-booKs on English Grammar. He died 
Jan. 24, 1883, in Providence, R. I. 

GREENE, MRS. SARAH PRATT, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1858, in Connecticut. 
She is a writer whose first novel, Cape 
Cod Folks, was widely popular, while the 
fact that certain of the dramatis person® 
were portraits of living people gave rise 
to much litigation. Her other works in¬ 
clude Towhead and Some Other Folks; 
Peter Patrick; and Vesty of the Basins. 

GREENE, THEODORE PHINNEY, 
naval officer, was born Nov. 1, 1809, in 
Canada. He was appointed midshipman 
from Vermont in 1826; and in 1837 be¬ 
came lieutenant. He served with distinc¬ 
tion through the Mexican and civil wars. 
He died Aug. 30, 1887, in Jaffrey, N. H. 






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GREENE, THOMAS M., congressman. 
He was a delegate to congress from the 
territory of Mississippi from 1802 to 
1803. 

GREENE, WILLIAM, governor, was 
born March 16, 1696, in Warwick, R. I. 
He became deputy governor of Rhode Isl¬ 
and in 1740, and became governor in 1743. 
He died Feb. 22, 1758, in Providence, R. I. 

GREENE, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, governor, was born Aug. 
16, 1731, in Warwick, R. I. He was chiet 
justice of the colony, and was governor 
of the state from 1778 to 1786; also for 
many years speaker of the house; and be¬ 
came governor of Rhode Island. He died 
Nov. 29, 1809, in Warwick, R. I. 

GREENE, WILLIAM BATCHELDER, 
soldier, clergyman, author, was born 
April 4, 1819, in Haverhill, Mass. In 
early life he was a member of the noted 
Brook Farm community. He was subse¬ 
quently a Unitarian minister, and during 
the civil war served as colonel of a Mas¬ 
sachusetts regiment. He was the author 
of Remarks on the Science of History; 
Theory of the Calculus; Socialistic, etc., 
Fragments; and Reflections and Modern 
Maxims. He died May 30, 1878, in Eng¬ 
land. 

GREENE, WILLIAM ELLSWORTH, 
legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 14, 1836, 
In Farmington, Maine. He received his 
education in the Farmington academy; 
and in 1863 graduated from the Bowdoin 
college in a classical course. During 1865- 
67 he was a member of the California 
state legislature; and during 1867-74 was 
county judge and ex-officio probate judge 
of San Joaquin county, Cal., when he re¬ 
signed. Since 1880 he has been judge of 
the superior court in and for Alameda 
county, having been four times succes¬ 
sively elected. His present term of of¬ 
fice does not expire until January, 1903. 
He has been largely interested at times 
in mining, lumbering and irrigation, and 
in the breeding of fine stock. 

GREENE, WILLIAM HOUSTON, edu¬ 
cator, chemist, author, was born Dec. 30, 
1854, in Columbia, Pa. He is a Philadel¬ 
phia chemist, professor in the Central 
high school from 1880, and the author of 
Medical Chemistry; and Lessons in 
Chemistry. 

GREENE, WILLIAM L„ lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born Oct. 3, 1849, 
in Pike county, Ind. In 1892, without so¬ 
licitation on his part, he was brought out 
before the legislature of the state as a 
candidate for United States senator. In 
1895 he was elected judge of the twelfth 
judicial district of Nebraska; and was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a pop¬ 
ulist, of which party he was one of the 
founders. 

GREENER, RICHARD THEODORE, 
lawyer, educator, author, was born Jan. 
30, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the 
author of Scholar (June, 1874); Eulogy 
on the Life and Services of William Lloyd 
Garrison; Socrates as a Teacher; The In¬ 
tellectual Position of the Negro; Free 
Speech in Ireland (October, 1882); Ben¬ 
jamin Banneker, the Negro Astronomer; 
Henry Highland Garnet; and An African 
Roscius. 

GREENHALGE, FREDERICK THOM¬ 
AS, lawyer, legislator, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, was born July 19, 1842, in Eng¬ 
land. He attended the public schools of 
Lowell, Mass., and Harvard college. In 
1868-69 he was a member of the com¬ 
mon council of Lowell; in 1871-73 on the 
school committee; in 1874-84 was special 
justice of the police court; and in 1880-81 


he served with distinction as mayor of 
Lowell. In 1884 he was a delegate to the 
national republican convention; in 1885 
was a member of the Massachusetts house 
of representatives; and in 1888 was a 
member of congress. He has been city 
solicitor of Lowell; was commissioner of 
insolvency of Middlesex county in 1892; 
and was elected governor of Massachu¬ 
setts in 1895. He served in the union 
army during 1863-64 in the commissary 
department. He died in 1896. 

GREENHOW, ROBERT, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born in 1800 in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. He was a surgeon and scholar 
whose latest years were spent in Califor¬ 
nia. He was the author of History of 
Tripoli; and History of Oregon and Cali¬ 
fornia. He died in 1854 in San Francisco, 
Cal. 

GREENLEAF, BENJAMIN, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 25, 1786, in Haver¬ 
hill, Mass. He was an educator of Brad¬ 
ford, Mass., who published a popular se¬ 
ries of text-books on arithmetic and the 
higher mathematics. He died Oct. 29, 
1864, in Bradford, Mass. 

GREENLEAF, CHARLES RAVENS- 
CROFT, physician, surgeon, author, was 
born Jan. 1, 1838, in Carlisle, Pa. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he was deputy surgeon- 
general in the LTnited States army. He is 
a successful physician and surgeon of 
San Francisco, Cal.; and the author of 
several technical medico-military works. 

GREENLEAF, EZEKIEL PRICE, phil¬ 
anthropist, was born May 22, 1790, in 
Quincy, Mass. He bequeathed nearly all 
his estate, amounting to $500,000, to Har¬ 
vard, with directions to keep it apart 
from other bequests, as the Greenleaf 
fund. He died Dec. 3, 1886, in Boston, 
Mass. 

GREENLEAF, FRANKLIN LEWIS, 
manufacturer, was born Oct. 7, 1847, in 
Boston, Mass. He has been a prominent 
factor in developing the wheat industry 
of the northwest; and was for several 
years president of the Red River Valley 
Elevator company. In 1889 he was elect¬ 
ed president of the Minneapolis chamber 
of commerce. 

GREENLEAF, HALBERT STEVENS, 
soldier, manufacturer, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born April 12, 1827, in Guilford, 
Vt. He was elected justice of the peace 
in 1856; and served two years as a captain 
of state militia. In 1861 he organized the 
Yale and Greenleaf Lock company, of 
which he became business manager, in 
1862 he enlisted in the union army, and 
rose to the rank of colonel. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative from New York to 
the forty-eighth and fifty-second congress¬ 
es as a democrat. 

GREENLEAF, JAMES EDWARD, sol¬ 
dier, merchant, author, was born Aug. 2, 
1832, in Portland, Maine. He was an or¬ 
ganist for twenty-seven years, and a cap¬ 
tain in the militia. He is the author of A 
Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, with 
Historical Notes, of Newbury, Mass. 

GREENLEAF, JEREMIAH, author, 
was born Dec. 7, 1791. He was the author 
of Greenleaf’s Grammar, and devoted a 
large part of his life to study, author¬ 
ship and instruction in this special 
branch of education. He was also the au¬ 
thor of Greenleaf’s Gazetteer and Green- 
leaf’s Atlas. 

GREENLEAF. JONATHAN, ship build¬ 
er, legislator, congressman, was born in 
July, 1723. In 1774 he was unanimously 
chosen to represent the town of Newbury- 
port in the general court. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the continental congress at the 
commencement of the war. He died May 
24, 1807. 


GREENLEAF, JONATHAN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Sept. 4, 1785, in 
Newburyport, Mass. He was a presbyte- 
rian clergyman of Brooklyn; and the au¬ 
thor of Sketches and Ecclesiastical History 
of Maine; History of New York Church¬ 
es; and Genealogy of the Greenleaf Fam¬ 
ily. He died April 24, 1865, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

GREENLEAF, MOSES, author, was 
born in 1778, in Newburyport, Mass. He 
was the author of Statistical View of 
Maine; and Survey of Maine. He died 
March 20, 1834, in Williamsburg, Maine. 

GREENLEAF, SIMON, educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 5, 1783, 
in Newburyport, Mass. He was a dis¬ 
tinguished jurist of Massachusetts, and 
professor of law at Harvard university 
from 1835 till his death. His greatest 
work, A Treatise on the Laws of Evi¬ 
dence, has passed into fifteen editions. 
His other writings include Origin and 
Principles of Freemasonry; Full Collec¬ 
tion of Cases Overruled, etc.; Reports of 
Cases in the Supreme Court of Maine, 
1820-31; and Examination of the Testi¬ 
mony of the Four Evangelists by the 
Rules of Evidence. He died Oct. 6 , 1853, 
in Cambridge, Mass. 

GREENLY, WILLIAM L., governor, 
was born Sept. 18, 1813, in Hamilton, N. 
Y. In 1845 he was elected lieutenant- 
governor of Michigan, and became acting 
governor in 1847. 

GREENMAN, EDWARD W., merchant, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born 
Jan. 26, 1840, in Berlin, N. Y. He was su¬ 
pervisor of Berlin in I 866 - 60 ; was elected 
clerk of Rensselaer county in 1868, serv¬ 
ing a full term of three years; and was 
deputy county clerk for ten years. He 
was elected to the fiftieth congress as a 
democrat. 

GREENOUGH, HENRY, artist, ar¬ 
chitect, author, was born Oct. 5, 1807, in 
Boston. Mass. He was an architect of 
Cambridge^ whose writings include the 
novels Ernest Carroll; Apelles and his 
Contemporaries; and various essays on 
art. He died Dec. 18, 1852, in Somerville, 
Mass. 

GREENOUGH, HORATIO, sculptor, was 
born Sept. 6 , 1805, in Boston, Mass. His 
Chanting Cherubs was the first group in 
marble executed by an American sculptor. 
He executed the colossal statue of Wash¬ 
ington in front of the national capitol, for 
which congress paid twenty thousand dol¬ 
lars, and a group entitled The Rescue, on 
the steps leading to the rotunda of the 
same building. He died Dec. 18, 1852, in 
Boston, Mass. 

GREENOUGH. JAMES BRADSTREET, 
educator, author, was born in 1833, in 
Maine. He was a professor of Latin at 
Harvard university from 1873, who has 
published with J. H. Allen a series 
of classical text-books. Other works 
of his are, Special Vocabulary to Virgil; 
and The Queen of Hearts, a Dramatic 
Fantasia. 

GREENOUGH, RICHARD SALTON- 
STALL, sculptor, was born April 27, 1819, 
in Jamaica Plains, Mass. Among his 
works are a statue of Franklin, placed m 
the city hall square of Boston; the Boy 
and Eagle, owned by the Boston ath¬ 
enaeum; a Carthagenian Woman; Cupid 
on a Tortoise; Elaine; Circe; and a 
Psyche. 

GREENOUGH, MRS. SARAH DANA 
(LORING), sculptor, author, poet, was 
born Feb. 19, 1827, in Boston, Mass. She 
was the author of In Extremis, a Story 
of a Broken Law; Arabesques, four sto¬ 
ries of the supernatural; and Mary Mag¬ 
dalene, and Other Poems. She died Aug. 
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GREENUP, CHRISTOPHER, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, governor, was born 
in 1750, in Virginia. He was governor of 
Kentucky from 1804 to 1808. He was a 
patriot of the American revolution, and 
participated in the perils of the war. He 
was at various times a member of the leg¬ 
islature of Kentucky; was a representa¬ 
tive of that state in congress from 1792 
to 1797; and was a presidential elector in 
1809. He died April 24, 1818, in Frankfort, 
Ky. 

GREEN WALD, EMANUEL, clergyman, 
theologian, author, was born Jan. 13, 1811, 
near Frederick, Md. He was a lutheran 
clergyman of Lancaster, Pa., and the au¬ 
thor of Order of Family Prayer; The 
Lutheran Reformation; The Baptism of 
Children; Meditations for Passion Week; 
Romanism and the Reformation; The 
True Church; and Meditations for the 
Closet, include the most of his controver¬ 
sial and other writings. He died Dec. 21, 
1885, in Lancaster, Pa. 

GREENWOOD, A. B., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born July 11, 1811, in 
Franklin county, Ga. He was a member 
of the legislature of the state of Arkansas 
from 1842 to 1845; was prosecuting attor¬ 
ney for said state from 1845 to 1851; and 
circuit judge from 1851 to 1853. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Arkansas from 1853 to 1858, and in 1859 
was appointed commissioner of Indian af¬ 
fairs. 

GREENWOOD, FRANCIS WILLIAM 
PITT, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 5, 
1797, in Boston, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman of Boston, pastor of King’s 
chapel, in 1824-43, and the author of His¬ 
tory of King’s Chapel; Sermons to Chil¬ 
dren; Sermons of Consolation; Sermons 
on Various Subjects; Essays; Lives of the 
Apostles; and Miscellaneous Writings. He 
died Aug. 2, 1843, in Dorchester, Mass. 

GREENWOOD, JAMES M., educator, 
author, was born Nov. 15, 1836, near 
Springfield, Ill. He is an educator and 
school superintendent of Kansas City 
who has published Principles of Educa¬ 
tion Practically Applied. 

GREENWOOD, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 6, 1798, in Providence, R. I. 
On the formation of the government of 
New \ork city he was elected city judge; 
and in 1842 was appointed first judge of 
Kings county court, New York. 

GREENWOOD, MILES, manufacturer, 
was born March 19, 1807, in Jersey City, 
N. J. He organized the first paid fire de¬ 
partment in Cincinnati in 1852, and in the 
same year aided in introducing into that 
city the first steam fire engine in the 
United States. He uied Nov. 6, 1885, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

GREER, ALLEN J., lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, was born June 14, 1854, in Mifflin 
county, Pa. In 1891-93 he was a member 
of the Minnesota state legislature; and 
in 1895 was elected a fnember of the state 
senate. 

GREER, DAVID HUMMELL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 20, 1844, in 
Wheeling, W. Va. He is a prominent 
episcopal clergyman of New York city of 
broad church views, and the author of 
The Preacher and his Place; and From 
Things to God. 

GREER, JAMES AUGUSTIN, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Feb. 28, 1833, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He entered the navy as midship¬ 
man in 1848, became lieutenant in 1855, 
and lieutenant-commander in 1862. He 
was promoted to the grade of captain in 
1876; and in 1886 served as president of 
the examining board; and in the same 
year was made commodore. 


GREER, LEON C., lawyer, journalist, 
was born June 11, 1874, in Eufaula, Ala. 
He received his education in the public 
schools of Georgia and graduated from 
the Gordon institute of Barnesville, Ga.; 
and from the university of Georgia. He 
has served as solicitor of Macon county 
court; has been a member of the con¬ 
gressional executive committee of the 
third congressional district of Georgia; 
and in 1897 became the editor and owner 
of The Macon County Citizen of Ogle¬ 
thorpe, Ga. 

GREEY, EDWARD, author, was born 
Dec. 1, 1835, in England. He was an Eng¬ 
lish writer of French descent who came to 
America in 1868, and was for many years 
a dealer in Japanese curios in New York 
city. His writings include the dramas, 
Vendome; and Mirah; Blue Jackets, a nov¬ 
el; The Golden Lotus; the juvenile tales 
Young Americans in Japan; The Wonder¬ 
ful City of Tokio; The Bear Worship¬ 
pers of Yezo; and translations from 
the Japanese of the novels. The Loyal 
Ronins; and The Captive of Love. He 
died Oct. 1, 1888, in England. 

GREGG, ALEXANDER, bishop, author, 
was born Oct. 8, 1819, in Society Hill, S. C. 
He was the first protestant episcopal 
bishop of Texas, and the author of His¬ 
tory of the Old Cheraws, an Account of 
the Indian Tribes in the Valley of the 
Pedee. He died in 1893. 

GREGG, ANDREW, educator, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born 
June 10, 1755, in Carlisle, Pa. In 1790 he 
was elected a representative in congress 
from Pennsylvania, serving from 1791 to 
1807; and was a senator of the United 
States from 1807 to 1813. In 1814 he moved 
to Bellefonte; and in 1816 was appointed 
secretary of state of Pennsylvania. He 
died May 20, 1835, at Bellefonte, Pa. 

GREGG, DAVID, clergyman, author, 
was born March 25, 1846, in Pittsburg, Pa. 
He has filled pastorates in the presbyte- 
rian churches in Iowa, Massachusetts and 
New York. He is the author of From Sol¬ 
omon to the Captivity; Studies in John: 
Facts that Call for Faith; and The Hol¬ 
lander and Makers of America. 

GREGG, DAVID L., diplomat. He was 
a citizen of Illinois; and in 1853 was ap¬ 
pointed a commissioner with diplomatic 
powers to the Sandwich islands, where 
he remained until 1858. 

GREGG, DAVID McMURTRIE, soldier, 
was born April 10, 1833, in Huntingdon, 
Pa. He served in the campaign of 1858- 
60 against the Indians; and served with 
distinction through the civil war, attain¬ 
ing the rank of brigadier-general. He 
subsequently was made adjutant-general 
of Pennsylvania at Reading. 

GREGG, JAMES, soldier, educator, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born July 4, 1787, 
in Marion district, S. C. He was elected 
to the general assembly of the state in 
1822, and served till 1830, when he was 
elected to the senate, of which he con¬ 
tinued a member until 1847. He died Oct. 
24, 1852. 

GREGG, JAMES M., farmer, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 26, 1806, in 
Patrick county, Va. In 1830 he settled in 
Hendricks county, Ind. From 1834 to 1837 
he was county surveyor. He was then 
chosen clerk of the circuit court, serving 
until 1845. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive to the thirty-fifth congress. 

GREGG, JOHN IRVIN, soldier, was 
born July 19, 1826, in Bellefont, Pa. For 
gallant and meritorious services during 
the war he was brevetted major-general 
of volunteers, and brigadier-general Unit¬ 
ed States army at its close. 


GREGG, WILLIAM HENRY, manufac¬ 
turer, was born March 24, 1841, in Pal¬ 
myra, N. Y. In 1869 he was one of the or¬ 
ganizers of the Southern White Lead com¬ 
pany of Chicago, of which he was elected 
president, holding that office for twenty 
years. 

GREGORY, CHARLES NOBLE, lawyer, 
educator, author, was born Aug. 27, 1851, 
in Unadilla, N. Y. Since 1894 he has been 
professor of law and associate dean of 
the law university of Wisconsin. His 
writings have appeared in Harper’s 
Weekly, The Youth’s Companion, New 
York Evening Post, and Scribner’s. 

GREGORY, DANIEL SEELEY, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
Aug. 21, 1832, in Carmel, N. Y. He is a 
Presbyterian clergyman, and was presi¬ 
dent of Lake Forest university, Illinois, 
in 1878-86. He is the author of Christian 
Ethics; Why Four Gospels; Practical 
Logic; The Tests of Philosophic Systems; 
and Christ’s Trumpet Call to the Ministry. 

GREGORY, DUDLEY S., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 5, 1800, in 
Reading, Conn. He settled in New Jer¬ 
sey; and was elected a representative in 
congress from that state from 1847 to 
1849. He died Dec. 8, 1870, in Jersey City, 
N. J. 

GREGORY, ELIOT, artist, was born Oct. 
13, 1854, in New York city. His pictures 
include Soubrette; Coquetterie; Children, 
for which he received honorable mention 
in Paris; and portraits of General George 
W. Cullum; his uncle, Admiral Baldwin; 
Mrs. John Sherwood; and Ada Rehan, are 
well known. 

GREGORY, FRANK M„ artist, was 
born Oct. 21, 1848, in Mansfield, Ohio. He 
also followed water-color painting, and 
acquired some note in etching and de¬ 
signing. Among his paintings are: The 
Truant; Waiting for Repairs; and First 
Snow of the Season. 

GREGORY, JOHN M., governor, was 
born in Virginia. He was governor of 
Virginia in 1842 and 1843. 

GREGORY, JOHN MILTON, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born July 6, 1822, 
in Sandlake, N. Y. He is a baptist clergy¬ 
man and educator of Michigan and Illi¬ 
nois; and the author of Handbook of His¬ 
tory; New Political Economy; and The 
Seven Laws of Teaching. 

GREGORY, SAMUEL, educator, philan¬ 
thropist, lecturer, author, was born April 
19, 1813, in Guilford, Vt. In 1848 he found¬ 
ed in Boston the New England Female 
Medical college, said to have been the first 
institution in the world for the exclusive 
medical education of women. He died 
March 23, 1872, in Boston, Mass. 

GREIG, JOHN, lawyer, banker, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 6, 1779, in Scot¬ 
land. He became president of the Onta¬ 
rio bank, which position he held until 
1856. He was one of the founders and 
corporators of the Ontario Female semi¬ 
nary. He was elected a representative in 
congress for the term commencing in 
1841; and resigned at the close of the first 
session. He died April 9, 1858, in Canan¬ 
daigua. 

GREINER, JOHN, journalist, governor, 
was born Sept. 14, 1810, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was for eight years librarian of 
the state library, and was a writer of 
popular political songs, among the most 
noted of which were those entitled Old 
Zip Coon; Tippecanoe and Tyler Too; and 
The Wagoner Boy. In 1849 he was ap¬ 
pointed an Indian agent in New Mexico; 
and afterward became governor of the 
territory. In 1865 he settled in Zanesville, 
Ohio, ana edited the Times of that city. 
He died May 13, 1871, in Toledo, Ohio. 


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GRENNELL, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 
25, 17S6, in Greenfield, Mass. He was pros¬ 
ecuting attorney for Franklin county from 
1820 to 1828. He was a member of the 
state senate from 1824 to 1827; and was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1829 to 1839. He was, from 
1838 to 1859, a member of the board of 
trustees of Amherst college; and from 
1849 to 1853 was probate judge for his 
county. He died Nov. 20, 1877, in Green¬ 
field, Mass. 

GRESHAM, WALTER QUINTON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born March 17, 
1832, near Lanesville, Ind. He entered 
the union army in 1861 as lieutenant- 
colonel; and was brevetted a major-gen¬ 
eral. He was financial agent of Indiana 
at New York city from 1867 to 1869, when 
he was appointed United States district 
judge for the district of Indiana, in which 
capacity he served until 1883, when he 
was appointed postmaster-general in the 
cabinet of President Arthur. In 1884 he 
was appointed United States circuit judge 
for the seventh judicial circuit. 

GRESS, GEORGE VALENTINE, manu¬ 
facturer, was born April 25, 1847, in Sul¬ 
livan county, N. \. He established the 
Gress Lumber company, one of the larg¬ 
est concerns in the south. He is presi¬ 
dent of the Hart Lumber company, and 
of the United States Bond and Mortgage 
company, at Finn, Ga. 

GREY, BENJAMIN E„ state legislator, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
Kentucky. He was a member of the leg¬ 
islature of that state from Logan county 
in 1838 and 1839; was state senator from 
1847 to 1851; and was speaker of the sen¬ 
ate and acting lieutenant-governor in 
1850. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. 

GREY, SAMUEL H., lawyer, was born 
April 6, 1836, in Camden, N. J. The West 
Jersey Title and Guaranty company was 
organized by him in 1888, and he has 
since been its president. He also organ¬ 
ized in 1873 the Camden Safe Deposit and 
Trust company. 

GRIDER, HENRY, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 16, 1796, in Gar¬ 
rard county, Kentucky. In 1827 and 1831 
he w r as elected to the legislature of Ken¬ 
tucky; and in 1833 to the state senate, 
where he served four years. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Kentucky 
from 1843 to 1847; and was also elected 
to the thirty-seventh and thirty-ninth 
congresses. He died Sept. 14, 1866, in 
Warren county, Ky. 

GRIDLEY, ALBERT LEVERETT, sol¬ 
dier, clergyman, cosmologist, was born 
Oct. 17, 1839, in Caton, N. Y. He received 
his education at the 
academy of Oxford, 
New York; Oberlin 
college, and the 
Oberlin Theological 
seminary. He served 
for four years as a 
union soldier during 
the civil war. He 
has attained success 
as an educator and 
clergyman; and is 
now pastor of 
the congregational 
church of Kidder, Mo. In 1871 he discover¬ 
ed a law in cosmology, which is fully set 
forth in The American Mathematical 
Monthly of July, 1879. The contention is 
that if the solar system has growm from 
nebulae, according to the nebular hypo¬ 
thesis, then the velocities of the interior 
planets in their orbits is the result of the 
velocity of the one nearest outside of it, 
with the velocity of contraction. 


GRIDLEY, CHARLES V., naval officer, 
was born in Indiana. He was commander 
of Admiral Dewey’s flagship, Olympia, in 
the great battle of Manila bay. He died 
in July, 1898. 

GRIDLEY, JOHN THOMAS, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born Dec. 2, 1868, in West Can¬ 
dor, N. Y. He received his education at 
the Cornell university, and in 1892 grad¬ 
uated from the Columbia college law 
school. He has-attained success as an able 
lawyer and jurist of Candor, N. Y., where 
he has filled many positions of honor in 
his county and state. 

GRIDLEY, RICHARD, soldier, was born 
Jan. 3, 1711, in Boston, Mass. He entered 
the patriot army in 1775 and was made 
a major-general in command of the con¬ 
tinental artillery. He died June 20, 1796, 
in Stoughton, Mass. 

GRIER, JAMES ALEXANDER, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born in 1846 
in Pennsylvania. He is a united presby- 
terian clergyman of Pennsylvania, pro¬ 
fessor in Alleghany Theological semina¬ 
ry, and the author of Secret Societies; and 
Biography of Jeremiah Rankine Johnston. 

GRIER. ROBERT COOPER, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 5, 1794, in Cum¬ 
berland county, Pa. In 1846 he was ap¬ 
pointed an associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of the United States. He 
moved to Philadelphia in 1848. He died 
Sept. 25, 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GRIERSON, BENJAMIN HENRY, sol¬ 
dier, merchant, was born July 8, 1826, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. In 1863 he made the cele¬ 
brated raid through Tennessee, Mississip¬ 
pi, and Louisiana; and attained the brev¬ 
et of major-general in the United States 
army. 

GRIFFIN, CHARLES P., legislator, was 
born Sept. 3, 1842, in Henrietta, Ohio. In 
1868 he moved to Toledo, Ohio, and was 
elected to the legislature in 1887, re-elect¬ 
ed in 1889, and again in 1891. 

GRIFFIN, CYRUS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1749, in Virginia. 
He was a member of the legislature; was 
a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1778 to 1781, and in 1787 and 1788, 
and was its president in 1788. He was 
president of the supreme court of admir¬ 
alty; a commissioner in 1789 to the Creek 
nation; and judge of the United States 
district court for Virginia from 1789. He 
died Dec. 14, 1810, in Yorktown, Va. 

GRIFFIN, FRANK, journalist, lawyer, 
was born March 8, 1848, in Wisconsin. He 
is the editor and owner of The Daily Re¬ 
view and Weekly Advocate of Maryville, 
Mo. He has waged an incessant warfare 
upon the saloons through his publications. 
For his persistence in fighting for prohi¬ 
bition his presses have been broken, dyn¬ 
amite thrown into his office, and himself 
and family have been shot at a number 
of times. But through it all he has waged 
continual warfare, and is now one of the 
most prominent prohibitionists of Mis¬ 
souri. 

GRIFFIN, FRANK M., journalist, was 
born Aug. 17, 1859, in Greenup Union, Ky. 
He is the editor and owner of the East¬ 
ern Kentucky Democrat of Greenup, Ky. 
For three years he was postmaster at 
Enterprise, Ky., and is very prominent in 
fraternal orders. 

GRIFFIN, GEORGE, lawyer, author, 
was born Jan. 14, 1778, in East Haddam, 
Conn. He was a lawyer of New York 
city, and the author of Sufferings of Our 
Saviour; Evidences of Christianity; and - 
The Gospel its Own Evidence. He died 
May 6, 1860, in New York city. 

GRIFFIN, GILDEROY WELLS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born March 6, 1840, 


in Louisville, Ky. He is a journalist who 
has been consul in Australia and else¬ 
where. He is the author of Studies in 
Literature; Danish Days; Visit to Strat¬ 
ford; New Zealand, her Commerce and 
Resources; and Life of George Prentice. 

GRIFFIN, ISAAC, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1813 to 1817. 

GRIFFIN, JOHN, lawyer, jurist. He 
was an early emigrant to Indiana; and in 
1800 was appointed a judge of the United 
States court for that territory. In 1806 
he was appointed to the same position for 
the territory of Michigan, where he re¬ 
mained for many years. 

GRIFFIN, JOHN K., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1831 to 1841. He died 
Aug. 1, 1841, at Milton, S. C. 

GRIFFIN, LEVI T., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 23, 1837, in 
Clinton, N. Y. He served in the United 
States army, and attained the rank of 
major. He was elected from the state of 
Michigan to the fifty-third congress to 
fill a vacancy. 

GRIFFIN, MICHAEL, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, state senator, was Dorn 
Sept. 9, 1842, in Ireland. He enlisted as 
a private in 1861, in company E, twelfth 
regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry, 
and served until the close of the war, De- 
ing promoted to the grade of second and 
first lieutenant. He was state senator in 
1880 and 1881; and was elected in 1894 to 
the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses as a republican. 

GRIFFIN, SAMUEL, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia, from 1789 to 1795. 

GRIFFIN, SAMUEn P., naval officer, 
navigator, was born in 1826, in Savannah, 
Ga. He entered the service of the Pacific 
Mail Steamship company, commanding, 
as their commodore, successive steamers 
of their fleet till 1882. He was an author¬ 
ity on ship-building, and the author of 
the code of international fog signals and 
of essays on ship-building. He died July 
4, 1887, in Panama. 

GRIFFIN, SIMON GOODELL, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, historian, was born 
Aug. 9, 1824, in Nelson, N. H. For many 
years he was en¬ 
gaged in education¬ 
al work; and for two 
terms l’epresented 
his town in the New r 
Hampshire state leg¬ 
islature. In 1860 he 
practiced law in 
Concord; and at 
President Lincoln’s 
first call for troops 
he volunteered as a 
private and was 
chosen captain of 
company B. second regiment New Hamp¬ 
shire volunteer infantry. He commanded 
his company at the first battle of Bull 
Run; was promoted to lieutenant-colonel 
of the sixth regiment New Hampshire 
volunteer infantry, and joined Burnside’s 
expedition to North Carolina. He w r as 
rapidly promoted to colonel, brigadier- 
general and brevet major-general. After 
the war General Griffin settled in Keene, 
N. H., and represented that town three 
terms in the state legislature, tw T o of 
which he served as speaker of the house. 
In 1887-88 he was commander of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts commandery of the military 
order of the Loyal Legion of the United 
States. This eminent soldier and states¬ 
man is now engaged in historical literary 
work. 





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GRIFFIN, SOLOMON BULKLEY, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Aug. 13, 1852, in 
Williamstown, Mass. He is a journalist 
of Springfield, Mass., who has published 
Mexico of To-Day. 

GRIFFIN, THOMAS, congressman, was 
a representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1803 to 1805. 

GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT, was 
born Sept. 17, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is a Dutch reformed clergyman, pas¬ 
tor in Schenectady in 1877-86; in charge 
of the Shawmut congregational church in 
Boston in 1886-92; and subsequently set¬ 
tled at Ithaca, N. Y. He is an authority up¬ 
on Japanese topics, and the author of The 
Mikado’s Empire; Japanese Fairy World; 
Corea: the Hermit Nation; The Tokio 
Guide; The Yokohama Guide; Japan in 
History, Folk-Lore, and Art; The Reli¬ 
gions of Japan; Brave Little Holland and 
What She Taught Us; The Lily Among 
Thorns, a biblical study; Life of Mat¬ 
thew Calbraith Perry; Sir William John¬ 
son and the Six Nations; Townsend Har¬ 
ris, first American envoy in Japan; and 
Honda the Samurai, a Story of Modern 
Japan. 

GRIFFITH, BENJAMIN MORDECAI, 
physician, was born April 14, 1831, in 
Shelby county, Ky. He received his ed¬ 
ucation at the common schools of Ken¬ 
tucky and Missouri; and at Woods’ acad¬ 
emy of Louisiana, Mo. This successful 
physician of Springfield, Ill., has been 
president of the state board of health of 
Illinois; and was the first president of 
the first state medical society. 

GRIFFITH, DAVID, clergyman, was 
born in 1742 in New York city. At the 
second Virginia convention of his church 
in May, 1786, Dr. Griflith was chosen 
bishop' He died Aug. 3, 1789, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

GRIFFITH, GOLDSBOROUGH SAP- 
PINGTON, philanthropist, was born Nov. 

4, 1814, in Havre-de-Grace, Md. In 1866 
he was elected president of the Maryland 
union commission; and contributed large¬ 
ly to the erection of the Young Men’s 
Christian association building in Balti¬ 
more. 

GRIFFITH, GEORGE BANCROFT, au- 
Feb. 28,1841, in New- 
the editor and author 
of The Poets of 
Maine, and The 
Poets of Massachu¬ 
setts, he has become 
well known. Mr. 
Griflith has written 
extensively for the 
leading newspapers 
and magazines of 
America; and a 
number of his beau¬ 
tiful poems have 
been incorporated in 
Poets of America 
works. George Ban- 
of the editors of this 
work; and has written succinct biogra¬ 
phies of many prominent men of the New 
England states. 

GRIFFITH, HARRISON P., educator, 
was born Feb. 25, 1837, in Laurens county. 

5. C. In 1881 he was elected principal of 
Cooper-Limestone Female institute. He 
is an able educator, and has done much 
toward building up the fortunes of the 
south. 

GRIFFITH, JOHN E„ lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Oct. 24, 1864, in Delaware 
county, Ohio. He graduated from the 
Cincinnati law school in 1890; and in 1895 
he was elected to the seventy-second 
Ohio general assembly. 


thor, poet, was born 
buryport, Mass. As 



and other standard 
croft Griffith is one 


GRIFFITH, MARY LOUISA KNOWL- 
TON, the wife of the late Edwin H. 
Griffith, a successful banker of Castleton- 
on-Hudson, N. Y., was born March 26, 
1833, in Greenbush, N. Y. She received 
her education at the East Greenbush and 
Nassau academies, and at Tyler s insti¬ 
tute of Pittsfield, Mass. She has always 
taken the keenest interest in the annals 
of history, and is the author of several 
genealogical works. 

GRIFFITH, ROBERT EGLESFIELD, 
educator, physician, botanist, author, was 
born Feb. 13, 1798, in Philadelphia. He 
was a physician and botanist who was 
from 1838 a medical professor in the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia. He was the author of 
Medical Botany; and Universal Formu¬ 
lary. He died June 26, 1850, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

GRIFFITH, SAMUEL, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 14, 1816, in Brit¬ 
ain. He was elected a representative to 
the forty-second congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 


GRIFFITH, SAMUEL NEWELL, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, was born May 12, 1833, 
in Pike, Wyoming county, N. Y. He was 
educated at the 
Lawrence university 
of Appleton, Wis., 
from which institu¬ 
tion he graduated in 
1861; and from that 
time until 1864 he 
filled the chair of 
mathematics in his 
alma mater. He 
then attended the 
Garrett Biblical in¬ 
stitute of Evanston, 
Ill.; graduated in 
1867, and has since attained success as an 
eminent clergyman of the methodist epis¬ 
copal church. During 1867-70 he preached 
in Chicago and vicinity; and in 1870-/2 
was principal in the Mosley school of that 
city. In 1872-75 he served as pastor of 
the Kalamazoo methodist episcopal 
church; and during 1875-88 filled pastor¬ 
ates in Summerfield, Milwaukee, Fond du 
Lac, Racine, Appleton and Stevens Point. 
From 1883-92 he filled pastorates in 
North Dakota; and in 1892-97 in western 
Wisconsin. In 1891 he was a delegate 
to the second ecumenical methodist con¬ 
ference, held at Washington, D. C. 



GRIFFITH, WILLIAM, jurist. He was 
one of the earliest judges of the United 
States circuit court; and in 1801 was ap¬ 
pointed by President Jefferson to the 
third circuit. 


GRIFFITH, WILLIAM HERRICK, bus¬ 
iness man, genealogist, was born Jan. 27, 



1866, in Castleton-on-Hudson, N. Y. He 
is the only surviving 
son of the late Ed¬ 
win H. Griffith, a 
successful banker, 
and Mary Louisa 
Knowlton, a noted 
author. He attend¬ 
ed the Albany Mili¬ 
tary academy and 
Yale college; after¬ 
ward he traveled in 
Europe and acted as 
foreign correspond¬ 
ent for the New 
York Home Journal, the Albany Argus, 
and other newspapers. For five years he 
was connected with the First National 
bank of Albany, and since 1893 has been 
engaged in the fire insurance business. 
•He is greatly interested in genealogy, and 
is a member of a dozen different patriotic 
orders and historical and art societies, 
and has filled various offices of honor in 


many of them. 


GRIFFITHS, JOHN WILLIS, naval 
architect, author, was born Oct. 6, 1809, 
in New York city. He was a naval archi¬ 
tect of New York city, and the author of 
Treatise on Marine and Naval Architec¬ 
ture, a work of great value; The Ship 
Builders’ Manual; and The Progressive 
Ship Builder. He died April 29, 1882, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

GRIFFITTS, JOHN P., educator, college 
president, was born in 1857, in Unitia, 
Tenn. He attended the Grant university, 
from which institution he received the 
degrees of B. S., B. Lit., and M. S. In 
1886 he was admitted to the bar. During 
1888-89 he filled the chair of mathematics 
in the Loudon college, Tenn. In 1892 he 
was licentiate of instruction, university of 
Tennessee; and in 1893 received the de¬ 
gree of D. Sc. from the National univer¬ 
sity ot Chicago. During 1893-95 he was 
professor of natural science in the Ewing 
and Jefferson college; and since 1895 has 
been president of Roane college of Wheat, 
Tenn. In 1897 he was given the degree 
of Ph. D. by the American Temperance 
university of Hamman, Tenn. 

GRIFFITTS, SAMUEL POWELL, phy¬ 
sician, was born July 21, 1759, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He founded the Philadelphia 
dispensary in 1786, and was its physician 
for seven year^. He died May 12, 1826, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

GRIGG, JOHN, publisher, banker, was 
born in 1792, in England. He entered a 
publishing house in Philadelphia in 1816, 
and in 1823 began business on his own 
account, and was very successful. He re¬ 
tired in 1850, with a large fortune, and 
afterward became a private banker. He 
died Aug. 2, 1864, in Philadelphia. 

GRIGGS, CHAUNCEY WRIGHT, mer¬ 
chant, lumberman, banker, was born Dec. 
31, 1832, in Tolland, Conn. He remained 
in Minnesota for thirty years, prosperous¬ 
ly engaged in business, except while at 
the front during the civil war, where he 
won the rank of colonel. In 1887 he re¬ 
moved to Tacoma, and took charge, as 
president, of the St. Paul and Tacoma 
Lumber Co. 

GRIGGS, CLARK ROBINSON, railroad 
president, legislator, was born March 6, 
1824, in North Adams, Mass. He helped 
to organize several railroads; and was 
for three years president of the Indianap¬ 
olis, Bloomington and Western railroad 
company. He was a member of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts legislature in 1857-58, and in 
1867-68 was a member of the Illinois leg¬ 
islature. 

GRIGGS, GEORGE KING, soldier, rail¬ 
road manager, was born Sept. 12, 1839, in 
Henry county, Va. He served through 
the civil war and received the rank of col¬ 
onel. In 1891 he was appointed general 
superintendent, treasurer and paymaster 
of the Danville and West Railroad com¬ 
pany of Danville, Va. 

GRIGGS, JAMES M., journalist, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born March 29, 
1861, in Lagrange, Ga. He moved to 
Dawson in 1885; was elected solicitor- 
general of the Pataula judicial circuit in 
1888, and was re-elected in 1892. He was 
appointed judge of the same circuit, and 
was twice re-elected without opposition. 
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a democrat. 

GRIGGS, JOHN WILLIAM, lawyer, 
state senator, governor, was born July 
10, 1849, in Newton, N. J. In 1879 he be¬ 
gan the practice of law in Paterson, N. J. 
In 1875 he was elected to the state as¬ 
sembly, and was re-elected to a second 
term. In 1882 he was elected to the state 
senate, and was re-elected in 1884. In 
1896 he was elected governor of New Jer¬ 
sey. 










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GRIGGS, NATHAN K., lawyer, poet, 
He is one of the foremost lawyers of Ne¬ 
braska; and attorney for several of the 
leading railroads of 
the west. He is the 
author of a number 
of meritorious po¬ 
ems, which have ap¬ 
peared in Poets of 
America and other 
standard collections. 
He is also a hymn 
writer of national 
reputation; and a 
collection of his 
hymns were pub¬ 
lished in 1892; and 
his compositions constantly appear in 
standard musical publications. 


GRIGGS, SAMUEL CHAPMAN, pub¬ 
lisher, was born July 20, 1819, in Tolland, 
Conn. He began business as a book seller 
in Hamilton, N. Y., but in 1848 moved to 
Chicago, where he continued in the same 
calling, and in a few years was at the 
head of the largest book selling business 
in the northwest. 

GRIGSBY, HUGH BLAIR, historical 
scholar, was born Nov. 22, 1806, in Nor¬ 
folk, Va. He represented Norfolk in the 
legislature when scarcely more than a 
boy; and in 1829-30 was a member of the 
state convention with Thomas Jefferson, 
James Madison, and other noted men. 
ne was president of the Virginia Histor¬ 
ical society, and became in 1871 chancellor 
of William and Mary college. He died 
April 28, 1881, in Charlotte county, Va. 

GRIGSBY, MELVIN, lawyer, banker, 
legislator, was born June 8, 1845, in Po- 
tosi, Wis. At the age of sixteen years he 
enlisted in company C, second regiment 
Wisconsin cavalry. He has written a work 
of his prison life and escape. He has been 
a member of the city council of Sioux 
Fads, and is a succesful bank president. 
He has served with distinction as a mem¬ 
ber of the South Dakota state legislature, 
and has been attorney-general for the 
state of South Dakota. 


GRIMES, BRYAN, soldier, was born 
Nov. 2, 1828, in Pitt county, N. C. He en¬ 
tered the confederate army in 1861 as ma¬ 
jor of the fourth North Carolina regi¬ 
ment. He served througnout the war, and 
attained the rank of senior major-general. 
He died Aug. 14, 1880, near Bear Creek, 
N. C. 

GRIMES, EDWARD B., poet. He is a 
successful journalist of Dayton, Ohio; 
and the author of a volume of Poems. 

GRIMES, JAMES KINGSLEY, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, was born July 4, 1852, 
in Belmont county, Ohio. In 1873 he 
graduated in the classical course from the 


Mount Union college; has received the 
degrees of A. M. and D. D.; and for sev¬ 
eral years was a teacher in the public 
schools. He has attained distinction as 
a successful clergyman of the methodist 
episcopal church; and he has filled a 
number of prominent pastorates in the 
East Ohio conference. During his pastor¬ 
ate at Alliance, Ohio, the beautiful new 
church known as the Union Avenue meth¬ 
odist church was erected at a cost of 
twenty-five thousand dollars. 

GRIMES, JAMES WILSON, governor, 
United States senator, was born Oct. 20, 
1816, in Deering, N. H. In 1838 he was 
elected to the general assembly of the ter¬ 
ritory of Iowa, to which he was rrequent- 
ly re-elected. He was governor of the 
state of Iowa from 1854 to 1858; and in 
1859 was elected a senator in congress 
from that state for six years. He was a 
delegate to the peace congress of 1861; 
was re-elected to the senate for the term 
commencing in 1865, and ending in 1871. 
He died Feb. 7, 1872, in Burlington, Iowa. 

GRIMES, THOMAS WINGFIELD, sol¬ 
dier, legislator, congressman, was born in 
Georgia. He served as a private in the 
confederate army during the last eighteen 
months of che war. He was a member of 
the legislature in 1868-69, and re-elected 
in 1875-76. He served as state senator in 
1878-79. In 1880 he was elected solicitor- 
general of the Chattahoochee circuit for 
a term of four years; and was re-elected 
without opposition in 1884. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses 
as a democrat. 

GRIMKE, ANGELINA EMILY, reform¬ 
er, author, was Dorn Feb. 2u, 1805, in 
Charleston, S. C. She has spent her life 
in educational and reformatory work; 
and is the author of a work entitled Let¬ 
ters to Catherine E. Beecher. 

GRIMKE, ARCHIBALD HENRY, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in South Carolina. 
He is the author of Eulogy on Wendell 
Phillips; Charles Sumner, the Scholar in 
Politics; and William Lloyd Garrison, the 
Abolitionist. 

GRIMKE, FREDERICK, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born Sept. 1, 1791, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. He was an Ohio jurist, and 
the author of Ancient and Modern Liter¬ 
ature; and Nature and Tendencies of Free 
Institutions. He died March 8, 1863, in 
Chillicothe, Ohio. 

GRIMKE, JOHN FAUCnERAUD, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 16, 1752, 
in South Carolina. He was a jurist of 
South Carolina, and the author of Revised 
Edition of Laws of South Carolina; Law 
of Executors of South Carolina; Public 
Law of South Carolina; Probate Direc¬ 
tory; and Duty oi Justices of the Peace. 
He died Aug. 9, 1819, in Long Branch, 
N. J. 

GRIMKE, SARAH MOORE, reformer, 
author, was born Nov. 6, 1792, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. She was a reformer who was 
very prominent in the anti-slavery move¬ 
ment, and the author of Epistle to tne 
Clergy of the Southern States; and Let¬ 
ters on the Condition of Women. She 
died Dec. 23, 1873, in Hyde Park, N. Y. 

GRIMKE, THOMAS SMITH, reformer, 
author, was born Sept. 26, 1786, in 

Charleston, S. C. He was a reformer of 
Charleston, active in temperance and in 
the promotion of peace societies, who 
published Addresses on Science, Educa¬ 
tion, and Literature. He died Oct. 11, 
1834, near Columbus, Ohio. 

GRIMSHAW, ROBERT, civil engineer, 
lecturer, author, was horn in 1850, in 


Pennsylvania. He is a civil engineer, lec¬ 
turer on physics at the Franklin institute 
of Philadelphia, and the author of His¬ 
tory, etc., of Saws; Saw Filing; Steam 
Engine Catechism; Pump Catechism; 
Steam Boiler Catechism; Record of Sci¬ 
entific Progress; Hints to Power Users; 
and Fifty Years Hence. 

GRIMSHAW, WILLIAM, author, was 
born in 1782, in Ireland. He was a Phila¬ 
delphia writer who published a once pop¬ 
ular series of school histories, and also 
Etymological Dictionary; Gentlemen’s 
Lexicon; Ladies’ Lexicon; The American 
Chesterfield; and Life of Napoleon. He 
died in 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GRING, DAVID, railroad president, was 
born June 8, 1857, in Denver, Pa. Since 
1890 he has been president of the Newport 
and Sherman’s Valley railroad at New¬ 
port, Pa. 

GRINNELL, GEORGE BIRD, ornithol¬ 
ogist, journalist, author, was born in 1849, 
in New York. He is an ornithologist, and 
the editor of Forest and Stream of New 
York city. He is the author of The Story 
of a Prairie People; The Story of the In¬ 
dian; and Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk 
Tales. 

GRINNELL, HENRY, merchant, ex¬ 
plorer, was born Feb. 14, 1797, in New 
Bedford, Mass. He was the first president 
of the American Geographical society, and 
fitted out two expeditions in search of Sir 
John Franklin. Grinnell Land, in the 
Arctic seas, is named in his honor. He 
died June 30, 1874, in New York city. 

GRINNELL, JOSEPH, merchant, bank¬ 
er, congressman, was born Nov. 17, 1788, 
in New Bedford, Mass. In 1839, 1840, and 
1841 he was a member of the governor’s 
council of Massachusetts. He was elected 
a representative in congress in 1843, and 
was three times re-elected. He originated 
the idea of a reduction of postage and the 
establishment of life boats. He died Feb. 
7, 1885, in New Bedford, Mass. 

GRINNELL, JOSIAH B.. farmer, state 
senator, congressman, author, was born 
Dec. 22, 1821, in New Haven, Vt. He was 
a member of the Iowa state senate for 
four years; and a special agent for the 
general postoffice for two years. He was 
elected a representative from Iowa to the 
thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses. 
He was the author of Go West, Young 
Man, Go West; Home of the Badgers; 
Cattle Industries of the United States; 
and Men and Events of f orty Years. 

GRINNELL, KATHERINE VAN AL¬ 
LEN, educator, reformer, was born April 
20, 1839, in Pillar Point, N. Y. She re¬ 
ceived her education 
at the Falley sem¬ 
inary of Fulton, N. 
Y.; and has attained 
prominence as a 
writer and teacher 
of the scientific prin¬ 
ciples of the social 
order. She advo¬ 
cates the social sys¬ 
tem based upon the 
scientific discoveries 
of Sivartha in his 
Book of Life. She 
has also contributed a number of meri¬ 
torious poems to the periodical press. 

GRINNELL, MOSES HICKS, merchant, 
congressman, was born March 3, 1803, in 
New Bedford, Mass. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 
1839 to 1841; and was a presidential elect¬ 
or in 1856. In 1869 he was appointed col¬ 
lector of the port of New York. He died 
Nov. 24, 1877, in New York city. 




GRIM, WILLIAM H., orator, clergy¬ 
man, was born Oct. 19, 1830, in Coshocton, 
county, Ohio. He received his education 
at the Asbury uni¬ 
versity, now called 
the De Pauw univer¬ 
sity; which institu¬ 
tion subsequently 
conferred upon him 
the degree of D. D. 
In 1855 he entered 
the Indiana confer¬ 
ence of the metho¬ 
dist episcopal 
church; was presid¬ 
ing elder on the 
Rockport district 
during 1880-84; and on the Evansville dis¬ 
trict during 1887-93. He is recognized as 
one of the ablest pulpit orators of his 
conference; and now fills a pastorate in 
Sullivan, Ind. 


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GRISCOM, CLEMENT ACTION, presi¬ 
dent of the International Navigation com¬ 
pany, was born March 15, 1841, in Phila¬ 
delphia. In 1871 the 
International Navi¬ 
gation Co. was or¬ 
ganized in Philadel¬ 
phia by the old firm 
of Peter Wright ana 
Sons. Mr. Griscom 
was one of its found¬ 
ers and from the 
start its vice-presi¬ 
dent, and in 1888 be¬ 
came president. It 
owns nearly all the 
capital stock of the 
' Belgian corporation known as the Red 
Star line, which operates ten large steam¬ 
ers in the trade to Antwerp. In 1886 Mr. 
Griscom bought for his company the old 
Inman line, then running to Liverpool. 

GRISCOM, JOHN, educator, author, was 
born Sept. 27, 1774, at Hancock’s Bridge, 
N. J. He was a once noted educator who 
was professor of chemistry at Rutgers 
■college in 1812-28. He is the author of 
A Year in Europe; and Monitorial In¬ 
struction. He died Feb. 26, 1852, in Bur¬ 
lington, N. J. 

GRISCOM, JOHN HAWKINS, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Aug. 14, 1809, in 
New York city. He was an eminent phy¬ 
sician of New York city, and the author 
of Animal Mechanism and Physiology; 
Prison Hygiene; Use and Abuses of Air; 
Use of Tobacco and Evils Resulting 
Therefrom; and Physical Indications of 
Longevity. He died April 28, 1874, in 
New York city. 

GRISSOM, ARTHUR C., journalist, 
poet, was born Jan. 21, r869, in Payson, 
Ill. He is the editor of Spirit, and The 
American Home Graphic of New York 
city; and is the author of a number of 
meritorious poems. 

GRISWOLD. ALEXANDER VIETS, 
clergyman, bishop, author, was born April 
22, 1766, in Simsbury, Conn. He was the 
third protestant 
episcopal bishop of 
Massachusetts, and 
the author of Dis¬ 
courses on the Most 
Important Doc¬ 
trines; The Reform¬ 
ation and the Apos¬ 
tolic Office; and Re-, 
marks on Prayer 
Meetings. He died 
Feb. 15, 1843, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass., from 
heart disease while 
visiting Bishop Eastburn. 

GRISWOLD, ALPHONSO MINER, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Jan. 26, 1834, in 
Westmoreland. N. Y. His paragraphs and 
humorous essays under the pen-name of 
The Fat Contributor won him reputation; 
and he spent the years 1865-78 in the lec¬ 
ture field, his topics being American An¬ 
tiquities; Injun Meal; and Queer Folks. 
Since 1886 he has been an editor and one 
of the proprietors of Texas Siftings. 

GRISWOLD, CASIMIR CLAYTON, ar¬ 
tist, was born in 1834, in Delaware, Ohio. 
He studied wood engraving in Cincinnati, 
and removed to New York about 1850. 
Among his works are December; Winter 
Morning; The Last of the Ice; August 
Day, Newport; and Early Spring. 

GRISWOLD. MRS. FRANCES IRENE 
[BURGE] [SMITH], author, was born 
in 1826, in Rhode Island. She is a writer 
of Sunday-school tales, among which are 
the Bishop and Nannette Series; and 
Miriam’s Reward. 


GRISWOLD, GAYLORD, congressman. 
He was a member of the New York as¬ 
sembly from 1796 to 1798; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1803 to 1805. He died in 1809. 

GRISWOLD, MRS. HARRIET, edu¬ 
cator, author, ’ poet, was born Jan. 26, 
1842, in Boston, Mass. She is an educator 
of Wisconsin, and the author of Apple 
Blossoms, a volume of poems; Home Life 
of Great Authors; Waiting on Destiny; 
and Lucille and Her Friends. Her poem, 
Under the Daisies, has had a wide popu¬ 
larity as a song. 

GRISWOLD, JOHN A., manufacturer, 
banker, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 
1818, in Nassau, N. Y. In 1862 he was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the thirty-eighth congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth 
congresses as a republican. He died Oct. 
31, 1872, in Troy, N. Y. 

GRISWOLD, JOHN A., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1827, in Greene 
county, N. Y. In 1856 he was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney of Greene county, and held 
the position for three years. In 1864 he 
was elected county judge, and continued 
in the office four years. In 1868 he was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-first congress as a democrat. 

GRISWOLD, MATTHEW, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, governor, was born March 23, 1714, 
in Lyme, Conn. He was a judge, and af¬ 
terward chief justice of the superior 
court, lieutenant-governor and governor 
in 1784-86 of Connecticut, he died April 
28, 1799, at Lyme, Conn. 

GRISWOLD, MATTHEW, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born June 6, 
1833, in Lyme, Conn. In 1862 he was 
elected a member of the Connecticut 
house of representatives; and was re¬ 
elected in 1865. In 1866 he moved to 
Erie, his present home, where he became 
engaged in manufacturing. He was a 
member of the fifty-second and fifty- 
fourth congresses as a republican. 

GRISWOLD, ROGER, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was uorn May 21, 1762, in 
Lyme, Conn. In 1795 to 1805 he was a 
representative in congress from Connecti¬ 
cut; and in 1807 was chosen a judge of me 
supreme court of the state. He was lieu¬ 
tenant-governor from 1809 to 1811; and 
was then elected governor. He died Oct. 
25, 1812, in Norwich, Conn. 

GRISWOLD, RUFUS WILMOT, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 15, 
He was an industri¬ 
ous compiler and lit¬ 
erary editor who 
possessed but a 
slight amount of 
critical insight and 
discrimination. His 
best known publica¬ 
tions are, Female 
Poets of America; 
Prose Writers of 
America; Poets and 
Poetry of America; 
and Sacred Poets of 
England and Amer¬ 
ica. His other works include Washing¬ 
ton and the Generals of the Revolution; 
The Republican Court; Scenes in the Life 
of the Saviour; and Napoleon and the 
Marshals of the Empire. He died Aug. 
27, 1857, in New York city. 

GRISWOLD, STANLEY, clergyman, 
journalist, lawyer, jurist, United States 
senator, was born Nov. 14, 1763, in Tor- 
ringford, Conn. In 1804 he became the 
editor of a democratic paper in Walpole, 
N. H.; and was soon afterward appointed 
secretary of the territory of Michigan. 


He was a senator in congress from Ohio 
in 1809; and was United States judge for 
the northwestern territory. He died Aug. 
21, 1815, in Shawneetown, Ill. 

GRISWOLD, WILLIAM MACRILLIS, 
author, was born m 1853, in Maine. He 
is a literary worker of Cambridge who 
has published A Manual of Misused 
Words, and many valuable indexes to 
periodicals. 

GROESBECK, TELFORD, lawyer, poet, 
was born Aug. 5, 1853, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He graduated from Princeton col¬ 
lege and the Harvard law school, and has 
attained success in the profession of law 
in his native city. He has filled various 
positions of honor, and has been judge 
advocate general of Ohio. He is the author 
of The Incas, the Children of the Sun, an 
exceedingly meritorious poem, which de¬ 
picts the strange and romantic civiliza¬ 
tion of the Incas. 

GROESBECK, WILLIAM SLOCOMB, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born July 24, 1815, in New York city. 
He was elected a representative from 
Ohio to the thirty-fifta congress; was a 
member of the peace congress of 1861; 
and in 1862 was elected to the senate of 
Ohio. He was a delegate to the Philadel¬ 
phia National Union convention of 1866. 

GROFF, GEORGE G., physician, edu¬ 
cator, was born in April, 1851, in Chester 
county, Pa. In 1879 he was elected to 
the chair of natural sciences in the Buck- 
nell university of Lewisburg, Pa.; and is 
president of the Pennsylvania state board 
of health. 

CRCIN, WILLIAM M., United States 
senator, was born in 1805, in Tennessee. 
In 1841 he was elected to congress from 
Mississippi; and was a member of the 
United States senate. He died in 1885, in 
New York. 

GRONER, VIRGINIUS DESPAUEX. 
soldier, was born Sept. 14, 1836, in Nor¬ 
folk, Va. He servea in the confederacy 
during the civil war, 
and was brevetted 
brigadier - general. 
He has been a can¬ 
didate for governor 
of his native state, 
and on several occa¬ 
sions his name was 
placed in nomina¬ 
tion for United 
States senator. He 
is president of the 
National Compress 
association; presi¬ 
dent of the steamship line run by that 
association between Norfolk and Liver¬ 
pool, and is actively interested in many 
other business enterprises. He has con¬ 
tributed greatly to the advancement of 
the shipping interests of Norfolk, Va.; 
and was appointed a commissioner from 
Virginia to the World’s Columbian ex¬ 
position. 

GRONLUND, LAURENCE, lecturer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1847, in Denmark. He is 
a lecturer upon socialistic topics in many 
cities of the United States, and the author 
of The Co-operative Commonwealth in 
Its Outlines; Ca Ira, or Danton in the 
French Revolution; and Our Destiny. 

GROOME, JAMES BLACK, lawyer, 
governor, United States senator, was born 
April 4, 1838, in Elkton, Md. In 1867 he 
was elected to the state constitutional 
convention; in 1871 was elected to the 
state legislature; and was re-elected. In 
1874 he was elected governor of Maryland; 
and was elected United’ States senator 
from Maryland for the term of six years 
from March 4, 1879. 




1815, in Benson, Yt. 






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GROSE, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 16, 1812, 
in Dayton, Ohio. He was chosen a judge 
of the court of com¬ 
mon pleas in 1860, 
but resigned in 1861, 
and recruited the 
thirty-sixth Indiana 
infantry, of which 
he became colonel. 
At Shiloh his regi¬ 
ment was the only 
part of Buell’s army 
that joined in the 
first day’s fight, and 
after the engage¬ 
ment he commanded 
a brigade; and subsequently was pro¬ 
moted to brigadier-general. He lives in 
New Castle, Ind. 

GROSS, EZRA C., lawyer, congressman, 
was born in Windsor county, Vt. He was 
surrogate of Essex county from 1815 to 
1819; was a representative in congress 
from New York from 1819 to 1821; and 
was elected to tne assembly of that state 
in 1828 and 1829. He died before the close 
of his second term. 

GROSS, JOHN DANIEL, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1737, in Ger¬ 
many. He was a regent of the university 
of New York in 1784, and a trustee of Co¬ 
lumbia in 1787. He published Natural 
Principles of Rectitude. He died May 25, 
1812, in Canajoharie, N. Y. 

GROSS, JOSEPH B., clergyman, author. 
He was a lutheran clergyman, among 
whose writings are The Heathen Religion 
in Its Symbolical Development; Teach¬ 
ings of Providence; Truth in Religion; 
Belief in Immortality on Purely Logical 
Principles; and Ola Faith and New 
Thoughts. He died in 1891. 

GROSS, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born in Montgomery county, Pa. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1819 to 1823. 



GROSS, SAMUEL DAVID, educator, 
physician, surgeon, author, was born July 
8, 1805, near Easton, Pa. He was a dis¬ 
tinguished surgeon of Philadelphia who 
was professor of surgery in Jefferson 
Medical college in 1856-82, ana a member 
of many medical associations in America 
and Europe. He is the author of A Sys¬ 
tem of Surgery; Lives of Eminent Amer¬ 
ican Physicians and Surgeons of the Nine¬ 
teenth Century; Manual of Military Sur¬ 
gery; History of American Medical Lit¬ 
erature; John Hunter and His Pupils; 
Pathological Anatomy; Wounds of the 
Intestines; and Diseases of the Urinary 
Organs. He also edited American Med¬ 
ical Biography. He died May 6, 1884, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



GROSS. SAMUEL EBERLY. capitalist, 
founder. He determined upon the opera¬ 
tions which have since made him famous 
as probably the 
greatest subdivider 
of real estate in the 
United States. 
Among his many 
successful transac¬ 
tions may be noted 
the following; In 
1880 he located the 
New City to the 
soutnwest. In 1882 
he began on Chica¬ 
go's northern boun¬ 
dary and laid out 
what eventuated in the flourishing village 
of Gross Park. In 1886 he founded the town 
of Brookdale on the Illinois Central rail¬ 
way; and opened Under-the-Linden, 
the villages of Calumet Heights and Dau¬ 
phin Park; and in 1889 he founded Gross- 
dale. 


GROSS, SAMUEL WEISSEL, educa¬ 
tor, physician, surgeon, author, was born 
Feb. 4, 1837, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was 
a surgeon of Philadelphia who succeeded 
his father as professor of surgery in Jef¬ 
ferson Medical college in 1882. He is the 
author of Tumors of the Mammary 
Gland; and Treatise on Impotence, Steril¬ 
ity, and Allied Disorders. He died April 
16, 1889, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

GROSS, WILLIAM HICKLEY, arcn- 
bishop, was born June 12, 1837, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was consecrated bishop of 
Savannah in 1873, and in 1884 he became 
archbishop of Oregon. 

GROSVENOR. CHARLES HENRY, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 
20, 1833, in Pomfret, Conn. He enlisted in 
the union army in 
1861, and served 
throughout the war 
as major, lieutenant- 
colonel and colonel, 
and was brevetted 
brigadier-general in 
1865. He was solic¬ 
itor of Athens in 
1867-68; presidential 
elector in 1872 and 
1880; and was elect¬ 
ed a representative 
in the state legisla¬ 
ture in 1873 and re-elected in 1875, serv¬ 
ing as speaker in 1876 and 1877. He was 
appointed a member of the board of trus¬ 
tees of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ 
Home in 1880. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the forty-ninth, 
fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-third, fifty-fourth 
and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. 

GROSVENOR, CHARLES W., soldier, 
state senator, was born May 11, 1839, in 
Pomfret, Conn. He served as sergeant of 
company D, eighteenth Connecticut vol¬ 
unteers, during the civil war. He nas 
twice represented his native town in the 
state legislature, and once in the senate; 
and in 1897 became state treasurer. 

GROSVENOR, EBENEZER O., mer¬ 
chant, banker, state senator, was born 
Jan. 26, 1820, in Stillwater, N. Y. In 
1854 he established the Grosvenor Sav¬ 
ings bank of Jonesville, Mich., of which 
he has always been president and man¬ 
ager. He was a state senator in 1859 and 
in 1863-64. 

GROSVENOR, EDWIN AUGUSTUS, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born in 1845, in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He was a professor of Euro¬ 
pean history at Amherst college, and from 
1873-90 professor of history at Roberts 
college, Constantinople. He is the author 
of Constantinople. 

GROSVENOR. LEMUEL CONANT, 
physician, author, was born March 22’ 
1833, in Paxton, Mass. He is an obstetri¬ 
cian of rare skill and ability, and has 
long held a front rank among physicians 
in general practice in Chicago. He is the 
author of Our Babies; Bedside,Chats with 
Young Mothers; and The Sanitation and 
Technique of the Lying-in Room. 

GROSVENOR, THOMAS P„ lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1780, in Pom¬ 
fret, Conn. He served a number of years 
in the legislature of New York; was 
elected a representative in congress from 
1813 to 1817. He died April 25, 1817 

GROTE. AUGUSTUS RADCLIFFE, sci¬ 
entist, author, poet. He is a scientist, 
formerly of Buffalo, but now living in 
Bremen, Germany. He is the author of 
Notes on the Bombycidae of Cuba; Notes 
on the Sphingidae of Cuba; Notes on the 
Zygaenklae of Cuba; Genesis; The New 
Infidelity; Notes of the Lepidoptera of 
America (with C. T. Robinson); and Rip 
Van Winkle, a Sun Myth, and Other 
Poems 


GROUT, JONATHAN, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 23, 1737, in 
Lunenburg, Mass. He served for a short 
time in the revolutionary army. He was 
for some years a member of the general 
court, or house of representatives of 
Massachusetts; and in 1789 was elected a 
member of the first congress, in which he 
served from 1789 to 1791. He died Sept. 
8, 1807, in Dover, N. H. 

GROUT, WILLIAM W„ soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 24, 1836, in 
Canada, of American parents. He was. 
state’s attorney for Orleans county in 
1865-66. He was a member of the Ver¬ 
mont house of representatives in 1868, 
1869, 1870, and 1874, and of the senate 
in 1876. He was elected to the forty-sev¬ 
enth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty- 
second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress in 1896. 

GROVE, JOHN B., physician, was born 
Aug. 2, 1829, in Augusta county, Va. In 
a member of the city 
council of Columbus, 
Ind.; and was nom¬ 
inated as state sen¬ 
ator for the counties, 
of Bartholomew and 
Brown, by the dem¬ 
ocrats of the district 
in 1874. In 1863 he 
became identified 
with the democratic 
organization, o f 
which he has since 
been an earnest and 
consistent member, 
taking a deep interest in its welfare, and 
contributing largely to its successful 
management. As a physician he stands 
at the head of the profession. 

GROVE, PHILETUS AMMERMAN, ar¬ 
tist, educator, clergyman, was born Jan. 

6, 1867, in Pisgah, Mo. He received his 
education at the Clarksburg college and 
the Missouri Valley college, graduating 
from the latter institution in 1894 with 
the degree of B. L. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as an educator, and for three years 
was president of the Otterville college. 
He is a successful clergyman of the pres- 
byterian church; and has been success¬ 
ful as an instructor in art. 

GROVE, WILLIAM B., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina from 1791 to 1803. 

GROVER, ASA P., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1819, 
in Ontario county, N. Y. He was elected 
to the state senate in 1857; re-elected in 
1861, holding the position eight years. 
He was elected a representative from 
Kentucky to the fortieth congress as a 
democrat. 

GROVER. CUVIER, soldier, was born 
July 24, 1829, in Bethel, Maine. In 1850 
he graduated from the United States Mil¬ 
itary academy, and 
was assigned to the 
first a r t i 1 le r y; 
served on the fron¬ 
tier till 1853; and 
from 1853 to 1854 on 
the Northern Pacific 
railroad exploration, 
after which he 
served at various, 
western stations. In 
1862 he became brig¬ 
adier-general of vol¬ 
unteers; was trans¬ 
ferred to the army of the Potomac; and in 
1875 was made colonel. He died June 6„ 
1885, in Atlantic City, N. J. 



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GROVER, LAFAYETTE, soldier, law- 
;yei', congressman, governor, United States 
senator, born Nov. 29, 1823, in Bethel, 
Maine. In 1851 he was elected prosecut¬ 
ing attorney for the territory of Oregon; 
in 1852 was auditor of public accounts; 
served three years in the territorial legis¬ 
lature; and saw service in the Indian wars 
of Oregon. Having been an active mem¬ 
ber of the convention of 1857 to form a 
state constitution, he was subsequently 
elected the first representative in congress 
from the prospective state, and took his 
seat as such in 1859. In 1870 he was 
elected governor of Oregon, and re-elected 
in 1874; and resigned in 1877 to take his 
seat as a United States senator from 
Oregon for the term ending in 1883. 

GROVER, LEWIS C., underwriter, 
founder, was born Oct. 20, 1815, in Cald¬ 
well, N. J. In 1845 he obtained from the 
legislature a charter of the Mutual Bene¬ 
fit Life Insurance company of Newark, 
N. J., of which he afterward became pres¬ 
ident. 


GROVER, MARTIN, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in New York. He 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1845 to 1847; was a judge 
of the supreme court of New York from 
1857 to 1859; and was judge of the court 
of appeals from 1859 for a full term. He 
was elected an associate judge in 1870 
for fourteen years. He died Aug. 23, 
1875, in Alleghany county, N. Y. 



GROW, GALUSHA AARON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 31, 1824, in 
Eastford, Conn. In 1850 he was elected a 
representative i n 
congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania; and was 
re-elected to the 
thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress. He was re¬ 
elected to the thirty- 
seventh congress, 
and was chosen 
speaker of the house 
of representatives. 
He served in the fif¬ 
ty-third congress to 
fill a vacancy; and 
re-elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses as a republican. 


GRUBB, EDWARD BURD, soldier, 
manufacturer, diplomat, was born in 1841, 
in Burlington, N. J. He attained the rank 
of brigadier-general during the civil war. 
In the management of iron works and 
mines in Pennsylvania and Virginia he 
succeeded his father, and soon became one 
of the leading producers of pig iron in 
the north. 


GRUBE, BERNHARD ADAM, mission¬ 
ary, author, was born in 1715, in Ger¬ 
many. He was a Moravian missionary 
who came to America in 1746 and settled 
in Pennsylvania. He published Delaware 
Indian Hymn Book; and Harmony of the 
Gospels. He died March 20, 1808, in Beth¬ 
lehem, Pa. 

GRUMBINE, LEE LEIGHT, lawyer, 
journalist, was born July 25, 1858, in 

Fredericksburg, Pa. In 1890 he founded 
the Lebanon Daily Report, which became 
a recognized force in Pennsylvania jour¬ 
nalism. 

GRUND. FRANCIS JOSEPH, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1809, in Bohemia. 
He was a journalist of Philadelphia who 
published Exercises in Arithmetic; Amer¬ 
icans in their Moral, Religious and Social 
Relations; Aristocracy in America; Life 
of General Harrison, in German; and 
Thoughts and Reflections on the Present 
Position of Europe. He died Sept. 29, 
1863, in Philadelphia, Pa. 



GRUNDY, FELIX, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was 
born Sept. 11, 1770, in Berkeley county, 
Va. For six or seven 
years he was a 
member of the Ken¬ 
tucky legislature; 
and in 1806 was 
elected one of the 
judges of the su¬ 
preme court of Ken¬ 
tucky, and was soon 
after chief justice. 
From 1811 to 1814 he 
was a representative 
in congress from 
Tennessee, and dur¬ 
ing several years after was a member of 
the legislature of that state. From 1829 
to 1838 he was United States senator, and 
in the latter year attorney-general of the 
United States. In 1840 he resigned this 
position, and was again elected senator. 
He died Dec. 19, 1840, in Nashville, Tenn. 


GUE, BENJAMIN F., journalist, legis¬ 
lator, was born Dec. 25, 1828, in Greene 
county, N. Y. He received his education 
at the Canandaigua 
and East Bloomfield 
academies. In 1852 he 
moved to Iowa, set¬ 
tling in Scott county. 
In 1857 he was elect¬ 
ed to the legislature, 
serving four years; 
and in 1861 was 
elected to the state 
senate. He was one 
of the authors of the 
i act for the estab¬ 
lishment of the state 
agricultural college, and secured its pass¬ 
age. In 1864 he became editor and owner 
of the Fort Dodge Republican; and in 
1865 he was elected lieutenant-governor 
of the state. In 1872 he moved to Des 
Moines, and became editor of the Iowa 
Homestead, and subsequently its owner. 
In 1873 he was appointed pension agent 
for Iowa and Nebraska. He has been 
president of trustees of the Iowa Agricul¬ 
tural college; and has been connected with 
the state historical department since its 
organization. He devotes his time large¬ 
ly to collecting material for a History of 
Iowa. 



GUENTHER, RICHARD, pharmacist, 
congressman, was born Nov. 30, 1845, in 
Prussia. He settled at Oshkosh, Wis., in 
1867; was elected state treasurer in 1876, 
and re-elected in 1878. He was elected a 
representative from Wisconsin to the for¬ 
ty-seventh. forty-eighth and forty-ninth 
and fiftieth congresses as a republican. 

GUERARD, BENJAMIN, governor. He 
was governor of South Carolina from 1783 
to 1785; and speaker of the house in 
1783. He died in January, 1789, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

GUERIN, CLAUDE \ lawyer, lec¬ 
turer, was born Sept. 8, 1867, in Jersey 
City, N. J. He received his education in 
the schools of New Brunswick, N. J., and 
the Asbury Park high school. He has at¬ 
tained success as an eminent lawyer of 
New Jersey, and has a large practice in 
Asbury Park. He is a prominent member 
of tne republican party; a member of the 
board of education; and belongs to the 
National Guards of New Jersey. As a 
public speaker he ranks high. 

GUERNSEY, ALFRED HUDSON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1825, in Ver¬ 
mont. He is a writer of New York city, 
and at one period editor of Harper’s 
Monthly. He is the author of The Span¬ 
ish Armada; The World’s Opportunities; 
Carlyle, His Life, Books, and Theories; 
and Emerson, Poet and Philosopher. 


GUERNSEY, CLARA FLORIDA, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1836, in New York. She 
is a Rochester writer or juvenile tales, 
among which are The Boys of Eaglewood 
School; The Silver Library; Friends in 
Need; and The Merman and the Figure 
Head. 

GUERNSEY, EGBERT, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1823, in Connecticut. 
He is a homeopathic physician of New 
York city, editor of the Medical Times 
since 1872, and the author of History of 
the United States; Homeopathic Domestic 
Practice; and The Gentleman s Book of 
Homeopathy. 

GUERNSEY, HENRY NEWELL, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born in 1817, in Ver¬ 
mont. He was a homeopathic physician 
of Philadelphia, and the author of Ap¬ 
plication of Homeopathy to Obstetrics; 
Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects; The 
Keynote System; Obstetrics and Diseases 
of Women and Children; and Lectures on 
Materia Medica. He died in 1885. 

GUERNSEY, JOSEPH C„ physician, 
was born March 25, 1849, in Frankford, 
Pa. He is a trustee of the Hahnemann 
Medical college and hospital of Philadel¬ 
phia, and lecturer on materia medica. 

GUERNSEY, LUCY ELLEN, author, 
was born in 1826, in New York. She is a 
writer of Rochesier, N. Y., who has pub¬ 
lished more than fifty juvenile tales, some 
of which are, Old Stanfield House; 
Through Unknown Ways; Winifred; and 
Agnes Warrington’s Mistake. 

GUERNSEY, ROCELLUS S„ lawyer, 
author. He is the author of Juries 
and Physicians on Insanity; Mechanics’ 

. Lien Laws for New York City; Municipal 
Law and Its Relations to the Constitu¬ 
tion of Man; Key to Story’s Equity Juris¬ 
prudence; Living Authors at the New 
York Bar; Suicide, a History of the Penal 
Laws Relating to It; and New York City 
and Vicinity During the War of 1812. 

GUEST, JOHN, naval officer, was born 
March 7, 1821, in Missouri. He served in 
1845-48 on the frigate Congress in the 
Pacific, on the coast of Mexico during the 
Mexican war and took part on shore in 
several sharp engagements. He also 
served with distinction through the civil 
war. He died Jan. 12, 1879, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. 

GUFFIN, WASHINGTON I., merchant, 
state legislator, was born Jan. 17, 1840, in 
Carlisle, N. Y. In 1869 he moved to 
Illinois; and has since been successfully 
engaged as a grain merchant in Paw Paw. 
In 1892 he was elected a representative to 
the Illinois state legislature, and twice re¬ 
ceived the re-election. 

GUHIN, JAMES WILLIAM, merchant, 
jurist, was born June 17, 1863, in Maple 
Grove, Wis. In 1883 he moved to Dakota 
territory, and was 
one of the first set¬ 
tlers of Aberdeen. 
He is a successful 
merchant of Eureka, 
S. D.; has been 
judge of the munici¬ 
pal court of Eureka 
from its incorpora¬ 
tion, and has filled a 
number of important 
positions in his 
county and state. He 
is also a contributor 
to current publications. 

GUICE, NAPOLEON LORENZO, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, was born Feb. 10, 1838, 
in Hamburg, Miss. In 1877-78 he was 
president of the Mississippi State Medical 
association, and is a prominent physician 
of Meridian, Miss. 






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GUIDERY, JOHN, lawyer, was born 
July 31, 1844, in Westchester, N. Y. He 
received his education in the public 
schools of New York city and San Francis¬ 
co, Cal. He is a successful lawyer of Butte 
county, Cal., where for nearly a quarter 
of a century he has been court commis¬ 
sioner and under-sheriff. 

GUILBERT, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, 
physician, was born in 1826, in Water- 
town, N. Y. This eminent physician has 
practiced his profession with success in 
Waukegan and Elgin, Ill.; and in 1856 
settled in Dubuque, Iowa, where he has 
ever since resided. During 1863-65 he was 
surgeon of the board of enrollment, and 
is now one of the leading physicians of 
Iowa. He is a member of the leading 
medical bodies, and a member of the Ma¬ 
sonic and other fraternal orders. 

GUILD, MRS. CADWALADER, sculp¬ 
tor, was born in Boston, Mass. She has 
attained her greatest success in Berlin, 
Germany; and two of her statues. Post 
and Telegraphie, are on the new post- 
office building in Magdeburg. Her most 
beautiful work is Electron. 

GUILD, MRS. CAROLINE SNOWDEN, 
author, was born June 1, 1827, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. She is a religious writer of 
Boston, and the author of Violet; Daisy; 
Never Mind the Face; Some House Songs; 
compiler of Hymns of the Ages; and 
Prayers of the Ages. 

GUILD, CURTIS, journalist, author, 
was born Jan. 13, 1828, in Boston, Mass. 
He is a journalist of Boston, founder and 
editor of The Commercial Bulletin; and 
the author of Over the Ocean, a popular 
book of travels; Abroad Again; Britons 
and Muscovites; From Sunrise to Sunset, 
a volume of verse; and A Chat About 
Celebrities. 

GUILD, REUBEN ALDRIDGE, librari¬ 
an, author, was born May 4, 1822, at West 
Dedham, Mass. He was the librarian of 
Brown university in 1848-93. He is the 
author of Librarian’s Manual; Rhode Isl¬ 
and in the Continental Congress (edited); 
History of Brown University; Chaplain 
Smith and the Baptists; Footprints of 
Roger Williams; and Roger Williams, the 
Pioneer Missionary to the Indians. 

GUILLET, JOSEPH HENRI, lawyer, 
was born Jan, 11, 1853, in Marieville, 
Province of Quebec. At the age of sixteen 
he enlisted in the famous regiment, the 
Pontifical Zouaves, Rome, and served dur¬ 
ing the campaigns of 1870 up to the fall 
of Rome, Sept. 20, 1870. He returned to 
America and entered journalism at Low¬ 
ell, Mass.; subsequently taught school, 
and is now a prominent lawyer of that 
city. He was decorated by the Pope with 
a military medal; was created by Leo 
XIII. a knight commander of the Mili¬ 
tary Order of Saint Sylvester. He has 
been president of several associations. 

GU1NEY, LOUISE IMOGEN, author, 
poet, was born Jan. 7, 1861, in Boston, 
Mass. She is a writer of Newton, Mass., 
and the author of Goose-Quill Papers; 
Brownies and Bogies; Three Heroines of 
New England Romance (with Mrs. Spof- 
ford and Alice Brown); Monsieur Henri, 
a Footnote to French History; A Little 
English Gallery; Lovers’ Saint Ruths, and 
Three Other Tales; Patrins, a collection 
of essays; Verse: Songs at the Start; The 
White Sail; and A Roadside Harp. She 
has edited the select poems of Mangan, 
with a study of his life and work. 

GUINON, MATTHEW FRANKLIN, 
lawyer, was born Nov. 1, 1853, in Lock- 
port, N. Y. He received the rudiments of 
his education in the high school of Ann 
Arbor, Mich., and subsequently graduated 
from the university of Michigan. He is a 


successful lawyer of Petoskey, Mich., has 
been city assessor, circuit court commis¬ 
sioner for two terms, and has filled vari¬ 
ous public positions of trust in his county 
and state. 

GUION, JOHN J„ was born in 1801 in 
Natchez, Miss. He was a member of the 
state senate and president of that body, 
and also a judge of the criminal court. 
In 1851 he was governor pro tern, of the 
state, and subsequently a judge of the dis¬ 
trict court of the state. He died June 26, 
1855, at Vicksburg, Miss. 

GULDIN, JOHN C., clergyman, com¬ 
poser, was born in 1799 in Bucks county, 
Pa. He was known as the Apostle to the 
Germans. He superintended the German 
publications of the American Tract 'so¬ 
ciety, and was the chief editor of the 
hymn-book that has since been adopted 
by the presbyterian church for the use of 
its German congregations. He died in 
1863 in New York city. 

GULICK, PETER JOHNSON, mission¬ 
ary, was born March 12, 1797, in Freehold, 
N. J. In 1827 he left Boston for the Ha¬ 
waiian islands under commission of the 
American board of commissioners for for¬ 
eign missions, and was stationed on vari¬ 
ous islands of the Hawaiian kingdom. 
In 1874 he went to Japan, and there 
passed the last days of his life with a 
son who was also a missionary. He died 
Dec. 8, 1877, in Japan. 

GULLETT, ALEXANDER, soldier, law¬ 
yer, miner, was born June 26, 1845, near 
Union City, Ind. In 1862 he enlisted in 
company F, sixty-ninth regiment Indiana 
volunteer infantry, and was honorably 
discharged as corporal on July 5, 1865. He 
served with distinction and was wounded 
at Thompson’s Hill, in rear of Vicksburg. 
After the war he was engaged in educa¬ 
tional work and subsequently admitted to 
the bar. In 1874 he became prosecuting 
attorney for the counties of Randolph and 
Delaware, Ind.; and practiced law at Win¬ 
chester until 1880. He then moved to 
Colorado and has since been successfully 
engaged in the practice of law at Gunni¬ 
son. He is a prominent leader in the re¬ 
publican party, was a delegate to the na¬ 
tional republican convention in 1884, and 
chairman of the republican state conven¬ 
tion in 1890. In 1896 he received the nom¬ 
ination for attorney-general. 

GUMMERE, FRANCIS BARTON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1855 in New 
Jersey. He is a professor of English in 
Haverford college, Pennsylvania; and the 
author of The Anglo-Saxon Metaphor; 
Handbook of Poetics; and Germanic Ori¬ 
gins, a study in Primitive Culture. 

GUMMERE, JOHN, educator, author, 
was born in 1784 in Willow Grove, Pa. 
He was an educator of Burlington, N. J., 
and the author of Treatise on Surveying; 
and Theoretical and Practical Astronomy. 
He died May 31, 1845, in Burlington, N. J. 

GUMMERE, SAMUEL R., educator, au¬ 
thor, was born March 3, 1789, in Horsham, 
Pa. He was an educator of Burlington, 
and the author of Treatise on Geography; 
and Compendium of Elocution. He died 
Sept. 13, 1866, in Burlington, N. J. 

GUNCKEL. LOUIS B., was born Oct. 

15, 1826, in Germantown, Ohio. He was a 
member of the senate of Ohio in 1862-65, 
and was a presidential elector in 1864. He 
was appointed United States commission¬ 
er to investigate Indian frauds, in 1871, 
and was elected to the forty-third congress 
as a republican. 

GUNN, JAMES, United States senator, 
was born in 1739 in Virginia. He was a 
senator of the United States from Georgia 
from 1789 to 1801. He died July 30, 1801, 
in Louisville, Ga. 


GUNN, JAMES, soldier, state senator, 
congressman, was born March 6, 1843, in 
New York. He volunteered as a private in 
company G, twenty-seventh Wisconsin in¬ 
fantry, with which regiment he served 
until the close of the war, being mustered 
out with the rank of captain. In 1880 he 
joined the rush of prospectors to Idaho, 
making the town of Hailey, in Wood 
River Valley, his home. He was elected 
to the senate of the first state legislature 
in 1890; and was elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a populist. 

GUNNELL, ALLEN THOMSON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, legislator, was born Jan. 2^, 
1848, in Saline county, Mo. He received 
his education at the Bethany college, of 
West Virginia. He has been judge of 
Lake county, Colo.; was a member of 
the Colorado state legislature in 1879; 
and during 1891-95 served with distinction 
as state senator. In 1896 he was a presi¬ 
dential elector. He is one of the foremost 
lawyers of Colorado, and has a lucrative 
practice in Colorado Springs. 

GUNNING, JOSIAH HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, college president, inventor, was born 
March 1, 1840, in England. He has filled 
pastorates in the baptist churches of New 
York city and New Jersey, and for five 
years was president of the college of Phy¬ 
sicians and Surgeons of Boston. He in¬ 
vented and patented an instrument known 
as the pulsating pen. 

GUNNISON, ALMON, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1844 in Maine. He 
is a universalist clergyman of prominence, 
and the author of Rambles Overland, a 
Trip Across the Continent; and Wayside 
and Fireside Rambles. 

GUNNISON, ELISHA NORMAN, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born in 1837 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a journalist of York, 
Pa., who published One Summer Dream, 
and Other Poems; and Our Stars. He 
died in 1880. 

GUNNISON. JOHN WILLIAMS, civil 
engineer, author, was born in 1812 in 
New Hampshire. He was a civil engineer 
kiHed by Mormons and Indians while 
making railway surveys in Utah. A His¬ 
tory of the Mormons was his only pub¬ 
lished work. He died Oct. 26, 1853, near 
Sebier Lake, Utah. 

GUNSAULUS, FRANK WAKELEY, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1856 in 
Ohio. He is a congregational clergyman 
of Chicago, and the author of The Meta¬ 
morphosis of a Creed; The Transfigura¬ 
tion of Christ; Monk and Knight, an His¬ 
torical Study in Fiction; Phidias, and 
Other Poems; October at Eastwood; and 
Songs of Night and Day. 

GUNSTER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 

15, 1845, in Prussia. He has served as 
district attorney of Lackawanna county 
and as law judge. He has served as a 
member of the Pennsylvania state legis¬ 
lature from Scranton, Pa. 

GUNTER, ARCHIBALD CLAVERING, 
author. He is a writer of popular sensa¬ 
tional romances quite destitute of liter¬ 
ary merit, and the author of Mr. Barnes of 
New York; Mr. Potter of Texas; The 
First of the English; and The Ladies’ Jug¬ 
gernaut. 

GLTNTER, THOMAS M., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 18, 1826, in 
middle Tennessee. In 1853 he began the 
practice of law in Fayetteville, Ark. He 
was a delegate to the state convention of 
1861; served in the confederate army as 
a colonel, and was prosecuting attorney 
from 1866 to 1868. He successfully con¬ 
tested the seat of W. W. Wilshire in the 
forty-third congress, and was re-elected to 
the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth 
and forty-seventh congresses as a demo¬ 
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GURLEY, HENRY H„ lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1787 in Leba¬ 
non, Conn. He was a representative in 
congress from Louisiana from 1823 to 
1831. He previously held the office of 
United States judge for the district court 
of Louisiana. He died in 1832. 

GURLEY, JOHN A., clergyman, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, governor, was born 
Dec. 9, 1813, in East Hartford, Conn. He 
was settled as a preacher at Methuen, 
Mass., from 1834 to 1837, when he removed 
to Cincinnati, Ohio, where for fifteen 
years he published a paper called the Star 
of the West. In 1858 he was elected a 
representative from Ohio to the thirty- 
sixth congress; and re-elected to the thir¬ 
ty-seventh congress. In 1862 he was ap¬ 
pointed governor of Arizona. He died 
Aug. 19, 1863, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

GURLEY, PHINEAS DENSMORE, 
clergyman, was born Nov. 12, 1816, in 
Hamilton, N. Y. In 1859 he was chosen 
chaplain of the Unit¬ 
ed States senate. He 
numbered among his 
regular hearers sev¬ 
eral presidents of the 
United States, among 
them Mr. Lincoln, at 
whose death-bed he 
was present, and 
whose funeral ser¬ 
mon he delivered. 
He took an active 
part in the negotia¬ 
tions that resulted in 
the union of the old-school and new- 
school branches of the Presbyterian 
church. He died Sept. 30, 1868, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

GURLEY, RALPH RANDOLPH, clergy¬ 
man, was born May 26, 1797, in Lebanon, 
Conn. From 1822 till 1872 he acted as 
the agent and secretary of the American 
Colonization society, visited Africa three 
times in its interests, and was one of tfib 
founders of Liberia. He died July 30, 1872, 
in Washington, D. C. 

GURLEY, ZENAS HOVEY, educator, 
clergyman, legislator, orator, was born 
Feb. 24, 1842, in Hancock county. Ill. He 
received a thorough 
education in the 
schools of Illinois 
and Wisconsin, and 
became a successful 
educator and school 
director. He at¬ 
tained eminence as a 
clergyman and is a 
brilliant speaker. He 
served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of 
the tw r enty-fifth and 
twenty-sixth general 
assemblies of the Iowa state legislature; 
was chairman of the committee on claims; 
a member of the committee on ways and 
means, appropriations, code revisions, in¬ 
surance, mines and mining, constitutional 
amendments, municipal corporations, and 
penitentiaries. He possesses the courage 
of his convictions, and is an able and elo¬ 
quent advocate before the people. 

GURNEY, FRANCIS, soldier, merchant, 
state senator, was born in 1738 in Bucks 
county. Pa. He was a merchant of Phil¬ 
adelphia. He became president of the city 
council, and served as a representative 
and as a senator in the state legislature. 
He died May 25, 1815. 

GUROWSKI, ADAM, was born Sept. 10, 
1805, in Poland. He was a Polish count 
who came to the United States in 1849, 
and was employed as a translator in the 
state department at Washington. He was 
the author of A Year of the War (1855); 


America and Europe; Slavery in History; 
and My Diary. He died May 4, 1866, in 
Washington, D. C. 

GURTEEN, STEPHEN HUMPHREYS 
VILLIERS, clergyman, author, was born 
in 1840 in England. He is an episcopal 
clergyman of Buffalo, Toledo and else¬ 
where; and prominent as an organizer of 
charities. He is the author of Phases of 
Charity; Provident Schemes; What Is 
Charity Organization; How Paupers Are 
Made; Casuistry; The Arthurian Epic; 
and Epic of the Fall of Man. 

GUSTAFSON, AXEL—CARL JOHAN— 
author, was born about 1847 in Sweden. 
He is a Swedish writer who came to the 
United States in 1868, and has published 
The Foundation of Death; a Study of the 
Drink Question; The Drink Problem; and 
Some Thoughts on Moderation. 

GUSTAFSON, MRS. ZADEL (BARNES) 
(BUDDINGTON), author, poet, was born 
about 1841 in Middletown, Conn. She is 
the author of Meg: a Pastoral and Other 
Poems; Can the Old Love? a novel; and 
Genevieve Ward, a Biography. 

GUSTINE, AMOS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1841 to 1843. He died 
March 3, 1844, in Lost Creek Valley, Pa. 

GUTHEIM, JAMES KOPPEL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 15, 1817, in 
Westphalia. He was a Jewish clergyman 
of New Orleans who published The Tem¬ 
ple Pulpit, a volume of sermons; and a 
translation of Gratz’s History of the Jews. 
He died May 11, 1886, in New Orleans, La. 

GUTHERZ. CARL, artist, was born in 
1844, in Switzerland. Since 1851 he has 
resided in America, and has become noted 
as a painter of relig¬ 
ious subjects. A 
number of noted por¬ 
traits mark his art¬ 
istic career, and one 
of his latest works 
are the seven panels 
in the ceiling of the 
congressional read¬ 
ing rooms in the li¬ 
brary of congress; 
representing the Pic¬ 
torial Spectrum of 
Light. He exhibited 
at the World's Columbian exposition his 
Light of the Incarnation, a medley of 
angels robed in all colors. 

GUTHRIE, ALFRED, mechanical en¬ 
gineer, was born April 1, 1805, in Sher¬ 
burne, N. Y. In 1846 he settled in Chi¬ 
cago, where he advanced the idea of sup¬ 
plying the summit level of the Illinois 
and Michigan canal with water by raising 
it from Lake Michigan with steam power. 
The hydraulic works of this canal in Chi¬ 
cago were designed by him and construct¬ 
ed under his supervision. He died Aug. 
17, 1882, in Chicago, Ill. 

GUTHRIE, EDWIN, physician, was 
born Dec. 11, 1806, in Sherburne, N. Y. 
Soon after the beginning of war with 
Mexico, he raised a company of Iowa vol¬ 
unteers, of which he became captain, and 
went to the seat of war. He died July 20, 
1847, in Mexico. 

GUTHRIE, JAMES, lawyer, banker, 
United States senator, born Dec. 5,1792, in 
Nelson county, Ky. He served nine years 
in the legislature of Kentucky, and six 
years in the state senate. After originat¬ 
ing, he became president of the Louisville 
and Nashville railroad. In 1853 he went 
into President Pierce’s cabinet as secre¬ 
tary of the treasury, and was a delegate 
to the Chicago convention of 1864. He 
was elected a senator in congress from 
Kentucky, in 1865, for the term ending in 
1871. He died March 13, 1869, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. 


GUTHRIE, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born July 2, 1829, in 
Switzerland county, Ind., of Scotch par¬ 
entage. In 1856 he was admitted to the 
bar at Logansport, Ind., and the following 
year was elected state’s attorney for Cass 
and Miami counties. During the civil 
war he was captain of company B, forty- 
sixth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry. 
In 1865 he moved to Kansas, and in 1867- 
69 served as a member of the Kansas leg¬ 
islature from the Topeka district. In 1872 
he was elected presidential elector on the 
republican ticket, and as messenger of 
the electoral college delivered the vote of 
the state to Schuyler Colfax, vice-presi¬ 
dent of the United States, at Washington. 
In 1872 and in 1874 he was chairman of 
the republican state central committee. 
During 1885-93 this eminent lawyer served 
with distinction as presiding judge of the 
third judicial district of Kansas. He is a 
prominent member of the Masonic order, 
and in 1876 was elected grand master. 
Guthrie, the capital of Oklahoma terri¬ 
tory, was named in honor of the Hon. 
John Guthrie. 

GUTHRIE, JOHN JULIUS, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born in 1814 in Washington, D. 
C. He became a midshipman in 1834, 
passed midshipman in 1838, and lieutenant 
in 1842, and served in the Mexican war. 
In 1861, at the beginning of the civil war, 
he resigned his commission and entered 
the confederate service. He died in No¬ 
vember, 1877, at sea near Cape Hatteras. 

GUTHRIE, SAMUEL, chemist, invent¬ 
or, was born in 1782 in Brimfield, Mass. 
He is said to have invented and first man¬ 
ufactured percussion-pills, which, with 
caps, have entirely superseded the old 
flint-lock fire-arm. He died Oct. 19, 1848, 
in Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y. 

GUTHRIE, WILLIAM E., surgeon, was 
born July 26, 1857, in Abingdon, Ill. He 
received his education at the Illinois Wes¬ 
leyan university, the Rush Medical col¬ 
lege of Chicago, and at the medical de¬ 
partment of the university of Berlin. He 
was county physician for four years, sur¬ 
geon of the Lake Erie and Western rail¬ 
road, and assistant surgeon of the Chicago 
and Alton railroad; and surgeon of the 
Deaconess hospital of Bloomington, Ill. 

GUY, CHARLES L., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Jan. 6, 1856, in New York 
city. He nominated David B. Hill for 
governor at Saratoga in 1874. He has 
served as a member of the New York 
state senate from the thirteenth district. 

GUY, WILFRED R., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Feb. 12, 1860, in Elkton, Ohio. 
He received his education at the Mount 
Union college, Ohio, and graduated from 
the university of Michigan in 1887. He 
has attained success as an eminent law¬ 
yer of San Diego, Cal. He was a member 
of the California state legislature during 
the sessions of 1895 and 1897, and during 
the latter session was chairman of the 
committee on ways and means, and was 
the leader of the republican majority of 
the house. While a member of the legis¬ 
lature he rendered valuable service to the 
cause of education by having established 
the State Normal school of San Diego. 

GUY, WILLIAM E., railroad president, 
was born Dec. 22, 1844, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Since 1889 he has been the president of 
the St. Louis and Eastern railroad. 

GUYON, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in 1777 in Richmond county, N. Y. 
He represented Staten Island in the legis¬ 
lature of New York a number of years; 
and was a member of congress from 1819 
to 1821. He died March 8, 1846, on Staten 
Island. 






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GUYOT, ARNOLD HENRY, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 28, 1807, in Swit¬ 
zerland. He was a geographer of distinc¬ 
tion who came to America in 1849, and 
from 1854 until his death was professor 
of geography at Princeton college. He 
was the founder of the Princeton museum, 
and the author of Earth and Man; Crea¬ 
tion, or the Biblical Cosmogony in the 
Light of Modern Science; Physical Geog¬ 
raphy; and Social Economy. He died Feb. 
8, 1884, at Princeton, N. J. 

GWIN, WILLIAM, naval officer, was 
born Dec. 5, 1832, in Columbus, Ind. He 
entered the navy as midshipman in 1847, 
and was promoted until he was commis¬ 
sioned lieutenant in 1855, and lieutenant- 
commander in 1862. He died Jan. 3, 1863, 
on the Yazoo river, Mississippi. 

GWIN, WILLIAM McKENDREE, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
Oct. 9, 1805, in Sumner, Tenn. He was 
< appointed United 
States marshal for 
Mississippi, and was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 
that state, serving 
from 1841 to 1843. He 
was commissioner ot 
public buildings to 
superintend the erec¬ 
tion of the New Or¬ 
leans custom house. 
He was a member of 
the convention for 
framing the constitution of California, 
and was one of the first United States sen¬ 
ators from that state, having been elected, 
in 1850, for six years, and re-elected, in 
1856, for the term which expired in 1861. 
He died Sept. 3, 1885, in New York city. 

GWINNETT, BUTTON, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born 
about 1732 in England. He was a delegate 
to the continental congress from 1775 to 
1776, and was one of the signers of the 
declaration of independence. In 1777 he 
was a member of the convention to form 
a state constitution for Georgia. He was 
re-elected to congress, but, having fought 
a duel with General McIntosh, was mor¬ 
tally wounded, and died May 27, 1777, in 
Georgia. 

HABBERTON, JOHN, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 24, 1842, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. He is a journalist of New York city 
whose first book, Helen’s Babies, enjoyed 
a popularity. His subsequent writings in¬ 
clude Other People’s Children; The Bar¬ 
ton Experiment; The Jericho Road; Who 
Was Paul Grayson? The Scripture Club of 
Valley Rest; The Bowsham Puzzle; Brue- 
ton’s Bayou; Country Luck; Grown-Up 
Babies; Life of Washington; Some Folks; 
My Mother-in-Law; Mrs. Mayburn’s 
Twins; The Worst Boy in Town; The 
Chautauquans; All He Knew; Honey and 
Gall; and The Lucky Lover. 

HABERSHAM, ALEXANDER WYLLY, 
naval officer, merchant, author, was born 
March 24, 1826, in New York eity. He 
was a naval officer who in later life was 
a tea merchant in Japan, and the author of 
My Last Cruise, an Account of the United 
States North Pacific Exploring Expedi¬ 
tion. He died March 26, 1883, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. 

HABERSHAM, JAMES, educator, mer¬ 
chant, statesman, was born in 1712 in 
England. In 1767 he was one of the presi¬ 
dents of the upper house of assembly, 
and in 1769-72 he officiated as governor 
during the absence of Sir James Wright 
He raised at Bethesda the first cotton in 
the state. He died Aug. 28, 1775, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. 


HABERSHAM, JOHN, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1754 in Savannah, 
Ga. He was a member of the first regi¬ 
ment ever formed in Georgia; member of 
the continental congress in 1785 and 1786; 
and collector of the port of Savannah from 
1789 to 1799. He died Nov. 19, 1799, near 
Savannah, Ga. 

HABERSHAM, JOSEPH, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 28, 1751, in Sa¬ 
vannah, Ga. He served with distinction 
in the revolutionary 
war as a lieutenant- 
colonel. He was a 
delegate from 
Georgia to the conti¬ 
nental congress from 
1785 to 1786; and a 
member of the state 
assembly. He was 
appointed postmast¬ 
er-general in 1795, 
and, having been 
continued in office 
by Presidents Ad¬ 
ams and Jefferson, resigned in 1802, when 
he became a president of the branch bank 
of the United States at Savannah, which 
he held until his death. He died Nov. 17, 
1815, in Savannah, Ga. 

HABERSHAM, RICHARD WYLLY, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1786 in 
Savannah, Ga. He was a representative 
in congress from Georgia from 1839 to 
1843. He died Dec. 2, 1842, in Clarkesville, 
Ga. 

HACKETT, HORATIO BALCH, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 27, 1808, in 
Salisbury, Mass. He was a baptist cler¬ 
gyman, professor at Newton seminary, 
Massachusetts, in 1839-70, and from 1870 
till his death professor in Rochester semi¬ 
nary, New York. He was one of the 
American revisers of the Bible, and editor 
of Smith’s Bible Dictionary. A Com¬ 
mentary on the Original Text of the Acts 
of the Apostles is his chief work. Others 
are, Memorials of Christian Men in the 
War; and Illustrations of Scripture by a 
Tour in the Holy Land. He died Nov. 2, 
1875, in Rochester, N. Y. 

HACKETT. THOMAS C., congressman, 
was born in Georgia. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1849 to 1851, and was a member of the 
committee on Indian affairs. He died Oct. 
8, 1851, in Marietta, Ga. 

HACKLEMAN, ELIJAH, educator, state 
senator, was born Oct. 18, 1817, in Frank¬ 
lin county, Ind. In 1874 he was elected to 
the Indiana state senate. 

HACKLEMAN, PLEASANT ADAM, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was 
born Nov. 15, 1814, in Franklin county, 
Ind. In 1837 he was elected judge of the 
probate court of Rush county, which office 
he held till 1841, when he was elected 
to the Indiana state house of representa¬ 
tives. He was made a brigadier-general 
in 1862. He took an active part in the 
battle of Corinth, where he was killed on 
the second day. He died Oct. 4, 1862, near 
Corinth, Miss. 

HACKLEY, AARON, congressman, was 
born in New Haven, Conn. He was a 
member of the New York legislature in 
1814, 1815, and 1818; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1819 to 1821. 

HACKLEY, CHARLES ELIHU, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Feb. 22, 1836, in 
Unadilla, N. Y. He was surgeon in the 
second United States cavalry in 1861-64, 
and was surgeon-in-chief of the third cav¬ 
alry division, army of the Potomac. He 
has translated Stellwag’s Diseases of the 
Eye; Niemeyer’s Practical Medicine; and 
Billroth’s Surgical Pathology. 


HACKLEY, CHARLES WILLIAM, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born March 
9, 1809, in Herkimer county, N. Y. He was 
an episcopal clergyman who was profes¬ 
sor of mathematics at Columbia college 
from 1843 until his death; and the author 
of Treatise on Algebra; Elementary 
Course in Geometry; and Elements of 
Trigonometry. He died Jan. 10, 1861, in 
New York city. 

HACKNEY, EDWARD T„ lawyer, state 
legislator, was born Nov. 1, 1870, in Mt. 
Pulaski, Ill. He is a successful lawyer 
of Wellington, Kan.; and in 1897 he was 
elected a member of the Kansas state leg¬ 
islature. 

HADDEN, ALEXANDER, physician, 
was born July 24, 1833, in Montgomery, 
N. Y. He studied medicine in New York 
city, and in 1859 graduated from the Col¬ 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons with the 
degree of M. D. He then served one term 
as a member of the house staff of the 
Bellevue hospital, and then commenced 
the practice of his profession in New York 
city. He has been connected with some 
of the leading hospitals, and for thirty 
years has been connected with the North 
Eastern dispensary, of which he was one 
of the organizers. 

HADDOCK, CHARLES BRICKETT, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born June 20, 1796, in 
Franklin, N. H.; a nephew of D. Webster. 
He was a professor of rhetoric at Dart¬ 
mouth college in 1819-50, and charge 
d’affaires in Portugal in 1850-54. He or¬ 
iginated the railway system of New 
Hampshire, and also the system of com¬ 
mon schools in that state. His Addresses 
and Miscellaneous Writings appeared in 
1846. He died Jan. 15, 1861, in West Leb¬ 
anon, N. H. 

HADDOCK, GEORGE CHANNING, 
clergyman, journalist, poet, was born Jan. 
23, 1832, in Watertown, N. Y. While 
endeavoring to enforce the prohibi¬ 
tion laws of Iowa he was assassinat¬ 
ed in Sioux City. He published sev¬ 
eral fugitive poems that became popu¬ 
lar, including Autumn Leaves; The 
Skeleton Guest; and The Cross of Gold. 
His Life was published by his son in 1887. 
He died Aug. 3, 1886, in Sioux City, Iowa. 

HADLEY, ARTHUR TWINING, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born April 23, 1856, 
in New Haven, Conn. He has been a 
professor of political science at Yale uni¬ 
versity since 1886. He is the author of 
Private Property and Public Welfare; 
Railroad Transportation, Its History and 
Laws; and Report on the System of 
Weekly Payments. 

HADLEY, HIRAM, educator, college 
president, author, was born March 17, 
1833, in Clinton county, Ohio. He re¬ 
ceived his education at the Friends’ acad¬ 
emy, Friends’ boarding school, Earlham 
college, and Haverford college. With the 
exception of ten years with the pub¬ 
lishing house of Charles Scribner and 
Company, Prof. Hadley has been an active 
educator. He has served Wayne county, 
Ind., as a county examiner for several 
years; organized and conducted the first 
long Teachers’ institute in Indiana; was 
active in developing Indiana’s school sys¬ 
tem; and has been a pioneer in many 
good educational movements. He has 
been principal of several academies; for 
six years was president of the New Mexico 
college of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts; 
and since 1894 has been acting president 
of the university of New Mexico. He is 
the author of Hadley’s Lessons in Lan¬ 
guage, and other works. 

HADLEY, HORACE L., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born May 7, 1837, in Sandwich, 
N. H. During 1882 he was representative 
in the Ohio state legislature from Fay¬ 
ette county. 




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HADLEY, JAMES, philologist, author, 
was born March 30, 1821, in Fairfield, N. 
Y. He was a philologist who was Greek 
professor at Yale university in 1848-72; 
and the author of Lectures on Roman 
Law; A Greek Grammar; Elements of 
the Greek Language; Essays, Philological 
and Critical; and Brief History of the 
English Language. He died Nov. 14, 1872, 
in New Haven, Conn. 

HADLEY, WILLIAM F. L., lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
June 15, 1847, near Collinsville, Ill. In 
1886 he was elected as a republican to the 
state senate. He has always taken an 
active part in all matters tending to ad¬ 
vance the interests of the republican 
party; has been a delegate to the various 
conventions of his party, and was one of 
the four delegates at large from Illinois 
to the republican national convention at 
Chicago in 1888 which nominated Benja¬ 
min Harrison. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a republican to 
fill a vacancy. 

HADLOCK, WILLIAM EDWIN, soldier, 
merchant, state senator, was born Oct. 26, 
1834, in Cranberry Isles, Maine. He served 
in the war as lieutenant-colonel; was 
twice elected state senator from Hancock 
county. 

HADSALL, HENRY S., educator, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Oct. 14. 1858, 
in Batavia, N. Y. He is a successful law¬ 
yer of Owosso, Mich.; and during 1897- 
98 served as a member of the Michigan 
state senate. 

HAENSLER. ARMINTA VICTORIA 
SCOTT, physician, lecturer, author, was 
born July 27, 1842, in Kinsman, Ohio. She 
received her educa¬ 
tion at the Kinsman 
academy, Western 
Reserve seminary; 
and was a graduate 
of Oberlin college, 
and the Woman's 
Medical college of 
Pennsylvania. She 
has been resident 
physician to the 
Mission hospital; 
gynaecologist to the 
Stockton sanitarium; 
consulting gynaecologist to the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Asylum for the Insane; and con¬ 
sulting physician to the Woman’s Chris¬ 
tian association. She has served with dis¬ 
tinction as lecturer to the Woman’s Chris¬ 
tian association; and lecturer to the 
Working Women’s club. 

HAFER, GEORGE, railroad president. 
Since 1885 he has been president of the 
Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern rail¬ 
way. 

HAFFORD, FERRIS S., educator, lec¬ 
turer, poet, was born March 23, 1857, in 
Fremont, Ohio. In 1884 he was called 
to fill the chair of mathematics in Battle 
Creek college, Michigan. He next made a 
tour through western Michigan and north¬ 
ern Ohio, lecturing on science. In 1893 
he received the degree of bachelor of arts. 
He was connected with the Milton acad¬ 
emy in the state of Oregon, and is now 
professor of Greek in the college of 
Healdsburg, California. He is the author 
of a volume of poems entitled The Revel¬ 
lers. 

HAGA, GODFREY, philanthropist, state 
legislator, was born Nov. 30, 1745, in Wur- 
temberg. He was a member of the Phila¬ 
delphia city council in 1797-1800; and of 
the Pennsylvania legislature in 1800-1. 
He bequeathed an estate valued at $350.- 
000 to charitable purposes. He died Feb. 
5, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

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HAGANS, JOHN MARSHALL, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1838, in 
Brandonville, Va. He was elected prose¬ 
cuting attorney for 
Monongalia county, 
W. Va., in 1862; was 
re-elected in 1863 
and 1864, and again 
in 1870. He was ap¬ 
pointed law reporter 
of the supreme court 
of appeals of West 
Virginia in 1864, and 
held the position un¬ 
til 1873. He was the 
elector on the repub¬ 
lican ticket for the 
second congressional district during the 
presidential contest in 1868; and was 
elected a delegate for the county of Mon¬ 
ongalia to the convention which framed 


the present constitution of West Virginia 
in 1871. He was elected to the forty-third 
congress in 1872, as a republican. 


HAGAR. GEORGE .!., journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1847, in Newark, N. .1. 
He was news editor of Frank Leslie’s Il¬ 
lustrated Newspaper for fifteen years. He 
contributed to Appleton's Encyclopaedia 
of American Biography in 1886 and 1888; 
was associate editor of the Columbian En¬ 
cyclopedia from 1888 to 1893; and one 
of the editorial revisers of Johnson’s Uni¬ 
versal Encyclopaedia from 1893 to 1895. 
He compiled the greater part of The His¬ 
tory of the United States in Chronological 
Order; edited The Columbian Annual for 
1892; compiled the Living Topics Cyclo¬ 
pedia in 1886; and since 1886 has con¬ 
tributed American obituaries and other 
articles in Appleton's Annual Encyclo¬ 
pedia. 


HAGEMAN, SAMUEL MILLER, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born in 1848 in 
New Jersey. He is a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man who has published Once, a novel; 
and several volumes of poems, including 
Vesper Voices; Greenwood and Other 
Poems; Silence; and Saint Paul. 

HAGEMEYER. GEORGE, merchant, 
manufacturer, was born in 1837. He was 
the pioneer hardwood lumber merchant 
of New York city. He died June 14, 1892, 
in Cornwall, N. Y. 

HAGEN. HERMANN AUGUST, entom¬ 
ologist, author, was born in 1817. He was 
an entomologist of prominence who came 
to Cambridge from Kdnigsberg in 1870, 
and w r as professor of comparative zoology 
at Harvard university. He is the author 
of Catalogue of Neuropterous Insects in 
the British Museum; Synopsis of the 
Neuroptera of North America; North 
American Astacidae; and Some Insect De¬ 
formities. He died in 1893. 

HAGEN. THEODOR VON, musician, 
author, was born April 15, 1823, in Ger¬ 
many. He was a musician who came to 
New York city from Germany in 1854; 
and was the author of Civilisation und 
Musik; and Musikalische Novellen. He 
died Dec. 27, 1871, in New York city. 

HAGER. A. L., lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1850, near 
Jamestown. N. Y. He was elected to the 
Iowa state senate; and was elected to the 
fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and 
re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
republican. 

HAGER, ALBERT DAVID, geologist, 
author, was born Nov. 1, 1817, in Vermont. 
He was a geologist; and since 1877 librari¬ 
an of the Chicago Historical society. He 
was the author of Geology of Vermont; 
and Economic Geology of Vermont. He 
died July 29, 1888, in Chicago, Ill. 

HAGER. JOHN SHARPENSTEIN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born March 12, 1818, in Morris county. 
N. J. He moved to California in 1849: and 


in 1852 was elected to the state senate, 
and served two years. In 1855 he was 
elected state judge for the district of San 
Francisco, and served six years. In 1865 
and in 1867 he was elected to the state 
senate and served six years; and in 1871 
was elected a regent of the university of 
California. He was elected to the United 
States senate in 1874-75 to fill a vacancy. 

HAGER, MRS. LUCIE CAROLINE 
[GILSON], author, was born in 1853 in 
Massachusetts. She is a Massachusetts 
writer who has published Boxborough, a 
New England Town and Its People. 

HAGER. PETER V., soldier, was born 
Aug. 28, 1815, in Washington, D. C. He 
served with distinction in the Mexican 
and civil wars, and attained the rank of 
brigadier-general. 

HAGERMAN, JAMES J., railroad presi¬ 
dent. was born in 1838 in Canada. He is 
president of the Pecos Valley railway at 
Colorado Springs, Colo. 

HAGERT. HENRY SCHELL, lawyer, 
poet, was born May 2, 1826, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was? a noted lawyer of Phila¬ 
delphia; and the author of a volume of 
Poems, with Memoir by C. A. Lagen. 
He died Dec. 18, 1885, in Philadelphia. Pa. 

HAGGARD, ALFRED MARTIN, cler¬ 
gyman. educator, college president, was 
born April 11, 1851, near Cedar Rapids, 
Iowa. For twenty years he has been a 
clergyman, and in 1889-92 was president 
of the Oskaloosa college. 

HAGNER, A. B., lawyer, jurist, was 
born July 13, 1826, in Washington, D. C. 
He settled in Annapolis, Md., in the prac¬ 
tice of law; and in 1850 was judge-advo¬ 
cate of a naval court of inquiry. In 1864 
he was a special judge in Prince George’s 
county, Md.; and in 1876 was judge-advo¬ 
cate of a general court martial held at 
San Francisco, Cal. In 1854 he was a rep¬ 
resentative in the Maryland legislature; 
and in 1879 was appointed an associate 
justice of the supreme court of the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia. 

HAGOOI). JOHNSON, lawyer, was born 
in 1771 in West Virginia. He practiced 
law until 1813, and attained note in his 
profession. He also devoted much atten¬ 
tion to natural sciences, was interested 
in the study of electricity and galvanism. 
He died in 1816 in Charleston, S. C. 

HAGUE. ARNOLD, geologist, author, 
was born Dec. 3, 1840, in Boston, Mass. 
He is a geologist in the government ser¬ 
vice; and the author of Volcanoes of Cali¬ 
fornia, Oregon, and Washington; Vol¬ 
canic Rocks of the Great Basin; Nevada, 
with Notes on the Geology of the District; 
Volcanic Rocks of Salvador; and Crystal¬ 
lization in the Igneous Rocks of Washoe. 

HAGUE. JAMES DUNCAN, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Feb. 24, 1836, in 
Boston, Mass. . He is an engineer attached 
to the United States geological survey 
who has published a work on Mining In¬ 
dustry. 

HAGUE. MRS. PARTHENIA ANTOIN¬ 
ETTE [VARDAMAN], author, was born 
in 1838 in 'Georgia. She is a Florida writ¬ 
er; and the author of A Blockaded Fam¬ 
ily; and Life in Southern Alabama during 
the Civil War. 

HAGUE, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 4, 1808, in Pelham, N. Y. 
He was a baptist clergyman of Boston and 
elsewhere. He was the author of Chris¬ 
tianity and Statesmanship; The Baptist 
Church Transplanted from the Old World 
to the New; Guide to Conversion; Home 
Life; Authority of the Christian Sabbath; 
Self-Witnessing Character of the New 
Testament; Ralph Waldo Emerson; and 
Life Notes, or Fifty Years’ Outlook. He 
died Aug. 1, 1887, in Boston, Mass. 


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HAHN, EMIL, musician, composer, was 
born in September, 1854, in St. Joseph, 
Mo. He is a successful musician of Bur¬ 
lington, Iowa; and is the author of 
an operetta and a number of songs. He is 
also the author of several instrumental 
compositions for the piano, the most 
notable of which is The Forest Flower 
Waltzes. 

HAHN, JOHN, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1815 to 1817. 

HAHN, MICHAEL, soldier, lawyer, 
journalist, congressman, governor, United 
States senator, was born Nov. 24, 1830, in 
Bavaria, Germany. During the civil war 
he served in the union cause; was elected 
to congress in 1862; was inaugurated 
governor in 1864; and in 1865 became a 
United States senator. In 1867 he was the 
organizer and the chief editor of the New 
Orleans Republican. He has been super¬ 
intendent of the United States mint in 
New Orleans; and in 1876 became judge 
of the twenty-sixth judicial circuit; and 
was a representative in the thirty-ninth 
congress. He died March 15, 1886. 

HAIDT, JOHN VALENTINE, artist 
and evangelist, was born Oct. 4, 1700, in 
Germany. When he was forty years of 
age he united with the Moravian church 
and devoted himself to painting portraits 
of its clergymen and other pictures, the 
majority of which represented scriptural 
incidents. He died Jan. 18, 1780, in Beth¬ 
lehem, Pa. 

HAIGHT, CHARLES, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 4, 1838, at 
Colt’s Neck, N. J. He was elected to the 
New Jersey legislature in 1861 and 1862, 
and was chosen speaker in the latter 
year. He was commissioned a brigadier- 
general of militia in 1861, and rendered 
effective service in raising troops for tne 
war. In 1866 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New Jersey to the fortieth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
first congress as a democrat. 

HAIGHT, CHARLES C., architect. He 
designed the new buildings of Columbia 
college and the General Theological semi¬ 
nary. 

HAIGHT, EDWARD, merchant, banker, 
congressman, was born March 26, 1817, in 
New York city. In 1860 he was elected a 
representative from New York to the 
thirty-seventh congress, serving on the 
committee on manufactures. 

HAIGHT, FLETCHER M., jurist. He 
was an emigrant to California; and was 
appointed United States judge for that 
district. 

HAIGHT, HENRY HUNTLEY, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, governor, was born 
May 20, 1805, in Rochester, N. Y. He 
graduated at Yale 
college in 1844, stud¬ 
ied law, and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar of 
St. Louis in 1846. He 
settled to practice 
law in San Francisco 
in 1850; was ap¬ 
pointed United 
States district judge 
of California, by 
President Lincoln; 
and was elected gov¬ 
ernor of California 
in 1867, serving until 1871. He died Sept. 
2, 1878, in San Francisco, Cal. 

HAIGHT, THERON WILBER, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in the state of New York. 
He is a successful lawyer of Waukesha, 
Wis.; for many years a justice of the 
peace; and has been secretary of the 
Wisconsin state board of charities and 
reforms. 


HAILE, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in 1797. He was a member of con¬ 
gress from Mississippi from 1826 to 1828. 
He died March 7, 1837, in Woodville, Miss. 

HAILEY, JOHN, congressman, was 
born Aug. 29,1835, in Smith county, Tenn. 
He was elected delegate from Idaho to 
the forty-third congress; in 1880 was 
elected a member of the legislative coun¬ 
cil of Idaho, and was president of the 
council; and in 1884 was elected dele¬ 
gate from Idaho to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

HAIN, HARRY H., journalist, was born 
in 1873 near Liverpool, Pa. He has filled 
many positions of trust; and is a prom¬ 
inent member of various fraternal orders, 
and is now the editor of The Record of 
Duncannon, Pa. 

HAINER, EUGENE J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 16,1851, in Hun¬ 
gary. He moved to Aurora, Neb., in 1877, 
where he has since resided, and engaged 
in the practice of law. He was elected to 
the fifty-third congress, and was re-elected 
to the fifty-fourth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

HAINES, ALANSON AUSTIN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 18, 1830, 
in Hamburg, N. J. In 1873 he was ap¬ 
pointed engineer of the Palestine Explor¬ 
ation society, and in that capacity visited 
the Holy Land, Egypt, and Turkey, mak¬ 
ing maps, sketches of oriental scenery, 
and transcripts of rock inscriptions. He 
is the author of a History of the Fifteenth 
Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers. 

HAINES, CHARLES D., railroad build¬ 
er, congressman, was born June 9, 1856, in 
Medusa, N. Y. He was president of and 
built the only two street railway syste’ms 
in the state of Vermont; and is now or 
has been president of eighteen street and 
steam railway companies. In 1888 he lo¬ 
cated in Kinderhook, and built the Kind- 
erhook and Hudson railway. He was 
elected to the fifty-third congress as a 
democrat. 

HAINES, DANIEL, jurist, governor, 
was born Jan. 6, 1801, in New York city. 
He was elected governor of New Jersey in 
1843, serving one year; and in 1848 was 
again elected, and continued in office until 
1851. He afterward served as a judge of 
the supreme court. He died Jan. 26, 1877, 
in Hamburg, N. J. 

HAINES, RICHARD TOWNLEY, mer¬ 
chant, was born May 21, 1795, in Eliza¬ 
beth, N. J. He was one of the founders 
of the American Tract society. He was 
the first president of the board of trustees 
of the Union Theological seminary in 
New York city. He died Aug. 21, 1870, in 
Elizabeth, N. J. 

HAINES, THOMAS JEFFERSON, sol¬ 
dier, mathematician, was born Oct. 26, 
1827, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was as¬ 
sistant professor of mathematics in West 
Point; and major and brevet brigadier- 
general in the United States army in 
1865. He died Aug. 14, 1883, in Hartford, 
Conn. 

HAIRE, NORMAN W., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Feb. 24, 1855, in Columbia, Mich. 
He served as prosecuting attorney of his 
county for four years; and since 1891 has 
been circuit judge at Ironwood, Mich. 

HAISH, JACOB, merchant, inventor, 
was born March 9, 1826, in Germany. He 
has about thirty patents of various kinds, 
many of them relating to fence wire. The 
Haish Manufacturing Co., of which he is 
controlling owner, is now an important 
industry of De Kalb, Ill. 

HALDEMAN, RICHARD J., journalist, 
congressman, was born May 19, 1831, in 
Harrisburg, Pa. He was elected to the 
forty-first congress, and re-elected to the 
forty-second congress as a democrat. 


HALDEMAN, SAMUEL STEHMAN, 
philologist, author, was born Aug. 12, 
1812, in Locust Grove, Pa. He was a pro¬ 
fessor of compara¬ 
tive philology in the 
university of Penn¬ 
sylvania in 1869-81. 
He was the author 
of Zoological Con¬ 
tributions; Analytic¬ 
al O r t h o g raphy; 
Word -Building; 
Tours of a Chess 
Knight; Elements of 
Latin Pronuncia¬ 
tion; Pennsylvania 
Dutch; Outlines of 
Etymology; Affixes in Their Origin and 
Application; and Rhymes of the Poets. 
He died in 1880. 

HALDERMAN, JOHN ADAMS, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born April 
15, 1833. was brought up and educated to 
the bar of Kentucky, whence he emigrat¬ 
ed to Kansas in 1854. In his new home he 
opposed slavery, and was successively 
judge of the probate court, mayor of the 
city of Leavenworth two terms, member 
of the house of representatives, state sen¬ 
ator, and regent of the state university. 
He was major of the first regiment of in¬ 
fantry, and major-general of the Kansas 
state forces in active service on the union 
side during the war of the rebellion, and 
attained the rank of brigadier-general. 
After the war he traveled extensively in 
western Europe, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, 
and the Holy Land. In 1880 he was ap¬ 
pointed consul at Bangkok, and subse¬ 
quently promoted to the post of consul- 
general by President Garfield. In 1882 he 
was further advanced to the station of 
minister resident in Siam. 

HALE. ANNE GARDNER, author, poet, 
was born Aug. 2, 1823, in Newburyport. 
Mass. She has attained a. national repu¬ 
tation as a poet; and is the author of 
several prose works, and a volume of 
poems. 

HALE, ARTEMAS, manufacturer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 20. 
1783, in Winc-hendon, Mass. He was a 
representative in the legislature for sev¬ 
eral years, and a state senator in 1833 
and 1834. In 1853 he was a member of 
the state constitutional convention; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1845 to 1849. In 1864 
he was a presidential elector. 

HALE, BENJAMIN, educator, college 
president, author, was born Nov. 23, 1797. 
in Newburyport, Mass. In 1818 he grad¬ 
uated from Bowdoin 
college, and subse¬ 
quently filled the 
chair of mathematics 
and natural philos¬ 
ophy in that insti¬ 
tution. In 1827 he 
became professor of 
chemistry and phar¬ 
macy in Dartmouth 
college. In 1836 he 
was elected presi¬ 
dent of Geneva col¬ 
lege in western New 
York, and for ten years filled that posi¬ 
tion with honor. He was the author of 
Introduction to the Mechanical Principles 
of Carpentry; Scriptural Illustrations of 
the Liturgy; Education in Its Relations 
to a Free Government; and Historical 
Notices of Geneva College. He died July 
15, 1863, in Newburyport, Mass. 

HALE, CHARLES, journalist, public of¬ 
ficial, was born June 7, 1831, in Boston. 
Mass. He was United States consul to 
Egypt from 1864 to 1870; and was assist¬ 
ant secretary of state from 1872 to 1874. 






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HALE, CHARLES REUBEN, bishop, 
coadjutor, of Springfield, Ill., was born 
March 14, 1837, in Lewiston, Pa. In 1886 
he was appointed dean of Davenport. In 
1892 he was consecrated bishop coadjutor 
of Springfield. He is the author of The 
Mozarabic Liturgy; The Universal Epis¬ 
copate; and Speeches and Addresses. 

HALE, DAVID, journalist, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born April 25, 1791, in Lisbon, 
Conn. He became the associate editor 
and subsequently joint proprietor with 
Gerald Hallock of the New York Journal 
of Commerce. He contributed largely to 
benevolent and religious enterprises, arid 
for many years supported several mission¬ 
aries. He died Jan. 25, 1849,'in Freder¬ 
icksburg, Va. 

HALE, EDWARD EVERETT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 3, 1822, in 
Boston, Mass. He is a prominent Uni¬ 
tarian clergyman of Boston, widely known 
as a writer, whose literary activity cov¬ 
ers a wide field. Since 1856 he has been 
pastor of the South Congregational church 
of Boston. As a writer of short stories 
he will, perhaps, be longest remembered, 
his work in this direction including The 
Man Without a Country; Ten Times One 
Is Ten; In His Name; Mrs. Merriam’s 
Scholars; His Level Best; The Ingham 
Papers; Four and Five; Crusoe in New 
York; Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; 
Christmas in Narragansett; Our Christ¬ 
mas in a Palace. Longer essays in fiction 
are, Margaret Percival in America; Mr. 
Tangier’s Vacations; Ups and Downs; 
Philip Nolan’s Friends; The Fortunes of 
Rachel. Other works of his are, Sketches 
in Christian History; Kansas and Ne¬ 
braska; How to Do It; What Career?; 
Gone to Texas; Seven Spanish Cities; 
June to May, a collection of sermons; 
Boys’ Heroes; The Story of Massachu¬ 
setts; Sybaris and Other Homes; Sunday- 
School Stories on the Golden Texts of 
1889; For Fifty Years, a collection of 
poems; A New England Boyhood, an 
autobiographic work; Chautauquan His¬ 
tory of the United States; and If Jesus 
Came to Boston. 

HALE, EDWIN MOSES, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 2, 1829, in Newport, 
N. H. He is a Chicago physician, pro¬ 
fessor in the Homoeopathic college; and 
the author of Pocket Manual of Domestic 
Practice; Homoeopathic Materia Medica; 
Treatment of Diseases of Women; and 
Treatise on Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. 

HALE, ELLEN DAY, artist, was born 
Feb. 11, 1855, in Worcester, Mass. She 
has traveled in Spain and Italy, and has 
resided in Paris and in London. Her pres¬ 
ent home is in Boston, where she has at¬ 
tained success in art. 

HALE, ENOCH, physician, author, was 
born Jan. 19, 1790, in Westhampton, Mass. 
He was a physician in Boston; and the 
author of History of the Spotted Fever 
at Gardiner, Maine, in 1814; and Typhoid 
Fever. He died Nov. 12, 1848, in Boston, 
Mass. 

HALE. EUGENE, lawyer, congressman. 
United States senator, was born June 9, 
1836, in Turner, Maine. He was appoint¬ 
ed attorney for Hancock county, Maine, 
and was three times reappointed. In 1866 
he was elected to the state legislature, 
serving two years. In 1868 he was elected 
a representative from Maine to the forty- 
first congress, and was re-elected to the 
forty-second, forty-third, and forty-fourth 
cofagresses. He was re-elected to the 
forty-fifth congress. He was elected a 
United States senator from Maine for the 
term of six years from March 4, 1881; and 
was re-elected in 1887 and 1893. His term 
expires in 1899. 


HALE, FRANKLIN D., lawyer, state 
senator, was born March 7, 1854, in Bar¬ 
nett, Vt. He was educated at Northfield 
high school and St. Johnsbury academy, 
and graduated from the law department 
of Michigan university in 1877, afterward 
practicing law at Lewiston, Maine. He 
was state’s attorney for Essex county 
from 1883-91, with the exception of one 
term. He was a member of the house of 
representatives in 1884, and of the sen¬ 
ate in 1886; was elected auditor of Ver¬ 
mont in 1892, and re-elected in 1894 and 
1896. In 1881 he settled in Lunenburg, 
Vt., where he has attained success as an 
able lawyer. 

HALE, GEORGE SILSBEE, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 24, 1825, in Keene, 
N. H. He was the editor of the sixteenth, 
seventeenth and eighteenth volumes of the 
United States Digest. He has written Me¬ 
moirs of Joel Parker. 

HALE, HORATIO, lawyer, ethnologist, 
author, was born May 3, 1817, in Newport, 
N. H. He was a lawyer and ethnologist 
of prominence who lived in Clinton, On¬ 
tario, from 1856. He was the author of 
Ethnology and Philology; Indian Migra¬ 
tions as Evidenced by Language; and Re¬ 
port on the Blackfeet Tribes. He has 
edited the Iroquois Book of Rites. 

HALE, JAMES T., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in October, 1810, in 
Bradford county. Pa. In 1851 he was ap¬ 
pointed president judge of the twentieth 
judicial district of Pennsylvania. In 1858 
he was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress; 
and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh 
and thirty-eighth congresses. He died 
April 7, 1865, in Bellefonte, Pa. 

HALE, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born June 3, 1636, in Charlestown, Mass. 
During the Salem witchcraft trials in 
1692 he attended the examinations of the 
accused persons, and approved of the ju¬ 
dicial murders resulting from the charges. 
He afterward published A Modest Inquiry 
into the Nature of Witchcraft. He died 
May 15, 1700. 

HALE, JOHN BLACKWELL, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 27, 
1831, in Hancock county, W. Va. He was 
a representative in the Missouri legisla¬ 
ture from 1856 to 1858; and was a presi¬ 
dential elector in Missouri in 1860. He 
was colonel of the sixty-fifth regiment 
Missouri militia, and of the fourth pro¬ 
visional regiment of Missouri militia in 
the United States service during the civil 
war. In 1884 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Missouri to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

HALE, JOHN PARKER, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
March 31, 1806, in Rochester, N. H. In 
1832 he was elected 
to the state legisla¬ 
ture; in 1834 was ap¬ 
pointed district at¬ 
torney for New 
Hampshire, and re¬ 
appointed by Presi¬ 
dent Van Buren. In 
1843 he was elected 
a representative in 
congress; and in 
1846 was again elect¬ 
ed to the state legis¬ 
lature, and chosen 
speaker. In 1847 he was elected a senator 
in congress, and after serving until 1853 
was again elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate in 1855; and in 1859 was re-elected for 
the term ending in 1865. In 1852 he was 
the free-soil candidate for vice-president 
of the United States. In 1865 he was ap¬ 


pointed minister to Spain. He died Nov. 
18, 1873, in Dover, N. H. 

HALE, LUCRETIA PEABODY, author, 
was born Sept. 2, 1820, in Boston, Mass. 
She is a writer who is best known by her 
humorous juvenile books; and is the au¬ 
thor of The Peterkin Papers; The Last 
of the Peterkins. Her other works com¬ 
prise The Lord’s Supper and Its Obser¬ 
vance; The Service of Sorrow; Sunday- 
School Stories for Little Children; Fagots 
for the Fireside, a collection of games; 
The Struggle for Life, a Story of Home; 
Art Needle Work; An Uncloseted Skele¬ 
ton ; and The New Harry and Lucy. 

HALE. NATHAN, patriot, was born 
June 6, 1755, in Coventry, Conn. He was 
sent by Washington, after the battle of 
Long Island, to ascertain the strength and 
position of the enemy, and was captured 
and hanged as a spy. His last words 
were, I only regret that I have but one 
life to lose for my country. He died Sept. 
22, 1776. 

HALE, ROBERT BEVERLY, author, 
was born in 1869 in Massachusetts. He 
was the author of Elsie and Other Poems; 
and Six Stories and Some Verses. He died 
in 1895. 

HALE, ROBERT SAFFORD, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 
1822, in Chelsea, Vt. He was judge of Es¬ 
sex county from 1856 to 1864; in 1859 was 
appointed a regent of the university of 
New York; and in 1860 was a presidential 
elector. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress to fill a vacancy. He was a delegate 
to the national union convention at Phila¬ 
delphia in 1866; and was re-elected to the 
forty-third congress as a republican. He 
died Dec. 14, 1881, in Elizabethtown, N. J. 

HALE, SALMA, journalist, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, author, was born March 
7, 1787, in Alstead, N. H. From 1812 to 
1834, with the exception of a few years, 
he was clerk of the supreme court of 
Cheshire. He was a representative in 
congress from 1817 to 1819; and afterward 
practiced at the bar. He was a member 
of the legislature from 1823 to 1825; and 
secretary of the board of commissioners 
under the treaty of Ghent. He was the 
author of History of the United States; 
and Annals of Keene. He died Nov. 19. 
1866, in Somerville, Mass. 

HALE, MRS. SARAH JOSEPHA 
[BUELL], author, was born Oct. 24, 1788, 
She was a once well- 
known writer of 
Philadelphia who 
was editor of The 
Lady’s Book for 
forty years. She was 
the author of Wom¬ 
an’s Record, a large 
biographical and crit¬ 
ical work, and her 
most important. 
Others are. The Gen¬ 
ius of Oblivion, and 
Other Poems; North- 
wood, a novel; 
Sketches of American Character; Traits 
of American Life; Flora’s Interpreter; 
The Way to Live Well; Grosvenor, a 
Tragedy; Manners, or Happy Homes; 
Love, or Woman’s Destiny, with Other 
Poems; The White Veil; The Judge, a 
drama; Three Hours, or the Vigil of 
Love; Harry Gray, a Sea Story; and 
Alice Ray, a Romance in Rhyme. She 
also edited cookery books, compilations, 
annuals, and the letters of Madame de 
Sevigne and Lady Mary Wortley Mon¬ 
tagu. She died April 30. 1879. in Phila¬ 
delphia. Pa. 



in Newport, N. H. 



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HALE, SILAS W., soldier, merchant, 
legislator, was born Sept. 18, 1844, in 
Bluffton, Ind. While teaching school he 
enlisted in company 
A, one hundred and 
fifty-third regiment 
Indiana volunteer 
infantry, and was 
made sergeant. He 
has attained success 
as a merchant; was 
one of the organiz¬ 
ers of the Geneva 
bank, of which he is 
vice-president; and 
has taken an active 
part in the business 
and public affairs of his city, county and 
state. In 1886 he was elected to the state 
senate of the Indiana state legislature. 

HALE. SUSAN, author, was born Dec. 
5, 1838, in Boston, Mass. She was co¬ 
author with her brother of the Family 
Flight series of travels for young people. 
She has also published The Life and Let¬ 
ters of Thomas Gold Appleton. 

HALE. WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in 1764. He was one of the most in¬ 
fluential men in New Hampshire. He was 
a member of congress from 1809 to 1811. 
and again from 1813 to 1817. He died 
Nov. 8, 1848, in Dover, N. H. 

HALE, WILLIAM, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, governor, was born Nov. 18, 1839. 
in Iowa. He settled at Glenwood, Iowa, 
in the practice of law; and was elected a 
representative in the state legislature in 
1863, and re-elected in 1864, 1865, and 
1866. He was a presidential elector in 
1868; was chairman of the republican 
central committee of the eighth and ninth 
congressional districts for a number of 
years; and in 1883 was appointed govern¬ 
or of Wyoming territory. 

HALE. WILLIAM BAYARD, clergy¬ 
man, art critic, socialist, author, was born 
April 6, 1869, in Richmond, Ind. He 
founded the church of Our Savior of Mid- 
dleborough. Mass.;' and is a leader among 
high church episcopalians. He is the 
author of The New Obedience, a most 
notable socialistic document; Phillips 
Brooks, a Memorial; The Eternal Teach¬ 
er; The Making of the American Consti¬ 
tution; A Genesis of Nationality; and A 
Plea for Social Submission to Christ. 

HALE. WILLIAM HENRY, physician, 
author, was born Sept. 5. 1852, in Belfast. 
Ireland. He has been president of the 
American Popular 
Health association; 
president of the 
Polytechnic" society 
of Chicago; presi¬ 
dent of the Health 
and Home Publish¬ 
ing company of Chi¬ 
cago; and is now 
general manager and 
chief consulting phy¬ 
sician of the British 
Medical institute of 
Detroit, Mich. He is 
an honorary member of the British Medi¬ 
cal and Surgical society; fellow of the 
American Association of Physicians and 
Surgeons; treasurer of the Michigan State 
Association of Physicians and Surgeons; 
treasurer of the Michigan Medical alliance; 
and prominently identified with all the 
leading medical bodies in America. He is 
the author of Hale’s Eclectic Treatment, 
a work of seven hundred pages; Rheu¬ 
matism and Skin Diseases; Respiration; 
Diseases of the Eye; and various other 
works. 

HALEY, ELISHA, congressman, was 
born in Connecticut. He was a repre¬ 


sentative in congress from that state from 
1835 to 1839. 

HALEY, THOMAS PRESTON, clergy¬ 
man. author, was born April 19, 1832, in 
Lafayette county. Mo. He fills a. pastorate 
in the First church of Kansas City. Mo. 
He is the author of a work entitled The 
Dawn of the Reformation. 

HALFORD, ELIJAH WALKER, jour¬ 
nalist, statesman, was born Sept. 4, 1843, 
in Nottingham, England. He is now ed¬ 
itor and proprietor of the Indianapolis 
Journal. He was a delegate to the repub¬ 
lican national convention in 1888; and 
during 1889-93 was private secretary to 
the president of the United States. 

HALL, ABRAHAM OAKEY, journal¬ 
ist, politician, author, was born in 1826 
in New York. He was a prominent Tam¬ 
many politician of New York city, of 
which he was at one time mayor. He was 
subsequently on the staff of The World, 
but for many years has lived in Europe. 
He is the author of The Manhattaner in 
New Orleans; The Congressman’s Christ¬ 
mas Dream; Ballads; and Old Whitey’s 
Christmas Trot, a story for the holidays. 
He died in October, 1898, in New York 
city. 

HALL. ALEXANDER WILFORD, phil¬ 
osopher, author, was born Aug. 18, 1819, 
in Bath, N. Y. In 1881 he established the 
Microcosm, which he made the organ of 
substantialism. which in modern meta¬ 
physics is the antithesis of speculative 
idealism. He is the author of Problem of 
Human Life; Immortality of the Soul; 
and Scientific Arena. 

HALL, ALLEN A., lawyer, journalist, 
diplomat, was born in North Carolina. He 
was charge d'affaires to Venezuela from 
1841 to 1845; and assistant secretary of 
the United States treasury in 1849 and 
1850. He edited the Republic at Wash¬ 
ington; afterward edited the Daily News 
from 1857 to 1859 at Nashville, Tenn.; and " 
was minister to Bolivia from 1863 to 1867. 
He died May 18, 1867, in Cochabamba, 
Bolivia. 

HALL. ANDREW DOUGLASS, physi¬ 
cian. was born July 2, 188s, in Hempstead. 
N. Y. He has attained success as a phy¬ 
sician and surgeon in his native state. 

HALL, ANNE, artist, was born May 26, 
1792, in Pomfret, Conn. Her miniature 
portrait of Garafilia Molialbi. the Greek 
girl, has been considered her masterpiece, 
and has been engraved repeatedly. She 
died Dec. 11, 1863, in New York city. 

HALL. ANZONETTA CRABBE, physi¬ 
cian, reformer. She has attained success 
as a reformer and physician of South 
Dakota; and was the first woman to 
serve as judge of election in Dakota. 

HALL, ARETHUSA, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 13, 1802, in Huntington, 
Mass. She was an educator in New Eng¬ 
land, and subsequently in the Packer in¬ 
stitute, Brooklyn. The poet Whittier was 
one of her early pupils. She was the au¬ 
thor of Manual of Morals; Life of Syl¬ 
vester Judd; Memorials of S. Judd, 
Senior; and Thoughts of Pascal, a trans¬ 
lation. She died in 1891. 

HALL. ARTHUR CRAWSHAY ALLS- 
TON. bishop, author, was born April 12, 
1847, in England. He is the third protest- 
ant episcopal bishop of Vermont. He was 
for many years in charge of the mission 
of the Cowley Fathers in Boston. He is 
the author-of Confession and the Lambeth 
Conference; Meditations on the Creed; 
Meditations on the Collects; and The 
Example of the Passion. 

HALL, ASAPH, astronomer, was born 
Oct. 15, 1829, in Goshen. Conn. In 1879 


he was awarded the gold medal of the 
Royal Astronomical society of London for 
his discoveries of double stars. 

HALL, AUGUSTUS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman. was born April 29, 1814, in 
Batavia, N. Y. He was county attorney in 
Ohio from 1840 to 1842; and moved to 
Kessauque, Iowa, in 1844. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1852; and in 1854 was 
elected to the thirty-fourth congress from 
Iowa. He was admitted to practice be¬ 
fore the supreme court of the United 
States in 1857; and the same year was 
chief justice of Nebraska. He died Feb. 
1, 1861, in Bellevue. Neb. 

HALL, BAYNARD RUST, educator, au¬ 
thor. was born in 1798 in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was an educator of New Jersey 
and New York; and the author of A 
Latin Grammar; The New Purchase of 
Life in the Far West, long a very popu¬ 
lar book; Something for Everybody; 
Teaching a Science; The Teacher an Art¬ 
ist; and Frank Freeman's Barber Shop. 
He died Jan. 23, 1863, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HALL. BENJAMIN FRANtvLIN, jurist, 
author, was ]jorn in 1814, in New York. 
He was a New York jurist, and was chief 
justice of Colorado in 1861-64. He was 
the author of The Land Owner’s Manual; 
The Republican Party; and Methodism, 
Its Source and Power. He died in 1891. 

HALL, BENJAMIN HOMER, lawyer, 
author, was born Nov. 14, 1830, in Troy, 
N. Y. He was a lawyer of Troy, N. Y., 
and the author of College Words and 
Customs; History of Eastern Vermont; 
and Bibliography of the United States: 
Vermont. He died in 1893. 

HALL, BENTON .1., lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Jan. 13, 1835, 
in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the general assembly of the 
state of Iowa in 1872 and 1873. He was 
elected a senator in the general assembly 
of Iowa for a term of four years, from 
1882; and was elected a representative 
from Iowa to the forty-ninth congress as a 
democrat. 

HALL. BOLLING, congressman, was 
born in 1769. He was a member of con¬ 
gress from Georgia from 1811 to 1817. He. 
died March 25. 1836. near Montgomery. 
Ala. 

HALL, CHAPIN, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born July 12, 1816, in Ellicott, 
N. Y. He was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress. 

HALL, CHARLES CUTHBERT, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born in 1852 
in New York. He is a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman of New York city, pastor of the 
First Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, in 
1877-97; and from 1897 president of Union 
Theological seminary. He is the author 
of Does God Send Trouble? Into His Mar¬ 
velous Light; The Children, the Church, 
and the Communion; Qualifications for 
Ministerial Power; and The Gospel of the. 
Divine Sacrifice. 

HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS, explorer, 
author, was born in 1821 in Rochester, N. 
H. He was an arctic explorer, and the 
author of The Arctic Regions; Life 
Among the Esquimaux; and Narrative of 
the Second Arctic Expedition. He died 
Nov. 8, 1871, in the arctic regions. 

HALL, CHARLES HENRY, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 7, 1820. in Augusta, 
Ga. He was an episcopal clergyman of 
Brooklyn, rector of Holy Trinity church 
in 1869-95, and the author of Commentar¬ 
ies on the Gospel; Protestant Ritualism; 
Spina Christi; The Church of the House¬ 
hold; and Valley of the Shadow. He died 
in 1895. 




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HALL. CHARLES HERSHALL, physi¬ 
cian, journalist, was born April 5, 1835, in 
Newport, Ind. He settled in Salem, and 
was in the government Indian service at. 
Port Yarnhill in 1871-73, but resigned in 
1874 to become professor of the theory and 
practice of medicine in Willamette uni¬ 
versity. Since 1876 he has edited the 
Oregon Medical Journal. 

HALL, CHARLES WINSLOW, lawyer, 
author. He is a lawyer of Minnesota, 
and the author of Arctic Rovings; Twice 
Taken; Adrift in the Icefields; and Drift¬ 
ing Around the World. 

HALL, CHRISTOPHER WEBBER, 
geologist, author, was born Feb. 28, 1845, 
in Wardsborough. Vt. He is a professor 
of geology and mineralogy in the univer¬ 
sity of Minnesota at Minneapolis, from 
1878, and dean of the college of Engi¬ 
neering, Metallurgy, and Mechanic Arts. 
He has written many valuable profession¬ 
al papers, and a History of the University 
of Minnesota. 

HALL, DARWIN S., soldier, journalist, 
congressman, was horn in 1844 in Keno¬ 
sha county, Wis. He was elected county 
auditor of Renville county, Minn., in 1869 
and 1871, and established and edited the 
Renville Times for several years, and was 
clerk of the district court in 1873-77. He 
was elected to the legislature in 1876; was 
appointed register of the United States 
land office at Benson in 1878 and 1882, 
and was elected to the state senate in 1886 
for a term of four years. He served in 
company K, forty-second Wisconsin vol¬ 
unteer infantry, as a private during the 
civil war. and was elected to the fifty-first 
congress as a republican. 

HALL, DAVID, governor. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Delaware from 1802 to 1805. 

HALL, DOMINICK AUGUSTINE, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born in 1765 in North 
Carolina. He was district judge of Or¬ 
leans territory from 1809 until 1812, when 
it became the state of Louisiana, and 
was then appointed United States judge of 
the state, in which position he continued 
during his life. He died Dec. 12, 1820, in 
New Orleans, La. 

HALL, EDWARD HENRY, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1831 in Ohio. He is 
a Unitarian clergyman of Worcester, and 
subsequently of Cambridge, and the au¬ 
thor of Orthodoxy and Heresy in the 
Christian Church; Lessons on the Life of 
Saint Paul; and Discourses. 

HALL, EDWIN, clergyman, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 11, 1802, in Gran¬ 
ville, N. Y. He was a congregational 
clergyman, professor of theology in Au¬ 
burn seminary in 1854-77, and the author 
of The Law of Baptism; The Puritans and 
Their Principles; Historical Records of 
Norwalk; and Shorter Catechism with 
Proofs. He died Sept. 8, 1877, in Auburn, 
N. Y. 

HALL, EDWIN G. W., clergyman, evan¬ 
gelist, author, was born Dec. 17, 1840, in 
Oxbow, N. Y. During the civil war he 
served in the tenth New York heavy ar¬ 
tillery. For a number of years he was a 
conference evangelist, and now fills a pas¬ 
torate in the methodist episcopal church 
of Knoxville, Pa. 

HALL, ELIZA CALVERT, author, poet, 
was born in 1856, in Bowling Green, Ky. 
She is a noted poet, and has contributed 
to the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner’s, and 
the Century. 

HALL, FITZEDWARD, philologist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 21, 1825. in Troy, 
N. Y. He is a philologist of distinction 
who was inspector of schools in India in 
1846-62, and in the latter year became pro¬ 
fessor of Sanskrit in King's college, Lon¬ 
don. He is the author of Recent Exem¬ 


plifications of False Philology; Modern 
English; English Adjectives in -able with 
Special Reference to Reliable; Lectures 
on the Nyaya Philosophy; and several 
works in Sanskrit. 

HALL. MRS. FLORENCE (HOWE), au¬ 
thor, was born in 1845 in Massachusetts. 
She is a writer of Plainfield, N. .1., and 
the author of Social Customs; and The 
Correct Thing in Good Society. 

HALL, FRANCIS, journalist, was born 
March 12, 1785, in Taunton, England. 
In 1811 he entered the office of the New 
York Commercial Advertiser, and two 
years afterward became part owner and 
co-editor of that journal, with which he 
remained connected for fifty-three years. 
He died Aug. 11, 1866, in New York city. 

HALL, FRANCIS JOSEPH, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born Dec. 24, 1857, 
in Ashtabula, Ohio. He is a priest of the 
Protestant episcopal church, and professor 
of dogmatic theology in the Western The¬ 
ological seminary. He is the author of 
Theological Outlines, in three volumes; 
and The Historical Position of the Epis¬ 
copal Church. 

HALL, FRANK L., railroad president, 
was born July 4, 1850, in Bridgeport. Conn. 
He is president of the Baltimore and Del¬ 
aware Bay railroad. 

HALL, FRANK L., physician, surgeon, 
legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1861, in Pike 
county. Ill. He has attained eminence in 
his profession at Perry, Ill., and for four 
years was United States pension exam¬ 
iner. He served with distinction as a 
member of the Illinois state legislature in 
1897-98. 

HALL, FREDERIC, lawyer, author, 
was born Oct. 16, 1825, in Rutland, Vt. 
He received a liberal education, studied 
the sciences, and also 
Greek, Latin, French, 
Spanish and Italian. 
In 1852 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar of 
the supreme court of 
California; and in 
1859 to the bar of the 
supreme court of the 
United States. In 
1867 he visited Mex¬ 
ico, and was em¬ 
ployed as one of the 
counsel to defend 
the Emperor Maximilian. He wrote the 
Life of Maximilian; and subsequently a 
History of San Jose, Cal., where he lived 
during 1849-72, moving thence to San 
Francisco. In 1882 he became the legal 
adviser of the Mexican Central Railroad 
company, and while in the City of Mex¬ 
ico wrote the work known as Hall’s Mex¬ 
ican Law. Since 1886 he has been engaged 
in the practice of law in Los Angeles. Mr. 
Hall has traveled extensively in American 
countries, in Europe and Asia. 

HALL, FREDERICK, educator, author, 
was born in November, 1780, in Grafton, 
Vt. He was an educator who was profes¬ 
sor of chemistry in Columbian college, 
Washington, at the time of his death. He 
published Letters from the East and from 
the West. He died July 27, 1843, in Peru, 
Ill. 

HALL, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born in New Haven, Conn. He was a 
member of the assembly of New York in 
1816, and was a representative in congress 
from that state from 1819 to 1821. 

HALL, GEORGE, first mayor of Brook¬ 
lyn, was born Sept. 21, 1795, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. He was a printer, and the greater 
portion of his life was devoted to the in¬ 
terests of his native city, of which he was 
a trustee at the time of its incorporation, 
and under that act became its first mayor. 
He died Sept. 16, 1868, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 


HALL, GERTRUDE, author, poet. She 
is a Boston writer of short stories and 
poems, and the author of Far From To- 
Day, a collection of strikingly original sto¬ 
ries; Allegretto, a volume of verse; Foam 
of the Sea, and Other Tales; and Verses. 

HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was born 
May 6, 1845, in Ashfield, Mass. He is an 
educator of note, president of Clark uni¬ 
versity, Worcester, Mass., since 1888, and 
is the author of Aspects of German Cul¬ 
ture; Hints Toward a Bibliography of 
Education; and How to Teach Reading. 

HALL, HARRISON, scientist, author, 
was born Nov. 5, 1785, in Octorara, Md. 
He was a scientist of Philadelphia, who 
in 1815 published a work on Distillation 
that was much commended in its day. 
He died March 9, 1866, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

HALL, HENRY, journalist, author, was 
born Dec. 6. 1845, in Auburn. N. Y. In 
1880 he was appointed by the government 
as special agent to collect the statistics 
of American ship-building. In 1882 he Be¬ 
came business manager of the New York 
Tribune, which position he yet occupies. 
He has published The History of Cayuga 
County; History of the Nineteenth New 
York Volunteers, and the Third Artillery; 
American Navigation; and America’s Suc¬ 
cessful Men. in two volumes. 

HALL, HI LAND, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, governor, author, was born 
July 20, 1795, in Bennington, Vt. 

In 1827 he was elected to the state 
legislature, and afterward, for several 
years, was state's attorney. He was 
a representative in congress from 
Vermont from 1833 to 1843. He was bank 
commissioner for Vermont from 1843 to 
1846; four years judge of the supreme 
court; in 1850 second comptroller of the 
treasury; and in 1851 was appointed land 
commissioner for California, where he re¬ 
mained until 1854. He was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Vermont in 1858. He wrote a 
History of Vermont to 1791. He died 
Dec. 18, 1885, in Springfield, Mass. 

HALL, HOMER JOHN, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born June 28, 1851, in Riceville, 
Pa. He is a successful physician of 
Franklin, Ind.; has held various positions 
of importance in his county and state, 
and served as chairman of the Indiana 
prohibition party. 

HALL. ISAAC HOLLISTER, lawyer, 
lecturer, author, was born Dec. 12, 1837, 
in Norwalk, Conn. He was a lawyer and 
Oriental scholar, and lecturer on New Tes¬ 
tament Greek in Johns Hopkins uni¬ 
versity in 1884-96. He published Ameri¬ 
can Greek Testaments, a critical Bibliog¬ 
raphy. He died in 1896. 

HALL, JAMES, clergyman, author, was 
born Aug. 22, 1744, in Carlisle, Pa. He 
was a presbyterian clergyman in the 
southern states, and the author of Nar¬ 
rative of a Most Extraordinary Work of 
Religion in North Carolina; and Mis¬ 
sionary Tour Through the Mississippi and 
Southwest Country. He died July 25, 
1826, in Bethany, N. C. 

HALL, JAMES, author, was born Aug. 
19, 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the 
author of Letters from the West; Legends 
of the West; Tales of the Border; Sketch¬ 
es of the West; Notes on the Western 
States; Life of General Harrison; His¬ 
tory of the Indian Tribes (with McKin¬ 
ney); The Wilderness and the War Path; 
The Harpe’s Head, a Legend of Ken¬ 
tucky; and Romance of Western History. 
He died July 5, 1868, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 



438 


HKRRINGSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


HALL, JAMES, paleontologist, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Sept. 12, 1811, in 
Hingham, Mass. He is a paleontologist of 
distinction, professor of geology at the 
Troy Polytechnic school from 1836, and 
state geologist of New York from 1837. 
He is the author of Geology of the Fourth 
District of New York; Paleontology of 
New York; Geological Survey of Wiscon¬ 
sin; and many scientific monographs. 

HALL, JAMES A., soldier, was born 
Aug. 10, 1835, in Jefferson, Maine. He 
rose to the rank of brevet brigadier-gen¬ 
eral, his services being especially con¬ 
spicuous at Gettysburg. He was, for thir¬ 
teen years after the war, collector of cus¬ 
toms at Waldoboro, Maine. He died June 
10, 1893, at Syracuse, N. Y. 

HALL, JAMES FREDERICK, soldier, 
was born in February, 1824, in New York 
city. He served in the civil war, and was 
brevetted brigadier-general. He died Jan. 
9, 1884. 

HALL, JEREMIAH, clergyman, col 1 
lege president, was born May 21, 1805, i.n 
Suanzey, N. H. In 1853 he accepted the 
presidency of Denison university. He died 
May 31, 1881, in Port Huron, Mich. 

HALL, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a delegate from Maryland to the constitu¬ 
tional convention from 1775 to 1776, and 
from 1783 to 1784. 

HALL, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was born 
in 1767 in Waynesboro, Va. He was a 
judge of the superior court of North Caro¬ 
lina from 1801 till 1818, and of the su¬ 
preme court from 1818 till 1832. He died 
Jan. 29, 1833, in Warrenton, N. C. 

HALL, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born in 1806 in Pennsylvania. He was a 
Presbyterian clergyman, pastor of the 
First church in Trenton, N. J., from 1841. 
Among his writings are: Translation of 
Milton’s Latin Letters; History of the 
Presbyterian Church in Trenton; Forty 
Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. 
Alexander; and Sabbath-School Theology. 
He died in 1894. 

HALL, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born July 31, 1829, in Ireland. He is a 
Presbyterian clergyman who came from 
Dublin to America in 1867, and became 
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian 
church in New York city. He is the au¬ 
thor of All the Way Across; The Chief 
End of Man; Familiar Talks to Boys; 
Questions of the Day; God’s Word 
Through Preaching; A Christian Home; 
and Foundation Stones for Young Build¬ 
ers. 

HALL, JOHN ELIHU, lawyer, author, 
was born Dec. 27, 1783, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a lawyer and author of Phil¬ 
adelphia who edited The Portfolio, 1817- 
27; and was the author of Memoirs of 
Eminent Persons; Practice and Jurisdic¬ 
tion of the Court of Admiralty; Life of 
Dr. John Shaw; and Tracts on Constitu¬ 
tional Law. He died June 11, 1829, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

HALL, JOHN W., merchant, state sen¬ 
ator, governor, was born Jan. 1, 1817, in 
Frederic, Del. He was state director in 
the Farmers’ bank from 1861 to 1878; and 
stock director from 1867 to 1871. He was 
a state senator; was a delegate to the 
democratic national convention of 1876 ; 
and was governor of Delaware from 1879 
to 1883. 

HALL, JONATHAN PRESCOTT, law¬ 
yer, jurist, orator, author, was born July 
9, 1796, in Pomfret, Conn. He was the 
author of Reports of Cases in the Su¬ 
perior Court of the City of New York 
1828-29. He died Sept. 29, 1862, in New¬ 
port, R. I. 


HALL, JOSEPH, soldier, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 26, 1793, in 
Essex county, Mass. He served as lieu¬ 



very petitions. He 
tor. 


tenant of militia in 
1813 and 1814; and 
from 1817 until 1819 
was engaged in mer¬ 
cantile pursuits. He 
was sheriff of two 
counties for twelve 
years, and was a 
representative i n 
congress from Maine 
from 1833 to 1837. He 
was the first north¬ 
ern man who voted 
against receiving sla- 
was also a noted ora- 


HALL, JOSHUA G., lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1828, 
in Wakefield, N. H. He was a state sen¬ 
ator in 1871 and 1872, and a member of 
the state house of representatives in 1874. 
He was United States district attorney 
from 1874 to 1879, and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New Hampshire to the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses 
as a republican. 

HALL, LAWRENCE W., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1819 in Lake 
county, Ohio. He was elected judge of the 
court of common pleas, which position he 
held until 1856. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the thirty-fifth 
congress. He died Jan. 26, 1863, in Ohio. 

HALL, MRS. LOUISA JANE PARK, 
author, poet, was born Feb. 7, 1802, in 
Newburyport, Mass. She was a writer of 
Providence, and the author of Miriam, a 
dramatic poem; Joanna, of Naples, a tale; 
and Life of Elizabeth Carter. She died in 
1892. 

HALL, LYMAN, physician, governor. 
He was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1775 to 1779, and signed the 
declaration of independence. In 1783 he 
was elected governor of Georgia. He died 
Oct. 19, 1790, in Burke county, Ga. 

HALL, MRS. MARY L., educator, poet, 
was born May 26,1839, in St. Helena, N. Y. 
She was for twenty years a teacher of 
penmanship at Attica, N. Y., and is t'he 
author of many short stories and a book 
of poems entitled Live Coal. 

HALL, NATHANIEL, clergyman, was 
born Aug. 13, 1805, in Medford, Mass. He 
became sole pastor of the First Unitarian 
parish, Dorchester, Mass., in 1836, and 
held this post until his death. He died 
Oct. 21, 1875, in Dorchester, Mass. 

HALL, NATHAN KELSEY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born March 10, 

1810, in Marcellus, N. Y. He served as a 
member of the New 
York state legisla¬ 
ture, and was a rep¬ 
resentative in con¬ 
gress from 1847 to 

1849. On Mr. Fill¬ 
more’s accession to 

the presidency in 

1850, he was appoint¬ 
ed to the office of 

postmaster - general, 
and was subsequent¬ 
ly appointed judge 
of the United States 

district court for western New York. He 
died March 2, 1874, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

HALL, NORMAN, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 17. 1829, in 
Muncy Farms, Pa. He was elected to 
the fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

HALL, OBED, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from New 
Hampshire from 1811 to 1813. 



HALL, OSEE MATSON, lawyer, con 
gressman, was born in Conneaut, Ohio. 
He was elected to the fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses as a democrat. 

HALL, ROBERT BERNARD, state sen 
ator, congressman, was born Jan. 28, 1812, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a member of 
the Massachusetts senate in 1855; was 
elected a representative to the thirty- 
fourth congress in that year, and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-fifth congress in 1857. 
He died April 15, 1868, in Plymouth, Mass. 

HALL, ROBERT PLEASANTS, lawyer, 
author, poet, was born Dec. 23, 1825, in 
Chester District, S. C. He published a 
volume of Poems by a South Carolinian. 
He left numerous manuscript articles in 
prose and verse, which include a contem¬ 
plative poem on Andre Chenier; Winona, 
a legend of the Dacotahs; and The Cher¬ 
okee, describing the scenery in upper 
Georgia. He died Dec. 4, 1854, in Macon, 
Ga. 

HALL, SAMUEL, journalist, was born 
Nov. 2, 1740, in Medford, Mass. He pub¬ 
lished the Salem Gazette in 1781, and in 
1785 the Massachusetts Gazette. In 1789 
he went to Boston and opened a book¬ 
store, which he sold in 1805 to Lincoln 
and Edmunds. He died Oct. 30, 1807, in 
Boston, Mass. 

HALL, SAMUEL READ, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 27, 1795, in Croydon, 
N. H. He was an educator of Vermont 
who organized the first training-school 
for teachers in the United States. He was 
the author of The Instructor’s Manual; 
Lectures on Education; and Geography 
for Children. He died June 24, 1877, in 
Bennington, Vt. 

HALL, MRS. SARAH (EWING), author, 
was born Oct. 30, 1761, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. She was a Philadelphia writer well 
known at one time as the author of Con¬ 
versations on the Bible. Selections from 
her work were published in 1833. She 
died April 8, 1830, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HALL, SHARACK AZARIAH, soldier, 
educator, state senator, was born July 15, 
1835, in Wilna, N. Y. He was captain of 
company K, fifth regiment Wisconsin vol¬ 
unteer infantry from 1864 until Lee’s sur¬ 
render. In 1869 he moved to Wood Lake, 
Minn., was appointed county superintend¬ 
ent of schools in 1873, and in 1876 was 
elected a member of the Minnesota state 
senate. 

HALL, THOMAS, inventor, was born 
Feb. 4, 1834, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1881 
he produced the typewriter that bears his 
name. 

HALL, THOMAS AUGUSTUS, soldier, 
journalist, legislator, jurist, was -born 
Aug. 26, 1847, in Telfair county, Ga. Dur¬ 
ing the war he served as orderly sergeant 
of company E, sixth battalion Georgia ar¬ 
tillery in the confederate service. He has 
filled numerous offices of public trust; was 
democratic member of the Florida state 
legislature in 1883 from Madison county, 
and was a member of the Madison county 
school board. He is now serving with 
distinction a second term as county judge 
of Nassau county, Fla., his term expiring 
in 1901. He is also the editor and owner 
of the Florida Mirror of Fernandina, Fla. 

HALL, THOMAS H., state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1773 in Edgecombe 
county, N. C. He was a representative 
in congress from 1817 to 1825, and again 
from 1827 to 1835. In 1836 he served as a 
member of the state senate, and voted 
against the acceptance of any of the sur¬ 
plus revenue of the United States treas¬ 
ury by the state of North Carolina. He 
died June 30, 1853, in Tarborough, N. C. 


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HALL, THOMAS MIFFLIN, physician, 
author, was born Feb. 27, 1798, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a successful physi¬ 
cian of Philadelphia, and the author of 
several medical works. He died in 1828 
at sea. 

plALL, URIEL SEBREE, farmer, law¬ 
yer, lecturer, congressman, was horn April 
12, 1852, in Randolph county, Mo. He 
has served in many state democratic con¬ 
ventions, being chairman of the demo¬ 
cratic committee on platform in 1890. He 
was elected to the fifty-third and fifty- 
fourth congresses as a democrat. 

HALL, W. A., clergyman, lawyer, jurist, 
was horn Feb. 15, 1847, in England. He 
has filled pastorates in the methodist 
episcopal church, has been county su¬ 
perintendent of schools, justice of the 
peace, judge of the probate court, and 
United States commissioner of the circuit 
court at Grangeville, Idaho. 

HALL, WILLARD, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 24, 1780, in 
Westford, Mass. In 1811 he was elected 
secretary of state in Delaware, and held 
that office three years. He was elected a 
representative in congress in 1816, and 
re-elected in 1818, and was again secretary 
of state in 1821. In 1822 he was elected 
to the legislature; in 1823 was appointed 
district judge of the United States for 
Delaware; and in 1829 revised the state 
laws of Delaware. In 1831 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the state constitutional convention. 
He was the father of the public school 
system of the state. He died May 10, 1875, 
in Wilmington, Del. 

HALL, WILLARD PREBLE, congress¬ 
man, lieutenant-governor, was born in 
1825 in Virginia. He was a representative 
from Missouri to the thirtieth, thirty-first 
and thirty-second congresses; was lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of Missouri from 1861 to 
1865; and was acting governor for a por¬ 
tion of the time. He died Nov. 1, 1882, 
in St. Joseph, Mo. 

HALL, WILLIAM, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1774 in Virginia. He 
was a general of militia, and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Tennessee from 
1831 to 1833. He died in October, 1856, 
in Green Garden, Tenn. 

HALL, WILLIAM, state senator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1774, in Virginia. He 
was elected several times state repre¬ 
sentative and state senator from Tennes¬ 
see, and in 1829 was elected governor. He 
died in 1856 in Green Garden, Tenn. 

HALL, WILLIAM, soldier, journalist, 
state senator, was born May 13, 1796, in 
Sparta, N. Y. In 1821 he engaged in the 
music publishing business under the firm 
name of Firth, Hall and Pond, in which 
he continued until his death. He served 
also in the state senate during two ad¬ 
ministrations. He died May 3, 1874, in 
New York city. 

HALL, WILLIAM A., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in Maine. In 1841 
he moved to Missouri and in 1844 was a 
presidential elector. In 1847 he was ap¬ 
pointed a judge of the circuit court, and 
was a member of the Missouri convention 
of 1861. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Missouri to the thirty-seventh 
congress to fill a vacancy, and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-eighth congress. 

HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD, soldier, 
state senator, was -born May 13, 1796, in 
Tarrytown, N. Y. About 1846 he rose to 
the rank of brigadier-general. He was a 
member of the New York state senate. He 
died May 3, 1874. 

HALL, WILLIAM P., soldier, was born 
about 1820. He served in the civil war, 
and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel 


in 1865. He died Oct. 20, 1865, in New 
York city. 

HALL, WILLIAM T., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Aug. 22, 1841, in Bowdoinham, 
Maine. In 1863 he was admitted to the 
bar, and has ever since practiced law in 
Richmond, Maine. He has served as 
county attorney for six years, and in 1880 
was elected judge of probate for Sagada¬ 
hoc county, and still occupies that posi¬ 
tion. 

HALL, WILLIAM WHITTY, physician, 
author, was horn in 1810 in Paris, Ky. He 
was a physician of New York city, and 
the founder of Hall’s Journal of Health. 
He was the author of Health and Good 
Living; Health and Disease as Affected 
by Constipation; Fun Better than Physic; 
Consumption; Sleep; Guide-Board to 
Health; Coughs and Colds; Health at 
Home; How to Live Long; Dyspepsia; 
Treatise on Cholera; and Bronchitis and 
Kindred Diseases. He died May 10, 1876, 
in New York city. 

HALL, WILLIS, lawyer, lecturer, was 
born April 1, 1801, in Granville, N. Y. 
He was elected a member of the as¬ 
sembly in 1837, and again in 1842. In 1838 
he was appointed attorney-general of the 
state, and filled this office for one year. 
He was for some time a lecturer in the 
law-school of Saratoga. He died July 14, 
1868, in New York city. 

HALL, WILTON AUGUSTUS, lawyer, 
was born Sept. 29, 1869, in Hamilton coun¬ 
ty, Fla. He has attained prominence as 
an able lawyer of Fernandina, Fla., and 
has filled many positions of honor in his 
county and state. 

HALLAM, ROBERT ALEXANDER, 
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 30, 
1807, in New London, Conn. He was an 
episcopal clergyman who was rector of 
St. James’s church, New London, Conn., 
from 1835 till his death. He was the au¬ 
thor of Lectures on the Morning Prayer; 
Lectures on Moses; Sovereigns of Judah; 
Sermons; and Annals of St. James’s. He 
died Jan. 4, 1877, in New London, Conn. 

HALLECK. FITZ-GREENE, poet, was 
born July 8, 1790, in Guilford, Conn. He 
was a poet who was for many years a 
clerk in a New York 
banking house, and 
subsequently confi¬ 
dential adviser to 
John Jacob Astor. 
His verse has grace 
and sweetness, but is 
wanting in positive 
qualities, and has 
already largely 
passed out of remem¬ 
brance. He was the 
author of Marco 
Bozzaris, which is 
his most famous poem; Fanny; Alnwick 
Castle, and Other Poems. He' died Nov. 
19, 1867, in Guilford, Conn. 

HALLECK, HENRY WAGER, soldier, 
author, was born Jan. 16, 1815, in West- 
was a major-general 
who was general-in¬ 
chief of the armies 
of the United States 
in 1862-64. He was 
the author of Bitu¬ 
men, Its Varieties, 
Properties, and Uses; 
Mining Laws of 
Spain and Mexico; 
Elements of Inter¬ 
national Law; Trea¬ 
tise on International 
Law; and Elements 
of Military Art and 
Science. He died Jan. 9, 1872, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. 




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HALLER, W. D., physician, business 
man, state senator, was born April 27, 
1846, near East Troy, Wis. In 1871 he 
established himself in the drug business 
in Blair, Neb. He was chosen state sena¬ 
tor from the tenth district of Nebraska 
in 1897. 

HALLETT, BENJAMIN, ship-master, 
was born Jan. 18, 1760, in Barnstable, 
Mass. He established the coasting trade 
between Boston and Albany in 1788, and in 
1808 had built the sloop Ten Sisters, which 
was long the favorite packet sailing be¬ 
tween New York and Boston. He died 
Dec. 31, 1849, in Barnstable, Mass. 

HALLETT, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
journalist, statesman, lawyer, author, was 
born Dec. 2, 1797, in Barnstable, Mass. He 
exerted a powerful influence in the demo¬ 
cratic party, was a delegate to most of 
its national conventions, and was for 
many years chairman of its national com¬ 
mittee. He aided in the nomination of 
Franklin Pierce, who made him United 
States district attorney of Massachusetts. 
He died Sept. 30, 1862, in Boston, Mass. 

HALLETT, MOSES, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Illinois. In 1874 he was appointed 
an associate justice of the supreme court 
of the territory of Colorado; and in 1877 
was appointed United States district judge 
for the district of Colorado. 

HALLEY, GEORGE, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Sept. 10, 1839, in Canada. 
In 1884 he became associated in publish¬ 
ing the Kansas City Medical Journal, 
with which he is still connected. 

HALLIDAY, SAMUEL BYRAM, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1812 in New 
Jersey. He is a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Brooklyn, assistant of Henry 
Ward Beecher at Plymouth church for 
nearly twenty years, and the author of 
The Little Street Sweeper; The Lost and 
Found, or Life Among the Poor; Win¬ 
ning Souls; and The Church in America 
ana Its Baptisms of Fire. 

HALLIDIE, ANDREW SMITH, civil en¬ 
gineer, inventor, was born March 16, 1836. 
in England. During 1858-68 he designed 
and built a large number of bridges. He 
invented a method of transporting freight 
across mountainous and rugged districts 
by an endless overhead moving rope, now 
known as the Hallidie ropeway. 

HALLOCK, CHARLES, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 13, 1834, in New 
York city. He is a journalist of New York 
city, founder of Forest and Stream, and 
the author of The Fishing Tourist; Camp 
Life in Florida; The Sportsman’s Gazet¬ 
teer; and Our New. Alaska. 

HALLOCK, GERARD, journalist, was 
born March 18, 1800, in Plainfield, Mass. 
In 1827 he became part owner of the New 
York Observer, and in 1828 was associated 
with David Hale in the publication of the 
Journal of Commerce. He died Jan. 4, 
1866, in New Haven, Conn. 

HALLOCK, JEREMIAH, clergyman, 
was born March 13, 1758, in Brook Ha¬ 
ven, N. Y. In 1785 he was installed as 
pastor over the congregational church at 
West Simsbury, where he remained until 
his death. He died June 23, 1826, in West 
Simsbury, Conn. 

HALLOCK, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Orange county, N. Y. He was a 
member of the assembly of New York 
state from Orange county in 1816 and 
1817, and from 1820 to 1821; and was a 
representative in congress from 1825 to 
1829. 

HALLOCK, MRS. JULIA ISABEL 
(SHERMAN), author, was horn in 1846 
in Connecticut. She is a Connecticut 
writer and the author of Broken Notes 
from a Gray Nunnery, a study of country 
life. 




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HALLOCK. MRS. MARY ANGELINA 
(RAY) (LATHROP), author, was born 
June 18, 1810, in Rowe, Mass. She is a 
writer of Sunday-school books, including 
That Sweet Story of Old; Child’s History 
of the Fall of Jerusalem; Child's Life of 
Daniel: The Story of Moses; Bethlehem 
and Her Children; Beasts and Birds; 
Child’s History of Solomon; and Life of 
the Apostle Paul. 

HALLOCK. MOSES, clergyman, was 
born Feb. 16, 1760, in Brook Haven, N. Y. 
He was first pastor of the church in Plain- 
field from 1792 until his death. He died 
July 17. 1837. 

HALLOCK. WILLIAM ALLEN, cler¬ 
gyman. author, was born June 2, 1794. in 
Plainfield. Mass. He was a congregation¬ 
al clergyman, and secretary of the Ameri¬ 
can Tract society in 1825-70. He was the 
author of Life of Harlan Page; Moses 
Hallock; and Justin Edwards. He died 
Oct. 2, 1880, in Plainfield, Mass. 

HALLOWAY, RANSOM, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
rhe eighth congressional district of New 
York, from 1849 to 1851. He died April 
6, 1851, in Mount Pleasant. Md. 

HALLOWELL, EDWIN, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1844 
in Abington. Pa. He was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature of Pennsylvania in 
1876, and re-elected in 1878. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-second congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

HALLOWELL. RICHARD PRICE, 
merchant, author, was born Dec. 16. 1835, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a wool mer¬ 
chant of Boston who has written The 
Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts; and 
The Pioneer Quakers. 

HALLWIG. EDWARD 0.. artist, was 
born June 13, 1869, in Baltimore. Md. 
In 1892 he was engaged as special artist 
of the Baltimore American, also becom¬ 
ing publisher and illustrator of the Sidnev 
Magazine. 

HALLWIG, GUSTAV, artist, was born 
in 1810, in Saxony. He has established 
an enviable reputation as one of the fore¬ 
most artists of America, his work being 
confined chiefly to landscape and cattle 
painting. 

HALLWIG. OSCAR, artist, was born 
March 20, 1836. in Saxony. He has paint¬ 
ed portraits of the leading people of 
America. His studio is in Baltimore, Md. 

HALLWIG, PAUL, artist, was born 
Dec. 18, 1865, in Baltimore, Md. He has 
attained success by painting portraits of 
the leading men of the country, and in 
1893 was engaged as special artist to dec¬ 
orate the city hall of Baltimore with por¬ 
traits. 

HALLWIG. WILLIAM C., artist, was 
born March 25, 1870, in New York. He 
painted some fruit pieces which received 
special mention at the world’s fair. 

HALLYBURTON, JAMES D.. lawyer, 
jurist, was born in Virginia. About the 
year 1844 he was appointed United States 
judge for the eastern district of Virginia. 

HALM. GEORGE ROBERT, decorator, 
designer, was born Sept. 1, 1850, in Og- 
densburg. His reputation as a decorator 
and designer of book exteriors and in¬ 
teriors is shown in such works as Lead. 
Kindly Light; Cover for Gilbert's Shake¬ 
speare; Harper's Tennyson; and the dec¬ 
orative designs and illustrations in St. 
Nicholas. Scribner’s and the Century. 

HALPINE,CHARLES GRAHAM—Miles 
O'Reilly—soldier, journalist, author, poet, 
was born Nov. 20, 1829, in Ireland. He was 
a journalist of New York city who came 
to America in 1852 and served during the 
civil war as a colonel in the federal army. 


He was the author of Lyrics: Poems: 
Miles O'Reilly Papers; Life and Adven¬ 
tures of Private Miles O'Reilly: Baked 
Meats of the Funeral; and poetical 
works. He died Aug. 3, 1868. in New 
York city. 

HALSALL, WILLIAM FORMBY. sol¬ 
dier. artist, was born March 20. 1844. in 
England. Among his works are the 
Chasing a Blockade-Runner in a Fog; 
Rendezvous of the Fishermen; The May¬ 
flower; Arrival of the Winthrop Colony; 
and Niagara Falls. His First Battle of the 
Iron-Clads was purchased by the United 
States government in 1887. 

HALSELL, JOHN E„ agriculturist, law¬ 
yer. jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 
11, 1826, in Warren county, Ky. In 1869 he 
was elected circuit judge; was elected a 
representative from Kentucky to the for¬ 
ty-eighth congress: and was re-elected to 
the forty-ninth congress as a democrat. 

HALSEY. CHARLES STORRS. educa¬ 
tor. author, was born Dec. 20, 1834, in 
Cambria. N. Y. In 1856 he graduated 
from Williams col¬ 
lege, and since that 
time has been en¬ 
gaged in educational 
work. For twenty- 
two years he has 
been principal of the 
Union Classical in¬ 
stitute of Schenec¬ 
tady, which position 
he resigned in 1897. 
He is the author of 
Genealogical and 
Chronological Chart 
England. Scotland. 
France. Germany and Spain; Etymology 
of Latin and Greek; and other works. 

HALSEY. GEORGE ARMSTRONG, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born 
Dec. 7. 1827, in Springfield. N. J. In 1861 
and 1862 he was elected to the state as¬ 
sembly; and in the latter year was ap¬ 
pointed assessor of internal revenue for 
the fifth district of New Jersey, which 
office he held until 1866. He was elected 
a representative from New Jersey to the 
fortieth congress. In 1864 was collector 
of internal revenue at Newark, N. J.; and 
was elected to the forty-second congress. 

HALSEY. JEHIEL H., state senator, 
congressman. He was a representative 
from New York to the twenty-first con¬ 
gress; and was a state senator from 1832 
to 1835. 

HALSEY. LEROY JONES, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 28, 
1812, in Goochland county, Va. He is a 
Presbyterian clergyman, and from 1859 
professor in Chicago Theological seminary. 
He is the author of The Literary Attrac¬ 
tions of the Bible: The Life and Pictures 
of the Bible; The Beauty of Emmanuel; 
Living Christianity; .and Scotland’s In¬ 
fluence on Civilization. 

HALSEY, LUTHER, educator, clergy¬ 
man. was born Jan. 1, 1794, in Schenec¬ 
tady. N. Y. From 1829 to 1837 he was 
professor of theology in the Western The¬ 
ological seminary. He died Oct. 29. 1880. 
in Norristown, Pa. 

HALSEY, NICOLL, congressman. He 
was a member of the New York assembly 
frorn Tompkins county in 1824; and a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1833 to 1835. 

HALSEY. SILAS, state legislator, state 
senator, congressman. He was a resi¬ 
dent of New York; and was a representa¬ 
tive in the state legislature for several 
years. He was a representative from New 
York to the ninth congress; and was a 
state senator for one year. 


HALSTEAD, MURAT, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 2. 1829, in Paddy’s 
Run, Ohio. He is a journalist of note, 
editor and proprietor of The Commercial 
of Cincinnati, and since 1890 of The Stan¬ 
dard Union. Brooklyn. He is the author 
of Caucuses of I860; and Life of William 
McKinley. 

HALSTEAD. WILLIAM RILEY, cler¬ 
gyman. college president, author, was 
born March 18, 1848, in Terre Haute. Ind. 
For several years he was president of the 
De Pauw Female college. He is the au¬ 
thor of Religious Policy of America; Civil 
and Religious Forces: and Life On a 
Backwoods Farm. 

HALSTED. BYRON DAVID, agricul¬ 
turist. educator, author, was born June 7, 

1852, in Venice. N. Y. He is an agricul¬ 
tural writer, and since 1884 professor of 
botany in Iowa Agricultural college. He 
is the author A Century of American 
Weeds; The Vegetable Garden; Farm 
Conveniences; and Household Conveni¬ 
ences. 

HALSTED. GEORGE BRUCE, educator, 
mathematician, author, was born Nov. 25. 

1853, in Newark. N. J. He is a professor 
of mathematics in the university of Texas 
from 1887. and a mathematician of promi¬ 
nence. He is the author of Metrical Ge¬ 
ometry. a Treatise on Mensuration; Ele¬ 
ments of Geometry; Synthetic Geometry; 
and Number, Discrete and Continuous. 

HALSTED. NATHANIEL NORRIS, sol¬ 
dier. merchant, philanthropist, was born 
Aug. 13, 1816, in Elizabeth, N. J. When 
recruiting camps were established at 
Trenton he was brevetted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral and placed in command. Princeton 
is indebted to him for the astronomical 
observatory which bears his name. He 
died May 6. 1884, in Newark, N. J. 

HALSTED, OLIVER SPENCER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 22, 
1792, in Elizabeth, N. J. He was a jurist 
of Newark. N. J.; and the author of The 
Theology of the Bible; and The Book 
called Job. He died Aug. 29, 1877, in Ly¬ 
ons Farms, N. J. 

HALSTED. WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in New Jersey. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New Jersey 
from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 
1843. He was a candidate for election to 
the twenty-sixth congress, but although 
he came with a certificate under the seal 
of his state, was not admitted. 

HALTERMAN. FREDERICK. mer¬ 
chant. congressman, was born Oct. 22, 
He was engaged in 
the grocery business, 
from which he re¬ 
tired in 1891; and 
was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the select 
council from the 
twelfth ward in 1880 
for a term of three 
years. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fourth 
congress as a repub¬ 
lican from Philadel¬ 
phia. of which city 
he has been a resi¬ 
dent since 1849. While in congress he 
served on several important committees. 

HALVORSON, KITTEL, soldier, farmer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 15. 1846, -in 
Norway. He entered the military serv¬ 
ice in 1863, enlisting in company C. first 
regiment Wisconsin heavy artillery, and 
served until the close of the war. He 
was a member of the lower house of the 
Minnesota state legislature in 1887; and 
was elected by the Farmers’ Alliance and 
prohibitionists to the fifty-second con¬ 
gress. 



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HAM. CHARLES HENRY. lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born in 1831 in 
New Hampshire. He is a lawyer and 
journalist of Chicago: and the author of 
Manual Training: the Solution of Social 
and Industrial Problems. 

HAM. MARION FRANKLIN, poet, was 
born in 1867 in Ohio. He is a poet of 
Chattanooga; and the author of The Gol¬ 
den Shuttle and Other Poems. 

HAM BERLIN, LAFAYETTE RUPERT, 
educator, poet, was born Feb. 25. 
1861, in Clinton. Miss. He received his 
education at the 
Mississippi college, 
and at the Richmond 
college. Ya. He has 
attained success as a 
teacher of English 
literature: has been 
professor of English 
and expression in the 
Thatcher institute of 
Shreveport, La.: in¬ 
structor of expres¬ 
sion in Richmond 
college; and adjunct 
professor of English and expression in the 
university of Texas. He is the author of 
four volumes of verse, entitled Lyrics 
Lilts, Rhymes, and Verses. He was con¬ 
clave poet for the Knights Templar of 
Mississippi in 1881: alumni poet for Rich¬ 
mond college in 1889-91: and convention 
poet for Beta Theta Phi fraternity in 1887 
and 1897. He is now the president of the 
Southern Interstate Oratorical association 
of Austin, Texas. 

HAMBLETON, SAMUEL, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1812 
in Talbot county. Md. He was elected to 
the house of delegates in 1834. 1835. and 
1853; to the state senate from 1844 to 
1850; was a presidential elector in 1844; 
and was president of the Chesapeake and 
Ohio canal in 1853 and 1854. He was 
elected a representative from Maryland to 
the forty-first congress, and was re-elect¬ 
ed to the forty-second congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

HAMBLIN. JOSEPH ELDRIDGE. sol¬ 
dier. was born in 1828 in Yarmouth. 
Mass. He was brevetted major-general, 
and was mustered out with that rank at 
Washington in 1866. After the war he en¬ 
tered upon civil pursuits in New Y'ork. He 
died July 3. 1870. in New York city. 

• HAMER. GEORGE FREDERICK, mu¬ 
sician, composer, was born in 1862, in 
Lawrence, Mass. He is a successful mu¬ 
sician of Lawrence. Mass.; and the or¬ 
ganist of Trinity church. He is the au¬ 
thor of several songs, church services, and 
piano pieces: and several orchestral over¬ 
tures. 

HAMER. THOMAS, soldier, farmer, 
merchant, legislator, was born June 1. 
1818, in Union county, Pa. He received 
his education at the Milton academy; 
and moved to Illinois in 1846. He served 
in the union army during the civil war as 
colonel of the eighty-fourth regiment Il¬ 
linois volunteer infantry; was wounded at 
the battle of Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862: 
had two horses shot from under him; and 
was presented by his men with a gold 
watch for gallantry on the field of bat¬ 
tle. He has held nearly all the minor of¬ 
fices in the gift of his town and coun¬ 
ty; represented his district for four 
years in the Illinois state legislature; 
and for eight years was a member of the 
state senate, his last term expiring on 
Jan. 1, 1897. He has retired from private 
and public service: and is an honored citi¬ 
zen of Vermont, Ill. 


HAMER. THOMAS L., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. 
He served several sessions in the state 
legislature, and was once elected speaker: 
and was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1833 to 1839. He entered the 
army as a private, and was promoted at 
once to the rank of brigadier-general. He 
died Dec. 2, 1846. in Mexico, while serv¬ 
ing in the army. 

HAMERSLEY. JAMES HOOKER, 
statesman, poet, was born Jan. 26, 1844, 
in New York. He was sent to the state 
convention by the in¬ 
dependent republic¬ 
ans in 1877 as a 
delegate. Later he 
was nominated for 
the state assembly 
from the eleventh 
district, but with¬ 
drew in favor of his 
friend. William Wal¬ 
dorf Astor, whom he 
labored successfully 
to elect. He writes 
upon the live topics 
of the day. and many poems from his pen 
have appeared in books, periodicals and 
newspapers. Among the best known are 
The Countersign: Yellow Roses; Fog Cur¬ 
tain; The Midnight Sun; Ronkonkoma: 
Masconomo: and Voice of the Breakers. 

HAMERSLEY, JOHN WILLIAM, law¬ 
yer, author, was born May 24, 1808, in 
New York city. He has attained promi¬ 
nence as a successful lawyer of New York 
city. He was the author of Reminiscences 
of Lady Hester Stanhope; Lone Ranch; A 
Chemical Change in Eucharist; and other 
works. 

HAMERSLEY. LEWIS RANDOLPH, 
soldier, author, was born in 1847 in Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia. He is a lieutenant in 
the United States marine corps; and au¬ 
thor of Records of Living Officers of the 
United States Navy and Marine Corps; 
and Naval Encyclopaedia. 

HAMILL, PATRICK, merchant, jurist, 
congressman, was born April 28, 1817, in 
Green Glades, Md. He was elected to 
the state assembly in 1843 and 1844; and 
was seven years judge of the Orphans’ 
court of Allegheny county. In 1867 he 
was again elected judge of probate; and 
was elected a representative from Mary¬ 
land to the forty-first congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

HAMILTON, A. H., lawyer, congress¬ 
man. In 1874 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Indiana to the forty-fourth 
and forty-fifth congresses. 

HAMILTON. ALEXANDER, lawyer, 
statesman, was born Jan. 11, 1757, in the 
West Indies. He entered the army as an 
officer of artillery 
and became an aid- 
de-camp to Washing¬ 
ton, with the rank of 
lieutenant - colonel. 
He was a delegate 
to the continental 
congress in 1782 and 
1783, and in 1787 and 
1788; in 1786 was 

elected to the state 

assembly; was elect¬ 
ed to the convention 
which framed the 
federal constitution: by his writings, 

signed Publius, did much to secure its 

adoption, but was the only member from 
New York who signed that instrument. In 
1789 he was appointed secretary of the 
treasury, and continued in that office un¬ 
til 1795. when he resigned. In 1804 he 
had a difficulty with Aaron Burr, which 
resulted in a duel, which took place at 


Hoboken, when he received a fatal shot, 
and died on the following day. July 12. 
1804. 

HAMILTON, ALICE KING, author. She 
is a novelist; and the author of Mildred's 
Cadet; and One of the Duanes. 

HAMILTON. ALLEN McLANE, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Oct. 6, 1848, in 
Brooklyn. N. Y. He is a physician of 
New York city; and the author of Clinical 
Electro-Therapeutics; Nervous Diseases; 
Medical Jurisprudence; Types of Insan¬ 
ity; and The Modern Treatment of Head¬ 
aches. 

HAMILTON. ANDREW, merchant, gov¬ 
ernor. was born in Scotland. In 1692 he 
was appointed governor of New Jersey, 
and served for five years. He died April 
20. 1703, in Burlington. N. J. 

HAMILTON. ANDREW JACKSON, 
merchant, lawyer, jurist, congressman, 
governor, was born Jan. 28. 1815. in Madi¬ 
son county. Ala. He held the office of at¬ 
torney-general; served frequently in the 
legislature; and in 1856 was a presiden¬ 
tial elector. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Texas to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress; and in 1862 was appointed military 
governor of Texas; and in 1865 provision¬ 
al governor of the same state. He was 
a justice of the supreme court of the 
state. He died April 10, 1875. in Austin. 
Texas. 

HAMILTON, ARCHIBALD, naval offi¬ 
cer. He served in the United States navy 
as a lieutenant under Decatur, when the 
United States frigate captured the Mace¬ 
donian, and bore the captured banners 
to Washington in 1813. He was killed in 
the last engagement of the war, in Jan¬ 
uary, 1815. 

HAMILTON, CHARLES M„ soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 
November, 1840. in Clinton county, Pa. 
In 1861 he entered the union army as a 
private, participated in sixteen battles, 
and was wounded three times. He was 
appointed a judge advocate, in which ca¬ 
pacity he served until 1865; and was sub¬ 
sequently a commissioner of refugees in 
Florida. He was a representative from 
Florida to the fortieth congress; and was 
re-elected to the forty-first congress as a 
republican. 

HAMILTON. CORNELIUS S., journal¬ 
ist, lawyer, state senator, congressman, 
was born Jan. 2. 1821, in Muskingum 

county, Ohio. In 1850 he was elected to 
the state constitutional convention; and 
in 1856 to the senate of the state. He was 
subsequently appointed an assessor of in¬ 
ternal revenue. In 1866 he was elected a 
representative from Ohio to the fortieth 
congress. He was killed Dec. 21. 1867, in 
Marysville, Ohio. 

HAMILTON, E. M., farmer, soldier, 
politician, was born Feb. 22, 1833, in 
Brown county. Ill. He commenced life on 
a Mississippi packet, and soon became 
first steward. During the civil war he 
enlisted in the first regiment Minnesota 
volunteer infantry, and participated in 
the battles of the Wilderness, Cold Har¬ 
bor. Deep Bottom. Reams Station, siege 
of Petersburg, Richmond, and was at the 
surrender of Lee. He has served several 
times in the city council of Los Angeles. 
Cal., and has been greatly instrumental 
in the advancement of the interestsof that 
city. He was one of the organizers of 
the people's party; was a delegate to the 
first state convention: was elected a dele¬ 
gate to the Omaha convention; and at that 
convention was elected a national com¬ 
mitteeman. 







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HAMILTON, EDWARD, soldier, law¬ 
yer, journalist, was born in Culpeper 
county, Ya. He served in the Mexican 
war, and in recognition of his service 
was appointed secretary of the territory 
of Arizona in 1850. 

HAMILTON, EDWARD JOHN, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born in 1834 
in Ireland. He is a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man; and professor of philosophy in the 
state university of Washington. He is the 
author of The Human Mind; Mental Sci¬ 
ence; The Modalist, or the Laws of Ra¬ 
tional Thought; and a New Analysis in 
Fundamental Modes, a short treatise in 
ethics. 

HAMILTON, EDWARD LA RUE, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1857, 
in Berrien county, Mich. He was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

HAMILTON, ELIZABETH, was born 
Aug. 9, 1757, in Albany, N. Y. She ren¬ 
dered assistance to her husband in his la¬ 
bors, counseled him in his affairs, and 
kept his papers in order for him, preserv¬ 
ing the large collection of manuscripts, 
which was acquired by the United States 
government in 1849. She died Nov. 9, 
1854, in Washington, D. C. 

HAMILTON, FRANK HASTINGS, edu¬ 
cator, surgeon, author, was born Sept. 10, 
1813, in Wilmington, Vt. He was a dis¬ 
tinguished surgeon of New York city; 
and for many years professor in Bellevue 
hospital. He was the author of Strabis¬ 
mus; Fractures and Dislocations; Mili¬ 
tary Surgery; Principles and Practice of 
Surgery; and Surgical Memories of the 
War of the Rebellion. He died Aug. 11, 
1886, in New York city. 

HAMILTON, HAMILTON, artist, was 
born April 1, 1847, in England. He is 
distinguished in landscape and genre, 
both in oil and water-colors, and also as 
an etcher. Among his chief works are 
The Sisters; Little Sunbeam; and The 
Messenger. . 

HAMILTON, JAMES, lawyer, governor, 
United States senator, was born May 8, 
1786, in Charleston. S. C. In 1812 he 
served with distinction on the Canadian 
frontier; and in 1823 was elected to the 
South Carolina state legislature. From 
that position he was transfer-red to the 
national house of representatives, where 
he remained until 1829; and was subse¬ 
quently chosen governor of South Caro¬ 
lina. Becoming interested in the republic 
of Texas, he helped to promote her inde¬ 
pendence, and went to Europe as minister 
plenipotentiary from that republic. He 
was one of the founders of the Southern 
Quarterly Review, and also of the bank of 
Charleston. At the time of his death he 
was a senator elect in congress from Tex¬ 
as. He died Nov. 15, 1857. 

HAMILTON, JAMES, philanthropist, 
lawyer, was born Oct. 16, 1793, in Car¬ 
lisle, Pa. He labored assiduously in the 
cause of education and was for many 
years a trustee of Dickinson college. He 
died Jan. 23, 1873, in Carlisle, Pa. 

HAMILTON, JAMES, artist, was born 
in 1819 in Ireland. He is well known as 
the spirited illustrator of Dr. Kane’s Arc¬ 
tic Expedition. Among his pictures are 
Capture of the Serapis; Old Ironsides; 
An Egyptian Sunset; Wrecked Hopes; 
Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner; and many 
subjects from the Arabian Nights. 

HAMILTON, JAMES ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, author, was born April 14, 1788, 
in New York city. He is a lawyer of New 
York city; and the author of Reminis¬ 
cences during Three Quarters of a Cen¬ 
tury; and Martin Van Buren’s Calum¬ 
nies Repudiated. He died Sept. 24, 1878, 
in Irvington, N. Y. 


HAMILTON, JOHN, congressman. He 
was at one time high sheriff of Washing¬ 
ton county, Pa., was a representative in 
congress from that state, from 1805 to 
1807. He died Aug. 31, 1837, at his home. 

HAMILTON, JOHN CHURCH, lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 22, 1792, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is a lawyer in New York 
city; and the author of Memoirs of Alex¬ 
ander Hamilton; History of the Republic; 
and The Prairie Province. He edited his 
father’s works. He died July 25, 1882, 
in Long Branch, N. J. 

HAMILTON, JOHN MARSHALL, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, state senator, governor, 
was born May 28, 1847, near Richwood, 
Ohio. He entered the union army in 1864, 
and served until the close of the war. He 
was principal of the academy at Henry, 
Ill., in 1868-69; and in the latter year 
became a professor of Latin at the Illi¬ 
nois Wesleyan university. He was elect¬ 
ed a state senator in 1876; and was elect¬ 
ed lieutenant-governor in 1880. By the 
election of Gov. Cullom to the United 
States senate in January, 1883, he became 
governor of Illinois for the unexpired 
term of two years. 

HAMILTON, JOHN McCLURE, artist, 
was born in 1853 in Philadelphia, Pa. His 
most important painting is Le rire, which 
was exhibited in the National academy in 
New York in 1877, and at the Paris expo¬ 
sition in 1878. 

HAMILTON, JOHN TAYLOR, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 16, 1843, near Geneseo, 
Ill. He removed to Iowa in 1868; is not 
a graduate of any 
college; since 1868 
has been engaged in 
the wholesale farm 
machinery business; 
is president of the 
Cedar Rapids Sav¬ 
ings bank, and a di¬ 
rector in the Cedar 
Rapids City Nation¬ 
al bank; president of 
the Cedar Rapids 
Electric Light and 
Power company. He 
was mayor of Cedar Rapids; was a mem¬ 
ber of the board of supervisors; was 
three times a member of the state legis¬ 
lature, and speaker of the house. He was 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat. 

HAMILTON, JOHN WILLIAM, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 18, 1845, in 
Weston, W. Va. He is a methodist cler¬ 
gyman who founded the People’s church 
in Boston; and the author of Memorials 
of Jesse Lee; Lives of the Methodist Bish¬ 
ops; and People’s Church Pulpit. 

HAMILTON, KATE WATERMAN, au¬ 
thor, was born in Schenectady, N. Y. She 
is an Illinois writer of Sunday-School and 
other fictions. Among them are, The Old 
Brown House; Frederick Gordon; Wood, 
Hay, and Stubble; Rachel’s Share of the 
Road, a Novel; and The Parson’s Proxy. 

HAMILTON, MORGAN CALVIN, mer¬ 
chant, United States senator, was born 
Feb. 25, 1809, near Huntsville, Ala. He 
was a clerk in the war department from 
1838 until 1845, acting as secretary of war 
a portion of the time. He was appointed 
comptroller of the treasury of Texas in 
1867; and was elected a delegate to the 
constitutional convention in 1868. He was 
elected to the United States senate on 
the reconstruction of Texas, and took his 
seat in 1870; and was also elected for the 
term commencing in 1871 and ending in 
1877. 


HAMILTON, MORRIS R., lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, librarian, was born May 24, 1820, 
in Oxford Furnace, N. J. He received his 
education at the Trenton academy, and in 
1839 graduated from the college of New 
Jersey. In 1842 he was admitted to the 
bar and practiced his profession in Cam¬ 
den, N. J. During 1844-49 he filled a posi¬ 
tion in the Philadelphia postoffice, and 
then became editor of The True American 
of Trenton, N. J. He subsequently became 
connected with several prominent daily 
newspapers. During 1851-54 he was ap¬ 
pointed on the personal staff of Gov. Fort, 
with the rank of colonel. Since 1884 he 
has been state librarian, and is the most 
thoroughly qualified librarian that New 
Jersey has ever had. He is prominently 
connected with various fraternal orders, 
and has been prominent in the public and 
political affairs of the state of New Jer¬ 
sey. 

HAMILTON, PAUL, soldier, governor, 
was born Oct. 6, 1762, in St. Paul’s parish, 
S. C. He served during the revolution; 
was comptroller of South Carolina from 
1799 to 1804, when he was elected govern¬ 
or of the state. In 1809 he was appointed 
secretary of the navy. He died June 30. 
1816, in Beaufort, S. C. 

HAMILTON, PAUL, soldier, planter, 
was born Oct. 17, 1816, in Beaufort, S. C. 
He received his education at the Charles¬ 
ton college. He served in the confeder¬ 
ate army in the enrolling department, be¬ 
ing disabled from active service. He was 
aide-de-camp to Gov. Seabrook; and also 
to Gov. Manning, with the rank of colo¬ 
nel. He has been a successful planter, 
and still resides in the place of his na¬ 
tivity. 

HAMILTON, PAUL, soldier, was born 
Feb. 13, 1842, in Beaufort, S. C. He served 
in the confederate army as aid to Gen. 
Wade Hampton, and was assistant adju¬ 
tant-general to Gen. Stephen D. Lee at 
Vicksburg, where he fell while display¬ 
ing great gallantry, Dec.'29, 1862. 

HAMILTON, PHILIP, lawyer, jurist, 
was born June 1, 1802, in New York city. 
He was assistant district attorney in New 
York city, and for some time judge advo¬ 
cate of the naval retiring board in Brook¬ 
lyn. 

HAMILTON, ROBERT, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 5, 
1816, in Hamburg, N. J. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the New Jersey legislature in 1863 
and 1864, serving the last year as speaker 
He was elected to the forty-third con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
fourth congress as a democrat. 

HAMILTON, ROBERT S., author. He 
is the author of Present Status of Social 
Science; and Present Status of the Phi¬ 
losophy of Society. 

HAMILTON, SCHUYLER, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born July 25, 1822, in New York 
city. He was a major-general in the fed¬ 
eral army during the civil war; and is 
the author of History of the American 
Flag; and Our National Flag. 

HAMILTON, WILLIAM P„ naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Oct. 11, 1845. He served in 
the confederate navy, and was one of the 
three middies who ran the Nashville out 
of Beaufort when under strict blockade. 
He died May 3, 1875, in Beaufort, S. C. 

HAMILTON, WADE, clergyman, was 
born July 7, 1855, in Ashley county, Ark. 
He has been on the board of trustees of 
Wiley university for fourteen years, 
and president of the board for two years. 
He has built a large number of churches 
and parsonages, and has contributed ex¬ 
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HAMILTON, WILLIAM TIFFANY, 
lawyer, congressman, governor, United 
States senator, was born Sept. 8, 1820, in 
Washington county, Md. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature in 1846; a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Maryland from 
1849 to 1855; and in 1861 declined the 
nomination for governor of Maryland. He 
was United States senator from Mary¬ 
land from 1869 to 1875; and was elected 
governor of Maryland for the term of 
four years from 1880. He died Oct. 26. 
1888, in Hagerstown, Md. 

HAMLIN, ALFRED DWIGHT FOSTER, 
educator, architect, author, was born in 
1855 in Turkey. He is an architect, and 
has been professor of architecture in Co¬ 
lumbia college since 1889. He is the au¬ 
thor of Handbook of the History of Orna¬ 
ment. 

HAMLIN, AUGUSTUS CHOATE, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born Aug. 28, 
1828, in Columbia, Maine. He is a sur¬ 
geon of Bangor; and the author of Mar- 
tyria, or Andersonville Prison; The Tour¬ 
maline; and Leisure Hours Among the 
Gems. 

HAMLIN. CHARLES, soldier,' author, 
was born Sept. 13, 1837, in Hampden, 
Maine, and is the son of Hannibal Ham¬ 
lin, who was vice-president of the United 
States. He was an officer in the federal 
army during the civil war, and has pub¬ 
lished The Insolvent Laws of Maine. 

HAMLIN, CYRUS, missionary, college 
president, author, was born in January, 
1811, in Waterford, Maine. He was a con- 
gregationalist mis¬ 
sionary in Turkey, 
in 1837-60; president 
of Robert college of 
Constantinople in 
1860-76, and of Mid- 
dlebury college, Vt., 
in 1880-85. He is the 
author of Papists 
and Protestants; 
Arithmetic for Amer¬ 
icans; Cholera and 
Its Treatment; 
Among the Turks; 
and My Life and Times. 

HAMLIN, EDWARD S., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1844 to 1845.. 




HAMLIN, HANNIBAL, statesman, was 
born Aug. 27, 1809, in Paris, Maine. He 
was a member of the Maine legislature 
from 1836 to 1840; 
and speaker of the 
house in 1837, 1839, 
and 1840. He w r as 
elected a representa¬ 
tive to the twenty- 
eighth congress, and 
re-elected to the 
twenty-ninth con¬ 
gress. He was again 
a member of the 
house of representa¬ 
tives in the state 
legislature in 1847; 
and was elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate, May 26, 1848, for four years, to fill 
a vacancy; and was re-elected for six 
years in 1851. He was elected governor 
of Maine in 1857. He was re-elected 
United States senator for six years, and 
resigned the office of governor. In 1860 
he was nominated by the republican party 
as their candidate for the office of vice- 
president, and was elected. In 1865 he was 
appointed collector of customs for the port 
of Boston; and in 1869 took his seat in 
the senate for the fourth term; and was 
re-elected for the term ending in 1881. 
In June of that year he was appointed 
minister plenipotentiary to Spain, but 


resigned in 1882 and returned home. He 
died July 4, 1891, in Bangor, Maine. 

HAMLIN, TEUNIS SLINGERLAND, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1847 in 
New York. He is a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of Washington; and the author of 
Denominationalism versus Christian 
Union. 

HAMLINE, LEONIDAS LENT, bishop, 
author, was born May 10, 1797, in Bur¬ 
lington, Conn. He was a methodist 
bishop prominent in Ohio; and the author 
of Sermons; and Works. He died March 
23, 1865, in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. 

HAMMER, EDWARD JOSIAH, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Feb. 16, 1862, in Fort 
Bend county, Texas. He practiced law 
until 1894, when he was appointed judge 
of the thirty-ninth judicial district of 
Texas. 

HAMMER. JOHN T., artist, was born 
Jan. 1, 1842, in Germany. He studied art 
in Munich and Paris, and has attained 
prominence as a landscape and portrait 
painter. ! 

HAMMERS, ISAAC B., farmer, state 
legislator, was born Oct. 20, 1861, in 
Woodford county. Ill. He served as a 
member of the thirty-ninth and fortieth 
general assemblies of Illinois. 

HAMMET, WILLIAM J.. clergyman, 
congressman, w T as born in Virginia. He 
was chaplain of the university of Virginia, 
when he finished his education; and was 
at one time chaplain of congress. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Mississippi from 1843 to 1845. 

HAMMETT, SAMUEL A., journalist, 
author, was born in 1816 in Jewett City, 
Conn. He was a journalist of New York 
city; and the author of A Stray Yankee 
in Texas; and The Wonderful Adventures 
of Captain Priest. He died Dec. 24, 1865, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HAMMOCK, WILLIAM THOMAS, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, lecturer, wwiter, was born 
Dec. 24, 1866, in Calhoun county, Miss. 
He began educational work at the age of 
sixteen; has taught several state and 
county normal schools; was principal of 
Heber High school in 1891-92; and for 
four years was superintendent of schools 
of Cleburne county, Ark. In 1890 he was 
the editor of The Monitor of Quitman. 
Ark., in which city he is now success¬ 
fully engaged in the practice of law. He 
is an able writer on current topics, and a 
brilliant orator. 

HAMMOND, ABRAM A., lawyer, jurist, 
governor, was born March, 1814, in Brat- 
tleboro, Vt. He was made a judge of the 
court of common pleas in Indianapolis; 
emigrated to California in 1852, but re¬ 
turned to Indiana in 1854, locating at Ter¬ 
re Haute. In 1860 he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of the state, serving until 1861. He 
died Aug. 27. 1874, in Denver, Colo. 

HAMMOND, ANDREW BENONI, mer¬ 
chant, banker, was born July 22, 1848, 
in New Brunswick, N. J. He converted 
his firm into a corporation in 1885, as 
the Missoula Mercantile company, and 
has ever since been its president. 

HAMMOND, ANTHONY, lawyer, au¬ 
thor. He was the author of Law of Nisi 
Prius; Parties to Actions; Principles of 
Pleading; Reports in Equity; Criminal 
Code; Forgery; Practice and Proceedings 
in Parliament; Index to Tennessee Re¬ 
ports; Criminal Code; and Simple Lar¬ 
ceny. 

HAMMOND, CHARLES ADDISON, cler¬ 
gyman, lawyer, prohibitionist, was born 
Sept. 15, 1825, in Freetown, N. Y. He re¬ 
ceived his education at the Cortlandville 
academy, and at the New York Central 
college. For three years he was cler¬ 


gyman of the church of Peterboro, N. Y. 
As a lawyer his work has been largely in 
behalf of public interests, and for years 
was prosecuting attorney for Citizens’ 
committees to enforce anti-liquor laws in 
Central New York. In early life he was 
an active abolitionist, and the intimate 
friend of Gerrit Smith, the famous abo¬ 
litionist, philanthropist and reformer. Mr. 
Hammond has always been an earnest 
temperance reformer; and one of the 
leading prohibitionists of Syracuse, N. Y. 

HAMMOND, D. JUDSON, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, legislator, was born Jan. 15, 1841. 
in Oakland county, Mich. During the 
war he was drafted 
and furnished a sub¬ 
stitute; and at the 
expiration of his 
lease enlisted and 
served in the twen¬ 
ty-second and twen¬ 
ty-ninth regiments 
Michigan volunteer 
infantry. After the 
war he engaged in 
the speculation of 
oil in Canada; but 
subsequently re¬ 
turned to Michigan, where since 1871 he 
has lived in Pontiac. For ten years he 
dealt in produce; and for ten years was 
engaged in banking and real estate, in 
which business he is still engaged. He 
is a prominent member of the Grand 
Army of the Republic and other orders: 
has been alderman of his city; and in 1898 
served with distinction as a representa¬ 
tive in the Michigan state legislature. 

HAMMOND, DUDLEY WHITLOCK, 
surgeon, author, was born May 12, 1809, in 
Pickens county, S. C. In 1853 he removed 
to Macon, Ga. He is the author of a pa¬ 
per on An Improved Plan for Extracting 
Urethral Calculi. 

HAMMOND. EDWARD, congressman, 
was born in Maryland. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1849 to 1853. 

HAMMOND, EDWARD PAYSON, evan¬ 
gelist, author, was born Sept. 1, 1831, in 
Ellington, Conn. He is a noted evangelist 
who has been a prolific author of religious 
books and tracts. Among his hundred or 
more publications are, Good Will to Men; 
Sketches of Palestine; The Conversion of 
Children; and Gathered Lambs. 

HAMMOND, ELI SHELBY, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born April 21, 1838. 
in Brandon, Miss. He served in the con¬ 
federate states army; was lieutenant of 
the second Tennessee infantry; and ad¬ 
jutant of the fourteenth Tennessee cav¬ 
alry. He has served with distinction as 
United States district judge for the west¬ 
ern district of Tennessee. 

HAMMOND, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
physician, state senator, poet, was born 
May 12, 1802, in Gilsum, N. H. He served 
his district as state senator in 1855-56. 
He is the author of a number of rare po- 
' ems. He died Jan. 30, 1872, in Stock- 
bridge, N. Y. 

HAMMOND, MRS. HENRIETTA HAR¬ 
DY, author, was born in 1854 in Virginia. 
She was a southern writer of Action; and 
the author of The Georgians; A Fair Phi¬ 
losopher; Her Waiting Heart; and Wo¬ 
man’s Secrets, or How to be Beautiful. 

HAMMOND. HENRY B., lawyer, rail¬ 
road president, was born Feb. 18, 1840, in 
Douglas, Mass. In 1861 he accepted the 
position of consul to Dublin, Ireland, 
and was instrumental in establishing the 
money-order system at present existing 
in the postoffice. In 1871 he became presi¬ 
dent of the Indiana and Illinois Central 
railroad. 




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HAMMOND, JABEZ D., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, author, was 
horn Aug. 2, 1778. in New Bedford, Mass. 
He was a lawyer and popular political 
writer of New York. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from New York from 
1815 to 1817, and, on the expiration of 
his term, was elected to the state senate, 
of which he was a member until 1821. He 
was elected county judge in 1838, and 
he was elected a regent of the university 
of New York, and held the office until his 
death. He published works entitled Jul¬ 
ius Melbourn; The Political History of 
New York; Life and Times of Silas 
Wright; and Evidence of the Immortality 
of the Soul. He died Aug. 18, 1855, in 
Cherry Valley, N. Y. 

HAMMOND. JAMES B., inventor, was 
born April 23, 1839, in Boston, Mass. He 
invented the Hammond typewriter. 

HAMMOND, JAMES HENRY, lawyer, 
journalist, governor. Upited States sena¬ 
tor, author, was born Nov. 15, 1807, in 
Newbury district, S. C. He served his na¬ 
tive state in congress from 1835 to 1837. 
In 1841 he was appointed a general of 
militia; and in 1842 was elected govern¬ 
or of South Carolina. In 1857 he was 
elected to the United States senate to fill 
a vacancy. He originated the expression 
Cotton is King. He was the author of The 
Pro-Slavery Argument. He died Nov. 13, 
1864. 

HAMMOND, JOHN, soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born Aug. 27. 
1827, in Crown Point, N. Y. He served 
in the union army from 1861 to 1865, ris¬ 
ing from the ranks to brigadier-general. 
He was elected president of the Crown 
Point Iron company; was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a 
republican. 

HAMMOND. JOHN FOX, physician, 
was born Dec. 7, 1821, in Columbia, S. C. 
He was appointed assistant surgeon in the 
United States army in 1847. In 1862 he was 
medical director of the second army corps 
of the Potomac, and was present at the 
siege of Yorktown and the principal bat¬ 
tles of the peninsula. He died Sept. 29, 
1886, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

HAMMOND. LE ROY, soldier, was born 
about 1740 in Richmond county, Va. In 
1779 he took the field with his regiment 
and played an important part in the bat¬ 
tle of Stono Ferry. After the fall of 
Charleston he adopted, like Marion and 
others, a desultory warfare, and was con¬ 
stantly engaged in fighting the loyalists, 
British and Indians. He died about 1800. 

HAMMOND. MARCUS CLAUDIUS 
MARCELLUS, soldier, author, was born 
Dec. 12, 1814, in Newberry district, S. C. 
He was a United States army officer 
whose home was in South Carolina, and 
who published A Critical History of the 
Mexican war. He died Jan. 23,‘l 876, in 
Aiken county, S. C. 

HAMMOND. NATHANIEL J., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1833, in 
Elbart, Ga. He was solicitor-general from 
1861 to 1865; was reporter of the state 
supreme court from 1867 to 1872; and was 
attorney-general of the state from 1872 
to 1877. He was a member of the con¬ 
stitutional conventions of 1865 and 1877. 
He was elected a representative from 
Georgia to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, 
forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses 
as a democrat. 

HAMMOND, ROBERT H., congress¬ 
man, was born in Pennsylvania. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1837 to 1841. He died June 
2, 1847. 


HAMMOND. SAMUEL, soldier, states¬ 
man, was born Sept. 21, 1757, in Rich¬ 
mond county, Va. When the revolution 
broke out he dis¬ 
played great bravery 
and ability at the 
battle of Long 
Bridge. In 1793 he 
headed a volunteer 
corps, and did good 
service in the Creek 
country. He served 
a number of years in 
the Georgia legisla¬ 
ture; and was one of 
the early governors 
of the state. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1803 to 1805; and was appoint¬ 
ed military and civil commandant of Up¬ 
per Louisiana and receiver of public 
moneys in Missouri. He was also presi¬ 
dent of the bank of St. Louis. In 1824 he 
returned to South Carolina, and was elect¬ 
ed to the legislature of that state; was 
appointed surveyor general; and in 1831 
secretary of state. He died Sept. 11, 1842, 
in Augusta. Maine. 

HAMMOND, THOMAS, merchant, ban¬ 
ker, congressman, was born Feb. 27, 1843. 
in Fitchburg, Mass. In the spring of 1888 
he was elected mayor of Hammond. Ind., 
and has been re-elected twice since, serv¬ 
ing his third term when elected to con¬ 
gress. He was elected to the fifty-third 
congress as a democrat. 

HAMMOND, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, 
physician, author, was born Aug. 28, 1828, 
in Annapolis, Md. He is an eminent phy¬ 
sician of New York city, surgeon-general 
of the United States army in 1862-64; and 
now on the retired list as brigadier-gen¬ 
eral and surgeon-general. His medical 
writings include Military Hygiene; Phy¬ 
siological Essays; Sleep and its Derange¬ 
ments; Nervous Derangements; Physio¬ 
logical Memoirs; Lectures on Venereal 
Diseases; Wakefulness; Insanity in its 
Medico-Legal Relations; Physics and 
Physiology of Spiritualism; Diseases of 
the Nervous System; Insanity and its 
Medical Relations: Sexual Impotence in 
the Male; Cerebral Hypersemia; and Neu¬ 
rological Contributions. His novels in¬ 
clude Robert Severne; Lai; Dr. Grattan; 
Mr. Oldmixon; A Strong-Minded Woman; 
and On the Susquehanna. 

HAMMONS, DAVID, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in 1807, in 
Oxford county, Maine. He was a member 
of the senate of Maine in 1840 and 1841; 
and was a representative in congress from 
Maine from 1847 to 1849. 

HAMMONS, JAMES THOMPSON, sol¬ 
dier, educator, lawyer, jurist, was born 
Aug. 9, 1845, in Middleton, Mass. He re¬ 
ceived his education at the Pennington 
college, Texas. He served nearly four 
years in the confederate army. For ten 
years he was engaged in educational 
work; for four years was editor of The 
Anchor of Eastland, Texas; and for six 
years served with distinction as county 
judge of his county. For nearly twenty 
years he has been in the active practice 
of law; and as an orator is known as the 
Demosthenes of the Post Oaks. 

HAMMONS, JOSEPH, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1829 to 1833. He 
died in April, 1833, in Farmington, N. H. 

HAMPTON, CHARLES S., journalist, 
legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1856, in 
Medina, Mich. In 1875 he graduated from 
the Adrian college, Michigan. He has 
served with distinction as a member of 


the Michigan state legislature; has been 
state game and fish warden of Michigan; 
and has filled numerous other public po¬ 
sitions of honor. He is the editor and 
proprietor of the Independent Democrat 
of Petoskey, Mich.; and has contributed 
extensively to periodical literature. 

HAMPTON, JAMES G.. congressman, 
was born in New Jersey. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from his native 
state from 1845 to 1849. 

HAMPTON, MOSES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Oct. 28, 1808, in 
Beaver county. Pa. From 1847 to 1851 
he was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania, and declined a re-election. 
In 1853 he was elected president judge 
of the district court for Allegheny county. 

HAMPTON. WADE, soldier, planter, 
congressman, was born in 1765, in South 
Carolina. He took an active part in the 
war of the revolution; was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1795 to 1797. and from 1803 to 1805. He 
spent the larger part of his life engaged 
in agricultural pursuits, by which he 
amassed a very large fortune, having been 
called the richest planter in the United 
States. He died Feb. 4, 1835, in Columbia. 
S. C. 

HAMPTON, WADE, soldier, governor, 
congressman. United States senator, was 
born March 28, 1818, in Charleston, S. C. 
At different times he served in both 
branches of the legislature, being a state 
senator at the time the state seceded. He 
resigned from the senate and entered the 
confederate army; and served with con¬ 
spicuous gallantry, rising to the rank of 
major-general. He was elected governor 
of South Carolina in 1876, and was re¬ 
elected in 1878. In December of the lat¬ 
ter year he was elected a senator of the 
United States for the term of six years 
from March 4, 1879; and in 1885 was re¬ 
elected for the term ending in 1891. 

HAMPTON, WILLIAM H„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born July 15, 1842, in Montgom¬ 
ery, Ala. He received his education 
at the Altamont academy of Tennes¬ 
see. During the war he served as captain 
of the tenth regiment Tennessee cavalry. 
He became county treasurer of Grundy 
county. Tenn.; and subsequently served 
as assistant United States marshal. He 
has become prominent as an able lawyer 
of Tracy City, Tenn. 

HAMTRAMCK, JOHN FRANCIS, sol¬ 
dier, statesman, jurist, was born in 1798, 
in Fort Wayne, Ind. In 1835 he was cap¬ 
tain of the Virginia militia, and held this 
post until his death. He served in the 
Mexican war as colonel of the first regi¬ 
ment of Virginia volunteers. In 1853 he 
was appointed justice of the Jefferson 
county court, which office he held until 
the time of his death. He died April 21. 
1858, in Shepherdstown. 

HANAFORD. MRS. PHEBE ANN [COF¬ 
FIN], clergyman, author, poet, was born 
May 6, 1829. in Nantucket, Mass. She is a 
universalist minister, the first woman to 
enter the ministry in the universalist de¬ 
nomination. Since 1887 she has been in 
charge of a church at New Haven. She 
is the author of Life of Abraham Lin¬ 
coln; Life of George Peabody; Lueretia 
the Quakeress: Leonette, or Truth Sought 
and Found; The Best of Books and its 
History; Frank Nelson, the Runaway 
Boy; The Soldier’s Daughter; Field, 
Gunboat, and Hospital; Women of the 
Century; The Captive Boy of Tierra del 
Fuego; Life of Dickens; and From 
Shore to Shore, and Other Poems. 



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HANBACK. LEWIS, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born March 27, 
1839, in Winchester, Ill. He served three 
and a half years in the union army dur¬ 
ing the war of the rebellion. He was pro¬ 
bate judge of Shawnee county, Kan., for 
four years; was assistant United States 
attorney for the district of Kansas for 
more than two years; and in 1879 was ap¬ 
pointed receiver of public moneys at Sa- 
lina, Kan. He was fleeted a representa¬ 
tive from Kansas to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth congress as a republican. 

HANCHER, JOHN WILLIAM, educator, 
clergyman, was born April 9, 1856, near 
Freedom, Ohio. During six years of his 
pastorates in Kansas and Iowa he pur¬ 
sued his studies, and in 1888 graduated 
from the Dakota School of Mines. He has 
traveled extensively in Europe and Amer¬ 
ica; and is a man of strong will-power 
and untiring perseverance. Dr. Handler 
is the founder of the Black Hills college 
of Hot Springs, S. D.; and was its presi¬ 
dent from its organization in 1889. He 
has lectured extensively through the west; 
has been a clergyman of the methodist 
episcopal church since 1889; and since 
March 15, 1897. has been pastor of the 
Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal church 
of Kansas City, Mo. 

HANCHETT, HENRY G„ musician, 
composer, was born Aug. 29, 1853. He is 
a successful concert pianist; and has 
been director of various musical societies 
in New York. 

HANCHETT, LUTHER, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 25, 
1825, in Portage county, Ohio. He was 
four years district attorney for Portage 
county in his adopted state; and from 
1856 to 1860 was a member of the Wiscon¬ 
sin senate. In 1860 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Wisconsin to the thirty- 
seventh congress. He died Nov. 26, 1862. 
in Madison, Wis. 

HANCHETT. M. W.. musician, invent¬ 
or, was born in Hartford county, Conn. 
For many years he has been conductor of 
music and organist in Syracuse, N. Y. He 
is the inventor of a tone-sustaining pedal 
for the pianoforte, now used by piano 
artists. 

HANCOCK. ANSON URIEL, author. 
He is the author of The Genius of Galilee, 
an historical novel; John Auburntop, 
Novelist; and Old Abraham Jackson, a 
Nebraska Story. 

HANCOCK, GEORGE, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1755, in Virginia. He 
served as a colonel in the revolution. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1793 to 1797. He died Aug. 
1, 1820, in Fotheringay, Va. 

HANCOCK, JOHN, merchant, states¬ 
man, was born Jan. 12, 1737, in Quincy. 
Mass. In 1766 he went into the general 
assembly of the 
state, where he be¬ 
came distinguished 
for his ability. In 
1774 he was unani¬ 
mously elected pres¬ 
ident of the provin¬ 
cial congress, a n d 
having been elected 
a delegate to the 

continental congress 
in 1775, was chosen 
president of that 
body, serving as such 
two years and a half, and as a delegate 
from 1775 to 1780, and from 1785 to 1786. 
He was the first man to sign the declara¬ 
tion of independence, and his peculiar sig¬ 
nature is universally known. He also 

signed the articles of confederation: was 


a member of the convention to form a 
state constitution; and was governor of 
Massachusetts for five years, after the 
adoption of its constitution, and, under 
the federal constitution from 1789 until 
his death. He died Oct. 8, 1793. 

HANCOCK, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 29, 1824, in Jack- 
sou county, Ala. He was elected to the dis¬ 
trict bench of Texas; and served as judge 
until 1855, when he resigned. He was a 
member of the state legislature in 1860 and 
1861; refused to take the oath of allegi¬ 
ance to the confederate states, and was 
expelled. He was elected a member of the 
state constitutional convention of 1866. 
He was elected to the forty-second and 
forty-third congresses: and was re-elected 
to the forty-fourth congress; and was also 
elected a representative from Texas to 
the forty-eighth congress. 

HANCOCK, WILLIAM A., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, civil engineer, was born May 17, 1831, 
in Barre, Mass. He received his education 
in the public and private schools of his 
native city and at Leicester academy. In 
1853 he moved to Iowa, and subsequently . 
crossed the plains with a band of cattle, 
settling in Sacramento valley. Cal., where 
he engaged in the dairy and cattle busi¬ 
ness. During the civil war he enlisted 
in the seventh regiment California volun¬ 
teer infantry; and was subsequently com¬ 
missioned second lieutenant of the first 
regiment Arizona volunteers, and was 
honorably discharged as first lieutenant. 
In 1871 he was appointed district attorney 
of Maricopa county, which position he 
filled until 1875, when he was appointed 
probate judge for four years. In 1884 he 
was elected district attorney; and now 
practices his profession at Phoenix, Ariz. 
He surveyed and located many of the irri¬ 
gation canals of the valley; was the pro¬ 
moter and organizer of the Agua Fria 
Water and Land company; and has been 
its secretary, chief engineer and general 
superintendent since the organization of 
that company. 

HANCOCK. WINFIELD SCOTT, sol¬ 

dier, was born Feb. 14, 1824, in Mont¬ 
gomery square. Pa. He graduated from 
the West Point Mili- 
tary academy i n 
1844; and for the 
two years following 
he was second lieu¬ 
tenant of the sixth 
infantry. He served 
with distinction in 
the Mexican war; 
and in 1861 was com¬ 
missioned brigadier- 
general. For his ser¬ 
vices he received a 
resolution of thanks 
passed by congress in 1866. In 1880 he 

was an unsuccessful candidate for the 
presidency of the United States. He died 
Feb. 9, 1886, on Governor’s Island, N. Y. 

HAND. ALFRED, lawyer, jurist, was 
born March 26, 1835, in Honesdale, Pa. 
He has been presiding judge of common 
pleas, and justice of the supreme court 
of Pennsylvania at Scranton. 

HAND, AUGUSTUS C„ lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1803, in 
Stoneham, Vt. He settled at Elizabeth¬ 
town, N. Y.; and was surrogate of his 
county from 1831 to 1839. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1839 to 1841; and a member of the 
state senate from 1845 to 1848. He was a 
justice of the supreme court from 1848 to 
1856. after which he was wholly devoted 
to the practice of his profession. He died 
March 8, 1878, in Elizabethtown, N. Y. 


HAND, DANIEL, merchant, philanthro¬ 
pist. was born July 16, 1801, in Madison. 
Conn. He became a merchant in Au¬ 
gusta, Ga„ and Charleston, S. C., where 
he accumulated a fortune. He gave a 
high-school building to his native town; 
and in 1888 gave $1,000,000 to the Ameri¬ 
can Missionary association, to be held in 
trust for educational purposes. He died 
Dec. 17, 1891, in Guilford, Conn. 

HAND, DANIEL WHILLDIN, surgeon, 
educator, was born Aug. 18, 1834, in New 
Jersey. Since 1872 he has been president 
of the Minnesota board of health; in 
1883 was appointed professor of surgery 
in the university of Minnesota, and is one 
of the founders of the State Medical so¬ 
ciety. 

HAND, EDWARD, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the 
continental congress in 1784 and 1785. 

HAND, EDWARD, soldier, was born 
Dec. 31, 1744, in Ireland. He was pro¬ 
moted a colonel in 1776; engaged in the 
battles of Long Island and Trenton, and 
was appointed brigadier-general. He died 
Sept. 3, 1802, in Rockford, Pa. 

HAND, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, was 
born May 1, 1834, in Elizabethtown, N. Y. 
He practiced law with his father in Eliza¬ 
bethtown till his removal in 1860 to Al¬ 
bany. He was corporation counsel for the 
city of Albany in 1863, and subsequently 
a judge. He died May 21, 1886, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. 

HANDLEY, GEORGE, soldier, state leg¬ 
islator, governor, was born Feb. 9, 1752, in 
England. During the whole revolutionary 
war he was actively engaged in South 
Carolina and Georgia. He was repeatedly 
a member of the Georgia state legislature, 
of which state he served as governor in 
1788. He died Sept. 17, 1793, in Rae’s Hall, 
Ga. 

HANDLEY, WILLIAM A., merchant, 
congressman, was born Dec. 15, 1834, in 
Franklin, Ga. He was for many years a 
mail contractor; and was engaged in mer¬ 
cantile pursuits in the service of the con¬ 
federate states, as a civil and military 
officer from 1861 to 1865. He was elected 
to the forty-second congress as represen¬ 
tative from Alabama. 

HANDY. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, 
jurist, was born Dec. 25, 1809, in Princess 
Anne, Md. He was a judge of the high 
court of errors from 1853 till 1867, when 
he resigned. He died Sept. 12, 1883, in 
Canton, Miss. 

HANDY, JAMES A., bishop, was born 
Dec. 22, 1826, in Maryland. In 1892 he 
was ordained bishop, his district compris¬ 
ing methodist episcopal churches in Mis¬ 
souri. Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyo¬ 
ming, and Montana. 

HANDY, LEVI IRVING, educator, jour¬ 
nalist. lecturer, congressman, was born 
Dec. 24, 1861, in Berlin, Md. He attended 
public and private 
schools in Maryland 
and New York; 
taught school in 
Somerset county. 
Md., and came to 
Smyrna, Del., to 
teach in 1881. He 
was superintendent 
of free schools in 
Kent county in 1887- 
90; was chairman of 
the democratic state 
central committee in 
1892-96: and was editorial writer on Wil¬ 
mington Every Evening in 1894-95. He is 
a popular lecturer and has since 1890 de¬ 
livered lectures in lyceum courses in many 
sections of the country. He was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 










446 


HKRRINGSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY'. 


HANEY, DICK, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Nov. 10, 1852, in Lansing, Iowa. He 
has been judge of the circuit court of 
South Dakota from its admission to the 
union to Feb. 1, 1896, when he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the supreme court of that 
state. 


HANFORD, CORNELIUS H., lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 21, 1849, in Van 
Buren county, Iowa. He is one of the 
foremost lawyers of the west, and promi¬ 
nent in the public affairs of Washington 
territory. He has served as city attorney 
of Seattle; and was a member of the 
council of Washington territory. He 
served with distinction as chief justice of 
Washington territory; and is now United 
States district judge for the state of Wash¬ 
ington. 



HANKINSON, RICHARD H., merchant, 
legislator, was born Sept. 7,1841, in Grand 
Rapids, Mich. He received his education 
in the public schools 
of his native city; 
and in 1861 enlisted 
in the eighth Michi¬ 
gan volunteer infan¬ 
try, and served with 
gallantry throughout 
the war; and was 
promoted to first ser¬ 
geant. For many 
years he was super¬ 
intendent of the 
Northwestern Tele¬ 
graph company in 
Minneapolis, Minn. In 1878 he organized 
the Northwestern Telephone company, 
and was its first general manager. In 
1882 he moved to Hankinson, N. D., where 
he has attained success as a merchant. 
He served with distinction as a member 
of the first and fifth state legislatures of 
North Dakota. 


HANKS, HORACE TRACY, physician, 
was born June 27, 1837, in Randolph, Vt. 
He was secretary for several years and 
vice-president for three years of the New 
York Academy of Medicine. He is a pro¬ 
lific writer for medical publications. 

HANKS, JAMES M., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 12, 1833, in He¬ 
lena, Ala. He was elected judge of the 
first district of Arkansas in 1864, and re¬ 
mained upon the bench until 1868. He 
was elected to the forty-second congress 
as a representative from his native state. 

HANLON, THOMAS, clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, was born March 23,1832, in New York 
city. He has been president of Penning¬ 
ton seminary since 1876. 

1IANLY, J. FRANK, educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 4, 1863, in 
Champaign county, Ill. He was elected to 
the Indianq state senate in 1890; and 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 


HANNA. HOWARD MELVILLE, manu¬ 
facturer, was born Jan. 23, 1840, in Lis¬ 
bon, Ohio. In 1886 he organized the Globe 
Iron Works company of Cleveland, Ohio, 
and became president. From these works 
have been launched fifty steel steamers, 
and several other vessels for the federal 
government and private owners. 

HANNA, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Sept. 3, 1827, in Marion county, 
Ind. He removed to Kansas, and was a 
representative in its territorial legislature 
in 1857 and 1858. He returned to Indiana ; 
and was a presidential elector in 1860. Iii 
1861 he was appointed United States dis¬ 
trict attorney for the district of Indiana, 
and was reappointed in 1865. He was 
elected a representative from Indiana to 
the forty-fifth congress. 


HANNA, JOHN A., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1797 to 1805. 

HANNA, MARCUS ALONZO, financier. 
United States senator, was born Sept. 24, 
1837, in New Lisbon, Ohio. He is presi¬ 
dent of the Union 
National bank of 
Cleveland; and was 
government director 
of the Union Pacific 
Railway company in 
1885, by appointment 
of President Cleve¬ 
land. He was a del¬ 
egate to the national 
republican conven¬ 
tions of 1884, 1888, 
and 1896; was elected 
chairman of the na¬ 
tional republican committee in 1896, and 
still holds that position. He was ap¬ 
pointed to the United States senate as a 
republican in 1897, to fill a vacancy. 

HANNA, ROBERT, soldier, United 
States senator, was born April 6, 1786, in 
Laurens, S. C. He was a member of the 
Indiana constitutional convention of 1816; 
and a general of militia. He was for 
many years in the state legislature; and 
was a senator in congress from Indiana 
from 1831 to 1832. He died Nov. 19, 1858, 
in Indianapolis, Ind. 

HANNA, WILLIAM BRANTLY, jurist, 
was born Nov. 23, 1835, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was assistant district attorney of 
Philadelphia for several years, and from 
1867 till 1874 served in the councils of 
the city. In 1872 he was elected a member 
of the constitutional convention of the 
state. In 1874 he was elected one of the 
three first judges of the orphans’ court 
of Philadelphia; and in 1878 was commis¬ 
sioned to be the first president judge of 
this court. 

HANNEGAN, EDWARD A., lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born in Ohio. He was frequently a mem¬ 
ber of the state legis¬ 
lature; and was a 
representative i n 
congress from In¬ 
diana from 1833 to 
1837. He was a sen¬ 
ator in congress from 
1843 to 1849, officiat¬ 
ing part of the time 
as chairman of the 
committee on roads 
and canals and on 
enrolled bills; on his 
retirement from the 
senate he was appointed minister to Prus¬ 
sia, and on his return from Europe took 
up his residence in Missouri. He died 
Feb. 25, 1850, in St. Louis, Mo. 

HANNIBAL, RASMUS, lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 10, 1850, in Denmark. He 
has attained prominence as a successful 
lawyer of St. Paul, Neb. He was elected 
county judge of Howard county, Neb., 
which position he has filled with'distinc¬ 
tion, and is now serving his fifth' term 
in that office, which will make ten years 
in all. 

HANRAHAN, JOHN DAVID, physi¬ 
cian, was born Jan. 18, 1844, in Ireland. 
He has attained prominence as a physi¬ 
cian. and has a lucrative practice in New 
York city. 

HANSBROUGH, HENRY C., journalist, 
congressman, United States senator was 
born Jan. 30, 1848, in Prairie du Rocher. 
Ill. He removed to the then territory of 
Dakota in 1882, engaging in journalism; 
became prominent as an advocate of the 


republican policy of division and admis¬ 
sion; and was twice elected mayor of 
his city. He received the republican nom¬ 
ination for congress at the first state 
convention and was elected to the fifty- 
first congress. He was elected to the 
United States senate as a republican in 
1891. 

HANSCOM, CHARLES WATTS, manu¬ 
facturer, legislator, was born Oct. 26, 1853, 
in Machias, Maine. In 1886 he was elected 
a member of the fifteenth territorial leg¬ 
islature of Montana. In 1890 he assisted 
in the formation of the people’s party in 
Montana. 

HANSCORN, ABNER LEWIS, farmer, 
state senator, was born Jan. 1, 1848, in 
Springfield, Maine. He has filled numer¬ 
ous public offices of trust in North Da¬ 
kota; and served with distinction as a 
member of the state senate. 

HANSON, ALEXANDER CONTEE, ju 
rist, was born Oct. 22, 1749. He was the 
first judge of the general court of Mary¬ 
land under the constitution of 1776, and 
prepared a compilation of the laws of the 
state. He died in 1806, in Annapolis, Md. 

HANSON. ALEXANDER CONTEE. 
lawyer, journalist, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Feb. 27, 1786, in 
Maryland. He was a presidential elector 
in 1789 and 1793; and at one time edited 
a political newspaper called the Federal 
Republican, first at Baltimore and then at 
Georgetown, D. C. He subsequently is¬ 
sued his paper in Georgetown; afterward 
settled in Baltimore; and was elected a 
representative in congress, serving from 
1813 to 1816, when he was elected a sena¬ 
tor of the United States from Maryland 
He died April 23, 1810, in Belmont, Md. 

HANSON, EDGAR FILMORE, author, 
was born in 1853, in Maine. He was the 
author of Demonology or Spiritualism. 
Ancient and Modern. 

HANSON, ELIZA RICE, author, was 
born April 11, 1825, in Norridgewock. 
Maine. She published Women Workers, a 
popular book. She died Sept. 16, 1865, in 
Blue Island, Ill. 

HANSON, JAMES H., educator, author, 
was born June 26, 1816, in China, Maine. 
In 1865 he took charge of the Waterville 
academy, making it a preparatory school 
to Colby university. He is the author of 
a Latin prose book and other text-books 
used extensively in preparatory schools 
and colleges. 

HANSON, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a delegate from Maryland to the continen¬ 
tal congress from 1781 to 1783; and pres¬ 
ident of that body during the first ses¬ 
sion, and a signer of the articles of con¬ 
federation. He died Nov. 13, 1783. in 
Prince George county. 

HANSON, JOHN WESLEY, clergyman, 
author, was born May 12, 1823, in Boston. 
Mass. He received a thorough education 
in the private and public schools of Mass¬ 
achusetts. in Lowell and Boston. During 
the civil war he was chaplain of the sixth 
regiment Massachusetts volunteer infan¬ 
try. He has attained eminence as a suc¬ 
cessful clergyman; and for many years 
he has been editor of the New Covenant 
of Chicago, Ill. He is the author of 
about thirty volumes, the most notable of 
which are: Histories of Danvers, Nor¬ 
ridgewock, and Gardiner, in Maine; Bible 
Threatenings Explained; Cloud of Wit¬ 
nesses, a compilation; Aion Aionos; Bi¬ 
ble Proofs of Universal Salvation; Ser¬ 
mons on the Lord’s Prayer; The Leaven 
at Work; and The New Covenant, a 
translation of the New Testament. 





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HAPGOOD, ISABELLA FLORENCE, 
translator, author, was born in 1850, in 
Massachusetts. She is a translator from 
the Russian and French; and the author 
of The Epic Songs of Russia; Russian 
Rambles; and Translations of Gogol and 
Victor Hugo. 

HARADEN, JONATHAN, naval officer, 
was born in 1745, in Gloucester, Mass. 
When the war of independence began he 
joined the Tyrannicide as first lieuten¬ 
ant, and shortly afterward was promoted 
oaptain, and appointed to the command of 
the Pickering. He died Nov. 26, 1803, in 
Salem, Mass. 

HARALSON, HUGH A., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1805, in 
Greene county, Ga. He was for many 
years a member of the Georgia legisla¬ 
ture; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1843 to 1851. He participated 
in the military affairs of the state, and 
was a major-general of militia. He died 
in October, 1854, in his home. 

HARALSOEN, JEREMIAH, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born April 1, 1846. 
in Muscogee county, Ga. In 1870 he was 
elected to the state legislature; in 1871 
a justice of the peace; and was for three 
years president of the Alabama Labor 
union. In 1872 he was elected a state sen¬ 
ator; and in 1874 was elected to the 
forty-fourth congress from the state of 
Alabama as a republican. 

HARBAUGH, HENRY, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Oct. 28, 1817, 
near Waynesborough, Pa. He was a Ger¬ 
man reformed clergyman of Pennsylvania, 
professor in Mercersburg seminary, whose 
principal writings include Fathers of the 
German Reformed Church in Europe and 
America; The Heavenly Home; Christo- 
logical Theology; The True Glory of Wo¬ 
man; Heaven, or the Sainted Dead; Birds 
of the Bible; The Golden Censor; and 
Union with the Church. He died Dec. 28, 
1867, in Mercersburg, Pa. 

HARBAUGH, THOMAS CHALMERS, 
author, poet, was born Jan. 3, 1849, in 
Middletown, Md. He is the author of 
numerous poems of 
the events of the civ¬ 
il war, which have 
been delivered at 
regimental reunions 
and Grand Army 
gatherings. He de¬ 
voted his whole time 
to literature, and is 
the author of a vol¬ 
ume of poems enti¬ 
tled Maple Leaves; 
and various other 
works. His poems 
have been given a place in several stand¬ 
ard collections. 

HARBERT, MRS. ELIZABETH BOYN¬ 
TON, lecturer, journalist, author, poet, 
was born April 15, 1843, in Crawfords- 
ville, Ind. She delivered her first lecture 
in Crawfordsville in 1869; succeeded in 
inducing the republicans of Iowa to put 
into the state platform a woman’s plank; 
and has always taken an active part in 
the woman’s suffrage movement. For 
eight years she edited the woman’s de¬ 
partment of the Chicago Inter Ocean; and 
is the author of The Golden Fleece; Out 
of Her Sphere; and Amore. 

HARBY, ISAAC, dramatist, author, 
was born in 1788, in Charleston, S. C. 
He was a dramatist of Charleston whose 
plays include Alexander Severus; The 
Gordian Knot; and Alberti. He died Nov. 
14, 1828, in New York city. 

HARBY. MRS. LEE COHEN, author, 
was born in 1849. in South Carolina. She 


is a New York writer, formerly of Texas, 
who has published Christmas Before the 
War. 

HARCOURT, ASHTON PERRY, lawyer, 
legislator, was born July 6, 1832, in Mt. 
Eden, Ky. He has served twice as a 
member of the Kentucky state legisla¬ 
ture. 

HARD, ANSON WALES, importer, was 
born Oct. 16, 1841, in Arlington, Vt. In 
1875 he formed the present house of Hard 
and Rand, coffee importers, now recog¬ 
nized as a leading concern in the business, 
having branch houses in Santos, Rio de 
Janeiro, London and Batavia. 

HARD, GIDEON, state senator, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1833 to 
1837; and a state senator from 1842 to 
1847. 

HARD, MANLEY S., clergyman, was 
born Oct. 4, 1842, in Penfield, N. Y. He 
graduated from the Genesee Wesleyan 
seminary of Lima, 
N. Y., and from the 
Syracuse university. 
He is a pastor, pre¬ 
siding elder, and 
member of four gen¬ 
eral conferences, and 
secretary in each. 
For twenty years he 
has been secretary in 
the central New York 
and Wyoming con¬ 
ferences of the meth- 
odist episcopal 
church; a trustee of the New York State 
Custodial Asylum for Feeble Minded Wo¬ 
men; trustee of the Wyoming Conference 
seminary and the Syracuse university; 
and a member of various boards and as¬ 
sociations. 

HARD. MIRONE, educator, was born 
Dec. 6, 1849, in Columbus, Ohio. In 1873 
he graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan 
university; and has since principally been 
engaged in educational work. For four 
years he was principal of the high school 
at Washington Court House, Ohio; for ten 
years was superintendent of instruction 
at Gallipolis, Ohio; and since 1887 has 
been superintendent of instruction at Sa¬ 
lem. Ohio. He is now the honored presi¬ 
dent of the Ohio State Teachers’ associa¬ 
tion. 

HARDEE, WILLIAM JOSEPH, soldier, 
author, was born about 1817, in Savannah, 
Ga. He was a confederate general who 
was the author of a well-known work on 
Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics. He died 
Nov. 6, 1873, in Wytheville, Va. 

HARDEMAN, ROBERT ULLA, soldier, 
financier, was born Nov. 22, 1838, in Bibb 
county, Ga. He served as captain and 
acting adjutant in the Virginia army un¬ 
til the close of the war. He was state 
treasurer of Georgia in 1884-92. 

HARDEMAN, THOMAS, soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
Jan. 12, 1825, in Eatonton, Ga. In 1853 
he was elected a representative in the 
Georgia state legislature; and in 1855 was 
elected state senator. In 1857 he was 
again elected to the assembly; and in 1859 
was elected a representative in congress 
from Georgia. He served with distinction 
in the confederate army during the civil 
war; was again elected to the assembly 
in 1863, and was speaker of the house; 
was re-elected in 1864, and was again 
made speaker. In 1874 he was again 
elected a representative in the state leg¬ 
islature, and was chosen speaker of the 
house. He was elected a representative 
from Georgia to the forty-eighth congress. 


HARDENBERGH, AUGUSTUS A., 
banker, railroad president, congressman, 
was born May 18, 1830, in New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. J. In 1853 he was elected to the 
state legislature; and in 1868 was elected 
state director of railroads. In 1874 he was 
elected a representative from New Jersey 
to the forty-fourth congress; was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress; de¬ 
clined renomination; and in 1878 was 
elected president of the Hudson County 
National bank. He was elected to the 
forty-seventh congress; and declined a 
further renomination. 

HARDENBERGH. GIRARD RUTGERS, 
artist, was born Dec. 9, 1856, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. He has attained prom¬ 
inence as a painter of birds. 

HARDENBERGH, JACOB RUTSEN, 
clergyman, college president, was born in 
1738, in Rosendale, Ulster county, N. Y. 
He was the first president of Rutgers col¬ 
lege, of which institution he was one of 
the founders. He died Oct. 30, 1790, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. 

HARDEY, MARY ALOYSIA, mother 
superior, was born in 1809, in Prince 
George county. Md. She was a noted phi¬ 
lanthropist. She died June 17. 1886, in 
Paris, France. 

HARDIE, JAMES, educator, author 
was born about 1750, in Scotland. He 
was an educator of New York city; and 
the author of Corderii Colloquia; Episto¬ 
lary Guide; Freeman’s Monitor; Won¬ 
ders of Art and Nature, especially in 
America; Biographical Dictionary; Ma¬ 
lignant Fevers in New York; Viris II- 
lustribus Urbis Romse; and Description of 
New York City. He died in 1832, in New 
York city. 

HARDIE. JAMES ALLEN, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, was born May 5, 1823, in New York 
city. He was an assistant professor of 
geography, history, and ethics at West 
Point in 1844-46, and served as company 
officer in garrison, frontier, and Indian 
service till 1861. He was made brigadier- 
general of volunteers in 1862. He died 
May 5, 1876, in Washington, D. C. 

HARDIN, BENJAMIN, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1784, 
in Westmoreland county. Pa. In 1808 he 
moved to Bardstown, Ky.; was a member 
of the legislature in 1810, 1811, 1824, and 
1825; and state senator from 1828 to 1832. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1815 to 1817, from 1819 to 
1823, and from 1833 to 1837. He was sec¬ 
retary of state of Kentucky from 1844 to 
1847; and was a member of the state con¬ 
stitutional convention in 1849. He died 
Sept. 24, 1852, in Bardstown, Ky. 

HARDIN, CHARLES H., philanthropist, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born July 15, 1820, in Trumble county, Ky. 
He was elected county attorney in Mis¬ 
souri; and in 1851 became one of the 
managers of the State Lunatic asylum. 
In 1852 he was elected to the state legisla¬ 
ture, and re-elected in 1855. He was one 
of a commission to revise the state laws; 
in 1858 was again elected to the legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1860 to the state senate; and 
again elected to the senate in 1872. In 
the following year he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Missouri. 

HARDIN, E. R„ lawyer, jurist, was born 
in Georgia. He was appointed an associ¬ 
ate justice of the United States court for 
the territory of Nebraska. 

HARDIN, JOHN, soldier, was born Oct. 
1, 1753, in Fauquier county, Va. At the 
beginning of the revolution he joined the 
continental army as lieutenant in General 
Daniel Morgan’s rifle corps. He died in 
1792, on the Ohio river. 





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HARDIN, JOHN J., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1810, in 
Frankfort, Ky. He held the office of 
prosecuting attorney for his circuit; and 
was a member of the Illinois legislature 
from 1836 to 1842. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Illinois from 1843 
to 1845. He commanded a regiment in 
the war with Mexico, and was killed at 
the battle of Buena Vista. He died Feb. 
27, 1847, in Buena Vista, Mexico. 

HARDIN, MARTIN D., soldier, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born June 21, 
1780, on Monongahela River, Pa. He 
served for several years in the legislature 
of Kentucky; and was at one time sec¬ 
retary of state for Kentucky. He served 
in the northwestern army as a major; 
and was a senator in congress during the 
years 1816 and 1817. He died Oct. 8, 1823, 
in Franklin county, Ky. 

HARDING, AARON, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in Greene 
county, Ky. In 1840 he was elected to 
the state legislature. In 1861 he was 
elected a representative from Kentucky 
to the thirty-seventh congress; and was 
re-elected to the thirty-eighth and thirty- 
ninth congresses. 

HARDING, ABNER CLARK, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 10. 
1807, in East Hampton, Conn. He was a 
member of the Illinois constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1848; and served in the state 
legislature in 1848-50. In 1862 he enlisted 
as a private in the eighty-third Illinois in¬ 
fantry, and, having been appointed its 
colonel, served with success at Fort Don- 
elson; and was made a brigadier-general. 
In 1864 he was elected a representative 
from Illinois to the thirty-ninth congress, 
and was re-elected to the fortieth congress. 
He died July 19, 1874, in Monmouth, Ill. 

HARDING, BENJAMIN F„ lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Jan. 4. 1823, in Wyoming county, 
Pa. In 1849 he settled in Oregon; and in 
1850 was chosen a member of the legis¬ 
lative assembly. In 1852 he was chosen 
a member of the legislature and made 
speaker. In 1853 he was appointed United 
States district attorney for the territory of 
Oregon: and in 1854 was appointed sec¬ 
retary of the territory, which office he 
held until Oregon was admitted as a state. 
From 1859 to 1862 he was a member of 
the state legislature, serving the last two 
years as speaker. In 1862 he was elected 
a senator in congress from Oregon: and 
took his seat during the third session of 
the thirty-seventh congress. 

HARDING, GARRICK M„ lawyer, ju¬ 
rist. was born July 12, 1827, in Exeter, 
Pa. He received his education at the 
Franklin academy, 
at the Madison acad¬ 
emy, and in 1848 
graduated from the 
Dickinson college of 
Carlisle, Pa. He was 
admitted to the bar 
in 1850; and during 
1858-61 was attorney- 
general of Luzerne 
county, Pa. During 
1870-80 he was presi¬ 
dent judge of the 
eleventh judicial dis¬ 
trict of Pennsylvania, which position he 
resigned and returned to the practice of 
law. His judicial career covered the days 
of the Molly McGuires in Pennsylvania, 
many of whom were tried before him and 
convicted; some were imprisoned for 
long terms, and some were hanged. In 
addition to a thorough knowledge of the 
law, Judge Harding possessed powers of 
oratory that won him fame from the 
commencement of his professional career. 


HARDING, GEORGE, lawyer, was born 
Oct. 26, 1827, in Philadelphia. He was as¬ 
sociated with Abraham Lincoln and Ed¬ 
win M. Stanton in the McCormick reaper 
case, and introduced a miniature grain- 
field to illustrate the process of reaping 
by machinery. His most successful effort 
was in the Tilghman glycerine case, when 
his argument induced the supreme court 
to reverse its first decision on the same 
patent. 

HARDING, STEPHEN S„ jurist, was 
born in Indiana. He removed to Utah; 
and was appointed from that territory an 
associate justice of the United States 
court for the territory of Colorado, resid¬ 
ing in Denver City. 

HARDING, STEPHEN SELWYN, gov¬ 
ernor, poet, was born Feb. 24, 1808, in 
Ontario county, N. Y. In 1862 he was 
appointed governor of Utah territory. 

HARDING, WILLIAM WHITE, jour¬ 
nalist. inventor, manufacturer, was born 
Nov. 1, 1830, in Philadelphia. From 1863 
till 1878 he manufactured paper at the 
Inquirer Paper mills. Manayunk, near 
Philadelphia, where he introduced many 
new systems and inventions. He died May 
15, 1889, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HARDY, ALEXANDER MERRILL, 
journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Dec. 16, 1847. in Canada. In 1869 he went 
to New Orleans, where he was engaged in 
newspaper work until 1873, when he lo¬ 
cated in Natchez, Miss., where he con¬ 
ducted a republican newspaper until 1877. 
In 1881 he was assigned to duty as clerk 
to the superintendent of construction of 
the government building at Paducah, Ky.; 
and in 1884 located at Washington, Da¬ 
viess county, Ind., where he has since 
'resided. He was elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a republican. 

HARDY. ARTHUR SHERBURNE, edu¬ 
cator, mathematician, author, was born 
Aug. 13, 1847, in Andover, Mass. He was 
professor of mathematics at Dartmouth 
college in 1878-93, and well known both 
as no\ elist and mathematician. He is the 
author of Elements of Quaternions; New 
Methods in Surveying; Elements of An¬ 
alytic Geometry; Elements of Calculus; 
But Yet a Woman; The Wind of Destiny; 
Passe Rose; and Joseph Hardy Neesima, 
a biography. 

HARDY, JAMES WARD, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born Jan. 
19, 1815, in Georgia. He was for several 
years professor of mathematics in Grange 
college, Ala., and afterward its president. 
He died Aug. 14, 1853, in Alabama. 

HARDY, JOHN, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Sept. 19, 1835, in 
Scotland. In 1861 he was a member of the 
state house of representatives. He was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-seventh congress to fill a va¬ 
cancy; and was re-elected to the forty- 
eighth congress. 

HARDY, MRS. LIZZIE CLARK, poet, 
was born in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. 
She is the author of a number of poems, 
many of which have been set to music. 

HARDY, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born about 1758 in Isle of Wight county, 
Va. He was a delegate to the conti¬ 
nental congress from Virginia from 1783 
to 1785. He died in October, 1785, in New 
York city. 

HARE. CHARLES WOODROPH, law¬ 
yer, journalist, was born Sept. 20, 1857, 
near Camden, Ala. For seven years he 
was editor of the Alabama Baptist; and 
since 1895 has been editor of The News 
of Tuskegee, Ala. 


HARE, DARIUS I)., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 9, 1843. near 
Adrian, Ohio. He entered the military 
service as a private in the signal corps, 
United States army, in 1864, and served 
during the remainder of the war. He was 
elected from Ohio to the fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses as a democrat. 

HARE, GEORGE EMLEN, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1808, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an episco¬ 
pal clergyman and professor of biblical 
learning in the Philadelphia Divinity 
school. He was the author of Christ to 
Return; and Visions and Narratives of 
the Old Testament, a volume of sermons. 
He died in 1892. 

HARE. JOHN INNES CLARK, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Oct. 17, 1816, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a noted Philadel¬ 
phia jurist; and the author of Treatise on 
Contracts; New England Exchequer Re¬ 
ports; and American Constitutional Law. 

HARE, ROBERT, scientist, author, was 
born Jan. 17, 1781, in Philadelphia. Pa. 
He was a prominent Philadelphia scien¬ 
tist; and was the author of Brief View of 
Policy and Resources of the United States; 
Spiritualism Scientifically Demonstrated; 
and Chemical Apparatus and Scientific 
Manipulations. He died May 15, 1858, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

HARE, SILAS, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman. was born Nov. 13, 1827, in Ross 
county, Ohio. He served one year in the 
war with Mexico as a private. He was 
chief justice of New Mexico in 1862 un¬ 
der the confederate government; and aft¬ 
erwards served until the war closed as a 
captain. He settled in Sherman in 1865; 
was criminal district judge from 1873 till 
1876: and was chosen democratic elector 
for the state at large in 1884. He was 
elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

HARE. WILLIAM HOBART, bishop of 
South Dakota, was born May 17, 1838, in 
Princeton, N. J. He has established a 
cathedral and a diocesan school for young 
ladies among the white people at Sioux 
Falls, and boarding schools and missions 
throughout the diocese. 

HARE, WILLIAM ROBERT, protes- 
tant episcopal bishop, was born May 17, 
1838, in Princeton, N. J. In 1872 he was 
elected missionary bishop of Niobrara, 
and was consecrated in 1873. 

HARFORD, HELEN DICKINSON, edu¬ 
cator, lecturer, was born July 31, 1843, 
in Cleveland, N. Y. In 1864 she graduat¬ 
ed from the State Normal college of Al¬ 
bany, N. Y.: and has successfully taught 
school in Bloomington and Grant Park, 
Ill.; and in Kansas City, Mo. She is now 
a national lecturer and organizer for the 
Woman’s Christian Temperance union, 
and a successful advocate of temperance 
and woman suffrage in Kansas and Ore¬ 
gon. 

HARGIS, THOMAS F„ lawyer, jurist, 
was born June 24, 1842, in Breathitt 
county. He served in the war and be¬ 
came captain of the fifth Kentucky in¬ 
fantry. He subsequently studied law, 
and became one of the ablest jurists of 
Kentucky. His appeals as chief justice of 
Kentucky’s highest court are written in a 
vigorous, yet graceful, style. In 1866 he 
was admitted to the bar, and the year 
following was elected judge of Nicholas 
county, Ky.; receiving the re-election in 
1870. In 1871 he was chosen a member 
of the Kentucky state senate; elected 
judge of the criminal court in 1878; and 
raised to the appellate bench of Kentucky 
in 1879. He retired from the supreme 
bench in 1884, and has since practiced his 
profession in Louisville, Ky. 



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HARGRAVE, CHARLES A., educator, 
college president, was born May 24, 1858, 
in Portland Mill, Ind. He is an educator 
of natural science in the Central Normal 
college of Danville, Ind., of which insti¬ 
tution he is president. 

HARGROVE, ROBERT KENYON, 
bishop, author, was born Sept. 17, 1829, 
in Pickens county, Ala. He has been 
bishop of the methodist church south 
since 1882; and is the author of Laws of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church South as 
Interpreted by the College of Bishops. 

HARING, CORNELIUS I., lawyer, was 
born April 4, 1860, in New City, N. 
Y. In 1884 he moved to Milwaukee, Wis.,. 
where he has since attained prominence 
as one of the foremost lawyers of that 
state. 

HARING, JOHN, congressman, was 
born Sept. 28, 1739, in Tappan, Orange 
(now Rockland) county, N. Y. He was a 
delegate from New York to the continen¬ 
tal congress from 1774 to 1775, and again 
from 1785 to 1788. He died April 1, 1800. 
in Blauveltville, N. Y. 

HARK. JOSEPH MAXIMILIAN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1849 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a Moravian clergyman 
and educator of Bethlehem, Pa.; and the 
author of The Unity of Truth in Chris¬ 
tianity and Evolution. He has translated 
and edited from the German The Chron- 
icon Ephratense. 

HARKER, CHARLES G., soldier, was 
born Dec. 2, 1837, in Swedesborough, N. J. 
He was graduated at the United States 
Military academy in 1858; and was made 
brigadier-general of volunteers. Killed 
June 27, 1864, in battle of Kenesaw Moun¬ 
tain. 

HARKER, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor. In 1752 he became pastor of a 
church at Black River, N. J. He pub¬ 
lished Pedestination Consistent with Gen¬ 
eral Liberty, for which he was excluded, 
and disqualified to preach by the synodsof 
New York and Philadelphia. He subse¬ 
quently published an Appeal from the Sy¬ 
nod to the Christian World. 

HARKEY, SIDNEY LEVI, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1827 in North Caro¬ 
lina. He is a lutheran clergyman whose 
writings include The Signs of the Times; 
The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints; 
Thorough Education; Agnosticism; and 
National Blessings and Dangers. 

HARKEY, SIMON WALCHER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 3, 1811, in 
Iredell county, N. C. He was a lutheran 
clergyman of Illinois; and the author of 
True Wisdom Triumphant; Justification 
by Faith; and The Church’s Best State. 
He died in 1889. 

HARKINS, MATHEW, bishop, was born 
Nov. 17, 1845, in Boston, Mass. He was 
consecrated a bishop of Boston, Mass. 

HARKISHEIMER, WILLIAM JOHN, 
soldier, was born Jan. 11, 1838, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He served in the civil war 
and attained the rank of major. He is 
president of numerous business corpora¬ 
tions of Jacksonville, Fla. 

HARKNESS, ALBERT, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 6, 1822. in Black- 
stone, Mass. He is an educator of Provi¬ 
dence, and professor of Greek in Brown 
university since 1855. He has published 
Complete Latin Course for the First Year, 
and many Greek and Latin text-books. 

HARKNESS, JAMES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 13, 1803, in Scot¬ 
land. He was a presbyterian clergyman 
who emigrated from Scotland in 1839, 
and was a pastor in Jersey City in 1862- 
78. Messiah’s Throne and Kingdom was 
his only published work. He died July 
4, 1878, in Jersey City, N. J. 

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HARKNESS, WILLIAM JOHNS, civil 
engineer, clergyman, was born in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 1878 he graduated from 
the scientific department of the university 
of Pennsylvania as a civil engineer. He 
then spent three years in the study of the 
practical side of mechanics, then two 
years in the draughting room of a firm 
of engine builders; and subsequently be¬ 
came the private secretary of his father, 
an extensive oil merchant of Philadel¬ 
phia. Since 1887 he has been a clergyman 
of the methodist episcopal church; has 
received the degree of M. A.; and now 
fills a pastorate in Weston, W. Va. He 
has written extensively on scientific and 
religious subjects. 

HARLAN, AARON, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 
1802, in Warren county, Ohio. In 1831 he 
was elected a member of the state legis¬ 
lature; and in 1838 and 1839 was elected 
to the state senate. He was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1844 from Ohio; and in 
1849 was again elected to the state senate. 
In 1852 he was elected a representative in 
congress from Ohio, where he continued to 
serve the people of his native district un¬ 
til the close of the thirty-fifth congress. 

HARLAN, ANDREW J., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
29, 1815, in Chester, Ohio. He was elected 
to the legislature in 1846, 1847 and 1848; 
and was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from Indiana from 1849 to 1851, and 
again from 1853 to 1855. 

HARLAN, CLINTON L., author, poet. 
He is the author of a prose work en¬ 
titled The Happy Christian; and a vol¬ 
ume of verse entitled A Didactic Poem. 

HARLAN, GEORGE CUVIER, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Jan. 28, 1835, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a successful phy¬ 
sician of Philadelphia, who has made a 
specialty of diseases of the eye. He is the 
author of Eyesight and How to Take Care 
of It. 

HARLAN, JAMES, merchant, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 22, 1800, in 
Mercer county, Ky. In 1829 he was ap¬ 
pointed prosecuting attorney for the cir¬ 
cuit in which he resided, and held the 
office four years. In 1835 he was elected 
a representative in congress from Ken¬ 
tucky, and in 1837 was re-elected. From 
1840 to 1844 he was secretary of the state 
of Kentucky; and in 1845 was elected to 
the lower branch of the legislature. In 
1850-63 he was attorney general of that 
state. He died Feb. 18, 1863, in Frank¬ 
fort, Ky. 

HARLAN, JAftlES, journalist, lawyer, 
college president, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Aug. 25, 1820, 
in Clarke county, 
Ill. He was superin¬ 
tendent of public in¬ 
struction for Iowa in 
1847; and was presi¬ 
dent of the Iowa 
Wesleyan university 
in 1853. He was elect¬ 
ed a senator in con¬ 
gress from Iowa in 
1855; and was re¬ 
elected to the senate 
for the term ending 
in 1867. In 1865 he 
resigned his seat in the senate and en¬ 
tered upon his duties as secretary of the 
interior. In 1866 he was again re-elected 
to the senate for the term commencing in 
1867 and ending in 1873. In 1869 he was 
appointed president of the Iowa univer¬ 
sity, and after leaving the senate in 1873 
became proprietor and editor of the Wash¬ 
ington Chronicle. 


HARLAN, JOHN MARSHALL, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born June 1, 1833, in 
Boyle county, Ky. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Cen¬ 
ter college, Ky., and 
at the Transylvania 
university. He prac¬ 
ticed law in Frank¬ 
fort, in connection 
with his father, the 
late Hon. James 
Harlan, and served 
as county judge of 
Franklin county, Ky. 
During the civil war 
he served in the 
union army with dis¬ 
tinction as colonel of the tenth Ken¬ 
tucky volunteer infantry. He has filled 
the office of adjutant-general of Ken¬ 
tucky; and was attorney general during 
1863-67. In 1871 and in 1875 he was the 
republican candidate for governor of Ken¬ 
tucky; and in the latter year his name 
was presented by the republican conven¬ 
tion of his state for the vice-presidency. 
In 1877 he was a member of the Louis¬ 
iana commission; and since that year has 
filled the high office of associate justice of 
the supreme court of the United States. 

HARLAN, RICHARD, physician, nat¬ 
uralist, author, was born Sept. 19, 1796, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a physician 
and naturalist of Philadelphia; and the 
author of Observations on the Genus Sala- 
mandra; Fauna Americana; American 
Herpetology; and Medical and Physical 
Researches. He died Sept. 30, 1843, in 
New Orleans, La. 

HARLAND, HENRY—Sidney Luska— 
journalist, author, was born March 1, 
1861, in New York city. He is a novelist 
of New York city who removed to London, 
and has there edited The Yellow Book. He 
is the author of Grandison Mather; Mea 
Culpa; As It Was Written; Mrs. Peixada; 
The Land of Love; The Yoke of the 
Thorah; My Uncle Florimond; and Grey 
Roses. 

HARLOW, AMOS ROGERS, manufac¬ 
turer, public official, was born April 23, 
1815, in Shrewsbury, Mass. He is a di¬ 
rect lineal descend¬ 
ant of Capt. William 
Harlow, who came to 
the Plymouth colony 
in 1642. For fifteen 
years he was en¬ 
gaged in the manu¬ 
facture of woolen 
machinery, and in 
1849 organized the 
Marquette Iron 
company; operated 
the first sawmill in 
Marquette, and was 
the first postmaster of that city. He 
filled numerous public offices of trust in 
his city and county, and died Oct. 3, 1890. 

HARLOW, JOHN MALCOLM, lawyer, 
poet, was born Jan. 25, 1858, in Charles¬ 
ton, Ill. He was admitted to the bar in 
1889; taught school six years; and is the 
author of a volume of poems entitled The 
Oriole. 

HARLOW, WILLIAM BURT, poet. He 
is the author of a volume of poems en¬ 
titled Songs of Syracuse. 

HARMAN, COLFAX BURGOYNE, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, poet, was born Nov. 24, 
1869, near Valley Falls, Kas. He has 
taught in all grades of school work; and 
is now the editor of the Farmer’s Vindi¬ 
cator of Valley Falls, Kas. He is the au¬ 
thor of Shylock’s Judgment, and a volume 
of poems. 










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HARMAN, HENRY MARTYN, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was horn in 1822 
in Maryland. He is a methodist clergy¬ 
man, and a professor in Dickinson col¬ 
lege, Carlisle, Pa., since 1870. He is the au¬ 
thor of Journey to Egypt and the Holy 
Land; and Introduction to Study of the 
Scriptures. 

HARMAN, JOHN WILLIAM, educator, 
lawyer, was born April 1, 1869, near 
Macksville, W. Va. He commenced life 
as a schoolteacher; studied law in the 
West Virginia university; and now prac¬ 
tices his profession with success in Peters¬ 
burg, W. Va. 

HARMANSON, JOHN H., mechanic, ag¬ 
riculturist, state senator, was born in 
January, 1803, in Norfolk, Va. He served 
in the Louisiana state senate in 1844; was 
elected to the national house of repre¬ 
sentatives in 1845, and re-elected in 1847 
and 1849. He died Oct. 25, 1850, in New 
Orleans. 

HARMAR, JOSIAH, soldier, was born 
in 1753 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general by congress in 
1787; and general-in-chief of the army in 
1789. He commanded an expedition 
against the Miami Indians in 1790, and 
partially defeated them. He resigned in 
1792; was adjutant-general of Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1793 to 1799; and furnished 
the troops for Wayne’s campaign in 1793 
and 1794. He died Aug. 20, 1813, in Phila¬ 
delphia. 

HARMER, ALFRED C., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 8, 1825, in 
Germantown, Pa. He was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the city coun¬ 
cils of Philadelphia 
in 1856, and served 
four years. He was 
elected recorder of 
deeds for Philadel¬ 
phia in 1860, and 
served three years. 
He was a delegate to 
the national conven¬ 
tion at Chicago; and 
was elected to the 
forty-second and for¬ 
ty-third congresses. 
He was again a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty- 
ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, 
fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. Having served 
a quarter of a century, the longest con¬ 
secutive service, he is known as the 
Father of the House. 

HARMON, ABNER W., poet. He is a 
successful writer of Old Orchard, Maine; 
and has contributed a number of poems to 
current literature. 

HARMON, JUDSON, lawyer, jurist, at¬ 
torney general of the United States, was 
born Feb. 3, 1846, in Hamilton county, 
Ohio. In 1876 he was elected judge of 
the common pleas court, but was unseated 
four months later, after a contest. Two 
years later he was elected judge of the 
superior court of Cincinnati, and was re¬ 
elected in 1883. In 1887 he resigned to 
resume the practice of law; and was ap¬ 
pointed attorney general by President 
Cleveland and entered upon the duties of 
his office in 1895. 

HARMONY, DAVID B., naval officer, 
was born Sept. 3, 1832, in Easton, Pa. In 
1885 he attained the rank of commodore. 

HARNDEN, WILLIAM FREDERICK, 
expressman, was horn Aug. 23, 1813, in 
Reading, Mass. Early in 1839 he originated 
the express system of transportation for 
merchandise or parcels. He died Jan. 14, 
1845, in Boston, Mass. 


HARNETT, CORNELIUS, congressman, 
was born April 20, 1723, in North Caro¬ 
lina. He was a delegate from North Caro¬ 
lina to the continental congress from 1777 
to 1780, and signed the articles of con¬ 
federation. He died April 20, 1781, in 
Wilmington, N. C. 

HARNEY, GEORGE EDWARD, archi¬ 
tect, was born in 1840 in Lynn, Mass. 
Among the notable structures he has de¬ 
signed are the Commercial Union build¬ 
ing and the Mercantile library of New 
York city. 

HARNEY, JOHN MILTON, journalist, 
author, poet, was born March 9, 1789, in 
Sussex county, Del. He was a Savannah 
journalist who became a Dominican monk. 
He published Crystallina, a fairy tale 
in verse, and his other poems appeared 
posthumously in periodicals. He died 
Jan. 15, 1825, in Bardstown, Ky. 

HARNEY, WILLIAM SELBY, soldier, 
was born Aug. 27, 1800, near Haysboro, 
Tenn. In 1865 he was brevetted major- 
general for long and faithful service. He 
died May 9, 1889, in Orlando, Fla. 

HARNEY, WILLIAM WALLACE, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born June 20, 1831, in 
Bloomington, Ind. He is a journalist and 
verse writer of Florida whose poems have 
appeared in magazines and anthologies, 
but have not been gathered into book 
form. 

HARPER, ALEXANDER, congress¬ 
man, was born in Ireland. He was elected 
a representative in congress from 1837 to 
1839, from 1843 to 1847, and again from 
1851 to 1853. 

HARPER, EDWARD BASCOM, insur¬ 
ance president, was born Sept. 14, 1842, 
in Dover, Del. In 1875 he was manager 
of John Hancock Insurance company of 
Boston; and in 1882 became president of 
the Mutual Reserve Fund Life associa¬ 
tion. He died July 2, 1895. 

HARPER, FRANCES ELLEN WAT¬ 
KINS, lecturer, author, poet, was born in 
September, 1825, in Baltimore, Md. She 
is well known as an anti-slavery lectur¬ 
er, and is a director in the Association for 
the Advancement of Woman of Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. She is the author of Iola Le¬ 
roy, which presents a vivid and truthful 
view of scenes in the south before, dur¬ 
ing and after the war. She is also the au¬ 
thor of numerous meritorious poems, 
which have been a valuable acquisition 
to current literature. 

HARPER, FRANCIS J., congressman. 
He was elected a member of congress from 
Pennsyh ania, but died before taking his 
seat. He died March 18, 1837. 

HARPER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
educator, college president, was born Aug. 
21, 1832, in Franklin, Ohio. Since 1868 
he has been president of the Cincinnati 
College of Medicine and Surgery. In 1875 
he was elected president of the National 
Historical society of Cincinnati. 

HARPER, IDA HUSTED, journalist, 
was born in Fairfield, Ind. She has been 
managing editor of the Terre Haute 
Daily News; editorial writer for the In¬ 
dianapolis News; and department editor 
and correspondent for a number of news¬ 
papers and magazines. 

HARPER, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in 1779 in Ireland. He was elected 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1833 to 1837. He died 
March 31, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HARPER, JAMES, publisher, was born 
April 13, 1795, in Newton, N. Y. He was 
the founder of the printing and publishing 
firm of Harper and Brothers. His firm at¬ 
tained prominence as the largest pub¬ 
lishers of original works in America He 
died March 27, 1869, in New York city. 


HARPER, JAMES C., farmer, merchant, 
congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1819, in 
Cumberland county, Pa. He was elected 
to the North Carolina legislature in 1865, 
1866 and 1868; and was barred by the 
fourteenth amendment to the constitution 
of the United States, but his disabilities 
were removed by congress in 1869. He 
was elected to the forty-second congress, 
serving on the committee on the Pacific 
railroad. 

HARPER, JESSE, politician, orator. He 
was the first man to suggest the name 
of Abraham Lincoln for the presidency of 
the United States. He is a successful 
'journalist and orator of Danville, Ill. 

HARPER, JOHN, was born Jan. 22, 
1797, in Newton, L. I. He was financial 
manager of the firm of Harper and 
Brothers, and on the death of his brother 
became senior member of the firm. He 
died April 22, 1875, in New York city. 

HARPER, JOHN A., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1811 to 1813. 

HARPER, JOSEPH HENRY, publisher, 
was born June 23, 1850, in New York 
city. He became a partner in Harper and 
Brothers in 1877, and was placed in 
charge of the literary and periodical de¬ 
partment. 

HARPER, JOSEPH MORRILL, physi¬ 
cian, lawyer, banker, congressman, was 
born June 21, 1787, in Limerick, Maine. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1831 to 1835. In 
1858 he was president of the Mechanics’ 
bank, Concord; and for a short time, in 
1831, officiated as acting-governor of New 
Hampshire. He died Jan. 14, 1865, in 
Canterbury, N. H. 

HARPER, OLIVE, author, was born in 
the Wyoming valley, Pa. She is the au¬ 
thor of The Lotus of the Nile; A Drift of 
Sand; Becky; and The Tame Turk. 

HARPER, ROBERT GOODLOE, soldier, 
lawyer, United States senator, author, was 
born in 1765 near Fredericksburg, Va. 
He was a leading representative in con¬ 
gress from South Carolina, from 1794 
to 1801. He subsequently removed to Bal¬ 
timore, Md.; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from that state during the years 
1815-16. He served with credit in the 
war of 1812, attaining the rank of major- 
general. His Select Works appeared in 
1814. He died Jan. 15, 1825, in Baltimore, 
Md. 

HARPER, SAMUEL A., lawyer, poli¬ 
tician, was born Jan. 9, 1855, in Hazel 
Green. Wis. During 1890-94 he was 
United States attorney for the western 
district of Wisconsin; and during 1894- 
98 was president of the Wisconsin State 
Republican league at Madison, Wis. 

HARPER, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist. United States senator, was born 
Jan. 17, 1790, in Antigua, S. C. He became 
one of the board of trustees of the South 
Carolina college in 1813; adopted the pro¬ 
fession of the law; served in the state 
legislature; and was elected speaker of 
the lower house. He was a senator in 
congress from South Carolina during the 
year 1826; was appointed chancellor of 
that state in 1835; and in 1830 was elected 
a judge of the court of appeals. He spent 
a few years in Missouri from 1818 to 1823. 
and while there was made chancellor of 
the state. He died Oct. 10, 1847, in South 
Carolina. 

HARPER, WILLIAM M., journalist, 
state senator, was born Jan. 21, 1850, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. He is a successful jour¬ 
nalist; and in 1897 was elected to the 
state senate of the Ohio general assem¬ 
bly. 




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HARPER, WILLIAM RAINEY, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
July 26, 1856, in New Concord, Ohio. He 
is a baptist clergyman and president of 
the university of Chicago. He is the au¬ 
thor of Elements of Hebrew; Elements 
of Hebrew Syntax; Hebrew Vocabularies; 
and An Introductory New Testament, 
Greek Method. 

HARRAH, CHARLES JEFFERSON, 
merchant, was born Jan. 1, 1817, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 1852-57 he was proprietor 
of a ship yard at Rio Janeiro, and then 
engaged in railroad and navigation enter¬ 
prises, amassing a large fortune, with 
which he returned to his native city in 
1874. 

HARRELL, MRS. SARaH CARMICH¬ 
AEL, temperance reformer, was born Jan. 
8, 1844, in Brookville, Ind. She received 
her education at the 
Brookville college; 
and subsequently 
was engaged for 
twelve years in edu¬ 
cational work. She 
has always been 
greatly interested in 
the public schools of 
her state; and dur¬ 
ing her husband’s 
four terms in the 
general assembly of 
Indiana, she was 
called to fill many positions requiring ex¬ 
ecutive ability and forethougnt. In 1891 
she was appointed a member of the In¬ 
diana Columbian Exposition board; and 
was chosen a member of committee on ed¬ 
ucation, and a member of committee on 
woman’s work. She served two years as 
superintendent of the department of sci¬ 
entific temperance in the public schools; 
and was instrumental in securing the 
passage of a bill in the Indiana general 
assembly of 1895 making it obligatory to 
teach the injurious effects of alcohol and 
narcotics upon the human system. 

HARRIES, WILLIAM HENRY, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 15, 
1843, in Montgomery county, Ohio. In 
1864 he was commissioned captain of 
company F, third United States veteran 
volunteers, and was discharged from the 
army April 17, 1866. He has been county 
attorney two terms; and was elected to 
the fifty-second congress as a democrat. 
He was appointed collector of internal 
revenue in 1894 for the state of Minne¬ 
sota. 

HARRIGAN, EDWARD, actor, author, 
was born in 1845, in New York. He is an 
actor and playwright of New York city, 
among whose many plays of low life in 
the metropolis are. Squatter Sovereignty; 
and Cordelia’s Aspirations. 

HARRIGAN, LAURENCE, public of¬ 
ficer, legislator, was born in 1835, in Ire¬ 
land. In 1857 he was appointed on the 
St. Louis police force, and was rapidly 
promoted, and finally became chief of 
police of that city. During President 
Cleveland’s first term Mr. Harrigan was 
appointed appraiser of the Port of St. 
Louis. In 1880 he served as a member in 
the Missouri legislature. 

HARRIMAN, WALTER, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, governor, author, was born April 
8, 1817, in Warner, N. H. In 1862 he 
became colonel of the eleventh New 
Hampshire regiment, which he led 
through the civil war. He was secretary 
of state of New Hampshire from 1865 to 
1867, and governor of the state from 1867 
to 1869. He was the author of A History 
of Warner, N. H.; and Travels and Ob¬ 
servations in the Orient. He died July 25, 
1884, in Concord, N. H. 


HARRINGTON, CHARLES EDWARD, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
Oct. 5, 1846, in Concord, N. H. In 1881 
he was chaplain of the legislature of 
New Hampshire. He is the author of a 
work entitled The Draft of Young Men in 
Relation to the Churches. 

HARRINGTON, EBENEZER BURKE, 
lawyer, state senator, author, was born in 
1813, near Lyons, N. Y. He was elected 
a member of the Michigan state senate 
in 1839, and acted as state reporter from 
that year until his death. He was the 
author of Harrington’s Chancery Reports. 
He died in 1844, in Detroit, Mich. 

HARRINGTON, GEORGE, diplomat, 
business man, was born in Massachusetts. 
He was for many years a clerk in the 
treasury department at Washington; chief 
clerk under S. P. Chase; and in 1861 was 
appointed assistant secretary of that de¬ 
partment. Between the years 1865 and 
1869 he was minister resident to Switzer¬ 
land; and was subsequently president of 
a telegraph company in New York city. 

HARRINGTON, HENRY W., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 12, 1825, in 
Otsego county, N. Y. He was chosen a 
delegate to the Charleston convention in 
1860 from Indiana; and in 1862 was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Indiana to the 
thirty-eighth congress. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the New York convention of 1868. 

HARRINGTON, JONATHAN, patriot, 
was born July 8, 1757, in Lexington, Mass. 
He was the last survivor of the minute- 
men who were called out to appear in 
arms at Lexington on the 19th of April, 
1775. He died March 28, 1854. 

HARRINGTON, MARK WALROD, ed¬ 
ucator, scientist, astronomer, author, was 
born Aug. 18, 1848, in Sycamore, Ill. He 
is a scientist and professor of astronomy 
in the university of Michigan. He is the 
author of The Analysis of Plants; and 
Identification of Crude Drugs. 

HARRINGTON, SAMUEL MAXWELL, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 5, 1803, in 
Dover, Del. He was appointed secretary 
of state of Delaware in 1829, and again 
in 1830, and in the following year was se¬ 
lected to fill a vacancy on the bench of 
the state supreme court, and became its 
chief justice, holding the office until the 
court was united with the superior court. 
In the latter he sat as associate justice un¬ 
til 1855, when he was again made chief 
justice. In 1857 he succeeded to the chan¬ 
cellorship, the highest judicial office in 
the state. He died Nov. 28, 1865, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

HARRINGTON, WILLIAM P., railroad 
president, was born April 17, 1826, in 
Nobleboro, Maine. Since 1885 he has been 
president of the Colusa and Lake railroad 
at Colusa, Cal. 

HARRIS, ALFRED W., soldier, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Jan. 27, 1842, in 
Louisville, Ky. He served through the 
war in the union army. He has been in 
the United States internal revenue ser¬ 
vice in Louisville, Ky.; and is the author 
of several prose works, and a volume of 
poems. 

HARRIS, AMANDA BARTLETT, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1824, in New Hamp¬ 
shire. She is a writer whose life has 
been mainly spent at her birthplace, 
Warner, N. H. She is the author of 
Christ our Friend; Thy Will be Done; 
The Duty of Uniting with the Church; 
Summer’s Autographs; How we Went 
Birds’-Nesting, republished as Field, 
Wood, and Meadow Rambles; Wild Flow¬ 
ers and V/here They Grow; Door-yard 
Folks; Pleasant Authors for Young 
Folks; American Authors for Young 
Folks; and The Luck of Edenhall. 


HARRIS, BENJAMIN GWINN, agri¬ 
culturist, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Dec. 13, 1806, near Leonardstown, Md. In 
1832 he was elected to the house of dele¬ 
gates of Maryland, and re-elected in 1833, 
1836, 1849, 1852, and 1856. In 1863 he was 
elected a representative from Maryland to 
the thirty-eighth congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-ninth congress. 

HARRIS, BENJAMIN W., lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 10, 1823, in Bridgewater, Mass. He 
was a member of the state senate in 1857, 
and a representative in 1858. He was dis¬ 
trict attorney from 1858 to 1866; and was 
collector of internal revenue for the sec¬ 
ond district from 1866 until 1873, when 
he resigned. He was elected to the forty- 
third congress, and re-elected to the for¬ 
ty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth and for¬ 
ty-seventh congresses. 

HARRIS, BROUGHTON DAVIS, jour¬ 
nalist, capitalist, was born Aug. 16, 1822, 
in Chesterfield, N. H. In 1860-61 he was a 
member of the state senate; and a mem¬ 
ber of the celebrated peace congress in 
1861. 

HARRIS, CHAPIN A., dentist, author, 
was born in 1806, in Pompey, N. Y. He 
was a dentist of Baltimore, and founder 
of the Baltimore Dental college. He was 
the author of Principles of Dental Sur¬ 
gery; Characteristics of the Human 
Teeth; Diseases of the Maxillary Sinus; 
and Dictionary of Dental Science. He 
died in 1860, in Baltimore, Md. 

HARRIS, CHARLES, soldier, phvsi- 
cian, was born Nov. 23, 1762, in Mecklen¬ 
burg county, N. C. He served as a pri¬ 
vate in the revolutionary war. He died 
Sept. 21, 1825, in Tavoni, N. C. 

HARRIS, CHARLES M., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 10, 1821, in 
Munfordsville, Ky. He was elected in 
1862 a representative from Illinois to the 
thirty-eighth congress. 

HARRIS. EDWARD, lawyer, jurist. He 
was one of the earliest members of the 
circuit court of the United States after its 
organization, and was appointed judge of 
the fifth circuit in 1802, by President Jef¬ 
ferson. 

HARRIS, EDWARD WRIGHT, lawyer 
jurist, was born May 4, 1831, in Bradford’ 
Vt. He has attained success in the pro¬ 
fession of law at Port Huron, Mich.; has 
been city and county attorney; judge of 
probate; and circuit judge. 

HARRIS, ELISHA, governor. He was 
governor of Rhode Isiand for two years, 
beginning with the year 1847. 

HARRIS, ELISHA, physician, surgeon, 
inventor, author, was born March 4, 1834, 
in Westminster, Vt. During the civil war 
he was instrumental in the organization 
of the United States sanitary commission 
of New York city; and organized the first 
public vaccination service in that city. 
The railway ambulance that has been 
adopted and used by the Prussian army 
was invented by him. He died Jan. 31, 
1884, in Albany, N. Y. 

HARRIS, EMMETT VICTOR, educator, 
lawyer, orator, was born May 8, 1860, in 
Seneca county, Ohio. He received nis 
education at the Ohio normal university; 
and at the national normal university, 
from which latter institution he received’ 
the degree of B. A. In 1880 he entered ed¬ 
ucational work; taught in graded schools 
of his native state; and subsequently be¬ 
came superintendent of public schools in 
Indiana. In 1889 he was admitted to the 
bar; and entered the active practice of 
law in Fort Wayne, Ind. He has filled 
numerous public positions of trust; re¬ 
ceived the nomination for prosecuting at¬ 
torney; and has gained a good reputation 
as a brilliant public speaker. 



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HARRIS, G. L. D., educator, journalist, 
was born in 1854, in Clarke county, Va. 
He has attained success in educational 
work in his native state; and is the ed¬ 
itor of a monthly publication. 

HARRIS, GEORGE, educator, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born in 
April, 1844, in East Machias, Maine. He is 
a congregational clergyman of Massachu¬ 
setts; professor of Christian theology in 
Andover Theological seminary since 1883, 
and one of the editors of The Andover 
Review in 1884-93. He is the author of 
Hymns of the Faith; and Moral Evolu¬ 
tion. 

HARRIS, GEORGE E., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in January, 1827, 
in Orange county, N. C. He joined the 
confederate army, and remained until the 
close of the war; and was elected district 
attorney in 1865 and 1866. He was elect¬ 
ed from Mississippi to the forty-first and 
forty-second congresses. He was subse¬ 
quently chosen attorney-general for the 
state of Mississippi. 

HARRIS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
mariner, author, was born March 20, 1814, 
in Allegheny City, Pa. He was a Tennes¬ 
see river steamboat captain who contrib¬ 
uted humorous and political articles to 
newspapers. Sut Lovengood’s Yarns were 
published in 1867. He died Dec. 11, 1869, 
in Knoxville, Tenn. 

HARRIS, HAMILTON, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born May 1, 1820, in Preble, N. 
Y. He was elected to the legislature in 
1850, and was a member of the whig joint 
legislative committee of six that was ap¬ 
pointed to frame the platform, and call 
state conventions, of what has since be¬ 
come the republican party. 

HARRIS, HENRY R., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 2, 1828, in Spar¬ 
ta, Ga. He was a member of the Georgia 
convention in 1861; and was elected to the 
forty-third congress, and re-elected to the 
forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-ninth 
congresses as a democrat. 

Harris, HENRY S., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 27, 1850, in Belvidere, 
N. J. In 1877 he was appointed prosecutor 
of the pleas for Warren county; and was 
elected a representative from New Jer¬ 
sey to the forty-seventh congress as a 
democrat. 

HARRIS, IRA, lawyer, jurist, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, lecturer, was 
born May 31, 1802, in Charleston, N. Y. 
In 1844 he was elected to the state legisla¬ 
ture; re-elected in 1845; and was elected 
to the state senate. In 1847 he was elect¬ 
ed judge of the supreme court, and held 
the position twelve and a half years. In 
1861 he was elected, for six years, a sen¬ 
ator in congress from New York. He died 
Dec. 2, 1875, in Albany, N. Y. 

HARRIS, ISHAM GREEN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, governor, United States 
senator, was born Feb. 10, 1818, near Tul- 
lahoma, Tenn. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the state legislature in 1847; 
and was elected a representative from 
Tennessee to the thirty-first and thirty- 
second congresses. He moved to Mem¬ 
phis, Tenn.; and was elected governor in 
1857, and re-elected in 1859 and 1861. He 
served three years in the confederate 
army as a staff officer; and was elected a 
United States senator from Tennessee for 
the term of six years from 1877; and was 
re-elected for the terms ending in 1889, 
1895 and 1901. 

HARRIS, J. MORRISON, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1821, in Baltimore, 
Md. He was a presidential elector in 
1848. In 1855 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Maryland in the thirty-fourth 
congress, and returned to the thirty-fifth 
congress in 1857. He was also re-elected 


to the thirty-sixth congress; and was a 
delegate to the Philadelphia national 
union convention of 1866. 

HARRIS, JAMES E.. soldier, lieuten¬ 
ant-governor, was born May 27, 1840, in 
Licking county, Ohio. In 1897 he became 
lieutenant-governor of Nebraska. 

HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 8, 1848, in 
Eatonton, Ga. He is an Atlanta journal¬ 
ist, editor of The Constitution, celebrated 
as the author of Uncle Remus, a unique 
character study of the southern negro as 
well as a notable contribution to the liter¬ 
ature of folk-lore. His writings include 
Uncle Remus: his Songs and his Say¬ 
ings; Nights with Uncle Remus; Uncle 
Remus and his Friends; Mingo, and Oth¬ 
er Sketches in Black and White; Balaam 
and his Master, and Other Sketches; Lit¬ 
tle Mr. Thimblefinger, a juvenile; Mr. 
Rabbit at Home, a juvenile; The Story of 
Aaron, a juvenile; Free Joe, and Other 
Georgian Sketches; Evening Tales, from 
the French of Frederic Ortoli; Stories of 
Georgia; Sister Jane, her Friends and 
Acquaintances; and Georgia, from the In¬ 
vasion ofUDe Soto to Recent Times. 

HARRIS, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 18u/ 
to 1809. 

HARRIS, JOHN, the founder of Harris¬ 
burg, was born in 1/16, in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He was chosen by the Indians 
at one of the council fires held with the 
Indians of the Six Nations, to keep the 
store on the frontier, which was the nu¬ 
cleus of the present city named for him. 
He died July 29, 1791, in Harrisburg, Pa. 

HARRIS, JOHN A., merchant, banker. 
United States senator, was born m 1826, 
in New York. He moved to Louisiana in 
1864; was a member of the state constitu¬ 
tional convention; was a member of the 
board of registration; and also of the 
state senate. In 1868 he was elected a 
senator in congress from Louisiana for 
the term ending in 1873. 

HARRIS, JOHN FLOYD, musician, 
composer, was born July 5, 1866, in Al- 
mont, Mich. He has taught the piano in 
Detroit and Port Huron for several years, 
and has attained success in concert work. 

HARRIS, JOHN S., merchant, finan¬ 
cier, United States senator, was born Dec. 
18, 1825, in Truxton, N. Y. He was elect¬ 
ed to the Louisiana state senate in April, 
1868; and was elected to the United States 
senate in July, 1868, as a republican. 

HARRIS, JOHN THOMAS, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 8, 1825, in Al¬ 
bemarle county, Va. He was a state 
elector in 1848, 1851 and 1855; a president¬ 
ial elector in 1852 and 1856; and was 
twice elected attorney for the common¬ 
wealth. He was elected a representative 
from Virginia to tne thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress; and was also elected to the forty- 
second and two succeeding congresses. 
He was re-elected to the forty-fifth and 
forty-sixth congresses. 

HARRIS. JOHN WOODS, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1810, in Nelson 
county, Va. In 1838 he was a member of 
the first congress of the republic, which 
met at Austin, Tex. In 1846 he was ap¬ 
pointed attorney-general of the new state, 
and was reappointed for a second term. 
He died April 1, 1887, in Galveston, Tex. 

HARRIS, JONATHAN NEWTON, mer¬ 
chant, banker, state senator, was born 
Nov. 18, 1815, in Salem, Conn. In 1848 he 
established the firm of J. N. Harris and 
Conyer.of Cincinnati, Ohio, which has con¬ 
tinued for half a century. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature in 1855, and of the 
senate in 1864. 


HARRIS, JOSEPH SMITH, railroad 
president, was born April 29, 1836, in 
Chester county, Pa. Since 1893 he has 
been president of the Philadelphia and 
Reading railroad. 

HARRIS, LEE O., soldier, educator, 
poet, author, was born Jan. 30, 1839, in 
Chester county, Pa. After receiving a 
thorough education he entered education¬ 
al work, and is now county superintend¬ 
ent of schools of Hancock county, Ind. 
He served in the union army during the 
civil war; was second lieutenant of com¬ 
pany G, fifth regiment Indiana cavalry; 
then became first lieutenant of company 
C, one hundred and forty-eighth regiment 
Indiana infantry; and major of the In¬ 
diana legion. He is the author of a novel 
entitled The Man Who Tramps; and a 
volume of poems entitled Interludes; and 
has contributed extensively to current 
literature. 


HARRIS, MARK, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1779, in Ipswich, 
Mass. He held the offices of county and 
state treasurer for twenty years; and was 
a state senator in 1816 and 1819. He was 
a state counselor in 1820; and served also 
in the state legislature. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Maine from 
1822 to 1823, to fill a vacancy. He died 
March 2, 1843, in New York. 

HARRIS, MRS. MIRIAM (COLES), au¬ 
thor, was born July 5, 1834, in Dosoris, 
L. I. She is a novelist of New York city 
whose first story, Rutledge, was very pop¬ 
ular. Later works are: Richard Vander- 
marck; The Sutherlands; St. Philip’s; 
Happy-Go-Lucky; Missy; Frank War¬ 
rington; A Perfect Adonis; Phoebe; An 
Utter Failure; Louie’s Last Term at St. 
Mary’s; and r i he Rosary for Lent, a com¬ 
pilation. 

HARRIS, ROBERT, congressman, was 
born in Dauphin county, Pa. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1823 to 1827. 

HARRIS, SAMPSON W„ lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 23, 
1809, in Elbert county, Ga. He served one 
term in the Georgia legislature. He 
moved to Alabama; and was there ap¬ 
pointed prosecuting attorney for the state. 
In 1847 he was elected a representative in 
congress from Alabama, where he con¬ 
tinued until his death. He died April 1, 
1857, in Washington, D. C. 

HARRIS, SAMUEL, clergyman, was 
born Jan. 12, 1724, in Hanover county, Va. 
He was a colonel of the militia and a bap¬ 
tist divine, and was ordained an apostle 
by the general association, 1774. He was 
known as the apostle of Virginia. 


HARRIS, SAMUEL, educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 14, 1814, in 
East Machias, Maine. He is a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman, 
and has been profes¬ 
sor of systematic 
theology at Yale uni¬ 
versity since 1871. 
He is the author of 
Zaccheus, or the 
Scriptural Plan of 
Benevolence; The 
Kingdom of Christ 
on Earth; The Phil¬ 
osophic Basis of 
Theism; The Self- 
Revelation of God; 
Christ’s Prayer for tne Death of His Re¬ 
deemed; and God: Creator and Lord of 





All. 

HARRIS, SAMUEL ARTHUR, banker, 
was born Oct. 25, 1847, in Goshen, Ind. 
In 1887 he became president of the North¬ 
western National bank; and in 1891 be¬ 
came president of the National Bank of 
Commerce of Minneapolis. Minn. 


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HARRIS, SAMUEL SMITH, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 14, 1841, in Autauga 
county, Ala. He was the second protest- 
ant episcopal bishop of Michigan, and the 
author of The Dignity of Man; Christian¬ 
ity and Civil Society; Thoughts on Life, 
Death, and Immortality; and Shelton, a 
novel. He died Aug. 21, 1888, in London, 
England. 

HARRIS, SHORLAND, physician, au¬ 
thor, poet. He graduated in medicine from 
the Exeter college of England, and also 
from a Philadelphia medical college. He 
is a great linguist, and has devoted much 
time to science, and has made important 
discoveries in the vast field of chemistry 
in relation to the atomic affinity of mat¬ 
ter. He is the author of Professional 
and Trade Secrets; and has contributed 
valuable papers to medical literature. As 
a poet, he is also well known; many of his 
productions having been incorporated in 
various standard works. 

HARRIS, STEPHEN R., educator, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born May 22, 1824, 
seven miles west of Massillon, Ohio. He 
served as deputy 
United States mar¬ 
shal and member of 
the county military 
committee during the 
civil war. He was an 
active member of the 
Ohio State Bar asso¬ 
ciation from its or¬ 
ganization, serving 
most of the time and 
at present as chair¬ 
man of the commit¬ 
tee on legal biogra¬ 
phy, and was president of the association 
for the year ending July 20, 1894. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

HARRIS, THADDEUS MASON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 7, 1768, in 
Charlestown, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman of Dorchester from 1793 until 
his death, and the author of Discourses in 
Favor of Freemasonry; Journal of a Tour 
in the Northwest Territory; Memorials of 
the First Church at Dorchester; Bio¬ 
graphical Memoirs of James Oglethorpe; 
and Natural History of the Bible. He 
died April 3, 1842, in Dorchester, Mass. 

HARRIS, THADDEUS WILLIAM, en¬ 
tomologist, physician, author, was born 
Nov. 12, 1795, in Dorchester, Mass. He 
was an entomologist and physician who 
was librarian of Harvard university from 
1831. He published Systematic Catalogue 
of the Insects of Massachusetts, and a 
valuable work on Insects Injurious to 
Vegetation. He died Jan. 16, 1856, in 
Cambridge, Mass. 

HARRIS, THOMAS CADWALADER, 
naval officer, was born Nov. 18, 1825, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He entered the navy as 
midshipman in 1841, became lieutenant in 
1855, lieutenant-commander in 1862, com* 
mander in 1866, and captain in 1872. He 
died Jan. 24, 1875, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HARRIS, THOMAS K., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1813 to 1815. 

HARRIS, THOMAS L„ soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 
29, 1816, in Norwich, Conn. In 1846 he 
raised and commanded a company, and 
joined the fourth regiment of Illinois vol¬ 
unteers, to serve in the war with Mexico. 
In 1846 he was elected a senator in the Il¬ 
linois legislature; in 1848 was chosen a 
representative in congress; and was again 
elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth 
congresses. He died Nov. 24, 1858, in 
Springfield, Ill. 


HARRIS, THOMAS LAKE, philosopher, 
author, was born May 15, 1823, in Eng¬ 
land. He is a mystical philosopher who 
founded the Brotherhood of the New Life, 
which had its home at Salem-on-Erie, 
near Brocton, N. Y. He has since lived 
in California. Among his writings are 
included Epics of the Starry Heavens; 
Modern Spiritualism; Lyric of the Morn¬ 
ing Land; Truth and Life in Jesus; The 
Millennium Age; Arcana of Christianity; 
and The Wisdom of the Adepts; and 
God’s Breath in Man. 

HARRIS, THOMAS MEALEY, soldier, 
physician, author, was born June 17, 1817, 
in "Wood county, Va. He was promoted 
brigadier-general in 1865. He applied 
himself after the war to scientific farm¬ 
ing; served a term in the legislature of 
West Virginia in 1867; was adjutant-gen¬ 
eral of the state in 1869-70; and was pen¬ 
sion agent at Wheeling in 1871-77. He is 
the author of medical essays and of a 
tract entitled Calvinism Vindicated. 

HARRIS, W. JOHN, physician, author, 
was born June 17, 1852, in England. He 
has conducted a large practice in St. 
Louis, and is also surgeon of the Good 
Samaritan hospital. He is the author of 
Alcohol, its Rational Use; The Use of 
Anaesthetics; and The Hygiene of Con¬ 
sumption. 

HARRIS, WILEY P., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in Mississippi. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1853 to 1855. He took part in the 
rebellion. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM, educator, clergy¬ 
man, college" president, was born April 
29, 1765, in Springfield, Mass. He estab¬ 
lished several classical schools in Massa¬ 
chusetts and New York; and in 1811 be¬ 
came president of Columbia university. 
He died Oct. 18, 1829, in New York city. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM, educator, farmer, 
jurist, legislator, was born in 1832, in 
Burnt Hills, N. Y. Since 1836 he has 
lived in Michigan; 
taught school sev¬ 
eral terms, and is 
now a successful 
farmer, real estate 
dealer and financier 
of Norwood, Mich. 
He has held numer¬ 
ous public offices of 
honor; has been reg¬ 
ister of deeds; judge 
of probate court; 
and school exami¬ 
ner. He served as a 
member of the Michigan state legislature 
in 1889-90, 1895-96, and in 1897-98; and 
has served on numerous important com¬ 
mittees. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM A., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 8, 1805, in Fau¬ 
quier county, Va. He was twice elected 
to the legislature of Virginia; and was a 
presidential elector in 1841. He was a 
representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1841 to 1843. In 1845 he was ap¬ 
pointed by President Polk charge d’af- 
aires to Buenos Ayres, where he remained 
until 1851. He became the editor and pro¬ 
prietor of the Washington Union, which 
continued in his possession until he was 
elected printer to the United States sen¬ 
ate, which office he held for two years. 
He died March 28, 1864, in Pike county, 
Mo. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM A., farmer, soldier, 
civil engineer, congressman, United States 
senator, was born Oct. 29, 1841, in Loudoun 
county, Va. He served three years in 
the confederate army as assistant adju¬ 
tant-general of Wilcox’s brigade and ord¬ 
nance officer of D. H. Hill’s and Rode’s 
division, army of northern Virginia. He 


moved to Kansas in 1865 and was em¬ 
ployed as civil engineer in the construc¬ 
tion of the Union Pacific railroad, Kansas 
division, for three years. He was elected 
to the fifty-third congress, at large, as a 
populist, and indorsed by the democrats. 
He was elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate as a populist. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM ANDERSON, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born July 16, 
1827, in Augusta county, Va. In 1866 he 
became president of the Wesleyan Female 
college of Staunton, Va. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM D., banker, legis¬ 
lator, was born March 7, 1863, in Wilton, 
Iowa. He is president of the Bank of 
Sharon Springs, Kan., and in 1892 was 
elected a member of the Kansas state leg¬ 
islature. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM LOGAN, educator, 
bishop, author, was born Nov. 4, 1817, 
near Mansfield, Ohio. He was a methodist 
bishop of prominence as educator and 
missionary, and the author of The Powers 
cf the General Conference; Ecclesiastical 
Law; and Relation of Episcopacy to the 
General Conference. He died Sept. 2, 
1887, in New York city. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM THADDEUS, law¬ 
yer, journalist, was born Jan. 25, 1826, in 
Milton, Mass. He edited, for the Massa¬ 
chusetts Historical society, Hubbard’s 
History of New England, with new and 
important notes; the third volume of the 
Historical and Genealogical Register; and 
published Epitaphs from the Old Burying- 
Ground at Cambridge. He died Oct. 19, 
1854, in Cambridge, Mass. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM TORREY, educa¬ 
tor, philosopher, journalist, author, was 
born Sept. 10, 1835, in North Killingly, 
Conn. He is a speculative philosopher 
and educator of Washington City, a trans¬ 
lator of Hegel, and editor of The Jour¬ 
nal of Speculative Philosophy. Since 
1889 he has been United States commis¬ 
sioner of education. He is the author of 
The Spiritual Sense of Dante’s Divina 
Commedia; Method of Study of Social 
Science; How to Teach Social Science; 
Hegel’s Logic, a critical exposition; and 
Introduction to the Study of Philosophy. 

HARRISON, ALBERT G., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Kentucky. He was 
a lawyer by profession; and was a mem¬ 
ber of congress from Missouri from 1835 
to 1839. He died Sept. 7, 1839, in Fulton, 
Mo. 

HARRISON, ANNA SYMMES. presi¬ 
dent’s wife, was born July 25, 1775, in 
Morristown, N. H. She was generous and 
benevolent, an extensive reader, and dur¬ 
ing all her life took a deep interest in 
public affairs. She died Feb. 25, 1864. 

HARRISON, BENJAMIN, twenty-tnird 
president of the United States, was born 
Aug. 20, 1833, at North Bend, Ohio. He 
is a grandson of 
William Henry Har¬ 
rison. He graduated 
at Miami university, 
Ohio, in 1852, and 
studied law in Cin¬ 
cinnati. Married 
Caroline Lavina 
Scott; was admitted 
to the bar and re¬ 
moved to Indianapo¬ 
lis, where he began 
the practice of law. 
He was appointed 
crier of the federal court, and in 1860 was 
elected supreme court reporter. In 1861 
he raised a regiment and Governor Mor¬ 
ton commissioned him as its colonel. He 
remained in the army until the close of 
the war, having been promoted to the 
rank of brigadier-general. In 1880 he was 







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elected United States senator, took the 
office March 4, 1881, and served six years. 
The republican national convention met 
at Chicago June 19, 1888. On the first bal¬ 
lot the vote cast gave John Sherman, 
Ohio, 229; Walter Q. Gresham, Illinois, 
111; Chauncey M. Depew, New York, 99; 
Russell A. Alger, Michigan, 84; Benjamin 
Harrison, Indiana, 80; William B. Alli¬ 
son, Iowa, 72; James G. Blaine, Maine, 
35; John J. Ingalls, Kansas, 28; Jeremiah 
M. Rusk, Wisconsin, 25; William Walter 
Phelps, New Jersey, 25; Edwin H. Fitler, 
Pennsylvania, 24; Joseph R. Hawley, 
Connecticut, 13; Robert T. Lincoln, Illi¬ 
nois, 3, and William McKinley, Ohio, 2. 
General Harrison was nominated on the 
eighth ballot, receiving 554 votes to 118 
for Sherman, 100 for Alger, 59 for Gres¬ 
ham, 5 for Blaine and 4 for McKinley. 
It was made unanimous. Levi Parsons 
Morton, of New York, was nominated for 
vice-president on the first ballot, which 
stood: Morton, 561; William Walter 

Phelps, 119; William O. Bradley, Ken¬ 
tucky, 93, and Blanche K. Bruce, Missis¬ 
sippi, 11. Harrison and Morton were 
elected in November and inaugurated 
March 4, 1889. The tenth republican na¬ 
tional convention met at Minneapolis 
June 7, 1892. President Harrison was re¬ 
nominated on the first ballot by the fol¬ 
lowing vote: Harrison, 535; James G. 
Blaine, 182; William McKinley, 182; 
Thomas Brackett Reed, 4, and Robert T. 
Lincoln, 1. Whitelaw Reid, of New York, 
was unanimously nominated for vice- 
president. They were beaten at the en¬ 
suing election. At the close of his term, 
March 4, 1893, Mr. Harrison returned to 
the practice of law at his home in Indian¬ 
apolis. 

HARRISON, CARTER B., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1793 to 1799. 

HARRISON, CARTER HENRY, lawyer, 
mayor of Chicago, congressman, was born 
Feb. 15, 1825, in Fayette county, Ky. He 
was a democrat and mayor of Chicago for 
eight years, from 1879 to 1887, and again 
in 1893. He represented Cook county for 
two terms in congress, and was a candi¬ 
date for governor of Illinois in 1884. He 
bought The Chicago Times and owned it 
at the time of his death. He was assassi¬ 
nated by an anarchist, and died Oct. 28, 
1893, in Chicago, Ill. 

HARRISON, CASKIE, educator, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Oct. 24, 1848, in 
Richmond, Va. In 1883 he established the 
Brooklyn Latin school. He is the au¬ 
thor of Odes of Horace, in English verse, 
which was much praised by Longfellow; 
and his Notes on the New Edition of 
Goodwin’s Greek Moods and Tenses has 
attracted considerable attention in the 
educational world. 

HARRISON, CHARLES JAMES, sol¬ 
dier, banker, was born Aug. 4, 1841, in 
Wheeling, W. Va. During the war he 
served over three years as captain of com¬ 
pany I, sixth regiment West Virginia vol¬ 
unteer infantry; and was the youngest 
captain in command of a company from 
West Virginia during the war. For thir¬ 
teen years he was president of a private 
bank; and since 1890 has been president 
of the Somerset County National bank of 
Somerset, Pa., in which city he is promi¬ 
nently identified with its financial and 
public affairs. 

HARRISON, MRS. CONSTANCE (CA¬ 
RY), author, was born about 1835, in Van- 
cluse, Va. She is a novelist and miscel¬ 
laneous writer of New York city, and the 
author of Story of Helen Troy; Woman’s 
Handiwork in Modern Homes; An Edel¬ 
weiss of the Sierras, and Other Tales; Bar 
Harbor Days; The Old-Fashioned Fairy 


Books; Folk and Fairy Tales; Anglo¬ 
mania; An Errant Wooing; A Virginia 
Cousin; Bric-a-Brac Stories; A Bachelor 
Maid; Sweet Bells Out of Tune; Crow’s 
Nest and Belhaven Tales; and Externals 
of Modern New York. 


HARRISON, GABRIEL, educator, dra¬ 
matist, author, was born March 25, 1825, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Brooklyn 
dramatist and instructor in elocution, and 
the author of Life of John Howard Payne; 
The Stratford Bust, a Critical Inquiry as 
to its Authenticity; Melanthia; and Dart- 
more, are among his writings. 

HARRISON, GEORGE LEIB, philan¬ 
thropist, author, was born Oct. 28, 1811, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a philan¬ 
thropist of Philadelphia, and the author 
of Chapters on Social Science; and Legis¬ 
lation on Insanity, a compilation of lu¬ 
nacy laws. He died Sept. 9, 1885, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 


HARRISON, GEORGE P„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 19, 
1841, near Savannah, Ga. He entered the 
confederate army as 
second lieutenant of 
the first Georgia reg¬ 
ulars, and was pro¬ 
moted to brigadier- 
general. He re¬ 
moved to Alabama 
: in 1865; was elected 
commandant of ca- 
I dets at university of 
Alabama, but de- 
dined; and was sub- 

_ ] sequently elected to 

the same position at 
the Agricultural and Mechanical college 
of Alabama, and served one year. He was 
a member of the constitutional conven¬ 
tion of Alabama in 1875; was elected state 
senator in 1876; and re-elected in 1880. He 
was president of the state senate from 
1882 to 1884; and was a delegate to the 
national democratic convention held in 
Chicago in 1892. He was elected to the 
fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as 
a democrat. 



HARRISON, GESSNER, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born June 26, 1807, in Harrison¬ 
burg, Va. He was a once noted educator 
of Virginia, and the author of Exposition 
of Some Laws of Greek Grammar; and On 
Greek Prepositions. He died April 7, 
1862, in Charlottesville, Va. 


HARRISON, HALL, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 11, 1837, in Anne, Md. He is 
an episcopal clergyman and educator. 
From 1865 to 1879 he was a master in St. 
Paul’s school at Concord, and since the 
latter date rector of St. John’s church at 
Ellicott City, Md. He is the author of 
Life of Hugh Davy Evans; and Life of 
Bishop Kerfoot. 


HARRISON, HENRY B., lawyer, state 
senator, governor, was born Sept. 11, 1821, 
in New Haven, Conn. He was a member 
of the state senate of Connecticut in 1854; 
was a representative in the legislature of 
Connecticut in 1865, 1873, and 1884; and 
in the latter year was speaker of the 
house. He was elected governor of Con¬ 
necticut for the term of two years from 
January, 1885. 


HARRISON, HORACE H., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 1829, 
in Wilson county. Tenn. He was elected 
clerk of the state senate in 1851. He was 
appointed United States district attorney 
for Middle Tennessee in 1863; and was 
elected chancellor in the Nashville chan¬ 
cery division in 1866. He was appointed 
judge of the supreme court of Tennessee 
in 1867; and was again appointed United 
States district attorney in 1872. He was 
elected to the forty-third congress as a 
republican. 


HARRISON, JAMES ALBERT, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Aug. 21, 1848, in 
Pass Christian, Miss. He is an educator 
in Virginia, and since 1876 a professor 
of languages at Washington and Lee uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of Greek Vig¬ 
nettes; Spain in Profile; The Rhine; 
French Syntax; The History of Spain; 
The Story of Greece; Autrefois, Tales of 
Old New Orleans and Elsewhere; A Group 
of Poets and Their Haunts; Dictionary of 
Anglo-Saxon Poetry; and Exodus and 
Daniel. 

HARRISON, JAMES THOMAS, lawyer, 
was born Nov. 30, 1811, near Pendleton, S. 
C. In 1861 he was a delegate to the con¬ 
vention of southern states in Montgom¬ 
ery, and served also in the confederate 
congress during the entire period of its 
existence. He died May 22, 1879, in Co¬ 
lumbus, Miss. 

HARRISON, JOHN HOFFMAN, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, journalist, author, was 
born Aug. 30, 1808, in Washington, D. C. 
In 1845 he established the New Orleans 
Medical and Surgical Journal, which he 
edited four years. He published an Essay 
toward a Correct Theory of the Nervous 
System, and contributed important arti¬ 
cles to medical journals. He died March 
19, 1849, in New Orleans. 

HARRISON, JOHN SCOTT, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 4, 1804, in Vincennes, 
Ind. He was a representative in congress 
from that state from 1853 to 1857. He 
died May 26, 1878, in North Bend, Ohio. 

HARRISON, JONATHAN BAXTER, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1835, in 
Ohio. He is a Unitarian clergyman of 
New Hampshire, and the author of Cer¬ 
tain Dangerous Tendencies in American 
Life; and The Latest Studies on Indian 
Reservations. 

HARRISON, JOSEPH, engineer, inven¬ 
tor, author, poet, was born Sept. 20, 1810, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadel¬ 
phia engineer and inventor, and from 
1843-52 was employed in locomotive con¬ 
struction by the Russian government. He 
was the author of Essay on the Steam 
Boiler; The Locomotive Engine and Phil¬ 
adelphia’s Share in its Early Improve¬ 
ments; and The Iron Worker and King 
Solomon, a poem. He died March 27, 
1874, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HARRISON, MILES W., educator, was 
born June 6, 1855, in La Grange, Ohio. In 
1879 he graduated from the Oberlin col¬ 
lege; and has ever since been engaged in 
educational work. He was principal of 
the high schools of Auburn, Ind.; and 
subsequently superintendent of city 
schools in that city. Since 1886 he has 
been superintendent of city schools in 
Wabash, Ind.; and is considered one of 
the foremost educators of that state. 

HARRISON, NAPOLEON BONA¬ 
PARTE, naval officer, was born Feb. 19, 
1823, in Virginia. In 1838 he entered the 
navy as a midshipman; became command¬ 
er in 1862; captain in 1868; and in 1868-69 
was commandant of cadets in the United 
States naval academy. He died Oct. 27, 
1870, in Key West, Fla. 

HARRISON, RICHARD, public official, 
was born in 1750. He was auditor of the 
United States for fifty-five years; and 
five years consul to Cadiz. He died July 
10, 1841, in Washington. 

HARRISON, RICHARD A., lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
1827 in England. In 1857 he was elected 
to the Ohio house of representatives; and 
subsequently to the state senate. He was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
thirty-seventh congress. 


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HARRISON, ROBERT HANSON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1745, in 
Maryland. In 1775 he obtained the rank 
of lieutenant-colonel, and remained in the 
military family of the commanding gen¬ 
eral till the spring of 1781. He became 
chief justice of the general court of Mary¬ 
land on March 10, 1781, but declined the 
appointment of judge of the United States 
supreme court in 1789. He died April 2, 
1790, in Charles county, Md. 

HARRISON, S. S., congressman, was 
born in Maryland. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1833 to 1837. 

HARRISON, SARAH, Quaker preacher, 
was born about 1748, in Delaware county, 
Pa. She first preached in the Quaker 
meetings during the revolution, and was 
acknowledged a minister in 1781. She died 
Dec. 29, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HARRISON, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a delegate from Maryland to the 
continental congress from 1785 to 1787. 

HARRISON. WILLIAM HENRY, ninth 
president of the United States, was born 
Feb. 9, 1773, in Charles City county, Va. 

and was educated 
for the medical pro¬ 
fession at Hampden 
Sidney college. He 
soon after joined the 
army, and departed 
for the western wil¬ 
derness to engage in 
the Indian wars, and 
was promoted to the 
rank of captain. In 
1791 he married the 
daughter of Judge 
Symmes, and resign¬ 
ed his military commission for the pur¬ 
pose of accepting the office of secretary 
of the Northwestern territory, comprising 
the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mich¬ 
igan and Wisconsin. In 1799 he was elect¬ 
ed the first delegate to congress from the 
Northwestern territory, and in 1801, when 
Indiana was created into a territory, he 
was appointed its first governor. In 1812 
he was made commander of the north¬ 
western army, with the commission of 
brigadier-general, and in 1816 he was 
elected a representative to congress from 
Ohio, and held the office three years. In 
1819 he was elected stare senator, and in 
1824 United States senator. In 1828 he 
was sent to the republic of Colombia as 
minister plenipotentiary. On his return 
he retired to his farm at North Bend, 
Ohio, where he lived until 1836, when he 
became a candidate for the presidency, 
and was defeated. On the 4th of Decem¬ 
ber, 1839, the whig national convention 
met at Harrisburg. James Barbour, of 
Virginia, was chosen president of the con¬ 
vention. On the third day (Dec. 6) the 
nominations were made. Of the 254 votes, 
William Henry Harrison received 148; 
Henry Clay, 90; Winfield Scott, 16. Har¬ 
rison. having received a majority, was 
declared the nominee. John Tyler was 
nominated for vice-president. They were 
•elected in 1840, and took tne oath of office 
March 4, 1841. Harrison died the 4th of 
April, 1841. Harrison held office about 
twenty years. 

HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY AR¬ 
CHER, soldier, farmer, merchant, educa¬ 
tor, was born April 30, 1846, in Center¬ 
ville, Mo. He served during the war for 
three years in the fortieth regiment, Illi¬ 
nois volunteer infantry; subsequently 
taught school; and then became a suc¬ 
cessful merchant. He has held every po¬ 
sition in the Grand Army of the Repub¬ 
lic, from guard to department command¬ 
er, and resides in Checotah, I. T. 


HARRISON, WILLIAM POPE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1830, in Georgia. 
He is a prominent clergyman of the meth- 
odist church, south, and the author of 
Theophilus Walton, a controversial work; 
Lights and Shadows of Forty Years; The 
Living Christ; The High Churchman Dis¬ 
armed; Methodist Union; and The Gospel 
Among the Slaves. 

HARRISSE, HENRI, bibliographer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1830, in France. He is 
a bibliographer of New York city, of 
French birth, but long a citizen of the 
United States. He is the author of Bib¬ 
liotheca Americana Vetustissima; Chris- 
tophe Colombe; Jean et Sebastian Cabot; 
and The Discovery of North America. 

HARR1TY, WILLIAM F„ lawyer, poli¬ 
tician, was born Oct. 19, 1850, in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. He received his education 
in the public and 
private schools 
and St. Mary’s col¬ 
lege, in his native 
city; and in 1871 
graduated from the 
LaSalle college, of 
Philadelphia, Pa., 
with the degree of 
M. A. During 1885- 
89 he was postmas¬ 
ter at Philadelphia; 
secretary of the 
state of Pennsyl¬ 
vania during 1891-95; and chairman of 
the democratic national committee dur¬ 
ing 1892-96. He has attained ’success as 
an astute lawyer of Philadelphia, Pa., 
where he is also president of the Equita¬ 
ble Trust company. 

HARROD, JAMES, a Kentucky pioneer, 
was born in 1746 in Virginia. He built 
the first log cabin upon the present site 
of Harrodsburg; and was one of the most 
efficient of the early military leaders of 
Kentucky. 

HARROW, WIlLIAM, soldier, was 
born about 1820, in Indiana. He was en¬ 
gaged, as colonel of the fourteenth Indi¬ 
ana infantry, at the battle of Antietam, 
where more than half of his regiment 
were killed or wounded. He was commis¬ 
sioned as brigadier-general of volunteers 
in 1862, and resigned in 1865. 

HARRY, MATTHEW JAMES, soldier, 
legislator, poet, was born Oct. 14, 1821, in 
Epping, N. H. He has served as a captain 
of a company of infantry in the fourth 
regiment of the old New Hampshire mi¬ 
litia. He served with distinction in 1855- 
56 as a member of the New Hampshire 
state legislature. He has contributed val¬ 
uable articles to the agricultural press; 
and is the author of a number of merito¬ 
rious poems. 

HARSH, JAMES BIRNEY, soldier, ed¬ 
ucator, banker, legislator, was born Sept. 
8, 1845, in Clinton county, Ohio. After 
completing his education at tne Lombard 
university of Galesburg, Ill., he taught 
school; was school principal, and be¬ 
came president of a business college. 
During the civil war he was sergeant of 
company K, one hundred and forty-eighth 
Illinois regiment volunteer infantry. He 
has twice served as mayor of Creston, 
Iowa; was the founder and editor of the 
Creston Daily Gazette; and has been 
president of several leagues and associa¬ 
tions. He served with distinction for two 
terms as a member of the Iowa state sen¬ 
ate; and since 1882 has been president of 
the First National bank of Creston, Iowa; 
in which city he has always been promi¬ 
nently identified with its financial and 
public ahairs. 


HARSH, SAMUEL DAVID, journalist, 
was born May 26, 1869, in Galesburg, Ill. 
He received his education in the public 
schools of Creston, Iowa; and at the Lom¬ 
bard university of Galesburg, Ill. He 
took an active part in public affairs; was 
delegate and vice-president of Iowa of 
the national republican league. He was 
the brilliant editor of the Creston Daily 
Gazette; a man of high attainment; but 
died at an early age, on March 3, 1893. 

HARSHA, DAVID ADDISON, author, 
was born Sept. 15, 1827, in Argyle, N. Y. 
He is a writer in Argyle, N. Y., and the 
author of The Heavenly Token; The Star 
of Bethlehem; Manual of Sacred Litera¬ 
ture; Lives of Charles Sumner, Dodd¬ 
ridge, Baxter, Bunyan, Addison, James 
Hervey, Watts, Whitefield, Abraham 
Booth; and Eminent Orators and States¬ 
men. 

HARSHAW, ANDREW. merchant, 
state senator, was born Feb. 4, 1839, in 
Ireland. He has been twice elected a 
member or the Micnigan state senate, in 
1887 and in 1889. 

HARSHMAN, SAMUEL RUFUS, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, evangelist, was born 
Nov. 30, 1841, in Trumbull county, Ohio. 
He received nis education at the Alle¬ 
gheny college of Meadville, Pa., and at 
the Illinois college of Jacksonville, Ill. 
During 1856-64 he was engaged in educa¬ 
tional work; then for five years was a 
clergyman of the methodist episcopal 
church; and since 1869 has been an evan¬ 
gelist. He is the author of a volume en¬ 
titled Sermons on Familiar Subjects. 

HART, ABRAHAM, publisher, was 
born Dec. 15, 1810, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
His house was the first to collect the 
fugitive essays of Macaulay, Jeffrey, 
Mackintosh, Carlyle, and others, and pub¬ 
lish them in separate volumes. He died 
July 22, 1885, in Long Branch, N. J. 

HART, ALBERT BUSHNELL, educa¬ 
tor, author,-was born in 1854, in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He is a professor of history in Har¬ 
vard university, and the author of Co¬ 
ercive Powers of the United States Gov¬ 
ernment; Introduction to the Study of 
Federal Government; Formation of the 
Union, 1750-1829; Studies in Education; 
Life of Salmon Chase; and Practical Es¬ 
says on American Government. 

HART, ALPHONSO, lawyer, journalist, 
lieutenant-governor, congressman, was 
born July 4, 1830, in Vienna, Ohio. He 
was editor of the 
Portage Sentinel 
from 1854 to 1857; 
and was elected 
prosecuting attorney 
of Portage county 
in 1861, and re-elect¬ 
ed in 1863. In 1864 
he resigned and was 
elected state sen¬ 
ator; and was again 
elected state senator 
in 1871. In 1872 he 
was a presidential 
elector; and in 1873 was elected lieuten¬ 
ant-governor. He removed from Ravenna 
to Cleveland, Ohio; in 1878 settled at 
Hillsboro; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Ohio to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress. 

HART, CHARLES HENRY, lawyer, art 
expert, author, was born Feb. 4, 1847, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is director of the 
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; and 
a recognized authority on historical por¬ 
traiture in this country and abroad. He 
is the author of Memoir of W. H. Pres¬ 
cott; Biographical Sketch of Abraham 
Lincoln; Turner, the Dream Painter; Re¬ 
marks on Tabasco, Mexico; and Biblio- 
graphia Websteriana. 








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HART, DAN, educator, farmer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Nov. 6, 1855, in Andrews, 
Ohio. He attended the Normal school of 
Valparaiso, Ind., and the Normal school 
of Worthington, Ohio. For many years 
he was engaged in educational work, and 
is now a successful farmer and stock- 
raiser of Norton, Kan. He served two 
terms as clerk of the district court; was 
elected a representative in the Kansas 
state legislature in 1894; and to. the state 
senate in 1896. 

HART, DAVID HASLETON, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 9, 1839, 
in Lycoming county, Pa. He served as 
captain of company C, one hundred and 
sixth Illinois volunteer infantry, during 
the civil war. He was elected a member 
of the Illinois legislature in 1879; and has 
been candidate for congress and governor 
on the prohibition ticket in 18S2 and in 
1884. 

HART, E. KIRKE, banker, congress¬ 
man, was born April 18, 1841, in Albion, 
N. Y. He was a member of the assembly 
in 1872; and was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

HART, EMANUEL BERNARD, mer¬ 
chant, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 
29, 1811, in New York city. He was a 
representative in congress from 1851 to 
1853. He was at one time a lieutenant- 
colonel of the state militia; was appoint¬ 
ed surveyor of the port of New York; 
and was also frequently a member of the 
state and national conventions of the 
democratic party. 

HART, HASTINGS HORNELL, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Dec. 1-*, 1851, in Brook¬ 
field, Ohio. In 1883 he was appointed 
secretary of the state board of correc¬ 
tions and charities; and during 1894-98 
was secretary of the national conference 
of charities and corrections. In 1898 he 
became superintendent of the Illinois 
Children’s Home and Aid society of Chi¬ 
cago. 

HART, HENRY, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born May 13, 1840, in 
China, Mich. He has been a justice of the 
peace; was prosecuting attorney of his 
county for four years; and in 1875 was 
elected a member of the Michigan state 
legislature. The same year he was elected 
judge of the twenty-first judicial circuit, 
which office he still fills, having been re¬ 
elected three times. 

HART, JAMES MORGAN, educator, 
author, was born in 1839, in New Jersey. 
He has been a professor of Germanic 
languages at Cornell university since 
1868, and is the author of Handbook of 
English Composition; Syllabus of Anglo- 
Saxon Literature; and German Universi¬ 
ties. 

HART, JOEL T., sculptor, inventor, 
was born in 1810, in Clark county, Ky. 
His best compositions are Charity; Wo¬ 
man Triumphant; and Penserosa. He 
invented an apparatus for obtaining me¬ 
chanically the outline of a head from life. 
He died March 1, 1877, in Italy. 

HART, JOHN, signer of the Declaration 
of Independence, was born in 1708, in 
Hopewell, N. J. He was one of the sign¬ 
ers of the Declaration of Independence, 
and great confidence was reposed in the 
wisdom and judgment of honest John 
Hart. He died in 1780, in Hopewell, N. J. 

HART, JOHN SEELY, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 28, 1810, in Stock- 
bridge, Mass. He was an educator of New 
Jersey who was professor of rhetoric at 
Princeton college in 1872-77. He was the 
author of Manuals of English and Amer¬ 
ican Literature; Composition and Rhet¬ 


oric; and In the Schoolroom. He died 
March 26, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


iflk:.-. 


HART, JOSEPH J., journalist, business 
man, congressman, was born April 18, 
1859, in Nyack, N. Y. He attended the 

,_schools of his native 

village and the Char- 
lier institute of New 
York city, from 
which institution he 
graduated in 1876; 
became bookkeeper 
in a grain ware¬ 
house in Brooklyn; 
on attaining his ma¬ 
jority returned to 
Nyack and pur¬ 
chased City and 
Country, the leading 
democratic newspaper of the section, 
which he successfully conducted until 
1883, when he removed to Pike county. 
Pa., where he has since resided. He is 
engaged in insurance and real estate bus¬ 
iness at Milford. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a democrat. 



HART, JOSEPH PEEPLES, lawyer, 
journalist, was born May 9, 1847, in Arka- 
delphia, Ark. This successful lawyer and 
journalist has always been prominently 
identified with the public affairs of his 
native city and county. He has been 
special circuit judge; United States cir¬ 
cuit court commissioner; commissioner of 
accounts for his county; and for many 
years a justice of the peace. 


HART, NANCY, revolutionary heroine, 
was born about 1755, in Elbert county, 
Ga. On the occasion of an excursion of 
the British from the camp at Augusta 
into the interior, a party of five of the 
enemy came to her cabin to pillage. 
While they were eating and drinking at 
her table she contrived to conceal their 
arms, and when they sprang to their feet 
at the sound of the approaching neigh¬ 
bors she ordered them to surrender or 
pay the forfeit with their lives. One man 
stirred, and was shot dead. Terror of 
capture induced another to attempt es¬ 
cape, but he met with the same fate. 
When the neighbors arrived they found 
the woman posted in the doorway, two 
men dead on the floor, and the others 
kept at bay. Hart county, Ga., is named 
for her. She died about 1840, in Elbert 
county, Ga. 


HART, O. B., jurist, governor, was 
born in the north. He was made associate 
judge of the supreme court in 1868; was 
elected governor of Florida in 1872. He 
died March 18, 1874. 

HART, OLIVER, clergyman, author, 
was born July 5, 1723, in Warminster, Pa. 
He was an active patriot, and was sent 
with William Tennant by the council of 
safety to reconcile some of the disaffected 
frontier settlers to the change in public 
affairs consequent upon the revolution. 
He had some ability as a writer of verse, 
and published a Discourse on the Death 
of William Tdhnant; Dancing Exploded; 
The Christian Temple; and A Gospel 
Church Portrayed. He died Dec. 31. 1795, 
in Hopewell, N. J. 

HART, ROSWELL, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1824, in Rochester, N. Y. 
In 1864 he was elected a representative 
from New York to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the fortieth 
congress. He died April 20, 1883. 

HART, SAMUEL, clergyman, educator, 
author, was born in 1845, in Connecticut. 
He is an episcopal clergyman, professor 
in Trinity college; and has published edi¬ 
tions of Juvenal and Persius; and His¬ 
torical Sermons of Bishop Seabury. 


HART, WILLIAM, artist, was born 
March 31, 1823, in Scotland. At the or¬ 
ganization of the Brooklyn academy of 
design in 1865, he became its president, 
and continued in that office several years. 
He has exhibited at the National acad¬ 
emy The September Snow; and Autumn 
in the Woods of Maine; Scene on the Pea¬ 
body River, in water colors; Twilight on 
the Brook. 

HART, WILLIAM OCTAVE, lawyer, 
was born Aug. 19, 1857, in New Orleans, 
La. He received his education in the pub¬ 
lic schools of his na¬ 
tive city, and at 
Lusher’s Commer¬ 
cial academy. In 
1878 he commenced 
the study of law, 
and was admitted to 
the bar in 1880 by 
the supreme court 
of Louisiana. Since 
that time he has the 
record of having 
tried more cases 
than any other law¬ 
yer in New Orleans. He has traveled ex¬ 
tensively throughout the American con¬ 
tinent; has been in every state and terri¬ 
tory of the union; every city ot any size 
in the United States; and tnrough Can¬ 
ada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 
Mr. Hart owns the largest private library 
in the south. He was a member of the 
constitutional convention of Louisiana in 
1898; and has served three terms as a 
member of the examining committee of 
the supreme court of the state of Louisi¬ 
ana, for the admission of candidates to 
the bar. He is a member of the Com¬ 
mercial Law league and the American 
Bar association. 

HARTE FRAiNCIS BRET, journalist, 
author, poet, was born Aug. 25, 1839, in 
Albany, N. Y. He is a California writer 
who first drew public attention in 186& 
by a short story called The Luck of 
Roaring Camp, published in the Overland 
Monthly, which he edited. This tale, and 
the now famous poem. Plain Language 
from Truthful James, established his rep¬ 
utation. From 18i 1 to 1878 he resided in 
New York, and since that date he has 
lived abroad, but mainly in London from 
1885. His writings include, Condensed 
Novels; The Luck of Roaring Camp, and 
Other Sketches; Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands; 
Tales of the Argonauts; Gabriel Conroy; 
Two Men of Sandy Bar, a play; The Story 
of a Mine; Drift from Two Shores; 
Thankful Blossom; The Twins of Table 
Mountain; By Shore and Sedge; Flip, and 
Found at Blazing Star; In the Carquinez 
Woods; On the Frontier; Maruja; Snow- 
Bound at Egle’s; The Queen of the Pi¬ 
rate Isle, a Chila s Story; A Millionaire 
of Rough-and-Ready; The Crusade of the 
Excelsior; A Phyllis of the Sierras: The 
Argonauts of North Liberty; Cressy; 
The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh; A Waif 
of the Plains; A vVard of the Golden 
Gate; A Sappho of Green Springs; Col¬ 
onel Starbottle’s Client; A First Family 
of Tasajara; Susy; A Protegee of Jack 
Hamlin's; Sally Dows; The Bell-Ringer 
of Angel’s; Clarence; and In a Hollow of 
the Hills; Barker’s Luck. In verse he 
has published East and West Poems; 
Echoes of the Foot Hills. 

HARTE, WALTER BLACKBURN, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1866, in Canada. He 
has published Meditations, in Motley. 

HARTER, MICHAEL D., banker, man¬ 
ufacturer, congressman, was born April 
6, 1846, in Canton, Ohio. He was elected 
from Ohio to the fifty-second and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-third congress as a 
democrat. 









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HARTLEY, CECIL B., author. He was 
the author of Louis Wetzel, the Virginia 
Ranger; Lives of Empress Josephine, 
Francis Marion, Daniel Boone; Hunting 
Spots in the West; Lives of the Three 
Mrs. Judsons; and Pictorial Teaching and 
Bible Illustration. 

HARTLEY, ISAAC SMITHSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 27, 1830, 
in New York city. He is a Dutch re¬ 
formed clergyman of Utica since 1871, and 
the author of Prayer and Its Relation to 
Modern Criticism; and Old Fort Schuyler 
in History. 

HARTLEY, JONATHAN SCOTT, 
sculptor, was born Sept. 23, 1845, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. He is one of the original 
members of the Salmagundi Sketch club, 
and was professor of anatomy in the 
schools of the Art Students’ league in 

1878- 84, and president of the league in 

1879- 80. His works include The Young 
Samaritan; King Rene’s Daughter. 

HARTLEY, LEWIS R., educator, author, 
poet. He is the author of several his¬ 
torical works and his poems have been a 
valuable acquisition to periodical litera¬ 
ture. 

HARTLEY, ROBERT MILHAM, phil¬ 
anthropist, author, was born Feb. 17, 
1796, in England. He was a philanthro¬ 
pist who founded in 1842 the New York 
Association for Improving the Condition 
of the Poor. He was the author of His¬ 
tory, Science, and Practical Essay on 
Milk; and Temperance in Large Cities 
and Towns. He died March 3, 1881, in 
New York city. 

HARTLEY, THOMAS, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 7, 1748, in 
Reading, Pa. He served in the revolu¬ 
tionary war as a colonel from 1776 to 
1779. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania from 1789 until 
his death. He died Dec. 21, 1800, in York, 
Pa. 

HARTMAN, CHARLES S., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 1, 1861, in 
Monticello, Ind. He was elected probate 
judge of Gallatin county, Montana, and 
served two years as such. In 1889 he was 
a member of the constitutional conven¬ 
tion; and was elected to the fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth congresses as a repub¬ 
lican, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a silver republican. 

HARTMAN, WILLIAM DELL, natural¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 24, 1817, in Chester 
county, Pa. He has made a large collec¬ 
tion of shells, which is especially rich in 
partulae and achatinellse. In connection 
with Dr. Ezra Michener, he issued an 
illustrated and descriptive catalogue of 
the fresh water and land shells of Chester 
county, Pa. 

HARTRANFT, CHESTER DAVID, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
Oct. 15, 1839, in Frederick, Pa. He has 
been professor of ecclesiastical history in 
the Hartford Theological seminary, of 
which institution he is president. 

HARTRANFT, JOHN FREDERICK, 
soldier, governor, was born Dec. 16, 1830, 
in Montgomery county. Pa. He was a 
colonel of the fourth Pennsylvania; and 
from 1864 was a brigadier-general and 
had command of a brigade at the battle 
of the 'Wilderness. He was brevetted a 
major-general; and his croops were the 
first that entered Petersburg. In 1865 he 
was elected auditor-general of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and re-elected in 1868. In 1872 he 
was elected governor of Pennsylvania, 
and was re-elected in 18 <o. He died Oct. 
17, 1889, in Norristown, Pa. 

HARTRIDGE, JULIAN, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Savannah, Ga. 
He was soucitor-general of the eastern 


judicial circuit of Georgia; a representa¬ 
tive in the state legislature; and delegate 
to the Charleston democratic convention 
of 1860. He served in the confederate 
army; and was a member of the confed¬ 
erate congress. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Georgia to the forty-fourth 
congress, and re-elected to the forty-fifth 
congress. He died Jan. 8, 1879. 

HARTSHORNE, CHARLES, railroad 
president, was born Sept. 2, 1829, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 1857 he became president 
of the Quakake Railroad company; in 
1862 of the Lehigh and Mahoning, and in 
1880 president of the Lehigh Valley. 

HARTSHORNE, EDWARD, physician, 
author, was born May 14, 1818, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia phy¬ 
sician, and the author of Separate Sys¬ 
tem for Criminals; Ophthalmic Medicine 
and Surgery; and an edition of Taylor’s 
Medical Jurisprudence, with notes. He 
died June 22, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HARTSHORNE, HENRY, physician, 
author, poet, was Dorn March 16, 1823, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia 
physician, and professor of organic sci¬ 
ence at Haverford college in 18b7-97. He 
was the author of Memoranda Medica; 
Essentials of Principles and Practice of 
Medicines; Family Adviser; Our Homes; 
Cholera; Household Manual; Handbook 
of Human Anatomy; Conspectus of the 
Medical Sciences; Glycerin and Its Uses; 
Woman’s Witchcraft, a dramatic ro¬ 
mance; and Summer Songs. He died in 
1897. 

HARTSUFF, GEORGE LUCAS, soldier, 
was born May 28, 1830, in lyre, N. Y. 
He served at Fort Pickens, Fla., till 1861; 
then in West Virginia under General 
Rosecrans, and became a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers. He died May 16, 1874, 
in New York city. 

HARTT, CHARLES FREDERICK, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born in 1840, in New 
Brunswick. He was a professor of geol¬ 
ogy at Cornell university in 1868, and 
chief of the geological surveys in Brazil 
at the time of his death. He was the 
author of Geology and Physical Geog¬ 
raphy of Brazil; Contributions to the 
Geology of the Lower Amazons; and Am¬ 
azonian Tortoise Myths. He died in 1878. 

HARTWELL, ALONZO, artist, was 
born Feb. 19, 1805, in Littleton, Mass. 
In 1822 he went to Boston, and soon af¬ 
terward was apprenticed to a wood en¬ 
graver, till 182b, when he engaged in the 
business for himself. He subsequently 
attained national repute as an artist. 
He died Jan. 17, 1872, in Waltham, Mass. 

HARTZELL, J. HAZARD, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born in 1830, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was an episcopal clergyman 
of Waverly, N. Y., but prior to 1881 a 
noted clergyman in the universalist faith, 
for fourteen years a pastor in Buffalo. 
He was the author of Wanderings on 
Parnassus, a collection of verse; and Ap¬ 
plication and Achievement. He died in 
1890. 

HARTZELL, WILLIAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 20, 1837, in Stark 
county, Ohio. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative to the forty-fourth congress 
from Illinois; and was re-elected to the 
forty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

HARVARD, JOHN, clergyman, founder 
of Harvard college, was born Sept. 2, 1608, 
in England. At his death he left a leg¬ 
acy of four thousand dollars to endow a 
school at Cambridge, and is thus memor¬ 
able as the founder of the university of 
Harvard college, which is not controlled 
by any religious denomination. He died 
Sept. 14, 1638, in Charlestown, Mass. 


HARVEY, C. C., railroad president, was 
born in 1846, in Newfoundland. Since 
1894 he has been the president of the New 
Orleans and North Eastern railroad; Ala¬ 
bama ana Vicksburg railway; and Vicks¬ 
burg, Shreveport and Pacific railroad. 

HARVEY, DAVID A., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born March 20, 
1845, in Nova Scotia. He served through¬ 
out the war in company B, fourth Ohio 
cavalry.. He removed to Topeka, Kan., 
in 1869, where he served four years as 
city attorney, and six years as probate 
judge. He was elected delegate from 
Oklahoma to the fifty-second congress as 
a republican. 

HARVEY, DWIGHT B., clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, was born June 4, 1834, in Mar- 
tinsburg, Ohio. Since 1882 he has been 
president of the Granville Female col¬ 
lege, which was founded in 1827, and is 
thus the pioneer girls’ school of the 
higher type in the west. 

HARVEY, JAMES C., author, poet, was 
born in Danbury, Conn. He is a well- 
known journalist of New York city; and 
the author of a volume of poems entitled 
Lines and Rhymes. 

HARVEY, JAMES MADISON, civil 
engineer, governor, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Sept. 21, 1833, in Monroe 
county, Va. He was captain in the fourth 
and tenth regiments of Kansas volunteer 
infantry from 1861 until 1864. He was a 
member in the lower house of the state 
legislature in 1865 and 1866; and a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate in 1867* and 1868; 
was governor of Kansas from 1869 to 
1871; and was elected to the United States 
senate to fill a vacancy, serving during 
1874-77. 

HARVEY, JOHN, was made governor 
of Virginia in 1630. He served for nearly 
ten years, and was one of the most un¬ 
popular ot the colonial governors. 

HARVEY, JONATHAN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1780, in Merrimack 
county, N. H. He served seven years in 
the two houses of the state legislature; 
was president of the senate from 1817 to 
1823; and was a state counselor from 
1823 to 1825. He was a representative in 
congress from New Hampshire from 1825 
to 1831. He died Aug. 23, 1850, in Sutton, 
N. H. 

HARVEY, LOUIS POWELL, educator, 
journalist, governor, was born July 22, 
1820, in East Haddam, Conn. He was a 
member of the first state constitutional 
convention of Wisconsin; was in the state 
senate from 1855 to 1857; and was chosen 
secretary of state soon afterward. He 
was elected governor of Wisconsin in 
1861. He died April 19, 1862. 

HARVEY, MATTHEW, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, governor, was born June 21, 
1781, in Sutton, N. H. He was for many 
years a member of the New Hampshire 
legislature, and speaker of the house 
from 1818 to 1821. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New Hampshire 
from 1821 to 1825. He was president of 
the state senate from 1825 to 1828; and 
was a state counselor in 1828. He was 
governor of the state in 1830; and in 1831 
was appointed judge of the United States 
district court. He died April 7, 1866, in 
Concord, N. H. 

HARVEY, PETER, merchant, state leg¬ 
islator, author, was born July 10, 1810, in 
Barnet, Vt. He was treasurer of the 
Rutland railroad, and president of the 
Kilby bank. He served in both branches 
of the Massachusetts legislature. He was 
the author of Reminiscences and Anec¬ 
dotes of Daniel Webster.. He died June 
27, 1877, in Boston, Mass. 









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HARVEY, WILLIAM HOPE, author, 
was born in 1851, in West Virginia. He 
is a writer on financial topics whose the¬ 
ories regarding unlimited coinage of sil¬ 
ver have been popular with superficial 
thinkers. He is the author of Coin’s Fi¬ 
nancial School; and A Tale of Two Na¬ 
tions, a financial novel. 

HARVEY, WILLIAM JAMESON, cap¬ 
italist, was horn May 13, 1838, in Ply¬ 
mouth, Pa. He served in the civil war, 
and attained the rank of adjutant. He 
is president and manager of the Wilkes- 
barre and Kingston Street railway; and 
president of the Wyoming Valley Lace 
mills. 

HARVIE, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Scotland. He was a delegate to 
the continental congress from Virginia 
from 1778 to 1779; and signed the articles 
-of confederation. He died Feb. 6, 1807, 
in Richmond, Va. 

HARWARD, THOMAS, ship builder, 
was born March 15, 1789, in Bowdoin- 
ham, Maine. He was a member of the 
Maine militia, and brevetted major at the 
close of the war of 1812. He purchased 
the large Patterson shipyard and docks 
of that city, which are historic from the 
fact that before the revolution they were 
known as the king’s docks. He died 
Nov. 30, 1891, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HARWOOD, ANDREW ALLEN, naval 
officer, author, was born in 1802, in Set¬ 
tle, Pa. He was a rear admiral in the 
United States navy, and the author of 
Summary Courts Martial; and Law and 
Practice of’the United States Navy Courts 
Martial. He died Aug. 28, 1884, in Marion, 
Mass. 

HARWOOD, CHARLES E„ manufac¬ 
turer, was born in 1851, in Charlestown, 
Mass. He attained success as a manufac¬ 
turer of Lynn, Mass.; was mayor of that 
city in 1894; and received the election to 
-a second term. 

HARWOOD, ELIHU BURRETT, artist, 
was born Nov. 26, 1855, in Charles City, 
Iowa. He has auained prominence as a 
painter of portraits and figure work, and 
in 1893 organized an art school in Minne¬ 
apolis, Minn. 

HARWOOD, JuriN EDMUND, actor, 
author, poet, was born in 1771, in Eng¬ 
land. He was an English actor who came 
to the United States in 1793, and pub¬ 
lished a collection of poems the year of 
his death. He died Sept. 21, 1809, in Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa. 

HARWOOD, WATSON H., physician, 
surgeon, genealogist, was born June 18, 
1854, in Bangor, N. Y. He attended the 
Normal school of 
Oswego; and in 1881 
graduated from the 
medical department 
of the university of 
Vermont. He at 
once began the prac¬ 
tice of his profes¬ 
sion at Chasm Falls, 
N. Y., and has at¬ 
tained prominence 
as one of the lead¬ 
ing physicians of his 
state. He is the au¬ 
thor of a genealogical Record of the Har¬ 
wood Families. He began compiling the 
record of his family a quarter of a cen¬ 
tury ago; and has always taken great in¬ 
terest in historical and genealogical stud¬ 
ies. He has been prominently identified 
with the prohibition party; and takes a 
leading part in the public affairs of his 
county and state. 

HARWOOD, WILLIAM S., journalist, 
was born Oct. 16, 1857, in Charles City, 
Iowa. For three years he was on the 
editorial staff of the Chicago Inter Ocean. 


HASBROUCK, ABRAHAM, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman. He was a member of 
the New York assembly from Ulster coun¬ 
ty in 1781 and 1782, and again in 1811. 
He was a representative in congress from 
1813 to 1815; and was a state senator in 
1822. • 

HASBROUCK, aBRAHAM BRUYN, 
lawyer, college president, congressman, 
was born in November, 1791, in Kingston, 
N. Y. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress fom New York from 1825 to 1827; 
and was president of Rutgers college, 
which office he resigned. He died Feb. 
23, 1879, in Kingston, N. Y. 

HASBROUCK, JOSIAH, congressman, 
He was for four years a member of the 
New York assembly; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1803 to 1805, and again from 1817 to 1819. 

HASBROUCK, LYDIA SAYER, physi¬ 
cian, dress reformer, was born Dec. 20, 
1827, in Warwick, N. Y. She - received 
her education at the New York Central 
college; and at the Hygeia-Therapeutic 
college of New York city. During 1856-64 
she was the editor and publisher of The 
Sibyl, a woman’s rights and dress re¬ 
form paper; and for several years was 
associate editor of the Orange County 
Press. Subsequently she became the pro¬ 
prietor of a health institution in Middle- 
town, at her home on Sibyl Ridge. She 
was one of the first women elected as a 
member of the board of education in the 
state of New York. Since 1849 she has 
been a practical dress reformer; and also 
an advocate for equal political rights with 
men. 

HASCALL, AUGUSTUS P„ congress¬ 
man, was born in Massachusetts. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1851 to 1853. 

HASCALL, DANIEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 24, 1782, in Benning¬ 
ton, Vt. He was a baptist clergyman of 
Hamilton, N. Y., and the author of Bap¬ 
tism; Elements of Theology; and Analy¬ 
sis of Divine Revelation. He died June 
28, 1852, in Hamilton, N. Y. 

HASCALL, MILO SMITH, soldier, 
banker, was born Aug. 5, 1829, in Le Roy, 
N. Y. In 1862 he was promoted to briga¬ 
dier-general in the seventeenth Indiana 
volunteers. Since 1865 he has been a 
banker of Goshen, Ind. 

HASELTINE. JAMES HENRY, soldier, 
sculptor, was born Nov. 2, 1833, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. After the close of the civil 
war, in which he served as major of the 
sixth Pennsylvania cavalry, he went to 
Europe to study art. He has lived in 
Rome, Paris and Nice. His works include 
Happy Youth; America Honoring Her 
Fallen Brave; Love; and Ingratitude. 

HASlLTINE, WILLIAM STANLEY, 
artist, was born Jan. 11, 1835, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was elected a member of 
the national academy in 1861. His early 
works include Indian Rock, Nahant; Cas¬ 
tle Rock, Nahant; and a Calm Sea, Men¬ 
tone. 

HASKELL, ABRAHAM, physician, 
was born Nov. 16, 1746, in Lancaster, 
Mass. He became a member of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts Medical society soon after its 
establishment, was a successful practi¬ 
tioner, and labored faithfully during the 
spotted-fever panic in Worcester county. 
He died Dec. 13, 1834, in Ashby, Mass. 

HASKELL, DANIEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1784, in Preston, Conn. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Burlington, Vt., who was subsequently a 
writer in Brooklyn. He was the author 
of Gazetteer of the United States; and 
Chronological View of the World. He 
died Aug. 9, 1848, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 


HASKELL, DANIEL NOYES, journal¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 1, 1818, in Newbury- 
port, Mass. He wrote constantly for the 
press, and in 1853 became editor of the 
Boston Transcript, which post he held 
until his death. He died Nov. 13, 1874, 
in Boston, Mass. 

HASKELL, DUDLEY C., merchant, 
congressman, was born March 23, 1842, m 
Springfield, Vt. He moved to Kansas and 
served as a representative in the state 
legislature in 1872, 1875, and 1876; and 
the last term as speaker. He was elected 
a representative from Kansas to the for¬ 
ty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh and 
forty-eighth congresses. He died Dec. 16, 
1883, in Washington. 

HASKELL, ELLA L. KNOWLES, law¬ 
yer, was born July 31, 1862, in North- 
wood, N. H. She received her education 
at the Bates college 
of Lewiston, Maine. 
Sne has attained 
prominence as a 
successful lawyer of 
Helena, Mont.; and 
served with distinc¬ 
tion as assistant at¬ 
torney-general of 
Montana from Jan¬ 
uary, 1893, to Jan¬ 
uary, 1897; serving 
four years in all. In 
1896 she was a dele¬ 
gate to the populist county, state and na¬ 
tional conventions; and is prominently 
identified in the public affairs of Montana. 
As a lawyer she ranks high, and has con¬ 
tributed extensively to law literature. 

HASKELL, ELMER E., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 2, 1861, in Chatham, N. H. 
He is a successful lawyer of Palatka, Fla., 
and in 1897 he was appointed by the gov¬ 
ernor of Florida to be judge of the crim¬ 
inal court of record for Putnam county, 
Fla. 

HASKELL, HARRIET NEWELL, edu¬ 
cator, was born Jan. 14, 1835, in Waldo- 
boro, Maine. She attended the Castleton 
Classical school, Vt., 
and graduated from 
the Mount Holyoke 
college in 1855. She 
was principal of the 
high school of her 
native city; and for 
six years was prin¬ 
cipal of the Castle¬ 
ton Classical sem¬ 
inary. In 1867 she 
was called to the 
principalship of the 
Monticello seminary 
of Godfrey, Ill., which is the oldest 
equipped school in the west for the higher 
education of girls. This establishment was 
totally destroyed by fire in 1888, and by 
her efforts was rebuilt in thirteen months 
more complete and beautiful than before. 

HASKELL, JAMES RICHARDS, in¬ 
ventor, was born Sept. 17, 1825, in Geneva, 
N. Y. In 1854 he began a series of ex¬ 
periments with steel breech-loading rifled 
cannon and breech-loading small arms, 
manufacturing twenty-five of the former, 
which were purchased by the Mexican 
government, and were the first of the de¬ 
scription that were made in the United 
States. 

HASKELL, LLEWELLYN FROST, sol¬ 
dier, was born Oct. 8, 1842. He enlisted 
in the fourteenth New York regiment, 
rose to the rank of captain, and at the 
close of the war was brevetted brigadier- 
general of volunteers. He then became 
associated with his father in the develop¬ 
ment of Llewellyn park, but in 1877 re¬ 
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HASKELL, LLEWELLYN SOLOMON, 
merchant, was born Jan. 4, 1815, in Glou¬ 
cester, Maine. In 1857 he began to lay 
out Llewellyn park, and about 1859 re¬ 
tired from business to give his whole time 
to its improvement. He died May 31, 
1872, in Santa Barbara, Cal. 

HASKELL, THOMAS NELSON, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, poet, was born in 
Chautauqua couniy, N. Y. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Boys in Blue; Konkaput; 
the King of the Utes, a fascinating poem 
of remarkable merit. He is the state 
librarian of Colorado, and fills the posi¬ 
tion of chaplain of the senate. 

HASKELL, ULYSSES G., lawyer, gen¬ 
ealogist, was born Oct. 3, 1863, in Chat¬ 
ham, N. H. He has served as examiner 
United States pension bureau, and presi¬ 
dent of the Beverly common council. He 
is the author of a Genealogy on the Has¬ 
kell Family. 

HASKELL, WILLIAM T., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born in Tennessee. 
He was colonel of a regiment of Tennes¬ 
see volunteers in the war with Mexico, 
and distinguished himself at Medelin and 
at Cerro Gordo. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Tennessee from 
1847 to 1849; and presidential elector in 

1852. He died March 20, 1859, in Hopkins¬ 
ville, Tenn. 

HASKIN, JOHN B., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 7, 1821, in Fordham, 
N. Y. He held several important city 
offices from 1846 to 1856; and was then 
elected a representative in the thirty-fifth 
congress from New York, and re-elected 
to the thirty-sixth congress. 

HASKIN, JOSEPH A., soldier, was born 
in 1817, in New York. He served in the 
civil war and was promoted to be major 
in 1862, and brevet colonel and brevet 
brigadier-general in 1865. He was retired 
from active service in 1872. He died Aug. 
3, 1874, in Oswego, N. Y. 

HASKIN, NELSON, merchant, state 
legislator, was born Oct. 20, 1849, in Can¬ 
ada. He is a descendant of Bartholomew 
Haskin, who arrived 
in Boston harbor 
from England in 
1635, and settled in 
Elizabeth City. He 
moved to Michigan 
in 1871, and has at¬ 
tained success as 
one of the foremost 
merchants of Lapeer 
county, at Imlay 
City. For two terms 
he was village presi¬ 
dent; has filled nu¬ 
merous public offices of trust; is a promi¬ 
nent mover in various fraternal orders; 
and during 1887-88 served with distinction 
as a representative in the Michigan state 
legislature. 

HASKINS, CHARLES N., educator, 

was born Aug. 16, 1857, in Huntington, 
Ohio. In 1881 he entered the Ohio 

Institute for the Deaf as a teacher, 
where he continued for thirteen years. 
In 1893 he became connected with the 
deaf department of the Chicago city 
schools. For two years he edited and 
published a patriotic magazine known as 
The Washingtonian. He subsequently or¬ 
ganized the Co-operative College of Cit¬ 
izenship, which now has a faculty of fifty 
members in twelve departments, intended 
to cover the whole field of sociology. 

HASKINS, DAVID GREENE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1818, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man and educator of Cambridge. He 
was the author of Selections from the 
Old and New Testament for Use in Fam¬ 


ilies and Schools; French and English 
First Book; and Maternal Ancestors of 
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

HASLETT, JOHN, soldier, physician, 
state legislator, was born in Ireland. He 
was repeatedly in the state assembly of 
Delaware. He served during the revolu¬ 
tionary war, and was in the actions of 
Long Island and White Plains. He died 
Jan. 3, 1777, in Princeton, N. J. 

HASLETT, JOHN, physician, surgeon, 
was born in December, 1799, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. He entered the United States 
navy as a surgeon in 1822, and continued 
in service, reaching the rank of fleet-sur¬ 
geon, until 1841, when he resigned. On 
the establishment of the Brooklyn city 
hospital Dr. Haslett became its vice- 
president, and practically its head; and 
in 1853 its president. He died Sept. 28, 
1878, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HASLETT, JOSEPH, governor, was 
born in Delaware. He was governor of 
Delaware from 1811 to lal4, and again 
in 1823 and 1824. He died in July, 1824. 

HASSARD, JOHN ROSE GREENE, 
journalist, author, was born Sept. 4, 1836, 
in New York city. He was a New York 
journalist, who was a literary critic on 
the staff of the Tribune, and was the au¬ 
thor of The King of the Nibelung; School 
History of the United States; Life of 
Archbishop Hughes; The Life of Pope 
Pius Ninth; and A Pickwickian Pilgrim¬ 
age. He died April 18, 1888, in New York 
city. 

HASSARD, SAMUEL, clergyman, was 
born Jan. 21, 1806, in Jamaica, W. I. 
He was largely instrumental in promot¬ 
ing the growth of the protestant episco¬ 
pal church in New England. A volume of 
his sermons was published after his 
death, with a memoir by Henry W. Lee. 
He died Jan. 13, 1847, in Great Barring¬ 
ton, Mass. 

HASSAUREK. FRIEDRICH, lawyer, 
journalist, diplomat, author, was born in 
1832. He was a journalist and lawyer of 
Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1861-66 was min¬ 
ister resident to Ecuador. He was the 
author of Four Years Among the Span¬ 
ish-Americans; and The Secret of the 
Andes. He died Oct. 3, 1885, in Paris, 
France. 

HASSELQUIST, TOOVAY NELSSON. 
clergyman, college president, was born 
March 2, 1816, in Sweden. He was called 
in 1863 to the presidency of the Swedish 
seminary at Paxton, which was removed 
in 1875 to Rock Island, Ill., under the title 
of Augustana college and theological 
seminary. He was one of the founders of 
the Scandinavian Augustana synod and 
its presiding officer in 1860-70. 

HASSLER, FERDINAND RUDOLPH, 
civil engineer, surveyor, author, was born 
Oct. 6, 1770, in Switzerland. Hewasa noted 
surveyor in the government service who 
published System of the Universe and a 
series of works on astronomy, arithmetic, 
geometry, and trigonometry. He died 
Nov. 20, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HASTINGS, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born March 13, 1807, in 
Clinton, N. Y. He was district attorney 
for Oneida county nine years; was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1853 to 1855; and late in the latter 
year was elected judge for Livingston 
county, which office he held until his 
death. He died Aug. 29, 1866, in Mount 
Morris, N. Y. 

HASTINGS, GEORGE H., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born Aug. 26, 1848, in 
Marengo, Ill. He has been judge of Saline 
county, Neb.; representative of the Ne¬ 
braska state legislature; and in 1890-94 
was attorney-general of that F f ute. 


HASTINGS, HOLMAN K., clergyman, 
state legislator, poet, was born Oct. 15, 

1853, in Bristol, N. H. In 1875 he entered 
the Vermont confer¬ 
ence and served pas¬ 
torates at Guilford, 
Bondville, T u n- 
bridge and Hancock, 
Vt. He was super¬ 
intendent of schools 
for two years, and 
in 1882 was elected a 
representative to the 
Vermont legislature. 
In 1886 he was trans¬ 
ferred from the Ver¬ 
mont conference to 

northwest Iowa, where he is one of the 
most noted clergyman of his denomina¬ 
tion. 

HASTINGS, HORACE LORENZO, 
evangelist, author, poet, was born Nov. 
26, 1833, in Blandford, Mass. He is the 
great anti-infidel 
lecturer; has 
preached since 1849; 
and since 1866 has 
published The Chris¬ 
tian, which has had 
a combined issue of 
three million copies, 
and published in a 
dozen languages. He 
has written hun¬ 
dreds of hymns; 
compiled a hymn 
book; and issued 
scores of religious books and pamphlets. 
He is best known as the author of Shall 
We Meet Beyond the River. His other 
works are Signs of the Times; Reasons 
for My Hope; Thessalonica; and Athe¬ 
ism-and Arithmetic. 

HASTINGS, HUGH J.. journalist, was 
born Aug. 20, 1820, in Ireland. He was 
appointed by President Taylor collector 
of the port of Albany. He assumed the 
editorship of the New York Commercial 
Advertiser in 1868, and in 1875 became 
its proprietor. He died Sept. 12, 1883, in 
Monmouth Eeach, N. J. 

HASTINGS, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1839 to 1843. He died Dec. 29, 

1854, in Columbus, Ohio. 

HASTINGS, SAMUEL CLINTON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Iowa from 1846 
to 1847; and was at one time a judge of 
the supreme court of Iowa. He subse¬ 
quently practiced law in San Francisco, 
Cal. 

HASTINGS, SETH, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1760. He was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1801 to 1807; and after his 
service in congress was elected a state 
senator in 1810 and 1814. He was ap¬ 
pointed chief justice of the court of ses¬ 
sions. He died in 1831, in Mendon, Mass. 

HASTINGS, T. NELSON, state senator, 
was born May 23, 1858, in Cambridge, 
Mass. In 1897 he was elected a member of 
the New Hampshire state senate from 
Walpole. 

HASTINGS, THOMAS, composer, was 
born Oct. 15, 1784, in Washington, Conn. 
His publications comprise nearly fifty 
separate volumes; and he left over six 
hundred hymns in manuscript. He died 
May 15, 1872, in New York city. 

HASTINGS, THOMAS S., clergyman, 
educator, college president, was born Aug. 
28, 1827, in Utica, N. Y. In 1881 he was 
professor of sacred rhetoric in the Union 
Theological seminary; of which institu¬ 
tion he has been president since 1887. 











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HASTINGS, WILLIAM SODEN, state 
senator, congressman. He was frequently 
a member of the legislature of Massachu¬ 
setts; and was in the senate from 1829 
to 1834. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1837 to 1842. 
He died June 17, 1842, in Sulphur Springs, 
Va. 

HASWELL, CHARLES HAYNES, civil 
engineer, author, was born May 22, 1809, 
in New York city. He was a civil engi¬ 
neer of much prominence, and the author 
of Mechanics’ and Engineers’ Pocket 
Book; Mechanics’ Tables; Mensuration 
and Practical Geometry; Bookkeeping; 
History of the Steam Roller; and Remi¬ 
niscences of New York from 1816 to 1855. 

HATCH, EDWARD, soldier, was born 
Dec. 22, 1832, in Bangor, Maine. In 1864 
he was brevetted major-general of vol¬ 
unteers; and three years later was pro¬ 
moted to the same rank in the United 
States army. He subsequently served in 
the Indian wars. He died April 11, 1890, 
in Fort Robinson, Neb. 

HATCH, HERSCHEL HARRISON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 
17, 1837, in Morrisville, N. Y. In 1863 ne 
removed to Bay City, Mich.; was elected 
a member of the first board of aldermen 
of Bay City in 1865; and elected judge of 
prooate in 18t>8. He was appointed a 
member of the state constitutional com¬ 
mission in 1872, and of the state tax com¬ 
mission in 1881; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Michigan to the forty- 
eighth congress as a republican. 

HATCH, ISRAEL THOMPSON, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1808, in Owasco, 
N. Y. He was a member of the assembly 
of that state in 1852; and was elected a 
representative to the thirty-fifth congress. 
In 1859 he was appointed to examine and 
report upon the working of the reciproc¬ 
ity treaty; and a few weeks later was 
appointed postmaster at Buffalo. He died 
Sept. 24, 1875, in Buffalo. 

HATCH, JETHRO, A., surgeon, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 18, 1837, in 
Chenango county, N. Y. He was com¬ 
missioned assistant surgeon of the thirty- 
sixth Illinois volunteer infantry in 1862; 
and was afterward promoted to surgeon 
of the same regiment. In 1872 and 1873 
he was a member of the Indiana house 
of representatives; and in 1888 was an 
alternate delegate to the national re¬ 
publican convention. He was elected to 
the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. 

HATCH, REUBEN, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Oct. 11, 1847, in Alstead, N. H. In 
1875 he was elected judge of the thirteenth 
judicial circuit. Since 1888 he has prac¬ 
ticed his profession in Grand Rapids, 
Mich., where he has attained note as one 
of the foremost lawyers of that state. 

HATCH, RILEY BURNHAM, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Oct. 19, 1832, in Wil- 
liamstown, Vt. He was fitted for college 
at the New Salem 
academy of Massa¬ 
chusetts, at Sax¬ 
ton’s River, Vt.; 
and graduated from 
the Middlebury col¬ 
lege of Vermont 
with honors in the 
class of 1857. Dur¬ 
ing 1868-69 he was a 
member of the state 
legislature of New 
Hampshire; and he 
again served with 
distinction as a 
member of that body in 1893. In 1889 he 
served as a member of the New Hamp¬ 
shire constitutional convention. He is 


one of the foremost lawyers of New Eng¬ 
land; is connected with various banking 
institutions; and has contributed quite 
extensively to periodical literature. 

HATCH, WILLIAM HENRY, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 11, 
1833, in Scott county, Ky. He moved to 
Missouri; and was elected circuit attor¬ 
ney of the sixteenth judicial circuit in 
1858, ana re-elected in 1860. He served 
in the confederate army as captain and 
assistant adjutant-general during the 
war of the rebellion. He was elected a 
representative from Missouri to the for¬ 
ty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, for¬ 
ty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second 
and fifty-third congresses as a democrat. 

HATCHER, ROBERT A., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Feb. 24, 1819, in 
Buckingham county, Va. He was for six 
years circuit attorney of the tenth judi¬ 
cial circuit of Missouri; and was a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature in 1850 and 
1851. He was a member of the state con¬ 
vention in 1862, and of the confederate 
congress in 1864. He was elected to the 
forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth 
congresses. He died Dec. 18, 1886, in 
Charleston, Mo. 

HATFIELD, EDWIN FRANCIS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 9, 1807, in 
Elizabethtown, N. J. He was a presby- 
terian clergyman of St. Louis, and subse¬ 
quently of New York city. He was the 
author of Universalism As It Is; History 
of Elizabeth, New Jersey; St. Helena and 
the Cape of Good Hope; and The Poets of 
the Church. He died Sept. 22, 1883, in 
Summit, N. J. 

HATHAWAY, BENJAMIN, poet, was 
born Sept. 30, 1822, in Cayuga county, N. 
Y. He is a poet who was for many years 
a nurseryman and 
farmer. He is the 
author of Art Life 
and Other Poems; 
The League of the 
Iroquois; and The 
Finished Creation, 
and Other Poems. 
His poems have ap¬ 
peared in Poets of 
America and other 
standard collections. 
He is also a constant 
contributor to the 

periodical press. 

HATHAWAY, HORATIO, merchant, 
was born May 19, 1831, in New Bedford, 
Mass. He is president of the Hathaway 
Manufacturing company, a large cotton 
mill, employing 100,000 spindles and 1,000 
operatives. 

HATHAWAY. JOSHUA WARREN, 
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1797 in New 
Brunswick, Maine. In 1849 he was ap¬ 
pointed one of the judges of the district 
court for the state; and in 1852 he was 
made a justice of the supreme judicial 
court of Maine for seven years. He died 
in 1862. 

HATHAWAY, SAMUEL GILBERT, 
soldier, state senator, congressman, was 
born July 18, 1780, in Freetown, Mass. 
He was, for eight years, a justice of the 
peace; in 1814 and 1818 was elected to the 
state legislature; and in 1822 to the state 
senate. He was a representative from 
New York to the twenty-third congress; 
and in 1852 was a presidential elector. 
He died May 2, 1867, in Solon, N. Y. 

HATHAWAY, WARREN, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1828, in Ballston Spa, 
N. Y. For the past thirty-three years he 
has been pastor of the Blooming Grove 
congregational church; and is the author 
of Questions of Nature and Grace; The 
Life of John Ross; and various pam¬ 
phlets and articles. 


HATHORN, HENRY H., congressman,, 
was born Nov. 28, 1813, in Greenfield, N. 
Y. He was supervisor for Saratoga four 
years; and was elected sheriff of the coun¬ 
ty in 1853 and 1862, serving six years. He 
was elected to the forty-third congress 
from New York; re-elected to the forty- 
fourth congress as a republican. 

HATHORN, JOHN, state senator, con¬ 
gressman. He was a member of the state- 
senate of New York in 1787; and was a 
representative in congress from New 
York from 1789 to 1791, and again from, 
1795 to 1797. He was again elected to the 
state senate in 1804; and during the lat¬ 
ter year was a presidential elector. 

HATHORN, RANSOM E., soldier, man¬ 
ufacturer, state senator, was born Nov. 
3, 1843, in Londonderry, Vt. He served 
for three years in the union army as a 
soldier in company G, eleventh Vermont 
volunteers, and was wounded in 1865. He 
has been aide-de-camp on the staff of 
Governor Ormsby. For fifteen years he 
has been a justice of the peace; and in 
1896 was elected a state senator. 

HATHORNE, JOHN, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born in August, 1641, 
in Salem, Mass. He was a representative- 
in the state assembly in 1683, assistant 
or councilor in 1684-1712, excepting dur¬ 
ing Sir Edmund Andros’s administration; 
and was active in the witchcraft prose¬ 
cutions. He served in the Indian and 
eastern wars as colonel, and was com¬ 
mander of the forces in the expedition of 
1696. He died May 10, 1717, in Boston, 
Mass. 

HATTON, FRANK, soldier, journalist, 
postmaster-general, was born April 28, 
1846, in Cambridge, Ohio. In 1863 he en¬ 
listed in uhe union army; and in 1864 was 
commissioned a first lieutenant. In 1874 
he removed to Burlington, Iowa, and pur¬ 
chased a controlling interest in the Bur¬ 
lington Hawkeye, and there gained a na¬ 
tional reputation as a political writer. He 
was appointed postmaster at Burlington; 
in 1881 was appointed first assistant post¬ 
master-general; and in 1884 postmaster- 
general. 

HATTON, ROBERT, soldier, lawyer,, 
congressman, was born in 1827, in Sum¬ 
ner county, Tenn. He served in the Ten¬ 
nessee legislature in 1856; and in 1859> 
was elected a representative from Tennes¬ 
see to the thirty-sixth congress. He served 
in the rebellion of 186 I, and was killed at 
the battle of Fair Oaks, before Richmond, 
May 31, 1862. 

HAUGEN, NILE P., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 9, 1.849, in Nor¬ 
way. He was a stenographic court re¬ 
porter from 1874 till 1881, in Wisconsin; 
was a member of the assembly in 1879 and 
1880. He was state railroad commission¬ 
er from 1882 till 1887; and was elected to 
the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fif¬ 
ty-third congresses as a republican. 

HAUGHEY, THOMAS, surgeon, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1826, in Scotland. 
He served as a surgeon in the army of the 
United States from 1862 to 1865; and was 
subsequently staff surgeon in the mili¬ 
tary hospital at Chattanooga. In 1868 he 
was elected a representative from Ala¬ 
bama to the fortieth congress. 

HAUGHTON, WILLIAM, clergyman, 
poet, was born May 5, 1829, in Canada. 
For thirty-five years ne has been a suc¬ 
cessful clergyman of Wisconsin, and is 
the author of a volume of poems contain¬ 
ing three hundred of his choicest pieces. 

HAUK, MINNIE, actress, vocalist, was, 
born Nov. 16, 1852, in New York city. At 
the age of eight years she sang solos in 
the New York cathedral; and at thirteen 
appeared at a charity concert. 





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HAUN, HENRY P., lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born Jan. 18, 
1815, in Scott county, Ky. He was for a 
time attorney for his native county. He 
moved to Iowa in 1845; and was a member 
of the convention which formed the con¬ 
stitution of that state in 1846. He moved 
to California in 1850, and was there elect¬ 
ed a county judge; and in 1859 was elect¬ 
ed a senator in congress from California 
to fill a vacancy. He died May 6, 1860, in 
Marysville, Cal. 

HAUPT, HERMAN, civil engineer, au¬ 
thor, was born Marcn 26, 1817, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is an engineer of dis¬ 
tinction who has held many important 
posts, and is the inventor of a drilling 
engine. He had charge of the military 
railroads during the civil war. Since 1875 
the chief engineer of the Tide Water 
Pipe Line company. He is the author of 
Hints on Bridge Building; General Theo¬ 
ry of Bridge Construction; Plan for Im¬ 
provement of the Ohio River; Military 
Bridges; and Street Railway Motors. 

HAUPT, LEWIS MUHLENBERG, au¬ 
thor, was born March 21, 1844, in Gettys¬ 
burg, Pa. He is an engineer of Philadel¬ 
phia, and since 1872 has been professor 
of civil engineering in the university of 
Pennsylvania. He is the author of En¬ 
gineering Specifications and Contracts; 
Working Drawings and How to Make 
Them; The Topographer: his Methods 
and Instruments; and Essays on Road 
Making. 

HAUPT, PAUL, educator, author, was 
born Nov. 25, 1858, in Germany. He be¬ 
came professor of the Semitic languages 
in Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, 
Md., in the latter year. He introduced 
the principle of the neo-grammarians 
into Semitic philology, and discovered the 
Sumerian dialect in 1880. He is the au¬ 
thor of several works in German. 

HAVELAND, LAURA SMITH, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Dec. 20, 1808, in Can¬ 
ada. She was instrumental in founding 
philanthropic institutes and asylums, 
and during the civil war was a minister 
of aid and comfort to the suffering in 
hospitals and camps. 

HAVEMEYER, HENRY, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born June 25, 1838, in New York 
city. He was at one time president of the 
Long Island railway, and built the iron 
pier at Rockaway. He died June 2, 1886, 
near Babylon, N. Y. 

HAVEN, MRS. ALICE (BRADLEY) 
(NEAL), author, was born Sept. 13, 1828, 
in Hudson, N. Y. She was a writer of 
juvenile tales which were very popular. 
Her later years were spent in New York 
•city, but she formerly lived in Philadel¬ 
phia, her first husband being J. C. 
Neal. She is the author of No Such 
Word as Fail; Contentment Better than 
Wealth; and Patient Waiting No Loss. 
She died Aug. 23, 1863, in Mamaroneck, 
N. Y. 

HAVEN, ERASTUS OTIS, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 1, 1820, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a methodist bishop, chan¬ 
cellor of Syracuse university; and from 
1863-69 president of the university of 
Michigan. He was the author of Pillars 
of Truth; Young Man Advised; Rhetoric; 
and American Progress. He died in Au¬ 
gust, 1881, in Salem, Ore. 

HAVEN, GILBERT, bishop, author, was 
born Sept. 19, 1821, in Malden, Mass. He 
was a methodist bishop whose official resi¬ 
dence was in Atlanta, and was the author 
of National Sermons; The Pilgrim’s Wal¬ 
let; Our Next-Door Neighbor, or Mexico 
of To-Day; Life of Father Taylor, the 
Sailor Preacher; and Christus Consolator. 
lie died Jan. 30, 1880, in Malden, Mass. 


HAVEN, JOHN, state senator, was born 
April 12, 1824, in Braddock’s Field, Pa. 
In 186s he was elected to the Indiana state 
senate. 

HAVEN, JOSEPH, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 4, 1816, in Dennis, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman, and 
a professor in the Chicago Theological 
seminary in 1858-70. He was the author 
of Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; 
History of Ancient and Modern Philoso¬ 
phy; Studies in Philosophy and Theology; 
and Systematic Theology. He died May 
23, 1874, in Chicago, Ill. 

HAVEN, NATHANIEL A., congress¬ 
man, was born in 1762, in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He was a member of congress from 
that state from 1809 to 1811. He died in 
March, 1831. 

HAVEN. NATHANIEL' APPLETON, 
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 14, 1790, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. From 1821 till 1825 
he edited the Portsmouth Journal. He 
also wrote several poems and contributed 
to the North American Review. A volume 
of his writings was published, with a me¬ 
moir, by George Ticknor. He died June 
3, 1826, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

HAVEN, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 15, 1727, in Framingham, 
Mass. In 1752 he was pastor of the First 
Congregational church in Portsmouth, N. 
H., which charge he held until 1806. 
Among his printed sermons are on the 
Death of George II.; on the Restoration 
of Peace; The Dualeian Lecture. 

HAVEN, SAMUEL FOSTER, archaeol¬ 
ogist, author, was born May 28, 1806, in 
Dedham, Mass. He was an archaeologist 
who was librarian of the American Anti¬ 
quarian society at Worcester, and the au¬ 
thor of Archaeology of the United States; 
and History of the Grants Under the 
Great Council for New England. He died 
Sept. 5, 1881, in Worcester, Mass. 

HAVEN, SOLOMON GEORGE, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 27, 1810, in 
Chenango county, N. Y. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1851 to 1857. He died Dec. 24, 1861, in 
Buffalo, N. Y. 

HAVENS, HARRiSON E., journalist, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 15, 
1837, in Franklin county, Ohio. He served 
for a short time as captain in the army. 
He was elected from Missouri to the for¬ 
ty-second and forty-third congresses as 
a republican. 

HAVENS, JAMES, clergyman, was 
born Dec. 25, 1763, in Mason county, Ky. 
He was one of the founders of methodism 
in the northwest, especially in Indiana, 
where the last forty years of his life were 
spent. He died in November, 1864, in In¬ 
diana. 

HAVENS, JONATHAN N., congress¬ 
man. He was for nine years a member of 
the New York assembly from Suffolk 
county; and a representative in congress 
from 1795 to 1799. He died in 1799. 

HAVENS, RUTH G. D.. educator, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Jan. 12, 1845, in Mad¬ 
ison, Conn. She is a life-long abolition¬ 
ist and supporter of the doctrine of the 
equality of races and sexes, and in wom¬ 
an suffrage. She is the author of several 
stories, sketches, and numerous poems. 

HAVERMANS, PETER, catholic priest, 
was born March 27, 1806, near the city of 
Breda. In 1830 he was ordained to the 
priesthood; filled various pastorates in 
Maryland; and became pastor of St. Ma¬ 
ry’s church of Troy, N. Y., where he died 
July 22, 1897. 

HAWES, ALBERT G., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1831 to 1837. He died 
April 14, 1849, in Davis county, Ky. 


HAWES, AYLETT, physician, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from Virginia from 1811 to 1817. 
He died Aug. 31, i833, in Culpeper coun¬ 
ty, Va. 

HAWES, JESSE, physician, surgeon, 
author, was born Aug. 21, 1843, in Corin- 
na, Maine. He received his education at 
the Corinna academy, the high school of 
Belvidere, Ill., and the Illinois Soldiers’ 
college. He was a successful physician and 
president of the Colorado board of medi¬ 
cal examiners; and trustee of the Colo¬ 
rado state normal school. He is the au¬ 
thor of a historical work entitled Ca- 
hoba. 

HAWES, JOEL, clergyman, author, was 
born Dec. 22, 1789, in Medway, Mass. He 
was a prominent congregational clergy¬ 
man of Hartford in 1818-67; and the au¬ 
thor of Lectures to Young Men; The Re¬ 
ligion of the East; Looking-Glass for La¬ 
dies; Washington and Jay; Experimental 
and Practical Sermons; Tribute to the 
Pilgrims; and Character Everything to 
the Young. He died June 5, 1867, in 
Gilead, Conn. 

HAWES, JOSIAH L., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Oct. 12, 1823, in Carlisle, N. Y. Dur¬ 
ing 1847-49 he practiced law in Unadilla, 
then in Cobleskill till 1852. From that 
time he distinguished himself as one of 
the foremost lawyers of Kalamazoo, Mich., 
not only as trial counsel in cases in the 
circuit court, but also in the state and 
federal courts. In 1875 he was elected 
circuit judge, and served the state for 
many years with distinction in that capa¬ 
city. 

HAWES, RICHARD, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Feb. 6, 
1797, in Caroline county, Va. He was a 
member of the Kentucky legislature in 
1828, 1829 and 1836, and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Kentucky from 1837 
to 1841. He died May 25, 1877, in Bourbon 
county, Ky. 

HAWES, WILLIAM POST, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 4, 1803, in New York 
city. He was a lawyer of New York city, 
and the author of Sporting Scenes and 
Sundry Sketches, published, with Memoir, 
by H. W. Herbert. He died in 1842. 

HAWK, ROBERT M. A., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 23, 1839, in 
Hancock county, Ind. He served three 
years in the union army during the war 
of the rebellion, rising to the rank of 
major. He was clerk of the county court 
of Carroll county, Ill., from 1865 to 1879, 
by successive elections, and was elected 
a representative from Illinois to the forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses. He 
died June 29, 1882. 

HAWKES, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in Worcester, Mass. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1811 to 1823. 

HAWKINS, ALVIN, lawyer, jurist, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Dec. 2, 1821, in Bath 
county, Ky. He was made judge of the 
supreme court of the state of Tennessee 
in 1865, and in 1881 was elected governor 
of Tennessee, serving until 1883. 

HAWKINS, BENJAMIN, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, author, 
was born Aug. 15, 1754, in Warren county, 
N. C. During 1781-84 and 1786-87 he was a 
delegate in congress, and served during 
1789-95 as a United States senator from 
North Carolina. He was then appointed 
agent for superintending of all the In¬ 
dians south of the Ohio, retaining that 
office from 1796 until his death. He was 
the author of Topography; and Indian 
Character. He died June 6, 1816, in Haw- 
kinsville, Ga. 


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HAWKINS, BENJAMIN WATER- 
HOUSE, anatomist, author, was horn in 
1807 in England. He was an English an¬ 
atomist who removed to the United States 
in 1868, and the author of Popular Com¬ 
parative Anatomy; Elements of Form; 
Comparative View of the Human and Ani¬ 
mal Frame; Artistic Anatomy of the 
Horse; Artistic Anatomy of Cattle 
and Sheep; Artistic Anatomy of the Dog 
and Deer; and Atlas of Comparative Os¬ 
teology. He died in 1889. 

HAWKINS, CHARLES A., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Jan. 7, 1859, in York 
county, Pa. During 1887-92 he was so¬ 
licitor of city of York, Pa., and in 1895 
was elected a member of the Pennsylvania 
house of representatives. 

HAWKINS, DEXTER ARNOLD, law¬ 
yer, author, was horn June 23, 1825, in 
Camden, Maine. He was a lawyer of New 
York city, an advocate of protection and 
similar political measures, and the author 
of Traditions of Overlook Mountain; Free 
Trade and Protection; and The Roman 
Catholic Church in New York City. He 
died July 24, 1886, in New York city. 

HAWKINS, GEORGE S., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was elected 
a representative to the thirty-fifth and 
thirty-sixth congresses from Florida. He 
was also a member of the select commit¬ 
tee of thirty-three on the rebellious states; 
and was a delegate to the Philadelphia 
national union convention of 1866. 

HAWKINS, ISAAC R., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 16, 1818, in 
Maury county, Tenn. He served as a lieu¬ 
tenant in the war with Mexico, and was 
present at the capture of Vera Cruz. 
From 1862 to 1865 he served as an offi¬ 
cer in the union army. In 1865 he was 
commissioned chancellor for the sixth div¬ 
ision of Tennessee, and in that year was 
elected a representative from Tennessee 
to the thirty-ninth congress. He was re¬ 
elected to the fortieth and forty-first con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

HAWKINS, JOHN HENRY WILLIS, 
reformer, was born Oct. 23, 1799, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He lectured with success in 
the temperance cause in every state in 
the Union except California, also con¬ 
tributing constantly to the temperance 
press. He died Aug. 26, 1858, in Parkers¬ 
burg, Pa. 

HAWKINS, JOHN P„ soldier, was born 
about 1830. At the beginning of the civil 
war he was brigade quartermaster in the 
defences of Washington, D. C. For his 
services in the war he was successively 
given the brevets of lieutenant-colonel, 
colonel, brigadier-general, and major-gen¬ 
eral in the United States army; and also 
major-general of volunteers. 

HAWKINS, JOSEPH, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1829 to 1851. 

HAWKINS, JOSEPH H„ congressman. 
He was a member of the Kentucky legis¬ 
lature from 1810 to 1813, and speaker of 
that body in 1812 and 1813. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state in 
1814 and 1815. 

HAWKINS, MICAJAH THOMAS, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1790 in Warren 
county, N. C. He entered public life in 
1819 as a member of the house of com¬ 
mons of North Carolina; and was a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate from 1823 to 1827. 
He was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina from 1831 to 1841, and 
served again in the state senate in 1846. 
He was also at one time a general of 
militia. He died Dec. 22, 1858, in Warren 
county, N. C. 


HAWKINS, PHILEMON, soldier, states¬ 
man, was born Sept. 28, 1717, in Glouces¬ 
ter county, Va. He raised the first vol¬ 
unteer company in Bute county for the 
revolutionary army, and was elected its 
colonel in 1776. He was a member of the 
convention that ratified the national con¬ 
stitution, and was the last surviving sign¬ 
er of the state constitution of North Caro¬ 
lina. He died in 1801 in Warren county, 
N. C. 

HAWKINS, PHILEMON, soldier, states¬ 
man, was born Dec. 3, 1752, in North Caro¬ 
lina. He was a member of the assembly 
from Bute county before he was of age, 
and represented the counties of Bute and 
Granville for thirteen years. In 1776 he 
was elected colonel of a regiment, and in 
that capacity performed much service. 
He was the last surviving signer of the 
state constitution of North Carolina. In 
1776 he was a member of the convention 
which ratified the United States consti¬ 
tution. He died Jan. 28, 1833, in Warren 
county, N. C. 

HAWKINS, RUSH CHRISTOPHER, 
soldier, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 
14, 1831, in Pomfret, "Vt. He is a New 
York city lawyer who served as a col¬ 
onel in the federal army during the civil 
war, and has since been a prominent ad¬ 
vocate of political reforms. He has pub¬ 
lished The First Books and Printers of the 
Fifteenth Century. 

HAWKINS, SAMUEL HUGH, lawyer, 
financier, was born Jan. 10, 1835, in Jones 
county, Ga. He is most noted as the ori¬ 
ginator, builder and president of the Sa¬ 
vannah, Americus and Montgomery rail¬ 
way, which is now known as the Georgia 
and Alabama railway. 

HAWKINS, WILLIAM, governor, was 
born in 1770 in Warren county, N. C. 
He was elected a member of the assem¬ 
bly in 1805 and was speaker. He took an 
active part in the war of 1812, and was 
governor of North Carolina from 1811 to 
1814. He died May 17, 1819, in Sparta, Ga. 

HAWKINS, WILLIAM D. C., lawyer, 
was born Sept. 17, 1838, in Tennessee. 
He received his education at the college 
of Monticello, Ark., and has attained 
prominence as an able lawyer of the In¬ 
dian territory, where he has a lucrative 
practice in Ryan, and takes a prominent 
part in the public affairs of that terri¬ 
tory. 

HAWKINS, WILLIAM GEORGE, cler¬ 
gyman, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 
23, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. He attended 
the Western university of Middletown, 
Conn., and the Theological seminary o'f 
Virginia. During 1852-57 he was rector of 
the Church of the Messiah, at Glens Falls, 
N. Y., where he built a stone church, and 
in 1858-59 he was rector of St. John’s 
church of Pequi, Pa. He has since filled 
pastorates in various states of the Union, 
and is now a missionary of the episcopal 
church in western Nebraska. He has trav¬ 
eled extensively in Europe, and lectured 
on agriculture in America and in Eng¬ 
land. He is the author of the Life of J. 
H. Hawkins, his father, a noted temper¬ 
ance reformer; Lunsford Lane; and His¬ 
tory of the New York Freedmen’s Asso¬ 
ciation. 

HAWKS, MRS. ANNIE SHERWOOD, 
poet, hymn-writer, was born May 28, 1835, 
in Hoosick, N. Y. She is most widely 
known as the author of the well-known 
hymn, I Need Thee Every Hour. 

HAWKS, CICERO STEPHENS, bishop, 
author, was horn May 26, 1812, in New 
Berne, N. C. In 1844 he was consecrated 
Protestant episcopal bishop of Missouri. 
He contributed to various journals, edit¬ 
ed the Boys’ and Girls’ Library; and 
was the author of Friday Christian. He 
died April 19, 1868, in St. Louis, Mo. 


HAWKS, FRANCIS LISTER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 10, 1798, in 
New Berne, N. C. He was a noted epis¬ 
copal clergyman, rector of churches in 
New York, New Orleans, and Baltimore. 
He was the author of History of North 
Carolina; Reports of Cases in North Car¬ 
olina Supreme Court; History of the Epis¬ 
copal Church in Virginia and Maryland; 
The Romance of Biography; Cyclopedia 
of Biography; Egypt and Its Monuments; 
and Documentary History of the Episco¬ 
pal Church. He died Sept. 26, 1866, in 
New York city. 

HAWLEY, BOSTWICK, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 8, 1814, in Onondaga 
county, N. Y. He has attained eminence 
as a clergyman in the methodist episco¬ 
pal church, but has now retired from 
active service. He is the author of Man¬ 
ual of Methodism; Beauties of Herbert; 
Shield of Faith; and various other works. 

HAWLEY, CHARLES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 19, 1819, in Catskill, 
N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman 
of Auburn, N. Y., and the author of Early 
Chapters of Cayuga History; Sanitary Re¬ 
forms; Memorial Discourses; and Early 
Chapters of Seneca History. He died 
Nov. 26, 1885, in Auburn, N. Y. 

HAWLEY, CHARLES L., lawyer, pro¬ 
hibitionist, was born Dec. 8, 1855, in Mon¬ 
trose, Pa. He is a prominent lawyer of 
Scranton, Pa., was a candidate for audi¬ 
tor-general of Pennsylvania on the pro¬ 
hibition ticket in 1886, and in 1894 was 
a candidate on the same ticket for gov¬ 
ernor of Pennsylvania. 

HAWLEY, CYRUS M„ lawyer, jurist, 
was born in New York. He removed to 
Illinois, and was appointed from that 
state a justice of the United States court 
for the territory of Utah, residing at Salt 
Lake City. 

HAWLEY, GIDEON, missionary, was 
born Nov. 11, 1727, in Bridgeport, Conn. 
In 1753 the commissioners of Indian af¬ 
fairs sent him to establish a mission in 
the Iroquois country, on the Susquehan¬ 
na river. He remained there teaching and 
preaching until 1756, when the French 
war obliged him to return to civilization. 
He died Oct. 3, 1807, in Marshpee, Mass. 

HAWLEY, GIDEON, educator, author, 
was born Sept. 26, 1785, in Huntington, 
Conn. From the organization of the 
Smithsonian institution, in 1846, until his 
death, he was one of its four regents-at- 
large. He printed for private distribu¬ 
tion Essays in Truth and Knowledge. He 
died July 16, 1870, in Albany, N. Y. 

HAWLEY, JAMES A., educator, finan¬ 
cier, was born Aug. 20, 1830, in Webster, 

N. Y. He has been superintendent of 
schools of Lee county, Ill., and for twen¬ 
ty-one years was clerk of the same coun¬ 
ty. He was president of the board of 
education of Dixon, Ill., and president and 
cashier of the Dixon National bank. He 
is a thirty-three degree Mason, and an 
active member of the supreme council for 
the northern jurisdiction of America. He 
is now the secretary and treasurer of ‘he 
Dixon Water company. 

HAWLEY, JOHN B., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1831, in 
Fairfield county, Conn. In 1852 he settled 
at Rock Island, Ill., and in 1856 was 
elected state’s attorney, serving four years. 

In 1861 he entered the volunteer army, and 
as a captain took an active part in the 
battles of Forts Henry and Donelson. 

In 1865 he was appointed postmaster of 
Rock Island, and in, 1868 was elected a 
representative from Illinois to the forty- 
first congress. He was re-elected to the 
two succeeding congresses, and was as¬ 
sistant secretary of the treasury in 
1877-80. 


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HAWLEY, JOSEPH, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 8, 1723, in North¬ 
ampton, Mass. From 1764 to 1776 he held 
a seat in the Massachusetts legislature. 
In 1774 he was chairman of the commit¬ 
tee to consider the state of the country, 
in the provincial congress, and was a 
member of that body in 1775. He died 
May 10, 1788, in Northampton, Mass. 

HAWLEY, JOSEPH R., soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, legislator, was born Oct. 31, 1826, 
in Richmond county, N. C. He gradu¬ 
ated at Hamilton col¬ 
lege, New York, in 
1847, and was admit¬ 
ted to the bar in 
1850 at Hartford, 
Conn., where he has 
since resided. He 
became editor of the 
Hartford Evening 
Press in 1857, which 
was consolidated 
with the Hartford 
Courant, of which he 
is editor. He enlist¬ 
ed in the union army as a lieutenant in 
1861, and became brigadier and brevet 
major-general. He was elected governor 
of Connecticut in 1866. He was president 
of the United States centennial commis¬ 
sion from its organization, in March, 
1873, to the completion of the work of the 
centennial exhibition. He was elected in 
1872 a representative in the forty-second 
congress to fill a vacancy; was re-elected 
to the forty-third congress, and was elect¬ 
ed to the forty-sixth congress. He was 
elected to the United States senate as a 
republican; took his seat March 4, 1881, 
was re-elected in 1887, and was again 
elected in 1893. 

HAWLEY, R. B., merchant, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born in October, 
1859, in Memphis, Tenn. He has presided 
several times over state conventions, and 
attended as a delegate national conven¬ 
tions. He was elected as a republican to 
the fifty-fifth congress. 

HAWLEY, WILLIAM MERRILL, law¬ 
yer, jurist, statesman, was born Aug. 23, 
1802, in Delaware county, N. Y. He 
served in the state senate, was a dele¬ 
gate to the democratic national conven¬ 
tion of May 22, 1848, which met in Bal¬ 
timore, and was identified with the Free- 
soil radical delegation, which culminated 
in the national convention of 1848, held 
in Buffalo. He died Feb. 9, 1869, in Hor- 
nellsville, N. Y. 

HAWS, J. H. HOBART, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1851 to 1853. 

HAWTHORNE, ALICE H„ poet, was 
born Nov. 8, 1842, in Louisville, Ky., 
which city has always been her home. She 
is the author of a volume of poems en¬ 
titled Hawthorne Leaves; and has con¬ 
tributed poems and prose to current lit¬ 
erature. 

HAWTHORNE, BENJAMIN JAMES, 
educator, college president, was born June 
19, 1837, in Lunenberg, Va. He graduated 
from the Randolph Macon college with 
the degree of A. M., and was a student at 
Clark university and at Yale. He was a 
professor in the Collegiate institute of 
Baton Rouge, La.; has been president of 
the West Tennessee college; professor in 
the State Agricultural college of Oregon, 
and now fills the chair of mental phil¬ 
osophy in the university of Oregon. 

HAWTHORNE, JAMES COSSETT, phy¬ 
sician, state senator, was born March 12, 
1819, in Mercer county, Pa. In 1854 he 
was elected state senator from Placer 
county, Cal. He died Feb. 15, 1881, in 
Portland, Ore. 



HAWTHORNE, JULIAN, author, was 
born June 22, 1846, in Boston, Mass. He 
is the author of Bressant; Garth; Dust; 
Idolatry; Fortune’s Fool; Beatrix Ran¬ 
dolph; Saxon Studies; Archibald Malmai- 
son; Sebastian Strome; Noble Blood; 
Love, or a Name; Mrs. Gainsborough’s 
Diamonds; David Poindexter’s Disap¬ 
pearance, and Other Tales; A Dream and 
a Forgetting; Confessions and Criticisms; 
Constance; Nathaniel Hawthorne and His 
Wife; American Literature; The Trial of 
Gideon; Prince Saroni’s Wife; and Love 
Is a Spirit. 





HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL, novel¬ 
ist, was born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Mass. 
During 1838-41 he held a position in the 
Boston customhouse, 
was next a member 
of the Brook Farm 
association, and aft¬ 
er 1843 a resident at 
Concord, Mass., from 
time to time until 
his death, though 
within that period 
he was surveyor of 
the port of Salem, 
1846-50, and from 
1853 to 1857 consul 
at Liverpool. He was 
the author of Fanshawe; Twice-Told 
Tales; Grandfather’s Chair; Mosses from 
an Old Manse; Famous Old People; Lib¬ 
erty Tree; Biographical Stories for Chil¬ 
dren; The Scarlet Letter; True Stories; 
The House of the Seven Gables; A Won¬ 
der Book; The Snow Image, and Other 
TwiCe-Told Tales; The Blithedale Ro¬ 
mance; Tanglewood Tales; The Marble 
Faun, known in England as Transforma¬ 
tion; Our Old Home; Passages from Am¬ 
erican Note-Books; English Note-Books; 
French and Italian Note-Books; Septimi- 
us Felton; The Dolliver Romance; and Dr. 
Grimshawe’s Secret. He died May 19, 
1864, in Plymouth, N. H. 


HAWTHORNE, MRS. SOPHIA (PEA¬ 
BODY), author, was born in 1810 in Sa¬ 
lem, Mass. She was the wife of Nathan¬ 
iel Hawthorne, and sister of Elizabeth 
Peabody. Her only publication was Notes 
in England and Italy. She died Feb. 26, 
1871, in London, England. 

HAXALL, ROBERT WILLIAM, phy¬ 
sician, was born Aug. 1, 1802, in Peters¬ 
burg, Va. He was on several occasions 
president of the Medical society of Vir¬ 
ginia, and was one of the founders of the 
American Medical association. He died 
March 26, 1872, in Richmond, Va. 


HAY, ANDREW K., congressman, was 
born in Massachusetts. Having become a 
resident of New Jersey, he was elected 
a representative in congress from 1849 to 
1851. 


HAY, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, clergy¬ 
man, theologian, was born Feb. 11, 1821, 
in York, Pa. He was pastor at Hanover 
in 1848-49, and at Harrisburg, Pa., in 
1849-65. In the latter year he was called 
to the Theological seminary as professor 
of Hebrew, German, biblical criticism, and 
pastoral theology. He translated from 
the German, Dr. Schmid’s Doctrinal The¬ 
ology of the Evangelical Lutheran 
Church. 


HAY, EUGENE G., lawyer, legislator, 
was born March 26, 1853, in Charlestown, 
Ind. In 1889 he was elected a member of 
the Minnesota state legislature, and in 
1890-94 was United States district attorney 
of that state. 


HAY, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, author. 
He was a member of the Virginia legis¬ 
lature and was for many years United 
States attorney, in which capacity he was 


lug yiusecuLor oi Aaron Burr. He was 
subsequently judge of the United States 
court for the eastern district of Virginia. 
He wrote a treatise against the Usury 
Laws; Life of John Thompson; and a 
treatise on Emigration in 1814. He died 
Sept. 21, 1830, in Richmond. 

HAY, JAMES, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, was born Jan. 9, 1856, in 
Millwood, Va. He was elected attorney 
tor the commonwealth in 1883, and re- 

?^ ted ^ 0 that offlce in 1887 > 1891, and 
1895. He was elected to the house of 
deJegates of Virginia in 1885, and was re- 
elected in 1887 and 1889. He was elected 
to the state senate in 1893. He was elect- 

f n . to the fif ty-fifth congress as a demo- 
ci at. 

J ° HN ’ lawyer, statesman, poet, 
b ° rn . 0ct - 8 > 1838, in Salem, Ind In 

tarv n e uw Ca r e Lincoln ’ s Private secre- 
y, adjutant, and aide-de-camp during 
the civil war, and attained the rank of 

an editoHa? F ° r flve years he was 

an editorial writer on the New York Trib¬ 
une during 1870-75. He is now United 
States minister in London, England. He 

rnin h p’l h01 ‘ ° f A Llfe of Abraham Lin¬ 
coln, Pike County Ballads, and Other 

tra/vpls' aad , CaS 1 til , ian Days - a volume of 

and t mi° f n 1S dlalect P° ems > Jim Bludso 
and Little Breeches are the best known. 

HA1, JOHN B., soldier, lawyer con- 

vnm SD ?n n ’ u aS born Jan ' 8 - 1834 - inBelle- 
trw’a A; He 7 as for eight years a dis- 
m il l j fo . r the state: served in the 
aai0 , n , army during the rebellion, and was 
thp C fnrtv^ representative from Illinois to 
the foity-first congress as a republican. 

HAY. MALCOLM, lawyer, was born in 
1842 in Pennsylvania. He became presi¬ 
dent of the Mercantile Library associa¬ 
tion of Pittsburg; was a trustee of the 
Dollar Savings bank, and was a member 
e s4a f e constitutional convention of 
1872. In 1885 he was appointed first as¬ 
sistant postmaster-general. He died Oct. 
2u, 1885. 


HAY, WALTER, physician, journalist, 
was born June 13, 1830, in Georgetown, 
D. C. He organized St. Luke’s hospital 
in Chicago in 1864, became editor of the 
Chicago Medical Journal in 1867, and re¬ 
tained this connection until the sale of 
the paper in 1875. 

HAYDEN, CHARLES S., LL. B„ law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Dec. 10, 1848, in 
Harvard, Mass. Since 1891 he has been 
chief justice of the court. In 1889 he was 
elected mayor of Fitchburg. 

HAYDEN, EDWARD DANIEL, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 
27, 1833, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1862 he 
entered the United States navy as assist¬ 
ant paymaster. He was a member of the 
state house of representatives of Massa¬ 
chusetts in 1880, 1881, and 1882. He set¬ 
tled at Woburn, Mass., and was elected a 
representative from Massachusetts to the 
forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a 
republican. 

HAYDEN, FERDINAND VANDER- 
VEER, geologist, author, was born Sept. 
7, 1829, in Westfield, Mass. He was a 
professor of geology in the university of 
Pennsylvania, and the author of Origin 
and Progress of the United States Geol¬ 
ogical Survey of the Territories; and The 
Yellowstone National Park. He died Dec. 
22, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HAYDEN, HEZEKIAH SIDNEY, cap¬ 
italist, senator, was born Jan. 29, 1816, 
in Windsor, Conn. In 1858 he erected a 
building for a Young Ladies’ institute, 
which has been conducted successfully. 
He served in both branches of the stale 
legislature, and in the senate in 1866. 




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HAYDEN, HORACE H., dentist, author, 
was liorn Oct. 13, 1769, in Windsor, Conn. 
He was a once noted Baltimore dentist 
who published Geological Essays. He 
died Jan. 26, 1844, in Baltimore, Md. 

HAYDEN, JAMES HENRY, lawyer, was 
horn Feb. 23, 1867, in New York city. He 
received his education at the St. Paul's 
school of Concord, N. H.; graduated from 
Yale university in 1887; from the Yale 
Law school in 1889, and has received the 
degrees of Ph. B. and LL. B. He has 
been counsel for the William Cramp and 
Sons’ Ship and Engine Building com¬ 
pany, the Bethlehem Iron company, Simp¬ 
son Dry-Dock company, and other large 
corporations. He is a member of various 
societies and associations, and governor of 
the Century club of Washington, D. C. 

HAYDEN, MOSES, was born in 1786 in 
Hampshire county, Mass. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the New York state senate in 1829 
and 1830, and a representative in congress 
from New York, from 1823 to 1827. He 
died Feb. 14, 1830. 

HAYDEN, WILLIAM BENJAMIN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1816 in New 
York. He was a Swedenborgian clergy¬ 
man, and the author of Science and Rev¬ 
elation; Phenomena of Modern Spiritual¬ 
ism; The Apocalyptic Dispensation; Light 
on the Last Things; and Dangers of Mod¬ 
ern Spiritualism, which include the great¬ 
er portion of his work. He died in 1893. 

HAYDN, HIRAM COLLINS, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born Dec. 
11, 1831, in Pompey, N. Y. During 1887- 
:90 he was president of Adelbert college. 

HAYES, AUGUSTUS ALLEN, was born 
Feb. 28, 1806, in Windsor, Vt. He was a 
novelist of Brookline, Mass., and the au¬ 
thor of New Colorado and the Santa Fe 
Trail; The Jesuit’s Ring, a Romance; and 
The Denver Express. He died June 21, 
1882, in Brookline, Mass. 

HAYES, CATHERINE, vocalist, was 
born in 1825 in Ireland. She has attained 
a national prominence as a vocalist, and 
.among her best known concert songs are 
The Rose of Summer; The Lament of the 
Irish Emigrant; and others. 

HAYES, CHARLES MELVILLE, rail¬ 
road manager, was born May 6, 1856, in 
Rock Island, Ill. In 1887 he was appoint¬ 
ed general manager of the Wabash West¬ 
ern railroad, and in 1889 was appointed 
general manager of the reorganized and 
consolidated lines of the Wabash system 
east and west of the Mississippi river. 

HAYES, EDWARD R., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 26, 1841, in Wood 
county, Ohio. He is a successful lawyer 
of Knoxville, Iowa, and was elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress to fill a vacancy. 

HAYES, ISAAC ISRAEL, explorer, au¬ 
thor, was born March 5, 1832, in Chester 
county, Pa. He was an arctic explorer 
whose first voyage was made with Dr. 
Kane. He was the author of The Open 
Polar Sea; An Arctic Boat Journey; Cast 
Away in the Cold; The Land of Desola¬ 
tion; and Pictures of Arctic Travel. He 
died Dec. 17, 1881, in New York city. 

HAYES, JOHN LORD, lawyer, author, 
was born April 13, 1812, in South Berwick, 
Maine. In 1861-65 he was chief clerk of 
the United States patent office, and in the 
latter year he became secretary of the 
National association of Wool Manufac¬ 
turers, which office he retained till his 
death. He was the author of The Iron 
Mines of Nova Scotia; Jackson’s Vindica¬ 
tion as the Discoverer of Anaesthetics; 
The Hudson Bay Question; The Protective 


Question Abroad and at Home; and Sheep 
Industry in the South. He died April 18, 
1887, in Cambridge, Mass. 

HAYES, JOHN S., educator, librarian, 
was born July 5, 1841, in Durham, N. H. 
He received his early education in the 
schools of his native town and at Atkin¬ 
son academy, and graduated from Phillips 
Exeter academy in 1858. He then taught 
school in New Market, Amesbury, North- 
wood academy, and for three years was 
master of Bowditch school at Peabody. 
He then became principal of the Craddock 
school, of Medford, and later of the North 
Grammar school of Manchester, N. H. 
During 1869-73 he taught in Newton, and 
for the four succeeding years was the 
New England agent for D. Appleton and 
Co. He has been president of the Middle¬ 
sex County Teachers’ association, and 
since 1893 has been librarian of the 
Somerville public library. He died March 
7, 1898, in Somerville, Mass. 

HAYES, JOHN WESLEY, inventor, 
mathematician, was born April 10, 1836, 
in Somersworth, N. H. He is the inventor 
of many useful machines, including a ro¬ 
tary engine based upon the principle of 
the cycloid curve. He has been a mas¬ 
ter mechanic in railroad shops, and in the 
United States navy yard machine shops. 
He is the author of a mathematical work, 
and has contributed several valuable arti¬ 
cles to mechanical publications. 

HAYES, JOSEPH, soldier, was born 
Sept. 14, 1835, in South Berwick, Maine. 
He was brevetted major-general of volun¬ 
teers in 1865. In 1865 he was appointed 
United States commissioner of supplies in 
the seceded states. In 1877 he introduced 
the American system of hydraulic mining 
into the United States of Colombia. 

HAYES, LUCY WARE WEBB, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Aug. 28, 1831, in Chil- 
licothe, Ohio. Mrs. Hayes was noted for 
her devotion to the wounded soldiers dur¬ 
ing the war. She refused to permit wine 
to be served on the White House table, 
and for this innovation incurred much 
censure in some political circles, but re¬ 
ceived high praise from the advocates of 
total abstinence. She died June 25, 1889, 
in Fremont, Ohio. 

HAYES, PHILIP CORNELIUS, soldier, 
journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 
3, 1833, in Granby, Conn. He entered the 
union army in 1861 as a private, an'd 
served throughout the war, rising to the 
rank of colonel, and brevet brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He was elected a representative 
from Illinois to the forty-fifth and forty- 
sixth congresses as a republican. 

HAYES, RICHARD SOMERS, railroad 
president, was born Oct. 12, 1846, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. Since 1888 he has been pres¬ 
ident of the St. Paul and Duluth railway. 

HAYES, RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD, 
nineteenth president of the United States, 
was born Oct. 4, 1822, in Delaware, Ohio. 

He graduated at 
Kenyon college in 
1842; studied law at 
Harvard university, 
and was admitted to 
the bar in 1845. In 
1852 he married Miss 
Lucy W. Webb. He 
was defeated for 
judge in 1856; in 
1859 was elected city 
solicitor, to fill a va'- 
cancy, by the Cin¬ 
cinnati city council, 
and in 1860 was elected by the people for 
one year, but defeated in 1861. He was 
appointed major of the twenty-third Ohio 
infantry June 7, 1861, and continued in 


the service, being promoted for distin¬ 
guished services, having been wounded 
four times, until he attained the rank of 
brigadier-general. While in the field, in 
1864, he was elected a representative in 
congress, and re-elected in 1866. In 1867 
he was elected governor of Ohio over 
Allen G. Thurman and was inaugurated 
Jan. 13, 1868, having resigned his seat in 
congress. He was re-elected governor 
over George H. Pendleton in 1869. In 
1872 he was defeated for congress, and in 
1875 was again elected governor of Ohio, 
this time defeating Governor William 
Allen. The republican national conven¬ 
tion met at Cincinnati June 14, 1876, to 
nominate candidates for president and 
vice-president. June 16 the first ballot 
stood: James G. Blaine, 285; Oliver P. 
Morton, 124; Benjamin H. Bristow, 113; 
Roscoe Conkling, 99; Rutherford B. 
Hayes, 61; John F. Hartranft, 58; Mar¬ 
shall Jewell. 11, and William A. Wheeler, 

3. There was no material change until 
the seventh ballot, which gave Hayes 384; 
Blaine, 351, and Bristow, 21. Hayes re¬ 
ceiving a majority, the vote was made 
unanimous. William Almon W’heeler, of 
New York, was nominated for vice-presi¬ 
dent. At the November election the pop¬ 
ular vote stood: For Hayes, 4,033,295; for 
Tilden, 4.284,265. Tilden’s majority, 250,- 
970. The canvassing boards of Florida, 
Louisiana and South Carolina having' re¬ 
turned the republican presidential elect¬ 
ors, their right to do so being questioned 
by the democratic house of representa¬ 
tives (the senate being republican), con¬ 
gress on Jan. 29, 1877, passed a bill creat¬ 
ing an electoral commission to count the 
electoral vote in all disputed cases. The 
commission was composed of five justices 
of the supreme court, five senators and 
five representatives, as follows: Justices 
—Nathan Clifford, Maine; Samuel F. Mil¬ 
ler, Iowa; Stephen Johnson Field, Cal¬ 
ifornia: William Strong, Pennsylvania; 
Joseph P. Bradley, New Jersey. Senators 
—George F. Edmunds, Vermont; Oliver P. 
Morton, Indiana; Frederick T. Freling- 
huysen. New Jersey; Allen G. Thurman, 
Ohio; Thomas Francis Bayard, Delaware. 
Representatives—Henry B. Payne, Ohio; 
Eppa Hunton, Virginia; Josiah G. Abbott, 
Massachusetts; George F. Hoar. Massa¬ 
chusetts; James Abram Garfield, Ohio. 
The commission decided by a vote of 8 to 
7 that the republican electoral vote of 
Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina 
should be counted for Hayes and Wheeler, 
which gave them 185 and Tilden and 
Hendricks 184 electoral votes. The result 
was reported to congress, and at four 
o'clock on the morning of March 2, 1877, 
Hayes was declared elected president. He 
at once resigned the office of governor of 
Ohio and proceeded to Washington and 
took the oath of office Saturday night, 
March 3. He was inaugurated on Mon¬ 
day, March 5, and again took the oath of 
office. At the close of his term, March 

4, 1881, he retired to his home at Fre¬ 
mont, Ohio, where he died Jan. 17, 18t)3. 
Hayes held office about fourteen years, 
and was the wealthiest of all the presi¬ 
dents. 

HAYES, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state, from 
1841 to 1843. 

HAYES, WALTER I., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1841, 
in Marshall, Mich. He was district 
judge of the seventh judicial district of 
Iowa, and was twice the candidate of the 
democratic party for judge of the supreme 
court of the state. He was elected to the 
fiftieth and fifty-first congresses, and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat. 




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BIOGRAPHY. 


HAY ES, WILLIAM JAMES, manufac¬ 
turer. was born Oct. 11, 1837, in New Lis¬ 
bon, Ohio. His wire mills have continued 
to grow until they 
1 have become the 


largest in the coun¬ 
try, employing 7,500 
men, their annual 
output aggregating 
60,000 tons. In 1886 
the banking firm was 
succeeded by W. J. 
Hayes and Sons, 
who assumed all the 
deposits, assets and 
liabilities and pur¬ 
chased the good will 
of the business. The bank is now a ris¬ 
ing institution, transacts general banking 
in all its forms, and stands high in the 
estimation of business men. 



HAYGOOD, ATTICUS GREEN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 19, 1839. in 
Watkinsville, Ga. He was a methodist 
clergyman of much prominence in the 
south; and the author of The Monk and 
the Prince, a Critical Study of Savon¬ 
arola and Lorenzo de' Medici; Our Keep¬ 
sake; Our Children; Our Brother in 
Black; Speeches and Sermons; Jack¬ 
knife and Brambles, a discussion of the 
authorship and meaning of the books of 
the Bible; Pleas for Progress; and The 
Man of Galilee. He died in 1896. 


HAYGOOD, JOHNSON, governor. He 
was governor of South Carolina from 1880 
to 1882. 


HAYMAN, JEROMEJ T., farmer, mer¬ 
chant, legislator, was born Feb. 4, 1853, in 
Worcester county. Md. In 1892 he was 
elected a member of the state legisla¬ 
ture of Maryland, and served two terms. 

HAYMAN, SAMUEL BRINKLE, sol¬ 
dier, was born June 5, 1820, in Chester 
county, Pa. In 1865 he was brevetted 
brigadier-general of volunteers for gal¬ 
lantry at Fair Oaks. 

HAYMOND. THOMAS S., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1849 to 1851. 


HAYMOND, W. S., soldier, physician, 
railroad president, congressman, was born 
Feb. 20. 1823, in Harrison county, Va. 
In 1861 he entered the army as a surgeon, 
where he remained until 1863. He was 
elected president of the Indianapolis, 
Delphi and Chicago Railroad company in 
1872, 1873 and 1874. In 1874 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Indiana to the 
forty-fourth congress. 

HAYNE, ARTHUR PERONNEAU, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, United States senator, was 
born March 12, 1790, in Charleston, S. C. 
During the Florida war he was called into 
the field, and had command of the Ten¬ 
nessee volunteers, and after receiving 
three brevets, retired from the army in 
1820. Subsequently he served in the leg¬ 
islature of South Carolina, and was chosen 
a presidential elector in 1828, voting for 
Jackson. He was appointed to a seat in 
the United States senate from South Caro¬ 
lina in 1858 to fill a vacancy. He died 
Jan. 7, 1867, in Charleston, S. C. 

HAY r NE, ISAAC, soldier, state senator, 
was born Sept. 24, 1745, in South Caro¬ 
lina. Early in the war he entered the 
service and became a captain of artillery, 
and later was placed in command of a 
regiment of militia. He was elected a 
member of the state senate. He died Aug. 
4. 1781, in Charleston, S. C. 

HAYNE, PAUL HAMILTON, soldier, 
author, poet, was born Jan. 1, 1830, in 
Charleston, S. C. He was a lyric poet 
whose verse has much melody. He served 
as a colonel in the confederate army, and 
30 


at the close of the civil war, broken in 
health and fortunes, retired to the small 
village of Grovetown, Ga., where the rest 
of his life was passed. He was the author 
of Avolio; The Mountain of the Lovers; 
Legends and Lyrics; Sonnets and Other 
Poems; and Lives of Robert Hayne and 
Hugh Legare. A complete edition of his 
poems appeared in 1883. He died July 6, 
1886, near Augusta, Ga. 

HAYNE, ROBERT YOUNG, soldier, 
lawyer, railroad president, governor. 
United States senator, was born Nov. It)! 

1791, in St. Paul’s 
parish, S. C. In the 
war of 1812 he held 
the commission of 
lieutenant. In 1814 
he was elected to 
the state legislature, 
and in 1818 speaker, 
and was also attor¬ 
ney-general of the 
state. He was elect¬ 
ed to the United 
States senate in 1823. 
and continued there 
until 1832. He was elected governor of 
the state, serving until 1834. He was sub¬ 
sequently mayor of Charleston; and 
president of the Charleston, Louisville and 
Cincinnati Railroad company. He died 
Sept. 24, 1839, in Asheville, N. C. 

HAYNE. WILLIAM HAMILTON, poet, 
was born March 11, 1856, in Charleston, S. 
C. His first poem of special value ap¬ 
peared in the Youth's Companion in 1881. 
and his poems have since been collected 
under the title of Sylvan Lyrics. 

HAYNES. CHARLES E.. congressman, 
was born in Brunswick, Va. He was a 
representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1825 to 1829, and again from 1835 to 
1839. 

HAINES. EMORY JUDSON, clergy¬ 
man. author, was born in 1846 in Ver¬ 
mont. He is a methodist clergyman of 
Boston and elsewhere: and the author of 
Are These Things So?; Fairest of Three, 
a Tale of American Life; Dollars and 
Duties; and A Farmhouse Cobweb, a 
Vermont novel. 

HAYNES, HENRY WILLIAMSON, edu¬ 
cator, archaeologist, author, was born 
Sept. 20. 1831, in Bangor, Maine. The 
winter of 1877-78 he spent in Egypt, seek¬ 
ing for evidences of the palaeolithic age 
in that country. The results of his inves¬ 
tigations were presented at the interna¬ 
tional congress of anthropological sci¬ 
ences that was held in Paris in 1878, 
where he was rewarded with a medal and 
a diploma. 

HAYNES, JACOB M., lawyer, jurist, 
banker, was born April 12, 1817, in Mon- 
son, Mass. He received the rudiments of 
his education in the 
academy of his na¬ 
tive city; and grad¬ 
uated from the Phil¬ 
lips academy of Mas¬ 
sachusetts. In 1843 
he moved to Indiana, 
and the following 
year was admitted to 
the bar of that state. 
During 1856-71 he 
was judge of the 
court of common 
pleas; during 1871- 
77 was judge of the circuit court of Indi¬ 

ana; and since 1874 has been president 
of the People’s bank of Portland, Ind. He 

is one of the foremost lawyers of his 
adopted state; and has always been prom¬ 
inently identified with its financial and 
public affairs. 

HAYNES, JOHN, governor, statesman, 
was born in England. In 1635 he became 




governor of Massachusetts. In 1637 he 
was prominent among the founders of 
Connecticut; was chosen its first gov¬ 
ernor in 1639, and every alternate year 
afterward until his death. He died March 
1, 1654. 


HAYNES, JOHN CUMMINGS, publish¬ 
er, was born Sept. 9, 1829, in Boston, 
Mass. He is president of The Music Pub¬ 
lishers’ association of the United States. 

HAYNES, MARTIN A., soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, was born July 30, 
1845, in Springfield, N. H. He served 
three years in the union army during the 
civil war. He was a representative in 
the state legislature in 1872 and 1873. He 
was elected a representative from New 
Hampshire to the forty-eighth and forty- 
ninth congresses as a republican. 

HAINES, TILLEY, business man, state 
senator, was born Feb. 13, 1828, in Sud¬ 
bury, Mass. He served in the first city 
government of Springfield; was a mem¬ 
ber of the lower branch of legislature 
from 1867-70: state senator from 1875-78; 
and from 1878-79 a member of the execu¬ 
tive council of Govs. Rice and Talbot. 

HAY NES, \\ ILLIAM E., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, banker, congressman, was born 
Oct. 19, 1829, in Hoosac Falls, N. Y. He 
was elected auditor of Sandusky county, 
Ohio, and served two terms. He was ap¬ 
pointed collector of internal revenue for 
the ninth district of Ohio in 1866, which 
position he held until 1867. He was 
elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second 
congresses as a democrat. 


HA1NIE, ISHAM NICOLAS, soldier, 
jurist, was born Nov. 18, 1824, in Dover. 
Tenn. In 1856 he was appointed judge of 
the court of common pleas at Cairo. Ill. 
In 1862 he received the appointment of 
brigadier-general of volunteers. He re¬ 
sumed his profession in 1864, and subse¬ 
quently became adjutant-general of Illi¬ 
nois. He died in 1868 in Springfield, Ill. 


HAY S, ALEXANDER, soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, was born July 8, 1819, in Frank¬ 
lin, Pa. As second lieutenant of the 



served in the civil 
May 5, 1864, in the 
ness. 


eighth infantry, he 
entered on the Mexi¬ 
can campaign, and 
won special distinc¬ 
tion in the engage¬ 
ment near Atlixco. 
He settled in Venan¬ 
go county, Pa., where 
he engaged in the 
manufacture of iron 
in 1848-50; was as¬ 
sistant engineer on 
railroads in 1850-54, 
and subsequently 
war. He was killed 
battle of the Wilder- 


HAYS, ASA B., soldier, lawyer, jurist 
was born May 17, 1842, in Blount county ^ 
Ala. During the war he served in the 
union army as sergeant-major in the sec¬ 
ond regiment Tennessee mounted in¬ 
fantry; and afterward as scout and guide 
for the union army. For a quarter of a 
century he served faithfully as judge of 
the probate court at Cullman, Ala. 

HAYS, CHARLES, agriculturist, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 2 
1834, in Green county, Ala. He was elect¬ 
ed to the state senate of Alabama in 1868. 
and while a member was elected to the 
forty-first congress, and was re-elected to 
the three succeeding congresses. 

HAYS. GEORGE PEIRCE, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1838 in Pennsylvania. 
He is a presbyterian clergyman of"Kansas 
City; and the author of Everyday Rea¬ 
soning; The Honest Book; May Women 
Speak?; and Presbyterians. 





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HAYS, ISAAC, physician, journalist, 
author, was horn July 5, 1796, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. In 1843 he established The 
Medical News of Philadelphia, Pa.; and 
in 1874 The Monthly Abstract of Medical 
Science; both of which journals are still 
published in that city. He published vari¬ 
ous medical works. He died April 13, 
1879, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HAYS, JAMES B., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Sept. 10, 1840, in Crawford county, 
Pa. He was district attorney for Dodge 
county for eight years; and was an un¬ 
successful candidate for secretary of state 
of Wisconsin in 1877. In 1885 he was ap¬ 
pointed chief justice of the supreme court 
of the territory of Idaho. 

HAYS, L. SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1843 to 1845. 

HAYS, LUKE C., lawyer, public official, 
was born May 19, 1861, in Hardin county, 
Ky. During 1878-86 he was deputy coun¬ 
ty clerk of his county. He then moved 
to South Dakota; was chief clerk of 
Crow Creek Indian agency until 1890; and 
subsequently served two terms as state’s 
attorney of Lyman county, S. D. In 1893 
he was appointed Indian agent; and has 
filled various other public offices of trust. 

HAYS, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born July 19, 1837, in Ken¬ 
tucky. He is a popular ballad and song 
composer of Louisville. Mollie Darling is 
one of his best-known songs. He has 
published a volume of Poems and Songs. 

HAYWARD, EDWARD FARWELL, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1851 in 
Massachusetts. He is a Unitarian clergy¬ 
man, for some years pastor of a church 
in Boston; and the author of Willoughby; 
Patrice; and Ecce Spiritus. 

HAYWARD, GEORGE, author, was 
born in 1781 in Massachusetts. He was a 
Boston writer who published View of 
the United States; Religious Creeds of 
the United States; and Book of Religions, 
and several gazetteers. He died in 1862. 

HAYWARD, GEORGE, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born March 9, 1791, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a Boston physician of note; 
and the author of Outlines of Physiology; 
and Surgical Records. He died Oct. 7, 
1863, in Boston, Mass. 

HAYWARD, JAMES, educator, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born June 12, 1786, in 
Concord, Mass. He was professionally re¬ 
tained by the Boston and Maine railroad, 
projecting and having entire charge of 
the construction of this road, including 
the building of the bridge at Haverhill, 
and ultimately being made president of 
the corporation. He published Elements 
of Geometry upon the Inductive Method. 
He died July 27, 1866, in Boston, Mass. 

HAYWARD, JOHN, author, was born 
in January, 1781, in Boston, Mass. He is 
the author of View of the United States; 
Religious Creeds of the United States and 
of the British Provinces; New England 
Gazetteer; Book of Religions; Gazetteer 
of the United States; and Gazetteer of 
Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Ver¬ 
mont. He died Oct. 13, 1862, in Boston, 
Mass. 

HAYWOOD, BENJAMIN J., financier, 
was born April 12, 1849, in Mercer county, 
Pa. He received the rudiments of his ed¬ 
ucation in the public schools, and subse¬ 
quently graduated from the Business col¬ 
lege of Pittsburg, Pa. He has filled nu¬ 
merous public positions of trust in his 
native county and state; was receiver 
of the First National bank of Clearfield, 
Pa.; and is now state treasurer of Penn¬ 
sylvania. 


HAYWOOD, BENJAMIN SHERWOOD, 
educator, clergyman, was born Sept. 15, 
1863, near Romney, Ind. He graduated 
from Cornell college of Mt. Vernon, Iowa; 
and from the Purdue university of La¬ 
fayette, Ind. He was a successful edu¬ 
cator in Indiana and Nebraska; and since 
1889 has been clergyman of the methodist 
episcopal church. During 1894*97 he was 
president of the West Nebraska confer¬ 
ence of the Epworth league; and since 
1896 has filled a pastorate in Holdrege, 
Neb. 

HAYWOOD, EDMUND BURKE, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, was born June 13, 1825, 
in Raleigh, N. C. He -was president of 
the Medical association of North Carolina 
in 1868, and from 1871 till 1877, of the 
state insane asylum. He was a delegate 
to the international medical congress in 
Philadelphia in 1876. 

HAYWOOD, JOHN, colonist, was born 
in 1684, in West Indies. He represented 
Edgecombe county, N. C., in the colonial 
assembly; and was also a colonel in the 
militia forces of the county. He died in 
1758 in North Carolina. 

HAYWOOD, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1753 in Halifax county, 
N. C. He was a jurist of Tennessee; and 
the author of Manual of Laws of North 
Carolina; Haywood’s Justice; Tennessee 
Reports; History of Tennessee; and 
Statute Laws of Tennessee (with R. L. 
Cutts). He died in December, 1826, in 
Nashville, Tenn. 

HAYWOOD, WILLIAM HENRY, JR., 
state legislator, United States senator, was 
born in 1801 in Wake county, N. C. He 
was a member of the house of commons in 
1834, continuing there three years; in 1836 
was speaker of the house; and was a sen¬ 
ator in congress from 1843 to 1846. He 
died Oct. 6, 1852, in Raleigh, N. C. 

HAZARD, CAROLINE, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1856 in Rhode Island. 
She is the author of Narragansett Ballads; 
Thomas Hazard, a Study of Life in Narra¬ 
gansett in the Eighteenth Century; and 
Memoirs of J. L. Diman. She has edited, 
with introductions, the works of R. G. 
Hazard. 

HAZARD, EBENEZER, postmaster- 
general, author, was born Jan. 15, 1744, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia 
writer who was postmaster-general in 
1782-89; and the author of Historical Col¬ 
lections, the beginnings of a United States 
history; and Remarks on a Report Con¬ 
cerning the Western Indians. He died 
June 13, 1817, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HAZARD, JONATHAN J., congressman, 
was born in 1728 in Rhode Island. He 
was a delegate from Rhode Island to the 
continental congress in 1787 and 1788. He 
died in 1812 in New York. 

HAZARD, NATHANIEL, congressman, 
was born in Newport, R. I. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative in congress from that 
state from 1819 to 1821. He died Dec. 18, 
1820, in Washington, D. C. 

HAZARD, ROWLAND GIBSON, manu¬ 
facturer, author, was born Aug. 9, 1801, 
in South Kensington, R. I. He was a 
woolen manufacturer of Peace Dale, R. I.; 
and the author of Essays on Finance; 
Resources of the United States; Essay on 
Language, and Other Essays and Ad¬ 
dresses; Freedom of Mind in Willing; 
Causation and Freedom in Willing; and 
Man a Creative First Cause. He died 
June 24, 1888, in Peace Dale, R. I. 

HAZARD, SAMUEL, archaeologist, au¬ 
thor, was born May 26, 1784, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was an archaeologist of 
Philadelphia; and the author of Annals 
of Pennsylvania, 1609-82; Register of 
Pennsylvania, 1828-36; Pennsylvania Ar¬ 


chives, 1682-1790; and United States Com¬ 
mercial and Statistical Register. He died 
May 22, 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HAZARD, SAMUEL, soldier, author, 
was born in 1834 in Pennsylvania. He 
was an officer in the United States army; 
and the author of Santo Domingo Past 
and Present; and Cuba with Pen and 
Pencil. He died in 1876. 

HAZARD, THOMAS ROBINSON, manu¬ 
facturer, author, was born in 1784 in 
South Kensington, R. I. He was an 
ardent spiritualist, and wrote much in 
defence of his beliefs. He was the author 
of Facts for the Laboring Man; The Or¬ 
deal of Life; Capital Punishment; Medi¬ 
ums and Mediumship; and Recollections 
of Olden Time. He died in March, 1876, 
in New York. 

HAZARD, WILLIS POPE, bookseller, 
author, was born in 1825 in Alabama. 
He is a retired bookseller of Westchester, 
Pa.; and the author of The Art of Pleas¬ 
ing, a work on etiquette; The Jersey, Al¬ 
derney, and Guernsey Cow; Butter and 
Buttermaking; and Annals of Philadel¬ 
phia, a continuation of Watson’s Annals. 

HAZELIUS, ERNEST LEWIS, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 
6, 1777, in Prussia. He was a Lutheran 
clergyman who was professor in a South 
Carolina theological seminary. He was 
the author of Life of Luther; Church His¬ 
tory; and History of the Lutheran Church 
in America. He died Feb. 20, 1853, in 
South Carolina. 

HAZELRIGG, MRS. CLARA H., edu¬ 
cator, author, poet, was born Nov. 23, 
1861, in Council Grove, Kan. She is a suc¬ 
cessful educator, and principal of the city 
schools of El Dorado, Kan. She has been 
editor of several prominent periodicals in 
various states, and has published one vol¬ 
ume of poems. 

HAZELTINE, ABNER, congressman. 
He was a member of the New York as¬ 
sembly in 1829 and 1830; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1833 to 1837. 

HAZELTINE, IRA S., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 13, 1821, in 
Andover, Vt. He was commissioned a 
colonel of state troops in 1852. He was 
elected a representative in the state legis¬ 
lature in 1867. In 1870 he removed to 
Missouri and engaged in agricultural pur¬ 
suits; and was elected a representative 
from Missouri to the forty-seventh con¬ 
gress. 

HAZELTINE, MAYO WILLIAMSON, 
journalist, author, was born in 1841 in 
Massachusetts. He is a New York jour¬ 
nalist, and since 1878 the literary editor of 
the New York Sun. He is the author of 
Chats About Books; British and Ameri¬ 
can Education; and The American Wom¬ 
an in Europe. 

HAZELTON, GEORGE C., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 
1833, in Chester, N. H. He was elected 
district attorney in 1864 and re-elected in 

1866. He was elected state senator in 

1867, and re-elected in 1869. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Wisconsin to the 
forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh 
congresses as a republican. 

HAZELTON, GERRY W., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 24, 
1829, in Chester, N. H. He was elected 
to the Wisconsin state senate in 1860, 
and twice chosen president pro tern. He 
was elected district attorney in Columbia 
county; was appointed collector of in¬ 
ternal revenue in 1866, and removed; and 
was appointed United States attorney for 
the district of Wisconsin in 1869. He was 
elected to the forty-second and forty- 
third congresses. 


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HAZELTON, JOHN W., farmer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 10, 1819, in 
Mulliea Hill, N. J. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New Jersey to the forty- 
second and forty-third congresses as a 
republican. 

HAZELWOOD, JOHN, naval officer, was 
born about 1726 in England. In 1772 he 
was one of the founders of the St. George 
society of Philadelphia, Pa. The con¬ 
tinental vessels in the Delaware river 
were put under his command. He at¬ 
tained the rank of commodore in the 
Pennsylvania navy. The artist and pa¬ 
triot, Charles Wilson Peale, thought 
Hazelwood worthy for his collection of 
American heroes, and the picture of him 
painted by Peale was afterward pur¬ 
chased by the city of Philadelphia and 
placed in Independence hall. He died 
March 1, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HAZEN, HENRY ALLEN, clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 27, 1832, in Hart¬ 
ford, Vt. He attended the Kimball Union 
academy, Dartmouth 
college, and Andover 
Theological semi¬ 
nary. He is a suc- 
c e s s f u1 congrega- 
t i o n a 1 clergyman, 
and has filled pas¬ 
torates in Plymouth, 
Lyme, Mansfield and 
Bellerica, Mass.; and 
is now located in 
Auburndale, Mass. 
Since 1883 he has 
been secretary of the 
national council of the congregational 
churches, and editor of its Year Book. He 
has also been secretary of the General 
association of Massachusetts since 1888; 
and of the international congregational 
council in London in 1891. He is the au¬ 
thor of a History of Bellerica, with gene¬ 
alogies. 

HAZEN, LUCIUS DOWNER, manufac¬ 
turer, banker, state senator, was born Jan. 
19, 1834, in Hartford, Vt. During 1869- 
88 he served as a member of the 
Vermont house of representatives; and 
was elected to the state senate in 1894. 
The same year he was appointed director 
of the state prison and house of correc¬ 
tion, and in 1896 received the reappoint¬ 
ment for six years. He is president of the 
Merchants’ National bank of St. Johns- 
bury. 

HAZEN, MOSES, soldier, was born in 
1733 in Haverhill, Mass. He was in the 
service during the entire war, being made 
brigadier-general on June 29, 1781. He 
died Jan. 30, 1802, in Troy, N. Y. 

HAZEN, WILLIAM BABCOCK, soldier, 
author, was born Sept. 27, 1830, in West 
Hartford, Vt. He was a general in the 
federal army during the civil war, and 
from 1880 chief officer of the signal ser¬ 
vice. He was the author of The School 
and the Army in Germany and France; 
Barren Lands in the Interior of the United 
States; and A Narrative of Military Ser¬ 
vice. He died Jan. 16, 1887, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

HAZLETT, ALBERT LESTER, clergy¬ 
man, was born July 1, 1864, in Hazlet, 
N. J. He has attained eminence as a suc¬ 
cessful clergyman; and has filled pas¬ 
torates in Farmington, Ohio; Magnolia, 
N. J.; and is now pastor of the methodist 
episcopal church of McCracken, Kan. He 
has filled various positions of honor in 
the gift of his church. 

HAZZARD, DAVID, governor. He was 
governor of Delaware from 1830 to 1833. 

HEAD, FRANKLIN H„ author, was 
born in 1835 in New York. He is a Chi¬ 
cago writer who has published Shakes¬ 
peare’s Insomnia and the Causes Thereof, 
an ingenious burlesque. 



HEAD, H. C., merchant, public official, 
legislator, was born in 1849 in Hooksett, 
N. H. He graduated from the Manchester 
high school, and in 
1878 moved to Min¬ 
nesota. He engaged 
in general merchan¬ 
dise, milling and the 
lumbering business 
in Princeton, Minn., 
retiring from active 
business in 1894. For 
nine years succes¬ 
sively he was court 
commissioner for his 
district; was city 
. , clerk for an equal 

period; and for four years was postmaster 
at Princeton. In 1896 he was elected a 
representative to the Minnesota state leg¬ 
islature, and took an active part on sev¬ 
eral important committees. 

HEAD, JAMES BUTLER, lawyer jur- 
ist, was born Dec. 16, 1846, in Clinton, 
Ala. He has served as judge of the tenth 
judicial circuit of Alabama, and as asso¬ 
ciate justice of the supreme court of that 
state. 

HEAD, NATT, manufacturer, state sen¬ 
ator, governor, was born May 20, 1828, in 
Hooksett, N. H. He was a representative 
in the state legislature in 1861 and 1862. 
He was adjutant-general, inspector-gen¬ 
eral, and quartermaster-general of the 
state from 1863 to 1870, rendering most 
efficient service. He was defeated for 
the state senate in 1875; was state sen- 
ator in 1876 and 1877; and was president 
ot the senate in the latter year. He was 
governor of New Hampshire from 1878 to 
1880^ He died Nov. 12, 1883, in Hooksett, 
IN. ri. 

HEADE, MARTIN JOHNSON, artist, 
was born in Bucks county, Pa. He has 
painted many western and tropical scenes, 
also views on the Hudson and the Massa¬ 
chusetts coast, which are characterized by 
rich effects of color and light, and by 
poetic sentiment. 

HEADLEY, JOEL TYLER, author, was 
born Dec. 30, 1813, in Walton, N. Y. He 
was an historical writer of Newburg, N. 
Y. He was the author of Napoleon and 
His Marshals; The Old Guard of Napol¬ 
eon; Life of Oliver Cromwell; The Great 
Rebellion; Sacred Scenes and Characters; 
Washington and His Generals; Life of 
Washington; Grant and Sherman; Life 
of General Grant; Life of Havelock; 
Achievements of Stanley and Other Ex¬ 
plorers; The Adirondacks, or Life in the 
Woods; Farragut and Our Naval Com¬ 
manders; Chaplains of the Revolution; 
Sacred Heroes and Martyrs; Letters from 
Italy and the Alps; and The Second War 
with England. He died in 1897. 

HEADLEY, PHINEAS CAMP, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 24, 1819, in 
Walton, N. Y. He is a congregational 
clergyman; and the author of Women of 
the Bible; The Island of Fire; Young 
Folks’ Heroes of the Rebellion; Lives of 
Josephine, Lafayette, Napoleon, Mary 
Queen of Scots; Half-Hours in Bible 
Lands; and Evangelists in the Church. 

HEALD, CHARLES MERCER, railroad 
president, was born July 5, 1849, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. In 1889 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the New York, Susquehanna and 
Western Railroad company. 

HEALION, MICHAEL C., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born Jan. 30, 1856, in Ireland. 
Since May, 1895, he has been president of 
the Mason City and Fort Dodge railroad. 

HEALY, GEORGE PETER ALEXAN¬ 
DER, artist, was born July 15, 1813, in 
Boston, Mass. At the Paris International 
exhibition in 1855 he exhibited a series 



of thirteen portraits and a large picture 
representing Franklin urging the claims 
XVI 6 American colonies before Louis 

HEALY, JAMES AUGUSTINE, Roman 

Ma t ?on 1 C r^ > 1 Sl l? P ’ WaS b0rn in 1830 near 
PnvH ’ i • He „ was consecrated bishop of 

convents. 18?5- He founded various 

,.HEALY, JOHN PLUMMER, lawyer 
legislator, was born Dec. 28, 1810 ’ in 
Washington, N. H. In 1840 he was elected 
, r r e = - USe ° f the Massachusetts 
sy hi I‘ Dg several terms, and in 

t Mil .® nte ^ ed the state senate. From 

ir Of thi e -f Cl0S f ?, f his li£e he was solicit- 
?L2 f 0f Boston - Me died Jan. 4, 

1882, in Boston, Mass. 

h HEAL1, JOSEPH, congressman, was 
born in 1776 m Cheshire, N. H. He was 
a representative in congress from New 

als? P | , e t n t r0m 1825 t0 1829; and was 
counsel °r from 1829 to 

Ort ’in m S i ae , nat l or in 1824 ‘ He died 
Get. 10, 1861, in Washington, N. H. 

th?r EA r L T’ X ) IA m Y ’ author - She is the au- 
other novels : St ° rm Driven; and 

heap, DAVID PORTER, civil engineer 
w h °u WaS born Mar ch 24, 1843, in Tur- 
1S a - major of engineers in gov- 
nment service; and the author of His- 

th7n° f Ap Pl icat ion of Electric Light to 
prn t° U ^ S ° f France: An cient and Mod- 

th? S5 Say. EleClrlCal AP1 ""““S 

tw EAP ’ BW YNN HARRIS, diplomat, au- 

P h a ’ h? S b ° rn ¥ arch 23 ’ 1817 > in Chester, 
Fa He was a diplomatist who was con¬ 
sul-general at Constantinople from 1878. 
5? ed P entral Route to the Pacific! 

Turkey 1 Marcb 6 ’ 1887, in Constantinople, 

HEARD, FRANKLIN FISKE, lawyer 
au n tbo ^ was horn Jan. 17, 1825, in Way- 

vas ’a hiPh He was a Boston lawyer wl f 0 
was a high authority on pleading; and 

the author of Criminal Law; Criminal 

usTlawv Clvl T 1 ., P1 1 eadi ng; Shakespeare 
fnp- r L y ? r: BlbeI and Slander; Lead¬ 
ing Cases m Criminal Law (with E H 
Bennett); Curiosities of the Law jgl 
porters; Oddities of the Law; Prece- 
<en s of Equity Pleadings; and P?ece- 
dents of Pleading in Special Actions 

atm E ^ RD ’ J0HN T -> lawyer, state sen- 
atoi, congressman, was born Oct. 29 1840 

^ a ?pT Set w D ’ Mo ’ He was elected to the 
m at ici? glSlatUre of Missouri in 1872; and 
n 1861 was elected, without opposition, 
a state senator, and served four years He 
was elected a representative from Mis¬ 
souri to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first 

democraT^ ^ fifty " third congresses as a 

HEARD, JOSEPHINE HENDERSON, 
author, poet, was born Oct. 11, 1861 in 
Charlotte, N. C. She has written ex¬ 
tensively for the periodical press; has 
published a volume of poems; and is the 
secretary of the National Press associa¬ 
tion. Mrs. Heard is the wife of the Rev 
William Henry Heard, United States min¬ 
ister to Liberia, Africa. 

HEARD, STEPHEN, jurist, governor 
was born in Ireland. In 1871 he was 
elected governor of Georgia; and in 1872 
was chief justice of the inferior court and 
a trustee of the academy in Washington 
He died Nov. 15, 1875, in Wilkes county 
Ga. 

HEARD, THOMAS JEFFERSON, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born May 14, 1814 in 
Morgan county, Ga. He exerted his influ¬ 
ence to modify the treatment of malarial 
fevers in the southwest, and introduced 
into Texas the treatment by quinine, op¬ 
iates. ammonia, and salts, in the place of 
bleeding, purgatives, and mercury. 




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BIOGRAPH Y. 


HEARD, WILLIAM HENRY, educator, 
clergyman, was born June 24, 1849, in El- 
berton, Ga. He has attained success as 
an educator and clergyman. He received 
his education at the South Carolina uni¬ 
versity, and at the Georgia university. 
He is now serving as United States minis¬ 
ter resident and consul-general to Mon- 
ravia, Liberia, Africa. 

HEARN, LAFCADIO, author, was born 
June 27, 1850, in the Ionian islands. He 
is a writer of Irish and Greek parentage 
long a resident of New Orleans, later of 
New York city, and more recently of 
Japan. He is the author of Stray Leaves 
from Strange Literature; Some Chinese 
Ghosts; Chita; Two Years in the French 
West Indies; Youma, the Story of a 
West Indian Slave; Glimpses of Unfa¬ 
miliar Japan; Out of the East; Reveries 
and Studies in New Japan; Kokoro; and 
Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. 

HEARST, GEORGE F., United States 
senator, was born Sept. 3, 1820, in Mis¬ 
souri. He discovered the value of black- 
stone ore from assays; invested his capi¬ 
tal in the Ophir mine, and in five years 
was a millionaire. He founded the San 
Francisco Daily Examiner, one of the 
best-known papers in the United States. 
He was elected United States senator in 
1887. He died March 1, 1891, in San Fran¬ 
cisco. Cal. 

HEATH, MRS. CLARA B„ poet, was 
born in Manchester, N. H. She is the au¬ 
thor of a volume of poems entitled Water 
Lilies and Other Poems; and also a 
brochure entitled Patrick Henry’s Ride. 

HEATH, JAMES E„ public official, was 
born in Virginia. In 1850 he was ap¬ 
pointed commissioner of pensions, hold¬ 
ing the office until 1853. 

HEATH, JAMES P., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 21, 1777, in Delaware. 
He was register in chancery at Annapolis 
at the commencement of the war of 1812; 
and served through the whole war as aid- 
de-camp to General Winder. He was a 
representative in congress from Maryland 
from 1833 to 1835. He died June 12, 1854, 
in Georgetown, D. C. 

HEATH, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1793 to 1797. 

HEATH, LYMAN, musician, composer, 
was born Aug. 24, 1804, in Bow, N. H. 
He was a teacher of music and the author 
of a number of songs that attained a wide 
popularity. He died June 30, 1870, in 
Nashua, N. H. 

HEATH. SIDNEY MOOR, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Aug. 27, 1859, in Water- 
ville. Maine. He subsequently went west, 
and in 1897 became a member of the 
Washington state legislature from the 
twenty-eighth district. 

HEATH, UPTON S., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Maryland. He was for many 
years United States judge of the district 
of Maryland. 

HEATH, WILLIAM, soldier, statesman, 
was born March 7, 1737, in Roxbury, Mass. 
He was a representative in the Massachu¬ 
setts legislature in 1761 and 1771-74. He 
was a member of the committee of safety; 
and a delegate to the provincial congress in 
1774-75. He rendered great service in 
the revolutionary war, and attained the 
rank of major-general in the army. He 
was a state senator in 1791-92; and judge 
of probate in 1793. He published a vol¬ 
ume of Memoirs. He died Jan. 24, 1814, 
in Roxbury, Mass. 

HEATHCOTE, CALEB, merchant, was 
born March 6, 1665, in England. He was 
the organizer of the borough town of 
Westchester, and its first mayor. He was 


the first judge of the county of West¬ 
chester, and colonel of its militia. 

HEATON, DAVID, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born March 10, 
1823, in Butler county, Ohio. He was 
elected to the Ohio senate. In 1857 he re¬ 
moved to Minnesota; was elected to the 
senate of that state and was twice re¬ 
elected. In 1863 he removed to New Berne, 
N. C., where he held a position under the 
treasury department. In 1868 he was 
elected a representative from North Caro¬ 
lina to the fortieth congress; and was 
re-elected to the forty-first congress. He 
died June 25, 1870, in Washington, D. C. 

HEATWOLE, JOEL PRESCOTT, edit¬ 
or, legislator, congressman, was barn 
Aug. 22, 1856, in Waterford, Ind. He was 
regent of the Minne¬ 
sota university in 
1891-97 and also 
served as mayor of 
Northfield in 1894- 
95. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the fifty- 
fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses, and took 
an active part in the 
deliberations of that 
body. Since settling 
in Minnesota in 1882 
he has been active in 
the political affairs of that state. 

HEBARD, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, congressman, was born in Con¬ 
necticut. He settled in Vermont; and 
was elected a representative in congress 
from that state from 1849 to 1853. He 
was judge of the supreme court from 1842 
to 1845; and judge of probate for seven 
years. He served seven years in the two 
houses of the legislature; and was two 
years attorney for Orange county. 

HEBBARD, STEPHEN SOUTHWICK. 
clergyman, author, was born in 1841. He 
is a universalist clergyman; and the au¬ 
thor of The Secret of Christianity; and 
History of Wisconsin under the Dominion 
of France. 

HEBERLING, WILLIAM LEWIS, in¬ 
ventor, writer, was born Feb. 1, 1847, in 
Martin’s Ferry, Ohio. He has attained 
success as an inventor; and has written 
extensively on reform subjects. 

HEBERT, JOSEPH GUY, educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Dec. 24, 1870, in 
West Baton Rouge, La. He attended 
select and private schools in his owh 
parish, and in 1889 graduated from the 
Harper, Kan., Normal school. He then 
engaged in educational work for several 
years, and in 1892 graduated from the Tu- 
lane university law school. He has served 
as justice of the peace in Plaquemine, 
La.; and filled various other public posi¬ 
tions of honor. 

HEBERT, PAUL OCTAVE, was born 
Nav. 12, 1818, in Louisiana, and was the 
twftlfth governor of that state. He died 
April 20, 1880. 

HECKER, ISAAC THOMAS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 18, 1819, in 
New York city. He was a Roman catholic 
clergyman who in early life was one of 
the noted Brook Farm community. Be¬ 
coming a Roman catholic he founded the 
Order of the Paulists in 1858. In 1865 he 
established The Catholic World, of which 
he remained the editor till his death. He 
was the author of Questions of the Soul; 
Aspirations of Nature; Catholicity in the 
United States; Catholics and Protestants 
Agreeing on the School Question; and 
The Church and the Age. He died Dec. 
22, 1888, in New York city. 

HECKMAN, CHARLES ADAM, soldier, 
was born Dec. 3, 1822, in Easton, Pa. In 
1862 he was made brigadier-general of vol¬ 
unteers. 


HECKMAN, GEORGE C„ clergyman, 
college president, was born Jan. 26, 1825, 
in Easton, Pa. He has filled several pas¬ 
torates in the presbyterian churches ^of 
Indiana and New York; and from 18di- 
79 was president of Hanover college. 

HEDDAEUS, JOHN, educator, clergy¬ 
man, poet, was. born April 15, 1847, in 
Germany. He is a teacher of modern 
languages, and engaged at the military 
academy in Sing Sing, N. Y. He is the 
author of a work entitled Lord Lively. 

HEDDINGS, ELIJAH, clergyman, bish¬ 
op, was born June 7, 1780, in Pine 

Plains, N. Y. At the general conference 
in 1824 he was elevated to the office of 
bishop of the methodist episcopal church. 
He died April 9, 1852, in Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. 

HEDGE, FREDERIC HENRY, educat¬ 
or, author, poet, was born Dec. 12, 1805, in 
Cambridge, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman, and professor of German lan¬ 
guage and literature at Harvard univer¬ 
sity in 1872-81. He was the author of 
Reason in Religion; The Primeval World 
of Hebrew Tradition; A Christian Lit¬ 
urgy; Prose Writers of Germany; Ways 
of the Spirit and Other Essays; Atheism 
in Philosophy; Sermons; Hours with 
German Classics; Martin Luther and 
Other Essays; and Metrical Translations 
and Poems. He died Aug. 21, 1890, in 
Cambridge, Mass. 

HEDGE, LEVI, educator, author, was 
born April 19, 1766, in Hardwick, Mass. 
He was an educator of Massachusetts, 
professor of logic in Harvard university 
in 1810-27, and author of A System of 
Logic. He died Jan. 3, 1844, in Cambridge. 
Mass. 

HEDGES, CORNELIUS, lawyer, state 
senator, jurist, was born Oct. 28, 1831, in 
Westfield, Mass. He has been United 
States attorney, superintendent of public 
instruction, probate judge, and a member 
of the Montana state senate. 

HEFFERNEN. JOHN, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Aug. 14, 1856, in Aurora. 
N. Y. He took a classical course in St. 
Joseph’s college of Dubuque, Iowa; and 
graduated in medicine from the Long 
Island college hospital of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He • is a prominent physician and sur¬ 
geon of Cascade, Iowa; and has been 
president and secretary of various medi¬ 
cal bodies. 

HEFLIN, ROBERT STELL, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
April 15,1815, in Madison, Ga. He served 
in the Creek war in 1836; and was elected 
clerk of the superior court of Fayette 
county in 1836, and re-elected in 1838. 
He was a member of the state senate in 
1840 and 1841. He moved to Randolph 
county, Ga., in 1844; was a member of the 
legislature in 1849 and 1860. He was ap¬ 
pointed judge of probate in 1865, and sub¬ 
sequently elected to that office, which he 
held until the state was admitted into the 
union. He was a republican elector; and 
was elected to the forty-first congress. 

HEGEMAN, EMMET D. C„ journalist, 
poet, was born May 23, 1859, in Avon, Ill. 
After receiving his education at the Mil¬ 
ford Classical and 
Collegiate seminary 
he entered the pro¬ 
fession of journal¬ 
ism, and is now the 
editor and owner of 
the Gazette of Lau¬ 
rel, Del. He has 
written extensively 
both prose and verse 
for the periodical 
press; and his poems 
have appeared in 
Poets of America, 
and other standard works. 






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HE1GES, GEORGE W., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born May 18, 1842, in Dillsburg, 
Pa. He received his education at the 
Cumberland Valley 
Normal school of 
(flgv Newville, Pa.; the 
normal school of his 
native city; the 
York County acad¬ 
emy; and from pri- 
vate tutors in 
French and German. 
Since 1867 he has 
been a member of 
the York bar, and 
a member of the 
bars of the supreme 
and superior courts of Pennsylvania. In 
1873-74 he was a member of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania house of representatives; and in 
1885-86 was the last chief burgess of York 
borough. In 1891 he was one of the four 
delegates from his county to the consti¬ 
tutional convention. 

HEILMAN, WILLIAM, manufacturer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 
11, 1824, in Germany. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the Indiana state legislature 
in 1870; and was a state senator in 1876. 
He resigned his seat in the state senate 
in 1879, having been elected a representa¬ 
tive from Indiana to the forty-sixth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
seventh congress as a republican. 

HEILPRIN, ANGELO, naturalist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 31, 1853, in Hun¬ 
gary. He is a Philadelphia naturalist and 
artist, and has been professor of geology 
at Wagner Free institute since 1885. He 
is the author of Contributions to the Ter¬ 
tiary Geology and Palaeontology of the 
United States; Town Geology, the Les¬ 
son of the Philadelphia Rocks; Geo¬ 
graphical and Geological Distribution of 
Animals; Explorations on the West Coast 
of Florida; Animal Life of Our Seashore; 
Geological Evidences of Evolution; and 
The Arctic Problem. 

HEILPRIN, LOUIS, author, was born 
July 2, 1851, in Hungary. He is a writer 
of New York city; and the author of 
The Story of Hungary (with A. Vam- 
bery); Historical Reference Book; and 
Chronological Table of Universal History. 

HEILPRIN, MICHAEL, author, was 
born in 1823 in Poland. He was a Polish 
refugee and scholar who supported Kos¬ 
suth in Hungary in 1848, and came to the 
United States in 1850. He published His¬ 
torical Poetry of the Hebrews Critically 
Examined. He died May 10, 1888. in 
Summit, N. J. 

HEINER. DANIEL BROADHEAD, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Dec. 30, 1854, 
in Kittanning. Pa. He was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney of Pennsylvania in 1885 and 
re-elected in 1888; and was elected to the 
fifty-third and re-elected to the fifty- 

fourth congress as a republican. 

HEINIGER, JOHANNES, educator, 

clergyman, lecturer, was born Dec. 31, 
1843, in Switzerland. He is the popular 
pastoi of the Fir^t 
Evangelical church 
of Jersey City, N. J.; 
and the editor of 
Zions Biene, a relig¬ 
ious publication. He 
has filled pastorates 
in several large 
churches; has been 
president of the 
evangelical Lutheran 
Augsburg synod, and 
president of the Im¬ 
manuel’s synod of 
the evangelical Lutheran church of North 
America. He has also been engaged in 
educational work and has filled a chair in 
the Western university of St. Louis, Mo. 




HEINTZELMAN, SAMUEL PETER, 
soldier, was born Sept. 30, 1805, in Man- 
heim, Pa. He served with distinction 
through the Mexican 
war. He subse¬ 
quently established 
Fort Yuma in Cali¬ 
fornia, and was suc¬ 
cessfully engaged in 
suppressing the In¬ 
dians. He also served 
with distinction in 
the civil war, and 
was brevetted major- 
general in the United 
States army. After 
the civil war he filled 
numerous public positions of honor; and 
has contributed valuable articles to cur¬ 
rent literature. 

HEISTER. DANIEL, congressman. He 
succeeded his father in congress; and 
was a member of the eleventh congress. 

HEISTER, DANIEL, soldier, merchant, 
congressman, was born in Berks county, 
Pa. He was colonel, and afterward briga¬ 
dier-general of the militia, and in service. 
In 1784 he was elected to the supreme 
executive council of Pennsylvania; and 
in 1787 was appointed a commissioner of 
the Connecticut land claims. He was a 
member of the first, second, third and 
fourth congresses from Pennsylvania. 
After this he removed to Hagerstown, 
Md.; and was elected from that state a 
member of the seventh and eighth con¬ 
gresses. He died March 8, 1804, in Wash¬ 
ington. 

HEISTER, JOHN, congressman, was 
born April 9, 1746. He was a member of 
the tenth congress from Pennsylvania. 
He died Oct. 15, 1821. 

HEISTER, JOSEPH, soldier, statesman, 
was born Nov. 18, 1752, in Bern town¬ 
ship, Pa. He was a member of the con¬ 
vention which framed the constitution of 
1776; served five years in the house and 
four in the senate of Pennsylvania. He 
was a member from Pennsylvania of the 
fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth 
congresses. In 1807 he was appointed one 
of the two major-generals to command 
the Pennsylvania contingent, called for 
by the president. After this he retired 
from public life, but in 1814 his old con¬ 
stituency of Berks again elected him to 
the fourteenth congress, and re-elected 
him to the fifteenth and sixteenth con¬ 
gresses. In 1817 he ran for governor un¬ 
successfully, but three years afterward 
was elected, and served in that office until 
1823. He died June 10, 1832, in Reading. 

HEISTER, WILLIAM, farmer,congress¬ 
man, was born in Bern township, Pa. He 
was elected a member of the twenty-third 
and twenty-fourth congresses of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 

HEITFELD, HENRY, farmer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 12, 1859, in St. 
Louis, Mo. He removed to Seneca, Kan., 
at the age of eleven 
years, where he con¬ 
tinued to reside till 
the year 1882, in 
which year he emi¬ 
grated to the state 
of Washington; lo¬ 
cated in Idaho in 
1883, where he has 

_ been engaged in 

i farming and stock 

raising since. He 
10^ ij g j was elected state 

senator in 1894 and 
re-elected in 1896; was elected United 
States senator, as a populist, Jan. 28, 1897; 
took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of 
service will expire March 3, 1903. 



HEITMAN, F. B„ author. He is the 
author of Historical Register of the 
United States Army, and Historical Regis¬ 
ter of the Officers of the Continental 
Army, both of which are valuable works 
of historical reference. 

HEITMAN, JOHN FRANKLIN, educat¬ 
or, college president, was born Nov. 1, 
1857, in York, Pa. He accepted the call 
to become president of Trinity college. 
North Carolina, and still occupies that 
position with the chair of political and 
social science. 

HE1TZMAN, CHARLES, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 2, 1836, in Hungary. 
He is a physician who came to New York 
city from Vienna in 1874, and is of prom¬ 
inence as a dermatologist. He is the au¬ 
thor of Chirurgische Pathologie und Ther- 
apie; Descriptive and Topographical 
Anatomy of Man; and Microscopic 
Morphology of the Animal Body. 

HELFENSTEIN, JOHN CONRAD AL¬ 
BERT, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 
16, 1748, in Germany. In 1772 he took 
charge of a congregation in Germantown, 
and was one of the fathers of the Ger¬ 
man reformed church in this country. 
Several small volumes of his sermons 
have been published. He died May 17, 
1790, in Germantown, Pa. 

HELFINSTINE, DAVID M„ clergyman, 
college president, was born April 14, 1852, 
in Clark county, Ohio. He received his 
education at the Parson’s college of Fair- 
field, Iowa; and attended the McCormick 
Theological seminary of Chicago. He has 
been state evangelist for the Christian 
church, and treasurer of the Church Ex¬ 
tension society. He has attained success 
as a clergyman; and is now the presi¬ 
dent of Palmer college of La Grand, Iowa. 

HELLER, DANIEL D., lawyer, jurist, 
was born March 29, 1839, in -Harrison 
county, Ohio. He was elected judge of the 
twenty-sixth judicial circuit court of In¬ 
diana, and received the re-election for a 
second term of six years. 

HELM, BEN HARDIN, soldier, state 
legislator, was born in 1830 in Elizabeth¬ 
town, Ky. He was a member of the Ken¬ 
tucky legislature in 1855-56, and common¬ 
wealth attorney for the third district of 
Kentucky from 1856 till 1858. In 1861 he 
joined the confederate army, and was 
made brigadier-general in 1862. He died 
Sept. 21, 1863, in Georgia. 

HELM, JOHN LARUE, legislator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born July 4, 1802, in Hardin 
county, Ky. He was made county attor¬ 
ney of his county; in 1826 was elected to 
the house of representatives of the state, 
and was a member of that body eleven 
years. He was elected state senator from 
1844 to 1848, and from 1865 to 1869; and 
resigned in 1867 to run for governor. He 
presided in the legislature seven years; 
was elected lieutenant-governor in 1848; 
and was governor from 1850 to 1852. In 
1854 he was made president of the Louis¬ 
ville and Nashville railroad. He died 
Sept. 8, 1867, in Elizabethtown, Ky. 

HELMAN, CHARLES EDWARD, cler¬ 
gyman, lecturer, was born Jan. 24, 1862, 
in Red Haw, Ohio. He graduated from 
the Baldwin university of Berea, Ohio, 
from which institution he received the de¬ 
gree of A. B. He has attained eminence 
as a successful clergyman of the method- 
ist episcopal church; has filled several 
pastorates in Ohio; and now fills a pas¬ 
torate in his church at Hailey, Idaho. 

HELMICK, WILLIAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 6, 1817, in Jef¬ 
ferson county, Ohio. He was elected a 
prosecuting attorney; and in 1858 was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
thirty-sixth congress. 


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HELMS, EUGENE W., lawyer, jurist, 
was born April 2, 1859, in Salem, Wis. 
He received his education in the common 
schools and graduated from the law 
school of the state university of Wiscon¬ 
sin. In 1893-96 he was district attorney 
of St. Croix county, Wis.; and from Jan. 
1, 1897, he commenced serving as cir¬ 
cuit judge of the eighth judicial circuit 
of Wisconsin. 

HELMS, WILLIAM, soldier, congress¬ 
man. He was an officer in the revolution¬ 
ary army; and was a representative in 
congress from New Jersey, from 1801 to 
1811. He died in Tennessee. 

HELMUTH, JUSTUS CHRISTIAN 
HENRY, clergyman, author, was born 
May 16, 1745, in Germany. He was a 
Lutheran clergyman who came to Amer¬ 
ica in 1769, and was pastor of St. Mich¬ 
ael’s Lutheran church in Philadelphia in 
1779-1820, and for eighteen years professor 
of languages in the university of Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was the author of Taufe 
und heilige Schrift; Unterhalten mit 
Gott; and Geistliche Lieder. He died 
Feb. 5, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HELMUTH, WILLIAM TOD, surgeon, 
author, was born in 1833, in Pennsylvania. 
He is a surgeon of New York city; and the 
author of Treatise on Diphtheria; Medi¬ 
cal Pomposity; System of Surgery; 
Scratches of a Surgeon; Suprapubic Lith¬ 
otomy; and With the Pousse Cafe, post¬ 
prandial verses. 

HELPER, HINTON ROWAN, author, 
was born Dec. 27, 1829, near Mocksville, 
N. C. He is a southern writer long resi¬ 
dent in New York city; and the author of 
The Impending Crisis of the South, a ‘once 
famous work, which appeared shortly be¬ 
fore the opening of the civil war; No- 
joque; The Negroes in Negroland; The 
Land of Gold; Oddments of Andean Di¬ 
plomacy; and the Three Americas Rail¬ 
way. 

HEMBEL, WILLIAM, physician, was 
born Sept. 24, 1764, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He practiced gratuitously for many years 
among the poor of Philadelphia, and was 
noted for benevolence. He was presi¬ 
dent of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
from 1840 till 1849. He died June 19, 1851, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HEMENWAY, JAMES A., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 8, 1860, in 
Boonville, Ind. In 1886 and again in 1888 
he was elected prosecuting attorney of the 
second judicial circuit of Indiana; and in 
1890 was selected as the member of the 
republican state committee from the first 
district. He was elected to the fifty- 
fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

HEMENWAY, STACY, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Jan. 13, 1836, in La Porte 
county, Ind. He graduated from the medi¬ 
cal department of 
the Lind university, 
now known as the 
Chicago Medical 
university. During 
the civil war he was 
assistant surgeon of 
the ninth cavalry 11- 
1 i n o i s volunteers; 
then became surgeon 
of the forty-first 
United States col¬ 
ored troops; and 
subsequently was 
acting assistant surgeon in the United 
States army. During 1871-74 he was resi¬ 
dent physician to the hospital for the in¬ 
sane of Washington territory; was a 
charter member of the Washington State 
Medical society; and is prominently iden¬ 
tified with various leading medical bodies 
in America. 


HEMINGWAY, WILSON EDWIN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Jan. 4, 1854, near 
Carrollton, Miss. He is now one of the 
foremost lawyers of Arkansas at Little 
Rock; and served with distinction as 
judge of the supreme court of Arkansas. 

HEMPEL, CHARLES JULIUS, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Sept. 5, 1811, in 
Prussia. He was a physician of Grand 
Rapids, Mich., who came to America from 
Prussia in 1835. He was the author of 
Christendom and Civilization; System of 
Materia Medica and Therapeutics; The 
Science of Homoeopathy; Homoeopathic 
Theory and Practice in Surgical Diseases 
(with J. Beakley); True Organization of 
the New Church; and Life of Christ (in 
German). He died Sept. 25,1879, in Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 

HEMPHILL, JOHN, United States sen¬ 
ator. He was a senator in congress from 
Texas from 1859 until that state seceded, 
when he became identified with the great 
rebellion; and was expelled from the sen¬ 
ate July 10, 1861. He died Jan. 4, 1862, in 
Richmond, Ya. 

HEMPHILL, JOHN J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 25,1849, in Ches¬ 
ter, S. C. In 1876 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the state legislature; and 
was re-elected in 1878 and 1880. He was 
elected a representative from South Caro¬ 
lina to the forty-eighth congress; and was 
re-elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty- 
first, and fifty-second congresses as a 
democrat. 

HEMPHILL, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1770 in Dela¬ 
ware county, Pa. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1801 to 1803, again from 1819 to 1827, and 
from 1829 to 1831. He was for some time 
judge of the district court of Philadelphia. 
He died May 29, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HEMPSTEAD, EDWARD, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 3, 1780, in New 
London, Conn. In 1806 he was appointed 
deputy attorney-general for the district 
of St. Louis and St. Charles, and in 1809 
attorney-general for the territory of Upper 
Louisiana, which office he held until 1811. 
He was the first delegate to congress from 
the western side of the Mississippi river, 
representing Missouri territory from 1811 
to 1814. After his service in congress he 
went upon several expeditions against the 
Indians; was elected to the territorial as¬ 
sembly, and chosen speaker. He died 
Aug. 10, 1817. 

HEMPSTEAD, GAY, lawyer, author, 
poet, was born Nov. 24, 1847, in Little 
Rock, Ark. He is a successful lawyer and 
lecturer, and grand secretary of the Free¬ 
masons for the state of Arkansas. He is 
the author of Hempstead’s School History 
of Arkansas; and two volumes of poems. 

HEMPSTEAD, JUNIUS L., poet, was 
born Nov. 14, 1842, in Dubuque, Iowa. He 
is the son of the late Governor Hemp¬ 
stead. His educat- 
tion began in the 
public schools, and 
then took a course in 
St. Charles college, 
Mo. Always studi¬ 
ous and fond of art, 
music and literature, 
when a youth he 
secured the blue rib¬ 
bon two successive 
seasons at the St. 
Louis fair, and also 
two premium prizes 
of seventy-five and one hundred dollars 
for the best original statues in marble. 
He won the first prize offered for the best 
original statuette in marble by Dr. Van 


Zandt. It was carved from a block of 
Vermont marble. The next year the prize 
was again taken by him, therefore Dr. 
Van Zandt offered to send him to Paris 
and Italy, defraying all expenses for six 
years, but the offer was declined, how¬ 
ever, and he was sent to a Virginia col¬ 
lege. He began his business career with 
bookkeeping, but for years past, most ©f 
his time has been given over to literature. 
He is represented as a poet in Golden 
Thoughts of American Writers; Poets of 
America; and has published one volume 
of poems, Parnassian Niches. 

HEMPSTEAD, STEPHEN, governor. 
He was governor of Iowa from 1850 to 
1854. He died Feb. 16, 1883. 

HEMSLEY, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a delegate from Maryland to the 
continental congress from 1782 to 1784. 

HEMSTEGER, J. BONI, journalist, was 
born Sept. 3, 1858, in Piqua, Ohio. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education at 
the St. Boniface Parochial school; and 
then attended the St. Mary’s college of 
Dayton, Ohio. During 1878-94 he was ed¬ 
itor and owner of The Correspondent; in 
1889 of the Daily Democrat; and during 
1888-90 of The Post of Greenville, Ohio. 
Since 1893 he has been president and 
manager of the Correspondent Show 
Printing company of Piqua, Ohio. 

HENCK, JOHN BENJAMIN, educator, 
author, was born in November, 1816, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a professor of 
engineering in the Massachusetts insti¬ 
tute of Technology in 1865-81, and the au¬ 
thor of a Field Book for Railway En¬ 
gineers. 

HENDEE, GEORGE WHITMAN, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, governor, 
was born Nov. 30, 1832, in Stowe, Vt. He 
was prosecuting attorney in 1858; a mem¬ 
ber of the state house of representatives 
in 1861 and 1862; and of the state senate 
in 1866, 1867, and 1868. He was lieuten¬ 
ant-governor of Vermont in 1869; was 
governor in 1870; and was elected to the 
forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth 
congresses as a republican. 

HENDEE, MRS., heroine, was born in 
1754. When the Indians burned Royalton, 
Vt., in 1776, her husband, Joshua Hendee, 
was absent in a Vermont regiment, and 
she was at work in an adjacent field. The 
Indians entered her house, seized her chil¬ 
dren, and carried them across White river, 
where it was a hundred yards wide and 
too deep for fording. Mrs. Hendee dashed 
into the river, swam and waded through, 
and, entering the camp, regardless of the 
tomahawks that were flourished about her 
head, demanded her children’s release, 
and persevered until her request was 
granted. She carried them across the 
stream, landed them in safety on the other 
bank, and, returning three times in suc¬ 
cession, procured the release of fifteen 
children belonging to her neighbors. On 
her final return to the camp the Indians 
were so struck with her courage that one 
of them declared that so' brave a squaw 
deserved to be carried across the strdam, 
and taking her on his back swam with her 
to the place where the rescued children 
were awaiting her return. She was twen¬ 
ty-two years old when she performed this 
feat, and in 1818 she was living in Sharon, 
Vt., with her third husband, whose name 
was Mosher. It is thought that she re¬ 
moved to one of the western states about 
1820. 

HENDEL, WILLIAM, clergyman, was 
born about 1730, in Germany. After com¬ 
pleting his theological studies, he removed 
to the United States in 1764 and became 
one of the pioneers of the German re¬ 
formed church in this country. He died 
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HENDERSON, ARCHIBALD, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 7, 1768, in 
Granville county, N. C. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from North Caro¬ 
lina from 1799 to 1803; and was subse¬ 
quently elected to the general assembly 
for several terms. He died Oct. 21, 1822, 
in Salisbury, N. C. 

HENDERSON, ARCHIBALD, soldier, 
was born in 1785 in Virginia, tie served 
in the war of 1812 and attained the rank 
of major; also served in the Florida war 
and received, for gallant and meritorious 
services, the rank of brigadier-general. 
He died Jan. 27, 1837, in Washington, 
D. C. 

HENDERSON, BENNETT H., congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in congress 
from Tennessee from 1815 to 1817. 

HENDERSON, DAVID BREMNER, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born 
March 14, 1840, in Scotland. He entered 

_. _ __ the union army as a 

private in 1861 and 
served with distinc¬ 
tion, rising to the 
rank of colonel. In 
1869-70 he was as¬ 
sistant United States 
district attorney; 
was chairman of the 
Iowa delegation in 
the republican na¬ 
tional convention of 
1880; and was secre¬ 
tary of the republi¬ 
can congressional committee in 1882. He 
was elected a representative from Iowa 
to the forty-eighth congress; was re-elect¬ 
ed to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, 
fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and 
fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. He 
has twice presided over the republican 
state conventions of Iowa; and has three 
times served as chairman of his delega¬ 
tion from Iowa to the national republican 
conventions. 

HENDERSON, ERNEST FLAGG, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1861 in New 
York. He is an instructor in Wellesley 
college, and the author of A History of 
Germany in the Middle Ages; Historical 
Documents of the Middle Ages; and col¬ 
laborator in Larned’s History for Ready 
Reference. 

HENDERSON, ISAAC, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1850 in New York. He 
was a New York city journalist in 1872-81, 
who has since lived abroad. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Prelate; and Agatha Page. 

HENDERSON, JAMES H. D„ journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born July 23, 1810, 
in Salem, Ky. He moved to Lane county 
and settled on a farm two or three miles 
south of Eugene City, Ore. In 1864 he 
was the successful candidate of the repub¬ 
lican party for congressman at large from 
the state of Oregon and took his seat in 
that body March 4, 1865. He died in 
October, 1885, in Eugene City, Ore. 

HENDERSON, JAMES PINCKNEY, 
lawyer, soldier, statesman, w T as born 
March 31, 1808, in Lincoln county, N. C. 
His first civil office was that of attorney- 
general of the republic of Texas, having 
been appointed by President Houston in 
1836. In 1837 he was appointed secretary 
of state of the republic, and soon after¬ 
ward minister plenipotentiary to England 
and France. In 1845 he was a member of 
the convention which framed the consti¬ 
tution of the state of Texas, and in No¬ 
vember of the same year was elected 
governor of that state. When the Mexi¬ 
can war broke out in 1846, he served 
six months as major-general. In 1857 he 
was elected a senator in congress from 
Texas. He died June 4, 1858, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 


HENDERSON, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born in 1795 
in a northern state. He was a general of 
militia in Mississippi, and a senator in 
congress from Mississippi from 1839 to 
1845. He died in 1857 in Pass Christian, 
Miss. 

HENDERSON, JOHN BROOKS, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 
1826, near Danville, Va. He was elected to 
the Missouri state legislature, re-elected 
in 1856, and in the same year chosen a 
presidential elector, and also in 1860. On 
the expulsion of Trusten Polk from the 
United States senate, he was appointed 
to fill the vacancy, and in 1863 was elected 
for the full term ending in 1869. 

HENDERSON, JOHN H. D„ journalist, ’ 
clergyman, congressman, was born July 
23, 1810, in Salem, Ky. In 1864 he was 
elected a representative from Oregon to 
the thirty-ninth congress. 

HENDERSON, JOHN OSCAR, journal¬ 
ist, was born Sept. 1, 1847, in New Lon¬ 
don, Ind. Since 1876 he has been the edi¬ 
tor and owner of the Kokomo Dispatch, 
Indiana. He was appointed collector of 
internal revenue in 1885, and is now audi¬ 
tor of state for the state of Indiana. 

HENDERSON, JOHN S., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1846, 
in Salisbury, N. C. In 1864 he entered 
the confederate army and served as a 
private until the close of the civil war. 
In 1871 he was elected a delegate to the 
state constitutional convention, and again 
in 1875, and in 1876 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the North Carolina state 
legislature. In 1879 he was elected a 
state senator, and in 1880 was a delegate 
to the democratic national convention. 
In 1883 he was elected a representative 
from North Carolina to the forty-ninth 
congress, and was re-elected to the fiftieth, 
fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

HENDERSON, JOSEPH, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1833 to 1837. 

HENDERSON, LEONARD, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Oct. 6, 1772, in Granville 
county, N. C. In 1808 he was made judge 
of the appellate court; in 1818 was elected 
to the supreme court of North Carolina; 
and in 1829 was appointed chief justice. 
He died Aug. 13, 1833, in Williamsbor- 
ough, N. C. 

HENDERSON, MRS. MARY FOOTE, 
author, was born about 1835 in New York. 
She is a writer of St. Louis who organ¬ 
ized the Industrial Art school in that 
city, and is the author of Practical Cook¬ 
ing and Dinner-Giving; and Diet for the 
Sick. 

HENDERSON, MATTHEW, missionary, 
was born in 1736 in Scotland. In 1782 he 
removed to Washington county, and be¬ 
came pastor of the Associate Reformed 
church of Chartiers and Buffalo, being the 
only clergyman of his denomination in 
that portion of Pennsylvania. He died 
Oct. 2, 1795, in Washington county. Pa. 

HENDERSON, PETER, florist, author, 
was born June 9, 1822, in Scotland. In 
1865 he engaged in the seed business as 
Henderson and Fleming, and in 1871 
founded the now famous firm of Peter 
Henderson and Co., seedsmen and florists. 
He wrote much on horticulture for the 
newspaper press and produced several val¬ 
uable books on gardening and flowers, 
entitled: Gardening for Profit; Practical 
Floriculture; Gardening for Pleasure; 
Handbook of Plants; How the Farm 
Pays; and Garden and Farm Topics. He 
died Jan. 17, 1890, in Jersey City, N. J. 


HENDERSON, RICHARD, pioneer, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born in 1734 in Hanover 
county, Va. In 1769 he was appointed as¬ 
sociate judge of the superior court of 
North Carolina. He died Jan. 30, 1785, 
in Hillsborough, N. C. 

HENDERSON, ROBERT MILLER, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born 
March 11, 1827, near Carlisle, Pa. He was 
admitted to the bar in Carlisle in 1847, 
and served in the legislature in 1851-53. 
In 1865 he was brevetted colonel and brig¬ 
adier-general of volunteers for services 
during tHe war. In 1872 he became law 
judge of the twelfth judicial district of 
Pennsylvania, served ten years, and was 
elected president judge of the same dis¬ 
trict in 1882. 

HENDERSON, SAMUEL, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1814 to 1815 to fill a 
vacancy. 

HENDERSON, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1743 in Free¬ 
hold, N. J. He was judge of the court of 
common pleas; a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1779 to 1780; and 
was a representative from New Jersey in 
congress, under the constitution, from 
1795 to 1797. He was also lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of that state. He died Dec. 15, 1824, 
in Freehold, N. J. 

HENDERSON, THOMAS J., soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 29, 
1824, in Brownsville, Tenn. In 1854 he 
was elected to the Illinois state legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1856 was chosen a senator, 
serving four years. He was brevetted a 
brigadier-general in 1865 for services in 
Georgia and Tennessee. In 1874 he w r as 
elected a representative from Illinois to 
the forty-fourth congress. He was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, for¬ 
ty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fif¬ 
tieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty- 
third congresses as a republican. 

HENDERSON, WILLIAM F„ lawyer, 
jurist. In 1885 he was appointed an asso¬ 
ciate justice of the supreme court of the 
territory of New Mexico for the term of 
four years, residing in Santa Fe. 

HENDERSON, WILLIAM JAMES, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1855 in New 
Jersey. He is a journalist on the staff of 
the New York Times; and the author of 
The Story of Music; Preludes and Studies; 
Sea Yarns for Boys; Afloat with the Flag; 
and Elements of Navigation. 

HENDREN, GILBERT H., lawyer, was 
born March 29, 1857, in Canal Winchester, 
Ohio. After receiving his education in 
the district schools of Ohio, and the Nor¬ 
mal schools of Indiana, he graduated from 
the Central Law school of Indianapolis. 
He is a prominent lawyer of Bloomfield, 
Ind.; has been deputy clerk of the Greene 
county circuit for eight years; for three 
terms was chairman of the democratic 
county central committee; and was dele¬ 
gate from the second congressional dis¬ 
trict to the World’s Columbian exposition 
at Chicago. 

HENDRICK, JOHN K„ lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 
1849, in North Carolina. He was elected 
county attorney of Livingston county, Ky., 
in 1878; and re-elected in 1882. He was 
elected to the state senate from the third 
district in 1887. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

HENDRICKS, FRANCIS, merchant, 
banker, state senator, was born Nov. 23, 
1834, in Kingston, N. Y. He was elected 
to the state senate in 1886 and served 
continuously in that body for six years. 




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HENDRICKS. THOMAS ANDREWS, 
vice-president of the United States, was 
born Sept. 7, 1819, in Zanesville, Ohio. In 
1848 he was chosen 
to the Indiana state 
legislature; declined 
a re-election; and 
was an active mem¬ 
ber of the Indiana 
constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1850. He 
was a representative 
in congress from 
Indiana from 1851 
to 1855; and was ap¬ 
pointed in 1855 com¬ 
missioner of the gen¬ 
eral land office. He was subsequently 
elected a senator in congress for the term 
commencing in 1863 and ending in 1869. 
In 1872 he received a majority of the 
democratic votes for the office of pres¬ 
ident of the United States; in 1876 
was an unsuccessful candidate for vice- 
president of the United States; and in 
1884 was elected vice-president of the 
United States. He died Nov. 25. 1885, in 
Indianapolis, Ind. 


HENDRICKS, WILLIAM, governor. 
United States senator, was born in 1783 
in Westmoreland county, Pa. He was the 
first and sole representative of Indiana in 
congress from 1816 to 1822. He was gov¬ 
ernor of the state from 1822 to 1825, when 
he was elected a member of the United 
States senate, and served until 1837. He 
died May 16, 1850, in Madison, Ind. 

HENDRICKSON. CHARLES ELVIN," 
lawyer, state legislator, jurist, was born 
Jan. 8, 1843, in New Egypt, N. J. In 
1868 he was elected a member of the New 
Jersey state legislature; was prosecutor of 
the pleas of Burlington county during 
1870-90; and in 1896 was appointed spe¬ 
cial judge of the court of errors and ap¬ 
peals of New Jersev for term expiring in 
1902. 

HENDRIX. EUGENE RUSSELL, bish¬ 
op, author, was born May 17, 1847. in 
Fayette, Mo. He is a bishop of the meth¬ 
od ist church south, whose official resi¬ 
dence is at Kansas City. He has written 
Around the World. 

HENDRIX, JOSEPH C., journalist, ban¬ 
ker, congressman, was born May 25, 1853. 
in Fayette, Mo. In 1886 he was appointed 
postmaster of Brooklyn, and served un¬ 
til 1890. In 1887 he was elected 
president of the board of education of 
Brooklyn, and has been elected annually 
since to 1892. He was elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. 

HENING, WILLIAM WALLER, lawyer, 
author. He was a legal writer of Vir¬ 
ginia; and the author of The American 
Pleader and Lawyer’s Guide; The New 
Virginia Justice; The Statutes of Vir¬ 
ginia. 1691-1792; and Reports of Cases in 
the Supreme Court of Appeals of Vir¬ 
ginia and in the Supreme Court of Chan¬ 
cery for Richmond District. He died in 
1828 in Virginia. 

HENKLE, ELI JONES, physician, edu¬ 
cator, congressman, was born Nov. 24. 
1828, in Baltimore county, Md. He was a 
member of the state senate in 1867, 1868 
and 1870. He was elected to the house of 
delegates in 1871 and 1873; and in 1872 was 
delegate to the national democratic con¬ 
vention. He was one year professor of 
anatomy, physiology, and natural history 
in the Maryland Agricultural college, 
which position he resigned in 1874. He 
was elected a representative from Mary¬ 
land to the forty-fourth congress; and re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth 
congresses as a democrat. 


HENKLE. MOSES MONTGOMERY, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1798 in 
Virginia. He was a methodist clergyman 
of Baltimore and elsewhere; and the au¬ 
thor of Masonic Addresses: Primary Plat¬ 
form of Methodism; Analysis of Church 
Government; Life of Bishop Bascom; 
and Primitive Episcopacy. He died in 
1864. 

HENLEY, BARCLAY, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born March 17, 
1842, in Clark county, Ind. He served in 
1869 in the California state legislature as 
assemblyman; was presidential elector in 
1880; and served with distinction as a 
member of the forty-eighth and forty- 
ninth congresses during 1882-87. 

HENLEY, DAVID, revolutionary sol¬ 
dier. was born Feb. 12, 1748, in Charles¬ 
town. Mass. He was appointed brigade- 
major to Gen. Heath in 1775. He died Jan. 
1, 1823, in Washington. D. C. 

HENLEY, JOHN DANDRIDGE. naval 
officer, was born Feb. 25, 1781, in Wil¬ 
liamsburg, Pa. He was appointed a mid¬ 
shipman by President Washington, and a 
commander in 1813. He was promoted to 
a captaincy in 1817; and at the time of 
his death was commanding the West In¬ 
dian squadron. He died May 23, 1835, in 
Havana, Cuba. 

HENLEY. THOMAS J., farmer, public 
official, congressman, was born in 1810 
in Indiana. He was a member of 
the state legislature from 1832 to 1842; 
and was a representative in congress from 
Indiana from 1843 to 1849. In 1849 he 
emigrated to California; was a member 
of the first legislature of that state; was 
for seven years superintendent of Indian 
affairs for California; and was subse¬ 
quently appointed postmaster of San 
Francisco. 

HENN. BERNHART. congressman, 
was born in New York. He moved to 
Iowa; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1849 to 1853. 

HENNEGAN, B. K. He was acting 
governor of South Carolina in 1840. 

HENNEN, ALFRED, lawyer, educator, 
was born Oct. 17, 1786, in Elk Ridge. Md. 
For many years previous to his death he 
was professor of common and constitu¬ 
tional law in the university of Louisiana. 
He died Jan. 19, 1870, in New Orleans, La. 

HENNEQUIN, ALFRED, educator, 
dramatist, author, was born in 1846 in 
France. He is a dramatist and educa¬ 
tor who beside several Anglo-French text¬ 
books has published The Art of Play¬ 
writing. 

HENNESSY. JOHN JOSEPH, Roman 
catholic bishop, was born July 19, 1847, in 
Ireland. He received his education at the 
college of Christian Brothers of St. Louis. 
Mo. He has filled pastorates in various 
churches, and in 1866 he was consecrated 
Roman catholic bishop of Dubuque, Iowa. 
Early in his ministry he founded the hos¬ 
pital of Mercy, at Davenport; and estab¬ 
lished the St. Joseph's college there in 
1873. 

HENNI, JOHN MARTIN, archbishop, 
was born in 1805 in Switzerland. In 1836 
he founded and edited for some time the 
Wahrheits-Freund, the first German Ro¬ 
man catholic paper published in the United 
States. He died Sept. 7. 1881, in Milwau¬ 
kee. Wis. 

HENNING, DAVID CALVIN, lawyer, 
orator, author, was born in 1847 in Union 
county, Pa. He is one of the ablest of 
Pennsylvania’s lawyers; a brilliant ora¬ 
tor; and the author of a series of histori¬ 
cal sketches entitled Tales of the Blue 
Mountains. 


HENNINGSEN, CHARLES FREDER¬ 
ICK, soldier, author, was born in 1815 in 
England. He was a soldier of Swedish 
descent and English birth who served 
with the Carlists in Spain in 1834, and 
subsequently joined Kossuth in Hungary. 
He came to America in 1856, was with 
Walker in Nicaragua, entered the confed¬ 
erate army in 1861, and became a gen¬ 
eral. He was the author of The Last 
of the Sophis, a Poem; Twelve Months’ 
Campaign with Zumalacarregui; The 
White Slave, a novel; Eastern Europe; 
Sixty Years Hence, a novel of Russian 
life: Scenes from the Belgian Revolution: 
Analogies and Contrasts; Personal Recol¬ 
lections of Nicaragua; and The Past and 
Future of Hungary. He died June 14. 1877, 
in Washington, D. C. 

HENRY. ALEXANDER, explorer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1739 in New Jersey. He 
was a noted traveler in northwest Ameri¬ 
ca who published Travels and Adventures 
in Canada between 1760-76. He died April, 
1824. in Montreal. Canada. 

HENRY. ALEXANDER. mayor of 
Philadelphia, was born April 14, 1823, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1856-57 he served in 
the councils, and in 1858 was elected to 
the mayoralty; and by successive elections 
he served in the office until 1866, when he 
declined a renomination. He managed 
the affairs of Philadelphia during the civil 
war with great ability. He died Dec. 6, 
1883, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HENRY. ALFRED H.. clergyman, was 
born April 4, 1865, in East Homer, N. Y. 
He attended the Northwestern university, 
and the Chicago College of Science. He 
has served several pastorates in Chicago. 
Ill., where in 1892 he was prominently 
connected with the work of securing bet¬ 
ter hours and Sunday rest-day for labor¬ 
ing men. He was pastor of the Trinity 
Methodist Episcopal church of Oma¬ 
ha, Neb.: and is now pastor of the First 
Methodist Episcopal church of Salt Lake 
City, Utah. 

HENRY,CALEB SPRAGUE, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 2, 1804, in Rut¬ 
land, Mass. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man of New York and Connecticut who 
held professorships in several colleges, 
and was at one time a journalist in New 
York city. He was the author of Moral 
and Philosophical Essays; Satan as a 
Moral Philosopher: About Men and 
Things: Dr. Oldham at Greystones and 
his Talk There; Social Welfare and Hu¬ 
man Progress; Household Liturgy; The 
Endless Future of the Human Race; and 
Epitome of the History of Philosophy. He 
was the translator of Guizot’s History 
of Civilization and other works. He died 
March 9. 1884, in Newburg, N. Y. 

HENRY, CHARLES L„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman. was born July 1, 1849, in Green 
township, Ind. He studied law with Hon. 

Hervey Craven; 
graduated from the 
law department of 
the Indiana univer¬ 
sity, at Blooming¬ 
ton. in 1872, and im- 
mediately co m- 
menced the practice 
of law at Pendleton. 
He removed to An¬ 
derson in 1875, where 
he has since resided. 
He was elected to the 
state senate in 1880 
from the counties of Grant and Madison, 
and served in the sessions of 1881 and 
1883; and was elected to the fifty-fourth 
and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 



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HENRY. DANIEL M.. lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Feb. 19. 
1823, in Dorchester county, Md. He was 
elected a representative in the legisla¬ 
ture in 1846; and again in 1849. He was 
a state senator in 1869; and was elected a 
representative from Maryland to the for¬ 
ty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses. 

HENRY, E. STEVENS, manufacturer, 
financier, congressman, was born in 1836 
in Gill, Mass. He has been mayor of 
Rockville; was a representative in the 
lower house of the Connecticut general as¬ 
sembly of 1883; and state senator from 
the^ twenty-third senatorial district in 
1887-88. He was delegate-at-large to the 
Chicago national republican convention 
in 1888; and treasurer of the state of 
Connecticut from 1889 to 1893. In 1894 
he was elected to the fifty-fourth con¬ 
gress, and was re-elected in 1896 to the fif¬ 
ty-fifth congress. 

HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON, artist, 
was born Jan. 12, 1841, in Charleston, S. C. 
He has painted chiefly genre pictures 
interiors, representing American colonial 
life, and historical pieces. The first pic¬ 
ture by his hand that attracted attention 
was Railway Station of a New England 
Road. 

HENRY. GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, ora¬ 
tor, state legislator, was born Oct. 8, 1804. 
in Cherry Spring, Ky. He achieved great 
reputation as a public speaker, and was 
known throughout the south as the eagle 
orator of Tennessee. He was in the Ten¬ 
nessee legislature in 1851; and was a 
member of the confederate senate from 
1861 till the close of the civil war. He died 
Sept. 10, 1880, in Clarksville, Tenn. 

HENRY, GUY VERNOR. soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born March 9, 1839, in Fort 
Smith. I. T. He is an officer in the L T nited 
States army who served during the civil 
war, and in Indian wars subsequently. He 
is the author of Military Record of Civil¬ 
ian Appointments in the United States 
Army; Army Catechism for Non-Commis¬ 
sioned Officers; and Manual of Target 
Practice. 

HENRY, HUSH, soldier, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born March 21, 1838, in 
Chester. Vt., where he attained promi¬ 
nence as an able lawyer. During 1872-78, 
and again in 1884-86, he was a member of 
the New Hampshire state legislature; and 
in 1880-82 was a member of the state sen¬ 
ate. Since 1884 he has been judge of 
probate, and still fills that office to the 
satisfaction of the public. Since 1882 he 
has been a director in the National bank 
of Bellows Falls; and since 1884 has been 
a director in the Vermont Valley Railroad 
company. In 1892 he was department 
commander, department of Vermont, 
Grand Army of the Republic; and since 
1890 has been president of the Vermont 
Soldiers' home. 

HENRY, JAMES, jurist, congressman. 
He was a delegate from Virginia to the 
■continental congress, from 1780 to 1781: 
and was a lawyer and a judge. He died 
in January, 1805, in Virginia. 

HENRY. JAMES, manufacturer, author, 
was born Oct. 13, 1809, in Philadelphia. 
Pa. ,He was a rifle manufacturer of Boul¬ 
ton, Pa., who was president of the Mo¬ 
ravian Historical society, and published 
Sketches of Moravian Life and Character. 
He died in 1895. 

HENRY. JAMES HARRISON, soldier, 
railroad operator, banker, was born Nov. 
23, 1845, in St. Joseph, Mich. He served 
in the civil war as a private in the seventh 
Kansas cavalry. He is president and 
principal owner of the San Jose and San¬ 
ta Clara Railroad company. 


HENRY. JOHN, congressman, govern¬ 
or, was born about 1750 in Easton, Md. 
From 1778 he was a delegate to the old 
congress; and was a senator in congress, 
under the constitution, from Maryland 
from 1789 to 1797, when he resigned. He 
was elected governor of Maryland in the 
latter year. He died Dec. 16, 1798 in 
Easton, Md. 

HENRY, JOHN F., physician, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 17, 1793, in 
Scott county, Ky. In 1813 he was ap¬ 
pointed surgeon’s mate in Boswell’s regi¬ 
ment of Kentucky troops, serving at Fort 
Meigs. He was elected to congress from 
Kentucky for the unexpired term in the 
same, from 1826 to 1827. He published a 
Treatise on Causes and Treatment of 
Cholera. He died Nov. 12, 1873, in Bur¬ 
lington, Iowa. 


HENRY, JOHN JOSEPH, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, author, was born Nov. 4, 1758, in Lan¬ 
caster, Pa. He was a jurist of Lancaster, 
Pa., who was author of the Accurate and 
Interesting Account of Arnold’s Cam¬ 
paign Against Quebec. He died April 15. 
1811, in Lancaster, Pa. 


Albany. 



HENRY, JOSEPH, scientist, philoso¬ 
pher, author, was born Dec. 17. 1797, in 
N. Y. In 1826 he entered the 
Albany academy as 
^ — professor of mathe¬ 

matics, and soon aft¬ 
er began a series of 
experiments in elec¬ 
tricity; made various 
discoveries in elec¬ 
tro -magnetism, 
which were described 
in Silliman's Journal 
as early as 1831. In 
1832 he was called to 
chair of natural phi¬ 
losophy in Princeton 
college; in 1837 visited Europe, where he 
remained one year, and his discoveries 
connected with the electro-magnet were 
recognized, and resulted in establishing 
the wonders of what is now called the 
telegraph. His principal writings are, 
Syllabus of Lectures on Physics;' and 
Scientific Writings of Joseph Henry, 1886. 
He died March 13, 1878, in Washington, 
D. C. 

HENRY, MORRIS HENRY, physician, 
journalist, author, was born July 26, 1835, 
in London, England. He was assistant 
surgeon in the navy during the civil war. 
was surgeon-in-chief of the Emigrant 
hospital, Ward’s Island, in 1872-80. He is 
the originator and editor of the American 
Journal of Dermatology, and has pub¬ 
lished numerous monographs, including 
Treatment of Venereal Diseases in Vienna 
Hospital; and Anomalous Localities of 
Chancres. 


HENRY, PATRICK, patriot, orator, 
statesman, was born May 29, 1736, in Stud- 
ley, Va. In 1765 he was chosen to the 
Virginia assembly; 
and was elected a 
delegate from Vir¬ 

ginia to the conti¬ 
nental congress, from 
1774 to 1776. He 

signed the declara¬ 
tion of indepen¬ 
dence; and was a 
delegate to the 

Richmond conven¬ 
tion of 1777. In 1776 
he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Virginia, re¬ 
elected, and then declined a re-election. 
From 1780 to 1791 he served in the as¬ 
sembly of the state. He was again elect¬ 
ed governor in 1796, but declined to 

serve. He died June 6, 1799. in Red Hill. 
Va. 



HENRY. PATRICK, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1843, in 
Madison county. Miss. In 1861 he enlisted 
in the confederate service in the sixth 
Mississippi infantry regiment; served 
through the war, and surrendered at 
Greensboro, N. C., in 1865, as major of 
the fourteenth Mississippi regiment. He 
was a member of the Mississippi legisla¬ 
ture in 1878 and 1890, and delegate from 
the state at large to the constitutional 
convention in 1890. He was elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

HENRY. ROBERT, educator, college 
president, was born Dec. 6, 1792, in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. He became professor of 
logic and moral philosophy in South 
Carolina college in 1818, and afterward 
of metaphysics and political philosophy. 
He was president in 1834-35; accepted 
the chair of metaphysics and belles- 
lettres in 1839; and was again president 
in 1842-45; also performing for a time 
the duties of professor of Greek. He died 
Feb. 6, 1856, in Columbia, S. C. . 

HENRI, ROBERT L., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 12, 1864, in Lin¬ 
den, Texas. He was elected mayor of 
Texarkana, Texas, in 1890; and resigned 
this position to accept that of first of¬ 
fice assistant attorney-general. He was 
elected as a member of the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

HENRI, ROBERT PRYOR, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 17, 1793. in 
Henry Mills, Ky. In 1809 he served as 
prosecuting attorney for his district. He 
served in the war of 1812, as an aide-de- 
camp to his father, Maj.-Gen. William 
Henry. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Kentucky from 1823 to 1827. 
He died Aug. 25, 1826, in Hopkinsville, 
Ky. 

HENRY. MRS. SAREPTA M.. temper¬ 
ance reformer, author, poet, was born 
Nov. 4, 1839, in Albion, Pa. She is a 
temperance reformer of Evanston, Ill.; 
and the author of Victoria, with Other 
Poems; After the Truth; The Voice of 
the Home; Mabel’s Work; Beforehand; 
and One More Chance. 

HENRY, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in 1785 in Ireland. He served in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1837 
to 1843. He died Feb. 27, 1849, in Beaver 
county. Pa. 

HENRY. THOMAS CHARLTON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 22, 1790, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a presbyter- 
ian clergyman of South Carolina; and the 
author of Consistency of Popular Amuse¬ 
ments for Professing Christians; Moral 
Etchings from the Religious World; and 
Letters from an Anxious Believer. He 
died Oct. 4, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HENRY, W. LAIRD, journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 20, 1864, in 
Cambridge. He purchased an interest in 
the Cambridge Chronicle, in Maryland, 
and has been since engaged in editing 
that journal. He never held any public 
position until elected in 1894 to fill a 
vacancy in the fifty-third congress. 

HENRY, WILLIAM, merchant, con¬ 
gressman. was born in New Hampshire. 
He was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from Vermont from 1847 to 1853. 

HENRY, WILLIAM, inventor, jurist, was 
born May 19, 1729, in Chester county, Pa. 

In 1758 he was commissioned justice of 
the peace, and in 1760 visited England. 
He was chosen to the assembly in 1776. 
and the following year was elected treas¬ 
urer of Lancaster county, Pa. He died 
Dec. 15, 1786, in Lancaster, Pa. 




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HERRINGSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


HENRY, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in 1757. He was a delegate from 
Pennsylvania to the continental congress 
from 1784 to 1786. He died April 21, 
1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HENRY, WILLIAM ARNON, educator, 
author, was born June 16, 1850, in Nor¬ 
walk, Ohio. In 1880 he was appointed 
professor of botany and agriculture in the 
university of Wisconsin; two years later 
was elected professor of agriculture; and in 
1891 was appointed dean of the College 
of Agriculture. He is the author of Foods 
and Feeding, a hand-book for the student 
and stockman, which has had a wide cir¬ 
culation throughout the United States. 

HENRY, WILLIAM SEATON, soldier, 
author, was born in 1816 in Albany, N. 
Y. He was an officer in the United States 
army who published Campaign Sketches 
of the War with Mexico. He died March 
5, 1851, in New York city. 

HENRY, WILLIAM WIRT, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, was born Nov. 21, 1831, in Water- 
bury, Vt. He received the rudiments of 
his education in the public schools of his 
native city; and then attended the Peo¬ 
ple’s academy of Morrisville, Vt. During 
the war he served with distinction in the 
union corps; and was rapidly promoted 
to first lieutenant, major, lieutenant-colo¬ 
nel, colonel, brevet brigadier-general. He 
has served as United States marshal; im¬ 
migrant inspector; and various other pub¬ 
lic positions of trust. He is a success¬ 
ful druggist of Burlington, Vt.; and pres¬ 
ident of the Society of the Army of the 
Potomac. 

HENSEL, WILLIAM UHLER, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1851 in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He is a politician and journal¬ 
ist of Lancaster, Pa.; and the author of 
Lives of T. A. Hendricks and Grover 
Cleveland. 

HENSHAW, DANIEL, lawyer and jour¬ 
nalist, was born May 9, 1782, in Leicester, 
Mass. He gave up law in order to un¬ 
dertake the editorship of the Lynn Rec¬ 
ord, which he conducted till its discon¬ 
tinuance, a period of fourteen years, after 
which he resided in Boston. He died 
May 9, 1863, in Boston, Mass 

HENSHAW, DAVID, druggist, author, 
was born April 2, 1791, in Leicester, Mass. 
For nine years he was collector of cus¬ 
toms for the port of Boston; and in 
1843 was appointed secretary of the navy. 
He wrote Letters on the Internal Im¬ 
provement and Commerce of the West. 
He died Nov. 11, 1852, in Leicester, Mass. 

HENSHAW, JOHN PRENTISS KEW- 
LEY, bishop, author, was born June 13, 
1792, in Middletown, Conn. He was the 
first protestant episcopal bishop of Rhode 
Island; and the author of Theology for 
the People; Lessons in Elocution; On 
Confirmation; and The Work of Christ’s 
Living Body. He died July 19, 1852, in 
Frederick, Md. 

HENSHAW, JOSHUA SIDNEY, lawyer, 
author, was born Oct. 16, 1811, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a lawyer in Utica from 
1848, but previously an instructor in the 
United States navy. He was the author 
of Incitements to Well Doing; Life of 
Father Mathew; United States Manual 
for Consuls; Around the World; and Phi¬ 
losophy of Human Progress. He died 
April 29, 1859, in Utica, N. Y. 

HENSLER, ELIZA, singer, was born 
about 1835 in Boston, Mass. Her first ap¬ 
pearance was at the Academy of Music, 
New York, at the age of fifteen. She 
then went to Lisbon, and became a fa¬ 
vorite; and in 1869 married the ex-king 
of Portugal, Ferdinand, Duke of Saxe- 
Coburg-Gotha. 


HENSLEY, JAMES L., soldier, physi¬ 
cian, lawyer, state legislator, was born 
Jan. 24, 1833, in Rockingham county, Va. 
During the war he served in the ninety- 
sixth regiment West Virginia militia. In 
1876 he was elected a member of the West 
Virginia legislature. The following year 
he moved to Marion, Ohio, and was subse¬ 
quently elected to the seventy-second 
general assembly of Ohio; and acted as 
chaplain of that body. 

HENSLEY, WILLIAM N., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 18, 1846, in Woodford 
county, Ky. He served two terms as city 
attorney of Columbus, Neb.; two terms 
as police judge; and for six years was 
county judge of Platte county. 

HENSON, POINDEXTER SMITH, cler¬ 
gyman, journalist, was born Dec. 7, 1831, 
in Fluvanna county, Va. In 1867 he be¬ 
came pastor of the Broad Street church 
in Philadelphia, which he left in 1867, to 
organize the Memorial church, where he 
gathered the largest protestant congre¬ 
gation in that city. He is also editor of 
the Baptist Teacher. 

HENSZEY, SAMUEL A., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Feb. 16, 1854, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. Since 1892 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Raleigh and Western rail¬ 
way. 

HENTZ, CAROLINA THERESE, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 22, 1835, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. She sent a series of letters from 
California to the Southern Christian Ad¬ 
vocate in 1875, and has published many 
tales and sketches in magazines. 

HENTZ, MRS. CAROLINE LEE 
[WHITING], author, was born June 1, 1800, 
in Lancaster, Mass. She was a popular 
southern writer of many sensational ro¬ 
mances of ephemeral interest. Among 
them are, Lovell’s Folly; Rena; The 
Planter’s Northern Bride; and Linda. She 
died Feb. 11, 1856, in Marianna, Fla. 

HENTZ, NICHOLAS MARCELLUS, ed¬ 
ucator, entomologist, was born July 25, 
1797, in France. He was a French edu¬ 
cator well known as an entomologist. He 
came to America in 1816, and taught in 
the university of North Carolina and else¬ 
where in the south. He died Nov. 4, 
1856, in Marianna, Fla. 

HEPBURN, JAMES CURTIS, clergy¬ 
man, missionary, author, was born in 1815 
in Milton, Pa. He is a missionary to 
Japan of note as a lexicographer; and 
the author of A Japanese and English 
Dictionary; and A Japanese-English and 
English-Japanese Dictionary, an abridge¬ 
ment of the earlier work. 

HEPBURN, NEIL JAMIESON, oculist 
and aurist, author, was born Oct. 8, 1846, 
in Scotland. He devotes his attention ex¬ 
clusively to diseases of the eye and ear; 
has been inspector of the board of health 
of Freehold, N. J.; and lecturer on oph¬ 
thalmology at the New York polyclinic. 
He is the author of Notes on Hypoder¬ 
mic Use of Cocaine; Therapeusis of 
Glaucoma, and other works. 

HEPBURN, WILLIAM PETERS, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 
4, 1833, in Wellsville, Ohio. He was elect¬ 
ed prosecuting attorney of Marshall coun¬ 
ty in 1856; chief clerk of the state house 
of representatives in 1858; and district 
attorney of the eleventh judicial district 
of Ohio in the same year. He entered the 
Union army in 1861 as captain, and rose 
to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was 
a presidential elector in 1876; and was 
elected a representative from Iowa to the 
forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, 
fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 


HEPWORTH, GEORGE HUGHES, cler¬ 
gyman, journalist, author, was born Feb. 
4, 1833, in Boston, Mass. He has been 
a’ New York journalist since 1887 on the 
editorial staff of the Herald. From 1855- 
72 he was a Unitarian clergyman, but 
subsequently entered the presbyterian 
ministry. He is the author of Rocks and 
Shoals; Brown Studies; Hiram Golf’s Re¬ 
ligion; The Life Beyond; They Met in 
Heaven; Herald Sermons; and Starboard 
and Port, a summer’s yacht cruise. 

HERBERMANN, CHARLES GEORGE, 
educator, author, was born Dec. 8, 1840, in 
Munster, Wash. He has been a professor 
of Latin in the College of the City of 
New York since 1869; and the author of 
Business Life in Ancient Rome. 

HERBERT, HENRY WILLIAM, author, 
poet, was born April 7, 1807, in London, 
England. He was a versatile, gifted writ¬ 
er who came to America in 1831, and 
lived near Newark, N. J. His writings in 
historical fiction include Cromwell; Mar- 
maduke Nyvil; The Puritans of New 
England, issued later as The Puritan’s 
Daughter; The Fronde; Sherwood For¬ 
est. In history: Captains of the Old 
World; Cavaliers of England; Knights of 
England; Chevaliers of France; Persons 
and Pictures from French and English 
History; Captains of the Great Roman 
Republic; Henry VIII. and his Six Wives. 
His poems, edited by M. Herbert, appeared 
in 1888. He died May 17, 1858, in New 
York city. 

HERBERT, HILARY ABNER, soldier, 
lawyer, statesman, was born March 12, 
1834, in Laurensville, S. C. He entered 
the confederate army and rose to the rank 
of colonel. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Alabama to the forty-fifth, for¬ 
ty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, for¬ 
ty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, and fifty- 
second congresses; and declined re-elec¬ 
tion. In 1893 he was appointed secretary 
of the navy, serving until 1897. 

HERBERT, JOHN C., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1815 to 1819; and a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1824. 

HERBERT, JOHN FERDINAND, con¬ 
tractor, insurance, legislator, was born 
Jan. 25, 1859, in New Orleans, La. He re¬ 
ceived his education at the St. Mary’s 
college of Opelousas, La. He has been a 
successful contractor; and is now con¬ 
nected with the Mutual Life Insurance 
company at Gretna, La. He has served 
with distinction as a member of the 
Louisiana state legislature, and filled va¬ 
rious other offices of trust. 

HERBERT, MARINE LINCOLN, law¬ 
yer, was born Sept. 1, 1860, in Johnson 
county, Ind. He received his education 
in the public schools 
of his native county; 
subsequently studied 
law and was admitted 
to the bar. He has 
attained success as 
an able lawyer of 
Indiana, and has a 
lucrative practice in 
Edinburg. He has 
been deputy prose¬ 
cuting attorney at 
Hope, Bartholomew' 
county, Ind.; at 
Greenwood in Johnson county; and for 
several years past has been corporation 
counsel and city attorney for Edinburg. 
He has contributed numerous articles to 
the periodical press and to law literature; 
and takes a prominent part in the public 
affairs of his county and state. 



HERRINGSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN 


HERBERT, PAUL, soldier, governor, 
was born in Louisiana. He was governor 
of Louisiana from 1853 to 1858; and was 
made brigadier-general in the southern 
army in 1861. 

HERBERT, PHILIP T., congressman, 
was born in Alabama. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from California from 
1855 to 1857. 

HEREFORD, FRANK, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
July 4, 1825, in Fauquier county, Va. He 
settled in West Virginia; and was elected 
a representative from West Virginia to 
the forty-second, forty-third, and forty- 
fourth congresses. In 1876 he was elected 
United States senator, for the term end¬ 
ing in 1881, to fill a vacancy. 

HERING, CONSTANTIN, physician, 
author, was born Jan. 1, 1800, in Saxony. 
He was a German physician who came to 
Philadelphia in 1833 and founded there 
the first homoeopathic school in America. 
Among his writings are, Rise and Pro¬ 
gress of Homoeopathy; Condensed Ma¬ 
teria Medica; Effects of Snake Poison; 
American Drug Provings; and Domestic 
Physician. He died July 23, 1880, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

HERING, RUDOLPH, engineer, author, 
was born in 1847, in Pennsylvania. He 
is a civil engineer of prominence and an 
authority upon sewerage and the water 
supply of cities, upon which topics he has 
written valuable reports. 

HERKIMER, JOHN, jurist, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1773, in Herkimer coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. He was for many years a judge 
of the circuit court; and was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from New York from 
1817 to 1819, and again from 1823 to 1825. 
He died June 8, 1845, in Danube, N. Y. 

HERKIMER, NICHOLAS, soldier, was 
born about 1715. He served with distinc¬ 
tion during the revolutionary war, and 
attained the rank of brigadier-general. 
He died Aug. 16, 1777, in Danube, N. Y. 

HERMANN, BINGER, lawyer, banker, 
congressman, was born Feb. 19, 1843, in 
Lonaconing, Md. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in the Oregon state legisla¬ 
ture in 1866; and was state senator in 
1868. In 1871 he was appointed United 
States receiver of public moneys at Rose- 
burg, Ore. In 1882 he was appointed judge 
advocate of the state militia with the 
rank of colonel. In 1884 he was elected 
a representative from Oregon to the forty- 
ninth congress; and was re-elected to the 
fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, 
and fifty-fourth congresses as a republi¬ 
can. 

HERNANDEZ, JOSEPH MARION, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born in St. Augus¬ 
tine, Fla. He was the first delegate to 
congress from Florida; and subsequently 
a leading member and presiding officer 
of the territorial legislature. At the 
breaking out of the Indian hostilities he 
was made a brigadier-general in the 
United States service. He died June 8, 
1857, in Cuba. 

HERNDON, MARY ELIZA, author, 
poet, was born March 1, 1820, in Fayette 
county, Ky. She published Louisa Elton, 
a reply to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Bandits 
of Italy; and also a volume of Select 
Poems. 

HERNDON, THOMAS H., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born July 1, 1828, 
in Hale county, Ala. He was elected a 
representative in the state legislature in 
1857 and 1858. He was a member of the 
state secession convention of 1861; and 
entered the confederate army and rose to 
the rank of colonel. He was a member of 
the state constitutional convention of 


1875; and was again in the legislature in 
1876 and 1877. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Alabama to the forty-sixth 
congress; and re-elected to the forty- 
seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a 
democrat. He died March 28, 1883, in 
Mobile, Ala. 

HERNDON, WILLIAM HENRY, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1818, in Ken¬ 
tucky. He was a lawyer of Springfield, 
Ill., and a law partner of Abraham Lin¬ 
coln, of whom he published a Life in 1891. 
He died in 1891. 

HERNDON, WILLIAM LEWIS, naval 
officer, author, was born Oct. 25, 1813, in 
Fredericksburg, Va. He was a naval of¬ 
ficer sent by government to explore the 
Amazon. The results of his expedition 
are detailed in his Exploration of the Val¬ 
ley of the Amazon. He died Sept. 12, 1857; 
lost at sea. 

HERNDON, WILLIAM S., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Nov. 27, 1837, 
in Rome, Ga. He removed with his father 
to Texas in 1852; was 
educated at McKen¬ 
zie college, Texas; 
studied law, and be¬ 
gan to practice in 
1860. He enlisted in 
the confederate army 
in 1861, and remained 
until the close of the 
war. He was elected 
to the forty-second 
and forty-third con¬ 
gresses. He was a 
member of several 
important committees while in congress. 

HERNE, JAMES A., actor, playwright, 
was born Feb. 1,1839, in West Troy, N. Y. 
As a playwright his first play, Heart of 
Oak, was produced in San Francisco in 
1887. His other plays are, Minute Men; 
Drifting Apart; and Shore Acres. 

HEROD, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from In¬ 
diana from 1837 to 1839. 

HERON, MATILDA, actress, was born 
Dec. 1, 1830, in Ireland. She made her 
first appearance at the Walnut Street the¬ 
ater in 1851, as Bianca in Dean Milman’s 
play of Fazio. She died March 7, 1877, in 
New York city. 

HERRICK. ANSON, journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 21, 1812, in Lew¬ 
iston, Maine. He commenced the publi¬ 
cation of a weekly journal now called the 
New York Atlas in 1853. He was ap¬ 
pointed naval storekeeper for New York, 
which office he held until 1861. In 1862 he 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the thirty-eighth congress. He 
died Feb. 5, 1868, in New York city. 

HERRICK, MRS. CHRISTINE [TER- 
HUNE], author, was born in 1859, in New 
Jersey. She is a writer of New York city 
who has written much upon housekeeping 
themes; and is the author of Housekeep¬ 
ing Made Easy; The Chafing-Dish Sup¬ 
per; The Little Dinner; What to Eat, 
How to Serve It; Cradle and Nursery; 
and Liberal Living upon Narrow Means. 

HERRICK, EBENEZER, state senator, 
congressman, was born in Lincoln county, 
Maine. In 1820 he held the office of sec¬ 
retary of the state senate; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Maine from 
1821 to 1827. He was a state senator in 
1828 and 1829. He died May 7, 1839, in 
Lewiston, Maine. 

HERRICK, EDWARD CLAUDIUS, sci¬ 
entist, author, was born Feb. 24, 1811, in 
New Haven, Conn. He published papers 
on entomological subjects, one of which, 
treating of the Hessian fly and its para¬ 
sites, was the fruit of nine years of pa- 



BIOGRAPHY. 475 

tient investigation. He died June 11, 1862, 
in New Haven, Conn. 

HERRICK, JOHN RUSSELL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born May 12, 1822, in 
Milton, Vt. He is a congregational clergy¬ 
man, president of Dakota university since 
1883; and the author of Lectures on Posi¬ 
tivism. 

HERRICK, JOSHUA, congressman, was 
born in 1794, in Beverly, Mass. He was 
a representative in congress from Maine 
from 1843 to 1845; and in 1856 was regis¬ 
ter of probate for York county, state of 
Maine. He died Aug. 30, 1874, in Alfred, 
Maine. 

HERRICK, RICHARD P., congressman, 
was born in 1791, in Rensselaer county, 
N. Y. He was a member of congress from 
New York from 1845 to the time of his 
death. He died June 22, 1846, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

HERRICK, ROBERT, educator, author, 
was born in 1868, in Massachusetts. He 
is an assistant professor of rhetoric at the 
university of Chicago; and the author of 
The Man who Wins, a novel. 

HERRICK, SAMUEL, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born April 14, 1779, in Dutchess 
county, N. Y. He moved to Zanesville, 
Ohio; and was prosecuting attorney for 
the county; and soon after that was ap¬ 
pointed United States district attorney for 
Ohio. In 1812 he was appointed one of 
a board of commissioners for settling the 
northwestern boundary line; and in the 
autumn of that year succeeded Lewis Cass 
as prosecuting attorney for Muskingum 
county. In 1814 he was appointed to the 
same office in Licking county. He was a 
representative in congress from Ohio from 
1817 to 1821. In 1829 he was appointed 
United States district attorney for Ohio. 
He died in December, 1851. 

HERRICK, SAMUEL EDWARD, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 6, 1841, in 
Southampton, R. I. He is a congregation¬ 
al clergyman of Boston; and the author 
of Some Heretics of Yesterday. 

HERRICK, MRS. SOPHIE McILVAINE 
[BLEDSOE], author, was born March 26, 
1837, in Gambier, Ohio. She is a New York 
writer on The Century staff, and well 
known as a microscopist. She is the au¬ 
thor of Wonders of Plant Life; Chapters 
in Plant Life; and The Earth in Past 
Ages. 

HERRICK, STEPHEN SOLON, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, journalist, author, was born 
Dec. 11, 1833, in West Randolph, Vt. He 
served as assistant surgeon in the confed¬ 
erate army in 1862-63, and afterward in 
the navy of the confederacy until the end 
of the war. He has contributed to the 
medical journals of New Orleans, Louis¬ 
ville, Philadelphia, and New York; and in 
1869 received a prize from the American 
Medical association for an essay on Qui¬ 
nine. 

HERRIED, CHARLES N., lawyer, lieu- 
tenant-governor, was born Oct. 20, 1857, 
in Wisconsin. He moved to South Dakota 
in 1883; has been register of deeds and 
county judge of McPherson county. He 
was first elected lieutenant-governor in 
1892; and re-elected in 1894. 

HERRING, ELBERT, lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 8, 1777, in Stratford, Conn. 
He was judge of the marine court of New 
York city from its establishment in 1805 
till 1808, and a few years later was re¬ 
appointed. He was the first register of 
the state of New York in 1812, an office 
which he held for five years. In 1832 he 
was appointed the first commissioner of 
Indian affairs. He died Feb. 20, 1876, in 
New York city. 



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HERRINGSHAW, THOMAS WILLIAM, 
journalist, publisher, genealogist, author, 
was born Jan. 27, 1858, on the eastern 
coast of Lincolnshire, England. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the national 
schools, at the Chicago athenaeum, and the 
Chicago Union College of Law; and dur¬ 
ing 1875-79 he followed his trade of print¬ 
er in New York, Philadelphia, and Chica¬ 
go. In 1879 he founded the Farm, Field 
and Fireside, of which he was editor and 
sole proprietor; and when the Farm, 
Field and Fireside Publishing company 
was incorporated in 1880 he was made 
president. Having disposed of his inter¬ 
ests in the above publication, he estab¬ 
lished a printing office in Chicago; and 
in 1884 founded the American Publishers' 
Association, of which he has always been 
president. In 1880 he married Mary Linna 
Jones of Lake county, Ill., and they have 
a family of three sons. He is the author 
of Home Occupations; Prominent Men 
and Women of the Day; Aids to Literary 
Success; and Mulierology; and he has 
edited and compiled a score of works, the 
most notable of which are Poets of Amer¬ 
ica; Poetical Quotations; The Spalding 
Memorial; and Herringshaw’s Encyclo¬ 
pedia of American Biography. 

HERRON, FRANCIS J., merchant, sol¬ 
dier, was born Feb. 17, 1837, in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. In 1856 he moved to Dubuque. 

Iowa, where he en¬ 
gaged in mercantile 
pursuits. In 1861 he 
organized and com¬ 
manded the Governor 
Gray’s; and served in 
the first and second 
Iowa regiments. He 
entered as a captain 
and attained the rank 
of major-general of 
volunteers. He took 
part in a score of 
battles and numer¬ 
ous skirmishes; and is prominently iden¬ 
tified with the Grand Army of the Repub¬ 
lic of Iowa and the United States. He has 
also contributed valuable articles to cur¬ 
rent publications. 

HERRON, GEORGE DAVIS, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1862, in Indiana. He 
is a congregational clergyman of Iowa; 
since 1893 professor of applied Christianity 
in Iowa college; and very prominent as a 
writer and lecturer upon Christian So¬ 
cialism. He is the author of The Chris¬ 
tian Society; The Call of the Cross; The 
Larger Christ; The Message of Jesus to 
Men of Wealth; The Christian State; and 
Social Meanings of Religious Experiences. 

HERRON, JOSEPH D., clergyman, poet, 
was born Nov. 4, 1853, in Kirtland, Ohio. 
He received a liberal education and stud¬ 
ied theology in the 
leading seminaries in 
America. He has 
filled but two posi¬ 
tions in fifteen years 
of his ministry—as¬ 
sistant minister in 
Trinity parish o f 
New York city; and 
rector of Trinity 
church of New Cas¬ 
tle, Pa., in which lat¬ 
ter church he is still 
pastor. Since h i s 
youth he has had a great love for music, 
and has set many of his poems to music, 
some of which have been rendered by 
choruses of children in New York city 
and other cities. He is the author of a 
number of poems of rare merit, which 
have been included in Poets of America, 
and various other national collections. 


HERSEY. SAMUEL F„ merchant, 
banker, state legislator, congressman, 
was born April 12, 1812, in Sumner, Maine. 
He was a member of the legislature of 
Maine in 1842. 1857, 1865, 1867. and 1869; 
and of the executive council in 1851 and 
1852. He was elected to the forty-third 
and forty-fourth congresses. He died Feb. 
3, 1875, in Bangor. 

HERVEY, DWIGHT B., clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born June 4, 1834, in 
Martinsburg, Ohio. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the public 
schools and graduated from the Jefferson 
college of Pennsylvania. He is a success¬ 
ful clergyman of the presbyterian church; 
has filled pastorates in Mount Vernon, 
Ohio, for twelve years; in Granville for 
six years; and for twelve years was 
president of the Granville Female acad¬ 
emy. He now fills a pastorate in Edin- 
boro, Pa. 

HERVEY, ROBERT G., was born May 
16, 1839, in Brockville, Canada. In the fall 
of 1874 he consolidated three railways 
under the name of the Illinois Midland 
railway, in which he still retains a large 
interest. He established the Decatur Na¬ 
tional bank, at Decatur, of which he was 
for a long time president and principal 
owner. 

HESS. GEORGE, sculptor, was born in 
1832, in Germany. His bust of Mme. 
Janauschek is well known. His other 
works include Echo; The Water-Lily; 
and two humorous pieces called Gold Up 
and Gold Down. 

HESS, JASPER N., financier, business 
man, was born Aug. 15, 1844, in Goshen, 
lnd. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the schools of his native 
city, and graduated from the. Eastman 
college. He is an expert accountant; a 
trustee of the Union Christian college of 
Merom, lnd.; and has filled various po¬ 
sitions of honor. He is now the manager 
of the East Chicago Hardware company. 

HESSELTINE. E. ADELBERT, lawyer, 
jurist, was born June 25, 1860, in Kansas. 
He has been postmaster of Wilbur, Wash.; 
justice of the peace; city attorney, and 
police judge; and takes an active part in 
public affairs. 

HETH, HENRY, soldier, was born in 
1825, in Virginia. He served in the civil 
war, and for gallant and meritorious con¬ 
duct received the rank of brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. 

HETH, WILLIAM, soldier, was born in 
1735, in Virginia. At the beginning of the 
revolution he joined the continental 
army; in 1777 was commissioned lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel of the third Virginia regi¬ 
ment, and was in command till the end of 
the war. He died April 15, 1808, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. 

HEUSTIS, JABEZ WIGGINS, physician, 
author, was born in 1784, in St. John, N. 
B. He became surgeon in the United 
States army and served throughout the 
southern campaigns. His publications are 
Physical Observations and Medical Tracts 
and Researches on the Topography and 
Diseases of Louisiana; Medical Facts 
and Inquiries respecting the Causes, Na¬ 
ture, Prevention, and Cure of Fever; and 
the Bilious Remittent Fever of Alabama. 
He died in 1841, in Talladega Springs, Ala. 

HEUSTIS, JAMES FOUNTAIN, physi¬ 
cian, educator, was born Nov. 15, 1829, in 
Cahawba, Ala. He was elected professor 
of anatomy in the Alabama Medical col¬ 
lege in 1859, served as surgeon in the 
confederate army throughout the civil 
war, and since 1875 has been professor of 
surgery in Alabama Medical college. 


HEWES, GEORGE ROBERT 
TWELVES, one of the Boston tea party, 
was born Nov. 5, 1751, in Boston, Mass. 
He took an active part in the destruc¬ 
tion of the tea in December, 1773, and 
is probably the only man who ever 
confessed to a share in this transaction. 
He died Nov. 5, 1840, in Richfield, N. Y. 

HEWES. JOSEPH, signer of the declar¬ 
ation of independence, was born in 1730, 
in Kingston, N. J. He served in the as¬ 
sembly of the province; was a delegate 
from North Carolina to the continental 
congress from 1774 to 1777, and again in 
1779; and signed the declaration of in¬ 
dependence. He was de facto the first 
secretary of the navy. He died Nov. 10, 
1779, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HEWETT, EDWIN CRAWFORD, jour¬ 
nalist, educator, college president, author, 
was born Nov. 1, 1828, in Sutton, Mass. 
He was professor in the Illinois State 
Normal university during 1858-76, and 
president of that institution during 1876- 
90. He is now the associate editor of 
The Public School Journal of Normal, Ill.: 
and the author of Pedagogy; Psychology; 
and a series of Arithmetics. 

HEWETT, SEMUN R., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born July 22, 1839, in Middle- 
bury, N. Y. In 1864-65 he was interne at 
the Chicago Eye and Ear infirmary; and 
for many years local surgeon of the Chi¬ 
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad 
company. He is one of the foremost 
physicians and surgeons of Iowa; and has 
a large practice in Charles City; is prom¬ 
inent in several fraternal orders; and is a 
member of the leading medical bodies in 
America. 

HEWETT, SUMNER B., legislator, ju¬ 
rist, was born June 22, 1833, in North- 
bridge, Mass. He was principally edu¬ 
cated at the East 
Douglass academy; 
became a school 
teacher; clerked in 
a store; and subse¬ 
quently an account¬ 
ant in Boston. In 
1854 he married and 
moved to Wright 
county, Iowa, and 
there established the 
Eagle Grove farm; 
and Judge Hewett 
was the real founder 
and principal owner of the beautiful city 
of Eagle Grove. In 1861 he was appointed 
judge of the county court; received the 
re-election; and in 1862 was appointed 
collector of internal revenue. In 1871 
he was elected to the general assembly 
of the state of Iowa; and the session 
following was made chairman of the 
agricultural college committee, and also 
a member of several other important com¬ 
mittees. For ten years he was a mem¬ 
ber of the board of directors of the Iowa 
State Agricultural society. For twenty 
years his wife had charge of the postoffiee. 
He has been prominently identified with 
the growth and prosperity of Iowa, and 
is one of the representative men of’ that 
state. Judge Hewett spends his winters 
in California; and has a beautiful resi¬ 
dence and home in Santa Barbara, where 
he is very popular. 

HEWETT, WATERMAN THOMAS, 
educator, author, was born Jan. 10, 1846, 
in Miami, Mo. He is an educator who 
has held the chair of German literature at 
Cornell university since 1883; and is the 
author of The Frisian Language and Lit¬ 
erature; Aims and Efforts of Collegiate 
Study of Modern Languages; and Mutual 
Relations of High Schools and Colleges. 








HKRR1NGS 

HEWIT, HENRY STEWART, soldier, 
surgeon, was born Dee. 26, 1825, in Fair- 
field, Conn. In 1861 he entered the army 
as brigade-surgeon of volunteers, and 
was brevetted colonel in March, 1865, for 
gallant conduct during the war. He died 
Aug. 19, 1873, in New York city. 

HEWIT, NATHANIEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 28, 1788. in New Lon¬ 
don, Conn. For many years he was en¬ 
gaged in educational work, and subse¬ 
quently filled pastorates in the congrega¬ 
tional church. He was one of the found¬ 
ers of the Hartford Theological institute. 
He died Feb. 3, 1867, in Bridgeport, Conn. 

HEWIT, NATHANIEL AUGUSTUS, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 27, 1820, 
in Fairfield, Conn. He is a Roman catho¬ 
lic clergyman who, previous to 1846, was 
successively a congregational and episco¬ 
pal clergyman. In 1858 he entered the 
Paulist order, taking the name of Augus¬ 
tine Francis, and since 1865 has been a 
professor in the Paulist seminary. He is 
the author of Reasons for Submitting to 
the Catholic Church; Life of Princess 
Borghese; Life of a Modern Martyr,— 
Dumoulin-Borie; Problems of the Age; 
The King’s Highway; and Light in Dark¬ 
ness. 

HEWITT, ABRAM STEVENS, manu¬ 
facturer. congressman, was born July 30, 
1822, in Rockland county, N. Y. In 1859 
he organized the Cooper Union for the 
Advancement of Science and Art, which 
has been eminently successful. In 1874 
he was elected a representative to the for¬ 
ty-fourth congress; and was re-elected 
to the forty-fifth, forty-seventh, forty- 
eighth, and forty-ninth congresses. ’ in 
1886 he was elected mayor of New York 
city; and resigned his seat in congress to 
accept that position. 

HEWITT, ALEXANDER, farmer, state 
senator, was born March 25, 1818, in Edin¬ 
burg, N. Y. In 1884 he settled on a farm 
near Hillsdale, Mich. He was president of 
the Hillsdale County Agricultural society 
for two years; and in 1879 served with 
distinction as a member of the Michigan 
state senate. He died July 18, 1895, in 
Hillsdale, Mich. 

HEWITT, C. C.. lawyer, jurist, was born 
in New York. He was appointed chief 
justice of the United States court for that 
district, residing at Vancouver. 

HEWITT, CHARLES NATHANIEL, 
physician, educator, was born June 3, 
1836, in Vergennes, Vt. He entered the 
United States army as assistant sux-geon 
of the fiftieth New York regiment, and 
rose to the rank of brigade surgeon. After 
the war he removed to Red Wing, Minn., 
where he is professor of public health in 
the university of Minnesota. 

HEWITT, EDWARD CRAWFORD, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Nov. 7, 1828, in 
Sutton, Mass. He is an educator of Illi¬ 
nois, president of the State Normal uni¬ 
versity since 1876; and author of Peda¬ 
gogy for Young Teachers. 

HEWITT, MRS. EMMA [CHURCH¬ 
MAN], author, was born Feb. 1, 1850, in 
New Orleans, La. She is a writer of Phil¬ 
adelphia; and the author of Ease in Con¬ 
versation; Hints to Ballad Singers; and 
Queens of Home, a book for the house¬ 
hold. 

HEWITT, GOLDSMITH W., soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 14, 
1834, in Jefferson county, Ala. In 1870 
he was elected to the state legislature; and 
in 1872 was made state senator, and served 
two sessions. He was elected to the forty- 
fourth, forty-fifth, forty-seventh, and for¬ 
ty-eighth congresses. 


HAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OK AMERICAN 

HEWITT. HENRY. JR., lumberman, 
was born Oct. 22, 1840, in England. He 
is president of the Wilkeson Coal and 
Coke company of Tacoma. The latest, 
perhaps his most important work, has 
been the founding of the manufacturing 
town of Everett on Puget sound, at the 
mouth of the Snohomish river. 

HEWITT, JOHN HILL, author, poet, 
was born in 1801, in New York. He was a 
Baltimore author, once a rival of Poe. He 
wrote many ballads, among which is The 
Minstrel’s Return from the War; The 
Governess, a comedy; Washington,a play; 
and Shadows on the Wall, a collection of 
reminiscences. 

HEWITT. MARY ELIZABETH, author, 
poet, was born in 1818, in Malden, Mass. 
She has attained national reputation as 
a successful poet. She is the wife of Mr. 
Stebbins of New York city. 

HEWSON, ADDINELL, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 22, 1828, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was visiting surgeon to the 
Episcopal hospital in 1852-53, from 1853 
till 1876 physician to Wills hospital, and 
since 1861 has filled that office in the 
Pennsylvania hospital. He has edited 
several medical works. 

HEYWARD. THOMAS, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born in 
1746, in Parish of St. Luke, S. C. He was 
elected to the assembly in North Carolina; 
was a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1776 to 1798, and signed the declara¬ 
tion of independence and articles of con¬ 
federation. He was subsequently a judge 
of the civil and criminal courts of the 
state. He died March 6, 1809, in St. Luke’s 
Parish, S. C. 

HEYWARD, WILLIAM, JR., congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in congress 
from Maryland from 1823 to 1825. 

HEYWARD, WILLIAM NATHANIEL, 
soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born 
Aug. 26, 1841, in Grahamville, S. C. After 
receiving his education in the common 
schools of his county, he attended the 
South Carolina Military academy during 
1857-60. During the war he was captain 
of infantry in the confederate service. He 
attained eminence as an able lawyer; 
served as judge of the inferior court of 
South Carolina; served with distinction 
as a member of the general assembly of 
South Carolina; and was for many years 
United States commissioner of the circuit 
court. 

HEYWOOD, JOHN HEALY, clergyman, 
journalist, was born March 30, 1818, in 
Worcester, Mass. He was two years edi¬ 
tor of the Louisville Examiner, and a 
writer for the Christian Register, Uni¬ 
tarian Review, and other periodicals. He 
continued his pastorate in Louisville for 
over forty years, the oldest ministerial 
charge in the city. 

HIBBARD. CHARLES BENJAMIN, 
railroad president, was born . March 31, 
1858, in Canada. Since 1895 he has been 
president of the Northern New York rail¬ 
road. 

HIBBARD, ELLERY ALBEE, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born July 31, 
1826, in St. Johnsbury, Vt. He was clerk 
of the state house of representatives in 
1852, 1853, and 1854; and was a member of 
the state legislature in 1865 and 1866. He 
was elected to the forty-second congress; 
at the close of his term in congress was 
appointed a judge of the supreme court of 
New Hampshire, and served as such until 
1874. 

HIBBARD, FREEBORN GARRETSON, 
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 22, 1811, 
in New Rochelle, N. Y. He is a metho- 
dist clergyman of western New York; and 


BIOGRAPHY. 477 

the author of Christian Baptism; Geog¬ 
raphy and History of Palestine; The 
Religion of Childhood; Life of L. L. Ham¬ 
line; Eschatology; and Commentary on 
the Psalms. 

HIBBARD, GEORGE ABIAH. author, 
was born in 1858, in New York. He is a 
Buffalo writer of short stories, notable 
for excellence of workmanship; and the 
author of Iduna, and Other Stories; Now¬ 
adays, and Other Stories; and The Gov¬ 
ernor, and Other Stories. 

HIBBARD, HARRY, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 1, 1816, in Con¬ 
cord, N. H. He was assistant clerk of the 
New Hampshire house of representatives 
in 1839; clerk of the same from 1840 to 
1843; and speaker of the house in 1844 
and 1845; in the state senate from 1846 to 
1849; officiated two years as president. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1849 to 1855. He 
died July 27, 1872, in Somersville. 

HIBBERD, JAMES FARQUHAR, physi¬ 
cian, legislator, was born Nov. 4, 1816. . 
near New Market, Md. He has served as a 
member of the Ohio state legislature. 

HIBSHMAN, JACOB, congressman, was 
born in Lancaster, Pa. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1819 to 1821. 

HICKCOX. JOHN HOWARD, librarian, 
author, was born Aug. 10, 1832, in Albany, 
N. Y. He has contributed to periodicals, 
and published An Historical Account of 
American Coinage; History of the Bills of 
Credit, or Paper Money, issued by New 
York from 1709 to 1789; Bibliography of 
the Writings of Dr. Franklin B. Hough; 
and Catalogue of United States Govern¬ 
ment Publications. 

HICKENLOOPEN, ANDREW, soldier, 
civil engineer, lieutenant governor, was 
born Aug. 10, 1837, in Hudson, Ohio. He 
was brigadier-general of the United States 
volunteers; has served as United States 
marshal for the southern district of Ohio; 
and as lieutenant governor of the state of 
Ohio. He has been city civil engineer of 
Cincinnati, Ohio; and is now president 
of the Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke 
company. 

HICKLEY, ARTHUR SAMUEL, invent¬ 
or, was born Aug. 13, 1852, in England. 
He is the inventor of the most improved 
flexible arm for suspending a trolley wire. 
He is president of the Hickley Launch and 
Electrical Manufacturing company at As- 
bury Park, N. J. 

HICKMAN, JOHN, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Sept. 11, 
1810, in Chester county, Pa. In 1845 he 
was appointed district attorney for Ches¬ 
ter county, holding the office fifteen 
months. In 1854 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Pennsylvania to the thirty- 
fourth congress; and was re-elected to 
the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty- 
seventh congresses. In 1867 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Pennsylvania legislature. He 
died March 23, 1875, in Westchester, Pa. 

HICKMAN, JOSEPH H.. banker, finan¬ 
cier, was born Nov. 4, 1849, in Bohemia. 
He received a thorough education, and 
graduated from the state university of 
Princeton, N. J. He is a successful banker 
and broker of Kirksville, Mo.; and has 
taken an active part in the business and 
public affairs of his city, county and state. 

HICKMAN, WILLIAM, clergyman, was 
born Feb. 4, 1747, in King and Queen 
county, Va. He was licensed to preach 
in 1776, and in 1784 settled in Fayette 
county, Ky., and founded many churches 
in Kentucky. He died in 1830, in Ken¬ 
tucky. 


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HICKOK, LAURENS PERSEUS, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, college president, author, 
■was born Dec. 29, 1798, in Danbury, Conn. 
He was a congregational clergyman who 
held several college professorships, and 
was president of Union college in 1866-68. 
He subsequently lived at Amherst. He was 
the author of Logic of Reason; Moral 
Science; Empirical Psychology; Rational 
Psychology; Rational Cosmology; Crea¬ 
tor and Creation; and Humanity Immor¬ 
tal. He died May 6, 1888, in Amherst, 
Mass. 

HICKOX, JOHN HOWARD, librarian, 
author, was born in 1832, in New York. 
He was the state librarian of New York 
in 1848-63, and subsequently employed in 
the congressional library. He is the au¬ 
thor of Historical Account of American 
Coinage; History of New York Paper 
Money; and Catalogue of United States 
Government Publications. 

HICKS, ELIAS, controversialist, author, 
was born March 19, 1748, in Hempstead, 
N. Y. He was a famous Quaker contro¬ 
versialist, and founder of the sect known 
as Hicksite Quakers. He was an early 
and very active opponent of slavery. He 
was the author of Observations on Sla¬ 
very; Journal of Life and Religious La¬ 
bors of Elias Hicks; and Doctrinal Epis¬ 
tle. He died Feb. 27, 1830, in Jericho, 
N. Y. 

HICKS, GWIN, journalist, public official, 
was born Oct. 28, 1855, near Olympia, 
Wash. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the pub¬ 
lic schools; and 
graduated from the 
university of Califor¬ 
nia. He learned the 
printer’s trade in his 
father’s office; and 
subsequently filled 
the editorial chair on 
various publications 
in his state. He has 
been internal revenue 
collector; and was 
commissioned lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel by Governor Semple. He 
was elected to the state ■ constitutional 
convention of Washington; was the au¬ 
thor and promoter of the present primary 
election law of that state; and in 1897 
was elected state printer. 

HICKS, HENRY GEORGE, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, was born Jan. 
26, 1838, in Varysburg, N. Y. In 1861 he 
enlisted as a private in company A, second 
Illinois regiment, and attained the rank of 
sergeant-major, and adjutant of the regi¬ 
ment. He was elected to the Minnesota 
state legislature in 1877, serving four con¬ 
secutive terms. In 1887 he was appointed 
judge of the fourth district, and served 
until 1895. In 1897-98 he again served 
with distinction in the state legislature. 

HICKS, JOSIAH D„ soldier, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Aug. 1, 1844, in Chester 
county, Pa. During the war he served as 
a private in the Pennsylvania volunteer 
infantry. He has always been an active re¬ 
publican; served his party as county 
chairman and also as a member of the 
state committee. In 1880 he was elected 
district attorney of Blair county; and in 
1883 was accorded a unanimous renomina¬ 
tion and was re-elected. In 1884 he formed 
a law partnership in Altoona with his 
former preceptor, Hon. Daniel J. Neff; 
this partnership continues at the present 
time under the firm name of Neff, Hicks 
and Geesey. He was elected to the fifty- 
third and re-elected to the fifty-fourth and 
fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. 


HICKS, THOMAS, artist, was born Oct. 
18, 1823, in Newton, Pa. Among his port¬ 
raits is that of Dr. Kane in the Cabin of 
The Advance, and a large picture of The 
Contemporaneous Authors of America, in 
which the figures are of life-size. 

HICKS, THOMAS HOLLIDAY, mer¬ 
chant, governor, United States senator, 
was born Sept. 2, 1798, in Dorchester 
county, Mass. In 1836 he was a presi¬ 
dential elector; was also a member of the 
governor’s council; and in 1838 was ap¬ 
pointed register of wills. He frequently 
served in the legislature of the state; was 
governor from 1858 to 1862; and was ap¬ 
pointed a senator in congress to fill a 
vacancy. He died Feb. 13, 1865, in Wash¬ 
ington city. 

HICKS, WHITEHEAD, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Aug. 24, 1728, in Flushing, L. I. 
He was clerk of Queens county from 1752 
till 1757; mayor of New York city from 
1766 till 1776; and judge of the New York 
supreme court from 1776 till his death. 
He died in October, 1780, in Flushing, L. I. 

HIESTAND, JOHN A., lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 2, 1824, in Lancaster county, Pa. He 
was elected to the state house of repre¬ 
sentatives of Pennsylvania as a whig in 
1852, 1853, and 1856. He was elected a 
state senator in 1860, for a term of three 
years; was a presidential elector in 1864, 
and was appointed by the electoral col¬ 
lege the messenger to carry the vote to 
Washington. In 1884 he was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected 
to the fiftieth congress as a republican. 

HIESTER, DANIEL, congressman, was 
born in Berks county, Pa. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1809 till 1811. 

HIESTER, DANIEL, soldier, merchant, 
congressman, was born June 25, 1747, in 
Bern township, Pa. He was a member of 
congress from 1789 till 1796, when he re¬ 
signed and removed to Hagerstown, Md. 
In 1801 he was again elected to congress. 
He died March 7, 1804, in Washington, 
D. C. 

HIESTER, ISAAC ELLMAKER, lawyer, 
congressman, was born about 1820, in Lan¬ 
caster county, Pa. He was a member of 
the thirty-third congress, in which he ex¬ 
pressed opinions upon the slavery ques¬ 
tion not in harmony with those of his 
constituency, and at the next election was 
defeated. He died Feb. 6, 1871, in Lan¬ 
caster. 

HIESTER, JOHN, congressman, was 
born April 9, 1746, in Bern, Pa. He 
served in congress from 1807 till 1809. He 
died Oct. 15, 1821. 

HIESTER, JOSEPH, soldier, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, governor, was born 
Nov. 18, 1752, in Bern township. He was 
promoted colonel, was captured and con¬ 
fined in the Jersey prison-ship. He was 
a member of the constitutional conven¬ 
tion of 1776; and of the state constitu¬ 
tional convention of 1790, and served five 
years in the house and four in the senate 
of Pennsylvania. In 1807 he was ap¬ 
pointed one of the two major-generals to 
command the quota of Pennsylvania mili¬ 
tia that was called for by the president. 
He served in congress from 1797 till 1805, 
and again from 1815 till 1820, when he 
resigned. He was governor of Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1821 till 1823. He died June 
10, 1832, in Reading, Pa. 

HIESTER, WILLIAM, farmer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Bern, Pa. He 
was elected to congress as a whig in 
1831, serving until 1837, in which year he 
was a delegate to the state constitutional 
convention. He died Oct. 14,1853, in Lan¬ 
caster county. 


HIGBEE, ELNATHAN ELISHA, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was born 
March 27, 1830, in Saint George, Vt. In 
1871 he was made president of Mercers- 
burg college, and in 1881 appointed super¬ 
intendent of public instruction for Penn¬ 
sylvania. 

HIGBY, WILLIAM, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1813, 
in Essex county, N. Y. He was district 
attorney of Calaveras county, Cal., from 
1853 to 1859; and in 1862 was a member 
of the state senate. In 1863 he was elected 
a representative from California to the 
thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth 
congresses. 

HIGGINS, ANTHONY, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Oct. 1, 1840, in New Castle 
county, Del. He attended the Newark 
academy, Delaware 
college, Yale collegq, 
and the Harvard Law 
school. In 1864 he was 
appointed deputy at¬ 
torney-general; was 
United States attor¬ 
ney for Delaware 
from 1869 until 1876; 
was chairman of the 
republican state com¬ 
mittee in 1868; and 
received the votes of 
the republican mem¬ 
bers of the legislature for the United 
States senate in 1881. He was republican 
candidate for congress in 1884, and was 
elected to the United States senate as a 
republican, and took his seat March 4, 
1889. His term of service expired March 
3, 1895. 

HIGGINS, JAMES WALLACE, physi 
cian, surgeon, was born March 31, 1845, 
in Chittenden county, Vt. He graduated 
in medicine from the 
college of Physicians 
and Surgeons of Keo¬ 
kuk, Iowa. He has 
attained success as a 
prominent physician 
and surgeon of Lau¬ 
rens, Iowa, where 
he always has been 
prominently identi¬ 
fied with the public 
affairs of his county 
and state. He has 
been chief medical 
examiner of the Equitable Life Assurance 
society of the United States; a member 
of the Northwestern Medical association 
of Iowa; and health physician of his city. 

HIGGINS, RICHARD THOMAS, physi¬ 
cian, banker, state legislator, was born 
June 9, 1842, in Beardstown, Ill. For 
nearly two years he was acting assistant 
surgeon of the United States army; and 
has served as United States pension sur¬ 
geon. He was a member of the thirty- 
eighth general assembly of the Illinois 
house of representatives; and since 1875 
has been president of the Farmers’ and 
Merchants’ National bank of Vandalia. 
Ill. 

HIGGINSON, MRS. ELLA [RHOADS], 
druggist, author, poet, was born in 1862, 
in Kansas. She is a druggist of New What¬ 
com, Wash., who has written poetry of a 
popular character, and The Flower that 
Grew in the Sand, and Other Stories. 

HIGGINSON, FRANCIS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1588, in England. He 
was a puritan clergyman of Salem who 
emigrated to America in 1629; and the 
author of True Relation of the Last Voy¬ 
age to New England; and New England’s 
Plantation. He died Aug. 6, 1630, in Salem, 
Mass. 







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HIGGINSON, FRANCIS JOHN, naval 
■officer, was born July 19, 1843, in Boston, 
Mass. He became a lieutenant in 1862, 
lieutenant-commander in 1866, and com¬ 
mander in 1876, and in 1887 was in charge 
of the torpedo station at Newport, R. I. 

HIGGINSON, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 6, 1616, in England. He 
was a congregational clergyman of Sa¬ 
lem, from 1659 till his death in charge 
of the church founded by his father, and 
widely popular in New England. He was 
the author of The Cause of God and His 
People in New England; and Attestation 
to Cotton Mather’s Magnalia. He died 
Dec. 9, 1708, in Salem, Mass. 

HIGGINSON, MRS. MARY POTTER 
[THACHER], author, was born in 1844 in 
Maine. She is the author of Seashore 
and Prairie, stories and sketches. 

HIGGINSON, MRS. SARAH JANE 
[HATFIELD], author, was born in 1840 
in Pennsylvania. She is a writer of New 
York city; and the author of A Princess 
of Java, a tale of the Far East; Java: the 
Pearl of the East; and The Bedouin Girl. 

HIGGINSON, STEPHEN, congressman. 
He was a delegate from Massachusetts to 
the continental congress in 1782 and 1783. 

HIGGINSON, STEPHEN, merchant, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 28, 1743, in Salem, 
Mass. He was a merchant of Boston of 
note in his day as a political writer; and 
the author of Essays by Laco, reprinted 
as Ten Chapters in the Life of John 
Hancock; and Defense of Jay’s Treaty. 
He died Nov. 22, 1828, in Boston, Mass. 

HIGGINSON, STEPHEN, merchant, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born Nov. 20, 1770, in 
Salem, Mass. He became a merchant and 
philanthropist in Boston, and was known 
as the Man of Ross of his day. He died 
Feb. 20, 1834, in Cambridge, Mass. 

HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH, 
soldier, clergyman, author, poet, was born 
Dec. 22, 1823, in Cambridge, Mass. He is 
an essayist and litterateur of Cambridge. 
During the civil war he commanded a reg¬ 
iment of freedmen. His writings include, 
The Birthday in Fairy Land; Woman and 
her Wishes; Out-Door Papers; a trans¬ 
lation of Epictetus; Malbone, a romance; 
Army Life in a Black Regiment; Atlan¬ 
tic Essays; Sympathy of Religions; Old- 
port Days; Young Folks’ History of the 
United States; Young Folks’ Book of 
American Explorers; Short Studies of 
American Authors; Common Sense about 
Women; Life of Margaret Fuller; Larger 
History of the United States; Travelers 
and Outlaws; Women and Men; The Aft¬ 
ernoon Landscape, a collection of po¬ 
ems; Life of Francis Higginson; The 
New World and the New Book; Concern¬ 
ing All of Us; Such as They Are; The 
Monarch of Dreams; Hints on Writing 
and Speech-Making; Cheerful Yesterdays; 
English History for Americans; and Book 
and Heart. 

HIGINBOTHAM, HARLOW N., soldier, 
merchant, was born in 1813 near Joliet, 
Ill. In August, 1862, Mr. Higinbotham 
accompanied the Mercantile battery to the 
front, and, being detailed for special serv¬ 
ice, became chief clerk for the chief quar¬ 
termaster, United States volunteers, de¬ 
partment of the Ohio, and served in West 
Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. 
As president, Mr. Higinbotham adminis¬ 
tered the affairs of the exposition until 
the end. In 1878 Field, Leiter and Com¬ 
pany made him a partner, and on the re¬ 
tirement of Mr. Leiter he became one of 
the new firm of Marshall Field and Com¬ 
pany. 


HIGLEY, WARREN, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, was born July 1, 1833, near Au¬ 
burn, N. Y. For a number of years he 
taught school; and 
in 1862 graduated 
from Hamilton col¬ 
lege. He subsequent¬ 
ly became secretary 
of the board of edu¬ 
cation of Auburn; 
was principal of the 
high school; and su¬ 
perintendent of pub¬ 
lic schools. In 1874 
he was admitted to 
the bar in Cincin¬ 
nati; and in 1881 was 
elected judge of the city court. He was a 
founder of the Ohio State Forestry asso¬ 
ciation, and was its president until his 
removal to New York city in 1884. 

HILBORN, SAMUEL GREELEY, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1834, 
in Minot, Maine. He served in the Cali¬ 
fornia state senate from 1875 to 1879; 
and was appointed United States district 
attorney for the district of California in 
1883. He was elected to the fifty-second 
congress as a republican, to fill the unex¬ 
pired term of Hon. Joseph McKenna, ap¬ 
pointed United States circuit judge, and 
was elected to the fifty-third congress. He 
was elected to the fifty-fourth and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

HILDEBURN, CHARLES SWIFT 
RICHE, librarian, author, was born Aug. 
14, 1855, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has 
been the librarian of the Philadelphia 
Athenaeum since 1876; and is the author 
of A Century of Printing, or the Issues of 
the Press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784; and 
Printers and Printing in Colonial New 
York. 

HILDEBURN, MRS. MARY JANE 
[REED], author, was born Dec. 2, 1821, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. She was a Philadelphia 
writer of Sunday-school tales, among 
which are. Day Dreams; Archy and Pussy 
Series; Dr. Leslie’s Boys; and Gaffney’s 
Tavern. She died Sept. 18, 1882, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

HILDRETH, AZRO BENJAMIN 
FRANKLIN, educator, journalist, busi¬ 
ness man, legislator, was born Feb. 29, 
1816, in Chelsea, Vt. He received his 
education at the high schools and acad¬ 
emies of Chelsea, Randolph and Bradford, 
Vt. At the age of sixteen he became a 
schoolteacher, and for thirty-five years 
was a printer, editor and publisher of 
several newspapers. He has served with 
distinction as a member of the general as¬ 
sembly of the Iowa state legislature; was 
a member of the Iowa state board of edu¬ 
cation and various other institutions. He 
is the principal owner of the electric light 
plant of Charles City, Iowa; and the own¬ 
er of the Hildreth hotel and opera house 
of that city. 

HILDRETH, CHARLES LOTIN, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 28, 
1858, in New York city. He was editor 
of Demorest’s Magazine in New York city. 
He was the author of the Masque of 
Death, a volume of poems; The Mysteri¬ 
ous City; Judith; Damar; The New Sym¬ 
phony; Art in America; and other works. 
He died in 1896. 

HILDRETH, EUGEN1US AUGUSTUS, 
physician, inventor, author, was born 
Sept. 13, 1821, in Wheeling, W. Va. He 
was the inventor of surgical appliances, 
and published articles upon Medical Bot¬ 
any of West Virginia; Meteorology and 
Epidemic Diseases of Ohio County; and 
Biographies of Physicians of Wheeling 
for the Last Hundred Years. 


HILDRETH, EZEKIEL, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born July 18, 1784, in Westford, 
Mass. He was an educator of Ohio and 
Virginia; and the author of Logopolis, a 
grammatical treatise; and A Key to 
Knowledge. He died March 15, 1856, in 
Wheeling, W. Va. 

HILDRETH, JOHN, lawyer, legislator, 
was born Oct. 18, 1851, in England. He 
has been alderman of Holyoke, Mass.; and 
identified with the improvement of his 
city. He served as a representative to 
the general court of his state. 

HILDRETH, RICHARD, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born June 22, 1807, in Deerfield, 
Mass. He was a Boston journalist and 
historian who was consul at Trieste in his 
later years. He was the author of Archy 
Moore, an anti-slavery novel; History of 
Banks; Theory of Politics; Despotism in 
America; Japan as it Was and Is; and 
History of the United States from the Dis¬ 
covery of the Continent to the Close of 
the Sixteenth Congress in 1820, a work 
which has few charms of style, though its 
general merit is unquestioned. He died 
July 11, 1865, in Florence, Italy. 

HILDRETH. SAMUEL PRESCOTT, 
physician, author, was born Sept. 30, 1783^ 
in Methuen, Mass. He was a physician 
once prominent in Marietta, Ohio, where 
he settled in 1806. He was the author of 
History of the Diseases and Climate of 
Southeastern Ohio; Lives of the Early 
Settlers of Ohio; Contributions to the Ear¬ 
ly History of the Northwest; Meteorologi¬ 
cal Observations (with J. Wood); Pio¬ 
neer History of the Ohio Valley (1848); 
and Biographical and Historical Memoirs 
of Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio. He 
died July 24, 1863, in Marietta, Ohio. 

HILES, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer 
was born May 22, 1858, in Fayette coun¬ 
ty, Ohio. He received a thorough edu¬ 
cation in the Iowa college; took up the 
profession of law; and is now one of the 
leading lawyers of Kansas at Norton. 

HILGARD, EUGENE WALDEMAR, 
educator, author, was born Jan. 5, 1833’ 
in Bavaria. He has been a professor of 
agricultural chemistry at the university 
of California since 1875. He is the au¬ 
thor of Geology and Agriculture of Mis¬ 
sissippi; Geology of Lower Louisiana; 
Cotton Production in the United States; 
and Climatic Features of the Arid Re¬ 
gions of the Pacific Slope. 

HILGARD, JULIUS ERASMUS, civil 
engineer, author, was born in 1825 in Ba¬ 
varia. He was a civil engineer of note who 
was superintendent of the United States 
coast survey in 1881-85; and published 
many valuable professional papers. He 
died May 8, 1891, in Washington, D. C. 

HILL, ADAMS SHERMAN, educator, 
author, was born in 1833 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He has been the Boylston profes¬ 
sor of rhetoric at Harvard university since 
1876; and is the author of Our English; 
The Principles of Rhetoric; and The 
Foundations of Rhetoric. 

HILL, MRS. AGNES LEONARD 
[SCANLAND], author, poet, was born in 
1842 in Kentucky. She is the author of 
Mollie Myrtle; Myrtle Blossoms; Van¬ 
quished, a novel; and Heights and Depths. 

HILL, AMBROSE POWELL, soldier, 
was born Nov. 9, 1825, in Culpeper coun¬ 
ty, Va. He attained the rank of brigadier- 
general. He died April 7, 1865, in Peters¬ 
burg, Va. 

HILL, BENJAMIN DIONYSIUS, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born in 1842 in 
England. He is a Roman catholic clergy¬ 
man and educator, for some time at Notre 
Dame university, who has published Po¬ 
ems Devotional and Occasional. 




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HILL, BENJAMIN HAKVEY, lawyer, 
United States senator, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 14, 1823, in Jasper 
county, Ga. In 1851 he was elected to the 
Georgia state legislature; was an unsuc¬ 
cessful candidate for congress in 1855, and 
for governor in 1857. He was again a repre¬ 
sentative in the state legislature in 1859 
and 1860; and was a presidential elector in 

1861. In 1875 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Georgia to the forty-fourth 
congress to fill a vacancy; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress. He was 
elected a senator of the United States 
from Georgia for the term of six years 
from March 4, 1877. He was the author 
of Notes on the Situation; and Address 
to the People of Georgia. He died Aug. 
19, 1882, in Atlanta, Ga. 

HILL, BRITTON ARMSTRONG, law¬ 
yer, author, was horn in 1818 in New 
Jersey. He is a prominent lawyer of St. 
Louis; and the author of Liberty and 
Law under Federative Government; Abso¬ 
lute Money; and Specie Resumption and 
National Bankruptcy Identical. 

HILL. CHARLES AUGUSTUS, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 23, 
1833, in Truxton, N. Y. He enlisted in 
company F, eighth Illinois cavalry in 

1862, and was in the battle of Antietam. 
He was elected state’s attorney in 1868 for 
the counties of Will and Grundy; declined 
a renomination, and was elected to the 
fifty-first congress as a republican. In 
1897 he was appointed assistant attorney- 
general of the state. 

HILL, CLEMENT S., congressman, was 
born in Kentucky. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1853 
to 1855. 

HILL. DANIEL HARVEY, soldier, math¬ 
ematician, author, was born in 1821 in South 
Carolina. He was a noted mathematician 
who held professorships in several south¬ 
ern colleges before and since the civil 
war, but during that conflict was a gen¬ 
eral in the confederate army. He was the 
author of Elements of Algebra; Consid¬ 
eration of the Sermon on the Mount; and 
The Crucifixion of Christ. He died Sept. 
25, 1889, in Charlotte, N. C. 

HILL, DAVID BENNETT, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, governor. United States senator, 
was born Aug. 29, 1843, in Havana. N. Y. 

He was appointed 
city attorney of El¬ 
mira; and in 1868 
was a delegate to the 
democratic state con¬ 
vention. In 1870 he 
was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the state 
legislature; was re¬ 
elected in 1871. In 
1881 he was elected 
a member of the 
common council of 
Elmira; and in 1882 
was elected mayor of Elmira. In the fall 
of the same year he was elected lieuten¬ 
ant-governor of New York; and in 1884 
became governor of the state of New 
York. In 1886 he was elected governor 
for a full term of four years, and in 1891 
was elected to the United States senate 
as a democrat. 

HILL, DAVID H., lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, poet, was born Dec. 12, 1833, in 
North Berwick, Maine. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the New Hampshire state legisla¬ 
ture in 1870-71, and since 1880 has been 
judge of probate of his county. His po¬ 
ems have appeared in standard publica¬ 
tions. 

HILL, DAVID JAYNE, educator, college 
president, author, was born June 10, 1850, 
in Plainfield, N. J. He is an educator of 


note, president of the Lewisburg univer¬ 
sity, Pa., since 1879, and subsequently of 
the university of Rochester, N. Y. He is 
the author of Science of Rhetoric; Ele¬ 
ments of Rhetoric; Life of Washington 
Irving; Life of Bryant; Principles and 
Fallacies of Socialism; Social Influences 
of Christianity; The Elements of Psy¬ 
chology; and Genetic Philosophy. 

HILL, EBENEZER J., business man, 
banker, congressman, was born Aug. 4, 
1845, in Redding, Conn. He is president 
of the Norwalk Gas 
Light company, and 
vice-president of the 
National bank of 
Norwalk. He has 
served twice as bur¬ 
gess of Norwalk; 
and twice as chair¬ 
man of the board of 
school visitors of 
Norwalk. He was the 
fourth district dele¬ 
gate to the national 
republican conven¬ 
tion of 1884; and was a member of the 
Connecticut senate for 1886-87. He served 
one term upon the republican state cen¬ 
tral committee; and was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a 
republican. 

HILL. EDWARD JUDSON, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in New York. He is a 
lawyer of Chicago; and the author of 
Common Law Jurisdiction in Illinois; 
Chancery Jurisdiction in Illinois; Probate 
Jurisdiction in Illinois; and Municipal 
Offices in Illinois. 

HILL, FRANCES M., missionary, was 
born in New York. As an American mis¬ 
sionary to Greece she greatly aided the 
cause of female education in that coun¬ 
try. She died Aug. 5. 1884, in Athens, 
Greece. 

HILL, FRANK ALPINE, educator, lit¬ 
terateur, was born Oct. 12, 1841, in Bidde- 
ford, Maine. He is now secretary of the 
Massachusetts state board of education. 
He has written extensively for the press 
and as a public lecturer is well known. He 
was the editor of the revised Holmes' 
Series of Readers. 

HILL, FREDERIC STANHOPE, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1829 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a journalist of Cam¬ 
bridge; and the author of Twenty Years 
at Sea, or Leaves from my Old Log- 
Books; and Historical Continuity of the 
Anglican Church. 

HILL, GEORGE, author, poet, was born 
in 1796 in Guilford, Conn. He was a 
verse writer who held several govern¬ 
ment clerkships, and after 1835 lived at 
Guilford, his native town. He was the 
author of Ruins of Athens, and Other 
Poems; and Titania's Banquet, and Other 
Poems. He died Dec. 15, 1871, in New 
York. 

HILL, GEORGE CANNING, author, was 
born in 1825 in Connecticut. He is the 
author of Lives of Captain John Smith. 
Israel Putnam, Benedict Arnold, Daniel 
Boone; Homespun, or Five and Twenty 
Years Ago; and Our Parish, or Pen Paint¬ 
ings of Village Life. 

HILL, GEORGE WILLIAM, astrono¬ 
mer, inventor, author, was born March 3. 
1838, in New York city. His researches 
on the lunar theory have attracted atten¬ 
tion, and in 1887 he was awarded the 
gold medal of the Royal Astronomical so¬ 
ciety of London for his investigations. He 
is the author of upward of forty articles 
and memoirs. 


HILL, HAMILTON ANDREWS, author, 
was born in 1827 in England. He was a 
Boston writer who published History of 
the Old South Church, J3oston, 1669-1884; 
and Memoir of Abbot Lawrence. He died 
in 1895. 

HILL, HENRY ALEXANDER, educa¬ 
tor, college president, was born Nov. 6, 
1844, in New Orleans, La. ..In 1884 he be¬ 
came a teacher in the Southern univer¬ 
sity, New Orleans, La.; and in 1887 was 
elected its president. 

HILL, HENRY BARKER, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born April 27, 1849, in Wal¬ 
tham, Mass. He has been a professor 
of chemistry at Harvard university since 
1879; and is the author of Notes on 
Qualitative Analysis. 

HILL. HUGH CLEMENT, lawyer, was 
born in Massachusetts. In 1870 he was ap¬ 
pointed an assistant attorney general of 
the United States. 

HILL, HLTGH L. W., congressman, was 
born in Tennessee. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1847 
to 1849. 

HILL, ISAAC, journalist, governor. 
United States senator, was born Aug. 7, 
1788, in Somerville, Mass. He was twice 
chosen clerk of the state senate; was 
once a representative in the legislature; 
and was elected a member of the state 
senate in 1820, 1821, 1822 and 1827. In 1829' 
he was appointed second comptroller of 
the treasury, and held the office until 
1830. He returned to New Hampshire, 
and was elected United States senator for 
six years, from 1831; in 1836 he resigned 
his senatorship, after being elected gov¬ 
ernor of New Hampshire; and was re¬ 
elected in 1837 and 1838. In 1840 he 
was appointed sub-treasurer at Boston. He 
died March 22, 1851. in Washington, D. C. 

HILL, JAMES J., railroad president, 
was born Sept. 16, 1838, in Canada. The 
St. Paul. Minneapolis and Manitoba com¬ 
pany is now identi¬ 
fied with the Great 
Northern railway 
system, of which Mr. 
Hill became presi¬ 
dent in 1890. Since 
he took charge of its 
affairs, the railway 
system has been ex¬ 
tended from 380 to 
4,500 miles, creating 
an unbroken line,, 
through the several 
states, from Lake 
Superior and St. Paul to Puget Sound on 
the Pacific coast. The company also now 
owns a superb fleet of steamships on the 
great lakes, the passenger steamers not 
being surpassed in speed, design or ac¬ 
commodations by any of the great At¬ 
lantic lines. 

HILL, JOHN, congressman, was born in 
Virginia. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1839 to 1841. 

HILL, JOHN, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Stokes county, N. 
C. He served many years in the legisla¬ 
ture of the state; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1839 to 1841. 

HILL, JOHN, merchant, state senator, 
congressman, was born June 10, 1821, in 
Catskill, N. Y. In 1860 he was elected ta 
the state legislature; was twice re-elect¬ 
ed. and was made speaker of the assem¬ 
bly. In 1866 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative from New Jersey to the fortieth 
congress; and wa« re-elected to the forty- 
first and forty-second congresses. He was 
a state senator from 1875 to 1878; and 
was again a representative in the forty- 
seventh congress. He died July 24. 1884,. 
in Boonton, N. J. 





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HILL, JOHN McCLARY, journalist, 
was born Nov. 5, 1821, in Concord, N. H. 
He aided his father in the publication of 
Hill’s New Hampshire Patriot till 1847, 
when it was merged in the New Hamp¬ 
shire Patriot, with which journal he was 
also connected till 1853, and again in 
1868-73. 

HILL, JOSEPH, merchant, state sen¬ 
ator, was born in Ireland. He has been 
prominently identified with the organiza¬ 
tion of the people’s party in Lewis coun¬ 
ty, Wash.; and in 1896 was elected to the 
state senate. 

HILL, JOSHUA, lawyer, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Jan. 10, 
1812, in Abbeville district, S. C. He was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive to the thirty- 
fifth congress from 
Georgia; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty- 
sixth congress. In 
1866 he was ap¬ 
pointed collector for 
the port of Savan¬ 
nah. In 1876 he was 
appointed a visitor to 
the West Point acad¬ 
emy, as well as a 
register in bank¬ 
ruptcy; and in 1868 was elected a senator 
in congress for the term ending in 1873 
He died March 6, 1891, in Madison, Ga. 

HILL, LUCY ANN, educator, linguist, 
author, was born Nov. 10, 1831, in LowelL 
Mass. Since her youth she has been en¬ 
gaged in educational work. She spent 
five years in Europe studying Latin, Ital¬ 
ian, French and German; and has since 
been very successful in teaching those 
languages. She is the president of the 
Educational and Industrial Union of 
Lowell, Mass.; and the author of Rhine 
Roamings, consisting of descriptions of 
the beautiful scenery and objects of in¬ 
terest on the Rhine, interspersed with leg¬ 
endary lore. 

HILL, MARK LANGDON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was born 
June 30, 1772, in Biddeford, Maine. He was 
at various periods a member of the sen¬ 
ate and house of representatives of Massa¬ 
chusetts, a judge of the court of common 
pleas, member of congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1819 to 1821, and from 
Maine from 1821 to 1823. He was post¬ 
master at Phippsburg, Maine; collector of 
the port at Bath, and held several town 
and county offices. He died Nov. 26, 1842, in 
Phippsburg, Maine. 

HILL, NATHANIEL PETER, educator, 
business man, United States senator, was 
born Feb. 13, 1832, in Orange county, N. 
Y. He graduated from the Brown uni¬ 
versity of Providence, R. I.; and was pro¬ 
fessor of chemistry in that institution 
during 1857-64. During 1864-97 he has 
been manager of various large enterprises 
in Colorado, with headquarters at Den¬ 
ver. During 1879-85 he served with dis¬ 
tinction as United States senator. 

HILL, NICHOLAS, lawyer, author, born 
Oct. 16, 1806, in Montgomery county, N. 
Y. He was appointed state law reporter 
in 1841. He published New York Reports, 
1841-44, in seven volumes. He died May 
1, 1859. 

HILL, RALPH, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Oct. 12, 1827, in Johnson, Ohio. 
He was elected a representative from In¬ 
diana to the thirty-ninth congress. 

HILL, RICHARD, merchant, statesman, 
was born in Maryland. He was elected 
to the assembly of Pennsylvania in 1710, 
and served in this body continuously until 
1721, being three times speaker. He died 
Sept. 4, 1729, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

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HILL, ROBERT ANDREWS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 25, 1811, in Ire¬ 
dell county, N. C. He was elected a con¬ 
stable,^ and in 1836 a justice of the peace. 
In 1847 he was elected a circuit attorney 
general and held the office until 1854. 
Soon afterward he removed to Mississippi, 
and was made a judge of probate. In 1866 
he was appointed United States judge for 
the district of Mississippi. 

HILL, ROBERT H., educator, college 
president, was born April 9, 1856, in Ala¬ 
bama. In 1880 he went to Waco, Texas, 
and opened Hill’s Business college, and 
this college ranks with the first of its 
kind in the United States. 

HILL, SAMUEL, railroad president, 
was born May 13, 1857, in North Carolina. 
He is president of the Eastern railway of 
Minnesota. 

HILL, THEOPHILUS HUNTER, law¬ 
yer, author, poet, was born Oct. 31, 1836, 
in Raleigh, N. C. He is a lawyer of 
Raleigh, N. C.; and the author of Hes- 
per, and Other Poems, the first book 
copyrighted by the confederate govern¬ 
ment; and Passion Flower, and Other Po¬ 
ems. 

HILL, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1824 to 1826. 

HILL, THOMAS, clergyman, educator, 
inventor, author, was born Jan. 7, 1818, in 
New Brunswick, N. J. He was president 
of Harvard university in 1862-68, and 
held pastorates at Waltham, Mass., and 
Portland, Maine. He invented several 
mathematical instruments, one of which 
is the occultator. He was the author of 
The Postulates of Religion and Ethics: 
The Stars and the Earth; The True Or¬ 
der of Studies; Geometry and Faith; Cur¬ 
vature; Jesus the Interpreter of Nature; 
Christmas, and Poems on Slavery; The 
Natural Sources of Theology; and In the 
Woods and Elsewhere. He died Nov. 21, 
1891, in Waltham, Mass. 

HILL, URIAH C., musician, was born 
about 1802 in New York. Having been 
engaged as leader of the Sacred Music 
society, he brought out Handel’s Messiah 
in St. Paul’s chapel in 1831. This was 
the first performance of an entire oratorio 
in New York. He died in September, 
1875, in Paterson, N. J. 

HILL, WALTER HENRY, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born Jan. 21, 1822, 
in Lebanon, Ky. He is a Roman cath¬ 
olic clergyman and educator of Chicago; 
a professor in St. Louis university in 1864- 
65 and 1871-84; and the author of Ele¬ 
ments of Philosophy; Ethics or Moral 
Philosophy; and Historical Sketch of St. 
Louis University. 

HILL, WHITMELL, congressman, was 
born Feb. 12, 1743, in Bertie county, N. C. 
He was a delegate to the congresses at 
Hillsborough and Halifax in 1775 and 
1776; was lieutenant-colonel of the Cov¬ 
entry militia; and delegate to the conti¬ 
nental congress from 1778 to 1781; and 
was frequently a member of the house 
and senate of North Carolina previous to 
1785. He died Sept. 26, 1797, in Hill’s 
Ferry, N. 0. 

HILL, WILLIAM D., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 1, 1833, in Nelson 
county, Va. He was mayor of Springfield, 
Ohio, in 1860; and was a representative 
in the state legislature in 1866, 1867, 1868 
and 1869. In 1875 he was appointed su¬ 
perintendent of insurance for the state, 
and served three years. He was elected 
a representative from Ohio to the forty- 
sixth congress; and was also elected to 
the forty-eighth and forty-ninth con¬ 
gresses. 



BIOGRAPHY. 

HILL, WILLIAM H., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman. He was a representative in 
congress from North Carolina from 1799 
to 1803; and was also appointed judge of 
the United States district court for the 
district of North Carolina. He died in 
1809. 

HILLARD, GEORGE STILLMAN, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Sept. 22, 1808, in 
Machias, Maine. He was a lawyer of Bos¬ 
ton; and the author of Life of General 
McClellan; Life of George Ticknor; and 
Six Months in Italy. He also published a 
series of school readers and an edition of 
Spenser. He died Jan. 21, 1879, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

LIILLEGAS, MICHAEL, United States 
treasurer, was born in 1729 in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was the first United States 
treasurer. He died Sept. 29, 1804, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

HILLEN, SOLOMON, JR., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in 1813 in 
Baltimore county, Md. He served in the 
Maryland legislature in 1834 and 1838; 
and was elected mayor of Baltimore in 
1842 to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected 
for two years. He was a representative 
in congress from the state of Maryland 
from 1839-41. 

HILLER, ALFRED, soldier, educator, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
April 22, 1831, near Sharon Springs, N. Y. 
In 1881 he was elected president of Hart- 
wick Theological seminary and professor 
of systematic theology. 

HILLERN, BERTHA VON, artist, was 
born Aug. 4, 1857, in Germany. She de¬ 
voted herself to the study of art, which 
she has since pursued as a profession in 
Boston. Among her pictures are The 
Monk Felix, from Longfellow’s Gol¬ 
den Legend; and Evening Prayer at the 
Wayside Shrine, Germany. 

HILLHOUSE, AUGUSTUS LUCAS, 
hymnist, was born Dec. 9, 1791, in New 
Haven, Conn. He was the author of the 
hymn Trembling before Thine Awful 
Throne. He died March 14, 1859, in 
France. 

HILLHOUSE, GEORGE A., lawyer, 
state senator, was born June 27, 1864, in 
Smithville, Ark. He is a successful law¬ 
yer of Newport, Ark., and served with 
distinction as a member of the Arkansas 
state senate. 

HILLHOUSE, JAMES, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Oct. 21, 1754, in Montville, Conn. He 
was commander of the governor’s guards 
in the revolutionary war. He became a 
representative in congress in 1791, and 
three years afterwards was chosen a sen¬ 
ator of the United States from Connecti¬ 
cut, where he continued a distinguished 
member for sixteen years, and in the 
sixth congress was president pro tern, of 
the senate. In 1825 he undertook to con¬ 
duct the construction of the Farmington 
and Hampshire canal; and was chosen 
treasurer of Yale college in 1782. He died 
Dec. 29, 1832, in New Haven, Conn. 

HILLHOUSE, JAMES ABRAM, author, 
poet, was born Sept. 26, 1789, in New Ha¬ 
ven, Conn. He was a dramatic poet of 
New Haven. His ambitious, heavy dra¬ 
mas, Percy’s Masque, Hadad, Demetrla, 
were once extravagantly praised, but 
have long been hopelessly dead. Dramas, 
Discourses, and Other Pieces appeared in 
1839. He died Jan. 5, 1841, in New Haven, 
Conn. 

HILLHOUSE, WILLIAM, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born Aug. 25, 1728, in Montville, 
Conn. He was a delegate from Connecti¬ 
cut to the continental congress from 1783 
to 1786. He died Jan. 12, 1816, in Mont¬ 
ville, Conn. 


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HILLIARD, FRANCIS, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born about 1808, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He was a jurist of Boston, 
and the author of The Law of Taxation; 
The Law of \endors and Purchasers; The 
Law of Mortgages; The Law of Torts; 
Law of Injunctions; Law of New Trials; 
Law of Contracts; Law of Bankruptcy; 
American Jurisprudence; and American 
Law, a Comprehensive Summary. He died 
Oct. 9, 1878, in Worcester, Mass. 

HILLIARD, HENRY W., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, author, was born Aug. 
4, 1808, in Fayetteville, N. C. In 1838 he 
was elected to the Alabama state legis¬ 
lature, and in 1840 a presidential elector. 
In 1842 he was appointed minister to 
Belgium. He was a representative in 
congress from Alabama from 1843 to 1851. 
During the civil war he served in the con¬ 
federate army, and subsequently prac¬ 
ticed law in Atlanta, serving as minister 
to Brazil in 1877-81. He was the author 
of Speeches and Addresses; De Vane, a 
Story of Plebeians and Patricians; and 
Politics and Pen Pictures. He died Dec. 
17, 1892, in Atlanta, Ga. 

HILLIARD, WILLIAM HENRY, artist, 
was born in 1836, in Auburn, N. Y. 
Among his best known works are views 
of Maine, of the White and Franconia 
mountains, and of the Atlantic coast, in¬ 
cluding Campton Meadows; Castle Rock; 
and Wind against Tide; Battle-Field of 
Lookout Mountain; and Allatoona Pass, 
Ga. 

HILLIS, DAVID, soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, lieutenant-governor, was 
born in 1789, in Washington county, Pa. 
In 1831 and 1835 he was elected to the 
state senate, and in 1836-40 was lieuten¬ 
ant-governor. He died July 8, 1845, in 
Jefferson county, lnd. 

HILLIS, DAVID ^., soldier, was born 
in Indiana. He was colonel of the seven¬ 
teenth Iowa regiment in the civil war; 
and received the brevet of brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers. 

HILLIS, WILLIAM J., lawyer, author, 
was born Sept. 14, 1850, in Albany, N. Y. 
In 1872 he graduated from the Union col¬ 
lege of Schenectady, N. Y., and has since 
attained prominence as an able lawyer 
of his native city. He is the author of 
A Metrical History of Napoleon Bona¬ 
parte, and other works. 

HILLS, FREDERICK CLARK, soldier, 
railroad president, was born Jan. 22, 1842, 
in Bethersden, Kent, Eng. In 1849 he 
moved with his pa¬ 
rents to Oneida 
county, N. Y. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
in the district 
schools, and at the 
academy of Vernon, 
New York. During 
the civil war he 
served as a soldier 
in company E, one 
hundred and seven¬ 
teenth regiment New 
York infantry; and 
has been past post commander of the 
Grand Army of the Republic. He has 
been general freight and passenger agent, 
general traffic manager, and superintend¬ 
ent of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad 
company and other roads during 1868-81. 
He has also been the general manager and 
president of the Sioux City and Northern 
Railroad company; and of the Sioux City, 
O’Neill and Western Railway company. 
He served two terms as president of the 
Sioux City board of education; and has 
filled various other public positions of 
trust in his county and state. 


HILLS, GEORGE MORGAN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 10, 1825, in 
Auburn, N. Y. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman, rector of St. Mary’s church, Bur¬ 
lington, N. J., in 1870-90, and the author 
of History of the Church in Burlington; 
John Talbot, the First Bishop in North 
America; Church of England Missions in 
New Jersey; and Transfer of the Church 
from Colonial Dependence to the Freedom 
of the Republic. He died in 1890. 

HILLS, LUCIUS PERRY, lawyer, poet, 
elocutionist, was born June 16, 1844, in 
Bennington, N. Y. At the age of seven¬ 
teen he enlisted in the tenth regiment 
New York cavalry and served three years 
in the civil war. In 1871 he graduated from 
the law department of the university of 
Michigan; and since 1875 has practiced 
his profession in Atlanta, Ga. He is the 
author of a volume of poems entitled 
When Patti Sang; and as a poet humorist 
of Georgia has given successful elocution¬ 
ary entertainments in various parts of the 
United States. 

HILLS, WILLIAM HENRY, journalist, 
was born June 6, 1859, in Somerville, 
Mass. In 1888 he became sole owner and 
proprietor of The Writer, a monthly mag¬ 
azine; and since 1890 has ’been editor of 
the Journal and president of the Somer¬ 
ville Journal company. 

HILLYER, EDGAR WINTERS, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born 
Dec. 3, 1830, in Granville, Ohio. He serv¬ 
ed in the war for the union, and rose to 
the rank of colonel. In 1865 he became 
acting judge advocate for the department 
of the Pacific. He was elected to the 
state legislature in 1862; and in 1866 was 
elected attorney for Storey county, hold¬ 
ing the office until 1869, when he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the United States court 
for the district of Nevada. 

HILLYER, JUNIUS, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born April 23, 
1807, in Wilkes county, Ga. In 1834 he 
was elected solicitor-general for the west¬ 
ern district of the state; was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from Georgia from 1851 
to 1855; and in 1857 was appointed solicit¬ 
or of the United States treasury, remain¬ 
ing in office untii 1861. 

HILLYER, WILLIAM SILLIMAN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born April 2, 1831, in 
Henderson, Ky. He served during the 
Tennessee and Vicksburg campaigns; 
and was brevetted brigadier-general in 
1865, and after the close of the war was 
appointed a revenue agent. He died July 
12, 1874, in Washington, D. C. 

HILPRECHT, HERMANN VOLLRAT, 
educator, journalist, author, was born 
July 28, 1859, in Germany. In the spring 
of 1887 he delivered, in the chapel of the 
university of Pennsylvania, a course of 
lectures on The Family and Civil Life of 
the Egyptians; and Egypt in the Time of 
Israel’s Sojourn. 

HILSON, ELLEN AUGUSTA, actress, 
was born in 1801, in England. At five 
years of age she first appeared on the 
stage, reciting in costume the ballad of 
Little Red Riding-Hood; and in 1817 she 
became a member of the company of the 
Park theatre. She died April 2, 1837, in 
New York city. 

HILSON, THOMAS, actor, was born in 
1784, in England. He first appeared in 
this country at the Park theatre in New 
York city, in i809, as Walter in The Chil¬ 
dren of the Wood. He died July 23, 1834, 
in Louisville, Ky. 

HIMAN, EDGAR H., lawyer, jurist, 
banker, was born Dec. 16, 1846, in Ran¬ 
dolph, Ohio. He received his education 
at the Oberlin college, and graduated 
from the law department of the university 


of Michigan. He has been justice of the 
peace; mayor of North Amherst, Ohio; 
and for fifteen years was probate judge 
of Lorain county. For seven years he 
was chairman of the Lorain county re¬ 
publican executive committee. He is now 
the president of the Elyria Savings and 
Loan association, and a director of the 
National bank of Elyria. 

HIMEBAUGH, MATTHIAS, educator, 
clergyman, philanthropist, was born Aug. 
31, 1819, in Erie county, Pa. In 1850 he 
moved to Wisconsin; and was instrumen¬ 
tal in placing on a sound foundation the 
Lawrence university of Appleton, for 
which he secured fifty thousand dollars. 
He has traveled nearly a half million 
miles by railroads, rivers, and lakes in 
the prosecution of his work. He now 
occasionally preaches in Oshkosh, Wis. 

HIMES, CHARLES FRANCIS, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born June 2, 1838, in Lan¬ 
caster county. Pa. In 1865 he was ap¬ 
pointed professor of chemistry and phys¬ 
ics in Dickinson, which chair he held for 
twenty years. He has published Tables 
for Qualitative Analysis, translated and 
edited; Leaf-Prints, or Glimpses at Pho¬ 
tography; and Flame Reactions. 

HIMES, ISAAC NEWTON, physician, 
surgeon, was born Dec. 4, 1834, in Ship- 
pensburg, Pa. During the civil war he 
was assistant surgeon of the third Ohio 
volunteer infantry, and shortly afterward 
commissioned surgeon of the same regi¬ 
ment. In 1871 he settled in Cleveland, 
Ohio, where he was connected with the 
Cleveland Medical college as professor of 
pathology until his death. 

HINCKLEY, THOMAS, statesman, was 
born about 1618, in England. He was a 
deputy in 1645; a representative in 1647; 
and a magistrate and subsequent governor 
of Plymouth. He died April 25, 1706, in 
Barnstable, Mass. 

HINDMAN, THOMAS CARMICHAEL, 
soldier, congressman, was born in No¬ 
vember, 1818, in Tennessee. He served as 
second lieutenant of the Mississippi vol¬ 
unteers in the Mexican war; was a repre¬ 
sentative from Arkansas to the thirty- 
sixth congress; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-seventh congress, but when the re¬ 
bellion broke out he entered the confeder¬ 
ate service; and was at once made a 
brigadier-general, and subsequently a ma¬ 
jor-general. He died Oct. 22, 1868, in 
Helena, Ark. 

HINDMAN, WILLIAM, congressman. 
United States senator, was born April 1, 
1743, in Dorchester county, Md. He was a 
delegate from Maryland to the continental 
congress; was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1792 to 1799; and was a senator 
in congress during the years 1800 and 
1801. He died Jan. 19, 1822, in Baltimore, 
Md. 

HINDS, HERBERT C., clergyman, was 
born June 22, 1857, in Cossayuna, N. Y. 
He graduated trom Union college, and 
taen entered the 
Princeton Theolog¬ 
ical seminary, and 
was ordained in 
1885. He then went 
abroad, and on his 
return became pas¬ 
tor of the First pres- 
byterian church of 
Amsterdam, N. Y.; 
and there establish¬ 
ed a second presby- 
terian church, which 
was christened Em¬ 
manuel. In 1887 he became pastor of the 
Second Reformed church of Schenectady, 
N. Y.; and since 1891 has been pastor of 
the Ninth presbyterian church of Troy, N. 
Y. In 1889 Union college honored him 
with the degree of A. M. 




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HINDS, JAMES, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 5, 1833, in Heb¬ 
ron, N. Y. He moved to Minnesota, and 
was district attorney for the state until 
1860. He served in the war for the union 
as a private, after which he settled at Lit¬ 
tle Rock, Ark. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Arkansas to the fortieth 
congress. He died Oct. 22, 1868, in Mon¬ 
roe, Ark. 

HINDS, THOMAS, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born about 1775. He was a dis¬ 
tinguished officer in the battle of New Or¬ 
leans; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Mississippi from 1828 to 1831. 
He died Aug. 23, 1840, in Jefferson county, 
Miss. 

HINDS, WILLIAM HENRY HARRI¬ 
SON, soldier, architect, inventor, poet, 
was born Jan. 20, 1821, in Milan, N. H. 

He received his edu¬ 
cation in the dis¬ 
trict schools, and the 
New Ipswich acade¬ 
my. He then taught 
school and studied 
architectural draw¬ 
ing. He was made 
captain in the twen¬ 
ty-second regiment 
ot the New Hamp¬ 
shire militia; was 
promoted to major, 
lieutenant - colonel, 
and was offered the commission of briga¬ 
dier-general. For several years he was 
engaged as an architect and builder; then 
followed dentistry; and is the patentee 
of a number of improvements in that 
science. During the civil war he raised a 
company and went as first lieutenant in 
the sixteenth regiment Massachusetts vol¬ 
unteer infantry. He subsequently resigned, 
raised a company, and went as captain in 
the thirty-third regiment Massachusetts 
volunteer infantry. As a musician and 
poet he is well known, and many of his 
poems have been incorporated into stand¬ 
ard publications. 

HINES, RICHARD, congressman, was 
born in North Carolina. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1825 to 1827. 

HINES, THOMAS H., lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born Oct. 9, 1838, in Butler 
county, Ky. He received his education in 
the public schools of 
his native county, 
studied law and be¬ 
came a prominent 
attorney of Frank¬ 
fort, Ky. He has 
been judge of the 
county court of 
Warren county, Ky.; 
was judge of the 
court of appeals of 
Kentucky; and has 
filled with distinc¬ 
tion the high office 
of chief justice of the state of Kentucky. 
In 1891 he was a member of the constitu¬ 
tional convention of Kentucky for Frank¬ 
lin county. He has been prominently 
identified with the public affairs of his 
city, county and state; and is a member 
in high standing of various societies and 
fraternal orders. 

HINES, WILLIAM H., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born March 15, 
1856, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the house of representatives of 
Pennsylvania in 1879-80 and 1883-84. He 
was elected to the senate of Pennsylvania 
in 1888 for a term of four years; and was 
elected to the fifty-third congress as a 
democrat. 




HINKEL, CHARLES JOHN, educator, 
author, was born in 1817, in England. He 
was a German educator who came to 
America in 1855, and was professor of 
Greek and Latin at Vassar college in 1869- 
90. He was the author of a number of 
German translations. He died in 1894. 

HINKHOUSE, RUFUS W., farmer, 
financier, legislator, was born Aug. 17, 
1850, in Cumberland county, Md. He is a 
successful farmer and stock-raiser of 
Wilton, Iowa; and has served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the Iowa state 
legislature. 

HINKLEY, EDWARD OTIS, lawyer, 
author, was born Jan. 6, 1824, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was secretary of the Amer¬ 
ican Bar association from its formation 
in 1878 until 1893. He is the author of 
a work on Attachments and one on Tes¬ 
tamentary Law. 

HINKLEY, HOLMES, inventor, was 
born June 24, 1793, in Hailowell, Maine. 
He built the third stationary engine that 
was produced in Massachusetts, and in 
1840 began to construct locomotives on a 
new and ingenious plan, that soon made 
his name favorably known. He died Feb. 
7, 1866, in Boston, Mass. 

HINKSON, ADDISON CYRUS, educa¬ 
tor, jurist, was born Dec. 19, 1837, in Po- 
tosi. Mo. This popular educator has 
served as superintendent of common 
schools, auditor and judge of the supreme 
court of Summit county, Mo. 

HINMAN, BENJAMIN, soldier, state 
legislator, was born in 1720, in Woodbury, 
Conn. He was commissioned captain of 
the fourth continental regiment in 1775. 
He represented Woodbury, Conn., in the 
legislature during twenty sessions, and 
after the incorporation of Southbury was 
its delegate for eight sessions. He died 
March 22, 1810, in Southbury, Mass. 

HINMAN, CLARK TITUS, educator, 
college president, was born Aug. 3, 1817, 
in Kortwright, N. Y. He was principal of 
Albion V/esleyan seminary from 1846 to 
1853, and founder and first president of 
the Northwestern university at Evanston, 
Ill. He died Oct. 21, 1854, in Troy, N. Y. 

HINMAN, EDGAR H., lawyer, jurist. 
He has attained success as one of the 
foremost lawyers of Ohio at Elyria. He 
has filled numerous important offices of 
honor; and is now filling with distinction 
the office of probate judge. 

HINMAN, IDA, author, was born in 
Keokuk, Iowa. She is the author of The 
Washington Sketch Book; and has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature. 

HINMAN, JOEL, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1802 in Southbury, 
Conn. From 1851 till 1861 he was an as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of the 
state, becoming chief justice at the latter 
date. His judicial opinions extend through 
twenty volumes of Connecticut reports. 
He died Feb. 21, 1870, in Cheshire, Conn. 

HINMAN, ROYAL RALPH, lawyer, 
antiquarian, author, was born June 5, 
1785, in Southbury, Conn. He is a law¬ 
yer and antiquarian of New Hampshire, 
and subsequently of New York city. He 
is the author of Historical Recollections 
of Connecticut in the American Revolu¬ 
tion; and Catalogue of the First Puritan 
Settlers of Connecticut. He died Oct. 15, 
1868, in New York city. 

HINRICHS, CARL DETLEF, educator, 
is a Danish educator who came to Ameri¬ 
ca in 1860, and was professor of physical 
sciences in Iowa university in 1863-85. He 
is the author of Elements of Physics; 
Elements of Atom Mechanics; Principles 
of Pure Crystallography; Principles of 
Physical Sciences; and First Course in 
Qualitative Analysis. 


HINRICHSEN, WILLIAM H„ journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born May 27, 1850, 
in Franklin, Ill. He was elected to the 
office of justice of 
the peace in 1871 
‘'®“ and re-elected in 
1873. He was ap¬ 
pointed deputy sher¬ 
iff of his county in 
1874; and served 
three terms in that 
position; was elected 
sheriff in 1880; was 
elected clerk of the 
house of representa¬ 
tives of Illinois in 
1891; and was elect¬ 
ed secretary of state in 1892. He has 
served as a member of the democratic 
state committee since 1888, and was chair- 
’ l In 1895 - He was elected to the 
htty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

HINSDALE, BURKE AARON, educa¬ 
tor, college president, author, was born 
March 31, 1837, in Wadsworth, Ohio. He 
was an educator, president of Hiram col¬ 
lege in 1870-82, and for four years subse¬ 
quently superintendent of schools in 
Cleveland. He is the author of Genuine¬ 
ness and Authenticity of the Gospels; 
President Garfield and Education; Schools 
and Studies; The Old Northwest; How to 
Study and Teach History; and editor Life 
and Works of Garfield. 

HINTON, ISAAC TAYLOR, clergyman 
author, was born in 1 y 99, in England. He 
was a baptist clergyman who came to 
America trom England in 1822, and was 
pastor in Richmond, Va., and in New Or¬ 
leans, in which latter city he died. He 
was the author of History of Baptism; 
and Lectures on the Prophecies. He died 
in 1847. 

HIRES, GEORGE, merchant, manufac¬ 
turer, state senator, congressman, was 
born Jan. 26, 1835, in Salem county, N. J. 
He was elected sheriff of Salem county 
in 1867, 1868, and 1869. In 1881 he was 
elected a state senator for a term of three 
years; and was elected a representative 
from New Jersey to the forty-ninth and 
fiftieth congresses as a democrat. 

HIRSCH, EDWARD, merchant, finan¬ 
cier, state senator, was born May 3, 1836, 
in Germany. During 1866-68 he was pres¬ 
ident of the Eagle Woolen Mills company 
of Brownsville. He was state treasurer 
for eight years during 1878-86; and subse¬ 
quently was elected a member of the Ore¬ 
gon state senate for four years. 

HIRSH, HUGO, lawyer, author, was 
born Dec. 22, 1848, in Germany. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the public schools 
of New York city; 
studied law, and is 
now a prominent at¬ 
torney of Brooklyn, 
N. Y. He has been 
counsel to the de¬ 
partment of police 
and excise of Brook¬ 
lyn; and counsel to 
the sheriff of Kings 
county. He is also a 
successful orator; 
and a contributor to 
the periodical press; 
and also to standard works. 

HIRST, HENRY BECK, lawyer, author, 
poet, was born Aug. 23, 1813, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a lawyer and verse 
writer of Philadelphia. His poetical writ¬ 
ings comprise Endymion, a Tale of 
Greece; The Penance of Roland; and The 
Coming of the Mammoth, and Other 
Poems. He also published a Poetical 
Dictionary. He died March 30, 1874, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 






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HISCOCK, FRANK, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 6, 1834, in Pompey, 
N. Y. He received an academic educa¬ 
tion; studied law, 


was admitted to the 
bar in 1855 and com¬ 
menced to practice 
at Tully, N. Y. He 
was elected district 
attorney of Ononda¬ 
ga county, serving in 
1860-63; and was a 
member of the state 
constitutional con¬ 
vention in 1867. He 
was elected to the 
forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty- 
ninth and fiftieth congresses; and was 
elected to the United States senate as a 
republican, to fill a vacancy, and took his 
seat March 4, 1887, for term of service ex¬ 
piring March 3, 1893. 



HISE, ELIJAH, diplomat, congressman, 
was born July 4, 1802, in Kentucky. In 
1866 he was elected a representative from 
Kentucky to the thirty-ninth congress to 
fill a vacancy, and was re-elected to the 
fortieth congress. He died by his own 
hand May 8, 1867, in Russellville, Ky. 


HISSEY, MARION WINFIELD, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 27, 
1859, in McConnelsville, Ohio. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the Scio College 
and School of Theology of the Boston uni¬ 
versity. He has been pastor , of a number 
of churches; and is now pastor of the 
First Congregational church of Ashtabu¬ 
la, Ohio. He has lectured on Homiletics 
at the School of Theology of the univer¬ 
sity of Denver; and is a brilliant lecturer 
on various subjects. 


HITCHCOCK, A. F., clergyman, poet. 
He has filled pastorates in the congrega¬ 
tional church of Sasium, Cal.; and is 
the author of a number of poems, some 
of which have been set to music. 


HITCHCOCK, ALFRED, physician, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Oct. 17, 1813, in 
Westminster, Vt. He was surgeon of 
Fitchburg, Mass., who published Chris¬ 
tianity and Medical Science. He died 
March 30, 1874, in Fitchburg, Mass. 


HITCHCOCK, CHARLES HENRY, ge¬ 
ologist, author, was born Aug. 23, 1836, in 
Amherst, Mass. He is the state geologist 
of New Hampshire, and the author of 
Natural History and Geology of Maine; 
New Hampshire Geological Survey; and 
The Geology of New Hampshire. 

HITCHCOCK, DAVID, author, poet, 
was born in 1773, in Bethlehem, Conn. 
His principal poem, The Shade of Plato, is 
written with ease and smoothness, and 
closes with expostulations on the revolu¬ 
tionary principles in vogue at the begin¬ 
ning of the century. His other writings 
are The Social Monitor; and Christ Not 
the Minister of Sin, a controversy. He 
died after 1832. 


HITCHCOCK, EDWARD, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born May 23, 1828, in Amherst, 
Mass. He is a physician, professor of hy¬ 


giene in Amherst college from 1861, and 
the author of Anatomy and Physiology. 

HITCHCOCK, ENOS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 7, 1744, in Spring- 
field, Mass. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Providence once famous as 
a preacher, and the author of Treatise on 
Education; Sermons; and Catechetical In¬ 
struction for Children and Youth. He died 
Feb. 27,1803, in Providence, R. I. 


HITCHCOCK, ETHAN ALLEN, soldier, 
author, was born May 18, 1798, in Ver- 
gennes, Vt. He was a general in the fed¬ 
eral army during the 


civil war. He was 
the author of Alche¬ 
my and the Alchem¬ 
ists; Swedenborg, a 
Hermetic Philoso¬ 
pher; Christ the 
Spirit, an argument 
for the symbolic ex¬ 
position of the Gos¬ 
pels; Remarks on 
the Sonnets of 
Shakespeare; Spen¬ 
ser’s Colin Clout 
Explained; and Notes on Dante’s Vita 
Nuova. He died Aug. 5, 1870, in Hancock, 
Ga. 



HITCHCOCK, HENRY LAURENS, col¬ 
lege president, was born Oct. 13, 1813, in 
Benton, Ohio. In 1855 he was elected 
president of the Western Reserve college 
and filled that position until 1871. He died 
July 6, 1873, in Hudson, Ohio. 


HITCHCOCK, JAMES HALL, lawyer, 
state senator, was born April 20, 1859, in 
Perry county, Ohio. He served as attor¬ 
ney of Johnson county, Neb., for three 
terms; and is now a state senator in the 
legislature of that state from the second 
district. 


HITCHCOCK, JAMES RIPLEY WELL¬ 
MAN, litterateur, author, was born July 
3, 1856, in Fitchburg, Mass. He is a litter¬ 
ateur of New York city, and the author of 
The Western Art Movement; A Study of 
George Jenness; Etchings in America; 
Madonnas by Old Masters; Notable Etch¬ 
ings by American Artists; Some Ameri¬ 
can Painters in Water Colors; and The 
Future of Etching. 


HITCHCOCK, PETER, lawyer,, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 
19, 1781, in Cheshire, Conn. In 1810 he 
was elected to the general assembly of 
Ohio; from 1812 to 1816 was a member of 
the state senate; and president of that 
body one session. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1817 to 1819; and 
was then chosen judge of the supreme 
court of Ohio for seven years. He was 
re-elected to the same office in 1826. From 
1833 to 1835 he was again a member of the 
state senate, and once again president. 
He died May 11, 1853, in Painesville, Ohio. 


HITCHCOCK, EDWARD, clergyman, 
geologist, college president, author, was 
born May 24, 1793, in Deerfield, Mass. He 
was a congregational clergyman, state ge¬ 
ologist of Massachusetts in 1833-1844, ajid 
president of Amherst college in 1845-54. 
He was the author of Religion of Geolo¬ 
gy; Illustrations of Surface Geology; Fos¬ 
sil Footprints in the United States; Ich- 
nology of New England; Dyspepsia Fore¬ 
stalled and Resisted; Religious Truth Il¬ 
lustrated from Science; Elementary Ge¬ 
ology; and Reminiscences of Amherst Col¬ 
lege. He died Feb. 27, 1864, in Amherst, 
Mass. 


HITCHCOCK, PHINEAS WARRENER. 
lawyer, congressman, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Nov. 30, 1831, in New Leb¬ 
anon, N. Y. In 1861 he was appointed 
marshal of Nebraska territory, which of¬ 
fice he held until his election from Ne¬ 
braska as delegate to the thirty-ninth 
congress. In 1867 he was appointed sur¬ 
veyor-general of Nebraska; and was elect¬ 
ed to the United States senate for the 
term ending in 1877. He died July 10, 
1881, in Omaha, Neb. 


HITCHCOCK, ROSWELL DWIGHT, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
Aug. 15, 1817, in East Machias, Maine. He 
was a successful cler¬ 



gyman of the con¬ 
gregational church; 
and filled the chair 
of ecclesiastical his¬ 
tory in Bowdoin col¬ 
lege. He was presi¬ 
dent of the Palestine 
Exploration society, 
and was president of 
the Union Theolo¬ 
gical seminary of 
New York city. He 
is the author of Life 
Complete Analysis 


of Edward Robinson 
of the Bible; The New Testament, with 
Readings Preferred by the American 
Committee Incorporated into the Text; 
and Eternal Atonement. He died June 
16, 1887, in Somerset, Mass. 


HITT, ROBERT ROBERTS, diplomat, 
congressman, was born Jan. 16, 1834, in 
Urbana, Ohio. He was first secretary of 
the American legation at Paris, France, 
from 1874 to 1881; and was assistant sec¬ 
retary of state of Illinois in 1881. He was 
elected a representative from Illinois to 
the forty-seventh congress to fill a va¬ 
cancy; and was re-elected to the forty- 
eighth, forty-ninth, fiftietn, fifty-first, fif¬ 
ty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fif¬ 
ty-fifth congresses as a republican. 

HITTELL, JOHN SHERTZER, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1825, in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He is a journalist of San Fran¬ 
cisco, and the author of Evidences against 
Christianity; Mining in the Pacific 
States; Brief History of Culture; History 
of San Francisco; The Spirit of the Pa¬ 
pacy; History of Mental Growth of Man¬ 
kind in Ancient Times; and Resources of 
California. 


HITTELL, THEODORE HENRY, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1830, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a prominent lawyer and 
historian of San Francisco. He is the 
author of Adventures of Captain Capen 
Adams; General Laws of California, com¬ 
monly called Hittell’s Digest; Codes and 
Statutes of California; and History of 
California. 

HIZAR, JULIER CLYDE, lawyer, was 
born Nov. 5, 1871, in Fort Ancient, Ohio. 
He graduated from the National Normal 
university of Lebanon, Ohio, with the de¬ 
grees of B. S. and A. B., and subsequently 
attended the Cincinnati Law school, and 
was admitted to the bar of California. 
He has been city attorney of Coronado, 
Cal., and still holds that position. 


HOADLY, CHARLES JEREMY, jour¬ 
nalist, librarian, was born Aug. 1, 1828, 
in Hartford, Conn. In 1855 he assumed 
charge of the state library. He has edit¬ 
ed the New Haven Colonial Records, in 
two volumes; and Colonial Records of 
Connecticut. 


HOADLEY, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
governor, was born July 31, 1826, in New 
Haven, Conn. In 1851 he was elected a 
judge of the superior court of Cincinnati, 
and was city solicitor in 1855. In 1858 he 
succeeded Judge Gholson on the bench 
of the new superior court. In 1883 he was 
elected governor of Ohio. 


HITCHCOCK, ROBERT BRADLEY, 
naval officer, was born Sept. 25, 1803, in 
Cheshire, Ohio. He was appointed mid¬ 
shipman in the united States navy in 
1825, promoted lieutenant in 1835, com¬ 
mander in 1855, captain in 1861, and com¬ 
modore in 1862. He died March 25, 1883, 
in New York city. 


HOAG, CHARLES E., lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born Sept. 18, 1849, 
in Moultonboro, N. H. He is the editor 
and owner of the Peabody Recorder and 
the American Citizen of Boston, in which 
city he was at one time president of a 
corporation publishing one of the daily 
papers. He has published several prose 
works; and a volume of poems entitled 
Chords and Discords. 




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485 


HOAG, TRUMAN H., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 9, 1816, in 
Manlius, N. Y. In 1868 he was elected a 
representative from Ohio to the forty-first 
congress. He died Feb. 5, 1870, in Y/ash- 
ington. 


HOAGLAND, CORNELIUS NEVIUS, 
manufacturer, was born Nov. 23, 1828, in 
Somerset county, N. J. During the war 
he was made first 
lieutenant, and sub- 


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\ sequently was sur¬ 
geon of the seventy- 
; ! first Ohio. In 1887 
he bought the busi¬ 
ness of the Cleve¬ 
land Baking Powder 
Co., and became 
president and gen- 
eral manager of the 
rfggSfi company. In 1887 
he founded the 
Hoagland Labora¬ 
tory in Brooklyn for original research in 
the higher branches of medical science, 
with special departments in physiology 
and bacteriology, the cost, with equip¬ 
ments, exceeding $100,000. 



HOAGLAND, JOSEPH CHRISTOF- 
FEL. president of the Royal Baking Pow¬ 
der Co., was born June 19, 1841, in Miami 
county, Ohio. In 1866 he founded the 
Royal Baking Powder Co., and has given 
the product of this concern such world 
wide popularity through stupendous ad- 
Yertising, that its trade mark alone is 
now valued at $10,000,000. In 1880 he 
served as presidential elector, and he is 
a member of the chamber of commerce. 


HOAGLAND, MOSES, jurist, congress¬ 
man, was born in Ohio. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1849 to 1851; and was subsequently ap¬ 
pointed United States judge for the terri¬ 
tory of Washington. 

HOAGLIN, FREDERICK F., merchant, 
legislator, was born April 29, 1848, in Al¬ 
bion, Mich. He has been mayor of Al¬ 
bion, Mich., and for two terms was a 
member of the Michigan state legislature. 

HOAR, EBENEZER ROCKWOOD, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 
21, 1816, in Concord, Mass. He was ap¬ 
pointed a judge of the court of common 
pleas. In 1859 he was elected a 
judge of the supreme court. In 1869 
he entered the cabinet of President 
■Grant as attorney-general; and in 1871 
became a member of the joint high com¬ 
mission for making a treaty between Eng¬ 
land and the United States. He was a 
presidential elector in 1872; and was elect¬ 
ed to the forty-third congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 


HOAR, GEORGE FRISBIE, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Aug. 29, 1826, in Concord, Mass. 

In 1852 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative 
in the general court; 
and in 1857 to the 
state senate. In 1868 
he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from 
Massachusetts to the 
forty-first congress; 
and was re-elected 
to the three succeed¬ 
ing congresses. He 
was president of the 
convention in 1880; 
and was a member of the electoral com¬ 
mission in 1876. He was elected a United 
States senator from Massachusetts for the 
term of six years from March 4, 1877; and 
w r as re-elected in ±883, 1889, and 1895 for 
term expiring in 1901. 



HOAR, LEONARD, educator, college 
president, was born about 1629. He was 
president of Harvard college from 1672 
till 1675, and was the first person to pro¬ 
pose the modern system of technical ed¬ 
ucation, by the adaition of a garden and 
orchard, a workshop, and a chemical la¬ 
boratory to Harvard. He died Nov. 28, 
1675, in Braintree, Mass. 

HOAR, SAMUEL, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, was born May 18, 1788, in 
Lincoln, Mass. He was a state senator 
in 1825 and 1833; and a representative in 
congress from 1835 to 1837. He was a 
member of the executive council in 1845 
and 1846; and state representative in 1850. 
He died Nov. 2, 1856, in Concord, Mass. 

HOAR, SHERMAN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born July 30, 1860, in Concord, 
Mass. He was elected to the fifty-second 
congress as a democrat from the fifth 
Massachusetts district. In 1893 he was 
appointed United States attorney for the 
district of Massachusetts, and resigned in 
1897. 

HOARD, CHARLES B., mechanic, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born June 
28, 1805, in Springfield, Vt. He was post¬ 
master under Presidents Jackson and Van 
Buren; justice of the peace for several 
years; and a member of the New York 
legislature in 1838. He was elected a 
representative to the thirty-fifth con¬ 
gress; was re-elected to the thirty-sixth 
congress. 

HOBART, AARON, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, congressman, was born June 26, 
1787, in Abington, Mass. He served in 
the state senate; was a state counselor; 
was judge of probate; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Massachusetts 
from 1821 to 1827. He died Sept. 19, 1858, 
in East Bridgewater, Mass. 

HOBART, ALVAH SABIN, clergyman, 
author, was born March 7, 1847, in Can¬ 
ada. During 1879-88 he filled a pastor¬ 
ate in the baptist church of Cincinnati, 
Ohio; and since 1888 at Yonkers, N. Y. 
He is the author of Corner Stones of the 
Baptist Church; Those Old Fashioned 
Christians; and Gifts of Fruits and Full¬ 
ness. 

HOBART, GARRET A., lawyer, United 
States senator, vice-president of the 
United States, was born June 3, 1844, in 
Monmouth county, 
N. J. He was city 
counsel of Paterson, 
N. J., in 1871; and 
was elected counsel 
for the board of 
chosen free-holders 
in 1872. He entered 
the legislature in 
1873, and was re¬ 
elected to the assem¬ 
bly in 1874, and was 
made speaker in 
1876. He was elect¬ 
ed to the senate in 1879, and in 1881 was 
elected president of that body, and re¬ 
elected in 1882. He was nominated for 
vice-president by the republican national 
convention, and was duly elected and 
took the oath of office on March 4, 1897. 

HOBART, JOHN HENRY, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 14, 1775, in Philadel¬ 
phia. He was the third protestant epis¬ 
copal bishop of New York, and a leader of 
church thought in his day. He was the 
author of Companion for the Altar; State 
of Departed Spirits; Festivals and Fasts; 
and Apology for Apostolic Order. He 
died Sept. 12, 1830, in Auburn, N. Y. 

HOBART, JOHN HENRY, clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 1, 1817, in New York 
city. He is an episcopal clergyman of 
New York city; and the autnor of In¬ 
struction and Encouragement for Lent; 


Church Reform in Mexico; and Mediaeval 
Papal and Ritual Principles Stated and 
Contrasted. He died Aug. 31, 1889, in 
Fishkill, N. Y. 

HOBART, JOHN SLOSS, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born in 1738, 
in Fairfield, Conn. He was judge of the 
district court of New York, and held sev¬ 
eral important positions in that state dur¬ 
ing the revolutionary war, after which he 
was appointed one of the three judges of 
the supreme court. He was a member of 
the United States senate from February 
to April, 1798, to till a vacancy; and was 
then appointed judge of the United States 
district court of New York. He died Feb. 
4, 1805. 

HOBBIE, SELAH R., lawyer, public of¬ 
ficial, congressman, was born March 10, 
1797, in Newburg, N. Y. He was soon ap¬ 
pointed district attorney and brigade ma¬ 
jor and inspector; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 
1827 to 1829. On the accession of General 
Jackson to the presidency he was ap¬ 
pointed assistant postmaster-general, 
which position he held until 1850. He 
died March 23, 1854, in Washington, D. C. 

HOBBS, GEORGE THOMPSON, artist, 
was born Feb. 18, 1846, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. For twenty-five years he worked as 
an architect. He studied art in Paris, 
and has become prominent as a landscape 
and portrait painter. 

HOBBS, LEWIS LYNDON, educator, 
college president, was born 1849, in Guil¬ 
ford, N. C. For many years he was en¬ 
gaged in educational work; and was elect¬ 
ed the first president of Guilford college 
in 1888. 

HOBBS, MRS. MARY ERWIN, poet, 
was born June 21, 1841, in Bethany, N. Y. 
She was a writer of Portsmouth, N. H.; 
and the author of a volume of poems. 

HOBBY, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1707, in Massachusetts. He 
was a congregational clergyman of Read¬ 
ing, Mass., and the author of Vindication 
of Whitefield; and Self-Examination. He 
died in 1765. 

HOBLITZELL, FETTER S., soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 
1838, in Cumberland, Md. He served in 
the confederate army during the war of 
the rebellion. He was elected a member 
of the state house of representatives in 
1870, again in 1876, and was re-elected in 
1878, serving the last term as speaker. 
He was elected a representative from 
Maryland to the forty-seventh and forty- 
eighth congresses as a democrat. 

HOCKADAY, JOHN A., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Jan. 6, 1837, in Cal¬ 
laway county, Mo. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Westminster college of Ful¬ 
ton, Mo.; of which city ue is a prominent 
lawyer. He has been city and county at¬ 
torney; was delegate to the national 
peace convention at Philadelphia in 1866; 
and elected to the state senate of Missouri 
in 1867. In 1872 he was a presidential 
elector on the Greeley ticket; and in 1888 
on the Cleveland ticket. For two years 
he was attorney-general of Missouri; for 
twelve years a member of the board of 
managers of the state lunatic asylum; for 
six years of the school for the deaf and 
dumb; and curator of the Missouri uni¬ 
versity for one year. During 1879-80 he 
was again a member of the state senate; 
and revised the laws of Missouri. In 1887 
he was a delegate to the constitutional 
centennial at Philadelphia; and in 1888 
became permanent president of the dem¬ 
ocratic state convention. Since 1890 he 
has been judge of the ninth judicial cir¬ 
cuit of Missouri. 








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HODGDON, JOHN, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator. was born in October. 1800, in Weare, 
N. H. In 1832 he was a delegate to the 
Baltimore presiden¬ 
tial convention; was 
a member of the ex¬ 
ecutive council in 
1833; and in 1834 
was appointed land 
agent for the state. 
In 1846 he was elect¬ 
ed to the state sen¬ 
ate; and at the sec- 
onu term was 
chosen president of 
that body. He re¬ 
signed this position 
for governor of the 
state of Maine. In 1853 he moved to 
Dubuque, Iowa; was elected mayor of 
that city in 1859; and for some years was 
president of the board of directors of the 
public schools. 

HODGE. ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, 
clergyman, author, was born July 18, 1823. 
in Princeton, N. j. He was a presby- 
terian clergyman, and professor of the¬ 
ology at Princeton college since 1877. He 
was the author of Outlines of Theology; 
Life of Charles Hodge; The Atonement; 
Commentary on the Confession of Faith; 
and Popular Lectures on Theological 
Themes. He died Nov. 11, 1886, in 

Princeton, N. J. 

HODGE. CHARLES, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 28, 1797, in‘Philadelphia’ 
Pa. He was a presbyterian clergyman, 
for nearly forty years editor of the 
Princeton Review, which he founded and 
to which he was the chief contrib¬ 
utor. He was the author of Systematic 
Theology; Commentaries on the Epistles; 
Constitutional History of the Presbvte- 
rian Church in the United States; What 
is Darwinism?; Discussions in Church 
Polity; and Conference Papers. He died 
June 19, 1878, in Princeton, N. J. 

HODGE, DWIGHT MUNSON, educator, 
clergyman, author, poet, was born Aug. 
9, 1847, in Salisbury, N. Y. He is a suc¬ 
cessful clergyman of the universalist 
church. He is the author of several prose 
works; and a number of meritorious 
poems: and now fills a pastorate in 
Franklin, Mass. 

HODGE, EDWIN RICHARD, anatom¬ 
ist. physician, lecturer, was born Jan. 31, 
1860, in England. He was professor of 
anatomy and still lectures on osteology 
in the university of Georgetown. He is 
the anatomist to the army medical muse¬ 
um of Washington. D. C. 

HODGE. FREDERICK WEBB, ethnolo¬ 
gist, author, was born in 1864, in Eng¬ 
land. He was an ethnologist at the Smith¬ 
sonian institution, and the author of Arch¬ 
itecture of the Prehistoric Pueblos of 
Southern Arizona: and Methods of Irri¬ 
gation of the Ancient Inhabitants of the 
Salado Valley. 

HODGE, GlORGE B., soldier, lawyer, 
statesman, was born July 8, 1828, in Flem¬ 
ing county, Ky. He entered the confeder¬ 
ate service as a private in 1861, and was 
soon afterward chosen to represent Ken¬ 
tucky in the confederate congress. He 
became a brigadier-general, and partici¬ 
pated in the battle of Chickamauga, sub¬ 
sequently commanding the districts of 
east Louisiana and Mississippi until the 
close of the war. He was state senator 
in 1873-77. 

HODGE. GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
state treasurer, was born July 5, 1845, in 
Seymour, Conn. In 1876 he purchased an 
interest in the firm of House and Com¬ 
pany, press paper manufacturers, and 



to become nominee 


later became sole proprietor of the busi¬ 
ness, which he still conducts. He served 
in the lower house of the Connecticut leg¬ 
islature; in 1889 was chosen state sen¬ 
ator; and in 1894 was elected treasurer of 
the state. 

HODGE, HUGH LENOX, educator, 
physician, author, was born June 27, 1796, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a physician 
who was professor of obstetrics in the 
university of Pennsylvania. He was the 
author of Principles and Practice of Ob¬ 
stetrics; and Diseases Peculiar to Women. 
He died Feb. 26, 1873, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HODGE, HUGH LENOX, physician, 
surgeon, was born July 30, 1836, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 18bi he was appointed 
demonstrator of surgery and chief of the 
surgical dispensary of the university of 
Pennsylvania, and in 1870 was made dem¬ 
onstrator of anatomy. He died June 10, 
1881, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HODGE, JOHN ASPINWALL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1831, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man in Hartford in 1866-92, and is the 
author of What is Presbyterian Law?; 
Theology of the Snorter Catechism; and 
Recognition After Death. 

HODGES, ASA, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, was born Jan. 22. 1823. He 
moved to Arkansas; and in 1866 was a 
delegate to the constitutional convention 
under the reconstruction acts of congress. 
In 1868 he was elected a representative in 
the general assembly. In 1870 he was 
elected a member of the state senate; and 
was elected to the forty-third congress 
from Arkansas. 


HODGES, CHARLES D., congressman. 
He was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from Illinois, and took his seat 
during the second session of the tnirty- 
fifth congress. 

HODGES. DANIEL F., poet, was born 
Feb. 17, 1835, in Belfast, Maine. He com¬ 
posed a number of song books, and is the 
author of a number of poems. 

HODGES, GEORGE, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1856, in New York. He is 
an episcopal clergyman, dean of the the¬ 
ological school at Cambridge from 1894. 
and prominent among broad church 
thinkers. He is the author of The Heresy 
of Cain; Christianity Between Sundays; 
and Faith and Social Service. 


HODGES, GEORGE T., merchant, bank¬ 
er, congressman, was born July 4, 1789, in 
Clarendon, Vt. He served frequently in 
both houses of the state legislature. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Vermont during the third session Oi the 
thirty-fourth congress. For more than 
a quarter of a century he was president 
of the bank of Rutland. He died Sept. 9, 
1860, in Rutland, Vt. 



HODGES. JAMES, merchant, public of¬ 
ficial, was born Aug. 11, 1822, in Liberty 
Hall, Md. In 1846, in connection with 
_ his brother he start¬ 
ed a wholesale house 
in Baltimore, Md., 
which is now one of 
the largest business 
houses in that city. 
'fjr* In 1885 he was elec-t- 
ed mayor of Balti¬ 
more, and his ad¬ 
ministration was 
marked by wisdom 
and purity. In 1887 
he was a candidate 
for the democratic 
nomination for governor of Maryland, 
and in 1891 he was a candidate for tne 
same office. He has traveler extensively 
and possesses one of the finest collections 
of rare works of art in America. 



HODGES, JAMES HARRISON, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, scientist, was born June 16, 
1866, in Worthington Springs, Fia. He 
has gained prominence as a physician 
and surgeon; and lectures on surgery and 
medicine in the Florida Medical associa¬ 
tion. He is also the president of the Flor¬ 
ida Society for Scientific Research. 

HODGES, JAMES L., state senator, 
congressman. He was a state senator in 
1823 and 1824; and was a representative 
in congress from Massachusetts from 1827 
to 1831. He died March 8, 1846. 

HODGKIN, LOUISE MANNING, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1846, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. She is an educator who was 
from 1876 to 1891 professor of English 
literature in Wellesley college. She is 
the author oi Guide to the Study oi Nine¬ 
teenth Century Literature. 

HODGKINSON, JOHN, actor, was born 
in 1766, in England. His real name was 
Meadowcraft. He played in Philadelphia 
and Boston; and was the manager of sev¬ 
eral theaters. He was the author of The 
Man of Fortitude, and other pieces. He 
died Sept. 12, 1805, in Washington, D. C. 

HODGSON, FRANCIS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 13, 1805, in England. 
He was a methodist minister in Pennsyl¬ 
vania and other states. He was the au¬ 
thor of Examination into the System of 
New Divinity; Ecclesiastical Policy of 
Methodism Defended; and Calvinistic 
Doctrine of Predestination Examined and 
Refuted. He died April 16, 1877. 

HOE, RICHARD MARCH, manufac¬ 
turer, inventor, was born Sept. 12, 1812, 
in New York city. He was one of three 
sons of the original founder of the house 
of Robert Hoe. These three sons, with 
Richard as head of the firm, in 1847 gave 
to the world the first rotary printing 
press, and later the web perfecting print¬ 
ing machines, which have made the cheap 
newspaper a possibility, and completely 
revolutionized the world of printing. He 
died June 7, 1886, in Italy. 

HOE. ROBERT, manufacturer, was 
born Oct. 29, 1784, in England. The Hoe 
press was brought out by him. and built 
from ideas that were obtained from the 
English flat-bed cylinder presses. He is 
said to have been the first American ma¬ 
chinist to employ steam as a motor for 
his machinery. He died Jan. 4, 1833, in 
Westchester county, N. Y. 

HOE. ROBEkT, manufacturer, was 
born July 19. 1815, in New York city. He 
was associated with his father and elder 
brother in the manufacture of printing 
presses. He was one of the founuers of 
the National Academy of Design, and a 
patron of young artists. He died Sept. 
13. 1884, in Tarrytown, N. Y. 

HOE, ROBERT, manufacturer, was 
born March 10, 1839, in New York city. 
In 1863 Robert Hoe entered the press 
manufacturing es¬ 
tablishment of his 
father as a partner. 
From that time to 
the present, his lab¬ 
ors in connection 
with it have been 
unremitting. Dur¬ 
ing the past ten 
years, at the head of 
a large establish¬ 
ment, doubled in 
size and importance 
since the death of 
his father and uncle, and including in its 
personnel a great variety of talent, he has 
produced some of che most remarkable 
pieces of mechanism of the century. 






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HOEY, JOSEPHINE, actress, was born 
in June, 1824, in England. In I8a9 she 
appeared in small parts at the National 
theater in New York, and thereafter be¬ 
came a stock actress in other places. 

HOI F, HENRY KUHN, naval officer, 
was born in 1809, in Pennsylvania. He 
was appointed a midshipman from South 
Carolina in 1823, and became a commo¬ 
dore. He died Dec. 25, 1878, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

HOF1, J. WALLACE, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born July 7, 1867, in Rahway, 
N. J. He studied law and subsequently 
entered journalism. For several years 
he was connected with tne State Gazette 
of Trenton, N. J.; and in 1895 founded the 
Mercer Review. He has written numer¬ 
ous local historical sketches; and is the 
author of a volume of short stories, and 
a work entitled Two Hundred Miles on 
the Delaware River. 

HOFFER. JOHN, merchant, was born 
Feb. 4, 1860, in Bonham, Texas. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the common 
schools, and at the Texas Military Insti¬ 
tute of Austin. He was corresponding 
clerk of the school land department, and 
filled various other public positions in 
Armstrong county, Texas. He has at¬ 
tained success as a wholesale and retail 
merchant of Clarendon, Texas. 

HOFFMANN, AUGUST WILLIAM, mu¬ 
sician, composer, was born July 26, 1866, 
in Germany. He is a successful teacher of 
harmony and composition in the Beetho¬ 
ven Conservatory of Music of St. Louis, 
Mo. He is the author of several piano 
pieces; and of a number of dances played 
by Gilmore’s band and other orchestras. 

HOFFMAN. BEEKMAN VERPLANCK, 
naval officer, was born Nov. ^.o, 1789, in 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He entered the navy 
as midshipman in 1805, and reached the 
grade of captain in 1829. He died Dec. 
10, 1834, in Jamaica, L. I. 

HOFFMAN. CHARLES FENNO, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1806, in New York 
city. He was a popular poet and story 
writer of New York 
city who from 1850 
lived in absolute re¬ 
tirement by reason 
of mental disorder. 
He excelled as a 
song writer, his best 
known songs being. 
Spa r k 1 i n g and 
Bright; and The 
Myrtle and Steel. He 
is the author of A 
Winter in the West; 
Wild Scenes in the 
The Vigil of Faith, 
and Other Poems; The Ecno, or Borrowed 
Notes for Home Circulation; and Love’s 
Calendar, ana Other Poems; Grayslaer, 
a novel. He died June 7, 1884, in Harris¬ 
burg, Pa. 

HOFFMAN, CLARA CLLgHORNE, ed¬ 
ucator, lecturer, was born Jan. 18, 1836, in 
De Kalb, N. Y. For twelve years she was 
principal of the Great Ward school of 
Kansas City, Mo., where she still resides. 
She previously taught in Keokuk, Iowa, 
and in Columbia, Ill. In 1882 she was 
elected president of the Missouri Woman’s 
Christian Temperance union; and in 
1893 was elected recording secretary of 
the National Woman’s Christian Tem¬ 
perance union. She has lectured in all 
the states of the union, and in Great 
Britain and Canada. Humphrey Cleg- 
horne, her father, kept an underground 
railway station for runaway slaves flee¬ 
ing to Canada. In 1861 she married Dr. 
Goswin Hoffman, now a successful Ger¬ 
man physician of Kansas City, Mo. 



Forest and Prairie; 


HOFFMAN, L-*VID, educator, lawyer, 
author, was born Dec. 25, 1784, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was a lawyer who was 
professor of law in the university of 
Maryland, and the author of A Course of 
Legal Study; Legal Outlines; Legal 
Hints; Miscellaneous Thoughts on Men 
and Things; Chronicles Selected from the 
Originals of Cartaphilus, the Wandering 
Jew; and Viator, a Peep into My Note¬ 
book. He died Nov. 11, 1854, in New York 
city. 

HOFFMAN, DAVID BANCROFT, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born July 25, 1827, in 
Bainbridge, N. Y. He is a physician of 
San Diego who has published Medical 
History of San Diego County, California. 

HOFFMAN, EUGENE AUGUSTUS, 
clergyman, and dean of the General Theo¬ 
logical seminary of New York city, was 
born March 21, 1829, 
in New York city. 
He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Colum¬ 
bia college. Gram¬ 
mar college, Rut¬ 
ger’s college, and 
Harvard university. 
He has been rector 
of Christ church of 
Elizabeth, N. J.; St. 
Mary’s church of 
Burlington, N. J.; 
Grace church of 
Brooklyn Heights; and St. Mark’s church 
of Philadelphia. This eminent clergyman 
of the protestant episcopal church is now 
dean of the General Theological seminary 
of New York city, and the author of Free 
Churches; The Ritualistic Week; Manual 
of Devotion for Communicants; and otner 
works. 

HOFFMAN. HENRY W., congressman, 
was born in Maryland. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress irom that state from 
1855 to 1857. In 1861 he was appointed 
collector of the port of Baltimore. 

HOFFMAN, JOHN N., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1804, in Pennsylvania. 
He was a lutheran clergyman of Lebanon, 
Pa., and the author of Evangelical 
Hymns, Original and Selected; A Collec¬ 
tion of Tests; and The Broken Platform, 
a Defence of the Symbolical Books of the 
Lutheran Church. He died in 1857. 

HOFFMAN, JOHN THOMPSON, law¬ 
yer, governor, was born Jan. 10, 1828, in 
Sing Sing. N. Y. He was elected recorder 
of New York city in 1860 and 1863; and 
was elected mayor in 1865, and re-elected 
in 1867. He was chosen governor in 1869, 
serving until 1872. He died March 24, 
1888, in Germany. 

HOFFMAN, MICHAEL, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1788, in Clifton 
Park, N. Y. He was elected to congress 
in 1824, and continued a member for eight 
years. He was appointed a canal com¬ 
missioner for the state of New York, 
wrote several able reports, and resigned 
the office in 1835. In 1841 he went into 
the house of assembly from Herkimer 
county. He died Sept. 27, 1848, in Brook¬ 
lyn. 

HOFFMAN, MURRAY, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born Sept. 29, 1791, in New 
York city. He was a prominent jurist of 
New York city, and the author of Office 
and Duties of Masters in Chancery; Es¬ 
tate and Rights of the Corporation of 
New York as Proprietors; Law of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States; Ecclesiastical Law in the State 
of New York; and Law and Practice as to 
References. He died May 7, 1878, in 
Flushing, L. I. 




HOFFMAN, OGdEN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 3, 1793, in New York 
city. He entered the navy as a midship- 
man, but in three 
>«-■* ' years resigned. He 

was appointed dis¬ 
trict attorney of 
Orange county; and 
removed to New 
York city in 1826. In 
- 1828 he was a repre- 

v sentative in the leg¬ 

islature; from 1829 
to 1835 was district 
attorney; and was 
appointed United 
States district attor¬ 
ney by President Harrison. From 1837 
to 1841 he was a representative in con¬ 
gress; and was again elected to congress 
in 1848. In 1854 he was appointed at¬ 
torney-general of the state. He died May 
1, 1856, in New York city. 



HOFFMAN, OGDEN, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 16, 1822, in Goshen. N. Y. 
In 1850 he moved to California, and com¬ 
menced the practice of law; and in 1851 
was appointed judge.of the L'nited States 
district court for the district of Cali¬ 
fornia. 


HOFFMAN, RICHARD C., railroad 
president, was born July 13, 1839, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. Since 1893 he has been pres¬ 
ident of the Sea Board Air line. 


HOFFMAN, RICHARD H.. musician, 
composer, was born May 24, 1831, in 
England. He was the solo piano player 
of the first series of the Jenny Lind con¬ 
certs. He settled in New York as a 
teacher and concert player. 

HOFFMAN, WICKHaM, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born April 2, 1821, in New York 
city. He is a diplomatist who, after serv¬ 
ing as secretary of legation at Paris, Lon¬ 
don and St. Petersburg successively, was 
minister to Denmark in 1883-85. He is 
the author of Camp, Court and Siege, a 
Narrative of Personal Auventure During 
Two Wars; and Leisure Hours in Russia. 

HOFFMAN, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
born Dec. 2, 1807, in New York city. He 
served in the Sioux expedition of 1855, 
and in 1858 in the Utah expedition and 
the march to California. He became a 
lieutenant-colonel in 1860, and was sub¬ 
sequently brevetted brigadier-general and 
major-general. He died Aug. 12, 1884, in 
Rock Island, Ill. 

HOFFORD, MARTIN LOWRIE. clergy¬ 
man, educator, was born Jan. 27, 1825, 
near Doylestown, Pa. In 1860 he became 
a teacher in the Trenton city institute, 
and in 1863 took charge of a military in¬ 
stitute at Allentown, Pa., which flour¬ 
ished under his administration, and was 
incorporated as Muhlenberg college, in 
which he was a professor and afterward 
president. 


HOGAN, JOHN, banker, author, was 
born Jan. 2, 1805, in Ireland. He was a 
politician and banker of St. Louis, and 
its postmaster; and the author of 
Thoughts About St. Louis; Resources of 
Missouri; Saetches of Early Western 
Pioneers; and History of Western Metho¬ 
dism. He died in 1892. 


HOGAN, JOHN ALVIN, educator, was 
born Nov. 16, 1859, in St. Anthony, now 
East Minneapolis, Minn. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the district 
schools, and graduated from the state 
university of Minnesota. He has attained 
success as an educator, and since 1889 
has been county superintendent of 
schools, with headquarters in St. Paul, 
Minn. 




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HOGAN, JOHN JOSEPH, Roman cath¬ 
olic bishop, was horn May 10, 1829, in 
Ireland. In 1882 he began to build the 
cathedral of the Immacuiate Conception 
in Kansas. 

HOGAN, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1792, in New York 
city. He was for many years a county 
judge; was a representative in congress 
from New York from 1831 to 1833; and in 
1850 became an examiner of claims in 
the department of state, which position 
was soon exchanged for that of trans¬ 
lator. He died about lo75, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

HOGE, BEVERLY LACY, lawyer, pro¬ 
hibitionist, was born April 8, 1863, in 
Montgomery county, Va. He received his 
education at the 
Virginia A. and M. 
college of Blacks¬ 
burg. He is the 
youngest son of Hon. 
James F. Hoge, and 
a grandson of Gen¬ 
eral James Hoge. 
Mr. Hoge has been 
prominent in church 
and prohibition 
work of his state for 
the past twelve 
years; and as a law¬ 
yer he has the largest practice of any 
lawyer in Roanoke, Va. He has canvassed 
the state for the prohibition party; and 
has had marked success as an evangelist. 
He has been chairman of the state execu¬ 
tive committee of the prohibition party 
of Virginia; and has filled with honor 
various positions in his town, county and 
state. 

HOGE, JAMES, clergyman, was born in 
1784, in Moorfield, Va. He was the pion¬ 
eer of the temperance movement in Ohio, 
and an ardent abolitionist, although born 
in a slave state. He was instrumental in 
establishing the state deaf, dumb, blind, 
and insane asylums; was a trustee of two 
educational institutions; and a founder 
of the Ohio Bible society. He died Sept. 
22, 1863, in Columbus, Ohio. 

HOGE, JOHN, soldier, state senator, 
congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1760. 
near Carlisle, Pa. He entered the army of 
the revolution in 1776, and was made 
ensign of the ninth Pennsylvania regi¬ 
ment. In 1782 he moved to the western, 
part of the state, and with his brother 
William founded the town of Washington. 
From 1790 to 1795 he served in the state 
senate. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania in 1804 and 1805. 
He died Aug. 4, 1824, near Washington, 
Pa. 

HOGE, JOHN BLAIR, lawyer, jurist, 
banker, congressman, was born Feb. 2, 
1825, in Richmond, Va. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state house of representatives 
from 1855 to 1859. He served in the con¬ 
federate army as a commissioned officer 
throughout the war of the rebellion. He 
was circuit judge from 1872 to 1880, and 
was elected to the forty-seventh congress 
as a representative from West Virginia 
as a democrat. 

HOGE, JOSEPH P., congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He removed to Illinois, 
and was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1843 to 1847. 

HOGE. MOSES, educator, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 15, 1752, in Freder¬ 
ick county, Va. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman and educator of Virginia, pres¬ 
ident of Hampden ana Sidney college in 
1806-20, and widely known as an eloquent 
preacher. He was the author of Christian 
Panoply, a Reply to Paine's Age of Rea¬ 
son; and Sermons. He died July 5, 1820, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 


HOGE, SAMUEL DAVIES, educator, 
clergyman, was born in 1791, in Shep- 
herdstowm, Va. In 1824 he became pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics ana natural phi¬ 
losophy in the Ohio university, Athens; 
was acting president for several sessions; 
and pastor of the town and college 
churches. He died Dec. 10, 1826, in 
Athens, Ohio. 

HOGE, SOLOMON LA FAYETTE, sol¬ 
dier, jurist, congressman, was born about 
1837, in Logan county, Ohio. He entered 
the army as first lieutenant in the in¬ 
fantry; was twice brevetted for gallant 
conduct in battle; and at the close of the 
war received a commission in the regu¬ 
lar army. He was elected associate jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of the state by 
the general assembly; and was elected to 
the forty-first and forty-fourth con¬ 
gresses. 

HOGE, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in 1762, in Cumberland county, Pa. 
He founded the town of Washington; was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1801 to 1804, when he re¬ 
signed; and again from 1807 to 1809. He 
died Sept. 25, 181% in Washington, D. C. 

HOGE, WILLIAM JAMES, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1821, near Hampden 
Sidney college, Va. He was a presby¬ 
terian clergyman of New York city, and 
subsequently of Petersburg, Va., very pop¬ 
ular in his day, and the author of Blind 
Bartimeus, or the Sightless Sinner. He 
died July 5,1864, in Petersburg, Va. 

HOGEBOOM, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born in 1808, in Co¬ 
lumbia county, N. Y. In 1831 he became 
a master in chancery and county judge of 
Columbia county, and in 1839 was elected 
to the legislature. In 1857 he was elected 
justice of the supreme court, and again in 
1865. He died Sept. 12, 1872, in Hudson, 
N. Y. 

HOGEBOOM. JAMES L., congressman. 
He was a member of the New York con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1821; and was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1823 to 1825. 

HOGG, CHARLES EDGAR, lawyer, 
lecturer, congressman, author, was born 
Dec. 21, 1852, in Pleasant Flats, W. Va. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1875, and 
in 1887 was elected to the fiftieth congress 
from the fourth congressional district of 
West Virginia. He is the author of 
Hogg's Pleading and Forms, a work on 
common law practice. 

HOGG, JAMES STEPHEN, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, governor, was born March 24, 1851, 
near Rusk, Texas. He commenced life as 
a printer, entered journalism, and for 
several years was the owner and editor 
of a newspaper. He was admitted to the 
bar, and in 1886 was elected attorney- 
general of Texas. In 1890 he was elected 
to the high office of governor of Texas, 
and was elected to a second term. He 
had previously filled the office of justice 
of the peace; district and county attor¬ 
ney, and other minor offices. He has 
been a consistent democrat; has never 
been defeated in the conventions of his 
party, nor at the polls; and in the face of 
the brightest prospects has declined to 
become a candidate for United States sen¬ 
ator, preferring to devote his time to 
private life and his profession. 

HOGG, SAMUEL, physician, congress¬ 
man, was born April 18, 1873, in Halifax, 
N. C. He served as surgeon in the army 
during the Creek war. He was elected to 
the state legislature; was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1817 to 1819, and 
declined a re-election. He was president 
of the Medical Society of Tennessee. He 
died May 28, 1842, in Nashville, Tenn. 


HOGG, WILSON THOMAS, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1852, in New York. 
He is a free methodist clergyman, presi¬ 
dent of Greenville college, and the au¬ 
thor of Handbook of Homiletics and Pas¬ 
toral Theology; and Revivals and Re¬ 
vival Work. 

HOGUE, NICHOLAS, farmer, jurist, 
legislator, was born June 4, 1*843, in Etna 
Borough, Pa. He was school director for 
nine years; has served as justice of the 
peace; and for one term was a member 
of the Pennsylvania state legislature. 

HOGUE, SOLOMON FISHER, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college presiaent, was 
born April 1. 1848. near Waynesburg, Pa. 
He received his education in the district 
school, Waynesburg college, the state 
normal school and at the Cornell uni¬ 
versity of Ithaca, N. Y. In his youth he 
learned the wagon making trade; and 
while working at the bench studied dur¬ 
ing his spare moments. He subsequently 
taught school and finished his education; 
and has since been county superintendent 
of public instruction of Greene county, 
Pa.; president of Monongahela college; 
principal of the Ellwood academy. Pa.; 
and of Hall institute of Sharon, Pa. Rev. 
S. F. Hogue has received the degrees of 
A. M., M. E. D., and Ph. D. 

HOIT, ALBERT GALLATIN, artist, 
was born Dec. 13, 1809, in Sandwich, N. 
H. He became a portrait painter, but he 
was also successful as a landscape artist. 
He died Dec. 18, 1856, in West Roxbury, 
Mass. 


and other standard 

HOKE, JACOB, author. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Age we Live In; Holi¬ 
ness, or the Higher Christian Life; Clus¬ 
ters from Eshcol; Guide to the Battle- 
Field of Gettysburg; and The Great In¬ 
vasion of 1863. 

HOKE. MARTHA HARRIET, artist, 
was born March 23, 1861, in St. Louis, 
Mo. As a portrait painter on ivory her 
name is prominently known, and she is 
also known by her superior work in black 
and white. During 1890 she taught draw¬ 
ing from the antique in the St. Louis 
School of Fine Arts. 

HOLAHAN, MARTHA EILEEN, poet, 
was born July 1, 1863, in Turner, Ill. She 
is the author of a poem in one volume 
entitled Nondescript, or The Passionate 
Recluse. 

HOLBROOK, ALFRED, educator, was 
born in 1816, in Derby, Conn. He pos¬ 
sessed great inventive talents and a taste 
for civil engineering, but devoted himself 
to educational work. He founded a 
large institution at Lebanon, Ohio, prin¬ 
cipally for the training of teachers, which 
proved successful. In 1897 he was elect¬ 
ed chancellor of the Southern Normal 
university of Huntington, Tenn. He is 
the author of The Normal, or Methods of 
Teaching; an English Grammar Conform¬ 
ed to Present Usage; a volume of Lec¬ 
tures; and other works. 




HOIT, JAMES DE WITT C., physician, 
poet, was born Aug. 25, 1842, in Laconia, 
N. H. He graduated in medicine from 
the Missouri Med¬ 
ical college of St. 
Louis; and has prac¬ 
ticed his profession 
with success in 
Yates City and Elm¬ 
wood, Ill. He has 
contributed exten¬ 
sively to medical lit¬ 
erature and the pe¬ 
riodical press; and 
his poems have been 
incorporated into 
Poets of America 
works. 





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HOLBROOK, AMOS, physician, was 
horn Jan. 23, 1754, in Bellingham, Mass. 
He established temporary hospitals for 
the admission of patients who had been 
inoculated for the small-pox, and was ac¬ 
tive in introducing and promoting public 
vaccination in Milton, Mass., which was 
the first town in the country that in a 
corporate capacity gave its inhabitants 
the benefits of this protective agent. He 
died June 17, 1842, in Milton, Mass. 

HOLBROOK, CHARLES C., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born July 13, 1848, in Russell 
county, Va. In 1881 he was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney of the fourth judicial dis¬ 
trict of Colorado at Alamosa. In 1891 he 
was elected district judge for an unex¬ 
pired term of three years; and in 1894 
was re-elected to the same office for a full 
term of six years. 

HOLBROOK, E. D.. lawyer, congress¬ 
man. was born in 1836, in Elyria, Ohio. 
Having moved to Idaho, he was elected a 
delegate from that territory to the thirty- 
ninth congress: and re-elected to the for¬ 
tieth congress. 

HOLBROOK. FREDERICK, governor, 
was born in 1813, in East Windsor, Conn. 
He was governor of Vermont from 1861 to 

1863. 

HOLBROOK. JAMES, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1812. He was, from 
1845, a special agent of the United States 
postoffice. He published Ten Years 
Among the Mailbags. He died April 28, 

1864, in Brooklyn, Conn. 

HOLBROOK. JOHN EDWARDS, physi¬ 
cian, naturalist, author, was born Dec. 30, 
1794, in Beaufort, S. C. He was a physi¬ 
cian and naturalist, professor of anatomy 
at the medical college in Charleston for 
more than thirty years, and was the au¬ 
thor of American Herpetology; and 
Ichthyology of South Carolina. He died 
Sept. 8. 1871, in Norfolk, Mass. 

HOLBROOK. MARTIN LUTHER, phy¬ 
sician, editor, author, was born Feb. 30, 
1831. in Mantua. Ohio. He is a physician 
of New York city, professor of hygiene in 
the New York Medical College and Hos¬ 
pital for Women, and editor of The Her¬ 
ald of Health and Journal of Hygiene. 
He is the author of Parturition Without 
Pain; Eating for Strength; Hygiene of 
Brain and Nerves; Marriage and Parent¬ 
age; How to Strengthen the Memory; and 
Hygienic Treatment of Consumption. 

HOLBROOK. REGINALD HEBER. ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born April 10, 1845, in 
Berea, Ohio. He was the president of the 
Normal university of Lebanon, Ohio. He 
is the author of The New Method; First 
Principles of Science of Education; and 
'Outlines of United States History. 

HOLBROOK. SILAS PINCKNEY, law¬ 
yer, author, was born June 1, 1796, in 
Beaufort, S. C. He was a lawyer of Med- 
field, Mass., and the author of Sketches 
by a Traveller. He died May 26, 1835, in 
Pineville, S. C. 

HOLCOMB. GEORGE, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Lambertsville. N. 
J He was a member of the state legisla¬ 
ture in 1815; and was a representative in 
congress from New Jersey from 1821 to 
1828. He died Jan. 14, 1828, in Allen¬ 
town. 

HOLCOMB. SILAS ALEXANDER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, governor, was born Aug. 25, 
1858, in Gibson county, Ind. For two 
terms he served as judge of the twelfth 
judicial district of Nebraska; was elected 
governor of Nebraska in 1894, and re¬ 
ceived the re-election in 1896. 

HOLCOMBE, AMASA, scientist, state 
senator, was born June 18, 1787, in Cran- 
by. Conn. He had no competitors in the 
manufacturing of the reflecting telescope 


for twenty years; and he constructed the 
first instrument and took the first Daguer- 
rean portrait in this county. He was jus¬ 
tice of the peace for thirty-two years; and 
elected a state senator in 1840. He died 
Feb. 27, 1873, in Southwick, Mass. 

HOLCOMBE, HENRY, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 22, 1762, iii Virginia. 
He was a baptist clergyman of Philadel¬ 
phia, and the author of Lectures on Prim¬ 
itive Theology; and First Fruits. He died 
May 22, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HOLCOMBE, HOSEA, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born July 20, 1780, in Union 
district S. C. He was a baptist clergy¬ 
man of Alabama, and the author of Col¬ 
lection of Sacred Hymns; Anti-Mission 
Principles Exposed; and History of Ala¬ 
bama Baptists. He died in 1841, in Jeffer¬ 
son county, Ala. 

HOLCOMBE, JAMES PHILEMON, 
lawyer, educator, author, was born Sept. 
25, 1820, in Lynchburg, Va. He was a 
lawyer and educator of Virginia, profes¬ 
sor of law in the university of Virginia 
in 1852-60, and a member of the confed¬ 
erate congress in 1861-1863. He was the 
author of Law of Debtor and Creditor; 
Literature and Letters; Introduction to 
Equity Jurisprudence; Leading Cases 
upon Commercial Law; Digest of United 
States Supreme Court Decisions; and 
Merchants’ Book of Reference. He died 
Aug. 26, 1873, in Capon Springs, Va. 

HOLCOMBE, MELVIN ALLEN, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, author, was born April 16, 
1870, in Maulden, Ky. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the public 
schools of his native state; attended the 
National Normal university of Lebanon, 
Ohio, and the College of Kentucky. For 
several years he taught in the public 
schools; and during 1894-97 was superin¬ 
tendent of public schools for Jackson 
county, Ky. He has built fifty-four 
school houses; and is now professor of 
mathematics in the Berea college. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1894; is the 
author of The History of Jackson Coun¬ 
ty; and has contributed extensively to 
current literature. 

HOLCOMBE, WILLIAM FREDERICK, 
physician, author, was born in 1827, in 
Maine. He is a physician of New York 
city, professor of eye and ear diseases in 
several medical institutions, and is the 
author of History of Mount Sterling. Ken¬ 
tucky; History of the Holcombes in 
America; and Family Records, their Im¬ 
portance and Value. 

HOLCOMBE, WILLIAM HENRY, phy¬ 
sician, author, poet, was born May 25, 
1825, in Lynchburg, Va. He was a 
homoeopatnic physician of New Orleans, 
who was well known as a Swedenborgian 
writer, and was the author of Our Chil¬ 
dren in Heaven; Lost Truths of Chris¬ 
tianity; The Other Life; Southern 
Voices, a volume of verse; Scientific Ba¬ 
sis of Homoeopathy; How I Became 
a Homoeopath; Poems; The Sexes Here 
and Hereafter; In Both Worlds; The End 
of the World; The New Tenant; Letters 
on Spiritual Subjects; and Condensed 
Thoughts About Christian Science. He 
died in 1894. 

HOLDEN, EDMUND SINGLETON, as¬ 
tronomer, educator, author, was born 
Nov. 5, 1846, in St. Louis. Mo. He is an 
a.stronomer, president of the university of 
California since 1880, and director of the 
Lick observatory. He is the author of 
Astronomy for Students; Life of Sir Wil¬ 
liam Herschel; Monograph of the Central 
Parts of the Nebula of Orion; Notes on 
the Bastion System of Fortification; As¬ 
tronomical Bibliography; Handbook of 
Lick Observatory; and The Mogul Emper¬ 
ors of Hindustan. 


HOLDEN, GEORGE HENRY, author, 
was born in 1848, in Massachusetts. He is 
the proprietor of a bird store in Boston 
who has published Canaries and Cage 
Birds. 

HOLDEN, LUTHER LOUD, author. He 
is the author of Persis, a r l'ale of the 
White Mountains; and A Summer Jaunt 
through the Old World. 

HOLDEN, OLIVER, composer, was 
born Sept. 18, 1763, in Shirley, Mass. He 
will always be remembered by his world¬ 
wide regal hymn, Coronation. He died in 
1831, in Charlestown, Mass. 

HOLDEN, WARREN, educator, poet, 
was born Feb. 1, 1817, in Newark, N. J. 
After receiving his education he took a 
voyage round Cape 
Horn to the west 
coast of South 
America. He subse¬ 
quently became a 
teacher in Pennsyl¬ 
vania, Virginia and 
New Jersey, until 
called to Girard col¬ 
lege in 1852. After 
forty-five years of 
service as professor 
of mathematics in 
that institution, he 
was retired in 1896 with a yearly pension. 
He is the author of several volumes of 
poems, entitled Fourteen Sonnets; Song 
of the Sea; Autobiography of Love; Spir¬ 
itual Evolution; Discovery of America; 
and others. All these works contain gems 
of song that place Mr. Holden in the fore¬ 
most rank of American poets. 

HOLDEN, WILLIAM W’OODS, journal¬ 
ist, governor, was born Nov. 24, 1818, in 
Orange county, N. C. He was provisional 
governor of the state in 1865; was elected 
governor in 1869, but was impeached for 
malfeasance in office, and in 1872 was re¬ 
moved from the governorship by a two- 
thirds vote of the senate of North Caro¬ 
lina, sitting as a court of impeachment. 

HOLDER, CHARLES FREDERICK, 
naturalist, author, was born Aug. 5, 1851, 
in Lynn, Mass. He is a naturalist of New 
York city, and a popular writer upon nat¬ 
ural history topics. He is the author of 
Elements of Zoology; Marvels of Animal 
Life; The Ivory King; Living Lights; 
Wonder W’ings; A Strange Company; A 
Frozen Dragon, and Other Tales; All 
About Pasadena; Along the Florida Reef; 
Life of Agassiz; and Young Folks’ Story 
Book of Natural History. 

HOLDER, JOSEPH BASSETT, zoolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Oct. 26, 1808, in 
Lynn, Mass. He was a zoologist who 
was a curator in the American Museum of 
Natural History, New York city. He was 
the author of History of the North Ameri¬ 
can Fauna; History of the Atlantic Right 
Whales; and The Living World. He died 
Feb. 28, 1888, in New York city. 

HOLDICH, JOSEPH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 20, 1804, in England. 
He is a methodist clergyman who was 
secretary of the American Bible society 
in 1849-78, and is the author of Bible His¬ 
tory; Life of A. H. Hurd; and Life of 
Wilbur Fisk. 

HOLLADAY. ALBERT LEWTS, college 
president, was born April 16, 1805, in 
Spottsylvania county, Va. In 1856 he was 
elected president of Hampden Sidney col¬ 
lege. He died Oct. 18, 1856, in Mansfield, 
Va. 

HOLLADAY, ALEXANDER R., con¬ 
gressman, was born in Virginia. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1849 to 1853. 





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HOLLADAY, LEWIS L., college presi¬ 
dent, was born Feb. 23, 1832, in Spottsyl- 
vania county, Va. From 1889-91 he was 
president of Hampden Sidney college. He 
died July 23, 1891. 

HOLLAND, CORNELIUS, physician, 
state senator, congressman, was born July 
9, 1782. He was a member of the Maine 
constitutional convention of 1819, from 
Canton; a member of the state legislature 
in 1820 and 1821; and a state senator in 
1822, 1825, and 1826. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress irom Maine from 1830 
to 1833. 

HOLLAND, DE WITT CLINTON, busi¬ 
ness man, justice of the peace, was born 
Aug. 2, 1842, in Canada. Since 1869 he 
has been successfully engaged in the 
transfer and the express business at Me- 
chaniesburg, Ohio. He has taken an ac¬ 
tive part in the public affairs of his state, 
and is now serving a third term as justice 
of the peace. 

HOLLAND, EDWARD CLIFFORD, 
journalist, poet, was born in 1794, in 
Charleston, S. C. He was a journalist of 
Charleston who was the author of a vol¬ 
ume of Odes, Naval Songs, and Ocher 
Poems. He died Sept. 11, 1824, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. 

HOLLAND, FREDERICK MAY, clergy¬ 
man, author, vras born May 2, 1836, in 
Boston, Mass. He is a Unitarian clergy¬ 
man of Massachusetts, and the author of 
The Reign of the Stoics; Stories from 
Robert Browning; The Rise of Intellec¬ 
tual Liberty from Thales to Copernicus; 
and Life of Frederick Douglass. 

HOLLAND, FREDERICK WEST, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 23, 1811, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman of Concord, Mass., and the author 
of Scenes in Palestine; and Sinai and Je¬ 
rusalem, or Scenes from Bible Lands. 

HOLLAND, HENRY WARE, lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born in 1844, in 
New York. He is a Boston lawyer and 
journalist, and the author of William 
Dawes and His Ride with Paul Revere. 

HOLLAND, JAMES, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina, from 1795 to 1797; and 
again from 1801 to 1811. 

HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT—TIM¬ 
OTHY TITCOMB—lecturer, author, poet, 
was born July 24, 1819, in Belchertown, 
Mass. He was edit¬ 
or of The Springfield 
Republican in 1849- 
66, and of Scribner’s 
Magazine from 1870 
until his death. He 
was the author of 
Kathrina; Bitter 
Sweet; The Mistress 
of The Manse; The 
Marble Prophecy; 
Garnered Sheaves, 
including all his 
poems up to 1873; 
The Puritan’s Guest, and Other Poems. In 
fiction: The Bay Path; Arthur Bonnicas- 
tle; Sevenoaks; Miss Gilbert’s Career; 
Nicholas Minturn. His other works com¬ 
prise: Gold Foil Hammered from Popular 
Proverbs; History of Western Massachu¬ 
setts; Letters to Young People; Lessons 
in Life; Concerning the Jones Family; 
Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects; and 
Life of Abraham Lincoln. He died Oct. 
12, 1881, in New York city. 

HOLLAND, ROBERT AFTON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1844, in Tennes¬ 
see. He is an episcopal clergyman of St. 
Louis, but formerly a clergyman of the 
methodist faith. He is the author of The 


Philosophy of the Real Presence; Rela¬ 
tions of Philosophy to Agnosticism and 
Religion; The Proof of Immortality; Mid¬ 
summer Night’s Dream, an Interpreta¬ 
tion; Democracy in the Church; and 
What is the Use of Going to Church? 

HOLLEMAN, JOEL, educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 1, 1799, in the 
county of Isle of Wight, Va. He was a 
representative in congress from Virginia, 
from 1839 to 1840. He was subsequently 
in the state legislature for several years, 
and was speaker of the house. He died 
in August, 1844. 

HOLLENBACK, FRANK R., poet. He 
has written extensively both prose and 
verse, which have appeared in the west¬ 
ern papers, and in several standard col¬ 
lections. 

HOLLEY, ALEXANDER H., governor, 
was born in Connecticut. He was gover¬ 
nor of his native state in 1857. 

HOLLEY, ALEXANDER LYMAN, civil 
engineer, metallurgist, author, was born 
July 20, 1832, in Lakeville, Conn. He was 
an engineer of eminence who was a lec¬ 
turer on iron and steel manufacture in 
the Columbia School of Mines from 1879, 
and an inventor of prominence. He was 
the author of Railway Economics; and 
Treatise on Ordnance and Armor. He 
died Jan. 29, 1882, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HOLLEY, HENRY W., poet, was born 
May 5, 1828, in Pierrepont Manor, N. Y. 
From an early age he contributed exten¬ 
sively to periodical 
literature. He is the 
author of three po¬ 
etical works entitled 
Moods and Emotions 
in Rhyme; The "Poli ¬ 
ticians and Other 
Poems; and What I 
Think, a satire. He 
is also the author of 
two works in prose 
entitled The Hig- 
ginsville Papers; 
and Random Shots 
at Living Targets. As an author Mr. Hol¬ 
ley has achieved great success, and the 
press speaks in glowing terms of both his 
prose and verse. His poems have been 
given a place in Poets of America and 
other standard works. He died June 27, 
1897, in Everett, Wash. 

HOLLEY, JOHN M., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in 1802, in 
Salisbury, Conn. He was a member of 
the New York assembly from 1838 to 
1841; and was elected a representative in 
congress from New York from 1847 to 
1848. He died March 8, 1848, in Jackson¬ 
ville, Fla. 

HOLLEY, MARIETTA—Josiah Allen’s 
Wife—author, poet, was born in 1844, in 
New York. She is a well-known and popu¬ 
lar humorous writer whose home has al¬ 
ways been at Ellisburg, N. Y. She is the 
author of My Opinions and Betsey Bob- 
bet’s; My Wayward Pardner; Josiah Al¬ 
len’s Wife as a P. A. and a P. I.; Saman¬ 
tha at the World’s Fair; Samantha in Eu¬ 
rope; Samantha Among the Brethren; 
Samantha at Saratoga; Samantha at the 
Centennial; Poems; Sweet Cicely; and 
Josiah’s Alarm. 

HOLLEY, MRS. MARY AUSTIN, au¬ 
thor. She was the author of Texas; Ob¬ 
servations Historical, Geographical, and 
Descriptive; and Memoir of Horace Hol¬ 
ley. She died Aug. 2, 1846, in New Or¬ 
leans, La. 

HOLLEY. ORVILLE LUTHER, lawyer, 
editor, author, was born May 19, 1791, in 
Salisbury, Conn. He was a lawyer and 


journalist of New York city, and the au¬ 
thor of Description of New York City; 
and Life of Benjamin Franklin. He died 
March 25, 1861, in Albany, N. Y. 

HOLLIDAY, FREDERICK W. M., gov¬ 
ernor. He was governor of Virginia from; 
1878 to 1882. 

HOLLIDAY, JOHN HAMPDEN, jour¬ 
nalist, was born May 31, 1846, in Indianap¬ 
olis, Ind. He is the founder and editor 
of the Indianapolis News, which was es¬ 
tablished in 1875. Since 1893 he has been 
president of the Union Trust company of 
his city. 

HOLLINGSWORTH. DAVID A., law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Nov. 21, 1844, 
in Belmont, Ohio. After graduating from. 

Mount Union college 
he soon acquired 
prominence as a law¬ 
yer, and was elected, 
prosecuting attorney 
of Harrison county, 
Ohio. He subse¬ 
quently became at¬ 
torney-general of 
Ohio; and a member 
of the state senate. 
He is a noted writer 
on law topics, and is 
a constant contrib¬ 
utor to the leading newspapers and maga 
zines of the United States. 

HOLLISTER, GIDEON HIRAM, law 
yer, author, poet, was born Dec. 14, 1817, 
in Washington, Conn. He was a lawyer 
of Litchfield, Conn., who was minister to. 
Hayti, in 1868-69. He was the author of 
Mount Hope, an historical romance; His¬ 
tory of Connecticut; Thomas fi Becket, a 
Tragedy, and Other Poems; and Kinley 
Hollow. He died March 24, 1881, in Litch¬ 
field, Conn. 

HOLLISTER, LILIAN M., supreme- 
commander of The Ladies of the Macca¬ 
bees, was born in 1853, in Milford, Mich. 

She was engaged in 
educational work for 
eight years. In 1881 
she moved to De¬ 
troit in order to. 
more effectually 
prosecute her musi¬ 
cal and literary stu¬ 
dies. She subse¬ 
quently became a 
leading member and 
president of various, 
societies. In the 
Woman’s Christian 
Temperance union she was at first for two. 
years their secretary, then vice-president, 
then president, in which latter office so 
efficient was her administration that for 
six successive years she received the dis¬ 
tinguished compliment of a unanimous 
re-election each year. In 1893 she was. 
elected great lady commander of the La¬ 
dies of the Maccabees; received the unan¬ 
imous re-election in 1894; and in 1895 was 
elected supreme commander of the Ladies; 
of the Maccabees of the World. She is a 
state parliamentarian for the W. C. T. U. 
of Michigan; is a successful public speak¬ 
er; and few presiding officers can excel 
her in maintaining harmony and expedit¬ 
ing the business of public meetings. She 
is the author of a work entitled Conven¬ 
tional How; and another work entitled A 
Model Union, which has a national and; 
world-wide reputation. 

HOLLISTER, MADISON E., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born in 1808, in Cayuga county, 

N. Y. In 1861 he was appointed associate 
justice of the United States territorial 
court of Idaho, and was soon afterwardi 
made chief justice. 









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HOLLOWAY, DAVID P., journalist, 
state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 
6, 1809, In Waynesville, Ohio. In 1843 he 
was elected to the lower branch of the 
state legislature of Indiana, and in 1844 to 
the state senate, serving nine years. In 
1855 he was elected a representative in 
congress from Indiana. In 1861 he was 
appointed commissioner of patents. He 
died Sept. 10, 1883, in Washington, D. C. 

HOLLOWAY, JAMES MONTGOMERY, 
physician, educator, was born July 14, 
1834, in Lexington, Ky. From 1874 till 
1877 he was professor of surgery in the 
, hospital college of the medical department 
of Central university, Kentucky. He has 
written much for medical periodicals. 

HOLLOWAY, MRS. LAURA (CAR¬ 
TER), author, was born Aug. 22, 1848, in 
Nashville, Tenn. She is a writer who 
was for ten years on the editorial staff 
of The Brooklyn Eagle. She is the author 
of Ladies of the White House; An Hour 
with Charlotte Bronte; The Hearthstone, 
or Life at Home; The Mothers of Great 
Men and Women; Chinese Gordon; How¬ 
ard, the Christian Hero; Life of Adelaide 
Neilson; and The Buddhist Diet Book. 

HOLLOWAY, THOMAS W„ merchant, 
farmer, was born March 28. 1829, near 
Newberry C. H., S. C. In 1846 he 
went to Columoia, 
the capital of his 
state; and subse¬ 
quently was placed 
in charge of the 
freight department 
of the Columbia and 
Greenville railroad. 
The road being con¬ 
tinued to Newberry, 
he was transferred 
to that place as 
agent. In 1852 he 
was elected cashier 
of the Bank of Newberry; and three years 
later engaged in merchandising and farm¬ 
ing. Since 1858 he has been the secretary 
of the State Agricultural and Mechanical 
society of South Carolina, and still fills 
that office in Pomaria. He was promi¬ 
nent in the affairs of the state grange, 
and was its secretary until that order 
was superseded by the alliance. Colonel 
Holloway has received the merited dis¬ 
tinction of being the most progressive and 
best qualified secretary of any of the 
states. 

HOLLY, CHARLES F., lawyer, jurist. 
He was appointed a judge of the United 
States court for the territory of Colorado. 

HOLLY, HENRY HUDSON, architect, 
author, was born in 1843, in New York. 
He is an architect of New York city, and 
the author of Country Seats; Church Ar¬ 
chitecture; and Modern Dwellings in 
Town and Country. 

HOLMAN, JESSE LYNCH, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born Oct. 24, 1/84, in Danville, 
Ky. He resided at Lawrenceburg, Ind., 
and about the year 1836 was appointed 
United States judge for the district of In¬ 
diana. He died March 28, 1842, in Auro¬ 
ra, Ind. 

HOLMAN, WILLIAM STEELE, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 6, 1822, in 
Verdstown, Ind. He was a member of the 
convention to revise the constitution of 
Indiana in 1850; was a member of the 
state legislature in 1851; and was a judge 
of the court of common pleas from 1852 
to 1856. He was elected a representative 
from Indiana to the thirty-sixth, thirty- 
seventh, thirty-eighth, fortieth, forty-first, 
forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth, for¬ 
ty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fif¬ 
tieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and 
fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat. He 


served more years in congress than any 
other member. He died April 22, 1897, in 
Washington, D. C. 

HOLME, JOHN, poet, was born in Eng¬ 
land. He left in manuscript a long and 
interesting poem entitled A True Relation 
of the Flourishing State of Pennsylvania, 
which was preserved by his descendants 
and published for the first time in Bulle¬ 
tin of Historical Collections. He died in 
1701, in Salem, N. J. 

HOLME, THOMAS, civil engineer, was 
born in 1625, in Ireland. His map of the 
Province of Pennsylvania, together with 
his Portraiture of the City of Philadel¬ 
phia, published extensively in Europe in 
1683-84, has made his name familiar to 
every student of American history. He 
died in 1695, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HOLMES, ADONIRAM JUDSON. sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born 
March 2, 1842, in 'Vvayne county, Ohio. 
He served throughout the war, rising to 
the rank of first lieutenant. He was 
elected a representative in the Iowa 
state legislature in 1881; was elected a 
representative from Iowa to the forty- 
eighth congress; and was re-elected to the 
forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a 
republican. 

HOLMES, ABIEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 24, 1763, in Woodstock, 
Conn. He was a Unitarian clergyman of 
Cambridge, pastor of the First church 
there in 1792-1832, and was the author of 
Life of Ezra Stiles; History of Cam¬ 
bridge; American Annals; and Memoir 
of the French Protestants. He died June 
4, 1837, in Cambridge, Mass. 

HOLMES, ALEXANDER J„ soldier, 
clergyman, was born Sept. 29, 1845, in 
Coxsa’ckie, N. Y. During the civil war 
he served gallantly as a soldier in tne 
second regiment of the New York volun¬ 
teer cavalry. He received a commercial 
education; studied law; and in 1872 en¬ 
tered the ministry of the methodist epis¬ 
copal church. He has attained success as 
a clergyman; has helped three missions to 
a self-supporting basis; and designed and 
built six churches and three parsonages. 
He now fills a pastorate in Algonac, Mich. 

HOLMES, CHARLES H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 24, 1827, in Al¬ 
bion, N. Y. He is a successful lawyer of 
Albion, N. Y.; and was elected to the for¬ 
ty-first congress to fill a vacancy, as a re¬ 
publican. 

HOLMES, DAVID, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born in 
Frederick county, Va. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1797 to 1809, and in the latter year was 
appointed governor of the territory of 
Mississippi, which position he held until 
1817. He was governor of the state, by 
election, from 1817 to 1819; and was a sen¬ 
ator in congress from Mississippi from 
1820 to 1825, when he resigned. He died 
Aug. 20, 1832, in Washington, Miss. 

HOLMES, DAVID, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1810, in Newburg, N. Y. 
From 1868 till his death he was in the 
ministry in the northwestern Indiana 
conference. He edited The Mirror of the 
Soul; and The Christian Preacher; and 
was the author of Pure Gold in its Native 
Loveliness; and of a Discussion upon the 
Atonement, Universal Salvation, and 
Endless Punishment. He died in 1873, in 
Battle Ground, Mich. 

HOLMES, EDMUND M., clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, college president, was born Dec. 
15, 1859, in Hardin county, Ohio. During 
1885-89 he filled the chair of Greek in the 
Simpson college, and during 1889-92 was 
president of that institution. He now 
fills a pastorate in Boone, Iowa. 


HOLMES, ELIAS B., educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 27, 1807, in 
Fletcher, Vt. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1845 to 
1849. 

HOLMES, GABRIEL, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born in 1769, in Sam¬ 
son county, N. C. He was in the state 
senate in 1807; governor of the state in 
1821; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from North Carolina from 1825 to 
1828. He died Sept. 26, 1829, near Clinton, 
N. C. 

HOLMES, GEORGE FREDERICK, ed¬ 
ucator, college president, author, was 
born in 1820, in British Guiana. In 1846 
he was president of tne university of Mis¬ 
sissippi; and in 1847 professor of history, 
political economy, and international law 
in William and Mary college. In 1857 he 
was chosen professor of history and lit¬ 
erature in the university of Virginia. He 
is the author of a series of text-books. 

HOLMES, MRS. GEORGIANA KLIn- 
GLE, artist, poet, was born in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. She is the author of two col¬ 
lections of poems 
entitled Make Iny 
Way and Mine; and 
In the Name of the 
King, published un¬ 
der the pen name of 
George Klingle. She 
is also an artist of 
merit. She founded 
Arthur's Home for 
Destitute Boys, at 
Summit, N. J., in 
memory of a son 
who died at the age 
of nine years at Summit, N. J. 

HOLMES, ISAAC EDWARD, planter, 
lawyer, congressman, was born April 6, 
1796, in Charleston, S. C. He was elected 
to the state legislature in 1826; and was 
a representative in congress from South 
Carolina, from 1839 to 1851. He died Feb. 
24, 1867, in Charleston, S. C. 

HOLMES, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, author, 
was born in March, 1773, in Kingston, 
Mass. He was a member of the Massa¬ 
chusetts legislature in 1802, 1803, and 
1812; was a boundary commissioner under 
the treaty of 1815; and a state senator 
from 1813 to 1815. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Massachusetts, from 
1817 to 1820; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Maine from 1820 to 1827, and 
from 1829 to 1833. During a part of 1829, 
and from 1835 to 1838, he was a member 
of the Maine legislature. He was United 
States district attorney, and district judge 
for Maine from 1841 until his death. He 
was the author of The Statesman, or 
Principles of Legislation. He died July 
7, 1843, in Portland, Maine. 

HOLMES, JOHN McCLELLAN, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, was born Jan. 22, 1834, 
in Livingston, N. Y. He was for several 
years a member of the educational and 
missionary boards of the reformed 
church, president of the general synod in 
1876, a delegate to the pan-presbyterian 
council at Edinburgh in 1877, and modera¬ 
tor of the presbyterian synod of New 
York in 1884. He was also for some time 
an associate editor of the Christian Intel¬ 
ligencer. 

HOLMES, MARY ARNOLD, philan¬ 
thropist, was born June 15, 1842, in El¬ 
lington, N. Y. She has been a member 
of the executive committee of the Wom¬ 
an’s Christian Temperance union of Iowa 
since 1882; and since 1889 has been a 
trustee of Benedict home of Des Moines, 
Iowa. She is the president of the Mar¬ 
shalltown Associated Charitable society. 







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HOLMES, MARY EMMA, educator, re¬ 
former, was boru Aug. 3, 1839, in Peoria 
county, Ill. After receiving her educa¬ 
tion at the Peoria 
high school, she en¬ 
gaged in educational 
work. She has at¬ 
tained success as a 
reformer, suffragist 
and religious teach¬ 
er. She is the presi¬ 
dent of the Equal 
Suffrage association 
of Illinois; a mem¬ 
ber of the Chicago 
Woman’s club; a 
member of the 
Young Woman’s Christian association of 
Chicago; and chairman of its travelers’ 
aid department, which has for its object 
the protection of ignorant girls at our 
depots. 

HOLMES, MRS. MARY JANE, author, 
was born in Brookfield, Mass. After re¬ 
ceiving her education she taught school 
for awhile; then en¬ 
tered the field of lit¬ 
erature. She has 
traveled in almost 
every country of the 
world; and has writ¬ 
ten extensively for 
magazines and 
newspapers on her 
travels and histori¬ 
cal topics. She is 
the author of: Lena 
Rivers; Tempest 
and Sunshine; Ma¬ 
rian Grey; Gretchen; and various other 
popular works of fiction. Over two mil¬ 
lion copies of her works have been sold. 

HOLMES, MORRISON A., soldier, ed¬ 
ucator, college president, was born Feb. 
6, 1835, in Augusta, N. Y. He received 
his education in the public schools, Au¬ 
gusta academy, and at the Whitestown 
seminary. He entered educational work 
ns a teacher in the public schools of Au¬ 
gustus, N. Y.; and continued in the same 
profession in 1859, at Stockbridge, Mass. 
During the civil war he served as a union 
soldier in the thirty-seventh regiment 
Massachusetts volunteer infantry. He 
then engaged in business for a few years, 
but subsequently resumed teaching. Since 
1886 he has been president of the Avery 
Normal institute of Charleston, S. C. 

HOLMES, NATHANIEL, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, author, was born July 2, 1814, in Pe- 
terboro, N. H. He was a jurist of St. 
Louis in earlier life, but from 1868-72 
Royall professor of law in Harvard uni¬ 
versity, and for many years a resident of 
Cambridge. He is an ardent advocate of 
the Baconian theory of the authorship of 
Shakespeare’s plays. He is the author of 
The Authorship of Shakespeare; and 
Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself. 

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, equal¬ 
ly noted as a poet, novelist, essayist, and 
physician, is one of the most witty, origi¬ 
nal and brilliant 
writers of the nine¬ 
teenth century; born 
m Cambridge, Mass., 
Aug. 29, 1809, was 
educated partly at 
Phillips academy, 
graduating at Har¬ 
vard when twenty 
years of age. Young 
Oliver then spent a 
year in studying law. 
but very soon aban¬ 
doned the law in or¬ 
der to enter upon tne study of medi¬ 
cine, which course he pursued in 
Europe, chiefly in Paris. In 1838 Mr. 


Holmes became professor of anatomy 
and physiology in Dartmouth college, 
which position he held until the 
time of his marriage, in 1840, when he 
removed to Boston, and there won much 
success as a practicing physician and as 
a literary writer. In 1847 he was appoint¬ 
ed to the chair of anatomy and physiolo¬ 
gy in Harvard—the seat of the medical 
department of this university being in 
Boston—a post which he filled with hon¬ 
or until 1882. Dr. Holmes was one of the 
founders of the Atlantic Monthly Maga¬ 
zine, to which he contributed from time 
to time; and in the pages of this periodi¬ 
cal first appeared The Autocrat of the 
Breakfast Table. His works are: The 
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; The 
Professor at the Breakfast Table; The 
Poet at the Breakfast Table; Mechanism 
in Thought and Morals; Memoir of Mot¬ 
ley; Over the Teacups; Our Hundred 
Days in Europe; Life of Emerson; Medi¬ 
cal Essays; Elsie Venner; The Guardian 
Angel; A Mortal Antipathy; Currents and 
Counter Currents; Pages from an Old 
Volume of Life, comprise his prose works. 
In verse his publications include, Urania; 
Astrsea; Songs in Many Keys; Songs of 
Many Seasons; The Iron Gate; The 
School-Boy; and Before the Curfew. He 
died in 1894. 

HOLMES, SIDNEY T., civil engineer, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
in August, 1815, in Schaghticoke, N. Y. 
He was twice appointed loan commission¬ 
er for Madison county, in 1848 and 1850; 
and in 1851 was elected judge and surro¬ 
gate for the same county, and re-elected 
in 1855 and 1859, serving until 1864. In 
1864 he. was elected a representative from 
New York to the thirty-ninth congress. 

HOLMES, THEOPHILUS HUNTER, 
soldier, was born in 1804, in Sampson 
county, N. C. He was commissioned ma¬ 
jor in 1855, and was made a brigadier- 
general in the service of the state. He 
died June 21, 1880, in Fayetteville, N. C. 

HOLMES, URIEL, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Connecticut from 1817 to 1818, when he 
resigned. He died in 1827. 

HOLMES, WILLIAM, lumberman, 
financier, was born April 16, 1830, in New 
In 1854 he moved to 
Green Bay, Wis., 
thence to Escanaba, 
Mich.; and in 1858 to 
Menominee, Mich. 
For forty years he 
has been actively 
engaged in the lum¬ 
ber business; is part 
owner of a paper 
mill, and a stock¬ 
holder in the Lum¬ 
berman’s National 
bank. He has taken 
an active part in 
the business and public affairs of his city, 
and has filled numerous offices of trust. 

HOLMES, WILLIAM HENRY, soldier, 
clergyman, theologian, was born in 1834, 
in Vermont. He served during the civil 
war in the Vermont 
brigade with the 
army of the Potom¬ 
ac. In 1875 he en¬ 
tered the methodist 
ministry and became 
a clergyman in the 
Rock River confer¬ 
ence. He has filled 
important pastorates 
in Chicago and vi¬ 
cinity; and is promi¬ 
nent in the religious 
affairs of his confer¬ 
ence and in philanthropic movements. 


HOLMES, WILLIAM HENRY, geolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Dec. 1, 1846, in 
Harrison county, Ohio. In 1872 he was 
appointed assistant on the United States 
geological survey, and spent eight years 
in field work and explorations in the 
Rocky mountain region. In 1881, when 
the survey was established on its present 
basis, he was made geologist in charge of 
the division of illustrations. He has ed¬ 
ited Hayden’s Atlas of Colorado, that of 
the Yellowstone country, the eleventh and 
twelfth annual reports of the geological 
survey, and other geological publications. 

HOLMES, ZACHARIAH, architect, 
builder, legislator, was born Sept. 23, 
1853, in Sweden. In 1871 he came to the 
United States, and was one of the first 
settlers of Rapid City, S. D., where he 
has lived since 1877. He was the found¬ 
er of the Swedish settlement around 
Black Hawk, S. D.; and is a successful ar¬ 
chitect and builder. He was elected a 
member of the state legislature in 1893; 
and again in 1897. 

HOLSEY. HOPKINS, journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1799, in Virginia. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Georgia, from 1837 to 1839. He subse¬ 
quently edited the Athens Banner, and 
filled a large space in the politics of 
Georgia. He died March 31, 1859, in Co¬ 
lumbus, Ga. 

HOLST, HERMANN EDUARD VON, 
educator, lecturer, author, was born in 
1841. He is an historian who first came 
to America in 1866 and engaged in lectur¬ 
ing and writing, but returned to Europe 
in 1872 and was successively professor of 
history in the university of Strassburg, 
in 1872-74, and at Freiburg, in 1874-92. In 
1892 he became professor of history at the 
university of Chicago. He is the author 
of The Constitutional and Political His¬ 
tory of the United States; Life of Cal¬ 
houn; Life of John Brown; and Consti¬ 
tutional Law of the United States. 

HOUSTON, GEORGE, artist, was born 
March 10, 1835, in London, England. In 
1867 he emigrated to New York city, and 
has attained prominence as a portrait 
painter and successful art teacher. He 
has exhibited occasionally in the Ameri¬ 
can Water-Color society, and other insti¬ 
tutions of art. 

HOLT, HOMER A., lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born April 27, 1831, in Par¬ 
kersburg, W. Va. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Rector college, and at the 
university of Virginia. In 1872 he was a 
member of the constitutional convention 
of West Virginia. In 1871 he became cir¬ 
cuit judge of the Greenbrier circuit, which 
position he filled with distinction for six¬ 
teen years. In 1890 ne became president 
judge of the supreme court of appeals of 
West Virginia, his term ending on Jan. 

1, 1897. 

HOLT, JOHN, journalist, was born in 
1721, in Williamsburg, Va. He established 
The Gazette and Post Boy. In 1766 he 
founded the New York Journal, contain¬ 
ing the freshest advices, foreign and do¬ 
mestic. He died Jan. 30, 1784, in New 
York city. 

HOLT, JOHN SAUNDERS, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 5, 1826, in Mobile, 
Ala. He was a lawyer of New Orleans, 
and the author of Life of Abraham Page, 
a Novel; What I Know About Ben Ec- 
cles; and The Quines. He died Feb. 27, 
1886, in Natchez, Miss. 

HOLT, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Jan. 6, 1807, in Breckenridge coun¬ 
ty, Ky. For two years he was attor¬ 
ney for the commonwealth at Louis¬ 
ville. In 1859 he went into the cabi¬ 
net as postmaster-general. 





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HOLT, ORRIN, congressman, was born 
in Connecticut. He was a representative 
in congress from that state in 1836 to 
fill an unexpired term, and again from 
1837 to 1839. 

HOLT, SAMUEL HUESTON, farmer, 
legislator, was born April 12, 1840, in 
Knox county, Tenn. He received his ed¬ 
ucation in the Ewing and Jefferson col¬ 
lege, Tennessee, and at the Farmersburg 
academy, Indiana. He has filled various 
positions of honor in the state of Illinois; 
and is now a member of the Oregon state 
senate; and a member of the state board 
of agriculture of Oregon for the past ten 
years. 

HOLT, THOMAS MICHAEL, manufac¬ 
turer, legislator, governor, was born July 
15, 1831, in Alamance county, N. C. In 
1876 he was elected state senator; in 1883 
and 1885 represented his county in the 
North Carolina legislature, and from 1891 
to 1893 was governor of North Carolina. 

HOLT, WILLIAM H., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 29, 1842, in Bath county, 
Ky. He has been judge of court of ap¬ 
peals of Kentucky, and chief-justice of 
that state. 

HOLTEN, SAMUEL, physician, jurist, 
congressman, was born June 9, 1738, in 
Danvers, Mass. He was a member of the 
old congress from 1778 to 1787, officiating 
at one time as its president. He also 
signed the articles of confederation. He 
was a representative under the constitu¬ 
tion from 1793 to 1795, and spent the 
closing years of his life as judge of pro¬ 
bate for Essex county. He died Jan. 2, 
1816, in Danvers, Mass. 

HOLTON, HART B., congressman. He 
was a resident of Maryland, and was 
elected a representative from that state 
to the forty-eighth congress. In 1883 he 
was an unsuccessful candidate for gov¬ 
ernor of Maryland. 

HOLTON, HENRY DWIGHT, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born in 1838, in Rock¬ 
ingham, Yt. He was educated at the Sax¬ 
ton’s River seminary, 
Vermont, and in 1860 
received his degree 
of M. D. from the 
university of New 
York. He has at¬ 
tained success as a 
physician and sur¬ 
geon in Brattleboro, 
Vt., where he is a 
member of the state 
board of health. He 
served as commis¬ 
sioner from Vermont 
to the Mexican national exposition of in¬ 
dustries and fine arts; is a member of 
the American Association for the Advance¬ 
ment of Science; was a delegate to the re¬ 
publican national convention in 1896, and 
has taken an active part in the public 
affairs of his city, county and state. 

HOLTZ, EARL DOUGLASS, soldier, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, was born Oct. 30, 1844, 
in Morristown, Ohio. He graduated from 
the Mount Union college, and has received 
the degrees of A. M. and D. D. During 
the civil war he served as a soldier in the 
departmental corps of the government for 
nearly two years. He has taught Latin 
and Greek and the English Bible in Mount 
Union college; was presiding elder of the 
Canton district for six years; and now 
fills a pastorate in the methodist episcopal 
church at Alliance, Ohio. In 1887 he made 
an extended tour of Europe, Egypt and 
Palestine, and has attained success as an 
eminent clergyman and brilliant lecturer. 

HOLYOKE, EDWARD, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, poet, was born June 25, 


1689, in Boston, Mass. In 1737 he be¬ 
came president of the Hanover univer¬ 
sity. He was a successful clergyman; dis¬ 
tinguished as a mathematician and classi¬ 
cal scholar, and the author of a number of 
meritorious poems. He died June 1, 1769. 

HOLYOKE, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, 
physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 1, 1728, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a founder of the 
Massachusetts Medical society, and its 
first president. On his hundredth birth¬ 
day, fifty of his medical brethren of Bos¬ 
ton and Salem gave him a public dinner-. 
He died March 31, 1829, in Salem, Mass. 

HOLYOKE, SAMUEL, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Oct. 15, 1762, in Boxford. 
Mass. He was a successful musician, and 
published Columbian Repository of Sa¬ 
cred Harmony; Occasional Music, and 
other works. He died Feb. 7, 1820, in 
Concord, N. H. 

HOMANS, CHARLES DUDLEY, physi¬ 
cian, was born Dec. 5, 1826, in Boston, 
Mass. He settled in Boston, and was sur¬ 
geon of the Boston city hospital from Its 
foundation. He was president of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts Medical society in 1884-86, of 
the Charitable Eye and Ear infirmary, 
and of the Boston Humane society. He 
died Sept. 2, 1886, in Mount Desert, Maine. 

HOMER, WILLIAM BRADFORD, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Jan. 31, 1817, in 
Boston, Mass. In 1840 he was ordained 
pastor of the congregational church ih 
South Berwick, Maine, continuing in this 
charge until his death. His Writings, 
with an introductory essay and memoir, 
were edited by Prof. Edwards A. Park. 
He died March 22, 1841, in South Berwick, 
Maine. 

HOMER, WINSLOW, artist, was born 
Feb. 24, 1836, in Boston, Mass. In 1863 
he exhibited for the first time, at the 
Academy, two pictures on war subjects— 
Home, Sweet Home, and The Last Goose 
at Yuletown. In 1865 he exhibited Prison¬ 
ers at the Front. 

HOMES, HENRY AUGUSTUS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 10, 1812, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a congregational 
clergyman who was a missionary at Con¬ 
stantinople in 1836-50, and subsequently 
in the diplomatic service there. From 
1854 he was employed as librarian in the 
State library at Albany. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Need of Yezedees of Mesopo¬ 
tamia; Design and Import of Medals; Our 
Knowledge of California; The Palatine 
Emigration to England in 1709; and The 
Water Supply of Constantinople. He died 
Nov. 3, 1887, in Albany, N. Y. 

HOMES, MRS. MARY SOPHIE (SHAW) 
(ROGERS), author, poet, was born about 
1830 in Frederick, Md. She is a writer of 
New Orleans, and the author of Carrie 
Harrington, or Scenes in New Orleans; 
Progression, or the South Defended, a 
volume of verse; and A Wreath of 
Rhymes. 

HOMES, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1663 in the north of Ireland. 
He published sermons on The Sabbath, 
on Public Reading of the Scripture, 
Church Government, Secret Prayer, and 
Government of Christian Families. He 
died June 20, 1746, in Chilmark, Mass. 

HONEYMAN, WILLIAM, railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born in 1842 in Scotland. Since 
1891 he has been president of the Rogue 
River Valley railway. 

HONEYMOON, A. VAN DOREN, law¬ 
yer, journalist, author, was born Nov. 
12, 1849, in Germantown, N. J. For six 
years he practiced law in Somerville, N. 
J., and subsequently has been journalist; 
and is the author of several law publica¬ 
tions and works of travel. 


HONEYWOOD, SAINT JOHN, lawyer, 
author, poet, was born Feb. 7, 1763, in 
Leicester, Mass. He was a lawyer of 
Salem, N. Y., whose political Poems were 
published in 1801. He died Sept. 1, 1798, 
in Salem, N. Y. 

HOOBLER, SAMUEL R„ farmer, edu¬ 
cator, state legislator, was born Oct. 24, 
1844, in Middleton, Ohio. He is a suc¬ 
cessful farmer and educator of Saganing, 
Mich., and in 1887 served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the Michigan house 
of representatives. 

HOOD, CHARLES IRA, manufacturer, 
was born Dec. 11, 1845, in Lowell, Mass. 
He opened a retail drug store in Lowell, 
Mass., and in 1875 began the preparation 
of Hoocl’s sarsaparilla and other ready¬ 
made medicines. The result has been that 
the business has continually increased, 
until, to-day, Hood’s sarsaparilla labora¬ 
tory, built in 1883, is one of the largest in 
the world. 

HOOD, GEORGE, musician, author, 
was born about 1815. He was a Philadel¬ 
phian who was manager of the Academy^ 
of Music in his city, and author of a His¬ 
tory of Music in New England (1846). He 
died May 18, 1869, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HOOD, JAMES WALKER, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born May 30, 1831, in Kennett 
Township, Pa. He was consecrated bish¬ 
op of the African methodist episcopal 
church in 1872. 

HOOD, JOHN BELL, soldier, author, 
was born June 1, 1831, in Owenville, Ky. 
He was a noted general in the confederate 
army, and the author of Advance and Re¬ 
treat; and Personal Experience in the 
United Slates and Confederate Armies, a 
careful defence of his military movements. 
He died Aug. 30, 1879, in New Orleans, La. 

HOOD, JOHN MIFFLIN, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born April 5, 1843, in Sykesville, 
Md. Since 1874 he has been president of 
the Western Maryland railroad. 

HOOD, SAMUEL, lawyer, author, was 
born about 1800 in Ireland. He was a 
Philadelphia lawyer, and the author of A 
Practical Treatise on the Law of Dece¬ 
dents in Pennsylvania. He died about 
1875, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HOOK, ENOS, congressman, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1839 to 
1841. 

HOOKE, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1601 in England. He was a 
puritan clergyman who was a cousin of 
Oliver Cromwell. He came to America 
about 1636; was for some seven years 
minister at Taunton, and for twelve years 
following pastor at New Haven. Return¬ 
ing to England in 1656, he became chap¬ 
lain to Cromwell. He was the author of 
New England’s Teares for Old England’s 
Feares. He died March 21, 1678, in Lon¬ 
don, England. 

HOOKER, CHARLES, physician, edu¬ 
cator, was born March 12, 1779, in Berlin, 
Conn. In 1838 he was appointed professor 
of anatomy and physiology in Yale, and 
he held this chair until his death. He 
died March 19, 1863, in New Haven, Conn. 

HOOKER, CHARLES E., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born in 1825 in 
Union District, S. C. He was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney in 1850. In 1859 he was 
elected a representative in the state leg¬ 
islature. He resigned to enter the con¬ 
federate army in 1861, and rose to the 
rank of colonel. In 1865 he was elected 
attorney-general of Mississippi, and was 
re-elected in 1868. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Mississippi to the forty- 
fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-sev¬ 
enth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses as a democrat. 




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HOOKER, EDWARD, naval officer, was 
born Dec. 25, 1822, in Farmington, Conn. 
He was bred to the sea in the merchant 
marine, commanding 
a ship when twenty- 
three years of age. 
He was one of the 
earliest volunteers 
for the naval service 
in the civil war, and 
was appointed act¬ 
ing master in July, 
1861. His first serv¬ 
ice was in the gun¬ 
boat Louisiana. He 
subsequently c o m - 
manded the blockade 
off Wilmington, and later was in com¬ 
mand of a division of the Potomac flo¬ 
tilla, in which command he continued 
until the end of the war. After the war 
closed he was at the New York navy yard; 
then took the storeship Idaho to the 
Asiatic squadron, and while there was 
transferred from the volunteer to the reg¬ 
ular navy list. He became lieutenant, 
lieutenant-commander, and in 1884 was 
promoted to commander; and the same 
year was placed upon the retired list by 
operation of law. 

HOOKER, EDWARD WILLIAM, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Nov. 24, 1794, in 
Goshen, Conn. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Vermont and the author of 
Music; and Life of Thomas Hooker. He 
died March 31, 1875, in Fort Atkinson, 
Wis. 

HOOKER, ELLEN KELLEY, educator, 
was born May 23, 1833, in Shoreham, Vt. 
After receiving her education, she entered 
educational work; 
was governess in 
1846; a teacher in 
the public schools in 
1847-48; subsequent¬ 
ly continuing her ed¬ 
ucation in Troy Con¬ 
ference academy at 
Poultney, until she 
graduated in 1851. 
She then taught in 
private schools and 
academies in New 
York state and Wis¬ 
consin. For ten years she filled the chair 
of English in the Le Roy Collegiate insti¬ 
tute, New York, and during 1879-84 was 
principal of the Ingham university of Le 
Roy. In 1884 she opened Park Place 

school for ladies at Batavia, and since 

1888 has been principal of the Sage col¬ 
lege of Cornell university. 

HOOKER, FRANK A., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Jan. 16, 1844, in Hartford, Conn. 
In 1878 he was appointed judge of the 
fifth judicial circuit of Michigan; became 
chief justice of the supreme court, and 
in 1893 was re-elected for a term of ten 
years. 

HOOKER, HERMAN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1804 in Poultney, Vt. 
He was an episcopal clergyman who re¬ 
tired from the ministry and became d 
bookseller in Philadelphia. He was the 
author of Family Book of Devotion; The 
Uses of Adversity; Thoughts and Maxims; 
The Portion of the Soul; Popular In¬ 
fidelity; and The Christian Life a Life of 
Faith. He died July 25, 1865, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

HOOKER, HORACE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1793 in Berlin, Conn. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Hartford, and the author of Youth’s Book 
of Natural Theology; and Bible History. 
He died Dec. 17, 1864, in Hartford, Conn. 

HOOKER, MRS. ISABELLA (BEECH¬ 
ER), philanthropist, author, was born 


Feb. 22, 1822, in Litchfieid, Conn. She is 
a philanthropist of Hartford, prominent 
as an advocate of spiritualism and woman 
suffrage, and the author of Womanhood: 
Its Sanctities and Fidelities. 

HOOKER, JOSEPH, soldier, was born 
Nov. 13, 1814, in Hadley, Mass. He sufc- 
ceeded Burnside as a union general fn 
the army of the 
Potomac, in 1863, 
and for his bravery 
was called Fighting 
Joe Hooker, an epi¬ 
thet he was never 
well pleased with. 
He was retired from 
active service by his 
own request in 1868, 
retaining the full 
rank of major-gene¬ 
ral. He died Oct. 31, 
1879, in Garden City, 
N. Y.; and his death was sincerely 
mourned. 

HOOKER, NOADIAH, farmer, soldier, 
state legislator, was born in 1736. He 
was distinguished in the course of his 
long life as an officer in the revolutionary 
war; as a member of the legislature, and 
as a magistrate. He died June 3, 1823, in 
Farmington, Conn. 

HOOKER, SAMUEL, clergyman, was 
born in 1632. He was ordained pastor of 
the church in Farmington, Conn., in 1661. 
He was a fellow of Harvard, and in 1662 
was one of a committee of four to treat 
with New Haven in reference to a union 
with Connecticut. He died Nov. 6, 1697. 

HOOKER, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1586 in England. He 
was a puritan clergyman who came to 
America in 1633, and was for three years 
minister at Cambridge, then called New- 
towne. In 1636 he led a large portion of 
his flock to the Connecticut valley, where 
they founded the town of Hartford. A 
theologian of great influence in his cen¬ 
tury, he was the author of Survey of 
the Summe of Church Discipline (with 
John Cotton); Application of Redemption; 
and The Poore Doubting Christian drawne 
to Christ. He died July 7, 1647, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

HOOKER, WARREN BREWSTER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 
24, 1856, in Perrysburg, N. Y. He has 
always lived in New 
York state except 
two years spent in 
Tacoma, Wash., prac¬ 
ticing law, and has 
been special surro¬ 
gate of Chautauqua 
county. He has been 
supervisor of Fredo- 
nia two terms, and 
was elected to the fif¬ 
ty-second, fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses and re-elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fifth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. He has also attained prominence 
as a lawyer in Fredonia, N. Y. 

HOOKER, WORTHINGTON, educator, 
physician, author, was born March 3, 
1803, in Springfield, Mass. He was a phy¬ 
sician of Norwich, Conn., who was profes¬ 
sor of medicine at Yale university in 
1852-67, and the author of Physician and 
Patient; An Examination of Homeopathy; 
Human Physiology for Schools; Rational 
Therapeutics; Child’s Book of Nature; 
Child’s Book of Common Things; Lessons 
from the History of Medical Delusions; 
Science for the School and Family; and 
The Medical Profession and the Commun¬ 
ity. He died Nov. 6, 1867, in New Haven, 
Conn. 


HOOKS, CHARLES, state representa¬ 
tive, congressman, was born in Bertie 
county, N. C. He served for many years 
in the North Carolina legislature; was a 
representative in congress during the 
years 1816 and 1817, and from 1819 to 
1825. He subsequently removed to Ala¬ 
bama, where he died in 1851. 

HOOPER, BENJAMIN S„ merchant, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born 
March 6,1835, in Buckingham county, Va. 
He was elected a representative from 
Virginia to the forty-eighth congress. 

HOOPER, EDWARD, engraver, was 
born May 24, 1829, in England. From 
1850 till his death he was a member of 
the wood-engraving firm of Bobbett and 
Hooper, and produced several water-col¬ 
ors that were remarkable for their ac¬ 
curacy of drawing and harmony of color. 
He died Dec. 13, 1870, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HOOPER, EDWARD JAMES, agricul¬ 
turist, author, was born in 1803 in Eng¬ 
land. He was a once prominent agricul¬ 
turist in the west who published a Dic¬ 
tionary of Agriculture. 

HOOPER, JOHN, botanist, was born in 
1802 in England. He came to the United 
States in 1839, and devoted himself to 
natural science. He made many research¬ 
es in the study of marine algae, of which 
he accumulated a valuable collection. 
This he bequeathed to the Long Island 
Historical society, of which he was a 
charter member. He died April 26, 1869, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HOOPER, JOHNSON, lawyer, was born 
about 1815 in North Carolina. He was a 
lawyer of Alabama, and the author of 
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; and 
Widow Rugby’s Husband, and Other Ala¬ 
bama Tales. He died in 1863 in Alabama. 

HOOPER, LUCY, author, poet, was born 
Feb. 4, 1816, in Newburyport, Mass. She 
was a poet of much promise whose home 
was in Brooklyn, and the author of 
Scenes from Real Life, a collection of 
prose sketches, which appeared during 
her lifetime, and her complete poems in 
1848. 

HOOPER, MRS. LUCY HAMILTON 
(JONES), author, poet, was born Jan. 20, 
1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. She was a Phil¬ 
adelphia author who lived in Europe after 
1870, and was Paris correspondent for 
several American papers, and the author 
of Poems, with translations from the Ger¬ 
man; Under the Tri-Color, a novel; and 
The Tsar's Window, a novel. 

HOOPER. ROBERT LETTICE, jurist. 
He was chief justice of New Jersey from 
1724 till 1728, and again from 1729 till his 
death in 1739. He resided in Perth Am¬ 
boy and was a warden in St. Peter’s 
church. 

HOOPER, SAMUEL, merchant, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 3, 
1808, in Marblehead, Mass. In 1851 he was 
elected to the state house of representa¬ 
tives, served three years, and declined a 
re-election. In 1857 he was elected to the 
state senate, and declined to serve a sec¬ 
ond term. In 1861 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Massachusetts to fill a 
vacancy in the thirty-seventh congress, 
and in 1862 was re-elected to the thirty- 
eighth congress. He was re-elected to the 
thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, forty- 
second and forty-third congresses. He 
died Feb. 13, 1875, in Washington. 

HOOPER, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1702 in Scotland. In 
1747 he was appointed rector of Trinity 
church of Boston, which post he occupied 
till his death. He published several ser¬ 
mons, including one with the title The 
Apostles neither Impostors nor Enthusi¬ 
asts. He died April 14, 1767, in Boston, 
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HOOPER, WILLIAM, signer of declara¬ 
tion of independence, was born June 17, 
1742, in Boston, Mass. In 1773 he was 
elected to the Massachusetts state assem¬ 
bly; was a delegate to the continental 
-congress from 1774 to 1777, and signed 
the declaration of independence. He died 
in October, 1790, in Hillsborough, N. C. 

HOOPER, WILLIAM H., merchant, 
■congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1813, in 
Cambridge, Md. In 1850 he removed to 
Utah; was a member of the legislature, 
and acting secretary of the territory. In 
1859 he entered the thirty-sixth congress 
as a delegate from the territory of Utah, 
and was re-elected a delegate to the thir¬ 
ty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first and forty- 
second congresses. 

HOOPES, EDGAR M., journalist, was 
born in Minerva, Ohio. Early in life he 
entered journalism, and was connected 
as correspondent with the Cleveland Lead¬ 
er, the Canton Repository, the Alliance 
Review, and the Chicago Times. He was 
called to the position of advertising man¬ 
ager of the Wilmington News, acquired a 
part ownership, and was soon made busi¬ 
ness manager, a position which he still 
holds. He devotes his whole time to the 
direction of affairs of his paper, and has 
made it the leading advertising medium 
in the state of Delaware. 

HOOPES, JOSIAH, botanist, author, was 
born Nov. 9, 1832, in West Chester, Pa. 
In 1853 he established a nursery at West 
Chester, which is now one of the most ex¬ 
tensive in the country. He has published 
Book of Evergreens, a treatise on the 
cone-bearing plants of the world, which is 
a standard authority. 

HOOVIS, JAMES ALEXANDER, public 
official, was born Dec. 3, 1863, in Washing¬ 
ton county, Tenn. He graduated from 
the Vanderbilt university, and received 
the degrees of B. A. and B. L. During 
1877-80 he was page in the Tennessee sen¬ 
ate; was sergeant-at-arms in 1880-81; as¬ 
sistant clerk of the senate during 1881-87; 
chief clerk of the senate during 1887-93, 
and since 1893 has been comptroller of the 
state of Tennessee. 

HOPE, JAMES, artist, was born Nov. 
29, 1818, in Scotland. In 1853 he opened 
a studio in New York, was elected asso¬ 
ciate academician in 1865, and since 1872 
has resided at Watkin’s Glen, N. Y. His 
pictures include The Army of the Poto¬ 
mac; Rainbow Falls; The Gem of the For¬ 
est; and The Forest Glen. 

HOPE, JAMES BARRON, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born March 23, 
1827, in Norfolk, Va. He was a lawyer 
and journalist of Norfolk, and the author 
of Leoni di Monti, and Other Poems; An 
Elegiac Ode; Under the Empire, or the 
Story of Madelon; and Arms and the Man, 
and Other Poems. He died Sept. 15, 1887, 
in Norfolk, Va. 

HOPKINS, ALBERT, educator, astron¬ 
omer, was born July 14, 1807, in Stock- 
bridge, Mass. In 1835 he began on his 
own responsibility the building of an as¬ 
tronomical observatory in Williamstown, 
the first that was ever established in con¬ 
nection with an American college. He 
died May 24, 1872, in Williamstown, Mass. 

HOPKINS, ALBERT C., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 15, 1837, in 
Villenova, N. Y. He was elected from 
Pennsylvania to the fifty-second and fifty- 
third congresses as a republican. 

HOPKINS, ALBERT J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 15, 1846, in De 
Kalb county, Ill. He was state’s attorney 
of Kane county, Ill., from 1872 to 1876, 
and was a presidential elector in 1884. He 
was elected a representative from Illinois 


to the forty-ninth congress to fill a vacan¬ 
cy, and was re-elected to the fiftieth, fifty- 
first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth 
and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. 

HOPKINS, ALPHONSO ALVAH, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, lecturer, author, poet, 
was born in 1843 in New York. He is a 
journalist, educator, and lecturer, and the 
author of His Prison Bars, a Temper¬ 
ance Tale; Newspaper Poets; Our Sab¬ 
bath Evenings; Sinner and Saint, a 
Novel; Life of General Clinton Fisk; 
Asleep in the Sanctum, and Other Poems; 
Waifs and Their Authors; Wealth and 
Waste; and Geraldine, a novel in verse on 
the model of Lucile. 

HOPKINS, ARTHUR F„ jurist, was 
born in 1796 in Virginia. He moved to 
Alabama early in life, and became a 
prominent whig politician, practiced law 
successively in Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, 
and Mobile for many years. He died in 
February, 1866, in Mobile. 

HOPKINS, BENJAMIN F„ business 
man, congressman, was born April 22, 
1829, in Washington county, N. Y. He 
was private secretary to the governor of 
Wisconsin for one term; was a member 
of both branches of the legislature, and 
was elected a representative from Wiscon¬ 
sin to the fortieth and forty-first con¬ 
gresses. He died Jan. 3, 1870, in Madi¬ 
son, Wis. 

HOPKINS, CASPAR THOMAS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born May 18, 1826, in 
Allegheny City, Pa. He is a California 
journalist who established the first in¬ 
surance company on the Pacific coast. He 
published a Manual of American Ideas. 

HOPKINS, CHARLES JEROME, com¬ 
poser, was born April 4, 1836, in Burling¬ 
ton, Vt. His compositions embrace ope¬ 
rettas, juvenile cantatas; church music, 
and secular songs and pieces for the piano. 
Among his works are First Book of 
Church Music; Class Book for Notation 
Study; and Second Book of Church Music. 

HOPKINS, EDWARD WASHBURN, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born in 1857 in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He is a professor of Sanskrit 
in Yale university, and the author of Mu¬ 
tual Relations of the Four Castes in 
Manu; Translation of Laws of Manu; 
Social and Military Position of the Rul¬ 
ing Caste in Ancient India; and The Re¬ 
ligions of India. 

HOPKINS, ELLEN DUNLAP, artist, 
philanthropist, was born Jan. 30, 1858, in 
New York city. In 1892 she founded the 
New York School of Applied Design for 
Women. 

HOPKINS, ELVIRA MAINS, educator, 
author, poet, was born Nov. 13, 1835, in 
Athens, Maine. She has attained success 
in educational works; and is the author 
of Sunny Side Sketches. 

HOPKINS, ERASTUS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 7, 1810, in Hadley, 
Mass. He was a presbyterian clergyman, 
long a resident of Northampton, Mass., 
and the author of The Family a Religious 
Institution. He died Jan. 24, 1872, in 
Northampton, Mass. 

HOPKINS, FREDERICK VINCENT, 
educator, physician, surgeon, author, was 
born May 23, 1839, in Burlington, Vt. 
He was surgeon and professor of geology 
in Louisiana state university; in charge of 
the geological survey of that state from 
1868 till 1874, surgeon to the New Alma- 
den and Sulphur Bank quicksilver mine 
in 1876-82, and since then has practiced 
medicine in San Francisco. He has orig¬ 
inated a method of killing the bacilli of 
tuberculosis and leprosy by half-inch 
sparks from a Ruhmkorff coil. He has 
written four reports on the Geology of 
Louisiana. 


HOPKINS, GEORGE H., soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, manufacturer, was born 
Nov. 7, 1842, in White Lake, Mich. He 
received his educa¬ 
tion in the public 
schools of his native 
state; graduated 
from the Michigan 
State Normal school 
in 1867; and in 1871 
from the law depart¬ 
ment of the univer¬ 
sity of Michigan. 
During the civil war 
he served as a union 
soldier in the seven- 
t e e n t h regiment 
Michigan volunteer infantry; and in 1889- 
90 was adjutant-general of the Grand 
Army of the Republic. During 1879-84 he 
served with distinction as a member of 
the Michigan house of representatives; 
was speaker pro tern in 1883-84, and chair¬ 
man of the judiciary committee. In 1888- 
90 he was chairman of the republican 
state central committee, and in 1890-94 
was collector of customs for the port of 
Detroit, in which city he has attained 
prominence as a business man and a suc¬ 
cessful manufacturer. 

HOPKINS, GEORGE W., educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 
22, 1804, in Goochland county, Va. Dur¬ 
ing 1833-34 he served in the house of dele¬ 
gates; was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress in 1835, and was re-elected until 
1847, serving during one session as speak¬ 
er of the house of representatives. In 
1849 he went a second time into the house 
of delegates of Virginia, and was elected 
speaker of the house. He was subse¬ 
quently elected a judge of the circuit 
court, and in 1857 was elected to the thir¬ 
ty-fifth congress. He died March 2, 1861. 

HOPKINS, GEORGE W., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Nov. 8, 1844, in West Vir¬ 
ginia. Since 1882 he has been president 
of the Bear Lake and Eastern railroad. 

HOPKINS, ISAAC STILES, college 
president, was born June 20, 1841, in Au¬ 
gusta, Ga. In 1877 he entered the faculty 
of Emory college as professor of Latin; 
in 1882 was assigned to the chair of Eng¬ 
lish and in 1885 was elected president, 
anu took the chair of mental and moral 
science. He was appointed president of 
the Georgia School of Technology when it 
was established in 1889. 

HOPKINS, JAMES C., jurist, was born 
in Vermont. He settled in Wisconsin, and 
in 1870 was appointed United States judge 
for the western district of Wisconsin, re¬ 
siding at Madison. 

HOPKINS, JAMES HERRON, lawyer, 
banker, congressman, was born Nov. 3, 
1831, in Washington county, Pa. In 1872 
he was candidate for congress for the 
state at large, and in 1874 was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-fourth congress. He was elected a 
representative to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

HOPKINS, JOHN HENRY, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 30, 1792, in Ireland. 
He was the first protestant episcopal 
bishop of Vermont. A writer of vigor and 
versatility, prominent both as a high 
churchman and a controversialist. He 
was the author of History of the Confes¬ 
sional; The End of Controversy Contro¬ 
verted; The Primitive Church; Essay on 
Gothic Architecture; The Church of Rome 
in Her Primitive Purity; Scriptural View 
of Slavery, a defence of the institution; 
Law of Ritualism; Lectures on the Ref¬ 
ormation; Twelve Canzonets, words and 
music; and History of the Church. He 
died Jan. 9, 1868, in Rock Point, Vt. 









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HOPKINS, JOHN HENRY, clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born Oct. 28, 1820, 
in Pittsburg, Pa. He was an episcopal 
clergyman who founded The Church Jour¬ 
nal, of which he was long the editor. 
Among his writings are included Carols, 
Hymns, and Songs; Poems by the Way- 
side; Life of Bishop Hopkins; Faith and 
Order of the Protestant Church in the 
United States; and a translation of 
Goethe’s Autobiography. He died Aug. 23, 
1891, in Hudson, N. Y. 

HOPKINS, JOHN W. C., lawyer, was 
born Dec. 24, 1874, in lucson, Ariz. H'e 
received his education at the South Da¬ 
kota Agricultural 
college. He was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar of 
the supreme court at 
the age of nineteen 
years; was elected 
state’s attorney the 
same year, and has 
the distinction of 
holding that position 
at an age younger 
than any other in 
the United States. 
He has gained prom¬ 
inence as a political speaker, and his hu¬ 
morous writings have attracted consider¬ 
able attention in the world of literature. 

HOPKINS, JOHNS, banker, railroad 
president, philanthropist, was born May 
19, 1795. He was the founder of the Johns 
Hopkins university, Hospital and Orphan 
asylum of Baltimore. He was a successful 
bank president, railroad president and 
capitalist. He died Dec. 24, 1873, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. 

HOPKINS, LEMUEL, author, poet, was 
born June 19, 1750, in Waterbury, Conn. 
He was a political writer of note in his 
day, author of satires, poems, and a fav¬ 
orite version of Psalm cxxxii. With Bar- 
low and others he wrote the Anarchiad, a 
plea for an efficient federal constitution. 
He died April 14, 1801, in Hartford, Conn. 

HOPKINS, MRS. LOUISA PARSONS 
(STONE), educator, author, poet, was 
born April 19, 1834, in Newburyport, Mass. 
She was an educator of Boston, for some 
years a member of the Boston school 
board, and the author of How Shall My 
Child Be Taught? Practical Pedagogy; 
Educational Psychology; Observation 
Lessons in Primary Schools; Cosmic 
Geography; Handbook of the Earth; Par¬ 
ables of Nature and Life. In verse she 
wrote, Motherhood; Breath of the Field 
and Shore; and Easter Carols. 

HOPKINS, MRS. LOUISA (PAYSON), 
author, was born Feb. 24, 1812, in Port¬ 
land, Maine. She was a writer of re¬ 
ligious works for young people, the wife 
of Professor Albert Hopkins, Williams- 
town, Mass. She was the author of The 
Pastor’s Daughter; Lessons on the Book 
of Proverbs; Henry Langdon; The Guid¬ 
ing Star; The Silent Comforter; and Se¬ 
lect Thoughts. She died Jan. 24, 1862. 

HOPKINS, MARK, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born Feb. 4, 1802, 
in Stockbridge, Mass. He was a congre¬ 
gational clergyman who was president of 
Williams college in 1836-72. He was the 
author of Lectures on Moral Science; 
The Law of Love and Love as a Law; 
Discourses and Essays; Outline Study of 
Man; The Scriptural Idea of Man; Teach¬ 
ings and Counsels; and Evidences of 
Christianity. He died June 17, 1887, in 
Williamstown, Mass. 

HOPKINS, MARK, journalist, author, 
was born in 1851 in Massachusetts. He 
was a journalist in London, and the au¬ 
thor of The World’s Verdict, a novel. 


HOPKINS, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 17, 1721, in Water¬ 
bury, Conn. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Newport, R. I., the founder 
of what has been called Hopkinsian -div¬ 
inity. The System of Doctrine Contained 
in Divine Revelation is his principal 
work. Others are, The True State of the 
Unregenerate; Nature of True Holiness; 
and The Duty and Interest of American 
States to Emancipate Their Slaves. He 
died Dec. 20, 1803, in Newport, R. I. 

HOPKINS, SAMUEL, soldier, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born about 1750 
in Albemarle county, Va. He served in 
the revolutionary war, fought at Prince¬ 
ton, Trenton, Monmouth, Brandywine, 
and Germantown, and also as lieutenant- 
colonel of a Virginia regiment at the siege 
of Charleston. He moved to Kentucky in 
1797, and served a number of years in 
the state legislature. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from Kentucky from 
1813 to 1815. He died in October, 1819, in 
Henderson, Ky. 

HOPKINS, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 11, 1807, in Hadley, 
Mass. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of New England, long a resident of 
Northampton, Mass. He was the author 
of The Puritans and Queen Elizabeth; 
Lessons at the Cross; and Youth of the 
Old Dominion. He died Feb. 11, 1887, in 
Northampton, Mass. 

HOPKINS, SAMUEL J., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 12, 1843, in 
Prince George county, Md. He enlisted 
in company A, second Maryland infantry, 
confederate states of America, and served 
during the war. After the war he set¬ 
tled in Lynchburgh, and was elected to 
the fiftieth congress. 

HOPKINS, SAMUEL MILES, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, author, was born 
May 9, 1772, in Salem, Conn. He was a 
jurist of New York state; and a repre¬ 
sentative in congress in 1813-15. He was 
the author of Chancery Reports; and 
Treatise on Temperance. He died March 
9, 1837, in Geneva, N. Y. 

HOPKINS, SAMUEL MILES, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 8, 1813, in 
Geneseo, N. Y. He is a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman, professor in Auburn Theological 
seminary from 1847, and the author of 
Manual of Church Polity; and Liturgy 
and Book of Common Prayer. 

HOPKINS, STEPHEN, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was borh 
March 7, 1707, in Providence, R. I. In 
1742 he moved to Providence and en¬ 
tered the mercantile business. From 1751 
to 1754 he was chief justice of the superior 
court; and in 1755 was elected governor 
of the state, and, with the exception of 
four years, served until 1768. He was a 
delegate to the continental congress from 
1774 to 1777, and also in 1778, and a signer 
of the declaration of independence. He 
was the author of History of the Plant¬ 
ing and Growth of Providence. He died 
July 13, 1785, in Providence, R. I. 

HOPKINS, STEPHEN T„ merchant, 
congressman, was born March 25, 1849, 
in New York city. He is an iron mer¬ 
chant; was a member of the assembly of 
the state of New York in 1885-86, and was 
elected to the fiftieth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

HOPKINS, THEODORE WELD, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 
5, 1841, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1873 he 
was called to the chair of church history 
in the congregational theological semi¬ 
nary at Chicago, Ill. In 1881 he accepted 
the pastorate of the Central Presbyterian 



church in Rochester, N. Y. He is the 
author of an historical essay on The Doc¬ 
trine of Inspiration. 

HOPKINS, THOMAS CRAMER, geol¬ 
ogist, author, was born May 4, 1861, in 
Centre county, Pa. During 1889-92 he was 
assistant state geologist of Arkansas, and 
filled the same position in 1895-96 in 
Indiana. Since 1896 he has filled the 
chair of economic geology in the State 
college of Pennsylvania. His specialty is 
building stones, on which subject he has 
published many valuable papers. 

HOPKINS, VIRA M. DARLING, poet. 
She is the author of a volume of poems 
entitled Sunny Side Sketches. 

HOPKINS, WILLIAM HENRY, college 
president, was born Dec. 20, 1841, in 
Greensborough, Md. He was elected vice- 
president of St. John’s college in 1881, 
and in 1884 was appointed president. 

HOPKINSON, FRANCIS, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born 
Sept. 21, 1738, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was a signer of the 
declaration of inde¬ 
pendence. He was a 
delegate from New 
Jersey to the conti¬ 
nental congress in 
1776 and 1777; was 
a judge of the ad¬ 
miralty court; and 
subsequently a judge 
of the United States 
district court. He 
was the author of 
The Pretty Story; 
r lhe Prophecy; The 
Political Catechism; and The New Roof. 
He is best known by his humorous poem, 
The Battle of the Kegs. Three volumes 
of his Miscellaneous Writings were pub¬ 
lished in 1792. He died May 9, 1791, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

HOPKINSON, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, poet, was born Nov. 12, 
1770, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1815 he 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania, and served until 1819, after 
which he resided in Bordentown, N. J., 
until appointed judge of the district court 
of the United States for the eastern dis¬ 
trict of Pennsylvania, when he returned 
to Philadelphia, and helu this office until 
his death. He published many interest¬ 
ing addresses, and wrote the song Hail 
Columbia. He died Jan. 15, 1842, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

HOPPER, HARRY SHELMIRE, lawyer, 
genealogist, was born June 13, 1858, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He received his degree 
of bachelor of arts 
from the Central 
High school of Phil¬ 
adelphia in 1875; and 
in 1880 received the 
degree of master of 
arts from the same 
institution. In 1878 
he graduated from 
the university of 
Pennsylvania with 
the degree of bach¬ 
elor of laws; was 
admitted to the bar 
the following year, and has continued in 
active practice ever since in Philadelphia. 
He has been an occasional contributor to 
historical magazines, and has given much 
time to genealogical research and to the 
compiling of a history of the Hopper 
Family and Collateral Lines. He is his¬ 
torian of the Association Alumni of the 
Central High School of Philadelphia, and 
a prominent member of various clubs and 
associations in his native city. 




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HOPPER, WILLIAM TATOM, journal¬ 
ist, legislator, was born May 8, 1872, in 
Georgia. He has been county school ex¬ 
aminer, and is now president of the Citi¬ 
zen Printing and Publishing company of 
Mountain Home, Ark., and is also the 
editor-in-chief of the Citizen. He has 
served with distinction as a member of 
the Arkansas state legislature. 

HOPPIN, AUGUSTUS, artist, author, 
was born July 13, 1828, in Providence, R. 
I. He is the author of On the Nile; 
Ups and .Downs on Land and Water; Ju¬ 
bilee Days; Hay Fever; Recollections of 
Auton House, a novel; A Fashionable Suf¬ 
ferer; Two Compton Boys; and Married 
for Fun, a romance. 

HOPPIN, JAMES MASON, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 17, 1820, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He is a congregational cler¬ 
gyman, professor of homiletics at 
Yale university in 1861-79, and subse¬ 
quently of the history of art. He is the 
author of Notes of a Theological Student; 
Old England; Life of Admiral Foote; 
Memoirs of Henry Armitt Brown; Homil¬ 
etics; Pastoral Theology; Office and Work 
of the Christian Minister; Sermons on 
Faith, Hope, Love, etc.; The Early Ren¬ 
aissance; and Greek Art on Greek Soil. 

HOPPIN, WILLIAM WARNER, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Sept. 1, 1807, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. After serving in the munici¬ 
pal boards of Providence he was sent to 
the state senate in 1853, and in 1854 was 
elected governor. He was re-elected in 
1855 and 1856, and was nominated for a 
fourth term, but declined. He died April 
19, 1890, in Providence, R. I. 

HOPSON, WINTHROP HARTLY, cler¬ 
gyman, was born April 26, 1823, in Chris¬ 
tian county, Ky. In 1841 he graduated 
from the Missouri 
State university, and 
entered the ministry 
of the Christian 
church. In 1843 he 
received the degree 
of M. D. from the 
McDowell college of 
St. Louis, Mo., and 
practiced medicine 
for six years, not 
ceasing in the mean¬ 
time from his min¬ 
isterial work. He 
gave much attention to the founding and 
nurturing of schools and colleges, and 
was mainly instrumental in building up a 
flourishing female hcademy at Palmyra. 
After the war he filled pastorates in Rich¬ 
mond, Va., and in Louisville, Ky. In 1874 
he returned to Missouri, and a year later 
became president of the Christian univer¬ 
sity of Canton. In 1877 he was prostrated 
by disease and died. 

HOPWDOD, JOSEPHUS, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, college president, was born April 
18, 1843, in Montgomery county, Ky. He 
attended the Eureka 
college of Abingdon, 
Ill., and the Ken¬ 
tucky university of 
Lexington. During 
the civil war he 
served as a union 
soldier in the sev¬ 
enth Illinois cavalry, 
was twice captured, 
and spent four 
months on Belle Isl¬ 
and, Va. After the 
war he went to col¬ 
lege, and subsequently attained success as 
a clergyman and educator. He has been 
president of the Milligan college of Ten¬ 
nessee since its founding in 1882; was 
managing editor of The Pilot of Nashville 
in 1895, and in 1896 was the prohibition 

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candidate for governor of Tennessee. He 
has also attained prominence as a lecturer 
on prohibition and reform subjects. 

HOPWOOD, ROBERT F., lawyer, busi¬ 
ness man, was born July 24, 1856, in 
Uniontown, Pa. He received a thorough 
education, has taught school and in 1879 
was admitted to the bar. He has since 
attained prominence as a successful law¬ 
yer in his native city; has twice received 
the nomination for district attorney, and 
in 1894 was endorsed for congress. He 
is interested in the public schools; presi¬ 
dent of the School Directors’ association 
of Fayette County, and a trustee of Al¬ 
legheny college of Meadville, Pa. He is 
interested in a number of business en¬ 
terprises at home and in the state of 
West Virginia. 



HORD, FRANCIS T., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Nov. 24, 1835, in Maysville, Ky. 
After receiving his education he studied 
law, and became 
school examiner for 
Bartholomew county 
in 1857-58; and in 
1858-60 was district 
prosecuting attor¬ 
ney. During 1862-66 
he served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member 
of the Indiana state 
senate. During 1868- 
72 he was city attor¬ 
ney for the city 6f 
Columbus; and for 
twenty years was county attorney for 
Bartholomew, county. In 1876 he was a 
delegate to the national democratic con¬ 
vention, and in 1880 was a candidate for 
presidential elector. In 1882 he was elect¬ 
ed attorney-general for the state of Indi¬ 
ana; and in 1884 received the re-election 
to the same position. In 1892 he was 
elected to the high office of circuit judge 


for the ninth judicial district of Indiana, 
and still holds that position. 


HORN, CHARLES EDWARD, compos¬ 
er, was born June 21, 1786, in London, 
England. His best known compositions 
are I Know a Bank Whereon the Wild 
Thyme Blows; Cherry Ripe; Through the 
Wood; and I’ve Been Roaming. He died 
Oct. 21, 1849, in Boston, Mass. 


HORN, EDWARD TRAILL, clergyman, 
author, was born June 10, 1850, in Easton, 
Pa. He is a lutheran clergyman of 
Charleston, and the author of The Chris¬ 
tian Year; Old Matin and Vesper Services 
of the Lutheran Church; Outlines of Lit¬ 
urgies; and The Evangelical Pastor.* 


HORN, HENRY, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1831 to 1833. 

HORN, JOHN C., educator, lawyer, cler¬ 
gyman, missionary, was born Sept. 22, 
1849, in Butler county, Ohio. Since 1876 
he has been a clergyman of the methodist 
episcopal church. He has filled the chairs 
of languages, mathematics, science, his¬ 
tory, philosophy and elocution in several 
colleges; has been president of the McGee 
college, and also president of the Lewis 
college, from which latter institution he 
received the degree of A. M. He has trav¬ 
eled extensively in Europe, and for sev¬ 
eral years was a missionary in South 
America. He now fills a pastorate in 
Cripple Creek, Col., in which state he is 
also a member of the bar. 


HORNADAY, WILLIAM TEMPLE, nat¬ 
uralist, author, was born Dec. 1, 1854, in 
Plainfield, Ind. He is a naturalist of 
Washington, for eight years chief tax¬ 
idermist of the National museum, and the 
author of Two Years in the Jungle; The 
Buffalo Hunt; Canoe and Rifle on the 
Orinoco; Free Rum on the Congo; and 
Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting. 


HORNBECK, JOHN W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New Jersey. He 
was a. member of the house of represent¬ 
atives in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1847 to 1848. He died Jan. 16, 1848, 
in Allentown, Pa. 

HORNBLOWER, JOSEPH COERTON, 
lawyer, jurist, was born May 6, 1777, in 
Belleville, N. J. He was elected by the 
joint meeting of the legislature of New 
Jersey chief justice of that state in 1832, 
and re-elected in 1839, making his full 
term on the bench fourteen years. He 
died June 11, 1864, in Newark, N. J. 

HORNBLOWER, JOSIAH, civil engi¬ 
neer, jurist, was born Feb. 23, 1729, in 
England. He was several years in the 
state legislature, serving as speaker. He 
was a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1785 to 1786; was justice of the 
peace for a long period and in 1798 was 
appointed judge of Essex county court, 
which position he held until his death. 
He died Jan. 31, 1809, in Newark, N. J. 

HORNBY, JOHN, railroad president, 
was born in 1838 in Jamaica, N. Y. Since 
1889 he has been president of the Fort 
Worth and Rio Grande railroad. 

HORNE, A. R., educator, journalist, 
was born March 24, 1834, in Pleasant Val¬ 
ley, Pa. For forty years he was engaged 
in educational work, and became presi¬ 
dent of the East Texas university. He is 
the editor and founder of The National 
Educator of Allentown, Pa. 

HORNER, FREDERICK, surgeon, jour¬ 
nalist, lecturer, author, was born June 26, 
1828, in Berry’s Ferry, Va. He has been 
a surgeon in the United States navy in 
squadrons on the coast of Brazil and 
Gulf of Mexico; at the hospital at Nor¬ 
folk, Va., and other places. He is the au¬ 
thor of Autographs of the University of 
Virginia; History of the Blair, Braxton 
and Banister Families, and a Biography of 
the Physicians and Surgeons of Virginia. 

HORNER, JOHN SCOTT, governor, 
was born Dec. 5, 1802, in Warrenton, Va. 
In 1835 he was appointed secretary and! 
acting governor of the territory of Michi¬ 
gan, inclusive of the territories of Wis¬ 
consin and Iowa. He died Feb. 2, 1883, 
in Ripon, Wis. 

HORNER, WILLIAM EDMUNDS, phy¬ 
sician, educator, author, was born June 
3, 1793, in Warrenton, Va. He w r as a 
physician of Philadelphia, professor of 
anatomy in the university of Pennsyl¬ 
vania in 1819-53, and the author of Spe¬ 
cial Anatomy and Histology; United 
States Dissector; Anatomical Atlas; and 
Pathological Anatomy. He died March 
13, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HORNIBROOK, EDWARD, physician, 
surgeon, was born Oct. 28, 1838, in On¬ 
tario, Canada. He received his education 
in the public schools, 
the university of 
Toronto, and the 
university of Vic¬ 
toria college. He 

has served as dean 
of the medical col¬ 
lege of Sioux City, 
Iowa, and professor 
of gynaecology in that 
institution. He was 
the first vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Iowa 
State Medical so¬ 

ciety; has served as consulting physician 
and surgeon of the Iowa hospital for the 
insane of Independence; and during 1891- 
96 was trustee of the State Insane hospi¬ 
tal. He is one of the foremost physicians 
and surgeons of Iowa, and now practices 
his profession at Cherokee. 




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HERRINGSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


HORR, ROSWELL G., lawyer, miner, 
congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1839, in 
Waitfield, Vt. In 1872 he removed to 
East Saginaw, Mich.; and was elected a 
representative from Michigan to the forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

HORROCKS, JAMES, college president. 
He was the sixth president of Mary and 
William college. He died March 20, 1772. 

HORRY, PETER, soldier, author, was 
born in South Carolina. He distinguished 
himself in the revolutionary war, and 
was made a brigadier-general. In con¬ 
junction with Rev. Mason L. Weems, he 
published a Life of Marion, which has 
passed through many editions. 

HORSEY, OUTERBRIDGE, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born in 1777 in 
Somerset county, Del. He was for many 
years attorney-general of the state; and 
was a senator in congress from Delaware 
from 1810 to 1821. He died June 9, 1842, 
in Needwood, Md. 

HORSFIELD, THOMAS, naturalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1773 in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a naturalist and traveler who 
was a native of Philadelphia, but was in 
the employ of the East India company, 
and lived in England after 1820. He is 
the author of Lepidopterous Insects; and 
Zoological Researches in Java. He died 
in 1859 in London, England. 

HORSFORD, EBEN NORTON, educat¬ 
or, author, was born July 27, 1818, in 
Moscow, N. Y. He was a chemist of 
Cambridge who was Rumford professor 
at Harvard university in 1847-63. He was 
the discoverer of acid phosphate, and one 
of the founders of the Lawrence Scientific 
school at Harvard. He was the author of 
Theory and Art of Breadmaking; The 
Army Ration; and Discovery of America 
by Northmen. He died in 1893. 

HORSFORD, JEDEDIAH, soldier, farm¬ 
er, congressman, was born March 8, 1791, 
in Charlotte, Vt. He participated in the 
defence of Burlington during the war of 
1812, and in 1814 removed to the Genesee 
valley, where he served as a missionary 
among the Seneca Indians. He was a 
member of the New York legislature, and 
was elected to congress as a whig, serv¬ 
ing from 1851 till 1853. He died Jan. 14, 
1874, in Livonia, N. Y. 

HORSMANDEN, DANIEL, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1691 in England. He 
was a jurist of New York city; and the 
author of The New York Conspiracy, or 
The History of the Negro Plot; and Let¬ 
ters to Governor Clinton. He died Sept. 
28, 1778, in Flatbush, N. Y. 

HORSTMANN, IGNATIUS F„ priest, 
bishop, was born Dec. 16, 1840, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. Completing the prescribed 
course of studies, he 
was elevated to the 
priesthood in 1865. 
He continued the 
studies in Rome, and 
a year later won the 
degree of doctor of 
divinity. In 1866 he 
was appointed pro¬ 
fessor of logic, meta¬ 
physics and ethics, 
as well as of German 
and Hebrew, in St. 
Charles Borromeo’s 
seminary of Philadelphia; and then dur¬ 
ing 1871-77 at Overbrook. In 1877 he 
was appointed rector of St. Mary’s 
church; in 1885became chancellor; in 1892 
was installed as bishop of Cleveland; and 
his diocese covers all of northern Ohio. 
He is an eloquent speaker; a facile writ¬ 
er; genial and democratic in manners; 
generous to the poor; and a thorough 
American in sentiment. 


HORTON, ALBERT HOWELL, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 12, 1837, in Brook¬ 
field, N. Y. In 1872 he was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the house of representatives of 
Kansas; and in 1877 was elected chief 
justice to the supreme court of Kansas. 

HORTON, GEORGE FORMAN, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Jan. 2, 1806, in 
Terrytown, Pa. He was a physician of 
Terrytown, Pa.; and the author of Ge¬ 
ology of Bradford County, Pennsylvania; 
and The Horton Genealogy. He died Dec. 
20, 1886, in Terrytown, Pa. 

HORTON, GEORGE MOSES, slave, 
poet, was born about 1798 in Chatham 
county, N. C. He is the author of a book 
of poems entitled The Hope of Liberty; 
and also wrote novels and essays. He 
died about 1880. 

HORTON, JACKSON DAVID, physi¬ 
cian, was born Sept. 23, 1860, in Nashua, 
Iowa. After attending the Nashua high 
school he entered the Upper Iowa univer¬ 
sity in 1878, and remained there for two 
years. He then went to the state uni¬ 
versity of Wisconsin for two years; in 
1884 graduated from the College of Phy¬ 
sicians and Surgeons of Chicago; subse¬ 
quently taking a post-graduate course at 
the Chicago Polyclinic. Since 1884 he has 
been in active general practice of medi¬ 
cine in his native city, where he has been 
coroner and has filled various other po¬ 
sitions of public trust. Dr. Horton is a 
prominent member of the leading medi¬ 
cal bodies of the United States. 

HORTON, NATHAN C., educator, law¬ 
yer, poet, was born Nov. 2, 1869, in Ches¬ 
ter, N. J. In his youth he taught school, 
and subsequently 
graduated from the 
state model school 
of Trenton, N. J. In 
1888 he entered the 
law department of 
the university of 
Pennsylvania, and at 
the same time was 
city editor of The 
Advance of Middle- 
town. The follow¬ 
ing year he gradu¬ 
ated and received the 
degree of bachelor of laws. In 1895 he 
became city counsel of Orange, N. J. For 
many years he was editor of The Insur¬ 
ance News of Philadelphia; has con¬ 
tributed extensively to the periodical 
press; and his poems have been given a 
place in several standard works. 

HORTON, SAMUEL DANA, publicist, 
author, was born Jan. 16,1844, in Pomeroy, 
Ohio. He was a publicist of Pomeroy, 
Ohio, and eminent as an advocate of 
bimetallism. He was the author of Sil¬ 
ver and Gold; The Silver Pound and 
England’s Monetary Position since the 
Restoration, with a History of the Guinea; 
and Silver in Europe. He died in 1895. 

HORTON, THEODORE, physician, sur¬ 
geon, state senator, was born Oct. 28, 1823, 
in Chester, N. J. In 1852 he was elected 
to the Indiana state senate, and in 1861 
he was elected to the house of repre¬ 
sentatives. In 1864 he was elected auditor 
of Wells county. 

HORTON, THOMAS R., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1855 to 1857. 

HORTON, VALENTINE BAXTER, 
manufacturer, was born Jan. 29, 1802, in 
Windsor, Vt. He was a member of the 
Ohio constitutional convention of 1850. 
In 1854 he was elected a representative to 
the thirty-fourth congress; was re-elect¬ 
ed to the thirty-fifth and thirty-seventh 
congresses. He died Jan. 14, 1888, in 
Pomeroy, Ohio. 


HORWITZ, PHINEAS JONATHAN, 
surgeon, was born March 3, 1822, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. From 1859 till 1865 he was 
assistant to the bureau of medicine, and 
chief of that bureau in 1865-69. He was 
promoted surgeon in 1861, commissioned 
medical inspector in 1871, medical direc¬ 
tor in 1873, and was retired with the rela¬ 
tive rank of captain in 1885. 

HOSACK, DAVID, physician, scientist, 
author, was born Aug. 31, 1769, in New 
York city. He was an eminent physician 
and scientist of New 
York city who 
founded the first bo- 
t a n i c garden in 
America. He was the 
author of Contagious 
Diseases; Vision; 
Hortus Elginensis; 
Memoir of Hugh 
W i 11 i a mson; Me¬ 
moirs of De Witt 
Clinton; Essays on 
Medical Science; and 
Theory and Practice 
of Medicine. He died Dec. 22, 1835, in 
New York city. 

HOSFORD, JEDEDIAH, congressman, 
was born in Vermont. He was elected a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1851 to 1853. 

HOSFORD, ORAMEL, educator, author, 
was born May 7, 1820, in Thetford, Vt. 
He was professor of mathematics and 
philosophy in Olivet college, Michigan, in 
1846, and at the same time was pastor of 
the congregational church there. In 1864 
he was elected superintendent of public in¬ 
struction of the state of Michigan. He 
published School Laws of Michigan, with 
Notes and Forms. 

HOSKIN, ROBERT, wood engraver, was 
born Feb. 10, 1842, in Brooklyn, N. Y. At 
the international exhibition of the graphic 
arts, held at Vienna in 1887, he received 
the gold medal of honor for his engrav¬ 
ing of Cromwell Visiting Milton. He is 
still an engraver for magazines. 

HOSKINS, GEORGE GILBERT, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 
1824, in Bennington, N. Y. He was ap¬ 
pointed postmaster at Bennington, and re¬ 
tained the office under three presidents. 
He was a member of the assembly of the 
state in 1860, 1865, and 1866, and in 1865 
was chosen speaker. In 1868 he was ap¬ 
pointed state commissioner of public ac¬ 
counts, and held the office three years; 
and in 1871 was appointed collector of in¬ 
ternal revenue. He was elected to the 
forty-third and forty-fourth congresses. 

HOSKINS, NATHAN, lawyer, author, 
was born April 27, 1795, in Wethersfield, 
Vt. He was a lawyer of Vermont and 
Massachusetts; and the author of His¬ 
tory of Vermont; Notes in the West; and 
The Bennington Court Controversy. He 
died April 21, 1869, in Williamstown, 
Mass. 

HOSMER, FREDERICK LUCIAN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, poet, was born in 1846 
in Massachusetts. He is a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman of Chicago; and the author of 
The Way of Life; and The Thought of 
God in Hymns and Poems. 

HOSMER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
Nov. 27, 1803, in Concord, Mass. In 1856 
he was elected president of Antioch col¬ 
lege of Yellow Springs, Ohio. He died 
July 5, 1881, in Canton. 

HOSMER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
physician, author, was born in 1846. He 
is a physician; and the author of The 
People and Politics; and As We Went 
Marching On, a Story of the War. 








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HOSMER, H. L., lawyer, jurist. He 
was chief justice of the United States 
court for the territory of Idaho. 

HOSMER, HARRIET G., sculptor, was 
born Oct. 9, 1830, in Watertown, Mass. 
She has produced two ideal heads, Daphne 
and Medusa, which were exhibited in Bos¬ 
ton in 1853. She executed a statue of 
Queen Isabella for the World’s Colum¬ 
bian exposition. Her best works are Ze- 
nobia in Chains; and The Sleeping Faun. 

HOSMER, HEZEKIAH L„ congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1797 to 1799. 

HOSMER, JAMES KENDALL, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Jan. 29, 1834, in 
Northfield, Mass. He was a professor in 
Washington university of St. Louis in 
1874-92, and since the latter date public 
librarian of Minneapolis. He is the au¬ 
thor of Short History of Anglo-Saxon 
Freedom; The Story of the ^ws; Life 
of Sir Henry Vane; Life of Samuel 
Adams; Thomas Hutchinson, Royal Gov¬ 
ernor of the Province of Massachusetts 
Bay; The Color Guard, a narrative of 
personal experience; The Thinking 
Bayonet, a novel; A Short History of 
German Literature; and How Thankful 
Was Bewitched. 

HOSMER, JEAN, actress, was born 
Jan. 29, 1842, near Boston, Mass. She first 
appeared on' the stage in a ballet at Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., and rose to be a star actress, 
performing the part of Juliet at the Chest¬ 
nut street theater, Philadelphia, in 1858. 

HOSMER, MRS. MARGARET [KERR], 
author, was born in 1830 in Philadelphia, 
Pa. She is a Philadelphia writer of Sun¬ 
day-school tales, among which are, A 
Chinaman in California; The Chinese 
Boy; The Little Captives; Lonny the 
Orphan. She wrote, also, three novels, 
Blanche Gilroy; The Morrisons; and Ten 
Years of a Lifetime. 

HOSMER, STEPHEN TITUS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1763 in Middletown, 
Conn. For two years and a half he was 
a member of the council of state, and 
after the adoption of the state consti¬ 
tution was chief justice of Connecticut 
from 1815 till 1833. He died Aug. 5, 
1834, in Middletown, Conn. 

HOSMER, TITUS, jurist, congressman, 
was born in 1736 in Middletown, Conn. 
He was a member of the council; of the 
assembly from 1773 to 1778; and speaker 
in 1777. He was a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1775 to 1779; and 
in 1780 was appointed judge of the mari¬ 
time court of appeals for the United 
States. He was a signer of the articles 
of confederation. He died Aug. 4, 1780, in 
Watertown, Conn. 

HOSMER, WILLIAM HENRY CUYLER, 
lawyer, author, poet, was born May 25, 
1814, in Avon, N. Y. He was a lawyer of 
western New York 
who wrote much in 
verse, the greater 
part of which is con¬ 
cerned with Indian 
legends. He was the 
author of Fall of Te- 
cumseh; Legends of 
the Senecas; The 
Themes of Song; 
The Months; Yon- 
nondio; Bird Notes; 
Indian Traditions 
and Songs; and The 
Pioneers of Western New York. He died 
May 23, 1877, in Avon, N. Y. 

HOSTETLER, ABRAHAM J., merchant, 
state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 
22, 1818, in Washington county, Ind. He 
was' elected a state senator from 1854 to 
1858; and was elected a representative 
from Indiana to the forty-sixth congress. 


HOSTETTER, JACOB, congressman, 
was born in York, Pa. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state in 
1814 to fill a vacancy; and again from 
1819 to 1821. 

HOSTETTER, SAMUEL E., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born July 19, 1860, in Newberry, 
Ind. He received his education in the 
common schools of Indiana, and in 1881 
attended the state university of Nebraska. 
In 1878 he moved to Nebraska, where he 
was bank clerk, city treasurer, deputy 
county clerk, teacher and law student at 
Central City, Neb. In 1883 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, and the same year was 
elected county judge. After serving two 
years he moved to Denver, Colo.; and in 
1889 to Sioux City, Iowa, where he is 
counsel for the Lombard Investment com¬ 
pany of Kansas City, Mo.; counsel for 
the Fidelity Loan and Trust company of 
Sioux City; and various other corpora¬ 
tions. 

HOTCHKISS, BENJAMIN BERKELY, 
inventor, was born Oct. 1, 1826, in Water- 
town, Conn. In 1860 lie submitted to the 
United States government an improved 
system of rifling-belt and percussion fuse 
for projectiles, and after their adoption he 
engaged in their manufacture in New 
York. His next invention of importance 
was that of a magazine-rifle, devised in 
1875, and followed in 1882 by a quick- 
firing gun. At the time of his death, Mr. 
Hotchkiss had the reputation of being the 
first artillery engineer in the world. He 
died Feb. 14, 1885, in Paris, France. 

HOTCHKISS, GILES W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 25, 1815, in 
Windsor, N. Y. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the thirty- 
eighth congress; and was re-elected to 
the thirty-ninth, fortieth and forty-first 
congresses as a republican, serving as 
chairman of civil service, and on the com¬ 
mittee on claims. He died July 5, 1878. 

HOTCHKISS, JAMES HARVEY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1781, in 
Cornwall, Conn. He was a presbyterian 
minister of Prattsburg, N. Y.; and the 
author of History of the Churches of 
Western New York. He died Sept. 21, 
1851, in Prattsburg, N. Y. 

HOTCHKISS, JULIUS, merchant, s[ate 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1810 
in Middletown, Conn. He was twice 
elected to the Connecticut state legisla¬ 
ture. In 1867 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Connecticut to the fortieth con¬ 
gress; and re-elected to the forty-first 
congress. 

HOUCK, JACOB, JR., congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1841 to 1843. 

HOUCK, LEONIDAS C., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born June 8, 1836, 
in Sevier county, Tenn. He served in the 
union army from 1861 to 1863, rising to 
the rank of colonel. He was a member 
of the state constitutional convention of 
1865; and was judge of the seventeenth 
judicial circuit from 1866 to 1870. He then 
moved to Knoxville, Tenn., and was a 
delegate to the republican national con¬ 
vention of 1868. He was a presidential 
elector in 1872 and 1876; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in the state legislature in 
1872. He was elected a representative 
from Tennessee to the forty-sixth, forty- 
seventh, forty-eighth and forty-ninth con¬ 
gresses. 

HOUGH, DAVID, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Hampshire from 1803 to 1807. 

HOUGH, FRANKLIN BENJAMIN, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born July 20, 1820, in 
Martinsburg, N. Y. He was a physician 
whose later years were passed in Low- 


ville, N. Y., in scientific and historical 
study. He was the author of Catalogue 
of Plants in Lewis and Franklin Counties; 
History of St. Lawrence and Franklin 
Counties; The Siege of Charleston in 
1780; Duty of Government in the Preser¬ 
vation of Forests; Report on Forestry; 
Elements of Forestry; and American Con¬ 
stitutions. He died June 6, 1885, in Low- 
ville, N. Y. 

HOUGH, GEORGE WASHINGTON, as¬ 
tronomer, author, was horn Oct. 24, 1836, 
in tribes Hill, N. Y. He is an astron¬ 
omer of Chicago, director of the Dearborn 
observatory; and the author of Annals 
of Dudley Observatory; Report of Dear¬ 
born Observatory; and The Galvanic Bat¬ 
tery. 

HOUGH, JACOB B., physician, was born 
June 23, 1829, in Camargo, Pa. In 1875 he 
became professor of chemistry and toxi¬ 
cology in Miami Medical college, Cin¬ 
cinnati, where he has resided since 1873, 
working as an analytical and consulting 
chemist. 

HOUGH, JOHN STOCKTON, physician 
author, was born Dec. 5, 1845, in Yardley, 
Pa. He was a successful physician and 
surgeon of Philadelphia, Pa.; and the au¬ 
thor of several medical works. 

HOUGH, LEWIS SYLVESTER, soldier, 
educator, lawyer, author, was born March 
31, 1819, in Martinsburg, N. Y. He re¬ 
ceived diplomas from Hudson and Am¬ 
herst colleges, and prior to the war he 
was engaged in teaching, as principal of 
the classical department of Germantown 
academy, and subsequently principal of 
one of the public schools in Philadelphia. 
He was a soldier in the union army dur¬ 
ing the civil war; then again taught 
school; and has attained success as a 
lawyer of Media, Pa. He is the author of 
several political essays, the best known 
being America and Her Tariff, and the 
Principles of Coinage and Currency. 

HOUGH, WARWICK, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Jan. 26, 1836, in Loudoun 
county, Va. He served in the confederate 
army during the civil war, and for awhile 
was on the staff of Lieutenant-General 
Taylor. In 1874 he was elected judge of 
the supreme court of Missouri for a term 
of ten years, during the last two years of 
which he was chief justice of the state. 
He is now one of the foremost lawyers 
of St. Louis, Mo. 

HOUGH, WILLIAM J., congressman, 
was born in New York. He served in the 
assembly of that state in 1835 and 1836; 
and was a representative in congress 
from New York from 1845 to 1847. 

HOUGH, WILLIAM R., lawyer, state 
senator, was born Oct. 9, 1833, in Will¬ 
iamsburg, Ind. He served four years as 
senator, there being two regular and two 
special sessions of the legislature during 
his term of office. 

HOUGHTON, DOUGLAS, naturalist, 
was born Sept. 21, 1809, in Troy, N. Y. 
He erected a hermitage in his father’s 
orchard, where he engaged in various re¬ 
searches. Among his experiments was 
the manufacture of percussion powder, 
which had been recently invented. He 
died Oct. 13, 1845, on Lake Superior. 

HOUGHTON, GEORGE FREDERICK, 
lawyer, journalist, was born May 31, 1820, 
in Guilford, Vt. In 1848-49 he was state 
secretary of civil and military affairs, and 
in 1852-53 state’s attorney for Franklin 
county. The next year he established the 
Vermont Transcript, and was subsequent¬ 
ly connected with the Church Journal of 
New York. He died Feb. 22, 1870, in St. 
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HOUGHTON. GEORGE WASHINGTON 
WRIGHT, journalist, poet, was born Aug. 
12, 1850, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a 
journalist and poet of New York 
city. His published volumes of verse in¬ 
clude, Songs from Over the Sea; Album 
Leaves; Drift from York Harbor, Maine; 
The Legend of St. Olaf’s Kirk; and 
Niagara, and Other Poems. He died in 
April, 1891, in Yonkers, N. Y. 

HOUGHTON, HENRY CLARK, physi¬ 
cian, educator, author, was born Jan. 22, 
1837, in Boston, Mass. He is a physician 
of New York city; dean of the ophthalmic 
hospital; and the author of Lectures on 
Clinical Otology. 

HOUGHTON, JAMES FRANKLIN, 
merchant, civil engineer, was born Dec. 1, 
1827, in Cambridge, Mass. He received 
the rudiments of his education in the 
public schools of Massachusetts, and in 
1848 graduated from the Rensselaer Poly¬ 
technic institute. He first accepted a re¬ 
sponsible position in the construction of 
the Boston water works; and in 1849 
moved to California by way of Cape 
Horn. In 1853 he became a member of 
the lumber firm of Pine and Houghton, 
which became the best known and most 
powerful house on the Pacific coast. 
During 1862-68 he served as surveyor-gen¬ 
eral of the state of California; and for 
eighteen years was president of the Home 
Mutual Insurance company. He has filled 
numerous public positions of honor; was 
president of the South San Francisco Dock 
company and other corporations; and 
has now retired from active business. 

HOUGHTON, JOHN HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, was born March 29, 1848, in Albany, 
N. Y. He attended Claverack college, 
St. Stephen’s college, and the General 
Theological seminary. In 1872 he was or¬ 
dained to the deaconate of the episcopal 
church; and in 1875 to the priesthood. 
In 1872 he was deacon of the Trinity 
church of New York city; in 1876 was 
called to St. Paul’s church of Salem, N. Y., 
after a year’s travel in Europe; and in 
1886 became rector of the Rexleigh school 
in the same city. Since 1892 he has been 
rector of St. Mark's of Denver, Colo.; and 
is a canon of the cathedral of St. John, 
and a member of the standing committee 
of the diocese. 

HOUGHTON, SHERMAN OTIS, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born April 10, 1828, 
He received his edu¬ 
cation in the private 
schools of New York 
city. In 1846 he en¬ 
listed in the first 
regiment of New 
York volunteers for 
service during the 
war with Mexico. He 
went with his regi¬ 
ment around Cape 
Horn in 1846, arriv¬ 
ing at San Francisco 
on March 26, 1847. 
He participated in 
with the Mexican 
troops; was promoted to a lieutenancy, 
and made adjutant of his command. After 
his return to California he engaged in 
gold mining for a short time; remained in 
San Jose during 1849-86; thence to Los 
Angeles, where he has since resided. In 
1855-56 he was mayor of San Jose; was 
a member of the fifty-second and fifty- 
third congresses. He served two years as 
ordnance officer on the staff of Major- 
General H. W. Halleck, with the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel. In 1860 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar; has been leading coun¬ 
sel in numerous important cases involv¬ 
ing titles under Spanish and Mexican land 
grants in California. 


HOUK, CLYDE STANLEY, educator, 
writer, was born Jan. 22, 1873, in New 
Haven, Ill. After receiving the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the public 
schools, he attended the Southern Illi¬ 
nois university, and graduated from that 
institution in 1893. He then took up edu¬ 
cational work; has taught German, 
French and Spanish; and has attained 
prominence as a writer for educational pa¬ 
pers and magazines. 

HOUK, GEORGE W., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 25, 1825, in Cum- 
For awhile he taught 
school. He was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 
1846; and practiced 
law in Dayton, Ohio. 
In 1852-53 he was 
elected to the Ohio 
state legislature; 
and in 1860 was a 
delegate to the Char- 
1 e s t o n - Baltimore 
convention. In 1876 
he was a delegate to 
the national repub- 
lican convention; 
and in 1884 was district elector on the 
democratic presidential ticket. He was 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat; and was re-elected to the fifty- 
third congress, but died before the ex¬ 
piration of his second term. His contri¬ 
butions to the press embraced a wide 
range of subjects. His wife has also at¬ 
tained prominence as an author. 

HOUK, JOHN C., congressman, was 
born Feb. 26, 1860, in Clinton, Tenn. He 
was elected from Tennessee to the fifty- 
second, and re-elected to the fifty-third 
congress as a republican. 

HOUSE, EDWARD HOWARD, journal¬ 
ist, critic, author, was born Sept. 5, 1836, 
in Boston, Mass. He is a journalist and 
critic of Boston and New York; long 
resident in Japan; and the author of The 
Simonoseki Affair; The Kagosima Affair; 
The Japanese Expedition to Formosa; 
Japanese Episodes; Yone Santo, a Child 
of Japan; and The Midnight Warning, 
and Other Stories. 

HOUSE, HANNA A., poet, was born 
near Hillsboro, Va. She has attained 
prominence in the south in the field of 
literature; is the author of a number of 
very fine poems, several of which have 
received a place in standard national col¬ 
lections of poetry. 

HOUSE, JAMES ALFORD, inventor, 
was born April 6, 1838, in New York city. 
In 1864 he became the mechanical en¬ 
gineer of the Wheeler and Wilson Manu¬ 
facturing company. The button-hole ma¬ 
chine made by this corporation was in¬ 
vented by him in 1862, and the button¬ 
hole attachment for their family sewing- 
machine was patented by him in 1866. He 
has also invented an india-rubber trunk 
shield and several sewing-machine im¬ 
provements. 

HOUSE, JOHN F., soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 9, 1827, in Will¬ 
iamson county, Tenn. He was elected a 
member of the state legislature in 1853; 
was a presidential elector in 1860; and in 
1861 was a member of the provisional con¬ 
gress of confederate states. He entered 
the southern army and remained until the 
close of the war. He was a member of the 
house of the Tennessee constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1870; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Tennessee to the forty- 
fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty- 
seventh congresses as a democrat. 

HOUSE, ROYAL EARL, inventor, was 
born Sept. 9, 1814, in Rockingham, Vt. 
The practicability of the printing-tele¬ 


graph became manifest to him, and he in¬ 
vented a keyboard, a single line of in¬ 
sulated electric conductors, magnets, 
type-wheels, automatic platens, and pa¬ 
per-carriers, for several stations, adapted 
for transmitting and printing messages in 
Roman characters. 

HOUSEMAN, JULIUS, merchant, man¬ 
ufacturer, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 
1832, in Germany. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the Michigan state legislature in 
1871 and 1872; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Michigan to the forty- 
eighth congress as a democrat. 

HOUSER, JESSE P., lawyer, jurist, was 
born March 2, 1864, in Columbus, Ind. He 
received the rudiments of his education in 
the public schools, and graduated from 
the state normal school of Kirksville, Mo'. 
He has attained prominence as an able 
lawyer; was elected mayor of Mount 
Vernon, Wash., in 1894, for a term of 
two years; and in 1896 was elected judge 
of the superior court of the state of Wash¬ 
ington for a term of four years. 

HOUSER, SAMUEL T., banker, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1832. He became 
largely interested in mining, and was suc¬ 
cessful; settled at Helena, Mont.; and 
became president of the First National 
bank of Helena. In 1885 he was appointed 
governor of the territory of Montana for 
the term of four years. 

HOUSTON, A. ROSS, soldier, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born March 20, 1848, in Mid¬ 
dletown, N. Y. He received his education 
at the Walkill academy and from private 
tutors. At the age of sixteen he entered 
the union army as second lieutenant in 
the fourth engineer corps D'Afrique; was 
promoted to first lieutenant and captain, 
and assigned as aid-de-camp at head¬ 
quarters, department of the Gulf, and 
served in the campaigns of Red River and 
against Mobile in 1864-65. After his war 
service Capt. Houston entered the em¬ 
ploy of the engineer department of the 
United States army, and has remained 
continuously in that department to the 
present time, serving on the New England 
coast and on works connected with the 
great lakes and rivers of the northwest. 

HOUSTON, DANIEL FRANKLIN, edu¬ 
cator, author. He is a professor of politi¬ 
cal economy in the university of Texas; 
and the author of A Critical History of 
Nullification in South Carolina. 

HOUSTON, DAVID CRAWFORD, civil 
engineer, was born Dec. 5. 1835, in New 
York city. During the civil war, as first 
lieutenant of the engineer corps, he aided 
in constructing the defences of Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. In 1865 he was brevetted col¬ 
onel for gallant and meritorious services 
during the rebellion. 

HOUSTON, GEORGE S., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, governor, United 
States senator, was born Jan. 17, 1811, in 
Williamson county, Tenn. He was elect¬ 
ed to the Alabama legislature and served 
two sessions; was for a time attorney 
for the state; and was a second time 
elected to the legislature. He was 
elected a representative to congress in 
1841, and continued to serve by successive 
re-elections until 1849. He was again 
elected to congress in 1851, and subse¬ 
quently re-elected. He was governor of 
Alabama from 1874 to 1876; and was elect¬ 
ed United States senator from Alabama 
for the term of six years from March 4, 
1879. He died Dec. 31, 1879, in Athens; 
Ala. 

HOUSTON, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Maryland. In 1806 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States judge for the dis¬ 
trict of Maryland. 


in New York city. 



numerous conflicts 


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HOUSTON, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Aug. 31, 1744, in Waynes¬ 
boro, Ga. He was a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1775 to 1777, and 
was a member of the first naval commit¬ 
tee. He was a member of the state coun¬ 
cil in May, 1777; governor of Georgia 
from 1778 to 1784; and in 1787 was com¬ 
missioner for settling the boundary be¬ 
tween Georgia and South Carolina. In 
1792 he was appointed first judge of the 
supreme court of Georgia. He died July 
20, 1796, in Savannah. 

HOUSTON, JOHN W., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in Sussex county, 
Del. He was secretary of state in 1841; 
and a representative in congress from 
Delaware from 1845 to 1851. In 1856 he 
was appointed judge of the supreme court 
of Delaware; and was a delegate to the 
peace congress of 1861. 

HOUSTON, SAM, soldier, statesman, 
was born March 2, 1793, in Rockbridge 
county, Va. His mother removed with 
her family to the 
banks of the Tennes¬ 
see, at that time the 
limit of civilization. 
He served for a time 
as clerk to a country 
trader, and taught 
school. In 1813 he 
enlisted in the army 
and served under 
General Jackson in 
the war with the 
Creek Indians; dis¬ 
tinguished himself 
on several occasions, and, at the conclu¬ 
sion of the war, had risen to the rank 
of lieutenant. He commenced the study 
of law at Nashville; and after holding 
several minor offices in Tennessee, he 
was, in 1823, elected to congress, and con¬ 
tinued a member of that body until 1827, 
when he became governor of Tennessee. 
In 1829, before the expiration of his guber¬ 
natorial term, he resigned his office, and 
went to take up his abode among the 
Cherokee Indians in Arkansas. A militia 
was organized, and Austin, the founder 
of the colony, was elected commander-in- 
chief, in which office he was shortly after 
succeeded by General Houston. He con¬ 
ducted the war with vigor, and finally 
brought it to a successful termination 
by the battle of San Jacinto, which was 
fought in 1836; in May, 1836, he signed a 
treaty acknowledging the independence 
of Texas, and in October of the same year 
was inaugurated the first president of the 
republic; and at the end of his term 
■of office, as the same person could not 
constitutionally be elected president twice 
in succession, he became a member of the 
Texas congress. In 1841, however, he was 
again elevated to the presidential chair; 
during the whole time that he held that 
office it was his favorite policy to effect 
the annexation of Texas to the United 
States. In 1846 Texas became one of the 
states of the union, and General Houston 
was elected to the United States senate, of 
which body he remained a member until 
1859. In 1859 he was elected governor 
of Texas; in a letter that he addressed 
to the compiler of this volume he said, in 
his characteristic manner, that he had 
risen from a sergeant up to president of 
a republic, and down to a senator of 
the United States. His name was Sam— 
not Samuel, as generally printed. He died 
July 25, 1863, in Huntsville, Texas. 

HOUSTON, WILLIAM, congressman 
He was a delegate from Georgia to the 
continental congress from 1784 to 1787; 
and was a member of the convention 
which framed the federal constitution, but 
did not sign the instrument. 


HOUSTON, WILLIAM CHURCHILL, 
educator, congressman, was born in 1740 
in Cabarrus county, N. C. He was a pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics in Princeton col¬ 
lege. He was a delegate from New Jersey 
to the continental congress from 1779 to 
1782, and again in 1784 and 1785. He died 
Aug. 12, 1788, in Frankfort, Pa. 

HOUSWORTH, WILLIAM EUGENE, 
educator, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 
7, 1853, in Selin’s Grove, Pa. He learned 
the printer’s trade; then took up educa¬ 
tional work for about twelve years; and 
in 1880 was admitted to the bar. He is 
the author of a number of meritorious 
poems; and is known in central Penn¬ 
sylvania as the bard of the Susquehanna. 

HOVEY, ALBERT G., merchant, banker, 
state senator, was born July 11, 1824, in 
Londonderry, N. H. In 1862 he was elect¬ 
ed a senator of the Oregon legislature; 
served three sessions; and in 1888 was 
made mayor of his city. 

HOVEY, ALVAH, clergyman, educator, 
college president, author, was born March 
5, 1820, in Greene, N. Y. He is a baptist 
clergyman; professor in Newton Theo¬ 
logical seminary from 1849; and since 
1868 its president. He is the author of 
The Miracles of Christ; The Scriptural 
Law of Divorce; Life of Isaac Backus; 
State of the Impenitent Dead; Christian 
Teaching and Life; God with Us; Sys¬ 
tematic Theology; Biblical Eschatology; 
and Studies in Ethics and Religion, which 
include his principal works. 

HOVEY, ALVIN PETERSON, soldier, 
was born Sept. 6, 1821, in Posey county, 
Ind. He entered the volunteer service 
during the rebellion as a major; served 
with distinction as colonel and brigadier- 
general at Shiloh, Corinth, Champion Hill 
and Vicksburg; and was made a brevet 
major-general. 

HOVEY, CHARLES EDWARD, soldier, 
educator, lawyer, college president, was 
born April 26, 1827, in Thetford, Vt. He 
assisted in organizing the Illinois normal 
university in Normal, of which he was 
president from 1857 till the civil war; and 
on the organization of a system of public 
schools in that city in 1856 he was ap¬ 
pointed superintendent, and assisted in 
forming the state teachers’ association, 
of which he was president in 1856. In 1862 
he was promoted to the rank of brigadier- 
general. 

HOVEY, CHARLES MASON, horti¬ 
culturist, journalist, author, was born Oct. 
26, 1810, in Cambridge, Mass. He was 
a noted horticulturist of Cambridge, ed¬ 
itor of Hovey’s Magazine of Horticulture, 
which reached its thirty-fourth volume, 
and author of Fruits of America. He died 
Sept. 2, 1887, in Cambridge, Mass. 

HOVEY, HARRIETTE SPOFFORD, ed¬ 
ucator, was born on the island of Nan¬ 
tucket. She is now, and has been for 
thirteen years, in charge of the division 
of correspondence and records in the 
national bureau of education at Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

HOVEY, HORACE CARTER, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born Jan. 28, 1833, 
in Fountain county, Ind. He is a con¬ 
gregational clergy¬ 
man of Bridgeport, 
Conn.; and the au¬ 
thor of Celebrated 
American Caverns. 
He has delivered a 
series of lectures on 
Caverns, Mountains 
and Tornadoes, 
which are brilliantly 
illustrated with won¬ 
derful views. He is 
a most popular cler¬ 
gyman of his de¬ 
nomination; and a successful lecturer. 


HOVEY, RICHARD, author, poet, was 
born in 1864 in Illinois. He is a verse- 
writer of Washington; and the author of 
The Laurel, an Ode; Launcelot and 
Guinevere, a Poem in Dramas, republished 
as The Marriage of Guinevere; Seaward, 
an Elegy on the Death of Thomas Will¬ 
iam Parsons; Gandelfo, a tragedy; and 
Songs from Vagabondia, and More Songs 
from Vagabondia. 

HOW, SAMUEL BLANCHARD, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
Oct. 14, 1790, in Burlington, N. J. In 1823 
he became pastor of the Independent 
church in Savannah, Ga., whence he was 
called in 1830 to the presidency of Dickin¬ 
son college, Pennsylvania. In 1832 he be¬ 
came pastor of the First Reformed Dutch 
church of New Brunswick, N. J., continu¬ 
ing in this charge until failing health in¬ 
duced his resignation in 1861. He pub¬ 
lished a volume entitled Slaveholding not 
Sinful. He died Feb. 29, 1868, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. 

HOWARD, ADA LYDIA, college presi¬ 
dent, was born Dec. 19, 1829, in Temple, 
N. H. In 1875 she was elected the first 
president of Wellesley college, resigning 
in 1881 on account of ill-health. 

HOWARD, BENJAMIN, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born about 1760 
in Virginia. He was a representative in 
congress from Kentucky from 1807 to 1810 
when he was appointed governor of In¬ 
diana territory. He was appointed briga¬ 
dier-general in the United States army in 
1813. He was once governor of Missouri 
territory. He died Sept. 18, 1814, in St. 
Louis, Mo. 

HOWARD. BENJAMIN CHEW, soldier, 
congressman, governor, was born Nov. 5, 
1791, in Baltimore county, Md. He com¬ 
manded a volunteer company at the battle 
of North Point in 1814. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1828; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Maryland from 
1829 to 1833, and again from 1835 to 1839. 
From 1835 to 1850 he was a general of 
militia; was a reporter of the decisions 
of the supreme court of the United States 
from 1843 to 1862; and was democratic 
candidate for governor of Maryland in 
1861. He was also a delegate to the peace 
congress of 1861. He died March 6, 1872, 
in Baltimore, Md. 

HOWARD. BLANCHE WILLIS, author, 
was born July 21, 1847, in Bangor, Maine. 
She is the author of One Summer; One 
Year Abroad; Aunt Serena; Guenn; Aul- 
nay Tower; and other works. 

HOWARD, BRONSON, dramatist, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 7, 1842, in Detroit, 
Mich. He is a prominent dramatist of 
New York city; and the author of Sara¬ 
toga, produced in London as Brighton, 
and in Berlin as Eine Erste und Einzige 
Liebe; Diamonds; The Banker’s Daugh¬ 
ter; Old Love Letters; Young Mrs. Win- 
throp; One of Our Girls; The Henrietta; 
Shenandoah; Aristocracy; Moorcroft; 
Hurricanes; Wives; Met by Chance; and 
Greenroom Fun. 

HOWARD, CHARLES J.. lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born March 26, 1862, in Barnes- 
ville, Ohio. He has served as city solicit¬ 
or and member of the school board of his 
native town. He served with distinction 
as a member of the seventy-second and 
seventy-third general assemblies of Ohio. 

HOWARD, FRANK T., capitalist, was 
born May 31, 1855, in New Orleans, La. 
He owns the celebrated Quitaque ranch 
of 160,000 acres in the northern part of 
Texas, and has numerous other invest¬ 
ments of various kinds. 

HOWARD, FRED W., poet. He is the 
author of a number of meritorious poems 
which have appeared in the leading news¬ 
papers and magazines of Minnesota. 





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HOWARD, GEORGE, governor, was 
born in Maryland. He became acting gov¬ 
ernor in 1831; and in 1832 was elected 
governor of Maryland, remaining in office 
until 1833. 

HOWARD, HENRY, merchant, state 
legislator, governor, was born April 2, 
1826, in Cranston, R. I. He served a num¬ 
ber of years in the state legislature; and 
was a presidential elector in 1872. In 
1873 he was elected governor of Rhode 
Island; and was re-elected in 1874, de¬ 
clining a renomination for 1875. 

HOWARD, JACOB MERRITT, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, United 
States senator, author, was born July 10, 
1805, in Shaftsbury, Yt. In 1838 he was a 
member of the Michigan legislature; and 
from 1841 to 1843 was a representative in 
congress from Michigan. In 1854 he was 
elected attorney-general of the state; 
twice re-elected, serving in all six years. 
In 1862 he was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected 
senator for the term commencing in 1865 
and ending in 1871. As an author he pub¬ 
lished, in 1847, a translation from the 
French of the Secret Memoirs of the Em¬ 
press Josephine. He died April 2, 1871, in 
Detroit, Mich. 

HOWARD, JOHN EAGER, soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born 
June 4, 1752, in Baltimore county, Md. 

He entered the army 
in 1776 as a captain; 
in the following year 
was promoted; and 
finally succeeded to 
the command of the 
second Maryland 
regiment. In 1787 he 
was a delegate to the 
c o n t i n e n tal con¬ 
gress; in 1788 was 
chosen governor of 
Maryland, and held 
the office three years; 
and was a presidential elector in 1792. 
He was a senator of the United States 
from Maryland from 1796 to 1803, and 
was president pro tern, of the senate in the 
sixth congress. He died Oct. 12, 1827, in 
Baltimore county, Md. 

HOWARD, JONAS G., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in Floyd 
county, Ind. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative to the state legislature in 1862, and 
again in 1864; and was a presidential 
elector in 1868, and again in 1876. He was 
elected a representative from Indiana to 
the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as 
a democrat. 



HOWARD, LELAND OSSIAN, entomol¬ 
ogist, was born June 11, 1857, in Rockford, 
Ill. He has been entomologist in the 
United States department of agriculture; 
lecturer on entomology in the George¬ 
town university; and president of the 
Biological society of Washington, D. C. 



HOWARD, MILFORD W., congressman, 
was born Dec. 18, 1862, in Floyd county, 
Ga. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and 
fifty-fifth congresses 
as a populist. While 
in congress he has 
been on numerous 
important commit¬ 
tees and always 
takes an active part 
in debates on all 
bills which affect the 
welfare of his state. 
He has contributed 
extensively to cur¬ 
rent publications; 
and is a successful 
speaker. While a member of congress, 
he was instrumental in the passage of 
several bills of importance. 


HOWARD, NORMAN DE VERE, sol¬ 
dier, physician, was born March 20, 1842, 
in Washington, D. C. He graduated from 
the medical department of the Washing¬ 
ton university, and has attained promin¬ 
ence as a successful physician and a 
recognized expert in diseases of the nerv¬ 
ous system and insanity. For nine years 
he was superintendent of the St. Louis 
Insane asylum; and is now president of 
the medical examining board of his dis¬ 
trict at Sanford, Fla. Dr. Howard 
served through the war in the confederate 
army. He is a member of various learned 
societies; and of the leading medical bod¬ 
ies of America. 

HOWARD, OLIVER OTIS, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born in November, 1830, in 
Leagues, Maine. In 1850 he graduated 
from Bowdoin col¬ 
lege; and in 1854 
from the military 
academy at West 
Point, and was com¬ 
missioned lieutenant 
of Warden, Mass. In 
1857 he became in¬ 
structor in mathe¬ 
matics at West Point 
for four years. He 
is the author of Don¬ 
ald’s School Days; a 
translation of Age- 
de Gasparin; Chief 
Perc6s in Peace and 
War; and Isabella of Castile. 

HOWARD, ROBERT A., lawyer, jurist. 
He was a successful lawyer of Arkansas; 
and in 1885 lie was appointed assistant at¬ 
torney-general of the United States in 
the department of justice at Washington, 
D. C. 

HOWARD, TILGHMAN A„ lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 14, 1797, near Pickinsville, S. C. He 
was elected a member of the Tennessee 
legislature; was a Jackson elector in 
1830; and during that year removed to 
Indiana, and was appointed district at¬ 
torney for that state. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Indiana from 
1839 to 1841; and was appointed charge 
d’affaires to Texas in 1844. He died Aug. 
16, 1844, in Texas. 

HOWARD, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was elected a 
representative from Ohio to the thirty- 
sixth congress. 



nor’s Life of Count 
Joseph, or the Nez 


HOWARD, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Jan. 13, 1847, in Bel¬ 
fast, Ireland. In 1853 he settled in Utah. 

In 1865 he was ap¬ 
pointed second-lieu¬ 
tenant in the Nauvoo 
legion, and took 
charge of a small 
company of men in 
the' Black Hawk In¬ 
dian war. In 1870 he 
was prosecuting at¬ 
torney of Randolph, 
and filled various 
other positions of 
BHBh public trust. For ten 
years he was statis¬ 
tic correspondent of the United States ag¬ 
ricultural department. In 1894 he was 
elected a member of the constitutional 
convention, and was one of the signers of 
the constitution of Utah in 1895. He has 
also served as a United States court com¬ 
missioner. In 1896 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative of the first Utah state legisla¬ 
ture, and served in that body with dis¬ 
tinction. He is an able lawyer of Hunt¬ 
ington, Utah; and in 1896 was elected 
county attorney. 



HOWARD, WILLIAM ALANSON, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born April 8, 
1813, in Hinesburg, Vt. He was elected a 
representative from Michigan to the 
thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth 
congresses. In 1861 he was appointed 
postmaster at Detroit. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the Philadelphia loyalists’ conven¬ 
tion of 1866; and was governor of Dakota 
from 1878 to 1880. He died April 10, 1880, 
in Washington, D. C. 

HOWARD, WILLIAM MARCELLUS, 
lawyer, was born Dec. 6, 1857, in Berwick 
city, La. He was elected solicitor-general 
of the northern judicial circuit of Georgia 
by the state legislature in 1884; was re¬ 
elected to that office in 1888 and in 1892, 
and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a democrat. He has been renominat¬ 
ed for a seat in the fifty-sixth congress. 

HOWARD, WILLIAM WASHINGTON, 
educator, college president, author, was 
born Sept. 19, 1817, in England. He was 
licensed as a preacher, became in 1863 
pastor of the presbyterian church in 
Aurora, N. Y., and was chosen the first 
president of Wells Female college in that 
place. He published Aids to French Com¬ 
position. He died July 1, 1871, in Aurora, 
N. Y. 

HOWARTH, MRS. ELLEN CLEMEN¬ 
TINE, poet, was born May 20, 1827, in 
Cooperstown, N. Y. She has published 
The Wind-Harp, and Other Poems; and 
Poems, with an introduction by Richard 
Watson Gilder. Her best-known poems 
are Thou Wilt Never Grow Old; and ’Tis 
but a Little Faded Flower. 

HOWE, ALBERT R., soldier, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 
1840, in Brookfield, Mass. He served in 
the forty-seventh Massachusetts infantry 
as sergeant, lieutenant, and acting adju¬ 
tant, participating in the campaign in 
North Carolina; was commissioned sec¬ 
ond lieutenant in the fifth Massachusetts 
cavalry; promoted to be major, serving 
in Virginia and Texas until November, 
1865. He was a member of the Mississip¬ 
pi state convention in 1868; and a dele¬ 
gate to the Chicago national convention in 
1868. He was appointed treasurer of Pa¬ 
nola county in 1869; and was a member of 
the legislature in 1870, 1871, and 1872. 
He was elected to the forty-third congress 
as a republican. 

HOWE, DANIEL WAIT, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, genealogist, was born Oct. 24, 
1839, in Patriot, Ind. In 1850 he removed 
to Franklin, and 
graduated from the 
scientific department 
of the college in that 
city. During the 

civil war he served 
as a union soldier in 
company H of the 
seventh regiment In¬ 
diana volunteer in¬ 
fantry; and after¬ 
ward as lieutenant 
and captain of com¬ 
pany I, seventy- 

ninth regiment Indiana volunteer in¬ 
fantry. He was discharged Nov. 10, 1864, 
in consequence of wounds received in the 
battle of Kennesaw. In 1867 he gradu¬ 
ated from the Albany Law school; prac¬ 
ticed law in Franklin, Ind.; and while 
there was city attorney and state prose¬ 
cuting attorney. In 1873 he moved to 
Indianapolis; was judge of the superior 
court during 1876-90, since which time 
he has practiced his profession of law. 
He is vice-president of the Indiana His¬ 
torical society; the author of the Howe 
Genealogy; and one of the foremost law¬ 
yers of Indiana. 







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HOWE, EDGAR WATSON, journalist, 
author, was born May 3, 1854, in Wabash 
county, Ind. He is a journalist of Atchi¬ 
son, Kan., editor of Thj Daily Globe. His 
first novel, The Story of a Country Town, 
attracted much attention. Later stories 
include, The Mystery of The Locks; A 
Moonlight Boy; and A Man Story. 

HOWE, EDWARD, musician, composer, 
was born in March, 1820, in Portland, 
Maine. He has been a teacher of music 
in the seminary and in the city of New 
York from the first, and a church organ¬ 
ist. He has been the organist in the 
Church of the Messiah the last twenty- 
three years. He has published pieces of 
music, contributed anthems and tunes 
for church service to The Church and 
Home, and other similar publications. 

HOWE, ELIAS, inventor, was born July 
9, 1819, in Spencer, Mass. He was the in¬ 
ventor of the sewing machine, for which 
he obtained a patent in 1846. His in¬ 
vention enabled him to amass a fortune. 
He died Oct. 3, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HOWE, EPHRAIM D., soldier, lawyer, 
was born April 4, 1842, in Marlborough, 
Mass. He served one year in the union 
army as a private in company R, fifth reg¬ 
iment Massachusetts volunteer infantry, 
and was in the battles of Kingston, Whit- 
hall, Goldsborough and Gum Swamp. 
After the war he entered Tufts college 
and graduated in 1867. He has attained 
success as an able lawyer of Gardner, 
Mass. He has been justice of the peace, 
a prominent member of the Grand Army 
of the Republic, and has filled various 
public positions of trust in his county and 
state. 

HOWE, FISHER, philanthropist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1798 in Rochester, Vt. 
He was a philanthropist of Brooklyn, and 
the author of Oriental and Sacred Scenes; 
and The True Site of Calvary. He died 
Oct. 7, 1871, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HOWE, FREDERIC CLEMSON, author, 
was born in 1867 in Pennsylvania. He is 
the author of Taxation and Taxes in the 
United States under the Internal Revenue 
System in 1791-1895. 

HOWE, GEORGE, educator, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1802 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He was a presbyterian clergyman, 
professor of biblical literature in the the¬ 
ological seminary at Columbia, S. C., in 
1831. He is the author of Theological Ed¬ 
ucation; and'History of the Presbyterian 
Church in South Carolina. He died in 
1883. 

HOWE, HENRY, compiler, author, was 
born Oct. 11, 1816, in New Haven, Conn. 
He is an historical writer and compiler of 
Cincinnati, and the author of Historical 
Collections of New Jersey (with J. W. 
Barber); Our Whole Country; The Great 
West; Historical Collections of Virginia 
and Ohio; Over the World; Adventures 
and Achievements of Americans; and 
Times of the Rebellion in the West. 

HOWE, HENRY MARION, metallurgist, 
author, was born March 2, 1848, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He is a metallurgist who has 
published The Metallurgy of Steel; and 
Copper Smelting. 

HOWE, HERBERT ALONZO, educator, 
astronomer, author, was born Nov. 22, 
1858, in Brockport, N. Y. Since 1881 he 
has been professor of mathematics and 
astronomy in the university of Denver. 
He is also director of the Chamberlin ob¬ 
servatory, and the author of A Study of 
the Sky; and Elements of Descriptive As¬ 
tronomy. 

HOWE, JAMES H., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Maine. In 1873 he was appointed 
United States judge for the western dis¬ 
trict of Wisconsin, residing in Kenosha. 


HOWE, JAMES R., merchant, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Jan. 27, 
1839, in New York city. His ancestors 
were among the early 
settlers of New Eng- 
1 a n d. From his 
youth up he has been 
engaged in the dry- 
goods business; is 
trustee in a number 
of public institutions 
in the city, and is 
vice-president of the 
Amphion Musical 
society and a mem¬ 
ber of the Union 
League club. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses as a republican. He has taken 
a prominent part in the deliberations of 
congress. He introduced an amendment 
to the constitution of the United States, 
making it possible for a uniform marriage 
and divorce law; and also advocated a 
national bankrupt law, and the creation 
of a labor commission bill. He has also 
spoken on the Armenian outrages, Cuba, 
the emergency bond bill, and pensions. 

HOWE, JOHN BADLAM, author, was 
born March 3, 1813, in Boston, Mass. He 
was the author of Monetary and Indus¬ 
trial Fallacies; Mono-Metallism and Bi- 
Metallism; The Political Economy of Great 
Britain, the United States, and France in 
the Use of Money; The Common Sense 
of Money; and Replies to Criticisms. He 
died Jan. 22, 1882, in Lima, Ind. 

HOWE, JOHN W., congressman, was 
born in New Hampshire. Having settled 
in Pennsylvania, he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1849 to 1853. 

HOWE, MRS. JULIA WARD, philan¬ 
thropist, author, poet, was born May 27, 
1819, in New York city. She is a writer of 
Boston, long prominent in philanthropic 
movements, and as a lecturer upon the 
enfranchisement of women. The Battle 
Hymn of the Republic is her finest effort. 
Her writings include, Passion Flowers; 
Words for the Hour; The World’s Own; A 
Trip to Cuba; From the Oak to the Olive; 
Later Lyrics; Sex and Education; Memoir 
of S. G. Howe; Modern Society; Life 
of Margaret Fuller; Is Polite Society Po¬ 
lite? and Other Essays. 

HOWE, MARK ANTONY DE WOLFE, 
bishop, author, was born April 5, 1809, in 
Bristol, R. I. He was the first protestant 
episcopal bishop of central Pennsylvania, 
and the author of Domestic Slavery, a Re¬ 
ply to Bishop Hopkins; and Life of Alon¬ 
zo Potter. He died in 1895. 

HOWE, MARY E., poet, was born June 
26, 1831, in Painesville, Ohio. In 1849 she 
received a prize for a composition of prose 
and poetry at the Painesville academy; 
has ever since contributed extensively to 
the periodical press, and her poems have 
received recognition in several standard 
works. 

HOWE, ROBERT, soldier, was born in 
1732, in Brunswick county, N. C. He 
served with distinction through the revo¬ 
lutionary war, and was promoted briga¬ 
dier-general. He died Nov. 12, 1785, in 
Brunswick county, N. C. 

HOWE, SAMUEL GRIDLEY, educator, 
physician, author, was born Nov. 10, 1801, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a physician of 
Boston, the first superintendent of the 
Perkins Institution for the Blind, and a 
man of prominence in the anti-slavery 
movement. He was the author of Reader 
for the Blind; and Historical Sketch of 
the Greek Revolution. He died Jan. 9, 
1876, in Boston, Mass. 


HOWE, THOMAS M., banker, congress¬ 
man, was born in Vermont. He settled 
in Pennsylvania; was elected a represent¬ 
ative in congress from 1851 to 1855, and 
was for many years cashier, and then 
president, of the Exchange bank of Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. 

HOWE, THOMAS Y„ JR., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1851 to 1853. 

HOWE, TIMOTHY OTIS, postmaster- 
general, state senator, was born Feb. 17, 
1816, in Livermore, Maine. In 1845 he 
was elected a member of the Maine legis¬ 
lature; in 1850 was elected circuit judge; 
in 1861 was elected a senator in congress 
from Wisconsin; and in 1881 was ap¬ 
pointed postmaster-general. He died 
March 25, 1883, in Wisconsin. 

HOWE, VOLNEY E., lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born about 1808, in 
Norridgewock, Maine. He moved to Mis¬ 
sissippi; and there distinguished himself 
as a journalist. He subsequently emi¬ 
grated to Texas and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1849 to 1853. He died May 14, 1889, in 
Santa Monica, Cal. 

HOWE, WILLIAM BELL WHITE, bish¬ 
op, was born March 21, 1823, in Claremont, 
N. H. He was consecrated assistant bish¬ 
op of South Carolina in 1871, becoming 
the sixth bishop of the diocese in Decem¬ 
ber of the same year. 

HOWE, WILLIAM WIRT, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born in 1833, in 
Canandaigua, N. Y. In 1861 he entered 
the union army and attained the rank of 
major. In 1865 he began the practice of 
law in New Orleans; was appointed a 
judge of the chief criminal court of that 
city in 1867; and was promoted to the su¬ 
preme court of Louisiana in 1868. Among 
his printed works are A Municipal His¬ 
tory of New Orleans; and studies in the 
civil law. 

HOWELL, ANDREW, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, author, was born Dec. 18, 1827, in 
Covert, N. Y. In 1858 he was elected cir¬ 
cuit court commissioner of Lenawee coun¬ 
ty, Mich., and seYved three terms. He 
was elected a member of the state senate 
in 1865 and in 1867; and was circuit judge 
during 1882-87. He is the author of How¬ 
ell’s Annotated Statutes of Michigan, and 
other law works. 

HOWELL, BENJAMIN F„ soldier, ban¬ 
ker, congressman, was born January, 1844, 
in Cumberland county, N. J. He was 
elected surrogate of Middlesex county, N. 
J., and was re-elected in 1887 for a second 
term. He is president of the People’s Na¬ 
tional bank of New Brunswick. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses as a republican. 

HOWELL, CLARK, journalist, state 
legislator, was born Sept. 21, 1863, in 
Barnwell district, S. C. He is the man¬ 
aging editor of the Atlanta Constitution, 
having succeeded Henry W. Grady to that 
position in 1897. In 1886 he was elected to 
the Georgia legislature; was re-elected in 
1888 and in 1890. 

HOWELL, DAVID, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Jan. 1, 1747, in 
New Jersey. He was appointed profes¬ 
sor of natural philosophy and mathemat¬ 
ics in 1796; and from 1790 to 1824 was 
professor of law in Brown university. He 
was for some time attorney-general of 
Rhode Island, and judge of the supreme 
court. He was a delegate to the continen¬ 
tal congress from 1782 to 1785. He was 
subsequently district attorney; and from 
1812 to his death was district judge for 
Rhode Island. He died July 29, 1826, in 
Providence, R. I. 



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HOWELL, EDWARD, congressman. He 
was a member of the New York assem¬ 
bly in 1832; and was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1833 to 1835. 

HOWELL, ELIAS, congressman, was 
born in New Jersey. Having taken 
up his residence in Ohio, he was elected 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1835 to 1837. 

HOWELL. EUGENE, legislator, was 
born in 1860 in San Francisco, Cal. He 
served with distinction as a member of 
the eleventh session of the Nevada state 
legislature; is the state librarian; and 
in 1896 became secretary of state of Ne¬ 
vada. He has been superintendent of the 
Bristol Mining company of Nevada; and 
general superintendent of other Nevada 
mining companies. 

HOWELL, GEORGE ROGERS, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, was born June 15. 
1833, in Southampton, N. Y. He published 
several papers in the Transactions of the 
Albany Institute, including Linguistic Dis¬ 
cussions; The Open Polar Sea; and Her¬ 
aldry in America. 

HOWELL, JAMES B., lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, United States senator, was born July 
4, 1816, near Morristown, N. .1. Remov¬ 
ing to Keokuk in 1849, he started the 
Daily Whig, afterwards the Daily Gate 
City. He took a prominent part in or¬ 
ganizing the republican party in Iowa in 
1855 and 1856; and was a delegate to the 
Fremont convention in 1856. He was 
elected to the United States senate to 
fill a vacancy. He died June 17, 1880, in 
Keokuk, Iowa. 

HOWELL, JASON W., educator, lawyer, 
was born Aug. 29, 1849, near Blountsville, 
Ind. For thirteen years in succession he 
was engaged in educational work. In 
1879 he was admitted to the bar; and was 
elected city attorney of Paris, Ill., four 
times in succession during 1887-95. 

HOWELL, JEREMIAH BROWN, Unit¬ 
ed States senator, was born in 1772 in 
Providence, R. I. He was a senator in 
congress from Rhode Island from 1811 
to 1817. He died in November, 1822, in 
Providence, R. I. 

HOWELL, JOHN ADAMS, naval officer, 
inventor, was born March 16, 1840, in 
New York. He became a lieutenant in 
1861; lieutenant-commander in 1865; and 
commander in 1872. He is the inventor 
of a torpedo which naval officers regard 
as probably superior to any other in use. 

HOWELL, MARY SEYMOUR, reform¬ 
er, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 29, 
1850, in Mount Morris, N. Y. She re¬ 
ceived a classical ed¬ 
ucation, and has de¬ 
voted much time to 
the educational in¬ 
terests of New York. 
At one time she was 
conductor of teach¬ 
ers’ institutes, and 
for several years an 
examiner of the 
higher branches un¬ 
der the regents of 
the university. She 
has delivered many 
historical and literary lectures, and has 
done much work for the cause of temper¬ 
ance. She has repeatedly pleaded the 
cause of woman before the committees of 
state legislatures, and of congress; and 
is the only woman ever asked to speak 
before the house of representatives of 
Connecticut. She is the president of the 
National American Woman’s Suffrage as¬ 
sociation; National Lecturer for the Wo¬ 
man’s Christian Temperance union; and 
has filled various positions in the cause 
of temperance and reform. 


HOWELL. NATHANIEL, congressman, 
was born in 1770. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 
1813 to 1815. He died Oct. 16, 1851, in 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 

HOWELL, REDNAP, educator, author, 
poet. He composed many patriotic songs. 
He was the author of a pamphlet entitled 
A Fan for Fanning, and a Touch for 
Tryon. 

HOWELL, RICHARD, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, was born in 1753 in New¬ 
ark, Del. In 1775 he was appointed cap¬ 
tain of the second New Jersey regiment. 
He distinguished himself at Quebec; was 
promoted to major in 1776, and command¬ 
ed his regiment until 1779. He was gov¬ 
ernor from 1794 to 1801. He died April 28. 
1802, in Trenton, N J. 

HOWELL. ROBERT BOYTE CRAW¬ 
FORD, clergyman, author, was born 
March 10, 1801, in Wayne county, N. C. 
He was a once noted baptist clergyman 
of Nashville; and the author of Terms of 
Sacramental Communion; The Way of 
Salvation; Evils of Infant Baptism; The 
Cross; The Covenant; and Early Bap¬ 
tists of Virginia. He died April 5, 1868, in 
Nashville, Tenn. 

HOWELL, WILLIAM F., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Michigan. He removed to 
New York, from which state he was ap¬ 
pointed an associate justice of the United 
States court for the territory of Arizona. 

HOWELLS, WILLIAM COOPER, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1807, in Wales. He was 
the author of Life in Ohio from 1813 to 
1840. He died in 1894. 

HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN, was 
born March 1, 1837, in Martin’s Ferry, 
Ohio. In 1860 he published with J. j. 
Piatt, Poems of Two Friends. In the same 
year he wrote a Life of Abraham Lincoln, 
and from 1861-65 was consul at Venice. 
Venetian Life, and Italian Journeys, date 
from this portion of his career. From 
1872-81 he /was editor of The Atlantic 
Monthly, and since then has devoted his 
time wholly to literature in Boston and 
New York. His writings since 1869 in¬ 
clude: The Day of Their Wedding; At 
the Sign of the Lion’s Head; No Love 
Lost; Suburban Sketches; Their Wedding 
Journey; A Chance Acquaintance; A 
Foregone Conclusion; The Lady of the 
Aroostook; The Undiscovered Country; A 
Modern Instance; A Woman's Reason; 
The Minister’s Charge; Indian Summer; 

A Fearful Responsibility, and Other Stor¬ 
ies; Doctor Breen’s Practice; The Rise of 
Silas Lapham; April Hopes; Annie Kil- 
burn; A Hazard of New Fortunes; The 
Shadow of a Dream; An Imperative Duty; 
The Quality of Mercy; The World of 
Chance; The Coast of Bohemia; A Trav¬ 
eler from Altruria; Christmas Every Day, 
and Other Stories for Children; A Parting 
and a Meeting; The Sleeping-Car, and 
Other Farces; The Mouse-Trap, and 
Other Farces: Out of the Question, a com¬ 
edy; A Counterfeit Presentment, a com¬ 
edy; A Sea Change, or Love’s Stowaway; 
Poems; Stops from Various Quills, a 
book of verse. Among miscellaneous writ¬ 
ings of his are. Three Villages (Shirley, 
Lexington, Gnadenhiitten); Modern Ital¬ 
ian Poets; A Boy’s Town; Tuscan Cities; 
My Year in a Log Cabin; Criticism and 
Fiction; and My Literary Passions. 

HOWEY, BENJAMIN F„ soldier, mer¬ 
chant, manufacturer, congressman, was 
born March 17, 1828, in Pleasant Mead¬ 
ows, N. J. He was a captain in the union 
army in 1862 and 1863; and was elected 
sheriff in 1878. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New Jersey to the forty- 
eighth congress as a republican. 


HOW1SON, GEORGE HOLMES, math¬ 
ematician. author, was born in 1834 in 
Maryland. He is a mathematician who 
has published a Treatise on Analytic Geo¬ 
metry. 

HOW ISON, ROBERT REID, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1820 in Virginia. He is 
a lawyer of Richmond; and the author of 
History of Virginia; History of the Amer¬ 
ican Civil War; Fredericksburg; Lives of 
Generals Morgan, Marion, Gates; and God 
and Creation. 

HOWK. GEORGE VAIL, jurist, state 
senator, was born Sept. 21, 1824, in Char¬ 
lestown, Ind. In 1857 he was judge of 
the court of common pleas of Floyd coun¬ 
ty; in 1863 he represented that county in 
the house, and from 1866 to 1870 he rep¬ 
resented Floyd and Clarke counties in 
the senate of Indiana. He was chosen one 
of the supreme judges of Indiana at the 
general state election in October, 1876. 

HOWLAND, BENJAMIN, United States 
senator, was born in 1756 in Tiverton, R. 
I. He was a senator in congress from 
that state from 1804 to 1809. He died May 
9, 1821, in Tiverton, R. I. 

HOWLAND, E. HARRIS, merchant, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 8, 1846, 
in Brookfield, Mass. In 1872 he was elect¬ 
ed a member of the Massachusetts state 
legislature; and since 1868 he has served 
as a justice of the peace in Spencer, Mass. 

HOWLAND, GEORGE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1824 in Massachusetts. 
He is an educator of Illinois, president of 
the state board of education in 1882; and 
the author of Grammar of the English 
Language; Little Voices, a book of verse; 
an hexameter translation of the JEneid; 
and Practical Hints for the Teachers of 
Public Schools. 

HOWLAND, JOHN, author, was born 
Oct. 31, 1757, in Newport, R. I. He was 
for twenty-one years president of the 
Rhode Island Historical society, and was 
skilled in the history and antiquities of 
Plymouth colony. He was the author of 
addresses, orations and historical papers. 
He died Nov. 5, 1854, in Providence, R. I. 

HOWLEY, RICHARD, congressman, 
was born about 1740 in Liberty county, 
Ga. He was a delegate from Georgia to 
the continental congress from 1780 to 
1781. He died about 1790. 

HOWRY, CHARLES B.,- lawyer, state 
senator, was born May 14, 1845, in Ox¬ 
ford, Miss. He served in the civil war, 
and attained the rank of captain; from 
1880-82 was elected to the state legisla¬ 
ture; and during Cleveland’s administra¬ 
tion he was elected United States district 
attorney from the northern district of 
Mississippi. 

HOWS, JOHN ALTGUSTUS, journalist, 
artist, was born in 1831 in New York 
city. He devoted much attention to wood¬ 
engraving, furnishing successful illustra¬ 
tions for Appleton's Journal; The Aldine; 
Bryant’s Forest Hymn, the first attempt 
to illustrate an American volume with 
woodcuts; Forest Pictures in the Adiron- 
dacks, with original verses by Alfred B. 
Street; and other books. He died Sept. 27, 
1874, in New York city. 

HOWS, JOHN WILLIAM STANHOPE, 
educator, journalist, author, was born in 
1797 in England. He was a journalist and 
educator of New York city who published 
The Practical Elocutionist, and edited a 
number of school books. He died July 27, 
1871, in New York city. 

HOXIE. MRS. MAUD ANNA MAUDE, 
poet. She has attained success as a noted 
lecturer; and is the author of a number 
of poems. 





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HOXIE, MRS. V1NNIE REAM, sculp¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 23, 1846, in Madison, 
Wis. She has executed statues of Spur¬ 
geon, Lincoln, Farragut, and had several 
works on exhibition at the World’s Co¬ 
lumbian exposition. 

HOYNE, THOMAS, lawyer, was born 
Feb. 11, 1817, in New York city. He was 
appointed United States district attorney 
for Illinois in 1853, and in 1859 was made 
United States marshal for the northern 
district of Illinois. After the great fire 
of 1871 he presided at a meeting to or¬ 
ganize the free public library of Chicago, 
and was president of its first board of 
directors. In 1877 he prepared a history 
of the library up to that date. He died 
July 27. 1883, near Carleton Station, N. Y. 

HOYT, ALBERT HARRISON, soldier, 
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Dec. 
6, 1826, in Sandwich, N. H. He was a 
paymaster in the army in 1862-66, with 
the rank of major, and was brevetted 
lieutenant-colonel in 1865. Since 1866 he 
has resided principally in Boston, where 
he has been engaged in business and lit¬ 
erary pursuits. He edited the New Eng¬ 
land Historical and Genealogical Register 
from 1868 till 1876, and the fourth volume 
of the Memorial Biographies. He has 
also published numerous papers on his¬ 
torical genealogical subjects. 

HOYT. BENJAMIN THOMAS, educa¬ 
tor, journalist, was born Oct. 18, 1820, in 
Boston, Mass. In 1858 he was professor 
of Latin in Indiana Asbury university till 
1863; and then of literature and history 
in the same college till his death. He 
died May 24, 1867, in Greencastle, Ind. 

HOYT, ELIZABETH ORPHA, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 7, 1834, in Athens, 
Ga. From 1851 till 1853 she taught higher 
mathematics and metaphysics in Worth¬ 
ington Female seminary. She has pub¬ 
lished a volume entitled The Nature of 
Consciousness. 

HOYT, MRS. ELLEN, poet. She is a 
writer of Galion, Ohio, her poems ap¬ 
pearing in the local press generally. 

HOYT, EPAPHRAS, soldier, author, 
was born Dec. 31, 1765, in Deerfield, Mass. 
He was a major-general of the Massachu¬ 
setts militia, who lived in Deerfield; and 
the author of Treatise on the Military 
Art; Military Instructions; Cavalry Dis¬ 
cipline; and Antiquarian Researches. He 
died Feb. 8, 1850, in Deerfield, Mass. 

HOYT, FRANCIS SOUTHACK, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, journalist, author, was 
horn Nov. 5, 1822, in Lyndon, Vt. From 
1854 till 1860 he was president of Willa¬ 
mette university of Salem, Ore.; and 
from 1865 till 1872 was professor of bibli¬ 
cal theology and literature in Ohio Wes¬ 
leyan university. In 1872-81 he edited the 
Western Christian Advocate. He was a 
delegate to the general conferences of the 
methodist episcopal church in 1860, 1876, 
1880, and 1884, and since 1884 has held the 
office of presiding elder. He has edited a 
revised edition of Angus's Bible Hand- 
Book. 

HOYT, HENRY MARTYN, lawyer, gov¬ 
ernor, author, was born June 8, 1830, in 
Kingston, Pa. He was a Pennsylvania 
lawyer; governor of his state in 1878-83; 
and the author of Controversy between 
Connecticut and Pennsylvania; and Pro¬ 
tection versus Free Trade. He died in 
1892. 

HOYT, JOHN P., soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, governor, was born 
Oct. 6, 1841, in Austinburg, Ohio. He 
served in the union army during the 
greater part of the civil war. He was a 
representative in the Michigan legisla¬ 


ture in 1873 and 1875; and was speaker 
the latter term. In 1876 he was appointed 
secretary of Arizona territory, and in 1877 
became governor of that territory. In 1878 
he was tendered the appointment of gov¬ 
ernor of Idaho territory, but declined it; 
and in 1879 was appointed an associate jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of Washington 
territory, and was reappointed in 1883. 
At the first election under the state con¬ 
stitution he was elected judge of the su¬ 
preme court, and is now serving as chief 
justice. 

HOYT, JOHN WESLEY, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 13, 1831, near Worth¬ 
ington, Ohio. He was a member of the 
board of railroad commissioners of the 
state of Wisconsin; and in 1878 was ap¬ 
pointed governor of the territory of Wyo¬ 
ming for the term of four years. He was 
the author of Resources and Progress of 
Wisconsin; and Resources and Progress 
of Wyoming. He died in 1892. 

HOYT, JOSEPH GIBSON, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 19, 1815, in Dunbar¬ 
ton, N. PI. He was instructor of mathe¬ 
matics and natural philosophy in Phillips 
Exeter academy in 1840-58; and chancel¬ 
lor and professor of Greek of Washington 
university in St. Louis in 1859-62. He 
wrote revised edition of Cotton’s Greek 
Reader; and Miscellaneous Writings, Ad¬ 
dresses, Lectures and Reviews. He died 
Nov. 26, 1862, in St. Louis, Mo. 

HOYT, MARK, merchant, was born 
May 5, 1835, in Stamford, Conn. In 1868 
Mr. Hoyt engaged in the brokerage busi¬ 
ness under the name 
of Mark Hoyt and 
Company, but re¬ 
linquished this in 
1870 to return to the 
firm of Hoyt Broth¬ 
ers, of which he is 
now the head. He 
was the leading spir¬ 
it in the organiza¬ 
tion of the United 
States Leather com¬ 
pany, which is a con¬ 
solidation of the 
chief tanning interests of the country for 
a continuation of the business. It is be¬ 
lieved that in actual value of its proper¬ 
ties, this company is superior to any 
other in the United States. He became its 
first vice-president upon incorporation in 
May, 1893. 

HOYT, RALPH, clergyman, author, was 
born April 18, 1806, in New York city. He 
was an episcopal clergyman of New York 
city; and the author of The Chant of Life, 
and Other Poems; Echoes of Memory and 
Emotion; and Sketches of Life and Land¬ 
scape. He died Oct. 11, 1878, in New York 
city. 

HOYT, THOMAS ROWELL, civil en¬ 
gineer, manufacturer, poet, was born Oct. 
21, 1811, in Goffstown, N. H. He is a 
noted civil engineer and a manufacturer of 
mathematical instruments in his native 
city. He has published a volume of po¬ 
ems entitled Hoyt’s Harp. 

HOYT, WAYLAND, clergyman, author, 
was born Feb. 18, 1838, in Cleveland, 
Ohio. He has filled pastorates in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Brooklyn, Minneapolis and Phila¬ 
delphia, and is the author of Hints and 
Helps for the Christian Life; Present 
Lessons from Distant Days; Gleams from 
Paul’s Prison; The Brook in the Way; 
Saturday Afternoon; and Light on Life's 
Highway. 

HUBARD, EDMUND W., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1841 to 1847. 


HUBBARD. ASAHEL WHEELER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, 
was born Jan. 18, 1819, in Haddam, Conn. 
In 1847 he was elected to the Indiana leg¬ 
islature, and served three years. In 1857 he 
removed to Iowa, and was chosen judge of 
the fourth judicial district of that state. 
In 1862 he was elected a representative 
from Iowa to the thirty-eighth congress, 
and re-elected to the thirty-ninth and for¬ 
tieth congresses as a republican. He 
died Sept. 22, 1879, in Sioux City, Iowa. 

HUBBARD, AVORY DUVAL, lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born Jan. 19, 1864, 
in Allen county, Kas. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the common schools of his coun¬ 
ty; and attended a course at the acad¬ 
emy. He is the editor and owner of The 
Western Patriot; the author of Between 
Love and Duty; Stories of the Mexican 
War; and other works. 

HUBBARD, BELA, lawyer, geologist, 
author, was born April 23. 1814, in Ham¬ 
ilton, N. Y. He was a prominent lawyer 
and geologist of Detroit; and the author 
of Memorials of a Half Century; and An¬ 
cient Garden Beds of Michigan. He died 
in 1896. 

HUBBARD, CHARLES S„ legislator, 
was born Sept. 1, 1829, in Milton, Ind. For 
four years he was a representative in the 
Indiana legislature from Henry county. 
He has formed over fifteen thousand 
Bands of Mercy with a total membership 
of one million. 

HUBBARD, CHESTER D., merchant, 
banker, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 
1814, in Hamden, Conn. In 1852-53 he was 
a member of the Virginia legislature. He 
served one term in the senate of West 
Virginia after its organization; and was 
the commissioner from West Virginia to 
the Soldiers’ National cemetery. He was 
elected a representative from that state to 
the thirty-ninth congress and re-elected 
to the fortieth congress as a republican. 

HUBBARD, DAVID, congressman, was 
born in 1806 in Virginia. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Alabama 
from 1839 to 1841, and for a second term 
from 1849 to 1851. 

HUBBARD, DEMAS, JR., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 17. 
1806, in Winfield, N. Y. He was for many 
years supervisor of Chenango county, and 
four years chairman of the board. From 
1838 to 1840 he was a member of the state 
legislature; and in 1864 was elected a 
representative from New York to the 
thirty-ninth congress. He died Sept. 2, 
1873, in Smyrna, N. Y. 

HUBBARD, ELBERT, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1856 in Illinois. He is a 
litterateur of East Aurora, N. Y., and edi¬ 
tor of The Philistine. He is the author of 
No Enemy but Himself; Little Journeys; 
The Legacy, a novel; Forbes of Harvard; 
and One Day, a Tale of the Prairies. 

HUBBARD, FRANK W., banker, was 
born April 16, 1863, in Port Huron, Mich. 
He received his education in the West 
Middle school, the 
Hartford High 
school, and Harri- 
man’s Business col¬ 
lege of Hartford, 
Conn. He has at¬ 
tained success in the 
financial world, and 
has been president of 
the following banks; 
Frank W. Hubbard 
and Company, of Bad 
Axe; the Sandusky 
bank of Sanilac Cen¬ 
ter; the Farmers’ bank of Pigeon; Seve- 
waing bank; the Pincoing bank of Ohio; 
and a director in the Second National 
bank of Sandusky. 






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HUBBARD, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, governor, United States 
senator, was born May 3, 1784, in Charles¬ 
town, N. H. He was 
frequently a member 
of the state legisla¬ 
ture, and for some 
years speaker of the 
house; and was 
judge of probate for 
Sullivan county 
from 1827 to 1829. He 
was a representative 
in congress from 1829 
to 1835, and a sena¬ 
tor in congress from 
1835 to 1841; was 
governor of New Hampshire in 1842 and 
1843; and from 1846 to 1849 was United 
States assistant treasurer in Boston. For 
a part of the time during the twenty- 
eighth congress he acted as speaker of 
the house of representatives. He died 
June 5, 1857, in Charlestown, N. H. 

HUBBARD, J. LORENZO, merchant, 
was born Nov. 20, 1853, in New Mexico. 
In 1885-86 he was sheriff of Apache coun¬ 
ty, Arizona territory; in 1893 was a 
member of the territorial council; and in 
1896 was alternate to the national repub¬ 
lican convention. He is a successful mer¬ 
chant and Indian trader of Ganado, Ari¬ 
zona territory. 

HUBBARD, JOEL D., physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 6, 1860, near 
Marshall, Mo. He was elected county 
clerk in that year and re-elected in 1890; 
was elected to the fifty-fourth congress 
as a republican from Missouri. 

HUBBARD, JOHN, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Aug. 8, 1759, in 
Townsend, Mass. From 1804 until his 
death he was professor of mathematics 
and natural philosophy at Dartmouth. He 
published an Oration, delivered July 4, 
1799; The Rudiments of Geography; The 
American Reader; and an Essay on Mu¬ 
sic. He died in 1810, in Hanover, N. H. 

HUBBARD, JOHN, educator, state sen¬ 
ator, governor, was born March 22, 1794, 
in Readville, Maine. He removed to Hal- 
lowell in 1830; was state senator in 1842 
and 1843; and governor of Maine from 
1850 to 1853. He died Feb. 6, 1869, in Hal- 
lowell, Maine. 

HUBBARD, JOHN H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1805, in Salisbury, 
Conn. For five years he was attorney for 
the county of Litchfield; and was twice 
elected to the state senate. In 1863 he 
was elected a representative from Con¬ 
necticut to the thirty-eighth congress; 
and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth 
congress. 

HUBBARD, JONATHAN H., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born in 1768, in 
Windsor, Vt. He was a representative in 
congress from 1809 to 1811; and for many 
years was one of the judges of the su¬ 
preme court of Vermont. He died Sept. 
20, 1849, in Windsor, Vt. 

HUBBARD, JOSEPH STILLMAN, as¬ 
tronomer, was born Sept. 7, 1823, in New 
Haven, Conn. In November, 1848, he pre¬ 
sented to the Smithsonian institution the 
zodiacs of Vesta, Astrea, Hebe, Flora, and 
Metis. He died Aug. 16, 1863, in New Ha¬ 
ven, Conn. 

HUBBARD, LEVERETT MARSDEN, 
lawyer, jurist, was born April 23, 1849, in 
Durham, Conn. He was a judge of the 
borough court of Wallingford, Conn.; and 
secretary of state for Connecticut in 1887- 
88. He is prominent in financial affairs; 
and president of the Dime Savings bank 
of his city. 


HUBBARD, LEVI, state senator, public 
official, congressman. He was a member 
of the Massachusetts legislature in 1804 
and 1805; a state senator in 1806, 1807, 
1811, and 1816; and was a representative 
in congress from Massachusetts from 1813 
to 1815. For some years he was county 
treasurer; a state counselor in 1829; and 
a presidential elector in 1820 and 1828. 

HUBBARD, LUCIUS FREDERICK, sol¬ 
dier, railroad president, governor, was 
born Jan. 26, 1836, in Troy, N. Y. In his 
youth he learned the 
tinner’s trade. In 
1854 he moved to 
Chicago, and there 
worked at that trade 
for three years. In 
1857 he moved to 
Red Wing, Minn., 
and founded the Red 
Wing Republican. He 
served with distinc¬ 
tion during the civil 
war in company A, 
fifth Minnesota vol¬ 
unteer infantry. He was rapidly pro¬ 
moted and became brigadier-general. In 
1866 General Hubbard entered the grain 
and flouring business; and ten years 
later commenced railroad building, and 
became president of several railroads. He 
became the governor of the great com¬ 
monwealth of Minnesota, and filled that 
high office to the satisfaction of the people 
of that state. 

HUBBARD, LUCIUS LEE, geologist, 
author, was born in 1849, in Ohio. He has 
been state geologist of Michigan since 
1893; and is the author of Summer Va¬ 
cations at Moosehead Lake; and Woods 
and Lakes of Maine. 

HUBBARD, OLIVER PAYSON, chem¬ 
ist, was born in 1809, in Pomfret, Conn. 
In 1836 he was appointed professor of 
chemistry and pharmacy, mineralogy and 
geology, at Dartmouth, which chair he 
held until 1866. In 1883 he was made 
president. 

HUBBARD, PERRY L., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born May 15, 1841, in Bridge- 
water, Vt. During the civil war he en¬ 
tered the army as a lieutenant, and the 
closing two years of the war he was col¬ 
onel of the eighteenth Kansas state mili¬ 
tia. For fourteen years he was district 
judge and district attorney in Kansas, 
and now practices law in Denver, Col. 

HUBBARD, RICHARD BENNET, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, governor, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Nov. 1, 1832, in Walton 
county, Ga. He was a delegate to the 
democratic national convention of 1856; 
was United States district attorney from 
1856 to 1858; and was a representative in 
the Texas state legislature in 1858. He 
was a colonel in the confederate army. 
In 1874 he was elected lieutenant-govern¬ 
or of Texas, and was ex-officio president 
of the state senate. In 1876, by the election 
of Governor Coke to the United States 
senate, he became governor of the state, 
serving as such until 1879. 

HUBBARD, RICHARD DUDLEY, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, govern¬ 
or, was born Sept. 7, 1818, in Berlin, Conn. 
He was a representative in the state legis¬ 
lature in 1842, 1843, 1855, and 1858; and 
was state’s attorney for Hartford county 
from 1864 to 1868. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Connecticut to the for¬ 
tieth congress, and declined a renomina¬ 
tion; and in 1876 was elected governor 
of Connecticut, and served two years. He 
died Feb. 28, 1884, in Hartford, Conn. 


HUBBARD, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist,, 
was born June 2, 1785, in Boston, Mass. 
From 1842 until his death he was a judge 
of the supreme court of Massachusetts. 
He died Dec. 24, 1847, in Boston, Mass. 

HUBBARD, SAMUEL DICKINSON, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born 
Aug. 10, 1799, in Middletown, Conn. He 
served as a representative through the 
twenty-ninth and thirtieth congresses. In 
1852 he was appointed postmaster-general, 
and held the office until the close of Pres¬ 
ident Fillmore’s administration. He died 
Oct. 8, 1855, in Middletown, Conn. 

HUBBARD, THEODORE S., nursery¬ 
man, was born 1843, in Cameron, N. Y. 
He is an expert, and for many years the 
leading authority in the United States on 
grapes, and is well-known throughout the 
United States as the president of the T. S. 
Hubbard company, grape-vine propagators 
of Fredonia, N. Y. 

HUBBARD, THOMAS, educator, physi¬ 
cian, state legislator, state senator, was 
born in 1776, in Smithfield, R. I. He was 
several times in the Connecticut legisla¬ 
ture, and once in the state senate. In 
1829 he removed to New Haven, and oc¬ 
cupied the chair of surgery at Yale until 
his death. He died June 16, 1838, in New 
Haven, Conn. 

HUBBARD, THOMAS H., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1780, in New 
Haven, Conn. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1817 to 
1819, and from 1821 to 1823. He was pres¬ 
idential elector in 1812, 1844, and 1852. He 
died May 22, 1857, in Utica, N. Y. 

HUBBARD, THOMAS HAMLIN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, railroad president, was born 
Dec. 20, 1838, in Hallowell, Maine. He 
received his educa¬ 
tion in the Hallo- 
well academy, Bow- 
doin college, and the 
Albany Law school. 
He served with dis¬ 
tinction in the union 
army during the civ¬ 
il war; was adjutant 
of the twenty-fifth 
regiment of the 
Maine volunteer in¬ 
fantry; was pro¬ 
moted to lieutenant- 
colonel of the thirtieth regiment Maine 
volunteer infantry; and to colonel of the 
same regiment; and subsequently was 
made brevet brigadier-general United 
States volunteers. In 1865 he began the 
practice of law in New York city, and 
has attained prominence as one of the 
leading lawyers of the state. He is the 
president of the Oregon and California 
Railroad company; president of the Cal¬ 
ifornia Pacific Railroad company; presi¬ 
dent of the Houston and Texas Central 
Railroad company; president of the Aus¬ 
tin and Northwestern Railroad company; 
president of the Fort Worth and New 
Orleans Railroad company; and of the 
Central Texas and Northwestern Railroad 
company. 

HUBBARD, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1621, in England. He 
was a colonial historian who was a con¬ 
gregational clergyman of Ipswich, and a 
member of the first graduating class at 
Harvard college in 1642. He was the au¬ 
thor of Narrative of Troubles with the 
Indians; Sermons; and Present State of 
New England. He also wrote a History 
of New England, for which the colony 
paid him £50, and which was printed by 
the Massachusetts Historical society in 
1815. He died Sept. 14, 1704, in Ipswich, 
Mass. 






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HUBBELL, EDWIN N., congressman, 
was born Aug. 13, 1815, in Coxsackie, N. 
Y. In 1864 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative from New York to the thirty-ninth 
congress. 

HUBBELL, FREDERICK M„ railroad 
president, was born Jan. 17, 1839, in Hun¬ 
tington, Conn. He is president of the 
Des Moines Union railway; and also of 
the Des Moines Northern and Western 
railway. 

HUBBELL, JAMES R., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1824, in Delaware 
county, Ohio. He served four times in 
the state legislature, twice as speaker of 
the house; and was a presidential elect¬ 
or in 1856. In 1864 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth 
congress. 

HUBBELL, JAY A., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 15, 1829, in Avon. 
Mich. He was elected district attorney of 
the upper peninsula in 1857 and 1859. 
He removed to Houghton, Mich., in 1860; 
and was elected prosecuting attorney in 
1861, 1863, and 1865. He was elected to 
the forty-third congress, and re-elected to 
the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, 
and forty-seventh congresses as a repub¬ 
lican. 

HUBBELL, LEVI, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, was born April 15, 1808, in Ball- 
ston, N. Y. He was elected judge of the 
second judicial circuit of Wisconsin, and 
served as chief justice of the supreme 
court for one year. He was elected to 
the assembly in 1864 as a war democrat, 
and held the office of United States dis¬ 
trict attorney from 1871 till 1875. He 
died Dec. 8, 1876, in Milwaukee, Wis. 

HUBBELL, MRS. MARTHA [STONE], 
author, was born in 1814, in Oxford, Conn. 
She was a writer of religious juveniles, 
and of The Shady Side, or Life in a Coun¬ 
try Parsonage, which for a time enjoyed 
an extraordinary popularity. She died in 
1856, in North Stonington, Conn. 

HUBBELL, SIDNEY A., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Connecticut. He moved to 
New Mexico; and was appointed an as¬ 
sociate justice of the United States court 
for that territory, residing at Santa Fe. 

HUBBELL, WILLIAM S., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the assembly of that state in 1841; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1843 to 1845. 


HUBBS, ORLANDO, congressman, was 
born Feb. 18, 1840, in New York. He 
settled at New Berne, N. C.; and was 
elected a representative from North Caro¬ 
lina to the forty-seventh congress as a 
republican. 


HUBINGER, JOHN CARL, inventor, 



business man, was born March 18, 1852, 
in New Orleans, La. He is the senior 
member of the firm 
of J.C. Hubinger and 
Company, of Keo¬ 
kuk. Iowa, inventors 
of the celebrated 
elastic starch, which 
is used in nearly 
every household in 
America. He is the 
president and pro¬ 
prietor of the Keokuk 
Electric Light and 
Power system; and 
manager and owner 
of the Mississippi Valley Telephone com¬ 
pany, which is the largest telephone com¬ 
pany in the United States, excepting the 
Bell Telephone company. 


HUBLEY, ADAM, soldier, state senator, 
author, was born Jan. 9, 1740, in Lan¬ 


caster county, Pa. He was commissioned 
as major of the tenth Pennsylvania regi¬ 
ment in 1776; commanded the eleventh 
regiment, with the rank of lieutenant- 
colonel from 1779, and retired in 1781. 
From 1783 till 1789 he was a member of 
the assembly, and in 1790 a state senator. 
His Journal of Events in 1779 was pub¬ 
lished in the Pennsylvania Archives. He 
died in May, 1798, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HUBLEY, EDWARD B., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1835 to 1839. He died 
Feb. 23, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HUBNER, CHARLES WILLIAM, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, author, poet, was born 
Jan. 16, 1835, in Baltimore, Md. He is a 
journalist of Atlanta; and the author of 
Souvenirs of Luther; Poems and Essays; 
Modern Communism; Wild Flowers, a 
book of verse; and Cinderella, and Prince 
and Fairy, two lyrical dramas. 

HUDD, THOMAS R., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Oct. 2, 1835, 
in Buffalo, N. Y. He was district attorney 
of Outagamie county, Wis., in 1856-57; 
and was city attorney of Green Bay in 
1873-74. He was state senator from the 
twenty-second district in 1862 and 1863; 
and was a member of the state assembly 
in 1868 and 1875. He was a state senator 
in 1876, 1877, 1878, and 1879; and was 
again a state senator in 1882 and 1883, 
and was re-elected. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Wisconsin to the forty- 
ninth congress as a democrat to fill a 
vacancy; and was re-elected to the fif¬ 
tieth congress. 

HUDDER, CLINTON L., journalist, was 
born Oct. 23, 1866, in Tiffin, Ohio. He is 
the editor and owner of The Times of 
North Baltimore, Ohio. 


HUDON, HENRY, clergyman, college 
president, was born Sept. 6, 1823, in Can¬ 
ada. In 1870 he was elected the sixth pres¬ 
ident of the college of St. Francis Xav¬ 
ier, serving until 1890. 

HUDSON, CHARLES, clergyman, state 
senator, congressman, author, was born 
Nov. 14, 1795, in Marlborough, Mass. He 
was a member of the Massachusetts leg¬ 
islature from 1828 to 1833; a state senator 
from 1833 to 1839; and state counselor 
from 1839 to 1841. He was elected to 
congress in 1841, where he remained until 
1849; and was subsequently appointed 
naval officer for Boston, Mass., by the fed¬ 
eral government, serving from 1849 to 
1853. He was the author of Letters to 
Reverend Hosea Ballou; History of West¬ 
minster; History of Lexington; Doubts 
Concerning the Battle of Bunker Hill; 
and History of Marlborough. He died 
May 4, 1881, in Marlborough, Mass. 



HUDNUT, THEODORE, manufacturer, 
inventor, was born July 15, 1820, in Wash¬ 
ington, Ky. His establishment is about 
the largest of its 
class in the United 
States, with the very 
best class of labor- 
saving machinery, a 
great part of which 
is Mr. Hudnut’s own 
invention, on which 
he holds patents. 
About three thou¬ 
sand bushels of corn 
are used in the mill 
every twenty - four 
hours, turning out 
from four hundred and twenty-five to four 
hundred and fifty barrels of goods, which 
find a market in all parts of the United 
States, from Maine to California, and from 
the Canadas to the Gulf. 



HUDSON, CHARLES I., capitalist, was 
born Aug. 20, 1852, in New York. In 
1891 he was elected governor of the ex¬ 
change on an inde¬ 
pendent ticket, re¬ 
ceiving over two- 
thirds of the entire 
vote cast, a satisfac¬ 
tory evidence of his 
popularity. He was 
instrumental in in¬ 
troducing there the 
so-called trust secur¬ 
ities, such as Ameri¬ 
can Cotton Oil, Na¬ 
tional Lead Co., 
American Sugar Re¬ 
fining Co., etc. He was one of the organ¬ 
izers of the Fourteenth Street bank in 
1888, and recently resigned from its di¬ 
rectorate. 


HUDSON, ERASMUS DARWIN, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Dec. 15, 1805, in 
Torringford, Conn. He was a surgeon of 
New York city; and the author of Re¬ 
sections; Essay on Temperance; and Im¬ 
mobile Apparatus for Ununited Fractures. 
He died Dec. 31, 1880, in Greenwich, Conn. 


HUDSON, ERASMUS DARWIN, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Nov. 10, 1843, in 
Northampton, Mass. He was a physician 
of New York city; and the author of Doc¬ 
tors’ Hygiene and Therapeutics; Home 
Treatment of Consumptives; Physical Di¬ 
agnosis of Thoracic Diseases; Methods 
of Examining Weak Chests; and Diagnosis 
of the Relations of Weak Digestions. He 
died May 9, 1887, in Northampton, Mass. 

HUDSON, FREDERICK, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1819, in Quincy, Mass. 
He was a journalist connected with The 
New York Herald in various capacities 
for nearly thirty years, who after 1866 
lived at Concord, Mass. He was the au¬ 
thor of History of Journalism in the 
United States. He died Oct. 21, 1875, in 
Concord, Mass. 

HUDSON, GEORGE HOWARD, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, was born July 7, 1861, in 
White county, Tenn. After receiving his 
education he entered educational work, 
and for many years taught school in his 
native county. Since 1887 he has prac¬ 
ticed law with success at Sparta, Tenn., 
where he has taken a prominent part in 
the public affairs of his county and state. 

HUDSON, HENRY, English navigator. 
He discovered Cape Cod; then pursued 
his course to the Chesapeake, and re¬ 
turning along the coast entered the river 
now bearing his name. 

HUDSON, HENRY NORMAN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 28, 1814, in 
Cornwall, Vt. He served as chaplain in 
the federal army during the civil war, and 
in his later years was professor of Shake¬ 
speare study in Boston university. He 
was the author of Lectures on Shake¬ 
speare; Sermons; Studies in Words¬ 
worth; A Chaplain’s Campaign with Gen¬ 
eral Butler; Shakespeare: His Life and 
Characters; and Essays on Education. 
He edited the Harvard and the university 
editions of Shakespeare. He died Jan. 16, 
1886, in Cambridge, Mass. 

HUDSON, JAMES FAIRCHILD, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1846, in Ohio. 
He was a journalist of Pittsburg for many 
years; and the author of The Railways 
and the Republic. 

HUDSON, JOSEPH KENNEDY, soldier, 
journalist, state legislator, was born May 
4, 1840, in Virginia. He served in the civil 
war and attained the rank of major. He 
is president of the Capital company, and 
editor-in-chief of the paper. In 1871 he 
was a member of the house of representa¬ 
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HUDSON, MRS. MARY [CLEMMER] 
[AMES], journalist, author, was born in 
1839, in New York. She is a journalist 
of Washington, well known at one period 
by her Woman’s Letters from Washing¬ 
ton in The Independent. She is the au¬ 
thor of Eirene; His Two Wives; Victoria 
(three novels); Ten Years in Washing¬ 
ton; Men, Women, and Things; Poems 
of Life and Nature; and Memorials of 
Alice and Phoebe Cary. 

HUDSON, ROBERT WEIR, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born Dec. 31, 1856, in Mississippi. 
In 1870 he moved to Texas; studied law; 
and was county attorney in 1876-77. In 
1890 he became a member of the demo¬ 
cratic state executive committee of Texas; 
and in 1891-92 was district judge of the 
thirty-sixth judicial district of Texas. He 
has been the vice-grand dictator of the 
grand lodge of Texas, Knights of Honor; 
and is prominent in various fraternal or¬ 
ders. 

HUDSON, SILAS A., diplomat, was a 
citizen of Iowa. In 1869 he was appointed 
minister resident to Guatemala, where he 
remained until 1872. 

HUDSON, THOMAS JEFFERSON, law¬ 
yer, legislator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 30, 1844, in Boone county, Ind. He 
received his education at the common 
schools and the Wabash college. He has 
been three times mayor of Fredonia, 
Kan.; three times district attorney; one 
time a member of the Kansas state legis¬ 
lature; and serVed with distinction as a 
member of the fifty-third congress. He 
was twice a delegate to the democratic 
national convention, in 1884 and in 1888; 
and once a delegate to the national pop¬ 
ulist convention, in 1896. He is a bril¬ 
liant lawyer; and has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to law literature and the period¬ 
ical press. 

HUDSON, THOMSON JAY, author, was 
born in 1834, in Ohio. He is the author of 
I he Law of Psychic Phenomena; and A 
Scientific Demonstration of the Future 
Life. 

HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY, educator, 
author, was born in 1863, in England. 
He has been professor of English litera¬ 
ture at Leland Stanford Junior university 
since 1892; and is the author of The 
Church and the Stage; and Introduction 
to Study of Herbert Spencer. 

HUDSON, WILLIAM LEVERRETH, 
naval officer, was horn May 11, 1794, in 
New York. He entered the navy in 1816, 
and became lieutenant in 1826; com¬ 
mander in 1842; and captain in 1855. He 
died Oct. 15, 1862, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HUEBSCH, ADOLPH, scholar, rabbi 
author, was born Sept. 18, 1830, in Hun¬ 
gary. In 1866 he was called to New York 
as rabbi of a synagogue, where he 
preached until his death. He published 
Gems from the Orient, a selection of Tal¬ 
mudic and oriental proverbs, and a vol¬ 
ume of his sermons and addresses was 
issued in 1885. He died Oct. 10, 1884, in 
New York city. 

HUEBSCHMANN, FRANCIS, physician, 
was born April 19, 1817, in Weimar. He 
came to the United States in 1842, and 
settled in Milwaukee, where he resided 
until his death. He was presidential 
elector in 1848, a member of the city coun¬ 
cil and county supervisor from 1848 till 
1867: and state senator in 1851-52, 1862, 
and 1871-72. During the civil war he 
entered the national service in 1862 as sur¬ 
geon of the twenty-sixth Wisconsin vol¬ 
unteers. He died March 21, 1880, in Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis. 


HUFF, GEORGE FRANKLIN, banker, 
congressman, was born July 16, 1842, in 
Norristown, Pa. He is at present engaged 
in the banking busi¬ 
ness at Greensburg, 
Pa. He was elected 
to the senate of 
Pennsylvania i n 
1884, and represented 
the thirty-ninth sen¬ 
atorial district in 
that body until the 
close of the term 
ending in 1888. He 
was a member of the 
fifty - second con¬ 
gress; was nomi¬ 
nated by the state convention at Harris¬ 
burg in 1894 as representative at large; 
and elected to the fifty-fourth congress as 
a republican. * 

HUFFMAN, SAMUEL, clergyman, leg¬ 
islator, was born April 15, 1806, in Rock¬ 
bridge county, Va. He was twice elected 
to the lower house of the Illinois legisla¬ 
ture in 1844 and in 1846. He served as 
chaplain in the sixth Missouri volunteer 
infantry during the civil war. 

HUFTY, JACOB, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Jersey from 1809 to 1814. 

HUGER, ALFRED, state senator, was 
born Nov. 1, 1788. in Charleston, S. C. He 
was a member of the South Carolina state 
senate for ten years; and was postmaster 
of his city. He died May 14, 1872, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

HUGER, BENJAMIN, congressman, was 
born Dec. 30, 1746, in Limerick Planta¬ 
tion, S. C. He was a representative in 
congress from South Carolina from 1799 
to 1805, and for a second term from 
1815 to 1817. 

HUGER, BENJAMIN, soldier, was born 
in 1806, in Charleston, S. C. In 1861 he 
was made a brigadier-general in the con¬ 
federate army. He died Dec. 7, 1877, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

HUGER, DANIEL, congressman, was 
born Feb. 20, 1741, in Limerick Planta¬ 
tion, S. C. He was a member of the con¬ 
tinental congress; and was a representa¬ 
tive in the congress of the United States 
from South Carolina from 1789 to 1793. 
He died July 1, 1799, in Charleston, S. C. 



HUGHES, CHARLES, congressman 
was born in Georgia. He settled in New 
York; and was elected a representative 
in congress from that state from 1853 tc 
1855. In 1862 he was appointed provost- 
marshal for the sixteenth district of New 
York. 



HUGHES, DANIEL, banker, was born 
Dec. 6 , 1847, near Liberty, Mo. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the country 


member of various 


schools, and at the 
William Jewel col¬ 
lege of Liberty, Mo. 
He has attained suc¬ 
cess in financial af¬ 
fairs, and is the 
president of the First 
National bank of 
Liberty. Mr. Hughes 
has taken an active 
part in the public af¬ 
fairs of his city, 
county and state; 
and is a prominent 
raternal orders. 


HUGHES, FELIX T., railroad president, 
was born Nov. 10, 1838, in Centerville. 
Ill. Since 1886 he has been president of 
the Keokuk and Western railroad. 

HUGHES. FRANCIS WADE, lawyer, 
statesman, was born Aug. 20, 1817, in 
Montgomery county, Pa. He was ap¬ 
pointed deputy attorney-general of Penn¬ 
sylvania in 1839, resigned the office there 
several times, but was reappointed and 
held it for eleven years. In 1843 he was 
elected to the state senate as a democrat. 
In 1851 he was appointed secretary of 
state, and in 1853 attorney-general of the 
state, which office he filled until 1855. He 
died Oct. 25, 1885, in Pottsville, Pa. 

HUGHES. GEORGE WARTZ, soldier, 
civil engineer, congressman, was born in 
1806, in New York. In 1830 he was ap¬ 
pointed a civil engineer in the general 
government, in which position he re¬ 
mained until 1838, when he was trans¬ 
ferred to the corps of topographical engi¬ 
neers in the regular army. He resigned 
in 1851, and was made president of the 
Northern Central railroad. In 1859 he 
was elected a representative from Mary¬ 
land to the thirty-sixth congress. He 
served with distinction in the war with 
Mexico, receiving two brevets. He died 
Dec. 3, 1870, in West River, Md. 


HUGER, DANIEL ELLIOT, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, United States senator, was a citizen 
of Charleston, S. C. He was a member of 
the legislature, state senate, and judge of 
her courts. He was a senator in congress 
from South Carolina from 1843 to 1846. 
He died Aug. 21, 1854, on Sullivan’s Is¬ 
land, S. C. 

HUGER, THOMAS BEE, naval officer, 
was horn July 12, 1820, in Charleston, S. 
C. As lieutenant-commander in the con¬ 
federate navy, he fought his vessel, the 
McCrae, a converted merchant steamer, 
when the national fleet under Farragut 
forced its way up to New Orleans, where 
he fell mortally wounded April 24, 1862. 

HUGHES, BALL, sculptor, was born 
Jan. 19, 1806, in England. The life-size 
monumental high-relief of Bishop Hobart 
of New York, now in the vestry of Trinity 
church. New York city, was made by him. 
Among his later works are a model of 
an equestrian statue of Washington in¬ 
tended for the city of Philadelphia, a 
Crucifixion, a statue in bronze of Na¬ 
thaniel Bowditch that is now in Mount 
Auburn cemetery, a statuette of General 
Joseph Warren, a bust of Washington Ir¬ 
ving, and a Mary Magdalen. He died 
March 5, 1868, in Boston, Mass. 


HUGHES, JAMES, soldier, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1823, 
in Hampstead, Md. He was appointed 
first lieutenant of the sixteenth regiment 
of United States infantry, one of the ten 
regiments in the Mexican war, and served 
until the close of the war. In 1852 he was 
elected circuit judge for six years; and 
in 1853 was elected professor of law in the 
university of Indiana, and served three 
years. He was elected a representative 
trom Indiana in the thirty-fifth congress; 
in 1861 was appointed a judge of the court 
of claims; and in 1866 was appointed a 
cotton agent for the treasury department 
He subsequently settled in Washington 
city as an attorney at law. but was soon 
afterward elected to the legislature of 
Indiana. 

HI GHES, JAMES F., soldier, lawyer, 
jin ist, was born Jan. 17, 1839, in Wayne 
county, Ohio. He served three years in 
the civil war in the one hundred and 
second Ohio volunteer infantry as a non¬ 
commissioned officer; and from 1885-91 
was judge of the circuit court of Illinois. 

HUGHES, JAMES M., congressman 
was born in Kentucky. He was a repre- 
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HUGHES, JOHN, archbishop, author, 
was born June 24, 1797, in Ireland. He 
was a noted Roman catholic archbishop 
of New York in 1850-64. His writings 
were published in 1865. He founded St. 
John’s college, Fordham, N. Y., in 1839. 
He died Jan. 3, 1864, in New York city. 

HUGHES, MRS. NINA VERA B., au¬ 
thor, was born in Canada. She is a suc¬ 
cessful writer of Washington, D. C.; and 
the author of Twelve Simple Lessons in 
Metaphysics; Practical Home Thoughts; 
Truth for Youth; Office, In and Out; Lec¬ 
ture-Room Talks; and Guide to Health. 

HUGHES, ROBERT WILLIAM, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born June 6, 1821, in 
Powhatan county, Va. In 1873 he was 
the republican candidate for governor of 
Virginia, but not elected. In 1874 he was 
appointed United States district judge for 
the eastern district of Virginia. He is the 
author of Reports of Cases; The Currency 
Question from a Southern Point of View; 
Transcript of United States Supreme 
Court Decisions; The American Dollar; 
and Lives of Generals Floyd and John¬ 
ston. 

HUGHES, SIMON P., soldier, lawyer, 
statesman, was born in 1830, in Tennes¬ 
see. In 1861 he entered the confederate 
army as a captain; and soon after became 
a lieutenant-colonel. He was a represen¬ 
tative in the state legislature of Arkan¬ 
sas in 1866 and 1867; and in 1874 was 
elected attorney-general of Arkansas, in 
which office he served two years. In 1884 
he was elected governor of Arkansas for 
the term of two years, and in 1886 re¬ 
elected. 

HUGHES, THOMAS H., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1829 to 1833. 

HUGHES, WILLIAM, farmer, state leg¬ 
islator, was born Aug. 11, 1841, in Wales. 
Since 1869 he has been engaged in farm¬ 
ing in Aurora, Wis. He is treasurer of 
the Dairyman’s association; and in 1896 
was elected a member of the Wisconsin 
state legislature. 

HUGHITT, MARVIN, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Aug. 9, 1837, in Genoa, N. 
Y. Since 1891 he has been president of 
the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western 
railroad; and is also president of various 
other roads. 

HUGHSTON, JONAS A., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a rep¬ 
resentative from that state to the thirty- 
fourth congress. In 1845 he.was district 
attorney for Delaware county; and was 
subsequently marshal of Shanghai, China. 
He died in 1862, in China. 

HUGUNIN, DANIEL, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in Montgomery county, N. 
Y. He was an officer in the war of 1812. 
He was a member of congress from New 
York from 1825 to 1827; a member of the 
New York legislature; and at a later 
period United States marshal for the tei- 
ritory of Wisconsin. He died in June, 
1850, in Kenosha, Wis. 

HUIDEKOPER, FREDERIC, theolo¬ 
gian, philanthropist, author, was born 
April 7, 1817, in Meadville, Pa. He is a 
Unitarian theologian and philanthropist of 
Meadville, Pa.; and the author of Be¬ 
lief of the First Three Centuries concern¬ 
ing Christ’s Mission to the Underworld; 
Judaism at Rome; and Indirect Testi¬ 
mony of History to the Genuineness of the 
Gospels. 

HUIDEKOPER, FREDERICK W., rail¬ 
road president, was born Sept. 12, 1840, 
in Meadville, Pa. Since 1891 he has been 
president of the Pittsburg, Shenango and 
Lake Erie railroad; and has also been 
president of various other roads. 


HUIDEKOPER, HENRY SHIPPEN, 
soldier, author, was born in 1839, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was a soldier in the federal 
army during the civil war who after¬ 
wards attained the rank of major-general 
in the Pennsylvania militia. He was post¬ 
master of Philadelphia in 1880-85; and 
the author of a Manual of Military Ser¬ 
vice. 

HULBERT, JOHN W., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1814 to 1817 to fill a 
vacancy. 

HULBURD, CALVIN T., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born June 5, 
1809, in Stockholm, N. Y. He was a 
member of the state legislature from 
1842 to 1844, and again in 1862. In the 
latter year he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from New York to the thirty-eighth 
congress; and was re-elected to the thir¬ 
ty-ninth and fortieth congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

HULBURD. ROGER W., lawyer, state 
senator, was born Oct. 22, 1856, in Water- 
ville, Vt. He is a successful lawyer of 
Hyde Park, Vt.; was postmaster for sev¬ 
eral years; and in 1894-96 was state's at¬ 
torney of his county. During 1896-98 he 
served with distinction as a member of 
the Vermont state senate. 

HULICK, GEORGE W., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born June 29, 
1833, in Batavia, Ohio. He enlisted under 
the first call as a private in company E, 
twenty-second regiment Ohio volunteer in¬ 
fantry in 1861. He was elected probate 
judge of Clermont county, Ohio, in 1863; 
and served from 1864 to 1867. He was 
elected to the fifty-third and re-elected 
to the fifty-fourth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

HULING, JAMES H., lumber merchant, 
congressman, was born March 24, 1844, in 
Williamsport, Pa. He was elected mayor 
of Charleston, W. Va., in 1884, being the 
first republican ever elected to that office. 
He declined a renomination; and was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

HULL, ALEXANDER C., public official, 
was born April 20, 1858, in Marion county. 
Ark. He has been deputy clerk of Boone 
county; chief clerk of the United States 
land office at Harrison, Ark.; editor of 
the Boone Banner; expert accountant for 
Arkansas; and is now secretary of state 
of Arkansas. 

HULL, AMOS GIRARD, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born March 7, 1815, in Paris, 
N. Y. He became superintendent of public 
instruction in Volney, N. Y., in 1843. He 
has been a frequent contributor to the 
press on political questions, and has pub¬ 
lished Treatise on the Duties of Town and 
County Officers; and History of the Early 
Settlement of Oswego Falls. 

HULL, ASBURY, legislator, was born 
Jan. 30, 1797, in Washington, Ga. For 
more than forty years he was the secretary 
and treasurer of the board of trustees of 
the university of Georgia; and was often 
a member of the legislature and speaker 
of the house. He died Jan. 26, 1866, in 
Athens, Ga. 

HULL, CHARLES E., merchant, jour¬ 
nalist, state senator, was born Nov. 7, 
1862, in Salem, Ill. He was a successful 
merchant, and the editor and owner of 
The Herald-Advocate of Salem, Ill. In 
1897 he was elected a member of the Illi¬ 
nois state senate. 

HULL, HENRY, physician, educator, 
was born Oct. 20, 1798, in Washington, 
Ga. From 1830 till his resignation in 1846 
he was professor of mathematics in the 
university of Georgia. He died May 10, 
1881. in Athens, Ga. 


HULL, HOLMER, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1815, in Glen’s Falls, N. Y. In 
1870 he was appointed United States judge 
for the states of Michigan, Ohio, Ken¬ 
tucky, and Tennessee. He died May 14. 
1877, in Detroit, Mich. 

HULL, ISAAC, commodore, was born 
March 9, 1775, in Derby, Conn. He is dis¬ 
tinguished as the commander of the 
American frigate Constitution, which cap¬ 
tured the British frigate Guerriere, in the 
first naval action of the war of 1812, and 
for which he received a gold medal from 
congress. He died Feb. 13, 1843, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

HULL, JOHN A. T., soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, state senator, congressman, was 
born May 1, 1841, in Sabina, Ohio. He 
enlisted in the twenty-third Iowa infan¬ 
try in July, 1862; and was first lieuten¬ 
ant and captain. He was elected secre¬ 
tary of the Iowa state senate in 1872, and 
re-elected in 1874, 1876, and 1878; and was. 
elected secretary of state in 1878, and re¬ 
elected in 1880 and 1882. He was elected 
lieutenant-governor in 1885 and re-elected 
in 1887. He was elected to the fifty- 
second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

HULL, NOBLE A., soldier, merchant,, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
March 11, 1827, in Camden county, Ga. 
He was a representative in the Florida 
legislature in 1860 and 1861; served in the- 
confederate army as captain; and was 
elected lieutenant-governor of Florida in 
1876. He was elected a representative- 
from Florida to the forty-sixth congress 
as a democrat. 

HULL, WILLIAM, soldier, author, was. 
born June 24, 1753, in Derby, Conn. He 
entered the revolutionary army as a cap¬ 
tain; was rapidly promoted, and became 
inspector of the army. Two years after 
his surrender to the British at Detroit he 
was tried by court-martial and sentenced 
to be shot, but on account of his age and 
public services the sentence was remitted 
by President Madison, by whom he had 
been made commander-in-chief. In 1824 
he published a series of letters in vindi¬ 
cation of himself, which were published 
in a volume entitled The Campaign of the 
Northwest Army. He died Nov. 29, 1825, 
in Newton, Mass. 

HULL, WILLIAM, lawyer, clergyman, 
journalist, was born April 17, 1830, in 
Clavarack, N. Y. For several years he 
was at the head of the Hartwick Theo¬ 
logical seminary; and is now the editor 
and proprietor of the Eastern Lutheran 
of Albany, N. Y. 

HULL, WILLIAM HOPE, lawyer, was. 
born Feb. 2, 1820, in Athens, Ga. He held 
many offices of public trust, and was as¬ 
sistant United States attorney-general in 
1857-60. He died Sept. 10, 1877, in New 
York city. 

HUMASON, GEORGE HOWARD, cler¬ 
gyman, lecturer, was born Aug. 3, 1850, 
in Buffalo, N. Y. He attended the Buffalo 
academy, the Stamford institute; took a 
post-graduate course at the Allegheny col¬ 
lege; and has received the degrees of 
Ph. D. and D. D. He has filled pastorates 
in several of the largest churches in 
northwestern Pennsylvania; has been 
presiding elder of the methodist church, 
and pastor of the largest congregation in 
the state of Minnesota; He has traveled 
extensively in Europe and the Holy Land, 
and is also noted as a brilliant lecturer. 

HUMBERT, JOSEPH B., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Aug. 14, 1837, in Knox 
county, Tenn. Since '1891 he has been 
president of the Knoxville and Western 
railway; and has also been president of 
various other roads. 


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HUMES, THOMAS WILLIAM, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1815, in Tenn¬ 
essee. He was an episcopal clergyman 
and educator of Tennessee who published 
The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee. 
He died in 1892. 

HUMMER, GEORGE PIERSON, educa¬ 
tor, business man, political economist, 
was born Dec. 25, 1856, in Belvidere, N. J. 

After graduating 
from the Northern 
Indiana Normal 
school, he became 
superintendent o f 
public schools of 
Holland, Mich., 
which position he 
filled for seven years. 
He then organized 
and became the man¬ 
ager of the West 
Michigan Furniture 
company, one of the 
largest manufacturers of furniture in the 
United States. He took a leading part in 
behalf of bimetallism in the presidential 
campaign of 1896, and became a candidate 
for congress on the state ticket, but was 
defeated. He has always taken an active 
part in the political affairs of his state, 
and has gained a good reputation as a po¬ 
litical economist. 

HUMPHREY, CHARLES, congressman, 
was born about 1712, in Haverford, Pa. 
He was a member of the provincial as¬ 
sembly from 1764 to 1774, and a delegate 
to the continental congress from 1774 to 
1776. He died in 1786 in Haverford, 
Pa. 

HUMPHREY, EDWARD PORTER, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 28, 1809, 
in Fairfield, Conn. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of Louisville; and the author 
of Our Theology in its Development; and 
Sacred History from the Creation to the 
Giving of the Law. He died in 1887. 

HUMPHREY, ELIZABETH B„ artist, 
was born about 1850 in Hopedale, Mass. 

In 1882 Miss Humphrey was awarded two 
prizes in the competitive exhibition of L. 
Prang and Company. Her illustrations 
include landscapes, still-life, and figures. 

HUMPHREY, HEMAN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 26, 1779, in West 
Danbury, Conn, He was a congregational 
clergyman who was president of Amherst 
college in 1823-45; and the author of Tour 
in France, etc.; Domestic Education; 
Sketches and History of Revivals; Essays 
on the Sabbath; Life of Nathan Fiske; 
and Letters to a Son in the Ministry. He 
died April 3, 1861, in Pittsfield, Mass. 

HUMPHREY, HERMAN L., lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born March 14, 1830, 
in Candor, N. Y. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the public 
schools and at the 
academy of Cortland, 

N. Y. In 1854 he 
was admitted to the 
bar, and the follow¬ 
ing year was made 
district attorney of 
St. Croix county, 
Wis. In 1860 he was 
appointed county 
judge, and the fol¬ 
lowing year was 
elected to that posi¬ 
tion for a term of four years. In 1861 
he was elected a member of the Wiscon¬ 
sin state senate; and in 1865 was elected 
mayor of the city of Hudson, Wis. In 
1866 he was elected circuit judge of the 
eighth judicial circuit of Wisconsin for 
six years, and received the re-election in 
1872. In 1876 he was elected a member 


of the forty-fifth congress, receiving the 
re-election to the forty-sixth and forty- 
seventh congresses. While a member of 
the United States congress he took an ac¬ 
tive part in the deliberations of that body, 
notably on the Geneva award, on which 
question he made a brilliant speech in the 
house of representatives on May 10, 1882. 

HUMPHREY, JAMES, educator, lawyer, 
congressman, born Oct. 9, 1811, in Fair- 
field, Conn. In 1838 he moved to the city 
of New York, where he practiced his pro¬ 
fession. In 1858 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the thirty- 
sixth congress; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-ninth congress. He died June 16, 
1866, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HUMPHREY, JAMES M., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 
1819, in Holland, Ind. He was district at¬ 
torney for Erie county in 1857-59; and 
was a member of the state senate from 
1863-65. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the fortieth 
congress as a democrat. 

HUMPHREY, JOHN, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born June 20, 1838, in England. 
In 1870 he was elected to the general as¬ 
sembly of Illinois; and in 1876 was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar. In 1884 he was again 
elected to the general assembly; was 
elected to the state senate in 1886, and 
re-elected in 1890 and in 1894. He was the 
author of the Humphrey bills. 

HUMPHREY, LYMAN UNDERWOOD, 
governor, was born July 25, 1844, in Ohio. 
He served in the civil war and attained 
the rank of colonel. In 1884 he was elected 
a state senator, and in 1888 was nomi¬ 
nated for governor and renominated in 
1890. 

HUMPHREY, NELSON G„ business 
man, poet, was born May 17, 1845 in 
Wyoming county, N. Y. He is the’au¬ 
thor of a volume of 
poems entitled Ran¬ 
dom Shots, of which 
the Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer says that any 
one of the poems 
contained therein is 
enough to stamp him 
as the most original 
singer of the day. 

He constantly con¬ 
tributed prose and 
verse to the leading 
publications of Amer¬ 
ica; and several of his poems have been 
included in Poets of America and other 
standard collections. He is a successful 
real estate and exchange broker of Le 
Roy, Ill., where he is prominently identi¬ 
fied with the political affairs of his coun¬ 
ty and state. 

HUMPHREY, REUBEN, state senator, 
congressman. He was for four years a 
senator in the legislature of New York 
from Onondaga county; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1807 to 1809. 

HUMPHREYS, ANDREW, congress¬ 
man. He was elected a representative 
from Indiana to the forty-fourth congress 
to fill a vacancy. 

HUMPHREYS, ANDREW ATKINSON, 
soldier, author, was born Nov. 2, 1810, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a general in the 
federal army during the civil war; and 
was subsequently chief of engineers of 
the United States army. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Virginia Campaigns of 1864 
and 1865; and From Gettysburg to the 
Rapidan. He died Dec. 27, 1883 in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 


HUMPHREYS, DAVID, soldier, states¬ 
man, author, poet, was born July 10, 1752, 
in Derby, Conn. In 1780 he became a 
colonel and aid-de- 
camp to Washing¬ 
ton, with whom he 
resided for a consid¬ 
erable time. In 1786 
he was elected to the 
legislature of Con¬ 
necticut; was minis¬ 
ter to Portugal in 
1791; to Algiers in 
1793, and to Spain in 
1796. He command¬ 
ed two Connecticut 
regiments in the war 
of 1812; and acquired considerable fame 
as a writer, especially of poetry, and a 
collection of his writings was published 
in New York in 1804; and he also pub¬ 
lished a Life of General Putnam. He 
died Feb. 21, 1818, in New Haven, Conn. 

HUMPHREYS, DAVID C., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born in Alabama. He was ap¬ 
pointed by President Grant from that 
state one of the judges of the supreme 
court of the United States for the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia. 

HUMPHREYS, EDWARD RUPERT, 
educator, author, was born March 1, 1820, 
in England. He was an educator of Bos¬ 
ton who came thither from England in 
1859; and the author of Lessons on the 
Liturgy of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church; Education of Military Officers; 
The Higher Education of Europe and 
America; and Manual of Political Science. 
He died in 1893. 

HUMPHREYS, FREDERICK, manufac¬ 
turer, was born March 11, 1816, in Mar- 
cellus, N. Y. The specifics manufactured 
by the Humphreys Homoeopathic Medi¬ 
cine company, which he founded, are now 
being produced upon an enormous scale 
and are known all over the world. 

HUMPHREYS, HECTOR, clergyman, 
educator, college president, was born 
June 8, 1797, in Canton, Conn. From 
1831 till his death he was president of St. 
John’s college, Annapolis, and was also 
professor of history and philosophy. He 
died June 25, 1857, in Annapolis, Md. 

HUMPHREYS, JACOB, congressman. 

He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1819 to 1821. 

HUMPHREYS, JOSHUA, ship-builder, 
was born June 17, 1751, in Haverford, Pa. 

He was the first naval constructor in the 
United States, and has been called the 
father of the American navy. He died 
Jan. 12, 1838, in Haverford, Pa. 

HUMPHREYS, MILTON WYLIE, sol¬ 
dier, educator, philologist, author, was 
born Sept. 15, 1844, in Greenbrier county, 

V. V a. He entered the confederate army 
in March, 1862, as first gunner of Bryan’s 
battery; served to the end of the war as 
gunner, and was promoted to corporal and 
sergeant. He discovered and calculated 
the effects of rotation of earth on pro¬ 
jectiles when eighteen years of age; and 
fired the last round on Sept. 19, 1864, at 
Winchester. He then taught school; has 
filled the chairs of ancient languages in 
the Washington and Lee university dur- 
in 1867-75; of Greek in the Vanderbilt 
university in 1S75-83; of Latin and Greek 
in the university of Texas during 1883- 
87; and since 1887 has filled the chair 
of Greek in the university of Virginia. 

In 1873 he was commissioner from Vir¬ 
ginia to the Vienna exposition; and in 
1882-83 was president of the American 
Philological association. He is the au¬ 
thor of Clouds of Aristophanes; Antigone 
of Sophocles; and numerous minor works. 








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HUMPHREYS, PERRY W., congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Tennessee from 1813 to 1815. 

HUMPHRIES, BENJAMIN G., govern¬ 
or. He was governor of Mississippi from 
1866 to 1868. 

HUMPHRY, THOMAS CHAUNCEY, 
soldier, lawyer, jurist, legislator, was 
born Dec. 20, 1846, in Magazine, Ark. He 
served in the confederate army during 
the civil war. In 1874-75 was a member 
of the Arkansas state legislature; and in 
1893 was speaker in the house of repre¬ 
sentatives of that state. For two years 
lie was judge of county and probate court 
of Logan county; and in 1890 was elected 
judge of twelfth circuit of Arkansas. 

HUN, EDWARD REYNOLDS, physi¬ 
cian, author, born April 17, 1842, in Albany, 
N. Y. He was special pathologist to the 
New York state lunatic asylum at Utica. 
He translated C. Bouchard’s Secondary 
Degenerations of the Spinal Cord; and 
contributed numerous articles to medi¬ 
cal journals, which include Trichina Spi¬ 
ralis; Pulse of the Insane; and Hsema- 
toma Auris. He died March 14, 1880, in 
Stamford, Conn. 

HUNGERFORD, JOHN N., banker, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 31, 1825, in Ver¬ 
non, N. Y. He was a delegate to the na¬ 
tional republican convention of 1872; and 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. He died April 2, 1883, in Cor¬ 
ning, N. Y. 

HUNGERFORD, JOHN PRATT, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born in 1760 in 
Leeds, Va. He was an officer of the revo¬ 
lution; and a representative in congress 
from Virginia from 1813 to 1817. He was 
a brigadier-general of Virginia militia on 
the Potomac in 1814. He died Dec. 21, 
1833, in Twiford, Va. 

HUNGERFORD, ORVILLE, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1790 in Connecticut. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1843 to 1847. He died 
April 6, 1855, in Watertown, Conn. 

HUNGERFORD, WILLIAM, lawyer, 
statesman, was born Nov. 22, 1786, in 
East Haddam, Conn. He represented East 
Haddam in the legislature; after his re¬ 
moval to Hartford was several times a 
delegate from that city, and was a mem¬ 
ber of the constitutional convention of 
•Connecticut in 1818. He died Jan. 15, 1873, 
in Hartford, Conn. 

HUNKE, ALBERT EDWARD, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Jan. 23, 1854, in 
Heidelberg, Germany. In 1869 he emi¬ 
grated to America; attended the Indiana 
State Normal school of Terre Haute, and 
became a professor in that institution; 
and subsequently superintendent of city 
.schools of Vincennes, Ind. He has deliv¬ 
ered many lectures before teachers’ in¬ 
stitutes; and was the president of the 
Southern Indiana Teachers’ association. 
He is the author of School Readings, and 
■other works. 

HUNNEWELL, JAMES FROTHING- 
HAM, author, was born July 3, 1832, in 
Charlestown, Mass. He is a resident of 
Charlestown, Mass. He is the author of 
Bibliography of the Hawaiian Islands; The 
Lands of Scott; The Historical Monu¬ 
ments of France; The Imperial Island; 
England’s Chronicle in Stone; Biblio¬ 
graphy of Charlestown and Bunker Hill; 
and A Century of Town Life,. a History of 
Charlestown. 

HUNT, ALEXANDER CAMERON, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Dec. 25, 1825, in New 
York city. From 1867-69 he was govern¬ 
or of Colorado. He died May 14, 1894, in 
Washington, D. C. 


HUNT, MRS. ANNA SARGENT, jour¬ 
nalist, poet. In 1886 she became editor 
and publisher of The Home Mission Echo, 
of Augusta, Maine. She is the author of 
a number of works, and has contributed 
both prose and verse to the periodical 
press. 

HUNT, BENJAMIN FANEUIL, lawyer, 
state senator, was born Feb. 20, 1792, in 
Watertown, Mass. In 1818 he was elected 
to the state house of representatives, and 
was repeatedly re-elected until the nulli¬ 
fication crisis. He died Dec. 5, 1857, in 
New York city. 

HUNT, CARLETON, soldier, educator, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 
1836, in New Orleans, La. In 1860 he 
was a member of the convention of the 
constitutional union party at Baton 
Rouge, La.; and served as an officer in 
the confederate army. He was state ad¬ 
ministrator of the university of Louis¬ 
iana in 1866. In 1872 and 1879 he was a 
member of the democratic state conven¬ 
tions of those years; and in 1879 was 
professor of civil law in the University of 
Louisiana. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Louisiana to the forty-eighth 
congress as a democrat. 

HUNT, CHARLES SEDGWICK, naval 
officer, journalist, was born April 7, 1842, 
in Litchfield, Conn. At the beginning 
of the civil war he entered the navy, and 
became acting master on the war-sloop 
Juniata. Early in 1876 he joined the edi¬ 
torial staff of the New York Times. He 
died Oct. 15, 1876, in New York city. 

HUNT, EDWARD BISSELL, military 
engineer, author, was born June 15, 1822, 
in Livingston county, N. Y. He was a 
military engineer; and the author of 
Union Foundations: a Study of American 
Nationality. He died Oct. 2, 1863, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HUNT, EZRA MUNDY, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 4, 1830, in Middlesex 
county, N. J. He is a physician of Tren¬ 
ton, N. J.; and the author of Patients’ 
and Physicians’ Assistant; Physicians’ 
Counsels; Alcohol as Food and Medicine; 
and Principles of Hygiene. 

HUNT, FREEMAN, publisher, author, 
was born March 21, 1804, in Quincy, Mass. 
He was a publisher of New York city who 
was the founder of Hunt’s Merchants’ 
Magazine. He was the author of Lives of 
American Merchants; Sketches of Female 
Character; and Letters About the Hud¬ 
son River. He died March 2, 1858, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HUNT, HARRIET KEZIA, physician, 
lecturer, author, was born Nov. 9, 1805, 
in Boston, Mass. She was a physician 
of Boston who lectured upon woman-suff¬ 
rage and sanitary reforms. She published 
Glances and Glimpses, or Fifty Years’ So¬ 
cial and Twenty Years’ Professional Life. 
She died Jan. 2, 1875, in Boston, Mass. 

HUNT, HENRY JACKSON, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 14, 1819, in Detroit, 
Mich. He was a brigadier-general in the 
federal army during the civil war, bre- 
vetted major-general at its close. He was 
the author of Instructions for Field Ar¬ 
tillery. He died Feb. 11, 1889, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

HUNT, HIRAM P., congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1835 
to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1843. 

HUNT, JAMES B., congressman, was 
born in 1799 in New York. He was a 
member of congress from Michigan from 
1843 to 1847. He died Aug. 15, 1857, in 
Washington, D. C. 


HUNT, JEDEDIAH, poet, was born Dec. 
28, 1815, in Candor, N. Y. He is a poet of 
Chilo, Ohio, and the author of Cottage 
Maid, a Tale in Rhyme. 

HUNT, JOHN WESLEY, physician, was 
born Oct. 10, 1834, in Groveland, N. Y. 
He served on the house surgical staff in 
Bellevue hospital, New York city, and be¬ 
gan practice in Jersey City, N. J. In 
1862 he was made brigade-surgeon of 
volunteers, and placed in charge of the 
Mill Creek hospital, near Fortress Mon¬ 
roe. 

HUNT, JONATHAN, congressman. He 
represented the state of Vermont in con¬ 
gress from 1827 to 1832. He died May 14, 
1832, in Washington, D. C. 

HUNT, RANDALL, lawyer, orator, 
statesman, was born in 1807 in South 
Carolina. He became a successful lawyer 
and orator of New Orleans, La. In 1866 
he was chosen United States senator; but 
the seat was refused him on his arrival in 
Washington, because of his attitude dur¬ 
ing the secession movement. During 1867- 
84 he was president of the university of 
Louisiana; and was also professor of law 
in that institution during 1847-88. He 
died March 22, 1892, in New Orleans, La. 

HUNT. RICHARD MORRIS, architect, 
was born Oct. 31, 1828, in Brattleboro, Vt. 
Among the structures designed by him 
are the Lenox library; the Presbyterian 
hospital; the Tribune building; the Cen¬ 
tral Park entrances in New York city. He 
also designed the Yorktown monument of 
Virginia; and the pedestal of the Statue 
of Liberty on Bedloe’s Island. 

HUNT, SAMUEL, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1802 to 1805. 

HUNT, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born March 18, 1810, in Attleboro, 
Mass. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Franklin, Mass. He assisted Hen¬ 
ry Wilson in writing The Rise of the 
Slave Power, and completed the work 
after Mr. Wilson’s death. He was author 
of Political Duties of Christians; and Let¬ 
ter to the Avowed Friends of Missions. 
He died July 23, 1878, in Boston, Mass. 

HUNT, SAMUEL, railroad president, 
was horn in August, 1849, in Morrow, 
Ohio. He is president of the Ohio River 
and Charleston railroad; and has also 
been president of various other roads. 

HUNT, SANFORD, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1825 in New York. He was a 
methodist clergyman of prominence, long 
associated with the Methodist Book Con¬ 
cern. He was the author of Handbook for 
Trustees of Religious Corporations in the 
State of New York; and Laws Relating 
to Religious Corporations in the United 
States. He died in 1896. 

HUNT, THEODORE G., congressman, 
was born in South Carolina. He was a 
representative in the thirty-third congress 
from Louisiana. 

HUNT, THEODORE WHITEFIELD, 
educator, author, poet, was born Feb. 19, 
1844, in Metuchen, N. J. He is an educa¬ 
tor, professor of English literature in 
Princeton college; and the author of 
Principles of Written Discourse; English 
Prose and Prose Writers; and Ethical 
Teachings in Old English Literature. 

HUNT, THOMAS, educator, physician, 
surgeon, college president, author, was 
horn May 18, 1808, in Charleston, S. C. 
He removed to New Orleans, where he 
was a founder of the university of Louis¬ 
iana, and its first professor of anatomy. 
He was house-surgeon to the Charity 
hospital; president of the Physico-med- 
ical society of New Orleans; and in 1866 
of the university of Louisiana. He died 
March 30, 1867, in New Orleans, La. 


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HUNT, THOMAS POAGE, clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born in 1794, in 
Charlotte county, Ya. He was a clergy¬ 
man and temperance lecturer of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; and the author of History of Jesse 
Johnson and his Times; Death by Meas¬ 
ure; and Liquor Selling, a History of 
Fraud, which include the most of his 
works. He died Dec. 5, 1876, in Wyo¬ 
ming Valley, Pa. 

HUNT, THOMAS STERRY, educator, 
geologist, author, was born Sept. 5, 1826, 
in Norwich, Conn. He was a geologist 
who was professor in the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology in 1872-78; and 
the author of Chemical and Geological 
Essays; Azoic Rocks; Mineral Physiol¬ 
ogy; and New Basis for Chemistry. He 
died in 1892. 

HUNT, TIMOTHY ATWATER, naval 
officer, was born in 1805, in New Haven, 
Conn. He entered the navy as midship¬ 
man in 1825, became lieutenant in 1836, 
commander in 1855, captain in 1862, com¬ 
modore in 1863, ‘and was retired in 1877. 
He died Jan. 21, 1884, in New Haven. 
Conn. 

HUNT, WARD, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, was born June 14, 1810, in 
Utica, N. Y. In 1838 he was elected a 
member of the assembly; and was re¬ 
elected in 1839. In 1844 he was elected 
mayor of Utica; and in 1865 was elected 
a judge of the court of appeals of the 
state of New York, which position he held 
until 1872, when he was appointed a 
justice of the supreme court of the 
United States. He died March 24, 1886, 
in Washington, D. C. 

HUNT, WASHINGTON, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, governor, was born Aug. 
5, 1811, in Windham, N. Y. In 1836 he was 
appointed first judge 
of Niagara county. 
He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress 
from 1843 to 1849. In 
1849 he was elected 
comptroller of New 
York; and in 1850 
governor of the 
state. In 1860 he was 
tendered the nomi¬ 
nation for the office 
of vice-president, but 
declined. He was a 
delegate to the Chicago convention in 
1864, and to the Philadelphia national 
union convention in 1866. He died Feb. 
2, 1867, in New York city. 

HUNT, WILLIAM, surgeon, author, 
was born Sept. 26, 1825, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He has been demonstrator of anat¬ 
omy in the university of Pennsylvania, 
and surgeon of the Episcopal and Wills 
hospitals, and surgeon of the Orthopedic 
and Pennsylvania hospitals. He is joint 
author of Surgery in the Pennsylvania 
Hospital, being an Epitome of the hos¬ 
pital since 1756. 

HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY, educator, 
lawyer, jurist, lecturer, born June 12, 1824 
in Charleston, S. C. He was acting profes¬ 
sor and lecturer on commercial and crim¬ 
inal law in the university of Louisiana in 
1865 and 1866; and in 1876 was appointed 
attorney-general of Louisiana to fill a va¬ 
cancy. He was subsequently elected to 
that office, serving until 1877] In 1878 he 
was appointed a judge of the United 
States court of claims; resigned in 1881, to 
become secretary of the navy in the cabi¬ 
net of President Garfield. He died Feb 
27, 1884. 

HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS, artist, was 
born March 31, 1824, in Brattleboro, Vt. 


He was one of the first to introduce the 
French School of Art into America, and 
many of his well-known pictures have 
been reproduced in lithographs. He died 
Sept. 8, 1879, in Isle of Shoals, N. H. 

HUNT, WOOLSTON, soldier, metallur¬ 
gist, inventor, was born Dec. 9, 1838, in 
Fallsington, Pa. He attained the rank 
of captain during the civil war. He has 
obtained patents for improvements in bot¬ 
tom casting of steel ingots; for making 
special soft Bessemer steel; and also au¬ 
tomatic tables for rolling-mills. 

HUNTER, ANDREW, clergyman, was 
born in 1752 in Virginia. He was ap¬ 
pointed a brigade chaplain in 1775, and 
served throughout the revolution, receiv¬ 
ing the public thanks of Gen. Washing¬ 
ton for valuable aid at the battle of Mon¬ 
mouth. In 1810 he became a chaplain 
in the navy. He died Feb. 24, 1823, in 
Washington, D. C. 

HUNTER, ANDREW J., engineer, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state senator, congressman, 
was born Dec. 17, 1831, in Greencastle, 
Ind. He was elected 
to the state senate in 
1864, and served four 
years. He was ap¬ 
pointed and served 
as a member of the 
board of investiga¬ 
tion of state institu¬ 
tions. He was elect¬ 
ed county judge of 
the Edgar county 
court in 1886 and 
again in 1890, serv¬ 
ing six years. In 1892 
he was nominated by the state conven¬ 
tion as a candidate for congressman at 
large, and was elected to the fifty-third 
and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat. 

HUNTER. DAVID, soldier, was born 
July 21, 1802, in Washington, D. C. In 
1822 he graduated from the United States 
Military academy. In 
1861 he was made 

major-general of vol¬ 
unteers; and he con¬ 
tributed much to the 
success at Fort Don- 
elson. After retiring 
from active service in 
1866 he made his 

home in Washington, 
D. C. He married a 
daughter of John 

Kinzie, who was not¬ 
ed for having been 
the first permanent citizen of Chicago. He 
died Feb. 2, 1886, in Washington, D. C. 

HUNTER, EDWIN GUSTAVUS, clergy¬ 
man, missionary, journalist, was born 

Jan. 21, 1846, in Canada. This eminent 

clergyman is the editor of The Church 
Worker, a diocesan paper published in 
Indianapolis, Ind. 

HUNTER, ELLSWORTH M„ journal¬ 
ist, was born April 11, 1861, in Hubbard- 
ton, Vt. He is the editor and owner of 
The Vermont Record of Fair Haven. He 
has been a member of the republican 
county committee; and for many years 
was judge of the police court. 

HUNTER. JOHN, congressman, United 
States senator, was born about 1760 in 
South Carolina. He was a representative 
in congress from South Carolina from 
1793 to 1795; and a senator in congress 
from that state from 1795 to 1796. 

HUNTER, JOHN DUNN, adventurer, 
author, was born about 1798 in Settlement 
west of the Mississippi. He was an ad¬ 
venturer whose Manners and Customs of 


the Indian Tribes West of the Mississippi 
once attracted much attention. He died 
in 1827 near Nacogdoches, Texas. 

HUNTER, JOHN GARNISS, soldier, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
Nov. 13, 1840, in Maysville, Ky. He re¬ 
ceived his education at the Centre college, 
Ky.; and at the Union Theological semi¬ 
nary of Virginia, During the war he was 
a captain in the confederate service. He 
is a successful clergyman of the Southern 
Presbyterian church; has been secretary 
of the board of curators of the Central 
university of Kentucky; and president of 
the Louisville Presbyterian Theological 
seminary. In 1882 the honorary degree 
of D. D. was conferred upon him. He is 
the author of a number of valuable re¬ 
view articles, and has contributed exten¬ 
sively to religious and educational litera¬ 
ture. 

HUNTER, JOHN WARD, was born Oct. 
15, 1807, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1865 he 
accepted the position of secretary of a 
banking institution in Brooklyn; and in 
1866 was elected, by a large majority, a 
representative from New York to the 
thirty-ninth congress. 

HUNTER, LEWIS BOUDINOT, surgeon, 
was born Oct. 9. 1804, in Princeton, N. J. 
He served during the Mexican war on the 
Saratoga, and during the civil war as 
fleet-surgeon of the North Atlantic squad¬ 
ron under Admiral Porter. In 1871 he 
was made medical director, with the rank 
of commodore, and retired. He died June 
24, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

HUNTER, MORTON CRAIG, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Feb. 5, 1825, in Versailles, Ind. In 
1858 he was elected to the state legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1860 was a presidential elec¬ 
tor. In 1862 he raised the eighty-second 
regiment of Indiana volunteers, and as 
colonel commanded it until the fall of At¬ 
lanta in 1864; and in 1865 was brevetted 
a brigadier-general. In 1866 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Indiana to the 
fortieth congress; and elected to the for¬ 
ty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

HUNTER, NAIS WORTHY, congress¬ 
man. He was a delegate in congress from 
the territory of Mississippi from 1801 to 
1802. He died March 11, 1802. 

HUNTER, ROBERT, governor. In 1707 
he was appointed colonial governor of 
Virginia; in 1710 was appointed govern¬ 
or of New York and of East and West 
New Jersey. He died March 11, 1734. 

HUNTER, ROBERT, physician, author, 
was born June 14, 1826, in England. He 
has attained prominence as a successful 
physician of Chicago and New York. He 
is the author of A Treatise on the Lungs 
and their Diseases; The Air as the Source 
of Life; and others. 

HUNTER, ROBERT MERCER TALIA¬ 
FERRO, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, born April 21. 
1809, in Essex county, Va. He served 
three years in the state legislature; and 
was first elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from his native state in 1837, when 
he served two terms; and was again 
elected in 1845, officiating during the 
twenty-sixth congress as speaker. In 1847 
he was elected a senator in congress for 
a long term, and re-elected for the term 
ending in 1859. He was re-elected to the 
senate in 1859 for another term, but was 
expelled in 1861. He took part in the re¬ 
bellion as secretary of state, and a mem¬ 
ber of congress in the confederate gov¬ 
ernment. He died July 18, 1887, in Es¬ 
sex county, Va. 






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HUNTER, W. GODFREY, surgeon, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 
1841. He was a surgeon in the union 
army during the civil war. He was three 
times elected a member of the Kentucky 
legislature; and was a member of the fif¬ 
tieth and fifty-fourth congresses. 

HUN1ER, WILLIAM, state legislator, 
congressman. He was a member of the 
state legislature in 1807 and 1809; a state 
counselor in 1809, 1814 and 1815; and was 
a representative in congress from Ver¬ 
mont from 1817 to 1819. 

HUNTER, WILLIAM, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Nov. 26 
1774, in Newport. R. I. In 1799 he was a 
representative in the general assembly of 
Rhode Island, and re-elected at different- 
periods from that time to the year 1811, 
when he was chosen a senator in con¬ 
gress, and held his seat until 1821. He 
died Dec. 3, 1849, in Newport, R. I. 

HUNTER, WILLIAM, lawyer, public of¬ 
ficial, was born Nov. 8, 1805. in Newport, 
R. I. In 1852 he was made chief clerk 
by Daniel Webster; in 1853 was offered 
the position of first assistant secretary, 
but declined. In 1866 he was appointed 
second assistant secretary of the depart¬ 
ment in Washington. He died July 22, 
1886, in Washington, D. C. 

HUNTER, WILLIAM D. H., physician, 
journalist, legislator, was born Jan. 8, 
1830, in Lawrenceburg, Ind. After taking 
a scientific course in the Asbury univer¬ 
sity, he moved to Missouri, read medi¬ 
cine, and later attended lectures at the 
Ohio Medical college of Cincinnati. He 
practiced his profession in Missouri, but 
in time drifted into politics and journal¬ 
ism. For fourteen years he was editor 
and owner of the Missouri Ledger of Mex¬ 
ico; served as mayor of his city for sev¬ 
eral terms; was councilman and also 
postmaster for a long time. In 1864 he 
was elected a representative to the Mis¬ 
souri state legislature; in 1866 was ap¬ 
pointed assessor of internal revenue; and 
in 1868 was a delegate to the national 
democratic convention. He was a direc¬ 
tor of the St. Louis, Kansas City and 
Northern railway, and other companies. 
In 1871 he returned to Lawrenceburg, and 
since 1877 has been editor and owner of 
The Register of that city until he entered 
the banking business. He has been pres¬ 
ident of the Southern Indiana Editorial 
association; president of the board of ed¬ 
ucation; and prominent in the public af¬ 
fairs of his city, county and state. 

HUNTER, WILLIAM F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 10, 1808, in 
Alexandria, Va. He removed to Ohio, 
and was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1849 to 1853. 

HUNTER, WILLIAM H., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1837 to 1839. 

HUNTINGTON, ABEL, physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Norwich, Conn. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1833 to 1837; was collec¬ 
tor of Sag Harbor under President Polk; 
and member of the New York constitu¬ 
tional convention of 1846. He died May 
18, 1858, in East Hampton. 

HUNTINGTON, BENJAMIN, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born April 19, 
1736, in Norwich, Conn. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the continental congress from 1780 
to 1784, and also from 1787 to 1788, 
and a representative in congress un¬ 
der the constitution from 1790 to 1791. 
He was a judge of the superior court of 
the state from 1793 to 1798. He died Oct. 
16, 1800, in Norwich, Conn. 

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HUNTINGTON, COLLIS POTTER, was 
born Oct. 22, 1821, in Harwinton, Conn. 
In Sacramento he commenced business 
under the name of C. 
P. Huntington, but 
afterward estab¬ 
lished the well- 
known hardware 
house of Huntington 
and Hopkins, which 
has continued up to 
the present day. The 
result of his labors 
is summed up in the 
acts of congress of 
1862 and 1864, by 
which the govern¬ 
ment agreed to give lands and bonds to 
aid in the construction of the Pacific 
road. When Col. Scott sought to extend 
the Texas Pacific to the west coast, Mr. 
Huntington rapidly threw the Southern 
Pacific across the desert wastes of Ari¬ 
zona and New Mexico, met Col. Scott’s 
line east of El Paso and continued build¬ 
ing eastwardly until he reached San An¬ 
tonio. 

HUNTINGTON, DANIEL, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 17, 1788, 
in Norwich, Conn. He taught a young 
ladies’ school in New London, but in 
1841 resumed his pastoral charge in North 
Bridgewater. He was the author of Re¬ 
ligion, a poem delivered at Brown, Aug. 
31, 1819; Triumphs of Faith, delivered at 
Andover seminary, Sept. 21, 1830; and 
a Memorial of his daughter, Mary Hal- 
lam. He died May 21, 1858, in New Lon¬ 
don, Conn. 

HUNTINGTON, E. M., lawyer, jurist. 
He was an emigrant from New England 
to Indiana, and about the year 1844 was 
appointed United States judge for the dis¬ 
trict of Indiana, residing at Terre Haute. 

HUNTINGTON, EBENEZER, soldier, 
congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1754, in 
Norwich, Conn. He was twice elected to 
congress from Connecticut, serving from 
1810 to 1811, and again from 1817 to 1819. 
In 1799 he was appointed a brigadier- 
general in the army raised by congress 
when expectations were entertained of a 
war with France. He died June 17, 1834, 
in Norwich, Conn. 

HUNTINGTON, ELISHA, physician, 
lieutenant-governor, author, was born 
April 9, 1796, in Topsfield, Mass. He was 
lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 
1853, and was at one time president of 
the Massachusetts Medical society. He 
published addresses and a Memoir of 
Prof. Elisha Bartlett. He died Dec. 10, 
1865, in Lowell, Mass. 

HUNTINGTON, FREDERIC DAN, bish¬ 
op, author, was born May 28, 1819, in Had¬ 
ley, Mass. He is the first protestant epis¬ 
copal bishop of Central New York. He 
was in earlier life a Unitarian clergy¬ 
man, and in 1842 was professor of Chris¬ 
tian morals in Harvard university. He 
entered the episcopal ministry in 1860, 
and was consecrated bishop in 1864. He 
is the author of Christian Believing and 
Living; Sermons for the People; Christ 
in the Christian Year; Steps to a Liv¬ 
ing Faith; Lessons on the Parables; 
Helps to a Holy Lent; Christ in the 
World; Forty Days with the Master; The 
Fitness of Christianity to Man; and Hu¬ 
man Society. 

HUNTINGTON, JABEZ, soldier, was 
born Aug. 7, 1719, in Norwich, Conn. 
During the revolutionary war he was ac¬ 
tive on the committee of safety, and 
from September, 1776, was major-general 
of militia. He died Oct. 5, 1786, in Nor¬ 
wich, Conn. 


HUNTINGTON, JABEZ WILLIAMS, 
jurist, congressman, United States sena¬ 
tor. was born Nov. 8, 1788, in Norwich, 
Conn. In 1828 he was elected to the 
Connecticut state legislature. In 1829 he 
was a representative in congress, which 
office he filled until 1834. He became a 
judge of the supreme court of errors; was 
chosen a judge of the superior court of 
his state; and was a senator in congress 
from 1840 until his death. He died Nov. 1, 
1847, in Norwich, Conn. 

HUNTINGTON, JEDEDIAH VINCENT, 
clergyman, journalist, author, was born 
Jan. 20, 1815, in New York city. He was 
a writer who was once an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman, but became a Roman catholic lay¬ 
man. He was a journalist in St. Louis for 
some years, and died in France. He was 
the author of America Discovered: a Po¬ 
em; Alban, or the History of a Young 
Puritan; Poems; Lady Alice, of the New 
Una; Blonde and Brunette; and Rose¬ 
mary, or Life and Death. He died March 
10, 1862, in France. 

HUNTINGTON, JOSHUA, clergyman, 
author, was born Jan. 31, 1786, in Nor¬ 
wich, Conn. He was one of the founders 
of the American Educational society in 
1815; and was president of the Boston 
Society for the Religious and Moral In¬ 
struction of the Poor, which was founded 
in 1816. He was the author of the Life 
of Abigail Waters. He died Sept. 11, 1819, 
in Groton, Mass. 

HUNTINGTON, ROBERT W., naval 
officer. Under his command the forces of 
the United States planted the American 
flag on Cuban soil and took possession 
of the island. 

HUNTINGTON, SAMUEL, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. He was a judge of the United States 
court for the territory of Michigan. 

HUNTINGTON, SAMUEL, governor, 
was born Oct. 4, 1765, in Coventry, Conn. 
In 1808 he was elected governor of Ohio 
and served until 1810. He died June 8, 
1878, in Painesville, Ohio. 

HUNTINGTON, SAMUEL, signer of the 
Declaration of Independence, was born 
July 3, 1731, in Windham, Conn. In 1764 
he was elected to the 
general assembly of 
Connecticut; in 1765 
was appointed 
king’s attorney; 
in 1774 was appoint¬ 
ed a judge of the su¬ 
perior court; and 
in 1775 elected to the 
council. He was a 
signer of the Decla¬ 
ration of Independ¬ 
ence, and of the ar- 
T tides of confedera¬ 

tion. He was a delegate to the continent¬ 
al congress from 1767 to 1784 serving as 
president in 1779; and in 1784 was ap¬ 
pointed chief justice. He was governor of 
the state of Connecticut from 1786 to 
1796. He died Jan. 5, 1796, in Windham, 
Conn. 

HUNTINGTON, SAMUEL, soldier, law- 
yer, jurist, state senator, governor, was 
born Oct. 4, 1765, in Coventry, Conn. He 
moved to Ohio in 1800 and settled near 
Painesville. He was a judge of the court 
of common pleas in 1802 and 1803; mem¬ 
ber of the convention that framed the 
constitution of the state in 1802; and a 
senator in the first legislature and chosen 
speaker. He was a judge of the superior 
court in 1803; and afterward chief jus¬ 
tice. He was governor from 1808 to 1810; 
and member of the legislature in 1811 and 
1812. He died June 8, 1817, in Painesville 
Ohio. 




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HUNTINGTON, SUSAN MANSFIELD, 
author, was born Jan. 27, 1791. She wrote 
a story entitled Little Lucy. Her me¬ 
moirs, with her letters, journal, and poet¬ 
ry, were published by Benjamin B. Wis- 
ner in 1829. She died in 1823. 

HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM HENRY, 
philanthropist, was born May 30, 1820, in 
Norwich, Conn. He went to Europe in 
1858, and was correspondent of the New 
York Tribune for twenty years. He gave 
away a large part of his income in pri¬ 
vate charities, and voluntarily remained 
in Paris during the siege of 1870-71 to 
relieve the suffering and poor in his own 
quarter. He died Oct. 1, 1885, in France. 

HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM REED, 
clergyman, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 
20, 1838, in Lowell, Mass. He is an epis¬ 
copal clergyman of prominence as a broad 
churchman. He was rector of All Saints 
church at Worcester, in 1862-83, and since 
1883 has been rector of Grace church, 
New York city. He is the author of The 
Church Idea; Conditional Immortality; 
The Peace of the Church; The Church 
Porch; Questions on the Fourth Gospel; 
The Causes of the Soul; Short History of 
the Book of Common Prayer; and Quin- 
quaginta, a hook of fifty poems. 

HUNTON, EPPA, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 23, 1823, in 
Fauquier county, Va. He was state at¬ 
torney for the county of Prince William, 
Va., from 1849 to 1862; and was elected 
to the state convention in 1861. He en¬ 
tered the confederate army as colonel of 
the eighth Virginia infantry; was pro¬ 
moted after the battle of Gettysburg; 
served through the war as brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He was elected to the forty-third, 
forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth 
congresses; and in 1892-95 served in the 
United States senate to fill a vacancy. 

HUNTON, JONATHAN G., governor, 
was born in 1781, in Unity, N. H. He 
was governor of Maine in 1830 and 1831. 
He died Oct. 14, 1851, in Fairfield, Maine. 

HUNTSMAN, ADAM, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Tennessee from 
1835 to 1837. 

HUPP, JOHN COX, physician, surgeon, 
was born Nov. 24, 1819, in Washington, 
Pa. He is a distinguished physician and 
representative citi¬ 
zen of Wheeling, W. 
Va.; and comes of a 
family noted for he¬ 
roism and sacrifice 
in the days of In¬ 
dian warfare. He 
was educated at 
West Alexander 
academy, and at 
Washington college, 
Pennsylvania, from 
which latter institu¬ 
tion he graduated in 
1844. In 1847 he graduated in medicine 
from the Jefferson Medical college, and at 
once entered into the general practice of 
medicine at Wheeling. Dr. Hupp was 
one of the founders of the medical socie¬ 
ty of the state of West Virginia; and in 
1870 he brought chloral hydrate to the no¬ 
tice of the profession in a case of puerpe¬ 
ral mania. He was instrumental in estab¬ 
lishing the evening free school, and in 
the general advancement of educational 
work in his city and state. In 1875 he 
was a delegate of the American Medical 
association to the European Medical as¬ 
sociation; is a prominent member of the 
leading medical bodies of America and 
Europe; and has filled all the offices of 
honor in their gift. He is the author of 
numerous medical papers and contribu¬ 



tions to medical literature, and ranks as 
one of the foremost physicians in the 
south. 

HURD, FRANK HUNT, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 25, 1841, in 
Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was made a 
county prosecuting attorney in 1863; and 
a state senator in 1866. He codified the 
criminal code of Ohio in 1868, which was 
duly published. In 1874 he was elected 
a representative from Ohio to the forty- 
fourth congress; was also elected to the 
forty-sixth and forty-eighth congresses as 
a democrat. 

HURD, HELEN MARR, educator, poet, 
was born Feb. 2,1839, in Harmony, Maine. 
In her youth she was engaged in educa¬ 
tional work; and has contributed poems 
to periodical literature during the past 
forty years. In 1887 she published a vol¬ 
ume entitled Poetical Works, a work of 
real merit; this was followed by another 
volume in 1890. She takes an active in¬ 
terest in the cause of temperance and 
other movements in the interest of hu¬ 
manity. 

HURD, JOHN CODMAN, author, was 
born Nov. 11, 1816, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a writer of Boston, and the author of 
The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the 
United States; and The Theory of Our 
National Existence. He died in 1892. 

HURD, NATHANIEL, engraver, was 
born Feb. 13, 1730. He was probably the 
first in this country to engrave on cop¬ 
per. He engraved the seal of Harvard 
university. He died Dec. ,17, 1777. 

HURLBURT, WILLIAM HENRY, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born July 3, 1827, in 
Charleston, S. C. He was a journalist of 
New York city of much prominence alt one 
time as one of the editors of the World. 
His latest years were spent in Europe. 
He was the author of Gan Eden, or Pic¬ 
tures of Cuba; and General McClellan 
and the Conduct of the War. He died in 
1895. 



HURLBUT, HENRY AUGUSTUS, mer¬ 
chant, patriot, was born Dec. 8, 1808, in 
Hartford, Conn. He was a successful hat 
merchant of New 
York city; and dur¬ 
ing the civil war was 
foremost in sustain¬ 
ing the government 
with voice and 
purse. For many 
years he was com¬ 
missioner of emigra¬ 
tion for the state of 
New York. He was 
one of the founders 
of the Second Na¬ 
tional bank, and for 
a time its president. He was also active 
in various philanthropic movements. 


HURLBUT, STEPHEN AUGUSTUS, 
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Nov. 29, 1815, in Charleston, S. C. He 
settled in Belvidere, Ill.; and was elected 
to the constitutional convention of 1847. 
He was a presidential elector in 1848; a 
member of the legislature in 1859, 1861, 
and 1867; and presidential elector in 1868. 
He was appointed brigadier-general of vol¬ 
unteers in 1861; and was promoted major- 
general in 1862. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Illinois to the forty-third 
congress; and re-elected to the forty- 
fourth congress. He died March 27, 1882. 


HURLBUT, WILLIAM HENRY, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, state legislator, was born 
Jan. 8, 1837, in Venice, N. Y. Since 1877 
he has been United States examining sur¬ 
geon for pensions; and in 1896 was elect¬ 
ed a member of the Wisconsin state legis¬ 
lature. 


HURLBUT, JESSE LYMAN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1843, in New 
York. He is a memodist clergyman of 
prominence in New York and New Jersey, 
and the author of Manual of Biblical 
Theology; Studies in the Four Gospels; 
and Outlines in Old Testament History. 

HURLEY, DENIS M., business man, 
congressman, was born March 14, 1843, in 
Ireland. He was educated in the public 
schools and learned 
the carpenter’s 
trade. He is in the 
contracting busi¬ 
ness, and at present 
is connected with 
the W. H. Beard 
Dredging company 
of New York city. He 
was an unsuccessful 
candidate of the re¬ 
publican party for 
member of assembly 
in the first assembly 
district of Kings county in 1881-82; was 
elected to tne fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses as a republican. 

HURST, CALVIN, lawyer, was born 
Oct. 19, 1860, in Claiborne county, Tenn. 
He received a liberal education; taught 
school during 1878-82; and during 1S85-90 
was engaged in land surveying and 
draughting. He has attained success as 
an able lawyer of Pineville, Ky.; nas 
taken an active part in the political af¬ 
fairs of his state; and is president of the 
Bryan Silver club of his city. 

HURST, JOHN FLETCHER, clergy¬ 
man, college president .bishop, author, was 
born Aug. 17, 1834, near Salem, Md. he 
has been president of the Drew Theolo¬ 
gical seminary; a bishop of the methodist 
episcopal church; and is now chancellor 
of the American university of Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. He is the author of Literature 
of Theology; History of Rationalism; 
Martyrs to the Tract Cause; Life and Lit¬ 
erature in the Fatherland; Outline of 
Church History; Our Theological Cen¬ 
tury; Bibliotheca Theologica; Short His¬ 
tories of the Church; Short History of the 
Christian Church; Indica, the Country 
and People of India and Ceylon, include 
the greater part of his original works. 
He is aiso the translator of Hagenbach’s 
History of the Church in the Eighteenth 
and Nineteenth Centuries; of Van Ooster- 
zee’s Lectures on John’s Gospel; and of 
Lange’s Commentary on the Epistle to 
the Romans, with additions. 

HUSBANDS, HERMAN, patriot, was 
born near Philadelphia, Pa. He was a 
member of the state legislature of North 
Carolina, and subsequently was a member 
of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1778. 
He died in March, 1795, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

HUSE, MARY STICKNEY, educator, 
poet, was born Jan. 23, 1858, in Damaris- 
cotta, Maine. After receiving a liberal 
education, she engaged in educational 
work; for two years in a kindergarten 
school at St. Paul, Minn., and then in the 
primary department at Princeton. 

HUSE. WILLIAM L., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born March 9, 1835, in Danville, 
Vt. He is president of the Chicago, Pa¬ 
ducah and Memphis railroad; and also of 
various other roads. 

HUSKE, ELLIS, journalist, author, was 
born about 1700. He was a resident of 
Portsmouth, N. H., previous to his be¬ 
coming postmaster of Boston in 1734, and 
was a councillor of New Hampshire in 
1733-55. He published the Boston Week¬ 
ly Post-Boy from 1734 till 1755, and was 
the reputed author of The Present State 
of North America. He died in 1755. 






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HUSSEY, CORNELIA COLLINS, suf¬ 
fragist, was born July 7, 1827, in New 
York city. She was the founder of the 
New York Infirmary 
for Women and 
Children; and has 
been trustee of the 
New York Colored 
Orphan Asylum. She 
is a member of the 
Association for Ad¬ 
vancement of Wo¬ 
men; a member of 
the Woman’s Chris- 
t i a n Temperance 
union of the state of 
New Jersey; vice- 
president of the National Woman’s Suf¬ 
frage society; and a member of the So¬ 
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Children; and of Dumb Animals. 

HUSSEY, JOHN M., educator, lecturer, 
college president, was born Sept. 22, 1863, 
in Stanberry, Mo. He received his edu- 
_ cation at the Grand 
River college, and in 
v the Missouri normal 
V N I schools. He has 
Sb taught country 
ft schools, graded and 
high schools; and 
; has been conductor 
gras of nearly a score of 
[ county institutes in 
BHs Nebraska, Missouri 

h and Iowa. He is 
considered one of 
the most successful 
private normal school men in the west; 
and is now the president and proprietor 
of the Western Normal college, and the 
Shenandoah Commercial Institute and 
Musical Conservatory of Shenandoah, 
Iowa. 

HUSSMAN, BERNARD L„ educator, 
farmer, state legislator, was born Aug. 2, 
1855, in St. Clair county, Ill. For many 
years he was principal of the- Aviston 
public schools. In 1897 he was elected a 
representative in the Illinois state legis¬ 
lature from Effingham county, where he 
is a successful farmer. 

HUSSONG, EDWARD MARSTON, edu¬ 
cator, botanist, was born Dec. 10, 1864, 
in Ames, Iowa. He received his education 
in the Ames Agricultural college, and at 
the university of Nebraska. For many 
years he has been engaged in educational 
work with success; and is now principal 
of public schools of Franklin, Neb. He 
has been a successful editorial writer 
and journalist, and is the author of sev¬ 
eral botanical and educational works. 

HUSTED, JAMES WILLIAM, states¬ 
man, was born Oct. 31, 1833, in Bedford, 
Westchester, N. Y. He has been for 
many years a member and also speaker 
of the assembly. In 1873 he was appointed 
major-general of the national guard of 
the state of New York. He was president 
of the New York state military associa¬ 
tion in 1875-76, and is popularly known 
as the Bald Eagle of Westchester. 

HUSTON, BENJAMIN W., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born March 5, 1830, 
in Rochester, N. Y. He moved to Michi¬ 
gan with his father in 1836; and subse¬ 
quently taught school and attended the 
Ypsilanti seminary for several terms. In 
1854 he was admitted to the bar, and since 
1855 has practiced his profession in Vas¬ 
sal-, Mich. In 1862 he entered the civil 
war as captain in the twenty-third regi¬ 
ment Michigan volunteers, became major, 
and served until 1865. He has served as 
prosecuting attorney; in 1866 was elected 
circuit court commissioner; and in 1867 


was a delegate in the constitutional con¬ 
vention. During 1869-72 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Michigan state legislature; was 
state senator in 1879; and in 1890 was 
appointed attorney-general of the state of 
Michigan. 

HUTCHERSON, WILSON EDWIN, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, was born Sept. 13, 
1863, in Holly Springs, Miss. He gradu¬ 
ated from the Wiley university of Mar¬ 
shall, Texas. He has attained success as 
an educator, and as a clergyman in the 
Texas conference. He now fills a pastor¬ 
ate in Caldwell, Texas. 

HUTCHESON, JOSEPH C., soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born May 18, 1842, in Mecklenburg coun¬ 
ty, Va. He enlisted as a private soldier 
in the twenty-first Virginia regiment; 
served in the Valley under Stonewall 
Jackson and surrendered at Appomattox. 
He was a member of the Texas legislature 
in 1880; is the senior member of one of 
the most prominent law firms in Texas; 
and was elected to the fifty-third and 
fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat. 

HUTCHINS, CHARLES LEWIS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Aug. 5, 1838, in 
Concord, N. H. Since 1872 he has been 
rector of Grace church. Medford, Mass. 
He has published several collections of 
church music, among which are, Sun¬ 
day-School Hymnal; Annotations of the 
Hymnal; Church Hymnal; and Sunday- 
School Hymnal and Service-Book. 

HUTCHINS, JOHN, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born July 25, 
1812, in Vienna township, Ohio. In 1849 
he was elected to the Ohio legislature. 
In 1858 he was elected a representative 
from Ohio to the thirty-sixth congress; 
was re-elected to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. He was also a delegate to the 
Philadelphia loyalists’ convention in 1866. 

HUTCHINS, JOHN CORYDON, lawyer, 
jurist, was born May 8, 1840, in Warren, 
Ohio. In 1877 he was elected prosecuting 
attorney of Cuyahoga county; in 1883 was 
elected judge of the municipal court of 
Cleveland; and re-elected in 1885. 

HUTCHINS, STILSON, journalist, 
state legislator, was born Nov. 14, 1830, 
in Whitefield, N. H. The Washington 
Post was founded by him in 1877, and be¬ 
came almost immediately successful. He 
has been a member of the Missouri and 
New Hampshire legislatures. 

HUTCHINS, THOMAS, geographer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1730, in Monmouth, 
N. J. He was a noted geographer of the 
colonial period, and rhe author of Topo¬ 
graphical Description of Virginia, etc.; 
and History, Narrative and Topograph¬ 
ical Description of Louisiana and West 
Florida. He died April 28, 1789, in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. 

HUTCHINS, WALDO, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in 1823, 
in Brooklyn, Conn. He was a member of 
the state house of representatives of New 
York in 1852; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth 
congresses as a democrat. 

HUTCHINS, WELLS A., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 
1818, in Hartford, Ohio. He was elected 
to the Ohio legislature in 1851; and in 
1862 was appointed one of the six pro¬ 
vost-marshals for Ohio. He was elected 
a representative from Ohio to the thirty- 
eighth congress. 

HUTCHINSON, A. C., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Feo. 2, 1832, in Brooklyn, 


N. Y. From 1882 to 1892 ne was president 
of the Houston and Texas Central rail¬ 
way; and has been president of numer¬ 
ous other railroads. 

HUTCHINSON, AARON, clergyman, 
author, was born in March, 1722, in Heb¬ 
ron, Conn, he was one of the foremost 
classical scholars of his time in America; 
and was actively engaged in preaching 
for over fifty years. He died Sept. 2 /, 
1800, in Pomfret, Vt. 

HUTCHINSON, CHARLES L., banker, 
was born March 7, 1854, in Lynn, Mass. 
He has been president of the Corn Ex¬ 
change bank since its reorganization in 
1879, and is ex-presiaent of the Chicago 
Board of Trade. He was a director of the 
World’s Columbian exposition. The Art 
institute, of which he has been president 
for fourteen years, is the apple of his eye. 
Much of his time has been given to this 
institution and probably no one else has 
done so much for its development and 
advancement. 

HUTCHINSON, ELLEN MACKAY, 
journalist, author, poet, was born in New 
York. She is a literary journalist of New 
York city, on the Tribune staff, and editor 
with E. C. Stedman of The Library of 
American Literature, in eleven volumes. 
She has published Songs and Lyrics. 

HUTCHINSON, JESSE, poet. He 
wrote many songs for popular airs, which 
he sang with effect. The principal of 
these were the Emancipation Song; Fam¬ 
ily Song; Old Granite State; Good Old 
Days of Yore; and The Slave Mother. 

HUTCHINSON, JESSE, farmer, was 
born Feb. 3, 1778, in Middletown, Mass. 
He was the father of the famous Hutchin¬ 
son family, who achieved a reputation as 
popular singers, and were identified with 
the anti-slavery and temperance move¬ 
ments. He died Feb. 16, 1851, in Milford, 
N. H. 

HUTCHINSON, JOHN ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, legislator, author, was born in 
1840, in Parkersburg, W. Va. In 1872 he 
was made prosecuting county attorney, 
serving nine years. He served one term 
as a member in the state house of dele¬ 
gates in West Virginia. He is the author 
of Land Titles in Virginia and West Vir¬ 
ginia; and A Treatise on the Laws of 
West Virginia. 

HUTCHINSON, JOHN RUSSELL, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 12, 1807, in Colum¬ 
bia county, Pa. He was professor of an¬ 
cient languages in Oakland college, Miss, 
till 1854, and afterward president of the 
college. He was the author of Remin¬ 
iscences, Sketches, and Addresses. He 
died Feb. 24, 1878. 

HUTCHINSON, THOMAS, governor, 
author, was worn Sept. 9, 1711, in Boston, 
Mass. He was the last royal governor of 
Massachusetts. An 
historian of great 
ability, but whose 
merits as such were 
not recognized by 
his contemporaries. 
His History of the 
Colony of Massachu¬ 
setts Bay, the third 
and last volume of 
which was not pub¬ 
lished till nearly fif¬ 
ty years after his 
death, begins with 
the year 1628 and closes with the year 
1774. He published also a Collection of 
Original Papers relating to the same sub¬ 
ject. He died June 3, 1780, near London, 
England. 






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HUTCHISON, JOSEPH CHRISMAN, 


BIOGRAPHY. 


physician, author, was born Feb. 22, 1822, 
in Old Franklin, Mo. He was a noted 
physician of Brooklyn, and the author 
of History of Asiatic Cholera in Brook¬ 
lyn; Physiology and Hygiene; Contribu¬ 
tions to Orthopaedic Surgery; and Acu¬ 
pressure. He died in 1867. 

HUTSON, CHARLES WOODWARD, 
author. He is the author of Out of a 
Beleaguered City, a Tale of the Revolu¬ 
tion; Beginnings of Civilization; History 
of French Literature; and The Story of 
Beryl, a novel. 

HUTSON, RICHARD, congressman, 
was born June 12, 1747, in Prince Will¬ 
iams Parish, S. o. He was a delegate 
from South Carolina to the continental 
congress from 1778 to 1779; and was one 
of the signers of the articles of confeder¬ 
ation. He died in 1793, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

HUTTON, AURELIUS WINFIELD, 
lawyer, jurist, was born July 23, 1847, in 
Greene county, Ala. After receiving a 
liberal education he became a cadet in 
the university of Alabama. He then 
studied law, and graduated from the law 
department of the university of Virginia 
in 1868, with the degree of B. L. In 1869 
he was admitted to the bar, and settled 
in Los Angeles, Cal., where he has at¬ 
tained prominence as one of the leading 
lawyers of that SLate. In 1872 he was 
elected city attorney, and received the re- 
election two years later. In 1887-88 he 
became superior judge of Los Angeles 
county; and in 1889 was appointed United 
States attorney. President Harrison ap¬ 
pointed him special counsel of the United 
States in the cases for violation of the 
neutrality laws of the United States 
against the Itata in 1891. 

HUTTON, FREDERICK REMSEN, en¬ 
gineer, educator, was born May 28, 1853, 
In 1873 he graduated 
from Columbia col¬ 
lege; he then at¬ 
tended the school of 
mines of that insti¬ 
tution, and in 1876 
received the degrees 
of Civil Engineer 
and Engineer of 
Mines. Subsequently 
he received the de¬ 
grees of A. M. and 
Ph. D. He was ap¬ 
pointed instructor in 
mechanical engi- 
neerifig in Columbia, and his educational 
work has since been done in that field. 

HUTTON, JOHN E., congressman. He 
was elected a representative from Mis¬ 
souri to The forty-ninth congress. 

HUTTON,' LAURENCE, author, was 
born Aug. 8, 1843, in New York city. He 
is a litterateur of prominence in New York 
city, and the author of Other Times and 
Other Seasons; Plays and Players'; Art¬ 
ists of the Nineteenth Century; Literary 
Landmarks of London; Literary Land¬ 
marks of Edinburgh; Curiosities of the 
American Stage; From the Books of 
Laurence Hutton; Portraits in Plaster; 
Edwin Booth; Literary Landmarks of 
Jerusalem; Literary Landmarks of Ven¬ 
ice; Literary Landmarks of Florence; and 
Literary Landmarks of Rome. 

HUYLER, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in New York. Having become a 
citizen of New Jersey, he was elected a 
representative to the thirty-fifth congress 
from that state. He died Jan. 9, 1870, in 
New York. 


ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN 

HYATT, ALPHEUS, educator, author, 
was born April 5, 1838, in Washington, 
D. C. He is a professor o. zoology in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
and curator of the Boston Society of Nat¬ 
ural History, and the author of Observa¬ 
tions on Fresh Water Polyzoa; About 
Pebbles; Commercial and Other Sponges; 
Common Hyaroids; Worms and Crus¬ 
tacea; Guides to Science Teaching; and 
The Oyster, Clam, and other Common 
Mollusks. 

HYATT, ELIJAH CLARENCE, lawyer, 
author, was born Oct. 14, 1835, in New 
Castle, N. Y. He received his education 
at the Amenia sem¬ 
inary, Mount Kisco 
Educational insti¬ 
tute, Bedford acad¬ 
emy, and the New 
York university law 
school. He has been 
justice of the peace; 
executor and admin¬ 
istrator of estates, 
referee and commis¬ 
sioner in lunacy 
proceedings; and 
filled various other 
public positions of trust. In 1866 he was 
admitted to the bar, and has attained 
success as an able lawyer of Mount Kis¬ 
co, N. Y. He is the author of History of 
Mount Kisco; History of New York and 
Harlem Railroad; Genealogical History of 
the Hyatts; and other works. 

HYATT, JOHN WESLEY, inventor, 
was born Nov. 28, 1837, in Starkey, N. Y. 
He devoted his attention almost exclu¬ 
sively to inventing, and his first patent 
was for a knife-grinder or sharpener. 
His next important invention was a com¬ 
position billiard ball, the patent being is¬ 
sued in 1865. He has received nearly 
two hundred patents. 

HYDE, ALVAN, clergyman, author, was 
born Feb. 2, 1768, in Franklin, Conn. 
For thirty-one years he was a member of 
the corporation of Williams college, and 
its vice-president from 1812 until his 
death. He published Sketches of the Life 
of Rev. Stephen West; Essay on the State 
of Infants; and occasional sermons. He 
died Dec. 4, 1833, in Lee, Mass. 

HYDE, BURRELL WOODWORTH, 
financier, was born Dec. 23, 1839, in 
Franklin, Conn. In 1868 he entered the 
Old Norwich Saving Society, which now 
has deposits of over eleven millions, and 
with which institution he is still connect¬ 
ed. For twenty years he has been a mem¬ 
ber of the board of education; and has 
written extensively for various maga¬ 
zines. 

HYDE, CHARLES L., journalist, finan¬ 
cier, was born June 23, 1861, in Pike 
county, Ill. At the age of eighteen years 
he was working as a 
farm hand or cow 
boy in Colorado. 
From 1880 to 1886 he 
served as a com¬ 
mercial traveler ior 
an eastern manufac¬ 
turing house. He 
then engaged in 
mercantile business 
at Lima, Ohio, from 
whence he moved to 
South Dakota in 
1888, and has since 
been engaged in the real estate business. 
Mr. Hyde’s financial career has been most 
successful, the results solely of his own 
perseverance, forethought and integrity. 
He is the editor and owner of the Rustler 
of Pierre, and influential in the public af¬ 
fairs of his city and state. 


HYDE, EDWARD, governor, was born 
about 1650, in England. He was governor 
of North Carolina about 1708-12, when 
the colony was in a state of confusion 
from the conflicting claims of the Angli¬ 
cans and Quakers. He died Aug. 8, 1712, 
in North Carolina. 

HYDE. EDWARD WYLLYS, educator, 
author, was born Oct. 17, 1843, in Sagi¬ 
naw, Mich. He is a professor of mathe¬ 
matics and civil engineering in the uni¬ 
versity of Cincinnati from 1875, and au¬ 
thor of Skew Arches; and Directional 
Calculus. 

HYDE, FREDERICK, educator, sur¬ 
geon, banker, author, was born Jan. 27, 
1809, in Whitney’s Point, N. Y. He was 
president of the New York state medical 
association in 1865, since 1876 has been 
president of the board of trustees of the 
state normal school at Cortland, and in 
that year was a delegate to the Interna¬ 
tional Medical congress at Philadelphia. 
In 1876 he became president of the Core- 
land Savings bank. He has published re¬ 
ports on the Surgery of Cortland County. 

HYDE, HENRY B., insurance presi¬ 
dent. He is president of the Equitable 
Life Assurance society of New York, and 
draws the highest salary in the United 
States. His salary is one hundred thou¬ 
sand dollars a year. 

HYDE, IRa B., soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman. was born Jan. 18, 1838, in Guil¬ 
ford, N. Y. He entered the union army 
in a Minnesota cavalry regiment in 18oz. 
He removed to Missouri in 1866; was 
prosecuting attorney in 1872; and was 
elected to the forty-third congress. 

HYDE, JAMES NEVINS, surgeon, au¬ 
thor, was born June 21, 1840, in Norwich, 
Conn. He is a surgeon of Chicago, and 
the author of Early Medical Chicago; and 
Diseases of the Skin. 

HYDE, JOHN POISAL, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, college president, was born Jan. 
31, 1836, in Annapolis, Md. In 1850 he 
entered St. John’s college, and graduated 
with first honors in 1857. During 1870-81 
he was president of the Lonoak Female 
college of Martinsburg, W. Va.; and since 
io»l has been president of the Valley 
Female college of Winchester, Va. He 
is a successful clergyman of the methodist 
episcopal church south; and well known 
as a successful educator of young ladies, 
and a promoter of sound Christian educa¬ 
tion. In 1892 he received the nomina¬ 
tion for United States commissioner of 
education; and has filled various high 
positions in his church, and as chaplain 
in various associations. 

HYDE, SAMUEL CLARENCE, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born April 22, 
1842, in Fort Ticonderoga, N. Y. He 
served in the seventeenth regiment Wis¬ 
consin infantry in the war of the rebel¬ 
lion. He was elected prosecuting attor¬ 
ney for the district embracing northeast¬ 
ern Washington in 1880; and was elected 
three terms, holding that office for six 
years. He was elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress as a republican. 

HYDE. THOMAS WORCESTER, sol¬ 
dier, ship builder, author, was born in 
Italy. He was a brigadier-general in the 
army of the Potomac in the civil war, 
and is a builder of steel ships at Bath, 
Maine. He is the author of Following the 
Greek Cross, or Memories of the Sixth 
Army Corps. 

HYDE, WILLIAM DE WITT, clergy¬ 
man. author, was born Sept. 23, 1858, in 
Winchendon, Mass. He is a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman, president of Bowdoin 
college since 1885, and the author of rrac- 
tical Ethics; and Outlines of Social The- . 
ology. 


in New York city. 









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HYDE, WILLIAM H., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born May 27, 1849, in Ridgway, 
Pa. Since 1891 he has been president of 
the Clarion River railway. 

HYDER, H. H., author, poet. He is the 
author of a volume of poems entitled The 
Lover’s Dream. 

HYER, GEORGE, journalist, state leg¬ 
islator, was born July 16, 1819, in Coving¬ 
ton, N. Y. He was a member of the Wis¬ 
consin legislature in 1846, 1850, and 1863, 
and in the first-mentioned year was a 
representative in the state constitutional 
convention. He established the Madison 
Democrat in 1865. and from 1867 till the 
time of his death was connected with the 
Oshkosh Times. He died April 20, 1872, 
in Oshkosh, Wis. 

HYLTON, JOHN DUNBAR, business 
man, author, poet, was born March 25, 
1837, in the West Indies. The Farmer 
Poet is aptly applied 
by the newspapers 
of New Jersey to Dr. 
J. Dunbar Hylton. 
He has written quite 
a number of books. 
Betrayed, a northern 
tale; The Bride of 
Gettysburg, an epi¬ 
sode of 1863; Tne 
Heir of Lyolynn, a 
tale of sea and land, 
and other poems; 
Arteloise; and the 
Sea King. Dr. Dunbar Hylton is now a 
resident of Palmyra, N. J., where he is 
engaged in business and literary work. 

HYMAN, JOHN ADAMS, merchant, 
congressman, was born July 23, 1840, in 
Warrenton, N. C., of colored parents. 
He served in the state legislature from 
1868 to 1874; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from North Carolina to the for¬ 
ty-fourth congress. 

HYNDS, ALEXANDER, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 8, 1853, in Dandridge, 
Tenn. He was special judge of the cir¬ 
cuit of Tennessee for several terms; and 
has held various offices of trust in his 
county and state. 

HYNEMAN, HERMAN N„ artist, was 
born July 27, 1855, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
In 1889 he exhibited his Desdemona in 
the Paris salon, and the following year 
exhibited his Juliet in the same place. 
In 189< he completed his most import¬ 
ant work, the Dedication of Washington 
Memorial Arch, a picture which contains 
the portraits of hundreds of notable peo¬ 
ple present on that occasion. 

HYNEMAN, JOHN M., state legislator, 
congressman. He was a member of the 
legislature of Pennsylvania in 1809; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1811 to 1813. 

HYNEMAN, LEON, journalist, author, 
was born in 1805, in Montgomery county, 
Pa. He was an editor of New fork city, 
and the author of 1 he Fundamental Prin¬ 
ciples of Science; and Freemasonry in 
England from 1567 to 1813. He died in 
1879, in New York city. 

HYNES, WILLIAM J., journalist, law¬ 
yer, congressman, lecturer, was born 
March 31, 1843, in Ireland. He was elect¬ 
ed to the forty-third congress from Ar¬ 
kansas. In 1875 he moved to Illinois, 
locating in Chicago as a lawyer. 

HYSLOP, JAMES HERVEY, educator, 
author, was born in 1854, in Ohio. He is 
an instructor in Columbia college, and the 
author of The Elements of Ethics; The 
Elements of Logic; and The Ethics of 
Home. 


IDDINGS, JOSEPH PAXTON, geolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Jan. 21, 1857, in 
Baltimore, Md. In 1880 he was appointed 
assistant geologist on the United States 
geological survey. His scientific papers, 
published in the American Journal of 
Science, and the Bulletin of the United 
States geological survey, include Notes 
on the Volcanoes of Northern California, 
Oregon, and Washington Territory, with 
Arnold Hague; The Columnar Structure 
in the Igneous Rock on Orange Mountain, 
New Jersey; and Th£ Nature and Origin 
of Lithophysse and the Lamination of 
Acid Lavas. 

IDE, GEORGE BARTON, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1804, in Coventry, Vt. 
He was a baptist clergyman of Spring- 
field, Mass., and the author of Green Hol¬ 
low; Bible Echoes, or Lessons from the 
War; The Power of Kindness, a juvenile 
tale; and Bible Pictures. He died April 
6, 1872, in Springfield, Mass. 

IDOL, WILLIS, physician, surgeon, leg¬ 
islator, was born May 2, 1863, in Grainger, 
county, Tenn. At the age of twenty-one 
he was elected to represent his native 
county in the lower branch of the forty- 
fourth general assembly of Tennessee; 
and was re-elected to the forty-fifth gen¬ 
eral assembly. 

IHRIE, PETER, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from tnat state 
from 1829 to 1833. 

IJAMS, WILLIAM P. ; railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Jan. 18, 1847, in Marietta, 
Ohio. He is president of the Belt Road 
and Stock Yard company. 

IKIRT, GEORGE P., physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1852, in West 
Beaver. In 1884 tie founded the East 
Liverpool Crisis, a newspaper of Ohio. 
In 1892 he was nominated an<J elected to 
the fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

ILES, MALYERN WELLS, metallurg¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 7, 1852, in Midway, 
Ky. He was chemist and assayer to the 
Utioa Mining and Milling company, and 
later metallurgist to the Omaha and 
Grant Smelting company; and superin¬ 
tendent and metallurgist to the Holden 
Smelting company in Denver, Colo. 

ILSLEY, CHARLES PARKER, author, 
poet, was born in ±d07, in Maine. He 
was a writer whose home was in Port¬ 
land, Maine, till 1866. He was the author 
of The Island Fete, a poem; The Liberty 
Pole, a tale of Machias; and Forest and 
Shore, subsequently published as The 
Wrecker’s Daughter. He died in 1887. 

ILSLEY, DANIEL, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1740, in Falmouth, 
Mass. He served three years in the state 
legislature; and was a representative in 
congress from Massachusetts from 1807 
to 1809. He died in 1813. 

IMLAY, JAMES H., educator, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New Jersey from 1797 to 1801. 

IMMELL, LORENZO D., soldier, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, public official, was born 
June 18, 1837, in Ross county, Ohio. He 
received the rudiments of his education 
in the public schools of Ohio, and attend¬ 
ed the Ottumwa, Iowa, seminary. He 
entered the army during the civil war as 
a private, and was promoted to lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel. He has been a successful 
teacher, financier; has filled numerous 
offices of honor; and is now a successful 
lawyer of St. Louis, Mo. 

INGALLS, CHARLES RUSSELL, jur¬ 
ist, was born Sept. 14, 1819, in Greenwich, 
N. Y. He has been supreme court justice 
continuously for twenty-six years, and 
retired from the bench Jan. 1, 1890, hav¬ 
ing attained the age of seventy. 


INGALLS, JOHN JAMES, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, statesman, was born Dec. 
29, 1833, in Middleton, Mass. He was 
secretary of the Arkansas state senate in 
1861. He was a member of the state sen¬ 
ate from Atchison county in ^862; major, 
lieutenant-colonel, and judge-advocate 
Kansas volunteers in 1863-65. He was 
elected to the United States senate as a 
republican; took his seat March 4, 1873, 
and was re-elected in 1879 and 1885, his 
last term expiring in 1891. 

INGALLS, JOSHUA KING, author. He 
is the author of Social Wealth; and Eco¬ 
nomic Equities. 

INGALLS. MELVILLE EZRA, railroad 
president, was born Sept. 6, 1842, in Har¬ 
rison, Maine. He became president of 
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and 
St. Louis railroad, the Big Four, as it is 
called, and retained this position to the 
present time. Since 1888 he has also been 
president of the Chesapeake and Ohio 
railway. 

INGALLS, RUFUS, soldier, was born 
Aug. 23, 1820, in Denmark, Maine. He 
was in the battles of Embudo and Taos, 
N. M., in 1847, became first lieutenant in 
1847, and was made assistant quarter¬ 
master, with the rank of captain, in 1848. 
He died Jan. 15, 1893, in New York city. 

INGALLS, THOMAS R., educator, 
college president, was born Nov. 22, 1798, 
in Salem, N. Y. He was elected president 
of Jefferson college of Louisiana, where 
he remained until 1840. He died July 
26, 1864. 

INGALLS, WILLIAM, physician, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born May 3, 1769, in 
Newburyport, Mass. He was a physician 
who was professor of anatomy at Brown 
university in 1811-23; and author of a 
treatise on Malignant Fevers. He died 
Sept. 8, 1851, in 'Wrentham, Mass. 

INGE, SAMUEL W., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in North Carolina. He 
was elected a representative in congress 
from Alabama from 1847 to 1851. He 
then moved to California and practiced 
law. He died in 1867, in San Francisco, 
Cal. 

INGE, WILLIAM M., congressman, was 
born in Tennessee. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 
1833 to 1835. 

INGERSOLL, CHARLES ANTHONY, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 19, 1798, in 
New Haven, Conn. He was appointed by 
President Pierce judge of the United 
States district court for the district of 
Connecticut. He died Jan. 12, 1860, in 
New Haven, Conn. 

INGERSOLL, CHARLES JARED, 
statesman, lawyer, congressman, author, 
poet, was born Oct. 3, 1782, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a 
representative i n 
congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1813 
to 1815, when he was 
appointed United 
States district at¬ 
torney for Pennsyl¬ 
vania, which posi¬ 
tion he held until 
1829. In 1837 he was 
appointed secretary 
of legation to Prus¬ 
sia; and during 
1841-47 was again a representative in con¬ 
gress. He was the author of History of 
the War of 1812-15; Chiomara, a Poem; 
Edwy and Elgiva, a Tragedy; Inchiquin, 
the Jesuit’s Letters in American Litera¬ 
ture and Politics; and Recollections. He 
died May 14, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pa. 





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INGERSOLL, CHARLES L., college 
president, was born Nov. 1, 1844, in 
Perry, N. Y. In 1882 Professor Ingersoll 
accepted the presidency of Colorado Agri¬ 
cultural college, and in 1891 was elected 
fellow of the Society of Science, Litera¬ 
ture and Arts, of London, England, a 
most unusual distinction for so young a 
man. 

INGERSOLL, CHARLES ROBERTS, 
lawyer, legislator, governor, was born 
Sept. 16, 1821, in New Haven, Conn. He 
was frequently elected to the state legis¬ 
lature; and was governor of Connecticut 
from 1873 to 1876. 

INGERSOLL, COLIN MACRAE, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born in 1820, in 
Connecticut. He was secretary of lega¬ 
tion at St. Petersburg, by appointment 
of President Polk; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Connecticut from 
1851 to 1855. 

INGERSOLL, EBON C., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 12, 1831, in 
Oneida county, N. Y. In 1856 he was 
elected to the Illinois legislature. In 1864 
he was elected a representative from Illi¬ 
nois to the thirty-eighth congress, to fill 
a vacancy; and was re-elected to the thir¬ 
ty-ninth, fortieth and forty-first con¬ 
gresses. He died June 1, 1879. 

INGERSOLL, EDWARD, author, poet. 
He wrote poems under the pen-name of 
Horace for the Port-folio, and contrib¬ 
uted articles to Walsh’s Gazette. He was 
the author of Digest of the Laws of the 
United States. 

INGERSOLL, EDWARD, author, was 
born April 2, 1817, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is the author of History and Law of 
Habeas Corpus and Grand Juries; and 
Personal Liberty and Martial Law. 

INGERSOLL, ERNEST, naturalist au¬ 
thor, was born March 13, 1852, in Monroe, 
Mich. He is a naturalist of New York 
city whose writing is mainly for young 
people, and of a popular character. He is 
the author of Friends Worth Knowing; 
Natural History of Insects; Knocking 
Around the Rockies; Nests and Eggs of 
American Birds; The Crest of the Conti¬ 
nent; Strange Adventures of a Stow¬ 
away; Down East Latch Strings; The Ice 
Queen, a story; Birds’-Nesting; Country 
Cousins, or Short Studies in Natural His¬ 
tory; Old Ocean; To the Shenandoah and 
Beyond; and Habits of Animals. 

INGERSOLL, HENRY HULBERT, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, lecturer, was ’born 
Jan. 20, 1844, in Oberlin, Ohio. In 1863 
he graduated from Yale college; and he 
has attained success as a brilliant lec¬ 
turer and as one of the foremost lawyers 
of the south. In 1861 he enlisted as a 
private in the seventh regiment Ohio vol¬ 
unteer infantry. In 1876 he was the dem¬ 
ocratic elector for president and vice- 
president of the United States. During 
1879-81 he was judge of the supreme court 
commission of Tennessee; trustee of 
Emory and Henry college of Virginia 
during 1887-93; trustee of the university 
of the south during 1898-1900; and since 
1890 he has been dean in the law depart¬ 
ment of the university of Tennessee at 
Knoxville. 

INGERSOLL, JARED, lawyer,■ jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1749, in Con¬ 
necticut. He was a delegate from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the continental congress in 
1780 and 1781. He was for many years 
attorney-general for Pennsylvania;' and 
was judge of the district court of the 
United States at the time of his death. 
He died Oct. 31, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


INGERSOLL, JOSEPH REED, lawyer, 
congressman, author, was born July 14, 
1786, in Philadelphia, ne graduated at 
Princeton college in 
1804, and was a law¬ 
yer by profession. 
He was a repre¬ 
sentative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1835 to 
1837, and from 1842 
to 1849. He was ap¬ 
pointed in 1852 min¬ 
ister to England. 
He was the author 
of Memoir of Sam¬ 
uel Breck. He died 
Feb. 20, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

INGERSOLL, LUTHER DUNHAM, lib¬ 
rarian, author. He is the librarian of the 
war department at Washington, and the 
author of Iowa and the Rebellion; Life of 
Horace Greeley; and History of the War 
Department. 

INGERSOLL, RALPH ISAACS, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born in New 
Haven, Conn. He served in the legisla¬ 
ture of Connecticut several years; and 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1825 to 1833. In 1833 he 
was appointed attorney for the state; and 
was appointed by President Polk minister 
plenipotentiary to Russia. He died Aug. 
26, 1872, in New Haven, Conn. 

INGERSOLL, ROBERT GREEN, law¬ 
yer, orator, author, poet, was born Aug. 
11, 1833, in Dresden, N. Y. He is a noted 
lawyer and politician of Peoria, Ill., and 
more recently of New York city, famous 
also as a lecturer ana writer strongly op¬ 
posed to the Christian religion. He is 
the author of The Gods; Gnosts; Some 
Mistakes of Moses; Complete Lectures; 
and Prose Poems. 

INGHAM, CHARLES CROMWELL, 
artist, was born in 1796, in Ireland. He 
was one of the founders of the National 
academy of design, and was its vice- 
president from 1845 to 1850. Besides his 
portraits he painted a few ideal compo¬ 
sitions, among them may be mentioned 
The White Plume; Scene from Dpn Juan;’ 
and Day Dreams. He died Dec. 10, 1863 
in New York city. 

INGHAM, MARI BIGELOW, educator 
author, was born March 10, 1832, in Mans¬ 
field, Ohio. She received her education 
at the Norwalk sem¬ 
inary, Ohio; the 

Baldwin institute of 
Berea, Ohio; and re¬ 
ceived the degree of 
Mistress of Liberal 
Arts from the Wo¬ 
man’s college of 
Ohio. She has been 
corresponding secre¬ 
tary of the Cincin¬ 
nati branch of the 
A Woman's Foreign 
Missionary society; 
a leader in the woman’s temperance cru¬ 
sade of 1874; and a founder of the Na¬ 
tional Woman’s Christian Temperance 
union; and its first treasurer. She was 
a founder of the Cleveland school of art 
and secretary for years of its board of 
trustees. She was president of the 
woman’s department of the Cleveland 
centennial commission; and the author of 
Women of Cleveland and Their Worn. 

In early life she was engaged in educa¬ 
tional work; and has always contributed 
extensively to newspapers and maga¬ 
zines. 


INGHAM, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 5, 1793, in 
Hebron, Conn. From 1827 to 1835 he was 
state’s attorney for the county of Middle¬ 
sex, and again in 1843 and 1844. He was 
a judge of probate from 1829 to 1833; and 
judge of the Middlesex county court from 
1849 to 1853. He was a representative in 
congress from Connecticut from 1835 to 
1839. He also served a number of years, 
in the senate and house of representa¬ 
tives of Connecticut; three years as. 
speaker, and was one year clerk of the- 
house. In 1854 he was a candidate for the 
office of United States senator, and re¬ 
ceived the entire vote of his party in the- 
legislature, but Senator Foster was elect¬ 
ed. In 1857 he was appointed commis¬ 
sioner of customs. He died Nov. 10, 1881, 
in Essex, Conn. 

INGHAM. SAMUEL DULUCENNA, 
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 16, 1779, in Pennsylvania. He- 

served three years in the Pennsylvania 
legislature; and held for a time the office- 
of prothonotary to one of the courts of 
that state. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to- 
1818, and from 1822 to 1829; and was then 
appointed by President Jackson secretary 
of the treasury. He died June 5, 1860, in 
Trenton, N. J. 

INGLEHART, MRS. FRANCES, au¬ 
thor, was born in Texas. She is a writer 
of Austin, Texas, and the author of Face- 
to Face with the Mexicans. 

INGLIS, DAVID, clergyman, author, 
was born June 8, 1825, in Scotland. He- 
was a presbyterian clergyman of Brook¬ 
lyn who published Systematic Theology 
in Relation to Modern Thought. He: 
died Dec. 15, 1877, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

INGLIS, JOHN AUCHINCLOSS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Aug. 26, 1813, in Bal¬ 
timore. Md. He moved to Baltimore, Md.„ 
in 1870, and accepted a professorship in 
the law department of the university of 
Maryland. in 1874 he was appointed 
.judge of the orphan’s court, and he was 
re-elected in 18/5. He died Aug. 26, 1878, 
in Baltimore, Md. 

INGRAHAM, DANIEL PHOENIX, jur¬ 
ist, was born April 22, 1804, in New York 
city. He was elected a justice of the 
supreme court of New York in 1857; and 
in 1870 he was presiding justice of the su¬ 
preme court of the first district in New 
York. He died Dec. 12, 1881. 

INGRAHAM, DUNCAN NATHANIEL, 
naval officer, was born Dec. 6, 1802, in 
Charleston, S. C. He served in every war 
since the revolution; and attained the- 
rank of commodore; and was said to be- 
the last survivor of those that entered the 
navy in 1812. He died Oct. 16, 1891, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

INGRAHAM, EDWARD DUNCAN, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1793, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of 
Philadelphia, and the author of English 
Ecclesiastical Reports; and A View of the- 
Insolvent Laws of Pennsylvania. He died 
Nov. 4, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

INGRAHAM. JOSEPH HOLT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1809, in Port¬ 
land, Maine. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man of Holly Springs, Miss. He was the- 
author of Lafitte: the Pirate of the Gulf; 
Captain Kyd; and The Dancing Feather. 

1 he Southwest, by a Yankee, was another 
work of this period. He entered the epis¬ 
copal ministry in 1855, and afterward, 
wrote three religious romances as popu¬ 
lar as the others, and almost as valueless. 
They are, The Prince of the House of 
David; The Pillar of Fire; and The- 
Throne of David. He died December, 
1860, in Holly Springs, Miss. 





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INGRAHAM. PRENTISS, soldier, au¬ 
thor, dramatist, was born Dec. 28, 1843, 
in Mississippi. He received a liberal edu¬ 
cation, and during the war was a cavalry 
officer in the confederate army; and sub¬ 
sequently was an officer of the army and 
navy in foreign service. He has attained 
success as an author and dramatist. 
Since his first story appeared in the Lit¬ 
erary Companion, Colonel Prentiss In¬ 
graham has written stories of love and 
adventure, and sea and land, holding 
through all these years his popularity 
with the public. His principal works are 
A Story of Crete; The Cuban Patriot; 
An Idyl of the Lost Cause; A Man in 
Gray; A Prince of the Desert; and many 
sketcnes of American border life. 

INMAN, JOHN HAMILTON, manufac¬ 
turer, merchant, financier, was born Oct. 
23, 1844, in Jefferson county, Tenn. In 
1867 he organized the now internation¬ 
ally well known house of Inman, Swann 
and Co., and has been the presiding 
genius of that firm to the present time. 
He is several times a millionaire, and the 
foremost southerner in New York city. 

INMAN, JOHN O’BRIEN, artist, was 
born June 10, 1828, in New York city. 
Some of his best works represent Roman 
peasants. Among his paintings are Sunny 
Thoughts; and View of Assisi. 

INNES, HARRY, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1762, in Caroline county, Va. In 
1783 he was chosen judge of the supreme 
court for the district of Kentucky; in 
1785 and 1787 was attorney-general of 
that state; and was judge of the United 
States district court for Kentucky from 
1787 until his death. In 1791 he was one 
of the local board of war to call out the 
militia on expeditions against the Indians. 
He died Sept. 20, 1816, in Frankfort, Ky. 

INNESS, GEORGE, landscape painter, 
was born May 1, 1825, in Newbury, N. Y. 
Among his pictures are The Sign of 
Promise; Peace and Plenty; A Vision 
of Faith; and Passing Storm. 

INNESS, GEORGE, artist, was born 
Jan. 5, 1854, in Paris, Prance. He has at¬ 
tained national eminence as a successful 
landscape painter of Montclair, N. J. 

INSKIP, JOHN SWANNELL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 10, 1816, in 
England. He was a methodist clergyman 
who was a noted camp-meeting conduc¬ 
tor, and the author of Life of Rev. Wil¬ 
liam Summers; Methodism Explained 
and Defended; and Remarkable Display 
of the Mercy of God. He died March 7, 
1884, in Ocean Grove, N. J. 

IRBY, JOHN LAURENS MANNING, 
planter, lawyer, United States senator, 
was born Sept. 10, 1854, in Laurens, S. L. 

He was appointed 
lieutenant-colonel in 
South Carolina vol¬ 
unteers in 1877; and 
has been a large 
planter since he re¬ 
tired from the bar. 
He was elected to 
the state house of 
representatives of 
South Carolina in 
1886; and re-elected 
in 1888 and 1890; 
and was unanimous¬ 
ly elected speaker in the latter year. He 
was elected to the United States senate 
as a democrat Dec. 11, 1890, for the full 
term commencing March 4, 1891. 

IREDELL, JAMES, jurist, was born 
Oct. 5, 1750, in England. In 1790 he re¬ 
ceived his appointment as associate jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of the United 
States. He died Oct. 20, 1799, in Edenton, 
N. C. 


IREDELL, JAMES, lawyer, author, 
governor, was born in 1788, in Edenton, 
N. C. He was a lawyer of Raleigh who 
was governor of North Carolina in 1827. 
He was the author of Laws of North Caro¬ 
lina; North Carolina Reports; Equity Re¬ 
ports; Law of Executors; and Digest of 
Reported Cases. He died April 13, 1853, 
in Edenton, N. C. 

IRELAND, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, was born Jan. 1, 1827, m 
Hart county, Ky. In 1862 he entered the 
confederate army as a private soldier; 
served throughout the war, rising to the 
rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1866 he 
was elected a delegate to the state con¬ 
stitutional convention of that year; and 
in the summer of the same year was elect¬ 
ed judge of the second judicial district 
of Texas. In 1872 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in the state legislature; in 
1873 was elected a state senator; and in 
1875 was appointed an associate judge of 
the state supreme court. In 1882 he was 
unanimously nominated a candidate for 
governor of Texas and was elected; and 
in 1884 was renominated, and was re¬ 
elected governor. 

IRELAND, JOHN, bishop, author, was 
born Sept. 11, 1838, in Ireland. He served 
as chaplain of the fifth Minnesota regi¬ 
ment during the civil war. He was af¬ 
terward appointed rector of the cathedral 
of St. Paul, which position he held until 
his consecration as coadjutor bishop. He 
has founded a colony of Roman catholics 
in Minnesota; and for many years has 
been president of the State Historical so¬ 
ciety of Minnesota. He is an able ora¬ 
tor and writer upon educational themes; 
and the author of Church and Modern 
Society. 

IRELAND, JOSEPH NORTON, mer¬ 
chant, author, was born April 24, 1817, in 
New York city. This successful mer¬ 
chant wrote Records of New York Stage 
from 1850 to 1860; Memories of Mrs. 
Duff; Professional Life of Thomas A. 
Cooper; and Monographs of Actors and 
Actresses of Great Britain and America. 

IRELAND, MARY E., author, poet, was 
born in Cecil county, Md. She is the au¬ 
thor of a novel entitled Timothy, His 
Neighbors and His Friends, a volume of 
short stories; and a volume of poems. 
Since 1884 she has published several vol¬ 
umes of translations. 

IRION, ALFRED BRIGGS, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Feb. 18, 1833, in Avoyelles parish. 
La. In 1864 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive in the state legislature. In 1879 six 
new judicial circuits were established, by 
an act of the legislature, the tribunals 
for which were styled Circuit Courts of 
Appeal; and in 1880 he was elected one 
of the judges for the third district, for 
the term of four years. In 1884 he was 
elected a representative from Louisiana 
to the forty-ninth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

IRISH, FRANK V., educator, author, 
was born Nov. 7, 1848, in Potsdam, N. Y. 
Hewas professor of rhetoric and literature 
for three years in the Ohio Normal uni¬ 
versity of Ada; and filled the same posi¬ 
tion for three years in the State Normal 
school of Lock Haven, Pa. He is the au¬ 
thor of American and British Authors; 
The Treasured Thoughts; Orthography 
and Orthoepy; Grammar and Analysis by 
Diagrams; and various other works. 

IRVIN, ALEXANDER, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1847 to 1849. 


IRVIN, JAMES, congressman, was 
born Feb. 18, 1800, in Centre county, Pa. 
He was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1841 to 1845. He died 
Nov. 28, 1862, in Centre county, Pa. 

IRVIN, WILLIAM W., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
in 1778 in Albemarle county, Va. He 
was a member of the state legislature of 
Ohio; judge of the supreme court of the 
state; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Ohio from 1829 to 1833. He 
died April 19, 1842, in Lancaster, Ohio. 

IRVINE, CHRISTOPHER, pioneer. In 
1786 Christopher led a company of men, 
under the command of Colonel Ben Lo¬ 
gan, against the Indians in northern Ohio 
and was killed by a savage whom he was 
pursuing and who, in turn, was killed by 
Irvine’s men. He died in 1786 in Ohio. 

IRVINE, JAMES, soldier, state sena¬ 
tor, was born Aug. 4, 1735, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He served with distinction 
through the revolutionary war. He was 
made a brigadier-general of the militia 
in 1777; and in 1782 he was commissioned 
major-general of the Pennsylvania mili¬ 
tia, which office he held until 1793. Dur¬ 
ing 1785-86 he served in the general as¬ 
sembly; and during 1795-99 was a state 
senator. He died April 28, 1819, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

IRVINE, WILLIAM, congressman, he 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the thirty-sixth congress. He 
died in 1820. 

IRVINE, WILLIAM, soldier, surgeon, 
congressman, was born Nov. 3, 1741, in 
Ireland. He served as surgeon on boaru 
a British ship, in the war which began in 
1754, and after the peace of 1763, settled 
at Carlisle, Pa. He was promoted to the 
command of the second Pennsylvania 
regiment. In 1781 the defense of the 
northwestern frontier was intrusted to 
him, and he attained the rank of major- 
general. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1793 to 1795. He moved short¬ 
ly after to Philadelphia, and was appoint¬ 
ed superintendent of military stores. He 
died July 29, 1804, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

IRVING, JOHN BEAUFAIN, artist, was 
born Nov. 26, 1825, in Charleston, S. C. 
He painted genre pictures, which attract¬ 
ed attention by their spirited composi¬ 
tion, richness of coloring, and elaborate 
finish. In 1867 he exhibited at the acade¬ 
my of design The Splinter; and The Dis¬ 
closure. Wine-Tasters, exhibited in 1869, 
secured his election as an associate of the 
National academy. In 1871 he sent' a full- 
length portrait of Mrs. August Belmont. 
The End of the Game, exhibited in 1872, 
established his reputation, and in that 
year he was chosen a full member of the 
academy. He died April 20, 1877, in 
New York city. 

IRVING, JOHN TREAT, JR., lawyer, 
author, was born Dec. 2, 1812, in New 
lawyer of New York 
city, and the author 
of Indian Sketches; 
Hawk Chief; The 
Attorney; Harry 
Harson; and The 
Van Gelder Papers. 
He was a nephew of 
Washington Irving. 
He has attained high 
rank as one of the 
foremost lawyers of 
New York city; 
and besides his pub¬ 
lished works has 
contributed extensively valuable articles 
to current publications on law and secu¬ 
lar topics. 



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IRVING, PETER, journalist, author, 
was born Oct. 30, 1771, in New York city. 
He was a journalist of New York city, 
who published Giovanni Sbogarra, a Ve¬ 
netian Tale. He died June 27, 1838, in 
New York city. 

IRVING, PIERRE MUNROE, author, 
was born in 1803, in New York. He was 
the author of a Life of Washington Ir¬ 
ving. He died Feb. 11, 1836, in New York 
city. 

IRVING, ROLAND DUER. educator, 
author, was born April 27, 1847, in New 
York city. He has been a professor of ge¬ 
ology in the university of Wisconsin 
from 1870 and is the author of Geology of 
Central Wisconsin; Geology of Lake Su¬ 
perior; and Copper-Bearing Rocks of 
Lake Superior. 

IRVING. THEODORE, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born May 9, 1809, in 
New York city. He was an episcopal 
clergyman and educator, and the author 
of The Fountain of Living Waters; Tiny 
Footfalls; More than Conqueror; and The 
History of De Soto’s Conquest of Florida, 
He died Dec. 20, 1880, in New York city. 

IRVING, WASHINGTON, author, was 
born April 3, 1783, in New York city. He 
was the most popular of the earlier Amer¬ 
ican writers of the 
nineteenth centu¬ 
ry. Diedrich Knick¬ 
erbocker’s History 
of New York, one 
by which he will 
be longest remem¬ 
bered, appeared in 
1809. Irving spent 
the years from 1815 
to 1832 abroad, a 
portion of the time 
as secretary of the 
United States lega¬ 
tion at London, and from 1842 to 1846 as 
minister to Spain. The rest of his life 
was spent af his home in Tarrytown on 
the Hudson. His writings not already 
named include The Sketch Book; Brace- 
bridge Hall; Tales of a Traveller; Life 
and Voyages of Columbus; Conquest of 
Grenada; The Companions of Columbus; 
The Alhambra; Crayon Miscellanies; As¬ 
toria; Adventures of Captain Bonneville; 
Life of Oliver Goldsmith; Mahomet and 
his Successors; Wolfert’s Roost; Life of 
Washington; and Spanish Papers. He 
died Nov. 28, 1859, in Irvington, N. Y. 

IRVING, WILLIAM, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Aug. 16, 1766, 
in New York city. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1813 to 1819. He 
was a brother of Washington Irving, for 
whose Salmagundi he wrote several 
poems and essays. He died Nov. 9, 1821, 
in New York city. 

IRWIN, CHARLES F., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, jurist, was born May 5, 1828, in Fay¬ 
ette, N. Y. He was elected judge of El¬ 
dorado county, Cal., in 1867; was twice 
re-elected, holding the position for twelve 
years. In 1883-84 he served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the assembly of the 
California state legislature; and in 1885 
was elected district attorney. 

IRWIN, G. M., educator, clergyman, 
was born Nov. 11, 1835, in Zanesville, 
Ohio. He graduated from the Ohio Wes¬ 
leyan university, and received the degrees 
of A. M. and D. D. He has become an 
eminent minister of the methodist epis¬ 
copal church; and during the civil war 
served as chaplain. He is now state su¬ 
perintendent of public instruction for Or¬ 
egon. For many years he was president 
of the Blue Mountain university of Ore¬ 
gon; and was the superintendent of the 
United States Indian industrial school of 
Salem. 


IRWIN, JARED, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1813 to 1817. 

IRWIN, JARED, soldier, state legisla¬ 
tor, governor, was born in 1750, in Meck¬ 
lenburg county, N. C. During the latter 
part of the revolutionary war he was ac¬ 
tively employed against the tories and 
Indians. At the close of the war he was 
a member of the state legislature, and of 
the convention which adopted the United 
States constitution in 1789. He was gov¬ 
ernor of the state from 1796 to 1798; and 
president of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention in 1798. He was many years a 
member, and president of the state sen¬ 
ate; and was again governor from 1806 
to 1809. He died March 1, 1818, in Wash¬ 
ington county, Ga. 

IRWIN, JOHN, naval officer, was born 
April 15, 1832, in Pennsylvania. He was 
commissioned midshipman in 1847, passed 
midshipman in 1853, lieutenant in 1855, 
captain in 1875, and commodore in 1886. 
He was on duty in California, and was 
promoted rear admiral in 1891. 

IRWIN, JOHN ARTHUR, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born June 17, 1853, 
in Ireland. He has been house surgeon 
to the Manchester Southern Hospital for 
Women and Children. He is the author 
of a work, Hydrotheraty at Saratoga, a 
treatise on natural mineral waters, and 
other works. 

IRWIN, JOHN N., governor. He was 
appointed governor of the territory of 
Idaho for the term of four years from 
1883. 

IRWIN, JOHN SCULL, physician, 
banker, was born April 4, 1825, in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. This eminent physician has 
been prominent in the welfare and sub¬ 
stantial upbuilding of Fort Wayne, Ind. 

IRWIN, MASON, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Feb. 19, 1850, in Juniata county, Pa. 
For nine years he practiced law in Penn¬ 
sylvania and the state of Washington; 
and was then elected judge of the supe¬ 
rior court of four counties in the state 
of Washington, which position he has 
held since 1890. 

IRWIN, NATHANIEL, clergyman, was 
born Oct. 17, 1756, in Flagg’s Manor, Pa. 
He was ordained to the presbyterian min¬ 
istry in 1774, and was pastor of the Nes- 
haminy church, Bucks county, Pa., from 
that year until his death. He was clerk 
of the old synod in 1781-85, and modera¬ 
tor of the general assembly in 1801. He 
died March 3, 1812, in Bucks county. Pa. 

IRWIN, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born heb. 22, 1785, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1829 to 
1831; and in the latter year was appoint¬ 
ed United States judge of the western dis¬ 
trict of Pennsylvania. He died May 14, 
1870, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

IRWIN, WILLIAM, journalist, state 
senator, governor, was born in 1827, in 
Butler county, Ohio. He served several 
times in the California state legislature; 
and when a vacancy occurred in the gov¬ 
ernorship in February, 1875, he was chos¬ 
en president of the senate, and acting 
lieutenant-governor. At the ensuing 
election he was elected governor of Cali¬ 
fornia. He died in San Francisco, Cal. 

IRWIN, WILLIAM W., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a 
member of congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1841 to 1843; and from 1843 to 1847 
was charge d’affaires of the United States 
to Denmark. He died Sept. 15, 1856, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. 


ISAAC, MYER S., lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1841, in New York. In - 
1880 he was appointed judge of the ma¬ 
rine court of New York city. He is the 
author of The Persecution of the Jews 
in Roumania; The Jewish Question in 
Russia; and American Israelites. 

ISAACS, SAMUEL MYER, clergyman, 
journalist, was born Jan. 4, 1804, in Hol¬ 
land. He was a popular speaker, and was 
often called to consecrate synagogues 
throughout the country, and was a fre¬ 
quent orator at public assemblies. In 1857 
he established the Jewish Messenger, as 
an organ of conservative Judaism. He 
died May 19, 1878, in New York city. 

ISACKS, JACOB C., congressman, was 
born in Montgomery county, Pa. He was 
a representative in congress from Tennes¬ 
see from 1823 to 1833. 

ISHAM. ASA BRAINERD, soldier, phy¬ 
sician, educator, author, was born July 
12, 1844, in Jackson C. H., Ohio. During 
1862-65 he served in the civil war as first 
lieutenant of the seventh Michigan vol¬ 
unteer cavalry. From 1879-85 he was pro¬ 
fessor of materia medica and therapeutics 
in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and 
Surgery. He is the author of Prisoners 
of War and Military Prisons; Historical 
Sketch of Seventh Michigan Volunteer 
Cavalry; and has been a large contribu¬ 
tor of medical and war literature. 

ISHAM, EDWARD SWIFT, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born Jan. 15, 1836, 
in Bennington, Vt. In 1864 he was elect¬ 
ed to the state legislature from Illinois. 

ISHAM. JIRAH, soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in May, 1778, in Colchester, 
Conn. From 1840 till his death he was 
judge of probate for New London dis¬ 
trict. During the war of 1812 with Great 
Britain he commanded at the bombard¬ 
ment of Stonington. He died Oct. 6, 
1842, in New London, Conn. 

ISHAM, PIERREPONT, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Aug. 5, 1802, in Manchester, Vt. 
From 1851-57 he was one of the judges of 
the supreme court of Vermont. He died 
May 8, 1872, in New York city. 

ISLER, ARNOLD HENRY, soldier, 
journalist, author, poet, was born in 1848, 
in Switzerland. He served in the twen¬ 
ty-third Ohio infantry throughout the 
war as a private scout, spy, and color- 
bearer. Since 1872 he has been engaged 
in journalism; and since 1886 has been 
the literary editor of the Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer. He is the author of a volume of 
stories and humorous sketches; and a 
volume of poems entitled Wild Thoughts 
in Rhyme. 

ISRAEL, DAVID, jurist, was born Nov. 

2, 1848, in Donaldsonville, La. He has 
been mayor of the city of his nativity 
for five terms; and since 1893 has been 
judge of the fourth ward justice court. 

ITTNER. ANTHONY, state senator, 
congressman, was Dorn Oct. 8, 1837, in 
Lebanon. Ohio. He was elected to the 
city council of St. Louis, Mo., in 1867; and 
re-elected in 1868. He was elected to the 
state house of representatives in 1868; 
and was elected state senator in 1870, and 
re-elected in 1874; was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Missouri to the forty-xifth 
congress as a republican. 

IVERSON, ALFRED, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Dec. 3, 1798, in Burke county, Ga. 

He served three years as a member of the 
house of representatives and one year as 
senator in the legislature of Georgia. He 
was twice elected judge of the supreme 
court. He was elected a representative 
to the thirtieth congress; and in 1854 was 
elected to the United States senate for 
six years from 1855. He died March 4, 
1873, in Macon, Ga. 



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IVES, ALICE EMMA, dramatist, au¬ 
thor, was born in Detroit, Mich. She has 
attained prominence as a dramatist, and 
is the author of The Great Brooklyn Han¬ 
dicap; and her play entitled Lorine has 
been starred by Frederick Paulding. 

IVES, BRAYTON, railroad president, 
was born in 1841, in Farmington, Conn. 
Since 1893 he has been president of the 
Northern Pacific railroad. 

IVES. CHARLES JOHN, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Oct. 4, 1831, in Walling¬ 
ford, Vt. He has served as general freight 
and passenger agent and president of the 
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern 
railroad. 

IVES. CHARLES LINNAEUS, educator, 
physician, author, was born June 22, 1831. 
in New Haven, Conn. He began practice 
in New Haven in 1856, and in 1868-73 was 
professor of theory and practice of medi¬ 
cine in Yale. He is the author of an ar¬ 
ticle on Prophylaxis of Phthisis Pulmo- 
nalis, and a prize essay on the Therapeu¬ 
tic Value of Mercury and its Preparations, 
both published by the Connecticut Medi¬ 
cal society. 

IVES, HALSEY COOLEY, educator, 
artist, was born Oct. 27, 1846, in Mon¬ 
tour Falls, N. Y. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the public 
schools of his native city, at the techni¬ 
cal schools of South Kensington, London, 
England; and has studied at the various 
schools of art abroad. He has been a 
member of the faculty of the Washington 
university; a director in the St. Louis 
School of Fine Arts; and director in the 
Museum of Fine Arts of St. Louis, Mo. 
He has been sent abroad by the govern¬ 
ment as commissioner three times; was 
entrusted with the formation of the de¬ 
partment of fine arts at the World’s Co¬ 
lumbian exposition, and was chief of the 
department from its inception to its fin¬ 
ish. He has produced finished pictures 
of nature, which have been exhibited 
each year; in 1893 he was presented a 
medal by the French commission to the 
World’s Columbian exposition; and re¬ 
ceived a silver medal in 1894 from the 
French government in recognition of ser¬ 
vices to art. 

IVES. LEVI, physician, journalist, was 
born in 1750. He was a skillful practi¬ 
tioner, a founder of the New Haven Medi¬ 
cal society, and one of the editors of 
Cases and Observation, which was reput¬ 
ed to be the first medical journal that was 
published in the United States. He died 
Oct. 17, 1826, in New Haven, Conn. 

IVES, LEVI SILLIMAN, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 16, 1797, in Meriden, 
Conn. He was the second protestant epis¬ 
copal bishop of North Carolina, consecra¬ 
ted in 1832 and deposed in 1853, he hav¬ 
ing become a Roman catholic at the close 
of 1852. After that period he lectured in 
convents of the Sacred Heart. He was 
the author of Trials of a Mind in its Prog¬ 
ress to Catholicism; The Obedience of 
Faith; Manual of Devotion; and Humil¬ 
ity a Ministerial Qualification. He died 
Oct. 13, 1867, in New York city. 

IVES, WILLARD, farmer, congress¬ 
man, was born July 7, 1806, in Water- 
town, N. Y. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1851 to 
1853. 

IVINS, HORACE FREMONT, lecturer, 
journalist, author, was born Oct. 30, 1856, 
in Bucks county, Pa. He is a lecturer on 
laryngology and otology in Hahnemann 
Medical college. He is laryngological ed¬ 
itor of the Journal of Ophthalmology, 
Otology, and Laryngology of New York; 
and is the author of a text-book entitled 
Diseases of the Nose and Throat. 


IVISON, HENRY, publisher, was born 
Dec. 23, 1808, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 
1830 he established the publishing house 
of Ivison and Company in Auburn, N. Y.; 
and in 1846 moved his business to New 
York city. His house made a specialty 
of publishing educational works, and be¬ 
came well known throughout the United 
States. He died Nov. 26, 1884, in New 
York city. 

IZARD, GEORGE, soldier, engineer, 
governor, author, was born Oct. 21. 1776, 
in London, England. On the breaking out 
of the war of 1812 he was appointed colo¬ 
nel of second artillery; brigadier-general 
in 1813; major-general in 1814; and dis¬ 
banded in 1815. He was governor of Ark¬ 
ansas territory from 1825 until his death. 
He published Official Correspondence witn 
the War Department in 1814 and 1815. 
He was the son of Ralph Izard. He died 
Oct. 22, 1828, in Little Rock, Ark. 

IZARD, MARK W., governor. He was 
appointed governor of the territory of Ne¬ 
braska in 1854, and remained in office un¬ 
til 1857. 

IZARD, RALPH, diplomat, statesman, 
was born in 1742, near Charleston, S. C. 
He was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress in 1782 and 1783; United States sen¬ 
ator from 1789 to 1795; and president of 
the senate pro tem. during the first ses¬ 
sion of the third congress. He died May 
30, 1804, near Charleston, S. C. 

IZLAR, JAMES F., soldier, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1832, 
in Orangeburg county, S. C. He was a 
graduate of Emory college. He served 
as an officer in the confederate army; 
was state senator for ten years, and was 
for eight years, during his service in the 
senate, the president' pro tempore of that 
body. In 1889 he was elected by the gen¬ 
eral assembly judge of the first judicial 
circuit, and served as such until 1894, 
when he was elected to congress. He has 
always been an uncompromising demo¬ 
crat, and for a number of years was the 
chairman of the state democratic execu¬ 
tive committee. He was a delegate to the 
national democratic convention of 1884. 
He was elected to the fifty-third congress 
as a democrat to fill a vacancy, and took 
his seat in congress April 5, 1894. 

JACK, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1841 to 1843. 

JACKSON, ABNER, clergyman, college 
president, was born Nov. 4, 1811, in Wash¬ 
ington, Pa. In 1858 Dr. Jackson accepted 
an election to the presidency and the pro¬ 
fessorship of the evidences of Christian¬ 
ity at Hobart college, Geneva, N. Y. From 
this post he was recalled to Trinity in 
1867, the trustees having unanimously 
chosen him to be president. He died 
April 19, 1874, in Hartford, Conn. 

JACKSON, ABRAHAM REEVES, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born in 1827, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a noted surgeon of Chi¬ 
cago, who has published many valuable 
professional papers. 

JACKSON. ABRAHAM WILLARD, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1842, in 
Maine. He is a Unitarian clergyman who 
was formerly a pastor in New Hampshire 
and California, but has since devoted 
himself to study and literary work at 
Concord, Mass. He is the author of The 
Immanent God, and Other Essays. 

JACKSON, ALBERT EVERETT, bank¬ 
er, legislator, was born Sept. 23, 1860, in 
Wabash, Ind. He represented his state 
from the fiftieth district as a member of 
the state legislature. He is also a suc¬ 
cessful banker of Wabash, Ind. 


JACKSON, ANDREW, seventh presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born 
March 15, 1767, in Washaw, Lancaster 
county, S. C., and re¬ 
ceived a common 
English education. 
Andrew, like George 
Washington, fought 
in the revolutionary 
war, joining a com¬ 
pany of volunteers 

at the age of four¬ 
teen. In 1784 he be¬ 
gan the study of 

law at Salisbury, N. 
C., and was soon af¬ 
ter appointed so¬ 
licitor for that portion of the state 
now known as Tennessee. In 1791 ne 
married Mrs. Rachel Robarts, a wom¬ 
an who had been divorced from her 

husband. In 1795 he was a mem¬ 

ber of the convention that formea 
the state constitution of Tennessee, and 
was elected the first representative of 
that state in congress. He was soon af¬ 
ter elected United States senator, and 
took his seat in November, 1797. He re¬ 
signed his seat as senator in 1798, and 
was elected judge of the supreme court of 
Tennessee, which position he held until 
1804. When the United States declared 
war against Great Britain in 1812 Jackson 
entered the army, and in 1814 he re¬ 
ceived the appointment of major-general. 
He continued in the army, fighting the 
British and Indians, until 1818, and then 
resigned his commission. In 1821 Presi¬ 
dent Monroe appointed him governor of 
the territory of Florida, and in 1823 he 
was elected to the United States senate. 
In 1824 he was an unsuccessful candidate 
for the presidency, but successful in 1828, 
and was inaugurated March 4, 1829. He 
was re-elected in 1832, ana took the oath 
of office a second time March 4, 1833. At 
the close of his administration, March 4, 
1837, he retired to the Hermitage, in Ten¬ 
nessee, and died on the 8th day of June, 
1845. Jackson held office—judicial, politi¬ 
cal and military—in all about twenty-five 
years. He died tolerably well off. His 
famous toast was: Our union—it must 
be preserved. 

JACKSON, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born May 31, 1775, in New- 
buryport. Mass. He was a jurist of Bos¬ 
ton who published a valued Treatise on 
Real Actions. He died Dec. 13, 1855, in 
Boston, Mass. 

JACKSON. CHARLES, governor, was 
born in 1797. He was governor of Rhode 
Island for one ^ear, beginning with 1845. 
He died Jan. 21, 1876, in Providence, R. I. 

JACKSON, CHARLES DAVIS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 15, 1811, in 
Salem, Mass. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of Westchester, N. Y., in 1843-71, 
whose only published work is Suffering 
Here and Glory Hereafter. He died June 
28, 1871, in Westchester, N. Y. 

JACKSON, CHARLES LORING, chem¬ 
ist, author, was born April 4, 1847, in 
Boston. Mass. He discovered in 1883-84 a 
new method for the preparation of bor- 
neol from camphor, which is considered 
the best method that has been found as 
yet. His Lecture Notes in Cnemistry 
has been printed privately. 

JACKSON, CHARLES THOMAS, scien¬ 
tist, author, was born June 21, 1805, in 
Plymouth, Mass. He was a Boston scien¬ 
tist whose laboratory for research in ana¬ 
lytical chemistry was the first of its kind 
in the United States. He was the au¬ 
thor of Report on the Geology of Maine; 
Mineral Lands in Michigan: and Manual 
of Etherization. He died Aug. 28, 1880, 
in Somerville, Mass. 







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JACKSON, CLAIBORNE FOX, soldier, 
governor, was born April 4, 1807, in 
Fleming county, Ky. He served as cap¬ 
tain in the Black Hawk war; and served 
for twelve years in the Kentucky state 
legislature, for a time as speaker. In 1860 
he was elected governor of Missouri. He 
left the state on the approach of the fed¬ 
eral army, and was deposed by a state 
convention. He afterward served for a 
short time as a general in the confederate 
army. He died Dec. 6, 1862, in Little 
Rock, Ark. 

JACKSON, CONRaD FAEGER, soldier, 
was born Sept. 11, 1813, in Pennsylvania. 
In 1862 he was made brigadier-general, 
and commanded the third brigade of Mc¬ 
Call’s division, participated in the battles 
of South Mountain and Antietam, and was 
killed at Fredericksburg while at the head 
of the column of attack. He died Dec. 
13, 1862, in Fredericksburg, Va. 

JACKSON, DAVID, physician, con¬ 
gressman, wab born about 1747, in Ches¬ 
ter county, Pa. He was a delegate from 
Pennsylvania to the continental congress 
from 1785 to 1786. He died in 1801, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

JACKSON, DAVID S., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1847 to 1848. 

JACKSON, EBENEZER, JR., congress¬ 
man, was born in Connecticut. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1834 to 1835, to fill a vacancy. 

JACKSON. EDWARD B., congressman, 
was born in Harrison county, Va. He 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1820 to 1823, to fill a va¬ 
cancy. He died Sept. 8, 1826. 

JACKSON, EDWARD PAYSON, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born March 15, 1840, in 
Turkey. He is an educator of Boston, 
and master in the Latin school from 1877. 
He is the author of Mathematic Geogra¬ 
phy; A Demigod, a novel; The Earth in 
Space; and Character Building. 

JACKSON, ELIHU E., governor, was 
born Nov. 3, 1837, in Wicomico county, 
Md. In 1887 ne was elected governor of 
Maryland. 

JACKSON, EMILY, was born in Ten¬ 
nessee. She presiae'd in the white house 
during the administration of President 
Jackson, who always spoke of her as my 
daughter. She died in December, 1836, in 
Tennessee. 

JACKSON. FRANCIS, reformer, au¬ 
thor, was born March 7, 1789, in Newton, 
Mass. He was a prominent reformer who 
was president of the Anti-Slavery socie¬ 
ty for many years, and published a His¬ 
tory of Newton, Mass. He died Nov. 14, 
1861, in Boston, Mass. 

JACKSON, FRANK WATTERSON, ed¬ 
ucator, was born June 6, 1874, in Ohio 
Pyle, Pa. He graduated from the Mount 
Pleasant institute of Pennsylvania, and 
received the three-hundred-dollar cash 
prize for the best preparation for college. 
He then attended Bucknell university and 
the university of Chicago. He fills the 
chair of Greek in the Mount Pleasant in¬ 
stitute; and contributes extensively to 
current literature. 

JACKSON, GEORGE ANSON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1846, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Swampscott, Mass., and the au¬ 
thor of The Son of a Prophet, an histori¬ 
cal novel; Apostolic Fathers; Fathers of 
the Second Century; Post-Nicene Greek 
Fathers; and Post-Nicene Latin Fathers, 
four works which form a series of early 
Christian literature primers. 


JACKSON, GEORGE THOMAS, derma¬ 
tologist, author, was born in 1852, in New 
York. He is a noted dermatologist of New 
York city, and the author of Diseases of 
the Hair and Scalp; Baldness; and Hand¬ 
book of Diseases of the Skin. 

JACKSON, HANCOCK, governor. He 
was acting governor of Missouri in 1857. 

JACKSON, MRS. HELEN (FISKE) 
(HUNT), novelist, poet, was born Oct. 18, 
1831, in Amherst, Mass. She was a novel¬ 
ist and poet whose greatest achievement 
is Ramona, a powerful romance of Indian 
life in southern California. To her is 
usually attributed the authorship of the 
Saxe Holme stories. Her other works in¬ 
clude, Verses; Bits of Travel; Bits of 
Talk; A Century of Dishonor; Bits of 
Talk in Verse and Prose; Bits of Travel 
at Home; The Story of Boon, a Poem; 
Sonnets and Lyrics; Nelly’s Silver Mine; 
Cat Stories; Mercy Philbrick’s Choice; 
Hetty’s Strange History; Zeph; Glimpses 
of Three Coasts; Between Whiles, a col¬ 
lection of short stories; The Procession 
of Flowers in Colorado; and Condition 
and Needs of the Mission Indians of Cali¬ 
fornia (with K. Abbot). She died Aug. 
12, 1885, in San Francisco, Cal. 

JACKSON, HENRY, soldier, was born 
in October, 1747, in Boston, Mass. He 
commanded the fourth Massachusetts reg¬ 
iment, and was major-general of Massa¬ 
chusetts militia from 1772 till 1796. He 
died Jan. 4, 1809, in Boston, Mass. 

JACKSON, HENRY, educator, public 
official, was born in 1778, in England. He 
was professor of mathematics and natural 
philosophy in the university of Georgia 
from 1811 to 1814, and from 1817 to 1828. 
He was secretary of legation to France 
under William H. Crawford, minister; 
and on his return, and the appointment 
of Gallatin to France, he remained in the 
legation as charge d’affaires until 1817. 
He died April 26, 1840, near Athens, Ga. 

JACKSON, HENRY, clergyman, author, 
was born June 16, 1798, in Providence, R. 
I. He was a founder and trustee of New¬ 
ton (Mass.) Theological seminary. He 
published Account of the Churches of 
Rhode Island; and Anniversary Discourse 
before the Central Baptist Church, New¬ 
port. He died March 2, 1863, in East 
Greenwich, R. I. 

JACKSON, HENRY ROOTES, soldier, 
lawyer, was born June 24, 1820, in Ath¬ 
ens, Ga. He served in the civil war and 
attained the rank of brigadier-general. 
He was confederate judge for Georgia in 
1861; and United States minister to Mex¬ 
ico in 1885 and 1887. 

JACKSON, HOWELL EDMUNDS, asso¬ 
ciate justice of the supreme court of the 
United States, was born April 8, 1832, in 
Paris, Tenn. He removed to Memphis, 
Tenn., in 1859; was twice appointed a 
judge of the state supreme court. He re¬ 
turned to Jackson in 1876; and was elect¬ 
ed a representative in the state legisla¬ 
ture in 1880. He was elected a senator of 
the United States from Tennessee for the 
term of six years from 1881; and in 1886 
was appointed United States district 
judge for the western district of Tennes¬ 
see; and in 1893 became an associate jus¬ 
tice. 

JACKSON, HUGH, lawyer, legislator, 
was born Feb. 2, 1851, in Chambers coun¬ 
ty, Tex. He is a successful lawyer of 
Beaumont, Tex.; and was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the Texas state legislature in 1897. 

JACKSON, ISAAC W„ educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1805, in New York. He 
was an educator who was professor of 
mathematics in Union college from 1826. 
He was the author of Elements of Conic 
Sections; and Treatise on Optics. He’died 
July 28, 1877, in Schenectady, N. Y. 


JACKSON, J. HENRY, physician, sur¬ 
geon, educator, legislator, was born April 
19, 1844, in Canada. Since 1882 he has. 
been professor of physiology in the medical 
department in the university of Vermont. 
He is a successful physician and surgeon 
of Barre, Vt.; and was a representative 
in the Vermont state legislature in 1878; 
was United States examining surgeon for 
pensions in 1884-88, and in 1892-96; and 
in 1896 was the democratic candidate for 
governor of the state of Vermont. 

JACKSON, JABEZ, congressman, was 
born in Georgia. He was a representative- 
in congress from that state from 1836 to 
1839. 

JACKSON, JACOB B., lawyer, gover¬ 
nor, was born April 6, 1829, in Parkers¬ 
burg, Va. He was commonwealth attor¬ 
ney for the county of Pleasants, and from 
1871 to 1877 held the same position in the 
county of Wood. He was a member of the- 
house of delegates of West Virginia dur¬ 
ing the years 1875 and 1876; and in 1880- 
was elected governor of West Virginia for 
the term of four years from 1881. 

JACKSON, JAMES, soldier, lawyer, 
governor, United States senator, was born 
Sept. 21, 1757, in England. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the conven¬ 
tion which formed 
the first constitution 
of Georgia; was cho¬ 
sen a representative 
in congress in 1789- 
from Georgia; and 
after the close of his 
first term successful¬ 
ly contested the seat 
of Anthony Wayne. 
In 1793 he was cho¬ 
sen a senator, which 
office he resigned in 
1795. He was major-general of the Geor¬ 
gia militia; and was governor of the state 
from 1798 until his election as United 
States senator in 1801. He died March 16, 
1806, in Washington, D. C. 

JACKSON, JAMES, physician, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Oct. 3, 177 /, in New- 
buryport, Mass. He was the first physi¬ 
cian of the Massachusetts general hos¬ 
pital at Boston, and professor of medi¬ 
cine at Harvard university from 1810 until 
his death. He was the author of On the 
Brunonian System; Medical Effects of 
Dentition; Syllabus of Lectures; Text- 
Book of Lectures; and Letters to a Young 
Physician. He died Aug. 27, 1863, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

JACKSON, JAMn,S, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 18, 1819, in Jef¬ 
ferson county, Ga. In 1842 he was elect¬ 
ed secretary of the senate of Georgia, 
holding the office one year. In 1845 he 
was elected to the state legislature, and 
re-elected to the same position in 1847, 
In 1849 he was chosen judge of the west¬ 
ern circuit of his state, and was elected 
to the same office by the people in 1853, 
and again in 1857. In June of that year 
he was nominated for congress, resigning 
his judgeship, and in October following 
was elected a representative to the thir¬ 
ty-fifth congress. He was re-elected to. 
the thirty-sixth congress; resigned in 
February, 1861; and returned io Georgia. 
He died Jan. 13, 1887, in Atlanta, Ga. 

JACKSON, JAMES CALEB, physician, 
author, was born in 1811, in Manlius, N. 
Y. He is the founder of a popular hydro¬ 
pathic institution at Dansville, and the 
author of Hints on the Reproductive Or¬ 
gans; Consumption; Tobacco and Its 
Effect; How to Treat the Sick without 
Medicine; Dancing, its Evils and Bene¬ 
fits; American Womanhood; Training of 
Children; Debilities of Our Boys; Christ 
as a Physician; and Morning Watches. 




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JACKSON, JAMES STRESHLEY, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 
27, 1823, in Fayette county, Ky. He 
served in the Mexican war as a captain 
of volunteers. In 1861 he was elected a 
representative from Kentucky to the thir¬ 
ty-seventh congress. While the rebel¬ 
lion was progressing he recruited a regi¬ 
ment of Kentucky cavalry, and was sub¬ 
sequently appointed a brigadier-general. 
He was killed Oct. 8, 1862, in the battle 
of Perryville, Ky. 

JACKSON, JAMES W., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born June 24, 1856, in Augusta, 
Ga. Since 1893 he has been president of 
the Augusta Southern railroad. 

JACKSON, JOHN ADAMS, sculptor, 
was born Nov. 5, 1825, in Bath, Maine. 
His ideal productions are noted for iheir 
anatomical accuracy and graceful treat¬ 
ment. These include Eve and the Dead 
Abel; Autumn; Cupid Scringing his Bow; 
Titania and Nick Bottom; The Culprit 
Fay (many times repeated); Dawn (re¬ 
peated); Peace; Cupid on a Swan; and 
The Morning Glory. He died Aug. 30, 
1879, in Tuscany. 

JACKSON, JOHN GEORGE, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born in 1774, in 
Virginia. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Virginia from 1795 to 1797, 
from 1799 to 1810, and again from 1813 
to 1817. He died March 29, 1825, in Clarks¬ 
burg, Va. 

JACKSON, JOHN J., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Aug. 4, 1824, in 
Parkersburg, Va. He was prosecuting at¬ 
torney for the county of Wirt, Va., from 
1848 to 1854; and held the same position 
in the county of Ritcnie from 1850 to 

1852. In 1851 he was elected a represent¬ 
ative in the legislature of Virginia for a 
term of two years; and was re-elected in 

1853. In 1861 he was appointed judge of 
the United States district court for the 
western district of Virginia, now the dis¬ 
trict of West Virginia. 

JACKSON, JOHN J., JR., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born in Virginia. In 1861 he was 
appointed United States judge for the dis¬ 
trict of West Virginia, residing at Par¬ 
kersburg. 

JACKSON, JOHN KING, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Feb. 8, 1828, in Augusta, 
Ga. He practiced law till the beginning 
of the civil war. He then raised the first 
Georgia infantry and the Augusta volun¬ 
teer battalion for the confederate army, 
was made colonel of the fifth Georgia 
regiment in 1861, and subsequently briga¬ 
dier-general. He died Feb. 27, 1866, m 
Milledgeville, Ga. 

JACKSON, JONATHAN, congressman, 
was born June 4, 1743, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress in 1782; United States marshal from 
1789 to 1791; treasurer of Massachusetts 
from 1802 to 1806; and was treasurer of 
Harvard college from 1807 until his death. 
He died March 5, 1810, in Boston, Mass. 

JACKSON, JOSEPH COOKE, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Aug. 5, 1835, in New¬ 
ark, N. J. He was brevetted brigadier- 
general of volunteers in 1865. At the close 
of his term of service he was appointed 
by the war department a commissioner of 
the United States naval credits. In 1870 
he was appointed assistant district attor¬ 
ney for the southern district of New 
York. 

JACKSON, JOSEPH W., state legislator, 
congressman. He was frequently a mem¬ 
ber of the city council of Savannah; and 
served a number of years in the state leg¬ 
islature. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Georgia from 1850 to 1853. He 
died Dec. 28, 1854, in Savannah, Ga. 


JACKSON. MERCY BISBEE, physician, 
was born Sept. 17, 1802, in Hardwick, 
Mass. She was one of the pioneers in 
all the reforms of female education, prov¬ 
ing by example that woman’s sphere can 
be complete, and yet rounded out beyond 
the limits of housekeeping. She died Dec. 
13, 1877, in Boston, Mass. 

JACKSON, MICHAEL, soldier, was 
born Dec. 18, 1734, in Newton, Mass. He 
was colonel of the eighth Massachusetts 
regiment of the continental line from 
January, 1777, till the close of the war. 
He died April 10, 1801, in Newton. Mass. 

JACKSON, NATHANIEL JAMES, sol¬ 
dier, was born about 1825, in Newbury- 
port, Mass. He was commissioned briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers in 1862; and 
served through the campaigns of Mc¬ 
Clellan and Pope in Virginia, being 
wounded at Gaines’s Mills. 

JACKSON. OSCAR L„ soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1840, in 
Lawrence county, Pa. He served in the 
union army from 1861 to 1865, entering 
as captain, and receiving the promotions 
of major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel 
by brevet. He was district attorney from 
1868 to 1871; was county solicitor from 
1874 to 1880; and was a member of the 
commission to codify laws and devise a 
plan for the government of cities of Penn¬ 
sylvania in 1877 and 1878. He was elected 
a representative from Pennsylvania to 
the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as 
a republican. 

JACKSON, RICHARD, JR., merchant, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born in 
1764. He was a member of congress from 
Rhode Island from 1808 to 1815. He died 
April 18, 1838, in Providence, R. I. 

JACKSON, ROBERT MONTGOMERY 
SMITH, physician, author, was born April 
20, 1815, in Alexandria, Pa. He was medi¬ 
cal inspector of the twenty-third army 
corps, and acting medical director of the 
department of the Ohio. He published a 
work entitled The Mountain. He died 
Jan. 28, 1865, in Chattanooga, Tenn. 

JACKSON, SAMUEL, physician, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born March 22, 1787, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was appointed pro¬ 
fessor of the institute of medicine in the 
university of Pennsylvania, and held this 
office from 1835 till 1863, when he re¬ 
signed, and was afterward emeritus pro¬ 
fessor till his death. He was the author 
or Principles of Medicine; Discourse Com¬ 
memorative of Professor Nathaniel Chap¬ 
man; and Medical Essays. He died April 
4, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

JACKSON, SAMUEL McCARTNEY, 
soldier, manufacturer, state senator, was 
born Sept. 24, 1833, in Armstrong county, 
Pa. He served through the civil war, and 
for gallant and meritorious services re¬ 
ceived the rank of brigadier-general. He 
was a member of the lower house of the 
legislature from Armstrong county, Pa.; 
was elected to the state senate in 1875; 
and in 1893 elected state treasurer. 

JACKSON, SHELDON, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was horn May 16, 1834, in Minaville, 
N. Y. He is a presbyterian missionary, 
and government general agent of educa¬ 
tion in Alaska since 1885. He is the au¬ 
thor of Alaska and Missions on the North 
Pacific Coast; and Education in Alaska. 

JACKSON, THOMAS B., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1837 to 1841; and was also for three 
years a member of the assembly of New 
York. 

JACKSON, THOMAS EDWARD, mer¬ 
chant, was born July 9, 1852, in Tampa, 
Fla. He received the rudiments of his ed¬ 
ucation in the common schools of his na¬ 
tive city, and subsequently graduated 


from St. John’s college of Fordham, N. 
Y. He is a successful merchant of Tam¬ 
pa, Fla.; has been a member of the city 
council for Several terms; served twice 
as mayor; for four terms was treasurer 
of Hillsborough county; and is now in 
the United States customs service. 

JACKSON, THOMAS JONATHAN, sol¬ 
dier, was born Jan. 21, 1824, in Clarks¬ 
burg, W. Va. Stonewall Jackson was a 
noted general of the 
confederate army 
during the civil war. 
He died of a wound 
received by mistake 
from his own forces 
during the battle 
of Chancellorsville, 
May 10, 1863. The 
advantages which 
the confederates 
gained in that battle 
were dearly purchas¬ 
ed by the loss of 
their noble leader, whose death was sin¬ 
cerely mourned. 

JACKSON, W. T., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dee. 29, 1794, in Ches¬ 
ter, N. Y. He was a justice of»the peace 
several years in Havana, N. Y.; held the 
office of county judge four years,; and in 
1848 was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress, and served one term. 

JACKSON, WILLIAM, railroad builder, 
banker, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 
1783, in Newton, Mass. He was a member 
of the state legislature from 1829 to 1832; 
from 1834 to 1837, and from 1841 to 1843 
was a representative in congress from 
that state; and at the time of his death 
was president of the Newton bank. He 
died Feb. 27, 1855, in Newton, Mass. 

JACKSON, WILLIAM HICKS, soldier, 
was born Oct. 7, 1836, in Paris, Tenn. He 
served in the civil war, and attained the 
rank of brigadier-general in the confed¬ 
erate service. Since the war he has oc¬ 
cupied himself largely and successfully 
in stock-raising, and is in co-partnership 
with Richard Croker, the owner of the 
extensive Belle Meade stock farm in the 
blue grass region of Tennessee. 

JACKSON, WILLIAM LOWTHER, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was 
born Feb. 3, 1825, in Clarksburg, Va. He 
served as commonwealth’s attorney; was 
twice in the Virginia house of delegates; 
twice second auditor and superintendent 
of the state library fund; once lieuten¬ 
ant-governor; and was elected judge of 
the nineteenth judicial district of the 
state in 1860. In 1861 he entered the con¬ 
federate army in command of the thirty- 
first Virginia regiment, and became a 
brigadier-general. He died March 26, 1890, 
in Louisville, Ky. 

JACOB, JOHN J., lawyer, governor, 
was born Dec. 9, 1829, in Hampshire coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was for several years con¬ 
nected with the state university of Mis¬ 
souri; and was a member of the West 
Virginia legislature in 1869. In 1870 he 
was elected governor of \vest Virginia for. 
two years; and was re-elected for the term 
of four years, beginning with 1873. 

JACOB, RICHARD TAYLOR, soldier, 
lieutenant-governor, was born March 13, 
1825, in Oldham county, Ky. He filled 
the office of lieutenant-governor of Ken¬ 
tucky during 1863-67; and acting at one 
time as governor. 

JACOBI, ABRAHAM, physician, author, 
was born May 6, 1810, in Germany. He is 
a New York city physician; professor in 
the college of Physicians since 1870, and 
the author of Dentition and Its Derange¬ 
ments; Infant Hygiene; Diphtheria; 
Pathology of the Thymus Gland; Ther¬ 
apeutics of Infancy and Childhood. 



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JACOBI, MRS. MARY (PUTNAM), phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Aug. 31, 1842, in 
London, England. She is a physician of 
prominence in New York city, and the 
first woman to enter and graduate from 
Ecole de Medecine in Paris. She is the 
author of The Value of Life; Cold Pack 
and Anaemia; Hysteria, and Other Essays; 
The Martyr to Science; Studies in Pri¬ 
mary Education; Common Sense Applied 
to Woman Suffrage; Manual of Nursing; 
and Found and Lost. 

JACOBS, FERRIS. JR., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 30, 1836, 
in Delhi, N. Y. He served in the union 
army from 1861 to 1865, rising from the 
rank of captain to that of colonel and 
brevet brigadier-general. He was elected 
district attorney in 1865, and was re¬ 
elected, and was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-seventh con¬ 
gress as a republican. He died Aug. 31, 
1881, in White Plains, N. Y. 

JACOBS. GEORGE, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 24, 1834, in Kingstown, 
Jamaica. He came to the United States 
in 1854, and in 1869 he was called to the 
pastorate of a Philadelphia synagogue. 
He wrote several Sunday-school books, 
and was % a frequent contributor to the 
Jewish press. 

JACOBS, HENRY EYSTER. clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 10, 1844, in Get¬ 
tysburg, Pa. He is a lutheran clergyman 
of Philadelphia, professor in the lutheran 
seminary since 1883, and editor of the Lu¬ 
theran Review from 1882. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Lutheran Movement in Eng¬ 
land; The Lutherans; several translations 
of religious works from the German; 
and History of the Evangelical Lutheran 
Church in the United States. 

JACOBS, ISRAEL, congressman, was 
born in Germany. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1791 to 1793. 

JACOBS, JOHN ADAMSON, educator, 
author, was born Aug. 19, 1806, in Lees¬ 
burg, Va. He was an educator who was 
forty-five years superintendent of the deaf 
and dumb institution at Danville, Ky. He 
published Primary Lessons for Deaf 
Mutes. He died Nov. 27, 1869, in Danville, 
Ky. 

JACOBS, JOSEPH, manufacturer, bank¬ 
er, legislator, was born Dec. 8, 1828, in 
Hingham. Mass. He represented the town 
■of Hingham in the Massachusetts house of 
representatives in 1881-83. Since 1876 he 
has been president of the Hingham Na¬ 
tional bank. 

JACOBS, MICHAEL, educator, author, 
was born Jan. 18,1808, in Waynesborough, 
Pa. He was an educator who was profes¬ 
sor in Pennsylvania college at Gettysburg 
in 1852-71, and published Notes on the 
Rebel Invasion and the Battle of Gettys¬ 
burg. He died in 1871. 

JACOBS, MICHAEL WILLIAM, lawyer, 
author, was born Jan. 27, 1850, in Gettys¬ 
burg, Pa. He is a lawyer of Harrisburg, 
and the author of a Treatise on the Law 
of Domicile. 

JACOBS, ORANGE, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 2, 1829, in Liv¬ 
ingston county, N. J. In 1852 he moved 
to Oregon, was appointed associate justice 
of the supreme court of Washington terri¬ 
tory in 1869, and settled there. In 1871 
he was appointed chief justice ot the 
territory, reappointed in 1874, and held 
that position when elected a delegate to 
the forty-fourth congress. He was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress as a 
republican. 


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JACOBS, SARAH SPRAGUE, author, 
was born March 17, 1813, in Pawtucket, 
R. I. She is a writer of Cambridge, Mass., 
and author of Nonantum and Natick, a 
juvenile giving an account of the labors 
of John Eliot among the New England In¬ 
dians, and White Oak and Its Neighbors. 

JACOBS, WILLIAM R., journalist, poet, 
was born Jan. 2, 1868, in Elizabeth, Pa. 
He commenced life as a printer, and sub¬ 
sequently entered into a journalistic ca¬ 
reer. He is the author of a volume of 
poems. Some of his productions have been 
given a place in Poets of America, and 
other standard works. 

JACOBUS. MELANCTHON WILLIAMS, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
Sept. 19, 1816, in Newark, N. J. He was 
a presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn 
and Pittsburg, and professor of Oriental 
literature in the Theological seminary at 
Allegheny City, in 1851-76. He was the 
author of Letters on the Public School 
Question; Notes on the New Testament, 
a very popular work; and Notes on Gen¬ 
esis. He died Oct. 28, 1876, in Allegheny 
City, Pa. 

JACOBY, LUDWIG SIGISMUND, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Oct. 21, 1813, in 
Germany. He was a methodist clergyman 
of German birth who as general foreign 
agent of the methodist church resided at 
Bremen in 1849-72. On his return to the 
United States he lived in St. Louis. He 
was the author of Geschichte des Method- 
ismus; Letzte Stunden; Kurzer Inbegriff 
der christlichen Glaubenlehre; and Bib- 
lische Hand-Concordanz. He died June 
21, 1874, in St. Louis, Mo. 

JACQUES, DANIEL HARRISOK phy¬ 
sician, author, was born about 1825. He 
was a southern physician who edited The 
Rural Carolinian. He was the author of 
Hints about Physical Perfection; The Gar¬ 
den; The Farm; The Barnyard; The 
House; Florida as a Permanent Home; 
How to Grow Handsome; The Tempera¬ 
ments; How to Behave; and How to Talk. 
He died Aug. 28, 1877, near Fernandina, 
Fla. 

JADWIN, CORNELIUS C., civil engin¬ 
eer, congressman, was born March 27, 
1835, in Carbondale, Pa. He was a civil 
engineer from 1857 to 1861. He served for 
nine years as a member of the district 
board of education, three years as presi¬ 
dent of the board, and was a delegate to 
the republican national convention of 
1880. He was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the forty-seventh 
congress as a republican. 

JAFFREY. GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 22, 1682, in New Castle, N. 
H. He was successively a councilor, a 
judge, treasurer of New Hampshire, and 
chief justice. The town of Jaffrey is 
named for him. He died May 8, 1749. in 
Portsmouth, N. H. 

JAGGAR, THOMAS AUGUSTUS, bishop 
of southern Ohio, was born June 2, 1839, 
in New York. He has published bacca¬ 
laureate addresses before the universities 
of Pennsylvania and Ohio; an address to 
the graduating class of the Philadelphia 
Divinity school; a sermon preached be¬ 
fore the American Social Science associa¬ 
tion; The Ministry of Phillips Brooks; 
Duty of the Clergy in Relation to Modern 
Skepticism; as well as various pastorals 
and addresses on general subjects. 

JAMES, AMAZIAH B., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born July 1, 1812, in 
Stephentown, N. Y. In 1853 he was elected 
a justice of the state supreme court; re¬ 
signed in 1876; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the forty-fifth 
and forty-sixth congresses as a republi¬ 
can. 


JAMES, BUSHROD WASHINGTON, oc¬ 
ulist, climatologist, author, was born Aug. 
25, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the 
author of American Resorts and Climates, 
and Alaskana, or Legends of Alaska, 
which is in its third edition. 

JAMES, CHARLES P., lawyer, jurist. 
He was appointed an associate justice of 
the supreme court of the District of Col¬ 
umbia in 1879. 

JAMES, CHARLES P., educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born May 11, 1818, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. He was appointed professor 
of law in the Law school of Cincinnati 
college in 1850, and served six years. He 
was appointed judge of the superior court 
of Cincinnati to fill a vacancy. He moved 
to Washington, D. C., in 1864; was one of 
the commission appointed to revise the 
statutes of the United States, and was for 
four years professor of law in the Law 
school of Georgetown university, D. C. 
He was appointed an associate justice of 
the supreme court of the District of Col¬ 
umbia in 1879. 

JAMES, CHARLES TILLINGHAST, 
mechanic, inventor. United States senator, 
author, was born in 1804 in West Green¬ 
wich. R. I. He wrote a series of papers 
on the culture and manufacture of cotton 
in the south. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from 1851 to 1857 from Rhode Is¬ 
land. He subsequently invented a rifled 
cannon, and met his death from the ex¬ 
plosion of a shell of his own invention. 
He died Oct. 17, 1862, in Sag Harbor, N. Y. 

JAMES, DARWIN R., merchant, bank¬ 
er, congressman, was born May 14, 1834. 
in Williamsburg, Mass. He was one of 
the founders of a dispensary; one of the 
founders and treasurer of the bureau of 
charities of Brooklyn, and served six years 
as park commissioner. He became a di¬ 
rector in a Marine Insurance company; 
secretary of the New York board of trade 
and transportation, and a member of the 
executive committee of the New York 
Anti-Monopoly league. He was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
forty-eighth, and was re-elected to the 
forty-ninth congress as a republican. 

JAMES, EDMUND JAMES, educator, 
author, was born May 21, 1855, in Jack¬ 
sonville, Ill. He is professor in the uni¬ 
versity of Chicago, and the author of 
numerous monographs and articles on 
various scientific and educational sub¬ 
jects, the principal of which are: Our 
Legal Tender Decisions; The Education of 
Business Men; and The Relation of the 
Modern Municipality to the Gas Supply; 
with several translations from the Ger¬ 
man. 

JAMES, EDWIN, geologist, botanist, 
author, was born Aug. 27, 1797, in Way- 
bridge, Vt. He was a geologist and bot¬ 
anist whose later years were spent in 
Burlington, Iowa. He was the author of 
Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky 
Mountains; Narrative of John Tanner; 
and a translation of the New Testament 
into the Ojibway language. He died Oct. 
28, 1861, in Burlington, Iowa. 

JAMES. FRANCIS, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1839 to 1843. 

JAMES, HARRY D., lawyer, was born 
Oct. 14, 1867, in Ogle county, Ill. After 
receiving a liberal education he entered 
educational work. He afterward took up 
the study of law; commenced the practice 
of his profession at Sioux Falls, S. D., in 
1891, and the following year moved to 
Flandreau. In 1896 he was elected state’s 
attorney of Moody county, and is gaining 
a good reputation as an able lawyer. 


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525 


JAMES, HENRY, theologian, author, 
was born June 3, 1811, in Albany, N. Y. 
He was a Swendenborgian writer of Cam¬ 
bridge, who was a thinker of marked 
spirituality and originality. His Spiritual 
Creation undoubtedly affords the best ex¬ 
ample of his felicitous style and matured 
thought. His other works include, So¬ 
ciety the Redeemed Form of Man; Re¬ 
marks on the Gospels; Moralism and 
Christianity; The Nature of Evil; Sub¬ 
stance and Shadow; The Secret of Swe¬ 
denborg; What Is the State? The Church 
of Christ; Christianity the Lyric of Crea¬ 
tion; and Literary Remains, edited by 
W. James. He died Dec. 18, 1882, in 
Cambridge, Mass. 

JAMES, HENRY, critic, author, was 
born April 15, 1843, in New York city. 
He is a novelist and critic who since 1869 
has resided in Europe, and mainly in Lon¬ 
don. In fiction his writings include, Rod¬ 
erick Hudson; The American; The Eu¬ 
ropeans; A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other 
Tales; Confidence; Washington Square; 
The Portrait of a Lady; Watch and Ward; 
Daisy Miller; An International Episode; 
The Siege of London; The Author of Bel- 
traffio, and Other Tales; The Bostonians; 
The Princess Casamassima; The Rever¬ 
berator; The Aspern Papers, and Other 
Stories; A London Life; The Tragic Muse; 
The Lesson of the Master, and Other 
Tales; The Spoils of Poynton; What Mai- 
sie Knew; The Other House; The Private 
Life; The Wheel of Time; Terminations; 
Embarrassments; Theatricals, two come¬ 
dies; The Real Thing, and Other Tales; 
Tales of Three Cities. Other works by 
Mr. James are. Transatlantic Sketches; 
French Poets and Novelists; Portraits of 
Places; Life of Hawthorne; The Madonna 
of the Future; A Little Tour in France; 
Picture and Text; Essays in London; and 
Partial Portraits. 

JAMES, HENRY AMMON, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born April 24, 1854, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He is a lawyer of New York 
city who has published Communism in 
America. 

JAMES, JOHN WALTER, public offi¬ 
cial, railroad president, was born Jan. 31, 
1836, in Washington county, Tenn. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he 
served in the United 
States army, and was 
present at the bat¬ 
tles o f Lookout 
Mountain and Mis¬ 
sionary Ridge. Dur¬ 
ing 1864-70 he was 
master in chancery 
a t Chattanooga, 
Tenn.; was twice al¬ 
derman of that city, 
and took an active 
part in its education¬ 
al and public affairs. He was mayor of 
Chattanooga in 1874-75; was a delegate 
to the convention of the national green¬ 
back labor party in 1880; was a candidate 
for congress; and subsequently received 
the nomination for governor of Tennessee. 
Since its organization in 1891 he has been 
a member of the national committee of 
the people’s party. He has been active 
in railroad building; was president and 
general manager of the Chattanooga 
Southern railway, and is still a member 
of numerous local corporate and company 
organizations. He died Feb. 21, 1898, in 
Alton Park, Tenn. 

JAMES, JOSEPH FRANCIS, botanist, 
educator, author, was born Feb. 8, 1857, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1881 he was ap¬ 
pointed custodian of the Cincinnati so¬ 
ciety of Natural flistory. This place he 
resigned in 1886 to take the chair of bot¬ 
any and geology in Miami university, 


Oxford, Ohio, and meanwhile since 1883 
he has also held the professorship of bot¬ 
any in the department of pharmacy in 
the university of Cincinnati. He is the 
author of frequent papers on botany and 
geology in scientific journals. 

JAMES, LEWIS GEORGE, educator, 
lecturer, author, was born Feb. 19, 1844, 
in Providence, R. I. He has been presi¬ 
dent of the Brooklyn Ethical association, 
and for many years filled the chair of his¬ 
tory in the Adelphi academy. He is the 
author of A Study of Primitive Chris¬ 
tianity; Evolution of Morals; Life as a 
Fine Art, and various other works. 

JAMES, LUCY M., poet, was born 
March 1, 1841, in Fair Haven, Mass. Since 
1859 she has constantly contributed to 
the periodical press, and is the author of 
a number of meritorious poems. She is 
prominently identified with various in¬ 
stitutions, of which she has been presi¬ 
dent, and is now chaplain of the Bristol 
County association of the Woman’s Re¬ 
lief Corps auxiliary to the Grand Army of 
the Republic, and resides in New Bedford, 
Mass. 

JAMES, LUTHER, lawyer, was born in 
1876 near Edmonton, Ky. After receiving 
a liberal education he was admitted to the 
bar in the eighteenth year of his age; and 
has since attained prominence as an able 
orator and lawyer of Edmonton, Ky. 

JAMES, SUE L., journalist, poet, -was 
born July 30, 1843, in Saline, Ark. In 
1895 she was elected poet of the Arkansas 
Press association. For years she has been 
a correspondent for several leading pub¬ 
lications, and is now the editor and owner 
of The Hot Springs Life, a literary and 
society paper. She was appointed a com¬ 
missioner to the Atlanta exposition, and 
has been president of various temperance, 
missionary and relief societies. 

JAMES, THOMAS CHALKLEY, edu¬ 
cator, physician, surgeon, college presi¬ 
dent, was born in 1766 in Philadelphia, 
Pa. In 1803 he established the school of 
Obstetrics in Philadelphia, and for twen¬ 
ty-five yeai's was physician and obstetri¬ 
cian in the Pennsylvania hospital. He 
was for some years president of the Phil¬ 
adelphia college of Physicians, and was 
professor of midwifery in the university 
of Pennsylvania from 1811 till 1834. He 
died July 25, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

JAMES, THOMAS LEMUEL, journalist, 
banker, public official, was born March 
29, 1831, in Utica, N. Y. He was made 
collector of canal tolls at Hamilton in 
1854 and 1855, and was appointed inspec¬ 
tor of customs in the New York custom 
house in 1861; weigher in 1863, and depu¬ 
ty collector in 1870. He was appointed 
postmaster at New York city in 1873 and 
was reappointed in 1877. He was appoint¬ 
ed postmaster-general in the cabinet of 
President Garfield, in 1881, and continued 
in that position in the cabinet of Presi¬ 
dent Arthur, until 1882, when he resigned 
to accept the presidency of the Lincoln 
National bank of New York city. 

JAMES, THOMAS POTTS, botanist, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 1, 1803, in Radnor, 
Pa. In 1867 he settled in Cambridge, 
Mass., and was a member of scientific so¬ 
cieties, and one of the founders and long 
the treasurer of the American Pomological 
society. His scientific papers were con¬ 
tributed to the Proceedings of the Phila¬ 
delphia Academy of Natural Sciences and 
to the Proceedings of the American Acad¬ 
emy of Arts and Sciences. He died Feb, 
22, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass. 

JAMES, WILLIAM, psychologist, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 11, 1842, in New York 
city. He is a psychologist of distinction, 
professor at Harvard university from 1872, 


and the author of Principles of Psychol¬ 
ogy; and Psychology, a briefer study of 
the subject. 

JAMES, WILLIAM H., statesman. He 
was governor of Nebraska from 1871 to 
1873. 

JAMESON, CHARLES DAVIS, soldier, 
manufacturer, was born Feb. 24, 1827, in 
Gorham, Maine. At the beginning of the 
civil war he was placed in command of 
the second Maine regiment, the first that 
left that state for the seat of war, and 
he was appointed brigadier-general of vol¬ 
unteers in 1861. In 1861-62 he was the 
democratic candidate for governor of 
Maine. He died Nov. 6, 1862, in Oldtown, 
Maine. * 

JAMESON, DAVID, soldier, was born in 
1752. He fought at the battle of Great 
Bridge, Dec. 9, 1775, and served in the 
southern states in Stevens’s brigade in 
1780 and 1781. In 1790-91 he was a dele¬ 
gate to the Virginia legislature, and was 
afterward a magistrate and high sheriff 
of Culpeper county. He died Oct. 2, 1839, 
in Culpeper county, Va. 

JAMESON, EPHRAIM HALL EMERY, 
journalist, clergyman, lecturer, was born 
May 19,1835, in St. George, Maine. He was 
educated for the ministry in New England, 
taught school in Illinois, and for one year 
was assistant editor on a daily newspaper 
of Springfield. He edited the Free Demo¬ 
crat of Galesburg for one year; in 1858 be¬ 
came a reporter on the St. Louis Demo¬ 
crat, and was connected with the press 
of that city for twelve years. In 1861 he 
was engaged in mustering recruits; then 
organized regiments of militia, and was 
commissioned colonel of one of these regi¬ 
ments of reserves, and did duty on the 
border for nearly two years. In 1862 he 
was elected as a republican to the Mis¬ 
souri state legislature, received the re- 
election, serving altogether four years, 
and became speaker. In 1871 he was 
one of the editors of the St. Louis Globe. 
In 1876 he was ordained, and became pas¬ 
tor of the First Baptist church of Omaha 
for five years; pastor at Saginaw three 
years; and pastor at Lansing six years, 
in 1890 he was appointed district secretary 
of the American Baptist Home Missionary 
society, and constantly preaches and lec¬ 
tures on various themes. 

JAMESON, EPHRAIM ORCUTT, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Jan. 23, 1832, in 
Dunbarton, N. H. He is the author of the 
Cogswells in America; History of New¬ 
bury, Mass., and the Choates in America. 

JAMESON, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Kentucky. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Missouri from 1830 
to 1831; again from 1843 to 1845; and for 
another term from 1847 to 1849. 

JAMESON, JOHN ALEXANDER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 25, 1824, 
in Irasburg, Vt. He is a jurist of Chicago, 
and for many years an assistant editor of 
The American Law Register. He is the 
author of The Constitutional Convention, 
its History, Power, and Modes of Proceed¬ 
ing. 

JAMESON, JOHN FRANKLIN, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1859 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is a professor of history in 
Brown university, and the author of Will¬ 
iam Usselinx, Founder of the Dutch and 
Swedish West India Companies; The His¬ 
tory of Historical Writing in America; 
and Dictionary of United States History. 

JAMESON. PATRICK HENRY, physi¬ 
cian,was born April 18, 1824, in Monroe, 
Ind. From 1863 till 1866 he was acting 
assistant surgeon in the United States 
army, and from 1861 till 1869 physician to 
the Indiana institution for the deaf and 
dumb. 





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JAMESON, WILLIAM, naval officer, 
was born in 1791 in Virginia. During 
the war of 1812-14 he was in several en¬ 
gagements, and received his commission 
as captain in 1844. He adhered fo the 
cause of the union at the beginning of 
the civil war, and was commissioned 
commodore July 16, 1862. He died Oct. 

7, 1873, in Alexandria. 

JAMISON. ALCINOUS BERTON, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Sept. 1, 1851, in 
Wooster, Ohio. He is the author of a 
work entitled, The Anus and Rectum, 
Their Physiology, Anatomy and Pathol¬ 
ogy. 

JAMISON, MRS. CELIA V- (HAM¬ 

ILTON)? author, was born in Louisiana. 
She is the author of The Story of an En¬ 
thusiast; Toinette’s Philip; Lady Jane; 
and Seraph, the Little Violiniste. 

JAMISON, WESLEY ISAIAH, educator, 
lawyer, jurist, was born April 15, 1856, in 
Nashville, Tenn. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the Central Tennessee college, 
and the Mohara Law school. For ten 
years he taught school; was justice of the 
peace for three terms, and is now one 
of the foremost lawyers of Topeka, Kan. 
He takes a prominent part in public af¬ 
fairs, and is considered one of the leaders 
in republican politics of his state. 

JANES, EDMUND S„ lawyer, was born 
Jan. 29, 1858, in Champaign, Ill. In 1878 
he graduated from the Bloomington uni¬ 
versity with the degree of A. B., and 
subsequently received the degree of A. M. 
from the same institution. He has gained 
prominence as an able lawyer of Mary¬ 
ville, Mo.; and has been the attorney for 
the Missouri and Pacific Railroad com¬ 
pany. 

JANES, EDMUND STORER, bishop, 
was born April 27, 1807, in Sheffield, Mass. 
He became a successful clergyman and 
bishop of the methodist episcopal church. 
He died Sept. 18, 1876, in New York city. 

JANES, EDWARD HOUGHTON, sol¬ 
dier, educator, author, was born Oct. 3, 
1820, in Northfield, Mass. Since 1873 he 
has been assistant superintendent of the 
New York health department. In 1872 he 
was appointed to the chair of hygiene in 
the Women’s Medical college of the New 
York infirmary. He has published a Re¬ 
port on Condensed Milk; and Report on 
the Sanitary Condition of New York. 

JANES, EDWIN LINES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 27, 1807, in Sheffield, 
Mass. He was a methodist clergyman, 
and the author of Wesley His Own His¬ 
torian; Character and Career of Bishop 
Asbury; and Memento of Edward Pay son. 
He died Jan. 10, 1875, in Flushing, N. Y. 

JANES, HENRY F., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in October, 
1792, in Brimfield, Mass. From 1820 to 
1830s he was postmaster at Waterbury, 
Mass., and was a member of the legisla¬ 
tive council from 1830-34. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Vermont from 
1834 to 1837; was state treasurer from 
1838 to 1841; a member of the council of 
censors in 1848, and a member of the leg¬ 
islature from Waterbury in 1855. 

JANES, LEWIS GEORGE, lecturer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1844 in Rhode Island. 
He is a lecturer of Brooklyn; for twelve 
years president of the Brooklyn Ethical 
association, and the author of A Study of 
Primitive Culture; and Samuell Gorton, a 
Forgotten Founder of Our Liberties. 

JANEWAY, EDWARD GAMALIEL, ed¬ 
ucator, physician, lecturer, was born Aug. 
31, 1841, in New York city. He was ap¬ 
pointed health commissioner of the city 
of New York in 1875, and filled that ap¬ 
pointment until 1882. He was vice-presi¬ 


dent of the New York Pathological so¬ 
ciety in 1874, and has been president of 
the New York Medical Journal associa¬ 
tion. 

JANEWAY, JACOB JONES, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 20, 1774, in New 
York city. He was a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman who held several pastorates in 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and was 
engaged in general mission work. He 
was the author of Exposition of the Acts, 
Romans and Hebrews; Internal Evidences 
of the Holy Bible; Unlawful Marriage; 
Review of Dr. Schaff on Protestantism; 
and The Abrahamic Covenant. He died 
June 27, 1858, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

JANNEY, SAMUEL MACPHERSON, 
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 11, 1801, 
in Loudoun county, Va. He was a preacher 
among the Hicksite Friends who in 1869 
was appointed one of the government su¬ 
perintendents of Indian affairs. He was 
the author of Lives of William Penn and 
George Fox; Conversations on Religious 
Subjects; The Last of the Lenape, and 
Other Poems; Historical Sketch of the 
Christian Church; Summary of Christian 
Doctrines Held by Friends; Peace Prin¬ 
ciples Exemplified in the Early History of 
Pennsylvania; and History of the Reli¬ 
gious Society of Friends from Its Rise 
to 1828. He'died April 30, 1880, in Lou¬ 
doun county, Va. 

JANNEY, SPENCER M., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born in 1840 in Philadelphia, Pa. 
Since 1891 he has been president of the 
Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain 
Railroad and Coal company. 

JANNSENS, FRANCIS, bishop, was 
born Oct. 17, 1841, in Holland. He has 
become an eminent bishop of the Roman 
catholic church at Natchez, Tenn. 

JANSEN, REYNIER, printer, was born 
in Holland. From 1698 till 1706 he was 
the only printer in Pennsylvania. Prob¬ 
ably the first book issued by him was 
God’s Protecting Providence. He died in 
1706 in Philadelphia, Pa. 

JANSSEN, JOHN, bishop, was born 
March 3, 1835, in Prussia. He has at¬ 
tained eminence as a clergyman of the 
Roman catholic church, and is now a 
bishop of the diocese of Belleville, Ill. 

JANVIER, FRANCIS DE HAES, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born April 25, 1816, in 
Pittsgrove, N. J. He was the author of 
The Skeleton Monk, and Other Poems; 
The Sleeping Sentinel; and Patriotic 
Poems. He died March 25, 1864, in India. 

JANVIER, MARGARET THOMSON— 
MARGARET VANDEGRIFT — author, 
poet, was born in 1845 in Louisiana. She 
is a Philadelphia writer of children’s 
books, among which are Clover Bank; 
Under the Dog Star; Little Helpers; and 
A Dead Doll, and Other Verses. 

JANVIER, THOMAS ALLIBONE. jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1849 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a journalist and littera¬ 
teur of Philadelphia, and subsequently of 
New York. He is the author of An Em¬ 
bassy to Provence, a volume of travel; 
Color Studies; Four Stories; The Mexican 
Guide; Stories of Old New Spain; ’The 
Aztec Treasure House, a Romance; The 
Uncle of an Angel, and Other Stories; 
and in Old New York. 

JANVRIN, JOSEPH EDWARD, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Jan. 13, 1839, in 
Exeter, N. H. In 1872 he was appointed 
surgeon to the Woman’s hospital in the 
state of New York, and in 1882 filled the 
position of gynecologist at the New York 
Skin and Cancer hospital. He is the 
author of A Case of Interstitial Pregnan¬ 
cy; A Case of Tubal Pregnancy of Un¬ 
usual Interest; and other works. 


JARNAGIN, SPENCER, lawyer, United 
States senator, was born about 1793 in 
Granger county, Tenn. He was United 
States senator from Tennessee from 1841 
to 1847. He died June 24, 1851, in Mem¬ 
phis, Tenn. 

JARRATT, DEVEREUX, clergyman, 
author, was born Jan. 17, 1773, near Rich¬ 
mond, Va. He published three volumes 
of sermons and a series of letters to a 
friend entitled Thoughts on Some Im¬ 
portant Subjects in Divinity. He died 
Jan. 29, 1801, in Virginia. 

JARVIS, ABRAHAM, bishop, was born 
May 3. 1739, in Norwalk, Conn. He was 
second protestant episcopal bishop of 
Connecticut, and eighteenth in succession 
in the American episcopate. 

JARVIS, EDWARD, physician, author, 
was born Jan. 9, 1803, in Concord, Mass. 
He was a once prominent physician of 
Dorchester, Mass.; and in 1852 was made 
president of the American Statistical as¬ 
sociation. He was the author of Physiol¬ 
ogy and Health; Elementary Physiology; 
and Condition of the Insane and Idiots in 
Massachusetts. He died Oct. 31, 1884, in 
Dorchester, Mass. 

JARVIS, JAMES JACKSON, author, 
was born Aug. 20, 1820, in Boston, Mass, 
he was an art connoisseur who lived 
in Hawaii in 1838-49, and subsequently 
for many years in Florence. He was the 
author of Why and What Am I? Art 
Studies; History of the Sandwich Islands; 
Scenes and Scenery in the Sandwich Isl¬ 
ands; Parisian Sights and French Prin¬ 
ciples; Italian Sights and Papal Princi¬ 
ples; Kiana, a Tradition of Hawaii; A 
Glimpse at the Art of Japan; Art Hints; 
The Art Idea; Art Thoughts; Italian Ram¬ 
bles; and Pepero, the Boy Artist. He 
died in 1888. 

JARVIS, JOHN WESLEY, artist, was 
born in 1780 in England. He became pop¬ 
ular, and his portraits, which were ex¬ 
ecuted chiefly in New York and the south¬ 
ern cities, were numerous and often ef¬ 
fective. His works include likenesses of 
Com. Isaac Hull, Com. William Bain- 
bridge, Com. Thomas McDonough, Gov. De 
Witt Clinton, John Randolph, Bishop Ben¬ 
jamin Moore, and Fitz-Greene Halleck. 
He died in 1840 in New York city. 

JARVIS, LEONARD, public official, 
congressman, was born in 1782. He was 
sheriff of Hancock county from 1821 to 
1829, and collector of customs for the 
Penobscot district from 1829 to 1831. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maine from 1831 to 1837, and from 1838 to 
1841 held the office of navy agent for the 
port of Boston. He died Sept. 18, 1854, in 
Surrey, Maine. 

JARVIS, SAMUEL FARMAR, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 20, 1786, in 
Middletown, Conn. He was an episcopal 
clergyman of Connecticut, and the author 
of Sermons on Prophecy; No Union with 
Rome; Chronological Introduction to the 
History of the Church; and the Religion of 
the Indian Tribes of North America. He 
died March 26, 1851, in Middletown, Conn. 

JARVIS, THOMAS JORDAN, soldier, 
state legislator, governor, was born Jan. 
18, 1836, in Jarvisburg, N. C. He en¬ 
tered the confederate army as a pri¬ 
vate, in 1861 was made a first lieutenant, 
and in 1863 was promoted captain. He 
was elected a representative in the legis¬ 
lature of North Carolina; was re-elected to 
the legislature in 1870, and was made 
speaker of the house. In 1876 he was 
elected lieutenant-governor of North Car¬ 
olina; and in 1879 became governor by 
the election of Governor Vance a United 
States senator, and in 1880 was elected 
governor. 


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JAY, JAMES, physician, author, was 
born Oct. 27, 1732, in New York city. 
He was a physician of New York city who 
was knighted by George III., and who 
published Reflections and Observations on 
Gout. He died Oct. 20, 1815, in Spring- 
field, N. J. 

JAY, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, statesman, 
was born Dec. 12, 1745, in New York city. 
He was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1774 to 
1777, and from 1778 
to 1779. In 1776 he 
was recalled from 
congress to aid in 
forming the govern¬ 
ment of New York, 
and for that reason 
was not present to 
sign the declaration 
o f independence. 
From 1777 to 1779 
he was chief justice 
of the state, but re¬ 
signed to fill the post of president of con¬ 
gress. He was appointed secretary of 
state. Though not a member he aided at 
the convention which framed the federal 
constitution. In 1789 he was appointed 
•chief justice of the supreme court of the 
United States, which position he resigned 
In 1794 to accept the mission to England, 
when he negotiated the treaty which bears 
his name. He was governor of New r York 
from 1795 to 1801, after which he retired 
to private life. His Correspondence and 
State Papers were published in 1893. He 
died May 17, 1829, in Bedford, N. Y. 

JAY, JOHN, lawyer, author, was born 
June 23, 1817, in New York city. He was 
for many years a manager and corre¬ 
sponding secretary 
of the New York 
Historical society. 
He was the author of 
Dignity of the Aboli¬ 
tion Cause; Caste 
and Slavery in the 
American Church: 
and America Free or 
America Slave. He 
was a successful 
lawyer; and an ac¬ 
tive member of the 
American Geograph¬ 
ical and statistical society. He died in 
1894. 

JAY, JOHN CLARKSON, physician, 
born Sept. 1, 1808, in New York city. In 
addition to his practice of medicine he 
made a specialty of conchology, and ac¬ 
quired the most complete and valuable 
■collection of shells in the United States. 

JAY, PETER AUGUSTUS, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, was born Jan. 24, 
1776, in Elizabethtown, N. J. In 1816 he 
was a member of the assembly, being 
active in promoting legislation for the 
■building of the Erie canal. He held the 
office of recorder of New York city in 
1819-21, and was a member of the New 
York constitutional convention in 1821. 
He died Feb. 20, 1843, in New York city. 

JAY, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, philan¬ 
thropist, author, was born June 16, 1789, 
in New York city. He was son of Chief 
Justice Jay, and from early life exerted 
himself in behalf of social and religious 
reforms. He was for several years presi¬ 
dent of the American Peace society, and 
one of the founders of the American Bible 
society. He was the author of Life of 
John Jay; War and Peace; and Causes 
and Consequences of the Mexican War. 
He died Oct. 14, 1858, in Bedford, N. Y. 

JAYNE, DAVID, manufacturer, was 
born July 12, 1799, in Bushkill, Pa. He 
began, in 1848, the erection of a large 
.granite and marble laboratory and sales¬ 


room on Chestnut street, Philadelphia, 
with a frontage of forty-two feet and 
height of thirteen stories, and, in that 
impressive structure, after 1850, carried 
on a continually expanding manufacture 
of medicines until the end of his days. 
He died March 5, 1866, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

JAYNE, HORACE, scientist, author, 
was born March 5, 1859, in Philadelphia. 
He was chosen lecturer in biology in the 
university of Pennsylvania, and subse¬ 
quently professor of vertebrate morphol¬ 
ogy in the same institution, which place 
he now holds. He has written A Re¬ 
vision of the Dermestidae of North Amer¬ 
ica; Abnormities Observed in North 
American Coleoptera; and Origin of the 
Fittest. 

JAYNE, WILLIAM, physician, state 
senator, congressman, governor, was born 
Oct. 8, 1826, in Springfield, Ill. He was 
elected to the state senate in 1860 and 
1861, and during the latter year was ap¬ 
pointed governor of Dakota territory. In 
1862 he was elected a delegate from Da¬ 
kota to the thirty-eighth congress. 

JEAN, CHARLES FLETCHER, mer¬ 
chant, was born July 16, 1856, in Terre. 
Haute, Ind. He commenced life as a 
bell-boy in the Terre Haute hotel. He 
has built up a large wholesale produce 
house, and attained prominence as a suc¬ 
cessful merchant. In 1896 he received the 
nomination for mayor of Evansville, and 
has filled various positions of honor in 
his county and state. 

JEANS, JACOB, educator, author, was 
born Oct. 4, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was professor of the practice of medicine 
in the Homeopathic college of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He was the author of a volume en¬ 
titled Practice of Medicine. He died Dec. 
17, 1877. 

JEFFERS, WILLIAM NICHOLSON, 
naval officer, author, was born Oct. 6, 1824, 
in Gloucester county, N. J. He was a 
United States naval officer who became a 
commodore in 1878, and was the author of 
Short Methods in Navigation; Theory and 
Practice of Naval Gunnery; Inspection 
and Proof of Cannon; and Ordnance In¬ 
struction for the United States Navy. He 
died July 23, 1883, in Washington, D. C. 

JEFFERSON, JOSEPH, actor, was born 
in 1804 in Philadelphia, Pa. From 1835 
till 1837 Jefferson was connected with the 
Franklin and Niblo’s garden theaters in 
New York city. He died Nov. 24, 1842, 
in Mobile, Ala. 

JEFFERSON, JOSEPH, actor, author, 
was born Feb. 20, 1829, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He has won his reputation by his 
remarkable perform¬ 
ance of the part of 
Rip Van Winkle in 
the play of that 
name written by 
Dion Boucicault 
from Washington 
Irving’s romance. He 
has changed the play 
to suit his personifi¬ 
cation, and is the au¬ 
thor of an entertain¬ 
ing Autobiography; 
and was a constant 
contributor to current literature. 

JEFFERSON, MARTHA WAYLES.was 
born Oct. 19, 1748, in Charles City county, 
Va. She married Thomas Jefferson in 
1772. He retained a romantic devotion 
for her throughout his life, and because 
of her failing health refused foreign ap¬ 
pointments in 1776, and again in 1781, 
having promised that he would accept no 
public office that would involve their sep¬ 
aration. She died Sept. 6, 1782, in Monti- 
cello, Va. 


JEFFERSON, THOMAS, third presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born April 
13, 1743, in Shadwell, Albemarle county, 
Va. He was educat¬ 
ed at William and 
Mary college, Virgin¬ 
ia, and graduated in 
1762. After leaving 
college he studied 
law, and in 1769 he 
was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the house of 
burgesses of Vir¬ 
ginia. In 1772 he 
was married to Mrs. 
Martha Skelton, a 
wealthy widow, 
twenty-three years of age. He was a 
delegate to the continental congress in 
1775, and in 1776 he was chosen chairman 
of the committee which drafted the dec¬ 
laration of independence, and was the au¬ 
thor of that glorious instrument, which 
was the foundation of American liberty. 
He was elected to a seat in the Virginia 
assembly during the summer of 1776, and 
resigned his seat in congress. He contin¬ 
ued in the assembly in 1777 and 1778. In 
June, 1779, Jefferson succeeded Patrick 
Henry as governor of Virginia, and held 
the office two years. He was elected to 
congress in 1783, and was chairman of 
the committee to whom the treaty of 
peace with England was referred. In 
May, 1784, he was appointed minister 
plenipotentiary to Europe, to assist 
Adams and Franklin in negotiating trea¬ 
ties of commerce. In 1785 congress ap¬ 
pointed him minister plenipotentiary to 
France, and he remained there until 1789. 
On his return home Washington offered 
him a seat in his cabinet, as secretary of 
state, which he accepted and held until 
Dec. 31, 1793. In 1796 Jefferson was elect¬ 
ed vice-president of the United States, and 
took his seat March 4, 1797. On the 17th 
of February, 1801, he was elected presi¬ 
dent by the house of representatives, the 
electors having failed to make a choice, 
and took the oath of office March 4, 1801, 
at Washington, D. C. In 1804 he was re¬ 
elected, and took the oath of office March 
4, 1805. After completing his second term 
he retired to Monticello, where, in the 
language of Daniel Webster, he lived as 
became a wise man, and died July 4, 1826. 
Jefferson held office about thirty years. 
He died so poor that, if congress had not 
given $20,000 for his library, he would 
have been bankrupt. His literary monu¬ 
ment is the world-famous Declaration of 
Independence. Other writings of his are, 
Notes on Virginia; Rights of British 
America; and Manual of Parliamentary 
Practice. A ten-volume edition of his 
works was published in 1892. 

JEFFERY, EDWARD TURNER, rail¬ 
road president, was born April 6, 1843, in 
Liverpool, England. Since 1895 he has 
been president of the Rio Grande South¬ 
ern railroad, and he has also been presi¬ 
dent of various other roads. 

JEFFORDS, ELZA, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 23, 1826, in Iron- 
ton, Ohio. He settled in Mississippi in 
1864; and was judge of the high court of 
errors and appeals of the state in 1868 
and 1869. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Mississippi to the forty-eighth 
congress as a republican. 

JEFFREY, MRS. ROSA VERTNER 
(GRIFFITH) (JOHNSON), author, poet, 
was born in 1828 in Natchez, Miss. She 
was a verse-writer of Lexington, Ky., 
and the author of Poems by Rosa; Flor¬ 
ence Vale; The Crimson Hand, and Other 
Poems; Marah, a novel; and Woodburn, a 
novel. She died in 1894. 










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JEFFRIES, BENJAMIN JOY, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born March 26, 1833, in 
Boston, Mass. He is a prominent physi¬ 
cian of Boston, and the author of Color 
Blindness—its Dangers and its Detection; 
The Eye in Health and Disease; and Dis¬ 
eases of the Skin. 

JEFFRIES, NOAH L„ soldier, lawyer, 
public official, was born in 1828 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He entered the union army and 
served during the rebellion. He was as¬ 
sistant provost marshal general of the 
United States during 1864 and 1865, and 
was register of the United States treasury 
from 1867 to 1869. 

JEFFRIS, WILLIAM SEWARD, edu¬ 
cator, financier, was born March 14, 1857, 
in Janesville, Wis. During 1883-95 he 
was cashier of the Merchants’ and Me¬ 
chanics’ Savings bank of Janesville, Wis., 
and since 1895 has been president of that 
institution. 

JEMISON, ROBERT, financier, state 
senator, was born Sept. 17, 1802, in Lin¬ 
coln county, Ga. He was president of the 
Alabama state senate in 1863, and soon af¬ 
terward entered the confederate senate, 
though he had opposed secession in 1861. 
He died Oct. 16, 1871, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. 

JENCKES, JOSEPH, inventor, was born 
in 1602 in England. In 1646 he secured 
a patent for fourteen years on an im¬ 
proved water-wheel, also a newly invented 
sawmill. In 1647 he purchased a privilege 
at the iron-works to build a forge where 
he might manufacture scythes and other 
edged tools. In 1652 a mint was estab¬ 
lished in Boston for coining silver. He 
died March 16, 1683, in Lynn, Mass. 

JENCKES, JOSEPH, governor, was 
born in 1656 in Pawtucket, R. I. He was 
a member of the assembly from 1700 till 
1708, deputy-governor from 1715 till 1727, 
and governor in 1727-32. He died June 
15, 1740. 

JENCKES, THOMAS ALLEN, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1818 in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He was a representative 
from Rhode Island to the thirty-eighth 
congress; was re-elected to the thirty- 
ninth, fortieth and forty-first congresses 
as a republican. He died Nov. 4, 1875, in 
Cumberland, R. I. 

JENCKES, THOMAS ALLEN, lawyer, 
state senator, was born Aug. 28, 1856, in 
Providence, R. I. He is a successful law¬ 
yer of Cumberland, R. I., and since 1896 
has been a member of the state senate. 

JENIFER, DANIEL, congressman, was 
born in 1723 in Maryland. He was a dele¬ 
gate from Maryland to the continental 
congress from 1778 to 1782, and was also 
a member of the convention which framed 
the federal constitution, and signed that 
instrument. He died Nov. 6, 1790, in 
Maryland. 

JENIFER, DANIEL, state legislator, 
congressman, was born April 15, 1791, in 
Charles county, Md. He was frequently a 
member of the state legislature of Mary¬ 
land, represented that state in congress 
from 1831 to 1833, and from 1835 to 1841. 

JENISON, SILAS H„ governor, was 
born in 1791 in Shoreham, Yt. He was 
lieutenant-governor in 1835, and was gov¬ 
ernor of Vermont from 1835 to 1841. He 
died Sept. 30, 1849, in Shoreham, Vt. 

JENKINS, ALBERT GALLATIN, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1830, 
in Cabell county, Va. He was elected a 
representative from Virginia to the thirty- 
fifth congress, and re-elected to the thirty- 
sixth congress. He subsequently served as 
a brigadier-general in the confederate ser¬ 
vice, and was killed at the battle of the 
Wilderness. He died May 7, 1864, in Dub¬ 
lin, Va. 


JENKINS, ANNA ALMY, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born Sept. 1, 1790, in Providence, 
R I She was a noted benefactor of her 
time, and died Nov. 20, 1849, in her native 
city. 

JENKINS, ANDREW J., journalist, 
poet, was born Nov. 6, 1839, in Prompton, 
Pa. He served through the war as chap¬ 
lain in the second regiment, New York 
cavalry. For many years he was engaged 
in educational work, and is now the editor 
and owner of The Press of Otay, Cal. 

JENKINS, CHARLES JONES, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, governor, was born 
Jan. 6, 1805, in Beaufort, S. C. He served 
several terms as a representative in the 
state legislature, four terms as speaker 
of the house, and in 1831 was elected at¬ 
torney-general of the state. He was a 
judge of the supreme court of the south¬ 
ern confederacy, and in 1865 was elected 
governor of Georgia for the term of two 
years. He died June 14, 1883, in Somer¬ 
ville, Ga. 

JENKINS, ELLEN J. She is the au¬ 
thor of a volume of poems entitled Mem¬ 
ories. 

JENKINS, GEORGE EDMUND, mer¬ 
chant, state legislator, was born Sept. 23, 
1847, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a suc¬ 
cessful merchant of Fairbury, Neb.; has 
been president of the board of trade, and 
president of the National Guard associa¬ 
tion of the state. In 1897 he was elected 
a member of the Nebraska state legis¬ 
lature. 

JENKINS, JOHN, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, was born Nov. 27, 1751, in New 
London, Conn. He came to Wyoming 
with his father in 1769, and became an 
active participant in the Pennamite war 
and the revolution, in which he was a 
lieutenant. He was subsequently elected 
major and colonel of militia, sheriff and 
member of assembly. He died March 19, 
1827, in Wyoming, Pa. 

JENKINS, JOHN J., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 20, 1843, in Wey¬ 
mouth, England. He was city attorney 
of Chippewa Falls, Wis.; a member of the 
assembly from Chippewa county; county 
judge of Chippewa county, and was ap¬ 
pointed United States attorney of the ter¬ 
ritory of Wyoming by President Grant in 
1876. He was elected to the fifty-fourth 
and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 

JENKINS, JOHN STILWELL, lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born Feb. 15, 1818, 
in Albany, N. Y. He was a lawyer and 
journalist of Weedsport, N. Y., and the 
author of The Heroines of History; Lives 
of the Governors of New York; Lives of 
Jackson, Polk and Calhoun; Political His¬ 
tory of New York; History of the Mexi¬ 
can War; Generals of the Last War with 
Great Britain; and Life of Silas Wright. 
He died Sept. 20, 1852, in Weedsport, N. Y. 

JENKINS, JOHN W., educator, was 
born May 14, 1847, in St. Omer, Ind. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he served three years 
gallantly in company A, one hundred and 
twenty-third regiment Indiana volunteer 
infantry, and was all through the Atlanta 
campaign. He has attained success as an 
educator; has taught twenty years, and 
is now county, superintendent of schools 
at St. Paul, Ind., which position he has 
filled for three terms. 

JENKINS, LEMUEL, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1823 to 1825. 

JENKINS, MICAH, soldier, was born in 
1836 in Edisto Island, S. C. He was 
elected colonel of the fifth South Carolina 
regiment at the opening of the civil war, 
and was promoted to brigadier-general. 
He died May 6, 1864, in Wilderness, Va. 


JENKINS, ROBERT, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1807 to 1811. 

JENKINS, THORNTON ALEXANDER, 
naval officer, was born Dec. 11, 1811, in 
Orange county, Va. He entered the navy 
in 1828; was a commodore in 1866, and 
rear admiral in 1870. 

JENKINS, TIMOTHY, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 29, 1799, in Barre, 
Mass. He was district attorney for Oneida 
county, N. Y., six years, and resigned the 
office on being elected a representative in 
the twenty-ninth congress. He was re¬ 
elected to the thirtieth and thirty-second 
congresses. He died Dec. 24, 1859, in 
Martinsburg, N. Y. 

JENKINS, WILL D„ journalist, secre¬ 
tary of state, was born April 21, 1852, in 
Pekin, Ill. During 1872-82 he edited and 
published the Smith 
County Pioneer of 
Kansas; in 1882 he 
was city editor of 
the Seattle Chroni¬ 
cle, and in 1883 es¬ 
tablished the What¬ 
com Reveille. In 1887 
and 1888 he was 
mayor of Whatcom, 
and after the con¬ 
solidation of Sehome 
and Whatcom, he 
was elected mayor of 
New Whatcom. Since 1892 he has con¬ 
ducted The Champion, a populist paper of 
Whatcom. He has filled numerous offices 
of public trust; and in 1897 entered upon 
a four years’ term as secretary of state 
of Washington. 



JENKS, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born Oct. 30, 1830, in 
Newport, N. H. His life has been princi¬ 
pally devoted to 
journalistic work. 
During the rebellion 
he was officially con¬ 
nected with the gov¬ 
ernment shipyard of 
Cincinnati, and re¬ 
sided in Vicksburg 
during 1866-70. In 
1871 he was placed at 
the head of the re¬ 
publican press asso¬ 
ciation at Concord, 
retiring from that 
position in 1892. For four years he was 
reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme 
Court of New Hampshire, and in 1893 
was in Chicago as resident secretary of 
the New Hampshire world’s fair commis¬ 
sion. He has done much critical and liter¬ 
ary work, and poems of his may be found 
in numerous magazines and standard col¬ 
lections. 



JENKS, EDWARD WATROUS, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born March 31, 1833, 
in Victor, N. Y. He is a successful phy¬ 
sician of Detroit, Mich., and has invented 
obstetrical forceps and other surgical in¬ 
struments for use in gynecology. He was 
the author of American System of Prac¬ 
tical Medicine; and American System of 
Gynecology. 

JENKS, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, lawyer, 
member of congress, was born March 26, 
1836, in Jefferson county, Pa. He re¬ 
ceived his education at the Jefferson col¬ 
lege, and has attained prominence as a 
successful lawyer of Brookville, Pa. He 
has been assistant secretary of the in¬ 
terior; solicitor-general of the United 
States, and served with distinction as 
a member of the forty-fourth congress 
as a democrat. 




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JENKS, HENRY FITCH, clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 17, 1842, in Boston, 
Mass. Since 1867 he has been a clergy¬ 
man of the Unitarian church, and now 
fills a pastorate in Canton, Mass. He is 
a member of numerous historical and 
literary societies, and the author of sev¬ 
eral historical works. 

JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was horn Sept. 2, 1856, in 
St. Clair, Mich. Since 1891 he has filled 
the chair of political science in the Cor¬ 
nell university of Ithaca, N. Y. He is 
the author of Road Legislation for the 
American State, and other works on poli¬ 
tics, trust and monetary subjects. 

JENKS, JOHN WHIPPLE POTTER, 
naturalist, author, was born May 1, 1819, 
in West Boylston, Mass. He was a natu¬ 
ralist who was director of the museum of 
natural history at Brown university in 
1872-94, and professor of agriculture and 
zoology there, in 1875-94. He was the au¬ 
thor of Hunting in Florida; and Jenks 
and Steele’s Zoology. He died in 1894. 

JENKS, JOSEPH, governor, was born 
in 1656 in Pawtucket, R. I. He was dep¬ 
uty governor of Rhode Island and was 
governor from 1727 to 1732. He died June 
15, 1740. 

JENKS, JOSEPH WILLIAM, educator, 
was born Nov. 23, 1808, in Bath, Maine. 
He was chaplain and professor of math¬ 
ematics in the United States navy, serv¬ 
ing on the Concord under Commodore 
Perry. He spent seven years aiding his 
father in the preparation of the Compre¬ 
hensive Commentary on the Bible. In 
1852 became professor of languages in 
Urbana university, Ohio. He afterward 
established the first agricultural paper 
in Illinois. He died June 7, 1884, in New- 
tonville, Mass. 

JENKS, MICHAEL H.. congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1843 to 1845. 

JENKS, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 25, 1778, in Newton, Mass. 
He was a once prominent congregational 
clergyman of Boston who founded the 
American Oriental society, and was the 
author of Commentary on the Bible, long 
a popular work; and Bible Atlas and 
Scripture Gazetteer. He died Nov. 13, 
1866, in Boston, Mass. 

JENNESS, BENNING WENTWORTH, 
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born July 14, 1806, in Deerfield, N. H. 
He was judge of probate in Strafford 
county, N. H., from 1841 to 1845, and 
was a senator in congress from New 
Hampshire during the years 1845 and 
1846. He died Nov. 16, 1879, in Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

JENNESS, JOHN SCRIBNER, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1827 in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He was a lawyer of New York 
city and the author of The Isles of Shoals, 
an Historical Sketch; and the First Plant¬ 
ing of New Hampshire. He edited Trans¬ 
cripts of Original Documents Relating to 
the Early History of New Hampshire. 
He died in 1879. 

JENNESS, LYNDON Y., soldier, bank¬ 
er, was born June 17, 1843, in Medina, 
Mass. He served in the civil war from 
musician to lieutenant in the thirty-sec¬ 
ond Massachusetts volunteer infantry. 
He is president of the State bank. Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, Florida Palmetto 1 iber 
works, and state commander of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, residing in Pai- 
kesburg, Fla. 

JENNESS, RICHARD H., _ journalist, 
legislator, was born June 25, 1857, in 
Lindenwood, Ill. He is the editor and 
owner of the Graphic of Atkinson, Neb., 

34 


and served as a member of the twenty- 
fourth session of the Nebraska legislature 
from Omaha. 

JENNINGS, DAVID, congressman, was 
born in Hunterdon county, N. J. He was 
a representative in congress from Ohio 
from 1825 to 1826. 

JENNINGS, FRANCIS, hymnologist, 
was born Nov. 3, 1808, in England. He 
has become one of the most thorough 
hymnologists in America. In 1871 the 
Baptist Hymn Book was published, and he 
prepared for it a biographical index, giv¬ 
ing the names, dates of birth, and death 
of the authors and their birthplaces, and 
also the time when the hymns were first 
printed. 

JENNINGS, JAMES S., journalist, poet, 
was born in Greene county, Ohio. He 
was editor and proprietor of the Monitor, 
of Marion, Ind., and has been in the news¬ 
paper publishing business ever since. As 
an author and poet he has been very suc¬ 
cessful, and now resides in Wichita, Kan. 

JENNINGS, JONATHAN, congressman, 
governor, was born in Hunterdon county, 
N. J. He was the first governor in Indi¬ 
ana. Hb was elected a representative in 
congress from that state from 1809 -to 
1816, and from 1822 to 1831. In 1818 he 
was appointed Indian commissioner. He 
died July 26, 1834, near Charlestown, Ind. 

JENNINGS, ROBERT W., college presi¬ 
dent, was born March 18, 1838, in Edge- 
field, S. C. In 1884 he established the 
Jennings Business college of Nashville, 
Tenn., and is its president. 

JENNINGS, SAMUEL, Quaker preacher, 
was born in England. He took up his 
residence in Philadelphia, where, in 1690- 
93, he was justice of tne quorum and judge 
of the county court. He died in 1708 in 
Burlington, N. J. 

JENNINGS, SAMUEL KENNEDY, 
preacher, was born June 6, 1771, in Essex 
county, N. J. He moved to Baltimore in 
1817; was one of the prime movers in the 
introduction of lay repi-esentation in the 
conferences of the methodist episcopal 
church, and finally was expelled from this 
connection and organized a new body 
known as the methodist protestant church. 
He was distinguished as a pulpit orator 
and evangelist. He died Oct. 19, 1854, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

JENNINGS, THOMAS REED, physi¬ 
cian, educator, state senator, was born 
in 1805 in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1838 
he opened dissecting-rooms in Nashville, 
and was the first teacher of anatomy in 
the state. He served in the state senate, 
declined a nomination to congress, in 1854 
became professor of the institutes of 
medicine and of clinical medicine in the 
university of Nashville, and in 1856 filled 
the chair of anatomy. He died July 7, 
1874, in Narragansett, R. I. 

JENNINGS, WILLIAM SHERMAN, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born March 
24, 1863, near Salem, Ill. His father’s sis¬ 
ter is the mother of William Jennings 
Bryan, the democratic candidate for presi¬ 
dent of the United States in 1896. He 
received the rudiments of his education 
in the county schools; attended the South¬ 
ern Illinois Normal university of Car- 
bondale, and graduated from the Union 
college of Law of Chicago, Ill. He is one 
of the foremost lawyers of the south at 
Brooksville, Fla. He has been circuit 
court commissioner; county judge; aider- 
man and president of the council of his 
adopted city. In 1893-95 he served with 
distinction as a member of the Florida 
state legislature, and was speaker of the 
house of representatives in the session of 
1895 In 1896 he was a presidential elect¬ 
or, and in 1897 the electoral messenger 
from Florida. 


JENNISON, LUCY WHITE, author, 
poet, was born in 1850 in Massachusetts. 
She is a verse-writer who has lived mainly 
in Europe, and is the author of Love 
Poems and Sonnets. 

JENNISON, SAMUEL, antiquary, was 
born Feb. 24, 1788, in Brookfield, Mass. 
He was for many years connected with the 
American Antiquarian society as librarian 
and corresponding secretary. He died 
March 1, 1860, in Worcester, Mass. 

JEROME, DAVID HOWELL, merchant, 
governor, was born Nov. 17, 1829, in De¬ 
troit, Mich. He was a merchant of Sag¬ 
inaw, Mich., and was a state senator from 
1862 to 1868. In 1865 and 1866 he was mil¬ 
itary aid to the governor; was president 
of the state military board from 1865 to 
1873; and in the latter year was appointed 
a member of the state constitutional com¬ 
mission. In 1875 he was appointed a mem¬ 
ber of the board of United States Indian 
commissioners, and was governor of Mich¬ 
igan from 1881 to 1883. 

JEROME, IRENE ELIZABETH, artist, 
was born June 9, 1858, in Ellicottville, N. 
Y. In 1882 she exhibited eighteen sketches 
of Colorado scenery, which were received 
with much favor. She also illustrated and 
arranged One Year’s Sketch-Book; The 
Message of the Blue-Bird; Nature’s Hal¬ 
lelujah; and A Bunch of Violets. 

JERVEY, MRS. CAROLINE- H- 

(GILMAN) (GLOVER), author, poet, was 
born in 1823 in South Carolina. She was 
a writer of fiction and occasional verse, 
and the author of Vernon Grove; and 
Helen Courtenay’s Promise. She died in 
1877. 

JERVIS, JOHN BLOOMFiELD, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Dec. 14, 1795, in 
Huntington, N. Y. He was a civil engi¬ 
neer of New York, who designed many im¬ 
portant works, such as the Croton Dam 
and High Bridge. He was the author of 
Railway Property; and Labor and Capital. 
He died Jan. 12, 1885, in Rome, N. Y. 

JESSUP, HENRY HARRIS, missionary, 
author, was born April 19, 1832, in Mon¬ 
trose, Pa. He has been a presbyterian 
missionary in Syria since 1856, and is the 
author of The Women of the Arabs; The 
Cnildren of the East; The Greek Church 
and Protestant Missions; and Syrian 
Home Life. 

JESSUP, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, was 
born June 21, 1797, in Southampton, N. Y. 
From 1838 till 1851 he was presiding judge 
of the eleventh judicial district of Penn¬ 
sylvania. He died Sept. 11, 1868, in Mon¬ 
trose, Pa. 

JESUP, MORRIS KETCHUM, banker, 
was born June 21, 1830, in Hartford, Conn. 
He was president of the Five Points House 
of Industry in 1870, of the Young Men’s 
Christian association in 1871-75, and later 
became vice-president of the city mission 
and manager of the presbyterian hospital. 
For several years he has also been presi¬ 
dent of the New York museum of natural 
history. 

JESUP, THOMAS S., soldier, was born 
in 1778 in Virginia. He was a brave and 
useful officer during the war of 1812, and 
was retained in the army. He was bre- 
vetted major-general in 1828, and was suc¬ 
ceeded in command in Florida by Col. 
Zachary Taylor in 1838. He died June 10, 
1860, in Washington, D. C. 

JETER, JEREMIAH BELL, clergyman, 
author, was born July 18, 1802, in Bedford 
county, Va. He was a baptist clergyman 
prominent in the south as a preacher 
and controversialist, and the author of 
Campbellism Examined; Campbellism Re- 
Examined; The Seal of Heaven; The 
Christian Mirror; and Recollections of a 
Long Life. He died Feb. 25, 1880, in. 
Richmond, Va. 


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JETER, THOMAS B., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, governor, was born in 1825. 
He served several terms as state senator 
of South Carolina; was president of the 
senate at the time of the resignation of 
Governor Simpson, in 1880, and by virtue 
of his office, became governor of the state. 
He resigned in 1880 to accept the posi¬ 
tion of chief justice of the state supreme 
court; and in 1883 was appointed one of 
the railroad commissioners of the state. 
He died May 20, 1883. 

JETT, THOMAS M., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 1, 1862, in Bedford 
county, Ill. He attended the common 
schools of the coun¬ 
ties of Bond and 
Montgomery; two 
years at the North¬ 
ern Indiana Normal 
school, Valparaiso, 
Ind.; taught school 
for three terms, read 
law with Judge Phil¬ 
lips of Hillsboro, Ill., 
and was admitted to 
practice in May, 1887. 
He was elected 
state’s attorney of 
Montgomery county, Ill., in 1889, and 
served two terms, covering a period of 
about eight years. He was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

JEWELL, HARRY D., lawyer, jurist, 
was born March 5, 1869, in Wheaton, Ill. 
For two years he was assistant law li¬ 
brarian of his alma mater; was editor of 
the Michigan Law Journal, and in 1896 
was elected judge of probate of Kent 
county, Mich. 

JEWELL, JAMES STEWART, physi¬ 
cian, educator, was born Sept. 8, 1837, 
in Galena, Ill. He was professor of anat¬ 
omy in Chicago Medical college from 1864 
till 1869, and of nervous and mental dis¬ 
eases from 1872 till his death. He died 
April 19, 1887, in Chicago, Ill. 

JEWELL, MARSHALL, governor, 
statesman, was born Oct. 20, 1825, in Win¬ 
chester, N. H. He was governor of Con¬ 
necticut from 1868 to 1870; was appointed 
minister plenipotentiary to Russia in 
1873; and in 1874 was appointed postmas¬ 
ter-general in the cabinet of President 
Grant. He died Feb. 10, 1883, in Hartford, 
Conn. 

JEWETT, C. C., lawyer, jurist, was an 
early emigrant to Arkansas. He was ap¬ 
pointed a justice of the United States 
court for that territory. After it became 
a state he continued on the bench as 
judge of the United States district court. 

JEWETT, CHARLES COFFIN, biblio¬ 
grapher, author, was born Aug. 12, 1816, 
in Lebanon, Maine. He was a biblio¬ 
grapher who was the first superintendent 
of the Boston public library; and the au¬ 
thor of Facts and Considerations Rela¬ 
tive to Duties on Books; Notices of 
Public Libraries in the United States; 
and Construction of Catalogues. He died 
Jan. 9, 1868, in Braintree, Mass. 

JEWETT, FREEBORN G., jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1790 in New York. 
He was a member of the assembly of that 
state in 1826 and 1827; was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1831 to 1833; and 
from 1846 to 1856 was a judge of the 
supreme court of New York. He died 
Feb. 23, 1858. 

JEWETT, GEORGE BAKER, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 11, 1818, in Leb¬ 
anon, Maine. He was a New England edu¬ 
cator whose principal works were Baptism 
Versus Immersion; and Critique on the 
Greek Text .of the New Testament. He 
died June 9, 1886, in Salem, Mass. 


JEWETT, HUGH J., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born about 1812, in Deer Creek, 
Md. He studied law in Cecil county; left 
Maryland in early 
manhood, and re¬ 
moved to Ohio, 
where he practiced 
his profession; held 
no public position 
until 1872. He was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive from Ohio to the 
forty-fourth con¬ 
gress; and soon re¬ 
signed to accept the 
position of president 
of the Erie Railroad 
company, which position he still fills. 

JEWETT, ISAAC APPLETON, lawyer, 
author, was born Oct. 17, 1808, in Bur¬ 
lington, Vt. He was a successful lawyer 
of Cincinnati, and later of New Orleans. 
He was the author of Passages in Trav¬ 
el; and The Appleton Memorial. He 
died Jan. 14, 1853, in Keene, N. H. 

JEWETT, JOSHUA H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 12, 1812, in Deer 
Creek, Md. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Kentucky to the thirty-fourth 
and thirty-fifth congresses. 

JEWETT, LUTHER, clergyman, physi¬ 
cian, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1772, 
in Canterbury, Conn. He was for fifteen 
years a member of the Vermont legisla¬ 
ture; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Vermont from 1815 to 1817. 
He died March 8, 1860, in St. Johnsbury, 
Vt. 

JEWETT, MILO PARKER, educator, 
author, was born April 27, 1808, in St. 
Johnsbury, Vt. He was an educator who 
was the first president of Vassal- college, 
and the author of Baptism; and The Re¬ 
lation of Boards of Health and Intemper¬ 
ance. He died June 9, 1882, in Milwau¬ 
kee, Wis. 

JEWETT, SARAH ORNE, author, was 
born Sept. 3, 1849, in South Berwick, 
Maine. She is a popular writer of 
Maine. She is the noted author of Old 
Friends and New; Play-Days; Country 
By-Ways; Deephaven; The Mate of the 
Daylight, and Friends Ashore; A Country 
Doctor; A Marsh Island; A White Heron, 
and Other Stories; The Story of the Nor¬ 
mans, an historical work; The King of 
Folly Island, and Other People; Betty 
Leicester, a Story for Girls; Strangers and 
Wayfarers; A Native of Winby, and Oth¬ 
er Tales; The Life of Nancy; and The 
Country of the Pointed Firs. 

JEWETT, SHERMAN SKINNER, foun- 
dryman, banker, was born Jan. 17, 1818, 
in Moravia, N. Y. He decided to con¬ 
fine his attention to 
the production of 
stoves of every de¬ 
scription, a line of 
trade then in its in¬ 
fancy. The business 
rapidly increased 
until, in 1854, a 
branch office and 
warehouse were 
opened in Chicago, 
branches in Detroit, 
Milwaukee, Denver 
and San Francisco 
becoming necessary in due course of time. 
He voted in 1880 in the electoral college 
for James A. Garfield for president of the 
United States. As one of the project'ors 
of the elaborate system of public parks 
in the city of Buffalo in 1868, and as presi¬ 
dent of the park commissioners since 
1879, he displayed his appreciation of an 
enterprise which has proved a general 
benefit. 


JEWETT, SUSAN W., poet, journal¬ 
ist, author. In 1847 she conducted a 
juvenile monthly magazine, called the 
Youth’s Visitor. She was the author of 
The Old Corner Cupboard, containing 
poems and prose sketches of everyday 
life. 

JEWETT, THEODORE HERMAN, phy¬ 
sician, was born March 24, 1815, in South 
Berwick, Maine. He was professor of ob¬ 
stetrics and diseases of women and chil¬ 
dren in the medical department of Bow- 
doin, consulting surgeon to the Mairie 
general hospital, and surgeon of the first 
Maine district during the civil war. He 
died Sept. 20, 1878, in Crawford Notch, 
N. H. 

JEWETT, THOMAS L., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born about 1810 in Maryland. 
He was at one time a judge in a state 
court, but became interested in the con¬ 
struction of the Pan-Handle railroad, and 
was chosen its president. He died in 
November, 1875, in New York city. 

JEWETT, WILLIAM ORRINGTON 
LUNT, soldier, lawyer, legislator, was 
born Dec. 26, 1836, in Maine. He served 
in the civil war and has been prosecut¬ 
ing attorney of Shelby county, Mo., for 
two terms; and for two terms was a rep¬ 
resentative in the Missouri state legisla¬ 
ture. 

JOCELYN, GEORGE BENIERS, college 
president, was born Jan. 3, 1824, in New 
Haven, Conn. In 1861 he was elected 
president of the Iowa Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity, and pastor of the university 
chapel. Later he was pastor of Asbury 
chapel at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, whence he 
was called to the presidency of Albion 
college, which position he occupied until 
his death. He died Jan. 27, 1877, in Al¬ 
bion college. 

JOHN, JOHN PRICE DURBIN, educat¬ 
or, college president, lecturer, was born 
Nov. 25, 1843, in Brookville, Ind. He has 
been a clergyman in the Indiana confer¬ 
ence; professor of mathematics, and 
president of the Brookville college; and 
professor of mathematics, vice-president 
and president of the De Pauw univer¬ 
sity of Greencastle, Ind. 

JOHNES, EDWARD RODOLPH, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Sept. 8, 1852, in 
Whitesboro, N. Y. He is counsel for the 
American Ornithological union, and has 
aided the development of many business 
enterprises. He is the author of a book of 
verse entitled Briefs by Barristers. 

JOHNS, JOHN, bishop, college presi¬ 
dent, author, was born July 10, 1796, in 
New Castle, Del. He was elected assistant 
bishop of Virginia and was consecrated 
in 1842. In 1862 he became the successor 
of Bishop Meade. He was also president 
of William and Mary college from 1849 
till 1854. He published a Memorial of 
Bishop Meade. He died April 6, 1876, in 
Fairfax county, Va. 

JOHNS, KENSEY, lawyer, jurist, was 
born June 14, 1759, in Maryland. He was 
appointed associate judge of the supreme 
court of Delaware. In 1798, on the death 
of Mr. Read, he succeeded him as chief 
justice of Delaware, retaining the office 
for thirty years. He died Dec. 21, 1848, 
in New Castle, Del. 

JOHNS, KENSEY, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 10, 1791, in New 
Castle, Del. He was a representative in 
congress from Delaware from 1827 to 
1831; and in 1832 was appointed chancel¬ 
lor of the state of Delaware, in which ca¬ 
pacity he was still serving at the time 
of his death. He died March 28, 1857, in 
New Castle, Del. 









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JOHNSON, ALEXANDER BRYAN, 
banker, author, was born May 29, 1786, 
in England. He was a prominent banker 
of Utica for nearly half a century; and 
the author of Treatise on Banking; The 
Philosophy of Human Knowledge; Re¬ 
ligion in Its Relations to the Present Life; 
The Physiology of the Senses; The Mean¬ 
ing of Words; Nature and Value of Capi¬ 
tal; Encyclopaedia of Instruction; and 
Guide to the Right Understanding of Our 
American Union. He died Sept. 9, 1867, 
in Utica, N. Y. 

JOHNSON, ALEXANDER BYRON, edu¬ 
cator. In 1875 he was president -of the 
Ohio Teachers’- association; in 1881-83 
was a member of the state board of exam¬ 
iners; and for several years he has been 
a lecturer at institutes in western states. 

JOHNSON, ALEXANDER SMITH, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born July 30, 1817, in 
7 Utica, N. Y. In 1852 he was elected to the 
bench of the court of appeals, and re¬ 
moved to Albany, serving one term. He 
subsequently returned to his native towd; 
and in 1873 was appointed a commissioner 
of appeals to fill a vacancy. Before the 
close of the year he was reappointed a 
judge of the court of appeals, holding the 
office until 1874. In 1875 he was appoint¬ 
ed United States judge for the second cir¬ 
cuit to fill a vacancy. He died Jan. 26, 
1878. 

JOHNSON, ALFRED, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, jurist, was born in Newburyport, 
Mass. He became a noted lawyer of New 
England; was a 
member of the legis¬ 
lature before the 
separation, of the 
convention which 
framed the state con¬ 
stitution, and subse¬ 
quently of the leg¬ 
islature. In 1820 
he was made judge 
of probate, and so 
continued for eight¬ 
een years. He was 
an overseer and 

trustee of Bowdoin college; and contrib¬ 
uted valuable papers to current litera¬ 
ture. He died in 1852. 

JOHNSON, ALFRED SIDNEY, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 15, 1860, in 
Canada. He has been a successful edu¬ 
cator; and is now the editor of Current 
History, a valuable magazine published 
by the New England Publishing com¬ 
pany of Boston, Mass. 

JOHNSON, ANDREW, seventeenth 
president of the United States, was born 
Raleigh, N. C. At 
the age of ten years 
he was apprenticed 
to a tailor, with 

whom he remained 
seven years. He 

never attended 
school, but in 1827 
he married Miss 
Eliza McCardle, who 
taught him to write 
and cipher. In 1826 
he removed to Gran¬ 
ville, Tenn., and was 
elected alderman of 
that village in 1828-29. In 1830 he was 
elected mayor, and held the office three 
years. In 1835 he was elected to the state 
legislature, was defeated in 1837, and elect¬ 
ed again in 1839. In 1841 he was 

elected to the state senate, and in 1843 

to the national house of representatives, 
which office he held, by successive re- 
elections, for ten years. In 1853 he was 
elected governor of Tennessee, and re¬ 
elected in 1855. At the expiration of his 
gubernatorial term, in 1857, he was elect¬ 


ed United States senator by the Tennessee 
legislature. In 1862 he was appointed 
military governor of Tennessee. He was 
nominated for vice-president at the Balti¬ 
more convention, June 8, 1864. Being a 
successful candidate, he took the oath of 
office March 4, 1865. Upon the death of 
President Lincoln he became president, 
and took the oath of office April 15, 1865. 
He was impeached by the house of rep¬ 
resentatives Feb. 24, 1868, by a vote of 
125 ayes to 40 nays. The following rep¬ 
resentatives were chosen as managers, on 
the part of the house, to conduct the bill 
of impeachment before the senate: Messrs. 
John A. Bingham, of Ohio; George S. 
Boutwell, of Massachusetts; Benjamin 
Franklin Butler, of Massachusetts; Thad- 
deus Stevens, of Pennsylvania; Thomas 
Williams, of Pennsylvania; John A. 
Logan, of Illinois, and James F. Wilson, 
of Iowa. The counsel for the president 
were Messrs. Benjamin R. Curtis, of Mas¬ 
sachusetts; William M. Evarts, of New 
York; William S. Groesbeck, of Ohio; 
Thomas A. R. Nelson, of Tennessee, and 
Henry Stanbery, of Ohio. The trial was 
begun March 30, 1868, before the United 
States senate, sitting as a court of im¬ 
peachment, presided over by Chief Justice 
Chase. President Johnson was acquitted 
by the senate May 26, by a vote of 19 to 
35, the constitution requiring a vote of 
two-thirds to convict. President John¬ 
son and Secretary Stanton quarreled over 
reconstruction questions, and on Aug. 
5, 1867, the president requested him to 
resign, which the secretary refused to do. 
He gave way, under protest, Aug. 12, to 
General U. S. Grant as secretary of war 
ad interim. The senate reinstated Secre¬ 
tary Stanton Jan. 13, 1868. On Feb. 21, 
1868, General Lorenzo Thomas was ap¬ 
pointed secretary of war ad interim, but 
Secretary Stanton still refused to vacate. 
Johnson’s impeachment followed, and on 
his acquittal Stanton resigned. On the 
4th of March, 1869, he retired from the 
presidency to his home in Granville, 
Tenn. In 1870 he was a candidate before 
the Tennessee legislature for United 
States senator, but was defeated by two 
votes. In 1872 he was a candidate for 
representative in congress, and was de¬ 
feated. In 1875 he was elected to the 
United States senate, and took his seal 
March 4, and died July 31, 1875. John¬ 
son held office thirty-six years. He was 
probably worth $50,000. 

JOHNSON, ANDREW WALLACE, 
naval officer, was born Feb. 24, 1826, in 
Washington, D. C. He was appointed 
midshipman in 1841. He was made lieu¬ 
tenant-commander in 1862; and was cap¬ 
tain in 1874. He died June 14, 1887, in 
Washington, D. C. 

JOHNSON, ARTEMAS NIXON, publish¬ 
er, author, was born June 22, 1817, in 
Middlebury, Vt. His publications include 
Thorough Base Instruction-Book; Choir 
Chorus Book; Handel Collection of 
Church Music; American Choir; Melo- 
deon, Organ, and Harmony; Alleghany 
Collection of Church Music; The True 
Singing-School Text-Book; The Standard 
Glee Book; New Harmony Book; Parlor 
Organ Instruction; and Natural Art of 
Singing. 

JOHNSON, BARTON W., educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1833 in Illi¬ 
nois. He was a Campbellite minister and 
educator of Iowa; and the author of The 
Vision of the Ages; Commentary on 
John; The People’s New Testament; and 
Young Folks in Bible Lands. He died in 
1894. 

JOHNSON. BENJAMIN, jurist. He was 
an early emigrant to the territory of Ar¬ 


kansas; and in 1821 was appointed United 
States judge for that territory, serving 
in that capacity until 1833. 

JOHNSON, BENJAMIN PIERCE, agri¬ 
culturist, author, was born Nov. 30, 1793, 
in Canaan, N. Y. He was president of the 
State Agricultural society in 1845, and 
its corresponding secretary from 1847 till 
1869. He wrote, besides reports, essays, 
and papers on agricultural subjects, The 
Dairy; and edited The New York Farm¬ 
er; The Transactions of the New York 
Agricultural Society; and Journal of the 
New York Agricultural Society. He died 
April 12, 1869, in Albany, N. Y. 

JOHNSON, BUSHROD RUST, soldier, 
educator, was born Oct. 7, 1817, in Bel¬ 
mont county, Ohio. He became professor 
and subsequently superintendent of the 
Western Military institute of Kentucky 
at Georgetown. He entered the confeder¬ 
ate service in 1861, and was commissioned 
brigadier-general. He died Sept. 11, 1880, 
in Brighton, Ill. 

JOHNSON, CAVE, lawyer, jurist, bank¬ 
er, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1793, 
in Robertson county, Tenn. He was a 
circuit judge for sev¬ 
eral years. He was a 
representative i n 
congress from Ten¬ 
nessee from 1829 to 
1837, and again from 
r839 to 1845; after 
which he went into 
the cabinet of Presi¬ 
dent Polk, as post¬ 
master-general. He 
also held, for many 
years, the position of 
president of the 
bank of Tennessee, which he resigned in 
1859. He died Nov. 23, 1866, in Clarks¬ 
ville, r ienn. 

JOHNSON, CHAPMAN, soldier, lawyer, 
orator, state senator, was born March 12, 
1799, in Louisa county, Va. During the 
war of 1812 he was captain of a volunteer 
company, and he afterward served as aide 
to General James Breckinridge. From 
1815 till 1831 he served in the state senate 
and he was a member of the Virginia 
convention of 1829-30 as champion of 
the white basis party. He died July 12, 
1849, in Richmond, Va. 

JOHNSON, CHARLES FREDERICK, 
educator, author, was born in 1836 in New 
York. He is a professor of English liter¬ 
ature in Trinity college; and the author 
of English Words, an Elementary Study 
of Derivations; and Three Americans and 
Three Englishmen, lectures. 

JOHNSON, CHARLES P., lawyer, state 
legislator, was born Jan. 18, 1836, in Leb¬ 
anon, Ill. In 1859 he was elected city 
attorney of St. Louis; in 1866 was a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature; in 1866 was 
appointed circuit attorney for the city and 
county of St. Louis; in 1872 was elected 
lieutenant-governor; and in 1892 was ten¬ 
dered and accepted the professorship of 
criminal law in the law department in the 
university of St. Louis. 

JOHNSON, CLIFTON, author, was born 
in 1865 in Massachusetts. He is a writer 
and illustrator of Hadley, Mass., best 
known by his photographic illustrations 
to White’s Selborne and other books. He 
is the author of What They Say in New 
England; A Book of Country Clouds and 
Sunshine; The Country School in New ( 
England; The Farmer’s Boy; and The 
New England Country. 

JOHNSON, D. B., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in New York. He was appointed an 
associate justice of the United States for 
the territory of New Mexico, residing at 
Santa Fe. 



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JOHNSON, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, governor, was born Oct. 3, 
1782, in Louisa county, Va. He was a 
member of the legislature of that state in 
1812. He was judge of the court of ap¬ 
peals from 1824 to 1835; and chancellor 
from 1835 to 1846. He was governor of 
South Carolina from 1846 to 1848. He died 
Jan. 7, 1855, in Limestone Springs, S. C. 

JOHNSON, DAVID, artist, was born 
May 10, 1827, in New York city. He was 
one of the founders of the Artists’ Fund 
society, and has exhibited at the academy 
Echo Lake; On the Wallkill River; New 
Berlin. N. Y.; View of Tarrytown, N. Y. 

JOHNSON, DAVID B., lawyer, jurist, 
was born April 17, 1833, in Lowndes coun¬ 
ty, Ga. He has attained eminence as an 
able lawyer; and for many years was 
county judge of Hamilton county, Fla. 

JOHNSON. EASTMAN, artist, was born 
July 29, 1824, in Lovell, Maine. In 1845 
he moved from Boston to Washington, 
D. C., where he drew 
portraits of Daniel 
Webster, John 
Quincy Adams, and 
other distinguished 
men. Since 1859 he 
has had his studio in 
New York city, and 
since 1860 has con¬ 
tributed to each of 
the annual exhibi¬ 
tions of the Nation¬ 
al academy. Among 
his pictures are The 
Old Kentucky Home; Prisoners of State; 
The Barefoot Boy; and Bo-Peep. He ex¬ 
cels as a portrait painter, and his works 
include likenesses of Grover Cleveland, 
Chester A. Arthur, and William M. 
Evarts. 

JOHNSON, EDWARD, author, was born 
in 1599 in England. He was the principal 
founder of Woburn, Mass., in 1640, and a 
prominent citizen of that town for the 
rest of his life. He was the author of 
The Wonder-Working Providence of 
Zion’s Savior in New England, which is a 
valuable account of New England from the 
English planting in 1628 till 1652; and 
an edition, with Introduction and Notes 
by W. F. Poole. He died April 23, 1672, in 
Woburn, Mass. 

JOHNSON, EDWARD, soldier, was born 
April 16, 1816, in Chesterfield county, Va. 
In 1861 he joined the confederate army, 
was appointed colonel of the twelfth 
Georgia volunteers, brigadier-general in 
1862, and major-general in 1863. He died 
Feb. 22, 1873, in Richmond, Va. 

JOHNSON, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, law¬ 
yer, educator, author, was born in Ra¬ 
leigh, N. C. He attended the Atlanta 
university, and has become a prominent 
lawyer of his native city. For many years 
he was engaged in educational work; an’d 
is the author of a School History of the 
Negro Race. 

JOHNSON, EDWIN A., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1829 in New York. He 
is a methodist clergyman; and the au¬ 
thor of Half-Hour Studies of Life; The 
Live Boy, or Charley’s Letters; Winter 
Greeneries at Home; and The Lilyvale 
Club and Its Doings. 

JOHNSON, ELIAS HENRY, educator, 
clergyman, was born Oct. 15, 1841, 

in Troy, N. Y. He has filled numer¬ 
ous pastorates in Minnesota, New York, 
Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania; and has 
been professor of systematic theology in 
the Crozer Theological seminary. 

JOHNSON, ELIJAH EMORY, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born May 23, 1841, 
in East Haddam, Conn. He received his 
education at the Wilbraham academy, and 



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in 1862 graduated from the Union college 
of Schenectady, N. Y. In 1879 he was 
admitted to the bar; was a member of 
the board of education for nine years; 
and justice of the peace for twenty-one 
years. In 1879-80 he was a member of the 
general assembly of Connecticut, and 
served with distinction on several im¬ 
portant committees. He was the founder 
of the East Haddam Savings bank; found¬ 
er of the Connecticut Valley Advertiser; 
and in 1895 founded the Columbia Law 
and Collection bureau of Connecticut. 
He is the author of Our Local Industries, 
and other works. 

JOHNSON, ELIZABETH BRYANT, au¬ 
thor, was born in Kentucky. For many 
years she has been a resident of the na¬ 
tional capital. She is the author of The 
Original Portraits of Washington; and 
George Washington Day by Day. 

JOHNSON, ERIC, soldier, journalist, 
legislator, was born July 15, 1838, in 
Sweden. During the civil war he was 
captain of company B, fifty-seventh regi¬ 
ment Illinois volunteer infantry; was a 
member of the Nebraska legislature in 
1889; and is now the editor and owner 
of The New Era of Wahoo, Neb. 

JOHNSON, EVAN MALBONE, clergy¬ 
man, was born June 6, 1791, in Bristol, 
R. I. In 1826 he built, on his own ground 
and at his own expense, St. John’s church 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., and served it, without 
remuneration, for more than twenty 
years. He died in 1865 in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

JOHNSON, EVANGELINE MARIE, au¬ 
thor, poet. She has translated Fire and 
Flame, from the German of Levin Schuck- 
ing; and has prepared An Analytical In¬ 
dex to the Works of Nathaniel Haw¬ 
thorne; and An Index to the Works of 
Shakspere. She has contributed nu¬ 
merous poems to periodicals, the best 
known of which is that entitled Daugh¬ 
ters of Toil. 

JOHNSON, FRANCIS, congressman, 
was born in Caroline county, Va. He was 
a representative in congress from Ken¬ 
tucky in 1820 to fill a vacancy; and from 
1821 to 1827. 

JOHNSON, FRANCIS HOWE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1835 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a congregational clergy¬ 
man in Andover, Mass.; and the author of 
What Is Reality? an Inquiry as to the 
Reasonableness of Natural Religion, and 
the Naturalness of Revealed Religion. 

JOHNSON, FRANK GRANT, physician, 
inventor, author, was born Jan. 30, 1835, 
in East Windsor, Conn. He is a physician 
and inventor of Brooklyn; and the au¬ 
thor of The Water Meter and the Actual 
Measurement System; The Nicholson and 
Other Pavements; Health Lifts; and In¬ 
fected Air and Disinfectants. 

JOHNSON, FRANKLIN, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1836. He is a 
baptist clergyman, professor in Chicago 
university, and previously pastor of a 
church in Cambridge. He is the author of 
Quotations of the New Testament from 
the Old; True Womanhood; The New 
Psychic Studies in Their Relation to 
Christian Thought; Heine’s Lyrical Inter¬ 
ludes, with introduction and notes; and 
Dies Irae, and Stabat Mater, with intro¬ 
duction and notes. 


JOHNSON, GERTRUDE TRACY, edu¬ 
cator, poet, was born in 1844 in Chau¬ 
tauqua county, N. Y. For twenty years 
she has been super¬ 
vising principal of a 
large grammar 
school of Kansas 
City, Mo.; and since 
her youth has been 
engaged in educa¬ 
tional work. She 
has written exten¬ 
sively on the prob¬ 
lems of education, 
sociology, politics, 
religion, and science; 
and many of her 
poems have been given a place in stan- 



JOHNSON, GROVE LAWRENCE, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 27, 
1841, in Syracuse, N. Y. He was a member 
of the California assembly in 1878-79; 
and of the California state senate in 1880, 
1881, and 1882. He was chairman of the 
committee on platform in the republican 
state conventions of California in 1888, 
1892, and 1894; and was elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a republican. 

JOHNSON, GUSTAVUS, pianist, com¬ 
poser, was born Nov. 2, 1856, in England. 
He is a pianist and teacher of Minneap¬ 
olis, Minn.; and ranks among the fore¬ 
most in the northwest. He is the author 
of numerous pieces for the piano; an¬ 
thems and chamber music; and a con¬ 
certo for piano and orchestra. 


JOHNSON, HARVEY H., congressman, 
was born in Vermont. He removed to 
Ohio; -and was elected a representative 
in congress from that state from 1853 to 
1855. 

JOHNSON, MRS. HELEN [KEN¬ 
DRICK], journalist, author, was born in 
1843 in Hamilton, N. Y. She has edited 
Our Familiar Songs; Tears for the Little 
Ones; The Nutshell Series, and other 
works; and has written Raleigh West- 
gate, or Epimenides in Maine; The Rod¬ 
dy Books; and Woman and the Republic. 

JOHNSON, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, governor. United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Sept. 14, 1783, in Tennes¬ 
see. He was elected a senator in congress 
in 1818 to fill a vacancy, and held that 
position until 1824, in which year he was 
elected governor of Louisiana. In 1826 he 
was re-elected, holding that office for four 
consecutive years. He was a representa¬ 
tive from Louisiana to the twenty-fourth 
and twenty-fifth congresses; and in 1844 
was elected to fill a vacancy in the United 
States senate, serving until 1849. He died 
Sept. 4, 1864, in Point Coupee, La. 


JOHNSON, HENRY C., lawyer, state 
legislator, was born March 29, 1826, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. He held a number of im¬ 
portant public positions, among which 
were those of attorney-general of New 
Mexico and district and prosecuting at¬ 
torney for Crawford county. Pa. He was 
a representative in the state legislature 
for several terms, during one of which 
he was speaker of the house. He was ap¬ 
pointed commissioner of customs in the 
treasury department at Washington, in 
which office he served until 1885. 


JOHNSON, FREDERICK A., banker, 
congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1833, in 
Glens Falls, N. Y. In 1871 he engaged in 
the business of private banking at Glens 
Falls. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth congress as a republican. 


JOHNSON, HENRY THEODORE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 10, 1857, in 
Georgetown, S. C. He founded Slater col¬ 
lege in Tennessee, became president of the 
institution, and was also presiding elder 
of a large district for three years. He 
is the author of a volume entitled Divine 
Logos. 




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JOHNSON, HENRY U., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 28, 
1850, in Cambridge City, Ind. He was 
elected prosecuting attorney for Wayne 
county in 1876; and re-elected in 1878. 
He was elected to the state senate from 
Wayne county in 1886; and served in the 
legislative sessions of 1887 and 1889. He 
was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third, 
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a 
republican. 

JOHNSON. HERMAN MERRILLS, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 25, 1815, in Butter¬ 
nuts, N. Y. In 1850 he became professor 
of philosophy and English literature in 
Dickinson college, which post he retained 
for ten years. In 1860 he was called to the 
presidency of the college and the chair 
of moral science, which he held till his 
death. He died April 5, 1868, in Carlisle, 
Pa. 

JOHNSON, HERRICK, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 21, 1832, 
near Fonda, N. Y. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman of Chicago, professor in Mc¬ 
Cormick Theological seminary from 1880; 
and the author of Christianity’s Chal¬ 
lenge; Plain Talks about Theaters; 
Forms for Special Occasions; and Re¬ 
vivals. 

JOHNSON, HERSCHELL VESPASIAN, 
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born Sept. 18, 1812, in Burke county, Ga. 

He was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1844; 
and in 1848 was ap¬ 
pointed to fill a va¬ 
cancy in the United 
States senate. In 
1849 he was elected a 
judge of the su¬ 
perior court. He 
subsequently served 
in the confederate 
senate; was a dele¬ 
gate to the Philadel¬ 
phia national union 
convention of 1866; and after the rebel¬ 
lion became a judge of the supreme court 
of Georgia. He died Aug. 16, 1880, in Jef¬ 
ferson county, Ga. 

JOHNSON, HEZEKIAH S., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, journalist, state legislator, was born 
Sept. 12, 1828, in Pittsburg, Pa. In 1849 
he moved to New Mexico; held the offices 
of district attorney, clerk of court, and 
treasurer of the territory; and in 1863 
was elected to the territorial legislature. 
In 1869 he was appointed associate justice 
of the supreme court of New Mexico, and 
was reappointed in 1871. 

JOHNSON, HORACE B., soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Aug. 14, 1842, in Marengo, 
Ill. He received his education at the 
Upper Iowa university of Fayette. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he was a captain in the 
army. In 1865-68 he was circuit attorney 
in Missouri; and in 1869-70 was attorney- 
general for the state of Missouri. He is 
one of the leading lawyers of the west, 
and now has an extensive law practice in 
Denver, Colo. 

JOHNSON, HORACE CHAUNCEY, art¬ 
ist, was born Feb. 1, 1820, in Oxford, Conn. 
He attained prominence as a portrait and 
landscape painter. 

JOHNSON, HUGH EDGAR, journalist, 
was born Feb. 24, 1868, in Henderson 
county, N. C. He received the rudiments 
of his education in the public schools, and 
subsequently took a commercial course 
at college. In 1888 he established The 
Tribune of Fullerton, Cal., of which he is 
still editor and owner. 

JOHNSON, ISAAC, governor, was born 
in England. He was governor of Louisi¬ 
ana from 1845 to 1850. He died March 
15, 1853, in New Orleans, La. 


JOHNSON, JAMES, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in Virginia. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1813 to 1820. He also served 
in the state legislature. He died Dec. 7, 
1825, in Norfolk, Va. 

JOHNSON, JAMES, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 1, 1774, in Orange 
county, Va. He served as lieutenant-col¬ 
onel at the battle of the Thames; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky during the years 1825 and 1826. 
He died Aug. 14, 1826, in Great Crossings, 
Ky. 

JOHNSON, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born in 1811 in 
Robinson county, N. C. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1851 to 1853. 
In 1865 he was appointed provisional gov¬ 
ernor of Georgia; and in 1866 was ap¬ 
pointed collector of customs at Savannah, 
where he remained until 1869. He was 
subsequently made a judge of the circuit 
court of the state. 

JOHNSON, JAMES A., state legislator, 
congressman, was born May 16, 1829, in 
Spartanburg, S. C. He was elected to the 
state legislature in 1859; and was elected 
a representative from California to the 
fortieth and forty-first congresses as a 
democrat. 

JOHNSON, JAMES H„ state senator, 
congressman, was born in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He was a state senator in 1839; 
was a state counselor in 1842 and 1843; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1845 to 1847. 

JOHNSON. JAMES L., congressman, 
was born in Kentucky. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1849 to 1851. 

JOHNSON, JAMES NEELY, governor 
of California, was born about 1828 in 
Indiana. From 1856-58 was governor of 
California. He died in August, 1872, in 
Salt Lake City, Utah. 

JOHNSON, JAMES WILLIS, merchant, 
state senator, was born Feb. 24, 1826, in 
Enfield, N. H. As a republican he was 
elected to a number of positions of honor 
in his native state, including a seat in the 
New Hampshire legislature in 1860, 1865- 
66 and 1875. He was a member of the 
state senate in 1876-77, railroad commis¬ 
sioner in 1878, serving two years, and in 
1878 was nominated for congress by the 
greenback party, but met with defeat. 
He died Dec. 18, 1886, in Boston, Mass. 

JOHNSON, JEROMUS, congressman, 
was born in Kings county, N. Y. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
York city from 1825 to 1829. He died 
Sept. 7, 1846, in Goshen, N. Y. 

JOHNSON, JOEL HILLS, merchant, 
was born Nov. 16, 1860, in Virgin City, 
Utah. After receiving a liberal educa¬ 
tion, he entered mercantile pursuits, and 
has become a successful merchant of 
Kane county, Utah. He is prominent in 
public affairs, and he has filled numerous 
important public offices of trust. 

JOHNSON, JOHN, agriculturist, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1808 
in Ireland. He served as a member of 
the Ohio senate ; also in the last consti¬ 
tutional convention of that state; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1851 to 1853. 

JOHNSON, JOHN BUTLER, educator, 
civil engineer, author, was born in 1850 
in Ohio. He is a professor of civil en¬ 
gineering in Washington university at 
St. Louis from 1883; and the author of 
Theory and Practice of Surveying; Mod¬ 
ern Framed Structures; and Stadia and 
Earth-Work Tables. 


JOHNSON, JOHN T„ clergyman, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 
5, 1788, in Great Crossings, Ky. He was 
once judge of the court of appeals of 
Kentucky; and represented that state in 
congress from 1821 to 1825. He died Dec. 
17, 1856, in Lexington, Mo. 

JOHNSON, JOHN W., physician, legis¬ 
lator, was born June 14, 1856, in Framing¬ 
ham Center, Mass. For three years he 
was professor of obstetrics in Tufts col¬ 
lege Medical school. He is a successful 
physician of Boston, Mass.; has been a 
member of the city council; and in 1896- 
97 served with distinction as a member of 
the Massachusetts state legislature. 

JOHNSON, JOSEPH, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Dec. 19, 1785, in Orange 
county, N. Y. He moved to Virginia, and 
was elected a representative in congress 
from 1823 to 1827, from 1835 to 1841, and 
from 1845 to 1847. He was governor of 
Virginia from 1852 to 1856. He died Feb. 
27, 1877, in Bridgeport, W. Va. 

JOHNSON, JOSEPH HORSFALL, bish¬ 
op of Los Angeles, Cal., was born June 7, 
1847, in Schenectady, N. Y. He was con¬ 
secrated on Feb. 24, 1896, in Christ church, 
Detroit. He is the author of numerous 
sermons and papers. 

JOHNSON, JOSEPH TABER, educator, 
physician, lecturer, was born June 30, 
1845, in Lowell, Mass. He was elected lec¬ 
turer on obstetrics in the medical de¬ 
partment of the university of George¬ 
town in 1874, full professor of the same 
in 1876, and is now president of this de¬ 
partment. He has edited volumes ten 
and eleven of the Transactions of the 
American Gynecological Society. 

JOHNSON, MRS. LAURA [WIN- 
THROP], author, was born in 1825 in 
Connecticut. She is a writer of New 
York city; and the author of Little Blos¬ 
som’s Reward; Poems of Twenty Years; 
and Eight Hundred Miles in an Ambu¬ 
lance. 

JOHNSON, LAWRENCE, type-founder, 
inventor, was born Jan. 23, 1801, in Eng¬ 
land. He established a successful stereo¬ 
type-foundry in Philadelphia, Pa , and in 
1833 he purchased the Philadelphia type- 
foundry, which, under his management, 
became one of the largest in the country. 
He died April 26, 1860, in Philadelphia; Pa. 

JOHNSON, MADISON CONYERS, law¬ 
yer, banker, legislator, was born Sept. 21, 
1806, near Georgetown, Ky. In 1850 he 
was chosen one of the commissioners to 
adopt and draw up the Kentucky code of 
practice, and in 1853 and 1857 he was 
elected to the legislature. From 1858 till 
his death he was president of the North¬ 
ern bank of Kentucky. He died Dec. 7, 
1886, in Lexington, Ky. 

JOHNSON, MARTIN N., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1850 
in Wisconsin. He served a term in each 
branch of the Iowa legislature and was a 
Hayes elector for the Dubuque district in 
the electoral college of 1876. He re¬ 
moved to Dakota in 1882, and took up 
government land, on which he still re¬ 
sides. He was elected district attorney in 
1886 and re-elected in 1888. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty- 
fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

JOHNSON, MARY ANN, matron, lec¬ 
turer, was born Aug. 4, 1808, in West¬ 
moreland, Vt. She was matron in the 
female state prison at Sing Sing, N. Y. 
She died June 8, 1872, in New York. 

JOHNSON, NOADIAH, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman. He served in the legis¬ 
lature of New York; and was a mem¬ 
ber of congress from 1833 to 1835. Hfe 
died April 4, 1839, in Albany, N. Y. 





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JOHNSON, OKEY, lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born March 24, 1834, in Long 
Reach, Va. In 1856 he graduated from 
the Marietta high 
school, which insti¬ 
tution conferred the 
degree of A. M. up¬ 
on him in 1874; and 
in 1858 from the law 
school of the Har¬ 
vard university, with 
the degree of LL. B. 
He practiced his pro¬ 
fession at Parkers¬ 
burg until 1877, when 
he took his seat on 
the supreme bench of 
West Virginia. He was twice a candi¬ 
date for presidential elector; was elected 
to the state senate in 1870; to the consti¬ 
tutional convention in 1871, and was one 
of the most prominent members in the 
constitutional convention of 1872. He 
was a member of the supreme court dur¬ 
ing 1877-89, and was president of the 
court for nearly eight years. Since 1895 
he has been dean of the law college of 
the West Virginia university. As a lec¬ 
turer and teacher of law he has been em¬ 
inently successful, both oratorically and 
practically. 

JOHNSON, OLIVER, journalist, lectur¬ 
er, author, was born Dec. 27, 1809, in 
Peacham, Vt. He was an editor and lec¬ 
turer of New York city, successively man¬ 
aging editor of The Independent, editor of 
the Weekly Tribune, and editor of the 
Christian Union. He was the author of 
William Lloyd Garrison and His Times. 
He died Dec. 10, 1889, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

JOHNSON, OVID FRAZER, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1807, near Wilkesbarre, 
Pa. In 1833-45 he was attorney-general 
of Pennsylvania. He attained distinction 
as a political writer, and was the author 
of the political satires entitled the Gov¬ 
ernor’s Letters. He died in February, 
1854, in Washington, D. C. 

JOHNSON, PERLEY B., congressman, 
was born in Ohio. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 
1843 to 1845. 

JOHNSON, PHILIP, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 17, 1818, in War¬ 
ren county, N. J. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Pennsylvania to the 
thirty-seventh congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-eighth congress. He 
was a delegate to the Chicago convention 
of 1864; and was re-elected to the thirty- 
ninth congress. He died Jan. 31, 1867, in 
Washington, D. C. 

JOHNSON. PHILIP CARRIGAIN, naval 
officer, was born Nov. 21, 1828, in Maine. 
He served as chief signal officer of the 
navy, and in 1884 was promoted to the 
rank of commodore and placed in com¬ 
mand of Portsmouth navy-yard. He was 
promoted to rear-admiral in 1887. He 
died Jan. 28, 1887, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

JOHNSON, REVERDY, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born May 21, 
1796, in Annapolis, Md. In 1817 he moved 
to Baltimore; in 1820 was appointed chief 
commissioner of insolvent debtors, which 
office he held until 1821, when he was 
elected to the state senate, serving five 
years. He was re-elected and resigned in 
the second year of that term; and in 1845 
was chosen a senator in congress, where 
he remained until 1849, when he resigned 
to accept the post of attorney-general of 
the United States. In 1862 he was again 
elected a senator in congress from his 
native state for the term commencing 
in 1863 and ending in 1869. He died Feb. 
10, 1876, in England. 


JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR, ninth 
vice-president of the United States, was 
in Bryant’s Station, 
Ky. In 1807 he was 
chosen a represen¬ 
tative in congress 
from Kentucky, 
which post he held 
until 1813. He great¬ 
ly distinguished him¬ 
self at the battle of 
the Thames, and the 
chief, Tecumseh, is 
said to have been 
killed by his hand. 
In 1814 he was ap¬ 
pointed Indian com¬ 
missioner; and was again a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1813 to 1819. In 
1819 he went from the house into the 
United States senate to fill a vacancy; 
and was re-elected, and served as senator 
until 1829. He was again elected to the 
house, and remained there until 1837, 
when he became vice-president, and as 
such presided over the senate. At the 
time of his death he was a member of the 
Kentucky legislature. He died Nov. 19, 
1850, in Frankfort, Ky. 

JOHNSON, RICHARD W., soldier, was 
born Feb. 7, 1827, in Livingston county, 
Ky. In 1849 he graduated from the United 
States military acad¬ 
emy at West Point, 
and was appointed 
second lieutenant. In 
1855 he was appoint¬ 
ed first lieutenant 
and subsequently 
promoted to major- 
general for meritori¬ 
ous services during 
the civil war. He 
served with distinc¬ 
tion during the civil 
war and in the In¬ 
dian wars in the regular service; and 
was retired from active service in 1867 on 
account of wounds received during the 
civil war. In 1881 he was democratic can¬ 
didate for governor of Minnesota, in 
which state he resided at St. Paul until his 
death in 1897. He was the author of A 
Life of Major-General George H. Thomas; 
Reminiscences of a Soldier in Peace and 
War; and contributed to various news¬ 
papers and magazines. 

JOHNSON, ROBERT, governor, was 
born in 1682. He was governor of South 
Carolina in 1719, and during 1730-35. In 
1731 he made a treaty with the Cherokees. 
He died May 3, 1735, in Charleston, S. C. 

JOHNSON, ROBERT UNDERWOOD, 
journalist, author, was born Jan. 12, 1853, 
in Washington, D. C. In 1873 he became 
connected with the editorial staff of the 
Century Magazine, then called Scribner's 
Monthly. In 1881 he became associate edi¬ 
tor of that magazine; and during 1883-89 
was associate editor of the Century War 
Papers, which were published in four vol¬ 
umes entitled Battles and Leaders of the 
Civil War. He has also written numerous 
editorial and critical articles, and is the 
author of a number of meritorious po¬ 
ems. In 1891 he received the degree of 
M. A. from Yale university, in recognition 
of his labors in the campaign for interna¬ 
tional copyright. 

JOHNSON, ROBERT WARD, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born in 
1814 in Kentucky. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Arkansas in 
1847, and served until 1853, when he was 
elected a senator in congress. He died in 
1879 in Arkansas. 

JOHNSON, ROSSITER, author, poet, 
was born Jan. 27, 1840, in Rochester, N. 
Y. He is a writer of New York city who 


has edited Appleton’s Annual Cyclopae¬ 
dia since 1883, and also edited Famous 
Single Poems; Play-day Poems; Little 
Classics; The Authorized History of the 
World’s Columbian Exposition, and other 
works. His original writings include, 
Phaeton Rogers, a Novel of Boy Life; 
History of the French War, Ending in the 
Conquest of Canada; History of the War 
of 1812-15; A Short History of the War 
of Secession, enlarged as Campfire and 
Battlefield; The End of a Rainbow, an 
American Story; Idler and„Poet; and 
Three Decades. 

JOHNSON, SAMUEL, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born Oct. 14, 
1696, in Guilford, Conn. He was an epis¬ 
copal clergyman of Stratford, Conn., who 
was president of Columbia (then Kings) 
college in 1753-63. He was the author of 
A System of Morality, republished by 
Franklin as Elementa Philosophia; and 
English and Hebrew Grammar. He died 
Jan. 6, 1772, in Stratford, Conn. 

JOHNSON, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 10, 1822, in Salem, 
Mass. He was a Unitarian clergyman of 
radical views, pastor of an independent 
church in Lynn for many years; and the 
author of Oriental Religions; Lectures, 
Essays, and Sermons; and The Worship 
of Jesus in Its Past and Present Aspect. 
He died Feb. 19, 1882, in Salem, Mass. 

JOHNSON, SAMUEL FROST, artist, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Nov. 9, 1835, in New 
York city. He was a professor in the art 
schools of the Metropolitan museum in 
New York in 1883-85, also teaching science 
and art classes at St. John’s college, Ford- 
ham, in 1884-85. 

JOHNSON, SAMUEL WILLIAM, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born July 3, 1830, in 
Kingsborough, N. Y. He has been profes¬ 
sor of chemistry in Sheffield Scientific 
School at Yale university since 1856; and 
is the author of Essays on Manures; Peat 
and Its Uses; How Crops Feed; Chemical 
Notation and Nomenclature; and several 
translations of German scientific works. 

JOHNSON, SYDNEY CARTER, railroad 
manager, financier, was born Dec. 13, 1861, 
in St. Louis, Mo. Since 1873 he has been 
engaged :n the railroad service with the 
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern 
railroad; the Missouri Pacific railway; 
the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas rail¬ 
way; and since 1891 has been general 
auditor of the St. Louis and Southwestern 
railway. 

JOHNSON, THEODORE TAYLOR, 
merchant, author, poet, was born in 1818 
in Lebanon, N. J. He was engaged in 
commerce in Philadelphia from 1843 till 
1860, and in 1847 his firm were the larg¬ 
est shippers of breadstuffs from that port 
to Great Britain. He published Califor¬ 
nia and Oregon, or Sights in the Gold Re¬ 
gion and Scenes by the Way. 

JOHNSON, THOMAS, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, governor, was born 
Nov. 4, 1732, in St. Leonard’s, Md. He 
was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1775 to 1777, when he left that 
body to raise an army, with which, as 
commander, he went to assist Washing¬ 
ton in New England. He was the first 
republican governor of Maryland, serv¬ 
ing as such from 1777 to 1779, and residing 
in Frederick City. He was a judge of 
the United States district court for the 
state of Maryland; and was a justice of 
the supreme court of the United States 
from 1791 to 1793. He was the delegate 
in congress who proposed that the gen¬ 
eral should be declared commander-in- 
chief. He died Oct. 25, 1819, near Fred¬ 
erick City. 



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JOHNSON, THOMAS CARY, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1859 in 
West Virginia. He is a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman, professcr of ecclesiastical polity 
in Union seminary, Va., from 1892; and 
the author of The History of the South¬ 
ern Presbyterian Church. 

JOHNSON, TOM LOFTIN, manufactur¬ 
er, congressman, was born July 18, 1854, 
near Georgetown, Ky. The Johnson gir¬ 
der rail, made and patented by him, has 
since come into extended use on street 
car lines throughout the country. The 
Johnson Company in 1894 increased its 
plant by erecting one of the largest steel 
mills in the country in Lorain, 0., a sub¬ 
urb of Cleveland. He was elected to the 
fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as 
a democrat. 

JOHNSON, VIRGINIA WALES, author, 
was born Dec. 28, 1849, in Brooklyn, N. 
Y. She is a novelist who has resided in 
Europe since 1875, and mainly in Italy; 
and is the author of The Neptune Vase, 
her finest effort. Her other works com¬ 
prise, Joseph the Jew; A Sack of Gold; 
The Calderwood Secret; Two Old Cats; 
Miss Nancy’s Pilgrimage; A Foreign Mar¬ 
riage; An English Daisy Miller; The 
House of the Musician; Tulip Place; The 
Fainalls of Tipton; and America’s God¬ 
father. 

JOHNSON, WALDO PORTER, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born Sept. 16, 1817, in Harrison county, 
Va. He became prosecuting attorney and 
judge of his judicial district in Missouri, 
and was elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate as a democrat, serving from 1861 to 
1862, when he was expelled because he 
had joined the confederate army. He died 
Aug. 14, 1885, in Osceola, Mo. 

JOHNSON, WALTER ROGERS, chem¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born June 21, 1794, 
in Leominster, Mass. He was a once 
prominent chemist of Boston and else¬ 
where; and the author of The Use of An¬ 
thracite; Report on Coals; Coal Trade of 
British America; Natural Philosophy; 
and Memoir of L. D. von Schweinitz. He 
died April 26, 1852, in Washington, D. C. 

JOHNSON, WARREN S., engineer, in¬ 
ventor, was born Nov. 6, 1847, in Bran¬ 
don, Vt. Among the number of his in¬ 
ventions may be mentioned Johnson s 
system of heat regulation, and the im¬ 
pulsive railway by means of which mail 
and express matter is forwarded on spe¬ 
cial cars. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM, law reporter, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1770 in Middletown, 
Conn. From 1806 till 1823 he served as 
reporter of the supreme court of New 
York, and from 1814 till 1823 he lutfd the 
same’ relation to the New York court of 
chancery. He issued New liork Su¬ 
preme Court Reports; New York Chan¬ 
cery Reports; and Digest of Cases in the 
Supreme Court of New York. He died in 
July, 1848, in New York city. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, author, was born Dec. 
27, 1771, in Charleston, S. C. He was elect¬ 
ed to the state legislature in 1794; and 
was re-elected and made speaker. He was 
subsequently chosen a judge of the circuit 
court of the state; and in 1804 was ap¬ 
pointed a justice of the supreme court of 
the United States, which position he held 
until his death. In 1822 he published the 
Life and Services of Nathaniel Greene, in 
two volumes. He died Aug. 11, 1834, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1819 in Ireland. 
In 1862 he was elected a representative 
from Ohio to the thirty-eighth congress. 
He died May 3, 1866, in Mansfield, Ohio. 


JOHNSON, WILLIAM BULLIEN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 13, 1782, 
in Sir John’s Island, S. C. He was a 
member of the Bible Revision society; 
forty years president of the Georgia bap¬ 
tist convention, and three years president 
of the general baptist convention of the 
United States. He published Infant Bap¬ 
tism Argued from Analogy; The Church’s 
Argument for Christianity; Examination 
of Snodgrass on Apostolic Succession; Ex¬ 
amination of Confirmation Examined; and 
a Memoir of Rev. Nathan P. Knapp. He 
died Jan. 10, 1862, in Greenville, S. C. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM CAREY, lawyer, 
banker, state senator, was born Oct. 27, 
1893, in Frankfort, Ohio. He was made 
prosecuting attorney of the fourth ju¬ 
dicial district of Oregon; and has served 
as senator in the Oregon state legisla¬ 
ture. He is vice-president of the Mer¬ 
chants’ National bank of Portland, Ore. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM COST, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born in 
1806 in Frederick county, Md. He was a 
representative in congress from 1833 to 
1835, and from 1837 to 1843. He served 
in the state legislature before entering 
and after he left congress. He died April 
16, 1860, in Washington, D. C. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM SAMUEL, law¬ 
yer, jurist, college president, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born Oct. 
7, 1727, in Stratford, Conn. In 1765 he 
was a delegate to the congress at New 
York. In 1772 he was appointed judge of 
the supreme court of Connecticut; and in 
1780 was a member of the council of Con¬ 
necticut. He was again a delegate to the 
New York congress in 1785. He was a sen¬ 
ator in congress from 1789 to 1791, and 
from 1792 to 1800 president of Columbia 
college in New York. He died Nov. 14, 
1819, in Stratford, Conn. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM SMITH, educa¬ 
tor, college president, was born Oct. 8, 
1869, in Clark county, Ark. In 1892 he 
was appointed president of the Mountain 
Home Baptist college of Arkansas. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM WALLACE, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, poet, was born 
Nov. 29, 1813, in Buckland, Mass. He 
was a member of the Wisconsin legisla¬ 
ture in 1879. He is the author of three 
works, and a noted genealogist and poet. 

JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER, jour¬ 
nalist, lecturer, author, poet, was born 
Oct. 7, 1857, in New York city. For a 
number of years he has been on the edi¬ 
torial staff of the New York Tribune. He 
has lectured frequently and madp many 
public addresses; and is the author of sev¬ 
eral books and a number of poems. 

JOHNSON, WOOLSEY, physician, was 
born Feb. 8, 1842, in New York city. In 
1881 he was appointed health commission¬ 
er of the city of New York. He died June 
21, 1887, in New York city. 

JOHNSTON, ALBERT SIDNEY, soldier, 
was born Feb. 3, 1803, in Washington, Ky. 
In 1836 he joined the Texas Patriots, and 
rapidly rose through all the grades to 
the command of his army. In 1838 he 
was made secretary of war of Texas; and 
in 1839 conducted a campaign against the 
Indians. He died April 6, 1862, near 
Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. 

JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER, educator, 
author, was born April 29, 1849, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He was a professor of politi¬ 
cal economy at Princeton college in 1883- 
89; and the author of The Genesis of a 
New England State; History of the United 
States for Schools; The United States, its 
History and Constitution; History of 
Connecticut; and History of American 
Politics. He died July 20, 188y, in Prince¬ 
ton, N. J. 


JOHNSTON, AMOS RANDALL, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, state senator, was born 
Sept. 28, 1810, in Maury county, Tenn. 
Removing to Mississippi in 1830 he set¬ 
tled in Clinton, represented Hinds coun¬ 
ty in the legislature as a whig in 1836. 
and was county clerk from 1837 till his 
election as probate judge in 1845. In 1875 
he served in the state senate as a conser¬ 
vative democrat. He died June 25, 1870, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

JOHNSTON, CHARLES, congressman, 
was born in Connecticut. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1839 to 1841. 

JOHNSTON, CHARLES, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Chowan county, 
N. C. He was a member of the state leg¬ 
islature for many years; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress during the years 
1801 and 1802. He died before the ex¬ 
piration of his term. 

JOHNSTON, CHARLES C., congress¬ 
man. He was a member of congress from 
Virginia from 1831 to 1832. He was 
drowned June 18, 1832, near Alexandria, 
Va. 

JOHNSTON, CHRISTOPHER, physi¬ 
cian, was born Sept. 27, 1822, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. In 1864 he was professor of 
anatomy and physiology in the univer¬ 
sity of Maryland, in 1866 was professor 
of general, descriptive and surgical anat¬ 
omy, and in 1870 filled the chair of sur¬ 
gery’, becoming professor emeritus in 1880. 

JOHNSTON, DAVID CLAYPOOLE, ar¬ 
tist, was born March, 1797, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 1830 he began the pub¬ 
lication of Scraps, an annual of five plates. 
He died Nov. 8, 1865, in Dorchester, Mass. 

JOHNSTON, GABRIEL, governor of 
North Carolina, was born in 1699 in Scot¬ 
land. Emigrating to the United States 
about 1730 and settling in North Caro¬ 
lina, he was appointed governor of that 
colony. He died August, 1752, in Cho¬ 
wan county, N. C. 

JOHNSTON, GEORGE, soldier, author, 
poet, was horn May 15, 1829, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 1879 he became connected 
with the Cecil Whig, and in 1881 pub¬ 
lished the History of Cecil County, 
Maryland, for which he was elected a 
member of the historical societies of 
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and 
Wisconsin. In 1887 he published Poets and 
Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland; and 
he is the author of other works. 

JOHNSTON, HAROLD WHETSTONE, 
educator, philologist, author, was born 
March 18, 1859, in Rushville, Ill. Since 
1895 he has filled the chair of Latin in the 
Indiana university of Bloomington. He is 
the author of Latin Manuscripts, and vari¬ 
ous other books and pamphlets. 

JOHNSTON, HENRY PHELPS, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1842. He is a 
professor of history in the College of the 
City of New York; and the author of 
Loyalist History of the Revolution; The 
Campaign of 1776 around New York; The 
Yorktown Campaign; Yale and her Honor 
Roll in the American Revolution; and Ob¬ 
servations on Judge Jones. 

JOHNSTON, JAMES HUGO, educator, 
college president, was born July 29, 1858, 
in Richmond, Va. Since 1888 he has been 
president of the Virginia Normal and Col¬ 
legiate institute of Petersburg, Va. 

JOHNSTON, JAMES STEPTOE, mis¬ 
sionary bishop of western Texas, was 
born June 9, 1843, in Jefferson county, 
Miss-. Under his supervision the work of 
the church in western Texas has made 
great progress. The bishop has pub¬ 
lished various missionary reports, as well 
as sermons and addresses. 


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JOHNSTON, JAMES T„ soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 
19, 1839, in Putnam county, Ind. He 
served with valor during the civil war, 
and was promoted to lieutenant. He at¬ 
tained prominence as an able lawyer of 
Indiana; has been prosecuting attorney; 
a member of both houses of the Indiana 
state legislature; and served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the forty-ninth and 
fiftieth congresses as a republican. 

JOHNSTON, JOHN, soldier, artist, was 
born in 1752 in Boston, Mass. He served 
with credit in the revolution, and after¬ 
ward settled in Boston, where he painted 
many portraits of public men of Massa¬ 
chusetts. He died Jan. 27, 1818, in Boston, 
Mass. 

JOHNSTON, JOHN, pioneer, was born 
in 1763 in Ireland. He settled about 1794 
in Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., where he 
was a frontier merchant for more than 
forty years, and established a small cen¬ 
ter of ci\ ilization in the midst of the sav¬ 
ages. He died in 1834 in Sault Sainte 
Marie, Mich. 

JOHNSTON, JOHN, educator, author, 
was born in 1806 in Maine. He was an ed¬ 
ucator who was for many years professor 
of natural science in Wesleyan university; 
and the author of Manual of Chemistry; 
Manual of Natural Philosophy; Primer of 
Natural Philosophy; and History of the 
Towns of Bristol and Bremen in Maine. 
He died Dec. 2, 1879, on Staten Island, 
N. Y. 

JOHNSTON, JOHN TAYLOR, capitalist, 
was born April 8, 1820, in New York city. 
In 1848 he became president of the Cen¬ 
tral railroad of New Jersey. He is also 
president of the council of the university 
of the city of New York. 

JOHNSTON, JOHN W., lawyer, jurist. 
United States senator, was born Sept. 9, 
1818, in Panicello, Va. He was made 
judge of the tenth judicial district; and 
was a member of the senate of the state 
of Virginia in 1847 and 1848. He Was 
president of the Northwestern bank at 
Jeffersonville, Va., from 1850 to 1859. In 
1870 he was elected United States senator 
from Virginia for the term ending in 
1871; and was re-elected for the term 
ending in 1877; and in 1876 he was re¬ 
elected to the senate for the term com¬ 
mencing in 1877 and ending in 1883. He 
died Feb. 27, 1889, in Richmond, Va. 

JOHNSTON, JOHN WARFIELD, law¬ 
yer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born Sept. 9, 1818, in Abingdon, Va. In 
1839 he became judge of the tenth judi¬ 
cial district of Virginia. He was elected 
in 1870 to the United States senate as a 
conservative, and by re-elections served 
till 1883. He died Feb. 27, 1889, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. 

JOHNSTON, JOSEPH EGGLESTON, 
soldier, congressman, author, was born in 
1809, in Longwood, Va. In 1861 he en¬ 
tered the confederate service as general, 
and served throughout the civil war. In 
1878 he was elected a representative from 
Virginia to the forty-sixth congress; and 
declined a renomination. In 1885 he was 
appointed commissioner of railroads in 
the department of the interior at Wash¬ 
ington. He published a Narrative of Mil¬ 
itary Operations, a spirited defense of his 
military policy. He died March 21, 1891, 
in Washington, D. C. 

JOHNSTON. JOSEPH R„ lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, state senator, was born Sept. 12, 1840, 
in North Jackson, Ohio. He served in the 
civil war for three years, and was second 
lieutenant in the twenty-fifth Ohio volun¬ 
teer battery light artillery. For six years 


he was probate judge of his county; a 
member of the Ohio state senate for four 
years; and for ten years was common 
pleas judge of the ninth judicial district 
of Ohio. 

JOHNSTON, JOSIAH STODDARD, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, United States senator, 

was born Nov. 24, 1784, in Salisbury, 

Conn. He settled in 
Alexandria, Rapides 
parish, a frontier vil¬ 
lage. He held the 
post of district judge 
from 1812 till 1821. 
In 1820 he was elected 
to congress as a Clay 
democrat, and in 1823 
to the United States 
senate to fill a va¬ 
cancy. He was re¬ 
elected in 1825, and 
in 1831 was again 
chosen by a legislature that was politi¬ 
cally opposed to him. He died May 19, 
1833, in Red River, La. 

JOHNSTON, JOSIAH STODDARD, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Feb. 10, 1833, in Rapides, 
La. After the war he was editor of the 
Kentucky Yeoman at Frankfort, Ky., for 
nearly twenty years. He was adjutant- 
general cf Kentucky in 1870-71, and held 
the office of secretary of state for the 
commonwealth for nearly ten years. 

JOHNSTON, LOUIS WILLIAM, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born April 24, 1864, in 
Tuskegee, Ala. After receiving his edu¬ 
cation, he entered the drug business; sub¬ 
sequently graduating in medicine and 
pharmacy. He soon attained success as a 
physician and surgeon; has been mayor 
of his nathe city; and is prominently 
identified with the leading medical so¬ 
cieties of America. 

JOHNSTON, MRS. MARIA I., journal¬ 
ist, author, was born May 3, 1835, in Fred¬ 
ericksburg, Va. She is the author of a 
novel entitled Jane; and an excellent work 
entitled The Freedwoman. 

JOHNSTON, RICHARD MALCOLM, 
author, was born March 8, 1822, in Geor¬ 
gia. He is the author of Life of Alex¬ 
ander Stephens; Dukesborough Tales; 
Old Mark Langston; Two Gray Tourists; 
Mr. Absalom Billingslea and Other Geor¬ 
gia Folk; Ogeechee Cross-Firings; Stud¬ 
ies, Literary and Social; The Primes and 
Their Neighbors; Mr. Billy Downs and 
his Likes; Widow Guthrie, a Novel; The 
Chronicles of Mr. Bill Williams; Mr. 
Fortner’s Marital Claims; Little Ike 
Templin, stories for young people; and 
English Classics, a Historical Sketch. 

JOHNSTON, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born Dec. 15, 
1733, in Scotland. He was governor of 
North Carolina from 1787 to 1789; was 
president of the convention of that state 
which ratified the federal constitution; 
and was a member of congress from 1780 
to 1782. In 1789 he was appointed a sen¬ 
ator from North Carolina, and served un¬ 
til 1793. He was afterward a judge of 
the supreme court of law and equity. 
He died Aug. 18, 1816, in Sherwarkey, 
N. C. 

JOHNSTON, SAMUEL, inventor, was 
born Feb. 9, 1835, in Shelby, N. Y. In 
1856 he applied his first self-rake to the 
Ketchum reaper; its success attracted 
wide attention, and its manufacture was 
begun in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1858. 

JOHNSTON, THOMAS DILLARD, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, 
was born April 1, 1840, in Waynesville, 
N. C. He entered the confederate army in 
1861, and was soon after elected lieuten¬ 


ant; and was subsequently detailed as 
adjutant of his regiment. In 1870 he was 
elected a representative in the North Car¬ 
olina state legislature, and was re-elected 
in 1872. In 1876 he was elected state sen¬ 
ator; and in 1884 was elected a represen¬ 
tative from North Carolina to the forty- 
ninth congress; and re-elected to the 
fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

JOHNSTON, THOMAS J.. lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, legislator, was born Aug. 20, 1836, in 
Perry, Ill. He was judge of the probate 
court; and a member of the Missouri con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1875. 

JOHNSTON, WILLIAM FREAME, gov¬ 
ernor, was born March 29, 1808, in Greens- 
burg, Va. He was elected governor of 
Pennsylvania, and served in that capaci¬ 
ty until 1852. He died Oct. 30, 1872, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. 

JOHNSTON, WILLIAM PRESTON, sol¬ 
dier, educator, college president, author, 
was born Jan. 5, 1831, in Louisville, Ky. 
He is an educator of Louisiana; and pres¬ 
ident of Tulane university since 1884. He 
is the author of a volume entitled The 
Prototype of Hamlet. 

JOHNSTONE, GEORGE, soldier, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born April 18, 1846, in Newberry, S. C. 
He enlisted in the confederate army as a 
member of the battalion of state cadets 
and served until the close of the war. 
He was elected to the South Carolina state 
legislature at a special election in 1877, 
and served continuously until 1884, when 
he declined to stand for re-election. He 
was elected to the fifty-second congress 
as a democrat. 

JOHNSTONE, JOB, lawyer, jurist, was 
born June 7, 1793, in Fairfield county, S. 
C. He was clerk of the South Carolina 
state senate in 1826-30, and at the latter 
date was elected chancellor. He held 
office until 1859, when he became associate 
justice cf the court of appeals. He died 
April 15, 1862, in Newberry, S. C. 

JOHONNOT, JAMES, educator, author, 
was born March 3, 1823, in Bethel, Vt. He 
was an educator of Illinois and Missouri; 
and the author of Principles and Practice 
of Teaching; Glimpses of the Animate 
World; Book of Cats and Dogs; Friends 
in Feathers and Fur; Some Curious Fly¬ 
ers, Creepers, and Swimmers; School- 
houses; and Schoolhouse Architecture. 
He died June 18, 1888, in Tarpon Springs, 
Fla. 

JOINES, HENRY S., legislator, was 
born in 1843, in Lincoln county, Tenn. He 
served as a member of the Idaho house 
of representatives for four sessions, and 
took a prominent part in the deliberations 
of that body. He is a successful manufac¬ 
turer of Mountain Home, Idaho. 

JOLLEY, JOHN L., soldier, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born July 14, 1840, 
in Montreal, Quebec. In 1862 he entered 
the army as a private, and was mustered 
out as second lieutenant in 1865. He was 
elected a member of the Dakota house of 
representatives in 1867, and re-elected in 
1868. He was a member of the Dakota 
territorial council in 1875 and 1881; was 
elected state senator in 1889, and re¬ 
elected in 1890. He was nominated by 
the republican convention at Aberdeen, 
S. D., Sept. 29, 1891, for member of con¬ 
gress to fill a vacancy. 

JOLLY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, law¬ 
yer, was born Feb. 22, 1843, in Brecken- 
ridge county, Ky. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as an able lawyer of Owensboro, 
Ky.; and during 1889-94 was United 
Statek attorney for the district of Ken¬ 
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JONAS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, sol- 
■dier, lawyer, congressman, United States 
senator, was born July 19, 1834, in Wil- 
liamstown, Ky. He served in the con¬ 
federate army during the war of the re¬ 
bellion. He was a representative in the 
Louisiana state legislature in 1865; and 
was elected a state senator in 1872. He 
was again in the state house of represen¬ 
tatives in 1876 and 1877. He was elected 
a senator of the United States from 
Louisiana for the term of six years from 
1879. 

JONES, ALEXANDER, physician, jour¬ 
nalist, was born in 1802, in North Caro¬ 
lina. He was a New York journalist who 
was a physician in the earlier portion of 
his career; and the author of Cuba in 
1851; Historical Sketch of the Electric 
Telegraph, 1852; and The Cymri of Sev¬ 
enty-Six. He died Aug. 25, 1863, in New 
York city. 

JONES, ALEXANDER H., merchant, 
journalist, congressman, was born July 21, 
1822, in Asheville, N. C. He was re¬ 
elected a representative from North Caro¬ 
lina to the fortieth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-first congress. 

JONES, ALBERT ELISHA, merchant, 
poet, was born Aug. 16, 1842, in Weld, 
Maine. In 1877 he removed to Topeka, 
Kan., where he became proprietor of the 
Oakland Jersey Stock farm. He is the 
author of a number of poems. 

JONES, ALLEN, soldier, state senator, 
congressman, was born in 1739, in Hali¬ 
fax county, N. C. He was a revolutionary 
patriot; and was chosen brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of Halifax district in 1776. He was 
a delegate to the state constitutional con¬ 
vention in that year; delegate to the 
continental congress in 1779 and 1780; 
state senator from 1784 to 1787; and mem¬ 
ber of the convention to adopt the United 
States constitution which he advocated. 
He died Nov. 10, 1798, in Northampton 
•county, N. C. 

JONES, AMANDA THEODOSIA, educa¬ 
tor, inventor, author, poet, was born Oct. 
19, 1835, in East Bloomfield, N. Y. She is 
an educator and inventor of Chicago. Her 
writings in verse comprise Ulah, and Oth¬ 
er Poems; Atlantis; and A Prairie Idyl. 

JONES, AMOS BLANCH, college presi¬ 
dent, was born Dec. 4, 1841, in Randolph, 
Va. In 1878 he was president of Mecklen¬ 
burg Female institute, Jackson, Tenn., 
but resigned in 1880 to assume charge of 
the Huntsville Female college. 

JONES. ANSON, president of Texas, 
was born Jan. 20, 1798, in Great Barring¬ 
ton, Mass. He raised a military company, 
with which he was engaged in the battle 
of San Jacinto; was judge advocate-gen¬ 
eral; and in 1837 was a member of the 
Texas congress. He was minister from 
Texas to the United States government in 
1837-39. He died Jan. 8, 1858, in Houston, 
Texas. 

JONES, ASAHEL W., lawyer, lieuten¬ 
ant governor, was born Sept. 18. 1838, in 
Johnstonville, Ohio. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the com¬ 
mon and academic 
schools, and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 
1859. Since 1864 he 
has practiced his 
profession in 
Youngstown, and of 
late years has con¬ 
fined himself almost 
entirely to corpora¬ 
tion practice. In 1874 
he was one of the or¬ 
ganizers of the Sec¬ 
ond National bank of Youngstown, of 
which he is a director; in 1877 he was 


one of the organizers of the Dollar Sav¬ 
ings and Trust company of Youngstown, 
and has since been interested in its man¬ 
agement. He has also been interested in 
various iron industries, and is a success¬ 
ful farmer and stock raiser. For two 
years he was prosecuting attorney. In 
1880 he was a delegate to the national 
republican convention; and has often 
been a delegate to state and other con- 
i entions. During Governor Foraker’s 
two terms he was judge advocate-general. 
In 1884 he was president of the Ohio State 
Bar association; and in 1896 was elected 
lieutenant governor of Ohio. 

JONES, AUGUSTINE, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 16, 1835, in South China, 
Maine. In 1879 he entered upon his pres¬ 
ent position as principal of the Friends 
school at Providence, R. I. He was the 
author of a work entitled Peace and Ar¬ 
bitration. 

JONES, BENJAMIN, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He moved to Ohio; and 
was elected a representative in congress 
from that state from 1833 to 1837. 

JONES. BENJAMIN C., soldier, physi¬ 
cian, state legislator, was born in 1836, 
in Graves county, Ky. He served in the 
confederate service during the ch il war 
as captain in the seventh Missouri caval¬ 
ry. In 1896 he was elected a member of 
the general assembly of Missouri. 

JONES, BENJAMIN F., lawyer, was 
born Feb. 24, 1858, in Lawrence, Kan. For 
ten years he was a captain of river steam¬ 
ers; has been justice of the peace for six 
years; and county clerk of Lincoln coun¬ 
ty for three terms. He has served two 
terms as mayor of Toledo, Ore., where he 
is engaged in the practice of law. 

JONES, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, man¬ 
ufacturer, was born Aug. 8, 1826, in Wash¬ 
ington county, Pa. In 1852 he established 
the American Iron 
works of Pittsburg, 
and subsequently 
purchased the Mo- 
nongahela Iron 
works. He is now 
the senior member of 
Jones and Laughlin, 
which has an aggre¬ 
gate capital of five 
million dollars. He 
has taken an active 
part in the business 
and public affairs of 
his city and state; is president of the 
American Iron and Steel association; and 
has served with distinction as chairman 
of the republican national committee. 

JONES, BENJAMIN O., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, jurist, was born Nov. 23, 1844, in 
Graves county, Ky. During 1874-76 he was 
a member of the twenty-ninth general as¬ 
sembly of Illinois; in 1881-85 he was 
state’s attorney of Massac county, Ill.; 
and in 1890-94 was county judge of the 
same county. He has attained promi¬ 
nence in his profession of law, and has 
a large practice at Metropolis, Ill. 

JONES, BURR W., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 9, 1846, in Union, 
Wis. He was elected district attorney of 
Wisconsin in 1872, and re-elected in 1874. 
He was elected a representative from 
Wisconsin to the forty-eighth congress 
as a democrat. 

JONES, CHARLES A., lawyer, poet, 
was born about 1805 in Philadelphia, Pa. 
His first articles, a series of satirical ly¬ 
rics, appeared in the Cincinnati Gazette, 
under the title of Aristohaniana. After 
studying law he removed to Louisiana, 
and practiced in New Orleans. He pub¬ 
lished The Outlaw. He died July 4, 1851, 
in Mill Creek, Ohio. 


JONES, CHARLES COLCOCK, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 20, 1804, in 
Georgia. He is a presbyterian clergyman 
of Georgia; and the author of Religious 
Instruction for Negroes; and History of 
The Church of God. 

JONES, CHARLES COLCOCK, lawyer, 
archaeologist, author, was born Oct. 28, 
1831, in Savannah, Ga. He was a lawyer 
and archaeologist of Augusta, Ga.; and 
the author of Ancient Tumuli in Georgia; 
Antiquities of the Southern Indians; The 
History of Georgia; Negro Myths from 
the Georgia Coast; Biographical Sketches 
of the Delegates from Georgia to the Con¬ 
tinental Congress; and The English Col¬ 
onization of Georgia. He died in 1893. 

JONES, CHARLES H., journalist, was 
born March 7, 1848, in Talbottom, Ga. 
In 1888 he removed to St. Louis to take 
charge of the old Missouri Republican, 
now known as the St. Louis Republic, 
which, under his management, has at¬ 
tained a success unprecedented in its his¬ 
tory. 

JONES, CHARLES W.. lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, United States senator, was born in 
1834, in Ireland. In 1874 he was elected a 
member of the lower house of the state 
legislature from Escambia county; in 
1874 was elected a senator in congress 
from Florida for the term ending in 1881; 
and was re-elected fer the term ending in 
1887. 

JONES, DANIEL MERRIMAN, educa¬ 
tor, journalist, lawyer, was born Aug. 31, 
1848, in Henderson county, N. C. He at¬ 
tended the Mills Riv¬ 
er academy, and took 
a full course in Lat¬ 
in, Greek, mathemat¬ 
ics, and the sciences. 
In 1872 he began ed¬ 
ucational work, and 
taught with success 
in Franklin and 
Waynesville, N. C.; 
and in Williamson 
county, Texas. In 
1883 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, 
and has since made a success of his pro¬ 
fession at Anson, Texas. In 1883-84 he 
was county attorney; and has since filled 
\arious positions of public trust. He is 
the owner and editor of The Texas West¬ 
ern, a democratic weekly published at 
Anson. 

JONES, DANIEL T., congressman, was 
born in Connecticut. He settled in New 
York; and was elected a representative 
in congress from that state from 1851 to 
1855. 

JONES, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Sept. 16, 1699, in Fork Neck, L. I. 
From 1758 till 1773 he was a judge of the 
supreme court of New York. He died 
Oct. 11, 1775, in Fork Neck, N. Y. 

JONES. DAVID, clergyman, was born 
May 12, 1736, in New Castle county, Del. 
In 1776 he entered the revolutionary army 
as chaplain of the third and fourth Penn¬ 
sylvania battalions, and on Jan. 1, 1777, 
he became chaplain of General Anthony 
Wayne, with whem he continued until the 
end of the war. He died Feb. 5, 1820, in 
Chester county, Pa. 

JONES, DAVID RUMP, soldier, was 
born in 1825, in South Carolina. In 1861 
he entered the confederate army, where 
he was appointed brigadier-general. He 
died March 8, 1863, in Richmond, Va. 

JONES, FLORENCE AUGUSTA, poet, 
was born in August, 1861, near Madison, 
Wis. She is the author of several poems; 
several of them have been set to music, 
notably that of Bylo Land. 












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JONES, FRANCIS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1817 to 1823. 

JONES, FRANCIS WILEY, electrician, 
inventor, was born May 22, 1846, in Wey¬ 
mouth, N. S. He was the first president of 
the New York Electrician society. Many 
of his inventions are used by telegraph 
companies in the United States and Can¬ 
ada. 

JONES, FRANK, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 15, 1832, in Barring¬ 
ton, N. H. He removed to Portsmouth in 
the same state in 
1849, and engaged in 
mercantile pursuits. 
He was elected may¬ 
or of Portsmouth in 
1868, and re-elected 
in 1869. He was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive from New 
Hampshire to the 
forty-fourth con¬ 
gress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty- 
fifth congress. He 
served on various important committees 
while in congress. 

JONES, GARLAND MORDECAI, law¬ 
yer, was born June 14, 1873, in Abing¬ 
don, Ya. He attended the Emory and 
Henry college, Virginia; the university 
of Mississippi, from which institution he 
received the degrees of B. A., LL. B. ;and 
subsequently graduated from the law de¬ 
partment of the Washington and Lee uni¬ 
versity. He is gaining prominence as an 
attorney of West Point, Miss., where he 
takes an active part in the public affairs 
of his county and state. 

JONES, GEORGE, United States sena¬ 
tor. He was a senator in congress from 
Georgia during the session of 1807, by 
appointment of the governor. 

JONES, GEORGE S., soldier, educator, 
journalist, lawyer, was born June 12, 
1840, near Jonesville, Va. During the civ¬ 
il war he served nearly three years in 
the union army; was wounded in action, 
captured on the field with a broken leg, 
and for a long time confined in the Ander- 
sonville war prison. He served one term 
as a justice of the peace; founded three 
newspapers; and taught school for near¬ 
ly thirty years. In 1876 he was the nomi¬ 
nee of the democratic party for congress; 
and served in the United States pension 
office at Washington under President 
Cleveland’s first administration. In 1866 
he began the study of law, and now prac¬ 
tices his profession in Manilla, Ind., where 
he is the editor and owner of the Rush 
County Mail. 

JONES, GEORGE W., lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, congressman, senator, was born 
March 15, 1806, in King and Queen coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was a justice of the peace for 
three years; and in 1834 a justice to hold 
the quorum court in Lincoln county. In 
1835 and 1837 he was elected to the Ten¬ 
nessee legislature; and in 1839 to the 
state senate. In 1843 he was elected a 
representative to congress, and was for 
eight consecutive terms re-elected. 

JONES, GEORGE W., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 5, 1828, in 
Marion county, Ala. He settled at Bas¬ 
trop, Texas, in 1848, and was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney in 1856. He served in the 
confederate army until 1865, rising to the 
rank of colonel. He was elected lieuten¬ 
ant-governor under the new constitution, 
but was removed by the military authori¬ 
ties. He was elected a representative 
from Texas to the forty-sixth and forty- 
seventh congresses. He died July 6, 1883. 


JONES, GEORGE WALLACE, soldier, 
lawyer, United States senator, was born 
April 12, 1804, in Vincennes, Ind. He 
served as an aide-de-camp to General 
Henry Dodge in the Black Hawk war; was 
chosen colonel of militia in 1832; and 
subsequently major-general. In 1835 he 
was elected a delegate to congress from 
the territory of Michigan, and served two 
years; and in 1839 was appointed survey¬ 
or-general of the northwest. In 1848 he 
was elected a United States senator from 
Iowa for six years, and re-elected in 1852 
for six years. 

. JONES, HORATIO, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He removed to 
Missouri, from which state he was ap¬ 
pointed an associate judge of the United 
States court for the territory of Nevada. 

JONES, HORATIO GATES, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 9, 1822, in Roxbo- 
rough, Pa. He is a lawyer of Philadelphia 
who has published many local histories 
and biographies, among the latter being 
Andrew Bradford, Founder of the News¬ 
paper Press in the Middle States. 

JONES, HUGH, clergyman, author, was 
born in 1669, in England. He was an 
episcopal clergyman, for sixty-five years 
rector of parishes in Virginia and Mary¬ 
land. He was the author of The Present 
State of Virginia, a work much valued by 
collectors of colonial literature. He died 
Sept. 8, 1760, in Cecil county, Md. 

JONES, HUGH BOLTON, artist, was 
born Oct. 20, 1848, in Baltimore, Md. He 
was elected associate of the National 
academy in 1881, and member in 1883. His 
works include Tangier; Return of the 
Cows; Brittany; October; and On Her¬ 
ring Run, Baltimore. 

JONES, ISAAC D., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Maryland. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1841 to 1843; and in 1867 was elected 
attorney-general of Maryland. 

JONES, ISAAC EDGAR, journalist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1850, in Liver¬ 
pool, England. For a number of years 
he was editor and 
proprietor of the of¬ 
ficial city paper of 
Indianapolis, Ind.; 
and was active in so¬ 
cial, benevolent, po¬ 
litical and literary 
circles. He is now 
the editor and owner 
of the Daily Chroni¬ 
cle of Muskegon, 
Mich.; president of 
the International So¬ 
ciety of Writers; and 
takes .an active part in the public affairs 
of his city, county and state. He has con¬ 
tributed valuable articles to current liter¬ 
ature; and his poems have been given a 
place in Poets of America, and other 
standard collections. 

JONES, IRMA THEODA-ANDREWS, 
philanthropist, writer, was born March 
11, 1845, in Victory, N. Y. In 1885-88 she 
was president of the 
Lansing Woman’s 
club; in 1895-96 pres¬ 
ident of the Young 
Woman’s Christian 
association; in 1895 
was elected president 
of the Michigan State 
Federation of Wo¬ 
men’s clubs; and 
since 1878 has been 
president of the 
Lansing Industrial 
Aid society. For three 
years she has been associate of the Mid- 
Continent Magazine; and has contributed 
extensively to periodical literature. 


JONES, J. H., soldier, legislator, au¬ 
thor, was born in Alabama. He entered 
the confederate service in 1861; fought 
through the entire war, and was promoted 
to colonel. He served in the Mississippi 
state legislature from Wilkinson county 
in 1886 and in 1888; and was a state sena¬ 
tor from 1890 until his election as lieu¬ 
tenant-governor. He is the author of the 
franchise amendment permitting voters 
who cannot read to have their ballots 
marked for them. 

JONES, J. M., lawyer, jurist. He was 
an early emigrant to California; and in 
1851 was appointed United States judge 
for the southern district of California, re¬ 
siding at Los Angeles. 

JONES, JACOB, naval officer, was born 
in March, 1768, near Smyrna, Del. In 
1799 he entered the United States navy 
as a midshipman; and was promoted to 
lieutenant in 1801. In 1810 he was pro¬ 
moted to commander and subsequently to 
commodore. He died Aug. 3, 1850, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

JONES, JAMES, congressman, was born 
in Amelia county, Va. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1819 to 1823. 

JONES, JAMES, congressman, was born 
in Maryland. He was often a member of 
the legislature of Georgia; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1799 to the 
time of his death. He died Jan. 12, 1801, 
in Washington, D. C. 

JONES, JAMES, physician, journalist, 
was born Nov. 18, 1807, in Georgetown, 
D. C. He removed to New Orleans, La.; 
was editor of the Medical and Surgical 
Journal of that city in 1857-59, and was 
connected with the university of Louis¬ 
iana from 1836 till his death. He died 
Oct. 10, 1873, in New Orleans, La. 

JONES, JAMES ATHEARN, journalist, 
author, was born June 4, 1780, in Tisbury, 
Mass. He was a journalist of Philadel¬ 
phia and elsewhere; and the author of 
Traditions of the North American Indians; 
and Haverhill, a novel. He died in Aug¬ 
ust, 1853, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

JONES, JAMES CHAMBERLAIN, leg¬ 
islator, governor, United States senator, 
was born April 20, 1809, in Davidson 
county, Tenn. He was a member of the 
Tennessee legislature in 1839; was gov¬ 
ernor of Tennessee from 1841 to 1845, 
serving two terms; and was presidential 
elector in 1840 and 1848. In 1851 he was 
elected a senator in congress from Ten¬ 
nessee, serving the whole of his term of 
six years. He died Oct. 29, 1859, in Mem¬ 
phis, Tenn. 

JONES, JAMES H., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 13, 1830, in Shelby 
county, Ala. He settled in Texas; and 
served in the confederate army during 
the civil war, rising to the rank of colonel. 
He was elected a representative from Tex¬ 
as to the forty-eighth congress; and was 
re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as 
a democrat. 

JONES, JAMES KIMBROUGH, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 29, 1839, in Marshall 
county, Miss. He sen ed in the confeder¬ 
ate army. He removed to Arkansas; com¬ 
menced the practice of law in 1873; and 
in that year was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate, and was also a member of the sen¬ 
ate when the state constitutional conven¬ 
tion was called in 1874. He was re-elected 
under the new constitution, and was pres¬ 
ident of the senate in 1877. He was 
elected a representative from Arkansas to 
the forty-seventh and forty-eighth con¬ 
gresses. In 1885 he was elected to the 
United States senate; and was re-elected 
in 1890 and 1897. 







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JONES, JAMES TAYLOR, lawyer, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born in 1832, in 
Richmond, Va. He served as an officer 
in the confederate army throughout the 
civil war. He was a state senator in 1872 
and 1873. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Alabama to the forty-fifth con¬ 
gress; and was again elected to congress 
in 1883 to fill a vacancy in the forty- 
eighth congress. He was re-elected to the 
forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a 
democrat. 

JONES, JENKIN LLOYD, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born in 1843, in Wales. 
He is a Unitarian clergyman of Chicago; 
editor of Unity from 1880; and the au¬ 
thor of Practical Piety; and The Faith 
that Makes Faithful. 

JONES, JOEL, lawyer, jurist, author, 
was born Oct. 25, 1795, in Coventry, Conn. 
He was a jurist of Philadelphia who 
wrote much on theological topics, and was 
the first president of Girard college. He 
was the author of Manual of Pennsyl¬ 
vania Land Law; Jesus and the Coming 
Glory; and Knowledge of One Another in 
a Future State. He died Feb. 3, 1860, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

JONES, JOHN, educator, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born in 1729, in Jamaica, N. Y. 
He was professor of surgery in King’s col¬ 
lege from 1767 till 1776, and one of the 
two original founders of the New York 
hospital. He died June 23, 1791, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

JONES, JOHN BEAUCHAMP, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1810, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was the author of A Rebel 
War Clerk’s Diary; Wild Western Scenes; 
Border War; Love and Money; Life and 
Adventures of a Country Merchant; War 
Path; Freaks of Fortune; and The Ri¬ 
val Belles. He died in 1866. 

JONES, JOHN GLANCY, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 7, 1811, at Cones¬ 
toga River, Pa. While deputy attorney- 
general of the state he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania, serving from 1850 to 1858. He was 
the author, in the house, of the bill cre¬ 
ating the court of claims, when a member 
of the committee on claims. He died 
March 24, 1877, in Pennsylvania. 

JONES, JOHN J., lawyer, congressman, 
was born Nov. 13, 1824, in Burke county, 
Ga. He was a representative from Geor¬ 
gia to the thirty-sixth congress. 

JONES, JOHN MATHER, merchant, 
journalist, author, was born June 9, 1826, 
in North Wales. After the close of the 
civil war he founded the Welsh town of 
New Cambria, Mo.; and in 1869 bought a 
large tract of land in Osage county, Kan., 
where he founded the town of Avonia. He 
died Dec. 21, 1874, in Utica, N. Y. 

JONES, JOHN PAUL, naval officer, was 
born July 6, 1747, in Scotland. He was a 
son of John Paul, and subsequently 
added the name of 
Jones. He settled in 
Virginia in his boy¬ 
hood; entered the 
American navy in 
1775; and was a 
commodore during 
the revolutionary 
war. He was an in¬ 
trepid and daring of¬ 
ficer; and was after¬ 
ward rear-admiral in 
the Russian service. 
He died July 18, 
1792, in Paris, France. He received a 
vote of thanks from congress for his im¬ 
portant services. 


JONES, JOHN PERCIVAL, farmer, 
state legislator, United States senator, 
was born in 1830, in Wales. He served in 
both houses of the California state as¬ 
sembly. He went to Nevada in 1867; and 
was elected to the United States senate 
for the term commencing in 1873; and 
was re-elected in 1879, 1885, 1890, and 
1897. His last term expires in 1903. 

JONES, JOHN PRINGLE, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, author, was born in 1812, near New¬ 
ton, Pa. Under the elective judiciary 
system of 1851 he was elected president 
of the Berks county, Pa., courts for the 
term of ten years. He was the author of 
Eulogy on A. Laussat; and volumes eleven 
and twelve of Pennsylvania State Reports. 
He died March 16, 1874, in England. 

JONES, JOHN RICHTER, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Oct. 2, 1803, in Sa¬ 
lem, N. J. In 1836 he was appointed one 
of the judges of the court of common 
pleas of Philadelphia county, which post 
he held until 1847. He died May 23, 1863, 
near New Berne, N. C. 

JONES, JOHN SILLS, soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Feb. 12, 1836, near 
St. Paris, Ohio. He served through the 
civil war, and was promoted to first lieu¬ 
tenant, captain, and was brevetted briga¬ 
dier-general for gallantry. In 1866 he was 
mayor of Delaware, Ohio; was prosecut¬ 
ing attorney in 1868-70; was twice elected 
to the general assembly of the Ohio state 
legislature; and served as a member of 
the forty-fifth congress as a republican. 

JONES, JOHN W., physician, educator, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
April 14, 1806, in Rock Creek, Md. In 
1840 he was elected to the Georgia legis¬ 
lature; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Georgia from 1847 to 1849. He 
was appointed a medical professor in the 
Atlantic Medical college. He died in 1872, 
in Atlanta, Ga. 

JONES, JOHN WINSTON, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 22, 1791, in Chester¬ 
field, Pa. He was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1835 to 1845; 
and was speaker of the house of represen¬ 
tatives during the twenty-eighth con¬ 
gress. He died Jan. 29, 1848. 

JONES, JOSEPH, congressman, was 
born in 1727, in Virginia. He was a dele¬ 
gate from Virginia to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1777 to 1778, and again from 
1780 to 1783. He died Oct. 28, 1805, in 
Virginia. 

JONES, JOSEPH, educator, physician, 
author, was born Sept. 6, 1833, in Sum¬ 
merville, Ga. He is a physician, and pro¬ 
fessor in Tulane university. New Orleans, 
since 1869. Among his writings are, San¬ 
itary Memoirs of the War of the Rebel¬ 
lion; Surgical Memoirs of the War of the 
Rebellion; Hospital Construction and Or¬ 
ganization; and Medical and Surgical Me¬ 
moirs. 

JONES, JOSEPH HUNTINGTON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Aug. 24, 1797, 
in Coventry, Conn. He was a presbyte- 
rian clergyman of Philadelphia; and the 
author of The Effects of Physical Causes 
on Christian Experience; Life of Ashbel 
Green; and Revival of Religion. He died 
Dec. 22, 1868, in Coventry, Conn. 

JONES, JOSEPH JEROME, educator, 
lawyer, was born April 3, 1864, near Cow- 
den, Ill. He attended the high school of 
Shelbyville, Ill.; and for three years 
studied in the Northern Indiana Normal 
school of Valparaiso; graduating in the 
scientific course in 1887. For many years 
he was engaged in educational work in 
the public schools of Illinois; and now 
practices his profession in Coalville, Utah. 


JONES, JOSEPH RUSSEL, merchant, 
was born Feb. 17, 1823, in Conneaut, Ohio. 
In 1860 he was elected as a republican to 
the general assembly from the counties of 
Jo Daviess and Carroll. In 1861 he was 
appointed United States marshal for the 
northern district of Illinois. He organized 
the Chicago West Division Railway Co. in 
1863, and was elected its president. He 
retired practically from business in 1888, 
but is yet a director of the Chicago and 
the Central Union Telephone Co’s and 
the Central Music Hall Co., and president 
of the Northwestern Horse Nail Manufac¬ 
turing Co. 

JONES, JOSEPH SEAWELL, author, 
was born about 1811, probably in North 
Carolina. He was a southern writer who 
published Defense of the Revolutionary 
History of North Carolina; and Memo¬ 
rials of North Carolina. He died in 1855. 

JONES, JOSEPH STEVENS, author, 
was born in 1811. He was an extremely 
prolific playwright of Boston, among 
whose best known productions are, Solon 
Shingle; Eugene Aram; The Silver 
Spoon; The Liberty Tree; and Moll Pit¬ 
cher. He died Dec. 30, 1877, in Boston, 
Mass. 

JONES, LEONARD AUGUSTUS, law¬ 
yer, journalist, author, was born Jan. 13, 
1832, in Tampleton, Mass. He is a lawyer 
of Boston; editor of the American Law 
Register; and the author of Personal 
Property; The Law of Mortgages of Real 
Property; On The Law of Pledges; 
Pledges and Collateral Securities; Corpo¬ 
rate Bonds and Mortgages; Chattel Mort¬ 
gages; Liens; Real Estate in Convey¬ 
ancing; and Forms in Conveyancing. 

JONES, MORGAN, machinist, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 26, 1832, in New York 
city. In 1864 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative from New York to the thirty-ninth 
congress. 

JONES, NATHANIEL, congressman, 
state senator. He was a member of the 
New York assembly in 1827 and 1828; and 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1837 to 1841. He was a 
state senator in 1852 and 1853; and also 
held the offices of surveyor-general of the 
state, and canal commissioner. He died 
July 21, 1866, in Newburg, N. Y. 

JONES, OPHELIA COOK, educator, 
poet, was born Feb. 5, 1849, in Browns¬ 
ville, Miss. For nearly a quarter of a 
century she has been engaged in educa¬ 
tional work. Mrs. Jones is the author of 
the poem, What My Lover Said, which has 
been attributed to several national poets. 
She is the author of numerous beautiful 
poems, some of which were published in 
Poets of America, and other standard 
works. 

JONES, NOBLE WIMBERLY, physi¬ 
cian, state legislator, congressman, was 
born in 1724, near London, England. He 
was a member of the Georgia assembly in 
1761, and subsequently, being several 
times speaker; and was speaker of the 
first Georgia legislature. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the continental congress from 1775 
to 1776, and from 1781 to 1783. He was 
president of the convention which re¬ 
vised the state constitution in 1795. He 
died Jan. 9, 1805, in Savannah. 

JONES, OBADIAH, lawyer, jurist. He 
was appointed in 1805 United States judge 
for the territory of Mississippi; served one 
year as territorial judge for Illinois in 
1809; and was reappointed to the same 
position in Mississippi in 1810. When the 
state government was established he was 
appointed United States judge for that 
district, but only held the office a short 
time. 



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JONES, OWEN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in the thirty-fifth congress 
from his native state. 

JONES, PHINEAS, manufacturer, state 
legislator, congressman, was horn April 
18, 1819, in Spencer, Mass. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in the state legislature in 1874 
and 1875; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from New Jersey to the forty-seventh 
congress as a republican. 

JONES, ROLAND, congressman, was 
born in North Carolina. He was a repre¬ 
sentative from Louisiana to the thirty- 
third congress. 

JONES, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, was 
born July 26, 1734. He was chief justice 
of New York, and called the father of the 
New York bar. He died Nov. 21, 1819, in 
Westneck, N. Y. 

JONES, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, was born May 26, 1769. He 
was a member of the assembly in 1812-14; 
recorder of New York city in 1823; chan¬ 
cellor of the state in 1826-28; chief jus¬ 
tice of the superior court of New York 
city in 1828-47; and justice of the state 
supreme court in 1847-49. He died Aug. 
9, 1853, in Cold Spring, N. Y. 

JONES, SAMUEL, soldier, was born in 
1820, in Virginia. He served in the civil 
war, and received the rank of brigadier- 
general. He died July 31, 1887, in Bed¬ 
ford Springs, Va. 

JONES, SAMUEL PORTER, clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 16, 1847, in Cham¬ 
bers county, Ala. He is a noted and ec¬ 
centric revival preacher; and the author 
of Sam Jones’s Sermon's; Music Hall 
Sermons; and Sam Jones's Own Book. 

JONES, SEABORN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1788, in Augusta, Ga. 
He was made solicitor-general of the state 
in 1823; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Georgia from 1833 to 1835, and 
from 1845 to 1847. He died in 1874, in 
Columbus, Ga. 

JONES, THOMAS GOODE, soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, governor, was born Nov. 
26, 1844, in Macon, Ga. He served as a 
soldier in the confederate service, and 
was promoted to aide-de-camp. In 1866 he 
was admitted to the bar; became editor 
of the Daily Picayune of Montgomery; 
and during 1870-80 was reporter of decis¬ 
ions of the supreme court of Alabama. 
In 1875-85 he was alderman in the city 
of Montgomery; in 1884-87 was a member 
of the Alabama general assembly; and 
speaker of the house during his latter 
term. In 1890 he was elected governor of 
Alabama; served with distinction, and re¬ 
ceived the re-election in 1892. He is the 
author of Code of Ethics, adopted by the 
Alabama State Bar association; author of 
the law regulating the employment of 
state troops in enforcement of the law; 
and has been prominently identified with 
the history, growth and prosperity of the 
state of Alabama. 

JONES, THOMAS LAURENS, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 22, 1819, in 
Rutherford county, N. C. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the general assembly of Kentucky 
in 1853 and 1854. He was elected to the 
fortieth and forty-first congresses, and re¬ 
elected to the forty-fourth congress. 

JONES. W. A., educator, manufacturer, 
state legislator, was born Sept. 27, 1844, 
in Wales. He was county superintendent 
of schools for four years; has been may¬ 
or of Mineral Point, Wis.; and in 1896 
was elected a member of the Wisconsin 
state legislature. In 1897 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States commissioner of In¬ 
dian affairs. 


JONES, WALTER, physician, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1745, in Virginia. In 
1777 he was appointed by congress physi¬ 
cian-general of the hospital in the middle 
department. He was a representative in 
congress from Virginia from 1797 to 1799, 
and again from 1803 to 1811. He died 
Dec. 31, 1815, in Westmoreland county, 
Va. 

JONES, WILLIAM, soldier, governor, 
merchant, state legislator, was born in 
1754, in Newport, R. I. He entered the 
army in 1775 as a captain in Colonel Lip- 
pitt’s Rhode Island regiment. For several 
years he was a representative from Provi¬ 
dence in the assembly, and also speaker 
of that body. He was governor of Rhode 
Island from 1811 to 1817. He died April 
9, 1822, in Providence, R. I. 

JONES, WILLIAM, soldier, banker, 
congressman, was born in 1760, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1801 to 
1803. He died Sept. 5, 1831, in Bethle¬ 
hem, Pa. 

JONES, WILLIAM ALFRED, critic, au¬ 
thor, was born June 26, 1817, in New York 
city.’ He is a critic and essayist of Nor¬ 
wich, Conn.; and the author of The 
Analyst; Essays upon Authors and 
Books; Characters and Criticisms; and 
Literary Studies. 

JONES, WILLIAM ATKINSON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 21, 1849, in 
Warsaw, Va. He entered the Virginia 
Military institute, 
where he remained 
until the evacuation 
of Richmond, serving 
as occasion required 
with the cadets in 
the defense of that 
city. He entered the 
academic department 
of the university of 
Virginia, from which 
institution he was 
graduated with the 
degree of B. L. in 
1870. He was admitted to the bar in 
July, 1870, and has continued to practice 
law since; was a delegate at large from 
his state to the national democratic con¬ 
's ention in 1896; and was chairman of the 
Virginia delegation in that body. He was 
elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third, and 
fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

JONES, WILLIAM CAREY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 5, 1855, in 
Remsen, N. Y. He was elected to the 
office cf attorney-general of the state of 
Washington upon the fadmission of the 
state into the union in 1889, and again in 
1892. He was elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a free silver republican. 

JONES, WILLIAM CASWELL, lawyer, 
jurist, author, poet, was born July 15, 
1848, in Hutsonville, Ill. His father was 
Caswell Jones, a mer¬ 
chant and beloved 
citizen who died 
when the son was in 
his fifth year. He 
received the rudi¬ 
ments of his educa¬ 
tion in the public 
schools; spent three 
years at the Ohio 
Wesleyan- university 
of Delaware; and 
graduated from the 
law school of Ann 
Arbor, Mich. In 1868 he was admitted to 
the bar; and served with distinction as a 
member of the twenty-seventh general 


assembly of Illinois in 1871 and 1872. In 
1877 he was elected county judge of his 
county; was elected to the circuit bench 
in 1879; and re-elected circuit judge in 
1885, his term expiring in 1891. He im¬ 
mediately returned to the practice of law 
in Robinson, Ill., and has a large prac¬ 
tice. He is one of the authors of a stand¬ 
ard work entitled Jones and Cunning¬ 
ham’s Practice in County Courts in Illi¬ 
nois, a second edition of which was pub¬ 
lished in 1893. He has written exten¬ 
sively both prose and verse for current 
periodicals and magazines; and is the 
author of Birch-Rod Days, and Other Po¬ 
ems, published by the American Publish¬ 
ers’ association. He is also the author of 
Elements and Science of English Versi¬ 
fication, a most valuable work destined to 
become a standard work on that subject. 
Judge Jones has been a successful busi¬ 
ness man and financier; is vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Robinson bank; and is also 
extensively engaged in farming and stock 
raising. 

JONES, WILLIAM EDMONDSON, sol¬ 
dier, was born in May, 1824, near Glade 
Spring, Va. He entered the confederate 
army as captain in 1861; and was made 
major-general in 1863. He died June 5, 
1864, near New Hope, Va. 

JONES, WILLIAM G., lawyer, jurist. 
He was a judge of the United States court 
for the district of Alabama. 

JONES, WILLIAM LUCIUS, journalist, 
was born June 7, 1859, in Lebanon, Ill. 
He is the editor and owner of the Jour¬ 
nal of Lebanon, Ill.; and president of the 
Southern Illinois Press association in 
1891. 

JONES, WILLIAM PALMER, educator, 
journalist, physician, state senator, was 
born Oct. 17, 1819, in Adair county, Ky. 
He aided in founding Shelby Medical col¬ 
lege in 1858, and filled its chair of materia 
medica, and in 1876 became president of 
Nashville Medical college in Tennessee, 
and professor of psychological medicine 
and mental hygiene. As a member of the 
state senate he introduced the public 
school law, which provides equal educa¬ 
tional advantages for children of all 
races. 

JONES, WILLIAM T„ soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 
1842, in Corydon, Ind. He served in the 
army as lieutenant, captain and major of 
the seventeenth Indiana volunteers; and 
was appointed associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Wyoming in 1869. He was 
elected a delegate from Wyoming territory 
to the forty-second congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

JONES, WILLIE, patriot, was born in 
1731 in Halifax, N. C. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the continental congress in 1780 
and 1781 from North Carolina. He died 
in 1801 near Raleigh, N. C. 

JORDAN, AMBROSE LATTING, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state senator, was born in 1791 
in Hillsdale, N. Y. He attained emi¬ 
nence as a lawyer of New York city; 
was a member of the assembly; a state 
senator; judge of the court of appeals; 
and attorney general of the state. He 
died July 16, 1865, in New York city. 

JORDAN, CHARLES E., lawyer, was 
born Sept. 28, 1865, in Palmyra, N. Y. He 
received his education at the Palmyra 
Union school, and the Union university. 
In 1887 he was admitted to the bar of the 
state of New York; and has since been 
actively engaged in the practice of law. 
He is one of the foremost lawyers of Ala¬ 
bama, and has a large practice at Flor¬ 
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JORDAN, MRS. CORNELIA JANE 
[MATTHEWS], author, poet, was born 
Jan. 11, 1830, in Lynchburg, Va. She is 
a Virginia poet whose volume, Corinth, 
and Other Poems of the War, was pub¬ 
licly burnt on its appearance in 1865, by 
order of Gen. Terry, as an objectionable 
and incendiary publication. Her other 
works are, Flowers of Hope and Memory; 
Christmas Poem for Children; Richmond, 
her Glory and her Graves; and Useful 
Maxims for a Noble Life. 

JORDAN, DAVID STARR, educator, 
naturalist, college president, author, was 
born Jan. 19, 1851, in Gainesville, N. Y. 
In 1872 he graduated from Cornell' uni¬ 
versity; was president of the university 
of Indiana during 1884-91; and since 1891 
has been president of the Leland Stan¬ 
ford Junior university. In 1896-97 he was 
commissioner in charge of the fur seal 
investigations. Since 1896 he has also 
been president of the California Academy 
of Sciences. He is a noted naturalist; 
and has published numerous scientific pa¬ 
pers and monographs. He is the author 
of A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of 
the Northern United States; Scientific 
Sketches; Contributions to American Ich¬ 
thyology; and The Factors in Organic 
Evolution. 

JORDAN, MRS. DULCIE [MASON], 
journalist, poet, was born in 1835 in 
New York. She is a journalist and poet 
of Richmond, Ind., who has published 
Rosemary Leaves, a volume of poems. 

JORDAN, ISAAC M., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 5, 1835, in Union 
county, Pa. He was nominated by accla¬ 
mation, and elected a representative from 
Ohio to the forty-eighth congress as a 
democrat. 

JORDAN, JAMES H.. soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 21, 1842, in Wood- 
stock, Va. He ser\ed as a soldier in the 
union army during the civil war; has 
been state’s attorney; and is now a judge 
of the supreme court of Indiana. 

JORDAN, JAMES JOSEPH, journalist, 
was born Oct. 5, 1856, in Archbald, Pa. 
He was identified with educational work- 
early in life; and in 1878 was elected a 
member of the Archbald school board. In 
1882 he founded the Archbald Truth; and 
subsequently moved to Scranton, Pa., 
where a wider field was to be obtained; 
and continued the publication under the 
name of The Scranton Truth, an inde¬ 
pendent daily newspaper, which has 
achieved remarkable success in winning a 
national reputation, and conceded to be 
the leading paper in the Keystone state. 
Mr. Jordan has been eminently successful 
in journalism; and is one of the foremost 
men of Pennsylvania. 

JORDAN, JOHN, antiquarian, was born 
May 8, 1808, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is 
one of the oldest surviving members of 
the Historical society of Pennsylvania. 

JORDAN, JOHN WOOLF, antiquarian, 
author, was born Sept. 14, 1840, in Phila¬ 
delphia Pa. He is a Philadelphia anti¬ 
quarian’, editor of the Pennsylvania Mag¬ 
azine of History; and the author of 
Friedensthal and its Stockaded Mill; A 
Red Rose from the Olden Time; Some¬ 
thing about Trombones; and Occupation 
of New York by the British. 

JORDAN, M. S., clergyman, was born 
Jan. 14, 1855, in Alabama. He received 
his education in Montgomery, Ala.; and 
is now a successful clergyman at Colum¬ 
bus, Texas. He has filled important offices 
in various secret orders, and has taken an 
active part in religious and educational 
affairs. 


JORDAN, RICHARD FRANCIS, law¬ 
yer, was born March 19, 1856, in Glens 
Falls, N. Y. In 1879 he was admitted to 
the bar; became city attorney and soli¬ 
citor of Boone, Iowa, which position he 
filled for nine years; was president of 
the school board for three years; and a 
member of the public library board for 
ten years. His practice covers several 
counties; and he has taken an active 
part in all the important litigated cases 
in his part of the state. 

JORDAN, THOMAS, soldier, journalist, 
author, was bcrn Sept. 30, 1819, in Luray 
Valley, Va. He was a confederate of¬ 
ficer; and the editor of The Mining Rec¬ 
ord. He is the author of The South, its 
Products, Commerce, and Resources; and 
Campaigns of Lieutenant-General For¬ 
rest. 

JORDAN, FRANCIS, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, was born Feb. 5, 1820, in Bel- 
ford county, Pa. In 1855 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Pennsylvania state senate. He 
has been president and general counsel of 
the Pennsylvania Telephone company 
since its organization in 1882. 

JORGENSON, JOSEPH, surgeon, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 
11, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an 
assistant surgeon in the United States 
army from 1865 to 1868. He settled in 
Virginia; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive in the state legislature in 1871. He 
was elected a representative from Vir¬ 
ginia to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and 
forty-seventh congresses as a republican. 

JOSEPH, ANTONIO, merchant, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Aug. 25, 1846, in Taos, N. M. He was 
county judge of Taos 
county, N. M., for six 
years; and was a 
representative in the 
territorial legisla¬ 
ture for six years. He 
was a senator in the 
territorial legisla¬ 
ture when elected 
a delegate from New 
Mexico to the forty- 
ninth congress; and 
was re-elected to the 
fiftieth, fifty-first, fif¬ 
ty-second and fifty-third congresses as a 
democrat. 

JOSLIN, THEODORE MERRILLS, ed¬ 
ucator, lawyer, was born Dec. 21, 1869, in 
Woodstock, Mich. He finished his educa¬ 
tion at the Michigan State Normal school; 
for several years was engaged in educa¬ 
tional work; and then was in the rail¬ 
way mail service. He was subsequently 
admitted to the bar, and has attained suc¬ 
cess as an able lawyer of Adrian, Mich. 

JOSLIN, THOMAS JEFFERSON, cler¬ 
gyman, was born April 29, 1829, in Cohoc- 
ton, N. Y. In 1844 he moved with his 
parents to Michigan. 
He has been a mem¬ 
ber of the Detroit 
annual conference of 
themethodist episco¬ 
pal church for half 
a century; has filled 
important pastor¬ 
ates; served three 
full terms as presid¬ 
ing elder; one term as 
a delegate to the gen¬ 
eral conference at 
Philadelphia; and 
one term as regent of the university of 
Michigan. He is still doing effective 
work, and has gained special prominence 
throughout Michigan by his Addresses, 
Orations, and Dedications, for which oc¬ 
casions he is in constant demand. 


JOSSELYN, WARREN B., lawyer, was 
born Aug. 9, 1863, in San Francisco, Cal. 
He attended the university of California; 
was admitted to the bar; and has at¬ 
tained success in the profession of law 
in his native state at Santa Cruz, where 
he takes an active part in the public af¬ 
fairs of his county and state. 

JOUETT, MATTHEW HARRIS, soldier, 
artist, was born April 22, 1788, in 

Mercer county, Ky. He enlisted in 
the war of 1812 as lieutenant of 
the twenty-eighth infantry, serving in 
the northwest, and was appointed cap¬ 
tain. He painted more than three hun¬ 
dred portraits, among which one of La¬ 
fayette was ordered by the legislature of 
the lower house of congress of Kentucky. 

JOUIN, LOUIS, educator, author, was 
born June 14, 1818, in Prussia. He is a 
Jesuit educator of note, professor at St. 
John’s college, Fordham; and the author 
of Elementa Philosophise Moralis; Com¬ 
pendium Logic® et Metaphysic®; and 
Evidences of Religion. 

JOY. CHARLES ARAD, journalist, 
scholar, chemist, was born Oct. 8, 1823, in 
Ludlowville, N. Y. He was for two years 
editor of the Scientific American; and also 
editor of all chemical articles in Apple¬ 
ton’s New American Cyclopedia. He died 
May 29, 1891, in Stockbridge, Mass. 

JOY, CHARLES FREDERICK, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 11, 1849,.in Mor¬ 
gan county. Ill. He graduated with the 
degree of bachelor of 
arts June 25, 1874; 

engaged in the prac¬ 
tice of law in St. 
Louis in September, 
1876, and since that 
time has devoted 
himself exclusively 
to his profession. He 
was elected to the 
fifty-third congress 
as a republican, but 
was unseated on 
contest in favor of 
democratic opponent, 
April 3, 1894. He was elected to the fifty- 
fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

JOY, EDMUND L., soldier, lawyer, state 
legislator, was born Oct. 1, 1835, in Al- 
graduating from the 
university of Ro¬ 
chester, he studied 
law and was admit¬ 
ted to the bar of New 
York in 1857. The 
same year he moved 
to Ottumwa, Iowa; 
and in 1860 was ap¬ 
pointed city attor¬ 
ney. During the 
civil war he served 
as captain in the 
thirty-sixth Iowa in¬ 
fantry; and in 1864 
was appointed by President Lincoln major 
and judge advocate of. the United States 
volunteers, and assigned to the seventh 
army corps. After the war he settled in 
Newark, N. J., and engaged in business. 
In 1871 he was elected to the New Jersey 
legislature, and was re-elected the follow¬ 
ing year. He was president of the New¬ 
ark board of trade in 1875-76; and presi¬ 
dent of the Newark board of education in 
1885-87. In 1880 he was a delegate to the 
republican national convention; and in 
1884 was appointed by President Arthur a 
government director of the Union Pacific 
Railroad company. He died Feb. 14, 1892. 
His son, Edmund S. Joy, is a noted lawyer 
of Newark, N. J. 





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JOY, JAMES F., lawyer, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Dec. 2, 1810, in Durham, 
entered the railway 
service as attorney 
and general counsel 
of the Michigan Cen¬ 
tral railroad. He was 
subsequently con¬ 
nected with the Illi¬ 
nois Central rail¬ 
road; organized the 
Chicago, Burlington 
and Quincy railroad, 
and was for many 
years at its head. In 
1867 he was presi¬ 
dent of the Mich¬ 
igan Central railroad; was for sev¬ 
eral years president of the Wabash, St. 
Louis and Pacific railway; and is now 
president and treasurer of the Detroit 
Union Railway Depot and Station com¬ 
pany at Detroit, Mich. 

JOY, JOHN BACHELDER, farmer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Jan. 12, 1848, in Mor¬ 
gan county, Ill. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the High school of Jacksonville, 
Ill., and is now a successful farmer and 
stock-raiser of Concord. He served with 
distinction as a member of the fortieth 
general assembly of the Illinois state leg¬ 
islature; is prominent in religious circles, 
and vice-president of the State Sunday 
School association. 

JOY, THOMAS, colonist, was born in 
1610 in Norfolk county, England. He 
came to America in 1635 and settled in 
Boston, where he owned much land on 
which historic edifices have been built, 
such as the mansions of Governor Hutch¬ 
inson and Sir Charles Henry Frankland, 
the home of Paul Revere and Faneuil 
Hall. He purchased large tracts from 
Indians in Maine and the interior of Mas¬ 
sachusetts, and possessed many acres in 
Hingham and Lynn. He was an archi¬ 
tect and builder, and constructed resi¬ 
dences, wharves, bridges and warehouses 
in Boston, Cnarlestown and Brookline. 
He was a signer of the remonstrance and 
petition of 1646, which was a prayer for 
the extension of the right of suffrage 
among the colonists of Massachusetts 
bay. In 1657 he was entrusted with the 
construction of the town house of Boston, 
the most important public work up to that 
time undertaken in New England. He be¬ 
came a freeman in 1665; was held for 
trial in 1676 for reproaching the authori¬ 
ties of the country during King Philip’s 
war; and in 1658 was a member of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery com¬ 
pany. He died Oct. 21, 1678. 

JOYCE, CHARLES HERBERT, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 30, 
1830, in Andover, England. He was state 
librarian of Vermont in 1855 and 1856; 
and county attorney in 1856 and 1857. 
He was commissioned major of second 
Vermont infantry in 1861, and promoted 
to lieutenant-colonel in 1862. He was a 
member of the legislature in 1869, 1870 
and 1871; and was speaker during the lat¬ 
ter term. He was elected a representa- 
th e from Vermont to the forty-fourth 
congress; and re-elected to the forty-fifth, 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses 
as a republican. 

JOYCE, ROBERT DWYER, journalist, 
author, poet, was born in 1836 in Ireland. 
He was an Irish journalist who came to 
America in 1866 and settled in Boston. He 
was the author of Ballads, Romances and 
Songs; Deirdre, a Poem; Ballads of Irish 
Chivalry; Irish Fireside Tales; Legends 
on the Wars in Ireland; Blanid; and The 
Squire of Castleton, an historical novel. 
He died in 1883. 


JOYNES, EDWARD SOUTHEY, soldier, 
educator, author, was born March 2, 1834, 
in Accomac county, Va. He was in the 
confederate civil service during the late 
war. In 1883 he accepted the chair of 
modern languages in South Carolina col¬ 
lege, Columbia, S. C. He is the editor 
of the Joynes-Otto series of text-books, 
in French and German, and also of clas¬ 
sic French plays. 

JUDD, BETHEL, college president, was 
born about 1776 in Watertown, Conn. In 
1807 he was elected president of St. John’s 
college, from which he retired in 1812. 

JUDD, CHARLES PRATT, soldier, po¬ 
et, was born March 27? 1840, in Jackson¬ 
ville, Ill. He served during the civil war 
in company K, seventeenth Illinois vol¬ 
unteer infantry; took part in three en¬ 
gagements; and was badly wounded at 
Shiloh. He is the author of a song book 
and a volume of poems. 

JUDD, DAVID WRIGHT, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, state legislator, author, was born 
Sept. 1, 1838, in Lockport, N. Y. During 
the civil war he enlisted as a private, 
and received a captain’s commission be¬ 
fore he resigned. He was elected as a re¬ 
publican to the New York legislature in 
1871. He was the author of Two Years’ 
Campaigning in Virginia and Maryland, 
and edited The Educational Cyclopaedia; 
and The Life and Writings of Frank For¬ 
ester, in ten volumes. He died Feb. 6, 
1860, in New York city. 

JUDD, FRANCIS EMERSON, educator, 
clergyman, author, poet, was born April 
19, 1827, in Stanstead, Province of Que¬ 
bec, Canada. He re¬ 
ceived the degree of 
A. M. from the uni¬ 
versity of Vermont; 
and the same degree 
was conferred upon 
him by Bishop’s col¬ 
lege of Lennoxville, 
Canada. He received 
the degree of D. D. 
from the Griswold 
college of Davenport, 
Iowa, in which insti¬ 
tution he was a pro¬ 
fessor for several years. He moved to 
Iowa in 1857; was president of the stand¬ 
ing committee of the diocese of Iowa; 
and secretary of the diocesan convention; 
has been rector of prominent parishes in 
Iowa; and attained success as an eminent 
clergyman of the protestant episcopal 
church. He is the author of several ec¬ 
clesiastical works; published sermons 
and a number of meritorious poems. 

JUDD, NORMAN BUEL, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 10, 
1815, in Rome, N. Y. He was a member 
of the Illinois senate from 1844 until 1860. 
In 1866 he was elected a representative 
from Illinois to the fortieth congress; and 
re-elected to the forty-first congress as 
a republican. He was subsequently ap¬ 
pointed collector of customs at Chicago. 
He died Nov. 10, 1878, in Chicago, Ill. 

JUDD, ORANGE, journalist, was born 
July 26, 1822, in Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
The American Agriculturist, under his su¬ 
pervision, is in the foremost rank of ag¬ 
ricultural journals. He was also pub¬ 
lisher of the Hearth and Home; and ag¬ 
ricultural editor of the New York Times. 

JUDD, SYLVESTER, antiquarian, au¬ 
thor, was born April 23, 1789, in West- 
hampton, Mass. He was an antiquarian 
of Northampton, Mass.; and the author 
of Thomas Judd and his Descendants; and 
History of Hadley. He died April 18, 
1860, in Northampton, Mass. 

JUDD, SYLVESTER, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born July 23, 1813, in 


Westhampton, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman of Augusta, Maine. His great¬ 
est work is the remarkable story of Mar¬ 
garet: a Tale of the Real and the Ideal. 
Other works of his include, Philo, a re¬ 
ligious poem; Richard Edney, a novel; 
and The Church, a series of sermons. He 
died Jan. 26, 1853, in Augusta, Maine. 

JUDD. WARREN, merchant, journal¬ 
ist, was born Sept. 15, 1837, near Shelby- 
ville, Ind. Most of his life has been spent 
in mercantile pursuits; is now a success¬ 
ful merchant and journalist of Needham, 
Ind.; and the editor and owner of The 
Hustler. He is a prominent member of 
the people’s party; has been postmaster, 
and filled various other public positions oi 
trust in his county and state. 

JUDD, WILLIAM, educator, clergyman, 
was born Sept. 27, 1843, in Warsaw, N. Y. 
He received his education at the Green¬ 
ville High school, the Munroe academy, 
and the Bryant and Stratton Commercial 
college. For four years during the war 
he was in the United States service; and 
for many years has been chaplain of the 
Grand Army of the Republic department 
of Michigan. He has been justice of the 
peace at Howard City, Mich.; superinten¬ 
dent of schools; and filled various other 
public positions of honor. He is a suc¬ 
cessful clergyman of the methodist epis¬ 
copal church, and now fills a pastorate in 
Howard City, Mich. 

JUDGE. WILLIAM QUAN, lawyer, the- 
osophist, author, was born April 13, 1851, 
in Dublin, Ireland. He was a successful 
lawyer of New York city; and the author 
of Echoes from the Orient, and other 
works. He was the real head of the the¬ 
osophy movement in America, and from 
1886 until his death he published Path, a 
monthly magazine devoted to theosophy. 
He died March 21, 1896, in New York 
city. 

JUDKINS, J. BYRON, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Jan. 17, 1851, in Coldwater, 
Ohio. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the public schools; and grad¬ 
uated from the Liber college of Indiana. 
In 1874 he was admitted to the bar; and 
in 1880 was appointed judge of the nine¬ 
teenth judicial circuit to fill a vacancy, to 
which office he was subsequently elected, 
and served with distinction during 1880- 
94. He declined further re-election, and 
since that time has practiced his profes¬ 
sion in Grand Rapids, Mich. He is also 
director of the First National bank of 
Reed city; and is identified with various 
other institutions. 

JUDSON, ANDREW THOMPSON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 
29, 1784, in Eastford, Conn. He was at 
different times a member of both branches 
of the Connecticut legislature. He was 
a representative in congress from 1835 
to 1839, when he was elected judge of the 
district court, and continued in that po¬ 
sition until his death. He died March 17, 
1853, in Canterbury, Conn. 

JUDSON, EDWARD Z. C., author, was 
born in 1822 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
a writer of sensational non-literary stor¬ 
ies for weekly papers which gave him a 
large income. He was also a temper¬ 
ance lecturer. Among his stories are, Red 
Ralph the Ranger; The Sea Bandit; Buf¬ 
falo Bill; and The White Cruiser. He 
died July 16, 1866, in Stamford, N. Y. 

•JUDSON, MRS. EMILY [CHUBBUCK], 
author, was born Aug. 22, 1817, in Eaton, 
N. Y. She was a once popular writer who 
was the third wife of the famous baptist 
missionary, Adoniram Judson; and the 
author of Alderbrook,' a collection of stor¬ 
ies; Trippings in Author Land; and An 
Olio of Domestic Verses. She died in 1854, 
in Hamilton, N. Y. 


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JUDSON, HARRY PRATT, educator, 
author, was born in 1849 in New York. 
He is a professor of political science in 
the university of Chicago; and the author 
of Europe in the Nineteenth Century; 
The Growth of the American Nation; and 
Caesar’s Army, a Study of the Military 
Art of the Romans. 

JUDSON, L. CARROLL, author. She is 
the author of Biography of the Signers 
of the Declaration of Independence; 
Sages and Heroes of the American Rev¬ 
olution; and The Moral Probe, a collec¬ 
tion of Essays. 

JUDSON, SARAH HALL BOARDMAN, 
missionary, translator, was born Nov. 4, 
1803, in Alstead, N. H. She translated 
a part of Pilgrim’s Progress; also the 
Dying Father’s Advice, and several 
hymns; and published four volumes of 
Scripture questions. She died Sept. 1, 
1845, in St. Helena. 

JUENGL1NG, FREDERICK, artist, was 
born Oct. 8, 1846, in New York city. His 
paintings include The Intruder; West¬ 
ward Bound; and In the Street. He died 
Dec. 31, 1889, in New York city. 

JULIAN, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
lawyer, congressman, was born May 5, 
1817, in Centreville, Ind. In 1845 he was 
elected to the legislature of Indiana; and 
was a representative in congress from In¬ 
diana from 1849 to 1851. In 1852 he was 
nominated by the Pittsburg convention 
for office of vice-president of the United 
States. In 1860 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Indiana to the thirty-sev¬ 
enth congress; and in 1862 was re-elected 
to the thirty-eighth congress. He was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth and 
forty-first congresses as a republican. He 
was surveyor-general of New Mexico in 
1885. He is the author of Speeches on Po¬ 
litical Questions; Political Recollections 
from 1840-72; and Life of Joshua Gid- 
dings. 

JULIAN, ISAAC HOOVER, journalist, 
author, poet, was born June 19, 1823, near 
Centreville, Ind. In 1857 he published 
Sketches of the Early History of the 
Whitewater Valley. For forty years he 
has been a successful journalist, and is 
now connected with The People’s Era of 
St. San Marcos, Texas. Besides numer¬ 
ous poems, pamphlets and essays, he has 
published a Memoir of David Hoover. 

JUNKIN, BENJAMIN T., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 12, 1822, in 
Cumberland county, Pa. He was elected 
district attorney for Perry county in 1850, 
and held the office three years. He was 
elected from Pennsylvania to the thirty- 
sixth congress. 

JUNKIN, DAVID XAVIER, clergyman, 
author, was born Jan. 8, 1808, in Mercer, 
Pa. He was a presbyterian clergyman of 
Chicago and elsewhere; and the author of 
The Good Steward; Life of General Han¬ 
cock (with F. H. Norton); and The Oath 
a Divine Ordinance. He died April 22, 
1888, in Martinsburg, Pa. 

JUNKIN, GEORGE, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 1, 1790, in Carlisle, Pa. He 
was a presbyterian clergyman once prom¬ 
inent among leaders of the Old School 
party. He was the founder of Lafayette 
college, Easton, Pa., and was twice its 
president. His more important works in¬ 
clude, Commentary on Hebrews; Political 
Fallacies; The Great Apostasy; Sancti¬ 
fication; Justification; and The Taber¬ 
nacle. He died May 20, 1868, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

JUSTIN, JOEL GILBERT, physician, 
inventor, was born Sept. 12, 1851, in 
Richmond, N. Y. He attained success as 
a physician of Syracuse, N. Y., and has 
invented several throat and toilet sprays 
which have gained a marked recognition. 


JUSTUS, CUMMINS C., educator, was 
born Feb. 19, 1868, in Grainger county, 
Tenn. After finishing his education at 
the Sulphur Springs 
academy, he engaged 
in educational work; 
is superintendent of 
schools; has always 
advocated reform in 
school work, and has 
been instrumental in 
securing for his state 
the uniformity of 
text books; grading 
of schools; circulat¬ 
ing library move¬ 
ment; county asso¬ 
ciation of teachers; institutes throughout 
the year; and excellent normal institute. 

KAGAY, BENJAMIN F., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Feb. 27, 1831, in Fairfield 
county, Ohio. He was the first mayor of 
the city of Effingham, Ill.; and represent¬ 
ed his district in the Illinois state legis¬ 
lature in 1871-72. 

KAHLO, CHARLES, manufacturer, 
state senator, was born July 4, 1840, in 
Prussia. In 1878 he was elected state 
senator from Cass and Carroll counties, 
Ind.—the first republican elected from 
that democratic district. 

KAHM, MRS. RUTH WARD, author, 
was born Aug. 4, 1870, in Jackson, Mich. 
She is the author of an epic poem en¬ 
titled Gertrude; and a novel, The Story 
of Judith. 

KAISER, LOUIS, merchant, legislator, 
was born July 29, 1843, in Germany. For 
six years he was mayor of his city; and 
for four years served as a member of his 
district in the Illinois general assembly. 

KAISER, MARK, musician, composer, 
was born Feb. 22, 1855, in New Orleans, 
La. He was educated at the Paris con¬ 
servatory; and as a 
solo player attained 
prominence in that 
city. During 1876-78 
he traveled in the 
United States and 
Canada, as violin so¬ 
loist, with artists 
under the manage¬ 
ments of Max Strak- 
osch and Henry Ma- 
pleson. He has at¬ 
tained great promi¬ 
nence in the musical 
world; and is noted also for his success 
as a teacher and concert violinist of New 
Orleans, La. 

KALBFLEISCH, MARTIN, manufactur¬ 
er, chemist, congressman, was born Feb. 
8, 1804, in Holland. In 1862 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from New York to 
the thirty-eighth congress. He died Feb. 
12, 1873, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

KALER, JAMES OTIS, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 19, 1848, in Winter- 
port, Maine. He is a journalist of New 
York city who has written much for ju¬ 
venile readers. He is the author of The 
Boy Captain; Under the Liberty Tree; A 
Short Cruise; The Boys’ Revolt; Toby Ty¬ 
ler; Left Behind; Mr. Stubbs’s Brother; 
Tom and Tip; Raising the Pearl; Silent 
Pete; The Castaways; Little Joe; Stor¬ 
ies of American History; Jerry’s Family; 
and Jenny Wren’s Boarding House. 

KALISCH, ISIDOR, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 15, 1816, in Prussia. He 
was a Jewish clergyman who came to the 
United States in 1849, and was rabbi of 
congregations in Cleveland, Milwaukee, 
and elsewhere. He published Sketch of 
the Talmud, and several important trans¬ 
lations from the German and Hebrew. He 
died May 11, 1886, in Newark, N. J. 




KALOPOTHAKES, MARTHA HOOPER 
BLACKLER, missionary, journalist, trans¬ 
lator, was born June 1, 1830, in Marble¬ 
head, Mass. She labored as a missionary, 
and exercised a wide influence among the 
Greek women. During the last three years 
of her life she translated books from the 
English, and edited a juvenile paper Aat 
was published in Greek. She died Dec. 
16, 1871, in Athens, Greece. 

KAMPMAN, LEWIS FRANCIS, educa¬ 
tor, journalist, was born Feb. 16, 1817, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was one of the foun¬ 
ders and editors of the Moravian at Lan¬ 
caster, Pa.; from 1855-58 president of the 
Theological seminary at Lancaster, Pa.; 
and was one of the compilers of the Mo¬ 
ravian Hymnal. He died Oct. 21, 1884, 
in Bethlehem, Pa. 

KANAN, MICHAEL, farmer, soldier, 
state senator, was born in November, 
1837, in Essex county, N. Y. He enlisted 
in company A, forty-first Illinois infant¬ 
ry, and served nearly four years. He 
was mayor of Decatur, Ill., for six years; 
and was elected to the state senate in 
1894. 

KANE, ELIAS KENT, state legislator, 
United States senator, was born June 7, 
1796, in New York city. He was elected 
a member of the legislature; and from 
1825 to 1835 was a senator in congress 
from Illinois. He died Dec. 11, 1835, in 
Washington, D. C. 

KANE, ELISHA K., railroad president, 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1883 
he has been president of the Big Level 
and Kinzua railroad; and is also presi¬ 
dent of the Mount Jewett, Kinzua and 
Ritterville railroad. 


KANE, ELISHA KENT, surgeon, ex¬ 
plorer, author, was born Feb. 20, 1820, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a surgeon 
in the United States navy who was fa¬ 
mous as an Arctic explorer; and the au¬ 
thor of The United States Grinnell Ex¬ 
pedition of 1850; and Second Grinnell Ex¬ 
pedition. He died Feb. 16, 1857, in Ha¬ 
vana, Cuba. 

KANE, JOHN KINTZING, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born May 16, 1795, in Albany 
N. Y. In 1845 he was chosen attorney 
general of Pennsylvania; and in 1846 re¬ 
signed to accept the position of United 
States district judge for the state of Penn¬ 
sylvania. He died Feb. 21, 1858, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

KANE, THOMAS LEIPER, soldier, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Jan. 27, 1822, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of 
Philadelphia, and a brigadier-general in 
the federal army in the civil war. He 
was the author of The Mormons; Alaska; 
and Coahuila. He died Dec. 26, 1883, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 


KANTZ, AUGUST VALENTINE, sol¬ 
dier, was born Jan. 5, 1828, in Ger¬ 
many. He served in the civil war; and 
for gallant and meritorious services at¬ 
tained the rank of brigadier-general. 

KAPLAN, A. ORNSTEIN, poet, was 
born in November, 1849, in Germany. In 
1857 he came to America with his par¬ 
ents; lived in New 
York city until 1861; 
and in Loveland, 
near Cincinnati, 
Ohio, until 1868. 
Since that time he 
has lived in Cincin¬ 
nati, principally en¬ 
gaged in the insur¬ 
ance business. He is 
jfe< the author of several 
volumes, notably 
three beautiful bro¬ 
chures, entitled The 
Magic Laugh; The Prince of Hades; and 
The Baby’s Biography. 







544 


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KASSON, JOHN ADAMS, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 
1822, near Burlington, Vt. In 1861 he was 
appointed assistant postmaster-general, 
which office he resigned in 1862 when 
elected a representative from Iowa to the 
thirty-eighth congress. He was re-elect¬ 
ed *to the thirty-ninth congress. He was 
elected to the legislature of Iowa for sev¬ 
eral years; and was elected to the forty- 
third, forty-fourth, forty-seventh and 
forty-eighth congresses as a republican. 

KATTE, WALTER, civil engineer, was 
born Nov. 14, 1830, in England. In 1886 
he became chief engineer of the New York 
Central and Hudson River, New York and 
Harlem, and West Shore railroads with 
their branches. 

KATZER, FREDERICK XAVIER, arch¬ 
bishop, was born Feb. 7, 1844, in Austria. 
He became vicar-general of Green Bay, 
Wis., of which city he was consecrated 
bishop in 1886; and in 1891 he was made 
archbishop of Milwaukee. 

KAUFER, JOHN C.. journalist, was 
born June 2, 1857, in Wilkes Barre, Pa. He 
is the editor and publisher of the Plain 
Dealer of Wilkes Barre, Pa. He started 
in life as a printer; has been alderman 
and deputy mayor of his native city; and 
is a prominent member of several frater¬ 
nal orders. 

KAUFMAN, DAVID SPANGLER, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Dec. 18, 1813, in Boiling Springs, 
Pa. In 1837 he moved to Nacogdoches, 
Texas; and in 1838 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the Texan congress. He was 
twice re-elected, and twice chosen speak¬ 
er of the house; and in 1843 was elected 
to the senate. He was elected one of the 
first members of the house of represen¬ 
tatives from Texas, serving from 1846 to 
1851. He died Jan. 13, 1851, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

KAUFMAN, N. M., merchant, financier, 
was born July 4, 1862, in Marquette, 
Mich. He is a successful merchant of 
Marquette, Mich.; is 
a successful miner 
and mine owner; 
and in 1893 was elect¬ 
ed mayor of his city. 
He organized the 
Marquette County 
Savings bank, of 
which he is presi¬ 
dent; is also presi¬ 
dent of the Mar¬ 
quette Milling com¬ 
pany; president of 
the Hammond, Whit¬ 
ing and East Chicago road; and inter¬ 
ested in various other business enter¬ 
prises. 

KAUFMAN, THEODORE, artist, was 
born Dec. 18, 1814, in Nelson, Hanover. 
His works include Gen. Sherman near the 
Watchfire; On to Liberty; A Pacific Rail¬ 
way Train attacked by Indians; Slaves 
seeking Shelter under the Flag of the 
Union; and Admiral Farragut entering 
Harbor through Torpedoes. 

KAUTZ, ALBERT, naval officer, was 
born June 29, 1839, in Georgetown, Ohio. 
He was appointed lieutenant in 1861; lieu¬ 
tenant-commander in 1865; commander in 
1872; and captain in 1885. 

KAUTZ, AUGUST VALENTINE, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born Jan. 5, 1828, in 
Germany. He was an officer in the United 
States army who served in the civil war, 
and became a colonel and brevet major- 
general. He was the author of The Com¬ 
pany Clerk; Customs of Service for Non- 
Commissioned Officers and Soldiers; and 
Customs of Service for Officers. He died 
in 1895. 


KAUTZ, JULIA M., educator, poet, was 
born Nov. 16, 1825, in Bethany, N. Y. 
She graduated from the Ingham univer¬ 
sity; and in 1849 took charge of the 
Young Ladies’ department in the Logans- 
port seminary, Ind. She is the wife of a 
clergyman and home missionary; has con¬ 
tributed extensively to the periodical 
press, and some of her poems have been 
given representation in standard works. 

KAVANAGH, EDWARD, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born April 
27, 1795, in Newcastle, Maine. He was a 
member of the Maine legislature in 1826, 
1828, 1842 and 1843; secretary of the state 
senate in 1830; and was a representative 
in congress from 1831 to 1835. He was 
acting governor of Maine from 1843 to 
1844, and for a short time president of 
the state senate. He died Jan. 21, 1844, 
in Newcastle, Maine. 

KAVANAUGH, DANIEL C., farmer, 
public official, was born Nov. 23, 1857, in 
Milwaukee, Wis. He has attained success 
in his business of painter and farmer at 
Columbus, Neb., where he has resided 
since 1875. For six years he was assessor; 
and has twice been sheriff of his county, 
serving in that office with success for 
twelve years. 

KAVANAUGH, HUBBARD HINDE, 

bishop of the methodist episcopal church, 
was born Jan. 14, 1802, near Winchester, 
Ky. In 1839 he was 
appointed superin¬ 
tendent of public ed¬ 
ucation for the state 
by Gov. Clark, and 
filled the position 

until in the follow¬ 
ing year, and was 

again proffered the 
position by Gov. 
Wickliffe. In 1854 at 
the general confer¬ 
ence held in Colum¬ 
bus, Ga., he was ele¬ 
vated to the episcopal office, the highest 
within the gift of the church, and in that 
office met the highest expectations of 
his people. He died March 19, 1884, in 
Columbus, Miss. 

KAYE, JOHN BRAYSHAW, lawyer, po¬ 
et, was born June 10, 1841, in England. 
He is a lawyer of Calmar, Iowa, of which 
city he has been mayor and attorney of 
his county for two terms. He is the au¬ 
thor of two volumes of poems, entitled 
Facts and Fancies, and Songs of Lake Ge¬ 
neva. 

KEABLES, THOMAS ASH, soldier, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, legislator, was born Feb. 
22, 1844, in Mansfield, Conn. He was ed¬ 
ucated at the Alfred university; and grad¬ 
uated in medicine from the medical de¬ 
partment of the Georgetown college, D. 
C. During 1862-64 he served gallantly in 
the war as lieutenant of the light artil¬ 
lery. He has attained success in his pro¬ 
fession, and is a noted physician and sur¬ 
geon of Bodie, Cal. In 1896-97 he served 
with distinction as a member of the as¬ 
sembly of the California state legisla¬ 
ture; and was chairman of the commit¬ 
tee on public health and quarantine. 

KEAN, JOHN, congressman, was born 
about 1756 in South Carolina. He was a 
delegate from South Carolina to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1785 to 1787. He 
died in May, 1795, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

KEAN, JOHN, JR., manufacturer, ban¬ 
ker, congressman, was born Dec. 4, 1852, 
in Ursino, N. J. He settled in Elizabeth, 
N. J.; and was elected a representative 
from New Jersey to the forty-eighth and 
fiftieth congresses as a republican. 


KEANE, JOHN JOSEPH, Roman cath¬ 
olic bishop, was born Sept. 12, 1839, in 
Ireland. He was assistant pastor of St. 
Patrick’s church, Washington, D. C., till 
1878, when he was made bishop of Rich¬ 
mond, Va. 

KEARNEY, DYRE, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Delaware to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1786 to 1788. 

KEARNEY, LAWRENCE, naval officer, 
was born Nov. 30, 1789, in Perth Amboy, 
N. J. He entered the navy as a midship¬ 
man in 1807; and in 1866 was made com¬ 
modore. He died Nov. 29, 1868, in Perth 
Amboy, N. J. 

KEARNEY, PHILIP, soldier, was born 
June 2, 1815, in New York city. He 
ser\ed with distinction through the Mex¬ 
ican war, and lost his 
left arm. During the 
civil war he was 
made a brigadier- 
general of volun¬ 
teers; and subse¬ 
quently attained the 
rank of major-gen¬ 
eral. He was killed in 
battle Sept. 1, 1862. 
near Chantilly, Va. 
His remains were- 
sent by Gen. Lee 
under a flag of truce 
to Gen. Hooker, and being embalmed were 
transferred to New York and buried in 
the Watts vault in Trinity churchyard. 

KEARNEY, STEPHEN WATTS, sol¬ 
dier, was born Aug. 30, 1794, in Newark, 
N. J. He was a gallant soldier in the war 
of 1812. He was brevetted a brigadier in 
1846, and major-general in December the 
same year, for gallant conduct in the 
Mexican war. He died in October, 1848, in 
Vera Cruz. 

KEARSLEY, JOHN, physician, was 
born about 1684 in England. He served 
for many years in the assembly of Penn¬ 
sylvania; and was a celebrated physician 
of Philadelphia. He died in January, 
1772, in Philadelphia. 

KEASBEY, LINDLEY MILLER, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1867 in New 
Jersey. He was a professor of history 
and economics at the university of Colo¬ 
rado in 1892-94; and at Bryn Mawr col¬ 
lege, Bryn Mawr, Pa., from 1894. He is 
the author of The Nicaragua Canal and 
the Monroe Doctrine. 

KEATING, JOHN M., physician, author, 
was born April 30, 1852, in Philadelphia. 
He is a Philadelphia physician; and the 
author of With General Grant in the Ehst; 
Mothers’ Guide for Management of In¬ 
fants; Maternity, Infancy, and Childhood; 
and Diseases of the Heart. 

KEATING, WILLIAM HYPOLITUS, ed¬ 
ucator, chemist, author, was born Aug. 11, 
1799, in Wilmington, Del. His efforts for 
an institution of higher aims in scien¬ 
tific instruction ultimately led to the 
founding of the Franklin institute in 1824, 
in which he was professor of chemistry. 
He was the author of a Narrative of an 
Expedition to the Source of St. Peter’s 
River, etc., in 1823. He died about 1844 in 
London, England. 

KEAYNE, ROBERT, philanthropist, 
state legislator, was born in 1595 in Eng¬ 
land. He was frequently a representative 
to the Massachusetts state legislature be¬ 
tween 1638 and 1649, a liberal donor to 
Harvard, and left a legacy for the estab¬ 
lishment of a free school in Boston, which 
is now the Latin grammar school. He 
died March 23, 1656, in Boston, Mass. 






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KECK, JOHN MELVIN, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, lecturer, was born Sept. 18, 1854, 
in Franklin Square, Ohio. He is a grad¬ 
uate of Mount Union college, and of the 
Drew Theological seminary of Madison, 
N. J. He has filled the chair of German 
in the Mount Union college of Alliance, 
Ohio; since 1883 has been a clergyman of 
the methodist episcopal church; and now 
fills a pastorate in Mentor, Ohio. He is a 
noted lecturer on natural history; and a 
constant writer of magazine articles on 
popular science. 

KEDNEY, JOHN STEINFORT, educat¬ 
or, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 12, 
1819, in Essex county, N. J. He is an 
episcopal clergyman, professor in Sea- 
bury Divinity school at Faribault, Minn., 
since 1871; and the author of Mens Chris- 
ti, and Other Problems in Theology; Ca¬ 
tawba, and Other Poems; The Beautiful 
and the Sublime, an Analysis of me Emo¬ 
tions; Hegel’s .^Esthetics; and Christian 
Doctrine Harmonized. 

KEEFE, JOHN C., manufacturer, jour¬ 
nalist, inventor, was born in 1846 in 
Chicopee, Mass. In 1878 he became editor 
of the Milwaukee News. He is the in¬ 
ventor of several useful patents. 

KEEFER, HORACE ANDREW, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 8, 1855, in Schuylkill 
Haven, Pa. He received an academic edu¬ 
cation, and spent ten years in the various 
departments of iron and steel making in 
Pennsylvania—from clerk to superintend¬ 
ent. In 1883 he moved west, and subse¬ 
quently became a member of the Kansas 
house of representatives from the Leaven¬ 
worth district. 

KEEGAN, J. TREMAINE, poet, was 
born Sept. 16, 1847, in Berlin, Conn. He 
is the author of a number of meritorious 
poems, including Bells of San Bias; De¬ 
serted City in Yucatan; The Exile’s 
Dream; and The Wanderer’s Return. 

KEELER, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, or¬ 
nithologist, author, was born in 1871 in 
Wisconsin. He is an ornithologist and 
verse-writer of California; and the au¬ 
thor of Evolution of Color in North Amer¬ 
ican Land Birds; and A Light Through 
the Storm. 

KEELER, JAMES EDWARD, astron¬ 
omer, educator, journalist, was born Sept. 
10, 1857, in La Salle, Ill. Since 1891 he 
has been director of the Allegheny ob¬ 
servatory and professor of astrophysics 
in the Western university of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He is editor of the Astrophysical 
Journal. He discovered and measured 
the motions of Nebulae while at the Lick 
observatory; and while at Allegheny se¬ 
cured spectroscopic proof of the meteoric 
structure of Saturn’s rings. 

KEELER, RALPH, journalist, author, 
was born in 1840 in Ohio. He was a jour¬ 
nalist of California and New York; and 
the author of Gloverson and His Silent 
Partner; and Vagabond Adventures. He 
died Dec. 16, 1873, at sea near Cuba. 

KEELER, RICHARD WOOLSEY, col¬ 
lege president, was born Feb. 14, 1824, in 
Columbia county, N. Y. In 1856 he was 
elected the first president of Cornell col¬ 
lege of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, serving until 
1859. 

KEELY, JOHN WORRALL, inventor, 
was born Sept. 3, 1837 in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is the inventor of a hydro-pneumatic 
pulsating vacuo machine, whose action, it 
is claimed, is produced by forces obtained 
from water and air. He constructed one 
hundred and twenty-four different en¬ 
gines, and has eliminated the use of water 
entirely in developing the energy that 
he claims to control. 

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KEEN, MORRIS LONGSTRETH, in¬ 
ventor, was born May 24, 1820, in West 
Philadelphia. He gave attention to the 
making of paper out of wood, and this led 
to the formation in 1863 of the American 
Wood-Paper company, with patent rights 
for the United States and privileges in 
other lands. He died Nov. 2, 1883, in 
Highland Grove, Pa. 

KEEN, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, educat¬ 
or, physician, surgeon, author, was born 
Jan. 19, 1837, in Philadelphia. He was an 
eminent Philadelphia surgeon, professor 
of surgery at Jefferson Medical college 
since 1889; and author of Reflex Paraly¬ 
sis; Gunshot Wounds; Clinical Chart of 
the Human Body; Complications and 
Sequels of Continuous Fever; and Early 
History of Practical Anatomy. 

KEENAN, HENRY FRANCIS, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born May 4, 1849, in 
Rochester, N. Y. He is a journalist and 
novelist formerly of Rochester, N. Y.; 
and the author of The Money-Makers, a 
Social Problem; Trajan, the History of a 
Sentimental Young Man; The Aliens; 
One of a Thousand; and The Iron Game. 

KEENE, LAURA, actress, was born in 
1820 in England. She made her first ap¬ 
pearance in 1852 in Wallack’s theater of 
New York city. The Laura Keene com¬ 
pany, with Laura Keene, Joseph Jefferson 
and Edward A. Sothern in the leading 
roles, was playing Our American Cousin 
at Ford’s theater of Washington on April 
14, 1865, when President Lincoln met his 
death. She died Nov. 4, 1873, in Mont¬ 
clair, N. J. 

KEEP, JOHN, clergyman, was born 
April 20, 1781, in Long Meadow, Mass. 
Soon after his election as a trustee of 
Oberlin, he gave as president of the board 
the casting vote that admitted colored 
students. He was the last surviving 
founder of the American board of com¬ 
missioners for foreign missions. He died 
Feb. 11, 1870, in Oberlin, Ohio. 

KEEP, JOSIAH, educator, author, was 
born in 1849 in Massachusetts. He is an 
educator of California; and the author of 
Common Sea Shells of California; and 
West Coast Shells. 

KEEP, ROBERT PORTER, educator, 
author, was born in 1844 in Connecticut. 
He is an educator of Norwich, Conn.; and 
the author of Stories from Herodotus; Es¬ 
sential Uses of the Moods in Greek and 
Latin; and Greek Lessons. 

KEESE, RICHARD, congressman, was 
born Nov. 23, 1794, in Peru, N. Y. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1827 to 1829. He subse¬ 
quently settled in Pennsylvania. 

KEIFER, JOSEPH WARREN, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born 
Jan. 30, 1836, six miles west of Spring- 
field, Ohio. He at¬ 
tended the common 
district schools of 
his county, and fin¬ 
ished his education 
at the Antioch col¬ 
lege. He served in 
the union army with 
distinction and was 
rapidly promoted 
until he became 
major-g e n e r a 1 of 
United States volun¬ 
teers. In 1868-69 he 
served as a member of the Ohio state sen¬ 
ate; and was delegate at large from Ohio 
to the republican national convention. 
For four terms during 1877-85 he was a 
member of congress; and was speaker of 
the forty-seventh congress in 1881-83. 
Since 1873 he has been president of the 


Sagonda National bank, of Springfield, 
Ohio. In 1869-71 he was department com¬ 
mander of Ohio Grand Army of the Re¬ 
public; and Ohio commander-in-chief in 
1872. He has attained success in his pro¬ 
fession, and is one of the foremost lawyers 
of Ohio. 

KEIGHTLEY, EDWIN WILLIAM, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 
1843, in Van Buren, Ind. He was appointed 
judge of the fifteenth judicial circuit; and 
was elected to the same position in 1875, 
for the term of six years. He was elected 
a representative from Michigan to the 
forty-fifth congress; and in 1879 was ap¬ 
pointed third auditor of the United States 
treasury. 

KEIM, GEORGE MAf, soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born March 23, 
1805, in Reading, Pa. He took an interest 
in military affairs, and became a major- 
general of militia. He was a delegate to 
the Pennsylvania state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1837; in that year was elected 
to congress to fill a vacancy, and was 
twice re-elected. He was appointed mar¬ 
shal of eastern Pennsylvania, and reap¬ 
pointed by President Polk. He died June 
10, 1861. 

KEIM, WILLIAM HIGH, soldier, civil 
engineer, congressman, was born June 13, 
1813, near Reading, Pa. In 1848 he was 
elected mayor of Reading, Pa.; and in 1859 
was elected a representative in congress. 
He was also surveyor-general of the state. 
He was placed in command of a division 
of the volunteer army in 1861; after a 
campaign on the Upper Potomac was ap¬ 
pointed a brigadier-general in the regular 
army; and served with honor in the army 
of the Potomac. He died May 18, 1862, 
in Harrisburg, Pa. 

KEIPER, GEORGE FREDERIC, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born March 26, 1866, in 
La Fayette, Ind. He is oculist and aurist 
to the St. Elizabeth hospital and the St. 
Joseph Orphan asylum; and is the author 
of numerous essays on eye and ear sub¬ 
jects. 

KEITH, EDWARD CHARLES, educa¬ 
tor, business man, state senator, was born 
March 5, 1866, in Fairfield, Maine. He 
graduated from the 
Coburn Classical in¬ 
stitute, of Waterville, 
Maine. He has at¬ 
tained success as an 
educator; is one of 
the largest growers 
of small fruit in the 
state of Washington 
at Buckley; and is 
also interested in nu¬ 
merous mines. In 
1896 he was elected a 
memberofthe Wash¬ 
ington state senate. For the past ten years 
he has taken an active part in schools, 
politics,, horticulture and mining; and in 
the public and business affairs of his city, 
county and state. 

KEITH, ELIZA D., author, was born in 
1854, in San Francisco, Cal. She is the 
author of a poem entitled, Our Flag, writ¬ 
ten during the war; and has contributed 
various poems to different magazines. 

KEITH, CHARLES PENROSE, lawyer, 
author, was born March 15, 1854, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is the author of The 
Provincial Councilors of Pennsylvania; 
and The History of Benjamin Harrison. 

KEITH, REUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born June 26, 1792, in Pittsford, Vt. 
For many years he was rector of a pro- 
testant episcopal church in Georgetown, 
D. C. He was the author of several re¬ 
ligious works. He died Sept. 3, 1842, in 
Sheldon, Vt. 






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KEITH, WILLIAM, governor, author, 
was born in 1680, in England. For many 
years he was surveyor-general of customs 
in America; and during 1717-26 was gov¬ 
ernor of Pennsylvania. He was the au¬ 
thor of The History of the British Plan¬ 
tations in America; and other historical 
works of value. He died Nov. 17, 1749, in 
England. 

KEITT, LAWRENCE MASSILLON, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1824, 
in Orangeburg, S. C. He was elected to 
the South Carolina state legislature in 
1848; in 1853 was elected to a seat in the 
national house of representatives, and was 
consecutively re-elected until 1860. Just 
before leaving congress he was elected to 
the seceding convention of South Carolina. 
He was killed June 4, 1864, in battle in 
Virginia. 

KELIHER, JOHN AUSTIN, journalist, 
legislator, was born Nov. 6,1866, in Boston, 
Mass. For many years he has been suc¬ 
cessfully engaged in journalistic work; 
and in 1896-97 served with distinction as 
a member of the Massachusetts state leg¬ 
islatures. 

KELLAM, A. E., public official, was 
born July 6, 1849, in Northampton county, 
Va. He has filled various public offices 
of trust; has been clerk of the county 
and circuit courts of Princess Anne coun¬ 
ty, Va.; secretary of the railroad commis¬ 
sioners of Virginia; and has always taken 
an active part in the public affairs of his 
county and state. 

KELLAR, ANDREW J., soldier, lawyer, 
journalist. In 1860 he was admitted to 
the bar by the supreme court of Tennes¬ 
see. During the war he was in the con¬ 
federate service; and served as captain, 
lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the 
fourth regiment of the Tennessee infantry 
from April, 1861, to May 1, 1865. He is 
now one of the leading lawyers of South 
Dakota at Hot Springs; and a well-known 
journalist. 

KELLAR, EZRA, clergyman, college 
president, was born June 12, 1812, in Mid¬ 
dleton Valley, Md. In 1844 he estab¬ 
lished Wittenberg college. Springfield, 
Ohio, serving as its president till his 
death. He died Dec. 29, 1848, in Spring- 
field, Ohio. 

KELLER, ELIZABETH CATHARINE, 
educator, physician, was born April 4, 
1837, near Gettysburg, Pa. After receiv¬ 
ing her education she taught in the State 
School for Soldiers’ Orphans, in Lancaster, 
Pa.; then entered the Woman’s Medical 
■college, of Pennsylvania, in 1868, and 
graduated from that institution in 1871. 
During 1871-75 she was attending physi¬ 
cian and surgeon of the Woman’s hospital 
in Philadelphia; then resident physician 
and surgeon to the New England hospital 
for women until 1877; and ever since has 
been senior surgeon of that hospital. 
Since 1889 she has been a member of the 
Boston school board; and is now serving 
a third term. 

KELLER, JOSEPH EDWARD, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born in 1827, 
in Bavaria. He was a Jesuit educator, 
president of St. Louis university, and the 
author of Life and Acts of Pope Leo XIII. 
He died Feb. 4, 1886, in Rome, Italy. 

KELLEY, ABBY, reformer, was born 
Jan. 15, 1811, in Pelham, Mass. She found¬ 
ed the Anti-Slavery Bugle, and did much 
toward organizing the Webster Anti- 
Slavery society. 

KELLEY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
soldier, was born April 10, 1807, in New 
Hampton, N. H. In 1865 he was brevetted 
major-general of volunteers. At the close 
of the civil war he was appointed collector 
of internal revenue for the first district 


of West Virginia; in 1876 became superin¬ 
tendent of Hot Springs reservation, Ark.; 
and after 1883 he was an examiner of 
pensions. He died July 17, 1891, in Oak¬ 
land, Md. 

KELLEY*, HALL JACKSON, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 28, 1790, in North- 
wood, N. H. He was an educator of Bos¬ 
ton, who organized the first Sunday-school 
in New England; and made an unsuccess¬ 
ful attempt to colonize Oregon in 1830. 
He was the author of Geographical Des¬ 
cription of Oregon; Letters from an Af¬ 
flicted Husband; and History of the Set¬ 
tlement of Oregon. He died Jan. 17, 1874, 
in Palmer, Mass. 

KELLEY, HARRISON, soldier, farmer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
May 12, 1836, in Millgrove, Ohio. During 
1861-65 he served in the fifth Kansas cav¬ 
alry volunteers; and attained the rank of 
captain. He was subsequently made brig¬ 
adier-general of the state troops; which 
he commanded during the Indian troubles 
succeeding the rebellion. He served one 
term in the Kansas state house of repre¬ 
sentatives; and one term in the state sen¬ 
ate. He was receiver of the United States 
land office; and treasurer of the state 
board of charities. He was elected to the 
fifty-first congress to fill a vacancy. He 
died in 1897. 

KELLEY*, HENRY SMITH, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 18, 1832, near 
Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1853 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar; 
was elected prose¬ 
cuting attorney in 
1854 for the district 
composed of the 
counties of Black¬ 
ford, Delaware and 
Grant, Indiana. Af¬ 
ter serving two years 
he was elected judge 
of the court of com¬ 
mon pleas in the 
same district; and 
served four years. 
In 1862 he moved to Y'ermillion, Dakota 
territory; was elected auditor of the ter¬ 
ritory; but returned to Marion, Ind. He 
there edited the Grant County Union, 
practiced law, participated in politics as 
a republican; and has since filled similar 
positions in various cities. In 1872 he 
was elected circuit judge; receiving the re- 
election in 1874 and in 1880. He was a, 
candidate for congress in 1884; and has 
lectured extensively on medical jurispru¬ 
dence at the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons of St. Joseph, Mo.; and before 
other medical bodies. He is the author 
of Kelley’s Treatise for Justices, Consta¬ 
bles and Attorneys, a book of eleven 
hundred pages, which has passed through 
several editions; Kelley’s Probate Guide; 
Kelley’s Criminal Law and Practice; and 
other standard law works. 

KELLEY*, JAMES DOUGLAS JER- 
ROLD, soldier, author, was born in 1856. 
He is a lieutenant in the United States 
navy; and the author of The Question of 
Ships; Our Navy; and A Desperate 
Chance, a story. 

KELLEY, JAMES F., journalist, state 
senator, was born Nov. 20, 1863, near 
White Oak Springs, Wis. In 1890 he be¬ 
came the editor and owner of The 
Day County Herald of Webster, S. D. In 
1894 he was elected a member of the South 
Dakota state senate; and received the re- 
election in 1896. He has been president of 
the people’s party, state league of South 
Dakota; and is now the president of the 
J. F. Kelley and Company, of Webster, 
South Dakota. 


KELLEY*, JOHN EDWARD, journalist, 
legislator, was born March 27, 1853, in 
Columbia county, Wis. He received his 
education at the public schools of Wiscon¬ 
sin, and from private instructors. In 1891 
he was elected a member of the South Da¬ 
kota legislature; and became a leader of 
the independents during that session. In 
1892 he was nominated for congress by 
the people’s party; and made a brilliant 
campaign; was renominated for con¬ 
gressman at large in 1894; again in 1896, 
when he was successful. He is now serv¬ 
ing with distinction in the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress. He is a successful journalist of 
Flandreau; and an able writer on eco¬ 
nomic questions. 

KELLEY, JOHN ELMER, lawyer, was 
born Nov. 12, 1862, in Birmingham, Iowa. 
He was mayor of McCook, Neb., in 1894- 
96; and is now state president of the 
American Protective association in Ne¬ 
braska. He is one of the foremost law¬ 
yers of Nebraska; and is prominently 
identified with the public affairs of his 
county and state. 

KELLEY, SAMUEL HARLAN, lawyer, 
was born March 27, 1861, in Marion, Ind. 
He attended the University of Missouri 
and the Columbian Law school; and is now 
a successful corporation lawyer of Benton 
Harbor, Mich. In 1882-86 he was adjudi¬ 
cator of claims, United States treasury, 
Washington, D. C.; and in 1886-87 was 
chief clerk of the United States land of¬ 
fice in Wakeeney, Kan. He is the attorney 
of the C. C. C. and St. Louis railway com¬ 
pany; and general solicitor for the St. 
Joseph Valley railway company. 

KELLEY*. WILLIAM DARRAGH, law¬ 
yer, congressman, author, was born April 
12, 1814, in Philadelphia, Pa. He held the 
office of judge of the court of common 
pleas in Philadelphia for some years. He 
was elected a representative from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the thirty-seventh, thirty- 
eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, 
forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth, 
forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. He was the au¬ 
thor of Speeches, Addresses, and Letters 
on Political Questions; Letters from Eu¬ 
rope; Lincoln and Stanton; and The Old 
South and The New. He died Jan. 9, 
1890, in Washington, D. C. 

KELLOGG, ALBERT, botanist, was born 
Dec. 6, 1813, in New Hartford, Conn. The 
first accurate description of the big trees 
of California was made by him and pub¬ 
lished by John C. Fremont in his Re¬ 
port of the Exploring Expedition to the 
Rocky Mountains in 1842, and to Oregon 
and North California in the years 1843-44. 
He died March 31, 1887, in Alameda, Cal. 

KELLOGG, ALFRED HOSEA, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1837, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a presbyterian clergyman 
of Detroit; and the author of Abraham, 
Joseph, and Moses in Egypt, an attempted 
solution of the Exodus problem. 

KELLOGG, CHARLES, congressman, 
was born in Berkshire county, Mass. He 
served six years in the New York as¬ 
sembly from Cayuga county; and was a 
representative in congress from that 
state from 1825 to 1827. 

KELLOGG, CLARA LOUISE, vocalist, 
was born July 12, 1842, in Sumterville. S. 
C. Her first success was as the Marguerite 
of Faust, which she sang in Italian opera. 

KELLOGG, EDWARD, economist, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 18, 1790, in Norwalk, 
Conn. He was the author of Labor and 
Other Capital. He died April 29, 1858, in 
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KELLOGG, EDWARD HENRY, mer¬ 
chant, was born Sept. 1, 1828, in Ira, N, 

Y. In 1851 he moved to New York city, 
took a position as 
clerk in a commis¬ 
sion house, in which 
he subsequently be¬ 
came a partner. In 
1858 he commenced 
the manufacture and 
sale of lubricators, 

using as a basis ani¬ 
mal and vegetable 

oil. Soon after the 

introduction of pe¬ 
troleum for illumi¬ 
nating purposes, he 
saw the possibility of it as a lubricator; 
and, after experimenting, succeeded in ob¬ 
taining a product which has since been 
recognized as a standard for purity and 
excellence, both in this country and in 
Europe. In 1876 he established a branch 
house in Liverpool, which has since be¬ 
come the distributing center for all parts 
of Europe. 

KELLOGG, ELIJAH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born May 20, 1813, in Portland, 
Maine. He is a congregational clergyman 
of Harpswell, Maine, from 1844. He has 
written many popular juvenile books. In¬ 
cluding Elm Island Series; Forest Glen 
Series; Good Old Times Series; Pleasant 
Cove Series; and Whispering Pine Series; 
but perhaps is best known as the author 
of the Address of Spartacus to the 
Gladiators. 

KELLOGG, FRANCIS W„ legislator, 
congressman, was born May 30, 1810, in 
Washington, Mass. He served in the leg¬ 
islature of Michigan in 1856-57; and was 
elected a representative from that state 
to the thirty-sixth congress; was re-elect¬ 
ed to the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth 
congresses. In 1865 he was appointed col¬ 
lector of internal revenue for Alabama, 
and was elected from that state to the for¬ 
tieth congress, as a republican. He died 
in November, 1878, in Alliance, Ohio. 

KELLOGG, GEORGE, inventor, was 
born June 19, 1812, in New Hartford, 
Conn. He has testified as an expert in 
noted patent cases, and has made many 
inventions, including a machine to make 
jack-chain at the rate of a yard a minute. 

KELLOGG, JOHN HARVEY, physician, 
author, was born in 1852, in Michigan. 
He is a physician of Battle Creek, Mich.; 
editor of Good Health for many years; 
and the author of Ladies’ Guide in 
Health and Disease; Home Handbook of 
Hygiene and Rational Medicine; Man the 
Masterpiece; and Plain Facts for Old and 
Young. 

KELLOGG, MARTIN, college president, 
was born March 15, 1828, in Vernon, Conn. 
In 1893 he was elected president of the 
university of California, which position 
he still holds. 

KELLOGG, ORLANDO, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 18, 1809, in 
Elizabethtown, N. Y. In 1840 he was ap¬ 
pointed surrogate of Essex county, which 
office he held for four years. In 1846 he 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the thirtieth congress; and re¬ 
elected to the thirty-eighth and thirty- 
ninth congresses. He died Aug. 24, 1865, 
in Elizabethtown, N. Y. 

KELLOGG, SAMUEL HENRY, mis¬ 
sionary, author, was born Sept. 6, 1839, in 
Westhampton, N. Y. He is a presbyterian 
missionary to India; and the author of 
Grammar of the Hindoo Language; The 
Jews, or Prediction and Fulfillment; The 
Light of Asia and the Light of the World; 
From Death to Resurrection; and the 
Genesis and Growth of Religion. 


KELLOGG, STEPHEN W., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born April 5, 1822, 
in Shelburne, Mass. He was judge of the 
New Haven county court in 1854; a mem¬ 
ber of the Massachusetts state senate in 
1853; and of the state house of represen¬ 
tatives in 1856. He was elected judge of 
probate in 1854; and held the office six 
years. He was elected to the forty-first, 
forty-second, and forty-third congresses, 
as a republican. 

KELLOGG, WARREN FRANKLIN, 
journalist, author, was born Nov. 24, 1860, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is the editor and 
owner of the New England Magazine, of 
Boston, Mass. He is the author of Recent 
French Art; and Hunting in the Jungle. 

KELLOGG, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, congressman, was born July 8, 
1814, in Ashtabula County, Ohio. He 
served in the state legislature in 1849 and 
1850; and was three years judge of the 
circuit court of Illinois. He was elected a 
representative from that state to the 
thirty-fifth congress; and was re-elected 
to the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh 
congresses. In 1866 he was appointed 
chief justice of Nebraska territory. 

KELLOGG, WILLIAM PITT, soldier, 
jurist, congressman, governor, United 
States senator, was born Dec. 8, 1831, in 
Orwell, Vt. He was a presidential elector 
from Illinois in 1856 and 1860; and a dele¬ 
gate to the republican conventions of 
those years. He was appointed chief jus¬ 
tice of Nebraska. For his services in 
Southern Missouri and in the Corinth 
campaign, he was made a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He was appointed collector of the 
port of New Orleans; and in 1868 was 
elected a senator in congress from Louis¬ 
iana for the term ending in 1871. He was 
subsequently elected governor of Louis¬ 
iana. He was again elected to the United 
States senate for the term of six years 
from 1877; and in 1882 was elected a rep¬ 
resentative to the forty-eighth congress 
as a republican. 

KELLUM, JOHN C., lawyer, was born 
Aug. 6, 1867, in Harrison county, Mo. He 
graduated from the Missouri State univer¬ 
sity; and is now a successful lawyer of 
Phoenix, Ariz.; and assistant district at¬ 
torney of Maricopa county. He has been 
United States court commissioner for 
Arizona; and has filled other prominent 
public positions of trust. 

KELLY, EUGENE, merchant, banker, 
was born Nov. 25, 1806, in Ireland. In 
1861 Mr. Kelly founded in San Francisco 
the banking house 
of Donohoe, Ralston 
and Co., and in New 
York the banking 
house of Eugene 
Kelly and Co. In 
1864 Mr. Ralston re¬ 
tired, and,associating 
himself with D. 0. 
Mills, subsequently 
became one of the 
leading financiers of 
the West. The San 
Francisco bank then 
took the name of Donohoe, Kelly and Co., 
Mr. Donohoe managing partner, and so 
continued until 1891, when the partners 
incorporated as a joint stock company un¬ 
der the title of the Donohoe-Kelly Bank¬ 
ing Co. He died Dec. 19, 1894, in Ireland. 

KELLY, JAMES, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1805 to 1809. 

KELLY, JAMES EDWARD, sculptor, 
was born July 30, 1855, in New York city. 
In 1883 he was chosen from among many 
competitors to make the five bas-reliefs 
which surround the base of the Monmouth 


battle monument. The subjects selected 
were Council of War at Hopewell, Wash¬ 
ington Rallying the Troops, Ramsay De¬ 
fending His Guns, Molly Pitcher, and 
Wayne’s Charge. 

KELLY, JAMES KERR, soldier, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born Feb. 
16, 1819, in Centre county, Pa. In 1852 he 
was elected one of three commissioners to 
prepare a code of laws for Oregon ter¬ 
ritory; and was a member of the legisla¬ 
tive council from 1853 to 1857. He was a 
member of the convention which framed 
the constitution of Oregon in 1857; and 
was a senator in the state legislature from 
1860 to 1864. In 1855 he was chosen lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel of the first regiment of 
Oregon mounted volunteers; and was en¬ 
gaged in the Yakima Indian war in 1855 
and 1856. He was elected a senator in 
congress for the term commencing in 1871 
and ending in 1877. 

KELLY, JOHN, antiquarian, state leg¬ 
islator, was born March 7, 1786, in War¬ 
ner, N. H. He was a member of the leg¬ 
islature; clerk of the house in 1828; and 
state councillor in 1846. He removed to 
Exeter in 1831; and for many years edited 
the News Letter. He died Nov. 3, 1860, 
in Exeter, N. H. 

KELLY, JOHN, public official, congress¬ 
man, was born April 21, ’1821, in New 
York. He was elected a representative in 
the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth con¬ 
gresses. He died June 1, 1886, in New 
York city. 

KELLY, JONATHAN FALCON- 
BRIDGE, author, was born in 1818, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was the author of 
Memoirs of Falconbridge, a collection of 
humorous scenes. 

KELLY, MICHAEL JOSEPH, jurist, 
banker, state senator, was born March 22, 
1850, in Ireland. He was a senator of the 
Iowa state legislature for eight years; and 
president of the senate for two years. He 
was a member of the farmers’ congress for 
three sessions; and president of the 
Williamsburgh Savings bank for the past 
thirteen years. 

KELLY, MILTON, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in New York. He was appointed an 
associate justice of the United States 
court for the territory of Idaho. 

KELLY, PATRICK, college president, 
bishop, was born in Ireland. He was 
president of Birchfield college; and was 
the first Roman catholic archbishop of 
the diocese of Richmond. He died Oct. 
8, 1829, in Ireland. 

KELLY, ROBERT, philanthropist, was 
born Dec. 10, 1808, in New York city. He 
was the founder of the Free academy, now 
College of the city of New York; president 
of the board of education; a regent of the 
state university; and a founder and presi¬ 
dent of the board of trustees of Rochester 
university. He died April 27, 1856. 

KELLY, ROBERT MORROW, lawyer, 
journalist, was born Sept. 22, 1836, in 
Paris, Ky. In his youth he was engaged 
in educational work; and was city at¬ 
torney of Cynthiana, Ky. During the war 
he was captain, major, lieutenant-colonel, 
and colonel in the fourth regiment Ken¬ 
tucky infantry United States volunteers. 
He subsequently served as collector of in¬ 
ternal revenue for the seventh district of 
Kentucky; was United States pension 
agent for Kentucky; and editor-in-chief 
of the Louisville Daily Commercial. 

KELLY, WILLIAM, congressman. 
United States senator, was born about 
1770, in Tennessee. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Louisiana during the 
years 1821 and 1822; and a senator in 
congress from 1822 to 1825. He died abdut 
1832, in New Orleans, La. 





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KELLY, WILLIAM, philanthropist, 
state senator, was born Feb. 4, 1807, in 
New York city. He was president of the 
state agricultural society in 1854; one of 
the founders of the state agricultural col¬ 
lege at Ovid, N. Y.; and president of its 
board of trustees. He was a state senator 
in 1855-56; and the unsuccessful demo¬ 
cratic candidate for governor of New 
York in 1860. He died Jan. 14, 1872, in 
Torquay, England. 

KELLY, WILLIAM, inventor, was born 
Aug. 22, 1811, in Pittsburg, Pa. At the 
age of eighteen he built a propelling 
water-wheel, and four years later a re¬ 
volving steam engine. He died Feb. 11, 
1888, in Louisville, Ky. 

KELLY, WILLIAM D., merchant, state 
legislator, was born Nov. 26, 1865, in 
Ferrysburg, Mich. For many years he 
was successfully engaged in the wholesale 
lumber business in Muskegon, Mich.; and 
for a number of years past has given 
his attention to the real estate and in¬ 
surance business. In 1892 he was one of 
the organizers of the chamber of com¬ 
merce, of which he is secretary. In 1895 
he was elected a member of the Michigan 
state legislature; and received re-election 
to that office in 1897. 

KELSEY, CHARLES BOYD, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born Nov. 1, 1850, in 
Farmington, Conn. In 1888-89 he was ap¬ 
pointed professor of diseases of the rect¬ 
um in the university of Vermont. He is 
the author of Annual of the Universal 
Medical Sciences; and Encyclopedic Med¬ 
ical Directory. 

KELSEY, WILLIAM D., lawyer, was 
born Jan. 1, 1847, in LeClaire, Iowa. For 
five years he was postmaster under Presi¬ 
dent Grant; has served as clerk of the dis¬ 
trict court; was district attorney; and is 
now one of the foremost lawyers of Colo¬ 
rado, with a large practice in Holyoke. 

KELSEY, WILLIAM H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 2, 1812, in 
Smyrna, N. Y. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the thirty- 
fourth and thirty-fifth congresses; and re¬ 
elected to the fortieth and forty-first con¬ 
gresses. 

KELSO, CHARLES D., lawyer, was 
born Sept. 20, 1863, in New Albany, Ind. 
He attended the Louisville Law school; 
was admitted to the bar; for four years 
was city attorney of his native town; 
and for two years county attorney 
of Floyd county, Ind. He is a member of 
the law firm of Kelso and Kelso, of New 
Albany. 

KELSO, JAMES V., soldier, lawyer, 
was born April 16, 1835, in Madison, Ind. 
He received the rudiments of his educa¬ 
tion in the common and high schools of 
his native county; attended the New Al¬ 
bany university, and the Asbury univer¬ 
sity. He served three years as a union 
soldier during the civil war, and partici¬ 
pated in the battles of Stone River, Chick- 
amauga, and Missionary Ridge. For eight 
years he was city attorney of New Albany, 
Ind.; for ten years was county attorney of 
Floyd county; and for three years was 
trustee of the New Albany city schools. 

KELSO, JOHN R., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born March 21, 1831, in Franklin 
county, Ohio. He served through the war 
for the union as a lieutenant and captain; 
and in 1864 was elected a representative 
from Missouri to the thirty-ninth con : 
gress. 

KELSO, THOMAS, philanthropist, was 
born in 1784, in Ireland. He founded the 
Kelso orphan home, for the orphans of 
members of the methodist church, at a 
cost of $120,000; and gave liberally to 
churches in Baltimore and Washington. 
He died July 26, 1878, in Baltimore, Md. 


KELTON, JOHN CUNNINGHAM, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born June 24, 1828, in 
Delaware county, Pa. He is a brigadier- 
general in the United States army; and 
the author of New Manual of the Bayo¬ 
net; Fencing with Foils; Pigeons as Cour¬ 
iers; and Information for Riflemen. 

KEM, OMER MADISON, congressman, 
was born Nov. 13, 1855, in Wayne county, 
Ind. In 1890 he removed to Broken Bow, 
Neb., to fill an appointment as deputy 
treasurer of Custer county. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-second and fifty-third con¬ 
gresses; and re-elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress as a populist. 

KEMBLE, FRANCES ANNE, actress, 
author, was born in 1809. She is better 
known as Fanny Kemble. She wrote sev¬ 
eral plays; a story of her life on a Geor¬ 
gia plantation; and numerous poems, 
which were published in Boston. 

KEMBLE, GOUVERNEUR. manufact¬ 
urer, congressman, was born Jan. 25, 1786, 
in New York city. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1837 to 1841. He 
died Sept. 16, 1875, in Cold Spring, N. Y. 

KEMEYS, EDWARD, sculptor, was 
born Jan. 31, 1843, in Savannah, Ga. He 
has made a specialty of the wild animals 
of the American continent. His Fight 
Between Buffalo and Wolves has attract¬ 
ed much attention. 

KEMP, ELLWOOD L., educator, lect¬ 
urer, poet, was born Jan. 31, 1857, in Ham¬ 
burg, Pa. He has been president of the 
Palatinate college of Myerstown, Pa.; and 
is now connected with the state normal 
school of East Stroudsburg, Pa. He is the 
author of a volume of poems entitled, An 
Idyl of the War, and Other Poems. 

KEMP, HENRY E., merchant, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Nov. 30, 1860, in Bristol, 
Wis. He is a successful hardware mer¬ 
chant of Phoenix, Arizona; and a heavy 
stockholder in various other business en¬ 
terprises. He served with distinction as 
a member of the eighteenth legislative 
council of the Arizona territorial legisla¬ 
ture, from Maricopa county. He was the 
first president of the Phoenix chamber of 
commerce; and has taken a prominent 
part in the business and public affairs of 
Arizona. 

KEMP, MRS. ISABEL F„ poet, was 
born Aug. 13, 1849, in Eaglefield, Ind. She 
has attained success as a vocalist and a 
teacher of music; and is also the author 
of a number of meritorious poems. 

KEMP, JAMES, bishop, author, was 
born in 1764, in Scotland. Having been 
elected by the convention of Maryland, he 
was consecrated,in 1814, suffragan bishop; 
and in 1816 he succeeded to the bishopric. 
He published, in addition to several oc¬ 
casional discourses, A Tract on Con¬ 
version; Letters in Vindication of Epis¬ 
copacy; A Sermon on Deathbed Repent¬ 
ance; and A Sermon on the Death of Bish¬ 
op Claggett. He died Oct. 28, 1827, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

KEMPER, GENERAL WILLIAM HAR¬ 
RISON, physician, surgeon, was born Dec. 
16, 1839, in Rush county, Ind. In 1865 he 
graduated from the Long Island college 
with the degree of M. D. He has attained 
success in his profession at Muncie, Ind.; 
has been coroner of Delaware county; ex¬ 
amining surgeon for pensions; and in 
1886 was elected president of the Indiana 
State Medical society. He served through 
the war, first as a private in the seventh 
regiment, and became assistant surgeon 
of the seventeenth regiment Indiana vol¬ 
unteer infantry. He has contributed more 
than fifty articles to medical societies 


and journals; and is a member of the 
leading medical bodies of America. 

KEMPER, JAMES LAWSON, soldier, 
legislator, governor, was born June 11, 
1823, in Madison county, Va. He served 
through the war with Mexico as a captain; 
and served ten years in the legislature of 
his native state. He served as a colonel, 
and became a major-general in the con¬ 
federate army during the rebellion. In 
1874 he was elected governor of Virginia. 

KEMPSHALL, THOMAS, congressman, 
was born in England. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York 
state from 1839 to 1841; and was one 
of the pioneers of Rochester, where he 
died Jan. 14, 1865. 

KEMPSTER, WALTER, soldier, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born May 25, 1842, 
in London, England. Entering the na¬ 
tional army as a private, he served 
throughout the civil war, and in 1865 be¬ 
came acting assistant surgeon. Since 1873 
he has been superintendent of the North¬ 
ern Wisconsin hospital for the insane, at 
Oshkosh, Wis. 

KENAN, THOMAS, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1771 in Duplin 
county, N. C. In 1799 he was a member 
of the house of delegates; served in the 
state senate in 1804; and was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from North Carolina 
from 1805 to 1811. He subsequently moved 
to Alabama, where he served for many 
years in the legislature of that state, but 
declined a re-election to congress. He 
died Oct. 22, 1843, near Selma, Ala. 

KENDALL, ADELBERT A., lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 3, 1851, in Janes¬ 
ville, Wis. In 1886 he was admitted to the 
bar; in 1893 was appointed judge of the 
eleventh judicial district of Nebraska; 
was elected to fill the vacancy in 1894; 
and re-elected to the same position in 
1895. He has acquired a good reputation 
as an able lawyer of St. Paul, Neb. 

KENDALL, AMOS, author, journalist, 
was born Aug. 16, 1789, in Dunstable, 
Mass. In 1829 he was appointed fourth 
auditor of the treasury of Kentucky; and 
in 1835 was promoted to the position of 
postmaster-general. He subsequently took 
up his residence in Washington City. He 
was the founder of the Deaf and Dumb In¬ 
stitution in Washington. He wrote a 
History of His Life and Times; and a 
Life of Andrew Jackson. He died Nov. 11, 
1869, in Washington, D. C. 

KENDALL, CHARLES WEST, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born April 
22, 1828, in Searsmont, Maine. He was 
educated at Phillips’ 
academy, Massachu¬ 
setts, and attended a 
partial course at 
Yale college, studied 
law in Sacramento, 
Cal., and practiced in 
Nevada. He was a 
member of the legis¬ 
lature of California 
in 1861 and 1862; and 
was elected to the 
forty - second and 
fort y-t h i r d con¬ 
gresses from Nevada. He is a successful 
orator; and served on several important 
committees while in congress. 

KENDALL, EDWARD HALE, architect, 
was born July 31, 1842, in Boston, Mass. 
He was associated in designing the or¬ 
iginal Equitable building; and was the 
architect of the German Savings bank on 
Fourth avenue; the Washington building 
on lower Broadway; and the residences 
of Robert and Ogden Goelet on Fifth 
avenue, New York city. 



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KENDALL, EZRA OTIS, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born May 17, 1818, in Wilming¬ 
ton, Mass. In 1855 he was elected to the 
chair of mathematics in the university of 
Pennsylvania; and in 1883 was chosen to 
fill the office of vice-provost. He is the 
author of a work entitled Uranography. 

KENDALL, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, 
soldier, was born Aug. 28, 1838, in Con¬ 
cord, N. H. He received his education in 
the public schools of Concord; Meriden 
college, New Hampshire; attended Dart¬ 
mouth college in 1856-57; and Bow- 
doin college in 1858-60. In 1861 he en¬ 
listed in company B, eleventh regiment 
Indiana volunteer infantry, and during 
several transfers was rapidly advanced un¬ 
til he became captain. In 1866 he entered 
the regular service, was on frontier service 
in Texas until 1874, when he was in re¬ 
cruiting service at Cleveland. He was 
professor of military science and tactics 
at the Brooks’ Military academy until 1879. 
when he returned to Texas for duty, until 
retired from active service in 1884. In 
1889 he was elected president of the Cleve¬ 
land Life Underwriters’ association, and 
was re-elected in 1890 and in 1893. In 
1896 he was elected junior vice-command¬ 
er of the Ohio commandery of the Mili¬ 
tary Order of the Loyal Legion; and his 
wife is also regent of the Cleveland chap¬ 
ter of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution. 

KENDALL, GEORGE WILKINS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1810 in Ver¬ 
mont. He is a journalist of New Orleans; 
and the author of The War between the 
United States and Mexico; and The Texan 
Santa Fe Expedition. 

KENDALL, JONAS, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was horn in 1757 in Worcester, 
Mass. He served thirteen years in the 
legislature of Massachusetts; and was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1819 to 1821. He died Oct. 22, 1844, 
in Leominster, Mass. 

KENDALL, JOSEPH G., congressman, 
was born in 1788. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Massachusetts from 
1829 to 1833. He died Oct. 2, 1847, in Wor¬ 
cester, Mass. 

KENDALL, JOSEPH M., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 12, 1863, in West 
Liberty, Ky. He was elected to the fifty- 
second congress to 
fill the vacancy 
caused by the death 
of his father. He 
declined a re-elec¬ 
tion; but was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fourth 
congress as a demo¬ 
crat. He is a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer of 
Prestonburg, K y., 
and has taken an ac¬ 
tive part in the pub¬ 
lic affairs of his city. 
His father was the 
Hon. John W. Kendall, a noted confeder¬ 
ate cavalry officer, jurist and statesman. 

KENDALL, JOSEPH WILKINS, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Aug. 22, 1809, in Mount 
Vernon, N. H. He attained high rank as 
a journalist, and was prominent in the 
public affairs of his native state. 

KENDALL, MILTON T., poet. He is a 
successful writer of Washington, Pa. 

KENDRICK, ASAHEL CLARK, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Dec. 7, 1809, in Poult- 
ney, Vt. He was a noted Greek scholar 
who was professor of Greek at Rochester 
university since 1850; and the author of 
Echoes: metrical translations from the 
Greek and German; The Moral Conflict 
of Humanity and Other Papers; Life of 
Mrs. Emily Judson; A Child’s Book of 


Greek; and Introduction to the Greek 
Language. He was one of the reviser's 
of the New Testament, published inde¬ 
pendent commentaries and translations, 
and edited Our Poetical Favorites. 

KENDRICK, C., physician, surgeon, leg¬ 
islator, was born May 24, 1852, in Hardin 
county, Tenn. He served two terms in 
the Mississippi house of representatives; 
and is now serving his third term in the 
state senate. 

KENDRICK. NATHANIEL, educator, 
clergyman, was born April 22, 1777, in 
Hanover, N. H. He was a successful cler¬ 
gyman; and professor of theology and 
moral philosophy in the Madison univer¬ 
sity of Hamilton from 1822 until his death. 
He died Sept. 11, 1848. 

KENLY, JOHN REESE, soldier, author, 
was born in 1822 in Baltimore, Md. He 
was a captain and major of volunteers in 
the Mexican war, and brigadier-general in 
the federal army in the civil war. He was 
the author of Memoirs of a Maryland 
Volunteer in the Mexican War. 

KENNA, JOHN EDWARD, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, United States senator, 
was born April 10, 1848, in Valcoulon, 
W. Va. He served in 
the confederate army 
during the war of 
the rebellion. He was 
prosecuting attorney 
from 1872 to 1877; 
and was elected a 
representative from 
West Virginia to the 
forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh, 
and fort y-eighth 
congresses. He re¬ 
signed in 1883 to take 
his seat as a senator of the United States 
from West Virginia for the term of six 
years from 1883; and was re-elected for 
the term ending in 1895. He died Jan. 11, 
1893. 

KENNAN, GEORGE, traveler, author, 
was born Feb. 16, 1845, in Norwalk, Ohio. 
He is a noted traveler who made a care¬ 
ful investigation of the Russian exile sys¬ 
tem for The Century Magazine, and drew 
world-wide attention to the subject. He 
is the author of Tent Life in Siberia; and 
Siberia and the Exile System. 

KENNEDY, ANDREW, state senator, 
congressman, was born in 1810 in Ohio. 
He was a member of the state senate of 
Indiana; and represented that state in 
congress, 1841 to 1847. He died Dec. 31, 
1847, in Muncie, Ind. 

KENNEDY, ANTHONY, manufacturer, 
United States senator, was born in 1811 in 
Baltimore, Md. He was a member of the 
legislature of Virginia from 1839 to 1843. 
He moved to Baltimore in 1850; and was 
elected to the Maryland legislature in 
1856. He was elected to the United States 
senate for six years from 1857. He died 
July 31, 1892, in Annapolis, Md. 

KENNEDY, CRAMMOND, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 20, 1842, in Scotland. 
He is a lawyer of Washington; and the 
author of James Stanly, a Sunday-School 
tale; The Liberty of the Press; Corn in 
the Blade, a book of verse; and Close 
Communion or Open Communion. 

KENNEDY, JAMES K„ lawyer, jurist. 
He was an associate justice of the United 
States court for the territory of Wash¬ 
ington. 

KENNEDY, JOHN PENDLETON, law¬ 
yer, statesman, author, was born in Oc¬ 
tober, 1795, in Baltimore, Md. He was a 
member of the house of delegates of 
Maryland in 1820, 1822, and 1846; and was 
speaker in the latter year. In 1838 he 
was elected to the house of representatives 
in the federal legislature, and served in 


that body through the twenty-fifth, twen¬ 
ty-seventh, and twenty-eighth congresses. 
In 1849 he was chosen by the regents of 
the university of Maryland to preside over 
that institution as provost. His princi¬ 
pal works are: Annals of Quodlibet; At 
Home and Abroad; Swallow Barn; Horse- 
Shoe Robinson; Rob of the Bowl; and 
Life of William Wirt. He died Aug. 18, 
1870, in Newport, R. I. 

KENNEDY, JOSEPH CAMP GRIF¬ 
FITH, statistician, was born April 1, 1813, 
in Meadville, Pa. He was corresponding 
secretary of the National institute, and 
of the United States Agricultural society, 
and editor of the journal of the latter. 
He was a member of the statistical board 
of Belgium; of the Geographical society 
of Prussia; of the statistical societies of 
France, England, and Ireland, and of 
other European and American associa¬ 
tions. He died July 13, 1887, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

KENNEDY, JOSIAH FORREST, phy¬ 
sician, educator, surgeon, was born Jan. 
31, 1834, in Landisburg, Pa. He was pro¬ 
fessor of obstetrics in the Iowa State uni¬ 
versity and the Iowa College of Physicians 
and Surgeons. He was a delegate to the 
International Congress of Hygiene held 
in London in 1891; and is at present sec¬ 
retary to the Iowa state board of health. 

KENNEDY, NATHAN B., physician, 
poet, was born Dec. 24, 1837, in Sumpter 
county, Ala. In 1860 he graduated from 
the medical depart¬ 
ment of Tulane uni¬ 
versity, and the fol¬ 
lowing year entered 
the confederate army 
as assistant surgeon, 
serving in that ca¬ 
pacity until the close 
of the war. For 
thirty-four years he 
was actively engaged 
in the practice of his 
profession, but has 
now retired and lives 
in Hillsboro, Texas. He has contributed 
extensively to the periodical press, and his 
poems have been given a place in Poets of 
America and other standard works. 

KENNEDY, ROBERT PATTERSON, 
soldier, lawyer, lieutenant-governor, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 23, 1840, in Belle- 
fontaine, Ohio. He served in the civil war 
and attained the rank of brevet brigadier- 
general. He was appointed collector of 
internal revenue in Ohio in 1878, and con¬ 
tinued in that office till the consolidation 
of the* Ohio districts in 1883. He was 
elected lieutenant-governor in 1885; was 
elected to the fiftieth congress, and was 
re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a 
republican. 

KENNEDY, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina from 1803 to 1805, from 
1809 to 1811, and from 1813 to 1815. 

KENNEDY, WILLIAM RIDDELL, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born March 27, 1844, in 
Springfield, Pa. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education at the common 
schools; attended the Normal academy 
of West Chester, Pa.; and one term in the 
law department of the Douglass university 
of Chicago. In 1876 he was a member of 
the constitutional convention of Colorado; 
has been county attorney of Hinsdale 
county; city attorney of Leadville; judge 
of probate of Gilpin county, Colo.; and 
secretary of the state senate of the ninth 
general assembly of Colorado. He is one 
of the leading lawyers of the west, and 
has a large practice in Leadville, where he 
takes a prominent part in the public af¬ 
fairs of Colorado. 



county and state. 





550 HERRINGSH 

KENNEDY, WILLIAM SLOANE. cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 3, 1822, in 
Muncy, Pa. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Ohio; and the author of 
Messianic Prophecies; Life of Christ; 
History of the Plan of Union; and Sacred 
Analysis. He died in 1861. 

KENNEDY, WILLIAM SLOANE, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1850 in Ohio. He is 
a writer of Belmont, Mass., and the au¬ 
thor of Lives of Longfellow, Holmes, and 
Whittier; Wonders and Curiosities of 
the Railway; Poems of the Weird and 
Mystical; Reminiscences of Walt Whit¬ 
man; Art of Life, a Ruskin Anthology; 
Whittier, the Poet of Freedom; In Por¬ 
tia’s Gardens; and Bibliography and Lit¬ 
erary History of Leaves of Grass. 

ivENNER. DUNCAN F., planter, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1813 
in New Orleans. He served for several 
terms in the Louisiana legislature; and 
was a member of the confederate con¬ 
gress. He owned one of the largest stock- 
farms in the United States; He died July 
3, 1887, in New Orleans. 

KENNETT, A. CROSBY, manufacturer, 
legislator, state senator, was born July 
27, 1859, in Madison, N. H. He is a suc¬ 
cessful spool manufacturer of Conway, 
N. H.; has been a representative in the 
New Hampshire state legislature; and is 
now a member of the state senate. 

KENNETT, LUTHER M„ merchant, 
railroad president, congressman, was born 
March 15, 1807, in Falmouth, Ky. In 1850 
he was elected mayor of St. Louis, and re¬ 
elected in 1851 and 1852. In 1853 he was 
elected president of the St. Louis and Iron 
Mountain railroad; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Missouri from 1855 
to 1857. 

KENNEY, RICHARD R.. lawyer, 
United States senator, was born Sept. 9, 
1856, in Sussex county, Del. He was 
elected state librari¬ 
an in 1879, and held 
that office for two 
terms. He was ap¬ 
pointed adjutant- 
general of Delaware 
in 1887, and retired 
from that office at 
the end of his term 
in 1891. He was del¬ 
egate to the national 
democratic conven¬ 
tion at Chicago in 
1892; was made a 
member of the democratic national com¬ 
mittee in 1896, which position he still 
holds. He was elected to the United 
States senate as a democrat in 1897, to 
fill a vacancy. 

KENNON, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He moved to 
Ohio; and was elected a representative 
in congress from that state from 1829 to 
1833, from 1833 to 1837, and from 1847 to 
1849. 

KENRICK, FRANCIS PATRICK, arch¬ 
bishop, author, was born Dec. 3, 1797, in 
Ireland. He was the Roman catholic 
archbishop of Baltimore in 1851-63; and 
the author of Theologia Dogmatica; The- 
ologia Moralis; The Primacy of the Apos¬ 
tolic See Vindicated; Vindication of the 
Catholic Church; and End of Religious 
Controversy Controverted. He also pub¬ 
lished a translation of the Scriptures with 
commentary. He died July 6, 1863, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

KENRICK, PETER RICHARD, arch¬ 
bishop, author, was born Aug. 17, 1806, in 
Ireland. He was the first Roman catholic 
archbishop of St. Louis. In the Ecumen¬ 
ical council of 1870 he actively opposed the 
dogma of papal infallibility; and the au¬ 



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thor of The Holy House of Lorretto; Ang¬ 
lican Ordinations; and Concia in Concilio 
Vaticana. He died in 1896. 

KENT, ARATUS, clergyman, was born 
Jan. 15, 1794, in Suffield, Conn. He or¬ 
ganized the first presbyterian church in 
Galena, Ill., in 1831, and was its pastor 
till 1848, when he became agent for the 
Home Missionary society in northern Il¬ 
linois, serving till 1868. He was one of 
the founders of Beloit college and of Rock¬ 
ford Female seminary. He died Nov. 8, 
1869, in Galena, Ill. 

KENT, EDWARD, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, governor, was born Jan. 8, 1802, 
in Concord, N. H. In 1827 he was appointed 
chief justice of the court of sessions for 
Penobscot county; and from 1829 to 1833 
was a member of the Maine legislature. 
He was governor of Maine from 1838 to 
1840; and in 1843 was appointed by the 
legislature one of the commissioners foi 
settling the Maine boundary line under 
the Ashburton treaty. In 1859 he was ap¬ 
pointed associate judge of the supreme 
court of Maine. He died May 19, 1877, in 
Bangor, Maine. 

KENT, HENRY BRAINARD, author, 
was born Oct. 21, 1855, in Hopkinton, N. Y. 
He was the author of A Graphic Sketch 
of the West. He died June 25, 1890, at 
Canon City, Colo., while traveling in the 
west. 

KENT, HENRY OAKES, soldier, law¬ 
yer, manufacturer, banker, legislator, was 
born Feb. 7, 1834, in Lancaster, N. H. He 
received his educa¬ 
tion at the Lancast¬ 
er academy; and in 
1854 graduated from 
the Norwich univer¬ 
sity; and has had 
the degrees of B. S., 
A. M., LL. D. con¬ 
ferred upon him. In 
1862 he was assist¬ 
ant adjutant-general 
of New Hampshire, 
and during the civil 
war he served with 
merit as colonel in the seventeenth regi¬ 
ment New Hampshire volunteers. He was 
naval officer for the port of Boston; dele¬ 
gate to three national conventions; has 
been state representative, senator, presi¬ 
dential elector, nominee for congress three 
times, and twice for governor. He is a 
successful attorney, and president of 
banks and the Lancaster Trust com¬ 
pany; has owned and controlled paper 
mills and starch mills; and been director 
in various banks and insurance com¬ 
panies. He is a thirty-three degree ma¬ 
son; has been post commander of the 
Grand Army of the Republic; and for 
twelve years was engaged in journalism 
as editor. Also as a writer and speaker 
on economic, fraternal and masonic top¬ 
ics he is well known. 

KENT, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, author, 
was born July 31, 1763, in Putnam county, 
N. Y. He was a jurist of eminence, who 
was chancellor of 
New York in 1814-23, 
and professor of law 
at Columbia college 
in 1793-98, and again 
on retiring from the 
chancellorship of the 
state. His famous 
Commentaries o n 
American Law, a 
work of the highest 
authority, reached a 
thirteenth edition in 
1884, that of Holmes 
and Barnes. He published also a treatise 
On the Charter of New York City. He 
died Dec. 12, 1847, in New York city. 


KENT, JAMES V., lawyer, legislator,, 
jurist, was born May 29, 1847, in Clinton 
county, Ind. In early days he taught 
school; then studied law; and in 1870- 
73 was elected prosecuting attorney. Dur¬ 
ing 1876-80 he was a member of the state 
senate of the Indiana legislature. Since 
1896 he has been judge of the forty-fifth 
judicial circuit for the term ending in 
1902. 

KENT. JOSEPH, congressman, govern¬ 
or, United States senator, was born Jan. 
14,’ 1779, in Calvert county, Md. He was 
a representative in congress from his na¬ 
tive state from 1811 to 1815, and from 1821 
to 1826; governor of Maryland from 1826 
to 1829; and United States senator from 
1833 to 1837. He died Nov. 24, 1837, near 
Bladensburg. Md. 

KENT, MARvTN, merchant, manufac¬ 
turer, banker, railroad president, legis¬ 
lator,’ was born Sept. 21, 1816, in Raven¬ 
na, Ohio* He was 
educated chiefly at 
Tallmadge and Clari- 
don academies, and 
received a thorough 
business training in 
the store of his fath¬ 
er, Zenas Kent, a 
foremost merchant of 
northern Ohio. He 
subsequently entered 
co-partnership with 
his father. Upon the 
death of his father 
in 1865 he became president of the Kent's 
National bank, which position he still 
fills. In 1875 he was elected state senator, 
and declined a renomination. The town 
of Franklin Mills was changed to Kent 
in honor of its chief promoter. 

KENT, MOSS, congressman, was born 
in Rensselaer county, N. Y. He was a 
member of the New York assembly in 1807 
and 1810 from Jefferson county; and was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1813 to 1817. 

KENT, WILLIAM, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1802. He was for 
many years a successful lawyer in New 
York city, and a judge of the circuit court. 
For a short time he was a professor in 
Harvard university. He died Jan. 4, 1861, 
in Fishkill, N. Y. 

KEN TON, SIMON, pioneer, soldier, was 
born April 13, 1755, in Fauquier county, 
Va. He commanded a battalion of Ken¬ 
tucky volunteers as major in 1793-94. be¬ 
came brigadier-general of Ohio militia in 
1805, and fought at the battle of the 
Thames in 1813. He died April 29, 1836, 
in Logan county, Ohio. 

KENYON, JAMES BENJAMIN, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born April 26, 1858, 
in Frankfort, N. Y. He is a methodist cler¬ 
gyman of Syracuse who has written much 
verse of a pleasing if not very striking 
kind. He is the author of Out of the 
Shadows; The Fallen, and Other Poems; 
Songs in All Seasons; In Realms of Gold; 
At the Gate of Dreams; and An Oaten 
Pipe. 

KENYON, WILLIAM ASBURY, poet, 
was born Aug. 22, 1817, in Hingham, Mass. 
His poems were suggested by prairie 
scenes, and satirize backwoods customs 
with more truth than poetry. These were 
included in Miscellaneous Poems, to which 
are added Writings in Prose on Various 
Subjects. He died Jan. 25, 1862, in Hing¬ 
ham, Mass. 

KENYON, WILLIAM COLGROVE, col¬ 
lege president, was born Oct. 23, 1812, in 
Richmond, R. I. He was the founder and 
first president of Alfred university, which 
office he held for ten years. He died June 
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KENYON, WILLIAM S., congressman. 

He was elected a representative from New 
York to the thirty-sixth congress. 

KEOGH, EDWARD, business man, state 
senator, was horn Jan. 22, 1835, in Ireland. 

In 1860 he was elected a member of the 
Wisconsin legislature, and in 1863 was 
elected state senator. 

KEPHART, EZEKIEL VORING, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, state senator, was born Nov. 

6, 1834, in Decatur, Pa. He has been pres¬ 
ident of the Western college; and has 
served as a state senator in the Iowa leg¬ 
islature. In 1881 he was elected bishop of 
the church of the United Brethren in 
Christ, with headquarters in Baltimore, 
Md. 

KEPPLE, GEORGE E„ journalist, was 
born April 15, 1863, in Butler county, Pa. 
He received his education in the State 
Lick academy, and the Curry university 
of Pittsburg. He is the editor of The 
American of Pittsburg, Pa.; where he is 
a prominent member of several secret, 
patriotic, and fraternal orders. 

RER, DAVID, lawyer, jurist. He was 
an early emigrant to the territory of Mis¬ 
sissippi; and in 1802 was appointed a 
judge of the United States court for that 
territory. 

KER, DAVID, journalist, author, was 
born in England. He is a journalist of 
New York city; and the author of The 
Broken Image, and Other Tales; On the 
Road to Khiva; The Wild Horseman of 
the Pampas; The Boy Slave in Bokhara; 
From the Hudson to the Neva; Lost 
Among White Africans; Into Unknown 
Seas; The Lost City, or the Boy Explorers 
in Central Asia; and The Wizard King. 

KERFOOT, JOHN BARRETT, college 
president, protestant episcopal bishop, 
was born March 1, 1816, in Ireland. From 
1842 to 1864 he was president of St. James 
college, Maryland, and was also president 
ot Trinity college from 1864 to 1867. He 
was first protestant episcopal bishop of 
Pittsburg and seventy-eighth in succes¬ 
sion in the American episcopate. He died 
July 10, 1881, in Meyersdale, Pa. 

KERLEREC, LOUIS BILLOUART DE, 
governor, was born in 1704 in France. 
For twenty-five years he was in the 
French navy; and during 1753-63 was gov¬ 
ernor of Louisiana. 

KERLIN, ISAAC NEWTON, physician, 
author, was born May 27, 1834, in Burling¬ 
ton, N. J. He served in the civil war as 
a physician and surgeon; and is the au¬ 
thor of The Mind Unveiled; and Manual 
of Elwyn. 

KERN, ALBERT J. W., philologist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Feb. 1, 1857, in Ger¬ 
many. For many years he has been pro¬ 
fessor of modern languages at Harvard 
school of New York city. He is the au¬ 
thor of many articles on subjects of com¬ 
parative ' philology, literature and art; 
is a fertile contributor to German, En¬ 
glish and French periodicals; and the 
author and editor of several school books. 
He is also the author of several meritori¬ 
ous poems in German and in English. 

KERN, JOHN WORTH, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Dec. 20, 1849, in Howard 
county, Ind. In 1869 he graduated from 
the university of Michigan; and has since 
attained prominence as an able lawyer of 
Indianapolis, Ind. During 1885-89 he was 
reporter of the supreme court of Indiana; 
served with distinction as state senator 
during 1892-96; and in 1897 was elected 
city attorney for the city of Indianapolis, 
Ind. 


KERNAN, FRANCIS, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Jan. 14, 1816, in Tyrone, 

N. Y. He served in the state legislature; 
and was elected a representative from 
New York to the thirty-eighth congress. 
He was elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate for the term commencing in 1875. 

KERNEY, MARTIN JOSEPH, educator, 
journalist, lawyer, author, was born in 
1819 in Lewiston, Md. In 1852 he was a 
member of the Maryland state legislature. 
For four years he edited the Metropolitan 
magazine in Baltimore; and was the au¬ 
thor of a Compendium of History; and 
various other school books. He died 
March 16, 1861, in Baltimore, Md. 

KERNODLE, JOHN DAVID, lawyer, 
journalist, was born Nov. 3, 1856, in Guil¬ 
ford county, N. C. In 1877 he graduated 
from Trinity college, N. C., after taking 
a full literary, language and mathematical 
course. In 1880 he was admitted to the bar 
by the supreme court of North Carolina; 
and since that time has also been the ed¬ 
itor of The Alamance Gleaner of Graham, 
N. C. He has been a member of the town 
council, and served with distinction as 
mayor of Graham. 

KERR. ALVAH MILTON, author, poet, 
was born in 1855 in Mount Vernon, Ohio. 
He is the author of Trean; An Honest 
Lawyer, and other works. 

KERR. DANIEL, soldier, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born June 18, 
1836, in Scotland. He entered the ser¬ 
vice as a private in 1862; and was pro¬ 
moted first lieutenant in 1864. He was 
elected to the legislature of Illinois in 
1868. He removed to Iowa in 1870; and 
was elected to the legislature of Iowa in 
1883. He was elected to the fiftieth and 
fifty-first congresses as a republican. 

KERR. HALBERT S., civil engineer, 
railroad manager, was born Jan. 3. 1865, 
in St. Michaels, Md. During 1884-85 he 
was engineer in charge of construction of 
the San Pete Valley railway; and since 
1888 its general superintendent. 

KERR, J. A., lawyer, jurist, poet. In 
1878 he opened a law office in Tippecanoe 
City, Ohio; and in 1889 was elected judge 
of the common pleas of the county. He 
is also the author of a number of poems. 

KERR. JAMES, lawyer, manufacturer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 2, 
1851, in Mifflin county, Pa. Since 1867 he 
has lived in Clearfield; was elected a 
justice of the peace in 1878; was elected 
prothonotary for his. county in 1880; and 
was re-elected in 1883. In 1888 he was 
elected a member of the fifty-first con¬ 
gress. He was a clerk of the national 
house of representatives for the fifty- 
second and fifty-third congresses. He is 
now chiefly engaged in the mining and 
shipping of bituminous coal, and the con¬ 
struction of railroads. 

KERR, JAMES HORNER, educator, 
clergyman, was born April 3, 1847, in Tur- 
botville, Pa. He received his education 
in the Lafayette college and the Western 
Theological seminary. For many years 
he was engaged in educational work, and 
was teacher in the Brainerd institute of 
Cranberry, N. J. In 1871 he began preach¬ 
ing; in 1873 was ordained; and has filled 
pastorates in the presbyterian church at 
McConnellsburg, Rural Valley and Centre 
Hall, Pa.; and has been missionary in 
Park River, and in Sheldon, N. D.; and 
is now serving his church in Casey, Iowa. 

KERR. JOHN, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1813 to 1817. 


KERR, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in North Carolina. He was a 
representative in congress from his native 
state from 1853 to 1855; and was subse¬ 
quently elected to the house of commons 
of that state. 

KERR, JOHN BOZMAN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 5, 1809, in 
Easton, Md. He was a member of the 
general assembly of Maryland from 1836 
to .1838; and from 1847 to 1849 acted as 
deputy for the attorney-general of Mary¬ 
land for Talbot county. From 1849 to 
1851 he was a representative in congress. 
He died Jan. 27, 1878, in Washington, D. C. 

KERR, JOHN FRANCIS, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born April 30, 1857, 
in Scranton, Pa. He served two terms in 
the New Jersey state legislature; and for 
five years was judge of the district court 
of Paterson, N. J. 

KERR, JOHN LEEDS, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
Jan. 15, 1780, in Greenbury Point, Md. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1825 to 1829, and again 
from 1831 to 1833. He was a senator in 
congress from 1841 to 1843. He died Feb. 
21, 1844, near Easton, Md. 

KERR, JOSEPH, United States senator. 
He was a senator in congress from Ohio 
from 1814 to 1815 to fill a vacancy. 

KERR. MICHAEL CRAWFORD, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born March 
15, 1827, near Titusville, Pa. In 1856 he 
was elected for two years to the Indiana 
state assembly; and in 1862 was elected 
reporter to the supreme court of the state, 
and published five volumes. In 1864 he 
was elected a representative from Indiana 
to the thirty-ninth congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the fortieth, forty-first and 
forty-second congresses. Having been 
re-elected to the forty-fourth congress, 
was the choice of his party for speaker, 
and was duly elected. He died Aug. 20, 
1876, in Alum Springs, Va. 

KERR. ROBERT POLLOK, author, was 
born in 1850 in Massachusetts. He is the 
author of Presbyterianism for the People; 
History of Presbyterianism; Hymns of 
the Ages; and Voice of God in History. 

KERR SHADRACH. missionary, was 
born June 4, 1833, in the British West 
Indies. In 1859 he did extensive mission 
work at the Turks and Caicos islands, 
and in 1863 was appointed master of pub¬ 
lic schools at Grand Turks. In 1867 he 
was sent as a missionary to Hayti. and in 
1873 was appointed professor at the Na¬ 
tional Lyceum college. In 1883 he was 
sent to Jamaica, and the following year 
was appointed rector of the Panama Rail¬ 
road church. In 1889 he made extensive 
missionary tours through Central Amer¬ 
ica. and performed the religious services 
at the opening at the Nicaragua canal. 
In 1890 he returned to the West Indies, 
and was transferred to the diocese of 
Florida as the rector of St. Peter’s Episco 
pal church of Key West. 

KERR. WALTER LOWRIE, farmer, 
legislator, was born Feb. 17, 1848, in 
Poland, Ohio. He received the rudiments 
of his education in the public schools, and 
graduated from the Iowa university. He 
is a successful farmer of Norton, Kan.; 
has served with distinction as a member 
of the Kansas house of representatives; 
and filled various other public offices in the 
gift of his county and state. 

KERR, WASHINGTON CARUTHERS. 
geologist, was born May 24, 1827, in Ala¬ 
mance county, N. C. He became one of 
the foremost geologists of the south; 
and has contributed a number of valuable 
papers to scientific publications. He died 
Aug. 9. 1885, in Asheville. N. C. 


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KERR, WILLIAM JASPER, educator, 
college president, was born Nov. 17, 18—, 
in Richmond, Utah. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the univer¬ 
sity of Utah, and at 
the Cornell univer- 
\ sity; subsequently 

receiving the degrees 
JB $ of B - s. and B. D. 

During 1887-90 he 
was instructor in 
science in the Brig¬ 
ham Young college; 
in 1892-94 filled the 
chair of mathematics 
in the university of 
Utah; and since 1894 
has been president of the Brigham Young 
college of Logan, Utah. In 1896-97 he was 
president of the Utah State Teachers’ asso¬ 
ciation; for many years has been prom¬ 
inently identified with the educational de¬ 
velopment of Utah; and has contributed 
extensively to periodical literature on edu¬ 
cational and kindred topics. 



KERR. WINFIELD S„ lawyer, state 
senator, congressman. He is a successful 
lawyer of Mansfield, Ohio. He served four 
years in the Ohio state senate; and was 
elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses. 

KERRIGAN, JAMES E., soldier, con¬ 
gressman. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from New York to the thirty-seventh 
■congress, leaving his seat for a time to 
serve as colonel of volunteers in the trou¬ 
bles of 1861. 

KERSHAW, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in South Carolina. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1813 to 1815, when he was appointed one 
of the three commissioners to run the 
Creek boundary lines. 

KETCHAM, ISAAC A., inventor, was 
born in 1827, in Huntington, L. I. He 
planned the first ironclad torpedo boat, 
which was built by the United States 
government in 1864. He next invented a 
device by which an endless cable could 
be used in adjusting torpedoes or batteries 
across channel ways for harbor protection. 

KETCHAM, JOHN H., soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Dec. 31, 1831, 
in Dover, N. Y. He was a member of the 
assembly in 1856 and 1857; and of the state 
senate in 1860 and 1861. In 1862 he en¬ 
tered the military service, and as colonel 
of the one hundred and fiftieth New York 
volunteers served until 1865, when he was 
made a brigadier-general by brevet. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the thirty-ninth congress; and 
was re-elected to the fortieth, forty-first, 
forty-second, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty- 
seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, 
fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

KETCHUM, ALEXANDER P., soldier, 
lawyer, was born May 11, 1839, in New 
Haven, Conn. In his infancy his par¬ 
ents settled in New 
Y'ork city, which has 
ever since been his 
home. His father 
was a prominent 
lawyer, and for a 
number of years city 
registrar in bank¬ 
ruptcy of the United 
States. In 1860 he 
graduated from the 
Albany Law school, 
and at once began 
the practice of his 
profession. During the civil war he 
served as lieutenant in company H, fifty- 
sixth regiment New York volunteer in¬ 



fantry; and was subsequently commis¬ 
sioned captain in the one hundred and 
twenty-eighth regiment; resigning from 
the army in 1867 with the rank of brevet 
colonel. He has served as assessor of in¬ 
ternal revenue; collector of internal rev¬ 
enue; and general and chief appraiser for 
the port of New York. 

KETCHUM, MRS. ANNIE [CHAM¬ 
BERS], educator, lecturer, author, was 
born Nov. 8 , 1824, in Scott county, Ky. 
She is an educator and lecturer; and the 
author of Lotos Flowers; Christmas Car¬ 
illons, and Other Poems; Botany for 
Academies and Colleges; The Teacher’s 
Empire; Nellie Braden, a novel; and 
Rilla Motto, a romance. 

KETCHUM; JOHN B., soldier, poet, was 
born July 11, 1837, in New York city. He 
served with distinction through the civil 
war. In I &06 he aided in the formation of 
a new organization for the moral, religious 
and temporal welfare of the troops com¬ 
posing the regular army of the United 
States; and he has been corresponding 
secretary of the society since its founda¬ 
tion. Prior to the war he was a suc¬ 
cessful journalist; and he has recently 
published a volume of poems. 

KETCHUM, WILLIAM SCOTT, soldier, 
was born July 7, 1813, in Norfolk, Conn. 
During the latter part of the civil war he 
was connected with the quartermaster’s 
department, and after being brevetted 
major-general in 1865, he was mustered 
out of the volunteer service. He died June 
28, 1871, in Baltimore, Md. 

KETCHUM, WINTHROP W„ lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
June 29, 1820, in Wilkes Barre.Pa. He was 
a member of the Pennsylvania house of 
representatives of the state in 1859; and 
state senator in 1860, 1861, and 1862. He 
was appointed solicitor of the United 
States court of claims in 1865; and held 
the office two years and resigned. He was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the forty-fourth congress. He 
died Dec. 6 , 1879, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

KETRICK. MICHAEL J., educator, poet, 
was born March 22, 1857, in Ireland. After 
receiving a liberal education he entered 
educational work; 
has attained success 
in his profession, and 
for many years past 
has been connected 
with the Scranton 
public schools. He 
has given much time 
to literary work; has 
contributed exten¬ 
sively to educational 
and the periodical 
press; and is the au¬ 
thor of a number of 
meritorious poems, which have been a 
valuable acquisition to current literature. 
His poems appear in Poets of America 
and other standard worivs. He is the sec¬ 
retary of The South Scranton Building 
and Loan association of Scranton, Pa., 
where he is prominent in various fraternal 
orders. 

KETTELL, SAMUEL, journalist, state 
legislator, author, was born Aug. 5, 1800, 
in Newburyport, Mass. He was a member 
of the Massachusetts legislature in 1851- 
53. His principal work is Specimens of 
American Poetry, with Critical and Bio¬ 
graphical Notices, and an historical intro¬ 
duction: besides which he published Per¬ 
sonal Narrative of the First Voyage of 
Columbus; and Records of the Spanish 
Inquisition. 


KEY, DAVID McKENDREE, lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, was born 
Jan. 27, 1824, in Greene county, Tenn. He 
was chancellor of the third chancery di¬ 
vision of the state from 1870 to 1875, when 
he was appointed United States senator to 
fill a vacancy. He was postmaster-general 
in the cabinet of President Hayes from 
1877 to 1880, when he was appointed 
United States district judge for the eastern 
and middle districts of Tennessee. 

KEY r , FRANCIS SCOTT, lawyer, author, 
was born Aug. 9, 1780, in Frederick coun¬ 
ty, Md. He was a lawyer of Washington 
whose miscellaneous poems were collected 
and published after his death. He was 
the author of The Star-Spangled Banner, 
composed in 1814 during the bombard¬ 
ment of Fort McHenry. He died Jan. 11, 
1843, in Baltimore, Md. 

KEY 7 . JOHN C., soldier, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, railroad president, was born Feb. 
25, 1826, in Jasper, Va. During the war 
he was captain of company B, forty-fourth 
Georgia regiment; was promoted to 
major; and was with the army of north¬ 
ern Virginia to the close of the war. He 
has attained success in his profession of 
law at Monticello, Ga.; was a representa¬ 
tive in the Georgia state legislature in 
1859-60, and again in 1882-83; and in 1887 
was a member of the state constitutional 
convention. He is the president of the 
Covington and Macon Railroad company; 
a royal arch mason; an advocate for 
a strict construction of the powers of con¬ 
gress under the constitution of the United 
States; and a consistent temperance ad¬ 
vocate. 

KEY 7 , JOHN ROSS, artist, was born 
July 16, 1837, in Baltimore, Md. He moved 
to Boston, where he exhibited about one 
hundred of his pictures, including Marble¬ 
head Beach; Ochre Point, Newport; Morn¬ 
ing Stroll; and a view of The Golden 
Gate, San Francisco, for which he received 
a medal at the Centennial exhibition of 
1876. 

KEY, PHILIP, agriculturist, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in 1750 
in St. Mary’s county, Md. He served a 
number of years in the legislature of 
Maryland, and was for one or two terms 
speaker. He also rendered some service 
in the municipal courts of his native 
county; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maryland from 1791 to 1793. 
He died Jan. 4, 1820, in St. Mary’s county, 
Md. 

KEY 7 , PHILIP BARTON, soldier, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born in 1757 in Cecil county, Md. He rep¬ 
resented Annapolis in the state legisla¬ 
ture; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maryland from 1807 to 1813. 
He died July 28, 1815, in Georgetown, D. C. 

KEY, PHILIP BARTON, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Nov. 2, 1804, in YVoodley, 
Georgetown, D. C. He went to Louisiana 
in 1835, and engaged in planting. He was 
a member of the legislature of Louisiana 
and of the constitutional convention in 
1850. He died May 4, 1854, near Thibo¬ 
deaux, La. 

KEY, THOMAS MARSHALL, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, was born Aug. 8 , 
1819, in Washington, Ky. For many years 
he served in the Ohio senate, where he 
had much influence. He was the author 
of the first congressional bill for the 
emancipation of slaves in any part of the 
United States, and wrote the bill for the 
emancipation of slaves in the District of 
Columbia. He died Jan. 15, 1869, in Leb¬ 
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KEYES, EDWARD LAWRENCE, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Aug. 28, 1843, in 
Charleston, S. C. He is a physician of 
New York city; and the author of The 
Tonic Treatment of Syphilis; Venereal 
Diseases; and Genito-Urinary Diseases. 

KEYES, ELIAS, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Ashford, Conn. 
He was a member of the legislature of 
Vermont'from Stockbridge county for a 
period of eighteen years; and from 1§03 
to 1818 was a state councilor. He was a 
representative in congress from Vermont 
from 1821 to 1823. 

KEYES, EMERSON WILLARD, lawyer, 
author, was born June 30, 1828, in James¬ 
town, N. Y. He has been superintendent 
of public instruction 
in the state of New 
York; superintend¬ 
ent of bank depart¬ 
ment, state of New 
York; and has filled 
numerous public po¬ 
sitions of honor in 
the city of Brooklyn 
and the state of New 
York. He is a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer, and 
the author of Keyes' 
Court of Appeals Re¬ 
ports, in four volumes; History of Sav¬ 
ings Banks in the United States, in two 
volumes; Code of Public Instruction; 
Principles of Civil Government in the 
State of New Y’ork; and sundry pamph¬ 
lets, addresses, legislative reports, and 
various valuable papers. 

KEY’ES, ERASMUS DARWIN, soldier, 
author, was born May 29, 1810, in Brim- 
field, Mass. He was a major-general in 
the federal army in the civil war; and 
the author of Fifty Y’ears’ Observation of 
Men and Events. He died in 1895. 

KEY T ES, JOHN ARNOLD, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born June 23, 1859, in Chelsea, 
Vt. He attended the Chelsea academy; 
studied law, and in 1884 was admitted to 
the bar by the supreme court of Vermont. 
In 1885 he moved to Winona, Minn.; and 
in 1889-91 was elected and served with 
distinction as a member of the Minne¬ 
sota state legislature. In 1892 he moved 
to Duluth; was a candidate for attorney- 
general of Minnesota in 1894, and in 1896 
on the silver ticket. He is one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of Minnesota, and has a lu¬ 
crative practice in Duluth. 

KEYL, ERNST GERHARD WILHELM, 
clergyman, author, was born May 22, 1804, 
in Germany. For many years he was 
president of the eastern district of the 
Missouri synod, of which he was a found¬ 
er. He was the author of Lutherophilus; 
and various other works. He died Aug. 4, 
1872, in Monroe, Mich. 

KEYS, WILLIAM REED, educator, 
journalist, was born June 12, 1859, in 
Jonesboro, Tenn. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as an educator and journalist, and is 
the author of a number of meritorious 
poems. 

KEYSER. EPHRAIM, sculptor, was 
born Oct. 6, 1850, in Baltimore, Md. He 
studied sculpture at the Royal academies 
in Munich, Berlin and Rome. He executed 
the De Kalb statue at Annapolis, Md.; 
and the Chester A. Arthur memorial at 
Albany, N. Y. 

KEYSER, LEANDER S., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born March 13, 1857, in 
Tuscarawas county, Ohio. He is a suc¬ 
cessful clergyman of Springfield, Ohio; 
and the author of The Only Way Out; 
Epochs of a Life; and a volume of poems. 


KEYSER, PETER DIRCK, surgeon, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 8, 1835, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a surgeon of Philadel¬ 
phia who has published Operations for 
Cataracts, and other works on diseases of 
the eye. He died in 1897. 

KIBBEE, CHARLES CARROLL, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was 
born Aug. 25, 1839, in Macon, Ga. He 
served through the civil war, attaining the 
rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1870 was 
elected a state senator from Georgia; and 
in 1874 was elected judge of the superior 
court. 

KIDD, EDWIN ETHELBERT, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, poet, was born Dec. 18, 
1836, in Alabama. He served as a captain 
in the confederate army until the close of 
the war. He has been a member of the 
Louisiana legislature for several terms. 
He is the author of a number of poems, 
some of which have been set to music. 

KIDD, WILLIAM, navigator, was born 
in Scotland. He followed the sea from 
his youth; and about 1695 was known 
as one of the boldest and most successful 
shipmasters that sailed from New York. 
He subsequently became a noted pirate; 
was arrested and sent to England for 
trial; and was executed May 24, 1701, in 
London. 

KIDDER, DANIEL PARRISH, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 18, 1815, in 
Darien, N. Y. He was a methodist cler¬ 
gyman of prominence who held professor¬ 
ships in several theological institutions. 
He was the author of Homiletics; The 
Christian Pastorate; Mormonism and the 
Mormons; Sketches of a Residence in 
Brazil; Helps to Prayer; and co-author 
with J. C. Fletcher, of Brazil and the 
Brazilians. He died in 1891. 

KIDDER, DAVID, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Dec. 8, 1787, in Dresden, Maine. 
He settled in Somerset county, where he 
was county attorney from 1811 to 1823; 
and was a representative in congress from 
Maine from 1823 to 1827. He was also a 
member of the state legislature in 1829. 
He died Nov. 1, 1860. 

KIDDER. FREDERICK, merchant, au¬ 
thor, was born April 16, 1804, in New 
Ipswich, N. H. He was a Boston mer¬ 
chant among whose historical monographs 
are: The Boston Massacre; and The Ex¬ 
peditions of Captain John Lovewell. He 
died Dec. 19, 1885, in Melrose, Mass. 

KIDDER, JEFFERSON P., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born in 1814 in 
Braintree, Vt. He was state’s attorney 
from 1842 to 1847; a member of the state 
senate in 1847 and 1848; and lieutenant- 
governor in 1853 and 1854. He removed 
to Minnesota in 1857; and was elected to 
the legislature in 1860, 1862, and 1863. 
He was appointed an associate judge of 
the supreme court of Dakota in 1865, and 
removed there; and was reappointed in 
1869, and again in 1873. After holding the 
position ten years he resigned on being 
elected a delegate from Dakota to the 
forty-fourth congress. He was re-elected 
to the forty-fifth congress; and in 1883 
was appointed an associate justice of the 
supreme court of Dakota. He died Oct. 
2, 1883, in St. Paul, Minn. 

KIDDER, JOHN FLINT, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born July 2, 1830, in New York 
city. Since 1884 he has been president of 
the Nevada County Narrow Gauge rail¬ 
road. 

KIDDER, WELLINGTON PARKER.in- 
ventor, was born Feb. 19, 1853, in Nor- 
ridgewock, Maine. He is the inventor of 
the Franklin typewriter, and more recent¬ 
ly another, which has not yet been named. 



KIDDLE, HENRY, educator, author, 
was born Jan. 15, 1824, in England. He 
was an educator who was superintendent 
of the schools of New Y’ork city in 1870- 
79. He was the author of Text-Book of 
Physics; Elements of Astronomy; and 
Dictionary of Education, which include 
his most important works. He died in 
1891. 


KIDDOO, JOSEPH B., soldier, was born 
about 1840 in Pennsylvania. He was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general and major-gen¬ 
eral of United States volunteers, and col¬ 
onel and brigadier-general United States 
army, and he was retired in 1870 with the 
full rank of brigadier-general in the reg¬ 


ular army. 

KIDWELL, ZEDEKIAH, physician, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 4, 
1814, in Fairfax county, Va. He served a 
number of years in the legislature of 
Virginia; and was a presidential elector 
in 1852. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Virginia from 1853 to 1857. 
He died April 27, 1872, in Fairmount, Va. 

KIEFER, ANDREW R., soldier, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 
Marienborn. He was elected clerk in the 
legislature in 1860; entered the union 
army as captain in the second Minnesota 
infantry volunteers in 1861; commissioned 
colonel of militia in 1863; and elected 
member of state legislature in 1864. He 
was elected to the fifty-third and fifty- 
fourth congresses. 


KIEFER, HERMAN, physician, sur- 
eon, college president, author, was born 
[ov. 19, 1825, in Germany. In 18 bb-bf ne 
ras a member of the Detroit board of edu- 
ation. and in 1882 he became a member 
* i n lihrnrv commission, Pemg 


KIEFFER, ALDINE SILLIMAN, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 1, 1840, 
in Miami, Mo. He is the editor and pro¬ 
prietor of The Musical Million of Dayton, 
Va. He is the author of two volumes of 
poems, entitled Vigil and Vision, and 
Hours of Fancy; and numerous collec¬ 
tions of school and church music. 

KIEFFER, HENRY MARTYN, clergy¬ 
man author, was born in 1845 in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He is a German reformed clergy¬ 
man of Norristown, and subsequently of 
Easton, Pa.; and the author of The Recol¬ 
lections of a Drummer Boy. 

KIEFFER, MOSES, clergyman, college 
president, was born May 5, 1814, in Letter- 
kenny, Pa. In 1855 he became president 
of Heidelberg college of Tiffin, Ohio, which 
post he held till 1864, serving as professor 
in the theological department from 1855 
till 1867. He is now a pastor in Gettys¬ 
burg, Pa. 

KIEFT, WILHELM, was the third gov¬ 
ernor of New York. 


KIEKHOEFER, H. J., educator, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born Aug. 10, 
1849, in Germany. He attended the Gales- 
ville university, in which institution he 
subsequently filled the chair of ancient 
languages. He also attended the North 
Western college of Naperville, Ill., of 
which institution he is now president and 
professor of intellectual and moral phil¬ 
osophy. For many years he filled the 
chair of systematic theology in the Union 
Biblical institute. 


KIERNAN, JAMES LAWLOR, soldier, 
educator, journalist, physician, surgeon, 
was born in 1837, in New York city. He 
was appointed brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers in 1863. He served as surgeon of the 
United States pension bureau; and after 
the war became United States consul to 
Chin Kiang, China. He died Nov. 26, 
1869, in New York city. 




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KiLBOURN, JAMES, merchant, manu¬ 
facturer, clergyman, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 19, 1770, in New 
Britain, Conn. From 1813 to 1817 he was 
a representative in congress from Ohio. 
In 1823 he was elected to the Ohio legisla¬ 
ture, serving on fourteen committees; and 
was re-elected in 1838. He died April 24, 
1850, in Worthington, Ohio. 

KILBOURNE, JAMES R., manufactu¬ 
rer, state legislator, was born Dec. 24, 
1870, in Columbus, Ohio. He is a success¬ 
ful manufacturer of Columbus, Ohio, and 
was elected and served with distinction as 
a member of the seventy-second general 
assembly of Ohio. 

KILBOURNE, JOHN, author, publisher, 
was born Aug. 7, 1787, in Berlin, Conn. 
He published a Gazetteer of Vermont, a 
Gazetteer of Ohio, a map of Ohio, a vol¬ 
ume of Public Documents Concerning the 
Ohio Canals; and a School Geography. 
He died March 12, 1831, in Columbus, 
Ohio. 

KILBOURNE, PAYNE KENYON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born July 26, 1815, in 
Litchfield, Conn. He was a journalist of 
Connecticut and the author of The Skep¬ 
tic and Other Poems; History of the 
County of Litchfield; and Chronicles of 
Litchfield. He died July 19, 1859, in 
Litchfield, Conn. 

KILBURN, CHARLES LAWRENCE, 
soldier, was born Aug. 9, 1819, in Law- 
renceville. Pa. He served with distinc¬ 
tion through the civil war; was brevetted 
brigadier-general; and retired from ac¬ 
tive service in 1882. 

KILBURN, LUCIAN M„ soldier, state 
senator, was born Jan. 20, 1842, in Bosca- 
wen, N. H. During the civil war he 
served in the sixteenth regiment New 
Hampshire volunteer infantry, and was in 
active service in the departments of the 
gulf under General Banks. He has served 
six years as a member of the Iowa stat'e 
senate. 

KILGORE, CONSTANTINE BUCKLEY, 
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 20, 1835, in New- 
nan, Ga. He served in the confederate 
army, and in 1862 was made the adjutant- 
general of Ector’s brigade, army of the 
Tennessee. He was elected justice of the 
peace in Rusk county, Texas, in 1869. He 
was elected to the state senate in 1884 for 
four years; was chosen president of that 
body in 1885 for two years. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second 
and fifty-third congresses as a democrat. 

KILGORE, DAMON YOUNG, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1827. He was a law¬ 
yer of Philadelphia, and the author of 
Dangers Which Threaten the Republic; 
and Questions of the Day. He died in 
1888. 

KILGORE, DANIEL, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. During 1835-39 he was 
a representative in congress from Ohio. 
He died Dec. 12, 1851, in New York. 

KILGORE, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born April 3, 
1804, in Harrison county, Ky. He moved 
to Delaware county, Ky.; in 1833 was 
elected to the state legislature, and served 
several years, and in 1839 was elected by 
the legislature president judge of the judi¬ 
cial circuit in which he resided, and held 
the office seven years. In 1854 he was 
again elected to the legislature, and was 
speaker of the house. In 1856 he was 
elected a representative from Indiana to 
the thirty-fifth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-sixth congress. 

KILLE, JOSEPH, congressman, was 
born in New Jersey. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from that state from 
1839 to 1841 


KILLEN, HENRY FRANKLIN, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, was born Feb. 27, 1864, 
in Union, Miss. He attended the Green 
Wood Normal institute; Kiachi college, 
Louisiana, and the Waco university, 
Texas. He has been principal of the 
Geneva academy; principal of the Pluni 
Male and Female college; a clergyman in 
various baptist churches, and is now con¬ 
nected with the high school of Kirby- 
ville, Texas. 

KILLEN, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, wa-, 
born in 1722, in Ireland. He took an 
active part in the revolutionary war; dur¬ 
ing 1776-93 was first chief justice of the 
supreme court of Delaware; and chan¬ 
cellor of the state from 1793 till 1801. He 
died Oct. 3, 1805, in Dover, Del. 

KILLINGER, JOHN W., lawyer, -tate 
senator, congressman, was born Sept. ^5, 
1825, in Lebanon, Pa. He was attorney 
for Lebanon county, Pa., until 1849; was 
elected to the house of representatives of 
the state in 1850 and 1851; and was elect¬ 
ed to the state senate in 1854, serving 
three years. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Pennsylvania to the thirty- 
sixth, thirty-seventh, forty-second and 
forty-third congresses; and was also 
elected to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth 
congresses as a republican. 

KILLINGSWORTH, D. H., physician, 
surgeon, was born Nov. 26, 1861, in Fay¬ 
etteville, W. Va. In 1888 he graduated 
from the college of Physicians and Sur¬ 
geons of Des Moines, Iowa, from the 
medical department of the Drake univer¬ 
sity. He then took a post-graduate 
course in the New York Medical school, 
and was president of his class in col¬ 
lege. He has, attained success in his pro¬ 
fession at Tingley, Iowa. 

KILMER, CHAUNCEY, manufacturer, 
was born March 23, 1816, in Rock City 
Falls, N. Y. He has supplied the New 
York Sun with more 
than $7,000,000 worth 
of paper. From 1850 
to 1857 he held an in¬ 
terest in five differ¬ 
ent paper mills, 
which ran continu¬ 
ously day and night, 
every day of the 
year except Sunday. 
His success has been 
remarkable. He has 
taken an active part 
in the public and 
business affairs of his city, county and 
state. 

KILPATRICK, ’HUGH JUDSON, sol¬ 
dier, diplomat, was born Jan. 14, 1836, 
J. He was captain of 
the eighteenth artil¬ 
lery in 1864; was 
brevetted major-gen¬ 
eral for the capture 
of Fayetteville, N. C., 
in 1865; was major- 
general of the United 
States army for cam 
paign in the Caro- 
linas, and major- 
general of volun¬ 
teers in 1865. He 
was minister to Chili 
from 1865 to 1870; 
and was again ap¬ 
pointed minister to Chili in 1881. He died 
Dec. 4, 1881, in Santiago, Chili. 

KILTON, JAMES A., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Nov. 11, 1862, in Providence, R. 
I. He served as a member ot the Colorado 
house of representatives in the ninth gen¬ 
eral assembly, and is the national presi¬ 
dent of the Patriotic Order Sons of Amer¬ 
ica. 


KILTY, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist. He 
settled in the city of Washington in 1800, 
and in the following year was appointed 
chief justice of the circuit court for the 
District of Columbia. 

KIMBALL, ALANSON M., merchant, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
March 12, 1827, in Buxton, Maine. He 
moved to the state of Wisconsin, and 
there became a member of the legislature 
in 1863 and 1864. In 1864 he was elected 
a representative from Wisconsin to the 
forty-fourth congress. 

KIMBALL, ARTHUR LALANNE, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born in 1856 in New 
Jersey. He is a professor of physics at 
Amherst college since 1891, and the au¬ 
thor of The Physical Properties of Gases.. 

KIMBALL, CHARLES HAZEN, lawyer, 
legislator, railroad president, was born 
Jan. 1, 1846, in Carthage, N. Y. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education in 
the common schools, attended Rome acad¬ 
emy; and subsequently graduated from 
the St. Lawrence university of Canton, N. 
Y., and from the Albany Law school. 
During the civil war he served with dis¬ 
tinction as first lieutenant of the forty- 
third regiment, United States colored in¬ 
fantry. He is one of the most prominent 
lawyers of the west, and for eight years 
served as a state senator in the Kansas 
legislature. He has been president of the 
Parsons and Pacific Railroad company; 
president of the Kansas City and Pacific 
Railroad company; president of the Par¬ 
sons Water company; president of the 
Parsons Crystal Ice company; president of 
the Parsons Telephone company; presi¬ 
dent of the Kansas City and Pacific Tele¬ 
graph company; and president of the Bad¬ 
ger Mining and Milling company of Den¬ 
ver. 

KIMBALL, EDGAR ALLAN, soldier, 
was born Jan. 3, 1822, in Pembroke, N. 
H. In 1847-48 he was a captain and bre¬ 
vet-major in the United States army; 
served with gallantry in the Mexican war; 
was the first man to scale the walls of 
Chapultepec, and received the surrender 
of the castle. In 1S62 he was colonel of 
a New York regiment of Zouaves. He 
died April 12, 1863, in Suffolk, Va. 

KIMBALL, .ELLEN PACKARD, edu¬ 
cator, poet, was born Oct. 9, 1848, in 
Woodstock, Maine. Early in life she com¬ 
menced educational work, and has ever 
since been engaged as teacher in the pub¬ 
lic schools. She is the author of many 
meritorious poems, some of which have 
been given a place in Poets of Amer¬ 
ica, and other standard works. ■ 

KIMBALL, EMMA A., poet, was born 
Dec. 22, 1847, in Rye, N. H. For many 
years she taught school; is a successful 
poet of Haverhill, Mass., and the author 
of a volume of poems entitled Wayside 
Flowers. 

KIMBALL, FRANK WILLARD, law¬ 
yer, lecturer, musician, was born Dec. 10, 
1866, in Augusta, Maine. In 1884 he en¬ 
tered the Hesperian 
academy of San Luis 
Obispo, California, 
and subsequently 
continued his educa¬ 
tion in Boston and 
Somerville, Mass. In 
1890 he was admitted 
to the bar, and has 
attained success in 
his profession. He 
is an eloquent and 
logical speaker, and 
has attained success 
on the lecture platform. He is a writer 
and musician, and the author of the Sax- 
optione Quartette. 





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KIMBALL, FREDERICK J., railroad 
president, was born March 6, 1844, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1895 he has been 
president of the Norfolk and Western 
railroad. 


KIMBALL, SUMNER I., state legislator, 
was born Sept. 2, 1834, in Lebanon, Maine. 
In 1859 he was elected to the Maine house 
of representatives, and in 1878 was elected 
superintendent of the United States life 


KIMBALL, GILMAN, educator, surgeon, 
was born Dec. 8, 1804, in Hill, N. H. He 
became one of the most noted physicians 
and surgeons of New England; and for 
many years had charge of the Lowell Med¬ 
ical institute. 

KIMBALL, HANNAH PARKER, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1861 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. She is a Boston poet, whose 
work includes Soul and Sense, and Other 
Verses; and The Cup of Life and Other 
Poems. 

KIMBALL, HARRIET McEWEN, poet, 
was born Nov. 2, 1834, in Portsmouth, N. 

H. She is a religious verse-writer of 
Portsmouth, N. H., and the author of 
Swallow Flights of Song; Hymns; The 
Blessed Company of All Faithful People; 
and Complete Poems. 

KIMBALL, INCREASE, inventor, was 
born Oct. 26, 1777, in Concord, N. H. He 
invented cut nails and devised the first 
machinery for their manufacture. He 
died Sept. 16, 1856, in Hanover, N. H. 

KIMBALL, JAMES PUTNAM, soldier, 
geologist, was born April 26, 1836, in 
Salem, Mass. In 1861 he entered the 
union army as assistant adjutant-general, 
with the rank of captain, and was as¬ 
signed to duty as chief of staff under Gen¬ 
eral Patrick. In 1873 he accepted the 
honorary professorship of geology in Le¬ 
high university at Bethlehem, Pa. In 
1885 he was appointed director of the 
United States mints. 

KIMBALL. JAMES WILLIAM, author, 
was born Feb. 4, 1812, in Salem, Mass. He 
was the author of Heaven my Father’s 
Home; Friendly Words with Fellow Pil¬ 
grims; Encouragements to Faith; How 
to See Jesus; and The Christian Ministry. 
He died Ma,rch 28, 1885, in Newton, Mass. 

KIMBALL, JOSEPH HORACE, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1813 in Pembroke, 
N. H. He resided in Concord, N. H., where 
he edited The Herald of Freedom, an anti- 
slavery journal. He published jointly with 
two friends Emancipation in the West 
Indies; a Six Months’ Tour in Antigua. 
Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in 1837. He died 
April 11, 1838, in Pembroke, N. H. 

KIMBALL, NATHAN, soldier, was born 
in Indiana. He served in the Mexican 
war as captain of volunteers, and at the 
beginning of 'the 
civil war was ap¬ 
pointed colonel of a 
regiment of Indiana 
infantry. He com¬ 
manded a brigade at 
the battle of Win¬ 
chester, and was 
commissioned as a 
brigadier-general of 
volunteers on April 
15, 1862. He was 

brevetted major-gen¬ 
eral on Feb. 1, 1865, 
and mustered out of the service on Aug. 
24, 1865. 

KIMBALL, RICHARD BURLEIGH, 

lawyer, author, was born Oct. 11, 1816, in 

Plainfield, N. H. He was a lawyei of 
New York city who founded the town of 
Kimball in Texas, and built the first rail¬ 
road in that state. He is the author of 
St. Leger; Undercurrents of Wall Street 
Life; Letters from Cuba; Letters iroin 
England; Cuba and the Cubans; Was He 
Successful? To-Day in New York; Stories 
of Exceptional Life; Henry Powers Bank¬ 
er, a novel; and Romance of a Student 
Life Abroad. He died in 1892. 



saving service. 

KIMBALL, SUMNER INCREASE, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, was born Sept. 2, 
1834, in Lebanon, Maine. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in the Maine state legislature 
in 1859. On the erection of the life-sav¬ 
ing service into a separate bureau, he was 
appointed the general superintendent of 
that service. 



occupancy 

southeast 


of the 
corner 


KIMBALL, WILLIAM WALLACE, pi¬ 
ano manufacturer, was born in 1828, in 
Maine. He was founder of the piano and 
organ making indus¬ 
tries of Chicago, and 
pioneer of the whole¬ 
sale music trade of 
the- north. In 1882 
the business was re¬ 
organized under 
the corporate name 
of W. W. Kimball 
a,u ' Co " the f ° under 
being president and 
controlling owner. 
'wH In 1SS7 the growth 
of trade led to the 
mammoth structure, 

av . __ state and Jackson 

streets, the final removal to the stateliei 
and more commodious Kimball building, 
147-157 Wabash avenue, being made in the 
spring of 1891. 

KIMBARK, SENECA DU BOIS. manu¬ 
facturer. was born March 4, 1832, in Ven¬ 
ice N Y. He has made Chicago the dis¬ 
tributing center of 
heavy hardware in 
the west, and the ex¬ 
porter of large quan¬ 
tities of this mer¬ 
chandise to Aus¬ 
tralia, the South 
American republics 
and Mexico. In Chi¬ 
cago the business oc¬ 
cupies a six-story 
warehouse, and as 
an adjunct to its op¬ 
erations a factory is 
maintained in Elkhart. Ind. 



KIMBERLY, LEWIS ASHFIELD, na¬ 
val officer, was born April 2, 1830, in 
Troy, N. Y. He was appointed a midship¬ 
man in the navy from Illinois in 1846, and 
was commissioned rear-admiral in 1887. 

KIMBLE, SAM, lawyer, poet, was born 
June 19, 1854, in Sarahsville, Ohio. In 
1873 he graduated from the Kansas State 
Agricultural college, 
with the degree of A. 
B. In 1875 he was 
admitted to the bar, 
and is now one of 
the foremost lawyers 
of Kansas, at Man¬ 
hattan. He has 
served as city attor¬ 
ney for three terms; 
two terms as county 
attorney; and has 
filled various other 
public positions of 
honor. While his literary work has been 
chiefly in prose, he has also written a 
number of meritorious poems, which have 
appeared in the leading newspapers and 
magazines, in Poets of America, and other 
standard works. 



KIMBROUGH, THOMAS CHARLES, 
lawyer, was born Jan. 29, 18 f2, in Carroll¬ 
ton, Miss. He is a prominent lawyer of 
Jackson, Miss.; and secretary of the rail¬ 
road commission, his term of four years 
commencing in January, 1896. 


KIMMELL, WILLIAM, agriculturist, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
Baltimore, Md. He was a state senator 
from 1866 to 1871; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Maryland to the forty- 
fifth and forty-sixth congresses. lie died 
Dec. 28, 1886. 

KINCAID, CHARLES EASTON, jour¬ 
nalist, jurist, was born in 1855, in Dan¬ 
ville, Ky. He is the Washington corre¬ 
spondent of the Louisville Daily Times. 

KINCAID, HARRISON RITTEN- 
HOUSE, journalist, was born Jan. 3, 1836, 
in Madison county, Ind. During 1868-79 
he was a clerk in the United States sen¬ 
ate; and during 1895-99 was secretary of 
state of Oregon, and also state auditor. 
He issued the first number of the Oregon 
State Journal in 1864; and has contrib¬ 
uted extensively to current literature. 

KINCAID, JOHN, congressman, was 
born Feb. 15, 1791, near Danville, Ky. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1829 to 1833. He died 
Feb. 7, 1875. 

KING, ADAM, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1827 to 1833. He died May 
6, 1835. 

KING, ANDREW, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, congressman, was Dorn March 
20, 1812, in Greenbrier county, Va. ne 
was elected to the Missouri state senate 
in 1846; to the house of representatives 
in 1858; and was judge of the circuit court 
from 1859 to 1864. He was elected to the 
forty-second congress as a democrat. 

KING, MRS. ANNA [EICHBERG], au¬ 
thor, was born in 1853, in Switzerland. 
She is a Boston writer of short stories, 
and the author of Brown’s Retreat, and 
Other Stories; and Kitwyk Stories. 

KING, AUSTIN AUGUSTUS, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, governor, was born 
Sept. 20, 1801, in Sullivan county, Tenn. 
He removed to Missouri in 1830; in 1834 
was elected to the Missouri legislature; 
was re-elected to the same position in 
1836; and in 1837 was appointed a circuit 
judge for Ray county, which position he 
held until 1848, when he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Missouri, the term of that office 
expiring in 1853. In 1862 he was elected 
a representative from Missouri to me 
thirty-eighth congress. He died April 22, 
1870, in St. Louis, Mo. 

KING, CHARLES, soldier, journalist, 
state legislator, college president, was 
born March 16, 1789, in New York ciiy. 
The war of 1812 with England found him 
actively engaged in business, and al¬ 
though he held the opinion that it was in¬ 
judicious, he gave the government his 
support, both in tiie legislature of New 
York, to which he was elected in 1813 
and as a volunteer in 1814. He published 
the New York American, a conservative 
newspaper, and was its sole editor from 
1827 till 1845, when he became one of 
the editors of the Courier and Enquirer, 
holding that post until 1849. In that year 
he was chosen president of Columbia col¬ 
lege. He died in October, 1867, in Fras¬ 
cati, Italy. 

KING, CHARLES, soldier, author, was 
born Oct. 12, 1844, in Albany, N. Y. He 
w as a United States army officer, retired in 
1879 with the rank of Captain. Among his 
many publications are, Famous and De¬ 
cisive Battles; Between the Lines; Cam¬ 
paigning with Crook; Stories of Army 
Life; Cadet Days; The Colonel’s Daugh¬ 
ter; The Deserter; A War Time Wooing; 
Kitty’s Conquest; Under Fire; Waring's 
Peril; Foes in Ambush; Fort Frayne; 
and Noble Blood. 






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KING, CLARENCE, geologist, author, 
was born Jan. 6, 1842, in Newport, R. ±. 
He is a geologist, for a number of years 
in the government service, and the au¬ 
thor of Mountaineering in the Sierra Ne¬ 
vada; and Systematic Geology. 

KING, CYRUS, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 16, 1772, in 
Scarborough, Maine. He was a major- 
general of militia; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Massachusetts from 
1813 to 1817. He died April 25, 1817, in 
Saco, Maine. 

KING, DAN, physician, author, was 
born Jan. 27, 1791, m Mansfield, Conn. 
He was a Rhode Island physician, and 
the author of Life and Times of Governor 
Dorr; Quackery Unmasked; and Tobacco: 
What it Is and What it Does. He died 
Nov. 13, 1864, in Smithfield, R. I. 

KING, DANIEL PUTNAM, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1800, 
in Danvers, Mass. In 1836 and 1837 he 
was a member of the Massachusetts leg¬ 
islature; in 1838 and 1839 was a member 
of the state senate; and in 1840 and 1841 
was president of that body. He was 
speaker of the house in 1843; and during 
that year was elected a representative m 
congress, and held that position until 
his death. He died July 25, 1850, in Dan¬ 
vers, Mass. 

KING, DAVID BENNETT, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born June 20, 1848, near Mt. 
Pleasant, Pa. He is a lawyer of New 
York city, and the author of Latin Pro¬ 
nunciation; and The Irish Question. 

KING, EDWARD, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, was born March 13, lv 95, in New 
York city. He was several times elected 
to each branch of the Ohio legislature, 
and for two sessions was speaker of the 
house. He attained success at the bar, 
and was instrumental in forming the Cin¬ 
cinnati law school in 1833. He died Feb. 
6, 1836, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

KING, EDWARD, journalist, author, 
was born July 31, 1848, in Middlefield, 
Mass. He was a journalist who lived in 
Paris as correspondent for American 
journals, and the author of The Gentle 
Savage; The Golden Spike; French Lead¬ 
ers; My Paris, or French Character 
Sketches; Kentucky’s Love; The Great 
South; Echoes from the Orient, a volume 
of poems; Europe in Storm and Calm; A 
Venetian Lover, a Poem; Joseph Zal- 
monah; and Under the Red Flag. He 
died in 1896. 

KING, FRANK LOUI, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Dec. 17, 18—, in England. 
He was dean of the first conservatory 
of music in Cali¬ 
fornia. He is the 
founder of the King 
Conservatory of Mu¬ 
sic of San Jose, Cal., 
where he has been 
a most successful 
teacher of the piano¬ 
forte for many 
years. He has made 
many pianists of the 
first order; and is a 
composer and di¬ 
rector of the high¬ 
est class. The advancement of music as 
an art, and the dissemination of all that 
is best and refining in music, has ever 
been attributed to his influence in Santa 
Clara county, and from there extending 
more or less all over the state of Cali¬ 
fornia. 

KING, GEORGE C., congressman, was 
born in Rhode Island. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Rhode Island 
from 1849 to 1853; and was presidential 
elector in 1849. He died July 17, 1870, in 
Newport, R. I. 


KING, GRACE ELIZABETH, author, 
was born in 1859, in New Orleans, La. 
She is a popular writer of New Orleans 
and the author of Monsieur Motte; Tales 
of a Time and Place; Earthlings; New 
Orleans, tne Place and the People; Jean 
Baptiste Lemoine, Founder of New Or¬ 
leans; and Balcony Stories. 

KING, HENRY, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, was born in Hampden, Mass. 
He was a member of the senate of Penn¬ 
sylvania, when elected a representative 
in the twenty-second congress. He was 
re-elected to the twenty-third congress. 
He died July 13, 1861. 

KING, HENRY MELVILLE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Sept. 3, 1838, in 
Oxford, Maine. He is a baptist clergy¬ 
man, and since 1891 pastor of the First 
Baptist church of Providence, R. I. He 
is the author of Early Baptists Defended: 
Mary’s Alabaster Box, a collection of 
homilies; and Our Gospels. 

KING, HORATIO, postmaster-general 
of United States, author, was born June 
21, 1811, in Paris, Maine. In 1854 he was 
appointed first assistant postmaster-gen¬ 
eral, and from President Buchanan he re¬ 
ceived the appointment of postmaster- 
general. He was the autnor of Sketches 
of Travel, or Twelve Months in Europe; 
and Turning on the Light, a Survey of 
the Administration of Buchanan. He 
died in 1897. 

KING, HORATIO COLLINS, journalist, 
author, was horn Dec. 22, 1837, in Port¬ 
land, Maine. He is a journalist of New 
York city, and tne author of Guide for 
Regimental Courts Martial; The Brook¬ 
lyn Congregational Council; and The Ply¬ 
mouth Silver Wedding. 

KING, J. FLOYD, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 20, 1842, near 
St. Mary’s, Ga. He entered the confed¬ 
erate army and served throughout the 
war, attaining the rank of colonel. He 
was appointed brifeadier-general of mil¬ 
itia in Louisiana. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Louisiana to the forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and 
forty-ninth congresses as a democrat. 

KING, JAMES, merchant, banker, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 8, 1791, in 
Highwood, N. J. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New Jersey from 
1849 to 1851. He died Oct. 3, 1853, in 
Highwood, N. J. 

KING, JAMES L.. librarian, was born 
Aug. 2, 1850, in La Harpe, Ill. In 1871 he 
moved to Topeka', Kan.; and in 1894 was 
elected state librarian. 

KING, JAMES WILSON, naval engi¬ 
neer, author, was born in Maryland, He 
is a naval engineer, chief of the bureau of 
steam engineering in 1869-73; and the 
author of European Ships of War; and 
The War Ships and Navies of the World. 

KING, JEANNETTE, HARRIET, edu¬ 
cator, artist, poet, was born March 29, 
1829, in Cheshire, Conn. She received her 
education in the 
Young Ladies’ Se¬ 
lect school of her 
native city. She is 
the wife of James 
W. King, the cele¬ 
brated portrait 
painter, who died in 
1877. Mrs. King has 
attained success in 
art; and has given 
instruction in music, 
embroidering, and 
in painting. Since 
her youth she has contributed extensively 
to current periodicals; and her poems 
have received recognition in Poets of 
America and other standard collections. 


KING, JOHN, congressman, was born 
in 1775. He served in congress as a repre¬ 
sentative from New York from 1831 to 
1833. He died Sept. 1, 1836, in New Leb¬ 
anon, N. Y. 

KING, JOHN A., agriculturist, state 
senator, congressman, governor, was born 
Jan. 3, 1788, in New York. He was a 
member of the New York assembly from 
1819 to 1821; was again elected in 1832 
and in 1840' from Queens county; and m 
1823 was elected to the state senate. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1849 to 1851; and was 
governor of New York from 1856 to 1858. 
He died July 7, 1867, in Jamaica, L. I. 

KING, JOHN CROOKSHANKS, sculp¬ 
tor, was born Oct. 11, 1806, in Scotland. 
From 1837 till 1840 he resided in New 
Orleans, modeling busts of public men 
and making cameo likenesses. He died 
April 21, 1882, in Boston, Mass. 

KING. JOHN PENDLETON, United 
States senator, was born April 3, 1799, 
near Glasgow, Ky. He was a senator in 
congress from Georgia from 1833 to 1837. 
He died March 19, 1888, in Augusta, Ga. 

KING, JOHN WILLIAM, portrait 
painter, was born Feb. 8, 1832, in Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y. He attained success as a por¬ 
trait painter; and 
was known as one of 
the most talented 
artists of the south. 
His pictures have 
become celebrated; 
and his portrait oi 
General Lee alone 
would have made 
his reputation. It 
was exhibited at the 
Cotton exhibition at 
Atlanta, Ga. The 
picture of General 
Lee is noticeable for the strength and 
purity of color; and the careful work of 
its detail. It was commenced while the 
army was in camp at Hamilton Crossing, 
after the battle of Fredericksburg; and 
was completed at Richmond, Va. He died 
Oct. 15, 1877. 

KING. JONAS, missionary, author, was 
born July 29, 1792, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a congregational missionary in 
Greece who has lived at Athens since 1831. 
He was the author of Classical Greek, 
French, and Arabic; The Defence of 
Jonas King; Exposition of an Apostolic 
Church; Hermeneutics of the Sacred 
Scriptures; Sermons; Synoptical View of 
Palestine; and Miscellaneous Works. 
He died May 22, 1869, in Athens, Greece. 

KING, JOSHUA INGERSOLL, state 
senator, was born in 1801, in Ridgefiem. 
Conn. He represented his district as sen¬ 
ator in the Connecticut legislature of 
1849. He died July 30, 1887, in Ridge¬ 
field, Conn. 

KING, LOUISE WOODWARD, author, 
was born July 6, 1850, in Sand Hills, 
Maine. She established in Georgia the 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals, and was the founder of the 
Louise King Home for widows in Au¬ 
gusta. She contributed several sketches 
and poems to periodicals. She died Dec. 
7, 1878, in Augusta, Ga. 

KING, MITCHELL, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, lecturer, author, was born June 8, 
1783, in Scotland. He was judge of the 
Charleston city court in 1819, and again 
in 1842-44. In 1830-32 he was an active 
opponent of nullification. He was the au¬ 
thor of many essays and addresses, in¬ 
cluding one before the state agricultural 
society at Columbia on The Culture of 
the Olive. He died Nov. 12, 1862, in Flat 
Rock. N. C. 








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KING, NATHAN G., state senator. In 
1873-74 he represented his county with 
ability and marked fidelity in the Michi¬ 
gan state senate, 
and throughout his 
life has maintained 
a high social stand¬ 
ing and counted as 
his associates the 
best men, public and 
private. He is pres¬ 
ident of the Farm¬ 
er’s bank of Brook¬ 
lyn, Mich., and is 
prominent in the 
public affairs of his 
city, county and 
state. He also contributes valuable arti¬ 
cles to the periodical press and the lead¬ 
ing magazines of the United States. 

KING, PERKINS, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 12, 
1784, in New Marlborough, Mass. In 1826 
he was made judge of Greene county; 
and held the position until 1850. He 
served two terms in the state legislature; 
and was a representative in congress 
from New York from 1829 to 1831. He 
died Nov. 29, 1875, in Greene county, N. Y. 

KING, PRESTON, lawyer, journalist, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Oct. 14, 1806, in Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
He was a member of the New York leg¬ 
islature from 1835-38; was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 
1843 to 1847, and again from 1849 to 1853. 
In 1857 he was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress, which position he retained until 
1863. He was drowned Nov. 12, 1865, in 
the Hudson river. 

KING, RUFUS, lawyer, congressman. 
United States senator, was born March 
24, 1755, in Scarborougn, Maine. He was 
elected from New¬ 
bury, Mass., to the 
state legislature; 
and in 1784 was 
elected a delegate to 
congress at Trenton. 
Moving to New 
York city in 1778, he 
was in 1789 elected 
a senator in con¬ 
gress; and was 
again elected to the 
same position in 
1813, remaining in 
that capacity until 18z5. He died April 
29, 1827, in New York city. 

KING, RUFUS, soldier, civil engineer, 
journalist, was born Jan. 26. 1814, in New 
York city. He mov£d to Wisconsin and 
edited the Milwaukee Sentinel until 1861. 
He commanded a division at Fredericks¬ 
burg, Groveton, Manassas, Yorktown and 
Fairfax; and resigned in 1863. He died 
Oct. 13, 1876, in New York city. 

KING, RUFUS, lawyer, author, was 
born in 1817, in Ohio. He was a promi¬ 
nent lawyer of Cincinnati, and the author 
of History of Ohio. He died in 1891. 

KING, RUFUS H., banner, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1784, in Ridgefield, 
Conn, rie was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1855 to 1857. 
He was subsequently president of the 
New York State National bank at Al¬ 
bany; and also of the Albany Insurance 
company. He died July 9, 1867, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. 

KING, SAMUEL, artist, was born Jan. 
24, 1749, in Newport, R. I. He was an 
artist of skill in his day, and many speci¬ 
mens of his work are extant, including a 
portrait of himself, which is now in pos¬ 
session of a descendant. He died Jan. 
1, 1820, in Newport, R. I. 


KING, SAMUEL G„ author, poet, was 
born May 2, 1816, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

In 1876 he was elected mayor of Philadel¬ 
phia. He is the author of numerous 
poems. Among his best known are Faith, 
Hope and Charity; Birds and Flowers; 
To Fortune; and other works. 

KING, SAMUEL W., governor. He was 
elected lieutenant-governor of Rhode 
Island in 1839; soon became the acting 
governor; and from 1840 to 1843 was gov¬ 
ernor of the state by election. 

KING, THOMAS BUTLER, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 
27, 1804, in Hampden, Mass. In the years 
1832, 1834,1835, and 1837 he was a member 
of the Georgia state senate. He was a 
representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1839 to 1843; again from 1845 to 
1847; and for another term ending with 
1849; and in 1859 was elected a senator in 
the state legislature. He died May 10, 
1864, near Waresborough, Ga. 

KING, THOMAS D., soldier, state leg¬ 
islator, was born Sept. 22, 1779, in Dup¬ 
lin county, N. C. He was frequently 
elected to the legislature, in which he 
served in both houses. He became major 
in the forty-third United States infantry 
in 1813, and remained in the service until 
peace was declared in 1815. He died Feb. 
24, 1854, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. 

KING, THOMAS STARR, clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born Dec. 17, 1824, 
in New York city. He‘was a Unitarian 
clergyman of Bos¬ 
ton in 1845-56, and 
of San Francisco for 
the remainder of his 
life. He was the au¬ 
thor of Substance 
and Show; Chris¬ 
tianity and Human¬ 
ity, with a Memoir 
by E. P. Whipple; 
The White Hills, a 
volume of travel in 
the White Moun¬ 
tains; and Patriot¬ 
ism, and Other Papers. He died March 4, 
1863, in New York city. 

KING, WILLIAM, state legislator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Feb. 9, 1768, in Scarbor¬ 
ough, Maine. He was a member of the 
Massachusetts legislature for some years. 
He was president of the convention 
which framed the constitution oi Maine, 
and was its first governor in 1820 
and 1821. He was United States 
commissioner for the adjustment of Span¬ 
ish claims from 1821 to 1824; and was 
general of militia and collector of cus¬ 
toms at Bath from 1831 to 1834. He died 
June 17, 1852, in Bath, Maine. 

KING, WILLIAM FLETCHER, third 
president of Cornell college, was born 
Dec. 20, 1830, near Zanesville, Ohio. In 
1857 he graduated 
from the classical 
course of the Ohio 
Wesleyan univer¬ 
sity; and for five 
years was employed 
as a teacher in that 
institution. In 1862 
he was elected to the 
chair of the Greek 
and Latin languages 
in Cornell college of 
Mount Vernon,Iowa, 
which position he 
held until the death of President Fellows 
in 1863. He then took charge of the col¬ 
lege as acting president, and was formally 
elected president in 1865. He still holds 
that office, making him not only the sen¬ 
ior college president of Iowa, hut as far 
as known, the oldest in continued presi¬ 
dency in the same institution in Amer¬ 


ica. For a third of a century he has been 
laboring to enlarge the scope and use¬ 
fulness of Cornell college, and to advance 
the interests of its students. He has 
traveled extensively in America and Eu¬ 
rope, and is a man of affairs as well as of 
scholarship. He was a member of the 
national commission of the World’s Co¬ 
lumbian exposition; has been three times 
elected to the general conference of the 
methodist episcopal church. He is a vig¬ 
orous speaker and a graceful writer; and 
his published papers and addresses have 
been well received. 

KING, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born in June, 1863, in Fillmore City, Utah. 

In 1882 he was elect¬ 
ed to various offices 
in Fillmore City and 
Millard county. He 
was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the Utah leg¬ 
islature in 1885, and 
re-elected two years 
later. In 1891 he 
was elected to the 
territorial legisla¬ 
ture, and was select¬ 
ed as president of 
the council or upper 
house. He was also elected county attor¬ 
ney of Utah county, and served in that 
capacity for four years; was city attorney 
of Provo City for a number of years; and 
in 1894 was appointed associate justice 
of the supreme court of Utah. He was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

KING, WILLIAM RUFUS, vice-presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born April 
6, 1786, in Sampson county, N. C. He was 
a representative in 
congress from his 
native state from 
1811 to 1816. In 1819 
was elected a sen¬ 
ator in congress 
from Alabama, 
where he continued 
until 1844. In 1846 
he was again elect¬ 
ed to the United 
States senate, where 
he remained until 
elected vice-presi¬ 
dent of the United States in 1852. During 
the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty- 
sixth, thirty-first, and thirty-second con¬ 
gresses he officiated as president pro 
tern, of the senate, and as a'presiding 
officer commanded universal respect. He 
died April 18, 1853, in Cajiawba, Ala. 

KING, WILLIAM RU Ftfe . civil engi¬ 
neer, author, was born in 1839, in New 
York. He is an engineering officer in the 
United States army; and'the author of 
Torpedoes, their Invention and Use; and 
Materials for Defensive Armor. 

KING, WILLIAM S., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 16, 1828, in Ma¬ 
lone. N. Y. In 1858 he removed to Min¬ 
neapolis, Minn., and established the State 
Atlas; and was subsequently elected post¬ 
master of the national house of repre¬ 
sentatives for the thirty-seventh, thirty- 
eighth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-sec¬ 
ond congresses; and the forty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

KING, WILLIAM STERLING, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, was born Oct. 6, 
1818, in New York city. In 1855 he was 
elected a member of the Massachusetts 
legislature. At the beginning of the civil 
war he was commissioned captain in the 
thirty-fifth Massachusetts regiment, and 
in 1865 was made brigadier-general of 
volunteers. He died June 29, 1882, in 
Roxbury, Mass. 













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KING, YELVERTON P., lawyer, state 
legislator, was born in 1794, in Greene 
county, Ga. In 1830 be was made state 
superintendent of public lands; was fre¬ 
quently elected to tbe Georgia legislature; 
and was a presidential elector in 1840. 
He died Aug. 5, 1868, in Greene county, 
Ga. 

KINGSBURY. JACOB, soldier, was born 
in 1755, in Norwich, Conn. He entered 
the continental army as a private In 1775, 
served in Wayne's Indian campaign, and 
was appointed lieutenant of infantry in 
1789. He rose by regular promotion to 
the rank of inspector-general. He died 
July 1, 1837, in Franklin, Mo. 

KINGSBURY, JOSEPH THOMAS, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Nov. 
4, 1853, in North Weber, Utah. He has 
filled the chair of chemistry and physics 
in me university of Utah for many years 
past; and has been vice-president of that 
institution, and is now its honored presi¬ 
dent. 

KINGSBURY, WILLIAM W., state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born June 4, 
1828, in Towanda, Pa. He moved to Min¬ 
nesota, and in the year 1855 was elected 
a member of the Minnesota legislature, 
and again in 1856. In 1857 he was dele¬ 
gate to the convention for framing a con¬ 
stitution for Minnesota; was elected a 
delegate to the thirty-fifth congress. 

KINGSFORD, THOMAS, inventor, was 
born Sept. 29, 1799, in Kent, England. He 
was the inventor of the manufacture of 
corn starch, founder 
of the Oswego 
Starch factory, and 
originator of one of 
America’s great in¬ 
dustries. He was 
the first man to sug¬ 
gest the manufac¬ 
ture of starch from 
Indian corn. The 
first lot of corn 
starch ever prepared 
for the general mar¬ 
ket was produced by 
Mr. Kingsford in 1842. 

KINGSFORD, THOMSON, manufac¬ 
turer, was born April 4, 1828, in England. 
All the machinery of the factory of T. 
Kingsford and Son, at Bergen, N. J., was 
designed, made and set up by Thomson 
Kingsford, and, during the remainder of 
his father’s life, he aided actively in the 
management of the starch industry, most 
of the mechanical improvements originat¬ 
ing with him. 

KINGSLEY, MRS. ADELAIDE D„ au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1843 in Canada. 
She is a successful writer of Blue Earth 
City, Minn.; the author of a story en¬ 
titled Heart or Purse; and a volume of 
poems. 

KINGSLEY, CALVIN, bishop, author, 
was born in 1812, in Annsville, N. Y. He 
was a methodist bishop, and the author of 
The Resurrection o'f the Dead; and Round 
the World. He died April 6, 1870, in 
Syria. 

KINGSLEY, JAMES LUCE, educator, 
author, was born Aug. 28, 1778, in Wind¬ 
ham, Conn. He was the author of numer¬ 
ous valuable articles on historical sub¬ 
jects. He also published a History of 
Yale College; and several biographical 
and historical works. He died Aug. 31, 
1852, in New Haven, Conn. 

KINGSLEY, W. J. P., physician, sur¬ 
geon, banker, was born in 1824, in Utica, 
N. Y. He attended the Whitestown sem¬ 
inary; the Geneva Medical college; and the 
New York Medical college, from which 
latter institution he received his degree of 
M. D. He has obtained success as a phy¬ 



sician and surgeon of Rome, N. Y., and 
is widely known as a specialist in the 
treatment of malignant growths. He has 
been president of the Farmers’ National 
bank; president of the Central New York 
Institute for Deaf Mutes; president of the 
Rome Cemetery association; and vice- 
president of the Rome Brass and Copper 
company; mayor of his city; and is 
prominently identified with the business 
and public affairs of Rome, N. Y. 

KINKEAD, JOHN H., merchant, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Dec. 10, 1826, in Smith- 
field, Pa. He was treasurer of Nevada 
territory for three years; and was a mem¬ 
ber of the constitutional convention 
which framed the constitution under 
which Nevada was admitted as a staie. 
He was nominated for governor of Ne¬ 
vada in 1878, without solicitation; was 
elected and served four years—from 1879 
to 1883; and in the latter year was ap¬ 
pointed governor of the district of Alas¬ 
ka. 

KINLOCH, CLELAND, planter, state 
legislator, inventor, was born in 1759, in 
Charleston, S. C. He served frequently in 
the state legislature; was a delegate to 
the conventions of 1787 and 1790; also 
holding other offices, fie was among the 
most successful rice planters in the state, 
and one of the first to adopt the tide¬ 
water cultivation and the new pounding 
and threshing machinery, and to encour¬ 
age inventions and improvements. He 
died Sept. 23, 18:23, in Acton, S. C. 

KINLOCH, FRANCIS, congressman, 
was born March 7, 1755, in Charleston, S. 
C. He was a delegate from South Caro¬ 
lina to the continental congress from 
1780 to 1781. He died Feb. 8, 1826, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

KINLOCH. ROBERT ALEXANDER, 
educator, physician, surgeon, inventor, 
was born Feb. 20, 1826, in Charleston, S. 
C. Since 1867 he has been professor of 
surgery in the medical college of South 
Carolina. In 1876 he was a delegate to 
the international medical congress. He 
has invented several surgical instruments 
and appliances, chiefly urethrotome stone 
pessaries. He was the first in the United 
States to reset the knee joint for chronic 
disease. 

KINNARD, GEORGE L., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Indiana from 1833 to 1837. He died Nov. 
26, 1838, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

KINNE, AARON, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1745, in Lisbon, Conn. He 
was ordained in 1770, and had charge of 
a congregational church in Groton, Conn. 
He published The Sonship of Christ; A 
Display of Scripture Prophesies; Explana¬ 
tion of the Types, Revelation, etc.; and 
An Essay on the New Heaven and Earth. 
He died July 9, 1824, in Talmadge, Ohio. 

KINNERSLEY, EBENEZER, electri¬ 
cian, educator, inventor, was born Nov. 30, 
1711, in England. He was electrician and 
professor of English and natural philos¬ 
ophy in the college of Philadelphia from 
1753 to 1773. In 1757 he invented an elec¬ 
trical thermometer, and that year was the 
first to prove that heat could be produced 
by electricity. He died July 4, 1778, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

KINNEY, CLESSON S.. lawyer, author, 
was born Dec. 5, 1859, in East Townsend, 
Ohio. He has become prominent in the 
profession of law, and is the author of 
Kinney on Irrigation. 

KINNEY, COATES, lawyer, author, 
poet, was born Nov. 24, 1826, in Penn Yan, 
N. Y. He is an Ohio lawyer and journal¬ 
ist. and the author of Keuka, and Other 
Poems; and Lyrics of the Real and Ideal. 
The Rain Upon the Roof is his most fam¬ 
iliar poem. 


KINNEY, MRS. ELIZABETH CLE¬ 
MENTINE [DODGE] [Sl'EDMAN], au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Dec. 18, 1810, in 
New York city. She was a poet of New¬ 
ark, N. J., but resident in Italy in 1850-65, 
and the author of Felicita; Poems; Bi¬ 
anca Capello: a Tragedy. She died Nov. 
19, 1889, in Summit, N. J. 

KINNEY, JOHN FITCH, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born April 2, 1816, in 
New Haven, N. Y. In 1853 he was ap¬ 
pointed chief justice of the supreme court 
of Utah, and went to that territory in 
1854. In 1857 he moved to Nebraska ter¬ 
ritory; and in 1860 was again appointed 
chief justice of Utah, holding that office 
until 1863, when he was elected a delegate 
from Utah to the thirty-eighth congress. 


KINNEY, JONATHAN KENDRICK, 
soldier, lawyer, author, was born Oct. 26. 
1843, in Royalston. Vt. He served in the 
volunteer army in the civil war, and at 
its close engaged in business in the west. 
He has published A Digest of the Deci¬ 
sions of the Supreme Court of the United 
States; and edited the Law of Railways. 



KINNEY, NARCISSA EDITH WHITE, 
educator, temperance worker, was born 
July 24, 1854, in Grove City, Pa. She re¬ 
ceived her education 
in the Grove City 
academy, and at the 
Edinboro State Nor¬ 
mal school, Pa. She 
has been teacher 
and superintendent 
in the training de¬ 
partment of the 
Pennsylvania state 
Normal school; and 
for several years 
was institute in¬ 
structor. She is a 
national lecturer and organizer of the 
Woman’s Christian Temperance union" 
has been state secretary of the Chautau¬ 
qua association; director of the Oregon 
Summer school; and president of the 
State Woman's Cnristian Temperance 
union of Oregon. 


KINNEY, THOMAS TALMADGE, ed¬ 
itor and proprietor of the Newark Daily 
Advertiser, was born Aug. 13, 1827, in 
Newark. N. J. He is editor and proprietor 
of the Newark Daily Advertiser. He was 
one of the projectors of the Newark Board 
of Trade and a delegate from that body 
to a convention in Philadelphia which or¬ 
ganized the National Board of Trade. 


KINNEY, WILLIAM BURNET, jour¬ 
nalist, diplomat, was born Sept. 4, 1799, 
in Speedwell, N. Y. He was connected 
with the press of New Jersey, and in 1850 
was appointed charge d'affaires to Sar¬ 
dinia, where he remained until 1853. He 
died Oct. 21, 1880, in Speedwell. 

KINSELLA, THOMAS, journalist, con¬ 
gressman. was born in 1832, in Ireland. 
He held the local offices in Brooklyn of 
water commissioner and member of the 
board of education; and was nominated 
as postmaster of that city in 1866, and 
again in 1867, but was rejected by the 
senate. He was elected to the forty-sec¬ 
ond congress from New York as a demo¬ 
crat. He died Feb. 11, 1884, in Brooklyn. 
N. Y. 


KINSEY, CHARLES, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1817 to 1819. and from 
1820 to 1821. 

KINSEY, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 22, 1731, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a delegate from 
New Jersey to the continental congress 
from 1774 to 1775, when he resigned his 
seat. In 1789 he was appointed chief jus¬ 
tice of New jersey, tie died Jan. 3, 1802, 
in Burlington, N. Y. 


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KINSEY, JOHN, jurist, journalist, state 
legislator, author, was born in 1693, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. Up to 1730 Kinsey re¬ 
sided in New Jersey, where he served in 
the assembly; but after this date he lived 
in Philadelphia, and in the same year 
was chosen to the assembly of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He was attorney-general of the 
province from 1738 tnl 1741, and in 1743 
was appointed chief justice, which post 
he held until his death. He published 
Laws of New Jersey, 1733. He died May 
11, 1750, in Burlington, N. J. 

KINSEY, WILLIAM M., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born m Mount Pleasant, 
Ohio. Since 1875 he has been actively en¬ 
gaged in the practice of law in St. Louis, 
Mo. He was elected to the fifty-first con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

KINSLEY, MARTIN, soldier, jurist, 
congressman, was born June 2, 1754, in 
Bridgewater, Mass. He served in the leg¬ 
islature of Massachusetts about thirty 
years; was also at different periods a 
member of the state council, a judge of 
the court of common pleas, and judge of 
probate; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts from 1819 to 
1821. He died June 20, 1835. 

KINSOLVING, GEORGE HERBERT, 
bishop of Texas, was born April 28, 1849, 
in Bedford county, Va. In 188 1 he was 
elected missionary bishop of western 
Texas. 

KINZIE, JOHN, founder of Chicago, 
was born in 1763, in Quebec, Canada. In 
1804 he established a trading post on tne 
site of the present city of Chicago, where 
he was the first white settler, and he sub¬ 
sequently founded others on Rock, Illi¬ 
nois, and Kankakee rivers. He died Jan. 
6 , 1828, in Chicago, Ill. 

KINZIE, MRS. JULIETTE AUGUSTA 
[MAGILL], author, was born in 1806, in 
Connecticut. She was a novelist of Chi¬ 
cago, and the author of Wau-bun, or the 
Early Day in the Northwest; Walter 
Ogilby; and Mark Logan. 

KIP, LEONARD, lawyer, author, was 
born Sept. 13, 1826, in New York city. 
He was a lawyer of Albany, and the au¬ 
thor of California Sketches; The Volcano 
Diggings; .®none, a Roman Tale; The 
Dead Marquise; Hannibal’s Man, and 
Other Tales; Under the Bells, a romance: 
Nestlenook. a novel; At Cobweb and 
Crusty’s; Thaloe; The Puntacooset Col¬ 
ony; Three Pines; and A Tale of the In¬ 
credible. 

KIP. WILLIAM INGRAHAM, bishop, 
author, was born Oct. 3, 1811, in New 
York city. He was the first protestant 
episcopal bishop of California in 1853-93. 
He was the author of Double Witness of 
the Church; Lenten Fasts; Early Con¬ 
flicts of Christianity; Christmas Holidays 
in Rome; Catacombs of Rome; Early Jes¬ 
uit Missions in North America; Recanta¬ 
tion. an Italian tale; The Unnoticed 
Things of Scripture; The Church of the 
Apostles; anTT The Olden Time in New 
York. He died April 6, 1893, in San 
Francisco, Cal. 

KIRBY, EDMUND, soldier, was born 
in 1840, in Brownville, N. i. He was 
made first lieutenant on May 14, 1861, 
and was given the commission of briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers, to date from 
May 23, 1863. He died May 28, 1863, in 
Washington, D. C. 

KIRBY, EDWARD P., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Oct. 28, 1833, in 
Hadley, Ill. For two terms he was tne 
county judge of Morgan county. Ill. He 
served as a member of the Illinois state 
legislature. 


KIRBY, EPHRAIM, soldier, jurist, leg¬ 
islator, author, was born Feb. 23, 1757, in 
Litchfield, Conn. He served at the battle 
of Bunker Hill, and remained in active 
service until the Declaration of Independ¬ 
ence. He published a volume of Reports 
of the Decisions of the Superior Court 
and Court of Errors, which was the first 
of that character published in Connecti¬ 
cut, and probably in the United States. 
From 1791 to. 1804 he was a representa¬ 
tive in the legislature. After the acqui¬ 
sition of Louisiana he was appointed a 
judge of the newly organized territory of 
Orleans. He died Oct. 2, 1804, in Stod¬ 
dard, Miss. 

KIRBY, J. HUDSON, actor, was born 
April 3, 1819, in New Jersey. During sev¬ 
eral years Kirby was engaged as leading 
performer at the Chatham street National 
theater. Here he met with remarkable 
popularity in the dramas Six Degrees of 
Crime; The Surgeon of Paris; The Car¬ 
penter of Rouen: and others, that ran 
nightly for several seasons. He died in 
1848, in England. 

KIRBY, REYNOLD MARVIN, soldier, 
was born March 10, 1790, in Litchfield, 
Conn. He entered the army in 1813, and 
received the brevets of first lieutenant 
and captain for gallantry in the siege of 
Fort Erie. He became captain of artil¬ 
lery in 1824, and brevet major in the same 
year. He died Oct. 7, 1842. in Fort Sul¬ 
livan, Maine. 

KIRCHHOFF, CHARLES WILLIAM 
HENRY, mining engineer, journalist, was 
born March 28, 1853, in San Francisco, 
Cal. In 1886 he was made assistant ed¬ 
itor of the Iron Age, and he became its 
editor in 1887. He has since 1882 pre¬ 
pared annually for the Mineral Resources 
of the United States chapters on certain 
of the heavier metals. 

KIRCHNER, OTTO, lawyer, educator, 
was born July 13, 1846, in Germany. Dur¬ 
ing 1877-81 he was attorney-general of 
Michigan. In 1885 he was appointed pro¬ 
fessor'of law at Ann Arbor, and served 
one year; and in 1893 was re-appointed 
to the same position. 

KIRK, EDWARD NORRIS, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 14, 1802, in New 
York city. He was a congregational cler¬ 
gyman of Boston, pastor of the Mount 
Vernon church in 1842-74, and the author 
of Sermons; The Parables of Our Lord; 
Lectures on Revivals; Canon of the Holy 
Scripture; The Waiting Saviour; and 
Christian Sympathy Awakened. He died 
March 27, 1874, in Boston, Mass. 

KIRK, EDWARD N., soldier, was born 
Feb. 29, 1828, in Jefferson county, Ohio. 
He organized the thirty-fourth Illinois 
regiment; and commanded a brigade at 
Shiloh, and at the siege of Corinth, on 
Nov. 29, 1862, and was appointed briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers. He aied July 
26, 1863. 

KIRK, MRS. ELLEN WARNER [OL- 
NEY]—HENRY HAYES—author, was 
born Nov. 6, 1842, in Southington, 

Conn. She is a popular novelist of 
Germantown, Philadelphia, and the au¬ 
thor of Through Winding Ways; A 
Midsummer Madness; Walford; The 
Story of Margaret Kent; Sons and 
Daughters; Love in Idleness; A Lesson in 
Love; Fairy Gold; Queen Money; Better 
Times, short stories; A Daughter of Eve; 
Narden’s Choosing; Ciphers; and The 
Story of Lawrence Garthe. 

KIRK, JAMES WILLIAM, journalist, 
was born in 1848, in Byron, N. Y. He was 
educated in the public schools of his na¬ 
tive city; at Batavia academy; and at the 
Rockford State Normal school. Early in 
life he was engaged in mercantile busi¬ 


ness and school teaching. In 1871 he 
moved to East St. Louis, Ill., where for 
twenty years he has been the editor of the 
Daily Journal, of which he is now the 
principal owner. He has taken a promi¬ 
nent part in public affairs, and has held 
numerous offices of trust and honor. 

KIRK, JOHN FOSTER, author, was 
born March 22, 1824, in r redericktown, 
N. B. He was the secretary to the historian 
Prescott for eleven years, and since 1885 
lecturer on European history at the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania. He is the au¬ 
thor of History of Charles the Bold; and 
Supplement to Allibone’s Dictionary. 

KIRK, JOHN R., lawyer, educator, was 
born Jan. 21, 1851, in Bureau county, Ill. 
He received the rudiments of his edu¬ 
cation in the public 
schools of Missouri; 
graduated from the 
State Normal school 
of Kirksville; at¬ 
tended the universi¬ 
ties of Missouri and 
Kansas; and at¬ 
tained proficiency in 
Latin, Greek, sci¬ 
ence and mathemat¬ 
ics. He has been 
county commission¬ 
er of schools of Har¬ 
rison county; for eight years was super¬ 
intendent of schools of Bethany; far 
seven years was connected with the prin¬ 
cipal schools of Kansas City; and since 
1894 has been state superintendent of pub¬ 
lic schools for the state of Missouri. 

IvIRKBRIDE, THOMAS STORY, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born July 31, 1809, in 
Morrisville, Pa. He was a physician of 
Philadelphia, who was superintendent of 
the Pennsylvania hospital for the insane 
in 1840-83. He was the author of Appeal 
for the Insane; Essays on Insanity; and 
Construction of Hospitals for the Insane. 
He died Dec. 16, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

KIRKER, THOMAS, governor. He was 
acting governor of Ohio in 1807. 

KIRKHAM, RALPH WILSON, soldier, 
was born Feb. 20, 1821, in Springfield, 
Mass. During the civil war he served as 
chief quartermaster and was brevetted 
brigadier-general of the United States 
army. 

KIRKLAND, MRS. CAROLINE MA¬ 
TILDA [STANSBURY], author, was born 
Jan. 12, 1801, in New York city. She was 
a once popular writer of New York city, 
and the author of A New Home; Who’ll 
Follow?; Western Clearings; Fireside 
Talks on Morals and Manners; Holidays 
Abroad; A Book for the Home Circle; and 
forest Life. She died April 6, 18b4, m 
New York city. 

KIRKLAND, ELIZABETH STANS- 
BURY, educator, author, was born in 1828, 
in New York. She was an educator of 
Chicago, and the author of Six Little 
Cooks; Dora’s Housekeeping; Speech and 
Manners for Home and School; and Short 
Histories of English Literature, France, 
England, Italy, for Young People. She 
died in 1896. 

KIRKLAND, JOHN THORNTON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Aug. 17, 1770, 
in Geneva, N. Y. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman who was president of Harvard 
university in 1810-21; and the author of 
Life of Fisher Ames; and Eulogy of Gen¬ 
eral Washington. He died April 24, 1840, 
in Boston, Mass. 

KIRKLAND. JOSEPH, mayor, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1771, in Old Nor¬ 
wich, Conn. He served frequently in the 
New York state legislature; and was a 
representative in congress from New 
York from 1821 to 1823. He died Jan. 26, 
1844, in Utica, N. Y. 





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KIRKLAND, JOSEPH, soldier, lawyer, 
author, was born jan. 7, 1830, in Geneva, 
N. Y. He was a lawyer of Chicago, who 
was a major in the federal army during 
the civil war. His two novels of pioneer 
life in Illinois, Zury; and The McVeys, are 
notably faithful, graphic studies. His 
other writings include, The Captain of 
Company K; The Story of Chicago; and 
Story of the Chicago Massacre of 1812. 

KIRKLAND, SAMUEL, clergyman, 
missionary, w r as born Dec. 1, 1741, in Nor¬ 
wich, Conn. He was the founder of Ham¬ 
ilton college. He was a successful cler¬ 
gyman and missionary to the Indians of 
Oneida county, N. Y. He died Feb. 28, 
1808, in Clinton, N. Y. 

KIRKLAND, WILLIAM, educator, 
journalist, author, was born in 1810, in 
Utica, N. Y. At the time of his death he 
was editor of the New York Evening Mir¬ 
ror. Besides many other contributions to 
periodical literature, he was the author 
of a series of Letters from Abroad, which 
were never collected in book form. He 
died Oct. 19, 1846, in Fishkill, N. 1. 

KIRKMAN, MARSHALL MONROE, au¬ 
thor, was born July 10, 1842, in Illinois. 
He was the vice-president of the Chicago 
and Northwestern railway, and the au¬ 
thor of Railway Disbursements; Railway 
Revenue; Railway Service; Baggage Car 
Traffic; Railway Expenditures; Handling 
of Railway Supplies; Railway Rates and 
Government Control; and How to Collect 
Railway Revenues without Loss. 

KIRKPATRICK, ANDREW, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 17, 1756, 
in Mine Brook, N. J. In 1797 he was a 
member of the New Jersey assembly; was 
a judge of the supreme court; and dur¬ 
ing 1803-24 was chief justice. He died 
Jan. 7, 1831, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

KIRKPATRICK, ANDREW, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born Oct. 8, 1844, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. He was president judge of the 
court of common pleas of Essex county, 
N. J., for eleven years; and in 1896 was 
made judge of the United States district 
court. 

KIRKPATRICK, JANE BAYARD, au¬ 
thor, was born July lz, 1772, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. She is the author of The Light 
of Other Days, edited by her daughter, 
Mrs. Jane E. Cogswell. She died Feb. 16, 
1851, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

KIRKPATRICK, JOHN LYCAN, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born Jan. 
20, 1813, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. In 
1861 he became president of Davidson col¬ 
lege, North Carolina, ana in 1866 he was 
elected to the chair of moral philosophy 
in Washington college, Lexington, Va., 
under the presidency of General Robert 
E. Lee. He died June 24, 1885, in Lex¬ 
ington, Va. 

KIRKPATRICK, LITTLETON, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 19,1797, 
in New Brunswick, N. J. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New Jersey 
from 1843 to 1845; and was also for five 
years surrogate of the county of Middle¬ 
sex. He died Aug. 15, 1859, in Saratoga 
Springs, N. Y. 

KIRKPATRICK, SNYDER S., lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 
27, 1848, in Franklin county, Ill. He was 
elected county attorney of Wilson county, 
Kan., in 1879, and served for a period of 
two years; was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate from the twelfth senatorial district, 
composed of the counties of Wilson and 
Neosho, and served in that capacity for a 
term of four years; and was elected to 
the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. 

KIRKPATRICK, WILLIAM, congress¬ 
man, was born in November, 1768, in Am- 
well, N. J. In 1806 he moved to Salina, N. 
Y., and became superintendent of the 


Salt Springs. He was a representative in 
congress from 1807 to 1809 from New 
York. He died Sept. 2, 1832, in Salina, 
N. Y. 

KIRKPATRICK, WILLIAM SEBRING, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
April 21, 1844, in Easton, Pa. He was ap¬ 
pointed president judge of the third judi¬ 
cial district of Pennsylvania in the early 
part of 1874 to fill an unexpired term, 
and served in said office until January, 
1875. He was appointed attorney-general 
of Pennsylvania in 1887, and served as 
such till 1891. He was elected to the fif¬ 
ty-fifth congress as a republican. 

KIRKWOOD, DANIEL, astronomer, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 27, 1814, in Braden- 
baugh, Md. He was an astronomer of 
distinction, professor in Indiana univer¬ 
sity since 1850, and the author of Meteor¬ 
ic Astronomy; Comets and Meteors; and 
Asteroids and Minor Planets between 
Mars and Jupiter. 

KIRKWOOD, JAMES PUGH, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born March 27, 1807, in Scot¬ 
land. For several years he was United 
States constructing engineer for the 
docks, hospital, and workshops at Pensa¬ 
cola, Fla., and afterward was general su¬ 
perintendent of the Erie railroad. He 
died April 22, 1877, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 


KITCHELL, AARON, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was 
born July 10, 1744, in Hanover, N. J. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1791 to 1793, from 1794 
to 1797, and from 1799 to 1801. He was 
a senator in congress from 1805 to 1809, 
when he resigned. He was also a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature. He died June 
25, 1820, in Hanover, N. J. 

KITCHEN, BETHUEL M., farmer, leg¬ 
islator, state senator, congressman, was 
born March 21, 1812, in Berkeley county. 
Pa. In 1861 and 1862 he was elected to the 
legislature of Virginia; and in 1863 was 
elected a representative from that state 
to the thirty-eighth congress, but was not 
admitted to his seat. In 1864 he was 
elected to the senate of West Virginia; 
and in 1866 was elected a representative 
from West Virginia to the fortieth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

KITCHIN, WILLIAM H., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Dec. 22, 1837, 
in Lauderdale county, Ala. He moved 
with his parents to North Carolina 
in 1841. He served in the confederate 
army; and rose to the rank of captain. 
He was elected a representative from 
North Carolina to the forty-sixth congress 
as a democrat. 


KIRKWOOD, ROBERT, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born May 25, 1793, in Paisley, 
Scotland. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of Yonkers, and the author of Lec¬ 
tures on the Millennium; Universalism 
Explained; A Plea for the Bible; and Il¬ 
lustration of the Offices of Christ. He 
died Aug. 26, 1866, in Yonkers, N. Y. 

KIRKWOOD, SAMUEL JORDAN, law¬ 
yer, governor, United States senator, was 
born Dec. 20, 1813, in Hartford county, 
Md. He moved to Iowa in 1855; was elect¬ 
ed to the senate of that state in 1856; and 
was governor of Iowa from 1860 to 1864. 
In 1866 he was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress from Iowa to fill a vacancy. In 
1875 he was again elected governor of 
Iowa; and in 1876 was again elected to the 
United States senate for the term com¬ 
mencing in 1877 and ending in 1883. 

KIRTLAND, DORRANCE, congress¬ 
man, was born in New York. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1817 to 1819. 

KIRTLAND, JARED POTTER, physi¬ 
cian, naturalist, legislator, was born Nov. 
10, 1793, in Wallingford, Conn. He be¬ 
came an expert in tne cultivation of fruits 
and flowers, and a close student of bot¬ 
any. In 1828 he was elected to the Ohio 
legislature, and served three terms. Dur¬ 
ing 1841-64 he was professor of medicine 
in the Cleveland Medical college, of which 
institution he was one of the founders. 
He died Dec. 10, 1877, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

KISSAM, RICHARD SHARPE, physi¬ 
cian, was born in 1763, in New York city. 
He began practice in New York in 1791, 
and for thirty years was at the head of 
his profession. He was particularly noted 
as a lithotomist, only three out of his six¬ 
ty-five operations proving fatal. He died 
in October, 1822, in New York city. 

KISTLER, FRANK M., lawyer, was 
born April 25, 1864, in Logansport, Ind. 
He graduated from the high school of 
Royal Center, Ind., and became a teacher 
in that institution. He subsequently took 
the scientific course in the Wabash college 
of Crawfordsville, Ind. In 1887 he was 
admitted to the bar; was elected state’s 
attorney in 1892; and in 1896 was offered 
the democratic nomination for congress, 
which he declined. He is a prominent 
lawyer of Logansport, Ind.; and is promi¬ 
nent in the democratic politics of his 
state. 



KITCHIN, WILLIAM WALTON, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, congressman, was born 

Oct. 9, 1866, near Scotland Neck, N. C. 

He was educated at 
Vine Hill academy 
and Wake Forest 
college, where he 
graduated in 1884. 
He edited the Scot¬ 
land Neck Demo¬ 
crat in 1885. After 
studying law, first 
under his father, 
Hon. W. H. Kitchin, 
and then at the uni¬ 
versity of North 
Carolina, he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1887. He located at 
Roxboro in 1888, where he still practices 
his profession. He was chairman of the 
county executive committee in 1890; and 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

KITTERA, JOHN W., lawyer, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania from 1791 to 
1801, when he was appointed United 
States district attorney for the eastern 
district of Pennsylvania. 

KITTERA, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1826 to 1827. 

KITTREDGE, GEORGE W„ legislator, 
congressman, was born in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He was a member of the legisla¬ 
ture in 1847, 1851 and 1852, officiating as 
speaker in 1852. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1853 to 
1855. 

KITTREDGE, JONATHAN, temperance 
advocate, jurist, state legislator, was born 
July 17, 1793, in Canterbury, N. H. He 
practiced law in Canaan, N. H., and rep¬ 
resented that town in the legislature. 
From 1855 till 1859 he was chief justice of 
the court of common pleas. He died April 
8 , 1864, in Concord, N. H. 

KITTREDGE, JOSIAH EDWARDS, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 12, 1836, 
in Boston, Mass. In 1877 he was installed 
pastor of the presbyterian church at Gen- 
eseo, N. Y., which position he still holds. 
He has published a Year Book of Ser¬ 
mon Texts for Children, besides sermons, 
lectures and addresses. 




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KITTREDGE, THOMAS, surgeon, state 
legislator, was born in 1746, in Andover, 
Mass. He was appointed surgeon in Colo¬ 
nel James Frye’s regiment in 1775, and 
was at the battle of Bunker Hill. He 
served in the legislature several terms 
and in the council in 1810-11. He died 
in October, 1818, in Andover, Mass. 

KLAUSER, KARL, music teacher, edit¬ 
or of musical works, was born Aug. 24, 
1823, in Russia. He edited Half Hours 
with the Best Composers, and also with 
Theodore Thomas and Professor Paine, 
compiled a biographical work entitled Fa¬ 
mous Composers. 

KLEBER, JOHN C., educator, lawyer, 
was born Aug. 1, 1861, in Milwaukee, Wis. 
He is a lineal descendant of General Kle- 
ber, who fought under Napoleon at 
Mount Tabor and in Egypt, at which lat¬ 
ter place he was killed. Mr. Kleber re¬ 
ceived his education at the Lawrence uni¬ 
versity and at the Oshkosh normal 
school. For several years he was en¬ 
gaged in educational work; and is now a 
rising lawyer of Olympia, Wash. 

KLEBERG, RUDOLPH, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born June 26, 1847, 
in Austin county, Tex. He was elected 
to the state senate as a democrat in the 
fall of 1882; and was appointed United 
States attorney for the western district 
of Texas in the fall of 1885, and served 
four years. He was elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a democrat. 

KLEINER, JOHN J., soldier, educator, 
congressman, was born Feb. 8, 1845, in 
West Hanover, Pa. He served in the 
union army during the civil war. He was 
elected a representative from Indiana to 
the forty-eighth and forty-ninth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

KLETZING, HENRY F., educator, li¬ 
brarian, was born Nov. 24, 1850, in Fair- 
view, Pa. He attended Ursinus college, 
Pennsylvania; then 
taught school for 
five years in Iowa; 
and completed his 
classical course in 
the Northwestern 
college of Naper¬ 
ville, Ill. For the 
past eighteen years 
he has been profes¬ 
sor of mathematics 
in the Northwestern 
college, and also its 
librarian. He has 
received the degree of A. M., and has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature. 

KLINE, MARY RACHEL, educator, 
poet, was born Nov. 24, 1843, in Mukwo- 
nago, Wis. In her youtn she taught 
school; and has attained success as a poet 
of Wisconsin. Her poems have constant¬ 
ly appeared in the periodical press, and 
received recognition in Poets of Ameri¬ 
ca and other standard works. For eleven 
years she was blind, when the light was 
again restored, after many painful oper¬ 
ations. 

KLINGENSMITH, JOHN, JR., con¬ 
gressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1835 to 1839. 

KLOTZ, ROBERT, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 27, 1819, in Carbon 
county. Pa. He was a lieutenant of vol¬ 
unteers in the war with Mexico. He was 
a representative in the Pennsylvania state 
legislature in 1848 and 1849. He was 
elected treasurer of Carbon county in 
1859; was elected a trustee of Lehigh uni¬ 
versity; and was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the forty-sixth and 
forty-seventh congresses as a democrat. 

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KNAPP, ANTHONY L„ lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born June 14, 
1828, in Middletown, N. Y. In 1858 he was 
elected to the senate of Illinois, attending 
the sessions of 1859 and 1861; and in the 
latter year was elected a representative 
from Illinois to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. In 1862 he was elected to the 
thirty-eighth congress. 

KNAPP, ARTHUR MAY, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1841, in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is a Unitarian clergyman, pas¬ 
tor at Fall River, Mass., since 1891, and 
the author of Feudal and Modern Japan. 

KNAPP. CHARLES, merchant, banker, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
in 1797, in Colchester, N. Y. He was a 
member of the New York state legislature 
in 1841. He settled in the town of Deposit 
in 1848; organized the Deposit bank in 
1854, which in 1864 became a national 
bank, of which he was president. In 1868 
he was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-first congress. 

KNAPP, CHARLES, educator, lecturer, 
author, was born June 22, 1868, in New 
York city. Since 1891 he has been an in¬ 
structor of Latin in Barnard college of 
New York city, and has lectured exten¬ 
sively on subjects connected with Roman 
Archaeology. He has edited and pub¬ 
lished several Latin text-books. 

KNAPP, CHARLES JUNIUS, banker, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
June 30, 1845, in Pepacton, N. Y. For 
many years he was president of the board 
of education; was elected supervisor in 
1885 and 1886; and served as member of 
the New York state legislature in 1886 
and 1888. He was elected to the fifty-first 
congress as a republican. 

KNAPP, CHARLES WELBOURNE, 
journalist, was born Jan. 23, 1848, in St. 
Louis, Mo. He received his education at 
the St. Louis university; and graduated 
in 1865 with the degree of A. B.; and re¬ 
ceived from the same institution the de¬ 
gree of A. M. In 1867 he attended the 
Columbia college, and the university of 
Kentucky, from which institution he re¬ 
ceived the degree of LL.B. in 1867. He 
is a successful journalist, and the presi¬ 
dent and general manager of the St. Louis 
Republic. During 1895-98 he was presi¬ 
dent of the American Newspaper Pub¬ 
lishers’ association; a member of the 
board of directors' of the Associated Press 
during 1891-98; and in 1896-99 a member 
of the board of directors of the St. Louis 
public library. 

KNAPP, CHAUNCEY L„ journalist, 
congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1809, in 
Berlin, Vt. Removing to Massachusetts 
he was elected secretary of the Massa¬ 
chusetts senate in 1851; was elected a rep¬ 
resentative to the thirty-fourth congress; 
and re-elected to the thirty-fifth congress. 

KNAPP, FRANCIS, author, poet, was 
born in 1672, in England. He was a music¬ 
al composer, and the author of A Poet¬ 
ical Epistle to Mr. B., reprinted in J. 
Nichols’s Select Collection of Poems; and 
of a poetical Address to Mr. Alexander 
Pope, on his Windsor Forest. He died af¬ 
ter 1715. 

KNAPP, ISAAC, abolitionist, journal¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 11, 1804, in Newbury- 
port, Mass. In 1825 he bought the North¬ 
ern Chronicle; and in 1840 became part 
owner of the Liberator. He was one of 
the founders of the New England Anti- 
Slavery society. He died Sept. 14, 1873, 
in Boston, Mass. 

KNAPP, JACOB, clergyman, was born 
Dec. 7, 1799, in Otsego county, N. Y. In 
his revival work he visited New York, 
New England, and the western states, in¬ 
cluding California, preached about 16,000 


sermons, led 200 young men to become 
clergymen, and baptized 4,000 persons. He 
died March 2, 1874, in Rockford, Ill. 

KNAPP, JACOB HERMANN, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, lecturer, was born March 
17, 1832, in Prussia. He founded the New 
York ophthalmic and aural institute in 
1869, and since that date has been its sur¬ 
geon. 

KNAPP, JOSEPH G., lawyer, jurist. He 
was a citizen of Wisconsin, from which 
state he was appointed an associate jus¬ 
tice of the United States court for the ter¬ 
ritory of New Mexico, residing at Santa 
Fe. 

KNAPP, LYMAN ENOS, soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, governor, was born 
Nov. 5, 1837, in Somerset, Vt. He served 
in the civil war and was brevetted by 
President Lincoln for gallantry at Pe¬ 
tersburg, Va. He served as a member of 
the Vermont state legislature, and for 
ten years was judge of probate court of 
Addison district of Vermont. In 1889-93 
he served as governor of Alaska. 

KNAPP, MARTIN W., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born March 27, 1853, in 
Clarendon, Mich. He is a successful cler¬ 
gyman of Albion, Mich.; and the editor 
of The Revivalist. He is the author of 
Christ Crowned Within; and Out of Egypt 
into Canaan; and a volume of poems. 

KNAPP, ROBERT M., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman. He was elected a represent¬ 
ative from Illinois to the forty-third con¬ 
gress; and was also elected to the forty- 
fifth congress. 

KNAPP, SAMUEL LORENZO, lawyer, 
author, was born Jan. 19, 1783, in New- 
buryport, Mass. He was a lawyer of New 
York city, among whose many works are 
The Genius of Freemasonry; Travels in 
North America by Ali Bey; American Bi¬ 
ography; Lives of Aaron Burr, Andrew 
Jackson, Daniel Webster; and Female Bi¬ 
ography. He died July 8, 1838, in New- 
buryport, Mass. 

KNAPP, SEAMAN ASAHEL, farmer, 
educator, college president, was born Dec. 
16, 1833, in Essex county, N. Y. After re¬ 
ceiving a thorough education he took the 
chair of Greek and higher mathematics in 
the Fort Edward Collegiate institute. In 
1869 he was elected president of the Iowa 
State College for the Blind. Six years later 
he resigned this position and devoted him¬ 
self to the agricultural interests of the 
state; was prominent in the organization 
of the Iowa Stock Breeders’ association, 
of which he was first president. In 1879 
he was elected professor of agriculture, 
and afterward president of the State Ag¬ 
ricultural college at Ames. The degree 
of LL.B. was conferred upon him in 1882 
by the Upper Iowa university. 

KNAPP, WALTER H„ educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born March 23, 1856, in 
Hopewell, N. Y. He has attained success 
in the profession of law at Canandaigua, 
N. Y.; and is now judge of Ontario coun¬ 
ty, term commencing in 1897. 

KNEELAND, ABNER, clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born April 6, 1774, 
in Gardner, Mass. He was a universalist 
clergyman who became a free-thinker, 
and established The Investigator in Bos¬ 
ton in 1832. He was the author of The 
Deist; Universal Benevolence; Universal 
Salvation; and Review of Evidences of 
Christianity. He died Jan. 14, 1884, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

KNEELAND, SAMUEL, printer, jour¬ 
nalist, was born in 1696, in Boston, Mass. 
Besides many religious booics and pam¬ 
phlets, he published The Gazette from 
1727 till 1741, and The New England 
Weekly Journal from 1741 till 1752. He 
died Dec. 14, 1769, in Boston, Mass. 




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KNEELAND, SAMUEL, naturalist, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Aug. 1, 1821, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a naturalist and 
surgeon of Boston, and the author of 
Science and Mechanism; An American in 
Iceland; The Wonders of the Yo Semite; 
and Volcanoes and Earthquakes. He died 
in 1888. 

KNEELAND, STILLMAN FOSTER, 
lawyer, artist, author, was born May 17, 
1845, in Quebec. In 1872 he moved to 
New York, and he now occupies the first 
rank among commercial lawyers. He is 
the author of a Treatise on Commercial 
Law; and past vice-president of the de¬ 
partment of painting of the Brooklyn In¬ 
stitute of Arts and Sciences. 

KNICKERBOCKER, DAVID BUEL, P. 
E. bishop, was born Feb. 24, 1833, in 
Schaghtipoke, N. Y. Having been elected 
the third bishop of Indiana, he was conse¬ 
crated at St. Mark's, Philadelphia, Pa., 
in 1883. 

KNICKERBOCKER, HERMAN, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born July 27, 1782, 
in Albany, N. Y. He was a member of 
congress "from 1809 to 1811, as a federalist, 
but during President Jackson’s adminis¬ 
tration became a democrat. He died Jan. 
30, 1855, in Williamsburg, N. Y. 

KNIGHT, CYRUS FREDERIC, P. E. 
bishop, author, was born March 28, 1831, 
in Marblehead, Mass. He was elected 
bishop of Milwaukee on Dec. 13, 1888. He 
has published occasional sermons and 
Changes in the Communion Office (New 
York). 

KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGEWAY, art¬ 
ist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
studied in the Academy of Fine Arts of 
his native city, and 
subsequently in Par¬ 
is. Since 1874 he 
has resided in Pois- 
sy, France, engaged 
in painting pictures 
of peasant life, all 
his work being done 
in the open air. He 
has been a regular 
exhibitor at the Par¬ 
is salon; has re¬ 
ceived a gold medal 
from that institu¬ 
tion; a medal from the universal exhibi¬ 
tion of Paris; the decoration of the cross 
of the Legion of Honor; gold medal at 
Munich; gold medal of honor from Phil¬ 
adelphia Academy of Fine Arts; and 
gold medal from Antwerp exhibition. His 
principal pictures owned by the Philadel¬ 
phia Academy of Fine Arts fire Calling 
the Ferryman; Un Devil; Printemps; and 
one of his famous paintings is The Shep¬ 
herd and His Friends, owned by the 
Lighton gallery of Milwaukee, Wis. 

KNIGHT, EDWARD COLLING, mer¬ 
chant, railroad president, was born Dec. 
8 , 1813, near Camden, N. J. He was for 
twenty years president of the North Penn¬ 
sylvania railroad. He died in 1892 in 
Philadelphia. 

KNIGHT, EDWARD HENRY, author, 
was born June 1, 1824, in England. He 
was an English writer who settled in the 
United States in 1845, and was long con¬ 
nected with the patent office in Washing¬ 
ton. He was the author of American Me¬ 
chanical Dictionary; and New Mechanical 
Dictionary. He died Jan. 22, 1883, in 
Bellefontaine, Ohio. 

KNIGHT, FREDERICK, poet, was born 
Oct. 9, 1791, in Hampton, N. H. He taught 
in Penobscot, Me., and Marblehead, Mass. 
He then returned to Rowley, where he 
passed his life, occupying himself in com¬ 
position. A memorial of his life, witn 
his poems, was published, entitled Thorn 
Cottage. He died Nov. 29, 1849, in Row- 
ley, Mass. 


KNIGHT, JAMES, physician, author, 
was born Feb. 14, 1810, in Taneytown, Md. 
He was a physician of New York city, and 
the author of Improvement of Health by 
Natural Means; Orthopgedia; and Static 
Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent. He 
died Oct. 24, 1887, in New York city. 

KNIGHT, JONATHAN, educator, sur¬ 
veyor, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Nov. 22, 1787, in Bucks county, Pa. 
He served three years as county com¬ 
missioner; and in 1827 was appointed a 
commissioner to extend the national road 
from Wheeling through Ohio and Indiana 
to the eastern line of Illinois. In 1822 he 
was elected to the legislature and served 
six years. In 1854 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in the thirty-fourth congress 
from Pennsylvania. He died Nov. 22, 1858, 
in Washington county, Pa. 

KNIGHT, LEONA ANNIE, poet, was 
born April 30, 1859, in Ascension parish, 
La. She is a writer of Gibson City, La.; 
and the author of two volumes of poems, 
entitled Gems of Thought; and Ferns of 
Fancy. 

KNIGHT, NEHEMIAH, farmer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Rhode Island. He 
was a representative in congress from 
1803 to 1808. 

KNIGHT, NEHEMIAH RICE, banker, 
state legislator, governor, United States 
senator, was born Dec. 31, 1780, in Crans¬ 
ton, R. I. He was elected to the Rhode 
Island state legislature; and was also for 
many years president of the Roger Wil¬ 
liams bank. He was elected governor of 
Rhode Island in 1817, and re-elected in 
1819 and 1820. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from 1821 to 1841. He died April 
19, 1854, in Providence, R. I. 

KNIGHT, SARAH KEMBLE, educator, 
author, was born April 19,1666, in Boston, 
Mass. She was a teacher of Boston among 
whose pupils was Benjamin Franklin. 
Her Narrative of a Journey from Boston 
to New York in 1704 is a valuable histori¬ 
cal record of contemporary manners and 
customs written in a graphic, entertain¬ 
ing style. She died Dec. 25, 1727, in Nor¬ 
walk, Conn. 

KNIGHTON. FREDERICK, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 2,1812, 
in England. During the civil war he 
served as chaplain of the eleventh regi¬ 
ment of New Jersey. He was the author 
of several books on education, entitled 
Primary Grammar; and Outlines of His¬ 
tory. He died Sept. 9, 1888. 

KNIPE, JOSEPH FARMER, soldier, 
was born Nov. 30, 1823, in Mount Joy, Pa. 
In 1861 he organized the forty-sixth 
Pennsylvania regiment, and was com¬ 
missioned its colonel; and was promoted 
to brigadier-general of volunteers in 

1862. He was mustered out of service in 
September, 1865, and is now superintend¬ 
ent of one of the departments in the mili¬ 
tary prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. 

KNORTZ, KARL, author, was born 
Aug. 28, 1841, in Prussia. He is a German 
writer who came to the United States in 

1863, and settled in New York city. He is 

the author of Marchen und Sagen der 
nordamerikanische Indianer; Amerika- 
nische Skizzen; An American Shakes¬ 
peare Bibliography; Humorische Ge- 
dichte; Longfellow: eine literarhis- 

torische Studie; Aus der Wigwam; 
Kapital und Arbeit in Amerika; Aus der 
transatlantischen Gesellschaft; Staat und 
Kirche in Amerika; Shakespeare in 
Amerika; Amerikanische Lebensbilder; 
and Brook Farm and Margaret Fuller. 

KNOTT, A. LEO, educator, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born Aug. 29, 1830, 
near Lebanon, Ky. He served twelve 
years as prosecuting attorney of the city 


of Baltimore; and in 1868 was elected a 
representative in the Maryland legisla¬ 
ture. In 1885 he was appointed second 
assistant postmaster-general. 

KNOTT, JAMES PROCTOR, lawyer, 
state legislator, governor, congressman, 
was born Aug. 29, 1830, near Lebanon, 
Ky. He moved to Missouri in 1850; was 
elected to the state legislature in 1858; 
and in 1860 was elected attorney-general 
of the state. In 1867 he was elected a 
representative from Kentucky to the for¬ 
tieth congress. He was re-elected to the 
forty-first, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a 
democrat. In 1883 he was elected gover¬ 
nor of Kentucky for a term of four years. 

KNOWLES, EDWARD RANDALL, 
priest, author, was born Jan. 10, 1861, in 
North Providence, R. I. He received his 
education at the 
Princeton universi¬ 
ty, from which in¬ 
stitution he receiv¬ 
ed the degree of A. 
B.; and subsequently 
the honorary degree 
of LL.D.. was con¬ 
ferred on him by the 
West Virginia col¬ 
lege. He is an or- 
thodox catholic 
priest, and the foun¬ 
der of a Progressive 
Roman catholic church. His church will 
be a distinctively American church, and 
as such it will be progressive and aggres¬ 
sive; will be subject to no foreign domi¬ 
nation; and will be a part of and in full 
sympathy with the best aspirations of the 
public. He is a fluent and forcible wri¬ 
ter, and is fully capable to carry out suc¬ 
cessfully his mission. 

KNOWLES, FREDERIC LAWRENCE, 
educator litterateur, author, was born in 
1869, in Massachusetts. He is a littera¬ 
teur and educator of Tilton, N. H. He 
has published Practical Hints for Young 
Readers, Writers, and Book Buyers; and 
edited Cap and Gown, a collection of col¬ 
lege verse; and The Golden Treasury of 
American Songs. 

KNOWLES, FREEMAN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, journalist, congressman, was born 
Oct. 10, 1846, in Harmony, Maine. He en¬ 
listed in the six¬ 
teenth Maine regi¬ 
ment in 1862, and 
served three years in 
the army of the Po¬ 
tomac. In 1886 he 
moved to Nebraska, 
and began the publi¬ 
cation of the Ceres- 
co Times. He moved 
to the Black Hills in 
1888, and began the 
publication of the 
Meade County Times 
at Tilford; and subsequently he moved 
his plant to Deadwood, and began the 
publication of the Evening Independent, 
a daily paper. He was elected in the 
state at large to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 

KNOWLES, HIRAM, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Maine. He moved to Iowa, 
from which state he was in 1872 appoint¬ 
ed an associate justice of the supreme 
court for the territory of Montana. 

KNOWLES, JAMES DAVIS, clergyman, 
author, was born in July, 1798, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. Besides addresses he publish¬ 
ed Memoir of Mrs. Ann H. Judson; and 
Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder 
of the State of Rhode Island. He died 
May 9, 1838, in Newton Centre, Mass. 















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KNOWLES, JOHN P., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Rhode Island. He was a resi¬ 
dent of Providence; and in 1870 was ap¬ 
pointed United States judge for the dis¬ 
trict of Rhode Island. 

KNOWLES, LUCIUS JAMES, inventor, 
was born July 2, 1819, in Hardwick, Mass. 
In 1840 he put into operation several 
working models of steam engines, and 
during his experiments invented the 
Knowles safety steam-boiler feed-regula¬ 
tor. His next invention was a machine 
for spooling thread, which he began to 
manufacture in New Worcester. He died 
Feb. 25, 1884, in Washington, D. C. 

KNOWLTON, EBENEZER, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in New 
Hampshire. He was elected to the Maine 
legislature in 1844, 1846, and 1848, serv¬ 
ing during his second year as speaker. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maine from 1855 to 1857. 

KNOWLTON, EDGAR J., journalist, 
legislator, was born Aug. 8, 1856, in Sut¬ 
ton, N. H. He represented his district in 
the New Hampshire legislature for two 
years; and was mayor of his city for four 
years. He has been editor of the Man¬ 
chester Union and Lockport Daily Union. 

KNOWLTON, HELEN MARY, artist, 
author, was born Aug. 16, 1832, in Little¬ 
ton, Mass. She has exhibited charcoal 
sketches or landscapes and portraits in 
oil, in Boston, Philadelphia, New York 
and London, taught art students in the 
town and country, and written much on 
art. She has published the Talks on Art 
of William M. Hunt; and Hints to Pu¬ 
pils in Drawing and Painting. 

KNOWLTON, JULIUS WILLIAM, sol¬ 
dier, state legislator, was born Nov. 28, 
1838, in Southbridge, Mass. He served 
through the civil war, attaining the rank 
of lieutenant. He served two terms as 
representative in the legislature from 
Stratford, Conn., and in 1875 was appoint¬ 
ed postmaster of Bridgeport, Conn. 

KNOWLTON, MARCUS PERRIN, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born Nov. 3, 1839, in 
Wilbraham, Mass. In 1878 he was a rep¬ 
resentative in the Massachusetts state 
legislature. In 1881 he was appointed jus¬ 
tice of the superior court, and in 1887 was 
promoted to the supreme bench of the 
judicial court, which position he still fills. 

KNOWLTON, MILES JUSTIN, mis¬ 
sionary, author, was born Feb. 8, 1825, in 
West Wardsborough, Vt. In 1860 he pub¬ 
lished in Chinese a manual for native 
preachers, called scripture Catechism. 
Several churches were founded and visit¬ 
ed regularly by him during his stay in 
China. He died Sept. 10, 1874, in China. 

KNOX, MRS. ADELINE (TRAFTON), 
author, was born in 1845, in Maine. She 
is a novelist of St. Louis, and the au¬ 
thor of Katharine Earle; His Inheritance; 
An American Girl Abroad; and Dorothy’s 
Experience. 

KNOX, CHARLES EUGENE, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
in 1833, in New York. He is a Presbyte¬ 
rian clergyman, and president of the 
theological seminary at Bloomfield, N. J., 
since 1863. He is the author of A Year 
with Saint Paul; Love to the End; Da¬ 
vid the King; and Graduated Sunday- 
school Text-Books. 

KNOX, GEORGE WILLIAM, educator, 
missionary, author, was born Aug. 11, 
1853, in Rome, N. Y. He is a presbyterian 
missionary in Japan, and professor of eth¬ 
ics in the university of japan since 1886. 
He is the author of A Brief System of 
Theology; Outlines of Homiletics; Christ 
the Son of God; and The Basis of Eth¬ 
ics. In English he has published The 
Japanese Systems of Ethics. 


KNOX, HENRY, soldier, was born July 
25, 1750, in Boston, Mass. Prior to the 
revolution he was made a captain of an 
independent compa¬ 
ny of militia in Bos¬ 
ton. In 1776 the 
corps was increased 
to three regiments, 
and he was promot¬ 
ed to the rank of 
brigadier-general. In 
1781 he received the 
commission of ma¬ 
jor-general. In 1785 
he was appointed 
secretary of war; 
and after the adop¬ 
tion of the constitution he was appointed 
to the same office. He died Oct. 25, 1806, 
in Thomaston, Maine. 

KNOX, JAMES, lawyer, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 4, 1807, in Ca- 
najoharie, N. Y. In 1852 he was elected 
a representative from Illinois to the thir¬ 
ty-third and thirty-fourth congresses. 

KNOX, JAMES L., railroad president, 
was born Sept. 26, 1851, in Coudersport, 
Pa. In 1892 he became president of the 
Coudersport and Port Alleghany railroad. 

KNOX, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born June 17, 1790, near Gettysburg, Pa. 
He was licensed by the associate reformed 
presbytery of Philadelphia in 1815, and 
became pastor of the collegiate reformed 
Dutch church in New York city in 1816. 
He published occasional sermons and 
tracts. He died Jan. 8, 1858, in New York 
city. 

KNOX, JOHN JAY, financier, author, 
was born March 19, 1828, in Knoxboro, 
N. Y T . In 1872 he was appointed comptrol¬ 
ler of the currency, and resigned in 1884. 
He was the author of United States Notes, 
a History of the Various Issues of Paper 
Money by the United States Government. 
He died in 1892. 

KNOX, MARTIN VAN BUREN, educa¬ 
tor, college president, was born in 1841, 
in Schroon Lake, N. Y. He has been pro¬ 
fessor in the Baker university; and is 
now president of the Red River Valley 
university of Wahpeton, N. D. 

KNOX, SAMUEL, congressman. He 
was elected a representative from Mis¬ 
souri to the thirty-eighth congress. 

KNOX, THOMAS WALLACE, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born June 26, 1835, in 
Pembroke, N. H. He was a journalist and 
traveler whose home was in New York 
city, and the author of Overland Through 
Asia; Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field; 
Backsheesn; Underground Life; John; 
The Boy Travellers Series, in sixteen 
volumes; How to Travel; Pocket 
Guide Around the World; The Voyage of 
the Vivian; Hunting Adventures on Land 
. and Sea; Marco Polo for Boys and Girls; 
Decisive Battles since Waterloo; Life of 
Robert Fulton; Hunters Three; In Wild 
Africa; The Siberian Exiles; and The 
Lost Army. He died in 1896. 

KNOX, WILLIAM S., lawyer, banker, 
congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1843, in 
Killingly, Conn. He was a member of the 
Massachusetts house 
of representatives in 
1874-75, serving on 
the judiciary com¬ 
mittee. He was city 
solicitor of Law¬ 
rence in 1875, 1876, 
1887 1888, 1889, and 
1890; and is presi¬ 
dent of the Arling¬ 
ton National Bank 
of Lawrence. He 
was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and fif¬ 
ty-fifth congresses as a republican. 


KOBBE, GUSTAV, litterateur, author, 
was born in 1857 in New York. He is a 
litterateur of New York city, and the au¬ 
thor of Jersey Coast and Pines; YvAgner’s 
Ring of the Nibelung; and New York City 
and its Environs. 

KOCH, HERMANN A., educator, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born Sept. 
4, 1828, in Germany. In 1856 he filled 
the chair of German in the Quincy college 
of Illinois; and from 1860 until his death 
was professor and president of the Cen¬ 
tral Wesleyan college of Warrenton, Mo. 

KOCH, JOSEPH, jurist, state senator, 
was born Sept. 28, 1844, in New York city. 
In 1890 he was made commissioner of the 
board of excise of the city of New York. 
He was elected to the New York state 
senate in 1881. 

KOCH, RICHARD HENRY, educator, 
lawyer, jurist, was born April 2, 1852, in 
Middleport, Pa. During 1873-79 he filled 
the chair of mathematics in the Keystone 
State Normal school. In 1897 he became 
judge of the court of common pleas of 
the twenty-first judicial district of Penn¬ 
sylvania. 

KOEHLER, ROBERT, painter, was 
born Nov. 28, 1850, in Germany. In 1885 
he took charge of a private school of art 
in New York city. His principal works 
are Holy-Day Occupation; Her Only Sup¬ 
port; and The Strike. 

KOEHLER. SYLVESTER ROSA, art 
critic, author, was born Feb. 11, 1837, in 
Germany. He is an art critic of Boston, 
editor of the American Art Review, and 
the author of American Art; and Etching: 
an Outline of its Technical Processes and 
History. 

KOENIG, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, chem¬ 
ist, was born about 1845, in Germany. In 
1874 he was appointed assistant professor 
of chemistry and mineralogy in the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania, becoming acting 
professor of geology and mining in 1879, 
and professor of mineralogy and metal¬ 
lurgy in 1886. His scientific work in¬ 
cludes the invention of chronometry. 

KOHLMANN, ANTHONY, clergyman, 
was born July 13, 1771, in France. He 
was appointed pastor in New York in 
1808, and founded an academy for boys 
called the New York literary institution, 
and another for girls under the charge of 
the Ursuline nuns. He died in April, 1838, 
in Rome, Italy. 

KOHLSAAT, HERMAN HENRY, mer¬ 
chant, publisher, was born March 22, 1853, 
in Edwards county, Ill. His attention 
having been drawn to the profits of the 
luncheon and restaurant business, Mr. 
Kohlsaat took an interest in an estab¬ 
lished concern in 1880, and in July, 1883, 
bought the business, which he developed 
into the largest of its class, certainly in 
Chicago, and possibly in the United 
States. In 1895 he entered the field of 
journalism as purchaser of The Herald 
and The Times of Chicago. 

KOLLEN, GERRIT J., educator, college 
president, was born Aug. 9, 1843, in Neth¬ 
erlands. He is president of the Hope 
college of Holland, Mich. He has filled 
chairs of applied mathematics in several 
institutions of learning. 

KOLLOCK, MARY, artist, was born in 
1840, in Norfolk, Va. She is a member of 
the Art Students’ league, and of the La¬ 
dies’ Art association, New York, in which 
she is an instructor in painting. Her con¬ 
tributions to the exhibitions of the Na¬ 
tional academy of design include Morn¬ 
ing in the Mountains; Gleam of Sun¬ 
shine (1882); On Rondout Creek; The Old 
Fiddler; Under the Beeches; and A 
Glimpse of the Catskills. 







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KOLLOCK, SHEPARD, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, was born in 1750, in Lewiston, Del. 
He was commissioned lieutenant early in 
the revolution, and took part in the bat¬ 
tle of Trenton and other engagements. In 
1779 he resigned and began a newspaper 
entitled the New Jersey Journal in Chat¬ 
ham. He died July 28, 1839, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

KOONTZ, WILLIAM H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 15, 1830, in Som¬ 
erset, Pa. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Pennsylvania to the thirty- 
ninth congress; and was re-elected to the 
fortieth congress. 

KOOPMAN (koope'man), HARRY LY¬ 
MAN, author, poet, was born July 1, 1860, 
in Freeport, Maine. He is a verse writer, 
librarian of Brown university, and the 
author of The Great Admiral; Orestes, 
and Other Poems; Woman’s Will, witn 
Other Poems; and What to Read. 

KORN, CLARA A., composer, was 
born Jan. 30, 1866, in Germany. Since 
1893 she has been connected with the 
National conservatory as one of the fac¬ 
ulty, and in 1897 was in charge of coun¬ 
terpoint and fugue classes, the only wom¬ 
an holding such a position in any of the 
standard music schools in America or 
Europe. 

KORNDCERFER, AUGUSTUS, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Oct. 27, 1843, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was professor of 
clinical medicine in Hahnemann Medical 
college from 1866 to 1881. He translated 
from German, and published in this coun¬ 
try, Boenninghausen’s Homoeopathic 
Therapeia of Intermittent and other Fe¬ 
vers, a work of great value. 

KORNITZER, JOSEPH, surgeon, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 27, 1824, in Hungary. 
He is the author of Proclamation of the 
Redemption of the Soil as the Final Re¬ 
demption of Society; and Wealth and 
Progress. 

KOUNS (koonz), NATHAN CHAP¬ 
MAN, lawyer, author, was born Dec. 17, 
1833, in Fulton, Mo. He was a Missouri 
lawyer, state librarian at Jefferson City 
since 1886, and published two historical 
romances, Arius the Libyan; and Dor¬ 
cas the Daughter of Faustina. He died 
in 1890. 

KRAITSIR, CHARLES, educator, phil¬ 
ologist, author, was born Jan. 23, 1804, in 
Hungary. He was an educator and phil¬ 
ologist of New York city, and the author 
of The Poles in the. United States; Sig¬ 
nificance of the Alphabet; and Glossology. 
He died May 7, 1860, in Morrisania, N. Y. 

KRAMER, GEORGE R., clergyman, 
poet, was born May 26, 1839, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was a successful baptist 
clergyman, and for many years pastor of 
the Brooklyn Union Avenue Baptist 
church. He also was a poet of distinction, 
and contributed liberally to current lit¬ 
erature. He died in 1896. 

KRAUTH, CHARLES PHILIP, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born May 7, 
1797, in Montgomery county, Pa. In 1833 
he was elected professor of biblical and 
oriental literature in the theological semi¬ 
nary at Gettysburg, Pa., and the follow¬ 
ing year he was unanimously elected 
president of Pennsylvania college, at the 
same place. He died May 30, 1867, in 
Gettysburg, Pa. 

KRAUTH, CHARLES PORTERFIELD, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born 
March 17, 1823, in Martinsburg, Ya. He 
was a prominent lutheran clergyman of 
Philadelphia, and professor of moral 
science in the university of Pennsylvania 
in 1868-83. He was the author of The 


Conservative Reformation and its Theolo¬ 
gy; The Evangelical Mass and the 
Romish Mass; Sketch of the Thirty 
Years’ War; Christian Liberty; Infant 
Baptism and Salvation in the Calvinistic 
System; and Chronicle of the Augsburg 
Confession. He died Jan. 2, 1883, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

KREBS, JACOB, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1826 to 1827. 

KREBS, JOHN MICHAEL, clergyman, 
author, was born May 6, 1804, in Hagers¬ 
town, Md. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of New York city, and the author of 
Righteousness and National Prosperity; 
The American Citizen; Private, Domestic, 
and Social Life of Jesus; and The Presby¬ 
terian Fsalmist. He died Sept. 30, 1867, 
in New York city. 

KREBS, THEODORE LUTHER, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Aug. 3, 1860, in 
Brookfield, Ohio. In 1884 he took charge 
of the music department of the Rome Fe¬ 
male college, of Georgia; and subsequent¬ 
ly accepted a position at the Noble insti¬ 
tute of Anniston, Ala. He is the author 
of numerous works for piano and voice; 
a Treatise on Theory; and a Biography of 
Beethoven. 

KREHBIEL, HENRY EDWARD, mu¬ 
sical critic, author, was born March 10, 
1854, in Ann Arbor, Mich. He is a mu¬ 
sical critic on the staff of the New York 
Tribune, and the author of Notes on the 
Cultivation of Choral Music; Review of 
the New York Musical Seasons; Studies 
in the Wagnerian Drama; and How to 
Listen to Music. 

KREKEL, ARNOLD, lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, was born March 12, 1815, in 
Germany. He was elected to the Mis¬ 
souri state legislature in 1852; and in 
1865 was appointed United States district 
judge for the western district of Missouri, 
residing in Jefferson City. 

KREMER, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born in 1775, in Dauphin county, Pa. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1829. He died 
Sept. 11, 1854, in Union county, Pa. 

KREYER, FREDERICK, musician, 
composer, was born Feb. 4, 1854, in Ger¬ 
many. He is a successful teacher of pia¬ 
no and band instruments in Maquoketa, 
Iowa; and the author of the overture 
Friendship; the waltz Dreams of Home; 
and various other compositions. 

KRIBBS, GEORGE F., journalist, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1846, 
in Clarion county, Pa. After attaining his 
majority he prepar¬ 
ed jior college, enter¬ 
ing the junior class 
and graduating in 
1873 at Muhlenberg 
college, Allentown, 
Pa. He studied law 
and was admitted to 
practice in 1875. 
From 1877 to 1889 he 
edited the Clarion 
Democrat, in Clar¬ 
ion, Pa. Since then 
he has been engaged 
in the practice of law. He was elected to 
the fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. He has 
been for several years a resident of Nar- 
coossee, Fla. 

KRIEHN, GEORGE, educator, author, 
was born April 19, 1868, in Lexington, 
Mo. Since 1894 he has been assistant pro¬ 
fessor of culture and economic history in 
the Stanford university of California. He 
is the author of the English Rising in 
1850; English Popular Uprisings in the 
Middle Ages; and other works. 


KRIMMEL, JOHN LEWIS, artist, was 
born in 1787, in Germany. He was presi¬ 
dent of the Society of American Artists. 
Among his works are The Pepper-Pot 
Woman; The Cut Finger; Blindman’s 
Bluff; Election Day; The Fourth of July 
at Old Centre Square; Going to and re¬ 
turning from boarding-School; The 
Country Wedding; and Perry’s Victory. 
He died by drowning July 15, 1821, in 
Germantown, Pa. 

KROEGER, ADOLPH ERNST, author, 
was born Dec. 28, 1837, in Schleswig. He 
was a writer of St. Louis, and the author 
of The Minnesingers of Germany; Our 
Forms of Government and the Problems 
of the Future; and translations of 
Fichte’s Science of Knowledge and 
Science of Rights. He died March 8, 1882, 
in St. Louis, Mo. 

KROEGER, ERNEST RICHARD, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Aug. 10, 1862, 
in St. Louis, Mo. He has been conductor 
of chorus choir in several of the large 
churches of St. Louis; and has had charge 
of the musical features of McCullough 
club. He is the anthor of many compo¬ 
sitions, among which are A Symphony 
for Orchestra; Four ’Symphonic Over¬ 
tures; and a Pianoforte Concerto. 

KROME, WILLIAM H., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born July 1, 1842, in 
Louisville, Ky. He has become a promi¬ 
nent lawyer in Edwardsville, Ill., and has 
been mayor of his city. He has served 
as a member of the state senate of the 
Illinois legislature; and as probate judge 
of Madison county. 

KROTEL, GOTTLOB FREDERICK, 
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 4, 1826, 
in Germany. He is a lutheran clergyman 
of New York city, and the author of Who 
Are the Blessed?; Explanation of Luth¬ 
er’s Small Catechism; and several trans¬ 
lations from the German. 

KRUGER, H. T., educator, clergyman, 
was born April 16, 1867, in Stephenson 
county, Ill. For many years he was en¬ 
gaged in educational work. He subse¬ 
quently graduated from the German Pres¬ 
byterian Theological seminary of Du¬ 
buque, Iowa; and has since attained emi¬ 
nence as a successful clergyman in the 
Dutch reformed church of America; and 
now fills a pastorate in Ackley, Iowa. He 
is a great linguist, and the master of five 
languages. 

KRYDER, JOHN LANDOR, physician, 
poet, was born Dec. 22, 1833, in New Ber¬ 
lin, Ohio. In 1858 he commenced the 
practice of medicine in Cedarville, Ind. 
He is the author of a number of poems 
which have appeared in many leading 
magazines and newspapers. 

KUEHN, ALEXANDER JACOB DAN¬ 
IEL, educator, clergyman, was born Jan. 
1, 1850, in Pittsburg, Pa. He took a pre¬ 
paratory course at 
Fort Wayne, Ind.; 
a college course at 
Columbus, Ohio; 
and a seminary 
course at the Gen- 
e r a 1 Theological 
Seminary of New 
York city. He stud¬ 
ied music and art, 
and also took a mil¬ 
itary course. He 
passed examinations 
for tutorship in 
Mansfield, Ohio, and for eighteen years 
was a teacher and superintendent of 
schools. In 1888 he was ordained a 
deacon; a priest in 1889; has held two 
charges in the state of Minnesota; and is 
known as one of the most eminent priests 
of the protestant episcopal church. 










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KUEHNE, HEINRICH FRIEDRICK 
WILLHELM, educator, lecturer, author, 
was born March 31, 1856, in Germany. 
He has been professor of Hamilton’s 
Ladies college of Lexington, Ky.; was 
president of the Marionville college, Mo.; 
and now fills the chair of modern lan¬ 
guages and Hebrew in the South West 
Kansas college of Winfield, Kan. He is 
an active member of the German Lan¬ 
guage union in Berlin, Germany; and an 
expert translator in all leading modern 
languages. He is a popular lecturer, and 
the author of What the Master Minds of 
all Ages Have Said About God, Christ and 
the Bible; and other works. 

KUHN, ADAM, botanist, college presi¬ 
dent, was born Nov. 17, 1741, in German¬ 
town, Pa. He was one of the founders 
and president of the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of Philadelphia. 

KUHNS, JOSEPH H., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1851 to 1853. 

KULP, MONROE H., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 2-3, 1858, in 
Barto, Pa. He became connected with the 
firm of Kulp, Mc¬ 
Williams and Com¬ 
pany, and in 1886 
became manager of 
the business under 
his father, the late 
Darlington R. Kulp. 
He is president of 
the Monroe H. Kulp 
and Company; the 
Lewisburg and Buf¬ 
falo Valley Railroad 
company, and other 
institutions. In 1894 
he was elected to the fifty-fourth congress 
as a republican; and in 1896 received the 
re-election to the fifty-fifth congress. 

KUMLER, FRANKliN A. Z., college 
president, philanthropist, was born Oct. 
20, 1854, in Hamilton, Ohio. Since 1887 
he has been president of the Avalon col¬ 
lege of Trenton, Mo. In 1890 he bought 
two hundred acres of land near the city 
of Trenton, and soia sufficient property 
from the same to pay for land, build and 
equip a fine college building. This prop¬ 
erty, valued at fifty thousand dollars, he 
presented to the united brethren church. 

KUMLER, JOHN A., clergyman, was 
born April 20, 1838, in Butler county, 
Ohio. For two years he was prosecuting 
attorney of Danville, Ill.; member of the 
school board for three years; trustee and 
veriter of the Illinois Wesleyan university 
for twenty-one years, and of which insti¬ 
tution he is now cnancellor. He has al¬ 
ways been a patron of education and 
other worthy enterprises; and since 1868 
has been a clergyman of the methodist 
episcopal church. He has gained suc¬ 
cess in building churches, and in raising 
money to relieve embarrassed churches; 
and to build arid endow by money and 
business methods, schools and colleges. 

KUNKEL, CHARLES, composer, was 
born July 22, 1840, in Germany. In 1868 
he moved to St. Louis, Mo. He is a pian¬ 
ist of high rank; and the author of num¬ 
erous compositions. 

KUNKEL, JACOB M., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born July 22, 
1822, in Frederick, Md. In 1850 he was 
elected to the Maryland senate for six 
years, but the change in the state con¬ 
stitution cut short his term. He was 
elected a representative from Maryland 
to the thirty-fifth congress; and was also 
elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He 
was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyal- 
ists’ convention of 1866. 


KUNKEL, JOHN CHRISTIAN, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 18, 1816, in 
Harrisburg, Pa. He was a member of the 
thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses 
from his native state. He died Oct. 14, 
1870, in Harrisburg, Pa. 

KUNTZE, EDWARD J., sculptor, was 
born in 1826, in Prussia. Among his 
works are statuettes of Shakespeare, 
Goethe, Irving, Tennyson, and Lincoln; 
a statue of Psyche; one of Columbia; 
Puck; Puck on Horseback; and Puck on 
the Warpath; a bust of Mirth; Merlin and 
Vivien, in bas relief; and many medallion 
portraits and busts. He died April 10, 
1870, in New York city. 

KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK, min¬ 
eralogist, author, was born Sept. 29, 1856, 
in New York city. He is a mineralogist 
of note, the foremost American specialist 
in precious stones. He has published 
Gems and Precious Stones of North 
America. 

KUNZE, JOHN CHRISTOPHER, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Aug. 4, 1744, in 
Saxony. He was once a famous lutheran 
clergyman of New York city, professor of 
ancient languages in Columbia college; 
and the author of History of the Christian 
Religion and of the Lutheran Church; and 
Catechism and Liberty. He died July 24, 
1807, in New York city. 

KUNZE, RICHARD ERNEST, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born April 7, 1838, in 
Germany. He was a physician of New 
York city; and the author of Cactus; 
Cardinal Points in the Study of Medical 
Botany; and Germination and Vitality of 
Seeds. 

KURTZ, BENJAMIN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1795 in Pennsylvania. 
He was a lutheran clergyman, for nearly 
thirty years the editor of The Lutheran 
Observer; and the author of Lutheran 
Prayer-Book; Year-Book of the Reforma¬ 
tion; Why are You a Lutheran?; Faith, 
Hope and Charity; and Theological 
Sketch-Book. He died Dec. 29, 1865, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

KURTZ, WILLIAM H., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1851 to 1855. 

KUYKENDALL, ANDREW Z., soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 3, 1815, in Gal¬ 
latin county, Ill. From 1842 to 1846 he 
was a member of the Illinois legislature, 
and in the state senate from 1850 to 1862. 
He enlisted in the thirty-first regiment 
of Illinois infantry as a volunteer in 1861, 
was elected major, and served until 1862. 
In 1864 he was elected a representative 
from Illinois to the thirty-ninth congress. 

KYAN, JOHN H., inventor, was born in 
1775 in England. He was the first to in¬ 
troduce a chemical process for the preser¬ 
vation of wood. This method was named 
kyanizing. He died Jan. 9, 1850, in New 
York city. 

KYLE, JAMES HENDERSON, educator, 
civil engineer, clergyman, United States 
senator, was born Feb. 24, 1854, near 
Xenia, Ohio. He was engaged for several 
years in educational and ministerial work 
in Utah and South Dakota. At the time 
he entered political life be was financial 
secretary of Yankton college, Yankton, 
S. D. Was elected to the state senate 
as an independent in 1890; was elected 
to the United States senate to succeed 
Gideon C. Moody; took his seat March 4, 
1891; and was re-elected in 1897 as an 
independent. His term of service will 
expire March 3, 1903. 

KYLE, JAMES J., educator, merchant, 
was born Dec. 27, 1867, in Hancock coun¬ 
ty, Tenn. He has attained success as an 


educator; has been institute instructor 
and conductor, and county school com¬ 
missioner of Ozark county, Mo., where he 
is also a successful merchant. 

KYLE, JOHN CURTIS, mayor, state 
senator, congressman, was born in Sar¬ 
dis, Miss. In 1879 he was elected mayor 
of Sardis, Miss.; in 
1881 was elected to 
the state senate; and 
at the close of the 
senatorial term was 
elected a member of 
the Mississippi rail¬ 
road commission by 
joint ballot of the 
two branches of the 
legislature; and was 
re-elected in 1888. 
He was chairman of 
the state democratic 
executive committee in 1888; and was 
elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third 
congresses and re-elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a democrat. 

KYTE, GEORGE, legislator, was born 
May 22, 1846, in South America. He 
has served as a member of the New Jer¬ 
sey assembly, and as a state senator. He 
has also filled the office of sheriff; and is 
the land agent of the Central railroad of 
New Jersey. 

LABAGH, ISAAC P., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 14, 1804, in Leeds, N. 
Y. He was an episcopal clergyman of 
Iowa, but formerly a clergyman of the 
Dutch reformed faith. He was the au¬ 
thor of Great Events of Unfulfilled Proph¬ 
ecy; The Great Events that are Coming; 
The Two Witnesses, Moses and Elijah; 
and Theoklesia. He died Dec. 29, 1879, 
in Fairfield, Iowa. 

LABAREE, BENJAMIN, educator, col¬ 
lege president, lecturer, was born June 3, 
1801, in Charlestown, N. H. He was profes¬ 
sor of Latin and Greek in Jackson college 
of Columbia, Tenn., in 1832-36; and pres¬ 
ident of the same in 1836-37. He was pres¬ 
ident of Middlebury college, Vt., in 1840- 
66; lecturer on moral philosophy and in¬ 
ternational law in Dartmouth college, 
in 1871-76. He died Nov. 15, 1883, in Wal¬ 
pole. 

LABLANCHE, ALCEE, congressman, 
was born in Louisiana. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1843 to 1845. 

LA BORDE, MAXIMILIAN, educator, 
author, was born June 5, 1804, in Edge- 
field, S. C. He was an educator who was 
professor in the university of South Caro¬ 
lina in 1842-73; and the author of Intro¬ 
duction to Physiology; Story of Lethea 
and Verona; and History of South Caro¬ 
lina College. He died Nov. 6, 1873, in Co¬ 
lumbia, S. C. 

LACEY, EDWARD S., business man, 
congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1835, in 
Chili, N. Y. He moved to Michigan; was 
elected register of deeds in 1860, and 
re-elected in 1862. He was a trustee of 
the state insane asylum from 1874 to 1880. 
He was elected a representative from 
Michigan to the forty-seventh and forty- 
eighth congresses as a republican. He 
subsequently became president of the Na¬ 
tional bank of Charlotte, Mich. 

LACEY, JOHN, soldier, jurist, state leg¬ 
islator, was born Feb. 4, 1755, in Bucks 
county, Pa. He was made a brigadier- 
general of militia in 1778, and performed 
arduous services during the British occu¬ 
pation of Philadelphia. He was a member 
of the Pennsylvania assembly in 1778, and 
in 1779-81 of the council. He afterward 
removed to New Mills, N. J., and was a 
judge and a member of the’legislature. He 
died Feb. 17, 1814, in New Mills, N. J. 




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LACEY, JOHN FLETCHER, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born May 30, 1841, in New Mar¬ 
tinsville, W. Va. In 
1855 he moved to 
Iowa; enlisted in 
company H, third 
Iowa infantry, in 
1861, and afterward 
served as a private 
in company D, thirty- 
third Iowa infantry, 
as sergeant-major, 
and as lieutenant in 
company C of that 
regiment. He was 
promoted to assist¬ 
ant adjutant-general on the staff of Brig.- 
Gen. Samuel A. Rice. He served in the 
Iowa legislature one term in 1870. He is 
a lawyer and author of Lacey’s Railway 
Digest and Lacey’s Iowa Digest. He was 
a member of the fifty-first, fifty-third, 
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses. 

LACEY, JOHN W., soldier, lawyer jur¬ 
ist, was born Oct. 13, 1848, in Randolph 
county, Ind. He enlisted in the union 
army at the breaking out of the civil war, 
serving in the one hundred and thirty- 
seventh, and subsequently in the one hun¬ 
dred and fifty-second Indiana volunteer 
regiments. In 1884 he was appointed 
chief justice of the supreme court of Wyo¬ 
ming territory. 

LACEY, WILLIAM BRITTAINHAM, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 
1781 in Wilmington, Del. He was a cler¬ 
gyman for thirteen years; subsequently 
became a teacher; and was the author of 
text-books for schools and colleges, 
among them a Rhetoric and a Moral Phi¬ 
losophy. He died Oct. 31, 1866, in Okolo- 
na, Miss. 

LACHMUND, ERNEST, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Jan. 24, 1865, in Lyons, 
Iowa. Since 1884 he has been a suc¬ 
cessful teacher of music in Minneapolis, 
Minn.; and during 1885 was solo ’celist in 
the Clara Louise Kellogg Concert com¬ 
pany. Among his compositions are 
Christmas Suite; Vesper; and other songs 
and piano compositions. 

LACKEY, ARTHUR CARSON, lawyer, 
was born June 16, 1868, in Allen’s Cove, 
Pa. He attended the public schools, the 
State Normal school, and the Dickinson 
Law school. He is an able lawyer of 
Duncannon, Pa., where he has been city 
solicitor, township auditor, judge of elec¬ 
tion; and filled various other public posi¬ 
tions of trust. 

LACOCK, ABNER, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
in 17/0 in Virginia. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1811 to 1813; and United States sen¬ 
ator from 1813 to 1819. He died April 
12, 1837, in Freedom, Pa. 

LACOMBE, EMILE HENRY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Jan. 29, 1846, in New 
York city. For three years he was cor¬ 
poration counsel for the city of New York; 
and in 1887 became United States circuit 
judge of the second district. 

LACY, DRURY, college president, was 
born Oct. 5, 1758, in Chesterfield county, 
Va. He was president of Hampden-Sid- 
ney college from 1789-96. He died Dec 
6, 1815. 

LACY, THOMAS J., lawyer, jurist. He 
was an early emigrant to Arkansas; and 
in 1834 was appointed a judge for that 
territory. 

LADD, MRS. CATHERINE, educator, 
writer, poet, was born Oct. 28, 1809, in 
Richmond, Va. She is the oldest living 


writer and teacher in South Carolina; 
and for half a century has contributed 
both prose and verse to the periodical 
press. 

LADD, GEORGE TRUMBULL, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 19, 
1842, in Painesville, Ohio. He is a con¬ 
gregational clergyman of prominence; 
and professor of philosophy at Yale uni¬ 
versity since 1881. He is the author of 
Principles of Church Polity; The Doc¬ 
trine of Sacred Scripture; Philosophy of 
Mind; A Primer of Psychology; Psychol¬ 
ogy, Descriptive and Explanatory; Out¬ 
lines of Psychological Psychology; Ele¬ 
ments of Psychological Psychology; In¬ 
troduction to Philosophy; and What is 
the Bible? He has translated Lotze’s 
Philosophical Outlines, from the German. 

LADD, GEORGE W., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 28, 1818, in 
Augusta, Maine. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Maine to the forty-sixth 
and forty-seventh congresses as a demo¬ 
crat. 

LADD, HORATIO OLIVER, educator, 
clergyman, college president, author, was 
born Aug. 31, 1839, in Hallowell, Maine. 
He has held various positions as an edu¬ 
cator and clergyman; was pastor and 
professor in the Olivet college, Mich.; 
principal of the State Normal school of 
New Hampshire; president of the First 
Incorporated university of New Mexico; 
and rector of Grace church, Jamaica, N. 
Y. As an educator he was prominent in 
founding Indian schools in the south¬ 
west, supported by the United States gov¬ 
ernment. He is the author of three books 
on American History—The War With 
Mexico; The Story of New Mexico; and 
The Founding of the Episcopal Church in 
Dutchess County, N. Y. He has been an 
editorial writer on The Churchman, and 
has contributed extensively to current lit¬ 
erature. 

LADD, JOSEPH BROWN, poet, was 
born in 1764 in Newport, R. I. He pub¬ 
lished Poems of Arouet, and his poetry, 
with some of his prose writings, was col¬ 
lected into a volume, containing also a 
memoir of the author, by his sister, Mrs. 
Elizabeth Haskins. He died Nov. 2, 1786, 
in Charleston, S. C. 

LA DOW, GEORGE A., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
18, 1828, in Cayuga county, N. Y. He 
moved to Wisconsin in 1851, and was 
elected district attorney, and held the of¬ 
fice two years. He removed to Minnesota 
in 1862; and in 1867 was elected to the 
house of representatives of that state. He 
settled in Oregon in 1869; declined the 
nomination for state senator in 1870; and 
in 1872 was elected to the house of rep¬ 
resentatives of Oregon, and held the of¬ 
fice until 1874, when he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative to the forty-fourth congress. 
He died in May, 1875, in Oregon. 

LADREYT, CASIMIR, educator, author, 
was born in 1797 in France. He came to 
the United States about 1836, taught the 
French language, and published French 
Pronunciation; The Study of French Sim¬ 
plified; and other text-books. He died 
July 4, 1877, in Boston, Mass. 

LA FARGE, JOHN, landscape and 
figure painter, author, was born March 
31, 1835, in New York city. He is a noted 
figure and landscape artist of New York 
city; and the author of a book entitled 
Lectures on Art. 

LA FAYETTE, MARQUIS DE, soldier, 
was born in 1757 in France. He was 
commissioned major-general by the con¬ 
tinental congress in 1777. He died in 
1834 in France. 


LAFFOON, POLK, s»ldier, educator, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 
1844, in Hopkins county, Ky. He enlisted 
in the eighth Kentucky confederate in¬ 
fantry in 1861, and was elected second 
lieutenant. He was elected county at¬ 
torney in 1870, and served four years; 
and in 1884 was elected a representative 
from Kentucky to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress; and re-elected to the fiftieth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

LAFLIN, ADDISON H„ manufacturer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 
24, 1823, in Lee, Mass. In 1837 he was 
elected to the senate of New York. In 
1864 he was elected a representative from 
that state to the thirty-ninth congress, 
and was elected to the fortieth and forty- 
first congresses. 

LA FOLLETTE, ROBERT M., lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 14, 1855, in 
Primrose, Wis. He was elected district 
attorney of Dane county in 1880, and re¬ 
elected in 1882. In 1884 he was elected 
a representative from Wisconsin to the 
forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected 
to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses. 

LAFONTE, AUNET, educator, clergy¬ 
man, was born Oct. 2, 1812, in France. 
He founded the French congregation in 
Canal street, New York, in 1842; intro¬ 
duced into this country the order of Chris¬ 
tian Brothers; and harbored the first Jes¬ 
uits that came to the United States. He 
died Jan. 7, 1875, in New York city. 

LA FORTUNE, JOHN SAMUEL, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born Aug. 22, 1862, in 
Elk Creek, Neb. In 1887 he became edi¬ 
tor and proprietor of The Tulare Demo¬ 
cratic Free Press. He is also the au¬ 
thor of a number of poems. 

LAGAN, MATT D., merchant, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born June 20, 
1829, in Ireland. He was elected to the 
fiftieth congress, and again elected as a 
democrat to the fifty-second congress. 

LAHM, SAMUEL, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born April 22, 1812, 
in Leitersburg, Md. In 1835 he moved to 
Indiana and studied law; and then set¬ 
tled in Ohio. In 1837 he was elected mas¬ 
ter in chancery; and in 1842 a state sena¬ 
tor. He was a representative in congress 
from 1847 to 1849. 

LAIDLAW, WILLIAM G., naval officer, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 
1840, in Scotland. He served two years 
in the United States navy during the war 
of the rebellion. He was district attorney 
of Cattaraugus county, New York, from 
1872 till 1878. He was elected to the fif¬ 
tieth and fifty-first congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

LAIGHTON, ALBERT, banker, poet, 
was born Jan. 8, 1829, in Portsmouth, N. 

H. He was a banker of Portsmouth! N. 
H.; and the author of Poems, a collec¬ 
tion of quiet, thoughtful poetry published 
in 1878. He died Feb. 6, 1887, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. 

LAING, GEORGE M., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, was born in 1850 in Canada. He 
has been president of the board of edu¬ 
cation of Windom, Minn.; in 1888 was ap¬ 
pointed to revise and codify the probate 
laws of Minnesota; and in 1896 was elect¬ 
ed a representative of the Minnesota state 
legislature. 

LAIRD, JAMES, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 20, 1849, in Fow- 
lerville, N. Y. He moved to Michigan; 
and served in the union army from 1862 
to the close of the civil war. He settled 
at Hastings, Neb., in the practice of law. 

He was elected a representative from Ne¬ 
braska to the forty-eighth congress; and 
was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fif¬ 
tieth congresses as a republican. 



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LAKE, WILLIAM A., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman. He served in the leg¬ 
islature of Maryland. He moved to Mis¬ 
sissippi; and was elected to the senate of 
that state. He was a representative in 
congress from Mississippi during the thir¬ 
ty-fourth congress. 

LAKEY, EMILY JANE, artist, was 
born June 22, 1837, in Quincy, N. Y. She 
turned her attention to painting, and ex¬ 
hibited her work first in Chicago, and in 
1873 at the National Academy of Design. 
Her best known paintings are Leader of the 
Herd; An Anxious Mother; and Right of 
Way. 

LALOR, TERESA, mother superior, 
was born in 1766 in Ireland. In 1799 she 
opened a school in Georgetown, D. C. 
This school was the beginning of what is 
to-day the oldest Roman catholic female 
academy within the limits of the thirteen 
original states. She died in 1846 in 
Georgetown, D. C. 

LAMAR, HENRY G., congressman, was 
born in Georgia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1829 
to 1833. 

LAMAR, LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCIN- 
NATUS, jurist, was born July 15, 1797, 
near Eatonton, Ga. In 1830 he was elect¬ 
ed judge of the superior court of Geor¬ 
gia. He died July 4, 1834, in Milledgeville, 
Ga. 

LAMAR, LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCIN- 
NATUS, soldier, lawyer, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Septem¬ 
ber, 1825, in Putnam county, Ga. He was 
elected a representative from Mississippi 
to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth con¬ 
gresses. He resigned in 1860 to take a 
seat in the secession convention of his 
state; and in 1861 entered the confederate 
army. He was elected to the forty-third con¬ 
gress, and re-elected to the forty-fourth 
congress. In 1876 he was elected a sena¬ 
tor in congress from Mississippi for the 
term beginning in 1877 and ending in 
1883; was re-elected for the term ending 
in 1889. In 1885 he became secretary of 
the interior in the cabinet of President 
Cleveland. He died Jan. 23, 1893, in Ma¬ 
con, Ga. 

LAMAR, MIRABEAU BONAPARTE, 
soldier, merchant, journalist, statesman, 
author, was born Aug. 16, 1798, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ga. He moved 
to Texas in 1835; 
and commanded a 
cavalry company at 
the battle of San Ja¬ 
cinto, and • rendered 
effective service. In 
1836 he was elected 
first vice-president of 
Texas, having for 
some months previ¬ 
ous held the rank of 
major-general. From 
1838 to 1841 he was 
president of Texas. He was the author 
of a volume of poems entitled Verse Me¬ 
morials. He died Dec. 19, 1859, in Au¬ 
gusta, Texas. 

LAMB, ALFRED W., congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Missouri from 1847 
to 1849. 

LAMB, ARTEMUS, railroad president, 
was born Sept. 11, 1840, in Steuben coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. He is president of the Crescent 
Springs railroad and of the Northern 
Mississippi railroad of Minnesota. 

LAMB, EDWARD, actor, was born Oct. 
18, 1828, in New York city. He played 
his most successful engagement at the old 
Park theater in Brooklyn, of which he 
was lessee and manager. He died July 5, 
1887, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 


LAMB, G. H., lawyer, state senator, 
was born Feb. 22, 1858, in Fountain coun¬ 
ty, Ind. Since 1889 he has practiced law 
in Yates Center. In 1897 he was elected 
a member of the Kansas state senate. 

LAMB, ISAAC WIXAN, inventor, was 
born Jan. 8, 1840, in Salem, Mich. The 
Lamb Knitting Machine Manufacturing 
company was organized in Springfield, 
Mass., in 1865 and their manufactory re¬ 
moved to Chicopee Falls, Mass. His ma¬ 
chine produces more than thirty kinds of 
knitted goods, making about 4,000 loops 
a minute at ordinary speed. 

LAMB, JOHN, soldier, state legislator, 
was born Jan. 1, 1735, in New York city-. 
He was promoted to major and colonel of 
artillery, and rendered good service 
throughout the war. He was subsequent¬ 
ly elected to the New York legislature, 
and was appointed by Washington collec¬ 
tor of customs for the port of New York, 
which post he held till his death. He 
died May 31, 1800, in New York city. 

LAMB, JOHN, soldier, congressman, 
was born June 12, 1840, in Sussex county, 
Va. At the first alarm of war in 1860 he 
went to the front as 
a volunteer in the 
Charles City troop; 
and served through 
the entire war with 
distinguished gal¬ 
lantry. After the 
war he returned to 
his native county 
and took up the 
business of farming; 
was soon elected 
sheriff of his county, 
and subsequently 
served his people as treasurer, surveyor 
and chairman of the county democratic 
committee. He was elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a democrat. 

LAMB, JOHN E., lawyer, congressman, 
was born Dec. 26, 1852, in Terre Haute, 
Ind. He was appointed prosecuting at¬ 
torney for the fourteenth judicial dis¬ 
trict of Indiana in 1875, and was elected 
to that position in 1876. He was elected 
a representative from Indiana to the for¬ 
ty-eighth congress as a democrat. 

LAMB. MRS. MARTHA JOAN READE 
[NASH],’ journalist, author, born Aug. 
13, 1829, in Plainfield, Mass. She was ac 
historical writer of New York city; and 
editor of the Magazine of American His¬ 
tory in 1883-93. She was the author of 
The History of the City of New York, her 
chief work, which is the result of a vast 
amount of patient labor and research. Her 
other works include, Spicy, a novel; Play- 
School Stories; The Christmas Owl; 
Snow and Sunshine, a Story for Girls; 
and Wall Street in History. She died 
in 1893. 

LAMB, ROBERT N., soldier, lawyer, 
banker, jurist, was born Nov. 23, 1824, in 
Perry county, Ind. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the public 
schools; and subsequently attended Han¬ 
over college, and the De Pauw univer¬ 
sity. In 1848-49 he was prosecuting at¬ 
torney; and for ten years following was 
auditor of Switzerland county. During the 
civil war he served in the union army, 
with the rank of captain. In 1864-70 he 
was judge of the common pleas and cir¬ 
cuit courts. In 1886-89 he was president 
of the First National bank of Indianapo¬ 
lis, Ind.; and since 1887 has been presi¬ 
dent of the Consumers’ Gas Trust com¬ 
pany of that city, where he has attained 
success as one of the leading lawyers of 
the state. 


LAMB, WILLIAM, soldier, merchant, 
statesman, was born Sept. 7, 1835, in Nor¬ 
folk, Va. He attended the Rappahannock 
Military academy; the William and Mary 
college; and in 1855 was valedictorian of 
his class. During the war he built and 
commanded Fort Fisher, N. C.; and re¬ 
pulsed Gens. Butler and Porter on 
Christmas, 1864. He was captured at Fort 
Fisher, after being desperately wounded, 
on Jan. 15, 1865. These were the two 
heaviest naval bombardments in the an¬ 
nals of the war; and the most prolonged 
hand-to-hand fight during the civil war. 
For six years he was mayor of Norfolk; 
was actively identified with public affairs; 
presided at both democratic and repub¬ 
lican state conventions; and was several 
times on the presidential electoral ticket. 
He engaged in the shipping business and 
the export of Pocahontas coal, and has at¬ 
tained prominence as a successful mer¬ 
chant. 

LAMB, WILLIAM JOHN, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Sept. 24, 1868, in Bell 
Buckle, Tenn. He has attained success as 
an able lawyer of Corinth, Miss. He has 
served with distinction as a member of 
the Mississippi state legislature. 

LAMBDIN, ALFRED COCHRAN, phy¬ 
sician, journalist, author, was born Jan. 
29, 1846, in Philadelphia. Since 1875 he has 
been managing editor of the Philadelphia 
Times. He is the author of An Account 
of the Battle of Germantown. 

LAMBDIN, GEORGE COCHRAN, ar¬ 
tist, was born in 1830 in Pittsburg, Pa. 
He has been especially successful as a 
painter of still life, particularly flowers. 
His works include Dead Wife; Ask Me 
No More; Portrait of Mrs. Joseph Har¬ 
rison; and Pink and Yellow Roses. 

LAMBDIN, JAMES R., artist, was born 
May 10, 1807, in Pittsburg, Pa. He has 
been professor of fine arts in the univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania; was for twenty-five 
years an active officer of the Pennsylvania 
Academy of The Fine Arts; and has been 
president of the Artists’ Fund society. 

LAMBERT, ALEXANDER, pianist, 
composer, was born Nov. 1, 1862, in Po¬ 
land. He is the author of the following 
compositions: Ave Maria; Valse Im¬ 
promptu; and Romanza. 

LAMBERT, JOHN, was born in 1748 in 
New Jersey. He was governor of New 
Jersey during the years 1802 and 1803; 
was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1805 to 1809, and from 
1809 to 1815. He was a member of the 
United States senate; and served many 
years in the legislature. He died Feb. 
4, 1823, in Amwell, N. J. 

LAMBERT, JOHN J., soldier, journal¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 19, 1837, in Ireland. 
During the civil war he served with dis¬ 
tinction in the union army, first as lieu¬ 
tenant, and later as captain of company 
I, ninth regiment, Iowa volunteer cavalry, 
until 1866. He afterward was commis¬ 
sioned a second lieutenant in the regular 
army. Since 1870 he has been editor 
of The Daily Chieftain of Pueblo, Colo. 
In 1890 he was appointed receiver of the 
United States land office at Pueblo for 
four years. 

LAMBERT, MRS. MARY ELIZA [PE- 
RINE] [TUCKER], author, poet, was 
born in 1838 in Alabama. She is a writer 
of Philadelphia; and the author of Po¬ 
ems; Loew’s Bridge, a Broadway Idyl; 
and Life of Mark Pomeroy. 

LAMBERTON, ROBERT ALEXAN¬ 
DER, college president, was born April 
26, 1824, in Carlisle, Pa. In 1880 he was 
elected president of the Lehigh univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania. He died Sept. 1, 
1893. 





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LAMBING, ANDREW ARNOLD, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 1, 1842, in 
Manorville, Pa. He has filled pastorates 
in the Roman catholic churches of Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. He is the author of The Sunday 
School Teacher’s Manual; The Orphan’s 
Friend; The Sacramental of the Holy 
Catholic Church; History of Allegheny 
County, Pa.; and numerous other works. 

LAMBORN, EMMA TAYLOR, poet. She 
is a writer of St. Paul, Minn.; and the au¬ 
thor of a volume entitled Book of Sonnets. 

LAMISON, CHARLES N„ soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1820 
in Columbia county, Pa. He was prose¬ 
cuting attorney for Allen county, Ohio, 
one year by appointment, and four years 
by election. He raised a company in 
1861 and entered the army as captain in 
the twentieth volunteers. He was after¬ 
wards major of the eighty-first volunteer 
infantry. He was elected to the forty- 
second and forty-third congresses as a 
democrat. 

LAMON, WARD HILL, lawyer, author. 
He is an Illinois lawyer, law partner of 
Abraham Lincoln; and the author of 
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln; and 
Life of Abraham Lincoln. 

LAMONT, DANIEL SCOTT, cabinet 
officer, was born Feb. 9, 1851, in Cort- 
landville, N. Y. From 1883 until 1885 
he was private secretary to the governor 
of New York, and from the latter date to 
1889 acted in the same capacity to the 
president of the United States. ' On the 
re-election of Mr. Cleveland to the presi¬ 
dency he became, in 1893, a member of his 
cabinet, filling the place of secretary of 
war. 

LAMONT, GEORGE D., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1823 in Western New York. 
In 1862 he was appointed United States 
judge for the provisional court of Louis¬ 
iana. In 1871 he was elected a judge of 
the supreme court of New York for four¬ 
teen years. He died Jan. 15, 1876, in Lock- 
port, N. Y. 

LAMOREUX, SILAS WRIGHT, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, was born in 1842, in Mad¬ 
ison county, N. Y. He was president of 
the Mayville Exchange bank for four 
years; and county judge for sixteen years. 
He served as a member of the Wisconsin 
legislature for one term; and for four 
years was commissioner of the general 
land office. 

LAMPORT, WILLIAM H., congress¬ 
man, was born May 27, 1811, in Pitts- 
town, N. Y. He was elected to the as¬ 
sembly of New York in 1854; and was 
elected to the forty-second and forty-third 
congresses. 

LAMPSON, ELBERT L., lawyer, states¬ 
man, was born July 30, 1852, in Windsor, 
Ohio. He served twice as a member of 
the Ohio house of representatives; was 
speaker of the house; state senator, and 
president of the senate. He has filled the 
office of lieutenant-governor of Ohio. 

LAMSON, ALVAN, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 18, 1792, in Weston, Mass. 
He was a Unitarian clergyman of Dedham, 
Mass., in 1818-60; and the author of His¬ 
tory of the First Church in Dedham; Ser¬ 
mons; and The Church of the First Three 
Centuries. He died July 17, 1864, in Ded¬ 
ham, Mass. 

LAMSON, DANIEL LOWELL, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born June 18, 1834, in 
Hopkinton, Mass. He was a physician of 
Fryeburg, Maine; and the author of Lec¬ 
tures; and Differential Diagnosis of Dis¬ 
eases. 

LAMSON, MRS. MARY [SWIFT], edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1822, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. She was for five years a teacher 
of Laura Bridgman, the noted blind deaf 
mute, and for three years in entire charge 


of her education. She was the author of 
Life and Education of Laura Dewey 
Bridgman. 

LANCASTER, COLUMBIA, congress¬ 
man. He was a delegate to congress from 
the territory of Washington during the 
years 1854 and 1855. 

LANCASTER, JOSEPH, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 25, 1778, in London, 
England. He was the author of The Brit¬ 
ish System of Education. He died Oct. 
24, 1838, in New York. 

LANCE, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, was 
born in 1791, in Charleston, S. C. He 
was a lawyer and political writer of Char¬ 
leston, who published a Life of Washing¬ 
ton in Latin. He died in 1840, in Texas. 

LAND, MAX EMMEL, lawyer, was born 
April 3, 1872, in Maple Brook, Ga. He 
attended the public schools, Jackson insti¬ 
tute, the Georgia Military and Agricul¬ 
tural college; and was admitted to the 
bar in 1893. He has served as prosecut¬ 
ing attorney for Wilcox county; is a mem¬ 
ber of the democratic executive commit¬ 
tee of that county; and city attorney of 
Abbeville, Ga. 

LANDER, EDWARD, lawyer, jurist. He 
was appointed chief justice of the United 
States court for the territory of Wash¬ 
ington in 1853. 

LANDER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
soldier, was born Dec. 17, 1821, in Salem, 
Mass. He served with distinction through¬ 
out the civil war, 
and attained the 
rank of brigadier- 
general of volun¬ 
teers. He wrote 
many stirring pa¬ 
triotic poems on in¬ 
cidents of the cam¬ 
paign. He was a gal¬ 
lant soldier, and took 
part in many of the 
most desperate bat¬ 
tles of the civil war. 
He died March 2, 
1862, in Paw Paw, Va. 

LANDER, JEAN MARGARET DAVEN¬ 
PORT, actress, was born May 3, 1829, in 
England. Her best character was that 
of Queen Elizabeth. Her last appearance 
was in Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter at the 
Boston theater. 

LANDER, LOUISA, sculptor, was born 
Sept. 1, 1826, in Salem, Mass. Among 
her works are a bust of Governor Gore of 
Massachusetts; a bust of Hawthorne; 
and a statuette of Virginia Dare, the first 
English child born in America. 

LANDER, SARAH WEST, author, was 
born Nov. 27, 1819, in Salem, Mass. She 
was a writer of Salem, Mass., whose Spec¬ 
tacles for Young Eyes, a series of vol¬ 
umes of travel, was very popular. She 
died Nov. 15, 1872, in Salem, Mass. 

LANDERS, FRANKLIN, merchant, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
March 22, 1825, in Morgan county, Ind. 
In 1860 he was elected state senator; and 
in 1874 was elected a representative to 
the forty-fourth congress from Indiana. 

LANDERS, G. M., manufacturer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 22, 
1813, in Lenox, Mass. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the Connecticut state legisla¬ 
ture in 1851, 1867, and 1874; was state 
senator in 1853, 1869, and 1873; and was 
appointed bank commissioner for Connec¬ 
ticut in 1875. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative to the forty-fourth congress; and 
re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

LANDES, SILAS Z., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, -was born May 15, 1842, in Au¬ 
gusta county, Va. In 1884 he was elected 
a representative from Illinois to the forty- 
ninth congress, and re-elected to the fif¬ 


tieth congress as a democrat. In 1891 he 
was elected for six years judge of the 
circuit court of Illinois. 

LANDIS, CHARLES B., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 9, 1858, in Mill¬ 
ville, Ohio. He served for four years from 
1883 to 1887 as editor of the Logansport 
Journal of Indiana; and at the time of 
his nomination to congress was the edi¬ 
tor of the Delphi Journal. He was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

LANDIS, JOHN H., legislator, was born 
Jan. 31, 1853, in Lancaster county, Pa. 
He received his education in the common 
schools, at the 
county lyceums, and 
/'“‘C7 the Millersville State 

Normal school. Dur¬ 
ing 1878-84 he was a 
55^ W- member of the Penn¬ 
sylvania house of 
representatives; su¬ 
pervisor of census in 
1890; and served 
with distinction in 
the Pennsylvania 
state senate during 
1892-96. He was a 
presidential elector in 1896; and since 1891 
has been secretary of the Farmers’ Pro¬ 
tective Tariff league of Pennsylvania. 

LANDON, JUDSON STUART, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1832, in Connecticut. 
He is a lawyer of Schenectady, justice of 
the supreme court of the state of New 
York and lecturer in the Albany Law 
school. He is the author of The Consti¬ 
tutional History and Government of the 
United States. 

LANDON, MELVILLE DE LANCEY, 
lecturer, author, was born in 1839, in New 
York. He is a popular humorous lecturer; 
and the author of The Franco-Prussian 
War in a Nutshell; Saratoga in 1901; Eli 
Perkins at Large; Eli Perkins’s Wit, Hu¬ 
mor, and Pathos; Fun and Fact, Thirty 
Years of Wit; and Money: Silver, Gold, 
or Bimetallism. 

LANDRAM, JOHN JAMES, soldier, 
state senator, was born Nov. 16, 1826, in 
Warsaw, Ky. At the opening of the civ¬ 
il war he aided in recruiting and organiz¬ 
ing for the national government the 
eighteenth Kentucky regiment, of which 
he became lieutenant-colonel. He was 
elected to the Kentucky state senate in 
1863. 

LANDRUM. JOHN M., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 3, 1815, in Edge- 
field district, S. C. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Louisiana to the thirty- 
sixth congress; and resigned in 1861. 

LANDRUM, RICHARD H„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state senator, was born May 
31, 1834, in Jefferson county, Tenn. He 
served with distinc¬ 
tion through the civ¬ 
il war; and served 
for a time as adju¬ 
tant of the seventy- 
sixth Missouri regi¬ 
ment. Since 1870 he 
has practiced law in 
Mt. Vernon, Mo.; has 
been justice of the 
peace; judge of the 
county court, and al¬ 
so of the probate 
court and the court 
of common pleas. He served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the thirty-seventh 
Missouri general assembly; and in 1894 
was elected a member of the state senate. 

LANDRY, J. ARISTIDE, congressman, 
was born in Louisiana. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1851 to 1853. 









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LANDY, JAMES, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 13, 1813, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. In 1856 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative to the thirty-fifth congress from 
Pennsylvania. He died July 24, 1875, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

LANE, ALBERT GRANNIS, educator, 
was born March 15, 1841, in Chicago, Ill. 
For eleven years he was principal of the 
Chicago Franklin school, county superin¬ 
tendent of schools for eighteen years; and 
since 1891 has been superintendent of the 
Chicago schools. 

LANE, AMOS, lawyer, legislator, was 
born March 1, 1778, near Aurora, N. Y. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Indiana from 1833 to 1839, having pre¬ 
viously been a member of the state legis¬ 
lature, and sen ed one session as speaker. 
He died Sept. 2, 1849, in Lawrenceburg, 
Ind. 

LANE, EBENEZER, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Dec. 17, 1793, in Northampton, Mass. 
He moved to Norwalk, Ohio; became 
judge of the court of common pleas in 
1824; and from 1837 till 1845 was judge 
of the supreme court of Ohio. He died 
June 13, 1866, in Sandusky, Ohio. 

LANE, EDWARD, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 27, 1842, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. He received an academic 
education, after¬ 
wards read law, and 
was licensed to prac¬ 
tice by the supreme 
court of the state of 
Illinois in February, 
1865, and has since 
practiced his profes¬ 
sion. He was elected 
judge in 1869, and 
served one term. He 
was elected to the 
fiftieth, fifty-first, 
fifty-second, and fif¬ 
ty-third congresses as a democrat. 

LANE, GEORGE W., lawyer, jurist. He 
was appointed a United States district 
judge in Alabama. He died Nov. 12, 1863, 
in Louisville, Ky. 

LANE, HENRY S., soldier, legislator, 
congressman, governor, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Feb. 24, 1811, in Montgom¬ 
ery county, Ky. In 1837 he was elected 
to the Indiana legislature; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Indiana from 
1841 to 1843. He served as a lieutenant- 
colonel of volunteers in the war with 
Mexico in 1846. In 1861 he was elected 
governor of Indiana; and two days after 
his inauguration was again elected a sena¬ 
tor in congress from Indiana for the term 
ending in 1867. He died June 18, 1881, in 
Crawfordsville, Ind. 

LANE, JAMES HENRY, soldier, states¬ 
man, was born June 22, 1814, in Law¬ 
renceburg, Ind. In 1849 he was lieuten¬ 
ant-governor of Indiana; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Indiana 
from 1853 to 1855. He settled in Kansas; 
and was elected by the people major-gen¬ 
eral of the free state troops. On the ad¬ 
mission of Kansas into the union, he was 
chosen a senator in congress; and was re¬ 
elected for the term ending in 1871. He 
died July 1, 1866, in Leavenworth, Kan. 

LANE, JOHN WATSON, physician, 
philosopher, was born March 6, 1830, in 
Ripley, Ohio. He graduated in medicine 
from the Cincinnati Medical college, and 
is a prominent physician of Hamilton, Ill. 
He has written extensively concerning the 
Truths of Religion, freed from Dogma; 
and is the author of a number of poems. 

LANE, JONATHAN H., journalist, sci¬ 
entist, was born Aug. 9, 1819, in Geneseo, 
N. Y. He published papers on Electricity; 



On the Law of Electric Induction in Met¬ 
als; and On the Law of Induction of an 
Electric Current on Itself. He also pub¬ 
lished Theoretical Temperature of the 
Sun; and Description of a New Form of 
Mercurial Horizon. He died May 3, 1880, 
in Washington, D. C. 

LANE, JOSEPH, soldier, legislator, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Dec. 14, 1801, in Buncombe, N. C. He 
was a member of the 
legislature of Indiana 
in 1822, serving in 
that capacity, with 
occasional intervals, 
until 1846. He partici¬ 
pated in the war with 
Mexico; and was ap¬ 
pointed a brigadier- 
general. In 1849 he 
was appointed gov¬ 
ernor of the territory 
of Oregon. He was 
elected a delegate to 
congress in 1851, where he was retained 
by his constituents until the admission 
of Oregon as a state in 1859, when he took 
his seat as a senator in congress, serving 
until 1861. He died April 19, 1881, in 
Oregon. 

LANE, LA FAYETTE, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 12, 1842, in Van- 
derburg county, Ind. He was elected to 
the legislature of Oregon in 1864; and in 
1875 was elected a representative to the 
forty-fourth congress. He died Nov. 24, 
1896, in Roseburg, Oregon. 

LANE, LEMUEL M., lawyer, was born 
Nov. 4, 1854, in Fillmore, Mo. After re¬ 
ceiving the rudiments of his education in 
the common schools, he attended the Illi¬ 
nois State Normal school. He has been 
mayor of Maryville, Mo., and twice its 
city attorney. He was twice prosecuting 
attorney of Nodaway county, Mo.; and 
was one of the founders of the Methodist 
college of Maryville. He is now practic¬ 
ing his profession with success in King 
Fisher, Oklahoma; and is prominent in 
the public affairs of that territory. 

LANE, SAMUEL. He was one of the 
first men appointed superintendent or 
commissioner of public buildings for the 
District of Columbia, but the date of his 
appointment does not appear on the pub¬ 
lic records. 

LANE, WILLIAM ALFRED, physician, 
journalist, jurist, author, was born March 
1, 1845, in Convis, Mich. For a quarter of 
a century he has been editor and owner 
of the Homer Index; and is the author of 
Homer and Its Pioneers. He is judge of 
the probate court of Carlisle county, Mich. 

LANE, WILLIAM CARR, soldier, physi¬ 
cian, governor, was born Dec. 1, 1789, in 
Westmoreland, Pa. He served as a sur¬ 
geon in the war of 1812 and the Mexican 
war. In 1852 he was appointed governor 
of New Mexico, resigning in 1853, when 
he resumed the practice of medicine in 
St. Louis. 

LANG, BENJAMIN JOHNSON, pianist, 
author, was born Dec. 28, 1837, in Salem, 
Mass. He is the author of Marseillaise; 
Chadwick; The Viking’s Last Voyage; 
and Henry of Navarre. 

LANG, MARGARET RUTHVEN, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 27, 1867, in Boston, 
Mass. She is the author of Dramatic 
Overture; Witichis; and Totila. 

LANGDALE, THOMAS GUY, clergy¬ 
man, was born Oct. 28, 1866, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. In 1888 he received the degree of 
A. B. from the university of Cincinnati; 
and in 1891 the degree of B. D. from the 
Chicago Theological seminary. He has 
filled pastorates in South Dakota; and 
since 1896 has filled a pastorate in DeSmet. 



In 1893-94 he was secretary of the South 
Dakota Christian Endeavor union, and 
since 1895 has been its president. 

LANGDELL, CHRISTOPHER COLUM¬ 
BUS, lawyer, author, was born May 22, 
1826, in New Hampshire. He is a legal 
writer of distinction, dean of the Harvard 
Law school; and the author of Cases on 
the Law of Contracts; Summary of Equity 
Pleading; Cases in Equity Pleading; and 
Elementary Treatise on the Law of Con¬ 
tracts. 


LANGDON, CHAUNCEY, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Vermont from 1815 
to 1817; served seven years in the legis¬ 
lature of the state; and was a state coun¬ 
cilor for nine years. He died in 1830. 

LANGDON, JOHN, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born 
June 25, 1741, in Portsmouth, N. H. In 
1775 and 1776 he was chosen a delegate to 
congress from New Hampshire. He com¬ 
manded a company of volunteers in Ver¬ 
mont and Rhode Island. In his own state 
he was in 1776 and 1777 speaker of the 
house of representatives and judge of the 
court of common pleas. In 1783 he was 
again appointed a delegate to congress; 
and was afterwards repeatedly a member 
of the legislature, and speaker. In 1788 he 
was chosen governor of the state; and 
from 1789 to 1801 was senator of the 
United States. From 1805 to 1808, and 
again in 1810 and 1811 he was governor of 
the state. He died Sept. 18, 1819, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. PI. 

LANGDON, WILLIAM CHAUNCEY. 
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 19, 1831, 
in Burlington, Vt. He is an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of Bedford, Pa.; and the author 
of The Defects of our Practical Catholici¬ 
ty; Plain Papers for Parish Priests and 
Peoples; The Catholic Reform Movement 
in the Italian Church; and Conflict of 
Practice and Principle in the American 
Church. He died in 1895. 


LANGDON, WOODBURY, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1739, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. He was a delegate from 
New Hampshire to the continental con¬ 
gress in 1779 and 1780; was a counselor 
from 1781 to 1784; and a judge of the su¬ 
preme court of New Hampshire in 1782, 
and from 1786 to 1790. He died Jan. 13, 
1805, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

LANGE, LOUIE A., journalist, legisla¬ 
tor, was born May 31, 1854, in Chicago, 
Ill. He moved with his parents to Wis¬ 
consin in 1856, set¬ 
tling in Fond du 
Lac; and in 186 1 
moved to Milwaukee, 
where he was edu¬ 
cated in the public 
schools and at Eng- 
elman's academy. In 
1870 he returned to 
Fond du Lac, and 
learned the printing 
business. In 1874 he 
was city editor of 
The Chronicle of La 
and was city editor of the 
Fond du Lac Commonwealth in 1877. For 
a while he was engaged on the Evening 
Wisconsin; in 1883 became part owner of 
the Reporter of Fond du Lac, also estab¬ 
lishing a daily; two years later purchased 
the entire plant; and is now proprietor 
of the Reporter Printing house. Since 
1891 he has been a director of the pub¬ 
lic library; and was alderman and presi¬ 
dent of the common council and board of 
education for four years. In 1892 he was 
elected to the assembly of the Wisconsin 
state legislature, and received the re-elec¬ 
tion in 1894 and in 1896. 



Porte, Ind.; 



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LANGERFELDT, THEODORE OTTO, 
artist, was born March 2, 1841, in Ger¬ 
many. One of his architectural paintings 
was awarded a prize at the centennial ex¬ 
hibition of Philadelphia in 1876. 

LANGLEY, JOHN WESLEY, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Jan. 14, 1863, in Floyd 
county, Ky. He received his education 
in the Columbian, Georgetown, and the 
National universities of Washington, D. 
C. He has been clerk in the pension and 
land offices; a member of the board of 
pension appeals of Washington, D. C.; and 
a delegate to the national republican 
convention in 1888. He has twice served 
as a member of the Kentucky state legis¬ 
lature; and was the republican nominee 
for speaker. In 1896 he was republican 
nominee for congress from his district. 
He is one of the foremost lawyers and 
orators of Kentucky; and has a large 
practice in Prestonburg. 

LANGLEY, JOHN WILLIAMS, chemist, 
was born Oct. 21, 1841, in Salem, Mass. 
His scientific work has been principally 
in connection with the development of the 
chemistry of iron-ores, and his results 
have been published in the American 
Journal of Science and elsewhere. 

LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT, as¬ 
tronomer, author, was born in 1834, in 
Massachusetts. He is an astronomer of 
eminence, the secretary of the Smithson¬ 
ian institution since 1887; and the author 
of Researches on Solar Heat; and The 
New Astronomy. 

LANGSTON, ASA HENRY, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Nov. 4, 1868, in Leake 
county, Miss. He received his education 
in the common schools, the Mississippi 
Central Normal school, and at the Iuka 
Normal institute. In 1896 he was elected 
a representative in the Mississippi state 
legislature for the term of four years. He 
is prominent in literature and history, 
and in the science of government; and a 
prominent lawyer of Carthage. 

LANGSTON. JOHN MERCER, educator, 
lawyer, congressman, author, was born 
Dec. 14, 1829, in Louisa Court House, Va. 
In 1869 he was elected professor of law 
in Howard university, and was made dean 
of the law department. During the last 
two years of his service he was vice-pres¬ 
ident and acting president of the univer¬ 
sity. From 1870 to 1877 he was a member 
of the board of health of the District of 
Columbia, and its attorney. He was 
elected to the fifty-first congress. He is 
the author of Freedom and Citizenship. 

LANGSTROTH, LORENZO LORRAINE, 
clergyman, inventor, author, was born 
Dec. 25, 1810, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
invented the movable-comb hive, which 
has come into extensive use; and is the 
author of The Hive and the Honey-Bee. 

LANGWORTHY, EDWARD, congress¬ 
man. He was a delegate from Georgia to 
the continental congress from 1777 to 
1779, and was one of the signers of the 
articles of confederation. 

LANHAM, SAMUEL W. T., soldier, law¬ 
yer. congressman, was born July 4, 1846, 
in Spartanburg district, S. C. He entered 
the confederate army when a boy. He set¬ 
tled in Weatherford, Tex.; was dis¬ 
trict attorney; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Texas to the forty-eighth 
congress. He was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, and 
fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat. 

LANIER, CLIFFORD ANDERSON, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born April 24, 1844, in 
Griffin, Ga. He is the author of Two Hun¬ 
dred Bales; and Thorn-Fruit. 


LANIER, SIDNEY, author, poet, was 
born Feb. 3, 1842, in Macon, Ga. A Cen¬ 
tennial Ode, written for the opening of 
the exposition of 1876, first brought him 
into general notice. Subsequently he lec¬ 
tured upon English literature in Balti¬ 
more. He was the author of Poems; Ti¬ 
ger Lilies, a novel; The Science of Eng¬ 
lish Verse; The English Novel and its 
Development; Florida: its Scenery, His¬ 
tory, and Climate. He edited The Boys’ 
Percy; The Boys’ Mabinogion; The Boys’ 
King Arthur; and The Boys’ Froissart. 
He died Sept. 7, 1881, in Lynn, N. C. 

LANIGAN, GEORGE THOMAS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Dec. 10, 1845, in 
Quebec, Canada. He was a journalist of 
Montreal, and subsequently of New York 
city; and the author of -Canadian Bal¬ 
lads; and Fables Out of the World. He 
died Feb. 5, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LANING, JAY FORD, lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, state senator, was born May 15, 1853, 
in New London, Ohio. He is a successful 
publisher of Norwalk, Ohio; and in 1897 
was elected a member of the general as¬ 
sembly of Ohio. 

LANMAN, CHARLES, journalist, li¬ 
brarian, author, was born June 14, 1819, 
in Monroe, Mich. In 1849 he was librarian 
of the war department at Washington, 
D. C.; and in 1850 became the private sec¬ 
retary of Daniel Webster. In 1853 he was 
examiner of depositaries for the southern 
states; and in 1855-57 was librarian of 
the interior department. In 1866 he was 
librarian of the house of representatives; 
and during 1871-82 was secretary to the 
Japanese legation. His principal works 
are: Essays for Summer Hours; Summer 
in the Wilderness; Privhte Life of Daniel 
Webster; Dictionary of Congress; The 
Red Book of Michigan; Leading Men of 
Japan; Letters from a Landscape Paint¬ 
er; Tour to the River Saguenay; Farthest 
North; and Haphazard Personalities. He 
died about 1892, in Washington, D. C. 

LANMAN, CHARLES JAMES, lawyer, 
jurist, was born June 5, 1795, in Norwich, 
Conn. He settled in Monroe, Mich.; and 
was judge of probate and inspector of 
customs. He was a founder of Tecumseh, 
Mich.; and the surveyor, and once the 
sole owner of the land where the city of 
Grand Rapids now stands. In 1835 he re¬ 
turned to his native city, and three years 
later was made its mayor. In 1862 he 
moved to New London, Conn., where he 
died July 25, 1870. 

LANMAN, CHARLES ROCKWELL, 
orientalist, educator, author, was born 
July 8, 1850, in Norwich, Conn. Since 
1880 he has filled the chair of Sanskrit in 
the Harvard university. He is the author 
of a Sanskrit Grammar, and several 
works on oriental subjects. 

LANMAN, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born June 14, 
1769, in Norwich, Conn. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the convention which framed the 
first constitution of Connecticut in 1818. 
He was elected a United States senator, 
and served during 1819-25. He was sub¬ 
sequently a judge of the supreme and su¬ 
perior courts of Connecticut during 1826- 
29. He died Aug. 7, 1841, in Norwich, 
Conn. 

LANMAN, JAMES HENRY, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 4, 1812, in Norwich, 
Conn. He was the author of A History of 
Michigan, which was afterward issued 
under the title of History of Michigan 
From its Earliest Colonization to 1842. 
He contributed extensively to the North 
American and the American Quarterly 
Reviews. He died Jan. 10, 1887, in Mid¬ 
dletown, Conn. 


LANMAN, JOSEPH, naval officer, was 
born July 11, 1811, in Norwich, Conn. He 
served in the United States navy during 
the civil war, attaining the rank of rear- 
admiral. He died March 13, 1874, in Nor¬ 
wich, Conn. 

LANSIL, WALTER F., artist, was born 
in 1846, in Bangor, Maine. He settled in 
Boston’ where he has passed his profes¬ 
sional ’life. He effectively represents the 
luminous effects of sunrise and sunset. 
Among his works are Crossing the 
Gorges; and an evening View of Charles¬ 
town, with Shipping. 

LANSING, FREDERICK, soldier, law¬ 
yer congressman, was born Feb. 16, 1838, 
in Manheim, N. Y. He has resided in 
Watertown since 
1856. He served dur¬ 
ing the war in the 
eighth New York 
cavalry; was acting 
adjutant of that reg¬ 
iment in 1863; was 
badly wounded a t 
the battle of Bristoe 
Station, and the next 
year was discharged 
on account of 
wounds. He was 
elected state senator 
in 1881; and in 1883 was re-elected. He 
was elected to the fifty-first congress as a 
republican. He declined a renomination. 
He died Jan. 30,1894, in Watertown, N. Y. 

LANSING, GERIT Y., congressman, was 
born in 1783, in Albany, N. Y. He served 
four years in the legislature of that state; 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1831 to 1837; and was for 
many years chancellor of the board of 
regents of the university of New York. 
He died Jan. 3, 1862, in Albany, N. Y. 

LANSING, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 30, 1754, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. He was a delegate from New 
York to the continental congress from 
1784 to 1788; also a member of the con¬ 
vention that framed the federal constitu¬ 
tion. He died Dec. 12, 1829, in New York 
city. 

LANSING, JOHN GULIAN, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1851, in 
Louisiana. He is a Dutch reformed cler¬ 
gyman, professor of Old Testament lan¬ 
guages in the New Brunswick Theological 
seminary, New Jersey; and the author of 
American Revised Version of the Book 
of Psalms; and An Arabic Manual. 

LANSING, WILLIAM E., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1822, in Sullivan, 
N. Y. In 1860 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative from New York to the thirty-sev¬ 
enth congress; and was re-elected to the 
forty-second and forty-third congresses as 
a republican. He died July 29, 1883. 

LANZA. MARCHIONESS CLARA 
[HAMMOND], author, was born in 1858,. 
in Kansas. She is a novelist of New York 
city; and the author of Tit for Tat; Mr. 
Perkins’s Daughter; A Righteous Apos¬ 
tate; Tales of Eccentric Life; A Modern 
Marriage; David Morton’s Transgression; 
and A Golden Pilgrimage. 

LAPHAM, ELBRIDGE GERRY, civil 
engineer, lawyer, congressman. United 
States senator, was born Oct. 18, 1814, in 
Farmington, N. Y. He was civil engineer 
on the Michigan Southern railroad; and 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-fourth congress. He 
was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth, and forty-seventh congresses; and 
was elected a United States senator from 
New York for the term ending in 1885, to 
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LAPHAM, HENRY GRIFFITH, leather 
merchant, was born Feb. 24, 1822, in Can- 
by, Vt. He was principally engaged in 
the tanning and lum¬ 
ber business in New 
York and Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and engaged 
in the manufacture 
of leather and lum¬ 
ber in northwestern 
Pennsylvania. Later 
he took an active 
part in the produc¬ 
tion of petroleum in 
Pennsylvania and 
Ohio. He was also 
interested in ranch¬ 
ing in Mexico. The United States Leather 
Co. is one of the greatest corporations in 
America. He died Jan. 28, 1881 in New 
York city. 

LAPHAM, INCREASE ALLEN, scien¬ 
tist, author, was born March 7, 1811, in 
Palmyra, N. Y. He was a prominent sci¬ 
entist of Milwaukee; and the author of 
Antiquities of Wisconsin; Wisconsin: its 
Geography, Topography, History, Geolo¬ 
gy, and Mineralogy. He died Sept. 14, 
1875, in Oconomowoc, Wis. 

LAPHAM, MARSHALL, financier, was 
born July 3, 1867, in Kalamazoo county, 
Mich. In 1887-90 he was auditor of the 
Chicago and Calumet Terminal railway; 
and since 1893 has been secretary and 
treasurer of the Chicago, Joliet and South¬ 
western railway. 

LAPHAM, OSCAR, soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born June 
29, 1837, in Burrillville, R. I. He was first 
lieutenant, adjutant, and captain in 
twelfth Rhode Island volunteers, and 
served in Virginia and Kentucky, in army 
of Potomac and department of Ohio. He 
represented the city of Providence in the 
Rhode Island state senate in 1887-88. He 
was democratic candidate for congress in 
1882, 1886 and 1888, and was elected to the 
fifty-second and fifty-third congresses. 

LAPHAM, WILLIAM BERRY, physi¬ 
cian, journalist, author, was born Aug. 21, 
1828, in Greenwood, Maine. He was an 
agricultural editor of Maine, who pub-' 
lished several histories of Maine locali¬ 
ties, including Woodstock, Paris, Norway, 
Bar Harbor, and Mount Desert Island. 

LAPORTE, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1833 to 1837. 

LARCOM, LUCY, author, poet, was born 
in 1826, in Beverly, Mass. She was a pop¬ 
ular verse and prose writer of Beverly, 
Mass., who in early life worked in the 
Lowell factories, and was a contributor 
to the noted Lowell Offering. Her writ¬ 
ings in verse include. At the Beautiful 
Gate; Childhood Songs; Wild Roses of 
Cape Ann; An Idyl of Work; Easter 
Gleams; Complete Poems. Skipper Ben 
and Hannah Binding Shoes are her best 
known lyrics. Her original work in prose 
comprises, Ships in the Mist, and Other 
Stories; The Sunbeam; Similitudes; Leila 
among the Mountains; The Unseen 
Friend; As It is in Heaven; and A New 
England Girlhood, an autobiographic 
work. She died in 1893. 

LARDNER, JAMES L., naval officer, 
was born in 1802, in Pennsylvania. He 
served through the Mexican and civil wars 
in the United States navy, attaining the 
rank of rear admiral. He died April 13, 
1881, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LARGE, GEORGE HALL, lawyer, state 
senator, was born Dec. 1, 1850, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. During 1885-88 he was a 
member of the New Jersey state senate, 


and in the latter year was president of 
that body. 

LARIMER, WILLIAM, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, banker, lawyer, jurist, state legis¬ 
lator, was born Oct. 24, 1809, in West¬ 
moreland county, Pa. In 1855 he went to 
Nebraska; and served in the territorial 
legislature in 1856. In the beginning of 
the civil war he raised a regiment of vol¬ 
unteers in Colorado and was commis¬ 
sioned colonel. He served in Kansas, In¬ 
dian territory, and Arkansas, and was 
mustered out in August, 1865. He died 
May 16, 1875, near Leavenworth, Kan. 

LARKIN, DANIEL CHARLES, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born July 29, 1849, in San¬ 
dusky, Ohio. Up to 1875 he was con¬ 
nected with the 
Brotherhood of Lo¬ 
comotive Engineers; 
and was one of the 
founders of the Gem 
city assembly 
Knights of Labor. 
Since 1880 he has 
been chief of the fire 
department of Day- 
ton, Ohio; and takes 
an active part in the 
public affairs of his 
city, county and 
state. He also contributes to newspapers 
and magazines. 

LARKIN, JOHN, college president, was 
born in 1801, in England. In 1851 he be¬ 
came president of St. John’s college in 
Fordham, N. Y., resigning in 1854. He 
died Dec. 11, 1858, in Fordham, N. Y. 

LARKIN, LUCIEN A., journalist, law¬ 
yer, was born Nov. 22, 1865, in Lynchburg, 
Va. He received a liberal education in the 
common schools, and at Bethel Military 
academy. For many years he was editor 
and owner of The Gazette of Manassas, 
Va., where he now practices his profes¬ 
sion of law, and takes an active part in 
the public affairs of his county and state. 

LARNED, AUGUSTA, journalist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born April 16, 1835, in 
Rutland, N. Y. She is a journalist of 
New York city; and the author of Home 
Story Scenes; Talks with Girls; Old 
Tales from Grecian Mythology; Tales 
from the Norse Grandmother; Village 
Photographs; and In Woods and Fields, 
a book of verse. 

LARNED, CHARLES WILLIAM, sol¬ 
dier, educator, philologist, was born 
March 9, 1850, in New York city. In 
1870 he graduated from the United States 
Military academy of West Point. He has 
been first and second lieutenant of the 
seventh New York cavalry, and served on 
frontier in Kansas; then on reconstruc¬ 
tion service in Kentucky and Tennessee. 
In 1873 he was in the Dakota expedition 
against Sitting Bull, under Stanley and 
Custer, and was in the fight at the mouth 
of the Big Horn. Since 1876 he has been 
professor of topographical and mechani¬ 
cal drawing in the United States Military 
academy. He is a member of the Ameri¬ 
can Philological association, and other 
scientific, bodies; and has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to current literature. 

LARNED, EBENEZER, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 18, 1728, in Ox¬ 
ford, Mass. In 1774 he was a delegate to 
the provincial congress at Concord, Mass. 
He served through the revolutionary war, 
attaining the rank of brigadier-general in 
1777. He died April 1, 1801, in Oxford, 
Mass. 

LARNED, EDWIN CHANNING, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, author, was born July 14, 
1820, in Providence, R. I. He was ap¬ 
pointed United States district attorney 


for the northern district of Illinois in 
1861. He died Sept. 18, 1884, in Lake For¬ 
est, Ill. 

LARNED, ELLEN DOUGLAS, author, 
was born July 13, 1825, in Thompson, 
Conn. She is the author of a History of 
Windham County, Conn.; and of a History 
of the Town of Woodstock, Conn. 

LARNED, JOSHUA NELSON, author, 
was born in 1836, in Canada. He is the 
superintendent of the public library at 
Buffalo; and the author of History for 
Ready Reference; and Talks About La¬ 
bor. 

LARNED, SIMON, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 13, 1753, in Thomp¬ 
son, Conn. He served as colonel of mili¬ 
tia; was, for a time, sheriff of Berkshire 
county; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts to fill a va¬ 
cancy. He died Nov. 16, 1817, in Pitts¬ 
field, Mass. 

LARNED, WALTER CRANSTON, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1850, in Illinois. 
He is a lawyer and litterateur of Lake 
Forest, Ill.; and the author of Churches 
and Castles of Mediaeval France. 

LARNED, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 23, 1806, in 
Thompson, Conn. In 1839 he became pro¬ 
fessor of rhetoric and English literature 
at Yale, which post he held until his 
death. In the later years of his life he 
prepared and printed, but did not pub¬ 
lish, a valuable edition of the Oration of 
Demosthenes on the Crown, with philo¬ 
logical and rhetorical notes. He died Feb. 
3, 1862, in New Haven, Conn. 

LARNER, JOHN BELL, lawyer, author, 
was born Aug. 3, 1858, in Washington, D. 
C. He has become prominent as a law¬ 
yer of ability in Washington, D. C. He is 
the author of an English translation of 
Alex. Dumas’ Napoleon. 

LA ROCHE, RENE, physician, author, 
was born in 1795, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was a Philadelphia physician; and the 
author of Pneumonia: its Supposed Con¬ 
nection with Autumnal Fevers; and Trea¬ 
tise on Yellow Fever. He died in Decem¬ 
ber, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LARRABEE, CHARLES HATHAWAY, 
soldier, lawyer, journalist, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 9, 1820, in Rome, 
N. Y. In 1847 he settled in Wisconsin, and 
became a member of the convention to 
frame a state constitution. In 1848 he was 
elected a circuit judge, and after serving 
ten years, resigned. He was elected a 
representative from Wisconsin to the 
thirty-sixth congress. He subsequently 
entered the army in the volunteer service, 
and had command as colonel of a regi¬ 
ment from his state. He died Jan. 20, 
1883, in Tehachapi Pass, Cal. 

LARRABEE, WILLIAM, governor of 
Iowa, was born Jan. 20, 1832, in Ledyard, 
Conn. He served in the Iowa state senate 
in 1868-85; and since 1885 has been gov¬ 
ernor of the state. 

LARRABEE, WILLIAM CLARK, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 
23, 1802, in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He was 
a once prominent methodist clergyman 
and educator of Indiana; and professor in 
De Pauw university for a number of years. 
He was the author of Scientific Evidences 
of Natural and Revealed Religion; Wes¬ 
ley and his Co-Laborers; Asbury and his 
Co-Laborers; and Rosebower, a volume 
of essays. He died May 4, 1859, in Green- 
castle, Ind. 

LARREMORE, RICHARD LUDLOW, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 6, 1830, in 
Astoria, N. Y. In 1870 he was elected a 
justice of the court of common pleas of 
New York for fifteen years, and re-elected 
in 1885, when he became chief justice. 





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LARSON, LARS M., educator, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Aug. 20, 1856, near 
Springfield, Wis. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the Wiscon- 
| sin schools for the 
Deaf of Delavan, 
Wis.; and at the Na¬ 
tional College for the 
Deaf of Washington, 
D. C. He is the or¬ 
ganizer and founder 
of the New Mexico 
School for the Deaf 
and the Blind of 
Santa Fe. In 1887 
this institution was 
incorporated by act 
of legislature, and placed on an equal 
footing with similar schools in the United 
States. It was then placed under the 
management of a committee of three of¬ 
ficers of the territory, and Mr. Larson 
was made superintendent and instructor. 
This school is the first public institution 
of learning to become the property of 
New Mexico; and is now on a sound 
financial basis. 



LA SALLE, ROBERT CAVALIER, ex¬ 
plorer, was born Nov. 22, 1643, in Rouen. 
He explored the Mississippi; and took 
possession of the entire valley at its 
mouth for France, calling it Louisiana. 
He died March 17, 1687. 

LA SERE, EMILE, congressman, was 
born in Louisiana. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1846 
to 1851. 

LASH, ISRAEL G., manufacturer, bank¬ 
er, congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1810, 
in Bethania, N. C. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from North Carolina to the 
fortieth congress, and was re-elected to 
the forty-first congress as a republican. 

LASH, W. A., railroad president, was 
born June 7, 1845, in Walnut Grove, N. C. 
In 1891 he became president of the Cape 
Fear and Yadkin Valley railway. 

LATANE, JAMES ALLEN, reformed 
episcopal bishop, was born Jan. 15, 1831, 
in Essex county, Va. At the general coun- 
eil of the church in Baltimore in 1883 he 
was unanimously elected presiding bishop 
of the reformed episcopal church of the 
United States. He has resided in Balti¬ 
more, Md., since 1880 in charge of the 
Bishop Cumming Memorial church. 

LATHAM, CHARLES STERRETT, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1861, in California. He 
was the author of a Translation of Dante’s 
Eleven Letters, with Explanatory Notes 
and Historical Comments. He died in 
1890. 

LATHAM, EDGAR, lawyer, was born 
Feb. 12, 1873, in Haralson county, Ga. 
In 1893 he was admitted to the bar; and is 
one of the leading lawyers of Atlanta. 
He has contributed extensively to law 
literature, and to the periodical press on 
various topics. 


LATHAM, GEORGE ROBERT, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born 
March 9, 1832, in Brince William county, 
Va., in sight of the 
Bull Run battle 
ground. In 1852 he 
began teaching 
school in Taylor and 
Barbour counties, 
Va.; and in 1859 he 
was admitted to the 
bar. He enrolled 
company B, second 
regiment Virginia 
volunteer infantry, 
which was the first 
union company re¬ 
cruited in the interior of the state; he 
was promoted to captain and colonel; and 
toward the close of the war was bre- 



vetted brigadier-general. In 1864 he was 
elected a member of the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress, and during his term served on im¬ 
portant committees. He was subsequently 
appointed United States consul at Mel¬ 
bourne, Australia, for three years. 
Since 1870 Colonel Latham has retired 
mostly from public life, with the excep¬ 
tion of census enumerator and county su¬ 
perintendent of schools, and minor offices. 

LATHAM, LOUIS CHARLES, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 11. 
1840, in Plymouth, N. C. He served in 
the confederate army during the war of 
the rebellion, and attained the rank of 
major. He was elected a member of the 
state house of commons in 1864; and was 
elected a state senator in 1870. He was 
elected a representative from North Caro¬ 
lina to the forty-seventh congress, and 
was elected to the fiftieth congress as a 
democrat. 

LATHAM, MILTON SCOTT, banker, 
lawyer, congressman, governor. United 
States senator, was born May 23, 1827, in 
Columbus, Ohio. He removed to Califor¬ 
nia in 1850, and was soon afterwards 
chosen district attorney for the counties 
of Sacramento and El Dorado, which of¬ 
fice he held in 1851. In 1852 he was elected 
a representative from California to the 
thirty-seventh congress. Having been 
elected governor of California, three days 
after his inauguration, in January, 1860, 
he was elected a senator in congress from 
California for six years. He died March 
4, 1882, in New York city. 

LATHBURY, MRS. MARY A., author. 
She is the author of That Sweet Story of 
Old; Bethlehem and her Children; Child’s 
History of Paul; Fleda and the Voice; 
and From Meadow Sweet to Mistletoe. 

LATHROP, FRANCIS, artist, was born 
June 22, 1849, near Hawaiian Islands. He 
has devoted himself chiefly to mural 
painting, stained-glass windows, and 
other decorative designs for public and 
private buildings in Boston, New York, 
Baltimore, and other places. He furnished 
the illustrations for Clarence Cook’s House 
Beautiful, and for other artistic publica¬ 
tions. 

LATHROP, GEORGE PARSONS, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Aug. 25, 1851, in Ha¬ 
waiian Islands. He is a litterateur of 
New York city, and more recently of New 
London. His writings in verse include, 
Rose and Rooftree; Dreams and Days. In 
fiction they comprise, Afterglow; An 
Echo of Passion; In the Distance; New¬ 
port; Would You Kill Him?; True; Two 
Sides of a Story; Love Wins; Gold of 
Pleasure; Behind Time. Other works are, 
A Study of Hawthorne; Spanish Vistas; 
and A Story of Courage; Annals of the 
Georgetown Convent. 

LATHROP, JOHN, journalist, lawyer, 
author, was born Jan. 13, 1772, in Boston, 
Mass. He is the author of a work en¬ 
titled Pocket Register and Freemasons’ 
Anthology. He died Jan. 30, 1820, in 
Georgetown, D. C. 

LATHROP, JOHN HIRAM, college 
president, was born Jan. 22, 1799, in Sher¬ 
burne, N. Y. In 1840 he was elected the 
first president of the university of the 
state of Missouri. He died Aug. 2, 1866. 

LATHROP, MRS. MARY T., educator, 
lecturer, poet, was born in 1838, in Con¬ 
cord, Mich. She taught in the Detroit 
public schools for a while; went into 
evangelistic work in 1873; and for twelve 
years gave all her time to that and the 
Woman’s Foreign Missionary society of 
the methodist episcopal church. 

LATHROP, MRS. ROSE [HAW¬ 
THORNE], artist, author, was born May 
20, 1851, in Lenox, Mass. She is the au¬ 


thor of Along the Shore, a volume of 
verse; and Some Memories of Hawthorne. 

LATHROP, SAMUEL, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in 1771, in 
Hampden county, Mass. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Massachusetts 
from 1818 to 1826; and was a member of 
the Massachusetts senate for ten years, 
and president of that body in 1829 and 
1830. He died July 11, 1846, in West 
Springfield. 

LATHROP, STANLEY E., soldier, cler¬ 
gyman, author, poet, was born May 7, 
1843, in Orville, N. Y. In 1861 he enlisted 
and served through the civil war as a 
company commissary sergeant in the first 
Wisconsin ca\ airy. He is now pastor of 
the first congregational church of Wash¬ 
burn, Wis.; and is the author of a volume 
of poems. 

LATHROP, WILLIAM, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born April 
17, 1825, in Genesee county, N. Y. He 
removed to Illinois and was a member of 
the legislature of that state in 1856; and 
was elected a representative from Illi¬ 
nois to the forty-fifth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

LATIMER, ASBURY, agriculturist, 
congressman, was born July 31, 1851, near 
He moved to Belton, 
S. C., in 1880, and 
devoted his energies 
to his farm. He was 
elected county chair¬ 
man of the demo¬ 
cratic party of his 
county in 1890; and 
re-elected in 1892. He 
was elected to the 
fifty-third, fifty- 
fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses as a dem¬ 
ocrat. 

LATIMER, CHARLES, civil engineer, 
author, was born Sept. 7, 1827, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He is an engineer of note 
who has published Roadmaster’s Assist¬ 
ants; The Divining Rod; and Battle of 
Standards. He died March 25, 1888, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

LATIMER, GEORGE, statesman, was 
born in 1750 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
a delegate to the Pennsylvania convention 
that ratified the constitution of the • 
United States in 1787; a member of the 
lower house of the legislature in 1792-99; 
and its speaker for five years. He died 
June 12, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LATIMER, JAMES ELIJAH, educator, 
was born Oct. 7, 1826, in Hartford, Conn. 
After holding several pastorates he was 
chosen professor of historic theology in 
the theological school of Boston univer¬ 
sity. In 1874 he became dean and profes¬ 
sor of systematic theology. He died Nov. 
26, 1884, in Auburndale, Mass. 

LATIMER, MRS. MARY ELIZABETH 
[WORMELEY], educator, author, was 
born in 1822 in England. She is an edu¬ 
cator of Baltimore; and the author of Fa¬ 
miliar Talks on Shakespeare’s Comedies; 
France in the Nineteenth Century, 1830- 
90; Russia and Turkey in the Nineteenth 
Century; England in the Nineteenth Cen¬ 
tury; Europe in Africa in the Nineteenth 
Century; and Italy in the Nineteenth 
Century. 

LATIMER, WILLIAM KAY, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Sept. 1, 1794, in Annapolis, 
Md. He was appointed a midshipman in 
1809; and was promoted captain in 1843; 
and during the Mexican war was com¬ 
mandant of the navy-yard at Pensacola, 
Fla. He was retired in 1855, and made 
a commodore on the retired list in 1862. 
He died March 15, 1873, in Baltimore, Md. 


Lowndesville, S. C. 






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LATROBE, CHARLES HAZLEHURST, 
soldier, civil engineer, was born Dec. 25, 
1833, in Baltimore, Md. His most remark¬ 
able works were in Peru, about a dozen in 
all; among them the Arequipa viaduct, 
which was 1,300 feet long and 65 feet high, 
and the Agua de Verrugas bridge, 575 feet 
long and 263 feet high. This structure 
was built across one of the deepest gorges 
in the Andes, and was, when erected, the 
loftiest structure of its kind in the world. 

LATROBE, FERDINAND CLAIBORNE, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 14, 1833, 
in Baltimore, Md. He received a liberal 
education in the pub¬ 
lic schools, and at St. 
James’ college of 
Washington county, 
Md. He was admit¬ 
ted to the bar in 
1860; was elected to 
the Maryland state 
legislature in 1867, 
and was speaker dur¬ 
ing 1870-72. In 1860 
he was appointed 
judge advocate-gen¬ 
eral, and assisted in 
reorganizing the Maryland militia, under 
the act of 1868, of which he was the au¬ 
thor. In 1875 he was elected mayor of 
Baltimore, and filled that important office 
for seven terms—fourteen years in all. 

LATROBE, JOHN HAZELHURST 
BONEVAL. lawyer, author, poet, was born 
May 4, 1803, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
a lawyer of Baltimore; and the author of 
History of Mason and Dixon’s Line; 
Three Great Battles; Justices’ Practice 
under the Laws of Maryland; Reminis¬ 
cences of West Point; Odds and Ends, a 
book of verse; and History of Maryland 
in Liberia. He died Sept. 11, 1891, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

LATTA, SAMUEL ARMINIUS, clergy¬ 
man, physician, author, was born April 8, 
1804, in Muskingum county, Ohio. He was 
a methodist clergyman of Ohio, subse¬ 
quently a physician in Cincinnati, who 
published The Chain of Sacred Wonders. 
He died June 28, 1852, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

LATTIMER, HENRY, physician, sur¬ 
geon, state legislator, congressman, 
United States senator, was born April 24, 
1752, in Newport, Del. He was a member 
of the state legislature; was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Delaware from 
1793 to 1795; and a senator in congress 
from 1795 to 1801, when he resigned. He 
died Dec. 19, 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LATTIMORE, SAMUEL ALLAN, educa¬ 
tor, chemist, was born May 31, 1828, in 
Union county, Ind. In 1860 he was elect¬ 
ed professor of chemistry in Genesee col¬ 
lege, and in 1867 was called to fill a sim¬ 
ilar chair in the university of Rochester, 
where he has since remained, and is also 
a director of the Reynolds laboratory. 

LATTIMORE, WILLIAM, physician, 
congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1774, in 
Norfolk, Va. He was a delegate to con¬ 
gress from Mississippi territory from 1803 
to 1807, and from 1813 to 1817. He was a 
delegate to the convention which framed 
the first constitution of Mississippi. He 
died April 3, 1843. 

LATTO, THOMAS CARSTAIRS, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born Dec. 1, 1818, in 
Scotland. His principal work is The Vil¬ 
lage-School Examination. The poems that 
he has contributed to periodicals include 
When we were at the Schule; The Blind 
Lassie; The Grave of Sir Walter Scott; 
and Lines on J. Fenimore Cooper. 

LAUGHLIN, JAMES LAWRENCE, ed¬ 
ucator, economist, author, was born April 
2, 1850, in Deerfield, Ohio. He is a politi¬ 


cal economist of note, professor at Har¬ 
vard university in 1883-87, and at Chi¬ 
cago university since 1892. He is the au¬ 
thor of Facts About Money; Study of Po¬ 
litical Economy; Elements of Political 
Economy; and History of Bi-Metallism in 
the United States. 

LAUGHLIN, JOHN, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, was born March 14, 1856, in New- 
stead, N. Y. He has attained success in 
the practice of law; and in 1887 was a 
member of the New York senate. 

LAUMAN, JACOB GARTNER, soldier, 
was born Jan. 20, 1813, in Taneytown, 
Md. He served in the civil war and was 
made brigadier-general of volunteers in 
1862. He died in February, 1867, in Bur¬ 
lington, Iowa. 

LAUNITZ, ROBERT EBERHARD, 
sculptor, was born Nov. 4, 1806, in Rus¬ 
sia. He has been called the father of 
monumental art in America. Among his 
productions are the Pulaski monument in 
Savannah, Ga.; the Battle monument in 
Frankfort, Ky.; and the monument to 
Gen. George H. Thomas in Troy, N. Y. 
He died Dec. 13, 1870, in New York city. 

LAURENCE, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born in 1750 in England. In 
1775 he was commissioned in the first New 
York regiment, and served to the end of 
the revolutionary war. In 1785 and 1786 
he was a member of the first congress; in 
1789 was elected a state senator, and dur¬ 
ing that year was elected by a five-sixths 
vote a representative in the federal con¬ 
gress, serving from 1789 to 1793. He was 
appointed in 1794 judge of the United 
States district court for New Yprk; and 
was a senator in congress from 1796 to 
1800. He died in 1810. 

LAURENS, HENRY, statesman, was 
born in 1724 in Charleston, S. C. He 
was a member of the Carolina congress of 
1775, and elected its president. He was 
vice-president under the temporary con¬ 
stitution. He was a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1777 to 1780; and 
chosen president of that body during the 
former year. He signed the articles of 
confederation. He died Dec. 8, 1792, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

LAURIE, JAMES, civil engineer, was 
born May 9, 1811, in Scotland. He built 
the wrought-iron bridge across the Con¬ 
necticut river at Windsor Locks, which 
was one of the first of its kind in the 
United States. He died March 16, 1875, 
in Hartford, Conn. 

LAUTERBACH, EDWARD, lawyer, 
was born Aug. 12, 1844, in New York city. 
In 1864 he graduated from the College of 
the City of New 
York, and has at¬ 
tained prominence 
as one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of his 
native city. He was 
instrumental in pro¬ 
curing legislation 
necessary to secure 
the removal of the 
telegraph poles, and 
the construction ol 
sub-ways in the city 
of New York; and 
was at one time president of the company 
having in charge these important im¬ 
provements. When the affairs of the 
Brooklyn Elevated Railroad company 
were in such an apparently hopeless con¬ 
dition that the enterprise was almost 
abandoned, Mr. Lauterbach stepped in as 
a reorganizer, and by his skillful direc¬ 
tion placed it on a successful basis. He 
is a director in extensive southern rail¬ 
way systems, and in various other corpo¬ 
rations. 


LA VALETTE, ELIE A. F., naval officer, 
was born about 1790 in Virginia. He was 
a favorite with Commodore Isaac Hull, 
and accompanied that officer when he took 
command of the Mediterranean squadron 
in 1837. He was made a rear-admiral on 
the retired list on July 16, 1862. He died' 
Nov. 18, 1862, in Philadelphia. 

LAVELY, HENRY A., poet, was born 
Jan. 16, 1831, in Pittsburg, Pa. He is in 
the insurance business in Pittsburg, Pa.; 
and is the author of a volume of poems 
entitled The Heart’s Choice. 

LAVERY, CHARLES J., physician, sur¬ 
geon, editor, was born Feb. 5, 1867, in 
Clinton, N. Y. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the common 
schools of his county; attended the Ster¬ 
ling Medical college of Columbus, Ohio; 
and the College of Physicians and Sur¬ 
geons of Chicago. He has been superin¬ 
tendent of the Stanley county board of 
health since 1891; was coroner of that 
county in 1895-96; and since 1894 has 
been physician and surgeon to the Stan¬ 
ley County hospital of South Dakota. He 
has been a member of the South Dakota 
state central committee; and since 1894 
has been editor of Fairplay, a leading 
newspaper of Port Pierre, S. D. 

LAVRETTA, C. L., legislator, was born 
Jan. 6, 1858, in Mobile, Ala. In 1892 he 
was elected to the Alabama state legisla¬ 
ture from Mobile county; and in 1894 was 
elected mayor of Mobile. 

LAW, ANDREW, psalmodist, author, 
was born in 1748, in Cheshire, Conn. He 
published Musical Primer; A Collection of 
the Best and Most Approved Tunes and 
Anthems known to exist, which was sub¬ 
sequently combined with a second vol¬ 
ume entitled Christian Harmony; Orig¬ 
inal Collection of Music; and Rudiments 
of Music. He died in July, 1821, in Ches¬ 
hire, Conn. 

LAW, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in 1796 
in New London, Conn. He was elected 
a prosecuting attorney, and in 1823 a 
member of the Indiana legislature; was 
again elected attorney for his district, 
and held that position until promoted to 
a judgeship, which office he held by re- 
elections for eight years. He was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the court of land claims, 
to adjudicate the claims of the old inhab¬ 
itants of Indiana and Illinois, and was 
reappointed in 1856. In 1860 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Indiana to the 
thirty-seventh congress. He died Oct. 7, 
1873, in Evansville, Ind. 

LAW, JONATHAN, lawyer, jurist, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Aug. 6, 1674, in Milford, 
Conn. He was chosen deputy-governor 
of Connecticut in 1725. He was chief jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of the state from 
1725 to 1741; and governor from 1741 un¬ 
til his death. He died Nov. 6, 1750, in 
Connecticut. 

LAW, LYMAN, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Aug. 19, 1770, in 
New London, Conn. After serving in the 
legislature of Connecticut and being 
speaker of the house of representatives, 
he was elected to congress and served 
from 1811 to 1817. He died Feb. 3, 1842, 
in New London, Conn. 

LAW, RICHARD, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 17, 1733, in 
Milford, Conn. He was president judge 
of the county court of Connecticut and 
judge of the supreme court. He was a 
delegate to the continental congress from 
1777 to 1778, and also from 1781 to 1784. 
After the adoption of the federal constitu¬ 
tion he was appointed United States dis¬ 
trict judge, which office he held until his 
death. He died Jan. 26, 1806, in New 
London, Conn. 






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LAWLER, FRANK, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was horn June 25, 1842, in 
Rochester, N. Y. He was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the Chicago city council in 1870, 
and re-elected in 1878, 1880, 1882 and 1884. 
He was elected a representative from Illi¬ 
nois to the forty-ninth congress; and re¬ 
elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. He died in 1890 in 
Chicago, Ill. 

LAWLER, JOAB, clergyman, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born June 12, 
1796, in North Carolina. In 1826 he was 
elected to the lower house of the Ala¬ 
bama legislature; and was re-elected un¬ 
til 1831, in which year he was elected to 
the state senate. In 1832 he was appoint¬ 
ed receiver of public moneys for the Coosa 
land district, and held the office until 
1835. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Alabama from 1835 to 1838. He 
died May 8, 1838, in Washington, D. C. 
“■LAWLER, MICHAEL K„ soldier, was 
born about 1820 in Illinois. At the begin¬ 
ning of the civil war he joined the union 
army, and was commissioned colonel of 
the eighteenth Illinois infantry in 1861. 
He was made brigadier-general in 1863. 

"LAWLESS, JOSEPH THOMAS, lawyer, 
legislator, was born May 2, 1866, in Ports¬ 
mouth, Va. He received his education at 
the Webster Military institute of Nor¬ 
folk, Va.; graduated with the degree of 

M. A. from St. Mary’s college of Belmont, 

N. C.; and with the degree of B. L. from 
Richmond college, Va. He is a prominent 
lawyer of his native city; was journal 
clerk in the house of delegates of Vir¬ 
ginia in 1883-89; and was trustee of the 
public schools of Portsmouth. In 1889 
he was elected to the state senate of Vir¬ 
ginia, and served with distinction for four 
years. In 1893 he was elected secretary 
of the commonwealth, receiving the re- 
election without opposition in 1895, and 
again in 1897. 

LAWRANCE, JOHN, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born in 1750 in England. He 
was a United States senator from New 
York. He died in New York city. 

LAWRANCE, WILLIAM V., lawyer, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Nov. 10, 1834, in 
Greene county, Ohio. After receiving a 
liberal education he 
was admitted to the 
bar in 1860. The fol¬ 
lowing year he en¬ 
listed as a private 
soldier in the union 
army and served un¬ 
til the close of the 
war. In 1865 he be¬ 
gan the practice of 
his profession in 
Waverly, Ohio; and 
three years later set¬ 
tled permanently in 
Chillicothe. For several years he was 
assistant quartermaster-general of the de¬ 
partment of the Ohio Grand Army of the 
Republic. He is a successful lawyer and 
author of two volumes of verse entitled 
Ellina; and The Story of Judith; and he 
is also the author of several prose works. 

LAWRENCE, ABBOTT, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, philanthropist, was born Dec. 
16, 1792, in Groton, Mass. He served in 
the common council of Boston in 1831; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1835 to 1837, and again in 1839 and 1840. 
In 1842 he was appointed a commissioner 
to arrange the northeastern boundary 
question; and was a presidential elector 
in 1844. He founded a scientific school at 
Cambridge, and his gifts and bequests to 
various charitable and religious societies 
proved him to be a man of many noble 
qualities. He died Aug. 18, 1855, in Boston. 


LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS, mer¬ 
chant, was born July 31, 1814, in Boston, 
Mass. He was twice nominated by the 
whigs and unionists for governor of Mas¬ 
sachusetts. In the beginning of the civil 
war he aided in recruiting the second 
Massachusetts cavalry regiment. He built 
Lawrence hall, the Episcopal Theological 
school in Cambridge, and was its treas¬ 
urer for many years. He died Aug. 22, 
1886, in Nahant, Mass. 

LAWRENCE, CHARLES BRUSH, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Dec. 17, 1820, in Ver- 
gennes, Vt. In 1859 he was elected judge 
of the tenth circuit; and in 1864 was 
chosen to the supreme court of Illinois, 
where he was chief justice for three years. 
He died April 19, 1883, in Decatur, Ala. 

LAWRENCE, CORNELIUS VAN 
WYCK, lawyer, banker, congressman, was 
born Feb. 28, 1791, in Flushing, N. Y. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York city from 1832 to 1834; for two 
years succeeding was mayor of the city of 
New York; and in 1836 was president of 
the electoral college. For twenty years 
he held the honorable position of presi¬ 
dent of the bank of the state of New 
York. He died Feb. 20, 1861, in Flushing, 
N. Y. 

LAWRENCE, EUGENE, author, was 
born Oct. 10, 1823, in New York city. He 
was an historical writer of New York 
city; and the author of Lives of the Brit¬ 
ish Historians; Historical Studies; Es¬ 
says and Papers; Literature Primers; The 
Jews and their Persecutors; and Colum¬ 
bus and his Contemporaries. He died in 
1894. 

LAWRENCE, GEORGE V., agricultur¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was born 
in 1818 in Washington county, Pa. He 
was elected to the state legislature in 
1844, 1847, 1858 and 1859; and to the state 
senate in 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851 and 1860, 
officiating as speaker during the last term. 
He frequently served in the conventions 
of the state; and in 1864 was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
thirty-ninth congress. He was re-elected 
to the fortieth and forty-eighth congress¬ 
es as a republican. 

LAWRENCE, JAMES, naval officer, 
was born Oct. 1, 1781, in Burlington, N. J. 
He is remembered by every American as 
the author of those brave words: Don’t 
give up the ship. On this occasion he was 
wounded while commanding the United 
States frigate Chesapeake, and the en¬ 
gagement took place in 1814. He died 
June 6, 1815, at sea. 

LAWRENCE, JOHN W., congressman, 
was born in New York. He served two 
years in the assembly of that state from 
Queen’s county; and was a representative 
in congress from 1845 to 1847. 

LAWRENCE, JOSEPH, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1788 in Adams 
county, Pa. He served for nine years in 
the state legislature, two sessions as 
speaker, and one year as state treasurer. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1829, and again 
from 1841 until his death. He died April 
17, 1842, in Washington, D. C. 

LAWRENCE, MRS. MARGARET OLI¬ 
VER [WOODS], author, was born in 1813 
in Massachusetts. She is the author of 
Light on the Dark River; Fading Flow¬ 
ers; L’Esperance; The Tobacco Problem; 
and Marion Graham. 

LAWRENCE, PHILIP K., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. He was a citizen of Louisiana; and 
about the year 1838 was appointed United 
States judge for the two judicial districts 
of Louisiana, residing at New Orleans. 


LAWRENCE, SAMUEL, congressman, 
was born in New York. He served seven 
years in the assembly of that state; and 
was a representative in congress from 
1823 to 1825. 

LAWRENCE, SIDNEY, congressman, 
was born in Vermont. He removed to 
New York; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 
1847 to 1849. 

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM, merchant, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 2, 1814, in Washington, Ohio. He 
served in the Ohio legislature in 1843; 
was a presidential elector in 1848; a mem¬ 
ber of the constitutional convention of 
Ohio in 1850 and 1851; and state senator 
in 1856 and 1857. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative to the thirty-fifth congress. 

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, congressman, author, was 
born June 26, 1819, in Mount Pleasant, 
Ohio. In 1846 and 1847 he served in the 
Ohio state legislature; and in 1848 was 
a member of the senate. In 1853 he was 
again elected to the state senate, and was 
the author of the Ohio Free Banking Law. 
In 1856 he was’ elected a judge of the 
court of common pleas for five years; was 
re-elected in 1861, but resigned in 1864, 
when he was elected a representative 
from Ohio to the thirty-ninth congress. 
He was re-elected to the fortieth, forty- 
first, forty-third and forty-fourth con¬ 
gresses; and in 1880 was appointed first 
comptroller of the United States treas¬ 
ury. He has been president of the Belle- 
fontaine National bank since 1871. He 
is the author of Decisions of Ohio Su¬ 
preme Court; The Treaty Question; Law 
of Religious Societies and Religious Cor¬ 
porations; Law of Claims Against the Gov¬ 
ernment; Organization of the United 
States Treasury Department; and Deci¬ 
sions of the First Comptroller of the 
Treasury. 

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM, clergyman, 
bishop, author, was born in 1850 in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He is the seventh protestant 
episcopal bishop of Massachusetts; and 
the author of Life of Amos A. Lawrence; 
and Visions and Service, discourses in col¬ 
legiate chapels. 

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM BEACH, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, governor, was born 
Oct. 23, 1800, in New York city. He was 
lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island in 
1851 and 1852, and for a portion of the 
time acting governor. He was the author 
of an address before the New York Acad¬ 
emy of Fine Arts in 1826; of a transla¬ 
tion of Marbois’ History of Louisiana, 
with Essays and Notes, in 1830; Discourse 
before the New York Historical Society 
in 1832, of which society he was vice-pres¬ 
ident from 1836 to 1845. His other prin¬ 
cipal works are: Letters on the Treaty 
of Washington; an edition of Wheaton’s 
Elements of International Law; Visitation 
and Search; Institutions of the United 
States; Commentaire sur les elements du 
droit international; and Administration 
of Equity Jurisprudence. He died March 
26, 1881, in New York city. 

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM T„ soldier, 
merchant, lawyer, jurist, congressman, 
was born May 7, 1788, in New York city. 
He served in the war of 1812 as a militia 
captain of artillery. In 1838 he was 
chosen county judge of New York; and 
from 1847 to 1849 was a representative in 
congress. 

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM W., lawyer, 
jurist. He was an early emigrant to 
Florida; and was appointed judge of the 
United States district court of that state. 




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LAWRIE, ALEXANDER, artist, was 
born in 1828 in New York city. He has 
made upward of a thousand crayon heads, 
including likenesses of Richard H. Stod¬ 
dard and Thomas Buchanan Read. 

LAWS, GILBERT LAFAYETTE, sol¬ 
dier, manufacturer, journalist, congress¬ 
man, was born March 11, 1838, near 01- 
ney, Ill. In 1861 he enlisted in the fifth 
Infantry, Wisconsin volunteers; was 
wounded in the battle of Williamsburgh 
ir. 1862. He was appointed register of the 
United States land office at McCook, Neb., 
in 1883, and served in that official capa- 
city'till 1886. He was elected secretary of 
state in 1886, and re-elected in 1888. ' He 
was elected to the fifty-first congress to 
fill a vacancy. 

LAWSON, ALBERT GALLATIN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 5, 1842, in 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1866 he was elect¬ 
ed chaplain and grand worthy patriarch 
of the state of New Jersey. He is the 
author of The Threefold Cord; Methods 
of Church Temperance Work; Temper¬ 
ance Literature; Ambition in the Minis¬ 
try; and numerous other works. 

LAWSON, ALEXANDER, engraver, 
was born Dec. 19, 1772, in Scotland. His 
first important works were four plates for 
Thomson’s Seasons, executed for Thomas 
Dobson, bookseller, which attracted much 
favorable notice. He died Aug. 22, 1846, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

LAWSON, JAMES, journalist, author, 
was born Nov. 9, 1799, in Scotland. He 
was a New York city journalist; and the 
author of Tales and Sketches by a Cos¬ 
mopolite; Poems; and Giordana, a trag¬ 
edy. He died March 20, 1888, in Yonkers, 
N. Y. 

LAWSON, JOHN, surveyor, author, was 
born in England. He was the surveyor- 
general of North Carolina, and was 
burned at the stake by hostile Indians. 
His entertaining travels were published 
with the title of History of North Caro¬ 
lina. He died in 1712 on the River Neuse, 
N. C. 

LAW T SON, JOHN D., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 18, 1816, in 
Montgomery, N. Y. He was a merchant 
in New York for more than twenty-five 
years, and retired from business in 1868. 
He was a delegate to the national repub¬ 
lican conventions of 1868 and 1872; and 
was elected to the forty-third congress. 

LAWSON, JOHN W., soldier, physician, 
surgeon, state senator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 13, 1837, in James City county, 
Ya. He enlisted as a private soldier in 
the thirty-second regiment Virginia in¬ 
fantry. He then entered the medical de¬ 
partment Confederate States of America; 
and served as surgeon in charge of artil¬ 
lery battalion. He was elected to the 
house of delegates, and re-elected a sec¬ 
ond term. He was elected to the Virginia 
state senate and served four years; and 
was elected to the fifty-second congress as 
a democrat. 

LAWSON, LEONIDAS MOREAU, edu¬ 
cator, physician, author, was born Sept. 
10, 1812, in Nicholas county, Ky. He was 
the earliest writer of acknowledged abil¬ 
ity on medical subjects in the valley of 
the Mississippi. He published an edition 
of Dr. James Hope’s Morbid Anatomy; 
and Practical Treatise on Phthisis Pulmo- 
nalis, which was highly praised, and be¬ 
came a standard both in the United States 
and abroad. He died Jan. 24, 1864, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. 

LAWSON, LOUISE, artist, was born in 
1861 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Among her 
works are the Rhodian Boy; Avaconara; 
and II Pastore. 


LAWSON, MARTIN EMERT, educator, 
lawyer, was born May 15, 1867, near Mer- 
cersburg, Pa. He is a successful lawyer 
of Liberty, Mo.; has been curator of the 
Woodson institute of Richmond, Mo.; and 
is prominent in religious and educational 
circles of his county and state. 

LAWSON, MARY LOCKHART, poet, 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa. She pub¬ 
lished poems in the Knickerbocker and 
Graham’s Magazine that were character¬ 
ized by tender feeling and pleasing fancy. 
She occasionally wrote in the Scottish 
dialect. 

LAWSON, RICHARD FRANKLIN, 
journalist, poet, lecturer, was born May 
22, 1860, in Vandalia, Ill. He is the editor 
and owner of the Republican of Effing¬ 
ham, Ill.; and a poet ana lecturer well 
known in the west. 

LAWSON, THOMAS, soldier, surgeon, 
was born about 1781, in Virginia, He was 
brevetted brigaaier-general for meritor¬ 
ious conduct as chief medical officer of 
the United States forces in the Mexican 
war. He died May i5, 1861, in Norfolk, 
Va. 

LAWSON, THOMAS G., farmer, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born in 1848, in Putnam county, Ga. He 
was elected to the Georgia legislature in 
1861 and re-elected in 1863 and 1865. He 
was elected by the general assembly in 
1878 judge of the superior court of the 
Ocmulgee circuit, and re-elected without 
opposition in 1882; and in 1886 retired 
from the bench to his farm. He was 
elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and 
the fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat. 

LAWSON, VICTOR FREMONT, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Sept. 9, 1850, in Chicago. 
He is president and sole owner of the 
Daily News and the Record in Chicago, 
Ill. 

LAWTON, ALEXANDER ROBERT, 
soldier, lawyer, railroad president, state 
senator, was born about 1818, in Beaufort 
county, S. C. He was president of the Sa¬ 
vannah and Augusta railroad in 1849-54, 
and state senator in 1854-61. In 1861 he 
became brigadier-general in the provis¬ 
ional confederate army, and was put in 
command of the coast of Georgia. 

LAWTON, WILLIAM CRANSTON, ed¬ 
ucator, lecturer, author, was born in 1853, 
in Massachusetts. He is a classical teach¬ 
er and lecturer, formerly of Cambridge, 
now of Brooklyn, and professor in Adel- 
phi college there. He is the author of 
Three Dramas of Euripides; Folia Dis- 
persa, a book of verse; and Art and Hu¬ 
manity in Homer. 

LAWYER, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a member of the New York assem¬ 
bly from Schoharie county in 1816; and 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1817 to 1819. 

LAY, ALFRED MORRISON, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born May 20, 
1836, in Lewis county, Mo. He was ap¬ 
pointed United States attorney for the 
western district of Missouri. He resigned 
in 1861 and entered the confederate army, 
and served throughout the war, rising to 
the rank of major. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Missouri to the forty- 
sixth congress. He died Dec. 9, 1879. 

LAY, BENJAMIN, philanthropist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1681, in England. He 
was a benevolent and eccentric Quaker; 
and the author of several treatises and 
religious works, which were published by 
Benjamin Franklin. He died in 1760, 
near Abington, Pa. 

LAY, GEORGE W., lawyer, legislator, 
congressman, was born July 27, 1798, in 
Catskill, N. Y. In 1833 he was elected 
to the assembly of New York; and to 


congress in 1S33-37. He died Oct. 21, 1860, 
in Batavia, N. Y. 

LAY, HENRY CHAMPLIN, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 6, 1823, in Richmond, 
Va. He was the first protestant epis¬ 
copal bishop of Easton (Maryland), but 
from 1859 to 1869 the third bishop of Ar¬ 
kansas. He was the author of Studies 
in the Church; and The Church ana the 
Nation. He died Sept. 17, 1885, in Easton, 
Md. 

LAY, JAMES H., lawyer, legislator, jur¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 18, 1844, in Benton 
county, Mo. In 1875 and 1883 he was a 
member of the Missouri house of repre¬ 
sentatives from Warsaw. He was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the circuit court in 1891 
to fill a vacancy, and was elected to that 
office in 1892. 


LAY, JOHN L., civil engineer, invent¬ 
or, was born Jan. 14, 1832, in Buffalo, 
N. Y. In 1867 he invented the submarine 
torpedo that bears his name, which has 
since become the property of the United 
States government. 

LAY, OLIVER INGRAHAM, artist, was 
born in 1845, in New York city. His 
works include portraits of Edwin Booth 
as Hamlet, Cyrus W. Field, Miss Fidelia 
Bridges, Henry A. Ferguson, and Wins¬ 
low Homer, N. A.; Watching the Snow; 
and The Two Friends. 


LAYNG, JAMES D., civil engineer, rail¬ 
road president, was born Aug. 30, 1833, 
in Columbia, Pa. In 1849 he graduated 
from the Western university of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; and has attained prominence as a 
civil engineer and railway manager, with 
headquarters in New York city. He has 
been chief engineer and superintendent of 
the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. 
Louis railway; general manager of the 
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago rail¬ 
way company; and president of the Cleve¬ 
land, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianap¬ 
olis Railway company. He is now second 
vice-president and general manager of the 
West Shore Railway company; and vice- 
president of the Cleveland, Columbus, 
Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway com¬ 
pany. 


LAYTON, FERNANDO C., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was uorn April 11, 1847, in 
Anglaize county, Ohio. He was a county 
school examiner for 
several years; and 
was prosecuting at¬ 
torney during 1875- 
78. In 1863 he was 
captain of the Home 
guax-d; was captain 
of company G, Ohio 
national guard dur¬ 
ing 1878-83; and cap¬ 
tain of the Knights of 
Pythias during 1886- 
91. In 1890 he was 
elected to the fifty- 
second congress as a democrat; and 
was re-elected to the fifty-third and fifty- 
fourth congresses. He declined a fourth 
term, and settled down to the practice of 
law in Wapakoneta, Ohio. 



LAZARUS, EMMA, poet, was born July 
22, 1849, in New Yoi'k city. She was a 
talented Jewish writer of New York city 
who wrote much in verse and prose for 
the Century and other periodicals. She 
was the author of Alide, an Episode of 
Goethe’s Life; Poems; Admetus, and 
Other Poems; Songs of a Semite; and 
Poems and Ballads Translated from 
Heine. She died Nov. 19, 1887, in New 
York city. 


LAZARUS, JOSEPHINE, author. She 
is the author of The Spirit of Judaism; 
and The Love-Letters of a Portuguese 
Nun, a ti’anslation from the Fi - ench. 


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LAZEAR, JESSE, congressman, was 
born Dec. 12, 1804, in Greene county, Pa. 
In 1860 he was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the thirty-seventh 
congress; and in 1862 was re-elected to 
the thirty-eighth congress. 

LAZELLE, HENRY MARTYN, soldier, 
author, was born Sept. 8, 1882, in Enfield, 
Mass. He is a United States army of¬ 
ficer, since 1887 in charge of the bureau 
of war records, and the author of One 
Law in Nature; ana Improvements in the 
Art of War. 

LAZENBY, WILLIAM RANE, horticul¬ 
turist, educator, was born Dec. 5, 1852, in 
Benton, N. Y. In 1881 he was called to 
the chair of botany and horticulture in 
the Ohio state university, and in 1883 he 
received the additional appointment of 
director of the Ohio experiment station. 

LEA, HENRY CHARLES, journalist, 
publisher, author, was born Sept. 19, 1825, 
in Philadelphia. He is a prominent writer 
and publisher of Philadelphia, and the au¬ 
thor of Superstition and Force; An His¬ 
torical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in 
the Christian Church; Chapters from the 
Religious History of Spain; Studies in 
Church History; Translations and Other 
Rhymes; and History of the Inquisition. 

LEA, ISAAC, journalist, naturalist, 
author, was born March 4, 1792, in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. He was a publisher and 
naturalist of Philadelphia, and the author 
of Contributions to Geology; observa¬ 
tions on the Genus Unio, in thirteen vol¬ 
umes; and Fossil Footmarks in the Rea 
Sandstones of Pottsvme. He died Dec. 
8, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LEA, JOHN M., lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, was born Dec. 25, 1818, in Knox¬ 
ville, Tenn. He was appointed United 
States district attorney in 1842; and in 
1850 elected mayor of Nashville. He ac¬ 
cepted the appointment of judge of the 
circuit court of Tennessee. In 1875 he was 
elected to the Tennessee state senate, 
where he opposed every suggestion for re¬ 
pudiation of the public debt. He is presi¬ 
dent of the Tennessee historical society. 

LEA, LUKE, soldier, congressman, was 
born Jan. 26, 1782, in Surry county, N. C. 
He served gallantly in Florida and in the 
Creek county under General Jackson in 
the Indian wars. He was a representative 
in congress from Tennessee from 1833 to 
1837. For thirty years he discharged the 
duties of cashier of the state bank, and 
register of the state land office of Ten¬ 
nessee. He died June 17, 1851, near Fort 
Leavenworth, Kan. 

LEA, MATTHEW CArtEY, chemist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 18, 1823, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is a chemist of Philadel¬ 
phia whose Manual of Photography is a 
standard work. 

LEA, PRYOR, soldier, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1794, in Knox county, 
Tenn. He served in the Creek war 
in 1813. He was United States district at¬ 
torney in 1824; and was a representative 
in congress from Tennessee from 1827 to 
1831. In 1837 he moved to Jackson, Miss.; 
and in 1847 to Goliad, Texas. He project¬ 
ed the work called the Central Transit, 
for building a railroad from Arkansas 
Bay to Mazatlan; and was president of 
the company. 

LEA, SUMTER, soldier, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Feb. 16, 1835, in Marion, 
Ala. He attended the university of Ala¬ 
bama; and has attained success as one of 
the leading lawyers of his native state. 
He was a member of the constitutional 
convention; served with distinction as a 
member of the Alabama state legislature; 
and during the war was a staff officer in 
the confederate army. 


LEACH, ANTOINETTE DAKIN, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, was born April 3, 1859, in 
Indianapolis, Ind. During 1875-79 she 
was a teacher in the 
public schools of her 
native state; and 
during 1887-93 was a 
court reporter and 
teacher of stenog¬ 
raphy. By decision 
of the supreme court 
of Indiana she was 
granted permission 
to practice law in 
1893; and she has 
since attained suc¬ 
cess in her chosen 
profession in Sullivan, Ind. In 1896 she 
was a delegate to the democratic state 
convention; and was the first woman 
delegate who ever attended a democratic 
state convention in Indiana; as she also 
was the first woman ever admitted to the 
bar in her state. She is the wife of George 
W. Leach, a successful farmer and stock 
breeder. 



LEACH, DE WITT C., state librarian, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 23, 1822, in Clarence, N. Y. He was 
chosen a member of the Michigan legisla¬ 
ture in 1849; and was state librarian in 
1855 and 1856. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative to the thirty-fifth congress 
from Michigan; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-sixth congress. 

LEACH, FRANK WILLING, lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 26, 1855, in Cape 
May, N. J. He is a successful lawyer of 
Philadelphia, Pa., and the author of The 
Signers of tne Declaration of Independ¬ 
ence: Their Ancestors and Descendants. 

LEACH, JAMES MADISON, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born in 1824 in Landsdowne, N. C. He 
served ten years in the legislature of 
North Carolina; and in 1856 was a presi¬ 
dential elector. In 1850 he was elected 
a representative from that state to the 
thirty-sixth congress. He served in the 
confederate army; and was in the confed¬ 
erate congress. He was elected to the 
state senate after the rebellion, and was 
elected to the forty-second and forty- 
third congresses as a conservative. 

LEADBETTER, D. P., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He moved to 
Ohio; and was elected a representative in 
congress from 1837 to 1841. 

LEAKE, SHELTON F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 30, 1812, in 
Albemarle county, Va. In 1842 he was 
elected to the Virginia house of delegates; 
and was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1845 to 1847. He was a 
presidential elector in 1849; in 1851 was 
elected lieutenant-governor of Virginia; 
and was a candidate for governor in 1854, 
but was defeated. In 1859 he was elected 
to the federal house of representatives 
for the thirty-sixth congress. He took 
part in the rebellion. 

LEAKE, WALTER, soldier, governor, 
United States senator, was born about 
1780, in Virginia. He was a soldier in the 
revolutionary war. He served as senator 
of the United States from 1817 to 1820; 
and in 1821 was elected governor of Mis¬ 
sissippi. He died Nov. 17, 1825, in Mount 
Salus, Miss. 

LEAMING, JEREMIAH, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1717, in Middletown! 
Conn. He was an episcopal clergyman of 
Connecticut, and the author of Defense of 
Episcopal Government; Evidences of the 
Truth of Christianity; and Dissertations. 
He died in September, 1804, in New 
haven, Conn. 


LEAMING, THOMAS, soldier, patriot, 
was born Aug. 20, 1748. He possessed a 
large landed estate in New Jersey; and 
was a member of the convention of 1776 
to frame a constitution for that state and 
declare its independence. He died in 
1797, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LEARNED, AMASA, congressman, was 
born Nov. 15, 1750, in Killingly, Conn. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Connecticut from 1801 to 1805; and in 
1818 was a member of the state constitu¬ 
tional convention. 

LEARNED, WALTER, author, poet, 
was born June 22, 1847, in New London, 
Conn. He is a poet of New London who 
has published Be¬ 
tween Times, a col¬ 
lection of poems; 
and translated Ten 

Tales from Coppee. 
He has also contrib¬ 
uted extensively on 
various subjects to 
the leading news¬ 

papers and maga¬ 
zines of the United 
States; and his 
poems have been 
given a place in a 
number of standard collections. 

LEARNED, WILLIAM LAW, lawyer, 

jurist, was born July 24, 1821, in New 

London, Conn. He entered into the active 
practice of law in Albany, N. Y., and has 
been presiding justice of the supreme 
court of New York state. 

LEARY, CORNELIUS L., business man, 
congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1813, in 
Baltimore, Md. In 1856 he was a presi¬ 
dential elector; and in 1861 was elected 
a representative from Maryland to the 
thirty-seventh congress. 

LEARY, JAMES DANIEL, was born 
Sept. 25, 1837, in New Yanda, Canada. 
The total number of vessels built by Mr. 

Leary is about three 
hundred and ninety. 

A large plant has 
come into existence 
for the performance 
of this work, the ship 
and lumber yards 
combined having a 
water front of one 
thousand one hun¬ 
dred feet, and cover¬ 
ing an area of four 
city blocks. He also 
devoted himself to 
the construction of improvements and 
public works. He has built water bat¬ 
teries. piers and dikes and dredged har¬ 
bors for the United States government. 
Since 1882 he has been largely occupied 
with contract work along the Harlem 
river. 

LEARY, ROSS, journalist, was born in 
1861, in Chowan county, N. C. He has 
been president of the Farmers’ Alliance 
of his county; and is the editor and own¬ 
er of the Blackwater Courier of Franklin, 
Va., where he is prominently identified 
with the public affairs of his county and 
state. 

LEAVENWORTH, ELIAS WARNER, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Dec. 20, 1803, in Canaan, N. Y. He 
was a member of the state legislature in 
1835 from Syracuse, N. Y.; and in 1836 
was appointed brigadier-general of the 
state artillery. He was mayor of Syra¬ 
cuse from 1849 to 1859; a member of the 
legislature from 1850 to 1857; and secre¬ 
tary of state in 1854 and 1855. He was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-fourth congress. He died 
Nov. 25, 1887, in Syracuse, N. Y. 








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LEAVENWORTH, HENRY, soldier 
was born Dec. 10, 1783, in New Haven! 
Conn. He was a general in the war of 
1812. He established several military 
posts on the frontier, one of which formed 
the nucleus of the present flourishing city 
of Leavenworth, Kan. He died July 21 
1834, in Cross Timbers, I. T. 

LEAVITT, DUDLEY, almanac maker, 
was born May 23, 1772, in Exeter, N. H. 
He was known throughout his native 
state as Old Master Leavitt, and made its 
almanacs for over half a century. He 
also edited the Gilmanton Gazette and 
New Hampshire Register. He died Sept. 
15, 1851, in Meredith, N. H. 

LEA\ITT, E. BRADFORD, clergyman, 
theologian, was born June 4, 1868, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. For several years he was pas¬ 
tor of the Unitarian church of Brattleboro, 
Vt.; and is now the popular pastor of All 
Souls’ church of Washington, D. C. 

LEAVITT, HUMPHREY HOWE, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state senator, congressman, 
was born June 18, 1796, in Suffieid, Conn. 
He served in the state legislature in 1825 
and 1826; and in the senate in 1827. He 
was a representative in congress from 
1831 to 1834; and was for many years 
judge of the district court of Ohio.' He 
died in March, 1873, in Springfield, Ohio. 

LEAVITT, JOHN McDOWELL, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born May 10, 1824, 
in Steubenville, Ohio. He was an episco¬ 
pal clergyman, and the author of Faith, 
a poem; Afranius; The Siege of Babylon, 
a tragedy; Hymns to Our King; New 
World Tragedies from Old World Life; 
Reasons for Faith; and Visions of So- 
lyma. He died in 1888. 

LEAVITT, JOSHUA, reformer, author, 
was born Sept. 8, 1794, in Heath, Mass. 
He organized one of the first Sabbath- 
schools in western Massachusetts. He 
prepared a new reading book, called Easy 
Lessons in Reading. He died Jan. 16, 
1873, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 



LEAVITT, MARY A., poet, was born 
in Vernon, Ind. She is the daughter of il¬ 
lustrious parentage. Her father. Dr. Ezra 
Fitch Peabody, be¬ 
ing a direct descend¬ 
ant of John Alden 
and Priscilla Mul¬ 
lins, the story of 
whose courtship and 
marriage Longfel¬ 
low has immortal¬ 
ized in the Court¬ 
ship of Miles Stand- 
ish. She is the au¬ 
thor of a volume of 
poems; and temper¬ 
ance and missions 
have especially enlisted her voice and 
pen. She is the wife of Robert Leavitt, 
a prominent merchant of Vernon, Ind. 


LEAVITT, MARY CLEMENT, educator, 
lecturer, was born Sept. 22, 1830, in Hop- 
kinton, N. H. She is a successful lecturer 



young ladies and 
where she was als 
singer. 


on temperance, mis¬ 
sions, white cross, 
equal suffrage, trav¬ 
els, and other sub¬ 
jects; and her great 
work has been in or¬ 
ganizing the World’s 
Woman’s Christian 
Temperance union; 
of which she is the 
honorary life presi¬ 
dent. For twenty 
years she taught her 
own school for 
children in Boston, 
i a salaried church 


37 


LEA VIIT, SAMUEL, author. He is a 
journalist of Joliet, Ill.; and the author of 
Dictator Grant; Our Money Wars; and 
other works on economy. 

LEAVITT, SAMUEL DEAN, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 12, 1837, 
in Eastport, Maine, which has always 
been his place of 
residence. He re¬ 
ceived a liberal ed¬ 
ucation in the com¬ 
mon schools and at 
Franklin and 
Dunne’s academy. In 
1861 he was admit¬ 
ted to the bar; and in 
October of the same 
year raised a com¬ 
pany and was com¬ 
missioned first lieu¬ 
tenant of company 
A, fifteenth regiment Maine volunteer in¬ 
fantry, and served with his regiment in 
the department of the Gulf. He served as 
judge advocate on General Chamberlain’s 
staff. In 1873 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive to the Maine state legislature, and 
received the re-election for a second term. 
In 1879 he was elected adjutant-general 
of the state. In 1876 he was a delegate at 
large to the national convention that 
nominated Tilden. In 1886 he was ap¬ 
pointed collector of customs. In 1893 he 
was instrumental in making Eastport a 
city, and was elected its first mayor. In 
1895 he was appointed a commissioner 
to codify the laws for the national guard; 
was a commissioner to the Mexican expo¬ 
sition; is a prominent member of several 
fraternal orders; and has always been 
prominently identified with the public af¬ 
fairs of his city, county and state. 

LE BLOND, FRANCIS C., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Ohio. In 1851 he 
was elected for two years to the Ohio 
state legislature; was re-elected in 1853, 
and served as speaker of that body. In 
1862 was elected a representative from 
Ohio to the thirty-eighth congress; and 
was re-elected to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress. 

LE CLAIR, JOSEPH CLARENCE, law¬ 
yer, was born Sept. 12, 1871, in Green Bay, 
Wis. After receiving a liberal educa¬ 
tion, he was admitted to the bar; and has 
since attained success as an able lawyer 
in his native city. 

LECOMPTE, JOSEPH, congressman, 
was born in Woodford county, Ky. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1825 to 1833. 

LECOMPTE, SAMUEL D., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born in Maryland. He was ap¬ 
pointed chief justice of the Unite'd States 
court for the territory of Kansas; and 
took a leading part in the affairs of that 
territory. 

LE CONTE, JOHN, physician, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 4, 1818, in Lib¬ 
erty county, Ga. He was a naturalist and 
physician; president of the university of 
California in 1875-81; and professor of 
physics there before and after his presi¬ 
dency. He was the author of Philosophy 
of Medicine; Study of the Physical Sci¬ 
ences; and Vital Statistics. He died in 
1891. 

LE CONTE, JOHN EATON, civil engi¬ 
neer, naturalist, author, was born Feb. 
22, 1784, near Shrewsbury, N. J. He is a 
naturalist who in early life served in the 
corps of army engineers with the rank of 
major. He was the author of Monographs 
of North American Species of Utricularia, 
Gratiola, and Ruellia; and North Amer¬ 
ican Species of Viola. He died Nov. 21, 
1860, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


LE CONTE, JOHN LAWRENCE, ento¬ 
mologist, author, was born May 13, 1825, 
in New York city. He was an entomolo¬ 
gist of distinction; and the author of 
List of Coleoptera of North America, and 
other technical publications. He died 
Nov. 15, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LE CONTE, JOSEPH, educator, geol¬ 
ogist, scientist, was born Feb. 26, 1823, in 
Liberty county, Ga. Le Conte is distin¬ 
guished in the an¬ 
nals of American 
science; and has 
served as president 
of the American As¬ 
sociation for the Ad¬ 
vancement of Sci¬ 
ence. In 1851, in 
company with Agas¬ 
siz, he studied the 
keys and reefs of 
Florida. During 
1852-56 he filled the 
chair of geology and 
natural history in the university of Geor¬ 
gia; when he was called to the chair of 
chemistry and geology in the South Caro¬ 
lina college; and has since been connect¬ 
ed with many institutions of learning. In 
1857 he delivered lectures on Coal and on 
Coral Reefs before the Smithsonian insti¬ 
tution. He is the author of Elements of 
Geology, a text booa: for colleges and for 
the general reader; and a dozen other 
works on kinared topics. Besides geol¬ 
ogy, he has devoted his attention very 
largely to the pnenomena and theory of 
binocular vision; and during 1869-77 pub¬ 
lished various investigations on that sub¬ 
ject. He is also the author of two vol¬ 
umes of essays; and his latest book is 
entitled Evolution and Its Relation to 
Religious Thought. He is now connected 
with the university of California. 

LE CONTE, LEWIS, naturalist, was 
born Aug. 4, 1782, near Shrewsbury, N. J. 
He established a botanical garden on his 
plantation in Georgia, which was espec¬ 
ially rich in bulbous plants irom the Cape 
of Good Hope, and a laboratory in which 
he tested the discoveries of the chemists 
of the day. He died Jan. 9, 1838, in Lib¬ 
erty county, Ga. 

LE COUNT, JAMES M., journalist, 
poet, was born Sept. 24, 1835, in Lyons, 
N. Y. Since 1876 he has been the editor 
and owner of the Press of Hartford, Wis. 
He is the author of a volume of poems 
entitled The Hermit of Holy Hill. 

LE DUC, WILLIAM GATES, soldier, 
railroad builder, was born March 29, 1823, 
in Wilkesville, Ohio. At the breaking out 
of the civil war he entered the union 
army as captain and assistant quarter¬ 
master; joined the army of the Tennes¬ 
see, where he became chief quartermas¬ 
ter; and was promoted to brevet briga¬ 
dier-general. He was appointed commis¬ 
sioner of agriculture at Washington, in. 
which position he served four years. 

LEDYARD, HENRY, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born March 3, 1812, in New 
York city. He was a member of the 
Michigan state senate in 1857-58; and sub¬ 
sequently was assistant secretary of state 
at Washington, D. C. He died in 1880, in 
London, England. 

LEDYARD, HENRY BROCKHOLST, 
railroad president, was born Feb. 20, 1844, 
in France. In 1883 he became president 
of the Michigan Central railroad at De¬ 
troit. 

LEDYARD, JOHN, traveler, was born 
in 1751, in Groton, Conn. He fitted him¬ 
self for a missionary to the Indians; but 
subsequently embarked with Captain 
Cook on his last voyage around the world. 
He died Jan. 17, 1789, in Cairo, Egypt. 









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LEE, ALBERT LINDLEY, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Jan. 16, 1834, in Ful¬ 
ton, N. Y. He removed to Kansas, where 
he was judge of the state supreme court 
in 1861. He became major of the seventh 
Kansas cavalry in that year; and was 
commissioned brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers. 

LEE, ALFRED, bishop, author, was 
born Sept. 9, 1807, in Cambridge, Mass. 
He was the first protestant episcopal 
bishop of Delaware, and prominent as a 
low churchman. He was the author oi 
The Harbinger of Christ; Life of St. 
Peter; Eventful Nights in Bible History; 
Life of St. John; and Treatise on Bap¬ 
tism. He died April 12, 1887, in Wilming¬ 
ton, Del. 

LEE, ANDREW, clergyman, author, 
was born May 7, 1745, in Lyme, Conn. 
Among his publications are nn Inquiry 
Whether it be the Duty of Man to be Will¬ 
ing to Suffer Damnation for the Divine 
Glory; The Declensions of Christianity 
an Argument for Its Truth; and Sermons 
on Various Important Subjects. He died 
Aug. 25, 1832, in Lisbon, Conn. 

LEE, ANN, was born Feb. 22, 1736, in 
England. She was the founder ot the 
religion of the so-called Shakers. She 
died Sept. 8, 1784, in Watervliet, N. Y. 

LEE, ARTHUR, congressman, was born 
Dec. 20, 1740, in Stratford, Va. In 1781 he 
was elected to the assembly of Virginia, 
but was immediately chosen a delegate 
to the continental congress, where he re¬ 
mained until 1785. He was appointed 
secretary of the treasury, which office he 
held until 1789. He died Dec. 12, 1792, in 
Urbana, Va. 

LEE, BENJAMIN, physician, author, 
was born Sept. 26, 1833, in Norwich, Conn. 
He is a physician of Philadelphia, and 
the author of Treatment for Angular Cur¬ 
vature of the Spine; and Tracts on Mas¬ 
sage. 

LEE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Sept. 18, 1841, in 
Gouldtown, N. J. He was a methodist 
clergyman of African birth; president of 
Wilberforce university since 1876, and the 
author of Wesley the Worker; and 
Causes of the Success of Methodism. 

LEE, CHARLES, lawyer, state legisla¬ 
tor, was born in 1758, in Virginia. He 
was a member of the Virginia state legis¬ 
lature; and was appointed attorney-gen¬ 
eral of the United States in 1795, serving 
until 1801. He died June 24, 1815, in 
Farquhar county, Va. 

LEE, CHARLES ALFRED, physician, 
author, was born Marcn 3, 1810, in Salis¬ 
bury, Conn. He was a physician of New 
York city who published Elements of 
Geology for Popular Use; and Human 
Physiology. He died Feb. 4, 1872, in 
Peekskill, N. Y. 

LEE, CHARLES ARNOLD, journalist, 
state legislator, was born Dec. 14, 1845, 
in Pawtucket, R. I. Since 1878 he has 
been editor and proprietor of the Rhode 
Island Gazette and Chronicle. In 1880 and 
1881 he was a member of the Rhode Is¬ 
land assembly. 

LEE, CHARLES STEPHEN, soldier, 
farmer, merchant, legislator, was born 
Feb. 3, 1834, in Greensboro, Ga. He has ' 
filled numerous public offices of trust; 
was a member of the Alabama state legis¬ 
lature in 1872-73; and in 1896 was elected 
a state senator from the twenty-first dis¬ 
trict. During the w T ar he served as second 
lieutenant of the first Alabama cavalry, 
and was afterward transferred to the 
sixth Alabama cavalry, and made captain 
of company A. He is a successful farmer 
and merchant of Brewton, Ala.; and al¬ 
though he was admitted to the bar, never 
practiced that profession to any extent. 


LEE, CHAUmCEi, clergyman, author, 
was born July 10, 1718, in Coventry, Conn. 
He was skilled in music, composed verses, 
and was a classical scholar. His publica¬ 
tions include an arithmetic; a Poetical 
Version of the Book of Job; Sermons for 
Revivals; and Letters from Aristarchus 
to Philemon. He died Nov. 5, 1842, in 
Hartwick, N. Y. 

LEE, DAY KELLOGG, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept, i.0, 1816, in Sempron- 
ius, N. Y. He was a universalist clergy¬ 
man of New York city, and the author of 
Summerfield, or Life on a Farm; Master 
Builders, or Life at a Trade; and Merri¬ 
mack, or Life at a uoom. He died June 
2, 1869, in New York city. 

LEE, ELEANOR P., poet, was born in 
1817, near Natchez, miss. She became a 
noted poet of the south. She died in 1849. 

LEE, MRS. ELIZA (BUCKMINSTER), 
author, was born in 1794, in Portsmouth, 
N. H. She was the author of Life of 
Richter; Sketches of a New England Vil¬ 
lage; Naomi; Florence, the Parish Or¬ 
phan; and Parthenia, or the Last Days 
of Paganism. She died June 22, 1864, in 
Brookline, Mass. 

LEE, FITZHUGH, soldier, governor, 
was born Nov. 19, 1835, in Clermont, Va. 
At the commencement of the civil war 
he joined the confederate army; and was 
at once appointed adjutant-general of a 
brigade; was soon promoted a major- 
general. In 1885 he was elected governor 
of the state of Virginia. In 1896-98 he 
was United States consul-general at Ha¬ 
vana. 

LEE, FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT, signer of 
the Declaration of Independence, was 
born Oct. 24, 1734, in Stratford, Va. In 
1765 and 1766 he was elected to the house 
of burgesses, and was a strong advocate 
of equal rights. He was a delegate to the 
continental congress from 1775 to 1780; 
and signed the Declaration of Independ¬ 
ence, and also the articles of confedera¬ 
tion. He also served in the state legis¬ 
lature. He died April 3, 1797, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. 

LEE, GEORGE WASHINGTON CUS- 
TIS, soldier, educator, college president, 
was born Sept. 16, 1832, in Fortress Mon¬ 
roe, Va. After re¬ 
ceiving a liberal ed¬ 
ucation he was given 
an appointment to 
the United States 
military academy of 
West Point, from 
which institution he 
graduated in 1854. 
He was then as¬ 
signed to the corps 
of engineers, United 
States army, with 
the rank of brevet 
second lieutenant; and in due course of 
time became first lieutenant. In 1861 he 
was appointed aide-de-camp to the presi¬ 
dent of the southern confederacy, with 
the rank of colonel; in 1863 was made 
brigadier-general; and in 1864 he was 
made major-general. In 1865 he was ap¬ 
pointed to the chair of civil and military 
engineering at the Virginia military in¬ 
stitute of Lexington, Va. He held that 
office until 1871, since which time he has 
filled the duties of president of the Wash¬ 
ington and Lee university. 

LEE, GIDEON, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born April 27, 1778, in Amherst, 
Mass. He was at one time mayor of 
New York. He was a presidential elect¬ 
or; and was a member of congress dur¬ 
ing the years 1836 and 1837. He died 
Aug. 21, 1841, in Geneva, N. Y. 


LEE, MRS. HANNAH FARNHAM 
(SAWYER), author, was born in 1780, in 
Newburyport, Mass. She was a promi¬ 
nent writer of Boston; and the author of 
Grace Seymour; Luther arid His Times; 
Sculpture and Sculptors; Three Experi¬ 
ments in Living, which was extraordinar¬ 
ily popular both in America and England; 
Familiar Sketches of the Old Painters; 
The Huguenots in France and America; 
and Memoir of Pierre Toussaint. She 
died Dec. 27, 1865, in Boston, Mass. 

LEE, HENRY, soldier, statesman, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 29, 1756, in Leesyl- 
vania, Va. He was appointed a captain 
of cavalry, and in 1777 joined the main 
army; and was soon promoted to tue 
rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1786 he 
was appointed a delegate in congress 
from Virginia, in which body he remained 
until the constitution was adopted. In 
1791 he was chosen governor of Virginia. 
He was a member of congress at the pe¬ 
riod of Washington’s death; and in 1799 
was appointed by congress to deliver a 
eulogy on the occasion, in which occurred 
the words: First in war, first in peace, 
and first in the hearts of his countrymen. 
He published Memoirs of the War in 
the Southern Departments of the United 
States. He died March 25, 1816. 

LEE, HENRY, pioneer, lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, was born in 1758, in Virginia. 
He was a member of the Virginia legis¬ 
lature from the district of Kentucky; and 
also of the convention that adopted the 
constitution of the United States. He was 
appointed judge of the quarter sessions 
and associate judge of the circuit court 
for Mason county, Ky. He died in 1846, in 
Mason county, Ky. 

LEE, HENRY, author, was born in 
1786, in Westmoreland county, Va. He 
was a Virginia writer who published The 
Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas; and 
Life of Napoleon. He died Jan. 30, 1837, 
in Paris, France. 

LEE, HENRY B.. congressman, was 
born Sept. 2, 1817, in Boston, Mass. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the fifteenth congress, but died 
before taking his seat. 

LEE, HENRY WASHINGTON, protest¬ 
ant episcopal bishop, was born July 29, 

1815. in Hamden, Conn. He was elected 
first bishop of Iowa in 1854. He died Sept. 
26, 1874, in Davenport, Iowa. 

^LEE, JAMES, merchant, was born in 
L95, in Scotland. He was for a long time 
connected with the New York Society li¬ 
brary, and Brown’s statue of Washington 
on Union square was erected mainly 
through his instrumentality. He died 
June 16, 1874, in New York city. 

LEE, JAMES G. C., soldier, was born 
Aug. 12. 1836, in Hamilton, Canada. He 
served in the army all through the war 
of the rebellion, including the battle of 
Gettysburg: and is now lieutenant-colonel 
and deputy quartermasier-general of the 
United States army. 

LEE, JESSE, missionary, author, was 
born March 12, 1758, in Prince George 
county, Va. He was a methodist mission¬ 
ary, called the Apostle of Methodism, 
who published a History of Methodism, 
which is a valuable record of the early 
years of that faith. He died Sept. 12, 

1816, in Baltimore, Md. 

LEE, JOHN, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Mary¬ 
land from 1823 to 1825. 

LEE. JOSHUA, legislator, congressman, 
was born in New York. He served three 
years in the legislature of that state 
from Ontario and Yates counties; and 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1835 to 1837. 




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LEE. LUTHER, clergyman, author, was 
born Nov. 30, 1800, in Schoharie, N, Y. 
He was a Wesleyan clergyman of Michi¬ 
gan; and the author of Universalism Ex¬ 
amined and Refuted; Church Polity Im¬ 
mortality of the Soul; Slavery in the 
Light of the Bible; and Elements of The¬ 
ology. He died in 1889. 

LEE, M. LINDLEY, physician, state 
senator, congressman, was born May 29, 
1805, in Minisink, N. Y. During 1840-44 
he was postmaster of Fulton, N. Y.; in 
1846-47 he was a member of the state 
assembly; and in 1855 was a member of 
the state senate. In 1858 he was elected a 
representative to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress. 

LEE, MRS. MARY CATHERINE [JEN¬ 
KINS], author, was born in Massachu¬ 
setts. She is a novelist of Springfield, 
Mass.; and the author of A Quaker Girl 
of Nantucket; In the Cheering-Up Busi¬ 
ness; and A Soulless Singer. 

LEE, MARY ELIZABETH, author, 
poet, was born March 23, 1813, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. She was a writer of Charles¬ 
ton; and the author of Historical Tales 
for Youth; and a volume of Poems issued 
in 1851 with memoir by S. Gilman. She 
died Sept. 23, 1849, in Charleston, S. C. 

LEE, RICHARD BLAND, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Virginia from 
1789 to 1795. He died in 1827. 

LEE, RICHARD H., soldier, physician, 
jurist, was born Aug. 31, 1825, in Tennes¬ 
see. During the Mexican war he served as 
a private soldier; and in 1848 settled in 
Kanawha county, W. Va. During the 
civil war he served as captain in com¬ 
pany A, eighth regiment Virginia in¬ 
fantry; and also in the seventh regiment 
West Virginia cavalry. For four years 
he was one of the judges of the county 
court; was magistrate for seventeen 
years; and has been president of the 
board of education of St. Albans for the 
past thirty years. 

LEE, RICHARD HENRY, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born 
Jan. 20, 1732, in Stratford, Va. He was a 
member of the first congress in 1774. In 
accordance with instructions from the Vir¬ 
ginia convention, he first proposed in 
congress a declaration of independence, 
June 7, 1776, and a committee was ap¬ 
pointed to prepare it. He was a signer 
of the adopted declaration of independ¬ 
ence, and of the articles of confederation. 
After the adoption of the articles of con¬ 
federation he withdrew from congress, 
but was re-elected in 1784, and chosen 
president of that body, serving till 1787. 
He was a senator in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1789 to 1792. He died June 9, 
1794, in Chantilly, Va. 

LEE, ROBERT EDWARD, soldier, was 
born Jan. 19, 1806, in Stratford, Va. He 
was the celebrated confederate general of 
the civil war. He 
was the son of Gen¬ 
eral Henry Lee, of 
the revolution, often 
called Light-Horse 
Harry, and married 
the daughter of the 
adopted son of Gen- 
e r a 1 Washington. 
After an arduous 
struggle as major- 
general of the con- 
federate forces, 
which as a Virginian 
he felt bound to lead, he surrendered to 
Grant, April 9, 1865, and thus closed the 
war. He died Oct. 13, 1870, in Lexington, 
Va. 


LEE, SAMUEL PHILLIPS, naval of¬ 
ficer, author, was born Feb. 13, 1812, in 
Virginia. He entered the United States 
navy in 1825; was commissioned lieuten¬ 
ant in 1837; and rear-admiral in 1870. 
He published the Cruise of the Dolphin in 
the Reports of the United States Naval 
Department. 

LEE, SILAS, lawyer, jurist, legislator, 
congressman. He served in the Massa¬ 
chusetts legislature in 1793, 1797, and 
1798; was a representative in congress 
from Massachusetts from 1799 to 1802; 
and judge of probate from 1805 to 1814. 
He was for some years chief judge of 
the court of common pleas; and was ap¬ 
pointed, by President Adams, United 
States district attorney for Maine. He 
died in 1814. 

LEE, STEPHEN D., soldier, college 
president. He served gallantly during the 
civil war as a captain of artillery with 
the army of the Tennessee; and was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general. He is now presi¬ 
dent of the Agricultural college of Missis¬ 
sippi. 

LEE, THOMAS, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Jersey from 1833 to 1837. He died Nov. 2, 
1855, in Port Elizabeth, N. J. 

LEE, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 1, 1769, in 
Charleston, S. C. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the South Carolina state legisla¬ 
ture; and state solicitor in 1794. He was 
judge of the court of common pleas in 
1804; comptroller-general until 1816; 
president of the state bank in 1817; and 
judge of the United States court from 1823 
until his death. He died Oct. 2, 1839, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

LEE, THOMAS LUDWELL, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, statesman, was born about 1730 in 
Stratford, Va. He was a member of the 
house of burgesses; of the conventions of 
July and December, 1775; and of the com¬ 
mittee of safety; and in the convention of 
1776 was placed on the committee to draft 
a declaration of rights, and a plan of gov¬ 
ernment. On the organization of the 
Virginia state government he was ap¬ 
pointed one of the five revisers, and one 
of the five judges of the general court. 
He died in 1777. 

LEE, THOMAS SIM, governor, was 
born in 1743. He was governor of Mary¬ 
land from 1779 to 1783; was a delegate to 
the continental congress in 1783 and 1784; 
and was again governor from 1792 to 1794. 
He died Nov. 9, 1809, in Frederick county, 

V <i. 

LEE, WILLIAM E., banker, legislator, 
was born Jan. 8, 1852, in Alton, Ill. He 
served three terms as a member of the 
Minnesota legislature, and was speaker of 
the house in 1893. He was superintendent 
of the state reformatory at St. Cloud; and 
for four years was on the governor’s staff 
with rank of major. He is a president of 
the bank of Long Prairie, Minn. 

LEE, WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH, 
soldier, congressman, was born May 31, 
1837, in Arlington, Va. In 1861 he raised 
a company of cavalry and joined the army 
of northern Virginia; served in every 
grade successively from captain to major- 
general of cavalry. He represented his 
senatorial district in the Virginia state 
senate for one term, declining a renomin¬ 
ation. He was elected to the fiftieth and 
fifty-first congresses as a democrat. 

LEE, WILLIAM LITTLE, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Feb. 25, 1821, in Hawaiian 
Island. He was chief justice of the Ha¬ 
waiian islands. He died June 28, 1857, in 
Honolulu. 


LEECH, SAMUEL VAN DERLIP, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 17, 1837, 
in Albany, N. Y. He is a methodist cler¬ 
gyman and temperance reformer; and the 
author of The Drunkard; Ingersoll and 
the Bible; and The Inebriates. 

LEEDOM, JOHN P., farmer, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 20, 1847, in Adams 
county, Ohio. He graduated at Smith’s 
Mercantile college in 
1868; taught school; 
engaged in farming. 
He was elected clerk 
of the court of com¬ 
mon pleas in 1874, 
and re-elected in 
1877. He was a 
member of the dem¬ 
ocratic state commit¬ 
tee in 1879; and was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive from Ohio to the 
forty-seventh con¬ 
gress; and served on several important 
committees. 

LEEDS, DAVID, author, was born in 
1652 in England. He was a prominent 
figure among the early settlers of Bur¬ 
lington, N. J., and a violent opponent of 
the Quakers. He was the author of The 
Temple of Wisdom; The News of a 
Trumpet; Hue and Cry Against Error; 
A Trumpet Sounded; The Rebuker Re¬ 
buked; and The Great Mystery of Fox- 
Craft Discovered. He died Sept. 27, 1720, 
in Burlington, N. J. 

LEEDY, JOHN WHITNAH, farmer, leg¬ 
islator, governor, was born March 8, 1849, 
in Richland county, Ohio. During 1893- 
97 he was a member of the senate of the 
Kansas legislature; and governor of 
that state for two years beginning in 
January, 1897. 

LEEPER, ARTHUR, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Aug. 21, 1855, in Chandler- 
ville, Ill. He was state’s attorney .of Cass 
county from 1876 to 1880; and was elect¬ 
ed Illinois state senator in 1888, 1892, and 
1896. 

LEESER, ISAAC, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 12, 1806, in Prussia. He 
was a Jewish rabbi of Philadelphia who 
published The Jews and the Mosaic Law; 
Discourses on the Jewish Religion; Por¬ 
tuguese Forms of Prayer; and a Trans¬ 
lation of the Scriptures from the Original 
Hebrew. He died Feb. 1, 1868, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

LEET, ISAAC, state senator, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1802 in Pennsylvania. 
He was for several years in the senate 
of that state; and was a representative 
in congress from 1829 to 1831. He died 
June 10, 1844, in Y/ashington, Pa. 

LEETE, WILLIAM, governor of Con¬ 
necticut, was born about 1603 in England. 
He was a founder of Guilford, Conn., and 
one of the pillars of the church there. He 
was deputy governor in 1661-65, was fre¬ 
quently a commissioner of the colony, re¬ 
elected governor in 1676, and afterward 
annually chosen until his death. He died 
April 16, 1683, in Hartford, Conn. 

LEFEVER, JACOB, banker, congress¬ 
man, was born April 20, 1830, in New 
Paltz, N. Y. He was a member of the 
assembly of the state of New York in 
1863-67; and was frequently a delegate to 
republican state conventions and was a 
delegate to the national republican con¬ 
vention of 1888. He is president of the 
Huguenot National bank of New Paltz; 
and vice-president of the New Paltz Sav¬ 
ings bank. He was elected to the fifty- 
third and fifty-fourth congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 







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LE FEVRE, BENJAMIN, soldier, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 
1838, in Shelby county, Ohio. He served 
in the union army from 1861 to 1865; and 
was elected a member of the state house 
of representatives in 1865. In 1867 he was 
appointed United States consul at Nurem¬ 
berg, Germany; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the forty-sixth, 
forty-seventh, forty-eighth and forty- 
ninth congresses as a democrat. 

LE FEVRE, JOSEPH, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1811 to 1813. 

LEFEVRE, PETER PAUL, Roman 
catholic bishop, was born April 30, 1804, 
in West Flanders. In 1831 he was or¬ 
dained priest and stationed at New Ma¬ 
drid, Mo., but after a few months was 
transferred to the pastorate of Salt river, 
consisting of the northern part of Mis¬ 
souri, western part of Illinois, and south¬ 
ern Iowa. He died March 4, 1869, in De¬ 
troit, Mich. 

LEFFERTS, GEORGE MOREWOOD, 
physician, author, was born Feb. 24, 1846, 
in Brooklyn, L. I. He is a physician of 
New York city; and the author of Dis¬ 
eases of the Nose; Diagnosis of Nasal 
Catarrh; and Pharmacopoeia for Diseases 
of the Throat and Nose. 

LEFFERTS, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1813 to 1815; and a state 
senator from 1822 to 1825. 

LEFFERTS, MARSHALL, engineer, 
was born Jan. 15, 1821, in Bedford, L. I. 
In 1849 he became president of the New 
York, New England and New York state 
telegraph companies, from which office 
he retired in 1860 and began a system of 
telegraph wires, which was worked on 
the automatic plan of transmission. He 
died July 3, 1876, in Newark, Pa. 

LEFFINGWELL, ALONZO MARK, 
lawyer, was born Sept. 26, 1842, in Hen¬ 
derson, N. Y. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Union academy at Belleville, 
N. Y.; and at the university of Michigan. 
He then studied law and received the de¬ 
gree of LL. B. In 1872 he moved to New 
York city; and two years later removed 
to Henderson, where he has attained, suc¬ 
cess in his profession. He has been a 
candidate for county judge, and twice for 
representative in congress. He has filled 
important offices in several fraternal or¬ 
ders; and has always been prominently 
identified with the public affairs of his 
county and state. 

LEFFINGWELL, CHARLES WESLEY, 
clergyman, journalist, was born Dec. 5, 
1840, in Ellington, Conn. He founded and 
became rector of St. Mary’s school, Knox¬ 
ville, Ill. Since 1879 he has devoted him¬ 
self earnestly to journalism in the inter¬ 
ests of his church, and is editor of a 
weekly paper, The Living Church. 

LEFFLER, ISAAC, legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born in November, 1788, in 
Washington county, Pa. In 1817 he was 
elected to the Virginia legislature, where 
he served eight years. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Virginia from 
1827 to 1829; and in 1832 was again elect¬ 
ed to the Virginia legislature. In 1835 he 
moved to Burlington, Iowa; served two 
years in the legislature of Wisconsin ter¬ 
ritory, one year as speaker; and one 
year in the legislature of Iowa. 

LEFFLER, SHEPHERD, farmer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Iowa from 1846 to 1851; and in 1875 was 
a candidate for the office of governor. 

LEFTWICH, EVERETT IRVINE, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, lecturer, was born Oct. 4, 
1860, in Giles county, Va. He has been a 


successful educator, and now practices 
law in Williamson, W. Va. He has been 
editor of several publications; has writ¬ 
ten extensively for the periodical press; 
and has attained success as a lecturer on 
political subjects and religious reform. 

LEFTWICH, JABEZ, congressman, 
was born in Bedford county, Va. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1821 to 1825. 

LEFTWICH, JOEL, soldier, jurist, state 
legislator, was born in 1759 in Bedford 
county, Va. He was major-general of mi¬ 
litia, often a member of the Virginia leg¬ 
islature, and for many years a justice of 
the peace of Bedford county. He died 
April 20, 1846, in Bedford county, Va. 

LEFTWTCH, JOHN W., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 7, 1826, in Bed¬ 
ford county, Va. In 1865 he was elected 
a representative from Tennessee to the 
thirty-ninth congress. He died in June, 
1870, in Lynchburg. 

LEGARE, HUGH SWINTON, lawyer, 
journalist, statesman, was born Jan. 2, 
1797, in Charleston, S. C. From 1837 to 
1839 he was a representative of his native 
state in congress. In 1841 he was ap¬ 
pointed attorney-general of the United 
States, and also acting secretary of state. 
He was the author of Constitutional His¬ 
tory of Greece; Essay on Classical Learn¬ 
ing; and Essay on Roman Literature. He 
died June 20, 1843, in Boston, Mass. 

LEGARE, JAMES MATTHEWS, in¬ 
ventor, poet, was born in 1823 in South 
Carolina. He was an inventor; and the 
author of Orta-Undis, and Other Poems. 
He died in 1850. 



LEGGETT, FRANCIS H., merchant, 
was born March 27, 1840, in New York 
city. He received an academic education, 
and in 1856 entered 
a produce commis¬ 
sion house as clerk. 
In 1862 he and his 
brother formed a co¬ 
partnership; the 
business grew so 
rapidly that it was 
not long before they 
were occupying three 
stores on R e a d e 
street; and in 1880 
the land was bought 
and the present im¬ 
mense building was erected. The busi¬ 
ness of the house amounts to nearly ten 
million dollars annually, and nearly five 
hundred persons are employed in the es¬ 
tablishment; and the firm of Francis 
H. Leggett and Company is one of the 
largest wholesale grocery houses in New 
York city. 


LEGGETT, MORTIMER DORMER, sol¬ 
dier, public official, was born April 19, 
1851, in Ithaca* N. Y. He was superin¬ 
tendent of public schools until 1861 in 
Zanesville, Ohio. He raised the seventy- 
eighth Ohio infantry, and was made col¬ 
onel in 1862. He was brevet major-gen¬ 
eral in 1864; and major-general in 1865. 
He was appointed United States commis¬ 
sioner of patents in 1871. 

LEGGETT, WILLIAM, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1802 in New York city. 
He was a journalist once prominent in 
New York city; and the author of Leisure 
Hours at Sea; Tales by a Country School¬ 
master; Naval Stories; and) Political 
Writings. He died May 29, 1839, in New 
Rochelle, N. Y. 

LEGGETT, WILLIAM HENRY, botan¬ 
ist, journalist, was born Feb. 24, 1816, in 
New York city. He founded the Torrey 
Botanical Bulletin, and was its sole editor 
and publisher from 1870 till 1880. He died 
in April, 1882, in New York city. 


LEGREID, CHRISTOPHER, manufac¬ 
turer, state legislator, was born Jan. 27, 
1857, in Deerfield, Wis. He is a successful 
manufacturer of Cambridge, Wis.; and 
has filled numerous public offices of trust 
in his city, county and state. In 1897 he 
was elected a member of the Wisconsin 
state assembly, and has taken an active 
part in the deliberations of that body. 

LEHLBACH, HERMAN, civil engineer, 
congressman, was born July 3, 1845, in 
Germany. He was a member of the house 
of assembly of New Jersey in 1884. In 
that year he was elected a representative 
from New Jersey to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth 
and fifty-first congresses as a republican. 

LEHMAN, EMMA A., educator, poet, 
was born in 1841 in Bethania, N. C. She 
is a successful educator, and for thirty 
years has filled the chair of English liter¬ 
ature and composition in the oldest fe¬ 
male college of the south at Salem, N. C. 
She is the author of a volume entitled 
Sketches of European Travel. The most 
notable of her poems is Sunset on Pilot 
Mountain, which has been extensively 
copied in current publications. 

LEHMAN, WILLIAM E., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 21, 1822, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He was appointed by Pres¬ 
ident Polk an examiner of postoffices in 
New York and Pennsylvania. He was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the thirty-seventh congress. 

LEIB, MICHAEL, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born in 1769 in Pennsylvania. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1799 to 1806. He was 
a senator of the United States from 1808 
to 1814; and in the latter year was ap¬ 
pointed postmaster of Philadelphia. He 
served in the legislature of Pennsylvania 
both before and after his election to con¬ 
gress. He died Dec. 28, 1822, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

LEIB, OWEN D., physician, congress¬ 
man, was born in Schuylkill, Pa. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1845 to 1847. He died June 

17, 1848. 

LEIDY, JOSEPH, naturalist, scientist, 
author, was born Sept. 9, 1823, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia scien¬ 
tist of distinction who was a constant 
contributor to scientific periodicals. 
Among his writings are: The Extinct 
Species of the American Ox; Ancient 
Fauna of Nebraska; Cretaceous Reptiles 
of the United States; and Elementary 
Text-Book on Human Anatomy. He died 
Jan. 30, 1891, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LEIDY, PAUL, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Nov. 21, 1813, in Hemlock, Pa. 
He was elected a representative to the 
thirty-fifth congress from Pennsylvania. 

LEIGH, BENJAMIN WATKINS, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born June 

18, 1781, in Chesterfield county, Va. From 
1829 to 1841 he was a reporter of Virginia; 
was frequently a member of the house of 
delegates; and was a member of the 
convention of 1830 for revising the state 
constitution; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from 1834 to 1837. He died Feb. 2, 
1849, in Richmond, Va. 

LEIGH, COUNT DE HAMONG, palmist, 
author, was born in 1868. At the age of 
eleven years he began the study of the 
hand; and has visited almost every coun¬ 
try in the world. His books on the sub¬ 
ject have been translated into French, 
German, Russian, Spanish and Hindu¬ 
stani. His professional name is Cheiro; 
and he has made tours in Europe and 
America as a palmist. 



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LEIGH, HEZEKIAH GILBERT, clergy¬ 
man, was born Nov. 25, 1795, in North 
Carolina. In 1829 he was a founder of 
Randolph Macon college, Virginia, and 
subsequently he was one of its principal 
supporters. In 1849 he was an organizer 
of the methodist episcopal church south. 
He died Sept. 18, 1858, in Mecklenburg 
county, Va. 

LEIGHTON, HARRIET W., poet, tem¬ 
perance advocate, was born March 15, 
1839, in Albany, N. Y. She has been state 
corresponding secretary for Nebraska 
of the Woman’s Christian Temperance 
union; for three years was secretary of 
the Lincoln Woman’s Christian Temper¬ 
ance union, and for one year its presi¬ 
dent. She also is prominent in various 
other organizations, and contributes both 
prose and verse to current literature. 

LEIGHTON, WILLIAM, author, poet, 
was born June 22, 1833, in Cambridge, 
Mass. He is a writer of Wheeling, W. Va.; 
and the author of The Sons of Godwin, 
a tragedy that appeared simultaneously 
with Tennyson’s Harold on the same 
theme; At the Court of King Edwin, a 
drama; Shakespeare’s Dream; Change; 
and The Subjection of Hamlet. 


LEIPER. GEORGE GRAY, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 3, 1786, in Delaware 
county, Pa. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1829 to 
1831. He died Nov. 17, 1868, in Delaware 
county, Pa. 

LEIPER, WILLIAM D., soldier, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, was born Feb. 13, 1823, 
in Frankfort Springs, Pa. He served as a 
soldier; and was a member of the consti¬ 
tutional convention of 1874. He is the 
editor and owner of the Arkansas Me¬ 
teor. 

LEISENRING, JOHN, civil and mining 
engineer, congressman, was born June 3, 
1853, in Ashton, Pa. He was elected to 
the fifty-fourth congress as a republican 
from Pennsylvania. 

LEITER, BENJAMIN F., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Oct. 13, 1813, 
in Leitersburg, Md. He was elected to 
the Ohio legislature in 1848. In 1849 he 
was re-elected, and chosen speaker. In 
1854 he was elected to congress; and re¬ 
elected to the thirty-sixth congress. 

LELAND, AARON, clergyman, jurist, 
legislator, was born May 28, 1761, in Hol- 
liston, Mass. He sat in the Vermont leg¬ 
islature from 1801 till 1811, during which 
period he was thrice elected speaker. He 
was a councillor for four years, and for 
five successive years elected lieutenant- 
governor of Vermont. He also served as 
an assistant justice of the county court for 
eighteen years. He died Aug. 25, 1833, in 
Chester, Vt. 


LELAND, CHARLES A., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born in 1860 in Sharon, Ohio. 
For several years he was prosecuting at¬ 
torney of Noble county, Ohio; and in 
1896 was elected a member of the Ohio 
state legislature. 

LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Aug. 15, 1824, in Phil¬ 
adelphia. He is a very versatile Phila¬ 
delphia author, who 
has lived much in 
Europe, and is con¬ 
sidered an authority 
upon Gypsy lore. He 
is the author of 
Hans Breitmann 
Ballads; The Music 
Lesson of Confucius, 
and Other Poems; 
Songs of the Sea and 
Lays of the Land; 
The English Gypsies 
and Their Language; 
Origin of the Gypsies; The Gypsies; The 
Algonquin Legends of New England- 
Egyptian Sketch Book; Abraham Lin¬ 
coln and the Abolition of Slavery; Prac¬ 
tical Education; Manual of Wood Carv¬ 
ing; and Memoirs. 

LELAND, HENRY PERRY, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 28, 1828, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia writer 
who served as lieutenant in a Pennsyl¬ 
vania regiment during the civil war; and 
was the author of The Americans in 
Rome; and The Grey Bay Mare, and Other 
Humorous Sketches. He died Sept. 22, 
1868, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LELAND, SAMUEL PHELPS, lawyer, 
lecturer, poet, was born March 4, 1839, in 
Huntsburg, Ohio. After being admitted 
to the bar in LaGrange county, Ind., he 
moved to Chicago in 1863, and thence to 
Aurora, Ill. About this time he published 
a volume of poems, which passed through 
two editions; and since that time has 
contributed numerous meritorious poems 
to the periodical press. During 1867-80 
he practiced law in Charles City, Iowa; 
and after a sojourn in Europe, he entered 
the lecture field, in which he has attained 
a national reputation. 

LEMCKE, HENRY, clergyman, was 
born June 27, 1796, in Germany. He per¬ 
formed missionary duty in Kansas, and 
founded the abbey of St. Benedict in 
Atchison, Kan. He returned to Pennsyl¬ 
vania in 1858, and after a visit to Ger¬ 
many labored in New Jersey till 1877, 
when he withdrew to Carrollton, Pa. He 
died Nov. 29, 1882, in Carrollton, Pa. 

LEMMON, JOHN GILL, botanist, au¬ 
thor, was born June 2, 1832, in Lima, 
Mich. He is a botanist attached to the 
California department of forestry since 
1880; and the author of Ferns of the Pa¬ 
cific Coast; and Discovery of the Potato. 

LEMMON, SARAH ALLEN PLUM¬ 
MER, botanist, author, was born Sept. 3, 
1836, in New Gloucester, Maine. She has 
painted in watercolors much of the flora 
of the Pacific slope, and her collection of 
more than eighty field sketches of flow¬ 
ers took the first premium at the World’s 
exposition in New Orleans in 1884-85. On 
her discovery of a new genus of plants in 
1882, Dr. Asa Gray named it Plummera 
floribunda. Mrs. Lemmon is the author 
of the papers on The Ferns of the Pa¬ 
cific Slope; Silk-Culture in California; 
and Marine Botany. 

LE MOINE, SAUVOLLE, governor, was 
born about 1671 in Canada. He was ap¬ 
pointed governor of Louisiana in 1699, and 
he retained the office till his death. He 
was the first colonial governor of Louisi¬ 


ana. He died July 22, 1701, in Biloxi, in 
what is now Mississippi. 

LE MOYNE, FRANCIS JULIUS, abo¬ 
litionist, philanthropist, was born Sept. 4, 
1798, in Washington, Pa. He erected in 
1876, near Washington, Pa., the first 
crematory in the United States. He 
founded the public library in Washington, 
gave $25,000 for a colored normal school 
near Memphis, Tenn., and endowed pro¬ 
fessorships of agriculture and applied 
mathematics in Washington college. He 
died Oct. 14, 1879, in Washington, Pa. 

LE MOYNE, J. V., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1828 in Washington 
county, Pa. In 1852 he moved to Chi¬ 
cago, Ill., and commenced the practice of 
law; and served as a representative from 
Illinois to the forty-fourth congress. 

LENNOX, CHARLOTTE RAMSAY, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1720 in New York city. 
Sue published a volume of Poems on 
Several Occasions. Her other works in¬ 
clude Memoirs of Harriet Stuart; The Fe¬ 
male Quixote; Henrietta, a novel that 
was much read; a translation of the Duke 
of Sully’s Memoirs; Sophia, a novel; The 
Sisters, a comedy; Old City Manners, a 
comedy; Euphemia, a novel; and Me¬ 
moirs of Henry Lennox. She died Jan. 4, 
1804, in England. 

LENOIR, WILLIAM, soldier, was born 
May 20, 1751, in Brunswick county, Va. 
He served with distinction in the revolu¬ 
tionary war, attaining the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general. He died May 6, 1839, in 
Fort Defiance, N. C. 

LENT, JAMES, congressman. He was 
a member of congress from New York 
from 1829 to 1833. He died Feb. 24, 1833, 
in Washington. 

LENTZ, JOHN JACOB, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 27, 1856, near St. 
Clairsville, Ohio. For five years he was 
one of the examiners of the city teachers, 
and was appointed a trustee of Ohio uni¬ 
versity by Governor McKinley. He was 
elected from Ohio to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

LEONARD, CHARLES HENRI, physi¬ 
cian, journalist, author, was born March 
28, 1850, in Akron, Ohio. His preparatory 
education was ob¬ 
tained at Hiram col¬ 
lege, Ohio; Genesee 
college of Lima, N. 
Y.; and the Union 
college of Schenec¬ 
tady, N. Y., from 
which latter institu- 
tution he received 
the degree of A. B. 
in 1872, and A. M. in 
1882. In 1874 he 
graduated in medi¬ 
cine from the medi¬ 
cal department of the university of Woo¬ 
ster, of Cleveland, and subsequently took 
a post-graduate course at the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons of New York 
city. He has attained success in his 
profession at Detroit, Mich.; and has 
been professor of gyneecology in the De¬ 
troit College of Medicine since 1879. He is 
the author of a Pocket Anatomist; and 
other works. He is the editor and owner 
of Leonard’s Illustrated Medical Journal, 
which has been published continuously 
since 1877. 

LEONARD, CHATFIELD, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Sept. 13, 1848, in Roseboom, 
N. Y. Since 1874 he has been justice of 
the peace in Cooperstown, N. Y. He was 
justice of sessions during two terms; and 
in 1894 was appointed surrogate. 





LEIGHTY, JACOB D., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 15, 1839, in Westmore¬ 
land county, Pa. He was a private in 
company E, eleventh 
Indiana volunteer in¬ 
fantry; and was 
promoted to second 
lieutenant and after¬ 
ward to first lieu¬ 
tenant. Returning 
home he engaged in 
general merchandis¬ 
ing, and is interest¬ 
ed in several manu¬ 
facturing enterprises. 
He was elected to 
the Indiana house of 
representatives in 1886; and elected in 
1894 to the fifty-fourth congress as a re¬ 
publican. In 1897 he was appointed United 
States pension agent for Indiana. 







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LEONARD, FRED CHURCHILL, law¬ 
yer, merchant, congressman, was born 
Feb. 16, 1856, in Elmer, Pa. He received 
his education in the 
State Normal school, 
in the Willeston 
seminary; and in 
1883 graduated from 
Yale college. He is 
a successful lawyer 
of Coudersport, Pa., 
and also interested 
in the lumbering 
business. He served 
with distinction as 
a member of the 
fifty-fourth congress 
as a republican. He has filled numerous 
minor offices; and has served his party 
as chairman of the county committee. 

LEONARD, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1698 in Massachusetts. He 
was a member of the Massachusetts coun¬ 
cil in 1741, and chief justice in 1746. 
He died in 1778 in Massachusetts. 

LEONARD, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born July 4, 1729, in 
Norton, Mass. He was a representative 
in congress from Massachusetts from 1789 
to 1793, and from 1795 to 1797. He died 
July 26, 1819, in Raynham, Mass. 

LEONARD, JOHN EDWARDS, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 22, 
1845, in Chester county, Pa. He settled in 
Louisiana and practiced law; and was 
for a time district attorney. He was ap¬ 
pointed a judge of the supreme court of 
the state; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Louisiana to the forty-fifth con¬ 
gress. He died March 15, 1878, in Havana, 
Cuba. 



LEONARD, LEVI WASHBURN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 16, 1773, in 
Bridgewater, Mass. He contributed ex¬ 
tensively to the secular and religious 
press, superintended the compilation of 
the History of Dublin, and wrote a liter¬ 
ary and Scientific Class-Book; North 
American Spelling Book; and Sequel to 
Easy Lessons. He died Dec. 12, 1864 in 
Exeter, N. H. 

LEONARD, MOSES G., public official 
congressman, was born in Connecticut. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1843 to 1845; and was 
for several years commissioner of emigra¬ 
tion in the city of New York. 


LEONARD, STEPHEN B., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1835 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1841. 

LEONARD, WILLIAM ANDREW, bish¬ 
op, author, was born, July 15, 1848, in 
Southport, Conn. He is the fourth pro- 
testant episcopal bishop of Ohio; and the 
author of Via Sacra; The Christmas Fes¬ 
tival, Its Origin, etc.; Summary of Her¬ 
bert Spencer's First Principles; and Brief 
History of the Christian Church. 

LEONOWENS, MRS. ANNA HARRI- 
ETTE [CRAWFORD], educator, author 
was born Nov. 5, 1834, in Wales. She is 
an Englishwoman who was governess in 
the royal family of Siam for four years, 
came to New York in 1867, and has since 
taught there. She is the author of The 
English Governess at the Siamese Court; 
The Romance of the Harem; Life and 
Travels in India; and Our Asiatic Cous¬ 
ins. 


LEOV’i, HENRY JEFFERSON, soldier, 
journalist, lawyer, was born'May 17, 1826, 
in Augusta, Ga. For many years he was 
the owner of The New Orleans Delta 
which was seized by General Butler in 
1862. He served with gallantry in the 
confederate army during 1861-65; and in 
1870 was elected city attorney of New 
Orleans. 


LE PLONGEON, MRS. ALICE [DIX¬ 
ON], author, wa-s born in 1851 in England. 
She is the wife of the archaeologist and 
explorer, Dr. Le Plongeon; and the au¬ 
thor of Here and There in Yucatan. 

LEROY, ALCIDE, business man, was 
born Oct. 12, 1862, in Ascension parish, 
La. He is prominent in the business af¬ 
fairs of his native city; and takes an 
active part in the public affairs of his 
county and state. 

LE ROY, WILLIAM EDGAR, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born March 24, 1818, in New 
York city. He served in the United States 
navy during the civil war; and in 1874 
was commissioned rear-admiral. He died 
Dec. 10, 1888, in New York city. 

LESLEY, JOHN PETER, geologist, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 17, 1819, in Phila¬ 
delphia. He is a Philadelphia geologist 
of distinction; and the author of Man’s 
Origin and Destiny from the Platform of 
the Sciences; Coal and Its Topography; 
and The Iron Manufacturer’s Guide. 

LESLEY, JOHN THOMAS, stock raiser, 
state senator, was born in 1835, in Madi¬ 
son county. In 1876 he was elected to the 
Florida house of representatives; and in 
1878-85 was a member of the state senate. 

LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT, artist, 
was born Oct. 19, 1794, in England. He 
has attained success as an artist. Among 
his best known works are: Uncle Toby 
and the Widow; May Days in the Reign 
of Queen Elizabeth; The Dinner at Mr. 
Page’s House; and Sancho Panza and the 
Duchess. He died May 5, 1859, in London. 

LESLIE, ELIZA, author, was born Nov. 
18, 1787, in Philadelphia. She was a Phil¬ 
adelphia writer of tales and sketches 
whose work was extremely popular in 
her day. Among her writings are. Do¬ 
mestic Cookery; Mrs. Washington Potts; 
The Behavior Book; Pencil Sketches; 
American Girl’s Book; and The Dennings. 
She died Jan. 2, 1857, in Gloucester, N. J. 

LESLIE, FRANK, publisher, was born 
March 29, 1821, in England. In 1848 he 
emigrated to the United States; and in 
1854 began the publication of The Ga¬ 
zette of Fashion, and The New York 
Journal. In 1855 he published the first 
number of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated 
Newspaper; and he subsequently estab¬ 
lished the following publications: The 
Chimney Corner; The Boys’ and Girls’ 
Weekly; The Lady’s Journal; The Bud¬ 
get of Fun; The New World; Pleasant 
Hours; Popular Monthly; Sunday Maga¬ 
zine; The Chatter-Box; The Illustrated 
Almanac and the Comic Almanac. He 
died Jan. 10, 1880, in New York city. 
After his death the business was contin¬ 
ued by his wife, who, by legislative act, 
took the name of Frank Leslie. 

LESLIE, JAMES PERRY, educator, 
journalist, lawyer, was born Dec. 28, 1857, 
in Mantua, Texas. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Mantua seminary, and at 
the Agricultural and Mechanical college 
of Texas. For several years he taught 
school; and in 1884 established The 
Enterprise of Van Alstyne, Texas. He 
subsequently was admitted to the bar, 
and has attained success in. his profes¬ 
sion at Sherman, Texas. 

LESLIE, MRS. MIRIAM FLORENCE, 
author. She is the author of From Goth¬ 
am to the Golden Gate. 

LESLIE, PRESTON HOPKINS, lawyer, 
state senator, governor, was born March 8, 
1819, in Clinton county, Ky. He repre¬ 
sented Monroe county, Ky., in the legis¬ 
lature in 1844 and 1850: and was state 
senator from 1851 to 1855. He removed to 
? D a /r, ren count y; w as again senator from 
186* to 1871; and in 1869 was chosen 
speaker of the senate, and acted as lieu¬ 


tenant-governor. . In 1871 was elected' 
governor for four years. 

LESLIE, THOMAS JEFFERSON, sol¬ 
dier, was born Nov. 2, 1796, in England. 
In 1865 he was brevetted colonel and 
brigadier-general for faithful performance 
of duty during a continuous period ot 
fifty years. He died Nov. 25, 1874, in New 
York city. 

LESQUEREUX, LEO, paleontologist, 
author, was born Nov. 18, 1806, in Switzer¬ 
land. He was a Swiss paleontologist who 
came to America in 1848 and settled in 
Columbus, Ohio. He was the author of 
Catalogue of the Mosses of Switzerland; 
Musci Americani Exsiccati; leones Mus- 
carum; Land Plants in the Lower Sil¬ 
urian; The Tertiary Flora; and The Coal 
Flora; Manual of North America. He 
died in 1889. 

LESTER, CHARLES EDWARDS, jour¬ 
nalist, lecturer, author, was born July 15, 
1815, in Griswold, Conn. He was a jour¬ 
nalist and litterateur of New York city, at 
one time consul at Genoa. He was the 
author of Life of Vespucius; The Na¬ 
poleon Dynasty; Artists of America; The 
Glory and Shame of England; My Consul¬ 
ship; Condition and Fate of England; 
Samuel Houston and His Republic; Life 
of Charles Sumner; Our One Hundred 
Years; America’s Advancement; The 
Mexican Republic; History of the United 
States; and Stanhope Burleigh, a novel; 
with several translations of standard Ital¬ 
ian authors. He died in 1890. 

LESTER, CHARLES SMITH, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 15, 1824, in Wor¬ 
cester, Mass. He was district attorney in 
1859-62 at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; county 
judge in 1870-76; and has been also su¬ 
pervisor of the town of Saratoga, presi¬ 
dent of the village of Saratoga Springs, 
and president of the board of education. 

LESTER, NICHOLAS, soldier, poet, was 
born March 29, 1842, in Canada. During 
the civil war he served in the one hun¬ 
dred and tenth New York volunteers. He 
is the author of a number of poems. 

LESTER. POSEY GREEN, clergyman, 
journalist, congressman, was born March 
12, 1850, in Floyd county, Va. In 1876 he 
was ordained to the work of the gospel 
ministry in the Primitive or Old School 
Baptist church, since which time he has 
been principally engaged in traveling and 
preaching in eighteen states. Since 1883 
he has been associate editor of Zion’s 
Landmark, one of the periodicals of his 
church. He was elected to the fifty-first 
and fifty-second congresses as a demo¬ 
crat. 

LESTER, RUFUS E., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 

12, 1837. in Burke county, Ga. He entered 
the military service of the confederate 
states in 1861; and remained in the service 
till the end of the war. He was state sen¬ 
ator from the first senatorial district of 
Georgia in 1870-79; and was president of 
the senate during the last three years of 
service. He was elected to the fifty-first, 
fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and 
fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat. 

LESIJEUR. ALEXANDER A., soldier, 
journalist, state legislator, public official' 
was born Nov. 25, 1842, in St. Louis Mo 
He served gallantly through the civil war; 
was promoted to sergeant-major of bat¬ 
talion; and captain commanding the 
third Missouri field battery. He settled 
in La Fayette county. Mo.; was a mem- 
l)ei of the Missouri house of representa- 
fives in the thirtieth general assembly; 
and was the author of the penitentiary 
law. In 1888 he was elected secretary of 
state of Missouri; and was re-elected in 
1892 and in 1896. 



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LETCHER, GREENLEE D„ lawyer, 
legislator, was born July 19, 1867, in Lex¬ 
ington, Va. In 1889 he was elected a 
member of the Virginia legislature, and 
received the re-election in 1891. 

LETCHER, JOHN, journalist, lawyer, 
congressman, governor, was born March 
29, 1813, in Lexington, Va. In 1839 he ed¬ 
ited the Valley Star; was a presidential 
elector in 1849; and was a member of the 
convention for reforming the constitu¬ 
tion of Virginia in 1850. He was elected 
a representative in the thirty-second, 
thirty-third, thirty-fourth, and thirty- 
fifth congresses; and was governor of 
Virginia from 1860 to 1864. He died Jan. 
26,1884, in Lexington, Va. 

LETCHER, ROBERT PERKINS, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Feb. 10, 1788, in Gooch^ 
land county, Va. He served a number of 
years in the Virginia state legislature, 
and was ^t one time elected speaker of 
the house. He was a representative in 
congress from 1823 to 1835; and a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1837. He was governor 
of Kentucky from 1840 to 1844; and in 
1849 was appointed minister to Mexico. 
He died Jan. 24, 1861, in Frankfort, Ky. 

LEUTZE, EMANUEL, historical paint¬ 
er, was born May 24, 1816, in Germany. 
Being obliged to leave Germany on ac¬ 
count of political opinions, he made Phil¬ 
adelphia his home. His Western Emigra¬ 
tion is conspicuous in the national capitol, 
and Washington Crossing the Delaware is 
everywhere familiar through engravings. 
He died July 18, 1868, in Washington, 
D. C. 

LEVAN, WILLIAM BARNET, civil en¬ 
gineer, inventor, author, was born June 
3, 1829, in Easton, Pa. He is the inventor 
of a steam engine governor; a self-re¬ 
cording steam engine indicator and glass 
water gauge; and an improved station¬ 
ary engine. He is the author of Useful 
Information for Engineers; and the 
Steam Engine Indicator and Its Use. 

LEVENTHORPE, COLLETT, soldier, 
was born May 15, 1815, in England. He 
served in the civil war with distinction 
and attained the rank of brigadier-general 
for meritorious services. He died Dec. 1, 
1889, in Rutherford, N. C. 

LEVERETT, FREDERICK PERCIVAL, 
educator, author, was born Sept. 11, 1803, 
in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a once 
distinguished educator of Boston. Be¬ 
sides annotated editions of Juvenal and 
other classics, he prepared a much-valued 
Lexicon of the Latin Language. He died 
Oct. 6, 1836, in Boston, Mass. 

LEVERETT, JOHN, colonial governor 
of Massachusetts, was born in 1616 in 
England. He was one of the governor’s 
council in 1665-71, major-general in 1663- 
73, and deputy governor in 1671-73, be¬ 
coming governor at the latter date. He 
died March 16, 1679, in Boston, Mass. 

LEVERETT, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Aug. 25, 1662, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a judge, speaker of the colonial legis¬ 
lature, member of the council, and presi¬ 
dent of Harvard from 1707 until his death. 
He died May 3, 1724, in Boston, Mass. 

LEVER1DGE, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
was born Sept. 15, 1792, in New York city. 
During the war of 1812 he served as a 
private. He was a founder of the St. 
Nicholas club and of the old Public 
School society, and was said to be the old¬ 
est active member of the American bar. 
He died Feb. 17, 1886, in New York city. 

LEVERING, EUGENE, merchant, 
banker, was born Sept. 12, 1845, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He has been a successful 
merchant in his nauve city; president of 


the National Bank of Commerce; and 
president of the board of trade. 

LEVIN, LEWIS C., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 10, 1808, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1845 to 
1851. He died March 14, 1860, in Phila¬ 
delphia. 

LEVY, WILLIAM MALLORY, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, 
was born Oct. 30, 1827, in the county of 
the Isle of Wight, Va. In 1846 he volun¬ 
teered in the first Louisiana regiment for 
service in Mexico, and was made a lieu¬ 
tenant, serving until peace was declared 
in 1848. He was a member of the Vir¬ 
ginia state legislature in 1860 and 1861; 
and a presidential elector in the former 
year. He served as a colonel in the con¬ 
federate service; and in 1874 was elected 
a representative from Louisiana to the 
forty-fourth congress. 

LEWELLING, LORENZO D., educator, 
journalist, governor, was born Dec. 21, 
1846, in Salem, Iowa. He commenced life 
as a common laborer 
on the Burlington 
and Missouri rail¬ 
road; then drove 
cattle for the quar¬ 
termaster’s depart¬ 
ment of the union 
army in Tennessee; 
then joined a bridge 
building corps at 
Chattanooga. At the 
close of the war he 
secured a discharge 
and attended Knox 
college of Galesburg and other insti¬ 
tutions to secure a better education. 
He subsequently was employed in 
bridge building; then again entered 
educational work; and subsequently be¬ 
came editor and owner of The Regis¬ 
ter, a weekly republican journal of uis 
native town. For fifteen years he and 
his wife had charge of the Iowa State Re¬ 
form school for Girls; and he became 
widely known as a penologist. In 1887 
he moved to Wichita, Kan., and five years 
later was elected governor of that state. 

LEWIS, ABNER, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a member of 
the assembly of that state from Chautau¬ 
qua county in 1838 and 1839; and was a 
representative in congress from New 
York from 1845 to 1847. 

LEWIS, ABRAM HERBERT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 17, 1836, in 
Scott, N. Y. He is a seventh day baptist 
clergyman of Plainfield, N. J., and a writer 
of much prominence in his denomina¬ 
tion. He is the author of Sabbath and 
Sunday; Biblical Teachings Concerning 
the Sabbath and Sunday; Critical His¬ 
tory of the Sabbath; Critical History of 
Sunday Legislation; Biography of the 
Puritan Sunday; and Paganism in Chris¬ 
tianity. 

LEWIS, ALONZO, author, poet, was 
born Aug. 28, 1794, in Lynn, Mass. He 
was. a verse writer of Lynn, once styled 
The Lynn Bard. He was the author of 
Forest Flowers and Sea Shells; and His¬ 
tory of Lynn. He died Jan. 21, 1861, in 
Lynn, Mass. 

LEWIS, BARBOUR, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born in 1824, in 
Alburg, Vt. He entered the army as a 
captain of volunteers in 1861, and served 
until 1864. In 1863 he was appointed, 
by the military authorities, judge for the 
district of Memphis, and served as such in 
1863-64. In 1867 he was appointed presi¬ 
dent of the board of county commission¬ 
ers of Shelby county, Tenn., and held the 


office until 1869. He was elected to the 
forty-third congress. 

LEWIS, BURWELL BOYKIN, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born July 8, 1838, in Montgomery, Ala. 
He resided at Monticello and Tuscaloosa; 
served in the confederate army as an of¬ 
ficer; and was a presidential elector in 
1868. He served in the state legislature 
from 1870 to 1872; and in 1874 was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Alabama to the 
forty-fourth and re-elected to the forty- 
sixth congresses as a democrat. 

LEWIS, CHARLES BERTRAND, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1842 in Ohio. 
He is a journalist of Detroit on the staff 
of the Free Press for many years, and 
since 1891 on that of The New York 
World. He is the author of Quad’s Odds; 
Goaks and Tears; and The Lime Kiln 
Club. 

LEWIS, CHARLES H., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 17, 1839, in Erie 
county, N. Y. He received his education 
at Cornell college, 
Iowa; and at the 
Iowa Law school. 
During the war he 
served as a private 
soldier in the union 
army; and became 
sergeant-major o f 
the twenty-seventh 
regiment Iowa vol¬ 
unteer infantry; and 
was adjutant of his 
regiment one year. 
He has served as 
district attorney for the fourth ju¬ 
dicial district of Iowa for four years; 
for sixteen years was judge of the 
same district, which at first consisted 
of over twenty counties; and he was 
a judge in the famous murder case of 
Rev. George C. Haddock. He is one of 
the foremost lawyers of Sioux City, Iowa; 
president of the Iowa Loan and Trust 
company; and vice-president of The 
Northwestern National bank of Sioux 
City, Iowa. 

LEWIS, CHARLTON THOMAS, mathe¬ 
matician, lawyer, author, was born in 
1834 in Pennsylvania. He is a lawyer and 
mathematician of Morristown, N. J.; and 
the author of History of the German Peo¬ 
ple; Latin Dictionary for Schools; and 
Elementary Latin Dictionary. 

LEWIS, CLARKE, soldier, merchant, 
planter, state legislator, congressman, 
was born Nov. 8, 1840, in Madison county, 
Ala. At the age of 
three he accompan¬ 
ied his widowed 
mother to Noxubee 
county. Miss. He 
worked on a farm 
and attended the 
county school until 
the age of sixteen 
years; when he en¬ 
tered the Somerville 
institute; took a 
partial course, and 
subsequently taught 
school. He served with distinction 
throughout the civil war as a private in 
the confederate army during 1861-65. He 
then taught school for awhile; for thir¬ 
teen years during 1866-79 was engaged in 
merchandising and farming on his own 
account; and from 1879 until his death 
was exclusively a planter. In 1877 he was 
elected to the Mississippi state legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1884 was a candidate for con¬ 
gress, but was defeated by the fraction 
of a vote. He was elected to the fifty-first 
and fifty-second congresses as a demo¬ 
crat, and served on several important 
committees. He died in 1894. 









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LEWIS, DANIEL, physician, was born 
Jan. 17, 1846, in Alfred, N. Y. Since 1895 
he has been president of the New York 
state board of health; and has made 
many valuable contributions to the medi¬ 
cal periodicals. 

LEWIS, DANIEL F., railroad president, 
was born March 28, 1849, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. In 1886 he was elected president of 
the Brooklyn City railway; and is also 
president of the Brooklyn Heights Rail¬ 
road company. 

LEWIS, DAVID P., governor. He was 
governor of Alabama from 1872 to 1874. 
\\ hile governor of Alabama he was in¬ 
strumental in the passing of a number of 
laws important to the industrial develop¬ 
ment of that state. He also held most of 
the public offices in the gift of his state. 

LEWIS, DIO, physician, author, was 
born March 3, 1826, in Auburn, N. Y. He 
was a well-known Boston physician and 
health reformer. He was the author of 
New Gymnastics; Our Girls; Our Diges¬ 
tion; Chastity; and Weak Lungs and 
How to Make Them Strong, are among his 
most important works. He died May 21 
1886, in Yonkers, N. Y. 

LEWIS, DIXON HALL, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Aug. 10, 
1802, in Hancock county, Ga. He repre¬ 
sented Alabama in congress from 1829 to 
1843, and from 1844 until his death was 
a senator in congress. He died Oct. 25 
1848, in New York. 

LEWIS, EDMONIA. sculptor, was born 
July 4, 1845, near Albany, N. Y. Her 
works, which show considerable ideality 
and talent, have found their chief patron¬ 
age abroad. Among them are The Freed- 
woman; Death of Cleopatra, a vividly re¬ 
alistic work, sent to the Centennial exhi¬ 
bition of 1876; The Old Arrow-Maker and 
His Daughter; Hagar; and Rebecca at 
the Well. 

LEV IS, EDMUND DARCH, artist, was 
born Oct. 17, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
Up to 1876 he worked principally at land¬ 
scape painting, but since then has devoted 
himself to marine views. Among his 
works are Queen of the Antilles; Valley 
of the Umri; Autumn on the Susque¬ 
hanna; Midday on Lake George; Fair- 
mount Park; Bass Rocks after a Storm; 
Indian Rock of an Afternoon; and The 
Casino at Narragansett Pier. 

LEWIS, EDWARD PARKE CUSTIS, 
soldier, planter, state legislator, diplomat 
was born Feb. 7, 1837, in Audley, Va At 
the beginning of the civil war he entered 
the confederate army; and served 
throughout the war, rising to the rank of 
colonel. In 1875 _he settled in Hoboken, 

N. J.; and in 1877 was elected a member 
of the New Jersey house of delegates 
He died Sept. 3, 1892, in Hoboken. N. J. 

LEWIS, EDWARD TAYLOR, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 26, 1836, in Opelousas, La He 
served in the confederate army through¬ 
out the civil war, rising to the rank of 
captain. In 1865 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the state legislature; and was 
elected a representative from Louisiana 
to the forty-eighth congress, to fill a va¬ 
cancy. 

LEWIS, ELIJAH BANKS, merchant, 
banker, state senator, congressman, was 
born March 27, 1854, in Dooly county, Ga. 

He was elected to the Georgia state senate 
f° r y | ars 1894-95; and was elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

LEWIS, ELISHA JOSEPH, physician. 
au ] tho T r > T as bor . n in 1820 in Baltimore, 
Mo. He is a Philadelphia physician; and 
the author of Hints to Sportsmen; and 
The American Sportsman. 


LEWIS, ELLIS, lawyer, jurist, author, 
was born May 16, 1798, in Lewisberry, Pa. 
In 1843 he was made president judge of 
the second district; 
in 1851 he was elect¬ 
ed a justice of the 
state supreme court; 
and in 1854-67 was 
chief justice of Penn¬ 
sylvania. He pub¬ 
lished Abridgment 
of the Criminal Law 
of the United States. 
He was one of the 
commissioners to re¬ 
vise the criminal 
code of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He died March 19, 1871, in Phila¬ 
delphia. 

LEWIS, ENOCH, educator, author, was 
born Jan. 29, 1776, in Radnor, Pa. He was 
an educator among the Friends of Penn¬ 
sylvania; and the author of Vindication 
of the Society of Friends; Oaths; Bap¬ 
tism; and Life of William Penn. He died 
June 14, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LEWIS,' MRS. ESTELLE ANNA 
BLANCHE [ROBINSON], author, poet, 
was born in April, 1824, near Baltimore, 
Md. She was a Brooklyn writer whose 
life was largely spent in Europe. She was 
the author of Sappho of Lesbos; Records 
of the Heart; Child of the Sea; Myths 
of the Minstrel; and Heldmah, or the 
Fall of Montezuma. She died Nov. 24, 
1880, in England. 

LEWIS, FRANCIS, signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence, was born in 
March, 1713, in Wales. In 1735 he set¬ 
tled in New York as a merchant; and 
in the prosecution of his business visited 
Russia and other parts of Europe. He 
became one of the Sons of Liberty; was 
a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1776 to 1779; signed the articles of 
confederation; and was also one of the 
signers of the declaration of independence 
He died Dec. 30, 1803, in New York city! 
N. Y. 

LEWIS, GEORGE JOHN, journalist, 
banker, legislator, was born March 28, 
1861, in Watertown, Minn. For ten years 
he has been a successful banker of Boise, 
Idaho. He served with distinction as a 
member of the second Idaho legislature; 
and during 1897-98 was secretary of state 
of Idaho. In 1897 he was the democratic 
candidate for the United States senate 
from Idaho. 

LEWIS, GEORGE L., railroad president 
was born May 31, 1857, in Buffalo, N. Y.’ 

In 1893 he was elected president of the 
Portage Creek and Rich Valley railway. 

LEV IS, MRS. HARRIET, author, was 
born in 1841. She is the author of Amber, 
the Adopted; and Her Double Life. She 
died in 1878. 

LEV IS, HENR\ CARVILL, geologist, 
educator, was born Nov. 16, 1853, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He furnished numerous pa¬ 
pers on the geology and mineralogy of 
Pennsylvania to the Proceedings of the 
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci¬ 
ences. He was elected professor of miner¬ 
alogy in the Academy of Natural Sciences 
in 1880, and to the chair of geology in 

^ a 7o r o f o 0rd c ° llege ln 1883 - He died July 
21, 1888, in England. 

. LEV IS, HIRAM V HEELER, prohibi¬ 
tionist, author, was born March 11, 1843, 
m Warren, Ohio. He was the founder of 
the Lewis academy of Wichita, Kan., in 
which city he organized the national 
bank in 18 <6, and of which he was presi¬ 
dent for sixteen years. He served one 
in the Mississippi legislature in 
1870-71; and for five years succeeding 
that time was a county sheriff. 


LEWIS, IDA, heroine, was born Feb. 
25, 1842, in Newport, R. I. She is called 
the Grace Darling of America. Her father, 
the keeper of Lime Rock lighthouse, be¬ 
coming paralytic, Ida was obliged to use 
the oars herself in providing for the fam¬ 
ily, which made her so expert that at the 
early age of sixteen she was numbered 
with the brave, by rescuing drowning 
people. Eleven lives were saved by her 
in as many years; but the last brave deed 
of March 29, 1869, when she rescued two 
soldiers from Fort Adams, whose boat had 
capsized, gave her national popularity. 

LEWIS, ISAAC IVES, merchant, bank¬ 
er, legislator, was born Feb. 7, 1825, in 
Meriden, Conn. During 1854-71 he was 
a successful mer¬ 
chant and real estate 
dealer of Minneap¬ 
olis, Minn.; and dur¬ 
ing 1871-90 was su- 
perintend ent of 
mines in Montana 
and Idaho. In 1867- 
68 he was a member 
of the Minnesota 
house of representa¬ 
tives. In 1875-76 and 
again in 1877-78 he 
served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the legislative coun¬ 
cil of Montana at Helena. He is now a 
successful merchant and banker at Ketch- 
urn, Idaho; and president of the First 
National bank of that city, which was 
organized in 1884. 

LEWIS, ISAAC NEWTON, educator, 
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 25, 
1848, in Walpole, Mass. He received the 
rudiments of his ed¬ 
ucation in the Eliot 
High school of Bos¬ 
ton, Mass.; received 
the degree of A. B. 
from Harvard col¬ 
lege in 1873; and the 
degrees of A. M. and 
LL. B. from the Bos¬ 
ton university. He 
taught school in the 
Eliot High school 
and has filled a pro¬ 
fessorship in the 
Chelsea academy. He has been president 
of the Union Publishing company; presi¬ 
dent of the Maple Grove cemetery, and 
served with distinction as judge. He has 
traveled extensively in Europe, Palestine, 
Egypt, India and Japan, making a com¬ 
plete tour around the world in 1887-88. 

He is a successful lawyer of Boston, 
Mass.; is the author of Immoriam; Pleas¬ 
ant Hours in Sunny Lands; and a con¬ 
stant contributor to periodical literature. 

LEVIS, JAMES HAMILTON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 18, 1863, in 
Danville, Va. In 1885 he was elected to 
the Washington territorial senate as a 
democrat for the eleventh district; and 
was nominated for governor in 1892, and 
declined the nomination because opposed 
to the platform. He was one of the two 
nominees of the democrats in the legis¬ 
lature of 1894 for United States senator; 
and in the national democratic conven¬ 
tion in Chicago, 1896, his name was pre¬ 
sented by the state of Washington for 
vice-president of the United States. He 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a democrat. 

LEVIS, JAMES T., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, governor, was born Oct 
30, 1819, in Clarendon, N. Y. He was elect¬ 
ed to the Wisconsin state legislature in 
1851: and to the state senate in 1852. 

He was lieutenant-governor in 1853; sec¬ 
retary of state in 1861; and governor of 
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LEWIS, JOHN FRANCIS, farmer, 
United States senator, was born March 1, 
1818, near Fort Republic, Va. He was a 
union candidate for congress in 1865, and 
defeated; and in 1869 was nominated for 
lieutenant-governor, and elected. He was 
elected a United States senator from Vir¬ 
ginia in 1869, and took his seat in 1870 
for the term ending in 1875. 

LEWIS, JOHN FREDERICK, lawyer 
orator, was born Sept. 10, 1860, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He received his education in 
the public schools of Philadelphia, and 
was a graduate of the Central High school 
of that city. He has attained success at 
the bar; has been president of the Law 
academy of Philadelphia, and was former¬ 
ly its prothonotary. He is chairman of 
the executive committee of the Philadel¬ 
phia Humane society; president of the 
American Humane union; and vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Merchants’ Trust company. 
He is identified with many charitable in¬ 
stitutions; is secretary of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; 
and for many years was president of the 
Lutheran association of Philadelphia, and 
also of the Missionary society of St. John’s 
Lutheran church. 

LEWIS, JOHN H., lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born July 21, 
1830, in Tompkins county, N. Y. He was 
elected clerk of the circuit court of Knox 
county, Ill., in 1860; was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the state legislature in 1874; 
and was elected a representative from Il¬ 
linois to the forty-seventh congress as a 
republican. 

LEWTS, JOHN KERFOOT, educator, 
clergyman, was born March 18, 1835, in 
York, Pa. In 1858 he was ordained dea¬ 
con, and two years later a priest in the 
Protestant episcopal church. He was com¬ 
missioned a chaplain in the United States 
navy in 1869, retiring from same in 1897. 

LEWTS, JOHN T., soldier, lawyer, was 
born Nov. 6, 1838, in Lewis county, Mo. 
He served four years in the confederate 
army under General Price’s command. 
For eight years he was cashier of the 
Canton Savings bank; and for six years 
was mayor of that city. In 1876 he was 
a presidential elector on the Tilden and 
Hendricks ticket; and was prominent in 
politics during the trying times of re¬ 
construction; and has always been a con¬ 
sistent democrat. He is now one of the 
foremost lawyers of Texas at San An¬ 
tonio. 

LEWTS, JOHN TILLERY, physical in¬ 
structor, was born Jan. 6, 1874, in Homes- 
ville. Miss. He attended the Millsaps col¬ 
lege of Jackson, Miss., in which institu¬ 
tion he is physical director and gymnastic 
instructor. He also has been professor 
in the summer school of Higher Physical 
Culture at Monteagle, Tenn. 

LEWTS, JOHN WILLIAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born near Greensburg, Ky. 
He was a member of the republican state 
central committee of 
Kentucky from 1878 
to 1891, and was 
chairman of the same 
in the state cam¬ 
paign of 1887; and 
was the republican 
candidate for elector 
for his district in the 
presidential cam¬ 
paign of 1892. He 
has been often elect¬ 
ed special judge of 
Marion circuit court, 
and served as special judge in circuit 
courts of Marion, Taylor and other coun¬ 
ties of the judicial district. He was nomi¬ 
nated for representative in congress by 



the republican convention, June, 1894, 
and was elected to the fifty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

LEW IS, JOSEPH, JR., congressman, 
was born in \ irginia. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1803 to 1817. 

LEWIS, JOSEPH H., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 
1824, in Barren county, Ky. He was a 
member of the state legislature in 1850, 
1851, 1852 and 1869. He was elected to 
the forty-first congress to fill a vacancy; 
and was re-elected to the forty-second 
congress as a democrat. 

LEWIS, JOSEPH R., lawyer, jurist. He 
was an early emigrant to Washington ter¬ 
ritory; and in 1872 was appointed an as¬ 
sociate justice of the United States court 
for that district. 

LEWIS, JOSHUA, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1744 in Virginia. He was an early 
emigrant to the territory of Orleans; 
and in 1806 was appointed judge of the 
United States court for that district. He 
died June 5, 1833, in New Orleans, La. 

LEWIS, JUAN, soldier, public official, 
poet. Col. Lewis is connected with the 
United States patent office at Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., in which 
city he is also chair¬ 
man of the Lewis 
Printing company. 
He has delivered ded¬ 
ication poems at re¬ 
unions; has written 
extensively for the 
periodical press; and 
is the author of a 
volume of poems. 
His poems have been 
given a place in 
. ., Poets of America 

and in other standard collections; and 

also constantly appear in the leading pe¬ 
riodicals of the east. 

LEW IS, LAURENCE, lawyer, author 

was born June 20, 1857, in Philadelphia,’ 

Pa He was a lawyer of Philadelphia; 
and the author of Pennsylvania Courts in 
the Seventeenth Century; History of the 
Bank of North America; Memoir of Ed¬ 
ward Shippen; and Original Land Titles 
in Philadelphia. He died in 1890. 

LEWIS, MERIWETHER, explorer gov¬ 
ernor, was born Aug. 18, 1774, near Char¬ 
lottesville, Pa. He was made governor of 
Louisiana territory in 1807; and restored 
the country from strife and dissensions to 
order. He died by his own hand Oct 8 
1809, near Nashville, Tenn. 

LEWIS, MORGAN, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, governor, was born 
Oct. 16, 1754, in New York city. He was 
judge of the supreme 
court of New York 
in 1792; chief justice 
in 1801; and govern¬ 
or from 1804 to 1807. 
He was a member of 
the state legislature 
from 1808 to 1811. He 
was appointed quar¬ 
termaster - general 
with the rank of 
brigadier-general in 
1812; and major-gen¬ 
eral in 1813. In 1814 
he was entrusted with the defense of New 
York city; subsequently devoted himself 
to literature and agriculture. In 1835 was 
president of the New York Historical so¬ 
ciety. He died Oct. 16, 1854, in New York 
city. 

LEWTS, NATHANIEL W., soldier, hor¬ 
ticulturist, state senator, was born Sept. 

11, 1831, in Washington county, Vt. He 




BIOGRAPHY. '585 

taught school for awhile, and in 1858 
moved to Calhoun county, Mich. In 1862 
he enlisted as a private in an independent 
regiment known as Merrill’s Horse; was 
promoted through the grades to lieuten¬ 
ant; and was mustered out in the fall of 
1865. He is a successful fruit grower and 
nurseryman of Goblesville, Mich.; has 
filled numerous offices of trust; and served 
two years, during 1878-79, as a member 
of the Michigan state senate. 

LEWIS. RICHARD JAMES, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born Nov. 22, 1851, in 
New York city. In 1885 he was elected to 
the New York assembly from New York 
city. 

LEW IS. MRS. SADIE, poet, was born 
Feb. 14, 1859, in Pleasant Gap, Pa. She 
is the author of a number of poems. 

LEWIS, SETH, lawyer, jurist. He was 
an early emigrant to the territory of Mis¬ 
sissippi; and in 1800 was appointed chief 
justice of the United States court for 
that district. 

LEWIS, TAYLOR, educator, author, was 
born in 1802 in New York. He was an 
educator of note who was professor of 
Greek in Union college from 1849 until 
his death. He was the author of The Pla¬ 
tonic Theology; The Bible and Science; 

Six Days of Creation; Defense of Capital 
Punishment (with G. B. Cheever); The 
Divine-Human in the Scriptures; States’ 
Rights; Heroic Periods in the Nation’s 
History; and The Light by which we 
See Light. He died in 1877. 

LEWIS, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1803 to 1804, when his seat was " 
successfully contested by A. Moore. 

LEWIS, THOMAS D., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 15, 1865, in Salt Lake 
City. In 1896 he was elected a member 
of the first Utah state legislature. 

LEWTS. WESTON, railroad president, 
was born Dec. 26, 1850. Since 1890 he has 
been president of the Kennebec Central 
railroad at Gardiner, Maine. 

LEWIS, WILLIAM, soldier, was born in 
1765 in Virginia. He was a lieutenant- 
colonel of Kentucky volunteers in the war 
of 1812. He died Jan. 17, 1825, in Little 
Rock, Ark 

LEWIS, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in the state of Pennsylvania. In 1791 
he was appointed a judge of the United 
States court for the district of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 

LEWIS, WILLIAM DAVID, translator, 
was born Dec. 22, 1792, in Christiana, Del. 

He translated and published the Bokesar- 
ian Fountain, by Alexander Pushkin, and 
other poems by various Russian authors. 

He died April 1, 1881, near Florence, N. J. 

LEWIS, WILLIAM DAVID, soldier, was 
born in 1828 in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
served in the civil war, and in 1865 was 
brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. 

He died Jan. 19, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LEWIS, WTLLIAM J., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1817 to 1819. 

LEWIS, WINSLOW, physician, surgeon, 
author, was born July 8, 1799, in Boston. 
Mass. He translated from the French, 

Gall on the Structure and Functions of 
the Brain; edited Paxon’s Anatomy; and 
the Journal of the Boston Gynaecological 
Society, one volume of which was pub¬ 
lished. He died Aug. 3, 1875, in Grant- 
ville, Mass. 

LEWIS, ZACHARIAH, educator, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Jan. 1, 1773, in Wilton, 
Conn. In 1803 he became editor of the 
New York Commercial Advertiser, and of 
the New York Spectator. He died Nov. 

14, 1840, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 





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LEXOW, CLARENCE, lawyer, state 
senator, was born Sept. 16, 1852, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. In 1890 he was a representative 
in congress; and in 1893 was elected to 
the New York state senate. 

LEYPOLDT, FREDERICK, bibliograph¬ 
er, author, was boril Nov. 17, 1835, in Ger¬ 
many. He published an American Cata¬ 
logue for 1869, and in 1876 he began work 
on the American catalogue proper, which 
was completed in 1880. His Publishers’ 
Uniform Trade-List Annual was begun in 
1873; the Literary News in 1875; the Li¬ 
brary Journal in 1876, and the Index Med- 
icus, a monthly medical bibliography, in 
1880. He died March 31, 1884, in New 
York city. 

L’HOMMEDIEU, EZRA, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 30, 1734, in 
Stronghold, N. Y. He was a delegate from 
New York to the continental congress 
from 1779 to 1783, and again in 1787 and 
1788. He died Sept. 28, 1811, in Strong¬ 
hold, N. Y. 

LIBBEY, HARRY, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1843 in Wakefield, 
N. H. He settled in Elizabeth City coun¬ 
ty; and in 1869 was appointed one of the 
presiding justices of the county. He was 
elected a representative from Virginia to 
the forty-eighth and forty-ninth con¬ 
gresses. 

LIBBEY, LAURA JEAN, author. Her 
greatest work is Miss Middleton’s Lover, 
which is a classic comparable with the 
finest production of any foreign or do¬ 
mestic pen. 

LIBBY, JAMES ALBERT, clergyman, 
poet, was born July 3, 1832, in Poland, 
Maine. He is an advent clergyman of 
West Poland, Maine. He is the author of 
a number of poems. 

LIEBER. FRANCIS, educator, author, 
was born March 18, 1800, in Germany. He 
was an eminent publicist, professor of 
political economy in the university of 
South Carolina in 1835-56, and subse¬ 
quently at Columbia college. He was the 
author of Reminiscences of Niebuhr; The 
West, and Other Poems; Manual of Politi¬ 
cal Ethics; Laws of Property; Civil Lib¬ 
erty and Self-Government; Legal and Po¬ 
litical Hermeneutics; Instructions for the 
Armies in the Field; The Character of the 
Gentleman; and Miscellaneous Writings. 
He died Oct. 2, 1872, in New York city. 

LIEBER, OSCAR MONTGOMERY, sol¬ 
dier, geologist, author, was born Sept. 8, 
1830, in Boston, Mass. He was a soldier in 
the federal army during the civil war; 
and the author of The Assayer’s Guide; 
The Analytical Chemist’s Assistant; and 
The Geology of Mississippi. He died June 
27, 1862, in Richmond, Va. 

LIGHT, GEORGE WASHINGTON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born Jan. 21, 1809, 
in Portland, Maine. He was a journalist 
of Boston; and the author of Life of Tim¬ 
othy Claxton; and Keep Cool, Go Ahead, 
and a Few More Poems. He died Jan. 27, 
1868, in Somerville, Mass. 

LIGON, ROBERT F., soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born in 
Clarke county, Ga. He served in the 
Mexican war as a captain. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in the Georgia legislature in 
1849 and 1850; a state senator in 1860, and 
again in 1863. He was a captain in the 
confederate army; and was lieutenant- 
governor in 1874. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Alabama to the forty- 
fifth congress as a democrat. 

LIGON. THOMAS WATKINS, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born in Prince Ed¬ 
ward county, Va. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Maryland from 1845 
to 1849; and in 1854 was elected governor 
of that state. He died Jan. 13, 1881. 


LIKINS, JOHN L., merchant, legislator, 
was born May 6, 1861, in Jasper county, 
Iowa. He has served in the city council 
of Whatcom, Wash., for three terms; and 
in 1896 was elected a member of the 
Washington state legislature. 

LILLIE, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born Dec. 16, 1812, in Scotland. He was 
a presbyterian clergyman of Kingston, N. 
Y., who published The Perpetuity of the 
Earth. He died in February, 1867, in 
Kingston, N. Y. 

LILLIE, MRS. LUCY CECIL [WHITE], 
author, was born in 1835 in New York. 
She is a writer of popular juveniles; and 
the author of Mildred’s Bargain; Nan; 
The Story of Music and Musicians: Rolf 
House; The Colonel’s Money; Jo’s Op¬ 
portunity; The Household of Glen Holly; 
The Story of English Literature; Pru¬ 
dence, a Novel of ^Esthetic London; 
Ruth Endicott’s Way; and Alison’s Ad¬ 
ventures. 

LILLIE, MRS. R. SHEPARD, poet, was 
born in> Erie county, N. Y. She is the 
author of a book of poems entitled Rays 
of Light. 

LILLY, HERBERT L„ educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born July 12, 1858, in Do¬ 
ver, Ohio. He received his education in 
the common schools of his native city, 
and at the Delaware university of Ohio. 
For several years he was engaged in ed¬ 
ucational work as a teacher in the public 
schools of Dover and Cleveland, Ohio. 
During 1891-95 he was city prosecutor in 
Cleveland; and in 1896 was appointed a 
police judge in that city. 

LILLY, SAMUEL, physician, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 28, 1815, in Geneva, 
N. Y. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New Jersey from 1853 to 1855. 

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, sixteenth presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born Feb. 
12, 1809, in Hardin (now Larne) county, 
Ky. In 1816 his father 
and family removed 
to what is now Spen¬ 
cer county, Ind. Here 
he attended school 
about one year, which 
was all the schooling 
he ever had. In 1830 
the family removed 
to Macon county, Ill. 
When the Black 
Hawk war broke out, 
in 1832, Abraham 
Lincoln joined a vol¬ 
unteer company, and was at once chosen 
captain. At the close of the war they 
were disbanded at Whitewater, Wis., and 
he made his way home on foot and on a 
raft down the Illinois river. In the fall of 
1832 he became a candidate for the state 
legislature, and was beaten. He was post¬ 
master at New Salem from 1833 to 1836. In 
1834 he was elected to the legislature as 
a whig, and re-elected in 1836-38-40. He 
was one of the five whig presidential 
electors for Illinois in 1840. He was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1836, and commenced 
the practice of law at Springfield in 1837. 

Up to this time he had never seen the in¬ 
side of a college or academy. He married 
Miss Mary Todd, Nov. 4, 1842. He was 
elected a representative to congress in 
1846, and declined to be a candidate for 
re-election in 1848. May 16, 1860, the re¬ 
publican national convention met at Chi¬ 
cago to nominate candidates for president 
and vice-president of the United States. 
May 18 the balloting commenced. On the 
first ballot William Henry Seward re¬ 
ceived 173 votes; Abraham Lincoln. 102- 
Simon Cameron. 50; Salmon Portland 
Chase, 49; Edward Bates, 48; William L, 


Dayton, 14; John McL,ean, 12; scattering, 
16. On the second ballot Seward re¬ 
ceived 184 votes; Lincoln, 181; Chase, 42; 
Bates, 35; Dayton, 10; McLean, 8; scat¬ 
tering, 4. The third ballot was as fol¬ 
lows: Lincoln, 231; Seward, 180; Chase, 
24; Bates, 22; scattering, 7. Before the re¬ 
sult was announced four Ohio delegates 
changed their votes, gjving him a major¬ 
ity. It was then made unanimous. Han¬ 
nibal Hamlin was nominated for vice- 
president. Being duly elected, they were- 
inaugurated March 4, 1861. Prior to this 
time several of the southern states had 
passed ordinances of secession. The vari¬ 
ous calls made by Lincoln for troops to 
suppress the rebellion were: The call of 
April, 1861, for 75,000; the call of May, 
1861, for 82,748; the call of July, 1861, for 
500,000; the call of July, 1862, for 300,000; 
the call of August, 1862, for 300,000; the 
call of June, 1863, for 100,000; the call of 
October, 1863, for 300,000; the call of Feb¬ 
ruary, 1864, for 200,000; the call of March, 
1864, for 200,000; the call of April, 1864, 
for 85,000; the call of July, 1864, for 500,- 
000; the call of December, 1864, for 300,- 
000. The total number of troops called 
for was 2,942,748. The total number ob¬ 
tained was 2,690,4/11. In 1864-65 the ex¬ 
penditures of the government amounted 
to over $3,500,000 per day. The national 
debt at the close of the war was over $2,- 
749,000,000. 

The best speech that ever fell from 
human lips was delivered by Abra¬ 
ham Lincoln on the battlefield of Gettys¬ 
burg, Nov. 19, 1863. We give it in full, as 
follows: 

“Fourscore and seven years ago our 
fathers brought forth upon this continent 
a new nation, conceived in liberty and 
dedicated to the proposition that all men 
are created equal. Now we are engaged 
in a great civil war, testing whether that 
nation, or any nation so conceived and so- 
dedicated, can long endure. We are met 
on a great battlefield of that war. We 
have come to dedicate a portion of that 
field as a final resting-place for those 
who here gave up their lives that 
that nation might live. It is altogether¬ 
fitting and proper that we should do this. 
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, 
we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow 
this ground. The brave men, living and. 
dead, who struggled here have conse¬ 
crated it far above our power to add or- 
detract. The world will little note, nor- 
long remember, what we say here, but it 
can never forget what they did here. It is 
for us, the living, rather to be dedicated 
here to the unfinished work which they 
who fought here have thus far so nobly 
advanced. It is rather for us to be here- 
dedicated to the great task remaining oe- 
fore us, that from these honored dead we- 
take increased devotion to that cause- 
for which they gave the last full measure 
of devotion; that we here highly resolve- 
that these dead shall not have died in 
vain; that this nation, under God, shall 
have a new birth of freedom, and that, 
the government of the people, by the peo¬ 
ple, and for the people, shall not perish 
from the earth.” 

June 8, 1864, the national republican 
convention met at Baltimore, and re¬ 
nominated President Lincoln, with An¬ 
drew Johnson for vice-president. They 
were inaugurated March 4, 1865. He was 
assassinated in Ford’s theater, at Wash¬ 
ington, by John Wilkes Booth, oil the 
fourteenth of April, and died on the fif¬ 
teenth. The whole nation, like one great 
family, mourned his loss. Lincoln held 
office fourteen years. He left about $75,- 
000. His complete works are contained in 
two volumes, edited by Nicolay and Hay. 






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LINCOLN, BENJAMIN, soldier, was 
born Jan.' 24, 1733, in Hingham, Mass. He 
was a farmer until 1773, holding the offices 
of magistrate, repre¬ 
sentative in the pro¬ 
vincial legislature; 
and colonel of mili¬ 
tia. In 1776 he joined 
the continental army, 
and rose rapidly to 
the position of ma¬ 
jor-general. He died 
May 9, 1810, in Hing¬ 
ham, Mass. He was 
a gallant soldier; a 
great jurist and 
statesman, and one 
of the foremost men of his time. 

LINCOLN. DANIEL FRANCIS, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Jan. 4, 1841, in 
Boston, Mass. He is a physician of Bos¬ 
ton; and the author of School Hygiene; 
Electro-Therapeutics; and School and In- 
dustrial Hygiene. 

LINCOLN, ENOCH, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, poet, was born Dec. 28, 1788, in 
Worcester, Mass. He was a member of 
the United States house of representatives 
from Massachusetts from 1818 to 1820, and 
from 1821 to 1826 from the new state of 
Maine. He was then elected governor of 
Maine, and re-elected in 1828. He pub¬ 
lished. while at Fryeburg, a poem, en¬ 
titled The Village; and was also the au¬ 
thor of some historical recollections of 
Maine. He died Oct. 8, 1829, in Augusta. 
Maine. 

LINCOLN, FREDERIC WALKER, ban¬ 
ker, legislator, was born in 1817 in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He was president of the 
Franklin Savings bank of Boston, Mass.; 
and served several terms in the state leg¬ 
islature. He died Sept. 19, 1898. in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

LINCOLN, HEMAN, clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born April 14, 1821, in 
Boston, Mass. He is a baptist divine, pro¬ 
fessor of church history at Newton The¬ 
ological seminary since 1868; and the au¬ 
thor of Outline Lectures in Church His¬ 
tory; and Outline Lectures in History of 
Doctrine. 

LINCOLN, ISAAC, physician, surgeon, 
was born Jan. 26, 1780, in Cohasset, 
Mass. After graduating at Cambridge in 
1800 he taught 
school; and in 1804 
began the practice of 
medicine. In 1820 he 
took up his residence 
in Brunswick, where 
he has attained 
prominence as one of 
the foremost physi¬ 
cians of New Eng¬ 
land. In 1848 he was 
a nominee for con¬ 
gress; from 1805 he 
was a member of the 
board of overseers of Bowdoin college; 
and filled numerous positions of trust 
and honor. 

LINCOLN, JANE ELIZABETH, author, 
poet, was born in 1829, in Colebrook, 
Conn. She is a frequent contributor, un¬ 
der the pen-name Kate Campbell, to the 
magazines published by Godey, Sartain, 
Peterson, and Neal, and to the annuals. 
Subsequently she wrote for baptist jour¬ 
nals. 

LINCOLN, MRS. JEANIE [GOULD], 
author, poet, was born in 1846, in New 
York. She is a writer of Washington city ; 
and the author of A Chaplet of Leaves, a 
book of verse; Marjorie’s Quest, a story 
for young people; Her Washington Win¬ 
ter; and A Genuine Girl. 

LINCOLN, JOHN H., lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 19, 1859, in Plano, Ill. He 


is one of the foremost lawyers of Ne¬ 
braska at Stockville; has held the office 
of city prosecutor for several terms; has 
been United States prosecuting attorney; 
and twice served with distinction as judge 
of his district. In 1892 he was a delegate 
to the Omaha national convention. 

LINCOLN, JOHN LARKIN, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 23, 1817, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a professor of Latin in 
Brown university, well known as a classi¬ 
cal scholar, and editor of editions of Livy, 
Horace, and Cicero. He died Oct. 17, 1891, 
in Providence, R. I. 

LINCOLN, JOSEPH C., soldier, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born May 22, 1844, in 
Albany, N. Y. He received his education 
at the Lawrence university of Appleton, 
Wis.; and in 1871 graduated from the 
Rush Medical college of Chicago, Ill. Dur¬ 
ing the civ il war he was a member of 
the first regiment of Minnesota volun¬ 
teers. He has a large practice in Bowling 
Green, Ohio; is a member of the board of 
examining surgeons for pensions; and in 
1892 was the republican candidate for con¬ 
gress from the Toledo district. 

LINCOLN, LEVI, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 15, 1749, in Hing¬ 
ham, Mass. He was a judge of probate; a 
state senator in 1797; and county prosecu¬ 
tor in 1775. He was a representative in 
congress from 1799 to 1801. In 1801 he was 
appointed attorney-general of the United 
States, and acted as secretary of state un¬ 
til Mr. Madison reached Washington. He 
was a state counselor in 1806, 1810, and 
1811; and in 1807 was lieutenant-governor 
of Massachusetts, acting as governor in 
1809. He died April 14, 1820, in Worces¬ 
ter, Mass. 

LINCOLN, LEVI, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, congressman, governor, was born 
Oct. 25, 1782, in Massachusetts. He was 
a state senator in 1812; a state represen¬ 
tative from 1814 to 1823, and speaker in 
1822. He was lieutenant-governor of Mas¬ 
sachusetts in 1823; judge of the supreme 
court of the state in 1824; a presidential 
elector in 1825 and 1864; and governor of 
Massachusetts from 1825 to 1834. From 
1834 to 1841 he was a representative in 
congress. He was a state senator in 1844 
and 1845, and president of the senate. He 
died May 29, 1868, in Worcester, Mass. 

LINCOLN, MARTHA DE, was born in 
1838, in Herkimer county, N. Y. Mrs. 
Lincoln was educated at Whitestown sem¬ 
inary, New York, and early in life com¬ 
menced literary work; and her poems and 
articles have generally appeared under the 
nom de plume of Bessie Beech. In 1882, 
with two other journalists, she organized 
the Woman’s National Press association, 
which was the first chartered woman’s 
press organization in the world. She was 
its first secretary, and served the organi¬ 
zation eight years as president. Her most 
laborious work has been Central Figures 
in American Science; and her best work 
in prose and poetry is entitled Beech 
Leaves. In 1891 she was appointed dele¬ 
gate to the international peace congress in 
Rome; and again in 1892 to the peace 
congress in Switzerland; and the same 
year she was elected president of the 
American Society of Authors for Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. She is the wife of Henry M. 
Lincoln, an eminent physician of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

LINCOLN, MRS. MARY JOHNSON 
[BAILEY], author, was born in 1844, in 
Massachusetts. She is a Boston teacher 
of cookery, culinary editor of The Ameri¬ 
can Kitchen Magazine; and the author of 
Boston Cook Book; Carving and Serving; 
Twenty Lessons in Cookery; and Kitchen 
Text-Book. 


LINCOLN, MARY TODD, was born Dec. 
12, 1818, in Lexington, Ky. She was the 
wife of Abraham Lincoln. She died July 
16, 1882, in Springfield, Ill. 

LINCOLN, ROBERT T., soldier, lawyer 
was born Aug. 1, 1843, in Springfield, Ill. 
He entered the union army as captain and 
assistant adjutant-general; and resigned 
in June, 1865. He was a presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1880; and in 1881 was appointed 
secretary of war in the cabinet of Presi¬ 
dent Garfield, and continued in that po¬ 
sition in the cabinet of President Arthur. 
In 1889 he was appointed minister to 
Great Britain. 

LINCOLN, WILLIAM, antiquarian, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1801, in Worcester. He 
was one of the publishers of the Worces¬ 
ter Magazine in 1826-27. He delivered an 
oration at Worcester in 1816, and was the 
author of a History of Worcester. He 
died Oct. 5,1843, in Worcester. 

LINCOLN, WILLIAM S., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1813, in 
Newark Valley, N. Y. In 1866 he was 
elected a representative from New York to 
the fortieth congress. 

LIND, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, was 
born March 25, 1854, in Sweden. He was 
a member of congress from the second 
district of Minnesota in the fiftieth, fifty- 
first, and fifty-second congresses, and de¬ 
clined to be a candidate for renomination. 
He had charge and secured the passage of 
the automatic car coupler bill through the 
house. 

LINDERMAN, HENRY RICHARD, 
financier, author, was born Dec. 26, 1825, 
in Lehman, Pa. He was the director of 
the United States mint at Philadelphia 
since 1873, whose annual report for 1877 
is a powerful argument for the gold stand¬ 
ard. He was the author of Money and Le¬ 
gal Tender in the United States. He died 
Jan. 27, 1879, in Washington, D. C. 

LINDESAY, MRS. MARIA B., poet, was. 
born Jan. 1, 1862, in England. She is the 
author of a number of poems. 

LINDLEY, JAMES J., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 1, 1822, in Mansfield, 
Ohio. He moved to Monticello, Mo.; and 
in 1848 he was elected circuit attorney 
for eight counties, and re-elected in 1852. 
He was.a representative from Missouri 
in the thirty-third congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-fourth congress. 

LINDSAY, JOHN SUMMERFIELD, 
clergyman, author, was born March 19, 
1842, in Williamsburg, Va. From 1883 
till 1885 he was chaplain of the United 
States house of representatives. He is the 
author of A Sketch of Hamilton Parish, 
Va.; and A Sketch of St. John’s Church, 
Georgetown. 

LINDSAY, JOHN THOMAS, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Jan. 8, 1818, in Mc- 
Connellsburg, Pa. For forty-five years the 
subject of this sketch 
practiced law in Pe¬ 
oria, Ill. During that 
time, in connection 
with R. G. Ingersoll, 
he built the west end 
of Peoria and Terre 
Haute railroad. He 
was appointed on the 
McClelland and Sey¬ 
mour tickets as pres¬ 
idential elector, and 
in the contest be¬ 
tween Douglas and 
Lincoln was on the representative ticket 
for Douglas. He went to Nebraska with 
his three sons, and started a cattle 
and sheep ranch in Knox county, naming 
the place Peoria. He is the author of three 
novels; and numerous poems. 









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LINDSAY, ROBERT B., governor. He 
was governor of Alabama from 1871 to 
1872. 

LINDSAY, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, United States senator, 
was born Sept. 4, 1835, in Rockbridge 
county, Va. He served in the confederate 
army continuously from 1861 till 1865; and 
was paroled as prisoner of war at Colum¬ 
bus, Miss., in 1865. He resumed the prac¬ 
tice of law in Hickman county, Ky.; and 
was elected state senator for the Hickman 
■district in 1867. He was elected judge of 
the Kentucky court of appeals in 1870, and 
served till 1878. From 1876 until 1878 he 
was chief justice of the court; and has 
practiced law in Frankfort since 1878. He 
was elected state senator for the Frank¬ 
fort district in 1889; and was appointed 
and served as a member of the World’s 
■Columbian commission for the country at 
large from the organization of the com¬ 
mission until 1893. He was appointed and 
confirmed a member of the Interstate 
Commerce commission in 1892, but de¬ 
clined to accept the appointment. He was 
elected United States senator on Feb. 14, 
1893, to fill the vacancy caused by the 
resignation of John G. Carlisle; and was 
re-elected in January, 1894, for the full 
term commencing March 4, 1895. His term 
of service will expire March 3, 1901. 

LINDSEY, DANIEL WEISIGER, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born Oct. 4, 1835, in 
Frankfort, Ky. In 1863 he was appointed 
adjutant-general of Kentucky, and served 
till the close of the term in 1867. 

LINDSEY, REMEMBRANCE HUGHES, 
•soldier, educator, lawyer, was born April 
14, 1845, in Jefferson, Pa. He received 
his education at the Waynesburg college; 
attended West Point Military academy, 
and became a lieutenant in the third reg¬ 
iment United States artillery. He is one 
of the foremost lawyers of Pennsylvania 
•at Uniontown; has been district attorney; 
and in active practice for over a quarter 
of a century. 

LINDSEY, STEPHEN D., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, state senator, congressman, was 
born March 3, 1828, in Norridgewock, 
Maine. He was a representative in the 
Maine state legislature in 1856. He was a 
state senator from 1868 to 1870, and presi- 
•dent of the senate in 1869; and a member 
of the executive council in 1874. He was 
elected a representative from Maine to 
the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-sev- 
■enth congresses as a republican. He died 
April 30, 1884. 

LINDSEY, WILLIAM, author, poet, was 
born in 1858, in Boston, Mass. He is a 
Boston writer; and the author of Apples 
of Istakhar, a volume of poems; and Cin¬ 
der-Path Tales. 

LINDSLEY, DAVID PHILIP, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 22, 1834, in 
Downsville, Del. For many years he was 
a teacher of sciences, and for fifteen years 
a successful clergyman. He was the au¬ 
thor of a shorthand system known as 
Lindsley’s Takigrafy. He died in March, 
1897, in Springfield, Conn. 

LINDSLEY, JAMES GIRARD, congress¬ 
man, was born March 19, 1819, in Orange, 
N. J. In 1872 he was elected the first 
mayor of Kingston, N. Y., and was re¬ 
elected for six consecutive years. He be¬ 
came president of the Kingston City Rail- 
load company; president of the Kingston 
Water Works company, and president of 
the Albert Manufacturing company of 
New Brunswick, B. A.; and in 1884 was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-ninth congress as a republi¬ 
can. 


LINDSLEY, JOHN BERRIEN, soldier, 
physician, clergyman, educator, historian, 
author, was born Oct. 24, 1822, in Prince¬ 
ton, N. J. He at¬ 
tended the university 
of Nashville ( o f 
which his eminent 
father was presi¬ 
dent), from which 
institution he re¬ 
ceived the degrees of 
A. B., M. A.; and re¬ 
ceived his degree of 
medicine from the 
university of Penn¬ 
sylvania. He then 
studied natural sci¬ 
ence for five years; and subsequently 
traveled extensively in Europe and Ameri¬ 
ca. In 1850 he commenced teaching medi¬ 
cine in Nashville, Tenn., where his life 
has been passed as educator and practical 
sanitarian. He served with distinction in 
the confederate army, and had charge of 
the numerous confederate hospitals in 
Nashville. For twenty-three years he was 
professor of chemistry and pharmacy in 
the medical department of the university 
of Nashville, of which institution he was 
dean of the faculty and one of its found¬ 
ers. This institution is now affiliated 
with the Vanderbilt university, of which 
he was chancellor. He is now professor 
of the State Medical university of Tennes¬ 
see; was four years health officer of Nash¬ 
ville; and for the past fourteen years 
has been state health officer of Tennessee. 
He is the author of Military Annals of 
Tennessee; and other works. 

LINDSLEY, NATHANIEL LAW¬ 
RENCE, educator, was born Sept. 11, 1816, 
in Princeton, N. J. For many years he 
was professor of languages in Cumberland 
university, and subsequently founded 
Greenwood seminary. He was associated 
with Dr. Joseph E. Worcester in the prep¬ 
aration of the dictionary that bears his 
name, and had projected a great work to 
be entitled An Encyclo-Lexicon of the 
English Language. He died Oct. 10, 1868, 
in Lebanon, Tenn. 

LINDLSEY, PHILIP, educator, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born Dec. 21, 
1786, in Morristown, N. J. He was presi¬ 
dent of the university of Nashville during 
1824-50. His works were published in 
three volumes. He died May 25, 1855, in 
Nashville, Tenn. 

LINDSLEY, WILLIAM D., congress¬ 
man, was born in Connecticut. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1853 to 1855. 

LINEN, JAMES, poet, was born in 1808, 
in Scotland. He was a book-binder of 
New York city; and the author of Songs 
of the Seasons; and Poetical and Prose 
Writings. He died Nov. 20, 1873, in New 
York city. 

LINING, JOHN, physician, scientist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1708, in Scotland. He 
was a physician and scientist of Charles¬ 
ton who published in 1753 a History of 
Yellow Fever, the earliest American trea¬ 
tise on the subject. He died in 1760, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

LINK, JESSE, lawyer, was born April 
12, 1828, in Tobinsport, Ind. In 1865 he 
was admitted to the bar, and has ever 
since been actively engaged in that pro¬ 
fession. He has also been successful in 
general business at Booneville, Ind.; and 
has always taken an active part in the 
public affairs of his county and state. 

LINK, JOHN EPHRAIM, M. D., educa¬ 
tor, physician, was born Aug. 14, 1839 in 
New Albany, Ind. In 1874 he was ’ap¬ 
pointed professor of anatomy in the col¬ 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons at In¬ 
dianapolis, Ind. 


LINN, ARCHIBALD LAIDLIE, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1802, in 
New York city. He was twice elected 
mayor of Schenectady, N. Y.; and was a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1841 to 1843. In 1844 he was elected 
to the state assembly. He died Oct. 10, 
1857, in Grassfield, N. Y. 

LINN, JAMES, congressman, was born 
in 1750, in New Jersey. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New Jersey 
from 1799 to 1801, when he was appointed 
supervisor of the revenue. For many 
years he also held the office of secretary 
of state of New Jersey. He died Dec. 29, 
1820, in Trenton, N. J. 

LINN, JAMES MERRILL, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Oct. 17, 1833, in Lewisburg, 
Pa. In 1854 he was admitted to the bar; 

and was actively en¬ 
gaged in his profes¬ 
sion until his death. 
During the civil war 
he bore a commis¬ 
sion as second lieu¬ 
tenant in the fourth 
Pennsylvania regi¬ 
ment; was commis¬ 
sioned captain in the 
fifty-first regiment; 
and subsequently 
served on the staffs 
of various generals. 
In 1871 he received a commission as judge 
advocate with the rank of major in the 
eighth di\ision of the Pennsylvania na¬ 
tional guard. He died Feb. 23, 1897, in 
Lewisburg, Pa. 

LINN. JOHN, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New Jersey. He 
was for many years a member of the New 
Jersey assembly; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1817 
to 1821. He died Jan. 6, 1821. 

LINN, JOHN BLAIR, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born March 14, 1777, in 
Shippensburg, Pa. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of Philadelphia; and the au¬ 
thor of The Power of Genius, a Poem; 
Valerian, a Poem; The Gallic Orphan, a 
drama; and Miscellanea. He died in 1804. 

LINN, JOHN BLAIR, lawyer, author, 
was born Oct. 15, 1831, in Lewisburg, Pa. 
He is a Pennsylvania lawyer; and the 
author of Annals of Buffalo Valley; Penn¬ 
sylvania Archives; and History of Centre 
and Clinton Counties. 

LINN, LEWIS FIELDS, legislator, 
United States senator, was born Nov. 5, 
1796, in Louisville, Ky. He studied medi¬ 
cine in 1809; removed 
to Missouri; and in 
1814 helped to fight 
the battles of his 
country, after suc¬ 
cessfully practicing 
his profession. He 
was elected to the 
Missouri state legis¬ 
lature in 1827. In 
1833 he was elected a 
senator in congress, 
in which capacity he 
served until his 
death. He died Oct. 3, 1843, in St. Gene¬ 
vieve, Mo. 

LINN, ROBERT GEORGE, lawyer was 
born April 6, 1849, in Glennville," W. Va. 
In 1870 he was admitted to the bar, after 
having attended the Cincinnati Law 
school. He was prosecuting attorney for 
Gilmore county for two years; and for 
twelve years was prosecuting attorney for 
Calhoun county. He has attained success 
as an able lawyer in his native city; and 
takes an active part in the public affairs 
of his county and state. 







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LINN, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born Feb. 27, 1752, in Shippensburg, 
Pa. He was a presbyterian clergyman of 
Philadelphia; famous in his day as a 
preacher; and the author of Discourses 
on Leading Personages of Scripture His¬ 
tory; and Signs of the Times. His ser¬ 
mon on the death of Washington was 
formerly much quoted. He died in Jan¬ 
uary, 1808, in Albany, N. Y. 

LINN, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, was 
born Aug. 31, 1790, in New York city. 
He was a lawyer of Ithaca; and the au¬ 
thor of Life of Thomas Jefferson; The 
Roorback Papers; and Legal and Com¬ 
mercial Commonplace Book. He died Jan. 
14, 1867, in Ithaca, N. Y. 

LINNEY, ROMULUS Z., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 
26, 1841, in Rutherford county, N. C. He 
served in the confed¬ 
erate army as a pri¬ 
vate soldier until the 
battle of Chancel- 
lorsville, where he 
was severely wound¬ 
ed. Having been dis¬ 
charged from the 
army because of his 
wound, he returned 
to Taylorsville, N.C., 
where he has attain¬ 
ed eminence at the 
bar. He was elected 
to the state senate in 1870, 1873, and again 
in 1882; and was elected to the fifty- 
fourth, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

LINSLEY, JAMES HARVEY, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born May 5, 1787, in 
Northford, Conn. He prepared a series of 
papers on the zoology of Connecticut for 
the Yale Natural History society that 
were published under the title of Cata¬ 
logue of the Mammalia of Connecticut in 
the American Journal of Science and Arts, 
and also contributed to that magazine 
Catalogues of the Birds, Fishes and Rep¬ 
tiles of Connecticut, with Notes. He died 
Dec. 26, 1843, in Stratford, Conn. 

LINSLE1:, JOEL HERVEY, lawyer, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
July 16, 1790, in Cornwall, Vt. In 1835-45 
he was president of Marietta college, rais¬ 
ing a large endowment for that institu¬ 
tion. He died March 22, 1868, in Green¬ 
wich, Conn. 

LINTNER, JOSEPH ALBERT, ento¬ 
mologist, was born Feb. 8, 1822, in Scho¬ 
harie, N. Y. In 1867 he became the 
zoological assistant in the New York State 
Museum of Natural History in Albany. 

LINTON, IRWIN BREECE, lawyer, 
public official, was born Sept. 4, 1852, in 
Norristown, Pa. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools of Washington, 
D. C., and graduated from the law school 
of the Columbian university. He is a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer of Washington, D. C.; was 
clerk of the congressional committee 
which impeached Hon. W. W. Belknap, 
secretary of war; and was also clerk of 
the Potter congressional committee, 
which investigated the alleged Hayes- 
Tilden election frauds of 1876. For many 
years he served as secretary of Justice 
Field of the United States supreme court. 

LINTON, WILLIAM JAMES, engraver, 
author, poet, was born in 1812, in London, 
England. He is an English engraver and 
poet who came to the United States in 
1867 and settled in New Haven. Besides 
ably editing several poetical anthologies, 
he is the -author of Claribel, and Other 
Poems; Life of Thomas Paine; a valuable 
History of Wood Engraving in America; 


The English Republic; The Flower and 
the Star, and Other Stories; Practical 
Hints on Wood Engraving; Wood Engrav¬ 
ing, a Manual of Instruction; Poems and 
Translations; Three Score and Ten 
Years; and Life of Whittier. 

LINTON, WILLIAM SEELYE, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1856, 
in St. Clair, Mich. In 1883 he was elected a 
member of the East 
Saginaw common 
council, serving two 
terms, at the end of 
which was elected a 
representative to the 
Michigan legislature 
of 1887-88. He was 
for three years presi¬ 
dent of the People’s 
Building and Loan 
association of Sagi¬ 
naw county, the 
strongest financially 
and in membership of any in the state. 
In 1890 he was the candidate for lieuten¬ 
ant-governor on the republican state 
ticket. He has been president of the Sag¬ 
inaw water board; was mayor of the city 
of Saginaw for two years, 1892-94; and 
was elected to the fifty-third, and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

LIPPARD, GEORGE, author, was born 
April 10, 1822, near Yellow Springs, Pa. 
He was a sensational romancer of Phila¬ 
delphia, among whose now nearly forgot¬ 
ten tales are, Blanche of Brandywine; 
Legends of Mexico; and The Ladye An¬ 
nabel. He died Feb. 9, 1854, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

LIPPE, ADALBERT VONDER, clergy¬ 
man, theologian, was born March 17, 1827, 
in Germany. He descended from the Ger¬ 
man nobility. In 1854 he moved to Amer¬ 
ica; in 1858 he graduated from the Dan¬ 
ville Presbyterian Theological seminary, 
and did missionary work among the Ger¬ 
mans in Gasconade county, Mo. For twen¬ 
ty-eight years he filled a pastorate in the 
German presbyterian church of St. Louis; 
then filled the chair of theology and lan¬ 
guages in the Presbyterian seminary of 
Dubuque, Iowa, where he died July 9, 1894. 

LIPPINCOTT, MRS. ESTHER J. 
[TRIMBLE], educator, author, was born 
in 1838, in Pennsylvania. She was an edu¬ 
cator of Pennsylvania, professor of litera¬ 
ture in the Westchester Normal school; 
and the author of Handbook of English 
and American Literature; and Short 
Course in Literature. She died in 1888. 

LIPPINCOTT, JAMES STARR, agri¬ 
culturist, author, was born April 12, 1819, 
in Philadelphia. He patented a vapor 
index for measuring the amount of moist¬ 
ure in the atmosphere, which has been 
used in the Smithsonian institution and 
elsewhere. He was the author of six 
treatises, published in the Reports of the 
Agricultural Department. He died March 
17, 1885, in Haddonfield, N. J. 

LIPPINCOTT, OLIVER W., educator, 
clergyman, was born June 10, 1856, in Lee 
county, Iowa. He graduated from the 
Dexter Normal college, and received the 
degrees of B. Sc., and bachelor of didac¬ 
tics. For many years he taught in the 
public schools of Iowa, and in a govern¬ 
ment Indian school in Nebraska. During 
the past ten years he has filled five pas¬ 
torates in the Des Moines conference of 
the methodist episcopal church. 

LIPPINCOTT, MRS. SARA JANE 
[CLARKE]—Grace Greenwood—author, 
was born Sept. 23, 1823, in Pompey, 

N. Y. She is a popular litterateur 
of Philadelphia who has written much 
ir> the line of newspaper correspond- 




BIOGRAPH i'. 

ence, but whose early fame was gained 
as a writer for young people. She 
is the author of Greenwood Leaves; Re¬ 
cords of Five Years; Poems; Life of 
Queen Victoria; New Life in New Lands; 
Recollections of My Childhood; and Mer- 
rie England. 

LIPPINCOTT, WILLIAM HENRY, art¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 5, 1849, in Philadelphia. 
He exhibited Lolette and two portraits at 
the Paris salon of 1878, and The Duck’s. 
Breast at the centennial exhibition in 
Philadelphia in 1876. His other works in¬ 
clude The Little Prince; various portraits; 
Infantry in Arms; and numerous etch¬ 
ings. 

LIPPITT, CHARLES WARREN, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Oct. 8, 1846, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. In 1875-76 he also served as 
colonel and chief of the personal staff, 
during the term of Henry Lippitt, his 
father, as governor of Rhode Island. In 
1881-82 he was president of the Providence 
board of trade. Since 1891 he has been 
president of the Social Manufacturing 
company; and since 1896 president of the 
Rhode Island National bank of Provi¬ 
dence. In 1895 he was elected governor of 
Rhode Island. 

LIPPITT, CHRISTOPHER, soldier, was 
born in 1744, in Cranston, R. I. in 1776- 
he was commissioned colonel in the con¬ 
tinental army; and was made brigadier- 
general of the Rhode Island militia. He 
died June 18, 1824, in Cranston, R. I. 

LIPPITT, FRANCIS JAMES, soldier, 
author, was born in 1812, in Rhode Island. 
He is a soldier who served in the federal 
army during the civil war, and was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He 
is the author of A Treatise on the Tactical 
Use of the Three Arms; Treatise on En¬ 
trenchments; Special Operations of War; 
Field Service in War; Massachusetts 
Criminal Law; and Physical Proofs of 
Another Life. 

LIPPITT, HENRY, manufacturer, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Oct. 9, 1818, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He is now head of the firm of 
Henry Lippitt and Co., and the Lippitt 
Woolen Co., in Providence, R. I. He is 
also president of the Rhode Island Na¬ 
tional bank. In 1875-76 he served as gov¬ 
ernor of Rhode Island. 

LIPPMANN, JULIE MATHILDE, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1864, on Long Is¬ 
land. She is a writer of Brooklyn; and 
the author of Through Slumbertown and 
Wakeland, a book for juvenile readers. 

LIPSCOMB, ABNER SMITH, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born 
Feb. 10, 1789, near Abbeville, S. C. For 
several years he was a member of the 
Alabama legislature; became judge of the 
supreme court in 1819, and in 1823-35 was 
chief justice of Alabama. He died Dec. 3. 
1857, near Austin, Tex. 

LIPSCOMB, ANDREW ADGATE, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 

8, 1816, in Georgetown, D. C. He was a 
methodist clergyman and educator of 
Tennessee, who was professor in Vander¬ 
bilt university. He was the author of 
Studies in the Forty Days; Supplementary 
Studies; Our Country; and Christian He¬ 
roism. He died Nov. 24, 1890, in Athens, 
Ga. 

LIPSCOMB, LAWRENCE YANCEY, 
lawyer, legislator, was born March 16, 
1855, in Sumter county, Ala. He is a de¬ 
scendant of the Virginia branch of the 
Lipscomb family, and received his educa¬ 
tion at the Cooper institute of Mississippi. 

He has attained success in the profession 
of law in his native state at Bessemer, 
and has served with distinction as a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature of Alabama for two 
terms. 


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LISPENARD, LEONARD, congressman, 
was born in 1716, in New York city. He 
was a delegate from New York to the co¬ 
lonial congress, which met in New York 
city in 1765. He died Feb. 15, 1790, in 
New York city. 

LISTER, EDWIN, manufacturer, state 
legislator, was born Sept. 10,1829, in New¬ 
ark, N. J. He has been president since 
1887, and is now principal owner of the 
Lister Agricultural Chemical works. He 
has served as alderman in Newark three 
times, in 1872-76 and in 1882-84; and a 
member of the assembly in 1886. 

■ LITCHFIELD, ELISHA, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born in 
1795, in Canterbury, Conn. He served five 
years in the New York legislature from 
'Onondaga county; and in 1848 was speak¬ 
er. He was many years a justice of the 
peace at Delphi, -N. Y.; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York from 
1821 to 1823, and again from 1823 to 1825. 
He died Aug. 4, 1859, in Cazenovia, N. Y. 

LITCHFIELD, GRACE DENIO, novel¬ 
ist, poet, was born Nov. 19, 1849, in New 
York city. For many years she has writ¬ 
ten both prose and verse for the leading 
newspapers and magazines in America; 

: and her poems have been given a place in 
several standard works. She is also the 
author of several novels, the most notable 
of which are The Knight of the Black 
Forest; Only an Incident; Criss-Cross; 
A Hard Won Victory; Little He and She; 
and a volume of short stories under the 
title of Little Venice. 

LITTAUER, LUCIUS NATHAN, manu¬ 
facturer, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 
1859, in Gloversville, N. Y. He was en¬ 
gaged in the glove-manufacturing busi¬ 
ness of his father at Gloversville, N. Y., to 
which he succeeded in 1882; and is at 
present engaged extensively therein. He 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
republican. 

LITTELL, ELIAKIM, journalist, was 
born Jan. 2, 1797, in Burlington, N. J. He 
removed to Philadelphia in 1819, and es¬ 
tablished a weekly literary paper entitled 
the National Recorder, whose name he 
• changed in 1821 to the Saturday Magazine. 
He died May 17, 1870, in Brookline, Mass. 

LITTELL, JOHN STOCKTON, author, 
was born in 1806, in Burlington, N. J. He 
edited with biographical and historical 
notes Alexander Graydon’s Memoirs of my 
•own Times; and published a sketch of the 
Life, Character and Services of Henry 
Clay. He died July 11, 1875, in Phila- 
- delphia. 

LITTELL, SQUIER, physician, author, 
was born Dec. 9, 1803, in Burlington, N. J. 
He was a Philadelphia physician; and the 
author of Manual of Diseases of the Eye; 
and Illustrations of the Prayer Book. He 
died July 4, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LITTELL, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, 
was born about 1780, in New Jersey. He 
was a lawyer of Frankfort, Ky.; and the 
author of Statute Law of Kentucky; 
Selected Cases; and Festoons of Fancy. 
He died in 1825, in Frankfort, Ky. 

LITTLE, CYRUS HARVEY, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Aug. 14, 1859, in Sut¬ 
ton, N. H. He entered into the active 
practice of law in Manchester, N. H. In 
1896 he was elected a member of the New 
Hampshire house of representatives. 

LITTLE, EDWARD P.. state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1788, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a state representative 
from 1829 to 1834, and from 1835 to 1838. 
He was a representative in congress from 
1852 to 1853; and was collector of Ply¬ 
mouth from 1853 to 1857. 


LITTLE, GEORGE, naval officer, au¬ 
thor, was born April 10. 1754, in Marsh¬ 
field, Mass. He vCas a United States naval 
officer who published The American 
Cruiser; and Life on the Ocean. He died 
July 22, 1809, in Weymouth, Mass. 

LITTLE, GEORGE THOMAS, educator, 
author, was born May 14, 1857, in Au¬ 
burn. In 1881 he was elected a member 
of the Maine Historical society, and in 
1882 he published a genealogy of the Lit¬ 
tle family, an octavo volume of over six 
hundred pages. 

LITTLE, JAMES LAURENCE, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, lecturer, was born Feb. 19, 
1836, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1863 he was 
appointed clinical assistant to Dr. Wil¬ 
lard Parker in the college of Physicians 
and Surgeons, and the following spring 
he began the delivering of a series of lec¬ 
tures, the first being on Fractures and 
their Treatment. He died April 4; 1885, in 
New York city. 

LITTLE, JOHN, lawyer, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born in 1837, in 
Greene county, Ohio. In 1866 he was 
elected prosecuting attorney of his county, 
and was re-elected in 1868. In 1869 he 
was elected a representative in the state 
legislature, and resigned as prosecuting 
attorney. He was re-elected in 1871; and 
in 1873 was elected attorney-general of 
Ohio, and was re-elected in 1875. In 1884 
he was elected a representative from 
Ohio to the forty-ninth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

LITTLE, JOHN S., lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
15, 1853, in Jenny Lind, Ark. He was 
elected a representative to the Arkansas 
legislature in 1884; and in 1886 was 
elected circuit judge for a term of four 
years. In 1893 he was chosen as chair¬ 
man of the state judicial convention; and 
in 1894 was elected, without opposition, 
as a democrat to fill the unexpired term 
of C. R. Breckinridge in the fifty-third 
congress. He was elected to the fifty- 
fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a dem¬ 
ocrat. 

LITTLE, JOSEPH J., soldier, journalist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
June 5, 1841, in England. He served in the 
union army in 1862, in 1863 and 1864 as 
corporal, first sergeant and first lieuten¬ 
ant. He was a member of the board of 
education and chairman of committee on 
buildings at the time of his election to 
congress; and was an active member of 
the New York World’s Fair committee. 
He was named as one of the incorporators 
in the World's Fair bill passed by the 
New York legislature, as also in the con¬ 
gressional bill introduced on behalf of 
New York. He was elected to the fifty- 
second congress as a democrat to fill a va¬ 
cancy. 

LITTLE, JOSIAH STOVER, lawyer, 
legislator, railroad president, was born in 
1801, in Minot. For four years he prac¬ 
ticed law in Portland, 
Maine. He repeated¬ 
ly represented Port¬ 
land in the Maine 
state legislature, and 
was twice speaker of 
the house. He has 
also several times 
been a candidate for 
congress. He was 
associated -with 
Judge Preble in or¬ 
ganizing a railroad 
between Portland 
and Montreal; and in 1848 succeeded 
Judge Preble as president of the company 
which position he held for sevqn years. 



LITTLE, LEWIS HENRY, soldier, was 
born in 1818, in Baltimore, Md. In 1861 
he entered the confederate army; and was 
appointed adjutant-general of the forces in 
Missouri on the staff of General Sterling 
Price, and for his bravery at the battle of 
Elk Horn was promoted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He died Sept. 19, 1862, in Iuka. 

LITTLE, PETER, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born about 1775, in Petersburg, 
Pa. He removed to Maryland, and was 
elected a representative in congress from 
that state from 1811 to 1813. In the latter 
year he was appointed colonel of infantry; 
and was again a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1816 to 1829. He died Jan. 5, 
1830, in Baltimore, Md. 

LITTLE, ROBBINS, educator, lawyer, 
was born Feb. 15, 1832, in Newport, R. I. 
In 1873 he became an examiner of claims 
in the war department at Washington, 
remaining in that office until 1878, when 
he was elected superintendent and later 
a trustee of the Astor library in New York 
city. 

LITTLE, MRS. SOPHIA LOUISE [ROB¬ 
BINS], poet, was born Aug. 22, 1799, in 
Newport, R. I, She is a poet of Newport. 
R. I.; and the author of The Last Days of 
Jesus, and Other Poems. 

LITTLE, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, state 
legislator, was born Nov. 6, 1838, in Talbot 
county, Ga. In 1882 he was a state rep¬ 
resentative from Georgia; in 1884 was 
elected speaker of the house, and was re¬ 
elected in 1886. 

LITTLEFIELD, ALFRED H., manufac¬ 
turer, state senator, governor, was born 
April 2, 1829, in Scituate, R. I. He served 
two years as a representative in the state 
legislature; and two years as a state sen¬ 
ator. He was governor of Rhode Island 
from 1880 to 1883. 

LITTLEFIELD, NATHANIEL S.. law¬ 
yer. state senator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 20, 1804, in Wells, Maine. He was 
a member of the Maine senate in 1837-39; 
and president of the same a part of the 
time. He was a representative from Maine 
to the twenty-seventh and thirty-first con¬ 
gresses; and was a member of the Maine 
house of representatives in 1854. 

LITTLEJOHN, ABRAM NEWKIRK. 1 
bishop, author, was born Dec. 13, 1824, in 
Florida, N. Y. He is the first protestant 
episcopal bishop of Long Island; and the 
author of Conciones ad Clenem; Indi¬ 
vidualism; The Christian Ministry; and 
The Philosophy of Religion. 

LITTLEJOHN, DE WITT CLINTON, 
merchant, manufacturer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1818, in 
Bridgewater, N. Y. He was seven times 
elected to the assembly of New York, pre¬ 
siding as speaker during five terms. In 
1862 he was elected a representative from 
New York to the thirty-eighth congress. 
After retiring from congress he was again 
elected to the state legislature. 

LITTLEJOHN, JOHN MARTIN, educa¬ 
tor, college president, was born Feb. 15, 
1867, in Glasgow, Scotland. He entered 
the Glasgow university, where he secured 
a prize for excellence in mental philoso¬ 
phy. In 1886 he was ordained as a min¬ 
ister, and in 1892 became university fel¬ 
low in the Columbian university. In the 
summer of 1893 he visited the libraries 
of England and the continent for the 
purpose of investigating medieval litera¬ 
ture; and in 1894 was elected to the pres¬ 
idency of Amity college, Iowa, where he 
has since labored with much zeal and 
success. During 1892-96 he was depart¬ 
ment editor of the Christian Nation of 
New York city; and is the author of nu¬ 
merous educational and scientific works. 


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L1\ERM0RE, ABIEL ABBOT, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
Oct. 30, 1811, in Wilton, N, H. He was a 
Unitarian clergyman who was president of 
the Theological seminary at Meadville, 
Pa., from 1863 until his death. He was 
the author of Lectures to Young Men; 
Discourses; Commentaries on the Gospels 
Acts, Romans, Corinthians to Philemon’ 
Hebrews to Revelations; The Marriage 
Offering; and History of Wilton, New 
Hampshire. He died in 1892. 

LI\ ERMORE, ARTHUR, lawyer, jurist 
congressman, was born July 26, 1776, in 
Londonderry, N. H. He was a judge of 
the supreme court of New Hampshire 
from 1799 to 1816; a presidential elector 
in 1801; and from 1825 to 1833 judge of 
the common pleas. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1817 to 1821, and 
from 1823 to 1825. He died July 1, 1853, 
in Campton, N. H. 

LIVERMORE, EDWARD ST. LOE, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born April 5,’1762, 
in Portsmouth, N. H. He was United 
States circuit attorney, and judge of the 
state superior court from 1797 to 1799. 
He was a representative in congress from 
1807 to 1812. He removed to Boston, Mass., 
in 1813. He died Sept. 22, 1832, in Lowell. 
Mass. 

LI1 ERMORE, GEORGE, antiquarian, 
was born July 10, 1809, in Cambridge. 
Mass. He wrote for the newspapers and 
reviews on subjects of a bibliographical 
or historical character, his articles dis¬ 
playing extensive research. Among them 
may be mentioned one on the New Eng¬ 
land Primer, in the Cambridge Chronicle 
(1849), and another on Public Libraries 
in the North American Review. He died 
Aug. 30, 1865, in Cambridge, Mass. 

LIVERMORE, MRS. MARY ASHTON 
[RICE], lecturer, author, was born Dec. 
19, 1821, in Boston, Mass. She is a noted 
lecturer upon temperance and woman-suf¬ 
frage whose home is in Melrose, Mass. 
She is the author of Superfluous Women, 
and Other Lectures; Pen Pictures; Thirty 
Years Too Late: a Temperance Tale; 
What Shall we Do with Our Daughters 9- 
-and My Story of the War. 

LIVERMORE, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born May 14, 
1732, in Waltham, Mass. He was judge 
advocate of the admiralty before the revo¬ 
lution; and subsequently judge of the su¬ 
perior court of New Hampshire. He was 
a senator in congress from 1793 to 1801, 
when he resigned; and was president pro 
•tempore of that body during two sessions. 
He died May 18, 1803, in Holderness, N. H. 

LIVERMORE. SAMUEL, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1786. He is a lawyer 
of New Orleans; and the author of Trea¬ 
tise on Law of Principal and Agent and 
Sales by Auction; and Contrariety of 
Laws of Different States and Nations' He 
•died in 1833, in New Orleans, La. 

LIVINGSTON, AMBROSE HAYDON, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 24, 1850, 
in Albany, Ky. He has been circuit at¬ 
torney, prosecuting attorney; has at¬ 
tained success as a criminal lawyer and 
• statesman; and has a lucrative practice 
at West Plains, Mo. He served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the Missouri 
state legislature; was a delegate to the 
democratic national convention in 1884; 
and the P. P. national convention of 1896. 

LIVINGSTON, BROCKHOLST, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 26, 1757, in 
New York city. In 1802 "he became judge 
of the supreme court of New York; and 
in 1806 was appointed a justice of the 
supreme court of the United States. He 
died March 19, 1823, in Washington, D. C. 


LIVINGSTON, CHARLES ONDIS, man¬ 
ufacturer, was born Dec. 10, 1841, in Con- 
toonville, N. H. He was the first man 
to bring an ice machine to Florida and 
produce ice by steam power. 

LI\ INGSTON, EDWARD, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, author, was born May 
26, 1764, in Clermont, N. Y. He was a 
representative t o 
congress from New 
York city in 1795- 
1802; and was then 
appointed United 
States attorney for 
the district of New 
York, and was also 
mayor of the city. 
He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in con¬ 
gress from Louisiana 
from 1823 to 1829; 

T . was a senator of the 

United States from 1829 to 1831, when he 
was appointed secretary of state. In 1833 
he was made minister to France. His 
Penal Code is considered a monument of 
his profound learning; and he also wrote 
Criminal Jurisprudence, and other works 
He died May 23, 1836, in Rhinebeck, N. Y. 

LIVINGSTON, HENRY BEEKMAN, 
soldier, was born Nov. 9, 1750, in Cler¬ 
mont, N. Y. For his services in the cap¬ 
ture of Chambly in 1775 he was voted 
a sword of honor by congress in December 
of that year. He died Nov. 5, 1831 in 
Rhinebeck, N. Y. 

LIVINGSTON, HENRY WALTER, con- 
gressman, was born in 1768, in Livingston 
Manor, N. Y. In 1792 he was secretary to 
Mr. Morris, ambassador to France; and 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1803 to 1807. He died 
Dec. 22, 1810, in Livingston Manor, N. Y. 

LB INGSTON, JOHN HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, was born May 30, 1746, in Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. He came to New York in 
September, 1770, and at once entered on 
the active duties of his pastorate, having 
the North Dutch church at the corner of 
Fulton and William streets under his 
charge. He continued in this office until 
1810. He died Jan. 20, 1825, in New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. J. 

LIVINGSTON, JOHN WILLIAM, naval 
officer, was born May 22, 1804, in New 
York city. In 1824 he was appointed mid¬ 
shipman in the United States navy from 
New York, and served in the Mediter¬ 
ranean squadron during the war with the 
pirates. In 1862 he was made commo¬ 
dore; and in 1868 he was commissioned 
rear-admiral; and in 1874 placed on the 
retired list. He died Sept. 10, 1885, in New 
York city. 



LIVINGSTON, LEONIDAS F., soldier, 
farmer, state senator, congressman, was 
born April 3, 1832, in Newton county, Ga. 

He was a private sol- 


uier in tne confeder¬ 
ate army from 1861 
to 1865. He was for 
two terms a member 
of the house of rep¬ 
resentatives; and one 
term a member of 
the state senate. He 
was chairman of the 
committee on agri¬ 
culture in both the 
house and senate. He 
was vice-president of 
the Georgia State Agricultural society for 
eleven years and president of the same for 
four years; and was president of the 
Georgia alliance for three years. He was 
elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third fif¬ 
ty-fourth. and fifty-fifth congresses as a 
democrat. 



BIOGRAPHY. 591 

LIVINGSTON, MRS. MARGARET 
VERE [FARRINGTON], author, was 
born in 1863, in Maine. She is the author 
of Tales of King Arthur and His Knights; 
and Fra Lippo Lippi, a Romance of Flor¬ 
ence. 

LIVINGSTON, PETER VAN BRUGH, 
merchant, congressman, was born in Oct¬ 
ober, 1710, in Albany, N. Y. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the first and second provincial con- 
gi esses of New York in 1775-76, being 
president of the first congress. In 1776 
he was made treasurer of the congress, 
and held that office for two years, also 
participating in all of the pre-revolution¬ 
ary measures. He died Dec. 28, 1792, in 
Elizabethtown, N. J. 

LIVINGSTON, PHILIP, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born 
Jan. 15, 1716, in Albany, N. Y. He was 
a successful merchant of New York city; 
and was an alderman for four years. He 
served several years in the state legisla¬ 
ture. He was a delegate to congress from 
1774 to 1778; and was a signer of the 
declaration of independence. He subse¬ 
quently served in the senate of New York 
He died June 12, 1778, in York, Pa. 

LIVINGSTON. ROBERT LE ROY, sol¬ 
dier, congressman. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from the sixth con¬ 
gressional district of New York from 1809 
to 1813, but resigned in 1812. He was then 
appointed lieutenant-colonel of infantry. 

LIY INGSTON, ROBERT R., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, diplomat, congressman, author, was 
born Nov. 27,1747. In 1775 he was elected 
to the assembly from 
Dutchess county, N. 
Y.; the same year he 
was sent as a dele¬ 
gate to the continen¬ 
tal congress, serving 
until 1777; and was 
a member of the 
committee for 
draughting the dec¬ 
laration of independ¬ 
ence. He was also a 
delegate from 1779 to 
1781, and in the lat¬ 
ter year was appointed secretary for for¬ 
eign affairs. He was appointed chancel¬ 
lor of New York under the new constitu¬ 
tion, and filled that office until 1801. In 
1801 he accepted the appointment of min¬ 
ister to France. He introduced merino 
sheep and gypsum into New York. He 
published an oration delivered before the 
Cincinnati society in 1787, and Essays on 
Agriculture; and Essays on Sheep He 
died Feb. 26, 1813, in Clermont, N. Y. 

LIVINGSTON, WALTER, congressman. 
He was a delegate from New York to the 
continental congress in 1784 and 1785. 
He died May 14, 1797, in New York city. 

LIY INGSTON, WILLIAM, congressman, 
governor, author, was born Nov. 30, 1723’ 
in Albany, N. Y. In 1758 he was elected 
a member of the assembly. He purchased 
a tract of land in Elizabethtown, N. J.; 
built a house called Liberty Hall, and re¬ 
moved there in 1773, where he resided 
during the remainder of his life. He was 
elected a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress in 1774; re-elected in 1775; and was 
recalled June 5 to command, as brigadier- 
general, the state militia. He succeeded 
William Franklin (deposed) as governor 
in 1776, and held the office until his death. 

In 1787 he was a delegate to the constitu¬ 
tional convention. He was the author of 
a poem called Philosophical Solitude; and 
also Review of the Military Operations in 
North America; and Digest of the Laws 
of New York. He died July 25, 1780, in 
Elizabeth, N. J. 









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LLOYD. DAVID, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1656, in Wales. In 1689 he was 
clerk of the Pennsylvania assembly; and 
in 1693-94 he was returned as a member 
of that body. In 1703 he accepted the 
office of deputy judge and advocate to the 
admiralty. He died in 1731, in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 

LLOYD, DAVID DEMAREST, journal¬ 
ist, playwright, was born in 1851, in New 
York. He was a journalist and playwright 
of New York city. His plays include, For 
Congress; The Woman Hater; The Dom¬ 
inie’s Daughter; and The Senator. He 
died in 1889. 

LLOYD, EDWARD, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, governor, United States sena¬ 
tor. He was a delegate to the continental 
congress in 1783 and 1784; a member of 
congress from 1806 to 1809; and governor 
of Maryland from 1809 to 1811. He was 
a United States senator from Maryland 
from 1819 to 1826, when he resigned. He 
died June 2, 1834, in Annapolis, Md. 

LLOYD, HENRY, state senator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Feb. 21, 1852, in Ham- 
brooke, Md. He was auditor of the cir¬ 
cuit court for Dorchester county, Md., 
from 1874 to 1884, and a portion of that 
time was also clerk and treasurer to the 
commissioners of the town of Cambridge. 
In 1881 he was elected a state senator; 
and in 1884 was elected president of the 
state senate. In 1885 he became governor 
of Maryland, ex-officio; and in 1886 he 
was elected governor of the state for the 
unexpired term ending in 1888. 

LLOYD, HENRY DEMAREST, author, 
was born in 1847, in New York. He is a 
writer of Winnetlta, Ill., but formerly a 
journalist of Chicago; and the author of 
A Strike of Millionaires against Miners, 
or the Story of Spring Valley; and Wealth 
Against Commonwealth. 

LLOYD, JAMES, United States senator, 
was born in 1769, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a senator in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1808 to 1813, when he re¬ 
signed; and again from 1822 to 1826. He 
died April 5, 1831, in New York city. 

LLOYD, JAMES, United States senator. 
He was a senator in congress from Mary¬ 
land from 1797 to 1800, when he resigned. 

LLOYD, JAMES T., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 27, 1857, in Canton, 
Mo. Since 1885 he has practiced law in 
Shelbyville, Mo. He was prosecuting at¬ 
torney of his county from 1889 to 1893, 
until his election to congress. He was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat at a special election held in 
1897, to fill a vacancy. 

LLOYD, JOHN URI, chemist, was born 
April 19, 1849, in West Bloomfield, N. Y. 
He is a distinguished chemist, and for 
many years filled the chair of chemistry 
in various pharmacies of Cleveland, Ohio; 
and has been president of the American 
Pharmaceutical association. 

LLOYD, THOMAS, governor, was born 
about 1640, in Wales. He succeeded Penn 
as deputy governor of Pennsylvania, and 
served during 1684-88. He died July 10, 
1694. 

LLOYD. WILLIAM FRANKLIN, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born Nov. 
25, 1855, in Taylor county, Ga. He has 
been a successful clergyman of the leading 
churches in Georgia and Texas; and pre¬ 
siding elder of a district in the methodist 
episcopal church south. Since 1894 he has 
been president of the Polytechnic college 
of Fort Worth, Tex. 

LOAN, BENJAMIN F., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1819, in Hard- 
insburg, Ky. When the rebellion broke 
out in 1861 he took an active part in mil¬ 


itary affairs, and was appointed a briga¬ 
dier-general. In 1862 he was elected a 
representative from Missouri to the thirty- 
eighth congress. He was re-elected to the 
thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. 

LOCHMAN, AUGUSTUS HERMAN, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 5, 1802, 
in Lebanon, Pa. He became pastor of the 
Lutheran church at Harrisburg, Pa., 
which he served for forty-four years. He 
has translated several volumes from the 
German, which have been published by 
the Lutheran board of publication in its 
Fatherland series. 

LOCHMAN, JOHN GEORGE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 2, 1773, in 
Philadelphia. In 1815 he became pastor 
at Harrisburg, where he remained until 
his death. He published a Farewell Ser¬ 
mon; Introductory Sermon; History, 
Doctrine, and Discipline of the Lutheran 
Church; Evangelical Catechism; and va¬ 
rious sermons and addresses. He died 
July 10, 1826, in Harrisburg, Pa. 

LOCHRANE, OSBORNE AUGUSTUS, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 22, 1829, in 
Ireland. In 1871 he was appointed chief 
justice of the supreme court of Georgia, 
but resigned in December of that year and 
resumed practice at the bar. He died 
June 17, 1887, in Atlanta, Ga. 

LOCICARD, FRANCIS MARION, mer¬ 
chant, state senator, was born Sept. 15, 
1855, in Coshocton, Ohio. He is a success¬ 
ful merchant of Norton, Kan.; and dur¬ 
ing 1888-S2 served with distinction as a 
senator in the Kansas state legislature. 

LOCKARD, LORENZO B., merchant, 
oil producer, was born Jan. 2, 1838, in 
Hanover, Pa. When a boy he was im¬ 
bued with strong abolition principles; 
went to Kansas, and served one year in 
the border ruffian war under old John 
Brown. He subsequently engaged in the 
mercantile business in Salem, Ohio; was 
elected mayor of that city in 1860, and 
filled the office five consecutive times. In 
1876 he moved to the oil regions of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and became a successful oil pro¬ 
ducer. In 1881 he was elected grand pro¬ 
tector of the Knights and Ladies of Honor 
of Pennsyh ania, which office he filled for 
four terms; and since 1891 has been su¬ 
preme protector. 

LOCKE. DAVID ROSS—PETROLEUM 
V. NASBY—journalist, author, poet was 
born Sept. 20, 1833, in Vestal, N. Y. He 
was a widely known political humorist 
whose satires had much effect upon 
public opinion. He was the author of 
A Paper City, a novel; Swingin’ Round 
the Cirkle; The Moral History of Ame¬ 
rica’s Life Struggle; Ekkoes from Ken¬ 
tucky; Struggles of Petroleum V. Nasby; 
Nasby in Exile; Morals of Abou Ben Ad- 
hem; The Demagogue, a novel; and Han¬ 
nah Jane, a poem. He died Feb. 15, 1888, 
in Toledo, Ohio. 

LOCKE, EDWIN, educator, clergyman, 
was born Feb. 9, 1857, in Brookville, Ind. 
He now fills a pastorate in Kansas City, 
Kan. For several years he filled the chair 
of ancient languages in the Shaw univer¬ 
sity; and has been assistant editor of The 
Daily Christian Advocate. 

LOCKE, FRANCIS, lawyer, jurist, 
statesman, was born Oct. 31, 1766, in Ro¬ 
wan county, N. C. He was elected a judge 
of the superior court in 1803; and was 
chosen a senator in congress for the years 
1814 and 1815 from his native state, but 
appears not to have taken his seat. He 
died Jan. 8, 1823, in Rowan county, N. C. 

LOCKE, J. FRANK, clergyman, physi¬ 
cian, jurist, author, was born April 27, 
1846, in Ossipee, N. H. He received his 
education in the village academies of New 
Hampton, N. H.; attended the Theologi¬ 


cal college; and for many years was a 
clergyman of the congregational church. 
He served with distinction during the 
war, and was promoted to colonel; and 
has been district commander of the Grand 
Army of the Republic. He served as judge 
of probate; has been United States ex¬ 
amining surgeon for pensions; and is a 
prominent officer in Masonic lodges, 
Knights of Maccabees, Modern Woodmen, 
and other fraternal bodies of Long Prai¬ 
rie, Minn. 

LOCKE, JAMES W., educator, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 30, 1837, in Wil¬ 
mington, Vt. He received a high school 
and academic educa¬ 
tion; and subse¬ 
quently was engaged 
in educational work. 
He then studied law 
and has attained 
prominence as one of 
the foremost lawyers 
of Florida. During 
the war he was in 
the naval service and 
at its close settled in 
Key West, Fla. He 
has been county 
judge; has served with distinction as a 
member of the Florida state senate. In 
1872 he was appointed United States dis¬ 
trict judge for the southern district of 
Florida; and has filled that high office 
to the entire satisfaction of his state. 

LOCKE, MRS. JANE ERMINIA 
[STARKWEATHER], poet, was born 
April 25, 1805, in Worthington, Mass. She 
was a poet of Boston; and the author of 
Poems; Rachel, or the Little Mourner; 
Boston, a Poem; and Eulogy in Rhyme 
on the Death of Webster. She died March 
8, 1859, in Ashburnham, Mass. 

LOCKE, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in 1764, in Hopkinton, Mass. 
From 1823 to 1829 he was a representative 
in congress from the Worcester north dis¬ 
trict; in 1830 was a state senator from 
Middlesex county, Mass.; and in 1831 was 
a member of the executive council. He 
died March 29, 1855, in Boston, Mass. 

LOCKE, JOHN, physicist, was born Feb. 

19, 1792, in Freeburg, Maine. He made 
various improved and original instru¬ 
ments for use in optics, physics, electrici¬ 
ty, and magnetism, among which were 
the gravity escapement for regulator- 
clocks which has never been surpassed; 
and his electro-chronograph subsequent¬ 
ly purchased for the United States naval 
observatory at an expense of $10,000; al¬ 
so a spirit-level which is still in use 
among civil engineers. He died July 10, 
1856, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

LOCKE, JOHN STAPLES, author, poet, 
was born in 1836. He is a writer of Saco, 
Maine; and the author of Shores of Saco 
Bay; Historical Sketches of Old Orchard; 
The Art of Correspondence; A Brave 
Struggle, a novel; Pleasing Rhymes for 
Happy Times; and Bright Hours. 

LOCKE, JOSEPH ALVAH, lawyer, 
state senator, was born in December, 1843, 
in Biddeford. Maine. He has been on the 
school committee of Portland, and the 
board of trustees of Kent’s Hill seminary, 
and made its president; and has repre¬ 
sented the city twice in the house, and his 
district twice in the senate of the legisla¬ 
ture, in 1880 being its president. 

LOCKE, MATTHEW, congressman, was 
born in 1730, near Salisbury, N. C. He 
was a member of the congress at Halifax 
in 1776, which formed the constitution of 
North Carolina; and was a representative 
in the congress of the United States from 
1793 to 1799. He also served in the legis¬ 
lature. He died Sept. 7, 1801, in Salisbury, 

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LOCKE, MAURICE E., educator, law¬ 
yer, was born Feb. 12, 1861, in Frankfort, 
Ill. In 1876 he graduated from the high 
school of Kentland, Ind.; attended a nor¬ 
mal school at Valparaiso, and studied sev¬ 
eral languages under private tutors. In 
early life he taught school; then was en¬ 
gaged in journalistic work; and in 1879 
was admitted to the bar. For three years 
he was president of a national bank;' and 
subsequently has been successfully en¬ 
gaged in other businesses. In 1891 he re¬ 
sumed the practice of the law in Dallas. 

LOCKE, POWHATTAN B., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born in Kentucky. He removed 
to Missouri; and was appointed a judge 
of the United States court for the territory 
of Nevada, residing at Carson City. 

LOCKE, SAMUEL, educator, was born 
Nov. 23, 1732, in Woburn, Mass. He was 
ordained a minister at Sherburne in 1759, 
and retained this pastorate till 1769, when 
he was appointed president of Harvard. 
He died Jan. 15, 1778, in Sherburne, Mass. 

LOCKE, SYLVANUS DYER, inventor, 
was born Sept. 11, 1833, in Richfield, N. 
Y. In his youth he was a civil engineer 
on the Mississippi 
river, and on the 
Wisconsin Central 
railroad. In 1861 he 
was admitted to the 
bar; and during the 
war received a lieu¬ 
tenant’s commission 
in a company of Wis¬ 
consin volunteers. 
He was county sur¬ 
veyor, and city engi¬ 
neer of Janesville, 
» Wis., for eight years. 

He was the inventor of the automatic 
grain binder, which was first manufac¬ 
tured in 1870 at the W. A. Wood Company’s 
manufactory at Hoosick Falls, N. Y. Elev¬ 
en distinct features embraced in this ma¬ 
chine are now used by all manufacturers 
of binders. He owned seventy-four pat¬ 
ents on harvesters and binders, besides 
thirty patents on other inventions, in¬ 
cluding hop-pickers, car-couplers, railway 
cross-tie, snow melting apparatus for city 
streets, self-closing gas burner, and vote 
recorder, and mail bag. In 1883 he was 
elected assemblyman from his district. His 
last invention, just completed when death 
claimed him, was the automatic steel link 
drive chain machine. 

LOCKETT, J. B., educator, lawyer, was 
born in 1868, in Austin, Tex. After re¬ 
ceiving a liberal education he commenced 
educational work. He subsequently 
studied law, was admitted to the bar, and 
is now a leading lawyer of the Indiana 
territory at Duncan; where he has been 
connected with some of the most promi¬ 
nent litigations of the territory. He has 
also taken a prominent part in political 
affairs. 

LOCKHART, ARTHUR JOHN, clergy¬ 
man, poet, was born May 5, 1850, in Lock- 
hartville, Nova Scotia. He started in life 
as a printer, and 
subsequently became 
a noted clergyman of 
the methodist epis¬ 
copal church of 
Maine. He has writ¬ 
ten essays and other 
articles for the pe¬ 
riodical press, and is 
the author of two 
volumes of poems 
entitled The Mask of 
Minstrels; and Be¬ 
side the Narragau- 
gus, besides other works. 

3S 


LOCKHART, FRED T., lawyer, author, 
was born June 11, 1850, in Lincoln county, 
Ga. He received his education in the uni¬ 
versities of Georgia and Virginia; and is 
now a successful lawyer of Augusta, Ga., 
and attorney for three railroads in that 
state. He is the author of a volume enti¬ 
tled Told By a Child, and other works. 

LOCKHART, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1806, in 
Auburn, N. Y. He removed to Indiana 
in 1832; and in 1841 and 1842 was elected 
prosecuting attorney. From 1845 to 1851 
he was judge of the fourth judicial dis¬ 
trict, when he resigned. He was elected 
a representative in congress from Indiana 
from 1851 to 1853. He died Sept. 7, 1857, 
in Evansville, Ind. 

LOCKHART, JAMES ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born June 2, 1850, in Anson county, N. C. 
He was elected to the house of representa¬ 
tives of the general assembly in 1878, 
and to the North Carolina state senate in 
1880. He was elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress as a democrat. 

LOCKNEY, HENRY CALVIN, farmer, 
merchant, lawyer, was born April 26, 1855 
in Burnersville, W. Va. In 1875 he began 
teaching school in Arnoldsburg, W. Va., 
and followed his profession for several 
years in the adjoining counties. In 1880 
he was admitted to the bar, and became 
prosecuting attorney of Clay county, which 
position he filled during 1887-96. In 1892 
he declined the nomination for state su¬ 
perintendent of free schools. He has been 
state secretary of the Farmers’ Mutual 
Benefit association ever since its organi¬ 
zation in West Virginia; was a delegate 
to the National alliance and Industrial 
union in 1894; and has filled various other 
positions of honor. He is also a successful 
farmer and stock dealer; and owns sev¬ 
eral farms near Arnoldsburg, W. Va. 

LOCKWOOD, BELVA A., lawyer, re¬ 
former, lecturer, was born Oct. 24, 1830, 
By her efforts, a law 
was passed equaliz¬ 
ing the salaries of 
male and female 
government . e m - 
ployees. In the year 
1873 she was admit¬ 
ted to practice be¬ 
fore the appellate 
court of the District 
of Columbia. In 1877 
she applied for the 
right to practice be¬ 
fore the supreme 
court of the United 
States. She was refused simply because 
she was a woman. She thereupon pre¬ 
sented to congress a bill, which was 
passed, authorizing women to practice law 
in the United States courts. 

LOCKWOOD, DANIEL NEWTON, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born June 1, 1844, 
in Hamburg, N. Y. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the forty- 
fifth congress as a democrat. 

LOCKWOOD, HENRY HAYES, soldier, 
author, was born Aug. 17, 1814, in Kent 
county, Del. He was a United States army 
officer; and the author of Manual of Na¬ 
val Batteries; and Exercises in Small 
Arms. 

LOCKWOOD, HOMER NICHOLS, state 
legislator, topographer, was born June 23, 
1833, in Victory, N. Y. He aided in build¬ 
ing the New York Southern-Central rail¬ 
road in 1865-71; and in 1866-67 was a 
member of the legislature. 

LOCKWOOD, HOWARD, publisher, was 
born March 9, 1846, in White Plains, N. Y. 
In 1872 he established the Paper Trade 
Journal, from which has grown the large 


business known as the Lockwood Press. 
He died Nov. 4, 1892, in New York city. 

LOCKWOOD, INGERSOLL, lecturer, 
author, was born in 1841, in New York. 
He is a lecturer of New York city; and 
the author of The Travels of Little Baron 
Trump; Wonderful Deeds of Little Giant 
Roab; Extraordinary Experience of Little 
Captain Doppelkopp; and Baron Trump’s 
Journey Underground. 

LOCKWOOD, J. A. J., soldier. He served 
with distinction through the civil war; 
and was promoted to brigadier-general. 
He is now a resident of Georgetown, D. C. 

LOCKWOOD, JAMES BOOTH, explorer, 
was born Oct. 9, 1852, in Annapolis, Md. 
In 1882 he set out on an expedition to the 
north pole, a journey which fixes his fame 
as an arctic explorer. He died April 9, 
1884, in Cape Sabine. 

LOCKWOOD, JOHN, railroad president, 
was born Nov. 13, 1836, in Lenawee coun¬ 
ty, Mich. He is president of the Rock- 
port, Langdon and Northern railway at 
Rockport, Mo. 

LOCKWOOD, MARIAN LEROY, jour¬ 
nalist, was born May 15, 1849, in Lenawee 
county, Mich. She has written extensive¬ 
ly for current magazines and newspapers, 
and is now the editor and part owner of 
The Light of Easton, Kan. 

LOCKWOOD, MARY SMITH, author, 
was born Oct. 24, 1831, in Hanover, N. Y. 
She is the author of Handbook of Ceramic 
Art; and The Historic Homes of Wash¬ 
ington; and also writes for magazines 
and papers. 

LOCKWOOD, RALPH INGERSOLL, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1798, in New 
York. He was a lawyer of New York 
city; and the author of Rosine Laval, a 
novel; The Insurgents, a novel; and 
Lockwood’s Reversed Cases. He died in 
1855. 

LOCKWOOD, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 20, 1819, in England. 
He was a reformed Dutch clergyman who 
after 1867 was school superintendent of 
Monmouth county, N. J. He was the au¬ 
thor of Temperance, Fortitude, Justice; 
The American Oyster; Abnormal Entozoa 
in Man; The Life of an Oyster; and Ani¬ 
mal Memoirs. He died in 1894. 

LOCKWOOD, VIRGIL HOMER, lawyer, 
was born May 6,1860, in Fort Branch, Ind. 
He received his education in the high 
school of his native city; at the DePauw 
university, and the university of Virginia. 
He studied law, was admitted to the bar, 
and has attained prominence as an able 
lawyer of Indianapolis, Ind. 

LOCKWOOD, WILLIAM F., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born in Connecticut. He re¬ 
moved to Nebraska; and was appointed 
an associate justice of that territory, re¬ 
siding at Dakota City. 

LODGE, GILES HENRY, physician, 
author, was born March 13, 1805, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a physician of Bos¬ 
ton; and the author of a scholarly trans¬ 
lation of Winckelmann’s History of An¬ 
cient Art. He died in 1880. 

LODGE, HARRIET NEWELL, author, 
poet, was born Jan. 26, 1848, in Madison’ 
Ind. She received a liberal education, and 
graduated from the Western Female sem¬ 
inary of Oxford, Ohio. She has contribu¬ 
ted to our best literature in prose and 
verse; and is the author, among other 
things, of an exquisite brochure on the 
Poetical Significance of Flowers; and of 
a very charming romance entitled 
Blaiseman. She is the daughter of 
Henry R. Newell, a prominent manufac¬ 
turer, and the wife of James Irwin Lodge 
of Indianapolis, Ind.; and their son, Caleb 
Newell Lodge, is a rising young lawyer of 
that city. 




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LODGE, HENRY CABOT, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, author, was born May- 
12, 1850, in Boston, Mass. He received 
his education at private schools; gradu¬ 
ated from Harvard college in 1871; and 
from the Harvard law school in 1874. 
He served two terms as member of the 
house of representatives of the Massachu¬ 
setts legislature; and was elected to the 
fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, and fifty- 
third congresses. He was elected to the 
senate Jan. 17, 1893, to succeed Henry L. 
Dawes; resigned his seat in the house 
and took his seat in the senate March 4, 
1893. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 1899. He is the author of Essay 
on Anglo-Saxon Land Law; Life and Let¬ 
ters of George Cabot; Short History of 
the English Colonies in America; Lives 
of Washington, Webster, Hamilton; Stu¬ 
dies in History; Historical and Political 
Essays; Speeches; History of Boston; and 
Hero Tales from American History. 

LODGE, LEE DAVIS, educator, philoso¬ 
pher, author, was born Nov. 24, 1865, in 
Montgomery county, Md. In 1885 he grad¬ 
uated from the Columbian university 
with the degree of M. A. He was immedi¬ 
ately elected tutor of Greek and English 
in his alma mater; in 1886 was chosen 
professor of Latin; and since 1887 he has 
filled the chair of French language and 
literature. His work entitled A Study in 
Corneille, traces carefully the develop¬ 
ment of the French drama. He is now 
writing a History of French Philosophy, 
on which subject he is an authority. 

LOEB, ALBERT I., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Jan. 22, 1872, in Helena, Mont. 
He received his education at the high 
school of his native city, the university 
of Michigan, and received the degree of 
bachelor of laws at Ann Arbor, in 1892. 
He was elected a member of the fifth leg¬ 
islative assembly of the state of Montana 
from Lewis and Clarke county; and was 
the first person in the state of Montana 
to represent a county of his nativity in 
the legislature of the state; he served as 
speaker pro tempore of the house. He was 
first president of the society of Sons and 
Daughters of Montana Pioneers, and has 
filled various positions of trust in his 
county and state. 

LOENNECKER, MARTIN G., journal¬ 
ist, was born May 21, 1845, in Germany. 
He is the editor and owner of The In¬ 
dustrial News of Jackson, Mich.; has been 
mayor of his city; and was active in the 
organization of the people’s party. 

LOEW, FREDERICK WILLIAM, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Dec. 20, 1834, in 
Germany. In 1869 he was judge of the 
court of common pleas of New York city, 
resigning that position in 1875, when he 
returned to the active practice of his pro¬ 
fession. 

LOFLAND, JAMES R., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 2, 1823, in Mil¬ 
ford, Del. He was secretary of the Dela¬ 
ware state senate in 1849; and secretary 
of state in 1855 and 1859. He was ap¬ 
pointed a paymaster in the army in 1863, 
and resigned in 1867. He was elected to 
the forty-third congress as a republican. 

LOGAN, ALGERNON S., poet. He is a 
writer of Philadelphia, Pa., his poems 
having appeared in the periodical press 
generally, and in book form. 

LOGAN, BENJAMIN, pioneer, was born 
about 1752, in Augusta county, Va. In 
1775 he joined Daniel Boone and others; 
and was one of the pioneers of Kentucky. 
He died Dec. 11, 1802, in Shelby county, 
Ky. 

LOGAN, CORNELIUS AMBROSIUS, 
dramatist, was born May 4, 1806, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was a dramatist and thea¬ 


trical manager of Cincinnati, among whose 
plays are The Wag of Maine; The Wool 
Dealer; and Yankee Land. He died Feb. 
23, 1853, in Wheeling, W. Va. 

LOGAN, CORNELIUS AMBROSE, phy¬ 
sician, diplomat, author, was born Aug. 
6, 1836, in Deerfield, Mass. He is a physi¬ 
cian of Leavenworth, Kan., minister to 
Chili in 1873, and 1881-83. He was the 
author of Sanitary Relations of Kansas; 
Climatology of the Missouri Valley; and 
Physics of Infectious Diseases. 

LOGAN, DANIEL BOONE, lawyer, was 
born April 23, 1858, in Carter county, Ky. 
He is a successful lawyer of Pineville, 
Ky.; in 1886-87 was master commissioner 
of Rowan circuit court; and since 1896 
has been a director of the First National 
bank of his city. He takes an active part 
in the public affairs of his county and 
state. 

LOGAN, GEORGE, diplomat, statesman, 
author, was born Sept. 9, 1753, in Stanton, 
Pa. He was a member of the legislature 
of Pennsylvania. He was a senator of the 
United States from 1801 to 1807. In 1797 
he published Experiments on Gypsum; 
and Rotation of Crops. He died April 9, 
1821, in Stanton, Pa. 

LOGAN, GEORGE, educator, clergy¬ 
man, was born Aug. 25, 1852, in Ross 
county, Ohio. He graduated from the 
South Salem academy of Ohio; and for 
twenty years was engaged in educational 
work in Ohio and Montana. In 1879 he 
was licensed to preach, and ten years lat¬ 
er entered the active work of a home mis¬ 
sionary of north Montana, in the method- 
ist episcopal church. He has attained 
eminence as a successful clergyman, and 
now fills a pastorate in Choteau, Mont. 

LOGAN, HENRY, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1835 to 1839. 

LOGAN, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, govern¬ 
or, author, was born Oct. 20, 1674, in Ire¬ 
land. He was chief justice of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; and founded the Loganian library 
at Philadelphia. He was the author of 
Duties of Man; Defense of Aristotle; Ex- 
perimenta de Plantarum Generatione; and 
Essays on Languages; a translation, with 
notes, of Cicero’s De Senectute, printed 
by Franklin in 1744. He died Oct. 31, 1751, 
near Germantown, Pa. 

LOGAN, JAMES VENABLE, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born July 11, 
1835, in Scott county, Ky. For a short time 
after 1868 he edited the Free Christian 
Commonwealth, and since then he has 
identified himself with Central university, 
Richmond, Ky., of which he was elected 
president in 1880. 

LOGAN, JOHN, educator, legislator, 
was born Dec. 3, 1856, in Winona, Minn. 
In 1894 he was elected to the North Dako¬ 
ta legislature, and received the re-election 
in 1896. He is a successful farmer in Val¬ 
ley City, N. D. 



LOGAN, JOHN ALEXANDER, soldier, 
statesman, was born Feb. 9, 1826. in Jack- 
son county, Ill. He went with the army 
as a private in the 
war with Mexico, 
and was made quar¬ 
termaster of his reg¬ 
iment. In 1852 he 
was admitted to the 
bar ; and in the same 
year was elected to 
the Illinois legisla¬ 
ture. In 1853 he was 
appointed a prosecut¬ 
ing attorney; in 1856 
a presidential elect¬ 
or, and a second time 
elected to the legislature. In 1858 he was 
elected a representative from Illinois to 


the thirty-sixth congress; and re-elected 
to the thirty-seventh congress. He resign¬ 
ed, and served as a colonel in the union 
army in 1861; and was subsequently com¬ 
missioned a major-general. He was elected 
to the fortieth and forty-first congresses. 
In 1871 he took his seat in the United 
States senate for the term ending in 1877; 
was again elected to the United States 
senate in 1878 for the term ending in 
1885; and was re-elected in 1885. In 1884 
he was the republican nominee for vice- 
president. He was the author of The 
Great Conspiracy; and The Volunteer 
Soldier of America. He died Dec. 26, 1886, 
in Washington, D. C. 

LOGAN, JOHN HENRY, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 5, 1822, in Abbeville 
district, S. C. He was a physician who 
was a professor in the Medical college at 
Atlanta; and the author of History of 
the Upper Country of South Carolina; and 
Students’ Manual of Chemico-Physics. He 
died March 28,1885, in Atlanta, Ga. 

LOGAN, MILBURN HILL, physician, 
surgeon, chemist, author, was born Aug. 
5, 1855, in Richview, Ill. He attended the 
common schools and the university of Cal¬ 
ifornia, and graduated in medicine from 
the California Medical college. He has 
been professor of chemistry and toxicolo¬ 
gy in the California Medical college; and 
is the founder and president of the Mac- 
lean Hospital and Sanitarium of San 
Francisco. He has traveled extensively in 
Europe, and in 1890 represented the State 
Eclectic Medical society at the interna¬ 
tional medical congress held in Berlin. 
He is the author of A System of Organic 
Chemistry, and various other scientific 
works. 

LOGAN, OLIVE, author, lecturer, was 
born April 16, 1841, in Elmira, N. Y. She 
has attained success as a playwright; and 
has lectured on popular subjects of the 
day. 

LOGAN, STEPHEN TRIGG, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born Feb. 24, 1800, in Franklin 
county, Ky. He went to Glasgow, Ky., in 
1817. Subsequently he was appointed 
commonwealth’s attorney, and became 
judge. He died July 17, 1880, in Spring- 
field, Mass. 

LOGAN, SYDNEY ALGERNON, author, 
poet, was born May 17, 1849, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is the author of Jesus in 
Modern Life; Messalina, a five-act trag¬ 
edy; and three volumes of poems entitled 
The Mirror of the Mind; The Image of 
Air; and A Feather From the World’s 
Wing. 

LOGAN. T. M., soldier, lawyer, was 
born Nov. 3, 1840, in Charleston, S. C. 
General Logan’s boyhood was spent on 
his father’s plantation; and he received 
his education in Charleston. He joined 
the Washington light infantry as a pri¬ 
vate during the siege of Fort Sumter. He 
was rapidly promoted, and became briga¬ 
dier-general. At the close of the war 
he married and settled in Virginia, and 
practiced the profession of law in Rich¬ 
mond. 

LOGAN, THOMAS MULDRUP, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Jan. 31, 1808, in 
Charleston, S. C. He is the author of 
The Topography of California; Cli¬ 
mate of California; and Meteorological 
Observations at Sacramento, in reports 
of the Smithsonian institution. 

LOGAN, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born Dec. 8, 
1776, in Barrod’s Ford, Ky. He was fre¬ 
quently in the Kentucky legislature, and 
officiated as speaker; and was twice cho¬ 
sen judge of the court of appeals. He was 
a senator in congress during the years 
1819 and 1820. He died Aug. 8, 1822, in 
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LOICH, JOHN EDWARD, merchant, 
chemist, was born March 10, 1858, in New 
York city. For many years he was a dis¬ 
tiller and chemist with the firm of Skel- 
ley, Forgarty and Skelley of New York 
city; and is now president of the Emile 
G. Blot Malt Whiskey company. 

LOMASNE1, RICHARD T., lawyer, 
bank examiner, was born Oct. 2, 1859 in 
Schenectady, N. Y. He attended the’St. 
John’s Roman catholic school; and in 
1881 graduated from the Union college. 
He has attained success as an able lawyer 
of his native city; has served as clerk of 
the surrogate court of Schenectady coun¬ 
ty; and has filled with distinction the 
responsible office of state bank examiner 
for the state of New York. 

LOMAX, JOHN TAYLOR, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, author, was born in January, 1781, 
in Port Tobago, Ya. He was a Virginia 
jurist; and the author of Digest of United 
States Real Property Laws; and Digest on 
the Law of Executors and Administrators. 
He died Oct. 10, 1862, in Fredericksburg 
Va. 

LOMAX, TENNENT, lawyer, was born 
April 29, 1858, in Montgomery, Ala. He 
received his education at the university of 
Alabama; studied law and has become 
prominent in his profession in his native 
city. He has served as solicitor for the 
county of Montgomery; has been secre¬ 
tary of the democratic state committee; 
and in 1896 was chairman of the Alabama 
delegatiqn to the national democratic 
convention. 

LOMEN, GUDBRAND J., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Jan. 28, 1854, in Winne¬ 
shiek county, Iowa. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Luther college of Decorah, 
Iowa; and graduated from the law de¬ 
partment of the Iowa state university. 
During 1878-85 he was clerk of the dis¬ 
trict court of Houston county, Minn.; and 
in 1891 served with distinction as a mem¬ 
ber of the Minnesota state legislature 
from St. Paul. 

LONDON. GEORGE MARION, farmer, 
merchant, state legislator, was born Jan. 
21, 1864, in Twelve Mile, Mo. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education in 
the common schools; graduated from 
Farmington college; and for three years 
was engaged in educational work. He is 
a successful farmer and merchant in the 
place of his nativity; and during 1888-92 
was prominently identified with the 
Farmers’ alliance as an organizer and lec¬ 
turer. He was elected and served with 
distinction as a member of the thirty- 
ninth general assembly of Missouri. 

LONG, ALEXANDER, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 24, 1816, in Green¬ 
ville, Pa. He was educated at Cary’s 

academy (now Farm¬ 
er’s college), Ohio; 
and adopted the pro¬ 
fession of the law. 

He practiced law in 
Cincinnati; and was 
elected to the Ohio 
legislature in 1848 

and 1849. In 1862 he 
was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio 
to the thirty-eighth 
congress; and was a 
delegate to the Chi¬ 
cago convention of 1864. 

LONG, ARMISTEAD LINDSAY, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born Sept. 3, 1827, in 
Campbell county, Va. He was appointed 
major in the confederate army; and brig¬ 
adier-general of artillery in 1863. He was 
the author of Memoirs of Gen. Robert E. 
Lee. He died April 29, 1891, in Charlottes¬ 
ville, Va. 


LONG, CHARLES CHAILLE, soldier 
author, was born July 2, 1842, in Princess 
Anne, Md. He was a soldier who served 
in the federal army during the civil war¬ 
den. 1116 colonel in the Egyptian army in 
1869, and in 1887 was American consul- 
general in Corea. He is the author of Cen¬ 
tral Africa; and The Three Prophets— 
Chinese Gordon, the Mahdi, Arabi Pacha. 

LONG, CHARLES DEAN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, college president, was’ born 
June 14, 1841, in Grand Blanc, Mich. Dur- 
mg I 8 75 - 80 he was prosecuting attorney 
of Genesee county; and in 1885 was com¬ 
mander of the department of Michigan of 
the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1887 
lie was elected justice of the supreme court 
of the state of Michigan; and in 1891 was 
elected president of the Detroit College of 
Law. 

LONG, CHESTER I„ lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 12, 1860, in Perry 
county, Pa. He was elected to the Kansas 

fu at «« Senate in 1889 > and was elected to 
the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. 

LONG, CLEMENT, theologian, educa¬ 
tor, was born Dec. 1, 1806, in Hopkinton. 
N H. He was lecturer on intellectual 
philosophy and political economy at Dart¬ 
mouth in 1851-52, and was professor of 
the same from 1854 until his death. He 
died Oct. 14, 1861, in Hanover, N. H. 

LONG, CRAWFORD W., physician, was 
born Nov. 1, 1815, in Danielsville, Ga. 
In 1851 he moved to Athens, Ga. He 
claimed that he performed, in 1842, the 
first surgical operation with the patient 
in a state of anaesthesia from the inhala¬ 
tion of ether. He died June 16 1878 in 
Athens, Ga. 

LONG, EDWARD H., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1808, in Maryland. He 
served a number of years in the Mary¬ 
land legislature; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Maryland from 1845 
to 1847. He died in October, 1865, in Som¬ 
erset, Md. 

ELI> soldi er, was born June 16 
i«37, in Woodford county, Ky. For his 
services during the civil war he was bre- 
vetted major-general in the regular army 
and major-general of volunteers, and hav¬ 
ing been mustered out of the volunteer 
sei vice, Jan. 15, 1866, he was retired with 
the rank of major-general. 

LONG, ELI H., physician, surgeon, au¬ 
thor. was born July 24, 1860, in Erie coun- 
Y. He has filled the chairs of ma¬ 
teria medica and therapeutics in the uni¬ 
versity of Buffalo, N. Y. He is the author 
of Tables for Doctor and Druggist, and 
numerous medical articles. 

LONG, GABRIEL, soldier, was born in 
1751. He was an officer in the revolution¬ 
ary army and ultimately rose to the rank 
of major. He died Feb. 3, 1827, in Cul¬ 
peper county, Va. 

LONG, JEFFERSON F., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 3, 1836, in 
Crawford county, Ga. He is a merchant 
tailor of Macon, Ga. He was elected to 
the -forty-first congress as a republican. 

LONG, JOHN, farmer, congressman, 
was born in Loudoun county, Va. He en¬ 
tered public life as a senator in the as¬ 
sembly in 1815, and in 1821 was elected to 
congress as a representative from North 
Carolina, where he remained until 1829. 

LONG, JOHN BENJAMIN, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 8, 1843, in Nacog¬ 
doches county, Texas. He moved with his 
parents to Rusk, Texas, in 1846, where 
he has since resided. He is overseer of 
the Texas State Grange and president of 
the Texas Farmer Co-operative Publish¬ 
ing association. He made the canvass 
and secured the nomination for the fifty- 



BIOGRAPHY. 


595 


t anfl best men of the state. 

man 0r tnv J ° HN DAVIS - law yer, congress- 
man, governor, author, was born Oct. 27 

t : 8 ’ - Bu ckfield, Maine. He served in 
the Massachusetts state house of repre¬ 
sentatives from 1875 to 1879, the last three 

ernor S R eake R\ He was Meutenant-gov- 
emoi of the state in 1879, and governor 
from !879 to 1882. He was elected a rep- 
esentative from Massachusetts to the 

to r the ei fn t C0I !f ess ’ and was re-elected 
In isq 7 a y ' nmth and fiftieth congresses, 
navv H 6 wa ®jiPPomted secretary of the 

and Oth!f the author of After-Dinner 
and Other Speeches, and a blank-verse 
tianslation of the H3neid. 

LONG, JOHN ROBERT, soldier edu- 

co. 0 ntv W Kv b ° rn fl° V V 15 ’ 1839 ’ in Pula 'ki 
ounty, Ky on the banks of the classic 

Cumberland, near Somerset. In 1861 he 
enlisted in company A, fifth division Mis¬ 
souri state guard; at the end of six months 
he entered the regular confederate service 
as sergeant in company B, third regi¬ 
ment Missouri cavalry, acting as body¬ 
guard to General Sterling Price, taking 

andVaHi the ^? a ^ isome marches, retreats 
and battles which made the name of Price 
illustrious After the battle of Elkhorn, 
or Pea Ridge, the command was trans- 

ai'Tho ° ( f e of the Mississippi, and 
at the battle of Black River Ridge he was 

captured by the gallant twenty-second 
Iowa, and for more than a year and a 
half was a prisoner of war. He has since 
been principally engaged in educational 
work, and since 1892 has been superin¬ 
tendent of city schools in Jacksonville 


LONG, OWEN GIBSON, lawyer, soldier 
Jar , lst 'was born March 3, 1845, in Jackson¬ 
ville, Ill. During the war he held a posi¬ 
tion in government service with rank of 
captain, and afterward an office in the cus¬ 
tom house of New Orleans until 1870. 
During 1873-74 he was judge of the city 
court in Kansas City, Mo., and 1886-90 
was city magistrate. 

LONG, PIERCE, congressman, was born 
in 1739 in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a 
delegate from New Hampshire to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1784 to 1786. He 
died April 3, 1789, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

LONG, ROBERT CAREY, architect, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1819. He was an 
architect of New York city who published 
a work on Ancient Architecture in Amer¬ 
ica. He died in July, 1849, in New York 
city. 


LONG, SI EPHEN HARRIMAN, civil 
engineer, soldier, author, was born Dec. 
30, 1784, in Hopkinton, N. H. He intro¬ 
duced Long’s truss bridge; and was col¬ 
onel and chief of topographical engineers 
United States army in 1861. He wrote Rail¬ 
road Manual. He died Sept. 4, 1864 in 
Alton, Ill. 

LONG, THOMAS B., jurist, translator,' 
was born Oct. 25, 1836, in Mansfield, Ohio. 
In 1870 he was unanimously nominated 
by the democratic party, and elected by a 
large majority, as judge of the criminal 
circuit court of Indiana. He has trans¬ 
lated into English heroic verse a great 
part of the Hi'neid of Virgil, besides some 
others of the minor productions of the 
Greek and Latin poets. 

LONGACRE, JAMES BARTON, en¬ 
graver, was born Aug. 11, 1794, in Dela¬ 
ware county, Pa. From 1844 till his death 
he was engraver to the United States mint, 
and designed all the new coins that were 
struck during this time, including the 
double-eagle, the three-dollar piece, and 
the gold dollar. He died Jan. 1, 1869, in 
Philadelphia. 


596 


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LONGFELLOW, ERNEST WADS¬ 
WORTH, artist, was born in 1845 in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He paints with a firm hand 
and brilliant but harmonious scheme of 
color, and is favorably known for such 
effective landscapes and compositions as 
Old Mill at Manchester, Mass.; Italian 
Pines; Love Me, Love My Dog; Misty 
Morning; and John and Priscilla. 

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADS¬ 

WORTH, poet, was born Feb. 27, 1807, 
The most widely read 
of American poets. 
He was professor of 
modern languages at 
B o w d o i n college, 
1829-35, and filled 
the same position at 
Harvard university, 
1835-54, his home 
being at Cambridge 
from 1835. He was 
the author of Coplas 
de Manrique, a verse 
translation from the 
Spanish; Outre-Mer, 
a prose volume of travels; Hyperion, 
a prose romance; Voices of the Night; 
Ballads, and Other Poems; Poems on 
Slavery; The Spanish Student; The Bel¬ 
fry of Bruges, and Other Poems; Evan¬ 
geline; Kavanagh, a prose tale; Seaside 
and Fireside; The Golden Legend; Hia¬ 
watha; The Courtship of Miles Standish: 
Tales of a Wayside Inn, first series; 
Flower de Luce; New England Tragedies; 
Dante’s Divina Commedia, a translation; 
The Divine Tragedy; Three Books of 
Song; Aftermath; The Masque of Pan¬ 
dora; Keramos; Ultima Thule; In the 
Harbor; and Michael Angelo. He died 
March 24, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass. 

LONGFELLOW, SAMUEL, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born June 18, 1819, in 
Portland, Maine. He was a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman who held pastorates at Fall River, 
Brooklyn, and Germantown, but whose 
latest years were spent in Cambridge. He 
was the author of Life of H. W. Longfel¬ 
low; Hymns and Verses; Memoir of S. 
Johnson; and Essays and Sermons. With 
S. Johnson he edited Hymns of the Spirit. 
He died in 1892. 

LONGFELLOW, STEPHEN, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 23, 1775, in 
Gorham, Maine. From 1817 to 1836 he 
was a member of the corporation of Bow- 
doin college. He was a representative in 
congress from Maine from 1823 to 1825; 
and a representative in the Maine legis¬ 
lature in 1826. He died Aug. 2, 1849, in 
Portland, Maine. 

LONGFELLOW, WILLIAM PITT PRE¬ 
BLE, architect, author, was born in 1836 
in Maine. He is an architect of note, and 
editor of the Cyclopaedia of Architecture 
in Italy, Greece and the Levant. 

LONGLEY, EDMUND, educator, was 
born April 1, 1819, in Sidney, Main's. This 
successful educator has taught for fifty 
years. He has been professor of mathe¬ 
matics, French, Spanish and Italian lan¬ 
guages; of English literature and elocu¬ 
tion. He is the author of several educa¬ 
tional works, and now resides in Emory, 
Va. 

LONGNECKER, HENRY CLAY, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was 
born April 17, 1820, in Allentown, Pa. He 
was elected a representative from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the thirty-sixth congress. He 
was colonel of the ninth Pennsylvania in¬ 
fantry, commanded a brigade in western 
Virginia at the commencement of the re¬ 
bellion in 1861; and subsequently com¬ 
manded a brigade of militia at the battle 
of Antietam. In 1867 he was appointed an 
associate judge of Lehigh county. He died 
Sept. 18, 1871, in Allentown, Pa. 


in Portland, Maine. 



LONGSHORE, HANNAH E., physician, 
was born May 30, 1819, in Maryland. She 
was the first woman to put up a profes¬ 
sional sign in Philadelphia, and one of the 
ten members who composed the first grad¬ 
uating class of the Woman’s Medical col¬ 
lege in Pennsylvania. 

LONGSHORE, JOSEPH SKELTON, 
physician, author, was born Sept. 18, 1809, 
in Bucks county, Pa. He is the author of 
a work entitled Principles of Nursing; 
and a work on obstetrics. He died in De¬ 
cember, 1879. 

LONGSTREET, AUGUSTUS BALD¬ 
WIN, educator, jurist, college president, 
author, was born Sept. 22, 1790, in Au¬ 
gusta, Ga. He was a 
jurist and educator 
of Georgia who be¬ 
came a methodist 
minister in 1838, and 
was subsequently 
president of several 
southern colleges. 
He is remembered 
for his genuinely hu¬ 
morous Georgia 
Scenes. Among his 
other works are, 
Master William Mit¬ 
ten; and Letters from Georgia to Massa¬ 
chusetts. He died Sept. 9, 1870, in Ox¬ 
ford, Miss. 

LONGSTREET, JAMES, soldier, states¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 8, 1821, in 
Edgefield, S. C. He served throughout the 
civil war, rising to the rank of major-gen¬ 
eral. He was appointed United States 
marshal for the district of Georgia, and 
in 1880 was appointed envoy extraordi¬ 
nary and minister plenipotentiary of the 
United States to Turkey. He was the 
author of From Manassas to Appomattox. 

LONGSTRETH, MIERS FISHER, as¬ 
tronomer, was born March 15, 1819, in 
Philadelphia. During the early part of his 
life he was a merchant, but devoted his 
leisure to the study of astronomy, having 
charge of the Friends’ observatory in 
Philadelphia till 1856. 

LONGYEAR, JOHN WESLEY, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 
1820, in Shandaken, N. Y. He was elected 
a representative from Michigan to the 
thirty-eighth congress, and re-elected to 
the thirty-ninth congress. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the Philadelphia loyalists’ conven¬ 
tion of 1866, and in 1870 became a judge 
of the district court of Michigan. He 
died March 10, 1875, in Detroit, Mich. 

LOOKABAUGH, IRA HOLMES, lawyer, 
was born Feb. 5, 1868, in Pittsburg, Pa. 
He received his education at the Campbell 
university of Holton, 
Kan., and at the 
Kansas university of 
Lawrence. He grad¬ 
uated from the com¬ 
mercial and scienti¬ 
fic course at Camp¬ 
bell university, and 
from the art and 
law departments at 

the Kansas univer¬ 

sity. He has been 
cashier of a bank, 
traveling salesman, 
and a school teacher. In 1892 he was ad¬ 
mitted to practice in the supreme court 
of Kansas and has attained prominence 
in his profession in Oklahoma territory at 
Watonga, where he takes an active part 
in the public affairs of that territory. 

LOOKER, OTHNIEL, lawyer, jurist, 

state senator, governor, was born Oct. 

4, 1757, on Long Island, N.Y. He served 
five years in the revolutionary army; and 
also served in both branches of the New 
York legislature. In 1804 he moved to 


Ohio, where he served for many years in 
the state senate. In 1814 became governor 
by virtue of his office as speaker of the 
senate, and was for seven years a judge of 
the court of common pleas. He died April 
5, 1845, in Palestine, Ill. 

LOOMIS, ALFRED LEBBEUS, lawyer, 
author, was born June 10, 1831, in Ben¬ 
nington, Vt. He was a physician of New 
York city, and professor in the university 
of the City of New York in 1865. He was 
the author of Lessons in Physical Diag¬ 
nosis; Diseases of the Respiratory Or¬ 
gans; Lectures on Fevers; Diseases of 
Old Age; and Text-Book of Practical Med¬ 
icine. He died Jan. 24, 1896, in New York 
city. 

LOOMIS, ANNIE ELISABETH, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Sept. 24, 1850, and is 
the daughter of Silas L. Loomis, a noted 
physician of Florida. She received her 
education at the Wesleyan academy and 
the Wesleyan Female college; and in due 
course received the degrees of A. B. and A. 
M. She has taught with success in the 
Kimball Union academy and the Hagers¬ 
town Female seminary, in music and mod¬ 
ern and ancient languages, and since 1895 
has been principal of the Mount Pleasant 
public school of Washington, D. C. She is 
the author of a score or more of published 
works. 

LOOMIS, ARPHAXAD, congressman, 
was born April 9, 1798, in Winchester, 
Conn. He was for three years a member 
of the legislature of New York from Her¬ 
kimer county, and was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1837 to 
1839. He died Sept. 15, 1885, in Little 
Falls, N. Y. 

LOOMIS, AUGUSTUS WARD, clergy¬ 
man, missionary, author, was born in 1816 
in Connecticut. He is a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman, and for many years a missionary 
among the Chinese of California. He is 
the author of Learn to Say No; Scenes in 
Chusan; Scenes in the Indian Country; 
The Profits of Godliness; Confucius and 
the Chinese Classics; and English and 
Chinese Lessons. 

LOOMIS, D. ALDEN, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born June 14, 1837, in Westfield, 
N. Y. He was educated in the classics and 
higher mathematics at the Fredonia acad¬ 
emy, N. Y. For many years he was en¬ 
gaged in educational work, entered the 
Philadelphia college of Medicine and Sur¬ 
gery in 1862, and graduated two years 
later. He was commissioned assistant 
surgeon in the ninety-third regiment, New 
York volunteer infantry, and was on the 
staff of General Butler. After the war he 
was appointed demonstrator of anatomy 
in his alma mater. A few years later he 
was appointed to the chair in the Medical 
college of St. Louis. In 1896 was elected 
to the chair of histology in the college 
of Physicians and Surgeons, in Indiana¬ 
polis, Ind. He is the author of Among the 
Hollyhocks, and has contributed exten¬ 
sively to medical and periodical literature. 

LOOMIS, DWIGHT, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 27, 1821, in Col¬ 
umbia, Conn. In 1847 he practiced law in 
Rockville, Conn., and in 1851 was elected 
to the Connecticut legislature. He was a 
state senator in 1857. He was elected a 
representative from Connecticut to the 
thirty-sixth congress, and re-elected to the 
thirty-seventh congress. He was subse¬ 
quently placed upon the bench of the su¬ 
preme court of Connecticut. 

LOOMIS, EBEN JENKS, astronomer, 
author, was born in 1828 in New York. He 
is an astronomer of Washington city, 
senior assistant in the Nautical Almanac 
office. He is the author of Wayside 
Sketches; and An Eclipse Party in Africa. 




HERRINGSHAW'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


LOOMIS, ELIAS, astronomer, author, 
was born Aug. 7, 1811, in Willington, 
Conn. He was an astronomer and mathe¬ 
matician who was professor at Yale uni¬ 
versity from 1860. He published a series 
of text-books in thirteen volumes, among 
which are, Plane and Spherical Trigonom¬ 
etry; Treatise on Astronomy; and Treatise 
on Meteorology. He died Aug. 15, 1889, 
in New Haven, Conn. 

LOOMIS, ELMER, soldier, agriculturist 
legislator, was born July 25, 1834, in 
Fowler, Ohio. During the civil war he 
served in company D, one hundred and 
seventy-seventh Ohio infantry; and in 
1869 moved to Kansas. He is a successful 
farmer and slock man of Girarci; was a 
member of the state legislature in 1889, 
and in 1896 was again elected to the same 
office. 

LOOMIS, GUSTAVIJS, soldier, was born 
Sept. 23, 1(89, in Thetford, Vt. He served 
gallantly in the Mexican and civil wars; 
and in 1865 received the brevet of briga¬ 
dier-general. He died March 6, 1872, in 
Stratford, Conn. 

LOOMIS, JUSTIN RUDOLPH, educator, 
college president, author, was born Aug! 
10, 1810, in Bennington, N. Y. He is an 
educator of Pennsylvania, president of 
Lewisburg university in 1858-78; and the 
author of Elements of Geology; and Ele¬ 
ments of Anatomy. 

LOOMIS, LAFAYETTE CHARLES, 
physician, author, was born July 7, 1824, 
in Coventry, Conn. He is a physician 
and educator of Washington city, and the 
author of Mizpah; Prayer and Friendship; 
Mental and Social Culture; Summer Guide 
to Central Europe; and Index Guide to 
Travel and Art Study in Europe. 

LOOMIS, SAMUEL LANE, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1856 in Massachusetts. 
He is a congregational clergyman of Bos¬ 
ton, and the author of Modern Cities and 
Their Religious Problems. 

LOOMIS, SILAS LAWRENCE, educator, 
physician, author, was born May 22, 1822, 
in Coventry, Conn. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the Wesleyan university and the 
Georgetown university. He is the author 
of Analytical Arithmetic; and Normal 
Arithmetic. 

LOOP, HENRY AUGUSTUS, artist, was 
born Sept. 9, 1831, in Hillsdale, N. Y. 
Among his works are portraits of Worth¬ 
ington Whittredge, of Joseph P. Thomson, 
and Prof. Elias Loomis; also Undine; 
Aphrodite; Echo; Hermione and Helena; 
CEnone; At the Spring; Idyl of the Lake; 
Love’s Crown; Summer Moon; and The 
Dreamer. 

LOOP, MRS. JENNETTE SHEPARD 
HARRISON, artist, was born March 5, 
1840, in New Haven, Conn. In 1875 she 
was elected an associate of the National 
Academy of Design and has exhibited in 
nearly all of its exhibitions since that 
time. Many prominent people of New 
Haven have portraits by her, and her por¬ 
traits of New York people have given her 
a wide reputation. 

LOOS, CHARLES LOUIS, educator, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
Dec. 22, 1823, in France. In 1834 he emi¬ 
grated to America; has attained success 
in educational work, as professor in Beth¬ 
any college for twenty-five years; presi¬ 
dent of the Eureka college, Illinois, and as 
president of the Kentucky university, 
which latter office he still holds. For fifty 
years he has been a clergyman. He 
founded and edited for two years The 
Disciple of Somerset, Pa.; was co-editor of 
The Christian Age of Cincinnati, Ohio; 
and for twenty years has been editorial 
writer for The Christian Standard. 


LORAIN, LORENZO, soldier, inventor 
was born Aug. 3, 1831, in Phillipsburg, Pa. 
In 1875 he became instructor of engin¬ 
eering at artillery school at Fortress Mon¬ 
roe. He invented a telescopic sight for 
large guns, and left a range finder un¬ 
completed at the time of his death. He 
died March 6, 1882, in Baltimore, Md. 

LORAS, MATHIAS, bishop, was born in 
1792, in France. In 1837 he was conse¬ 
crated Roman catholic bishop of Dubuque, 
Iowa. He died Feb. 19, 1858. 

LORD, AUGUSTUS MENDON, clergy¬ 
man, poet, was born in 1861 in San Fran¬ 
cisco, Cal. He is a clergyman of the 
First Congregational church of Arlington, 
Mass., and the author of A Book of 
Verses. 

LORD, BENJAMIN, clergyman, author, 
was born May 31, 1694, in Saybrook, Conn. 
1 rom 1717 until his death he was a clergy¬ 
man in Norwich, Conn. He published a 
Half Century Discourse; and several ser¬ 
mons. He died in April, 1784, in Norwich 
Conn. 

LORD, CHARLES BACHUS, lawyer 
jurist, was born July 13, 1810, in Thorn¬ 
ton, Maine. He practiced law in Buffalo, 
N. Y„ and removing to St. Louis, Mo., at¬ 
tained eminence in his profession. For 
many years he was judge of the land 
court, and subsequently of the circuit 
court of that city. He died Nov. 15, 1868, 
in St. Louis, Mo. 

LORD, DANIEL, lawyer, was born Sept. 
2, 1795, in Stonington, Conn. He became 
one of the foremost lawyers of New York 
city, and for forty years previous to his 
death there were few great civil cases 
before the United States or New York 
state courts in which he was not retained. 
He died March 4, 1868, in New York city 

LORD, DAVID NEVINS, merchant, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born March 5, 1792, in 
Fianklin, Conn. He was a merchant and 
importer of New York city, and the au¬ 
thor of Exposition of the Apocalypse; 
Characteristics of Figurative Language; 
Louis Napoleon: is he to be Anti-Christ? 
and Visions of Paradise, an Epic. He died 
July 14, 1880, in New York city. 

LORD, ELEAZER, financier, author 
was born Sept. 9, 1788, in Franklin, Conn! 
He was a noted financier of New York 
city who was the founder of the Manhat¬ 
tan Insurance company. Among his 
rather numerous writings are, Credit, 
Cuirency, and Banking; Six Letters on a 
National Currency; The Epoch of the 
Creation; Analysis of Isaiah; and The 
Prophetic Office. He died June 3. 1871, in 
Piermont, N. Y. 

LORD, FREDERICK W., physician, 
congressman, was born Dec. 11, 1800, in 
Lyme, Conn. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1847 to 
1849, and was a delegate to the Baltimore 
national convention in 1840. He died May 
24, 1860, in New York. 

LORD, HENRY W., merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born March 8, 1821, in North¬ 
ampton, Mass. He was United States con¬ 
sul at Manchester, England, from 1861 to 
1867, and devised valuable plans for per¬ 
fecting the consular service. He was 
elected a representative from Michigan to 
the forty-seventh congress as a republican. 

LORD, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born Sept. 10, 1812, in Portsmouth, N. H. 
He was a congregational clergyman widely 
known as an historical lecturer, who did 
much to arouse an interest in the study 
of history. He was the author of His¬ 
tory of the United States; Modern His¬ 
tory; Points of History; The Old Roman 
World; Ancient States and Empires; Life 
of Emma Willard; Beacon Lights of His¬ 
tory; and Two German Giants. He died 
in 1894. 


LORD, JOHN CHASE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Aug. 9, 1805, in Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y. He was a prominent presby- 
tenan clergyman of Buffalo, and the au¬ 
thor of The Land of Ophir, and Other Lec¬ 
tures; and Occasional Poems. He died 
Jan. 12, 1877, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

LORD, NATHAN, sixth president of 
Dartmouth college, was born Nov. 28, 1792, 
in Berwick, Maine, lor twelve years he 
filled a successful pastorate in Amherst, 
Mass., and was made president of Dart- 
mouth college in 1828. He continued his 
office until 1863, and died Sept. 9, 1870 in 
Hanover, N. H. 

LORD, SCOTT, lawyer, jurist, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 20, 1820, in Nelson, 
N. Y. He has held the offices of judge and 
surrogate in Utica, N. Y. In 1874 he was 
elected a representative from New York to 
the forty-fourth congress. He died Sept. 
10, 1885, in Morris Plains, N. J. 

LORD, WILLIAM PAINE, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, governor, was born in 1838 in 
Dover, Del. During the civil war he was 
major of the first regiment, Delaware 
United States cavalry; and afterward be¬ 
came lieutenant of the second regiment 
United States artillery. He was city at¬ 
torney of Salem, Oregon, in 18(0; a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate in 1878; judge of 
the supreme court and chief justice during 
1880-94; and in 1895 he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Oregon for four years. 

LORD, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, 
clergyman, poet, was born Oct. 28, 1819, 
in Madison county, N. Y. He is an epis¬ 
copal clergyman of Vicksburg, Miss., and 
more recently of Cooperstown, N. Y., 
whose poems attracted the praise of 
Wordsworth. His works are: Poems; 
Christ in Hades; and Andre, a tragedy. 

LORD, WILLIS, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 15, 1809, in Bridgeport, 
Conn. He was a Presbyterian clergyman 
who held several theological professor¬ 
ships as well as pastorates in Chicago and 
elsewhere. He was the author of Men 
and Scenes Before the Flood; Christian 
Theology for the People; and The Blessed 
Hope. He died in 1889. 

LORE, CHARLES B., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 16, 1831, in Odessa, 
Del. He was elected a representative 
from Delaware to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress, and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth congress as a democrat. 

LORILLARD, PIERRE, philanthropist, 
was born in New York city. He founded 
Tuxedo park, a suburban retreat in 
Orange county, N. Y., combining the ad¬ 
vantages of landscape-gardening with 
facilities for country sports. 

LORIMER, GEORGE CLAUDE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1838 in Scot¬ 
land. He is a noted baptist clergyman of 
Boston, pastor of Tremont Temple, and 
the author of Isms Old and New; Under 
the Evergreens; The Great Conflict; 
Jesus: the World’s Saviour; and Studies in 
Social Life. 

LORIMER, WILLIAM, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born April 27, 1861, in 
England. He was superintendent of the 
main water extension of the city of Chi¬ 
cago under Mayor Roche and superintend¬ 
ent of the water department under Mayor 
Washburne. He was elected to the fifty- 
fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

LORING, CHARLES GREELEY, law¬ 
yer, author, was born May 2, 1794, *in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston, 
and the author of The Neutral Relations 
of England and the United States; Eng¬ 
lish Liability for Indemnity; and Life of 
William Sturgis. He died Oct. 8, 1868, in 
Beverly, Mass. 


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LORING, EDWARD G., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1802 in Boston, Mass. He 
was a lecturer on law at Harvard college 
for several years, and in 1858 was appoint¬ 
ed a judge of the court of claims in Wash¬ 
ington. 

LORING, EDWARD GREELEY, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1837 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a physician of New 
York city, and the author of Text-Book 
of Ophthalmoscopy; The Normal Eye; 
and Diseases of the Retina. He died in 
1881. 

LORING, EDWARD PAYSON, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born in March, 
1837, in Norridgewock. He was first lieu¬ 
tenant of the thirteenth Maine; was pro¬ 
moted captain, then major of the United 
States colored troops, and brevetted lieu- 
tenant-colonel. He settled in Fitchburg, 
Mass., and has represented the city in the 
legislature of Massachusetts. 

LORING, ELLIS GRAY, lawyer, aboli¬ 
tionist, author, was born in 1808 in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was one of the twelve that 
formed the first anti-slavery society in 
Boston in 1833. He died May 24, 1858, in 
Boston, Mass. 

LORING, FRANCIS HAMMER, soldier, 
business man, was born July 9, 1832, in 
Belpre, Ohio. In 1863 he enlisted as a pri¬ 
vate soldier in company G, ninety-second 
regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; was 
promoted to captain on organization of 
company, served three years and was 
commissioned major of volunteers at the 
close of the war. He has been prominent 
in political and educational affairs; presi¬ 
dent of the Iowa Masons’ Benevolent so¬ 
ciety of Oskaloosa, and held numerous 
offices of honor in various fraternal or¬ 
ders. 

LORING, FREDERIC WADSWORTH, 
journalist, author, poet, was born Dec. 12, 
1848, in Boston, Mass. He was a Boston 
journalist killed by the Apaches in Ari¬ 
zona, and the author of Two College 
Friends, a novel; and The Boston Dip, 
and Other Verses. He died Nov. 5, 1871, 
near Wickenburg, Ariz. 

LORING, GEORGE BAILEY, surgeon, 
congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1817, in 
North Andover, Mass. His father was the 
Rev. Bailey Loring, 
pastor of the Unitar¬ 
ian church of that 
city. Dr. Loring 
graduated from Har¬ 
vard college in 1837, 
studied medicine un¬ 
der Dr. Oliver Wen¬ 
dell Holmes; and 
was made United 
States surgeon in the 
Chelsea hospital. He 
afterward devoted 
himself to agricul¬ 
ture and public affairs. He was sent as a 
member of congress at Washington from 
Salem for two terms; was United States 
commissioner of agriculture under Presi¬ 
dent Garfield and during President Ar¬ 
thur’s administration; and was made 
United States minister to Lisbon by Presi¬ 
dent Harrison. He was the author of 
many works on agriculture and educa¬ 
tion, and a work entitled A Year in Por¬ 
tugal, which was completed just before 
his death in September, 1891. 

LORING, HANNIBAL H., educator, was 
born Dec. 23, 1862, in Grant county, Ind. 
After completing his education at the 
Northern Indiana Normal school, he com¬ 
menced educational work. He has since 
been principal of schools in various large 
cities of Indiana, and since 1889 has been 
superintendent of schools of Porter coun¬ 
ty, Ind. 


LORING, ISRAEL, clergyman, was born 
April 15, 1682, in Hull, Mass. In 1706 he 
became pastor of the congregational 
church in Sudbury, Mass., continuing in 
this charge for sixty-six years. He died 
March 9, 1772, in Sudbury, Mass. 

LORING, JAMES SPEAR, author, was 
born Aug. 6, 1799, in Boston, Mass. He 
was for thirty years a bookseller in Bos¬ 
ton, and a contributor of historical and 
biographical articles to the New England 
Historical and Genealogical Register. He 
was the author of A Hundred Boston Ora¬ 
tors. He died April 12, 1884, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

LORING, PRENTISS, state legislator, 
was born in February, 1834, in Yarmouth. 
He settled in Portland in the business of 
fire and marine insurance; has been on 
the superintending school committees of 
Yarmouth and Portland; and has repre¬ 
sented the city in the state legislature. 

LORING, WILLIAM WING, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 4, 1818, in Wilming¬ 
ton, S. C. He was a soldier who, after 
serving successively in the United States 
and confederate armies, served in the 
Egyptian army in 1869-79. He was the 
author of A Confederate General in Egypt. 
He died Dec. 30, 1886, in New York city. 

LOSKIEL, GEORGE HENRY, bishop, 
author, was born Nov. 7, 1740, in Russia. 
He was a Moravian bishop in Pennsyl¬ 
vania whose two books have been many 
times reprinted. He was the author of 
Etwas furs Herz; and History of the Mor¬ 
avian Missions Among the North Amer¬ 
ican Indians. He died Feb. 23, 1814, in 
Bethlehem, Pa. 

LOSSING, BENSON JOHN, historian, 
engraver, author, was born Feb. 12, 1813, 
in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was an 
artist and wood-engraver of Poughkeepsie 
who made many valuable contributions to 
American history. His later years were 
spent at Dover Plains, N. Y. He was the 
author of Pictorial Field-Book of the Rev¬ 
olution; Pictorial Field-Book of the War 
of 1812; Pictorial Field-Book of the Civil 
War; Life of General Philip Schuvler; 
The Two Spies: Nathan Hale and John 
Andre; Cyclopaedia of United States His¬ 
tory; Mary and Martha Washington; His¬ 
tory of the United States Navy for Boys; 
Mount Vernon and Its Associations; The 
Empire State, a History of New York; 
Life of Washington; Lives of the Presi¬ 
dents; and other works. He died in 1891. 

LOTHROP, CHARLES HENRY, sur¬ 
geon, inventor, author, was born Sept. 3, 
1831, in Taunton, Mass. He is the in¬ 
ventor of an apparatus for treating frac¬ 
tures of the leg, and of a rubber appliance 
for club-foot. He served during the civil 
war as surgeon of the first Iowa cavalry, 
and has been an examining surgeon for 
pensions since 1868. In 1876 he edited the 
Southern Medical Record. 

LOTHROP, GEORGE VAN NESS, law¬ 
yer, diplomat, statesman, was born Aug. 

8, 1817, in Easton, Mass. He was attorney- 
general of Michigan from 1848 to 1851; 
was recorder of the city of Detroit from 
1851 to 1853; and was general counsel for 
the Michigan Central Railroad company 
from 1854 to 1880, when he resigned the 
position. In 1882 he was made a member 
of the commission in whose charge the 
public library of Detroit was placed. He 
is a director of the First National bank 
of Detroit, Mich. 

LOTHROP, MRS. HARRIET MUL- 
FORD, author, was born June 23, 1844, in 
New Haven, Conn. She is a popular 
writer of juvenile literauire, living at 
Concord, Mass.; and the author of Five 
Little Peppers and How They Grew; The 
Pettibone Name; So as by Fire; Half Year 


at Bronckton; What the Seven Did; Rob; 
The Golden West; How They Went to 
Europe; and Hester, and Other New Eng¬ 
land Stories. 

LOTHROP, THORNTON KIRKLAND, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1830 in North 
Carolina. He is a lawyer of Boston, and 
the author of The Life of William H. 
Seward. 

LOTT, JOHN A., lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, was born in 1805. In 1841 he was 
a member of the Rhode Island state as¬ 
sembly, and in 1842-46 a state senator. 
He was justice of the supreme court in 
1857-65, and judge of the court of appeals 
in 1869. He died July 20, 1878, in Fiat- 
bush, R. I. 

LOUCKS, HENRY LANGFORD, farmer, 
journalist, was born May 24, 1846, in 
Canada. He was president of the Dakota 
Territorial Farmers’ 
Alliance, and South 
Dakota Farmers’ Al¬ 
liance from 1885 to 
1892 inclusive. He 
has been president of 
the National Farm¬ 
ers’ Alliance, and 
also president of the 
National Farmers’ 
Alliance and Indus¬ 
trial Union, which 
was the largest farm¬ 
ers’organization that 
ever existed. He was the permanent 
chairman of the first national people’s 
party convention, held at Omaha in 1892. 
Since 1891 he has been editor of The 
Dakota Ruralist, and is the author of The 
New Monetary System; and also author of 
a work on Transportation in Government 
Ownership of Railroads. He resides on 
his farm at Altruria, one of the largest 
and best farms in South Dakota. 

LOUD, EUGENE FRANCIS, soldier, 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
12, 1847, in Abington, Mass. He was with 
the army of the Potomac and with Sheri¬ 
dan in the Shenandoah Valley until the 
close of the war. He was a member of 
the California legislature in 1884, and was 
elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and 
fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

LOUD, HENRY MARTIN, was born 
Dec. 11, 1824, in Westhampton, Mass. He 
is president of the Au Sable and North¬ 
westernrailway; and 
has been for several 
years president of 
the Vermillion and 
Grand Morris Iron 
company, having its 
offices in Duluth. Not¬ 
withstanding these 
important and exten¬ 
sive business inter¬ 
ests, giving employ¬ 
ment to an aggregate 
of over eight hun¬ 
dred men, he has 
served as mayor of the city of Au Sable, 
and also accepted the republican nomina¬ 
tion for congress. 

LOUD, HULDA BARKER, educator, 
journalist, lecturer, was born Sept. 13, 
1844, in East Abington, Mass. After re¬ 
ceiving a liberal education she became a 
successful school teacher. She is the edi¬ 
tor and owner of The IndeDendent of 
Rockland, Mass., is a successful lecturer 
and takes a prominent part in the reli¬ 
gious and educational affairs of her city. 

In 1887 she represented the Knights of 
Labor in the woman’s international coun¬ 
cil held in Washington, and has delivered 
numerous public addresses in behalf of 
that order. She has also lectured on 
woman suffrage and kindred topics. 









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LOUD, MARGUERITE ST. LEON, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born about 1800 in Wysox, 
Pa. She contributed poetry to the United 
States Gazette and to the monthly maga¬ 
zines of that city. A volume entitled 
Wayside Flowers was published in 1851. 

LOUDENSLAGER, HENRY C., public 
official, congressman, was born May 22, 
1852, in Mauricetown, N. J. He engaged 
in the produce com¬ 
mission business in 
Philadelphia, P a., 
and continued in it 
ten years. He was 
elected county clerk 
fp/ in 1882 and re-elected 
in 18S7. lie was 
elected to the fifty- 
J third and fifty-fourth 

gri congresses and re- 

elected to the fifty- 
wtt" fifth congress as 

a republican. H e 
served on several important committees. 





LOUDON, DE WITT CLINTON, soldier 
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1827 in 
Georgetown, Ohio. He served one year 
m the Mexican war; and during the civil 
war was colonel of the seventieth regiment 
Ohio volunteer infantry. He was a promi¬ 
nent lawyer of Ohio, and served ten years 
as judge in his district. 

Lu UGH BOROUGH, MRS. MARY WEB¬ 
STER^ author, was born Aug. 27, 1836, in 
New York city. She was a writer of Little 
Rock. Ark., and the author of My Cave 
Life in Vicksburg, an account of life in 
Vicksburg during the siege; and For Bet¬ 
ter, for Worse, and Other Stories. She 
died Aug. 27, 1887, in Little Rock, Ark. 


LOUGHEAD, MRS. FLORA (HAINES) 
author, was born July 12, 1855, in Milwau¬ 
kee, Wis. She is a writer of Santa Bar¬ 
bara, Cal., and the author of The Libraries 
of California; The Man Who Was Guilty, 
a novel; Quick Cookery; The Abandoned 
Claim, a novel; Practical Handbook of 
Science; and Hebrew Folk-Lore Tales. 

LOUGHLIN, JAMES FRANCIS, clergy¬ 
man, educator, lecturer, author, was born 
May 8, 1851, in Auburn, N. Y. He gradu¬ 
ated from the high school of Toledo, Ohio, 
in 1867; he subsequently attended the 
Propaganda, Rome, Italy, and was or¬ 
dained in 1897. Since 1892 he has been 
professor in the Theological seminary of 
Overbrook, Pa., and since 1892 has been its 
chancellor. He is the editor of the Amer¬ 
ican Catholic Quarterly Review, and the 
author of a book of Sermons and Lec¬ 
tures. 


LOUGHRIDGE, WILLIAM, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was 
born July 11, 1827, in Youngstown, Ohio. 
He was elected a member of the Iowa 
state senate from 1856 to 1860; and in 
1861 was chosen judge of the sixth judi¬ 
cial district of Iowa, to serve until Jan¬ 
uary, 1867. In 1866 he was elected a 
representative from Iowa to the fortieth 
congress, and was re-elected to the forty- 
first, forty-second and forty-third con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

LOUNSBERRY, WILLIAM, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1831, in 
Stone Ridge, N. Y. He was a member of 
the assembly in' 1868, and was elected 
mayor of Kingston in 1878, and served two 
years. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-sixth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 


LOIJNSBURY, THOMAS RAYNES- 
FORD, educator, author, was born in 1838 
in New York. He has been a professor 
of English at the Sheffield Scientific school 
of Yale university since 1871, and the 
author of History of the English Lan¬ 
guage; Life of James Fenimore Cooper; 
and Studies in Chaucer. 


LOUTTIT, J. A., congressman, was a 
resident of Stockton, Cal. In 1884 he was 
elected a representative from California 
to the forty-ninth congress as a republi¬ 
can. 

LO\ E, ISAAC NEWTON, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 13, 1853, in Barry, 
Ill. He is the author of a work entitled 
Practical Points on the Management of 
Some of the Diseases of Children. 

LOVE, J. M., soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born in 1820 in Fairfax 
county, Va. In 1833 he moved, with his 
parents, to Ohio. He served through the 
Mexican war. In 1850 he moved to Keo¬ 
kuk, Iowa; in 1852 was elected a state 
senator; and in 1855 was appointed Unit¬ 
ed States district judge for the district 
of Iowa. 

LOVE, JAMES, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Ken¬ 
tucky from 1833 to 1835. 

LOVE, JOHN, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1807 to 1811. 

LOVE, PETER E., jurist, state senator, 
congressman, was born July 7, 1818, in 
Dublin, Ga. In 1843 he was chosen so¬ 
licitor-general for the southern district of 
Georgia; in 1849 was elected to the state 
senate, and in 1853 was appointed a judge 
for the southern circuit of Georgia. He 
was elected a representative from Georgia 
to the thirty-sixth congress. 

LOVE, SMOLOFF PALACE, soldier 
jurist, was born May 10, 1826, in Lincoln 
county, Ky. He served with distinction as 
lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the elev¬ 
enth regiment Kentucky volunteers in the 
civil war on the union side. In 1866 he 
was elected county judge of his county, 
and served eight years in all. He resides 
in Greenville, Ky., where he has attained 
prominence as a lawyer and jurist. 

LOVE, THOMAS C., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman. He was judge of Erie county, 
N. 1., in 1828, and district attorney from 
1829 to 1836. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1835 to 
1837, and surrogate from 1841 to 1845. He 
died Sept. 17, 1853, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

LOVE, WILLIAM C., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Virginia. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from North Caro¬ 
lina from 1815 to 1817. 

LOVE, WILLIAM DE LOSS, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1819 in New York. He 
is a congregational clergyman; and the au¬ 
thor of Wisconsin in the War of the Re¬ 
bellion. 

LOVE, WILLIAM DE LOSS, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1851 in Connecticut. 
He is a congregational clergyman, pastor 
in Hartford, Conn., since 1885, and the 
author of The Fast and Thanksgiving 
Days of New England. 

LOVE, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, farmer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
March 29, 1852, near Liberty, Miss. He 
was brought up on 
the farm, and is now 
engaged in agricul¬ 
ture. When twenty- 
one years of age, he 
was elected to repre¬ 
sent Amite county in 
the legislature, 
which position he 
held for ten years, 
and was then elected 
state senator for 
eight years. He was 
a delegate to the con¬ 
stitutional convention of Mississippi in 
1890; and was chairman of the finance 
committee of the senate when elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 


LOVEJOY, ELIJAH PARISH, journal¬ 
ist, abolitionist, was born Nov. 9, 1802, in 
Albion, Maine. He began the publication 
of the St. Louis Observer; attacked slav¬ 
ery; and in 1836 his office was mobbed. 
He re-established his paper in Alton; and 
his, press was destroyed in 1837. A third 
time his office was destroyed; and on 
Nov. 7, 1837, he shot one of his assailants, 
and was himself shot dead. 

LOVEJOY, OWEN, clergyman, legislat¬ 
or, congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1811, in 
Albion, Maine. He was a clergyman of 
the congregational church at Princeton, 
Ill., from 1838 to 1854. He resigned his 
pastoral duties to take a seat in the Illi¬ 
nois legislature in the latter year. In 1856 
he was elected a representative from that 
state to the thirty-fifth congress; and was 
re-elected to the thirty-sixth, thirty- 
seventh, and thirty-eighth congresses. 
He died March 25, 1864, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

LOVELACE, FRANCIS, colonial gov¬ 
ernor, was born about 1630, in England. 
He succeeded Richard Nicolls as gov¬ 
ernor of New York in May, 1667, and de¬ 
veloped more fully the extortionate and 
arbitrary system of government that he 
found in practice there. 

LOVELL, CHARLES SWAIN, soldier, 
was born Feb. 13, 1811, in Hull, Mass. 
He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for 
gallantry at Gaines’s Mills, colonel for 
Malvern Hill, and brigadier-general 
United States army for Antietam. He 
died Jan. 3, 1871, in Louisville, Ky. 

LOVELL, FREDERICK SOLON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state legislator, was born 
Nov. 1, 1814, in Charleston, N. H. In 1857 
he sat in the Wisconsin legislature, and 
was a commissioner to revise the state 
statutes, and in 1858 he was speaker of the 
assembly. He died May 14, 1878, in Ken¬ 
osha, Wis. 

LOVELL, JAMES, congressman, was 
born Oct. 31, 1737, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1776 to 1782. In 1786 he was col¬ 
lector of customs for Boston, and was sub¬ 
sequently naval officer for Boston and 
Charlestown, in which station he re¬ 
mained until his death. He died July 14, 
1814, in Boston, Mass. 

LOVELL, MANSFIELD, soldier, was 
born Oct. 20, 1822, in Washington, D. C. 
He served with distinction through the 
Mexican and civil wars; and attained the 
rank of major-general. 

LOVELL, VINCENT S„ journalist. For 
many years he was connected with the 
Albany Argus as managing editor; he 
subsequently removed to Chicago and be¬ 
came associate editor of the Post and 
Mail. The last fifteen years of his life 
were spent in Elgin. 

LOVEMAN, ROBERT, author, poet, 
was born in 1864 in Ohio. He is a writer 
of Dalton, Ga., whose poetry displays 
much quiet beauty of thought and ex¬ 
pression. He has published one volume 
entitled Poems. 

LOVERING, HENRY B.. soldier, state 
legislator, congressman, was born April 
8, 1841, in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1862 he 
enlisted in the eighth regiment of Massa¬ 
chusetts volunteer militia, and served a 
full term. He was a representative in the 
Massachusetts legislature in 1872 and 1874. 
He was elected a representative from 
Massachusetts to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth congress as a democrat. 

LOVERING, JOSEPH, physicist, edu¬ 
cator, was born Dec. 25, 1813, in Boston, 
Mass. In 1836 he was appointed tutor in 
mathematics and physics in Harvard, and 
two years later was made Hollis professor 
of mathematics and natural philosophy. 




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LOVERING, WILLIAM C., manufac¬ 
turer, state senator, congressman, was 
born in Rhode Island. He served for a 
short period in the war as engineer at 
Fort Monroe; and retired from the ser¬ 
vice an invalid. He was state senator for 
two years from Massachusetts in 1874-75. 
He was nominated by acclamation in the 
congressional convention of the twelfth 
district in 1896, and elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress. 

LOVETT, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Norwich, Conn. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the New York assembly in 1800 
and 1801; and was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1813 to 
1814, and from 1815 to 1817. He died in 
1818 in Ohio. 

LOVETT, ROBERT WATKINS, physi¬ 
cian, clergyman, was born Nov. 11, 1818, 
in Screven county, Ga. He graduated 
from Emory college, Georgia, with dis¬ 
tinction in 1843; and from the Georgia 
Medical college of Augusta in 1844. In 
1865 he was a delegate to the Georgia con¬ 
stitutional convention; was a delegate to 
the general conference of the methodist 
episcopal church south in 1870, 1874 and 
in 1878. He has attained success as a 
physician and clergyman in Mobley, Ga. 

LOVEWELL, JOHN, centenarian, was 
born in 1634 in England. He was an en¬ 
sign in Oliver Cromwell’s army about 
1653, afterward emigrated to New Eng¬ 
land, settled in Weymouth, Mass., and was 
with Capt. Benjamin Church during King 
Philip’s war and in the Narragansett 
Swamp fight in 1675. He died about 1754 
in Dunstable, Mass. 

LOW, FREDERICK FERDINAND, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born June 30, 
1828, in Frankfort, Maine. He was a rep¬ 
resentative from California to the thirty- 
seventh congress, taking his seat during 
the second session thereof. He was gov¬ 
ernor of California from 1863 to 1865. 
He was -appointed minister to China in 
1871; and was empowered to negotiate a 
treaty with Corea. 

LOW, ISAAC, merchant, congressman, 
was born about 1735 near New Brunswick, 
N. J. He was a delegate to the conti¬ 
nental congress in 1774 and 1775. He was 
a member of the New York provincial 
congress in 1775, but was arrested in 1776 
on suspicion of holding correspondence 
with the enemy. In 1782 he was president 
of the New York chamber of commerce. 
He died in 1791 in England. 

LOW, JAMES E., surgeon, was born in 
1837, in Otsego county, N. Y. He has 
made a number of innovations in the 
science of dentistry, and through his 
advanced ideas has contributed material¬ 
ly to its progress. 

LOW, PHILIP BURRILL, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born May 6, 
1836, in Chelsea, Mass. He was appoint¬ 
ed acting ensign in 
the United States 
navy and served in 
the North Atlantic 
squadron during 
1862-63. He resigned 
and entered commer¬ 
cial circles of Bos¬ 
ton until 1865, when 
lie removed to New 
York, where he has 
since been identified 
with the shipping 
and maritime inter¬ 
ests. He received the nomination for con¬ 
gress by acclamation in 1894 as the repub¬ 
lican candidate in the fifteenth New York 
district; and was elected to the fifty- 
fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 


LOW, SAMUEL, poet, was born Dec. 12, 
1765. He published his Poems in two vol¬ 
umes in 1800. The first piece is an ode 
on the death of Washington, which was 
recited by John Hodgkinson in the New 
York theater on Jan. 8, 1800. 

LOW, SETH, merchant, was born Jan. 
18, 1850, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a 
founder of the Brooklyn bureau of chari¬ 
ties and its first president. He was the 
first mayor in the state to introduce the 
system of competitive examination for ap¬ 
pointments to municipal offices. 

LOW, WILL HICOK, artist, was born 
May 31, 1853, in Albany, N. Y. He was 
one of the founders of the Society of 
American Artists. Among his works are 
Nine of the First Empire; Portrait of 
Mile. Albani; Calling Home the Cows; 
Skipper Ireson; Arcades; and Telling the 
Bees. He has illustrated two volumes of 
Keat’s poems, the Lamia and Odes and 
Sonnets, and has done some good work in 
stained-glass and house decoration. 

LOWATER, CHARLES T„ poet. He is 
a writer of Rock Elm, Wis.; and his 
poems have appeared in the leading 
newspapers and magazines of Wisconsin. 

LOWBER, JAMES WILLIAM, educator, 
clergyman, lecturer, was born in 1847 in 
Chaplin, Ky. He attended the univer¬ 
sity of Indianapolis, 
from which institu¬ 
tion he received the 
degrees of A. B. and 
A. M.; then attended 
the Syracuse univer¬ 
sity,graduating from 
j the classical course 
with the degree of 
Ph. D. For many 
years he was the ed¬ 
itor of The Apos¬ 
tolic Church, of 
Louisville, Ky. He 
has been president of the Columbia Chris¬ 
tian college; and has filled pastorates in 
Scranton, Pa.; Louisville and Paducah, 
Ky.; Fort Worth, Galveston, and Austin, 
Texas, in which latter city he now re¬ 
sides. He is the author of Culture; Strug¬ 
gles and Triumphs of the Truth; and 
other works. 

LOWE, DAVID PEARLY, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 22, 1823, in 
Oneida county, N. Y. He was a member of 
the state senate in Kansas in 1863 and 
1864; and judge of the sixth judicial court 
of Kansas from 1867 to 1871. He was 
elected to the forty-second and forty- 
third congresses as a republican. 

LOWE, ENOCH L., governor, was born 
in Maryland. In 1851 he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of that state, serving until 1854. 

LOWE, JOHN CUPP, educator, lawyer, 
poet, was born Dec. 6, 1873, in Stella, 
Neb. For several years he taught short¬ 
hand in a business college in Omaha, in 
which city he has been United States cir¬ 
cuit court clerk, and held various other 
public positions of trust. He contributes 
extensively to the periodical press, and is 
the author of several poems of merit. 

LOWE, JOHN WILLIAMSON, soldier 
was born Nov. 9, 1809, in New Brunswick! 

N. J. He was a captain in the second Ohio • 
volunteers during the Mexican war, and 
in the beginning of the civil war joined 
the national army as captain of the first 
company that was raised in Greene coun¬ 
ty. He died Sept. 10, 1861, in Nicholas 
county, Va. 

LOWE, JOSEPH G., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Dec. 31, 1846, in Rush county, 
Ind. He is an eminent attorney of Wash¬ 
ington, Kan., and has served as a member 
of the lower house of the Kansas legis¬ 
lature. In 1895 he was appointed state 
railroad commissioner of Kansas. 


LOWE, MRS. MARTHA ANN [PER¬ 
RY], author, poet, was born Nov. 21, 1829, 
in Keene, N. H. She is a poet of Somer¬ 
ville, Mass., whose husband, Charles Lowe, 
was a Unitarian minister of prominence. 
She is the author of The Olive and the 
Pine, a book of verse; Love in Spain, and 
Other Poems; The Story of Chief Joseph, 
a poem; and Life of Charles Lowe. 

LOWE, RALPH P., lawyer, jurist, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1805 in Montgomery 
county, Ohio. In 1849 he removed to Keo¬ 
kuk, Iowa; and in 1853 was elected judge 
of the first judicial district. In 1857, while 
serving his second term as district judge, 
he was elected governor of the state; and 
before the close of his term was elected 
a judge of the state supreme court for the 
term of six years. He became chief jus¬ 
tice of that court. He died Dec. 22, 1883, 
in Washington, D. C. 

LOWE, THADDEUS S. C., aeronaut, in¬ 
ventor, was born Aug. 20, 1832, in Jeffer¬ 
son, N. H. He invented and put into prac¬ 
tical use a portable apparatus for gener¬ 
ating hydrogen gas for war balloons. H« 
is the inventor of a machine for making 
water gas, which is successfully used in a 
number of large cfties. 

LOWE, WILLIAM B., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born in July, 1839, in Greenville, 
Ga. Since 1889 he has been president of 
the Columbus Southern railroad at At¬ 
lanta, Ga. 

LOWE, WILLIAM MANNING, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in Hunts¬ 
ville, Ala. He entered the confederate 
army as a private and rose to the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel. He was solicitor of 
the fifth judicial circuit of Alabama in 
1865-68; and was a representative in the 
state legislature in 1870; and was elected 
a representative from Alabama to the 
forty-sixth congress. 

LOWE, WILLIAM WARREN, soldier, 
was born Oct. 12, 1831, in Indiana. He 
was brevetted colonel and brigadier-gen¬ 
eral for services in the war, and promoted 
major in 1866. He built on the Salmon 
river the first smelting works in Idaho, 
and more recently prospected for petrole¬ 
um in Wyoming territory, and discovered 
a well of lubricating oil on the Little 
Popoagie river. 

LOWELL, ABBOTT LAWRENCE, ed¬ 
ucator, lawyer, lecturer, author, was born 
Dec. 13, 1856, in Boston, Mass. He is a 
successful lawyer in his native city; and 
has been a lecturer in the Harvard uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of Essays on 
Government; Governments and Parties 
of Continental Europe; and other works. 

LOWELL, MRS. ANNA CABOT [JACK- 
SON], was born in 1819 in Boston, Mass. 
She is the author of Theory of Teaching; 
Edward’s h irst Lessons in Grammar and 
Geometry; Outlines of Astronomy; Let¬ 
ters to Madame Pulksky; Seed Grains for 
Thought; and several compilations. She 
died Jan. 7, 1874, in Cambridge, Mass. 

LOWELL, CHARLES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 15, 1782, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a p'rominent Unitarian 
clergyman of Boston, pastor of the West 
Church from 1806 until his death. He was 
the author of Occasional Sermons; Practi¬ 
cal Sermons; Meditations for the Afflict¬ 
ed; and Devotional Exercises for Com¬ 
municants. He died Jan. 28, 1861, in 
Boston, Mass. 

LOWELL, EDWARD JACKSON, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Oct. 18, 1845, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer of Bos¬ 
ton; and the author of The Hessians and 
Other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain 
in the Revolutionary War; and The Eve 
of the French Revolution. He died in 
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LOWELL, FRANCIS CABOT, merchant, 
was born April 7, 1775, in Newburyport. 
In 1813 he became convinced that it was 
practicable to introduce cotton manufac¬ 
ture into the United States, and the re¬ 
sult was the establishment of factories at 
Waltham, Mass., and finally, after his 
death, the foundation of the city of Low¬ 
ell, which was named in his honor. He 
died Aug. 10, 1817, in Boston, Mass. 

LOWELL. FRANCIS CABOT, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1855 in Massachusetts. 
He is a Boston lawyer; and the author 
of Joan of Arc, a valuable historical biog¬ 
raphy. 

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL, author, 
poet, was born Feb. 22, 1819, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He was born in Cambridge, 
and was graduated 
from Harvard uni¬ 
versity in 1839, 
where he succeeded 
Longfellow as pro¬ 
fessor of belles-let¬ 
tres in 1855. He was 
one of the founders 
of The Atlantic 
Monthly,editing that 
periodical from the 
start in 1857 until 
1862, and co-editor of 
The North American 
Review during 1863-72. In 1877 he was 
appointed minister to Spain, and in 1878 
transferred to England, where he re¬ 
mained as minister until 1885. His po¬ 
etical works are: A Year’s Life; Poems; 
The Vision of Sir Launfal; A Fable for 
Critics; The Biglow Papers; Poems; The 
Commemoration Ode; The Biglow Pa¬ 
pers, second series; Under the Willows, 
and Other Poems; Three Memorial Poems; 
Heartsease and Rue; and Last Poems. 
In prose his writing comprises Conversa¬ 
tions with Some of the Old Poets; Life 
of Keats; Fireside Travels; The Presi¬ 
dent’s Policy; Among My Books; My 
Study Windows; Among My Books, sec¬ 
ond series; Democracy, and Other Ad¬ 
dresses; Political Essays; Latest Liter¬ 
ary Essays and Addresses; The Old En¬ 
glish Dramatists; and Letters, edited by 
C. E. Norton. He died Aug. 12, 1891. 

LOWELL, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 17, 1743, in New¬ 
buryport, Mass. He settled in Boston as 
a lawyer; was a delegate to the conti¬ 
nental congress from 1782 to 1783; arid 
was a member of the convention which 
framed the constitution of Massachusetts. 
He was appointed judge of the district 
court for the Massachusetts district in 
1789; and in 1801 was appointed chief 
justice of the first circuit. He was one 
of the founders of the American Academy 
of Arts and Sciences. He wrote an En¬ 
glish poem, No. 3, in the Pietas, printed 
at Cambridge. He died May 10, 1802, in 
Roxbury, Mass. 

LOWELL. JOHN, political writer, was 
born Oct. 6, 1769, in Newburyport. He 
was for many years president of the State 
Agricultural society, inherited his fath¬ 
er’s love for horticulture, and has been 
called the Columella of the New England 
States. Among his political pamphlets, 
of which he published about twenty-five, 
are Peace without Dishonor—War with¬ 
out Hope, an Inquiry into the Subject of 
the Chesapeake; Candid Comparison of 
the Washington and Jefferson Administra¬ 
tions; Diplomatick Policy of Mr. Madison 
Unveiled. He died March 12, 1840, in 
Boston, Mass. 

LOWELL, JOHN, philanthropist, was 
born May 11, 1779, in Boston, Mass. He 
bequeathed $250,000 for the maintenance 
in Boston of annual courses of free public 



lectures on religion, science and the arts. 
This establishment, the Lowell institute, 
went into operation in the winter of 1839- 
40, and has been continued since that 
time with eminent success. He died 
March 4, 1836, in India. 

LOWELL, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Oct. 18, 1824, in Boston, Mass. In 
1865 he was appointed United States dis¬ 
trict judge for the district of Massachu¬ 
setts; and in 1878 was appointed judge of 
the United States circuit court. 

LOWELL, MRS. JOSEPHINE [SHAW], 
author, was born Dec. 16, 1843, in West 
Roxbury, Mass. She is a philanthropist 
of New York city; and the author of 
Public Relief and Private Charity. 

LOWELL, JOSHUA A., educator, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 20, 
1801, in Thomaston, Maine. He was a 
member of the Maine legislature in 1832, 
1833, 1835, and 1837; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Maine from 
1839 to 1843. He was a presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1844. He died March 13, 1874, in 
Machias, Maine. 

LOWELL, MRS. MARIA [WHITE], 
poet, was born July 8, 1821, in Watertown, 
Mass. She was the first wife of J. R. 
Lowell; and the author of a volume of 
poems. The Alpine Sheep is her best 
known poem. She died Oct. 27, 1853, in 
Cambridge, Mass. 

LOWELL, PERCIVAL, author, was 
born in 1855 in Massachusetts. He is a 
Boston writer, traveler, and astronomical 
investigator; and the author of Choson, 
a sketch of Korea; The Soul of the Far 
East; Noto: an Unexplored Corner of 
Japan; Occult Japan; and Mars. 

LOWELL, ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
Oct. 8, 1816, in Boston, Mass. He was an 
episcopal clergyman and educator, head 
master of St. Mark’s school of Southbor- 
ough in 1869-73, and professor of Latin 
at Union college in 1873-79. After the lat¬ 
ter date he continued to live at Schenec¬ 
tady, which is the locale of his book, A 
Story or Two from an Old Dutch Town, 
as Southborough suggests that of his pop¬ 
ular story of school life, Antony Brade. 
His other works include The New Priest 
in Conception Bay, a novel of life in New¬ 
foundland, the scene of his first rector¬ 
ship; and Fresh Hearts that Failed Three 
Thousand Years Ago, and Other Poems. 
The Defence of Lucknow is his most fa¬ 
miliar poem. He died in 1891. 

LOWER. CHRISTIAN, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1805 to 1807. 



LOWNDES, LLOYD, lawyer, banker, leg¬ 
islator, governor, was born Feb. 21,1845, in 
Clarksburg, W. Va. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Wash¬ 
ington college, and 
at the Alleghany 
college of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He removed 
to Cumberland, Md.; 
and was elected to 
the forty-third con¬ 
gress as a republic¬ 
an. He served with 
distinction as gov¬ 
ernor of Maryland; 
and for many years 
has been president of 
the Second National bank of Cumberland. 


LOWNDES, RAWLINS, lawyer, jurist, 
statesman, was born in 1722, in the West 
Indies. In 1766 he was appointed asso¬ 
ciate justice in Charleston, S. C. He be¬ 
came a member of the state legislature; 
and in 1778 was president of the province. 
He died Aug. 24, 1800, in Charleston, S. C. 


LOWNDES, THOMAS, congressman, 
was born in 1765 in Charleston, S. C. He 
was. a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1801 to 1805. He 
died July, 8, 1843, in Charleston, S. C. 

LOWNDES, WILLIAM JONES, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 7, 1782, in 
Charleston, S. C. He served in the South 
Carolina state legislature in 1806 and 1808; 
and was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1811 to 1822. He died Nov. 
22, 1822, at sea. 

LOWREY, WILLIAM TYNDALE, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born March 
3, 1858, in Tishomingo county, Miss. Since 
1885 he has been president of the Blue 
Mountain Female college. 

LOWRIE, JOHN CAMERON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 16, 1808, in 
Butler, Pa. He is a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of New York city; and the author 
of Travels in Northern India; Two Years 
in Upper India; Manual of Foreign Mis¬ 
sions; Missionary Papers; and Presby¬ 
terian Missions. 

LOWRIE, JOHN MARSHALL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 16, 1817, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of New Jersey; and the author 
of Esther and Her Times; Adam and His 
Times; A Week with Jesus; The Trans¬ 
lated Prophet; The Prophet Elisha; and 
The Life of David. He died Sept. 26, 1867, 
in Fort Wayne, Ind. 

LOWRIE, SAMUEL THOMPSON, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born Feb. 8, 
1835, in Pittsburg, Pa. He holds the office 
of chaplain to the Presbyterian hospital in 
Philadelphia. He was associated in the 
translation of the volumes on Isaiah and 
Numbers of Lange’s Commentaries; wrote 
Explanation of Hebrews; and translated 
Cremer’s Beyond the Grave. 

LOWRIE, WALTER, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Dec. 10, 1784, in Scotland. 
He was a senator in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1819 to 1825. He was sec¬ 
retary of the United States senate from 
1825 to 1836; and was subsequently ap¬ 
pointed secretary of the board of foreign 
missions, which position he held for 
thirty years. He died Dec. 14, 1868, in 
New York city. 

LOWRIE, WALTER HOGE, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 3, 1807, in Arm¬ 
strong county. Pa. He was chosen presi¬ 
dent judge of a judicial district in west¬ 
ern Pennsylvania, where he remained 
until his death. He died Nov. 14, 1876, in 
Meadville, Pa. 

LOWRY, JOSEPH EUGENE, railroad 
manager, was born Jan. 28, 1863, in York- 
ville, S. C. Since 1881 he has been in the 
railroad service as assistant superintend¬ 
ent of transportation; and since 1892 as 
car accountant of the Savannah, Ameri- 
cus and Montgomery railroad at Ameri- 
cus, Ga. 

LOWRY, JOSEPH HENRY, educator, 
clergyman, was born April 13, 1852, in 
Monroe county, Tenn. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the dis¬ 
trict schools; then attended the Bolivar 
Male academy of Madisonville, Tenn., and 
the Hiwassee college, from which institu¬ 
tion he graduated in 1880 with the degree 
of B. S. In 1880 he was licensed to preach, 
and three years later was ordained a cler¬ 
gyman in the presbyterian church. He 
has filled chairs in Cain Creek academy, 
Loudon college and Hiwassee college; has 
been county superintendent of public in¬ 
struction for Monroe county, during 
1887-91, and has attained success as a 
clergyman in Tennessee, and now fills a 
pastorate in Kincaid. 



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LOWRY, ROBERT, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1824 in Ireland. 
In 1843 he moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., 
and was elected city 
recorder. In 1852 he 
was appointed cir¬ 
cuit judge to fill a 
vacancy, and was a 
candidate for con¬ 
gress in 1866, and al¬ 
so in 1868. In 1860 he 
was president of the 
democratic state con¬ 
vention; and was a 
delegate to the dem¬ 
ocratic national con¬ 
vention. In 1864 he 
was elected circuit judge for a term of 
six years. During 1846-67 he resided in 
Goshen, and in the latter year returned 
to Fort Wayne. In 1870 he was elected 
circuit judge without opposition; and was 
a delegate to the democratic national con¬ 
vention of 1872. He was appointed judge 
of the then recently created superior 
court, and in 1878 was elected to that 
position for a term of four years. In 1879 
was elected the first president of the In¬ 
diana State Bar association. He was 
elected a representative from Indiana to 
the forty-eighth congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-ninth congress as a 
democrat. 

LOWRY, ROBERT J., banker. He is 
the president of the Lowry Banking com¬ 
pany of Atlanta, Ga., and in 1897 was 
elected president of the American Bank¬ 
ers’ association. 

LOWRY, SAMUEL E., poet, was born 
Aug. 23, 1863, in West Salem, Ohio. He is 
the author of a number of poems. 

LOWRY, THOMAS, railroad president, 
was born in 1843 in Southern Illinois. He 
is president of the Minneapolis, St. Paul 
and Sault Ste. Marie railway. 

LOY, MATTHIAS, theologian, college 
president, author, was born March 17, 
1828, in Cumberland county, Pa. In 1881 
he was elected president of Capital uni¬ 
versity. He has been editor of the Luth¬ 
eran Standard since 1864, and in 1881 he 
began the publication of the Columbus 
Theological Magazine. He has published 
The Doctrine of Justification; Life of 
Luther, translated; and Essay on the Min¬ 
isterial Office. 

LOYALL, GEORGE, public official, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 29, 1789, in Nor¬ 
folk, Va. In 1817 he was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the house of delegates of Virginia, 
and served ten years. In 1829 he was a 
member of the convention to amend the 
state constitution, and from 1831 to 1837 
was a representative in congress. In 1837 
he was appointed navy agent at Norfolk, 
and, with the exception of two years, oc¬ 
cupied that position until the breaking 
out of the rebellion. 

LOZIER, CHARLOTTE IRENE, physi¬ 
cian, educator, was born March 15, 1844, 
in Milburn, N. J. She was graduated in 
1867 at the New York Medical college and 
hospital for women. In 1868 she was 
called to fill the chair of physiology and 
hygiene in that institution, which posi¬ 
tion she held until her death. She died 
Jan. 3, 1870, in New York city. 

LOZIER, CLEMENCE SOPHIA, physi¬ 
cian, was born Dec. 11, 1812, in Plainfield, 
N. J. In 1860 she began a course of lec¬ 
tures on medical subjects in her own par¬ 
lors, which in 1863 resulted in the found¬ 
ing of the New York Medical college and 
hospital for women, where she was clin¬ 
ical professor of diseases of women and 
children, and also dean of the faculty, for 
more than twenty years. She died April 
26, 1888, in New York city. 


LUBBOCK, FRANCIS R., farmer, mer¬ 
chant, governor, was born Oct. 16, 1815, in 
Beaufort, S. C. He served as chief clerk 
in the Texas house of representatives; 
clerk of district court, comptroller, and 
other offices of the republic of Texas. He 
filled the high office of governor, lieuten¬ 
ant-governor, state treasurer, and other 
offices in the state of Texas. For many 
years he was engaged in the mercantile 
business, and as a farmer and ranchman. 
In 1863 he entered the confederate army 
as an adjutant-general; served on the staff 
of President Davis as colonel of cavalry; 
and was captured with him and impri¬ 
soned in solitary confinement for about 
eight months at Fort Delaware. 

LUBKE, GEORGE WILLIAM, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Feb. 22, 1845, in St. Louis, 
Mo. In 1882 he was elected judge of the 
circuit court of St. Louis, resigning in 
1889, when he resumed the practice of 
law in St. Louis. 

LUCAS, DANIEL BEDINGER, lawyer, 
jurist, author, poet, was born March 16, 
1836, in Charleston, W. Va. He is the son 
of William Lucas, a 
distinguished mem¬ 
ber of congress from 
Virginia. In 1855 he 
graduated from the 
university of Virgin¬ 
ia; and in 1858 in 
law from the Wash¬ 
ington college, Vir¬ 
ginia. He began the 
practice of his pro¬ 
fession in Charles¬ 
ton, W. Va., and re¬ 
moved to Richmond 
two years later. During the war he served 
on the staff of Gen. Henry A. Wise in the 
Kanawna valley, and in 1867 resumed law 
in Charleston. He was democratic presi¬ 
dential elector in 1872, 1876 and 1884; was 
chosen to the legislature in 1884-86, and 
in 1887 was appointed by the governor to 
the United States senate. In 1890 he was 
nominated and elected judge of the su¬ 
preme court of appeals; and the following 
year was elected president of the court, 
which office he now holds. He is a bril¬ 
liant speaker, and the author of the 
Memoir of John Yates Bell; The Wreath 
of Eglantine, and Other Poems; The Maid 
of Northumberland; Ballads and Madri¬ 
gals; and other works. His poem entitled 
The Land Where We Were Dreaming, 
has attracted much attention in the south. 

LUCAS, EDWARD, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1833 
to 1837; and was subsequently appointed 
government superintendent at Harper’s 
Ferry, where he died March 4, 1858. 

LUCAS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, mu¬ 
sician, composer, was born April 12, 1800, 
in Glastonbury, Conn. He delivered more 
than one thousand public lectures, taught 
more than fifty thousand people to sing, 
and arranged and conducted the music on 
more than one thousand public occasions. 
He published much music, including an 
Ordination Anthem. He died about 1880 
in Hampshire county, Conn. 

LUCAS, HARVEY R., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Oct. 6, 1866, near Wetumka, Ala. 
He is now a successful lawyer of Star 
City, Ark., of which city he has been 
mayor. In 1897 he was elected to the 
general assembly of the Arkansas state 
legislature. 

LUCAS, JOHN BAPTIST CHARLES, 
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, 
was born in 1762 in France. In 1792 he 
was elected to the legislature of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; and served as a judge of the court 
of common pleas for his district. In 1802 


he was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress, and re-elected in 1804. In 1805 he 
was appointed judge of the United States 
court in upper Louisiana, and removed 
to St. Louis. He was also commissioner 
of land titles in that territory, and held 
the office of judge until 1820, when he re¬ 
tired to private life on a farm adjoining 
the city of St. Louis. He died Aug. 17, 
1842. in St. Louis. Mo. 

LUCAS, ROBERT, soldier, legislator, 
governor, was born April 1, 1781, in Shep- 
herdstown, Va. He was brigadier-general 
of Ohio militia in defense of the frontier 
in 1813. He was a member of the Ohio 
legislature in 1814. He was governor of 
Ohio from 1832 to 1836; and first terri¬ 
torial governor of Iowa from 1838 to 1841. 
He died Feb. 7, 1858, in Iowa City, Iowa. 

LUCAS, S. DECATUR, educator, college 
president, was born March 8, 1860, in Gal¬ 
latin county, Ky. He has become promi¬ 
nent as an educator; and is the president 
of the Jeff Davis college of Minden, La. 

LUCAS, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1839 
to 1841, and from 1843 to 1845. 

LUCAS, WILLIAM V., soldier, farmer, 
congressman, was born July 3, 1835, in 
Delphi, Ind. He entered the military 
service as a private soldier in the four¬ 
teenth Iowa infantry, and in 1863 was 
promoted to the captaincy of the com- 
nany. He was chief clerk of the Iowa 
house of representatives, the seventeenth 
and eighteenth sessions; and was mayor 
of Mason City, Iowa. He was elected audi¬ 
tor of the state in 188v. He moved to the 
then territory of Dakota in 1883, at Cham¬ 
berlain, and engaged in farming. In 1887 
he was elected treasurer of Brule county, 
and before his term expired was appointed 
commandant of the Soldiers’ home at Hot 
Springs, S. D., where he moved in 1890, 
and was elected as a republican to the 
fifty-third congress. 

LUCE, CLINTON LYSANDER, journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born Sept. 28, 1854, in Stowe, 
Vt. In 1882 he became editor and pro¬ 
prietor of The Albert Lea Enterprise. 

LUCE, CYRUS GRAY, governor, was 
born July 2, 1824, in Windsor, Ohio. In 
1887 he was elected governor of Michigan, 
resigning in 1891. 

LUCE, MOSES A., soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born May 14, 1842, in Payson, Ill. 
He received his education in the common 
schools and gradu¬ 
ated from Hillsdale 
college, Michigan, 
and from the Albany 
Law school. He en¬ 
listed in the fourth 
regiment of the 
Michigan volunteer 
infantry; took part 
in a score or more 
battles and engage¬ 
ments; and for gal¬ 
lant conduct at the 
battle of Spottsyl- 
vania, while with the forlorn hope in the 
assault of May 12, he was decorated with 
the medal of honor by the secretary of 
war. After graduating he began the prac¬ 
tice of law at Bushnell, of which city 'he 
was its first city attorney. In 1872 he was 
the candidate of his party for the state 
senate. The following year he moved to 
California, settled in San Diego, and two 
years later was elected judge of the su¬ 
perior county court. He took an acuve 
movement to bring the Atchison, Topeka 
and Santa Fe road to San Diego, and in 
1880 he was elected vice-president of the 
California Southern Railroad company. 







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LUCE, STEPHEN BLEECKER, naval 
officer, author, was born March 25, 1827, 
in Albany, N. Y. In 1841 he entered the 
United States army, and retired as rear- 
admiral on March 25, 1889. He was com- 
mander-in-chief of the North Atlantic 
station and president of the United States 
Naval War college of Newport, R. I., of 
which institution he was the founder. He 
was commissioner-general to the quadro- 
centennial of the Columbian exposition, 
Madrid, and was president of the United 
States Naval institute. He was also as¬ 
sociate editor of Johnson’s Universal En¬ 
cyclopedia; a member of the editorial 
staff of the Standard Dictionary; and the 
author of Seamanship, a text-book used 
at the Naval academy for the past thirty 
years. He has published under the title 
of Naval Songs, a collection of original, 
selected and traditional sea songs, which 
includes the music; and has contributed 
extensively to current literature. 

LUCKENBACH, ABRAHAM, mission¬ 
ary, author, was born May 5, 1777, in 
Lehigh county, Pa. He was a missionary 
of the Moravian church among the Dela¬ 
ware Indians, laboring till 1843, when he 
retired to Bethlehem. He edited the sec¬ 
ond edition of David Zeisberger’s Dela¬ 
ware Hymn-Book; and published in the 
Delaware language Select Narratives from 
the Old Testament. He died March 8, 
1854, in Bethlehem, Pa. 

LUCKETT, S. M„ clergyman, college 
president, was born April 9, 1835, in Rus¬ 
sellville, Ky. He is a clergyman of the 
Presbyterian church, and has been presi¬ 
dent of the Austin college of Sherman, 
Texas, for seventeen years. 

LUCKEY, GEORGE J., soldier, edu¬ 
cator, was born Oct. 2, 1838, in Black- 
horse, Md. He commenced educational 
work in 1856, and taught in Ohio. He 
served in me civil war, and was present 
at the siege of Richmond and Petersburg. 
For the past thirty-one years he has been 
superintendent of the Pittsburg schools, 
Pennsylvania. 

LUCKEY, SAMUEL, clergyman, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born April 4, 1791, in 
Rensselaerville, N. Y. From 1842 till his 
death he was a presiding elder in the 
Rochester, N. Y., circuit, and for nine 
years chaplain of the Monroe county pen¬ 
itentiary. He published a Treatise on the 
Sacrament. He died Oct. 11, 1869, in Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. 

LUDERS, CHARLES HENRY, poet, 
was born in 1858 in Pennsylvania. He was 
a poet of Philadelphia; and the author of 
The Dead Nymph, and Other Poems; and 
Hallo, My Fancy, a collection of poems, 
he died in 1891. 

LUDINGTON, HARRISON, governor, 
was born in Putnam county, N. Y. He 
moved to Milwaukee in 1838, and was 
three times mayor of that city, in 
1871-72 and 1875. He resigned before the 
close of his last term to accept the office 
of governor of Wisconsin. 

LUDLAM, REUBEN, physician, author, 
was born Oct. 7, 1831, in Camden, N. J. 
He is a Chicago physician, dean of the 
Hahnemann Medical college, and the au¬ 
thor of Clinical Lectures on Diphtheria; 
and Clinical Lectures on Diseases of 
Women. 

LUDLOW, FITZHUGH, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 11, 1836, in New.York 
city. He was a litterateur and journalist 
of New York city, and the author of The 
Hasheesh-Eater; The Opium Habit; The 
Heart of the Continent; Little Brother, 
and Other Genre Pictures; and Augustus 
Jones. He died Sept. 12, 1870, in Geneva, 
Wis. 


LUDLOW, GEORGE CRAIG, state sen¬ 
ator, governor, was born April 6, 1830, in 
Milford, N. J. In 1876 he was elected a 
state senator, and in the second year of 
his term was made president of the senate. 
He declined a renomination, and in 1880 
was elected governor of New Jersey for 
the term of three years from 1881. 

LUDLOW, GEORGE DUNCAN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1734 on Long Island, 
N. Y. He settled in New Brunswick, 
where he was a member of the first col¬ 
onial council; administered the govern¬ 
ment as senior councilor, and in 1784 be¬ 
came the first chief justice of the supreme 
court. He died Nov. 13, 1808, in Frederic¬ 
ton, N. B. 

LUDLOW. HENRY GILBERT, inventor, 
manufacturer, was born March 28, 1823, 
in Troy, N. Y. In 1866, the Ludlow Valve 
Manufacturing com¬ 
pany was incorporat¬ 
ed and began opera¬ 
tions in a shop in 
Second street in 
Waterford, N. Y. As 
the valve became 
known, there gradu¬ 
ally grew up a de¬ 
mand for it, with the 
result of creating a 
large and to this day 
an increasing busi¬ 
ness. The Ludlow 
company are now the largest manufactu¬ 
rers of these specialties and of hydrants 
in the world. 

LUDLOW, JAMES MEEKER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1841 in New Jer¬ 
sey. He is a presbyterian clergyman of 
East Orange, N. J., from 1886, and the 
author of My Saint John; Concentric 
Chart of History; The Captain of the 
Janizaries, a tale of the times of Scander- 
beg; A King of Tyre, a tale of the times 
of Ezra and Nehemiah; and That Angelic 
Woman, a novel. 

LUDLOW, JAMES REILLY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born May 3, 1825, in Albany, N. 
Y. In 1857 he was chosen judge of the 
court of common pleas in Philadelphia. 
He filled this office until 1875, when, 
under the new constitution of the state, 
he was transferred to the president judge- 
ship of the court of common pleas, which 
place he held at the time of his death. 
He died Sept. 20, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

LUDLOW, NOAH MILLER, actor, au¬ 
thor, was born July 4, 1795, in New York 
city. He was an actor and theatrical 
manager in the southern states; and the 
author of Dramatic Life as I Found It. He 
died Jan. 9, 1886, in St. Louis, Mo. 

LUDWIG, CLARENCE S., educator. He 
is a successful educator and writer of 
Ilelphos, Ohio. 

LUDWIG, HENRY THOMAS JEFFER¬ 
SON, educator, scientist, was born Jan. 17, 
1843, near Mount Pleasant, N. C. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the public schools, 
and at the North Carolina college. Dur¬ 
ing a quarter of a century’s educational 
work in the North Carolina college, he 
taught poliucal economy, and is at pres¬ 
ent a director of his alma mater. He has 
taught in every department of the college 
—logic, mathematics, physics and econom¬ 
ics, and astronomy. For ten years he has 
been a voluntary signal service observer. 
He has been county superintendent of 
public instruction; a member of the Amer¬ 
ican Mathematical society; and a member 
of various other institutions of science 
and learning. 

LUERS, JOHN HENRY, Roman catho¬ 
lic bishop, was born Sept. 29, 1819. in 
Westphalia. In 1857 the diocese of Fort 
Wayne was created, comprising the north¬ 


ern part of Indiana, and Father Luers was 
selected as its first bishop, and consecrat¬ 
ed in 1858. He died June 20, 1871, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

LUKENS, HENRY CLAY, journalist, 
author, poet, was born Aug. 18, 1838, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a journalist of 
New York city; and the author of The 
Marine Circus at Cherbourg, and Other 
Poems; Lean Nora, a travesty; Story of 
the Types; and Jets and Flashes. 

LULL, EDWARD PHELPS, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Feb. 20, 1836, in Windsor, 
Vt. He was promoted midshipman in 
1855, and lieutenant in 1860. In 1862, he 
had been promoted lieutenant-command¬ 
er, and in 1863 he was ordered to active 
service, participating in the battle of Mo¬ 
bile Bay and subsequent engagements. He 
died March 5, 1887, in Pensacola, Fla. 

LUM, DANIEL DYER, author. He was 
the author of The Spiritual Delusion; 
Early Social Life of Man; and Utah and 
Its People. 

LUMMIS, CHARLES FLETCHER, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1859 in Massachusetts. 
He is a Los Angeles writer; and the au¬ 
thor of The Land of Poco TiemDo; A 
Tramp Across the Continent; The Spanish 
Pioneers; The Man who Married the 
Moon; Indian folk-lore stories; Some 
Strange Corners of Our Country; The 
Gold Fish of Grand Chimu; and A New 
Mexico David, and Other Stories. 

LUMPKIN, JOHN HENRY, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born June 13,. 
1812, in Oglethorpe county, Ga. He served 
as secretary in the executive department 
of Georgia; and was elected to the state- 
legislature in 1853. In 1838 he was solicitor- 
general of the Cherokee circuit. He was a 
representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1843 to 1849, and also elected to the 
thirty-fourth congress. For three years 
he held the office of judge of the Cherokee 
circuit court, and that of judge of the su¬ 
preme court of the state. He died June 6, 
1860, in Rome, Ga. 

LUMPKIN, JOSEPH HENRY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 23, 1799, in Ogle¬ 
thorpe county, Ga. He became one of 
the foremost lawyers 
of the south, and an 
able jurist. He took 
an active part in the 
public and political 
affairs of his county 
and state; and con¬ 
tributed extensively 
to the periodical 
press on current and 
judicial subjects. 
The degree of LL. D. 
was conferred upon 
him by the Georgia 
State university. He died June 4, 1867, in 
Athens, Ga. 

LUMPKIN, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born Dec. 12, 1848, in 
Oglethorpe county, Ga. In 1877 he Was 
elected state senator of Georgia, and in 
1884 was elected judge of the supreme- 
court of the northern district; and in 
1890 became associate justice of Georgia. 

LUMPKIN, WILSON, lawyer, governor,. 
United States senator, was born Jan. 14, 
1783, in Pittsylvania county, Va. He was 
twice elected governor of Georgia; served 
in the federal house of representatives 
from 1815 to 1817, and from 1827 to 1831. 
In 1823 he was appointed to mark out 
the boundary line between Georgia and 
Florida. He was appointed a commission¬ 
er under the Cherokee treaty of 1835; was 
also a member of the board of public 
works, and was a senator in congress, 
from 1837 to 1841. He died Dec. 28, 1870,. 
in Athens, Ga. 




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LUNA, TRANQUILINO, congressman, 
was born Feb. 23, 1849, in Los Lunas, 
N. M. He was elected the delegate from 
New Mexico to the forty-seventh congress, 
and was re-elected to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

LUND, MRS. MARY DWINELL (CHEL- 
LIS), author, was born in New Hamp¬ 
shire. She is a prolific writer of Sunday- 
school fiction, among whose works are, 
All for Money; Old Sunapee; Fife and 
Drum; GoodWork; Mystery of the Lodge; 
and Father Merrill. 

LUNDY, BENJAMIN, philanthropist, 
was born Jan. 4, 1789, in Hartwick, N. Y. 
As early as 1815 he founded an anti-slav¬ 
ery association called 
the Union Humane 
society. In the 
cause to which he 
was devoted he jour¬ 
neyed more than five 
thousand miles on 
foot, and over twen¬ 
ty thousand miles in 
other ways. He was 
the first abolitionist 
editor and lecturer in 
America. His Life, 
Travels and Opin¬ 
ions, by T. Earl, appeared in 1847. He 
died Aug. 22, 1839, in Lowell, Ill. 

LUNDY, JOHN PATTERSON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 3, 1823, in 
Danville, Pa. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of New York city, and the author 
of Review of Bishop Hopkins’s Bible View 
of Slavery; Monumental Christianity; and 
Forestry. He died in 1892. 

LUNGREN, CHARLES MARSHALL, 
journalist, inventor, was born Dec. 13, 
1853, in Hagerstown, Md. He has studied 
the problems connected with artificial il¬ 
lumination, and has invented several ap¬ 
pliances that have come into extensive 
■use, notably a regenerative gas-lamp. He 
is a member of scientific societies, and, 
besides writing magazine articles, has ed¬ 
ited the American edition of Alglave and 
Boulard’s Electric Light. 

LUNGREN, FERDINAND HARVEY 
artist, was born Nov. 13, 1857, in Toledo] 
Ohio. He has made many illustrations] 
principally for the Century and Wide 
Awake; and his paintings include Shad¬ 
ows on the Snow. 

LUNGREN, SAMUEL SMITH, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born Aug. 22, 
1827, in Philadelphia. He has contributed 
numerous articles to the medical press, 
and is the author of a memoir on the 
■Caesarean Section. 

LUNT, EDWARD CLARK, author. He 
is a writer on economics, and the author 
of The Present Condition of Economic 
Science. 

LUNT, GEORGE, lawyer, author, poet, 
was born Dec. 31, 1803, in Newburyport, 
Mass. He was a lawyer of Newburyport] 
and later a resident of Scituate, among 
whose writings in poetry and prose are, 
The Age of Gold, and Other Poems; Lyric 
Poems; Sonnets and Miscellanies; Old 
-New England Traits; and Three Eras of 
New England. The latest collection of 
his poems was made in 1883. He died 
May 17, 1885, in Boston, Mass. 

LUNT, WILLIAM PARSONS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 21, 1805, in 
Newburyport. Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman of Quincy, Mass., from 1835 
until his death, whose literary work was 
much admired for the beauty of its style. 
He was the author of Union of the Human 
Race; and Gleanings. He died March 20, 
1857, in Arabia. 

LUPTON, NATHANIEL THOMAS, ed¬ 
ucator, chemist, author, was born Dec. 
19, 1830, in Frederick county, Ga. He is 


an educator and scientist of Alabama; 
state chemist since 1885; and author of 
The Elementary Principles of Scientific 
Agriculture. 

LUSK, WILLIAM THOMPSON, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born May 23, 1838, in 
Norwich, Conn. He is a prominent ob¬ 
stetric physician of New York city, and 
the author of The Science and Art of Mid¬ 
wifery. 

LlITCHER, HENRY JACOB, lumber¬ 
man, was born Nov. 4, 1836, in Williams¬ 
port, Pa. He received his education at the 
free school, and at Dickinson seminary 
of his native city. He commenced life as 
a workman in a saw mill, and has attained 
success in the lumber business at Orange, 
Texas. He is senior partner in the firm 
of The Lutcher and Moore Cypress Lum¬ 
ber company of Lutcher, La., said to be 
the best cypress plant in the country. 
This company owns half a million acres 
of pine and cypress lands in Texas and 
Louisiana; they own the town of Lutcher, 
and the controlling interest in several 
railroads and business corporations. 

LUTHER, JOHN HILL, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, poet, was born June 21, 1824, in 
Warren, R. I. He has had large experi¬ 
ence as a journalist, 
clergyman, and edu¬ 
cator, and for many 
years he was presi¬ 
dent of the Baylor 
Female college of 
Belton, Texas. He is 
the author of two 
volumes of poems 
entitled My Verses, 
and Souvenir Verses, 
and has contributed 
for nearly half a cen¬ 
tury, both prose and 
verse, to the periodical press. 

LUTHERAN, MRS. HATTIE L. HOR¬ 
NER, author, poet, was born Feb. 5, 1864, 
in Muscatine, Iowa. She is the author of 
a book of travels entitled Not at Home; 
and a volume of poems. 

LUTKIN, PETER V., musician, com¬ 
poser, was born March 27, 1858, in Racine, 
Wis. He is a successful organist, choir¬ 
master and musician of Chicago, and the 
author of a number of songs, church com¬ 
positions and concert music. 

LUTTRELL, JOHN K., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born June 27, 
1831, in Knox county, Tenn. He was 
elected to the legislature of California in 
1863, 1865 and 1871. He was elected to the 
forty-third congress, and re-elected to the 
forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as 
a democrat. 

LUTZ, NICHOLAS, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. state legislator, was born Feb. 20, 
1740, in Germany. He was captain of a 
battery at the battle of Long Island, where 
he was taken prisoner, but was exchanged 
in 1779. He was a delegate to the Penn¬ 
sylvania convention to ratify the federal 
constitution in 1787; a member of the 
Pennsylvania house of representatives in 
1783-94, and was appointed assistant jus¬ 
tice of Berks county courts in 1795. He 
died Nov. 28, 1807, in Reading, Pa. 

LYALL, JAMES, soldier, manufacturer, 
inventor, was born Sept. 13, 1836, in Scot¬ 
land. At the beginning of the civil war 
he served with the twelfth New York in¬ 
fantry in the defences of Washington. 

In 1863 he invented a simple mixture for 
enameling cloth, which was approved by 
the United States government, and led to 
his receiving large contracts for the man¬ 
ufacture of knapsacks and haversacks. In 
1868 he invented the Lyall positive-motion 
loom, which has since been adopted by 
the largest mills in the United States, and 
also in Europe, China and Japan. 


LYBRAND, ARCHIBALD, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born May 23, 1840, 
in Tarlton, Ohio. In 1861 he enlisted as 
a private in company 
I, fourth Ohio volun¬ 
teer infantry; from 
this regiment was 
transferred to com¬ 
pany E, seventy- 
third Ohio volunteer 
infantry, and pro¬ 
moted to first lieu¬ 
tenant. He remained 
in service with the 
seventy-third Ohio 
volunteer infantry 
for three years, and 
the last two years was captain of his com¬ 
pany. In 1869 he was elected mayor of 
Delaware, Ohio; is .a land owner and in¬ 
terested in farming, and was appointed 
postmaster at Delaware in 1881. He was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

LYDA, ANDREW JACKSON, clergy¬ 
man, was.born Jan. 14, 1821, in Hancock, 
Md. He graduated from the Augusta col¬ 
lege of Kentucky; was admitted into the 
Ohio conference of the methodist epis¬ 
copal church in .1843, and was one of the 
charter members of the West Virginia 
conference. During the civil war he was 
chaplain of the third regiment of the Vir¬ 
ginia volunteer infantry, and of the sixth 
Virginia cavalry. He has been agent of 
the West Virginia Conference seminary 
of the methodist episcopal church; and in 
1868 was a delegate to the general confer¬ 
ence held in Chicago, Ill. He now fills a 
pastorate in Malden, W. Va. 

LYDIUS, JOHANNES, missionary, cler¬ 
gyman, was born in Holland. He labored 
in Schenectady after 1705, and from 1702 
till his death did missionary work among 
the Indians. He died March 1, 1709, in 
Schenectady, N. Y. 

LYELL, THOMAS, clergyman, was born 
May 13, 1775, in Richmond county, Va. 
He labored on the Frederick circuit in 
Virginia, and subsequently in Providence, 
R. I., and was chaplain to congress during 
the closing years of the administration 
of John Adams and the early part of that 
of Thomas Jefferson. In 1804 he became 
rector of Christ church, New York city, 
where he remained for over forty years. 
He was secretary of the convention of the 
diocese from 1811-16. He died March 4, 
1848, in New York city. 

LYLE, AARON, soldier, congressman. 
He was a soldier in the revolution, and 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1809 to 1817. He died 
Sept. 24, 1825. 

LYLE, JOHN, clergyman, was born Oct. 
20, 1769, in Rockbridge county, Va. In 
1807 he moved to Paris, Ky., where he 
established an academy, at the same time 
preaching to the churches of Cane Ridge 
and Concord. He subsequently gave up 
pastoral work and devoted the rest of his 
life to missionary labors. He died July 22, 
1825, in Paris, Ky. 

LYLE, WILLIAM, author, poet, was 
born Nov. 17, 1822, in Scotland. He is a 
poet of Rochester, N. Y., and the author 
of The Martyr Queen, and Other Poems. 

LIMAN, BENJAMIN SMITH, mining 
engineer, was born Dec. 11, 1835, in North¬ 
ampton, Mass. In 1873-75 he was chief 
geologist and mining engineer of the geo¬ 
logical survey of Hokkaido in Japan, and 
in 1876-77 of the oil lands of Japan, finally 
filling a similar office on the geological ' 
survey of Japan in 1878-89. In 1887 he 
joined the corps of the geological survey 
of Pennsylvania, with headquarters in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 











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LYMAN, CHARLES, soldier, lawyer, 
public official, was born April 10, 1843, in 
Bolton, Conn. During the war he became 
a lieutenant in the fourteenth regiment 
Connecticut volunteer infantry. He is a 
successful lawyer of Washington, D. C.; 
and has been an official for thirty years 
in the public service, as chief clerk United 
States treasurer’s office; chief examiner; 
United States civil service commissioner; 
and as president United States civil serv¬ 
ice commissioners. 

LYMAN, CHESTER SMITH, educator, 
astronomer, author, was born Jan. 13, 
1814, in Manchester, Conn. When sur¬ 
veyor of California he sent to the eastern 
states one of the earliest authentic ac¬ 
counts of the discovery of gold. He was 
also one of the revisers of Webster’s Dic¬ 
tionary for the edition of 1864. 

LYMAN, DANIEL WANTON, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Jan. 24, 1844, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. For several terms he repre¬ 
sented the town of North Providence in 
the general assembly. In addition to fifty 
thousand dollars that he bequeathed to 
Brown university, he left by his will sixty 
thousand dollars to the Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He 
died Dec. 19, 1886, in Providence, R. I. 

LYMAN, FREDERICK A., musician, 
was born April 22, 1864, in Columbia, 
Conn. Since 1890 he has been connected 
with the American Institute of Normal 
Methods, as instructor in public schools 
of music. He has written a great amount 
of music, including songs, school music 
and church music. 

LYMAN, GEORGE ALEXANDER, jour¬ 
nalist, lecturer, was born June 26, 1838, in 
Winchester, N. H. In 1855 he graduated 
from the Northfield 
institute of North- 
field, Mass. He is 
the editor and own¬ 
er of The Journal of 
Amboy, Ill., and has 
been an extensive 
writer on social and 
political economy, 
and is known as a 
champion of the 
cause of popular ed¬ 
ucation and also of 
higher education. He 
is a lecturer of the American Institute of 
Civics, and a brilliant orator. He takes 
an active part in the public affairs of his 
city, county and state; is a prominent 
member of several fraternal orders, in 
which he has held many positions of 
honor. 

LYMAN, HENRY, missionary, author, 
was born Nov. 23, 1809, in Northampton, 
Mass. He was a missionary at Sumatra, 
and was there killed by the Battahs on 
June 28, 1834. He published a volume en¬ 
titled Condition of Females in Pagan 
Countries. 

LYMAN, HENRY MUNSON, educator, 
physician, author, was born Nov. 26, 1835, 
in Hawaiian Islands. He is a Chicago 
physician, professor of medicine in Rush 
Medical college, and the author of In¬ 
somnia and Other Disorders of Sleep; Ar¬ 
tificial Anaesthesia; and Practice of Med¬ 
icine. 

LYMAN, JOSEPH, clergyman, author, 
was born April 14, 1749, in Lebanon, Conn. 
He was an original member of the Ameri¬ 
can Foreign Missionary society, and its 
president from 1823. He published nu¬ 
merous sermons. He died March 27, 1828, 
in Hatfield, Conn. 

LYMAN, JOSEPH, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 13, 1840, in Lyons, Mich. He en¬ 
tered the union army in 1861, as a private 
in the fourth regiment of Iowa cavalry; 


rose to the rank of major, and at the time 
he was mustered out of service, in 1865, 
was adjutant-general of the army of the 
Rio Grande. He was enrolling clerk in 
the state house of representatives in 1866, 
and from 1867 to 1870 was deputy collector 
of internal revenue. In 1884 he was cir¬ 
cuit judge of the thirteenth judicial dis¬ 
trict of Iowa, and in 1884 was elected a 
representative from Iowa to the forty- 
ninth congress, and re-elected to the fif¬ 
tieth congress as a republican. 

LYMAN, JOSEPH, artist, was born July 
26, 1843, in Ravenna, Ohio. His more im¬ 
portant works are Summer Night; Even¬ 
ing; Moonlight at Sunset on the Maine 
Coast; Waiting for the Tide; Street in St. 
Augustine, Florida. 

LYMAN, JOSEPH BARDWELL, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Oct. 6, 1829, in 
Chester, Mass. He was an agricultural 
journalist of New York city, and the au¬ 
thor of Philosophy of housekeeping; Re¬ 
sources of the Pacific States; Women of 
the War; and Cotton Culture. He died 
Jan. 28, 1873, in Richmond Hill, N. Y. 

LYMAN, JOSEPH S., congressman, was 
born in Hampden, Mass. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1819 to 1821. 

LYMAN, LAURA ELIZABETH BAKER 
—KATE HUNNIBEE—journalist, author, 
was born April 2, 1831, in Kent’s Hill, 
Maine. She was long an editor of Home 
Interests in the New York Tribune; and 
since editor of the Dining-Room Maga¬ 
zine, and contributor to several periodi¬ 
cals. 

LYMAN, SAMUEL, state legislator, 
state senator, congressman. From 1786 to 
1788 he served in the legislature and from 
1790 to 1793 as state senator. He was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1795 to 1800, when he re¬ 
signed. He died in 1802. 

LYMAN, THEODORE, philanthropist, 
author, was born Feb. 20, 1792, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a noted philanthropist of 
Boston, and the founder of the Lyman 
school at Westborough. He was the au¬ 
thor of Three Weeks in Paris; The Poli¬ 
tical State of Italy; Account of the Hart¬ 
ford Convention; and The Diplomacy of 
the United States with Foreign Nations. 
He died July 18, 1849, in Brookline, Mass. 

LYMAN, THEODORE, soldier, scientist, 
congressman, author, was born Aug. 23, 
1833, in Waltham, Mass. From 1863 to 
the close of the civil war he was lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff 
of Major-General Meade. From 1865 to 
1882 he was commissioner of fisheries of 
the state of Massachusetts. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Massachusetts to 
the forty-eighth congress as a democrat. 
He is also a scientist of note, associated 
with the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
in Cambridge from 1860. His principal 
work is the Ophiuroidea of the Challenger 
Expedition. 

LYMAN, THEODORE BENEDICT, 
bishop, was born Nov. 27, 1815, in Brigh¬ 
ton, Mass. He was elected assistant bish¬ 
op of North Carolina in 1873, and was 
consecrated in Christ church, Raleigh, in 
1873. On the death of Bishop Atkinson, 
in 1881, he became bishop of the diocese. 

LYMAN, WILLIAM, soldier, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born in 1753, in 
Northampton, Mass. He was brigadier- 
general of militia; V’as a member of the 
Massachusetts legislature in 1787; and a 
state senator in 1789. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1793 to 1797; 
and was appointed consul to London in 
1805, where he died on Oct. 1, 1811. 


LYNCH, CHARLES, governor. He was 
governor of Mississippi from 1835 to 1837; 
his uncle, John Lynch, was the founder of 
Lynchburg, in Virginia, and his father, 
bearing his own name, was a distinguish¬ 
ed officer in the revolutionary war; the 
term Lynch law was occasioned by his 
apprehending and punishing, without legal 
ceremony or delay, a lawless band of des¬ 
peradoes and tories who had infested the 
country where he had command. He died 
Feb. 16, 1853, in Natchez, Miss. 

LYNCH, JAMES DANIEL, author, was 
born Jan. 16, 1836, in Mecklenburg county, 
Va. He is a political writer of Mississip¬ 
pi; and the author of Kemper County 
Vindicated; Bench and Bar of Mississip¬ 
pi; and Bench and Bar of Texas. 

LYNCH, JOHN, merchant, legislator, 
congressman, was born Feb. 15, 1825, in 
Portland, Maine. He served two terms in 
the state legislature. He was elected a 
representative from Maine to the thirty- 
ninth congress; and was re-elected to the 
fortieth, forty-first and forty-second con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

LYNCH, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Nov. 1, 1843, in Providence, R. 
I Since 1865 he has been in the active 
practice of law in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He 
was elected to the fiftieth congress as a 
democrat. 

LY r NCH, JOHN ROY, jurist, legislator, 
congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1847, in 
Concordia parish, La. In 1869 he was ap¬ 
pointed a justice of the peace in Natchez, 
Miss. He was elected to the state legis¬ 
lature from Adams county in 1870; and 
re-elected in 1871. He was elected to the 
forty-third congress, and re-elected to the 
forty-fourth and forty-seventh congresses 
as a republican. 

LYNCH, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born about 1720, in South Carolina. He 
was a delegate from South Carolina to the 
continental congress from 1774 to 1776. He 
had also been a delegate to the colonial 
congress in 1765. He died in 1776, in 
South Carolina. f 

LYNCH, THOMAS, signer of the Decla¬ 
ration of Independence, was born Aug. 5, 
1749, in Prince George parish, S. C. In 
1775 he was commissioned a captain in 
the militia service. In 1776 he was elect¬ 
ed a delegate to the continental congress, 
and was a signer of the Declaration of 
Independence. 

LYNCH, THOMAS, lawyer, legislator, 
mayor, congressman, was born Nov. 21, 
1844, in Milwaukee county, Wis. He was 
a member of the Wisconsin legislature in 
1873 and 1883; and was district attorney 
of the county from 1878 to 1882. In 1883 
he moved to Antigo, where he now re¬ 
sides. He was mayor of Antigo in 1885 
and again in 1888. He was elected to the 
fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. 

LYNCH, WILLIAM FRANCIS, soldier, 
author, was born in April, 1801, in Nor¬ 
folk, Va. He was a naval officer of promi¬ 
nence as an explor¬ 
er, and the author of 
Narrative of the 
United States Ex¬ 
ploring Expedition 
to the River Jordan 
and the Dead Sea; 
and Naval Life, or 
Afloat and Ashore. 
In addition to his 
published works, he 
contributed valuable 
articles on scien- 
— tific and naval sub¬ 
jects to the leading newspapers and mag¬ 
azines of the United States. He died 
Oct. 17, 1865, in Baltimore, Md. 









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LYNDE, BENJAMIN, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born Oct. 4, 1700, in 
Salem, Mass. He became judge of ses¬ 
sions and common pleas, and in 1745 suc¬ 
ceeded his father as chief justice of the 
colony of Massachusetts. He died Oct. 9, 
1781, in Salem, Mass. 

LYNDE, DOLPHUS S., merchant, bank¬ 
er, legislator, was born July 1, 1833, in 
Antwerp, N. Y. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the common 
schools, and then attended the Wesleyan 
seminary of Gouverneur, N. Y. During 
1871-75 he was a member of the New 
Y'ork state assembly for four consecutive 
terms; and during 1878-84 was a member 
of the New York state senate. He served 
on important committees in both houses 
of the legislature; and was a member of 
the finance committee of the senate dur¬ 
ing the last four years of his service. In 
1887 he organized the First National bank 
of Canton, N. Y., and has been its presi¬ 
dent since date of organization. He was 
one of the original stockholders of the 
First National bank of Gouverneur, N. Y., 
and was one of its board of directors 
from its organization until 1887. For 
twenty years he was a successful mer¬ 
chant at Hermon, N. Y.; and since 1854 
has been a successful real estate operator. 

LYNDE, WILLIAM PITT, lawyer, may¬ 
or, state senator, congressman, was born 
Dec. 16, 1817, in Sherburne, N. Y. In 1844 
he was attorney-general of Wisconsin ter¬ 
ritory; in 1845 was appointed United 
States district attorney of Wisconsin, 
and held the position until the admission 
•of the state. In 1848 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative to congress; and in 1860 was 
•elected mayor of Milwaukee. He was a 
member of the assembly in 1866, and 
elected a state senator in 1868. In 1874 
he was elected a representative to the 
forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected 
to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat. 
He died Dec. 18, 1885, in Milwaukee, Wis. 

LYNDON, JOSIAH, governor, was born 
March 10, 1724, in Newport, R. I. He was 
governor of the state of Rhode Island in 
1768. He died March 30, 1778, in Warren, 
R. I. 

LYNDS, WILLIAM B„ educator, poet. 
He is a successful educator, and for many 
years superintenflent of public instruction 
of Wheeler county, Neb. He has also been 
successful in fruit-growing. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature 
on educational topics; and his poems 
have been published in a volume entitled 
Poetical Works. 

LYNN, GEORGE, journalist, lawyer, 
poet, was born Feb. 7, 1822, in England. 
For thirty-five years he was a journalist 
in Lockport, Ill.; and since 1887 in Hast¬ 
ings, Neb., where he now practices law. 
For awhile he was editor and owner of 
Our Own Opinion; and is the author of a 
number of meritorious poems. 

LYON, ANNE BOZEMAN, author, was 
born in 1860, in Alabama. She is a south¬ 
ern writer of fiction; and the author of 
No Saint; and A Sterlings Camp. 

LYON, ASA, clergyman, jurist, legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, author, was born Dec. 
31, 1763, in Pomfret, Conn. He was ap¬ 
pointed chief judge of Grand Isle county 
in 1805, serving as such for nine years; 
and was elected to the legislature as a 
representative from South Hero in 1800- 
08; and from Grand Isle in 1810-11. He 
was a member of the executive council 
in 1808; and was elected a member of con¬ 
gress from 1815-17. He was a member 
of the corporation of the university of 
Vermont from 1814-21. For many years 
;und until his death he was an able preach¬ 
er of the gospel. He died April 4, 1841, 
.in South Hero, Conn. 


LYON. CALEB, state senator, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born Dec. 7, 1822, in 
Lyondale, N. Y. He was secretary of the 
convention called in 1849 to form a con¬ 
stitution for California; and designed the 
coat of arms for the golden state. From 
bis native state he was elected to the as¬ 
sembly, and was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate. He was elected a representative in 
the thirty-third congress from New York; 
and in 1864 was appointed governor of 
Idaho. He died Sept. 8, 1875, on Staten 
Island, N. Y. 

LYON, CHITTENDEN, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1786, in Vermont. 
He served in both houses of the Kentucky 
state legislature; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Kentucky from 
1827 to 1835. He was the son of Matthew 
Lyon. He died Nov. 8, 1842, in Caldwell 
county, Ky. 

LYON, DAVID GORDON, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born May 24, 1852, in Benton, 
Ala. Since 1882 he has been professor of 
divinity in the Harvard university; he 
is well versed in Semitic languages and 
history, and is curator of the Harvard 
Semitic museum. He is the author of An 
Assyrian Manual, and other works. 

LYON, ERNEST, clergyman, was born 
Sept. 22, 1860, in British Honduras. He 
received a liberal education, and gradu¬ 
ated from the classical department of the 
New Orleans university. He studied the¬ 
ology in the Gilbert Seminary and the 
Union Theological seminary of New York 
city. He has filled pastorates in the meth- 
odist episcopal church, in the Mallalieu 
chapel in New Orleans, and at St. Mark’s 
church in New York city. He has been 
special agent of the Freedmen’s Aid and 
Southern Education society; statistical 
secretary of the Louisiana annual con¬ 
ference; president of the New York 
preachers’ meeting; and has filled various 
other high positions in the gift of his 
church. 

LYON, FRANCIS S., congressman, was 
born in North Carolina. He settled in 
Alabama; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1835 to 1839. 

LYON, GEORGE REED, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, legislator, was born July 19, 1846, 
in Waukegan, Ill., then called Little Fort. 
During the civil war he served in compa¬ 
ny C, sixty-ninth regiment volunteer in¬ 
fantry; and subsequently was sergeant of 
company K, sixty-fourth regiment. He is 
a successful merchant of Waukegan, Ill.; 
and in 1896 was elected a member of the 
general assembly of the Illinois state leg¬ 
islature. 

LYON. IRVING WHITALL, physician, 
author, was born in 1840, in New York. 
He was a Hartford physician who wrote 
Silva; Manitou Island; Burkett’s Lock; 
St. John’s Wooing; and The Old Post 
Road. He died in 1896. 

LYON, JOHN CHRISTIAN, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 11, 1802, in Ger¬ 
many. He has been called the founder 
of the German methodist church in the 
United States. He was the editor and 
translator of several theological works. 
He died May 21, 1868, in Cantonville, Md. 

LYON, LUCIUS, surveyor, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1800, 
in Sherburne, Vt. He emigrated to Michi¬ 
gan. He was a delegate to congress from 
Michigan territory during the years 1833- 
35; was a senator in congress from the 
state of Michigan from 1836-40; and was 
a representative in congress from 1843 to 
1845. His last public position was that 
of surveyor-general in the northwest. He 
died Sept. 24, 1851, in Detroit, Mich. 

LYON. MARY, educator, was born Feb. 
28, 1797, in Buckland. Mass. She was the 


founder of Mount Holyoke seminary, oi 
which she was principal in 1837-49; and 
it is an abiding monument to her energj 
and sublime faith. She died March 5. 
1849, in South Hadley. 

LYON, MATTHEW, statesman, was 
born in 1746, in Ireland. He settled in 
Vermont after the war; and was elected 
a member of the state legislature in 1779, 
and the four succeeding years. In 1783 he 
founded the town of Fairhaven. He serv¬ 
ed that town in the legislature ten years; 
and in 1786 was assistant judge of Rut¬ 
land county. He was a representative in 
congress from Vermont from 1797 to 
1801. He removed to Kentucky; served 
two years in the legislature of that state; 
and was a representative in congress 
from Kentucky from 1803 to 1811. In 
1820 he was appointed a factor among the 
Cherokee Indians in Arkansas. When that 
territory was organized he was elected the 
first delegate to congress, but did not live 
to take his seat. He died Aug. 1, 1822, in 
Spadro Bluff, Ark. 

LYON, NATHANIEL, soldier, was born 
July 4, 1818, in Ashford, Conn. He served 
in Florida during the latter part of the 
Seminole war. In 
the assault on the 
City of Mexico he 
was wounded at the 
Belen Gate. At the 
close of the war he 
was ordered to Cali¬ 
fornia, and in 1850 
he conducted a suc¬ 
cessful expedition 
against the Indians. 
He died Aug. 10, 
1861; being killed in 
the battle of Wil¬ 
son's Creek, Wilson’s Creek, Mo. 

LYONS, ALBERT BROWN, chemist, 
author, was born April 1, 1841, in the Ha¬ 
waiian Islands. He is a prominent chem¬ 
ist of Detroit who has published a Man¬ 
ual of Practical Assaying. 

LYONS, H. A., lawyer, jurist. He was 
an early emigrant to California; and in 
1851 he was appointed chief justice for 
the United States court of that territory. 

LYONS, JAMES GILBORNE, poet, was 
born in England. He published Christian 
Songs, Translations, and other Poems. 
He died Jan. 2, 1868, in Haverford, Pa. 

LYTLE, ROBERT T., congressman. He 
was distinguished as a public speaker; 
and was a member of congress from Ohio 
from 1833 to 1835. He died Dec. 21, 1839, 
in New Orleans, La. 

LYTTLE, WILLIAM HAINES, soldier, 
poet, was born Nov. 2, 1826, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He was a general in the federal 
army during the civil war, remembered 
in literature for the poem beginning, I am 
Dying, Egypt, Dying. He died Sept. 20, 
1863; was killed in the battle of Chicka- 
mauga. 

LYTTLETON, WILLIAM HENRY, 
governor, was born, about 1720, in Eng¬ 
land. In 1755 he was appointed governor 
of South Carolina, and held the post till 
1760, when he was transferred to Jamaica. 
He died Sept. 1, 1808. 

MABEN. WILLIAM NELSON, lawyer, 
was born Jan. 29, 1873, in Caney, Tenn. 
He received the rudiments of his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools of Fort Worth, 
Tex.; and at the college of Tennessee and 
the university of Texas. He has attained 
prominence as a leading commercial and 
corporation attorney of Texas; and is 
prominent in democratic politics. He or¬ 
ganized the Lloyd Rifles of Fort Worth, 
Tex.; was first lieutenant of the same, 
and has refused the captaincy several 
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MABERY, CHARLES FREDERIC, 
chemist, educator, was born Jan. 13, 1850, 
in North Gorham, Maine. He heid the 
place of assistant in chemistry from 1875 
until 1883, when he was called to the chair 
of chemistry in the Case school of applied 
science in Cleveland. He has published 
in the American Chemical Journal numer¬ 
ous papers. 

MABIE, HAMILTON WRIGHT, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Dec. 13, 1845, in 
Cold Spring, N. Y. He is a journalist and 
essayist of New York city, editor of The 
Outlook, and the author of Norse Stories 
Retold from the Eadas; My Study Fire; 
Under the Trees and Elsewhere; Short 
Studies in Literature; Essays in Literary 
Interpretation; Essays on Nature and 
Culture; and Essays on Books and Cul¬ 
ture. 

MABRY, MILTON H., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Waco, Tex. He has attained 
success in the profession of law at Inver¬ 
ness, Fla.; has been associate justice of 
the supreme court; and chief justice of the 
supreme court. 

MACAFEE, MRS. NELLY NICHOL 
(MARSHALL), author, was born in 1845, 
in Kentucky. He is a Kentucky writer 
of fiction, and the author of Eleanor 
Morton, or Life in Dixie; Gleanings from 
• Fireside Fancies; Sodom Apples; Wear¬ 
ing the Cross; Passion; and A Criminal 
through Love. 

MACARTHUR, ARTHUR, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, lieutenant-governor, author, was 
horn Jan. 26, 1815, in Scotland. He set¬ 
tled in Wisconsin; was lieutenant-gover¬ 
nor of that state in 1856; and was elected 
to a judgeship in that state, which posi¬ 
tion he held until 1869. In 1870 he was 
appointed one of the justices of the su¬ 
preme court of the United States for the 
District of Columbia. He is the author of 
Lectures on the Law; Reports of Supreme 
Court Cases; and Education in its Rela¬ 
tion to Manual Industry. 

MACARTHUR, CHARLES LAFAY¬ 
ETTE, journalist, state senator, was born 
Jan. 7, 1824, in Claremont, N. H. About 
1842 he removed to Milwaukee, and be¬ 
came the first editor of the Sentinel. In 
1846-47 he was city editor of the New 
York Sun. In 1864 he established the Troy 
News, one of the earliest Sunday newspa¬ 
pers except those published in New York 
city. In 1881-83 he was a member of the 
New York state senate. 

MACARTHUR, JOHN, architect, was 
born May 13, 1823, in Scotland. Among 
the buildings designed and built by him 
are the naval hospitals at Philadelphia, 
Annapolis, and Mare Island, Cal.; the 
state hospitals for the insane at Danville 
and Warren, Pa.; Lafayette college of 
Easton, Pa,; and the Continental, Girard, 
and Lafayette hotels of Philadelphia. 

MACARTHUR, ROBERT STUART, 
clergyman, author, was born July 31, 1841, 
in Canada. He is a distinguished baptist 
clergyman of New York city, pastor of 
Calvary baptist church from 1870, and 
the author of Quick Truths in Quaint 
Texts; Calvary Pulpit, or Christ and Him 
Crucified; and Divine Balustrades, and 
Other Sermons. 

MACBETH, HENRY, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 2, 1858, in Ireland. 
In 1881 he graduated from Hobart col¬ 
lege, and three years later from the 
Berkeley divinity school. He has been 
rector of the Trinity church of Oxford, 
Pa., and has filled pastorates in Troy, N. 
Y., and Windham, Conn., and is now rec¬ 
tor of St. Paul’s chapel of Willimantic. 
He is also a successful magazine writer 
and author. 


MACCABE, JOSEPH BREWSTER, 
journalist, state senator, was born Nov. 
19, 1857, in Manchester, N. H. He has 
served as a member of the Massachusetts 
state legislature; and also as a state sen¬ 
ator. He is a successful journalist, and 
commander-in-chief of the Sons of Vete¬ 
rans. 

MACCARROLL, JAMES, critic, author, 
was born in 1815, in Ireland. He was a 
musical and dramatic critic of New York 
city, and the author of Letters of Terry 
Finnegan to D’Arcy McGee; The New 
Gauger; Adventures of a Night; and The 
New Life-Boat. He died in 1892. 

MACCARTY, J. HENDRICKSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1830, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a methodist clergyman, 
and the author of The Black Horse and 
Carry-All; Inside tne Gates; Two Thou¬ 
sand Miles through the Heart of Mexico; 
and Fact and Fiction in Holy Writ. 

MACCHETTA, MRS, BLANCHE 
ROOSEVELT (TUCKER), author, was 
born in Wisconsin. She was the author 
of Home Life of Longfellow; Marked In 
Haste; Stage Struck; Life of Dore; The 
Copper Queen, a novel; and Verdi, Milan, 
and Othello. 

MACCLELLAND, MARGARET 
GREENWAY, author. She is a Virginia 
novelist, and the author of Mammy Mys¬ 
tic; Old Ike’s Memories, a book of verse; 
Princess; Oblivion; Jean Monteith; Mad¬ 
ame Silva; Manitou Island; Burkett’s 
Lock; St. John’s Wooing; and The Old 
Post Road. She died in 1895. 

MACCRACKEN, HENRY MITCHELL, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
Sept. 28, 1840, in Oxford, Ohio. He is a 
Presbyterian clergyman and educator, 
chancellor of the university of the City 
of New York from 1891. He is the author 
of Tercentenary of Presbyterianism; Kant 
and Lotze; A Metropolitan University; 
and Leaders of the Church Universal. 

MACCULLOCH, HUNTER, journalist, 
poet, was born Oct. 22, 1847, in Glasgow, 
Scotland. In 1878 he classified and ar¬ 
ranged the library of the Spring Garden 
institute; and in 1882 was engaged by 
Strawbridge and Clothier to edit a house¬ 
hold magazine. He is the author of sev¬ 
eral dramas; many songs, which have 
been set to music; and a volume of poems 
entitled From Dawn to Dusk. 

MACDONALD, JOHN L., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state senator, congressman, 
was born in 1838, in Scotland. He was 
judge of the probate court of Scott coun¬ 
ty, Minn. During the war of the rebel¬ 
lion he was commissioned to enlist and 
muster in volunteers for the union army, 
and served in that capacity. He was a 
member of the state house of represent¬ 
atives, 1869-70; and a member of the state 
senate in 1871-76. In 1876 he was elected 
judge of the eighth judicial district of 
Minnesota for the term of seven years, 
and was re-elected without opposition in 
1883, resigning in the fall of 1886. He 
was elected to the fiftieth congress as a 
democrat. 

MACDONALD, MOSES, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born April 
8, 1814, in Limerick, Maine. He was a 
member of the Maine legislature in 1841 
and 1842; and in 1845 was speaker of the 
house. In 1847-49 he served as treasurer of 
the state. He represented the first con¬ 
gressional district in the thirty-second 
and thirty-third congresses; and in 1857 
was appointed collector for the districts 
of Portland and Falmouth. He died Oct. 
18, 1869, in Saco, Maine. 

MACDONALD, RUFUS CYRENE, phy¬ 
sician, poet, was born in 1861, in Boston, 
Mass. This eminent physician of Boston 
is the author of Love and Other Poems. 


MACDONOUGH. THOMAS, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Dec. 23, 1783, in Newcas¬ 
tle county, Del. He was a midshipman on 
board the Philadel¬ 
phia in the squadron 
employed against 
Tripoli; and subse¬ 
quently took part in 
all the naval engage¬ 
ments under Com¬ 
modore Stephen De¬ 
catur. He was one 
of the party in 1804 
who recaptured and 
destroyed the Phila¬ 
delphia. For his ser¬ 
vices in the war of 
1812 he was made captain; and received a 
gold medal from congress. He died Nov 
16, 1825, at sea. 

MACDOUGALL, ALEXANDER, soldier, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
1731, in Scotland. He was appointed colo¬ 
nel of the first New York regiment; brig¬ 
adier-general in 1776; and major-general 
in 1777. He was a delegate from New 
York to the continental congress in 1781- 
82, and in 1784-85. He was a member of 
the New York state senate in 1783. He 
died June 8, 1786, in New York city. 

MACDOUGALL, CHARLES, surgeon, 
was born born Sept. 21, 1804, in Chilli- 
cothe, Ohio. In 1865 he was brevetted 
brigadier-general; was promoted lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel and assistant medical purvey¬ 
or, in 1866, and retired in 1869. He died 
July 25, 1885, in Fairfield, Va. 

MACDOUGALL, CLINTON D., soldier, 
lawyer, banker, congressman, was born 
June 14, 1839, in Scotland. He joined the 
army of the Potomac, and commanded a 
brigade at Gettysburg, until the close of 
the war; and was brevetted brigadier- 
general in 1864. He was appointed post¬ 
master of the city of Auburn in 1869; 
and was elected to the forty-third and for¬ 
ty-fourth congresses. 

MACDOWELL, ELIZABETH, artist, 
was born in 1858, in Philadelphia, Pa. She 
studied art in the Academy of Fine Arts 
of Philadelphia, and has attained a na¬ 
tional reputation as a painter. 

MACE, DANIEL, lawyer, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Sept. 5, 1811, 
in Pickaway county, Ohio. He was a 
member of the Indiana legislature in 
1836; and served as United States attor¬ 
ney for Indiana during President Polk’s 
administration. He was a representative 
in congress from Indiana from 1851 to 
1855 as a democrat, and from 1855 to 1857 
as an independent candidate. He was ap¬ 
pointed, by President Lincoln, postmaster 
of Lafayette, Ind. He died July 26, 1867, 
in Lafayette, Ind. 

MACE. MRS. FRANCES LAUGHTON, 
poet, was born Jan. 15, 1836, in Orono, 
Maine. At the age of eighteen she wrote 
the celebrated hymn, 
Only Waiting, which 
was copied through 
the length and 
breadth of the land. 
She is the author of 
Legends, Lyrics and 
Sonnets; and Under 
Pine and Palm, a 
magnificent volume 
of her collected 
poems. In 1855 she 
was married to Ben¬ 
jamin H. Mace, an 
eminent lawyer and scholar, now of San 
Jose, Cal. Her poems have constantly 
appeared in the Century, Atlantic, Lip- 
pincott’s, Harper’s, and the leading maga¬ 
zines of America; and her best known 
poem is Only Waiting. 






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MAC GAHAN, JANUARIUS ALOY- 
SIUS, journalist, author, was born June 
12, 1844, near New Lexington. Ohio. He 
was a famous journalist and war corre¬ 
spondent. During the Franco-Prussiam 
war he was the correspondent at Paris 
of the New York Herald, and he went 
through the Russo-Turkish war as the 
correspondent of the London Daily News. 
He was the author of Campaigning on the 
Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva; Under the 
Northern Lights; and Turkish Atrocities 
in Bulgaria. He died June 9, 1878, in 
Constantinople, Turkey. 

MACHEN, WILLIS BENTON, farmer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born April 5, 181o, in Caldwell county, 
Ky. He was a senator in the Kentucky 
state legislature in 1854, and a member 
of the lower house in 185o and 1860. He 
was a member of the confederate congress 
for three years; and was appointed a sen¬ 
ator in congress from Kentucky to fill a 
vacancy, and served until 1873. 

MACHIR, JAMES, congressman, was a 
representative m congress from Virginia 
from 1797 to 1799. He died June 25, 1827. 

MAC INTOSH, MARIA J., author, was 
born in 1803. She is the author of a num¬ 
ber of novels, which have appeared under 
the pseudonym of Aunt Kitty. She died 
in 1878. 

MAC INTYRE, ARCHIBALD THOMP¬ 
SON, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 27, 1822, in Twiggs 
county, Ga. He was a member of the 
state legislature of Georgia in 1849; was 
a member of state constitutional conven¬ 
tion of Georgia in 1865; and was elected 
to the forty-second congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

MACK, CHARLES ERNEST, lawyer, 
jurist, was born July 22, 1857, in Columbia 
county, Wis. He has been regent of the 
university of Nevada, and is now district 
judge of the first judicial district of Ne¬ 
vada. 

MACK, EDGAR EUGENE, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born June 14, 1850, in Leices¬ 
ter, Vt. For fourteen years he was clerk 
of the district court of Iowa; and a mem¬ 
ber of the Iowa state senate for four 
years. 

MACK, GEORGE FRANKLIN, edu¬ 
cator, was born Nov. 15, 1845, in St. 
Charles, Ill. For thirty years he has been 
a successful educator. He moved to Cali¬ 
fornia in 1850, and received his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools of that state, 
graduating in 1865 from the Healdsburg 
academy. He served as superintendent of 
schools for Amador county in 1886; was 
again re-elected in 1890; and again in 
1894; and during 1881-93 he was principal 
of the lone public schools. 

MACK, NORMAN EDWARD, journal¬ 
ist, was born July 24, 1855, in West Will¬ 
iam, Ontario. He is editor and publisher 
of the Buffalo Daily Times. 

MACKALL, WILLIAM WHANN, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1818, in District of Co¬ 
lumbia. He served in Kentucky as assist¬ 
ant adjutant-general to General Simon 
Buckner, with the rank ol colonel, until 
after the surrender of Fort Henry and 
Fort Donelson; and was subsequently ap¬ 
pointed brigadier-general. 

MACKAY, CHARLES H., journalist, 
author, poet, was born March 11, 1859, in 
Bridgeport, Maine. He is the editor of 
the Esoteric of Boston, Mass.; and the 
author of valuable articles on astronomy. 

McKAY. DONALD, ship builder, was 
born Sept. 4, 1810, in Nova Scotia. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war ne built the light 
draught monitor Nauset, and the double 
end gunboat Ashuelot. His last work was 
the sloop of war Adams. He died Sept. 
20, 1880, in Hamilton, Mass. 


MACKAY, JOHN W., capitalist, was 
born Nov. 28, 1831, in Ireland. He found¬ 
ed the bank of Nevada in San Francisco, 
and with J. G. Bennett laid two cables 
across the Atlantic, from United States 
to England and France. 

MACKAYE, MRS. MARIA ELLERY 
[GOODWIN], educator, author, was born 
in 1830, in Rhode Island. She is an edu¬ 
cator of Cambridge, and the author of 
The Abbess of Port Royal, and Other 
French Studies. 

MAC KEAN, THOMAS, signer of the 
Declaration of Independence, was born 
March 17, 1734, in Chester county, Pa. 
He was a signer of the Declaration of In¬ 
dependence; and was governor of Penn¬ 
sylvania in 1797-1808. He died in J.st7. 

MAC KELLAR, THOMAS, manufac¬ 
turer, poet, was born Aug. 12, 1812, in 
New York city. He is the president of 
MacKellar, Smith 
and Jordan com¬ 
pany, the largest 
type founders in 
America, with offices 
in the principal cit¬ 
ies of the United 
States. He is the 
author of a number 
of poetical works, 
which have placed 
him in the front rank 
of American poets. 
His works are 
Rhymes At ween Times; Droppings from 
the Heart; Psalms and Hymns; and other 
works. He is also the author of The 
American Printer; and has contributed 
valuable articles during the past half a 
century to various publications, which 
have been a- valuable acquisition to cur¬ 
rent literature. He is a man of integrity 
and sterling business qualities, and makes 
his home in Germantown, Philadelphia. 

MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER SLID¬ 
ELL, naval officer, author, was born April 
6, 1803, in New York city. He was a 
naval officer of prominence in his day, 
and the author of Popular Essays on 
Naval Subjects; The American in Eng¬ 
land; Lives of John Paul Jones, Commo¬ 
dore Decatur, Commodore Oliver Hazard 
Perry; and A Year in Spain. He died 
Sept. 13, 1848, in Tarrytown, N. Y. 

MAC KENZIE, RANALD SLIDELL, 
soldier, was born July 27, 1840, in West¬ 
chester county, N. Y. He was engaged in 
engineering work throughout the civil 
war; and was promoted colonel in 1867, 
and brigadier-general in 1882. He died 
Jan. 19, 1889, on Staten Island, N. Y. 

MACKENZIE, ROBERT SHELTON, 
journalist, author, was born June 22, 1809, 
in Ireland. He was a journalist of Lon¬ 
don who came to America in 1852, and 
from 1857 was the literary editor of the 
Philadelphia Press. His writings in¬ 
clude Lives of Dickens, Scott, and Guizot; 
Titian: an art novel; Lays of Palestine; 
Partnership en Commandite, a work upon 
commercial law; Bits of Blarney; Morn¬ 
ings at Matlock; and Tressilian and His 
Friends. He died Nov. 30, 1880, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

.MACKEY, ALBERT GALLATIN, phy¬ 
sician, autnor, was born March 12, 1807, 
in Charleston, S. C. He was a physician 
of Charleston whose life was principally 
devoted to the study of freemasonry. He 
was the author of Text Book of Masonic 
Jurisprudence; Lexicon of Freemasonry; 
The Mystic Tie; Book of the Chapter; 
Manual of the Lodge; Cryptic Masonry; 
Masonic Ritualist; Masonic Parliamen¬ 
tary Law; History of Freemasonry in 
South Carolina; ana Encyclopaedia of 
Freemasonry. He edited the Ahimon 
Rezon. He died June 20, 1881, in Fortress 
Monroe, Va. 


MACKEY, ANSEL ELLIOTT, educator, 
college president, was born June 3, 1836, 
in Rensselaerville, N. Y. He is the presi¬ 
dent and proprietor of the Geneva Busi¬ 
ness and Training college of Geneva, N. 
Y., which was established in 1880. He 
has acquired success in educational work; 
and in literature has attained prominence 
as a prolific write! on educational topics. 
He began teaching at the age of eighteen; 
was principal of the business department 
of Albany college; and in 1873 established 
a commercial school in the city of Hud¬ 
son, N. Y. In 1880 he established the 
well known Geneva Business College and 
Short Hand institute of Geneva, N. Y., 
which has become one of the lamous in¬ 
stitutions of the country for business 
training. 

MACKEY, CHARLES WILLIAM, rail¬ 
road president. He is president of the 
Indiana Central Railroad company; of the 
Franklin Steel Casting company; and is 
president, director and trustee of various 
corporations. 

MACKEY, EDMUND W. M., journalist, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born March 8, 1846, in Charleston, S. C. 
In 1873 he was elected a member of the 
state house of representatives; and was 
elected a representative from South Caro¬ 
lina to the forty-fourth congress. In 1876 
he was elected a representative in the 
state legislature; and was speaker of the 
house; and was assistant United States 
attorney from 1878 to 1881. He was again 
a representative in the forty-seventh con¬ 
gress, and re-elected to the forty-eighth 
congress as a republican. He died Jan. 
28, 1884, at Washington, D. C. 

MACKEY, JOHN, educator, journalist, 
author, was born in 1765, in Charleston, 
S. C. He was a journalist and educator 
of Charleston, whose American Teacher’s 
Assistant was the first comprehensive 
work on arithmetic published in America. 
He died Dec. 14, 1831, in Charleston, S. C. 

MACKEY, L. A., lawyer, congressman, 
was born Nov. 25, 1819, in White Deer 
township. Pa. In 1874 he was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-fourth congress; and re-elected to 
the forty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

MACKIE, JOHN MILTON, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 19, 1813, in Ware- 
ham, Mass. He is a New England writer, 
in early life a tutor in Brown university, 
and the author of Cosas de Espana; Lives 
of Leipnitz, Schamyl, Samuell Gorton; 
Tai Ping Wang; and From Cape Cod to 
Dixie. 

MACLANAHAN, JAMES X., lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
1809, in Antrim, ra. In 1841 he was 
elected to the Pennsylvania state senate. 
In 1849 he was elected to congress; and 
re-elected in 1851. He died about 1864. 

MACLAY, ROBERT SAMUEL, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, missionary, was born 
Feb. 7, 1824, in Concord, Pa. During 
1847-72 he was missionary to China from 
the methodist episcopal church; during 
1852-72 was superintendent of its mis¬ 
sion in Foochow, China; and during 1872- 
84 he was superintendent and organizer 
of its mission to Japan. He visited Korea 
in 1884, obtained from the king Korea’s 
permit to Christianity, which opened 
methodism to Korea. He was president 
of the Anglo-Japanese college, .dean and 
instructor in Tokyo, Japan, during 1884- 
87; and during 1888-93 filled the chair of 
theology in the Maclay College of Theol¬ 
ogy in San Fernando, Cal. He is the 
author of Life Among the Chinese; Al¬ 
phabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Lan¬ 
guage; and other works. 





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MACLAY, SAMUEL, congressman, 
United States senator, was born June 7, 
1741, in Lurgan, Pa. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1795 to 1797; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from 1803 to 1808. He died Oct. 5, 
1811, in Northumberland county, Pa. 

MACLAY, WILLIAM, lawyer, United 
States senator, was born July 20, 1737, 
in New Garden, Pa. He was a senator in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1789 to 
1791. He died April 16, 1804, in Harris¬ 
burg, Pa. 

MACLAY, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1766, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He held the offices of county 
commissioner and associate judge; and 
was a member of the assembly. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1815 to 1817; and again from 
1817 to 1819. He died Jan. 4, 1825. 

MACLAY, WILLIAM BROWN, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born March 20, 1812, 
in New York city. 
In 1836 he was asso¬ 
ciate editor of the 
New York Quarterly 
Magazine; and was 
an active member of 
the legislature ot 
New York for sev¬ 
eral years. He was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress 
from that state in 
1843; and was re¬ 
elected in 1845 and 
1847, and again elected in 1857. He was 
re-elected a representative to the thirty- 
sixth congress. He died Feb. 19, 1882, in 
New York city, N. Y. 

MACLAY, WILLIAM PLUNKETT, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 23, 1774, in Buf¬ 
falo Valley, Pa. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1816 to 
1821, having first entered congress to fill 
a vacancy. He died Sept. 2, 1842, in Mil- 
roy, Pa. 

MACLAY, WILLIAM WALTER, edu¬ 
cator, civil engineer, was born March 27, 
1846, in New York city. He was com¬ 
missioned as lieutenant-commander in 
1868, and, while acting as fleet captain of 
the Asiatic squadron, was selected by the 
Japanese government to survey and des¬ 
ignate sites for lighthouses. 

MACLEAN, MRS. CLARA VICTORIA 
[DARGAN], educator, author, was born 
in 1840, in South Carolina. She is an ed¬ 
ucator of South Carolina. Her work in 
fiction includes Riverlands; and Helen 
Howard. 

MACLEAN, GEORGE EDWIN, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, was 
born Aug. 31, 1850, in Rockville, Conn. 
He has filled the chair of English lan¬ 
guage and literature in the university of 
Minnesota, and is now chancellor of the 
university of Nebraska at Lincoln. 

MACLEAN, JOHN, educator, chemist, 
lecturer, was born March 1, 1771, in Scot¬ 
land. His chemical instructions embraced 
the practical applications of chemistry to 
agriculture and manufactures as well as 
theoretical science. In the second year 
of his instructions at Princeton he wrote 
two Lectures on Combustion. He died 
Feb. 17, 1814, in Princeton, N. J. 

MACLEAN, JOHN P., educator, author, 
lecturer, was born March 12, 1848, in 
Franklin, Ohio. In 1886 he assisted in 
making the survey of the glacial beds of 
Butler county, Ohio. He is the author of 
Manual of the Antiquity of Man; The 
Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man; Fingal’s 
Cave; Norse Discovery of America; and 
History of the Macleans. 

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MAC LEOD, DONALD, author, was 
born Nov. 17, 1821, in New York city. 
He wrote a history of Mary, Queen of 
Scots, besides several works and one vol¬ 
ume of poems. 

MAC MARTIN, DANIEL FREDERICK, 
lawyer, was born April 25, 1868, in Corn¬ 
wall. Ontario, Canada. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the high 
school of his native city; and attended the 
Queen's university college of Kingston, 
and Osgoode Hall of Toronto. He has be¬ 
come one of the foremost lawyers of Ok¬ 
lahoma territory; and is prominently 
identified with the public affairs of Ok¬ 
lahoma City and the territorial govern¬ 
ment. 

MACMILLAN, GEORGE WHITFIELD, 
clergyman, college president, author, was 
born Aug. 19, 1827, in York county, Pa. 
He was ordained a clergyman in 1857, 
and has filled pastorates in New York, 
Illinois and Ohio. He has been eminently 
successful in his calling; has been presi¬ 
dent of the Richmond college, Ohio, for 
nine years; and president of various re¬ 
ligious societies. He is the author of The 
Millennium, or The Reign of Christ; and • 
other works. In 1884 he received the de¬ 
gree of doctor of divinity from the Rich¬ 
mond college; and in 1885 received the 
degree of doctor of philosophy from the 
Princeton college. 

MACMURRAY, THOMAS J., clergyman, 
journalist, lawyer, lecturer, poet, was 
born July 23, 1852, in Scotland. In 1883 
he was admitted to the bar; has been en¬ 
gaged in journalism in Manistique, Mich.; 
and attained eminence as a lecturer. He 
is the author of The Legend of Delaware 
Valley, and Other Poems. 

MACOMB, ALEXANDER, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born April 3, 1782, in Detroit, 
Mich. He was an officer of prominence 
in the American 
army during the 
war of 1812, becom¬ 
ing major-general in 
command of the 
army in 1828. He 
was the author of 
Treatise on Martial 
Law; Treatise on 
Practice of Courts 
Martial; and Pon¬ 
tiac, a drama. He 
died June 25, 1841, 
in Washington, D. C. 

MACOMB, WILLIAM HENRY, naval 
officer, was born June 16, 1818, in Detroit, 
Mich. He entered the navy as midship¬ 
man in 1834, and was commissioned com¬ 
modore in 1870. His last service was that 
of lighthouse inspector. He died Aug. 12, 
1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MACOMBER, ELEANOR, missionary, 
was born in 1801, in Lake Pleasant, N. 
Y. In 1830 she was sent by the American 
missionary board of the baptist church as 
a teacher among the Ojibway Indians at 
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. She died April 
16, 1840, in India. 

MACON, JOHN ALFRED, journalist, 
author, was born in 1861, in Alabama. 
He is a journalist of New York city, and 
the author of Uncle Gabe Tucker. 

MACON, NATHANIEL, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, LTnited States senator, was born 
Dec. 17, 1757, in Warren county, N. C. 

In 1791 he was elected a representative 
in congress from North Carolina, and 
continued a member of that body until 
transferred to the United States senate 
in 1815, where he served until 1828. From 
1801 until 1805 was speaker of the house, 
and from 1825 to 1828 was president pro 
tem. of the senate. He was for thirty- 
seven years a member of the house or 


senate, and was called the Father of the 
House, having served a longer time in 
that body than any other man. His serv¬ 
ice in congress for thirty-seven years ex¬ 
ceeds that of any other American states¬ 
man, and the cities, towns and counties 
in the southern and western states which 
bear his name, show the extent of his 
popularity in his day. He died June 29, 
1837, in Warren county, N. C. 

MAC QUEARY, HOWARD, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1861, in Virginia. 
He is a universalist clergyman of Minne¬ 
apolis. He was formerly an episcopal 
clergyman in Ohio, but, on account of his 
denial of the virgin birth of Christ, was 
tried for heresy in 1891 and suspended 
from the episcopal ministry. He is the 
author of Evolution of Man and Chris¬ 
tianity; Topics of the Times; and Lec¬ 
tures on Theological and Sociological 
Themes. 

MACRAE, WILLIAM, soldier, was born 
Sept. 9, 1834, in Wilmington, N. C. He 
served with distinction in the civil war, 
attaining the rank of brigadier-general. 

MAC REA, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
born in 1767. In 1791 he was appointed 
from Virginia lieutenant of levies. He did 
good service in the action near New Or¬ 
leans, in 1814, and was brevetted colonel 
for ten years’ faithful service in 1824. He 
died Nov. 3, 1832, near Shawneetown, Ill. 

MACVICAR, MALCOLM, educator, was 
born Sept. 30, 1829, in Scotland. He was 
the first chancellor of the McMaster 
university; and in 1890 became superin¬ 
tendent of education of the American bap¬ 
tist home mission society. 

MACY, DAVID, banker, state legis¬ 
lator, was born Dec. 25, 1810, in Randolph 
county, N. C. In 1838 he was elected by the 
legislature prosecuting attorney for the 
sixth judicial district of the state of In¬ 
diana for the term of two years. In 1840 
•he removed to Lawrenceburg, Dearborn 
county, and resided there, practicing his 
profession, until 1852, in the meantime 
serving as mayor of the city two years, 
and representing the county in the state 
legislature in the years 1845 and 1846. 

MACY, JESSE, educator, author, was 
born June 21, 1842, in Knightstown, lnd. 
He was professor of political science in 
the Iowa college. He is the author of 
Our Government; First Lessons in Civil 
Government; Text Book for Iowa 
Schools; and The English Constitution. 

MACY, JOHN B., congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Wiscon¬ 
sin from 1853 to 1855. 

MACY, JOSIAH, sea captain, was born 
Feb. 25, 1785, in Nantucket, Mass. In 1812 
he brought to New York in the Prudence, 
of which he was joint owner, the first 
news of the declaration of war between 
the United States and Great Britain. He 
died May 15, 1872, in Rye, N. Y. 

MACY, WILLIAM STARBUCK, artist, 
was born Sept. 11, 1853, in New Bedford 1 , 
Mass. He has studios both in New York 
and New Bedford. His chief works in¬ 
clude Edge of the Forest; Old Forest in 
Winter; Old Mill; Winter Sunset; and 
January in Bermuda. 

MADDEN, GEORGE SYLVESTER, 
clergyman, missionary, author, was born 
Aug. 9, 1858, in Amanda, Ohio. He grad¬ 
uated from the Ohio Wesleyan univer¬ 
sity; has attained eminence as a success¬ 
ful clergyman in the Ohio conference; 
and since 1892 has been a missionary in 
New Mexico. In 1897 he was elected 
president of the territorial Epworth 
league organization; and is the author of 
numerous articles on New Mexico, which 
have appeared in current publications. 







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MADDOX, JOHN W., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, congressman, was 
born June 3, 1848, in Chattooga county. 
Ga. He was elected to the Georgia state 
legislature in 1880, and re-elected in 1882. 
He was elected to represent the forty- 
second senatorial district in 1884; and 
was elected judge of the superior court 
in 1886, and re-elected in 1890. He re¬ 
signed that office Sept. 1, 1892, to accept 
the democratic nomination for congress, 
and was elected to the fifty-third, firty- 
fourth, and fifty-fifth congresses as a 
democrat. 

MADISON, DOROTHY PAYNE, wife of 
President Madison, was born May 20, 1772, 
in North Carolina. During the war of 
1812, when the capi- 
tol, white house and 
other public build¬ 
ings were burned by 
the British, Mrs. 
Madison assisted in 
saving valuable na¬ 
tional documents; 
and under her own 
supervision the 
magnificent portrait 
of General Wash¬ 
ington was taken 
down and carried to 
a place of safety. She died July 12, 1849, 
in Washington, D. C. 

MADISON, GEORGE, soldier, governor, 
was born in 1763, in Virginia. He was 
auditor of public accounts for twenty 
years; and was chosen governor of Ken¬ 
tucky for four years in 1816. He died Oct. 
14, 1816, in Paris, Ky. 

MADISON, JAMES, college president, 
clergyman, was born Aug. 27, 1749, in 
Augusta county, Va. In 1777 he became 
president of the William and Mary col¬ 
lege. After peace was declared with Great 
Britain he became first bishop of the 
episcopal church of Virginia. He died 
March 6, 1812. 

MADISON, JAMES, fourth president of 
the United States, was born March 16, 
1751, in Orange county, Va. At the age 
of seventeen years 
he entered Princeton 
college, N. J., where 
hegraduated in 1771, 
and commenced the 
study of the law. In 
1776 he was elected 
a member of the 
general assembly of 
Virginia, and in 1778 
was elected to the 
executive council of 
the state. He was 
elected to the conti¬ 
nental congress in 1779; was a member of 
that body three years, and a member of the 
legislature of Virginia from 1784 to 1786. 
He was a member of the convention 
which formed the constitution of the 
United States in L787. He was elected a 
member of the house of representatives 
in 1789, and held the office eight years, 
during which time (1794) he married Mrs. 
Dolly Paine Todd, a young widow, twen¬ 
ty-three years of age. He was elected a 
member of the Virginia assembly in 1797. 
In 1801 Jefferson appointed him secretary 
of state, which office he held eight years. 
He was the successful candidate for the 
presidency in 1808, and was inaugurated 
March 4, 1809. He was re-elected in 1812, 
and took the oath of office March 4, 1813. 
At the close of his second term he re¬ 
tired to his home at Montpelier, and died 
June 28, 1836. Madison held office about 
thirty-two years. He was economical, 
and died rich. His complete works have 
been issued in six volumes. 


MADISON, ROBERT LEE, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 17, 1867, in Staun¬ 
ton, Va. He received his education in 
three different training schools in Lex¬ 
ington, Va., and at the United States 
university at Athens, Tenn. He is a 
great-grandson of General Ambrose Mad¬ 
ison, who was a brother of President 
James Madison, and a cousin of Bishop 
James Madison, the first episcopal bishop 
of Virginia. He has been principal of the 
Quallatown seminary, N. C.; principal of 
the Jackson academy, Sylva, N. C.; and is 
now principal of the Cullowhee high 
school. In 1896-97 he was fourth vice- 
president of the North Carolina Teachers’ 
assembly; and since 1897 has been a mem¬ 
ber of the board of education for Jackson 
county, N. C. 

MAEDER, FREDERICK GEORGE, 
actor, author, was born Sept. 11, 1840, in 
New York city. He has attained success 
as an actor; and is the author of Can- 
nuck; Shamus O’Brien; Runaway Wife; 
and Naun Cree. He died April 8, 1891, in 
New York city. 

MAES, CAMILLUS PAUL, Roman cath¬ 
olic bishop, was born March 13, 1846, in 
Belgium. He was ordained priest in 1868, 
and sailed for the 
United States short¬ 
ly afterward. He 
was appointed secre¬ 
tary of Bishop Bur¬ 
gess in 1880, nom¬ 
inated for the see of 
Covington in 1884, 
and consecrated 
bishop in 1885, and 
in 1897 became arch¬ 
bishop of New Or¬ 
leans. He has pub¬ 
lished Life of Rev. 
Charles Nerinckx; and is a contributor 
to Roman Catholic periodicals. 

MAFFETT, JAMES THOMPSON, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Feb. 2, 1837, 
in Clarion county. Pa. In 1880 he was a 
republican presidential elector for the 
twenty-fifth congressional district; and 
in 1884 he had the instructions of Clarion 
county, Pa., for congress. He was elected 
to the fiftieth congress as a republican. 
He died May 15, 1886, in Wilmington, 
N. C. 

MAFFIT, JOHN NEWLAND, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, poet, was born Dec. ' 
28, 1795, in Ireland. He was a once noted 
methodist preacher and lecturer, and the 
author of Tears of Contrition; Pulpit 
Sketches; and Poems. He died May 28, 
1850, in Mobile, Ala. 

MAGAW, SAMUEL, educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born about 1740, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He aided in establish¬ 
ing the Philadelphia academy, and was 
secretary of the convention of Pennsyl¬ 
vania for several years. He published 
numerous sermons that he preached on 
special occasions. He died Dec. 1, 1812, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MAGEE, CHRISTOPHER LYMAN, 
promoter, state senator, was born April 
14, 1848, in Pittsburg, Pa. He has at¬ 
tended every republican national conven¬ 
tion since 1876 as a delegate. In 1880 he 
was one of the famous three hundred and 
six who stood out lor General Grant. In 
1884 he bought the Pittsburg Times, and, 
as president and editor, built the circula¬ 
tion up from 1,500 to 60,000 a day. He 
also organized and became president of 
the Duouesne Traction Co., and is also 
president of the Transverse Railway Co. 

In 1896 he was elected a member of the 
state senate. 


MAGEE, GEORGE J., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born March 17, 1840, in Bath, 
N. Y. Since 1869 he has been president 
of the Fall Brook Coal company, and 
Fall Brook railway at Corning, N. Y. 

MAGEE, JOHN, congressman, was born 
in New York. He was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1827 to 
1831. He died April 5, 1868, in Watkins, 
N. Y. 

MAGEE, JOHN A., journalist, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Oct. 14, 
1827, in Perry county, Pa. He was a 
member of the Pennsylvania legislature in 
1863; and was elected to the forty-third 
congress as a democrat. 

MAGEE, LEVI, educator, lawyer, was 
born Aug. 15, 1864, in Ontario, Canada. 
In 1868 he moved with his parents to 
Oregon; attended the Willamette univer¬ 
sity of Salem, and graduated from that 
institution in the classical course. For 
many years he was engaged in educa¬ 
tional work; is now a leaning lawyer of 
Grangeville, Idaho; has been postmaster 
of that city, and filled numerous public 
positions of trust m his county and state. 

MAGEE, RUFUS, journalist, lawyer, 
diplomat, state senator, was born Oct. 17, 
1845, in Logansport, Ind. In 1882 he was 
elected a state senator of Indiana; in 1883 
was elected president of the senate; and 
served in the state senate three and one- 
half years. 

MAGELLAN FERDINAND, explorer, 
was born in 1470, in Portugal. He dis¬ 
covered the group of islands known as tne 
Philippines, which he took possession of 
in the name of the Spanish king. He died 
April 27, 1521. 

MAGIE, DAVID, clergyman, author, 
was born March 13, 1795, in Elizabeth, 
N. J. In 1821 he was installed as pastor 
of a newly organized presbyterian church 
in Elizabeth, with which he remained 
connected until his death. He was the 
author of The Springtime of Life; and of 
a tract entitled The Citizen Soldier, of 
which a quarter of a million copies were 
distributed during the civil war. He died 
May 10, 1865, in Elizabeth, N. J. 

MAGILL, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist. 
He was appointed in 1801 United States 
circuit judge for the fourth circuit. 

MAGILL, EDWARD HICKS, educator, 
college president, author, was born Sept. 
24, 1825, in Solebury, Pa. In 1869 he 
became principal of the Swarthmore pre¬ 
paratory school, and in 1871 president of 
the Friends’ college at Swarthmore, Del¬ 
aware county, Pa. He published a French 
Grammar, with a key; also two French 
readers. 

MAGILL, MARY TUCKER, educator, 
author, was born Aug. 21, 1832, in Jeffer¬ 
son county, Va. She is an educator and 
fiction writer of Winchester, Va., and the 
author of The Holcombes; Women, or 
Chronicles of the Late War; School His¬ 
tory of Virginia; and Pantomimes, or 
Wordless Poems. 

MAGINNIS, JOHN SHARP, clergyman, 
educator, was born June 13, 1805, in But¬ 
ler county, Pa. In 1851 he became profes¬ 
sor in the new theological seminary at 
Rochester, N. Y., and of philosophy in 
Rochester university. He died Oct. 15, 
1852, in Rochester, N. Y. 

MAGINNIS, MARTIN, soldier, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 1840, 
in Wayne county, N. Y. He removed to 
Montana and engaged in mining, and in 
publishing and editing the Helena Daily 
Gazette. He was elected a delegate from 
Montana to the forty-third congress; and 
was re-elected to the forty-fourth, forty- 
fifth. forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty- 
eighth congresses as a democrat. 







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MAGNER, THOMAS F., congressman, 
Avas born March 8, 1860, in Brooklyn, N. 
Y. He was a member of the New York 
assembly one year, which office he held 
when elected to the fifty-first congress. 
He was re-elected to the fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses as a democrat. 

MAGOFFIN, BERIAH, governor, was 
born April 18, 1815', in Harrodsburg, Ky. 
In 1850 he was elected to the Kentucky 
state senate; and was governor of Ken¬ 
tucky from 1859 to 1861. He died Feb. 28, 
1885, in Harrodsburg, Ky. 

MAGOON, ELIAS LYMAN, clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born Oct. 20, 18Kb 
in Lebanon, N. H. He was an eminent 
baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, and 
the author of Proverbs for the People; 
Orators of the American Revolution; Re¬ 
publican Christianity; Westward Empire; 
Eloquence of the Colonial Times; and 
Living Orators in America. He died Nov. 
25, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MAGOON, HENRY S., educator, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Jan. 31, 1832, in Monticello, Wis. 
In 1855 he was appointed professor of an¬ 
cient languages in Nashville university, 
Tenn., where he remained till 1857. He 
then returned to Wisconsin and began the 
practice of law. He was elected district 
attorney in 1858; was a member of the 
state senate in 1871 and 1872; and was 
elected to the forty-fourth congress. 

MAGOWAN, FRANK ALLAN, manu¬ 
facturer, was born Aug. 5, 1859, in Tren¬ 
ton, N. J. He successively established the 
Empire Pottery Co., the Empire Rubber 
Manufacturing Co., and the Trenton Oil 
Cloth Co. In 1887 he was elected mayor 
of Trenton, N. J. 

MAGRATH, A. G., governor. He was 
governor of South Carolina in 1864 and 
1865. 

MAGRATH, WILLIAM, artist, was born 
March 20, 1838, in Ireland. In 1883 he 
established his studio in Washington. He 
has executed many strong and original 
works, of which On the Old Sod attracted 
much attention for its technical merits 
and the fine sentiment that it suggested. 

MAGRUDER, ALLAN BOWIE, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, author, was 
born about 1775, in Kentucky. He moved 
to Louisiana, and in 1805 he published 
Reflections on the Cession of Louisiana 
to the United States. He was a senator 
in congress from that state from 1812 to 
1813. He was also the author of The 
Bible Defended; and Life of John Mar¬ 
shall. He died April 16, 1822, in Opelou¬ 
sas, La. 

MAGRUDER, JOHN BANKHEAD, sol¬ 
dier, was born Aug. 15, 1810, in Winches¬ 
ter, Va. In the Mexican war he com¬ 
manded the light battery of General Pil¬ 
low’s division, and was brevetted major 
for gallantry at Cerro Gordo, and lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel for Chapultepec. He died Feb. 
19, 1871, in Houston, Texas. 

MaGRUDER, JUlIA, author, was born 
Sept. 14, 1854, in Charlottesville, Va. She 
is a novelist, and the author of Miss Ayr 
of Virginia, and Other Stories; The Child 
Amy,- Across the Chasm; At Anchor; A 
Magnificent Plebeian; Honored in the 
Breach; The Violet; and Princess Sonia. 

MAGRUDER, PATRICK, lawyer, libra¬ 
rian, congressman, was born in 1768, in 
Montgomery county, Md. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Maryland 
from 1805 to 1807. He died in 1819 or 1820, 
in Petersburg. 

MAGRUDER, RICHARD B., lawyer, 
jurist, was born in Maryland. He was 
for many years a judge of the supreme 
court of the state of Maryland. He died 
Feb. 11, 1&44, in Baltimore, Md. 


MAGUIRE, JAMES G., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Feb. 22, 1853, in 
Boston, Mass. In 1882 he was elected 
judge of the superior court of the city and 
county of San Francisco, serving in that 
office six years; and was elected to the 
fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

MAHAN, HEZEKIAH, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 26, 1739, in St. 
Stephen’s Parish, S. C. He was elected 
a member of the first provincial congress 
of South Carolina, and in other ways act¬ 
ively promoted the cause of American 
freedom. He died in 1789, in St. Stephen’s 
Parish, S. C. 

MAHAN, ALFRED THAYER, naval of¬ 
ficer, author, was born in 1840, in New 
York. He is a distinguished officer in the 
United States navy, and the author of The 
Influence of Sea Power upon History, 
1600-1783; Influence of Sea Power upon 
the French Revolution and Empire, 1783- 
1812; The Gulf and Inland Waters; Life 
of Admiral Farragut; and Life of Nelson, 
the Embodiment of the Sea Power of 
Great Britain. 

MAHAN, ASA, educator, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born Nov. 
9, 1800, in Vernon, N. Y. He was a con¬ 
gregational clergyman and educator, pres¬ 
ident of Adrian college, 1860-71, and after 
the latter date resident in England. He 
was the author of .Critical History of Phi¬ 
losophy; The Science of Intellectual Phi¬ 
losophy; Science of Moral Philosophy; 
The Doctrine of the Will; The Scripture 
Doctrine of Christian Perfection; Logic; 
Theism and Anti-Theism in Their Rela¬ 
tions to Science; and Critical History of 
the American Civil War. He died April 
4, 1889, in England. 

MAHAN, DENNIS HART, engineer, au¬ 
thor, was born April 2, 1802, in New York 
city. He was a military engineer of dis¬ 
tinction, whose text books have been 
widely used. He was the author of Trea¬ 
tise on Field Fortifications; Elementary 
Course of Civil Engineering; Elementary 
Treatise on Advanced Guard, etc.; Indus¬ 
trial Drawing; Descriptive Geometry; 
Philosophy of Engineering; Permanent 
Fortifications; and an edition of Mose¬ 
ley’s Mechanical Principles of Engineer¬ 
ing and Architecture, with additions. He 
died Sept. 16, 1871, in Stony Point, N. Y. 

MAHAN, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, 
military engineer, author, was born March 
28, 1847, in West Point, N. Y. He is a 
noted military engineer; and one of the 
foremost authorities on military subjects 
in America. 

MAHAN, MILO, clergyman, author, 
was born May 24, 1819, in Suffolk, Va. 
He was an episcopal clergyman of Balti¬ 
more, and the author of The Exercise of 
Faith; History of the Church; Reply to 
Colenso; Palmoni, a Free Inquiry; and 
Comedy of Canonization. He died Sept. 
3, 1870, in Baltimore, Md. 

MAHAN, OLIVER P., soldier, lawyer, 
was born Sept. 29, 1836, in Putnam county, 
Ind. He is one of the foremost lawyers 
of central Indiana at Lebanon; and in 
1896 was a candidate for judge of the 
twentieth judicial circuit court of Indiana. 

MAHANY, ROWLAND BLENNER- 
HASSETT, educator, journalist, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 28, 1864, in Buffalo, 
N. Y. He was associate editor of the Buf¬ 
falo Express in 1888; and became in¬ 
structor in history and literature in the 
high school in 1889. He was appointed 
secretary of legation to Chile in 1890; ac¬ 
credited envoy extraordinary and min¬ 
ister plenipotentiary to Ecuador in 1892. 
He was nominated for congress in 1892. 
He returned to Ecuador in 1893, and con¬ 


cluded the Santos treaty, negotiations for 
which had remained unsettled for nearly 
ten years. He was elected in 1894 from 
New York to the fifty-fourth and fifty- 
fifth congresses as a republican. 

MAHER, DAVID FRANCIS, lawyer, 
was born Nov. 10, 1866, in Watsonville, 
Cal. He is a graduate of the law depart¬ 
ment of the univer¬ 
sity of Michigan; 
and for three years 
was city solicitor of 
Watsonville, Cal. 
For seven years he 
was engaged in the 
printing business; is 
a member of several 
fraternal orders; 
and prominent in 
the public affairs of 
his native county. 

MAHON, THADDEUS M., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born in 1840, in Green Village, Pa. He 
was a member of the Pennsylvania legis¬ 
lature in 1870, 1871, and 1872; and was a 
candidate for congress in 1876. He was 
elected to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and 
fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. 

MAHONE, WILLIAM, civil engineer, 
soldier, legislator, United States senator! 
was born Dec. 1, 1826, in Monroe, Va. In 
his youth he taught 
school and then be¬ 
came a civil engi¬ 
neer on the sur¬ 
veys of the Orange 
and Alexandria 
railroads. He sub¬ 
sequently built 
the Fredericksburg 
Plank road; then 
was chief engineer 
of the Norfolk and 
Petersburg railroad; 
and became its pres¬ 
ident. He served as quartermaster in the 
confederate army, and became major- 
general. In 1881 he entered the United 
States senate, and served a full term for 
six years. It was through his policy that 
the free school system of his state was 
rehabilitated; the whipping post abol¬ 
ished; the prerequisite to suffrage re¬ 
moved; a colored normal school and a 
colored asylum were erected; and the 
state expenses reduced. 

MAHONEY, PETER P.. merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 25, 1848, in 
New York city. In 1884 he was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
forty-ninth congress; and re-elected to 
the fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

MAIN, JOHN COTTON, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Dec. 14, 1868, in Bell county, Ky. 
He attended the Union college at Barbour- 
ville, Ky., and soon afterward attained 
prominence as an able lawyer of Hamil¬ 
ton, Texas. He nas been a county judge 
of Hamilton county; practices law in the 
district and state courts; and takes an 
active part in public affairs. 

MAIN, THOMAS, educator, civil engi¬ 
neer, author, was born in 1828, in Scot¬ 
land. He was a mechanical engineer, pro¬ 
fessor of ship building in the Webb acad¬ 
emy of ship building, New York city, and 
the author of History of the Steam En¬ 
gine. He died in 1896. 

MAISH, LEVI, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 22, 1837, in York 
county, Pa. He was elected to the Penn¬ 
sylvania state legislature in 1867. In 1874 
he was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as 
a democrat. 





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MAJETTE, MARK MARSDEN, lawyer, 
public official, writer, was born Sept, id, 
1865, in Hertford county, N. C. He at¬ 
tended the university of North Carolina, 
and soon attained prominence in the prac¬ 
tice of law in his native state. He has 
been mayor of Chapel Hill, and also of 
Columbia, N. C.; and has been prominent¬ 
ly identified with the public affairs of his 
county and state. In literature he has 
contributed articles to the foremost mag¬ 
azines; and is a correspondent of several 
newspapers. 

MAJORS, THOMAS J., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, state senator, congressman, was 
born June 25, 1841, in Jefferson county, 
Iowa. He was a member of tne territor¬ 
ial council; and when Nebraska was ad¬ 
mitted as a state served in the first state 
senate, and was re-elected. He was 
elected a contingent member of congress 
in 1876 and 1878; was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Nebraska to the forty-fifth 
congress to fill a vacancy; and was again 
elected a contingent member of the forty- 
sixth congress. 

MAKIN, THOMAS, author, poet, was 
born about 1665. He was the author of 
two Latin poems addressed to James 
Logan, which were found among his 
papers at his death. He died in 1733, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

MALBONE, FRANCIS, congressman. 
United States senator, was born in 1757, 
in Newport, R. I. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Rhode Island from 
1793 to 1797; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress in 1809. He died June 4, 1809, in 
Washington, D. C. 

MALCOLM, JAMES PELLER, artist, 
author, was born in August, 1767, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He began painting and 
engraving in 1787. He went to London, 
worked for the Gentleman's Magazine, 
and drew and engraved plates for histor¬ 
ical and antiquarian works. He published 
Lonainium Redivivum, or an Ancient 
History and Modern Description of Lon¬ 
don; Excursion in the Counties of Kent, 
Gloucester, etc.; Letters Between the 
Rev. James Granger and Many Eminent 
Men; First Impressions, or Sketches from 
Art and Nature; Anecdotes of the Man¬ 
ners and Customs of London; Miscellan¬ 
eous Anecdotes; and an historical Sketch 
of the Art of Caricaturing. He died April 
5, 1815. 

MALCOLM, NORMAN E„ educator, 
lawyer, legislator, was born June 21, 1862, 
in Butte county. Cal. He served as a 
member of the thirty-second assembly 
of the California state legislature. 

MALCOM, HOWARD, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Jan. 19, 1799, in 
Philadelphia. He was a baptist clergy¬ 
man; and one of the founders of the 
American Tract society. He was the au¬ 
thor of Nature and Extent of the Atone¬ 
ment; Bible Dictionary; Christian Rule 
of Marriage; and Travels in Southeastern 
Asia. He died March 25, 1879, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

MALCOM, THOMAS SHIELDS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 23, 1821, 
in Hudson. N. Y. In 1846 he went to 
Philadelphia as corresponding secretary 
of the American Baptist Publication so¬ 
ciety. His only publication was a tract 
entitled One Honest Effort, which has ap¬ 
peared in eight different languages, and 
of which several million copies have been 
circulated. He died Jan. 5, 1886, in Phila¬ 
delphia. 

MALE, JOB, banker, philanthropist, 
was born Aug. 24. 18J8, in England. In 
1884 he built and gave to the city of 
Plainfield a library and art gallery, to be 
known as the Job Male library and art 



gallery. This gift is valued at $25,000, 
and the building already contains works 
of art worth $10,000 and about 7,000 books. 

MALLALIEU, WILLARD FRANCIS, 
clergyman, bishop, was born Dec. 11, 1828, 
in Sutton. Mass. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the East 
Greenwich academy, 
R. I.; and attended 
the Wesleyan acad¬ 
emy of Wilbraham, 
Mass.; and the Wes¬ 
leyan university of 
Middletown, Conn. 
He filled pastorates 
in his church for a 
quarter of a cen¬ 
tury; and was elect¬ 
ed bishop of the 
methodist episcopal 
church at the general conference held in 
Philadelphia in 1884. He has visitea all 
the countries in Europe but three; also 
Mexico, India, China, Korea and Japan, m 
supervising the world-encircling missions 
of the methodist episcopal church. For 
two years he was presiding elder of the 
Boston district of the New England con¬ 
ference; and as bishop is located in the 
Buffalo diocese. 

MALLARY. ROLLIN CAROLUS, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 27, 1784, in 
Cheshire, Conn. He represented the state 
of Vermont in congress from 1820 to 
1831. He died April 16, 1831. in Baltimore. 
Md. 

MALLERY, GARRICK, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born April 17, 1784, in 
Middlebury, Conn. During 1828-31 he was 
a member of the Pennsylvania state legis¬ 
lature; and 1831-36 was presiding judge of 
the third judicial district. In 1836 he 
moved to Philadelphia; and for several 
years was master in chancery of the su¬ 
preme court. He died July 6, 1866, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

MALLERY, GARRICK, soldier, ethnol¬ 
ogist, author, was born April 23, 1831, in 
Wilkesbarre, Pa. He was an army officer 
in charge of the bureau of ethnology from 
its foundation in 1879. He was the author 
of Calendar of the Dakota Language; In¬ 
ti oduction to the Study of Sign Language 
Among North American Indians; Greet¬ 
ing by Gesture; Israelite and Indian, a 
Parallel in Planes of Culture; and Pic¬ 
ture Writing of the American Indians. He 
died in 1894. 

MALLETT, FRANK JAMES, dean of 
Laramie cathedral, was born in Kings 
Lynn, England. He has filled rectorships 
in southern Ohio and Marquette; and is 
now dean of Laramie cathedral. He is 
the author of several hymns and carols, 
and is also a orilliant lecturer. 

MALLETTE. HENRY R., merchant, 
state legislator, was born Feb. 23, 1861, in 
Hogansburg, N. Y. He moved to Minne¬ 
sota in 1877; and is a successful merchant 
at Foreston. He has filled numerous" po¬ 
sitions of trust; was president of the city 
council for three terms; and in 1897 was 
elected a member of the Minnesota state 
legislature. 

MALLORY. FRANCIS, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. 
He dieu March 26, 186u, in Norfolk. 

MALLORY, GEORGE R., business man. 
insurance, was born July 4, 1834, in 

Brunswick county, Va. For many years 
he was engaged in the fire and life insur¬ 
ance business; and is now clerk of the 
county court at Lawrenceville. Va. He has 
been prominently identified in the politi¬ 
cal affairs of his county and state, and has 


filled important positions in various fra¬ 
ternal orders. 

MALLORY, GEORGE SCOVILL. educa¬ 
tor, journalist, was born June 5, 1838, in 
Watertown, Conn. He was assistant pro¬ 
fessor of ancient languages in Trinity in 
1862-64, and then held the professorship 
of literature and oratory till 1872. Since 
1866 he has edited the Churchman, a 
weekly religious journal published in New 
York city. 

MALLORY. MEREDITH, congressman, 
was born in Connecticut. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1839 to 1841. 

MALLORY, ROBERT, agriculturist, 
congressman, was born Nov. 15, 1815, in 
Madison county, Va. He was elected a 
representative from Kentucky to the 
thirty-sixth congress; and re-elected to 
the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth con¬ 
gresses. 

MALLORY, RUFUS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 10, 1831, in Cov¬ 
entry county, N. Y. In 1858 he settled 
in Oregon; and was elected prosecuting 
attorney for the first judicial district. In 
1862 he was elected to the state legisla¬ 
ture; and after serving one session was 
appointed prosecuting attorney for the 
third judicial district, which office he held 
until 1866. In that year he was elected 
a representative from Oregon to the for¬ 
tieth congress. In 1892 he was president 
of the republican state convention of 
Portland. Ore., in which city he practices 
law. 

MALLORY, STEPHEN R., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born in 1813, in the West Indies. He was 
a senator in congress from Florida, hav¬ 
ing been elected in 1851, serving contin¬ 
uously by re-election until 1861. He was 
expelled in 1861, and took part in the re¬ 
bellion as secretary of the confederate 
navy. He died Nov. 9, 1873, in Pensacola, 
Fla. 

MALLORY, STEPHEN RUSSELL, na¬ 
val officer, lawyer, legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 2, 1848, in Columbia, 
S. C. In 1869 he graduated from the 
Georgetown college at Washington. D. C. 
He entered confederate army in Virginia 
in the fall of 1864, and in the spring 
of 1865 was appointed midshipman in 
confederate navy. He was admitted to 
the bar by the supreme court of Louisiana 
in 1872. and removed to Pensacola, Fla., 
in 1874, and began the practice of law. 
He was elected to lower house of the leg¬ 
islature in 1876, and was elected to the 
senate in 1880 and was re-elected in 1884. 
He was elected to the fifty-second con¬ 
gress, and was re-elected to the fifty-third 
congress as a democrat. 

MALONE, BOOTH, lawyer, orator. In 
1885 he was mayor of Beloit, Wis., and 
was three times elected district attorney 
of Rock county. 
Since 1890 he has 
practiced his profes¬ 
sion in Denver, Col., 
and has attained em¬ 
inence as a forcible 
and eloquent speak¬ 
er. He has twice 
been elected presi¬ 
dent of the republi¬ 
can state league of 
Colorado; and is 
chairman of the con¬ 
gressional committee 
of the first district. For four years he has 
been first assistant district attorney of 
Arapahoe county, in which Denver is 
located, and out of thirty-six murder cases 
which he has tried within the past six 
years, he has secured conviction in thirty- 
one cases. 








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MALONE, WALTER, poet, was born in 
1866 in Mississippi. He is a poet of Mem¬ 
phis, Tenn., and the author of Songs of 
Dark and Dawn. 

MALONEY, JOHN BARTHUM, physi¬ 
cian. surgeon, was born in November, 
1867, in Key West, Fia. After receiving a 
liberal education in the Bingham school 
of North Carolina, he attended the medi¬ 
cal department of the university of Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was resident physician of 
St. Agnes’ hospital of Philadelphia, and 
is now a prominent physician of his na¬ 
tive City. He has been city health officer, 
president of the board of public instruc¬ 
tion of Monroe county; medical examiner 
of several large insurance companies and 
surgeon to the fifth battalion Florida 
state troops. 

MALTBY, ALBERT E.. educator, was 
born Oct. 27, 1850, in Pulaski, N. Y. He 
received his education at the Fayetteville 
academy, and at Cornell university. As 
a pupil of Agassiz and Goldwin Smith, 
he enjoyed unusual advantages in science 
and history. He commenced educational 
work as a teacher in the Ury school of 
Philadelphia, and in 1878 was appointed 
engineer on the survey of the boundary 
line between Guatemala and Mexico. In 
1880 he filled the chair of mathematics and 
astronomy in St. Lawrence university, 
New York; in 1884 became professor of 
natural sciences in the State Normal 
school of Indiana, Pa., and since 1890 Dr. 
Maltby has been principal of the State 
Normal school of Slippery Rock, Pa. He 
is a successful writer on the theoretical 
and practical in school methods; and has 
the power to inspire others to think and 
to work. 

MALTBY, ISAAC, author, was born 
Nov. 10, 1767, in Northfield, Conn. He 
was a Boston author, who was general of 
militia; and the author of Elements of 
War; Courts Martial and Military Law; 
and Military Tactics. He died Sept. 9. 
1819, in Waterloo, N. Y. 

MALTBY, JASPER ADALMORN, sol¬ 
dier. was born Nov. 3, 1826, in Kingsville, 
Ohio. In 1861 he entered the volunteer 
service as lieutenant-colonel of the forty- 
fifth Illinois infantry; and was commis¬ 
sioned as brigadier-general of volunteers 
in 1863. He died Dec. 12, 1867, in Vicks¬ 
burg, Miss. 

MAN. ALRICK H„ railroad president, 
was born May 4, 1858, in New York city. 
He was president of the Sea Beach and 
Brighton railroad from 1886 to 1890. 

MANDERSON, CHARLES FREDER¬ 
ICK, soldier, lawyer, congressman. United 
States senator, was born Feb. 9, 1837. 

in Philadelphia, Pa. 
In 1856 he moved to 
Canton, Ohio; and 
was elected city so¬ 
licitor in 1860. In 
1861 he entered the 
army as first lieu¬ 
tenant of company 
A, nineteenth regi¬ 
ment Ohio infantry; 
and rose through the 
grades of captain, 
major, lieutenant- 
colonel and colonel 
of that regiment. In September, 1864, he 
was severely wounded; and in 1865 was 
brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers 
for meritorious services. He was subse¬ 
quently twice elected district attorney at 
Canton, Ohio; and since 1869 has prac¬ 
ticed law in Omaha, Neb.; for six years he 
was city attorney of Omaha; was elected 
to the United States senate as a republican 
in 1883: was re-elected in 1888; and was 
elected president pro tem. in 1891 to suc¬ 
ceed John J. Ingalls. 


MANDEVILLE, CHARLES EDWARD, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
Aug. 1, 1840, in Red Hook-on-the-Hudson, 
N. Y. In 1869 he 
was transferred to 
the Rock River con¬ 
ference, and has 
filled pastorates in 
the Oakland church, 
near Chicago; at Ga¬ 
lena, Rockford. 
Freeport, Oak Pane, 
Englewood and El¬ 
gin. For three years 
he was president of 
Jennings seminary 
of Aurora, Ill. He 
is also a successful leciurer, and has writ¬ 
ten much for religious periodicals. 

MANDEVILLE, GILES HENRY, cler¬ 
gyman. college president, was born Dec. 
12, 1825, in New iork city. He was ed¬ 
ucated at Rutgers college, the Theolo¬ 
gical seminary of New Brunswick. N. J.. 
from which institution he graduated in 
1851. He has received the degrees of 
D. D., and LL. D.; and has attained suc¬ 
cess as one of the leading clergymen of 
the reformed church. He has filled' pastor¬ 
ates in Flushing. Newburgh, and Har¬ 
lem, N. Y.; has been president of Hope 
college, and corresponding secretary of 
the board of education of the reformed 
churci. of America. 

MANDEVILLE, HENRY, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born March 6, 1804. 
in Kinderhook, N. Y. He was professor of 
moral philosophy and belles-lettres at 
Hamilton college in 1841-49. He pub¬ 
lished a successful series of readers and 
Elements of Reading and Oratory. He 
died Oct. 2, 1858, .n Mobile, Ala. 

MANEY, GEORGE, diplomat, was a 
citizen of Tennessee. In 1882 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States minister to Bolivia. 

MANGUM, WILLIE PERSON, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman. United States sen¬ 
ator, was born in 1792. in Orange county, 
N. C. He was elected to the North Caro¬ 
lina house of commons in 1818; and in 
1819 was elected a judge of the superior 
court. From 1823 to 1826 he served as a 
representative in congress. He was elect¬ 
ed a United States senator in 1831; re¬ 
elected in 1841; re-elected for a third term 
of six years in 184?; and served from 
1842 to 1845 as president pro tem. of the 
senate. In 1837 he received eieven elec¬ 
toral votes for president of the United 
States; and during the administration of 
President Tyler was president of the 
United States senate. He died Sept. 14, 
1861, in Red Mount, N. C. 

MANIGAULT, GABRIEL, patriot, was 
born April 21, 1704, in Charleston, S. C. 
He acquired wealth by commercial pur¬ 
suits, and in the beginning of the revo¬ 
lutionary war loaned the state a quarter 
of a million dollars. He died in 1781, in 
Charleston. S. C. 

MANLY, BASIL, clergyman, was born 
Jan. 28, 1798, in Chatham county, N. C. 
He was chosen president of the univer¬ 
sity of Alabama, wfiich post he relin¬ 
quished in 1855. He engaged in mission¬ 
ary travels throughout Alabama, and was 
for some time a pastor in Montgomery. 
He died Dec. 21, 1868, in Greenville, S. C. 

MANLY, BASIL, clergyman, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 19, 1825, in Edge- 
field, S. C. He was a baptist clergyman 
and educator, professor in the Southern 
Baptist seminary at Louisville, and the 
author of Kind Words Teacher; A Call 
to the Ministry; and Bible Doctrine of In¬ 
spiration Defended. He died in 1892. 


MANLY, CHARLES, governor, was 
born in Chatham county, N. C. He was 
treasurer of the State university; for a 
leng time reading clerk of the state house 
of representatives; and was governor of 
North Carolina from 1849 to 1851. He 
died May 1, 1871, in Raleigh, N. C. 

MANLY, JOHN MATTHEWS, author, 
was born in 1865, in Alabama. He is the 
author of Pre-Shakesperean Drama. 

MANLY, MATTHIAS EVANS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 13, 1800, in Chat¬ 
ham county, N. C. He was a member of 
the North Carolina state house of com¬ 
mons in 1834-35; was elected in 1840 a 
judge of the superior court, and filled that 
office till 1860, when he was chosen a jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court. He died July 
16, 1881, in New Berne, N. C. 

MANN, ABIJAH, legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 24, 1793, in Fairfield, 
N. Y. He was elected to the New York 
legislature in 1827, serving by re-elections 
until 1830. He was a representative in 
congress from 1833 to 1837; and was again 
elected to the legislature. He died Sept. 
6, 1868, in Auburn, N. Y. 

MANN, CYRUS, clergyman, author, was 
born April 3, 1785, in Oxford, N. H. He 
was a congregational clergyman of West¬ 
minster, Mass., in 181o-41; and the author 
of Epitome of the Evidences of Christian¬ 
ity; and History of the Temperance Re¬ 
formation. He died Feb. 9, 1859, in 
Stoughton, Mass. 

MANN, GEORGE SUMNER, merchant, 
author, was born nov. 25, 1834, in New 
Salem, Mass. He is a member of various 
societies, and of the 
council of the New 
England Historic 
Genealogical society. 
He held many posi¬ 
tions of trust as a 
public official in 
Boston. Mass., and 
was a justice of the 
peace of that city. 
He is the author of 
the Mann Memorial, 
a valuable acquisi¬ 
tion to genealogical 
history of the United States. 

MANN, HORACE, lawyer, college presi¬ 
dent, state senator, congressman, author, 
was born Aug. 4, 1796, in Franklin, Mass. 

He was elected to 
the state legislature 
from Dedham, Mass. 
He moved to Boston 
in 1834, where he 
was elected to the 
state senate and 
chosen president of 
that body. He was 
also president of the 
Massachusetts board 
of education, which 
he was foremost in 
founding. He was 
elected a member of congress from 1848 to 
1853. He was appointed president of An¬ 
tioch college and the Northwestern Chris¬ 
tian university at Indianapolis. He pub¬ 
lished Lectures on Education; An Educa¬ 
tional lour; Thoughts for a Young Man; 
Slavery: Letters and Speeches; Lectures 
on Intemperance; and Powers ana Duties 
of Women. He died Aug. 2, 1859, in Yel¬ 
low Springs. Ohio. 

MANN. JAMES, congressman, was born 
in Gorham, Maine. He served in both 
branches of the Maine legislature; was 
paymaster of volunteers during the war; 
and was elected to the fortieth congress 
as a democrat, taking his seat on the res¬ 
toration of the state. He died in Septem¬ 
ber, 1868, in New Orleans, La. 








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MANN, JAMES R., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 20, 1856, in Bloom¬ 
ington, Ill. He was elected alderman from 
the thirty-second 
ward to the Chicago 
city council, and re¬ 
elected in 1894; in 
the city council for 
three years; and was 
chairman of the ju¬ 
diciary committee, 
m 1894 .he was the 
temporary chairman 
of the republican 
state convention, 
and in 1895 was the 
chairman of the 
Cook county republican convention. In 
1892 he was appointed a master in 

chancery of the superior court of 

Cook county, which position he re¬ 

signed in 1896. In 1895 he was elect¬ 
ed by the South Park commissioners of 
Chicago as general attorney for the park 
board. He was elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

MANN, JOB, lawyer, congressman, was 
born March 31, 1795, in Bethel township. 
Pa. In 1835 he was elected a l'epresenta- 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania, 
where he served one term. In 1842 he was 
appointed state treasurer, which office he 
held for three terms; and in 1847 was 
again elected to congress, where he serv¬ 
ed until 1851, declining a re-election. 

MANN, JOEL K., congressman, was 
born in 1780, in Pennsylvania. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1831 to 1835. He died Sept. 4, 1857, in 
Montgomery county, Pa. 

MANN, MRS. MARY TYLER (PEA¬ 
BODY), author, was born Nov. 16, 1806, 
in Cambridgeport, Mass. She was the au¬ 
thor of Flower People; Christianity in 
the Kitchen; Culture in Infancy; Life of 
Horace Mann; and Juanita, a Romance of 
Real Life in Cuba. She died Feb. 11, 
1887, in Jamaica Plain, Mass. 

MANN, MATTHEW D., physician, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born July 12, 1845, in 
Milton, N. Y. In 1880 he was called to the 
chair of obstetrics and gynaecology in the 
medical department of the university of 
Buffalo. He is the author of a Manual 
of Prescription Writing, and is a frequent 
contributor to medical periodicals. His 
principal literary work was the editing of 
The American System or Gynaecology. 

MANN, NETTIE S., poet. She has con¬ 
tributed both prose and verse to current 
literature, and several of her poems have 
been given a place in standard collections. 

MANN, SAMUEL E., educator, poet, 
was born April 10, 1853, in Lawrence, 
Mass. For many years he taught natural 
science, mathematics and drawing in the 
high school of Middletown, Conn. He is 
the author of a volume entitled Florida 
Verse. 

MANN. WILLIAM BENSON, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 27, 1816, in Burlington 
county, N. J. He was assistant district 
attorney of Philadelphia, and then became 
district attorney. 

MANN, WILLIAM JULIUS, clergvman, 
author, was born May 29, 1819, in Ger¬ 
many. He is a lutheran clergyman of 
Philadelphia, and the author of Life and 
Times of Henry Muhlenberg. He died in 
1892. 

MANNING, DANIEL, statesman, was 
born Aug. 16, 1831, in Albany, N. Y. In 
1881 he became vice-president, and in 1882 
president, of the National Commercial 
bank of Albany, N. Y. He was a park 


commissioner in the city of Albany from 
1873 to 1884; and in 1885 he was appoint¬ 
ed secretary of the treasury of the United 
States. He died Dec. 24, 1887, in Albany, 
N. Y. 

MANNING, JACOB MERRILL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 31, 1824, in 
Greenwood, N. Y. He was a congregation¬ 
al clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old 
South church in 1857-82; and the author 
of Helps to a Life of Prayer; Half Truths 
and the Truth; Not of Man, but of God; 
and Sermons. He died Nov. 29, 1882, in 
Portland, Maine. 

MANNING, JAMES, clergyman, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 22, 1738, in Eliza¬ 
beth, N. J. He was one of the founders 
of Brown university; and when that in¬ 
stitution was removed to Providence he 
became first president. In 1785-86 he was 
a delegate to the continental congress 
from Rhode Island. He died July 29, 1791, 
in Providence, R. I. 

MANNING, JAMES H., journalist, was 
born Sept. 22, 1854, in Albany, N. Y. In 
1863 he took entire charge of the Albany 
Argus, in New York; and in 1888 became 
president of the Argus company. 

MANNING, JOHN, lawyer, legislator, 
was born July 30, 1830, in Edenton, N. C. 
In 1861 he was a member of the secession 
convention; and op¬ 
posed the secession 
movement in his 
state; but being 
compelled to take 
sides, he volunteered 
in the confederate 
service. In 1870-71 
he served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member 
of congress. In 1875 
he was a delegate to 
the constitutional 
convention of North 
Carolina. In 1881 he was a member of the 
general assembly; and during 1881-83 was 
a member of the commission to codify the 
statute laws of North Carolina. Since 
1881 he has been professor of law in the 
university of North Carolina; and the law 
department under his able management 
has become the largest school south of 
Virginia. 

MANNING, JOHN A., manufacturer, 
was born Aug. 8, 1838, in Troy, N. Y. He 
was the first to make a satisfactory pa¬ 
per for flour sacks, and he is also the 
largest manufacturer of rope manila pa¬ 
per in the world. 

MANNING, JOHN LAWRENCE, gover¬ 
nor, was born Jan. 29, 1816, in Hickory 
Hill, S. C. He was governor of that state 
from 1852 to 1854. 

MANNING, RANDOLPH, jurist, state 
senator, was born May 19, 1804, in Plain- 
field, N. J. In 1832 he removed to Michi¬ 
gan. where he settled at Pontiac; and was 
chosen state senator in 1837, and from 
1838 till 1840 held the office of secretary 
of state. At the organization of the su¬ 
preme court of the state in 1858 he was 
chosen an associate justice, and held the 
office until his death. He died Aug. 31, 
1864. in Pontiac, Mich. 

MANNING, RICHARD, soldier, legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, governor, was born May 
1. 1789, in Sumter district, S. C. He was 
frequently in the upper and lower houses 
of the South Carolina state legislature; 
and was governor of South Carolina for 
two years from 1824. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from 1834 to 1836. He 
died May 1, 18a6, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MANNING. ROBERT, pomologist, was 
born July 19, j.< 84, in Salem, Mass. In 


1823 he established a pomological garden 
in Salem, which at the time of his deaui. 
was unrivaled in the assortment of fruits 
that were then cultivated, and contained 
nearly one thousand varieties of pears, 
besides several hundred more of apples, 
peaches, plums, and cherries. He died 
Oct. 10, 1842, in Salem, Mass. 

MANNING, THOMAS COURTLAND, 
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1831, 
in Edenton, N. C. He was elected a lieu¬ 
tenant in a Louisiana confederate regi¬ 
ment, and in 1863 was /appointed adju¬ 
tant-general of the state, with the rank 
of brigadier-general. In 1864 he was ap¬ 
pointed an associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Louisiana. He died Oct. 
11, 1887, in New York city. 

MANNING, VAN H., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 26, 1839, in 
North Carolina. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Mississippi to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

MANNVILLE, MRS. HELEN ADELIA 
(WOOD), was born in 1839, in New York. 
She is a poet of La Crosse, Wis., and the 
author of Heart ’Echoes, a volume of 
verse. 

MANOGUE, jtATRICK, bishop, was 
born in 1831, in Ireland. He is a prom¬ 
inent Roman catholic bishop of Virginia 
City, Nev. 

MANROSS, NEWTON SPAULDING, 
mining engineer, was born June 20, 1825, 
in Bristol, Conn. He visited mines and 
metallurgical establishments in Europe; 
and in 1853 he was sent with an exploring 
expedition to South America, and spent 
several months in examining the gold re¬ 
gion of the Yuruari between Orinoco and 
Amazon rivers. He died Sept. 7, 1862, in 
Sharpsburg, Md. 

MANSFIELD, EDWARD DEERING. 
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Aug. 
17, 1801, in New Haven, Conn. He was a 
lawyer and journalist of Cincinnati, and 
the author of Utility of Mathematics; 
Treatise on Constitutional Law; Political 
Grammar of the United States; Legal 
Rights, etc., of Married Women; Life of 
General Scott; History of the Mexican 
War; American Education; Memoirs of 
D. Drake; Popular Life of General Grant; 
and Personal Memories. He died Oct. 27, 
1880, in Morrow, Ohio. 

MANSFIELD, JARED, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born May 23, 1759, in New Ha¬ 
ven, Conn. He was a mathematician, pro¬ 
fessor at West Point in 1812-28, and pub¬ 
lished Essays: Mathematical and Physi¬ 
cal. He died Feb. 3, 1830, in New Haven, 
Conn. 

MANSFIELD, JOHN ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 20, 1854, 
near Bloomfield, Ohio. He entered into 
the practice of law in Steubenville, Ohio. 

In 1887 he was elected probate judge of 
his county, and received the re-election in 
1890. In 1892 he resigned his office to take 
up the duties of common pleas judge, 
which position he still holds. 

MANSFIELD, JOHN BRAINARD, au¬ 
thor, was born March 6, 1826, in Andover, 
Vt. He published with Austin J. Cool- 
edge, the first volume of a History of the 
New England States, embracing Maine, 
New Hampshire, and Vermont. In 1866 
he published in Washington, D. C., The 
American Loyalist, in which were printed 
biographies and speeches of members of 
the thirty-ninth congress. He died Oct. 
29, 1886, in Effingham, Kan. 





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MANSFIELD, JOSEPH KING FENNO, 
soldier, was born Dec. 22, 1803, in New 
Haven, Conn. In 1822 he was assigned to 
the engineer corps, 
and for the next 
three years was an 
assistant to the 
board of engineers, 
then assembled in 
New York, and en¬ 
gaged in planning 
fortifications for the 
defense of the har¬ 
bors and cities on 
the coast. He served 
in the Mexican war 
as chief engineer un¬ 
der General Taylor; was brevetted major 
for gallant and distinguished services; 
and also served with distinction in the 
civil war. He died Sept. 18, 1862, in 
Sharpsburg, Md. 

MANSFIELD, LEWIS WILLIAM, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1816, in Connecti¬ 
cut. He is a writer of Cohoes, N. Y., and 
the author of The Morning Watch, a book 
of verse; Up-Country Letters; and Coun¬ 
try Margins. 

MANSHIP, ANDREW, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 23, 1824, in Caroline 
county, Md. He is a methodist evangelist 
of Philadelphia, and the author of Thir¬ 
teen Years in the Itineracy; Cherished 
Memories; Reminiscences from the Sad¬ 
dle Bags of a Methodist Preacher; and 
History of Gospel Tents and Experience. 

MANSHIP, LUTHER, merchant, legis¬ 
lator, was born in Jackson, Miss. In 1894 
he was elected a member of the Mississip¬ 
pi state legislature. 

MANSON, MAHLON D., soldier, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 
1820, in Piqua, Ohio. He enlisted as a 
private during the rebellion, and became 
colonel of the tenth Indiana infantry; 
and was appointed brigadier-general of 
volunteers in 1862. He was elected to the 
forty-second congress from Indiana as a 
democrat. 

MANSUR. CHARLES H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 6,1835, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He was prosecuting attorney 
of Livingston county. Mo., from 1875 till 
1879. He was elected to the fiftieth and 
fifty-first congresses, and re-elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a democrat. 

MANTLE, LEE. state legislator, was 
born in 1851, in England. He has been 
alderman and mayor of Butte City; and 
was three times eiected to the territorial 
legislature of Montana, the last time be¬ 
ing made speaker. 

MANUCY, DOMINIC, R. C. bishop, was 
born Dec. 20, 1823, in St. Augustine, Fla. 
He was for some time stationed at the 
cathedral of the Immaculate conception, 
Mobile, and in 1864 was appointed pastor 
of Montgomery, where he continued for 
ten years. He died Dec. 4, 1885, in Mobile, 
Ala. 

MANVILLE. MARION, author, was 
born July 13, 1860, in La Crosse, Wis. She 
is the author of a work entitled Over the 
Divide, a collection of verse. 

MANZANARES, FRANCISCO. mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born Jan. 25, 
1843, in Abiquiu, N. M. He was elected 
to the forty-eighth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

MAPES, CHARLES VICTOR, agricul¬ 
tural chemist, journalist, was born July 
4, 1836, in New York city. The future of 
successful agriculture depends upon arti¬ 
ficial fertilizers, and it has been Mr. 
Mapes’ mission to reduce the discoveries 
and investigations of chemistry to actual 
practice. He has published various ar¬ 
ticles and pamphlets on this subject, and 


has held the office of president of the 
New York fertilizer and chemical ex¬ 
change since its organization. 

MAPES, JAMES JAY, chemist, in¬ 
ventor, author, was born May 29, 1806, in 
New York city. In 1832 he invented a new 
system of sugar refining, many features of 
which are still in general use; and his 
process for the manufacture of sugar from 
West India molasses was used in nearly 
every state of the union. He died Jan. 
10, 1866, in New York city. 

MAPLE. JOSEPH COWGILL, clergy¬ 
man, was born Nov. 18, 1833, in Guernsey 
county, Ohio. He has received the de¬ 
grees of A. M. and D. D.; and has filled 
pastorates in the oaptist church at Cape 
Girardeau, Mo.; Owensboro, Ky.; Kansas 
City, and Springfield, Mo.; and since 1886 
has been pastor of the baptist church of 
Keokuk, Iowa. For eight years he was 
chairman of the state mission board of 
Missouri, and has filled other important 
positions in the gift of his church. He 
was commissioned by the governor of 
Missouri to represent the state at the 
world's exposition of Paris, France; and 
during his absence he extended his trip 
through Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, 
Italy, and Great Britain; and wrote 
Graphic Descriptions oi his Travels, 
which appeared in the Central Baptist of 
St. Louis, Mo. 

MARABLE, JOHN H., congressman, 
was born in Brunswick county, Va. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1825 to 1829. 

MARBLE, ANNA WARREN, actress, 
was born Dec. 1, 1815, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
She first appeared at the Holiday street 
theatre in Baltimore, Mu., as Rosalie Sum- 
ers in Town and Country. Her last ap¬ 
pearance was in Chicago, Ill., in the win¬ 
ter of 1868-69. 

MARBLE. MRS. CALLIE L. BONNEY. 
author, was born in Peoria, Ill. She has 
published two prose works, Wit and Wis¬ 
dom of Bulwer; and Wisdom and Elo¬ 
quence of Webster. She has written two 
operettas, and dramatized Bulwer’s Rien- 
zi. She is the wife of Earl Marble, the 
well-known journalist and author. 

MARBLE, DANFORD, actor, was born 
in 1807, in East Windsor, Conn. He made 
his first appearance on the stage in 1831 
as Rollin Roughhead in Fortune’s Frolic, 
at Chatham garden. New York city, and 
then visited all the important cities in the 
United States, being successful as a de¬ 
lineator of American character. He died 
May 13, 1849. in Louisville. Ky. 

MARBLE, EARL, journalist, poet, was 
born in Ohio. He became the editor and 
proprietor of The Great Divide of Den¬ 
ver, Colo. He is the author of numerous 
operettas and songs, and a volume of 
poems. 

MARBLE, EDGAR M., lawyer, was a 
resident of Michigan. He was an assist¬ 
ant attorney-general of the United States 
from 1877 to 1880; and was commission¬ 
er of patents in the department of the in¬ 
terior from 1880 to 1884. 

MARBLE. MANTON, journalist, author, 
was born Nov. 16, 1835, in Worcester, 
Mass. He is a journalist of New York 
city, editor and proprietor of The World 
in 1862-76; and was one of the founders 
of The New York World. He is the au¬ 
thor of A Secret Chapter of Political His¬ 
tory. 

MARBLE, MIL’iON H„ poet, was born 
March 16. 1839, in Wayne county, Ohio. 
He is the author of a number of merito¬ 
rious poems. 

MARCH, ALDEN, surgeon, author, was 
born Sept. 20, 1795, in Sutton, Mass. He 
was once a prominent surgeon of Albany, 
and the author of Wounds of the Abdo¬ 


men; and Improved Forceps for Harelip 
Operations. He died June 17, 1869, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. 

MARCH, CHARLES WAINRIGHT, 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 15, 1815, 
in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a journal¬ 
ist and essayist of New York city; and 
the author of Daniel Webster and His 
Contemporaries; and Sketches in Madeira, 
Portugal, and Spain. He died Jan. 24, 
1864, in Alexandria, Egypt. 

MARCH, DANIEL, clergyman, author, 
was born July 21, 1816, in Millbury, Mass. 
He is a congregational clergyman, and the 
author of Walks and Homes of Jesus; 
Night Scenes in the Bible; Our Father’s 
House; From Dark to Dawn; Home Life 
in the Bible; The First Khedive, or Les¬ 
sons in the Life of Joseph; and Morning 
Light in Many Lands. 

MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW, philolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Oct. 25, 1825, in 
Millbury, Mass. He is a philologist of 
distinction, professor at Lafayette college 
from 1856, and the successor of James 
Russell Lowell in 1891 as president of the 
American Language association. He is 
the author of Relation of the Study of 
Jurisprudence to the Roman Period; 
Hamilton’s Theory of Perception; Method 
of Philological Study of the English Lan¬ 
guage; Comparative Grammar of the 
Anglo-Saxon Language; and Anglo-Saxon 
Reader. 

MARCH, WALTER, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Aug. 5, 1814, in Millbury, Mass. 
In 1852 he was elected judge of the com¬ 
mon pleas district, composed of the coun¬ 
ties of Delaware, Grant, and Blackford, 
Ind. This position he held till 1856, when 
he was chosen state senator from the 
counties above named, and served as such 
by re-election until 1864. In 1878 he was 
elected representative in the legislature 
from Delaware county. 

MARCHAND, ALBERT G., congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania from 1839 to 
1843. He died Feb. 5, 1846, in Greensburg, 
Pa. 

MARCHAND, DAVID, congressman, 
was born in Westmoreland county. Pa. 
He was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1817 to 1821. 

MARCHAND, JOHN BONNETT, naval 
officer, was born Aug. 27, 1808, in Greens- 
borough. Pa. He entered the United 
States navy in 1828 as midshipman, and 
was promoted commodore in 1866. He 
died April 13, 1875, in Carlisle, Pa. 

MARCHANT, DALTON EDWARD, art¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 16, 1806, in Edgartown, 
Mass. He settled in Philadelphia in 1845, 
and painted many portraits. Among them 
are those of John Quincy Adams, Henry 
Clay, Andrew Jackson, Bishop Meade, 
and that of President Lincoln, now in the 
council-chamber of Independence hall, 
Philadelphia. He died Aug. 15, 1887, in 
Asbury Park, N. J. 

MARCHANT, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in April, 1741, in 
Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He practiced 
law in Newport, R. I.; was attorney- 
general of that state from 1770 to 1777; 
and was a member of the assembly. He 
was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1777 to 1780, and in 1783 and 
1784. From 1790 until his death, he was 
judge of the United States district court. 
He died Aug. 30, 1796, in Newport. 

MARCY, DANIEL, legislator, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1809, 
in New Hampshire. In 1853 and 1854 he 
was a member of the New Hampshire 
legislature, and in 1856 and 1857 a state 
senator. He was elected a representative 
from New Hampshire to the thirty-eighth 
congress. 



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MARCY, ERASTUS EDGERTON, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Oct. 9, 1815, in 
Greenwich, Mass. He is a physician of 
New York city, and the author of Theory 
and Practice of Medicine; Theory and 
Practice of Homoeopathy; Christianity 
and its Conflicts; and Life Duties. 

MARCY, HENRY ORLANDO, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born June 23, 1837, in 
Otis, Mass. He is a physician of Cam¬ 
bridge, and the author of Anatomy and 
Surgical Treatment of Hernia; and pro¬ 
fessional translations from the Italian of 
Ercolani. 

MARCY, HENRY S., railroad president, 
was born Jan. 28, 1837, in Hartland, Vt. 
In 1889 he became president of the Fitch¬ 
burg railroad at Boston, Mass. 

MARCY, OLIVER, educator, was born 
Feb. 13, 1820, in Coleraine, Mass. He is 
a successful educator; and during the lat¬ 
ter part of his life he has been prominent¬ 
ly identified with the Northwestern uni¬ 
versity of Watertown, Wis. 

MARCY, RANDOLPH BARNES, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born April 9, 1812, in 
Greenwich, Mass. He was a brigadier- 
general in the United States army; and 
the author of Exploration of the Red 
River in 1852; Thirty Years of Army 
Life on the Border; The Prairie Traveler; 
and Border Reminiscences. He died Nov. 
22, 1887, in Orange, N. J. 

MARCY, WILLIAM LEARNED, lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, governor, 
was born in 1786 in Sturbridge, Mass. In 
1816 he was appointed recorder of Troy, 
N. Y.; made comptroller in j.»23, and re¬ 
moved to Albany. In 1829 he was appoint¬ 
ed judge of the supreme court of the 
state; and was elected to the United 
States senate in 1831. He was elected 
governor of New York in 1832, and re¬ 
elected in 1834 and 1836. He was secre¬ 
tary of war under President Polk from 
1845 to 1849; and secretary of state under 
President Pierce from 1853 to 1857. He 
died July 4, 1857, in Balston Spa, N. Y. 

MARDEN, ORISON SWETT, author, 
was born in 1848 in New Hampshire. He 
is a Boston writer whose collections of 
brief biographies comprise Pushing to the 
Front; and Architects of Fate. 

MARDIS, SAMUEL W., congressman, 
was born in 1801 in Alabama. He was a 
representative in congress from Alabama 
from 1831 to 1835. He died Nov. 14, 1837, 
in Talladega, Ala. 

MARIAGER, NAOMI DAGMAR, educa¬ 
tor, poet, was born April 26, 1850, in 
Denmark. In 1860 she emigrated to Am¬ 
erica; has led an eventful life, and has 
traveled extensively in the United States 
and Europe. She has written extensively 
both prose and verse for the Detroit Free 
Press, the Overland Monthly, and other 
prominent publications; and her poems 
have been published in several national 
collections. 

MARION, FRANCIS, soldier, was born 
in 1732 near Georgetown, S. C. By his 
successful maneuvers in baflling the Eng¬ 
lish in North Caro¬ 
lina, and still evad¬ 
ing capture, he won 
the name of the 
Swamp Fox. He re¬ 
ceived the thanks of 
congress for his 
wise, . decided and 
gallant conduct in 
defending the liber¬ 
ties of his country. 
He served a number 
of times in the South 
Carolina state sen¬ 
ate, and received from that body a gold 
medal for his patriotism. He died Feb. 
29, 1795, near Eutaw, Md. 


MARION, ROBERT, congressman, was 
born in South Carolina. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1805 to 1810. 

MARK, EDWARD LAURENS, educat¬ 
or, author, was born May 30, 1847, in 
Hamlet, N. Y. He is a successful edu¬ 
cator and writer on anatomy and embry¬ 
ology of animals, and since 1885 has filled 
the chair of anatomy in the Harvard uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of Maturation, 
Fecundation, and Segmentation of Limax, 
a pioneer work in cythology. 

MARKELL, CHARLES FREDERICK, 
lawyer, diplomat, author, poet, was born 
Oct. 16, 1855, in Frederick, Md. He re¬ 
ceived an academic 
and collegiate educa- 
t i o'n , graduating 
from Columbian uni¬ 
versity of Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., and stud¬ 
ied law and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar be¬ 
fore attaining his 
majority. He twice 
represented his city 
in the Maryland leg¬ 
islature; for three 
years edited a daily 
republican newspaper, and was in 1892 ap¬ 
pointed by President Harrison secretary 
of legation to Brazil. While serving at 
this post as charge d’affaires, he suc¬ 
ceeded in inducing the Brazilian govern¬ 
ment to remove the onerous expediente 
duty upon wheat flour from the United 
States. He has written Chamodine, and 
Other Poems; Ypiranga, a love tale of 
the Brazils; and the Chaskell Papers, a 
series of biographical and historical 
sketches of his native county. 

MARKELL, hn.NRY, congressman, was 
born in Montgomery county, N. Y. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1825 to 1829. 

MARKELL, JACOB, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1813 to 1815. 

MARKEY, DANIEL PETER, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, was born June 27, 1857, 
in Ingham county, Mich. He is a noted 
lawyer of Port Huron, Mich., was judge 
of the probate court, has served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the house of rep¬ 
resentatives of the Michigan state legis¬ 
lature, and in 1887 was speaker of the 
house. 

MARKHAM, CHARLES EDWIN, edu¬ 
cator, poet, was born April 23, 1852, in 
Oregon City, Ore. He is principal in the 
Tompkin’s Grammar school in Oakland, 
Cal., where he is also superintendent of 
schools. He is the author of two volumes 
of poems: In Earth’s Shadow; and Songs 
of a Dream Builder. 

MARKHAM, ERNEST ARTHUR, phy¬ 
sician, legislator, was born Oct. 16, 1853, 
in Windsor, Vt. He graduated from the 
Eclectic Medical college of New York 
city, in which institution he was profes¬ 
sor of chemistry in 1885-87. He received 
the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from the 
Wesleyan university, from which insti¬ 
tution he was a graduate. In 1895-96 he 
served as a representative in the Connec¬ 
ticut general assembly. He is a successful 
physician of Durham, Conn., where he has 
filled numerous public positions of honor. 
He is a genealogist of note and the author 
of a work on the Markham Family. 

MARKHAM, GEORGE E., musician, 
poet, was born in 1849, in Broome county, 

N. Y. He is a teacher of music of Weep¬ 
ing Water, Neb., and is the author of a 
number of poems, some of which have 
been set to music. 


MARKHAM, HENRY HARRISON, law¬ 
yer, congressman, governor, was born 
Nov. 16, 1840, in Wilmington, N. Y. He 
was educated at the 
public and private 
schools of his native 
town, and at Wheel¬ 
er’s academy of Ver¬ 
mont. In 1861 he 
moved to Wisconsin, 
and entered the 
army from that 
state. He was with 
General Sherman on 
his famous march to 
the sea, and was se¬ 
verely wounded in 
February, 1865. He then practiced law in 
Milwaukee until 1878, when he moved to 
Pasadena, Cal., where for a number of 
years he was engaged in gold and silver 
mining. He was elected as a represent¬ 
ative from California to the forty-ninth 
congress, securing the passage of many 
important measures for the benefit of Los 
Angeles county. He became one of the 
managers of the National Soldiers’ home 
of the United States, and during 1890-95 
he filled the high office of governor of 
the state of California. 

MARKHAM, JARED CLARK, architect, 
author, was born Nov. 18, 1816, in Tyring- 
ham, Mass. He is an architect who de¬ 
signed the Saratoga monument. He is the 
author of Appeal in Behalf of National 
Monuments; Monumental Art; and His¬ 
toric Sculpture. 

MARKHAM, OLIVER, gunsmith, in¬ 
ventor, was born July 17, 1825, in Middle- 
town, Conn. He was a practical gun¬ 
smith and the inventor of several parts 
of the gun, and a contractor for Sharp’s 
armory during its entire existence. He 
was a member of the Hartford city coun¬ 
cil in 1862, and a director of the Central 
National bank of Middletown. 

MARKHAM, THOMAS BAILEY, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born in 
1832, in Woodford county, Ky. During 
1856-93 he was a clergyman of the Presby¬ 
terian church in New Orleans, La. He 
has been president of the Mississippi col¬ 
lege, and preached the funeral oration at 
the'grave of Jefferson Davis. 

MARKHAM, WILLIAM, governor, was 
born about 1635 in England. He became 
colonial governor of Pennsylvania. He 
died June 12, 1704, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MARKHAM, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
born Oct. 9, 1811, in Goshen, Conn. For 
many years he was mayor of Atlanta, Ga. 
He there built the Markham house, and 
was called the Father of Modern Atlanta. 
He died Nov. 9, 1890, in Atlanta, Ga. 

MARKLEY, PHILIP S., congressman, 
was born in Montgomery county, Pa. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1827, and was 
in the latter year appointed naval officer 
for the port of Philadelphia. 

MARKOE. ABRAM, capitalist, was born 
in 1729 in West Indies. In the summer of 
1775 he presented the city troop of Phila¬ 
delphia with a flag which has historic in¬ 
terest as being the first that bore the 
thirteen stripes symbolizing the thirteen 
colonies that were then asserting their 
rights. He died Aug. 28, 1806, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

MARKOE, PETER, poet, was born 
about 1753 in the West Indies. He wrote 
under the pen-name of A Native of Al¬ 
giers; and published a tragedy entitled 
The Patriot Chief; Miscellaneous Poems; 
a poem called The Times; and Reconcili¬ 
ation, a comic opera. He died about 1792 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 





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MARKOE, THOMAS MASTERS, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Sept. 13, 1819, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a surgeon of New 
York city, professor in Columbia college 
from 1860, and author of a Treatise on 
Diseases of the Bones. 

MARKS, ALBERT S., soldier, lawyer, 
governor, was born in October, 1836, in 
Daviess county, Ky. He was governor of 
Tennessee from 1879 to 1881. 

MARKS, ELIAS, educator, author, was 
born Dec. 2, 1790, in Charleston, S. C. 
He became president of Columbia Female 
college, and subsequently founded Bar- 
hamville Collegiate institute, near Colum¬ 
bia, and conducted it till a short time be¬ 
fore the civil war. He died in June, 1886, 
in Washington, D. C. 

MARKS, WILLIAM, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Oct. 13, 1778, in Chester 
county, Pa. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania from 1825 to 
1831. He died April 10, 1858, in Beaver, 
Pa. 

MARLOWE, JULIA, actress, was born 
in 1865 in England. She has attained 
prominence as one of the foremost ac¬ 
tresses in the United States. 

MARMADUKE, JOHN SAPPINGTON, 
soldier, journalist, governor, was born in 
March, 1833, in Saline county. Mo. In 
1861 he entered the confederate army as 
a colonel; in 1862 was promoted to briga¬ 
dier-general, and in 1864 to major-general. 
In the year 1884 he was elected governor 
of Missouri. He died Dec. 28, 1887, in Jef¬ 
ferson City, Mo. 

MARMADUKE, MEREDITH MILES, 
governor, was born Aug. 28, 1791, in 
Westmoreland, Ya. In 1840 he was elected 
lieutenant-governor of Missouri, and in 
1844 became acting governor by the death 
of Thomas Reynolds. He died March 26, 
1864, in Arrow Rock, Mo. 

MAROTZ, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 7, 1855, 
in Rock Island, Ill. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the Iowa State university; holds 
a medical degree from the Long Island 
College hospital of Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
took a post-graduate course at the Belle¬ 
vue Hospital Medical college of New York 
city. Since 1883 he has practiced his pro¬ 
fession at Sergeant Bluffs, Iowa, where 
he is a prominent pharmacist. 

MARQUAND, ALLAN, educator, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Dec. 10, 1853, in New 
York city. He became a fellow of Johns 
Hopkins university, and on taking the de¬ 
gree of Ph. D. in 1880 returned as tutor 
to Princeton, and in 1883 was made pro¬ 
fessor of the history of art. He is one of 
the editors of the American Journal of 
Archaeology, has written on archaeology 
and logic for various journals, and edited 
Volume three of the Iconoclastic Cyclo¬ 
pedia of Arts. 

MARQUAND, HENRY GURDON, bank¬ 
er, railroad president, was born April 11, 
1819, in New York city. For ten years 
he was a banker in New York city, and 
in 1868 became one of the purchasers of 
the Iron Mountain railroad, of which he 
was vice-president, and afterward presi¬ 
dent until its incorporation in the Mis¬ 
souri Pacific system. He is a director in 
the latter company, and in many other 
corporations. 

MARQUETTE, DAVID, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born July 19, 1842, in 
Clark county, Ohio. He now fills a pastor¬ 
ate in Oakdale. He has been presiding 
elder of several districts, and for many 
years was president of the Nebraska Cen¬ 
tral college. 

MARQUETTE, T. M., congressman. He 
was elected a representative from Nebras¬ 
ka to the thirty-ninth congress, but did 
not take his seat until the last day of the 
last session of that congress. 


MARQUISS, SEYMOUR, farmer, legis¬ 
lator, was born June 7, 1837, in DeLand, 
Ill. He is a successful farmer of DeLand, 
Ill., and served with distinction in the 
fortieth general assembly of the Illinois 
state legislature. 

MARR, ALEM, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1829 to 1831. 

MARR. FRANCES HARRISON, poet, 
was born July 2, 1835, in Warrenton, Va. 
She is the author of three volumes of 
poems entitled Heart-Life in Song; Vir¬ 
ginia and Other Poems; and Songs of 
Faith. 

MARR, GEORGE W. L., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1817 to 1819. 

MARR, JOHN QUINCY, soldier, was 
born May 27, 1825, in Warrenton. Va. 
In 1861 he was elected a member of the 
Virginia state convention, and opposed 
secession as long as it could be honorably 
avoided. He was ordered to the front in 
1861, and was in the first encounter be¬ 
tween the United States and the confed¬ 
erate troops. 

MARR, ROBERT ATHELSTAN, naval 
officer, was born April 18, 1823, in War¬ 
renton, Va. In 1840 he was appointed 
midshipman in the United States navy, 
and served under Commodore Perry on 
the coast of Africa. He took part in the 
Mexican war, and fired the first shot in 
the naval attack on Vera Cruz. In 1854 
he was appointed master. He was lost in 
the Caribbean sea with the entire crew of 
the United States sloop of war Albany, in 
October, 1854. 

MARROW. JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1805 to 1809. 

MARSELUS, NICHOLAS JOHN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 12, 1792, 
in Schenectady, N. Y. He published a 
sketch of Greenwich church and its pas¬ 
torate under the title of Gospel Ministry 
and Its Results. He died April 5, 1876, 
in New York city. 

MARSH, BENJAMIN F., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Nov. 19, 1837, 
in Hancock county, Ill. In 1876 he was 
elected as a republican to the forty-fifth 
congress from the then tenth district of 
Illinois, and was re-elected to the forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses, in 
1889 he was appointed by Governor Ogles¬ 
by railroad and warehouse commissioner, 
and held the same four years. In 1892 
he was elected as a republican to the 
fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and 
was re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress. 

MARSH, BONNER GOELETTE, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 
21, 1859, in Bath, N. C. He is the presi¬ 
dent of the American college of Monterey, 
Mexico. 

MARSH, MRS. CAROLINE (CRANE), 
author, was born Dec. 1, 1816, in Berkley, 
Mass. She is the author of The Hallig, 
or the Sheepfold in the Waters, from the 
German of Biernatzki; Wolfe of the 
Knoll, and Other Poems; and Life of 
George P. iviarsh. 

MARSH, CHARLES, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born July 10, 1765, in Lebanon, 
Conn. For fifty years he practiced law in 
Woodstock, Vt. He served as a member 
of congress from 1815 to 1817, and while 
in Washington became identified with the 
American Colonization society as one of 
its founders. He died Jan. 11, 1840, in 
Woodstock, Vt. 

MARSH, CHARLES DWIGHT, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Dec. 20, 1855, in 
Hadley, Mass. He is professor of chem¬ 
istry and biology in Ripon college, Wis¬ 
consin, and is the author of many valuable 
papers on entomostraca and lake faunae. 


MARSH, DEXTER, paleontologist, was 
born Aug. 22, 1806. in Montague, Mass. 
At the time of his death his cabinet prob¬ 
ably contained the choicest collection of 
fossil footprints and fishes then in ex¬ 
istence. He died April 2, 1853, in Green¬ 
field, Mass. 

MARSH, ELIAS J.. publisher, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Nov. 9, 1846, in Hancock 
county, Ind. In 1871 he came to Portland, 
Ind., and purchased the Jay and Adams 
Republican, since which time he has had 
control of that paper as editor and pro¬ 
prietor. 

MARSH, GEORGE PERKINS, lawyer, 
philologist, state legislator, congressman, 
was born March 15, 1801, in Woodstock. 
Vt. He was a philologist of distinction 
and was a member of congress in 1842-61, 
when he was appointed minister to Italy 
in 1861-82. He was the author of Lectures 
on the English Language; Man and Na¬ 
ture, rewritten and enlarged with the title. 
The Earth as Modified by Human Action; 
Icelandic Grammar; Origin and History of 
the English Language; and Mediaeval and 
Modern Saints and Miracles. He died 
July 24, 1882, in Rome, Italy, while serving 
as United States minister to Italy. 

MARSH, JAMES, college president, au¬ 
thor, was born July 18, 1794, in Hartford, 
Vt. In 1826 he was elected president of 
the university of Vermont, serving until 
1833. He is the author of Geography of 
the Bible; Spirit of Hebrew Poetry; and 
has contributed a number of articles to 
journals and newspapers. He died July 
3, 1842, in Colchester, Vt. 

MARSH, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born April 2, 1788, in Wethersfield, Conn. 
He was a congregational clergyman long 
prominent as a temperance lecturer; and 
the author of Epitome of Ecclesiastical 
History; Half Century Tribute to Tem¬ 
perance; and Temperance Recollections. 
He died Aug. 4, 1864, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

MARSH, LUTHER RAWSON, lawyer, 
author, was born April 4, 1813, in Pom- 
pey, N. Y. He is a successful lawyer of 
New York city; and is the author of a 
volume of the anti-slavery speeches of his 
father-in-law, Alvan Stewart. 

MARSH, OTHNIEL CHARLES, palae¬ 
ontologist, educator, author, was born Oct. 
29, 1831, in Lockport, N. Y. He is a palae¬ 
ontologist, professor at Yale university 
since 1866; and the author of Odontor- 
nithes; Dinocerata; and Sauropoda. 

MARSH, SAMUEL, clergyman, was 
born July 3, 1796, in Danville, Vt. He 
originated in 1827 the system of colportage 
that has since been employed with ex¬ 
cellent results by the American Tract 
society, the American Sunday School 
union, and other religious societies. He 
died April 1, 1874, in Underhill, Vt. 

MARSH, SYLVESTER, engineer, in¬ 
ventor, was born Sept. 30, 1803, in Camp- 
ton, N. H. He originated the meat pack¬ 
ing industry; invented various appliances; 
originated and built Mt. Washington rail¬ 
way; and invented the locomotive, cog¬ 
rail, and brakes used thereon. He died 
Dec. 30, 1884, in Concord, N. H. 

MARSH, TAMERLANE PLINY, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born July 30, 
1845, in Orland, Ind. For twenty years 
he filled pastorates in the Rock River 
conference of the methodist episcopal 
church; and was stationed at Oak Park, 
Chicago, Rockford, and Evanston. He Is 
now president of the Mount Union col¬ 
lege of Alliance, Ohio. 

MARSHALL, ALEXANDER K., con¬ 
gressman, was born in Kentucky. He 
was a representative in congress from that 
state from 1855 to 1857. 


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MARSHALL, ALEXANDER KEITH, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1770, in Fau¬ 
quier county, Va. During 1817-21 he pub¬ 
lished the Reports of the Court of Appeals 
of Kentucky, in three volumes. He died 
in 1825, in Mason county, Ky. 

MARSHALL, ALFRED, congressman. 
He served four years in the Maine legis¬ 
lature in 1827, 1828, 1834, and 1835; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Maine from 1841 to 1843. From 1846 to 
1849 he was collector at Belfast, Maine; 
and was also, for some years, a general of 
the state militia. 

MARSHALL, CHESTER C., agricultur¬ 
ist, state legislator, was born Sept. 23, 
1862, in Hancock county, Ohio. In 1881 
he moved to Nebraska, where he estab¬ 
lished with his brother, the Arlington 
Nursery and Fruit farm. In 1896 he was 
elected to the Nebraska state legislature; 
and took an active part on various com¬ 
mittees. 

MARSHALL, CHRISTOPHER, patriot, 
was born Nov. 6, 1709, in Ireland. His 
Remembrancer is one of the most valuable 
diaries that was kept during the revolu¬ 
tion. The manuscript was presented to 
the Pennsylvania Historical society by his 
great-great-grandson, Charles Marshall, 
of Germantown, in 1839. He died May 4, 
1797, in Philadelphia. 

MARSHALL, EDWARD CHAUNCEY, 
educator, journalist, author, was born 
July 8, 1824, in Little Falls, N. Y. He is 
the author of Book of Oratory; History 
of the United States Naval Academy; and 
Ancestry of General Grant. 

MARSHALL, EDWARD COLSTON, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born in 1820 in Woodford, Ky. In 
1849 he went to California, where he sat 
in the legislature, and was elected to 
congress as a democrat, serving from 1851 
till 1853. In 1878 he was elected attorney- 
general of that state. 

MARSHALL, GEORGE A., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 14, 1851, in 
Shelby county, Ohio. He served eight 
years as prosecuting attorney of Shelby 
county, Ohio, being elected in 1878, 1880, 
and again in 1883. He was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

MARSHALL, GEORGE ALPHEUS, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, was born Feb. 17, 1836, in 
Northumberland, N. H. After receiving 
a liberal education 
in the common and 
grammar schools, he 
attended the univer¬ 
sity of Vermont, and 
received the degrees 
of A. B. and A. M. 
He has been county 
superintendent o f 
schools; district at¬ 
torney; is promi¬ 
nent in several fra¬ 
ternal orders; and 
has taken an active 
part in the public affairs of his county 
and state. He has written numerous mag¬ 
azine articles for the periodical press; 
and since 1867 has practiced his profes¬ 
sion in Darlington, Wis. He has made a 
complete abstract of titles of his county, 
and is the proprietor of the La Fayette 
County Abstract company. 

MARSHALL, HUMPHREY, botanist, 
author, was born Oct. 10, 1722, in Mar- 
shallton. He was a famous botanist of 
Marshallton, Pa. Arboretum American- 
um, a very valuable work of his, was 
translated into a number of foreign lan¬ 
guages. He died Nov. 5, 1801, in Mar¬ 
shallton, Pa. 


MARSHALL, HUMPHREY, state legis¬ 
lator, United States senator, author, was 
born in 1756 in Westmoreland county, Va. 
He was among the earliest pioneers to 
Kentucky, having gone there in 1780. He 
served for many years in the state legis¬ 
lature; and was a senator in congress 
from 1795 to 1801. He was the author of 
the first published History of Kentucky. 
He died July 1, 1841, near Frankfort, Ky. 

MARSHALL, HUMPHREY, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 12, 
1812, in Frankfort, Ky. He was elected 
to congress from Kentucky in 1849 as a 
representative, and re-elected iin 1851. 
He was appointed by President Fillmore 
commissioner to China, which was imme¬ 
diately raised to a first-class mission; and 
on his return was elected a representative 
to the thirty-fourth congress; and in 1857 
was re-elected to congress. He died 
March 28, 1872, in Louisville, Ky. 

MARSHALL, JAMES, lawyer, jurist. 
He was one of the earliest settlers in the 
District of Columbia, after the removal 
of the seat of government; and in 1801 
was appointed circuit judge of the United 
States for the District of Columbia. 

MARSHALL, JAMES, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born about 
1834 in Grove, N. Y. He commenced life 
as a schoolteacher, and subsequently be¬ 
came an eminent clergyman. He found¬ 
ed the Westminster Presbyterian church 
of Troy, N. Y.; and built several other 
churches. In 1887 he accepted the presi¬ 
dency of Coe college of Cedar Rapids, 
Iowa. He is best known as an organizer, 
pastor and educator; has published nu¬ 
merous war sermons, and contributed ex¬ 
tensively to church literature. He died 
in September, 1896. 

MARSHALL, JAMES W., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
March 31, 1844, in Augusta county, Va. 
pfe was elected to the Virginia senate in 
1875, and served four years; and was 
elected a member of the general assembly 
of Virginia in 1882-83. He was elected 
commonwealth attorney for Craig county 
in 1884, and served till 1888, inclusive. 
He was elected to the Virginia senate in 
1891 for term of four years; served in 
same session of 1891-92, and was elected 
to the fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

MARSHALL, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, statesman, author, was born Sept. 
24, 1755, in Germantown, Va. He was a 
member of the Vir¬ 
ginia convention to 
ratify the constitu¬ 
tion of the United 
States. He also en¬ 
tered the legislature 
of Virginia, where 
he was a leader. He 
was a representative 
in congress in 1799. 
In 1801 he was con¬ 
firmed as chief jus¬ 
tice of the supreme 
court of the United 
States. He wrote a Life of George Wash¬ 
ington, and a History of the American 
Colonies. He died July 6, 1835, in Phila¬ 
delphia. 

MARSHALL, JOHN, soldier, journal¬ 
ist, was born in 1823 in Virginia. In 1853 
he became the owner and editor of the 
State Gazette of Austin, Texas. He called 
and was the cause of the convening of the 
first democratic state convention in Texas, 
and was given the title of the Warwick of 
Texas. He entered the confederate army 
as major of the fourth Texas infantry, and 
was promoted to colonel; and was killed 
at Gaines Mills in 1862. 


MARSHALL, JOHN JAY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, author, was born 
Aug. 4, 1785, in Woodford county, Ky. 
He served in the Kentucky legislature 
for many years. From 1829 till 1833 he 
was reporter of the court of appeals, and 
from 1836 till his death he was judge of 
the circuit court of Louisville. He pub¬ 
lished Reports of Cases at Law and Equity 
in the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. He 
died in June, 1846, in Louisville, Ky. ' 

MARSHALL. JOSEPH GLASS, jurist, 
state legislator, was born Jan. 18, 1800, in 
Fayette county, Ind. In 1830 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the probate court of Jef¬ 
ferson county, Ind. Subsequently he 
served several terms in both branches of 
the state legislature. 

MARSHALL, NELLY NICHOL, author, 
was born May 8, 1845, in Louisville, Ky. 
She is a successful writer of Louisville, 
Ky. 

MARSHALL, ORSAMUS HOLMES, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 13, 1813, in Frank¬ 
lin, Conn. He was the author of numer¬ 
ous historical works. He aied July 9, 1884, 
in Buffalo, N. Y. 

MARSHALL, ROUJET D., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 26, 1847, in Nashua, N. 
H. During 1876-83 he was county judge 
in Wisconsin; in 1888 was elected circuit 
judge, and re-elected in 1894. In 1895 he 
was appointed to the supreme bench, and 
received the re-election to that office in 
1896 for the term expiring in 1908. 

MARSHALL,, SAMUEL S., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, United States senator, 
was born in 1824 in Gallatin county, Ill. 
He was elected to the Illinois state legis¬ 
lature in 1847; was elected state’s attor¬ 
ney, serving two years; and in 1851 was 
elected a judge of the circuit court, in 
which position he remained until 1854. He 
was elected to the thirty-fourth and 
thirty-fifth congresses from Illinois. He 
was elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, 
forty-first, forty-second and forty-third 
congresses as a democrat. In 4M7 he re¬ 
ceived the unanimous vote of his party 
in the minois legislature for United States 
senator. 

MARSHALL, T. MARCELLUS, clergy¬ 
man, missionary, educator, was born May 
17, 1851, in Stout’s Mills, W. Va. During 
1893-94 he was teacher in the great^ndian 
school of Carlisle, Pa.; and since 1894 has 
been a presbyterian missionary in West 
Virginia and Kentucky. 

MARSHALL, THOMAS, soldier, was 
born Oct. 27, 1761, in Fauquier county, Va. 
He served in the revolution, and attained 
the rank of captain. He settled in Ken¬ 
tucky in 1790, and was an active mem¬ 
ber of the convention that framed the 
second constitution of the state in 1799. 
He died March 19, 1817, in Mason county, 
Ky. 

MARSHALL, THOMAS, soldier, was 
born April 13, 1793, in Mason county, Ky. 
He was in the Kentucky legislature sev¬ 
eral times between 1817 and 1844, serving 
one term as speaker of that body. He 
was commissioned a brigadier-general of 
volunteers in the Mexican war, and com¬ 
manded a Kentucky brigade. He died 
March 28, 1853, in Lewis county, Ky. 

MARSHALL, THOMAS ALEXANDER, 
educator, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Jan. 15, 1794, in 
Woodford county, Ky. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Kentucky from 
1831 to 1835; and was a judge and chief 
justice of the court of appeals of Ken¬ 
tucky for about twenty years. He was 
a professor of law in the Transylvania 
college; and also served in the legislature 
of Kentucky. He died April 17, 1861, in 
Louisville, Ky. 







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MARSHALL, THOMAS ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, jurist, journalist, was born March 
29, 1812, in Augusta, Ky. He was judge 
of the Vicksburg circuit court; and a pub¬ 
lisher and editor of Swedes and Marshall's 
Reports of the Supreme Court of Missis¬ 
sippi. 

MARSHALL, THOMAS FRANCIS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born June 
7, 1801, in Frankfort, Ky. He was for 
several years judge of the circuit court of 
Louisville, and was a representative in 
congress from Kentucky from 1841 to 
1843. He died Sept. 22, 1864, in Versailles, 
Ky. 

MARSHALL, WILLIAM, surgeon, was 
born May 23, 1827, in Milton, Del. He 
served in the national army as surgeon of 
the third Delaware regiment, and after the 
battle of Antietam was discharged for dis¬ 
ability, but he subsequently led a com¬ 
pany in the sixth Delaware regiment, and 
also acted as surgeon until the close of 
the war. 

MARSHALL, WILLIAM CHAMPE, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, orator, was born 
Aug. 9, 1807, in Augusta, Ky. He served 
in the Kentucky legislature for many 
years. He was a member of the state 
constitutional convention of 1850, and 
was commonwealth attorney for Bracken 
county. He died May 2, 1873, in Augusta, 
Ky. 

MARSHALL, WILLIAM EDGAR, artist, 
was born June 30, 1837, in New York city. 
He is best known by his portrait engrav¬ 
ings, of which the admirable heads of 
Washington, Lincoln and Grant were 
especially successful. He made six por¬ 
traits of Gen. Grant, the last one just 
before the general’s death. 

MARSHALL, WILLIAM RAINEY, sur¬ 
veyor, merchant, financier, state legislat¬ 
or, governor, was born Oct. 17, 1825, in 
Boone county. Mo. In 1848 he served in 
the legislature of Wisconsin, and in 1849 
was elected a member of the first terri¬ 
torial legislature of Minnesota. During 
1866-68 he was governor of Minnesota, 

MARSHALL, WILLIS, educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born Feb. 17, 1864, in 
Manhattan, Kan. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Washburn college of Topeka, 
Kan., and at once entered educational 
work. He has been principal of the 
Spencer academy, Indian Territory; su¬ 
perintendent of the Hunderford academy 
of Springville, Utah; and is now presi¬ 
dent of the Buena Vista college of Storm 
Lake, Iowa. 

MARSTON, GEORGE W„ musician, 
composer, was born May 23, 1840, in Sand¬ 
wich, Mass. He is a teacher of piano and 
harmony; and has published an album of 
German songs, Anthems, Te Deurn and 
piano pieces. 

MARSTON, GILMAN, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, governor, was born Aug. 20, 
1811, in Oxford, N. H. In 1845 he was 
elected to the New Hampshire legislature, 
and served four years. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New Hamp¬ 
shire from 1859 to 1863. In 1863 he was 
commissioned a brigadier-general. Early 
in 1865 he was elected to the thirty-ninth 
congress. In 1870 he was appointed gov¬ 
ernor of Idaho. He died July 3, 1890, in 
Exeter, N. H. 

MARTIEN, WILLIAM STOCKTON, pub¬ 
lisher, was born June 20, 1798. In 1830, in 
connection with others, he began the pub¬ 
lication of the Presbyterian in Phila¬ 
delphia, and remained its publisher and 
principal owner until his death. He died 
April 16, 1861, in Philadelphia. 

MARTIN, ADAM, educator, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born Aug. 
9, 1835, in Bavaria. In 1865 he was called 


to the presidency of Northwestern univer¬ 
sity, Wisconsin. In 1869 he accepted the 
professorship of the German language and 
literature in Pennsylvania college of 
Gettysburg, Pa. He has translated the 
large catechism of Luther for the Book 
of Concord. 

MARTIN, ALEXANDER, soldier, law¬ 
yer, governor, United States senator, was 
born about 1740 in Guilford county, N. C. 
He was in the North Carolina state sen¬ 
ate, and was elected speaker. He was 
elected governor of North Carolina in 
1782, and again in 1789; and was a mem¬ 
ber of the convention which framed the 
constitution of the United States. From 
1793 to 1799 he was United States senator. 
He died in November, 1807, in Danbury, 
N. C. 

MARTIN, ALEXANDER, college presi¬ 
dent, clergyman, educator, was born Jan. 
24, 1822, in Scotland. In 1875 he became 
president of the Indiana Asbury univer¬ 
sity in Greencastle, Ind.; and was pro¬ 
fessor of Greek at the Allegheny college. 
He died Dec. 16, 1893, in Greencastle, Ind. 

MARTIN, AUGUSTE MARIE, bishop, 
was born about 1820 in France. He was 
consecrated in 1853 bishop of the newly 
created diocese of Natchitoches, which 
comprised the part of Louisiana that lies 
north of the thirty-first parallel of lati¬ 
tude. He died Sept. 29, 1875, in Natchi¬ 
toches, La. 

MARTIN, AUGUSTUS N„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born March 23, 1847, in Whitestown, Pa. 
He represented Adams and Wells coun¬ 
ties in the Indiana legislature in 1875. He 
was elected reporter pf the supreme court 
of Indiana in 1876 and served for a term 
of four years, during which period he 
edited and published Indiana Supreme 
Court Reports. He was elected to the 
fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third 
congresses as a democrat. 

MARTIN, BARCLAY, congressman, was 
born in South Carolina. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Tennessee from 
1845 to 1847. 

MARTIN. BENJAMIN F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 2, 1828, in Mari¬ 
on county, Va. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from West Virginia to the forty- 
fifth and forty-sixth congresses. 

MARTIN, BENJAMIN NICHOLAS, edu¬ 
cator, was born Oct. 20, 1816, in Mount 
Holly, N. J. He was called in 1852 to the 
chair of psychology and cognate sub¬ 
jects in the university of the city of New 
York, where he also lectured on rhetoric, 
belles-lettres, modern history, political 
economy, apologetics, and natural the¬ 
ology. He died Dec. 26, 1883, in New York 
city. 

MARTIN, CHARLES D., congressman, 
was born in Ohio. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from that state to the thirty- 
sixth congress. 

MARTIN, CHARLES H., educator, cler¬ 
gyman, congressman. He became a cler¬ 
gyman of the baptist church at Polkton, 
N. C. In 1896 he was elected a member of 
the fifty-fifth congress by the populists. 

MARTIN, D. M., soldier, lawyer. He 
served with distinction through the civil 
war; and attained the rank of brigadier- 
general. He has attained eminence at 
the bar in Chicago. 

MARTIN, DANIEL, governor, was born 
in Maryland. He was governor of that 
state in 1830. He died July 10, 1830, in 
Talbot county. 

MARTIN, EDWARD L., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born March 12, 1842, in Mays- 
ville, Ky. He is president of the Kansas 
City, Pittsburg and Gulf railroad. 


MARTIN, EDWARD LIVINGSTON, 
lawyer, congressman, was born March 29, 
1837, in Seaford, Del. He was elected a 
representative from Delaware to the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses 
as a democrat. 

MAR I IN, EDWARD SANDFORD, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1856 in New 
York. He is a journalist of New York 
city; and the author of Sly Ballades in 
Harvard China; A Little Brother of the 
Rich, and Other Poems; Cousin Anthony 
and I, Some Views of Ours; and Wind¬ 
falls of Observation. 

MARTIN, ELBERT S., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was elected a 
representative from that state to the 
thirty-sixth congress. 

MARTIN. FRANCOIS XAVIER, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, jurist, author, was born 
March 17, 1762, in France. He was ap¬ 
pointed judge of Mississippi territory by 
Jefferson; in 1813 was attorney-general 
of the state of Mississippi; and in 1815 was 
made judge of supreme court of Louisi¬ 
ana; and chief justice from 1837 to 1845. 
He published histories of Louisiana and 
North Carolina; Notes and Decisions in 
the Superior Courts of North Carolina 
from 1787 to 1796; Acts of the North 
Carolina Assembly from 1715 to 1803; 
Reports of the Superior Courts of 
Orleans from 1809 to 1812; Reports 
of the Supreme Court of Louisiana 
from 1813 to 1830; and a Digest of the 
Territorial and State Laws, in French and 
English. He died Dec. 11, 1846, in New 
Orleans, La. 

MARTIN, FREDERICK S„ merchant, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
April 25, 1794, in Rutland county, Vt. He 
served three years in the New York state 
legislature; and was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1851 to 
1854. 


MARTIN, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, was 
born June 30, 1815, in Middlebury, Vt. In 
1857 he was elected chief justice of Michi¬ 
gan for two years; and in 1859 he was 
elected a justice of the court for a term 
of eight years. He died Dec. 15, 1867, in 
Detroit, Mich. 

MARTIN, GEORGE ALEXANDER, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 3, 
1833, in Norfolk county, Va. He enlisted 
as a private in the 
confederate service 
and was promoted to 
lieutenant-colonel. In 



elector of Virginia 


1881 he was a mem¬ 
ber of vue Virginia 
state senate; has 
twice been a dele¬ 
gate to the Virginia 
uouse of delegates; 
in 1883-84 was rail¬ 
road commissioner 
of Virginia; and in 
1888 was presidential 
He has made his¬ 


tory and the classics a special study; 
and has contributed extensively to current 
literature. He is one of the foremost 
lawyers of his native state at Norfolk. 

MARTIN, HENRY NEWELL, educator, 
biologist, author, was born July 1, 1848, in 
Ireland. He was a biologist of note, pro¬ 
fessor of biology at Johns Hopkins uni¬ 
versity from 1876; and the author of Tne 
Human Body; Practical Biology; and 
Handbook of Vertebrate Dissection. He 
died in 1896. 


MARTIN, HOMER DODGE, artist, was 
born Oct. 28, 1836, in Albany, N. Y. His 
landscapes are notable for color and at¬ 
mosphere. His works include White 
Mountains from Randolph Hill; Adiron- 
dacks; Thames at Richmond; Evening 
on the Saranac; Sand Dunes on Lake On¬ 
tario; On the Neck, Newport, R. I.; and 
Old Manor at Criqueboeuf, Normandy. 


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MARTIN, JAMES, educator, clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born May 12, 1796, 
in Albany, N. Y. In 1842 he became pro¬ 
fessor of didactic theology and Hebrew in 
the theological seminary at Cannonsburg, 
Pa. He published A Preface designed to 
show‘that the Biblical Psalms only are 
to be sung in the Worship of God; an Es¬ 
say on the Imputation of Adam’s First 
Sin to His Posterity; and The Duty of 
Submission to Church Rulers Explained 
and Defended. He died June 15, 1846, in 
Cannonsburg, Pa. 

MARTIN, JAMES DANIEL, educator, 
was born May 9, 1864, in Mechanicsville, 
S. C. He has been principal in the lead¬ 
ing normal schools of North Carolina; has 
been regularly engaged as one of the con¬ 
ductors of the summer Normal schools 
and institutes for the public school teach¬ 
ers of the state. He now fills the chair 
of Latin and English in the Normal and 
Preparatory school of the Biddle univer¬ 
sity of Charlotte, N. C. 

MARTIN, JAMES HENRY', educator, 
was born June 29, 1864, in Grafton, W. Va. 
He received his education at the Philippi 
academy, the university of Lebanon, and 
the Waynesburg college. He has attained 
success as an educator; has been city su¬ 
perintendent of Monticello schools; and 
•county superintendent of Piatt county, Ill. 

MARTIN, JAMES STEWART, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
Aug. 19, 1826, in Scott county, Va. He 
moved to Illinois in 1846; and was clerk 
of the Marion county court for twelve 
years. He entered the army as colonel in 
1862, and was brevetted brigadier-general. 
He was elected county judge of Marion 
county at the close of the war; appointed 
pension agent in 1868; and was elected 
to the forty-third congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

MARTIN, JANE PERCY, author, was 
born in England. She is the author of a 
novel entitled Lost and Saved; and has 
written extensively on subjects of travel. 

MARTIN, JOHN, naval officer, state leg¬ 
islator, governor, was born about 1730. He 
was appointed naval officer at Sunbury, 
Ga., in 1761; and was a member of the pro¬ 
vincial congress in 1775. He entered the 
Georgia continental line as captain; and 
was lieutenant-colonel in 1781. He was a 
member of the legislature from Chatham 
county; was state treasurer in 1783; and 
commissioned to make a treaty with the 
Creek Indians in 1783. He was governor 
of Georgia from 1782 to 1783. 

MARTIN, JOHN, lawyer, governor, 
United States senator, was born Nov. 12, 
1833, in Wilson county, Tenn. In 1857-58 
he was postmaster at Tecumseh, Kan.; in 
1858-oa was county attorney; and in 1873 
be was elected to the Kansas state legis¬ 
lature from Topeka; and received the re- 
election the following year. In 1876 he 
was elected governor of Kansas. In 1883 
he was appointed a district judge, and 
subsequently received the election to that 
office. In 1893 he was elected to the 
United States senate to fill a vacancy, and 
served during 1893-95, 

MARTIN, JOHN ALEXANDER, jour¬ 
nalist, governor, was born March 10, 1839, 
in Brownsville, Pa. He was a successful 
journalist of Atchison, Kan.; and be¬ 
came governor of Kansas. He died Oct. 
10, 1889, in Atchison, Kan. 

MARTIN, JOHN HILL, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Jan. 13, 1823, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a lawyer of Phil¬ 
adelphia; legal editor of The Intelligencer 
since 1881; and the author of Bethlehem 
and the Moravians; The Bench and Bar 
of Philadelphia; Chester and Its Vicinity; 
and Delaware County. 


MARTIN, JOHN JACOB, soldier, law¬ 
yer, public official, was born in 1826 in 
Abbeville, S. C. In 1869 he was appointed 
sixth auditor of the treasury in YVashing- 
ton, which position he resigned in 1875, 
and was appointed postmaster of Mont¬ 
gomery, Ala. 

MARTIN, JOHN L., soldier, journalist, 
governor, was born March 10, 1839, in 
Brownsville, Pa. In 1858 he purchased the 
Squatter Sovereign newspaper of Atchi¬ 
son, Kan., and changed the name to the 
Champion. In 1859 he was elected a state 
senator. He resigned to accept the lieu¬ 
tenant-colonelcy of the eighth Kansas vol¬ 
unteer infantry for service in the union 
army; in 1862 was promoted to colonel 
of the regiment; and was appointed pro¬ 
vost marshal of Nashville, Tenn., serving 
for six months. In 1884 he was elected 
governor of Kansas. 

MARTIN, JOHN MASON, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 
20, 1837, in Athens, Ala. In 1871 he was 
elected state senator from Alabama to fill 
a vacancy; in 1872 was elected for 
a full term; and during the latter term 
was elected president pro tempore of the 
senate. In 1875 he was elected professor 
of equity jurisprudence in the university 
of Alabama, the term continuing until 
1886. In 1884 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Alabama to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

MARTIN, JOHN P., state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 11, 1811, in Lee 
county, Va. In 1828 he moved to 
Kentucky. In 1841 he was elected to th'e 
Kentucky legislature, and re-elected the 
following year. He was a representative 
in congress from Kentucky from 1845 to 
1847; and in 1857 was elected to the sen¬ 
ate of Kentucky. 

MARTIN, JONATHAN McCALEB, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born June 2, 1846, in 
Claiborne county, Miss. He received his 
education at the university of Virginia, 
and soon became a leading lawyer of his 
state. He was president of the board of 
registrars; for four years was a repre¬ 
sentative of the Mississippi legislature; 
and for four years a member of the state 
senate. For fifteen years he was a trus¬ 
tee of the Industrial institute and college 
of Columbus, Miss.; and now practices his 
profession in Port Gibson, Miss. 

MARTIN, JOSEPH JOHN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 21, 1833, in Mar¬ 
tin county, N. C. He was elected county 
attorney for his native county, which po¬ 
sition he held for six years; was elect¬ 
ed as a republican solicitor for the 
second judicial district of North Caro¬ 
lina in 1868, and held the position six 
years; and was re-elected in 1874, and 
held the office until his nomination for 
congress. He was elected to the forty- 
sixth congress as a republican. 

MARTIN, JOSHUA LANIER, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, governor, was born 
Dec. 5, 1799, in Blount county, Tenn. He 
was elected a representative in the Ala¬ 
bama legislature in 1822; and was subse¬ 
quently elected, successively, solicitor, cir¬ 
cuit judge, and chancellor. In 1835 he 
was elected a representative from Ala¬ 
bama to the twenty-fourth congress; and 
was re-elected to the twenty-fifth con¬ 
gress. In 1845 he announced himself an 
independent candidate for governor of 
Alabama and was elected, serving until 
1847. He died Nov. 2, 1856, in Tuscaloosa, 
Ala. 

MARTIN, JOSIAH, soldier, governor, 
was born April 23, 1737, probably in An¬ 
tigua, W. I. He was governor of North 
Carolina from 1771 to 1775. He died in 
July, 1786, in London, England. 


MARTIN, L. A., educator, poet, was 
born Jan. 14, 1865, in Fayette county, 
Ohio. After receiving a liberal education, 
he entered educa¬ 
tional work; and in 
1889 was school com¬ 
missioner of Living¬ 
ston county, Ohio. 
He has written ex¬ 
tensively both prose 
and verse for the pe¬ 
riodical press; and 
for several years was 
editor of The Teach¬ 
ers’ Review, an edu¬ 
cational journal pub¬ 
lished in Chillicothe, 
Mo. He is the author of Hallowe’en and 
Other Poems; Random Flashes; Hux- 
ter Puck and Other Poems; and other 
works. 

MARTIN, LARKIN MORRIS, railroad 
manager, was born Dec. 6, 1854, in Point 
Pleasant, Va. He has been for many 
years connected with various railroads as 
station agent, general agent, and superin¬ 
tendent; and is now the general manager 
of the Iowa Central Railway company. 

MARTIN, LUTHER, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 9, 1748, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. In 1778 he was appoint¬ 
ed attorney-general 
of Maryland. He 
was a delegate to the 
continental congress 
in 1784 and 1785; and 
was a member of the 
convention which 
framed the federal 
constitution, but was 
opposed to its adop¬ 
tion, and an elabor¬ 
ate speech which he 
delivered before the 
assembly of Mary¬ 
land about the convention caused consid¬ 
erable excitement at the time throughout 
the country; he acquired distinction by 
defending Samuel Chase and Aaron Burr, 
in their celebrated trials. In 1814 he was 
appointed judge of the court of oyer and 
terminer. He died July 10, 1826, in New 
Y'ork. 

MARTIN, MRS. MARGARET [MAX¬ 
WELL], educator, author, was born July 
12, 1807, in Scotland. She is an educator 
of Columbia, S. C.; and the author of 
Day Spring; Christianity in Earnest; Re¬ 
ligious Poems; and Scenes and Scenery of 
South Carolina. 

MARTIN, MORGAN L., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a dele¬ 
gate to congress from the territory of Wis¬ 
consin from 1845 to 1847. 

MARTIN, NOAH, governor, was born 
in New Hampshire. He was governor of 
that state for two years from 1852 to 1854. 

MARTIN. R. FITRNISS, lawyer, was 
born July 10, 1866, in Brazoria county, 
Texas. He received his education at the 
St. Mary university, and the state uni¬ 
versity of Austin, Texas. He has attained 
prominence as a leading lawyer of his 
native state at Brazoria; and takes an 
active part in public affairs. 

MARTIN, RICHARD, lawyer, politician, 
was born Sept. 14, 1861, in Liverpool, Eng¬ 
land. He attended the New York college, 
and subsequently took a post-graduate 
course in ethics and philosophy, and re¬ 
ceived the degree of A. B. He practices 
his profession with success in Pawtucket, 
R. I., where he is a prominent member 
of the republican party. He has been 
chairman of the city committee; a clerk 
in the house of representatives; and is 
prominent in fraternal orders. 






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MARTIN, ROBERT MOODY, journalist, 
was born Oct. 9, 1870, in Marion, S. C. He 
is the editor and owner of The Liberty 
County Herald of Hinesville, Ga.; and a 
general writer on political economy. He 
is prominently identified with the state 
democratic executive committee; and 
an active member of several fraternal 
orders. 


MARTIN, ROBERT N., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1798, in 
Cambridge, Md. He was a representative 
in congress from Maryland from 1825 to 
1827. He died July 20, 1870, in Saratoga, 
N. Y. 

MARTIN, S. A., clergyman, educator, 
college president, was born Nov. 1, 1853, 
in Cannonsburg, Pa. He is an eminent 
clergyman and educator; and the president 
of Wilson college of Chambersburg, Pa. 

MARTIN, S. WESLEY, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Jan. 20, 1839, in Plain- 
field, Ill. For many years he was em¬ 
ployed in conducting musical conventions. 
He now resides in San Jose, Cal.; and is 
the author of one hundred sheet music 
songs; and various music books. 




MARTIN, THOMAS STAPLES, was 
born July 29, 1847, in Scottsville, Ya. 
Though not a regularly enlisted soldier, a 
considerable part of 
the time while he 
was a cadet at the 
Virginia Military in¬ 
stitute was spent in 
the military service 
of the confederate 
states with the bat¬ 
talion of cadets of 
the institute. Since 
1869 he has devoted 
himself closely to 

_law; for a number of 

years has been a 
member of the board of visitors of the 
Miller Manual Labor school of Albemarle 
county; and a member of the board of 
visitors of the university of Virginia. In 
1893 he was elected a senator from Vir¬ 
ginia for the term commencing March 4, 
1895. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 1901. 



MARTIN, WILLIAM ALEXANDER 
PARSONS, clergyman, missionary, college 
president, author, was born April 10, 1827, 
in Livonia, Ind. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman and missionary, president of 
the Tungwen college, Pekin. Among his 
writings in Chinese are. Evidences of 
Christianity; The Three Principles; Re¬ 
ligious Allegories. In English he has pub¬ 
lished The Chinese: Their Education, 
Philosophy and Letters. 


MARTIN, WILLIAM DOBBIN, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 20, 
1789, in Martintown, S. C. He was a judge 
of the court of common pleas; and was a 
representative in congress from South 
Carolina from 1827 to 1833. He died Nov. 
16, 1833, in Charleston, S. C. 

MARTIN, WILLIAM HARRISON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, 
was born Sept. 2, 1822, in Twiggs county, 
Ga. He was elected 
to the Texas state 
senate in 1853. and 
re-elected in 1855. In 
1861 he raised a com¬ 
pany for the confed¬ 
erate army, and was 
mustered into the 
fourth Texas regi¬ 
ment; was assigned 
to Lee’s army, and 
participated in all 
the battles of that 
army till the sur¬ 
render in April, 1865. He returned to 
Athens, and resumed the practice of law. 



In 1872 he was elected district attorney; 
and at the expiration of his term of office 
he retired to his farm and ranch, which 
he was running when elected to the fifti¬ 
eth congress and re-elected to the fifty- 
first congress as a democrat. 

MARTIN, WILLIAM I., soldier, lawyer. 
During the civil war he was in the army 
of northern Virginia; was afterward 
major-general in the army of the Tennes¬ 
see; and now practices law in Vicks¬ 
burg, Miss. 

MARTIN, WILLIAM LOGAN, lawyer, 
was born Nov. 3, 1850, in Madison county, 
Ala. In 1889 he was elected attorney-gen¬ 
eral of the state of Alabama. 

MARTINDALE. ELIJAH B„ journalist, 
jurist, was born Aug. 22, 1828, in Wayne 
county, Ind. In 1861 he was appointed 
judge of the common pleas court for the 
district composed of the counties of 
Henry, Madison, Hancock, Rush, and De¬ 
catur, Ind. In 1876 he purchased the In¬ 
dianapolis Journal, the leading republican 
paper of the state, and assumed its active 
control. 

MARTINDALE, HENRY CLIFTON, 
congressman, was born May 6, 1780, in 
Berkshire county, Mass. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York from 
1823 to 1831, and again from 1833 to 1835. 
He died April 22, 1860, in Sandy Hill, N. Y. 

MARTINDALE, JOHN HENRY, soldier, 
lawyer, was born March 20, 1815, in Sandy 
Hill, N. Y. In 1861 he was commissioned 
brigadier-general of volunteers. He sub¬ 
sequently became attorney-general of New 
York state. He died Dec. 13, 1881, in 
France. 

MARTINITZ, STANISLAUS VON, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, was born Oct. 8, 1845, in 
Bohemia. He graduated from the School 
of Medicine in Goe- 
then. In 1869 he 
emigrated to Amer¬ 
ica, and began the 
practice of medicine. 
He subsequently re¬ 
turned to Bohemia 
and attended the 
clinics of the univer¬ 
sity of Prague; and 
finally took a course 
of medicine in the 
Chicago Medical col¬ 
lege. In 1893 he was 
appointed member of the advisory council 
of the medical department at the World’s 
congress of the World’s Columbian expo¬ 
sition. He is the author of The Soul’s 
Functions Within the Human Body, or The 
Mind’s Functions Within the Nervous 
System of Man, a philosophy of interven¬ 
ing sciences. He has attained success in 
his profession at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

MARTYN, ELIZA LAMB, poet, was 
born July 8, 1845, in Charlton, Mass. She 
is the author of a number of poems. 

MARTYN, MRS. SARAH TOWNE 
[SMITH], author, was born Aug. 15, 1805, 
in Hopkinton, N. H. She was a writer of 
Sunday-school semi-historical fiction 
whose home was in New York city. 
Among her many works are comprised 
Huguenots of France; William Tyndale; 
and Lady Alice Lisle. She died Nov. 22, 
1879, in New York city. 

MARTYN, WILLIAM CARLOS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 15, 1841, in 
New York city. He is a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman of New York city; and the author 
of History of the Huguenots; History of 
the English Puritans; The Pilgrim Fath¬ 
ers of New England; History of the Dutch 
Reformation; and Lives of John Milton, 
John B. Gough, Wendell Phillips, William 
E. Dodge. 



MARVIN, DUDLEY, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in May, 1786, in Lyme, 
Conn. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1823 to 1829. 
In 1844 he moved to Ripley; and was 
again elected to congress, serving from 
1847 to 1849. He died June 25, 1856, in 
Ripley, N. Y. 

MARVIN, ENOCH MATHER, bishop, 
author, was born June 12, 1823, in War¬ 
ren county, Mo. He was a bishop of the 
methodist church south; and the author 
of The Work of Christ; Sermons; and T» 
the East by Way of the West. He died 
Dec. 3, 1887, in St. Louis, Mo. 

MARVIN, FRANCIS, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born March 8, 1828, in 
New York city. He was educated at pri¬ 
vate schools in that city; entered upon 
a commercial career, and has been en¬ 
gaged in the promotion, construction, and 
operation of railways, water supply com¬ 
panies, bridges, the manufacture of illu¬ 
minating gas, and in banking; and has 
filled many local offices. He was elected 
to the fifty-third congress from New York. 

MARVIN, JAMES M., congressman, 
was born Feb. 27, 1809, in Ballston, N. Y. 
In 1846 he was elected to the house of as¬ 
sembly; and in 1862 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the thirty- 
eighth congress. He was re-elected to the 
thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses as 
a republican. 

MARVIN, JONATHAN JONES, soldier, 
lawyer, poet, was born Sept. 23, 1822, in 
Hammond, N. Y. He settled in Falls City, 
Neb.; was prosecuting attorney of his 
county; was postmaster for three years; 
and for fifteen years was a justice of the 
peace. He is the author of a number of 
meritorious poems, many of which have 
been incorporated into standard collec¬ 
tions. 

MARVIN, RICHARD P., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in New York. He 
served in the assembly of that state from 
Chautauqua county in 1836; and was a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1837 to 1841. In 1855 he was elected 
a judge of the supreme court of that state. 

MARVIN, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
was a citizen of Florida. He was appoint¬ 
ed United States judge for the southern 
district of that state. 

MARYOTT, E. EDGAR, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 29, 1845, in North 
Stonington, Mass. He is the author of 
The New Medical World, a popular work 
on hygiene and progressive medicine. 

MASH, SAMUEL LEWIS, lawyer, was 
born Nov. 15, 1868, in Vicksburg, Miss. 
When a youth he moved to Des Moines, 
Iowa, in which city his father was a 
blacksmith. In 1889 he was admitted to 
the bar, and has since practiced his pro¬ 
fession with success. He was a delegate 
at large to the national democratic con¬ 
vention in 1892; was the author of the 
civil rights bill of Iowa; and was instru¬ 
mental in having it become a law in 1893. 

MASON, AMISTEAD THOMSON, sol¬ 
dier, United States senator, was born in 
1787 in Loudoun county, Va. He was a col¬ 
onel in the war of 1812; and was a United 
States senator from Virginia from 1816 
to 1817. He was killed in a duel Feb. 6, 
1819, in Bladensburg, D. C. 

MASON, MRS. CAROLINE ATHER¬ 
TON [BRIGGS], author, poet, was born 
July 27, 1823, in Marblehead, Mass. She 
was a verse-writer of Fitchburg, Mass., 
whose poem, Do They Miss Me at Home, 
was long a popular song. She was the 
author of Utterance, a Collection of Home 
Poems; The Lost Ring, and Other Poems; 
and Rose Hamilan, a tale. She died in 
1890. 





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MASON, CHARLES, astronomer, was 
born in 1730 in England. In 1763 he was 
•commissioned to survey the boundary line 
between Pennsylvania and Maryland by 
the respective proprietors of these col¬ 
onies. He died in February, 1787, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

MASON, CHARLES, journalist, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 24, 1804, in Pompey, 
N. Y. He was acting editor of the New 
York Evening Post in 1837 and 1838; chief 
justice of the superior court of Iowa from 
1838 to 1847; commissioner to draft a code 
of laws for the state of Iowa in 1848; and 
judge of Des Moines county court in 1851 
and 1852. He was United States commis¬ 
sioner of patents from 1853 to 1857. He 
died Feb. 25, 1882, in Burlington, Iowa. 

MASON, CHARLES O., poet. He is a 
writer of Glens Falls, N. Y.; and the 
author of a number of poems. 

MASON, MRS. CLARA STEVENS AR¬ 
THUR, poet, was born in 1844 in Maine. 
She is the author of The Cherry Blooms of 
Yeddo, a volume of poems. 

MASON, DAVID HASTINGS, journalist, 
author, was born Jan. 8, 1828, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is a Chicago journalist who 
has published a Short Tariff History of 
the United States. 

MASON, EBENEZER PORTER, astron¬ 
omer, was born Dec. 7, 1819, in Washing¬ 
ton, Conn. He attained eminence as an 
astronomer. He died Dec. 20, 1840, in 
Richmond, Va. 

MASON, EMILY VIRGINIA, educator, 
author, poet, was born Oct. 15, 1815, in 
Lexington, Ky. She was a nurse in con¬ 
federate hospitals and after the civil war 
an educator in Paris. She edited a col¬ 
lection of Southern Poems of the War, 
and wrote a Popular Life of General 
Robert E. Lee. 

MASON, ERSKiNE, clergyman, was 
born April 16, 1805, in New York city. He 
was pastor of a presbyterian church at 
Schenectady in 1827; and of the Bleecker 
Street church in New York in 1830. From 
1836 till 1842 he was professor of ecclesi¬ 
astical history in Union Theological sem¬ 
inary. He died May 14, 1851, in New York 
city. 

MASON, ERSKINE, surgeon, author, 
was born May 8, 1837, in New York city. 
From 1879 till 1882 he was clinical lec¬ 
turer on surgery in Bellevue Hospital 
Medical college, New York city. Among 
his frequent contributions to medical pe¬ 
riodical literature may be mentioned those 
on Lumbar Colotomy; The Operation of 
Laparotomy, with a Case; Perityph¬ 
litis; and Amputation at the Hip Joint. 
He died April 13, 1860, in New York city. 

MASON, GEORGE, statesman, was born 
in 1726 in Doeg’s Neck, Va. He was a 
member of the Virginia legislature, and 
in 1776 drafted the declaration of rights 
and constitution of Virginia, and was 
known as the Father of States’ Rights. 
In 1777 he was a delegate to the conti¬ 
nental congress; and in 1787 was a mem¬ 
ber of the convention to frame the fed¬ 
eral constitution. He was elected first 
United States senator from Virginia but 
declined, and retired to private life. Hd 
died Oct. 7, 1792, in Gunston Hall on the 
Potomac. 

MASON, GEORGE CHAMPLIN, archi¬ 
tect, author, was born July 17, 1820, in 
Newport, R. I. He was an architect of 
Newport, R. I.; and the author of New¬ 
port and Its Environs; Application of 
Art to Manufactures; The Old House Al¬ 
tered; Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart; 
nnd Reminiscences of Newport. He died 
in 1894. 


MASON, JAVAN K., clergyman, poet, 
was born Sept. 20, 1817, in Bethel, Maine. 
He has been chaplain of the Maine state 
prison; and for over a quarter of a cen¬ 
tury an overseer of Bowdoin college. He 
has contributed extensively to religious 
literature, and is the author of a number 
of poems and hymns. 

MASON, JACOB CASWELL, educator, 
clergyman, was born Jan. 10, 1845, in 
Union county, Ky. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the Princeton college, Ky., and 
the Cumberland university. He was first 
lieutenant of the Illinois state guards at 
the age of eighteen; and for many years 
was engaged in educational work. Dur¬ 
ing 1870-78 he was pastor of the Chris¬ 
tian church of Bethany, Ark.; and in 
1878-83 filled a pastorate at Okolona, Ark. 
The succeeding three years he was a state 
evangelist; then a pastor at Texarkana; 
and since 1890 has been engaged in the 
ministry at Houston, Texas. 

MAS^N, JAMES B., congressman. He 
was a member of the Rhode Island house 
of representatives for many years; and 
for a part of the time was speaker. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Rhode Island from 1815 to 1819. 

MASON, JAMES LOUIS, soldier, was 
born in 1817 in Providence, R. I. He par¬ 
ticipated in the war with Mexico, and at¬ 
tained the rank of brigadier-general. He 
died Sept. 5, 1853, in San Francisco, Cal. 

MASON, JAMES MURRAY, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born 
Nov. 3, 1798, on Mason’s Island, Va. In 
1826 he was elected to the Virginia house 
of delegates, and twice re-elected; and 
was a presidential elector in 1833. He was 
a representative in congress from 1837 to 
1839; in 1847 was elected a senator in 
congress in the place of Senator Penny- 
backer, and re-elected in 1849, in which 
position he continued until 1861. He was 
expelled from the senate in July, 1861. He 
died April 28, 1871, in Alexandria, Va. 

MASON, JEREMIAH, lawyer, United 
States senator, author, was born April 27, 
1768, in Lebanon, Conn. In 1802 he was 
appointed attorney-general of New Hamp¬ 
shire; and from 1813 to 1817 was a sen¬ 
ator in congress. An edition of his Life 
and Letters was published for private cir¬ 
culation in 1875. He died Nov. 14, 1848, in 
Boston, Mass. 

MASON, JOHN, soldier, author, was 
born in 1600 in England. He was a Puri¬ 
tan soldier who held a place in the esti¬ 
mation of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans 
corresponding to that filled by Miles Stan- 
dish among the Pilgrims. He was the au¬ 
thor of History of the Pequot War. He 
died in 1672 in Norwich, Conn. 

MASON, JOHN, clergyman, was born 
in 1734 in Scotland. Believing that the 
causes that divided the presbyterians of 
Scotland did not exist in the United 
States, he labored for their union into one 
denomination, and a general union of the 
reformed presbyterians was effected under 
the title of the associate reformed church. 
Of this body Dr. Mason was the first mod¬ 
erator. He died April 19, 1792, in New 
York city. 

MASON, JOHN C., congressman. He 
was born in Kentucky; was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from that state to the thirty- 
fifth congress. 

MASON, JOHN MITCHELL, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1770 in New York. He 
was a presbyterian clergyman of New 
York city, long famous as a pulpit orator, 
his Oration on the Death of Alexander 
Hamilton being especially noted. He was 
the author of Letters on Frequent Com¬ 
munion; and Plea for Sacramental Com¬ 
munion on Catholic Principles. 


MASON, JOHN S., soldier, was born 
Aug. 21, 1824. in Steubenville, Ohio. He 
was promoted major in 1864, and brevetted 
colonel and brigadier-general, in the regu¬ 
lar army in 1865, for gallant and meritori¬ 
ous services during the war. 

MASON, JOHN THOMSON, jurist, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in May, 
1815, in Montpelier, Md. In 1838 he was 
elected a member of the legislature of 
Maryland, and re-elected in 1839. He was 
a representative in congress from 1841 
to 1843, being at that time the youngest 
man in congress. In 1851 he was elected 
by the people, under the new constitution 
of the state, a judge of the court of ap¬ 
peals, which position he filled until 1857, 
when he resigned, and was appointed col¬ 
lector of the port of Baltimore. He died 
March 28, 1873, in Annapolis, Md. 

MASON, JOHN YOUNG, jurist, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born April 18, 
1799, in Greensville, Va. He was a federal 
judge of the eastern district court of Vir¬ 
ginia; and judge also of the general court 
of Virginia. He served about ten years 
in the state legislature; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Virginia from 
1831 to 1837. He was a member of Presi¬ 
dent Polk’s cabinet, first as attorney-gen¬ 
eral, and secondly as secretary of the 
navy. He died Oct. 3, 1859, in Paris, 
France. 

MASON, JONATHAN, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Aug. 30, 
1752, in Boston, Mass. He was a senator 
of the United States from Massachusetts 
from 1800 to 1803; and a representative in 
congress from that state from 1817 to 1820. 
He died Nov. 1, 1831, in Boston, Mass. 

MASON, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 30, 1828, in 
Plattsburg, N. Y. He was county judge 
of Madison county, N. Y., from 1864 to 
1868; was collector of internal revenue 
from 1871 to 1876; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a 
republican. 

MASON, LOWELL, musician, composer, 
was born Jan. 8, 1792, in Medford, Mass. 
He was the first musician who received 
the degree of doctor of music in America. 
He was author and compiler of many col¬ 
lections of choice music, and to him Mas¬ 
sachusetts is indebted for introducing 
music into the public schools. Bethany 
alone would have rendered his name im¬ 
mortal. He died Aug. 11, 1872, in Orange, 
N. Y. 

MASON, MELANCTHON WELLS, in¬ 
ventor, was born in 1805 in Cheshire, 
Mass. While he was master mechanic of 
the Syracuse and Auburn railway he in¬ 
vented many important improvements in 
locomotives that have since come into 
general use. He is perhaps best known by 
his locomotive head-light, which he per¬ 
fected in 1842. He died June 20, 1875, in 
Rochester, N. Y. 

MASON, MOSES, congressman, was 
born in 1791. He was a representative in 
congress from Maine from 1834 to 1837; 
and subsequently a member of the state 
executive council. He died June 25, 1866, 
in Bethel, Maine. 

MASON, OTIS TUFTON, ethnologist, 
author, was born April 10, 1838, in East- 
port, Maine. He is an anthropologist of 
note, and the author of The Hupa Indian 
Industries; Woman’s Share in Primitive 
Culture; The Origins of Invention; The 
Land Problem; Cradles of the North Am¬ 
erican Indians; and The Antiquities of 
Guadeloupe. 


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MASON, RICHARD BARNES, soldier, 
was born Jan. 16, 1797, in Fairfax county, 
Va. He was brevetted major in 1829 for 
ten years’ faithful service in one grade, 
and brigadier-general in 1848 for meri¬ 
torious conduct. He died July 25, 1850, in 
St. Louis, Mo. 

MASON, RICHARD SHARP, clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 29, 1795, in West 
Indies. In 1829 he was elected president 
of Hobart college of New York, having 
the previous year become rector of St. 
Matthew’s at that place. In 1835 he was 
called to be the head of a similar educa¬ 
tional institution at Newark, Del. In 
1840 he returned to North Carolina, hav¬ 
ing been called to the rectorship of Christ 
church, Raleigh, where he labored for 
thirty-five years until his death. He was 
the author of A Letter to the Bishop of 
North Carolina on the Subject of his 
Late Pastoral; and The Baptism of In¬ 
fants Defended from the Objections of 
Anti-Psedobaptists. He died in 1875 in 
Raleigh, N. C. 

MASON, SAMSON, congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1835 to 
1843, and was afterward a member of the 
convention which framed the state con¬ 
stitution. 

MASON, THOMSON, lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born in 1733 in Virginia. In 
1778 he was appointed a member of the 
first supreme court of Virginia. He died 
in 1785 in Virginia. 

MASON, STEVENS THOMSON, soldier, 
legislator, United States senator, was born 
in 1760 in Chapawansic, Va. He was an 
■officer in the revolutionary war, attain¬ 
ing to the rank of general. He was a 
member of the Virginia house of bur¬ 
gesses, and a presidential elector in 1792. 
He was a senator of the United States 
from Virginia from 1794 to 1803; a mem¬ 
ber of the convention to frame the con¬ 
stitution of Virginia; and a member of 
the state legislature. He died May 10, 
1803, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MASON, STEVENS THOMSON, lawyer, 
governor, was born in 1811 in Loudoun 
county, Va. In 1831 he was appointed 
secretary of the territory of Michigan, 
•and became acting governor. In 1835, 
when the territory became a state, he 
was unanimously elected its first gov¬ 
ernor, and at the end of his term was re¬ 
elected. He died Jan. 4, 1843, in New 
York city. 

MASON, WILLIAM, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Connecticut. He 
served in the legislature of New York 
from Chenango county from 1820 to 1822; 
and was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1835 to 1837. 

MASON, WILLIAM, pianist, composer, 
was born Jan. 24, 1829, in Boston, Mass. 
In 1855-56 he established, in connection 
with Theodore Thomas, a series of clas¬ 
sical soirees. These concerts became 
known as the Mason and Thomas soirees, 
which were continued until 1868. He has 
published about forty compositions for 
the piano-forte, and is the author of two 
piano-forte methods, and also a system of 
Piano-forte Technics. 

MASON, WILLIAM E., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, United States senator, 
was born July 7, 1850, in Franklinville, N. 
Y. Since 1872 he has maintained a law of¬ 
fice in Chicago, Ill. He was elected to the 
general assembly in 1879, and to the state 
senate in 1881. He was elected to the 
fiftieth and fifty-first congresses and de¬ 
feated for the fifty-second in the land¬ 
slide of 1892. He was elected to the 


United States senate Jan. 20, 1897, by a 
strict party vote. He took his seat March 
4,» 1897, and his term of service will ex¬ 
pire March 3, 1903. 

MASON, WILLIAM POWELL, lawyer, 
author, was born Dec..9, 1791, in Boston, 
Mass. He published Reports of Cases in 
the Circuit Court of the United States 
for the First Circuit, from 1816 to 1830, 
in five volumes; and a second series in five 
volumes. He died in 1867. 

MASSIE, CHARLES WILLIAM, lawyer, 
jurist, was born July 11, 1849, in Adair 
county, Ky. For nearly a quarter of a 
century he has been actively engaged in 
the practice of law; has been county at¬ 
torney of Palo Pinto county, Texas, and 
has served with distinction as special dis¬ 
trict and county judge of that county. In 
1884-85 he was commissioner for Texas to 
the exposition at New Orleans. 

MASaiE, NATHANIEL, pioneer, sol¬ 
dier, state senator, was born Dec. 28, 1763, 
in Goochland county, Va. At the begin¬ 
ning of the nineteenth century he was 
one of the largest land-owners in Ohio. 
He was active in the early Indian wars, 
was state senator, and for one term 
speaker, major-general of militia for sev¬ 
eral years, and a member of the Ohio con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1802. He died 
Nov. 13, 1813, in Paint Creek Falls, Ohio. 

MASTERS, JOSIAH, lawyer, jurist, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 
1763, in Woodbury, Conn. He was a 
prominent member of the New York state 
legislature in 1792, 1800, and 1801, when 
he was appointed associate judge of Rens¬ 
selaer county. From 1805 to 1809 he was 
a representative in congress. In 1808 he 
was chosen first judge of the court of 
common pleas of the county, which office 
he held until his death. He died June 30, 
1822. 

MASTERS, SILAS W., merchant, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Oct. 15, 1868, in Perry 
county, Ohio. He received the rudiments 
of his education in the public schools of 
Columbus, Ohio; and is a graduate of the 
Ohio Wesleyan university. For many 
years he was engaged in mercantile busi¬ 
ness in which he was very successful. In 
1890-91 he was business manager of the 
Franklin County Farmers’ Alliance, a 
successful Ohio newspaper. He is now 
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church 
at Piketon, Ohio. 

MASTIN, CLAUDIUS HENRY, surgeon, 
was born June 4, 1826, in Huntsville, Ala. 
In 1849 he graduated from the medical 
department at the university of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; and the following year went 
abroad, studying in Edinborough, Paris 
and London. On his return he settled in 
Mobile, Ala., where he has since practiced, 
chiefly as a surgeon. During the civil 
war he served as a surgeon in the con¬ 
federate army. In 1883 he was vice-presi¬ 
dent of the American Surgical associa¬ 
tion. He has invented several surgical 
instruments, and contributed largely to 
medical journals. 

MASURY, JOHN W., manufacturer, in¬ 
ventor, was born Jan. 1, 1820, in Salem, 
Mass. He established a large paint store 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., which is known as 
Masury and Son. He was the inventor of 
a mill for grinding colors in quick drying 
varnish to an impalpable fineness. 

MATHER, COTTON, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 12, 1663, in Boston, 
Mass. Of his many works his Magnalia 
Christi Americana is the most noted. His 
connection with the Salem witchcraft is 
said to be more the fault of the age than 
the man, as his philanthropy was rare 
for that age. He was pastor of the 
North church in 1683-1728, and his fath¬ 


er’s colleague for the greater part of that 
period. Among other works are Wonders 
of the Invisible World; Christian Philoso¬ 
pher; Psalterium Americanum; Manduc- 
tio ad Ministerium; Memorable Provi¬ 
dences Relating to Witchcraft; Essays to 
Do Good; The Armor of Christianity; 
Batteries Upon the Kingdom of the Devil; 
and Death Made Easy and Happy. He 
died Feb. 13, 1728. 

MATHER, ELEAZER, clergyman, was 
born May 13, 1637, in Dorchester, Mass. 
He was ordained minister over the first 
church that was organized in Northamp¬ 
ton, Mass., in 1658, and retained that pas¬ 
torate till his death. He died July 24, 
1669, in Northampton, Mass. 

MATHER, FRED, pisciculturist, author, 
was born in August, 1833, in Albany, N. Y. 
He is a pisciculturist of note, and the au¬ 
thor of Ichthyology of the Adirondacks. 

MATHER, FREDERIC GREGORY, 
journalist, was born Aug. 11, 1844, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. In 1874 he became man¬ 
aging editor of the Times at Binghamton, 
N. Y., and in 1875 editor-in-chief of the 
Republican in the same city, but resigned 
the place in 1879. He wrote editorials for 
the Albany Evening Journal in 1880. 

MATHER, INCREASE, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born June 21, 
1639, in Dorchester, Mass. He was a con¬ 
gregational clergyman of Boston, pastor 
of the North church, and president of 
harvard college in 1685-1701. Of his near¬ 
ly one hundred printed works, the most 
noted is the Remarkable Providences, 
which was entitled by its author An Essay 
for the Recording of Illustrious Provi¬ 
dences, an effort to prove by induction the 
existence of mundane supernatural forces. 
He died Aug. 23, 1723, in Dorchester, 
Mass. 

MATHER, MARGARET, actress, was 
born in 1862 in Canada. She opened her 
career in 1882 as Juliet, at McVicker’s 
theater, Chicago, and her success was 
instantaneous. She died in 1898. 

MATHER, MOSES, clergyman, author, 
was born Feb. 23, 1719, in Lyme, Conn. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Darien, Conn., from 1744 till his death, 
who was of much prominence in his day 
as a controversialist. He was the author 
of Systematic View of Divinity; Infant 
Baptism Defended; and Election Sermons 
He died Sept. 21, 1806, in Darien, Conn. 

MATHER, RICHARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1596 in England. He 
was a puritan clergyman who came from 
England in 1635, and was minister at 
Dorchester 1636-69. He was one of the 
three divines who prepared The Bay 
Psalm Book. A Treatise on Justification 
is as important as any of his many writ¬ 
ings. He died April 22, 1669, in Dorches¬ 
ter, Mass. 

MATHER, RICHARD HENRY, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Feb. 12, 1835, in 
Binghamton, N. Y. He secured for Am¬ 
herst college the finest collection of plas¬ 
ter casts in the United States. He has 
edited Greek text-books for use in col¬ 
leges, which have passed through several 
editions. The principal ones are Herod¬ 
otus; selections from Thucydides, the 
Electra of Sophocles; abstract of lectures 
upon sculpture; and the Prometheus 
Bound of .®schylus. 

MATHER, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born July 5, 1650, in Dorchester, 
Mass. He was one of the trustees of Yale 
from 1700 till 1724, and published several 
religious books, among them The Dead 
Faith; and On Renouncing Our Righteous¬ 
ness. 


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MATHER, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 28, 1674, in Boston, 
Mass. He wrote several religious works, 
including The Godhead of the Holy 
Ghost; and A Vindication of the Holy 
Bible. He died in England. 

MATHER, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 30, 1706, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Boston who succeeded his father 
and grandfather as pastor of the North 
church, but in 1741 became the head of 
a new church, of which he was pastor till 
his death. He was the author of Life 
of Cotton Mather; Essay on Grati¬ 
tude; and America Known to the An¬ 
cients, an attempt to prove the Japhetic 
origin of the first inhabitants of the 
American continent. He died June 27, 
1785, in Boston, Mass. 

MATHER, SAMUEL HOLMES, finan¬ 
cier, lawyer, banker, was born March 20, 
1813, in Washington, N. H. He organized 
the Society for Savings in Cleveland, Ohio. 
He has been president of the bank for 
many years, and his judgment upon finan¬ 
cial ventures and investments is consid¬ 
ered of great value. 

MATHER, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, geol¬ 
ogist, author, was born May 24, 1804, in 
Brooklyn, Conn. He was a geologist of 
Ohio, and the author of Geology of the 
First Geological District. He died Feb. 
26, 1859, in Columbus, Ohio. 

MATHESON, JOHN G.. farmer, state 
legislator, poet, was born Feb. 27, 1846, 
in Walworth county, Wis. In 1890 he was 
elected a member of the Nebraska state 
legislature. He is the author of a num¬ 
ber of meritorious poems, which have ap¬ 
peared in standard collections. 

MATHEWS, ALBERT, lawyer, author, 
was born Sept. 8, 1820, in New York city. 
He is a lawyer of New York city, and 
the author of Walter Ashwood, a Love 
Story; A Bundle of Papers, by Paul Sieg- 
volk; Thoughts on Codification of the 
Common Law; and Ruminations, and 
Other Essays. 

MATHEWS, CORNELIUS, author, was 
born Oct. 28, 1817, in Port Chester, N. Y. 
He was an author and playwright of New 
York city, among whose non-dramatic 
works are, Indian Book of Fairy Tales; 
The Enchanted Moccasins, and Other Le¬ 
gends; Money-Penny, a romance; Jacob 
Leisler; The Politicians; and Witchcraft. 
He died March 25, 1889, in New York 
city. 

MAI HEWS, EDWARD D., business 
man. In 1889 Mr. Mathews bought the 
Ballou property in Utica, N. Y., and estab¬ 
lished the Utica Highlands, which has 
since become an important part of Utica. 
He also has controlling interest in the 
Trenton Falls Power company, of which 
he is also president; and is connected 
with other large business enterprises. 

MATHEWS, GEORGE, soldier, states¬ 
man, was born in 1739 in Augusta county, 
Va. He represented Georgia in the first 
congress, served from 1781 till 1791, and 
was governor of Georgia in 1793-96. He 
was subsequently brigadier-general of 
militia, and in January, 1811, was author¬ 
ized by the president to take possession of 
West Florida, and captured Amelia Island. 
He died Aug. 30, 1812, in Augusta, Ga. 

MAI HEWS, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Sept. 21, 1774, near Staunton, Va. 
On the organization of the Louisiana ju¬ 
diciary he became presiding justice of the 
supreme court. He died Nov. 14, 1836, in 
Bayou Sara, La. 

MATHEWS, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1841 to 
1845. 


MATHEWS, JAMES McFARLANE, 
clergyman, author, was born March 18, 
1785, in Salem, N. Y. He was a reformed 
Dutch clergyman of New York city, at one 
period chancellor of the university of the 
City of New York. He was the author of 
What Is Your Life? The Bible and Men 
of Learning; and Fifty Years in New 
York. He died Jan. 28, 1870, in New York. 

MATHEWS, JOANNA H., author. She 
is a writer of Sunday-school tales, among 
which are, The Bessie Books; and The 
Sunbeams. 

MATHEWS, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born in 1774 in 
Charleston, S. C. He was first speaker of 
the South Carolina state house of repre¬ 
sentatives after the dissolution of the 
royal government in 1776; and the same 
year became an associate of the supreme 
court of South Carolina. He served in 
the continental congress in 1778-82. He 
succeeded Edward Rutledge as governor 
of South Carolina in 1782. He died Nov. 
17, 1802, in Charleston, S. C. 

MATHEWS, JULIA A., author. She is 
a writer of Sunday-school fiction, among 
which are, Bessie Harrington’s Venture; 
Jack Granger’s Cousin; and Drayton Hall 
Series. 

MATHEWS, LEWIS DODSON, lawyer, 
was born Aug. 17, 1854, in Yadkin county, 
N. C. In 1870 he moved to Kansas, stud¬ 
ied law and is now a leading attorney of 
Mound City, Kan. He was a member of 
the board of education and has filled other 
positions of honor. 

MATHEWS, VINCENT, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born June 29, 
1766, in Orange, N. Y. He was elected a 
state representative from New York in 
1793, and in 1796 was chosen a state sen¬ 
ator. From 1809 to 1811 he was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress, and in 1812 was ap¬ 
pointed district attorney for a number of 
counties in western New York. Toward 
the close of his life he served again in 
the assembly of the state, and was dis¬ 
trict attorney for Monroe county. He 
died Aug. 23, 1846, in Rochester, N. Y. 

MATHEWS, WILLIAM, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born July 28, 1818, in Water- 
viile, Maine. He is an educator and es¬ 
sayist of Chicago, and later of Boston; 
and the author of Hours with Men and 
Books; Getting on in the World; The 
Great Conversers; Literary Style; Men, 
Places, and Things; Oratory and Orators; 
Wit and Humor, their Use and Abuse; 
and Nugse Litterariae. 

MATHEWS, WILLIAM SMITH BAB¬ 
COCK, musician, author, was born in 
1837 in New Hampshire. He is a musi¬ 
cal critic of Chicago, and the author of 
Outline of Musical Form; Dictionary of 
Music and Musicians; How to Understand 
Music; and New Musical Miscellanies. 

MATHEWSON, ELISHA, state legislat¬ 
or, United States senator, was born April 
18, 1767, in Scituate, R. I. He was at dif¬ 
ferent periods a member of the general 
assembly of Rhode Island; once speaker 
of the house; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1807 to 1811. 
He died Oct. 14, 1853, in Scituate, R. I. 

MATHIOT, JOSHUA, congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He was a representative . 
in congress from that state from 1841 to 
1843. He died July 30, 1849, in Newark, 
Ohio. 

MATHIS, JULIETTE ESTELLE, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born in Glens Falls, N. 

Y. She is a prolific writer and journalist; 
is a well-known poet of California, and 
many of her songs have been set to music. 

MATIGNON, FRANCIS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1753 in France. He is 
considered the pioneer of the Roman cath¬ 
olic church in New England. He wrote 


Rules of the Confraternity, or Associa¬ 
tion of the Holy Cross. He died Sept. 19, 
1818, in Boston, Mass. 

MATILE, GEORGE AUGUSTE, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born 
May 30, 1807, in Switzerland. He was 
professor of history at Princeton in 1855- 
58, and then accepted the chair of French 
literature in the university of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. After 1863 he held various govern¬ 
ment posts in Washington, and he was 
translator of the interior department at 
the time of his death. He died Feb. 6, 1881, 
in Washington, D. C. 

MATLACK, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in Gloucester county, N. J. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1821 to 1825. He died Jan. 15, 

1840, in Woodbury, N. J. 

MATLACK, TIMOTHY, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1730 in Haddon- 
field, N. J. He was colonel of a Penn¬ 
sylvania battalion, and did good service, 
and was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1780 to 1781. He was for many 
years master of the rolls, and resided at 
Lancaster a long time, and was after¬ 
wards register of one of the Philadelphia 
courts. He died April 15, 16 _j, in Holmes- 
burg, Pa. 

MATSON, AARON, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1770 in Plymouth, 
Mass. He was for many years judge of 
probate in Cheshire county, N. H.; was a 
state councilor from 1819 to 1821; and a 
representative in congress from New 
Hampshire from 1821 to 1825. He died 
July 18, 1855, in Newport, Vt. 

MATSON, COURTLAND C„ soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born April 25, 

1841, in Brookville, Ind. He enlisted in 
the union army at the breaking out of the 
rebellion, and served until its suppression 
in 1865, rising to the rank of colonel. He 
served three terms as prosecuting attor¬ 
ney of Greencastle. He was elected a 
representative from Indiana to the forty- 
seventh congress, and was re-elected to 
the forty-eighth congress. 

MATTACKS, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, was born March 4, 1777, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. He became eminent at the 
bar, and served several years in the Ver¬ 
mont state legislature and in the militia, 
of which he was brigadier-general in the 
war of 1812-15. He was elected to con¬ 
gress as a whig in 1820; served in 1821- 
23, was defeated at the next election, 
and returned in 1824, serving in 1825-27. 
He was judge of the superior court of 
Vermont in 1833-34; a member of the con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1835, and in 1841- 
43 was for the third time in congress, de¬ 
clining a re-election to accept the office 
of governor, which he held in 1843-44. He 
died Aug. 14, 1847, in Peacham, Vt. 

MATTESON, JOEL ALDRICH, govern¬ 
or, was born Aug. 2, 1808, in Watertown, 
N. Y. He was governor of Illinois from 
1853 to 1857. He died Jan. 31, 1883, in 
Chicago, Ill. 

MATTESON, ORSAMUS B., congress¬ 
man, was born in New York. He was 
elected a representative from that state 
to the thirty-first, thirty-third, thirty- 
fourth, and thirty-fifth congresses. 

MATTESON, TOMPKINS HARRISON, 
artist, was born May 9, 1813, in Peter¬ 
borough. N. Y. He began to paint por¬ 
traits with some success in 1839, and was 
brought into favorable notice by his Spirit 
of ’76, which the American Art union 
purchased. His works include The First 
Sabbath of the Pilgrims; Examination of 
a Witch; Perils of the Early Colonists; 
Eliot Preaching to the Indians; First 
Prayer in Congress; and Rip Van Win¬ 
kle’s Return from the Mountains. He died 
Feb. 2, 1884, in Sherburne, N. Y. 


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MATTHEWS, CHARLES PHILO, elec¬ 
trical engineer, physicist, author, was 
born Sept. 18, 1867, in Fort Covington, N. 
Y. He is now the associate professor of 
electrical engineering in the Purdue uni¬ 
versity; has made a special study of light 
sources, and is a skilled photometrist. He 
is the author of several monographs on 
subjects of an electrical nature, and the 
joint author of two text-books. 

MATTHEWS, CLAUDE, farmer, legis¬ 
lator, governor, was born Dec. 14, 1845, in 
Bethel, Ky. He attended the schools in 
Maysville, Ky., af¬ 
terward taking the 
regular course in the 
Centre college, from 
which institution he 
graduated in 1867. In 
1868 he married Mar¬ 
tha R. Whitcomb, 
daughter of James 
Whitcomb, twice 
governor and United 
States senator from 
Indiana. The same 
year he moved to 
Indiana, settling on a farm near Clinton, 
which is still his home. In 1890 he was 
elected secretary of state; and at the close 
of his term was elected governor, and was 
inaugurated Jan. 0, 1893. He had pre¬ 
viously served with distinction as a state 
representative in the Indiana state legis¬ 
lature. He died in September, 1898. 

MATTHEWS, ELIZABETH KINSEY, 
educator, was born April 15, 1852, in 
Smithfield, Ohio. She has attained suc¬ 
cess in educational work as a training 
teacher, and was at one time principal 
of the Des Moines Training School for 
Teachers. For a period of ten years she 
taught in the hrst grade of the public 
schools of Des Moines, and for seven 
years was principal in the same schools of 
the training school. She has established 
a line of work known as pedagogy by cor¬ 
respondence, in which she has been emi¬ 
nently successful. She is prominent in 
the Des Moines Women’s club; was one 
of the prime movers in the Woman’s 
Round Table, and its first president. 

MATTHEWS, GEORGE, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born in 1739, in 
Augusta county, Va. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from Georgia from 1789 
to 1791. He was afterward brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of Georgia militia; and was gover¬ 
nor of Georgia in 178u. He died Aug. 30, 
1812, in Augusta, Ga. 

MATTHEWS, HENRY MASON, soldier, 
educator, governor, was born in 1834, in 
Greenbrier county, Va. He was for sev¬ 
eral years a professor in Allegheny col¬ 
lege, Pennsylvania; and was a major of 
artillery in the confederate army during 
the civil war. He was a member of the 
state constitutional convention of West 
Virginia in 1871; was elected attorney- 
general of the state in 1872; and was 
elected governor in 1876, and served four 
years. He died April 29, 1884, in Lewis- 
burg, W. Va. 

MATTHEWS, JAMES BRANDER, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 21, 1852, in New Or¬ 
leans, La. Among his many writings the 
more important are, The Theatres of 
Paris; French Dramatists of the 19th 
Century; Margery’s covers, a Comedy; 

' The Last Meeting, a Story; The Secret of 
the Sea, and Other dtories; A Family 
Tree, and Other Stories; The Story of a 
Story; Tom Paulding; Studies of the 
Stage; Americanisms and Briticisms; 
Vignettes of Manhattan; His Father’s 
Son; Introduction to the Study of Ameri¬ 
can Literature; The Royal Marine; and 
Tales of Fantasy and Fact. 

40 


MATTHEWS, JAMES NEWTON, phy¬ 
sician, author, poet, was born in 1852, in 
Indiana. He is a physician and poet of 
Mason, Ill.; and the author of Tempe 
Vale, and Other Poems. 

MATTHEWS, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, governor. He was 
the first speaker of the South Carolina 
house of representatives of that state af¬ 
ter the dissolution of the royal govern¬ 
ment in 1776. The same year he was as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court; and 
from 1778 to lv82 he was a delegate to 
the continental congress. He was gover¬ 
nor of South Carolina from 1782 to 1783; 
and in 1784, on the establishment of the 
court of equity, was appointed one of the 
judges. He died in November, 1802, in 
Charleston. 

MATTHEWS, JOHN, educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 19, 1772, in 
Guilford county, N. C. He became presi¬ 
dent of the Presbyterian Theological sem¬ 
inary at Hanover, Ind. He continued in 
this office seventeen years, and was for a 
part of that time vice-president of Han¬ 
over college. He was the author of Di¬ 
vine Purpose Displayed in the Works of 
Proviuence and Grace; and Influence of 
the Bible. He dieu May 19, 1848, in New 
Albany, Ind. 

MATTHEWS, ROYAL, lawyer, banker, 
state senator, was born Oct. 3, 1859, near 
Davenport, Iowa. For six years he prac¬ 
ticed law in Davenport, Iowa; is now a 
successful banker of McPherson, Kan.; 
and in 1897 he was elected a member of 
the Kansas state senate as a republican. 

MATTHEWS, STANLEY, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, United States senator, author, 
was born July 21, 1824, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress to fill a vacancy, serving in 1877- 
79. In 1881 he was appointed a justice of 
the supreme court of the United States. 
He was the author of A Summary of the 
Law of Partnership for the Use of Busi¬ 
ness Men. He died March 22, 1889, m 
Washington, D. C. 

MATTHEWS, WASHINGTON, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born in 1843, in 
Ireland. He is a surgeon in the regular 
army, well known as an ethnologist. 
Among his writings are included a Gram¬ 
mar of the Language of the Hidatsa; Eth¬ 
nography and Philology of the Hidatsa In¬ 
dians; and Gentile Organization of tne 
Navajo Indians. 

MATTHEWS. WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1797 to 1799. 

MATTHEWS, WILLIAM CHARLES, 
lawyer, author, was born April 2, 1859, in 
Cornwall, England. In 1877 he moved to 
Colorado; has been clerk of the district 
court for two years; and is now a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer of Dolden. He is the au¬ 
thor of a work entitled Colorado Probate 
Practice. 

MATTHIAS, WILLIAM, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Dec. 19, 1836, in Med¬ 
ford, N. Y. He attended the public schools 
of Philadelphia and 
Mount Holly, N. J., 
and graduated from 
Harper’s Hebrew in¬ 
stitute. He first was 
a local preacher in 
the methodist epis¬ 
copal church, and 
has since attained 
eminence as a cler¬ 
gyman in that de¬ 
nomination; and has 
filled pastorates in 
Michigan, New Jer¬ 
sey, and North Carolina. He has been 
superintendent of public schools in Michi¬ 
gan; and is a well known Hebrew scholar. 


MATTICE, BURR, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in July, 1856, in Schoharie county, N. 
Y. In 1889 he was elected district attor¬ 
ney of Otsego county, N. Y.; and in 1893 
was elected county judge, a position which 
he still fills. 

MATTISON, HIRAM, clergyman, con¬ 
troversialist, author, was born Feb. 11, 
1811, in Norway, N. Y. He was a method¬ 
ist clergyman of New York city, active as 
a controversialist, and the autnor of Bi¬ 
ble Doctrine of Immortality; The Trinity 
and Modern Arianism; Tracts for the 
Times; Impending Crisis; Defense of 
American Methodism; and Popular 
Amusements. He died Nov. 24, 1868, in 
Jersey City, N. J. 

MATTOCKS, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born in 1776, in 
Hartford, Conn. He was judge of the su¬ 
preme court of Vermont; was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1821 to 1825, 
and from 1841 to 1843; and was governor 
of the state one year. He died Aug. 14, 
1847, in Peacham, Vt. 

MATTOON, EBENEZER, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 19, 1755, in Am¬ 
herst, Mass. In 1797 he was a president¬ 
ial elector; was a major in the war of 
1812; and sheriff of Hampshire. He was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1801 to 1803, having suc¬ 
ceeded L. Lyman, resigned; and in 1816 
was chosen adjutant-general of militia. 
He died Sept. 11, 1843, in Amherst, Mass. 

MATTOON, STEPHEN, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, was born May 5, 1816, in Cham¬ 
pion, N. Y. He completed his popular 
translation of the New Testament into 
Siamese in 1865, and it was printed that 
year complete at the Presbyterian mis¬ 
sion press at Bangkok, Siam. He died 
Aug. 15, 1889, in Marion, Ohio. 

MATURIN, EDWARD, educator,author, 
poet, was born in 1812, in Ireland. He was 
an educator of New York city. Beside Ly¬ 
rics of Spain and Erin, he was the author 
of several historical novels, comprising 
Eva; Bianca; Montezuma; Benjamin; and 
the Jew of Grenada. He died May 25, 
1881, in New York city. 

MATZ, NICHOLAS, bishop, was born 
April 6,1850, in Alsace-Lorraine. In 1874 
he was ordained priest and appointed as¬ 
sistant pastor of the cathedral of Denver; 
and he was transferred in 1877 tb the pas¬ 
torate of Georgetown, Col. After building 
a church, school, and hospital, which lat¬ 
ter he placed under the charge of the Sis¬ 
ters of St. Joseph, he exchanged this par¬ 
ish for the new one of St. Anne’s, East 
Denver. Here he labored with the same 
zeal until he was nominated in 1887 coad¬ 
jutor of Bishop Machebeuf, of Colorado. 

MAUCK, JOSElH W., educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born Aug. 17, 1852, 
in Cheshire, Ohio. For three years he 
was professor of Greek in the Hillsdale 
college, Michigan; and professor of Latin 
in the same college during 1881-83. Since 
1891 he has been president of the state 
university of South Dakota. 

MAUL, JOSEPH, governor. He was 
acting governor of Delaware in 1846, hav¬ 
ing previously been elected lieutenant- 
governor. 

MAURICE, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a "fepresenta- 
tive in congress from that state from 1853 
to 1855. 

MAURY, ABRAHAM P., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee, from 1835 to 1839. He died 
July 22, 1848, in Williamson county, Tenn. 

MAURY, ANN, author, was born in 
September, 1803, in England. She was 
the author of Memoirs of a Huguenot Fam¬ 
ily. Sne died in January, 1876, in New 
York city. 










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MAURY, DABNEY HERNDON, soldier, 
author, was born May 21, 1822, in Fred¬ 
ericksburg, Ya. He was a confederate ma¬ 
jor-general in the civil war, and the au¬ 
thor of Skirmish Drill for Mounted 
Troops; and Recollections of a Virginian 
in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars. 

MAURY, FRANCIS FONTAINE, sur¬ 
geon, journalist, was born Aug. 9, 1840, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. For two years he 
edited the Photographic Review of Medi¬ 
cine and Surgery, and he published num¬ 
erous reports of medical and surgical 
cases. He was a surgeon to Jefferson 
Medical College hospital, and the Phila¬ 
delphia hospital, and during the civil war 
had charge for a time of an army hospital. 
He died June 4, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MAURY, MATTHEW FONTAINE, 
scientist, author, was born Jan. 14, 1806, 
in Virginia. He was a once famous scien¬ 
tist, for many years in charge of the hy¬ 
drographical office at Washington, as well 
as of the naval observatory. During the 
civil war he entered the confederate ser¬ 
vice, and in 1868-73 was a professor in the 
Virginia Military institute at Lexington. 
He was the author of Treatise on Naviga¬ 
tion; Physical Geography of the Sea; 
Wind and Current Charts; Physical Ge¬ 
ography for Schools; and The World We 
Live In. He died Feb. 1, 1873, in Lex¬ 
ington, Va. 

MAURY, MRS. SARAH MYTTON 
(HUGHES), author, was born Nov. 1, 
1808, in England. She was the author of 
Etchings from the Caracci; The Eng¬ 
lish Woman in America; The States¬ 
men of America; and Progress of the 
Catholic Church in America. She died in 
October, 1849, in Virginia. 

MAUTE, ANDREW, journalist, legisla¬ 
tor, was born June 28, 1844, in France. 
He learned the printing business, and be¬ 
came foreman of the 
Nevada state print¬ 
ing office. He has 
been the publisher of 
the Carson Inde¬ 
pendent; editor and 
manager of the Aus¬ 
tin Reveille; and is 
now the editor and 
proprietor of the 
Belmont Courier. 
For eight years he 
served with distinc¬ 
tion as a state sena¬ 
tor in the Nevada legislature, and has ta¬ 
ken an active par,, in the legislation of 
Nevada. He is a member of the board of 
honorary visitors of the Nevada State 
university, and takes an active part in 
public affairs. 

MAVERICK, PETER, engraver, was 
born Oct. 22, 1780, in New York city. 
Among his line engravings are portraits 
•of Henry Clay; Bishop Benjamin Moore, 
and Andrew Jackson. He died June 7, 
1831, in New York city. 

MAXCY, JONATHAN, educator, college 
president, was born Sept. 2, 1768, in Attle¬ 
borough, Mass. In 1792 he became presi¬ 
dent of Brown college. In 1802 he was 
elected to the presidency of Union college. 

In 1804 he was chosen first president of 
South Carolina college, which had been 
just established at Columbia. He died 
June 4,1820, in Columbia, a. C. 

MAXCY, VIRGIL, lawyer, legislator, 
was born about 1785, in Attleborough, 
Mass. He was a member of both houses 
of the Maryland legislature; solicitor of 
the United States treasury, and charge 
d’affaires to Belgium. He published Com¬ 
pilation of the Laws of Maryland from 
1692 to 1809, in four volumes; Oration be¬ 
fore the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He was 
accidentally killed Feb. 28, 1844. 



MAXEY, SAMUEL BELL, soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, United States senator, 
was born March 30, 1825, in Monroe coun¬ 
ty, Ky. He moved to Texas in 1857, and 
in 1861 was elected state senator for four 
years, but declined to serve, and raised 
the ninth Texas infantry for the confed¬ 
erate service, and was made colonel. He 
was brigadier-general in 1862, major-gen¬ 
eral in 1864; commanded the district of 
the Indian territory from 1863 to the close 
of the war, and was also superintendent 
of Indian affairs. In 1874 he was elected 
United States senator from Texas; and 
was re-elected for the term ending in 1887. 

MAXSON, EVA E., educator, poet, was 
born in New Lebanon, N. Y. She began 
her literary career before the civil war, 
and is still actively 
engaged in the work, 
although the greater 
part of her time is 
devoted to teaching. 
She has contributed 
both prose and verse 
to current literature, 
and several of her 
songs have been set 
to music. Her poems 
have been given a 
place in Poets of 
America, Poets and 
Poetry of Iowa, and various other stand¬ 
ard collections. 

MAXSON, FREDERICK, musician, 
composer, was born June 13, 1862, in Bev¬ 
erly, N. J. Since 1884 he has been organ¬ 
ist and choir master of the Central con¬ 
gregational church of Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is the author of a considerable num¬ 
ber of church services. 


MAXWELL, HUGH, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1787, in Scotland. He was made 
assistant judge-advocate general in the 
United States army in 1814; and in 1819 
was elected district attorney for New 
York county, serving by successive re- 
elections until 1829. From 1849 till 1852 
he was collector of the port of New York. 
He died March 31, 1873, in New York city. 

MAXWELL, J. P. B., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1805, in New Jersey. 
He was a representative in congress from 
1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. 
He died Nov. 14, 1845, in Belvidere, N. J. 

MAXWELL, LEWIS, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from la27 to 
1833. 

MAXWELL, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, congressman, was born May 
20, 1826, in Syracuse, N. Y. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Cass county to 
the Nebraska territorial legislature; was 
elected to the legislature in 1864, and re¬ 
elected in 1865. He assisted in framing 
the constitution of 1866; and was elected 
to the first state legislature in 1866. He 
organized the First National bank of 
Plattsmouth about 1870. He was elected 
judge of the supreme court as a republican 
in 1872 for a term of six years. He lo¬ 
cated in Fremont in 1873; and was elected 
in 1875 a member of the third constitu¬ 
tional convention. He was elected the 
same year judge of the supreme court un¬ 
der the new constitution, and was re¬ 
elected in 1881 and 1887. He is the au¬ 
thor of a Digest of Nebraska Reports; 
Practice in Justice Courts; Pleading and 
Practice; Criminal Procedure, and Code 
Pleadings. He was elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a fusionist. 



MAXWELL, AUGUSTUS EMMETT, 
railroad president, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1820, in 
Elberton, Ga. In 1847 he was elected to 
the assembly of Florida; was secretary of 
state in 1848; a state senator in 1849; and 
was a member of congress from 1853 to 
1857. In 1866 he was appointed president 
of the Pensacola and Montgomery rail¬ 
road. 


MAXWELL, GEORGE C., congressman, 
was born in New Jersey. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1811 to 1813. 


maawkll, GEORGE TROUP, soldiei 
physician, author, was born Aug. 6, 182' 
in Bryan county, Ga. In 1848 he gradu 
__ ated from the medi 
cal department o 
the university of tli 
city of New York 
Until 1857 he prac 
ticed medicine ii 
Tallahassee, Fla. 
when he was ap 
pointed surgeon o 
the marine hospita 
at Key West. Ii 
1860 he became pro 
fessor of obstetric! 
in the Oglethorpi 
Medical college of Savannah; but a yeai 
later he enlisted as a private in the firsi 
Florida regiment, and was subsequentlj 
promoted to brigadier-general. In 1866 hi 
was elected to the Florida state legisla¬ 
ture; and since 1871 has made Middle- 
town, Del., his home. He claims to have 
invented the laryngoscope independently 
several months before Professor Czer- 
mach announced his discovery. He has 
published pamphlets on Malarial, Hmmo- 
globinuria; The Negro Problem; and An 
Address on Municipal Hygiene. He is a 
member of the leading medical bodies of 
America and Europe. 



MAXWELL, SIDNEY DENISE, soldier, 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 23, 1831 
in Centreville, Ohio. Since 1871 he has 
been superintendent of the Cincinnati 
chamber of commerce, and is now its stat¬ 
istician. In addition to pamphlets and 
the annual reports of the chamber of 
commerce, he has published The Suburbs 
of Cincinnati; and The Manufactures of 
Cincinnati and their Relations to the Fu¬ 
ture Progress of the City. 

MAXWELL, THOMAS, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1829 to 1831. 

MAXWELL, THOMPSON, soldier. He 
wa s a member of the Boston tea party in 
1773; and helped to frame and adopt the 
Massachusetts constitution. He also serv¬ 
ed in the war of 18i2. He died in 1835. 

MAXWELL, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
born in Ireland. In 1775 he represented 
Sussex county in the New Jersey provin¬ 
cial congress. When the revolutionary 
war broke out he was made colonel of the 
second New Jersey regiment; and in 1776 
attained the rank of brigadier-general. 
He died Nov. 12, 1798, in Sussex county, 
N. J. 

MAXWELL, WILLIAM HENRY, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, author, was born March 
5, 1852, in Ireland. In 1882 he was elected 
associate superintendent of public in¬ 
struction of the city of Brooklyn, and in 
1887 was advanced to the post of superin¬ 
tendent. He is the author of First Book 
in English; Introductory Lessons in 
English Grammar; and Advance Lessons 
in English Grammar. 

MAY, ALBERT QUITMAN, was born 
June 17, 1858, in Simpson county. Miss. He 
served one term as sheriff of his county, 
and declined the re-election in 1881. Dur¬ 
ing 1884-94 he was circuit and chancery 
clerk of his county; and in 1894 his name 
was put forward as a member for con¬ 
gress. In 1895 he was appointed state 
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MAY, CAROLINE, author, poet, was 
horn ki 1820, in England. She is a writer 
of New York city, and the author of 
American Female Poets; The Woodbine, 
a Holiday Gift; poems; Hymns on the 
Collects; and Lays of Memory and Affec¬ 
tion. 

MAY, MRS. CELESTE, lecturer, poet, 
was born Oct. 20, 1850, in Lee county, 
Iowa. She is an ardent advocate of tem¬ 
perance, in the cause of which she has 
lectured extensively throughout the 
United States. She is the author of a vol¬ 
ume of poems entitled Sounds of the 
Prairie. 

MAY, EDWARD HARRISON, soldier, 
artist, was born in 1824, in England. His 
works include The Dying Brigand (in the 
Philadelphia academy of fine arts); 
Christopher Columbus signing his Will In 
Prison; Lady Jane Grey presenting her 
Tablets to the Governor of the Tower; 
and Franklin playing at Chess with Lady 
Howe. He died May 17, 1887, in Paris, 
France. 

MAY, HENRY, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Feb. 13, 1816, in Washington, D. 
C. He was a representative in congress 
from Maryland from 1853 to 1855; and was 
re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. 
He died Sept. 25, 1863, in Baltimore, Md. 

MAY, JOHN WILDER, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born Jan. 29, 1819, in Attle¬ 
borough, Mass. He was a jurist of Bos¬ 
ton, and the author of The Law of Insur¬ 
ance; Law of Crimes; and Criminal Law. 
He died Jan. 11, 1883, in Boston, Mass. 

MAY, JOSEPH LEE, journalist, poet, 
was born June 11, 1867, in Rutherfordton, 
N. C. He is a son of the late Rev. Daniel 
May, an eminent homilist in the North 
Carolina conference of the methodist epis¬ 
copal church, south. He is a poet of high 
order, a graceful prose writer, and a suc¬ 
cessful journalist. For many years he 
w r as editor-in-chief of the Dixie Tele¬ 
grapher of Atlanta, Ga. 

MAY, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, was 
horn in 1810, in Massachusetts. He is a 
retired Unitarian clergyman of Leicester, 
Mass.; of prominence in the anti-slavery 
movement; and the author of The Fugi¬ 
tive Slave Law and its Victims. 

MAY, SAMUEL JOSEPH, clergyman, 
author, was horn Sept. 12, 1797, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a Unitarian clergyman 
of Syracuse prominent in the anti-slavery 
cause, and also in educational reforms. 
He was the author of Education of the 
Faculties; Revival of Education; and 
Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Con¬ 
flict. He died July 1, 1871, in Syracuse, 
N. Y. 

MAY, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Dec. 9, 1850, in 
Lackawaxen, Pa. He is a successful teach¬ 
er and director of choirs and classes in 
Montclair, N. J.; and the author of a num¬ 
ber of songs and hymns. 

MAY, WILLIAM L., congressman, was 
born in Kentucky. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from Illinois from 1835 
to 1839. 

MAYALL, SAMUEL, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in Maine. He 
served in the state legislature in 1845, 
1847, and 1848; and was a representative 
in congress from Maine from 1853 to 
1855. 

MAYBURY, WILLIAM C., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 21, 1849, in De¬ 
troit, Mich. He began the practice of law 
at Detroit in 1871; and was elected city 
attorney in 1875, and served four years. 
In 1882 he was elected a representative 
from Michigan to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress; and re-elected to the forty-ninth 
congress as a democrat. 


MAYER, ALFRED MARSHALL, as¬ 
tronomer, author, was born Nov. 13, 1836, 
in Baltimore, Md.; has been astronomer, 
professor of physics in Stevens institute 
at Hoboken, N. J„ from 1871. He is the 
author of Light; Notes on Physics; 
and Sport with Gun and Rod in American 
Woods and Waters. 

MAYER, BRANTZ, lawyer, journalist, 
author, was born Sept. 27, 1809, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was a lawyer and journal¬ 
ist of Baltimore, and an officer in the 
federal army during the civil war. He was 
the author of Mexico as It Was and as It 
Is; Mexico: Aztec, Spanish, and 'Repub¬ 
lican; Observations on Mexican History 
and Archaeology; Mexican Antiquities; 
Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an Af¬ 
rican Slaver; and Memoir of Jared Sparks. 
He died March 21, 1879, in Baltimore, Md. 

MAYER, CHARLES F„ jurist, was 
born in 1797, in Maryland. He attained a 
high position at the bar of Maryland, as 
well as judge of the' court of appeals at 
Annapolis, and as a judge of the United 
States. He died Jan. 3, 1864, in Baltimore. 

MAYER. CONSTANT, artist, was horn 
Oct. 4, 1832, in France. His works in¬ 
clude portraits of General Grant and Gen¬ 
eral Sherman; Beggar-Girl; Consolation; 
Early Grief; Oracle of the Field; Song of 
the Shirt; Song of the Twilight; In the 
Woods; The Vagabonds; Lord’s Day; and 
Lawn Tennis. 

MAYER, FRANCIS BLACKWELL, art¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 27, 1827, in Baltimore, 
Md. He received his education in the 
university of Mary¬ 
land; has filled posi¬ 
tions of professor¬ 
ship and librarian; 
has been president 
of the Improvement 
association; and 
vice-president of the 
Historical society. He 
exhibited at the Par¬ 
is salon, and was 
given a medal at 
Philadelphia in 1876 
for his Continentals, 
and his Attic Philosophers. He has made 
a special study of Indian types and char¬ 
acter in the west. Others of his works of 
art are Founders of the Baltimore and 
Ohio Railroad; Planting of the Colony of 
Maryland, which latter painting was pur¬ 
chased by the state of Maryland. 

MAYER, LEWIS, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1783, in Pennsylvania. He 
was a German reformed clergyman of 
eastern Pennsylvania; and the author of 
Lectures on Scriptural Subjects; The Sin 
Against the Holy Ghost; and History of 
the German Reformed Church. He died 
in 1849. 

MAYER, SAMUEL W„ soldier, mer¬ 
chant, state legislator, was born May 13, 
1858, in Sandusky, Ohio. He is a success¬ 
ful merchant of Holt, Mich., and during 
1897-98 served with distinction in the 
Michigan house of representatives. 

MAYES, EDWARD, lawyer, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 15, 1846, in Hinds 
county, Miss. Since 1896 he has been pro¬ 
fessor of law and dean of law school in 
Millsap’s college, of Jackson, Miss. He 
is the author of The Life, Times, and 
Speeches of Lucius Q. C. Lamar; and A 
History of Higher Education in Missis¬ 
sippi. 

MAYFIELD, WILLIAM DAVID, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, was born June 22, 1854, in 
Polk county, Tenn. He was county su¬ 
perintendent of education of Greenville 
county, S. C., for eight, years; and is now 
state superintendent of education for the 
state of South Carolina. For sixteen years 
he has practiced law with success. 


MAYHAM, STEPHEN L., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 8, 1825, in Blen¬ 
heim, N. Y. In 1857 he was elected super¬ 
visor of Blenheim, and was re-elected 
three times. In 1859 he was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney for Schoharie county, N. Y., 
for three years; and was a member of the 
state assembly in 1863. In 1868 he was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-first congress, and was again 
a representative in the forty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

MAYHEW, EXPERIENCE, missionary 
author, was born Jan. 26,1673, In Martha’s 
Vineyard. She was a missionary to the 
Indians of Martha’s Vineyard; and the 
author of Indian Converts; and Grace De¬ 
fended. She died Nov. 29, 1758, in Mar¬ 
tha’s Vineyard. 

MAYHEW, JONATHAN, clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 8, 1720, in Martha’s 
Vineyard. He was a congregational cler¬ 
gyman of Boston, and pastor of the West 
church in 1747-66. A noted Sermon on the 
Repeal of the Stamp Act is an effective 
example of his style. He also published 
Seven Sermons; Sermons to Young Men. 
He died July 9, 1766, in Boston, Mass. 

MAYHEW, MATHEW, governor. He 
succeeded the elder Thomas as governor 
of Martha’s Vineyard; and occasionally 
preached to the Indians, and died there 
in 1710. 

MAYHEW, ZECHARIA, missionary, 
was born in 1717, in Martha’s Vineyard. 
From 1767 until his death he was a mis¬ 
sionary under the Massachusetts society 
for propagating the gospel among the In¬ 
dians. He died March 6, 1806, in Mar¬ 
tha’s Vineyard. 

MAYMAN, EDWARD W., poet, was 
born April 18, 1859, in England. He re¬ 
ceived a thorough education; emigrated 
to America in 1888; 
and since that time 
has resided in Sauk 
Rapids, Minn., en¬ 
gaged in mercantile 
business. He has 
written extensively 
both prose and verse 
for the periodical 
press; and some of 
his poems have been 
given a place in 
Poets of America 
and other standard 
works; and also have been published in 
book-form. 

MAYNARD. CHARLES J., naturalist, 
author. He was a naturalist of Newton, 
Mass.; and the author of The Naturalist’s 
Guide; The Birds of Florida; The Birds 
of Eastern North America; A Manual of 
Taxidermy; and The Butterflies of New 
England. 

MAYNARD, EDWARD, inventor, edu¬ 
cator, was born April 26, 1813, in Madison, 
N. Y. In 1857 he became professor of the¬ 
ory and practice in Baltimore College of 
Dental Surgery, and he now holds that 
chair in the dental department of the Na¬ 
tional university at Washington. He has 
devised many methods and instruments 
in connection with his profession, but is 
best known by his improvements in fire¬ 
arms. 

MAYNARD, FRED A., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, jurist, was born Jan. 20, 1852, in 
Ann Arbor, Mich. Since 1876 he has prac¬ 
ticed law in Grand Rapids, Mich. In 1881 
he was elected prosecuting attorney; was 
nominated for judge of superior court in 
1885; and in 1890 was elected a represent¬ 
ative to the state legislature. In 1894 he 
became attorney-general of the state, 
to which position he was re-elected in 
1896. 





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MAYNARD, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY, 
artist, was born March 5, 1843, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. In 1884 he was awarded a 
medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of 
Fine Arts. Besides numerous portraits, 
his works include Vespers at Antwerp; 
and 1776, sent to the centennial exhibi¬ 
tion of 1876; Water Carriers of Venice; 
Musical Memories; and Venetian Court. 

MAYNARD, HORACE, educator, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1814, 
in Westborough, Mass. He held a number 
of local offices in his adopted state; was 
a presidential elector in 1852. He was 
elected a representative from Tennessee to 
the thirty-fifth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, 
thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-second and 
forty-third congresses. In 1875 he was 
appointed minister resident to Turkey, in 
1880 he was appointed postmaster-gener¬ 
al, and served in that position until 1881. 
He died May 3, 1882, in Knoxville, Tenn. 

MAYNARD, ISAAC H., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, state legislator, public official, was 
born April 9, 1838, in Bovina, N. Y. In 
1875 he was elected a representative in the 
New York state legislature; was re-elect¬ 
ed in 1876; and in 1877 was elected county 
judge and surrogate of Delaware county, 
and served six years. In 1884 he was ap¬ 
pointed first deputy attorney-general of 
the state of New York, and served until 
1885, when he was appointed second comp¬ 
troller of the treasury of the United 
States. 

MAYNARD, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was a resident of New York. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1827 to 1829. He was 
subsequently a member of the New York 
senate for four years; and was again a 
member of congress from 1841 to 1843. 
He was judge of the supreme court of 
New York, and from 1850 was a judge of 
the court of appeals. He died March 24, 
1850, in Auburn, N. Y. 

MAYNARD, SAMUEL TAY„LOR, botan¬ 
ist, horticulturist, and landscape archi¬ 
tect, was born Dec. 6, 1844, in Hardwick, 
Mass. He has filled the chair of horticul¬ 
ture, landscape gardening and forestry in 
Massachusetts Agricultural college. Most 
of the ornamental features of the beauti¬ 
ful grounds of the Massachusetts Agri¬ 
cultural college have been due to his skill 
and care. 

MAYO, AMORY DWIGHT, clergyman, 
author, was born Jan. 31, 1823, in War¬ 
wick, Mass. He was a Unitarian clergy¬ 
man very prominent since the civil war in 
educational matters in the southern 
states. He is the author of Graces and 
Powers of the Christian Life; Symbols of 
the Capitol; Religion in Common 
Schools; and Talks with Teachers. 

MAYO. JOHN, legislator, was born July 
17, 1737, in Virginia. He was a member of 
the house of burgesses from Chesterfield 
county, Va., in 1769, 1770, and 1771; and 
from Henrico county in 1775. In 1775-76 
he was a member of the Virginia state 
convention. He died Feb. 15, 1780, in 
Richmond, Va. 

MAYO, ROBERT, author, was born 
April 25, 1784, in Powhatan county, Va. 
He was a writer long in the civil service 
at Washington; and the author of View 
of Ancient Geography and History; New 
System of Mythology; United States Pen¬ 
sion Laws; Synopsis of the Commercial 
and Revenue System; and The Treasury 
Department, its Origin and Operations. 
His miscellaneous writings appear in a 
number of standard educational and sci¬ 
entific works. He died Oct. 31, 1864, in 
Washington, D. C. 


MAYO. ROBERT M., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born April 28, 1836, in West¬ 
moreland county, Va. He was a colonel 
in the confederate army during the civil 
war; was elected a representative in the 
state legislature in 1881; and was elected 
a representative from Virginia to the for¬ 
ty-eighth congress. 

MAYO, MRS. SARAH CARTER [ED- 
GARTON], author, poet, was born March 
17, 1819, in Shirley, Mass. She was the 
author of The Palfreys; Ellen Clifford; 
and several compilations of poetry and 
prose. She died July 9, 1848, in Glouces¬ 
ter, Mass. 

MAYO, WILLIAM STARBUCK, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born April 20, 1812, in 
Ogdensburg, N. Y. He was a novelist and 
physician of New York city, and the au¬ 
thor of Kaloolah; The Berber; Never 
Again; Flood and Field; and Romance 
Dust, a collection of short stories. He 
died in 1895. 

MAYRANT, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in South Carolina. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
during the years 1815 and 1816. 

McADOO, MRS. MARY FAITH 
[FLOYD], author, was born Sept. 8, 1832, 
in Tennessee. She is the author of The 
Nereid, a romance; and Antethusia. 

McADOO, WILLIAM, lawyer, legislator, 
congressman, was born Oct. 25, 1853, in 
Ireland. He was for some years counsel 
to a local board in Jersey City, N. J.; 
and was a representative in the state leg¬ 
islature in 1882. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New Jersey to the forty- 
eighth congress; and was re-elected to the 
forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

McADOO. WILLIAM GIBBS, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, legislator, author, poet, was 
born April 4, 1820, near Knoxville, Tenn. 

He was elected to 
the legislature of 
Tennessee; and the 
following year led a 
company from Ten¬ 
nessee in the Mex¬ 
ican war. In 1851 he 
was elected attorney 
general of the Knox¬ 
ville judicial district 
of Tennessee. After 
the civil war he be¬ 
came county judge 
of Baldwin county, 
Ga.; and for nine years filled the chair of 
history and English literature. He is the 
author of Elementary Geology of Ten¬ 
nessee; and a volume of poems. 

McAFEE, CHARLES BINGLEY, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born in Kentucky. 
In 1896 he became judge of the criminal 
court of Green county, Mo. He was a can¬ 
didate for congress in 1868 and again in 
1872. 

McAFEE, ROBERT BRECKINRIDGE, 
soldier, lawyer, author, was born in Feb¬ 
ruary, 1784, in Mercer county, Ky. He 
was lieutenant-governor of Kentucky 
from 1820 to 1824. He was the author of 
History of the Late War in the Western 
Country, in 1816. He died March 12, 1849, 
in Kentucky. 

McALEER, WILLIAM, merchant, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 6, 
1838, in Ireland. He was unanimously 
elected to the Pennsylvania state senate 
in 1886 for a term of four years, and re¬ 
ceived the nomination for president pro 
tempore by the democratic members in 
1889. He was elected to the fifty-second 
and fifty-third congresses; was not a can¬ 
didate for the fifty-fourth congress; and 
was elected as a democrat to tne fifty-fifth 
congress. 


McALESTER, MILES DANIEL, soldier, 
civil engineer, was born March 21, 1832, 
in New York. He served with distinction 
through the civil war; and attained the 
rank of brigadier-general. He died April 
23, 1869, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

McAllister, Archibald, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born in 1814, in 
Dauphin county, Pa. In 1862 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Pennsylvania to 
the thirty-eignth congress. He died July 

18, 1883. 

McAllister, matthew hall, 

lawyer, jurist, legislator, state senator, 
author, was born Nov. 26, 1800, in Savan¬ 
nah, Ga. He was appointed United States 
district attorney for Georgia. He was for 
some years mayor of Savannah, Ga. He 
was a member of the legislature in 1835; 
and was a state senator for five years, 
and caused the establishment of the court 
of errors. In 1850 he moved his famny 
to California; and from 18o5 to 1862 was 
United States circuit judge of that state. 
He was the author of a Eulogy on Presi¬ 
dent Jackson, and a volume of legal opin¬ 
ions published by his son. He died Dec. 

19, 1865, in San Francisco, Cal. 

McAllister,' Robert, soldier, was 
born June 1, 1813, in Pennsylvania. He 
entered the civil war as colonel of the 
eleventh New Jersey volunteers; was 
brevetted brigadier-general in 1863; and 
1864 attained the rank of major-general. 
He died Feb. 23, 1891, in Belvidere, N. J. 

McALLISTER, WARD, lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 27, 1855, in Newport, R. I. 
He was assistant district attorney for 
California in 1882-85; and then became 
judge of the United States court for the 
territory of Alaska. 

McANALLY, DAVID RICE, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 17, 1810, in Granger 
county, Tenn. He is a methodist clergy¬ 
man, prominent in St. Louis and else¬ 
where in the southwest, who, besides a 
History of Methodism in Missouri, has 
written a number of lives of methodist 
bishops. 

McARTHUR, DUNCAN, soldier, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, governor, was born in 
1772, in Dutchess county, N. Y. In 1805 
he was a member of the Ohio legislature; 
in 1806 was appointed colonel, and in 1808 
major-general of the state militia. In 
1815 he was again a member of the legis¬ 
lature. In 1816 he was appointed com¬ 
missioner to conclude treaties with the 
Indians. From 1817 to 1819 he was in the 
legislature; was speaker of the house in 
1817; and was a representative in congress 
from Ohio from 1823 to 1825. In 1830 he 
was chosen governor of the state, which 
position he held until 1833. He died April 
28, 1839, near Chillicothe, Ohio. 

McARTHUR, JOHN, soldier, was born 
Nov. 17, 1826, in Erskine, Scotland. When 
the civil war began he joined the twelfth 
Illinois volunteers, with a company of 
which he was captain, and for his gal¬ 
lantry was promoted brigadier-general in 
1862. He was postmaster in Chicago in 
1873-77. 

McAUSLAN, JOHN, merchant, was 
born Aug. 10, 1835, in Scotland. In 1866 
he removed to Providence, R. I., and es¬ 
tablished the Boston Store, a mercantile 
house, which has been a success from the 
start. 

McBETH, ROBERT C., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 4, ls38, in Harrison county, 
Ohio. He has served as judge of common 
pleas of Henry county, Mo. He was 
mayor of his city, and a delegate to the 
republican national convention in 1880, 
held in Chicago; where he was one of the 
three hundred and six for Grant. 





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McBRIDE, GEORGE W., merchant, 
lawyer, United States senator, was born 
March 13, 1854, in Yamhill county, Ore. 
He was elected a member of the house 
of representatives of the legislative as¬ 
sembly of Oregon in 1882; and was elected 
speaker of the house. He was elected sec¬ 
retary of state in 1886; was re-elected in 
1890 and served eight years, his second 
term ending in 1895. He was elected 
United States senator as a republican Feb. 
23, 1895. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 1901. 

McBRIDE, JAMES, author, was born 
in 1788, in Pennsylvania. He was a writer 
ot Hamilton, Ohio, and the author of Pi¬ 
oneer Biography. He died in 1859. 

McBRIDE. JAMES HENRY, soldier, 
lawyer, was born about 1815, in Kentucky. 
When the civil war began he recruited a 
brigade, and was afterward commissioned 
as brigadier-general in the confederate 
service. He died in 1862, in Pocahontas, 
Ark. 

McBRIDE, JOHN McLAREN, college 
president, author, was born Jan. 1, 1846, 
in Abbeville, S. C. In 1888 he was elected 
president of the college of South Caro¬ 
lina, which position he still holds. 

McBRIDE, JOHN ROGERS, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, congressman, was 
born Aug. 22, 1832, in Franklin county, 
Mo. In 1854 he was chosen superintend¬ 
ent or common schools of Oregon. He 
was chosen to the state senate for four 
years after its adoption; and in 1862 was 
elected a representative from Oregon to 
the thirty-eighth congress. He was sub¬ 
sequently appointed chief justice of the 
United States court for the territory of 
Idaho. He now resides in Spokane, 
Wash., engaged in the practice of law. 

McBRIDE, MRS. MaGGIE F., poet, was 
born Dec. 31, 1863, in Canada. She is the 
author of a number of meritorious poems. 

McBROOM, JAMES W., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 10, 1835, in Prince 
George county, Va. He served four years 
in the confederate army; was first lieu¬ 
tenant in 1862, in company C, sixth Vir¬ 
ginia battalion; was subsequently elected 
captain of a battery; and served in plac¬ 
ing torpedoes in James river, below Rich¬ 
mond. In 1864 he was put in charge of 
scouts, and continued in that capacity un¬ 
til the close of the war. He then entered 
educational work; was subsequently ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, and elected common¬ 
wealth attorney for several counties. He 
served with distinction as judge of Rus¬ 
sell county, Va.; and subsequently was 
appointed judge of Washington county. 

McCABE, JAMES BUCHANAN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Aug. 2, 1856, in Leesburg, 
Va. He is a prominent lawyer of his na¬ 
tive city; was judge of the county court 
during 1880-86; and since 1887 has been 
the commonwealth’s attorney of Loudoun 
county, Va. 

McCABE, JAMES DABNEY, clergyman, 
author, was born April 15, 1808, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. He edited tne Olive Branch, 
and also the Odd-Fellows’ Magazine, and 
published a Masonic Text Book. He died 
Aug. 1, 1875, in Baltimore, Md. 

McCABE, JAMES DABNEY, author, 
was born July 30, 1842, in Richmond, Va. 
He was a versatile and prolific southern 
writer, whose principal work is a Life of 
General Robert Lee, while among his 
many others are. Planting the Wilder¬ 
ness; History of the War Between France 
and Germany; History of the Turko- 
Russian War; Paris by Sunlight and Gas¬ 
light; Our Young Folks Abroad; The 
Great Republic; Lights and Shadows of 
New York Life; and Centennial History 
of the United States. He died Jan. 27 
1883, in Germantown, Pa. 


McCABE, JOHN COLLINS, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born Nov. 12, 1810, in 
Richmond, Va. He contributed a poem 
to the first number of the Southern Lit¬ 
erary Messenger in Virginia, and wrote 
constantly for it and other magazines 
poems, essays and papers on colonial his¬ 
tory. He died Feb. 26, 1875, in Chambers- 
burg. Pa. 

McCABE, RUDOLPH TAYLOR, rail¬ 
road president, was born April 4, 1847, in 
Duncansville, Pa. He was president of the 
Iron Structural Steel company of Duluth, 
Minn., also president of the Central Penn¬ 
sylvania and Western railroad. 

McCABE, WILLIAM GORDON, soldier, 
educator, author, was born Aug. 4, 1841, 
in Richmond, Va. He is a confederate 
officer; since 1888 head master of a school 
in Petersburg, Va., and the author of The 
Defence of Petersburg; and A Latin 
Grammar. 

McCALEB, THOMAS, lawyer, author, 
was born Dec. 31, 1870, in New Orleans, 
La. He is the author of the Louisiana 
Book, containing selections from the lit¬ 
erature of the state, together with bio¬ 
graphical sketches of tne most prominent 
writers of Louisiana. 

McCALL, GEORGE ARCHIBALD, sol¬ 
dier, statesman, author, was born March 
16, 1802, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a 
soldier of Philadel¬ 
phia, who served in 
the Mexican war, 
and in the civil war 
was brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers in 
the federal army. He 
was the author of 
Letters from the 
Frontier. He was 
presented with a 
sword by the citi¬ 
zens of his county. 
In 1862 he was a 
democratic candidate for congress. He 
died Feb. 26, 1868, in West Chester, Pa. 

McCALL, HUGH, soldier, author, was 
born in 1767, in South Carolina. He was 
a United States army officer, and the au¬ 
thor of History of Georgia. He died July 
9, 1824, in Savannah, Ga. 

McCALL, JOHN CADWALADER, law¬ 
yer, author, poet, was born Dec. 24, 1793, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of 
Philadelphia, and the author of The 
Troubadour, and Other Poems; and Fleu- 
rette, and other rhymes, lie died Oct. 3, 
1846, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

McCALL, JOHN ETHERIDGE, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 
1859, in Clarksburg, lenn. He represent¬ 
ed Henderson coun¬ 
ty in the Tennessee 
legislature in 1887; 
and was re-elected in 
1889. He was appoint¬ 
ed assistant United 
States district attor¬ 
ney for west Tennes¬ 
see in 1890, which 
office he resigned in 
1891; and was an 
unsuccessful candi¬ 
date for governor 
before the repub¬ 
lican state convention in 1892. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

McCALL, PETER, lawyer, author, was 
born Aug. 31, 1809, in Trenton, N. J. He 
was an eminent lawyer of Philadelphia, 
mayor of that city in 1844-45, and the au¬ 
thor of Rise and Progress of Civil Society; 
and History of Pennsylvania Law and 
Equity. He died Oct. 30, 1880, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 


McCALL, SAMUEL WALKER, journal¬ 
ist, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was 
born Feb. 28, 1851, in East Providence, 
Pa. He was the editor of the Boston 
Daily Advertiser; and was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the Massachusetts house of repre¬ 
sentatives of 1888, 1»89, and 1892. He was 
elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth 
congresses; and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

McCALLA, DANIEL, clergyman, was 
born in 1748, in Neshaminy, Pa. He was 
licensed to preach as a presbyterian in 
1772, and two years later ordained pastor 
of the churches at New Providence and 
Charleston, Pa., where he preached till 
the revolution. He was then appointed 
a chaplain in the continental army. He 
died April 6, 1809, in Wappetaw, S. C. 

McCALLA, WILLIAM LATTA, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 25, 1788, in 
Lexington, Ky. He was settled over Pres¬ 
byterian churches in Augusta, Ky., in 
1819, and in Philadelphia, Pa., much of the 
time from 1823 to 1854. He published 
many sermons and essays, The Doctorate 
of Divinity; Adventures in Texas, Chiefly 
in 1840; and a collection of psalms and 
hymns in French. He died Oct. 12, 1859, 
in Louisiana. 

McCALLUM, DANIEL CRAIG, soldier, 
military engineer, was born Jan. 21, 1815, 
in Scotland. In 1862 he was appointed 
director of all the military railroads in 
the United States, with the staff rank of 
colonel; and was brevetted brigadier- 
general. He died Dec. 27, 1878, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 

McCALMONT, JOHN S., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, legislator, was born April 12, 
1822, in Franklin, Pa. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the Pennsylvania state legis¬ 
lature in 1849 and 1850, serving as speaker 
during the latter year; and was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 18o2. In 1853 he was 
appointed president judge of the eight¬ 
eenth district of Pennsylvania, and was 
elected for a full term of ten years. He 
resigned in 1861 to take command of the 
tenth regiment Pennsylvania reserve vol¬ 
unteers. In 1885 he was appointed com¬ 
missioner of customs in the United States 
treasury department. 

McCANN, JAMES, educator, physician, 
surgeon, was born in 1836, in Allegheny 
county, Pa. He was in the medical serv¬ 
ice of the fifth Pennsylvania volunteer 
infantry during the civil war; and subse¬ 
quently continued the practice of medicine 
in Pittsburg, Pa. He organized the first 
medical college in western Pennsylvania. 
He died in 1893, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

McCANN, WILLIAM PENN, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born May 4, 1830, in Paris, Ky. 
he was appointed midshipman in the 
United States navy in 1848, and, having 
been promoted through the various 
grades, became lieutenant-commander in 
1862. 

MCCARTHY, DANIEL, merchant, poet, 
was born Nov. 15, 1850, in Ireland. Since 
1863 he has been a successful merchant of 
Sandusky, Ohio. He 
has written exten¬ 
sively both prose 
and verse for the 
periodical press and 
some of his poems 
have appeared in 
Poets of America 
and other standard 
works. He takes an 
active part in the 
public affairs of his 
city, county and 
state; and has filled 
several public offices of honor. 





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MCCARTHY, DENNIS, manufacturer, 
legislator, state senator, was born Marcn 
19, 1814, in Syracuse, N. Y. In 1846 he 
was elected to the New York state legis¬ 
lature; in 1853 was mayor of Syracuse; 
and was elected a representative from 
New York to the fortieth and forty-first 
congresses. In 1875 he was elected to the 
senate of New rork; remained in the sen¬ 
ate, by re-election, until 1885; and in 1881 
was chosen president of the senate pro 
tem. He died Feb. 14, 1886. 

McCARTY, ANDREW Z., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the New York assembly in 1848; 
and was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1855 to 1857. 

McCARTY, JONATHAN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Tennessee. He 
was a representative in congress from In¬ 
diana from 1831 to 1837. He died in 1855, 
in Iowa. 

McCARTY, RICHARD, congressman, 
was born in Albany, N. Y. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1821 to 1823. 

McCARTY, WILLIAM M., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1840 to 1841. 

McCARTY, WILLIAM MONROE, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born May 18, 1816, 
in Brookville, Ind. He was president 
judge of the thirteenth circuit of Indi¬ 
ana in 1850-55; and in 1861 was chosen 
United States senator, but failed to ob¬ 
tain his seat. 

McCauley, Charles adam hoke, 

soldier, inventor, was born July 13, 1847, 
in Middletown, Md. Since 1881 he has 
been stationed at various posts in the 
western states, becoming in October dis¬ 
bursing quartermaster at Chicago, Ill. He 
invented in 1871 the military system of 
signaling by means of mirrors. 

McCauley, Charles stewart, 

naval officer, was born Feb. 3, 1793, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He served on the Con¬ 
stellation in 1813. He was placed on the 
retired list in 1861, and promoted com¬ 
modore. He died May 21, 1869, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

McCAULEY, EDWARD YORKE, naval 
officer, author, was born Nov. 2, 1826, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was appointed mid¬ 
shipman in the navy in 1841, and pro¬ 
moted lieutenant in 1855. In 1886 Ad¬ 
miral McCauley commanded the Pacific 
station, and in February, 1887, he was re¬ 
tired. He has published the Egyptian 
Manual and Dictionary. 

McCAULEY, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, poet, was born Aug. 23, 
1809, in Cecil county, Md. He was a 
county surveyor and register of wills; has 
served as a member of the Maryland state 
legislature; and was five times elected 
judge. He was a lawyer of Leeds, Md.; 
contributed extensively both prose and 
verse to current literature. 

McCAULEY, JAMES ANDREW, college 
president, was born Oct. 7, 1822, in Cecil 
county, Md. In 1872 he was elected pres¬ 
ident of Dickinson college, resigning in 
1888. 

McCAUSLEN, WILLIAM C., congress¬ 
man, was born in Ohio, he was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1843 to 1845. 

McCAW, JAMES BROWN, surgeon, 
was born in ± 772 , in Virginia. He was the 
leading surgeon of eastern Virginia for 
over thirty years. He was one of the first 
to tie the external carotid artery, an oper¬ 
ation he performed in 1807. He died in 
1846, in Richmond, Va. 


McCAY, HENRY KENT, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Jan. 8, 1820, in 
Northumberland county, Pa. He was ap-. 
pointed a justice of the supreme court of 
Georgia, which position he held for near¬ 
ly eight years, when he resigned and be¬ 
gan the practice of law in Atlanta, Ga. 
In 1882 he was appointed United States 
district judge for the northern district 
of Georgia. He died July 30, 1886, in 
Atlanta, Ga. 

McCEMAS, LOUIS E., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 28, 1846, in Williams¬ 
port, Md. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Maryland to the forty-eighth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth congress. 

McCLAIN, EMLIN, soldier, educator, 
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 26, 1851, in 
Salem, Ohio. He has been a teacher of 
law since 1881, and chancellor of the law 
department of his alma mater; a mem¬ 
ber of the Iowa code commission; and the 
author of several law books. 

McCLAMMY, CHARLES W., soldier, 
farmer, state senator, congressman, was 
born May 29, 1839, in Scotts Hill, N. C. 
He was elected a member of the house of 
commons of North Carolina in 1866, and 
of the state senate in 1871; and was elect¬ 
ed to the fiftieth congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the fifty-first congress as a 
democrat. 


McCLARY, JOHN KENNEDY, farmer, 
educator, lawyer, legislator, was born 
April 7, 1834, in Garrard county, Ky. In 
his early days he 

r . . " „ taught school; has> 

been sheriff; master 
commissioner; and 

- ™ census enumerator. 

In 1867 he was elect¬ 
ed a member of the 
Kentucky state leg¬ 
islature as a repub¬ 
lican; and was re¬ 
elected to that office 
the following term, 
and took an active 
part in the delibera¬ 
tions of that body. In 1868 he was a dele¬ 
gate to the national republican conven¬ 
tion which nominated General Grant for 
president. He has been a county sur¬ 
veyor; merchant; farmer; and now prac¬ 
tices law in Mount Vernon, Ky. 



McCLATCHEY, ROBERT J., physician, 
journalist, was born April 6, 1836, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He was a successful phy¬ 
sician of Philadelphia, and in 1871 pre¬ 
pared and publisheu a revision of Laurie’s 
Domestic Medicine. He died Jan. 17, 1883, 
in Philadelphia. 


McCLEAN, MOSES, lawyer, legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1804, in Get¬ 
tysburg, Pa. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1845 to 
1847; in 1855 was elected to the state leg¬ 
islature; and was for several years presi¬ 
dent of the board of trustees of Pennsyl¬ 
vania college. He died Oct. 1, 1870, in 
Gettysburg, Pa. 


McCLEARY, JAMES THOMPSON, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 5, 1853, in In- 
gersoll, Ontario. For two years he was 
superintendent of Pierce county schools; 
resigned in 1881 to become state institute 
conductor of Minnesota and professor of 
history and political science in the State 
Normal school at Mankato, continuing in 
this position until june, 1892. In 1888 he 
published Studies in Civics, and in 1894 
a Manual of Civics, which are used in the 
best schools of the country. He was 
elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth 
congresses; and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 


McCLELLAN, ABRAHAM, congress¬ 
man, was born in Tennessee. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1837 to 1843. 

McCLELLAN, CARSWELL, civil engi¬ 
neer, author, was born Dec. 3, 1835, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a topograph¬ 
ical assistant on the staff of General A. A. 
Humphreys in the civil war. Afterward 
a civil engineer in railroad and govern¬ 
ment service. He was the author of The 
Personal Memoirs and Military History of 
U. S. Grant versus The Record of the 
Army of the Potomac. He died in 1892. 

McCLELLAN, CHARLES A. 0., lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born May 25, 
1835, in Ashland, Ohio. For two years 
he gave instruction 
in penmanship. For 
four years he was 
deputy auditor of De 
Kalb county, Ind., 
and in 1860 was ap¬ 
pointed United 
States deputy mar¬ 
shal. In 1862 he 
was admitted to the 
bar; and in 1872 was 
appointed judge of 
the fortieth judicial 
circuit of Indiana. 
In 1873 he established the De Kalb bank 
of Waterloo; and since 1885 has. been 
president of ihe First National bank of 
Auburn, Ind. He was elected to the fifty- 
first and fifty-second congresses. 

McCLELLAN, ELY, physician, author, 
was born Aug. 23, 1834, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was assistant medical director in 
the United States army; and the author 
of The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the 
United States. 

McCLELLAN. GEORGE, surgeon, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 23, 1796, in Wood- 
stock, Conn. He was a noted surgeon of 
Philadelphia, professor of surgery in Jef¬ 
ferson Medical college, for which institu¬ 
tion he obtained the charter. He was the 
author of The Principles and Practice of 
Surgery. He died May 9, 1847, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

McCLELLAN, GEOrtGE B., journalist, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 23, 
1865, in Saxony. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress from New York; 
was renominated by the democratic party 
and nominated by tne national democratic 
party, and re-elected io the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

McCLELLAN, GEORGE BRINTON, 
soldier, governor, author, was born Dec. 

3, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. He entered 
West Point as an in¬ 
structor, and pre¬ 
pared a Manual on 
Bayonet Exercise, 
wnich became a text 
book in the service. 
When the rebellion 
commenced ne was 
appointed' major- 
general of volun¬ 
teers in Ohio; was 
soon made major- 
general in the regu¬ 
lar army, and on the 
retirement of General Scott was made 
general-in-chief oi the American army. 
He commanded the army of the Potomac 
in the protracted peninsula campaign; 
won the battle of Antietam; and resigned 
from the army in 1864. He was the demo¬ 
cratic candidate for president, but was 
defeated by Abraham Lincoln, who was 
re-elected. He published a number of 
books on military matters, and a Report 
on the Organization and Campaigns of 
the Army of the Potomac. He was gov¬ 
ernor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881. 
He died Oct. 29, 1885. 




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McClellan, henry brainerd, 

soldier, author, was born Oct. 17, 1840, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was major in the 
confederate service during the civil war, 
and published an admirable Life of Ma¬ 
jor-General J. E. B. Stuart. 

McCLELLAN, ROBERT, congressman, 
was born in 1805, in Schoharie county, 
N. Y. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1837 to 1839, 
and again from 1841 to 1843. He died in 
1860. 

McClelland, Alexander, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1795, in Schen¬ 
ectady, N. Y. He was a reformed pres- 
byterian clergyman and educator, and the 
author of Canon aim Interpretation of 
Scripture; and Sermons. He died Dec. 
19, 1864, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

McClelland, james henderson, 

surgeon, educator, journalist, was born 
May 20, 1845, in Pittsburg, Pa. He be¬ 
came professor of surgery in the Hahne¬ 
mann college of Philadelphia, in 1876. 
He has contributed much to various med¬ 
ical journals, including papers on Hip- 
joint Amputations; Bone Diseases; and 
Excision of the - Kidney. 

McClelland, mary greenway, 

author, was born in Norwood, Va. She is 
the author of Oblivion; Princess; and 
many other noted novels. 

McClelland, milo adams, soldier, 
physician, was born Jan. 28, 1837, in 
Sharon, Pa. He is a successful physician 
of Knoxville, Ill. During the war he 
served in company G, sixty-ninth regi¬ 
ment Illinois volunteer infantry. For 
twenty years he has been county physi¬ 
cian; has been resident physician to St. 
Mary’s school of Knoxville, Ill.; president 
of the Military Tract Medical society; 
and vice-president of the Illinois, New 
York, and local medical societies. He is 
the author of Civil Malpractice, a treatise 
on surgical jurisprudence. 

McClelland, Raymond g., clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, was born 
Nov. 14, 1848, in Mt. Jackson, Pa. This 
eminent clergyman and educator is the 
president of the Grand River institute of 
Ohio. 

MCCLELLAND, ROBERT, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, governor, was born 
Aug. 1, 1807, in Greencastle, Pa. He 
served for several years in the Michigan 
legislature; was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1843 to 1849. He was governor 
of Michigan in 1852 and 1853; and in 1853 
was appointed secretary of the interior 
department. He subsequently settled in 
Detroit and practiced his profession there. 
He died Aug. 27, 1880, in Detroit, Mich. 
McClelland, william, soldier, 

lawyer, congressman, was born March 2, 
1842, in Mount Jackson, Pa. He enlisted 
as a private in the first artillery, and 
served over four years, becoming com¬ 
mander; and participated in all the bat¬ 
tles fought oy the army of the Potomac. 
He was elected to the forty-second con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

McCLENACHAN, BLAIR, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania from 1797 to 
1799. 

McCLENACHAN, CHARLES THOMP¬ 
SON, lawyer, author, was born April 13, 
1829, in Washington, D. C. He is a law¬ 
yer of New York city, long employed in 
the department of public works, and the 
author of Law of me Fire Department; 
The Atlantic Cable of 1858; and Book of 
the Ancient Accepted Rite of Scottish 
Freemasonry. 

McCLENE, JAMES, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the 
continental congress from to 1780. 


McCLERNAND, JOHN A., soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, was born May 30, 
1812, in Breckenridge county, Ky. He 
was elected to con¬ 
gress from Illinois, 
and served as a rep¬ 
resentative until 
1851. Before going 
to congress he had 
been elected to the 
s«,ate legislature. In 
1859 he was again 
elected to congress; 
and was re-elected 
to the thirty-seventh 
congress, bift re¬ 
signed to accept the 
commission of brigadier-general in the 
union army in 1861. He was a delegate 
to the Philadelphia national union con¬ 
vention of 1866. 

McCLINTOCK, JOHN, clergyman, au- 
2f, 1814, in Philadel- 
methodist clergyman 
of New York city, 
professor in Drew 
Theological semi¬ 
nary at the time of 
his death. He is best 
known by the Theo¬ 
logical and Biblical 
Cyclopaedia which 
he began with James 
Strong; but he was 
the author, also, of 
Living Words; and 
Lectures on Theo¬ 
logical E n c y c 1 o- 
peedia and Methodology. He died March 
4, 1870, in Madison, N. J. 

McCLINTON, JAMES GILES, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 7, 
1838, in Henderson county, Ill. He has 
served as state senator in Nevada; and 
for many years he was judge of the eighth 
judicial district of that state. He is now 
serving his third term as superior judge 
at Port Angeles, Wash. 

McCLOSKEY, JOhN, cardinal, was 

born March 20, 1810, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He founded the theological seminary at 
Troy; and erected 
St. Mary’s cathedral 
at Albany. In 1864 
he was installed as 
archbishop of the 
arch diocese of New 
York, and in 1879 
was elevated to the 
dignity of cardinal 
in the consistory 
then held at the Vat¬ 
ican, being the first 
American prelate to 
be thus honored. In 
1884 the golden anniversary of his eleva¬ 
tion to the priesthood was celebrated in 
New York city. He died Oct. 10, 1885, 

in New York city. 

McCLOSKEY, JOHN, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born in 1817, in Ire¬ 
land. He was ordained in 1840; attached 
himself to the faculty of St. Mary’s. He 
was elected vice-president and treasurer 
in 1844, and became president in 1871. 
He resigned in 1877, but was again called 
to the presidency in 1879, which office he 
held until his death. He died Dec. 24, 
1880, in Emmettsburg, Md. 

McCLOSKEY, WILLIAM GEORGE, 
bishop, was born Nov. 10, 1823, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. In 1859 Pope Pius IX made 
him the first president of the American 
college in Rome, which had just been 
founded by that pontiff. Here he presided 
with great success for several years; un¬ 
til he was appointed to the see of Louis¬ 
ville, Ky., in 1868. 


McCLUNEY, WILLIAM J„ naval of¬ 
ficer, was born about 1 1 96. He was ap¬ 
pointed midshipman in the United States 
navy in 1812. In 1858 he was placed in 
command of the Atlantic squadron, which 
office he held until 1860. He was com¬ 
missioned commodore in 1862. He died 
Feb. 11, 1864, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

McCLUNG, JOHN ALEXANDER, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 25, 1804, 
in Washington, Ky. He was pastor of a 
presbyierian churcn in Indianapolis in 
1851-57, and then of one in Maysville, 
Ky., until his death by drowning. He 
wrote Sketches of Western Adventures. 
He died Aug. 7, 1859, in Niagara river. 

McCLUNG, JOHN WILLIAM, journal¬ 
ist, author, philanthropist, was born Nov. 
21, 1826, near Maysville, Ky. In 1855 he 
moved to St. Paul, 
Minn., where in 1869 
he organized the 
first building associ¬ 
ation west of Chi¬ 
cago, anu managed 
it until his death on 
May 27, 1888. He 
was known as the 
father of these asso¬ 
ciations in the 
Northwest. During 
1868-70 he was ed¬ 
itor of the Pioneer, 
now the Pioneer Press; and was the au¬ 
thor of a work entitled Minnesota as it 
is in 1870, which was a great success 
financially and otherwise. From 1871 ne 
was a member of the St. Raul Chamber of 
Commerce; was prominent in public af¬ 
fairs; and Como Park especially was the 
result of his first park agitation. 

McCLURE, ADDISON S., soldier, law¬ 
yer, journalist, congressman, was born 
Oct. 10, 1839, in Woosier, Ohio. He ed¬ 
ited the Wooster Republican newspaper 
from 1870 to i860. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Ohio to the forty-sev¬ 
enth congress; and was re-elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a republican. 

McCLURE, ALEXANDER KELLY, 
journalist, author, was born Jan. 9, 1828, 
in Sherman’s Valley, Pa. In 1846 he be¬ 
gan the publication 
of the Sentinel, a 
whig journal of Mif¬ 
flin, Pa. In 1850 he 
sold that publication 
and purchased an 
interest in the 
Chambersburg Re¬ 
pository, which he 
made one of the 
most noted anti- 
siavery journals in 
the state. In 1855 
he was a member of 
the convention that organized the repub¬ 
lican party, and in the following year was 
a delegate to the national convention that 
nominated Fremont for the presidency. 
In 1856 he sold the Repository, and was 
shortly afterward admitted to the bar. 
In 1857-58 he was chosen to the Penn¬ 
sylvania state legislature, and in 1859 to 
the senate. In 1868 he settled in Phila¬ 
delphia, and the lollowing year estab¬ 
lished the Times, a daily newspaper, and 
since its foundation he has been its ed¬ 
itor-in-chief. He is the author of Three 
Thousand Miles Through the Rocky 
Mountains; The South; and other works. 

McCLURE, ALEXANDER WILSON, 
clergyman, author, was born May 8, 1808, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman of Boston, among whose 
writings are, Lectures on Ultra Univer- 
salism; and Life of Joan Cotton. He died 
Sept. 20, 1865, in Canonsburg, Pa. 



thor, was born Oct. 
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McCLURE, CHARLES, soldier, pay¬ 
master, was born Feb. 20, 1838, in Car¬ 
lisle, Pa. He served during the civil war 
in the army of the Potomac; and at Gen¬ 
eral Grant’s headquarters as inspector 
of the commissary department of the 
armies operating against Richmond; and 
was brevetted colonel United States vol¬ 
unteer infantry. He is now major and 
paymaster United States army at St. 
Louis, Mo. 

McCLURE, GEORGE, soldier, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born in 1771, in Ireland. 
He settled in Bath, N. Y., where he stud¬ 
ied law, and was successively a member 
of the legislature, sheriff, surrogate, and 
judge of Steuben county. He volunteered 
in the war of 1812, and in 1813 commanded 
a brigade on the Buffalo frontier. He 
died Aug. 16, 1851, in Elgin, Ill. 

McCLURE, SAMUEL GRANT, journal¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 9, 1863, in Wayne coun¬ 
ty, Ohio. For six years he was the edi¬ 
torial writer on the Cleveland Leader; 
and since 1896 has been editor-in-chief 
and general manager of the Ohio State 
Journal of Columbus. 

McCLURG, ALEXANDER CALD¬ 
WELL, soldier, publisher, was born about 
1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. He left the 
house of S. C. Griggs and Co., booksellers 
of Chicago, to enter the national army 
as a private in 1862; was brevetted col¬ 
onel and brigadier-general. After the war 
he returned to the book business in Chi¬ 
cago, becoming a partner in the firm of 
Jansen, McClurg and Co.; and the house 
is now widely known under the name of 
A. C. McClurg and Co., booksellers and 
publishers. 

McCLURG, JAMES, physician, author, 
was born in 1747, in Hampton, Va. He pub¬ 
lished an Essay on the Human Bile, 
which was translated into several lan¬ 
guages. He is also the author of a paper 
on Reasoning in Medicine, in the Phila¬ 
delphia Journal of the Medical Physical 
Sciences. He died July 9, 1825, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. 

McCLURG, JOSEPH WASHINGTON, 
soldier, merchant, lawyer, congressman, 
governor, was born Feb. 22, 1818, in St. 
Louis county, Mo. He was a member of 
the Missouri state convention in 1862; 
and was elected a representative from 
Missouri to the thirty-eighth congress. 
He was re-elected to the thirty-ninth and 
fortieth congresses. In 1868 he was elect¬ 
ed governor of Missouri. 

McCLUSKEY, JOHN DANIEL, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 6, 1841, 
in Newburg, Ala. He was an officer in 
the confederate army; has served with 
distinction as a member of the Alabama 
state legislature; and since 1865 has taken 
an active part in every presidential cam¬ 
paign in the interest of the democratic 
party. He is one of the foremost law¬ 
yers of his native state, and has a large 
practice in Vernon. 

MeCOID, MOSES A., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, congressman, was 
born Nov. 5, 1840, in Logan county, Ohio. 
He was district attorney of the sixth ju¬ 
dicial district of Iowa from 1867 to 1871; 
he was state senator from 1872 to 1879; 
and was elected a representative from 
Iowa to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh and 
forty-eighth congresses. 

McCOLL, EVAN, poet, was born Sept. 
21, 1808, in Scotland. He is a successful 
writer of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and is the au¬ 
thor of two volumes of poems, entitled 
The Mountain Minstrel; and Poems and 
Songs. 


McCOLLESTER, SULLIVAN HOL¬ 
MAN, educator, clergyman, lecturer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1826, in Marlborough, 
N. H. He received 
a liberal education, 
and the degrees of 
A. B. and A. M. were 
conferred on him by 
the Norwich univer¬ 
sity, Vt. He studied 
Greek at the Har¬ 
vard university, and 
took a theological 
course in the Har¬ 
vard Divinity 
school; and in 1853 
was ordained a uni- 
versalist minister. He then entered 
educational work, was principal in 
several large institutions, and was made 
president of the state board of edu¬ 
cation in New Hampshire for four 
years. He has lectured extensively on 
education, temperance, foreign travels 
and peoples. He has visited Europe five 
times; Eg 3 r pt, Palestine and Turkey three 
times; made a tour round the world; been 
the length and breadth of his own coun¬ 
try and through Mexico. During his trav¬ 
els he has been a correspondent for the 
Boston Journal, Transcript, Journal of 
Education, Christian Leader, Gospel Ban¬ 
ner, New Hampshire Sentinel, Monitor, 
Republican, and other journals. He has 
published After Thoughts of Capital Cit¬ 
ies and Foreign Lands; Round the Globe 
in Old and New Paths; Babylon and Nin¬ 
eveh Through American Eyes; and Mex¬ 
ico, Modern and Ancient. 

McCOMAS, LOUIS EMORY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Washington 
county, Maryland. He was a republican 
candidate from Maryland to me forty- 
fifth congress; and was elected to the for¬ 
ty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty- 
first congresses as a republican. 

McCOMAS, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1833 to 1837. 

McCOMB, ELEAZER, congressman. He 
was a delegate to the continental congress 
from Delaware from 1782 to 1784. 

McCONAUGHY, DAVID, clergvm'an, 
college president, author, was born Sept. 
29, 1775, in Menallen, Pa. From 1832 till 
1849 he was president of Washington col¬ 
lege. He published sermons and ad¬ 
dresses, tracts on the Doctrine of the 
Trinity; and on Infant Baptism; A Brief 
Summary and Outline of Moral Science; 
and Discourses, Chiefly Biographical, of 
Persons Eminent in Sacred History. He 
died Jan. 29, 1852, in Washington, Pa. 

McCONAUGHY, FRANKLIN ALEX¬ 
ANDER, lawyer, politician, was born Dec. 
25, 1849, in Lancaster county, Pa. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education in 
the public and private schools; and in 
1869 graduated from the McKendree col¬ 
lege of Lebanon, Ill., with the degree of 
A. B.; and subsequently the degree of 
A. M. was conferred upon him by the 
same institution. He is a successful law¬ 
yer of Belleville, Ill.; has been city at¬ 
torney; and in 1876 was candidate for 
state’s attorney. He practices in the state 
and federal courts; and has always taken 
a prominent part in the public affairs of 
his county and state. 

McCONNEL, JOHN LUDLAM, lawyer, 
author, was born Nov. 11, 1826, in Jack¬ 
sonville, Ill. He is a lawyer and novelist 
of Jacksonville, Ill., who was a soldier in 
the Mexican war. His fictions are stu¬ 
dies of Western life. Talbot and Vernon; 
Grahame, or Youth and Manhood; The 
Glenns; and Western Characters. 


McCONNELL, FELIX G., mechanic, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1810, 
in Lincoln county, Tenn. In 1824 he 
moved to Talladega county, Ala., and was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1843 to 1846. He died by his 
own hand in September, 1846, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

McCONNELL, SAMUEL D., clergyman, 
author, was born in 1846, in Pennsylvania. 
He is an episcopal clergyman of promi¬ 
nence as an independent thinker, rector 
of St. Stephen’s church in Philadelphia in 
1882-96, and of Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, 
subsequently. He is the author of Sons 
of God; Sermon Stuff; History of the 
Episcopal Church in the United States; A 
Year’s Sermons; and An Open Secret. 

McCONNLLL, V/. J., merchant, banker,- 
United States senator, was born Sept. 18, 
1839, in Commerce, Mich. He was presi¬ 
dent of the Oregon state senate in 1882. 
He was also a member of the constitution¬ 
al convention of Idaho. He was elected 
to the United States senate as a repub¬ 
lican. 

McCONNELL; WILLIAM B., lawyer, 
jurist, was born Nov. 15, 1849, in Greene 
county, Pa. In 1872 he was appointed 
prosecuting attorney for the thirty-fifth 
circuit of Indiana; and was twice elected 
to the same office, serving for about five 
years. In 1879 he removed to Fargo, 
N. D.; was city attorney of Fargo in 1883; 
and in 1885 was appointed an associate 
justice of the supreme court of Dakota 
territory. 

McCONNELL, WILLIAM C., man-of- 
affairs, was born April 4, 1860, in Hali¬ 
fax, Pa. He received his education in the 
Franklin and Marshall college of Lancas¬ 
ter, Pa.; and is now the president of the 
Shamokin Roaring Creek Anthracite and 
the Bear Gap Water companies. He has 
been a delegate to two state republican 
conventions; and a delegate to the re¬ 
publican national convention held at Min¬ 
neapolis, Minn. He has served as aiae- 
de-camp on Governor Hastings’ staff, 
with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. 

McCOOK. ALEXANDER McDOWELL, 
soldier, was born April 22, 1831, in Colum¬ 
biana county, Ohio. In 1852 he gradu¬ 
ated from the United 
States military acad¬ 
emy; was assigned 
to the third infan¬ 
try; and for several 
years fought the 
Apaches in New 
Mexico. During 
1858-61 he was as¬ 
sistant instructor in 
infantry tactics at 
West Point. As colo¬ 
nel of the first Ohio 
regiment, he distin¬ 
guished himself at the first battle of Bull 
Run. and was brevetted major. He was 
rapidly promoted until he became major- 
general in the United States army for ser¬ 
vices in the field. 

McCOOK, ANSON GEORGE, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 
1835, in Steubenville, Ohio. He entered 
the union army in 1861, as captain, and 
served throughout the war, rising to the 
rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He was appointed assessor of inter¬ 
nal revenue in 1865. He moved to New 
York in 1873; and was elected a represent¬ 
ative from New York to the forty-fifth, 
forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses. 
In 1883 he was elected secretary of the 
United States senate. 




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McCOOK, EDWARD MOODY, soldier, 
state legislator, governor, was born June 
15, 1833, in Steubenville, Ohio. He emi¬ 
grated to Pike’s Peak in 1859; and was a 
member of the Kansas legislature in 1860. 
He entered the army at the opening of the 
rebellion, and by 1864 had attained the 
rank of brevet major-general. Between 
the years 1866 and 1869 he was minister 
to the Hawaiian Islands; and in the latter 
year was appointed governor of Colorado. 

McCOOK, EDWIN STANTON, soldier, 
was born March 26, 1837, in Carrollton, 
Ohio. He was brevetted brigadier-gener¬ 
al and major-general of volunteers in 
1865, for his services in the civil war. 
While acting governor of Dakota and pre¬ 
siding over a public meeting, he was shot 
and killed by a man in the audience. He 
died Sept. 11, 1873, in Yankton, Dak. 

McCOOK, GEORGE WYTHE, lawyer, 
was born Nov. 22, 1821, in Canonsburg, 
Pa. In 1854-56 he was attorney-general 
of Ohio. In the Mexican war he was lieu- 
tenant-colonel of the third Ohio regiment, 
and was commissioned brigadier-general 
in 1861. He died Dec. 28, 1877, in Steu¬ 
benville, Ohio. 

McCOOK, HENRY CHRISTOPHER, 
naturalist, clergyman, author, was born 
July 3, 1837, in New Lisbon, Ohio. He is 
a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, 
well known as a naturalist, and the author 
of Object and Outline Teaching; The 
Last Year of Christ's Ministry; The Last 
Days of Jesus; Garfield Memorial Ser- 
- mons; The Women Friends of Jesus; The 
Gospel in Nature; The Mound-Making Art 
of the Alleghanies; Natural History, of 
the Agricultural Ant of Texas; Honey 
Ants and Occident Ants; Tenants of an 
Old Farm; and American Spiders. 

McCOOK, JOHN JAMES, soldier, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 2, 1843, in 
New Lisbon, Ohio. He has held pastor¬ 
ates in Detroit, Mich., and East Hartford, 
Conn., and since 1883 has been professor 
of modern languages in Trinity college. 
He was editor of the Church Weekly, is 
a frequent contributor to periodicals, and 
is the author of Pat and the Council. 

McCOOK. JOHN JAMES, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born May 22, 1845, in Carrollton, 
Ohio. He enlisted in the sixth Ohio cav¬ 
alry. He served 
through the war, at¬ 
taining the rank of 
captain and aide-de- 
camp in 1863. He 
was brevetted major 
for gallant and meri¬ 
torious services in 
action at Shady 
Grove, Va., and 
lieutenant - colonel 
and colonel for his 
services during the 
war. He is now 
practicing law in New York city. 

McCOOK, ROBERT LATIMER, soldier, 
was born Dec. 28, 1827, in New Lisbon, 
Ohio. He organized the ninth Ohio regi¬ 
ment in 1861, became its colonel, and com¬ 
manded a brigade in the West Virginia 
campaign under McClellan. He was pro¬ 
moted brigadier-general of volunteers in 
1862. He died Aug. 6, 1862, near Salem, 
Ala. 

McCOOK. RODERICK SHELDON, na¬ 
val officer, was born March 10, 1839, in 
New Lisbon, Ohio. He served through 
the civil war with great credit; and in 
1873 he was made commodore. He died 
Feb. 13, 1886, in Vineland, N. J. 

McCORD, ANDREW, congressman. He 
was a member of the New York assembly 
during the years 1800, 1801, 1802 and 1807, 
part of the time speaker; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1803 to 1805. 


McCORD, GEORGE HERBERT, artist, 
was born Aug. 1, 1848, in New York city. 
In 1880 he was elected an associate, and in 
1883 he received a silver medal at the 
Massachusetts charitable mechanics’ in¬ 
stitute exhibition, and in 1884 a bronze 
medal and diploma at the World’s fair, 
New Orleans. 

McCORD, MRS. LOUISA SUSANNAH 
(CHEVES), author, was born Dec. 3, 1810, 
in Columbia, S. C. She was a writer of 
South Carolina; and the author of Soph¬ 
isms of the Protective Policy, translated 
from Bastral; Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; 
and My Dreams, a volume of verse. She 
died Nov. 27, 1880, in Charleston, S. C. 

McCORD, MYRON H., journalist, state 
senator, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 
1840, in Ceres, Pa. He was a member of 
the Mississippi state senate in 1873 and 
1874; member of assembly in 1881; and 
was appointed a delegate to Cincinnati 
republican national convention in 1876. 
He was register United States land office 
from 1883 to 1885; and was elected to the 
fifty-first congress as a republican. 

McCORKLE, JOSEPH W., congressman, 
was born in Ohio. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from California from 
1851 to 1853. 

McCORKLE, SAMUEL EUSEBIUS, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
Aug. 23, 1746, near Harris’ Ferry, Pa. He 
published sermons, Discourses on the 
Terms of Christian Communion; and Dis¬ 
courses on the great First Principles of 
Deism and Revelation contrasted. He 
died Jan. 21, 1811, in North Carolina. 

MCCORMICK, ANDREW PHELPS, 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born 
Dec. 18, 1832, in Brazoria county, Texas. 
He was judge of probate in Brazoria coun¬ 
ty, Texas, in 1865 and 1866; was a member 
of the state constitutional conventions of 
1866 and 1868; and was judge of the cir¬ 
cuit court from 1871 to 1876. He was state 
senator from 1876 to 1879. In 1879 he was 
appointed United States district judge for 
the northern district of Texas, and re¬ 
signed as senator to enter upon his judi¬ 
cial duties. 

McCORMICK, ANDREW WILSON, sol¬ 
dier, jurist, lawyer, was born Feb. 3, 1830, 
in Waynesburg. Pa. During the war he 
served in the seventy-seventh regiment, 
Ohio volunteer infantry, and was brevet¬ 
ted major and lieutenant-colonel for gal¬ 
lantry. He has attained eminence as one 
of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at Cin¬ 
cinnati; has been an eminent jurist; and 
is a successful pension attorney, with 
offices in Cincinnati and Washington, 
D. C. 

McCORMICK. CYRUS HALL, manu¬ 
facturer, inventor, was born Feb. 15, 1809, 
at Walnut Grove, Va. In 1846-48 some of 
the McCormick ma¬ 
chines were manu¬ 
factured at Brock- 
port, N. Y., the mak¬ 
ers paying a royalty 
on all they sold. In 
1847 Mr. McCormick 
removed to Chicago, 
where he built new 
shops, and in the 
same year obtained 
a third patent for 
additional improve¬ 
ments. The sale, in 

1847, amounted to about 700 machines; in 

1848, to 1,500. In 1879 the business was 
incorporated as The McCormick Harvest¬ 
ing Machine company, with a capital of 
$2,500,000, the founder becoming president 
of the company. He died May 13, 1884, 
in Chicago, Ill. 


McCORMICK, CYRUS HALL, was born 
May 16, 1869, in Washington, D. C. He 
entered the business of The McCormick 
Harvesting Machine company, serving in 
several departments in order that he 
might obtain a knowledge of its various 
branches. On the death of his father, in 
1884, he was elected to succeed him as 
president of the company, and has con¬ 
tinued in that position up to the present 
time. 

McCORMICK, HENRY C., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 30, 1844, in Ly¬ 
coming county, Pa. He was elected to the 
fiftieth congress from Pennsylvania; and 
was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as 
a republican. 

McCORMICK, JAMES R.. soldier, state 
senator, congressman, was born Aug. 1, 
1824, in Washington county, Mo. In 1862 
he was elected to the Missouri state sen¬ 
ate. He served as a brigadier-general of 
militia in 1863; and was appointed a sur¬ 
geon in the army, which position he re¬ 
signed. He was again elected to the state 
senate in 1866. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Missouri to the fortieth 
congress, to fill a vacancy; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-first and forty-second 
congresses as a democrat. 

McCORMICK, JOHN W., farmer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 20, 1831, in Gal¬ 
lia county, Ohio. He was elected delegate 
to the Ohio constitutional convention in 
1873; and was elected to the forty-eighth 
congress as a republican. 

McCORMICK. LEANDER J., manufac¬ 
turer, was born Feb. 8, 1819, at Walnut 
Grove, Va. He was one of the founders 
of The McCormick 
Harvesting Machine 
company. He took 
entire charge of the 
manufacturing de¬ 
partment, and was 
able to make numer¬ 
ous valuable im¬ 
provements upon 
the original patterns. 
Having amassed a 
sufficient fortune, 
Mr. McCormick re¬ 
tired from the con¬ 
cern in 1889, and invested his means large¬ 
ly in stately business edifices in Chicago 
and has had the satisfaction of witnessing 
a great growth in value of his property. 
One of his public gifts was a twenty-six- 
inch refracting telescope, the largest in 
the world at the time, to the university of 
Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. 

McCORMICK, N. B., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 20, 1847, in Fayette 
county, Pa. He was county attorney of 
Fayette county, Pa., in 1890-94; and was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a pop¬ 
ulist. 

McCORMICK, RICHARD CUNNING¬ 
HAM, journalist, congressman, governor, 
author, was born in 1832, in New York 
city. In 1862 he was 
chief clerk of the 
department of agri¬ 
culture in Washing¬ 
ton; and in 1863 was 
appointed secretary 
of Arizona territory. 
In 1866 he was ap¬ 
pointed governor of 
the territory; and in 
1868 was elected del¬ 
egate from Arizona 
to the forty-first con¬ 
gress, and re-elected 
to the two succeeding congresses. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. He is the author of Visit to 
the Camp at Sebastopol; St. Paul’s to 
St. Sophia; and Arizona: its Resources. 







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McCORMICK, ROBERT, inventor, was 
born in 1780, in Walnut Grove, Va. He 
was the inventor of a machine for clean¬ 
ing hemp. He died July 4, 1846, in Wal¬ 
nut Grove, Va. 

McCORMICK, ROBERT LAIRD, lum¬ 
ber manufacturer, banker, legislator, was 
born Oct. 29, 1847, in Clinton county, Pa. 
He received his education at the Saunders 
institute of West Philadelphia, Pa. He 
is a successful banker and lumber manu¬ 
facturer of Hayward, Wis.; and is inter¬ 
ested in a dozen lumber corporations with 
an aggregate capital of five million dol¬ 
lars. During 1881-82 he served with dis¬ 
tinction as a senator in the Minnesota 
state legislature, and was the grand com¬ 
mander of the Minnesota Knights Tem¬ 
plar in 1880-81. In 1892 he was colonel of 
the Wisconsin division Sons of Veterans; 
and since 1892 has been vice-president of 
the State Historical society of Wisconsin. 

McCOSH, JAMES, educator, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born April 
L 1811, in Scotland. He came to America 
in 1868, and was president of Princeton 
college in 1868-88. His principal writings 
include, Logic: the Laws of Discursive 
Thought; Christianity and Positivism; 
Scottish Philosophy; Mill’s Philosophy; 
Method of the Divine Government; First 
and Fundamental Truths; Psychology; 
The Emotions; Our Moral Nature; Gospel 
Sermons; Philosophy of Reality; The Re¬ 
ligious Aspect of Evolution; Realistic Phi¬ 
losophy Defended; Whither? O Whither 
Tell Me Where; The Development of Hy¬ 
potheses; and Philosophic Series: I. Ex¬ 
pository, II. Historical and Critical. He 
died in 1894. 

McCOSKRY, SAMUEL AlLEN, bishop 
was born Nov. 9, 1804, in Carlisle, Pa. 
He was elected to be the first bishop of 
Michigan, and was consecrated in 1836. 
He died Aug. 1, 1886, in New York city. 

McCOURT, DAVID W., dentist, poet, 
was born Oct. 4, 1859, in Waukesha, Wis. 
He is a successful dentist of St. Paul, 
Minn.; and the author of a volume of 
poems entitled The Treasures of Weins- 
berg, and Other Poems. 

McCOUVILLE, DANIEL, public official, 
politician, was Dorn July 30, 1846, in Ire¬ 
land. In 1878-84 fie was director of the 
Ohio penitentiary; auditor of the United 
States treasury during 1885-89; and has 
filled numerous public offices of honor. 
He was a delegate to the democratic na¬ 
tional convention in 1880, 1884, and in 
1896. In 1896 and 1897 he was chairman 
of the Ohio democratic state committee; 
and in 1896 was chairman of the bureau 
of speakers for the democratic national 
committee. 

McCOW, GEORGE HERBERT, artist, 
was born Aug. 1, 1848, in New York city. 
In 1884 he received a medal and diploma 
from the Mechanics’ association of Mas¬ 
sachusetts; and the following year a med¬ 
al and diploma from the World’s Cotton 
exposition at New Orleans. His most no¬ 
table pictures are Craig Dhu, Windsor 
Castle, Sunset, and Nantucket Moors. 

McCOWEN, JENNIE, physician, sur¬ 
geon, lecturer, was born June 15, 1845, in 
Harveysburg, Ohio. She first taught school 
for twelve years; and in 1876 graduated 
from the medical department of the state 
university of Iowa, receiving a prize for 
a thesis on Puerperal Fever. For sev¬ 
eral years she was assistant physician on 
the staff of the State Hospital for the In¬ 
sane of Mount Pleasant, Iowa; and in 1880 
located in Davenport, limiting her prac¬ 
tice to nervous diseases of women. She 
is a member of the leading medical socie¬ 
ties; in 1883-84 was president of the Scott 
County Medical society; and since 1893 


she has been president of the Woman’s 
alliance. In 1893 she represented Iowa 
at the World’s Columbian exposition in the 
Congress on Woman s Progress, and de¬ 
livered several addresses while a member. 
She has written scores of valuable pa¬ 
pers on medical topics which have received 
publication in the Iowa Medical Journal 
and other leading medical publications. 

McCOY, MRS. CATHERINE (WEBB) 
(TOWLES), author, evas born in 1823, in 
Massachusetts. She is a writer of Colum¬ 
bus, Ga., and the author of Tales from the 
Freemason’s Fireside; The Three Golden 
Links; and Poor Claire, or Life Among 
the Queer. 

McCOY, ROBERT, soldier, congress¬ 
man. He was a member of congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1831 to 1833. He died 
June 7, 1849, in "Wheeling, W. Va. 

McCOY, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in Augusta county, Va. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1811 to 1833. 

McCRACKAN, WILLIAM DENISON, 
lecturer, author, was born in 1864, in Mu¬ 
nich. He is the author of The Rise of tne 
Swiss Republic; Romance and Teutonic 
Switzerland; Swiss Solutions of American 
Problems; and Little Idyls of the Big 
World. 

McCRARY, ALVIN JASPER, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 20, 1844, in Keo- 
sauqua, Iowa. He took part as a union 
soldier during the 
civil war. He then 
studied law in Keo¬ 
kuk, Iowa, which 
city has been his 
home ever since, ac¬ 
tively engaged in the 
practice of his pro¬ 
fession for over thir¬ 
ty years. He has 
served with distinc¬ 
tion as judge of the 
district court of the 
first district of Iowa. 
He has been president of the Iowa State' 
Bar association; is an active member of 
the American Bar association, and repre¬ 
sents Iowa in the general council of that 
association. He has devoted much time 
and money to religious work in the state; 
for twenty-two years has been superin¬ 
tendent of the Sunday-school of his home 
church; and for five years president of the 
Iowa baptist state convention. 

McCRARY. GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman 
author, was born Aug. 29, 1835, in Evans¬ 
ville, Ind. In 1857 he was elected to the 
Iowa state legislature; and in 1861 was 
elected to the state senate for four years. 

In 1868 he was elected a representative 
from Iowa to the lorty-first congress; and 
was re-elected to the forty-second, forty- 
third and forty-fourth congresses. In 
1879 he was appointed United States cir¬ 
cuit judge of the eighth judicial oircuit. 
He was the author ofTreatise on theAmer- 
ican Law of Elections; and Reports of the 
Circuit Courts or the United States, 
Eighth District, 1879-83. He died in 1890. 

McCRATE, JOHN D., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born about 1800, 
in Wiscasset, Maine. He was a member 
of the Maine legislature from 1831 to 
1836; collector of customs at Wiscasset 
from 1836 to 1841; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Maine from 1845 to 
1847. 

McCREA, JAMES, engineer, railroad 
president, was born May 1, 1848, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. Since 1893 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Cincinnati and Muskingum 
Valley railway; since 1896 president of 
the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Rail¬ 


way company; and also president of the 
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad com¬ 
pany. 

McCREARY, JAMES BENNETT, law¬ 
yer, congressman, governor, was born 
July 8, 1838, in Madison county, Ky. At 
the beginning of the 
civil war he enlisted 
as a private in the 
confederate army 
and was elected ma¬ 
jor of the eleventh 
Kentucky cavalry; 
and at the time of 
the surrender of the 
confederate forces 
was lieutenant-colo¬ 
nel of his regiment. 
In 1869 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative 
in the Kentucky legislature and was twice 
re-elected. In 1871 he was elected speak¬ 
er and was re-elected in 1873. He was 
elected governor of Kentucky in 1875, and 
served four years. In 1884 he was elected 
a representative from Kentucky to the 
forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected 
to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty- 
third and fifty-fourth congresses as a 
democrat. 

McCREARY, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Chester district, S. C. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1819 to 1821. 

McCREARY, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1803 to 1809. 

McCREEDY, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1831. 

McCREERY, THOMAS CLAY, agricul¬ 
turist, United States senator, was born in 
1817, in Kentucky. He was a presidential 
elector of Kentucky in 1852; a visitor to 
the West Point academy in 1858; and in 
1868 was elected a senator in congress to 
fill a vacancy. He was re-elected in 1873 
for the term ending in 1879. He died July 
10, 1890, in Owensboro, Ky. 

McCROREY, JAMES A., educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Dec. 11, 1852, in 
1 albot county, Ga. He received his 
education at the Oglethorpe university of 
Atlanta, Ga.; and for many years was 
engaged in educational work as a teacher 
in the public schools of his native state. 
He has attained prominence as an able 
lawyer of Florida; for eight years was 
probate judge of Brevard county, in that 
state; after which time he resigned and 
took up the practice or his profession at 
Miami, Fla. 

McCUE, ALEXANDER, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1826, in Mexico. He was cor¬ 
poration counsel of the city of Brooklyn 
in 1861 and 1862, and again in 1867 and 
1868. In 1870 he was elected one of the 
judges of the city court of Brooklyn, serv¬ 
ing until 1885, when he became solicitor 
of the United States treasury at Washing¬ 
ton. 

McCULLAGH, JOSEPH BURBRIDGE, 
journalist, was born in 1843, in Ireland. 

In 1875 he became editor of the Globe- 
Democrat of St. Louis, Mo., which position 
he still holds. 

McCULLOCH, BEN, soldier, legislator, 
was born Nov. 11, 1811, in Rutherford 
county, Tenn. In 1839 he was elected to 
the congress of Texas. When Texas was 
admitted to the union in 1845 he was 
elected to the first legislature. He died 
March 7, 1862, near Pea Ridge, Ark. 

McCULLOCH, GEORGE, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1840 to 1841. 






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McCULLOCH, HUGH, banker, finan¬ 
cier, author, was born Dec. 7, 1808, in 
Kennebunk, Maine. In 1857 he was elect¬ 
ed president of the State bank of Indiana, 
and in 1865 he entered the cabinet as 
secretary of the treasury. He was the au¬ 
thor of Men and Measures of Half a 1 
Century. He died in 1895. 

McCULLOCH, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1853 to 1855. 

McCULLOCH, PHILIP D., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born June 23, 1851, 
in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He was elected as 
the democratic nom¬ 
inee to the office of 
prosecuting attorney 
of the first judicial 
district of Arkansas 
in 1878; was renom¬ 
inated and elected 
for three successive 
terms; and at the 
expiration of his 
third term he de¬ 
clined to offer again. 
He jwas elected as 
the democratic pres¬ 
idential elector for the first congressional 
district in 1888; was nominated by the 
democratic congressional convention for 
the fifty-third congress by acclamation 
and was elected; and was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a democrat. 

McCULLOCH. THOMAS G., congress¬ 
man, was born in Franklin county, Pa. 
He was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1820 to 1822, to fill a va¬ 
cancy. 

McCULLOGH, WELTY, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1847, in 
Greensburg, Pa. During the war he was 
second clerk under Captain W. B. Coulter, 
provost marshal of twenty-first district of 
Pennsylvania for two years. He was 
elected to the fiftieth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

McCULLOH, JAMES HAINES, sur¬ 
geon, banker, author, was born about 1793 
in Maryland. He became curator of the 
Maryland Academy of Science, and vice- 
president of the Baltimore apprentices’ 
library in 1822. He published Researches 
on America, being an Attempt to settle 
some Points relative to the Aborigines of 
America; and Researches, Philosophical 
and Antiquarian, concerning the Aborigi¬ 
nal History of America. 

MeCULLOUGH, hIRAM, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 
1813, in Cecil county, Md. He was elected 
to the Maryland senate in 1845; and re¬ 
elected. He was elected a representative 
from Maryland to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress; and re-elected to the fortieth con¬ 
gress. 

McCullough, john Griffith, law¬ 
yer, financier, was born Sept. 16, 1835, 
near Newark, Del. In 1861 he was elected 
to the legislature, 
and in 1862 they sent 
him to the state 
senate, while in 1863, 
at the age of twenty- 
eight, he was elected 
attorney-general of 
the state, a most 
flattering exhibition 
of the public admira¬ 
tion of his talents 
and manliness. For 
four years he served 
the state in the try¬ 
ing position of attorney-general. In 1873 
he became vice-president and general 
manager of the Panama railroad, retain¬ 
ing that position until 1883, when he was 
elected president of the corporation. In 



1890 the stockholders of the Chicago and 
Erie railroad elected him president of 
that company, and he is also now presi¬ 
dent of the Bennington and Rutland rail¬ 
road and the First National Bank of 
North Bennington. 

McCullough, Joseph allen, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Sept. 9, 1865, in 
Greenville county, S. C. He is the son of 
the late Rev. A. C. Stepp, and when an 
infant was adopted by the late Colonel 
James McCullough, who had his name 
changed by an act of the legislature. In 
1887 he graduated in both academic and 
law departments from the South Carolina 
college, with the degrees of A. B. and LL. 
B. He soon acquired prominence as a 
lawyer; has been engaged in some of the 
most important civil and criminal cases 
in the south; and was corporation coun¬ 
sel of Greenville for six years. In 1896 
he was elected a member of the South 
Carolina state legislature, and is a val¬ 
uable member of that body. 

McCULLUM, W., poet. He is the au¬ 
thor of a volume of poems entitled Mem¬ 
ory Gems. 

McCURDY, CHARLES JOHNSON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, 
was born Dec. 7, 1797, in Lyme, Conn. He 
was a member of both branches of the 
Connecticut legislature, and three years 
speaker of the house. He was lieutenant- 
governor in 1845 and 1846; United States 
minister to Austria in 1851 and 1852; and 
in 1856 was appointed a judge of the supe¬ 
rior court, and subsequently on the su¬ 
preme bench until 1867. 

McCURDY, S. P. f lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Kentucky. He removed to Mis¬ 
souri, from which state he was appointed 
an associate justice of the United States 
court for the territory of Utah, residing 
at Fort Bridger. 

McCUTCHEN, CICERO DECATUR, 
lawyer, soldier, jurist, was born Oct. 31, 
1824, in Hall county, Ga. He entered the 
confederate army in 1862, as lieutenant of 
the fourth Georgia cavalry, rising to the 
rank of captain. At the end of the civil 
war he resumed his law practice at Dal¬ 
ton, Ohio, and was appointed judge of the 
superior court. 

McDANIEL, EDWARD DAVIES, physi¬ 
cian, educator, was born July 7, 1822, in 
Chester, S. C. In 1887 he became profes¬ 
sor of materia medica and therapeutics in 
the medical college of Alabama at Mo¬ 
bile. He was chosen president of the Ala¬ 
bama State Medical society in 1876. 

McDANIEL, HENRY DICKERSON, 
soldier, state senator, governor, was born 
Sept. 4, 1837, in Walton county, Ga., 
where he still re¬ 
sides and practices 
law. A portion of 
his youth was spent 
in Atlanta. In 1856 
he graduated from 
Mercer university, 
and soon after be¬ 
gan the practice of 
law. In 1861 he was 
distinguished as be¬ 
ing the youngest 
member of the seces¬ 
sion convention of 
Georgia, in which body he opposed dis¬ 
union, but finally voted for and signed the 
ordinance of secession. He went to the 
front as a lieutenant in the eleventh 
Georgia infantry; was promoted major of 
his regiment in 1862, and was terribly 
wounded near Hagerstown in the retreat 
from Gettysburg. In 1865 he was a dele¬ 
gate to the constitutional convention; in 
1872 was chosen a representative to the 
state legislature; and in 1874 was made 
state senator, serving as such with mark¬ 
ed ability for eight years, when he posi¬ 



tively declined any further re-election. 
He was elected governor in 1883; and re¬ 
ceived the re-election to a second term 
without opposition. At the termination of 
his second term he retired, being ineligi¬ 
ble by law to a third term. He has an 
extensive law practice at Monroe, Ga.; is 
a director of the Georgia Railroad and 
Banking company, and of the High Shoals 
Cotton Manufacturing company, and va¬ 
rious other business enterprises. 

McDANIEL, S. C., clergyman, author, 
poet. He is the author of The Origin and 
Early History of the Congregational 
Church; and a number of meritorious 
poems. 

McDANNOLD, JOHN J., lawyer, jurist,, 
congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1851, in 
Brown county, Ill. He was elected county 
judge of Brown county, Ill., in 1886, and 
re-elected in 1890, and resigned in 1892. 
He was elected to the fifty-third congress 
as a democrat. 

McDEARMON, JAMES CALVIN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born June- 
13, 1844, in New Canton, Va. He was 
elected to the fifty-third congress from 
Tennessee, and re-elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a democrat. 

McDERMOTT, HUGH FARRAR, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born in 1833. He was a 
journalist of New York city; and the au¬ 
thor of Poems from an Editor’s Table; 
and The Blind Canary, a book of poems. 
He died in 1890. 

McDERMOTT, THOMAS JEFFERSON, 
lawyer, orator, writer, was born Nov. 17,. 
1861, in Kasota, Minn. He received the 
rudiments of his ed¬ 
ucation in the dis¬ 
trict school, and at a 
private college; and 
subsequently attend¬ 
ed the state univer¬ 
sity of Minnesota,, 
from which institu¬ 
tion he was a grad¬ 
uate. For six years 
he was in the United. 
States postal service; 
was a member of the- 
executive committee 
of the democratic state central commit¬ 
tee; and for two years was chairman of 
the democratic state central committee. 
He has attained prominence as one of 
the foremost lawyers of Minnesota, and 
has a large practice in the city of St. Paul. 
He is a brilliant orator; and as a writer 
has contributed valuable articles to law 
literature and the periodical press gener¬ 
ally. 

McDILL, ALEXANDER STUART, phy¬ 
sician, state senator, congressman, was 
born March 18, 1822, in Crawford county. 
Pa. He was elected to the Wisconsin 
state house of representatives in 1861, and 
to the state senate in 1862. He was cho¬ 
sen a presidential elector in 1864; was one 
of the board of managers of the Wiscon¬ 
sin State Hospital for the Insane from 
1862 to 1868, when he was elected medical 
superintendent, which position he re¬ 
signed to take his seat in the forty-third 
congress as a republican. He died Nov. 
12, 1875, near Madison, Wis. 

McDILL, JAMES WILSON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman. United States senator,, 
was born March 4, 1834, in Monroe, Ohio. 
He moved to Iowa and was elected judge 
of Union county in 1859. He was elected 
circuit judge in 1868; and in 1870 was ap¬ 
pointed and then elected district judge. 
He was elected to the forty-third and for¬ 
ty-fourth congresses. He was a state rail¬ 
road commissioner from 1878 to 1881; and 
in 1881 was first appointed and then 
elected to fill a vacancy in the United 
States senate, and served during 1881-83. 








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McDonald, Alexander, merchant, 
banker, United States senator, was born 
April 10, 1832, in Clinton county, Pa. In 
1863 he settled in Arkansas, established 
and became president of a national bank 
at Fort Smith; and also became president 
of the Merchant’s National bank at Little 
Rock. He was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress from Arkansas for the term ending 
in 1871, having taken his seat on the ad¬ 
mission of that state into the union. 

McDonald, Charles james, jurist, 
legislator, state senator, governor, was 
horn July 9, 1793, in Charleston, S. C. He 
was solicitor-general in 1822; and a judge 
of the circuit court of Georgia in 1825. 
He was in the legislature in 1834, a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate in 1837, and was 
•elected governor of Georgia in 1839, and 
re-elected in 1841. From 1857 until his 
death he was a judge of the supreme court 
of Georgia. He died Dec. 16, 1860, in 
Marietta, Ga. 

McDONALD, DAVID, lawyer, jurist. He 
was a judge of the United States court for 
the district of Indiana. 

MCDONALD, EDWARD FRANCIS, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 21, 1844, in Ire¬ 
land. He served in the civil war; and in 
1874 was elected to the New Jersey state 
legislature. In 1889 he was elected a state 
senator; and in 1890 was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the fifty-second congress. He died 
Nov. 5, 1892, in Harrison, N. J. 

McDonald, GEORGE KENZIE, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Sept. 17, 1868, in New 
Glasgow, Nova Scotia. He has attained 
prominence as a clergyman of the bap¬ 
tist church; has filled a pastorate in Rol- 
lin, Mich.; and since 1892 has been pas¬ 
tor of the Bethel Baptist church of Kala¬ 
mazoo. 

McDONALD, J. R., railroad president. 
He was president of Washington South¬ 
ern railway at Seattle, Wash. 

McDONALD, JAMES E., journalist, 
state senator, was born Sept. 9, 1855, in 
Columbia City, Ind. He has been a mem¬ 
ber of the Indiana state board of agri¬ 
culture; and has served as a state senator 
in the Indiana legislature. 

McDoNALD, JAMES MADISON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born May 22, 1812, in 
Limerick, Maine. He was a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman who was pastor of a 
church in Princeton, N. J., in 1856-76; and 
the author of Credulity; My Father’s 
House, or the Heaven of the Bible; Life 
and Writings of St. John; Ecclesiastes Ex¬ 
plained; and Key to the Book of Revela¬ 
tion. He died April 19, 1876, in Prince¬ 
ton, N. J. 

McDONALD, JOHN, soldier, legislator, 
congressman, was born May 24, 1837, in 
Ireland. In 1861 he was ordered to the 
seat of war. He served in the cavalry 
corps of the army of the Potomac through¬ 
out the war. He was retired as a cap¬ 
tain of cavalry July 1, 1868, for disabili¬ 
ties incurred in the line of service. He 
was elected to the Maryland legislature as 
a republican in 1881; and was elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

McDonald, Joseph ewing, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Aug. 29, 1819, in Butler county, Ohio. 
He was elected prosecuting attorney of 
Indiana in 1843, and held the office four 
years. In 1849 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative in congress, and served one term. 
He was elected attorney general of the 
state in 1856; and re-elected in 1858. He 
moved to Indianapolis in 1859; was a can¬ 
didate for governor in 1864, but defeated; 
■and was elected to the United States sen¬ 
ate in 1875, for the term ending in 1881. 
He died June 21, 1891, in Indianapolis, Ind. 


McDONALD, WITTEN, journalist, was 
born June 4, 1846, in Wyoming county, 
Pa. In 1882 he organized the Armour 
Banking company, of which institution 
he has continued to be president. In 1892 
he became president of the Kansas City 
Times Newspaper company. 

McDONELL, ARCHIBALD, lawyer, was 
born Jan. 1, 1833, in Nova Scotia. In 1861 
he graduated from the law department 
of the university of Michigan. He has 
attained prominence as an able lawyer of 
Bay City, Mich.; has been mayor of that 
city for two terms; an elector at large for 
Tilden: and in 1896 was a congressional 
delegate to the national democratic con- 
\ ention. 

McDonnell, timothy Lawrence, 
educator, lawyer, was born May 31, 1861, 
in Bourbon county, Ky. In his youth he as¬ 
sisted hisfather (who 
was a building con¬ 
tractor) in the differ¬ 
ent departments of 
building. He later 
took part in the pre¬ 
liminary surveys and 
the actual construc¬ 
tion of railroads. For 
two years he pursued 
a classical course in 
the St. Mary’s col¬ 
lege, Kas.; and sev¬ 
eral years was en¬ 
gaged in educational work. He then deliv¬ 
ered a course of lectures in the western 
states, and subsequently graduated from 
the law department of the Omaha univer¬ 
sity. He is the founder and instructor 
of a private law school in Omaha, in 
which city he has a lucrative law prac¬ 
tice. 

McDONOGH, JOHN, philanthropist, was 
born Dec. 29, 1779, in Baltimore, Md. At 
his death he left the bulk of his fortune, 
which was estimated at more than $2,- 
000,000, to the cities of New Orleans and 
Baltimore, for the purpose of establishing 
free schools. 

McDONOUGH, JOHN JAMES, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born March 15, 1857, 
in Fall River, Mass. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the schools 
of his native city; in 1880 graduated from 
the Holy Cross college of Worcester, 
Mass., with the degree of A. B.; and in 
1884 graduated from the Boston univer¬ 
sity school of law, with the degree of 
LL. B. He is a prominent lawyer of his 
native city; and since 1893 has been judge 
of the second district court of Bristol. He 
takes a prominent part in the public and 
political affairs of his county and state. 

McDONOUGH, THOMAS, naval officer, 
commodore, was born Dec. 23, 1783, in 
New Castle county, Del. He was twenty- 
eight years of age at the time of the en¬ 
gagement at Plattsburg; and became a 
commodore in the navy. The state of 
New York gave him one thousand acres 
of land on Plattsburg bay for his serv¬ 
ices. He died Nov. 16, 1825, at sea. 

McDOUGAL, CLINTON DUGALD, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born July 14, 1839, 
in Scotland. He led a brigade in the army 
of the Potomac at Gettysburg and in its 
subsequent campaigns until the close of 
the war, and in 1864 was brevetted brig¬ 
adier-general of volunteers. He was elect¬ 
ed to congress from New York as a re¬ 
publican in 1872, serving till 1877; and 
in 1877 he was appointed United States 
marshal for the western judicial district 
of New York. 

McDOUGAL, DAVID, naval officer, was 
born Sept. 27, 1809, in Ohio. He was ap¬ 
pointed midshipman in 1828, past mid¬ 
shipman in 1834, and commodore in 1869. 


He died Aug. 7, 1882, in San Francisco, 
Cal 

McDOUGAL, MRS. FRANCES HAR¬ 
RIET [WHIPPLE] [GREENE], author, 
was born in 1805 in Rhode Island. She 
was a Rhode Island writer who resided 
in California in 1862; and was the author 
of The Original; The Mechanic; Might 
and Right, a History of the Dorr Rebel¬ 
lion; Shahmah in Pursuit of Freedom; 
The Dwarf Boy, and Minor Poems; and 
Beyond the Veil. She died in 1875. 

McDOUGAL, JOHN M., educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born April 21, 1850, in 
LaRue county, Ky. In his early days he 
taught school; for 
three years was dep¬ 
uty state libi'arian of 
Kentucky; and in 
1876 was sergeant- 
at-arms in the Ken¬ 
tucky house of repre¬ 
sentatives. He was 
commissioned colo¬ 
nel on the staff of 
Gov. Leslie, and also 
on the staff of Gov. 
McCrary. Since 1880 
he has practiced law 
in Gunnison, Colo., when not on the 
bench; has been city attorney, county at¬ 
torney, deputy district attorney, and held 
the office of county judge for six years. 

McDOUGALL, JAMES A., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was 
born Nov. 19, 1817, in Bethlehem, N. Y. 
In 1850 he was elected attorney general 
of California; and was a representative in 
congress from California from 1853 to 
1855, declining a renomination. In 1861 
he was elected a senator in congress for 
six years. He died Sept. 3, 1867, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. 

McDOUGALL, JOHN, governor. He was 
acting-governor of California from 1851 to 
1852. 

mcdowell, Alexander, banker, 
congressman, was born in 1845 in Frank¬ 
lin, Pa. He is a banker of Sharon, Pa.; 
and was elected to the fifty-third congress. 

McDOWELL, B. M., musician, compos¬ 
er, was born May 26, 1845, in Pittsburg, 
Pa. He is a successful teacher of music 
in Cambridge, Ohio; and the author of a 
number of popular pieces. 

McDOWELL, IRVIN, soldier, was born 
Oct. 15, 1818, in Columbus, Ohio. In 1861 
he was appointed brigadier-general of the 
army of the Potomac, and commanded the 
Union forces at the battle of Bull Run. 
He died May 4, 1885, in San Francisco, 
Cal. 

McDOWELL, JAMES, congressman, 
governor, was born Oct. 12, 1796, in Rock¬ 
bridge county, Va. He was governor of 
Virginia from 1842 to 1845; and from 
1845 to 1851 was a representative in con¬ 
gress from the eleventh congressional 
district of Virginia. He died Aug. 24, 1851, 
in Lexington, Ky. 

McDOWELL, JAMES FOSTER, lawyer, 
journalist, congressman, was born Dec. 3, 
1825, in Mifflin county, Pa. In 1851 he set¬ 
tled in Indiana and established the Mar¬ 
ion Journal. He was a presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1852; and in 1862 was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Indiana to the thirty- 
eighth congress. 

McDOWELL, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 10, 1780, in Bedminster, N. 

J. He was a trustee of Princeton in 
New Jersey for more than fifty years, and 
of the Theological seminary there from 
its foundation, and as agent of both in¬ 
stitutions he collected sums for their en¬ 
dowment. His works are, A Bible-Class 
Manual; and A System of Theology. He 
died in February, 1863, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. 








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McDOWELL, JOHN ANDERSON, edu¬ 
cator, congressman, was born Sept. 25, 
1853, in Killbuck, Ohio. He was principal 
of Millersburg High school, Ohio, for two 
years; and superintendent of Millersburg 
schools for seventeen years; and was 
county school examiner for seven years. 
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a democrat. 

McDOWELL, JOHN HUGH, farmer, ed¬ 
itor, legislator, was born Dec. 12, 1843, in 
Trenton, Tenn. He received a liberal ed¬ 
ucation, and has been principally engaged 
in farming at Union City, Tenn. He has 
been a member of the lower house of the 
general assembly of Tennessee for two 
terms; and has served with distinction as 
a member of the state senate. He has 
been president of the State Farmers’ Al¬ 
liance, and vice-president of the National 
Farmers’ Alliance. He is a prominent 
member of the people’s party, and served 
as chairman of the state committee. For 
eight years he was engaged in editorial 
work; and has contributed extenshely to 
the periodical press. 

McDOWELL, JOSEPH, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 25, 1756, in Win¬ 
chester, Va. He was a member of the 
North Carolina house of commons from 
1782 to 1788; and was a representative in 
congress from 1793 to 1795, and again 
from 1797 to 1799. He died in North 
Carolina. 

McDOWELL, JOSEPH J., congressman, 
was born Nov. 13, 1800, in Burke county, 
N. C. He was elected a representative in 
congress from Kentucky from 1843 to 1847. 
He died Jan. 17, 1877, in Hillsborough, 
Ohio. 

McDOWELL, MRS. KATHERINE 
SHERWOOD [BONNER], author, was 
born Feb. 26, 1849, in Holly Springs, Miss. 
She was a writer of Holly Springs, Miss., 
from 1873 to 1878 a resident of Boston, 
and the private secretary of Longfellow. 
In Mrs. Kirk’s novel of Margaret Kent she 
figures as the heroine. She was the author 
of Dialect Tales; Suwanee River Tales; 
and Like unto Like. She died July 22, 1883, 
in Holly Springs, Miss. 

McDOWELL, WILLIAM FRASER, 
chancellor, clergyman, was born Feb. 4, 
1858, in Millersburg, Ohio. Since 1890 he 
has been chancellor of the university of 
Denver. 

McDOWELL, WILLIAM OSBORNE, 
merchant, railroad president, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born April 10, 1848, in Bed- 
minster, N. J. In 1882 he was president 
of the New York Sea Beach railroad, re¬ 
signing in 1883. He established the first 
technical school in Newark, N. J.; and 
helped to establish free libraries in New¬ 
ark, Jersey City, Bayonne, and Hacken¬ 
sack. 

McDUFFIE, GEORGE, soldier, legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, governor, United States 
senator, was born in 1788 in Columbia 
county, Ga. He served a number of years 
in the South Carolina state legislature; 
and was a major of militia. He was elected 
a representative in congress from South 
Carolina in 1821, and served until 1835, 
when he was chosen governor of the state. 
In 1843 he was elected a senator of the 
United States. He died March 11, 1851, in 
Sumter District, S. C. 

McDUFFIE, JOHN V., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born May 16, 
1841, in Addison, N. Y. He located in 
Lowndes county, Ala., where he has 
since resided. He was elected judge of pro¬ 
bate in 1868; was re-elected in 1872, and 
held the office until 1880. He was elected 
to the fifty-first congress. 


McELRATH, THOMAS, lawyer, pub¬ 
lisher, legislator, was born May 1, 1807, 
in Williamsport, Pa. Removing later to 
New York city, he was engaged as proof¬ 
reader and then as head salesman in the 
Methodist Book concern, and in 1825 he 
formed a partnership with Lemuel Bangs 
in the publication of school and religious 
books. In 1838 he was elected to the New 
York state legislature. He died June 6, 
1888, in New York city. 

McELROY, CROCKETT, business man, 
state senator, was born Dec. 31, 1835, in 
Canada. He is a successful businessman of 
St. Clair, Mich.; has been justice of the 
peace, and mayor of that city. He has 
also served with distinction as a member 
of the Michigan state senate. 

McELROY, JOHN, journalist, was born 
in 1846, in Greenup county, Ky. For ten 
years he was the editor-in-chief of the 
Toledo Blade; and since 1884 has held that 
position on the National Tribune of 
Washington, D. C. 

McELWAIN, WILLIAM P., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born in 1860, in Mercer coun¬ 
ty, Pa. He has been judge of the city 
court of Seattle, Wash.; and in 1893 he 
was elected a member of the state legis¬ 
lature of Washington. 

McENERY, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, was 
born in Virginia. In 1866 he was elected 
to the Louisiana state legislature, but 
was deprived of his place by the recon¬ 
struction acts of congress. In 1871 he 
was nominated by three parties for the 
executive office, carried the state by ten 
thousand majority, and yet was counted 
out by the returning board. He practiced 
law in New Orleans, La. 

McENERY, SAMUEL DOUGLAS, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, governor, United 
States senator, was born May 28, 1837, 
in Monroe, La. He 
entered the confeder¬ 
ate army in 1861, and 
served throughout 
the war. After its 
close he entered up¬ 
on the practice of 
law in Monroe, La. 
In 1879 he was elect¬ 
ed lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of the state; 
and by the death of 
Gov. Wiltz in 1881 
became governor of 
Louisiana. In 1883 he was elected gov¬ 
ernor for the full term of four years. In 
1888 he was appointed for a term of twelve 
years as associate justice of the supreme 
court. In 1896 he was elected to the 
United States senate for term expiring in 
1903. 

McENIRY, MATTHEW J., lawyer, poli¬ 
tician, was born April 9, 1858, in Zuma 
township, near Moline, Ill. He received 
his education in the 
public schools, St. 
John’s college, Notre 
Dame university, and 
the State university 
of Michigan. Since 
1882 he has continu¬ 
ously been a member 
of the democratic • 
committee, and a 
delegate to nearly 
every state conven¬ 
tion of his party 
since 1884. He has 
taken an active interest in politics and 
has attained success as a platform speak¬ 
er. Since 1888 he has practiced law with 
success in Moline, Ill., and since 1894 has 
been postmaster of that city. 


McENTEE, JERVIS, artist, was born 
July 14, 1828, in Rondout, N. Y. His 
more important works are The Melancholy 
Days Have Come; Indian Summer; Late 
Autumn; October Snow; Sea from Shore; 
Cape Ann; A Song of Summer; Winter in 
the Mountains; Clouds; The Edge of a 
Wood; Kaatskill River; Autumn Mem¬ 
ory; Shadows of Autumn; and The Kaats- 
kills in Winter; Christmas Eve; and 
Shadows of Autumn. He died Jan. 27, 
1891, in Rondout, N. Y. 

McETTRICK, MICHAEL J., journalist, 
state senator, congressman, was born June 
22, 1846, in Roxbury, Mass. He was as¬ 
sistant assessor of Boston in 1884; and 
was elected the same year to the house of 
representatives of Massachusetts and re¬ 
elected for sc\en consecutive terms. In 
1890 he was elected to the state senate; 
and was elected to the fifty-third congress 
as a democrat. 

McEWAN, THOMAS, civil engineer, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 
1854, in Paterson, N. J. In 1893 he was 
elected a member of the New Jersey as¬ 
sembly; and in the legislative session of 
1894 was chosen the republican leader of 
the house. He was elected to the fifty- 
fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

McFADDEN, BERNARD ADOLPHUS, 
educator, author, was born in 1868 in Mis¬ 
souri. He is a teacher of physical train¬ 
ing in New York city; and the author of 
The Athlete’s Conquest, a novel; and Sys¬ 
tem of Physical Training. 

McFADDEN, OBADIAH B., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, legislator, congressman, was born in 
1817 in Washington county, Pa. He was 
elected to the legislature of Pennsyl¬ 
vania in 1843. In 1853 he was ap¬ 
pointed associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court for the territory of Oregon; 
in 1854 was appointed associate justice of 
the supreme court for Washington terri¬ 
tory; and in 1858 was appointed chief jus¬ 
tice of the same, and discharged the du¬ 
ties until 1861. He represented his district 
in the legislative council; and was elected 
to the forty-third congress as a delegate 
from Washington territory. He died 
June 25, 1875, in Olympia, W. T. 

McFARLAN, DUNCAN, state senator, 
congressman. He was a representative in 
congress from North Carolina from 1805 
to 1807; and subsequently a member of 
the state senate for three years. 

McFARLAND, FRANCIS PATRICK, 
bishop, was born April 16, 1819, in Frank¬ 
lin, Pa. In 1858 he was consecrated bish¬ 
op of the see of Hartford; and, like the 
two first bishops, made Providence his 
residence. He died Oct. 12, 1874, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

McFARLAND, GEORGE A., educator, 
college president, was born April 8, 1858, 
in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. In 1887 he became 
secretary of the territorial board of edu¬ 
cation of Dakota. After the territory was 
divided into two states, he entered educa¬ 
tional work, and became in 1892 president 
of the State Normal school of Valley City, 
N. D. 

McFARLAND, NOAH C., lawyer, state 
senator, was born April 23, 1822, in Wash¬ 
ington county, Pa. From 1849 he prac¬ 
ticed law in Hamilton, Ohio; and in 1865 
was elected a state senator. In 1870 he 
moved to Topeka, Kas.; and was elected a 
state senator. He was twice appointed 
a regent of the university of Kansas; and 
in 1881 was appointed commissioner of 
the general land office at Washington. 





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McFarland, samuel gamble, 
clergyman, missionary, was born Dec. 11, 
1830, in Washington county. Pa. In 1849 
he entered West Al¬ 
exander academy; in 
1855 he entered 
Washington college, 
Pa.; and in 1857 he 
entered the Western 
and Theological sem¬ 
inary of Allegheny 
City, Pa. In 1860 
he was sent as 
a missionary to Si¬ 
am, under the board 
of foreign missions 
of the presbyterian 
was principal of the 
government school for boys in Bangkok; 
and in 1896 he returned to the United 
States, and resided in Canonsburg, Pa., 
until his death, on April 25, 1897. With 
the exception of short vacations to his na¬ 
tive county, Dr. McFarland spent thirty- 
five years in mission work in Siam. 

McFARLAND, WILLIAM, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 
15, 1821, in Dandridge, Tenn. He was 
judge of the circuit court of Tennessee; 
and was elected a representative from 
Tennessee to the forty-fourth congress. 

McFERRAN, JOHN COURTS, soldier, 
was born in 1831 in Kentucky. He served 
in the civil war; and was promoted lieu- 
tenant-colonel in 1866, and served sub¬ 
sequently as chief quartermaster of the 
department of Washington and of the di¬ 
vision of the south. He died April 25, 
1872, in Louisville, Ky. 

McFERRIN, ANDERSON PURDY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, poet, was born Feb. 25, 
1818, in Rutherford county, Tenn. He is 
a methodist clergyman in Tennessee; and 
the author of Sermons for the Times; 
and Heavenly Shadows and Hymns. 

McFERRIN, JOHN BERRY, clergyman, 
author, was born June 15, 1807, in Ruth¬ 
erford county, Tenn. He was a metho¬ 
dist clergyman in Tennessee; and the au¬ 
thor of History of Methodism in Tennes¬ 
see. He died May 10, 1887, in Nashville, 
Tenn. 

McGAFFEY, ERNEST, lawyer, poet, 
was born in 1861 in Ohio. He is a lawyer 
of Chicago; and the author of Poems of 
Gun and Rod; and Poems. 

McGANN, LAWRENCE EDWARD, bus¬ 
iness man, congressman, was born Feb. 
2, 1842, in Ireland. He came to the 
United States, and in 1865 he moved 
to Chicago. In 1890 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative to the fifty-second congress; 
and received the re-election to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. He was 
president and general manager of the Chi¬ 
cago General Railway company until 
1896; and the following year was ap¬ 
pointed commissioner of public works. 

McGARVEY, JOHN WILLIAM, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, college president, author, 
was born March 1, 1829, in Hopkinsville, 
Ky. He received his education at the 
Bethany college of W. Va.; and in 1865 
was elected to the professorship of the 
Kentucky university of Lexington. In t 
1895 he became president of the College 
of the Bible, and professor of sacred his¬ 
tory. In 1879 he visited Palestine, and 
is the author of Lands of the Bible; Com¬ 
mentaries on Matthew, Mark, and Acts; 
Text and Canon of the New Testament; 
Credibility and Inspiration of the New 
Testament; and a Volume of Sermons. 

McGHEE, CHARLES McCLUNG, rail¬ 
road president, state legislator, was born 


Jan. 23, 1828, in Monroe county, Tenn. In 
1875 he was elected to the state legisla¬ 
ture as a democrat and served for two 
years, but since resolutely refused public 
office. He was for many years president 
of the Knox\ille and Ohio and the Mem¬ 
phis and Charleston railroads. To the city 
of Knoxville he has given the Lawson 
McGhee library building as a memorial to 
a deceased daughter. 

McGIFFERT, ARTHUR CUSHMAN, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, author, was born in 
1861 in New York. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman, professor of church history in 
Union seminary; and the author of Dia¬ 
logue of Papias and Jason. He has pub¬ 
lished a translation with prolegomena and 
notes of the Church History of Eusebius 
Pamphilus. 

McGILL, ALEXANDER TAGGART, 
clergyman, educator, was born Jan. 24, 
1807, in Canonsburg, Pa. He became 
pastor of the Second Presbyterian church 
of Carlisle; and in 1842 professor of 
church history in Western Theological 
seminary, Allegheny, Pa. He died Jan. 
13, 1889, in Princeton, N. J. 

McGILL, ALEXANDER TAGGART, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born 
Oct. 20, 1843, in Allegheny county, Pa. 
He was elected to the New Jersey legis¬ 
lature in 1874; re-elected the following 
year; and was prosecutor of the pleas of 
Hudson county in 1878-83; and then pres¬ 
ident of the county courts till 1887, when 
he was chosen chancellor of the state of 
New Jersey. 

McGILL, GEORGE McCULLOCH, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born April 20, 1838, in 
Hannah Furnace, Pa. In 1864 he was 
made acting medical inspector of the army 
of the Potomac, and served as such until 
1865. At the close of the war he was bre- 
vetted major. He died July 20, 1867, near 
Fort Lyon, Colo. 

McGILL, GEORGE WARRINGTON, in¬ 
ventor, was born March 9, 1844, in Lan¬ 
caster, Ohio. Beginning life himself as 
a civil engineer, he turned his attention 
to invention, and became the patentee of 
useful devices before he had attained his 
majority. He has received over two hun¬ 
dred letters patent from the United States 
government. He is president of the McGill 
Fastener company. 

McGILL, JOHN, bishop, author, was 
born Nov. 4, 1809, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was a Roman catholic bishop of Rich¬ 
mond; and the author of Our Faith the 
Victory; The True Church Indicated; and 
Life of John Calvin, from the French. He 
died Jan. 14, 1872, in Richmond, Va. 

McGILLIVRAY, JAMES J.. architect, 
manufacturer, state senator, was born 
June 16, 1848, in Canada. He moved to 
Wisconsin, and since 
1866 has been a resi¬ 
dent of Black River 
Falls. He is a noted 
architect and a suc¬ 
cessful manufactur¬ 
er. In 1890 he was 
elected a member of 
the Wisconsin state 
assembly, and re¬ 
ceived the re-elec¬ 
tion in 1892. In 1894 
he was elected to the 
state senate, and has 
been instrumental in introducing and 
passing numerous bills for the welfare of 
his state. He is also a brilliant orator, 
and was instrumental in the election of 
John C. Spooner as United States senator. 

McGINNIS, C. H., lawyer, business 
man, was born March 29, 1855, in Bastrop. 


Texas. He received a thorough educa¬ 
tion and attended the Military academy 
of his native city. He is a successful law¬ 
yer and business man of Del Rio, Texas; 
was state ranger in 1873; county attorney 
in 1878-79; and has filled various other 
public positions of honor. 

McGIRR, JOHN J., journalist, poet, was 
born March 13, 1855, in Youngstown, Pa. 
He is a journalist of McKeesport, Pa.; 
and the author of a volume entitled The 
Destruction of the World, in verse. 

McGLAUFLIN, LUCY SIBLEY, educa¬ 
tor. lecturer, reformer, was born Nov. 23, 
1857, in Cuba, N. Y. She received her ed¬ 
ucation at Cornell university, the Emer¬ 
son College of Oratory of Boston, and un¬ 
der private instructors. She was a suc¬ 
cessful educator of the higher branches 
in the public schools; professor of art of 
expression and physical culture in the 
American Temperance university, and in 
Miss Hanna’s private school for girls in 
Atlanta, Ga. She was a noted lecturer, re¬ 
former and organizer along religious and 
educational lines. She was the wife of 
the Rev. William H. McGlauflin, and died 
Sept. 19, 1897, in Atlanta, Ga. 

McGlauflin, william henry, 

clergyman, missionary, lecturer, author, 
was born Oct. 2, 1855, in Charlotte, Maine. 
After receiving the rudiments of his edu¬ 
cation in the village schools he graduated 
from the theological department of the St. 
Lawrence university of Canton, N. Y. He 
was ordained a clergyman of the univer- 
salist church; and during 1882-87 served 
on the state board of missions for his 
church, and filled a pastorate at Friend¬ 
ship, N. Y.; from 1887-91 he filled a pas¬ 
torate in Rochester, Minn.; and since 1891 
has been engaged in southern missionary 
church extension work. He has founded 
churches in Harriman and Knoxville, 
Tenn.; and in Atlanta, Ga. He has held 
official positions in the Good Templar 
lodges. Sons of Veterans, Knights and La¬ 
dies of Honor, and other societies, and has 
been a delegate to the highest councils of 
his church. He is a successful lecturer 
and the author of A Memorial of his Wife. 

McGLOIN, FRANK, soldier, journalist, 
lawyer, jurist, author, poet, was born 
Feb. 22, 1846, in Ireland. In 1880 he was 
elected a judge of the court of appeals 
of New Orleans; and in 1884 was re-elect¬ 
ed to the same position. He is the author 
of A Romance of the East; and a poem 
entitled Conquest of Europe. 

McGLYNN. EDWARD, clergyman, was 
born Sept. 27, 1837, in New York city. 
For many years he has been pastor of St. 
Stephen's church in New York city; and 
was subsequently excommunicated. In 
1887 he was one of the founders of the 
Anti-Poverty society, of which he be¬ 
came president. 

McGONEGAL, JAMES, contractor, state 
legislator, capitalist, was born about 1822 
near Londonderry, Ireland. He was edu¬ 
cated in private 
schools in Scotland. 
Early in life he set¬ 
tled in Detroit; was 
an alderman during 
1863-67; and was a 
representative in the 
Michigan state legis¬ 
lature from that city 
during 1871-72. In 
1874 he engaged in 
the contracting busi¬ 
ness; and since 1882 
has resided in Kan¬ 
sas City. Mo., where he has been actively 
identified with the business interests of 
that city. 



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McGovern, Patrick k„ catholic 

priest, was born Sept. 12, 1826, in New 
York city. In 1848 he graduated from 

St. John’s college of 
Fordham, N. Y. In 
September of the 
same year he entered 
St. Joseph's Theolog¬ 
ical seminary of 
Fordham, N. Y.; and 
in 1853 was ordained 
a priest. Shortly aft¬ 
erward he became 
assistant pastor of 
Sts. Peter and Paul’s 
churches of Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. Later on 
he was placed in charge of St. Mary’s 

church of Croton-on-the-Hudson, where 
he now is and has been during the past 
twenty years. His benevolence and love 
of truth and justice haveendeared him not 
•only to the catholics, but to the people of 
every denomination. In 1891 the degree of 
doctor of philosophy was conferred upon 
him by St. John’s college of Fordham 
N. Y. 

McGOM AN, JAMES H., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 2, 1837, in 
Mahoning county, Ohio. He was prose¬ 
cuting attorney of Michigan from 1868 to 
1872; and served one term in the state 
senate. He was for seven years a regent 
of the university of Michigan, resigning 
to take his seat as a representative from 
Michigan in the forty-fifth congress. He 
was re-elected to the forty-sixth congress 
as a republican. 

McGRATH, A. G.. lawyer, jurist, was 
born in South Carolina. While residing 
in Charleston he was appointed judge of 
the United States court for the district of 
South Carolina. 

McGRAW, JENNIE, philanthropist. She 
was the daughter of John McGraw, mer¬ 
chant. At her death she bequeathed to 
Cornell university a librarv fund of near¬ 
ly $1,000,000. 

McGRAW, JOHN, merchant, philanthro¬ 
pist. was born May 22, 1815, in Dryden, 
N. Y. He was one of the original trus¬ 
tees of Cornell university, and erected 
at his own expense at a cost of $150,000 
the McGraw building, for the accommo¬ 
dation of the library and museum of the 
university. He died May 4, 1877, in Ith¬ 
aca, N. Y. 

McGregor. Alexander, clergyman, 
missionary. For many years he was sec¬ 
retary of the Rhode Island Home Mission¬ 
ary society; and is now pastor of the Paw¬ 
tucket Congregational church of Paw¬ 
tucket, R. I. 

McGREGOR, RICHARD S., clergyman, 
lecturer, was born Nov. 5, 1857, in Can¬ 
ada. He graduated from the Adrian col¬ 
lege of Michigan, and since 1879 has been 
a clergyman in the methodist episcopal 
church. He is a brilliant lecturer, and 
now the popular pastor of one of the larg¬ 
est churches in Michigan at Petoskey. 

McGREW, JAMES C., merchant, ban¬ 
ker, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 13, 1813, in Preston county, W. 
Va. In 1863-65 he was a member of the 
legislature of West Virginia, having as¬ 
sisted in organizing the new state. In 
1868 he was elected a representative from 
that state to the forty-first congress; and 
was re-elected to the forty-second con¬ 
gress. 

McGREW, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
was born Feb. 17, 1817, in Shelbyville, Ky. 
He received a liberal education at the 
country schools, and at the Augusta col¬ 
lege, Ky. For many years he practiced 
law in Sacramento, Cal.; and for two 



years was city recorder of that city. He 
subsequently practiced his profession in 
Phoenix, Ariz. 

McGROARTY, STEPHEN JOSEPH, 
soldier, lawyer, was born in 1830 in Ire¬ 
land. When the civil war began he raised 
a company of Irish-Americans for three 
months, with which he re-enlisted for 
three years, and was brevetted brigadier- 
general of volunteers in 1865. He died Jan 
2, 1870, in College Hill, Ohio. 

McGUFFEY, WILLIAM HOLMES, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, college president, was 
born Sept. 23, 1800, in Washington coun¬ 
ty, Pa. He became president of Cin¬ 
cinnati college in 1836, and in 1839 of 
Ohio university. From 1845 till his death 
he occupied the chair of moral philosophy 
and political economy in the university 
of Virginia. He died May 4, 1873, in 
Charlottesville, Va. 

McGUINN, ROBERT ALEXANDER, 
clergyman, poet, was born July 5, 1859, in 
Sabbot Hill, Va. He graduated from the 
Wayland college of Washington, D. C.; 
and from the Newton Theological insti¬ 
tute, Mass. He has filled pastorates in 
Maryland, California and New Jersey; 
and has been president of the Choctaw 
institute of Oklahoma territory. He has 
contributed both prose and verse to cur¬ 
rent publications, and is the author of a 
volume of poems. 

mcguire, Charles Lincoln, edu¬ 
cator, poet, was born June 14, 1867, in 
Sweet Springs, Mo. He received a thorough 
education, and has attained success in ed¬ 
ucational work. He has been principal 
of several large schools in Nebraska and 
Michigan. He is the author of a number 
of very fine poems; and contributes to 
current literature on various subjects. 

McGUIRE. FRANK AUGUSTINE, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born July 1, 1851, in 
New York city. He began the practice of 
medicine in the city of New York; and is 
the author of many works on scientific 
subjects. 

McGUIRE, HUNTER HOLMES, physi¬ 
cian, educator, was born Oct. 11, 1835, in 
Winchester, Va. In 1865 he was elected 
professor of surgery in Virginia Medi¬ 
cal college, Richmond, which chair he 
held till 1880. In 1885 he was made pro¬ 
fessor emeritus in that institution. 

McGUIRE, WILLIAM, chief justice of 
United States. He was an early emigrant 
to the territory of Mississippi; and in 1798 
was appointed chief justice of the United 
States court for that district. 


McHATTON, ROBERT, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky, from 1826 to 1829. 



McHENRY, ELLEN J., author, poet, 
was born Nov. 22, 1827, in Chardon, Ohio. 
She is the author of an epic poem en¬ 
titled Legend of the 
Wandering Jew, 
which was written 
twenty years ago, 
and many of the 
prophecies there pre¬ 
dicted are now in 
course of rapid ful¬ 
filment. Her poems 
have appeared exten¬ 
sively in current lit¬ 
erature and in sev¬ 
eral standard works. 
She is also the au¬ 
thor of a prose work entitled Our Boys. 
In 1847 she married John McHenry, cir¬ 
cuit judge of the first district court of New 
Orleans, La. They subsequently moved 
to California, and reside in the city of 
Berkeley. 


McHENRY, HENRY D., state senator, 
congressman, was born Feb. 27, 1826, in 
Hartford, Ky. He received a thorough 
education; and in 
1845 graduated from 
the Transylvania 
school. He was a 
member of the Ken¬ 
tucky state legisla¬ 
ture in 1851-52, and a 
member of the state 
senate in 1861-64. He 
was again a member 
of the Kentucky state 
legislature in 1865-66. 
He was elected a 
member of the forty- 
second congress as a democrat; and served 
on the committee on the Pacific railroad. 

McHENRY, JAMES, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born about 1755. He was a dele¬ 
gate from Maryland to the continental 
congress from 1783 to 1786; was a mem¬ 
ber of the convention that framed the fed¬ 
eral constitution, and signed that instru¬ 
ment. He was secretary of war from 
1796 to 1801. He died May 3, 1816, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. 

McHENRY, JOHN H., congressman, was 
born in Kentucky. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1843 to 1847. 

McILHENNEY, CHARLES MORGAN, 
artist, was born April 4, 1858, in Phila¬ 
delphia. Among his pictures are Good 
Bye; A Gray Summer Noon; The Shadow 
of Twilight Falls Silent and Gray; The 
Old, Old Story; and The Passing Storm. 

McILVAINE, ABRAHAM R., farmer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 14,. 1804, in 
Crum Creek, Del. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1843 to 1849. He died in August, 
1863, in Chester county, Pa. 

McILVAINE, CHARLES PETITT, bish¬ 
op, author, was born Jan. 18, 1799, in 
Burlington, N. J. He was the second 
protestant episcopal 
bishop of Ohio, and 
long a prominent 
figure among low 
churchmen. He was 
the author of Evi¬ 
dences of Christian¬ 
ity; Oxford Divinity; 
The Holy Catholic 
Church; and The 
Truth and the Life, 
which include his 
chief works. He was 
the second president 
of Kenyon college, serving as such dur¬ 
ing 1833-40; and was the second protestant 
episcopal bishop of Ohio. He died March 
13, 1873, in Florence, Italy. 

McILVAINE, JOSEPH, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, was born in 
1768 in Bristol, Pa. He was a jurist; and 
was a senator in congress from New Jer¬ 
sey from 1823 to 1826. He died Aug. 19, 
1826, in Burlington, N. J. 

McILVAINE, JOSHUA HALL, educator, 
clergyman, college president, author, was 
born March 4, 1815, in Lewis, Del. He 
was a presbyterian clergyman of note in 
the middle states who founded Evelyn 
college at Princeton, N. J., in 1887. He 
was professor of belles-lettres at Prince¬ 
ton college in 1860-70, and president of 
Evelyn college at the time of his death. 
He was the author of The Tj^e of the 
Knowledge of Good and Evil; Elocution, 
the Sources and Elements of its Power; 
The Wisdom of Holy Scripture; The Wis¬ 
dom of the Apocalypse; and Pastoral Di¬ 
rections to Inquiring Souls. He died in 
1897. 








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McILWAINE, RICHARD, clergyman, 
college president, was born May 20, 1834, 
in Petersburg, Va. He was secretary of 
home missions in 1882-83; and since 1883 
has been president of Hampden Sidney 
college, Va. 

McINDOE, WALTER D„ merchant, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
March 30, 1819, in Scotland. He served 
in the Wisconsin legislature in 1850, 1854, 
and 1855; and was a presidential elector 
in 1856 and 1860. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Wisconsin to the thirty- 
seventh congress; and was re-elected to 
the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth con¬ 
gresses. 

McINNIS, JAMES, educator. After 
completing his education he began educa¬ 
tional work; and is now a noted educa¬ 
tor of Ohio at Defiance. He has contrib¬ 
uted extensively to current literature on 
educational topics. 

McINTIRE, ALBERT WASHINGTON, 
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Jan. 15, 
1853, in Pittsburg, Pa. In 1891 he was 
appointed judge of the twelfth judicial 
district of Colorado; and in 1895 was 
elected governor of Colorado, which po¬ 
sition he still holds. 

McINTIRE, JAMES J., educator, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Sept. 22, 1827, in Frank¬ 
lin, N. Y. In 1853 he graduated from 
the university of Rochester; since which 
time he has held pastorates for forty- 
four years, and at the same time taught 
school for twenty-seven years. For sev¬ 
eral years he was principal of the Water¬ 
loo institute and the Marshall academy, 
Wis. During the civil war he served as 
chaplain of the forty-ninth regiment Wis¬ 
consin volunteer infantry. Soon after the 
war he located in Dakota; has been su¬ 
perintendent of public instruction for 
four years; and is still actively engaged in 
pioneer work at Spencer, S. D. 

McINTIRE, WILLIAM WATSON, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born June 29, 1850, 
in Franklin county, Pa. He became gen¬ 
eral agent of the 
United States Life In¬ 
surance company for 
the state of Mary¬ 
land and the District 
of Columbia. In 1887 
he was elected as a 
republican to the city 
council of Baltimore 
city, and was re¬ 
elected in 1888. In 
the campaign of 
1895 he was treasur¬ 
er of the Maryland 
republican state and city committees, and 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a republican. 

McINTOSH, JAMES McKAY, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born in 1792 in McIntosh coun¬ 
ty, Ga. He entered the United States 
navy in 1811; became lieutenant in 1818, 
commander in 1838, captain in 1849, and 
flag-officer in 1857. He died Sept. 1, 
1860, in Warrington, Fla. 

McINTOSH, JAMES McQUEEN, soldier, 
was born in 1828 in Tampa Bay, Fla. 
He became captain of the first United 
States cavalry in 1857; and resigning from 
the army in 1860, was commissioned brig¬ 
adier-general in the confederate army. He 
was killed in battle Nov. 7, 1862, near 
Pea Ridge, Ark. 

McINTOSH, JAMES SIMMONS, soldier, 
was bom June 19, 1787, in Liberty county, 
Ga, He entered the United States army 
as lieutenant in 1812; was commissioned 
captain in 1817; major in 1836; and lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel in 1839. He died Sept. 26, 
1847, in Mexico city. 


McINTOSH, JOHN BAILLIE, soldier, 
was born June 6, 1829, in Tampa Bay, Fla. 
In 1865 he was commissioned major-gen¬ 
eral for meritorious service during the 
war. He was commissioned lieutenant- 
colonel of the forty-second infantry in 
1866. He died June 29, 1888, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. 

McINTOSH, LACHLAN, soldier, was 
born March 17, 1725, in Scotland. He 
was a son of John McIntosh, who, with 
one hundred high¬ 
landers emigrated to 
Georgia in 1736, and 
settled in Darien, Ga. 
He adopted the pro¬ 
fession of land sur¬ 
veying in Georgia; 
and on the outbreak 
of the revolution was 
made a brigadier- 
general. He had the 
confidence of Gen. 
Washington; and de¬ 
fended the frontier of 
Pennsylvania and Virginia against the 
Indians. He died Feb. 20, 1806, in Sa¬ 
vannah, Ga. 

McINTOSH, MARIA JANE, author, was 
born in 1803 in Sunbury, Ga. She was a 
New York writer whose novels and tales 
of domestic life enjoyed a long popularity. 
Her writings include, Praise and Princi¬ 
ple; Conquest and Self-Conquest; Violet; 
Two Lives, or To Seem and To Be; 
Charms and Counter-Charms; The Lofty 
and the Lowly; Meta Gray; Two Pictures; 
Evenings at Donaldson Manor; Aunt Kit¬ 
ty’s Tales; Woman in America, her Work 
and her Reward; and The Cousins, a ju¬ 
venile tale. She died Feb. 25, 1878, in 
Morristown, N. J. 

McINTOSH, WILLIAM, journalist, po¬ 
et, was born April 23, 1852, in New York 
city. For five years he was on the edi¬ 
torial staffs of the New York Express and 
New York Star; and since 1880 has been 
managing editor of the Buffalo Evening 
News. He is the author of a number of 
rare poems. 

McINTYRE, ARCHIBALD THOMPSON, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 27, 1822, in Twiggs county, Ga. 
He was a member of the Florida state leg¬ 
islature in 1849; a member of the state 
constitutional convention of Georgia in 
1865; and was elected to the forty-second 
congress. 

McINTYRE, RUFUS, soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Dec. 19, 1784, in York, Maine. He was a 
representative in the Maine legislature 
at its first session; and was then appoint¬ 
ed county attorney, which office he held 
until elected to congress as a representa¬ 
tive from Maine, serving from 1827 to 
1835. In 1826 he was a commissioner for 
settling the boundary line of his state; 
in 1836 was a member of the legislature; 
and was appointed land agent for two 
years in 1839. He was subsequently 
United States marshal for Maine, and sur¬ 
veyor of the port of Portland four years. 
He died April 28, 1866, in Partonsfield, 
Maine. 

McJUNKIN, EBENEZER, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 28, 1819, in 
Butler county, Pa. He was elected to 
the forty-second and forty-third con¬ 
gresses from Pennsylvania; and resigned 
in 1874. 

McKAIG, WILLIAM McMAHON, mer¬ 
chant, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born July 29, 1845, in Cumber¬ 
land, Md. He was appointed city attor¬ 
ney of Cumberland, Md., in 1876; and was 


elected in 1877 from Allegany county to 
the lower branch of the Maryland legis¬ 
lature. He was elected state senator from 
Allegany county in 1887; and in 1890 was 
elected mayor of Cumberland. He was 
elected to the fifty-second and re-elected 
to the fifty-third congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

McKAY, JAMES J.. lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in 1793 
in Bladen county, N. C. He served from 
1815 to 1831 in the North Carolina state 
senate; was at one time United States 
district attorney; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1831 to 1849. He 
died Sept. 14, 1853, in Goldsborough, N. C. 

McKAY, JAMES T., poet, was born in 
1843, in New York. He is a noted poet of 
Huntington, N. Y., and the author of 
a volume of poems. 

McKAY, WILLIAM J., soldier, clergy¬ 
man, was born May 29, 1847, near Bel¬ 
fast, Ireland. Since 1870 he has been a 
clergyman of the methodist episcopal 
church; has been presiding elder of the 
Eau Claire district; and is now presid¬ 
ing elder of the Madison district. In 1884, 
1888 and in 1896 he was a delegate to 
the general conference. 

McKEAN, JAMES BEDELL, soldier, 
educator, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was 
born Aug. 5, 1821, in Hoosic, N. Y. In 
1854 he was elected county judge for Sara¬ 
toga county, N. Y„ for four years. In 
1858 he was elected a representative from 
New York to the thirty-sixth congress; 
and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh 
congress. After leaving congress he was 
appointed chief justice of Utah. 

McKEAN, JOSEPH BORDEN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born July 28, 1764, in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was appointed attorney gen¬ 
eral of Pennsylvania by his father in 
1800; and served through the latter’s term 
as governor. He was subsequently com¬ 
missioned associate judge of the district 
of Pennsylvania, and at his death was 
president judge of the court. He died Sept. 
3, 1826, in Philadelphia. 

McKEAN, SAMUEL, congressman. 
United States senator, was born in 1790 
in Huntingdon county. Pa. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1823 to 1829; and a senator of the 
United States from 1833 to 1839. He died 
June 23, 1840, in McKean county. Pa. 

McKEAN, THOMAS, signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence, was born March 
19 ,1734, in New London, Pa. In 1762 he was 
elected to the Dela¬ 
ware assembly, and 
continued in that 
station for eleven 
years. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the New York 
congress in 1765; 
and while holding 
theofficeof chief jus¬ 
tice in Pennsylvania 
was elected a dele¬ 
gate from Delaware 
to the continental 
congress from 1774 
to 1776, and from 1778 to 1783. He was a 
signer of the declaration of independence, 
and of the articles of confederation. He 
was judge of the court of common pleas 
in Delaware. He was governor of Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1799 to 1808. He died 
June 24, 1817, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

McKEAN, THOMAS JEFFERSON, civ¬ 
il engineer, soldier, was born Aug. 21, 
1810, in Burlington, Pa. He became pay¬ 
master in the United States army in 1861. 
He died April 19, 1870, in Marion, Iowa. 








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McKEAN, WILLIAM WISTER, naval 
officer, was born Sept. 19, 1800, in Hunt¬ 
ingdon county, Pa. He entered the navy 
as a midshipman in 1814, and became lieu¬ 
tenant in 1825; commander in 1841, and 
captain in 1855. He was retired in 1861 
and became commodore on the retired 
list in 1862. He died April 22, 1865, near 
Binghamton, N. Y. 

McKEE, EDWIN R., soldier, lawyer 
jurist, was born Aug. 31, 1844, in Knox 
county, Ill. He is a successful lawyer 
of Memphis, Mo.; has been prosecuting 
attorney; and in 1896 was elected judge. 

McKEE, GEORGE COLIN, soldier, law- 
>er, congressman, was born Oct. 2,’1836, 
m Joliet, Ill. He was elected attorney 
of Centralia, Ill., and practiced law. He 
was ordered as brigadier-general to en¬ 
roll and equip four regiments of militia. 
He was a member of the constitutional 
convention of Mississippi. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fortieth congress, but the state 
was refused admission; and was re-elect¬ 
ed to the forty-first, forty-second and forty- 
third congresses from Mississippi. He 
died Nov. 17, 1890, in Jackson, Miss. 

McKEE, JOHN, public official, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Rockbridge coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1823 to 1829. 

McKEE, SAMUEL, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1809 to 1817. 

McKEE, SAMUEL, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 4, 1833, in Mont¬ 
gomery county, Ky. In 1865 he was elected 
a l epresentative from Kentucky to the 
thirty-ninth congress; and was re-elected 
to the fortieth congress as a republican. He 
was also a delegate to the Philadelphia 
loyalists’ convention in 1866. For three 
years he was United States pension agent 
at Louisville, Ky. 

McKEEN, JOSEPH, clergyman, college 
president, was born Oct. 15, 1757, in Lon¬ 
donderry, N. H. He was a successful 
clergyman of New England, and became 
president of Bowdoin college. He died 
July 15, 1807, in Brunswick, Maine. 

McKEEN, JOSEPH JOHN, business 
man, public official, was born in 1789 in 
Beverly, Mass. For many years he 
served as town clerk of Brunswick, 
Maine, and was secretary of the board of 
overseers of Bowdoin college. He was 
postmaster of Brunswick, and served as 
county commissioner. He was a noted 
antiquarian; took great interest in the 
Maine Historical society; and made valu¬ 
able contributions to its published vol¬ 
umes. He died in 1861. 

McKEEVER, CHAUNCEY, soldier, was 
born about 1828 in Maryland. In 1875 he 
was commissioned lieutenant-colonel and 
assistant adjutant-general for faithful and 
meritorious services during the civil war. 

McKEEVER, HARRIET BURN, author, 
was born Aug. 28, 1807, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. She was a Philadelphia writer of 
Sunday-school fiction, among whose 
works are. Nothing but Leaves; Edith’s 
Ministry; The Old Chateau; and Crown 
Jewels. She died Feb. 7, 1886, in Chester, 
Pa. 

McKEEVER, ISAAC, naval officer, was 
born in April, 1793, in Pennsylvania. He 
entered the United States navy as mid¬ 
shipman in 1809; and was made lieu¬ 
tenant in 1814. He died April 1, 1856, in 
Norfolk, Va. 

McKEIGHAN, WILLIAM ARTHUR, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 
19, 1842, in Cumberland county, N. J. He 
moved to Nebraska in 1880, and settled on 
a farm near Red Cloud. He was elected 


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county judge of Webster county in 1885. 
He was elected to the fifty-second, and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-third congress as an 
independent. 

McKELWAY, ST. CLAIR, journalist, 
was born March 15, 1845, in Columbia, 
Mo. In 1878 he accepted the chief editor¬ 
ship of the Albany Argus; and in 1885 
was called to the same position on the 
Brooklyn Daily Eagle. In 1883 he ac¬ 
cepted the position of regent of the state 
university 0 f New York. 

McKENDREE, WILLIAM, methodist 
episcopal bishop, was born Jhly 6, 1757 in 
king William county, Va. His father was 
a planter, and the 
son was trained for 
the same calling, in 
1810 the family re¬ 
moved to Sumner 
county, Tenn. At the 
beginning of the rev¬ 
olution, William, 
then twenty years of 
age, joined a com¬ 
pany of volunteers; 
was for some time 
an adjutant in the 
service. He was a 
leader in the methodist episcopal church, 
and became one of its most popular bish¬ 
ops. He died March 5, 1835, in Sumner 
county, Tenn. 

McKENNA, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Aug. 10, 1843, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was district attorney 
of Solano county, Cal., for two terms, 
commencing in 1866. He was a represen¬ 
tative in the California legislature in 1875 
and 1876. In 1884 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from California to the forty- 
ninth congress; and was re-elected to the 
fiftieth, fifty-first, and fifty-second con¬ 
gresses. In 1893 he was appointed United 
States circuit judge; and in 1897 became 
attorney-general of the United States. 

McKENNA, MAURICE M., lawyer, poet, 
was born May 31, 1846, in Springfield] 
Mass. During the civil war he served as 
a member of com¬ 
pany I, thirty-ninth 
regiment Wisconsin 
volunteer infantry. 
As a lawyer he has 
gained a good repu¬ 
tation as one of the 
foremost practition¬ 
ers in his state; 
practices in the state 
and federal courts; 
and has had profes¬ 
sional engagements 
in Iowa, Kansas, Illi¬ 
nois, Michigan, and Minnesota. For six 
years he was clerk of the courts of record 
in Fond du Lac county; and served six 
terms as supervisor of the first ward of 
the city of Fond du Lac. He has held 
numerous positions of honor, and has al¬ 
ways taken an active part in the public 
affairs of his city, county and state. He 
is the author of a volume entitled Elva 
Lee, and Other Poems; and a second vol¬ 
ume which was published in 1890 entitled 
Poems, Rhymes, and Verses. His pro¬ 
ductions were given a place in Poets of 
America, and have appeared in other 
standard works. 

McKENNAN, THOMAS McKEAN 
THOMPSON, lawyer, congressman, was 
born March 31, 1794, in New Castle coun¬ 
ty, Pa. He was secretary of the interior 
department under President Fillmore for 
a brief period; and was a representative 
in congress from Pennsylvania from 1831 
to 1839, and from 1841 to 1843. He died 
July 9, 1852, in Reading, Pa. 


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McKENNAN, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist 
vas born Sept. 27, 1816, in Washington, 
Pa. He was the son of Thomas M. T. 
McKennan. In 1869 he was appointed cir- 
f“ lt j i u . d S e . °f the United States for the 
third circuit. His only other public posi¬ 
tion was that of commissioner from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the peace conference of 1861. 

McKENNEY, THOMAS LORRAINE, 
merchant, author, was born March 21,’ 
1 1 85, in Hopewell, Md. In 1826 he was a 
special commissioner with Lewis Cass to 
negotiate an important treaty with the 
Chippewa Indians at Fond du Lac, in the 
territory of Michigan. In 1827 he published 
a Jour to the Lakes, with illustrations, 
and also originated and published, in 
connection with James Hall, a History of 
the Indian Tribes. He also published, in 
1846, two volumes entitled Memoirs, Of¬ 
ficial and Personal, with Sketches of Trav¬ 
el among the Northern and Southern In¬ 
dians. He was at one time a colonel in 
the militia. He died Feb. 19, 1859, in New 
York city. 

McKENNEY, WILLIAM ROBERTSON, 
was born Dec. 2, 1851, in Petersburg, Va. 
He has practiced law since 1886 in Chat¬ 
ham, Va. He was elected to the fifty- 
third and re-elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress as a democrat. 

McKENTY, JACOB K., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1827, in Douglass- 
ville, Pa. In 1856 he was elected district 
attorney for Berks county; and was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the thirty-sixth congress to fill 
a vacancy. He died Jan. 3, 1866, in Doug- 
lassville, Pa. 

McKenzie, Alexander, clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 14, 1830, in New 
Bedford, Mass. He is a congregational 
clergyman of Cambridge; and the author 
of Cambridge Sermons; History of the 
First Church in Cambridge; Some Things 
Abroad; and The Two Boys. 

McKENZIE, JAMES a., lawyer, farm¬ 
er, congressman, was born Aug. 1, 1840, 
in Christian county, Ky. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in the Kentucky state legisla¬ 
ture from 1867 to 1871; and was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1872. He was elected a 
representative from Kentucky to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

McKENZIE, LEWIS, banker, railroad 
president, congressman, was born in 1810, 
in Alexandria, Va. He served three terms 
in the Virginia state legislature; and was 
mayor of Alexandria during the first year 
of the war of the rebellion. He was pres¬ 
ident of the Alexandria, London, and 
Hampshire railroad, and of the First Na¬ 
tional bank of Alexandria. He was 
elected to the forty-first congress. 

McKENZIE, WILLIAM P., clergyman, 
poet, was born in 1861, in Canada. He is 
a successful clergyman of East Haven, N. 

Y.; and the author of two volumes of 
poems entitled A Song of Trust; and 
Voices and Undertones. 

McKEON, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in 1808, in Albany, N. Y. He 
was a representative in the New York 
legislature in 1832-34. He was elected a 
representative from New York to the 
twenty-fourth congress; and was again 
elected a representative to the twenty- 
seventh congress. In 1846 he became dis¬ 
trict attorney, and served two terms. In 
1853 he was appointed United States dis¬ 
trict attorney for the southern district of 
New York, and was reappointed in 1857; 
and in 1881 was again elected district at¬ 
torney in New York city. He died Nov. 
22, 1883, in New York city. 






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McKIBBIN, JOSEPH C., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. Having taken 
up his residence in California he was 
elected a representative from that state to 
the thirty-fifth congress. 

McKIM, ALEXANDER, congressman, 
was born in 1748. He was a member of 
congress from Maryland from 1809 to 1815. 
He died Jan. 18, 1832, in Baltimore, Md. 

McKIM, CHARLES FOLLEN, architect, 
was born Aug. 24, 1847, in Chester county, 
Pa. Among his best productions in coun¬ 
try work are the cottages erected in New¬ 
port, Lenox, and other summer resorts. 
Among his city residences are the Tiffany 
house, and the Villard block of houses 
on Madison avenue, New York. 

McKIM, ISAAC, merchant, congress¬ 
man. He was a member of congress from 
Maryland from 1823 to 1825, and again 
from 1835 to 1838. He died April 1, 1838, 
in Washington, D. C. 

McKIM, JAMES MILLER, clergyman, 
reformer, was born Nov. 14, 1810, in Car¬ 
lisle, Pa. He was an active abolitionist; 
a member of the convention that formed 
the American Anti-Slavery society; and 
in 1836 left the pulpit to accept a lectur¬ 
ing tour under its auspices. He died June 
13, 1874, in West Orange, N. J. 

McKIM, RANDOLPH HARRISON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1842, in Mary¬ 
land. He is an episcopal clergyman; rec¬ 
tor of the church of the Epiphany at 
Washington; and the author of Nature 
of the Christian Ministry; Vindication of 
Protestant Principles; Future Punish¬ 
ment; Bread in the Desert, and Other 
Sermons; Christ and Modern Unbelief; 
and Christianity and Buddhism. 

McKINLEY, JOHN, governor, was born 
Feb. 24, 1724. In 1777 he was elected the 
first governor of Delaware. He died Aug. 
31, 1796, in Wilmington, Del. 

McKINLEY, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 1, 1780, in Cul¬ 
peper county, Va. He moved to Ken¬ 
tucky, thence to Alabama; and was a sen¬ 
ator in congress from Alabama from 1826 
to 1837. In 1837 he was appointed a jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of the United 
States. He died July 19, 1852, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. 

McKINLEY, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1810 to 1811. 

McKINLEY, WILLIAM, clergyman, was 
born March 24, 1834, in Scotland. In 1891 
he was appointed chaplain of the St. Paul 
district, Minnesota, which office he now 
holds. 

McKINLEY, WILLIAM, the twenty- 
fifth president of the United States, was 
born Jan. 29,1843, in Niles, Ohio. He was 
educated in the pub¬ 
lic schools, Poland 
academy, and Alle¬ 
gheny college. Be¬ 
fore attaining his ma¬ 
jority he taught in the 
public schools; en¬ 
listed as a private in 
the twenty - third 
Ohio volunteer in¬ 
fantry June 11, 1861; 
promoted to commis¬ 
sary-sergeant April 
15, 1862, to second 
1862, to first lieuten¬ 
ant Feb. 7, 1863, to captain July 25, 1864; 
served successively on the staffs of Gen¬ 
erals R. B. Hayes, George Crook, and Win¬ 
field S. Hancock, and was brevetted major 
in the United States volunteers by Presi¬ 
dent Lincoln for gallantry in battle March 
13, 1865. He was detailed as acting assis¬ 
tant adjutant-general of the first division, 


first army corps, on the staff of General 
S. S. Carroll; and was mustered out of 
the service July 26, 1865. Returning to 
civil life, he studied law in Mahoning 
county; took a course at the Albany (N. 
Y.) Law school, and in 1867 was admitted 
to the bar and settled at Canton, Ohio, 
which has since been his home. In 1869 
he was elected prosecuting attorney of 
Stark county, and served a term in that 
office. In 1876 he was elected a member 
of the national house of representatives, 
and for fourteen years represented the 
congressional district of which his county 
was a part. As chairman of the ways and 
means committee he reported the tariff 
law of 1890, but in November following 
was defeated for congress in a gerryman¬ 
dered district, although reducing the usu¬ 
al adverse majority from 3,000 to 300. In 

1891 he was elected governor of Ohio by 
a plurality of 21,511, and in 1893 was re¬ 
elected by a plurality of 80.995; and in 
1884 was a delegate at large to the repub¬ 
lican national convention and supported 
James G. Blaine for president. He was a 
member of the committee on resolutions 
and read the platform to the convention. 
In 1888 he was also a delegate at large 
from Ohio, supporting John Sherman, and 
as chairman of the committee on resolu¬ 
tions again reported the platform; and in 

1892 was again a delegate at large from 
Ohio, and supported the renomination of 
Benjamin Harrison, and served as chair¬ 
man of the convention. At that conven¬ 
tion 182 votes were cast for him for presi¬ 
dent, although he had persistently refused 
to have his name considered. On June 
18, 1896, he was nominated for president 
at St. Louis, receiving 661 out of a total of 
905 votes. He was elected president at 
the ensuing November election by a popu¬ 
lar plurality of 600,000 votes, and received 
271 electoral votes as against 176 for Wil¬ 
liam J. Bryan of Nebraska. 

McKINNEY, ARTHUR L., clergyman, 
jurist, was born Sept. 16, 1819, in Clarke 
county, Ohio. For a quarter of a century 
he was engaged in the ministry; has held 
a professorship in the Antioch college; 
and for three years during the civil war 
was chaplain of the seventy-first Ohio 
volunteer infantry. For four years he was 
treasurer of Miami county, Ohio; was 
probate judge of that county; and for six 
years was mayor of Troy, Ohio. He is 
the author of The Life and Times of Rev. 
Isaac N. Walter; Positive Theology; and 
numerous papers on Christian Theology, 
Politics and Science. 

McKINNEY, JOHN F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 12, 1827, in 
Piqua, Ohio. In 1862 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Ohio to the thirty-eighth 
congress; and was again elected to the 
forty-second congress as a democrat. 

McKINNEY, LUTHER FRANKLIN, 
soldier, educator, clergyman, congress¬ 
man, was born April 25, 1841, near New¬ 
ark, Ohio. He moved to New Hampshire 
in 1873; was elected to the fiftieth con¬ 
gress in 1886; and was elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a democrat. 

McKINNEY, MORDECAI, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, author, was born about 1796, in Car¬ 
lisle, Pa. He was a jurist of Harrisburg; 
and the author of Pennsylvania Justice 
of the Peace; United States Constitution¬ 
al Manual; Our Government; The Amer¬ 
ican Magistrate and Civil Officer; Penn¬ 
sylvania Tax Laws; and Digest of Penn¬ 
sylvania Banking Laws. He died Dec. 19, 
1867, in Harrisburg, Pa. 

McKINNEY, MYRTLE, educator, poet, 
was born Jan. 21, 1868, in Greencastle, 
Iowa. She has attained success in educa¬ 
tional work; and has contributed both 


prose and verse to leading newspapers 
and magazines. 

McKINNEY, PHILIP WATKINS, law¬ 
yer, congressman, governor, was born 
May 1, 1832, in Buckingham county, Va. 
In 1872 he was a member of congress from 
Virginia; and in 1889 was elected gov¬ 
ernor. 

McKINSTRY, JAMES PATERSON, 
naval officer, was born Feb. 9, 1807, in 
Spencertown, N. Y. He entered the navy 
as midshipman in 1826, and became lieu¬ 
tenant in 1837. In 1855 he was appointed 
commander; and in 1866 was appointed 
commodore. He died Feb. 11, 1873, in De¬ 
troit, Mich. 

McKINSTRY, JUSTUS, soldier, was 
born about 1821, in New York. He served 
with distinction in the Mexican and civil 
wars; and attained the rank of brigadier- 
general. 

McKINSTRY, LEVI C., soldier, clergy¬ 
man, poet, was born Dec. 17, 1834, in West 
Newbury, Mass. He served a year in the 
civil war; is a dis¬ 
tinguished clergy¬ 
man of Melrose High¬ 
lands, Mass.; and the 
author of several 
books, hymns and 
poems. He is a con¬ 
stant contributor to 
the religious press; 
and his poems have 
been gi\en a place 
in Poets of America, 
and various other 
standard collections. 
Several of his poems have also been set 
to music. 

McKISSOCK, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1798, in Ulster 
county, N. Y. He was a judge of the su¬ 
preme court of New York; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1849 to 1851. 

McKISSON, ROBERT ERASTUS, law¬ 
yer, was born Jan. 30, 1863, in Northfield, 
Ohio. He has been a member of the city 
council of Cleveland, Ohio; was elected 
mayor of that city in 1895 for two years; 
and received the re-election to a second 
term in 1897. 

McKNIGHT, GEORGE, physician, poet, 
was born March 14, 1840, in Sterling, N. Y. 
Since 1864 he has practiced medicine in 
Sterling, N. Y. He is the author of Firm 
Ground, a collection of religious sonnets, 
revised and reissued with the title Life 
and Faith. 

McKNIGHT, HARVEY WASHINGTON, 
educator, college president, was born 
April 3, 1843, in McKnightstown, Pa., the 
son of Thomas Mc- 
Knight, a farmer and 
merchant, and the 
founder of Mc¬ 
Knightstown. In 1862 
he enlisted in com¬ 
pany B, one hundred 
and thirty-eighth 
regiment Pennsyl¬ 
vania volunteer in¬ 
fantry, and was pro¬ 
moted to second lieu¬ 
tenant. In 1865 he 
graduated from the 
Pennsylvania college, and two years later 
from the Theological seminary of Gettys¬ 
burg. He has filled pastorates in New- 
ville and Easton, Pa., and in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. In 1884 he was chosen president 
of the Pennsylvania college, which office 
he has since filled. He was president of 
the general synod of the evangelical Lu¬ 
theran church of the United States during 
1889-91; and has published various ser¬ 
mons and papers on educational and re¬ 
ligious subjects. 



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McKNIGHT, ROBERT, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1820, in Pittsburg, 
Pa. From 1847 to 1849 he was a member 
of the city council of Pittsburg, and the 
last two years president of that body. He 
-was elected a representative from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the thirty-sixth congress; and 
was re-elected to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. 

McLACHLAN, JAMES, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in August, 1815, in 
Scotland. During 1881-88 he practiced 
law in Ithaca, N. Y. He then removed to 
Pasadena, Cal., and there continued the 
^practice of his profession. In 1877 he was 
elected on the republican ticket to the 
office of school commissioner of Tomp¬ 
kins county, N. Y„ and in 1890 was elected 
district attorney of Los Angeles county, 
Cal. He was elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress as a republican. 

McLANAHAN, JAMES XAVIER, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born in 1809, in Greencastle, Pa. In 1841 
he served in the Pennsylvania legisla¬ 
ture; and was afterward elected to con¬ 
gress as a democrat, holding his seat from 
1849 till 1853. He died Dec. 16, 1861, in 
XTew York city. 

McLANDBURGH, FLORENCE, author, 
was born April 22, 1850, -in Chillicothe, 
Ohio. Several brilliant short stories that 
she contributed to periodicals gave her a 
reputation, and she afterward published 
a collection of them in book-form, under 
the title of The Automaton Ear. 

McLANE, JEREMIAH, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1767. He was for 
twenty-one years secretary of state of 
Ohio; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1833 to 1837. 
He died March 19, 1837, in Washington, 
D. C. 

McLANE, JOHN, legislator, was born 
Feb. 27, 1852, in Lennoxtown, Scotland. 
He served with distinction as a member of 
the New Hampshire state senate in 1891 
and in 1893; and was made president of 
those sessions. He lives at Milford, N. H.; 
and his portrait hangs in the new library 
building of the state capitol. 

McLANE, LOUIS, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
May 28,1786, in Smyrna, Del. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in con¬ 
gress from Delaware 
from 1817 to 1827; and 
a senator in congress 
from 1827 to 1829. In 
1829 he was appoint¬ 
ed minister to Eng¬ 
land; and in 1831 re¬ 
ceived the appoint¬ 
ment of secretary of 
the treasury. In 1833 
he was secretary of 
state. In 1837 he was 
chosen president of 
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad com¬ 
pany, and, removing to Maryland, dis¬ 
charged the duties of that office until 
1847. He died Oct. 7, 1857, in Baltimore, 
Md. 

McLANE, ROBERT MILLIGAN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, was born June 23, 1815, in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. In 1845 and 1846 he was 
elected to the Maryland legislature. From 
1847 to 1851 he was a representative in 
congress from Maryland. In 1852 he was 
a presidential elector; and in 1853 was ap¬ 
pointed minister to China. In 1859 he 
was appointed minister to Mexico. In 
1876 he was elected a state senator. He 
was again a representative from Mary¬ 


land in the forty-sixth and forty-seventh 
congresses; declined a renomination; 
and in 1883 was elected governor of Mary¬ 
land. In 1885 he was appointed United 
States minister to France. 

McLaren, donald Campbell, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Oct. 3, 1794, in New 
York city. He was moderator of the gen¬ 
eral assembly of the associate reformed 
church at the meeting in Pittsburg, when 
by union with the associate church the 
united presbyterian church was formed. 
He died May 7, 1882, in Geneva, N. Y. 

McLaren, Robert neil, soldier, 
state senator, was born April 9, 1828, in 
Geneva, N. Y. In 1859-61 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Minnesota senate. He served in 
the civil war, was brevetted brigadier- 
general of volunteers. After the war he 
became collector of internal revenue for 
Minnesota and United States marshal for 
that state. He died July 30, 1886, in St. 
Paul, Minn. 

McLaren, WILLIAM EDWARD, bish¬ 
op of Chicago, was born Dec. 13, 1831, in 
Geneva, N. Y. By the generous action of 
his lay friends he has founded the Theo¬ 
logical seminary at Chicago, which has 
a fine group of buildings, a partial endow¬ 
ment, and an able faculty; and the Water¬ 
man hall, a school for girls, near Chicago. 
He has published Catholic Dogma the An¬ 
tidote of Doubt; The Inner Proofs of God; 
and The Practice of the Interior Life; be¬ 
sides numerous addresses, sermons, and 
poems. 

McLaren, WILLIAM PRATT, mer¬ 
chant, was born June 19, 1834, in Scotland. 
In 1864 he settled in Milwaukee, Wis. 
He was one of the original incorporators 
of the Northwestern National Insurance 
company. He has twice filled the office 
of vice-president of the chamber of com¬ 
merce. 

McLAUGHLEN, NAPOLEON BONA¬ 
PARTE, soldier, was born Dec. 8, 1823, in 
Chelsea, Vt. He was brevetted brigadier- 
general, United States army, in 1865, for 
gallant conduct in the field during the 
war. He died Jan. 27, 1887, in Middle- 
ton, N. Y. 

McLaughlin, Andrew cunning- 
ham, educator, author, was born in 1861, 
in Illinois. He is a professor of Ameri¬ 
can history at the university of Michigan 
from 1891; and the author of Life of 
Lewis Cass. 

MCLAUGHLIN, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, 
poet, was born Jan. 9, 1798, in North 
Stamford, Conn. He published a volume 
containing, besides some graceful shorter 
pieces. The Lovers of the Deep, a long 
poem in Spencerian stanza. He died Nov. 
15, 1861, in New York city. 

McLAUGHLIN, GEORGE, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born March 27, 1841, in Ros- 
coe, Ohio. For years he was chairman of 
the republican county committee; and is 
now a member of the state assembly of 
the New York legislature. 

McLAURIN, ANSELM JOSEPH, lawyer, 
legislator, United States senator, was 
born March 26, 1848, in Brandon, Miss. 
He was elected district attorney for the 
fifth district at Raleigh, Miss.; and moved 
to Brandon in 1876, after four years’ ser¬ 
vice as district attorney. He was elected 
to represent Rankin county in the legis¬ 
lature in 1879; was chosen presidential 
elector for the state at large in 1888; and 
was elected to the constitutional conven¬ 
tion in 1890. He was elected to the United 
States senate in 1894. In 1896 he became 
governor of Mississippi. 


McLAURIN, JOHN FREDERICK, law¬ 
yer, was born Aug. 22, 1864, in Kemper 
county, Miss. He received the rudiments 
of his education in 
the public schools, 
and attended the 
Wesling college of 
San Augustine, Tex. 
He has attained 
prominence as an 
able lawyer of San 
Augustine, Tex.; has 
served as .United 
States district attor¬ 
ney for the eastern 
district of Texas; 
and takes an active 
part in the public affairs of his county 
and state. 

McLAURIN, JOHN LOUNDES, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born May 9, 
1860, in Red Bluff, S. C. In 1890 he was 
elected to the general 
assembly of South 
Carolina; and was 
elected attorney-gen¬ 
eral of that state the 
following year. He 
was elected to the fif¬ 
ty-second, fifty-third, 
and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses, and re-elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a demo¬ 
crat; and has served 
on numerous import¬ 
ant committees. He takes a deep interest 
in the material development of the south; 
and his speeches on the subject have given 
him a national reputation. 

McLAURI, WILLIAM M., physician, 
author, was born Aug. 22, 1830, in Kort- 
right, N. Y. He has attained success as a 
physician of New York city; and is the 
author of An Essay on the Mind; Crema¬ 
tion; The Senses, Five or Seven; Sym¬ 
bols, Emblems, and Sacred Numbers; and 
numerous other works. 

McLEAN, ALNEY, congressman, was 
born in Burke county, N. C. He was a 
representative in congress from Kentucky 
from 1815 to 1817, and again from 1819 to 
1821. 

McLEAN, DANIEL VEECH, educator, 
was born Nov. 24, 1801, in Fayette county, 
Pa. He took charge of the church at Ten- 
nent, Monmouth county, N. J., and four 
years later of a church organized by him 
at Freehold, with which he remained till 
1850, when he was chosen president of La¬ 
fayette college. He died Nov. 23, 1860 in 
Red Bank, N. J. 

McLEAN, FINIS E., congressman, was 
born in Kentucky. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 
1849 to 1851. 

McLEAN, FRANCIS J., lawyer, finan¬ 
cier. He received a thorough education, 
and then began educational work in the 
states of Pennsyl¬ 
vania and New York. 
In 1867 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, 
and since 1867 has 
followed that profes¬ 
sion in Menomonie, 
Wis. In 1883 he 
helped to organize 
the First National 
bank of Menomonie, 
of which he is pres¬ 
ident and one of the 
largest stockholders. 
He is also interested in several other 
financial institutions in different parts of 
the state; and has contributed generous¬ 
ly to every good work and enterprise. 















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McLEAN, JAMES H., physician, sur¬ 
geon, congressman, was born Aug. 13, 
1829, in Scotland. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Missouri to the forty- 
seventh congress to fill a vacancy. 

McLEAN, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 11, 1785, in 
Morris county, N. J. In 1812 he became 
a candidate to repre¬ 
sent his district in 
congress from Ohio, 
and was elected by a 
large majority. In 
1814 he was again 
elected to congress 
by a unanimous vote, 
and remained a 
member of the house 
o f representatives 
until 1816, when, the 
legislature of Ohio 
having elected him a 
judge of the supreme court of the state, 
he resigned his seat in congress at the 
close of the session. He remained six 
years upon the supreme bench of Ohio; 
and in 1822 was appointed commissioner 
of the general land office. In 1823 he be¬ 
came postmaster-general; and in 1829 was 
appointed a justice of the United States 
supreme court. His name was thrice 
brought before conventions as a candidate 
for the presidency. He died April 4, 1861, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

McLEAN, JOHN, lawyer, legislator, 
United States senator, was born in 1791, 
in North Carolina. In 1818 he was elected 
a representative to congress from Illinois 
and served one term. He was several 
times a member of the state legislature, 
and frequently speaker of the house; and 
from 1824 to 1825 was United States sen¬ 
ator to fill a vacancy. He was again 
elected in 1829 for the term ending in 

1835. He died Oct. 4, 1830, in Shawnee- 
town, Ill. 

McLEAN, JOHN HOWELL, clergyman, 
educator, college president, was born Sept. 
24, 1838, in Hinds county, Miss. For twen¬ 
ty years he has filled successively circuits, 
stations, and districts in the methodist 
episcopal church south. For seventeen 
years he has been a professor in the 
Southwestern university of Georgetown, 
Tex., of which institution he has been 
president since 1889. He has been elected 
five times as a delegate to the general 
conference; and was a delegate to the 
ecumenical conference held in Washing¬ 
ton in 1891. 

McLEAN, JOHN RAY, journalist, was 
born in 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1877 
he assumed the editorship and manage¬ 
ment of the Cincinnati Enquirer, which 
position he still holds. 

McLEAN, SAMUEL, congressman. He 
was elected a delegate from the territory 
of Montana to the thirty-eighth congress; 
and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress. 

McLEAN, MRS. SARAH E. PULVER, 
poet, was born June 26, 1854, in Waterloo, 
N. Y. She is the author of a number of 
meritorious poems. 

McLEAN, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in Morris county, N. J. He was a 
representative in congress from Ohio from 
1823 to 1829; and when in congress was 
mainly instrumental in procuring an ap¬ 
propriation of half a million acres of land 
for the extension of the Ohio canal from 
Cincinnati to Cleveland. He died Oct. 12, 
1839, in Morris county, N. J. 

McLEAN, WILLIAM P., soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 9, 

1836, in Hinds county, Miss. He was 
elected to the legislature of Texas in 



1861; and resigned to enter the confeder¬ 
ate army, in which he served until the 
close of the war. He was again a member 
of the legislature in 1869; and was elected 
to the forty-third congress as a democrat. 

McLEER, JAMES, soldier, was born in 
December, 1840, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He 
served through the civil war, attaining 
the rank of brigadier-general. 

McLELLAN, ISAAC, journalist, author, 
poet, was born May 21, 1806, in Portland, 
Maine. He was for a time associate 
editor of the Boston 
Daily Patriot; and 
afterward published 
a monthly magazine, 
which was finally 
consolidated with 
the Weekly Pearl. 
He is the author of 
The Fall of the In¬ 
dian; The Year, and 
Other Poems; Jour¬ 
nal of a Residence in 
Scotland; Mount Au¬ 
burn; and Poems of 
the Rod and Gun; and other works. 

McLENE, JAMES, congressman, was 
born Oct. 14, 1730, in New London, Pa. 
He was a member of the Pennsylvania 
convention in 1776; of the assembly sev¬ 
eral times between 1776 and 1794, and its 
speaker in 1778; and of the supreme ex¬ 
ecutive council of the state in 1778 and 
1783-84. He was also a member of the 
continental congress in 1778-80. He died 
March 13, 1806, in Antrim, Pa. 

McLEOD, ALEXANDER, clergyman, 
author, was born June 12, 1774, in Scot¬ 
land. He was a reformed presbyterian 
minister of New York city, famous as a 
preacher in his day; and the author of 
Negro Slavery Unjustifiable; The Mes¬ 
siah; Life and Power of True Godliness; 
and American Christian Expositor. He 
died Feb. 17, 1883, in New York city. 

McLEOD, ALFRED ROSS, physician, 
surgeon, was born Jan. 23, 1864, in Ver¬ 
sailles, Mo. In 1885 he graduated from 
the Hooper institute of Clarksburg, Mo.; 
and in 1889 from the Missouri Medical 
college of St. Louis. He is one of the 
most prominent physicians of Kansas 
City, Kan.; is a member of the St. Mar¬ 
garet and Bethany hospital of that city; 
and a prominent member of several fra¬ 
ternal orders and medical societies. 

McLEOD, HUGH, soldier, congressman, 
was born Aug. 1, 1814, in New York city. 
He was a member of the Texas congress 
in 1842-43, and served throughout the 
Mexican war, and subsequently in the 
state legislature after the annexation of 
Texas. He joined the confederate army 
in 1861, and was commissioned a colonel 
of the first Texas regiment, with which he 
participated in the first Virginia cam¬ 
paign. He died Jan. 2, 1862, in Dum¬ 
fries, Va. 




McLEOD, J. A., physician, surgeon, 
business man, was born Nov. 11, 1854, in 
Canada. He practiced his profession in 
Milwaukee, Wis., un¬ 
til 1887, when he 
moved to Ironwood, 
Mich. Here he was 
appointed surgeon 
of the Metropolitan 
Iron and Land com¬ 
pany, and various 
other companies. He 
is proprietor of a 
drug store; the pres¬ 
ident of the Iron- 
wood Stove com¬ 
pany; was one of the 
organizers of the Ironwood Electric com¬ 
pany; was president of the Curry Hotel 


company; and was one of the organizers 
of the First National bank of Ironwood, 
of which institution he served as vice- 
president. He has served as a member of 
the city council; was the first captain of 
Curry rifles; and in 1894 was detailed as 
acting brigade surgeon of the Michigan 
National guards. 

McLEOD, XAVIER DONALD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 17, 1821, in 
New York city. He was a Roman catholic 
clergyman, but before 1852 an episcopal 
clergyman; and the author of Pynnshurst, 
his Wanderings and Ways of Thinking; 
Life of Sir Walter Scott; Life of Mary, 
Queen of Scots; Our Lady of Litanies; 
and Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. 
He died July 20, 1865, near Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

McMAHON, JOHN A., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 19, 1833, in Frederick 
county, Md. He held no official position 
until elected a representative from Ohio 
to the forty-fourth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth 
congresses as a democrat. 

McMAHON, JOHN VAN LEAR, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1800, in Mary¬ 
land. He was a prominent lawyer and 
politician of Maryland, whose Historical 
View of Maryland is an authority on the 
early history of the province. He died 
June 15, 1871, in Cumberland, Md. 

McMAHON, LAURENCE STEPHEN, 
Roman catholic bishop, was born Dec. 
24, 1835, in Nova Scotia. He was vicar- 
general of the see of Providence, R. I., in 
1872-79, and at the latter date was conse¬ 
crated bishop of Hartford, Conn. 

McMAHON, MARTIN THOMAS, soldier, 
lawyer, was born March 21, 1838, in La- 
prairie, Canada. He resigned from the 
army in 1866, after receiving the brevets 
of brigadier- and major-general of volun¬ 
teers in 1865. In 1872 he was appointed 
receiver of taxes in New York city, which 
office he held until 1885, when he became 
United States marshal of the southern 
district of New York. 

McMAKIN, MARY AUGUSTA, poet, 
was born Aug. 30, 1833, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. She has contributed short stories to 
leading periodicals. 

McMANUS, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in Rensselaer county, N. Y. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1825 to 1827. 

McMASTER, ERASMUS DARWIN, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, college president, was 
born Feb. 4, 1806, in Mercer, Pa. He 
became president of South Hanover col¬ 
lege, Indiana, in 1838, but resigned in 1845 
to accept the presidency of Miami univer¬ 
sity. After four years’ service in that in¬ 
stitution he was made professor of sys¬ 
tematic theology in New Albany Theologi¬ 
cal seminary, and from 1866 till his death, 
a few months afterward, occupied the 
same chair in the Theological seminary 
of the northwest, Chicago, Ill. He died 
Sept. 11, 1866, in Chicago, Ill. 

McMASTER, GILBERT, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 13, 1778, in Ireland. 
He was a, reformed presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of Duanesburgh, N. Y.; and the au¬ 
thor of The Shorter Catechism Analyzed; 
Apology for the Psalms; and Moral Char¬ 
acter of Civil Government. He died March 
15, 1854, in New Albany, Ind. 

McMASTER, GUY HUMPHREY, jurist, 
author, poet, was born Jan. 31, 1829, in 
Clyde, N. Y. He was a jurist and poet of 
Bath, in central New York. He wrote a 
History of Steuben County, but his name 
lingers in anthologies as author of the 
well-known lyric, Carmen Bellicosum. He 
died Sept. 13, 1887, in Bath, N. Y. 






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McMASTER, JAMES ALPHONSUS, 
journalist, was born April 1, 1820, in Sche¬ 
nectady, N. Y. In 1848 he bought the 
Freeman’s Journal and Catholic Register, 
and for nearly forty years was regarded 
as the chief Roman catholic journalist in 
this country. He died Dec. 29, 1886, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

McMASTER, JOHN BACH, educator, 
author, was born June 29, 1852, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He is a professor of American 
history at the university of Pennsylvania 
from 1883, and prior to that date an in¬ 
structor in engineering at Princeton col¬ 
lege. He is the author of Bridge and Tun¬ 
nel Centres; High Masonry Dams; His¬ 
tory of the People of the United States; 
Franklin as a Man of Letters; and Penn¬ 
sylvania and the Federal Constitution. 

McMICHAEL, JACKSON BURGESS, 
clergyman, educator, college president, 
was born July 22, 1833, in Poland, Ohio. 
Since 1878 he has been president of the 
Monmouth college, Illinois, where he is 
also professor of psychology, logic, and 
biblical history. 

McMICHAEL, JOHN M., journalist, 
lawyer, legislator, was born March 16, 
1838, in Xenia, Ohio. He attained success 
as a lawyer of Plattsburg, Mo.; has been 
city attorney and mayor of that city; and 
served with distinction as a member of 
the Missouri state legislature. He was a 
member of the national convention which 
nominated Tilden at St. Louis in 1876; 
was vice-president of the national silver 
convention which met in St. Louis in 1889; 
and has always taken an active part in 
political affairs. He is the editor of The 
Leader of Plattsburg, Mo. 

McMICHAEL, MORTON, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Oct. 2, 1807, in Burling¬ 
ton, N. J. He was sole proprietor of the 
North American and United States Ga¬ 
zette from 1854 till his death. He died 
Jan. 6, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

McMICHAEL, WILLIAM, lawyer, was 
born March 4, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is a lawyer of New York city; and in 
1871 he was appointed assistant attorney- 
general of the United States, holding the 
position until 1873. 

McMILLAN, A. L., poet, evangelist, was 
born March 26, 1867, in Clinton, Ill. She 
is a licensed evangelist, and known 
throughout the state of Kansas as the 
poet-evangelist. She is the author and 
composer of several popular songs; and 
in 1896 received the prize certificate as a 
pianist at the Kansas musical contest. She 
is also the author of a large number of 
meritorious poems, which have constantly 
appeared in current literature, and in sev¬ 
eral standard collections. 

McMILLAN, ALBERT S„ educator, 
journalist, was born Feb. 19, 1853, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the schools of 
Waverly, Iowa; and subsequently at¬ 
tended Cornell university of Ithaca, N. Y. 
He is the editor and owner of The Wade¬ 
na County Journal of Wadena, Minn.; 
was county superintendent of schools in 
1881-83; and president of the board of 
education of Verndale, Minn., during 1887- 
93. 

McMILLAN, CONWAY, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1867, in Michigan. He 
has been a professor of botany in the uni¬ 
versity of Minnesota since 1891; and is the 
author of Twenty-Two Common Insects of 
Nebraska; and The Metaspermse of the 
Minnesota Valley. 

McMILLAN, GARRETT, congressman, 
was a resident of Georgia. He was elected 
a representative from that state to the 
forty-fourth congress. He died before the 
assembling of that congress. 


McMILLAN, JAMES, railroad president, 
United States senator, was born May 12, 
1838, in Canada. When elected to the 
senate he was president of the Michigan 
Car company, the Duluth, South Shore 
and Atlantic Railroad company, and the 
Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation 
company. For three years he was presi¬ 
dent of the Detroit board of park commis¬ 
sioners, and for four years was a member 
of the Detroit board of estimates. He was 
a republican presidential elector in 1884; 
received the unanimous nomination of the 
republican members of the legislature and 
was elected to the United States senate in 
1889; and was re-elected in 1895. 

McMILLAN, SAMUEL JAMES REN- 
WICK, lawyer, jurist, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Feb. 22, 1826, in Browns¬ 
ville, Pa. He was elected judge of the 
first judicial district of the state of Min¬ 
nesota in 1857, and entered upon the du¬ 
ties of that position on the admission of 
the state into the union by congress in 
1858. In 1864 he was appointed associate 
justice of the supreme court of the state 
to fill a vacancy; in 1864 was elected to 
the same position for a full term; at the 
expiration of which he was re-elected for 
another term. He resigned in 1874; and 
was appointed chief justice of the supreme 
court to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected 
for a full term, but resigned to take a 
seat in the senate of the United States for 
the term ending in 1881; and was re¬ 
elected for a second term of six years. 

McMILLEN, LISTON, lawyer, lecturer, 
author, was born Dec. 10, 1847, in Rich- 
wood, Ohio. He graduated in the classical 
course from the Ohio 
Wesleyan university 
in 1867. He moved to 
Oskaloosa, Iowa, and 
began the practice of 
law there in 1869. He 
is the author of a 
work entitled Alathi- 
asis, which treats of 
the principles o f 
Christian hygiene. 
As a lecturer he has 
appeared in his one 
favorite discourse 
entitled The Proofs of the Resurrection of 
Christ. His legal training enables him to 
handle this discussion in the light of the 
common law rules of evidence—a char¬ 
acteristic feature that draws public atten¬ 
tion to the speaker and his theme. 

McMILLEN, WILLIAM LINN, soldier, 
surgeon, state legislator, was born Oct. 
18, 1829, in Hillsboro, Ohio. He served 
in the civil war, and received the brevets 
of brigadier-general and major-general of 
volunteers in 1864 and 1865. He served 
several terms in the Louisiana legislature, 
and in 1872 and 1873 was chosen to the 
United States senate by the McEnery 
legislature, but not admitted to a seat. 

McMILLIN, BENTON, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 11, 1845, in Monroe county, Ky. He 
practiced law in Celina, Tenn.; was elect¬ 
ed a member of the state house of rep¬ 
resentatives in 1874; and was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1876. He was appointed a 
special judge of the circuit court in 1877. 
He was elected a representative from 
Tennessee to the forty-sixth, forty-sev¬ 
enth, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, 
fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty- 
fourth, and fifty-fifth congresses as a dem¬ 
ocrat. 

McMINN, JOSEPH, state senator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1807 
he was elected speaker to the Pennsyl¬ 
vania state senate; and in 1815 was elected 
governor of Tennessee. He died Nov. 
17, 182“*, at the Cherokee agency. 


McMORRIS, THOMAS A., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born Nov. 24, 1835, in Musking¬ 
um, Ohio. During the war he served in 
the eighty-sixth regiment Illinois volun¬ 
teer infantry. He is one of the most 
prominent lawyers of Colorado; has serv¬ 
ed as district judge of the fourth judicial 
district of Colorado; and was appointed 
by President Garfield as commissioner to 
the Indians. 

McMULLEN, DANIEL E., educator, 
public official, was born April 29, 1860, in 
Lyons, Iowa. He received his education 
at the St. Francis college of Milwaukee, 
St. Joseph’s college of Dubuque, and St. 
Ambrose college of Davenport. He has 
been county superintendent of schools of 
Lyons county, Iowa; a justice of the 
peace for seven years; principal of the 
Charlotte schools; and is now principal 
of schools at Alvord, Iowa. He has filled 
numerous public offices in his county, and 
is well-known throughout the state as a 
successful educator. 

McMULLEN, FAYETTE, congressman, 
governor, was born in Virginia. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1849 to 1855. In 1857 he was 
appointed governor of the territory of 
Washington. 

McMULLEN, JOHN, Roman catholic 
bishop, college president, was born March 
8, 1833, in Ireland. In 1881 he was conse¬ 
crated bishop of the new diocese that had 
been formed in Davenport, Iowa, where he 
remained until his death. He died July 3, 
1883, in Davenport, Iowa. 

McMURDIE, HENRY, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, was born May 21, 1822, in England. 
He was appointed professor of dogmatic 
theology and moral philosophy in St. 
Mary’s, and succeeded Archbishop Elder 
as director of the ecclesiastical seminary. 
He was looked upon as one of the ablest 
theologians and metaphysicians of his 
church in the United States. He died Jan. 
20, 1880, in Emmettsburg, Md. 

McMURPHY, JESSE G., clergyman, 
college president, author, poet, was born 
April 8, 1845, in Derry, N. H. He gradu¬ 
ated from the Dart¬ 
mouth college in 
1868; and in 1873 
from the Theological 
seminary of Nasho- 
tah, Wis. He is an 
eminent clergyman, 
and founder of the 
McMurphy Home 
school of Racine, 
Wis. He is a well- 
known writer and 
translator of verse in 
several languages; 
and his writings appear in numerous 
standard collections. He married Mary 
Lucy James in 1870, and resides with his 
family at the homestead in Derry, N. H. 

McMURRAY, PATRICK EARLY, man¬ 
ufacturer, state senator, was born March 
4, 1841, in Ireland. In 1886 he was elected 
a member of the Florida state senate. 

McMURTRIE, HENRY, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1793, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was an educator of Philadelphia; 
and the author of Lexicon Scientiarum, 
his principal work. He died May 26, 1865, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

McMURTRIE, RICHARD COXE, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Oct. 24, 1819, in 
Cumberland county, N. J. He is one of 
the recognized leaders of the Philadelphia 
bar. He was a vice-provost of the law 
academy of Philadelphia from 1864 till 
1881. He published, with George W. Bid¬ 
dle, a General Index, etc.; and A Reading 
on Article XVI., Sec. 7, Constitution of 
Pennsylvania. 








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McMURTRIE, WILLIAM, chemist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 10, 1851, in Belvi- 
dere, N. J. He is a professor of chemistry 
in the university of Illinois; and the au¬ 
thor of Culture of the Sugar Beet; Cul¬ 
ture of Sumac; and Grape Culture in the 
United States. 

McNABB, JOHN R., clergyman, was 
born July 12, 1856, in Mitchell, Ind. He 
received his education at the Hartsville 
university, and took a post-graduate 
course in the DePauw university. He prac¬ 
ticed law for five years; and then entered 
the ministry of the methodist episcopal 
church. He is a member of the south 
Kansas conference, a successful clergy¬ 
man, and an orator of marked ability. 

McNAGNY, WILLIAM F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 19,1850, in Sum¬ 
mit county, Ohio. Since 1873 he has prac¬ 
ticed law in Columbia City. He was 
elected to the fifty-third congress as a 
democrat. 

McNAIR, ALEXANDER, soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1774, in Dauphin coun¬ 
ty, Pa. He was an early emigrant to 
Missouri territory; adjutant and inspect¬ 
or-general in 1812; and colonel of Mis¬ 
souri militia in the United States service 
in 1813. He was governor of Missouri 
from 1820 to 1824. He died March 18, 1826, 
in St. Louis, Mo. 

McNAIR, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in 1800, in Pennsylvania. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1851 to 1855. He died in August, 
1861, in Evansport, Va. 

McNAMARA, JOHN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 27, 1824, in Ireland. 
He was an episcopal clergyman of Ne¬ 
braska; and the author of Three Years 
on the Kansas Border; and The Black 
Code of Kansas. He died Oct. 24, 1885, 
in North Platte, Neb. 

McNAUGHTON, JOHN HUGH, author, 
poet, was born July 1, 1829, in Caledonia, 
N. Y. He is a poet of Caledonia, N. Y., 
many of whose songs have been set to mu¬ 
sic, and proved extremely popular. He is 
the author of Babble Brook Songs; and 
Onnalinda, a romance in verse. 

McNEELY, THOMPSON W., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 5, 1835, in 
Jacksonville, Ill. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Illinois to the forty-first 
and forty-second congresses as a demo¬ 
crat. 

McNEIL, ARCHIBALD, state senator, 
congressman, was born Nov. 9, 1783, in 
Cumberland county, N. C. He entered 
the house of commons in 1808; was re¬ 
elected in 1809; and served in the North 
Carolina state senate in 1811 and 1815. 
He was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina from 1821 to 1823, and 
again from 1825 to 1827. 

McNEIL, JOHN, soldier, merchant, state 
legislator, was born Feb. 4, 1813, in Hali¬ 
fax, N. S. In 1844-45 he was in the Mis¬ 
souri legislature. He 
was president of the 
Pacific Insurance 
company from 1855 
till 1861; when he 
joined the national 
army under General 
Nathaniel Lyon, 
with the rank of col¬ 
onel. With six hun¬ 
dred men he routed 
General David D. 
Harris at Fulton, 
Mo., on July 17, 1861, 
and was then placed by General John C. 
Fremont in command of St. Louis. He 
was made colonel of the nineteenth Mis¬ 
souri volunteers Aug. 3, and early in 1862 
took command of a cavalry regiment. 


McNEILL, GEORGE ROCKWELL, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born July 1, 
1854, in Fayetteville, N. C. He has been 
city and county superintendent of schools; 
president of the Lafayette college of Ala¬ 
bama; and is now the president of the 
Isbell college of Talladega, Ala. 

McNEILL, ISRAEL C., educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born Aug. 31, 1855, in 
Avoca, N. Y. He is now president of the 
State Normal school of West Superior, 
Wis.; and for several years has been 
treasurer of the National Educational as¬ 
sociation. 

McNEILL, MILTON, clergyman, state 
senator, was born Jan. 8, 1846, in Wilkes 
county, N. C. He is a successful clergy¬ 
man of the baptist church at Wilkesboro, 
N. C.; and in 1896 was elected a member 
of the North Carolina state senate. 

McNEILL, WILLIAM GIBBS, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born Oct. 3, 1800, in Wilming¬ 
ton, N. C. He achieved the reputation of 
being one of the foremost railroad engi¬ 
neers in the United States, and his ser¬ 
vices were sought for at unusual prices. 
He died Feb. 16, 1853, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

McNIERNEY, FRANCIS, bishop, was 
born April 25, 1828, in New York city. 
He was appointed administrator of the 
diocese of Albany, N. Y., and in 1877 be¬ 
came bishop of that see by the right of 
succession. 

McNINCH, MAGGIE, educator, poet, 
was born in Chester, S. C. She is a suc¬ 
cessful educator of Williamston, S. C., and 
the author of a number of stories and a 
volume of poems entitled Wayside 
Flowers. 

McNISH, GEORGE, clergyman, was 
born about 1660. He became pastor in 
Jamaica, N. Y., in 1711, was styled the 
father of Presbyterianism in the state of 
New York, and instituted the first presby¬ 
tery therein. He was moderator of the 
presbytery of Philadelphia in 1710 and 
1717. He died March 10, 1722, in Newton, 
N. J. 

McNULTA, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 9, 1837, in New York city. He stud¬ 
ied law; served in the army from 1861 
to 1865, as colonel and brevet brigadier- 
general. He was a member of the New 
York legislature from 1869 to 1873, and 
was elected to the forty-third congress 
as a republican. 

McNUTT, ALEXANDER GALLATIN, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 12, 1801, in Rockbridge county, 
Va. In 1824 he moved to Jackson, Miss., 
and subsequently to Vicksburg, where he 
practiced law. In 1835 he was elected to 
the state senate from Warren county, 
and was governor of the state from 1837 
to 1841. He died Oct. 22, 1848, in De Soto 
county, Miss. 

McNUTT, SAMUEL, farmer, educator, 
lawyer, journalist, state senator, was born 
Nov. 21, 1825, in Ireland, of Scotch origin. 

His boyhood was 
spent on a farm in 
Delaware; and he 
was educated at the 
Delaware college. He 
then engaged in edu¬ 
cational work; and 
was elected president 
of the New Castle 
County Teachers’ as¬ 
sociation. In 1851 he 
began the practice of 
law in Milwaukee, 
Wis. In 1852 he was 
professor of the Male seminary of Her¬ 
nando, Miss., and in 1856 was principal of 
the public school of Muscatine, Iowa. The 
same year he was editor of the Times- 


inquirer; during 1856-59 was associate- 
editor of the Dubuque Herald; and in, 
1861 became editor of the Dubuque Daily 
Union. From 1864 he served six years as- 
a representative in the Iowa state legis¬ 
lature; and during 1870-74 served as a. 
state senator. In 1884 he was a member 
of the Farmers’ National congress, and 
in 1890 was appointed United States con¬ 
sul to Maracaibo, Venezuela. 

McNUTT, WILLIAM FLETCHER, phy¬ 
sician, journalist, was born March 29, 1839, 
in Nova Scotia. He is a well-known and 
successful physician of San Francisco, 
Cal., and in 1895 assumed the editorship 
of the Pacific Medical Journal. 

McPARLIN, LAWRENCE JERMAIN, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 14, 1848, in 
Lockport, N. Y. He has been nominated, 
seven times as associate judge of the court 
of appeals of the state of New York; 
twice as chief judge of the same court, 
and once as attorney-general of his state. 

McPHEETERS, WILLIAM MARCEL- 
LUS, educator, physician, surgeon, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 3, 1815, in Raleigh, N. 
C. He settled in St. Louis, Mo., in 1842, 
was professor of therapeutics and materia 
medica in the medical college there in 
1848-62, and agatn in 1867. He edited the 
St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal in 
1843-61, and, besides numerous profes¬ 
sional papers, has published a History of 
the Cholera Epidemic in St. Louis, Mo., 
in 1849. 

McPHERRAN, J. E., lawyer, legislator, 
was born in 1835 in Huntingdon county. 
Pa. He served one term as a member of 
the Illinois legislature from Sterling, Ill. 
For seventeen years he has been president 
of the public library of his city. 

McPHERSON, EDWARD, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, congressman, author, was 
born July 31, 1830, in Gettysburg, Pa. He 
was elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the thirty-sixth congress, and 
was re-elected to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. In 1864 he published The Political 
History of the United States During the 
Great Rebellion; in 1870, The Political 
History of the United States During the 
Period of Reconstruction, and bienniallY 
thereafter published political hand-books. 

McPHERSON, JAMES BIRDSEYE, sol¬ 
dier, was born Nov. 14, 1828, in Sandusay, 
Ohio. In 1853 he graduated from the 
United States mili¬ 
tary academy; 
served with distinc¬ 
tion through the 
civil war, and at¬ 
tained the rank of 
major-general of vol¬ 
unteers. He was a 
superb rider, and the 
black horse which 
bore him to death, 
and which he had 
ridden through every 
battle from Shiloh, 
seemed to be almost equally inspired with 
himself amid the smoke and carnage of 
battle. He fell dead July 22, 1864, pierced 
by several bullets, while making an as¬ 
sault on the confederates near Atlanta, 

Ga. 

McPHERSON, JOHN RODERIC, agri¬ 
culturist, business man, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born May 9, 1833, in Livingston 
county, N. Y. He was a state senator 
from New Jersey from 1871 to 1873. In 
1873 he was elected president of the Cen¬ 
tral Stock-Yard and Transit company, and 
continued in that position. He was a 
presidential elector in 1876, and was elect¬ 
ed a senator of the United States from 
New Jersey for the term of six years from 
March 4, 1877, and was re-elected in 1883, 
and again in 1889. 








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mcpherson, mrs. l. c., poet, she 
is the author of Ruellura, a volume of 
poems. 

McPHERSON, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
horn in 1751 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1799 
he was appointed brigadier-general of the 
provisional army, and commanded the 
troops that were sent to enforce the rev¬ 
enue laws in Northampton county during 
the Fries rebellion. He died Nov. 5, 1813, 
near Philadelphia, Pa. 

McQUADE, JAMES, soldier, was born 
April 27, 1829, in Utica, N. Y. He served 
in the civil war, attaining the rank of 
major-general. He died March 25, 1885, in 
Utica, N. Y. 

McQUAID, BERNARD JOHN, bishop, 
was born Dec. 15, 1823, in New York city. 
He is a noted Roman catholic bishop of 
Rochester, N. Y., and has built a number 
of churches. 

McQUEEN, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1808 in Robinson 
county, N. C. During the nullification 
times fef 1833 he was elected a colonel of 
the state militia; in 1834 a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral, and in 1835 a major-general, which 
last position he held for ten years, and 
then resigned. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from South Caro¬ 
lina in 1849, and was a member down to 
the thirty-sixth congress, serving on lead¬ 
ing committees, and was re-elected to the 
thirty-seventh congress. He withdrew in 
1860 and joined the rebellion. He died 
Sept. 13, 1867, in Society Hill, S. C. 

McQUEEN, McINTOSH, lawyer, jurist. 
He was an early emigrant to Florida; and 
was appointed a judge of the United 
States court for the district of Florida. 

McRAE, HAMILTON SAMUEL, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, was born Jan. 2, 
1833, near New Middletown, Ind. He was 
elected district attorney of the common 
pleas court in Indiana. He had been 
unanimously elected in 1861 to the legis¬ 
lature to fill a vacancy. The most im¬ 
portant public enterprise in which he has 
been engaged is the public library of Mun- 
cie, of whose board he has been president 
since its establishment, in 1875. 

McRAE, JOHN J., soldier, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born about 
1810 in Wayne county, Miss. He was 
elected, frequently, to the Mississippi 
state legislature, and during two sessions 
officiated as speaker. He was also elected 
to the state senate; and was, in 1851, for 
a short time in the United States sen¬ 
ate. He was governor of Mississippi 
from 1854 to 1858, and was elected to the 
second session of the thirty-fifth congress 
from Mississippi, as successor to General 
Quitman, and was re-elected to the thirty- 
sixth congress. He joined the great re¬ 
bellion in 1861. He died May 30, 1868, in 
British Honduras. 

McRAE, THOMAS CHIPMAN, soldier, 
legislator, was born Dec. 21, 1851, in 
Mount Olive, Ark. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the private 
schools of Shady 
Grove, Columbia 
county; Mount Hol¬ 
ly, Union county; and 
Falcon, Nevada coun¬ 
ty, Ark. In boyhood 
he worked on a 
farm, one year in 
a wholesale mer¬ 
cantile establish¬ 
ment of Shreveport, 
La., and one year in 
a retail store at Fal¬ 
con, Ark. He received a full course of 
instruction at Soule Business college of 
New Orleans, La., and graduated in law at 
the Washington and Lee university of 
Virginia. He was admitted to practice in 



state circuit courts in Rosston, Nevada 
county, Ark., in 1873; in the Arkansas su¬ 
preme court in 1876, and in the United 
States supreme court in 1886. He was a 
member of the state legislature of Arkan¬ 
sas in 1877, in which year the county seat 
was changed, and he moved from Rosston 
to Prescott, where he has since practiced 
his profession. He was a member of the 
town council of the incorporated town of 
Prescott in 1879; was a presidential elector 
for Hancock and English in 1880; was 
chairman of the democratic state conven¬ 
tion in 1884; was delegate to the na¬ 
tional democratic convention in 1884, and 
is now the democratic national committee¬ 
man for Arkansas. He was elected to the 
forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-sec¬ 
ond, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses 
and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a democrat. 


McREADY, JAMES, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1819 to 1821. 

McREAVY, JOHN, merchant, manufac¬ 
turer, state senator, was born Feb. 23, 
1840, in Northfield, Maine. He received 
his education in the 
public schools and 
academies, and in 
1863 settled in the 
territory of Wash¬ 
ington. In 1869 he 
was a member of the 
house of the terri¬ 
torial legislature; of 
the council in 1870; 
of the house in 1877; 
of the council in 
1885, and a member 
of the constitutional 



convention in 1889, and of the first legis¬ 
lature of the state. For many years he 
was a successful merchant in Union City, 
and is now in the milling business. 

McREE, GRIFFITH JOHN, soldier, 
was born in 1758 in Bladen county, N. C. 
He was brevet lieutenant-colonel in the 
revolutionary army, was appointed cap¬ 
tain of artillery and engineers in 1794, 
and resigned in 1798, being appointed in 
that year collector of revenue for the dis¬ 
trict of Wilmington, N. C. He died Oct. 
30, 1801, in Smithville, N. C. 

McREE, SAMUEL, soldier, was born 
Oct. 6, 1801, in Wilmington, N. C. He was 
made quartermaster with the rank of ma¬ 
jor in 1839, and brevetted lieutenant-col¬ 
onel for meritorious conduct while serv¬ 
ing in the enemy’s country in 1848. He 

McREE, WILLIAM, soldier, was born 
died July 15, 1849, in St. Louis, Mo. 

Dec. 13, 1787, in Wilmington, N. C. He 
was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gal¬ 
lant conduct in the battle of Niagara, in 
1814, and colonel for distinguished and 
meritorious service in defence of Fort 
Erie in 1814, and became lieutenant-col¬ 
onel in 1818. Fort McRee, Pensacola, Fla., 
was named in his honor. He died in May, 
1833, in St. Louis, Mo. 

McREYNOLDS, ANDREW THOMAS, 


soldier, was born Dec. 25, 1806, in Ireland. 
He served through the civil war, attain¬ 
ing the rank of brigadier-general. He 
was president of the Detroit board of edu¬ 
cation, and was United States district at- 


gan. 

torney for the western district of Michi- 
McROBERTS, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born about 
1800 in Illinois. He held the office of 
judge of one of the higher courts of Illi¬ 
nois, and was a member of the Illinois 
senate, and held the position of district 
attorney for the United States in Illinois. 
He was a senator in congress from Illi¬ 
nois from 1841 to the time of his death. 
He died March 27, 1843, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 


McRUER, DONALD C., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1826 in Maine. 
Having emigrated to California, he filled 
the office of harbor commissioner for that 
state, and in 1864 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from California to the thirty- 
ninth congress. 

McSHANE, JOHN A., business man, 
congressman, was born Aug. 25, 1850, in 
New Lexington, Ohio. He is a director in 
the First National bank of Omaha, and 
helped to organize, and is president of, 
the Union Stock Yards bank at South 
Omaha. In 1880 he was elected to the 
lower house of the state legislature from 
Omaha for two years, and in 1882 he was 
elected to the state senate for two years, 
and was re-elected for another term in 

1884. He was elected to the fiftieth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

McSHERRY, JAMES, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in Adams county, 
Pa. He served twenty years in the leg¬ 
islature of Pennsylvania, and was a dele¬ 
gate to reform the constitution of the 
same, and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania from 1821 to 
1823. He died Feb. 3, 1849, in Littlestown, 
Pa. 

McSHERRY, JAMES, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1819 in Maryland. He was 
a lawyer of Frederick, Md., and the au¬ 
thor of PSre Jean, the Jesuit Missionary; 
Williloft, or the Days of James the First; 
and History of Maryland. He died July 
13, 1869, in Frederick county, Md. 

McSHERRY, RICHARD, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 21, 1817, in Martins- 
burg, W. Va. He was a physician of prom¬ 
inence in Baltimore, and in early life in 
the naval service. He was the author of 
Early History of Maryland, and Other Es¬ 
says; El Puchero, a discursive work on 
Mexico; Military Life in Field and Camp; 
and Health and How to Promote It, 
his principal writings. He died Oct. 7, 

1885, in Baltimore, Md. 

McTEER, WILL ANDERSON, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was bprn Sept. 16, 1843, 
in Blount county, Tenn. During the civil 
war he served the union as adjutant of 
the third Tennessee cavalry; was acting 
assistant adjutant-general of the first bri¬ 
gade fourth cavalry division, and was 
commissioned as major. He served with 
distinction as a representative in the Ten¬ 
nessee state legislature. He has been clerk 
of the circuit court of Blount county; has 
been United States commissioner for the 
district of East Tennessee, and for eight¬ 
een years has been treasurer of the Mary¬ 
ville college. He is one of the foremost 
lawyers of Tennessee, and has a large 
practice in Maryville. 

McTYEIRE, HOLLAND NIMMONS, 
bishop, author, was born July 28, 1824, 
in Barnwell county, S. C. He was a meth- 
odist bishop in Tennessee, and the author 
of Manual of Discipline; Duties of Mas¬ 
ters; and History of Methodism. He died 
Feb. 15, 1889, in Nashville, Tenn. 

McVEAGH, WAYNE, soldier, lawyer, 
was born in 1833 in Phoenixville, Pa. In 
1881 he was appointed attorney-general of 
the United States in the cabinet of Presi¬ 
dent Garfield. 

McVEAN, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1802 in Johns¬ 
town, N. Y. He served as a representative 
in congress from New York from 1833 to 
183o. At the time of his death he was dis¬ 
trict attorney for southern New York. He 
died Dec. 20, 1848, in New York city. 

McVICKAR, JOHN, educator, author, 
was born Aug. 10, 1787, in New York city. 
He was the author of Outlines of Political 
Economy; Eighty Years; and The Profes¬ 
sional Years of Bishop Hobart. He died 
Oct. 29, 1868, in New York. 





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McVICKAR, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, 
clergyman, author, was born April 24, 
1827, in New York city. He was an epis¬ 
copal clergyman who became rector of 
Christ church. New York city, in 1876. He 
was the author of Life of Rev. John Mc- 
Vicbar; and City Missions. He died in 
1877. 



McVICKER, JAMES HUBERT, theat¬ 
rical manager, author, was born Feb 14 
1822, in New York 'city. In 1857 he built 
McVicker’s Theater in Chicago, Ill., which 
was rebuilt after the fire of 1871, and re¬ 
modeled in 1887, and which he has man¬ 
aged successfully for thirty years. He is 
the author of The Theater, Its Early Days 
in Chicago. 

McWHORTER, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Washington county, N. Y. In 
1836 he moved west with his parents, 
_ settling in Wiscon¬ 
sin. He received his 
education in the pub¬ 
lic schools, at Car- 
roll college, and at 
the Waukesha acad¬ 
emy. For three years 
he was principal of 
the first ward school 
in Milwaukee; then 
took a course at 
Lincoln’s Commer¬ 
cial college, and was 
„ subsequently admit- 
ted to the bar. Since 1870 he has been 
judge of the fourth judicial district court 

Since his flrst election to 
this office he has tried over twenty thou- 

c * ses> He has a thorough 
knowledge of the German and French 
languages, and possesses one of the larg- 
est^and finest law libraries in Milwaukee, 

McWHORTER, HENRY CLAY, soldier 
lawyer, legislator, was born Feb 20 1836 
m Marion county, Ohio. During the war 
he served In the union army as a captain 
of the ninth regiment of the West Vir¬ 
ginia volunteer infantry. For nine ses¬ 
sions he was a member of the West Vir- 
ginia state legislature, was chairman of 
the judiciary committee and speaker of 
the house of delegates. Since 1865 he has 
been in the active practice of law; has 
been prosecuting attorney of Kanawha 
county; postmaster of the city of Charles¬ 
ton, and at present is a member of the 
supreme court of appeals of West Vir¬ 
ginia. 

Me WILLIE, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer 
banker, congressman, governor, was born 
Nov. 17, 1795, near Liberty Hill, S. C. He 
was a representative and senator in the 
legislature of South Carolina; and moved 
to Mississippi in 1845. He was elected 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1849 to 1851. He was also 
president of a bank for several years; was 
elected governor of the state in 1858; and 
during the rebellion was active as a con¬ 
federate. He died March 3, 1869, in Kirk¬ 
wood, Miss. 

MEACHAM, JAMES, educator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1810 in Rutland, 
\t. He was called from his parish to 
the pi ofessorship of elocution and English 
literature in Middlebury college. In 1849 
he. was elected a representative in con- 

ff t ™ 1 re ; elected - He died Aug. 

22, 1856, in Middlebury, Vt. 

MEACHAM, JOSEPH, clergyman, was 
born Feb. 22, 1742, in Enfield, Conn. He 
was the leading agent in organizing the 
so-called shaker church and its system of 
community of interests. He died Aue 
16, 1796, in New Lebanon. 


MEAD, CHARLES MARSH, theologian, 
author, was born Jan. 28, 1836, in Corn¬ 
wall, Conn. Since 1892 he has filled the 
chair of dogmatic theology in the Hart¬ 
ford Theological seminary. For ten years 
he traveled extensively in Europe; and is 
the author of Supernatural Revelation; 
Romans Dissected; The Soul Here and 
Hereafter; Christ and Criticism; and vari¬ 
ous other works. 

MEAD, COWLES, congressman. He 
was elected a representative in congress 
from Georgia in 1805, but his election 
was successfully contested by Thomas 
Spalding. In 1806 he was appointed sec¬ 
retary of Mississippi territory. 

MEAD, EDWARD C., historian, author, 
was born Jan. 12, 1837, in Newton, Mass. 
At one time he was professor of music 
on the violin; and is the author of a 
Genealogical History of the Lee Family of 
Virginia and Maryland; and other works. 

MEAD, EDWIN DOAK, lecturer, author, 
was born Sept. 29, 1849, in Chesterfield, N. 
H. He is a Boston writer and lecturer 
upon social and historical topics, and 
editor of the New England Magazine. He 
is the author of Martin Luther: a Study 
of the Reformation; The Philosophy of 
Carlyle; and The Roman Church and the 
Public Schools. 

MEAD, ELIZABETH STORRS BILL¬ 
INGS, college president, was born about 
1835, in Conway, Mass. In 1890 she was 
elected president of Mount Holyoke col¬ 
lege, which position she still holds. 

MEAD, JAMES PITTS, lawyer, lecturer, 
was born. Feb. 19, 1857, in Adrian, Mich. 
He has attained success as an able lawyer 
of Joplin, Mo., and as a lecturer is well 
known throughout the state of Missouri. 
He is a member of the corps of lecturers 
of the American Institute of Civics; and 
president of the district work of the 
southwest Missouri Young Men’s Chris¬ 
tian association. 

MEAD, LARKIN GOLDSMITH, sculp¬ 
tor, was born Jan. 11, 1835, in Chester¬ 
field, N. H. He executed the celebrated 
Recording Angel, the colossal statue of 
Vermont placed over the dome of the 
state house at Montpelier, and other stat¬ 
ues, prominent among which is the monu¬ 
ment placed over Lincoln’s tomb at 
Springfield, Ill. 

MEAD, RICHARD HOMER, physician, 
journalist, was born Jan. 16, 1847, in 
Huntsville, Ill. He received his education 
in the common schools, and graduated 
from the Medical college of Keokuk, Iowa. 
During the civil war he served as a pri¬ 
vate in company K, eighth regiment Iowa 
cavalry, and is prominent and active in 
Grand Army of the Republic work. He 
has been examiner in the pension oflice at 
Washington, D. C., and has filled various 
other public positions of trust. In writ¬ 
ing he has an incisive and instructive 
style; has contributed extensively to med¬ 
ical journals, and is the editor of The 
Register of Camden, Ill. 

MEAD, JHEODORE HOE, manufactu¬ 
rer, author, was born Jan. 1, 1837, in New 
York city. He became a contributor to 
the leading periodicals of the day, and is 
the author of a number of books entitled 
Horsemanship for Woman; Health With¬ 
out Medicine; and Our Mother Tongue. 

MEAD, VARNUM B., railroad president 
was born Oct. 16, 1832, in Boxford, Mass! 
Since 1883 he has been president of the 
Franklin and Megantic railroad. 

MEAD, WARREN HEWITT, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born Nov. 25 1836 in 
Genoa, N. Y. In 1877 he was elected a 
member of the Kentucky legislature; and 
re-elected in 1878. He is now practicing 
law at Louisville, Ky. 



MEADE, EDWIN RUTHVEN, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 6, 1836, in 
Norwich, N. Y. He was admitted to 
practice in 1858; settled in New York city; 
and was elected a representative to the 
forty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

MEADE, GEORGE, soldier, was born 
Nov. 2, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel. 
United States army, for gallant and meri¬ 
torious services during the civil war. 

MEADE, GEORGE GORDON, soldier, 
was born Dec. 31, 1815, in Cadiz, Spain. 
He took an active part in many of the 
noted battles of the 
civil war, but his 
name will ever be 
identified with the 
great battle of Get¬ 
tysburg, which he 
commanded on the 
first, second and 
third days of July, 
1863, the victory of 
which produced such 
decided results. In 
1864 he was promot¬ 
ed to major-general 
in the United States army, and as a spe¬ 
cial honor was g-iven the command of the 
grand review which took place in Wash¬ 
ington after the close of the war. He died 
Nov. 6, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MEADE, RICHARD K., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Virginia. He was 
a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1847 to 1853. He was appoint¬ 
ed in 1853 charge d’affaires to Sardinia, 
and in 1857 was appointed minister to 
Brazil, which mission he held until 1861. 
He died April 20, 1862, in Virginia. 

MEADE, RICHARD KIDDER, soldier, 
was born July 14, 1746, in Virginia. He 
entered the revolutionary army in 1775, 
soon after his return to Virginia, and was 
one of the twenty-four persons that on 
June 24 of that year daringly removed 
the arms from Lord Dunmore’s house and 
placed them in the magazine in Williams¬ 
burg. He superintended the execution of 
Major Andrd. He died in February, 1805, 
in Clarke county, Va. 

MEADE, RICHARD WORSAM, naval 
oflicer, was born in 1807 in Spain. He en¬ 
tered the United States navy as a midship¬ 
man in 1826, and passed that grade in 
1834. He was retired with the rank of 
commodore in 1867. He died April 16, 
1870, in New York city. 

MEADE, WILLIAM, bishop, author, 
was born Nov. 11, 1789, in Clarke county, 

Va. He was the third Protestant epis¬ 
copal bishop of Virginia, and the author 
of Family Prayers; Old Churches of Vir¬ 
ginia; Lectures on the Pastoral Oflice; 
and Reasons for Loving the Episcopal 
Church. He died March 14, 1862, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. 

MEAGHER, THOMAS FRANCIS, sol¬ 
dier, was born Aug. 3, 1823, in Ireland. 

He served with distinction through the 
civil war, and was 
made a brigadier- 
general. In 1865 he 
was appointed secre¬ 
tary of Montana ter¬ 
ritory, and in 1866 
governor pro tem¬ 
pore of Montana ter¬ 
ritory. He was for 
many years engaged 
in journalism, and 
was the author of 
Speeches on the Leg- 
islative Independ- 
of Ireland. He was drowned July 1 
1867, at Fort Benton, Mont. 




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MEAHAN, BRYAN F., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born May 1, 1857, in New Lon¬ 
don, Conn. In 1882 he was elected a 
member of the Connecticut legislature 
from New London, and received the re- 
election. He is prosecuting attorney of 
New London. 

MEANS, ALEXANDER, educator, col¬ 
lege president, poet, was born Feb. 6, 1801, 
in Statesville, N. C. He taught school 
for a while; and 
practiced medicine 
for six years in Cov¬ 
ington, Ga. In 1834 
he was elected rector 
of the Georgia con¬ 
ference manual labor 
school; and in 1853 
was elected president 
of the Masonic Fe¬ 
male college. The 
following year he 
was elected to the 
presidency of Emory 
college. He was the author of a volume 
entitled A Cluster of Poems for the Home 
and Heart; and also published numerous 
sermons, addresses and scientific papers. 
He died June 5, 1883, in Covington, Ga. 

MEANS, HUGH, banker, iron manufac¬ 
turer, state legislator, was born Oct. 14, 
1812, at Spartanburg, S. C. He has been 
president of the Ashland National bank in 
Kentucky since its foundation. In 1843 
he was elected to represent Adams county 
in the Ohio legislature, and served one 
term. 

MEANS, JOHN HUGH, soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Aug. 18, 1812, in Fairfield, 
S. C. He was governor of that state from 
1850 to 1852. He was colonel in the con¬ 
federate army, and was killed at the sec¬ 
ond battle of Bull Run. He died Aug. 28, 
1862, in Manassas, Va. 

MEARS, JOHN WILLIAM, clergyman, 
■educator, author, was born Aug. 10, 1825, 
in Reading, Pa. He was a presbyterian 
■clergyman, professor in Hamilton college 
in 1870-81, and the author of The Bible in 
the Workshop; The Martyrs of France; 
The Beggars of Holland; The Story of 
Madagascar; The Heroes of Bohemia; and 
From Exile to Overthrow. He died Nov. 
10, 1881, in Clinton, N. Y. 

MEASE, JAMES, physician, author, was 
born in 1771 in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was the first vice-president of the Phila¬ 
delphia Athenaeum and an active member 
of the Philosophical society. His publi¬ 
cations are Geological Account of the 
United States; Picture of Philadelphia; 
On William Penn’s Treaty with the In¬ 
dians. He died May 15, 1846, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

MEASE, JOHN, soldier, was born in 
1746 in Ireland. He subscribed four thou¬ 
sand pounds for the army in 1780. For 
the last thirty years of his life he was 
one of the admiralty surveyors of the port 
of Philadelphia. He died in 1826 in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

MEBANE, ALEXANDER, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 
1744, in Hawfield, N. C. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the convention that met in 1776 to 
frame the state constitution. He served 
a number of years in the North Carolina 
legislature, and was in congress from 
North Carolina during the years 1793 and 
1794. He died July 5, 1795, in Orange 
county, N. C. 

MEDARY, SAMUEL, journalist, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Feb. 25, 1810, in Mont¬ 
gomery county, Pa. He was governor of 
the territory of Minnesota in 1857 and 
1858; governor of Kansas in 1859 and 
1860, and was a peace democrat during 
the rebellion. He died Nov. 7, 1864, in 
Columbus, Ohio. 


MEDBERRY, REBECCA, author, was 
born in 1808 in Roxbury, Mass. She was 
the author of several memoirs and Sun¬ 
day-school books. She died in 1868, in 
Lynn, Mass. 

MEDILL, JOSEPH, proprietor of The 
Chicago Tribune, was born April 6, 1823, 
in New Brunswick, Canada. In the winter 
of 1854-55 he bought a large interest in 
The Chicago Tribune, and this news¬ 
paper, then bankrupt, was placed by the 
new owners upon a paying basis. In 1874 
he bought full control and The Tribune 
has since made his fortune. In 1870, as 
a member of the Illinois constitutional 
convention, Mr. Medill became the author 
of the clause securing minority repre¬ 
sentation, and proposed other important 
provisions, which were adopted. The an¬ 
nexation of various suburbs to Chicago, 
in order to aid in securing the World’s 
Fair for Chicago, originated with him. 

MEDILL, WILLIAM, lawyer, legislator, 
congressman, governor, was born in 1805 
in New Castle county, Del. He was elect¬ 
ed to the Ohio state legislature, serving a 
number of years, and was twice elected 
speaker. He was elected a representative 
in congress from that state from 1839 to 
1843. He was appointed assistant post¬ 
master-general, and subsequently held the 
office of commissioner of Indian affairs. 
In 1850 he was a member of the conven¬ 
tion called to revise the state constitu¬ 
tion, and was chosen chairman. In 1851 
and 1852 he was elected lieutenant-govern¬ 
or of Ohio, and in 1853 was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Ohio. He was appointed first 
comptroller of the United States treas¬ 
ury. He died Sept. 2, 1865, in Lancaster, 
Ohio. 

MEECH. EZRA, jurist, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 26, 1773, in New 
London, Conn. He settled in Vermont, 
and in 1822 and 1823 was elected chief 
justice of Chittenden county. He was a 
member of the constitutional conventions 
of 1822 and 1826. and in 1805 and 1807 
was elected to the state legislature. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Vermont from 1819 to 1821, and again 
from 1825 to 1827. In 1841 he was a presi¬ 
dential elector. He died Sept. 23, 1856, in 
Shelburne, Vt. 

MEECH, JEANNETTE DUBOIS, educa¬ 
tor, evangelist, was born Aug. 10, 1835, 
in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa. For 
many years she 
taught school in 
Philadelphia; was 
principal of the In¬ 
dustrial Art school 
in Vineland and in 
Jersey Shore, Pa., 
and for many years 
was a teacher in the 
Maryland State In¬ 
dustrial School for 
Girls. She was li¬ 
censed to preach in 
South Vineland, 
where she was assistant pastor for seven 
years; has been county superintendent; 
national lecturer in narcotics for the Wo¬ 
man’s Christian Temperance union; and 
has been president of various societies. 

MEECH, WILLIAM WITTER, clergy¬ 
man, was born in 1825, in North Stoning- 
ton, Conn. In 1848 he was licensed to 
preach by the First Baptist church of 
Norwich, Conn., and two years later was 
ordained. He has held pastorates in vari¬ 
ous cities, and since 1875 has been pastor 
in South Vineland, N. J. In 1862 he was 
appointed by Abraham Lincoln as hos¬ 
pital chaplain, and served at Newport 
News, Louisville and Bowling Green. He 
was afterward regimental chaplain, with 
the rank of major. He is the author of a 


book entitled Quince Culture; is a mem¬ 
ber of the New Jersey State Horticul¬ 
tural society, and secretary of the Vine- 
land Horticultural society. 

MEEHAN, THOMAS, nurseryman, jour¬ 
nalist, botanist, author, was born March 
21, 1826, in England. He has devoted his 
life to scientific pursuits, and in early life 
had a love for natural history. He has 
had charge of a number of botanic gar¬ 
dens and in 1853 published Handbook of 
American Ornamental Trees. In 1854 he 
established the Meehan Nursery; and in 
1860 founded the Gardener’s Monthly, of 
which he was sole editor for thirty years. 
In 1880 he established a publication en¬ 
titled the Flowers and Ferns of the United 
States, which was subsequently merged 
into Meehan’s Monthly, which is still 
published in Philadelphia, Pa. He is 
botanist of the board of agriculture of 
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 
science he became famous through his 
study of the relation of sex in plants, 
credit for which is given him in the En¬ 
cyclopedia Britannica. His life work is 
the illustrated Native Flowers and Ferns 
of the United States, published by Prang 
and Company in book form, and then as a 
serial in Meehan’s Monthly. 

MEEHAN, WILLIAM E„ botanist, edi¬ 
tor, author, was born Aug. 31, 1853, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is the eldest son of 
Thomas Meehan, the 
eminent botanist. He 
followed the fl’orist 
business for several 
years; during 1885-87 
he was editor of a 
newspaper in Ger¬ 
mantown; then be¬ 
came a reporter on 
the Philadelphia Pub¬ 
lic Ledger, and since 
1891 has been asso¬ 
ciate editor of that 
publication. In 1892 
he was a member of the Peary Relief ex¬ 
pedition to North Greenland, as its bot¬ 
anist. He is the author of In Arctic Seas; 
The Flora of Greenland; Fish, Fishing 
and Fisheries of Pennsylvania, and other 
works. He was the originator of the 
children’s playground movement in Phil¬ 
adelphia. 

MEEK, ALEXANDER BEAUFORT, 
jurist, journalist, author, was born July 
17, 1814, in Columbia, S. C. He was an 
Alabama jurist and journalist, and the 
author of Red Eagle; Songs and Poems 
of the South; and Romantic Passages in 
Southern History. He died Nov. 30, 1865, 
in Columbus, Miss. 

MEEK, FIELDING BRADFORD, palae¬ 
ontologist, author, was born Dec. 10, 
1817, in Madison, Md. He was a palaeon¬ 
tologist in government service, and the 
author of Palaeontology of the Upper Mis¬ 
souri; Check List of North American In¬ 
vertebrate Fossils; and Report on Fossils 
of the Upper Missouri Country. He died 
Dec. 21, 1876, in Washington, D. C. 

MEEKER, BENJAMIN B., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. He was an early emigrant to the 
territory of Minnesota. In 1850 he was 
appointed a judge of 
the United States 
court for that dis¬ 
trict. His judicial 
decisions are to be 
found in the various 
law reports,. and 
show great learning. 
He took an active 
part in public affairs, 
and contributed nu¬ 
merous articles to 
literature, which 
have been a valuable 
acquisition to law literature of the times. 









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MEEKER, JOSEPH RUSLING, artist, 
was born April 21, 1827, in Newark, N. J. 
He has shown a special sympathy with 
southern scenery, and has successfully 
rendered the landscapes of Louisiana. 
Among his paintings are The Indian 
Chief; The Acadians in the Atchafalaya; 
The Vale of Cashmere; The Lotos Eaters; 
and Louisiana Bayou. 

MEEKER, MOSES, pioneer, author, sol¬ 
dier, was born July 17, 1790, in Newark, 
N. J. He served in the Wisconsin legis¬ 
lature in 1840-43, and in the first constitu¬ 
tional convention in 1846. He published 
a History of the Early Lead Regions, in 
the sixth volume of the Wisconsin His¬ 
torical Society Collections. He died July 
7, 1865, in Shullsburg, Wis. 

MEEKISON, DAVID, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, was born Nov. 14, 1849, 
in Dundee, Scotland. He emigrated with 
his parents in 1855 to Napoleon, Ohio, 
where he has since resided, except three 
years’ service in the fourth United States 
artillery. He attended the common 
schools until his fourteenth year, and then 
entered a printing office, and studied 
law and was admitted to the bar in 1873. 
Although always a democrat he has been 
twice appointed to office by republican 
authorities, first as town clerk and after¬ 
ward as county prosecuting attorney for 
the county to fill a vacancy. He was after¬ 
ward elected and re-elected to the same 
office; in 1881 he was elected probate 
judge, and served two terms. In 1886 he 
established a banking business in Na¬ 
poleon, Ohio, under the name of Meekison 
bank, to which he has given his princi¬ 
pal attention, except that required by the 
duties of mayor of Napoleon, Ohio, in 
which office he is now serving his fourth 
consecutive term. He was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

MEEKS, EUGENE, artist, was born in 
1843 in New York. Most of his profes¬ 
sional liie has been passed at Florence, 
Italy, and he is an associate of the Flor¬ 
ence academy. Among his works are, Lit¬ 
tle Nell and Her Grandfather; Bridal 
Chamber in Palazzo Manzi-Lucca; Gon¬ 
dola Party, Venice; Startling Bit of Gos¬ 
sip; and Halt at the Golden Lion. 

MEES, CARL LEE, scientist, was born 
May 20, 1853, in Columbus, Ohio. He at¬ 
tended the Ohio State university, and the 
Imperial university of Berlin. For five 
years he was professor of physical science 
in the Male High school of Louisville, 
Ky.; for six years was professor of phys¬ 
ics and chemistry in the Ohio university; 
since 1887 has been professor of physics in 
the Rose Polytechnic institute of Terre 
Haute, Ind.; and has been president of 
the institution since 1894. 

MEGAPOLENSIS, JOHANNES, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1603 in Holland. 
He was a Dutch clergyman of the New 
Amsterdam colony, the first protestant 
missionary to the Indians; and the au¬ 
thor of Short Account of the Mohawk 
Indians. He died in 1670. 

MEIGHEN, BENJAMIN F., lawyer, was 
born Oct. 31, 1847, in Greene county. Pa. 
He attended the South Western Normal 
college of New California, Pa.; and in 
1873 graduated from the Waynesburg col¬ 
lege with the degree of A. M. In 1875 he 
was admitted to the bar; has been prose¬ 
cuting attorney of Marshall county, W. 
Va., for eight years; and has a large prac¬ 
tice in Moundsville. For two years he 
was chairman of the republican state ex¬ 
ecutive committee, and subsequently was 
a candidate for judge of the circuit court. 

MEIGS, CHARLES DELUCENA, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Feb. 19, 1792, in 


Bermuda. He was a noted Philadel¬ 
phia physician, professor in Jefferson 
Medical college in 1841-61; and the 
author of Philadelphia Practice of 
Midwifery; Science and Art of Ob¬ 
stetrics; Treatment of Child-Bed Fevers; 
and Acute and Chronic Diseases of the 
Neck of the Uterus. He died June 22,1869, 
in Delaware county, Pa. 

MEIGS, HENRY, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Oct. 28, 1782, in New Haven, 
Conn. He was elected a representative in 
congress from New York city from 1819 
to 1821. For many years he was an active 
officer, recording secretary, and trustee of 
the American institute in New York. He 
died May 20, 1861, in New York. 

MEIGS, JAMES AITKIN, physician, 
naturalist, author, was born July 31, 1829, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a physician 
and naturalist of Philadelphia, author of 
Cranial Characteristics, and other scien¬ 
tific monographs. He died Nov. 9, 1879, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MEIGS, JOHN FORSYTH, physician, 
author, was born Oct. 3, 1818, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia physi¬ 
cian; and the author of Memoir of C. D. 
Meigs; and Diseases of Children. He died 
Dec. 16, 1882, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MEIGS, JOHN RODGERS, soldier, was 
born Feb. 9, 1842, in Washington, D. C. 
He attained the office of chief engineer of 
the army of the Shenandoah, and while 
making a military reconnoissance was 
shot by guerrillas. He died Oct. 3, 1864, 
in Harrisburg, Va. 

MEIGS, JOSIAH, educator, public of¬ 
ficial, was born Aug. 21, 1757, in Middle- 
town, Conn. He was the second man ap¬ 
pointed to be commissioner of the general 
land office in Washington, having been 
appointed in 1814, and remaining in office 
until 1822. He died Sept. 4, 1822, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

MEIGS, MONTGOMERY C., soldier, 
civil engineer, was born May 3, 1816, in 
Augusta, Ga. He studied at the univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania, 
and graduated from 
the United States 
Military academy in 
1836. He received 

an appointment in 
the artillery, but was 
transferred to the 
corps of engineer¬ 

ing. He took a part 
in building Fort 
Delaware, in the im¬ 
provement in the 
Delaware river and 
Delaware bay, and in the construc¬ 
tion of Forts Wayne, Porter, Niagara 

and Ontario. He superintended the 

building of the new wings and iron 
dome of the capitol extension, the exten¬ 
sion of the postoffice department build¬ 
ing, and the completion of Fort Madison 
in Annapolis. In 1861 he was made quar¬ 
termaster-general of the United States 
army, with the rank of brigadier-general; 
and he continued to hold that office until 
his retirement from active service in 1882. 
No man did more or better service during 
the civil war than Gen. Meigs. He died 
Jan. 2, 1892, in Washington, D. C. 

MEIGS, RETURN JONATHAN, lawyer, 
jurist. United States senator, governor, 
was born in Middletown, Conn. He was 
judge of the supreme court of Ohio; was 
a senator in congress from 1808 to 1810; 
and was governor of the state from 1810 
to 1814. He was appointed postmaster- 
general of the United States in 1814, and 
held the office nine years. He died March 
29, 1825, in Marietta. 


MEIGS, RETURN JONATHAN, lawyer,, 
author, was born April 14, 1801, in Clark 
county, Ky. He was a noted lawyer of 
Tennessee; and the author of Reports of 
Tennessee Supreme Court Cases; Digest 
of Tennessee Decisions; and The Code of 
Tennessee. 

MEIKLEJOHN, GEORGE D., lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 
26, 1857, in Waupaca county, Wis. He was 
educated at the State 
Normal school of 
Oshkosh, Wis.; and 
the Michigan univer¬ 
sity of Ann Arbor. 
He was principal of 
the high school of 
Weyauwega, his na¬ 
tive place; and of 
Liscomb, Iowa. In 
1880 he graduated 
from the law depart¬ 
ment of the Michi¬ 
gan university; and 
since that time, when not in office, he has 
practiced law. For three years he was 
county attorney for Nance county; was 
elected to the state senate of Nebraska in 
1884 and in 1886; and was president of the 
senate during his second term. In 1888- 
90 he was lieutenant-governor of Ne¬ 
braska; and was elected to the fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth congresses as a republic¬ 
an. He declined a renomination for con¬ 
gress; and in 1897 was appointed assist¬ 
ant secretary of war. 

MEISTER, CATHERINE B., author, 
was born Jan. 16, 1874, in Reading, Pa. 
She is the assistant secretary of the 
Luther league of America, and the author 
of several w'orks. 

MEISTER, EMIL, clergyman, journal¬ 
ist, was born May 18, 1850, in Germany. 
He is prominent as one of the foremost 
clergymen of the German evangelical 
Lutheran church, and as the founder of 
the A. Herr Smith Memorial church of 
Lancaster, Pa. He stills edits two maga¬ 
zines—the Family Friend, and Churchi 
Messenger. 

MELDRIM, PETER W„ lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Dec. 4, 1848, in Savannah,. 
Ga. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the public schools, attended 
the Chatham academy; and graduated 
from the university of Georgia with the 
degrees of A. B. and A. M. He has been 
mayor of his native city; has been a 
member of the Georgia state legislature; 
and served with distinction as a member 
of the state senate. He is president of the 
Alumni society of the university of 
Georgia; and is prominent in the public 
affairs of his city, county and state. 

MELICK, JOHN E., railroad president, 
was born Sept. 1, 1855, in Lebanon, N. J, 

In 1895 he became president of the Whip- 
pany River railroad at Morristown, N. J. 

MELINE, JAMES FLORANT, was born 
in 1S11 in Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y. He was 
a New York writer, an officer in the feder¬ 
al army during the civil war; and the 
author of Two Thousand Miles on Horse¬ 
back; Commercial Traveling; Mary, 
Queen of Scots and Her Latest English 
Historian, an attack upon Froude’s view 
of the subject; and Life of Sixtus V. He 
died Aug. 14, 1873, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

MELISH, JOHN, traveler, author, was 
born in 1781 in Scotland. He was a noted 
traveler of Scottish birth; and the author 
of Travels in the United States, etc.; De¬ 
scription of the Roads, etc.; Description 
of the United States; Necessity of Pro¬ 
tecting Manufactures; Information for 
Emigrants; and Statistical View of the 
United States. He died Sept. 30, 1822, ia 
Philadelphia., Pa. 







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MELL, PATRICK HUES, clergyman, 
author, was born July 19, 1814, in Walth- 
ourville, Ga. He was a baptist clergyman 
and educator of Georgia, and vice-chan¬ 
cellor of the university of Georgia. He 
was the author of Baptism; Corrective 
Church Discipline; Parliamentary Prac¬ 
tice; The Philosophy of Prayer; Church 
Polity; and Predestination. He died 
Jan. 26, 1888, in Athens, Ga. 

MELL, PATRICK HUES, geologist, was 
born May 24, 1850, in Penfield, Ga. Dur¬ 
ing 1874-77 he was state chemist of 
Georgia; during 1884-93 was the director 
of the state weather service of Alabama; 
and in 1897 was president of the botan¬ 
ical section of Agricultural Colleges asso¬ 
ciation. He is the author of Botanical 
Laboratory Guide; Climatology of Ala¬ 
bama; Climatology of Cotton Plant; and 
various other works on geology, mining 
and botany. 

MELLEN, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
business man, legislator, was born May 11, 
1837, in Hartford, Conn. He is a success¬ 
ful merchant of Great Barrington, Mass.; 
and during 1896-97 was a member of the 
Massachusetts state legislature. 

MELLEN, GRENVILLE, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born June 19, 1799, in 
Biddeford, Maine. He was a lawyer of 
New York city, whose poetry was once 
very popular and much praised by critics, 
but is now forgotten. He was the author 
of Our Chronicle of ’26, a satire; The 
Martyr’s Triumph, and Other Poems; The 
Passions; Glad Tales and Sad Tales, a 
collection of tales in prose; and The Rest 
of the Nations. He died Sept. 5, 1841, in 
New York. 

MELLEN, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1722 in Hopkinton, Mass. 
He was pastor of Hanover, Mass., in 1784- 
1805, and afterward removed to Reading, 
Mass. He published eight occasional 
sermons, and Fifteen Discourses on Doc¬ 
trinal Subjects. He died in 1807 in Read¬ 
ing, Mass. 

MELLEN, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1752 in Sterling, Mass. He 
was minister of Barnstable, Mass., and 
after retiring from the pastorate removed 
to Cambridge. He published eight sep¬ 
arate sermons and discourses, and two 
Dudleian Lectures. He died in 1828 in 
Cambridge, Mass. 

MELLEN, PRENTISS, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born Oct. 11, 
1764, in Sterling, Mass. In 1817 he was 
chosen a senator in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts; and a presidential elector in 
1817. On the separation of Maine in 1820 
he resigned his seat in the senate, and 
was elected the first chief justice of the 
supreme court of Maine. He died Dec. 31, 
1840, in Portland, Maine. 

MELLEN, W. H., merchant, educator, 
poet, was born Aug. 5, 1840, in Gerry, 
N. Y. In 1878 he closed out his mercantile 
business in Chautau¬ 
qua and moved to 
Lane, Kan., and sub¬ 
sequently to Greeley, 
where he took 
charge of the city 
schools for two 
years. He has served 
as county register of 
deeds and county 
treasurer at Garnett; 
where he has also 
been engaged in the 
wholesale and retail 
business. He has contributed extensively 
to current publications; and some of his 
poems have been given a place in Poets of 
America and other standard works. 


MELLETTE, ARTHUR C„ governor, 
was born June 23, 1842, in Henry county, 
Ind. In 1864 he graduated from the In¬ 
diana university, and 
immediately entered 
the northern army, 
serving as a private 
in company H, ninth 
regiment Indiana 
volunteer infantry, 
until the close of the 
war. He was subse¬ 
quently admitted to 
the bar; was prose¬ 
cuting attorney of 
Muncie in 1868; 
served as a member 
of the Indiana house of representatives 
in 1871; and was the author of the In¬ 
diana school law which laid the founda¬ 
tion of the present excellent public school 
system of that state. In 1878 he moved 
to Springfield, Dakota territory; was ap¬ 
pointed register of the general land office; 
and two years later moved to Watertown. 
In 1889 he was appointed governor of the 
territory; and in 1889 was elected gov¬ 
ernor of South Dakota. He was the last 
governor of the territory of Dakota, and 
the first governor of the state of South 
Dakota. 

MELLICK, ANDREW D., lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1844 in New Jersey. He 
was a lawyer of Plainfield, N. J.; and the 
author of The Story of an Old Farm; and 
The Hessians in New Jersey. He died in 
1895. 

MELLISH, DAVID B., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 2,1831, in Oxford, 
Mass. He was for several years a sten¬ 
ographer for the civil authorities; and 
also wrote for the newspapers. In 1871 
he was appointed an assistant appraiser 
in the custom house; and in 1872 was 
elected, a representative from New York 
to the forty-third congress as a republic¬ 
an. He died May 23, 1874, in the Govern¬ 
ment Hospital for the Insane. 

MELLON, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, 
banker, was born Feb. 13, 1813, in Ire¬ 
land. During 1859-70 he held the office of 
assistant law judge of the court of com¬ 
mon pleas in Pennsylvania, and then de¬ 
clined a renomination. In 1870 he opened 
the door of the private bank now known 
as Thomas Mellon and Sons in Pittsburg, 
Pa., and he is yet the head of this concern. 

MELOY, JOHN, farmer, legislator, was 
born June 18, 1804, in Lancaster county, 
Pa. For two terms he served as a mem¬ 
ber of the Pennsylvania legislature. 

MELSHEIMER, FREDERICK VALEN¬ 
TINE, clergyman, educator, was born 
Sept. 29, 1749, in Germany. In 1787 he be¬ 
came an instructor in Franklin college, 
Lancaster, and he was pastor at Han¬ 
over, York county, in 1790-1814. He died 
July 4, 1814, in Hanover, Pa. 

MELVILLE, EUNICE, journalist, was 
born June 23, 1863, in Minneiska, Minn. 
She is now the editor and publisher of 
The National Rebekah of Minneapolis, 
Minn., a journal devoted to the woman’s 
branch of Odd Fellowship throughout the 
world. For eight years she has been sec¬ 
retary of the Rebekah state assembly of 
Minnesota. 

MELVILLE, GEORGE WALLACE, civil 
engineer, author, was born Jan. 10, 1841, 
in New York city. He has been chief of 
the bureau of steam engineering in the 
United States navy since 1887. He is a 
survivor of the ill-fated Jeannette, of 
which he was engineer; and the author of 
In the Lena Delta, a Narrative of the 
Search for Lieutenant-Commander De 
Long and His Companions, 


MELVILLE, HENRY, bishop coadjutor 
of Alabama, was born July 28, lh48, in 
Leesburg, Va. He was consecrated bishop- 
coadjutor of Alabama in St. Paul’s church, 
Selma, Ala., in 1891. 

MELVILLE, HERMAN, author, poet,, 
was born Aug. 1, 1819, in New York city. 
He was a novelist of New York 
city, for many years employed in the 
custom-house. He was the author of 
Typee; Omoo; White Jacket; Redburn; 
Mardi; Pierre; Israel Potter; The Piazza 
Tales; Moby Dick; The Confidence Man; 
Battle Pieces, a volume of verse; Clarel, 
a poem; John Marr and Other Sailors; 
and Timoleon, a collection of poems. He 
died Sept. 28, 1891, in New York city. 

MENDENHALL, GEORGE, physician, 
author, was born May 5, 1814, in Sharon, 
Pa. On the organization of the United 
States sanitary commission at the begin¬ 
ning of the civil war, he was one of the 
associates and president of the Cincinnati 
branch of the commission. He was the 
author of The Medical Student’s Vade- 
Mecum. He died June 4, 1874, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. 

MENDENHALL, JAMES WILLIAM, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1842 in 
Ohio. He was a methodist clergyman, 
editor of The Methodist Review from 
1888; and the author of Echoes from Pal¬ 
estine; and Plato and Paul. He died in 
1892. 

MENDENHALL, THOMAS CORWIN, 
educator, scientist, author, was born Oct. 
4, 1841, near Hanoverton, Ohio. He is a 
prominent scientist; president of the 
Worcester Polytechnic institute from 
1894; and author of A Century of Elec¬ 
tricity. 

MENDOZA, FRANCISCO FELIX, phy¬ 
sician, pharmacist, editor, author, was 
born July 10, 1851, in Havana, Cuba. He 
studied medicine in America and Europe, 
and attended the hospitals of Europe. 
During 1876-85 he practiced in Pinar Del 
Rio and Guines, Cuba; and in 1885-88 he 
practiced medicine in Mexico city, Vera 
Cruz, Pueblo, and other places. He has 
edited different political and medical 
newspapers in Mexico and Cuba; and is 
the author of the Directorio Biografico 
Professional Hispano-Americano. In 1888 
he went to Key West, and in 1894 moved 
to Tampa, Fla., where he is now actively 
engaged in his profession. 

MENEES, THOMAS, physician, educat¬ 
or, state senator, was born June 26, 1823, 
near Nashville, Tenn. In 1874 he was 
chosen professor of materia medica and 
therapeutics in the university of Nash¬ 
ville, and in 1875 he was transferred to the 
chair of obstetrics. He was also elected 
to the same place in Vanderbilt university 
and became dean of its medical depart¬ 
ment. He was a member of the Tennessee 
state senate in 1857, and of the confeder¬ 
ate congress during the civil war. 

MENIFEE, RICHARD H., congressman. 
He was a member of congress from Ken¬ 
tucky from 1837 to 1839. He died Feb. 21 r 
1841, in Frankfort, Ky. 

MENKEN, ADAH ISAACS, actress, 
poet, was born June 15, 1835, near New 
Orleans, La. She was an actress of Jew¬ 
ish birth whose name originally was Do¬ 
lores Adios Fuertes. She was the author 
of Memories; and Infelicia. She died 
Aug. 10, 1868, in Paris, France. 

MENZIES, JOHN W., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born April 12, 1819, in Fayette 
county, Ky. In 1841 he established him¬ 
self in Covington, Ky.; and in 1848 and 
1855 was elected to the general assembly 
of Kentucky. In 1861 he was elected a 
representative from Kentucky to the 
thirty-seventh congress. 





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MERCEIN, THOMAS FITZ RAN¬ 
DOLPH, clergyman, author, was born 
Nov. 27, 1825, in New York city. He was 
n. methodist clergyman of New York state; 
and the author of Natural Goodness; The 
Wise Master Builder; and Childhood and 
the Church. He died Sept. 15, 1856, in 
Sheffield, Mass. 

MERCER, ANNE JANE, philanthropist, 
was bom in October, 1817, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. She was well known as a phil¬ 
anthropist of her time. She died April 5, 
1886, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MERCER, CHARLES FENTON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, author, was 
born June 6, 1778, in Fredericksburg, Va. 
From 1810 to 1817 he was a member of the 
general assembly of Virginia. In 1813 he 
was appointed aid to the governor, and 
rose to the rank of brigadier-general of 
militia. He was a member of congress 
from 1817 to 1840. He was the author of 
The Weakness and Inefficiency of the 
Government of the United States, which 
was not published until 1863. He died 
May 4, 1858, in Howard, Va. 

MERCER, DAVID H., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born July 9, 1857, in Benton 
county, Iowa. He studied law one year 
and then entered the 
senior class of the 
law department of 
Michigan state uni¬ 
versity, graduating 
in 1882, after which 
he returned to 
Brownville to prac¬ 
tice his profession. 
He served one term 
as city clerk and po¬ 
lice judge; and was 
twice elected secre¬ 
tary of the republic¬ 
an state central committee. He moved to 
Omaha in 1885 and for several years was 
chairman of the republican city and coun¬ 
ty committees; and was elected secretary 
of the national republican congressional 
committee in 1896. He was elected to the 
fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and 
re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
republican. 

MERCER, GEORGE A., lawyer, author, 
was born Feb. 9, 1835, in Savannah, Ga. 
From 1872-74 he served in the Georgia 
legislature; and was United States dis¬ 
trict judge for the southern district of 
Georgia. 

MERCER, HENRY WILLIAM, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 13, 1839, in 
England. He is the author of a temper¬ 
ance work entitled A Root of Bitterness. 

MERCER, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1747 in Hampton 
county, Va. He was a member of the house 
of burgesses; and a member of all the 
Virginia conventions, and of the commit¬ 
tee of safety. He was a delegate to the 
continental congress in 1779 and 1780; and 
a judge of admiralty, and of the first court 
of appeals of Virginia. He died in June, 
1793, in Hampton county, Va. 

MERCER, JESSE, clergyman, was born 
Dec. 16, 1769, in Halifax county, N. C. He 
has filled pastorates in the baptist 
churches in Pennsylvania; and was the 
founder of Mercer university. He died 
Sept. 6, 1841. 

MERCER, JOHN FRANCIS, soldier, 
congressman, governor, was born May 17, 
1759, in Stafford county, Va. He was a 
soldier of the revolution; and was a mem¬ 
ber of the old congress from Virginia from 
1782 to 1785. He was a member, from 
Maryland, of the convention which framed 
the federal constitution, but did not sign 
that instrument. He was a representative 
in the new congress from 1792 to 1794. 
He was governor of Maryland from 1801 


to 1803; and also a member of the legis¬ 
lature of that state. He died Aug. 30, 
1821, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MERCER, MARGARET, philanthropist, 
author, was born in 1792 in Annapolis, 
Md. She voluntarily reduced herself 
from affluence to poverty by freeing her 
slaves and sending them to Liberia, and 
she subsequently taught for twenty years 
in Virginia. She prepared two volumes 
for her pupils, Studies for Bible Classes; 
and Ethics, a Series of Lectures to Young 
Ladies. She died in June, 1846, in Vir¬ 
ginia. 

MERCUR, ANNA HUBBARD, poet, was 
born in Lancaster, Mass. While at Rut¬ 
gers college she took the gold medal for 
an essay. Her first published poem was 
set to music for the graduating class by 
George Root. She has been a constant 
contributor to magazines and journals, 
and her letters from France and Germany 
have been a valuable acquisition to his¬ 
torical literature. She is the author of 
a work entitled Cosmos and Other Poems, 
which contains a number of meritorious 
poems. 

MERCUR, JAMES, educator, scientist, 
author, was born in 1842 in Pennsylvania. 
He was a scientist and army officer; pro¬ 
fessor at West Point since 1884; and the 
author of Elements of the Art of War; 
and Military Mines, Blasting, and Demoli¬ 
tions. He died in 1896. 

MERCUR, ULYSSES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Aug. 12, 1818, in 
Towanda, Pa. In 1861 he was appointed 
president judge of the thirteenth judicial 
district of Pennsylvania, and elected to 
the office in October following for a term 
of ten years, but resigned on being elect¬ 
ed, in 1864, a representative from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the thirty-ninth congress. He 
was re-elected to the fortieth and forty- 
first congresses. He died June 6, 1887, in 
Wallingford, Pa. 

MEREDITH, ELISHA E., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Dec. 26, 
1848, in Sumter county, Ala. He served 
in the state senate of Virginia from 1883 
to 1887; and was presidential elector in 
1888. He was elected to the fifty-second 
and fifty-third congresses and re-elected 
to the fifty-fourth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

MEREDITH, SAMUEL, soldier, finan¬ 
cier, congressman, was born in 1740 in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He served for a time in 
the colonial legislature of Pennsylvania; 
and was a delegate from that state to the 
continental congress in 1787 and 1788. On 
the organization of the federal govern¬ 
ment he was appointed treasurer of the 
United States, in which office he contin¬ 
ued until 1801, when he resigned. He died 
March 10, 1817, in Belmont, Pa. 

MEREDITH. SOLOMON, soldier, state 
legislator, was born May 29, 1810, in Guil¬ 
ford county, N. C. He was chosen sheriff 
of Fort Wayne coun¬ 
ty, Ind., in 1834 and 
1836, thrice elected to 
legislature in 1846- 
48, and in 1849 be¬ 
came United States 
marshal for the dis¬ 
trict of Indiana. In 
1854 he was again 
chosen to the legis¬ 
lature. In July, 1861, 
he became colonel of 
the nineteenth Indi¬ 
ana regiment, which 
saw its first service in Virginia, and lost 
half its effective force at Gainesville, 
where he was wounded. He died Oct. 21, 
1875, in Cambridge City, Ind. 


MEREDITH, SULLIVAN AMORY, sol¬ 
dier, was born July 5, 1816, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He served in the civil war, and 
was promoted to brigadier-general of vol¬ 
unteers. He died Dec. 27, 1874, in Buffalo, 
N. Y. 

MEREDITH, WILLIAM MORRIS, law¬ 
yer, was born June 8, 1799, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a member of the Penn¬ 
sylvania state constitutional convention 
of 1837; was secretary of the treasury 
from 1849 to 1850; and attorney-general 
of Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1867. He 
was president of the state constitutional 
convention of 1872. He died Aug. 17, 1873, 
in Philadelphia. 

MERIAM, EBENEZER, meteorologist, 
was born June 20, 1794, in Concord, Mass. 
He was the originator of the theory of 
cycles of atmospherical phenomena, upon 
which he published articles that attracted 
the attention of scientists at home and 
abroad. He began in 1841, at his own ex¬ 
pense, the publication of The Municipal 
Gazette in New York. He died March 19, 
1864, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

MERIWETHER, DAVID, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1755 in Virginia. 
In 1785 he settled in Wilkes county, Ga., 
which he represented in the legislature 
for several terms. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1802 
to 1807. He died Nov. 16, 1822, near Ath¬ 
ens, Ga. 

MERIWETHER, DAVID, governor, 
United States senator, was born Oct. 30, 
1800, in Louisa county, Va. He was a sen¬ 
ator in congress from Kentucky for one 
session in 1852; and was appointed in 
1853 governor of the territory of New 
Mexico. 

MERIWETHER, MRS. ELIZABETH 
[AVERY], author, was born in 1832 in 
Tennessee. She is a novelist of Memphis, 
Tenn.; and the author of The Master of 
Red Leaf; Black and White; The Ku 
Klux Klan; and My First and Last Love. 

MERIWETHER, I. A., congressman, 
was born in Georgia. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1841 to 1843. 

MERIWETHER, JAMES, congressman, 
was born in Wilkes county, Ga. He was 
a representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1825 to 1827. 

MERIWETHER, LEE, public official, 
author, was born Dec. 25, 1862, in Colum¬ 
bus, Miss. He is a special agent of the 
United States bureau of labor; and the 
author of A Tramp Trip: How to See 
Europe on Fifty Cents a Day; The Tramp 
at Home; and Afloat and Ashore on the 
Mediterranean. 

MERKLIN, LEON CHARLES, linguist, 
was born in 1740 in New Orleans, La. 
He is known by several treatises on the 
North American Indian dialects, which he 
pretended to have learned in trading with 
the Indians. He died in 1797 in Paris, 
France. 

MERREFIELD, JOSEPH, author, poet, 
was born Dec. 19, 1820, in Franklin, Ohio. 
He has been secretary of the Maryland 
Historical society; president of the soci¬ 
ety for the Protection of Children, and 
an officer in many charitable institutions. 
He is now treasurer of the Johns Hopkins 
hospital of Baltimore. He is the author 
of two prose stories; and numerous 
poems. 

MERRELL, EDWARD H., educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born April 15, 1835, in 
New Hartford, N. Y. Since 1862 he has 
been professor in the Ripon college, Wis¬ 
consin, of which institution he was presi¬ 
dent during 1876-91, and now fills the 
chair of philosophy. 






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MERRIAM, AUGUSTUS CHAPMAN, 
educator, author, was born in 1843 in New 
York. He was a Greek scholar; adjunct 
professor of Greek at Columbia college; 
and the author of Law Code of Gortynia 
in Crete; Inscriptions on the Obelisk 
Crab; The Phoenicians of Homer; and 
Sixth and Seventh Books of Herodotus. 
He died in 1895. 

MERRIAM, CHARLES, publisher, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born Nov. 21, 1806, in 
West Brookfield, Mass. He was active 
in benevolent works and contributed 
$5,000 and numerous books for the estab¬ 
lishment of a public library in Spring- 
field. He bequeathed $50,000 to mission¬ 
ary, Bible and other religious societies. 
He died July 9, 1887, in Springfield, Mass. 

MERRIAM, CLINTON HART, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1855 in New York. 
He is a naturalist of note, chief of the 
United States biological survey; and the 
author of Vertebrates of the Adirondack 
Region; and Mammals of the Adiron- 
dacks. 

MERRIAM, CLINTON L„ merchant, 
banker, congressman, was born March 25, 
1824, in Leyden, N. Y. He was elected 
from New York to the forty-second and 
forty-third congresses as a republican. 

MERRIAM, FLORENCE AUGUSTA, 
author, was born in 1863 in New York. 
She is a Washington writer; and the au¬ 
thor of A-Birding on a Bronco; My Sum¬ 
mer in a Mormon Village; and Birds 
Through an Opera Glass. 

MERRIAM, FRANK F., journalist, leg¬ 
islator, was born Dec. 22, 1865, in Hopkin- 
ton, Iowa. He is the editor and propri¬ 
etor of the Hopkinton Leader in Iowa; 
and served with distinction as a member 
of the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh 
general assemblies of the Iowa state leg¬ 
islature. 

MERRIAM, GEORGE, publisher, was 
born Jan 20, 1803, in Worcester, Mass. 
In 1831 he removed to Springfield with 
his brother and established in 1832 the 
publishing house of G. and C. Merriam. 
Their earliest publications were law 
books, editions of the Bible, and school 
books. He died June 22, 1880, in Spring- 
field, Mass. 

MERRIAM, GEORGE SPRING, author, 
was born in 1843 in Maine. He is the au¬ 
thor of A Living Faith; Life and Times 
of Samuel Bowles; The Way of Life; 
The Story of William and Lucy Smith; A 
Symphony of the Spirit; The Chief End 
of Man; and Reminiscences and Letters 
of Caroline C. Briggs. 

MERRIAM, WILLIAM RUSH, govern¬ 
or, was born July 26, 1849, at Wadham’s 
Mills, N. Y. When eleven years of age 
he moved with his 
parents to Minne¬ 
sota, and has since 
resided in St. Paul, 
except when at col¬ 
lege in Racine, Wis. 
For awhile he was 
clerk in the First 
National bank; was 
appointed cashier of 
the Merchant’s Na¬ 
tional bank in 1873; 
was elected its vice- 
president in 1881; 
and since 1882 has been president of that 
institution. In 1882 he was elected to 
the Minnesota state legislature; was again 
elected in 1886, and was chosen speaker. 
In 1888 he was elected governor of Minne¬ 
sota, and received the re-election two 
years later. He is a liberal contributor 
to charitable enterprises; has been prom¬ 
inently interested in agricultural matters; 
has served as vice-president and presi¬ 
dent of the State Agricultural association. 


ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN 

MERRICK, CAROLINA ELIZABETH, 
reformer, was born Nov. 24, 1825, in Cot¬ 
tage Hall, La. She was educated by pri¬ 
vate tutors, “and re¬ 
ceived instruction 
from the professors 
in the college at 
Jackson, La. She 
has been president of 
the Foreign Mission¬ 
ary society of the 
methodist church; 
and other societies. 
She formed the first 
suffrage society in the 
state of Louisiana, 
and was elected its 
president. For ten years she has been the 
president of the Woman’s Christian Tem¬ 
perance union of Louisiana; and for the 
same length of time her husband was 
chief justice of Louisiana. 

MERRICK, EDWIN T., lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 9, 1809, in Wilbraham,’ 
Mass. He served as district judge of the 
Florida parishes and was twice chief 
justice of Louisiana. He died Jan. 12, 1897. 

MERRICK, FREDERICK, educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born in 1810, in Wil¬ 
braham, Mass. In 1860 he was elected 
president of the Ohio Wesleyan univer¬ 
sity, resigning in 1875. 

MERRICK, JAMES LYMAN, mission¬ 
ary, author, poet, was born Oct. 11, 1803, 
in Monson, Mass. During 1834-45 he was 
a missionary in Persia; and subsequently 
was pastor of the congregational church 
of Amherst. He was the author of Pil¬ 
grim’s Harp, a volume of poems; Life 
and Religion of Mohammed; and a Gene¬ 
alogy of the Merrick Family. He died 
June 18, 1866, in Amherst, Mass. 

MERRICK, PLINY, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, was born Aug. 2, 1794, in Brook¬ 
field, Mass. In 1827 he was a representa¬ 
tive in the legislature for Worcester; in 
1843 became judge of the court of common 
pleas; and in 1844 of the municipal 
court. He was a state senator in 1850; 
and during 1853-64 was judge of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts supreme court. He died Feb. 
1, 1867, in Boston, Mass. 

MERRICK, SAMUEL VAUGHAN, man¬ 
ufacturer, was born May 4, 1801, in Hal- 
lowell, Maine. He studied engineering, 
and about 1835 established at Philadelphia 
the Southwark iron foundry, which be¬ 
came the finest work of the kind in this 
country. He died Aug. 18, 1870, in Phila¬ 
delphia. 

MERRICK, WILLIAM DUHURST, 
United States senator, was born Oct. 25, 
1793, in Annapolis, Md. He served in the 
United States senate from 1838 to 1845. 
He was the author of the cheap postage 
scheme in congress. He died Feb. 5, 1857, 
in Washington, D. C. 

MERRICK, WILLIAM MATTHEWS, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
Sept. 1, 1818, in Charles county, Md. In 
1854 he was appointed associate judge of 
the United States circuit court of the 
District of Columbia; when this court 
was abolished, in 1863, he retired to Mary¬ 
land to the practice of his profession. In 
1866 and 1867 he was senior professor of 
law in Columbian college; and was elect¬ 
ed to the Maryland legislature in 1870. 
He was a representative to the forty-sec¬ 
ond congress as a democrat. In 1885 he 
was appointed an associate justice of the 
supreme court of the District of Columbia. 
He died Feb. 4, 1889, in Washington, D. C. 

MERRILL, AYRES PHILLIPS, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born April 17, 17J3, in 
Pittsfield, Mass. He was a physician of 
Memphis, and subsequently of New York 
city; and the author of Lectures on Fev¬ 
ers. He died Nov. 3, 1873, in New York. 




BIOGRAPHY. 653 

MERRILL, CHARLES AMOS, lawyer, 
editor, was born Sept. 23, 1843, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He attended the Concord High 
school; Dartmouth 
college for two 
years; and the Wes¬ 
leyan university for 
twoyears, from 
which latter institu¬ 
tion he graduated in 
1864; graduated from 
the Columbia Law 
school in 1868, and a 
year later from the 
Harvard Law school. 
He has been secre¬ 
tary of sergeant-at- 
arms of the United States; secretary of 
Senator Patterson; examiner in division 
of referred claims of paymaster-general’s 
office; and paymaster’s clerk United 
States army; and editor of the Supple- 
ment to the Massachusetts Statutes. He 
is now one of the foremost lawyers of 
New England, and has a lucrative prac¬ 
tice at Worcester, Mass. 

MERRILL, DANIEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 18, 1765, in Row- 
ley, Md. After serving three years in the 
revolutionary army he entered Dartmouth 
where he was graduated in 1789. He then 
studied theology and was licensed to 
preach in 1791. He was a founder and 
efficient friend of Waterville college, serv¬ 
ing as trustee for twelve years after its 
organization. He published Eight Let¬ 
ters on Open Communion; Letters Occa¬ 
sioned by the Rev. Samuel Worcester’s 
Two Discourses; Mode and Subjects of 
Baptism Examined, with a Miniature His¬ 
tory of Baptism; and Balaam Disappoint¬ 
ed. He died June 3, 1833, in Sedgwick, 
Maine. 

MERRILL, FRANK THAYER, artist, 
was born in 1848, in Boston, Mass. He 
has attained success as an artist; among 
his best known works are: Lalla Rookh; 
Prince and the Pauper; Courtship of 
Miles Standish; My Days and Nights on 
the Battlefield; The Man Without a 
Country; and Rip Van Winkle. 

MERRILL, GEORGE PERKINS, edu¬ 
cator, lecturer, author, was born May 31, 
1854, in Auburn, Maine. He is a geologist, 
professor in Columbian university, Wash¬ 
ington, from 1893; and the author of 
Stones for Building and Decoration; and 
Handbook of the Geological Department, 
Smithsonian Institution. 

MERRILL, GEORGE W., soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born June 26, 1837, in 
Turner, Maine. He entered the union 
army, and was commissioned first lieu¬ 
tenant of company F, sixtieth regiment of 
Indiana volunteers; and subsequently to 
major of his regiment. He removed to 
Nevada, and engaged in the practice of h'is 
profession. He was district attorney for 
about twelve years; and in 1880 was elect¬ 
ed a representative in the state legislature, 
and at the session of 1881 was elected 
speaker. In 1883 he was appointed land 
attorney of the state; and in 1885 was 
appointed minister resident of the United 
States to the Hawaiian Islands. 

MERRILL, LEWIS, soldier, was born 
Oct. 28, 1834, in New Berlin, Pa. He or¬ 
ganized a regiment of Missouri volunteer 
cavalry, of which he was appointed col¬ 
onel, and the regiment was called Mer¬ 
rill’s Horse. 

MERRILL, MOODY, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born June 27, 1836, in Camp- 
ton, N. H. In 1868 he was elected to the 
Massachusetts house of representatives; 
in 1873-74 was a member of the senate; 
and after retiring from political life be¬ 
came president of the Highland Street 
railway of Boston. 






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MERRILL, ORSAMUS C., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was born 
in 1776 in Vermont. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Vermont from 1817 
to 1820. He also held the positions of 
county attorney for two years; state coun¬ 
cilor for four years; state senator for one 
year; register of probate for two years; 
and judge of probate for six years. He 
.died April 11, 1865, in Bennington. 

MERRILL, SAMUEL, merchant, soldier, 
legislator, governor, was born Aug. 7, 
1822, in Turner, Maine. In 1854 he was 
elected to the New Hampshire state legis¬ 
lature. He went to Iowa in 1856; and in 
1860 was elected to the legislature of that 
state. He was subsequently elected gov¬ 
ernor of Iowa, serving in that capacity 
from 1868 to 1872. 

MERRILL, SELAH, clergyman, author, 
was born May 2, 1837, in Canton, Conn. 
He is a congregational clergyman and 
archaeologist. United States consul at 
Jerusalem in 1882-86. He is the author of 
East of the Jordan; Galilee in the Time 
of Christ; Greek Inscriptions Collected in 
1875-77 East of the Jordan; and The Site 
of Calvary. 

MERRILL, SHERBURN SANBORN, 
railroad manager, was born July 28, 1818, 
in Alexandria, N. H. In 1865 he became 
general manager of the Chicago and 
Northwestern railroad in Milwaukee. 

MERRILL, STEPHEN MASON, bishop, 
author, was born Sept. 16, 1825, in Jeffer¬ 
son county, Ohio. He is a methodist bish¬ 
op in Ohio; and the author of Christian 
Baptism; New Testament Idea of Hell; 
The Second Coming of Christ; Aspects 
of Christian Experience; Digest of Meth¬ 
odist Law; Outlines of Thought on Pro¬ 
bation; and Mary of Nazareth and Her 
Family. 

MERRILL, WILLIAM BRADFORD, 
journalist, was born Feb. 27, 1861, in Salis¬ 
bury, N. H. In 1891 he became managing 
editor of The New York Press, which po¬ 
sition he still holds. 

MERRILL, WILLIAM EMORY, mili¬ 
tary engineer, author, was born Oct. 11, 
1837, in Wisconsin. He is a military en¬ 
gineer in the United States army; and the 
author of Iron Truss Bridges; and Im¬ 
provement of Tidal Rivers. 

MERRIMAN, EDWARD MUNROE, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born June 11, 
1843, in Auburn, N. Y. In 1867 he gradu¬ 
ated from the United States Military 
academy of West Point; and during 1867- 
71 was lieutenant in the first regiment 
United States artillery. He is a success¬ 
ful lawyer in Little Rock, Ark.; and for 
four successive terms has been judge of 
the county court of Arkansas. 

MERRIMAN, MANSFIELD, civil en¬ 
gineer, educator, author, was born March 
27, 1848, in Southington, Conn. He is a 
civil engineer, professor at Lehigh univer¬ 
sity since 1881; and the author of Con¬ 
tinuous Bridges; Elements of the Method 
of Least Squares; The Figure of the 
Earth; Mechanics of Materials; Treatise 
on Hydraulics; Text-Book on Retaining 
Walls and Masonry Dams; Introduction 
to Geodetic Surveying; and Text-Book 
on Roofs and Bridges. 

MERRIMAN, TRUMAN ADAMS, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was 
born Sept. 5, 1839, in Auburn, N. Y. He 
entered the union army in 1861 as captain 
in the ninety-second New York infantry, 
and was mustered out of service in 1864 
as lieutenant-colonel. In 1884 he was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-ninth congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the fiftieth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 


MERRIMON, AUGUSTUS SUMMER- 
FIELD, jurist, legislator, United States 
senator, was born Sept. 15, 1830, in North 
Carolina. He was a member of the leg¬ 
islature of North Carolina in 1860, and 
was elected a judge of the superior court 
in 1866, but in 1867 resigned rather than 
obey a military order. He was elected to 
the United States senate for the term 
commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879. 

MERRITT, ANNA LEA, artist, author, 
was born Sept. 13, 1844, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. Of her pictures Eve Overcome by Re¬ 
morse has attracted the most attention. 
She published a memorial oi her husband 
entitled Henry Merritt’s Art Criticism 
and Romance, with Recollections and 
Twenty-three Etchings. 

MERRITT, SAMUEL A., state senator, 
congressman, was born Aug. 15, 1828, in 
Staunton, Va. He was county clerk in 
California in 1850; a member of the state 
assembly in 1851 and 1852; a member of 
the state senate in 1857-62, and was elect¬ 
ed to the forty-second congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

MERRITT, TIMOTHY, clergyman, jour¬ 
nalist, was born in October, 1775, in Bark- 
hamsted. Conn. He was a methodist cler¬ 
gyman and journalist, and the author of 
Christian Manual; Convert’s Guide; Dis¬ 
cussion Against Universal Salvation; 
Validity of Infant Baptism; and Lectures 
on Universal Salvation. He died May 2, 
1845, in Lynn, Mass. 

MERRITT, WESLEY, soldier, was born 
June 16, 1836, in New York city. For 
gallant and meritorious services during 
the battle of Gettysburg he was brevet- 
ted major. 

MERTON, HOLMES WHITTIER, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born April 5, 1860, in 
Lebanon, Ohio. He has delivered a thou¬ 
sand lectures on human government and 
education; and has discovered important 
laws in biology and physiology. Among 
his works are Descriptive Mentality; and 
The Harmonic Republic. In painting he 
has executed the Muscles of an Athlete; 
with many large paintings on anatomy 
and histology. 

MERVIN, ORANGE, congressman, was 
born in Litchfield, Conn. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Connecticut 
from 1825 to 1829. 

MERVINE, WILLIAM, naval officer, 
was born in 1790 in Pennsylvania. He 
entered the navy, and was made midship¬ 
man in 1809. He was placed on the re¬ 
tired list in 1861, promoted commodore in 
1862 and rear-admiral in 1866. He died 
Sept. 15, 1868, in Utica, N. Y. 

MERWIN, ELIAS, lawyer, author, was 
born in 1825 in Connecticut. He was a 
Boston lawyer, professor of equity in 
Boston university from 1854, and the au¬ 
thor of The Principles of Equity and 
Equity Pleading. He died in 1891. 

MERWIN, J. B., journalist. As the 
editor of the American Journal of Edu¬ 
cation his power has been felt throughout 
the United States, for, with pen and voice, 
he is constantly pleading for. large and 
better systems of education. 

MESERVE, FRANK PIERCE, mer¬ 
chant, was born Nov. 30, 1852, in Roches¬ 
ter, N. H. He attended the West Lebanon 
academy, Maine, and subsequently moved 
to Redlands, Cal., where he is a success¬ 
ful clothing merchant. For four years he 
was a member of the city council, and for 
two years was library trustee. In 1894 he 
was a candidate for the California state 
assembly. He is a prominent member of 
various fraternal orders, and takes an 
active part in public affairs. 


MESICK, WILLIAM S., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 26, 1856, in New¬ 
ark, N. Y. Since 1881 he has been in ac¬ 
tive practice of the law; and held the 
office of prosecuting attorney of Antrim 
county, Mich., for one term. He was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

MESSENGER, LILLIAN ROZELL, 
poet, was born in 1853 in Kentucky. In 
1886 she published a volume of prose and 
verse entitled Fragments from an Old 
Inn; and the following year appeared 
The Vision of Gold, and Other Poems; 
and The Southern Cross is her latest vol¬ 
ume. These works contain many rare 
gems of thought that entitle her to a 
laurel wreath of fame as a national poet. 

MESSER, ASA, educator, college presi¬ 
dent, was born in 1769 in Methuen, Mass. 
After six years of service he was 
advanced in 1796 to the professo^ 
ship of learned languages in the Brown 
university. In 1799 he was trans¬ 
ferred to the chair of mainematics and 
natural philosophy, and on the resignation 
of Jonathan Maxcy in 1802 was appointed 
president of the college. He died Oct. 11, 
1836, in Providence, R. I. 

MESSINGER,' ROBERT HINCKLEY, 
poet, was born in 1811 in Boston, Mass. 
His poems were written between 1827 and 
1832, and appeared in the New York Am¬ 
erican. The principal one, Give Me the 
Old, was published in that journal in 1838. 
He died Oct. 1, 1874, in Stamford, Conn. 

MESSLER, ABRAHAM, clergyman, 
was born Nov. 15, 1800, in Whitehouse, 
N. J. He was pastor of the reformed 
Dutch churches in Pompton Plains and 
in Montville from 1829 till 1832, and be¬ 
came subsequently pastor of the churches 
of this denomination in Raritan and Som¬ 
erville, N. J. His publications include 
Fruits of Early Piety; St. Paul’s Gratitude 
to Onesiphorus; and Sermon on the Death 
of President Lincoln. He died June 12, 
1882, in Somerville, N. J. 

MESSMER, SEBASTIAN SEBBARD, 
clergyman, bishop, was boro-Aug. 29, 1847, 
in Switzerland. For eight years he was 
professor of theology in South Orange, N. 
J., and for two years professor of canon 
law in the Catholic university of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. Since 1892 he has been 
bishop of the diocese of Green Bay, Wis. 

METCALF, ARUNAH, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1811 to 1813; and subsequently 
served four years in the assembly of New 
York from Otsego county. 

METCALF, LORETTUS SUTTON, 
journalist, was born Oct. 17, 1837, in Mon¬ 
mouth, Maine. In 1886 he founded The 
Forum, of which he was editor-in-chief 
for five years, when he moved to Florida 
and established in Jacksonville The Flor¬ 
ida Citizen. 

METCALF, MASON JEROME, inventor, 
was born Oct. 16, 1807, in Fairfax, Maine. 
His most important invention was a meth¬ 
od of producing letter-stencils by means 
of dies, which he was the first to practice 
and bring into use. He died July 23, 1883, 
in Monmouth, Maine. 

METCALF, RALPH, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, governor, was born Nov. 21, 
1798, in Charlestown, N. H. He began 
the practice of law at Newport, N. H., in 
1826, and was secretary of state for sev¬ 
eral years from 1830. He was register of 
probate for Sullivan county in 1845, and 
was chairman of the committee for com¬ 
piling the laws of the state in 1852. He 
was governor of New Hampshire in 1855 
and 1856. He died Aug. 26, 1858, in Clare¬ 
mont, N. H. 


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METCALF, RICHARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 19, 1829, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He was a Unitarian clergy¬ 
man, pastor at Winchester, Mass., in 1866- 
81; and the author of Letter and Spirit; 
and The Abiding Memory, a collection of 
Sermons. He died June 30, 1881, in Win¬ 
chester, Mass. 

METCALF, THERON, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born oct. 16, 1784, in Frank¬ 
lin, Mass. He was a jurist of Massachu¬ 
setts; and the author of Principles of the 
Law of Contracts; Digest of Massachu¬ 
setts Supreme Court Cases in 1816-23; and 
Reports, in 1840-49. He died Nov. 12, 
1875, in Boston, Mass. 

METCALFE, HENRY, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 29, 1847, in New York city. 
He is an instructor of ordnance at West 
Point who has published The Cost of 
Manufactures; and Ordnance and Gun¬ 
nery. 

METCALFE, HENRY B., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1805, 
in Albany, N. Y. He was county judge 
from 1847 to 1874, when he was elected a 
representative from New York to the 
forty-fourth congress. 

METCALFE, JOHN A., lawyer, orator, 
was born April 19, 1853, in Clark county, 
Ky. For many years he taught school 
in Illinois, and since 1884 has practiced 
law in Iowa, and has a lucrative practice 
in Newton. As a political orator he is 
well known in the west, and lectured ex¬ 
tensively during the political campaign of 
1896, gaining a reputation as a brilliant 
and patriotic platform speaker. 

METCALFE, LYNE SHACKELFORD, 
soldier, merchant, congressman, was born 
April 21, 1822, in Madisonville, Ky. He 
moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1863; served in 
the city council there, and was elected 
a representative from Missouri to the for¬ 
ty-fifth congress as a republican. 

METCALFE. SAMUEL L., scientist, 
physician, author, was born Sept. 21, 1798, 
near Winchester, Va. He w r as a physician 
nnd scientist of New York city, and the 
author of Narratives of Indian Warfare 
In the West; New Theory of Terrestrial 
Magnetism; and Caloric. He died July 
17, 1856, in Cape May, N. J. 

METCALFE, THOMAS, soldier, state 
legislator, congressman, governor. United 
States senator, was born March 20, 1780, 
in Fauquier county, Va. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Kentucky legislature for sev¬ 
eral years. He was a representative in 
•congress from 1819 to 1829, when he was 
elected governor of Kentucky, which of¬ 
fice he held until 1833. In 1834 he was 
elected to the state senate, and in 1840 
was chosen president of the board of in¬ 
ternal improvement. In 1848 he was ap¬ 
pointed and elected to fill the unexpired 
term, of Mr. Crittenden in the senate of 
the United States. He died Aug. 18, 1855, 
in Nicholas county, Ky. 

METEER, JOHN, lawyer, journalist, 
was born Dec. 11, 1872, in Parsons, Kan. 
He is the editor and part owner of The Ad¬ 
vocate of Richfield, Utah; and a lawyer 
•of that city. He is prominent in political 
affairs; was twice elected chairman of 
the Richfield republicans; and has taken 
an active part in the material advance¬ 
ment of his city and county. 

METTKE, HANS, musician, composer, 
was born July 24, 1856, in Posen. He has 
published numerous compositions for 
Yoice, piano and orchestra, and is the 
^author of numerous letters on musical 
'.history. 

MEYER, ADOLPH, soldier, planter, 
congressman, was born Oct. 19, 1842. 
He was elected from Louisiana to the 
tfiftv-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth 


congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a democrat. 


MEYER, CORNELIA BEEBEE, the 
wife of the Hon. John Meyer of Newton, 
Iowa, was born Sept. 8, 1832, in Bristol, 
N. Y. In 1853 she 
graduated from the 
Oberlin college, Ohio, 
and was one of the 
most active, Derse- 
vering and self-sac- 
rificing for others’ 
good in her time. 
Previously she had 
received the rudi¬ 
ments of her educa¬ 
tion in the public 
schools, in which she 
also was a teacher. 
She was an untiring worker and leader 
during the war in the Woman’s Relief 
corps; and was ever active in the Wo¬ 
man’s Christian Temperance union, Young 
Men's Christian association, the W. S. A. 
and the Y. P. s. C. E., always spending 
her time in things promotive for good. In 
1853 she was married to Mr. Meyer, and 
was a leader in the religious and educa¬ 
tional affairs of Newton, Iowa, until her 
death on July 24, 1895. 



MEIER, JOHN, soldier, farmer, mer¬ 
chant^ legislator, was born Feb. 26, 1826, 
In 1846 he attended 
the Mifflinburg acad¬ 
emy, Pennsylvania; 
in 1853 he graduated 
from the Oberlin col¬ 
lege, Ohio, and sub¬ 
sequently taught in 
the common and ac¬ 
ademic schools, and 
in Oberlin college. In 
1861 he was a repre¬ 
sentative in the ninth 
general assembly of 
Iowa. In 1862 he 
was captain of com¬ 
pany K, twenty-eighth regiment Iowa 
volunteer infantry; served three years in 
the war; was in many hard-fought bat¬ 
tles, and for bravery was commissioned 
major and colonel. In 1865 he was elected 
state senator, and served in the eleventh 
and twelfth assemblies, and again served 
with distinction in the seventeenth and 
eighteenth general assemblies. In 1878 he 
was a Grant elector; has been trustee and 
treasurer of the Iowa Soldiers’ Orphans' 
home; has been a trustee of the Iowa 
college since 1860; for sixteen years was 
chairman of the committee of instruc¬ 
tion and instructors; for twelve years was 
president of the school board; for ten 
years was city councilman of Newton, 
Iowa; and was an original abolitionist 
and a conductor on the underground rail¬ 
road. 



MEYER, LUCY RIDER, educator, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in September, 
1849, in Weybridge, Vt. She is the found¬ 
er and principal of the Chicago Training 
school; also founder of the deaconess 
work of the methodist episcopal church of 
America; and editor-in-chief of the Dea¬ 
coness Advocate. 

MEYERHARDT, MAX, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 24, 1855, in Germany. When 
a year old he came to America with his 
parents, and was educated in Nashville, 
Tenn., and Rome, Ga. He is an able law¬ 
yer of Rome, Ga., of which city he has 
been a member of the board of education 
for fourteen years. He has been city at¬ 
torney and county attorney; and has 
served with distinction as judge of his 
city and county. He is a prominent Ma¬ 
son, and has filled several of the highest 
offices in that order. 


BIOGRAPHY. 

MEYERS, BENJAMIN F., journalist, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, 
was born July 6, 1833, in Centreville, Pa. 
He was a member of the Pennsylvania 
state legislature in 1864, and a delegate 
to the democratic national convention in 
1864. He became editor and proprietor of 
the Bedford Gazette in 1857, and one of 
the proprietors and editor-in-chief of the 
Harrisburg Daily Patriot in 1868. He was 
elected to tin*. forty-second congress. 

MICHEL, JOHN ALFRED, public offi¬ 
cial, financier, was born Aug. 7, 1836, in 
New Orleans, La. He has filled numerous 
positions of trust in Brownsville, Texas; 
has been county assessor, president of the 
city council, collector of taxes, and during 
1893-97 was collector of customs for the 
district of Brazos de Santiago. 

MICHEL, JOHN T., lawyer, legislator, 
was born in May, 1838, in Jefferson, La. 
In 1892 he was elected a member of the 
Louisiana house of representatives, and in 
1896 he was secretary of state of Louisi¬ 
ana. 

MICHELSON, ALBERT ABRAHAM, 
physicist, author, was born Dec. 19, 1852, 
in Poland. His researches at the United 
States naval academy during 1878-80 re¬ 
sulted in his experimental determination 
of the velocity of light as 186,305 miles a 
second. 

MICHIE, PETER SMITH, engineer, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born March 24, 1839, 
in Scotland. He is a military engineer, 
professor of mathematics at West Point 
since 1871, and the author of Wave Mo¬ 
tion Relating to Sound and Light; Life 
of General Upton; Analytical Mechanics; 
Hydromechanics; and Practical Astron¬ 
omy. 

MIDDLESWARTH, NER, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born about 1780 in 
New Jersey. On moving to Pennsylvania 
he was elected to the state legislature and 
made speaker. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1853 to 1855. He died June 2, 1865, 
in Beavertown, Pa. 

MIDDLETON. ARTHUR, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born 
June 26, 1742, in Middleton Place, S. C. 
He was the author of the first draft of 
the South Carolina state constitution. He 
was a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1776 to 1778, and again from 1781 
to 1783, and signed the declaration of in¬ 
dependence. He served frequently in the 
state legislature. He died Jan. 1, 1787, 
in Goose Creek, S. C. 

MIDDLETON, EDWARD, naval officer. 
He entered the United States navy in 
1828, and in 1876 was made rear-admiral. 
He died April 27, 1883, in Washington, 
D. C. 

MIDDLETON, GEORGE, state legislat¬ 
or, congressman, was born Oct. 14, 1811, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was twice elect¬ 
ed to the legislature of New Jersey, and 
was elected a representative from New 
Jersey to the thirty-eighth congress. 

MIDDLETON, HENRY, congressman, 
was born in 1717 in South Carolina. He 
was a delegate from South Carolina to the 
continental congress from 1774 to 1776, 
and was the second member called to 
officiate as president of that body. He 
died June 13, 1784, in Charleston, S. C. 

MIDDLETON, HENRY, state legislator, 
state senator, congressman, governor, was 
born in 1771 in Middleton Place, S. C. He 
was chosen a representative in the South 
Carolina state legislature in 1801, and 
then state senator until elected governor 
in 1810. From 1815 to 1819 he was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress, and in 1820 was 
appointed minister to Russia, which posi¬ 
tion he filled for many years. He died 
June 14, 1846, in Charleston, S. C. 



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MIDDLETON, HENRY, author, was 
born March 16, 1797, in France. He was 
a prominent writer of Charleston, and 
the author of Prospects of Disunion; The 
Government and the Currency; Economi¬ 
cal Causes of Slavery in the United States, 
and Obstacles to Its Abolition; The Gov¬ 
ernment of India; and Universal Suffrage. 
He died March 15, 1878, in Washington, 
D. C. 

MIDDLETON, JOHN IZARD, author, 
was born in 1785 in Middleton Place, S. 
C. His work on Grecian Remains in 
Italy, etc., was the first contribution made 
by an American to the knowledge of clas¬ 
sical antiquity. He died in November, 
1849, in France. 

MIDDLETON, JOHN IZARD, state leg¬ 
islator, was born Feb. 3, 1800, in Middle- 
ton Place, S. C. He became a large rice 
planter in Prince George, S. C., represent¬ 
ing that parish in the state legislature 
from 1832 till 1840, and in 1848 was speak¬ 
er of the house. He died Jan. 12, 1877, in 
Summerville, S. C. 

MIEGE, JOHN BAPTIST, bishop, was 
born Sept. 18, 1815, in Savoy. In 1851 he 
was consecrated bishop of Messena; and 
shortly afterward built an industrial 
school for the Osages. In 1877 he founded 
a college in Detroit, Mich. He died July 
20, 1884, in Woodstock, Md. 

MIELZINER, MOSES, rabbi, author, 
was born in 1828 in Germany. In 1879 he 
was elected professor of the Talmud and 
the rabbinical disciplines of the Hebrew 
Union college of Cincinnati, Ohio. He has 
also published a number of sermons, lec¬ 
tures, and scholarly articles in German, 
Danish and English, and some occasional 
poems in classical Hebrew. 

MIERS, ROBERT W., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Jan. 27, 1848, in Decatur county, Ind. He 
is a graduate of both 
the literary and the 
law departments of 
Indiana university, 
and commenced the 
practice of law at 
Bloomington, Ind., 
in April, 1872. He 
was elected prosecut¬ 
ing attorney for the 
tenth judicial circuit 
of Indiana in 1875, 
and re-elected in 
1877. He was elect¬ 
ed to the house of representatives of the 
Indiana legislature in 1879, and was a 
trustee of the Indiana university from 
1881 to 1893. He was appointed judge of 
the tenth judicial circuit of Indiana in 
1883 to fill an unexpired term, and was 
elected judge of the same circuit in 1890 
and served as judge until 1896. He was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

MIFFLIN, THOMAS, soldier, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, governor, was born 
in 1744 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1772 he 
was a representative 
from Philadelphia in 
the provincial as¬ 
sembly, and was a 
delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress 
from Pennsylvania 
from 1774 to 1776. He 
distinguished him¬ 
self as major in the 
army at the battle of 
Lexington, and in 
1777 attained the 
rank of major-gen¬ 
eral. In 1782 he was again sent as a del¬ 
egate to the continental congress, serving 
until 1783, and was president of that body. 
In 1785 he was speaker of the state legis¬ 


lature, and in 1787 was a member of the 
convention which framed the constitution 
of the United States, and signed that in¬ 
strument. In 1788 he was made president 
of the supreme executive council. In 1790 
he was a member of the convention for 
framing the state constitution of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and was chosen first governor, and 
served nine years, and was again sent to 
the legislature. He died Jan. 20, 1800, in 
Lancaster, Pa. 

MIFFLIN, WARNER, reformer, was 
born Oct. 21, 1745, in Accomac county, 
Va. His efforts to bring about emanci¬ 
pation of slaves were untiring. He died 
Oct. 16, 1798, in Camden, Del. 

MIGNOT, LOUIS REMY, painter, was 
born in 1831 in Charleston, S. C. Among 
his earlier pictures are Twilight in the 
Tropics; Southern Harvest; Tropical 
Scenery; and Source of the Susquehanna, 
which was exhibited at the Paris exposi¬ 
tion of 1867. He also painted Niagara, 
a view from the American side. He ex¬ 
hibited at the Royal academy in Lon¬ 
don, Lagoon of Guayaquil, South America; 
and A Winter Morning, in 1863; Evening 
in the Tropics, in 1865; and Under the 
Equator, in 1866. He died in September, 
1870, in England. 

MILAM, JOHN HENRY, lawyer, was 
born Dec. 5, 1865, in Warren county, N. 
C. He attended the Oakville academy 
and the university of North Carolina, and 
is now one of the leading lawyers of the 
south, at Warrenton, N. C. 

MILBURN, WILLIAM E. F., soldier, ed¬ 
ucator, lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 
15, 1842, in Milburnton, Tenn. In 1871 he 
graduated from the Grant university, and 
in 1874 from the university of Michigan, 
with the degree of A. M. During the war 
he served in the United States army as 
first sergeant and first lieutenant in com¬ 
pany B, twelfth regiment Tennessee vol¬ 
unteer cavalry, and was in twenty-seven 
engagements. During 1871-73 he was pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics in the Grant uni¬ 
versity; has been a member of the board 
of education of Greeneville, Tenn.; a di¬ 
rector in the Greene County bank, and 
commander of the department of Tennes¬ 
see, Grand Army of the Republic. For 
four years he served with distinction as a 
member of the Tennessee state legislat¬ 
ure, and is one of the foremost lawyers of 
the south. 

MILBURN, WILLIAM HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Sept. 26, 1823, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a methodist cler¬ 
gyman, famous as 
the blind preacher, 
who has been six 
times chaplain of the 
United States house 
of representatives; 
and the author of 
Rifle, Axe, and Sad¬ 
dle Bags; Ten Years 
of Preacher Life; 
and Pioneers and 
People of the Missis¬ 
sippi Valley. He has 
also contributed ex¬ 
tensively to current and religious publica¬ 
tions of the United States. 

MILES, FREDERICK, merchant, state 
senator, congressman, was born Dec. 19, 
1815, in Goshen, Conn. He was elected a 
state senator for a term of two years, 
resigned in 1879, having been elected a 
representative from Connecticut to the 
forty-sixth congress. He was re-elected to 
the forty-seventh congress; declined a re¬ 
nomination; and was re-elected to the 
fifty-first congress as a republican. 

MILES, GEORGE HENRY, lawyer, ed¬ 
ucator, author, poet, was born July 31, 
1824, in Baltimore, Md. He was a Mary¬ 


land lawyer and educator, and professor 
of English literature at Mount St. Mary’s 
college, Emmettsburg, Md. Besides his 
dramas, Cromwell; Mahomet; De Soto, he 
published Christine, and Other Poems; Abu 
Hassan the Wag, or the Sleeper Awak¬ 
ened; A Review of Hamlet; and The 
Truce of God. He died July 23, 1871, in 
Emmettsburg, Md. 

MILES, GEORGE WASHINGTON, ed¬ 
ucator, scientist, was born May 14, 1859, in 
Fort Adams, Miss. He graduated from the 
State university of 
Missouri with the 
decree of. M. S. He 

W in the New Mexico 
V college of agriculture 

and mechanic arts of 
Mesilla Park, N. M. 
He has accomplished considerable original 
work in astronomy and geology, and re¬ 
ceived the astronomical medal when he 
graduated with the degree of A. B. at 
the Missouri State university in 1884. He 
has since contributed many valuable arti¬ 
cles to scientific papers, and is a member 
of various scientific associations. 

MILES, HENRY ADOLPHUS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born May 30, 1809, in 
Grafton, Mass. He was a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman of eastern Massachusetts, and the 
author of Lowell as It Was and Is; Grains 
of Gold; Gospel Narratives; Words of a 
Friend; Modern Ideas of the Birth of 
Jesus; and Traces of Picture Writing in 
the Bible. He died in 1895. 

MILES, JAMES WARLEY, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 24, 1818, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man of Charleston, and the author of 
Philosophic Theology, or Ultimate 
Grounds of all Religious Belief Based on 
Reason. He died in August, 1875, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

MILES, JOSHUA WELDON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1858, in 
Somerset county, Md. He was elected 
state’s attorney of Somerset county, Md., 
in 1883, and was elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a democrat. 

MILES, NELSON APPLETON, soldier, 
author, was born Aug. 8, 1839, in West¬ 
minster, Mass. He is a noted soldier of 
the United States 
army who served as 
a brigadier-general 
of volunteers during 
the civil war. He 
became a major-gen¬ 
eral in 1890. He has 
successfully conduct¬ 
ed Indian campaigns, 
and has on several 
occasions prevented 
Indian wars by ju¬ 
dicious and humane 
settlement of difficul¬ 
ties without the use of military power. He 
is now commander-in-chief of the United 
States army. He is the author of Personal 
Recollections. 

MILES, PLINY, traveler, author, was 
born Nov. 16, 1818, in Watertown, N. Y. 

He was a traveler who made his home in 
London in his later years, and the author 
of Statistical Register; Elements of Mne- 
motechny, or Art of Memory; Northu- 
fari, or Rambles in Iceland; Ocean Steam 
Navigation; and Postal Reform. He died 
April 7, 1865, on the Island of Malt. 










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MILES, RICHARD PIUS, Roman cath¬ 
olic bishop, was born May 17, 1791, in 
Prince George county, Md. In 1837 the 
see of Nashville, embracing the state of 
Tennessee, was created, and in 1838 he 
was consecrated its first bishop. He died 
Feb. 17, 1860, in Nashville, Tenn. 

MILES, THADDEUS WHITE, educator, 
lawyer, was born Feb. 11, 1874, in Carth¬ 
age, Mo. He received his education at the 
Friends’ Polytechnic institute and the 
Capital Business college of Salem, Ore. 
He has taught in the commercial and 
shorthand departments of the Southern 
Oregon State Normal school, and is now 
engaged in' the practice of law. 

MILES, WILLIAM PORCHER. educa¬ 
tor, soldier, congressman, was born July 
4, 1828, in Charleston, S. C. He was for 
several years assistant professor of math¬ 
ematics in Charleston college. He was 
mayor of Charleston in 1856 and 1857. He 
was elected a representative from South 
Carolina to the thirty-fifth congress, and 
re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He 
was re-elected to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress; was elected a member of the South 
Carolina seceding convention in 1860; and 
resigned his seat in congress. He served 
as a colonel in the confederate army and 
as a member of the confederate congress. 

MILEY, JOHN, clergyman, educator, 
author, was born in 1813 in Ohio. He 
was a methodist minister and educator; 
and professor of systematic theology in 
Drew seminary, Madison, N. J., since 1873. 
He was the author of The Atonement in 
Christ; and Systematic Theology. He 
died in 1895. 

MILHAN, JOHN J. DE, soldier, physi¬ 
cian, was born Dec. 23, 1828, in France. 
He served through the civil war and for 
meritorious services received the rank of 
brigadier-general. 

MILLAR, A. B., educator, college presi¬ 
dent, was born Oct. 16, 1829, in Browns¬ 
ville, Pa. In 1853 he graduated from the 
Waynesburg college; and for forty years 
has been its president. 

MILLAR, ALEXANDER COPELAND, 
educator, clergyman, state legislator, was 
born May 17, 1861, in McKeesport, Pa. He 
has served as a member of the state legis¬ 
lature; and is now the president of Hen¬ 
dricks college of Conway, Ark. 

MILLARD, DAVID, clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Nov. 24, 1794, in 
Ballston, N. Y. He was a minister of the 
Christian denomination, professor at 
Meadville seminary, Pennsylvania, in 
1845-67; and the author of The True Mes¬ 
siah Exalted; and Journal of Travels in 
Egypt. He died Aug. 3, 1873, in Jackson, 
Mich. 

MILLARD, DAVID E., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 16, 1829, in West 
Bloomfield, N. Y. In 1852 he graduated 
from the Meadville Theological seminary 
of Pennsylvania. He has filled pastorates 
in his native city, in New Bedford, Mass., 
Jackson, Marshall, and Belding, Mich.; 
and has been president of the Michigan 
Christian conference. During the war Mr. 
Millard and his wife were united in the 
military agency under the appointment of 
the governor of Michigan, with headquar¬ 
ters at Washington, D. C., and did most 
efficient service. He is the author of nu¬ 
merous religious and secular articles, and 
a poet of rare ability. 

MILLARD, H. HIRST, clergyman, was 
born Jan. 20, 1857, in Areola, Va. He at¬ 
tended Mount Vernon college and the 
Drew Theological seminary, receiving the 
degree of A. M. He is one of the most 
eloquent and popular clergymen of the 

42 


north Nebraska conference; and is now 
pastor of the methodist episcopal church 
of Wayne, Neb. 

MILLARD, HARRISON, soldier, musi¬ 
cian, poet, was born Nov. 27, 1829, in 
Boston, Mass. His best-known songs are 
Waiting; When the Tide Comes In; Vi¬ 
va L’America; Under the Daisies; and 
Say not Farewell. 

MILLARD, STEPHEN C., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 14, 1841, in Stan¬ 
ford, Vt. He was elected to the forty- 
eighth congress from New York; and re¬ 
ceived the re-election to the forty-ninth 
congress. 

MILLEDGE, JOHN, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, United States senator, 
governor, was born in Savannah, Ga. He 
served in the Georgia legislature; in 1780 
was appointed attorney-general of the 
state, and governor in 1802. He was a 
representative in congress from 1792 to 
1802, excepting one term; and a senator 
of the United States from 1806 to 1809. 
He was the principal founder of the uni¬ 
versity of Georgia, and presented the land 
which forms its site. He died Feb. 9, 1818, 
in Sand Hills. 

MILLEDOLER, PHILIP, college presi¬ 
dent, was born Sept. 22, 1775, in Rhine- 
beck, N. Y. He was for several years pres¬ 
ident of Rutgers col¬ 
lege, New Jersey; 
and was one of the 
founders of the 
American Bible so¬ 
ciety. In 1800 he 
moved to Philadel¬ 
phia; was settled 
over the Third Pres¬ 
byterian church; and 
in 1804 became pas¬ 
tor of the Collegiate 
Presbyterian church¬ 
es in New York city, 
with special care - of the Rutgers Street 
church in 1805. His publications include 
many sermons and addresses. He died 
Sept. 23, 1852, on Staten Island, N. Y. 

MILLEN, JOHN, lawyer, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born in 1804, in 
Savannah, Ga. He served in the legisla¬ 
ture of Georgia. He was elected from 
Georgia to the national house of repre¬ 
sentatives in the twenty-eighth congress. 
He died Oct. 15, 1843, near Savannah, Ga. 

MILLEN, LORING R., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Oct. 9, 1857, in Savannah, 
Ga. Since 1888 he has been president of 
the Millen and Southern railway. 

MILLER, A. C., physician, lecturer, 
was born Sept. 7, 1832, in Salt Creek, 
Ohio. During the entire civil war he 
served as surgeon. In 1875 he settled in 
Cleveland, Ohio, and took a leading part 
in the reorganization of the faculty of the 
medical department of the Wooster uni¬ 
versity. He died June 21, 1886. 

MILLER, A. C., educator, college presi¬ 
dent. In 1887 he was called to the presi¬ 
dency of Hendrix college, which was then 
called the Central Collegiate institute, 
which office he still holds. 

MILLER, ADALINE DICKMAN, educa¬ 
tor, editor, was born July 26, 1859, in 
West Union, Iowa. She received the de¬ 
gree of B. S. from the Western college of 
Toledo, Iowa; and received the degree of 
M. S. from the same institution three 
years later. She has filled the chair of 
history and literature, and also ancient 
languages, in the Avalon college, Mo. She 
has also taught German in various insti¬ 
tutions. She has contributed extensively 
to current literature; and has been the 
editor of various publications. 


MILLER, ANDREW G., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was an 
early emigrant to Wisconsin; and was 
one of the earliest territorial judges. 
About the year 1849 he was appointed 
United States judge for the district of 
Wisconsin, residing at Milwaukee. 

MILLER, MRS. ANNIE [JENNESS], 
publisher, author, was born in 1859 in 
New Hampshire. She is a dress reformer 
of New York city, publisher of The Jen- 
ness Miller Magazine; and the author of 
Physical Beauty; Mother and Babe; and 
Barbara Thayer, a novel. 

MILLER, CHARLES HENRY, artist, 
author, was born March 20, 1842, in New 
York city. This well-known landscape 
painter was called by Bayard Taylor the 
artistic discoverer of the little continent 
of Long Island. He is president of the 
Art club of New York, and other societies. 
He is the author of The Philosophy of Art 
in America. 

MILLER, CHARLES RANSOM, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Jan. 17, 1849, in Hanover, 
N. H. In 1872 he graduated from Dart¬ 
mouth college; and for several years was 
associated with the Springfield Republic¬ 
an. Since 1879 he has been connected 
with the New York Times; after serving 
in various capacities he became editorial 
writer in 1881; and since 1883 has been 
editor-in-chief of that publication. 

MILLER, CINCINNATUS HINER— 
Joaquin Miller—author, poet, was born 
Nov. 10, 1841, in Wabash district, Ind. He 
is a poet and prose writer who, after a 
life of adventure in California, went to 
London in 1870, and speedily became fa¬ 
mous as the author of Songs of the Sier¬ 
ras. Since 1887 he has lived in Oakland, 
Cal. He is the author of Songs of the 
Sierras; The Ship of the Desert; Songs 
of the Sunland; in prose: The Danites 
in the Sierras; Shadows of Shasta; Me- 
morie and Rime; ’49, or the Gold Seek¬ 
ers of the Sierras; The One Fair Wo¬ 
man; The Destruction of Gotham; and 
The Building of the City Beautiful, a po¬ 
etic romance. 

MILLER, DANIEL F., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, poet, was born Oct. 4, 1814, near Frost- 
burgh, Md. For forty years Mr. Miller 
was a member of the Iowa territorial leg¬ 
islature, and during 1850-51 was a member 
of congress. Since 1835 he has followed 
the profession of law, and is now a resi¬ 
dent of Keokuk, Iowa. He is the author 
of a number of meritorious poems. 

MILLER, DANIEL H., congressman, 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1823 to 1831. He died about 1880. 

MILLER, EDMUND BOSTON, clergy¬ 
man, was born Feb. 2, 1853, in Greenville, 
S. C. He attended the Southwestern Bap¬ 
tist university of 
Jackson, Tenn., dur¬ 
ing 1876-80; and the 
Southern Baptist 
Theological semi¬ 
nary of Louisville, 
Ky., during 1880-83, 
and received the de¬ 
gree of D. D. During 
1883-93 he was pas¬ 
tor of the First Bap¬ 
tist church of Gre¬ 
nada, Miss.; and 
since 1893 has been 
pastor of the First Baptist church of 
Arkadelphia, Ark. In 1892-93 he was vice- 
president of the home mission board; in 
1895-97 was vice-president of the foreign 
mission board; and since 1893 he has been 
financial secretary of the board of min¬ 
isterial education, Ouachita college. 







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MILLER, EDWARD, physician, lectur¬ 
er, was born May 9, 1760, in Dover, Del. 
He became resident physician of New 
York city in 1803, professor of the prac¬ 
tice of medicine in the university of New 
York in 1807, and clinical lecturer in New 
York hospital in 1809. He died March 17, 
1812, in New York city. 

MILLER, ELEAZER HUTCHINSON, 
artist, was born Feb. 28, 1831, in Shep- 
herdstown, Va. He has attained a na¬ 
tional reputation as a successful artist. 
He took up that fascinating but difficult 
branch of the fine arts, and achieved a 
marked success. 


MILLER, ELIHU SPENCER, lawyer, 
educator, author, poet, was born Sept. 3, 
1817, in Princeton, N. J. He was a law¬ 
yer of Philadelphia; professor in the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania; and the author of 
Treatise on the Law of Partition by Writ 
in Pennsylvania; and Caprices, a volume 
of verse. He died March 6, 1878, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

MILLER, MRS. EMILY HUNTINGTON, 
educator, author, was born in 1833 in 
Connecticut. She is an educator of Evans¬ 
ton, Ill., president of the Woman’s col¬ 
lege of the Northwestern university, and 
a popular writer of semi-religious fiction 
for young people. She is the author of 
From Avalon, and Other Poems; The 
Royal Road to Fortune; The Kirkwood 
Series; Captain Fritz; and Little Neigh¬ 
bors. 

MILLER, EZRA, inventor, jurist, law¬ 
yer. state senator, was born May 12, 1812, 
in New Jersey. In 1842 he moved to Wis¬ 
consin and settled in Magnolia, where he 
was soon elected justice of the peace for 
two terms. In 1852 he was chosen a state 
senator and served one term, refusing a 
renomination. 



MILLER, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, 
naval officer, was horn June 12, 1842, in 
Elkton, Md. In 1861 he entered the navy 
as a volunteer offi¬ 
cer; served during 
the civil war; and 
three years after it 
was transferred to 
the regular service. 
In 1870 he was com¬ 
missioned a lieuten¬ 
ant; was promoted 
to lieutenant com¬ 
mander in 1882; and 
retired in 1885. In 
1877 he was connect¬ 
ed with the bureau of 
equipment; during 1877-79 was on the 
Portsmouth, engaged in special service; 
also on special service during 1879-81 on 
the Ticonderoga; and the Colorado in 
1881-83. 


MILLER, GEORGE F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 5, 1809, in Chil- 
lisquaquo, Pa. He was secretary of the 
Lewisburg university in Pennsylvania. In 
1864 he was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth congress; 
and re-elected to the fortieth congress. 


MILLER, GEORGE M., educator, poet, 
was born May 21, 1872, in Cleversburg, 
Pa. After receiving a liberal education 
he entered educational work. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively to the periodical 
press, and is the author of a number of 
meritorious poems. 


MILLER, MRS. HARRIET MANN, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1831 in New York. She 
is a writer of Brooklyn; and the author 
of a Bird-Lover in the West; Little 
Brothers of the Air; Bird-Ways; In Nest¬ 
ing Time; Four-Handed Folk; Little 
Folks in Feathers and Fur; Nimpo's Trou¬ 
bles; Queer Pets at Marcy’s; Our Home 
Pets; and Little People of Asia. 


MILLER, HENRY, physician, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 1, 1800, in Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky. He was professor of obstetrics 
and the diseases of women and children 
in Louisville university till 1869, when he 
became professor emeritus. He pub¬ 
lished A Treatise on Human Parturition. 
He died Feb. 9, 1874, in Louisville, Ky. 

MILLER, HENRY, educator, merchant, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 19, 1849, in 
Germany. In 1892 he was elected munici¬ 
pal judge of Marathon county, Wis.; and 
two years later became county judge. In 
1897 he was again elected to the latter of¬ 
fice for term ending in 1902. 

MILLER, HENRY C., pioneer, farmer, 
was born April 17, 1820, in Clermont coun¬ 
ty, Ohio. He moved to Decatur county, 
Ind., when it was an unbroken forest, 
abounding in deer, wolves and bears. He 
helped to build the first railroad in the 
state; has been a justice of the peace; 
has filled various positions of trust; and 
received the nomination for representa¬ 
tive in the Indiana state legislature. 

MILLER, HERBERT J„ journalist, 
state senator, was born July 13, 1855, in 
Deerfield, Wis. He is the editor and own¬ 
er of the Rock County Herald of Luverne, 
Minn. In 1894 he was elected to the Min¬ 
nesota state senate, receiving the re-elec¬ 
tion in 1898. 

MILLER. HOMER VIRGIL MILTON, 
United States senator, was born April 29, 
1814, in Pendleton district, S. C. In 186S 
he was elected a United States senator 
from Georgia; and in 1890 was appointed 
principal physician of the penitentiary of 
Georgia. 

MILLER. HUGH J., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Dec. 31, 1866, in Genoa, Minn. He 
received a liberal education in the pub'Jc 
school; was engaged 
in educational work 
for five years; and 
subsequently gradu¬ 
ated from the uni¬ 
versity of Michigan 
with the degree of 
LL. B. He has at¬ 
tained success as a 
lawyer ;n Living¬ 
ston, Mont; has been 
county attorney of 
Park county during 
1891-94; and has held 
various other public positions of trust. On 
April 19. 1897, Gov. Robert B. Smith ap¬ 
pointed him judge advocate of Montana, 
with the rank of major, on his official 
staff. 

MILLER, IRVIN, clergyman, legislator, 
was born Nov. 11, 1836, in Lebanon, Ky. 
In 1855 he moved to Mississippi; served in 
the confederate army in company K, sec¬ 
ond regiment Mississippi cavalry, Gen. 
Armstrong’s brigade. In 1865 he was li¬ 
censed to preach; was ordained deacon in 
1869; and elder in 1873; and has since 
attained prominence as a successful cler¬ 
gyman of the methodist episcopal church, 
south. In 1890 he represented Leake coun¬ 
ty in the Mississippi constitutional con¬ 
vention; and in 1896 served as a member 
of the Mississippi state senate. 

MILLER, IRVING J. A., journalist po¬ 
et, was born Oct. 14, 1866, in Worcester, 
Ohio. He is the author of a volume en¬ 
titled Fireside Poems. 

MILLER, J. ALLEN, clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, college president, was born Aug. 2, 
1866, in Rossville, Ind. He was a member 
of the parliament of religions during the 
Columbian exposition. This popular edu¬ 
cator is the president of the Ashland uni¬ 
versity, Ohio. 


MILLER, JACOB, soldier, musician, 
artist, was born July 24, 1833, in Ger¬ 
many. Early in life he took an active 
interest in revolu¬ 
tionary movements, 
and in 1853 emigrat¬ 
ed to the United 
States. During the 
civil war he served 
in the third regiment 
Wisconsin volunteer 
cavalry, and served 
on detail duty most 
of the time. Since 
1859 he has been 
prominently identi¬ 
fied with the busi¬ 
ness and public affairs of Menomonie, 
Wis.; has been treasurer for a number of 
years, and filled various other positions 
of trust. He is a musician of ability, and 
for many years taught music and drawing, 
and his paintings have received first prem¬ 
iums in numerous art exhibitions. 

MILLER, JACOB F., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, was born Nov. 25, 1837, in Claver- 
ack, N. Y. In 1861 he was admitted to 
the bar; and has practiced his profession 
in the city of New York since that time. 
He was a member of the New T York legis¬ 
lature in 1883. ’ 

MILLER. JACOB WELSH, lawyer. 
United States senator, w r as born in No¬ 
vember, 1800, in German Valley, N. J. He 
was a senator in congress from New Jer¬ 
sey from 1841 until 1853. He died Sept. 
30, 1862, in Morristown, N. J. 

MILLER, JAMES, soldier, governor, 
was born April 25, 1776, in Peterborough, 
N. H. He entered the army in 1808 as a 
major; in 1812 was brevetted a colonel 
for gallantry at Fort George; and was 
subsequently made a major-general and 
received a gold medal from congress. He 
was made governor of the territory of Ar¬ 
kansas, where he served until 1825; and 
from that year until 1849 was collector of 
customs at Salem, Mass. He died July 7, 
1851, in Temple, N. H. 

MILLER, JAMES FERGURSON, naval 
officer, was born April 29, 1805, in Peter¬ 
borough, N. H. He served through the 
Mexican war, but in consequence of Af¬ 
rican fever, from which he never fully re¬ 
covered, was placed in the reserved list 
in 1855. He became commander on the 
retired list in 1861, and commodore in 
1867. He died July 11, 1868, in Boston, 
Mass. 

MILLER, JAMES FRANCIS, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 1, 1832, in 
Tennessee. He never was a candidate 
for or held any public office until elected 
a representative from Texas to the forty- 
eighth congress; and was re-elected to the 
forty-ninth congress as a democrat. 

MILLER, JAMES RUSSELL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1840 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of Philadelphia; and the author of 
Week Day Religion; Home Making; In 
His Steps; Silent Time; Come Ye Apart; 
The Marriage Altar; Practical Religion; 
Bits of Pasture; Making the Most of Life; 
Mary of Bethany; The Dew of Thy Youth; 
and The Every Day of Life. 

MILLER, JESSE, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania from 1836 to 
1837. He was appointed first auditor of 
the treasury, and held the position until 
1841. He was canal commissioner of 
Pennsylvania in 1845 and 1846; and was 
secretary of state from 1846 to 1848, serv¬ 
ing for a short time as acting governor of 
the state. He died Aug. 20, 1850, in Har¬ 
risburg. 






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MILLER, JOHN, jurist, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1774, in 
Amenia, N. Y. From 1812 to 182l’ he 
was a justice of the peace in New York. 
He was a member of the state legislature 
in 1817, 1820 and 1845; and was a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the nine¬ 
teenth congress. He died in March, 1862. 

MILLER, JOHN, soldier, journalist, 
congressman, governor, was born in 1780 
in Steubenville, Ohio. He was appointed 
register of the land office in Missouri. He 
was subsequently elected governor of the 
state, serving from 1826 to 1832. He was 
a representative in congress from Mis¬ 
souri from 1837 to 1843. He died March 
18, 1846, near Florrissant, Mo. 

MILLER, JOHN, soldier, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 6, 1819, in Princeton, 
N. J. He was a presbyterian clergyman 
who was a colonel in the confederate 
army during the civil war, and who lived 
in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1871. He 
was tried for heresy, but allowed to with¬ 
draw from the presbytery, and subse¬ 
quently established several independent 
churches in the vicinity of Princeton. He 
was the author of Design of the Church; 
Commentary on the Proverbs; Fetich in 
Theology: Metaphysics; Are Souls Im¬ 
mortal?; Was Christ in Adam?; Is God a 
Creed?; Theology; and Commentary on 
Romans. He died in 1895. 

MILLER. JOHN A., scientist, inventor, 
was born June 17, 1840, in Germany. In 
1853 he emigrated with his parents to the 
United States and settled in St. Louis, 
Mo. By trade he is a practical watch¬ 
maker, and has attained prominence as a 
scientist and inventor, and is one of the 
leading promoters of distributing weather 
signals. He lives in Cairo, Ill., and in 
1894-95 was grand chancellor of the 
Knights of Pythias. 

MILLER. JOHN F., merchant, banker, 
was born April 9, 1836, in Germany. He 
emigrated to America in 1857, and worked 
on the railroads in 
Minnesota, and in 
the brickyards of 
that state. Since 1880 
he has been engaged 
principally in the 
lumber business, and 
is vice-president of 
the Beaver Dam 
Lumber company of 
Cumberland, Wis. In 
1883 he established 
the bank of Cumber¬ 
land; is now its pres¬ 
ident. He has taken an active part in the 
public affairs of his town, and laid out, 
platted and owns the best part of same. 

MILLER, JOHN FRANKLIN, soldier. 
United States senator, was born Nov. 21, 
1831, in South Bend, Ind. He served 
throughout the war, rising to the rank of 
brigadier-general and brevet major-gen¬ 
eral. He was elected a senator of the 
United States from California for the term 
of six years from 1S81. He died March 8, 
1886, in Washington. 

MILLER, JOHN G„ state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1812 in Ken¬ 
tucky. In 1835 he moved to Missouri; 
and in 1840 was elected to the state legis¬ 
lature. From 1853 to the time of his 
death he was a representative in congress 
from Missouri. He died May 11, 1856, in 
Saline county. Mo. 

MILLER. JOHN K., congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1847 to 
1851. 

MILLER, JONATHAN P., reformer, 
was born in 1797 in Randolph, Vt. He in¬ 



troduced anti-slavery resolutions into the 
Vermont legislature in 1833. He was a 
delegate from his state to the world’s an¬ 
ti-slavery convention in London in 1840. 
He died in 1847 in Montpelier. 

MILLER, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was horn in Ohio. He was 
elected a representative from that state to 
the thirty-fifth congress. He was subse¬ 
quently appointed United States judge for 
the territory of Nebraska. 

MILLER, JOSEPH NELSON, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Nov. 22, 1836, in Ohio. He 
entered the navy in 1851, became past 
midshipman in 1856, master in 1858, lieu¬ 
tenant in 1860, and lieutenant-commander 
in 1872. 


MILLER, KILLIAN, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born July 30, 
1785, in Claverack, N. Y. In 1824 and 
1827 he was a member of the New York 
general assembly; in 1837 was elected 
county clerk, which office he held for three 
years; and in 1854 was chosen a represen¬ 
tative in the thirty-fourth congress. 


MILLER, LEWIS, manufacturer, in¬ 
ventor, was born Aug. 24, 1829. In 1851 
he went to Greentown to enter the 
factory of Ball, Ault- 
man and Company, 
manufacturers 
of plows and mow¬ 
ing and threshing 
machines. In the fall 
of the same year, the 
works were moved to 
Canton, O. He soon 
became superinten¬ 
dent, and in 1855 he 
invented the Buck¬ 
eye mower and reap¬ 
er. Since then he has 
hundred inventions, 
in his early experi¬ 
ments by his brother. In 1863 a new 
farm implements firm was organized un¬ 
der the name of Aultman, Miller and Com¬ 
pany, which established factories in Akron 
and Canton, Ohio, and in 1864 Mr. Miller 
moved to Akron. 



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having been aided 


MILLER, LUCAS M., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born in 
1824 in Greece. He moved to the territory 
of Wisconsin and settled in Oshkosh in 
1846. In 1853 he was a member of the 
Wisconsin legislature. He was one of the 
commissioners of the state board of public 
works; and for the last ten years has been 
chairman of the county board of super¬ 
visors of Winnebago county. He was 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat. 


MILLER, MADISON, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, was born Feb. 6,1811, 
in Mercer, Pa. In 1865 he received the 
brevet of brigadier-general for meritorious 
service at Wilson’s Creek and Shiloh. He 
was in the Missouri senate in 1865, and 
since 1867 has been fund commissioner 
of the Missouri railroad. 


MILLER, MRS. MINNIE [WILLIS] 
[BAINES], author, was born in 1845 in 
New Hampshire. She is a religious 
writer of Springfield, Ohio; and the au¬ 
thor of The Silent Land; His Cousin, the 
Doctor; and The Pilgrim Vision. 

MILLER. MORRIS SMITH, soldier, 
was born April 2, 1814, in Utica, N. Y. He 
served during the Canada border disturb¬ 
ances, was in the Florida and Mexican 
wars, and in 1861, as quartermaster at 
Washington, D. C., was responsible for 
all the arrangements for the arrival of 
troops to defend the capital. He died 
March 11, 1870, in New Orleans, La. 


MILLER, MORRIS S., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1769. He was a 
representative in congress from New 
York from 1813 to 1815. In 1819 he was 
appointed a commissioner to superintend 
a treaty with the Seneca Indians; and 
was also judge of a county court. He 
died Nov. 15, 1824, in Utica, N. Y. 

MILLER, NATHAN, congressman, was 
born about 1750 in Rhode Island. He was 
a delegate to the continental congress 
from Rhode Island in 1785 and 1786. He 
died in 1787 in Rhode Island. 

MILLER, ORRIN L., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1856, in 
Newburg, Maine. In 1887 he was ap¬ 
pointed district judge for the twenty-ninth 
judicial district of Kansas; and in No¬ 
vember of the same year was elected to 
that office for four years. He was elected 
to the fifty-fourth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

MILLER, PLEASANT M., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1809 to 1811. 

MILLER, RICHARD THOMPSON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Dec. 16, 1845, in 
Cape May City, N. J. He received his 
education at Potts- 
town. Pa., and at 
Easton, Conn.; and 
subsequently re¬ 
ceived instruction at 
the West Jersey acad¬ 
emy of Bridgeton, N. 
J., and from private 
tutors. He soon ac¬ 
quired prominence as 
an able lawyer; was 
elected city solicitor 
of Cape May City, and 
prosecutor of pleas - 
for Cape May county. He has served with 
distinction as district judge of Camden 
City; law judge of Camden county; and 
is now circuit court judge of New Jer¬ 
sey. He is prominent in the public af¬ 
fairs of his state: and ranks high in sev¬ 
eral fraternal orders. 

MILLER, ROSWELL, railroad presi¬ 
dent. Since 1890 he has been president 
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 
railroad. 

MILLER, RUFUS W., clergyman, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born May 12, 1862, in 
Easton. Pa. He was the founder of the 
Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip; is the 
editor of The Brotherhood Star, in Read¬ 
ing, Pa.; and the author of What a Young 
Boy Ought to Know. 

MILLER, RUTGER B., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative from that state to the twenty- 
fourth congress to fill a vacancy. 

MILLER. SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Oct. 31, 1769, in Dover, Del. He 
was a presbyterian clergyman, pastor of 
the Brick church, New York city, in 1793- 
1813, and professor of ecclesiastical his¬ 
tory at Princeton Theological seminary 
for the remainder of his life. He was the 
author of Presbyterianism the Truly 
Primitive and Apostolic Constitution of 
the Church of Christ; Letters on Clerical 
Habits and Manners; Letters on Unitar¬ 
ians; Life of Jonathan Edwards; Letters 
on the Christian Ministry; and Letters on 
Church Government. He died Jan. 7, 1850, 
in Princeton, N. J. 

MILLER. SAMUEL, lawyer, clergyman, 
author, was born Jan. 23, 1816, in Prince¬ 
ton, N. J. He was principal of the West 
Jersey collegiate institute in 1845-57, and 
from 1857 till 1873 was in charge of the 
church in Oceanic, N. J. He published 
Report of the Presbyterian Church Case. 
He died Oct. 12, 1883, in Mount Holly. 
N. J. 






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MILLER, SAMUEL F„ state legislator, 
congressman, was born May 27, 1827, in 
Franklin, N. Y. In 1854 he was elected to 
the New York legislature; and in 1850 and 
1857 was supervisor of Franklin. He was 
for fifteen years identified as colonel with 
the state militia. In 1862 he was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
thirty-eighth congress. He was elected 
to the forty-fourth congress. 

MILLER, SAMUEL FREEMAN, physi¬ 
cian, lawyer, jurist, author, was born 
April 5, 1816, in Richmond, Ky. He set¬ 
tled in Iowa and became one of the lead¬ 
ers of the republican party in that state. 
In 1862 he was appointed a justice of the 
supreme court of the United States. He 
was the author of The Supreme Court of 
the United States, a series of biographies; 
and Reports of Supreme Court Decisions. 
He died Oct. 12, 1890, in Washington, D. C. 

MILLER, SAMUEL H., lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born April 19, 1840, 
in Mercer county, Pa. He was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses 
as a republican. 

MILLER, SMITH, agriculturist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 
North Carolina. He was a member of both 
branches of the legislature of Indiana; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1853 to 1855. 

MILLER, SOLOMON, journalist, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Jan. 22, 1831, near Lafayette, 
Ind. He commenced life as a printer, and 
became founder of the Troy (Kas.) Chief 
in 1857. He was a member of the Kansas 
legislature in 1862, and state senator for 
four terms. This veteran editor still con¬ 
tinues his editorial work. 

MILLER, STEPHEN, governor, was 
born Jan. 7, 1816, in Perry county, Pa. 
He was governor of Minnesota from 1863 
to 1866. He died Aug. 18, 1881, in Worth¬ 
ington, Minn. 

MILLER, STEPHEN DECATUR, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, governor, was 
born in May, 1787. in Waxsaw settlement, 
S. C. He served in the South Carolina 
senate in 1822; represented his native 
state in the lower house of congress from 
1814 to 1819; and was governor of South 
Carolina from 1828 to 1830. He was elect¬ 
ed a senator in congress for the term 
from 1831 to 1837, but resigned on account 
of his health at the end of two years. He 
died March 8, 1838, in Raymond, Miss. 

MILLER, STEPHEN FRANKS, lawyer, 
author, was born about 1810 in North 
Carolina. He was a once noted Georgia 
lawyer; and the author of Bench and Bar 
of Georgia; Wilkins Wylder, or the Suc¬ 
cessful Man; and Memoir of General 
Blackshear and the War in Georgia. He 
died in 1867 in Oglethorpe, Ga. 

MILLER, STERLING JACKSON, edu¬ 
cator, public official, clergyman, was born 
June 1, 1868, near Spencer, W. Va. He at¬ 
tended the West Virginia Conference 
seminary; Marshall college; the West 
Virginia university; and the Franklin col¬ 
lege of Ohio, from which latter institu¬ 
tion he received the degree of Ph. B. He 
taught school for several years; then en¬ 
tered mercantile business; and has filled 
various public positions of trust. He is a 
member of the West Virginia conference 
of the methodist episcopal church; has 
filled several pastorates; and is now filling 
a pastorate in Morgantown, W. Va. 

MILLER, THEODORE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in May, 1816, in Hudson, N. Y. 
He was made associate justice of the court 
of appeals of New York in 1874 and held 
office till 1886, when he was retired on 
account of age. 


MILLER, THOMAS E„ lawyer, state 
legislator, state senator, congressman, was 
born June 17, 1849, in Ferrybeeville, S. C. 
He was elected to the lower house of the 
South Carolina legislature in 1874, 1876 and 
1878, and to the state senate in 1880. He was 
returned to the lower house in 1886; and 
in 1878 he was nominated by his party for 
lieutenant-governor of South Carolina. He 
was nominated by the republicans in 1888 
and elected to the fifty-first congress, but 
was counted out by the democratic return¬ 
ing boards. 

MILLER, THOMAS J., manufacturer, 
state senator, was born Oct. 30, 1857, in 
North Annville, Pa. For many years he 
has been a successful manufacturer of 
cigars in Olympia, Wash., where he also 
owns an extensive prune orchard. In 
1896 he was elected a member of the 
Washington state senate. 

MILLER, WARNER, soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, state legislator, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Aug. 12,1838, in Os¬ 
wego county, N. Y. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in the New York state legis¬ 
lature in 1874 and 1875. He was elected a 
representative from New York to the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses; 
and elected a senator of the United States 
from New York to fill a vacancy in 1881. 

MILLER, WARREN, jurist, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born April 2, 1847, 
in Meigs county, Ohio. He served as as¬ 
sistant prosecuting attorney for Jackson 
county, W. Va., one term and as prose¬ 
cuting attorney eight years from 1881. He 
was a member of the West Virginia legis¬ 
lature in 1890-91. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 

MILLER, WILLIAM, state legislator, 
governor, was born in Warren county, N. 
C. From 1810 to 1814 he served in the 
North Carolina legislature and was gov¬ 
ernor of the state from 1814 to 1817. 

MILLER, WILLIAM, founder of the 
sect of Millerites, was born April 24, 1781, 
in Pittsfield, Mass. In 1833 he began to 
predict that the end of the world would 
come in 1843, when the faithful would be 
translated. His followers, who are said 
to have numbered nearly fifty thousand, 
greatly decreased after his death. He died 
Dec. 20, 1849, in Low Hampton, N. Y. 

MILLER, WILLIAM H., congressman, 
was born Jan. 29, 1828, in Perry county. 
Pa. He was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the thirty-eighth con¬ 
gress. 

MILLER, WILLIAM HENRY HARRI¬ 
SON, soldier, lawyer, was born Sept. 6, 
1840, in Augusta, N. Y. He is one of the 
foremost lawyers of Indiana at Indian¬ 
apolis; and has been attorney-general of 
the United States. 

MILLER, WILLIAM R., lawyer, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Nov. 27, 1823, near Bates- 
ville, Ark. In 1857 he removed to Little 
Rock, Ark.; and served as auditor, by re- 
elections, until 1865. In 1866 he was again 
elected auditor. He returned to Bates- 
ville and resumed the practice of his pro¬ 
fession; and in 1874 was again elected 
auditor of the state, serving until 1877. 
In 1876 he was elected governor of Arkan¬ 
sas; and was re-elected in 1878, serving 
until 1881. In 1874 he again took up his 
residence in Little Rock; was deputy state 
treasurer in 1881 and 1882; and in 1886 
was again elected state auditor. 

MILLER, WILLIAM S., congressman. 
He was a representative from congress 
from New York from 1845 to 1847. He died 
Nov. 9, 1854, in New York city. 

MILLET, FRANCIS DAVIS, artist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 3, 1846, in Mattapois- 


ett, Mass. He is an artist and author of 
New York city. He is the author of A 
Capillary Crime, and Other Stories; and 
The Danube from the Black Forest to the 
Black Sea. 

MILLHOLLAND, JAMES A., railroad 
president, was born Dec. 8, 1842, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. Since 1893 he has been pres¬ 
ident of the George’s Creek and Cumber¬ 
land railroad at Cumberland, Md. 

MILLIGAN, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 10, 1795, in Cecil 
county, Md. In 1830 he was elected a 
member of the house of representatives in 
congress from Delaware, and served from 
1831 to 1839. In 1839 he was appointed 
judge of the superior court of the state of 
Delaware. 

MILLIGAN, ROBERT, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was born 
July 25, 1814, in Ireland. He was a Camp- 
bellite clergyman and educator; and pres¬ 
ident of Kentucky university in 1859-66. 
He was the author of Brief Treatise on 
Prayer; Reason and Revelation; Scheme 
of Redemption; The Great Commission; 
and Analysis of the New Testament Com¬ 
mentary on Hebrews. He died March 20, 
1875, in Lexington, Ky. 

MILLIGAN, -SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist. 
He was a citizen of Tennessee, from which 
state he was appointed an associate justice 
of the United States court for the territory 
of Nebraska, residing at Dakota City. 

MILLIGAN, WILLIAM McKINDREE, 
lawyer, legislator, was born March 13, 
1851, in Bedford, Ind. He attended the 
DePauw university of Indiana, then 
known as the Asbury university. He 
served with distinction as a member of 
the Kansas state legislature; has been 
county attorney; and is one of the leading 
lawyers of Kansas, at Pittsburg. 

MILLIKEN, SETH L., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 12, 1831, in Montville, 
Maine. In 1856 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the Maine legislature, and 
was re-elected the following year. He 
engaged in the practice of law at Belfast, 
Maine; and was elected a representative 
from Maine to the forty-eighth, forty- 
ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty- 
third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

MILLIKIN, CHARLES W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 15, 1827, in 
Graves county, Ky. He was attorney of 
Simpson county, Ky., five years; was ap¬ 
pointed in 1867 attorney for the fourth 
judicial district of Kentucky to fill a va¬ 
cancy; and elected the following August 
to serve out the unexpired term, and re¬ 
elected in 1868 for a full term of six years. 
He was elected to the forty-third and 
forty-fourth congresses as a democrat. 

MILLS, ABRAHAM, educator, author, 
was born in 1769 in Dutchess county, N. Y. 
He was a popular educator of New York 
city who, besides editing a number of 
text-books, was author of Literature and 
Literary Men of Great Britain and Ire¬ 
land; Outlines of Rhetoric; Poets and Po¬ 
etry of the Ancient Greeks; and Com¬ 
pendium of the History of the Ancient He¬ 
brews. He died July 8, 1867, in New York. 

MILLS, CALEB, educator, was born 
July 29, 1806, in Dunbarton, N. H. He was 
the second state superintendent of In¬ 
diana, and father of the free schools of 
Indiana. He was noted throughout the 
state as a lecturer. One of his most pop¬ 
ular lectures was entitled Suggestions to 
Youth on the Right Formation of Char¬ 
acter. On retiring from the state super¬ 
intendency he resumed the chair of 
Greek in the Wabash college, and contin¬ 
ued until his death, which occurred Oct. 
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MILLS, CHARLES A., educator, author. 
After receiving his education he began 
educational work. He is also a constant 
contributor to current literature. 

MILLS, CHARLES K., physician, spe¬ 
cialist, was born Dec. 4, 1845, near Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He graduated in medicine 
from the medical department of the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania; and was profes¬ 
sor of mental diseases and of medical jur¬ 
isprudence in that institution. He has 
been professor of diseases of the nervous 
system in the Philadelphia Polytechnic 
and the Woman’s Medical college of 
Pennsylvania. He has been president of 
the American Neurological association, 
and is a prominent member of various 
medical societies. 

MILLS, CLARK, sculptor, was born 
Dec. 1, 1815, in Onondaga county, N. Y. 
He was the designer of the equestrian 
statue of Gen. Jackson in Lafayette 
square, Washington, D. C. The equestrian 
statue of Washington in Washington 
circle of the same city is also his work. 
The colossal statue of Freedom, eighteen 
feet high and weighing fifteen tons, 
crowning the dome of the national capitol, 
though designed by Crawford, was cast in 
bronze by Mr. Mills, at Bladensburg. He 
died Jan. 12, 1883, in Washington, D. C. 

MILLS, DANIEL W., soldier, merchant, 
congressman, was born Feb. 25, 1838, near 
Waynesville, Ohio. From 1877 to 1881 
he served as warden of the Cook County 
hospital, Chicago, Ill.; and was twice 
elected alderman of his ward. He was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

MILLS, ELIJAH HUNT, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was 
born Dec. 1, 1776, in Chesterfield, Mass. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1815 to 1819; and a 
senator in congress from 1820 to 1827. He 
died May 5, 1829, in Northampton. 

MILLS, FREDERICK JOHN, civil en¬ 
gineer, legislator, lieutenant-governor, 
was born in 1865 in Vermont. Since 1895 
he has been state engineer of Idaho. In 
1893 he was elected a member of the Idaho 
legislature; and in 1896 was elected lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of Idaho. 

MILLS, HENRY EDMUND, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born June 24, 1850, in Mont¬ 
rose, Pa. He has attained prominence as 
a successful lawyer in St. Louis, Mo. He 
is the author of a work entitled Laws of 
Eminent Domain. 

MILLS, J. WARNER, lawyer, legal au¬ 
thor, was born July 6, 1852, in Lancaster, 
Wis. In 1875 he graduated from the uni¬ 
versity of Wisconsin. He is one of the 
leading lawyers of Denver, Colo., where he 
is president of the state board of chari¬ 
ties and corrections. He is the founder 
of the jury system of Colorado; and drew 
the bill giving to women the right of 
equal suffrage with men in the state of 
Colorado, and canvassed the state for its 
approval. He is profoundly interested in 
social and labor questions, and lectures 
extensively on those subjects, and gives 
freely his time to promote equity and 
justice. He is the editor and part owner 
of The Legal Adviser of Denver, Colo. 

MILLS, JOB S., educator, clergyman, 
bishop, sociologist, was born Feb. 28, 1848, 
in Bartlett, Ohio. He was educated at the 
Bartlett academy, and the Illinois Wesleyan 
university, from the latter institution re¬ 
ceiving in course the degrees of B. Ph., 
M. A. and Ph. D.; and also the degree of 
M. A. from Otterbein university. In 1871 
he was ordained a clergyman of the 
United Brethren church. In 1887 he be¬ 
came professor of English literature and 


rhetoric in the Western college, Iowa; 
and in 1889 was elected president of that 
institution, serving also in the chair of 
mental and moral philosophy. In 1893 Dr. 
Mills was elected bishop, which position 
he has filled with distinguished ability. 
He has delivered several courses of lec¬ 
tures on sociology and kindred topics. 

MILLS, ROBERT, architect, author, 
was born Aug. 12, 1781, in Charleston, S. 
C. He was an architect of Washington, 
and the original designer of the Washing¬ 
ton monument. He was the author of 
Statistics of South Carolina; American 
Pharos, or Lighthouse Guide; and Guide 
to the National Executive Offices. He died 
March 3, 1855, in Washington, D. C. 

MILLS, ROGER Q., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman. United States senator, was 
born March 30, 1832, in Todd county, Ky. 
He moved to Texas in 1849; was a mem¬ 
ber of the Texas legislature in 1859 and 
I860; and was colonel of the Tenth Texas 
regiment. He was elected to congress as 
a democrat in 1873 and served continu¬ 
ously until he resigned to accept the po¬ 
sition of United States senator, to which 
he was elected in 1892. He was re-elected 
in 1893. 

MILLS, SAMUEL J., clergyman, was 
born April 21, 1783, in Torringford, Conn. 
As the father of foreign missions he or¬ 
ganized the first society in America to 
contemplate foreign missions in 1808; and 
in 1817 visited Africa in company with 
the Rev. E. Burgess, to select a site for a 
colony, and died on his way home, June 
16, 1818. 

MILLS, SAMUEL JOHN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was horn May 16, 1743, in Kent, 
Conn. For many years he edited the Con¬ 
necticut Evangelical Magazine, and, in ad¬ 
dition to various sermons that he preached 
on special occasions, he published a vol¬ 
ume of Sermons Collected. He died May 
11, 1833, in Torringford, Conn. 

MILLS, MRS. SARAH M„ reformer, au¬ 
thor, was born May 14, 1820, in Danbury, 
Conn. She has been a lecturer and volum¬ 
inous writer on finance, industrial and 
tariff reforms. She was the vice-president 
and one of the organizers of the Chicago 
Philosophical society. She is the author 
of two philosophical novels, Four Girl 
Farmers; and Eve and Mary, besides other 
minor works of fiction and philosophy. 

MILLS, SEBASTIAN BACH, pianist, 
composer, was born March 13, 1839, in 
England. He has appeared in concerts in 
the United States and in Europe, and is 
one of the best known of American pia¬ 
nists. Among his numerous compositions 
are three Tarantelles; Murmuring Foun¬ 
tain; Polonaise; Fairy Fingers; and Rec¬ 
ollections of Home; Saltarello; and two 
Etudes de Concert. 

MILLS, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 24, 1801, in New 
York city. In 1857 he was presiding jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of New York. 
He published an edition of Blackstone’s 
Commentaries, with reference to Ameri¬ 
can cases. He died Oct. 6, 1886, in Mor¬ 
ristown, N. J. 

MILLSON, JOHN S., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 1, 1808, in Norfolk, 
Va. He was elected a representative from 
Virginia in the thirty-first congress, 
which position he filled by re-elections 
until 1860. In 1844 and 1848 he was presi¬ 
dential elector. He died Feb. 26, 1874, in 
Norfolk, Va. 

MILLSPAUGH, FRANK ROSEBROOK, 
bishop of Kansas, was born April 12, 1848, 
in Nicholas, N. Y. He is the author of 
numerous sermons and addresses. 


MILLWARD, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a 
representative from that state to the 
thirty-sixth congress. 

MILLWARD, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1855 to 1857. 

MILMORE, MARTIN, sculptor, was 
born Sept. 14, 1844, in Ireland. His prin¬ 
cipal works are busts of Longfellow, 
Sumner, and Gen. Thayer. His statues of 
Ceres, Flora and Pomona are in the Hor¬ 
ticultural hall of Boston, Mass. 

MILNE, WILLIAM JAMES, educator, 
author, was born May 26, 1843, in Scot¬ 
land. He organized the State Normal and 
Training school of Geneseo, N. Y., with 
which institution he was connected for 
eighteen years. In 1889 he became presi¬ 
dent of the State Normal college of Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. He is the author of a series 
of mathematical text books for schools en¬ 
titled the Inductive Series. 

MILNES, ALFRED, soldier, merchant, 
state senator, congressman, was born May 
28, 1844, in England. He has served the 
city of Coldwater, Mich., as alderman for 
one term and as mayor for two terms. He 
was elected to the state senate in 1888 and 
re-elected in 1890. He was elected lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of Michigan in 1894; and 
was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as 
a republican to fill a vacancy. 

MILNES, WILLIAM, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1827, in 
England. In 1865 he moved to Virginia 
and purchased the extensive property lo¬ 
cated in Page and Rockingham counties 
known as the Shenandoah Iron works. He 
was elected to the forty-first congress as 
a representative from Virginia. 

MILNOR, JAMES, lawyer, clergyman, 
congressman, was born June 20, 1773, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. From 1811 to 1813 he 
was a representative from Pennsylvania in 
congress. In 1814 he was ordained a cler¬ 
gyman, and in 1816 was called to the 
rectorship of St. George’s church of New 
York city. He was one of the founders 
of the New York Deaf and Dumb insti¬ 
tution. He died April 8, 1844, in New York 
city. 

MILNOR, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in Philadelphia. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1807 to 1811, from 1815 to 1817, and again 
from 1821 to 1822. 

MILROY, ROBERT HUSTON, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born June 11, 1816, in 
Washington county, Ind. In the war with 
Mexico he served as 
captain in the first 
Indiana volunteers. 
He was a member of 
the constitutional 
convention of Indi¬ 
ana in 1849-50, and in 
1851 was appointed 
judge of the eighth 
judicial circuit court 
of Indiana. At the 
beginning of the civ¬ 
il war he issued a 
call for volunteers 
and was made a captain, becoming colonel 
of the ninth Indiana volunteers in 1861. 
He died in April, 1890, in Olympia, Wash. 

MILTENBERGER, GEORGE WAR¬ 
NER, physician, educator, was born March 
17, 1819, in Baltimore, Md. He was elect¬ 
ed demonstrator of anatomy by the fac¬ 
ulty of the university of Maryland, which 
place he continued to fill until 1852. In 
1852 he succeeded to the chair of materia 
medica, therapeutics, and pathology, and 
in 1855 he was chosen dean of the faculty. 



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MILTON, JOHN, governor. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Florida from 1861 to 1864. 

MINARD, ABEL, philanthropist, was 
born Sept. 25, 1814, in Massachusetts. Be¬ 
sides giving to various charitable objects, 
he founded the Minard home in Morris¬ 
town, N. J., at an expense of $50,000, for 
the education of female orphans of meth- 
odist clergymen. He died Jan. 31, 1871, 
in Morristown, N. J. 

MINER, AHIMAN L„ lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
Vermont. He was a state representative 
in the legislature in 1838, 1839 and 1845; a 
state senator in 1840; and county attorney 
for two years. He was register of pro¬ 
bate for seven years; judge of probate 
from 1846 to 1849; and a representative in 
congress from Vermont from 1851 to 1853. 
He died July 20, 1886. 

MINER, ALONZO AMES, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. ±1, 1814, in Lemp- 
ster, N. H. He was a prominent univer- 
salist clergyman of Boston; and the au¬ 
thor of Bible Exercises; Right and Duty 
of Prohibition; and Old Forts Taken. He 
died in 1896. 

MINER, CHARLES, journalist, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Feb. 1, 1780, 
in Norwich, Conn. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1825 to 1828. He was the author of an 
interesting work entitled History of Wyo¬ 
ming, and was one of the first men in this 
country to introduce and write upon the 
silk-growing business. He also wrote Es 
says from the Desk of Poor Robert. He 
died Oct. 26, 1865, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. 

MINER, HENRY CLAY, business man, 
congressman, was born March 23, 1842, 
in New York city. He was educated at the 
NewYork city gram¬ 
mar schools and at 
the American Insti¬ 
tute school; studied 
the drug business 
and has been more 
or less engaged in 
that business. In 
1864 he went out in 
advance of Signor 
Blitz, the magician 
and bird trainer; his 
next engagement was 
with Thayer and 
Noyes’s circus, and eventually he be¬ 
came the head of a metropolitan theater, 
and then rose to the proprietorship of 
five popular Thespian resorts—the Fifth 
Avenue, the People’s, Miner’s Bowery, 
Eighth Avenue, and Miner’s Newark the¬ 
aters. He is president of the Miner Lith¬ 
ographing company, owns extensive phos¬ 
phate interests in the south, holds large 
blocks of railway and mining stock in 
western corporations, directs a New York 
newspaper syndicate, and is the owner 
of a large drug store and photographic 
material house in New York city. He 
was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as 
a democrat. 

MINER, PHINEAS, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1779. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Connecticut 
during the years 1834 and 1835 to fill a 
vacancy. He died Sept. 16, 1839, in Litch¬ 
field, Conn. 

MINER, MRS. S. ISADORE, poet, was 
born Sept. 25, 1863, in Battle Creek, Mich. 
She is the editor of the Battle Creek Re¬ 
view; and is connected with the Good 
Health Publishing company of that city. 

MINER, THOMAS, physician, author, 
was born Oct. 15, 1777, in Middletown, 
Conn. He contributed to periodicals bio¬ 
graphical sketches of Connecticut physi¬ 


cians, medical essays, and translations 
from French medical works. With Dr. 
William Tully he published Essays upon 
Fevers and Other Medical Subjects; and 
Account of Typhus Syncopalis. He died 
April 23, 1841, in Worcester, Mass. 

MINES, JOHN FLAVEL, journalist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Jan. 27, 1835, in 

France. He was a journalist of New York 
city; and the author of Heroes of the Last 
Lustre, a poem; and A Tour Around New 
York by Mr. Felix Oldboy. He died in 1891. 

MINICK, JOHN B., journalist, was 
born in 1836 in Lancaster county, Pa. In 
1866 he moved to Michigan, engaged in 
railroading, and became one of the pro¬ 
prietors of the Marquette Mining Journal. 
In 1872 he moved to Washington, D. C.; 
was private secretary to the postmaster- 
general during 1880-88; and was engaged 
meanwhile in the publishing and printing 
business. He established and published 
The National Weekly, The People’s Jour¬ 
nal, and other periodicals. Since 1893 he 
has been identified with some of the larg¬ 
est commercial enterprises of Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., which city is now his home. 

MINICK, JOHN D., educator, college 
president, was born Aug. 18, 1859, in Shade 
Gap, Pa. He has taught in the high 
schools of Pennsylvania and Maryland; 
and is now the president of the Davenport 
college of Lenoir, N. C. ' 

MINIFIE, WILLIAM, architect, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Aug. 14, 1805, in 
England. He was an architect and edu¬ 
cator of Baltimore; and the author of 
Text-Book of Mechanical Drawing; Text- 
Book of Geometrical Drawing; Theory 
and Application of Color; and Popular 
Lectures on Drawing and Design. He died 
Oct. 24, 1880, in Baltimore, Md. 

MINOR, EDWARD S„ soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in 1840 in 
Jefferson county, N. Y. He was elected 
to the Wisconsin assembly in 1877 and re¬ 
elected in 1880 and 1881. He was elected 
to the state senate and served in that body 
in 1883 and 1885. He has been mayor of 
the city of Sturgeon Bay; and was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fourth congress and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

MINOR, JOHN BARBEE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born June 2, 1813, in Louisa 
county, Va. He was a professor of law 
in the University of Virginia; and the 
author of Virginia Report of 1799-1800; Sy¬ 
nopsis of the Law of Crimes and Punish¬ 
ments; and Institutes of Common and 
Statute Law. He died in 1895. 

MINOR, LUCIAN, lawyer, author, was 
born in 1802 in Louisa county, Va. He 
was a lawyer of Williamsburg, Va.; and 
the author of Reasons for Abolishing the 
Liquor Traffic; and Travels in New Eng¬ 
land. He died in 1858 in Williamsburg, 
Va. 

MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL, artist, 
was born April 30, 1840, in New York 
city. His works include Evening; Dawn; 
Studio of Corot; and Under the Oaks. 
Among those of his later paintings that 
he has shown at the National academy are 
The Wold of Kent, England; The Cradle 
of the Hudson; The Close of Day; and A 
Mountain Path. 

MINOR, VIRGINIA LOUISA, reformer, 
was born March 27, 1824, in Goochland 
county, Va. She was the first woman in 
the United States to claim suffrage as a 
right, and not as a favor. With this end 
in view, in 1872 she brought the matter 
before the courts, taking it finally to 
the United States supreme court. 


MINOT, CHARLES SEDGWICK, bi¬ 
ologist, author, was born Dec. 23, 
1852, in West Roxbury, Mass. In 1880 
he became lecturer on embryology in Har¬ 
vard Medical school and instructor in 
oral pathology and surgery. These ap¬ 
pointments he held until 1883, when he 
became assistant professor of histology 
and embryology at that institution. 

MINOT, FRANCIS, physician, educator, 
author, was born April 12, 1821, in Boston, 
Mass. In 1871 he was made assistant pro¬ 
fessor of the theory and practice of medi¬ 
cine, and clinical lecturer on the diseases, 
of women and children, in the medical 
department of Harvard, which places he 
held until 1874, when he was made full 
professor of the theory and practice of 
physic. 

MINOT, GEORGE, lawyer, author, was 
born Jan. 5, 1817, in Haverhill. Mass. He 
edited Digest of the Decisions of the 
Supreme Court of Massachusetts; and 
rendered valuable aid to Richard Peter, 
Jr., in the preparation of the first eight 
volumes of the United States Statutes 
at Large, the index of which he pre¬ 
pared. He died April 15, 1856, in Read¬ 
ing, Mass. 

MINOT, GEORGE RICHARDS, jurist, 
author, was born Dec. 22, 1758, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was made chief justice 
of the court of common pleas in 1799, and 
judge of the municipal court of Boston on 
its establishment in 1800, which office he 
held until his death. He was one of the 
founders of the Massachusetts Historical 
society, and edited three volumes of its 
Collections. He published History of the 
Insurrection in Massachusetts in 1786; 
and Continuation of the History of Mas¬ 
sachusetts Bay from the Year 1748. He 
died Jan. 2, 1802, in Boston, Mass. 

MINOT, HENRY DAVIS, railroad presi¬ 
dent, author, was born in 1859 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was at the time of his death 
a railway president in Minnesota. While 
a schoolboy at Roxbury he wrote at the 
age of sixteen The Land-Birds and Game- 
Birds of New England. He died in 1890. 

MINOT, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, was 
born in 1849 in Massachusetts. He is a 
Boston lawyer; and the author of Tax¬ 
ation in Massachusetts; and Local Tax¬ 
ation and Municipal Extravagance. 

MINTURN, ROBERT B., merchant, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born Nov. 16, 1805, in 
New York city. By his energy and ability 
the shipping house of Grinnell, Minturn 
and Company, in which he achieved for¬ 
tune and reputation, became one of the 
great shipping houses of the world. He 
died Jan. 9, 1866, in New York city. 

MINTURN, ROBERT BOWNE, author, 
was born Feb. 21, 1836, in New York city. 
He is the author of From New York to 
Delhi, a popular book of travels. 

MIRES, AUSTIN, lawyer, public official, 
was born Feb. 11, 1852, in Des Moines 
county, Iowa. In 1853 he crossed the 
plains with his parents, and resiued in 
Douglas county, Ore., until 1873. He grad¬ 
uated from the law department of the 
university of Michigan, with the degree 
of LL. B. For many years he taught 
school; was mail agent for three years; 
and served as chief clerk of the Oregon 
state senate. Since 1883 he has been 
engaged in the practice of law at Ellens- 
burg, Wash.; has been mayor of that 
city, city treasurer, and city attorney. He 
was a delegate from his county to the 
constitutional convention that framed the 
constitution for the state of Washingon. 
For three years he was a member of the 
state board of equalization and appeals; 
and for seven years was vice-president 
of the Ellensburg National bank. 




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MISSEMER, J. R., journalist, was born 
March 24, 1851, in Mount Joy, Pa. He is 
the editor and publisher of The Advocate 
of Steelton, Pa.; and for the past twenty 
years has been engaged in journalism. In 
his early days he taught school; at the 
age of twenty-two years was elected a jus¬ 
tice of the peace; and in 1874 became edi¬ 
tor of the Milton Grove News. In 1878 
he established the Mount Joy Star and 
News, and during the following ten years 
also conducted a newspaper syndicate. In 
1888 he purchased The Advocate, which 
he still edits and publishes with the as¬ 
sistance of his son, George W. Missemer. 

MITCHEL, ELISHA, chemist, was born 
Aug. 19, 1793, in Washington county, Conn. 
Being appointed state surveyor of North 
Carolina, he was the first to discover that 
the mountains of that state were the high¬ 
est east of the Rockies. He lost his life 
upon the Black Dome June 27, 1857, which 
has since been called Mount Mitchel. 

MITCHEL, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, 
journalist, author, was born in 1839. He 
is the fiction editor of the American 
Press association; and the author of 
Chattanooga, a Romance of the American 
Civil War; Chickamauga, a Romance of 
the American Civil War; and Ormsby 
MacKnight Mitchel, Astronomer and Gen¬ 
eral. 

MITCHEL, ORMSBY MAC KNIGHT, 
soldier, astronomer, author, was born July 
28, 1810, in Morganfield, Ky. He was an 
astronomer of dis¬ 
tinction, director of 
the Dudley observa¬ 
tory at Albany, and 
a prominent union 
general in the civil 
war. He was the au¬ 
thor of Planetary 
and Stellar Worlds; 
The Orbs of Heaven; 
Elementary Treatise 
on the Sun, Planets, 
etc.; and Astronomy 
of the Bible. The 
direct cause of the establishment of the 
observatories at Albany, Clinton, Alle¬ 
gheny City, Cincinnati, Washington, and 
Cambridge, is due to the impetus given 
to that study by his popular lectures. He 
died Oct. 30, 1862, in Beaufort, N. C. 

MITCHELL, ABRAM W., physician, 
surgeon, legislator, was born Feb. 8, 1862, 
in Lempster, N. H. He has served with 
distinction as a member of the New 
Hampshire state legislature, and was on 
several important committees. 

MITCHELL, ALEXANDER, banker, 
congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1817, in 
Scotland. He was elected a representative 
from Wisconsin to the forty-second and 
forty-third congresses; and was the dem¬ 
ocratic candidate for governor of Wiscon¬ 
sin in 1879. He died April 19, 1887, in 
New York city. 

MITCHELL, ALFRED, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1841 in England. In 1879 he 
emigrated to the United States; and has 
since attained success as an able lawyer 
in the state of New York. For sixteen 
years he served in various capacities for 
the Equitable Mercantile company of New 
York city, and is now dean of its legal 
staff. He served as a police justice of 
Whitestone, Long Island, N. Y.; and his 
name is frequently mentioned for the of¬ 
fice of justice for his division of the re¬ 
cently enacted Greater New York city. 

MITCHELL, ANDERSON, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1800 
in Caswell county, N. C. He was elected 
to the North Carolina legislature; and 
was a member of congress in 1842 and 
1843. 


MITCHELL, ANNIE MARIA, author, 
was born in 1847 in Massachusetts. She 
is a writer of religious juveniles, among 
which are Martha’s Gift; and Freed Boy 
in Alabama. 

MITCHELL, CHARLES BURTON, 
United States senator, was born Sept. 19, 
1815, in Gallatin, Tenn. He was elected 
a senator in congress from Arkansas for 
a term of six years, commencing March 
4, 1861, but was expelled by the senate 
July 11, 1861. He died Sept. 20, 1864, in 
Washington, Ark. 

MITCHELL, CHARLES F., congress¬ 
man, was born in New York. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1837 to 1841. 

MITCHELL, CHARLES LE MOYNE, 
manufacturer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 4, 1844, in New Ha¬ 
ven, Comr. He was a representative in 
the Connecticut state legislature in 1878; 
and was elected a representative from 
Connecticut to the forty-eighth congress. 
He was re-elected to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

MITCHELL, DAVID, soldier, state leg¬ 
islator, was born July 17, 1742, in Cum- 
He fought through¬ 
out the entire revo¬ 
lutionary war, serv¬ 
ing as a major in 
Colonel John Watts’s 
battalion in the bat¬ 
tle of Long Island. 
He represented his 
county in the Penn¬ 
sylvania legislature 
from 1786 till 1805, 
and served as a pres¬ 
idential elector in 
1813, and in 1817. In 
1800 he was appoint¬ 
ed brigadier-general of the militia of Cum¬ 
berland and Franklin counties. He died 
May 25, 1818, in Juniata, Pa. 

MITCHELL, DAVID BRADIE, lawyer, 
state legislator, governor, was born Oct. 
22, 1766, in Scotland. He was elected so¬ 
licitor-general of Georgia in 1795; and 
was a member of the legislature in 1796. 
He was governor of the state from 1809 
to 1813, and from 1815 to 1818. He died 
April 22, 1837, in Milledgeville, Ga. 

MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, author, 
was born April 12, 1822, in Norwich, Conn. 
He is best known by his earlier and still 
popular works, Dream Life; and Reveries 
of a Bachelor, books of a pleasantly sen¬ 
timental cast. His other works include 
My Farm at Edgewood; Dr. Johns, a nov¬ 
el; Rural Studies; Fresh Gleaning from 
the Old Fields of Europe; The Battle 
Summer, or Paris in 1848; The Lorgnette; 
Fudge Doings; Seven Stories; Wet Days 
at Edgewood; About Old Story-Tellers; 
The Woodbridge Record, a genealogy; 
Bound Together; A Sheaf of Papers; Out 
of Town Places, a revision of Rural Stu¬ 
dies; English Lands, Letters, and Kings; 
and American Lands and Letters. 

MITCHELL, EDWARD COPPEE. law¬ 
yer, author, was born July 24, 1826, in 
Savannah, Ga. He was a real estate law¬ 
yer of Philadelphia; and the author of 
Separate Use in Pennsylvania; Contracts 
for Land Sales in Pennsylvania; and 
Equitable Relations of Buyer and Seller. 
He died Jan. 25, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MITCHELL, EDWARD CUSHING, 
clergyman, college president, author, was 
born Sept. 20, 1829, in East Bridgewater, 
Mass. He is a baptist clergyman and 
educator; president of Leland university 
of New Orleans since 1887; and the au¬ 
thor of Les Sources du Nouveau Testa¬ 
ment; Hebrew Introduction; Guide to 
the Authenticity, Canon, and Text of the 


New Testament; and The Critical Hand¬ 
book. 

MITCHELL, ELISHA, geologist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 19, 1793, in Washing¬ 
ton, Conn. He was an educator of note, 
and professor of geology in the university 
of North Carolina since 1825. While ex¬ 
ploring the mountain region of North 
Carolina he lost his life. He is buried on 
the summit of the mountain bearing his 
name. He was the author of Elements 
of Geology; and Reports on North Caro¬ 
lina Geology. He died June 27, 1857, on 
Black Mountain, N. C. 

MITCHELL, GEORGE E., congress¬ 
man, was born in Cecil county, Md. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1823 to 1827, and again 
from 1829 to 1832. He died June 28, 1832, 
in Washington, D. C. 

MITCHELL, HENRY, physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1784, in Woodbury, 
Conn. He moved to New York, and in 
1827 he was elected to the legislature of 
his adopted state. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 1833 
to 1835. He died Jan. 12, 1858, in Nor¬ 
wich, N. Y. 

MITCHELL, HENRY, hydrographer, 
author, was born Sept. 16, 1830, in Nan¬ 
tucket, Mass. He is a hydrographer of 
prominence, among whose scientific mono¬ 
graphs are Physical Hydrography of the 
Maine Coast; The Estuary of the Dela¬ 
ware; and Reclamation of Tide Lands. 

MITCHELL, HINCKLEY GILBERT, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
Feb. 22, 1846, in Lee, N. Y. He is a meth- 
odist clergyman and educator; professor 
at Wesleyan university since 1884; and the 
author of Final Constructions of Biblical 
Hebrew; Hebrew Lessons; Amos, an Es¬ 
say in Exegesis; and The Pentateuch. 

MITCHELL, J. WALTER, educator, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 
2, 1853, in Edgefield county, S. C. He at¬ 
tended the Trinity college, Texas; the 
Vanderbilt university, Tennessee; and the 
South Carolina college of Columbia. For 
fifteen years he taught school; and gradu¬ 
ated in 1886 in law with the degree of 
LL. B. For four years he was judge of 
probate of Lexington county, S. C.; and 
for two years served with distinction as 
a representative in the South Carolina 
state legislature. 

MITCHELL, JAMES C., congressman, 
was born about 1790 in Mecklenburg 
county, N. C. He was a representative 
in congress from Tennessee from 1825 to 
1829. He died Aug. 7, 1843, near Jackson, 
Miss. 

MITCHELL, JAMES L„ soldier, law- 
yex 1 , was born Sept. 29, 1834, in Shelby 
county, Ky. He was state’s attorney for 
the nineteenth judicial district of Indi¬ 
ana; and mayor of Indianapolis. He 
died Feb. 21, 1894. 

MITCHELL. JAMES S., congressman, 
was born in York county, Pa. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1821 to 1827. 

MITCHELL, JAMES TYNDALE, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Nov. 9, 1834, in 
Belleville, Ill. He attended the Harvard 
university and the university of Pennsyl¬ 
vania Law school. During 1862-87 he was 
editor-in-chief of the American Law Reg¬ 
ister; during 1871-88 was judge of com¬ 
mon pleas at Philadelphia; and since 
1889 has been justice of the supreme court 
of Pennsylvania. He is a vice-provost of 
the Law academy of Philadelphia; and 
president of the council of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Historical society. He is the au¬ 
thor of A History of the District Court; 
Mitchell on Motions . and Rules; and 
other works. 



berland county, Pa. 






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MITCHELL, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Perry county, Pa. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1825 to 1829. He died in Aug¬ 
ust, 1849, in Beaver, Pa. 

MITCHELL, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 29, 1794, in Chester, Conn. 
He was a congregational minister of Strat¬ 
ford, Conn.; and the author of Letters 
to a Disbeliever in Revivals; Notes from 
Over the Sea; Reminiscences of College 
Scenes and Characters; My Mother; and 
Rachel Kell, or the Diamond. He died 
April 28, 1870, in Stratford, Conn. 

MITCHELL, JOHN AMES, journalist, 
author, was born in 1845 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is a journalist of New York 
city; founder of Life in 1883, and its edi¬ 
tor from that date. He is the author of 
The Summer School of Philosophy at 
Mount Desert; The Romance of the 
Moon; The Last American; Amos Judd, 
a novel; and That First Affair, and Other 
Stories. 

MITCHELL, JOHN GRANT, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Nov. 6, 1838, in Piqua, 
Ohio. He was commissioned brigadier- 
general of volunteers in 1865, and brevet- 
ted major-general of volunteers, to date 
from March 13, for special gallantry in 
the battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 
17, 1865. 

MITCHELL, JOHN HIPPLE, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born June 22, 
1835, in Washington county, Pa. He re- 
' ceived a public school 
education and the 
instruction of a pri¬ 
vate tutor; studied 
and practiced law, 
and moved to Cali¬ 
fornia and practiced 
law, first in San Luis 
Obispo and then in 
San Francisco. In 
1860 he moved to 
Portland, Ore.; and 
was elected corpora¬ 
tion attorney o f 
Portland in 1861, and served one year. 
He was elected as a republican to the 
state senate in 1862, and served four 
years, the last two as president of that 
body. He was commissioned by the gov¬ 
ernor of Oregon in 1865 lieutenant-colonel 
in the state militia; and was a candidate 
for United States senator in 1866, and was 
defeated in the party caucus by one vote. 
He was chosen professor of medical juris¬ 
prudence in Willamette university of Sa¬ 
lem in 1867, and served in that position 
nearly four years. He was elected to the 
United States senate in 1872, and served 
until 1879. He was again elected to the 
United States senate in 1885 as a republi¬ 
can, and was re-elected in 1891. 

MITCHELL, JOHN KEARSLEY, phy¬ 
sician, author, poet, was born May 12, 
1798, in Shepherdstown, Ya. He was a 
physician of Phila¬ 
delphia, of eminence 
as a medical lectur¬ 
er; and the author of 
Indecision, and Other 
Poems; St. Helena, a 
poem; Remote Con¬ 
sequences of Injuries 
of Nerves; Crypto- 
gamic Origin of Mal¬ 
arious and Epidemic 
Fevers; and Five Es¬ 
says on Fevers. He 
died April 4, 1858, in 
and his death was 

MITCHELL, JOHN INSCHO, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, United States sena¬ 



Philadelphia, Pa.; 
sincerely mourned. 



tor,, was born July 28, 1838, in Tioga, Pa. 
He was district attorney of Tioga county, 
Pa., from 1868 to 1871; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in the state legislature from 
1872 to 1876. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Pennsylvania to the forty- 
fifth and forty-sixth congresses; and was 
elected a senator of the United States 
from Pennsylvania for the term of six 
years from March 4, 1881. 

MITCHELL, JOHN LENDRUM, soldier, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Oct. 19, 1842, in Milwaukee, Wis. 
He was a member of the state senate of 
Wisconsin in 1872-73 and 1875-76. He is 
vice-president of the Wisconsin Marine 
and Fire Insurance Company bank, and 
of the Northwestern National Insurance 
company in Milwaukee, Wis. He was 
elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third 
congresses as a democrat; and was elected 
to the United States senate, and took his 
seat March 4, 1893. His term of service 
will expire March 3, 1899. 

MITCHELL, JOHN MURRAY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 18, 1858, in 
New York city. In 1889 he entered into 
law partnership with his two brothers, 
Edward and William, the former of whom 
was United States attorney for the south¬ 
ern district of New York by appointment 
of President Harrison. He was elected to 
the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses 
from New York as a republican. 

MITCHELL, JOSEPH DANIEL, con- 
chologist, legislator, was born Oct. 22, 
1848, in Point Comfort. He has served 
as a representative in the state legisla¬ 
ture of Texas, and is the father of the 
fish and oyster laws of Texas. He has 
published notes on Texas shells; and is a 
member of the Texas Academy of Science, 
and the Smithsonian institution. 

MITCHELL, MRS. LUCY MYERS 
[WRIGHT], archaeologist, author, was 
born in 1845 in Persia. She was an arch¬ 
aeologist who spent much of her life 
abroad. Her only writing, a History of 
Ancient Sculpture, is one of the best 
books in English upon Greek art. She 
died in 1888. 


MITCHELL, MARIA, astronomer, was 
born Aug. 1, 1818, in Nantucket, Mass. 
She was a distinguished astronomer, and 
professor at Vassar college in 1865. Her 
scientific papers have not been collected. 
She died June 28, 1889, in Lyons, Mass. 


MITCHELL, MARION J., educator, 
poet, was born Sept. 4, 1836, in Buffalo, 
N. Y. She received a thorough education, 



standard collections, 
acquisition to the li 


and inherited liter¬ 
ary tastes from her 
parents. She has con¬ 
tributed extensively 
both prose and verse 
to current literature; 
and is the author of 
a volume of poems. 
Her poetic work 
shows natural pow¬ 
ers of imagination 
and expression. Her 
poems have been giv¬ 
en a place in several 
and are a valuable 
:erature of the times. 


MITCHELL, NAHUM, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, author, was born Feb. 12, 
1769, in East Bridgewater, Mass. From 
1811 to 1821 he was judge of the circuit 
court of common pleas, and afterward 
chief justice of Massachusetts. From 1798 
to 1812 he was a representative in the gen¬ 
eral court; a representative in congress 
from 1803 to 1805; and in 1813 and 1814 
was state senator. From 1814 to 1820 he 
was one of the governor’s council; and 


from 1822 to 1827 was treasurer of the 
state. In 1840 he published a History of 
Bridgewater, Massachusetts; and a volume 
of sacred music entitled the Bridgewater 
Collection. He also wrote Grammar of 
Music. He died Aug. 1, 1853, in Ply¬ 
mouth. 

MITCHELL, NATHANIEL, congress- 
nian. He was a delegate from Delaware 
to the continental congress from 1786 to 
1788. 

MITCHELL, NEAL, physician, surgeon, 
was born Oct. 21, 1855, in Jacksonville, 
Fla. He attended the Maine Wesleyan 
university, Lapham institute, Amherst 
college, and several medical colleges of 
New York and Brooklyn, and in Berlin, 
Germany. In 1888 he was president of 
the board of health in the yellow fever 
epidemic in Jacksonville; and is one of 
the foremost physicians and surgeons in 
the south. 

MITCHELL, ROBERT, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Ohio from 
1833 to 1835. 

MITCHELL, ROBERT B„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, governor, was horn April 4, 1823, in 
Richland county, Ohio. He moved to Kan¬ 
sas in 1856; and was in the territorial 
legislature in 1857 and 1858. He was 
state treasurer from 1858 to 1861; and 
adjutant-general in 1860 and 1861. He 
raised a regiment of cavalry; and was 
made brigadier-general in 1862. He was 
appointed governor of New Mexico in 
November, 1865. He died Jan. 26, 1882, 
in Washington, D. C. 

MITCHELL, ROBERT G., lawyer, state 
senator, was born July 15, 1843, in Thom¬ 
as county, Ga. In 1866 he was elected sol¬ 
icitor-general; in 1884-85 was elected a 
senator from Georgia; and in 1890 was 
chosen president of that body. 

MITCHELL, SAMUEL, mine owner and 
financier, was born April 11, 1846, in Eng¬ 
land. In 1864 he emigrated to the United 
States, and engaged, 
and obtained a posi¬ 
tion with the Madi¬ 
son Copper Mining 
company, and subse¬ 
quently with various 
other companies. In 
1876 he organized 
the Mitchell Iron 
Mine company, and 
in 1878 discovered 
what was known as 
the National Iron 
mine. In 1883 he be¬ 
gan operations in the Negaunee mine; and 
during the year 1894 they took out of the 
mine nearly a quarter of a million tons 
of ore. He is the president and general 
manager of the Blue mine of Negaunee. 
He is president of the First National bank 
of Hurley. Wis.; was one of the organi¬ 
zers of the Bank of Ishpeming; is a 
stockholder in the Lincoln National bank 
of Chicago, and is interested in various 
other financial institutions. 

MITCHELL, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS, 
author, was born March 30, 1792, in Bris¬ 
tol, Conn. He was a noted geographer of 
Philadelphia who, besides publishing a 
series of geographies, was author also of 
General View of the World; and New 
Traveler’s Guide. He died Dec. 20, 1868, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MITCHELL, SAMUEL THOMAS, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Sept. 24, 
1851, in Toledo, Ohio. In 1879 he became 
principal of Lincoln institute, Jefferson 
City, Mo., where he remained until 1884; 
and he has since been president of Wil- 
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MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR, physician, 
author, poet, was born Feb. 15, 1829, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a distinguished 
physician of Philadelphia, well known al¬ 
so as novelist and poet. His professional 
writings include Wear and ,Tear, or Hints 
for the Overworked; Injuries of the 
Nerves; Nurse and Patient; Fat and 
Blood; Doctor and Patient. In fiction he 
has published Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker; 
Hephzibah Guinness; In War Times; Ro¬ 
land Blake; Far in the Forest; Philip 
Vernon; Prince Little Boy, and Other 
Tales out of Fairy Land; Characteristics; 
A Madeira Party; When all the Woods 
are Green; and, in verse, Francis Drake, 
a Tragedy of the Sea; The Mother, and 
Other Poems; The Cup of Youth; The 
Hill of Stones, and Other Poems; A Psalm 
of Death; and A Masque, and Other 
Poems. 

MITCHELL, STEPHEN MIX. lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Dec. 9, 1743, in Wethers¬ 
field, Conn. In 1779 he was appointed a 
judge of the Hartford county, Conn., 
court; and in 1790 placed at the head of 
that court. He was a delegate to the old 
congress in 1783 and 1785; and in 1793 
was appointed to the United States sen¬ 
ate, which position he held until 1795. In 
1795 he was appointed judge of the su¬ 
perior court of Connecticut; and in 1807 
chief justice of that court, which office 
he held until 1814. He died Sept. 30, 
1835, in Wethersfield, Conn. 

MITCHELL, THOMAS R„ congress¬ 
man, was born in Georgetown, S. C. He 
was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1821 to 1823, from 
1825 to 1829, and again from 1831 to 1833. 
He died in 1837. 

MITCHELL, W. P., physician, surgeon, 
was born March 2, 1862, in Middletown, 
Ind. In 1883 he graduated from the Medi¬ 
cal college of Danville, Ind.; and the fol¬ 
lowing year from the Rush Medical col¬ 
lege of Chicago. He is one of the fore¬ 
most physicians of Wisconsin; has a large 
practice in Spring Green; and is the med¬ 
ical examiner for five large life insurance 
companies. 

MITCHELL, WALTER, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1826 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is an episcopal clergyman of 
New York city; and the author of Two 
Strings to His Bow; Bryan Maurice, a 
novel; and Poems. Tacking Ship off 
Shore is the poem by which he is best 
known. 

MITCHELL, WILL WARD, poet, was 
born Dec. 1, 1870, near Lexington, Mo. 
He is a successful journalist of Higgins- 
ville, Mo.; and is the author of a number 
of meritorious poems which have ap¬ 
peared in the periodical press and several 
standard collections. 

MITCHELL, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 9, 1793, in Chester, 
Conn. He was a congregational minister 
of Texas who published A Doctrinal Guide 
for Young Christians; and Coleridge and 
the Moral Tendency of his Writings. He 
died Aug. 1, 1867, in Corpus Christi, Tex. 

MITCHELL, WILLIAM, theater-mana¬ 
ger, was born in 1798 in England. In 
1836 he came to this country under an 
engagement with the lessees of the old 
National theater in New York city, where 
he made his debut as Jem' Baggs in The 
Wandering Minstrel, and eventually be¬ 
came stage-manager. He died May 12, 
1856, in New York city. 

MITCHELL, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was elected 
a representative from Indiana to the thir¬ 
ty-seventh congress. He died in Septem¬ 
ber, 1865, in Macon, Ga. 


MITCHILL, SAMUEL LATHAM, cler¬ 
gyman, congressman, United States sena¬ 
tor, author, was born Aug. 20, 1764, in 
North Hempstead, N. Y. He was a fa¬ 
mous physician and man of letters of 
New York city who filled there a position 
very similar to that of Oliver Wendell 
Holmes in Boston at a later day, the two 
men having many points of resemblance. 
He was long a professor of chemistry 
in Columbia college. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from 1801 to 1804; and 
again in 1810-13; and a United States 
senator in 1804-09. Among his writings 
are: Life of Tammany, the Indian Chief; 
Picture of New York; and Description of 
Schooley’s Mountain. 

MOAK, NATHANIEL CLEVELAND, 
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 3, 1833, in 
Sharon, N. Y. He was an Albany lawyer; 
and the author of Albany Penitentiary 
Statutes; English Reports; and English 
Digest. 

MOELLER, LOUIS CHARLES, artist, 
was born Aug. 5, 1855, in New York city. 
He has attained success as a painter; and 
has exhibited his productions in various 
exhibitions. He is an associate of the 
National Academy of Design; and is a 
pleasing genre painter. Among his princi¬ 
pal works are: A Girl in a Snow Storm; 
Puzzled; Morning News; Stubborn; 
Bluffing; A Doubtful Investment; and A 
Siesta. 

MOELLER, LOUIS FREDERICK, art¬ 
ist, was born in 1855 in New York city. 
He attended the National Academy of 
Design, and the academy in Munich, Ger¬ 
many; and has attained a national repu¬ 
tation as a successful artist. He received 
a medal at the Royal academy in Munich; 
and received the first prize at the Na¬ 
tional Academy of Design for the picture 
entitled Puzzled. 

MOFFAT, EDWARD STEWART, min¬ 
ing engineer, was born Jan. 5, 1844, in 
Oxford, Ohio. In 1868 he became adjunct 
professor of mining and metallurgy in 
Lafayette, where he remained until 1870, 
and he afterward held the superintend¬ 
ency of various iron-works till 1882, when 
he became superintendent of the Lacka¬ 
wanna Iron and Coal company, of which 
corporation he was made general mana¬ 
ger in 1886. 

MOFFAT, JAMES CLEMENT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born May 30, 1811, in 
Scotland. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man and educator; professor at Prince¬ 
ton Theological seminary in 1853-90; and 
the author of Comparative History of Re¬ 
ligions; Life of Dr. Chalmers; Song and 
Scenery, or a Summer Ramble in Scot¬ 
land; Alwyn, a Romance of Study, in 
verse; The Church in Scotland; Church 
History in Brief; Rhyme of the North 
Countrie; and The Story of a Dedicated 
Life. He died June 7, 1890, in Princeton, 
N. J. 

MOFFAT, WILLIAM DAVID, author, 
was born in 1865 in New Jersey. He is a 
New York writer of stories for boys, bus¬ 
iness manager of The Book Buyer and of 
Scribner’s Magazine; and the author of 
The County Pennant; The Crimson Ban¬ 
ner; Brad Mattoon; and Not Without 
Honor, a novel. 

MOFFATT, SETH C., lawyer, legislator, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Aug. 10, 1841, in Battle Creek, Mich. He 
was prosecuting attorney for Leelaun 
county, Mich., for six years; and was 
deputy collector of customs at North- 
port for six years. He was a state senator 
in 1871 and 1872; was a member of the 
state constitutional commission in 1873; 
and was register of the United States land 
office at Traverse City, Mich., from 1874 


to 1878. He was prosecuting attorney for 
Grand Traverse county, Mich., in 1878; 
and was a representative in, and speaker 
of, the lower house of the Michigan legis¬ 
lature in 1881 and 1882. In 1884 he was 
elected a representative from Michigan to 
the forty-ninth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the fiftieth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

MOFFET, JOHN, chemist, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1832 in Ireland. In 
1868 he was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-first congress. 

MOFFIT, HOSEA, legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born in New York. He served 
six years in the legislature of that state; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1813 to 1817. 

MOFFITT, JOHN M., sculptor, was 
born in 1837 in England. Many of the 
altars in the principal churches in New 
York city were designed by him. Among 
his latest works are the plan for the sol¬ 
diers’ monument in East Rock park. New 
Haven, Conn., and the drum of the York- 
town revolutionary monument, erected in 
1881. He died Sept. 15, 1887, in London, 
England. 

MOFFITT, JOHN M„ soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1843, 
in Chazy, N. Y. From 1866 till 1872 he 
was deputy collector of customs at 
Rouse’s Point, N. Y.; and from 1872 till 
the present time has been engaged in the 
manufacture of charcoal bloom iron, and 
director in the People’s National bank of 
Malone, N. Y. He was elected to the fif¬ 
tieth congress; and was re-elected to the 
fifty-first congress as a republican. 

MOHN, THORBJORN N„ clergyman, 
college president, was born in 1844 in 
Norway. He has filled pastorates in Chi¬ 
cago, and for twenty-two years in St. 
Paul, Minn. He is the president of St. 
Olaf college of Northfield, Minn. 

MOISE, PENINA, poet, was born April 
23, 1797, in Charleston, S. C. She was the 
author of a volume of poems entitled 
Fancy’s Sketch-Book. She died Sept. 13, 
1880, in Charleston, S. C. 

MOLDENKE, CHARLES EDWARD, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 10, 1860, in Prussia. 
He published the text of the New York 
obelisk, with explanations, the first print 
in hieroglyphic type ever issued in Amer¬ 
ica; and The World’s Most Ancient Fairy- 
Tale, the Two Brothers, in hieratic. 

MOLDENKE, EDWARD FREDERICK, 
clergyman, journalist, author, poet, was 
born Aug. 10, 1836, in Prussia. In 1865 
he was editor of the Gemeindeblatt at 
Watertown, Wis.; and has been editor of 
Siloah, a monthly paper of the general 
council in the interest of German home 
missions, since 1882. He is the author of 
Luther-Buchlein, a poem. 

MOLINEUX, EDWARD LESLIE, sol¬ 
dier, was born Oct. 12, 1833, in London, 
England. At the beginning of the war 
he was lieutenant-colonel of the twenty- 
third regiment New York national guard; 
and in 1862 went to the front as colonel 
of the one hundred and fifty-ninth 
New York volunteers. He participated 
in the campaigns of Port Hudson, Red 
River, Petersburg, and in the Shenandoah 
Valley; and he received the brevet of 
major-general in 1865. In 1880 he was 
appointed brigadier-general of the elev¬ 
enth brigade of the New York national 
guard; and in 1885 was elected major- 
general of the second division. General 
Molineux is a member of the New York 
firm of C. T. Raynolds and Company, the 
largest paint house in the United States. 
He has contributed to current literature 
various papers on military subjects. 


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MOLONY, RICHARD S., physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Northfleld, N. H. 
He was a representative from Illinois to 
the thirty-second congress. 

MOMBERGER. WILLIAM, artist, was 
born June 7, 1829, in Germany. He built 
a studio at Morrisania, N. Y., where he 
has painted several landscapes, among 
the Catskills; Through the Woods; Har¬ 
vest Moon; and Island on the Susque¬ 
hanna River. 

MOMBERT, JACOB ISIDOR, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 6, 1829, in Ger¬ 
many. He is an episcopal clergyman of 
Paterson, N. J.; and the author of Faith 
Victorious; Handbook of the English Ver¬ 
sions of the Bible; Great Lives; History 
of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; His¬ 
tory of Charles the Great; and Short His¬ 
tory of the Crusades. 

MONARCH, MARTIN V., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born in 1842 in Kentucky. In 
1889 he became president of the Owens¬ 
boro Falls of Rough and Green River rail¬ 
road. 

MONDELL, FRANK W., congressman, 
was born Nov. 5, 1860, in St. Louis, Mo. 
He is a successful discoverer, developer. 

and manager of ex¬ 
tensive coal interests 
at Newcastle, Wyo., 
of which city he has 
served five times as 
mayor. He attended 
the local district 
schools of Iowa; and 
received instruction 
in the higher 
branches from a pri¬ 
vate tutor. He en¬ 
gaged in mercantile 
pursuits and in rail¬ 
way construction in various western states 
and territories; and settled in Wyoming 
in 1887. He was elected mayor of the 
new town of Newcastle in 1888, and served 
until 1895. He was elected a member of 
the first state senate in 1890; and served 
as president of that body at the session of 
1892. He was a delegate to the republican 
national convention at Minneapolis in 
1892; and was elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress as a republican. In 1897 he was 
appointed assistant commissioner of the 
general land office. 

MONELL, ROBERT, congressman, was 
born in Columbia county, N. Y. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1819 to 1821, and again from 1829 
to 1831. He died in December, 1860. 

MONEY, HERNANDO DE SOTO, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was 
born Aug. 26, 1839, in Holmes county. 
Miss. He received his 
education in the uni¬ 
versity of Missis¬ 
sippi. He was a 
member of the forty- 
fourth, forty - fifth, 
forty - sixth, forty- 
seventh, forty- 
eighth, fifty-third, 
and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses as a demo¬ 
crat. In 1896-97 he 
was appointed a 
member of the 
United States senate to fill a vacancy; 
and was elected for a full term com¬ 
mencing March 4, 1899. He was a del¬ 
egate to the Baltimore convention of 1872; 
and of the Chicago convention of 1896. 

MONFORT, FRANCIS CASSETTE, 
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 1, 1844, 
in Greensburg, Ind. He is a presbyterian 
minister and editor of Cincinnati; and 
the author of Sermons for Silent Sab¬ 
baths; and Socialism and City Evangeli¬ 
zation. 


MONFORT, FRANKLIN P., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born June 6, 1842, in Shelby, 
Mich. He graduated from the law depart¬ 
ment of the university of Michigan; has 
been justice of the peace; circuit court 
commissioner; for three terms was pros¬ 
ecuting attorney of Macomb county, 
Mich.; and now has a large practice in 
Mt. Clemens, Mich. 

MONIS, JUDAH, educator, author, was 
born Feb. 4, 1683, in Italy. From 1722 
till 1761 he taught Hebrew in Harvard 
university. He published Truth, Whole 
Truth, Nothing but the Truth; and A 
Hebrew Grammar. He died April 25, 1764, 
in Northborough, Mass. 

MONK, EDWARD R„ lawyer, jurist, 
was born Jan. 31, 1854, in Alliance, Ohio. 
He has been county judge of Tombstone 
county, Ariz.. and also probate judge of 
the same place. He is a successful lawyer 
of Tucson, Ariz.; has been receiver in 
the United States land office; civil ser¬ 
vice examiner; and secretary of the board 
of regents of the university of Arizona. 

MONNETT, HAMLIN VIRGIL, soldier, 
physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 21, 1843, 
in Bucyrus, Ohio. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his educa¬ 
tion in the public 
schools of his native 
city; attended the 
Hospital Medical col¬ 
lege of St. Joseph, 
Mo.; and graduated 
from the Marion 
Sims College of Med¬ 
icine at St. Louis, Mo. 
During the war he 
served in the eighty- 
sixth and one hun¬ 
dred and thirty-sixth 
regiments Ohio volunteer infantry. He 

commenced life as a school teacher, and 

has attained prominence as one of the 
leading physicians of Iowa, where he has 
a large practice, with headquarters at 
Orient. 

MONROE. ANDREW, clergyman, was 
born Oct. 29, 1792, in Hampshire county, 
Va. He was a pioneer worker in Ken¬ 
tucky, Tennessee, and Missouri; and a 
member during his life of eleven general 
conferences. He died Nov. 18, 1871, in 
Mexico. 

MONROE, HARRIET, author, poet, was 
born in 1860 in Illinois. She is a poet 
of Chicago; 'and the author of Valeria, 
and Other Poems; and Life of John Well¬ 
born Root. 

MONROE, JAMES, fifth president of the 
United States, was born April 28, 1758, in 
the county of Westmoreland, Va., and 
graduated at William 
and Mary college in 
1776. He then joined 
the continental army, 
where he remained 
three years, and was 
promoted to the rank 
of captain. He then 
commenced the 
study of law under 
Thomas Jefferson, 
and in 1782 he was 
elected to the Vir¬ 
ginia legislature. The 
next year he was chosen one of the exe¬ 
cutive council, in which he continued un¬ 
til 1783, when he was elected a member of 
the continental congress, and held that 
office three years. During his attendance 
at New York, in 1785, as a member of 
congress, he married a daughter of Mr. 
L. Kortright. In 1787 he was elected to 
the state legislature, and in 1788 he was 
a member of the convention to decide up¬ 
on the adoption of the new constitution. 


He was elected United States senator in- 
1788, and at the expiration of his term,, 
in 1794, he was appointed envoy extraor¬ 
dinary and minister plenipotentiary to the 
court of Versailles, and was recalled in 
1796. In 1799 he was elected governor of' 
Virginia, and served the constitutional 
term of three years. In 1803 he was ap¬ 
pointed envoy extraordinary to France, to 
negotiate for the purchase of Louisiana. 
In 1810 he was elected to the legislature 
and the same year was commissioned 
minister plenipotentiary to England. In 
1811 Mr. Monroe was again elected gov¬ 
ernor of Virginia, but was soon after ap¬ 
pointed secretary of state by President 
Madison, and in 1814 he was appointed to 
the war department; which he took with¬ 
out relinquishing the former post. He 
was elected president of the United States 
in 1816, and was inaugurated March 4, 
1817; he was re-elected in 1820, and took 
the oath of office March 5, 1821, the 4th 
being Sunday. His term of office expired 
March 4, 1825, and he retired to his resi¬ 
dence in Loudoun county, Va., where he- 
resided until 1831, when he removed to 
New York city, and took up his residence 
with his son-in-law. He died on the 4th 
of July, 1831. Monroe held office twenty- 
six years. He died so poor that he was 
buried at the expense of his relatives. He 
was the author of State Papers; Tour of 
Observation in 1817; The People: The 
Sovereigns; and View of the Conduct of 
the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of 
the United States. 

MONROE, JAMES, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 10, 1799, in Albe¬ 
marle, Va. He was in congress in 1839-41 
from New York; and was chosen again 
in 1846, but his seat was contested, and 
congress ordered a new election, at which 
he refused to be a candidate. In 1850-52 
he was in the New York legislature. He 
died Sept. 7, 1870, in Orange, N. J. 

MONROE, JAMES, educator, United 
States senator, congressman, was born 
July 18, 1821, in Plainfield, Conn. He 
was a professor in Oberlin college from 
1849 until 1862. He was a member of the 
Connecticut state house of representa¬ 
tives in 1856-59, and of the state senate 
in 1860-62; and was chosen president of 
the senate in 1861, and again in 1862. He 
was United States consul at Rio Janeiro 
from 1863 to 1869; serving for several 
months of 1869 as charge d’ affaires ad 
interim at that capital. He was elected 
to the forty-second, forty-third, and forty- 
fourth congresses; and was re-elected to. 
the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses. 
Since leaving congress he has filled the 
chair of political science and modern his¬ 
tory in Oberlin college. 

MONROE, THOMAS B„ lawyer, jurist, 
was a citizen of Kentucky. In 1834 he 
was appointed United States judge for 
the district of Kentucky. 

MONROE, V., lawyer, jurist, was born 
in Kentucky. He was appointed an asso¬ 
ciate justice of the United States court 
for the territory of Washington, residing 
at Olympia. 

MONROE, WILL S., educator, lecturer, 
poet, was born in Wyoming Valley, Pa. 
For three years he was city superintend¬ 
ent of schools of Pasadena, Cal. He is. 
the author of Poets and Prose Writers 
of Wyoming Valley; and his poems have 
appeared in Peterson’s Magazine, Journal 
of Education, and other publications. 

MONSARRAT, NICHOLAS, railroad 
president, was born March 1, 1839, in Can¬ 
ada. Since 1895 he has been president of 
the Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking 
railroad. 













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MONTAGUE. CHARLES HOWARD, 
journalist, author, was born in 1858 in 
Massachusetts. He was a journalist of 
Boston, city editor of The Globe; and 
the author of The Romance of the Lilies; 
The Face of Rosenfel; Two Strokes of 
the Bell; The Doctor’s Mistake; and The 
Countess Muta. He died in 1889. 

MONTAGUE, ROBERT L., jurist, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born May 23, 1819, 
in Middlesex county, Va. He served in 
the confederate congress of Virginia from 
1863 until it ceased to exist. In 1873 he 
was elected judge of the eighth judicial 
circuit, and for several years he was pres¬ 
ident of the General Baptist association 
of Virginia. He died March 4, 1880. 

MONTAGUE, WILLIAM LEWIS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 6, 1831, in 
Belchertown, Mass. He is a congregation¬ 
al clergyman, professor of modern lan¬ 
guages at Amherst college since 1862; 
and the author of Comparative Spanish 
Grammar; Manual of Italian Grammar; 
and Introduction to Italian Literature. 

MONTANYA, J. D. L., legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New York. He 
served two years in the assembly of that 
state; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1839 to 1841. 

MONTEFIORE, JOSEPH H„ journalist, 
lawyer, was born March 19, 1848, in St. 
Albans, Vt. He learned the printer’s 
trade in all its branches; served one year 
as a soldier in the army of the gulf; was 
admitted to the bar; and was the editor 
of the successful daily and weekly news¬ 
paper of his native city before he was 
twenty-one years of age. During 1873-78 
he was the editor of the Baldwin Bulle¬ 
tin, Hammond Independent, and Wilson 
Pioneer, three papers issued from one of¬ 
fice in Wisconsin. During 1878-80 he was 
a writer for the St. Paul Globe and the 
Mipneapolis Tribune; and then became 
proprietor and editor of the Minneapolis 
Herald. Since 1880 he has practiced law 
in St. Albans, Vt. 

MONTEFIORE, JOSHUA, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 10, 1762, in London, 
England. He was the author of Commer¬ 
cial and Notatorial Precedents; Commer¬ 
cial Dictionary; Traders’ Compendium; 
United States Traders’ Compendium; Law 
and Treatise on Bookkeeping; and Laws 
of Land and Sea. He died June 26, 1843, 
in St. Albans, Vt. 

MONTGOMERY, ALEXANDER B., ju¬ 
rist, state senator, congressman, was born 
Dec. 11, 1837, in Hardin county, Ky. He 
was elected county judge of Hardin coun¬ 
ty, Ky., in 1870, serving till 1874; and he 
was elected to the state senate in 1877, 
serving till 1881. He was elected to the 
fiftieth; fifty-first, and fifty-second con¬ 
gresses, and re-elected to the fifty-third 
congress as a democrat. 

MONTGOMERY, BENJAMIN F., law¬ 
yer, politician, was born Feb. 28, 1834, in 
Richland county, Ohio. He received a 
liberal education in the common schools 
and at the academy of Ashland, Ohio. 
He has attained success as an able lawyer 
in Colorado Springs, Colo.; and has been 
a delegate to four national democratic 
conventions. 

MONTGOMERY, DANIEL, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania from 1807 to 
1809. 

MONTGOMERY, GEORGE WASHING¬ 
TON, clergyman, author, was born April 
6, 1810, in Portland, Maine. He is a uni- 
versalist clergyman of Rochester, N. Y.; 
and the author of Illustrations of the Law 
of Kindness; and Sermons. 

MONTGOMERY, JABEZ, educator, sci¬ 
entist, was born Oct. 5, 1839, in Plain¬ 


field, Ind. He received his education at 
the Michigan university, from which in¬ 
stitution he received in course the de¬ 
grees of B. S., M. S., and Ph. D. During 
1867-79 he was professor of science at the 
Woodstock college, Ontario; and while 
teaching there he raised money and built 
the largest astronomical observatory in 
the dominion at that time; and for nine 
years he there filled the position of di¬ 
rector of the chief meteorological station. 
During 1881-83 he taught physics and 
chemistry in the Indianapolis High 
school; and during 1883-89 filled the chair 
of natural science in the Kalamazoo col¬ 
lege, Michigan. Since 1890 he has been 
engaged in the Ann Arbor High school 
as teacher of astronomy, botany and 
chemistry. 

MONTGOMERY, JOHN, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 6, 1722, in Ire¬ 
land. He served as captain in the expe¬ 
dition against the Indians under General 
John Forbes, his commission bearing the 
date of May 7, 1758. He was in other 
ways prominent in local affairs, and was 
county treasurer in 1767-76. He became a 
member of the continental congress. He 
died Sept. 3, 1808, in Carlisle, Pa. 

MONTGOMERY, JOHN, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1807 to 18il. He was also 
mayor of Baltimore. 

MONTGOMERY, JOHN ALEXANDER, 
railroad president, was born Aug. 30, 1851, 
in Lewisburg, Vt. Since 1888 he has been 
president of the Mary Lee Coal and Rail¬ 
way company at Birmingham, Ala. 

MONTGOMERY, JOHN BERRIEN, na¬ 
val officer, was born Nov. 17, 1794, in Al¬ 
lentown, N. J. He served in the various 
wars of the United States; and in 1866 
was placed on the retired list as rear ad¬ 
miral. In 1813 he received a sword and 
thanks of congress for services in Perry’s 
victory on Lake Erie. 

MONTGOMERY, JOHN G., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in 1805 in 
Northumberland, Pa. He was elected to 
the Pennsylvania state legislature in 1855; 
and was elected a member of the thirty- 
fifth congress from Pennsylvania, but 
died before taking his seat. He died April 
24, 1857, in Danville, Pa. 

MONTGOMERY, JOSEPH, congress¬ 
man. He was a delegate from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the continental congress from 
1780 to 1784. He died Oct. 14, 1794, in 
Harrisburg, Pa. 

MONTGOMERY, JUSTIN ROBERT M., 
lawyer, jurist, was born May 12, 1849, in 
Eaton Rapids, Mich. Since 1877 he has 
practiced law in Grand Rapids, Mich.; 
and was assistant United States attorney 
from that time until 1881. In that year 
he was elected judge of the seventeenth 
judicial circuit; was re-elected and served 
until 1888. In 1891 he was elected a jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of Michigan for 
term expiring in 1901. 

MONTGOMERY, MARCUS WHITMAN, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1839 in 
New York. He was a congregational cler¬ 
gyman, instructor in Chicago Theological 
seminary since 1890; and the author o l 
History of Jay County, Indiana; A Wind 
from the Holy Spirit; and The Mormon 
Delusion. He died in 1894. 

MONTGOMERY, MARTIN VAN BU- 
REN, soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born 
Oct. 20, 1840, in Eaton Rapids, Mich. In 
1870 he was elected a representative in 
the Michigan state legislature and served 
two years. In 1875 he moved to Lansing, 
Mich.; in 1876 was a delegate to the demo¬ 
cratic national convention; and in 1885 
was appointed commissioner of patents in 
the department of the interior at Wash¬ 
ington. In 1887 ne became associate 
judge of the supreme court of Columbia. 


MONTGOMERY. RICHARD, soldier, 
was born Dec. 2, 1736, in Ireland. He en¬ 
tered the British army, and was shortly 
afterward ordered to 
America. He return¬ 
ed to Europe, but 
came back to Ameri¬ 
ca in 1773, and pur¬ 
chased a farm at 
King’s Bridge, N. Y. 
In 1775 he was elect¬ 
ed to represent 
Dutchess county in 
the first New York 
provincial conven¬ 
tion. The same 
year he was appoint¬ 
ed a brigadier-general; and was killed at 
the battle of Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775. A 
marble monument was erected to his 
memory in New York city. 

MONTGOMERY, THOMAS, congress¬ 
man, was born in Nelson county, Va. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1813 to 1815, and again 
from 1821 to 1823. He died April 2, 1828. 

MONTGOMERY, THOMAS HARRIS¬ 
ON, president of the American Fire In¬ 
surance company, was born Feb. 23, 1830, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania, and in 1851 grad¬ 
uated from the Philadelphia College of 
Pharmacy. Since 1859 he has been a fire 
underwriter, and since 1882 president of 
the American Fire Insurance company of 
Philadelphia. Hfe is a member of the 
Pennsylvania and New York Historical 
societies; of the tjons of the Revolution, 
Colonial Wars, Colonial Society of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and various other orders; and 
is prominent in the business and public 
affairs of his city and state. 



MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in congress 
from Pennsylvania from 1793 to 1795. 


MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM, legislator,, 
congressman, was born in Guilford coun¬ 
ty, N. C. He was elected to the North 
Carolina general assembly in 1824, where 
he served, with but one intermission, un¬ 
til 1834, when he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress, and continued in 
that position until 1841. He died Nov. 27, 
1844. 

MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 11, 1819, in 
Canton, Pa. He was elected a represent¬ 
ative in congress irom Pennsylvania in 
1856, serving in the thirty-fifth congress; 
and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress. He died April 28, 1870, in Wash¬ 
ington, Pa. 


MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM ALEXAN¬ 
DER, soldier, farmer, lawyer, legislator, 
was born Oct. 18, 1844, in Winston coun¬ 
ty, Miss. He left the 
Union university of 
Murfreesboro, Tenn., 
and enlisted in the 
twelfth regiment, 
Mississippi infantry; 
and after twelve 
months joined cav¬ 
alry service, was. 
promoted to captain, 
and was engaged in 
the principal fights 
and skirmishes. Af¬ 
ter the war he went 
to the law school of Lexington, Ky., and 
has been a successful lawyer and farmer 
of Edwards, Miss. In 1873 he served as 
a member of the Mississippi state senate. 
He was among the first to raise the cry 
against carpet bag rule in Mississippi, and 
in 1875 commanded the citizen forces that 
went to Jackson to demand that the ne¬ 
gro militia companies be disbanded, and: 
was successful in that demand. 








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MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM B„ mis¬ 
sionary, author, was born about 1790, in 
Danville, Pa. In 1833 he completed an 
elementary book that contained transla¬ 
tions of various passages of Scripture. 
This was the first work written in the 
Osage language, and was published in 
Boston after his death. He died Aug. 17, 
1834, in Union Station, Kan. 

MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM READ¬ 
ING, soldier, was born July 10, 1801, in 
Monmouth county, N. J. He took part in 
the war with Mexico, and was promoted 
to major in 1852. In 1861 he was com¬ 
missioned a brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers, and subsequently became military 
governor of Alexandria, Va. He died May 
•31, 1871, in Bristol, Pa. 

MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM WATTS, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 11, 1827, in 
Augusta, Ga. In 1872 he was appointed 
judge of the supreme court of Georgia. 

MONTGOMERY, ZACHARIAH, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 6, 1825, in Nel¬ 
son county, Ky. In 1856 he was appointed 
district attorney or Sutter county, Cal.; 
and was re-elected. In 1860 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative in the California leg¬ 
islature; ana in 1885 was appointed 
United States attorney-general for the de¬ 
partment of the interior. 

MONTI, LUIGI, educator, author, was 
born in 1810 in Sicily. He is an educa¬ 
tor of New York city who appears in 
Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn as 
The Young Sicilian. He is the author of 
An American Consul Abroad; and Leone, 
a novel. 

MOOAR, GEORGE, educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1830 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a congregational clergy¬ 
man, and professor in Pacific Theological 
seminary at Oakland, Cal., since 1870. He 
is the author of The Religion of Loyalty; 
and Prominent Characteristics of Congre¬ 
gational Churches. 

MOODY, DWIGHT LYMAN, evangelist, 
author, was born Feb. 5, 1837, in North- 
field, Mass. He is a celebrated evangelist. 
Among his more important writings are 
The Second Coming of Christ; The Way 
and the Word; Secret Power; The Way 
to God; Glad Tidings; Great Joy; To All 
People; Bible Characters; and How to 
Study the Bible. 

MOODY, FRANK SIMS, lawyer, bank¬ 
er, state senator, was born Oct. 29, 1849, 
in Tuskaloosa. Ala. In 1877 he was elect¬ 
ed president of the First National bank of 
Tuskaloosa, Ala. He was elected in 1894 
to the Alabama state senate. 

MOODY, GIDEON C., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, was born 
Oct. 16, 1832, in Cortland, N. Y. He moved 
to Dakota in 1864; 
was a member of the 
house of representa¬ 
tives of Dakota ter¬ 
ritory in 1867-69, 
and in 1874; and was 
speaker of the house 
in 1868-69 and in 
1874. He was ap¬ 
pointed associate 
justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Da¬ 
kota territory in 
1878, and served as 
such until April 1, 1883. He was elected 
by the legislature which assembled under 
the constitution of 1885 as one of the 
United States senators for the state of 
South Dakota; was again elected one of 
the United States senators for the state of 
South Dakota in 1889, under the provis¬ 
ions of the act of congress admitting 
South Dakota and other states into the 
union. He took his seat Dec. 2, 1889; his 
term of service expired March 3, 1891. 


MOODY, JOEL, lawyer, state senator, 
author, was born Oct. 28, 1834, in New 
Brunswick. From 1865-81 he s'erved in 
the Kansas state leg¬ 
islature; for four 
years was assistant 
secretary of the sen¬ 
ate; and then be¬ 
came a state senator 
and a regent of the 
university of Kan¬ 
sas. He is the au¬ 
thor of Science of 
Evil; Junius Un¬ 
masked; and a vol¬ 
ume of poems, enti¬ 
tled The Song of 
Kansas. His poems have also been in¬ 
cluded in several standard collections. 

MOODY, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 4, 1676, in Newbury, Mass. 
He was instrumental in founding a con¬ 
gregational church in Providence, R. I., 
and possessed great influence among the 
churches. His publications include State 
of the Damned; Judas Hung up in 
Chains; and Election Sermon. He died 
Nov. 13, 1747. 

MOODY, WILLIAM H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 23, 1853, in New¬ 
bury, Mass. He was district attorney for 
the eastern district of Massachusetts from 
1890 to 1895; he was elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a republican, at a spe¬ 
cial election, to fill a vacancy; and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

MOODY, WILLIAM LEWIS, soldier, 
merchant, state legislator, was born May 

19, 1828, in Essex county, Va. In 1866 he 
removed to Galveston and entered the 
cotton factorage business, his firm now 
being W. L. Moody and Co. He was 
president of the Galveston cotton ex¬ 
change for thirteen years. In 1874 he was 
elected a representative to the Texas leg¬ 
islature, and during the same session be¬ 
came financial agent for Texas, for the 
sale of its bonds, and as such successfully 
negotiated the loan. 

MOODY, ZENAS F., soldier, surveyor, 
merchant, state legislator, governor, was 
born May 27, 1832, in Granby, Mass. He 
settled in Oregon in 1851; was a surveyor; 
and in 1856 was appointed government 
inspector of the United States surveys in 
California. For many years he was a 
mail contractor between The Dalles and 
Portland. In 1880 he was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature; and was 
speaker of the house the following ses¬ 
sion. In 1882 he was elected governor of 
Oregon, and served for four years. 

MOOERS, BENJAMIN, soldier, state 
legislator, was born April 1, 1758, in Hav¬ 
erhill, Mass. In 1783 he settled in the vi¬ 
cinity of Plattsburg, N. Y„ then a wilder¬ 
ness, was for eight years a member of the 
New York legislature, and held various 
other offices. He w#s a major-general of 
militia, and as such commanded at the 
battle of Plattsburg, in 1814. He died Feb. 

20, 1838, in Plattsburg, N. Y. 

MOON, JOHN AUSTIN, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born April 22, 1855, in 
Albemarle county, Va. He was elected 
attorney for the city of Chattanooga, 
Tenn., in 1881 and 1882; and was appoint¬ 
ed special circuit judge in 1889, and twice 
reappointed, and held the office contin¬ 
uously under special commissions until 
1891. He was appointed as regular 
judge for the fourth circuit, and held 
under this commission until 1892, when 
he was elected circuit judge; and was re¬ 
elected in 1894 for a term of eight years. 
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress. 


MOON, JOHN W., merchant, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Jan. 18, 1836, 
in Wayne county, Mich. He was elected 
to the Michigan state senate in 1884, and 
re-elected in 1886; and was elected to the 
fifty-third congress as a republican. 

MOONEY, EDWARD LUDLOW, artist, 
was born March 25, 1813, in New York 
city. He executed six admirable copies 
of Inman’s portrait 
of Martin Van Bu- 
ren. He was elected 
an associate of the 
academy in 1839, 
and an academician 
in 1840. Among 
them were like¬ 
nesses of Commo¬ 
dore Oliver H. Perry 
and of Governor 
william H. Seward, 
the latter now in the 
state house at Al¬ 
bany, also that of Achmet Ben Aman, 
the commander of the Imam of Muscat’s 
frigate Sultan, purchased by the common 
council of New York. He died July 10, 
1887, in New York city. 

MOONEY, SAMUEL L., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born’ June 14, 1813, in Pow¬ 
hatan, Ohio. Since 1881 he has been pres¬ 
ident of the Bellaire, Janesville and Cin¬ 
cinnati railroad. 

MOOR, WYMAN BRADLEY SEVEY, 
lawyer, state legislator, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Nov. 3, 1814, in Water- 
ville, Maine. He was a member of the 
Maine legislature in j. 839; and was at¬ 
torney-general of that state from 1844 
to 1848. By appointment he succeeded 
John Fairfield as a senator in congress, 
serving from January to June, 1848. He 
subsequently devoted much attention to 
the railroad interests of his state; and in 
1857 was appointed consul general for the 
British American provinces. He died 
Feb. 16, 1869, in Lynchburg, Va. 

MOORE, ALFRED, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born May 21, 1755, in Bruns¬ 
wick county, N. C. In 1790 he was elected 
attorney-general of North Carolina; and 
was appointed judge in 1798. He was as¬ 
sociate judge of the supreme court of the 
United States from T799 to 1805. He died 
Oct. 15, 1810, in Belfont, N. C. 

MOORE, ALANSON WOOD, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Nov. 14, 1838, in De 
Kalb county, Ga. He was elected to the 
Louisiana state legislature in 1892, and 
was re-elected in 1894. He has delivered 
lectures on Intellectual, Moral and Phys¬ 
ical Culture; and is an ardent prohibi¬ 
tionist. 

MOORE, ANDREW, congressman, was 
born in 1752 in Canniscello, Va. He was 
a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1789 to 1797, and again from 
1803 to 1804, when he was appointed to 
the United States senate. He died April 
14, 1821, near Lexington, Va. 

MOORE, ANDREW B., educator, gov¬ 
ernor. He was governor of Alabama from 
1857 to 1863. He died April 5, 1873, in 
Marion, Ala. 

MOORE, MRS. ANNIE AUBERTINE 
‘[WOODWARD], author, was born Sept. 
27, 1841, in Montgomery county, Pa. She 
is a Wisconsin translator of note from the 
Norse; co-translator with Anderson of 
Bjornson’s novels, and editor of Echoes 
from Mist Land. 

MOORE, AUDREY C., journalist, phy¬ 
sician, was born March 12, 1867, in La 
Grange, Mo. He is a prominent physician 
of Anaheim, Cal.; and is the editor and 
owner of the Osteopath, a medical jour¬ 
nal. He is vice-presiaent of the Pacific 
School of Osteopathy, and demonstrator 
in osteopathy in that institution. 













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MOORE, AUGUSTA, poet. She has 
contributed a number of poems to the 
leading periodical and local press of 
Maine. 

MOORE, BARTHOLOMEW FIGURES, 
lawyer, state legislator, was born Jan. 29, 
1801, in Halifax county, N. C. He was 
in the North Carolina legislature in 1836- 
44. He was attorney-general of North 
Carolina in 1848, and was appointed to 
revise the laws of that state in 1849-54. 
He died Nov. 27, 1878, in Raleigh, N. C. 

MOORE, CHARLES, journalist, author, 
was born March 29, 1801, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a successful journalist and author 
of Boston, Mass.; and founded Zion’s Her¬ 
ald in 1823. 

MOORE, CHARLES CALDWELL, in¬ 
ventor, was born Feb. 13, 1830, in Marion, 
N. Y. He served in the civil war and was 
made quartermaster, serving in that ca¬ 
pacity for three years. In 1865 he in¬ 
vented and patented the Moore’s cush¬ 
ioned blotter. 

MOORE, CHARLES HERBERT, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1840 in New 
York. He is a professor of art at Har¬ 
vard university, and the author of The 
Development and Character of Gothic 
Architecture, a work of much value; and 
Examples for Elementary Practice in De¬ 
lineation. 

MOORE, CHARLES LEONARD, law¬ 
yer, author, poet, was born March 16, 1854, 
in Philadelphia. He is a lawyer and poet 
of Philadelphia; and the author of Poems 
Antique and Modern; Banquet of Pala¬ 
cios, a Comedy; and A Book of Day 
Dreams, a volume of poems. 

MOORE, MRS. CLARA [JESSUP], au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Feb. 16, 1824, in Phil¬ 
adelphia. She is a Philadelphia author 
who lived much abroad, mainly in Lon¬ 
don. She is the author of Master Jacky’s 
Holidays; Frank and Fanny; The Dia¬ 
mond Cross; Mabel’s Mission; Poems and 
Stories; On Dangerous Ground, a novel; 
Gondaline’s Lesson; Sensible Etiquette; 
Slander and Gossip; Social Ethics; and 
The Warden’s Tale, and Other Poems. 

MOORE, CLEMENT CLARKE, edu¬ 
cator, author, poet, was born July 15,1779, 
in New York city. He was an educator of 
New York city, and professor of oriental 
literature in the General Theological sem¬ 
inary in 1821-63. He published a Hebrew- 
English Lexicon and a volume of poems, 
but is more widely known as the author 
of the famous poem. The Visit of St. 
Nicholas. He died July 10, 1863, in New¬ 
port, R. I. 

MOORE, DAVID ALBERT, physician, 
author, was horn Nov. 8, 1814, in Lansing, 
N. Y. He is a physician of Syracuse, and 
the author of A Panorama of Time; and 
How She Won Him. 

MOORE, DUNLOP, clergyman, author, 
was horn July 25, 1830, in Ireland. Since 
1875 he has been pastor of the First Pres¬ 
byterian church of New Brighton, Pa. 
He assisted in translating the Scriptures 
into the Gujurati language, wrote treatises 
on Mohammedanism and Jainism, and 
edited a monthly periodical, The Gnyan- 
dipaka, in the same tongue. 

MOORE, EDWIN WARD, naval officer, 
was born in 1811, in Alexandria, Va. In 
1836 he was selected by the new govern¬ 
ment of Texas for the chief command of 
its navy, with the rank of commodore. 
He died Oct. 5, 1865, in New York city. 

MOORE, ELIAKIM HASTINGS, sur¬ 
veyor, banker, congressman, was born 
June 19, 1812, in Worcester county, Mass. 
From 1836 to 1846 he was county surveyor 
of Ohio; and from 1846 to 1860 county 
auditor. He was a director, and then 
president for many years, of the Athens 


branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and 
subsequently of the First National bank 
of Athens. In 1862 he was appointed a 
collector of internal revenue; and in 1868 
was elected a representative from Ohio 
to the forty-first congress. 

MOORE, ELY, journalist, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1835 to i839. He was ap¬ 
pointed Indian agent in Kansas territory; 
and at the time of his death was register 
of a land office in Kansas. He died Jan. 
26, 1860. 

MOORE, ERASMUS DARWIN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Sept. 30, 1802, in 
Winsted, Conn. He was a congregational 
minister and editor of Boston, and the 
author of Life Scenes in Mission Fields; 
and The New Heart. He died in 1889. 


MOORE, FRANK, author, was born 
Dec. 17, 1828, in Concord, N. H. He is a 
writer of New York city who has edited 
a Cyclopedia of American Eloquence; and 
The Rebellion Record, and other com¬ 
pilations. Women of the War is one of 
his original works. 

MOORE, FREDERIC A., journalist, 
poet, was born Feb. 11, 1826, in Bristol, 
N. H. He is the autnor of The Book of 
Gems. 


MOORE, GABRIEL, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born 
about 1790, in Stokes county, N. C. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Alabama from 1822 to 1829; governor of 
the state from 1829 to 1831; and a senator 
in congress from 1831 to 1837. He died 
June 9, 1844, in Caddo, Texas. 


MOORE, GEORGE HENRY, author, 
was born April 20, 1823, in Concord, N. H. 
He was the superintendent of the Lenox 
library, New York city, from 1872 till his 
death. He was the author of History of 
the Jurisprudence of New York; Treason 
of Charles Lee; Notes on the History of 
Slavery in Massachusetts; Washington as 
an Angler; and Employment of Negroes 
in the Revolutionary Army. He died in 


1892. 

MOORE, HARRY HUMPHREY, artist, 
was born July 2, 1844, in New York city. 
His works, which are cmefly on Moorish, 
Spanish and Japanese subjects, include 
Almeh, the figure of a Moorish dancer 
in the Alhambra, for which he received a 
medal at the Philadelphia Centennial ex¬ 
hibition in 1876; The Blind Guitar Player; 
A Moorish Bazaar; A vulgarian; A Moor¬ 
ish Merchant; A Morning Call in Japan; 
The Daimio; and A Garden Party at the 
Alhambra. 

MOORE, HEMAN ALLEN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1810, in Plainfield, 
Vt. He was appointed adjutant-general 
of the Ohio state militia; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1843 to the time of his death. He 
died April 3, 1844, in Columbus, Ohio. 

MOORE, HENRIETTA G., universalist 
minister, temperance worker, lecturer, 
was born in Newark, Ohio. For a number 
of years she was en¬ 
gaged in educational 
work; and then took 
up the temperance 
crusade movement. 
As a temperance or¬ 
ganizer she has la¬ 
bored in every state 
and territory in the 
union. In 1891 she 
was regularly or¬ 
dained a minister of 
the universalist 
church by the Ohio 
universalist convention in Columbus. She 
fills a pastorate in Springfield, Ohio; and 
is also prominently identified with the 
prohibitionists. 



MOORE, HENRY, governor of New 
York, was born in 1713, in Jamaica, W. I. 
He was the only native colonist that was 
ever governor of New York. He died 
Sept. 11, 1769, in New York city. 

MOORE, HENRY D., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 17, 1817, in 
Goshen, N. Y. He was a representative 
in congress from Pennsylvania from 1849 
to 1853; and for several years after leav¬ 
ing congress was treasurer of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 

MOORE, HENRY EATON, journalist, 
composer, was born July 31, 1803, in An¬ 
dover, N. H. He established and edited 
the Grafton Journal in Plymouth, N. H„ 
in 1824-26, and subsequently taught music 
in Concord, N. H., and in Cambridge, 
Mass. A short time before his death he 
began the publication of the Boston 
Eoliad, a weekly musical journal. His 
publications include The Musical Cate¬ 
chism, and other musical works. He died 
Oct. 23, 1831, in East Cambridge, Mass. 

MOORE, HORACE L., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born Feb. 25, 
1837, in Mantua, Ohio. He enlisted as a pri¬ 
vate soldier in the 
second Kansas in¬ 
fantry May 14, 1861, 
and served continu¬ 
ously until June 30, 
1865, when he was 
mustered out of the 
service as lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel of the 
fourth Arkansas 
cavalry; and com¬ 
manded the eight¬ 
eenth and nine¬ 
teenth regiments of 
Kansas cavalry in the United States serv¬ 
ice, serving against the Indians on the 
plains in 1867-68. He has been engaged 
in mercantile pursuits since the close of 
his service in the army, except for two 
years, when he was treasurer of Douglas 
county, Kansas. He was elected to the 
fifty-third congress. He is now engaged 
in compiling a genealogy of the Moore 
family. 

MOORE, HORATIO NEWTON, author, 
was born in 1814 in New Jersey. He was 
the author of Orlando, a tragedy; The 
Regicide, a drama; Memoir of the Du¬ 
anes; Mary Morris, a novel; and Lives of 
Marion and Wayne. He died Aug. 26, 
1859, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MOORE, JACOB BAILEY, journalist, 
author, was born Oct. 31, 1797, in An¬ 
dover, N. H. He was a journalist who 
was postmaster of San Francisco in 1849- 
53, and the author of Laws of Trade in 
the United States; Gazetteer of New 
Hampshire; and Annals of Concord, New 
Hampshire. He died Sept. 1, 1853, in 
Bellows Falls, N. Y. 

MOORE, JAMES, governor, was born 
about 1640 in Ireland. He emigrated to 
this country about 1665, settled in 
Charleston, S. C., and in 1700 was gov¬ 
ernor of the state. He died in 1729 in 
Charleston, S. C. 

MOORE, JAMES, soldier, was born in 
1737, in New Hanover, N. C. He served 
in the revolutionary war and was pro¬ 
moted brigadier-general; made command- 
er-in-chief of the southern department, 
and received the thanks of congress. He 
died Jan. 15, 1777, in Wilmington, N. C. 

MOORE, JEHIEL TUTTLE, physician, 
surgeon, lecturer, was born Oct. 4, 1848, 
in Ontario, Canada. He was dean of the 
Minneapolis college of physicians and 
surgeons for thirteen years, and lecturer 
on theory and practice of medicine for 
the past fourteen years. 






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MOORE, JESSE HALE, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, congressman, was born 
April 22, 1817, in St. Clair county, Ill. 
He served in the civil war and was bre- 
vetted a brigadier-general. After the war 
he re-entered the pulpit, and was pre¬ 
siding elder at Decatur. In 1868 he was 
elected a representative from Illinois to 
the forty-first congress; and was re-elect¬ 
ed to the forty-second congress. 

MOORE, JOHN, state legislator, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1788, 
in Berkeley county, Va. From 1825 to 
1834 he was a member of the Louisiana 
state legislature; and also served several 
years in the state senate. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Louisiana 
from 1841 to 1843, and again from 1851 to 
1853. He died in June, 1867, in Louisiana. 

MOORE, JOHN, Roman catholic bishop, 
was born June 27, 1835, in Ireland. He 
was consecrated second bishop of St. 
Augustine, Fla., in the pro-cathedral, 
Charleston, in 1877. 

MOORE, JOHN GODFREY, founder, 
was born July 7, 1847, in Steuben, Maine. 
In 1880, when the Western Union tele¬ 
graph Co. had ap¬ 
parently absorbed 
all its rivals, Messrs. 
Evans and Moore 
entertained the idea 
of coustructing lines 
connecting the prin¬ 
cipal cities and of 
leasing wires to 
bankers and mer¬ 
chants during busi¬ 
ness hours and to 
newspapers at night. 
Abundant capital 
was forthcoming for the purpose, and the 
projectors had soon stretched wires, con¬ 
necting the cities of New York, Boston 
and Washington. Finally, the Western 
Union Telegraph Co. purchased the lines 
of the American Union Telegraph Co., 
and then Mr. Moore organized the Mutual 
Union Telegraph Co. 

MOORE, JOHN WEEKS, author, was 
born April 11, 1807, in Andover, N. H. 
He was the author of Historical Gather¬ 
ings Relating to Printers, Printing, and 
Publishing. He died in 1889. 

MOORE, JOSEPH B., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born Nov. 3, 1845, in 
Commerce, Mich. Since 1868 he has prac¬ 
ticed law in Lapeer, Mich. For eight 
years he served as judge of the sixth ju¬ 
dicial circuit; was a member of the state 
senate in 1879; was prosecuting attorney 
of Lapeer county for two terms; and in 
1895 was elected justice of the supreme 
court. 

MOORE, JOSEPH WEST, author. He 
is the author of Picturesque Washington; 
The American Congress; and A History 
of National Legislation and Political 
Events. 

MOORE, JUDSON L., musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Sept. 12, 1857, in Bethle¬ 
hem, Ga. He is the author of a number 
of pieces of Sunday-school and singing 
class music. 

MOORE, LABAN T., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 13, 1829, in 
Cabell county, Ya. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Kentucky to the thirty- 
sixth congress; and served as a colonel 
in the army during the rebellion. 

MOORE, LITTLEION WILDE, soldier, 
Jurist, congressman, was born in 1835 in 
Alabama. He was elected to the constitu¬ 
tional convention of Texas in 1875; was 
elected district judge in 1876; and re¬ 
mained upon the bench till 1885. He was 
• elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses; and was re-elected to the fifty- 
: second congress as a democrat. 


MOORE, LUCAS, farmer, public official, 
was born July 8, 1861, in Washington 
county, Ky. He is a successful farmer of 
Lebanon, Ky.; and commissioner of agri¬ 
culture, labor and statistics for the state 
of Kentucky. 

MOORE, MARSHAL F., governor, was 
born in New York. He moved to Ohio 
and was appointed from that state gov¬ 
ernor of the territory of Washington, re¬ 
siding at Olympia. 

MOORE, MARTIN, clergyman, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born April 22, 1790, in 
Sterling, Mass. He edited the Boston Re¬ 
corder twenty years, and in 1861-66 was a 
vice-president of the New England his¬ 
toric-genealogical society. He published 
a History of Na'tick; and Life of John 
Eliot. He died March 12, 1866, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

MOORE, MARTIN V., author, poet, was 
born April 12, 1837, in Johnson county, 
Tenn. His literary work has been con¬ 
fined chiefly to prose 
writing, and he has 
done much in the 
line of editorial 
work, in miscellan¬ 
eous short stories, 
sketches, magazine 
articles, book re¬ 
views, scientific pa¬ 
pers, political and 
historical works, 
and is the author of 
several large prose 
works. His poems 
have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, 
Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine, The 
Atlanta Constitution, and in several stan¬ 
dard collections. 

MOORE, MRS. ELLA MAUDE, poet, 
She is a successful writer of Thomaston, 
Maine; and the author of a volume of 
poems entitled 
Songs; and of Sun¬ 
shine and Shadow, 
which has attracted 
favorable notice 
from the press and 
public. . She is also 
a constant contrib¬ 
utor of poems to the 
leading newspapers 
and magazines of 
the United States; 
and her poems have 
been given a place 
in Poets of America and other standard 
collections. 

MOORE, MONTA J., lawyer, legislator, 
was born March 28, 1866, in Cameron, 
Texas. During 1892-94 he was a member of 
the state democratic executive committee; 
in 1892 was elected a member of the house 
of representatives of the Texas legisla¬ 
ture. He was defeated for nomination 
for congress by Governor George C. Pen¬ 
dleton in 1894; and in 1896 he declined 
the nomination for congress. He is one 
of the foremost lawyers of the west, and 
has a large practice in his native city. 

MOORE, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 
lawyer, banker, legislator, jurist, was 
born Sept. 7, 1832, in London, Ohio. He 
was county judge of Page county, Iowa, 
for several years; and a member of the 
senate of that state. Since 1888 he has 
resided in Fort Worth, engaged in law 
and banking. 

MOORE, NATHANIEL F„ college pres¬ 
ident, author, was born Dec. 25, 1782, in 
Newtown, L. I. In 1842-49 he was president 
of Columbia college, he was the author 
of Ancient Mineralogy; Lectures on 
Greek Language and Literature; An In¬ 
troduction to Universal Grammar; and a 
Historical Sketch of Columbia College. 
He died April 7, 1872, in The Highlands 
of the Hudson. 


MOORE, NICHOLAS R., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1803 to 1811, and again 
from 1813 to 1816. He died in 1816 in 
Baltimore. 

MOORE, ORREN C., journalist, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Aug. 10, 
1839, in New Hampton, N. H. He is a 
journalist, establishing the Nashua Daily 
Telegraph in 1869, which he still edits 
and conducts. He served six terms in 
the lower branch of the New Hampshire 
legislature, and one term in the upper 
branch; was a member of the state tax 
commission; and chairman of the state 
railroad commission for three years. He 
was elected to the fifty-first congress as 
a republican. 

MOORE, OSCAR F., congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1855 to 
1857. 

MOORE, RICHARD CHANNING, pro- 
testant episcopal bishop, was born Aug. 
21, 1762, in New York city. He accepted 
a call to St. An¬ 
drew’s, Richmond, 
Staten Island, N. Y., 
which he held for 
twenty-one years. 
He received the de¬ 
gree of D. D. from 
Dartmouth in 1805. 
Inl808 he was a cler¬ 
ical deputy to the 
general convention 
of his church in 
Baltimore, Md., and 
was chairman of the 
committee on additions to iis hymnal. In 
1809 he accepted the rectorship of St. 
Stephen’s, New York city, where he re¬ 
mained for five years. He was conse- . 
crated bishop of Virginia in 1814. He died 
Nov. 11, 1841, in New York city. 

MOORE, ROBERT, congressman, was 
born in Washington county, Pa. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1817 to 1821. 

MOORE, S. McD., soldier, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1833 to 1835; and served in the confeder¬ 
ate army during the rebellion. 

MOORE, SAMUEL, physician, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 9, 1796, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1819 to 
1822. He died Feb. 18, 1861. 

MOORE, MRS. SUSAN TEACKLE 
[SMITH], author, was born in Maryland. 
She is a novelist of Brooklyn, and the 
author of Ryle’s Open Gate. 

MOORE, SYDENHAM E., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born in 
Rutherford county, Tenn. He was judge 
of the county court of Greene county, 
Ala., for six years; and for a short time 
also of the circuit court of that state. He 
resigned his judgeship, and went to Mex¬ 
ico as captain of a volunteer company. 
On his return home he was elected briga¬ 
dier-general of militia. In 1857 he was 
chosen a member of the thirty-fifth con¬ 
gress; and re-elected to the thirty-^ixth 
congress. He aiso took part in the rebel¬ 
lion as a colonel. 

MOORE, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1801 to 1813, and 
again rrom 1815 to 1817. 

MOORE, THOMAS OVERTON, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in North Carolina. He 
settled in Rapides Parish as a cotton 
planter; in 1856 was elected to the state 
senate of Louisiana; and in 1860 was 
elected governor, serving four years. He 
died at his home in June, 1876. 








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MOORE, THOMAS PATRICK, soldier, 
■congressman, was born in 1797, in Char¬ 
lotte county, Va. He was an officer in 
the war. He was a member of congress 
from 1823 to 18/9 from Kentucky; and was 
minister to the republic of Colombia in 

1829. He was lieutenant-colonel in the 
regular army during the war with Mex¬ 
ico; and his last public position was that 
of a member of the convention for re¬ 
vising the constitution of Kentucky. He 
■died July 21, 1853, in Harrodsburg, Ky. 

MOORE, THOMAS S., congressman, 
was born in Jefferson county, Va. He 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 18^0 to 1823. 

MOORE, THOMAS VERNON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 1, 1818, in 
Newville, Pa. He was a presbyterian 
minister of Nashville, and the author of 
Last Words of Jesus; God’s University, 
or the World a School; The Culdee 
Church; Corporate Life of the Church; 
and The Last Days of Jesus. He died 
Aug. 5, 1871, in Nashville, Tenn. 

MOORE, WALTER BURRITT, soldier, 
lawyer, author, was horn Sept. 25, 1836, 
in Bristol, Vt. He removed to New York 
and with Paul A. Chadbourne he edited 
The Public Seiwice of the State of New 
York, in three volumes. 

MOORE, WILLIAM, lawyer, was born 
in 1734, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1781 he 
was elected president of the executive 
■council of Pennsylvania, resigning in 
1782. He died July 24, 1793. 

MOORE, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 25, 1810, in 
Montgomery county. Pa. He was twice 
■elected a judge of the court of common 
pleas for Atlantic county, N. J., serving in 
all ten years. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New jersey to the fortieth 
and forty-first congresses. 

MOORE, WILLIAM EVES, clergyman, 
author, was born April 1, 1823, in Stras- 
burg, Pa. He is a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of Columbus, Ohio, since 1872; and 
the author of New Digest of the General 
Assembly; and The Presbyterian Digest. 

MOORE, WILLIAM ROBERT, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born March 28, 

1830, in Huntsville, Ala. He was elected 
a representative from Tennessee to the 
forty-seventh congress as a republican. 

MOOrtE, WILLIAM o., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 18, 1822, in 
Bethlehem, Pa. He was elected to the 
forty-third congress from Pennsylvania 
as a republican. 

MOORE, WILLIAM THOMAS, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born Aug. 
27, 1832, in Henry county, Ky. He is a 
voluminous writer. Most prominent 
among the productions of his pen are. 
Views of Life, a beautiful book, full of 
practical thoughts on every-day subjects, 
and free from pulpit cant; and, the Living- 
Pulpit of the Christian Church. 

MOORE, ZEPHANIAH SWIFT, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born Nov. 20, 
1770, in Palmer, Mass. He was president 
of Williams college in 1815; and in 1822 
became the first president of Amherst 
college. He died June 30, 1823, in Am¬ 
herst, Mass. 

MOOREHEAD, WARREN KING, arch¬ 
aeologist, author, was born in 1866 in 
Italy. He is an archaeologist of Italian 
birth, but American parentage, curator 
<of the Ohio State Archaeological Museum 
at Columbus. He is the author of Primi¬ 
tive Man in Ohio; Fort Ancient; The 
<!reat Prehistoric Earthwork of Warren 
•County, Ohio; Waneta, the Sioux, a 
Story of Indian Life; and Field Work. 


MOORHEAD, JAMES KENNEDY, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 7, 1806, in 
Halifax, Pa. In 1836 he moved to Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa.; there took ah active part in 
improving the navigation of the Monon- 
gahela. He was made president of a 
company bearing that name, and estab¬ 
lished in that city the Union Cotton fac¬ 
tory. In 1838 he received the militia title 
of adjutant-general. In 1859 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Pennsylvania to 
the thirty-sixth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-seventh, thirty- 
eighth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. He died March 
6, 1884, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

MORAIS, SABATO, clergyman, was 
born April 29, 1824, in Italy. He 
took an active part in the establishment 
of the conservative Jewish theological 
seminary of New York, opened in 1887, 
of which he was chosen president, and 
has been active in furthering Jewish 
charitable and educational progress in 
Philadelphia. 

MORAN, JANE WORMLEY BLACK¬ 
BURN, author, was born Nov. 14, 1842, in 
Spring Grove, Va. She is the author of 
Miss Washington of Virginia; What a 
Man Can do with a Woman’s Life; and 
other works. She is the wife of Frank 
Bergen Moran, a son of the millionaire 
banker of New York city, who is well 
known by several remarkable books on 
government, free trade, and political 
economy. She resides in Charlottesville, 
Va. 

MORAN, LEON, artist, was born in 
1863, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has ex¬ 
hibited numerous paintings at the Na¬ 
tional academy, which include Waylaid; 
An Interrupted Conspiracy; and An 
Amateur. Among his most successful 
works are The Duel; An Idyl; Eel Fish¬ 
ing; and Intercepted Dispatches. 

MORAN, MRS. MARY NIMMO, artist, 
was born May 10, 1842, in Scotland. She 
has attained eminence in America as a 
successful artist; and is the wife of the 
well known landscape painter. 

MORAN, PERCt, artist, was born in 
1862, in Philadelphia, Pa. He excels in 
portraying female heads and figures, and 
his touch is crisp and decided. Among 
his recent paintings are Divided Atten¬ 
tion, for which he received the first prize 
at the New York academy of design in 
1886; A Corner of the Studio; and The 
Wood Cutter’s Daughter. 

MORAN, PETER, artist, was born in 
1842 in England. He is a successful artist 
of Philadelphia, Pa. 

MORAN, THOMAS, artist, was born 
Jan. 12, 1837, in England. Among his im¬ 
portant works are The Pass of Glencoe; 
The Mountain of the Holy Cross, which 
he exhibited at the Centennial of 1876, 
and for which he received a medal and 
diploma. 

MORDECAI, ALFRED, soldier, author, 
was born Jan. 3, 1804, in Warrenton, N. C. 
He was a soldier and military engineer; 
secretary of the Pennsylvania Canal com¬ 
pany since 1867; and the author of Digest 
of Military Laws; Ordnance Manual; Re¬ 
ports of Gunpowder Experiments; and 
Artillery for United States Land Service. 
He died Oct. 23, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MORDEN, WILLIAM J., inventor, was 
born in 1832. He was the inventor in 
1868 of the first U plate frog and cross¬ 
ing, which invention is now in use on 
every railroad in America. At the time 
of his death he was president of the Mor- 
den Frog and Crossing works, a plant 
which covers five acres at South Chicago. 
He died Feb. 27, 1897, in Chicago, Ill. 


MORE, PAUL ELMER, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1864 in Missouri. He 
is an instructor in Sanskrit and Greek at 
Bryn Mawr college; and the author of 
The Great Refusal: Being Letters of 
a Dreamer in Gotham. 

MORE, THOMAS ROMAN, stockman, 
poet, was born Sept. 27, 1856, in Santa 
Barbara, Cal. After graduating from the 
Ann Arbor high school, he attended the 
Michigan university. He is a successful 
stockman, and the owner of several large 
ranches in California. His poems have 
appeared in various newspapers and mag¬ 
azines, and in several standard works. 

MOREHEAD, CHARLES R., merchant, 
banker, was born Feb. 28, 1836, in Rich¬ 
mond, Mo. He attended the Masonic col¬ 
lege of Lexington, Mo. He was assistant 
general agent and chief clerk of the 
Lnited States Transportation company in 
the Utah expedition of 1857; and in 1868- 
69 was mayor of Leavenworth, Kan. He 
has been president of the State National 
bank of El Paso, Texas, since its organ¬ 
ization in 1881; was president of the 
board of education in 1893-94; and since 
1860 has been a successful merchant and 
banker. In 1895 he was elected knight 
commander of the Court of Honor, Scot¬ 
tish rite masons, by the supreme council 
at Washington, D. C. 

MOREHEAD, CHARLES SLAUGH¬ 
TER, lawyer, legislator, congressman, 
governor, was born July 7, 1802, in Nel¬ 
son county, Ky. He was elected to the 
Kentucky state legislature, serving dur¬ 
ing 1828 and 1829. In 1832 he was ap¬ 
pointed attorney-general of Kentucky, 
which office he held five years. In 1838-40 
he was again returned to the legislature, 
officiating during the latter year as 
speaker. He was re-elected and made 
speaker in 1841. He was again re-elected 
in 1842 and 1844, and for the third time 
chosen speaker. He was a representative 
in congress from Kentucky from 1847 to 
1851; in 1853 was once more returned to 
the legislature; and in 1855 was elected 
governor of Kentucky. He died Dec. 23, 
1868, in Greenville, Miss. 

MOREHEAD, I. T., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina from 1851 to 1853. 

MOREHEAD, JAMES TURNER, law¬ 
yer, legislator, governor, United States 
senator, was born May 24, 1797, in Cov¬ 
ington, Ky. He served three years in the 
Kentucky state legislature; in 1832 was 
elected lieutenant-governor of Kentucky, 
and in 1834 became governor. In 1837 he 
was again elected to the legislature. In 
1838 he was appointed president of the 
board of internal improvements, which 
office he held until 1841, when he was 
elected to the United States senate for 
the term of six years. He died Dec. 28, 
1854, in Covington, Ky. 

MOREHEAD. JOHN MOTLEY, lawyer, 
legislator, governor, was born July 4, 
1796, in Pennsylvania county, Va. He 
served in the North Carolina legislature, 
and early became a whig, being a warm 
friend of Henry Clay. From 1841 till 1845 
he was governor of North Carolina. He 
died Aug. 28, 1866, in Rockbridge, Va. 

MOREHOUSE, S. THOMAS, journalist, 
was born Nov. 13, 1849, in Walton, N. Y. 
He received his education in the Walton 
academy, and soon after entered journal¬ 
istic work. He is the editor and publisher 
of the Evening Star of Ridgway, Pa. 
the first and only daily paper in Elk coun¬ 
ty. He was the founder and editor of the 
Reporter of Walton, N. Y.; and is also the 
editor of the Elk Democrat. 


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MORELAND, MARY L., educator, evan¬ 
gelist, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 23, 
1858, in Westfie’.d, Mass. For many years 
she taught in the public schools; was or ¬ 
dained in 1889; and is now the pastor of 
the Union congregational church of Mc¬ 
Lean, Ill. She is a successful lecturer, 
evangelist, and the author of Which: 
Right or Wrong; Under His Wings; and 
other works. 

MORELL, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, was 
born March 22, 1786, in Lenox, Mass. 
From 1832 till 1836 he was United States 
judge of Michigan territory, ana he was a 
judge of the Michigan supreme court 
from 1836 till 1843, and its chief justice 
from July 18, 1843, until his death. He 
died March 8, 1845, in Detroit, Mich. 

MORELL, GEORGE WEBB, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Jan. 8, 1815, in Coopers- 
town, N. Y. He was appointed brigadier- 
general of volunteers in 1861, and was pro¬ 
moted major-general of volunteers. He 
died Feb. 12, 1883, in Scarborough, N. Y. 

MOREY, CHARLES ANSON, educator, 
banker, lawyer, was born Aug. 9, 1851, in 
Orange county, Vt. He nas been a suc¬ 
cessful educator, and is now a noted law¬ 
yer and banker of Winona, Minn. He has 
been president of the Normal school of 
Winona; and president of the Winona 
Savings bank. 

MOREY, FRANK, soldier, legislator, 
congressman, was born July 11, 1840, in 
Boston, Mass. He entered the army, and 
served principally 
on staff duty. He 
settled in Louisiana 
in 1866, and engaged 
in cotton planting 
and in the insurance 
business. He was a 
member of the as¬ 
sembly in 1868 and 
1869; and was ap¬ 
pointed a commis¬ 
sioner to revise the 
statutes and codes of 
the state. He was 
elected to the forty-first, forty-second, 
forty-third and forty-fourth congresses as 
a republican. 

MOREY, HENRY LEE, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 8, 1841, in 
Butler county, Ohio. He served in the 
union army from 
1861 to 1865, attain¬ 
ing the rank of cap¬ 
tain. He studied 
law; was admitted 
to the bar in 1867, 
and commenced 
practice at Hamil¬ 
ton, Ohio. In 1871 
he was elected city 
solicitor of Hamil¬ 
ton to fill a vacancy; 
and was re-elected 
. for the term of two 

years. He was elected prosecuting at¬ 
torney of Butler county in 1873; and was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
forty-seventh and forty-eighth and fifty- 
first congresses as a republican. 

MORFIT, CAMPBELL, chemist, author, 
was born Nov. 19, 1820, in Herculaneum, 
Mo. He is the author of Practical Trea¬ 
tise on the Making of Soaps; Pure Fer¬ 
tilizers and Phosphates; Arts of Tanning 
and Currying; and Use and Manufacture 
of Perfumery. 

MORFIT, CLARENCE, chemist, author, 
was born May 16, 1828, in Washington, 
D. C. He filled the office of assistant 
melter and refiner in the United States 
assay office in New York city for seven 
years. Meanwhile he was also associated 
with his brother in his analytical work 


in New York city, and was joint author 
with his brother of the second edition of 
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Manipula¬ 
tions. 

MORFORD, HENRY, journalist, author, 
was born March 10, 1823, in New Mon¬ 
mouth, N. J. He was a journalist of New 
York city who wrote a number of novels, 
dramas and poems of ephemeral merit. 
The Bells of Shandon is his best known 
play, and among his novels are, Shoulder 
Straps; Days of Shoddy; Only a Com¬ 
moner. Other works are, Rhymes of 
Twenty Years; Rhymes of an Editor; 
and Sprees and Splashes. He died May 

5, 1881, in New York city. 

MORGAN, ABEL, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1673 in Wales. He was a 
Welsh baptist minister who came to Phil¬ 
adelphia from Wales in 1712. He was the 
author of Cyd Gordiad, a Scripture con¬ 
cordance published in 1730, the second 
Welsh book printed in America. He died 
Dec. 16, 1722, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MORGAN, ABNER, soldier, legislator, 
was born June 9, 1746, in Brimfield, Mass. 
He served through the revolutionary war; 
and received the rank of major. For 
eighteen years he was a member of the 
Massachusetts state legislature. He died 
Nov. 7, 1837, in Lima, N. Y. 

MORGAN. CHARLES HALE, soldier, 
was born Nov. 6, 1834, in Manlius, N. Y. 
He was breve'tted brigadier-general, 
United States army, in 1865, for services 
in the field during Lie war, and made full 
brigadier-general of volunteers in May, 
1865. He died Dec. 20, 1875, in California. 

MORGAN, CHARLES HENRY, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born 
July 5, 1842, in Allegany county, N. Y. 
He became prosecuting attorney for Ben¬ 
ton county. He was elected to the state 
legislature. In 1874 he was elected a 
representative from Missouri to the forty- 
fourth congress; and was re-elected to the 
forty-fifth, forty-eighth, and fifty-third 
congresses as a democrat. 

MORGAN, CHRISTOPHER, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1808, in Groton, 
Conn. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1839 to 1843; 
was secretary of state of New York from 
1848 to 1852; and was mayor of Auburn 
in 1860. 

MORGAN, DANIEL, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born about 1736 in New Jersey. 
In 1755 he served as a private soldier un¬ 
der General Brad- 
dock. In 1778 he 
commanded a corps 
on the Schuylkill to 
cut off supplies from 
the British in Phila¬ 
delphia; served in 
the southern cam¬ 
paign under General 
Greene, and ad¬ 
vanced to the rank 
of brigadier-general, 
receiving from con¬ 
gress a gold medal 
for the skill and bravery he displayed at 
the battle of Cowpens in the defeat of 
Tarleton. He was a representative in 
congress from 1795 to 1799. He died July 

6, 1802, in Winchester, Va. 

MORGAN, DAVID BANISTER, soldier, 
legislator, was born in 1773, in West 
Springfield, Mass. He removed to Louis¬ 
iana in 1803, served in the territorial leg¬ 
islature; was a member of the constitu¬ 
tional convention; and after the admis¬ 
sion of Louisiana to the union was in the 
state legislature. He died July 15, 1848, 
in Covington, La. 


MORGAN, EDWIN BARBER, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, philanthropist, was. 
born May 2, 1806, in Aurora, N. Y. He 
was elected to the thirty-third congress 
as a representative from New York; and 
was re-elected to the thirty-fourth and 
thirty-fifth congresses. He died Oct. 13, 
1881, in Aurora, N. Y. 

MORGAN, EDWIN DENNISON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, governor, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Feb. 8, 1811, in Washing¬ 
ton, Mass. In 1849 he was chosen an 
alderman of New York city; during the 
same year was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate, and served two terms. In 1858 he 
was elected governor of New York, and 
re-elected in 1860. In 1861 he was ap¬ 
pointed major-general of volunteers, and, 
although he rendered much service, de¬ 
clined all compensation. In 1863 he was 
elected a senator in congress from New 
York for the term ending in 1869. He 
died Feb. 14, 1883, in New York city. 

MORGAN, EDWIN WRIGHT, soldier, 
educator, was born in 1814 in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. From 1866 till his death he was 
professor of mathematics in Lehigh uni¬ 
versity. He died April 16, 1869, in Beth¬ 
lehem, Pa. 

MORGAN, GEORGE W., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was’ born Sept. 20, 1820, in 
Washington, Pa. In 1843 he settled at 
Mount Vernon, Onio, and adopted the 
profession of the law. He served in the 
Mexican war as colonel of the second 
Ohio infantry, and for his services at the 
battles of Contreras and Churubusco was 
brevetted a brigadier-general in the regu¬ 
lar army. In 1855 he was appointed con¬ 
sul at Marseilles. In 1858 was appointed 
minister resident at Lisbon. In 1866 he 
was elected a representative from Ohio 
to the fortieth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-first and forty-second 
congresses as a democrat. 

MORGAN, GEORGE WASHBOURNE, 
organist, was born April 9, 1822, in Eng¬ 
land. He has been organist of St. Thom¬ 
as’ and Grace episcopal churches, and St. 
Ann’s and St. Stephen’s Roman catholic 
churches, and of the Brooklyn tabernacle. 
He has played in various parts of the 
United States with much success, and 
since 1880 has given annual organ recitals 
at Chickering hall. 

MORGAN, HELEN CLARISSA, edu¬ 
cator, was born Feb. 25, 1845, in Mason- 
ville, N. Y. She began by giving instruc¬ 
tion in Latin, Greek and mathematics in 
Fiske school, Ohio, and when the institu¬ 
tion had become firmly established she 
was formally given the professorship of 
Latin, thus being the first woman to oc¬ 
cupy a professor’s chair in an American 
co-educational university. 

MORGAN, HENRY, clergyman, author, 
was born March 7, 1825, m Newton, Conn. 
He was a once prominent‘methodist min¬ 
ister and lecturer of Boston; and the au¬ 
thor of Ned Nevins, tne Newsboy; The 
Fallen Priest; Sketches and Sermons; 
The Shadowy Hand, or Life Struggles; 
and Boston Inside Out. He died March 
23, 1884, in Boston, Mass. 

MORGAN, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in New Jersey. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1811 to 1813. 

MORGAN, JAMES APPLETON, lawyer, 
author, was born Oct. 2, 1850, in Portland. 
Maine. He is a lawyer of New York city, 
and the author of Laws of Literature; 
The Shakespearean Myth; ^ History of 
the Shakespeare Text; Some Shake¬ 
spearean Commentators; Shakespeare in 
Fact and Criticism; Venus and Adonis; 

A Study in Warwickshire Dialect; and 
English Version of Legal Maxims. 






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MORGAN, JAMES BRAINERD, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born in Berkeley coun¬ 
ty, W. Va. In 1870 he founded the Times 
of Gerardstown, W. Va., of which publi¬ 
cation he is still editor and owner. He 
is the author of a number of meritorious 
poems, some of which were included in 
Poets of America, and other standard na¬ 
tional collections. He has been grand 
secretary of the Independent Order of 
Good Templars; and is prominent in the 
public affairs of his county and state, and 
a member of various fraternal orders. Mr. 
Morgan is an earnest advocate of the 
temperance reform, and has written 
largely in both prose and verse in its be¬ 
half. In the Independent Order of Good 
Templars he found congenial work and 
merited appreciation, having been the 
secretary of the grand lodge of the state 
for the past ten years and been sent sev¬ 
eral times as its representative in the 
highest legislative body of the order in tne 
world. 

MORGAN. JAMES BRIGHT, soldier, 
jurist, state senator, congressman, was 
born March 14, 1835, in Lincoln county, 
Tenn. He was a member of the state 
senate of Mississippi in 1876-78; and in 
1878 was appointed chancellor of the 
third chancery district, serving four 
years. He was grand master of masons 
in Mississippi; and in 1884 was elected 
a representative from Mississippi to the 
forty-ninth congress; and was re-electeu 
to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as 
a democrat. 

MORGAN, JAMES DADY, soldier, was 
born Aug. 1, 1810, in Boston, Mass. In 

1861 he became lieutenant-colonel of the 
seventh Illinois regiment, and for merit¬ 
orious services was promoted brigadier- 
general of volunteers in 1862. He was 
brevetted major-general of volunteers in 
1865. 

MORGAN, JAMES HENRY, man-of- 
affairs, was born Jan. 31. 1853, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He is the founder and secre¬ 
tary general of the Military Order of 
Foreign Wars of the United States; and 
is president of the Mutual Life Insurance 
company of New York. 

MORGAN, JOHN HUNT, soldier, was 
born June 1, 1826, in Huntsville, Ala. 
He entered the confederate army as cap¬ 
tain of the Kentucky volunteers; and in 

1862 he was appointed major-general. He 
died Sept.’ 4, 1864, in Greenville, Tenn. 

MORGAN, JOHN J., legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1769, in Queens 
county, N. Y. He was a member of the 
New York assembly; a representative in 
congress from that state from 1821 to 
1825; and again in the assembly in 1836 
and 1840. He died July 29, 1849. 

MORGAN, JOHN TYLER, soldier, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born June 
20, 1824, in Athens, Tenn. He was a 
presidential elector in 1860 from Alabama. 
In 1861 he was a delegate to the state con¬ 
vention called to consider the question of 
secession. He entered the confederate 
army in that year, and served throughout 
the war, rising to the rank of brigadier- 
general. He was again a presidential 
elector in 1876; and was elected to the 
United States senate for six years from 
1877; and re-elected in 1882, 1888 and 
1894. 

MORGAN, LEWIS HENRY, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 21, 1818, in Aurora, 
N. Y. He was a lawyer of Rochester, 
N. Y., widely known as an ethnologist, 
and the author of League of the Iroquois; 
Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of 
the Human Family; The American 
Beaver and His Works; Ancient Society; 
and Horses and Horse Life of the Amer¬ 
ican Aborigines. He died Dec. 17, 1881, in 
Rochester, N. Y. 

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MORGAN, MAUD, harpist, was born 
Nov. 22, 1864, in New York city. She 
studied music with her father and with 
the harpist -Alfred Toulmin. She first 
appeared in 1875 in a concert with Ole 
Bull. She possesses good technique, and 
has been well received in New York and 
elsewhere. 

MORGAN, MATTHEW SOMERVILLE, 
artist, author, was born April 27, 1839, 
in England. He was associated with 
Frank C. Burnand, William S. Gilbert 
and others, in the establishment of the 
London Fun, and a volume of his car¬ 
toons in this paper has been published 
under the title American War Cartoons. 

MORGAN, MORRIS HICKY, educator, 
author, was born in 1859 on Long Island. 
He is a professor of Greek and Latin at 
Harvard university, and the author of 
De ignis eliciendi modis apud antiquos; 
Dictionary to Xenophon’s Anabasis; and 
The Art of Horsemanship by Xenophon, 
a translation with Essays and Notes. 

MORGAN, PHILIP HICKY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 9, 1825, in Baton 
Rouge, La. He was elected judge of the 
second district court of New Orleans in 
1855; and served by re-election until 1861. 
He was appointed United States district 
attorney for the eastern district of Lou¬ 
isiana; resigned and was appointed as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of the 
state in 1873, serving until 1877. 

MORGAN, THOMAS J., soldier, was 
born Aug. 17, 1839, in Franklin, Ind. He 
served through the civil war and attained 
the rank of brigadier-general. In 1891 he 
was elected commissioner of Indian af¬ 
fairs. 

MORGAN, THOMAS REES, machinist, 
inventor, manufacturer, was born March 
At a very early age 
he developed unus¬ 
ual mechanical and 
inventive talent; 
and early in life oc¬ 
cupied positions as a 
machinist in some of 
the largest iron 
works in Cardiff. In 
1865 he emigrated to 
America, s u b s e- 
quently moving to 
Pittsburg, where he 
engaged in manufac¬ 
turing steam ham¬ 
mers and other special machinery. In 
1871 he moved to Alliance, Ohio, 
where he has continued the same 
business on a very extensive scale. He 
gathered around him hundreds of trained 
mechanics and draughtsmen, the various 
departments of the factory being under 
the charge of his sons, who are young 
men of decidedly rare ability. The Mor¬ 
gan Engineering company gives employ¬ 
ment to six hundred trained workmen; 
the machinery produced being mostly of 
Mr. Morgan’s own designing, and is large¬ 
ly covered by patents. He is president of 
the City Savings bank of Alliance; a 
director of the Alliance Bank company; 
president of the Alliance board of trade; 
vice-president of the Mutual Electric 
Light and Power company; and in his 
department of business is one of the best 
informed men in America. He is one 
of the trustees of Mount Union college; a 
member of the American Institute of Min¬ 
ing Engineers; American Institute of Me¬ 
chanical Engineers of the United States; 
and a member of the Iron and Steel In¬ 
stitute and Mechanical Engineers of 
Great Britain. He died Sept. 6, 1897. 

MORGAN, WILLIAM, public official, 
congressman, was born Sept. 7, 1801, in 
Virginia. He served as a representative 


in congress from Virginia from 1835 to 
1839. In 1840 he was appointed a clerk 
in the house of representatives, from 
which position he was transferred to the 
legislature of Virginia, and declined a re- 
election. He was a democratic elector in 
1844. 

MORGAN, WILLIAM, artist, was born 
in 1826, in London, England. He is a 
member of the American Art union and 
the Artists’ Fund society. His works in¬ 
clude Emancipation; The Legend; Song 
without Words; Motherhood; Reverie; 
In the Hay-Loft; Summer; The Sortie; 
Andante; Blowing Bubbles; and La Man- 
dolinata. 

MORGAN, WILLIAM A., journalist, leg¬ 
islator, was born March 7, 1840, in Ire¬ 
land. For three years he was a soldier 
during the civil war in the twenty-third 
Kentucky volunteer infantry; and has 
served as a representative and state sena¬ 
tor in the Kansas legislature. 

MORGAN, WILLIAM FERDINAND, 
clergyman, was born Dec. 21, 1817, in 
Hartford, Conn. In 1857 he was called to 
St. Thomas’s church, New York city. In 
1888 he received the rectorship of St. 
Thomas, and was made rector emeritus of 
that church for life. He died May 19, 1888, 
in New York city. 

MORIARTY, JAMES JOSEPH, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 8, 1843, in 
Ireland. He was a Roman catholic cler¬ 
gyman of New York state; and the author 
of Wayside Pencillings; Stumbling Blocks 
made Stepping Stones on the Way to the 
Catholic Faith; All for Love; and The 
Keys of the Kingdom. He died Dec. 4, 
1887, in Utica, N. Y. 

MORIARTY, PATRICK EUGENE, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born July 4, 1804, in 
Ireland. He was an Augustinian priest 6f 
Philadelphia, father superior of his order 
in the United States; and the author of 
Life of St. Augustine. He died July 10, 
1875, in Villanova, Pa. 

MORISON, JOHN HOPKIN§, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 25, 1808, in 
Peterborough, N. H. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman, pastor at Milton, Mass., in 
1846-85; and the author of Life of Hon¬ 
orable Jeremiah Smith; Disquisitions 
and Notes on the Gospel of Saint Mat¬ 
thew; and The Great Poets as Religious 
Teachers. He died in 1896. 

MORISON, NATHANIEL HOLMES, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Dec. 14, 1815, in Peter¬ 
borough, N. H. In 1867 he accepted the 
provostship of Peabody institute, Balti¬ 
more, the duties of which, although light, 
are important. He died Nov. 15, 1890, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

MORISON, ROBERT BROWN, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born March 13, 1851, in 
Baltimore, Md. In 1884 he began the prac¬ 
tice of dermatology in Baltimore, being 
the first physician in that city to take up 
that specialty exclusively. 

MORLEY, EDWARD WILLIAMS, 
chemist, was born Jan. 29, 1838, in New¬ 
ark, N. J. His original works include a 
series of measurements prepared for the 
purpose of showing precision in the mi¬ 
crometric readings of graduations. 

MORPHIS, JOSEPH L., soldier, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born April 17, 
1831, in McNairy county, Tenn. He was 
a member of the Tennessee state legisla¬ 
ture in 1859. He moved to Mississippi in 
1863; and was elected to the state con¬ 
stitutional convention of Mississippi in 
1865. He was a member of the state legis¬ 
lature in 1866-68; and was elected to the 
forty-first and forty-second congresses as 
a republican. 


31, 1834, in Wales. 



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MORRELL, BENJAMIN, navigator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1795, in Worcester coun¬ 
ty, Mass. He was a navigator who pub¬ 
lished a noted Narrative of Four Voyages 
to the South Seas. He died in 1839. 

MORRELL, DANIEL J., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 8, 1821, in 
North Berwick, Maine. He served for a 
time in the counpils of Johnstown, Pa.; 
and was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the fortieth and forty- 
first congresses as a republican. In 1875 
he was appointed a commissioner to the 
centennial exhibition. 

MORRELL, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, was born March 22, 1786, in 
Lenox, Mass. He was a lawyer in Coop- 
erstown, N. Y.; and was appointed first 
judge of Otsego county court in 1827. He 
was a member of the assembly in 1829; 
and was reappointed judge in 1832. He 
was United States judge of Michigan ter¬ 
ritory from 1832 to 1836; judge of the 
superior court of Michigan from 1836 to 
1843; and chief justice from July 18, 1843, 
to 1845. He died March 8, 1845, in De¬ 
troit, Mich. 

MORRELL, IMOGENE ROBINSON, 
artist, was born in Attleboro, Mass. She 
painted a Historical Portrait of General 
John A. Dix, which was afterward pur¬ 
chased for the capitol at Washington; 
and portraits of Howell Cobb and John C. 
Spencer, ex-secretaries of the United 
States treasury. Her two large historical 
pictures, Washington, and the Battle of 
the Puritans have been highly praised 
both in this country and in France. 

MORRELL, THOMAS, soldier, clergy¬ 
man, was born Nov. 22, 1747, in New York 
city. At the time of his death he had 
been fifty-three years a preacher of the 
gospel, and was one of the pioneers of 
American methodism. He died Aug. 9, 
1838, in Elizabethtown, N. J. 

MORRIL, DAVID LAWRENCE, physi¬ 
cian, state senator, United States senator, 
governor, was born June 10, 1772, in Ep- 
ping, N. H. He was a representative in 
the general court of New Hampshire in 
1811, 1812, and 1816; and in 1816 was 
chosen to the United States senate for six 
years. He subsequently became a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate, and its president. 
Afterwards, for four successive terms, he 
was elected governor of New Hampshire. 
He died Jan. 28, 1849, in Concord, N. H. 

MORRILL, AMOS, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Aug. 25, 1809, in Salisbury, Mass. 
In 1867 he was appointed one of the judges 
of the supreme court of Texas; and cho¬ 
sen chief justice of the court. In 1873 he 
was commissioned judge of the United 
States district court for the eastern dis¬ 
trict of Texas. 

MORRILL, ANSON PEASLEE, manu¬ 
facturer, legislator, congressman, was 
born June 10, 1803, in Belgrade, Maine. 
He was for several years a member of the 
Maine legislature; was governor of 
Maine in 1855; and in 1860 was elected a 
representative from Maine to the thirty- 
seventh congress. He died July 4, 1887, 
in Augusta, Maine. 

MORRILL, EDMUND N., legislator, 
state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 
12, 1834, in Westbrook, Maine. In 1856 
he was elected a member of the school 
board of Westbrook. In 1857 he moved to 
Brown county, Kan.; and in October of 
that year was elected a representative in 
the first free state legislature elected in 
that territory. In 1858 he was elected a 
representative in the legislature under 
the Lecompton constitution; and in 1872 
was elected a state senator, and was re¬ 
elected in 1876. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Kansas to the forty-eighth 


congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses as 
a republican. 

MORRILL, JUSTIN SMITH, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, author, was 
born April 14, 1810, in Stratford, Vt. He 
was elected a representative from Ver¬ 
mont to the thirty-fourth congress; and 
was re-elected to the thirty-fifth, thirty- 
sixth, thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth, and 
thirty-ninth congresses. In 1866 he was 
elected a senator in congress from Ver¬ 
mont for the term commencing in 1867; 
and was re-elected in 1872, in 1878, in 1884, 
in 1890, and in 1896. He is the author of 
Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons. 

MORRILL, LOT MYRICK, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, United States senator, governor, 
was born May 3, 1813, in Belgrade, Maine. 
He was a member of the Maine legisla¬ 
ture in 1854; of the senate in 1856, and 
made its president. He was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Maine in 1858, and re-elected in 
1859 and 1860. In 1861 he was elected a 
senator in congress to fill a vacancy. He 
was also elected United States senator to 
succeed William P. Fessenden, for the 
term ending in 1877; and resigned in 1876 
to accept the office of secretary of the 
treasury, in the cabinet of President 
Grant, serving until 1877. He was then 
appointed collector of the port of Port¬ 
land, Maine. He died Jan. 10, 1883, in 
Augusta, Maine. 

MORRILL, SAMUEL P„ clergyman, 
public official, congressman, was born 
Feb. 11, 1816, in Chesterville, Maine. In 
1857 he was elected for five years register 
of deeds for Franklin county, Maine; and 
re-elected to the same office in 1867. In 
1868 he was elected a representative from 
Maine to the forty-first congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

MORRIS, BENJAMIN WISTAR, bishop, 
was born May 30, 1819, in Wellsborough, 
Pa. He was consecrated missionary bish¬ 
op of Oregon and Washington territory 
in 1868. 

MORRIS, CALVARY, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Ohio from 1837 to 
1844. 

MORRIS, CASPAR, physician, author, 
poet, was born May 2, 1805, in Philadel¬ 
phia. He was a noted Philadelphia physi¬ 
cian; and the author of Life of William 
Wilberforce; Lectures on Scarlet Fever; 
Hospital Construction; and Heart Voices 
and Home Songs. He died March 16,1884, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MORRIS, CHARLES, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 1, 1833, in Chester, Pa. He 
is an earnest student of general science, 
and an active member of the academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pa. He 
is the author of A Manual of Classical 
Literature; The Aryan Race; and Civi¬ 
lization. He has also published compila¬ 
tions of Half Hours with the Best Ameri¬ 
can Authors, in eighteen volumes; His¬ 
torical Tales, in six volumes; Tales from 
the Dramatists; and a History of the 
United States for school purposes. 

MORRIS, CHARLES, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the 
continental congress from 1783 to 1784. 

MORRIS, CHARLES, naval officer, was 
born July 26, 1784, in Woodstock, Conn. 
He served during the war with Tripoli in 
1801-05; and during 1816-17 commanded 
the naval forces in the Gulf of Mexico. 
He filled numerous offices; was commis¬ 
sioned to inspect the dock-yards of Eng¬ 
land and France; for many years had 
supervision of the Naval academy. He 
died Jan. 27, 1856, in Washington, D. C. 


MORRIS, CHARLES D’URBAN, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Feb. 17, 1827, in 
England. He was an educator who was 
professor of Latin and Greek in Johns 
Hopkins university in 1876; and the au¬ 
thor of A Compendious Grammar of Attic 
Greek; Compendious Grammar of the Lat¬ 
in Language; and Principia Latina. He 
died Feb. 7, 1886, in Baltimore, Md. 

MORRIS, CLARA, actress, was born 
about 1846, in Cleveland, Ohio. She made 
her debut upon the stage at the age of 
fifteen. Her great success has been in the 
representation of strongly emotional 
scenes. 

MORRIS. DANIEL, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Jan. 4, 1812, 
in Seneca county, N. Y. He was at one 
time district attorney for Yates county; 
and served one term in the New York 
state legislature. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the thirty- 
eighth congress; and was re-elected to 
the thirty-ninth congress. 

MORRIS, EDMUND, journalist, author, 
was born Aug. 28, 1804, in Burlington, N. 
J. He was a journalist and agricultural 
writer of Burlington, N. J.; and the au¬ 
thor of Ten Acres Enough; How to Get a 
Farm and Where to Find One; and Farm¬ 
ing for Boys. He died May 4, 1874, in 
Burlington, N. J. 

MORRIS, EDWARD JOY, legislator, 
diplomat, congressman, author, was born 
July 15, 1815, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was a member of the house of representa¬ 
tives of Pennsylvania in 1841-43; and was 
elected to the twenty-eighth congress as 
representative from the first congressional 
district. On his return to Philadelphia 
he was chosen a member of the board of 
directors of Girard college; and in 1856 
was again elected to the state legislature. 
In the fall of that year he was elected 
to the thirty-fifth congress. He was the 
author of A Tour Through Turkey, Greece 
and Egypt; The Turkish Empire, Social 
and Political; Afraja, or Life and Love in 
Norway; and Corsica, Social and Politi¬ 
cal. He died Dec. 31, 1881, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

MORRIS, EDWIN DAFYDD, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Oct. 31, 
1825, in Utica, N. Y. He is a presbyterian 
minister and educator, professor of theol¬ 
ogy in Lane seminary since 1874; and the 
author of Outlines of Christian>Doctrine; 
Ecclesiology; Salvation After Death; and 
A Defense of Lane Seminary. 

MORRIS, MRS. EUGENIA LAURA 
[TUTTLE], author, was born in 1833 in 
Connecticut. She is a writer of New Ha¬ 
ven; and the author of A Spinster’s Leaf¬ 
lets; A Hilltop Summer; and Aunt Billy. 

MORRIS, FRANCIS, naval officer, was 
born in 1842 in New York. He served in 
the United States navy during the civil 
war, attaining for meritorious services the 
rank of commodore. He died Feb. 12, 
1883, in Newport, R. I. 

MORRIS, FREEMAN P., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born March 19, 1854, in Cook 
county, Ill. He received his education in 
the Blue Island High school, the Cook 
County Normal school, and the North¬ 
western university. He is a prominent 
lawyer of Watseka, Ill., where for many 
years he has been president of the board 
of education. He has been a member of 
the thirty-fourth, thirty-sixth, thirty- 
eighth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth general 
assemblies of the’Illinois state legislature, 
and served as chairman of the joint and 
house caucus for three sessions. He was a 
delegate to the democratic national con¬ 
vention in 1896; and is a member of the 
Illinois National guard, with rank of col¬ 
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MORRIS, GEORGE POPE, journalist, 
author, poet, was born Oct. 10, 1802, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a journalist of 
New York city; and 
assisted in founding 
The New York Mir¬ 
ror, and The Home 
Journal. He was fa¬ 
mous as a song¬ 
writer, and now 
chiefly remembered 
for such poems as 
My Mother’s Bible; 
Woodman, Spare 
that Tree. He was 
for many years edi¬ 
tor of The Home 
Journal, and one of the prominent literary 
figures of the metropolis. He was the au¬ 
thor of Briarcliff, a drama; The Little 
Frenchman; and Poems. He died July 
6, 1864, in New York city. 

MORRIS, GEORGE SYLVESTER, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Nov. 15, 1840, in 
Norwich, Vt. He was an educator and 
philosophical writer, who was professor at 
the university of Michigan in 1870. He 
was the author of British Thought and 
Thinkers; Kant’s Critique of Pure Rea¬ 
son, a Critical Exposition; Philosophy 
and Christianity; and Hegel’s Philosophy 
of the State and of History. He died in 
1889. 

MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, author, was 
born Jan. 31, 1752, in Morrisania, N. Y. 
In 1775 he was a delegate to the provin¬ 
cial congress from New York, and signed 
the articles of confederation. He was a 
commissioner to England in 1789; was 
the second president of the New York 
Historical society; and in 1792 was ap¬ 
pointed minister to France, and remained 
in that capacity till 1794. In 1800 he was 
chosen a senator of the United States 
from New York, serving three years. He 
was the author of Observations on the 
American Revolution; and selections, 
etc. He died Nov. 6, 1816, in Morrisania, 
N. Y. 

MORRIS, HARRISON SMITH, author, 
poet, was born in 1856 in Pennsylvania. 
He is the author of A Duet in Lyrics 
(verse, with J. A. Henry); Madonna, and 
Other Poems. He has edited Tales from 
Ten Poets; In the Yule Log Glow; and 
Where Meadows Meet the Sea, and an 
edition of Lamb’s Tales from Shakes¬ 
peare with a continuation and completion. 

MORRIS, HERBERT WILLIAM, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born July 21, 1818, in 
Wales. He is a presbyterian clergyman; 
since 1877 retired from the ministry and 
devoted to literary pursuits. He is the 
author of Science and the Bible; Present 
Conflict of Science with Religion; The 
Testimony of the Ages; The Celestial 
Symbol Interpreted; and Natural Law 
and Gospel Teachings. 

MORRIS, ISAAC NEWTON, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Jan. 22, 1812, in Bethel, Ohio. In 1841 he 
was chosen president of the Illinois and 
MichiganCanalcompany; and in 1846 was 
elected to the state legislature from 
Adams county. In 1856 he was elected a 
representative from Illinois to the thirty- 
fifth congress, and re-elected to the thirty- 
sixth congress. In 1869 he was appointed 
a commissioner for the Pacific railroad. 

MORRIS, JAMES CHESTON, physician, 
author, was born May 28, 1831, in Phila¬ 
delphia. He is a Philadelphia physician; 
and the author of The Milk Supply of 
Large Cities; The Water Supply of Phila¬ 
delphia; and Annals of Hygiene. 


MORRIS, JAMES R., state legislator, 
congressman, was born Jan. 10, 1820, in 
Greene county, Pa. He was a member of 
congress in 1843 and 1845. Having be¬ 
come a resident of Ohio he was in 1848 
elected to the legislature of that state. 
In 1860 he was elected a representative 
from Ohio to the thirty-seventh congress; 
and in 1862 was re-elected to the thirty- 
eighth congress. 

MORRIS, JOHN GOTTLIEB, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 14, 1803, in York, 
Pa. He was a noted lutheran divine of 
Baltimore, founder of The Lutheran Ob¬ 
server, and long professor of natural his¬ 
tory in the university of Maryland. He 
was the author of Catechumen’s and Com¬ 
municant’s Companion; Popular Exposi¬ 
tion of the Gospels; Life of John Arndt; 
Life of Catherine de Bora; The Blind Girl 
of Wittenberg; Fifty Years in the Luth¬ 
eran Ministry; The Diet of Augsburg; 
Journeys of' Luther; Luther at Wartburg 
and Coburg; and Lutheran Doctrine of the 
Lord’s Supper. 

MORRIS, JOHN VICTOR, clergyman, 
was born May 23, 1863, in Cincinnati, 

Ohio. In 1889 he graduated from the Ad¬ 
rian college, Mich. He filled pastorates 
in Ohio for two years; and since 1893 
has filled pastorates in Nebraska and 
Kansas. He is a member of the north¬ 
western Kansas conference of the metho- 
dist episcopal church. 

MORRIS, JONATHAN D., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1804 in Clermont 
county, Ohio. He served for twenty years 
as clerk of the court of common pleas, 
and of the superior court of Clermont 
county, Ohio. He was a representative in 
congress from Ohio from 1849 to 1851. He 
died May 16, 1875, in Connersville, Ind. 

MORRIS, JOSEPH, merchant, legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1795, 
in Greene county, Pa. In 1824 he was 
elected sheriff of his native county. In 
1829 he removed to Ohio and devoted him¬ 
self to merchandising. He was elected 
to the Ohio legislature in 1833 and 1834; 
and was treasurer of Monroe county for 
one year. He was elected to congress in 
1843, and re-elected in 1845, serving two 
entire terms. He died Oct. 23, 1854, in 
Woodsfield, Ohio. 

MORRIS, LEWIS, jurist, legislator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1671 in New York city. 
He was chief justice of New York and 
New Jersey for several years; state coun¬ 
cillor from 1710 to 1738, acting governor 
in 1731; and governor of New Jersey from 
1738 till his death. He died May 21, 1746, 
in Kingsbury, N. J. 

MORRIS, LEWIS, signer of the decla¬ 
ration of independence, was born in 1726 
in Morrisania, N. Y. He was a dele¬ 
gate from New York to the continental 
congress from 1775 to 1777; was one of 
the signers of the declaration of indepen¬ 
dence; and served in the legislature of 
New York. He was also in the field, and 
rose to the rank of major-general of mi¬ 
litia. He died Jan. 22, 1798, in New York. 

MORRIS, LEWIS R., congressman, was 
born in 1757. He was a representative in 
congress from Vermont from 1797 to 1803. 
He died in 1825. 

MORRIS, MATHIAS, congressman, was 
born in 1785. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1835 to 
1839. He died Nov. 9, 1839, in Doyles- 
town. Pa. 

MORRIS, MOSES, lawyer, state senator, 
was born Nov. 8, 1799, in Pittsfield, N. H. 
In 1839 he was elected to the New Hamp¬ 
shire state senate; re-elected in 1847, and 
held this position until his death. He died 
Jan. 11, 1855, in Washington, D. C. 


MORRIS, PAGE, educator, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born June 30, 1853, 
in Lynchburg, Va. In 1873 he was ap¬ 
pointed professor of mathematics in the 
Texas Military institute, and removed to 
Austin, Tex.; and in 1876 was elected pro¬ 
fessor of applied mathematics in the Ag¬ 
ricultural and Mechanical college of Tex¬ 
as, located near Bryan, in that state, 
where he remained for three years. In 
1889 he was elected municipal judge of the 
city of Duluth; in 1894 was elected by the 
city council of Duluth city attorney; and 
in 1895 was appointed by the governor 
district judge of the • eleventh judicial 
district of Minnesota. He was elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

MORRIS, PHINEAS PEMBERTON, 
lawyer, author, was born May 2, 1817, in 
Bucks county, Pa. He was a lawyer of 
Philadelphia, professor of law in the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania since 1862; and 
the author of The Law of Replevin; and 
Mining Rights in Pennsylvania. 

MORRIS, RAMSAY, actor, author, was 
born in January, 1858, in New York. He 
is an actor and playwright of New York 
city. He dramatized his own novel, Cruci¬ 
fy Him, with the title, The Tigress. 

MORRIS, ROBERT, signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence, was born Jan. 
20, 1734, in England. He was a member 
of the congress of 
1776, from Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and signed the 
declaration of inde¬ 
pendence, and also 
the articles of confed¬ 
eration. In 1781 he ob¬ 
tained the control of 
the American finan¬ 
ces, and rendered im¬ 
portant services to 
his adopted country. 
He was a member of 
the convention which 
framed the present constitution, and 
signed that instrument. He was chosen 
a United States senator, serving from 
1789 to 1795. He died May 8, 1806, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

MORRIS. ROBERT, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1745. He was chief justice of New 
Jersey during the revolution, and a United 
States judge of the district court from 
1789 to 1815. He died May 2, 1815, in 
New Brunswick, N. J. 

MORRIS, ROBERT, author, was born 
Aug. 31, 1818, in Massachusetts. He was 
a writer of Lagrange, Ky.; and the author 
of History of the Morgan Affair; Lights 
and Shadows of Freemasonry; Code of 
Masonic Law; History of Freemasonry in 
Kentucky; Freemasonry in the Holy 
Land; and The Poetry of Freemasonry. 
He died July 31, 1888, in Lagrange, Ky. 

MORRIS, ROBERT HUNTER, jurist, 
governor, was born about 1700 in Mor¬ 
risania, N. Y. He was justice of New 
Jersey in 1738-64; member of the coun¬ 
cil of New Jersey in 1738; and governor 
of Pennsylvania from 1754 to 1756. He 
died Jan. 27, 1764, in Shrewsbury, N. Y. 

MORRIS, ROBERT TUTTLE, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born May 14, 1857, in 
Seymour, Conn. He is an optimistic phil¬ 
osopher and one of the rising surgeons of 
New York city. He is the author of a 
number of works. His best writings are 
those on scientific and medical subjects. 

MORRIS, SAMUEL WELLS, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 
1786, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was for 
many years judge of the district court 
of Tioga county, Pa.; and was a member 
of the house of representatives in con¬ 
gress from 1837 to 1841. He died May 25, 
1847, in Wellsborough, Pa. 






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MORRIS, THOMAS, jurist, United 
States senator, congressman, was born 
Jan. 3, 1776, in Augusta county, Va. In 
1806 he was elected to the legislature of 
Ohio, and represented Clermont county, 
either in the senate or house, for a period 
of twenty-four years, doing much to de¬ 
velop the resources of his adopted state. 
He was chief judge of Ohio; and was elect¬ 
ed a senator in congress for the long 
term from 1833 to 1839. He died Dec. 7, 
1844, in Bethel, Ohio. 

MORRIS, THOMAS, state legislator, 
congressman. He was for three years a 
member of the New York assembly from 
Ontario county; and was a representative 
in congress from 1801 to 1803. 

MORRIS, THOMAS A., civil engineer, 
railroad president, was born Dec. 26, 
1811, in Nicholas county, Ky. When the 
civil war broke out 
he was appointed 
quartermaster - gen¬ 
eral. From 1866 to 
1869 he was presi¬ 
dent and chief engin¬ 
eer of the Indian¬ 
apolis and St. Louis 
railroad, building the 
road from Terre 
Haute to Indianapo¬ 
lis. From 1869 to 
1872 he was receiver 
of the Indianapolis, 
Cincinnati and Lafayette railroad, and in 
1877 he was appointed as one of the com¬ 
missioners to select plans and superin¬ 
tend the construction of the new state cap- 
itol. 

MORRIS, THOMAS ASBURY, bishop, 
author, was born April 28, 1794, near 
Charlestown, Va. He was a methodist 
bishop in Ohio; and the author of Church 

Polity; Essays, etc.; and Sketches of 

Western Methodism. He died Sept. 2, 1874, 
in Springfield, Ohio. 

MORRIS, THOMAS J., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Sept. 24, 1837, in Baltimore, Md. 
He was appointed United States district 
judge for the district of Maryland in 1879. 

MORRIS, THOMAS J., clergyman, phi¬ 
losopher, author, was born Dec. 30, 1843, 
in Mariana, Fla. He graduated from the 
university of the South of Sewanee, 
Tenn.; and for many years was a suc¬ 
cessful clergyman of the episcopal 
church. For the past ten years he has 
been engaged in the study of the philos¬ 
ophy of life; and is the author of Ideal 
Life, which is devoted to the elevation of 
humanity through the evolution of the 
mind. 

MORRIS, THOMAS P., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Feb. 1, 1857, in New Orleans, 
La. In 1868 he moved to Texas, and is 
now a successful lawyer in Stockdale. He 
has been a justice of the peace; for four¬ 
teen years postmaster; and has filled vari¬ 
ous other positions of trust. 

MORRIS, WILLIAM HOPKINS, soldier, 
author, was born April 22, 1826, in New 
York. He was a brigadier-general of the 
United States volunteers in the civil war, 
and was brevetted major-general. He 
is the author of Field Tactics for In¬ 
fantry; and Infantry Tactics. 

MORRISON, CHARLES ROBERT, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born in 1819 in 
New Hampshire. He was a jurist of Con¬ 
cord, N. H.; and the author of Digest of 
New Hampshire Reports; Probate Direc¬ 
tory; Justice and Sheriff and Attorney’s 
Assistant; Town Officer; Digest of Com¬ 
mon-School Laws; and Proofs of Christ’s 
Resurrection from a Lawyer’s Standpoint. 
He died Sept. 15, 1893. 


MORRISON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1809, in 
Fairlee, Vt. He was a representative in 
congress from New Hampshire from 1850 
to 1851, and again from 1853 to 1855. 

MORRISON, JAMES, army contractor, 
state legislator, was born in 1755 in Cum¬ 
berland county, Pa. In 1792 he moved to 
Lexington, Ky. There he became suc¬ 
cessively land commissioner, representa¬ 
tive in the legislature, supervisor of the 
revenue, navy agent, contractor for the 
northwestern army during the war of 
1812, quartermaster-general, president of 
the Lexington branch of the United States 
bank, and chairman of the board of trus¬ 
tees of Transylvania university. He died 
April 23, 1823, in Washington, D. C. 

MORRISON, JAMES DOW, missionary 
bishop of Duluth, Minn., was born Oct. 16, 
1844, in Waddington, N. Y. In 1896 he 
was unanimously elected by the house of 
bishops to the missionary jurisdiction of 
Duluth, and was consecrated on Feb. 2, 
1897, in All Saints’ cathedral, Albany, 
N. Y. 

MORRISON, JAMES L. D., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
in Illinois. He was elected to the senate 
of Illinois in 1854; and was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state during 
the third session of the thirty-fourth con¬ 
gress to fill a vacancy. 

MORRISON, JOHN A., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1851 to 1853. 

MORRISON, LEONARD ALLISON, 
state senator, antiquarian, author, was 
born Feb. 21, 1843, in Windham, N. H. 
During 1885-87 he was a member of the 
New Hampshire house of representatives; 
and a state senator in 1887-89. He is the 
author of History of the Morison or Mor¬ 
rison Family; History of Wyndham in 
New Hampshire; Rambles in Europe, 
with Historical Facts Relating to Scotch- 
American Families; Among the Scotch- 
Irish; The Norris Family in America; 
The Allison Family; The Sinclair Fam¬ 
ily; and other genealogical works. 

MORRISON, ROBERT, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Oct. 14, 1842, in Cleve¬ 
land, Tenn. Since 1890 he has been pres¬ 
ident of the Kymulga and Coosa River 
railroad. 

MORRISON, WILLIAM, explorer, was 
born in 1785 in Montreal, Canada. He 
made extensive explorations in the north¬ 
west territory while in charge of John 
Jacob Astor’s fur trade in Canada. He 
rendered many important services to ge¬ 
ography, and was the first white man who 
explored the sources of the Mississippi 
river. He died Aug. 7, 1866, on Morri¬ 
son Island. 

MORRISON, WILLIAM RALLS, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 14, 1825, in Monroe 
county, Ill. In 1852 he was chosen clerk 
of Monroe county, Ill., which office he re¬ 
signed to go into the state legislature, 
where he served three years; and was 
speaker of the house in 1859. He was 
elected a representative from Illinois to 
the thirty-eighth congress; and re-elected 
to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty- 
eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a 
democrat. In 1887 he was appointed a 
member of the inter-state railroad com¬ 
mission. 

MORRISON, WILLARD LA GRANGE, 
educator, was born Nov. 5, 1859, in Alpha! 
Ind. He is one of the foremost educators 
of his native state, and is now superin¬ 


tendent of public schools of Scott county, 
Ind. 

MORRISSEY, JOHN, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 12, 1831, in Ire¬ 
land. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the fortieth and forty- 
first congresses; and in 1875 was elected 
to the senate of New York. He died May 
1, 1878. 

MORROW, JEREMIAH, state legislator, 
congressman. United States senator, was 
born Oct. 6, 1771, in Gettysburg, Pa. He 
was chosen a member of the territorial 
legislature in 1800; and was the first rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Ohio, serv¬ 
ing from 1803 to 1813. He was a senator 
in congress from 1813 to 1819; and in 1814 
was appointed a commissioner to treat 
with the Indians. In 1821 he was a presi¬ 
dential elector; and was governor of Ohio 
from 1822 to 1826. He was elected to 
congress in 1840 to fill a vacancy and 
served until 1843. He died March 22, 1852, 
in Warren county. 

MORROW, NESTOR, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Sept. 11, 1850, in Kaufman coun¬ 
ty, Texas. For four years he was county 
attorney of his native county; and for 
four years serted as county judge. He is 
a successful lawyer of Kaufman, Texas; 
and for two years was a member of the 
board of managers of the North Texas 
Insane asylum. 

MORROW, WILLIAM W., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born July 15, 1843, 
near Milton, Ind. He moved with his 
parents to Illinois in 1845; and to Cali¬ 
fornia in 1859. He was appointed assist¬ 
ant United States attorney for California 
in 1870. He was elected to the forty- 
ninth congress and re-elected in 1886 and 
in 1888. He was appointed United States 
district judge for the northern district of 
California by President Harrison in 1891; 
and United States circuit judge for the 
ninth judicial circuit by President Mc¬ 
Kinley in 1897. 

MORSE, ABNER, clergyman, genealo¬ 
gist, author, was born Sept. 5, 1793, in 
Medway, Mass. He was a congregational 
clergyman and genealogist of Sharon, 
Mass.; and the author of Memorial of the 
Morses; Genealogy of Early Planters in 
Massachusetts; and Descendants of Sev¬ 
eral Ancient Puritans. He died May 16, 
1865, in Sharon, Mass. 

MORSE, ALPHEUS CARY, artist, arch¬ 
itect, was born June 3, 1818, in Boston, 
Mass. He was the builder of the Rhode 
Island hospital and Sale’s Memorial hall 
of Providence. Early in life he became 
well known as an artist in portraiture, 
chiefly in crayon; but later in life he de¬ 
voted himself almost wholly to architect¬ 
ure. 

MORSE, MRS. CHARLOTTE DUN¬ 
NING [WOOD], author, was born in 1858 
in New York. She is a novelist; and the 
author of Upon a Cast, a society novel; 

A Step Aside; and Cabin and Gondola. 

MORSE, DAVID APPLETON, physi¬ 
cian, journalist, was born Dec. 12, 1840, in 
Ellsworth, Ohio. In 1877 he was called 
to Columbus, Ohio, where he has since 
held the professorship of nervous disor¬ 
ders and insanity in Starling Medical col¬ 
lege and the post of physician to Colum¬ 
bus Hospital for the Insane. He is editor 
of the department of nervous disorders 
and insanity in the Lancet and Observer. 

MORSE, EDWARD SYLVESTER, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born June 18, 1838, in 
Portland, Maine. He is an eminent biolo¬ 
gist of Salem, Mass., who has published 
First Book on Zoology; Japanese 
Homes, and many scientific papers. 





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MORSE, ELIJAH ADAMS, soldier, man¬ 
ufacturer, state senator, congressman, was 
born May 25, 1841, in South Bend, Ind. 

In 1876 he entered 
public life as a mem¬ 
ber of the Massachu¬ 
setts state legisla¬ 
ture; and since that 
time has served in 
the senate, the gov¬ 
ernor’s council, and 
has four times been 
elected a member of 
congress. He served 
as a soldier during 
the civil war; for 
three months under 
Gen. Butler in Virginia; one year as a cor¬ 
poral under Gen. Banks in Louisiana; and 
was taken prisoner at the capture of 
Brashear City, La. He is a successful 
business man and extensive manufactur¬ 
er; and is the proprietor of the Rising 
Sun Black Lead works of Canton, Mass., 
manufacturers of the famous Rising Sun 
stove polish. His service in the United 
States house of representatives was in 
the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and 
fifty-fourth congresses as a republican, 
declining the re-election to the fifty-fifth. 

MORSE, FRANK EUGENE, musician, 
composer, was born Nov. 10, 1856, in 
Bradford, Mass. For many years he was 
a teacher of vocal music in the Conserva¬ 
tory and the Wellesley College School of 
Music. He is the author of a number of 
compositions; and the compiler and pub¬ 
lisher of the Musician’s Calendar. 

MORSE, FREEMAN H„ state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1807, 
in Bath, Maine. He was in the Maine 
legislature from 1840 to 1844, and also 
in 1853 and 1856; and was mayor of 
Bath for three years. He was elected to 
congress in 1843, serving one term; and 
was elected a representative to the thirty- 
fifth congress from Maine; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He 
was a member of the peace congress of 
1861; and was appointed by President 
Lincoln consul at London. 

MORSE, HARMON NORTHRUP. chem¬ 
ist, author, was born Oct. 15, 1848, in 
Cambridge, Vt. In 1876 he became asso¬ 
ciate professor of chemistry and sub-di¬ 
rector of the chemical laboratory at Johns 
Hopkins. His papers number about twen¬ 
ty-five, and have appeared in the Ameri¬ 
can Chemical Journal. 

MORSE, HENRY DUTTON, diamond- 
cutter, inventor, was born April 20, 1826, 
in Boston, Mass. In 1869 he established 
his fame as a diamond-cutter by the skill 
that he displayed in the treatment of a 
fifty-carat stone found in Manchester, 
nearly opposite Richmond, Va. He in¬ 
vented a cutting and polishing machine, 
which reduced in a great measure the 
tediousness and inaccuracy of the old 
manual process. He died Jan. 1, 1888, in 
Jamaica Plains, Mass. 

MORSE, ISAAC EDWARDS, lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 22, 1809, in 
Attakapas, La. He was a representa¬ 
tive from Louisiana in the twenty-eighth, 
twenty-ninth, thirtieth, and thirty-first 
congresses; and was subsequently attor¬ 
ney-general of Louisiana. He died Feb. 
11, 1866, in New Orleans, La. 

MORSE, JAMES HERBERT, educator, 
poet, was born in 1841, in Massachusetts. 
He is an educator and poet of New York 
city; and the author of Summer Haven 
Songs. 

MORSE, JEDIDIAH, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 23, 1761, in Woodstock, 
Conn. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of New England. He is sometimes 


styled the Father of American Geography, 
his being the first school text-books in 
America of any importance. He was the 
author of Elements of Geography; Amer¬ 
ican Gazetteer; Annals of the American 
Revolution; Compendious History of New 
England; Geography Made Easy; and 
American Geography. He died June 9, 
1826, in New Haven, Conn. 

MORSE, JOHN TORREY, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 9, 1840, in Boston, 
Mass. He is a lawyer of Boston; and 
the author of Lives of Hamilton, J. Q. 
Adams, Jefferson, John Adams, Oliver 
Wendell Holmes, Lincoln, Franklin; 
Banks and Banking; Arbitration and 
Award; and Famous Trials. 

MORSE, LEOPOLD, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 15, 1831, in Ba¬ 
varia. He was elected a representative 
from Massachusetts to the forty-fifth, 
forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, 
and fiftieth congresses as a democrat. 

MORSE, MRS. LUCY [GIBBONS], au¬ 
thor, was born in 1839 in New York. She 
is a novelist of New York city; and the 
author of Rachel Stanwood, a Story; and 
The Chezzles, a Story of Young People. 

MORSE, O. A., lawyer, congressman, 
was born March 26, 1815, in Cherry Val¬ 
ley, N. Y. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive to the thirty-fifth congress from New 
York. 

MORSE. RICHARD CARY, journalist, 
was born June 18, 1795, in Charlestown, 
Mass. He, with his brother Sidney, es¬ 
tablished the New York Observer, and for 
thirty-five years was its proprietor and 
associate editor. He died Sept. 23, 1868, 
in Germany. 

MORSE, SAMUEL BALDWIN, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, college president, was 
born Oct. 26, 1834, in Fayette, Maine. He 
has filled pastorates in the baptist church 
in Stockton and Oakland, Cal.; and since 
1887 has been president of California col¬ 
lege. 

MORSE, SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE, 
inventor, artist, author, was born April 
27, 1791, in Charlestown, Mass. He found- 
e d the National 
Academy of Design 
in New York, and 
was its annually 
elected president for 
many years. H i s 
most wonderful in¬ 
vention, the record¬ 
ing electric tele¬ 
graph, has been call¬ 
ed the greatest tri¬ 
umph which human 
genius has obtained 
over space and time. 
The first telegraphic message, What hath 
God wrought, was sent over the wires 
May 24, 1844, and was dictated by Anna 
G. Ellis, daughter of the commissioner of 
patents, who came early in the morning 
to inform him of the appropriation from 
congress of thirty thousand dollars for 
the construction of his first telegraphic 
line between Baltimore and Washington. 
He was the author of Foreign Conspira¬ 
cies against the Liberties of the United 
States; Our Liberties Defended; and Im¬ 
minent Dangers through Foreign Immi¬ 
gration. He died April 2, 1872, in New 
York. 

MORSE, SIDNEY EDWARDS, journal¬ 
ist, geographer, author, was born Feb. 7, 
1794, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a 
journalist and geographer of New York 
city; and the author of System of Mod¬ 
ern Geography; and Premium Questions 
on Slavery. With a younger brother he 
founded the New York Observer in 1823. 
He died Dec. 24, 1871, in New York city. 


MORSE, T. VERNETTE, artist, author, 
was born in 1854, in Cortland county, N. 
Y. In 1892 he came to Chicago and es¬ 
tablished Arts of America, which was so 
successful that two years later he or¬ 
ganized the Central Art association of 
America for the promotion and dispersion 
of good art among the people. 

MORSELL, JAMES S., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Jan. 10, 1775, in Calvert 
county, Md. He served as a volunteer sol¬ 
dier in the war of 1812; and in 1816 was 
appointed a judge of the United States 
court for the District of Columbia, and 
continued in that capacity until 1863. He 
died Jan. 11, 1870, in Prince George coun¬ 
ty, Md. 

MORTON, ALEXANDER, inventor, was 
born March 8, 1820, in Scotland. He be¬ 
gan the manufacture of gold pens in New 
York city during the summer of 1851, and 
between that year and 1860 invented au¬ 
tomatic processes for pointing, temper¬ 
ing, and grinding them. He died Oct. 12, 
1869, in New York city. 

MORTON, CHARLES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1620 in England. He 
was a puritan clergyman who came to 
New England in 1686, and was minister 
at Charlestown and vice-president of Har¬ 
vard college. He was the author of The 
Ark: its Loss and Recovery; and Sys¬ 
tem of Logic, long a 'text-book at Har¬ 
vard. He died April 11, 1698, in Boston, 
Mass. 

MORTON, CHARLES ADAMS, soldier, 
merchant, banker. After leaving school 
he engaged in the commission and whole¬ 
sale grocery busi¬ 
ness with his brother 
at St. Louis, with a 
branch house a t 
Memphis, Tenn. At 
the commencement 
of hostilities in the 
spring of 1861 he re- 
c e i v e d autnority 
from Governor Dick 
Yates of Illinois, to 
raise a company, 
which went into 
camp at Camp But¬ 
ler, and with others formed the thirty- 
second Illinois infantry, commanded by 
Colonel John Logan. In November, 1861, 
Colonel Morton was detached from his 
regiment and ordered to report to General 
Sherman for duty as commissary of sub¬ 
sistence. In April, 1863, he was promoted 
to a lieutenant-colonelcy, and assigned to 
duty as chief of commissary of subsist¬ 
ence, fifteenth army corps, Major-General 
W. T. Sherman commanding. Subsequent¬ 
ly, upon the return to Washington of Gen¬ 
eral Macfeely, he was assigned to duty 
as chief C. S. of the army of the Ten¬ 
nessee, and did not leave the army until 
the winter of 1865. From 1865 to 1871 he 
resided in St. Louis. In the latter year 
he removed to St. Paul, where he engaged 
in banking, real estate and commission 
business until 1880, when he removed to 
Fargo, and organized the firm of Morton 
and Company, for the transaction of real 
estate and commission business. He was 
also president of the Exchange bank of 
Fargo from 1888 to 1892. 

MORTON, GEORGE, lawyer, was born 
June 23, 1859, in Ontario, Canada. He 
graduated from the Victoria university; 
was admitted to the bar at Albany in 
1884; and has attained prominence as an 
able lawyer of Ogdensburg, N. Y. He has 
made his mark as a criminal lawyer, and 
was one of the counsel to defend Frank 
Conroy, the wife murderer. 







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MORTON, ELIZA H., author, poet, was 
born July 18, 1853, in Deering, Me. She 
is the author of Potter’s series of Geog¬ 
raphies; and a volume of poems entitled 
Still Waters. She is also known as the 
author of The Songs My Mother Sang; 
My Mission; I Glory in the Cross; and 
many other hymns, made popular in D. L. 
Moody revival meetings. 

MORTON, HENRY, physicist, college 
president, author, was born Dec. 11, 1836, 
in New York city. He was a noted physi¬ 
cist, president of the Stevens Institute of 
Technology at Hoboken, N. J., from 1870; 
and the author of The Student’s Practical 
Chemistry, and many valuable scientific 
monographs. 

MORTON, JACKSON, manufacturer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Aug. 10, 1794, in ‘ Spottsylvania 

county, Va. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Florida from 1849 to 1855; 
and served in the rebellion as a member 
of the confederate congress. He died 
Nov. 20, 1874, in Santa Rosa county, Fla. 

MORTON, JAMES FERDINAND, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, was born Jan. 24, 1844, 
in Nova Scotia. He has filled the chair 
of New Testament Exegesis in the Theo¬ 
logical institute of Newton, Mass.; and 
since 1891 has filled the chair in the 
Proctor academy of Andover, N. H. He 
has done considerable editorial work, and 
is a constant contributor to current lit¬ 
erature. • 

MORTON, JAMES ST. CLAIR, soldier, 
author, was born Sept. 24, 1829, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a federal officer 
killed in the attack upon Petersburg; and 
the author of Instruction in Engineering; 
New System of Fortifications; Memoir on 
Fortification; and Dangers and Defenses 
of New York City. He died June 17, 1864, 
in Petersburg, Va. 

MORTON, JENNIE C., poet, was born 
in Bell’s Grove, Ky. She is the daughter 
of Judge Franklin Bryan Chinn. As a 
poet of genius Mrs. 
Morton is recog¬ 
nized the country 
over; and is consid¬ 
ered one of the 
sweetest poets of 
central Kentucky. 
She is the author of 
a centennial poem, 
which was read on 
the occasion of the 
centennial commis¬ 
sion anniversary. 
Her longest and best 
poem, which is entitled A Rhyme of 
the Women of Frankfort, and two other 
beautiful poems of hers entitled, Frank¬ 
fort, and the Elkhorn, were handsomely 
illustrated by photographic pictures of the 
scenes and points of interest described in 
them. A number of copies were published 
in a brochure at five and ten dollars per 
copy, and were purchased and sent abroad 
as souvenirs. 

MORTON, JEREMIAH, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1849 to 1851. 

MORTON, JOHN, signer of the declara¬ 
tion of independence, was born in 1724 in 
Ridley, Pa. He was appointed a justice 
of the peace; and was soon elected to the 
New York assembly of the state. He 
was a member of the New York congress 
in 1765. He was a judge of the supreme 
court; was a signer of the declaration of 
independence; and was a delegate to the 
continental congress from 1774 to 1777. He 
died April, 1777, in Delaware county, Pa. 


MORTON, JULIUS STERLING, jour¬ 
nalist, legislator, was born April 22, 1832, 
in Jefferson county, N. Y. He located in 
Nebraska in 1854, in Bellevue, and in the 
following year issued the first number of 
the Nebraska City News. He was elected 
to the territorial legislature the same year 
and re-elected in 1857. He is the author 
of the arbor day legislation, which pro¬ 
vides that one day in each year, April 22, 
be made a public holiday and be devoted 
to tree planting, and which has been 
adopted in forty-two states. He was ap¬ 
pointed secretary of agriculture by Presi¬ 
dent Cleveland, and entered upon his du¬ 
ties March 7, 1893. 

MORTON, LEVI PARSONS, vice-presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born May 
26, 1824, in Shoreham, Vt. He was for 
many years financier and banker, and en¬ 
tered political life by being elected to con¬ 
gress in 1878. In 1889 he was inaugu¬ 
rated as vice-president of the United 
States, and subsequently became governor 
of New York. 

MORTON, MARCUS, jurist, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, governor, was born 
Feb. 19, 1784, in Freetown, Mass. In 1811 
he was chosen clerk of the Massachusetts 
senate; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts from 1817 to 
1821. In 1823 he was a member of the 
executive council of that state; in 1824 
was elected lieutenant-governor; and was 
subsequently a judge of the supreme court 
of Massachusetts from 1825 to 1840. He 
was governor of the state from 1840 to 
1841, and again from 1843 to 1844. He was 
collector of Boston from 1845 to 1849; and 
a member of the state legislature in 1858. 
He died Feb. 6, 1864, in Taunton. 

MORTON, MARCUS, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born April 8, 1819, 
in Taunton, Mass. In 1858 he was a 
member of the Massachusetts legislature. 
In 1859 he became judge of the superior 
court of Massachusetts, and in 1872 was 
made chief justice of the supreme court. 

MORTON, MARTHA, dramatist, author, 
was born in 1865 in New York city. She 
is the author of Geoffrey Middleton, Gen¬ 
tleman, an American play that has run 
successfully in New York city and else¬ 
where. 

MORTON, NATHANIEL, author, was 
born in 1613 in Holland. He was secre¬ 
tary of the Plymouth colony from 1647 
till his death, whose New England’s Me¬ 
morial is well known among colonial 
annals. He died in 1686. 

MORTON, OLIVER P., jurist, governor, 
United States senator, was born Aug. 4, 
1823, in Saulsbury, Ind. In 1852 he was 
elected circuit judge 
of the fifth judicial 
circuit of Indiana. In 
1860 he was elected 
lieutenant - governor 
of Indiana; and in 
1861, on the transfer 
of Governor H. S. 
Lane to the United 
States senate, as¬ 
sumed the office of 
governor and held it 
four years. In 1864 
he was elected gov¬ 
ernor for a second term. In 1867 he was 
elected a senator in congress for the term 
ending in 1873; and was re-elected to the 
senate for the term ending in 1879. He 
died Nov. 1, 1877, in Indianapolis, Ind. 

MORTON, OLIVER THROCK, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1860 in Indiana. ’He 
is a lawyer of Chicago; and the autbor of 
The Southern Empire, with Other Papers. 


MORTON, SAMUEL GEORGE, physi¬ 
cian, scientist, author, was born Jan. 26, 
1799, in Philadelphia. He was a promi¬ 
nent Philadelphia physician and scientist, 
and president of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences. He was the author of Crania 
Americana; Crania Egyptica; and Illus¬ 
trated System of Human Anatomy. He 
died May 15, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

MORTON, MRS. SARAH WENT¬ 
WORTH [APTHORPE], author, poet, 
was born Aug. 29, 1759, in Braintree, 
Mass. She was a verse-writer of Quincy,. 
Mass.; and the author of Ouabi, an Indian 
Tale in four cantos; and My Mind and its. 
Thoughts. She died May 14, 1846, in 

Quincy, Mass. 

MORTON, THOMAS, author, was born 
about 1575 in England. He was a famous, 
adventurer who, settling himself at Mount 
Wollaston, which he termed Ma-re Mount, 
scandalized the colonists at Plymouth and' 
Boston by his sports and carousals. The 
New English Canaan is a sarcastic andi 
humorous description of his pious neigh¬ 
bors and their country. He died in 1646 
in Maine. 

MORTON, THOMAS GEORGE, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Aug. 8, 1835, in 
Philadelphia. He is a Philadelphia phy¬ 
sician; and the author of Surgery in the 
Pennsylvania Hospital: an Epitome of 
Practice from 1756; and Transfusion of 
Blood and its Practical Application. 

MORTON, WILLIAM THOMAS GREEN, 
dentist, was born Aug. 19, 1819, in Charl¬ 
ton, Mass. He first discovered the anaes¬ 
thetic treatment now used by all dentists; 
and the French Academy of Sciences- 
voted him an award of twenty-five hun¬ 
dred francs for the application of the dis¬ 
covery for surgical operations. He died: 
July 15, 1868, in New York city. 

MORW1TZ, EDWARD, journalist, in¬ 
ventor, author, was born June 12, 1815, 
in Prussia. In 1850 he came to this coun¬ 
try, settling in Philadelphia, where in 
1853 he purchased the German Democrat, 
which is still edited and published by him. 
He has invented an improved needle-gun. 
He has published numerous books, includ¬ 
ing a History of Medicine; and German- 
Ameriean Dictionary. 

MOSBY, JOHN SINGLETON, soldier, 
author, was born Dec. 6, 1833, in Pow¬ 
hatan county, Va. He is a famous con¬ 
federate cavalry leader, consul at Hong 
Kong in 1878-85; and subsequently a law¬ 
yer in San Francisco. He is the author 
of War Reminiscen'ces. 

MOSBY, MARY WEBSTER, author, 
was born in April, 1791, in Henrico coun¬ 
ty, Va. She published a book entitled 
Pocahontas. She died Nov. 19, 1844, in 
Richmond, Va. 

MOSELEY, JONATHAN OGDEN, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1762 in East Had- 
dam. Conn. He was a representative in 
congress from his native state from 1805 
to 1821. He died Sept. 9, 1839, in Sagi¬ 
naw, Mich. 

MOSELEY, WILLIAM A., state senator, 
congressman. He was a member of the 
New York assembly in 1835; of the state 
senate from 1838 to 1841; and a represen¬ 
tative in congress from 1843 to 1847. 

MOSELEY, WILLIAM D., governor, 
was born Feb. 1, 1795, in Lenoir county, 
N. C. He was governor of Florida from 
1845 to 1849. He died Jan. 4, 1863 in 
Palatka, Fla. 

MOSES, CHARLES L., agriculturist, 
congressman, was born May 2, 1856, in 
Coweta county, Ga. He was elected from 
Georgia to the fifty-second and fifty-third 
congresses and re-elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a democrat. 




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MOSES, F. J., governor. He was gov¬ 
ernor of South Carolina from 1873 to 1875. 

MOSGROVE, JAMES, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born July 14, 1821, in 
Kittanning, Pa. He became president of 
the Kittanning Iron company; and also 
president of the First National bank of 
Kittanning, Pa. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Pennsylvania to the for¬ 
ty-seventh congress as a democrat. 

MOSHER, MRS. JENNIE M„ author, 
poet, was born Sept. 20, 1845, in New 
York (Orleans county). She is promi¬ 
nent in missionary and temperance work, 
and was president of the Missionary so¬ 
ciety of Independence, Iowa. She is the 
author of a volume entitled Story of the 
Bible in Rhyme. 

MOSLER, HENRY, artist, was born 
June 6, 1841, in New York city. During 
the civil war he was an art correspondent 
for Harper’s Weekly; and also painted 
portraits of a number of generals while 
in camp. His best known works are, 
Early Cares; Quadroon Girl; Wedding 
Morning; and The Last Sacrament. 

MOSS, JOHN CALVIN, inventor, was 
born Jan. 5, 1838, near Bentleysville, Pa. 
He was the first to make photo-engraving 
a practical business success, and while his 
methods have never been patented, he is 
known as the inventor of what is called 
the Moss process; Moss new process; and 
the Moss-type process. 

MOSS, JOHN R., lawyer, legislator, was 
born Feb. 7, 1844, in Powhatan county, 
Va. He was a member of the Virginia 
legislature in 1869, and also in 1885. Since 
1891 he has been county judge. 

MOSS, LEMUEL, educator, journalist, 
college president, author, was born Dec. 
27, 1829, near Burlington, Ky. In 1874-75 
he was president of the university of Chi¬ 
cago, and in 1875-84 of Indiana university. 
He has written Annals of the United 
States Christian Commission, and vari¬ 
ous articles on educational and religious 
subjects. He also edited The Baptists and 
the National Centenary. 

MOSS, LEON F., educator, college pres¬ 
ident, lawyer, poet, was born Sept. 12, 
1861, in Cuba. In 1882 he was president 
of the Western Normal college of Bush- 
nell, Ill.; and in 1883-84 was city attorney 
at Ipava, Ill. He is the author of a num¬ 
ber of poems. 

MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP, lawyer, 
diplomat, author, was born April 15, 1814, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a distinguished 
historian who was minister to Austria 
in 1861-67, and to England in 1869-70. He 
was the author of Morton’s Hope, a ro¬ 
mance; Merry Mount, a romance; The 
Rise of the Dutch Republic; The History 
of the United Netherlands; and Life and 
Death of John of Barneveld. He died 
May 29, 1877, in Dorchester, England. 

MOTT, FERRIS 0.. jurist, state legis¬ 
lator, was born Jan. 9, 1850, near Ithaca, 
N. Y. He received his education in the 
common schools of Michigan; learned the 
carpenter’s trade; and since 1878 has lived 
in Harper, Kas. In 1890 he was elected 
probate judge; and in 1894 was elected a 
representative in the state legislature. 

MOTT, GEORGE SCUDDER, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 25, 1829, in New 
York city. He is a presbyterian minister 
of Flemington, N. J.; and the author of 
The Prodigal Son; The Resurrection of 
the Dead; and The Perfect Law. 

MOTT, GERSHOM, soldier, was born 
April 7,’ 1822, near Trenton, N. J. He 
was promoted brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers in 1862; and in 1864 was brevetted 
major-general for distinguished services 
during the war. He died May 29, 1884, in 
New York city. 


MOTT, GORDON N., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 12, 
1812, in Zanesville, Ohio. In 1849 he emi¬ 
grated to California; and in 1850 was 
elected judge of Sutter county. In 1851 
he was appointed a district judge; and 
in 1861 was appointed a justice of the 
supreme court of Nevada territory. In 
1862 he was elected a delegate from that 
territory to the thirty-eighth congress. 

MOTT, HENRY AUGUSTUS, chemist, 
author, was born Oct. 22, 1852, in Clifton, 
N. Y. He was a chemist of New York 
city; and the author of The Chemist’s 
Manual; Was Man Created?; The Air We 
Breathe; and Fallacy of the Present The¬ 
ory of Sound. He died in 1896. 

MOTT, JAMES, congressman, was born 
June 20, 1788, in North Hempstead, Del. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1801 to 1805. He had 
previously been treasurer of the state; 
and was a presidential elector in 1809. He 
died Jan. 26, 1868, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

MOTT, RICHARD, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born July 21, 1804, in Mamaro- 
neck, N. Y. He was a merchant of To¬ 
ledo, Ohio; and was elected to the thirty- 
fourth congress; and re-elected to the 
thirty-fifth congress. 

MOTT, VALENTINE, surgeon, author, 
was born April 26, 1785, in Glen Cove, 
L. I. He was a celebrated surgeon of 
New York city; and one of the founders 
of Rutgers Medical college. He was the 
author of Travels in Europe and the 
East; Mott’s Cliniques; and a translation 
of Velpeau’s Operative Surgery, and sur¬ 
gical papers. He died April 26, 1865, in 
New York city. 

MOTT, VALENTINE, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 17, 1852, in New York 
city. In 1887 he went to Paris as the rep¬ 
resentative of the American Pasteur in¬ 
stitute, and studied under Louis Pasteur 
the prophylactic treatment for hydropho¬ 
bia, which he introduced into the United 
States, bringing away the first inoculated 
rabbit that Pasteur allowed to leave his 
laboratory. His principal medical paper is 
Rabies and How to Prevent It, being a 
Discussion of Hydrophobia and the Pas¬ 
teur Method of Treatment. 

MOTT, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Jan. 12, 1785, in New 
York city. He established in 1807 the 
House of Refuge, the Eastern dispensary, 
the Home for the Friendless, the Colored 
Orphans’ asylum, the Institution for the 
Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and the 
Woman’s hospital, in New York city. He 
died May 3, 1867, in New York city. 

MOTTE, ISAAC, soldier, congressman, 
was born Dec. 8, 1738, in South Carolina. 
In 1780-82 he represented South Carolina 
in the continental congress. He was a 
member of the state convention that rati¬ 
fied the United States constitution, and 
was appointed naval officer of the port of 
Charleston, holding that office till his 
death. He died May 8, 1795, in South 
Carolina. 

MOULD, JACOB WREY, architect, was 
born in 1825 in England. He came to 
New York in 1853; and in 1857 he was 
appointed assistant architect of public 
works. In 1870 he became chief architect. 
His last work was the design for the tem¬ 
porary tomb of Gen. Grant in Riverside 
park which he executed in a few min¬ 
utes.’ He died June 14, 1886, in New York 
city. 

MOULTON, JOSEPH WHITE, author, 
was born in June, 1789, in Stratford, Conn. 
He is an antiquarian writer of Roslyn, 
L. I.; and the author of History of the 
State of New York; and Chancery Practice 


of New York. He died April 20, 1875, in 
Roslyn, N. Y. 

MOULTON, LOUISE C., author, was 
born April 10, 1835, in Pomfret, Conn. In 
1856 she began writing for Harper’s Maga¬ 
zine and various other periodicals. She 
is the author of Swallow Flights; Random 
Rambles; Ourselves and Our Neighbors; 
and a volume of poems entitled In the 
Garden of Dreams. 

MOULTON, LUTHER V., lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 27, 1843, in Howard, 
Mich. He is a successful lawyer of Grand 
Rapids, Mich. He has 
had charge of a num¬ 
ber of the most im¬ 
portant civil cases 
tried in his state; 
and has contributed 
a number of articles 
to law literature. He 
is also a noted writer 
on financial topics, 
his articles con¬ 
stantly appearing in 
financial publica¬ 
tions. He is the au¬ 
thor of a work entitled Science of Money 
and American Finances. 

MOULTON, MACE, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in New Hampshire. He 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1845 to 1847; and a state 
counselor in 1848 and 1849. 

MOULTON, RICHARD GREEN, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1849 in England. 
He is an educator of note, professor in 
the university of Chicago; and the author 
of Ancient Classical Drama; The Univer¬ 
sity Extension Movement; and Shake¬ 
speare as a Dramatic Artist. 

MOULTON, SAMUEL W., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 
1822, in Wenham, Mass. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Illinois legislature from 1852 to 
1859; was a presidential elector in 1856; 
and was the author of the present com¬ 
mon school system of the state. He was 
chosen president of the board of educa¬ 
tion of Illinois in 1859, and held the posi¬ 
tion in 1864, when he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Illinois to the thirty- 
ninth congress. He was elected to the 
forty-seventh congress; and re-elected to 
the forty-eighth congress as a democrat. 

MOULTRIE, JAMES, physician, educa¬ 
tor, was born March 27, 1793, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. On the organization of the 
Medical College of South Carolina in 1824 
he was elected professor of anatomy, but 
declined. In 1833 he was elected to the 
chair of physiology and accepted, retain¬ 
ing it until 1867. He died in April, 1869, 
in Charleston, S. C. 

MOULTRIE, WILLIAM, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1731 in South Caro¬ 
lina. He was a member df the provincial 
congress in 1775. In 
1776 he was made 
brigadier-general; in 

1779 defeated a su¬ 
perior British force 
near Beaufort; and 
the same year op¬ 
posed the advance 
upon Charleston, and 
held the city until 
the approach of Gen. 
Lincoln. He also dis¬ 
tinguished himself in 

1780 at Charleston, 
and was imprisoned until exchanged for 
Gen. Burgoyne. He was major-general in 
1782; was governor of South Carolina 
from 1785 to 1786, and from 1794 to 1796. 
While a prisoner he wrote his Memoirs of 
the Revolution. He died Sept. 27, 1805, in 
Charleston, S. C. 







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MOUNT, JAMES ATWELL, farmer, leg¬ 
islator, governor, was born March 23, 
1843, in Montgomery county, Ind. He has 
been president of the Farmers’ Mutual 
Fire Insurance company of his county, 
and has served as a state senator. He 
has filled with honor the high office of 
governor of Indiana. 

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY, painter, 
was born Nov. 26, 1807, in Setauket, N. Y. 
The first painting that he exhibited was 
The Daughter of Jairus, which was fol¬ 
lowed by other works of a similar charac¬ 
ter. Among his subsequent works are, 
Men Husking Corn; Walking the Crack; 
The Courtship; Sportsman’s Last Visit; 
Farmer’s Nooning; The Raffle; Bargain¬ 
ing for a Horse; and The Truant Gam¬ 
blers, in the New York Historical socie¬ 
ty; The Ringing of the Pigs; The Lucky 
Throw; Boys Trapping; Dance of the 
Haymakers; Power of Music; and Music 
is Contagious. He died Nov. 19, 1868, in 
Setauket, L. I. 

MOUNTFORD, WILLIAM, clergyman, 
author, was born May 31, 1816, in Eng¬ 
land. He was a Unitarian clergyman of 
Boston who became a spiritualist in his 
later years; and was the author of Mar- 
tyria; Euthanasy, or Happy Talk Toward 
the End of Life; Christianity the Deliver¬ 
ance of the Soul; Minutes Past and Pres¬ 
ent; and Thorpe, a Quiet English Town. 
He died April 20, 1885, in Boston, Mass. 

MOULTON, ALEXANDRE, ninth gov¬ 
ernor of Louisiana, was born Nov. 19, 
1804, in Lafayette, La. He practiced law 
for a while, and in 
1826 became a repre¬ 
sentative in the state 
legislature; served 
several terms; and 
for two sessions was 
speaker of the house. 
In 1837 he was elect¬ 
ed to congress; 
served on important 
committees; and was 
appointed governor 
in 1843. At the time 
of his death he was 
probably the oldest surviving United 

States senator; and was one of the best 

governors Louisiana ever had. He died 
Feb. 12, 1885, in Lafayette, La. 

MOUTON, JEAN JACQUES ALEXAN¬ 
DRE ALFRED, soldier, was born Feb. 
18, 1829, in Opelouse, La. He served in 
the civil war and was successively pro¬ 
moted brigadier and major-general in the 
confederate service. He died April 8, 1864, 
in Mansfield, La. 

MOWER, HORACE, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Vermont. He moved to Michigan, 
from which state he was appointed an 
associate justice of the United States 
court for the territory of New Mexico, re¬ 
siding at Santa Fe. 

MOWER, JOSEPH ANTHONY, soldier, 
was born Aug. 22, 1827, in Woodstock, Vt. 
He was breretted major-general in the 
regular army for gallantry during the 
civil war. He died Jan. 6, 1870, in New 
Orleans, La. 

MOWERS, BERK, musician, composer, 
was born in Cleversburg, Pa., in which 
city he still resides. For many years he 
was engaged in educational work; read 
music and studied art under the best 
masters. He has directed conventions; 
taught many and different musical or¬ 
ganizations; and is the author of the mu¬ 
sical composition entitled Shed a Tear. 
He is the author of many selections, 
both vocal and instrumental; and the au¬ 
thor of a music-book for Sabbath school 
use entitled Golden Grains. In 1892 he 
was elected justice of the peace; and 
takes an active part in public affairs. 


MOWRY, DANIEL, JR., jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 
Smithfield, R. I. He was in the colonial 
general assembly at the time they passed 
the act which renounced allegiance to the 
king. He was judge of the court of com¬ 
mon pleas in Rhode Island. He was elected 
a delegate to the continental congress 
from that state in 1781. 

MOWRY, SYLVESTER, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1830 in Providence, R. 
I. He was an army officer who resigned 
in 1858; and the author of Arizona and 
Sonora; and the Geography, History, 
and Resources of the Silver Regions of 
North America. He died Oct. 16, 1871, in 
London, England. 

MOWRY, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Aug. 13, 1829, in 
Uxbridge, Mass. He is an educator of 
Boston; and the author of Talks with My 
Boys; Studies in Civil Government; Ele¬ 
ments of Civil Government; and School 
History of the United States. 

MOYLAN, STEPHEN, soldier, was born 
in 1734 in Ireland. He served with dis¬ 
tinction through the revolutionary war; 
and was brevetted brigadier-general in 
1783. He died April 11, 1811, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

MOYLAN, WILLIAM, college presi¬ 
dent, was born June 22, 1822, in Ireland. 
In 1865 he was elected president of St. 
John’s college, resigning in 1868. He died 
Jan. 14, 1891, in Fordham, N. Y. 

MOYLE, JAMES H., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Sept. 17, 1858, in Salt Lake City, 
Utah. He received his education at the 
university of Utah, and at the university 
of Michigan, attending both the literary 
and the law departments. During 1886-90 
he was prosecuting attorney for Salt 
Lake county; and in 1880 was a member 
of the Utah territorial legislature. He 
has been president of the board of trus¬ 
tees of the State Reform school, and for 
six years was one of its trustees. He is a 
director in a number of the leading corpo¬ 
rations of Utah, including banking, com¬ 
mercial, mining, live stock and abstract¬ 
ing. 

MOYNAHAN, JAMES, merchant, state 
senator, was born June 7, 1842, in Green¬ 
field, Mich. He is a successful miner and 
merchant of Alma, Colo.; has been mayor 
of his city; and served as a member of the 
Colorado state senate, of which body he 
was president pro tern. 

MOZIER, JOSEPH, merchant, sculptor, 
was born Aug. 22, 1812, in Burlington, 
Vt. His principal works are Pocahontas; 
The Wept of the Wish-ton-Wish, which 
he repeated several times; Truth; Si¬ 
lence, both in the Mercantile library, 
New York; Rebecca at the Well; Esther; 
Indian Girl at the Grave of her Lover; 
Jephthah’s Daughter; The Peri; and Riz- 
pah. He died in October, 1870, in Swit¬ 
zerland. 

MOZLEY, NORMAN A., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 11, 1865, in 
Johnson county, Ill. He was elected from 
Missouri to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

MUDD, SYDNEY EMANUEL, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1858, in 
Charles county, Md. He was elected to the 
Maryland state house of delegates in 1879 
and re-elected in 1881. He was elected to 
the fifty-first and defeated for the fifty- 
second congress; and was elected to the 
state house of delegates in 1895, and was 
speaker of that body. He was delegate 
to the national republican convention in 
1896; and was elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 


MUDGE, ALFRED, publisher, was born 
April 25, 1805, in Portsmouth, N. H. He 
printed, among other specimens of fine 
work, History of the City Hall, published 
by the city authorities of Boston; a gen¬ 
ealogical record of the descendants of 
Hugh Clark, of Watertown; and the 
Mudge Memorials, being an account of the 
Mudge family. He died Aug. 14, 1882, in 
Hull, Mass. 

MUDGE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Aug. 11, 1817, 
in Orrington, Maine. He settled in Kan¬ 
sas in 1862, and in 1864-65 was state sen¬ 
ator. He died Nov. 21, 1879, in Manhat¬ 
tan, Kas. 

MUDGE, ENOCH, clergyman, author, 
was born June 28, 1776, in Lynn, Mass. 
He was a noted methodist itinerant 
preacher of New England; and the author 
of Notes on the Parables; Lynn, a Poem; 
The Juvenile Expositor; Lectures to Sea¬ 
men. He died April 2, 1850, in Lynn, 
Mass. 

MUDGE, ZACHARIAH ATWELL, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born July 2, 1813, in 
Orrington, Maine. He was a methodist 
clergyman of Massachusetts; and the au¬ 
thor of The Christian Statesman; Views 
from Plymouth Rock; Witch Hill, a His¬ 
tory of Salem Witchcraft; Life of Abra¬ 
ham Lincoln; Footprints of Roger Wil¬ 
liams; Arctic Heroes; Fur-clad Adven¬ 
turers; History of Suffolk County, Massa¬ 
chusetts; and The Luck of Alden Farm. 
He died in 1888. 

MUFFLY, JOSEPH WENDEL, educa¬ 
tor. He is prominently identified with the 
educational and public affairs of Des 
Moines, Iowa. 

MUHLEMAN, ROBERT W., physician, 
surgeon, business man, was born May 5, 
1853, in Hannibal, Ohio. He attended the 
Baldwin university of Berea, Ohio, and 
the Pulte Medical college of Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He is a successful physician and 
surgeon of Bellaire, Ohio. He has been 
superintendent of the Hannibal schools; 
president of the Crystal Window Glass 
company of Bellaire, Ohio; president of 
the Seal Glass Mandolin company; vice- 
president of the Ohio Valley Telephone 
company. 

MUHLENBERG, FRANCIS SAMUEL, 
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was 
born Aug. 22, 1795, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He moved to Ohio; became a member of 
the legislature of that state; and was a 
representathe from Ohio in the twentieth 
congress. He died in 1832 in Pickaway 
county, Ohio. 

MUHLENBERG, FREDERICK AUGUS¬ 
TUS, clergyman, college president, author, 
was born Aug. 25, 1818, in Lancaster, Pa. 
He has been professor in Franklin col¬ 
lege from 1838 to 1850; of Greek in Penn¬ 
sylvania college from 1850 till 1867; first 
president of Muhlenberg college, Pa., from 
1867 till 1876, and professor of the Greek 
language and literature in the university 
of Pennsylvania since 1876. He has pub¬ 
lished his Inaugural Address as president 
of Muhlenberg college; Semi-Centennial 
Address at Pennsylvania college, and oth¬ 
er addresses. 

MUHLENBERG, FREDERICK AUGUS¬ 
TUS CONRAD, clergyman, congressman, 
was born Jan. 1, 1750, in Trappe, Pa. In 
1773 he was pastor of Christ’s church, 
New York city, retiring from the ministry 
in 1779, when he entered the continental 
congress as the representative of the 
Pennsylvania Germans. He was the pre¬ 
siding officer of the assembly in his own 
state, and speaker of the first and third 
congresses. He died June 4, 1801, in Lan¬ 
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MUHLENBERG, GOTTHILF HENRY 
ERNST, clergyman, author, was born 
Nov. 11, 1753, in Trappe, Pa. He was a 
lutheran divine of Philadelphia, famous 
as a botanist in his day; and the author 
of Cantalogus Plantarum Americae Sep- 
tentrionalis; and English and German 
Lexicon and Grammar. He died May 23, 
1815, in Lancaster, Pa. 

MUHLENBERG, HENRY AUGUSTUS, 
clergyman, congressman, was born May 
13, 1782, in Lancaster, Pa. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative 
from Pennsylvania 
to congress in 1828, 
and served from 
1829 until 1838, 
when he resigned his 
seat and accepted the 
mission to Austria, 
about that time cre¬ 
ated. In 1835 he was 
the candidate of a 
portion of the demo¬ 
cratic party for gov¬ 
ernor; and in 1838 
was appointed minister to Austria. He 
died Aug. 12, 1844, in Reading, Pa. 

MUHLENBERG, HENRY AUGUSTUS, 
JR., lawyer, state senator, congressman, 
was born in July, 1823, in Reading, Pa. 
He was elected to the Pennsylvania state 
senate in 1848, of which body he at once 
became a leading member. He wrote a 
Life of General Muhlenberg. He was 
elected a member of the thirty-third con¬ 
gress. He died Jan. 9, 1854, in Washing¬ 
ton. 

MUHLENBERG, JOHN PETER GA¬ 
BRIEL, bishop, soldier, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Oct. 1, 
1746, in Trappe, Pa. In 1774 he was elect¬ 
ed to the house of burgesses of Virginia. 
He raised the eighth Virginia regiment, 
and was made its colonel. In 1777 he was 
made brigadier-general. After the war 
he was elected vice-president of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; was a presidential elector in 1797; 
and was a member of the first, third and 
sixth congresses from Pennsylvania. He 
was United States senator in 1801, which 
office he resigned in 1802. He was ap¬ 
pointed supervisor of revenue for Penn¬ 
sylvania in that year; and was appointed 
collector of the port of Philadelphia. 
Muhlenberg college was named after him. 
He died Oct. 1, 1807, near Philadelphia. 

MUHLENBERG, WILLIAM AUGUS¬ 
TUS, clergyman, author, poet, was born 
Sept. 16, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was a distinguished episcopal clergyman, 
rector of the Church of the Holy Com¬ 
munion in New York city in 1846-77. He 
was the founder of St. Luke’s hospital, 
and organized the first protestant sister- 
ho.od in America. His hymn, I Would not 
Live Alway, is widely known. He was the 
author of Church Poetry; Music of the 
Church; People’s Psalter; Evangelical 
Catholic Papers; Christ and the Bible; 
Family Prayers; Letters on Protestant 
Sisterhoods; St. Johnland; and Ideal and 
Actual. He died April 8, 1877, in New 
York city. 

MUIR, JAMES, clergyman, author, was 
born April 12, 1757, in Scotland. He was 
a presbyterian clergyman of Alexandria, 
Va.; and the author of An Examination 
of the Principles in the Age of Reason, 
in Ten Discourses; and Sermons. He died 
Aug. 20, 1820, in Alexandria, Va. 

MUIR, JOHN, scientist, explorer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1838 in Scotland. He 
is a noted California scientist and explor¬ 
er, discoverer of the Muir Glacier in Alas¬ 
ka; and the author of The Mountains 
of California. 


MULDROW, HENRY LOWNDES, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was 
born in Mississippi. He served in the 
confederate army from 1861 to 1865, rising 
to the rank of colonel. He was district 
attorney for the sixth judicial district of 
Mississippi from 1869 to 1871. He was 
elected a representative in the state leg¬ 
islature in 1875; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Mississippi to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty- 
eighth congresses as a democrat. 

MULFORD, ELISHA, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 19, 1833, in Montrose, 
Pa. He was an episcopal clergyman of 
Cambridge, lecturer in the Episcopal The¬ 
ological school there, and prominent 
among broad church thinkers. He was 
the author of The Nation; The Founda¬ 
tions of Civil Order and Political Life in 
the United States; and The Republic of 
God. He died Dec. 9, 1885, in Cambridge, 
Mass. 

MULFORD, PRENTICE, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1834 in Long Island. He 
was a journalist of New York city and 
San Francisco; and the author of The 
Swamp Angel; Life by Land and Sea; and 
Your Forces and How to Use Them. 

MULLANY, JAMES ROBERT MADI¬ 
SON, naval officer, was born Oct. 26, 1818, 
in New York city. He was actively en¬ 
gaged in the Mexican and civil wars, and 
attained the rank of commodore. He died 
Sept. 17, 1887, in Bryn Mawr, Pa. 

MULLANY, PATRICK FRANCIS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 29, 1847, in 
Ireland. He was a Roman catholic edu¬ 
cator of the order of Brothers of the 
Christian Schools; president of Rock Hill 
college in 1878-89, and subsequently a res¬ 
ident of New York city. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Development of English Lit¬ 
erature: Old English Period; Philosophy 
of Literature; Psychological Aspects of 
Education; Address on Thinking; Aris¬ 
totle and the Christian Church; Culture of 
the Spiritual Sense; and Phases of 
Thought and Criticism. He died in 1893. 

MULLEN. TOBIAS, bishop, was born in 
1818 in Ireland. He was consecrated 
bishop of Erie in 1868. 

MULLER, ALBERT A., poet, clergy¬ 
man, was born about 1800 in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. One of his poems was large¬ 
ly copied in the newspapers and appeared 
as the first piece in the early American 
editions of Moore’s Sacred Melodies. He 
published a v olume of poems, which at¬ 
tracted much attention. 

MULLER, CARL CHRISTIAN, author, 
musician, was born July 3, 1831, in Ger¬ 
many. He was leader of the orchestra at 
the old Barnum’s museum; and since 1879 
he has been professor of harmony of the 
New York College of Music. 

MULLER, NICHOLAS, banker, legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Nov. 15, 1836, 
in Germany. He was a promoter of and 
director in the Germania bank of New 
York city. He was a member of the state 
assembly in 1875 and 1876; and of the 
democratic state central committee in 
1875. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-fifth and for¬ 
ty-sixth congresses; was also elected to 
the forty-eighth and forty-ninth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

MULLER, NIKOLAUS, poet, was born 
in 1809 in Germany. He was a German 
poet who emigrated to New York city in 
1853 and established himself there as a 
printer. He died in 1873. 

MULLER, RICHARD A., artist, en¬ 
graver, was horn March 27, 1850, in Ba¬ 
varia, Germany. He has attained emi¬ 
nence as an artist and engraver on wood. 


MULLER-URY, ADOLPH FELIX, por¬ 
trait painter, was born Feb. 28, 1862, in 
Switzerland. Among his most important 
portraits are Cardinal Gibbons; Chaun- 
cey M. Depew; J. J. Hill of St. Paul; and 
a full-size portrait of Gen. Grant. 

MULLETT, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, was born Oct. 17, 1784, in Wit- 
tingham, Vt. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1814; and in 1823 was elected to 
the New York legislature, serving two 
terms. In 1846 he was made attorney for 
Buffalo, and in 1847 he became justice of 
the supreme court of New York. He died 
Sept. 10, 1858. 

MULLIGAN, JAMES A., soldier, was 
in Utica, N. Y. In 
from the university 
of St. Mary’s-of-the- 
Lake of Chicago; 
published a Roman 
catholic paper; and 
in 1857 began prac¬ 
ticing law in Chi¬ 
cago. When the civ¬ 
il war opened he or¬ 
ganized and was 
chosen colonel of the 
twenty-third Illinois 
regiment, known as 
the Irish brigade. He 
was fatally wounded 
battle of Winchester, 
and died two days later. 

MULLIGAN, JOHN, railroad president, 
was born Jan. 12, 1820, in Hartford, Conn. 
Since 1890 he has been president of the 
Connecticut River railroad. 

MULLIN, JOSEPH, congressman, was 
born in Ireland. He was a representative 
in congress from New York from 1847 to 
1849. 

MULLINS, JAMES, soldier, legislator, 
congressman, was horn Sept. 15, 1807, in 
Bedford county, Tenn. In 1831 he was 
made a colonel of militia; and from 1840 
to 1846 was a county sheriff. He was a del¬ 
egate to the Nashville convention of 1865; 
and was elected to the state legislature 
in the same year, and made speaker. In 
1867 he was elected a representative from 
Tennessee to the fortieth congress. 

MULVANY, PETER, merchant, con¬ 
tractor, poet, was born Nov. 20, 1844, in 
Ireland. He is a successful merchant, 
hotel keeper, railroad contractor and 
builder of Salida, Colo. For twelve years 
he has been a director in the Salida Build¬ 
ing and Loan association. He is the au¬ 
thor of a number of meritorious poems, 
and has contributed extensively to the 
periodical press on educational and other 
topics. 

MUMFORD, GEORGE, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Rowan county, N. 
C. He represented it in the general as¬ 
sembly in 1810 and 1811; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1817 to 1819. 
He died Dec. 31, 1818, in Washington. 

MUMFORD, GURDON S., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1805 to 1811. 

MUNDAY, JOHN WILLIAM, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1844 in Indiana. He 
is a lawyer of Chicago; and the author of 
The Spanish Galleon; and The Lost Can¬ 
yon of the Toltecs, both tales of adven¬ 
ture for boys. 

MUNDE, PAUL FORTUNATUS, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Sept. 7, 1846, in 
Saxony. He is a prominent New York 
physician; and the author of Obstetric 
Palpation; Minor Surgical Gynaecology; 
and Management of Pregnancy. 



born June 25, 1830, 
1850 he graduated 



July 24, 1864, at the 




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MUNFORD, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, 
poet, was born Aug. 15, 1775, in Mecklen¬ 
burg county, Va. He was a lawyer of 
Richmond, Va., who, beside several vol¬ 
umes of Law Reports, published a volume 
of Poems (1798) and a scholarly blank- 
verse translation of the Iliad. He died 
June 21,1825, in Richmond, Va. 

MUNGEN, WILLIAM, soldier, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born May 12, 1821, 
in Baltimore, Md. In 1846 and 1848 he 
was chosen a county auditor of Ohio; and 
in 1851 was elected to the state senate and 
declined a re-election. He was appointed 
state agent to visit all the Ohio troops 
in the department of Tennessee with poll- 
books and tally-sheets; and in 1864 was 
appointed to perform the same duty for 
the Ohio troops in the army of the Poto¬ 
mac. In 1866 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Ohio to the fortieth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
first congress as a democrat. 

MUNGER, THEODORE THORNTON, 
clergyman, author, was born March 5, 
1830, in Bainbridge, N. Y. He was a con¬ 
gregational clergyman of New Haven, 
prominent among liberal thinkers of that 
faith; and the author of On the Thresh¬ 
old; The Freedom of Faith; Lamps and 
Paths; and The Appeal to Life. 

MUNKITTRICK, RICHARD KEN¬ 
DALL, journalist, author, poet, was born 
in 1853 in England. He is a humorous 
writer of New York city on the editorial 
staff of Puck; and the author of The 
Moon Prince, a juvenile; Farming; and 
The Acrobatic Muse, a collection of hu¬ 
morous verse. 

MUNN, GEORGE F., artist, was born 
in 1852 in Utica, N. Y. He has painted 
and sketched in Brittany, and has exhibit¬ 
ed at the Dudley gallery, London, at Bir¬ 
mingham, and elsewhere. Among his 
works,are Wild Flowers; Roses; Mead¬ 
ow-Sweet; and A Sunny Day, Brittany. 

MUNRO, GEORGE, publisher, was born 
Nov. 12, 1825, in Nova Scotia. In 1867 he 
published the Fireside Companion; was 
the first to issue a series of cheap novels 
in the form of a weekly journal, and in 
this form East Lynne first appeared in 
1877. He died April 23, 1896, in Pine Hill, 
N. Y. 

MUNROE, CHARLES EDWARD, edu¬ 
cator, chemist, author, was born May 24, 
1849, in Cambridge, Mass. He has been 
professor of chemistry in the United 
States Naval academy, and in the United 
States Naval War college and Torpedo 
station; and is now dean of the Colum¬ 
bian university of Washington, D. C. He is 
the author of one hundred scientific pa¬ 
pers. 

MUNROE, [CHARLES] KIRK, author, 
was born in 1850 in Wisconsin. She is a 
popular writer, now resident in Florida, 
whose writings are mainly for juvenile 
readers. She is the author of Wakulla; 
Life of Mrs. Stowe; The Flamingo Feath¬ 
er; Derrick Sterling; Crystal Jack and 
Co.; The Golden Days of ’49; Dorymates; 
Under Orders; Prince Dusty; Campmates; 
Canoemates; Cab and Caboose; Raft- 
mates; The Coral Ship; The White Con¬ 
querors; The Fur Seal’s Tooth; Big Cy¬ 
press; Snow-Shoes and Sledges; Totem of 
the Bear; Rick Dale; A Young War Chief; 
and At War with Pontiac. 

MUNROE, JAMES, legislator, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in Virginia. 
He was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York, serving from 1839 
to 1841. He was a member of the as¬ 
sembly of New York in 1850 and 1852, 
and a state senator during the three sub¬ 
sequent years. He died in 1870 in New 
Jersey. 


MUNROE, JOHN, soldier, was born 
about 1796 in Scotland. He was military 
and civil governor of New Mexico from 
October, 1849, till 1850, and was promoted 
lieutenant-colonel in 1856. He died April 
26, 1861, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

MUNSELL, FRANKLIN, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1857 in New York. He 
is a publisher of Albany; and the author 
of Chips for the Chimney Corner; and 
The Bibliography of Albany. 

MUNSELL, JOEL, printer, publisher, 
author, was born April 14, 1808, in North- 
field, Mass. He was a printer and pub¬ 
lisher of Albany; and the author of Out¬ 
lines of the History of Printing; Every- 
Day Book of History and Chronology; 
and Chronology of Paper and Paper-Mak¬ 
ing. He died Jan. 15, 1880, in Albany, 
N. Y. 

MUNSEY, FRANK ANDREW, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1854 in Maine. 
He is a prominent magazine publisher of 
New York city; and the author of Afloat 
in a Great City; The Boy Broker; and 
Deringforth. 

MUNSON, AENEAS, physician, educa¬ 
tor, legislator, was born June 24, 1734, in 
New Haven, Conn. He was president of 
the Medical society of Connecticut, and 
was a professor in the Medical school of 
Yale from its organization till his death. 
During the revolutionary war he was often 
a member of the legislature. He died 
June 16, 1826, in New Haven, Conn. 

MUNSON, JAMES EUGENE, phono- 
grapher, author, was born May 12, 1835, in 
Paris, N. Y. He is a phonographer of 
New York city; and the author of The 
Complete Phonographer; Dictionary of 
Practical Phonography; and Phrase Book 
of Practical Phonography. 

MUNSON, LOVELAND, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born July 21, 1843, in 
Manchester, Vt. He was a member of the 
constitutional convention of 1870; of the 
house of representatives in 1872, 1874 and 
1882; and a member of the state senate in 
1878. He was register of probate during 
1866-76; and a judge of probate in 1883- 
89. The latter year he became a judge; 
and was re-elected four times, serving 
until 1898. 

MUNSON, LYMAN E., lawyer, jurist. 
He was appointed chief justice of the 
United States court for the territory of 
Montana. 

MUNSON, MYRON ANDREWS, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born May 5, 
1835, in Chester, Mass. He graduated 
from Harvard in 1860; and from Andover 
Theological seminary in 1864. He has 
made a tour in Europe; served as a sol¬ 
dier; taught Latin, German, English lit¬ 
erature and geology; and performed min¬ 
isterial duty in Vermont, Minnesota, New 
York and Massachusetts. His health fail¬ 
ing, he engaged in historical research, 
and is the author of The Munson Record, 
in two volumes; and has issued a dozen 
pamphlets on diverse themes. 

MUNSON, SAMUEL LYMAN, manufac¬ 
turer, financier, was born June 14, 1844, in 
Huntington, Mass. He is a successful 
manufacturer of shirts and collars of Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. He is a trustee and secre¬ 
tary of the Home Savings bank; and a 
director of the Albany Exchange National 
bank. 

MUNSON, PETER, educator, clergy¬ 
man, was born Sept. 14, 1859, in Sweden. 
He graduated from the Wesleyan univer¬ 
sity of Fullerton, Neb.; from the Swed¬ 
ish Theological seminary of Evanston, 
Ill.; and for three years attended the Illi¬ 
nois Wesleyan university of Blooming¬ 
ton, For several years he was engaged 


in educational work; is now pastor and’ 
secretary of the western Swedish confer¬ 
ence; and also missionary secretary of 
the Kansas-Nebraska district. 

MUNSON, WILLIAM BENJAMIN, rail¬ 
road president, was born Jan. 7, 1846, in’ 
Fulton county, Ill. In 1888 he became' 
president of the Denison and Washita 
Valley railway. 

MURAT, NAPOLEON ACHILLE. au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 21, 1801, in Paris, 
France. In his youth he bore the title of 
Prince of the Two Sicilies. He came to 
the United States in 1821, was naturalized' 
and settled in Tallahassee, Fla. He was 
mayor of that place in 1824, and postmas¬ 
ter in 1826-28. He died April 15, 1847, in 
Wasceissa, Fla. 

MURBAUGH, EDMUND DANDRIDGE, 
educator, college president, was born Nov. 
18, 1853, in Uniontown, Ala. He attended 
the Mary college, and the university of 
Virginia, afterreceiving the rudiments of 
his education in Fredericksburg. He has 
attained success as an educator; has been 
president of the A. and M. college of 
Oklahoma; and is now the president of 
the Oklahoma Territorial Normal school. 

MURCH, THOMPSON H„ stone cutter, 
journalist, congressman, was born March 
29, 1838, in Hampden, Maine. For eigh¬ 
teen years he was a stone cutter, and in 
1877 became the editor and publisher of 
The Granite-Cutters’ International Jour¬ 
nal. He was elected a representative from 
Maine to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh 
congresses. 

MURDOCH, JAMES EDWARD, actor,, 
lecturer, author, was born Jan. 25, 1811, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a noted actor 
and lecturer; and the author of Orthoph¬ 
ony; The Stage; Plea for Spoken Lan¬ 
guage; and Analytic Elocution. He died 
in 1893. 

MURDOCK, HAROLD, author, was born 
in 1862 in Massachusetts. He is a bank 
cashier of Boston; and the author of The 
Reconstruction of Europe, a Sketch of the 
Diplomatic and Military History of Con¬ 
tinental Europe from the Rise to the Fall 
of the Second French Empire. 

MURDOCK, JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born Feb. 16, 1776, in Westbrook, 
Conn. He was, a congregational clergy¬ 
man and educator of New Haven. He 
was the author of Sketches of Modern 
Philosophy, and translator of Mosheim’s 
Ecclesiastical History, and other works, 
as well as of a Literal Translation of the 
New Testament from the Ancient Syriac. 
He died Aug. 10, 1856, in Columbus, Miss. 

MURDOCK, SAMUEL A., soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Jan. 12, 1848, in Mt. Holly, 
N. J. During the civil war he was a pri¬ 
vate soldier in company F, eleventh regi¬ 
ment Illinois volunteer cavalry, and was 
one of the youngest men in that regiment. 
He is a prominent lawyer of Havana, Ill.; 
has been city attorney for four terms; and' 
has filled various public positions of hon¬ 
or in his city, county and state. 

MURFREE, FANNY NOAILLES DICK¬ 
INSON, author. She is the author of 
Felicia, a novel. 

MURFREE, MARY NOAILLES— 
Charles Egbert Craddock—author, was 
born about 1840 in Grantlands, Tenn. She 
is the author of In the Tennessee Moun¬ 
tains; Where the Battle was Fought; The 
Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains; 
Down the Ravine; His Vanished Star; In 
the Clouds; The Story of Keedon Bluffs; 
The Despot of Broomsedge Cove; In the 
Stranger People’s Country; The Phan¬ 
toms of the Footbridge; The Mystery of 
Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories; 
and The Juggler. 


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MURFREE, WILLIAM H., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in Hert¬ 
ford county, N. C. He served in the 
North Carolina state legislature in 1805; 
was a representative in congress from 1813 
to 1817; and was a presidential elector in 
1813. He died in Nashville, Tenn. 

MURFREE, WILLIAM LAW, lawyer, 
author, was born July 19, 1817, in Mur¬ 
freesboro, N. C. In 1881 he edited the 
Central Law Journal; and is the author 
of A Treatise on the Law of Sheriffs; 
Official Bonds; and Practice before Jus¬ 
tices of the Peace. He died Aug. 23, 1892, 
in Murfreesboro, Tenn. 

MURPHEY, ABNER GOFF, educator, 
college president, was born Oct. 18, 1831, 
in Knox county, Ohio. He is the presi¬ 
dent of Logan Female college of Russell¬ 
ville, Ky. 

MURPHEY, ARCHIBALD DEBOW, 
lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1777 
in Caswell county, N. C. He was the au¬ 
thor of numerous law works, and a his¬ 
tory of his state. He died Feb. 3, 1832, in 
Hillsborough, N. C. 

MURPHY, LADY BLANCHE ELIZA¬ 
BETH MARY ANNUNCIATA [NOEL], 
author, was born about 1850 in England. 
She is the author of On the Rhine, and 
Other Sketches. She died March 22, 1881, 
in North Conway, N. H. 

MURPHY, CHARLES, congressman, 
was born in South Carolina. He was a 
representative in congress from 1851 to 
1853. 

MURPHY, EDGAR GARDNER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 31, 1869, in 
Fort Smith, Ark. He now fills a pastor¬ 
ate in Kingston, N. Y. He is the author 
of The Larger Life; Words for the 
Church; and has contributed extensively 
to current literature. 

MURPHY, EDWARD, JR., state legisla¬ 
tor, United States senator, was born Dec. 
15, 1836, in Troy, N. Y. He was elected 
to the New York state legislature in 1875, 
and re-elected in 1877, 1879 and in 1881. 
He was elected United States senator to 
fill a vacancy, and took his seat March 4, 
1893. His term of service in the senate 
will expire March 3, 1899. 

MURPHY, EVERETT J., state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born July 24, 1852, 
in Nashville, Ill. In 1886 he was elected 
a representative to the general assembly 
of Illinois, and in 1889 was appointed 
warden of the Southern Illinois peniten¬ 
tiary, which position he held until 1892, 
when he removed to East St. Louis, where 
he now resides. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a republican. 

MURPHY, FRANKLIN, manufacturer, 
state legislator, was born Jan. 3, 1836, in 
Jersey City, N. J. In 1865 he founded the 
firm of Murphy and 
Co., varnish manu¬ 
facturers of Newark. 
Since then, his time, 
energies and great 
business capacity 
have been devoted, 
in the main, to the 
promotion of this 
trade. The Murphy 
varnishes are now 
sold all over the 
world, and the Mur¬ 
phy Varnish Co., 
which succeeded the firm in 1891, and of 
which Mr. Murphy is president, has fac¬ 
tories in Newark, Chicago, St. Louis, and 
Cleveland, and transacts an enormous 
business. He has served as member of 
the Newark common council and of the 
New Jersey legislature; is now chairman 
of the republican state committee, and is 
active in each campaign. 


MURPHY, GEORGE ARTHUR, lawyer, 
state senator, was born Dec. 25, 1858, in 
Starke county, Ind. In 1888 he moved to 
Beatrice, Neb. In 1890 he was chosen 
city attorney; in 1894 was elected county 
attorney; and in 1896 was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the Nebraska state legislature. 

MURPHY, HENRY CRUSE, lawyer, 
state legislator, state senator, congress¬ 
man, author, was born July 5, 1810, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He was at one time at¬ 
torney for the city of Brooklyn; and was 
elected mayor of that city in 1842. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1843 to 1849; and was 
appointed minister to The Hague. On his 
return from Europe he was elected to 
the legislature of New York, serving in 
both the assembly and senate. He was 
again elected to the state senate in 1868 
and 1869. In 1868 he published a transla¬ 
tion from the Dutch entitled Journal of 
a Voyage to New York in 1679-80. His 
other works are: Henry Hudson in Hol¬ 
land; and Anthology of the New Neth¬ 
erlands. He died Dec. 11, 1882, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 

MURPHY, ISAAC, governor. He was 
governor of Arkansas from 1864 to 1868. 

MURPHY, JAMES A., lawyer, was born 
June 21, 1862, in Clermont, Iowa. He 
attended the Commercial college of Du¬ 
buque, Iowa; was postmaster of Carring¬ 
ton, N. D., for two years; has been clerk 
of the district court; and in 1893-95 was 
deputy commissioner of insurance for 
North Dakota. He has a large practice 
in Jamestown, N. D.; and takes a promi¬ 
nent part in the public affairs of his 
county and state. 

MURPHY, JEREMIAH H„ lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 19, 
1835, in Lowell, Mass. He was mayor of 
Davenport, Iowa, in 1873; and was a state 
senator from 1874 to 1878. He was again 
elected mayor of Davenport in 1880. He 
was elected a representative from Iowa 
to the forty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-ninth congress as a 
democrat. 

MURPHY, JOHN, congressman, govern¬ 
or, was born in 1786, in Columbia, S. C. 
He moved to Alabama in 1817; was gov¬ 
ernor of Alabama from 1825 to 1829; and 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1833 to 1835. He died Sept. 21, 
1841, in Clarke county, Ala. 

MURPHY, JOHN, publisher, was born 
March 12, 1812, in Ireland. In 1855 he 
printed a translation of the Definition of 
the Dogma of the Immaculate Concep¬ 
tion, for which Pope Pius IX sent him a 
gold medal. He died May 27, 1880, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

MURPHY, JOHN ALBERT, clergyman, 
poet, was born Jan. 24, 1837, in Rich Fork, 
N. C. He received his education at the 
Catawba college, N. C., from which insti¬ 
tution he received his degree of D. D.; 
and the degree of A. M. was conferred 
upon him by Trinity college. In 1857 he 
* joined the St. Louis conference of the 
methodist episcopal church south; and in 
1879 was transferred to the northwest 
Texas conference. 

MURPHY, JOHN FRANCIS, landscape- 
painter, was born Dec. 11, 1853, in Oswe¬ 
go, N. Y. In 1885 he received the second 
Hallgarten prize for his painting Tints 
of a Vanished Past, and he took the 
Webb prize at the Society of American 
Artists in 1887. His works include Sunny 
Slopes; Upland Cornfield; October; Late 
Afternoon; April Weather; Woodland; 
Rocky Slope; Weedy Brook; Sultry Sea¬ 
son; Edge of a Pond; After the Frosts; 
The’ Yellow Leaf; Indian Summer; Sun¬ 
down; and Brooks and Fields. 


MURPHY, JOHN L., lawyer, jurist, was. 
born in Tennessee. He was appointed an 
associate justice of the United States 
court for the territory of Montana, resid¬ 
ing in Virginia City. 

MURPHY, JOHN McLEOD, civil engi¬ 
neer, was born Feb. 14, 1827, in North- 
castle, N. Y. He entered the United States 
navy as midshipman in 1841; was pro¬ 
moted past midshipman in 1847; and 
resigned in 1852. He died June 1, 1871, in 
New York city. 

MURPHY, NATHAN O., congressman, 
governor, was born in 1849, in Lincoln 
county, Maine. He settled in Prescott,. 
Ariz., in 1883. The governorship was ten¬ 
dered to him and he took his seat in 1892. 
He was the unanimous nominee of his 
party for delegate to the fifty-fourth con¬ 
gress, and was elected by a large plu¬ 
rality. 

MURPHY, 'ROBERT S., soldier, public 
official, legislator, was born April 15, 1840, 
in Paulding county, Ohio. In 1861 he en¬ 
listed as a private in 
company E, thirtieth 
regiment Indiana 
volunteer infantry,- 
was continuously in 
the service, and par¬ 
ticipated in the bat¬ 
tle of Shiloh, the 
siege of Vicksburg, 
and numerous other 
engagements until 
1865; and was com¬ 
missioned first lieu¬ 
tenant of marines 
May 9, 1864. He has filled numerous pub¬ 
lic positions of trust in Mandale, Ohio; 
has been justice of the peace and county 
auditor; and was elected to the seventy- 
second general assembly of the Ohio state 
legislature as a republican. 

MURPHY, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 6, 1823, in Ireland. 
He is a presbyterian clergyman of Phila¬ 
delphia; and the author of Pastoral 
Theology; Pastor and People; and Duties 
of Church Members. 

MURPHY, THOMAS F., lawyer, was. 
born Aug. 19, 1850, in Syracuse, N. Y. 
In 1876 he was admitted to the bar, and is 
now a prominent lawyer in his native city. 
He has filled various public positions of 
honor in Syracuse; and has always taken 
an active part in political affairs. 

MURRAH, PENDLETON, governor,, 
was born in Alabama. He was governor 
of Texas from 1863 to 1865. He died Sept. 
23, 1865, in Monterey, Mexico. 

MURRAH, WILLIAM BELTON, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born in May, 
1851,’ in Pickensville, Ala. He attended 
the Southern university of Greensboro, 
Ala. He is an eminent clergyman, and 
has filled pastorates in a number of im¬ 
portant churches. For many years he was 
vice-president of the Whitworth Female 
college; and is now president of Millsops 
college, Jackson. 

MURRAY, ALEXANDER, naval officer, 
was born in 1816 in Philadelphia. He 
entered the United States navy in 1835; 
became commodore in 1871, and rear-ad¬ 
miral on the retired list in 1876. He died 
Nov. 10, 1884, in Washington, D. C. 

MURRAY, AMBROSE S., congressman, 
was born in New York. He was elected a 
representative from that state to the thir¬ 
ty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. 

MURRAY, DAVID, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 15, 1830, in Bovina, N. Y. 
He is an educator of New York city, for¬ 
eign adviser to the Japanese government 
cn education; and the author of Manual 
of Land Surveying; Outline History of 
Japanese Education; and The Story of 
Japan. 









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MURRAY, DAVID RODMAN, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born March 13, 
1847, in Cloverport, Ky. He graduated 
from the law depart¬ 
ment of the univer¬ 
sity of Michigan. He 
served in the union 
army as adjutant of 
the seventeenth reg¬ 
iment Kentucky vol¬ 
unteer cavalry, and 
was mustered out 
in October, 1865, in 
Louisville, Ky.; and 
was subsequently 
acting assistant ad¬ 
jutant-general of the 
second Kentucky brigade. During 1877-81 
he served with distinction as a state sena¬ 
tor in the Kentucky legislature. He is 
one of the leading lawyers of Kentucky, 
and resides in his native city. 

MURRAY, ELI HOUSTON, governor, 
was born Sept. 12, 1844, in Breckinridge 
county, Ky. He was for a time United 
States marshal for Kentucky. In 1880 he 
was appointed governor of the territory 
of Utah for the term of four years. 

MURRAY, EPHRAIM CLARK, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born Feb. 5, 
1861, in Edisto Island, S. C. He has filled 
various pastorates in the churches of 
North and South Carolina; and is now 
the president of the Presbyterian college 
•of South Carolina. 

MURRAY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
•congressman, was born Sept. 22, 1853, near 
Rembert, S. C. He was elected from South 
Carolina to the fifty-third, and was re¬ 
nominated for the fifty-fourth congress by 
the republicans. 

MURRAY, HANNAH LINDLEY, trans¬ 
lator, author, was born March 10, 1777, 
in New York city. She painted, wrote 
verses and hymns, and, aided by her sis¬ 
ter, composed a poem in eight books on 
the Restoration of the Jews. She died 
July 3, 1836, in New York city. 

MURRAY, JAMES ORMSBEE, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1827. He is an 
educator, professor of English literature 
in Princeton college, and dean of the col¬ 
lege from 1886. He is the author of Life 
of Francis Wayland. 

MURRAY, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Lancaster, Pa. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1817 to 1821. 

MURRAY, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born May 22, 1742, in Ireland. He 
held presbyterian pastorates in Philadel¬ 
phia, Boothbay, Maine, and Newburyport, 
Mass. He published Sermons on Justifi¬ 
cation; and Sermons on the Original Sin 
Imputed. He died March 13, 1793, in New¬ 
buryport, Mass. 

MURRAY, JOHN L., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1838 to 1839. 

MURRAY, JOHN O’KANE, physician, 
uuthor, was born Dec. 22. 1847, in Ireland. 
He was a physician and author of New 
York city; and the author of Popular 
History of the Catholic Church in the 
United States; Catholic Pioneers of 
America; Lessons in English Literature; 
The Prose and Poetry of Ireland; Little 
Lives of the Great Saints; and Catholic 
Heroes and Heroines of America. He died 
July 30, 1885, in Chicago, Ill. 

MURRAY, JOHN YOUNG, physician, 
surgeon, legislator, was born May 6, 1829, 
in McNairy county, Tenn. He has filled 
the principal offices of his town, county 
and state; has held, among other posi¬ 
tions, that of county treasurer, sheriff, 
and served with distinction as a member 


of the Mississippi state legislature. Since 
1849 he has been actively engaged in the 
practice of his profession, and has at¬ 
tained prominence as one of the leading 
physicians of the south. He has been 
president of the Mississippi State Medical 
association; president of the Tri-State 
Medical association, which includes the 
states of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missis¬ 
sippi. He has been grand master and 
grand high priest of Masons of Missis¬ 
sippi; and is well known throughout the 
state as a man of scholarly attainments 
and integrity. 

MURRAY, LINDLEY, educator, author, 
was born April 22, 1745, near Lancaster, 
Pa. He was a famous grammarian whose 
life after 1784 was passed near York, Eng¬ 
land. He was the author of Grammar of 
the English Language; Power of Religion 
on the Mind; and Compendium of Relig¬ 
ious Faith and Practice. He died Feb. 16, 
1826, in England. 

MURRAY, NICHOLAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 25, 1802, in Ireland. 
He was a presbyterian clergyman of Eliza¬ 
beth, N. J., famous 
in his day as a con¬ 
troversialist; and the 
author of Letters by 
Kirwan to Bishop 
Hughes; Romanism 
at Home; Men and 
Things; The Happy 
Home; Preachers 
and Preaching; and 
Parish and Other 
Pencillings. He died 
Feb. 4, 1861, in Eli¬ 
zabethtown, N. J. 

MURRAY, RICHARD A., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Feb. 18, 1833, in 
Champlain, N. Y. He served as a soldier 
during the civil war, and was colonel of 
the ninth regiment Minnesota militia. He 
is a prominent lawyer of Madison, S. D., 
where he has filled the office of county 
judge. 

MURRAY, ROBERT, surgeon, was born 
Aug. 6, 1822, in Howard county, Md. He 
was appointed assistant surgeon in the 
United States army in 1846; and received 
the brevets of lieutenant-colonel and col¬ 
onel in 1865 for meritorious service during 
the civil war. 

MURRAY, ROBERT M., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 28, 1841, in 
Concord, Ohio. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the forty-eighth 
congress as a democrat. 

. MURRAY, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in Northumberland county. Pa. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1821 to 1823. 

MURRAY, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1851 to 1855. 

MURRAY, WILLIAM HENRY HARRI¬ 
SON, clergyman, author, was born April 
26, 1840, in Guilford, Conn. He was a 
noted congregational minister, pastor of 
Park Street church, Boston, in 1868-74; 
and the author of Adventures in the Wil¬ 
derness; Adirondack Tales; Deacons; 
Music Hall Sermons; The Perfect Horse; 
Sermons from Park Street Pulpit; How 
Deacon Tubner Kept New Year’s; The 
Doom of Mamelons; Daylight Land; and 
Words Fitly Spoken. 

MURRAY, WILLIAM VANS, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, author, was 
born in 1762, in Cambridge, Md. He was 
soon elected to a seat in the Maryland 
legislature; and in 1791 was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress, and continued in 
that position until 1797, when he declined 


being a candidate. He was appointed 
minister to the Netherlands; and in con¬ 
nection with Mr. Ellsworth and Mr. Davie, 
negotiated a treaty with France in 1800. 
He was the author of a treatise on The 
Constitution and Laws of the United 
States. He died Dec. 11, 1803, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Md. 

MUSICK, JOHN ROY, author, poet, was 
born Feb. 28, 1849, in St. Louis, Mo. He 
is a novelist and historian of Kirksville, 
Mo.; and the author of The Banker of 
Bedford; History Stories of Wisconsin; 
Calamity Row; Brother against Brother; 
Mysterious Mr. Howard; and a series of 
twelve Columbian historical novels, in¬ 
cluding Columbia; Estevan; St. Au¬ 
gustine; Pocahontas; The Pilgrims; A 
Century Too Soon, a story of Bacon’s Re¬ 
bellion; The Witch of Salem; Braddock; 
Independence; Sustained Honor; Hum¬ 
bled Pride; and Union. 

MUSSEY, REUBEN DIMOND, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born June 23, 1780, in 
Pelham, N. H. He was a Boston physi¬ 
cian who published Health: its Friends 
and its Foes. He died June 21, 1866, in 
Boston, Mass. 

MUSSEY, WILLIAM HEBERDON, sur¬ 
geon, educator, was born Sept. 30, 1818, 
in Hanover. He was a medical inspector 
in the civil war; professor of operative 
and clinical surgery in the Miami Medical 
college, Ohio, in 1865-82; and surgeon- 
general of Ohio in 1876. He died Aug. 1, 
1882, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

MUTCHLER, WILLIAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 21, 1831, in 
Northampton county, Pa. In 1860 he was 
elected prothonotary of his native county, 
and re-elected in 1863; and was for two 
years an assessor of internal revenue. In 
1869 and 1870 he was chairman of the 
democratic state committee. In 1874 he 
was elected a representative from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the forty-fourth congress; and 
was again a representative in the forty- 
seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a 
democrat. 

MUTCHMORE, SAMUEL ALEXAN¬ 
DER. clergyman, journalist, author. Since 
1882 he has been pastor of the Memorial 
church of Philadelphia. He is the author 
of A Visit of Japheth to Shem and Ham; 
The Mongal; The Mikado; and The Mis¬ 
sionary. 

MUTTER, THOMAS DENT, physician, 
author, was born March 9, 1811, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. In 1841-56 he was professor of 
surgery in Jefferson Medical college. He 
wrote an account of the salt sulphur 
springs of Virginia, an essay on Club- 
Foot, contributed various professional pa¬ 
pers to periodicals, and published an edi¬ 
tion of Robert Liston’s Lecture on the 
Operations of Surgery, with additions. He 
died March 16, 1859, in Charleston, S. C. 

MUZZEY, ARTEMAS BOWERS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Sept. 21, 1802, in 
Lexington, Mass. He was a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman of Massachusetts who retired from 
active ministry in 1865. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Blade and the Ear; Prime 
Movers of the Revolution; The Young 
Men's Friend; Mora! Teacher; Christ in 
the Will, the Heart, and Life; The High¬ 
er Education; Immortality in the Light of 
Scripture and Science; Truths Conse¬ 
quent upon Belief in God; and Education 
of Old Age. He died in 1892. 

MYER, ALBERT- JAMES, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 20, 1827, in New- 
burg, N. Y. He was a brigadier-general 
in the United States army, for some years 
chief signal officer; and author of Manual 
of Signals for Use in the Field. He died 
Aug. 24, 1880, in Buffalo, N. Y. 





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MYERS, AMOS, lawyer, congressman, 
was born April 23, 1824, in Lancaster 
county, Pa. In 1847 he was appointed a 
district attorney; and in 1862 was elected 
a representative from Pennsylvania to the 
thirty-eighth congress. 

MYERS, EDMUND T. D., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born July 13, 1830, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. Since 1889 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Richmond, Fredericksburg 
and Potomac railroad. 

MYERS, JOHN GILLESPY, merchant, 
banker. In 1860 he commenced business 
for himself at the corner of Bleecker and 
Christopher streets, 
New York, where he 
remained until 1865. 
Removing then to 
Albany, which is yet 
his home, he con¬ 
tinues to manage an 
extensive modern 
dry goods business. 
In addition to this, 
he devotes consider¬ 
able of his time to 
building and improv¬ 
ing city property, 
of which he is a large owner. He is vice- 
president of the Merchant’s National bank, 
vice-president of the Commerce Insurance 
Co., vice-president of the National Sav¬ 
ings bank, director of the Albany railway, 
a governor of the Albany hospital, a trus¬ 
tee of the Orphan asylum, the Female 
academy, and the Fort Orange club. 

MYERS, LEONARD, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, translator, was born Nov. 13. 1827, 
in Attleborough, Pa. He was solicitor for 
two municipal districts in Philadelphia; 
and codified the ordinances for the con¬ 
solidation of the city. In 1862 he was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the thirty-eighth congress; and 
was re-elected to the thirty-ninth, for¬ 
tieth, forty-first, forty-second, and forty- 
third congresses as a republican. 

MYERS, PETER HAMILTON, lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 4, 1812, in Herki¬ 
mer, N. Y. He was a lawyer and ro¬ 
mancer of Brooklyn; 
and the author of 
The First of the 
Knickerbockers, a 
tale; The Young Pa- 
troon; The King of 
the Hurons; and The 
Prisoner of the Bor¬ 
der. He died Aug. 30, 
1878, in Brooklyn, N. 
Y. Besides his pub¬ 
lished works he was 
a constant contribu¬ 
tor to the leading 
newspapers and magazines of the United 
States. 

MYERS, PHILIP VAN NESS, educator, 
author, was born in 1846 in New York. 
He is an educator of Cincinnati, professor 
of history and political economy in the 
university of Cincinnati in 1890, and dean 
of the university in 1895. He is the au¬ 
thor of Life and Nature under the Trop¬ 
ics; Remains of Lost Empires; Outlines 
of Ancient History; Outlines of Mediaeval 
and Modern History; A History of Greece; 
The Eastern Nations and Greece; A His¬ 
tory of Rome; and General History. 

MYERS, MRS. SARAH ANN [IRWIN], 
was born in 1800, in Wilmington, Del. 
She was a writer and artist of Carlisle, 
Pa. Among her many contributions to 
juvenile literature are, Margaret Gordon; 
Impatient Ellen; and The Silk-Weaver 
of Lyons. She died Dec. 11, 1876, in Car¬ 
lisle, Pa. 

MYERS, WILLIAM FENTON, lawyer, 
was born June 7, 1868, in Florida, N. Y. 


After receiving the rudiments of his edu¬ 
cation in the public schools, he attended 
Amsterdam academy, and subsequently 
graduated from the law department of 
the Northwestern unhersity with the de¬ 
gree of LL. B. He was admitted to the 
bar, and is now a successful lawyer of 
Amsterdam, N. Y., where he is prominent 
in the public affairs of his city, county 
and state. 

MYRICK, MILTON HILLS, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born May 28, 1826, in Marshall, 
N. Y. During 1872-80 he was probate 
judge of the city and county of San Fran¬ 
cisco; and during 1880-87 was associate 
justice of the supreme court of California. 

NABERS, BENJAMIN D„ congressman, 
was born in Tennessee. He was elected 
a representative in congress from Missis¬ 
sippi from 1851 to 1853. Returning to 
Tennessee he was a presidential elector 
in 1861 from that state. 

NACK, JAMES, author, poet, was born 
Jan. 4, 1809, in New York city. He was 
a deaf and dumb poet of New York city; 
and the author of The Legend of the Ark; 
Earl Rupert; The Immortal, a dramatic 
romance; and The Romance of the King, 
and Other Poems. He died Sept. 23, 1879, 
in New York city. 

NADAL, BERNHARD HARRISON, 
clergyman, author, was born March 27, 
1812, in Talbot county, Md. He was a 
methodist clergyman and educator of Vir¬ 
ginia who published New Life Dawning. 
He died June 20, 1870, in Madison, N. J. 

NADAL, EHRMAN SYME, journalist, 
author, was born Feb. 13, 1843, in Lewis- 
burg, W. Va. He is a journalist who has' 
lived much in London as secretary of le¬ 
gation in 1870, 1871, and 1877-84. He 
is the author of Essays at Home and Else¬ 
where; Impressions of London Social 
Life; and Zweiback, or Notes of a Pro¬ 
fessional Exile. 

NAFTZGER, GEORGE EDWARD, jour¬ 
nalist, lecturer, poet, was born April 30, 
1859, in Lima, Ohio. After receiving a 
liberal education, he 
learned the printer’s 
trade, and in 1879 
became associate ed¬ 
itor of The Herald of 
Edgerton, Ohio. He 
has since been iden¬ 
tified with different 
Ohio newspapers, in¬ 
cluding the Sunday 
Morning Gossip, 
Spencerville Journal, 
St. Mary Argus, and 
the Democrat of La- 
con, Ill. During 1888-89 he lectured ex¬ 
tensively in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. 
He has contributed to many of the lead¬ 
ing publications of America; and his 
poems have been given a place in Poets 
of America, and other standard works. 

NAISBITT, HENRY W., journalist, 
poet, was born Nov. 7, 1829, in England. 
Since 1854 he has lived in Utah, except¬ 
ing occasional visits 
to the east and two 
years in Europe. He 
is the editor and 
owner of a monthly 
magazine entitled 
Zion’s Home Month¬ 
ly, published in Salt 
Lake City, Utah; and 
has contributed val¬ 
uable papers to the 
leading newspapers 
and magazines of 
America. As a poet 
he has written many of great merit, some 
of which have appeared in Poets of Amer¬ 
ica, and other national collections. 


NANCE, ALBINUS, soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, governor, was born March 
30, 1848, in La Fayette. Ill. He served .in 
the union army throughout the civil war. 
In 1871 he moved to Nebraska; was 
a representative in the state legislature 
in 1875-78; and was speaker of the house 
the two latter years. He was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Nebraska in 1878, and re-elected 
in 1880. 

NAPHEGI, GABOR, author, poet, was. 
born in 1824 in Hungary. He was a na¬ 
tive of Buda-Pesth who became a natural¬ 
ized American citizen in 1868. He was the 
author of Ghardia, or Ninety Days in the 
Desert; The Album of Language; Hun¬ 
gary; Among the Arabs; and The Grand 
Review of the Dead, a volume of poetry. 
He died in 1884. 

NAPHEYS, GEORGE HENRY, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1842 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was a prominent physician 
and medical writer of Philadelphia; and 
the author of The Body and its Ailments; 
Modern Medical Therapeutics; Modern 
Surgical Therapeutics; The Transmission 
of Life; Physical Life of Woman; Pre¬ 
vention and Cure of Disease; and Person¬ 
al Beauty. He died in 1876. 

NASH, ABNER, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, governor, was born Aug. 8, 
1716, in Prince Edward county, Va. He 
was the first elected speaker of the North 
Carolina senate, serving sev eral terms. He 
was the second governor of the state 
under the constitution in 1781. From 1782 
to 1785 he was in the assembly; and was 
a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1782 to 1786. He died Dec. 2, 1786, 
in New York. 

NASH, CHARLES E., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born May 23, 1844, in Opelousas, 
La. In 1874 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Louisiana to the forty-fourth 
and forty-fifth congresses as a republi¬ 
can. 

NASH, FRANCIS, soldier, was born May 
10, 1720, in Prince Edward county, Va. 
He was commissioned brigadier-general 
by the continental congress in 1777, and 
commanded a brigade at the battle of 
Germantown, where he was mortally 
wounded. He died Oct. 7, 1777, in Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa. 

NASH, FREDERICK, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born Feb. 9, 1781, in 
New Berne, N. C. He represented New 
Berne in the legislature in 1813-17. He 
was a judge of the superior court from 
1818 till his resignation in 1824; and was 
re-elected to that office in 1836. He died 
Dec. 5, 1858, in Hillsborough, N. C. 

NASH, HENRY SYLVESTER, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born in 1854 
in Ohio. He is an episcopal clergyman of 
Cambridge, Mass., and professor of New 
Testament interpretation in the Episcopal 
Theological school since 1884. He is the 
author of The Genesis of the Social Con¬ 
science; and The Relation Between the 
Establishment of Christianity in Europe 
and the Social Question. 

NASH, SIMEON, lawyer, jurist, author, 
was born Sept. 21, 1804, in South Hadley, 
Mass. He was a jurist of Gallipolis, 
Ohio; and the author of Digest of Ohio 
Reports; Pleading and Practice under the 
Civil Code; Morality and the State; and 
Crime and the Family. He died Jan. 19, 
1879, in Gallipolis, Ohio. 

NASH, WILEY NORRIS, soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born in 1846, in Noxu¬ 
bee, Miss. He served gallantly in the 
confederate service, and gained the rank 
of sergeant. He served with distinction 
in the Mississippi state legislature; and is 
now attorney-general of the state of 
Mississippi. 












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NASON, ELIAS, clergyman, author, 
was born April 21, 1811, in Wrentham, 
Mass. He was a congregational minister 
of North Billerica, Mass., among whose 
numerous religious biographical and his¬ 
torical writings are, Gazetteer of Massa- 
• chusetts; Life of John A. Andrew; Lives 
of Moody and Sankey; Life of Charles 
Sumner; Life of Henry Wilson; History 
of Middlesex County; Originality; Thou 
Shalt Not Steal; and Fountains of Sal¬ 
vation. He died June 17, 1887, in North 
Billerica, Mass. 

NASON,MRS. EMMA [HUNTINGTON], 
poet, was born in 1845 in Maine. She is 
a poet of Augusta, Maine; and the au¬ 
thor of White Sails (verse); The Tower, 
with Legends and Lyrics. 

NASON, HENRY BRADFORD, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born June 22, 1831, in 
Foxborough, Mass. He was a professor 
of chemistry in the Troy Polytechnic in¬ 
stitute; and the author of Table of Re¬ 
actions for Qualitative Analysis; and Ta¬ 
ble for Qualitative Analysis in Colors. He 
died in 1895. 

NAST, THOMAS, caricaturist, was born 
Sept. 27, 1840, in Bavaria. When fifteen 
years old he began to furnish illustrations 
to the papers, and during the war began 
his long series of effective political cari¬ 
catures in Harper’s Weekly. 

NAST, WILLIAM, clergyman, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born June 15, 1807, in 
Germany. He is a methodist minister of 
Cincinnati, editor of The Christian Apolo¬ 
gist for many years; and the author of 
Christological Meditations; Gospel Re¬ 
cords; A German Commentary on the 
New Testament; and Das Christenthum 
und seine Gegensatze. 

NAUDAIN, ARNOLD, United States 
senator, was born Jan. 6, 1790, in Dover, 
Del. He was a senator in congress from 
Delaware from 1829 to 1836. He died Jan. 
4, 1872, in Odessa, Del. 

NAVARRO, MADAME MARY ANTOI¬ 
NETTE [ANDERSON] DE, actress, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1859 in California. She 
was a popular actress who retired from 
the stage in 1890, was married to M. de 
Navarro soon after, and has since lived 
in England. She is the author of A Few 
Memories, an autobiography. 

NAYLOR, CHARLES, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 6, 1806, in Philadel¬ 
phia county, Pa. He represented his na¬ 
tive district in congress from 1837 to 1841. 
He died Dec. 24, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

NEAD, BENJAMIN MATTHIAS, law¬ 
yer, journalist, author, was born July 14, 
1847, in Antrim, Pa. He is a lawyer and 
journalist of Harrisburg; and the author 
of Sketches of Early Chambersburg; Guide 
to County Officers; Early Government of 
Pennsylvania; and Brief Review of the 
Financial History of Pennsylvania. 

NEAGLE, JOHN, portrait-painter, was 
born Nov. 4, 1796, in Boston, Mass. His 
first decided success was a portrait of the 
Rev. Dr. Joseph Pilmore, which is in St. 
George’s hall, Philadelphia. In 1825 he 
painted his celebrated full-length portrait 
of Patrick Lyon, the blacksmith, at his 
forge, which is now in the Pennsylvania 
Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. 
He died Sept. 17, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

NEAL, DAVID DOLLOFF, artist, was 
born Oct. 20, 1837, in Lowell, Mass. His 
first figure composition, James Watt, was 
exhibited at the Royal academy in Lon¬ 
don; and in 1875 he painted his best- 
known work, The First Meeting of Mary 
Stuart and Rizzio. When it was first 
exhibited in 1876, it received the great 
medal from the Royal Bavarian academy. 


NEAL, ELIAS CRAIG, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Jan. 28, 1833, in Barn- 
stead, N. H. After receiving a thorough 
education, he entered into the active prac¬ 
tice of his profession, and became one of 
the leading physicians in New England. 

NEAL, GEORGE PHILIP, physician, 
surgeon, was born Nov. 10, 1852, in Ohio. 
He graduated in 1874 from the Iowa State 
university, and soon attained success in 
his profession at Fort Madison, Iowa. He 
was appointed postmaster by the presi¬ 
dent; has been health officer; and presi¬ 
dent of the board of the United States 
examining surgeons. 

NEAL, HENRY AUGUSTUS, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Dec. 13, 1846, in Tuf- 
tonboro, N. H. He is an eminent attor¬ 
ney of Charleston, Ill.; has been mayor 
of his city; and served as a member of 
the thirtieth and thirty-first general as¬ 
semblies of the state of Illinois. 

NEAL, HENRY S., lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Aug. 25, 1828, 
in Gallipolis, Ohio. He was elected a state 
senator in 1861, and re-elected in 1863. He 
was appointed consul of the United 
States at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1869; and 
was charge d’ affaires during a part of 
1869 and 1870. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Ohio to the forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth, and forty-seventh congresses. 

NEAL, JOHN, author, poet, was born 
Aug. 25, 1793, in Portland, Maine. He 
was a once famous writer of Portland, 
Maine. He was the author of Keep Cool, 
a novel; The Battle of Niagara, a poem; 
Goldau, and Other Poems; Rachel Dyer, 
a novel; Downeasters, a novel; True Wo¬ 
manhood; Bentham’s Morals and Legis¬ 
lation; Great Mysteries and Little 
Plagues; and Wandering Recollections of 
a Somewhat Busy Life. He died June 21, 
1876, in Portland, Maine. 

NEAL, JOHN RANDOLPH, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 26, 1838, in An¬ 
derson county, Tenn. He enlisted in the 
confederate army; and in 1863 was pro¬ 
moted to a colonelcy. In 1874 he was 
elected a representative in the Tennessee 
legislature; in 1878 was elected a state 
senator, and upon the assembling of the 
legislature in 1879 was elected speaker of 
the senate, and ex-officio lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of the state; and in 1880 he was a 
presidential elector. In 1884 he was 
elected a representative from Tennessee 
to the forty-ninth congress; and re-elect¬ 
ed to the fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

NEAL, JOSEPH CLAY, humorist, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 3, 1807, in Greenland, 
N. H. He was a journalist of Philadel¬ 
phia who founded 
The Saturday Ga¬ 
zette, and was a pop¬ 
ular humorist in his 
day. He was the au¬ 
thor of Charcoal 
Sketches; and Peter 
Ploddy, and Other 
Oddities. His humor 
lies in the delinea¬ 
tion of small spend¬ 
thrifts, pretenders to 
fashion, bores, and 
the frayed-out gen¬ 
tleman. He died July 18, 1847, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa.' 

NEAL, LAWRENCE TALBOTT, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 

born Sept. 22, 1844, in Parkersburg, W. Va 
He was solicitor of Chillicothe, Ohio, in 
1867; and was elected to the legislature in 
1867. He was attorney of Ross county in 
1870, and held that office until 1872, when 
he resigned. He was elected to the forty- 
third and forty-fourth congresses as a 

democrat. 



NEALE, JAMES BROWN, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist. In 1879 he was appointed judge of 
the thirty-third judicial district of Penn¬ 
sylvania, holding that office for ten years. 

NEALE, LEONARD, archbishop, was 
born Oct. 15, 1746, in Port Tobacco, Md. 
In Philadelphia he was appointed vicar- 
general for the northern states. In 1799 
he was made president of Georgetown 
college, which had been founded a few 
years before by the Jesuits of Maryland. 
He died June 15, 1817, in Georgetown, 
D. C. 

NEALE, RAPHAEL, congressman, was 
born in St. Mary’s county, Md. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1819 to 1825. 

NEALE, ROLLIN HEBER, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 23," 1808, in South¬ 
ington, Conn. He is the author of a work 
entitled Burning Bush, several sermons, 
and a Harvard college Dudleian lecture. 
He died Sept. 19, 1879, in Boston, Mass. 

NEAR, IRVIN W., lawyer, was born 
Jan. 26, 1835, in Alexandria, N. Y. He at¬ 
tended the Orleans academy, the Falley 
seminary, and the college of Montreal. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1858; has 
been district attorney of Steuben county, 
N. Y.; and has attained prominence as 
one of the leading lawyers of his state 
at Hornellsville. He has served with dis¬ 
tinction as mayor of his city; has been 
commissioner of land titles; secretary of 
the New York and Pennsylvania Railroad 
company; and also secretary of the Roch¬ 
ester, Hornellsville and Lackawanna Rail¬ 
road company. 

NEBEKER, AQUILA, ranchman, law¬ 
yer. legislator, was born June 9, 1859, in 
Salt Lake City, LTtah. He served several 
sessions in the Utah legislature, and was 
presiding officer of the state senate in the 
session of 1896. 

NEBEKER, GEORGE, jurist, railroad 
president, was born Aug. 20, 1813, in Pick¬ 
away county, Ohio. For a period of fif¬ 
teen consecutive years, from 1845 to 1860, 
he acted as justice of the peace in Terre 
Haute, Ind. He was elected president of 
the Attica and Terre Haute Railroad com¬ 
pany, the road being afterward consoli¬ 
dated and merged into the Chicago and 
Danville railroad. 

NEBINGER, ANDREW, physician au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 12, 1819, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. During the civil war he was 
surgeon-in-charge of the Cooper-shop vol¬ 
unteer hospital and dispensary. He was 
the author of various medical papers and 
addresses to societies. He died April 12, 
1886, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

NECKERE, LEO RAYMOND DE, bish¬ 
op, was born June 6, 1800. He was the 
third Roman catholic bishop of New Or¬ 
leans, La. He died Sept. 4, 1833, in New 
Orleans, La. 

NEECE, WILLIAM H., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 
1831, in Logan county, Ill. He was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar and commenced prac¬ 
tice in 1858 in Macomb, Ill. In 1864 he 
was elected a representative in the state 
legislature; and in 1871 was again elected 
to the legislature. In 1878 he was elected 
state senator, and served four years; and 
was elected a representative from Illinois 
to the forty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-ninth congress as a 
democrat. 

NEEDHAM, CHARLES AUSTIN, artist 
was born Oct. 30, 1844, in Buffalo, N. Y. 
He has attained a national reputation as 
a noted artist; among his best-known 
works are Mott Haven Canal, New York; 
Near Factory Hollow; and Dream of Au¬ 
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NEEDHAM, ELIAS PARKMAN, inven¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 12, 1812, in Delhi, N. Y. 
In 1878 he conceived the idea of using 
strips of perforated paper for the auto¬ 
matic production of music, which resulted 
in the mechanical orguinette' or automatic 
organ. He died Nov. 28, 1889, in New 
York city. 

NEELY, HENRY ADAMS, D. D., clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born May 14, 1830, in 
Fayetteville, N. Y. He was ordained a 
priest in 1854, and consecrated bishop of 
Maine in 1867. His writings consist of 
• sermons, addresses, and hymns. 

NEELY, SIDNEY SMITH, legislator, 
was born Feb. 22, 1832, in Lincoln county, 
Ky. .He received his education at the 
'Central college of Danville, Ky.; has been 
a justice of the peace, notary public, post¬ 
master, and served with distinction as a 
member of the Missouri state legislature. 
He is prominent in the business affairs 
■of Sibley, Mo., and takes an active part in 
the public affairs of his city, county and 
state. 


NEELEY, THOMAS B., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 18—. He is a methodist 
•clergyman, and the author of Young 
Workers in the Church; The Church 
Lyceum; Parliamentary Practice; Evolu¬ 
tion of Episcopacy and Organic Method¬ 
ism; The Parliamentarian; and The Gov¬ 
erning Conference in Methodism. 

NEFF, HENRY H., soldier, journalist, 
state legislator, was born June 5, 1815, in 
Preble county, Ohio. In the year 1843 he 
began the publication of the Winchester 
Patriot, which he continued for nine 
years. He was elected to the Indiana state 
legislature in 1847 on the whig ticket, and 
in 1852 was elected clerk of the court, 
serving in that capacity eight years. 



NEGLEY, JAMES SCOTT, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 26, 1826, in East 
Liberty, Pa. He entered the volunteer 
service in 1861; 
raised a brigade in 
three days, and was 
made a brigadier- 
general. He defend¬ 
ed Nashville in 1862; 
was promoted to a 
major-general for 
gallant services at 
Stone River; and 
served with credit in 
the campaign of Tal- 
lahoma, Alabama, 
and Georgia. He was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the forty-first, forty-second, for¬ 
ty-third and forty-ninth congresses as a 
republican. 

NEHLIG, VICTOR, artist, was born in 
1830 in France. His principal works, 
many of which are illustrative of Ameri¬ 
can history, are The Cavalry Charge of 
St. Harry B. Hidden, in the New York 
Historical society; The Artist’s Dream; 
The Captive Huguenot; Gertrude of Wy¬ 
oming; Hiawatha and Minnehaha; Ar¬ 
morer in the Olden Time; Battle at An- 
tietam; Battle of Gettysburg; Waiting for 
My Enemy; Serenade; The Bravo; Ma¬ 
hogany Cutting; and The Princess Poca¬ 


hontas. 

NEIL, JOHN B., governor. He was ap¬ 
pointed governor of Idaho for the term of 
four years from July, 1880. 

NEILL, EDWARD DUFFIELD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 9, 1823, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a reformed 
episcopal clergyman of St. Paul, but for¬ 
merly a presbyterian clergyman. He was 
the author of History of Minnesota; Ter¬ 
ra Mari®, or Threads of Maryland His¬ 
tory; The Fairfaxes of England and 
America; History of the Virginia Com¬ 
pany; English Colonization of America 


in the Seventeenth Century; Founders of 
Virginia; Virginia Vetusta; Virginia Car- 
olorum; and Concise History of Minne¬ 
sota. He died Sept. 26, 1893, in St. Paul, 
Minn. 

NEILL, JOHN, physician, author, was 
born July 9, 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

He was a Philadelphia physician, and the 
author of Neill on the Veins; and Com- 
pend of Medicine. He died Feb. 11, 1880, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

NEILL, ROBERT, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 12, 1838, in In¬ 
dependence county, Ark. He was lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel of Arkansas state guards from 
1874 to 1877, and brigadier-general of 
state militia from 1877 to 1882. He has 
served two terms as a member of the 
democratic state central committee of 
Arkansas since 1886; and was nominated 
and elected to the fifty-third congress 
and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress 
as a democrat. 

NEILL, THOMAS HEWSON, soldier, 
was born April 9, 1826, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was acting inspector-general in 
Sheridan’s Shenandoah campaign, and at 
the close of the war received the brevets 
of brigadier-general, United States army, 
and major-general of volunteers. He was 
commandant of cadets at the United 
States military academy from 1875 till 
1879, and in 1883 he was retired. 

NEILL, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1778 near McKeesport, Pa. 
He was a presbyterian minister of Phila¬ 
delphia, president of Dickinson college in 
1824-29; and the author of Lectures on 
Bible History; Divine Origin of the Chris¬ 
tian Religion; and Ministry of Fifty Years. 
He died Aug. 8, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

NEILSON, JOHN, congressman, was 
born March 11, 1745, in New Brunswick, 
N. J. He was a delegate from New Jer¬ 
sey to the continental congress in 1778 
and 1779. He died March 3, 1833, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. 

NEILSON, JOSEPH, author, was born 
in 1813 in New York. He was the author 
of Memoirs of Rufus Choate, with some 
Consideration of His Studies, Opinions, 
and Style. He died in 1888. 

NELIGAN, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in Ireland. He was the 
author of Saintly Characters; The Ro¬ 
sary; Manual for Confraternities; and 
other religious works. He died Jan. 30, 
1880, in New York city. 

NELSON, CHARLES A., civil engineer, 
librarian, poet, was born April 14, 1839, 
in Calais, Maine. For many years he was 
librarian at the Gorham academy; then 
at the New York Astor library; and now 
at the New Orleans Memorial library. He 
is the author of a number of meritorious 
poems. 

NELSON, CLEVELAND KINLOCK, 
clergyman, bishop, was born May 23, 1852, 
in Greenwood, Va. He has filled many 
important pastorates in the presbyterian 
church, and in 1892 was consecrated bish¬ 
op of Georgia. 

NELSON, DANIEL THURBER, physi¬ 
cian, educator, was born Sept. 16, 1839, in 
Milford, Mass. In 1866 he was elected 
professor of physiology and histology at 
Chicago Medical college, which chair he 
then held until 1880, and in 1881 he was 
made adjunct professor of gynecology at 
Rush Medical college. He has invented 
an improved trivalve speculum and other 
surgical instruments. 

NELSON, DAVID, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 24, 1793, near Jonesbor- 
ough, Tenn. He was a presbyterian min¬ 
ister and educator of Missouri and Illi¬ 
nois. His principal work, Cause and 
Cure of Infidelity, has been widely read. 
He died Oct. 17, 1844, in Oakland, Ill. 


NELSON, HARRY LEVERETT, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1858 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He was a lawyer of Worcester, 
Mass., and the author of Bird Songs 
About Worcester, a collection of nature 
studies. He died in 1889. 

NELSON, HENRY ADDISON, clergy¬ 
man, educator, journalist, author, was 
born Oct. 31, 1820, in Amherst, Mass. 
He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor 
at Lane seminary in 1868-74, and from 
1886 editor of The Church at Home and 
Abroad. He is the author of Seeing 
Jesus; Sin and Salvation; and Home 
Whispers. 

NELSON, HENRY LOOMIS, journalist, 
author, was born in 1846 in New York. 
He is a journalist of New York city, and 
editor-in-chief of Harper’s Weekly. He 
is the author of The Money We Need; 
Our Unjust Tariff Law; and John Ran- 
toul, a novel. 

NELSON, HOMER A., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Aug. 31, 1829, in 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was elected 
judge of Dutchess county, N, Y., for four 
years, and in 1859 was re-elected for a sec¬ 
ond term. In 1862 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the thirty- 
eighth congress. In 1867 he was elected 
secretary of state; and re-elected in 1868 
and 1869. 

NELSON, HUGH, lawyer, jurist, diplo¬ 
mat, congressman, was born Sept. 30, 1768, 
in Virginia. He was speaker of the house 
of delegates of Virginia; a judge of the 
general court; and a presidential elector 
in 1809. He was a member of congress 
from 1811 to 1823; and was immediately 
afterward appointed American minister 
to Spain. He died March 18, 1836, in 
Albemarle county. 

NELSON, JEREMIAH, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 14, 1769, in 
Rowley, Mass. He served as a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Massachusetts from 
1805 to 1807, and again from 1815 to 1823. 
He died Oct. 2, 1838, in Newburyport, 
Mass. 

NELSON, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born June 1, 1791, in Fredericktown, 
Md. He was a representative in congress 
from Maryland from 1821 to 1823. In 1831 
he was appointed charge d’affaires to the 
Two Sicilies; and in 1844 was appointed 
attorney-general of the United States. 
He died Jan. 8, 1860, in Baltimore, Md. 

NELSON, JOSIAH C„ farmer, legislator, 
was born May 25, 1827, in Jackson county, 
Mo. He was elected in 1858 as a member 
of the Missouri state legislature, the first 
legislature of that state; and he received 
the re-election for two successive terms. 

NELSON, JULIA BULLARD, educator, 
lecturer, philanthropist, was born May 13, 
1842, in High Ridge, Ky. She has taught 
school in Minnesota, 
Connecticut, Texas, 
and Tennessee; and 
has attained success 
as a lecturer and 
missionary. For 
many years she was 
an organizer and lec¬ 
turer of the Minne¬ 
sota National Amer¬ 
ican Woman Suffrage 
association; and be¬ 
came famous in the 
lecture field as the 
champion of woman’s right to the ballot. 
She has been president of the Minnesota 
Woman’s Suffrage association; and vice- 
president of the Woman’s Christian Tem¬ 
perance union of Minnesota. She is the 
widow of a soldier and spent many years 
as a missionary among the freed men of 
the south, and has contributed both prose 
and verse to the periodical press. 







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NELSON, KNUTE, soldier, lawyer, gov¬ 
ernor, congressman, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Feb. 2, 1843, in Norway. 
He was a representative in the Wiscon¬ 
sin legislature in 1868 and 1869. He re¬ 
moved to Minnesota in 1871; was a state 
senator in 1875-78; was prosecuting at¬ 
torney of Douglas county for three years; 
became a regent of the Minnesota state 
university; and was a presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1880. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Minnesota to the forty-eighth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth and fiftieth congresses. He was 
elected governor of Minnesota in 1892; 
and re-elected in 1894. In 1895 he was 
elected United States senator for term 
ending in 1901. 

NELSON, RENSSELAER RUSSELL, 
lawyer, jurist, was born May 12, 1826, in 
Cooperstown, N. Y. In 1857 he was ap¬ 
pointed an associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Minnesota territory; and 
in 1858 district judge of the United States 
for the state of Minnesota. 

NELSON, ROGER, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born in 1755 in Fredericktown, Md. He 
was a general in the revolutionary war. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1804 to 1810; was several 
years in the Virginia legislature; and 
from 1810 to 1815 was judge of the upper 
district of that state. He died June 7, 
1815, in Fredericktown, Md. 

NELSON, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Nov. 10, 1792, in Hebron, N. Y. In 
1823 he was made judge of the circuit 
court of New York, which position he held 
for eight years. In 1831 he was appoint¬ 
ed a judge of the supreme court of that 
state; and in 1837 was made chief justice, 
and held the position until 1845, when he 
was appointed a justice of the supreme 
court of the United States. He died Dec. 
13, 1873, in Cooperstown, N. Y. 

NELSON, THOMAS, merchant, was 
born Feb. 20,1677, in Scotland. He settled 
in Virginia, and founded the town of York, 
where he built the first custom house in 
the colonies, one of the earliest brick 
buildings in the state. He died Oct. 7, 
1745, in Yorktown, Va. 

NELSON, THOMAS, signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence, was born Dec. 
26, 1738, in Yorktown, Va. He was elect¬ 
ed to the Virginia house of burgesses; and 
was re-elected to that position. After at¬ 
tending various local conventions he was 
elected a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1775 to 1777, and again from 
1779 to 1780. He was a signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence; took part in the 
military affairs of the time as a brigadier- 
general; and served in the state legisla¬ 
ture. In 1781 he was elected governor of 
Virginia. He died Jan. 4, 1789, in Han¬ 
over county, Va. 

NELSON, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Jan. 23, 1819, in Peekskill, N. Y. 
In 1851 he was appointed chief justice of 
the United States court for the territory 
of Oregon. 

NELSON, THOMAS AMOS ROGERS, 
lawyer, congressman, was born March 19, 
1812, in Roane county, Tenn. He served 
as a representative from Tennessee to the 
thirty-sixth congress; and was re-elected 
to the thirty-seventh congress, but was 
prevented from taking his seat by the 
forcible action of the confederate govern¬ 
ment. He died Aug. 24, 1873, in Knox¬ 
ville, Tenn. 

NELSON, THOMAS LEVERETT, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, was born 
March 4,1827, in Haverhill, N. H. He was 
a representative in the Massachusetts leg¬ 
islature in 1869. In 1878 he was appointed 
United States district judge for the dis¬ 
trict of Massachusetts. 


NELSON, THOMAS M., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1782 in Virginia. 
He served with distinction in the war of 
1812 as a captain of infantry; and after 
the war was promoted to the rank of 
major, but resigned his commission. He 
was a representative in congress from his 
native state from 1816 to 1819. He died 
Nov. 10, 1853. 

NELSON, WILLIAM, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born June 29, 1764, 
in Clinton, N. Y. He was a district attor¬ 
ney for the counties of Westchester, Put¬ 
nam and Rockland, for a period of thirty 
years. He was a member of the assembly 
of New York in 1819 and 1820; and a state 
senator in 1823. He was a representative 
in congress from New York from 1847 
to 1851. He died Oct. 2, 1869, in Peekskill, 
N. Y. 

NELSON, WILLIAM, soldier, was born 
Sept. 27, 1824, in Maysville, Ky. In 1840 
he graduated from the Naval academy of 
Annapolis, Md., and 
as a midshipman, his 
first duty was in the 
sloop-of-war York- 
town. He then 
served on various 
vessels, and in 1855 
was promoted to a 
lieutenancy, and in 
1857 joined in the 
expedition of Com¬ 
modore Perry to 
China and Japan. He 
has been given the 
credit of keeping Kentucky in the union; 
saved her seventy-five thousand volun¬ 
teers to the national flag; spared the 
Ohio border the terrible shock of con¬ 
tending armies, and transferred the the¬ 
ater of war hundreds of miles southward 
to the banks of the Cumberland and the 
Tennessee. He was commissioned briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers, and at the 
time of his death held the rank of lieu¬ 
tenant-commander. He was shot on Sept. 
29, 1862, by Gen. Davis. 

NELSON, WILLIAM ROCKILL, jour¬ 
nalist, was born March 7, 1841, in Fort 
Wayne, Ind. He is the editor-in-chief of 
the Kansas City Star. 

NERAZ, JEAN CLAUDE, Roman cath¬ 
olic bishop, was born in 1829 in France. 
He was nominated second bishop of San 
Antonio, and consecrated in 1881. 

NERBY, R. L., soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 27, 1836, in Hill Pleasant, 
Va. During the war he was a major in 
the confederate service, and was three 
times wounded. He has been county 
judge, circuit judge, and president of 
the state board of agriculture of Virginia. 
He has practiced successfully in Williams¬ 
burg, Va.; and is now president of the 
bank of his city. He is the author of 
several works, and has contributed exten¬ 
sively to current literature. 

NES, HENRY, congressman, was born 
in 1799 in York, Pa. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1843 to 1845, and again from 1846 
to 1850. He died Sept. 10, 1850. 

NESBIT, WILLIAM LYON, agricultur¬ 
ist, lecturer, legislator, was born March 
7, 1842, near Lewisburg, Pa. He is a suc¬ 
cessful farmer and lecturer on the sci¬ 
ences related to agriculture; has heen 
state statistical agent for Pennsylvania 
for the United States department of agri¬ 
culture, and in 1896 was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the Pennsylvania house of repre¬ 
sentatives. 

NESBITT, WILSON, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1817 to 1819. 


NESMITH, JAMES ERNEST, artist, 
author, poet, was born in 1856 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is an artist and poet of 
Lowell, Mass.; and the author of Monad- 
noc, and Other Sketches in Verse; Phi- 
loctetes, and Other Poems; and Life and 
Addresses of Governor Greenhalge. 

NESMITH, JAMES WILLSON, soldier, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born July 23, 1820, in Washington county, 
Maine. In 1857 he was appointed super¬ 
intendent of Indian affairs for Oregon 
and Washington territories. He was elect¬ 
ed a senator in congress from Oregon for 
the term beginning in 1861 and ending in 
1867. While devoting himself to farming 
in Oregon he was elected to the forty- 
third congress to fill a vacancy. He died 
June 17, 1885, in Polk county, Ore. 

NESMITH, JOHN, manufacturer, in¬ 
ventor, was born Aug. 3, 1793, in London¬ 
derry, N. H. He secured the water sup¬ 
ply of Winniniseogee and Squam lakes 
for Lowell mills; secured site for city 
of Lawrence, Mass., and control of water¬ 
power; and invented machines for mak¬ 
ing wire fences and shawl fringe. He 
was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts 
in 1862. He died Oct. 15, 1869, in Lowell, 

Mass. 

NETTLETON, ALURED BAYARD, sol¬ 
dier, was born Nov. 14, 1838, in Berlin, 
Ohio. He served through the civil war, 
attaining the rank of brigadier-general. 

NETTLETON, ASHAEL, clergyman, 
author, was born April 21, 1783, in North 
Killingworth, Conn. From 1812 till 1822 
he served as a revivalist in Connecticut, 
Massachusetts and New York. He com¬ 
piled a book entitled Village Hymns. His 
Remains and Sermons were edited by Rev. 
Bennet Tyler. He died May 16, 1844, in 
Windsor, Conn. 

NEVADA, EMMA WIXOM, singer, was 
born in 1861 in Nevada, Cal. She has 
an extensive repertoire, including prin¬ 
cipally Italian operas, but she has also ap¬ 
peared in oratorio in England. She sang 
in La Sonnambula at her first appearance 
in New York in 1884. 

NEVILLE, JOSEPH, soldier, congress¬ 
man. He was a revolutionary officer, 
brigadier of state militia, and commission¬ 
er to run the boundary line between Vir¬ 
ginia and Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Virginia from 
1793 to 1795. He died March 4, 1819, in 
Hardy county, Va. 

NEVILLE, MORGAN, author, was born 
in 1756 in Pittsburg, Pa. He acquired a 
wide reputation by his tale of Mike Fink, 
the Last of the Boatmen, published in 
the Western Souvenir for 1829. He died 
in 1839 in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

NEVIN, ALFRED, clergyman, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born March 14, 1816, 
in Shippensburg, Pa. He was a promi¬ 
nent presbyterian clergyman and religious 
editor of Philadelphia; and the author of 
Words of Comfort for Doubting Hearts; 
The Voice of God; The Man of Faith; 
Letters to Colonel Ingersoll; Christian’s 
Rest; Guide to the Oracles; and Triumph 
of Truth. He died in 1890. 

NEVIN, BLANCHE, sculptor, was born 
Sept. 25, 1841, in Mercersburg, Pa. In 
addition to numerous portrait-busts, she 
has executed statues of Maud Muller; 
Eve; Cinderella; and Gen. Peter Muhlen¬ 
berg, which is in the capitol at Washing¬ 
ton. 

NEVIN, DAVID ROBERT BRUCE, law¬ 
yer, journalist, was born Nov. 28, 1828, in 
Shippensburg, Pa. For many years he 
was connected with the Philadelphia 
press; was assistant editor of the Pres¬ 
byterian Encyclopaedia; and publisher 
and editor of Continental Sketches of Dis¬ 
tinguished Pennsylvanians. 




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NEVIN, EDWIN HENRY, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born May 9, 1814, in 
Shippensburg, Pa. He is a German re¬ 
formed clergyman of Philadelphia; and 
the author of The City of God; Humanity 
and Its Responsibilities; Thoughts About 
Christ; and The Minister’s Handbook. 

NEVIN, GEORGE BALCH, composer, 
author, was born March 15, 1859, in Ship¬ 
pensburg, Pa. He is the author of The 
Hills of God; At the Cross; and the 
Minster Song. 

NEVIN, JOHN WILLIAMSON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 20, 1803, near 
Strasburg, Pa. He was an eminent Ger¬ 
man reformed clergyman of Lancaster, 
Pa., and president of Franklin and Mar¬ 
shall college in 1866-76. Prior to his pres¬ 
idency he had been active as a theologian 
at Mercersburg, and his works form the 
basis of what is styled the Mercersburg 
Theology. He was the author of History 
and Genesis of the Heidelberg Catechism; 
The Mystical Presence; Anti-Christ; The 
Anxious Bench; and Biblical Antiquities. 
He died June 6, 1886, in Lancaster, Pa. 

NEVIN, ROBERT JENKINS, soldier, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 24, 1839, 
in Allegheny, Pa. In 1861-65 he served 
in the civil war, rising to the rank of 
captain and brevet major. Since 1869 he 
has been rector of St. Paul’s American 
church in Rome, Italy, which he built. 
He is the author of Reunion Conferences 
at Bonn; and St. Paul’s within the Walls. 

NEVIN, WILLIAM CHANNING, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Jan. 1, 1844, in New 
Athens, Ohio. He is a lawyer of Phila¬ 
delphia; and the author of History of All 
Religions; Life of Albert Barnes; The 
Blue Ray of Sunlight; A Slight Misunder¬ 
standing; A Wild Goose Chase; In the 
Nick of Time; Joshua Whitcomb’s Tribu¬ 
lations; and A Summer School Adven¬ 
ture. 

NEVIN, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, 
journalist, author, was born March 1, 1836, 
in Allegheny, Pa. He is a journalist and 
railway director of Philadelphia who has 
published Vignettes of Travel. 

NEVINS, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born Oct. 13, 1797, in Norwich, Conn. 
He was a presbyterian minister of Balti¬ 
more; and the author of Thoughts on 
Popery; Practical Thoughts; and Select 
Remains, with Memoir. He died Sept. 
14, 1835, in Baltimore, Md. 

NEVIUS, MRS. HELEN S. [COAN], 
author, was born in 1832 in New York. 
She is the author of Catechism of Chris¬ 
tian Doctrine, in Chinese; Our Life in 
China; and Life of J. L. Nevius. 

NEVIUS, JOHN LIVINGSTON, mission¬ 
ary, author, was born in 1829 in New 
York. He was a presbyterian missionary 
in Ningpo; and the author of China and 
the Chinese; San-Poh, or North of the 
Hills; Methods of Missionary Work; 
Demon Possession; and a number of 
works in Chinese. He died in 1893. 

NEW, ANTHONY, congressman, was 
born in 1747 in Gloucester county, Va. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1793 to 1805. On taking up 
his residence in Kentucky he was elected 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1811 to 1813, from 1817 to 1818, 
and from 1821 to 1823. He died March 2, 
1833, in Elkton, Ky. 

NEW, JEPTHA D., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 28, 1830, in 
Vernon, Ind. He was elected district 
prosecuting attorney of Indiana in 1862, 
and served two years. He was elected 
judge of common pleas in 1864, and served 
four years. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Indiana to the forty-fourth and 
forty-sixth congresses as a democrat. 

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NEW, JOHN CHALFANT, lawyer, state 
senator, was born July 6, 1831, in Vernon, 
Ind. In 1861 he was appointed quarter¬ 
master-general of Indiana, serving as such 
until elected to the state senate. In 1865 
he was elected cashier of the First Na¬ 
tional bank of Indianapolis, serving as 
such until appointed in 1875 as treasurer 
of the United States. He was assistant 
secretary of the United States treasury 
from 1882 to 1884; and during 1889-93 
was consul-general of the United States 
at London, England. 

NEWBEGIN, HENRY, lawyer, was 
born May 2, 1833, in Pownel, Maine. In 
1857 he graduated from Bowdoin college, 
and since 1886 has been overseer of that 
institution. For twelve years he was gen¬ 
eral counsel of the Chicago division of the 
Baltimore and Ohio railroad; has been 
local counsel for the Wabash railroad 
since 1870; and since 1882 has had consid¬ 
erable practice in the supreme court of 
the United States. He has a large prac¬ 
tice in Defiance, Ohio; and takes an active 
part in republican politics. 

NEWBERRY, JOHN STOUGHTON, 
manufacturer, lawyer, congressman, was 
born Nov. 18, 1826, in Waterville, N. Y. 
In 1864 he engaged largely in manufactur¬ 
ing enterprises in Detroit, Mich. He was 
elected as a representative from Michigan 
to the forty-sixth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. He died Jan. 2, 1887, in Detroit, 
Mich. 

NEWBERRY, JOHN STRONG, geolo¬ 
gist, educator, author, was born Dec. 22, 
1822, in Windsor, Conn. He was a geolo¬ 
gist who was professor of geology in the 
School of Mines of Columbia college in 
1866-92, and state geologist of Ohio from 
1869. He published nine volumes of re¬ 
ports relating to the geological survey of 
Ohio; and Paleozoic Fishes of North 
America, and many scientific papers. He 
died in 1892. 

NEWBERRY, WALTER C., soldier, 
congressman, was born Dec. 23, 1835, in 
Sangerfield, N. Y. He served during the 
war in volunteer armies of the United 
States as private, lieutenant, captain, 
major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and 
brigadier-general by brevet. He was 
elected to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat. 

NEWBERRY, WALTER LOOMIS, 
merchant, philanthropist, was born Sept. 
18, 1804, in East Windsor, Conn. He was 
one of the founders of the Merchants’ 
Loan and Trust Company’s bank of Chi¬ 
cago; and president of the Galena rail¬ 
road, now the great Northwestern rail¬ 
road. In 1841 he was active in founding 
the Young Men’s Library association of 
Chicago, and was its first president. He 
visited Europe in 1868, and died on his 
homeward voyage on Nov. 6. He left 
nearly two million dollars to found a 
library, to be named for him, and located 
in the north division of Chicago, which 
is now consummated, the famous New¬ 
berry library, one of the finest institutions 
in America. 

NEWBOLD, JOSHUA G., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state senator, governor, was 
born May 12, 1830, in Fayette county, Pa. 
In 1862 he entered the union army as 
captain of the twenty-fifth regiment of 
Iowa volunteers; served as judge advo¬ 
cate, with headquarters at Woodville, Ala. 
He was elected a representative in the 
thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and 
eighteenth general assemblies of the state 
of Iowa. In 1876 he was elected lieuten¬ 
ant-governor; and was governor of Iowa 
in 1877 and 1878. He held a number of 
county oflftces, and practiced law at Mt. 
Pleasant. 


NEWBOLD, THOMAS, state legislator, 
congressman. He was a representative 
in congress from New Jersey from 1807 
to 1813, after which he served in the legis¬ 
lature of that state. He died in December, 
1823, in Burlington county, N. J. 

NEWBURY, SAMUEL, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Nov. 3, 
1803, in Panton, Vt. He organized and 
was pastor of the Second Presbyterian 
church of Indianapolis, Ind. He was pres¬ 
ident of Wabash college. 

NEWBURY, SAMUEL SERGEANT, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born Jan. 8, 1835, in In¬ 
dianapolis. He practiced his profession 
with success in Dubuque, Iowa, and De¬ 
troit, Mich. During the civil war he went 
to the front to help Gen. Meade, and was 
killed at the taking of Welden railroad in 
1864. 

NEWBY, W. E., journalist, was born 
April 27, 1865, in Greensboro, Ind. He 
has been connected with the Indianapolis 
Journal, the Springfield Republic-Times; 
for many years was editor of the Rush- 
ville Graphic; and is now the editor and 
owner of The Sun of Knightstown, Ind. 
He was appointed consul-general to Paris 
by President McKinley; and has filled nu¬ 
merous other positions of trust. 

NEWCOMB, C. A., lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born July 1, 
1830, in Mercer county, Pa. He removed 
to Iowa, and was a circuit judge for two 
years; and judge of a county court for 
three years. He settled in Missouri, and 
was elected for two years to the legisla¬ 
ture of that state. In 1866 he was elected 
a representative from Missouri to the 
fortieth congress. 

NEWCOMB, HARVEY, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 2, 1803, in Thetford, 
Vt. He was a congregational clergyman 
of western Pennsylvania and other locali¬ 
ties among whose many moral and relig¬ 
ious works, mainly juvenile in character, 
are, Young Lady’s Guide; How to Be a 
Man; How to Be a Lady; and Manners 
and Customs of North American Indians. 
He died Aug. 30, 1863, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

NEWCOMB, HORATIO VICTOR, rail¬ 
road president, banker, was born July 26, 
1844, in Louisville, Ky. Upon the death 
of the senior New¬ 
comb, Aug. 24, 1874, 
he entered upon a 
short but extremely 
successful career as 
a railroad man. Hav¬ 
ing been elected a 
director of the rail¬ 
road company, a 
little later he be¬ 
came vice-president 
and then president. 
To the development 
of the Louisville and 
Nashville railroad as a property, the new 
officer devoted a vast amount of labor 
and untiring energy and contributed 
largely to make the system the great 
property it is to-day. In 1880 he removed 
to New York city and organized the 
United States National bank, of which the 
stockholders elected him president. 

NEWCOMB, SIMON, astronomer, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born March 12, 1835, 
in Wallace, N. S. He is an astronomer of 
distinction, superintendent of the Nautical 
Almanac, issued by the navy department, 
from 1877, and professor of astronomy 
and mathematics at Johns Hopkins uni¬ 
versity in 1884-93. He is the author of 
Popular Astronomy; School Astronomy; 
Geometry; Analytic Geometi-y; Essen¬ 
tials of Trigonometry; Calculus; A Plain 
Man’s Talk on the Labor Question; Prin¬ 
ciples of Political Economy; and The A. 
B, C, of Finance. 




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NEWELL, CHARLES M„ sailor, phy¬ 
sician, author, poet, was born Nov. 23, 
1821, in Concord, Mass. When seventeen 
years of age he went 
to sea as a sailor, 
and followed that oc¬ 
cupation. He became 
master of a ship at 
the age of twenty- 
six, and continued so 
for ten years. He 
then left the sea to 
study medicine, in 
which he has been 
very successful. He 
has published, in ad¬ 
dition to medical lit¬ 
erature, six volumes of prose, entitled The 
Voyage of the Fleetwing; The Isle of 
Palms; The Wreck of the Greyhound; and 
others, which have given him a world¬ 
wide reputation as a writer of sea-stories. 

NEWELL, FRANK R., journalist, was 
born May 23, 1854, in Chicago, 111. He is 
the business manager of the City Printing 
company of Cleveland, Ohio, and the ed¬ 
itor-in-chief of The Ancient Craft Mason. 

NEWELL, HARRIET ATWOOD, mis¬ 
sionary, was born Oct. 10, 1793, in Haver¬ 
hill, Mass. She was one of the first fe¬ 
male missionaries from the United States. 
She died Nov. 30, 1812, on the Isle of 
France. 

NEWELL, HUGH, educator, artist, was 
born Oct. 4, 1830, in Ireland. In 1879 he 
became professor of drawing in Johns 
Hopkins university. In Baltimore he 
gained gold medals in 1853 and 1858, and a 
silver one in 1859. His works include 
Smithy; Basket of Grapes; In the Cot¬ 
tage Window; The Country Musician; 
Husking Corn in the Field; Grapes; and 
From the East and West. 

NEWELL, LAURA E., song writer, was 
born Feb. 5, 1854, in New Marlborough, 
Mass. She has furnished songs and music 
to many eminent 
composers, and her 
songs and poems are 
read and sung 
-throughout America. 
She is the author of 
a thousand poems, 
which have appeared 
in the Youth’s Com- 
p a n i o n, Arthur’s 
Magazine, and the 
leading publications 
of America. Her 
poems have also 
been given a place in Woman in Sacred 
Song, and other standard collections. 

NEWELL, McFADDEN ALEXANDER, 
educator, journalist, was born Sept. 7, 
1824, in Ireland. He became principal of 
the State Normal school at Baltimore in 
1865, and in 1868 state superintendent of 
public instruction. With Prof. William 
R. Creery he has published a series of 
text-books, entitled The Maryland Series; 
and he is the author of annual state school 
reports. 

NEWELL, ROBERT HENRY, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born Dec. 13, 1836, 
in New York city. He is a journalist of 
New York city, at one time popular as a 
humorist. He is the author of Versatili¬ 
ties, a collection of humorous and other 
verses; The Palace Beautiful, and Other 
Poems; Avery Glibun, an American ro¬ 
mance; The Walking Doll, a novel; There 
Was Once a Man; and Studies in Stanzas. 

NEWELL, SAMUEL, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born July 25, 1785, in Durham, 
Maine. He was a noted baptist mission¬ 
ary in Bombay; and the author of The 
Conversion of the World; and Life of 
Harriet Newell (his first wife), which was 
widely popular. He died March 30, 1821, 
in Bombay, India. 


NEWELL, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, phy¬ 
sician, congressman, governor, was born 
Sept. 5, 1819, in Franklin, Ohio. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1847 to 1851; and in 
1856 was elected governor of New Jersey 
for the term ending in 1860. He was a 
delegate to the Baltimore convention of 
1864; and was also elected to the thirty- 
ninth congress. In 1880 he was appointed 
governor of Washington territory for a 
term of four years. 

NEWELL, WILLIAM WELLS, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born in 1839 in 
Massachusetts. He is a folk-lore scholar 
of Cambridge, editor of The Journal of 
American Folk-Lore since 1888; and 
the author of Games and Songs of Ameri¬ 
can Children; and Words for Music, a 
collection of poems. 

NEWHALL, CHARLES STEDMAN, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 
1842 in Massachusetts. He is a clergy¬ 
man and educator of Asbury Park, N. J.; 
and the author of The Trees of North¬ 
eastern America; The Shrubs of North¬ 
eastern America; The Vines of North¬ 
eastern America; The Leaf-Collector’s 
Handbook and Herbarium. His writings 
for young people include Harry’s Trip to 
the Orient; Joe and the Howards; and 
Ruthie’s Story. 

NEWHALL, MRS. L. E. TERRY, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born July 19, 1861, in 
Dutch Flat, Cal. She is a successful 
writer of Newhall, Cal.; and the author 
of three novels entitled Adopted; The 
Death Trust; and The Bride of Infelice; 
and also a volume of poems. 

NEWHARD, PETER, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1839 to 1843. 

NEWHOUSE, FINLEY D., clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born July 27, 1857, 
in Rochester, Ind. For a number of years 
he filled the chair of Greek in the Amer¬ 
ican college of Concepcion, Chili; and 
now fills a pastorate in Minneapolis, Minn. 
He is a brilliant lecturer; and the author 
of a college romance entitled The Three 
C’s; and a religious work entitled Why 
I Am a Protestant. 

NEWHOUSE, SAMUEL, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Oct. 14, 1853, in New York 
city. In 1894 he was elected president of 
the Denver, Lakewood and Golden rail¬ 
road, which position he now fills. 

NEWHOUSE, SIMEON EDGAR, educat¬ 
or, lawyer, was born Aug. 14, 1865, in Elk- 
ton, Ohio. After receiving a thorough ed¬ 
ucation, he entered educational work, and 
was professor of sciences in the high 
school of Greenville, Ohio; and subse¬ 
quently became superintendent of schools 
at Salem, S. D. He is now a successful 
lawyer of Golden City, Mo.; has been city 
attorney; and filled various other public 
positions of honor. 

NEWKIRK, DANIEL L., educator, poet, 
was born Jan. 14, 1859, in Clermont 
county, Ohio. He received his education 
at the Drake univer¬ 
sity, and was subse¬ 
quently professor of 
natural sciences in 
the normal depart¬ 
ment of his alma 
mater. He holds a 
life diploma from the 
state board of ex¬ 
aminers of Iowa, 
and is one of the 
foremost educators 
of the west. He has 
written extensively 
both prose and verse; and his poems 
have appeared in Poets of America and 
other standard publications. 





NEWLANDS, FRANCIS G.,lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 28, 1848, in 
Natchez, Miss. He was elected from Ne¬ 
vada to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth 
congresses and having received his nom¬ 
ination from both the silver party and the 
democratic party was re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress. 

NEWLIN, ENOCH E., lawyer, was born 
Feb. 22, 1858, in Crawford county, Ill. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1882; was 
state’s attorney of his county for eight 
years; and is now a master in chancery. 

NEWMAN, ALEXANDER, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in 1806 in 
Orange county, Va. In 1836 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative to the Virginia state 
legislature, where he served several years; 
and was also elected to the state senate. 
From 1845 to 1849 he was postmaster of 
Wheeling; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Virginia to the thirty-first con¬ 
gress. He died in July, 1840, in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. 

NEWMAN, CHARLES GORDON, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, was born in 1841 in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. He is the editor and owner 
of the Daily and Weekly Commercial of 
Pine Bluff, Ark.; and contributes exten¬ 
sively to current literature. 

NEWMAN, DANIEL, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born about 1780 in North Caro¬ 
lina. He was lieutenant-colonel com¬ 
manding Georgia volunteers in 1813; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Georgia from 1831 to 1833. He died Jan. 
16, 1851, in Walker county, Ga. 

NEWMAN, DE WITT L.,journalist, was 
born Dec. 4, 1870, in Gillsburg, Miss. For 
many years he was engaged in educational 
work; and is now the editor and owner 
of The Times of Osyka, Miss. 

NEWMAN, FRANCIS MARION, educat¬ 
or, lawyer, was born Nov. 4, 1860, in 
Washington county, Texas. In 1885 he 
graduated from the Baylor university, 
and for many years was engaged in edu¬ 
cational work. Since 1887 he has been 
practicing law in Brady, Texas; where 
he is prominently identified with the pub¬ 
lic affairs of his county and state. 

NEWMAN, HENRY R., artist, was born 
about 1833 in New York city. In 1877 he 
exhibited at the academy a View of Flor¬ 
ence, and in Florence in 1878 a Study of 
Pink and White Oleanders; and Grapes 
and Olives. The same year he sent to the 
Grosvenor gallery, London, Flowers; and 
An Architectural Study. 

NEWMAN, J. R., journalist, was born 
Oct. 19, 1859, in St. Louis, Mo. He is the 
editor and owner of The Times of Harri¬ 
son, Mo., of which city he has served as 
mayor. In 1886 he was elected president 
of the Arkansas Press association. 

NEWMAN, JAMES WIRT, journalist, 
legislator, was born March 12, 1841, in 
Highland county, Ohio. For two terms he 
was a member of the Ohio state senate; 
and during 1883-84 was secretary of state 
of Ohio. For thirty years he has bee'n ed¬ 
itor and owner of the Portsmouth Times. 

NEWMAN, JOHN PHILIP, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 1, 1826, in New York 
city. He is a methodist bishop at Omaha, 
at one time a prominent Washington pas 1 
tor; and the author of From Dan to 
Beersheba; Thrones and Palaces of Baby¬ 
lon and Nineveh; Christianity Triumph-' 
ant; America for Americans; and The 
Supremacy of Law. 

NEWMAN, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1602 in England. He 
published A Concordance for the Bible. 
It was known as the Cambridge Concord¬ 
ance, and was at one time supposed to be 
the first work of the kind printed in the 
English language. He died July 5,1663, in 
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NEWMAN, SAMUEL PHILLIPS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1797 in An¬ 
dover, Mass. In 1818 he became a tutor in 
Bowdoin college, and 
the following year 
was chosen profes¬ 
sor of ancient lan¬ 
guages. In 1824 he 
was transferred to 
the chair of rhetoric 
and oratory. After 
twenty-one years in 
that institution he 
took charge of the 
normal school at 
Barre, Mass. He was 
the author of a 
treatise on rhetoric, which is still a text¬ 
book in a multitude of schools and numer¬ 
ous colleges. He was also the author of 
an elementary work on Political Econ¬ 
omy. He died Feb. 10, 1842, in Andover, 
Mass. 

NEWMAN, WILLIAM TRUSLOW, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born June 23, 1843, 
in Knoxville, Tenn. For twelve years he 
was actively engaged in the practice of 
law in Atlanta, Ga.; and since 1886 has 
been United States district judge. 

NEWSHAM, JOSEPH PARKINSON, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born May 
24, 1837, in Preston, England. In his 
youth his parents 
settled in Monroe 
county. Ill., and sub¬ 
sequently moved to 
St. Louis, Mo. He 
there attended the 
public scnools and 
clerked in a store. 
He studied law in 
Edwardsville, Ill.; 
was admitted to the 
bar, and acquired a 
reputation as a suc- 

—---*- cessful lawyer and 

eloquent orator. During the war he ob¬ 
tained the rank of first lieutenant of 
cavalry on the staff of General John T. 
Fremont; and was afterward first lieuten¬ 
ant and adjutant of the thirty-second Mis¬ 
souri infantry. After the war he settled 
in Ascension parish, La., and there 
taught school and practiced law; took a 
part in the reconstruction acts of con¬ 
gress; and was elected to the fortieth and 
forty-first congresses as a republican. For 
many years he was the editor and owner 
of a republican newspaper; has been 
a strong advocate of home protec¬ 
tion, and has taken an active part in 
public affairs; has been parish attor¬ 
ney, district attorney, and filled vari¬ 
ous other positions with scrupulous en¬ 
ergy and consummate ability. 

NEWTON, CHURUBUSCO, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born May 15, 1848, in St. 
Helena parish, La. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his educa¬ 
tion in the home 
schools, and then at¬ 
tended the state uni¬ 
versity of Louisiana. 
After leaving college 
he taught school for 
three years; was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 
1870; and soon at¬ 
tained prominence 
as an able lawyer of 
Monroe, La. In 1879 
he was elected to the 
state senate of Louisiana, and served for 
four years. In 1886 he was elected a mem¬ 
ber of congress and during his congres¬ 
sional career secured several measures of 
importance to his district and state. 

NEWTON, DANIEL HOWE, railroad 
president, was born June 23, 1827, in 


Hubbardstown, Mass. Since 1887 he has 
been president of the Hoosac Tunnel and 
Wilmington railroad, at Holyoke, Mass. 

NEWTON, EBEN, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 
1795, in Goshen, Conn. In 1842 he was elect¬ 
ed a member of the Ohio senate, and was 
soon afterward elected president judge of 
the third circuit. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress for the term from 
1851 to 1853, and in 1856 was elected presi¬ 
dent of the Ashtabula and New Lisbon 
Railroad company, in which position he 
remained until 1859, when he declined a re- 
election. 

NEWTON, HENRY, educator, author, 
was born Aug. 12, 1845, in New York city. 
In 1877 he was made professor of mining 
and metallurgy in the Ohio State univer¬ 
sity. He was the author of a work en¬ 
titled Reports on the Geology and Re¬ 
sources of the Black Hills of Dakota. 
He died Aug. 5, 1877, in Black Hills, S. D. 

NEWTON, HENRY J., inventor, was 
born Feb. 23, 1823, in Harleton, Pa. He 
invented the first permanent collodion 
emulsion in 1875, and afterward became 
known as father of the dry-plate process 
in America. He died Dec. 23, 1895, in 
New York city. 

NEWTON, HUBERT ANSON, educator, 
author, was born March 19, 1830, in Sher¬ 
burne, N. Y. He was elected full pro¬ 
fessor in Yale in 1855, which he has since 
continued without interruption. His sci¬ 
entific work in pure mathematics includes 
researches On the Construction of Cer¬ 
tain Curves by Points; Certain Transcen¬ 
dental Curves, and similar papers, but his 
most valuable investigations have been 
in connection with meteors. 

NEWTON, ISAAC, naval architect, was 
born Jan. 16, 1794, in Schodack, N. Y. 
He was the founder of the People’s line 
of steamboats between Albany and New 
York, and he was also interested in the 
construction of many ocean steamers. He 
died Nov. 22, 1858, in New York city. 

NEWTON, ISAAC, civil engineer, was 
born Aug. 4, 1837, in New York city. At 
the beginning of the civil war he was ap¬ 
pointed first assistant engineer in the 
United States navy. Later he became 
supervising constructor of iron-clads for 
the United States government in New 
York, and in this capacity superintended 
the building, among others, of the Puri¬ 
tan and Dictator. He died Sept. 25, 1884, 
in New York city. 

NEWTON, JOHN, soldier, civil engin¬ 
eer, was born Aug. 24, 1823, in Norfolk, 
Va. In 1842 he graduated from the Mili- 
t a r y academy a t 
West Point, and re¬ 
ceived the appoint¬ 
ment of brevet sec¬ 
ond lieutenant in the 
corps of engineers. 
In 1858 he was made 
chief engineer of the 
Utah expedition; in 
1861 was chief engin¬ 
eer of the depart¬ 
ment of the Shenan¬ 
doah; and then be¬ 
came assistant en¬ 
gineer in the construction of the defences 
of Washington. He was given the rank 
of brigadier-general of volunteers, and 
subsequently was made a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral in the regular army. His greatest 
achievement was the improvement of Hell 
Gate channel. 

NEWTON, JOHN THOMAS, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born May 20, 1793, in Alexandria, 


Va. In 1852-55 he was flag-officer of the 
home squadron, which gave him the title 
of commodore. The last two years of his 
life he was in command of the navy yard 
at Portsmouth, N. H. He died July 28, 
1857, in Washington, D. C. 

NEWTON, RICHARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born July 25, 1813, in England. 
He was an episcopal clergyman of Phila¬ 
delphia, long prominent among extreme 
low churchmen, and the author of The 
King’s Highway; The Great Pilot; Rills 
from the Fountain of Life; Bible Prom¬ 
ises; and Natural History of the Bible. 
He died May 25, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

NEWTON, RICHARD HEBER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 31, 1840, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of New York city, rector of All 
Souls church, and prominent as a very 
broad church theologian. He is the au¬ 
thor of Womanhood; The Morals of 
Trade; The Right and Wrong t/ses of 
the Bible; The Book of the Beginnings; 
Philistinism; Social Studies; Church and 
Creed; and The Children’s Church. 

NEWTON, ROBERT SAFFORD, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Dec. 12, 1818, in 
Gallipolis, Ohio. He was a surgeon of 
New York city, and the author of Ec¬ 
lectic Treatise in the Practice of Medi¬ 
cine; and Antiseptic Surgery. He died 
Oct. 9, 1881, in New York city. 

NEWTON, ROBERT SAFFORD, phy¬ 
sician, journalist, educator, author, was 
born Sept. 2, 1855, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
He was professor of diseases of the eye, 
throat, and skin, in the New York Eclec¬ 
tic Medical college in 1881-86, and also 
dean of the faculty. He edited the New 
York Quarterly Cancer Journal in 1880-81, 
and the New York Medical Eclectic from 
1877 till 1885. 

NEWTON, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in 1769 in Norfolk, Va. He was a 
representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1801 to 1829, and again from 1831 
to 1833. He died Aug. 5, 1847, in Norfolk, 
Va. 

NEWTON, THOMAS W., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Arkansas in February and March, 1847. 

NEWTON, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1820 in England. 
He was a reformed episcopal clergyman 
of West Chester, Pa., and the author of 
The First Two Visions of the Book of 
Daniel; The Morning Star, and Other 
Poems; and Nature’s Testimony to Na¬ 
ture’s God. 

NEWTON, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 4, 1843, 
in Philadelphia. He is an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of Pittsfield, Mass., and the author 
of Essays of To-Day, Religious and The¬ 
ological; The Legend of St. Telemachus; 
The Voice of St. John, and Other Poems; 
Summer Sermons; The Voice Out of 
Egypt; Ragnar, the Sea King; Paradise; 
The Priest and the Man, or Abelard and 
Heloise, an historical novel; Life of W. A. 
Muhlenberg; and several collections of 
sermons to children, including The Wick¬ 
et Gate; The Interpreter’s House; Little 
and Wise; and A Father’s Blessing. 

NEWTON, WILLOUGHBY, congress¬ 
man, was born in Virginia. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1843 to 1845. 

NIBLACK, SILAS N., congressman. He 
was elected a representative from Florida 
to the forty-second congress, having suc¬ 
cessfully contested the seat claimed by 
Josiah T. Walls. 








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NIBLACK, WILLIAM E., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born May 19, 1822, in Dubois county, Ind. 

In 1843 he was ap¬ 
pointed county sur¬ 
veyor, and in 1849 
was elected to the 
Indiana state legis¬ 
lature, where he 
served until 1852. In 
1854 he was appoint¬ 
ed a circuit judge, 
and subsequently 
elected for six years. 
He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in the 
thirty-fifth congress 
from Indiana, and re-elected to the thirty- 
sixth congress. He was elected to the 
thirty-ninth congress, and re-elected to 
the forty-first, forty-second and forty- 
third congresses. 

NICHOLAS, GEORGE, soldier, lawyer, 
was born about 1755 in Hanover, Va. 
He was a leading member of the con¬ 
vention which ratified the federal consti¬ 
tution, and a prominent member of the 
nouse of delegates in Virginia. He moved 
to Kentucky in 1790; was a member of the 
convention for framing a state constitu¬ 
tion, and was the author of that instru¬ 
ment. He was the first attorney-general 
of the state. He died in 1799 in Ken¬ 
tucky. 

NICHOLAS, JOHN, congressman, state 
senator, was born Jan. 19, 1761, in Will¬ 
iamsburg, Va. He was a representative 
in congress from Virginia from L93 to 
1801. He subsequently removed to Gene¬ 
va, N. Y., whence he was elected to the 
state senate from 1806 to 1809. He died 
Dec. 31, 1819, in Geneva, N. Y. 

NICHOLAS, PHILIP NORBORNE, law¬ 
yer, jurist, banker, was born in 1773 in 
Williamsburg, Va. For many years he 
was president of the Farmers’ bank of 
Virginia, and was judge of the general 
court of Virginia from about 1823 till his 
death. He died Aug. 8, 1849, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. 

NICHOLAS, ROBERT CARTER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, public official, was born in 1715 
in Hanover, Va. He represented James 
City in the house of burgesses of Vir¬ 
ginia when very young. He continued 
in that position until the house of dele¬ 
gates was organized in 1777; and was a 
member of that body until 1779, when 
he was appointed a judge of the high 
court of chancery, and subsequently of the 
court of appeals. He was treasurer of the 
colony from 1776 to 1777; and in 1773 was 
a member of the committee of corres¬ 
pondence. He died in 1780 in Hanover, 
Va. 

NICHOLAS, ROBERT CARTER, sol¬ 
dier, public official, was born about 1793 
in Hanover, Va. He was appointed cap¬ 
tain of the twentieth infantry in 1812; 
major of the twelfth infantry in 1813, and 
lieutenant-colonel in 1814. He was 
charge d’affaires to Naples, and subse¬ 
quently secretary of state of Louisiana. 
In 1851 he became state superintendent 
of public instruction. He died Dec. 24, 
1857, in Terrebonne, La. 



NICHOLAS, WILSON CARY, soldier, 
United States senator, governor, was 
born about 1757 in Hanover, Va. He was 
governor of Virginia; was an officer in 
the war of the revolution, and a member 
of the convention which ratified the con¬ 
stitution of the United States. He was a 
distinguished member of the senate of the 
United States from 1799 to 1804; and of 
the national house of representatives from 
1807 to 1809. In 1804 he resigned his seat 
in the senate, and accepted the oflice of 
collector of the ports of Norfolk and 
Portsmouth. He was afterward again a 
member of the house, but resigned his 
seat in 1809. In 1814 he was governor, 
and remained in office until 1817. He 
died Oct. 10, 1820, in Milton, Ohio. 

NICHOLLS, FRANCIS TILLOU, soldier, 
lawyer, governor, was born Aug. 20, 1834, 
in Donaldsonville, La. The most notable 
fact of his life is that to him is due the 
organization of the first temperance so¬ 
ciety of Louisiana, of which he was presi¬ 
dent. During the civil war he was in the 
confederate service, and became briga¬ 
dier-general. During 1888-92 he served 
with distinction as governor of Louisiana, 
and to him is principally due the defeat of 
the Louisiana lottery. 

NICHOLLS, JOHN C., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
April 25, 1834, in Clinton, Ga. He served 
in the confederate army throughout the 
war; was a member of the state consti¬ 
tutional convention of 1865, and was a 
presidential elector in 1868. He was elect¬ 
ed to the state senate in 1870 and served 
five years, and was a delegate to the 
democratic national convention in 1876. 
He was elected a representative from 
Georgia to the forty-sixth congress, and 
was also elected to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

NICHOLLS, RHODA, artist, was born 
in England. In 1896 she received a sil¬ 
ver medal at the Atlanta (Ga.) interna¬ 
tional exposition on her water-color en¬ 
titled Searching the Scriptures. 


NICHOLS, ALVA W., physician, sur¬ 



geon, was born in 1848, near Grand Rap¬ 
ids, Mich. He acquired his education at 
the district school 
** and the high schools 
of Grand Rapids and 
Greenville. He stud¬ 
ied medicine at the 
State university at 
Ann Arbor; in 1874 
graduated from the 
Bellevue Hospital 
Medical college of 
New York city; and 
has since been suc¬ 
cessfully engaged in 
the practice of his 
profession at Greenville. In 1886 he was 
a nominee for state senator; in 1888 he 
was a fusion elector, and since 1878 has 
been a greenbacker and populist. He has 
filled various public offices of honor; is 
a member of the leading medical societies, 
and a member and hearty supporter of 
various fraternal orders. In 1894 he was 
a candidate for governor of Michigan and 
made a remarkably successful canvass on 
the people’s ticket for that high office. 


NICHOLAS, SAMUEL SMITH, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born in 1796 in Lex¬ 
ington, Ky. In 1831 he was appointed 
judge of the court of appeals; and he 
was subsequently a member of the Ken¬ 
tucky state legislature. He assisted in 
preparing the revised code of Kentucky, 
and was the author of a series of essays 
on Constitutional Law. He died Nov. 27, 
1869, in Louisville, Ky. 


NICHOLS, CLARINDA HOWARD, re¬ 
former, was born Jan. 25, 1810, in Town¬ 
send, Vt. She was instrumental in se¬ 
curing the passage of the first bill in the 
Vermont legislature that recognized the 
civil existence of wives. She afterward 
emigrated to Kansas, served one term as 
recording clerk of the state legislature, 
and removed to Porno, Cal., in 1871. She 
died Jan. 11, 1885, in Porno, Cal. 


NICHOLS, EDWARD LEAMINGTON, 
Ph. D., educator, physicist, author, was 
born Sept. 14, 1854, in England. Since 
1887 he has been professor of physics in 
Cornell university. He is the founder and 
editor-in-chief of the Physical Review, 
and is the author of A Laboratory Manual 
of Physics and Applied Electricity, in two 
volumes; The Elements of Physics; and 
The Outlines of Physics. 

NICHOLS, EDWARD TATNALL. naval 
officer, was born March 1, 1823, in Au¬ 
gusta, Ga. He was appointed to the Unit¬ 
ed States naval academy in 1866; became 
commodore in 1872, rear-admiral in 1878, 
and was placed on the retired list in 
March, 1885. He died Oct. 12, 1886, in 
Pomfret, Conn. 

NICHOLS, EDWARD W„ artist, was 
born in December, 1820, in Oxford, N. H. 
He has attained success as an artist of 
New York city, where he opened a stu¬ 
dio. He died Sept. 18, 1871, in Peekskill, 
N. Y. 

NICHOLS, ERNEST FOX, educator, 
author, was born June 1, 1869, in Leaven¬ 
worth, Kan. In 1891-92 he was a fellow in 
physics in the Cornell university, and 
since 1892 has filled the chair of physics 
in the Colgate university of Hamilton, N. 
Y. He is the author of a number of im¬ 
portant researches in the Heat Spectrum. 

NICHOLS. FRANCIS T., governor.^ He 
was governor of Louisiana from 1876 to 
1880. 

NICHOLS, GEORGE WARD, author, 
was born June 21, 1837, in Mt. Desert, 
Maine. He was a writer on art and music 
who was president of the Cincinnati col¬ 
lege of Music, and the author of The Story 
of the Great March; Art Education Ap¬ 
plied to Industry; Pottery; and Sanctuary, 
a story of the Civil War. He died Sept. 
15, 1885, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

NICHOLS, ICHABOD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born July 7, 1784, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. He was a Unitarian minis¬ 
ter of Portland, Maine, in 1814-55, and 
from the latter date a resident of Cam¬ 
bridge. He was the author of Natural 
Theology; Hours with the Evangelists; 
and Remembered Words. He died Jan. 
2, 1859, in Cambridge, Mass. 

NICHOLS, JAMES ROBINSON, chem¬ 
ist, author, was born July 19, 1819, in 
West Amesbury (now Merrimac), Mass. 
He was a manufacturing chemist of Bos¬ 
ton who founded The Journal of Chemis¬ 
try (now The Popular Science News) in 
1866, and was the author of What, When, 
and Where? Fireside Science; Chemistry 
of the Farm; and The New Agriculture. 
He died Jan. 2, 1888, in Haverhill, Mass. 

NICHOLS, JOHN, educator, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 14, 1834, in Wake 
county, N. C. From 1873 till 1877 he was 
principal of the North Carolina institute 
for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, in 
Raleigh, N. C. In 1881 he was appointed 
postmaster at Raleigh. He has been sec¬ 
retary and treasurer of the State Fair 
association for a number of years, and 
was elected to the fiftieth congress as an 
independent. 

NICHOLS, MRS. MARY SARGEANT, 
physician, author, was born Aug. 10, 1810, 
in Goffstown, N. H. She is a hydropathic 
physician, and the author of Lectures on 
Anatomy and Physiology; Experience in 
Water Cure; A Woman’s Work in Water 
Cure and Sanitary Education. As Mary 
Orme she published the novels. Uncle 
John; Agnes Norris; and The Two Loves, 
Eros and Anteros. 

NICHOLS, MATTHIAS H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 3, 1824, in Salem 
county, N. J. He was elected a represent¬ 
ative from Ohio to the thirty-third, thirty- 
fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. 





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NICHOLS, MOSES, physician, soldier, 
was born in 1759 in Amherst, N. H. He 
was a general of militia during the revo¬ 
lution. He died in May, 1790, in Am¬ 
herst, N. H. 

NICHOLS, MRS REBECCA S. (REED), 
poet, was born in August, 1820, in Green¬ 
wich, N. J. She is a poet of Cincinnati, 
and the author of Bernice, and Other 
Poems; and Songs of the Heart. 

NICHOLS, ROLAND, poet, was born 
Aug. 1, 1865, in Shalersville, Ohio. He has 
contributed numerous poems to the lead¬ 
ing periodicals of Ohio. 

NICHOLS, STARR HOYT, broker, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1834 in Connecticut. He 
is a broker of New York city, in earlier 
life a Unitarian minister. He has pub¬ 
lished Monte Rosa, the Epic of an Alp. 

NICHOLS, THOMAS L., physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1820. He is an Amer¬ 
ican physician who settled in Malvern, 
England, near the opening of the civil 
war, and the author of Women in All 
Ages; Esoteric Anthropology; Forty 
Years of American Life; How to Cook; 
How to Behave; How to Live on Six¬ 
pence a Day; and Human Physiology the 
Basis of Sanitary Reforms. 

NICHOLS, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, sol¬ 
dier, was born May 12, 1818, in Philadel¬ 
phia. He became colonel and brevet brig¬ 
adier-general in 1864, and brevet major- 
general in 1865 for meritorious service 
during the civil war. At the time of his 
death he was chief of staff and adjutant- 
general of the military department of Mis¬ 
souri. He died April 8, 1869, in St. Louis, 
Mo. 

NICHOLS, WILLIAM RIPLEY, chem¬ 
ist, educator, author, was born April 30, 
1847, in Boston, Mass. He was devoted 
to the interests of the institute of Tech¬ 
nology, and compiled a record of the Pub¬ 
lications of Its Officers, Students, and 
Alumni, in which may be found a com¬ 
plete list of his own papers down to 1882. 
Besides his scientific papers he published 
in book-form An Elementary Manual of 
Chemistry, abridged from Eliot and Sto- 
rer’s Manual. He died July 14, 1886, in 
Germany. 

NICHOLSON, ALFRED OSBORNE 
POPE, lawyer, congressman, United States 
senator, was born Aug. 31, 1808, in Will¬ 
iamson county, Tenn. He was a member 
of the Tennessee state legislature from 
1833 to 1839; was a senator in congress 
from that state from 1840 to 1842; and 
was a member of the state senate from 
1843 to 1845. He was chancellor of the 
middle division of the state in 1845; was 
president of the bank of Tennessee in 
1846 and 1847, and was elected printer of 
the house of representatives by the thirty- 
third congress, and printer of the senate 
by the thirty-fourth congress. He was 
elected a senator in congress from Ten¬ 
nessee for the term commencing in 1859 
and ending in 1865, but was expelled July 
11, 1861. He died March 23, 1876, in Col¬ 
umbia, Tenn. 

NICHOLSON, MRS. ELIZA JANE 
(POITEVENT), journalist, author, poet, 
was born in 1849 in Mississippi. She was 
a journalist of New Orleans, owner and 
editor of The Picayune, and the first 
woman in the world to own and manage 
a great dally paper. She was the author 
of Lyrics. She died in 1896. 

NICHOLSON, FRANCIS, governor. He 
was lieutenant-governor of New York 
under Andres; was go\ernor of Virginia 
in 1690-92, and from 1699 to 1705; and 
governor of Maryland in 1694-99. He died 
March 5, 1728, in London, England. 


NICHOLSON, ISAAC LEA, bishop of 
Milwaukee, Wis., was born Jan. 18, 1844, 
in Baltimore, Md. He was consecrated 
bishop of Milwaukee in St. Mark’s church, 
Philadelphia, in 1891. He has published 
occasional sermons, addresses and pas¬ 
torals, and has compiled several liturgi¬ 
cal manuals. 

NICHOLSON, JAMES BARTRAM, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 28, 1820, in St. Louis, 
Mo. He is a prominent bookbinder of 
Philadelphia, and the author of a Manual 
of Bookbinding, an exhaustive treatise on 
the subject. 

NICHOLSON, JAMES OSCAR, lawyer, 
politician, was born March 29, 1847, in 
Pike county, Ill. During the civil war he 
served as a soldier in the union army at 
the age of seventeen. He subsequently 
lived in Missouri, California, Oregon and 
Washington territory, and since 1878 has 
been engaged in the practice of law in 
Texas, and since 1881 in Laredo. He has 
taken an active part in political affairs; 
has been a delegate from his county to 
every state democratic convention in 
Texas for the past fourteen years, and 
was a delegate to the national democratic 
conventions in 1892 and in 1896. 

NICHOLSON, JAMES WILLIAM AU¬ 
GUSTUS, naval officer, was born March 
10, 1821, in Dedham, Mass. He served in 
the United States navy during the civil 
war, attaining the rank of admiral. He 
died Oct. 28, 1887, in New York city. 

NICHOLSON, JASPER HOPPER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1770 
in Maryland. IP 1805 he was appointed 
chief justice of the sixth judicial district, 
and was also a judge of the court of ap¬ 
peals of Maryland. From 1799 to 1806 he 
was a representative in congress. He 
died March 4, 1817, in Maryland. 

NICHOLSON, JOHN, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1765. He was 
for several years a member of the New 
York assembly; and was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1809 to 
1811. He died in January, 1820. 

NICHOLSON, JOHN A., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 17, 1827, in Lau¬ 
rel, Del. He was elected a representative 
from Delaware to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress, and re-elected to the fortieth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

NICHOLSON, JOHN REED, lawyer, 
jurist, was born May 19, 1849, in Dover, 
Del. He has served with distinction as 
attorney-general of Delaware, and is now 
chancellor of the state of Delaware. 

NICHOLSON, SAMUEL, naval officer, 
was born in 1743 in Maryland. He was 
the first commander of the frigate Con¬ 
stitution, the building of which he super¬ 
intended. At the time of his death he was 
at the head of the navy. He died Dec. 29, 
1813, in Charlestown, Mass. 

NICHOLSON, TIMOTHY, educator, phil¬ 
anthropist, was born Nov. 9, 1828, in Belvi- 
dere, N. C. He is prominent in temperance 
reform, a member of the Indiana state 
board of charities and corrections since 
1889, and president of the state conference 
of charities since 1896. 

NICHOLSON, WILLIAM RUFUS, bish¬ 
op, author, was born Jan. 8, 1822, in 
Green county, Miss. He is a reformed 
episcopal bishop, dean of the theological 
seminary of that faith in Philadelphia, 
and the author of The Blessedness of Hea¬ 
ven; Why I Became a Reformed Episco¬ 
palian; The Real Presence; and The Call 
to the Ministry. 








NICHOLSON, WILLIAM THOMAS, in¬ 
ventor, manufacturer, was born March 22, 
1834, in Pawtucket, R. I. He was famous 
as the inventor of 
the first successful 
machine for cutting 
files, and as the 
founder and presi¬ 
dent for thirty years 
o f the Nicholson 
File company, one 
of the great manu¬ 
facturing corpora¬ 
tions of the east. He 
attended the c o m- 
mon schools until 
“ the age of thirteen, 
and then, after a year spent at Uxbridge 
academy, entered a machine shop to learn 
the trade of a machinist. He branched 
out for himself in the manufacture of 
machinery and machine tools, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I., and during the civil war 
executed heavy government contracts for 
supplying parts of rifles. In 1864 he 
went to work in earnest upon an idea 
which had long occupied his mind, the 
invention of an improved machine for 
cutting files. After considerable study 
and labor he succeeded in perfecting an 
invention, and after securing his patents, 
immediately organized a stock company 
for the utilization of it. After years of 
experiment, and the inspection of the 
various methods by which files were pro¬ 
duced both in this country and abroad, 
and the construction of a variety of ma¬ 
chinery, for which over forty patents were 
obtained, he brought his company to the 
position which he desired, that of being 
the largest manufacturers of files in the 
world, and of producing a recognizedly 
superior quality article. He died Oct. 17, 
1893, in Providence, R. I. 

NICKERSON, CHARLES SUMNER, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 28, 1861, 
in Chatham, Mass. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the public 
schools, and attended Tufts College Div¬ 
inity school. For four years he was r a 
displayman in the United States signal 
service; since 1886 has been a successful 
clergyman, and now fills a pastorate in 
Newton, Mass. He is the author of a 
volume entitled Noble Living; and a con¬ 
stant contributor to religious publica¬ 
tions. 


NICKERSON, FRANKLIN STEVEN, 
soldier, was born Aug. 27, 1826, in Swan- 
ville, Maine. During the civil war he 
served gallantly, and became major and 
lieutenant-colonel of the fourth regiment, 
and in 1862 he was commissioned a briga¬ 
dier-general. In 1873 he opened a law 
office in Boston, and is noted as one of 
the foremost lawyers of New England. 

NICKERSON, SAMUEL M., banker. He 
is an able financier, and one of the fore¬ 
most bankers of Chicago, Ill. 

NICKLIN, PHILIP HOLBROOK, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1786 in Philadelphia. 
He contributed articles on conchology to 
Silliman’s Journal, and to other periodi¬ 
cals; wrote Letters Descriptive of the Vir¬ 
ginia Springs; Pleasant Peregrinations 
Through Pennsylvania; and Remarks on 
Literary Property. He died March 2, 
1842, in Philadelphia. 

NICOL, CHARLES EDWARD, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 22, 1854, 
in Brentsville, Va. He attended the Rich¬ 
mond college and the university of Vir¬ 
ginia. He served with distinction as a 
member of the house of delegates of Vir¬ 
ginia for three sessions; and since 1895 
he has been judge of the eleventh judicial 
circuit of Virginia. He is one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of the south and resides 
in Manassas, Va. 


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NICOLAY, JOHN GEORGE, public offi¬ 
cial, author, was born Feb. 26, 1826, in 
Bavaria. He was the private secretary 
of President Lincoln, and marshal of 
the United States supreme court in 1872- 
87. He is the author of The Outbreak of the 
Rebellion; and Abraham Lincoln, a His¬ 
tory. 

NICOLL, HENRY, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Oct. 23, 1812, in New York city. 
He was a member of the New York con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1846, and was a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1847 to 1849. 

NICOLL, JAMES CRAIG, artist, was 
born Nov. 22, 1846, in New York city. 
He was elected president of the Artists’ 
Fund society in 1887, and was one of the 
founders of the American water-color so¬ 
ciety, and its secretary for several years. 
Among his water-colors, by which he is 
perhaps best known, are On the Gulf of 
St. Lawrence; Foggy Morning, Grand 
Menan; Moonlight, Cape Ann; Coast 
View in Spring; and Off Portland Harbor. 

NICOLL, JOHN C., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Georgia. In 1839 he was appointed 
United States judge for the district of 
Georgia. 

NICOLLET, JEAN NICHOLAS, explor¬ 
er, was born July 24, 1786, in Cluses, Sav¬ 
oy. After exploring the southern states 
he studied the great basin that is em¬ 
braced by the sources of the Red, Arkan¬ 
sas and Missouri rivers, and in 1836 ex¬ 
tended his investigations to the sources 
of the Mississippi. On his return to Wash¬ 
ington he was engaged by the war de¬ 
partment to visit the far west and pre¬ 
pare a general report and map for the 
government. He died Sept. 11, 1843, in 
Washington, D. C. 

NICOLLS, RICHARD, governor, was 
born in 1624 in England. He was the 
first English governor of New York. He 
died May 28, 1672, at sea. 

NICOLSON, FRANK WALTER, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Nov. 4, 1864, in 
Sackville, Canada. Since 1895 he has been 
instructor of Latin in the Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity of Middletown, Conn. He is the 
author of Phonics of Science; Plutus of 
Aristophanes; and has contributed sev¬ 
eral articles to Harvard classical studies. 

NICOLSON, SAMUEL, inventor, was 
born Dec. 22, 1792, in Plymouth, Mass. 
He was the inventor of the Nicolson pave¬ 
ment, which has been extensively used in 
all the principal cities of the United 
States, and in various other countries. He 
died Jan. 6, 1868. 

NICUM, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born Jan. 6, 1851, in Germany. He is 
a prominent lutheran minister of Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y., who has published History 
of the New York Ministerium; Gleichniss- 
Reden Jesu; Weihnachts Andacht; and a 
translation of Wolf’s Lutherans in Amer¬ 
ica. 

NIEDRINGHAUS, FREDERICK G., 
manufacturer, congressman, was born 
Oct. 21, 1837, in Germany. In 1862 he be¬ 
gan the stamping of tinware; in 1866 
the business was incorporated under the 
name of St. Louis Stamping company, in 
Missouri, of which he is president. In 
1874 he invented what is called granite 
ironware, and in 1881 established ex¬ 
tensive rolling mills. He was elected to 
the fifty-first congress as a republican. 

NIEMAN, L. W., journalist, was born 
Dec. 13, 1857, in Mukwonago, Wis. He 
is editor and proprietor of the Milwaukee 
Journal, which was the first two-cent 
daily publication in the state of Wiscon¬ 
sin. 


NIEMEYER, JOHN HENRY, artist, was 
born June 25, 1839, in Germany. He has 
painted various £snre pictures and por¬ 
traits, among the best of which are Gut¬ 
enberg Inventing Movable Type; a por¬ 
trait of Theodore D. Woolsey; The Braid; 
Where?; Why?; and Sancta Simplicitas. 

NIERIKER, MRS. MAY (ALCOTT), 
artist, author, was born in 1840 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. She is an artist who published 
Concord Sketches; and Studying Art 
Abroad. She died in 1879. 

NIETERT, HENRY JOHN, banker, leg¬ 
islator, was born March 12, 1848, in Day- 
ton, Ohio. He organized the Exchange 
bank of Walker, Iowa, in 1885, and is its 
president. He served as a member of the 
house in the twenty-fifth and twenty- 
sixth general assemblies of Iowa. 

NILES, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Oct. 21, 1850, in 
Kosciusko, Miss. In 1878 and in 1886 he 
served as a member of the Mississippi 
state legislature and in 1880 was a dele¬ 
gate to the national republican conven¬ 
tion. He is a successful lawyer of his 
native city; was United States district at¬ 
torney for the northern district of Missis¬ 
sippi in 1890-91; and in 1892 was appoint¬ 
ed by President Harrison as United States 
district judge for the northern and south¬ 
ern districts of Mississippi. 

NILES, HEZEKIAH, journalist, author, 
was born Oct. 10, 1777, in Chester county, 
Pa. He was a journalist of Baltimore, 
founder of Niles’s Register. The towns of 
Niles, Mich., and Niles, Ohio, were named 
in his honor. He is the author of Quill 
Driving; and Principles and Acts of the 
Revolutionary Period. He died April 2, 
1839, in Wilmington, Del. 

NILES, JASON, congressman. He was 
elected to the forty-third congress from 
Mississippi. 

NILES, JOHN B., lawyer, educator, 
state senator, was born Sept. 13, 1808, in 
Fairlee, Vt. He was elected to the In¬ 
diana state senate in 1864, where he 
served one term. For twelve years he oc¬ 
cupied the chair of professor of chemis¬ 
try in the Indiana Medical college, locat¬ 
ed at Laporte, having been elected to the 
position in 1840. 

NILES, JOHN MILTON, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, author, was born 
Aug. 20, 1787, in Windsor, Conn. He was 
made a senator in congress in 1835, in 
which position he remained until 1839. In 
1840 he was appointed postmaster-general, 
and in 1842 was again elected to the Unit¬ 
ed States senate, serving six years. He 
edited a Gazetteer of Connecticut and 
Rhode Island; and wrote a History of 
South America; The Civil War; and sev¬ 
eral biographical works. He died May 31, 
1856, in Hartford, Conn. 

NILES, NATHANIEL, lawyer, inventor, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born April 3, 1741, in South Kensington, 
R. I. He was the inventor of making wire 
from bar iron by water power, and erected 
at Norwich, Conn., a woolen-card manu¬ 
factory. He was a member of the Ver¬ 
mont legislature, and speaker of the 
house. He was a judge of the supreme 
court of Vermont, and was six times a 
presidential elector. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Vermont from 1791 
to 1795. He wrote poetry and many ser¬ 
mons, and preached in his own house 
twelve years. He died Oct. 31, 1828, in 
West Fairlee, Vt. 

NILES, NATHANIEL, lawyer, banker, 
was born Sept. 15, 1835, in South Ken¬ 
sington, R. I. He became speaker of 
the New Jersey assembly in 1872, gov¬ 
ernment director of the Union Pacific rail¬ 
road in 1879, and since 1884 has been pres¬ 


ident of the Tradesmen’s National bank of 
New York city. 

NILES, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 14, 1744, in Braintree, Mass. 
He was ordained pastor of a congrega¬ 
tional church in Abington in 1771, and 
preached there for forty years. He pub¬ 
lished a sermon on the death of General 
Washington; and a sermon before the 
Massachusetts Missionary society. He 
died Jan. 16, 1814, in Abington, Mass. 

NILES, WILLIAM WOODRUFF, bish¬ 
op, was born May 24, 1832, in Canada. In 
1857 he graduated from the Trinity col¬ 
lege of Hartford; and in 1861 from the 
Berkeley Divinity school of Middletown, 
Conn. The same year he was ordained a 
deacon, and a priest in 1862. He then took 
charge as rector of St. Philip’s of Wiscas- 
sett, Maine. In 1864 he returned to Con¬ 
necticut and filled the chair of Latin 
language and literature in Trinity col¬ 
lege. In 1870 he was consecrated second 
bishop of New Hampshire. He is the 
author of numerous Addresses and Es¬ 
says; and for a while was editor of 

The Churchman. 

NINDE, WILLIAM XAVIER, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, was born June 21, 1832, in 
Cortland, N. Y. He attended the Wes¬ 
leyan university of 
Middletown, Conn.; 
has filled various 
pastorates in the 
metbodist episcopal 
church; and f of 
many years was 
president of the Gar¬ 
rett Biblical insti¬ 
tute of Evanston, Ill. 
In 1881 he was a del¬ 
egate to the method- 
ist ecumenical con¬ 
ference in London. 
Since 1884 he has been bishop of the 

methodist episcopal church, and resides 
in Detroit, Mich. 

NINDEMANN, WILLIAM FRIEDRICH 
CARL, explorer, inventor, author, was 
born April 22, 1850, in Germany. He 
went on the arctic expedition in the 
steamer Polaris, which sailed from New 
London in 1871. He has invented a tong 
for the gaff of fore-and-aft rigged vessels, 
which was patented in 1883; and is the 
author of a pamphlet entitled Eines 
Deutschen Matrosen Nordpolfahrten. 

NIPHER, FRANCIS EUGENE, scien¬ 
tist, author, was born Dec. 10, 1847, in 
Port Byron, N. Y. For many years he 
was professor of physics and electrical 
engineering in the Washington univer¬ 
sity of St. Louis, Mo. He has been presi¬ 
dent of the St. Louis Academy of Science, 
and also of the Engineers’ club. He te 
the author of Theory of Magnetic Meas¬ 
urements; A Mathematical Treatise on 
Electricity and Magnetism; and many 
scientific papers. 

NISBET, EUGEN1US ARISTIDES, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 
7, 1S03, near Union Point, Ga. He was 
for several years a 
judge of the supreme 
court of the state. 
He was a representa- 
t i v e in congress 
from 1839 to 1841; 
took an active part 
in the rebellion of 
1861; and became a 
member of the con¬ 
federate congress. It 
is stated that Judge 
Nisbet drew the ori¬ 
ginal resolutions dis¬ 
solving the connection of the state of 
Georgia with the American Union at the 
time of the outbreak of the civil war. He 
died March 18, 1871, in Macon, Ga. 





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NITSCH, MRS. HELEN ALICE (MAT¬ 
THEWS), author, was born in England. 
She was a writer on domestic science 
whose home was at Plainfield, N. J., and 
was the author of Choice Cookery; Cul¬ 
ture and Cooking; Ten Dollars Enough; 
Perfect Bread; Gentle Bread-Winners; 
Molly Bishop’s Family; and Progressive 
Housekeeping. She died in 1889. 

NIVEN, ARCHIBALD C., state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in New 
York. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1845 to 1847; 
and a member of the state legislature 
in 1864. 

NIXON, JOHN, soldier, was born 
March 4, 1725, in Framingham, Mass. 
He was appointed brigadier-general in 
1776, and intrusted with the command of 
Governor’s Island, New York harbor. He 
died March 24, 1815, in Middlebury, Vt. 

NIXON, JOHN THOMPSON, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Aug. 31, 1820, in Fairton, N. J. He 
served in the New Jersey legislature from 
1848 to 1850, during the last year as speak¬ 
er. He was elected a representative from 
New Jersey to the thirty-sixth congress, 
and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh 
congress. He was a delegate to the Phil¬ 
adelphia loyalists’ convention of 1866, and 
in 1870 was appointed United States 
judge for the district of New Jersey. He 
died Sept. 28, 1889, in Stockbridge, Mass. 

NOAH, MORDECAI MANUEL, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born July 14, 1785, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a once noted 
journalist of New York city, who en¬ 
deavored unsuccessfully to found a Jew¬ 
ish colony on Grand Island, in the Nia¬ 
gara river. He was the author of Travels 
in England, France and Spain; Gleanings 
from a Gathered Harvest. He wrote sev¬ 
eral successful plays, among which are, 
The Siege of Tripoli; and The Fortress of 
Sorrente. He died May 22, 1851, in New 
York city. 

NOATMAN, FRANKLIN S., poet, was 
born July 31, 1858, in Wethersfield, N. Y. 
He is the author of numerous hymns and 
religious poems, and has published a 
work entitled Glimpses of the New Jeru¬ 
salem. He is known in his native state 
as the Bard of North Java. 

NOBLE, ANNETTE LUCILE, author, 
was born July 12, 1844, in Albion, N. Y. 
She is a fiction writer of Albion, N. Y., 
among whose works are Uncle Jack’s Ex¬ 
ecutors; Eunice Lathrop, Spinster; Love 
and Shawl-Straps; After the Failure; and 
The Silent Man’s Legacy. 

NOBLE, CALISTA, educator, poet, was 
born Jan. 11, 1835, in Crawford county, 
Pa. After receiving a liberal education, 
she became a school teacher, and has at¬ 
tained success as an educator. She has 
written both prose and verse for the peri¬ 
odical press, and some of her poems have 
been included in several national collec¬ 
tions. 

NOBLE, DAVID A., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Massachusetts. On mov¬ 
ing to Michigan, he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1853 to 1855. 

NOBLE, EDMUND, journalist, author. 
He is a journalist who traveled in Russia 
in 1882-84, and since 1884 has lived in 
Boston. He is the author of The Russian 
Revolt. 

NOBLE, JAMES, state senator, was 
born about 1790 in Battletown, Va. He 
was a senator in congress from Indiana 
from 1816 to 1831. He died Feb. 26, 1831, 
in Washington, D. C. 

NOBLE, JOHN WILLOCK, lawyer, sol¬ 
dier, was born Oct. 26, 1831, in Lancaster, 
Ohio. He served two years as city at¬ 


torney of Keokuk, Iowa. He entered the 
service as first lieutenant in 1862, and 
was brevetted brigadier-general for dis¬ 
tinguished and meritorious services in the 
field. He was appointed United States 
district attorney for eastern Missouri in 
1867, which office he resigned in 1870. He 
was appointed secretary of the interior in 
1889. 

NOBLE, LOUIS LEGRAND, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 26, 1813, in Lisbon, 
N. Y. He was an episcopal clergyman 
who held various rectorships successively 
in the state of New York; and the author 
of Ne-Ma-Nin, an Indian story in verse; 
The Course of Empire, a work relating to 
the artist Cole; The Lady Angeline, and 
Other Poems; and A Voyage to the Arctic 
Seas. He died Feb. 6, 1882, in Ionia, Mich. 

NOBLE, PATRICK, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, governor, was born in 1787 in Abbe¬ 
ville district, S. C. He was a state repre¬ 
sentative from South Carolina in 1812; 
was speaker from 1818 to 1824, and again 
from 1832. In 1836 he was president of 
the state senate, and was governor from 
1838 to 1840. He died April 7, 1840, in 
Abbeville, S. C. 

NOBLE, THOMAS SATTERWHITE, 
artist, was born May 29, 1835, in Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky. He studied art in Paris, and has 
attained success as a painter of history, 
genre and portraiture. In 1865 he exhibit¬ 
ed his first important canvas, The Slave 
Market; in 1866 he exhibited Margaret 
Garner, a tragedy from real life; and in 

1867 he painted The Price of Blood, a 
successful picture depicting slave life. In 

1868 he was elected to fill the chair of 
fine arts in the university of Cincinnati, 
the art department of which institution in 
1884 was transferred to the Cincinnati 
Museum association, of which Mr. Noble 
is still the presiding officer. Other of his 
works are: John Brown; Witchill; For¬ 
given; and other subject pictures; and his 
principal portraits are of Joseph Long- 
worth, Reuben R. Springer, Col. George 
Ward Nichols, David Sinton, and others. 

NOBLE, WARREN P., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born June 14, 1820, near Berwick, 
Pa. He received the rudiments of his ed¬ 
ucation in the public schools of Ohio, and 
graduated from the academy of John 
McGreggor in Wadsworth, Ohio. He then 
taught in the public schools of Fostoria, 
and had for his pupils Hon. Charles Fos¬ 
ter, Judge Lawrence and Judge Caplee. 
Since 1843 he has been engaged in the 
practice of law, and has become one of 
the foremost lawyers of Ohio at Tiffin. 
He served two terms in the house of rep¬ 
resentatives of Ohio, and was twice elect¬ 
ed prosecuting attorney of his county. 
During 1861-65 he served with distinction 
as a member of congress. He was one of 
the organizers of the Ohio State univer¬ 
sity; was a director of the railroad 
from Tiffin to Toledo; and for many 
years was president of the Commercial 
bank of Tiffin, of which he is now vice- 
president. 

NOBLE, WILLIAM H., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1788 in New 
York. He served three years in the as¬ 
sembly of that state from Cayuga county, 
and was a representative in congress 
from New York from 1837 to 1839. He 
died Feb. 5, 1850, in Rochester. 

NOEL, EDMOND FAVOR, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born March 4, 1856, near Lex¬ 
ington, Miss. During 1882-84 he was a 
member of the Mississippi state legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1896 he was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate for four years. He 
is an able lawyer of Lexington, Miss., and 
during 1887-91 served with distinction as 
district attorney. 


NOELL, JOHN W., lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Feb. 15, 1816, 
in Bradford county, Va. He served four 
years in the state senate of Missouri. In 
1858 he was elected a representative from 
Missouri to the thirty-sixth congress, and 
was re-elected to the thirty-seventh and 
thirty-eighth congresses. He died March 
14, 1863, in Washington. 

NOELL, THOMAS E., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 3, 1839, in 
Perryville, Mo. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Missouri to the thirty- 
ninth congress, and re-elected to the for¬ 
tieth congress. He died Oct. 3, 1867, in 
St. Louis. 



NOKES, SYLVESTER D., soldier, farm¬ 
er, politician, was born Feb. 11, 1835, in 
Franklin county, N. Y. In 1862 he enlist¬ 
ed in company E. 
one hundred and 
nineteenth Illinois 
volunteer infantry; 
he was mustered in 
as second lieutenant, 
and was subsequent¬ 
ly promoted to cap¬ 
tain. He is a suc¬ 
cessful farmer of 
Brown county, Ill.; 
is prominent in the 
political affairs o f 
his county and state; 
and has filled a'number of important pub¬ 


lic offices. 


NOLAN, DANIEL M., merchant, poet, 
was born June 17, 1842, in Ireland. He 
emigrated to America in 1865, and is now 
a successful merchant of Haverhill, Mass., 
and is known in New England as the Gro¬ 
cer-Poet. He has written extensively 
both prose and verse to the periodical 
press, and is the author of a volume of 
his collected poems, which contain wit, 
humor and pathos. 


NOLAN, MICHAEL N., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born in May, 1834,_ in 
Ireland. He was elected mayor of the city 
of Albany, N. Y., in 1878, re-elected in 1880, 
and again re-elected in 1882, while serv¬ 
ing as a member of congress. He was 
elected to the forty-seventh con’gress 
as a democrat. 


NOLEN, JAMES THEODORE, educat¬ 
or, college president, was born April 22, 
1863, in Franklin, N. C. He attended the 
Emory and Henry college, Virginia, and 
the Vanderbilt university of Nashville, 
Tenn. This successful educator has been 
principal of the Williston academy, Ten¬ 
nessee, and is now president of the Flori¬ 
da Conference college of Leesburg, Fla. 

NOON, ALONZO ARTHUR, railroad 
president, was born June 28, 1837, in 
England. He has been president of the 
Salt Lake and Mercur Railroad company 
since its organization. 

NOONAN, GEORGE H., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in New Jersey. He 
practiced law in Texas until elected judge 
of the district court in 1862, and has held 
the office of judge continuously from that 
time to the present. He was elected t<5 
the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. 

NORCROSS, AMASA, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Jan. 26, 1824, 
in Rindge, N. H. He was a member of the 
Massachusetts house of representatives in 
1858, 1859 and 1862; was assessor of inter¬ 
nal revenue from 1862 to 1873, and was 
mayor of Fitchburg in 1873 and 1874. He 
was a state senator in 1874; and was 
elected a representative from Massachu¬ 
setts to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and 
forty-seventh congresses as a republican. 
He is president of the Fitchburg Mutual 
Fire Insurance company and other insti¬ 
tutions. 



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NORDHEIMER, ISAAC, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1809 in Germany. He 
was an educator of New York city, and in¬ 
structor in sacred literature at Union The¬ 
ological seminary in 1838-42. He was the 
author of Hebrew Grammar; and Gram¬ 
matical Analysis of Select Portions of 
Scripture. He died Nov. 3, 1842, in New 
York city. 

NORDHOFF, CHARLES, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 31, 1830, in Prussia. 
He is a journalist of New York city, and 
the author of Man-of-War Life; The Mer¬ 
chant Vessel; Whaling and Fishing; Man- 
of-War Yarns; Cape Cod and All Along 
Shore; Peninsular California; Northern 
California; Secession Is Rebellion; Com¬ 
munistic Societies of the United States; 
Politics for Young Americans; and God 
and the Future Life. 

NORMAN, BENJAMIN MOORE, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 22, 1809, in Hudson, 
N. Y. He was a bookseller of New Or¬ 
leans, and the author of Rambles in Yu¬ 
catan; New Orleans and Its Environs; 
and Rambles by Land and Water. He 
died Feb. 1, 1860, near Summit, Miss. 

NORMAN, HENRY, journalist, author, 
was born in 1858 in Massachusetts. He is 
a journalist of prominence, and the au¬ 
thor of The Peoples and Politics of the 
Far East; and The Real Japan. 

NORRIS, ALEXANDER WILSON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, state senator. He 
served in the civil war and attained the 
rank of captain. In 1881 he was elected 
to the Pennsylvania state senate. 

NORRIS, BASIL, soldier, surgeon, was 
born March 9, 1828, in Montgomery coun¬ 
ty, Md. He was physician to the execu¬ 
tive mansion during the terms of office of 
Andrew Johnson and General Grant, and 
was medical officer in charge of all the 
sick of the regular army in Washington, 
D. C., during 1863-84. He is the author of 
papers on Dislocation of the Astragalus; 
Extirpation of the Entire Tongue; Per¬ 
sonal Experience with Mad Dogs; and 
other surgical papers of value. 

NORRIS, BENJAMIN W., congressman, 
was born in 1819 in Kennebeck county, 
Maine. He was appointed a paymaster. 
He was elected a representative from Ala¬ 
bama to the fortieth congress as a re¬ 
publican. He died Jan. 27, 1873, in Mont¬ 
gomery. 

NORRIS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
physician, author, was born Nov. 6, 1808, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadel¬ 
phia physician, and the author of Con¬ 
tributions to Practical Surgery; and 
Early History of Medicine in Philadel¬ 
phia. He died March 4, 1875, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

NORRIS, ISAAC, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, was born July 21, 1671, in Eng¬ 
land. He was in the assembly for many 
years; speaker of the house in 1712, and 
justice for Philadelphia for many years. 
He died June 4, 1735, in Philadelphia. 

NORRIS, ISAAC, statesman, was born 
Oct. 2, 1701, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1851 
he was elected speaker of the assembly, 
and held that office for fifteen years. In 
the first year of his administration the 
old state house bell was ordered from 
England, and he proposed the inscription: 
Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto 
all the inhabitants thereof. He died June 
13, 1766, near Philadelphia, Pa. 

NORRIS, JOHN, merchant, state sena¬ 
tor, philanthropist, was born June 10, 
1748, in Salem, Mass. He was a member 
of the Massachusetts senate. He was one 
of the founders of Andover Theologi¬ 
cal seminary and a large contributor to 
benevolent and religious enterprises He 
died Dec. 22, 1808, in Salem, Mass. 


NORRIS, JOHN SAMUEL, clergyman, 
poet, was born Dec. 4, 1844, in England. 
He has filled pastorates in the Christian 
churches of Rochester, N. Y., and many of 
the western states. He is the author of a 
work entitled Songs of the Soul. 

NORRIS, MOSES, lawyer, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Nov. 8, 
1799, in Pittsfield, N. H. In 1839 he was 
elected to the New Hampshire state legis¬ 
lature, and in 1840 was speaker of the 
house; and in 1841 was elected a member 
of the state council. In 1843 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative in congress, where he 
continued four years. In 1847 he was 
again a member of the legislature, and 
speaker, and while serving in that capaci¬ 
ty was elected a senator in congress, serv¬ 
ing from 1849 to 1855. He died Jan. 11, 
1855, in Washington, D. C. 

NORRIS, THADDEUS, author, was 
born Aug. 15, 1811, in Warrentown, Va. 
He was. a Philadelphia business man who 
wrote much on sporting topics, and was 
the author of American Angler’s Book; 
and American Fish Culture. He died 
April 10, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

NORRIS, WILLIAM FISHER, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Jan. 6, 1839, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He has served as as¬ 
sistant surgeon in the United States army 
with the rank of captain. For many 
years he has been professor of ophthal¬ 
mology in the university of Pennsylvania, 
and is the author of a text-book on that 
subject. 


NORTH, CHARLES HAMILTON, mer¬ 
chant, was born April 8, 1832, in Thomas- 
ville, Ga. His youth was passed in West 



Provision company 
and a director in 
norations. 


Windsor, Vt. He at¬ 
tended the common 
schools and subse¬ 
quently entered the 
French academy of 
Waltham, Mass. For 
many years he was 
engaged in mercan¬ 
tile pursuits, and in 
1867 built the pack¬ 
ing house in Somer¬ 
ville, Mass. He is 
the founder of the 
North Packing and 
of Somerville, Mass., 
several business cor- 


NORTH, EDWARD, educator, was born 
March 9, 1820, in Berlin, Conn. For forty 
years he has been the necrologist of Ham¬ 
ilton, and since 1881 has been a trustee of 
that college. He was president of the New 
York State Teachers’ association in 1865. 

NORTH. ELISHA, physician, author, 
was born Jan. 8, 1771, in Goshen, Conn. 
He was a physician of New London, Conn., 
and the author of Treatise on Spotted 
Fever; Outlines of the Science of Life; 
and Uncle Toby’s Pilgrim’s Progress in 
Phrenology. He died Dec. 29, 1843, in 
New London, Conn. 

NORTH, judN W., lawyer, jurist. He 
was appointed an associate justice of the 
United States court for the district of 
Nevada, residing at Carson City. 

NORTH, SIMEON, clergyman, educator, 
was born Sept. 7, 1802, in Berlin, Conn. 
He became professor of Greek and Latin 
at Hamilton college, held office for ten 
years, and from 1839 until his resignation 
in 1857 was president of the college. He 
was ordained to the ministry of the con¬ 
gregational church in 1842. He died Feb. 
12, 1884, in Clinton, N. Y. 

NORTH, WILLIAM, soldier, United 
States senator, was born in 1755 in Fort 
Frederick, Maine. He was aid to Baron 
Steuben in the revolutionary war, and 
afterward appointed adjutant-general. He 


was a senator in congress from New York, 
by appointment, in 1798, to fill a vacancy. 
He died Jan. 3, 1836, in New York city. 

NORTHCUT, HOSEA ALLEN, evangel¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 13, 1843, in Hannibal, 
Mo. In 1864 he was elected an elder of 
the church at Millport, Mo., and has at¬ 
tained success as a general evangelist of 
the Christian church, and it is said that 
over twenty thousand have been convert¬ 
ed under his ministry in the United States 
and Canada. 

NORTHCUTT, WILLIAM A., lawyer, 
lieutenant-governor,, was born in Mur¬ 
freesboro, Tenn. He taught school for 
a while, and was admitted to the bar in 
1887. Two years later he moved to Illi¬ 
nois; in 1882 was elected state's attorney 
of Bond county, and was re-elected in 
1884 and in 1888. In 1890 he was elected 
head consul of the Modern Woodmen of 
America, to which position he has been 
twice unanimously re-elected. In 1892 
he was a republican candidate for con¬ 
gress, and in 1896 he was elected lieuten¬ 
ant-governor of Illinois. 

NORTHEND, CHARLES, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born April 2, 1814, in Newbury, 
Mass. He was a prominent educator of 
Connecticut, and the author of Teacher 
and Parent; Teachers’ Associations; An¬ 
nals of American Institutes of Instruc¬ 
tion; and Life of Elihu Burritt. He died 
in 1895. 

NORTHEND, WILLIAM DUMMER, 
lawyer, author, was born Feb. 26, 1823, in 
Newbury, Mass. He is a lawyer of Sa¬ 
lem, Mass., and the author of Speeches 
and Essays on Political Subjects; and The 
Bay Colony. 

NORTHERN, WILLIAM J., state sena¬ 
tor, governor, was born July 9, 1835, in 
Jones county, Ga. He was a member of 
the Georgia legislature in 1877 and 1878; 
in 1880-81 he was a member of the state 
senate, and in 1890 was elected governor 
of Georgia. 

NORTHROP, BIRDSEY GRANT, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1817 in Con¬ 
necticut. He is a prominent Connecticut 
educator, secretary of the state board of 
education in 1869-82; and the author of 
Education Abroad; Rural Improvement; 
and Tree-Planting. 

NORTHROP, CYRUS, educator, college 
president, was born Sept. 30, 1834, in 
Ridgefield, Conn. In 1861-63 he was clerk, 
first of the Connecticut house of repre¬ 
sentatives, and then of the senate. He 
was professor of rhetoric and English lit¬ 
erature in Yale from 1863 till 1884, when 
he became president of the university of 
Minnesota. 

NORTHROP, HARRY PINCKNEY, 
Roman catholic bishop, was born May 5, 
1842, in Charleston, S. C. He was raised 
to the episcopate in 1882, as vicar-apostol¬ 
ic of North Carolina, receiving the title 
of Bishop of Rosalia. 

NORTHRUP, ANSEL JUDD, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born June 30, 1833, in 
Smithfield, N. Y. In 1870 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States circuit court com¬ 
missioner, and soon afterward became 
United States examiner in equity. During 
1882-94 he was county judge of Onondaga, 
N. Y. He is the author of Camps and 
Tramps in the Adirondacks; and Sconset 
Cottage Life, a Summer on Nantucket 
Island. 

NORTHRUP, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
clergyman, educator, was born Oct. 15, 
1826, in Antwerp, N. Y. In 1858 he was 
called to the professorship of church his¬ 
tory in the Rochester seminary, and in 
1867 he became president of Chicago Bap¬ 
tist Theological seminary, Morgan Park. 





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NORTHWAY, STEPHEN A., lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 19, 1833, in 
Christian Hollow, N. Y. In 1861 he was 
elected prosecuting 
attorney and located 
in Jefferson, Ohio, 
where he resided and 
practiced law until 
his death. In 1863 he 
was re-elected prose¬ 
cuting attorney. In 
1865 he was elected 
to the state house of 
representatives and 
served two years. He 
was elected to the 
fifty-third congress; 
fifty-fourth and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. He died Sept. 8, 1898, in Jeffer¬ 
son, Ohio. 

NORTON, ANDREWS, educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 31, 1786, in 
Hingham, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman of Cambridge, professor of sa¬ 
cred literature in Harvard university in 
1819-30; and prominent among conserva¬ 
tive theologians of his faith. He was the 
author of Historical Evidences of the 
Genuineness of the Gospels; Internal Evi¬ 
dences of the Genuineness of the Gospels; 
Tracts Concerning Christianity; and Rea¬ 
sons for Not Believing the Doctrines of 
the Trinitarians. He died Sept. 18, 1852, in 
Newport, R. I. 

NORTON, AUGUSTUS THEODORE, 
clergyman, author, was born March 28, 
1808, in Cornwall, Conn. He was a pres- 
byterian clergyman of Alton, Ill., and the 
author of a History of the Presbyterian 
Church in Illinois. He died April 29, 1884, 
in Alton, Ill. 

NORTON, CHARLES ELIOT, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 16, 1827, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He is a distinguished 
Dante scholar and a high authority on 
the history of art, and since 1875 profes¬ 
sor of the history of art in Harvard uni¬ 
versity. He has edited the Letters of J. 
R. Lowell; the Writings of G. W. Curtis; 
the Goethe and Carlyle Correspondence; 
the Letters of Carlyle; and has translated 
Dante’s Vita Nuova and Divina Corn- 
media. His other works include, Histori¬ 
cal Studies of Church-Building in the Mid¬ 
dle Ages; Notes of Travel and Study in 
Italy; and Considerations of Some Recent 
Social Theories. 

NORTON, CHARLES LEDYARD, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born June 11, 1837, in 
Farmington, Conn. He is a journalist of 
New York city; since 1893 editor of Out¬ 
ing; and the author of Handbook of Flor¬ 
ida; Political Americanisms; Jack Ben¬ 
son’s Log; and A Medal of Honor Man, a 
book for boys. 

NORTON, DANIEL SHELDON, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born April 12, 1829, in Mount 
Vernon, Ohio. In 1857 he was elected to 
the Minnesota state senate, declining re- 
election in 1859; and was again re-elected 
in 1860, and also in 1863 and 1864, having 
been a member of the state house of rep¬ 
resentatives in 1862. In 1865 he took his 
seat as a senator in congress from Minne¬ 
sota for the term ending in 1871. He died 
July 14, 1870, in Washington, D. C. 

NORTON, EBENEZER F., state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in New 
York. He served in the state assembly 
from Erie county in 1823; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1829 to 1831. 

NORTON, ELIJAH H., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1821, in 
Logan county, Ky. In 1852 he was chosen 
a judge of the circuit court of Missouri; 
and was re-elected to the same position in 


1857. After resigning the judgeship in 
1860 he was elected a representative from 
Missouri to the thirty-seventh congress. 

NORTON, FRANK HENRY, journalist, 
author, was born March 20, 1836, in Hing¬ 
ham, Mass. He is a journalist of New 
York city, and the author of Lives of 
General Hancock, Alexander Stephens; 
and Daniel Boone, a romance. 

NORTON, FREDERICK CALVIN, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born March 24, 1873, 
in Guilford, Conn. He received a liberal 
education, and has since been engaged in 
journalism. He is the editor of the Echo 
of Guilford, Conn.; and the author of The 
History of Christ Church; Lives of the 
Governors of Connecticut; and other 
works. 

NORTON. GEORGE HABLEY, clelgy- 
man, author, was born May 7, 1824, in 
Ontario county, N. Y. He was an epis¬ 
copal clergyman of Alexandria, Va., who 
published Inquiry into the Nature and 
Extent of the Holy Catholic Church. He 
died in 1893. 

NORTON, GEORGE PIERCE, lawyer, 
was born Nov. 19, ±872, in Dover, N. H. 
He graduated from the law department of 
the Columbia college of New York city; 
and has attained success as an able law¬ 
yer of Kansas City, Mo. 

NORTON, HERMAN, evangelist, au¬ 
thor, was born July 2, 1799, in New Hart¬ 
ford, N. Y. He was a presbyterian evan¬ 
gelist in New York state, and the author 
of The Christian and Deist in Contrast; 
Signs of Danger and Promise; and Start¬ 
ling Facts tor American Protestants. He 
died Nov. 20, 1850, in Hartford, N. Y. 

NORTON, JAMES, educator, jurist, 
public official, was born Sept. 9, 1833, in 
Hiram, Ohio. He was the son of a car¬ 
penter, and was dis¬ 
abled by an accident 
in 1845. In 1851 he 
began school teach¬ 
ing at Hiram, Ohio, 
the same term as did 
James A. Garfield. 
After teaching 
school for several 
years he was elected 
county recorder of 
Portage county in 
1861; was re-elected 
and served six years 
in all, residing in the county seat of Ra¬ 
venna. In 1867 he returned to Garretts- 
ville, which has ever since been his home. 
He was one of the founders of a bank 
in Garrettsville, and was its cashier. He 
subsequently became superintendent of 
the Garrettsville schools; was mayor of 
his city two terms; has been a member 
of the board of education for seven terms 
of three years each; was clerk of the 
board for twenty 
years; and for many 
terms served wuh 
distinction as a jus¬ 
tice of the peace. 
His son, James Ed¬ 
gar, was born March 
18, 1866, in Ravenna, 
Ohio. In 1873 he 
commenced h i s 
course in the Gar¬ 
rettsville schools 
and completed the 
course when sixteen 
years old. The subject of his oration at 
graduation was The Heirs of the Ages; 
suggested by Tennyson’s Poets of Locks 
Hall. In 1884 he was examined by the 
county board of school examiners and re¬ 
ceived a certificate for three years. As 
he was hastening to his rooms in the 
Garfield House he slipped and fell against 
the east corner of the upper step, and 
died from his injuries on May 3, 1887. 


NORTON, JAMES, farmer, legislator, 
member of congress, was born Oct. 8, 
1843, in Marion county, S. C. He received 
the rudiments of his education in the com¬ 
mon schools, and graduated from the 
Crouchatow academy. In 1870-72 he was 
school commissioner of his native county; 
in 1886-87, and 1890-92 he served with 
distinction as a member of the South 
Carolina house of representatives; and in 
1894 was elected comptroller general of 
his state, receiving the re-election in 1896. 
In 1897 he resigned that position to serve 
in the fifty-fifth congress of the United 
States. He is a successful farmer of Mul¬ 
lins, S. C. 

NORTON, JAMES ALBERT, soldier, 
physician, lawyer, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 11, 1843, in Sen¬ 
eca county, Ohio. He served six years in 
the Ohio house of representatives from 
1873 to 1879; and was speaker pro tem¬ 
pore of that body for two years. He was 
appointed commissioner of railroads and 
telegraphs; and resigned to accept a posi¬ 
tion in railroad service. He was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

NORTON, JESSE 0., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born in 
Vermont. In 1847 he was a member of 
the Illinois state constitutional conven¬ 
tion; and was a member of the state leg¬ 
islature in 1851 and 1852. He was elected 
a representative from Illinois to the thir¬ 
ty-third and thirty-fourth congresses. In 
1857 he was elected judge of the eleventh 
judicial district of Illinois, holding the 
office until 1862. In 1863 he was again 
elected a representative in congress. 

NORTON, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born May 6, 1606, in England. He 
was a puritan clergyman who came to 
New England in 1635, and in 1653 suc¬ 
ceeded John Cotton. as teacher of the 
church at Boston. Among his writings 
are, The Heart of New England Rent at 
the Blasphemies of the Present Genera¬ 
tion; and Life of Mr. John Cotton. He 
died April 5, 1663, in Boston, Mass. 

NORTON, JOHN, clergyman, poet, was 
born in 1651, in Ipswich, Mass. He was 
a congregational clergyman, pastor of the 
church at Hingham in 1678-1716, and is 
remembered for his Elegy on Anne Brad- 
street, a poem of some force and merit. 
He died in 1716. 

NORTON, JOHN DUDLEY, lumber 
merchant, legislator, was born Dec. 18, 
1843, in \an Buren, N. Y. His early life 
was spent on a farm. 
Prior to entering 
college he attended 
the Eldridge acad¬ 
emy, and the Cort¬ 
land academy. In 

1867 he graduated 
from the Hamilton 
college of Clinton, 
N. Y. He then 
moved west and in 

1868 became largely 
interested in Michi¬ 
gan pine lands, and 

made Pontiac his home. In 1874 and io.6 
he was elected on the democratic ticket 
from Oakland county to the Michigan 
state legislature. In 1876 he was a dele¬ 
gate to the national democratic conven¬ 
tion; subsequently was a candidate for 
state treasurer; and always took an 
active part in political affairs. He was 
a charter member of the First National 
bank, now known as the First Commer¬ 
cial bank of Pontiac. From 1883 he was 
the treasurer of the Eastern Michigan 
Insane Asylum; and was a strong finan¬ 
cial supporter of the Michigan Military 
academy of Orchard Lake. He died March 
21, 1895. 



was elected to the 




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NORTON. JOHN NICHOLAS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1820, in Water¬ 
loo, N. Y. He was an episcopal clergyman 
of Louisville, among whose many works 
are, Lives of Bishops White, Seabury, 
Bowen, Freeman, Provost, Stewart, Wil¬ 
son, Claggett, Henshaw; Short Sermons 
for Families; The King’s Ferry Boat; and 
Lives of Washington, Franklin, Bishop 
Berkeley, Archbishop Cranmer. He died 
Jan. 18, 1881, in Louisville, Ky. 

NORTON, JOHN PITKIN, educator, 
chemist, was born July 19, 1822, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. He was made first professor 
of agricultural chemistry and of vege¬ 
table and animal physiology in Yale; and 
entered on the active duties of his chair 
in the autumn of 1847, and continued 
there until his death. He died Sept. 5, 
1852, in Farmington, Conn. 

NORTON, MRS. MINERVA [BRACE], 
author, was born in 1837 in New York. 
She is an educator of Beloit, Wis., and 
the author of In and Around Berlin; and 
Service in the King’s Gardens. 

NORTON, NELSON I., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
March 30, 1829, in Cattaraugus county, 
N. Y. He was appointed a justice of the 
peace; was six years a county assessor; 
and five years a county supervisor. He 
was elected to the New York state legis¬ 
lature in 1861; and was a presidential 
elector in 1872; and in 1875 was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy. 

NORTON, RICHARD HENRY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 6, 1849, in 
Troy, Mo. He has practiced law since 
1870 in Troy, Mo. He was elected to the 
fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a democrat. 

NORTON, S. F., journalist. He is one 
of the oldest and ablest editors in the 
west; and the founder of the Chicago 
Sentinel. 

NORTON, SIDNEY AUGUSTUS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 11, 1835, in 
Bloomfield, Ohio. He is a scientist who 
has been professor of chemistry in Ohio 
university from 1873; and is the author 
of Elements of Natural Philosophy; Ele¬ 
ments of Physics; Elements of Inorganic 
Chemistry; and Organic Chemistry. 

NORTON, THOMAS HERBERT, scien¬ 
tist, author, was born June 30, 1851, in 
Rushford, N. Y. During 1878-85 he was 
manager of chemical works in Paris, 
France; and since 1883 has filled the chair 
of chemistry in the university of Cin¬ 
cinnati. He is the author of numerous 
researches in chemistry. 

NORTON, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 25, 1810, in 
East Bloomfield, N. Y. He was a profes¬ 
sor of civil engineer¬ 
ing in Sheffield Sci¬ 
entific school, Yale 
university, from 
1852. He was the 
author of Elemen¬ 
tary Treatise on As¬ 
tronomy; and First 
Book of Natural 
Philosophy and As¬ 
tronomy. His con¬ 
tributions to current 
publications on sci¬ 
entific subjects were 
highly valued. He died Sept. 21, 1883, in 
New Haven, Conn. 

NORTON, WILLIAM HARMON, geol¬ 
ogist, author, was born April 3, 1856, in 
Willoughby, Ohio. He is now special as¬ 
sistant of the Iowa state geological sur¬ 
vey. He is the author of Artesian Wells 
of Iowa; and has written several scien¬ 
tific papers on geology and paleontology. 


NORVAL, THEOPHILUS L„ lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, was born Aug. 26, 
1847, in Fulton county, Ill. In 1879 he 
was elected to the Nebraska state senate. 
In 1883 he was appointed judge of the 
sixth judicial district to fill a vacancy, 
and filled that office continuously until 
elected in 1889 a judge of the supreme 
court. He has also held that office con¬ 
tinuously since, serving one term as chief 
justice; and was re-elected in 1895 for tne 
term expiring in 1902. 

NORVELL, JOHN, journalist, state sen¬ 
ator, was born in IV 90, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was the editor of a newspaper in 
Philadelphia; and was subsequently ap¬ 
pointed postmaster of Detroit, Mich. 
Having become identified with the terri¬ 
tory of Michigan, he became one of the 
senators in congress from the new state, 
serving in that capacity from 1835 to 1841. 
He died April 11, 18o0, in Detroit, Mich. 

NORWOOD, HAL L., lawyer, was born 
in 1871. He was admitted to the bar in 
1893, and has attained success as a rising 
lawyer of Lockesburg, Ark., and has filled 
several positions of honor. 

NORWOOD, THOMAS MANSON, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, congressman, 
was born April 26, 1830, in Talbot county, 
Ga. He studied law 
and was admitted to 
the bar in 1852. He 
moved to Savannah 
in 1852; and was a 
member of the Geor¬ 
gia legislature in 
1861 and 1862. He 
was a presidential 
elector in 1868; and 
was elected to the 
United States senate 
in 1871 for the term 
ending in 1877, serv¬ 
ing on the committees on pensions, trans¬ 
portation, land claims, and revolutionary 
claims. In 1884 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Georgia to the forty-ninth 
congress; and was re-elected to the fifti¬ 
eth congress as a democrat. 

NORWOOD, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
was born April 15, 1843, in Ireland. He 
emigrated with his parents to the United 
States in 1846; and received his education 
in Cincinnati and Eaton, Ohio. During 
1861-65 he served gallantly as a soldier 
in the union army, and is now a promi¬ 
nent lawyer of Pittsburg, Pa. 

NOTHOMB, HENRY ED, educator, 
poet, was born Oct. 10, 1865, near Rock¬ 
ford, Ill. He graduated in 1887 from the 
Iowa State normal 
school of Cedar 
Falls, with the de¬ 
grees of Bachelor of 
Science and Bach¬ 
elor of Didactics. He 
has attained success 
as an educator, and 
has been professor 
of rhetoric, litera¬ 
ture and oratory in 
the Iowa institutes 
and the schools of 
Illinois. He is the 
author of a number of meritorious 
poems which have appeared in Poets of 
America and other standard collections. 

NOTT, ABRAHAM, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1768, in Saybrook, 
Conn. In 1794 he settled on the Pacolet 
river, S. C., and continued the practice of 
his profession. He was a representative 
in congress from 1799 to 1801, when he 
was elected a judge of the court of ap¬ 
peals, and judge of the superior court. 
He died June 18, 1830, in Fairfield, S. C. 


NOTT, CHARLES COOPER, soldier,, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 16, 1827, in, 
Schenectady, N. Y. He served as a cap¬ 
tain of cavalry and also lieutenant-colonel 
and colonel of New York volunteers dur¬ 
ing the rebellion. In 1865 he was ap¬ 
pointed one of the judges of the court of 
claims in Washington. 

NOTT, EDWARD, governor, was born, 
in 1657. He was governor of Virginia 
from 1705 until his death. He died Aug. 
23, 1706, in Williamsburg, Va. 

NOTT, ELIPHALET, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born June 25,. 
1773, in Ashford, Conn. He was a pres- 
byterian clergyman 
of note; and presi¬ 
dent of Union col¬ 
lege in 1804-66, be¬ 
ing president for 
nearly sixty years. 
As a pulpit orator 
he will retain his 
celebrity by his ser¬ 
mon on the death of 
Alexander Hamil¬ 
ton. He was the au¬ 
thor of Counsels to- 
Young Men; and 
Lectures on Temperance. He died Jan- 
29, 1866, in Schenectady, N. Y. 

NOTT, JOSIAH CLARK, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born March 24, 1804, in Co¬ 
lumbia, S. C. He was a physician of Mo¬ 
bile, who wrote The Physical History of 
the Jewish Race, and was co-author witha 
Gliddon of the once famous Types of 
Mankind; and of Indigenous Races of the 
Earth. He died March 31, 1873, in Mobile, 
Ala. 

NOTT, SAMUEL, clergyman, educator,, 
was born Jan. 23, 1754, in Saybrook, Conn. 
In 1781 he became pastor of the congrega¬ 
tional church in Franklin, Conn., where 
he continued until his death, a period of 
seventy-one years. He died May 26, 1852,. 
in Franklin, Conn. 

NOTT, SAMUEL, missionary, author,, 
vas born Sept. 11, 1788, in Franklin, 
Conn. He was pastor successively of 
churches in Galway, N. Y., and Wareham, 
Mass., and established at the latter place 
in 1849 a private a’cademy, which he con¬ 
ducted successfully for seventeen years. 
His publications include Sixteen Years' 
Preaching and Procedure at Wareham; 
and Slavery and the Remedy. He died 
June 1, 1869, in Hartford, Conn. 

NOURSE, AMOS, physician, educator. 
United States senator, was born Dec. 17, 
1794, in Bolton, Mass. He was a medical 
lecturer at Bowdoin college from 1846 
to 1854; and medical professor since 1854. 
He was also postmaster of Hallowell, 
Maine; and collector of customs at Bath. 
He was a senator in congress from Maine 
from January to March in 1857. He died 
April 17, 1877, in Bath, Maine. 

NOURSE, JAMES DUNCAN, journalist, 
author, was born Sept. 26, 1817, in Bards- 
town, Ky. He was a journalist of St. 
Louis, ana the author of The Forest 
Knight, a novel; Leavenworth, a story of 
the Mississippi; and God in History. He 
died June 1, 1854, in St. Louis, Mo. 

NOURSE, JOSEPH, soldier, public of¬ 
ficial, was born July 16, 1754, in England. 
He entered the revolutionary army in 
1776, as secretary to General Charles Lee; 
was clerk and auditor of the board of war 
from 1777 until appointed assistant audi¬ 
tor-general in 1781; and was register of 
the United States treasury from 1789 to 
1829. He was a vice-president of the 
American Bible society. He died Sept. 1, 
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NOURSB, JOSEPH EVERETT, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born April 17, 1819, in 
Washington, D. C. He was a professor in 
the naval academy in 1850-81; and the 
author of Astronomical and Meteorolog¬ 
ical Observations; and American Explor¬ 
ations in the Ice Zones. 

NOVELL, WINSLOW A., journalist, 
manufacturer, public official, was born 
Jan. 31, 1840, in Portsmouth, N. H. He 
was an alderman of Milwaukee, Wis., in 
1872; commissioner of public works in 
1873-76; and postmaster of Milwaukee 
during 1889-93. For many years he has 
been chief clerk of tne assembly of the 
Wisconsin state legislature. 

NOVY, FREDERICK GEORGE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Dec. 9, 1864, in 
Chicago, Ill. He Alls the chair of hygiene 
and physiological chemistry in the uni¬ 
versity of Michigan. He is the author of 
works on bacteriology, physiological 
chemistry, and has contributed valuable 
papers to American and foreign journals. 

NOWLIN, SAMUEL HENRY, soldier, 
journalist, public official, was born April 
11, 1844, in Stewartsville, Va. At the age 
of seventeen he entered the confederate 
army, and served through the entire war. 
For three terms he was a mayor of Salem, 
Va., in which city he conducted a drug 
business for ten years. In 1877 he moved 
to Arkansas; was commissioner in charge 
of state exhibits made by Arkansas at the 
Louisville exposition of 1883; was general 
manager of the State exposition at Lit¬ 
tle Rock in 1887; and during 1884-88 he 
was state statistician for the United 
States department of agriculture. He was 
the founder of tne American Horticultural 
society in 1879-80; and during 1894-98 was 
president of the Arkansas State Horticul¬ 
tural society. In 1878-82 he edited Spirit 
of Arkansas; edited the Rural Southwest 
in 1882-85; edited the ATkansas Farmer 
in 1889-94; and since 1894 has been en¬ 
gaged in encyclopedic work. 

NOYES, ARTHUR AMES, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1865 in Massachusetts. 
He is a professor of chemistry in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
who has published a treatise on Qualita¬ 
tive Chemical Analysis. 

NOYES, CHARLES HENRY, lawyer, 
author, poet, was born in 1849 in Michi¬ 
gan. He is a lawyer and poet of Warren, 
Pa., who has published Studies in Verse. 

NOYES, CROSBY STUART, journal¬ 
ist, was born Feb. lo, 1825, in Minot, 
Maine. In 1867 he oecame editor-in-chief 
of the Washington. Star, wnich position 
he still fills. 

NOYES, EDWARD FOLLENSBEE, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born 
Oct. 3, 1832, in Haverhill, Mass. In 1861 
he entered the union army as major of the 
thirty-ninth regiment Onio volunteer in¬ 
fantry; and was subsequently brevetted 
a brigadier-general. In 1867 he was elect¬ 
ed probate judge of Hamilton county, 
Ohio, for a term of three years. In 1871 
he was elected governor of Ohio. In 1877 
he was appointed envoy extraordinary 
and minister plenipotentiary of the 
United States to j.> ranee. He died Sept. 
4, 1890, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

NOYES, GEORGE RAPALL, clergy¬ 
man. author, was born March 6, 1798, in 
Newburyport, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman, eminent as a biblical scholar, 
and professor of Hebrew in Harvard uni¬ 
versity since 1840. He published trans¬ 
lations with notes of the Psalms, Job, Ec¬ 
clesiastes, Canticles, the Prophets, and 
Proverbs; and a translation of the New 
Testament. He died June 3, 1868, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 


NOYES, HENRY DRURY, ophthalmol¬ 
ogist, author, was born in 1832 in New 
York. He is an ophthalmologist of New 
York city; and the author of Treatise on 
Diseases of the Eye; and Text Book on 
Diseases of the Eye. 

NOYES, JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1608, in England. He was a 
puritan clergyman of Newbury, Mass., 
pastor of the church there in 1635-56, and 
the author of The Temple Measured; and 
Moses and Aaron, or the Rights of Church 
and State. He died Oct. 22, 1656, in New¬ 
bury, Mass. 

NOYES, JAMES OSCAR, physician, 
journalist, author, was born June 14, 1829, 
in Niles, N. Y. He was a physician and 
journalist of New Orleans, and the author 
of Roumania; and The Gypsies: their 
History, Origin, and Manner of Life. He 
died Sept. 11, 1872, in New Orleans, La. 

NOYES, JOHN, congressman, was born 
in 1763. He was elected a representative 
in congress from Vermont from 1815 to 
1817. He died in 1841. 

NOYES, JOhN HUMPHREY, author, 
was born Sept. 6, 1811, in Brattleborough, 
Vt. He was a noted religionist who 
founded the Oneida community, and other 
associations of socialists. He was the 
author of The Second Coming of Christ; 
Salvation from Sin the End of Christian 
Faith; History of American Social¬ 
isms; and House Talks. He died April 
13, 1886, in Niagara Falls, Canada. 

NOYES, JOSEPH C., merchant, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1798, 
in Portland, Maine. He was a member 
of the state legislature in 1833; and a rep- 
resentauve in congress from Maine from 
*1837 to 1839. He was collector of the 
Passamaquoddy district from 1841 to 1843; 
and was subsequently treasurer of a Port¬ 
land savings bank. He died July 21, 1868, 
in Portland, Maine. 

NOYES, STEPHEN BUTTERICK, lib¬ 
rarian, was born Aug. 28, 1833, in Brook¬ 
field, Mass. In 1857 he was in charge of 
the Athenaeum library, out of which grew 
the Mercantile library, and subsequently 
the Brooklyn library. He was congres¬ 
sional librarian in Washington in 1866-68, 
but in the next year returned to his post 
at the Brooklyn library, where he labored 
for ten years in the preparation of its 
catalogue. He died March 8, 1885, in 
Deland, Fla. 

NOYES, WILLIAM ALBERT, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 6, 1857, in Inde¬ 
pendence, Iowa. He has filled the chair 
of chemistry in the university of Ten¬ 
nessee, and since 1896 in the Rose Poly¬ 
technic institute of Terre Haute, Ind. 
He is the author of a work entitled Quali¬ 
tative Analysis, and another entitled Or¬ 
ganic Chemistry for the Laboratory. 

NUCKOLLS, STEPHEN F., merchant, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Aug. 16, 1825, in Grayson county, Va. He 
was one of the founders of Nebraska 
City; and was a member of the legisla¬ 
ture in 1859. In 1860 he went to Colo¬ 
rado territory, and engaged in mining. 
From 1864 to 1867 he resided in New York 
city. He settled in Cheyenne, Wyoming 
territory, in 1867; and upon the organiza¬ 
tion of Wyoming territory in 1869 he was 
elected a delegate to the forty-first con¬ 
gress. 

NUCKOLLS, WILLIAM C., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in South Carolina. 
He was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1827 to 1833. 

NUGEN, ROBERT h., congressman, 
was born in 1809, in Wasnington county, 
Pa. In 1860 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Ohio to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. 


699’ 

NUNN, DAVID A., state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 26, 1832, in Hay¬ 
wood county, Tenn. In 1863 he was elect¬ 
ed to the Tennessee state senate; in 1865- 
to the state house of representatives; and 
was elected a representative from Tennes¬ 
see to the fortieth and forty-third con¬ 
gresses. 

NUNNALLY, GUSTAVUS ALONZO, 
college president, was born March 24, 
1841, in Walton county, kj &. From 1890- 
93 he was president of Mercer university. 

NUTE, ALONZO, soldier, manufacturer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Feb. 12, 1826, in Milton, N. H. In 1861 
he entered the union army in the sixth 
New Hampshire volunteers and served 
until incapacitated for duty on the staffs 
of Generals Griffin and Rush Hawkins. 
He was elected a member of tne New 
Hampshire house of representatives in 
1866; and of the state senate for 1867-68. 
He was elected to the fifty-first congress 
as a republican. 

NUTT, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 5, 1836, in Topsham, 
Vt. During the civil war he served with 
distinction and was rapidly promoted un¬ 
til he was brevetted colonel of volun¬ 
teers. During 1871-72 he served two 
terms in the general court of Massachu¬ 
setts. He was trial justice of Natick, 
Mass., for six years; and is now a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer of that city. He has filled 
all the important offices in his city and 
county in the gift of the people. 

NUTTALL, THOMAS, ornithologist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1786 in England. He 
was a noted ornithologist and botanist of 
English birth, whose life was mainly 
spent in the United States, but who re¬ 
turned to Englanu in 1842. He was the 
author of The Genera of North American 
Plants; Travels in Arkansas in 1819; The 
North American Sylva; Manual of the 
Ornithology of the United States and 
Canada. He died in 1859. 

NUTTING, NEWTON W., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1840, 
in Oswego county, N. Y. He was school 
commissioner for four years; was district 
attorney of Oswego county from 1869 to 
1872; and was county judge from Janu¬ 
ary, 1878, to March, 1883. He was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
forty-eighth congress; and was elected 
to the fiftieth congress as a republican. 

NYE, EDGAR WILSON, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 25, 1850, in Shirley, 
Maine. He was the author of Bill Nye- 
and the Boomerang; Forty Liars, and 
Other Lies; Baled Hay; Bill Nye’s Blos¬ 
som Rock; Remarks; Bill Nye’s Thinks; 
The Cadi, a comedy; Comic History of 
the United States; A Guest at the Ludlow, 
and Other Stories; and Comic History of 
England. He died in 1896. 

NYE, JAMES WARREN, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born June 10, 
1814, in De Ruyter, N. Y. In 1861 he was. 
appointed governor of Nevada territory, 
in which position he continued until the 
adoption of the state constitution, when 
he was chosen a senator in congress from 
the new state for the term commencing in 
1865 and ending in 1867. in 1867 he was 
re-elected to the senate for the term end¬ 
ing in 1873. He died Dec. 25, 1876, in 
White Plains, N. Y. 

NYE, MORTIMER, lawyer, lieutenant- 
governor, was horn Nov. 12, 1838, in 
Wadsworth, Ohio. He has gained promi¬ 
nence as an astute lawyer in La Porte, 
Ind., of which city he was mayor for 
four terms. In 1884 he was presidential 
elector; and four years ending January, 
1897, he served with distinction as lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of Indiana. 


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NYGREN, JOHN L., mechanic, was 
born Dec. 20, 1863, in Sweden. Hd is a 
successful mechanic of Tacoma, Wash.; 
and the inventor of various improvements 
in mechanics. 

NYSTROM, JOHN WILLIAM, civil en¬ 
gineer, author. He was an engineer in 
the United States navy, and the author 
of Treatise on Parabonc Construction of 
Ships; Technological Education; The 
Force of Falling Bodies; Treatise on the 
Elements of Mechanics; New Treatise on 
Steam Engineering; Pocket Book of Me¬ 
chanics and Engineering; Principles of 
Dynamics; and Treatise on Screw Pro¬ 
pellers. He died in 1885. 

OADAMS, T. S., clergyman, poet. He 
fills a pastorate in the congregational 
church of Maquoketa, Iowa; and is the 
author of a number of poems, some of 
which have been set to music. 

OAKES, JAMES, soldier, was born 
April 4, 1826, near Limestoneville, Pa. 
He was brevetted brigadier-general 
United States army in 1865, and commis¬ 
sioned colonel in 1866; and in 1879 was 
retired from active service. 

OAKES, THOMAS FLETCHER, rail¬ 
road president, was born July 16, 1843, in 
Boston, Mass. In 1893 he became presi¬ 
dent of the Northern Pacific railroad. 

OAKES, URIAN, clergyman, college 
president, poet, was born in 1631 in Eng¬ 
land. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man, pastor of the church in Cambridge, 
and president of Harvard college in 1675- 
81. He is chiefly remembered for his 
Elegy upon the Death of Tnomas Shep¬ 
ard, a notable poem in six-lined stanzas; 
but his sermons, in point of style, are the 
best which were written in America dur¬ 
ing the colonial period. He died July 25, 
1681, in Cambridge, Mass. 

OAKEY, ALEXANDER F., architect, 
author, was born in 1850 in New York. 
He is an architect of Buffalo, and the au¬ 
thor of Building a Home; Home Grounds; 
and The Art of Life and the Life of Art. 

OAKEY, EMILY SULLIVAN, educator, 
author, poet, was born Oct. 8, 1829, in 
Albany, N. Y. She was an educator of 
Albany, and the author of Dialogues and 
Conversations; and At the Foot of Par¬ 
nassus, a collection of poems. She died 
May 11, 1883, in Albany, N. Y. 

OAKLEY, HENRY AUGUSTUS, finan¬ 
cier, author, was born Sept. 20, 1827, in 
New York city. In 1851 he became secre¬ 
tary of the Howard fire insurance com¬ 
pany, of which he was subsequently 
chosen vice-president, and finally presi¬ 
dent, of New York city. He has been a 
frequent contributor to the literary press, 
and is the author of A Christmas Reverie, 
and Other Sketches; Outline of a Course 
of English Reading; Historical Sketch of 
the Howard Insurance Company; and Ad¬ 
dresses as President of the National 
Board of Fire Underwriters. 

OAKLEY, THOMAS JACKSON, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born in 1783, in 
Dutchess county, N. Y. In 1813 he was 
elected a representative in congress from 
New York, where he continued until 1815. 
He was elected a member of the assem¬ 
bly; was appointed attorney-general of 
the state of New York in 1819; and in 
1820 again served in the assenmly. In 
1827 he was again elected to congress. In 
1828, when the superior court of New 
York city was organized, he was appoint¬ 
ed one of its judges; and on the reorgan¬ 
ization of the court under the constitution 
of 1846, was elected the chief justice, and 
continued in that position until his death. 
He died May 11, 1857, in New York city. 


OAKMAN, WALTER GEORGE, railroad 
president, was born May 10, 1845, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He was president of the 
Richmond and Danville Railroad com¬ 
pany; and of the East Tennessee, Vir¬ 
ginia and Georgia Railroad company. 

OATES, ALICE, actress, singer, was 
born Sept. 22, 1849, in Nashville, Tenn. 
She has attained a national reputation 
as a noted actress and vocalist. She died 
Jan. 10, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

OATES, JAMES WYATT, lawyer, was 
born in January, 1850, in Alabama. He 
received his education in the Emory and 
Henry college, Va.; and is now a leading 
attorney of California at Santa Rosa. 
During 1876-77 he was major in the Ala¬ 
bama state troops. In 1879 he moved to 
California; and during 1885-90 was special 
United States attorney for California in 
charge of timber depredation suits in¬ 
volving nearly three million dollars. In 
1890 he was the democratic nominee for 
superior judge of Sonoma county. 

OATES, WILLIAM C., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, governor, 
was born Nov. 30, 1835, in Bullock county, 
Ala. He was a representative in the Ala¬ 
bama state legislature from 1870 to 1872; 
and was a member of the state consti¬ 
tutional convention of 1875. He was 
elected a representative from Alabama to 
the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty- 
ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty : second and 
fifty-third congresses as a democrat. In 
1894 he was elected governor of Alabama; 
and declined a second term. He now 
practices law in Montgomery, Ala. 

OBENCHAIN, WILLIAM ALEXAN¬ 
DER, college president, was born April 
27, 1841, in Buchanan, Va. In 1883 he* 
was chosen president of Ogden college of 
Bowling Green, Ky. 

OBER, FREDERICK ALBION, author, 
was born Feb. 13, 1849, in Beverly, Mass. 
He is a writer of Beverly, Mass., well 
known as a traveler, and the author of 
Camps in the Caribbees; Young Folks’ 
History of Mexico; The Silver City; 
Travels in Mexico; Mexican Resources 
and Guide to Mexico; Montezuma’s Gold 
Mines; The Knockabout Club in the An¬ 
tilles; The Knockabout Club in the Ever¬ 
glades; In the Wake of Columbus; and 
Josephine, Empress of the French. 

OBERHOLTZER, ELLIS PAXON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1868 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a Philadelphia journalist, 
and the author of The Referendum in 
America, a Discussion of Law-Making by 
Popular "Vote. 

OBERHOLTZER, SARA LOUISA, re¬ 
former, poet, was born May 20, 1841, in 
Chester county, Pa. She is the author 
of several volumes 
j of poetical works en¬ 
titled Violet Lee; 
Come for Arbutus, 
Hope’s Heart Bells: 
Daisies of Verse; 
Souvenir of Occa¬ 
sions; and other 
works; and has also 
contributed exten¬ 
sively to magazines 
and newspapers. She 
has been president 
of the Longport 
Agassiz Microscopical society; president 
of the Soldiers’ Aid society; president of 
the World’s and National Woman’s Chris¬ 
tian Temperance union; and superintend¬ 
ent of School Savings bank of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 

O’BLENESS, HAMILTON CREE, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born June 30, 1846, in 
Washington county, Ohio. He is the 
author of a number of works on philos¬ 
ophy and metaphysics. 


O’BRIEN, FITZ JAMES, journalist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1828 in Ireland. 
He was a brilliant but erratic journalist 
of New York city, and the author of 
Poems and Stories; The Diamond Lens, 
and Other Stories. He died April 6, 1862, 
in Cumberland, Md. 

O'BRIEN, FRANK P., journalist, was 
born Feb. 29, 1844, in Ireland. In 1887 he 
was president and general manager of the 
Birmingham Herald. He is director of 
the Southern Press association; and is 
owner of one of the finest theaters in the 
south, which bears his name. 

O'BRIEN, JAMES, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 13, 1841, in 
Ireland. He settled in New York city; 
was elected an alderman in 1864; and re¬ 
elected in 1866; and was elected sheriff in 
1867. He was elected state senator in 
1871; and was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-sixth con¬ 
gress. 

O'BRIEN, JAMES WILLIAM, mer¬ 
chant, poet, was born July 13, 1846, in 
Quebec, Canada. For many years he was 
a commercial traveler, and has a varied 
and adventurous career. He has con¬ 
tributed both prose and verse to the peri¬ 
odical press, and several of his poems 
have been incorporated into Poets of 
America and other standard works. 

O'BRIEN, JEREMIAH, farmer, mer¬ 
chant, state legislator, congressman, was 
born in 1768, in Machias, Maine. He 
served six years in the Maine legislature; 
and was a representative in congress from 
Maine from 1823 to 1831. He died May 
30, 1858, in Boston, Mass. 

O'BRIEN, JOHN, educator, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1841 in Ireland. He 
was a Roman catholic clergyman and ed¬ 
ucator, and professor of ecclesiastical his¬ 
tory and sacred ( theology in Mount St. 
Mary’s college, Emmittsburg, Md., in 
1877! He published, in 1879, A History of 
the Mass and its Ceremonies in the East¬ 
ern and Western Churches, which has 
since passed through fourteen editions. 
He died in 1879. 

O'BRIEN, MARTIN H„ lawyer, was 
born May 18, 1850, in Clinton county, 
N. Y. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the 
common schools; 
attended the Notre 
Dame academy of 
Indiana; and was 
admitted to practice 
law in New York in 
1874. He has since 
attained prominence 
as an able lawyer of 
Plattsburg, N. Y.; 
and has an extensive 
practice in the state 
and federal courts. 
He takes an active part in the public af¬ 
fairs of his city, county and state, and 
is a prominent member of various fra¬ 
ternal orders. 

O'BRIEN, THOMAS DILLON, lawyer, 
was born Feb. 14, 1859, in La Point, Wis. 
Since 1880 he has been actively engaged 
in the profession of law in St. Paul; 
Minn.; has been ass.si.ant city attorney 
of St. Paul, and county attorney oi Ram¬ 
sey county. He has been state president 
of the Catholic Total Abstinence societies 
of Minnesota; captain of the first battery 
artillery, Minnesota national guards; and 
a trustee of the state board of hospitals 
for insane. 

O'BRIEN, WILLIAM J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 28, 1836, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. He was elected from Mary¬ 
land to the forty-tnird and forty-fourth 
congresses as a democrat. 





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O'BRIEN, WILLIAM SHONEY, capital¬ 
ist, was born in 1825 in Ireland. He was 
one of the four principal stockholders of 
the mine on the Comstock ledge in Ne¬ 
vada, called the Big Bonanza, which was 
discovered in 1874. He left a fortune of 
from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. He died 
May 2, 1878, in San Rafael, Cal. 

O’CALLAGHAN, EDMUND BAILEY, 
physician, journalist, author, was born 
Feb. 29, 1797, in Ireland. He was an his¬ 
torical writer of Albany, and subsequent¬ 
ly of New York city, and the author of 
History of New Netherlands; and Jesuit 
Relations; Documentary History of New 
York. He edited many volumes of state 
and colonial records. He died May 27, 
1880, in New York city. 

OCHILTREE, THOMAS P„ soldier, 
congressman, was born in 1837 in Texas. 
He was appointed United States marshal 
in his native state; and was for a time 
state commissioner of emigration, to visit 
Europe. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Texas to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress. 

OCHILTREE, WILLIAM B., lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1811 in North Caro¬ 
lina. In 1846 he was appointed the first 
district judge of Texas; in 1855-56 he was 
a representative in the legislature; and in 
1861 was a member of the first confeder¬ 
ate congress. He died in December, 1867, 
in Marshall, Texas. 

OCHS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Oct. 27, 1861, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. In 1896 he became publisher 
and manager of the Chattanooga Daily 
Times. For three years he was president 
of the police commissioners. In 1893 he 
was elected mayor of his city and received 
the re-election two years later. 

OCHTMAN, LEONARD, artist, was 
born Oct. 21, 1854, in Holland. He has 
attained a national reputation as a suc¬ 
cessful artist; and has erected a studio in 
Connecticut, where he spends his sum¬ 
mers. 

O’CONNELL, DANIEL J., poet. He is 
a writer of Owatonna, Minn.; and the 
author of a number of poems. 

O'CONNELL, JEREMIAH JOSEPH, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 21, 
1821, in Ireland. He is a Roman catholic 
priest of the Benedictine order in North 
Carolina; and the author of Catholicity 
in the Carolinas and Georgia; and Confer¬ 
ences on the Blessed Trinity. 

O’CONNOR, JAMES, educator, college 
president, bishop, was born Sept. 10, 1823, 
in Ireland. He was made president of St. 
Michael’s seminary of Glenwood in 1857. 
He ■ was transferred to the seminary at 
Overbrook in 1863, where, wnile acting as 
director, he filled the chairs of philos¬ 
ophy, moral theology, and ecclesiastical 
history. He was nominated vicar-apos¬ 
tolic of Nebraska, and consecrated bishop 
of Dibona in partibus infidelium in 1876. 
He died May 27, 1890, in Omaha, Neb. 

O’CONNOR, JOSEPH, journalist, poet, 
was born in 1841 in New York. He is 
a journalist of Rochester, N. Y., whose 
collected Poems appeared in 1895. 

O’CONNOR, M. P., lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Sept. 29, 
1831, in Beaufort, S. C. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the legislature of South Caro¬ 
lina from 1858 to 1865; and was elected a 
representative from South Carolina to the 
forty-sixth congress as a democrat. He 
died April 26, 1881. 

O’CONNOR, THOMAS WILLIAM, edu¬ 
cator, state senator, was born July 4,1868, 
in White county, ind. He is a success¬ 
ful educator; has filled numerous public 
offices of trust; and is now serving a term 
of four years as a member of the Indiana 
state senate. 


O’CONNOR, WILLIAM DOUGLAS, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 2, 1833, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a clerk in the civil service 
at Washington, and the author of Har¬ 
rington, a novel; The Good Gray Poet, a 
defence of Walt Whitman; The Ghost; 
Three Tales; and Hamlet’s Note Book. 
He died May 9, 1889, in Washington, D. C. 

O’CONOR, CHARLES, lawyer, was 
born Jan. 22, 1804, in New York city. In 
1848 he was a candidate for lieutenant- 
governor of New York; and after the civil 
war was senior counsel for Jefferson 
Davis, when the latter was indicted for 
treason. He was undoubtedly the great¬ 
est lawyer of his time. He died May 12, 
1884, in Nantucket, R. I. 

O’CONOR, JOHN FRANCIS XAVIER, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
Aug. 1, 1852, in New York city. He is a 
Roman catholic clergyman of the Society 
of Jesus; a professor in Boston college; 
and the author of Something Real; Lyric 
and Dramatic Poetry; and Reading and 
the Mind. 

O’CONOR, THOMAS, journalist, author, 
was born Sept. 1, 1770, in Ireland. He 
established in 1812 the Shamrock, and the 
Globe, founded in 181a in New York city. 
He also published several pamphlets on 
Irish or Roman catnolic questions, and 
volumes entitled Selections from Several 
Literary Works. He died Feb. 9, 1855, in 
New York city. 

ODELL, JACOB, soldier, was born July 
25, 1756, in Greenburg, N. Y. He was a 
brigadier-general in the continental army 
during the war of the revolution, and 
afterward a member of the New York 
state assembly, representing Westchester 
county in 1812-13; and a member of the 
presidential electoral college in 1820 and 
1828. He died in 1846, in Yonkers, N. Y. 

ODELL, BENJAMIN B., business man, 
congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1854, in 
Newburg, N. Y. He was elected from 
New York to the fifty-fourth, and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

O’DELL, JOSEPH C., farmer, clergy¬ 
man, jurist, state legislator, was born Nov. 
10, 1850, in Reynolds county, Mo. He is a 
successful farmer and a noted clergyman 
of Ruble, Mo. He has served two terms 
as county judge; and has been a member 
of the Missouri state legislature. 

ODELL, MOSES FOWLER, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 24, 1818, in Tarry- 
town, N. Y. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from New York to the thirty-sev¬ 
enth congress; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-eighth congress. In 1865 he was 
appointed naval agent for the port of 
New York. He died June 13, 1866, in New 
York city. 

ODELi^, N. HOLMES, banker, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 
10, 1828, near Tarrytown, N. Y. He was 
a member of the New York assembly dur¬ 
ing two successive sessions, closing in 
1861. He was founder of the First Na¬ 
tional bank at Tarrytown, and was its 
first cashier, which office he resigned in 
1864. He was elected county treasurer 
in 1866, and re-elected in 1869 and 1872. 
In 1874 he was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

ODENHEIMER, WILLIAM HENRY, 
bishop, author, was born Aug. 11, 1817, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the third 
protestant episcopal bishop of New Jer¬ 
sey in 1859-74, becoming bishop of North¬ 
ern New Jersey in the latter year. He 
was the author of Origin of the Prayer 
Book; Essay on Canon Law; The Sacred 
Scriptures the Imperial Record of the 
Holy Trinity; Jerusalem and Its Vicin¬ 


ity; The Devout Churchman’s Compan¬ 
ion; The True Catholic no Romanist; 
Thoughts on Immersion; Bishop White’s 
Opinions; and Sermons, with Memoirs. 
He died Aug. 14, 1879, in Burlington, N. J. 

ODIN, JOHN MARY, archbishop, was 
born Feb. 25, 1801, in France. In 1822 he 
was sent on a mission to Missouri; taught 
in Missouri and Texas; and was an ener¬ 
getic promoter of emigration. He became 
an archbishop in Texas of the Roman 
catholic church. He died May 25, 1870, in 
France. 

ODIORNE, THOMAS, manufacturer, 
author, was born April 26, 1769, in Exeter, 
N. H. He was an iron manufacturer of 
Malden, Mass., and the author of The 
Progress of Refinement, a Poem; and 
Fame and Miscellanies. He died May 18, 
1851, in Malden, Mass. 

O'DONNELL, DANIEL KANE, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1838, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia journal¬ 
ist who published The Song of Iron and 
the Song of Slaves, with Other Poems. 
He died Sept. 8, 1871, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

O’DONNELL, JAMES, soldier, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born March 25, 
1840, in Norwalk, Conn. In 186x he en¬ 
listed in the first Michigan infantry, and 
served out his time, participating in the 
first battle of Bull Run. He was recorder 
of the city of Jackson, Mich., in 1863-66. 
He established the Jackson Daily Citizen 
in 1865; and continued its owner and ed¬ 
itor. He was presidential elector in 1872, 
and was designated by the state electoral 
college as messenger to convey the vote 
of Michigan to vfashington. He was 
elected mayor of Jackson in 1876, and in 
1884 he was elected a representative from 
Michigan to the forty-ninth congress; 
and was re-elected to the fiftieth, fifty- 
first and fifty-second congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

O’DONNELL. JESSIE FREMONT, au¬ 
thor, was born in New York. She is a 
writer of Lowville, N. Y., and the author 
of Heart Lyrics; and Horseback Sketches. 

O’FERRALL, CHARLES TRIPLETT, 
lawyer, legislator, congressman, governor, 
was born Oct. 21, 1840, near Brucetown, 
Va. He received his 
education in the 
common schools, 
and Washington col¬ 
lege, now known as 
the Washington and 
Lee university. In 
1861 he enlisted in 
the cavalry service 
of the confederate 
state as a private; 
passed through all 
the grades from ser¬ 
geant to colonel, and 
at the surrender of Lee was in command 
of all the confederate cavalry in the Shen¬ 
andoah valley, and was eight times 
wounded. He located at Harrisonburgh, 
where he commenced the practice of his 
profession. He was a member of the gen¬ 
eral assembly of Virginia in 1871-73; 
judge of the county court of Rockingham 
county in 1874-80; and democratic state 
canvasser in 1880-83. In 1882 he was the 
democratic nominee for congress in the 
seventh district; and was elected to the 
forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses, and was re-elected to the fifty- 
second congress as a democrat. 

OFFICIER, MORRIS, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born July 21, 1823, in Holmes 
county, Ohio. He was a lutheran mis¬ 
sionary, and the author of Plea for a 
Lutheran Mission in Africa; Western 
Africa a Mission Field; and African Bible 
Pictures. He died Nov. 1, 1874, in To 
peka, Kan. 



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OGDEN, AARON, soldier, governor, 
United States senator, was born Dec. 3, 
1756, in Elizabethtown, N. J. He was a 
senator in congress from 1801 to 1803; 
and was governor of New Jersey in 1812. 
At the time of his ueath he was president- 
general of the Society of Cincinnati. He 
died April 19, 1830, in Jersey City, N. J. 

OGDEN, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, was 
born about 1707, in Newark, N. J. He 
went to England in 1783 as agent for the 
New Jersey loyalists in prosecuting their 
claims for compensation, and secured an 
allowance for his own estates, which were 
valued at $100,000. He died in June, 1800, 
in Whitestone, N. J. 

OGDEN, DAVID A., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in Morris¬ 
town, N. J. He was a member of the as¬ 
sembly in 1814 and 1815; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1817 to 1819. He died June 9, 1829, 
in Montreal, Canada. 

OGDEN, ELIAS BAILEY DAYTON, 
lawyer, jurist, was born May 22, 1799, in 
Elizabethtown, N. J. In 1848 he became 
associate justice of the supreme court of 
New Jersey. He died Feb. 24, 1865, in 
Elizabethtown, N. J. 

OGDEN, HENRY W., soldier, agricul¬ 
turist, congressman, was born Oct. 21, 
1842, in Abingdon, Va. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the constitutional convention in 
1879, and of the stale house of representa¬ 
tives in 1880; and re-elected in 1884, and 
was speaker of the house from 1884 to 
1888. He was elected as a democrat from 
Louisiana to the fifty-third congress, to 
fill a vacancy; anu was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a 
democrat. 

OGDEN, JOHN COSENS, clergyman, 
author, was born about 1740, in New Jer¬ 
sey. He was a successful clergyman of 
New England; and the author of A His¬ 
tory of the Moravians; and several relig¬ 
ious works. He died in 1800 in Chester- 
town, Md. 

OGDEN, MATTHIAS, soldier, was born 
Oct. 22, 1754, in Elizabethtown, N. J. At 
the close of the war he receivea the brevet 
. of brigadier-general, to date from Sept. 
20, 1783. He was a member of the legis¬ 
lative council in 1785, and in 1789 a 
presidential elector. He died March 31, 
1791, in Elizabethtown, N. J. 

OGDEN, OCTAVIUS NASH, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 14, 1852, in New Or¬ 
leans, La. His father was Abner Nash 
Ogden, one of the 
justices of the su¬ 
preme court of Loui¬ 
siana, and a grand¬ 
son of Abner Nash, 
the first governor of 
North Carolina. He 
received his early ed¬ 
ucation in New Or¬ 
leans, and finished 
his studies at the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia. 
He was admitted to 
the bar in 1873, and 
has attained success in his profession at 
New Orleans. He is the author of Hali- 
mah, an Indian Legend; Dominic You; and 
other works, and has contributed exten¬ 
sively to current literature. 

OGDEN, ROBERT, congressman, was 
born Oct. 16, 1716, in Elizabethtown, N. J. 
He was a delegate from New Jersey to the 
colonial congress, which met in New York 
in 1765. He died Jan. 1, 1787, in Sparta, 
N. J. 

OGDEN, ROBERT NASH, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, author, was born May 5, 1839, in 
Baton Rouge, La. He served with dis¬ 
tinction in the confederate army. For a 


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while he was speaker of the house of 
representatives, and subsequently became 
one of the judges of the court of appeals 
of New Orleans. He is the author of a 
novel entitled Who Did It? 

OGDEN, WESLEY, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Dec. 16, 1818, in Brockport, N. Y. 
He settled in San Antonio, Texas. Dur¬ 
ing 1865-67 he held the office of district 
attorney, and then was district judge until 
1870, when he became a judge of the state 
supreme court. 

OGIER, ISAAC S. K., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in South Carolina. He was an early 
emigrant to California, and resided at - 
Los Angeles. In 1858 he was appointed 
judge of the United States court for the 
southern district of California. 

OGILBY, JOHN DAVID, clergyman edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Dec. 30, 1810, in 
Ireland. He was ordained both deacon 
and priest by Bishop Onderdonk, of New 
York, in 1838. Three years later he was 
elected professor of ecclesiastical history 
in the General Theological seminary. His 
chief publications were: An Outline of 
the Argument Against the Validity of 
Lay Baptism; and The Catholic Church 
in England and America. He died Feb. 
2, 1851, in Paris, France. 

OGILVIE, CLINTON, artist, was born 
Dec. 28, 1838, in New York city. In 1864 
he was elected an associate member of 
the National Academy of design, and he 
has since exhibited there The Valley of 
Schwytz, Switzerland; Lake Como, near 
Bellagio; Among the Adirondacks; The 
Sunny Summer-Time; Summer Afternoon 
in the Adirondacks; and The Mountain 
Brook. 

OGLE, ALEXANDER, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1765 in Mary¬ 
land. In 1806 he was elected to the state 
legislature, and frequently re-elected. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1817 to 1819, and sub¬ 
sequently served several years in the two 
houses of the state legislature. He was 
a general of militia, and for nine years 
was prothonotary of his county. He died 
Oct. 14, 1852, in Pennsylvania. 

OGLE, ANDREW J., congressman, was 
born in 1822, in Somerset, Pa. He was 
prothonotary of his county when twenty- 
one years of age. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1849 to 1851. He was appointed charge 
d’affaires to Denmark in 1852. He died 
about 1853, 

OGLE, BENJAMIN, state legislator, 
governor, was born Feb. 7, 1746, in Anna¬ 
polis, Md. He was a member of the coun¬ 
cil of Maryland before the revolution, and 
was governor from 1798 to 1801. He died 
July 6, 1809, in Annapolis, Md. 

OGLE, CHARLES, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1798 in Somerset, Pa. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1841. He died 
May 10, 1841. 

OGLE, SAMUEL, governor, was born in 
England. He was governor of Maryland 
during 1737-42, and again in 1747. 

OGLESBY, RICHARD JAMES, soldier, 
lawyer, governor, United States senator, 
was born July 25, 1824, in Oldham county, 
Ky. He was elected to the Illinois state 
senate in 1860, and resigned to enter the 
volunteer service in 1861. At the com¬ 
mencement of the rebellion he was chosen 
colonel; afterward appointed brigadier- 
general; and in 1863 a major-general. He 
resigned in 1864, and was elected govern¬ 
or of Illinois. He was again elected gov¬ 
ernor in 1872, and a few months there¬ 
after was elected to the United States 
senate for the term ending in 1879. In 
1884 he was again elected governor of Illi¬ 
nois for a term of four years. 


BIOGRAPHY. 

O'GORMAN, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, 
was born April 8, 1847, in Boston, Mass. 
He received the rudiments of his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools of St. Paul, 
Minn., and attended the Washington uni¬ 
versity of St. Louis, Mo. He served two 
years as sheriff of Ramsey county, Minn., 
and for six years was judge of probate. He 
is one of the leading lawyers of the west 
at St. Paul, Minn. 

O HARA, JAMES E., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 26, 1844, in New York 
city. He was elected a representative 
from North Carolina to the forty-eighth 
and forty-ninth congresses. 

O’HARA, THEODORE, soldier, author, 
was born Feb. 11, 1820, in Danville, Ky. 
He was an officer in the United States 
army during the Mexican war, and subse¬ 
quently in the confederate army. He is 
remembered for his poem, The Bivouac of 
the Dead, stanzas from which have been 
inscribed on tablets in several of the na¬ 
tional cemeteries. He died June 6, 1867, 
near Guerrytown, Ala. 

O'HARA, WARREN JOSEPH, phj'si- 
cian, was born Sept. 13, 1867, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He attended the public 
schools of Philadel¬ 
phia, Mount Pleasant 
high school, the In¬ 
ternational Commer¬ 
cial college of Sagi¬ 
naw, Mich., and sub¬ 
sequently graduated 
in medicine from the 
Rush Medical college 
of Chicago. He is 
physician to the Mer¬ 
cy hospital of Big 
Rapids, Mich., and is 
a member of the 
leading medical bodies. His contributions 
to medical journals are considered of 
great value. 

O'HARA, WILLIAM, Roman catholic 
bishop, was born about 1816 in Ireland. 
In 1868 the diocese of Scranton was 
formed out of that of Philadelphia, and 
he was appointed its first bishop. 

O’HARNETT, MORRISON J., soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was 
born June 27, 1828, in Carlyle, Ill. He 
served as a soldier in the Mexican war, 
and during the civil war was captain of 
company D, fifteenth Illinois cavalry. He 
has been judge of his county, and has 
served as a member of the Illinois state 
legislature. 

Olif.IGER, LEWIS P., business man, 
congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1843, in 
Bavaria. He was appointed a trustee of 
the Wooster and Lodi railway, of which 
he is now president. He was elected from 
Ohio to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat to fill a vacancy. 

O’KEEFE, JOHN FRANCIS, educator, 
lawyer, was born Dec. 28, 1860, in Wilson, 
N. Y. He attended the Wilson academy 
and the Mount Union college, Ohio, and 
for several years taught school. He was 
admitted to practice in the supreme court 
of Michigan and the federal courts of the 
United States. He makes a specialty of 
corporation law, and is the general coun¬ 
sel for the Saginaw and Bay City Rapid 
Transit Railway company. 

OLCOTT, SIMEON, lawyer, jurist, Unit¬ 
ed States senator, was born Oct. 1, 1735, in 
Connecticut. In 1784 he was appointed 
chief justice of the court of common pleas 
of New Hampshire; in 1790 a judge of the 
superior court; chief judge of the same 
court in 1795; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from New Hampshire from 1801 to 
1805. He died Feb. 22, 1815, in Charles¬ 
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OLDEN, CHARLES SMITH, merchant, 
manufacturer, state senator, governor was 
horn Feb. 19, 1799, in Princeton, N. J, 
Between the years 1844 and 1850 he was 
twice elected to the state senate, and in 
1859 was elected governor of New Jersey 
■He died April 7, 1876, in Princeton, N. J. 

OLDHaM, HERBERT, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born March 1, 1853, in Ireland. 
He is the author of a number of composi¬ 
tions for the voice, pianoforte and the 
■organ. 

OLDHAM, WILLIAMSON S., lawyer, 
orator, author, was born June 19, 1813, in 
Franklin county, Tenn. This brilliant 
■orator and author was a member of the 
Texas-Arkansas house of representatives 
in 1841, and was elected speaker of that 
body. During 1844-48 h e was judge of the 
supreme court of Arkansas. He was a 
member of the secession convention ot 
Texas, and a senator from that state in 
the confederate states senate during 1861- 
'65. He is the author of a Digest of the 
Laws of Texas, published in 1858. 

OLDS, EDSON B., state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Vermont. He was 
a representative in congress from Ohio 
from 1849 to 1855. He was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the assembly of Ohio, having pre¬ 
viously served six years in the state legis¬ 
lature, and been speaker of the senate. He 
•died Jan. 24, 1869, in Lancaster, Ohio. 

OLDS, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, was 
born April 15, 1832, in Circleville, Ohio, 
in 1868 he was elected judge of the judi¬ 
cial district of Ohio, resigning in 1873. 

OLIN, ABRAHAM B., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1808 in Shafts- 
bury, Vt. He was for three years recorder 
of the city of Troy, N. Y. He was elected 
a representative to the thirty-fifth con¬ 
gress from New York. He was re-elected to 
the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh con¬ 
gresses; and in 1863 was appointed a judge 
of the supreme court of the District of 
Columbia. He died July 7, 1879, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

OLIN, GIDEON, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born about 
1750 in Rhode Island. He was a member 
of the Vermont state legislature and 
speaker of the house; a judge of the coun¬ 
ty court, and a representative in congress 
from 1803 to 1807. He died Aug. 6, 1822, 
in Shaftsbury, Vt. 

OLIN, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1767 
in Rhode Island. He was elected to the 
general assembly of Rhode Island in 1799, 
and, excepting four years, continued to 
serve in that capacity until 1825. He was 
•an associate judge of the Addison county 
court from 1801 to 1806; and was chief 
judge of said court in 1807, and from 
1810 to 1824. He was chosen a representa¬ 
tive in congress to fill a vacancy in 1824. 
and was also, at one time, lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of the state. He died in 1837 in 
Salisbury, Vt. 

OLIN, MRS. JULIA MATILDA 
(LYNCH), author, was born Dec. 14, 1814, 
in New York city. She was the author of 
Words of the Wise; Four Days in July; 
Curious and Useful Questions on the 
Bible; and The Perfect Light. She died 
May 1, 1879, in New York city. 

OLIN, STEPHEN, educator, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born 
March 2, 1797, in Leicester, Vt. He was 
a meinodist clergyman and educator; 
president of Wesleyan university in 1842, 
and the author of Travels in Egypt, Ara¬ 
bia Petraea, and the Holy Land; Greece 
and the Golden Horn; College Life, Its 
Theory and Practice; and Youthful Piety. 
He died Aug. 16, 1851, in Middletown, 
Conn. 


OLIPHANT, E. P., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed 
from that state an associate justice of 
the United States court for the territory 
of Washington, residing at Whatcomb. 

OLIPHANT, LAWRENCE, author, was 
born in 1829 in Ceylon. He is the author 
of a number of works, and, with his wife, 
wrote the peculiar and almost incompre¬ 
hensible book, entitled Sympneumata. He 
died Dec. 23, 1888, in England. 

OLIVER, ADDISON, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1833 
in Washington county, Pa. He settled in 
western Iowa in 1857; was elected to the 
Iowa house of representatives in 1863; and 
to the Iowa senate in 1865. He was elect¬ 
ed judge of the fourth judicial circuit in 
1868, and twice re-elected to the same 
office, which he continued to hold until 
elected a representative from Iowa to the 
forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses. 

OLIVER, ALICE MAY, educator, poet, 
was born in Lakeland, Minn. She is 
known as the Prairie Poet, and resides In 
Luverne, Minn. She is a successful school 
teacher and the author of a volume of 
poems entitled Fragments of Thought. 

OLIVER, ANDREW, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 13, 1731, in Boston, 
Mass. He represented Salem in the gen¬ 
eral court in 1766; and before the revo¬ 
lution was judge of the Essex county court 
of common pleas. He published an Essay 
on Comets, in which he maintained that 
they were habitable worlds. He died in 
December, 1799, in Salem, Mass. 


OLIVER, ANDREW, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in Springfield, N. 
Y. He was appointed to succeed his 
father as first judge of the court of com¬ 
mon pleas of New York in 1843, which 
position he held until the adoption of the 
new state constitution. In 1846 he was 
elected judge of the Surrogate and county 
courts. In 1852 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative to the thirty-third congress, and 
was re-elected to the thirty-fourth con¬ 
gress. 


OLIVER, BENJAMIN LYNDE, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1788, in Marblehead, 
Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston, and 
the author of Hints on the Pursuit of Hap¬ 
piness; Rights of an American Citizen; 
Law Summary; Practical Conveyancing; 
Forms of Practice; and Forms of Chan¬ 
cery. He died in 1843. 

OLIVER, DAVID DYKINS, surveyor, 
lumberman, was born Aug. 8, 1814, in 
Green county, N. Y. He taught school 
and continued his studies at the same 
time. He subsequently taught in Pontiac, 
Mich., and became a land surveyor. In 
1844 he began a mercantile career, and 
five years later purchased the first saw 
mill erected in Alpena county. For ted 
years he was on the board of supervisors, 
and in 1857 was elected county surveyor, 
which position he filled for twelve years. 
He was also judge of probate. He is the 
author of Water, Its Formation and Ef¬ 
fect Geologically Considered; and has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature. 

OLIVER, FITCH EDWARD, physician, 
journalist, author, was born Nov. 25, 1819, 
in Cambridge, Mass. In 1860 he assumed 
the editorship of the Boston Medical and 
Surgical Journal in Massachusetts. He 
was one of the translators of Chomel’s 
Treatise on General Pathology, and pub¬ 
lished the Lynde Diaries. 

OLIVER, MRS. GRACE ATKINSON 
(LITTLE) (ELLIS), litterateur, author, 
poet, was born Sept. 24, 1844, in Boston, 
Mass. She is a litterateur of Salem, Mass., 
and the author of Lives of Mrs. Barbauld, 
Maria Edgeworth, Theodore Parker, Dean 


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Stanley. She has edited Tales of Maria 
Edgeworth; Essays of Mrs. Barbauld; and 
Tales and Poems of Ann and Jane Taylor. 

OLIVER, JAMES, inventor, was born 
Aug. 28, 1823, in Scotland. He moved to 
South Bend in 1855 and began to manu¬ 
facture plows. He met with some losses, 
much hard work, and many discourage¬ 
ments, but finally invented the chilled 
plow, which has since made his fortune. 
1 he little old shop of 1855 has now been 
succeeded by a plant owned by the Oliver 
Chilled Plow Works, covering fifty-eight 
acres, twenty-five of them under roof, 
and the Oliver chilled plows are sold in 
every part of the world. 

OLIVER, JAMES EDWARD, educator, 
author, mathematician, was born July 27, 

1829, in Portland, Maine. In 1871 he be¬ 
came assistant professor of mathematics 
at Cornell, and two years later he was 
given full possession of the chair. He has 
published A Treatise on Trigonometry. 

OLIVER, MRS. MARTHA (CAPPS), au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1845 in Illinois. 
She is a writer of Jacksonville, Ill. Her 
writings in poetry for juvenile readers 
comprise, The Story of Columbus- In 
Slavery Days; and The Far West. 

OLIVER, MORDECAI, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 22, 1819, in An¬ 
derson county, Ky. He was elected circuit 
attorney for the fifth judicial circuit of 
Missouri in 1848. In 1852 he was elected a 
member of the thirty-third congress, and 
re-elected to the thirty-fourth congress. 

OLIVER, PAUL AMBROSE, soldier, 
manufacturer, inventor, was born July 18, 

1830, on shipboard in the English channel. 
In 1870 he established a powder factory 
near Wilkesbarre, Pa., where he has since 
been engaged in the manufacture of ex¬ 
plosives, using for that purpose machinery 
of his own invention. He has invented a 
bayonet-fastening and a screw-headed 
key. 

OLIVER, PETER, lawyer, jurist, was 
born March 26, 1713, in Boston. Mass. He 
was made a justice of the supreme court 
of Massachusetts in 1756, and in 1771 be¬ 
came chief justice. He was also one of 
the mandamus councillors. He died Oct. 
13, 1791, in England. 

OLIVER, PETER, lawyer, author, was 
born in 1822 in Hanover, N. H. He was 
a lawyer of Boston whose Puritan Com¬ 
monwealth, an historical review of the 
Puritan government of Massachusetts, pre¬ 
sents a not altogether favorable picture of 
the period under discussion. He died in 
1855 at sea. 

OLIVER, ROBERT, soldier, was born 
in 1738 in Boston, Mass. For some time 
he acted as adjutant-general of the north¬ 
ern army, and excelled as a disciplinarian. 
In 1782 he received the brevet of colonel. 
He was one of the first settlers of Mariet¬ 
ta, Ohio, in 1788, was chosen a representa¬ 
tive in the territorial legislature in 1798, 
became a member of the council in 1799. 
He died in May, 1810, in Marietta, Ohio. 

OLIVER, WILLIAM M., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
Springfield, N. Y. He was for a long time 
first judge of the court of common pleas; 
was a state senator and lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor in 1830, and a representative fiom 
New York in the twenty-seventh congress. 

OLLENDORP, CHRISTIAN GEORGE 
ANDREAS, missionary, author, was born 
March 8, 1721, in Saxony. He was a 
Moravian missionary; and the author of a 
work entitled History of the Missions of 
the Brethren on the Caribbean Islands, 
St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John. He 
died March 9, 1787. 


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OLMSTED, ALEXANDER FISHER, 
educator, author, was born Dec. 20, 1822, 
in Chapel Hill, N. C. He was a professor 
of chemistry in the university of North 
Carolina who published Elements of Che¬ 
mistry. He died May 5, 1853, in New 
Haven, Conn. 

OLMSTED, DENISON, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born June 18, 1791, in East 
Hartford, Conn. He was a scientist who 
was professor of natural philosophy at 
Yale college in 1825, and the author of 
Letters on Astronomy; Compendium of 
Natural Philosophy; Students’ Common¬ 
place Book; and Introduction to Natural 
Philosophy. He died May 13, 1859, in 
New Haven, Conn. 

OLMSTED, EDWIN B., educator, cler¬ 
gyman, inventor, was born Aug. 20, 1826, 
in Sidney, N. Y. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Franklin institute. New York. 
He has been superintendent of schools of 
Akron, Ohio, and several other places, 
north and south; has been pastor of Ar¬ 
cade, N. Y., and other baptist churches. 
He was the first inventor of paper hag 
machines, and also invented machines for 
making envelopes for wrapping and pack¬ 
ing tobacco, starch and like articles; and 
for making various other kinds of boxes. 
He designed and superintended the con¬ 
struction of the dead letter office at Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He was city editor of the 
Daily National Intelligencer of Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., until its suspension, when he 
became editor-in-chief of the Saturday 
Evening Visitor. During the war he be¬ 
came captain of company H, fourth regi¬ 
ment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was 
mustered out by reason of wounds re¬ 
ceived in the service. 

OLMSTED, ELIZABETH MARTHA, 
journalist, poet, was horn Dec. 31, 1825, in 
Caledonia, N. Y. For several years she 
taught school in Canandaigua, N. Y., and 
at the Ingham university. She has con¬ 
tributed extensively both prose and verse 
to the New York Independent, and the 
leading newspapers and magazines in 
America. During the civil war she wrote 
many spirited lyrics, among which are 
the well-known Our Boys Going to the 
War; The Clarion; and the Upas. 

OLMSTED, ELMER BENTON, lawyer, 
financier, politician, was born Dec. 22, 
1860, in Jersey Shore, Pa. He attended 
the Dickinson col¬ 
lege, of Pennsylvan¬ 
ia, from which insti¬ 
tution he graduated 
in 1884. He then be¬ 
gan the study of 
law at Williamsport, 
Pa., and soon after¬ 
ward became man¬ 
aging clern in one of 
the largest law of¬ 
fices in New York 
city. In 1889 he 
moved to St. Paul, 
Minn., where he has since been engaged 
in the practice of law. He has made a 
specialty of real estate, banking and com¬ 
mercial law and probate practice. He is 
considered authority on mortgage fore¬ 
closures and titles, and has an extensive 
clientage reaching into many of the states. 
He also represents several banks in mak¬ 
ing loans, examining titles, and foreclos¬ 
ing mortgages. He is a director in the 
St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, and in 
1892 was a delegate to the national re¬ 
publican convention. 

OLMSTED, FRANCIS ALLYN, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born July 14, 1819, in 
Chapel Hill, N. C. He was a physician 
who published Incidents of a Whaling 
Voyage. He died July 19, 1844, in New 
Haven, Conn. 


OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW, land¬ 
scape architect, author, was born April 26, 
1822, in Hartford, Conn. He received a 
liberal education and 
studied under pri¬ 
vate tutors. He has 
atiaiued prominence 
as a landscape archi¬ 
tect; has been presi¬ 
dent of the board of 
park commissioners 
of New York city; 
and commissioner of 
Yosemite Valley. In 
1850 he made a ped¬ 
estrian tour through 
Great Britain and 
parts of continental Europe for the pur¬ 
pose of observing closely the agricultural 
and ornamental grounds of the various 
countries. He is the author of Walks and 
Talks of An American Farmer in Eng¬ 
land; A Journey Through Texas; A Jour¬ 
ney in the Back Country; and other works. 
He has filled numerous public positions of 
trust; in 1861 was appointed a member 
of the commission of inquiry and advice 
in regard to the sanitary condition of 
the United States forces. He was active 
in the founding of the Metropolitan Mu¬ 
seum of Art, and of the American Mu¬ 
seum of Natural History. In 1872 he was 
appointed president of the department of 
public parks in New York. Since 1886 
he has been largely occupied in laying out 
an extensive system of parks and park¬ 
ways for the city of Boston. 

OLMSTEAD, JOHN WESLEY, journal¬ 
ist, clergyman, was born Nov. 13, 1836, in 
Saratoga county, N. Y. In 1846 he be¬ 
came editor of the Christian Reflector in 
Boston. On the union of this paper with 
The Watchman, in 1848, he took editorial 
control of the consolidated journals, and 
continued in that post until 1877. In 1878 
he established The Watchtower, a baptist 
journal in New York, but subsequently 
returned to The Watchman, of which he 
is now editor-in-chief. 

OLMSTED, MARLIN EDGAR, lawyer, 
legislator, railroad president, congress¬ 
man, was born in Potter county, Pa. He 
received the rudi¬ 
ments of his educa¬ 
tion in the public 
schools, and subse¬ 
quently attended 
Couderport academy. 
He is one of the lead¬ 
ing lawyers of Har¬ 
risburg, Pa.; has 
been counsel of his 
city; president and 
general counsel for 
the Beach Railroad 
company; also presi¬ 
dent of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Rail¬ 
road company. He has been counsel for 
the Lehigh Valley Railroad company; the 
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 
Railroad company; Delaware and Hudson 
Canal company; Lehigh Coal and Navi¬ 
gation company; the Western Union Tel¬ 
egraph company, and many other corpora¬ 
tions. He was elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress, and served with distinction in 
that body. 

OLNEY, CHARLES FAYETTE, educat¬ 
or, was born Aug. 27, 1831, in Hartford, 
Conn. He established a high school in 
Stafford, Conn.; for thirty years was en¬ 
gaged in educational work in New York 
city, and was one of the founders of the 
New York Teachers’ association. 

OLNEY, CYRUS, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in New York. He was an early emi¬ 
grant to the territory of Oregon, and in 
1853 was appointed an associate justice 

of the United States court for that district. 


OLNEY, EDWARD, educator, author, 
was born July 24, 1827, in Moreau, N. Y. 
This eminent educator was the author of 
fourteen complete books of mathematics, 
from primary arithmetics to general geom¬ 
etry and calculus. He died Jan. 16, 1887; 
in Ann Arbor, Mich. 

OLNEY, JESSE, educator, author, was 
born Oct. 12, 1798, in Tolland county, 
Conn. He was a noted educator of Con¬ 
necticut; and the author of The Na¬ 
tional Preceptor; Geography and Atlas; 
and History of the United States. He died 
July 31, 1872, in Stratford, Conn. 

OLNEY, RICHARD, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, secretary of state, was born Jan. 
15, 1835, in Oxford, Mass. He served as 
a member of the Massachusetts house of 
representatives in the year 1874; and 
was appointed attorney-general by Presi¬ 
dent Cleveland, and entered upon his 
duties in 1893. He was appointed secre¬ 
tary of state June 8, 1895, to fill a vacancy, 
and took the oath of office June 10, 1895. 

OLSON, JULIUS E., educator, author, 
was born Nov. 9, 1858, in Cambridge, Wis. 
He has been connected with his alma 
mater as instructor and professor of Scan¬ 
dinavian, and since 1884 has filled the 
chair of languages and literature. He is 
the author of Norwegian Grammar and 
Reader; and other works. 

OLSON, MARTIN CONRAD, orator, 
was born Aug. 13, 1871, in Chicago, Ill. 
He received his education in the grammar 
schools of Chicago, and graduated from 
the Soper school of oratory. He has been 
secretary of the Luther League of Illi¬ 
nois, and is now general secretary of the 
Luther League of America; and also di¬ 
rector of the Rock River Chautauqua as¬ 
sembly at Dixon, Ill. 

OLSSEN, WILLIAM WHITTINGHAM, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
May 11, 1827, in New York city. He is an 
episcopal clergyman and educator, and 
professor of mathematics in St. Stephen’s 
college, Annandale, New York, from 1871. 
He is the author of Personality, Hu¬ 
man and Divine; and Revelation, Univer¬ 
sal and Special. 

OLSSON, OLOF, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born March 31, 
1841, in Sweden. He is a lutheran clergy¬ 
man, president of Augustana college. 
Rock Island, Ill., since 1891, and the au¬ 
thor of At the Cross; Greetings from 
Afar, a volume of travel; and The Chris¬ 
tian Hope. 

ONDERDONK, BENJAMIN TREAD¬ 
WELL, clergyman, theologian, bishop, 
was born July 15, 1791, in New York 
city. In 1809 he 
graduated from Col¬ 
umbia college; in 
1813 became assist- 
.ant pastor of Trin¬ 
ity parish in New 
Tork city; and be¬ 
came a favorite 
preacher. In 1820 he 
was elected professor 
of ecclesiastical his¬ 
tory in the General 
Theological semi¬ 
nary of New York; 
and in 1830 was consecrated protestant 
episcopal bishop of the diocese of New 
rork. He died April 30, 1861, in New 
York city. 

ONDERDONK, HENRY, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born June 11, 1804, in North 
Hempstead, N. Y. He was an educator of 
Long Island, principal of Union Hall acad¬ 
emy in 1832-65, and the author of Queens 
County in Old Times; Annals of Hemp¬ 
stead, 1643-1832; and Long Island and 
New York in Olden Times. He died June 
22, 1886, in Jamaica, N. Y. 
















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ONDERDONK, HENRY USTICK, bish¬ 
op, author, was born March 16, 1789, in 
New York city. He was the second p’rot- 
estant episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania, 
and tne author of episcopacy 'rested by 
Scripture, republished as Episcopacy Ex¬ 
amined and Re-Examined; Essay on Re¬ 
generation; Sermons and Charges; and 
Family Devotions. He died Dec. 6, 1858, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

O’NEAL, EDWARD ASBURY, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in Mad¬ 
ison county, Ala. He entered the confed¬ 
erate army as a captain, in 1861, and rap¬ 
idly rose to the rank of brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. In 1882 he was elected governor of 
Alabama; and was re-elected in 1884. 

O’NEAL, WILLIAM WALKER, journal¬ 
ist, was born Oct. 17, 1873, in Maryville, 
Mo. He attended the State university of 
Missouri; became a reporter on the St. 
Joseph Daily News and the Kansas City 
Times; was editor of the Iowa Inter-State 
Herald; and is now the editor and owner 
of The Graphic of Firth, Neb. 

O’NEALL, JOHN BELTON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, author, was born April 10, 1793, in 
Bush River, S. C. He was a South Caro¬ 
lina jurist, and the author of Digest of the 
Negro Law; Annals of Newberry District; 
and Bench and Bar of South Carolina. He 
died Sept. 27, 1863, in Newberry, S. C. 

O’NEALL, JOHN H., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Oct. 30, 
1838, near Newberry, S. C. He represent¬ 
ed Daviess county in the Indiana state 
legislature in 1866; was appointed prose¬ 
cuting attorney for the eleventh judicial 
circuit in 1873, and was elected to the 
same office in 1874, but resigned before 
his term was out. He has been repeatedly 
honored by election to the board of trus¬ 
tees of the public schools, and was elected 
to the fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses as 
a democrat. 

O’NEIL, JOSEPH H., state legislator, 
congressman, was born March 23, 1853, in 
Fall River, Mass. He was a member of 
the Massachusetts house of representa¬ 
tives in 1878-84; was a member of the 
board of directors for public institutions 
for five years, the last eighteen months 
being chairman of the board; and was 
city clerk of Boston in 1887 and 1888. He 
was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second 
and fifty-third congresses as a democrat. 

O'NEILL, CHARLES, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was oorn March 21, 
1821, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1850-52 he 
was in the state legislature, and in 1853 
in the state senate. He was again elected 
to the legislature in 1859, and in 1862 was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the thirty-eighth congress. He 
was elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, 
forty-first, forty-third, forty-fourth, for¬ 
ty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty- 
eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and 
fifty-second congresses as a republican. 

O'NEILL, EDWARD, banker, state leg¬ 
islator. He served four terms as a mem¬ 
ber of the Wisconsin state legislature; 
and introduced the bill which brought 
about the establishment of the State Re¬ 
form school at Waukesha. He was presi¬ 
dent of the Merchants’ Exchange bank of 
Milwaukee; and served that city four 
times as mayor. 

O’NEILL, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Dec. 17, 1821, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. In 1844 he moved to Ohio, and there 
practiced law in the supreme court. In 
1855 he was elected prosecuting attorney 
for Muskingum county. In 1862 he was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
thirty-eighth congress. 

45 


O NEILL, JOHN J., manufacturer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born June 25, 
1846, in St. Louis, Mo. He was in the gov¬ 
ernment civil service during the civil 
war, and was afterward engaged in manu¬ 
facturing pursuits. In 1872 he was elected 
a representative in the state legislature; 
and was re-elected in 1874 and 1876. He 
was elected to the municipal assembly of 
St. Louis in 1879, and re-elected in 1881. 
In 1884 he was elected a representative 
from Missouri to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress, and was re-electe u to the forty- 
ninth, fiftieth, fifty-second and fifty-third 
congresses as a democrat. 

OPDALE, NELLIE MANN, educator, 
missionary, lecturer, was born May 17, 
1860, in New Lisbon, Wis. She received 
her education in the public schools of 
Racine, and subsequently taught school in 
that city. She has held various positions 
in the Woman’s Christian Temperance 
union; was state lecturer of the Wisconsin 
Woman’s Suffrage association; addressed 
the state legislature during two different 
sessions, and is now an ordained minister 
of the universalist church. 

OPDixvfi, GEORGE, banker, public offi¬ 
cial, author, was born Dec. 7, 1805, in 
Kingwood, N. J. He was a banker of New 
York city, and mayor of that city in 1862- 
63. He was the author of Treatise on 
Political Economy; Report on the Cur¬ 
rency; and Official Documents and Ad¬ 
dresses. He died June 12, 1880, in New 
York city. 

OPPER, FREDERICK BURR, artist, 
was born Jan. 2, 1857, in Madison, Ohio. 
In 1877 he became an artist on the staff 
of Frame Leslie’s periodicals, and for 
three years filled the position of humor¬ 
ous and special artist; and since 1880 
he has been engaged on the staff of Puck, 
New York’s great humorous journal. 

ORANGE, WILL J., journalist, poet, 
mine owner, politician, was born March 
30, 1858, near Albion, Ill. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the common 
schools, and graduated from Bayliss col¬ 
lege. In 1886 he purchased The Rustler 
of Silver Cliff, Col.; and soon became 
prominent in political and mining cir¬ 
cles. He was one of the organizers of the 
mining congress, and suggested the name 
of the Silver Republican Party. He has 
filled numerous public positions of honor, 
and in 1896 was elected regent of the uni¬ 
versity of Colorado for a term of six years. 
He has written extensively for the period¬ 
ical press, and has attained prominence 
in the west as a humorous poet. 

ORCUTT, CHARLES RUSSELL, bot¬ 
anist, and introducer of new seeds and 
plants, especially cacti. He is the editor 
and owner of the West American Scien¬ 
tist of San Diego, Cal., which was estab¬ 
lished in 1884. 

ORD, EDWARD OTHO CRESAP, sol¬ 
dier, was born Oct. 18, 1818, in Cumber¬ 
land, Md. In 1839 he graduated from the 
United States Mili¬ 
tary academy. He 
served in the Florida 
war against the Sem- 
i n ol e Indians i n 
1839-42; and during 
the civil war attained 
the rank of major- 
general of volun¬ 
teers. In the camp 
and on the march he 
was exceedingly 
careful of his sol¬ 
diers, providing for 
their comfort, their clothing, and their 
medical attendance; and he showed equal 
solicitude for the sick and wounded. He 
died July 22, 1883, in Havana, Cuba. 



^ORD, GEORGE, naturalist, was born in 
1781 in Philadelphia. He was an intimate 
friend of Alexander Wilson, the natural¬ 
ist, and accompanied him on many of his 
rambles. After Wilson’s death in 1813 
Mr. Ord completed the eighth volume of 
the former’s American Ornithology. In 
1825 he prepared a new edition of the last 
three volumes of the ornithology, and in 
1828 issued his life of Wilson as a sep¬ 
arate volume. He died Jan. 24, 1866, in 
Philadelphia. 

ORDWAY, JOHN MORSE, chemist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 23, 1823, in Ames- 
bury, Mass. He has been professor of 
chemistry and metallurgy in the institute 
of Technicology in Boston, Mass., for fif¬ 
teen years, and is now professor of indus¬ 
trial chemistry of the Tulane university 
of New Orleans, La. He is the author of 
Plantarum Ordinum Indicator, and other 
works. 

ORDWAY, NEHEMIAH G., merchant, 
state senator, governor, was born Nov. 10, 
1828, in Warner, N. H. In 1861 he was ap¬ 
pointed general agent of the post office 
department for the New England states, 
witn headquarters at Boston. In 1863 he 
was elected sergeant-at-arms of the Unit¬ 
ed States house of representatives, and 
served during the thirty-eighth, thirty- 
ninth, fortieth, forty-first, forty-second 
and forty-third congresses. In 1875 he 
was elected a representative in the New 
Hampshire legislature, and was re-elected 
in 1876 and 1877. In 1879 he was elected a 
state senator, and in 1880 was appointed 
governor of Dakota territory for the term 
of four years. 

O’REILLY, BERNARD, Roman catholic 
bishop, was born in 1803 in Ireland. In 
1847 he removed to Buffalo and was made 
vicar-general of the diocese and presi¬ 
dent of the seminary, having also in 
charge the hospital of the Sisters of Char¬ 
ity. In 1850 he was consecrated bishop of 
Hartford. He died in 1856 at sea. 

O’REILLY, DANIEL, public official, 
congressman, was born June 3, 1838, in 
Ireland. He settled in Brooklyn, N. Y.; 
was city weigher; and was a member of 
the board of aldermen in 1873-75. He 
acted as supervisor of Kings county in 
1874-75, and during 1875 was president 
pro tern of the board of aldermen. He 
was also acting mayor on several occa¬ 
sions; and was again elected alderman 
for the years 1878 and 1879. He was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-sixth congress. 

O’REILLY, HENRY, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 6, 1806, in Ireland. 
He was a journalist of Rochester, and the 
author of New York Sketches of Roch¬ 
ester; and American Political Anti-Ma¬ 
sonry. He died Aug. 17, 1886, in Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. 

O’REILLY, JOHN BOYLE, journalist, 
author, poet, was born June 28, 1844, in 
Ireland. He was a noted journalist of Bos¬ 
ton, editor of The Pilot. In his youth he 
was concerned in a fenian outbreak in 
Ireland, and banished to Australia. Es¬ 
caping thence he came to America in 
1869 and settled in Boston, where his tal¬ 
ents speedily secured recognition. Much 
of his work in verse is ephemeral, but 
his best lines have the ring of true poetry. 
He was the author of Songs, Legends, and 
Ballads; Moondyne; The Statues in the 
Block, and Other Poems; Songs of the 
Southern Seas; In Bohemia. In prose he 
published, Stories and Sketches; and The 
Ethics of Boxing. He died Aug. 10, 1890,. 
in Hull, Mass. 

O’REILLY, PATRICK THOMAS, Ro¬ 
man catholic bishop, was born Dec. 24, 
1833, in Ireland. He was consecrated 
first bishop of Springfield in 1870. 



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ORFF, ANNIE L. Y., journalist, was 
born in Albany, N. Y. She is the editor 
and owner of the Chaperone Magazine of 
St. Louis, Mo., and since the death of 
Kate Field she unquestionably takes first 
place as the leading successful female 
publisher in the United States. She is also 
publisher of the St. Louis Elite, a weekly 
society journal. 

ORGAN, BENJAMIN SIMPSON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, lecturer, jurist, legislator, 
was born April 2, 1847, in Wilson county, 
Tenn. He received his education in the 
common schools of Illinois and the acad¬ 
emy of Xenia. At the age of sixteen years 
he enlisted in the one hundred and thirty- 
sixth Illinois volunteer infantry, and 
served gallantly throughout the war. He 
has attained success as an eminent lawyer 
of Mount Carmel, Ill., and as a lecturer 
on religious subjects. He has been county 
judge, and served with distinction as a 
member of the general assembly of the 
Illinois state legislature. 

O’RIORDAN, JAMES, civil engineer, 
educator, author, poet, was born about 
1840 in Ireland. He is the author of 
half a dozen novels; several volumes on 
educational subjects; and a number of 
poems. Although he is a civil- engineer, 
he has generally been engaged in educa¬ 
tional work in Stony Hollow, N. Y. 

ORMAN, JAMES B., state senator, was 
born Nov. 4, 1849, in Muscatine, Iowa. 
In 1880 he was elected representative to 
the third general assembly; and in 1883 
to 1885 he served in the state senate from 
Colorado. 

ORMOND, ALEXANDER THOMAS, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born in 1847 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is Stuart professor of men¬ 
tal science and logic at Princeton univer¬ 
sity since 1883, and the author of Basal 
Concepts in Philosophy. 

ORMSBY, STEPHEN, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born in 1765 in 
Virginia. He was a judge of the circuit 
court of Kentucky; a brigade-major under 
Harmer in his campaign of 1790; and 
a representative in congress from 1811 to 
1817. He died Sept. 6, 1846, in Louisville, 
Ky. 

ORMSBY, THOMAS J., soldier, lawyer, 
was born Nov. 2, 1842, in Petersburg, Va. 
He served as an officer in the confederate 
army, and has filled various civil offices 
for the past fifteen years. He is a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer of Pine Bluff, Ark.; and has 
attained success as an apiarist. 

ORMSBY, WATERMAN LILLY, en¬ 
graver, inventor, was born in 1809 in 
Hampton, Conn. He was for many years 
an engraver in New York city. He in¬ 
vented several ruling machines, transfer- 
presses, and other implements that are 
used in bank-note engraving, a machine 
for engraving on steel called the gram- 
magraph, and one for splitting wood. He 
died Nov. 1, 1883, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

ORNE, AZOR, lawyer, jurist, state sen¬ 
ator, was born July 22, 1731, in Marble¬ 
head, Mass. He became a judge of the 
general court of Massachusetts in 1775, 
and in January, 1776, was appointed by 
the provincial congress one of the three 
major-generals of Massachusetts militia. 
After the adoption of the state consti¬ 
tution in 1780 he was in the state senate 
and council for many years. He died June 
6, 1796, in Boston, Mass. 

ORNE, MRS. CAROLINE (CHAPLIN), 
author, was born in Massachusetts. She 
was a popular magazinist, who was the 
author of more than two hundred and 
fifty stories. She died in 1882. 

ORNE, CAROLINE FRANCES, author, 
poet, was born in 1818 in Massachusetts. 
She is a Cambridge writer of verse, and 


also of stories for children. Her life has 
all been passed in Cambridge, her native 
place. She is the author of A Day in the 
Woodlands; Lucy’s Party, and Other 
Tales; Sweet Auburn and Mount Auburn, 
with Other Poems; and Morning Songs of 
American Freedom. 

ORR, ALEXANDER D., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1765 in Virginia. 
He removed to Kentucky, and in 1784 
settled in Mason county. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature in 1792. Upon 
the admission of Kentucky into the Union 
he was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1792 to 1797. 
He died June 21, 1835, in Paris, Ky. 

ORR, BENJAMIN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 1, 1772, in 
Bedford, N. H. He was a representative 
in congress from Massachusetts from 1817 
to 1819. He was the author of an oration 
on the death of Washington in 1800. He 
died Sept. 5, 1828, in Brunswick, Maine. 

ORR, HUGH, manufacturer, inventor, 
was born Jan. 13, 1717, irf Scotland. His 
muskets made for the state of Massachu¬ 
setts are said to have been the first manu¬ 
factured in New England. He also in¬ 
vented machines for cleaning flaxseed, 
and manufacturing cotton. He died Dec. 
6, 1798, in Bridgewater, Mass. 

ORR, JACKSON, soldier, merchant, 
congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1832, in 
Fayette county, Ohio. He served in the 
army as captain in the tenth Iowa in¬ 
fantry. He was a member of the legis¬ 
lature of Iowa in 1868. He was elected to 
the forty-second and forty-third con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

ORR, JAMES LAWRENCE, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, governor, 
was born May 18, 1822, in Craytonville, 
S. C. In 1844 he was elected to the state 
legislature, and was re-elected in 1845. In 
1848 he was elected a representative in 
congress from South Carolina, to which 
position he was subsequently re-elected, 
and on the assembling of the thirty-fifth 
congress was elected speaker. In 1860 he 
was appointed one of the commissioners 
to visit Washington in behalf of South 
Carolina, and in 1865 was elected governor 
of South Carolina. He was subsequently 
appointed minister to Russia. He died 
May 5, 1873, in St. Petersburg, Russia. 

ORR, JOHN WALKINSHAW, civil en¬ 
gineer, poet, was born Aug. 27, 1858, in 
Albia, Iowa. He is a telegraph operator, 
machinist and civil engineer. He has 
written extensively for the periodical 
press, and his poems have appeared in 
several standard works. 

ORR, JOHN WILLIAM, wood-engraver, 
was born March 31, 1815, in Ireland. His 
first important work was for the frontis¬ 
pieces for Harper’s Illustrated Shake¬ 
speare. When he removed to New York, 
wood-engraving was but little used, but 
by advertising extensively, engaging the 
best assistants he could procure, and by 
introducing new inventions, he placed his 
establishment in the front rank of his 
profession, which position it retained for 
more than a quarter of a century. He 
died March 4, 1887, in Jersey City. 

ORR, ROBERT, congressman, was born 
in Westmoreland county, Pa. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1825 to 1829. 

ORR, ROBERT, inventor. He was the 
inventor of an improved method of mak¬ 
ing scythes with the trip-hammer, and 
was the pioneer in New England in the 
manufacture of iron shovels. In 1804 he 
was master-armorer at the United States 
arsenal at Springfield, Mass. 

ORR, WILLIAM, manufacturer, invent¬ 
or, was born March 13, 1808, in Ireland. 


He was engaged in the printing of wall 
paper under the firm name of A. and W. 
Orr. His inventions consisted in engrav¬ 
ing and disposing the designs or patterns 
on a cylinder. 

ORRICK, JOHN CROMWELL, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born Oct. 25, 1840, in 
St. Charles, Mo. In 1866 he was elected 
circuit attorney; and in 1868 was elected 
to the Missouri house of representatives. 

ORTH, GODLOVE STONER, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
April 22, 1817, near Lebanon, Pa. In 1843 
and 1846 he was elected to the Indiana 
state senate, serving six years in all, one 
year as president of that body. He was a 
presidential elector in 1848, and was a 
member of the peace congress of 1861. 
In 1862 he was elected a representative 
from Indiana to the thirty-eighth con¬ 
gress. He was re-elected to the thirty- 
ninth, fortieth, forty-first and forty-third 
congresses. In 1875 he was appointed 
minister to Austria. He was again elect¬ 
ed to congress as a representative from 
Indiana to the forty-sixth and forty-sev¬ 
enth congresses. He died Dec. 16, 1882, in 
Lafayette, Ind. 

ORTON, EDWARD, geologist, college 
president, was born March 9, 1^29, in De¬ 
posit, N. Y. During 1873-81 he was presi¬ 
dent of the Ohio State university, and 
still holds the chair of geology in that 
institution. Since 1869 he has been state 
geologist of Ohio and in 1896 was elected 
president of the Geological society of 
America. He is the author of Economic 
Geology of Ohio; and Petroleum and In¬ 
flammable Gas. 

ORTON, JAMES, educator, clergyman 
author, was born April 21, 1830, in Sen¬ 
eca Falls, N. Y. He was a congregational 
clergyman, well known as a naturalist, 
who was professor of natural history at 
Vassar college in 1869-77, and the author 
of Comparative Zoology; The Andes and 
the Amazon; Underground Treasures; 
and Liberal Education of Women. He 
died Sept. 25, 1877, in Peru. 

ORTON, JASON ROCKWOOD, author, 
poet, was born in 1806 in Hamilton, N. Y. 
He was a litterateur of New York city, and 
the author of Poetical Sketches; Arnold, 
and Other Poems; Camp Fires of the Red 
Men; and Confidential Experiences of a 
Spiritualist. He died Feb. 13, 1867, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

ORTON, WILLIAM, was born June 14, 
1826, in Cuba, N. Y. He was appointed 
from that state in 1865 commissioner of 
internal revenue in the United States 
treasury, but only held the office one 
year. He afterward became president of 
the Western Union Telegraph company in 
New York city. 

ORUM, JULIA ANNA, educator, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born Oct. 28, 1843, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. She has been principal 
in the Philadelphia 
School of Elocution; 
principal in Mt. Lake 
Park Summer school 
of Voice Education; 
and instructor of 
voice training in the 
Woman’s college of 
Baltimore. She is a 
successful Shake¬ 
spearian reader and 
lecturer; is the au¬ 
thor of a work en¬ 
titled Voice Educa¬ 
tion, and is a constant contributor to the 
best periodical publications. 

ORWIG, SAMUEL H., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Aug. 18, 1836, in Mifflinburg, Pa. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1860; and 
was a member of the Pennsylvania state 
legislature in 1864-65, declining re-elec¬ 
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OSBOkN, CHASE S., journalist, public 
official, was born Jan. 22, i860, in Hunt¬ 
ington county, Ind. In 1880 lie became 
managing editor of 
The Signal of Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis., and 
subsequently filled 
an editorial position 
on the Milwaukee 
Evening Wisconsin. 
In 1883 he became 
editor and part pro¬ 
prietor of the Flor¬ 
ence Mining News, 
and in 1887 estab¬ 
lished the Miner and 
Manufacturer of Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis. He then became city ed¬ 
itor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and is now 
the editor and proprietor of The News 
of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. He has been 
state game and fish warden for the state 
of Michigan; has been postmaster of his 
city, and has taken an active part in the 
public affairs of his city, county and state. 

OSBORN, HENRY FAIRFIELD, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1857 in Connecti¬ 
cut. He is a,professor of biology at Col¬ 
umbia college, and the author of From the 
Greeks to Darwin, an outline of the evo¬ 
lution idea. 

OSBORN, HENRY STAFFORD, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Aug. 17, 
1823, in Philadelphia. He is a Presbyte¬ 
rian clergyman and educator, and profes¬ 
sor in Miami university, Ohio, in 1871-73. 
He is the author of Palestine Past and 
Present; Fruits and Flowers of the Holy 
Land; Scientific Metallurgy of Iron and 
Steel in the United States; Manual of 
Bible Geography; Ancient Egypt in the 
Light of Recent Discoveries; Little Pil¬ 
grims in the Holy Land; New Descriptive 
Geography of Palestine; The Prospect¬ 
or’s Field Book and Guide; and A Prac¬ 
tical Manual of Minerals, Mines and Min¬ 
ing. 

OSBORN, JOHN, soldier, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born March 17, 1741, in Middle- 
town, Conn. He attained note as a chem¬ 
ist, and is said to have had the most 
valuable medical library in the state. Be¬ 
fore the revolution he published a trans¬ 
lation of Condamine’s Treatise on Inocu¬ 
lation, with an original appendix. He 
died in June, 1825, in Middletown, Conn. 

OSBORN, JOHN CHURCHILL, physi¬ 
cian, educator, poet, was born in Septem¬ 
ber, 1766, in Middletown, Conn. In 1808 
he was appointed professor of the insti¬ 
tutes of medicine in Columbia, which of¬ 
fice he resigned in 1813 to accept the 
chair of obstetrics in the New York col¬ 
lege of physicians and surgeons. He was 
a connoisseur in poetry, belles-lettres, and 
painting. Joel Barlow submitted the 
poem of The Vision of Columbus to him 
for revision. He died March 5, 1819, in 
the Island of St. Croix. 

OSBORN, JOHN E., physician, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, governor, was born 
June 9, 1858, in Westport, N. Y. He was 
elected in 1883 to the Wyoming territorial 
legislature, and in 1888 was elected mayor 
of the city of Rawlins. In 1892 he was 
elected governor of Wyoming, and at the 
expiration of his official term as govern¬ 
or he was unanimously renominated by 
his party for a second term, but owing to 
important business engagements declined 
the honor. He was elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a democrat. 

OSBORN, LAUGHTON, artist, was born 
in 1809 in New York city. He was an 
artist and writer of New York city, and 
the author of Confessions of a Poet; Sixty 
Years of the Life of Jeremy Levis; The 
Vision of Rubeta; Arthur Carryl; Hand¬ 



book of Oil Painting; and Travels by Sea 
and Land. He died Dec. 12, 1878, in New 
York city. 

OSBORN, R. H., physician, surgeon, 
state senator, was born June 27, 1823, in 
North Bloomfield, Ohio. He taught 
school for three 
years, and in 1849 
graduated from the 
Medical college of 
Cleveland, Ohio. He 
has attained success 
as an eminent phy¬ 
sician and surgeon of 
Michigan, and is the 
oldest physician on 
Lake Superior, in 
1877-78 he served 
with distinction as 
a member of the state 
senate of the Michigan state legislature. He 
has been a school director for twenty-five 
years; is -vice-president of the Mer¬ 
chants’ and Miners’ bank of Calumet, and 
a director of the Farmingdale Land and 
Live Stock company of South Dakota. 

OSBORN, SELLECK, journalist, poet, 
was born in 1783 in Trumbull, Conn. He 
was a journalist, once popular as a poet, 
who published Poems, Moral, Sentimental, 
and Satirical. He died Oct. 1, 1826, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

OSBORN, THOMAS A., lawyer, state 
senator, governor, was born Oct. 26, 1836, 
in Meadville, Pa. He practiced law in 
Pontiac, Mich.; and was elected county 
attorney of Doniphan county in 1858. He 
was elected state senator in 1859; and in 
1862 became president of the senate. The 
same year he was elected lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of the state. He was United States 
marshal from 1864 to 1866; and was elect¬ 
ed governor of Kansas in 1872 and re-elect¬ 
ed in 1874. He was United States minister 
to Chili from 1877 to 1881; and in 1881 was 
promoted to the post of United States 
minister to Brazil. 



OSBORN, THOMAS W., lawyer, soldier, 
United States senator, was born March 9, 
1836, in Scotch Plains, N. J. He was 
elected to the Florida state senate; and 
was elected a senator in congress from 
Florida for the term ending in 1873. 

OSBORNE, EDWIN S., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was 'born Aug. 7, 
1839, in Bethany, Pa. In 1861 he enlisted 
in the union army; and in 1863 was pro¬ 
moted to major and appointed assistant 
inspector-general. After the close of the 
war he was detailed as a judge advocate 
in the bureau of military justice, at Wash¬ 
ington. In 1883 he was commander of 
the department of Pennsylvania Grand 
Army of the Republic. In 1884 he was 
elected a representative-at-large from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-ninth congress; 
and re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first 
congresses as a republican. 



OSBORNE, JOHN E., physician, legisla¬ 
tor, governor, was born June 19, 1858, in 
Westport, N. Y. He first was apprenticed 
to a druggist in Ver¬ 
mont; later studied 
medicine and attend¬ 
ed the medical lec¬ 
tures at the univer¬ 
sity of Vermont, 
graduating in 1880. 
He moved west, 
opened a drug store 
in Rawlins, Wyo., 
where he accumu- 
lated a fortune and 
established an envi¬ 
able reputation as a 
physician. He is probably the largest in¬ 
dividual sheep holder in Wyoming, his 
flocks numbering over thirty thousand. In 


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EIOGRAPHY. 707 

1882 he was elected a member of the ter¬ 
ritorial legislature; in 1888 was elected 
mayor of Rawlins; and in 1896 was elect¬ 
ed governor of Wyoming. He is president 
of the Rawlins Electric Light company; 
secietary of the Rawlins Wool Storage 
company; president of the Rawlins Hotel 
company; and director of a large drug 
supply house. 

OSBORNE, [SAMUEL] DUFFIELD au¬ 
thor, was born in 1858 on Long Island. He 
is a litterateur of New York city; and 
the author of The Spell of Ashtaroth; and 
I he Robe of Nessus. 

OSBORNE, THOMAS B., lawyer, jurist, 
educator, congressman, was born in 1797 
in Fairfield county, Conn. He was for 
several years judge of Fairfield county 
Conn.; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1839 to 1843. In 1848 ,he set¬ 
tled in New Haven, and became a pro¬ 
fessor in the law department of Yale col¬ 
lege. He died Sept. 2, 1869, in New Ha¬ 
ven, Conn. 

OSBORNE, THOMAS M., railroad presi¬ 
dent was born Sept. 23, 1859, in Auburn, 
in. Y. in 1886 he became president of 
the^Owasco River railroad, at Auburn, 

OSBURN, NEHEMIAH, contractor, was 
born Aug. 9, 1801, in Pompey N Y He 
constructed for the United States court 
houses in Detroit, Cincinnati and Balti¬ 
more, beside government buildings in 
Milwaukee, Rochester and many other 
cRies. He died Jan. 10, 1892, in Rochester 
j\. Y. 

OSCANYAN, HATCHIK, author, was 
born in 1818 in Turkey. He is an Ar¬ 
menian writer of New York city who took 
the name of Christopher; and is the au¬ 
thor of Acaby, a satirical romance; Ve¬ 
ronica, a novel; Bedig, a work for young 
readers; and The Sultan and His People 
once a very popular work. 

OSGOOD, MRS. FRANCES SARGENT 
[LOCKE], poet, was born June 18, 1811, 
in Boston, Mass. She was a poet ’whose 
* poems were for a. time extremely popular. 
She was the author of The Casket of 
Fate; A Wreath of Wild Flowers from 
New England; The Happy Release, a play 
written for Sheridan Knowles; and Poems. 
She died May 12, 1850, in Hingham, Mass. 

OSGOOD, GAYTON P., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1797. He served 
in the Massachusetts legislature in 1829 
and 1831; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts from 1832 to 
1835. He died June 26, 1861. 

OSGOOD, HELEN LOUISE GIBSON, 
philanthropist, was born about 1835 in 
Boston, Mass. She organized and con¬ 
ducted for many months a hospital for 
one thousand colored soldiers of the army 
of the Potomac, and displayed great exec¬ 
utive ability. She died April 20, 1868, in 
Newton Centre, Mass. 

OSGOOD, HOWARD, clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, was born Jan. 4, 1831, in Plaquemine 
parish, La. In 1868 he was called to the 
professorship of Hebrew in Crozer Theo¬ 
logical seminary, Pa. In 1875 he was 
elected to the same chair in Rochester 
Theological seminary. 

OSGOOD, JASON C., inventor, was born 
Nov. 16, 1804, in Nassau, N. Y. In 1846 
he invented the celebrated Osgood dredg¬ 
ing machine, which made his name known 
the world over. 

OSGOOD, KATE PUTNAM, author, po¬ 
et, was born in 1841 in Fryeburg, Maine. 
Her best known poem, Driving Home the 
Cows, published anonymously in Harper’s 
Magazine, in March, 1865, was copied by 
nearly every journal in the United States, 
and was one of the few poems of merit 
that were suggested by the civil war. 




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OSGOOD, SAMUEL, soldier, merchant, 
state senator, congressman, author, was 
born Feb. 14, 1748, in Andover, Mass. He 
was a member of the provincial congress. 
He was a member of the house until 1780, 
and then state senator. He was delegate 
to the continental congress from 1780 to 
1784; first commissioner of the United 
States treasury from 1785 to 1789; and 
United States postmaster-general from 
1789 to 1791. He was the author of Chro¬ 
nology; Remarks on Daniel and Revela¬ 
tion; Letters on Episcopacy; Theology 
and Metaphysics, and other subjects. He 
died Aug. 12, 1813, in New York city. 

OSGOOD, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 30, 1812, in Charlestown, 
Pa. He was a Unitarian clergyman, pas¬ 
tor of the Church of the Messiah in New 
York city in 1849-69. He was the author 
of Studies in Christian Biography; God 
with Men; Mile-Stones in our Life Jour¬ 
ney; The Hearthstone; Student Life; The 
Gospel Among the Animals; and Ameri¬ 
can Leaves. He died April 14, 1880, in 
New York city. 

O’SHEA, JOHN, public officer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Feb. 17, 1859, in Chicago, 
Ill. During 1882-86 he was deputy county 
clerk; clerk in election commissioner’s of¬ 
fice in 1888; division clerk in the water 
office during 1889-91; and deputy clerk of 
the superior court during 1893-97. He 
served with distinction in the thirty- 
third, thirty-fourth and fortieth general 
assemblies of the Illinois state legislature. 
He is also interested in the real estate 
business. 

OSLER, WILLIAM, physician, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1849 in Ontario. 
He is a physician, professor in Johns Hop¬ 
kins university since 1889; and the author 
of Clinical Notes on Small-Pox; Histology 
Notes for Students; Cerebral Palsies of 
Children; Principles and Practice of Med¬ 
icine; and Diagnosis of Abdominal Tum¬ 
ors. 

OSMER, J. H., lawyer, congressman, 
was born Jan. 22, 1833. He moved to 
Franklin, Pa., in 1865; was a member of 
the republican state committee; and a 
delegate to the republican national con¬ 
vention of 1876. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Pennsylvania to the forty- 
sixth congress as a republican. 

OSMOND, ALFRED, educator, jurist, 
poet was born Oct. 5, 1861, in Willard, 
Utah. In 1886 he graduated from the Des¬ 
eret university of 
Salt Lake City, Utah. 
He studied law in 
the university of 
Michigan. During 
1886-88 he taught 
school. He moved to 
Paris, Idaho, and 
was there elected pro¬ 
bate judge of Bear 
Lake county, and 
county superinten¬ 
dent of schools. He 
is the author of a 
volume of poems and has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to current literature, and his 
poems have been given a place in sev¬ 
eral standard collections. 

OSMOND, S. M., author, poet. He is 
the author of Sulamith, a metrical ro¬ 
mance. 

OSMUN, GILBERT R., soldier, journal¬ 
ist, was born Oct. 8, 1845, in Newark, N. 
J. He became city editor of the Times 
of Port Huron, Mich., then of the Sagi¬ 
naw Republican; and for ten years was 
state editor of the Detroit Evening News. 
He was private secretary to Gov. Alger 
until he assumed the duties of secretary 
of state. 


OSMUN, THOMAS EMBLEY, author, 
was born Feb. 26, 1826, in Summit county, 
Ohio. He is an author of New York city; 
and has written The Verbalist; The Or- 
thoepist; an annotated edition of Cob- 
bett’s Grammar; The Mentor; Acting and 
Actors; and The Essentials of Elocution. 

OSTROM, ERNEST R., journalist, poet, 
was born April 1, 1868, near Victor, Iowa. 
He is the editor and part owner of the 
Criterion of Danbury, Iowa; has contrib¬ 
uted extensively to periodical literature; 
and some of his poems have appeared in 
standard collections. 

OSWALD, FELIX LEOPOLD, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1845 in Belgium. 
He is a naturalist of Tennessee; and the 
author of Physical Education; Summer- 
land Sketches; Zoological Sketches; 
Household Remedies; The Secret of the 
East, or the Origin of the Christian Re¬ 
ligion; Days and Nights in the Tropics: 
The Bible of Nature; and The Poison 
Problem. 

OTERO, MARIANO S., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1844, in 
Peralta, N. M. He was probate judge from 
1871 to 1879; was nominated a delegate to 
the forty-fourth congress, but declined; 
and was elected a delegate from New Mex¬ 
ico to the forty-sixth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

OTERO, MIGUEL A., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born June 21, 1829, 
in Valencia, N. M. He was elected to 
the New Mexico territorial legislature. For 
a time he held the office of attorney-gen¬ 
eral for the territory; and in 1855 was 
elected a delegate to congress from New 
Mexico. He died May 31, 1882. 

OTEY, JAMES HARVEY, educator, 
clergyman, bishop, was born Jan. 27, 1800, 
in Liberty, Va. In 1820 he graduated 
from the university 
of North Carolina; 
and became a tutor 
in Latin and Greek 
in that institution. 
He was ordained a 
clergyman of the 
protestant episcopal 
church; and was 
consecrated bishop 
of Tennessee in 1834. 
He was the pioneer 
bishop of his church 
in the southwest; 
and became known as the Good Bishop. 
He published numerous addresses and 
sermons; and one volume entitled The 
Unity of the Church. He died April 23, 
1863, in Memphis, Tenn. 

OTEY, PETER J., soldier, congressman, 
was born Dec. 22, 1840, in Lynchburg, Va. 
He joined the confederate army and par¬ 
ticipated in the west¬ 
ern campaign culmi¬ 
nating at Donelson 
and Shiloh. He re¬ 
turned with his com¬ 
mand and was with 
the army of northern 
Virginia and re¬ 
mained in the in¬ 
fantry until the close 
of the war. His ca¬ 
reer has been that of 
a thorough business 
man in railroad, 
banking and insurance since 1869, from 
which time he has been active in the poli¬ 
tics of his state, though never asking for 
office till 1894, when he was elected to 
the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a democrat. 


OTIS, CHARLES EUGENE, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born in 1847 in Prairieville, Mich. 
He moved to Minnesota in 1871; served 
one year as a member of the St. Paul 
board of education; and two terms as a 
member of the common council. In 1889 
he was appointed judge to fill a vacancy; 
was elected to the same office in 1890, 
and re-elected in 1896. 

OTIS, ELISHA GRAVES, inventor, was 
born Aug. 3, 1811, in Halifax, Vt. He put 
into practical operation a hoisting ma¬ 
chine that embodied some novel features 
calculated to automatically prevent loss 
of life in case of the breaking of the lift¬ 
ing cable. In 1867 his sons organized a 
stock company to carry on the manufac¬ 
ture of his inventions, and its business 
now amounts to about $2,000,000 per an¬ 
num. He died April 8, 1861, in Yonkers, 
N. Y. 

OTIS, ELIZA A., journalist, poet. She 
is the author of a volume of poems en¬ 
titled Echoes from Elfland. She is the 
wife of Col. Harrison Gray Otis, owner 
and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles 
Times, of which publication Mrs. Otis is 
associate editor. 

OTIS, MRS. ELIZA [HENDERSON], 
journalist, poet, was born July 27, 1796, in 
Boston, Mass. She was a once prominent 
philanthropist and social leader in Bos¬ 
ton who wrote The Barclays of Boston, a 
novel. She died April 8, 1861, in Yonkers, 
N. Y. 

OTIS, ELWELL STEPHEN, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born March 25, 1838, in Freder¬ 
ick City, Md. He is a United States 
army officer; and the author of The In¬ 
dian Question. 

OTIS, FESSENDEN NOTT, physician, 
author, was born May 6, 1825, in Balls- 
ton, N. Y. He is a physician of New York 
city; and the author of Lessons in Draw¬ 
ing; Tropical Journeyings; History of the 
Panama Railroad; Stricture of the Male 
Urethra; Clinical Lessons on Syphilis; 
and Physiology of Syphilitic Infection. 

OTIS, GEORGE ALEXANDER, surgeon, 
author, was born Nov. 12, 1830, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a surgeon who was cura¬ 
tor of the Army Medical museum at 
Washington; and the author of Report 
of Surgical Cases Treated in the United 
States Army, 1867-71; and Amputation at 
the Hip Joint. He died Feb. 23, 1881, in 
Washington, D. C. 

OTIS, HARRISON GRAY, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, United States 
senator, was born Oct. 8, 1765, in Boston, 
Mass. He was for many years an active 
and leading member of the Massachusetts 
state legislature, serving as speaker and 
president of the senate. He was chosen a 
representative in congress from the Suf¬ 
folk district in 1797, and served through 
President Adams’s administration. In 
1817 he was chosen a senator in congress, 
where he remained for five years. He was 
also judge of the court of common pleas; 
and mayor of Boston. He was the author 
of Letters in Defense of the Hartford Con¬ 
vention; and Orations and Addresses. He 
died Oct. 28, 1848, in Boston, Mass. 

OTIS, JAMES, soldier, orator, author, 
was born Feb. 5, 1725, in West Barnstable, 
Mass. He was a celebrated orator and 
politician, and one of the most active ad¬ 
vocates of American independence. He 
was the author of Rights of the British 
Colonies Asserted and Approved; Vindica¬ 
tion of the British Colonies; Consider¬ 
ations on Behalf of the Colonists; and A 
Vindication of the Rights of the House of 
Representatives of Massachusetts Bay. He 
was killed by lightning May 23, 1783, in 
Andover, Mass. 








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709 


OTIS, JOHN, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1801 in Maine. 
He served five years in the Maine legisla¬ 
ture; was a commissioner for settling the 
northeastern boundary; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Maine from 
1849 to 1851. He died Oct. 17, 1856. 

OTIS, JOHN GRANT, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 10, 1838, in 
Danby, Vt. For over twenty years he 
has been engaged in the dairy business 
near Topeka, Kas. He was elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a people’s party 
candidate. 

OTIS, NORTON PRENTISS, manufac¬ 
turer, state legislator, was born March 
18, 1840, in Halifax, Vt. He is president 
of Otis Brothers and Company. Some of 
the largest elevators in the world are the 
product of these works, including the one 
in the Washington monument, and the 
famous elevator in the Eiffel tower in 
Paris. He was elected mayor of Yonkers 
in 1880 and state assemblyman in 1883. 

OTIS, SAMUEL ALLYNE, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 
1740, in Barnstable, Mass. In 1776 he was 
a representative in the assembly; and sub¬ 
sequently a member of the convention 
which framed the constitution of Massa¬ 
chusetts. From 1787 to 1788 he was a 
delegate to the continental congress, and 
upon the adoption of the constitution was 
appointed secretary of the senate, holding 
that office for more than thirty years. He 
died April 22, 1814, in Washington. 

OTJEN, THEOBOLD, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 27, 1851, in West 

China, Mich. He practiced law in De¬ 
troit during 1875-83, 
when he removed to 
Milwaukee, where he 
has since resided, en¬ 
gaged in the practice 
of law and in the 
real estate business. 
He was elected a 
member of the com¬ 
mon council of the 
city of Milwaukee in 
1887, and was re¬ 
elected for three suc¬ 
cessive terms, serv¬ 
ing seven years in all. He was a trustee 
of the Milwaukee public library from 1887 
to 1891, and a trustee of the Milwaukee 
public museum from 1891 to 1894. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

OTKEN, CHARLES H., clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, college president, author, was born 
Feb. 26, 1839, in New Orleans, La. He 
received the rudiments of his education in 
the public and private schools, and at¬ 
tended the Mississippi college of Clinton. 
During 1867-77 he was principal of the 
Peabody public school of Summit, Miss.; 
was founder of the Lea Female college of 
Summit, and served as its president for 
seventeen years. Since 1894 he has been 
president of the McComb Female institute, 
Miss. He has been trustee of the univer¬ 
sity of Mississippi for four years, and a 
trustee of the Mississippi college for 
twelve years, from which latter institution 
he received the degree of LL. D. He is 
the author of a work on economics en¬ 
titled The Ills of the South; and has con¬ 
tributed essays and various articles to 
the Times-Democrat of New Orleans, and 
other publications. In 1864 he was or¬ 
dained a clergyman in the baptist church; 
has filled several pastorates in Missis¬ 
sippi; and for twelve years gave his 
whole time to teaching. He was twice 
offered the position of state superinten¬ 
dent of public education in Mississippi, 
but declined the honor. 


OTT, ISAAC, physician, author, was 
born Nov. 30, 1847, in Northampton coun¬ 
ty, Pa. He is a physician who has pub¬ 
lished Cocaine, Veratria, and Gelseminum; 
Action of Medicines; and Physiology and 
Pathology of the Nervous System. 

OTTENDORFER, ANNA, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born Feb. 13, 1815, in Moravia. 
In 1875 she established in Astoria, L. I., 
the Isabella Home for Aged Women, 
named in memory of a deceased daughter, 
expending $150,000 on the building and 
endowment. She contributed $40,000 to 
an educational fund, built the women’s 
pavilion of the German hospital, New 
York city, at a cost of $75,000, and gave 
$100,000 for a German dispensary. She 
died April 1, 1884, in New York city. 

OTTENDORFER, OSWALD, journalist, 
was born Dec. 26, 1826, in Moravia. In 
1872-74 he was an alderman, and in 1874 
a candidate for mayor of New York city. 
He gave $300,000 to build and endow an 
educational institution in his native town 
in Austria, founded on Long Island a home 
for aged and indigent men, and estab¬ 
lished the Ottendorfer free library in Sec¬ 
ond avenue, New York city, at an original 
cost of $50,000, which has been augmented 
by annual gifts. 

OTTO, WILLIAM TOD, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Jan. 19, 1817, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was elected a district judge in 
Indiana for six years; and became a pro¬ 
fessor of law in the university of Indiana. 
In 1863 he was appointed assistant secre¬ 
tary of the interior department, and re¬ 
mained in that position until 1871, when 
he was appointed arbitrator on the part 
of the United States, on the commission 
for the settlement of claims of American 
citizens against Spain. In 1875 he was 
appointed reporter of decisions of the su¬ 
preme court. 

OTTS, JOHN MARTIN PHILIP, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 7, 1838, in 
Union, S. C. He is a presbyterian min¬ 
ister of Talladega, Ala.; and the author of 
Nicodemus with Jesus; Light and Life for 
a Dead World; The Southern Pen and 
Pulpit; Inter-denominational Literature; 
The Gospel of Honesty; Laconisms; The 
Fifth Gospel; Unsettled Questions; and 
At Mother’s Knee. 

OURY, GRANVILLE H„ legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 12, 1825, in 
Abington, Va. In 1849 he went to Cali¬ 
fornia and engaged in mining; and in 1856 
settled in Arizona. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in the territorial legislature in 
1866, 1873 and 1875, serving as speaker the 
first two terms. He was elected a dele¬ 
gate from Arizona to the forty-seventh 
congress as a democrat. 

OUTCALT, OTTO O., journalist, legis¬ 
lator, was born Nov. 2, 1858, in Wilming¬ 
ton, Ohio. He is the editor and owner of 
The Courier of Burlington, Kas., in 
which state he has served as a member of 
the legislature. 

OUTERBRIDGE, ALBERT ALBONY, 
lawyer, journalist, was born April 20, 1841, 
in Bermuda. Since 1874 he has been the 
editor-in-chief of the Weekly Notes of 
Cases, of which seventeen volumes have 
been published in Philadelphia. He was 
appointed reporter to the supreme court 
of Pennsylvania in 1881, and edited sev¬ 
eral volumes of reports. This office he 
resigned Jan. 1, 1885, to become the trust 
officer of the Land Title and Trust com¬ 
pany of Philadelphia. 

OUTHWAITE, JOSEPH H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 5, 1841, in Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. He was elected prosecuting 
attorney of Franklin county, Ohio, in 1874, 
and again in 1876. He was one of the 


trustees of the County Children’s home 
from 1879 until 1883; was one of the trus¬ 
tees of the sinking fund of the city of 
Columbus in 1883; and in 1884 was reap¬ 
pointed for a term of five years. He was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected 
to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses as a democrat. In 
1895 he was appointed civilian member of 
the board of ordnance and fortification, 
Columbus, Ohio. 

OUTLAW, DAVID, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Bertie county, N. C. He 
served three years in the house of com¬ 
mons; was elected solicitor of Edenton 
district in 1836; and was a representative 
in congress from North Carolina from 
1847 to 1853. 

OUTLAW, GEORGE C., state senator, 
congressman, was born in Bertie county, 
N. C. He was a member of the house of 
commons in 1796; and in the North Caro¬ 
lina state senate a number of years there¬ 
after. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress during the years 1824 and 1825. He 

died Aug. 15, 1836. 

• 

OVALL, JOHN, journalist, clergyman, 
lecturer, was born Jan. 28, 1863, in Swe¬ 
den. He is a successful pastor of the Scan¬ 
dinavian methodist 
episcopal church; 
has organized 
churches and secured 
church properties at 
Port Lavaca, Vic¬ 
toria, Jasmine, Gan- 
ado, Louise, El Cam- 
po and Galveston, 
Texas. In Galveston 
he also organized the 
Galveston Port so¬ 
ciety, of which he is 
chaplain. He found¬ 
ed and edited the Gospel Herald, and 
now fills a pastorate in Georgetown, 
Texas. 

OVERALL, JOHN WILFORD, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born Sept. 25, 1822, 
in Shenandoah Valley, Va. He has been 
editorially connected with the press of 
Mobile, Richmond, Galveston and St. 
Louis; and from 1876 with the press of 
New York, principally as literary editor 
of the Mercury. He is the author of 
Catechism of the Constitution of the 
United States; and a number of meritori¬ 
ous poems. 

OVERMAN, FREDERICK, civil engin¬ 
eer, author, was born about 1810 in Ger¬ 
many. He was a mining engineer of 
Philadelphia; and the author of The 
Manufacture of Iron; The Manufacture of 
Steel; Political Mineralogy; Moulder’s 
and Founder’s Pocket Guide; Mechanics 
for the Millwright, etc.; and Treatise on 
Metallurgy. He died in 1852 in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

OVERMAN, LEE S., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Jan. 3, 1854, in Salisbury, N. C. 
He is a successful lawyer of his native 
city; was a member of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives of North Carolina in 1883, 1885, 
1887 and in 1893, and was speaker of the 
house during the latter term. He has been 
president of the North Carolina Railroad 
company; and in 1897 was the democratic 
nominee for United States senator. 

OVERMYER, JOHN, legislator. This 
able lawyer has served as a member of 
the Indiana state legislature, and was 
elected speaker of the house. 

OVERSTREET, JAMES, congressman, 
was born in Barnwell, S. C. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1819 to 1822. He died in 1822. 






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OVERSTREET, JESSE, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 14, 1859, in 

Johnson county, Ind. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1886; and is a successful law¬ 
yer of Indianapolis, Ind^ He was elected 
to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

OVERTON, EDWARD, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1836, in 
Towanda, Pa. He served in the union 
army from 1861 to 1864, rising to the rank 
of lieutenant-colonel. He was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania, to the 
forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a 
republican. 

OVERTON, WALTER H„ congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Louisiana from 1829 to 1831. 

OWEN, ABRAHAM, soldier, jurist, leg¬ 
islator, was born in 1769 in Prince Ed¬ 
ward county, Va. He was surveyor of 
Shelby county in 1796, subsequently a mag¬ 
istrate, and colonel of the first militia 
regiment raised in Kentucky. He was in 
the legislature in 1798, a member of the 
state constitutional convention the next 
year, and state senator in 1810. He died 
Nov. 7, 1811, in Tippecanoe courrty, Ind. 

OWEN, ALFRED, clergyman, college 
president, was born July 20, 1829, in 
China, Maine. He has filled pastorates 
in various cities and for several years was 
president of the Denison university of 
Granville, Ohio. He is now president of 
the Roger Williams university of Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn. 

OWEN, ALLEN F., diplomat, congress¬ 
man, was born in North Carolina. He 
moved to Georgia; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1849 to 1851. 
He was subsequently appointed consul at 
Havana. 

OWEN, DAVID DALE, geologist, au¬ 
thor, was born June 24, 1807, in Scotland. 
He was state geologist of Indiana; and 
the author of Report of a Geological Sur¬ 
vey of Kentucky; Geological Survey of 
Wisconsin; and Report of a Geological 
Reconnoissance. He died Nov. 13, 1860, 
in New Harmony, Ind. 

OWEN, FRANCIS BROWNING, lawyer, 
poet, was born in October, 1830, in Ma¬ 
comb county, Mich. He attended the 
Branch university of Ann Arbor, Mich., 
and has attained success as a noted law¬ 
yer in Berrien Springs, Mich. He is the 
author of The Legend of Winona; Poems; 
Columbia, and Other Poems; Two Bells; 
Forty Sonnets; and other poetical works. 

OWEN, GEORGE W., congressman, 
was born in 1798 in Brunswick county, Va. 
He was a speaker of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives in Alabama; and mayor of Mo¬ 
bile. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1823 to 1829, 
when he was appointed collector of the 
port of Mobile. He died Aug. 18, 1839, in 
Mobile, Ala. 

OWEN, JAMES, planter, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born in 1784 in 
Bladen county, N. C. He was a general of 
militia; and was four years a member 
of the legislature. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from North Carolina from 
1817 to 1819. He died Sept. 4, 1865, in 
Wilmington, N. C. 

OWEN. JOHN, planter, state legislator, 
governor, was born in August, 1787, in 
Bladen county, N. C. He was in the legis¬ 
lature in 1812-28; and was elected govern¬ 
or of North Carolina in the latter year. 
He died Oct. 12, 1841, in Pittsburg, N. C. 

OWEN, JOHN, publisher, was born 
March 28, 1805, in Portland, Maine. He 
aided Mr. Longfellow in the preparation 
of his Poems o£ Places, especially in veri¬ 


fying authorship. He was also the friend 
and literary adviser of Charles Sumner, 
and induced him to publish his writings in 
a uniform edition. He died April 22, 1882, 
in Cambridge, Mass. 

OWEN, JOHN JASON, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 13, 1803, in Cole- 
brook, Conn. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman and educator of New York 
city; and the author of Commentary on 
the Gospels; Acts of the Apostles in 
Greek, with Lexicon; and text-book edi¬ 
tions of Xenophon, Thucydides, and Ho¬ 
mer. He died April 18, 1869, in New York 
city. 

OWEN, JOSHUA THOMAS, soldier, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, journalist, was born 
March 29, 1821, in Wales. He founded in 
1871 the New York Daily Register, a law 
journal, which became the official organ 
of the New York courts in 1873, and he 
continued on its editorial staff until his 
death. He died Nov. 7, 1887, in Chestnut 
Hill, Pa. 

OWEN, MARY ALICIA, author. Her 
work entitled Voodoo Tales has been a 
pronounced success in America and Eu¬ 
rope. She has also 
written a book en¬ 
titled Voodoo Mag¬ 
ic, for the English 
Folk-Lore Society; 
and a novel of In¬ 
dian life entitled The 
Daughter of Alon- 
ette; and she is also 
the author of Myths. 
Customs and Cere¬ 
monials of the Al¬ 
gonquin Tribes in 
the Middle West. 
Since 1892 she has read many papers 
on Indian life before eastern and south¬ 
ern audiences; and she possesses one of 
the largest collections of Indian bead- 
work in the world. 

OWEN, MOSES, poet, was born in 1838. 
in Bath, Maine. He was the author of a 
volume of poems entitled Plymouth 
Church, and Other Poems. He died in 
November, 1878, in Augusta, Maine. 

OWEN, RICHARD, geologist, author, 
was born Jan. 6, 1810, in Scotland. He 
was a geologist of New Harmony, Ind. 
He succeeded his brother David as state 
geologist in 1860, and was author of a Key 
to the Geology of the Globe. He died in 
1890. 

OWEN, ROBERT, social reformer, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born May 14, 1771, in 
North Wales. He endeavored to embody 
his social reform principles in a communi¬ 
ty three times, the last at New Harmony, 
Ind., but they were all unsuccessful. His 
followers bore the name of Owenites, from 
which sprang the English Chartists. He 
died Nov. 19, 1858, in North Wales. 

OWEN, ROBERT DALE, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, author, was born Nov. 
9, 1800, in Scotland. In 1835 he was cho¬ 
sen to the Indiana legislature, and twice 
re-elected. In 1843 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Indiana, and 
re-elected in 1845. In 1853 he was ap¬ 
pointed minister to Naples. He was ac¬ 
tive in political life, and was an ardent 
advocate of spiritualism. He was the au¬ 
thor of Outlines of the System of 
Education at New Lanark; Moral Physi¬ 
ology; Popular Traits; Pocahontas, a 
drama; Hints on Public Architecture; The 
Wrong of Slavery and the Right of Free¬ 
dom; Footfalls on the Boundary of An¬ 
other World; Beyond the Breakers, a 
novel; Threading my Way; and Debat¬ 
able Land between this World and the 
Next. He died June 17, 1877, on Lake 
George, N. Y. 




OWEN, ROBERT LATHAM, lawyer, 
politician, banker, was born Feb. 2, 1856, 
in Lynchburg, Va. He attended the Wash¬ 
ington and Lee uni¬ 
versity of Lexington, 
Va.; took the debat¬ 
ers’ medal, the presi¬ 
dent’s scholarship; 
was valedictorian of 
his class; and in 1877 
received the degree 
of A. M. He then 
taught school in Bal¬ 
timore, and in the 
Cherokee Orphan 
asylum. He edited 
the Indian Chieftain; 
was secretary of the Old Settlers of Cher¬ 
okee; was secretary of the board of edu¬ 
cation of the Cherokee nation; president 
of the Indian International Fair associa¬ 
tion; was United States Indian agent to 
the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, 
Creeks, and Seminoles. He served as 
secretary of the first bar association in 
Indian territory; founded and became 
president of the First National bank of 
Muskogee in 1890; and was fiscal agent for 
the Choctaw nation with a one-million- 
dollar bond in 1889. Mr. Owen has dis¬ 
tinguished himself by diplomatic services 
rendered the Indians of the Indian terri¬ 
tory; framed the present school laws 
of the Cherokee nation, and organized on 
improved lines their schools. 


OWEN. SAMUEL JOSEPH, farmer, 
journalist, was born Dec. 30, 1867, near 
Blue Mountain, Miss. He is a successful 
farmer and editor and publisher of The 
Southern ' Sentinel of Ripley, Miss. He 
has filled various offices of trust in his 
county and state; and is prominent in 
religious affairs. 

OWEN, TIMOTHY S., educator, lawyer, 
author, was born July 18, 1865, near Pey- 
tonsburg, Ky. He obtained a common 
school education and 
was engaged i n 
teaching in the public 
schools of his native 
county for three 
years. He attended 
the National Normal 
univ ersity at Leba¬ 
non, Ohio; studied 
law and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar by 
the supreme court of 
the state of Ohio in 
1893. He has built up 
a very lucrative law practice in Muncie, 
Ind.; and is one of the prominent repub¬ 
lican speakers of his section of the coun¬ 
try. He was engaged in a number of 
joint discussions with the best orators 
and speakers of the democratic party and 
advocates of free silver. 



OWEN. WILLIAM D., clergyman, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Sept. 6, 1846, 
in Bloomington. Ind. He entered the min¬ 
istry of the Christian church, and re¬ 
moved to Logansport in 1881. In 1884 
he was elected a representative from In¬ 
diana to the forty-ninth congress; and 
was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first 
congresses as a republican. He was en¬ 
gaged in literary pursuits, being the au¬ 
thor, among other writings, of Success in 
Life; and The Genius of Industry. 

OWEN, WILLIAM MILLER, soldier, 
author, was born Jan. 10, 1832, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. He served in the confederate 
army with the Washington artillery of 
New Orleans. In 1890 he assisted Mrs. 
Jefferson Davis in the preparation of the 
military chapters of her Memoir of her 
husband. He is the author of In Camp 
and Battle with the Washington Artil¬ 
lery. He died Jan. 10,1893, in New Orleans. 






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OWENS, MRS. FRANCES E., educator, 
journalist, author, was born May 4, 1843, 
in Sidney, N. Y. She taught for eight 
years in the Chicago public schools. She 
is the author of Mrs. Owens’s Cook Book, 
which has had an extensive sale in the 
United States. She is also the author of 
a very comprehensive Household Manual; 
and is the associate editor of The Chef, a 
culinary magazine of Chicago. 

OWENS, GEORGE W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman. He was a prominent member 
of the Georgia bar; and was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1835 to 1839. He died in 1856, in Savan¬ 
nah. 

OWENS, JAMES W., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 
24, 1837, in Springfield township, Ind. He 
was elected prosecuting attorney of Lick¬ 
ing county in 1867, and re-elected in 1869. 
He was elected to the Ohio senate in 1875, 
and re-elected in 1877, and was elected 
president of the senate. He was elected 
to the fifty-first, and re-elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a democrat. 

OWENS, WILLIAM A,, lawyer, was 
born Feb. 4, 1862, in Well Spring, Tenn. 
He attended the best schools; was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, and has attained suc¬ 
cess as an able lawyer in Tazewell, Tenn. 

OWENS, WILLIAM CLAIBORNE, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 17, 1849, in Scott county, Ky. He 
v f as elected county attorney for Scott coun¬ 
ty in 1874, and resigned in 1877. He served 
five terms in the Kentucky legislature, 
one term as speaker of the house of rep¬ 
resentatives. He was democratic elector 
in 1880 and delegate from the state at 
large to the Chicago convention in 1892. 
He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress 
as a democrat. 

OWSLEY, BRYAN Y., congressman, 
was born in Kentucky. He was a repre- 
sentath e in congress from that state from 
1841 to 1843. 

OWSLEY, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, governor, was born in 
1782, in Virginia. He represented Gar¬ 
rard county for several years in the Ken¬ 
tucky legislature; and was judge of the 
supreme court of the state from 1812 to 
1828. He removed to Boyle county in 
1843; and was governor of Kentucky from 
1844 to 1848. He died in December, 1862, 
in Danville, Ky. 

OXENBRIDGE, JOHN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 30, 1609, in England. 
He was a popular preacher, and published 
The Duty of Watchfulness; Election Ser¬ 
mon; Seasonable Seeking of God; and 
Proposition for Propagating the Gospel by 
Christian Colonies in Guiana. He died 
Dec. 28, 1674, in Boston, Mass. 

PABOR, WILLIAM EDGAR, journalist, 
author, poet, was born May 31, 1834, in 
Harlem, N. Y. In 1870 he moved to Col¬ 
orado; and he was one of the founders 
of Greeley, Colorado Springs, and Fort 
Collins. In 1888 he founded The Fruita 
Star; and was subsequently president of 
the Colorado State Editorial association. 
He now resides in Denver; and is a con¬ 
stant contributor of both prose and verse 
to periodical literature. 

PABST, FREDERICK, brewer, was 
born March 28, 1836, in Germany. He is 
the proprietor of the largest brewery in 
the world in Milwaukee, Wis. He now 
controls about £4,000,000 of real estate in 
Milwaukee aside from the breweries, and 
owns the Wauwatosa farm near the city, 
devoted to the breeding of Percheron 
horses. He is president of the Wisconsin 
National bank. 

PACA, WILLIAM, signer of the declara¬ 
tion of independence, was born Oct. 31, 


1740, in Wye Hall, Md. He was a member 
of the Maryland legislature in 1771, and 
opposed the royal government. He was a 
delegate to the continental congress from 
1774 to 1779; and was a signer of the 
declaration of independence. He was state 
senator from 1777 to 1779; chief justice 
of the state from 1778 to 1780; and chief 
judge of the court of appeals and ad¬ 
miralty from 1780 to 1782. He was elected 
governor in 1782 and 1786. He was a 
member of the convention which ratified 
the constitution in 1788; and was United 
States district judge from 1789 until his 
death. He died in 1799. 

PACHECO, ROMUALDO, agriculturist, 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 31, 1831, in Sant? 
Barbara, Cal. He was a representative in 
the California state legislature in 1853; 
and in 1855 was elected county judge, and 
ser\ ed four years. He was a state senator 
in 1851, and again in 1861. He was elected 
state treasurer in 1863; and was again in 
the state legislature in 1868. He was 
elected lieutenant-governor in 1871; and 
became governor by the election of Gov¬ 
ernor Booth to the United States senate. 
He was elected a representative from Cali¬ 
fornia to the forty-fifth congress, but his 
seat was successfully contested; and was 
re-elected to the forty-sixth and forty- 
seventh congresses as a republican. 

PACKARD, ALPHEUS SPRING, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born in 1798, 
in Chelmsford, Mass. In 1816 he gradu¬ 
ated from Bowdoin 
college, and subse¬ 
quently attained suc¬ 
cess in educational 
work. During 1819-24 
he w,as a tutor in his 
alma mater; during 
1824-65 he filled the 
chair of Latin and 

_ Greek languages; 

i xl -omit and was also college 
librarian. He edited 
the works of Dr. Ap¬ 
pleton in two vol¬ 
umes; contributed valuable papers on the 
history of the monument on Bunker Hill 
to the Maine Historical society; and va¬ 
rious other papers to the North American 
Review and other publications. He died 
July 13, 1884, on Squirrel Island, Maine. 

PACKARD, ALPHEUS SPRING, natu¬ 
ralist, educator, author, was born Feb. 19, 
1839, in Brunswick, Maine. He is a natu¬ 
ralist of eminence, and professor of geol¬ 
ogy and zoology in Brown university since 
1878. He is the author of Zoology; Life 
Histories of Animals, or Comparative Em¬ 
bryology; Guide to the Study of Insects; 
Half-Hours with Insects; Our Common 
Insects; Entomology for Beginners; A 
Naturalist on the Labrador Coast; and 
Observations on the Glacial Phenomena 
of Labrador and Maine. 

PACKARD, MRS. ELIZABETH PAR¬ 
SONS WARE, reformer, philanthropist, 
was born in 1816, in Ware, Mass. Her 
father was the founder of the town of her 
nativity. She secured the adoption for 
thirty-four states of laws for the protec¬ 
tion of insane persons; and further se¬ 
cured in many states legal recognition of 
married women regarding their property. 
She gave thirty years of her life to this 
humane work, and expended fifty thou¬ 
sand dollars in prosecuting the work. She 
died in July, 1895. 

PACKARD, FREDERICK ADOLPHUS, 
author, was born Sept. 25, 1794, in Marl¬ 
borough, Mass. He was a Philadelphia 
writer and editor for nearly forty years 
of the publications of the American Sun¬ 
day School union. He was the author of 


The Teacher Taught; Life of Robert 
Owen; Visit to European Hospitals; The 
Teacher Teaching; and Union Bible Dic¬ 
tionary. He died Nov. 11, 1867, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

PACKARD, HEZEKIAH, soldier, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born Dec. 
6, 1761, in North Bridgewater, Mass. He 
originated the Bible society of Lincoln 
county, Maine; the Eastern Evangelical 
society, which existed for a few years; 
and was a member of the board of trus¬ 
tees and overseers of Bowdoin college for 
more than twenty years. He published 
The Christian’s Manual, and numerous 
sermons. He died April 22, 1849, in Sa¬ 
lem, Mass. 

PACKARD, JASPER, soldier, lawyer, 
journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 1, 
1832, in Austintown, Ohio. He moved to 
Laporte, Ind., and there edited the Union 
newspaper. In 1865 he was appointed a 
brigadier-general by brevet, for meri¬ 
torious services during the war. In 1866 
he became auditor of Laporte county, 
holding the office until 1868, when he was 
elected a representative from Indiana to 
the forty-first congress. He was re-elected 
to the forty-second and forty-third con¬ 
gresses as a republican. He is now the 
editor and owner of The Evening and 
Weekly Tribune of New Albany, Ind. 

PACKARD, JOHN HOOKER, surgeon, 
author, was born Aug. 15, 1832, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is a surgeon of Philadel¬ 
phia, surgeon to the Pennsylvania hospital 
from 1884; and.the author of Manual of 
Minor Surgery; Lectures on Inflamma¬ 
tion; Handbook of Operative Surgery; 
and Sea Air and Sea Bathing. 

PACKARD, LEWIS RICHARD, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Aug. 22, 1836, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was an educator 
who was professor of Greek at Yale uni¬ 
versity from 1866; and author of Studies 
in Greek Thought. He died Oct. 26, 1884, 
in New Haven, Conn. 

PACKARD, N. LUTHER, clergyman, 
evangelist, was born Dec. 31, 1851, in 
Brockton, Mass. He graduated with hon¬ 
ors from the Wiscon¬ 
sin State university, 
and from the Chica¬ 
go Theological semi¬ 
nary. He has at¬ 
tained success as an 
eminent clergyman 
of the congregational 
church; and has 
filled pastorates in 
Nashua, Ionia, and 
Buffalo Center, Iowa. 
For ten years he was 
president of the 
third district of the Young People’s State 
Christian Endeavor of Iowa; has also 
been the state superintendent for Iowa of 
the Iowa congregational churches; and 
also a state evangelist of Iowa. 

PACKARD, SILAS SADLER, educator, 
author, was born April 28, 1826, in Cum- 
ington, Mass. He is an educator who 
founded a business 
college in New York 
city. He is the best- 
known business-col¬ 
lege man in the 
United States, and he 
was very successful 
in promoting the 
business educators’ 
exhibit at the 
World’s Fair. He is 
the author of Bryant 
and Stratton’s Book¬ 
keeping Series; Com¬ 
plete Course of Business Training; Com¬ 
mercial Arithmetic; and New Manual of 
Bookkeeping. 








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PACKARD, SOPHIA B., educator, was 
born Jan. 3, 1824, in New Salem, Mass. 
In 1881 she opened a school for women 
and girls at Atlanta, Ga. She died June 
21, 1891, in Washington, D. C. 

PACKER, ASA, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 
1806, in Groton, Conn. He designed and 
built the Lehigh Valley railroad, as well 
as the railroad leading from Mauch Chunk 
to Erie. He gave five hundred thousand 
dollars and land to found the Lehigh uni¬ 
versity. He was elected to the Pennsyl¬ 
vania state legislature; served as judge 
of a county court; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1853 to 1857. In 1875 he was appointed 
a commissioner to the centennial exhibi¬ 
tion. He died May 17, 1879, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

PACKER, HORACE B., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in Wells- 
boro, Pa. He was elected district attor¬ 
ney for three years, and served one year 
by appointment just prior to his election. 
In 1884 he was elected to the Pennsylvania 
house of representatives, and re-elected 
in 1886. In 1888 he was elected to the 
state senate; and was elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 

PACKER, JOHN B., lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born March 21, 
1824, in Sunbury, Pa. He was a district 
attorney from 1842 
to 1847; and was a 
member of the state 
legislature in 1850 
and 1851. He was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the forty- 
first congress. He 
served on the com¬ 
mittees on banking 
and currency, and 
the interior depart¬ 
ment; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-second, forty-third, 
and forty-fourth congresses as a republic 
can. He served on several important 
committees, and as chairman of the com¬ 
mittee on post-offices and post roads. He 
died July 7, 1891, in Sunbury, Pa. 

PACKER, WILLIAM FISHER, journal¬ 
ist, state senator, governor, was born 
April 2, 1807, in Howard, Pa. He pub¬ 
lished the Lycoming Gazette from 1827 
to 1836; was canal commissioner from 
1839 to 1842; and state auditor from 1842 
to 1845. He was state senator from 1845 
to 1848; and then president of the Sus¬ 
quehanna Railroad company until its con¬ 
solidation with the Northern Central Rail¬ 
road company, of which he was director 
until 1858. He was governor of Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1858 to 1861. He died Sept. 27, 
1870, in Williamsport, Pa. 

PADDOCK, ALGERNON SIDNEY, law¬ 
yer, governor, United States senator, was 
born Nov. 9, 1830, in Glens Falls, N. Y. 

He settled in Ne¬ 
braska in 1857; was 
a delegate to the na- 
t i o n a 1 republican 
convention in 1860; 
and was appointed 
secretary of Nebras¬ 
ka territory in 1861, 
which office he held 
until the admission 
of the state in 1867. 
He was a delegate to 
the Baltimore con¬ 
vention of 1864; was 
a candidate for congress in 1868; and was 
appointed governor of Wyoming territory 
in 1868, and declined the office. He was 
elected a senator in congress from Ne¬ 


braska for the term commencing in 1875 
and ending in 1881; and was re-elected 
for term ending in 1893. In 1882-86 he 
was a member of the Utah commission. 
He died Oct. 17, 1897, in Beatrice, Neb. 

PADDOCK, BENJAMIN HENRY, bish¬ 
op, author, was born Feb. 28, 1828, in 
Norwich, Conn. He was the fifth protest- 
ant episcopal bishop of Massachusetts 
in 1873-91; and the author of Ten Years 
in the Episcopate; The First Century of 
the Diocese of Massachusetts; The Pas¬ 
toral Relation; and The Foundation of 
Religious Belief. He died in 1891. 

PADDOCK, MRS. CORNELIA, author, 
was born in 18—. She is the author of 
In the Toils; and The Fate of Madame 
la Tour, a Tale of Great Salt Lake. 

PADDOCK, JOHN ADAMS, protestant 
episcopal bishop, author, was born Jan. 
19, 1825, in Norwich, Conn. In 1880 he 
was consecrated missionary bishop of 
Washington territory. His publications 
include several occasional sermons and 
addresses, and a History of Christ Church 
of Stratford, Conn. 

PADELFORD, SETH, governor. He was 
elected governor of Rhode Island in 1869, 
and remained in office until 1875. He died 
Aug. 26, 1878, in Providence, R. I. 

PAGE, CARROLL SMALLEY, mer¬ 
chant, banker, legislator, governor, was 
born Jan. 10, 1843, in Westfield, Vt. He 
attended the Lamoille Central academy 
of Hyde Park, Yt. In 1869-72 he was a 
member of the Vermont house of repre¬ 
sentatives; in 1874-76 a member of the 
state senate; during 1872-88 was a mem¬ 
ber of the republican state committee, and 
chairman of that committee in 1886-88. 
During 1890-92 he served with distinction 
as governor of Vermont. He is a success¬ 
ful merchant and dealer in green calf¬ 
skin, and in that line of business is said 
to be the largest dealer in the world. He 
is president of the bank, and prominent¬ 
ly identified with various other business 
enterprises. 

PAGE, CHARLES EDWARD, physician, 
author, was born in 1840 in Maine. He 
is a physician of Boston; and the author 
of How to Treat the Baby; Natural Cure 
of Consumption; Horses: their Feed and 
Feet; and Pneumonia and Typhoid Fever. 

PAGE, CHARLES GRAFTON, public 
official, author, was born Jan, 25, 1812, in 
Salem, Mass. He was an examiner in the 
patent office at Washington from 1840, 
who published Psychomancy, Spirit Rap- 
pings, and Table Tippings Exposed. He 
died May 5, 1868, in Washington, D. C. 

PAGE, CHARLES HARRISON, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born July 19, 1843, in Gloucester, R. I. 
In 1872 he was admitted to the Rhode Is¬ 
land bar, and has practiced his profession 
since in Providence. He was elected to 
the state house of representatives in 1872 
and 1873 from his native place; and in 
1874 was elected to the state senate, and 
re-elected in 1875, 1884, 1885, and 1890. 
He was elected to the fifty-second con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the fifty- 
third congress at a special election. 

PAGE, CHARLES HARRISON, JR., 
lawyer, state senator, was born Nov. 26, 
1870, in Scituate, R. I. He practices law 
in his native city; and since 1895 has 
served as a member of the Rhode Island 
state senate. 

PAGE, DAVID PERKINS, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born July 4, 1810, in Epping, 
N. H. He was a prominent educator of 
Albany; and the author of Theory and 
Practice of Teaching, which was long pop¬ 
ular. He died Jan. 1, 1848, in Albany, 
N. Y. 


PAGE, EMILY REBECCA, poet, was 
born May 5, 1834, in Bradford, Vt. She 
was a poet of Vermont whose work, which 
enjoyed local fame, is included in the vol¬ 
ume, Lily of the Valley. She died Feb. 
14, 1862, in Chelsea. Mass. 

PAGE, HENRY C., journalist, was born 
April 1, 1833, in Troy, N. Y. This well- 
known journalist is the editor and owner 
of the Bayonne Herald; and has been 
president of the Editorial Press associa¬ 
tion of New Jersey. 

PAGE, HORACE FRANCIS, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 20, 1833, in Orleans 
county, N. Y. He was elected from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the forty-third congress; and 
was re-elected to the forty-fourth, forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

PAGE, JEFFERSON G„ soldier, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born March 10, 1836, in 
Wilson county, Tenn. In 1862 he enlisted 
in company A, eighth 
regiment Kentucky 
cavalry; and was 
subsequently com¬ 
missioned hospital 
steward. He is now 
a successful physi¬ 
cian of Doniphan, 
Mo. In 1895 he was 
elected vice - presi¬ 
dent of the National 
league for Missouri; 
has been a delegate 
to numerous medical 
congresses and has contributed valuable 
articles to medical literature. 

PAGE, JOHN, soldier, congressman, 
governor, author, was born April 17, 1743, 
in Rosewell, Va. He was lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of Virginia. He commanded a mili¬ 
tia regiment during the British invasion; 
and was one of the first representatives to 
congress from Virginia, serving from 1789 
to 1797. He was presidential elector in 
1800; and governor of the state from 
1802 to 1805. He published addresses to 
the people in 1796 to 1799; and was 
commissioner of loans for Virginia from 
1806 until his death. He died Oct. 11, 1808, 
in Richmond, Va. 

PAGE, JOHN, agriculturist, state legis¬ 
lator, United States senator, governor, 
was born May 21, 1787, in Haverhill, N. H. 
He served in the New Hampshire legisla¬ 
ture in 1818, 1819, 1820, and 1835; and in 
1836 was chosen a member of the execu¬ 
tive council, and again in 1838. During 
the intervening year, 1837, he served as a 
senator in congress to fill a vacancy. He 
was governor of New Hampshire from 
1839 to 1842. He died Sept. 8, 1865, in 
Concord, N. H. 

PAGE, JOHN B., governor, was born in 
1826, in Rutland, Vt. He was governor of 
that state from 1867 to 1869. He died Oct. 
24, 1885. 

PAGE, JULIAETTE NASH, educator, 
poet, was born July 2, 1819, in Sherburne, 
N. Y. She taught private scholars in mu¬ 
sic, French, and intellectual and moral 
sciences. In 1846 she was married to Gen¬ 
eral C. W. Page, and was left a widow 
in 1870. Her son, Charles F. N. Page, is 
the editor of The Western Gardener of 
Des Moines, Iowa, where he is a promi¬ 
nent seed merchant. 

PAGE, MANN, congressman, was born 
in 1749, in Rosewell, Va. He was a dele¬ 
gate from Virginia to the continental con¬ 
gress in 1777. He died near Fredericks¬ 
burg, Va. 

PAGE, OLIN W. WINFIELD, poet. He 
is a poet of rare excellence, and well- 
known throughout New England. He is 
the author of a published volume of col¬ 
lected poems, and has contributed exten¬ 
sively to current literature. 








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PAGE, RICHARD CHANNING MOORE, 
physician, author, was born Jan. 2, 1841, 
in Keswick, Va. During the civil war he 
served in the confederate army. He en¬ 
tered as a private; was severely wounded 
at Gettysburg; and in 1864 was made 
chief of artillery for the department of 
southwest Virginia and East Tennessee on 
the staff of General John C. Breckinridge. 
Since 1868 he has practiced medicine in 
the city of New York; has been house 
physician at Bellevue hospital, and house 
surgeon in the Woman’s hospital. Since 

1886 he has been professor of the diseases 
of the chest and general medicine in the 
New York Polyclinic. He is the author 
of A Practice of Medicine; Page’s Physi¬ 
cal Diagnosis; Chart of Physical Science; 
and numerous pamphlets on medical sub¬ 
jects. He is also the author of a Genealo¬ 
gy of the Page Family in Virginia. 

PAGE, ROBERT, congressman, was 
born in 1764, in North End, Va. He was 
a representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1799 to 1801. He died Jan. 1, 1840, in 
Virginia. 

PAGE, SHERMAN, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in Con¬ 
necticut. He served in the assembly of 
New York from Otsego county in 1827; 
and was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1833 to 1837. He was also 
judge of the common pleas in Otsego coun¬ 
ty. He died in Unadilla, N. Y. 

PAGE, THOMAS JEFFERSON, soldier, 
author, was born Jan. 4, 1808, in Shelby, 
Va. He was a naval officer in the service 
of the southern confederacy in 1861-62; 
and the author of La Plata, the Argentine 
Confederation, and Paraguay. 

PAGE, THOMAS NELSON, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born April 23, 1853, in Oakland, 
Va. He is a lawyer of Richmond, Va., 
whose studies of southern life are nota¬ 
ble for a singular charm of style. He is 
the author of In Old Virginia; Two Little 
Confederates; On Newfound River; Els- 
ket, and Other Stories; The Old South; 
Pastime Stories; Essays, Social and Po¬ 
litical; Unc’ Edinburg, a Plantation Echo; 
The Burial of the Guns; Polly; Among 
the Camps; Meh Lady; Marse Chan; and 
Befo’ de War. 

PAGE, WALTER HINES, journalist, 
was born Aug. 15, 1855, in Cary, N. C. In 

1887 he became manager and stockholder 
of the Forum, one of the most important 
high-class periodicals in the UnitedStates; 
and in 1891 he became its editor. 

PAGE, WILLIAM BYRD, surgeon, edu¬ 
cator, was born May 19, 1817, in Page- 
brook, Va. He was for many years pro¬ 
fessor of surgery in Pennsylvania Medi- 
■cal college, and surgeon to the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Institution for the Blind. He died 
Feb. 18, 1877, in Philadelphia. 

PAIGE, ALLEN WALLACE, legislator, 
tvas born Feb. 28, 1855, in Sherman, Conn. 
He is the senior partner of the firm of 
Paige and Carroll, one of the most success¬ 
ful law firms in Bridgeport, Conn. In 
1882 he was elected a member of the lower 
house of the general assembly, and in 1890 
was returned to the house from the town 
-of Huntington. 

PAIGE, ALONZO CHRISTOPHER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state senator, author, was born 
July 31, 1797, in Schagliticoke, N. Y. He 
was sent to the New York legislature in 
1826, and served for four years. In 1837-42 
he was a member of the state senate. On 
the introduction of the elective judiciary 
system in 1847 he was chosen a judge of 
the supreme court, and served for four 
years. He compiled eleven volumes of Re¬ 
ports of Cases in the Court of Chancery, 
four of which he revised and annotated in 
1856-57. He died March 31, 1868, in Schen- 
. -ectady, N. Y. 


PAIGE, CHARLES L., poet, was born 
Dec. 9, 1859, in Pontiac, Ill. Since 1873 
he has lived in Shasta, Cal., and has 
served as postmast¬ 
er, telegraph opera¬ 
tor, and been a suc¬ 
cessful merchant. He 
is the author of a 
volume of poems en¬ 
titled The White 
Shoshone; and other 
works. He is also a 
constant contributor 
of both prose and 
verse to current pub¬ 
lications; and his po¬ 
ems have been given 
a place in several standard collections. 

PAIGE, DAVID RAYMOND, merchant, 
congressman, was born April 8, 1844, in 
Madison, Ohio. He engaged in the hard¬ 
ware business in Akron, Ohio; and was 
elected treasurer of Summit county in 
1874, and re-elected in 1876. He was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
forty-eighth congress as a democrat. 

PAIGE, LUCIUS ROBINSON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 8, 1802, in 
Hardwick, Mass. He was a universalist 
clergyman who retired from the ministry 
in 1839, and subsequently filled several of¬ 
fices of trust in Cambridge. He was the 
author of Commentary on the New Testa¬ 
ment; History of Cambridge, 1630-1877, 
with Genealogical Register; and History 
of Hardwick, Massachusetts. He died in 
1896. 

PAINE, ALBERT WARE, lawyer, was 
born Aug. 16, 1812, in Winslow, Maine. 
He has practiced law for sixty-two years 
continuously. In the state of Maine he 
has been bank and insurance examiner, 
insurance commissioner, tax commission¬ 
er, president of Maine Telegraph com¬ 
pany, and president of the Penobscot bar. 
He is the author of Paine Genealogy and 
New Philosophy, and has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to current publications. 

PAINE, CHARLES, manufacturer, gov¬ 
ernor, was born April 15, 1799, in Wil- 
liamstown, Vt. He was a liberal patron 
of the university of Vermont and the 
Northfield academy; and was governor of 
the state from 1841 to 1843. He died July 
6, 1853, in Waco, Texas. 

PAINE, CHARLES JACKSON, soldier, 
was born Aug. 26, 1833, in Boston, Mass. 
He served with distinction through the 
civil war, and attained the brevet of ma¬ 
jor-general of volunteers. He has taken 
much interest in yachting; and was one 
of the builders of the Puritan; and in 
1886-87 built alone Mayflower. 

PAINE, ELEAZAR A., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1815, 
in Parkman, Ohio. He served in the Illi¬ 
nois state legislature in 1852-53. He served 
with distinction through the civil war, 
and attained the rank of brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers. He died Dec. 16, 1882, 
in Jersey City, N. J. 

PAINE, ELIJAH, lawyer. United States 
senator, was born Jan. 21, 1757, in Brook¬ 
lyn, Conn. In 1787 he was elected to the 
Vermont state legislature, and so con¬ 
tinued until 1791, when he was appointed 
judge of the supreme court. He was a 
trustee of Dartmouth college; president 
of the Vermont Colonization society; and 
a pecuniary benefactor of the university 
of Vermont. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Vermont from 1795 to 1801; 
and in 1801 was appointed judge of the 
district court of Vermont, which office he 
held until within a month of his death, 
when he resigned. He died April 28, 1842, 
in Williamstown, Vt. 


PAINE, ELIJAH, lawyer, jurist, author, 
was born April 10, 1796, in Williamstown, 
Vt. He was a jurist and legal writer of 
New York city; and the author of Paine’s 
Reports; and Practice in Civil Actions 
and Proceedings in the State of New York. 
He died Oct. 6, 1853, in New York city. 

PAINE, EPHRAIM, congressman. He 
was a delegate from New York to the 
continental congress in 1784 and 1785. 

PAINE, HALBERT E., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Feb. 4, 1826, 
in Chardon, Ohio. He entered the army 
in 1861 as colonel of the fourth Wisconsin 
regiment; and was brevetted a major- 
general in 1865. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Wisconsin to the thirty- 
ninth congress; and was re-elected to the 
fortieth and forty-first congresses as a re¬ 
publican. He is the author of a Treatise 
on the Law of Elections to Public Offices. 

PAINE, HARRIET ELIZA, educator, 
author, was born in 18—, in Massachu¬ 
setts. She is a Boston educator; and the 
author of Girls and Women, a helpful 
book for girls. 

PAINE, HORACE MARSHFIELD, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Nov. 19, 1827, in 
Paris, N. Y. He began to practice as a 
homceopathist in Albany, where he has 
continued, with the exception of the years 
1855-65, when he was in Clinton, N. Y. 
He was an editor of the Medical Union of 
New York in 1873-74; and is the author 
of many contributions to medical litera¬ 
ture. 

PAINE, JOHN ALSOP, archaeologist, 
was born Jan. 14, 1840, in Newark, N. J. 
In 1872 he was appointed archaeologist to 
the first expedition that was sent by the 
Palestine Exploration society to regions 
ease of the Jordan and the Dead sea. In 
1873 he discovered and deciphered one 
Roman and two Greek inscriptions near 
Beirut, Syria, the chief one of which, in 
Greek, he made the subject of a special 
report, and it was published in the Second 
Statement of the society. 

PAINE, JOHN KNOWLES, musician, 
composer, was born Jan. 9, 1839, in Port¬ 
land, Maine. He has given organ con¬ 
certs in Europe and America; and many 
of his orchestral works have been per¬ 
formed in the principal cities of the 
United States. His first symphony was 
brought out by Theodore Thomas in 1876. 
He composed the centennial hymn to the 
words of John G. Whittier that was sung 
at the opening of the exhibition in Phila¬ 
delphia in 1876. He is ranked among the 
foremost living composers. 

PAINE, LEVI LEONARD, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 10, 1848, 
in Holbrook, Mass. He is professor of 
ecclesiastical history in the Bangor Theo¬ 
logical seminary; and a congregational 
clergyman well known throughout the 
United States. He is the author of a 
volume of sermons and addresses, and 
has contributed various articles to relig¬ 
ious journals. 

PAINE, MARTYN, physician, author, 
was born July 8, 1794, in Williamstown, 
Vt. He was a physician of New York 
city; and the author of Medical and 
Physiological Commentaries; Institutes ' 
of Medicine; The Cholera Asphyxia of 
New York (1832); Physiology of Diges¬ 
tion; Physiology of the Soul and In¬ 
stinct as Distinguished from Materialism; 
Review of Theoretical Geology; The 
Philosophy of Vitality; Defense of the 
Medical Profession of the United States; 

A Therapeutical Arrangement of Materia 
Medica; and Organic Life Distinguished 
from Chemical and Physical Doctrines. He 
died Nov. 10, 1877, in New York city. 



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PAINE, ROBERT, bishop, author, was 
born Nov. 12, 1799, in Parson county, N. C. 
He was a prominent methodist bishop 
whose Life and Times of Bishop McKen- 
dree was once a popular biography. He 
died Oct. 20, 1882, in Aberdeen, Miss. 

PAINE, ROBERT T., congressman, was 
born in North Carolina. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1855 to 1857. 

PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born 
March 11, 1731, in Boston, Mass. In 1773 
he was a representative in the Massachu¬ 
setts legislature; and was a delegate to 
the provincial congress from 1774 to 1775. 
He was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1774 to 1778, and a signer of 
the declaration of independence. In 1776 
he was one of the deputies sent by con¬ 
gress to visit the army of Schuyler in the 
north. He was speaker of the house of 
representatives of the state in 1777. He 
was attorney-general of Massachusetts, 
and a member of the executive council. 
He was judge of the supreme court of the 
state from 1790 to 1804; and was founder 
of the American academy of Massachu¬ 
setts in 1780. He died May 11, 1814, in 
Boston, Mass. 

PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, author, poet, 
was born Dec. 9, 1773, in Taunton, Mass. 
He was once a noted poet of Boston whose 
spirited song, Adams and Liberty, has 
preserved his memory. He gave up his 
profession of law for literary pursuits, 
and received large sums for his poems, 
among which are, The Invention of Let¬ 
ters, and The Ruling Passion. His work 
was stilted and conventional, with the 
exception of the song named above. His 
collected Verse and Prose, edited by Pren¬ 
tiss, appeared in 1812. He died Nov. 13, 
1811, in Boston, Mass. 

PAINE, THOMAS, author, was born 
Jan. 29, 1737, in England. He was a cele¬ 
brated political and deistical writer of 
English birth who 
came to America in 
1774, and in 1776 is- 
sued his famous 
pamphlet. Common 
Sense, which was of 
great service to the 
American cause. In 
the American Crisis, 
published in num¬ 
bers, 1776-83, he con¬ 
tinued his defense of 
America. His other 
works include, The 
Rights of Man, a reply to Burke’s Re¬ 
flections on the French Revolution; and 
The Age of Reason. He died June 8, 1809, 
in New York. 

PAINE, TIMOTHY OTIS, clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 13, 1824, in Win¬ 
slow, Maine. He was a Swedenborgian 
clergyman of Elmwood, Mass.; and the 
author of Solomon’s Temple and Capitol 
and Idolatrous High Places. He died in 
1895. 

PAINE, WILLIAM, physician, journal¬ 
ist, educator, author, was born in 1821, in 
Chesterfield, Mass. He became professor 
of the principles and practice of medicine 
and pathology in the Eclectic Medical col¬ 
lege of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; and 
became editor of the Eclectic Medical 
Journal in that city, and of the Univer¬ 
sity Journal of Medicine and Surgery. 
He is the author of Epitome of the Ameri¬ 
can Eclectic Practice of Medicine; Ameri¬ 
can Eclectic Practice of Surgery, Obstet¬ 
rics, and DiseasesofWomenandChildren; 
and The Domestic Practice of Medicine. 


PAINE, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
was born Feb. 23, 1863, in Milan, N. H. 
He received a liberal education, and grad¬ 
uated from the Harvard Law school. He 
has served as justice of the peace; has 
been solicitor for Rockingham county, N. 
H.; and for six years was a member of 
the school board of Newmarket, N. H. He 
has attained success as an able lawyer 
of Berlin, N. H. 

PAINTER, GAMALIEL, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born May 22, 1743, in New 
Haven, Conn. In 1773 he erected the first 
house in Middlebury, Vt. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the convention that declared the 
independence of Vermont in 1777. He 
was a state representative; judge of the 
county court, and councilor in 1813 and 
1814; and a member of the first constitu¬ 
tional convention of Vermont in 1793. He 
was principal founder of Middlebury col¬ 
lege, to which, at his death, he left a 
bequest of about ten thousand dollars. He 
died May 22, 1819, in Middlebury, Vt. 

PALEN, JOSEPH G., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in New York. He was appoint¬ 
ed chief justice of the supreme court for 
the territory of New Mexico. He died 
Dec. 21, 1875, in Santa Fe, N. M. 

PALEN, RUFUS, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1839 to 1841. 

PALENSKE, LOUIS, merchant, banker, 
state legislator, was born Jan. 3, 1858, in 
Kansas. He is a successful merchant of 
Alma, Kan.; and president of the Alma 
National bank. In 1897 he was elected 
a member of the Kansas state legislature, 
and has always taken great interest in 
educational legislation. 

PALFREY, FRANCIS WINTHROP, 
soldier, author, was born April 11, 1831, in 
Boston. He was an officer in the federal 
army during the civil war, and from 1872 
register of bankruptcy in Boston. He was 
the author of Antietam and Fredericks¬ 
burg; and Memoir of William Francis 
Bartlett. He died Dec. 5, 1889, in France. 

PALFREY, JOHN CARVER, soldier, 
banker, educator, author, was born Dec. 
25, 1833, in Cambridge, Mass. He was 
brevetted major, lieutenant-colonel, colo¬ 
nel, and brigadier-general, United States 
army, in 1865. He became overseer of the 
Thayer School of Civil Engineering in 
Dartmouth in 1868, and is a vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Webster bank in Boston. 

PALFREY, JOHN GORHAM, educator, 
journalist, clergyman, congressman, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born May 2, 1796, in 
Boston, Mass. He was ordained a Unita¬ 
rian preacher in 1818; was subsequently, 
for a number of years, editor of the North 
American Review; was professor of sa¬ 
cred literature in Harvard college from 
1830 to 1838. During the years 1842 and 
1847 he was a member of the general 
court; and was elected secretary of the 
commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was 
a member of congress from 1847 to 1849. 
In 1861 he was appointed postmaster of 
Boston. His literary reputation rests up¬ 
on his History of New England, a pains¬ 
taking work. Other works by him are, 
Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures; and 
The Relation between Judaism and Chris¬ 
tianity. He died April 26, 1881, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

PALFREY, SARAH HAMMOND, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Dec. 11, 1823, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. She is a novelist and poet of 
Cambridge. Her work in verse comprises 
Premices; Sir Pavon and St. Pavon; The 
Chapel; The Blossoming Rod; and Agnes 
Wentworth. In fiction she has published 
Katharine Morne; and Herman, or Young 
Knighthood. 


PALFREY, WARWICK, journalist,, 
state legislator, author, was born in 1787, 
in Salem, Mass. He began his appren¬ 
ticeship in the Essex Register office in 
1801, and was its editor from 1805 till his 
death. He was a member of the city 
council of Salem, and of both branches of 
the Massachusetts legislature for several 
years. He was the author of Evangelical 
Psalms. He died Aug. 23, 1838, in Salem, 
Mass. 

PALLEN, MONTROSE ANDERSON, 
educator, inventor, author, was born Jan. 
2, 1836, in Vicksburg, Mass. In 1883 he 
assisted in forming the Post-Graduate 
Medical college in New York city. He 
has written much for medical periodicals, 
and published Abnormalities of Vision 
and Ophthalmoscope; Uterine Abnormali¬ 
ties; Prophylaxis of Pregnancy; and 
Dysmenorrhcea. 

PALMER, AARON, educator, writer, 
was born Dec. 26, 1860, in Mount Carroll, 
Ill. He has attained success in educa¬ 
tional work; in 1888-89 was superintend¬ 
ent of schools at Savanna, and has since 
been superintendent of schools in Oxford 
Junction and Anamosa, Iowa. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively to the periodical 
press on educational and other topics. 

PALMER, ALBERT GALLATIN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, poet, was born May 11, 
1813, in North Stonington, Conn. He 
has spent his ministerial life in preaching 
to the baptist church in Stonington bor¬ 
ough, Conn. Besides a large number of 
published sermons, he is the author of 
an Historical Discourse; and many po¬ 
ems, among them a translation of the Dies. 
Irse. He has issued a collection of these, 
with the title Psalms of Faith and Songs 
of Life. 

PALMER, ALBERT MARSHMAN, the¬ 
ater-manager, was born July 27, 1838, in 
North Stonington, Conn. He served as li¬ 
brarian of the Mercantile library in New 
York city. In June, 1872, he assumed the 
management of the Union Square theater 
in New York, and continued there until 
1882; and in 1884 assumed control of the 
Madison Square theater in New York. He 
is one of the founders of the Actors’ 
fund of America, and is now its presi¬ 
dent. 

PALMER, ALICE ELVIRA, educator, 
college president, was born Feb. 21, 1855, 
in Colesville, N. Y. In 1879 she was ap¬ 
pointed professor in history in the Welles¬ 
ley college; and in 1882 she became presi¬ 
dent of that college. 

PALMER, ALONZO BENJAMIN, educa¬ 
tor, physician, author, was born Oct. 6,. 
1815, in Richfield, N. Y. He was a physi¬ 
cian who was medical professor in the 
university of Michigan in 1852; and the 
author of Homoeopathy, What Is It?; Th0 
Treatment of the Science and Practice of 
Medicine; Epidemic Cholera; Temperance 
Teachings of Science; and Diarrhoea and 
Dysentery. He died Dec. 23, 1887, in Ann 
Arbor, Mich. 

PALMER, MRS. ANNA [CAMPBELL],, 
author, poet, was born Feb. 3, 1854, in 
Elmira, N. Y. She is a writer of Elmira,. 
N. Y.; and the author of The Summer¬ 
ville Prize; Little Brown Seed; Lally 
Gay; Lally Gay and her Sister; and Ver¬ 
ses from a Mother’s Corner. 

PALMER. ANTHONY, governor, was 
born in England. He was a justice of the 
peace and of the county courts of Phila¬ 
delphia county from 1718 until 1732, and 
for several years one of the judges of the 
court of common pleas. He was colonial 
governor for many years. He died in 
May, 1749, in Philadelphia, Pa. 



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PALMER, BENJAMIN MORGAN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 25, 1781, in 
Philadelphia. He was pastor for several 
years of the presbyterian church in Beau¬ 
fort, S. C., and from 1817 till 1835 of a 
church in Charleston. In addition to 
numerous sermons he published The 
Family Companion. He died Oct. 9, 1847, 
in Charleston, S. C. 

PALMER, BENJAMIN MORGAN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Jan. 25, 1818, in 
Charleston, S. C. He is a presbyterian 
minister of New Orleans; and the author 
of Life and Letters of James Thornwell; 
Sermons; The Family in its Civil and 
Churchly Aspects; Formation of Charac¬ 
ter; The Broken Home; and Theology of 
Prayer. 

PALMER, BERIAH, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in New York. He 
served four years in the assembly of New 
York from Saratoga county; and was a 
representative in congress from 1803 to 
1805. 

PALMER, C. S., soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, governor, was born Nov. 
2, 1844, in Underhill, Vt. In 1876 and 1877 
he was state’s attorney for Chittenden 
county, Vt., and in 1880 and 1881 was a 
representative in the Vermont legisla¬ 
ture. In 1882 he was appointed assistant 
United States attorney for the territory 
of Dakota; and in 1883 was appointed a 
member of the territorial board of tax 
commissioners. In 1884 he was appointed 
an associate justice of the supreme court 
of the territory of Dakota. He was judge 
advocate general for Dakota for the year 
1885. . 

PALMER, CHARLES JAMES, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 4, 1854, in 
Fairfield, Maine. He has filled pastor¬ 
ates in Bangor, Maine, and Lanesboro, 
Mass.; and is the author of a History of 
Lanesboro, Lenox and Otis, Mass. 

PALMER, COURTLANDT, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born March 25, 1843, in New 
York city. He established the Nineteenth 
Century club of New York city in 1880, 
and as the president of that organization 
delivered many addresses and contribut¬ 
ed largely to the literature of free 
thought. He died July 23, 1888, at Lake 
Dunmore, Vt. 

PALMER, ELIHU, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1764 in Canterbury, Conn. 
He was a writer of New York city who 
was in his early career a congregational 
minister, but became a deist and a poli¬ 
tical agitator. He was the author of 
The Principles of Nature; and Prospect 
or View of the Moral World from 1804. 
He died April 7, 1806, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

PALMER, FANNY PURDY, public offi¬ 
cial, author, poet, was born July 11, 1839, 
in New York city. She is auditor of the 
general federation 
of women’s clubs; 
president of the 
Short Story club of 
Providence, R. I., 
and identified in 
various other ways 
with women’s club 
interests. She has 
served several terms 
on the school com¬ 
mittee of Provi¬ 
dence; has been a 
member of the board 
of visitors to state institutions where 
women are imprisoned; and in 1894 was 
appointed state inspector of factories and 
workshops, which involves a great deal 
of important public work. She is the au¬ 
thor of A Dead Level, and Other Epi¬ 
sodes, and a volume of poems. 


PALMER, FRANCIS WAYLAND, 
journalist, state legislator, congressman, 
was born Oct. 11, 1827, in Manchester, 
Ind. He worked as a journeyman printer 
in New York city; and was for ten years 
the publisher and editor of the James¬ 
town Journal, in Chautauqua county. He 
was a member of the New York assem¬ 
bly in 1853 and 1854. He moved to Iowa 
in 1858, and became editor and part own¬ 
er of the Dubuque Times. In 1860 he was 
elected printer for the state, holding the 
office eight years. In 1868 he was 
elected a representative from Iowa to the 
forty-first congress; and was re-elected 
to the forty-second congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

PALMER, GEORGE HERBERT, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1&^ in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is professor of natural re¬ 
ligion, moral philosophy, and civil polity 
at Harvard university. He has pub¬ 
lished The New Education, and an Eng¬ 
lish translation of the Odyssey in rhyth¬ 
mic prose. 

PALMER, GEORGE W., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Jan. 13, 1818, in 
Hoosick, N. Y. He was surrogate of Clin¬ 
ton county from 1843 to 1847; and a rep¬ 
resentative in the thirty-fifth congress 
from New York. He was re-elected to 
the thirty-sixth congress. In 1866 he was 
appointed a judge of the mixed court at 
Sierra Leone, under the treaty with Great 
Britain for the more effectual suppression 
of the slave trade. 

PALMER. MRS. HENRIETTA [LEE], 
author, was born Feb. 6, 1834, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. She is the author of The Strat¬ 
ford Gallery, or the Shakespeare Sister¬ 
hood; Home Life in the Bible; and The 
Heroines of Shakespeare. 

PALMER, HENRY E., soldier, legisla¬ 
tor, was born July 31, 1841, in Madison, 
Ohio. He was the first white settler in 
the Big Horn mountain region of Wyo¬ 
ming, and was captured by the Indians 
and kept a prisoner three weeks. For 
twenty years he has been in the business 
of general insurance, and has become 
prominent in various societies. 

PALMER, HORATIO RICHMOND, mu¬ 
sician, author, was horn Sept. 26, 1834, in 
Sherburne, N. Y. He is the author of 
Elements of Musical Composition; and 
Theory of Music. 

PALMER, INNIS NEWTON, soldier, 
was born March 30, 1824, in Buffalo, N. 
Y. He was brigadier-general in the union 
army at Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill. 

PALMER, JAMES SHEDDEN, naval 
officer, was born in 1810 in New Jersey. 
He sen ed in the United States navy dur¬ 
ing the civil war; and for meritorious 
services received the rank of rear admiral. 
He died Dec. 7, 1867. 

PALMER, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1785 in Hoosick, 
N. Y. He was elected from New York a 
representative to congress in 1817, but 
before the expiration of his term was 
chosen district attorney for Clinton coun¬ 
ty, in which capacity he served until 1831. 
During that year he was made the first 
judge of said county, and held the office 
until 1836. He was again elected to con¬ 
gress in 1837, and served one term. He 
died Dec. 8, 1840, in the West Indies. 

PALMER, JOHN McAULEY, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born Sept. 13, 1817, in Scott county, Ky. 
In 1843 he was elected probate judge of 
Macoupin county, Ill.; in 1847 was elected 
a member of the convention to amend the 
state constitution; in 1848 was re-elected 


probate judge, and in November of the 
same year was elected county judge,, 
which office he held until 1852, when he 
was elected to the state senate to fill a 
vacancy; and was elected again in 1854. 
In 1859 he was a candidate for congress. 
In 1861 he was elected colonel of the- 
fourteenth regiment of Illinois infantry; 
was promoted to brigadier-general of vol¬ 
unteers; and was promoted to major-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers. He removed to Spring- 
field in 1867; and was elected governor of 
Illinois in 1868. In 1890 he was elected 
United States senator. 

PALMER, JOHN WILLIAMSON, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born April 4, 1825, in 
Baltimore, Md. He was a physician and 
writer of Baltimore and subsequently of 
New York city. He was the author of The 
Queen’s Heart: a Comedy; The Beauties 
and Curiosities of Engraving; After His 
Kind, a novel; The Golden Dragon, or Up- 
and Down the Irrawaddi; and The New 
and the Old, or California and India. He 
died in 1896. 

PALMER, JOSEPH, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1718 in Massachusetts. 
He was a member of the provincial con¬ 
gress in 1777. In 1777 he was appointed 
brigadier-general commanding the Mas¬ 
sachusetts militia in the defense of Rhode 
Island. He died Dec. 25, 1788, in Rox- 
bury, Mass. 

PALMER, JULIUS AUBOINEAU, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1840 in Massachusetts. 
He is the author of About Mushrooms; 
Memories of Hawaii; One Voyage and its 
Consequences; Mushrooms of America; 
and Again in Hawaii. 

PALMER, MINNIE, actress, was born 
March 3, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. She- 
has attained a national reputation as a 
successful actress. 

PALMER, MRS. PHCEBE WORRELL, 
evangelist, author, was born Dec. 18, 1807, 
in New York city. She was a Wesleyan 
evangelist of New York city, whose 
writing is mainly concerned with the 
doctrine of perfection. She was the au¬ 
thor of The Way of Holiness; Entire De¬ 
votion; Faith and its Effect; Promises of 
the Father; Four Years in the Old World; 
and Pioneer Experiences. She died Nov. 
2, 1874, in New York city. 

PALMER, POTTER, financier, was born 
in 1826 in Rensselaerville, N. Y. He built 
the Palmer house and erected a number of 
other buildings and became one of the 
most energetic of that group of confi¬ 
dent men who evoked a greater Chicago 
from the ashes of the conflagration of 
1871. The Lake Shore drive originated 
with Mr. Palmer. 

PALMER, RAY, clergyman, author, po¬ 
et, was born Nov. 12, 1808, in Little 
Compton, R. I. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Albany, widely known as 
a writer of hymns, the most famous of 
which is, My Faith Looks up to Thee. 
Home, or the Unlost Paradise; Spiritual 
Improvement; Closet Hours; Hymns and 
Poems; Hymns of My Holy Hours; Re¬ 
member Me; and Voices of Hope and 
Gladness. 

PALMER, ROBERT M., journalist, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born in 1820 in 
Mount Holly, N. J. In 1850 he was elect¬ 
ed district attorney for Schuylkill coun¬ 
ty, N. J.; and subsequently to the state 
senate, over which he presided as speak¬ 
er. In 1861 he was appointed minister to. 
the Argentine Confederation, but was 
compelled to resign on account of his. 
health. He died April 26, 1862, at sea. 



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PALMER, WALTER LAUNT, artist, 
was born Aug. 1, 1854, in Albany, N. Y. 
In 1881 he was elected a member of the 
Society of American Artists, and in 1887 
he received the second Hallgarten prize 
for his January, which painting also 
gained him his election as an associate 
of the National academy. Among his 
works are Dining-Room at Appledale 
(1879); An Editor’s Study; Waving 
■Grain (1881); Venice; The Oat-Field; The 
Inlet; and An Early Snow. 

PALMER, WILLIAM ADAMS, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, United States senator, 
was born Sept. 12, 1791, in Hebron, 
Conn. He was a member of the Vermont 
legislature for six years; judge of the su¬ 
preme court in 1816; and was a senator 
in congress from Vermont from 1818 to 
1825. He was governor of Vermont from 
1831 to 1835; a member of the constitu¬ 
tional convention of 1828 and 1836; and 
judge of probate and of the county court. 
He was two years a state penator. He 
died Dec. 3, 1860, in Danville, Vt. 

PALMER, WILLIAM J., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Sept. 18, 1836, in Kent 
county, Del. Since 1883 he has been 
president of the Rio Grande Western 
railroad; and was also for several years 
president of the Mexican National rail¬ 
road. 

PALMER, WILLIAM LEDYARD, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Jan. 21, 1820, in Lenox, 
Madison county, N. Y. He graduated in 
1856 from the col¬ 
legiate department 
of the Madison uni¬ 
versity, now known 
as the Colgate uni¬ 
versity; and in 1859 
he graduated from 
the theological de¬ 
partment of the 
same institution, re¬ 
ceiving in course the 
degree of A. M. For 
five years he was 
pastor in East 
Poultney, Vt.; for five years was pastor in 
West Cornwall, Vt.; for nine years Was 
pastor in Middletown Springs, Vt.; for 
three years was pastor in Manchester, 
Mich.; and since 1896 has been pastor in 
Norvell, Mich. He has published ser¬ 
mons, addresses; and for half a century 
has contributed extensively to religious 
literature. 

PALMER, WILLIAM PITT, business 
man, poet, was born Feb. 22, 1805, in 
Stockbridge, Mass. He was an insur¬ 
ance president of New York city, known 
also as a verse writer. He was the au¬ 
thor of Light; and Echoes of Half a Cen¬ 
tury, a collection of poems. He died May 
2, 1884, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

PALMORE, WILLIAM B., clergyman, 
lecturer, editor, was born Feb. 24, 1844, 
in Fayette county, Tenn. He received 
his education at the Vanderbilt univer¬ 
sity. During the civil war he carried 
Gen. John S. Marmaduke’s division flag 
while a boy in the confederate army. He 
has been a successful clergyman and lec¬ 
turer; and for many years has been the 
editor of the St. Louis Christian Advo¬ 
cate. 

PAMMEL, LOUIS HERMANN, botanist, 
was born April 19, 1862, in La Crosse, 
Wis. He attended the country schools, 
and in 1885 graduated from the univer¬ 
sity of Wisconsin; subsequently at¬ 
tending the Washington university of St. 
Louis, Mo., and doing research work in 
the Missouri botanical garden. For sev¬ 
eral years he was an assistant in the 
Shaw School of Botany; and was also em¬ 
ployed by the Texas agricultural experi¬ 


ment station. Since 1889 he has filled 
the chair of botany in the Iowa Agricul¬ 
tural college; and also botanist of the 
Iowa agricultural experiment station, and 
has been engaged to do some special work 
for the United States department of ag¬ 
riculture. 

PANCOAST, JOSEPH, educator, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, author, was born in 1805 
in Burlington, N. J. He was an eminent 
surgeon of Philadelphia, professor of sur¬ 
gery in Jefferson. Medical college in 1838- 
74; and the author of Operative Surgery; 
Essays and Lectures; and System of 
Anatomy. He died March 7, 1882, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

PANCOAST, SETH, educator, physician, 
author, was born July 28, 1823, in Dar¬ 
by, Pa. He was a Philadelphia physi¬ 
cian, professor in Pennsylvania Medical 
college in 1854-62; and the author of The 
Cabala; Consumption; Ladies’ Medical 
Guide; Boyhood Perils; and Bright’s Dis¬ 
ease. He died Dec. 16, 1889, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

PANCOAST, WILLIAM HENRY, edu¬ 
cator, physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 
11, 1835, in Philadelphia. In 1874 he suc¬ 
ceeded his father as professor in Jeffer¬ 
son Medical college. In 1884 he secured 
the bodies of the Siamese twins, and 
proved that the band could not have been 
safely cut except in their childhood. He 
became professor of the Philadelphia 
Medico-chirurgical college in 1886. 

PANGBORN, FREDERIC W., jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born March 7, 1855, in 
St. Albans, Vt. For twenty years he has 
been connected with the Evening Jour¬ 
nal of Jersey City, N. J., and is now 
its managing editor. He is the author of 
a number of meritorious poems, many of 
which have appeared in standard collec¬ 
tions. 

PAQUIN, PAUL, physician, author, 
was born in 1860 in Canada. He is the 
author of The Supreme Passions of Man; 
The Microscopical Diagnosis of Human 
Nature; and The Basis of Character and 
the Diseases of Personality. 

PARDEE, DON A., soldier, jurist, was 
born March 29, 1837, in Wadsworth, 
Ohio. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the pub¬ 
lic schools, and 
graduated from the 
United States Na¬ 
val academy. He 
served during the 
civil war as captain, 
major, lieutenant- 
colonel and brevet 
brigadier-general of 
the United States 
volunteers. He is a 
noted lawyer of New 
Orleans, La.; has 
been register in bankruptcy; in 1868 was 
elected state judge; and is now judge of 
the United States circuit court of the 
fifth judicial circuit. 

PARET, THOMAS DUNKIN, inventor, 
was born Dec. 20, 1837, in New York city. 
He has taken a leading part in the de¬ 
velopment and extension of grinding pro¬ 
cesses, and has been president of the Ta- 
nite company at Stroudsburg, Pa., which 
manufactures emery-wheels, since its or¬ 
ganization in 1867. He has contributed 
many technical articles to scientific peri¬ 
odicals. 

PARET, WILLIAM, bishop of Mary¬ 
land, was born Sept. 23, 1826, in New 
York city. He is the author of St. Peter 
and the Primacy of the Roman See; Our 
Freedom and Our Catholic Heritage; The 
Method and Work of Lent, and other 
works. 


PARISH, AARON SMITH, educator, 
was born Dec. 28, 1841, in Farmer, N. Y. 
For over twenty years he has been pro¬ 
prietor of the Business college of Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 

PARISH, ELIJAH, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 7, 1762, in Lebanon, Conn. 
He was a congregational minister, pas¬ 
tor at Byfield, Mass., in 1787-1825. He 
was co-author with Jedediah Morse of 
several geographical works, and wrote a 
New System of Modern Geography. He 
died Oct. 15, 1825, in Byfield, Mass. 

PARK, BENJAMIN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 2, 1777, in New 
Jersey. From 1805 to 1808 he was a 
delegate in congress from Indiana terri¬ 
tory; and was soon after appointed judge 
of the district court, which office he held 
until his death. He died July 12, 1835, in 
Salem, Ind. 

PARK, EDWARDS AMASA, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 29, 1808, 
in Providence, R. I. He is a congregation¬ 
al clergyman in Andover, Mass., profes¬ 
sor in the Theological seminary there in 
1835-81; and the author of Discourses and 
Treatises on the Atonement; Discourses 
on Some Theological Doctrines as Related 
to the Religious Character; and Lives of 
S Hopkins, and others. 

PARK, I. V., journalist, was born Dec. 
7, 1848, in Franklin county, Ohio. He 
received the rudiments of his education 
in the district schools, and subsequently 
attended the Wesleyan university of 
Bloomington, Ill. He has been a general 
writer for the press, and correspondent 
of leading metropolitan journals; and is 
now the editor and owner of The Daily 
and Weekly Times of Joliet, Ill. 

PARK, JAMES, iron-master, was born 
Jan. 11, 1820, in Pittsburg, Pa. In 1863 
he was the first to introduce the Siemens 
gas-furnace into this country. He had 
a high reputation as a progressive leader 
among iron-masters, and was active in 
the American Institute of Mining Engin¬ 
eers. He died April 21, 1883, in Alle¬ 
gheny, Pa. 

PARK, JOHN, physician, journalist, 
was born Jan. 7, 1775, in Windham, N. H. 
In 1803 he established at Newburyport, 
Mass., the New England Repertory, a 
semi-weekly federalist journal, which he 
afterward transferred to Boston. In 1811 
he disposed of his newspaper and estab¬ 
lished at Boston a high-school for young 
women, which he conducted with great 
success for twenty years. In 1814 he 
published the Boston Spectator. He died 
March 2, 1852, in Worcester, Mass. 

PARK, ROSWELL, educator, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
Oct. 1, 1807, in Lebanon, Conn. He was 
an episcopal clergyman and educator, 
president and chancellor of Racine col¬ 
lege in 1852-63; and the author of Sketch 
of the History of West Point; Jerusalem, 
and Other Poems; and Pantology, or Sys¬ 
tematic Survey of Human Knowledge. 
He died July 16, 1869, in Chicago, Ill. 

PARK, ROSWELL, educator, author, 
was born in 1852 in Lebanon, Conn. He is 
a professor of surgery in the university 
of Buffalo from 1883 who has published 
Lectures on Surgical Pathology. 

PARKE, JOHN, soldier, author, was 
born April 7, 1754, in Dover, Del. He was 
an officer in the American army during 
the revolution, who published The Lyric 
Works of Horace. The translation, in 
rhymed verse, was dedicated to Washing¬ 
ton, and in it the names of American 
patriots were substituted for those of the 
Roman worthies. He died Dec. 11, 1789, 
near Dover, Del. 









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PARKE, JOHN GRUBB, soldier, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Sept. 22, 1827, in 
Chester county, Pa. He was a soldier of 
distinction who was superintendent of 
the United States Military academy in 
1887, and was retired from active service 
in 1889. He is the author of United States 
Laws Relating to Public Works; and Laws 
Relating to the Construction of Bridges 
over Navigable Waters. 

PARKE, THOMAS, educator, physician, 
college president, lecturer, was born Aug. 
6, 1749, in Chester county, Pa. In 1787 he 
was one of the founders of the College 
of Physicians of Philadelphia, and from 
1818 until his death he was president of 
this body, and was the last survivor of 
its founders. He died Jan. 9, 1835, in 
Philadelphia. 

PARKER, ABRAHAM X., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Nov. 14, 
1831, in Granville, Vt. He was a member 
of the state house of representatives in 
1863 and 1864; and a state senator from 
1868 to 1871. He was elected a represen- 
tath e from New York to the forty-sev¬ 
enth, forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fif¬ 
tieth congresses as a republican. 

PARKER, AMASA JUNIUS, was horn 
June 2, 1807, in Sharon, Conn. In 1833 he 
was elected a representative in the New 
York state legislature; and in 1835 was 
chosen a regent of the university. From 
1837 to 1839 he "was a representative in 
congress. In 1844 he was appointed a 
circuit judge and vice-chancellor of the 
court of equity. Soon after the adoption 
of a new state constitution, he became 
a judge of the supreme court of New 
York. In 1859 he was appointed United 
States attorney for the district of New 
York. He died May 13, 1890, in Albany, 
N. Y. 

PARKER, AMASA J., lawyer, state 
senator, was born May 6, 1843, in Delhi, 
N. Y.; and is a son of the late Judge 
Amasa J. Parker. In 

1863 he graduated 
from Union college, 
and in the year 
following from the 
Albany Law school, 
and has since prac¬ 
ticed his profession 
in Albany, N. Y. Since 

1864 he has been 
connected with the 
national guard, hav¬ 
ing served from pri¬ 
vate to brigadier- 

general. In 1882 he was elected to the New 
York state assembly; and for three 
terms has been a member of the state 
senate, in 1886-87, in 1892-93, and again 
in 1894-95. 

PARKER, AMOS ANDREW, legislator, 
journalist, author, was born in 1792 in 
Fitzwilliam, N. H. For several years 
he was editor of the New Hampshire 
Statesman; and served thirteen sessions 
in the New Hampshire legislature. He 
is the author of several books, among 
which are A Trip to the West of Texas; 
and Poems at Four-Score. 

PARKER, ANDREW, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1851 to 1853. 

PARKER, BENJAMIN S., merchant, 
author, poet, was born Feb. 10, 1833, in 
Indiana. For twenty years he has been 
a merchant of New Castle, Ind. He is 
the author of a volume of poems entitled 
The Cabin in the (Rearing; and has also 
compiled a volume of Indiana poetry. 


PARKER, BOWDOIN S., soldier, law¬ 
yer; legislator, was born Aug. 10, 1841, 
in Conway, Mass. He is a successful law¬ 
yer of Boston, Mass.; was a member of 
the city council for three years; and for 
two years served with distinction as a 
member of the Massachusetts state legis¬ 
lature. He is a veteran of the war of the 
rebellion; a commissioned officer of the 
Massachusetts volunteer milina for eigh¬ 
teen years, and was placed on the retired 
list with rank of lieutenant-colonel. 

PARKER, C. M., educator, journalist, 
was born Sept. 17, 1860, in Wilkes county, 
N. C. He is the founder, editor and 
owner of The School News of Taylor- 
ville, Ill. 

PARKER, CHARLES, manufacturer, 
was born Jan. 2, 1809, in Cheshire, Conn. 
He is the president of the Charles Par¬ 
ker company, iron 
founders and pro¬ 
ducers of hardware, 
and of Parker Bro’s, 
manufacturers of 
guns; and is one of 
the most valuable 
residents of Meri¬ 
den, Conn., and has 
done as much as any 
other man there to 
convert that city into 
the perfect hive of 
industry which it is. 
It was he who first introduced steam 
power into a factory in Meriden. His lit¬ 
tle shop has now grown into five separate 
and distinct factories, all located in dif¬ 
ferent parts of Meriden, and there is 
also a factory at Yalesville, a village three 
miles from Meriden. 

PARKER, CORTLANDT, lawyer, was 
horn June 27, 1818, in Perth Amboy, N. 
J. He was one of the revisers of the laws 
of New Jersey in 1875, and a commis¬ 
sioner to settle the boundaries between 
that state and Delaware. 

PARKER, DANIEL, soldier, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 29, 1782, in Shirley, 
Mass. He became chief clerk in the 
United States war department in 1810, 
adjutant and inspector-general, Nov. 22, 
1814, paymaster-general in 1821, and in 
1841 he returned to the war department 
as chief clerk. He published an Army 
Register. 

PARKER, EDWARD GRIFFIN, lawyer, 
author, was horn Nov. 16, 1825, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a lawyer of New York 
city; and the author of The Golden Age 
of American Oratory; and Reminiscences 
of Rufus Choate. He died March 30, 1868, 
in New York city. 

PARKER, EDWIN POND, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born Jan. 13, 1836, in 
Castine, Maine. He is a congregational 
clergyman of Hartford, pastor of the 
south church from 1860; and the author 
of Book of Praise; Memorial of H. Bush- 
nell; and The Ministry of Natural Beauty. 

PARKER, MRS. ELIZABETH LOW- 
BER [CHANDLER]—Bessie Chandler— 
author, was born in 1856 in New York. 
She is a writer of Batavia, N. Y., who 
has contributed much to magazines. She 
is the author of A Woman who Failed 
and Others. 

PARKER, FOXHALL ALEXANDER, 
naval officer, author, was born Aug. 5, 
1821, in New York city. He was a com¬ 
modore in the United States navy; and 
the author of Fleet Tactics under Steam; 
The Naval Howitzer Afloat; The Naval 
Howitzer Ashore; The Fleets of the 
World; The Battle of Mobile Bay; and 
Elia, or Spain Fifty Years Ago, a trans¬ 
lation from the Spanish. He died June 
10, 1879, in Annapolis, Md. 


PARKER, FRANCIS WAYLAND, sol¬ 
dier, educator, author, was born Oct. 9, 

1837, in Bedford, N. H. He is a promi¬ 
nent educator of Chicago, principal of 
the Cook County Normal school, and for¬ 
merly supervisor of the Boston schools. 
He is the author of Talks on Teaching; 
The Practical Teacher; Course in Arith¬ 
metic; and How to Teach Geography. 

PARKER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
railroad president, was born in August, 
1836, in Springfield, Ill. He was presi¬ 
dent of the Second National bank of 
Charleston; and in 1887 was elected 
president of the St. Louis, Alton and 
Terre Haute railroad, which position he 
still holds. 

PARKER, GILBERT, author, was born 
in 1861, in Ontario, Canada. He is a pop¬ 
ular Canadian novelist now living in the 
United States; and the author of Pierre 
and His People; Tales of the Far North; 
An Adventurer of the North; A Romany 
of the Snows; A Lover’s Diary; When 
Valmond Came to Pontiac; The Seats of 
the Mighty; and The Pomp of the La- 
villettes. 

PARKER, MRS. HELEN FITCH, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 20, 1827, in Auburn, 
N. Y. She was the author of Sunrise 
and Sunset; Morning Stars of the New 
World; Rambles After Land Shells; Mis¬ 
sions and Martyrs of Madagascar; 
Frank’s Search for Sea Shells; Constance 
of Aylmer, a tale; Blind Florette; and 
Arthur’s Aquarium. She died Dec. 4, 1874, 
in Amherst, Mass. 

PARKER, HENRY, governor, was born 
about 1690, near Savannah, Ga. During 
1750-54 he was governor of Georgia. He 
died about 1778, on the Isle of Hope, 
Ga. 

PARKER, HENRY LANGDON, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Oct. 7, 1832, in Acton, 
Mass. During 1887-90 he was a member 
of the Massachusetts state legislature, 
and has filled several judicial positions. 

PARKER, HENRY WEBSTER, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, poet, was born Sept. 7, 
1824, in Danby, N. Y. He is a presbyte- 
rian clergyman and educator, professor 
of mental science in Iowa college from 
1879; and the author of The Story of 
a Soul, a poem; and Verse. 

PARKER, HOSEA W., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born May 30, 
1833, in Lempster, N. H. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature of New Hampshire 
in 1859. He was elected to the forty- 
second and forty-third congresses. 

PARKER, ISAAC, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 17, 1768, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was elected to congress, 
serving as a representative from 1797 to 
1799. He was appointed, by President 
Adams, marshal for the district of Maine, 
which office he held until 1801. He after¬ 
ward removed to Portland. In 1806 he 
became judge of the supreme court, and 
in 1814 chief justice, which position he 
occupied for sixteen years. For several 
years he was professor of law in Harvard 
university. He died May 26, 1830, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

PARKER, ISAAC C., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 

1838, in Belmont county, Ohio. He re¬ 
moved to St. Joseph, Mo.; and was elect¬ 
ed city attorney in 1862 and 1863. In 
1868 he was elected circuit judge for six 
years, but resigned in 1870; and was 
elected to the forty-second and forty- 
third congresses. In 1875 he was ap¬ 
pointed chief justice of Utah; and in 
March of the same year was appointed 
United States district judge for the west¬ 
ern district of Arkansas. 





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PARKER, JAMES, physician, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1768, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1813 to 1815, and 
from 1819 to 1821. He died Nov. 9, 1837, 
in Gardiner, Maine. 

PARKER. JAMES, merchant, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born March 3, 
1776, in Bethlehem, N. J. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the New Jersey legislature in 1806- 
18; and was a representative in congress 
from 1833 to 1837. He served as one of 
the commissioners on the part of New 
Jersey to settle the boundary and juris¬ 
diction between New York and New Jer¬ 
sey. He died April 1, 1868, in Perth Am¬ 
boy, N. J. 

PARKER. JAMES CUTTER DUNN, 
musician, author, was born June 2, 1828, 
in Boston, Mass. He is a Boston mu¬ 
sician; and the author of Manual of Har¬ 
mony; and Theoretical and Practical 
Harmony. 

PARKER, JAMES HENRY, banker, 
was born Jan. 4, 1843, in Johnston coun¬ 
ty, N. C. In 1882 he moved to New York 
and carried on a cotton and commission 
business with success, serving for two 
years as president of the Cotton ex¬ 
change. In 1891 the United States Na¬ 
tional bank called him to its presidency 
and he is yet at its head. 

PARKER. JOEL, educator, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, author, was born Jan. 25, 1795, in 
Jaffrey, N. H. He was a jurist of Massa¬ 
chusetts, professor of law at Harvard 
university in 1847-75; and the author of 
The War Power of Congress; The Right 
of Secession; The Non-Extension of 
Slavery; Constitutional Law; Revolu¬ 
tion and Construction; The Three Pow¬ 
ers of Government; and Conflict of De¬ 
cisions. He died Aug. 17, 1875, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

PARKER, JOEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 27, 1799, in Bethel, Vt. 
He was a presbyterian clergyman of New 
York city; and the author of Lectures 
on Unitarianism; Invitations to True 
Happiness; Reasonings of a Pastor; Ser¬ 
mons; and Notes on Twelve Psalms. He 
died May 2, 1873, in New York city. 

PARKER, JOEL, soldier, lawyer, state 
legislator, governor, was born Nov. 24, 
1816, near Freehold, N. J. He received a 
common school edu¬ 
cation at Trenton; 
graduated at Prince¬ 
ton college in 1839; 
studied law, and 
came to the bar in 
1842. He was elect¬ 
ed to the state leg¬ 
islature in 1847; and 
was, for a time, at¬ 
torney for his coun¬ 
ty. In 1861 he was 
elected major - gen¬ 
eral of volunteers. 
In 1862 he was elected governor of New 
Jersey for three years; and was again 
elected governor in 1871. He died Jan. 
2, 1888, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PARKER, JOHN, congressman, was 
born Jan. 24, 1749, in Charleston, S. C. 
He was a delegate from South Carolina 
to the continental congress from 1786 to 
1788. He died April 20, 1822, near Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. 

PARKER, JOHN ADAMS, artist, was 
born Nov. 29, 1829, in New York city. 
Mountain scenery has especially claimed 
his attention, and the Adirondacks, the 
Catskills, and the White mountains have 
furnished him with most of the subjects 
''for his paintings. They include Twilight 
iin the Adirondacks; Winter; Winter 


Twilight; and Landscape in the Adi¬ 
rondacks—Twilight. 

PARKER, JOHN MASON, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 14, 1805, in 
Granville, N. Y. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the thirty-fifth congress from New 
York. 

PARKER, JOSIAH, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1789 to 1801. 

PARKER, LINUS, methodist episcopal 
bishop, was born in 1829, in Rome, N. Y. 
He was editor of the New Orleans Chris¬ 
tian Advocate in New Orleans, La., for 
some time. Early in his ministry he was 
elected a delegate to the general confer¬ 
ence, and sat in its quadrennial sessions 
from 1870 till 1882, inclusive. In the lat¬ 
ter year he was elected a bishop. He died 
March 5, 1885, in New Orleans, La. 

PARKER, NAHUM, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born March 
4, 1760, in Cheshire county, N. H. He 
was a state counselor of New Hampshire 
from 1805 to 1807. He was United States 
senator from 1807 to 1810; judge of the 
court of common pleas from 1822 to 1825; 
and president of the state senate in 1828. 
He died Nov. 12, 1839, in Fitzwilliam, 
N. H. 

PARKER, NATHAN HOWE, author. 
He is the author of Iowa as It Is in 1855; 
Kansas and Nebraska Handbook for 1857- 
58; The Missouri Handbook; and Missouri 
as It Is in 1867. 

PARKER, NELSON AUGUSTUS, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born July 18, 1840, in 
Hamburgh, N. Y. In 1868 he graduated 
from the law depart¬ 
ment of the Michi¬ 
gan university; and 
since 1869 has prac¬ 
ticed law in Benzie 
and adjoining coun¬ 
ties with success. He 
has been prosecuting 
attorney of Benzie 
county; has been 
candidate for judge 
of probate and for 
circuit judge; and in 
1884 was a delegate 
to the national greenback convention. In 
1868 he was a delegate to the national 
soldiers’ convention at Chicago; and 
voted to nominate General U. S. Grant 
for his first term as president. During the 
war he was sergeant, lieutenant and cap¬ 
tain of company B, twentieth regiment, 
Michigan volunteer infantry. 

PARKER, MRS. PERMELIA JANE 
(MARSH), author, was born June 16, 1836, 
in Milan, N. Y. She is a writer of Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y., and the author of Toiling and 
Hoping, a novel; The Boy Missionary; 
Losing the Way; Under His Banner; The 
Midnight Cry, a novel of the Millerite de¬ 
lusion; Rochester, a Story Historical; 
Life of S. F. B. Morse; The Morgan Boys; 
Around the Manger; and Andy, the story 
of a Troublesome Boy. 

PARKER, PETER, missionary, author, 
was born June 18, 1804, in Framingham, 
Mass. He was a congregational mission¬ 
ary and diplomat in China, and after 1857 
a resident of Washington. He was the au¬ 
thor of Journal of an Expedition from 
Singapore to Japan; and Statement Re¬ 
specting Hospitals in China. He died Jan. 
10, 1888, in Washington, D. C. 

PARKER, RICHARD, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1849 to 1851. 

PARKER, RICHARD ELLIOTT, law¬ 
yer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born Dec. 27, 1783, in Westmoreland coun¬ 


ty, Va. In early life he was a member of 
the Virginia house of delegates; and was 
for many years a judge of the general and 
circuit courts of Virginia. He was also 
a judge of the supreme court of appeals; 
and for a brief period in 1836 and 1837 was 
a senator in congress. He died Sept. 9, 
1840, in Richmond, Va. 

PARKER. RICHARD GREEN, educat¬ 
or, author, was born in 1798 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was an educator of Boston; 
and the author of Natural Philosophy; 
and Aids to English Composition. He 
died in 1869. 

PARKER, RICHARD WAYNE, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Aug. 6, 1848, in Morristown, N. J. He is 
a successful lawyer of Newark, N. J.; and 
was a member of the house of assembly 
of New Jersey in 1885 and 1886. He was 
the republican candidate for the fifty- 
third congress and was elected to the fifty- 
fourth and fifty-fifth congresses. 

PARKER. SAMUEL, protestant episco¬ 
pal bishop, author, was born Aug. 17, 1744, 
in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1803 he was 
unanimously elected to the episcopate of 
Massachusetts, and was consecrated in 
Trinity church. New York city, in 
1804. He published an Annual Election 
Sermon Before the Legislature of Massa¬ 
chusetts; a Sermon for the Benefit of 
the Boston Female Asylum; and several 
other occasional discourses. He died Dec. 
6, 1804, in Boston, Mass. 

PARKER, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born April 23, 1779, in Ashfield, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
New York state, said to have been the 
first who suggested the possibility of a 
railway through the Rocky mountains to 
the Pacific ocean. He published, Explor¬ 
ing Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains. 
He died March 24, 1866, in Ithaca, N. Y. 

PARKER, SAMUEL W., journalist, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 9, 1805, in Jefferson county, 
N. Y. He was elected to the Indiana 
legislature in 1836, where he served five 
years. He was two years attorney for the 
state, and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Indiana from 1851 to 1855.' 

PARKER, SEVERN E., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 
Northampton county, Va. He was a prom¬ 
inent member of the Virginia legislature; 
and a representative in congress from 
1819 to 1821. He died Oct. 21, 1836, in 
Northampton, Va. 

PARKER, THEODORE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 24, 1810, in Lexing¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a famous Unitarian 
clergyman of West Roxbury, Mass. He 
was the author of Miscellaneous Writings; 
Sermons on Theism, Atheism, and Popular 
Theology; Occasional Sermons and 
Speeches; Matters Pertaining to Religion; 
Additional Sermons and Speeches; Ser¬ 
mons for the Times; Experience as a 
Minister; West Roxbury Sermons; 
Prayers; Lessons from the World of Mat¬ 
ter and the World of Mind; Historic 
Americans; and Views of Religion. His 
complete works, as edited by Frances 
Power Cobbe, fill twelve volumes. He 
died May 10, 1860, in Florence, Italy. 

PARKER, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 8, 1595, in England. 
He was a learned puritan clergyman who 
was one of the founders of Newbury, 
Mass., and its first pastor. Parker River, 
in that region, is named in his honor. 
He was the author of Letter on Church 
Government; Prophecies of Daniel Ex¬ 
pounded; Methodus Gratiae Divinise; and 
Theses de Traductione Peccatoris ad Vi- 
tam. He died April 24, 1677, in New¬ 
bury, Mass. 






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PARKER, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist. He 
was a citizen of South Carolina; and in 
1812 was appointed judge of the United 
States court for the district of South Caro¬ 
lina. 

PARKER, WILLARD, educator, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born Sept. 2, 
1800, in Hillsborough, N. H. He was a 
distinguished surgeon of Philadelphia, 
professor of surgery in the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons in 1839-69; and 
the author of Cystotomy; Spontaneous 
Fractures; and The Concussion of Nerves. 
He died April 25, 1884, in New York city. 

PARKER, WILLIAM HARWAR, navdl 
•officer, author, was born Oct. 8, 1826, in 
New York city. He was an officer in the 
confederate navy during the civil war; 
and the author of Instruction for Naval 
Light Artillery; and Recollections of a 
Naval Officer. 

PARKER, WILLIAM THORNTON, 
A. M., M. D., physician, artist, was born 
Jan. 8, 1818, in Groveland, Mass. As an 
•anatomical artist he is said to have been 
unrivaled, his Anatomical Atlas being 
a work of great value, c : 

PARKER, WILLIAM THORNTON, sur¬ 
geon, inventor, author, was born Dec. 24, 
1849, in Boston, Mass. He founded the 
Medical Guild of St. Luke’s, and was the 
originator to provide a National Sanitari¬ 
um for Consumptives. He was appointed 
acting professor of American jurisprud¬ 
ence in the college of Physicians and Sur¬ 
geons of Chicago. 

PARKHILL, CHARLES BRECKIN¬ 
RIDGE, lawyer, legislator, was born June 
23, 1859, at Tuscawilla, Fla., the planta- 
* tion home of his par¬ 

ents. His father, 
Captain George W. 
Parkhill.was a mem¬ 
ber of the secession 
convention of Flori¬ 
da, and lost his life 
in the confederate 
army. He received 
the rudiments of his 
education in the 
public schools of 
Monticello; then at¬ 
tended the Ran- 
dolph-Macon college of Ashland, Va.; and 
Anally studied law at the university of 
Virginia. Since 1883 he has practiced law 
in Pensacola, Fla.; has been county at¬ 
torney; and in 1897 was appointed prose¬ 
cuting attorney for the criminial court of 
record for the term of four years. In 1888 
he was elected state senator; has taken 
part in the democratic state and congres¬ 
sional conventions, and is recognized as a 
popular orator of unusual eloquence and 
ability. In 1890 he was elected grand 
chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of 
Florida. 

PARKHURST, CHARLES HENRY, 
clergyman, author, was born April 17, 
1842, in Framingham, Mass. He is a pres- 
byterian clergyman of New York city, 
pastor of the Madison Square church from 
1880, and very prominent as a municipal 
reformer. He is the author of Forms of 
the Latin Verb Illustrated by the Sans¬ 
crit; The Blind Man’s Creed; The Pat¬ 
tern on the Mount; Three Gates on a 
Side; What Would the World Be With¬ 
out Religion?; The Swiss Guide; and Our 
Fight with Tammany. 

PARKHURST, MATTHEW M„ soldier, 
clergyman, was born July 13, 1834, in 
Oswego, N. Y. He has Ailed pastorates 
in the episcopal church in Boston, Mil¬ 
waukee and Chicago; and has contributed 
valuable articles to current literature. 

PARKINSON, JOHN BARBER, educat¬ 
or, was born April 11, 1834, in Edwards- 
ville, Ill. He has Ailed numerous chairs 
in the university of Wisconsin, of which 


be is vice-president since 1885; and pro¬ 
fessor of constitutional and international 
law since 1893. 

PARKINSON, WILLIAM, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 8, 1774, in Freder¬ 
ick county, Md. He was a baptist clergy¬ 
man of New York city; and the author 
I)f Ecclesiastical History; Public Minis¬ 
try of the Word; and Sermons on Deuter¬ 
onomy xxxii. He died March 10, 1848, in 
New York city. 

PARKMAN, FRANCIS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 4, 1788, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a Unitarian clergyman of 
Boston; and the author of The Offering 
of Sympathy. He died Nov. 12, 1852, in 
Uoslon, Mass. 

PARKMAN, FRANCIS, historian, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 16, 1823, in Boston. 
Mass. He was the foremost of American 
historians. The work of his life was the 
series of historical narratives called 
France and England in North America, 
begun in 1864 and completed in 1892. He 
was the author of Pioneers of France in 
the New World; The Jesuits in North 
America; La Salle and the Discovery of 
the Great West; The Old Regime in Can¬ 
ada; Count Frontenac and New France 
under Louis XIV; A Half Century of Con¬ 
flict; and Montcalm and Wolfe. The Con¬ 
spiracy of Pontiac forms a sequel to the 
work, though Arst issued in 1857. He died 
in 1893. 

PARKMAN, GEORGE, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1791 in Boston, Mass. 
He was a Boston physician who published 
Insanity and the Management of the In¬ 
sane. He died in November, 1849, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

PARKS, GORHAM, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1793 in Massachusetts. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Maine from 1833 to 1837; and from 1838 
to 1841 was United States marshal for the 
district of Maine. From 1843 to 1845 he 
was United States attorney; and from 
1845 to 1849 was United States consul at 
Rio Janeiro. 

PARKS, LEIGHTON, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1855 in New York. He 
is an episcopal clergyman of Boston; rec¬ 
tor of Emmanuel church from 1878; and 
the author of His Star in the East; and 
Winning of the Soul, and Other Sermons. 

PARKS, SAMUEL C., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Vermont. He was appointed 
a justice of the United States court for 
the territory of Idaho. He afterward re¬ 
sided in New Mexico; and in 1882 was 
appointed an associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of the territory of Wyoming. 

PARKS, SAMUEL SHAW, lawyer, was 
born May 6, 1863, in Palmer, Mass. His 
mother is a descendant from the Arst set¬ 
tlers of Plymouth who came over in the, 
MayAower. In 1879 he entered Monson 
academy, graduating therefrom in 1882. 
He entered Amherst college in 1882, and 
received the degree of B. A. in 1886. In 
1888 he graduated from the Union college 
of Law, and since that time has practiced 
his profession in Chicago. He is a demo¬ 
crat of very pronounced views; and is a 
member of various silver and other politi¬ 
cal clubs. He was married in 1888 to 
Grace Runyan, daughter of E. F. Runyan, 
a noted lawyer of Chicago; and they have 
two children. 

PARLOA, MARIA, author, was born in 
1843 in Massachusetts. She is a lecturer 
and writer upon domestic economy, 
especially upon the science of food prep¬ 
aration; and the author of First Princi¬ 
ples of Household Management and Cook¬ 
ery; Kitchen Companion; The Young 
Housekeeper; and New Cook Book and 
Marketing Guide. 

PARMELEE, THEODORE NELSON, 
journalist, author, was born in 1804 in 


Connecticut. He was editor for several 
years of the Buffalo Commercial, and au¬ 
thor of some of the biographies in the 
volume Men of Progress; of a series of 
political reminiscences that were pub¬ 
lished in Harper’s Magazine under the 
title Recollections of an Old Stager; and 
of numerous fugitive articles. He died 
July 3, 1874, in Branford, Conn. 

PARMENTER, WILLIAM, naval officer, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
Massachusetts. He was a state senator in 
1836; and was a representative in congress 
from Massachusetts from 1837 to 1845. He 
was a naval officer at Boston from 1845 to 
1849. He died Feb. 27, 1866, in Cambridge, 
Mass. 

PARR, FRANKLIN J., lawyer, was 
born Nov. 30, 1865, near Pekin, Ill. He re¬ 
ceived a liberal education, was admitted 
to the bar, and has attained success as one 
of the leading lawyers of Iowa at Fort 
Dodge. He has been a school director in 
Illinois; and city attorney for Storm 
Lake, Iowa. He holds the degrees of B. S. 
and LL. B., and contributes extensively to 
law literature. 

PARRENT, JOHN M., educator, was 
born May 28, 1859, in Alton, Ky. He at¬ 
tended the Kentucky Military institute, 
and the Normal college; and has since 
been engaged in educational work. He 
Arst taught in the public schools of Ken¬ 
tucky, then at the Lawrenceburg semi¬ 
nary, then at the Normal college; and in 
1888 moved to Montana. For four years 
he was principal of the Lewistown graded 
schools, and in 1892 was elected county su- 
> perintendent of schools. 

PARRETT, WILLIAM F., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 10, 1825, in Blairsville, 
Ind. In 1858 he was elected to the Indi¬ 
ana legislature and served during the gen¬ 
eral and special sessions; in 1859 was 
appointed judge of the Afteenth circuit, 
to which position he was elected for six 
years at the election following his ap¬ 
pointment; and after his election he re¬ 
turned to Evansville, where he has since 
resided. In, 1865 he was re-elected for a 
term of six years. In 1873 he was appoint¬ 
ed judge of the Arst circuit, and was 
elected to the same position; and twice 
re-elected, 1879 and 1884. He was elected 
to the Afty-Arst congress; and re-elected 
to the Afty-second congress as a democrat. 

PARRIS, ALBION KEITH, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, United States senator, 
governor, was born Jan. 19, 1788, in Au¬ 
burn, Maine. In 1811 he was appointed 
attorney for Oxford county, Maine; in 
1813 was elected to the general court; and 
in 1814 was chosen a state senator. He 
was elected a representative in congress 
in 1815, and again in 1817. He was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the feueral district court 
in 1818. In 1820 he was appointed judge 
of probate for Cumberland county. He 
was Ave times elected governor of Maine 
from 1822 to 1827; and was a senator in 
congress in 1827 and 1828. He was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the supreme court of the 
state in 1828, holding the office until 1836, 
when he became second comptroller in the 
federal treasury department. He left that 
office in 1850, and returned to Portland. 
In 1852 he was elected mayor. He died 
Feb. 11, 1857, in Portland, Maine. 

PARRIS, VIRGIL D., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman. He was assistant 
secretary of the state senate in 1831; and 
was a member of the Maine legislature 
from 1833 to 1839. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Maine from 1838 to 
1841; and a state senator in 1842 and 1843. 
He was a United States marshal for Maine 
from 1844 to 1848; United States special 
mail agent from 1853 to 1856; and subse¬ 
quently held the office of naval storekeep¬ 
er at Kittery, Maine. He died June 13, 
1874, in Kittery, Maine. 





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PARRISH, CHARLES HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, was born 
April 18, 1859, in Lexington, Ky. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education in 
the public schools of his native city; and 
attended the state university of Louis¬ 
ville, in which institution he was subse¬ 
quently secretary, treasurer and professor 
of Greek. He is now pastor of the Cal¬ 
vary Baptist church of Louisville and 
president of the Eckstein Norton univer¬ 
sity. 

PARRISH, EDWARD, educator, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born May 31, 
1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an edu¬ 
cator and pharmacist of Philadelphia, and 
president of Swarthmore college in 1868- 
70. He was the author of Introduction 
to Practical Pharmacy; The Phantom 
Bouquet, a Treatise on Skeletonizing 
Leaves; and Essay on Education in the 
Society of Friends. He died in 1872. 

PARRISH, ISAAC, congressman, was 
born in 1811 in Ohio. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1839 to 1841, and again from 1845 to 1847. 

PARRISH, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 7, 1729, in Baltimore, Md. 
He was a Quaker preacher of Pennsyl¬ 
vania noted as an early opponent of slav¬ 
ery, who published Remarks on the Slav¬ 
ery of the Black Race. He died Oct. 21, 
1807, in Baltimore, Md. 

PARRISH, JOSEPH, physician, author, 
was born Sept. 2, 1779, in Philadelphia. 
He was an eminent Philadelphia physi¬ 
cian who was the author of Practical Ob¬ 
servations on Strangulated Hernia. He 
died in 1840. 

PARRISH, JOSEPH, physician, author, 
was born Nov. 11, 1818, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a physician of Burlington, 
N. J., famous as an authority upon the 
treatment of inebriates; and the author 
of Alcoholic Inebriety from the Medical 
Standpoint. He died in 1891. 

PARRISH, ROB ROY, poet, was born 
Jan. 15, 1846, in Noble county, Ohio. He 
is the author of a volume of poems en¬ 
titled Echoes From the Vale. 

PARROTT, ENOCH GREENLEAF, 
naval officer, was born Dec. 10, 1814, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. He entered the United 
States navy as a midshipman in 1831, be¬ 
came lieutenant in 1841. He was commis¬ 
sioned captain in 1866, commodore in 1870, 
rear-admiral in 1873, and was retired in 
1874. He died May 10, 1879, in New York 
city. 

PARROTT, JOHN FRANCIS, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born in 1768 in Greenland, N. H. 
He was in 1811 a member of the New 
Hampshire legislature; a representative 
in congress from New Hampshire from 
1817 to 1819; and a senator of the United 
States from 1819 to 1825. In 1826 he was 
appointed postmaster at Portsmouth. He 
died July 9, J.836, in Greenland, N. H. 

PARROTT, MARCUS J„ lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 
1828, in Hamburg, S. C. He was a member 
of the Ohio legislature in 1853 and 1854. 
He was elected a delegate to the thirty- 
fifth congress from Kansas territory; and 
re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. 

PARROTT, MATT, journalist, legisla¬ 
tor, was born May 11, 1837, in Schoharie, 
N. Y. He is a noted journalist of Water¬ 
loo, Iowa, of which city he has been 
mayor. For eight years he served as a 
state senator in the Iowa legislature, and 
is now serving as lieutenant-governor of 
that state. 

PARROTT, ROBERT PARKER, soldier, 
inventor, was born Oct. 5, 1804, in Lee, 
N. H. He was a captain of ordnance in 
the United States army, and invented the 


Parrott system of rifled cannon and pro¬ 
jectiles. He died Dec. 24, 1877, in Cold 
Spring, N. Y. 

PARRY, CHARLES CHRISTOPHER, 
botanist, author, was born Aug. 28, 1823, 
in England. He was a botanist of Daven¬ 
port, Iowa, among whose writings are, 
Botanical Observations in Western Wyo¬ 
ming; and Botanical Observations in 
Southern Utah. He died Feb. 20, 1890. 

PARSON, SAMUEL H., lawyer, jurist. 
He was appointed an associate justice of 
the United States court for the territory 
northwest of the Ohio river. 

PARSONS, ALBERT ROSS, musician, 
composer, was born Nov. 16, 1847, in San¬ 
dusky, Ohio. He has attained national 
prominence as a musician of New York 
city; and has composed many pieces. 
Among his best known are: The Night 
Has a Thousand Eyes; Break, Break; 
Etude; and many other pieces. 

PARSONS, ANDREW, state senator, 
governor, was born July 22, 1817, in Hoo- 
sick, N. Y. In 1846 he was elected to 
the Michigan state senate; and in 1853 
was elected governor, resigning in 1855. 
He died June 6, 1855. 

PARSONS. ANSON VIRGIL, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1799 in Granville, 
Mass. In 1840 he was president judge of 
the court of common pleas of the Dau¬ 
phin judicial district. In 1842 he became 
secretary of the commonwealth. He re¬ 
turned to the bench as judge of the court 
of common pleas of Philadelphia in 1843. 
He resumed practice in 1851, when the 
judiciary became elective. With Judge 
Edward King, he published Select Cases 
in Equity, in two volumes. He died Sept. 
23, 1882, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PARSONS, CHARLES, artist, was born 
May 8, 1821, in England. Since 1861 he 
has been at the head of the art depart¬ 
ment of Harper and Brothers. Among his 
recent paintings are An Old Orchard, 
Long Island; and Amagansett, L. I. 

PARSONS, CHARLES, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Feb. 6, 1829, in Alfred, 
Maine. Since 1894 he has been president 
of the South Carolina and Georgia rail¬ 
way. 

PARSONS, CHARLES WILLIAM, phy¬ 
sician, educator, author, was born Sept. 
6, 1823, in Providence, R. I. He settled 
in practice in Providence; was professor 
of physiology in Brown in 1874-82; and 
is the author of two Fiske fund prize dis¬ 
sertations, and many medical and his¬ 
torical papers. 

PARSONS, CHARLES WESLEY, ora¬ 
tor, clergyman, was born Jan. 7, 1851, in 
Otsego county, N. Y. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Cazenovia seminary; the 
Wyoming Conference seminary of Kings¬ 
ton, Pa.; and the Drew Theological semi¬ 
nary of Madison, N. J. He has attained 
distinction as a brilliant orator, and as 
one of the leading clergymen of the meth- 
odist episcopal church. He has filled pas¬ 
torates in Fairfield, Gouverneur, Water- 
town, and Rome, N. Y.; in Kansas City, 
Mo.; Newark, N. J.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; 
and is now pastor of the Chestnut Street 
church of Portland, Maine. 

PARSONS, DAVID, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 28, 1749, in Amherst, N. H. 
He gave the ground on which Amherst 
college is built; contributed to its sup¬ 
port; and wrote Election Sermon; a'nd 
Ordination Sermon. He died May 18, 1823, 
in Wethersfield, Conn. 

PARSONS, EDWARD YOUNG, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 12, 1842, in 
Jefferson county, Ky. In 1874 he was 
elected a representative from Kentucky to 
the forty-fourth congress. He died July 
8, 1876. 


PARSONS, MRS. FRANCES THEO¬ 
DORA [SMITH] [DANA], author, was 
born in 1861 in New York. She is a writer 
of Albany whose books were published 
under the name of Mrs. William Starr 
Dana. She is the author of How to Know 
the Wild Flowers; According to Season; 
and Plants and Their Children. 

PARSONS, FRANK, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1855 in New Jersey. He is a 
lawyer of Boston; and the author of The 
World’s Best Books; and Our Country’s 
Need, or the Development of a Scientific 
Industrial System. He has edited several 
legal works. 

PARSONS, GEORGE FREDERIC, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1840 in Eng¬ 
land. He is a journalist of New York 
city; and the author of Life of J. W. Mar¬ 
shall, Discoverer of Gold in California; 
and Middle Ground, a novel. 

PARSONS, GEORGE M., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Jan. 15, 1850, in 
Cambridge City, Ind. While attending 
high school in Hamilton, Ohio, he enlisted 
as a private soldier in the eighty-ninth 
regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, being 
but fifteen years of age. At the close of 
the war he entered a commercial college; 
took up the study of law; and has at¬ 
tained success as one of the leading law¬ 
yers of Idaho at Boise City. He was a 
member of the seventh and tenth sessions, 
of the Idaho territorial legislature; in 
1883-84 was probate judge of Alturas 
county; and for two terms during 1893- 
96 was attorney-general of Idaho. 

PARSONS, HENRY BETTS, chemist, 
educator, author, was born Nov. 20, 1855, 
in Asia Minor. His Method fof the Proxi¬ 
mate Analysis of Plants was published in 
the chief chemical journals of the world, 
and universally adopted. He died Aug. 21, 
1885, in Tucson, Ariz. 

PARSONS, J. D., librarian. He is li¬ 
brarian of the public library of Newbury- 
port, Mass.; and is a constant contributor 
to current publications. 

PARSONS, JONATHAN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1705 in Massachusetts. 
He was a presbyterian minister of New- 
buryport,who adopted the views of White- 
field, and in whose house that famous 
preacher died. He was the author of 
Lectures on Justification; Good News 
from a Far Country, said to be the first 
book published in New Hampshire; Sixty 
Sermons; and Freedom from Ecclesiasti¬ 
cal and Civil Slavery the Purchase of 
Christ. He died in 1776. 

PARSONS, LEVI, lawyer, jurist, rail¬ 
road president, was born July 1, 1822, in 
Kingsboro, N. Y. He was elected judge 
of the San Francisco district in 1850, sub¬ 
sequently engaged in business, and built 
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, 
of which he became the first president. 
He died Oct. 23, 1887, in New York city. 

PARSONS, LEWIS BALDWIN, soldier, 
lawyer, was born April 5, 1818, in Genesee 
county, N. Y. In 1864 he was placed in 
charge of all railroad and river army 
transportation in the United States. He 
was promoted brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers in 1865, and in 1866 was brevetted 
major-general of volunteers. 

PARSONS, LEWIS E., governor. He 
was appointed provisional governor of 
Alabama in 1865. 

PARSONS, MOSBY MONROE, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, was born in 1819 in 
Virginia. He was attorney-general of 
Missouri in 1853-57, and subsequently be¬ 
came a member of the state senate. He 
was active in organizing the state militia, 
and raised a mounted brigade which he 
commanded with the rank of brigadier- 
general. He died Aug. 17, 1865, in Ca- 
margo, Mexico. 


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PARSONS, RICHARD C., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 
10, 1826, in New London, Conn. In 1851 
he was elected a member of the city 
council of Cleveland, and the next year 
president of that body. In 1857 he was 
elected to the Ohio legislature; re-elected, 
and chosen speaker of the house. He was 
appointed consul at Rio Janeiro; was ap¬ 
pointed collector of internal revenue at 
Cleveland for four years; and in 1866 
received the appointment of marshal of 
the supreme court of the United States, 
and served six years. He was elected to 
the forty-third congress. 

PARSONS, SAMUEL HOLDEN, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 1L 
1737, in Lyme, Conn. He was elected a 
member of the Connecticut assembly in 
1762, and successively for eighteen ses¬ 
sions. He was made brigadier-general by 
congress in 1776; and major-general in 
1780. In 1785 he was appointed by con¬ 
gress a commissioner to treat with the 
Indians at Miami; was a member of the 
convention of Connecticut which ratified 
the federal constitution of 1788; and was 
appointed first judge of the northwest 
territory. In 1789 he was state commis¬ 
sioner for treating with the Indians on 
the western reserve of Connecticut; and 
settled on the Ohio river in 1787, and pub¬ 
lished an essay on the antiquities of the 
western states. He was drowned Nov. 17, 
1789, in Big Beaver river, Ohio. 

PARSONS, THEOPHILUS, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, author, was born Feb. 24, 1750, in 
Byfield, Mass. He was a jurist of New- 
buryport and after 1800 of Boston, and 
chief justice of Massachusetts from 1801. 
He was the author of Commentaries on 
the Law of the United States; and The 
Essex Result, a famous political pamphlet 
of 1777. He died Oct. 30, 1813, in Boston, 
Mass. 

PARSONS, THEOPHILUS, educator, 
author, was born May 17, 1797, in New- 
buryport. Mass. He was a noted legal 
writer, Dane professor of law in Har¬ 
vard university from 1847, and an eminent 
Swedenborgian thinker. He was the au¬ 
thor of Treatise on the Law of Contracts; 
Elements of Mercantile Law; The Laws 
of Business; Maritime Law; Law of Prom¬ 
issory Notes; Principles of the Law of 
Partnership; The Law of Marine Insur¬ 
ance; Treatise on the Law of Partner¬ 
ship; Political, Personal, and Property 
Rights of a United States Citizen; Me¬ 
moir of Chief Justice Parsons; The Min¬ 
istry of Sorrow; Deus Homo; The In¬ 
finite and the Finite; Essays; Outlines of 
the Religion and Philosophy of Sweden¬ 
borg; and The Mystery of Life. He died 
Jan. 26, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass. 

PARSONS, THOMAS WILLIAM, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Aug. 18, 1819, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a poet of Boston who 
for some years practiced his profession of 
dentistry there. The quality of his writ¬ 
ing is uneven, but in such poems as the 
Lines on a Bust of Dante, and When 
Francesca Sings, he is at his best. His 
work includes a much admired though in¬ 
complete translation in English verse of 
Dante’s Divina Commedia, of which an 
edition was issued in 1893, with introduc¬ 
tion by C. E. Norton, and memorial 
sketch by Miss Guiney; Ghetto di Roma; 
The Magnolia; The Old Home at Sudbury; 
The Shadow of the Obelisk, and Other 
Poems; and Poems. He died in 1892. 

PARSONS, USHER, surgeon, was born 
Aug. 8, 1788, in Alfred, Maine. He was 
a surgeon of Providence; and the author 
of The Art of Making Anatomic Prepara¬ 
tions; Prize Dissertations; Sailors’ Phy¬ 
sician; History of the Battle of Lake Erie; 
and Life of Sir William Pepperell. He 
died Dec. 19, 1868, in Providence, R. I. 

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PARSONS, WILLIAM, surveyor, was 
born in England. In 1743 he was appoint¬ 
ed surveyor-general of Pennsylvania, re¬ 
signing in 1748. He died in December, 
1757, in Easton, Pa. 

PARTHEMORE, E. WINFIELD SCOTT, 
business man, author, was born July 25, 
1852, in Highspire, Pa. He is largely in¬ 
terested in building and loan associations. 
He is the author of A Genealogy of the 
Parthemore Family; and A Genealogy 
of the Luding Bretz Family. 

PARTON, ARTHUR, artist, was born 
March 26, 1842, in Hudson, N. Y. In 1886 
he received a gold medal at the prize ex¬ 
hibition at the American Art association 
for his Evening after the Rain. His pic¬ 
tures include November; On the Road 
to Mt. Marcy; and A Mountain Brook. 

PARTON. ERNEST, artist, was born 
March 17, 1845, in Hudson, N. Y. Among 
his paintings are Morning Mist; Papa’s 
Luncheon; Placid Stream; and Sunny 
September. 

PARTON, JAMES, author, was born 
Feb. 9, 1822, in England. He was a pop¬ 
ular writer of English birth who came to 
America when very young and for the 
latter part of his life resided in Newbury- 
port. The permanent value of his writing 
is not great, with the possible exception of 
his Life of Voltaire. He was the author 
of Lives of Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew 
Jackson, Franklin, Jefferson; General 
Butler in New Orleans; Famous Ameri¬ 
cans of Recent Times; Smoking and 
Drinking; Captains of Industry; Tri¬ 
umphs of Enterprise; Noted Women of 
America and Europe; The People’s Book 
of Biography; Caricature and Other Com¬ 
ic Art; and Topics of the Times. He died 
in 1891. 

PARTON, MRS. SARAH PAYSON 
[WILLIS] [ELDRIDGE], author, was 
born July 7,1811, in Portland, Maine. She 
was a once popular but now neglected 
writer who for some sixteen years con¬ 
tributed a weekly article to The New York 
Ledger. She was the author of Rose 
Clark, a novel; Ruth Hall, a novel more 
or less autobiographic; Fern Leaves; 
Folly as It Flies; Ginger Snaps; and 
Caper Sauce. She died Oct. 10, 1872. 

PARTRIDGE, GEORGE, congressman, 
was born Feb. 8, 1740, in Duxbury, Mass. 
He was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress .from Massachusetts from 1776 to 
1778, and in 1784; and a representative in 
congress after the adoption of the consti¬ 
tution, from 1789 to 1791. He died July 7, 
1828, in Duxbury, Mass. 

PARTRIDGE, OLIVER, congressman, 
was born June 13, 1712, in Hatfield, Mass. 
He was a member of the first colonial con¬ 
gress in 1765. He died July 21, 1792, in 
Hatfield, Mass. 

PARTRIDGE, SAMUEL, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1841 to 1843. He died April 2, 1883. 

PARTRIDGE, WILLIAM ORDWAY, 
sculptor, author, poet, was born in 1861 
in France. He is a sculptor of Milton, 
Mass.; and the author of Art for Amer¬ 
ica; The Technique of Sculpture; and 
The Song Life of a Sculptor. 

PARVIN, THEODORE SUTTON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 15, 1817, 
in Cumberland county, N. J. He was 
elected three consecutive terms as judge 
of the probate court of Iowa. He has been 
grand secretary of the Masonic lodge of 
Iowa, and has edited a full set of the an¬ 
nals of the grand lodge from its organiza¬ 
tion, comprising thirteen large volumes. 
He is the author of History of Iowa; and * 
History of Templary in Iowa. 


BIOGRAPHY. 


PARVIN, THEOPHILUS, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 8, 1829, in Argentine 
Republic. He is a Philadelphia physician; 
professor in Jefferson Medical college; and 
has published The Science and Art of Ob¬ 
stetrics. 

PASCHAL, THOMAS M., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 15, 1845, in 
Alexandria, La. He moved to Brackett, 
Texas, in 1873, and practiced law till 1875, 
when elected judge of the twenty-fourth 
judicial district, to which position he was 
re-elected in 1880 and 1884. In 18v6 he 
was appointed agent between the United 
States and Mexico, and was reappointed 
in 1880. In 1875 he returned to Castroville 
and was elected judge of the thirty-eighth 
judicial district in 1888. He was elected 
to the fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

PASCHALL, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
lawyer, jurist, educator, author, was born 
Nov. 23,1812, in Skull Shoals, Ga. He was 
a jurist of Texas, and later of Washing¬ 
ton, where he w r as professor of jurisprud¬ 
ence in Georgetown college. He was the 
author of Annotated Digest of Texas 
Laws; Decisions of Texas Supreme Court; 
and Annotated Constitution of the United 
States. He died Feb. 16, 1878, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

PASCO, SAMUEL, soldier, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, United States senator, was born 
June 28, 1834, in London, England. When 
quite young he moved with his father 
first to Prince Edward Island, thence to 
Massachusetts; was prepared for college 
at the high school in Charlestown; and 
graduated at Harvard in 1858. In 1859 he 
went to Florida to take charge of the 
Waukeenah academy of Jefferson county, 
where he has ever since resided. In 1861 
he entered the confederate army as a pri¬ 
vate. He was admitted to the bar in 
1868; in 1872 became a member of the 
democratic state committee; and from 
1876 to 1888 was its chairman. He has 
represented Florida on the democratic na¬ 
tional committee since 1880; and in 1880 
was elected a presidential elector at large; 
in 1885 was president of the constitutional 
convention of his state; and in 1887, while 
speaker of the state house of representa¬ 
tives, was elected to the United States 
senate as a democrat, to succeed Charles 
W. Jones; and was re-elected to the same 
office. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 1899. 

PASKO, WESLEY WASHINGTON, in¬ 
ventor, author, was born Jan. 4, 1840, in 
Waterloo, N. Y. He is the inventor of the 
Paslto Press; and is the author of Bio¬ 
graphical History of Indiana; History of 
Butler County, Ohio; A Dictionary of 
Printing and Bookmaking; and Men Who 
Advertise. 


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^.uiin i win n., lawyer, scare 
legislator, was born Aug. 31, 1830, in Ro¬ 
chester, N. Y. For many years he was 

_...__ state sealer of 

weights and meas¬ 
ures; has served 
with distinction as a 
member of both 
houses of the state 
legislature of Ne¬ 
vada; and for many 
years was district at- 

| | ^ torney of Lincoln 

/ ? county. He is one of 

the foremost law- 
-JHHH J’ers of Nevada at 
.... . , . Pioche, and a con¬ 

tributor to law journals and the periodical 
press of the west. 

PATCHIN, JARED, lawyer, jurist, was 
born April 18, 1828, in Benton, N. Y He 
was a member of the Florida state legis¬ 
lature; was county attorney; and in 1868 
was judge of the circuit court. 



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PATERSON, DONALD, educator, phy¬ 
sician, lawyer, was born Jan. 4, 1837, in 
Bennettsville, S. C. He graduated in both 
law and medicine from the state univer¬ 
sity of Georgia. He has been a professor 
of mathematics in several institutions; a 
justice of the peace for many years, and a 
leading attorney and practicing physician 
and druggist of Concord, Fla. 

PATERSON, JOHN, soldier, was born 
in 1744 in New Britain, Conn. He was a 
member of the first provincial congress 
which met at Salem in 1744; and also of 
the congress of 1775. In 1777 he was 
made a brigadier-general; and in 1783 be¬ 
came major-general. In 1792 he was a 
member of the New York assembly; of 
the constitutional convention of 1801; and 
a member of congress in 1803-05. He died 
July 19, 1808, in Whitney’s Point, N. Y. 

PATERSON, JOHN, mathematician, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 11, 1801, in Paterson, 
N. J. He published a work on the Cal¬ 
culus of Operations, to which was added 
a supplemental volume; and papers on 
Weights and Measures. He died July 31, 
1883, in Albany, N. Y. 

PATERSON, STEPHEN VAN RENS¬ 
SELAER, poet, was born in 1817 in New 
Jersey. He was a poet of New Jersey, 
whose version of The Moss Rose from the 
German of Krummacher is his best-known 
poem. He was the author of Poems of 
Twin Graduates of the College of New 
Jersey. He died in 1872. 

PATERSON, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, United States senator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1745 at sea. He was a 
member of the convention which framed 
the first constitution of New Jersey in 
1776; and from that time until the year 
1786 was attorney-general of the state. 
He was a member of the convention which 
framed the federal constitution, which in¬ 
strument he signed. He was a delegate 
to the continental congress in 1780 and 
1781; and was one of ihe first senators 
in congress from 1789 to 1790, when he re¬ 
signed. He was governor of New Jersey 
from 1791 to 1794, when he was appoint¬ 
ed a judge of the supreme court of the 
United States, which position he held 
until his death. In 1798 and 1799 he 
revised, by authority of the legislature, 
the laws of New Jersey, a work highly 
esteemed, and the foundation of the juris¬ 
prudence of the state. He died Sept. 9, 
1806, in Albany, N. Y. 

PATERSON, WILLIAM, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born in 1817 in 
New Jersey. He is a jurist of Perth Am¬ 
boy, N. J.; and the co-author with his 
brother Stephen of Poems of Twin Gradu¬ 
ates of the College of New Jersey. 

PATILLO, HENRY, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1726 in Scotland. He was 
active in pre-revolutionary movements, a 
member of the North Carolina provincial 
congress in 1775, and was chaplain to that 
body, and chairman of the committee of 
the whole. He died in 1801 in Dinwiddie 
county, Va. 

PATRICK, JAMES RHEECE, lawyer, 
was born March 4, 1855, in Armstrong 
county, Pa. In 1882 he was admitted to 
the bar at Springfield, Ill.; and subse¬ 
quently served as city attorney of Paxton, 
Ill. In 1884 he moved to Nebraska, an'd 
now has a large practice in Holdrege, 
where he takes an important part in pub¬ 
lic affairs. 

PATRICK, MARSENA R., soldier, was 
born March 15, 1811, in Houndsfield, N. Y. 
At the beginning of the civil war he was 
made inspector-general of the New York 
■ militia, and became brigadier-general of 
volunteers in March, 1862. He died July 
27, 1888, in Dayton, Ohio. 


PATTEE, FRED LEWIS, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born March 22, 1863, in Bristol, 
N. H. He now fills the chair of English 
and rhetoric in the Pennsylvania state col¬ 
lege. He is the author of A History of 
American Literature; and a volume of 
poems entitled The Wine of May. 

PATTEN, CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN, 
banker, author, was born in 1835. He 
was a banker of Boston who published in 
1885 England as Seen by an American 
Banker. He died in 1886. 

PATTEN, ELLEN, educator, poet, was 
born May 9, 1834, in Hiram, Ohio. After 
receiving a liberal education she attained 
success in educational work. She has con¬ 
tributed both prose and verse to the peri¬ 
odical press, and her poems have been in¬ 
cluded in several standard works. 

PATTEN, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
soldier, author, poet, was born Dec. 26, 
1808, in Newport, R. I. He was an officer 
in the United States army who wrote the 
noted lyrics. The Seminole’s Reply; and 
Joys That We’ve Tasted. His published 
books include. Army Manual; Infantry 
Tactics; Cavalry Drill; and Voices of 
the Border, a volume of verse. He died 
in 1882. 

PATTEN, JAMES EDWIN, journalist, 
was born Sept. 2, 1865, in Cherry Valley, 
Ill. He received a liberal education; and 
published the first school paper in the 
state of South Dakota at Madison in 1885. 
In 1887 he founded The Salem Special of 
Salem, S. D., and has since been its editor 
and proprietor. In 1894-95 he served as 
president of the South Dakota Press as¬ 
sociation. 

PATTEN, JARVIS, sea captain, author, 
was born in 1828 in Bowdoinham, Maine. 
He was several times member of the city 
council of Bath, Maine; compiled and pub¬ 
lished a work on the Seaports of the 
World, a valuable book of reference. 

PATTEN, JOHN, soldier, congressman, 
was born in 1746 in Kent county, Del. He 
was commissioned major in 1779, and 
fought in almost every battle from Long 
Island to Camden, at which he was taken 
prisoner. He served in the continental 
congress in 1785-86, and in the third con¬ 
gress in 1793-94, but his seat was success¬ 
fully contested in the latter year. He 
died June 17, 1801, in Dover, Del. 

PATTEN, JOHN D., congressman. He 
was elected from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-eighth congress as a democrat and 
greenbacker. 

PATTEN, SIMON NELSON, educator, 
author, was born in 1852 in Illinois. He 
is a professor of political economy in the 
university of Pennsylvania from 1888; and 
the author of The Stability of Prices; The 
Consumption of Wealth; Economic Basis 
of Protection; Principles of Rational Tax¬ 
ation; Educational Value of Political 
Economy; Theory Of Dynamic Econom¬ 
ics; The Premises of Political Economy; 
and The Theory of Social Forces. 

PATTEN, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1763 in Halifax, Mass. 
He was pastor of the Second Congrega¬ 
tional church at Newport, R. I., from 
1786 till 1833. He published several sep¬ 
arate sermons; Christianity the True Re¬ 
ligion, a reply to Thomas Paine; Me¬ 
moir of Mrs. Ruth Patten, his mother, and 
the daughter of Rev. Eleazar Wheelock; 
and Reminiscences of Rev. Samuel Hop¬ 
kins. He died March 9, 1839, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

PATTENGILL, HENRY R„ educator, 
journalist, author, was born Jan. 4, 1852, 
in Mount Vision, N. Y. He was professor 
of literature in the Michigan Agricultural 
college during 1886-89; and during 1892- 
97 was superintendent of public instruc¬ 


tion in Michigan. He is the editor and 
publisher of the Michigan School Moder¬ 
ator, and Timely Topics, of Lansing; and 
is the author of several text-books and 
educational manuals. 

PATTERSON, ALEXANDER A., rail¬ 
road president, was born Dec. 18, 1852, in 
Saratoga, N. Y. In 1889 he became presi¬ 
dent of the St, Joseph Valley railway. 

PATTERSON, CARLILE POLLOCK, 
naval officer, civil engineer, was born Aug. 
24, 1816, in Shieldsborough, Miss. He 
was appointed a midshipman in the 
United States navy in 1830; and subse¬ 
quently attained the rank of lieutenant. 
For many years he was hydrographic 
inspector and a member of the lighthouse 
board. He died Aug. 15, 1881, near Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

PATTERSON, CHRISTOPHER 
STUART, lawyer, educator, author, was 
born in 1842 in Pennsylvania. He is a 
lawyer of Philadelphia, and professor of 
the law of real estate in the university of 
Pennsylvania from 1887. He is the au¬ 
thor of Memoir of Theodore Cuyler; Rail¬ 
way Accident Law; Federal Restraints on 
State Action; and The United States 
and the State under the Constitution. 

PATTERSON, DANIEL TOD, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born March 6, 1786, on Long 
Island, N. Y. In 1828 he was made naval 
commissioner, and in 1832-36 he com¬ 
manded the Mediterranean squadron, aftei 
which he was, until his death, command¬ 
ant of the navy-yard at Washington. He 
died Aug. 15,1839, in Washington, D. C. 

PATTERSON, DAVID TROTTER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state senator, congressman, 
was born Feb. 28, 1819, in Greene county, 
Tenn. He was elected a judge of the cir¬ 
cuit court in 1854; and re-elected in 1862. 
In 1865 he was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress from Tennessee for the term end¬ 
ing in 1869, taking his seat on the last day 
of the first session of the thirty-third con¬ 
gress. He was son-in-law of President 
Andrew Johnson. 

PATTERSON, FRANCIS ENGLE, sol¬ 
dier, was born June 24, 1827, in Philadel¬ 
phia. He became brigadier-general of 
volunteers in 1862, and participated in the 
peninsular campaign. He died Nov. 22, 
1862, in Fairfax Court-House, Va. 

PATTERSON, GEORGE WASHING¬ 
TON, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 11, 1799, in 
Londonderry, N. H. He was a member of 
the New York state assembly for eight 
years from 1832 to 1840, the last two of 
which he was speaker. He was basin com¬ 
missioner at Albany; and harbor com¬ 
missioner and quarantine commissioner at 
New York. He was elected lieutenant- 
governor of the state in 1848. He was for 
several years supervisor of Westfield; 
and was elected a representative from 
New York to the forty-fifth congress as 
a republican. 

PATTERSON, JAMES KENNEDY, ed¬ 
ucator, college president, was born March 
26, 1833, in Glasgow, Scotland. He en¬ 
tered the Hanover college, Indiana, in 
1851, and in course received the degrees 
of B. A., A. M. and Ph. D. He has at¬ 
tained success in educational work; for 
three years was principal of the Greenville 
Presbyterian academy, Ky.; was professor 
of languages, history and metaphysics in 
various institutions; and since 1869 has 
been president of the States college of 
Kentucky, which has been built up main¬ 
ly by his efforts. He has been a dele¬ 
gate from Kentucky to the international 
congress of geographical sciences at Paris 
in 1875; and a delegate to the British as¬ 
sociation for the Advancement of Science 
at Leeds in 1890; and is a member of nu¬ 
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PATTERSON, JAMES WILLIS, educat¬ 
or, state legislator, congressman, United 
States senator, was born July 2, 1823, in 
Henniker, N. H. In 1862 he served in the 
New Hampshire legislature; and was 
elected a representative from New Hamp¬ 
shire to the thirty-eighth congress. In 
1864 he was appointed a regent of the 
Smithsonian institution, and was reap¬ 
pointed in 1865. He was re-elected to the 
thirty-ninth congress; and in 1866 was 
elected a senator in congress for the term 
commencing in 1867 and ending in 1873. 
He died May 4, 1893, in Hanover, N. H.; 
and his portrait hangs in the new library 
building of the state capitol. 

PATTERSON, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1823 to 1825. 

PATTERSON, JOHN, state legislator, 
congressman. He was for four years a 
member of the assembly of New York; 
and was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1803 to 1805. 

PATTERSON, JOHN JAMES, soldier, 
journalist, United States senator, was 
born Aug. 8, 1830, in Waterloo, Pa. He 
was editor of the Juniata Sentinel in 1852. 
and for ten years afterward was editor 
of the Harrisburg Telegraph. He was a 
member of the Pennsylvania state legis¬ 
lature in 1858, and the three succeeding 
years. He removed to South Carolina in 
1869; and was elected to the senate of 
the United States for the term commenc¬ 
ing in 1873 and ending in 1879. 

PATTERSON, JOHN LETCHER, edu¬ 
cator, poet, was born June 10, 1862, in 
Lexington, Ky. He is principal of the 
high school at Versailles, Ky., and is the 
author of a volume of poems. 

PATTERSON, JOHN THOMAS, presi¬ 
dent of Hocker college, w r as born Dec. 22, 
1826, in Winchester, Ky. In 1853 he built 
and put in operation what is known as the 
Patterson Female institute, which he still 
owns, situated at North Middletown, in 
Bourbon county, Ky., designed for young 
ladies. In 1876 he accepted the presidency 
of Hocker Female college. 

PATTERSON, JOSIAH, soldier, state 
legislator, congressman, was born April 
14, 1837, in Morgan county, Ala. He lo¬ 
cated in Memphis, Tenn., in 1872, where 
he has since resided. In 1882 he was elect¬ 
ed to the lower branch of the state legis¬ 
lature; in 1888 he was an elector for the 
state at large on the democratic ticket; 
and in 1890 was a candidate for governor. 
He was elected to the fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses and re-elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

PATTERSON, MINNIE W., poet, was 
born in 1845 in Michigan. She has trans¬ 
lated several volumes into English from 
the Norse language. She is the author of 
a volume of poems entitled Pebbles from 
Old Pathways. 

PATTERSON, MORRIS, philanthropist, 
was born Oct. 26, 1809, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was active in the affairs of the 
Presbyterian church; the founder of the 
Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind 
Men, and took active and substantial in¬ 
terest in philanthropic movements in Phil¬ 
adelphia. He died Oct. 23, 1878, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

PATTERSON, ROBERT, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born May 30, 1743, in 
Ireland. He was a brigade-major in the 
revolutionary war; professor of mathe¬ 
matics in the university of Pennsylvania 
from 1779 to 1814, and was for some time 
vice-provost. In 1805 he was made direct- 
tor of the United States mint. He pub¬ 
lished The Newtonian System; Treatise 
on Arithmetic; edited Ferguson’s Me¬ 
chanics; his Astronomy; John Webster’s 
Natural Philosophy; and Ewing’s Natural 


Philosophy. He died July 22, 1824, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

PATTERSON, ROBERT, soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, was born Jan. 12, 1792, in Ire¬ 
land. In 1846 he was made major- 
general of volunteers; and served with 
distinction in the Mexican war. 

PATTERSON, ROBERT, lawyer, was 
born Feb. 4, 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 
1845 he became clerk to the director of the 
United States mint in Philadelphia. In 
1868 he drafted the plan of the Fidelity 
Trust, Safe Deposit and Insurance com¬ 
pany, the first institution of that nature 
in Philadelphia, and became its secre¬ 
tary and treasurer. 

PATTERSON, ROBERT, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1829 in Ireland. Since 
1880 he has been pastor of a church in 
Brooklyn, Cal. His publications include 
The Fables of Infidelity and the Facts 
of Faith; The American Sabbath; The 
Sabbath, Scientific, American, and Chris¬ 
tian; Christianity the only Republican 
Religion; Christ’s Testimony to the 
Scriptures; and Egypt’s Place in History. 

PATTERSON, ROBERT MASKELL, 
educator, was born March 23, 1787, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was elected profes¬ 
sor of natural philosophy and chemistry 
in the university of Philadelphia; profes¬ 
sor in the university of Virginia from 
1828 to 1835; and director of the United 
States mint, Philadelphia, from 1835 to 
1853. He died Sept. 5, 1854, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

PATTERSON, ROBERT MAYNE, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born July 17, 1832, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman of Philadelphia; and the au¬ 
thor of History of Presbyterianism in 
Philadelphia; Paradise; Visions of 
Heaven; Elijah the Favored Man; and 
History of the Synod of Pennsylvania. 

PATTERSON, THOMAS, congressman, 
was born in Lancaster county. Pa. He 
was a representative in congress from that 
state from 1817 to 1825. 

PATTERSON, THOMAS H., naval of¬ 
ficer, was born in May, 1820, in New Or¬ 
leans, La. He was commissioned captain 
in 1866, commodore in 1871, commanded 
the navy-yard at Washington, D. C., was 
president of the naval board of examin¬ 
ers in 1876-77, and in the latter year be¬ 
came rear-admiral. He was retired in 
1883. He died April 10, 1890, in Chicago, 
Ill. 

PATTERSON, THOMAS J., congress¬ 
man, was born in New York. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1843 to 1845. 

PATTERSON, THOMAS M„ lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 4, 1840, in 
Ireland. In 1874 he was appointed attor¬ 
ney for the city of Denver, Colo. He was 
elected a delegate from Colorado to the 
forty-fourth congress; and upon the ad¬ 
mission of Colorado as a state in 1876 
was elected a representative from that 
state to the forty-fifth congress as a dem¬ 
ocrat. 

PATTERSON, WALTER, state legislat¬ 
or, congressman, was born in Columbia 
county, N. Y. He was a member of the 
assembly of New York in 1818 from Col¬ 
umbia county; and a representative in 
congress from 1821 to 1823. 

PATTERSON, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in Maryland. He settled in 
Ohio; and was elected a representative 
in congress from that state from 1833 to 

1838. 

PATTERSON, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born June 4, 1789, in Londonderry, N. 
H. He was elected a representative in 
congress from New York from 1837 to 

1839. He died Aug. 14, 1838, in Warsaw, 
N. Y. 


PATTI, ADELINA, vocalist, was born 
Feb. 19, 1843, in Spain. At the age of nine 
years Adele made a tour with Strakosch 
and Ole Bull, singing popular opera music. 
She has since attained a reputation as the 
foremost vocalist of the time. 

PATTI, CARLOTTA, vocalist, was born 
in 1840 in Florence, Italy. She is a 
sister of Adelina Patti; ana first made 
her appearance in concert in New York 
city. She has become very popular in the 
United States and has filled engagements 
in the principal cities. 

PATTISON, EVERETT W., soldier, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Feb. 22, 1839, in 
Waterville, Maine. He is one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of the west at St. Louis, 
Mo.; and the author of Missouri Digest; 
and numerous articles in law periodicals. 

PATTISON, GRANVILLE SHARP, 
anatomist, author, was born in 1791 in 
Scotland. He is a professor of anatomy 
in the university of Pennsylvania; and is 
the author of a work entitled Anatomical 
Atlas. He died Nov. 12, 1851, in New 
York city. 

PAITISON, JOHN M., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born June 

13, 1847, in Clermont county, Ohio. He 
was elected to the Ohio state legislature 
from Hamilton county in 1873; and was 
attorney for the committee of safety of 
Cincinnati in 1874-76. He was elected 
vice-president and manager of the Union 
Central Life Insurance company of Cin¬ 
cinnati in 1881 and president in 1891. He 
was elected state senator to fill a vacancy 
m 1890; and was elected to the fifty-sec¬ 
ond congress as a democrat. 

PATTISON, ROBERT EMORY, lawyer 
governor, was born Dec. 8, 1850, in Quanti- 
co, Md. In 1882 he was elected governor 
of Pennsylvania for the term of four years 
from January, 1883. 

PATTISON, ROBERT EVERETT, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 
9, 1800, in Benson, Vt. He was successive¬ 
ly a professor in Newton Theological sem¬ 
inary, in Shurtleff college, and in the 
Union Baptist Theological seminary, Chi¬ 
cago. He was the author of a Comment¬ 
ary on the Epistle to the Ephesians. He 
died in 1874 in St. Louis, Mo. 

PATTISON, T. HARWOOD, clergyman, 
educator, lecturer, author, was born Dec.’ 

14, 1838, in Launceston, Cornwall, Eng¬ 
land. After graduating he took part in 
the political liberal movement in the 
north of England, and published his work 
entitled Present Day Lectures. In 1874 
he traveled in the United States, and ac¬ 
cepted a call to the First Baptist church 
of New Haven, Conn.; and thence was 
called to the Emmanuel church of Albany, 

Y. In 1881 he accepted the chair of 
homiletics and pastoral theology in the 
Rochester Theological seminal^; and in 
1895 published The History of the En¬ 
glish Bible; which was followed by other 
works. 

PATTON, ALFRED SPENCER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 12, 1825, in 
England. In 1864 he was invited to Utica, 
N. Y., and there built the Tabernacle 
Baptist church. In 1872 he purchased the 
American Baptist, an anti-slavery journal, 
in New York city, changing its name to 
The Baptist Weekly. He wrote Light in 
the Valley; My Joy and Crown; Kincaid, 
the Hero Missionary; The Losing and 
Taking of Mansoul, or Lectures on the 
Holy War; and Live for Jesus. He died 
Jan. 12, 1888, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

PATTON, DAVID H., soldier, physician, 
congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1837, in 
Fleming county, Ky. He was elected from 
Indiana to the fifty-second congress as a 
democrat. 


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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


PATTON, FRANCIS LANDEY, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, college president, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 22, 1843, in Bermuda. 
In 1888 he became president of Princeton 
college. He is the author of Inspiration 
of the Scriptures; and Summary of Chris¬ 
tian Doctrine. 

PATTON, JACOB HARRIS, author, was 
born in 1812 in Pennsylvania. He is an 
historical writer of New York city, and 
the author of Concise History ^ of the 
American People; Y'orktown, 1(81-1881, 
The Democratic Party: Its History and 
Influence; Brief History of the Presby¬ 
terian Church in the United States; Na¬ 
tural Resources of the United States; Po¬ 
litical Economy for American Youth; 
Four Hundred Years of American His¬ 
tory; and Political Parties in the United 
States. 

PATTON, JOHN, soldier, congressman, 
was born in 1746 in Kent county, Del. He 
was a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1785 to 1786; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Delaware from 1793 
to 1794. He died in June, 1801. 

PATTON, JOHN, banker, congressman, 
was born Jan. 6, 1823, in Covington, Pa. 
He was elected a representative from that 
state to the thirty-seventh congress; and 
was re-elected to the fiftieth congress. 

PATTON, JOHN, lawyer, legislator, was 
born Oct. 30, 1850, in Curmersville, Pa. 
He graduated from Yale college in 1875; 

and from the Colum¬ 
bia Law school in 
1887. The following 
year he moved to 
Grand Rapids, Mich., 
where he is one of 
the leading lawyers 
of that state. On 
May 5, 1894, he was 
appointed United 
States senator from 
Michigan, upon the 
death of Senator 
Stockbridge; and 
served until the election of a successor. 

PATTON, JOHN D., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 28, 1829, in Indi¬ 
ana, Pa. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Pennsylvania to the forty- 
eighth congress. 

PATTON, JOHN MERCER, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born in 1796 in 
Virginia. He was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1830 to 
1838. He was for some years, and at the 
time of his death, judge of the court of 
appeals. He died Oct. 20, 1858, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. 

PATTON, R. M., governor. He was 
elected governor of Alabama, and re¬ 
mained in the office until 1868. 

PATTON, THOMAS DUNCAN, journal¬ 
ist, lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 24, 
1865, in Ripley, Miss. For many years he 
was the editor of the Arkansian, and is 
now a prominent lawyer of Cotton Plant, 
Ark. In 1895 and in 1897 he served as a 
member of the Arkansas state legislature. 

PATTON, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 23, 1798, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of New York city, founder of the 
Union Theological seminary; and the 
author of The Laws of Fermentation and 
the Wines of the Ancients; The Judg¬ 
ment of Jerusalem Predicted in Scripture; 
Jesus of Nazareth; and Bible Principles 
and Bible Characters. He died Sept. 9, 
1879, in New Haven, Conn. 

PATTON, WILLIAM WESTON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 19, 1821, in 
New York city. Pie was a congregational 
clergyman in New York city, and presi¬ 
dent of Howard university from 1877. He 
was the author of Spiritual Victory; Pray¬ 


er and Its Remarkable Answers; The 
Young Man’s Friend; Conscience and 
Law; and Slavery and Infidelity. He died 
Dec. 31, 1889, in Westfield, N. J. 

PAUL, AUGUSTUS CHOUTEAU, sol¬ 
dier, was born April 16, 1842, in Albany, 
N. Y. He was brevetted major for gal¬ 
lantry in the Wilderness, and lieutenant- 
colonel for meritorious conduct at Spott- 
sylvania court house. 

PAUL, HENRY MARTYN, astronomer, 
educator, was born June 25, 1851, in Hyde 
Park, Mass. During 1880-83 he was pro¬ 
fessor of astronomy in the university of 
Tokio, Japan, after which he returned to 
his post in Washington. He is the au¬ 
thor of astronomical monographs that 
have been published as appendices to the 
annual volumes of the Observations of the 
United States naval observatory. 

PAUL, HOWARD, actor, author, was 
born Nov. 16, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was the author of a serial entitled 
Dashes of American Humor, which at¬ 
tained popularity both in England and the 
United States. He next published a suc¬ 
cessful drama entitled A Mob Cap.^ His 
other principal works are: The Y r oung 
Chemist; Pastimes of Youth; and The 
Book of American Songs, with notes bio¬ 
graphical and critical. 

PAUL, JOHN, soldier, lawyer,, jurist, 
was born June 30, 1839, in Rockingham 
county, Va. He was elected state senator 
in 1877, and re-elected in 1879; and was 
elected a representative from Virginia to 
the forty-seventh and forty-eighth con¬ 
gresses. In 1883 he was appointed United 
States district judge for the western dis¬ 
trict of Virginia. 

PAULDING, HIRAM, naval officer, was 
born Dec. 11, 1797, in New Y 7 ork city. In 
1811 he entered the navy as a midship¬ 
man; was promoted to commander in 
1837; in 1844 became captain; and was 
promoted rear-admiral on the retired list 
in 1862. He died Oct. 20, 1878, in Hunting- 
ton, N. Y. 

PAULDING, JAMES KIRKE, author, 
was born Aug. 22, 1779, in Mount Pleas¬ 
ant, N. Y. He was a versatile and once 
popular writer of New York city, the 
friend of Irving, and co-author with him 
of The Salmagundi Papers in 1807. He 
was secretary of the navy in 1837-41. His 
various writings include: The Diverting 
History of John Bull and Brother Jona¬ 
than, his most successful work; Salma¬ 
gundi, a second series, 1819; Konings- 
marke, the Long Finne, a novel; John 
Bull in America; The Dutchman’s Fire¬ 
side; Lay of the Scottish Fiddle, a tra¬ 
vesty of the Lay of the Last Minstrel; 
Westward Ho; Merry Tales of the Three 
Wise Men of Gotham; The Puritan and 
His Daughter; The New Mirror for Tra¬ 
velers; The Backwoodsman, a poem; The 
Bucktails, a Comedy; Letters from the 
South; Life of George Washington; and 
Slavery in America, a spirited defence of 
tnat institution. 

PAULDING, JOHN, patriot, was born 
in 1758 in New York city. He was one of 
the three captors of Andre, and received 
from congress a silver medal and an an¬ 
nuity of two hundred dollars. In 1827 a 
marble monument was erected to his 
memory in the churchyard near Peekskill, 
by the corporation of New York. He 
died Feb. 18, 1818, in Staatsburg, N. Y. 

PAULDING, TATTNALL, soldier, busi¬ 
ness man, was born July 5, 1840, in Hunt¬ 
ington, N. Y. During the war he served 
in the sixth regiment United States cav¬ 
alry as captain, and was brevetted lieu- 
tenant-colonel. He is president of the 
Delaware Insurance company of Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa., and prominent in the public 
and business affairs of that city. 


PAULDING, WILLIAM, JR., lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1769 in laiiy- 
town N. Y. He was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1811 to 1813. 
He died Feb. 11, 1854, in Tarrytown, N. Y. 

PAULUS, CHRISTOPHER, accountant, 
state legislator, was born April 17, 1852, 
in Milwaukee, Wis. For four years he 
was clerk of the cir¬ 
cuit and county 
courts of Milwaukee 
county, and during 
1890-94 was a mem¬ 
ber and secretary of 
the board of trustees 
of the Asylum for 
the Chronic Insane 
of Milwaukee county. 
In 1895 and 1896 he 
served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of 
the Wisconsin state 
assembly; and took an active part in pass¬ 
ing several bills of importance to the 
welfare of his state. 

PAWLING, LEVI, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1817 to 1819. 

PAXSON, EDWARD M., journalist, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 3, 1824, in 
Buckingham, Pa. He learned the printing 
business, and in 1842 
founded the New¬ 
town Journal; and in 
1847 moved to Phil¬ 
adelphia, where he 
established the Daily 
News. He subse- 
l quently turned his 
attention to the 
study of law, and 
was admitted to the 
■ bar in 1850. In 1869 
H he was appointed 
judge of the court of 
common pleas in the city of Philadelphia; 
and the following year was elected to 
the office. In 1874 he was elected justice 
of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, 
and subsequently chief justice. He ed¬ 
ited Brown’s Collection of Laws, and is 
the author of Memoirs of the Johnson 
Family. 

Ia.vSON, WILLIAM ALPHA, lawyer, 
author, poet, was born July 6, 1850, in 
Greene county, Ohio. In 1875 he gradu¬ 
ated from the Cincinnati Law school, and 
now practices law in Jamestown, Ohio. 
For years he has been a writer for vari¬ 
ous periodicals, and has received prizes 
for several essays. He is the author of a 
work of fiction entitled A Buckeye Baron; 
and a volume of poetical works. 

PAXTON, JAMES W„ was born in 1821 
in Virginia. In 1860 he was made presi¬ 
dent of the Northwestern bank of Vir¬ 
ginia, in Wheeling, 
and converted it 
later into the present 
National bank of 
West Virginia. A 
handsome public 
fountainwhich 
stands in front of 
the. city building in 
Wheeling, the gift of 
Mr. Paxton in 1858, 
is only one of the 
many quiet and gen¬ 
erous acts which 
have denoted his public spirit, lib¬ 
erality and interest in the city’s wel¬ 
fare. He was a member and was chair¬ 
man of the committee on finance and 
taxation and one of the commissioners, 
appointed by the convention, to present 
the document for approval by congress 
and ask for the admission of West Vir¬ 
ginia as an independent state into the 
Union. 
















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PAXTON, JOHN R., soldier, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 18, 1843, in Canons- 
burg, Pa. He was pastor of the New York 
avenue presbyterian church in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., from 1878 till 1882, when he 
became pastor of the Forty-second street 
presbyterian church in New York city. 
In 1887 he became chaplain of the sev¬ 
enth regiment of New York. He has pub¬ 
lished several addresses and sermons. 

PAXTON, WILLIAM M., lawyer, gene¬ 
alogist, poet, was born March 2, 1819, in 
Washington, Ky. In 1835 he entered Cen¬ 
tre college, Ken¬ 
tucky, and remained 
four years. After 
studying law, he set¬ 
tled at Platte City, 
Mo., which is still 
his home. In 1874, 
in the midst of a 
successful practice, 
he became hard of 
hearing, and had to 
retire from the bar. 
From this time he 
gave his attention to 
poesy. In 1880 he issued a small volume 
of poetry, entitled A Century Hence, and 
Other Poems. In 1887 he published a 
volume of four hundred and fifty-four 
pages entitled Poems. He has since pub¬ 
lished in pamphlet form, A Story of the 
Flood; and The Vision of Narva, a Legend 
of Parkville. 



PAXTON, WILLIAM MILLER, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, was born June 7, 1824, 
in Adams county, Pa. In 1843 he gradu- 
ated from the Penn¬ 
sylvania college, and 
from the Princeton 
Theological semi¬ 
nary in 1848, and has 
received the degrees 
of D. D. and LL. D. 
He filled pastor¬ 
ates in Greencastle 
and Pittsburg, Pa.; 
was professor of sac¬ 
red rhetoric in the 
Western Theological 
seminary during 
1860-65; was pastor of the First Presby¬ 
terian church of New York city, during 
1866-83; and for several years was a lec¬ 
turer in the Union Theological seminary. 
Since 1883 he has been professor of eccle¬ 
siastical, homiletical and pastoral theology 
in the Princeton Theological seminary. In 
1880 he was moderator of the general as¬ 
sembly of the presbyterian church of the 
United States; since 1866 has been a mem¬ 
ber of the board of foreign missions, and 
president of the board in 1881-83; and 
since 1867 has been a trustee of the Prince¬ 
ton college. 



PAYMENT, RICHARD C., dentist, pub¬ 
lic official, was born June 10, 1841, in De¬ 
troit, Mich. He received a liberal educa¬ 
tion, and is one of 
the foremost dentists 
of Detroit, Mich. 
During 1873-75 he 
was postmaster at 
Sault Ste. Marie, 
Mich.; and has filled 
various public posi¬ 
tions, of honor. He 
has been a delegate 
to various dental 
congresses, stands 
hign in his profes¬ 
sion and contributes 
valuable articles to current publications. 

PAYNE, CHARLES HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 24, 1830, in 
Taunton, Mass. He is a methodist cler¬ 
gyman and educator, president of Ohio 



Wesleyan university in 1876-88, and the 
author of The Social Giass and Christian 
Obligation; Daniel, the Uncompromising 
Young Man; Guides and Guards in Char¬ 
acter-Building; Methodism, Its History 
and Results; Temperance; and Women 
and Their Work in Methodism. 

PAYNE, CHARLES S., merchant, theol- 
ogist. He has been engaged chiefly in 
mercantile, manufacturing and general 
business; and has given all his spare time 
to the study of theological subjects. One 
of his best lectures, which has been de¬ 
livered in some of the largest cities in 
the Union, is entitled Creation and Fall 
of Man. His theories portend to reform in 
theology; and has published a work on 
that subject. 

PAYNE, DANIEL ALEXANDER, bish¬ 
op, author, was born Feb. 24, 1811, in 
Charleston, S. C. He is a methodist bish¬ 
op of African descent, president of Wil- 
berforce university in 1865-76, and the 
author of Domestic Education; History of 
the African Methodist Church; and Recol¬ 
lections of Men and Things. 

PAYNE, EDWARD DUGGAN, surgeon, 
author, was born July 2, 1836, in Reading, 
Pa. He was appointed assistant surgeon 
in the United States navy in 1861. He be¬ 
came past assistant surgeon in 1865, 
surgeon in 1871, and was retired in 1876 
on account of the failure of his health. 
He has published reports of cases in Con¬ 
tributions to Medical Science in the Unit¬ 
ed States Navy Department; Medical Es¬ 
says; and United States Naval Sanitary 
and Medical Reports. 

PAYNE, ELWOOD MILTON, educator, 
lawyer, was born Nov. 7, 1869, in Penns- 
ville, Ohio. He has taught school in Ohio, 
Montana and Idaho, and subsequently 
graduated in law from the Northern In¬ 
diana Law school. After practicing a 
while in Arkansas, he moved to Chickasha, 
I. T., where he has attained prominence 
as an able lawyer. 

PAYNE, HENRY B., lawyer, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Nov. 30, 1810, in Madison 
county, N. Y. He was a presidential elect¬ 
or in 1848; was elected a state senator in 
1849 and 1850, and was, for several years, 
a member of the Cleveland city council. 
He was president of the Columbus Rail¬ 
road company. In 1874 he was elected a 
representative from Ohio to the forty- 
fourth congress. In 1884 he was elected 
a United States senator from Ohio for six 
years from 1885. 

PAYNE, HENRY C., railroad president, 
was born Nov. 23, 1843, in Ashfield, Mass. 
Since 1894 he has been president of the 
Chicago and Northern Pacific, and the 
Chicago and Calumet Terminal railways. 

PAYNE, JOHN, protestant episcopal 
bishop, was born Jan. 9, 1815, in West¬ 
moreland county, Va. After a long and 
arduous service of nearly twenty years on 
the coast of western Africa, Bishop Payne 
returned to the United States in 1871, 
completely broken in health and strength. 
He died Oct. 23, 1874, in Westmoreland 
county, Va. 

PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD, dramatist, 
actor, was born June 9, 1792, in New York 
city. He was a dramatist and actor of 
New York city in whose drama of Clari, 
the Maid of Milan, occurs the famous lyric. 
Home, Sweet Home, his chief claim to re¬ 
membrance. From 1841 till his death he 
was United States consul at Tunis, his 
remains being removed from there to 
Washington in 1883. His best plays in¬ 
clude, Brutus; Virginius; and Charles II. 
He died in 1852 in Tunis, Africa. 


PAYNE, PERRY W., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Feb. 11, 1833, in Allegheny county, 
N. Y. He has attained prominence as a 
lawyer of ability in Cleveland, Ohio, in 
which city he has been a justice of the 
peace and a member of the board of edu¬ 
cation. 

PAYNE, SERENO E., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born June 26, 1843, in Hamil¬ 
ton, N. Y. During 1868-71 he was city 
clerk of Auburn, N. Y.; supervisor in 1871- 
72; district attorney of his county during 
1873-79; and during 1879-82 was president 
of the board of education. He was elected 
to the forty-eighth congress as a repub¬ 
lican; and received the re-election to the 
forty-ninth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty- 
third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congres¬ 
ses. 

PAYNE, WILLIAM HAROLD, educator, 
college president, author, was born May 
12, 1836, in Farmington, N. Y. For twen¬ 
ty-five years he was 
superintendent o f 
schools in Michigan; 
professor of science 
and art of teaching 
in the university of 
Michigan for eight 
years; and since 1887 
has been chancellor 
of the university of 
Nashville, and presi¬ 
dent of the Peabody 
Normal college of 
Nashville, Tenn. He 
is the author of School Supervision; Out¬ 
lines of Educational Doctrine; Contribu¬ 
tions to the Science of Education; and 
Lectures on Pedagogy. 

PAYNE, WILLIAM MORTON, educa¬ 
tor, critic, author, was born in 1858 in 
Massachusetts. He is an educator and lit¬ 
erary critic of Chicago, and professor of 
physical science in the high school. He 
is the author of Our New Education; and 
Little Leaders. 

PAYNE, WILLIAM RILEY, educator, 
financier, was born Sept. 24, 1862, in Three 
Rivers, Mich. He received his education 
at the university of 
Michigan, and is now 
secretary and treasu¬ 
rer of the university 
of Nashville, and the 
Peabody Normal col¬ 
lege. He is also sec¬ 
retary of the board 
of education of Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn., and has 
filled various other 
public positions of 
trust. He is an au¬ 
thority on education¬ 
al matters; and the author of valuable 
papers on that subject. 

PAYNE, WILLIAM WALLACE, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, author, was born May 
19, 1837, in Somerset, Mich. He was 
professor of mathematics and astronomy 
at Carleton college and director of its 
observatory. He is director of the Min¬ 
nesota state weather service. In 1867 he 
projected The Minnesota Teacher and 
Journal of Education, which he contin¬ 
ued for six years, and in 1882 he estab¬ 
lished The Sidereal Messenger, which he 
still edits. 

PAYNE, WINTER W., agriculturist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Jan. 2, 1807, in Fauquier county, Va. He 
was elected to the Alabama legislature in 
1831, and with the exception of one year, 
served in that capacity until 1840. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Alabama from 1841 to 1847. 








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PAYNTER, LEMUEL, congressman, 
was born in Delaware. He was elected a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1837 to 1841. 

PAYNTER, SAMUEL, governor. He 
was elected governor of Delaware in 1824, 
and remained in office three years. 

PAYNTER. THOMAS H„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 9, 1851, in Lewis 
county, Ky. He was appointed attorney 
for Greenup county, Ky., in 1876, and 
held that office, under appointment, until 
1878, at which time he was elected to the 
same office, which he held until 1882. 
He was elected to the fifty-first congress, 
and re-elected to the fifty-second congress 
as a democrat. 

PAYSON, EDWARD, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 25, 1783, in Rindge, N. H. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Portland, Maine, whose three volumes of 
Sermons were for a long time widely pop¬ 
ular in the religious world. He died Oct. 
22, 1827, in Portland, Maine. 

PAYSON, EDWARD, author, was born 
in 1814. He was a writer of Deering, 
Maine, and the author of The Law of 
Equivalents in Its Relations to Political 
and Social Ethics; Doctor Tom; and The 
Maine Law in the Balance. He died in 
1890. 

PAYSON, LEWIS E., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 17, 1840, in 
Providence, R. I. He moved to Pontiac, 
Ill., in 1865, and was judge of the county 
court from 1869 to 1873. He was elected a 
representative from Illinois to the forty- 
seventh congress, and re-elected to the 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth and fif¬ 
ty-first congresses as a republican. 

PAYSON, PHILLIPS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 18, 1736, in Walpole, 
Mass. From 1757 until his death he was 
pastor of the congregational church in 
Chelsea, Mass. He published tracts on 
astronomy and natural philosophy in the 
Transactions of the American Academy 
of Arts and Sciences; and several sermons, 
the best known of which is that on the 
Battle of Lexington; and on the Death of 
Washington. He died Jan. 11, 1801, in 
Chelsea, Mass. 

PAYSON, SETH, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 29, 1758, in Walpole, Mass. 
From 1782 until his death he was pastor 
of the congregational church in Rindge, 
N. H. He published numerous sermons, 
and a work against secret societies, entit¬ 
led Proofs of the Existence and Danger¬ 
ous Tendencies of Modern Illuminism. He 
died Feb. 26, 1820, in Rindge, N. H. 

PEABODY, ANDREW PRESTON, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born' March 
19, 1811, in Beverly, Mass. He was a Uni¬ 
tarian clergyman of eminence, pastor of 
a church at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1833-60, 
and Plummer professor of Christian mor¬ 
als at Harvard university in 1860-81. He 
was the author of Sermons of Consolation; 
Lectures on Christian Doctrine; Chris¬ 
tianity the Fruit of Nature; Moral Phil¬ 
osophy; Faults and Graces of Conversa¬ 
tion; Sermons for Children; Christianity 
and Science; King’s Chapel Sermons; 
Reminiscences of European Travel; Chris¬ 
tian Belief and Life; Baccalaureate Ser¬ 
mons; Building a Character; Harvard 
Graduates Whom I Have Known; Har¬ 
vard Reminiscences; and translations of 
the ethical writings of Cicero and Plu¬ 
tarch’s Delay of Divine Justice. He died 
in 1893. 

PEABODY, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, 
lawyer, jurist, was born July 10, 1814, in 
Sandwich, N. H. He has twice been judge 
of the supreme court of New York, and 


also has been judge of the United States 
provisional court of Louisiana, and chief 
justice of the supreme court of the state 
of Louisiana. Nearly the whole of his 
professional life has been spent in New 
York city, with the exception of the few 
years, during the war, when he was pre¬ 
siding over the courts above mentioned in 
the south. 

PEABODY, ELIZABETH PALMER, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born May 16, 1804, in 
Billerica, Mass. She was a noted educator 
of Boston, and very active in awakening 
American interest in the kindergarten sys¬ 
tem, and in her early life associated in 
teaching with A. B. Alcott, as related in 
her Record of a School. Her other works 
include: Chronological History of the Uni¬ 
ted States; Kindergarten Guide; HL’sthetic 
Papers; Letters to Kindergarteners; First 
Steps to History; Reminiscences of Dr. 
Channing; and Last Evening with Allston, 
and Other Papers. She died Jan. 4, 1894, 
in Jamaica Plains, Mass. 

PEABODY, EPHRAIM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 22, 1807, in Wilton. 
N. H. He was pastor of King’s chapel of 
Boston in 1846-56; originator of Boston 
Provident society; and was the author of 
sermons and Christian Days and 
Thoughts. He died Nov. 28, 1856, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

PEABODY, GEORGE, banker, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Feb. 18, 1795, in Dan¬ 
vers, Mass. He is said to have given more 
than $2,000,000 to 
the founding of col¬ 
leges, schools and 
scientific institu¬ 
tions, and $300,000 
for the benefit of the 
working classes of 
London. He estab¬ 
lished Yale college of 
New Haven, Conn.; 
assisted Peabody Mu¬ 
seum of Natural His¬ 
tory, and the Pea¬ 
body museum and 
professorship of American archaeology 
and ethnology in connection with the Har¬ 
vard university, by a donation of $150,000 
for each. He died Nov. 4, 1869, in London, 
England. 



PEABODY, JAMES H., merchant, bank¬ 
er, was born Aug. 21, 1852, in Orange 
county, Vt. In 1871 he moved to Pueblo, 
Colo., where he was 
employed in a dry- 
goods store; and 
afterward moved to 
Denver, thence to 
Canon City, where in 
1875 he took charge 
of the management 
of the store of James 
Clelland, the leading 
merchant of that 
I city. He subsequent- 
...A'y became a partner, 
and in 1881. pur¬ 
chased the entire business. In 1885 he 
was elected county clerk; is prominent in 
municipal affairs, and president of the 
First National bank, of which he was 
one of the organizers. 



PEABODY, OLIVER WILLIAM 
BOURNE, clergyman, lawyer, author, was 
born July 9, 1799, in Exeter, N. H. He 
was a lawyer and journalist of Boston, 
subsequently a Unitarian clergyman and 
pastor of a church in Burlington, Vt., in 
1845-48. He published Lives of Generals 
Sullivan and Putnam, in Sparks’s Ameri¬ 
can Biography; and an edition of Shakes¬ 
peare with Life and Notes. He died July 
5, 1848, in Burlington, Vt. 


PEABODY, PHILIP GLENDOwER, 
lawyer, was born Feb. 22, 1857, in New 
York city, and is a son of Charles A. Pea¬ 
body, an eminent jurist. He graduated 
from Columbia college in 1877; in 1880 
from the Columbia Law school, and was 
admitted to the New York bar. In 1885 
he moved to Boston, where he has been 
president of the New England Anti-Vivi¬ 
section society for many years. He is 
also president of the National Con¬ 
stitutional Liberty league; president of 
the National Scientific Family Culture 
institute; vice-president of the Massachu¬ 
setts society for Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals; and vice-president of the Illi¬ 
nois Anti-Vivisection society. He has re¬ 
ceived the degrees of A. B., A. M., LL. B. 
and M. D. He is an extensive traveler and 
has visited nearly all the countries of Eu¬ 
rope. He has one of the largest private 
libraries in Boston, numbering about ten 
thousand volumes, for which he has erect¬ 
ed a suitable library building. 

PEABODY, SELIM HOBART, educator, 
scientist, author, was born Aug. 20, 1829, 
in Rockingham, Vt. He has been presi¬ 
dent of the university of Illinois; presi¬ 
dent of the Chicago Academy of Sciences; 
president of State Teachers’ associations 
of Wisconsin and Illinois; president of 
the National Council of Education; and 
in 1893 he was chief of the department of 
liberal arts. World’s Columbian exposi¬ 
tion. He is the author of works on 
natural history, arithmetic, astronomy; 
compiler of American Patriotism, and first 
editor-in-chief of the International Ency¬ 
clopedia. 

PEABODY, THOMAS HAZARD, lawyer, 
journalist, was born Sept. 23, 1839, in 
North Stonington, Conn. In 1888 he be¬ 
gan the publication of the Westerly Daily 
Tribune, R. I., the first prohibition daily 
newspaper in the world, and he still re¬ 
mains the editor and owner. He has been 
a member of the general assembly of 
Rhode Island, and has been the prohibi¬ 
tion candidate for governor and for con¬ 
gressman several times. 

PEABODY, WILLIAM BOURNE OLI¬ 
VER, clergyman, author, poet, was born 
in 1799 in New Hampshire. He was a 
Unitarian clergyman, pastor of a church 
in Springfield, Mass., in 1820-47. He was 
the author of Lives of A. Wilson, Cotton 
Mather. Brainerd, and Oglethorpe, in 
Sparke’s American Biography; and Re¬ 
port on Birds of the Commonwealth. As 
a poet he is best represented by such 
poems as Monadnock; Hymn of Nature; 
and Winter Night. He died May 28, 1847, 
in Springfield. Mass. 

PEACOCK, DRED, educator, college 
president, was born April 12, 1864, in 
Stantonsb.urg, N. C. In 1887 he graduated 
as valedictorian from Trinity college, 
North Carolina, receiving the degrees of A. 
B. and A. M. In 1887-88 he was principal of 
the Lexington Female seminary; was 
professor of Latin and science in the 
Greensboro Female college in 1888-94, and 
since 1894 has been president of that in¬ 
stitution. 

PEACOCK, THOMAS BROWER, poet, 
was born April 16, 1852, in Cambridge, 
Ohio. For ten years he was associate edi¬ 
tor of the Kansas Democrat of Topeka. 
He is the author of The Vendetta and 
Other Poems; The Rhyme of the Border 
War; Poems of the Plains and Songs of 
the Solitudes, and other works. During 
the World’s Columbian exposition he 
read his famous Columbian Ode before 
the public press congress, which was 
highly praised. As a lecturer he has at¬ 
tained phenomenal success. 



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PEAKE, EBENEZER STEELE, clergy¬ 
man, missionary, was born Jan. 15, 1830, 
in Andes, N. Y. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Academy 
of Kingsborough, 
and subsequently at¬ 
tended the Academy 
of Delhi, N. Y. In 
1848 he was princi¬ 
pal of a classical 
parish school at Co¬ 
hoes, N. Y., and the 
following year en¬ 
tered the Theological 
seminary of the 
episcopal church at 
Nashotah, Wis. In 
1852 he was ordained, and immediately 
elected tutor at Nashotah, holding that 
position for the next three years. At the 
wish of Bishop Kemper he moved to Wis¬ 
consin, and in 1856 became an associate 
of the Rev. Dr. Breck in the mission to 
the Chippewa Indians. With his wife he 
spent six years among the Indians at the 
mission of Gull Lake and Crow Wing. 
Next he was chaplain of the twenty- 
eighth regiment, Wisconsin volunteer in¬ 
fantry, going with them to the field in 
the southwest, and remaining to the end 
of the war. He returned to Minnesota, 
but accepted the rectorship of the Trinity 
church of San Jose, Cal.; and four years 
later of St. Luke’s church, of San Fran¬ 
cisco, spending twelve years in Califor¬ 
nia. In 1878 he returned to Minnesota, 
and engaged in missionary work along 
the Northern Pacific railroad, so continu¬ 
ing until 1889, when he accepted the chap¬ 
laincy of St. Mary’s Hall, of Faribault, 
Minn., the famous school for girls. 

PEAKE. THOMAS DE WITT, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born March 19, 
1843, in Princeton, Ohio. He received his 
education in the public schools and gradu¬ 
ated from Hartsville university. For 
many years he was a successful teacher; 
was educated for the law, and is now one 
of the foremost clergymen of the metho- 
dist episcopal church in Wisconsin at 
Beloit. He is also an orator of unusual 
power, and a noted theologian. He is 
the author of Sanctification; The Sym¬ 
bolism of Solomon’s Temple; Methodism 
and the Children; The Intermediate State; 
and other works. He is a prominent 
Mason, and owns the largest private 
library in the state of Wisconsin. 

PEAKES, EMILY W., educator, poet, 
was born Dec. 1, 1847, in Harmony, Maine. 
She is a teacher of literature in the high 
school of Terre Haute, Ind., and is the 
author of a number of poems. 

PEALE, ANNA CLAYPOOLE, artist, 
was born March 6, 1791, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. She devoted herself at first to still- 
life subjects, but afterward followed min¬ 
iature-painting. She executed miniatures 
of Gen. Lallemand, James Monroe, An¬ 
drew Jackson, and Com. William Bain- 
bridge. She died Dec. 25, 1878, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

PEALE, CHARLES WILSON, artist, in¬ 
ventor, author, was born April 16, 1741, in 
Chestertown, Md. He was an artist, in¬ 
ventor, and miscellaneous writer of Phil¬ 
adelphia, among whose works are. On 
Building Wooden Bridges; Domestic Hap¬ 
piness; and Economy in Fuel. He died 
Feb. 22, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PEALE, JAMES, soldier, artist, was 
born in 1749, in Annapolis, Md. He turned 
his attention principally to portrait-paint¬ 
ing, executing many miniatures and port¬ 
raits in oil, including a full-length port¬ 
rait of Washington, which has been en¬ 
graved. One of his portraits of Washing¬ 
ton is in the New York Historical society; 


the other, painted in 1795, in Independence 
hall, Philadelphia. He died May 24, 1831, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PEALE, JAMES, artist, was born March 
6, 1779, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1813 he 
exhibited, at the Columbia society of Ar¬ 
tists, a view of High street bridge. His 
other works include a painting of an en¬ 
gagement between the privateer schooner 
Cornet, of Baltimore, and a Portuguese 
sloop-of-war; View of Germantown; View 
of Water-Gap and Breaking Away of a 
Storm; and Fairmount Water-Works. He 
died Oct. 27, 1876, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PEALE, RAPHAELLE, artist, was born 
Feb. 17, 1774, in Annapolis, Md. He began 
painting portraits in 1804, but paid also 
much attention to the painting of still- 
life subjects, in which branch of art he 
was very successful. He died March 25, 
1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PEALE, REMBRANDT, artist, author, 
was born Feb. 22, 1788, in Bucks county, 
Pa. He was an artist of Philadelphia 
and the author of Notes on Italy; Port¬ 
folio of an Artist; and Graphics. He died 
Oct. 3, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PEALE, SARAH M., artist, was born 
May 19, 1800, in Philadelphia. She exe¬ 
cuted portraits of Com. William Bain- 
bridge, Henry A. Wise, Caleb Cushing, 
Dixon H. Lewis, and other public men. 
Lafayette accorded her four sittings in 
1825. She died Feb. 4, 1885, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

PEALE, TITIAN RAMSEY, artist, au- 
thor. was born in 1800 in Philadelphia. 
From 1849 till 1872 he was an examiner 
in the patent-office at Washington. He 
was the author of Mammalia and Ornith¬ 
ology. He died March 13, 1885, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

PEALER, RUSSELL R., lawyer, state 
legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 1, 1842, in 
Greenwood, Pa. Since 1867 he has prac¬ 
ticed law in Three Rivers. Mich. He has 
been prosecuting attorney; circuit court 
commissioner; member of the state legis¬ 
lature, and in 1881 was elected judge of 
the fifteenth circuit. 

PEARCE, CHARLES EDWARD, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 
Whitesboro, N. Y. He settled in St. Louis 
in 1866, where he was admitted to the bar, 
and began the practice of law in 1867. In 
1891 he was appointed chairman Sioux 
Indian commission; and in 1894 went to 
India and Japan to investigate the indus¬ 
tries of the Orient. In 1896 he was elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

PEARCE, CHARLES SPRAGUE, artist, 
was born Oct. 13, 1831, in Boston, Mass. 
His best known works are, Death of the 
First-Born of Egypt; Pet of the Harem; 
and Decapitation of John the Baptist, of 
which the latter received honorable men¬ 
tion at the salon, a prize at the Philadel¬ 
phia academy, and a medal in Boston. 

PEARCE, CROMWELL, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Aug. 13, 1772, in Willis- 
town, Pa. He was a captain of militia in 
1793-98. He resigned from the army in 
1815, became sheriff of Chester county, 
Pa., was a presidential elector in 1824; 
and in 1825-39 was an associate justice of 
the county court. He died April 2, 1852, 
in Willistown, Pa. 

PEARCE, DUTTEE JERAULD, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
April 10, 1789, on Prudence Island, R. I. 
He was at one time attorney-general of 
state, and United States district attorney 
for his district. He was. a representative 
in congress from Rhode Island from 1825 
to 1833, and again from 1835 to 1837. He 
was a presidential elector in 1821; and 
served in the legislature of Rhode Island. 
He died May 9, 1849, in Newport, R. I. 


PEARCE, EBENEZER, soldier, educa¬ 
tor, journalist, was born Oct. 6, 1839, in 
Evansburgh, Pa. He is now the editor 
and owner of The Republican, of White 
Hall, Ill.; and is prominent in public 
affairs. 

PEARCE, JAMES ALFRED, lawyer, 
educator, legislator, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Dec. 14, 1805, in 
Alexandria, Va. He was a member of the 
Maryland legislature in 1831. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1835 to 1839, and from 1841 to 1843. 
He was a senator in congress from 1843 to 
1862. He held the post of professor of law 
in Washington college, of Chestertown, 
and was a regent of the Smithsonian in¬ 
stitution. He was re-elected to the senate 
for the term commencing March, 1863. He 
died Dec. 20, 1862, in Chestertown, Md. 

PEARCE, JOHN J., congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1855 to 1857. He died May 30, 1888, in 
Harrisburg, Pa. 

PEA RLE, MARY, temperance advocate, 
lecturer, poet, was born Nov. 23, 1849, in 
Ireland. She received her education in 
Dublin; and held many important posi¬ 
tions in different schools and missions in 
the land of her nativity. In 1881 she came 
to America, and seven years later was en¬ 
gaged in lecturing in Ohio on temperance 
and social purity. She is corresponding 
secretary and lecturer for the Woman’s 
Christian Temperance union; and secre¬ 
tary of the Peace by Arbitration society. 
She is the author of a large number of 
poems, some of which have appeared in 
several standard collections. 

PEARSE, JOHN BARNARD, chemist, 
author, was born April 19, 1842, in Phil¬ 
adelphia. He was in charge of the chem¬ 
ical division of the United States army 
laboratory in Philadelphia in 1863-65. He 
has published A Concise History of the 
Iron Manufacture of America. 

PEARSON, ALBERT J., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born May 20, 
1846, in Centreville, Ohio. He was prose¬ 
cuting attorney of Monroe county, Ohio, 
for three successive terms; and a member 
of the state senate for two years. He was 
probate judge of Monroe county for six 
years. He was elected to the Fifty-second 
and re-elected to the fifty-third congress 
as a democrat. 

PEARSON, ALFRED L., soldier, author, 
was born Dec. 28, 1838, in Pittsburg, Pa. 
In 1888 he became commander of the Na¬ 
tional Union Veteran legion. He edited 
the Sunday Critic in 1886-87, and is the 
author of three plays. 

PEARSON, JOHN, clergyman, lecturer, 
reformer, was born Dec. 25, 1842, in Ire¬ 
land. He is an eminent clergyman of the 
episcopal church, and since 1865 has filled 
some of the most responsible pastorates 
in the Cincinnati conference. He has 
served full terms as presiding elder of 
several districts with distinguished suc¬ 
cess, and was stationed in Cincinnati for 
sixteen years. He was a delegate to the 
general conference of 1892, and a reserve 
delegate to the general conferences of 
1888 and 1896. He is a member of a dozen 
boards of trustees, and for many years 
has been secretary of the board of trus¬ 
tees of the methodist episcopal church. 
He was one of the founders of the meth¬ 
odist deaconess work, and the Christ hos¬ 
pital of Cincinnati. For seven years he 
was president of the Law and Order league 
and of the Municipal Reform league of 
Cincinnati; and for over thirty years has 
contributed valuable articles to current 
publications. 




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PEARSON, JONATHAN, genealogist, 
educator, author, was born Feb. 23, 1813, 
in Chichester, N. H. He is a genealogist 
who was professor of chemistry and sub¬ 
sequently of botany at Union college from 
1839. He is the author of Early Records 
of the County of Albany; Genealogy of 
the First Settlers of Albany; and Geneal¬ 
ogies of the First Settlers of Schenectady. 

PEARSON, JOSEPH, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in Rowan 
county, N. C. He served two years in 
the state legislature, and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from North Carolina, 
from 1809 to 1815. He died Oct. 27, 1834, 
in Salisbury, N. C. 

PEARSON, PETER HENRY, educator, 
author, was born March 30, 1864, in Swe¬ 
den. He has been the traveling corres¬ 
pondent of several leading newspapers, 
and is the author of a History of Sweden. 

PEARSON, RICHARD MUMFORD, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born June 28, 1805, in 
Davie county, N. C. He was in the North 
Carolina legislature in 1829-33, and an un¬ 
successful candidate for congress in 1834. 
He was a judge of the superior court in 
1836-48, and at the latter date he was el¬ 
evated to the supreme bench. He died 
Jan. 12, 1878, in Winston, N. C. 

PEARSON, RICHMOND, state legislat¬ 
or, congressman, was born Jan. 26, 1852, 
in Richmond Hill, N. C. In 1874 he was 
appointed United States consul at Ver- 
viers and Liege, Belgium; was a member 
of the North Carolina legislature in 1885 
and again in 1887. He was one of the 
originators of the coalition which over¬ 
whelmed the democratic party in North 
Carolina in 1894. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as an independent 
protectionist, and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 

PEARSONS, DANIEL KIMBALL, phil¬ 
anthropist, was born April 14, 1820, in 
Bradford, Vt. Among his many gifts for 
the advancement of Christianity, educa¬ 
tion and charity, have been $280,000 to 
the Chicago Theological seminary; $200,- 
000 to Beloit college; $50,000 each to Knox 
college, Colorado college, Yankton col¬ 
lege, the Pacific university in Oregon, 
Whitman college in Washington, and 
Drury college in Missouri; $60,000 to a 
hospital in Chicago; and $50,000 for the 
relief of the suffering poor. 

PEASE, ALFRED HUMPHREYS, mu¬ 
sician, composer, was born May 6, 1838, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. He was a brilliant pian¬ 
ist and the author of a number of well 
known compositions. He died July 12, 
1882, in St. Louis, Mo. 

PEASE, EDWARD M., lawyer, state 
legislator, governor, was born in Connec¬ 
ticut. He was secretary of the general 
council of the provincial government of 
Texas in 1835-36; then became chief clerk 
of the navy department, and afterward 
chief clerk of the treasury department of 
the Texas government. In 1836 he was 
clerk of the judiciary committee of the 
house of representatives of Texas. In 
1837 he became comptroller of public ac¬ 
counts of Texas, and in 1846 was elected 
a representative in the Texas legislature. 
He was re-elected in 1848 and 1850, and in 
1853 was elected governor of Texas, and 
was re-elected in 1855. He was provision¬ 
al governor, by appointment, from 1867 
to 1869. He died in 1883. 

PEASE, GEORGE E. H., lawyer, state 
senator, was born Oct. 31, 1833, in Nor¬ 
folk, Conn. In 1876 he was a member of 
the Colorado state constitutional conven¬ 
tion; a state representative in 1885-87, and 
in 1892 was elected to the state senate. 
He died May 22, 1895. 


PEASE, HENRY ROBERTS, soldier, 
journalist, United States senator, was 
born Feb. 19, 1835, in Connecticut. In 
1865 he was appointed superintendent of 
education for the state of Louisiana, while 
under military rule, and was elected su¬ 
perintendent of education of the state in 
1869. He edited and published the Missis¬ 
sippi Educational Journal, the first maga¬ 
zine ever devoted to popular education in 
the south. He was elected to the United 
States senate to fill a vacancy for the 
term ending in 1875. 

PEASE, JOSEPH IVES, engraver, was 
born Aug. 9, 1809, in Norfolk, Va. His 
plates are engraved in pure line, with 
much taste and excellence of execution, 
and are faithful renderings of the origi¬ 
nal paintings. His Tough Story, after 
Mount; Mumble the Peg, after Inman; 
and Young Traders, after Page, are choice 
examples of his work. He died July 2, 
1883, in Twin Lakes, Conn. 

PEASE, PHINEAS, soldier, was born 
April 16, 1826, in Somers, Conn. He 
became lieutenant-colonel of the forty- 
ninth Illinois infantry at the beginning of 
the civil war, and in 1865 he received the 
brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers. 
In 1885 he became receiver and general 
manager of the Cleveland and Marietta 
railroad. 

PEASE, THEODORE CLAUDIUS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1853 in New 
York. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Malden, Mass., and the author of 
The Christian Ministry. He died in 1893. 

PEASELEE, EDMUND RANDOLPH, 
physician, educator, author, was born Jan. 
22, 1814, in Rockingham county, N. H. He 
was a physician of New York city, medi¬ 
cal professor in several institutions, and 
the author of Human Histology; and 
Ovarian Tumors. He died Jan. 12, 1878, 
in New York city. 

PEASLEE, CHARLES H„ public offi¬ 
cial, congressman, was born in February, 
1804, in Gilmanton, N. H. He was a 
state representative from 1833 to 1837, 
and adjutant-general of New Hampshire 
from 1839 to 1847. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 
1847 to 1853, and was collector of customs 
at Boston from 1853 to 1857. He died 
in October, 1866, in St. Paul, Minn. 

PEATTIE, MRS. ELIA WILKINSON, 
journalist, author, was born in 1862 in 
Michigan. She is a journalist of Chicago, 
and the author of The Judge, a novel; 
A Trip Through Wonderland, a volume 
of Alaska travel; With Scrip and Staff, 
a story of the Children’s Crusade; and A 
Mountain Woman. 

PECK, ASAHEL, governor, was born 
in 1803 in Royalton, Mass. In 1874 he was 
elected governor of Vermont, serving 
until 1876. 

PECK, CLARISSA C., philanthropist, 
was born in 1797. She became well known 
as a philanthropist of her time. She 
died in 1884. 

PECK, EBENEZER, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born May 22, 1805, in 
Portland, Maine. In 1835 he emigrated to 
Chicago, Ill., and was several times elect¬ 
ed to the senate and house of representa¬ 
tives of that state. He was appointed 
reporter of its decisions by the supreme 
court of Illinois, which office he held for 
more than thirteen years from 1850, and 
until he was, in 1863, made one of the 
judges of the court of claims in Washing¬ 
ton. 

PECK, EDWARD JAMES, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born Oct. 16, 1806, near New 
Haven, Conn. He left one hundred thou¬ 
sand dollars to Wabash college, Indiana. 
He died Nov. 6, 1876, in Indianapolis, Ind. 


PECK, ERASMUS D., physician, sur¬ 
geon, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 16, 1808, in Connecticut. He 
moved to Ohio in 1830, and was elected a 
member of the Ohio legislature in 1856 and 
1858. He was examining surgeon for the 
army and for pensions. He was elected to 
the forty-first congress to fill a vacancy; 
and was re-elected to the forty-second 
congress as a republican. 

PECK, FERDINAND WYTHE, philan¬ 
thropist, was born July 15, 1848, in Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. He has contributed liberally to 
the cultivation of musical taste, and in 
1886 organized and became president of a 
joint stock company for the erection of 
the Chicago auditorium and hotel, the 
largest building of its kind in the United 
States. 

PECK, GEORGE, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 8, 1797, in Middlefield, N. 
Y. He was a methodist clergyman of 
prominence who was editor of several 
denominational journals, and the author 
of Christian Perfection; Early Method¬ 
ism; Wyoming and Its History; Univer- 
salism Examined; History of the Apostles 
and Evangelists; Rule of Faith; and 
Manly Character. He died May 20, 1876, 
in Scranton, Pa. 

PECK, GEORGE WASHINGTON, jour¬ 
nalist, state legislator, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 4, 1817, in Rehoboth, 
Mass. He removed to Michigan, and was 
a member of the legislature of that state 
in 1846 and 1847, serving as speaker dur¬ 
ing the latter year. He was afterwards 
chosen secretary of state, and was a 
representative in congress from Michigan 
from 1855 to 1857. He was the author of 
Melbourne and the Chinchu Islands. He 
died June 6, 1859, in Boston, Mass. 

PECK, GEORGE WESLEY, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 7, 1849, in King¬ 
ston, Pa. He is a methodist clergyman of 
western New York, and the author of 
The Realization and Benefit of Ideals; and 
Walk in the Light. 

PECK, GEORGE WILBUR, journalist, 
governor, was born Sept. 28, 1840, in Hen¬ 
derson, N. Y. He learned the printer’s 
trade, and has prin¬ 
cipally been engaged 
in journalism. In 
1863 he entered the 
war as a member of 
the fourth regiment, 
Wisconsin volunteer 
cavalry, and was 
soon commissioned 
as second lieutenant 
of company L. After 
the war he estab¬ 
lished The Repre¬ 
sentative of Ripon, 
Wis.; was elected city treasurer in 1867, 
and subsequently was engaged as editor 
by M. M. Pomeroy, first in New York 
city, and then on the La Crosse Democrat. 
He served as chief of police of La 
Crosse. In 1847 he started The Sun, 
which he subsequently moved to Milwau¬ 
kee; attained success as a humorous paper, 
and for many years had a circulation of 
eighty thousand copies per week. He was 
elected the fifth democratic governor of 
Wisconsin, and served during 1891-94 with 
distinction in that high office. 

PECK, HARRY THURSTON, educator, 
author, was born in 1856 in Connecticut. 
He is a professor of Latin at Columbia 
college; a literary critic; and the au¬ 
thor of Latin Pronunciation; and The 
Semitic Theory of Creation. 

PECK, JARED V., congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
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PECK, JAMES H., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Tennessee. He was made judge 
of the United States district court for 
Missouri. He died May 1, 1837, in St. 
Charles, Mo. 

PECK, JESSE TRUESDELL, bishop, 
author, was born April 4, 1811, in Middle- 
field, N. Y. He was a bishop in the meth- 
odist church; and the author of The 
Central Idea of Christianity; The True 
Woman; What Must I Do to be Saved?; 
and The Great Republic. He died May 
17, 1883, in Syracuse, N. Y. 

PECK, JOHN EDWIN, lawyer, was 
born Aug. 14, 1868, in Blacksburg, Va. 
He received a liberal education, and fin¬ 
ished at the West Virginia university. 
He has attained success as a lawyer of 
Logan, W. Va.; and has been prosecut¬ 
ing attorney of his county. 

PECK, JOHN JAMES, soldier, was 
born Jan. 4, 1821, in Manlius, N. Y. Dur¬ 
ing 1859-61 he was president of the board 
of education of Syracuse, N. Y. In 1861 
he was appointed brigadier-general of 
volunteers; and served with distinction 
throughout the civil war. He died April 
21, 1878, in Syracuse, N. Y. 

PECK, LUCIUS B., lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in 1799, in 
Waterbury, Vt. He served in the Ver¬ 
mont state legislature; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1847 to 1851. From 1853 to 1857 he 
was United States attorney for Vermont, 
and subsequently president of the Ver¬ 
mont and Canada railroad. He died in 
December, 1866, in Lowell, Mass. 

PECK, LUTHER C., lawyer, congress¬ 
man. He settled at Nunda, N. Y., in the 
practice of law, in which he attained 
eminence. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1837 to 
1841. He died Feb. 5, 1876, in Nunda, 
N. Y. 

PECK, LUTHER WESLEY, clergyman, 
poet, was born in 1825, in Wyoming val¬ 
ley, Pa. He has published The Golden 
Age, a poem; and other works. 

PECK, MARTIN H., journalist, writer, 
was born July 26, 1870, in Pekin, Minn. 
His poems and humorous sketches of 
country life which were at first published 
in the local papers were widely read and 
copied. He is the editor and owner of 
Peck’s Sun of Barnesville, Minn. He also 
has a large farm in Wilkins county, and 
is very prominent in public affairs. 

PECK, SAMUEL MINTURN, physi¬ 
cian, poet, was born in 1854, in Alabama. 
He is a popular poet and physician of 
Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and the author of Cap 
and Bells; Rings and Love Knots; 
Rhymes and Roses; and Fair Women of 
To-Day. 

PECK, THEODORE SAFFORD, sol¬ 
dier, was born March 22, 1843, in Bur¬ 
lington, Vt. He served through the civil 
war; and for gallant and meritorious 
services received the rank of brigadier- 
general. 

PECK, WILLIAM DANDRIDGE, natu¬ 
ralist, educator, author, was born May 8, 
1763, in Boston, Mass. He was made 
professor of his specialty in Harvard, 
which chair he held from 1805 till 1822. 
He published a catalogue of American 
and Foreign Plants; and several articles 
in the collections of the Massachusetts 
Historical society, which include The De¬ 
scription of the Atherine; History of the 
Slug-Worm; and Method of Taking Im¬ 
pressions of Vegetable Leaves by Means 
of Smoke. He also published an account 
of a sea-serpent in the Memoirs of the 
American Academy. He died Oct. 3, 1822, 
in Cambridge, Mass. 


PECK, WILLIAM FARLEY, journalist, 
author, was born Feb. 4, 1840, in Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. He was connected with the 
press of Rochester, N. Y., for several 
years, and is the author of Semi-Centen¬ 
nial History of Rochester. 

PECK, WILLIAM GUY, soldier, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Oct. 16, 1820, in 
Litchfield, Conn. He was a soldier and 
mathematician, professor in Columbia 
college from 1857; and the author of Ele¬ 
mentary Mechanics; and Popular Astron¬ 
omy. He died in 1892. 

PECK, WILLIAM HENRY, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 30, 1830, in Au¬ 
gusta, Ga. He is an educator of Georgia 
and a prolific writer of sensational nov¬ 
els. Among them are The McDonalds, or 
the Ashes of Southern Homes; The Con¬ 
federate Flag of the Ocean; and The 
Brother’s Vengeance. 

PECKHAM, RUFUS W., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1809, in 
Rensselaerville, N. Y. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1853 to 1855; and in 1859 was elect¬ 
ed judge of the supreme court. He died 
Nov. 22, 1873, at sea. 

PECKHAM, RUFUS WHEELER, as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of the 
United States, was born Nov. 8, 1838, in 
Albany, N. Y. In 
1868 he was elected 
district attorney of 
Albany county; was 
subsequently corpo¬ 
ration counsel of 
Albany city; and in 
1883 was elected a 
justice of the su¬ 
preme court of the 
state. While serv¬ 
ing as such he was 
elected in 1886 an 
associate judge of 
the court of appeals of New York state, 
and while occupying a seat on that bench 
he was, in December, 1895, appointed by 
President Cleveland an associate justice 
of the supreme court of the United 
States. 

PECKHAM, STEPHEN FARNUM, 
chemist, was born March 26, 1839, near 
Providence, R. I. During the civil war 
he served as hospital steward; and was 
later in charge of the chemical de¬ 
partment of the United States army lab¬ 
oratory in Philadelphia. He subsequent¬ 
ly attained national reputation as a noted 
chemist. 

PECKHAM, WHEELER HAZARD, 
lawyer, was born Jan. 1, 1833, in Albany, 
N. Y. He was appointed district attor¬ 
ney of New York in 1884, which office 
he resigned in the same year. For many 
years he has practiced law in New York 
city. 

PEDDER, JAMES, agriculturist, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born July 29, 1775, in 
England. He was an agricultural writer 
who came to America in 1832, and settled 
in Philadelphia as a sugar manufacturer. 
From 1844 to 1859 he edited The Boston 
Cultivator. He was the author of The 
Farmer’s Land Measure; The Yellow 
Shoestrings; and Frank. He died Aug. 
30, 1859, in Roxbury, Mass. 

PEDDIE, THOMAS B., manufacturer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
in Edinburgh, Scotland. He located at 
Newark, N. J., and engaged in manufac¬ 
turing. He was elected to the state leg¬ 
islature in 1863 and 1864; was mayor of 
Newark from 1865 to 1868; and was 
president of the board of trade of that 
city in 1873. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from New Jersey to the forty-fifth 
congress. 


PEEBLES, MRS. MARY LOUISE [PAR- 
MELEE], author, was born Dec. 10, 1833, 
in Lansingburg, N. Y. She is a writer of 
religious juvenile tales and other works, 
among them being The Little Captain; 
Helps Over Hard Places; The Good 
Fight; Where Honor Leads; A Ques¬ 
tion of Honor, a story; The Magnet 
Stones; and The Two Blizzards. 

PEED, HENRY A., journalist, state 
senator, was born Nov. 9, 1846, in Ply¬ 
mouth, Ind. In 1872 he was elected by 
his party to repre¬ 
sent his district in 
the Indiana state 
legislature, serving 
at both the special 
and regular sessions 
during the term. He 
was also a member 
of the committee on 
ways and means. In 
1874 he was elected 
to the senate from 
his district, consist¬ 
ing of the counties 
of Martin, Dubois, and Orange, and serv¬ 
ed four years. At the session of 1875 he 
was an active member of the judiciary 
committee, and in 1877 was appointed 
chairman of the committee on railroads. 

PEEK, HERMANUS, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in Albany, N. Y. 
He was for two years a member of the 
New York assembly from Schenectady 
county; and a representative in congress 
from New York from 1819 to 1821. 

PEEL, SAMUEL W., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1831, in 
Independence county, Ark. In 1867 he 
settled at Bentonville, Ark.; and was ap¬ 
pointed prosecuting attorney in 1873, and 
was elected to that office in 1874, serving 
four years. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Arkansas to the forty-eighth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, and fifty-second 
congresses as a democrat. 

PEELLE, STANTON J., soldier^ law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Feb. 11, 1843, in Wayne county, Ind. 
He entered the union army in 1861, and 
served three years. He was deputy dis¬ 
trict attorney of Marion county for two 
years; and was a representative in the 
state legislature from 1877 to 1879. He 
was elected a representative from Indi¬ 
ana to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth 
congresses as a republican. 

PEELLE, WILLIAM ADAMS, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, was born Sept. 18, 1819, 
in Richmond county, N. C. He has served 
as prosecuting attorney; has been a 
member of the lower house of the Indi¬ 
ana general assembly; and judge of com¬ 
mon pleas court, criminal and circuit 
courts. He has also been secretary of 
state of Indiana. 

PEERS, BENJAMIN ORRS, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born in 1800, 
in Loudoun county, Va. He was an epis¬ 
copal clergyman and educator of Ken¬ 
tucky, founder of the common school sys¬ 
tem of Kentucky; and the author of 
American Education. He died Aug. 20, 
1842, in Louisville, Ky. 

PEERY, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Delaware to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1785 to 1786. 

PEET, DUDLEY, physician, author, 
was born July 9, 1830, in Hartford, Conn. 
He studied and practiced medicine in 
New York, and became an instructor in 
the New York Institution for Deaf-Mutes. 
He was the author of a Manual of Inor¬ 
ganic Chemistry for Students, which was 
revised and enlarged by Isaac L. Peet in 
1868. He died April 18, 1862, in New 
York city. 








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PEET, HARVEY PRINDLE. educator, 
author, was born Nov. 19, 1794, in Beth¬ 
lehem. Conn. He was a noted educator 
of deaf-mutes in New York city; and the 
author of Course of Instruction for the 
Deaf and Dumb; Legal Rights of the 
Deaf and Dumb; and History of the 
United States. He died Jan. 1, 1873, in 
New York city. 

PEET, STEPHEN, missionary, author, 
was born in 1795, in Sandgate, Vt. In 
1837 he became minister of Green Bay, 
Wis., and assisted in founding Beloit col¬ 
lege and thirty churches. He then went 
to Milwaukee, and subsequently took 
charge of an institute in Batavia, Ill. He 
was the author of a History of the Pres¬ 
byterian and Congregational Churches 
and Ministers of Wisconsin. He died 
March 21, 1855, in Chicago, Ill. 

PEET, STEPHEN DENISON, clergy¬ 
man, anthropologist, author, was born 
Dec. 2, 1830, in Euclid, Ohio. He is a 
congregational minister, eminent as an 
anthropologist; and the author of The 
Ashtabula Disaster; History of Ashtabu¬ 
la County, Ohio; Ancient Architecture 
in America; History of Early Missions 
in Wisconsin; Picture Writing; Primi¬ 
tive Symbolisms; and The Effigy Mounds 
of Wisconsin. 

PEFFER, WILLIAM ALFRED, lawyer, 
journalist, United States senator, was 
born Sept. 10, 1831, in Cumberland coun¬ 
ty, Pa. He began 
teaching at the age 
of fifteen years; 
taught during win¬ 
ter and farmed in 
summer; removed 
to Indiana in 1853. 
and opened a farm 
in St. Joseph coun¬ 
ty. He removed to 
Missouri in 1859, 
and purchased a 
farm in Morgan 
county. Because of 
the war he moved to Illinois in 1862, 
and enlisted as a private in company F, 
eighty-third Illinois infantry. He was 
promoted to second lieutenant in March, 
1863; and served as regimental quarter¬ 
master and adjutant, post adjutant, 
judge-advocate of a military commission, 
and depot quartermaster in the engineer 
department at Nashville. He began the 
practice of law in Clarksville, Tenn., in 
1865; moved to Kansas in 1870; and prac¬ 
ticed law there until 1878, in the mean¬ 
time establishing and conducting two 
newspapers, the Fredonia Journal and 
Coffeyville Journal. He was elected to 
the state senate in 1874; was republican 
presidential elector in 1880; and became 
editor of the Kansas Farmer in 1881. He 
was elected to the United States senate 
as a member of the people’s party; took 
his seat March 4,1891. His term of service 
expired March 3. 1897. He is the author 
of The Tariff Manual; and The Way 
Out. 

PEFFLEY, DAVID FRANKLIN, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born May 5, 1854, in 
Bainbridge, Ind. For several years he 
taught school, then took up newspaper 
work. In 1880 he moved to Kansas, and 
has edited and published newspapers in 
that state, and in New Mexico. He is the 
author of a volume of poems entitled 
Songs of Sentiment; and has contributed 
extensively to current literature. 

PEGRAM, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 
1818 to 1819 to fill a vacancy. 


PEGRAM, WILLIAM JOHNSON, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1841, in Petersburg, Va. 
He served with distinction in the con¬ 
federate army; attained the rank of brig¬ 
adier-general, and was killed in battle 
April 2, 1865, in Petersburg, Va. 

PEIRCE, BENJAMIN, merchant, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 30, ‘1778, in Salem, 
Mass. He was a merchant of Salem, 
Mass., subsequently librarian of Harvard 
university; and published a History of 
Harvard University from 1636 to the 
American Revolution. He died July 28, 
1831, in Cambridge, Mass. 

PEIRCE, BENJAMIN, mathematician, 
educator, author, was born April 4, 1809, 
in Salem, Mass. He was an eminent 
mathematician, and professor of mathe¬ 
matics and astronomy at Harvard uni¬ 
versity in 1833-67. He was the author of 
Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spher¬ 
ical Trigonometry; Elementary Treatise 
on Sound; Curves, Functions, and 
Forces; and Ideality in the Physical Sci¬ 
ences. He died Oct. 6, 1880, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

PEIRCE, BENJAMIN OSGOOD, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Feb. 11, 1854, in 
Beverly, Mass. He is a professor of 
physics at Harvard university from 1884; 
and author tof Theory of the Newtonian 
Potential Functions. 

PEIRCE, BRADFORD KINNEY, cler¬ 
gyman, journalist, author, was born Feb. 
3, 1819, in Royalton, Vt. He was editor 
of Zion’s Herald in 1872-88. He was the 
author of Bible Scholar’s Manual; The 
Eminent Dead; Notes on the Acts; The 
Word of God Opened; A Half Century 
with Juvenile Delinquents; Trials of an 
Inventor; Audubon’s Adventures; Stories 
from Life which the Chaplain Told; The 
Chaplain with the Children; The Young 
Shetlander and His Home; and Hymns 
of the Higher Life. He died in 1889. 

PEIRCE, CHARLES HENRY, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Jan. 28, 1814, in 
Salem, Mass. In 1850 he received the ap¬ 
pointment of examiner of medicines for 
the port of Boston. He was the trans¬ 
lator of Dr. Julius A. Stockhardt’s Prin¬ 
ciples of Chemistry. He also published 
Examination of Drugs, Medicines, Chem¬ 
icals as to their Purity. He died June 
16, 1855, in Cambridge, Mass. 

PEIRCE, CHARLES SANDERS, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Sept. 30, 1839, in 
Cambridge, Mass. He is a physician and 
lecturer on logic; and the author of Stu¬ 
dies in Logic. 

PEIRCE, EBENEZER WEAVER, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born April 5, 1822, in 
Freetown, Mass. He was an officer in 
the federal army during the civil war; 
and the author of The Peirce Family of 
the Old Colony; Indian History, Biog¬ 
raphy, and Genealogy; and Contribu¬ 
tions, Biographical. 

PEIRCE, JAMES MILLS, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born May 1, 1834, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He is an educator of Cam¬ 
bridge, professor of mathematics in Har¬ 
vard university from 1867; and the au¬ 
thor of Text-Book of Analytical Geome¬ 
try; and Elements of Logarithms. 

PEIRCE. JOSEPH DEXTER, farmer, 
legislator, was born Dec. 5, 1857, in New¬ 
burgh, N. Y. He is a successful farmer; 
and has served as a member of the lower 
house of the North Dakota legislature. 

PEIRCE, ROBERT B. F., soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, congressman, was born 
Feb. 17, 1843, in Laurel, Ind. He gradu¬ 
ated in a classical course from the Wa¬ 
bash college of Crawfordsville, Ind. He 
served during the war as a lieutenant in 


the one hundred and thirty-fifth regi¬ 
ment of the Indiana volunteer infantry. 
He is a noted lawyer of Indianapolis, 
Ind.; has been state’s attorney; and 
sen ed as a member of the forty-seventh 
congress as a republican. 

PEIRCE, THOMAS, poet, was born 
Aug. 4, 1786, in Chester county, Pa. He 
wrote numerous prize poems, the chief of 
which was Muse of Hesperia; and con¬ 
tributed largely to literary journals. His 
last published poem, Knowledge is Pow¬ 
er, appeared in 1827. He died in 1850, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

PEIRCE, WILLIAM FOSTER, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born Feb. 3, 
1868, in Chicopee Falls, Mass. He was 
prepared for college 
at the Springfield 
High school; gradu¬ 
ating in 1888 from 
Amherst college; 
then he attended 
the Cornell univer¬ 
sity for one year for 
the study of philos¬ 
ophy and economics. 
He has filled profes¬ 
sorships in the Ohio 
university, univer¬ 
sity of Colorado, and 
Gambier, Ohio, of 
which latter institution he has been pres¬ 
ident since 1896. 

PEIRCE, WILLIAM SHANNON, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Sept. 3, 1815, in New 
Castle, Del. In 1866 he became a judge 
of the court of common pleas in Phila¬ 
delphia, which office he held by subse¬ 
quent elections until his death. He died 
April 4, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PEIRSON. MRS. LYDIA JANE 
[WHEELER], poet, was born in 1802, in 
Middletown. Conn. She was a poet of 
Adrian, Mich.; and the author of Forest 
Leaves, and Other Poems; and The For¬ 
est Minstrel. She died in 1862, in Adrian, 
Mich. 

PELHAM, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born March 12, 1835, 
in Person county, N. C. He entered the 
confederate service in 1862; was elected 
judge of the tenth judicial circuit of Ala¬ 
bama in 1868; and was elected to the 
forty-third congress as a republican. 

PELHAM, PETER, artist, was born in 
England. He was the first engraver and 
earliest known artist in New England, 
and came from London to Boston at the 
close of the first quarter of the eighteenth 
century. His earliest known work here 
is a portrait of Cotton Mather, dated 
1727. He died in December, 1751, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

PELL, ELLA FERRIS, painter, sculp¬ 
tor, was born Jan. 18, 1846, in St. Louis, 
Mo. She has given special attention to 
portraiture and figure composition. Her 
most important work is The Angel Show¬ 
ing Adam the Consequences of His Sin. 
She is the president of the Liberal Art 
league of New York city. 

PELLEW, [WILLIAM] GEORGE, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1859, in England. He 
was a writer of New York city; and the 
author of Jane Austen’s Novels, a Disser¬ 
tation; In Castle and Cabin, or Talks 
in Ireland; Woman and the Common¬ 
wealth; and Life of John Jay. He died 
in 1893. 

PELTON, GUY R., lawyer, congress¬ 
man,'was born Aug. 3, 1825, in Great Bar¬ 
rington, Mass. In 1851 he opened a law 
office in New York city; and in 1854 was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the thirty-fourth congress. 




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PELTON, JOHN COTTER, educator, 
poet. He is known as the father of the 
San Francisco schools. Since 1849 he has 
been engaged as an 
educator in Califor¬ 
nia, and was San 
Francisco’s first 
superintendent o f 
schools. He is the 
author of a volume 
of poems; and has 
contributed exten¬ 
sively to periodical 
literature. His po¬ 
ems have been given 
a place in Poets of 
America, and sever¬ 
al other standard collections. 


PEMBERTON, EBENEZER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1704, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a presbyterian clergyman 
prominent as a loyalist in Boston at the 
opening of the revolution. He was the 
author of Sermons on Several Subjects; 
Practical Discourses; Salvation by Grace; 
and Occasional Sermons. He died Sept. 
9, 1779, in Boston, Mass. 

PEMBERTON, JAMES LEE, politician, 
was born July 22, 1866, in Turley’s Mills, 
Tenn. He received the rudiments of his 
education at the common schools, and at 
the department of law of the Georgetown 
university of Washington, D. C. He was 
president of the Central McKinley and 
Hobart club of Rutledge, Tenn.; has been 
justice of the peace for Grainger county; 
and clerk of the circuit court. He has 
twice declined nominations to the lower 
house of the general assembly. 

PEMBERTON, THOMAS, merchant, 
author, was born in 1728, in Boston, 
Mass. He wrote a journal of the revolu¬ 
tionary war; and his Chronology of 
Massachusetts, in five manuscript vol¬ 
umes, was made use of by Dr. Holmes. 
He died July 5, 1807, in Boston, Mass. 

PENCE, LAFE, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Dec. 23, 1867, in 
Columbus, Ind. He was elected to the 
Colorado state legislature, and after the 
session in 1885 located in Denver. In 1887 
he was appointed county attorney for 
Arapahoe county; and reappointed county 
attorney in 1888. In 1892 he was nomi¬ 
nated by the populists and silver demo¬ 
crats as candidate for congress from the 
first district, and was elected in Novem¬ 
ber. 


PENCE, WALLACE M., lawyer, was 
born March 27, 1860, in Henderson coun¬ 
ty, Ill. He received his education at the 
Western Normal college of Shenandoah. 
Iowa, graduating with the degree of B. 
S.; and attended the law department of 
the Kansas State university of Lawrence. 
He is now a prominent lawyer of Salinas 
City, Cal.; and contributes extensively 
to law literature. 


PENDERGAST, WILLIAM WIRT, edu¬ 
cator, jurist, was born Jan. 31, 1833, in 
Durham, N. H. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Durham academy, at Phillips 
academy, and in 1854 graduated from 
Bowdoin college. He has been judge of 
probate of McLeod county, Minn.; was su¬ 
perintendent of schools of that county for 
eight years; for twenty years was super¬ 
intendent and principal of the Hutchin¬ 
son High school; and for six years was 
assistant state superintendent of public 
instruction. He has been principal of the 
School of Agriculture, and university of 
Minnesota, for five years; and for five 
years has been superintendent of public 
instruction for the state of Minnesota, 
his last term expiring in 1898. 

PENDERGRAST, GARRETT JESSE, 
naval officer, was born Dec. 5, 1802, in 


Kentucky. He was appointed command¬ 
ant of the Philadelphia navy-yard, which 
post he filled until two days before his 
death. Under the reorganization of the 
navy he was twelfth commodore on the 
retired list, which rank he attained in 
1862. He died Nov. 7, 1862, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

PENDLETON, EDMUND, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, statesman, was born Sept. 9, 1721, 
in Carolina county, Va. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the house of burgesses in 1752, 
and was subsequently speaker of that 
body. He was a delegate to the conti¬ 
nental congress from 1774 to 1775; presi¬ 
dent of the Virginia conventions of 1775 
and 1776; and drew up the resolutions 
for the declaration of independence. He 
was speaker and president of the chan¬ 
cery court; and in 1779 president of the 
court of appeals. In 1788 he presided over 
the convention which adopted the federal 
constitution. He died Oct. 23, 1803, in 
Richmond, Va. 

PENDLETON, EDMUND H., congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in congress 
from New York from 1831 to 1833. 

PENDLETON, EDMUND MONROE, 
physician, author, was born March 19, 
1815. in Eatonton, Ga. He was a physi¬ 
cian who published Scientific Agricul¬ 
ture. He died Jan. 26, 1884, in Atlanta, 
Ga. 

PENDLETON, GEORGE C„ farmer, 
soldier, financier, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 23, 1845, in 
Coffee county, Tenn. 
He was a merchant; 
then a farmer and 
dealer in real estate. 
He was in the con¬ 
federate service as 
private in Fount’s 
company, Burford’s 
regiment, Parson’s 
brigade, Texas cav¬ 
alry. He was a 
member of the 
eighteenth, nine¬ 
teenth, and twen¬ 
tieth Texas legislatures, and speaker of 
the twentieth. He was elected lieutenant- 
governor in 1890; and was elected to the 
fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as 
a democrat. While in congress he served 
on several important committees. 

PENDLETON, GEORGE HUNT, law¬ 
yer, congressman, United States senator, 
was born July 25, 1825, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He was a member of the state sen¬ 
ate of Ohio in 1854 and 1855; and was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, 
and thirty-eighth congresses. In 1864 he 
was nominated for the office of vice-presi¬ 
dent of the United States. In 1869 he was 
appointed president of the Kentucky Cen¬ 
tral Railroad company. He was elected 
a United States senator from Ohio for the 
term of six years from March 4, 1879. He 
died Nov. 24, 1889, in Belgium. 

PENDLETON, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, 
was born about 1750, in Culpeper county. 
Va. He was appointed judge in 1776; and 
when the British overran the state he 
joined the patriot forces and fought at 
Eutaw. He resumed his judgeship in 
1782; originated the county court act of 
South Carolina, and was one of three 
judges appointed to revise the laws of 
the state in 1785. He died Jan. 10, 1789, 
in Greenville, S. C. 

PENDLETON, ISAAC, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, jurist, was born April 3, 1832, in Nor¬ 
wich, N. Y. In 1862 he was a representa¬ 
tive of his district in the Iowa legisla¬ 
ture; and for four years was district 
judge. He died July 17, 1896, in Sioux 
City, Iowa. 


PENDLETON, JAMES M., merchant, 
banker, state senator, congressman, was 
born Jan. 10, 1822,' in Pendleton Hill, 
Conn, He received 
a thorough educa¬ 
tion; and became 
engaged in mercan¬ 
tile business and 
banking in Rhode 
Island. He was a 
member of the 
Rhode Island state 
senate in 1862-65; a 
delegate to the na¬ 
tional republican 
convention of Chi¬ 
cago in 1868; and a 
presidential elector. He was elected to> 
the forty-second and forty-third con¬ 
gresses, serving on the committee on re¬ 
vision of laws; and various other com¬ 
mittees. 

PENDLETON, JAMES MADISON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Nov. 20, 1811, 
in Spottsylvania county, Va. He was a 
baptist clergyman of Upland, Pa.; and 
the author of Three Reasons Why I Am 
a Baptist; Church Manual; Christian 
Doctrines; Sermons; Distinctive Princi¬ 
ples of Baptists; and Atonement of 
Christ. He died in 1891. 

PENDLETON, JOHN O., congressman. 
He is a resident of Wheeling, W. Va.; 
and was elected to the house of represen¬ 
tatives of the fifty-first congress in 1888, 
and was unseated in 1890. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-second and fifty-third con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

PENDLETON, JOHN S., congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a repre- 
sentath e in congress from Virginia from 
1845 to 1847, and for a second term, end¬ 
ing in 1849. In 1851 he was appointed 
minister resident to the Argentine con¬ 
federation. He died Nov. 19, 1868, in Cul¬ 
peper county, Va. 

PENDLETON, LOUIS [BEAURE¬ 
GARD], author, was born in 1861, in 
Georgia. He is a novelist of Philadel¬ 
phia; and the author of Bewitched, and 
Other Stories; In the Wire Grass, a nov¬ 
el of Southern Georgia; King Tom and 
the Runaways, a juvenile tale; The Wed¬ 
ding Garment, a Tale of the Life to 
Come; The Sons of Ham; Corona of 
the Nantahalas; and In the Okefenokee, 
a juvenile tale. 

PENDLETON, NATHANIEL, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1756, in Cul¬ 
peper county, Va. He entered the revo¬ 
lutionary army at nineteen years of age, 
served with the rank of major on the 
staff of General Nathaniel Greene, and 
received the thanks of congress for his 
gallantry at Eutaw. He afterward set¬ 
tled in Georgia, and became United States 
district judge. He died Oct. 20, 1821, in 
New York city. 

PENDLETON, NATHANIEL GREENE, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born in August, 1793, in Savannah, Ga. 
In 1825 he was elected to the senate of 
Ohio, and was re-elected. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Ohio from 
1841 to 1843. 

PENDLETON, SAMUEL EVANS, cler¬ 
gyman, was born in 1840, in Logan coun¬ 
ty, Ill. He received his education at the 
Chaddock college of Illinois, and has at¬ 
tained prominence as one of the foremost 
clergymen in the United States. He has 
preached in all the principal cities of 
the union; for fifteen years has been pre¬ 
siding elder in the Kansas conference; 
and has been a delegate to the general 
conference four times. 





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PENDLETON, WILLIAM NELSON, 
soldier, educator, clergyman, author, was 
born Dec. 26, 1809, in Richmond, Va. He 
was an episcopal clergyman and educator 
of Virginia, a fconfederate officer during 
the civil war, and subsequently rector of 
Grace church, Lexington, Va. He was 
the author of Science a Witness for the 
Bible. He died in 1883. 

PENEWELL, MARY AMELIA, educa¬ 
tor, poet, was born March 7, 1848, near 
Ellicottville, N. Y. She is the author of 
a large number of poems, and one pub¬ 
lished work. 

PENHALLOW, SAMUEL, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, author, was born July 2, 1665, in 
England. He was a citizen of Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H., and chief justice of New 
Hampshire in 1717-26. He published in 
1726 a realistic and valuable History of 
the Wars of New England with the East¬ 
ern Indians. He died Dec. 2, 1726, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. 

PENICK, CHARLES CLIFTON, bish¬ 
op, author, was born Dec. 9, 1843, in Char¬ 
lotte county, Va. He is the third pro- 
testant episcopal bishop of the West Af¬ 
rican mission. He was consecrated in 
1877, resigned in 1883, and is now (1898) 
a general agent at Baltimore of the com¬ 
mission on work among the colored peo¬ 
ple. He is the author of More than a 
Prophet, or Chapters on St. John the 
Evangelist. 

PENICK, HENRY E., journalist, was 
born in 1874, in Brunswick, Mo. He is 
the editor and owner of The Record of 
Cabool, Mo.; and has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to current literature. 

PENINGTON, EDWARD, author, was 
born Sept. 3, 1667, in England. He be¬ 
came in 1700 surveyor-general of Penn¬ 
sylvania. He published The Discoverer 
Discovered; Rabshakeh Rebuked; and 
Some Brief Observations upon George 
Keith’s Earnest Expostulation. He died 
Nov. 11, 1711, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PENINGTON, HENRY, lawyer, author, 
was born Sept. 19, 1807, in Philadelphia. 
He edited and published, with numerous 
additions, Henry James Holthouse’s New 
Law Dictionary. He died Nov. 11, 1858, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PENINGTON, JOHN, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 29, 1768, in Phila¬ 
delphia. He was a member of the Ameri¬ 
can Philosophical society; and the au¬ 
thor of Chemical and Economical Es¬ 
says to Illustrate the Connection between 
Chemistry and the Arts; and Inaugural 
Dissertation on the Phenomena, Causes, 
and Effects of Fermentation. He died 
Sept. 20, 1793, in Philadelphia. 

PENINGTON, JOHN, author, was born 
Aug. 1, 1799, in Mulberry Hill, N. J. For 
many years he was the most noted im¬ 
porter of foreign books in Philadelphia. 
In addition to critical articles, he pub¬ 
lished An Examination of Beauchamp 
Plantagenet’s Description of the Province 
of New Albion; Scraps, Osteologic and 
Archteological; and he edited Descrip¬ 
tion of New York, by Daniel Danton, 
London, 1670: Reprinted by the Histori¬ 
cal Society of Pennsylvania. He died 
March 18, 1867, in Philadelphia. 

PENINGTON, JOHN B., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 
1825, near New Castle, Del. He was a 
member of the state house of representa¬ 
tives in 1857. He was appointed United 
States attorney for the district of Dela¬ 
ware in 1868; and attorney-general of the 
state in 1874. He was elected to the fif¬ 
tieth congress, and was re-elected to the 
fifty-first congress as a democrat. 


PENN, ALEXANDER G., congress¬ 
man, was born in Virginia. He settled in 
Louisiana; and was elected a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1851 to 1853. 

PENN, JOHN, governor, was born July 
14, 1729, in London. He was governor of 
Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1771, and from 
1773 to 1775. He died Feb. 9, 1795, in 
Bucks county, Pa. 

PENN, JOHN, signer of the declara¬ 
tion of independence, was born May 17, 
1741, in Caroline county, Va. He was a 
delegate from North Carolina to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1775 to 1780, and 
signed the declaration of independence, 
as well as the articles of confederation. 
In 1784 he was appointed receiver of 
taxes. He died Oct. 26, 1800, in North 
Carolina. 

PENN, JOHN, governor, author, was 
born Feb. 23, 1760, in England. He was 
governor of the island of Portland, where 
he built Pennsylvania castle. He was a 
member of parliament in 1802. He pub¬ 
lished a tragedy, some pamphlets, and a 
volume of poems. He died June 21, 1834 
in Stoke Pogis. 

PENN, THOMAS, philanthropist, was 
born March 8, 1702, in England. He 
founded the college of Pennsylvania, as 
well as the hospital and library there. 
He died March 21, 1775, in London. 

PENN, WILLIAM, the founder of Penn¬ 
sylvania, was born Oct. 14, 1644, in Lon¬ 
don, England. He obtained from the 
king, Charles II., a 
tract of land west of 
the Delaware and 
north of Maryland, 
in payment for a 
claim against the 
government which 
he inherited from his 
father. He sailed 
from England in Sep¬ 
tember, 1682, and in 
November of the 
same year held the 
famous treaty with 
the Indians which was the only league 

between the aborigines and the Chris¬ 
tians that was never sworn to, and the 
only one never broken. He died July 30, 
1718, in England. 

PENNELL, MRS. ELIZABETH [ROB¬ 
INS], author. She is a writer who has 
lived in London for many years; and the 
author of Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A 
Canterbury Pilgrimage; Two Pilgrims’ 

Progress; Our Sentimental Journey 

through France and Italy; Our Journey 
to the Hebrides; To Gipsy land; Play in 
Provence; and The Feasts of Autolycus. 

PENNELL, JOSEPH, artist, author, 
was born in 1859, in Pennsylvania. He 
is an artist living in London who has il¬ 
lustrated his wife’s books; and published 
Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen; The 
Jew at Home; and Modern Illustration. 

PENNELL, WILLIAM D., manufactur¬ 
er, was born May 20, 1847, in Portland, 
Maine. In 1881 he was elected a member 
of the Maine house of representatives; 
in 1883 he was elected a member of the 
state senate; and in 1885 became presi¬ 
dent of that body. 

PENNELL, WILLIAM W., physician, 
poet, was born Feb. 2, 1853, in Holmes 
county, Ohio. He is a successful physi¬ 
cian in Nashville, Ohio; and in addition 
to his medical work he has issued a small 
volume of poetical and other composi¬ 
tions. 


PENNIMAN, EBENEZER JENCKES, 
merchant, congressman, was born in Lan- 
singburg, N. Y. He moved to Michigan 
in 1835; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive to the thirty-second congress. 

PENNINGTON, ALEXANDER CUM¬ 
MINGS MACWHORTER, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born July 2, 
1810, in Newark, N. J. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New Jersey 
from 1853 to 1857. He also served two 
years in the state legislature; and sub¬ 
sequently settled in the city of New 
York. He died Jan. 25, 1867, in New York 
city. 

PENNINGTON, I. L., governor, au¬ 
thor, was born in North Carolina. In 
1874 he was appointed governor of Da¬ 
kota. 

PENNINGTON, SAMUEL, journalist, 
state legislator, was born March 8, 1765, 
in Newark, N. J. In 1799 he became edi¬ 
tor and one of the proprietors of the 
Sentinel of Freedom of Newark, N. J. 
Between 1810 and 1825 he was elected 
eleven times a member of the legislature, 
and was once speaker of the house. 
He died March 6, 1835, in Newark, N. J. 

PENNINGTON, WILLIAM, lawyer, 
congressman, governor, was born May 4, 
1796, in Newark, N. J. In 1837 he was 
elected governor of New Jersey, and an¬ 
nually re-elected until 1843, acting at the 
same time as chancellor of the state, ex- 
officio, and taking a prominent part in 
what was known as the broad seal con¬ 
troversy. In 1858 he was elected a 
representative from New Jersey to the 
thirty-sixth congress; and after the lapse 
of two months from taking his seat was 
elected speaker of the house of represen¬ 
tatives. He died Feb. 16, 1862, in New¬ 
ark, N. J. 

PENNINGTON, WILLIAM SANFORD, 
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, 
governor, was born in 1757, in Newark, 
N. J. He was a member of the legislature 
of New Jersey; was chancellor of the 
state, and author of New Jersey Court 
Reports, published from 1803 to 1816; 
and in 1825. He was governor of New 
Jersey from 1813 to 1815. He was ap¬ 
pointed associate judge of the supreme 
court of New Jersey in 1804; and judge of 
the United States district court from 1815 
to 1826. He died Sept. 17,1826, in Newark, 
N. J. 

PENNOCK, ALEXANDER MOSELY, 
naval officer, was born Nov. 1, 1813, in 
Norfolk, Va. In 1868 he was commis¬ 
sioned commodore, and rear-admiral in 
1872. He died Sept. 20, 1876, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. 

PENNOCK, MORRIS C., merchant, 
banker, poet, was born May 22, 1830, in 
Chester county, Pa. His father, John 
Pennock, moved to 
a farm near Salem. 
Ohio, in 1832. His 
early manhood was 
spent in farming, 
teaching and clerk¬ 
ing. In 1862 he set¬ 
tled in Alliance, 
Ohio, and established 
the hardware firm 
of Wright and Pen¬ 
nock, which is still 
flourishing. He was 
one of the founders 
of the Alliance Bank company, the lead¬ 
ing financial institution of the city, of 
which he is president. His tastes are 
literary and artistic, and find expression 
in occasional poetical contributions to 
different journals, selections from which 
appear in Poets of America, and other 
standard works. 









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PENNOYER, SYLVESTER, educator, 
merchant, governor, was born July 6, 
1831, in Groton, N. Y. During 1887-95 
he served with distinction as governor of 
Oregon. In 1896 he was elected mayor of 
Portland. 

PENNY, VIRGINIA, author, was born 
Jan. 18, 1826, in Louisville, Ky. She is 
an educator who has written much in re¬ 
lation to wider opportunities for women. 
She is the author of The Employment of 
Women; Five Hundred Occupations 
Adapted to Women; and Think and Act. 

PENNYBACKER, ISAAC SAMUALS, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Sept. 12, 1807, 
in Shenandoah county, Va. He was a 
representative in congress, from 1837 to 
1839; then judge of the district court of 
western Virginia; and was a senator in 
congress for the term from 1845 to 1851. 
He died Jan. 12, 1847, in Washington, 
D. C. 

PENNYPACKER, ELIJAH FUNK, re¬ 
former, financier, state legislator, was 
born Nov. 20, 1804, in Chester county, Pa. 
He became interested in real estate; was 
in the Pennsylvania legislature in 1831- 
35: chairman of its committee on banks, 
and a principal mover in the establish¬ 
ment of public schools. He was an or¬ 
ganizer of the Pennsylvania Mutual Fire 
Insurance company in 1869, and became 
president, holding office till January, 

1887, when he resigned. He died Jan. 4, 

1888, in Phcenixville, Pa. 

PENNYPACKER, ISAAC RUSLING, 
journalist, poet, was born in 1852, in 
Pennsylvania. He is a journalist and 
poet of Philadelphia; and the author of 
Gettysburg, and Other Poems. 

PENNYPACKER, SAMUEL WHITA¬ 
KER, lawyer, jurist, author, was born 
April 9, 1843, in Phoenixv ille, Pa. He is 
a jurist of Philadelphia; and the author 
of Annals of Phcenixville; Pennsylvania 
Supreme Court Reports; and Historical 
and Biographical Sketches. 

PENROD, WILLIAM K., journalist, 
was born March 5, 1873, in Raglesville, 
Ind. He has taught “school and published 
several newspapers, and is now the edi¬ 
tor and owner of the Odon Journal, Indi¬ 
ana. 

PENROSE, BOIES, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Nov. 1, 1860, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was elected to the Penn¬ 
sylvania house of representatives from 
the eighth Philadelphia district in 1884. 
In connection with Edward P. Allinson 
he wrote, at the request of Johns Hop¬ 
kins university, for the university stu¬ 
dies in historical and political science, 
a History of the City Government of 
Philadelphia. He was elected to the 
Pennsylvania state senate from the sixth 
Philadelphia district in 1886, re-elected 
in 1890, and again in 1894. He was elect¬ 
ed president pro tempore of the senate 
in 1889, and re-elected in 1891. He was 
elected to the United States senate as a 
republican to succeed J. Donald Cameron, 
and took his seat March 4, 1897. His 
term of service will expire March 3, 1903. 

PENROSE, RICHARD ALEXANDER 
FULLERTON, educator, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born March 24, 1827, in Car¬ 
lisle, Pa. In 1863 he became professor of 
obstetrics and of the diseases of women 
and children in the university of Penn¬ 
sylvania, which post he still holds. He 
is one of the founders of the Children’s 
hospital of Philadelphia, the American 
Gynaecological society, and the Gynacean 
hospital. 


PENTECOST, GEORGE FREDERICK, 
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 23, 
1843, in Albion, Ill. He was a congrega¬ 
tional minister in Brooklyn in 1881-90, 
and subsequently an evangelist in Amer¬ 
ica and England. He is the author of 
The Angel in the Marble; In the Vol¬ 
ume of the Book; Out of Egypt; The 
Christian and the Modern Dance; Bible 
Studies; The Gospel of Luke; and Grace 
Abounding in the Forgiveness of Sins. 

PEPPER, GEORGE DANA BOARD- 
MAN, educator, clergyman, college presi¬ 
dent, author, was born Feb. 5, 1833, in 
Ware, Mass. He is a baptist clergyman 
and educator, president of Colby univer¬ 
sity from 1882; and the author of Out¬ 
lines of Theology. 

PEPPER, WILLIAM, physician, author, 
was born Aug. 21, 1843, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is an eminent Philadelphia phy¬ 
sician, provost of the university of Penn- 
sylvania in 1881-94; and the author of 
Higher Medical Education; and Diseases 
of Children. 

PEPPERRELL, WILLIAM, soldier, 
was born June 27, 1696, in Kittery, 
Maine. He was a son of Colonel William 
Pepperrell and Mar¬ 
gery Bray, both na¬ 
tives bf England. 
He was taught the 
art of surveying 
land and of navigat¬ 
ing a ship; and sub¬ 
sequently was in 
business with his 
father as a dealer 
in naval stores, fish 
and provisions. In 
1726 he was brevet- 
ted colonel, and 
of all the militia of 
Maine. In the same year he was elected 
a state representative; and for thirty- 
two years was a member of the board 
of councilors. He was elected comman¬ 
der-in-chief of the body of New England 
volunteers; and after a siege of forty- 
nine days he succeeded in the reduction 
of Louisburg, the strongest fortress in 
America, which the French had built at 
a cost of six million dollars. He was 
acting governor of Massachusetts in 1756- 
58. He died July 6, 1759, in Kittery, 
Maine. 

PEPPLE, W. D., educator, was born 
Dec. 8, 1854, in Champaign county, Ohio. 
He received his education at the Ohio 
Normal university and has attained suc¬ 
cess in educational work. He has been 
superintendent of schools of Delta, Genoa, 
and North Lewisburg, Ohio; and is a mem¬ 
ber of the executive committee of the 
Northwestern Ohio Teachers’ association. 

PERCE, ELBERT, litterateur, author, 
was born Aug. 17, 1831, in New York 
city. He was a writer of New York city 
and the author of Old Carl the Cooper; 
The Last of His Name; The Battle Roll; 
Gulliver Joi: his Three Voyages; and sev¬ 
eral translations from the Swedish of Car- 
len. He died Jan. 18, 1868, in Brooklyn. 

PERCE, LEGRAND W., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 19, 1836, in 
Buffalo, N. Y. He was appointed cap¬ 
tain of the United States volunteers in 
1863, and brevetted colonel in 1865. He 
settled in Mississippi; and was elected 
to the forty-first congress, and re-elected 
to the forty-second congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

PERCIVAL, CHESTER SMITH, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, poet, was born March 12, 
1822, in Vernon, N. Y. In 1864 he accept¬ 
ed a call to become rector of Grace church 
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is the author 
of a work entitled Hours of Musing; and 
At the Grave of James G. Percival. 


PERCIVAL, JAMES GATES, geologist, 
poet, was born Sept. 15, 1795, in Lexing¬ 
ton, Conn. He was a poet once popular, 
but now wholly neglected. He was the 
author of Seneca Lake and The Coral 
Grove, which are still found lingering 
anthologies; Prometheus; Clio; Dream of 
a Day and Poems. He was a geologist 
of some reputation, and published Geo¬ 
logical Surveys of Connecticut and Wis¬ 
consin. He died May 2, 1856, in Hazel 

Green, Wis. 

PERCY,GEORGE, soldier, governor, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 4, 1586, in England. 
In 1610 he became governor of Virginia. 
He published Observations Gathered out 
of a Discourse of the Plantations of the 
SoutherneColonie in Virginia by the Eng¬ 
lish; also included in Samuel Purchas’s 
Filgrimes, 1685-90. He died in March, 
1632, in Lyon House, England. 

PERCY, TOWNSEND, journalist, ex¬ 
plorer, author, was born March 26, 1854, in 
Troy, N. Y. He is a son of John Town¬ 
send Percy, the eminent lawyer. He re¬ 
ceived his education at the Troy acad¬ 
emy and the Cazenovia seminary. He 
has been an explorer in Panama and Cen¬ 
tral America; and is a fellow royal of the 
Geographical society. He is a success¬ 
ful dramatic critic and playwright; 
the author of Appleton’s Dictionary of 
New York; and other works. He is now 
the financial editor of the London Finan¬ 
cial News, and resides in New York city. 

PEREA, FRANCISCO, congressman, 
was born Jan. 9, 1831, in Bernalillo, N. 
M. In 1863 he was elected a delegate 
from New Mexico to the thirty-eighth con¬ 
gress. 

PERHAM, SIDNEY, agriculturist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
27, 1819, in Woodstock, Maine. In 1855 
he was a member of the Maine leg¬ 
islature, and officiated as speaker. In 1856 
he was a presidential elector. In 1862 he 
was elected a representative from Maine 
tc the thirty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth 
congresses. In 1875 he was elected sec¬ 
retary of the state of Maine. 

PERKINS, BISHOP, congressman, was 
born in New Hampshire. He settled in 
New York; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 
1853 to 1855. 

PERKINS, BISHOP W., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, United States 
senator, was born Oct. 18, 1841, in Roch¬ 
ester, Ohio. He enlisted in the union 
army from Illinois, served until 1866, per¬ 
forming important duties, and rising to 
the rank of captain and acting adjutant- 
general; and was wounded at Fort Don- 
elson. He returned home when mustered 
out of service; and in 1869 moved to 
Oswego, Kas. In 1870 he was elected pro¬ 
bate judge, and was re-elected in 1872. 
In 1873 he was appointed judge of the 
eleventh judicial district of the state; in 
November of that year was elected to 
the same position; and was re-elected 
in 1874, and again in 1878. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Kansas to the 
forty-eighth congress; was re-elected to 
the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses. In 1892 he was appointed United 
States senator to fill a vacancy. 

PERKINS, CHARLES CALLAHAN, 
critic, author, was born March 1, 1823, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a prominent 
art patron and critic of Boston; and the 
author of Raphael and Michael Angelo; 
Tuscan Sculptors; Italian Sculptors; His¬ 
torical Handbook of Italian Sculptors; 
and History of the Boston Handel and 
Haydn Society. He died Aug. 25, 1886, in 
Windsor, Vt. 



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PERKINS, CHARLES EDGAR, lawyer, 
jurist, was born July 22, 1821, in Hart- 
land, Vt. In 1856 he settled in Galesville, 
Wis.; has been registrar of deeds for 
Trempealeau county, Wis., for six years; 
was clerk of the court for four years; 
county judge for seven years; county 
clerk for two years; has been town clerk 
of Galesville, Wis., and town clerk of 
Arcadia, Wis.; and justice of the peace in 
Galesville and Arcadia for fourteen years. 

PERKINS, CHARLES ELLIOTT, rail¬ 
road president, was born Nov. 24, 1840, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since 1881 he has 
been president of the Chicago, Burling¬ 
ton and Quincy railroad; and of the Bur¬ 
lington and Missouri River railroad in 
Nebraska. 

PERKINS, CHARLES HENRY, ma¬ 
chinist, inventor, was born Aug. 27, 1830, 
in Taunton, Mass. In 1867 he discovered 
an entirely new process for making 
horseshoes, and commenced their rnanu-* 
facture under the name of the Rhode 
Island Horseshoe company, Providence, 
R. I. 

PERKINS, EDWIN HAZEN. musician, 
composer, was born Sept. 28, 1840, in 
Stockbridge, Mass. He has been a suc¬ 
cessful teacher of singing in Vermont 
and Massachusetts, and is the author of 
several compositions. 

PERKINS, ELIAS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 5, 1767, in Nor¬ 
wich, Conn. He was a representative in 
congress from Connecticut from 1801 to 
1803. He was subsequently chosen judge 
of the court for the county of New Lon¬ 
don, which office he held until he became 
ineligible from his advanced years. He 
was mayor of the city of New London 
from 1829 to 1832. He died Sept. 27, 1845, 
in New London, Conn. 

PERKINS, ELIZA B., educator, minis¬ 
ter, was born May 17, 1849, in Indiana. 
For many years she was engaged in edu¬ 
cational work. She subsequently entered 
the ministry, and was the first woman 
of the congregational church ordained in 
Nebraska. Her whole time is now de¬ 
voted to ministerial work, and she fills 
with distinction a pastorate in Hastings, 
Neb. 

PERKINS, MRS. ELMIRA [JOHN¬ 
SON], missionary, poet, was born in 1814 
in Maine. She was a missionary among 
the Indians in Oregon. Her later life was 
passed in Boston. She was the author of 
Harp of the Willows, a volume of verse. 
She died in 1896. 

PERKINS, FREDERIC BEECHER, li¬ 
brarian, author, was born Sept. 27, 1828, 
in Hartford, Conn. He is a librarian; 
and the author of Scrope, or the Lost Li¬ 
brary, a novel; Devil Puzzlers, and Other 
Studies; My Three Conversations with 
Miss Chester; Life of Dickens; and Check 
List of American Local History. 

PERKINS. GEORGE CLEMENT, ban¬ 
ker, legislator, governor, United States 
senator, was born in 1839, in Kennebunk- 
port, Maine. At the 
age of twelve years 
he went to sea as a 
cabin boy; followed 
this calling and that 
of a sailor for sev 7 
eral years; and in 
1855 shipped before 
the mast on a sail¬ 
ing vessel bound for 
San Francisco, CaL 
He engaged in busi¬ 
ness at Oroville and 
was very successful; 
and subsequently engaged in banking, 
milling, mining, and the steamship busi¬ 
ness, in which he has been engaged dur¬ 


ing the past twenty-three years, operat¬ 
ing steamships on the coasts of Califor¬ 
nia, Oregon, Washington, British Colum¬ 
bia, Alaska and Mexico. In 1868 he was 
elected to the state senate, serving eight 
years. He has been president of the 
Merchants’ exchange in San Francisco. 
In 1879 he was elected governor of Cali¬ 
fornia, serving until January, 1883. He 
was appointed United States senator in 
1893 to fill, until the election of his suc¬ 
cessor, the vacancy caused by the death 
of Hon. Leland Stanford, and took his 
seat Aug. 8, 1893. He was re-elected in 
1897 for term ending in 1903. 

PERKINS, GEORGE D.. soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, state senator, congressman, was 
born Feb. 29, 1840, in Holly. N. Y. He 
moved to Sioux City, Iowa, in 1869, and 
has been editor of the Journal since. He 
was a member of the Iowa senate in 1874- 
76; and was appointed United States mar¬ 
shal for the northern district of Iowa. He 
was elected to the fifty-second, fifty- 
third and fifty-fourth congresses and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

PERKINS, GEORGE HAMILTON, na¬ 
val officer, was born Oct. 20, 1836, in Hop- 
kinton, N. H. He became lieutenant-com¬ 
mander in 1862. During 1865-66 he was 
superintendent of ironclads in New Or¬ 
leans, and became commander in 1871. He 
resides in Boston, Mass.: and his portrait 
hangs in the new library building of the 
New Hampshire state capitol. 

PERKINS, GEORGE HENRY, naturalist, 
author, was born Sept. 25, 1844, in East 
Cambridge, Mass. He is a naturalist, state 
entomologist of Vermont; and the author 
of The Injurious Insects of Vermont; 
and The Flora of Vermont. 

PERKINS, GEORGE ROBERTS, educa¬ 
tor, mathematician, author, was born 
May 3, 1812, in Otsego county, N. Y. He 
was an educator of New York state, who 
published Plane and Solid Geometry, and 
other mathematical text-books. He died 
Aug. 22, 1876, in Hartford, Conn. 

PERKINS, HENRY BISHOP, financier, 
state senator, was born March 1, 1824, in 
Warren, Ohio. He is best known as presi¬ 
dent of the First National bank of War¬ 
ren, vice-president of the Republic Iron 
company, and promoter of other indus¬ 
tries. In 1879 he was elected a member 
of the Ohio state senate, and was re-elect¬ 
ed in 1881. 

PERKINS, HENRY SOUTHWICK, mu¬ 
sician, was born March 20, 1833, in Stock- 
bridge, Vt. Since 1872 he has lived in Chi¬ 
cago, Ill., and in 1875-76 he visited Europe 
for study. He has conducted more than two 
hundred musical conventions and festi¬ 
vals in various parts of the United States, 
is known as a composer of vocal music, 
and has published a large number of mu¬ 
sic collections. 

PERKINS, JABEZ, physician, surgeon, 
legislator, was born Oct. 20, 1820, in De¬ 
fiance, Ohio. For ter years he practiced 
medicine in Spring- 
ville, Mich., and since 
1860 in Owosso. In 
1862 he took charge 
of a hospital in 
Nashville; became 
surgeon of Kentucky 
volunteers; and med¬ 
ical director of the 
second army corps, 
and subsequently of 
the cavalry corps, 
army of the Cumber¬ 
land. During 1858- 
59 he served with distinction as a repre¬ 
sentative in the Michigan state legisla¬ 
ture. 


PERKINS, JACOB, mechanician, inven¬ 
tor, was born July 9, 1766, in Newbury- 
port, Mass. Among his inventions is a 
machine for cutting and heading nails at 
a single operation. He was the origin¬ 
ator of using steel, instead of copper 
plates, for engraving banknotes. 

PERKINS, JAMES BRECK, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 4, 1847, in St. Croix 
Falls, Wis. He is a lawyer of Rochester, 
N. Y.; and the author of France Under 
Mazarin; France Under the Regency; and 
France Under Louis XV. 

PERKINS, JAMES HANDASYD, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born July 31, 1810, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman of Cincinnati, very active in 
the cause of prison discipline reform; and 
the author of Annals of the West. He died 
Dec. 14, 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

PERKINS, JARED, state legislator, 
congressman, was' born in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He held the position of state coun¬ 
cilor from 1846 to 1849; was a state rep¬ 
resentative in 1850; was a representative 
in congress from New Hampshire from 
1851 to 1853. He died Oct. 14, 1854, in 
Nashua, N. H. 

PERKINS, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 1, 1819, in Louis¬ 
iana. He was chosen a judge of the cir¬ 
cuit court of Louisiana; and held this po¬ 
sition until elected to congress in 1853, 
where he advocated democratic measures, 
and remained until 1855. 

PERKINS, JONATHAN COGSWELL, 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, author, was 
born Nov. 21, 1809, in Ipswich, Mass. He 
practiced successfully at Salem for thir¬ 
teen years, when he became judge of the 
court of common pleas of Massachusetts. 
He served in the state senate in 1846-48. 
He assisted in editing Digest of De¬ 
cisions of the Courts of Common Law and 
Admiralty. He died Dec. 12, 1877, in Sa¬ 
lem, Mass. 

PERKINS, JUSTIN, missionary, author, 
was born March 12, 1805, in West Spring- 
field, Mass. He was a congregational mis¬ 
sionary in Persia; and the author of Resi¬ 
dence of Eight Years in Persia; and Mis¬ 
sionary Life in Persia. He died Dec. 31, 
1869, in Chicopee, Mass. 

PERKINS, MAURICE, educator, author, 
was born March 14, 1836, in New Lon¬ 
don, Conn. He was a professor of chem¬ 
istry at Union college; and is the author 
of a Manual of Qualitative Analysis. 

PERKINS, NATHAN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor. was born May 14, 1749, in Lisbon, 
Conn. He was a minister of West Hart¬ 
ford Congregational church in 1772, where 
he remained till his death. He published 
Four Letters on the Anabaptists, a volume 
of sermons; and thirteen occasional ser¬ 
mons and discourses. He died Jan. 18, 
1838, in West Hartford. 

PERKINS, ORSON, singer, composer, 
was born Dec. 17, 1802, in Hartland, Vt. 
He was a successful singing class teacher 
for forty years, and a conspicuous choris¬ 
ter; and also a composer of church music. 
He died April 17, 1882. in Taftsville, Vt. 

PERKINS, SAMUEL, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1767 in New Lisbon, Conn. 
He was a lawyer of Windham, Conn.; and 
the author of History of the Late War be¬ 
tween the United States and Great Brit¬ 
ain (1825); General Jackson’s Conduct in 
the Seminole War; and Historical 
Sketches of the United States. He died 
in September, 1850, in Windham, Conn. 





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PERKINS, SAMUEL ELLIOTT, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 6, 1811, 
in Brattleborough, Vt. He was judge of 
the superior court of 
Marion county, Ind., 
in 1873-76, and in 
the latter year was 
again placed on the 
supreme bench, of 
which he was chief 
justice at his death. 
He was professor of 
law in the Northwes¬ 
tern Christian uni¬ 
versity, and editor 
and proprietor of 
The Jeffersonian, a 
democratic paper, and published Digest of 
the Decisions of the Supreme Court of In¬ 
diana. He died Dec. 17, 1879, in Indian¬ 
apolis, Ind. 


PERKINS, SARAH MARIA CLINTON, 
editor, lecturer, was born April 23, 1824, 
near Cooperstown, N. Y. Early in life 
she was engaged in educational work; 
and subsequently married a New England 
clergyman. For many years she was one 
of the national organizers of the 
Woman’s Christian Temperance union; 
has been district president, and filled 
various other positions in reform asso¬ 
ciations. She is a brilliant lecturer, and 
the editor of A True Republic, published 
in Cleveland, Ohio. 


PERKINS, SIMON, pioneer, was born 
Sept. 17, 1771, in Norwich, Conn. He 
was the first postmaster in the Western 
Reserve, at Warren, Ohio, and was in¬ 
trusted with the arrangement of other 
postoffices in that region. In 1807, at the 
vequest of the government, he established 
expresses through the Indian country to 
Detroit. He died Nov. 19, 1844, in War¬ 
ren, Ohio. 

PERKINS, WILLIAM OSCAR, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born May 23, 1831, 
in Stockbridge, Vt. He has taught voice 
and harmony for many years in New 
Y"ork city, and is the author of a large 
number of singing books. 


PERKINS, WILLIAM RUFUS, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1847 in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He was an educator and poet, and 
professor of history in the Iowa State 
university in 1887-95. He was the author 
of two careful historical monographs, 
History of the Trappist Abbey of New 
Melleray; and History of the Amana 
Society; and of Eleusis and Lesser Poems, 
a striking collection of musical medita¬ 
tive verse. He died in 1895. 


PERKINS, WILLIAM YOUNG, farmer, 
mine owner, legislator, was born March 8, 
1849, in Grayson county, Va. In 1866 he 
moved to Texas, and there served two 
years in the ranger service against the 
Comanche Indians. In 1877 he was a 
member of the famous Virginia state con¬ 
vention. In 1887 he moved to Idaho, 
where he is a successful farmer and miner 
at Soldier. In 1889 he was elected to the 
territorial legislature; to the Idaho state 
legislature in 1890-97; and took an import¬ 
ant part in the deliberations of that body. 
He has been a member of nearly every 
territorial and state convention in Idaho 
since 1888. 


PERLEY, IRA, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, was born Nov. 9, 1799, in 
Boxford, Mass. He was a member of the 
New Hampshire state legislature. He 
died Feb. 26, 1874, in Concord, N. H. 

PERLEY, SIDNEY, lawyer, author, was 
born March 6, 1858, in Boxford, Mass. 
He has written and compiled a number 
of works on a great variety of topics, 
.among which are the following: History 


of Boxford, Mass.; Goodridge Memorial; 
Poets of Essex County, Mass.; Historic 
Stories in New England; Principles of Law 
of Interest; and Mortuary Law. 

PEROT, THOMAS MORRIS, merchant, 
philanthropist, was born May 8, 1828, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He bore an active part 
in founding the Woman's Medical college 
in Philadelphia, the first institution of 
the kind in the world, and has been for 
many years its president. 

PERRILL, AUGUSTUS L„ congress¬ 
man, was born in Virginia. He was a 
representative in congress from Ohio from 
1845 to 1847. 

PERRIN, ABNER MONROE, soldier, 
was born in 1829 in Abbeville county, 
S. C. He entered the confederate army 
as captain of the fourteenth South Caro¬ 
lina \ olunteers, and was promoted colo¬ 
nel in 1863, and brigadier-general in 1864, 
with the command of an Alabama brig¬ 
ade. He died May 11, 1864, in Spottsyl- 
vania, Va. 

PERRIN, HENRY MARTIN, lawyer, 
financier, jurist, legislator, was born June 
Vt. He received his 
education at the 
Dartmouth college, 
and the Albany Law 
school. He was 
known in his adopt¬ 
ed state as the poor 
man’s friend. He was 
judge of probate, and 
served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of 
the Michigan state 
senate. He was a 
successful financier 
and real estate agent 
where he died, Jan. 7, 
1896; and at the time of his death he was 
one of the oldest and most highly respect¬ 
ed members of the Clinton county bar. 

PERRIN, RAYMOND S., author, was 
born in 18—. He was the author of The ' 
Student’s Dreams; and The Religion of 
Philosophy, or the Unification of Knowl¬ 
edge. 

PERRINE, WILLIAM HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born in 1827 
in New York. He was a methodist cler¬ 
gyman, professor for some years in Al¬ 
bion college, Mich.; and the author of 
The Principles of Church Government 
with Special Application to the Polity of 
Episcopal Methodism. He died in 1880. 

PERRY, AMOS, author, was born Aug. 
12, 1812, in South Natick, Mass. He is a 
Providence writer, who was superinten¬ 
dent of the state census in 1865; and is the 
author of Carthage and Tunis. 

PERRY, ARTHUR LATHAM, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 27, 1830, in Lyme, 

N. H. He is a professor of history and 
political economy at Williams college 
from 1853, and a prominent advocate of 
free trade. He is the author of Elements 
of Political Economy; Introduction to Po¬ 
litical Economy; Principles of Political 
Economy; and Origins of Williamstown. 

PERRY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, law¬ 
yer, governor, author, was born May 20, 
1805, in Pendleton district, S. C. He en¬ 
tered upon the practice of law in Green¬ 
ville, S. C.; and in 1835 was elected a 
state senator. After the close of the war 
he was elected governor of South Caro¬ 
lina. In 1870 he was elected United States 
senator, but was not permitted to take 
his seat; and in 1872 was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress, but was again 
refused admission to a congressional seat. 
He was the author of Reminiscences of 
Public Men; and Sketches of Eminent 
Statesmen. He died Dec. 3, 1886, near 
Greenville, S. C. 


23, 1830, in Berlin, 



of St. John’s, Mich., 


PERRY, BLISS, educator, author, was 
born Nov. 25, 1860, in Williamstown, 

Mass. He now holds a professorship in 
the Princeton university. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Plated City; Salem Kittredge, 
and Other Stories; and The Broughton 
House. He has edited Selections from 
Burke, and Scott’s Woodstock and Ivan- 
hoe. 

PERRY, CHARLES W., merchant, man¬ 
ufacturer, state legislator, was born Jan. 
9, 1845, in Ludlow, Vt. Since 1872 he has 
been a merchant and manufacturer of 
Pierport, Mich.; and since 1895 has served 
two terms as a member of the Michigan 
state legislature. 

PERRY, CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1848 in Wiscon¬ 
sin. She is a poet of Milwaukee; and 
the author of Carlotta Perry’s Poems. 

PERRY, EDWARD AYLESWORTH, 
soldier, lawyer, governor, was born March 
15, 1833, in Richmond, Mass. At the 
commencement of the civil war he en¬ 
tered the confederate service as captain; 
and was afterward commissioned as brig¬ 
adier-general. He was elected governor of 
Florida for the term of four years, from 
January, 1885. He died Oct. 15, 1S89. in 
Kerrville, Texas. 

PERRY, EDWARD DELEVAN, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1854 in New 
York. He is a professor of Sanskrit in 
Columbia college; and the author of Indra 
in the Rigveda; and A Sanskrit Primer. 

PERRY, ELI, banker, congressman, was 
born Dec. 25, 1799, in Cambridge, N. Y. 

od education, com¬ 
menced business as a 
dealer in provisions, 
and continued it for 
twenty-five years. He 
was elected aider- 
man and member of 
the assembly of the 
state. In 1851 he 
was elected mayor of 
Albany, which office 
he held twelve years. 
He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New 
York to the forty- 
second and forty-third congresses. He 
died May 17, 1864, in Albany, N. Y. 

PERRY, ELMER ARTHUR, educator, 
lawyer, legislator, was born March 31, 186l’ 
in Mt. Sterling, Ill. He was city attorney 
for Mt. Sterling, Ill., for three terms; 
and served as a member of the thirty- 
ninth and fortieth general assemblies of 
the Illinois state legislature.- 

PERRY, ENOCH WOOD, artist, was 
born July 31, 1831, in Boston, Mass. He 
exhibited first in the Academy of Design 
in 1858, was elected an associate in 1868, 
and academician in 1869. Among his 
genre pictures are The Weaver; Fire¬ 
side Stories; Lost Art; and Thanksgiv¬ 
ing Time. 

PERRY, JOHN J., lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, state senator, congressman, was 
born Aug. 2, 1811, in Portsmouth, N. H. 
He was elected to the Maine legislature in 
1839, 1842 and 1843; and was afterward, 
for seven years, major-general of the 
Maine militia. In 1846 and 1847 he was 
elected to the state senate; and was a 
representative in congress from 1855 to 
1857. He was elected a representative 
from Maine to the thirty-sixth congress. 

PERRY, MRS. LILLA CABOT, author. 
She published a volume entitled The 
Heart of the Weed. 

PERRY, MADISON S., governor. He 
was governor of Florida from 1857 to 
1861. 


He received a go 





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PERRY, MARY ALICE, author, was 
born in 1854 in Massachusetts. She is a 
writer of fiction; and the author of Es¬ 
ther Pennefathei; and More Ways Than 
One. She died in 1883. 

PERRY, MATTHEW CALBRAITH, na¬ 
val officer, was born about 1821. He was 
made a lieutenant in 1848, and served for 
several years on the coast survey. After 
various services he was placed on the re¬ 
tired list, receiving his commission as 
captain in 1867. He died Nov. 16, 1873, in 
New York city. 

PERRY, NEHEMIAH, manufacturer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
March 30, 1816, in Ridgefield, Conn. He 
was for many years the presiding member 
of the common council of Newark, N. J.; 
and served a number of years in the leg¬ 
islature of that state. He was elected a 
representative from New Jersey to the 
thirty-seventh congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-eighth congress. 

PERRY, NORA, author, poet, was born 
in 1741 in Massachusetts. Her poems in¬ 
clude After the Ball, and Other Poems; 
Her Lover’s Friend, and Other Poems; 
New Songs and Ballads; and Legends and 
Lyrics. She was the author of The Trag¬ 
edy of the Unexpected, and Other Stor¬ 
ies; For a Woman, a novel; The Young¬ 
est Miss Lorton, and Other Stories; A 
Book of Love Stories; A Rosebud Gar¬ 
den of Girls; A Flock of Girls and Their 
Friends; A Flock of Girls and Boys; An¬ 
other Flock of Girls; Three Little Daugh¬ 
ters of the Revolution; and Hope Ben- 
ham. She died in 1896. 



PERRY, OLIVER HAZARD, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Aug. 23, 1785, in South 

Kingston, R. I. Perry’s victory in the bat¬ 
tle of Lake Erie, 
Sept. 10, 1813, with 
his laconic dispatch 
to Gen. Harrison, We 
have met the enemy 
and they are ours, 
makes his name one 
to glitter on the page 
of American history. 
He was greatly hon¬ 
ored for what he ac- 
complished, the 
United States con¬ 
gress voting him 
thanks, a medal and the rank of captain. 
He died Aug. 23, 1819, on the Island of 
Trinidad. A granite obelisk was erected 
to his memory by the state of Rhode Is¬ 
land. 


PERRY, RUFUS LEWIS, clergyman, 
linguist, author, was born in 1833, in 
Tennessee. He was a baptist clergyman 
of African descent, widely known as a lin¬ 
guist. Among his various writings is The 
Cushite, or the Children of Ham as seen 
by Ancient Historians and Poets. He died 
in 1895. 

PERRY, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Maryland. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1845 to 1847; and was a circuit 
judge from 1851 to 1861, and from 1864 
to 1871. He died June 27, 1871, in Cum¬ 
berland, Md. 

PERRY, THOMAS SERGEANT, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Jan. 23, 1845, in 
Newport, R. I. He is an educator of Bos¬ 
ton; and the author of English Literature 
in the Eighteenth Century; Life of Lie- 
ber; From Opitz to Lessing, a Study of 
Pseudo-Classicism in Literature; The 
Evolution of the Snob; and History of 
Greek Literature. 


PERRY, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist. In 
1790 he was appointed an associate justice 
of the United States court for the terri¬ 
tory lying south of the Ohio river. 


PERRY, WILLIAM, manufacturer, sur¬ 
geon, physician, was born Dec. 20, 1788, 
in Norton, Mass. He discovered the true 
character of British gum, or charred po¬ 
tato starch, which was formerly used large¬ 
ly as sizing in cotton mills, and liable to 
heavy duty. He engaged in its manufac¬ 
ture at Exeter from 1828 till 1835. He 
died Jan. 11, 1887, in Exeter, N. H. 

PERRY, WILLIAM F., railroad presi¬ 
dent was horn Feb. 1, 1826, in Bridg- 
ton, Maine. Since 1882 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Bridgton and Saco River rail¬ 
road. 

PERRY, WILLIAM HAYNE, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born June 9, 1837, in Greenville, S. C. He 
entered the confederate army in 1861 and 
served throughout the war, being promot¬ 
ed to first lieutenant and adjutant. He was 
a representative in the South Carolina 
state legislature; and in 1868 was elected 
solicitor of the western circuit and served 
four years. In 1880 he was elected state 
senator and served four years. In 1884 
he was elected a representative from South 
Carolina to the forty-ninth congress; and 
was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty- 
first congresses as a democrat. 

PERRY, WILLIAM STEVENS, bishop, 
author, was born Jan. 22, 1832, in Rhode 
Island. He is the second protestant epis¬ 
copal bishop of Iowa; and prominent 
among high churchmen. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Documentary History of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church; The His¬ 
tory of the American Episcopal Church; 
Life Lessons from the Book of Proverbs; 
Some Summer Days Abroad; The General 
Ecclesiastical Constitution of the Ameri¬ 
can Church; and The American Episco¬ 
pate. 

PERSHING, DANIEL H., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born May 25, 1831, in Fayette 
county, Pa. Since 1881 he has been pres¬ 
ident of the Greenlick railway at Stauffer, 
Pa. 

PERSONS, HENRY, soldier, agricultur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born in 1834 in 
Monroe county, Ga. He devoted his atten¬ 
tion to agriculture; served in the confed¬ 
erate army as captain; and was elected 
a representative from Georgia to the for¬ 
ty-sixth congress as a democrat. 

PETER, GEORGE, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 
1779, in Georgetown, Md. He entered 
the United States army in 1799, and re¬ 
signed in 1809; and served as major of 
volunteers during the war of 1812. He was 
a representative in congress from Mary¬ 
land from 1816 to 1819, and again from 
1825 to 1827. He was twice elected to 
the state legislature, and also served the 
public as commissioner of public works 
for the state of Maryland. He died June 
22, 1861, in Montgomery county, Md. 

PETER, ROBERT, chemist, author, was 
born Jan. 21, 1805, in England. In 1832 
he delivered a course of chemical lec¬ 
tures at the Eclectic institute of Lexing¬ 
ton, Conn., where he filled the chair of 
chemistry. During the civil war he was a 
surgeon in charge of the United States 
general hospitals in Lexington. He is the 
author of A Digest of the Report of the 
Geological Surveys of Arkansas; and 
other geological works. 

PETER, SARAH, philanthropist, was 
born May 16, 1800, in Valley Mills, Ohio. 
She founded the School of Design for Wo¬ 
men in Philadelphia, which was opened 
in 1850, and bestowed her wealth on many 
charitable institutions. She established 
several sisterhoods in Cincinnati, and 
founded convents in Philadelphia. She 
died Feb. 6, 1877, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 


PETERKIN, GEORGE WILLIAM, bish¬ 
op of West Virginia, was born March 21, 
1841, in Washington county, Md. He was 
elected first bishop of West Virginia, and 
was consecrated in St. Matthew’s church. 
Wheeling, Va., on May 30, 1878. The 
bishop has published several occasional 
sermons and addresses. 

PETERS, ALICE E. HECKLER, edu¬ 
cator, poet, was born March 30, 1845, in 
Dayton, Ohio. For many years she taught 
private classes; has 
been a regular news¬ 
paper contributor; 
and a poet of rare 
genius. She has been 
the secretary of the 
Woman’s Foreign 
Missionary society; 
treasurer of the Ohio 
Methodist Episcopal 
Conference Home 
Missionary society; 
secretary of the Wo¬ 
man’s Relief corps; 
and an indefatigable 
worker in religious, reform and social 
work. 

PETERS, BERNARD, journalist, was 
born in October, 1827, in Germany. In 
1868 he bought a half interest in the 
Brooklyn Times; six years later came in 
control of the paper. 

PETERS, CHRISTIAN HENRY FRED¬ 
ERICK, astronomer, author, was born 
Sept. 19, 1813. He was a German astron¬ 
omer, director of the observatory at 
Hamilton college in 1858-90, and discover¬ 
ed o\ er forty asteroids. He was the au¬ 
thor of Celestial Charts. He died in 1890. 

PETERS, EDWARD DYER, metallur¬ 
gist, author, was born June 1, 1849, in 
Dorchester, Mass. He is a metallurgist 
who has published Modern American 
Methods of Copper Smelting. 

PETERS, GEORGE NATHANIEL HEN¬ 
RY, clergymap, author, was born Nov. 30, 
1825, in New Berlin, Pa. He is a lutheran 
minister of Ohio; and the author of The 
Theocratic Kingdom of Christ. 

PETERS, HUGH, poet, was born Jan. 
30, 1807, in Hebron, Conn. He wrote a 
series of humorous Yankee lyrics, which 
were printed in the New England Week¬ 
ly Review. His farewell to Connecticut, 
written on Long Island sound, and en¬ 
titled My Native Land, is considered his 
best poem. He died June 9, 1831, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. 

PETERS, JOHN A., lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1822, 
in Ellsworth, Maine. In 1862 and 1863 he 
was elected to the senate of Maine; in 
1864 was elected to the house of represen¬ 
tatives; and at the close of 1864 and also 
in 1865 and 1866 was elected by the legis¬ 
lature attorney-general of the state. He 
was elected a representative from Maine 
to the fortieth congress; was re-elected to 
the forty-first and forty-second congresses 
as a republican. 

PETERS, JOHN CHARLES, physician, 
author, was born July 6, 1819, in New 
York city. He was a physician of New 
York city of note as a bacteriologist; and 
the author of Diseases of the Brain and 
Nervous System; Diseases of Women; 
Diseases of the Eye; Notes on Asiatic 
Cholera; and A New Materia Medica. He 
died in 1893. 

PETERS, JOHN S., state legislator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1778 in Connecticut. 
He was several years in the state legis¬ 
lature; was lieutenant-governor from 1827 
to 1831; and was governor of Connecticut 
from 1831 to 1833. He died April 1, 1858, 
in Hebron, Conn. 









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PETERS, JOHN THOMPSON, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 11, 1765, in Hebron, 
Conn. In 1813 he was appointed collec¬ 
tor of revenue, and in 1818 was made 
judge of the state supreme court, which 
office he held for many years. He died 
Aug. 28, 1834, in Hartford, Conn. 

PETERS, MADISON C., clergyman, ora¬ 
tor, author, was born Nov. 6, 1859, in 
Lehigh county. Pa. At the age of twen¬ 
ty-three he filled the pastorate of one of 
the oldest presbyterian churches in Phila¬ 
delphia; and five years later was called 
to the Bloomingdale Reformed church of 
New York city, and his congregation is 
composed of twelve different denomina¬ 
tions. This popular preacher and bril¬ 
liant orator is the author of Sanctified 
Spice; Empty Pews; The Path of Glory; 
Popular Sins; Wrongs to be Righted: and 
several other works. 

PETERS, MASON SUMMERS, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 3, 1844, in 
Clay county, Mo. He moved in 1886 to 
Wyandotte county, Kas., where he now 
resides; and was elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a democrat-populist. 

PETERS, MATTHEW H„ soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, legislator, was born June 6. 
1843, in Rhenish, Bavaria. He was brought 
to this country when an infant, and has 
grown up thoroughly imbued with the 
spirit of American institutions. He served 
four years as a union soldier during the 
civil war; was twice severely wounded; 
rising from the rank of a private to the 
rank of major in his regiment—the sev¬ 
enty-fourth Ohio. He has served one 
term in the Illinois legislature, and was 
mayor of Watseka for four years. In 1872 
he founded the Iroquois County Times of 
Watseka, Ill.; and his poems have been 
given a place in Poets of America and 
other standard works. 

PETERS, MOSES A., clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, was born June 8, 1851, near Slat- 
ington, Pa. After receiving a liberal edu¬ 
cation he taught in 
the public schools. In 
1870 he was graduat¬ 
ed from the Classical 
Preparatory course, 
Kingston, Pa.; and 
four years later was 
graduated from Ursi- 
nus college. He then 
entered the Yale Di¬ 
vinity school, grad¬ 
uating therefrom in 
1877. During 1877- 
80 he served as pas¬ 
tor of St. John’s Reformed church of Ham¬ 
burg, Pa.; was a delegate to the Robert 
Raikes’ centenary, held in London in 
1880; and served as professor of natural 
science and languages in Galesville univer¬ 
sity, Wis., during 1881-87. He then studied 
abroad in Edinburgh and Berlin universi¬ 
ties. During 1888-93 he was professor of 
chemistry and natural history in Ursinus 
college; and since 1889 has occupied the 
chair of New Testament literature and exe¬ 
gesis. He has also taught the history of 
philosophy in the same institution. He 
has translated into English Rev. Otto 
Thelemann’s Commentary on the Heidel¬ 
berg Catechism. 

PETERS, MRS. PHILLIS [WHEAT- 
LEY], author, poet, was born in 1754 in 
Senegal. She was a verse writer of Af¬ 
rican birth brought to Boston in child¬ 
hood as a slave. Poems on Various Oc¬ 
casions, Religious and Moral, appeared in 
London in 1772, and won a fleeting popu¬ 
larity there, the author being regarded 
as a prodigy. She died in 1784. 

47 


PETERS, RICHARD, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, author, was born 
June 22, 1744, in Belmont, Pa. He was a 
delegate to the continental congress from 
1782 to 1783. He was judge of the district 
court of Pennsylvania which situation he 
occupied until his death. He was first 
president of the company who built the 
permanent bridge over the Schuylkill at 
Philadelphia; and in 1797 published his 
experiments in agriculture and improve¬ 
ments in American husbandry. He died 
Aug. 22, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PETERS, RICHARD, lawyer, author, 
was born in August, 1780, in Belmont, Pa. 
He succeeded Henry Wheaton as repor¬ 
ts 1 of the United States supreme court. He 
edited Chitty on Bills of Exchange; and 
Bushrod Washington’s Circuit Court Re¬ 
ports. He died May 2, 1848, in Belmont, 
Pa. 

PETERS, RICHARD, railroad president, 
was born Nov. 10, 1810, in Germantown, 
Pa. In 1870 he organized and became 
president of the Atlanta Street railway. 

PETERS, SAMUEL ANDREW, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1735 in Con¬ 
necticut. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man of Hartford who published a famous 
General History of Connecticut by a Gen¬ 
tleman of that Province, a curious satiri¬ 
cal production, to which may be traced 
the well known fable of the Connecticut 
Blue Laws. Other works of his include 
a Life of Rev. Hugh Peters; and History 
of Hebron, Connecticut. He died in 1826. 

PETERS, SAMUEL RITTER, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, 
was born Aug. 16, 1842, in Pickaway coun¬ 
ty, Ohio. He moved to Kansas in 1873, 
and engaged in the practice of law at 
Marion Centre. He was elected state sen¬ 
ator in 1874; in 1875 was appointed judge 
of the ninth judicial district; and in the 
succeeding November was elected to the 
same position, and was re-elected in 1879. 
He moved to Newton in 1876; was elected 
a representative from Kansas to the for¬ 
ty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to 
the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

PETERS, WILLIAM CUMMING, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born March 10, 1805, 
in England. He compiled numerous col¬ 
lections of music, including The Catholic 
Harmonist; and Catholic Harp; and sys¬ 
tems of instruction for the voice and dif¬ 
ferent instruments, among them the Eclec¬ 
tic Piano Instructor. He died April 20, 
1866, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

PETERSEN, ERASMUS SMITH, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Dec. 24, 1863, in 
Norway. He is a successful lawyer of 
Park River, N. D.; has been county judge; 
and takes an active part in political af¬ 
fairs. 

PETERSILEA, CARLYLE, musician, 
was born Jan. 14, 1844, in Boston, Mass. 
Since 1886 he has taught in the New Eng¬ 
land Conservatory of Music. He is the au¬ 
thor of an original piano system; and has 
also invented a mute piano for practice. 

PETERSON, ARTHUR, naval officer, 
poet, was born Sept. 20, 1851, in Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa. He is a naval officer who 
has published Songs of New Sweden. 

PETERSON, CHARLES JACOBS, pub¬ 
lisher, author, was born July 20, 1819, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia 
publisher and novelist, and the founder of 
Peterson’s Magazine. He was the author 
of Kate Aylesford; Cruising in the Last 
War; Military Heroes of the United 
States; Grace Dudley, or Arnold at Sara¬ 
toga; Mabel, or Darkness and Dawn; and 
The Old Stone Mansion. He died March 
4, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. 



BIOGRAPHY. 737 

PETERSON, FREDERICK, physician, 
poet, was born in 1859 in Minnesota. He 
is a physician and poet; and the author 
of Poems and Swedish Translations; and 
In the Shade of Ygdrasil. 

PETERSON, HENRY, journalist, poet 
was born Dec. 7, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was a Philadelphia poet, and editor 
for many years of The Saturday Evening 
Post. He was the author of The Modern 
Job, and Other Poems; Faire-Mount; Bes¬ 
sie s Lovers; and Caesar, a Dramatic 
Study. He died in 1891. 

PETERSON, ROBERT EVANS, author, 
was born Nov. 12, 1812, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a Philadelphia writer whose 
principal work is The Roman Catholic 
not the Only True Religion. He died in 
1894. 

PE.TERSON, SARAH WEBB, journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born Nov. 9, 1829, in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. She edited The Lady’s 
Friend for ten years; and has written sev¬ 
eral poems. 

PETERSON, THEODORE, clergyman 
was born July 4, 1873, in Sweden. He 
giaduated from the Theological seminary 
and the Northwestern university of Ev¬ 
anston, Ill., and is now a successful cler¬ 
gyman of Braddock, Pa. 

PETERSON, THEOPHILUS BEASLEY, 
publisher, was born Feb. 14, 1821, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. His first publication was is¬ 
sued in 1846, being a reprint of Lady 
Charlotte Bury’s novel The Divorced. In 
1858 he admitted his brothers, George W. 
and Thomas, into partnership, under the 
firm name of T. B. Peterson and Brothers. 
His firm has also made a specialty of pub¬ 
lishing cook-books. 

PETRIE, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1847 
to 1849. 

PETRIKEN, DAVID, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1837 to 1841. He died Jan. 3, 1849. 

PETTEE, OTIS, inventor, railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born March 5, 1795, in Foxbor- 
ough, Mass. He made several inventions 
in cotton machinery, notably in roving 
frames or double speeders, by introduc¬ 
ing a geared cone, with gears arranged in 
a hyperbolic series. In 1848 he became 
president of the Charles River railroad, 
which place he filled until his death. He 
died Feb. 12, 1853, in Newton Upper Falls, 
Mass. 

PETTEE, WILLIAM HENRY, mining 
engineer, educator, was born Jan. 13, 
1838, in Newton Upper Falls, Mass. In 1875 
he was called to the university of Michi¬ 
gan, where he has since remained, and 
now fills the chair of mineralogy, eco¬ 
nomic geology, and mining engineering. 

PETTEES, JOHN J., soldier, governor. 
He was governor of Mississippi from 1860 
to 1862; and* was a brigadier-general in 
the confederate service. He was killed 
July 20, 1864, in the battle of Peach 
Creek. 

PETTIBONE, AUGUSTUS H., soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 21, 
1835, in Bedford, Ohio. He commenced 
the practice of law in La Crosse, Wis.; 
served in the union army from 1861 to 
1865, rising to the rank of major. He set¬ 
tled in Tennessee; was elected attorney- 
general for the first judicial circuit; and 
was a presidential elector in 1868 and 
1876. He was assistant United States dis¬ 
trict attorney for several years; and was 
elected a representative from Tennessee to 
the forty-seventh, forty-eighth and forty- 
ninth congresses as a republican. 



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PETTIGREW, CHARLES, clergyman, 
was born in 1748 in Pennsylvania. In 
1790 he took some steps toward organiz¬ 
ing the episcopal church in North Caro¬ 
lina. In 1794 a convention was held in 
Tarboro, a constitution was framed and 
adopted, and Mr. Pettigrew was elected 
bishop. He died April 7, 1807, in Tyrrel 
county, N. C. 

PETTIGREW, EBENEZER, congress¬ 
man, was born March 10. 1783, near Eden- 
ton, N. C. He was a representative in 
congress from North Carolina from 1835 
to 1837. He died July 8, 1848, in Mag¬ 
nolia, N. C. 

PETTIGREW, RICHARD FRANKLIN, 
lawyer, congressman, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born in July, 1848, in Ludlow, 
Vt. He went to Dakota in 1869 in the 
employ of a United States deputy survey¬ 
or; located in Sioux Falls, where he en¬ 
gaged in the surveying and real estate 
business. He opened a law office in 1872, 
and has been in the practice of his profes¬ 
sion since. He was elected to the Dakota 
legislature as a member of the council in 
1877 and re-elected in 1879. He was elected 
t-o the forty-seventh congress as delegate 
from Dakota territory; and was elected to 
the territorial council of 1884-85. He was 
elected United States senator in 1889, and 
took his seat Dec. 2; was re-elected in 
1895. 

PETTINGILL, AMOS, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Aug. 9, 1780, in 
Salem, N. H. He was a methodist clergy¬ 
man and educator of Connecticut; and 
the author of View of the Heavens; and 
The Spirit of Methodism. He died Aug. 
17, 1830, in Salem Bridge, Conn. 

PETTINGILL, JOHN HANCOCK, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born May 11, 1815, in 
Manchester, Vt. He was a congregational 
clergyman in Ohio, widely known as an 
earnest believer in conditional immortal¬ 
ity. He was the author of The Theologi¬ 
cal Trilemma; Platonism versus Chris¬ 
tianity; Bible Terminology; Life Ever¬ 
lasting; The Unspeakable Gift; and Views 
and Reviews in Eschatology. He died Feb. 
27, 1887, in New Haven, Conn. 

PETTIS, S. NEWTON, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1828 in Ashta¬ 
bula county, Ohio. In 1861 he was ap¬ 
pointed a justice of the United States 
court for Colorado; before the close of 
that year he resigned, and came to Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was subsequently elected 
a representative from that state to the 
fortieth congress to fill a vacancy; and 
in 1878 he was appointed minister resident 
to Bolivia, remaining there until 1880. 

PETTIS, SPENCER, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1802 in Virginia. He 
was elected a representative in congress 
from Virginia, serving from 1829 to 1831. 
He died Aug. 26, 1831, in St. Louis. 

PETTIT, CHARLES, soldier, lawyer, 
merchant, state legislator, congressman, 
was born in 1736 near Amwell, N. J. He 
was in the continental congress from 1785 
to 1787; and an advocate for the adoption 
of the federal constitution in the general 
convention at Harrisburg. He died Sept. 4, 
1806, in Philadelphia. 

PETTIT, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
June 24, 1807, in Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y. 
He was a member of the Indiana state 
legislature; and United States district at¬ 
torney. He served in the house of repre¬ 
sentatives in congress from 1843 to 1847; 
and in the United States senate from 
1853 to 1855. He was a presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1852; and in 1859 was appointed 
chief justice of the federal courts of Kan¬ 
sas. He died Jan. 17, 1877, in Lafayette. 


PETTIT, JOHN U„ lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New York. He 
was appointed judge of the Upper Wabash 
circuit court of Indiana. He was elected 
to congress as a representative from that 
state in 1854; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. 

PETTIT, THOMAS McKEAN, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Dec. 26, 1797, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was city solicitor of 
Philadelphia in 1820, and shortly after¬ 
ward was deputy state attorney-general. 
He was in the legislature in 1830-31; asso¬ 
ciate judge of the district court in 1832- 
35; and its presiding judge for the next 
ten years, subsequently declining further 
service. In 1853 he became director of the 
United States mint, which post he held 
for a month before his death. He died 
May 30, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PETTUS. EDMUND WINSTON, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, 
was born July 6, 1821, in Limestone coun¬ 
ty, Ala. He was elected judge of the 
seventh circuit of Alabama in 1855, but 
resigned that office in 1858, and removed 
to Dallas county, where he now resides. 
In 1861 he went into the confederate army 
as major of the twentieth Alabama in¬ 
fantry; and in 1863 was made a brigadier- 
general of infantry, and served till the 
close of the war. He was elected by the 
legislature of Alabama United States sen¬ 
ator for the term commencing March 4, 
1897. 

PETZEL, ERNST AUGUST EDWARD, 
educator, lecturer, author, was born July 
12, 1866, in Koenigsberg, Prussia. At ; 

the age of sixteen he 
entered the univer¬ 
sity of Watertown, 
Wis.; and subse¬ 
quently studied in 
Berlin. After receiv¬ 
ing his degree of Ph. 
D., he returned to 
America, and has 
since held several 
honorable professor¬ 
ships in the leading 
institutions. In 1894 
he was called to the 
chair of philosophy and Teutonic langua¬ 
ges in the Augustana college of Canton, S. 
D. He has devoted much time to literary 
pursuits—in writing poetry, stories, scien¬ 
tific articles and translating from German 
into English, and English into German. 
He is a great student and a brilliant lec¬ 
turer. 

PEYTON, BAILIE, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 26, 1803, in Sum¬ 
ner county, Tenn. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Tennessee from 
1833 to 1837. In 1849 he was appointed 
minister to Chili; and was subsequently 
elected United States district attorney for 
Louisiana. In 1861 he was a presiden¬ 
tial elector for the state of Tennessee; 
and subsequently served in the confeder¬ 
ate army during the war of the rebellion. 
He died Aug. 19, 1878, in Gallatin, Tenn. 

PEYTON, EPHRAIM GEOFFREY, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, was born Oct. 
20, 1802, near Elizabethtown, Ky. He 
settled in Gallatin, Miss.; served one 
term in the legislature; and was appointed 
a judge of the state supreme court in 
1868; and was chief justice from 1870 till 
his retirement in 1875. He died Sept. 5, 
1876, in Jackson, Miss. 

PEYTON, JOHN LEWIS, lawyer, 
author, was born Sept. 15, 1824, in Staun¬ 
ton, Va. He is a lawyer of Staunton, Va., 
who served as an officer In the confeder¬ 
ate service. He is the author of Adven¬ 
tures of my Grandfather; History of Au¬ 


gusta County, Virginia: The American 
Crisis; Over the Alleghanies; and Me¬ 
morials of Nature and Art. 

PEYTON, JOHN ROWZE. soldier, was 
born Oct. 19, 1754, in Stony Hill, Va. He 
served through the civil war, winning 
the sobriquet of Hero Boy of ‘76. He died 
in 1798 in Stony Hill, Va. 

PEYTON, JOSEPH H., state senator, 
congressman, was born in 1813 in Sumner 
county, Tenn. He was frequently elected 
to the senate of Tennessee; and was a 
representative in congress from 1843 to 
1845. He died Nov. 12, 1845, in Sumner 
county, Tenn. 

PEYTON, ROBERT LUDWELL YATES, 
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1825 in Loudoun 
county, Va. In 1855 he was elected to 
the Missouri state senate; and in 1861 
was a member of the confederate senate. 
He died in 1863. 

PEYTON, SAMUEL O.. physician, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1804 
in Bullitt county, Ky. In 1835 he was elect¬ 
ed to the state legislature; was a repre¬ 
sentative in'congress from Kentucky from 
1847 to 1849; and was also elected to the 
thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. 
He died in January, 1870, in Hartford, 
Kv. 

PFEIFER, WILLIAM, farmer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born March 29, 1863, in 

Washington county, Wis. He is a 
successful farmer of Douglas county, S. 
D.; was elected justice of the peace in 
1894; and in 1896 was elected a represen¬ 
tative in the South Dakota state legisla¬ 
ture. 

PFEIFFER, CARL, architect, was born 
in 1834 in Germany. He established him¬ 
self as an architect in New York city in 
1864, and became eminent. Among the 
New York buildings that were designed 
or erected by him are the Church of the 
Messiah, the Roosevelt and City hospitals, 
the Berkshire apartment-house, and the 
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church. He 
died April 27, 1888, in Washington, D. C. 

PFRIMMER, WILL W., public official, 
lecturer, poet, was born Jan. 27, 1856, in 
Metropolis City, Ill. He was elected to 
the office of superintendent of schools in 
Metropolis City, Ill. He is a popular lec¬ 
turer before teachers’ institutes. He has 
published one volume of poems, Drift¬ 
wood, which found favorable reception. It 
is now in its second edition. 

PHALEN, FRANK LOWE, clergyman, 
lecturer, was born May 9, 1859, in Will- 
iamstown, N. Y. During 1896-98 he was 
chaplain of the New Hampshire legisla¬ 
ture; and has been secretary of the New 
Hampshire Unitarian association. 

PHELAN, JAMES, lawyer, journalist, 
congressman, author, was born Dec. 7, 
1856, in Aberdeen, Miss. He was a Mem¬ 
phis lawyer and journalist; and served as 
a representative in the fiftieth and fifty- 
first congresses as a democrat. He was 
the author of Philip Massinger and his 
Plays; and History of Tennessee. He died 
Jan. 30, 1891, in Bahama Islands. 

PHELAN, JOHN DENNIS, journalist, 
lawyer, jurist, educator, state legislator, 
was born March 23, 1809, in New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. J. He became editor of the Hunts¬ 
ville Democrat; was in the Alabama legis¬ 
lature in 1833-3-'• attorney general of the 
state in 1836; speaker of the house in 1839; 
and a judge of the circuit court in 1841-51. 
He was then elevated to the supreme 
bench, held office for two years, and again 
in 1863-65. He became professor of law in 
the university of the South in 1869, hold¬ 
ing the chair till his death. He died Sept. 
9, 1879, in Birmingham, Ala. 




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ENCYCLOPEDIA OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


PHELPS, ABNER, physician, author, 
was born Sept. 5, 1799, in Belchertown, 
Mass. He published the Crucifixion of 
Christ, Anatomically Considered. He died 
Feb. 4, 1873, in Boston, Mass. 

PHELPS, ALFRED C., soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Dec. 4, 1842, in Wood- 
ville, Miss. During the civil war h e served 
as first lieutenant of company I, ninety- 
third United States colored infantry, and 
in 1877 was elected a member of the state 
legislature of Colorado. For nearly a 
■quarter of a century he has been a mem¬ 
ber of the firm of Benedict and Phelps of 
Denver, Col., of which city he was city 
.attorney in 1877-78. 

PHELPS, MRS. ALMIRA (HART) 
(LINCOLN), educator, author, was horn 
July 15, 1793, in Berlin, Conn. She was 
a noted educator of Baltimore who pub¬ 
lished many text-books on the natural 
sciences. Among her works are. Geology 
for Beginners; Christian Households; Ida 
Norman, a tale; Familiar Lectures on 
Botany; and Hours with My Pupils. She 
.died July 15, 1884, in Baltimore, Md. 

PHELPS, AMOS AUGUSTUS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1805 in Farm¬ 
ington, Conn. He edited the Emancipa¬ 
tion, and was secretary of the American 
Anti-Slavery society for several years. 
He published Lectures on Slavery and 
Its Remedy; Book of the Sabbath; and 
Letters to Dr. Bacon and to Dr. Stowe 
He died Sept. 12, 1847, in Roxbury, Mass. 

PHELPS, AUSTIN, clergyman, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Jan. 7, 1820, in 
Brookfield, Mass. He was a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman of Andover, Mass., and 
professor of sacred rhetoric in the Theo¬ 
logical seminary there in 1848-79. He 
was the author of The Still Hour; The 
New Birth; The Theory of Preaching; 
English Style in Public Discourse; The 
Solitude of Christ; Studies of the Old 
Testament; Men and Books; My Study, 
and Other Essays; My Portfolio; and My 
Note-Book. He died Oct. 13, 1890, in Bar 
Harbor, Maine. 

PHELPS, CHARLES" EDWARD, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born May 1, 
1833, in Guilford, Vt. He was elected a 
representative from Maryland to the thir¬ 
ty-ninth congress, and was, subsequently, 
commissioned a brigadier-general for gal¬ 
lant conduct at the battle of Spottsylvan- 
ia. He was re-elected to the fortieth con¬ 
gress, and in 1864 was one of a commis¬ 
sion to revise the militia laws of Mary¬ 
land. 

PHELPS, DARWIN, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in East 
Granby, Conn. In 1855 he was elected to 
the Pennsylvania state legislature, and in 
1868 was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-first congress 
as a republican. 

PHELPS, DRYDEN WILLIAM, clergy¬ 
man, poet, was born in New Haven, Conn. 
He has filled pastorates in the baptist 
churches of Wilmington, Vt.; and is the 
author of a number of poems. 

PHELPS, EDWARD JOHN, lawyer, ed¬ 
ucator, public official, was born July 11, 
1822, in Middlebury, Vt. He was second 
■comptroller of the United States treasury 
from 1851 to 1853; was a member of the 
Vermont constitutional convention in 
1870; and was elected president of the 
American Bar association in 1880. He be¬ 
came professor of law in Yale college in 
1881, and in 1885 was appointed envoy 
extraordinary and minister plenipoten¬ 
tiary of the United States to Great Britain. 

PHELPS, ELISHA, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1779, 
in Simsbury, Conn. He was several times 
a member of the house of representatives 


and of the senate of his native state; 
and was speaker of the house of represent¬ 
atives in the legislature in 1821 and 1829. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Connecticut from 1819 to 1821, and also 
from 18^,5 to 1829. He was comptroller of 
the state from 1830 to 1834, and in 1835 
was appointed one of the commissioners 
Y? re vise the statutes of Connecticut. He 
died April 18, 1847, in Simsbury, Conn. 


PHELPS, MRS. ELIZABETH (STU¬ 
ART), author, was born Aug. 13, 1815, in 
Andover, Mass. She was a writer whose 
Sunnyside, and A Peep at Number Five 
stories descriptive of clerical life were 
once widely popular. She wrote, also 
Last Sheaf from Sunnyside, and a num¬ 
ber of Sunday-school tales, the latter over 

on®ior^ atu *' e H - Tri >sta. She died Nov. 
30, 1852, in Boston, Mass. 


PHELPS, GEORGE DWIGHT, philan¬ 
thropist, was born in 1803 in Simsbury, 
Conn. He was the first president of the 
New York Young Men’s society, which 
was founded in 1831, and was the pre¬ 
cursor of the Young Men’s Christian asso¬ 
ciation. He died Aug. 31, 1872, in New 
lork city. 


PHELPfa, GEORGE MAY, inventor 
was born March 19, 1820, in Watervliet,’ 
N. Y. His most valuable invention was 
the motor-printer, which is now in use 
on the lines of the Western Union Tele¬ 
graph company. He died May 18, 1888 in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 


PHELPS, GUY ROWLAND, capitalist, 
was born in April, 1802, in Simsbury, 
Conn. In 1846 lie founded the Connecti- 
cut Mutual Life Insurance company, and 
he was its president until his death. He 
was the author of that plan which permits 
the policy-holder to anticipate the pre¬ 
sumed surplus by an increased insurance 
from the beginning. He died March 18. 
1869, in Hartford, Conn. 

PHELPS, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 12, 
1822, in Colebrook, Conn. He was a 
member of the Connecticut state house of 
representatives in 1853-56, and of the state 
senate in 1858-59. He was elected a judge 
of the superior court of Connecticut in 
1863 for the term of eight years, and was 
re-elected for a similar term in 1871. He 
was elected a judge of the supreme court 
of errors of the state in 1873, and resigned 
in 1875 upon his election to the forty- 
fourth congress. He was a member of the 
forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses, and 
was re-elected to the forty-seventh con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 


PHELPS, JOHN SMITH, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, governor, born 
Dec. 28, 1814, in Simsbury, Conn. In 1840 he 
was chosen by the people of Greene coun¬ 
ty, Mo., to represent them in the legis¬ 
lature. Having been appointed brigade- 
inspector in 1841, he has since borne the 
title of major. In 1844 he was elected a 
representative to the twenty-ninth con¬ 
gress, serving in that position until the 
close of the thirty-sixth congress, and was 
a member of the select committee of thir¬ 
ty-three on the rebellious states. He was 
also re-elected to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress; served as colonel of volunteers in 
1861, and in 1862 he was appointed mili¬ 
tary governor of Arkansas. In 1876 he 
was elected governor of Missouri. He 
died Nov. 20, 1886, in St. Louis, Mo. 

PHELPS, JOHN WOLCOTT, soldier, 
author, poet, was born Nov. 13, 1813, in 
Guilford, Yt. He was a writer of Brattle- 
boro, Vt., who was an officer in the 
United States army in the Mexican war 
and became a brigadier-general of United 
States volunteers in the civil war. In 


1880 he was the presidential nominee of 
the American party. He was the author 
ot Sibylline Leaves; Good Behavior; His¬ 
tory of Madagascar; and The Fables of 
Florian in English Verse. He died Feb. 
2, 1885, in Guilford, Vt. 

PHELPS, LAUNCELOT, congressman, 
was born in Connecticut. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1835 to 1839. 

PHELPS. NOAH AMHERST, lawyer, 
state legislator, author, was born Oct 16 
1788, in Simsbury, Conn. He was a mem¬ 
ber of both houses of the Connecticut 
legislature for several terms, and secre¬ 
tary of state of Connecticut in 1843-44 
He published History of Simsbury, Gran¬ 
by, and Canton, Conn., from 1642 to 1645- 
and History of the Copper Mines and 
Newga te Prison at Granby. He died Aug. 
26, 1872, in Simsbury, Conn. 



the first land office in America at Canan- 
daigua, and his system became the model 
for all subsequent surveys. In 1795 he 
was one of the purchasers of the western 
reserve, m Ohio, comprising three million 
three hundred thousand acres; and after¬ 
wards removed to Canandaigua. He rep- 
n tliat district in congress from 
1803 to 1805, and was a judge of the cir¬ 
cuit court. He died Feb. 21, 1809 in 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 

PHELPS, SAMUEL SHETHAR, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born May 13, 1793, in Litchfield, 
Conn. He entered 
the American army, 
and before the close 
of his military career 
was appointed pay¬ 
master. He was a 
member of the coun¬ 
cil of censors, and 
wrote the address is¬ 
sued by that body. In 
1831 he was chosen 
a member of the leg¬ 
islative council of 
Vermont, and was 
soon afterward appointed judge of the su¬ 
preme court of the state, in which position 
he remained until 1838. He was a sena¬ 
tor in congress from 1839 to 1851, and in 
1853 was appointed to the senate to fill 
a vacancy. He died March 25, 1855 in 
Middlebury, Vt. 

PHELPS, SETH L., naval officer. He 
served throughout the war of the rebel¬ 
lion, rising to the rank of captain. In 
1865 he resigned his commission and en¬ 
tered the service of the Pacific Mail 
Steaniship company, and became vice- 
president of the company. He resigned in 
1878, to accept the appointment of com¬ 
missioner of the District of Columbia, and 
in 1883 was appointed envoy extraordi¬ 
nary and minister plenipotentiary of the 
United States to Peru. He died at his 
post shortly after entering upon the dis¬ 
charge of his duties. 

PHELPS, SYLVANUS DRYDEN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, poet, was born May 15, 
1816, in Suffield, Conn. He is a baptist 
clergyman of New Haven, and subsequent¬ 
ly of Hartford, and the author of Elo¬ 
quence of Nature, and Other Poems; 
Sunlight and Heartlight, and Other 
Poems; The Poet’s Song for Heart and 
Home; Bible Lands; and Sermons in the 
Four Quarters of the Globe. 

PHELPS, THOMAS STOWELL, naval 
officer, author, was born Nov. 2, 1822, in 
Buckfield, Maine. He was a rear-admiral 
in the United States navy who retired in 
1885. He is the author of Reminiscences 
of Washington Territory. 




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OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPH T. 


PHELPS, TIMOTHY G., congressman, 
was born in New York. He removed to 
California and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from that state to the thirty-seventh 
congress. 





PHELPS, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Feb. 15, 1822, in 
Auburn, N. Y. He received the rudiments 
of his education in 
the public schools, 
and at Auburn acad¬ 
emy, and the State 
Normal school of Al¬ 
bany. He has been 
president of the 
State Normal schools 
in New Jersey, Min¬ 
nesota, and Wiscon¬ 
sin for nearly a 
quarter of a century, 
and for four years 
was superintendent 
of public schools of Winona, Minn. In 
1875-76 he was president of the National 
Educational association, and in 1876 he 
was president of the first international 
congress of eaucators. He has been sec¬ 
retary of the Chambers of Commerce at 
St. Paul and Duluth for nearly five years, 
and for six years was secretary of the 
board of trade of Winona. He organized 
the movement in behalf of the Sault Ste. 
Marie canal enlargement, a deep water¬ 
way from the great lakes to the sea, in 
1877; was temporary chairman and per¬ 
manent secretary of the convention held 
at Sault Ste. Marie, which inaugurated 
that movement, and was on the special 
committee sent to Washington to secure 
the largest appropriation ever made up to 
that time for the canal enlargement. 


PHELPS, WILLIAM LYON, educator, 
author, was born in I 860 in Connecticut. 
He is an instructor at Yale university, 
and the author of The Beginnings of tne 
English Romantic Movement. 

PHELPS, WILLIAM W., journalist, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
June 1, 1826, in Oakland county, Mich. 
In 1852 and 1853 he held the office of com¬ 
missioner for his native county, perform¬ 
ing the duties of judge at chambers. In 
1854 he was appointed register of the 
United States land office at Red Wing, 
in Minnesota. In 1857 he was elected a 
representative from Minnesota to the 
thirty-fifth congress. In 1860 he assumed 
the editorship of the Red Wing Sentinel. 


PHELPS, WILLIAM WALTER, lawyer, 
banker, congressman, was born Aug. 24, 
1839, in New York city. He was elected 
from New York a representative to the 
forty-third congress, and was a delegate 
to the republican national convention of 
1880. He was appointed United States 
minister to Austria in 1881, and was elect¬ 
ed a representative from New Jersey to 
the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth 
congresses as a republican. 

PHELPS, WILLIAM WINES, journal¬ 
ist, state legislator, poet, was born Feb. 17, 
1792, in Hanover, N. J. He removed to 
Missouri, and established the first morn¬ 
ing paper at Independence, Mo., in 1832. 
He was in the Utah legislature in 1850-57, 
speaker of the house for several terms, 
and a justice of the peace. He wrote 
some of the most popular hymns in the 
Mormon hymn-book. He died March 7, 
1872, in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

PHIFER, CHARLES LINCOLN, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born July 16, 1860, in 
Fayette county. Ill. He is a successful 
journalist of California, Mo., and the au¬ 
thor of several pamphlets of verse; and 
a volume of poems entitled Annals of the 
Earth. 


PHILBRICK, EDWARD SOUTHWICK, 
sanitarian, author, was born in 1827 in 
Massachusetts. He was a sanitarian who 
published American Sanitary Engineer¬ 
ing. 

PHILBRICK, EDWARD WHITE, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, was born April 4, 1861, in 
Jefferson, Maine. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools of Maine, Kent’s 
Hill seminary, and the university of Mich¬ 
igan. He has been superintendent of 
schools in Somerville, Maine, and is now 
an able lawyer of Boston, Mass. 

PHILBRICK, JOHN DUDLEY, educat¬ 
or, author, was born May 27, 1818, in 
Deerfield, N. H. He was a prominent ed¬ 
ucator of Boston who published nearly 
fifty valuable public school reports, and 
Cicv School Systems in the United States. 
He* died Feb. 2, 1886, in Danvers, Mass. 

PHILBROOK, H. B., lawyer, author. He 
is a successful lawyer of New York city; 
has lectured extensively throughout the 
United States, and is the author of Elec¬ 
tricity in Nature; Marriage; Astronomy; 
and various other works. 

PHILES, GEORGE PHILIP, bibliogra¬ 
pher, was born April 15, 1828, in Ithaca, 
N. Y. He has contributed to literary 
journals under the pen-name of Paulus 
Silentiarius; edited The Philobiblion; and 
assisted in preparing the Bibliotheca 
Americana Vetustissima, compiled by 
Henry Harrisse (1866). He has also is¬ 
sued The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of 
Kreeshna and Arjoon. 

PHILIPS, GEORGE MORRIS, educator, 
author, was born Oct. 28, 1851, in Atglen. 
Pa. Since 1881 he has been principal of 
the West Chester State Normal school, 
and was offered the presidency of 
Bucknell university in 1888, and in 1890 
was tendered the superintendency of pub¬ 
lic instruction of Pennsylvania by Gov¬ 
ernor Beaver. He is the author of val¬ 
uable published papers on Astronomy, 
Natural Philosophy, Civil Government; 
and Geography of Pennsylvania. 

PHILIPS, JOHN FINIS, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Dec. 31, 1834, 
in Boone county, Mo. He served the 
government as colonel of a regiment of 
cavalry throughout the civil war, a part of 
the time was brigade-commander, and 
was promoted to brigadier-general. In 
1874 he was elected a representative from 
Missouri to the forty-fourth congress, and 
was elected to the forty-sixth congress 
to fill a vacancy. He is now United States 
district judge at Kansas City, Mo. 

PHILIPS, SAMUEL, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 14,1823, near 
Hagerstown, Md. He is a German re¬ 
formed clergyman, professor in Muhlen¬ 
berg college, Allentown, Pa., from 1866, 
and the author of Gethsemane and the 
Cross; The Christian Home; The Voice of 
Blood; and The Communion of Saints. 

PHILLIPS, A. S., educator, journalist, 
was born Jan. 8 , 1858, in Barnesville, Ohio. 
He received his education in the State 
Normal school of Ohio, and the Kansas 
seminary. For ten years he was engaged 
in educational work, and is now editor 
and owner of The Sentinel of Junction 
City, Kan. 

PHILLIPS, ALBERT MERRITT, civil 
engineer, genealogist, was born Oct. 9, 
1843, in Charlton, Mass. In 1885 he pub¬ 
lished a history of the Phillips family. 
He is a prominent surveyor and convey¬ 
ancer of Auburn, Mass., where he has held 
many public offices of trust. 

PHILLIPS, ARTHUR CLINTON, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, was born Sept. 16, 1859, 
in Phillips, Maine. During 1877-81 he was 
deputy United States consul at Fort Erie, 
Canada. During 1881-88 he was editor of 


the Sioux Falls Daily Press, Daily Argus- 
Leader, Daily Tribune and Daily Leader, 
and in 1892 was editor and proprietor of 
the Sioux Falls Daily Gazette, S. D. He 
is now one of the leading lawyers of the 
northwest, and is also very prominent in 
various fraternal orders. 

PHILLIPS, BARNET, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 9, 1828, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is a journalist of New York 
city, on the staff of The Times from 1872, 
and the author of The Struggle, a novel; 
and Burning Their Ships. 

PHILLIPS, DAVID, journalist, politi¬ 
cian, was born Feb. 4, 1872, in Lockport, 
Ill. He learned the printer’s trade; was 
proof-reader and telegraph editor on the 
Duluth Tribune, and is now the editor and 
owner of The Tribune of Mazeppa, Minn. 
He is also prominent in the political af¬ 
fairs of his county and state. 

PHILLIPS, DUDLEY B., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Aug. 1, 1860, in Clayton, 
Ohio. He is a prominent lawyer of Man¬ 
chester, Ohio, of which city he served as 
mayor for six years, and for four years 
was a state senator from the seventh dis¬ 
trict of Ohio. 

PHILLIPS, FRANKLIN F„ A. M., edu¬ 
cator, scientist, poet, was born Dec. 21, 
1852, in Searsmont, Maine. He gradu¬ 
ated from Nichols’ 
Latin school of Lew¬ 
iston, Maine, in 
1873; and from 
Bates’ college with 
high honors in 1877. 
After leaving col¬ 
lege he was engaged 
in educational work 
for six years, five 
years as principal of 
the Rockland High 
school. In 1880 he 
was commissioned 
state assayer of Maine, and served in that 
capacity for three years. Since 1883 he 
has been engaged in a very successful 
business which allows him to gratify his 
taste for scientific investigation. He is 
by nature a poet; has written an amount 
of spirited and graceful poetry, some of 
which has been given a place in Poets 
of America and other standard works. 

PHILLIPS, GEORGE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1593 in England. He 
was a puritan clergyman, minister at 
Watertown, Mass., from 1630 till his 
death; and published a treatise on Infant 
Baptism. He died July 1, 1644, in Water- 
town, Mass. 

PHILLIPS, GEORGE SEARLE, lectu¬ 
rer, author, was born in 1818 in England. 
He was a writer and lecturer of York¬ 
shire, England, who, after some years of 
literary work in the United States, be¬ 
came, in 1873, an inmate of an insane asy¬ 
lum in New Jersey. He was the author 
of Chapters in the History of a Life; Life 
of Ebenezer Elliott; Memoirs of Words¬ 
worth; The Gypsies of the Dane’s Dyke; 
and Chicago and Her Churches. He died 
in 1889. 

PHILLIPS, HENRY, lawyer, author, 
was born Sept. 6 , 1838, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is a lawyer of Philadelphia, and 
the author of History of American Col¬ 
onial Paper Currency; History of Ameri¬ 
can Continental Paper Money; Pleasures 
of Numismatic Science; Poems from the 
Spanish and German; and Faust, from the 
German of Chamisso. 

PHILLIPS, HENRY M., congressman, 
was born June 30, 1811, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the thirty-fifth congress. 
He died Aug. 3, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa. 






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PHILLIPS, JAMES, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, was bom April 22, 1792, in Eng¬ 
land. In 1826 he became professor of 
mathematics in the university of North 
Carolina, where he remained till his death. 
He projected a complete course of math¬ 
ematical studies, and prepared treatises 
on algebra, geometry, trigonometry and 
kindred subjects. He died March 16, 1867, 
in Chapel Hill, N. C. 

PHILLIPS, JOHN, benefactor, was born 
Dec. 6, 1719, in Andover, Mass. \» ith his 
brother he founded Phillips Andover 
academy, April 21, 1778, giving to it $31,- 
000, besides a third interest in his estate, 
and in 1781 he founded Phillips Exeter 
academy, and endowed it with $134,000. 
He died April 21, 1795, in Exeter, N. H. 

PHILLIPS, JOHN, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, was born Nov. 26, 1770, in Boston, 
Mass. He was sent to the Massachusetts 
senate in 1804, and continued member of 
that body until his death, serving as pre¬ 
siding officer in 1813-23. He was elected 
first mayor of Boston in 1822. He died 
May 23, 1823, in Boston, Mass. 

PHILLIPS, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Chester county. Pa. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1821 to 1823. 

PHILLIPS, JOHN, physician, state sen¬ 
ator, was bom Nov. 4, 1823, in Richmond, 
Vt. Since 1848 he has been a physician 
of Stevens Point, Wis. He was a member 
of the Wisconsin state assembly in 1860- 
64, and was pension examiner during 
1863-85. He was regent of normal schools 
during 1876-91; and treasurer and presi¬ 
dent of the Stevens Point board of edu¬ 
cation during 1876-81. 

PHILLIPS, MAUDE GILLETTE, educa¬ 
tor, author, was bom in 1860, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. She is an educator who has 
published A Popular Manual of English 
Literature. 

PHILLIPS, MILTON C., lawyer, was 
born July 25, 1856, in Royalton, Wis. 
He received the rudiments of his educa¬ 
tion in the common schools, and subse¬ 
quently attended Oberlin college, Ohio. He 
is one of the foremost lawyers of Wiscon¬ 
sin at Oshkosh; and has served with dis¬ 
tinction as United States district attor¬ 
ney for the eastern district of Wisconsin. 

PHILLIPS, PHILIP, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Dec. 13, 
1807, in Charleston, S. C. In 1834 he 
was elected for two years to the South 
Carolina state legislature. In 1837 he was 
elected president of the Alabama demo¬ 
cratic state convention, and in 1844 was 
elected to the legislature. In 1851 he was 
again elected to the legislature. He was a 
representative in congress from Alabama, 
from 1853 to 1855, and declined a re-elec¬ 
tion. He died Jan. 14, 1884, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

PHILLIPS, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 17, 1690, in Salem, 
Mass. He was ordained minister of the 
south parish of Andover in 1711, which 
relationship lasted during his lifetime. He 
published an Elegy; and numerous relig¬ 
ious treatises and occasional sermons. 
He died June 5, 1771, in Andover, Mass. 

PHILLIPS, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was bom Feb. 
7, 1751, in North Andover, Mass. He 
was a member of the provincial congress, 
and of the constitutional convention of 
1779, for twenty years a state senator, and 
for fifteen years its president. He was a 
judge of the court of common pleas in 
1781-98, a commissioner of the state in 
Shays's insurrection, and was lieutenant- 
governor of Massachusetts at the time of 
his death. He died Feb. 10, 1802, in North 
Andover, Mass. 


PHILLIPS, STEPHEN CLARENDON, 
merchant, state senator, congressman, 
was born Nov. 1, 1801, in Salem, Mass. 
He was chosen a representative in the 
Massachusetts state legislature; from 1830 
to 1831 was state senator, and in 1832 
and 1833 was again a member of the 
house. From 1834 to 1838 he represented 
Massachusetts in congress. He died June 
26, 1857, at sea. 

PHILLIPS, THOMAS W., public official, 
congressman, was born Feb. 23, 1835, in 
Beaver county. Pa. When the Producers’ 
Protective association was formed in 
1887, he was elected president of the asso¬ 
ciation without opposition, and continued 
to serve in that capacity for three years. 
He is president of the Citizens’ National 
bank of New Castle, Pa., and president of 
the electric street railway of the same 
place. He was elected to the fifty-third 
and re-elected to the fifty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

PHILLIPS, WENDELL, orator, author, 
was born Nov. 29, 1811, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a celebrated orator of Boston, a 
vehement opponent 
of slavery, and an 
active champion of 
labor reform and wo¬ 
man suffrage. He 
was the author of 
The Constitution a 
Pro-Slavery Con¬ 
tract; Lectures, Ora¬ 
tions and Letters to 
1861; Speeches, Lec¬ 
tures and Addresses; 
and The Scholar in a 
Republic. He died 
Feb. 2, 1884, in Boston, Mass. 

PHILLIPS, WILLARD, lawyer, author, 
was born Dec. 19, 1784, in Bridgewater, 
Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston, and the 
author of Treatise on the Law of Insur¬ 
ance; Manual of Political Economy; The 
Law of Patents; The Inventor’s Guide; 
and Protection and Free Trade. He died 
Sept. 9, 1873, in Cambridge, Mass. 

PHILLIPS, WILLIAM A., soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 14, 1826, in Scotland. 
He went to Kansas as a writer for the 
New York Tribune. He entered the army 
as major in 1861, and commanded an In¬ 
dian regiment during the war in the west. 
He was a member of the state legislature 
of Kansas. He was elected to the forty- 
third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

PHILLIPSE, FREDERICK, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born in 1626 in Holland. In 
1699 he erected at his own expense, op¬ 
posite Castle Phillipse, a substantial 
church, which is now the oldest relig¬ 
ious edifice in the state of New York. He 
was a member of the governor’s council 
for more than twenty years. He died 
Dec. 23, 1702, in New York city. 

PHILSON, ROBERT, governor, was 
born in Ireland. He was a representative 
in congress from Pennsylvania from 1819 
to 1821. 

PHIN, JOHN, journalist, author, was 
born Sept. 9, 1832, in Scotland. He is a 
New York publisher of technical journals, 
and the author of Open-Air Grape Cul¬ 
ture; Chemical History of the Creation; 
Practical Treatise on Lightning Rods; 
How to Use the Microscope; Workshop 
Companion; Preparation and Use of Ce¬ 
ments and Glue; Dictionary of Practical 
Agriculture; Trade Secrets and Private 
Recipes; and A Pocket Dictionary of Mon¬ 
etary and Coinage Terms. 

PHINIZY', CHARLES H„ railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Jan. 16, 1835, in Augusta, 
Ga. From 1882-87 he was president of 
the Augusta cotton factory, and in 1888 


became president of the Atlanta and West 
Point railroad, and of the Western rail¬ 
road of Atlanta. 

PHINNEY, EDWIN R., manufacturer, 
state legislator, was born Aug. 3, 1846, in 
Bangor, Maine. In 1883 he served with 
distinction as a representative in the 
Michigan state legislature. He is now 
president of the Cleveland Shingle com¬ 
pany of Cleveland, Ohio. 

PHIPPS, WILLIAM, governor, was 
born Feb. 2, 1651, in Maine. He served in 
the colonial army against the French in 
1690, and in 1692 became the first royal 
governor of Massachusetts. He died Feb. 
18, 1695, in London, England. 

PHISTER, ELIJAH CONNER, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 8, 1822, in Maysville, Ky. He 
was mayor of Maysville in 1847 and 1848, 
and was elected circuit judge in 1856 and 
served six years. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the state legislature from 1867 
to 1871, and was elected a representative 
from Kentucky to the forty-sixth and 
forty-seventh congresses as a democrat. 

PHCENIX, J. PHILLIPS, state legislat¬ 
or, congressman, was born in Morristown, 
N. J. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1843 to 1845, 
and was a member of the state assembly 
in 1848 from New York city. He was 
again in congress from 1849 to 1851. He 
died May 4, 1859, in New York. 

PHCENIX, STEPHEN WHITNEY", ben¬ 
efactor, author, was born May 25, 1839, 
in New Y"ork city. He left his books relat¬ 
ing to heraldry and genealogy to the New 
York Historical society, together with a 
legacy of $15,000, the income of which is 
to be invested in books on kindred sub¬ 
jects. His curiosities, works of art, pic¬ 
tures, and coins, to the Metropolitan Mu¬ 
seum of Art; and his general library of 
books, to be known as The Phcenix Col¬ 
lection, to Columbia, with $500,000 for 
technical use, eventually, in the school of 
mines. He died Nov. 3, 1881, in New 
Y'ork city. 

PHY"FE, WILLIAM HENRY" PINKNEY, 
author, was born in 1855 in New York. 
He is an author of New Y"ork city, and 
has written How Should I Pronounce? 
The School Pronouncer; Seven Thousand 
Words Often Mispronounced; The Test 
Pronouncer; and Five Thousand Words 
Commonly Misspelled. 

PHYSICK, PHILIP SY"NG, surgeon, was 
born July 7, 1768, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was a student of the celebrated John Hun¬ 
ter, and distin¬ 
guished himself by 
his faithful attention 
to his professional 
duties during the 
frightful mortality 
caused by the yellow 
fever in Philadel¬ 
phia, 1793, when not 
only citizens, but 
even physicians, fled 
from the city. In 
1825 he was elected 
a member of the 
French Royal Academy of Medicine, and 
is said to be the first American who re¬ 
ceived this honor. He died Dec. 15, 1837, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PIATT, DONN, soldier, lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born June 29, 1819, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a lawyer and 
journalist of Washington, and during the 
civil war a federal officer. He was the 
author of Sunday Meditations; Memories 
of the Men Who Saved the Union; Poems 
and Plays; Life of General George H. 
Thomas; and The Lone Grave of the 
Shenandoah. He died in 1891. 









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PIATT, JOHN JAMES, poet, was born 
March 1, 1835, in James Mills (now Mil- 
ton), Ind. He is a poet who was consul 
at Cork in 1882-93. He has been a pro¬ 
lific writer of verse, but The Morning 
Street, one of his earlier poems, still 
ranks as his finest effort. He is the au¬ 
thor of Landmarks; Western Windows; 
Poems of House and Home; Idyls and 
Lyrics of the Ohio Valley; Poems in 
Sunshine and Firelight; The Lost Farm, 
and Other Poems; At the Holy Well; A 
Dream of Church Windows (a revised edi¬ 
tion of Poems of House and Home); The 
Lost Hunting Ground; and Little New 
World Idyls. His prose is included in 
Penciled Fly-Leaves; and A Return to 
Paradise. 

PIATT, LOUISE KIRBY, author, was 
born Nov. 25, 1826, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
She accompanied her husband to Europe 
when he was appointed secretary of le¬ 
gation, and contributea letters to the 
Home Journal, which were afterward pub¬ 
lished in book-form as Bell Smith Abroad. 
She died Oct. 2, 1864. 

PIATT, MRS. SARAH MORGAN (BRY¬ 
AN), poet, was born Aug. 11, 1836, in 
Lexington, Ky. She is a noted poet, and 
is the author of A Woman’s Poems; A 
Voyage to the Fortunate Isles, and Other 
Poems; That New World, and Other 
Poems; Dramatic Persons and Moods; 
An Irish Garland; In Primrose Time; The 
Witch in the Glass; Complete Poems 
(1894); An Enchanted Castle; and Child’s 
World Ballads. 

PICARD, GEORGE HENRY, lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 3, 1850, in Baldwin, 
Ohio. He is a physician and novelist of 
New York city, and the author of A Mat¬ 
ter of Taste; A Mission Flower; and Old 
Boniface. 

PICK, BERNHARD, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 19, 1842, in Prussia. He 
is a lutheran clergyman of Pennsylvania, 
prior to 1884 a presbyterian minister; and 
the author of Luther as a Hymnist; His¬ 
torical Sketch of the Jews; Life of Christ 
according to Extra Canonical Sources; In¬ 
dex to the Ante-Nicene Fathers; and The 
Talmud: What It Is. 

PICKARD, JOSEPH COFFIN, educator, 
was born in September, 1826, in Auburn. 
In 1873 he became professor of the Eng¬ 
lish language and literature in the Indus¬ 
trial university at Urbana, Ill. 

PICKARD, SAMUEL THOMAS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1828 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a writer who for many 
years edited the Portland (Maine) Tran¬ 
script. He is the author of Life and Let¬ 
ters of John Greenleaf Whittier. 

PICKENS, ANDREW J., soldier, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 19, 
1739, in Paxton, Pa. He was a member of 
the Pennsylvania state legislature from 
the close of the war until 1793, when he 
was elected a representative in congress 
from 1793 to 1795. In 1795 he was com¬ 
missioned major-general of the South Car¬ 
olina militia, and was frequently a com¬ 
missioner to treat with the Indians. He 
died Aug. 17, 1817, in Pendleton district, 
S. C. 

PICKENS, FRANCIS WILKINSON, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, was born April 7, 1805, in Toga- 
doo, S. C. In 1832 he was a member of 
the South Carolina state legislature, and 
took part in the nullification excitement. 
He was a representative in congress from 
1835 to 1845. In 1844 he was elected to 
the state senate, and was minister to Rus¬ 
sia from 1857 to 1860. When South Caroljna 
seceded from the Union he was chosen 
governor of the state. He died Jan. Ho, 
1869, in Edgefield, S. C. 


PICKENS, ISRAEL, state legislator, 
congressman, United States senator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Jan. 30, 1780, in Mecklen¬ 
burg county (now Cabarrus), N. C. He 
served one year in the North Carolina 
state legislature. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1811 
to 1817, in which year he was appointed 
register of the land office of Mississippi 
territory. On removing to Alabama he 
was elected governor of that state in 1821, 
and in 1826 was a senator in congress 
from Alabama. He died April 24, 1827, 
in Cabarrus, N. C. 

PICKENS, RUPERT T., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born April 4, 1860, in Bun¬ 
combe county, N. C. He has been mayor 
of Ellijay, Ga., and during 1891-96 was 
mayor of Lexington, N. C., in which city 
he is a prominent lawyer. He has served 
as a representative in the North Carolina 
state legislature, and takes an active part 
in the public affairs of his state. 

PICKERING, CHARLES, naturalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 10, 1805, in Susque¬ 
hanna county, Pa. He was a naturalist of 
eminence, and the author of Races of 
Men and Their Geographical Distribution; 
Geographical Distribution of Animals and 
Men; and Chronological History of Plants. 
He died March 17, 1878, in Boston, Mass. 

PICKERING, EDWARD CHARLES, au¬ 
thor, was born July 19, 1846, in Boston, 
Mass. He is the director of Harvard ob¬ 
servatory at Cambridge, and author of 
Elements of Physical Manipulation. 

PICKERING, HENRY, poet, was born 
Oct. 8, 1781, in Newburg, N. Y. He was 
£i poet of New York who published Ruins 
of Psestum; Athens, and Other Poems; 
and The Buckwheat Cake. He died Oct. 
8, 1871, in Newburg, N. Y. 

PICKERING, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Sept. 22, 1737, in Newington, N. H. 
He was a member of the convention which 
framed the constitution of New Hamp¬ 
shire. He was a judge of the supreme 
court of New Hampshire from 1790 to 
1795, and was at one time chief justice. 
He was subsequently judge of the United 
States district court for New Hampshire. 
He died April 11, 1805, in Portsmouth. 

PICKERING, JOHN, lawyer, linguist, 
author, was born Feb. 7, 1777, in Salem, 
Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston and a 
linguist of eminence, and the author of 
Greek and English Lexicon; Collection of 
Words and Phrases Supposed to be Pe¬ 
culiar to the United States; and Remarks 
on the Indian Languages of North Amer¬ 
ica. He died May 5, 1846, in Boston, Mass. 

PICKERING. MRS. M., educator, poet, 
was born in 1830, in Steubenville, Ohio. 
For thirteen years she was engaged in ed¬ 
ucational work; and also took an active 
part in religious and temperance work. 
She is a poet of ability, and the author of 
a volume of collected poems. She is also 
represented in Poets of America and other 
standard works. 

PICKERING, OCTAVIUS, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 2, 1791, in Wyoming, 
Pa. He was a Boston lawyer who pub¬ 
lished Reports of Cases in the Supreme 
Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1822- 
40; and Life of Timothy Pickering (com¬ 
pleted by IJpham). He died Oct. 29, 1868, 
in Boston, Mass. 

PICKERING, TIMOTHY, statesman, 
cabinet officer, was born July 17, 1745, in 
Salem, Mass. In 1776 he was appointed 
one of the judges of the court of common 
pleas for Essex, Mass., and sole judge of 
the maritime court for the middle dis¬ 
trict. In 1777 he became adjutant-general, 
and subsequently quartermaster-general. 
In 1791 he was made postmaster-general; 
in 1794 secretary of war, and the follow¬ 


ing year was appointed secretary of state. 
In 1803 he was elected a United States 
senator to fill a vacancy; and two years 
later was elected for a term of six years. 
He died Jan. 9, 1829, in Salem, Mass. 

PICKERING, WILLIAM, governor, was 
born in England. In 1861 he was appoint¬ 
ed from Illinois governor of the territory 
of Washington, residing in Olympia, serv¬ 
ing in office until. 1867. 

PICKERING, WILLIAM HENRY, as¬ 
tronomer, educator, author, was born Feb. 
15, 1858, in Boston, Mass. He is an as¬ 
tronomer, professor in Harvard univer¬ 
sity from 1887, and the author of Walking 
Guide to the White Mountain Range. 

PICKETT, ALBERT JAMES, author, 
was born Aug. 13, 1810, in Anson county, 
N. C. He was a writer of Montgomery, 
Ala., who published a History of Alabama. 
He died Oct. 2s, 1858, in Montgomery, Ala. 

PICKETT, GEORGE EDWARD, sol¬ 
dier, was born Jan. 25, 1825, in Richmond, 
Va. In 1861 he joined the confederate 
army as colonel, and attained the rank of 
major-general. 

PICKETT. JAMES C., soldier, lawyer, 
journalist, state legislator, was born Feb. 
6, 1793, in Fauquier county, Va. In the 
war of 1812 he was an officer in the United 
States artillery, and served also in the 
army from 1818 to 1821. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Virginia legislature in 1822; 
and secretary of the state from 1825 to 
1828. He was secretary of legation to 
Columbia from 1829 to 1833. He was com¬ 
missioner of the United States patent of¬ 
fice in 1S35; was fourth auditor of the 
treasury from 1835 to 1838; and was min¬ 
ister to Ecuador in 1838. He was charge 
d’affaires to Peru from 1838 to 1845. He 
died July 10, 1872, in Washington. 

PICKLE, GEORGE WESLEY, lawyer, 
was born March 6, 1845, in Knox county, 
Tenn. He received his education in the 
East Tennessee uni¬ 
versity and the 
Princeton college of 
New Jersey. Since 
1886 he has been at¬ 
torney-general and 
reporter of Tennes¬ 
see. He is one of the 
foremost lawyers of 
the south; takes an 
active part in politi¬ 
cal affairs; has filled 
several public posi¬ 
tions of honor; and 
contributes extensively to law literature 
and the periodical press. 

PICKLER, JOHN A., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Jan. 24, 1844, near Salem, Ind. He re¬ 
moved to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1874; and 
was a Garfield elector, second district of 
Iowa, in 1S80. He was elected to the Iowa 
legislature in 1881. He moved to Da¬ 
kota in 1883, and was elected to the Da¬ 
kota legislature in 1884, and appointed in¬ 
spector in public-land service in interior 
department in 1889. He was elected to 
the fifty-first, fifty-second, and fifty-third 
congresses and re-elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a republican. 

PICKMAN, BENJAMIN, merchant, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
1763. In 1800 he was elected to the Mas¬ 
sachusetts state legislature; was elected 
a state senator, and was re-elected a num¬ 
ber of years. In 1807 he became a member 
of the executive council, and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1809 to 1811. 
In 1820 be was a member of the conven¬ 
tion for revising the state constitution. 
He died in August, 1843, in Salem, Mass. 







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PICKNELL, WILLIAM LAMB, artist, 
was born Oct. 23, 1854, in Hinesburg, Vt. 
Among his works are Route de Con- 
carneau; On the Borders of the Marsh, 
in the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadel¬ 
phia; A Stormy Day; Coast of Ipswich, in 
Boston Art Museum; Sunshine and Drift¬ 
ing Sand; A Sultry Day; Wintry March; 
Bleak December; After the Storm; and 
November Solitude. 

PICOTTE, THEOPHILE E., journalist, 
was born Oct. 26, 1848, in Montreal, Can¬ 
ada. He is the editor and owner of The 
Times of Hailey, Idaho, one of the fore¬ 
most daily and weekly newspapers of that 
state. 

PICTON, THOMAS, politician, law¬ 
yer, soldier, journalist, author, was born 
May 9, 1822, in New York city. He edited 
the True National Democrat, the organ of 
the free-soilers in New York city. On 
the reorganization of the Sunday Mercury, 
he became one of- its editors, and con¬ 
tributed to the paper a series of popular 
stories under the name of Paul Preston. 
These were subsequently published in 
book-form, and had an extensive sale. 
At the beginning of the civil war 
he raised a battalion, which was con¬ 
solidated with the thirty-eighth New York 
regiment, with which he went to the 
field. He was the author of Reminis¬ 
cences of a Sporting Journalist. He died 
Feb. 20, 1891, in New York city. 

PIDCOCK, JAMES NELSON, civil en¬ 
gineer, agriculturist, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 8, 1836, in White 
House, N. J. He was state senator from 
1877 to 1880, and in 1884 was elected a 
representative from New Jersey to the 
forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected 
to the fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

PIEHN, LOUIS H., banker, was born 
March 10, 1837, in Germany. He emigrat¬ 
ed to the United States in 1852, and twen¬ 
ty years later settled in Nora Springs, 
Iowa, where he is president of the First 
National bank. He is also the president 
of the Anti-Vaccination society of Amer¬ 
ica, and president of the United States 
Medical Liberty league. 

PIEPER, FRANZ AUGUST OTTO, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 27, 1852, in 
Germany. In i878 he became professor of 
theology in Concordia seminary, St. Louis, 
Mo. This post he held until 1887, when 
he was elected president of the institu¬ 
tion. He is a frequent contributor to de¬ 
nominational periodicals, and has 'pub¬ 
lished several works in German. 

PIERCE, BENJAMIN, soldier, govern¬ 
or, was born Dec. 25, 1757, in Chelmsford, 
Mass. He joined the revolutionary army 
after the battle of Lexington, and re¬ 
mained in it through the war; and served 
as ensign, lieutenant and brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. From 1789 to 1802 he was a member 
of the general council, and chancellor 
from 1803 to 1809, and again from 1814 
to 1818. He was high sheriff from 1809 to 
1814, and again from 1818 to 1823, and was 
governor from 1827 to 1829. He died April 
1, 1839, in Hillsborough, N. H. 

PIERCE, BENJAMIN, educator, author, 
was born April 4, 1809, in Salem, Mass. 
He was president of the American Institu¬ 
tion for the Advancement of Science in 
1853; one of the council which established 
Dudley Observatory in 1855; superintend¬ 
ent of the United States coast survey from 
1867 to 1874. He was a contributor to 
several scientific journals, and was the au¬ 
thor of Treatise on Analytic Mechanics; 
Associative Algebra; and Theory of the 
Tans of Comets. He discovered and an¬ 
nounced the fluidity of Saturn’s rings in 

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1851, and prepared a volume of lunar 
tables for the Nautical Almanac. 

PIERCE, BYRON ROOT, soldier, was 
born Sept. 20, 1829, in East Bloomfield, 
N. Y. At the beginning of the civil war 
he enlisted in the third Michigan volun¬ 
teers. He was made brigadier-general of 
volunteers in 1864, and brevetted major- 
general in 1865. 

PIERCE, CHARLES W., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1823 in New York. 
He was a lieutenant in the Illinois volun¬ 
teers soon after the commencement of the 
rebellion. He settled in Alabama in 1867, 
and in 1868 was elected a representative 
from that state to the fortieth congress. 

PIERCE, DAVID G., clergyman, poet, 
was born April 27, 1840, in South Britain, 
Conn. He has filled pastorates in the 
congregational churches of South Britain, 
Conn., and is the author of a volume of 
poems. 

PIERCE, EDWARD LILLIE, lawyer, 
author, was born March 29, 1829, in 
Stoughton, Mass. He was a prominent 
Boston lawyer, and the author of Ameri¬ 
can Railroad Law; Life of Charles Sum¬ 
ner; The Law of Railroads; and Enfran¬ 
chisement and Citizenship. 

PIERCE, EMMONS S., poet, was born 
Jan. 27, 1831, in Erie county, N. Y. He 
is a well-known horseman of Springfield, 
N. Y., and the author of a volume entitled 
Poems of the Turf, and Other Ballads. 

PIERCE, FRANKLIN, fourteenth presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born Nov. 
23, 1804, in Hillsborough, N. H. He grad¬ 
uated at Bowdoin 
college in 1824, and 
then.entered the law 
school at Northamp¬ 
ton, Mass., where he 
remained two years. 
In 1829 he was elect¬ 
ed to the New Hamp¬ 
shire legislature, 
where he served four 
years, and the last 
two years was speak¬ 
er of the house. In 
1833 he was elected'a 
representative in congress, and held the 
office four years. He married Miss Jane 
M. Appleton in 1834. In la37 he was elect¬ 
ed to the United States senate, and in 1842 
resigned his seat. When the Mexican war 
broke out he accepted the commission of 
brigadier-general, and distinguished him¬ 
self at the battles of Cerro-Gordo and 
Chapultepec. In 1850 he presided over 
the constitutional convention of New 
Hampshire. June 1, 1852, the national 
democratic convention met at Baltimore. 
The two-thirds rule was adopted. The 
balloting began June 3, and on the first 
ballot Lewis Cass received 114 votes; 
James Buchanan, 93; William L. Marey, 
27; Stephen Arnold Douglas, 20. The sev¬ 
enteenth ballot that day stood: For Cass, 
99; Buchanan, 87; Douglas, 50; Marcy, 26. 
The second day’s balloting closed with the 
thirty-third trial, as follows; Cass, 123; 
Buchanan, 72; Douglas, 60; Marcy, 25. 
On the thirty-sixth ballot the Virginia 
delegation cast their votes for Franklin 
Pierce, and on the forty-ninth he re¬ 
ceived the unanimous vote of the con¬ 
vention. William Rufus King was nom¬ 
inated for vice-president. Being duly 
elected, they were inaugurated March 4, 
1853. There was not a change made in 
his cabinet officers during his adminis¬ 
tration, a thing that has never before or 
since happened. He left the presidential 
chair March 4, 1857, and returned to his 
home in New Hampshire, where he died 
Oct. 8, 1869. Pierce held office about 



seventeen years. He left about fifty thou¬ 
sand dollars. 


PIERCE, FREDERICK CLIFTON, au¬ 
thor, was born July 30, 1856, in Worces¬ 
ter county, Mass. He is an Illinois writer 
who has written town histories of Barre 
and Grafton, Mass., and of Rockford, Ill.; 
The Harwood Genealogy; Pierce History 
and Genealogy; Peirce History and Gen¬ 
ealogy; and Pearse and Pearce Genealogy. 

PIERCE, GEORGE EDMUND, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born Sept. 9. 
1794, in Southbury, Conn. For twelve 
years he was a clergyman; and during 
1834-55 was president of the Western Re¬ 
serve college. He died May 28, 1871, in 
Hudson, Ohio. 


PIERCE, GEORGE FOSTER, bishop, 
author, was born Feb. 3, 1811, in Greene 
county, Ga. In 1854 he was elected and 



Macon college. He 
Sparta, Ga. 


ordained methodist 
episcopal bishop at 
Columbus, Ga. He 
was the author of 
Incidents of Western 
Travel. In 1842 he 
was elected president 
of Emory college, re¬ 
signing in 1854. The 
degree of D. D. was 
conferred upon him 
by Transylvania uni¬ 
versity, and that of 
LL. D. by Randolph 
ied Sept. 3, 1884, near 


PIERCE, GILBERT ASHVILLE, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, journalist, governor. United 
States senator, author, was born Jan. 11. 
1838, in Cattaraugus county, N. Y. In 
1868 he was elected a representative in 
the Indiana legislature. In 1872 he ac¬ 
cepted an editorial position on the Chi¬ 
cago Inter-Ocean; was made managing 
editor of that paper in 1876, and remained 
in editorial charge until 1881, when he 
was tendered, and accepted, the position 
of chief editorial writer on the Chicago 
Daily News. He was the author of the 
Dickens Dictionary, and of two novels 
of a political character, as well as a 
number of plays. In 1884 he was ap¬ 
pointed governor of the territory of Da¬ 
kota; and in 1889 became a United States 
senator from North Dakota. 


PIERCE, HENRY LILLIE, manufactu¬ 
rer, congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1825, 
in Stoughton, Mass. He was a member 
of the state house of representatives in 
1860, 1861, 1862 and 1866; was an alderman 
of the city of Boston in 1870 and 1871, and 
was mayor of Boston in 1873. He was 
elected a representative from Massachu¬ 
setts to the forty-third congress to fill a 
vacancy, and in 1874 was elected to the 
forty-fourth congress as a republican. 


PIERCE, HENRY NILES, bishop of 
Arkansas and the' Indian territory, was 
born Oct. 19, 1820, in Pawtucket, R. I. 
He was elected missionary bishop of Ar¬ 
kansas and the Indian territory, and was 
consecrated in Christ church, Mobile, on 
Jan. 25, 1870. He has published numer¬ 
ous occasional sermons, essays, and ad¬ 
dresses, and is the author of The Ag¬ 
nostic, and Other Poems. 

PIERCE, JOHN, antiquarian, was born 
July 14, 1773, in Dorchester, Mass. He 
was an authority on genealogical and his¬ 
torical researches. He was for twenty 
years president of the Massachusetts 
Bible society, of which he was one of the 
founders. His works .consist of eighteen 
manuscript volumes, which were be¬ 
queathed by him to the Massachusetts 
Historical society. He died Aug. 24, 1849, 
in Brookline, Mass. 


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PIERCE, JOHN DAVIS, clergyman, 
state legislator, author, was born Feb. 18, 
1797, in Chesterfield, N. H. He was su¬ 
perintendent of public instruction in 
Michigan for two years, during that time 
edited and published the Journal of Edu¬ 
cation, and also edited at one time the 
Democratic Expounder at Marshall. He is 
credited with being the author of the 
Michigan free-school system. He died 
April 5, 1882, in Medford, Mass. 

PIERCE, JOSEPH, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire during the years 1801 and 
1802. 

PIERCE, LEWIS, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, was born April, 1832, in Gorham. 
He has represented Portland in the Maine 
legislature, has been public administrator 
for the county of Cumberland, and has 
served on the school committee of Port¬ 
land. 


PIERCE, NATHANIEL, lawyer, state 
legislator, was born in March, 1832, in 
Newburyport, Mass. He is a successful 
lawyer of Newburyport. He has been re¬ 
peatedly mayor of his city, and has rep¬ 
resented it in the legislature. 

PIERCE, RAT VAUGHN, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1840, in 
Stark, N. Y. The World’s Medical Dis¬ 
pensary association, of which he is presi¬ 
dent and almost sole owner, was created 
for the more systematic manufacture of 
his popular remedies. He was elected to 
the state senate in 1877; and in 1878 was 
elected a representative from New York to 
the forty-sixth congress. 

PIERCE, RICE A., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born July 3, 1848, in Dresden, 
Tenn. He was elected district attorney- 
general of the twelfth judicial circuit in 
1874; and re-elected in 1878 for a full term 
of eight years. He was elected to the 
forty-eighth, fifty-first, and fifty-second 
congresses as a democrat; ran as an in¬ 
dependent free coinage democrat in 1892 
and was defeated; and was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

PIERCE, ROBERT B. F„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Feb. 15, 1843, 
in Laurel, Ind. He served in the union 
army during the war of the rebellion. 
He was prosecuting attorney at Craw- 
fordsville from 1868 to 1874, and in 1880 
was elected a representative from Indi¬ 
ana to the forty-seventh congress. 

PIERCE, THOMAS MAY, author, was 
born Dec. 10, 1837, in Chester. Pa. He 
is the author of Test Business Problems; 
Pierce’s School Manual of Business 
Forms and Customs; and Pierce’s School 
Manual of Bookkeeping. 


PIERCE, WILLIAM, soldier, congress¬ 
man, author, was born about 1740 in 
Georgia. He served in the revolutionary 
war as an aide-de- 
camp to General 
Greene, and for his 
services a sword was 
presented to him by 
the old congress. 
He was a delegate 
from Georgia to the 
continental congress, 
and was a member of 
the convention 
which framed the 
- federal constitution. 

While in congress he 
wrote his impressions of the men who 
served in that body, which were long af¬ 
terward published in a Savannah paper. 
He died about 1806. 



PIERCE, WILLIAM HALFORD, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, was born Nov. 12, 
1862, in Equality, Ill. He attended the Ill¬ 
inois State Normal school; the Shurtleff 
college; and graduated from the McKen- 


dree college and the Garrett Biblical in¬ 
stitute. In 1883 he joined the southern 
Illinois conference, and two years later 
was transferred to the Rock River con¬ 
ference; and is an eminent clergyman of 
the methodist episcopal church. He is 
the author of works on Agonography, a 
system of shorthand writing without an¬ 
gles. He is also a successful lecturer on 
popular sublets. 

PIERCE, WINSLOW SMITH, pioneer, 
educator, author, was born May 3, 1819, 
in Boston, Mass. He was one of the 
originators of the first line of steamships 
between the Isthmus of Panama and San 
Francisco. He settled in Indiana in 1860, 
devoted himself largely to the coal and 
iron industries, and laid out and at one 
time owned a large part of Indianapolis. 
He left in manuscript a complete collec¬ 
tion of material for a book entitled Rem¬ 
iniscences of Public Men from 1828 to 
1888. He died July 29, 1888, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

PIERPONT, FRANCIS HARRISON, 
lawyer, governor, was born Jan. 25, 1814, 
in Monongalia county, Va. From 1861 to 
1868 he was the governor of West Vir¬ 
ginia, and has held numerous offices under 
the United States government. 

PIERPONT, JAMES, clergyman, * was 
born in 1661, in Massachusetts. He was a 
clergyman, and one of the founders of 
Yale college. He died Nov. 14, 1714, in 
New Haven, Conn. 

PIERPONT, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
poet, was born April 6, 1785, in Litchfield, 
Conn. He was a Unitarian clergyman of 
Boston, pastor of the Hollis street church 
in 1819-45. He wrote a volume of sacred 
verse, Airs of Palestine, and a number 
of domestic lyrics, which were very pop¬ 
ular, Passing Away being the best known 
of any. He compiled several school read¬ 
ers, the most noted of which was The 
American First-Class Book. He died Aug. 
26, 1866, in Medford, Mass. 

PIERREPONT, EDWARDS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born March 4, 1817, in North 
Haven, Conn. He was judge of the New 
York supreme court 
from 1857 to 1860; 
and in 1862 was made 
a member of the mil¬ 
itary commission for 
the trial of prisoners 
of state. He was 
United States attor¬ 
ney for the southern 
district of New York 
in 1869-70. He was 
appointed attorney- 
general of the United 
States in 1875. In 1876 
he was appointed envoy extraordinary 
and minister plenipotentiary of the Unit¬ 
ed States to Great Britain. He died March 
6, 1892, in New York city. 

PIERREPONT, EDWARD WILLOUGH¬ 
BY, public official, author, was born in 
1860 in New York. He was charge d’af¬ 
faires at Rome at the time of his death. 
He was the author of From Fifth Avenue 
to Alaska. He died in 1885. 

PIERSE. EDWIN HALL, musician, 
composer, was born Dec. 25, 1868, in Au¬ 
burn, N. Y. He is director of the school 
of music at Ripon college of Wisconsin, 
and the author of numerous compositions 
for the piano. 

PIERSON, ABRAHAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1641, in Lynn, Mass. 
He was the first rector of Yale college, 
serving from 1701-07. He is the author of 
a text-book on Natural Philosophy, which 
was used for twenty-five years. He died 
March 5, 1707, in New Haven, Conn. 

PIERSON, ARTHUR TAPPAN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1837 in New 



York. He is a congregational clergyman 
of note, and the author of Acts of the 
Holy Spirit; Many Infallible Proofs; The 
Crisis of Missions; The Miracles of Mis¬ 
sions; The Divine Art of Preaching; The 
Heart of the Gospel; Keys to the Word; 
and Lessons on Prayer. 

PIERSON, MRS. CORNELIA (TUT- 
HILL), author, was born in 1820 in Con¬ 
necticut. She was the author of Our Lit¬ 
tle Comfort; Wreaths and Blossoms for 
the Church; When Are We Happiest? 
and The Belle, the Blue, and the Bigot. 
She died in 1870. 

PIERSON, DELAY AN L„ poet. He is 
a writer of Philadelphia, Pa., and the au¬ 
thor of a number of poems. 

PIERSON, HAMILTON WILCOX, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 22, 1817, 
in Bergen, N. Y. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman in Kentucky, and the author of 
Thomas Jefferson at Monticello; and In 
the Brush, or Old-Time Social, Political 
and Religious Life in the Southwest. 

PIERSON, ISAAC, physician, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 15, 1770, in New Jer¬ 
sey. He practiced medicine for forty years 
and was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1827 to 1831. He died 
Sept. 22, 1833, in New Jersey. 

PIERSON, JEREMIAH H., congress¬ 
man, was born in Essex county, N. J. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1821 to 1823. 

PIERSON, JOB, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1831 to 1835. He died April 9, 
1860. 

PIGOTT, JAMES P., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in New Haven, Conn. He 
is a noted lawyer of New Haven; was 
chairman of the state delegation to the 
democratic national convention in 1888, 
and was elected to the fifty-third congress. 

PIKE, ALBERT, lawyer, journalist, 
author, poet, was born Dec. 29, 1809, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer and jour¬ 
nalist of Little Rock, Memphis, and Wash¬ 
ington successively, who served as an of¬ 
ficer in the confederate army. He was the 
author of Hymns to the Gods; Prose 
Sketches and Poems; Nugae, a collection 
of Poems; and Arkansas Supreme Court 
Reports, 1840-45. He died April 2, 1891, 
in Washington, D. C. 

PIKE, AUSTIN F., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, L'nited States senator, was born Oct. 
14, 1819, in Hebron, N. H. He was a 
member of the New Hampshire house of 
representatives in 1850, 1851, 1852, 1865 
and 1866, and speaker during the last two 
years. He was a presidential elector in 
1852; was a member of the New Hamp¬ 
shire senate in 1857 and 1858, and was 
president of the senate in the latter year. 
He was elected a representative from New 
Hampshire to the forty-third congress; 
and in 1883 was elected a United States 
senator from New Hampshire for the 
term of six years from March 4, 1883. He 
died Oct. 8,1886, in Franklin, N. H. 

PIKE, FRANCES WEST ATHERTON, 
author, was born March 17, 1819, in Pros¬ 
pect, Maine. She has published Step by 
Step: Here and Hereafter; Katherine Mor¬ 
ris; Sunset Stories, in six volumes; Climb¬ 
ing and Sliding; and Striving and Gaining. 

PIKE, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Dec. 9, 1817, in Calais, Maine. He 
was a member of the Maine legislature, 
serving one term as speaker of the house 
of representatives. In 1860 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Maine to the 
thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elect¬ 
ed to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth and 
fortieth congresses. He died Dec. 2, 1886, 
in Calais, Maine. 



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PIKE, JAMES, clergyman, congress¬ 
man, was born in November, 1818, in 
Salisbury, Mass. He was a minister in 
the methodist episcopal church from 1841 
to 1854; and was elected a representative 
from New Hampshire in the thirty-fourth 
and thirty-fifth congresses. 

PIKE, JAMES SHEPARD, journalist, 
author, was born Sept. 8, 1811, in Calais, 
Maine. He was a journalist of New York 
•city who was minister to the Netherlands, 
in 1861-66, and the author of A Prostrate 
State; The Restoration of the Currency; 
The Financial Crisis; Horace Greeley in 
1872; The First Blows of the Civil War; 
The New Puritan; and New England Two 
Hundred Years Ago. He died Nov. 24, 
1882, in Calais, Maine. 

PIKE, JOSEPH W., farmer, educator, 
was born Feb. 16, 1832, in Columbiana 
■county, Ohio. He has been a justice of 
the peace, town coun¬ 
cilman, school teach¬ 
er, and prominent in 
religious affairs in 
Iowa at Millersville 
and Sioux City. He 
has contributed arti¬ 
cles on politics, tem¬ 
perance and prohibi¬ 
tion for thirty-five 
years. His poems 
have appeared in sev¬ 
eral standard works, 
and in the leading 
magazines and newspapers of the United 
States. 

PIKE, MRS. MARY HAYDEN 
(GREEN), author, was born Nov. 30, 1825, 
in Eastport, Maine. She was a once popu¬ 
lar novelist, and the author of Ida May; 
Caste; Agnes; and Bond and Free. 

PIKE, ZEBULON MONTGOMERY, sol¬ 
dier, traveler, was born Jan. 5, 1779, in 
Lamberton, N. J. He was a surveyor of 
the newly acquired territory of Louisiana 
in 1805, and discovered that lofty peak of 
the- Rocky Mountains in Colorado which 
bears his name. He died April 27, 1813. 

PILCHER, ELIJAH HOMES, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 2, 1810, in 
Athens, Ohio. He was a methodist cler¬ 
gyman of Michigan who wrote a History 
of Protestantism in Michigan. He died 
April 7, 1887, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

PILCHER, JAMES J., surgeon, author, 
was born March 18, 1857, in Adrian, Mich. 
He was surgeon in the army; professor of 
military surgery in the Ohio Medical uni¬ 
versity; and of military hygiene in the 
Starling Medical college. He is the author 
of First Aid in Illness and Injury; and a 
number of other popular medical works. 

PILE, WILLIAM A., soldier, clergyman, 
congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1829, near 
Indianapolis, Ind. He was a clergyman 
of the methodist 
episcopal church, 
and a member of the 
Missouri conference 
at the commence¬ 
ment of the rebel¬ 
lion. In 1861 he 
joined the Missouri 
volunteers as chap¬ 
lain; in 1862 had 
command of a bat¬ 
tery of artillery as 
captain, and was 
soon afterward pro¬ 
moted to the rank of colonel of infantry. 
In 1863 he was appointed a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of Lmited States volunteers, and was 
in the Missouri campaign under General 
Lyon. In 1866 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Missouri to the fortieth 
■congress, and in 1869 was appointed gov¬ 
ernor of New Mexico. In 1871 he was ap¬ 
pointed minister resident to Venezuela. 
He died July 7, 1889, in Monrovia, Cal. 


PILGRIM, WILLIAM MAWER, mer¬ 
chant, legislator, was bom Nov. 2, 1839, in 
England. This successful merchant has 
served as a representative in the legis¬ 
lature of Illinois from Bradford. 

PILLING, JAMES CONSTANTINE, eth¬ 
nologist, author, was born Nov. 16, 1846, 
in Washington, D. C. He was an ethnol¬ 
ogist of distinction in the government ser¬ 
vice, among whose writings are Bibliogra¬ 
phies of the Languages of the North 
American Indians, of the Eskimoan Lan¬ 
guages, of the Siouan, of the Iroquoian, 
and others. He died in 1895. 

PILLOW, GIDEON JOHNSON, soldier, 
was born June 8, 1806, in Williamson 
county, Tenn. He became a brigadier- 
general in 1846, and in 1861 major-general. 
He died Oct. 6, 1878, in Lee county, Ark. 

PILLSBURY, ALBERT E„ lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Aug. 19, 1849, in Mil¬ 
ford, N. H. He has attained eminence as 
one of the foremost lawyers of New Eng¬ 
land, and has a large practice in Boston, 
Mass. He has filled various positions in 
financial, charitable and other corpora¬ 
tions and associations. During 1876-78 he 
was a member of the Massachusetts 
house of representatives; a member of 
the Massachusetts state senate in 1884-86, 
and president of the senate in 1885-86. In 
1891-93 he was attorney-general of Mas¬ 
sachusetts; and now holds the chair of 
constitutional law in the Law school of 
the Boston university. He has received 
the honorary degree of A. M. from the 
Harvard university. 

PILLSBURY, CHARLES ALFRED, 
merchant, was born about 1843 in Warner, 
N. H. In 1869 he came west and settled in 
Minneapolis. He went 
about the study of 
milling flour in a sci¬ 
entific way and in a 
short time mastered 
it. At that time there 
were four or five old- 
fashioned mills in the 
town, and he under¬ 
took to introduce 
new methods by re¬ 
placing the old stone 
grinders with steel 
ones. In 1872 he en¬ 
larged his plant, took his father and 
brother into partnership, and by 1890 he 
had built up the largest flour mill in the 
world. The new process created a de¬ 
mand for hard spring wheat, which had 
always ranked as less desirable than the 
soft winter cereal. In 1890 an English 
syndicate capitalized the concern, and Mr. 
Pillsbury is its manager. The Pillsbury 
mills are run on the profit-sharing plan. 

PILLSBURY, JOHN S., merchant, state 
senator, governor, was born in 1827, in 
New Hampshire. In 1854 he removed to 
Minnesota and settled at the Falls of St. 
Anthony; and engaged in business as a 
hardware merchant. He was for twelve 
years a member of the Minnesota state 
senate; and in 1864 was president of the 
board of regents of the State university 
of Minnesota. In 1877 he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Minnesota, and in 1880 was re¬ 
elected, serving until 1884. 

PILLSBURY, OLIVER, educator, state 
legislator, was born Feb. 16, 1817, in Hen- 
niker, N. H. He served three terms in 
the New Hampshire legislature, was a 
state councillor in 1862 and 1863, display¬ 
ing executive ability and energy in busi¬ 
ness connected with the New Hampshire 
quota of troops, and in 1869 was appoint¬ 
ed the first insurance commissioner of the 
state, holding the office till his death. He 
died Feb. 22, 1888, in Concord, N. H. 

PILLSBURY, PARKER, abolitionist, 
reformer, author, was born Sept. 22, 1809, 
in Hamilton, Mass. In his infancy his 


parents moved to Henniker, N. H., where 
he received his education in the common 
schools. In 1839 he was licensed to 
preach, but subsequently abandoned the 
pulpit and threw himself into the cause 
of emancipation. His greatest work in 
the anti-slavery cause was upon the plat¬ 
form, but for a time he had editorial 
charge of the Herald of Freedom, and 
later of the National Anti-Slavery Stan¬ 
dard. From 1840 until the legal extinc¬ 
tion of slavery he was one of the most 
zealous and effective of the abolition ora¬ 
tors; and visited England in its cause in 
1854. He subsequently engaged in the 
elevation of woman and kindred reforms 
in conjunction with Mrs. Stanton and 
Susan B. Anthony. In his later years he 
has been a student of theosophy, spirit¬ 
ism and other philosophical and psycho¬ 
logical subjects. He is the author of Acts 
of the Anti-Slavery Apostles; and a 
large number of addresses and articles on 
various subjects. He resides in Con¬ 
cord, N. H. 

PILSBURY, TIMOTHY, state senator, 
congressman, was born April 12, 1789, in 
Newbury, Mass. He settled in Maine; 
was appointed a member of the executive 
council; and also served in the state leg¬ 
islature. He went from Maine to Ohio, 
thence to Louisiana, and finally to Texas. 
He served a number of years in the sen¬ 
ate and house of representatives of Texas; 
and when that republic came into the 
union he was elected a representative in 
congress from 1846 to 1849. He died Nov. 
23, 1858, near Danville, Texas. 

PINCHBACK, PINCKNEY BENTON 
STEWART, journalist, state senator, was 
born May 10, 1827, in Macon, Ga. He is 
of African descent; was a member of the 
constitutional convention of 1867; state 
senator in 1868; and in 1870 established 
the New Orleans Louisianian. 

PINCKNEY, CHARLES, state legislat¬ 
or, congressman, United States senator, 
was born in 1758 in Charleston, S. C. He 
served in the provincial legislature; and 
was a member of the provincial congress 
in 1785. In 1787 he was a delegate to the 
convention which framed the constitution 
of the United States, and signed that in¬ 
strument. He was governor of South 
Carolina from 1789 to 1792, and from 
1796 to 1798. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from 1798 to 1801; and in 1801 was 
appointed minister to Spain, holding that 
position until 1805. He served in the state 
legislature in 1810 and 1812; and was a 
representative in congress from 1819 to 
1821. He died Oct. 29, 1824, in Charleston, 

S. C. 

PINCKNEY, CHARLES COTES- 

WORTH, soldier, lawyer, jurist, public 
official, author, was born Feb. 25, 1746, in 
Charleston, S. C. He 
was a member of 
the first provincial 
congress of South 
Carolina in 1775; and 
was a captain, and 
soon after colonel of 
the first South Caro¬ 
lina regiment. In 
1779 he was presi¬ 
dent of the South 
Carolina senate; and 
defended Charleston 
against General Pro¬ 
vost. He was a member of' the con¬ 
vention which framed the federal consti¬ 
tution. He was major-general of state 

militia; and in 1796 was minister to 

France. On his return home he was made 
major-general; was a candidate for the 
vice-presidency in 1800; and was the au¬ 
thor of the famous sentiment: Millions 
for defense, but not one cent for tribute. 
He died Aug. 16, 1825, in Charleston, S. C. 









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PINCKNEY, CHARLES COTES- 
WORTH, clergyman, author, was born 
July 31, 1812, in Charleston, S. C. He is 
an episcopal clergyman of Charleston; 
and the author of Life of General Thomas 
Pinckney. 

PINCKNEY, HENRY LAURENS, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, author, 
was born Sept. 24, 1794, in Charleston, S. 
C. He was a member of the South Caro¬ 
lina legislature from 1816 to 1832; and was 
mayor of Charleston in 1832, and in 1839 
and 1840. He was a representative in 
congress from South Carolina from 1833 
to 1837; and was subsequently collector 
of the port, and a member of the legis¬ 
lature. He was editor of the Charleston 
Mercury in 1819; and was a prominent 
leader in the state rights party. He was 
the author of Memoirs of Jonathan Max- 
ey; Robert Y. Hayne; and Andrew Jack- 
son. He died Feb. 3, 1863, in Charleston, 
S. C. 

PINCKNEY, THOMAS, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, governor, was born 
Oct. 23, 1750, in Charleston, S. C. He was 
governor of South Carolina from 1787 to 
1789; was minister to Great Britain from 
1792 to 1794; and in the latter year went 
on a mission to Spain, where he made the 
treaty of St. Ildefonso, securing to the 
United States the free navigation of the 
Mississippi. In 1796 he returned to Char¬ 
leston; and was elected a representative 
in congress from 1799 to 1801. He died 
Nov. 2, 1828, in Charleston, S. C. 

PINDALL, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1817 
to 1820, when he resigned. 

PINDAR, JOHN S., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 18, 1835, in 
Sharon, N. Y. In 1868 he was elected the 
first police justice of the village of Cobles- 
kill, N. Y. In 1872 he was elected trus¬ 
tee of the village, in which position he 
continued to serve until 1882, when he 
was elected president of the village; and 
was annually twice re-elected. In 1884 he 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-ninth congress; and 
was re-elected to fill a vacancy in the 
fifty-first congress. 

PINDAR, SUSAN, author, was born 
about 1820 in Tarrytown, N. Y. She is the 
author of Susan Pindar’s Story Books; 
and Legends of the Flowers. 

PINGREE, HAZEN S., merchant, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Aug. 30, 1842, in Den¬ 
mark, Maine. He was elected mayor of 
Detroit in 1886 and served three succes¬ 
sive terms. Pie was elected governor of 
Michigan in 1896. 

PINGREE, SAMUEL EVERETT, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, governor, was born Aug. 2, 
1832, in Salisbury, N. H. He was twice 
elected state’s attorney for Windsor coun¬ 
ty, Vt.; and in 1882 was elected lieuten¬ 
ant-governor of Vermont, serving two 
years. In 1884 he was elected governor 
of Vermont for a term of two years. 

PINKERTON, ALFRED S., lawyer, was 
born March 19, 1856, in Lancaster, Pa. 
In 1886 he was elected a member of the 
Massachusetts house of representatives; 
and in 1890 was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate. 

PINKERTON, ALLAN, detective, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 25, 1819, in Scotland. 
He is a chartist who came to America in 
1842 and settled in Chicago, where he 
founded a famous detective agency. He 
was the author of The Molly Maguires and 
the Detectives; Criminal Reminiscences; 
The Spy of the Rebellion; Thirty Years 
a Detective; and Railroad Forgers and 
the Detectives. He died July 1, 1884, in 
Chicago, Ill. 


PINKLEY, VIRGIL A., orator, poet, 
was born Feb. 18, 1852, in Girard, Ill. He 
is the director of elocution and oratory- 
in the college of Music of Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He is the author of a standard 
work entitled Essentials of Elocution and 
Oratory; and a volume of poems. 

PINKNEY, FREDERICK, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born Oct. 14, 1804, at sea. 
He was deputy attorney-general of Mary¬ 
land, and assistant editor of the Maryland¬ 
er, and subsequently of the Baltimore Pa¬ 
triot. During the civil war he published 
poems and songs that became popular. 
He died June 13, 1873. 

PINKNEY, NIN1AN, soldier, author, 
was born in 1776 in Baltimore, Md. He 
became captain in 1807, was major of the 
fifth infantry, and aide to Gen. James Wil¬ 
kinson in 1813, became lieutenant-colonel 
in 1814, and in 1820 was promoted colonel. 
He was the author of a book entitled 
Travels in the South of France and in the 
Interior of the Provinces of Provence and 
Languedoc by a Route Never Before Per¬ 
formed. He died Dec. 16, 1825, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. 

PINKNEY, NINIAN, surgeon, was born 
June 7, 1811, in Annapolis, Md. He en¬ 
tered the United States navy as assistant 
surgeon in 1834, became surgeon in 1841, 
and became medical director with the 
rank of commodore in 1871. He died Dec. 
15, 1877, near Easton, Md. 

PINKNEY, WILLIAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
March 17, 1764, in Annapolis, Md. He was 
a member of the con¬ 
vention which rati¬ 
fied the federal con¬ 
stitution; and from 
1789 to 1792 was a 
representative i n 
congress. In 1795 he 
was a member of the 
state legislature. In 
1806 he was envoy 
extraord i n a r y to 
England, and in 1808 
was made minister 
plenipotentiary. He 
settled in Baltimore in 1811; was soon 
after a member of the state senate; and 
in 1811 was attorney-general. He was a 
representative in congress in 1815 and 
1816; and was then made minister to 
Russia and envoy to Naples. In 1819 he 
was elected a member of the United States 
senate, and continued in that station until 
his death. He died Feb. 25, 1822, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

PINKNEY, WILLIAM, bishop, was 
born April 17, 1810, in Annapolis, Md. 
He was the fifth protestant episcopal 
bishop of Maryland. He died July 4, 1883. 

PINNELL, ETHAN ALLEN, educator, 
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 17, 
1834, in Crawford county, Mo. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
in the public schools 
of Missouri; and 
subsequently taught 
in the schools of 
Missouri and Illinois. 
He served four years 
in the confederate 
service as captain of 
company D, eighth 
regiment Missouri 
infantry. After the 
war he continued 
teaching until 1873, 
when he was admitted to the bar at 
Steelville, Mo. During 1882-86 he was 
judge of probate in his native county; 
and attained success as an able lawyer. 
In 1893 he moved to Florida, where he is 
a solicitor in chancery, abstractor of land 
titles, and successful lawyer at Bronson. 


PINNEY, DANIEL H., lawyer, jurist,, 
state legislator, was born June 2, 1837, in 
Albion, N. Y. He was a representative 
in the Illinois state legislature in 1876 
and 1877; and in 1883 was appointed as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of 
Arizona. 

PINNEY, LAURA YOUNG, author, 
poet, was born in Iowa. She is the author 
of a collection of poems entitled Within 
the Golden Gate. 

PINNEY, NORMAN, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 21, 1800, in 
Simsbury, Conn. In 1852 he was associat¬ 
ed with Joseph Rindge in establishing a. 
large boys’ school, which was called the 
Collegiate institute of Mobile. He con¬ 
tributed poetry to periodicals, and was 
the author of a series of text-books, in¬ 
cluding First Book in French; Key to the 
Same; Progressive French Reader; and 
Practical French Reader. He died Oct. 1, 
1862, in New Orleans, La. 

PINTARD, LEWIS, merchant, was born 
Oct. 12, 1732, in New York city. He 
ranked as one of the great merchants of 
his time, and was one of the incorporators 
of the chamber of commerce, which was 
established by George III in 1770 and by 
the New York legislature in 1784. He died 
March 25, 1818, in Princeton, N. J. 

PIPER, RICHARD UPTON, physician,, 
author, was born April 3, 1818, in Strath- 
am, N. H. He is a Chicago physician; 
and the author of Operative Surgery; and 
The Trees of America. 

PIPER, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1811 to 1813. 

PIPER, WILLIAM A., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1825 in Franklin coun¬ 
ty, Pa. He moved to California in 1849, 
in San Francisco. In 1874 he was elected 
a representative from California to the 
forty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

PIRCE, WILLIAM A., merchant, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 29, 
1824, in Scituate, R. I. In 1855 he was 
elected a state senator; and in 1858 and 
again in 1862 was elected a representative 
in the Rhode Island legislature. In 1862 
he was appointed assessor of internal 
revenue for the second district of Rhode 
Island, which position he held until the 
office was abolished in 1873. In 1879 he 
was again elected a member of the state 
house of representatives, and was re-elect¬ 
ed in 1880 and 1881. In 1882 he was again 
elected state senator. In 1884 he was 
elected a representative from Rhode 
Island to the forty-ninth congress. 

PIRTLE, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 5, 1798, in Wash¬ 
ington county, Ky. In 1825 he was ap¬ 
pointed a judge of the general court to 
fill a vacancy. He was chancellor of the 
Louisville chancery court and professor 
of constitutional law, equity, and com¬ 
mercial law in the university of Louis¬ 
ville in 1846-68. He published Digest of 
the Decisions of the Court of Appeals of 
Kentucky. He died March 28, 1880, in 
Louisville, Ky. 

PISE, CHARLES CONSTANTINE, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1802 in An¬ 
napolis, Md. He was a once prominent 
Roman catholic clergyman of Brooklyn; 
and the author of History of the Church 
to the Reformation; The Acts of the 
Apostles in Blank Verse; Father Row¬ 
land; Indian Cottage, a Unitarian Story; 
The Pleasures of Religion, and Other 
Poems; Horse Vagabundae; Alethia; Zen- 
osius; Letters to Ada; Lives of St. Ig¬ 
natius and His First Companions; Notes 
on a Protestant Catechism; and Chris¬ 
tianity and the Church. He died May 26, 
1866, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 






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PITCHER, JAMES, clergyman, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Oct. 11, 1845, near 
the village of Knox, N. Y. He received 
a thorough education and the degree of 
A. M. was conferred upon- him by the 
Union college of Schenectady, N. Y., and 
the degree of D. D. by the Hartwick sem¬ 
inary, in which latter institution he was 
principal for nineteen years, and in 1891 
was made professor of English and na¬ 
tural sciences. He is the author of Out¬ 
lines of Surveying and Navigation; The 
Hermit of Moss Pond, in rhyme; Rip 
Van Winkle, in rhyme; and other works. 

PITCHER, JAMES ROBERTSON, finan¬ 
cier, was born March 5, 1845, in Wind¬ 
ham, N. Y. In 1877 he founded the 
United States Mutual Accident associa¬ 
tion. 

PITCHER, NATPIANIEL, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, governor, was born 
in 1777 in Litchfield, Conn. He was a 
member of the New York legislature in 
1806, 1815, 1816, and 1817; and was a dele¬ 
gate to the state constitutional conven¬ 
tion of 1821. In 1828 he was lieutenant- 
governor and acting governor of the state; 
and was subsequently commissioner to 
survey the state roads. He was repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York 
from 1819 to 1823, and again from 1831 to 
1833. He died May 25, 1836, in Sandy Hill 
N. Y. 

PITCHER, THOMAS GAMBLE, soldier, 
was born Oct. 23, 1S24, in Rockport, Ind. 
During 1871-77 he was governor of the 
soldiers’ home at Washington, D. C.; and 
during 1880-87 was superintendent of the 
New York State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ 
home. 

PITCHER. ZINA, physician, was born 
April 12, 1797, in Sandy Hill, N. Y. He 
was appointed assistant surgeon in the 
United States army in 1822; and sur¬ 
geon with rank of major in 1832. He was 
a regent of the university of Michigan in 
1837-52. He died April 5, 1872, in De¬ 
troit, Mich. 

PITKIN, ALFRED HENRY, educator, 
lawyer, clergyman, was born Sept. 4, 
1867, in Watson, Ill. After receiving the 
rudiments of his education in the public 
schools, he attended McKendree college 
of Lebanon, Ill. For many years he was 
engaged in educational work, and was 
professor of the Shumway High school. 
He was next admitted to the bar, and 
practiced that profession with success. He 
is now a successful clergyman‘of the 
methodist episcopal church at Odin, Ill.; 
and has filled pastorates in various other 
cities. He has attained success in re¬ 
building churches and parsonages; has 
received the degree of Ph. D.; is an 
orator of great power; and prominent in 
the Epworth league of southern Illinois. 

PITKIN, FREDERICK WALKER, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Aug. 31, 1837, in Man¬ 
chester, Conn. In 1878 he was elected 
governor of Colorado, and re-elected to 
this office in 1880 as a republican. He died 
Dec. 18, 1886, in Pueblo, Colo. 

• PITKIN, TIMOTHY, state legislator, 
congressman, author, was born Jan. 21, 
1766, in Farmington, Conn. He was for 
several years a member of the Connecti¬ 
cut legislature; and was speaker of the 
house during five sessions. He was a 
representative in congress from 1805 to 
1819. He was the author of Statistical 
View of the Commerce of the United 
States; and Political and Civil History 
of the United States from 1763 to the 
Close of Washington’s Administration. 
He died Dec. 18, 1847, in New Haven, 
Conn. 


PITKIN, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1664 in Hartford, Conn. He was 
judge of the county and probate courts 
and of the court of assistants in Connec¬ 
ticut from 1702 till 1711 when the superior 
court was established in place of -the 
court of assistants, and of which he was 
chief justice in 1713. This office was held 
by four successive generations of William 
Pitkins. He died April 5, 1723, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

PITKIN, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, gov¬ 
ernor, was born April 30, 1694, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. He was a member of the 
council in 1734; and was appointed a 
judge of the state court of Connecticut in 
1741. He was lieutenant-governor and 
chief justice from 1754 to 1766; and in 
1754 was one of the delegates to the con¬ 
vention at Albany. He was governor of 
Connecticut from 1766 to 1769. He died 
Oct. 1, 1769, in Hartford, Conn. 

PITMAN, BENN, author, educator, art 
critic, was born July 22, 1822, in Trow¬ 
bridge, England. In 1857, after four 
years of experiment¬ 
ing he was the first 
to perfect the mod¬ 
ern method of pro¬ 
ducing and printing 
from relief copper 
plates. For this he 
received a silver 
medal from the Art 
and Manufacturers’ 
exposition. During 
1873-93 he was 
a lecturer on art and 
teacher of practical 
art in the Cincinnati Art academy. He 
is the author of The Reporter’s Compan¬ 
ion; Manual of Phonography; and Phon¬ 
ographic Dictionary. 

PITMAN, CHARLES W., congressman, 
was born in New Jersey. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1849 to 1851. 

PITMAN, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1784 in Rhode Island. He was for 
forty years a judge of the United States 
district court in his state. He died Nov. 
17, 1864, in Providence, R. I. 

PITMAN, MRS. MARIE J. [DAVIS], 
journalist, author, was born March 17, 
1850, in Hartwick, N. Y. She was a jour¬ 
nalist and correspondent of Boston who 
published European Breezes and a num¬ 
ber of juvenile stories. She died Nov. 30, 
1888, in Hartwick, N. Y. 

PITNEY, MAHLON, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 5, 1858, in Morris¬ 
town, N. J. He is a successful lawyer of 
Morristown, N. J. In 1894 he was elected 
to the fifty-fourth congress; was re-elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fifth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

PITRAT, JULIUS E., manufacturer, in¬ 
ventor, was born Dec. 26, 1817, in Lyons, 
France. He emigrated to the United 
States in 1839; during 1885-88 he invented 
the computing scale. 

PITTENGER, WILLIAM, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 
31, 1840, in Knoxville, Ohio. He is a 
methodist clergyman and educator of 
Philadelphia, a federal soldier during the 
civil war; and the author of Daring and 
Suffering; Oratory, Sacred and Secular; 
and Extempore Speech. 

PITTS, EDMUND LEVI, lawyer, state 
senator, was born May 23, 1839, in Yates, 
N. Y. He was a member of the New York 
assembly from 1864 till 1868, and its 
speaker in 1867. From 1869 till 1873 he 
was United States assessor of internal 
revenue. He was a state senator from 
1880 till 1887, serving as president pro 
tempore in 1886-87. 



PITTS, JOHN, state senator, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1738 in Boston, Mass. 
He was selectman of Boston from 1773 till 
1778; represented the city in several pro¬ 
vincial congresses; and was speaker of 
the house in 1778, and afterward state 
senator. He died in 1815 in Tyngsboro. 

PITTSINGER, MRS. ELIZA A., poet, 
was born March 18, 1837, in Westhampton, 
Mass. She commenced life as a school 
teacher, then became 
a proofreader and 
reviewer in Boston. 
She moved to Cali¬ 
fornia, where she at¬ 
tracted attention by 
her stirring war 
songs and poems 
written during the 
civil war. She is the 
author of a volume 
of poems entitled 
Bugle Peals; and 
her poems have been 
included in Poets of America, and sev¬ 
eral other standard collections. 

P1TZER, ALEXANDER WHITE, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 
14, 1834, in Salem, Mass. He is a Presby¬ 
terian clergyman of Washington, profes¬ 
sor of biblical literature in Howard uni¬ 
versity from 1875; and the author of Ecce 
Deus Homo; Christ the Teacher of Men; 

. The New Life and Not the Higher Life; 
Confidence in Christ; and other works. 

PLAISTED, HARRIS MERRILL; sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born Nov. 2, 1828, in 
Jefferson, N. H. In 1861 he entered the 
volunteer service as lieutenant-colonel; 
and became a major-general by brevet. He 
served two years in the New Hampshire 
legislature; and was attorney-general for 
Maine from 1873 to 1875. He was elected 
a representative from that state to the 
forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy. He 
was governor of Maine from 1881 to 1883. 

PLANT, DAVID, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Stratford, Conn. 
In 1819 and 1820 he was speaker of the 
state nouse of representatives; in 1821 
a member of the state senate; and was 
twice re-elected. From 1823 to 1827 he 
was lieutenant-governor of the state; 
and from 1827 to 1829 was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Connecticut. He 
died Oct. 18, 1851. 

PLANT, HENRY BRADLEY, president 
of the Plant system, was born Oct. 27, 
1819, in Branford, Conn. He is president 
of the Plant system of railway and steam¬ 
ship lines and of the Southern and the 
Texas Express companies. 

PLANTEN, JOHN RUTGER, diplomat, 
was born Nov. 30, 1835, in Amsterdam, 
Netherlands. He attended the primary 
school in the Netherlands; the Columbia 
grammar schools of New York city; and 
the Columbia college. During 1874-84 he 
was vice-consul of the Netherlands; and 
since 1884 has been consul-general of the 
Netherlands. 

PLANTS, TOBIAS A., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born March 17, 
1811, in Beaver county, Pa. He was a 
member of the Ohio legislature from 1858 
to 1861. In 1864 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth 
congress; and was re-elected to the for¬ 
tieth congress as a republican. 

PLASSMANN, ERNST, artist, was born 
June 14, 1823, in Sondern, Westphalia. He 
executed many models for statuettes and 
ornamental metal work, and gained sev¬ 
eral medals at the American institute for 
his work in woodcarving and plaster mod¬ 
els. He published Modern Gothic Orna¬ 
ments, with thirty-three plates. He died 
Nov. 28, 1877, in New York city. 



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BIOGRAPHY. 


PLATER, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born in 1736 in 
St. Mary’s county, Md. He was judge of 
the Maryland court of appeals; and was 
a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1778 to 1781. He was president of 
the convention which ratified the federal 
constitution; and was governor of Mary¬ 
land in 1792. He died Feb. 10, 1792, in 
Annapolis, Md. 

PLATER, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1801 to 1805. 

PLATT, CHARLES ADAMS, artist, was 
born Oct. 16, 1861, in New York city. He 
has given much attention to etching, in 
which branch of art he has been very suc¬ 
cessful. His works include Interior of 
Fishhouses; Fishing Boats; Provincial 
Fishing Village; Old Houses Near Bruges; 
Deventer, Holland; Quai des OrfSvres, 
Paris; and Dieppe. 

PLATT, CHARLES DAVIS, educator, 
author, was born March 18, 1856, in Eliza¬ 
beth, N. J. He has been principal of the 
Morris academy at Morristown, N. J., 
since 1883. He is the author of a vol¬ 
ume entitled Ballads of New Jersey in the 
Revolution. 

PLATT, FRANKLIN, geologist, author, 
was born Nov. 19, 1844, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is a Pennsylvania geologist, presi¬ 
dent of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal 
company from 1881; and the author of 
Coke Manufacturing; Waste in Mining 
Anthracite; and other volumes of geo¬ 
logical reports. 

PLATT, JAMES H., soldier, physician, 
banker, congressman, was born July 13, 
1837, in Canada. He was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the constitutional convention of 
Virginia in 1867. He was president of the 
People’s Savings bank of Petersburg; and 
was elected a representative to the forty- 
first, forty-second and forty-third con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

PLATT, JONAS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 30, 1769, in 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was judge of the 
supreme court of New York; and was a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1799 to 1801. He died Feb. 22, 1834, 
in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

PLATT, ORVILLE HITCHCOCK, law¬ 
yer, state legislator. United States senator, 
was born July 19, 1827, in Washington, 
Conn. He was clerk of the Connecticut 
state senate in 1855 and 1856; and was 
secretary of the state in 1857. He was a 
state senator in 1861 and 1862; and was 
a representative in the state legislature 
in 1864 and 1869, serving the latter year 
as speaker. He was elected a senator of 
the United States from Connecticut as a 
republican for the term of six years from 
March 4, 1879; in 1885 was re-elected for 
a second term, ending March 3, 1891; and 
was again elected in 1897 for term ending 
in 1903. 

PLATT, THOMAS COLLIER, mer¬ 
chant, banker, congressman, United States 
senator, was born July 15, 1833, in Owego, 
N. Y. He was presi¬ 
dent of the Tioga 
National bank at its 
organization; and 
became largely inter¬ 
ested in the lumber¬ 
ing business in 
Michigan. He was 
county clerk of the 
county of Tioga in 
1859, 1860, and 1861; 
and was elected to 
the forty-third and 
forty-fourth con¬ 
gresses. He was elected United States 
senator in 1881, and resigned that office 


May 16 of the same year; and was chosen 
secretary and director of the United States 
Express company in 1879, and in 1880 was 
elected president of the company. He was 
member and president of the board of 
quarantine commissioners of New York 
from 1880 till 1888. He was president of 
the Southern Central railroad. He was 
elected United States senator in 1896, and 
took his seat March 4, 1897. His term 
of service will expire March 3, 1903. 

PLATT, WILLIAM HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 16, 1821, in 
Amenia, N. Y. He is an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of Rochester, N. Y., and more re¬ 
cently of Petersburg, Va. He is the au¬ 
thor of Influence of Religion in the De¬ 
velopment of Jurisprudence; After 
Death—What?; God Out and Man In; and 
The Philosophy of the Supernatural. 

PLATT, ZEPHANIAH, congressman, 
was born in 1740 in Dutchess county, N. 
Y. He was a delegate from New York 
to the continental congress from 1784 to 
1786. 

PLATT, ZEPHANIAH, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1796 in Plattsburg, N. Y. He 
was appointed by the United States gov¬ 
ernment its attorney to settle its claims 
on the Pacific coast. He was state at¬ 
torney-general of Michigan for several 
years, and took high rank at the bar. He 
removed to South Carolina at the close of 
the civil war, and from 1868 until his 
death was judge of the second circuit. He 
died April 20, 1871, in Aiken, S. C. 

PLAUTZ, SAMUEL, clergyman, college 
president, was born June 13, 1859, in 
Gloversville, N. Y. For many years he 
filled a pastorate in Detroit; and is now 
the president of the Lawrence university 
of Appleton, Wis. 

PLEASANTON, AUGUSTUS JAMES, 
soldier, author, was born in 1808 in Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia. He was an army officer 
prominent for a short time as the author 
of a work on the Influence of the Blue 
Ray in Developing Animal and Vegetable 
Life. He died in 1894. 

PLEASANTS, JAMES, congressman, 
governor, United States senator, was born 
Oct. 24, 1769, in Goochland county, Va. 
He was a representative in congress from 
1811 to 1819; and was United States sen¬ 
ator from 1819 to 1822. He was governor 
of Virginia from 1822 to 1825. He died 
Nov. 9, 1836, in Goochland county, Va. 

PLEASANTS, JOHN HAMPDEN, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Jan. 4, 1797, in Goochland 
county, Va. He removed to Richmond, 
Va., and in 1824 founded the Constitution¬ 
al Whig and Public Advertiser, and was 
its chief editor for twenty-two years. He 
died Feb. 27, 1846, in Richmond, Va. 

PLEASONTON, ALFRED, soldier, was 
born June 7, 1824, in Washington, D. C. 
In 1844 he graduated from the United 
States Military acad¬ 
emy. He took part 
in the Mexican war; 
served on frontier 
duty; and was an 
adjutant-general in 
the Seminole war. In 
1861 he was appoint¬ 
ed major; in 1862 
was appointed brig¬ 
adier-general of vol¬ 
unteers; and subse¬ 
quently became a 
major-general. He 
participated in the numerous actions that 
preceded the battle of Gettysburg, and 
was commander-in-chief of the cavalry in 
that engagement. In 1865 he was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general of the United 
States army. In 1868 he became United 
States collector of internal revenue; and 


a few years later was appointed president 
of the Terre Haute and Cincinnati rail¬ 
road. 

PLOWMAN, THOMAS SCALES, sol¬ 
dier, merchant, banker, congressman, 
was born June 8, 1843. After the 

war he engaged in the mercantile 
business; and was three times mayor 
of Talladega, Ala. For a number of 
years he has been president of the First 
National bank of Talladega, which he or¬ 
ganized. He was elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a democrat. 

PLUMB, CHARLES SUMNER, educat¬ 
or, author, was born April 21, 1860, in 
Westfield, Mass. He has been professor 
of agriculture in various institutions; and 
since 1890 with the Purdue university of 
La Fayette, Ind. He is the author of 
A Biographical Directory of American 
Agricultural Scientists; Indian Corn 
Culture; and during 1887-91 edited and 
published a monthly magazine entitled 
Agricultural Science. 

PLUMB, PRESTON B., soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, state legislator, United 
States senator, was born Oct. 12, 1837, in 
Berkshire, Ohio. In 
1856 he moved to 
Kansas; and the 
following year was 
instrumental in lay¬ 
ing out the town site 
of Emporia; and 
founded The Kansas 
News. In 1851 he 
was a member of 
the Leavenworth 
constitutional con¬ 
vention; was admit¬ 
ted to the bar in 
1861; and served with distinction through 
the civil war, attaining the rank of col¬ 
onel. In 1867-68 he was a representative 
in the state legislature; and in 1877 be¬ 
came a United States senator from Kan¬ 
sas; and was re-elected in 1883 and in 
1888. For fifteen years he was president 
of the Emporia National bank. He died 
Dec. 20, 1891, in Washington, D. C. 

PLUMB, RALPH, soldier, merchant, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born March 29, 1816, in Busti, N. Y. In 
1854 he was elected a representative in the 
Ohio state legislature and served three 
sessions. He was brevetted lieutenant- 
colonel for long and meritorious service 
in the civil war. In 1866 he moved to Il¬ 
linois; and in 1882 was elected mayor of 
Streatou without an opposing vote, and 
continued in that office until 1885. In 1884 
he was elected a representative from Illi¬ 
nois to the forty-ninth and fiftieth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

PLUMER, ARNOLD, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1837 to 1839, 
and again from 1841 to 1843. He was sub¬ 
sequently appointed United States mar¬ 
shall for the western district of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 

PLUMER, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born in Allegheny county, Pa. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1821 to 1827. 

PLUMER, WILLIAM, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, governor, United States senator, 
was born June 25, 1759, in Newburyport, 
Mass. He was for many years solicitor 
for the county of Rockingham; was for 
eight years a member of the state legis¬ 
lature, two years speaker of the house; 
and served as a member and president of 
the state senate. He was a senator in 
congress from 1802 to 1807; and was gov¬ 
ernor of New Hampshire in 1813, and from 
1816 to 1819. He died June 22, 1850, in 
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PLUMER, WILLIAM, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, author, poet, was 
born Oct. 9, 1789, in Epping, N. H. He 
frequently served in the state legisla¬ 
ture; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New Hampshire from 1819 to 
1825. He was an active congressional op¬ 
ponent of slavery; and the author of 
Lyra Sacra; and A Pastoral on the Story 
of Ruth. He died Sept. 18, 1854, in Ep¬ 
ping, N. H. 

PLUMER, WILLIAM SWAN, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born July 25, 1802, 
in Griersburg (now Darlington), Pa. He 
was a presbyterian clergyman of extreme 
Calvinistic views, and professor of the¬ 
ology in the Theological seminary at Col¬ 
umbia, S. C., in 1856-80. His principal 
writings include, Pastoral Theology; Je- 
hovah-jireh; Studies in the Book of 
Psalms; The Book of Our Salvation; 
Words of Truth and Love; The Saint and 
The Sinner; Vital Godliness; Comment¬ 
ary on Romans; and A Word to the 
Weary. He diea in 1880. 

PLUMLEY, BENJAMIN RUSH, author, 
was born March 10, 1816, in Newton, Pa. 
During the civil war he served on the 
staff of Gen. John C. Fremont, and sub¬ 
sequently he was on that of Gen. Nathan¬ 
iel P. Banks. He afterward settled in 
Galveston, Texas. His woa-ks include 
Kathaleen McKinley, the Kerry Girl; 
Rachel Lockwood; Lays of the Quakers, 
which Appeared in the Knickerbocker; 
and Oriental Ballads, in the Atlantic 
Monthly. He died Dec. 9, 1887, in Galves¬ 
ton, Texas. 

PLUMLEY, GARDINER S., clergyman, 
poet, was born Aug. 11, 1827, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. For many years he has edited 
The Learner and Teacher of New York 
city. He has composed numerous hymns; 
and is the author of a volume of poems. 

PLUMMER, FRANKLIN E., lawyer, 
jurist, congressman. He was at one time 
a judge of the circuit court of Missis¬ 
sippi; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1831 to 1835. 
He died Sept. 24, 1852, in Jackson, Miss. 

PLUMMER, JOSEPH B., soldier, was 
born Aug. 10, 1820, in Barre, Mass. He 
served in Florida, on the western frontier, 
and in the Mexican war, became lieuten¬ 
ant in 1848, and captain in 1852. He was 
appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, 
and became major of infantry in 1862. 
He died Aug. 9, 1862, near Corinth, Miss. 

PLUMMER, WILLIAM A., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was horn Dec. 2, 1865, in Gilman- 
ton, N. H. He attended the Gilmanton 
academy, Dartmouth 
college, and the Bos¬ 
ton University 
School of Law. In 
1893 he served with 
distinction as a rep¬ 
resentative in the 
New Hampshire leg¬ 
islature. He is now 
a prominent lawyer 
of Laconia, N. H., 
and a member of the 
board of education 
of that city. He is a 
member of the national democratic state 
committee; and in 1896 was alternate del¬ 
egate to the national democratic conven¬ 
tion. 

PLUMSTED, CLEMENT, mayor of 
Philadelphia, was born in 1680 in Phila¬ 
delphia. He came to Philadelphia about 
the time he attained his majority, became 
a successful merchant, and its mayor. He 
died May 26, 1745, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PLUNKETT, JOSEPH DANIEL, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, legislator, was born July 5, 


1842, in Ireland. He served as a soldier 
during the civil war. He entered into the 
active practice of law in New Haven, 
Conn. During 1883-84 he represented his 
district in the general assembly of Con¬ 
necticut. 

PLYMPTON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
civil engineer, journalist, author, was born 
Nov. 18, 1827, in Waltham, Mass. He is a 
civil engineer of note, editor of Van Nos¬ 
trand’s Engineering Magazine in 1870-86; 
and the author of The Blow-pipe; The 
Starfinder; and The Aneroid. 

POCAHONTAS, Indian heroine, was 
born in 1594. She was a daughter of Pow¬ 
hatan, an Indian chief of Virginia. She 
saved the life of Capt. John Smith, who 
was condemned to death by her father. 
She subsequently married Thomas Rolfe; 
accompanied her husband to England, 
where she was presented to court. She 
died a year later, at the age of twenty- 
three, leaving one son. This son was edu¬ 
cated in England; afterward returned to 
Virginia; became wealthy and distin¬ 
guished; and from whom have descended 
several well-known families of that state. 
She died in 1617. 

POE, CASWELL T., physician, sur¬ 
geon, poet, was born March 27, 1830, in 
Richmond, Va. For nearly half a century 
he has followed his 
profession of physi¬ 
cian and surgeon, 
and for the past 
quarter of a century 
has practiced in 
Grand Island, Neb. 
He was city physi¬ 
cian for six terms; 
county physician for 
nine years; and med¬ 
ical director of St. 
Frances hospital for 
five years; volun¬ 
tarily resigning each of these positions be¬ 
cause of his advanced age. He is a de¬ 
scendant of the Poe family of which 
Edgar Allan Poe was a member. Dr. Poe 
is the author of a number of poems of 
merit which have been given a place in 
several standard collections. 

POE, EDGAR ALLAN, author, poet, 
was born Jan. 19, 1809, in Boston, Mass. 
At nineteen he published his first volume, 
Tamerlane, and Oth¬ 
er Poems. He led a 
wandering, dissipat¬ 
ed life, editing at 
various times 
Graham’s Magazine, 
The Southern Liter¬ 
ary Messenger, and 
other periodicals, 
and died of delirium 
tremens in Balti¬ 
more. Among his 
prose tales, The Gold 
Bug; The Fall of the 
House of Usher; and Ligeia, are especially 
characteristic of his genius, while such 
poems as The Bells, The Raven, Annabel 
Lee, display wonderful melody and per¬ 
fect mastery of metre. Beside Tamerlane, 
his writings include, The Conchologist’s 
First Book; Eureka, a Prose Poem; The 
Raven, and Other Poems; Tales of the 
Grotesque and Arabesque; and The Nar¬ 
rative of Arthur Gordon Pym. The best 
edition of Poe is that edited by E. C. Sted- 
man and G. E. Woodbury, in ten volumes. 
He died Oct. 7, 1849, in Baltimore, Md. 

POE, ORLANDO METCALFE, soldier, 
was born March 7, 1832, in Navarre, Ohio. 
In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general 
for gallant and meritorious service dur¬ 
ing the civil war. 

POEHLER, HENRY, merchant, state 
senator, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 


1833, in Germany. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in the first legislature of Min¬ 
nesota after its admission as a state in 
1857 and 1858, and again in 1865. He was 
a state senator in 1872 and 1873, and in 
1876 and 1877; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Minnesota to the forty- 
sixth congress as a democrat. 

POINDEXTER, GEORGE, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, governor, United States 
senator, was born in 1779 in Louisa coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was made attorney-general of 
Mississippi; was a delegate to congress 
from the territory from 1807 to 1813, when 
he was appointed federal judge of the ter¬ 
ritory. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1817 to 1819; was the second 
governor of Mississippi under the state 
constitution from 1819 to 1821; and was 
a United States senator from Mississippi 
from 1830 to 1835. He died Sept. 5, 1853', 
in Jackson, Miss. 

ROINSETT, JOEL ROBERTS, congress¬ 
man, author, was born March 2, 1779, in 
Charleston, S. C. He was a representative 
in congress from South Carolina from 
1821 to 1825. He was appointed United 
States minister to Mexico; and was sec¬ 
retary of war under President Van Buren. 
He was a botanist of some note, the genus 
Poinsetiia having been named in his hon¬ 
or; and the author of Notes on Mexico, 
made in 1822. He died Dec. 14, 1851, in 
Statesburg, S. C. 

POLAND, JOHN SCROGGS, soldier, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Oct. 14, 1836, in 
Princeton, Ind. In 1886 he was promoted 
lieutenant-colonel of the twenty-first in¬ 
fantry. He has published Digest of the 
Military Laws of the United States. 

POLAND, LUKE P., lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, United States 
senator, was born Nov. 1, 1815, in West- 
ford, Vt. In 1848 he was elected one of 
the judges of the supreme court of Ver¬ 
mont, which office he continued to hold 
by annual elections until 1865, when he 
was appointed to fill a vacancy in the 
United States senate. Just before his ap¬ 
pointment to the United States senate he 
had been re-elected to the supreme bench, 
upon which he held the position of chief 
justice, to which he was promoted in 1860. 
He was subsequently elected a representa¬ 
tive from Vermont to the fortieth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
first, forty-second, forty-third, and forty- 
eighth congresses as a republican. He 
died July 2, 1887, in Waterville, Vt. 

POLK, CHARLES, state senator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1787 in Kent county, 
Del. He served in the Delaware state sen¬ 
ate; was register of wills for a long time; 
and was collector of customs. He was 
twice governor of the state, once by elec¬ 
tion, and once by substitution as speaker 
of the senate. He died Oct. 28, 1857. 

POLK, JAMES KNOX, eleventh presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born Nov. 
2, 1795, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. 

His ancestors’ name 
was Pollock. In 
1806 his father and 
family moved to 
Nashville, Tenn. 
James graduated 
at the university of 
North Carolina in 
1818, and was admit¬ 
ted to the bar in 
1820. In 1823 he was 
elected to the Ten¬ 
nessee legislature, 
and was a member of 
that body two years. In 1825 he was elect¬ 
ed to the national house of representa¬ 
tives. He held the office by re-elections 
for fourteen years, and was chosen speak- 








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er of the house two terms. He was elect¬ 
ed governor of Tennessee in 1839, and was 
a candidate for re-election in 1841, but 
was defeated. He was again a candidate 
for the same office in 1843, and was again 
defeated. On the 27th of May, 1844, the 
national democratic convention assem¬ 
bled at Baltimore. On the first ballot 
Martin Van Buren received 146 votes; 
Lewis Cass, 83; Richard Mentor John¬ 
son, 24; John Caldwell Calhoun, 6, and 7 
scattering. Mr. Van Buren received a 
majority, but a rule of the convention re¬ 
quired a two-thirds vote to nominate. 
On the eighth ballot Van Buren received 
104; Cass, 114; James Knox Polk, 44. 
On the ninth ballot the vote was unani¬ 
mous for Mr. Polk. George Mifflin Dallas 
was nominated for vice-president. They 
were elected the coming autumn, and took 
the oath of office March 4, 1845. On the 
3d of March, 1849, Mr. Polk’s administra¬ 
tion closed. He returned to his home in 
Nashville, and died June 15, 1849. Polk 
held office twenty-two years. He left 
about $150,000. 

POLK, JEFFERSON SCOTT, lawyer, 
railway president, was born Feb. 18, 1831, 
near Georgetown, Ivy. He received his 
education at the Georgetown college, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1854. In 1856 
he moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where he 
engaged in the practice of law, and soon 
ranked with the ablest lawyers in the 
state. In 1885 he retired from the active 
practice of the law, and devoted his time 
and attention to his various personal in¬ 
terests; and has since then been engaged 
in promoting the building of various rail¬ 
roads leading into the city of Des Moines; 
in building other public improvements; 
and is largely interested in and president 
of the consolidated street railway system 
in the city of Des Moines. 

POLK, JOHN A., farmer, legislator, was 
born March 12, 1829, in Nelson county, 
Ky. He has given much of his time to 
grange and farmers’ institute work; and 
for two terms was a representative in the 
Indiana state legislature. He is presi¬ 
dent of the Indianapolis, Greenwood and 
Franklin Electric railroad. 

POLK, LUCIUS EUGENE, soldier, state 
senator, was born July 10, 1833, in Salis¬ 
bury, N. C. At the beginning of the civil 
war he entered the confederate army as a 
private under Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne, 
but was soon commissioned first lieuten¬ 
ant. He was rapidly promoted until he 
was made brigadier-general in 1862. In 
1884 he was a delegate to the national 
democratic convention at Chicago, and in 
1887 became a member of the senate of the 
state of Tennessee. 

POLK, MILTON D., journalist, lawyer, 
legislator, was born March 29, 1858, in 
New Castle, Ind. His father was born in 
South Carolina, of the same family as 
James K. Polk. He received his education 
in the Nebraska state university. Dur¬ 
ing 1888-89 he represented his county in 
the Nebraska state senate; has prac¬ 
ticed law since 1890 in Plattsmouth, Neb.; 
and since 1891 has been editor and owner 
of the Daily News and the News-Herald of 
that city. 

POLK, TRUSTEN. lawyer, governor, 
United States senator, was born May 29, 
1811, in Sussex county, Del. In 1856 he 
was elected governor of Missouri; and re¬ 
signed for a seat in the United States sen¬ 
ate, to which he was elected for a term of 
six years from March 4, 1857. He was ex¬ 
pelled for disloyalty Jan. 10, 1862. He 
died April 16, 1876, in St. Louis, Mo. 

POLK, WILLIAM, patriot, was born 
. July 9, 1758, in Mecklenburg county, N. 
cC. In 1787 he was elected a member of 


the general assembly; and in 1812 was ap¬ 
pointed a brigadier-general in the regular 
army. He died Jan. 4, 1834, in Raleigh, 
N. C. 

POLK, WILLIAM HAWKINS, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born May 24, 1815, in Maury county, Tenn. 
In 1841 and 1843 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the Tennessee state legisla¬ 
ture; and was appointed charge d’ af¬ 
faires to Naples, where he negotiated a 
treaty with the Two Sicilies. He was a 
representative in congress from Tennessee 
from 1851 to 1853. He was a brother of 
President Polk. He died Dec. 16, 1862, in 
Nashville, Tenn. 

POLLARD, EDWARD ALBERT, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Feb. 27, 1828, in 
Nelson county, Va. He was a once noted 
journalist of Richmond, Va., and an active 
opponent of the policy of Jefferson Davis 
during the civil war. He was the author 
of Black Diamonds; Letters of,the South¬ 
ern Spy; Southern History of the War; 
Observations in the North; The Lost 
Cause; The Lost Cause Regained; Lee 
and his Lieutenants; Life of Jefferson Da¬ 
vis, with the Secret History of the Con¬ 
federacy; and The Virginia Tourist. He 
died Dec. 12, 1872, in Lynchburg, Va. 

POLLARD, HENRY M., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 14, 1836, in 
Plymouth, Vt. In 1865 he moved to Chilli- 
cothe, Mo., and practiced law. He was 
elected to the forty-fifth congress. 

POLLARD, HENRY RIVES, journalist, 
was born Aug. 29, 1833, in Nelson coun¬ 
ty, Va. In 1867 he established, with his 
brother, Southern Opinion, in Richmond, 
Va., of which he continued until his death 
one of the editors and proprietors. He 
died Nov. 24, 1868, in Richmond, Va. 

POLLARD, JOSEPH GREELEY, manu¬ 
facturer, legislator, was born Feb. 11, 
1833, in' Milton, N. H. He was a suc¬ 
cessful leather manufacturer in Woburn, 
Mass., but is not in active business now. 
During 1866-68 he was a member of the 
Massachusetts house of representatives, 
and in 1869-70 was a member of the state 
senate. 

POLLARD, JOSEPHINE, litterateur, 
author, was born about 1840 in New 
York city. She was a writer of New York 
city, whose work was mainly intended for 
juvenile readers. She was the author of 
The Gypsy Books; A Piece of Silver; El¬ 
fin Land; Vagrant Verses; Songs of Bird 
Life; The Decorative Sisters; The Boston 
Tea Party; and Gellivor, a Christmas 
Legend. 

POLLOCK, AUGUSTUS, merchant, ban¬ 
ker, was born July 5, 1830, in Westphalia. 
He emigrated to America in 1849; and in 
1852 started in busi¬ 
ness for himself in 
Baltimore, Md. Two 
years later he moved 
his business to 
Wheeling, W. Va., 
which has since been 
his home. In 1860 he 
established a whole¬ 
sale notion house in 
Wheeling, which he 
continued until 1871. 
He then founded a 
cigar and tobacco 
factory, which he still continues, employ¬ 
ing regularly over one hundred hands in 
the production of Crown Stogie cigars. He 
has always been a leader in every move¬ 
ment that had for its object the develop¬ 
ment of the business interests of his 
adopted city. He had been president of 
the German bank; president of the West 
Virginia Tobacco company; a director in 


the German Insurance company, and other 
incorporations. During the civil war he 
encouraged the organization of the first 
German company of Wheeling volunteers 
in the union army, and enlisted himself in 
the home guards. 

POLLOCK, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born Sept. 11, 
1810, in Milton, Pa. He was a judge of the 
court of common pleas; was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from his native state 
from 1843 to 1849; and was governor of 
Pennsylvania from 1855 to 1858. He was a 
delegate to the peace congress of 1861; 
and in that year was appointed director 
of the United States mint in Philadelphia, 
serving as such until 1867. He died April 
19, 1890, in Lock Haven, Pa. 

POLLOCK. WILLIAM D., educator, law¬ 
yer, was born Oct. 24, 1862, in Onslow 
county, N. C. He received his education 
in the university of North Carolina; has 
been superintendent of public instruc¬ 
tion, mayor of Kingston, N. C.; and chair¬ 
man of the democratic executive commit¬ 
tee of his county. He is a prominent lavy- 
yer of Kingston, N. C. 

POLSLEY, DANIEL, agriculturist, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 
28, 1803, near Fairmont, Va. He was elect¬ 
ed lieutenant-governor of the state, which 
position he held until West Virginia was 
admitted into the union. He was subse¬ 
quently elected judge of the seventh judi¬ 
cial circuit for six years; and in 1866 was 
elected a representative from West Vir¬ 
ginia to the fortieth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

POMEROY, BENJAMIN, clergyman, 
was born Nov. 19, 1704, in Suffield, Conn. 
He was ordained pastor on Dec. 16, 1735, in 
Hebron. During the French and Indian 
war he was chaplain to the American 
army, and he filled a like office during the 
revolutionary war. He was active in the 
movement that led to the founding of 
Dartmouth college, becoming one of its 
first trustees. He died Dec. 22, 1784, in 
Hebron, Conn. 

POMEROY, CHARLES, lawyer, banker, 
congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1825, in 
Meriden, Conn. He became president of 
the national bank in Fort Dodge, Iowa. 
He was elected a representative from Iowa 
to the forty-first congress as a republican. 

POMEROY, JOHN NORTON, educator, 
lawyer, author, was born April 12, 1828, in 
Rochester, N. Y. He was a lawyer of 
Rochester, N. Y., but subsequently pro¬ 
fessor of law in the university of Califor¬ 
nia in 1878-85. He was the author of In¬ 
troduction to Municipal Law; Remedies 
and Remedial Rights; Specific Perform¬ 
ance of Contract; Equity Jurisprudence; 
Riparian Rights; Introduction to United 
States Constitutional Law; and Lectures 
on International Law in Time of Peace. 
He died Feb. 15, 1885, in San Francisco, 
Cal. 

POMEROY, MARCUS MILLS,*journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Dec. 25, 1833, in El¬ 
mira, N. Y. He was a journalist success¬ 
ively of La Crosse, Wis.; New York city, 
and Chicago. He was the author of Sense; 
Nonsense; Gold Dust; Brick Dust; Our 
Saturday Nights; Home Harmonies; and 
Perpetual Money. He died in 1896. 

POMEROY, SAMUEL CLARKE, lawyer, 
state legislator, United States senator, 
was born Jan. 3, 1816, in Southampton, 
Mass. He was elected to the legislature of 
Massachusetts in 1852. He moved to Kan¬ 
sas; and in 1861 took his seat in the 
United States senate from Kansas for six 
years. He was re-elected to the senate 
for the term ending in 1873; and subse¬ 
quently settled in Washington city. 




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POMEROY, SETH, soldier, was born 
May 20, 1706, in Northampton, Mass. He 
was an ardent patriot, and in 1774-75 
served as a delegate to the provincial con¬ 
gress, by which he was elected a general 
officer in 1774, and brigadier-general in 
1775. He died Feb. 19, 1777, in Peekskill. 

POMEROY, THEODORE MEDAD, law¬ 
yer, banker, congressman, was born Dec. 
31, 1824, in Cayoga, N. Y. During 1851-56 
he was district attorney of Cayuga coun¬ 
ty, N. Y.; a member of the assembly of 
the New York state legislature in 1857; 
and a member of the thirty-seventh, thir¬ 
ty-eighth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth con¬ 
gresses during 1861-69, being speaker of 
the house in 1869. In 1875-76 he was may¬ 
or of the city of Auburn, N. Y.; was a 
state senator in 1878-79; and has taken 
an active part in the public and political 
affairs of his state. 

POND, BENJAMIN, state legislator, 
congressman. He sen ed four years in the 
assembly of New York from Essex county. 
He was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1811 to 1813; and was re¬ 
elected. He died in June, 1815, in Scliroon 
N. Y. 

POND, C. H., governor. He was elected 
lieutenant-governor of Connecticut in 
1853; and was subsequently acting gov¬ 
ernor of the state for almost one year. 

POND, CHESTER PRATT, educator, 
author, poet, was born Nov. 10, 1827, in 
Venango county, Pa. In 1857 he opened 
the business school in Kansas at Leaven¬ 
worth. For fifty years he has been a 
business college teacher; and now con¬ 
ducts a private school of business in To¬ 
peka. He is the author of several prose 
works, and a volume of poems. 

POND, ENOCH, educator, clergyman, 
college president, author, was born July 
29, 1791, in Wrentham, Mass. He was a 
•congregational clergyman, professor in 
the Theological seminary at Bangor, 
Maine, from 1832, and its president from 
1856. He was the author of Text-Book 
of Ecclesiastical History: Pastoral Theol¬ 
ogy; Memoir of Zinzendorf; Life of In¬ 
crease Mather; Plato: his Life, Works, 
'Opinions, and Influence; Christian Theol¬ 
ogy; and History of God’s Church. He 
■died Jan. 21, 1882, in Bangor, Maine. 

POND, FREDERICK EUGENE, author, 
was born April 8, 1856, in Backwaukee, 
Wis. He is a sporting writer and editor 
of Chicago; and the author of Handbook 
for Young Sportsmen; Memoirs of Emi¬ 
nent Sportsmen; and Gun Trial and Field 
Records of America. 

POND, GEORGE EDWARD, journalist, 

■ author, was born March 11, 1837, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He is a journalist of New York 
• and Philadelphia, editor of The Army and 
Navy Journal; and the author of The 
Shenandoah Valley in 1864. 

POND, JAMES BURTON, soldier, lec¬ 
ture manager, was born June 11, 1838, in 
Cuba, N. Y. He served in the civil war; 
attained for gaiiant services the rank of 
major. After the civil war he entered 
into the mercantile business; and is now 
a lecture manager. 

POND, SAMUEL WILLIAM, mission¬ 
ary, author, was born April 10, 1808, in 
Washington. Conn. He is a congregational 
missionary to the Indians in Minnesota; 
and the author of History of Joseph in the 
Dakota Language; and Wonapi Inonpa, 
the Second Dakota Reading Book. 

POND, WILLIAM ADAMS, soldier, mu¬ 
sic-publisher, was born Oct. 6, 1824, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. He became well known as a 
publisher, and at the time of his death 
was president of the United States Music 
Publishers’ association. He died Aug. 12, 
1885, in New-York city. 


PONDER, JAMES, merchant, state sen¬ 
ator, governor, was born Oct. 31, 1819, in 
Milton, Del. In 1856 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative to the Delaware legislature; 
and in 1864 was elected state senator, and 
in^l867 became speaker of that body. In 
1870 he was elected governor of Delaware 
for the term ending in 1875. 

POOK, SAMUEL HARTT, naval con¬ 
structor, was born Jan. 17, 1827, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. In 1842 he became a naval 
architect, and in 1866 was appointed con¬ 
structor in the United States navy. 

POOK, SAMUEL MOORE, naval con¬ 
structor, was born Aug. 15, 1804, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was the inventor of nu¬ 
merous devices connected with his pro¬ 
fession, and wrote A Method of Compar¬ 
ing the Lines; and Draughting Vessels 
Propelled by Sail or Steam. He died Dec. 
2, 1878, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

POOL, CHARLES C., lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born in 1845 in Elizabeth City, 
N. C. He was a member of the state con¬ 
stitutional convention in 1868, and in 1870 
was elected a judge of the superior court 
of the state of North Carolina. He was 
twice elected a member of congress, and 
in 1896 became mayor of his native city. 

POOL, JOHN, lawyer, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born June 16, 1826, in Pasquo¬ 
tank county, N. C. He was elected to the 
North Carolina state 
senate in 1856 and 
1858; and was again 
chosen to the state 
senate as a peace 
candidate. He took 
a leading part in the 
movements for peace. 
He was a member of 
the state constitu¬ 
tional convention of 
1865, and was again 
elected to the senate. 
In 1865 he was elect¬ 
ed a senator in congress from North 
Carolina, but was not admitted; and in 
1868 was re-elected to the same position 
for the term ending in 1873. He died Aug. 
18, 1884, in Washington, D. C. 

POOL, MARIA LOUISE, author, was 
born in 1845 in Massachusetts. She was a 
novelist of Rockland, Mass., for many 
years a writer for the New York Tribune; 
and the author of In Buncombe County; 
A Vacation in a Buggy; Tenting at Stony 
Beach; Dolly; Roweny in Boston; Mrs. 
Keats Bradford; Out of Step; The Two 
Salomes; Katharine North; Mrs. Gerald; 
Against Human Nature; In a Dike Shan¬ 
ty; In the First Person; and Boss and 
Other Dogs. 

POOL, WALTER F., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 10, 1850, in Elizabeth 
City, N. C. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from North Carolina to the forty- 
eighth congress. He died Aug. 25, 1883, 
in Elizabeth City, N. C. 

POOLE, DANIEL, soldier, manufactur¬ 
er, inventor, was born June 10, 1797, in 
Abingdon, Mass. He was the inventor and 
patentee of shoe nails, and other valuable 
nails and tacks, which he manufactured 
in Philadelphia, Pa. About 1827 he in¬ 
vented and patented a cracker machine, 
and also a spinning jenny. He also in¬ 
vented a dredging machine, brick-making 
machinery, and a quartz crusher. He died 
March 5, 1864, at Mt. Carmel, Ill., of which 
city he was mayor in 1854. 

POOLE, EDWARD, colonist, was born 
in 1609 in Weymouth, England. In 1639 
he came to America and founded Wey¬ 
mouth, Mass. He was a large landed pro¬ 
prietor, an influential man, and died in 
1664. 


POOLE, EDWARD VALENTINE, bank¬ 
er, was born April 3, 1826,. in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He founded the First National bank 
of Pittston, Pa., and the Home Savings 
bank of South Waverly, Pa. He was cap¬ 
tain of an independent military company. 
He died Oct. 6, 1887, in Wyoming, Del. 

POOLE, FITCH, journalist, librarian, 
state legislator, author, poet, was born 
June 13, 1803, in Danvers, Mass. He 
edited the Danvers Wizard from its estab¬ 
lishment in 1859 till 1868. He was the 
founder of the Mechanics’ Institute li¬ 
brary, which afterward became the Pea¬ 
body institute, and he was its librarian 
from 1856 till his death. He was in the 
legislature in 1841-42, and held several lo¬ 
cal offices. He was the author of numerous 
satirical- ballads that attained popularity, 
the best known of which was Giles Corey’s 
Dream. He died Aug. 19, 1873, in Pea¬ 
body, Mass. 

POOLE, MRS. HESTER MARTHA 
[HUNT], author, was born in 1843 in Ver¬ 
mont. She is a writer living at Metut- 
chen, N. J., who has written much for 
periodicals on social and domestic topics; 
and the author of Fruits and How to Use 
Them. 

POOLE, JAMES EARL, lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, was born Sept. 10, 1852, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He served as mayor of Wei¬ 
mar, Tex., for two terms; in 1880 he was 
prosecuting attorney of his county; and 
in 1884-90 was county judge for three 
terms. He is the editor and owner of 
the Free Press of Haskell, Tex. 

POOLE, MURRAY EDWARD, lawyer, 
author, was born July 17, 1857, in Centre 
Moreland, Pa. He attended the Wyoming 
seminary, and in 
1880 graduated from 
the Cornell univer¬ 
sity with the degree 
of A. B. In 1889 he 
was admitted to the 
bar; and the same 
year was appointed 
special county judge 
by Governor David 
B. Hill. He is the 
author of the His¬ 
tory of Edward Poole 
of Weymouth, Mass.; 
and His Descendants; and has contribu¬ 
ted to several cyclopedias and numerous 
leading newspapers and magazines. He is 
a member of the American Historical as¬ 
sociation, the American Bar association 
Society of the Sons of the Revolution, 
Society of Colonial Wars, Military Society 
of Foreign Wars, Society of the War of 

1812, and over eighty other historical and 
learned societies in the United States and 
foreign countries. 

POOLE. SAMUEL, legislator, was born 
in 1790 in Weymouth, Mass. He was one 
of the original settlers of Abington, 
Mass., and the first representative of that 
place to the general court in 1735, in 
which he served several successive years. 
He died in 1785. 

POOLE, SAMUEL, JR., patriot of the 
revolutionary war, was born Sept. 18, 

1813, in Abington, Mass. He was a rep¬ 
resentative to the general court in 1765, 
and 1778-80, and a member of the first 
state constitutional convention of 1879 
He died April 28, 1796, in Plainfield, Mass. 

POOLE, SAMUEL, soldier, farmer, was 
born Aug. 27, 1736, in Abington, Mass 
He was a soldier in the old French and 
Indian wars, and became a second-lieu¬ 
tenant in the revolutionary war, in which 
he served five years. He died Dec. 19 
1830, at Easton, Mass. 




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POOLE, STEPHEN D., educator, jour¬ 
nalist, was born in 1852 in North Caro¬ 
lina. In 1882 he became state superin¬ 
tendent of public instruction of North 
Carolina; and subsequently was editor of 
the New Orleans Daily Bee. He died in 
1889 in New Orleans, La. 

POOLE, THEODORE L., soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, congressman, was born April 10, 
1840, in Elbridge, N. Y. He enlisted as 
quartermaster - ser¬ 
geant in the one 
hundred and twenty- 
second regiment New 
York volunteers in 
1862. He was dis¬ 
charged as captain 
and brevet major in 
1866. He was county 
clerk of Onondaga 
county in 1868-70; 
and United States 
pension agent for the 
western district of 
New York from 1879 to 1888; commander 
of the department of New York, Grand 
Army of the Republic, in 1892. He has 
been engaged in the manufacture of salt 
and is interested in various manufacturing 
and other corporations; and is one of the 
directors of the bank of Syracuse. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

POOLE, WILLIAM FREDERICK, bibli¬ 
ographer, librarian, author, was born Dec. 
24, 1821, in Salem, Mass. He was a bibli¬ 
ographer of Chicago, librarian of the Pub¬ 
lic library there in 1874-87, and, from the 
latter date, of the Newberry library, Chi¬ 
cago. He is best known as compiler of 
Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature. 
Two supplementary volumes carry the 
work forward to January, 1892. Other works 
ol his are, Anti-Slavery Opinions before 
1800; The Battle of the Dictionaries; 
Websterian Orthography; and Cotton 
Mather and Salem Witchcraft. He died in 
1894. 

POOLE, WILLARD HENRY, educator, 
author, was born in 1864 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is an educator of Fall River, 
Mass.; and the author of Elementary 
Course in Experimental Physics. 

POOLEY, JAMES HENRY, educator, 
journalist, physician, surgeon, author, 
was born Nov. 17, 1839, in England. Since 
1883 he has held the chair of surgery in 
Toledo Medical college. He has edited the 
Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal since 
1876, and has been a voluminous contribu¬ 
tor to surgical literature. 

POOR, CHARLES HElSfRY, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born June 11, 1808, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He served with distinction 
in the civil war, attaining the rank of 
rear-admiral. He died Nov. 5, 1882, in 
Washington, D. C. 

POOR, ENOCH, soldier, was born June 
21, 1736’ in Andover, Mass. He served 
through the civil war, attaining the rank 
of brigadier-general in 1777. He died Sept. 
8, 1780, in Hackensack, N. J. 

POOR, HENRY VARNUM, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in December, 
1812, in Andover, Maine. In 1868 he pub¬ 
lished a Manual of the Railroads of the 
United States, which has been issued year¬ 
ly. In 1877 he published Money: its Laws 
and History, a large octavo volume, as 
also a work entitled Resumption and the 
Silver Question. Besides these more im¬ 
portant works he has been a frequent con¬ 
tributor to the newspapers and periodi¬ 
cals on a great variety of topics, and is 
now, it is said, engaged on a History of 
the United States. 

POOR, JOHN ALFRED, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Jan. 8, 1808, in 


Andover, Maine. He was the first active 
promoter of the present railroad system 
of his native state; originated the Euro¬ 
pean and North American line; and wrote 
Vindication of the Claims of Sir Ferdi- 
nando Gorges as the Founder of English 
Colonization in America. He died Sept. 5, 
1871, in Portland, Maine. 

POORE, BENJAMIN PERLEY, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Nov. 2, 1820, in New- 
buryport, Mass. He was a once well- 
known journalist of Washington; and the 
author of Campaign Life of Zachary Tay¬ 
lor; Early Life of Napoleon; Rise and 
Fall of Louis Philippe: Agricultural His¬ 
tory of Essex County, Massachusetts; Life 
of Burnside; Political Register and Con¬ 
gressional Directory, 1776-1878; and Per- 
ley’s Reminiscences of Sixty Years. He 
died May 30, 1887, in Washington, D. C. 

POORE, HENRY RANKIN, artist, edu¬ 
cator,-was born March 21, 1859, in New¬ 
ark,-N. J. He studied in Paris, and for 
many years has been instructor in the 
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; and 
is professor of Chautauqua School of Fine 
Arts. 

POPE, ALBERT A., soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, was born May 20, 1843, in Boston, 
Mass. He served as a soldier during the 
civil war; was pro¬ 
moted to lieutenant- 
colonel. The Pope 
Manufacturing com¬ 
pany, for which Col¬ 
onel Pope supplied 
the capital, and of 
which he has from 
the outset been pres¬ 
ident and active 
manager, was organ¬ 
ized early in 1877 for 
the marketing o f 
small patented arti¬ 
cles. The same year he visited England, 
and placed an order for an importation 
of English bicycles. The first bicycles 
were manufactured in the United States 
in 1878 by the Weed Sewing Machine com¬ 
pany of Hartford, Conn. They were soon 
controlled and finally bought out by Col¬ 
onel Pope. He has built up a large busi¬ 
ness, employing a capital of over two mil¬ 
lions of dollars, utilizing four factories at 
Hartford, Conn. 

POPE, BENJAMIN W., educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Oct. 20, 1853, in 
Franklin county, Ill. He attended the 
university of Champaign, Illinois, and the 
St. Louis and Chicago Law schools. He 
has been superintendent of schools in Du 
Quoin and Tamawa, Ill.; and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1878. During 1890-94 
he was county judge of Perry county; and 
since 1893 has been postmaster of Du-' 
Quoin, Ill. 

POPE, CADESMAN, educator, clergy¬ 
man, was born June 21, 1838, near Flat 
Shoals, Ga. He received the rudiments of 
his education in the 
public schools of his 
native city, finishing 
at Emory college of 
Oxford, Ga. In 1858 
he entered the Geor¬ 
gia conference of the 
methodist episcopal 
church south, was 
transferred to Ar¬ 
kansas, where he 
filled important sta¬ 
tions for twenty 
years; four years of 
which he was presiding elder in the Little 
Rock conference. In 1879 he returned to 
Georgia and preached for seven years; 
then for twelve years was president of the 
Female college of Millersburg, Ky. 


POPE, CHARLES ALEXANDER, sur¬ 
geon, was born March 15, 1818, in Hunts¬ 
ville, Ala. He became professor of anato¬ 
my, and afterward of surgery in St. Louis 
unhersity; aided in organizing St. Louis 
Medical college, and was president of the 
American Medical association in 1853. He 
died July 6, 1870, in Paris, Mo. 

PQPE, FRANKLIN LEONARD, civil 
engineer, author, was born Dec. 2, 1840, in 
Great Barrington, Mass. He was an elec¬ 
trical engineer of New York city; and the 
author of Modern Practice of the Electric 
Telegraph; and Life and Work of Joseph 
Henry. 

POPE, JOHN, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, governor, was born in 1770- 
in Prince William county, Va. He moved 
to Kentucky; served a number of years in 
the legislature; and was a presidential 
elector in 1801. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1807 to 1813; 
and in 1829 was appointed governor of the 
territory of Arkansas. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from 1837 to 1843. He 
died July 12, 1845, in Springfield, Ky. 

POPE, JOHN, soldier, author, was born 
March 16, 1822, in Louisville, Ky. He was 
a prominent general in the federal army 
during the civil war. 
In 1882 he was made 
a major-general in 
the regular army; 
assigned to the de¬ 
partment of the Pa¬ 
cific in 1884; and re¬ 
tired in 1886. He was 
the author of a Me¬ 
moir of his cam¬ 
paigns entitled Cam¬ 
paign in Virginia; 
and also published a 
valuable work on Ex¬ 
plorations from the Red River to the Rio 
Grande. He died Sept. 23, 1892. 

POPE, JOHN HUNTER, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 12, 1845, in Washing¬ 
ton, Ga. From 1874 till 1875 he was sec¬ 
retary of the Harrison county, Texas, 
Medical association; and in 1879-80 he was 
president of the Texas State Medical as¬ 
sociation. He has published a History of 
Epidemic of Yellow Fever at Marshall, 
Tex.; Report on Climatology and Epi¬ 
demics of Texas; and Report on the Sci¬ 
ence and Progress of Medicine. 

POPE, MRS. MARION [MANVILLE], 
poet, was born in 1859 in Wisconsin. She 
is a poet whose home in recent years has 
been in Valparaiso, Chili; and is the au¬ 
thor of Over the Divide, and Other Verses. 

POPE, NATHANIEL, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1784, in 
Louisville, Ky. He practiced law in St. 
Genevieve, Mo.; was appointed secretary 
of the territory of Illinois in 1809, and re¬ 
moved there; and was elected delegate to 
congress in 1817. In 1818, when Illinois 
was admitted as a state, he was appointed 
United States district judge, and held that 
office until his death. He died Jan. 23, 
1850, in St. Louis, Mo. 

POPE, PATRICK, H., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1833 to 1835. He died in 
May, 1841, in Louisville, Ky. 

POPE, WILLIAM COX, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 21, 1841, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He has been rector of the 
church of the Good Shepherd of St. Paul, 
Minn., from its organization in 1868 to 
the present time. He is the author of sev¬ 
eral religious works. 

POPE, WINFIELD SCOTT, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born July 20, 1847, in David¬ 
son county, N. C. He is an eminent law¬ 
yer of Jefferson City, Mo.; has served two 
terms in the state legislature of Missouri. 







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POPPLETON, EARLEY F„ lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 29, 1834, in Richland county, Ohio. 
In 1861 he moved to Delaware, Ohio; was 
elected state senator in 1870 to fill a va¬ 
cancy; and was elected a representative 
from Ohio to the forty-fourth congress as 
a democrat. 

PORCHER, FRANCIS PEYRE, physi¬ 
cian, botanist, author, was born Dec. 14, 
1825, in St. John’s, Berkeley, S. C. He was 
a physician and botanist of Charleston; 
and the author of Sketch of the Medical 
Botany of South Carolina; and Resources 
of the Southern Fields and Forests. He 
died in 1895. 

PORTER, ALBERT G„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born April 20, 
1824, in Lawrenceburg, Ind. He was ap¬ 
pointed reporter of 
the decisions of the 
supreme court of In- 
d i a n a, publishing 
five volumes. H e 
served two terms as 
city attorney of In¬ 
dianapolis; and was 
twice elected a mem¬ 
ber of the city coun¬ 
cil. In 1858 he was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive from Indiana to 
the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the thirty- 
seventh congress. In 1878 he was ap¬ 
pointed first comptroller in the treasury 
of the United States; and in 1880 was 
elected governor of Indiana for four years 
from January, 1881. 

PORTER, ALEXANDER J., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, United States senator, was born in 
1786 in Ireland. In 1810 he removed to St. 
Martinsville, La.; and was active in fram¬ 
ing the state constitution in 1811. He be¬ 
came a judge of the supreme court of the 
state in 1821, and served fifteen years. 
He was United States senator from 1833 
to 1837; and was re-elected in 1843, but 
ill-health prevented him from taking his 
seat. He died Jan. 13, 1844, in Attakapas, 
La. 

PORTER, ANDREW, soldier, was born 
Sept. 24, 1743, in Worcester, Pa. In the 
war of 1812 he was appointed brigadier- 
general in the regular army and secretary 
of war, but declined both positions on the 
ground that a younger man might serve 
the country more efficiently. He died Nov. 
16, 1813, in Harrisburg, Pa. 

PORTER,'ANDREW, soldier, was born 
July 10, 1819, in Lancaster, Pa. He served 
with distinction in the Mexican and civil 
wars; and attained the rank of brigadier- 
general of volunteers in 1861. He died 
Jan. 4, 1872, in Paris, France. 

PORTER, AUGUSTUS STEELE, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Jan. 18, 1798, 
in Canandaigua, N. Y. He practiced law 
for twenty years at Detroit, Mich., of 
which city he was chosen mayor in 1838. 
He was a senator in congress from Michi¬ 
gan from 1840 to 1845. He died Sept. 18, 
1872, in Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

PORTER, BENJAMIN CURTIS, artist, 
was born Aug. 27, 1843, in Melrose, Mass. 
His works include Henry V. and the Prin¬ 
cess Kate; The Mandolin-Player; Cu¬ 
pid with Butterflies; The Hour-Glass; 
Portrait of Lady, with Dog, in the Cor¬ 
coran gallery, Washington; and Portrait 
of Boy with Dog. 

PORTER, BENJAMIN F., soldier, jurist, 
was born Dec. 25, 1843, near Mount Ver¬ 
non, Ala. During the war he served in 
company E, eleventh Alabama regiment; 
served in the Virginia army, and was cap¬ 
tured at Sharpsburg, Md. He was wound¬ 

48 


ed at Salem church, and again at railroad 
below Petersburg; and was in the Ma- 
hone brigade. For six years he was clerk 
of the circuit court, and justice of the 
peace; in 1880 was elected judge of the 
probate court, and ex-officio judge of the 
county court of Washington county, Ala., 
and he is now serving his third term of 
six years. 

PORTER, BENJAMIN FICKLING, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1808 in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. He attained prominence as one 
of the foremost law¬ 
yers of Alabama; and 
took part in many of 
the leading cases 
tried in that state 
for the past fifty 
years. He has also 
contributed valuable 
articles to law jour¬ 
nals, and also to the 
leading newspapers 
and magazines of the 
United States. He 
is the author of Ala¬ 
bama Supreme Court Reports; and Offices 
of Executors and Administrators. 

PORTER, CHARLES A., senator, legis¬ 
lator, was born May 15, 1839, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. In 1872-75 he was a representa¬ 
tive to the Pennsylvania legislature; and 
in 1890 was elected to the senate. 

PORTER, CHARLES H., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born in Cairo, N. 
Y. He settled at Norfolk, Va.; was attor¬ 
ney for the commonwealth from 1863 un¬ 
til 1870; and attorney for the city one 
year. He was a member of the constitu¬ 
tional convention of Virginia in 1867 and 
1868; and was elected a representative 
from Virginia to the forty-first and forty- 
second congresses as a republican. 

PORTER, CHARLES TALBOT, civil 
engineer, author, was born in 1826 in New 
York. He is a mechanical engineer of 
prominence; and the author of Mechanics 
and Faith, a Study of the Spiritual Truths 
in Nature. 

PORTER, CYRUS KINNE, architect, 
was born Aug. 27, 1828, in Cicero, N. Y. 
Among the notable buildings erected re¬ 
cently which show his complete mastery 
of every detail of his profession, may be 
mentioned the Coal and Iron exchange, 
Trinity church, St. Patrick’s church, and 
the Builder’s exchange, Buffalo, N. Y. 

PORTER. DAVID, naval officer, author, 
was born Feb. 1, 1780, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a once noted commodore in the 
United States navy; and in 1839 became 
United States resident minister to Turkey. 
He was the author of Journal of a Cruise 
to the Pacific Ocean in 1812-15; and Con¬ 
stantinople and its Environs. He died 
March 3, 1843, in Turkey. 

PORTER, DAVID DIXON, naval officer, 
author, was born June 8, 1813, in Chester, 
Pa. He was an admiral of the federal 
army who command¬ 
ed the fleet at the 
storming of Fort 
Fisher, and amused 
his latest years by 
the composition of 
sensational roman¬ 
ces. He was the au¬ 
thor of Life of Com¬ 
modore Porter; Al¬ 
lan Dare and Robert 
le Diable; Adven¬ 
tures of Harry Mar¬ 
line; Arthur Merton, 
a romance; Incidents and Anecdotes of the 
Civil War; and History of the Navy in 
the War of the Rebellion. He died Feb. 
13, 1891, in Washington, D. C. 


PORTER, DAVID RITTENHOUSE, 
lawyer, state legislator, governor, was 
born Oct. 31, 1788, in Norristown, Pa. He 
was a member of each branch of the Penn¬ 
sylvania state legislature. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Pennsylvania from 1839 to 1845; 
and his election in 1838 in Philadelphia 
county gave rise to much excitement at 
the state capitol, known as the Buckshot 
War, growing out of a charge of irregu¬ 
larity in the election. He died Aug. 6, 
1867, in Harrisburg, Pa. 

PORTER, EBENEZER, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Oct. 5, 1772, in 
Cromwell, Conn. He was a congregational 
clergyman and educator, of contemporary 
renown as a preacher. He was professor 
of sacred rhetoric at Andover Theological 
seminary in 1812-32, and president of that 
institution from 1827 till his death. Among 
his publications are The Young Preacher’s 
Manual; A Rhetorical Reader, which 
reached its three hundredth edition; Lec¬ 
tures on Homiletics; and Lectures on 
Eloquence and Style. He died April 8, 
1834, in Andover. 

PORTER, FITZ-JOHN, soldier, author, 
was born June 13, 1822, in Portsmouth, 
N. H. He is a brevet brigadier-general 
dismissed from the 
service in 1863, rein¬ 
stated by act of con¬ 
gress in 1886. After 
his retirement from 
the army he was ap¬ 
pointed commission¬ 
er of public works of 
New York city; and 
was employed by the 
New Jersey Central 
Railroad company as 
assistant receiver for 
several years. He re¬ 
ceived an appointment as police commis¬ 
sioner of the city of New York and on 
the expiration of his term of office in that 
department he was appointed fire com¬ 
missioner, from which place he retired at 
the close of his term. He then became a 
cashier in the New York postoffice. He 
is the author of Narrative of the Services 
of the Fifth Army Corps in 1862 in North¬ 
ern Virginia. 

PORTER, GEORGE BRYAN, lawyer, 
governor, was born Feb. 9, 1791, in Nor¬ 
ristown, Pa. He was governor of Michi¬ 
gan territory from 1831 to 1834. He died 
July 18, 1835, in Detroit, Mich. 

PORTER, GEORGE LORING, soldier, 
physician, surgeon, was born April 29, 
1838, in Concord, N. H. He attended the 
New London academy, and the Brown uni¬ 
versity of Providence, R. I., from which 
institution he graduated in 1859 with the 
degree of A. M. During the war he was 
captain and brevet major in the United 
States army. In 1862 he was assigned to 
duty at the General hospital at Strasburg, 
placed in charge of the hospital and took 
care of the confederate wounded also. He 
has attained success in his profession at 
Bridgeport, Conn.; has been president of 
the Connecticut Medical society, and vice- 
president of several medical bodies. He 
has contributed valuable papers for medi¬ 
cal literature, and was instrumental in 
the passage of the coroner’s law of Con¬ 
necticut in 1882. 

PORTER, GEORGE W., soldier, was 
born about 1806. He was a lieutenant in 
the thirty-eighth United States infantry 
in 1814-15; and made many valuable inven¬ 
tions, including the Porter rifle. He died 
Nov. 7, 1856, in Memphis, Tenn. 

PORTER, GILCHRIST, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Missouri from 
1851 to 1857. 












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PORTER, HENRY H., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 17, 1838, in Holmes 
county, Ohio. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1870; and in 1880-81 was a member 
of the house of representatives of the 
sixty-fourth general assembly of Ohio. 

PORTER, HENRY OGDEN, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born in 1823 in Washington, D. 
C He served in one of Walker’s expedi¬ 
tions to Central America, where he fought 
bravely, and was wounded several times. 
Afterward he was appointed lieutenant in 
the United States revenue marine, and 
during the civil war was made acting mas¬ 
ter in the navy April 24, 1862, serving as 
executive officer on the Hatteras when 
that vessel was sunk by the confederate 
steamer Alabama. He died in 1872 in 
Baltimore, Md. 

PORTER, HORACE, soldier, was born 
April 15, 1837, in Huntington, Pa. He 
served through the civil war; and for 
meritorious services received the rank of 
brigadier-general. He was the first presi¬ 
dent of the New York West Shore and 
Buffalo railroad. 

PORTER, J. DE FOREST, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born in New York. He settled 
in Nebraska; and in 1872 was appointed 
an associate justice of the supreme court 
for the territory of Arizona, residing in 
Arizona City. 

PORTER, JAMES, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in Williams- 
town, Mass. He was a member of the 
state assembly in 1814 and 1815; and was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1817 to 1819. After leaving 
congress he was appointed register of the 
court of chancery, which office he held un¬ 
til his death, in Albany, N. Y. 

PORTER, JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1800 in Maine. He was a 
prominent methodist clergyman of Bos¬ 
ton; and the author of History of Metho¬ 
dism; The Winning Worker; Hints to 
Self-Educated Ministers; and Compendi¬ 
um of Methodism. He died April 16, 1888, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

PORTER, JAMES DAVIS, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was 
born Dec. 7, 1828, in Paris, Tenn. In 1859 
he was elected a representative in the 
Tennessee legislature. He served in the 
confederate army throughout the civil war 
as chief of staff on the staff of General 
Cheatham. In 1870 he was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the state constitutional convention 
of Tennessee; and in the summer of the 
same year was elected circuit judge for 
the twelfth judicial circuit of Tennessee. 
In 1874 he was elected governor of Ten¬ 
nessee, serving until 1879. In 1880 he was 
elected president of the Nashville, Chat¬ 
tanooga and St. Louis Railroad company, 
and was four times re-elected. In 1885 he 
was appointed assistant secretary of state. 

PORTER, JAMES MADISON, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 6, 1793, in 
Salem, Mass. He was one of the founders 
of Lafayette college at Easton, Pa„ and 
for twenty-five years president of its 
board of trustees.' He was president judge 
of the twelfth and twenty-second judicial 
districts of Pennsylvania. He died Nov. 
11, 1862, in Easton, Pa. 

PORTER, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1806 to 1811, having first 
been elected to fill a vacancy. 

PORTER, JOHN ADDISON, educator, 
author, was born March 15, 1822, in Cats- 
ville, N. Y. He was a professor of chem¬ 
istry at Yale college in 1852-64; and the 
author of Principles of Chemistry; and 
First Book of Chemistry. He died Aug. 
:25, 1866, in New Haven, Conn. 


PORTER, JOHN ADDISON, journalist, 
public official, author, was born April 17, 
1856, in New Haven, Conn. He is the edi¬ 
tor and proprietor of the Hartford Post. 
He was elected to the Connecticut house 
of representatives in 1892; and was pre¬ 
sented as a candidate for governor in the 
republican state conventions of Connecti¬ 
cut in 1894 and 1896. He was appointed 
secretary to President McKinley Feb. 5, 
1897. He is the author of Administration 
of the City of Washington; and Sketches 
of Yale Life. 

PORTER, LINN BOYD, author. He is 
a novelist of Cambridge whose writings 
have been extremely popular, although se¬ 
verely criticised from a literary point of 
view as well as from an ethical stand¬ 
point. Among them are Thou Shalt Not; 
Speaking of Ellen; A Black Adonis; and 
Out of Wedlock. 

PORTER, MRS. LYDIA ANN [EMER¬ 
SON], educator, author, was born Oct. 14, 
1816, in Newburyport, Mass. She is an 
educator of Springfield, Vt.; and the au¬ 
thor of Uncle Jerry’s Letters to Young 
Mothers; and The Lost Will. 

PORTER, MOSES, soldier, was born in 
1755 in Danvers, Mass. He entered the 
revolutionary army as a lieutenant in 
1775; and served at Bunker Hill and 
through the war. He was brevetted briga¬ 
dier-general in 1813, and became colonel 
of the first artillery in 1821. He died 
April 14, 1822, in Cambridge, Mass. 

PORTER, NOAH, clergyman, author, 
was born in December, 1781, in Farming- 
ton, Conn. He was ordained pastor of the 
congregational church in his native town, 
which charge he held until his death. He 
published occasional sermons in the Na¬ 
tional Preacher, a Half-Century Discourse 
in the fiftieth year of his ministry, and 
contributed to the Christian Spectator. He 
died Sept. 24, 1866, in Farmington, Conn. 

PORTER, NOAH, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 14, 1811, in Farmington, 
Conn. He was a congregational clergyman 
of Connecticut, president of Yale college 
in 1871-85, and a metaphysician of dis¬ 
tinction. He was the author of The Hu¬ 
man Intellect; Books and Reading; Ele¬ 
ments of Intellectual Science; Elements 
of Moral Science; The American Colleges 
and the American Public; Science and 
Sentiment; Bishop Berkeley; Fifteen 
Years in Yale College Chapel, a volume 
of sermons; and The Science of Nature 
and the Science of Man. He died March 
4, 1892, in New Haven, Conn. 

PORTER, PETER AUGUSTUS, soldier, 
state legislator, was born in 1827 in Black 
Rock, N. Y. He was a member of the 
New York legislature in 1862; and in that 
year he raised a regiment, afterward con¬ 
solidated with the eighth New York artil¬ 
lery, and was placed in command, and 
served on garrison duty. He was killed 
June 3, 1864, in the battle of Cold Harbor, 
Va. 

PORTER, PETER BUEL, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Aug. 4, 1773, 
in Salisbury, Conn. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 
1809 to 1813, and from 1815 to 1816, when 
he resigned. In 1813 he was made major- 
general, and chief in command of the state 
troops. Soon after the war he was chosen 
secretary of the state of New York; and 
in 1816 was appointed commissioner under 
the treaty of Ghent. In 1828 he was ap¬ 
pointed secretary of war. He died March 
20, 1844, in Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

PORTER, ROSE, author, was born in 
1845 in New York. She is an author of 
New Haven who has written and compiled 


a large number of religious books. Among 
her original works are Summer Driftwood 
for the Winter Fire; A Modern St. Chris¬ 
topher; Our Saints, a Family Story; and 
My Son’s Wife. 

PORTER, RUFUS, journalist, inventor, 
was born May 1, 1792, in West Boxford, 
Mass. In 1840 he became editor of the 
New York Mechanic, which prospered, 
and in the following year he moved it to 
Boston, where he called it the American 
Mechanic. The new art of electrotyping 
there attracted his attention, and he gave 
up editorial work in order to occupy him¬ 
self with the new invention. He died Aug. 
13, 1884, in New Haven, Conn. 

PORTER, SAMUEL, journalist, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Jan. 12, 1810, in Far¬ 
mington, Conn. He has made a special 
study of phonetics, was editor of the 
American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb 
from 1854 till 1860; and has published 
The Vowel Elements in Speech, a Phono¬ 
logical and Philological Essay. 

PORTER, THOMAS, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in May, 1734, in Far¬ 
mington, Conn. For ten years he was 
judge of the supreme and county courts of 
Vermont. He died in August, 1833, in 
Granville, N. Y. 

PORTER, THOMAS CONRAD, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Jan. 22, 
1822, in Alexandria, Pa. He is a German 
reformed clergyman famous as a botanist, 
and professor of botany at Lafayette col¬ 
lege, Easton, Pa., from 1866. He is the 
author of Sketch of the Flora of Pennsyl¬ 
vania; Sketch of the Botany of the United 
States; Synopsis of the Flora of Colo¬ 
rado (with J. M. Coulter); The Carices of 
Pennsylvania; and The Grasses of Penn¬ 
sylvania. 

PORTER, THOMAS F., business man, 
journalist, poet, was born Oct. 30, 1847, 
in Nova Scotia. He received a thorough 
education, and for 



ems of merit, some of which have been 
given a place in Poets of America and 
other standard works. He is engaged 
principally in real estate and insurance 
at Lynn, Mass., where he takes a promi¬ 
nent part in the public affairs of his city, 
county and state. 

PORTER, THOMAS P., lawyer, was 
born July 7, 1821, in Richmond, Ky. In 
1859 he was unanimously elected perma¬ 
nent speaker of the senate. 

PORTER, TIMOTHY H., state senator, 
congressman, was born in New Haven, 
Conn. He served five years in the as¬ 
sembly of New York; and also served five 
years in the state senate. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1825 to 1827. 

PORTER, WARREN HART, lawyer, 
was born Nov. 4, 1837, in Cattaraugus, N. 
Y. He received his education in the pub¬ 
lic and private schools, and at the univer¬ 
sity of Wisconsin. He is a prominent 
lawyer of Jefferson, Wis.; has for many 
years been city attorney; and has held 
numerous other public positions of trust. 



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PORTER, WILBUR F., lawyer, public 
official, was born June 22, 1831, in Schuy¬ 
ler, N. Y. He is a successful lawyer of 
Watertown, N. Y.; has been mayor of his 
city for five terms; and is now a mem¬ 
ber of the court of claims of the state of 
New York. 

PORTER. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born May 24, 1821, 
in Huntingdon county, Pa. He was admit¬ 
ted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1842; 
was sheriff of that city in 1843; and was 
city solicitor in 1856. He was judge of the 
superior court in 1858. He was the au¬ 
thor of Essay on Law, and Sheriffs; Life 
of Chief Justice John Gibson; and Ad¬ 
dresses. He died June 28, 1886, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

PORTER, WILLIAM DAVID, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Jan. 3, 1848, in Free¬ 
man’s Landing, W. Va. In 1870 he was 
admitted to the bar, and practiced law 
until he was elevated to the bench in 
1891. He has served faithfully as a judge 
of the court of common pleas of the fifth 
judicial district of Pennsylvania. 

PORTER, WILLIAM F., farmer, legis¬ 
lator, was born June 1, 1861, in Cham¬ 
paign, Ill. In 1879 he moved to Nebras¬ 
ka; and served with distinction as a 
member in the twenty-second and twenty- 
third sessions of the Nebraska state leg¬ 
islature. He is a successful farmer of 
Clarks, Neb.; and is now serving as sec¬ 
retary of the state of Nebraska. 

PORTER, WILLIAM H., farmer, legis¬ 
lator, was born May 8, 1856, in Hatfield, 
Mass. He is a successful farmer of Aga¬ 
wam, Mass.; prominent in the public af¬ 
fairs of his state; and secretary of the 
Hampden Agricultural society. In 1897 he 
was elected a member of the Massachu¬ 
setts state legislature. 

PORTER, WILLIAM TROTTER, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Dec. 24, 1809, in New¬ 
bury, Vt. In 1829 he became connected 
with the Farmer’s Herald at St. Johns- 
bury, Vt., and the following year he be¬ 
came associate editor of The Enquirer at 
Norwich. His cherished project was put 
into effect in 1831, when he issued the 
initial number of the Spirit of the Times, 
the first sporting journal in the United 
States. He died July 20, 1858, in New 
York city. 

PORTER, WILLIAM WOOD, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 8, 1826, in 
Orange county, Va. He was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney of San Joaquin county, Cal. 
In 1855 he became county judge of Cala¬ 
veras county to fill a vacancy; and in 
1856 was elected to the same office for a 
full term of four years. At the breaking 
out of the civil war in 1861 he returned 
to Virginia and entered the confederate 
army as aid to Gen. George B. Critten¬ 
den. In 1872 he returned to California 
and settled at Santa Rosa in the practice 
of law; and in 1885 was appointed an as¬ 
sociate justice of the supreme court of 
the territory of Arizona. 

PORTERFIELD, CHARLES, soldier, 
was born in 1750 in Frederick county, Va. 
He was first sergeant of Capt. Daniel Mor¬ 
gan’s company in the revolutionary war, 
and was captured in the assault on Que¬ 
bec, Dec. 31, 1775. After being ex¬ 
changed he served as captain until 1777, 
then he was appointed lieutenant-colonel 
of a Virginia regiment, and was mortally 
wounded in the battle of Camden, S. C., 
Aug. 16, 1780, and died in the following 
October on the banks of the Santee river. 


PORTERFIELD, GEORGE A., soldier, 
banker, was born Nov. 24, 1822, in Berke¬ 
ley county, Va., now West Virginia. In 
1844 he graduated 
from the Virginia 
Military institute of 
Lexington. In 1846 
he helped to raise a 
company of volun¬ 
teers for service in 
the war with Mexico. 
July 10, 1847, he was 
appointed adjutant of 
the Virginia reg¬ 
iment at Buena Vis¬ 
ta; and on Oct. 27 of 
the same year was 
promoted to acting-assistant adjutant- 
general to the division stationed at and 
near Buena Vista; which position he held 
until the end of the war. He declined a 
place on the staff of Gen. Wood. In 1861 
he was appointed colonel of volunteers in 
the confederate service, and was ordered 
to raise a command in northwestern Vir¬ 
ginia. He collected a force of about eight 
hundred men; was subsequently relieved 
of command; and later served on the staff 
of Gen. W. W. Loring; was in command 
of a brigade under Gen. Edward John¬ 
son, but retired from the service in May, 
1862. He is a prominent banker of Char¬ 
lestown, W. Va. 

PORTERFIELD, ROBERT, soldier, jur¬ 
ist, was born Feb. 22, 1752, in Frederick 
county, Va. He was appointed a lieuten¬ 
ant in the continental army in 1776; was 
promoted to a captaincy, and served in Col. 
Daniel Morgan’s regiment until 1779, when 
he was appointed aid to Gen. William 
Woodford; and in 1780 was surrendered 
with him a prisoner of war in the siege 
of Charleston. In the war of 1812 he 
was a brigadier-general of militia; and 
an unsuccessful candidate of the federal 
party for congress in 1889. He was a jus¬ 
tice of Augusta county, Va., for more than 
fifty years; was twice high sheriff, and 
died in that county Feb. 13, 1843. 

PORTIER, MICHEL, bishop, was 
born Sept. 7, 1795, in France. In 1826 he 
was consecrated Roman catholic bishop of 
Olena, at St. Augustine, Fla. He died 
May 14, 1859, in Mobile, Ala. 

PORY, JOHN, pioneer, was born about 
1570 in England. During 1619-21 he was 
secretary of the Virginia colony, and he 
was elected speaker of the first repre¬ 
sentative assembly that was ever held in 
this country, which convened in James¬ 
town in 1619. He died before 1635 in Vir¬ 
ginia. 

POSEY, CARNOT, soldier, was born 
Aug. 5, 1818, in Wilkinson county, Miss. 
He became colonel of the sixteenth Mis¬ 
sissippi regiment in 1861, and was ap¬ 
pointed brigadier-general in the confeder¬ 
ate army in 1862. He died Nov. 13, 1863, 
in Charlottesville, Va. 

POSEY, JOHN W., lawyer, public offi¬ 
cial, was born Aug. 6, 1847, in Peters¬ 
burg, Ind. He attended the Georgetown 
academy, and the Baylor university. He 
is a successful lawyer and land agent of 
Austin, Texas; has been county treasurer; 
justice of the peace; county commission¬ 
er of Nolan county; and has held various 
other public positions of trust. 

POSEY, THOMAS, soldier, United 
States senator, was born July 9, 1750, in 
Virginia. From 1786 to 1793 he was coun¬ 
ty lieutenant of Spottsylvania, Va., and 
was appointed brigadier-general. He was 
a state senator; and was lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of Virginia for four years. He was 


major-general of Kentucky levees in 1809. 
He was United States senator from Louis¬ 
iana in 1812, by appointment of the gov¬ 
ernor. He was governor of Indian terri¬ 
tory from 1813 to 1816; and was agent of 
Indian affairs in 1816, which position he 
held until his death. He died March 19, 
1818, in Shawneetown, Ill. 

POSSE, NILS, educator, author, was 
born in 1862 in Sweden. He was a Boston 
instructor in gymnastics; and the author 
of Special Kinesiology of Educational 
Gymnastics; Medical Gymnastics; and 
Scientific Aspect of Swedish Gymnastics. 
He died in 1895. 

POST, GEORGE A., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 1, 1854, in Cuba, N. 
Y. He entered the service of the Erie 
Railway company; and was for severaj 
years secretary of the motive power de¬ 
partment. He was elected chief burgess 
of Susquehanna in 1877. He was elected 
a representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-eighth congress as a democrat. 

POST, ISAAC, philanthropist, author, 
was born Feb. 26, 1798, in Westbury, N. 
Y. He resided in Rochester when public 
attention was first attracted to the mani¬ 
festations by the Fox sisters, and became 
one of the earliest converts to spiritual¬ 
ism. He was the author of Voices from 
the Spirit World, being Communications 
from Many Spirits, by the Hand of Isaac 
Post, Medium. He died May 9, 1872, in 
Rochester, N. Y. 

POST, .TOTHAM, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman. He was a member of the New 
York assembly for four years from the 
city of New York; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from his native state 
from 1813 to 1815. 

POST, MINTURN, physician, was born 
June 28, 1808, in New York city. In 1843 he 
was called to be medical examiner of the 
New York Life Insurance company. He 
translated and added notes to Racibor- 
ski’s Auscultation and Percussion. He died 
April 26, 1869, in New York city. 

POST, MORTON E., congressman, was 
born Dec. 25. 1840, in Monroe county, N. 
Y. He was elected a member of the ter¬ 
ritorial council in 1878; and was elected 
the delegate from Wyoming to the forty- 
seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a 
democrat. 

POST, PHILIP SIDNEY, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 19, 1833, in 
Florida, N. Y. He entered the union army 
in 1861 as second 
lieutenant fifty-ninth 
Illinois infantry, and 
was promoted briga¬ 
dier-general by bre¬ 
vet. He was ap¬ 
pointed consul to Vi¬ 
enna in 1866; was 
promoted consul- 
general for Austria- 
Hungary in 1874; 
and was a member at 
large of the Illinois 
republican state cen¬ 
tral committee from 1882 to 1886. He was 
commander department of Illinois Grand 
Army of the Republic in 1886. He was 
elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-sec¬ 
ond, fifty-third and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses. He died Jan. 6. 1895, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., before taking his seat in the 
fifty-fourth congress. 

POST, TRUMAN MARCELLUS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 3, 1810, in 
Middlebury, Vt. He was a congregational 
clergyman and editor of St. Louis, pro¬ 
fessor of history in Washington univer¬ 
sity; and the author of The Skeptical 
Era in Modern History. He died Dec. 31, 
1886, in St. Louis, Mo. 






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POST, WALDRON KINTZING, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1868 in New York. 
He is a lawyer of New York city; and the 
author of Harvard Stories. 

POSTON, CHARLES D„ pioneer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 20, 1825, in 
Hardin county, Ky. In 1854 he went to 
Arizona as the pioneer of silver mining 
enterprises in that territory; and on the 
organization of a territorial government 
for Arizona was appointed superintendent 
of Indian affairs for the territory. At the 
first election held he was elected the dele¬ 
gate from Arizona to the thirty-eighth 
congress, taking his seat at the second 
session. 

POTTER, ALLEN, merchant, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Oct. 2, 
1818, in Saratoga county, N. Y. He served 
one term in the Michigan legislature. He 
subsequently turned his attention to bank¬ 
ing, and became president of the Na¬ 
tional bank of Kalamazoo. He was elect¬ 
ed president of the village in 1859, 1863, 
1870 and 1872; president of the local board 
of education in 1870 and 1871; and was 
president of the Kalamazoo and South 
Haven Railroad company. He was de¬ 
feated for congress in 1872; and in 1874 
was elected a representative from Michi¬ 
gan to the forty-fourth congress. 

POTTER, ALONZO, protestant episco¬ 
pal bishop, author, was born July 6, 1800, 
in La Grange, N. Y. He was the third 
protestant episcopal bishop of Pennsyl¬ 
vania and an active promoter of educa¬ 
tional movements. He was the author of 
The Principles of Science Applied to Do¬ 
mestic and Mechanic Arts; Religious 
Philosophy; Political Economy; and co¬ 
author with G. B. Emerson of The School 
and the Schoolmaster. He died July 4, 
1865, in San Francisco, Cal. 

POTTER, BUTLER WILLIS, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, author, was born Feb. 
18, 1843, in Colesville, N. Y. In 1868 he 
was admitted to the bar and soon after 
opened an office in Worcester, Mass. For 
three terms he was a member of the 
Massachusetts legislature; and was ap¬ 
pointed ballot law commissioner of state 
of Massachusetts. He is the author of The 
Road and Roadside, a legal treatise. 

POTTER, CHARLES NELSON, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Oct. 31, 1852, in Coop- 
erstown, N. Y. For four years he was 
attorney general of Wyoming. In 1889 he 
was elected a member of the constitution¬ 
al convention at Wyoming; and in 1894 
was elected judge of the supreme court for 
a term of eight years. 

POTTER, CLARKSON NOTT, survey¬ 
or, lawyer, congressman, was born April 
25, 1825, in Schenectady, N. Y. He was 
a surveyor in Wisconsin; studied law in 
that state, and after coming to the bar 
commenced the practice of his profession 
in New York city in 1847. In 1868 he was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-first congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the two succeeding congresses; 
and was also elected to the forty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. He died Jan. 23, 1882, 
in New York city. 

POTTER, EDWARD EELLS, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born May 9, 1833, in Medina, N. 
Y. He was made commandant of the 
navy yard at League Island, Pa., in De¬ 
cember, 1886, and now fills that place: 

POTTER, ELIPHALET NOTT, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, college president, 
was born Sept. 20, 1836, in Schenectady, 
N. Y.; and is a son of Bishop Alonzo Pot¬ 
ter. In 1871 he was elected president of 
Union college; and in 1884 accepted the 
presidency of Hobart college, which he 
resigned in 1896. He is the author of 
Parochial Sermons; and Christian Evi¬ 
dences. 


POTTER, ELISHA REYNOLDS, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Nov. 5, 1764, in South Kingston, R. 
I. In 1796 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Rhode Island to 
fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the 
fifth congress. He was again a represen¬ 
tative from 1809 to 1815; and was elected 
to the state legislature in 1793, and by 
semi-annual elections under the old char¬ 
ter system continued to serve until his 
death, excepting when in congress, and 
was five times elected speaker. He died 
Sept. 26, 1835, in Kingston, R. I. 

POTTER, ELISHA REYNOLDS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, 
author, was born June 20, 1811, in South 
Kingston, R. I. He was for several years 
a member of the Rhode Island state leg¬ 
islature; and was adjutant-general of the 
state in 1835 and 1836. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Rhode Is¬ 
land from 1843 to 1845; and was state 
commissioner of public schools from 1849 
to 1854. He was subsequently chosen a 
judge of the supreme court of the state, 
and became chief justice. As an author he 
published Early History of Narragansett; 
Paper Money in Rhode Island; and valu¬ 
able contributions on Suffrage and Public 
Schools. He died April 10, 1882, in South 
Kingston, R. I. 

POTTER, EMERY D., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in Ohio. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1843 to 1845, and again from 
1849 to 1851. He was subsequently ap¬ 
pointed United States judge for the ter¬ 
ritory of Utah. 

POTTER, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1765 in Granville county, N. C. In 
1801 he was appointed United States judge 
of the fifth circuit; and in 1802 was made 
judge of the United States district court 
for the state of North Carolina, which po¬ 
sition he held until his death. He died 
Dec. 20, 1857, in Fayetteville, N. Y. 

POTTER. HENRY CODMAN, bishop, 
author, was born May 25, 1835, in Schenec¬ 
tady, N. Y. He is the sixth protestant 
episcopal bishop of New York, and prom¬ 
inent among broad church thinkers. He 
is the author of Sermons of the City; The 
Gates of the East; A Winter in Egypt and 
Syria; Sisterhoods and Deaconesses; and 
Waymarks. 

POTTER, HORATIO, educator, bishop, 
was born Feb. 9, 1802, in Beekman, N. Y. 
In 1833 he became rector of St. Peter’s 
church, Albany, N. Y., and held that post 
till 1854, when he was consecrated pro¬ 
visional bishop of the diocese of New 
York. He died Jan. 2, 1887, in New York. 

POTTER, JOHN FOX, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
May 11, 1817, in Augusta, Maine. He was 
a representative in the legislature of Wis¬ 
consin in 1856; and was a judge of Wal¬ 
worth county from 1842 to 1846. He was 
elected a representative from Wisconsin 
to the thirty-fifth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-sixth and thirty-sev¬ 
enth congresses. He was a delegate to the 
peace congress of 1861; and was appointed 
consul-general to British North America 
at Montreal. 

POTTER, LUDLOW DAY, clergyman, 
college president, was born Jan. 3, 1823, 
in New Providence, N. J. This eminent 
clergyman of the presbyterian church was 
for ten years professor in Glendale Female 
college, Ohio; and since 1865 has been 
its president. 

POTTER, ORLANDO BRONSON, law¬ 
yer. manufacturer, congressman, was born 
March 10, 1823, in Charlemont, Mass. He 
matured and laid before Secretary Chase 
of the United States treasury, and Presi¬ 


dent Lincoln, a plan for a national bann¬ 
ing system; this plan was adopted, with a 
few slight modifications, and was the 
basis of the present national banking sys¬ 
tem of the country. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the forty- 
eighth congress as a union democrat. He 
died Jan. 2, 1894. 

POTTER, PLATT, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 6, 1800, in Galway, 
N. Y. He was a jurist of Schenectady, 
and the author of Potter’s Dwarris; Trea¬ 
tise on Corporations; and Equity Juris¬ 
prudence. He died in 1891. 

POTTER, PLEASANT J., banker, phil¬ 
anthropist, was born March 29, 1820, in 
Warren county, Ky. He has served as a 
member of the Kentucky legislature. He is 
president of the old banking house of P. 
J. Potter and Company. He has been a 
liberal contributor to churches and 
schools; and Potter college for young la¬ 
dies was named in his honor. 

POTTER, ROBERT, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman. He was a represen¬ 
tative in the state legislature in 1826; was 
a representative in congress from North 
Carolina from 1829 to 1831; and was a 
second time in the legislature. He was 
killed in Texas. 

POTTER, ROBERT B„ soldier, was 
born July 16, 1829, in Schenectady, N. 
Y. He served through the civil war, at¬ 
taining the rank of brigadier and major- 
general of volunteers. He died Feb. 18, 
1887, in Newport, R. I. 

POTTER, SAMUEL JOHN, state sena¬ 
tor, was born June 29, 1739, in Kingston, 
R. I. He was at one time deputy govern¬ 
or; and in 1792 and 1796 was a presiden¬ 
tial elector. He was a senator in congress 
from Rhode Island during the years 1803 
and 1804. He died Sept. 6, 1808, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

POTTER, THOMAS J., railroad man¬ 
ager, was born Aug. 16, 1840, in Bur¬ 
lington, Iowa. In 1866 he was appointed 
agent of the same corporation at Bur¬ 
lington, Iowa. In 1873 the Chicago, Bur¬ 
lington and Quincy company secured his 
services. He was first agent, then as¬ 
sistant superintendent, afterward general 
manager, and finally general manager and 
vice-president. He was chosen vice-presi¬ 
dent of the St. Louis and Keokuk, of the 
Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City, of 
the Chicago and Iowa, of the Hannibal 
and St. Joseph, and of the Burlington 
and Missouri River roads, respectively. 
He died March 9, 1888, in Washington, 
D. C. 

POTTER, WILLIAM BLEECKER, min¬ 
ing engineer, was born March 23, 1846, 
in Schenectady, N. Y. In 1871 he was 
called to the chair of mining and metall¬ 
urgy at Washington university, St. Louis. 
Mo. ' In 1888 he was elected president of 
the American Institute of Mining Engin¬ 
eers. 

POTTER, WILLIAM JAMES, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1830 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a Unitarian clergyman 
of New Bedford for many years, promi¬ 
nent as a radical thinker; and the author 
of Twenty-Five Sermons of Twenty-Five 
Years; and Lectures and Sermons. He 
died in 1894. 

POTTER, WILLIAM W., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1839. He died 
Oct. 28, 1839, in Bellefonte, Pa. 

POTTIER, AUGUSTE, decorator, was 
born in 1823, in France. He has a large 
business in New York under the firm 
name of Pottier and Stymus, decorators 
and designers, which has proved to be a 
success. 


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POTTLE, ABEL WARREN, clergyman, 
was born Sept. 23, 1834, in Salem, Maine. 
He received his education at the Farm¬ 
ington academy, the Maine Wesleyan sem¬ 
inary, and the Boston Theological school. 
He has attained eminence as a successful 
methodist episcopal clergyman, and has 
filled pastorates in Bethel, Oxford, West¬ 
brook, Portland, Kittery, Waterville, Saco, 
Bath and Bowdoinham. 

POTTLE, EMORY B., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman. He served one term 
in the legislature of New York. He was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the thirty-fifth congress; and was 
re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. 

POTTS, BENJAMIN F„ governor. He 
was governor of the territory of Mon¬ 
tana from 1870 to 1883. 

POTTS, DAVID, congressman, was born 
in 1793 in Chester county, Pa. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1831 to 1839. He died in 1863. 

POTTS, JAMES HENRY, clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born June 12, 1848, 
in Canada. He is a methodist clergyman; 
and editor of The Michigan Christian Ad¬ 
vocate from 1877. He is the author of 
Methodism in the Field; Golden Dawn; 
Spiritual Life; Our Thorns and Crowns; 
and Faith Made Easy. 

POTTS, RICHARD, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born in July, 
1753, in Upper Marlborough, Md. He was 
a delegate to the continental congress in 
1781 and 1782; and was governor of Mary¬ 
land during the same years. He was a 
senator in congress from that state from 
1792 to 1796. He died Nov. 26, 1808, in 
Frederick county, Md. 

POTTS, STACEY GARDNER, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Nov. 9, 1799, in 
Harrisburg, Pa. He was a jurist of Tren¬ 
ton, N. J.; and the author of Village 
Tales; and Precedents and Notes of Prac¬ 
tice in the New Jersey Chancery Court. 
He died April 9, 1865, in Trenton, N. J. 

POTTS, WILLIAM STEPHENS, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, author, was 
born Oct. 13, 1802, in Northumberland 
county, Pa. He was pastor of the First 
Presbyterian church of St. Louis, Mo., in 
1828-35, president of Marion college for 
the subsequent four years; founded the 
Second Presbyterian church of St. Louis 
in 1838, and was its pastor till his death. 
He published several sermons. He died 
March 27, 1852, in St. Louis, Mo. 

POUJADE, JOSEPH, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Oct. 6, 1852, in Marion coun¬ 
ty, Ore. In 1873 he settled in Nevada 
and served as state senator during 1885- 
87; assemblyman in 1889; and lieutenant- 
governor in 1891-94. During those four 
years he was also adjutant-general, state 
librarian and president of the senate. 

POULSON, ZACHARIAH, journalist, 
was born Sept. 5, 1761, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. For many years he was printer to 
the senate of Pennsylvania. In 1800 he 
began the publication of the American 
Daily Advertiser, the first daily in the 
United States; and he continued as its 
editor and proprietor till its discontinu¬ 
ance in 1839. He issued Poulson’s Town 
and Country Almanac and other works. 
He died July 31, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

POUND, CUTHBERT W., lawyer, edu¬ 
cator, was born June 20, 1864, in Lock- 
port, N. Y. In 1886 he was admitted to 
the bar, and was city attorney of Lock- 
port, N. Y., during 1888-90. In 1893 he 
was elected to the state senate. In 1895 
he accepted the law professorship at Cor¬ 
nell university. 

POUND, ROSCOE, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 27, 1870, in Lincoln, Neb. 


Since 1892 he has been director of the 
botanical survey of Nebraska. He is the 
author of numerous botanical papers and 
monographs, mostly on the fungi. 

POUND, THADDEUS C., educator, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Dec. 6, 
1832, in Pennsylvania. For a number of 
years he taught school, and then was a 
bookkeeper. It was through his efforts 
that the city of Chippewa Falls was de¬ 
veloped; and he was instrumental in se¬ 
curing its railroad facilities and in caus¬ 
ing its river and other improvements to 
be made. He served four terms in the 
Wisconsin legislature; one term as lieu¬ 
tenant-governor; and has represented his 
district in the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and 
forty-seventh congresses as a republican. 
In 1876 he was commissioner from Wis¬ 
consin to the Philadelphia exposition; 
and has always supported measures de¬ 
signed to promote internal commerce. 

POUNDSTONE, ALEXANDER M., sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state legislator, was born 
Feb. 26, 1835, in Fayette county, Pa. He 
served as a captain in the United States 
army during the civil war. For four¬ 
teen years he was prosecuting attorney of 
Buckhannon, W. Va.; and for two terms 
served as a member of the legislature of 
that state. 

POWDERLY, TERENCE VINCENT, 
labor advocate, author, was born Jan. 22, 
1849, in Carbondale, Pa. Since 1869 he 
has lived in Scranton, Pa. In 1879 he 
was elected general master-workman of 
the Knights of Labor; and has since been 
re-elected nearly a dozen times. In 1878 
he was elected mayor of Scranton by the 
labor vote; and was several times re¬ 
elected as a democrat to that office. He 
has been connected with several labor 
publications; and is the author of A His¬ 
tory of the Origin and Principles of the 
Knights of Labor. 

POWELL, AARON MACY, journalist, 
reformer, lecturer, author, was born 
March 26, 1832, in Clinton, N. Y. Since 
1872 he has been secretary of the Nation¬ 
al Temperance society and editor of the 
National Temperance Advocate in New 
York. In 1886 he also took charge of the 
Philanthropist. He is the author of State 
Regulation of Vice. 

POWELL, ALFRED H., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1781, 
in Loudoun county, Va. He served in 
the Virginia state legislature, and one or 
two state conventions; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Virginia from 
1825 to 1827. He died in 1831 in Winches¬ 
ter, Va. 

POWELL, CHARLES GRANSON, jour¬ 
nalist, politician, was born Dec. 1, 1829, in 
Monroe county, N. Y. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the national 
republican conven¬ 
tions in 1868 and in 
1872; and postmas¬ 
ter at La Porte, Ind., 
during 1877-82. He is 
the editor and owner 
of The Herald, and 
also of The Repub¬ 
lican, of La Porte, 
Ind. He has contrib¬ 
uted extensively to 
current literature on 
various topics; and 
has filled numerous public positions of 
honor in his city, county and state. 

POWELL, CUTHBERT, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman. He was at one time 
mayor of Alexandria in Virginia; and on 
his removal to Loudoun county was elected 
to the legislature. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Virginia from 1841 
to 1843. Pie died May 8, 1849, in Lan- 
gollen, Va. 


POWELL, D. FRANK, physician, sur¬ 
geon, scientist, was born May 25, 1847, in 
Sullivan county, N. Y. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the com¬ 
mon district schools; at the Columbia 
college; the Louisville Medical college; 
and the Kentucky School of Medicine. He 
is a prominent physician and surgeon of 
La Crosse, Wis.; has served four times as 
mayor of that city; has twice been an 
independent candidate for governor of 
Wisconsin; and twice a candidate for con¬ 
gress from the seventh congressional dis¬ 
trict on the people’s party ticket. He is a 
scientist of note, and an investigator of 
prehistoric and aboriginal race history. 

POWELL, EDWARD PAYSON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1833 in New 
York. He is a clergyman who has held 
pastorates in congregational and Unitar¬ 
ian churches successively, and has long 
been a resident in Clinton, N. Y. He 
is the author of Our Heredity from God; 
and Liberty and Life. 

POWELL, EVAN, railroad president, 
was born June 2, 1834, in Wales. Since 
1891 he has been president of the Pow- 
ellton and Pocahontas railway. 

POWELL, JAMES L., soldier, farmer, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 24, 1834, 
in Plentifull, Va. In 1860 he was state’s 
attorney for Roane 
county; in 1861 was 
a captain in the Wise 
legion; and during 
1877-85 was a mem¬ 
ber of the Virginia 
state legislature; in 
both the house and 
the senate. During 
1879-82 he was state’s 
attorney forSpottsyl- 
vania county, Va.; 
and has filled vari¬ 
ous other public po¬ 
sitions of trust. He was the only son 
(of four) that survived the war. He has 
been eminently successful as a farmer, 
lawyer and statesman; and still resides 
in the place of his nativity. 

POWELL, JOHN WESLEY, geologist, 
author, was born March 24, 1834, in Mount 
Morris, N. Y. He is an eminent geologist, 
director of the United States geological 
survey in 1879-94; and the author of Ex¬ 
ploration of the Uinta Mountains; The 
Arid Regions of the United States; In¬ 
troduction to the Study of the Indian 
Languages; Studies in Sociology; and 
Canyons of the Colorado. 

POWELL, JOSEPH, merchant, banker, 
congressman, was born June 23, 1848, in 
Towanda, Pa. He became president of 
the First National bank of Towanda, and 
engaged in other business enterprises. He 
was a representative from Pennsylvania 
to the forty-fourth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

POWELL, LAZARUS WHITEHEAD, 
lawyer, state legislator, governor, United 
States senator, was born Oct. 6, 1812, in 
Henderson county, Ky. In 1836 he was 
elected to the Kentucky legislature; was 
a presidential elector in 1844; and was 
governor of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. 
He was chosen a senator in congress for 
the long term commencing in 1859. He 
died July 3, 1867, in Henderson county, 
Ky. 

POWELL, LEVIN, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1738 in Loudoun coun¬ 
ty, Va. He served through the war of the 
revolution in the Virginia line of the con¬ 
tinental army, and rose to the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel. He resided in Loudoun 
county, Va.; and was a representative in 
congress from Virginia from 1799 to 1801. 
He died Aug. 6, 1810, at Bedford, Pa. 





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POWELL, LEVIN MYNE, naval officer, 
was born in 1800 in Loudoun county, Va. 
He was appointed midshipman in the 
United States navy in 1817; became lieu¬ 
tenant in 1826; and received the thanks 
of congress for his services during that 
campaign. He died Jan. 15, 1885, in 
■Washington, D. C. 

POWELL, NATHAN, pioneer, mer¬ 
chant, banker, was born Oct. 18, 1814, in 
Frederick county, Md. In 1848 he as¬ 
sisted in reorganizing the old Madison 
Life, Fire and Marine Insurance com¬ 
pany, in Madison, Ind. He became one 
of its largest stockholders, and has been 
its president since 1851. 

POWELL, PAULUS, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state in 
1849; and continued in that capacity to 
the close of the thirty-fifth congress. 

POWELL, SAMUEL, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1815 to 1817. 

POWELL, SIMON T., banker, lawyer, 
was born Aug. 21, 1821, near Cambridge 
City, Ind. In 1877 he was made president 
of the Bundy National bank, in New Cas¬ 
tle, Ind. In 1871 he was honored by 
President Grant with the appointment of 
supervisor of internal revenue. 

POWELL, THOMAS, author, was born 
Sept. 3, 1809, in London, England. He 
was an English writer who came to 
America in 1849, and was for many years 
connected with the Frank Leslie publica¬ 
tions. He wrote a number of plays, 
among which are, True at Last; The 
Shepherd’s Well. Other works of his are, 
Florentine Tales; Tales from Boccaccio; 
Living Authors of England; and Living 
Authors of America. He died Jan. 13 
1887, in Newark, N. J. 

POWELL, WILLIAM BYRD, educator, 
physician, was born Jan. 8, 1799, in Bour¬ 
bon county, Ky. In 1865 he was chosen 
professor emeritus of cerebral physiology 
in the New York Eclectic Medical college, 
but he did not lecture in that institution. 
He died July 3, 1867, in Henderson, Ky. 

POWELL, WILLIAM HENRY, artist, 
was born Feb. 14, 1823, in New York city. 
He exhibited first at the Academy of De¬ 
sign, N. Y., in 1838, and was elected an 
associate in 1839; and attained note as a 
painter. He died Oct. 6, 1879, in New 
York city. 

POWELL, WILLIAM HENRY, soldier, 
manufacturer, was born May 10, 1825, in 
South Wales. He was made brigadier- 
general of volunteers in October, 1864. 
After the war he settled in West Virginia, 
declined a nomination for congress in 
1865, and was a republican presidential 
elector in 1868. He is president of a 
manufacturing company in Belleville, Ill. 

POWER. FREDERICK BEDDING, 
chemist, educator, author, was born March 
4, 1853, in Hudson, N. Y. In 1881-83 he 
was professor of analytical chemistry at 
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and he 
then was called to the chair of pharmacy 
and materia medica in the university of 
Wisconsin, with charge of the newly es¬ 
tablished department of pharmacy. He 
is the author of several medical works. 

POWER, THOMAS C., civil engineer, 
United States senator, governor, was born 
May 22, 1839, in Dubuque, Iowa. In 1867 
he located at Fort Benton, the head of 
navigation; and was president of the Ben¬ 
ton P. line of steamers. He is inter¬ 
ested in cattle, mines and various mer¬ 
cantile companies. He located in Helena 
in 1878; and was elected a member of 
the first constitutional convention of 
Montana in 1883. He was a delegate to 


the republican national convention in 
1888; and was nominated by the republic¬ 
ans of his state for governor in 1889. He 
was elected to the United States senate in 
1890. 

POWERS, DANIEL WILLIAM, banker, 
financier, was born June 14, 1818, in Ba¬ 
tavia, N. Y. Two handsome buildings 
have been constructed in Rochester by 
him—one of them the Powers Commercial 
building, for business and office purposes, 
which now contains the Powers Art gal¬ 
lery, valued at over $1,000,000, and the 
Powers hotel, connecting on all floors 
above the first with the former. He was for 
fourteen years president of the trustees 
of the city hospital, and is now president 
of the Home for the Friendless and the 
Powers Banking company. 

POWERS, EDWARD, civil engineer, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 1, 1830, in Amenia, 
N. Y. He is a civil engineer who pub¬ 
lished a work entitled War and the 
Weather, or the Artificial Production of 
Rain. 

POWERS, ELIZA HOWARD, philan¬ 
thropist, was horn in 1802. From 1862 
till 1864 she was associate manager of the 
United States sanitary commission of New 
Jersey, and acting president of the Flor¬ 
ence Nightingale Relief association of 
Paterson, N. J. The forty-eighth con¬ 
gress voted her a pension. She died Aug. 
25, 1887, in Washington, D. C. 

POWERS, GEORGE HERMAN, oculist, 
aurist, was born June 13, 1840, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. Since 1866 he has practiced 
his profession in San Francisco, Cal.; has 
been oculist to the city and county hos¬ 
pitals and various other hospitals of San 
Francisco. For many years he filled the 
chair of ophthalmology and otology in 
the university of California; and is noted 
as one of the foremost oculists and aur- 
ists in America. 

POWERS, GERSHOM, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1829 to 1831. 

POWERS, GRANT, clergyman, author, 
was born May 31, 1784, in Hollis, N. H. 
He was a minister at Haverhill, N. H., in 
1815-29; and at Goshen, Conn., from 1829 
till his death. He published Essay on 
False Hope in Religion; Centennial Ad¬ 
dress; and Historical Sketches of the Set¬ 
tlement of the Coos Country, 1784-85. He 
died April 10, 1841, in Goshen, Conn. 

POWERS, HENRY H., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born May 
29, 1835, in Morristown, Vt. He was a 
member of the house of representatives 
of Vermont in 1858; and was prosecuting 
attorney of Lamoille county in 1861-62. 
He was a member of the state senate in 
1872-73; and was speaker of the house of 
representatives in 1874. He was judge of 
the supreme court of Vermont from 1874 
to 1890; and was elected to the fifty-sec¬ 
ond, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses 
and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 

POWERS, HIRAM, sculptor, was born 
July 29, 1805, in Woodstock, Vt. Among 
his many works is his Greek Slave, which 
became widely celebrated, and placed the 
artist in the first rank of sculptors. He 
died June 27, 1873, in Florence, Italy. 

POWERS, HORATIO NELSON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 30, 1826, in 
Amenia, N. Y. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of Chicago, Bridgeport, and, in 
his latest years, of Piermont, N. Y., who 
was favorably known as a poet. He 
was the author of Early and Late; Po¬ 
ems; Ten Years of Song; Lyrics of the 
Hudson; and Through the Year, a vol¬ 
ume of religious essays. He died Sept. 6, 
1890, in Piermont, N. Y. 


POWERS, JAMES KNOX, educator, 
college president, was born Aug. 15, 1851, 
near Florence, Ala. The same day that he 
graduated from the university of Ala¬ 
bama he was notified of his election to 
the chair of mathematics in the Alabama 
State Normal college, of which institu¬ 
tion he has been president since 1888. 

POWERS, LLEWELLYN, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1838 
in Pittsfield, Maine. He was prosecuting 
attorney from 1864 to 1871; was collector 
of customs for the district of Aroostook, 
Maine, from 1868 to 1872; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in the state legislature in 
1874, 1875 and 1876. He was elected a 
representative from Maine to the forty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 

POWERS, ORLANDO W., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born June 16, 1850, 
in Pultneyville, N. Y. In 1885 he was 
associate justice of Utah; and a member 
of the Utah legislature in 1894. 

POWERS, RIDGELY C., soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Dec. 24, 1836, in Mecca, 
Ohio. He served as an assistant adju¬ 
tant-general in the war for the union. He 
moved to the state of Mississippi in 1865; 
was lieutenant-governor in 1870; and in 
1871 was elected governor of the state. 

POWERS, THEODORE TAYLOR, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, was born Jan. 21, 1866, in 
Centerville, Iowa. He received a liberal 
education in the public schools, and was 
a graduate of the law department of 
Drake university at Des Moines, Iowa. 
For several years he was engaged in ed¬ 
ucational work; was a candidate for state 
representative for Appanoose county, 
Iowa, in 1893; and is now a prominent 
lawyer of Phoenix, Arizona. 

POWERS, WILBUR HOWARD, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Jan. 22, 1849, in 
Croydon, N. H. He attended the public 
schools; graduated from Kimball Union 
academy in 1871; from Dartmouth col¬ 
lege in 1875; from Boston university 
School of Law in 1878, with the degree 
of LL. B.; and in 1880 he received the 
degree of A. M. from Dartmouth college. 
He has attained success as an able lawyer 
of Hyde Park, Mass.; was town solicitor 
in 1889-90; a representative in the Massa¬ 
chusetts state legislature during 1890-92; 
and presidential elector in 1897. Since 
1893 he has been a member of the park 
commission, being also its secretary and 
chairman. 

POWNALL, THOMAS, governor, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1720 in England. In 
1757 he was elected governor of Massa¬ 
chusetts, resigning in 1760. He wrote The 
Middle States of America; and Letters 
Advocating Free Trade. He died Feb. 25, 
1805, in England. 

POYAS, CATHERINE GENDRON, po¬ 
et, was born April 27, 1813, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. She was a poet of Charleston; 
and the author of Huguenot Daughters, 
and Other Verses; and A Year of Grief. 
She died Feh. 7, 1882, in Charleston, S. C. 

POYDRAS, JULIAN, congressman, was 
born April 3, 1746, in Finance. He was a 
delegate in congress from the territory of 
Louisiana from 1809 to 1812. He died 
June 2, 1824, in Louisiana. 

PRALL, JOHN ANDREW, lawyer, was 
born Jan. 13, 1827, in Woodford county, 
Ky. In 1859 he was nominated for the 
state senate from Kentucky. He entered 
the senate and was chairman of the com¬ 
mittee on federal relations continuously 
for six years. He was the candidate of 
his party for the senate of the United 
States, and received forty-seven votes on 
joint-ballot, the largest republican vote 
ever cast in the Kentucky legislature. 


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PRALL, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, was 
born April 6, 1853, in Paterson, N. J. In 
1883 he was elected to the assembly of 
New Jersey, and took a leading part in 
what was called the railway taxation is¬ 
sue. He drafted and secured the enact¬ 
ment of the free public library law, under 
which all the free public libraries of New 
Jersey have been established. In 1887 he 
was admitted to priesthood, and is now 
rector of St. John’s church, Detroit, Mich. 

PRATT, ALICE EDWARDS, educator, 
poet. She is a writer of Rosa, Cal.; and 
the author of a number of poems. 

PRATT, CALVIN EDWARD, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 23, 1828, in 
Princeton, Mass. In 1862 he was appointed 
brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1869 
he was elected a judge of the supreme 
court of the state of New York, and he 
was re-elected in 1877 for fourteen years. 

PRATT, CHARLES, philanthropist, was 
born Oct. 2, 1830, in Watertown, Mass. He 
displayed great interest in educational 
matters, and founded in Brooklyn the 
Pratt Industrial institute. This receives 
its support from the Astral flats, which 
were built by him, and conveyed to the 
institute. He died May 4, 1891, in New 
York city. 

PRATT, CHARLES A., journalist, poet, 
was born Jan. 20, 1856, in Pennsylvania. 
From 1885-89 he was postmaster of Pe¬ 
oria; and in 1890 bought The Times of 
Sheffield, Ill. 

PRATT, DANIEL DARWIN, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Oct. 26, 1813, in 
Palermo, Maine. In 1851 and 1853 he was 
elected to the Indiana state legislature; 
and was a delegate to the Chicago con¬ 
vention of 1860, officiating as leading sec¬ 
retary. In 1868 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Indiana to the forty-first 
congress; and in 1869 was elected a sen¬ 
ator in congress for the term ending in 
1875. In 1875 he was appointed commis¬ 
sioner of internal revenue. He died June 
17, 1877, in Logansport, Ind. 

PRATT, DANIEL JOHNSON, author, 
was born March 8, 1827, in Westmoreland, 
N. Y. He was the author of Annals of 
Public, Education in the State of New 
York, 1626-1746. He died Sept. 12, 1884, 
in Albany, N. Y. 

PRATT, MRS. ELLA [FARMAN], au¬ 
thor, was born in New York, She is a 
popular writer for young people, long the 
editor of The. Wide Awake, and more re¬ 
cently of Our Little Men and Women. 
Among her writings are, Good-for-Noth- 
ing Polly; A Girl’s Money; A Little Wo¬ 
man; A White Hand; and Happy Chil¬ 
dren. 

PRATT, ENOCH, merchant, banker, 
philanthropist, was born Sept. 10, 1808, in 
Middleborough, Mass. He has given in 
the most liberal manner to schools, 
churches, and charities and has estab¬ 
lished in Baltimore the Enoch Pratt Free 
library, at a cost of $400,000 in real es¬ 
tate and $833,000 in cash. 

PRATT, HENRY O., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1838, in 
Foxcroft, Maine. He served as a private 
in the army; practiced law at Charles 
City, Iowa, in 1864; and was elected to the 
Iowa house of representatives in 1869, 
and re-elected in 1871. He was elected to 
the forty-third and forty-fourth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

PRATT, JACOB LORING, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1835. He was a cler¬ 
gyman of Maine; and the author of Even¬ 
ing Rest; Branches of Palm; Broken Fet¬ 
ters; The Mask Lifted; Bonnie Aerie; 
Mecca; and The Crown of Silver. He died 
in 1891. 


PRATT, JAMES H., lawyer, politician, 
was born Nov. 16, 1850, in Linn county, 
Mo. He is one of the leading lawyers of 
his native state at Neosha; has been city 
attorney for four years; and served as 
engrossing clerk in the Missouri house of 
representatives. He takes a prominent 
part in the public affairs of his city, coun¬ 
ty and state; and is secretary of the dem¬ 
ocratic state executive judicial committee 
for the eastern judicial district of Mis¬ 
souri. 

PRATT, JAMES T., agriculturist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1805 
in Middletown, Conn. He served in the 
Connecticut legislature; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1853 to 1855. He was a delegate to the 
peace congress of 1861. 

PRATT, JOHN, college president, was 
born Oct. 12, 1800, in Thompson, Conn. 
He was the first president of Denison uni¬ 
versity, Ohio, serving from 1831-37. He 
died in 1882 in Granville, Ohio. 

PRATT, JULIUS HOWARD, manufac¬ 
turer, railroad builder, was born Aug. 
1, 1821, in Meriden, Conn. He commenced 
business in 1842 as a manufacturer of 
ivory goods, which proved to be a success. 
His most important achievement was the 
building of the New York and Green¬ 
wood Lake railway. 

PRATT, MATTHEW, artist, was born 
Sept. 25, 1734, in Philadelphia, Pa. His 
portraits, in the execution of which he 
proved himself an artist of undoubted tal¬ 
ent, include those of Rev. Archdeacon 
Mann, of Dublin, the Duke of Portland, 
the Duchess of Manchester, Governor An¬ 
drew Hamilton, and Governor Cadwala- 
der Colden, of New York. He painted 
also The London School of Artists, which 
Thomas Sully pronounced well executed. 
He died Jan. 9, 1805, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PRATT, O. C., lawyer, jurist, was born 
in New York. He removed to Illinois, and 
from that state was appointed an asso¬ 
ciate justice of the United States court for 
the territory of Oregon, residing at Ore¬ 
gon City. 

PRATT, ORSON, educator, author, was 
born Sept. 19, 1811, in Hartford, N. Y. He 
was a Mormon apostle and educator, pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics in Deseret univer¬ 
sity. He was the author of Divine Au¬ 
thenticity of the Book of Mormon; Cubic 
and Bi-Quadratic Equations; The Great 
First Cause; and The Absurdities of Im- 
materialism. He died Oct. 3, 1881, in 
Salt Lake City, Utah. 

PRATT, PARLEY PARKER, mission¬ 
ary, author, was born April 12, 1807, in 
Burlington, N. Y. He was a baptist preach¬ 
er before his con¬ 
version to Mormon- 
ism in 1830, and be¬ 
came one of the most 
earnest and eloquent 
ministers in the 
church of latter-day 
saints. In 1835 he 
was appointed one of 
the first twelve apos¬ 
tles. He was one of 
the pioneers of 1847, 
when the valley of 
the Great Salt Lake 
was selected as a place of settlement for 
the exiled saints. He explored the region 
in 1849, and built a road in what is 
known as Parley’s canon. Parley’s peak 
is also named after him. He was the au¬ 
thor of Voice of Warning and Instruction 
to All People; History of the Persecu¬ 
tions of Missouri; and Key to the Science 
of Theology. He was assassinated May 13, 
1857, near Van Buren, Ark. 


PRATT, PETER, lawyer, author. He 
was eminent as a lawyer and published 
The Prey Taken from the Strong, or an 
Historical Account of the Recovery of 
One from the Dangerous Errors of Qua¬ 
kerism. He died in November, 1730, in 
New London, Conn. 

PRATT, ROBERT M., artist, was born 
in 1811 in Binghamton, N. Y. Among his 
numerous portraits are those of Aaron 
D. Shattuck and George H. Smillie, both 
in the possession of the Academy of De¬ 
sign. He was elected an associate of the 
National academy in 1849, and an acad¬ 
emician in 1851. He died Aug. 31, 1880, in 
New York city. 

PRATT, SAMUEL WHEELER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Sept. 9, 1838, in 
Livonia, N. Y. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman at Monroe, Mich., from 1883; 
and the author of Summer at Peace Cot¬ 
tage, or Talks About Home Life; The 
Gospel of the Holy Spirit; and Life of 
St. Paul. 

PRATT, THOMAS GEORGE, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Feb. 18, 1804, in Georgetown, D. C. 
He frequently served in the Maryland 
senate; and was a presidential elector in 
1837. He was governor of Maryland from 
1844 to 1848; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1850 to 1857. 
He died Nov. 9, 1869, in Baltimore, Md. 

PRATT, ZADOCK, manufacturer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 30, 
1790, in Stephenstown, N. Y. In 1823 he 
was elected a colonel of militia; and in 
1830 was elected to the New York state 
senate. In 1836 he was a presidential elec¬ 
tor; and was elected to congress in 1836 
and 1842. He died April 6, 1871, in Ber¬ 
gen, N. J. 

PRAY, ISAAC CLARK, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born May 15, 1813, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a journalist, playwright 
and theatrical manager of New York city; 
and the author of Prose, and Verse; The 
Book of the Drama; Memoirs of James 
Gordon Bennett; and Virginius. He died 
Nov. 28, 1869, in New York city. 

PRAY, LEWIS GLOVER, philanthro¬ 
pist, author, was born Aug. 15, 1793, in 
Quincy, Miss. He was a Boston philan¬ 
thropist who published Child’s First Book 
of Thought; History of Sunday-Schools; 
and The Sylphid’s School, and Other 
Pieces in Verse. He died in 1882. 

PRAY, PUBLIUS RUTILIUS RUFUS, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, author, was 
born in 1795 in Maine. He practiced law 
in Hancock county, Miss.; served in the 
legislature in 1828; and was president of 
the convention that adopted the revised 
constitution of 1832. In 1833 he was ap¬ 
pointed by the legislature to revise the 
laws of the state, which work he com¬ 
pleted after great labor. From 1837 till 
his death he was judge of the high court 
of errors and appeals. He published Re¬ 
vised Statutes of the State of Missouri. 
He died Jan. 11, 1840, in Pearlington, 
Miss. 

PREBLE, EDWARD, naval officer, was 
born Aug. 15, 1761, in Portland, Maine. 
He is famous for the success of his squad¬ 
ron. under his flagship the Constitution, 
sent against Tripoli in 1803. For these 
services he received a gold medal from 
congress. He died Aug. 25, 1807, in Port¬ 
land, Maine. 

PREBLE, GEORGE HENRY, naval of¬ 
ficer, author, was born Feb. 25, 1816, in 
Portland, Maine. He was a rear-admiral 
in the United States navy; and the au¬ 
thor of History of the American Flag; 
Chronological History of Steam Naviga¬ 
tion; and The Preble Family in America. 
He died March 1, 1885, in Boston, Mass. 




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PREBLE, HARRIET, educator, author, 
was born in 1795 in England. She pub¬ 
lished translations into French prose of 
Bulwer’s poem The Rebel, with an his¬ 
torical introduction, and of James Feni- 
more Cooper’s Notions of the Americans, 
and left several works in manuscript. She 
died Feb. 4, 1854, in West Manchester, 
Pa. 

PREBLE, HENRY, educator, author, 
was born in 1853 in Maine. He is an ed¬ 
ucator who was professor of Latin at Har¬ 
vard university. He has edited a re¬ 
vised edition of Andrews and Stoddard’s 
Latin Grammar, and several volumes of 
Latin classics. 

PREBLE, JEDEDIAH, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, was born in 1707 in 
Wells, Maine. In 1774 he was commis¬ 
sioned brigadier-general by the provin¬ 
cial congress of Massachusetts, and he 
was afterward made major-general, but 
refused on account of age. He was judge 
of the court of common pleas in 1778, and 
a member of the state senate in 1780. He 
died March 11, 1784, in Portland, Maine. 

PRENDERGAST, DAVIS McGEE, law¬ 
yer, legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 16, 
1816, in Shelbyville, Tenn. He attended 
the Cumberland college, Ky.; and the 
East Tennessee university of Knoxville. 
He served as a member of the tenth and 
thirteenth state legislatures of Texas; and 
filled with distinction the office of judge 
of the thirteenth judicial district of Tex¬ 
as. He is a successful lawyer of Mexia, 
Texas; a decided prohibitionist; and in 
1892 was nominated by that party for gov¬ 
ernor of Texas. 

PRENTICE, GEORGE, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1834 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a methodist clergyman, 
professor of modern languages at Wesley¬ 
an university; and the author of Life of 
Bishop Gilbert Haven; Rome and Italy at 
the Opening of the Oecumenical Council, 
from the French of Pressensd; and Life of 
Wilbur Fisk. 

PRENTICE, GEORGE A., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born May 25, 1844, in Frankfort, 
Ky. During 1858-61 he attended the Ken¬ 
tucky Military insti¬ 
tute, and received a 
thorough education. 
For a quarter of a 
century he has been 
actively engaged in 
the practice of law; 
has been county at¬ 
torney; served with 
distinction as coun¬ 
ty judge; and is now 
one of the foremost 
lawyers of the south 
at Morganfield, Ky. 
He has filled several public positions of 
honor, 

PRENTICE, GEORGE DENISON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born Dec. 18, 
1802, in Preston, Conn. In 1823 he grad¬ 
uated from Brown 
university; and in 
1829 was admitted to 
the bar, but never 
practiced. In 1825 he 
became editor of the 
Connecticut Mirror; 
in 1828 became edi¬ 
tor of the New Eng¬ 
land Weekly Re¬ 
view; and during 
1831-70 was editor of 
the Louisville Jour¬ 
nal. He was widely 
known for his witticisms. He was the au¬ 
thor of Life of Henry Clay; and a volume 
of selections from his writings entitled 
Prenticeana. He died Jan. 22, 1870, in 


Louisville, Ky. A collection of his po¬ 
ems was published in 1876. 

PRENTIS, ROBERT RIDDICK, lawyer, 
jurist, was born May 24, 1855, in Albe¬ 
marle county, Va. During 1883-85 he was 
mayor of Suffolk, Va.; presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1892; and is now judge of the first 
judicial circuit court of Virginia. 

PRENTISS, ALBERT NELSON, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born May 22, 1836, in 
Cazenovia, N. Y. In 1868 he was elect¬ 
ed professor of botany and horticulture in 
the Michigan Agriculture college, which 
position he now holds. He has written a 
monograph on the hemlock, and other 
botanical papers. 

PRENTISS, BENJAMIN MAYBERRY, 
soldier, was born Nov. 23, 1819, in Belle¬ 
ville, W. Va. He organized a company 
of volunteers for service in the civil war, 
and his bravery earned him the sobri¬ 
quet of The Hero of Shiloh, and he was 
promoted to brigadier-general of United 
States volunteers. 

PRENTISS, CHARLES, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in October, 1774, in Read¬ 
ing, Mass. He was a journalist of Wash¬ 
ington; and the author of Fugitive Es¬ 
says in Prose and Verse; Poems; History 
of the United States; Trial of Calvin and 
Hopkins; and Lives of Robert Treat Paine 
and General William Eaton. He died Oct. 
20, 1820, in Brimfield, Mass. 

PRENTISS, MRS. ELIZABETH [PAY- 
SON], author, was born Oct. 26, 1818, in 
Portland, Maine. She was a popular writer 
of religious fiction whose Stepping Heav¬ 
enward has been widely read. Among her 
many other works are, Pemaquid; The 
Home at Graylock; Aunt Jane’s Hero; 
The Flower of the Family; Little Susy 
Series; and Fred, Maria and Me. She 
died Aug. 13, 1878, in Dorset, Vt. 

PRENTISS, GEORGE LEWIS, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born May 12, 
1816, in Gorham, Maine. He is a pres- 
byterian clergyman of New York city; 
and professor of pastoral theology in 
Union seminary from 1873. He is the au¬ 
thor of Memoir of Seargent Prentiss; 
Life of Elizabeth Prentiss; Our Na¬ 
tional Bane; The Problem of the Veto 
Power; The Argument between Union 
Seminary and the General Assembly; and 
Fifty Years of Union Seminary. 

PRENTISS, JOHN HOLMES, journalist, 
congressman, was born April 17, 1784, in 
Worcester, Mass. In 1808 he established 
the Freeman’s Journal in Cooperstown, N. 
Y., which he edited with ability and suc¬ 
cess until 1849. He was a representative 
from New York to the twenty-fifth and 
twenty-sixth congresses. He died June 
26, 1864, in Cooperstown, N. Y. 

PRENTISS, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born March 31, 1782, 
in Stonington, Conn. In 1824 and 1825 
he represented Montpelier, Vt., in the 
state legislature; and in 1829 was elect¬ 
ed chief justice of the supreme court of 
the state. He was a senator in congress 
from Vermont from 1831 to 1842. In 1842 
he was appointed judge of the federal dis¬ 
trict court in Vermont, which office he 
held at the time of his death. He died 
Jan. 15, 1857, in Montpelier, Vt. 

PRENTISS, SEARGENT SMITH, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 30, 1808, in Portland, Maine. 
He was elected to the Mississippi state 
legislature in 1835; and in 1837 was chos¬ 
en a representative in congress from Mis¬ 
sissippi for the years 1838 and 1839. As 
a jury orator he was acknowledged as 
having no equal in the southwestern 
states. He died July 1, 1850, in Long- 
wood, Miss. 


PRENTISS, THEODORE, lawyer, state 
legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1815, in 
Montpelier, Vt. He served in the Wis¬ 
consin legislature, and was three times 
elected mayor of Watertown. 

PRENTISS, WILLIAM A., merchant, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born 
in 1799 in Massachusetts. In 1836 he 
moved to Milwaukee, Wis.; in 1847 became 
a justice of- the peace; was four years a 
member of the upper branch of the terri¬ 
torial legislature; and was its president 
in 1840. In 1858 he became mayor of 
Milwaukee. 

PRESCOTT, ALBERT BENJAMIN, 
chemist, author, was born Dec. 12, 1832, 
in Hastings, N. Y. He is a chemist who 
has been dean of the School of Pharmacy 
at Michigan university from 1876; and 
the author of Outlines of Proximate Or¬ 
ganic Analysis; Chemical Examination 
of Alcoholic Liquors; Organic Analysis; 
and Qualitative Analysis. 

PRESCOTT, BENJAMIN, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 16, 1687, in Con¬ 
cord, Mass. He was the author of Ex¬ 
amination of Certain Remarks; Letter to 
Joshua Gee; Letter to Rev. George White- 
field; and A Free and a Calm Considera¬ 
tion of the Unhappy Misunderstandings 
and Debates between Great Britain and 
the American Colonies. He died May 28, 
1777, in Danvers, Mass. 

PRESCOTT, BENJAMIN F., journalist, 
lawyer, governor, was born Feb. 26, 1833, 
in Epping, N. H. He became associate 
editor of the Independent Democrat news¬ 
paper of Concord, N. H., and continued as 
such until 1866. He was elected secretary 
of state in 1872, 1873, 1875 and 1876. He 
was elected governoi of New Hampshire 
in 1877 and re-elected in 1878. 

PRESCOTT, CYRUS D„ lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Aug. 15, 
1836, in New Hartford, N. Y. He was a 
member of the board of aldermen of 
Rome, N. Y., from 1874 to 1876; a mem¬ 
ber of the state house of representatives 
in 1878; and was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-sixth and 
forty-seventh congresses as a republican. 

PRESCOTT, GEORGE BARTLETT, 
electrician, author, was born Sept. 16, 
1830, in Kingston, N. H. In 1873 he vis¬ 
ited Europe in the interest of the Western 
Union Telegraph company for the purpose 
of investigating the various systems of 
telegraphy in operation there, and found 
many important objects of recommenda¬ 
tion, which he patented in the United 
States and Great Britain. He has pub¬ 
lished History, Theory and Practice of 
the Electric Telegraph; The Proposed 
Union of the Telegraph and Postal Sys¬ 
tems (New York); The Government and 
the Telegraph; and Electricity and the 
Electric Telegraph. He died in 1894. 

PRESCOTT, OLIVER, soldier, jurist, 
was born April 27, 1731, in Groton, Mass. 
In 1778 he was appointed third major-gen¬ 
eral of militia in Massachusetts, and in 
1781 he became second major-general, but 
soon afterward he resigned. From 1779 
till his death he was judge of probate for 
Middlesex county. He died Nov. 17, 1804, 
in Groton, Mass. 

PRESCOTT, OLIVER, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born April 4, 1762, in Groton, 
Mass. He removed to Newburyport in 
1811, practicing successfully there till his 
death. He was often a representative in 
the legislature, and was a founder, trus¬ 
tee, and treasurer of Groton academy. 
He died Sept. 26, 1827, in Newburyport. 









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PRESCOTT, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
*>orn Feb. 20, 1726, in Groton, Mass. He 
fought with distinguished bravery at the 
battle of Bunker Hill, where he was one 
■of the chief commanders. He died Oct. 13 
1795, in Pepperell, Mass. 

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born Aug. 19, 1762, in 
Pepperell, Mass. He removed to Salem, 
Mass., and after representing that town 
for several years in the legislature, he was 
elected a state senator by the federal 
party for Essex county, first in 1806 and 
again in 1813. He died Dec. 8, 1844, in 
Boston, Mass. 

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 29, 1788, in Gilman- 
ton, N. H. He was an enthusiastic col¬ 
lector of minerals and shells, and was a 
member of many literary and scientific 
societies. He wrote the Prescott Me¬ 
morial. He died Oct. 18, 1875, in Gilman- 
ton, N. H. 

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM C., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Dec. 11, 1848, in New 
Hartford, N. Y. During 1893-94 he was a 
member of the New York state legislature. 
He is a prominent lawyer of Herkimer, 
N. Y., and grand marshal of Free and Ac¬ 
cepted Masons of his state. 

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING, his¬ 
torian, author, was born May 4, 1796, in 
Salem, Mass. He was a celebrated his¬ 
torian of Boston. In 1837 his History of 
the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella ap¬ 
peared and brought him instant fame. It 
was followed by The Conquest of Mexico; 
The Conquest of Peru; an edition of 
Robertson’s Charles V, with Prescott’s 
own work on the cloister life of that 
monarch; History of Philip II; and 
Biographical and Critical Miscellanies. 
He died Jan. 28, 1850, in Boston, Mass. 

PRESSEY, EDWARD PEARSON, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, sociologist, was born in 
1869 in Salem, N. H. He attended the 
Pinkerton academy of Derry, N. H.; and 
graduated from Harvard college and from 
Harvard Divinity school. He has been a 
successful teacher in the Boston public 
schools; and now fills a pastorate in the 
First Congregational church of Rowe, 
Mass. He is a practical sociologist, and 
contributes extensively to current liter¬ 
ature. 

PRESTON, ACHSAH ANNIE, author, 
was born Oct. 18, 1840, in Vernon, Vt. 
For forty years she has contributed to 
the leading publications of America. 

PRESTON, ANN, physician, lecturer, 
author, was born Dec. 1, 1813, in West 
Grove, Pa. She was active in the estab¬ 
lishment of the Woman’s hospital of 
Philadelphia, and was from its beginning 
one of the managers, its corresponding 
secretary, and its consulting physician. 
She published various essays on the medi¬ 
cal education of women, and was the au¬ 
thor of a book of poems entitled Cousin 
Ann’s Stories for Children. She died 
April 18, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PRESTON, CHARLES, legislator, was 
born March 10, 1856, in Milbrook, N. Y. 
He is a representative of the South Da¬ 
kota state legislature. He is the owner 
of a ranch of two thousand acres well 
stocked with sheep. 

PRESTON, DAVID, banker, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born Sept. 20, 1826, in Harmony, 
N. Y. He established himself as a banker 
in Detroit and Chicago. He gave about 
$200,000 to charities, and pledged himself 
to raise from the people of Michigan $60,- 
000, giving himself nearly one-half of this 
sum, for Albion college, of which he was 
a trustee from 1862 till his death. He died 
April 24, 1887, in Detroit, Mich. 


PRESTON, FRANCIS, congressman, 
was born Aug. 2, 1765, in Botetourt coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was a member of congress 
from Virginia from 1793 to 1797. He died 
May 25, 1835, in Columbia, S. C. 

PRESTON, HARRIET WATERS, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1843 in Danvers, Mass. 
She is a high authority upon Provenqal 
literature and a writer of literary criti¬ 
cism and historical studies who has lived 
much in Europe. She is the author of 
Aspendale; Love in the Nineteenth Cen¬ 
tury; Troubadours and Trouvfires; A 
Year in Eden; Is That All? a novel; 
and The Georgies of Virgil in English 
Verse. 

PRESTON, JACOB A., congressman, 
was born in Maryland. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1843 to 1845. 

PRESTON, JAMES PATTON, soldier, 
governor, was born in 1774 in Montgom¬ 
ery county, Va. For many years he was 
postmaster of the city of Richmond; and 
was governor of Virginia from 1816 to 
1819. He died May 4, 1843, in Smithfield, 
Va. 

PRESTON, MRS. MARGARET [JUN- 
KIN], author, poet, was born in 1825 in 
Philadelphia, Pa. She was a poet and 
prose writer of Lexington, Va., and later 
of Baltimore; and the author of Old 
Song and New; Beechenbrook, a Rhyme 
of the War; Colonial Ballads, Sonnpts, 
and Other Verse; For Love’s Sake; The 
Young Ruler’s Question; Silverwood, a 
novel; and A Handful of Monographs. 

PRESTON, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1665 in Patuxent, Md. He 
was chosen mayor of Philadelphia in 1711; 
and in 1714 became the treasurer of the 
province, retaining the office until his 
death. In 1726 he became a justice of the 
peace and of the court of common pleas. 
He died Sept. 10, 1743, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PRESTON, THOMAS LEWIS, manufac¬ 
turer, state legislator, author, was born 
Nov. 28, 1812, in Botetourt county, Va. 
He was for many years engaged in Wash¬ 
ington and Smith counties, Va., in the 
manufacture of salt, in which he made 
material improvements. He was twice a 
member of the legislature, for many years 
a visitor of the university of Virginia, 
and twice its rector. He has published 
Life of Elizabeth Russell, Wife of Gen. 
William Campbell of King’s Mountain. 

PRESTON, THOMAS SCOTT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 23, 1824, in 
Hartford, Conn. He was a Roman cath¬ 
olic clergyman, but prior to 1849 in orders 
in the episcopal church. From 1881 he 
was a domestic prelate of the papal house¬ 
hold with the title of monsignore. He 
was the author of Protestantism and the 
Bible; Reason and Revelation; Christ 
and the Church; The Ark of the Cove¬ 
nant; Sermons for the Seasons; Life of 
St. Mary Magdalene; Life of St. Vincent 
de Paul; Christian Unity; and Purga- 
torian Manual. He died in 1891. 

PRESTON, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 16, 1816, in Louisville, Ky. He went 
to Mexico as a lieutenant-colonel of the 
Kentucky volunteers; and served in the 
convention called to frame anew the con¬ 
stitution of Kentucky. In 1850 and 1851 
he was elected to the state legislature; 
and was a presidential elector in 1852, 
voting for Scott. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Kentucky to the thirty- 
second congress to fill a vacancy; and was 
re-elected to the thirty-third congress. In 
1858 he was appointed minister to Spain. 
He took part in the rebellion, and was a 
brigadier-general; and in 1868 was elect¬ 
ed to the state legislature. He died 
Sept, 21, 1887, in Lexington, Ky. 


PRESTON, WILLIAM BALLARD, sec¬ 
retary of navy, was born Nov. 25, 1805, in 
Smithfield, Va. He graduated from the 
university of Vir¬ 
ginia, and attained 
prominence as a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer. He 
served a number of 
terms in the Vir¬ 
ginia state senate; 
and in 1846 was sent 
to congress. In 1849 
was appointed secre¬ 
tary of navy. He 
was elected to the 
confederate senate in 
1861; and was a 
member of that body at the time of his 
death. He died Nov. 16, 1862, in Mont¬ 
gomery county, Va. 

PRESTON, WILLIAM CAMPBELL, 
lawyer, United States senator, was born 
Dec. 27, 1794, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1821, and com¬ 
menced the practice of law in Virginia. 
In 1822 he moved to Columbia, S. C.; and 
in 1832 was elected to the senate of the 
United States from South Carolina. In 
1855 he became president of the university 
of South Carolina. He died May 22, 1860, 
in Columbia, S. C. 

PRETTYMAN, ELIJAH BARRETT, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Feb. 20, 1830, in Wil¬ 
liamsport, Pa. He attended a classical 
school in Baltimore; 
then attended the 
Cumberland acad¬ 
emy; and subse¬ 
quently graduated 
from Dickinson 
academy. He has at¬ 
tained success in ed¬ 
ucational work; has 
been principal of 
Brookeville acad¬ 
emy; principal of 
Maryland State Nor¬ 
mal school; and state 
superintendent of public instruction of 
Maryland. He is prominent in education¬ 
al affairs; and has contributed valuable 
articles to educational journals. 

PREVOST, CHARLES MALLET, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born Sept. 19, 1818, in 
Baltimore, Md. He was appointed United 
States marshal for the territory of Wis¬ 
consin, and he was subsequently deputy 
collector of the port of Philadelphia. He 
died Nov. 5, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PREVOST, JOHN B., lawyer, jurist. In 
1804 he was appointed a judge of the 
United States court for the territory of 
Orleans. 

PREYER, HUGO, journalist, writer, 
orator, was born Jan. 20, 1847, in Prussia. 
Since 1872 he has been engaged in re¬ 
form work; was 
publisher of the Ohio 
Staats Zeitung of 
Canton, Ohio; and 
the Colorado Staats 
Zeitung of Denver, 
Colo. He has deliv¬ 
ered speeches in 
nearly every state in 
the union; and in 
1878 was the candi¬ 
date for lieutenant- 
governor of Ohio on 
the greenback ticket. 
He has been national chairman of the 
greenback labor party; for two years was 
state chairman of the people’s party of 
Ohio; and for four years was a member 
of the national committee of the people’s 
party, receiving the re-election for a sec¬ 
ond term of four years more. 







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PRICE, ANDREW, lawyer, planter, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 2, 1854, in 
Chatsworth plantation, La. He was elect¬ 
ed from Louisiana to the fifty-first con¬ 
gress to fill a vacancy. He was elected to 
the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses 
and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress 
as a democrat. 

PRICE, BRUCE, architect, author, was 
born Sept. 12, 1845, in Cumberland, Md. 
He is an architect of New York city; and 
the author of A Large Country House. 

PRICE, CURTIS E., surgeon, was born 
Sept. 25, 1840, in Letimbreville, Ohio. He 
entered the army as surgeon, and was 
brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallant 
conduct at the battle of Nashville; served 
with the army of the Cumberland until 
the close of the war; and since 1867 has 
been in the regular service of the United 
States army as surgeon. 

PRICE, E. B., poet. He is the author 
of a volume of poems entitled Beulah. 

PRICE, ELI KIRK, lawyer, author, was 
born July 20, 1797, in Bradford, Pa. He 
was a Philadelphia lawyer of prominence 
and the author of Law of Limitations and 
Liens against Real Estate. He died Nov. 
14, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PRICE, GEORGE EDMUND, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Nov. 9, 1848, in 
Moorefield, W. Ya. He is a prominent 
lawyer of Charleston, W. Va. During 
1883-90 he was a state senator of the 
West Virginia legislature, and in 1885-87 
was president of that body. 

PRICE, GEORGE WASHINGTON FER¬ 
GUS, educator, was born Sept. 24, 1830, in 
Butler county, Ala. In 1872 he became 
president of the Methodist Female college 
at Huntsville, Ala., resigning in 1880, 
when he removed to Nashville, Tenn., and 
established there the Nashville College 
for Young Ladies. 

PRICE, HIRAM, public official, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 10, 1814, in 
Washington county, Pa. He was presi¬ 
dent of the State bank of Iowa from 1859 
to 1866; and was paymaster-general of 
Iowa during the civil war. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Iowa to the 
thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty- 
fifth, and forty-sixth congresses. He was 
president of the Davenport and St. Paul 
Railroad company. 

PRICE, HUGH H„ merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 2, 1859, in Black 
River Falls, Wis. He is engaged in mill¬ 
ing and lumner business in Black River 
Falls, Wis.; and was elected to the forty- 
ninth congress as a republican to fill a 
vacancy. 

PRICE, IRA MAURICE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1856 in Ohio. He is an 
educator of Chicago, professor of Semitic 
languages in the university of Chicago 
from 1892; and the author of Syllabus of 
Old Testament History. 

PRICE, RODMAN McCAULEY, lawyer, 
congressman, governor, was born May 5, 
1816, in Sussex county, N. J. He was ap¬ 
pointed purser in the 
navy in 1840; and 
is said to have been 
the first person to 
exercise judicial 
functions under the 
American flag on the 
Pacific coast, as al¬ 
calde. In 1848 he 
was made naval 
agent for the Pacific 
coast; was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress 
from his native state 
from 1851 to 1853; and was subsequently 
elected governor of New Jersey. He 



caused the establishment in that state of 
a normal school, and did much to improve 
the militia of the state. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the peace congress of 1861. 

PRICE, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator. United States senator, was born 
Aug. 18, 1805, in Fauquier county, Va. 
He served several terms in the Virginia 
state legislature; and in 1863 was elected 
lieutenant-governor of Virginia, holding 
the office until the close of the civil war. 
In 1876 he was appointed United States 
senator, serving about two months. He 
died Feb. 25, 1884, in Leesburg, Va. 

PRICE, STERLING, soldier, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born Sept. 12, 1809, 
in Prince Edward county, Va. He was a 
representative in congress from Missouri 
from 1845 to 1847; and was governor of 
that state from 1853 to 1857. He was iden¬ 
tified with the great rebellion of 1861 as 
a major-general. He died Sept. 29, 1867, 
in St. Louis, Mo. 

PRICE, THEOPHILUS TOWNSEND, 
physician, author, poet, was born May 21, 
1828, in Cape May county, N. J. Since 
1879 he has been acting assistant surgeon 
in the United States marine hospital ser¬ 
vice, the first and only appointment of 
the kind in New Jersey. He has served 
in the New Jersey legislature. He is the 
author of the entire historical and de¬ 
scriptive part of the Historical and Bio¬ 
graphical Atlas of the New Jersey Coast. 

PRICE, THOMAS LAWSON, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 19, 1809, near Dan¬ 
ville, Va. He was elected a representative 
from Missouri to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. He died July 15,1870, in Lexington, 
Mo. 

PRICE, THOMAS RANDOLPH, educat¬ 
or, author, was born in 1839 in Virginia. 
He is a professor of English literature at 
Columbia college from 1882; and the au¬ 
thor of The Teaching of the Mother 
Tongue; and Shakespeare’s Verse Con¬ 
struction. 

PRICE, TITUS ELLSWORTH, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Sept. 18, 1861, in 
Solon, Ohio. For three successive terms 
he was city treasurer of Highmore, S. D.; 
during 1887-91 was superintendent of pub¬ 
lic instruction for Hyde county; and in 
1891-93 was state’s attorney for the same 
county. In 1893 he was a member of the 
South Dakota house of representatives; 
and in 1895 was a delegate to the nation¬ 
al republican league convention held in 
Cleveland, Ohio. In 1895 he moved to 
Yankton, S. D., where he is engaged in 
the practice of law, and very prominent 
in political affairs. 

PRICE, WALTER, farmer, politician, 
writer, was born July 19, 1860, in Marshall 
county, Iowa. He is a successful farmer 
of Milford, S. D.; a writer on economic 
questions from the farmer’s standpoint; 
and for ten years has been a correspond¬ 
ent of the Dakota Ruralist and other re¬ 
form papers. He has been postmaster of 
his city, and held various other offices; 
has been chairman of the county commit¬ 
tee; a member of the state committee of 
the people’s party of South Dakota; and 
was the nominee for state senator in 
1892. 

PRICE, WILLIAM P., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 
1835, in Dahlonega, Ga. He practiced law 
at Greenville, S. C., and was a member of 
the state legislature in 1864-66. He re¬ 
turned to Georgia in 1866, and was a 
member of the legislature of Georgia in 
1868. He was elected a representative 
from Georgia to the forty-first congress, 
and was re-elected to the forty-second 
congress as a democrat. 


PRICE, WILLIAM THOMAS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 19, 1830, near 
Marlinton, W. Va. He was prepared for 
college at the Hillsboro academy, and 
graduated in 1854 from Washington col¬ 
lege, now called the Washington and Lee 
university, receiving a forty-dollar gold 
medal as the first honor graduate. In 
1857 he completed his theological studies 
at the Union Theological seminary, and 
was licensed the same year to preach. 
His time has since been devoted mainly 
to the ministry of the presbyterian church 
—for forty years—twelve years as home 
missionary in Bath and Highland 
counties, Va.; sixteen years as pastor in 
Cooke’s Creek church in Rockingham, Va., 
and twelve years as pastor in Hunters¬ 
ville and Marlinton churches. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively to religious litera¬ 
ture; and is the author of several pub¬ 
lished works. 

PRICE, WILLIAM THOMPSON, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, congressman, was 
born June 17, 1824, in Barre township, 
Pa. He was judge of Jackson county, 
Wis., once by election and once by ap¬ 
pointment, and was a representative in 
the state legislature in 1851 and 1852. He 
was a state senator in 1857, 1870, 1871,1878, 
1879, 1880 and 1881. He was collector of 
internal revenue from 1863 to 1865. He 
was elected a representative from Wiscon¬ 
sin to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth 
congresses. He died Dec. 6, 1886, in Eau 
Claire, Wis. 

PRICKETT, HENRY E., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born Feb. 1, 1829, in 
England. He was county judge of Jack- 
son county, Wis., from 1856 to 1860, and 
was a representative in the state legis¬ 
lature in 1858. He settled in Idaho ter¬ 
ritory; was a member of the council of the 
territorial legislature in 1875, and in 1876 
was appointed associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Idaho, and was reap¬ 
pointed in 1880. 

PRICKETT, JACOB P., journalist, poet, 
was born May 10, 1836, in Benton, Ind. 
He is the editor of the Albion New Era 
of his native state, and is the author of 
a number of poems. 

PRIDEMORE, AUBURN LORENZO, 
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born June 27, 1837, in Scott 
county, Va. He was elected to the Vir¬ 
ginia assembly in 1865, but the close of 
the war annulled the election. He prac¬ 
ticed law in Jonesville, Va.; was a state 
senator from 1871 to 1875, and was elected 
a representative from Virginia to the 
forty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

PRIEST, HENRY SAMUEL, jurist, was 
born Feb. 7, 1853, in Ralls county, Mo. 
In 1894 he was appointed United States 
district judge for the eastern district of 
Missouri. 

PRIEST, JOSIAH, author, was born 
about 1790 in New York. He was a har¬ 
ness-maker of New York state, some of 
whose books were very popular. He was 
the author of Wonders of Nature; View 
of the Millennium; Stories of the Revo¬ 
lution; American Antiquities; and Slavery 
in the Light of History and Scripture. He 
died about 1850. 

PRIME, BENJAMIN YOUNG, physi¬ 
cian, author, poet, was born Dec. 20, 1733, 
in Huntington, L. I. He was a physician 
of Huntington, L. I., who wrote patriotic 
verses during the revolutionary period. 
The Patriot Muse, published in 1764, in¬ 
cludes his earlier poems. Columbia’s 
Glory, or British Pride Humbled, is a 
long poem printed in 1791. He died Oct. 
31, 1791, in Huntington, N. Y. 



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PRIME, EDWARD DORR GRIFFIN, 
clergyman, journalist, author, was born 
Nov. 2, 1814, in Cambridge, N. Y. He was 
a presbyterian clergyman who was one of 
the editors of The New York Observer, 
to which he contributed the Letters of 
Eusebius. He was the author of Around 
the World; and Forty Years in the Turk¬ 
ish Empire, or Memoirs of Reverend Wil¬ 
liam Goodell. He died April 7, 1891, in 
New York. 

PRIME, FREDERICK, geologist, edu¬ 
cator, was born March 1, 1846, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 1870 he was elected pro¬ 
fessor of mining and metallurgy at Lafa¬ 
yette, and in 1874 he became assistant 
geologist on the geological survey of 
Pennsylvania, both of which places he 
filled until 1879. At the world’s fair of 
1876 he was judge of the group on mining 
and metallurgy, filling the office of secre¬ 
tary to the board. 

PRIME, FREDERICK EDWARD, sol¬ 
dier, was horn Sept. 24, 1829, in Italy. 
He was promoted major in 1863, brevetted 
lieutenant-colonel the following month for 
meritorious services before Vicksburg, 
and colonel and brigadier-general in 1865 
for gallant conduct throughout the war. 

PRIME, NATHANIEL SCUDDER, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was horn April 21, 1785, 
in Huntington, L. I. He was a presby¬ 
terian clergyman of Newburgh, N. Y., 
and the author of Familiar Illustration 
of Christian Baptism; and History of 
Long Island. He died March 27, 1856, in 
Mamaroneck, N. Y. 

PRIME, SAMUEL IRENiE'US, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born Nov. 
4, 1812, in Ballston, N. Y. He was a 
presbyterian clergyman, editor of The 
New York Observer for forty-five years. 
He was the author of Fifteen Years of 
Prayer; Irenseus Letters; The Old White 
Meeting-House; Life in New York; An¬ 
nals of the English Bible; Songs of the 
Soul; Life of S. B. F. Morse; Pray¬ 
er and Its Answer; Walking with God; 
Travels in Europe and the East; The 
Bible in the Levant; The Alhambra and 
the Kremlin; and Under the Trees. He 
died July 18, 1885, in Manchester, Vt. 

PRIME, WILLIAM COWPER, journal¬ 
ist, educator, author, was born Oct. 31, 
1825, in Cambridge, N. Y. He is a law¬ 
yer and journalist, and professor of the 
history of art at Princeton college from 
1884. He is the author of Boat Life in 
Egypt; Tent Life, in the Holy Land; Pot¬ 
tery and Porcelain; The Owl Creek Let¬ 
ters; Coins, Medals and Seals; I Go 
A-Fishing; Holy Cross; Along New Eng¬ 
land Roads; and Among the Northern 
Hills. 

PRINCE, CHARLES H„ soldier, public 
official, congressman, was born May 9, 
1837, in Buckfield, Maine. In 1868 he 
was elected a representative from Georgia 
to the fortieth congress as a republican. 

PRINCE, GEORGE W„ lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
4, 1854, in Tazewell county, Ill. He was 
elected a member of the lower house of 
the general assembly of Illinois in 1888, 
and was re-elected in 1890. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fourth congress at a spe¬ 
cial election held in 1895, to fill a va¬ 
cancy, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

PRINCE, MRS. HELEN CHOATE 
(PRATT), author, was born in 1857 in 
Massachusetts. She is a novelist now liv¬ 
ing in France, and the author of The 
Story of Christine Rochefort; and A 
Transatlantic Chatelaine. 

PRINCE, HENRY, soldier, was born 
June 19, 1811, in Eastport, Maine. In the 
civil war he took part in the northern 


Virginia campaign, and was made briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers. 

PRINCE, L. BRADFORD, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, senator, governor, author, was born 
July 3, 1840, in Flushing, N. Y. In 1871 
he was elected to the New York assembly 
from Queens county; in 1875 was a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate; in 1879 was elect¬ 
ed chief justice of New Mexico; and in 
1889 was elected governor. He is the au¬ 
thor of American Nationality; General 
Laws of New Mexico; History of New 
Mexico; and The American Church and 
Its Name. 

PRINCE, NATHAN, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 30, 1698, in Sand¬ 
wich, Mass. He took orders in the Church 
of England, and was sent as a missionary 
to the Mosquito Indians in Central Amer¬ 
ica. He published an Essay to Solve the 
Difficulties Attending the Several Ac¬ 
counts Given of the Resurrection; and an 
Account of the Constitution and Govern¬ 
ment of Harvard College from 1636 to 
1742. He died July 25, 1748, in Honduras. 

PRINCE, OLIVER HILLHOUSE, law¬ 
yer, congressman, author, was born about 
1787 in Connecticut. He published a Di¬ 
gest of the Laws of Georgia. He was a 
senator in congress from Georgia dur¬ 
ing the years 1828 and 1829. He died Oct. 
9, 1837, at sea. 

PRINCE, THOMAS, governor, was born 
in 1601, in England. He came to America 
on the Mayflower; and during 1634-38 was 
governor of Plymouth Colony, and also 
during 1657-73. He died March 29, 1673, 
in Plymouth, Mass. 

PRINCE, THOMAS, clergyman, author, 
was born May 15, 1687, in Sandwich, Mass. 
He was a congregational minister, pastor 
of the Old South church in Boston, 1718- 
58, and one of the most fair-minded, ac¬ 
curate historical writers that America has 
had. His library now forms a separate 
collection in the Boston public library. 
He is the author of Earthquakes of New 
England (1755); and Chronological His¬ 
tory of New England. He died Oct. 22, 
1758, in Boston, Mass. 

PRINCE, THOMAS, editor, was born 
Feb. 27, 1722, in Boston, Mass. He edited 
the earliest American periodical, which 
was entitled Christian History, and con¬ 
tained accounts of the revival and propa¬ 
gation of religion in Great Britain and 
America for 1743. He died Sept. 30, 1748, 
in Boston, Mass. 

PRINCE, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from In¬ 
diana from 1823 to 1824. He died Sept. 8, 
1824, in Princeton, Ind. 

PRINCE, WILLIAM, horticulturist, au¬ 
thor, was horn Nov. 10, 1766, in Flush¬ 
ing, L. I. He was a horticulturist of 
Flushing, L. I., whose Treatise on Horti¬ 
culture (1826) was the first comprehen¬ 
sive work on the subject published in the 
United States. He died April 9, 1842, in 
Flushing, N. Y. 

PRINCE, WILLIAM ROBERT, horticul¬ 
turist, author, was born Nov. 6, 1795, in 
Flushing, L. I. He was a horticulturist 
of Flushing, and the author of History of 
the Vine (with W. Prince); Pomological 
Manual; and Manual of Roses. He died 
March 28, 1869, in Flushing, N. Y. 

PRINDLE, ELIZUR H., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born May 6, 
1829, in Newton, Conn. He was district 
attorney of Chenango county, N. Y., in 
1860-62, and was a member of the state as¬ 
sembly in 1863. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the forty- 
second congress as a republican. 


PRINGLE, BENJAMIN, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was horn Nov. 9, 1807, in 
Richfield, N. Y. He moved to Batavia, N. 
Y., in 1830, and attained success as an able 
lawyer. He held the office of judge in the 
court of common pleas, and was a mem¬ 
ber of the thirty-third and thirty-fourth 
congresses. He served in the assembly in 
1862, and in 1863 was appointed by Presi¬ 
dent Lincoln a judge under a treaty with 
Great Britain for the suppression of the 
slave trade. He died June 7, 1887. 

PRINGREY, DARIUS HARLAN, law¬ 
yer, author, was horn April 23, 1841, in 
Andover, N. Y. In 1877 he was admitted 
to the bar, and the following year began 
the practice of law at Bloomington, Ill. 
He is the author of two legal works: 
Chattel Mortgages; and Mortgages of 
Real Property, in two volumes. 

PRITCHARD, JETER CONNELLY, 
journalist, state legislator, United States 
senator, was born July 12, 1857, in Jones¬ 
boro, Tenn. He was joint editor and own¬ 
er of the Roan Mountain Republican until 
1887, when he removed to Marshall, N. C. 
He was elected to the legislature-in 1884, 
1886, and 1890; was the republican can¬ 
didate for lieutenant-governor in 1888 and 
was the republican caucus in 1887. In 
1894 he became prominent in the co¬ 
operation movement in North Carolina, 
and the success of that movement resulted 
in his election to the United States sen¬ 
ate to fill a vacancy. He was re-elected 
in 1897 for term expiring March 3, 1903. 

PROCTOR, EDNA DEAN, litterateur, 
author, was born Oct. 10, 1838, in Henni- 
ker, N. H. She is a writer formerly of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., now of South Framing¬ 
ham, Mass. She is the author of Poems; 
A Russian Journey; and The Song of the 
Ancient People. 

PROCTOR, LUCIEN BROCK, author, 
was horn March 6, 1826, in Hanover, N. H. 
He is a legal writer of Albany, and the 
author of The Bench and the Bar of the 
State of New York; Lives of the State 
Chancellors; Life of Thomas Emmet; 
Lawyer and Client; Bench and Bar of 
King’s County; and Legal History of Al¬ 
bany and Schenectady Counties. 

PROCTOR, REDFIELD, soldier, state 
senator, governor, United States senator, 
was born June 1, 1831, in Cavendish, Vt. 

He served as lieu- 
[ tenant and quarter¬ 
master of the third 

I regiment of Vermont 
volunteers, and was 
major of the fifth 
and colonel of the 
fifteenth Vermont 
regiments. He was a 
member of the Ver¬ 
mont house of repre¬ 
sentatives in 1867, 
| 1868, and 1888; was 
a member of the 
state senate and president pro tempore 
of that body in 1874 and 1875; and was 
lieutenant-governor from 1876 to 1878 and 
governor from 1878 to 1880. He was a 
delegate to the republican national con¬ 
ventions of 1884 and 1888, and was ap¬ 
pointed secretary of war by President 
Harrison in 1889. In 1891 he resigned 
from the cabinet to accept the appoint¬ 
ment as United States senator, and was 
elected by the Vermont legislature to fill 
both the unexpired and the full terms. 
His term of service will expire in 1899. 
During 1869-89 he was actively engaged 
in the marble business; organized and 
was president of the Vermont Marble 
company, which became the largest pro¬ 
ducer and manufacturer of marble in 
the world. 



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PROCTOR, THOMAS, soldier, was born 
in 1739 in Ireland. In 1793 he became 
brigadier-general of the Pennsylvania 
troops, and marched against the whiskey 
insurgents at the head of the first bri¬ 
gade. After this he became major-gen¬ 
eral of the Philadelphia militia. He died 
March 16, 1806, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PROCTOR, THOMAS H., manufacturer, 
author, was born March 12, 1842, in Mar¬ 
blehead, Mass. He is a successful shoe 
manufacturer of Vineland, N. J., and the 
present head of the populist party of 
New Jersey. He was educated in the pub¬ 
lic schools of his native city; took a 
course in a leading business college; 
started in the shoe manufacturing busi¬ 
ness in 1866, and removed to Vineland 
four years later. He is an able and in¬ 
teresting speaker, and an advocate of 
woman’s suffrage and temperance. He is 
the author of a work entitled The Bank¬ 
er’s Dream, a monograph disguised as a 
story. 

PROCTOR, WILLIAM LAWRENCE, 
lumber merchant, was born March 26, 
1837, in Washington, N. H. He received 
the rudiments of his education in the dis¬ 
trict schools; attended Tubbs’ Union acad¬ 
emy; and finished with two terms in the 
New London academy. In 1857 he worked 
for his uncle at Burlington, Vt., in the 
lumber business; and two years later 
continued in the same business at Og- 
densburg, N. Y. He has filled all the im¬ 
portant offices in that city, and was its 
mayor in 1871-74, and 1884, and in 1886; 
and since 1887 has been one of the man¬ 
agers of the St. Lawrence State hospital. 
In 1888 he was the presidential elector, 
and cast his vote for Benjamin Harrison 
for president. In 1896 he was a delegate 
to the republican national convention; 
and since 1882 has been one of the repub¬ 
lican state committeemen. Since 1882 he 
has also been one of the superintendents 
of the poor; and trustee and president of 
the Ogdensburg cemetery since 1880. Since 
1857 he has been respectively, employee, 
manager, vice-president and president of 
the Skillings, Whitney and Barnes Lum¬ 
ber company. 

PROFIT, GEORGE H., diplomat, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from Indiana from 1839 to 1843, 
and in 1843 was United States minister to 
Brazil. He died Sept. 5, 1847, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. 

PROONIE, JOHN WILLIAM, educator, 
chemist, was born June 19, 1866, in 
Cole’s Creek, Miss. He has been a fellow 
in chemistry of the university of Missis¬ 
sippi, and professor of natural sciences 
and chairman of the faculty in the Mis¬ 
sissippi college. 

PROSE, JOSEPH BENSON, educator, 
lawyer, was born Feb. 8, 1856, in Patriot, 
Ohio. He received a liberal education in 
the public schools, and subsequently at¬ 
tended the Ohio university for three years. 
In his early days he was engaged in ed¬ 
ucational work; and is now a prominent 
lawyer of Kansas at Hoisington. He is 
attorney for the Missouri and Pacific Rail¬ 
way company; and a most successful 
commercial and corporation lawyer. 

PROSSER, WILLIAM F., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born March 16, 1834, in Will¬ 
iamsport, Pa. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the Tennessee state legisla¬ 
ture in 1867, and was elected a represent¬ 
ative from Tennessee to the forty-first 
congress as a republican. 

PROUD, ROBERT, author, was born 
May 10, 1728, in England. He was the 
author of a History of Pennsylvania. He 
died July 7, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


PROUDFIT, ALEXANDER MON- 
CRIEF, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 

10, 1770, in Pequea, Pa. He was an as¬ 
sociate reformed presbyterian clergyman, 
and the author of Discourses on the Par¬ 
ables; and Theological Works. He died 
Nov. 23, 1843, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

PROUDFIT, DAVID LAW, soldier, 
poet, was born Oct. 27, 1842, in New¬ 
burgh, N. Y. He served as a union sol¬ 
dier during the civil war, gaining the rank 
of major. He afterward entered business 
in New York city. His poems have been 
collected in two volumes entitled, Love 
Among the Gamins; and Mask and Dom¬ 
ino. He died in 1897. 

PROUDFIT, JOHN WILLIAMS, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 22, 
1803, in Salem, N. Y. He was a Dutch 
reformed clergyman, professor of Greek 
in Rutgers college, 1840-64, and the au¬ 
thor of Man’s Two-Fold Life. He died 
March 9, 1870, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

PROUTY, CHARLES AZRO, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born Oct. 9, 1853, in 
Newport, R. I. In 1882-86 he was state’s 
attorney, and in 1888 was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the Rhode Island house of repre¬ 
sentatives. In 1896 he was appointed a 
member of the inter-state commerce com¬ 
mission at Washington, D. C. 

PRUDDEN, THEOPHILE MITCHELL, 
educator, physician, author, was born in 
1849 in Connecticut. He is a New York 
physician, professor of pathology in the 
college of Physicians and Surgeons, and 
the author of Manual of Normal Histology 
(with Delafield); Dust and Its Dangers; 
Water and Ice; Handbook of Pathological 
Anatomy; and Story of the Bacteria. 

PRUD’HOMME, JOHN FRANCIS EU¬ 
GENE, engraver, was born Oct. 4, 1800, 
in West Indies. At the age of seventeen 
he essayed engraving portraits, and pro¬ 
duced several fine plates for Longacre 
and Herring’s National Portrait Gallery 
of Distinguished Americans. He also en¬ 
graved some plates for the annuals that 
were fashionable at that time. He is the 
oldest living American engraver. 

PRUITT, WILLIAM MONTCALM, edu¬ 
cator, was born Nov. 21, 1866, in Meridian- 
ville, Ala. He attended the State Normal 
and Industrial school of Huntsville, Ala.; 
and graduated from the Southland col¬ 
lege, Arkansas, with the degree of B. S. 

He has attained success as a teacher in 
the public schools of Arkansas, and is 
now principal of the Normal department 
of Southland college. 

PRUYN, JOHN VAN SCHAICK LAN¬ 
SING, lawyer, state senator, congress¬ 
man, was born June 22, 1811, in Albany, 

N. Y. In 1844 he was made a member of 
the board of regents, and in 1862 chancel¬ 
lor of the university of New York. He 
was a state senator in 1862, and at a spe¬ 
cial election in 1863 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the thirty- 
eighth congress to fill a vacancy. He was 
re-elected to the fortieth congress. He 
died Nov. 21, 1877, in Clifton Springs, 

N. Y. 

PRUYN, ISAAC, lawyer, banker, was 
born Nov. 25, 1816, in Kinderhook, N. Y. 
He was one of the incorporators of the 
Catskill Mountain railroad; and also 
trustee and director of several banking 
and railroad corporations. 

PRYOR, LUKE, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born July 5, 1820, in Madison county, Ala. 

In 1845 he moved to Limestone county, 
Ala., and in 1855 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the state legislature. In 1880 
he was appointed United States senator, 
and was elected a representative from 
Alabama to the forty-eighth congress as 
a democrat. 


PRYOR, ROGER ATKINSON, soldier, 
legislator, jurist, congressman, was born 
July 19, 1828, near Petersburg, Va. He 
was a brigadier-general in the confederate 
army and a member of the confederate 
congress. He was a member of the thir¬ 
ty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses, 
special minister to Greece under the 
Pierce administration, and judge of court 
of common pleas in New York city, where 
he was also justice of the supreme court. 

PUFFER, REUBEN, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 7, 1756, in Sudbury, 
Mass. In 1781 he became pastor of the 
congregational church in Berlin, which 
charge he held till his death. He pub¬ 
lished an election sermon; Dudleian Lec¬ 
ture at Harvard; an Address; Convention 
Sermon; and Two Sermons. He died 
April 9, 1829, in Berlin, Mass. 

PUGH, MRS. ELIZA LOFTON (PHIL¬ 
LIPS)—ARRIA—author, was born in 1841 
in Louisiana. She is a novelist of Assump¬ 
tion Parish, La., and the author of Not a 
Hero; and In a Crucible. 

PUGH, EVAN, chemist, college presi¬ 
dent, was born Feb. 29, 1828, in Notting¬ 
ham, Pa. In 1859 he accepted the presi¬ 
dency of Pennsylvania Agricultural col¬ 
lege. He at once organized a new scheme 
of instruction, planned and superintend¬ 
ed the erection of the college buildings. 
He died April 29, 1864, in Bellefontaine, 
Pa. 

PUGH, GEORGE ELLIS, soldier, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born 
Nov. 28, 1822, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was 
a representative in the Ohio legislature 
in 1848 and 1849. He was appointed so¬ 
licitor of the city of Cincinnati in 1850, 
and was attorney-general of the state in 
1851. He was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress from 1855- for six years. He died 
July 19, 1876, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

PUGH, JAMES LAWRENCE, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Dec. 12, 1820, in Burke county, Pa. 
He was a presidential elector in 1848, 
1856, and 1876, and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Alabama to the thirty- 
sixth congress. In 1861 he was elected to 
the confederate congress, and was re¬ 
elected in 1863. He was elected a United 
States senator from Alabama in 1885 to 
fill a vacancy, and was re-elected in 1884 
and in 1890. 

PUGH, JOHN, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1805 to 1809. 

PUGH, JOHN HOWARD, physician, 
banker, congressman, was born June 23, 
1827, in Chester county, Pa. He moved to 
Burlington, N. J., and commenced the 
practice of nis profession in 1854. In 1869 
he was elected president of the Mechan¬ 
ics’ National bank of Burlington, and was 
elected a representative from New Jersey 
to the forty-fifth congress as a republi¬ 
can. 

PUGH, SAMUEL J., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 28, 1850, in 
Greenup county, Ky. He has held suc¬ 
cessively the offices 
of city attorney in 
1872-73; master com¬ 
missioner of the cir¬ 
cuit court in 1874-80; 
county attorney in 
1878-86; and county 
judge in 1886-90. He 
was delegate to the 
Kentucky constitu¬ 
tional convention in 
1890-91, and state 
senator in 1893-94. He 
was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a 
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PUGSLBY, JACOB J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Dutchess county, 
N. Y. He served in both branches of the 
Ohio state legislature. He was elected to 
the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected 
to the fifty-first congress as a republican. 

PULITZER, JOSEPH, soldier, lawyer; 
journalist, state legislator, congressman, 
was born April 10, 1847, in Hungary. He 
was elected a representative in the Mis¬ 
souri legislature in 1869. In the spring of 
1883 he bought the New York World, of 
which he became the editor and sole pro¬ 
prietor. In 1884 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the forty- 
ninth congress. 


PULLE, WILLIAM ADAMS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Sept. 18, 1819, in Rich¬ 
mond county, N. C. He has been prose¬ 
cuting attorney, judge of the common 
pleas, and secretary of the state of In¬ 
diana. He has been one of the foremost 
lawyers of Indiana, and resides in Cen- 
treville. 

PULLEN, MRS. ELISABETH (JONES) 
(CAVAZZA), author, was born in Maine. 
She is a litterateur of Portland, Maine, 
and the author of Don Finimondone: 
Calabrian Sketches. 


PULLMAN, GEORGE MORTIMER, 
founder and president of the Pullman 
Palace Car company, was born March 3, 

_ 1831, in Brockton, N. 

Y. In 1859 he set¬ 
tled in Chicago dur¬ 
ing the period when 
the whole city was 
being lifted bodily to 
a higher level, and 
gained perhaps $20,- 
000 by raising the 
Mattison house and 
various blocks of 
buildings and the 
level of certain 
streets under con¬ 
tract. It was in 1859 that the attention 
of Mr. Pullman was first drawn, by trav¬ 
eling in one between Buffalo and West- 
field, to the uncomfortable sleeping cars 
of that day, then consisting of ordinary 
passenger cars with three rows of bunks 
on each side. After conversations on the 
subject with Hon. Benjamin Field of New 
York state, Mr. Pullman became a partner 
of Mr. Field in the operation of sleeping 
cars on the Chicago and Alton and the 
old Galena railroads. 



PULLMAN, JAMES MINTON, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born Aug. 21, 
1836, in Portland, N. Y. Since 1885 he 
has been pastor of the First Universalist 
church in Lynn, Mass., and he is presi¬ 
dent of the Associated Charities of that 
city. He edited the Christian Leader 
several years, and has published reviews 
and lectures. 


PULTE, JOSEPH HIPPOLYT, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Oct. 6, 1811, in 
Germany. He was a physician of Cleve¬ 
land, and the author of The Homeopathic 
Domestic Physician; The Science of Med¬ 
icine; and The Woman’s Medical Guide. 
He died Feb. 24, 1884, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

PUMPELLY, MRS. MARY HOLLEN- 
BACK (WELLES), poet, was born May 6, 
1803, in Athens, Pa. She was a verse- 
writer whose religious historical poems 
were collected in a volume in 1852. She 
died in 1879. 


PUMPELLY, RAPHAEL, educator, ge¬ 
ologist, author, was born Sept. 8, 1837, in 
Owego, N. Y. He is a geologist of note, 
professor of mining engineering at Har¬ 
vard university from 1866, and the author 
of Geological Researches in China; Across 
America and Asia; and Notes of a Five- 
Years’ Journey Around the World. 


PUNCHARD, GEORGE, journalist, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 7, 1806, in 
Salem, Mass. He was a Boston journalist, 
for many years editor of The Traveller, 
but who, prior to 1845, was a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman in New Hampshire. He 
was the author of History of Congrega¬ 
tionalism from A. D. 250; and View of 
Congregationalism. He died April 2, 1880, 
in Boston, Mass. 

PURCE, CHARLES LEE, clergyman, 
educator, college president, was born July 
4, 1856, in Charleston, S. C. He received 
the rudiments of his 
education in the pub¬ 
lic, private and high 
schools of his native 
city; attended the 
Benedict college of 
Columbia, S. C., the 
Richmond Theologi¬ 
cal seminary, and 
correspondence cour¬ 
ses in Greek and He¬ 
brew at Chicago, Ill. 
He has attained emi¬ 
nence as a baptist 
clergyman, and has filled pastorates in 
South Carolina, Alabama and Louisville, 
Ky. For two years he filled the chair 
of Greek and Latin in the Selma univer¬ 
sity, Ala.; and for eight years was its 
president. He has been the general mis¬ 
sionary of the American Baptist Home 
Mission society of New York for Alabama, 
and is now the president of the State uni¬ 
versity of Louisville, Ky. 

PURCELL, JOHN BAPTIST, archbish¬ 
op, was born Feb. 26, 1800, in Ireland. 
In 1828 he became president of St. Mary’s 
college of Emmettsburg, Md. In 1850 he 
was made a Roman catholic archbishop 
at Cleveland, Ohio. He died July 4, 1883, 
in Brown county, Ohio. 

PURDON, JOHN, lawyer, state legislat¬ 
or, was born in 1784 in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He served in the Pennsylvania legislature, 
and was active in public affairs. He pub¬ 
lished an Abridgement of the Laws of 
Pennsylvania from 1700. He died Oct. 3, 
1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

PURDY, SMITH M., congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1843 to 1845. 

PURDY, TRUMAN H., educator, lawyer, 
legislator, poet, was born June 26, 1830, in 
Wayne county, Pa. In his youth he taught 
school, and for ten 
years was a newspa¬ 
per editor. For two 
terms he served with 
distinction as a 
member of the Penn¬ 
sylvania state legis¬ 
lature. He has at¬ 
tained success in the 
practice of law at 
Sunbury, Pa., deals 
in real estate, and is 
connected with sev¬ 
eral manufacturing 
the author of three 
volumes of poems, entitled Doubter, Le¬ 
gends of the Susquehanna; and The Inn 
at Orr; and has contributed extensively 
to current literature. 

PURIFOY, JOHN, jurist, legislator, was 
born March 21, 1842, in Dallas county, 
Ala. He served one term as probate judge 
of Wilcox county, Ala.; in 1890 was elect¬ 
ed a member of the house of representa¬ 
tives; and in 1892 became state auditor 
of Alabama. 

PURINTON, DANIEL BOARDMAN, ed¬ 
ucator, college president, author, was born 
Feb. 15, 1850, in Reno, Va. He received 
a thorough education at George’s Creek 


academy, Pennsylvania, and the university 
of West Virginia. He was instructor in 
Latin and Greek during 1873-78 in the 
West Virginia university; professor of 
logic in 1878-80; professor of mathematics 
during 1880-85; of metaphysics during 
1885-89; and during 1881-89 was vice-presi¬ 
dent and acting president of that insti¬ 
tution. He has been councilman and 
mayor of Morgantown, W. Va. Since 
1890 he has been president of the Denison 
university of Granville, Ohio. He is the 
author of Christian Theism; and some 
forty pieces of published sacred music, 
including words. 

PURMAN, WILLIAM J., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born April 11, 
1840, in Centre county, Pa. He was a 
member of the constitutional convention 
of Florida in 1868, and soon after was 
elected to the state senate. He was secre¬ 
tary of state in 1868; was judge of Jack- 
son county court in 1868; and was re¬ 
elected in 1869. He was assessor of Unit¬ 
ed States internal revenue for Florida in 
1870, and was chairman of the republican 
state executive committee in 1872. He 
was elected a representative from Florida 
to the forty-third congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth 
congresses as a republican. 

PURPLE, EDWIN RUTHVEN, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born June 30, 1831, in 
Sherburne, N. Y. In 1862 he discovered, 
in connection with John White and five 
others, the first gold in Montana, on Wil¬ 
lard’s creek, a tributary of Beaver Head 
river. He contributed to the New York 
Genealogical and Biographical Record, 
and published a Genealogy. He died Jan. 
20, 1879, in New York city. 

PURPLE, NORMAN HIGGINS, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born March 29, 1808, in 
Exeter, N. Y. In 1840-42 he was state’s 
attorney for the ninth judicial circuit of 
Illinois, and from 1845 till 1848 he was 
associate judge of the supreme court. He 
published Statutes of Illinois Relating to 
Real Estate; and A Compilation of the 
Statutes of Illinois of a General Nature in 
Force Jan. 1, 1856. These works were 
adopted by the general assembly. He died 
Aug. 9, 1863, in Chicago, Ill. 

PURPLE, SAMUEL SMITH, physician, 
author, was born June 24, 1822, in Leba¬ 
non, N. Y. He is a physician of New York 
city, and the author of The Corpus Lu- 
teum; Menstruation; Contributions to the 
Practice of Midwifery; and Observations 
on Wounds of the Heart. 

PURSE, DANIEL GUGEL, merchant, 
capitalist, was born Nov. 14, 1839, in Sa¬ 
vannah, Ga. After teaching school for a 
while, he entered commercial life in Sa¬ 
vannah. During the civil war he served 
in the confederate army, and gained the 
rank of captain of infantry attached to 
the engineer corps. Previous to 1885 he 
was a prominent dealer in fertilizers and 
coal, which enabled him to amass a large 
fortune. Among his greatest achieve¬ 
ments are the development of Tybee Isl-. 
and, almost a sand desert, into a popular 
summer resort; the construction of the 
Savannah and Tybee railroad over large 
reaches of salt marsh, and the introduc¬ 
tion into Savannah of both artesian wells 
and electric lights. 

PURVES, GEORGE TYBOUT, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1852 in 
Pennsylvania. He is a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman, professor of New Testament liter¬ 
ature at Princeton college from 1892, and 
the author of The Testimony of Justin 
Martyr to Early Christianity. 

PURVIANCE, SAMUEL A., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1809, in 
Butler, Pa. He was a representative from 
Pennsylvania in the thirty-fifth congress. 




enterprises. He is 







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PURVIANCE, SAMUEL D., congress¬ 
man. He was a member of congress 
from North Carolina, from 1803 to 1805. 

PURVIS, ROBERT, abolitionist, was 
born Aug. 4, 1810, in Charleston, S. C. In 
1833 he was a member of the Philadelphia 
convention, which formed the American 
Anti-Slavery society; and was its vice- 
president for many years. His house was 
a well-known station on the underground 
railroad, and his carriages were always 
at the service of fugitive slaves. 

PURYEAR, RICHARD C., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, state senator, congressman, was 
born Feb. 9,1801, in Mecklenburg, Va. He 
moved to North Carolina, and was elected 
a representative in the legislature of that 
state. In 1840 he was elected to the state 
senate, and in 1844, 1846, and 1852 was 
again elected to the lower house of the 
legislature. He was a representative in 
congress from North Carolina from 1853 
to 1857. He took part in the rebellion of 
1861 as a member of the confederate con¬ 
gress. 

PUSEY, CHARLES J., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born April 14, 1837, in Chester 
county. Pa. In 1892 he became president 
of the St. Lawrence Railway company, 
and in 1893 also became president of the 
Brockville and New York Bridge com¬ 
pany of Canada. 

PUSEY, WILLIAM H. M., banker, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 29, 1826, in 
Washington county, Pa. He is a private 
banker, was a member of the Iowa state 
senate during 1858-62, and was elected to 
the forty-eighth congress as a democrat. 

PUTMAN, GEORGE I., journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 24, 1860, in Napa- 
nock, N. Y. He is the editor and owner 
of The Advocate of Claremont, N. H., and 
the author of two army novels entitled 
In Blue Uniform; and On the Offensive. 

PUTNAM, ALBIGENCE WALDO, law¬ 
yer, author, was born March 11, 1799, in 
Marietta, Ohio. He was a lawyer of 
Nashville, and the author of History of 
Middle Tennessee; Life and Times of 
General James Robertson; and Life of 
General John Sevier. He died Jan. 2d, 
1869, in Nashville, Tenn. 

PUTNAM, DOUGLAS, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Aug. 21, 1838, in Ohio. 
Since 1890 he has been president of the 
Ashland Coal and Iron railway. 

PUTNAM, FREDERIC WARD, cura¬ 
tor, was born April 16, 1839, in Salem, 
Mass., a direct descendant of John Put¬ 
nam, one of the earliest settlers of Salem. 
He has for many years been professor of 
archaeology and ethnology in the Har¬ 
vard university; curator of the Peabody 
museum, and curator of anthropology in 
the American Museum of Natural History 
in New York city. During the past thir¬ 
ty-three years he has been engaged in 
exploration and in directing the explora- 
tions of his students and assistants, in 
North, Central and South America. He 
is the author of over three hundred sci¬ 
entific papers. He received the degree of 
master of arts from Williams college, and 
the degree of doctor of science from the 
university of Pennsylvania. 

PUTNAM, GEORGE F., banker, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Nov. 6, 1841, in Croydon, 
N. H. In 1867, 1870-72 he was a member 
of the New Hampshire legislature, and in 
1892 he became president of the Ameri¬ 
can National bank of Kansas City. 


York city. He is the author of Authors 
and Publishers; International Copyright; 
and Authors and Their Public in Ancient 
Times. 

PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Feb. 7, 1814, in 
Brunswick, Maine. He was a well-known 
publisher of New York city, the founder 
of the present publishing house of G. P. 
Putnam’s Sons. He was the author of 
The Tourist in Europe; American Facts; 
and The World’s Progress. He died Dec. 
20, 1872, in New York city. 

PUTNAM, GIDEON, founder, was born 
in 1764, in Sutton, Mass. He moved to 
Saratoga; and his first child was the first 
white child born in that city. In 1802 he 
built and conducted the first hotel, which 
is now the Grand Union hotel. He be¬ 
came the founder of Saratoga Springs, 
where he died Dec. 1, 1812. 

PUTNAM, HARVEY, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman. He was a leading 
member of the bar of Genesee county, N. 
Y.; was several times a member of the 
New York legislature; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1847 to 1851. He died Sept. 21, 1855, 
in Attica, N. Y. 

PUTNAM, HOLDEN ADELMORE, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Jan. 24, 1859, in Hinck¬ 
ley, Ohio. He received his education in 
the Hillsdale college and the Union The¬ 
ological seminary. He has been pastor of 
the First Congregational churches of Tip- 
ton, Ypsilanti, Sault Ste. Marie, and since 
1893 has filled a pastorate in Hudson, 
Mich. 

PUTNAM, ISRAEL, soldier, was born 
Jan. 7, 1718, in Salem, Mass. He distin¬ 
guished himself during the French and 
Indian war by his reckless courage, and 
was particularly noted for his bravery at 
the battle of Bunker Hill. He died May 
19, 1790, in Brooklyn, Conn. 

PUTNAM, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1725 in Danvers, Mass. On the 
organization of the government of the 
province of New Brunswick in 1783, he 
was appointed a member of the royal 
council and a judge of the superior court. 
He died Oct. 23, 1789, in New Brunswick, 
Maine. 

PUTNAM, JAMES OSBORNE, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, author, was 
born July 4, 1818, in Attica, N. Y. He 
represented the Buffalo district in the 
state senate of New York in 1854 and 1855. 
He was a presidential elector-at-large in 
1860, and was United States consul at 
Havre, France, from 1861-66. He was Uni¬ 
ted States minister to Belgium from 1860 to 
July, 1862, and was the United States del¬ 
egate to the international property con¬ 
gress held in Paris, France, in 1880. He 
wrote a volume of his Addresses and Mis¬ 
cellanies, which was published in 1880. 

PUTNAM, MRS. KATHARINE HUNT 
(PALMER), author, was born March 1, 
1792, in Framingham, Mass. She was a 
Boscon writer, and the author of Scripture 
Text Book; and The Old Testament Un¬ 
veiled. She died Jan. 8, 1869, in New 
York city. 

PUTNAM, MRS. MARY (LOWELL), 
author, was born Dec. 3, 1810, in Boston, 
Mass. She is a life-long resident of 
Boston, and the author of Fifteen Days; 
History of the Court of Hungary; Rec¬ 
ords of an Obscure Man; Tragedy of 
Errors; and Tragedy of Success. 


PUTNAM, GEORGE HAVEN, soldier, 
journalist, author, was born April 2, 1844, 
in London, England. He served as a sol¬ 
dier during the civil war, and was mus¬ 
tered out as brevet-major in 1865. He is 
a member of the firm of G. P. Putnam’s 
Sons, the great book publishers of New 


PUTNAM, RUFUS, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born April 9, 1738, in Sutton, 
Mass. In 1783 he was made brigadier- 
general; was aid to General Lincoln dur¬ 
ing Shay’s rebellion; and in 1778 was su¬ 
perintendent of the Ohio company, and 
founded Marietta, Ohio. In 1789 he was 


judge of the supreme court of northwest 
territory; in 1792 was brigadier-general of 
Wayne’s army; and in 1793, as United 
States commissioner, concluded an im¬ 
portant treaty with eight tribes of In¬ 
dians at Vincennes, Ind. From 1793 to 
1803 he was United States surveyor-gen¬ 
eral, and was a member of the constitu¬ 
tional convention of Ohio. He died May 
1, 1824, in Marietta, Ohio. 

PUTNAM, RUTH, author. She is the 
author of Life of William the Silent. 

PUTNAM, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born April 13, 1768, in 
Danvers, Mass. He soon attained high 
rank at the Essex county bar, and repre¬ 
sented that county in the state senate in 
1808-14, and in the legislature in 1812. 
From 1814 till 1842 he was judge of the 
supreme court of Massachusetts. He died 
July 3, 1853, in Somerville, Mass. 

PUTNAM, MRS. SARAH A. BROCK, 
author, was born in 1845 in Madison Court 
House, Va. She is a writer of New York 
city, and the author of Richmond During 
the War; The Southern Amaranth; Ken¬ 
neth, My King; and Myra, a novel. 

PUTNEY, FRANK H., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1841 in Rockford, 111. 
During the civil war he was a member of 
the twelfth Wisconsin infantry. He has 
served a term as county judge of Wau¬ 
kesha county, and as postmaster of Wau¬ 
kesha. 

PYLE, HOWARD, artist, author, was 
born March 5, 1853, in Wilmington, Del. 
He is an artist and litterateur of Wil¬ 
mington, Del., and the author of The Mer- 
rie Adventures of Robin Hood; Within 
the Capes, a novel; Otto of the Silver 
Hand; Twilight Land; The Garden Be¬ 
hind the Moon; Pepper and Salt, or Sea¬ 
soning for Young Folk; A Modern Alad¬ 
din; The Rose of Paradise; Men of Iron, 
a romance of chivalry; and Jack Ballis¬ 
ter's Fortunes. 

PYNCHON, THOMAS RUGGLES, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1823 in Connecticut. He 
is an episcopal clergyman and educator, 
president of Trinity college in 1874-83, 
and professor of chemistry there, and the 
author of Bishop Butler: a Religious Phil¬ 
osopher for All Time; and Introduction to 
Chemical Physics. 

PYNCHON, WILLIAM, author, was 
born in 1590 in England. He was 
a noted colonist of New England who 
founded the town of Springfield, Mass., in 
1636. In 1652 he returned to England. 
The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, 
first published in 1650, excited a storm 
of controversy, and was publicly burned 
on Boston Common as an heretical book. 
It was reprinted in 1655 as The Meritori¬ 
ous Price of Man’s Redemption, or Christ’s 
Satisfaction Discussed and Explained, 
with a rejoinder to Rev. John Norton’s 
Answer: The Jewish Synagogue; How the 
First Sabbath was Ordained; and The 
Covenant of Nature made with Adam. He 
died in 1662. 

QUACKENBOS, GEORGE PAYN, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Sept. 4, 1826, in 
New York city. He was an educator of 
New York city, and the author of School 
History of the United States; Natural 
Philosophy; a series of English gram¬ 
mars; and An Advanced Course of Rhe¬ 
toric. He died July 24, l&sl, in Merri¬ 
mack county, N. Y. 

QUACKENBOS, JOHN DUNCAN, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born April 22, 1848, 
in New York city. He was an adjunct 
professor of English literature at Colum¬ 
bia college from 1884, and the author of 
Illustrated History of the World; History 
of the English Language; History of An¬ 
cient Literature; and Practical Rhetoric. 


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QUACKENBUSH, JOHN A., merchant, 
congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1828, in 
Schaghticoke, N. Y. He was elected a 
member of the New York assembly from 
the second district of Rensselaer county 
in the fall of 1862; and was elected sheriff 
of Rensselaer county in the fall of 1873, 
and served three years. He was elected to 
the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses 
as a republican. 

QUACKENBUSH, NATHAN RICE, cler¬ 
gyman, was born April 4, 1837, in New 
York city. He received the rudiments of 
his education in the public schools of his 
native city, and graduated from the St. 
Lawrence university of Canton, N. Y. He 
has attained success as one of the fore¬ 
most clergymen of the universalist 
church; filled a pastorate for six years 
in Benton Harbor, Mich., and since 1892 
has filled a pastorate in Plain City, Ohio. 
He contributes extensively to current lit¬ 
erature on religious and educational 
topics. 

QUACKENBUSH, STEPHEN PLATT, 
naval officer, was born Jan. 23, 1823, in 
Albany, N. Y. During the civil war he 
attained the rank of commodore. He died 
Feb. 4, 1890, in Washington, D. C. 

QUALTROUGH, EDWARD F„ naval 
officer, author, was born in 1850 in New 
York. He is a United States naval offi¬ 
cer who has published The Sailor’s Handy 
Book and Yachtsman’s Manual; and The 
Boat Sailor’s Manual. 

QUARLES, GREENFIELD, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born April 1, 1847, in Chris¬ 
tian county, Ky. In 1879 and in 1881 he 
was a member of the Arkansas house of 
representatives; filled the same position 
in 1895, and is now a member of the state 
senate. In 1884-86 he was prosecuting at¬ 
torney of the first district of his state. 

QUARLES, JAMES M., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 8, 1823, in Louisa 
county, Va. In 1846 he became attorney- 
general of the tenth district of Tennessee; 
and was a presidential elector in 1851. He 
was elected a representative from Tennes¬ 
see to the thirty-sixth congress. 

QUARLES, TUNSTALL, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Kentucky 
from 1817 to 1820; and was subsequently 
receiver of public moneys at Cape Girar¬ 
deau, Mo. 

QUARTER, WILLIAM, bishop, was 
born Jan. 24, 1806, in Ireland. In 1844 
he was consecrated first Roman catholic 
bishop of Chicago, and completed the 
Chicago cathedral from his own resources. 
He died April 10, 1848, in Chicago, Ill. 

QUARTLEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
engraver, was born July 5, 1808, in Eng¬ 
land. His best-known work is in Pictur¬ 
esque America; and Picturesque Europe. 
He also painted with some success. 
Among his pictures are Niagara Falls; 
Butter-Milk Falls; and Catskill Falls. 
He died April 5, 1874, in New York city. 

QUAY, MATTHEW STANLEY, soldier, 
United States senator, was born Sept. 30, 
1833, in Dillsburg, Pa. He was military sec¬ 
retary to the governor of Pennsylvania in 
1861-65, and was a member of the legislat¬ 
ure in 1865-67. He was secretary of the 
commonwealth in 1871-78; was recorder of 
the city of Philadelphia, and chairman 
of the republican state committee in 1878- 
79; was secretary of the commonwealth 
in 1879-82, and was delegate-at-large to 
the republican national conventions of 
1872, 1876 and 1880. He was elected state 
treasurer in 1885. He was elected to the 
United States senate as a republican, and 
was re-elected in 1893. 

QUAYLE, ALBERT JOHNSON, lawyer, 
was born Sept. 14, 1872, in Moberly, Mo. 


He graduated from the State university 
of Columbia, Mo., and has attained suc¬ 
cess as an able lawyer in the place of his 
nativity, where he takes an active part 
in public affairs. 

QUAYLE, WILLIAM ALF'RED, college 
president, was born June 25,1860, in Park- 
ville, Mo. In 1890 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the Baker university, Kan., which 
position he still holds. 

QUEEN, WALTER W., naval officer, 
was born Oct. 6, 1824, in Washington, D. 
C. He served with distinction through the 
Mexican war, and during the civil war be¬ 
came a commander. He was commis¬ 
sioned captain in 1874; commodore in 
1883; and rear-admiral in 1886. 

QUICK, CHARLES WILLIAM, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 4, 1822, in 
New York city. He edited The Epis¬ 
copal Recorder in 1866-81; The Chris¬ 
tian Woman in 1885, and the works of 
Ezekiel Hopkins; Righteousness by Faith, 
by Charles P. Mcllvaine, and the works 
of John Owen. 

QUIGG, LEMUEL E., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 12, 1863, in Cecil 
county, Md. He is by profession a jour¬ 
nalist; was a member of the editorial 
staff of the New York Tribune for ten 
years, and subsequently editor in chief of 
the New York Press. He was elected to 
the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, 
and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 

QUILLIN, LEMUEL ABNER, merchant, 
actor, was born June 12, 1849, in Syra¬ 
cuse, Ohio. For many years he was con¬ 
nected with a circus, and has traveled all 
over the world several times. He is 
now a successful merchant of North 
Branch, Minn., and proprietor of Quil- 
lin’s Opera house. He is the author of a 
volume of songs, and has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to periodical literature. 

QUIMBY, ISAAC NEWTON, physician, 
surgeon, was born Aug. 5, 1831, near 
Basking Ridge, N. J. For many years he 
was engaged in the flour and milling busi¬ 
ness at Somerville and Zanesville, Ohio. 
In 1859 he graduated in medicine; and 
during the war served as a volunteer sur¬ 
geon with General McClellan’s forces. In 
1866-68 he was a lecturer in the univer¬ 
sity Medical college of New York city. 
He was the originator of Christ’s hospital 
in 1868, and was surgeon to the same 
until 1873. He is also one of the at¬ 
tending surgeons of the city hospital 
of Jersey City. He is the author of val¬ 
uable papers on medical subjects, and a 
member of the leading medical bodies of 
Europe and America. 

QUIMBY, ISAIAH W., educator, lawyer, 
legislator, was born May 5, 1837, near 
Oakland, Ohio. He has served two terms 
of two years each in the Ohio state leg¬ 
islature; and under the Harrison admin¬ 
istration was special examiner in pen¬ 
sion bureau, and in board of pension ap¬ 
peals. 

QUIMBY, LUCY HILL, philanthropist, 
educator, writer, was born Jan. 18, 1849, 
in Rochester, N. Y. In 1864 she founded 
the Misses Calvin’s school in Rochester; 
and in 1866 was married to Captain W. 
M. Quimby, who died ten years later. For 
the past twenty years she has been prin¬ 
cipal of the Nausemond seminary of Suf¬ 
folk, Va.; has introduced modern meth¬ 
ods and modern text books in the normal 
schools of Virginia, and has contributed 
extensively to educational literature. 

QUIN, MINNIE, educator, poet, was 
born in December, 1867, in Atlanta, Ga. 
She is a successful educator in her na¬ 
tive city, and the author of a volume of 
poems entitled May Blossoms. 


QUINBY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 20, 1810, 
in Westbrook, Maine. He was a univer¬ 
salist clergyman in Maine and Ohio, and 
the author of The Salvation of Christ; 
Brief Exposition of Universalism; Mar¬ 
riage and Its Duties; The Gallows, the 
Prison, and the Poor House; and Heaven 
Our Home. He died Jan. 10, 1884, in 
Augusta, Maine. 

QUINBY, WILLIAM EMORY, journal¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 14, 1835, in Brewer, 
Maine. In 1863 he was made managing 
editor of the Detroit Free Press, and in 
1872 became its owner. 

QUINCY, ABRAHAM HOWARD, mer¬ 
chant, journalist, author, was born Novem¬ 
ber, 1767, in Boston. In 1808 his interest 
in the disputes with Great Britain led him 
into the field of journalism, and that year 
published the first number of a weekly 
paper entitled the Columbian Detector. 
In 1809 it was published twice a week. 
It was afterward merged in the Boston 
Patriot. From 1828 to 1832 he lived at 
Eastport, Maine, where for a short time 
he edited the Northern Light. He died 
Sept. 11, 1840, in Washington, D. C. 

QUINCY, EDMUND, statesman, was 
born Oct. 24, 1681, in Quincy, Mass. He 
was a statesman in the colonial times. 
He was the ancestor of a very distin¬ 
guished line of Massachusetts statesmen. 
He died Feb. 23, 1738, in London, England. 

QUINCY, EDMUND, merchant, author, 
was born in 1703 in Braintree, Mass. He 
was a Boston merchant who wrote a 
Treatise on Hemp Husbandry. He died 
in 1788. 

QUINCY, EDMUND, author, was born 
Feb. 1, 1808, in Boston, Mass. He was a 
Boston writer whose literary fame was 
hardly proportioned to his deserts; and 
the author of Wensley, and Other Sto¬ 
ries; The Haunted Adjutant, and Other 
Stories; and Life of President Josiah 
Quincy. He died May 17, 1877, in Ded¬ 
ham, Mass. 

QUINCY, JOSIAH, patriot, was born in 
1709, in Braintree, Mass. In 1775 he was 
one of the commissioners to treat with 
New York as to military defences against 
the French. He died in 1784. 

QUINCY JOSIAH, lawyer, author, was 
born Feb. 23, 1744, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a famous Boston lawyer and patriot, 
and very prominent at the opening of the 
revolutionary period. He was the author 
of Observations on the Boston Port Bill. 
He died at sea April 26, 1775, near Glou¬ 
cester, Mass. 

QUINCY, JOSIAH, lawyer, jurist, col¬ 
lege president, state senator, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 4, 1772, in Boston, 
Mass. In 1804 he was chosen a represent¬ 
ative from Massachusetts in the congress 
of the United States, and held that posi¬ 
tion eight successive years. He was cho¬ 
sen state senator for Suffolk from 1814 
to 1821, was a representative from 
Boston, and was speaker of the house in 
1820. He was judge of the municipal 
court in Boston in 1821 and 1822. He was 
mayor of Boston in 1823, and held the 
office of mayor six successive years. In 
1829 lie was chosen president of Harvard 
university, and held that office until his 
resignation in 1845. His published works 
are Speeches in Congress, and Orations 
on Various Occasions; Memoir of Josiah 
Quincy, Jr., of Massachusetts; Centen¬ 
nial Address on the Two Hundredth An¬ 
niversary of the Settlement of Boston; 
A History of Harvard University from 
1636 to 1836; Memoir of James Grahame, 
Historian of the United States Army; 
Memoir of Major Samuel Shaw; History 
of the Boston Athenaeum; and other 
works. He died July 1, 1864, in Quincy, 
Mass. 


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QUINCY, JOSIAH, state senator, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 17, 1802, in Boston, 
Mass. He was the fourth mayor of Bos¬ 
ton in 1845-49; and was a member of the 
Massachusetts senate. He was the au¬ 
thor of a work entitled Figures of the 
Past. He died Nov. 2, 1882, in Quincy, 
Mass. 

QUINCY, JOSIAH PHILLIPS, littera¬ 
teur, author, was born Nov. 28, 1829, in 
Boston, Mass. He is a litterateur of Bos¬ 
ton, and the author of Charicles, a drama; 
Lyteria, a drama; The Peckster Profes¬ 
sorship, a Story; and The Protection of 
Majorities, and Other Papers. 

QUINCY, SAMUEL MILLER, soldier, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1833 in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a Boston lawyer who 
served in the federal army during the 
civil war, and the author of The Man 
Who Was Not a Colonel; and A Prisoner's 
Diary. He died in 1887. 

QUINLAN, JOHN, bishop, college presi¬ 
dent, was born Oct. 19, 1826, in Ireland. 
He was nominated for the diocese of Mo¬ 
bile, and he was consecrated bishop in 
1859. He died March 9, 1883, in New Or¬ 
leans, La. 

QUINN, JOHN, lawyer, banker, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 

9 1839, in Ireland. He is president of the 
West Side Electric 
Light and Power 
company, and a di¬ 
rector in the Home¬ 
stead bank of New 
York, being one of 
the founders of the 
bank. He was elect¬ 
ed to the legislature 
in 1882, and was a 
member of the board 
of aldermen for the 
years 1885-87; was a 
delegate to the dem¬ 
ocratic national convention at Chicago 
in 1884, and to St. Louis in 1888. He was 
elected to the fifty-first congress as a 
democrat. He is now commissioner of 
appraisal for the taking of lands for water 
reservoir purposes for the city of New 
York, of which commission he is chair¬ 
man. 

QUINN, TERENCE J., state legislator, 
congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1836, in 
Albany, N. Y. He was a representative in 
the state legislature in 1874, and was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-fifth congress. He died June 
18, 1878. 

QUINNEY, WILLIAM RUTHERFORD, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 28, 1861, 
in Union county, Ark. In 1888 he was 
elected to the house of representatives of 
Arkansas; received the re-election two 
years later; and in 1892 became a member 
of the state senate. 

QUINT, ALONZO HALL, clergyman, 
author, was born March 22, 1828, in 

Barnstead, N. H. He was a prominent 
congregational clergyman of Boston, and 
the author of The Potomac and the Rapi- 
dan, or Army Notes; and Records of the 
Second Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-65. 

QUINTARD, CHARLES TODD, bishop 
of Tennessee, was born Dec. 22, 1824, in 
Stamford, Conn. At the beginning of the 
civil war he was elected chaplain of the 
first Tennessee regiment, and he served 
throughout the war, being frequently 
called upon to exercise his medical knowl¬ 
edge as physician and surgeon. The uni¬ 
versity of the South was entirely swept 
away by the war, nothing being left but 
its landed estate of 10,000 acres. Bishop 
Quintard re-established the university on 
a sound financial basis, and was its first 
vice-chancellor. 


QUINTARD, GEORGE WILLIAM, 
manufacturer, president and director of 
corporations, was born April 22, 1822, in 
Stamford, Conn. In 
1867 he sold the Mor¬ 
gan Iron works in 
order to devote his 
own attention to the 
New York and 
Charleston Steam¬ 
ship company, of 
which he had be¬ 
come president and 
part proprietor. He 
managed the com¬ 
pany well, but did 
not find in its opera¬ 
tions sufficient scope for his overflowing 
energy. In 1869, accordingly, he estab¬ 
lished the Quintard Iron works, occupy¬ 
ing a site at 742 East Twelfth street, ex¬ 
tending through to East Eleventh street, 
on the East river, a few blocks above 
the Morgan Iron works. Here he re¬ 
sumed the construction of marine en¬ 
gines and machinery, and in a short time 
developed the plant into an extensive es¬ 
tablishment, making it in time one of the 
most prominent in the United States. 

QUINTON, AMELIA STONE, president 
of the Women’s National Indian associa¬ 
tion, is a lineal descendant of Governor 
Bradford of the May¬ 
flower, and was born 
near Syracuse, N. Y. 
For many years she 
was engaged in edu¬ 
cational work, at 
first among prisons, 
reformatories and 
asylums in New 
York; but in 1874 
she entered the Wo¬ 
men’s Christian Tem¬ 
perance union, and 
was soon elected 
New York state organizer. In 1877 Miss 
Stone went to Europe and there addressed 
many readings in London and elsewhere; 
and the following year was married to 
Richard L. Quinton, A. M., an eminent 
lecturer, and they settled in Philadelphia 
in the spring of 1889. She organized the 
Women’s National Indian association, 
which led to the passage of the Dawes 
severalty bill, which in 1887 gained for the 
Indians the right of holding lands in sev¬ 
eralty. 

QUITMAN, FREDERICK HENRY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Aug. 7, 1760, in 
Westphalia. He was a lutheran clergy¬ 
man of Rhinebeck, N. Y., and the author 
of Treatise on Magic; and Sermons on 
the Reformation. He died June 26, 1832, 
in Rhinebeck, N. Y. 

QUITMAN, JOHN ANTHONY, soldier, 
educator, lawyer, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 1, 1799, in 
Rhinebeck, N. Y. He was professor of law 
in Mount Airy college, Pennsylvania. In 
1820 he moved to Ohio, and in 1821 moved 
to Natchez, Miss. In 1827 he was elected 
a representative in the state legislature; 
in 1828 was appointed chancellor of the 
state, serving three years; and served as 
a delegate to a state constitutional con¬ 
vention. In 1835 he was elected to the 
state senate, and, as president of that 
body, was called upon to perform the 
duties of governor. In 1836 he distin¬ 
guished himself as a soldier and leader in 
behalf of Texas against Mexico. He was 
judge of the high court of errors and ap¬ 
peals of Mississippi; served with distinc¬ 
tion in the Mexican war, and was for a 
time the American governor of Mexico, 
and became a major-general in the army. 
He was a presidential elector in 1848, 
and was governor of Mississippi in 1850. 


In 1855 he was elected a representative 
in congress from Mississippi, and was re¬ 
elected in 1857. He died July 17, 1858, in 
Natchez, Miss. 

RABURN, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, governor, was born April 
8, 1771, in Halifax county, N. C. He was 
a judge of the inferior court, was a mem¬ 
ber of the assembly; was a state senator; 
and was governor of Georgia from 1817 
to 1819. He died Oct. 23, 1819, in Han¬ 
cock county, Ga. 

RADEMACHER, JOSEPH, Roman cath¬ 
olic bishop, was born Dec. 3, 1840, in West¬ 
phalia, Mich. He was nominated to the 
see of Nashville and was consecrated bish¬ 
op in 1883. 

RADER, CARY MELVIN, lawyer, poli¬ 
tician, was born July 27, 1868, in Carroll 
county, Ind. He received a thorough ed¬ 
ucation, and in 1891 graduated from the 
law department of the Central Normal 
college of Danville, Ind. The following 
year he located in Walla Walla, Wash.; 
has been city attorney and filled various 
other public positions of trust. 

RADER, LEWIS ELLSWORTH, jour¬ 
nalist, legislator, was born March 16, 1864, 
in Hazel Dell, Ill. In 1894 he was elected 
a member of the Washington legislature 
from Pierce county, and in 1896 he re¬ 
ceived the re-election. He is a successful 
journalist, poet, and for several years 
was editor of the Walla Walla Daily 
Statesman. 

RADFORD, WILLIAM, naval officer, 
was born March 1, 1808, in Fincastle, Va. 
He was appointed rear-admiral in 1866; 
commanded the European squadron in 
1869-70, and was retired in March, 1870- 
He died Jan. 8, 1890, in Washington, D. C. 

RADFORD, WILLIAM, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 24, 1814, in 

Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1862 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from New York to 
the thirty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-ninth congress. He 
died Jan. 18, 1870, in Yonkers, N. Y. 

RAE, LUZERNE, educator, was born 
Dec. 22, 1811, in New Haven, Conn. In 
1831 he became instructor of the deaf and 
dumb in the Hartford asylum, which of¬ 
fice he held until his death. He was ed¬ 
itor of the Religious Herald from 1843 
till 1847, and of the American Annals of 
the Deaf and Dumb from 1848 till 1854; 
and published anonymously numerous 
poems, which were collected and printed 
privately under the title of Text and Con¬ 
text. He died Sept. 16, 1854, in Hartford, 
Conn. 

RAFF, GEORGE WERTZ, banker, au¬ 
thor, was born March z4, 1825, in Tuscara¬ 
was, Ohio. He was a savings bank presi¬ 
dent of Canton, Ohio, and the author of 
Guide to Executors and Administrators 
in Ohio; Manual of Pensions; The Law 
Relating to Roads in Ohio; and War 
Claimant’s Guide. He died April 14, 1888, 
in Canton, Ohio. 

RAFFERTY, WILLIAM, college presi¬ 
dent, was born in Ireland. In 1824 he 
was elected president of St. John’s college, 
Annapolis, Md., which position he re¬ 
signed in 1831. 

RAFINESQUE, CONSTANTINE 
SMALTZ, botanist, author, was born in 
1784 in Turkey. He was an eccentric nat¬ 
uralist and botanist of French parentage 
who, after years of travel, settled in 
Philadelphia. Among his many works are 
Medical Flora of the United States; A 
Life of Travel and Researches; An¬ 
nals of Kentucky; and Recent and Fos¬ 
sil Conchology. He died Sept. 18, 1842, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 






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RAGAN, WILLIS EUGENE, merchant, 
was born Jan. 12, 1852, in Albany, N. Y. 
In 1878 he became a member of one of 
the largest wholesale dry goods houses 
in the south, and is president of the 
Southern Railway Equipment company. 

RAGLAND, CHARLES A., lawyer, was 
horn Aug. 2, 1844, in Halifax county, Va. 
He has attained prominence as an able 
lawyer of Stockton, Mo.; has been city 
attorney, justice of the peace, mayor of 
his city, and takes an active part in 
the public affairs of his city, county and 
state. 

RAGLAND, H. CLAY, soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born May 7, 1844, in Gooch¬ 
land county, Va. In 1887 he established 
the Logan Banner, of which he is still 
editor and owner. During 1887-88 he 
was a member of the West Virginia state 
legislature. 

RAGOZIN, MADAME ZENAIDE AL- 
EXEIEVNA, author, was born about 1835 
in Russia. She is a Russian historical wri¬ 
ter, naturalized in the United States in 
1874, and the author of The Story of 
Chaldea; The Story of Assyria; The Story 
of Media and Babylon; and The Story of 
Vedic India. 

RAGUET, CONDY, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, author, was born Jan. 28, 1784, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1815 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Pennsylvania assembly, and af¬ 
terward of the state senate. He was ed¬ 
itor of several journals; and the author of 
The Principles of Free Trade; A Treatise 
on Currency and Banking; and other 
works. He died March 22, 1842, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

RAINES, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born May 6, 
1840, in Canandaigua, N. Y. He was a 
member of the assembly of the state of 
New York in 1881, 1882 and 1885, and was 
state senator in 1886-89. He was elected 
to the fifty-first and re-elected to the 
fifty-second congresses as a republican. 

RAINEY, JOSEPH H., state senator, 
congressman, was born June 21, 1832, in 
Georgetown, S. C. He was elected a del¬ 
egate to the state constitutional conven¬ 
tion of 1868, and was a member of the 
state senate of South Carolina in 1870. 
He was elected a representative from 
South Carolina to the forty-first, forty- 
second, forty-third, forty-fourth and for¬ 
ty-fifth congresses as a republican. He 
died Aug. 1, 1887, in Georgetown, S. C. 

RAINS, GABRIEL JAMES, soldier, was 
born in June, 1803, in Craven county, N. 
C. He served with distinction in the Mex¬ 
ican war, and attained the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general in 1855. In 1861 he joined 
the confederate army, and died Sept. 6, 
1881, in Aiken, S. C. 

RAINS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, sol¬ 
dier, educator, author, was born in 1817 
in Graven county, N. C. He is a confed¬ 
erate army officer, and professor of chem¬ 
istry at the university of Georgia from 
1867. He is the author of Steam Portable 
Engines; Rudimentary Course of Ana¬ 
lytical and Applied Chemistry; and Che¬ 
mical Qualitative Analysis. 

RAINSFORD, WILLIAM STEPHEN, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 30, 1850, 
in Ireland. He is a prominent episcopal 
clergyman of New York city, rector of 
St. George’s church from 1883, and an 
active worker in philanthropic and other 
reforms. He is the author of Sermons 
Preached in St. George’s; and The 
Church’s Opportunity in the City of To- 
Day. 

RALPH, JULIAN, journalist, author, 
was born in 1853 in New York. He is a 
popular journalist and litterateur, and the 
author of On Canada’s Frontier; Dixie; 

49 


Our Great West; Chicago and the World’s 
Fair; People We Pass; and Alone in 
China, and Other Stories. 

RALSTON, ROBERT, merchant, was 
born in 1761, in Brandywine, Pa. He con¬ 
tributed largely to the establishment of 
the Widows’ and Orphans’ asylum, and 
the Mariner’s church in Philadelphia, 
founded the Philadelphia BiDle society, 
which was the first of the kind on this 
continent, and in 1819 became first presi¬ 
dent of the board of education of the 
Presbyterian church. He died Aug. 11, 
1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RALSTON, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1756 in Ireland. He was 
a presbyterian clergyman in what is now 
Monongahela City, Pa., from 1796 till his 
death, and the author of On Baptism; 
The Last Plagues; and The Currycomb. 
He died Sept. 25, 1851, in Carroll, Pa. 

RALSTON, THOMAS NEELY, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born March 
21, 1806, in Bourbon county, Ky. He is 
a methodist clergyman and religious ed¬ 
itor of Kentucky, and the author of Ele¬ 
ments of Divinity; Evidences of Chris¬ 
tianity; Ecce Unitas; and Bible Truths. 

RAMBAUT, MR(S. MARY LUCINDA 
BONNEY, educator, was born June 8, 

1816, in Hamilton, N. Y. She is a success¬ 
ful educator of Hamilton, N. Y. 

RAMSAY, DAVID, physician, congress¬ 
man, author, was born April 2, 1749, in 
Lancaster, Pa. He was a physician of 
Charleston, eminent among early Ameri¬ 
can historians. He served in the Caro¬ 
lina legislature throughout the revolu¬ 
tionary war, and was also in the army as 
a surgeon. He was a delegate to congress 
in 1782 and 1786. He was the author of 
History of the American Revolution; His¬ 
tory of the United States; Life of Wash¬ 
ington; and History of South Carolina. 
He died May 8, 1815, in Charleston, S. C. 

RAMSAY, NATHANIEL, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 1, 1751, in Lan¬ 
caster county, Pa. He was a delegate 
from Maryland to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1785 to 1787. He died Oct. 23, \ 

1817, in Baltimore, Ind. 

RAMSAY, ROBERT, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1833 to 1835, and again from 1841 
to 1843. 

RAMSAY, MRS. VIENNA G- (MOR¬ 

RELL), author, was born in 1817 in 
Maine. She is the author of Facts on 
Missions; Evenings with the Children; 
and A Legend of the White Hills, and 
Other Poems. 

RAMSEUR, STEPHEN DODSON, sol¬ 
dier, was born May 31, 1837, in Lincoln- 
ton, N. C. In 1861 he entered the con¬ 
federate service as captain of the light 
artillery. He attained the rank of major- 
general. He died Oct. 20, 1864, in Win¬ 
chester, Va. 

RAMSm, ALEXANDER, congressman, 
governor. United States senator, was born 
Sept. 8, 1815, in Harrisburg, Pa. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1843 to 1847. In 1849 he 
was appointed the first territorial gov¬ 
ernor of Minnesota. In 1855 he was 
mayor of the city of St. Paul, Minn.; and 
was elected governor of the state of Min¬ 
nesota in 1858, and served until 1862. In 
1863 he was elected a senator in congress 
from Minnesota, for the term ending in 
1869, and was re-elected for the term end¬ 
ing in 1875. 

RAMSEY, GEORGE JUNKIN, educator, 
college president, was born June 28, 1858, 
in Rockbridge, Va. He has been pro¬ 
fessor of Latin and Greek in the Ogden 
conege of Bowling Green, Ky.; and since 


1884 has been president of the Silliman 
institute of Clinton, La. Since 1897 he 
has been president of the Southern Edu¬ 
cational association. 

RAMSEY, WILLIAM, surveyor, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 7, 1779, in 
Sterrett’s Gap, Pa. In 1803 he was ap¬ 
pointed surveyor of his native county, an 
office held by his father during the revo¬ 
lution; and also held the offices of pro- 
thonotary, register, recorder, and clerk 
of the orphans’ court. In 1826 he was 
elected a member of congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania; and was re-elected in 1828 and 
1830. He died in September, 1831, in Car¬ 
lisle, Pa. 

RAMSEY, WILLIAM S., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 12, 1810, in Car¬ 
lisle, Pa. He was elected a representative 
in congress in 1838; and was re-elected in 
1840. He died Oct. 17, 1840, in Baltimore, 
Md. 

RAND, ASA, clergyman, author, was 
born Aug. 6, 1783, in Rindge, N. H. He 
was a congregational clergyman in Maine 
and New York prominent as an opponent 
of slavery; and the author of Teachers’ 
Manual in English Grammar; and The 
Slave-Catcher Caught in the Meshes of 
Eternal Law. He died Aug. 24, 1871, in 
Ashburnham, Mass. 

RAND, BENJAMIN, educator, author, 
was born Feb. 16, 1792, in Charlestown, 
Mass. He is an instructor in philosophy 
at Harvard university; and the author of 
Economic History Since 1763; A Bibliog¬ 
raphy of Economics; and also bibliog¬ 
raphies of aesthetics, ethics, psychology, 
metaphysics, logic, history of philosophy, 
and philosophy of religion. 

RAND, BENJAMIN HOWARD, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Feb. 16, 1792, in 
Charlestown, Mass. He was a Philadel¬ 
phia teacher of penmanship who pub¬ 
lished The American Penman and similar 
works. He died June 9, 1862, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

RAND, BENJAMIN HOWARD, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Oct. 1, 1827, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a physician of 
Philadelphia; and the author of Outlines 
of Medical Chemistry; and Elements of 
Medical Chemistry. He died Feb. 14, 1883, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RAND, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in April, 1837, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. He is an episcopal 
clergyman, rector at 'VC'atertown, Mass., 
from 1883; and the author of Christmas 
Jack; Behind Manhattan Gables; School 
and Camp Series; Sailor Boy Bob; Push¬ 
ing Ahead; and Fighting the Sea Series. 

RAND, EDWARD DEAN, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, poet, was born Dec. 26, 1821, in Bath, 
N. H. In 1874 he was made judge of the 
circuit court. He is a poet of note and a 
lawyer of ability. 

RAND, EDWARD SPRAGUE, horticult¬ 
urist, author, was born Oct. 20, 1834, in 
Boston, Mass. He was formerly a flori¬ 
culturist of Dedham, Mass.; and the au¬ 
thor of Garden Flowers; Complete Man¬ 
ual of Orchid-Culture; Popular Flowers; 
Rhododendrons; Flowers for the Parlor 
and Garden; The Window Gardener; and 
Life Memoirs and Other Poems. 

RAND, ISAAC, physician, author, was 
born April 27, 1743, in Charlestown, Mass. 
From 1798 till 1804 he was president of the 
Massachusetts Medical society, and he was 
also a corresponding member of the Lon¬ 
don Medical society. He published papers 
on Hydrocephalus Internus; Yellow 
Fever; and on The Use of Warm Bath 
and Digitalis in Pulmonary Consumption. 
He died Dec. 11, 1822, in Boston, Mass. 


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RAND, JASPER, lawyer, legislator, 
was born in March, 1829, in Charlestown, 
Mass. In 1849 he sailed around the Horn 
to California, where he engaged in min¬ 
ing successfully. In 1862 he moved to 
Idaho; thence two years later to Mis¬ 
soula, Mont., where he served two terms 
as a member of the territorial council. 
Since that time he has been engaged in 
the practice of law at Lewiston, Idaho; 
and has been mayor of that city. 

RAND, MRS. MARY FRANCES [AB¬ 
BOTT], author, was born in 1840 in 
Maine. She is the author of Holly and 
Mistletoe; and Home-Spun Yarns for 
Christmas Stockings. 

RAND, THEODORE DEHON, mineral¬ 
ogist, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 16, 
1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. He early.turned 
his attention to natural science, especial¬ 
ly to mineralogy, and his cabinet of speci¬ 
mens ranks as one of the best private col¬ 
lections in the United States, containing 
very nearly a complete set of the rocks 
and minerals of Philadelphia and its vi¬ 
cinity. He is the author of several min- 
eralogical and geological works. 

RAND, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, 
was born Dec. 8, 1816, in Gorham, Maine. 
He was pastor of the Reformed Dutch 
church of Canastota, N. Y., from 1841 till 
1845; editor for the American Tract so¬ 
ciety, New York city, in 1848-72, and has 
since been its publishing secretary. He 
is the author of Songs of Zion; Diction¬ 
ary of the Bible for General Use; and 
other smaller books. 

RANDALL, ALEXANDER, congress¬ 
man, was born in Maryland. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1841 to 1843. 

RANDALL, ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, 
was born Oct. 31, 1819, in Ames, N. Y. 
He was appointed postmaster of Wauke¬ 
sha, Wis.; and in 1854 was elected to the 
state legislature. In 1856 he was appoint¬ 
ed judge of the second judicial district of 
the state; and in 1857 and 1859 was elect¬ 
ed governor of Wisconsin. At the close 
of the war he was appointed assistant 
postmaster-general. In 1866 he entered 
President Johnson’s cabinet as postmas¬ 
ter-general. He died July 25, 1872, in El¬ 
mira, N. Y. 

RANDALL, ARCHIBALD, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born in 1818 in Philadelphia, Pa. 
In 1834 he was appointed judge of the 
court of common pleas at Philadelphia, 
Pa.; and in 1842 was appointed judge of 
the United States district court for the 
eastern district of Pennsylvania. In 1844 
he presided over both the district and 
circuit courts. His decisions in bank¬ 
ruptcy are in the Pennsylvania Law Jour¬ 
nal from 1842 to 1846. He died May 30, 
1846, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RANDALL, BENJAMIN, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 14, 
1857, in Bath, Maine. He was a member 
of the state senate in 1833; and was a 
representative in congress from Maine 
from 1839 to 1843. He was appointed col¬ 
lector of the port of Bath, Maine. 

RANDALL, CHARLES S., merchant, 
state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 
20, 1824, in New Bedford, Mass. He re¬ 
tired from mercantile business in 1872; 
was for three years a member of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts republican state committee; 
and represented the third Massachusetts 
senatorial district in the state senate in 
1883 and 1884. He was elected to the fifty- 
first and fifty-second congresses and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-third congress as a 
republican. 


RANDALL, DAVID AUSTIN, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born Jan. 14, 
1813, in Colchester, Conn. He was a bap¬ 
tist clergyman and religious editor of 
Ohio; and the author of God’s Hand¬ 
writing in Egypt; and The Wonderful 
Tent, or the Mosaic Tabernacle. He died 
June’ 27, 1884, in Columbus, Ohio. 

RANDALL, EMILIUS OVIATT, lawyer, 
lecturer, writer, was born Oct. 28, 1850, 
in Richfield, Ohio. He graduated from 
Cornell university; and from the college 
of law of the Ohio state university. He 
has been a reporter of the supreme court 
of Ohio; secretary of the Ohio State His¬ 
torical society; and professor of com¬ 
mercial law in the Ohio state university. 
He is a successful public lecturer on art, 
history and literature; a writer of note; 
and the editor of Decision of the Su¬ 
preme Court of Ohio. He is also presi¬ 
dent of the Columbus board of trade. 

RANDALL, HENRY STEPHENS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1811 in Madi¬ 
son county, N. Y. He was a prominent 
advocate of public instruction in New' 
York state; and the author of Sheep 
Husbandry; Fine Wool Sheep Husband¬ 
ry; Practical Shepherd; and Life of 
Thomas Jefferson. He died Aug. 14, 1876, 
in Cortland, N. Y. 

RANDALL, JAMES RYDER, author, 
was born Jan. 1, 1839, in Baltimore, Md. 
He is a journalist of Augusta, Ga., and 
elsewhere in the south, who has written 
a number of spirited lyrics, the best 
known of which is the famous song, Mary¬ 
land, My Maryland. 

RANDALL, JOHN WITT, poet, was 
born Nov 6, 1813, in Boston, Mass. He 
has been largely occupied with the culti¬ 
vation of an ancestral country-seat in 
Stow, Mass., and has accumulated one of 
the rarest and most original collections 
of engravings in the United States. Be¬ 
sides doing other literary work, he has 
written six volumes of poems, of which 
only one has been published, Consolations 
of Solitude. 

RANDALL, PERRY A., lawyer, busi¬ 
ness man, was born July 24, 1847, in Avil- 
la, Ind. In 1867 he graduated from the 
Fort Wayne high 
school; from the 
university of Michi¬ 
gan in 1871, and 
from the law de¬ 
partment of the 
same institution in 
1873. The same year 
he began the practice 
of law in Fort 
Wayne, Ind., where 
he has since at¬ 
tained success as one 
of the foremost law¬ 
yers of that state. He was one of the 
founders of the Fort Wayne Electric com¬ 
pany, and its vice-president since 1882. 
He is vice-president of the Fort Wayne 
Furniture company, also of the Indiana 
Machine works; and is financially in¬ 
terested in numerous other business en¬ 
terprises. 

RANDALL, SAMUEL JACKSON, mer¬ 
chant, state senator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 10, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He served one term in the state senate of 
Pennsylvania. In 1862 he was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elect¬ 
ed to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, 
forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth, 
forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. He was speaker 
of the house during the forty-fourth, 
forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses. He 
died April 12, 1890, in Washington, D. C. 


RANDALL, SAMUEL SIDWELL, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born May 27, 1809, in 
Norwich, N. Y. He was a superintendent 
of public schools in New York city in 
1854-70; and the author of History of the 
State of New York; Mental and Moral 
Culture; Principles of Popular Education; 
and Incitements to the Study of Geology. 
He died June 3, 1881, in New York city. 

RANDALL, T., lawyer, jurist, was a na¬ 
tive of Maryland. He removed to Talla¬ 
hassee, Fla.; and was appointed United 
States judge for the territory of Florida, 
holding the position until 1832. 

RANDALL, WILLIAM H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Kentucky. He was 
elected a representative from Kentucky 
to the thirty-eighth congress; and was 
re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress. 

RANDLE, FREDERICK ALANSON, 
lawyer, historical novelist, was born Jan. 
21, 1854, in Bunker Hill, Ill. He attended 
the McKendree college; and has attained 
success as an able lawyer of his native 
state at Hillsboro. He is the author of 
several historical novels; and has con¬ 
tributed extensively to periodical litera¬ 
ture. 

RANDOLPH, ALFRED MAGILL, bish¬ 
op of southern Virginia, was born Aug. 31, 
1836, in Winchester, Va. In 1894 the dio¬ 
cese of Virginia was divided, and Dr. Ran¬ 
dolph chose the new see of southern Vir¬ 
ginia. 

RANDOLPH, ANSON DAVIES FITZ, 
journalist, author, was born in 1820 in 
New Jersey. He was a publisher and re¬ 
ligious verse-writer of New York city; 
and the author of Hopefully Waiting; 
Verses; At the Beautiful Gate; The Pal¬ 
ace of the King; and Unto the Desired 
Haven. He died in 1896. 

RANDOLPH, BEVERLY, state legislat¬ 
or, governor, was born in 1754. He was 
a member of the Virginia assembly dur¬ 
ing the revolution; and was governor of 
Virginia during 1788-91. He died in 
February, 1797, in Cumberland, Va. 

RANDOLPH, DAVID B. F., clergyman, 
was born Jan. 23, 1848, in Newark, N. J. 
In 1871 he graduated from the Drew The¬ 
ological seminary with the degree of B. D. 
The same year he joined the Newark an¬ 
nual conference of the methodist episcopal 
church, and has filled pastorates in Ho¬ 
boken, Newark, Hackettstown, West New 
Brighton, and is now pastor of the Trin¬ 
ity church of Jersey City. 

RANDOLPH, EDMUND, congressman, 
governor, was born in Virginia. He was a 
delegate to the continental congress from 
Virginia from 1779 to 1783; and in 1788 
was a member of the convention which 
framed the constitution of the United 
States, but voted against its adoption. In 
1788 he was governor of Virginia. In 1789 
he was attorney-general of the United 
States; and in 1794 was secretary of state 
of the United States. He died Sept. 13, 
1813. 

RANDOLPH, EDMUND, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born June 9, 1820, in 
Richmond, Va. He was for several years 
clerk of the United States circuit court for 
Louisiana, but in 1849 he removed to 
California. He was an active member of 
the legislature that met at San Jose in 
1849 to organize a state government. He 
died Sept. 8, 1861, in San Francisco, Cal. 

RANDOLPH, JACOB, physician, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Nov. 25, 1796, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He had acquired a 
wide reputation as a surgeon, and in 1831 
introduced in the United States the oper¬ 
ation of lithotripsy. He published several 
reports of successful operations. He died 
April 12, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. 




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RANDOLPH, JAMES FITZ, journalist, 
banker, state legislator, congressman, 
was born June 26, 1791, in Middlesex 
county, N. J. He became editor of the 
Fredonian, a weekly newspaper, in 1812, 
and continued in that capacity for thirty 
years. He was appointed collector of in¬ 
ternal revenue of the United States in 
1815, and held that office until the close 
•of the war in Texas. He was subsequently 
clerk of the court of common pleas for his 
native county; and was for two years a 
member of the state legislature. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Jersey from 1828 to 1833; and was after¬ 
wards president of a bank in New Bruns¬ 
wick for ten years. He died March 19, 
1871, in Jersey City, N. J. 

RANDOLPH, JAMES HENRY, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 19, 1825, in Jefferson county, 
Tenn. He was a representative in the 
Tennessee state legislature in 1857-61; and 
was a state senator in 1865. He was 
elected judge of the second judicial circuit 
of the state in 1869, and re-elected in 
1870. He was elected a representative 
fiom Tennessee to the forty-fifth congress. 

RANDOLPH, JOHN, lawyer, was born 
ii\ 1727 in Williamsburg, Va. He was a 
noted lawyer of his time; and for several 
years was king’s attorney under Governor 
Fauquier. He died Jan. 31, 1784. 

RANDOLPH, JOHN, of Roanoke, states¬ 
man, was born June 2, 1773, in Chester¬ 
field, Va. He was elected from Virginia 
a representative in 
congress in 1799, and 
continued a member 
of the house of rep¬ 
resentatives, with the 
exception of two in¬ 
tervals of two years 
each, until 1823. In 
that year he was a 
member of the con¬ 
vention to revise the 
constitution of Vir¬ 
ginia, and was after- 
wards appointed 
minister plenipotentiary to Russia in 1830. 
During 1825 to 1827 he was a senator of 
the United States. He had a quarrel with 
Henry Clay which resulted in a duel, when 
he aliowed himself to be shot at and then 
threw away his fire. He died June 24, 
1833, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RANDOLPH, JOHN S., stock-raiser, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born June 15, 1832, in 
McLean county, Ill. He attended the Wes¬ 
leyan university of Bloomington, Ill., and 
subsequently moved to Idaho, where he is 
a successful farmer and stock-raiser of 
Latah county. He has been justice of the 
peace and probate judge; and was elected 
to the legislature of Idaho in 1895, and re¬ 
ceived the re-election in 1897. He has 
taken an active part in legislative mat¬ 
ters, and has served on many important 
committees. 

RANDOLPH, JOSEPH, FITZ, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born in 1803 in 
New Jersey. He settled at Monmouth 
Court House, N. J., and was appointed 
state’s attorney for the county. He was a 
representative in congress from 1837 to 
1843. In 1844 he was a member of the con¬ 
vention which framed the state constitu¬ 
tion. In 1845 he was appointed a judge 
of the supreme court of New Jersey for 
a term of seven years. He was a member 
of the peace congress of 1861. 

RANDOLPH, PETER, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Maryland. He moved to 
Mississippi, and was appointed a judge 
ox the United States court for the district 
of Mississippi. 


RANDOLPH, PEYTON, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1721 
in Williamsburg, Va. In 1756 he was ap¬ 
pointed king’s attorney for the colony of 
Virginia, and held the office for many 
years. In 1766 he was elected speaker of 
the house of burgesses; and in 1773 was 
a member of the committee on correspon¬ 
dence. He was a delegate to the continen¬ 
tal congress from 1774 to 1775, and was 
the first president of that body. He died 
Oct. 22, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RANDOLPH, SARAH NICHOLAS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 12, 1839, in 
Edge Hill, Va. She is an educator of 
Baltimore; and the author of The Do¬ 
mestic Life of Thomas Jefferson; The 
Lord Will Provide; and The Life of Stone¬ 
wall Jackson. 

RANDOLPH, THEODORE FRELING- 
HUYSEN, state legislator, governor, 
United States senator, was born June 24, 
1816, in New Brunswick, N. J. In 1860 
he was elected to the New Jersey house 
of assembly, and declined the speakership 
of that body. In 1861 he was elected state 
senator to fill a vacancy; and re-elected 
in 1862, serving until 1865. He was elected 
governor of New Jersey in 1868. He was 
elected United States senator from New 
Jersey in 1874 for six years. He died Nov. 
7, 1883, in Morristown, N. J. 

RANDOLPH. THOMAS JEFFERSON, 
author, was born Sept. 12, 1792, in Monti- 
cello, Va. He was the author of a book 
entitled Sixty Years’ Reminiscences of the 
Currency of the United States. He died 
Oct. 8, 1875, in Edge Hill, Va. 

RANDOLPH, THOMAS MANN, patriot, 
was born in 1741 in Tuckahoe, Va. He 
was a member of the Virginia house of 
burgesses, and of the convention of 1776. 
He was also a member of the colonial 
committee of safety from the first. He 
died Nov. 19, 1793, in Tuckahoe, Va. 

RANDOLPH, THOMAS MANN, soldier, 
congressman, governor, was born Oct. 1, 
1768, in Tuckahoe, Va. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1803 to 1807; 
was appointed colonel of the twentieth 
infantry in 1813; and was governor of 
Virginia from 1819 to 1822. He died June 
20, 1828, in Monticello, Va. 

RANDOLPH, WARREN, clergyman, 
was born March 30, 1826, in Middlesex 
county, N. J. Since 1879 he has been pas¬ 
tor of the Central Baptist church of New¬ 
port, R. I. 

RANEY, GEORGE P., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 11, 
1845 in Leon county, Fla. He graduated 
from the law school of the university 
of Virginia; and has attained success as 
an able lawyer of Tallahassee, Fla. He 
entered the confederate army in 1863, and 
served till the close of the war. During 
1868-70 he was a member of the Florida 
state legislature; and during 1877-85 was 
attorney-general of Florida. During 1885- 
89 he was associate justice of the state 
supreme court; and in 1889-94 was chief 
justice of the supreme court of Florida. 

RANEY, JOHN H„ lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 28, 1849, in 
Wayne county, Mo. He was elected judge 
of the county court of Wayne county, Mo., 
and served one term; and was elected and 
served three full terms as prosecuting at¬ 
torney of said county. He was one of the 
board of regents of the State Normal 
school located at Cape Girardeau, Mo., 
by appointment of Governor Stone, his 
term of service expiring with the year 
1895. He was elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress as a republican. - 

RANKIN, CHRISTOPHER, congress¬ 
man, was born in Washington county, Pa. 


He was a representative in congress from 
Mississippi from 1819 to 1826. He died 
March 14, 1826, in Washington city. 

RANKIN, DAVID, banker, philanthro¬ 
pist, state legislator, was born May 28, 
1825, in Sullivan county, Ind. He was 
chosen by the republican party a repre¬ 
sentative in the Illinois legislature for 
three terms. He is president of the First 
National bank of Tarkio, Mo.; and is a 
hearty supporter of any educational, phi¬ 
lanthropic or other good work. 

RANKIN, DAVID NEVIN, physician, 
surgeon, was born Oct. 27, 1834, in Ship- 
penburg, Pa. In 1864-66 he was medical 
examiner of the United States pension 
bureau, and since 1865 he has been chief 
physician of the penitentiary of western 
Pennsylvania. 

RANKIN, JEREMIAH EAMES, D. D., 
LL. D., clergyman, poet, educator, was 
born Jan. 20, 1828, in Thornton, N. H. He 
has filled pastorates in various cities and 
for many years has been president of the 
Ploward university of Washington, D. C. 
He is the author of Auld Scotch Mither, 
and Other Poems; Subduing Kingdoms; 
The Hotel of God, and Other Sermons; 
Atheism of the Heart; Christ His Own 
Interpreter; and Ingleside Rhaims. 

RANKIN, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Feb. 4, 1793, in Dandridge, Tenn. 
He was a presbyterian clergyman of Rip¬ 
ley, Ohio, famous as an abolitionist, and 
many times mobbed for his anti-slavery 
zeal. He was the author of Letters on 
American Slavery; and The Covenant of 
Grace. He died March 18, 1886, near 
Dandridge, Tenn. 

RANKIN. JOHN CHAMBERS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born May 18, 1816, in 
Guilford county, N. C. He is a presbyte¬ 
rian clergyman of Baskingridge, N. J., 
from 1851; and the author of The Coming 
of the Lord. 

RANKIN, JOSEPH, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Sept. 25, 
1833, in Passaic, N. J. He served three * 
years in the union army during the civil 
war; and served in the Wisconsin state 
legislature eleven years. He was elected a 
representative from Wisconsin to the for¬ 
ty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a 
democrat. He died Nov. 8, 1885, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

RANKIN, LELAND, journalist, was 
born June 16, 1867, in Nashville, Tenn. He 
attended Webb’s Classical Training 
school, and the Southwestern Presbyte¬ 
rian university of Clarksville, Tenn. He 
has worked on newspapers in Texas, New 
Orleans, St. Louis, and elsewhere; has 
been literary editor of the Nashville Ban¬ 
ner; chief of the bureau of promotion 
and publicity at the Tennessee centennial; 
and director of the Tennessee centennial. 
He is now the president and manager of 
the Nashville American, which publishes 
daily, Sunday, and semi-weekly editions, 
and is one of the foremost newspapers of 
the south. 

RANKIN, WILLIAM BRADSHAW, col¬ 
lege president, was born Sept. 3, 1825, in 
Little Chucky, Tenn. In 1867 he was cho¬ 
sen president of the Washington college, 
which position he held until 1875. 

RANNEY, AMBROSE ARNOLD, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born April 16, 1821, in Townshend, Vt. 
He was corporation counsel of Boston in 
1855 and 1856; was a representative in 
the state legislature in 1857, 1863, and 
1864; and was elected a representative 
from Massachusetts to the forty-seventh, 
forty-eighth, and forty-ninth congresses 
as a republican. 




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RANNEY. AMBROSE LOOMIS, physi¬ 
cian, educator, author, was born in 1848. 
He is a physician, professor of nervous 
diseases in the university of the city of 
New York; and the author of A Practical 
Treatise on Surgical Diagnosis; Applied 
Anatomy of the Nervous System; Practi¬ 
cal Medical Anatomy; and Lectures on 
Nervous Diseases. 

RANNEY, RUFUS PERCIVAL. lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 13, 1813, in Bland- 
ford. Mass. He was chosen by the Ohio 
legislature about the 
same time a judge of 
the supreme court, 
and in 1851 was 
elected by the people, 
under the new con¬ 
stitution, to the same 
office, which he held 
till 1857. In that year 
he was appointed 
United States district 
attorney for Ohio, 
and in 1859 was de¬ 
feated as the demo¬ 
cratic candidate for governor. In 1862 he 
was again elected a judge of the supreme 
court, but in 1864 resigned, and resumed 
practice in Cleveland. 

RANNEY, WILLIAM, soldier, author, 
was born May 9, 1813, in Middletown. 
Conn. Among his works are Boone’s First 
View of Kentucky; On the Wing; Wash¬ 
ington on his Mission to the Indians; and 
Duck-Shooting, which is in the Corcoran 
gallery. He died Nov. 18, 1857, in West 
Hoboken, N. J. 

RANSBOTTOM, CLAUDE, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born July 4, 1838, in 
Indianapolis, Ind. He attended the Yale 
college; and subsequently was admitted 
to the bar. He has served with distinc¬ 
tion as judge of the forty-fourth judicial 
circuit of Indiana; and has been a mem¬ 
ber of the Indiana state legislature; and 
filled the high office of lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of Indiana. While a member of the 
state legislature he took an active part in 
the deliberations of that body, and was 
one of its most fluent speakers. He is one 
of the foremost lawyers of Indiana at 
Winamac; and contributes extensively to 
law literature. 

RANSIER, ALONZO JACOB, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 
1836, in Charleston, S. C. He was elected 
to the South Carolina state legislature in 
1868. He was elected a presidential elect¬ 
or in 1868; and lieutenant-governor in 
1870. He was elected to the forty-third 
congress as a republican. He died Aug. 
17, 1882, in Charleston, S. C. 

RANSOM, EPAPHRODITUS, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, governor, was born 
in February in Shelburne Falls, Mass. He 
served a number of years in the Michigan 
legislature; and was judge of the su¬ 
preme court. From 1847 to 1849 he was 
governor of the state. He was appointed 
receiver of the land office for one of the 
districts of Kansas, and died there before 
the expiration of his term. He died in 
November, 1859, in Fort Scott, Kan. 

RANSOM, MATHEW WHITAKER, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state legislator, United 
States senator, was born Oct. 8, 1826, in 
Warren county, N. C. He was elected at¬ 
torney-general of North Carolina in 1852; 
was a member of the legislature in 1858- 
60; and was a peace commissioner from 
the state to the congress of southern states 
at Montgomery, Ala., in 1861. He entered 
the confederate army; was lieutenant- 
colonel, brigadier-general, and major-gen¬ 
eral, and surrendered at Appomattox. He 
was elected to the United States senate in 
1872 for the term ending in 1877, and was 
re-elected in 1876, 1883, and 1889. 


RANSOM, ROBERT, soldier, was born 
about 1830 in North Carolina. He was 
made colonel of the ninth North Carolina 
cavalry; became brigadier-general in 1862 
and major-general in 1863 in the confed¬ 
erate service. 

RANSOM, TRUMAN BISHOP, soldier, 
educator, was born in 1802 in Woodstock, 
Vt. He was instructor in mathematics in 
the United States navy, did much to re¬ 
organize the Vermont militia, in which he 
was major-general in 1837-44, and in 1844 
succeeded Captain Partridge as president 
of the university. He died Sept. 13, 1847, 
in the City of Mexico. 

RANSOM.THOMAS EDWARD GREEN¬ 
FIELD, soldier, was born Nov. 29, 1834, in 
Norwich, Vt. He served through the civil 
war, attaining the rank of major-general 
of volunteers for gallant and meritorious 
services. He died Oct. 20, 1864, near Rome, 
Ga. 

RANTOUL, ROBERT, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Aug. 13, 1805, in Beverly, 
Mass. He was elected to the Massachu¬ 
setts state legislature in 1834; and in 1837 
a member of the Massachusetts board of 
education. In 1838 he removed to Boston; 
in 1843 was appointed collector of that 
port; and in 1845 was appointed United 
States district attorney for Massachusetts. 
In 1851 he succeeded Mr. Webster in the 
United States senate, but remained there 
only a short time. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1851 to the time of 
his death. His writings have since been 
published in a large volume. He died 
Aug. 7, 1852, in Washington, D. C. 

RANTOUL, ROBERT SAMUEL, anti¬ 
quarian, lawyer, state legislator, was born 
June 2, 1832, in Beverly, Mass. He settled 
in Beverly, which he represented in the 
legislature in 1858, and afterward removed 
to Salem, Mass. He was collector of Sa¬ 
lem in 1865-69, and representative from 
that town in 1884-85. He has published 
many historical and genealogical papers 
in the collections of the Essex institute, 
of which he is a vice-president. 

RAOUL, WILLIAM GREENE, railroad 
president, was born July 4, 1843, in Liv¬ 
ingston Parish, La. Since 1887 he has 
been president of the Mexican National 
railroad at New York city. 

RAPALLO, CHARLES ANTHONY, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Sept. 15, 1823, in New 
York city. He became a successful prac¬ 
titioner, and was elected a judge of the 
New York court of appeals, taking his seat 
on the bench in 1870; and in 1884 he was 
elected for a second term of fourteen 
years by the united vote of both political 
parties. He died Dec. 28, 1887, in New 
York city. 

RAPELJE, STEWART, author, was 
born in 1842 in New York. He .was a le¬ 
gal writer of New York city; and the au¬ 
thor of Digest of Decisions of New York 
Courts to 1881; Digest of Federal Decis¬ 
ions and Statutes from the Earliest Period 
to 1880; Treatise on the Law of Witness¬ 
es; and Dictionary of American and Eng¬ 
lish Decisions. He died in 1896. 

RAPHALL, MORRIS JACOB, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in September, 1798, 
in Sweden. He was a Jewish clergyman 
once prominent in New York city; and 
the author of Post-Biblical History of the 
Jews; Literature of the Jews in Spain; 
Social Condition of the Jews; Festivals of 
the Lord; and The Path to Immortality. 
He died June 23, 1868, in New York city. 

RAPIER, JAMES T., congressman, was 
born in 1840 in Florence, Ala. He was 
elected from Alabama to the forty-third 
congress; and re-elected to the forty- 
fourth congress. 


RAREY, JOHN S., author, was born in 
1828 in Franklin county, Ohio. He was a 
famous horse-tamer who wrote a Treatise 
on Horse-Training that was very exten¬ 
sively circulated. He died Oct. 4, 1866, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

RARIDEN, JAMES, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Kentucky. He became 
eminent as a lawyer; and was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Indiana from 1837 
to 1841. He died in Cambridge City, Ind. 

RATHBONE, ESTES GEORGE, banker, 
state senator, was born June 30, 1848, in 
Hebron, Pa. He is a successful banker of 
Hamilton, Ohio. For nine years he was 
special agent of the United States treas¬ 
ury; chief of special examiners of pension 
office for three years; state senator of 
Ohio for two years; chief postoffice in¬ 
spector for two years; and fourth assis¬ 
tant postmaster general under President 
Harrison. 

RATHBONE, JOHN FINLEY, soldier, 
manufacturer, was born Oct. 18, 1821, in 
Albany, N. Y. In 1845 he built a foundry 
in Albany that is now one of the largest 
establishments of the kind in the world. 
He was appointed adjutant-general of 
New York, with the rank of major-gen¬ 
eral. 

RATHBONE, JUSTUS HENRY, found¬ 
er, was born Oct. 29, 1839, in Deerfield, 
N. Y. He was the founder of the Knights 
of Pythias. He died in 1890 in Lima, Ohio. 

RATHBUN, GEORGE, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1843 to 1847. 

RATLIFF, JOSEPH C., state legislator, 
was born July 6, 1827, near Richmond, Ind. 
In 1875 he was chosen to represent Wayne 
county in the-Indiana state legislature; 
and in 1876 he was appointed by the gov¬ 
ernor a trustee of the Purdue university, 
and was reappointed in 1877 for the term 
of three years. In 1870 he was elected 
president of the Wayne County Turnpike 
company. 

RATLIFF, RYLAND, educator, botan¬ 
ist, was born in 1858 near Marion, Ind. 
Since 1886 he has been an instructor of 
natural science in Fairmount academy, 
Indiana. He has made a special study of 
botany and general biology. 

RAU, CHARLES, archaeologist, author, 
was born in 1826 in Belgium. He was an 
archaeologist of distinction of Belgian 
birth who settled in the United States in 
1848. and was curator of antiquities in the 
United States National museum in 1875- 
87. He was the author of Early Man in 
Europe; and Prehistoric Fishing. He died 
July 25, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RAUB, ALBERT NEWTON, educator, 
college president, author, was born March 
28, 1840, in Lancaster county, Pa. After 
attending the State 
Normal school o f 
Millersville, Pa., he 
began educational 
work. He has been 
superintendent of the 
Ashland public 
schools; superinten¬ 
dent of the Lock 
Haven public schools, 
Pennsylvania; prin¬ 
cipal of the State 
Normal school of 
Lock Haven, Pa.; 
and is now the president of the Delaware 
college of Newark. He is the author of 
twenty-six books, including text-books on 
grammar, reading, spelling, arithmetic, 
literature, and pedagogy. His lessons, 
etc., are especially commendable works, 
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RAUCH, FRIEDRICH AUGUSTUS, 
psychologist, author, was born July 27, 
1806, in Germany. He was a psycholo¬ 
gist of Mercersburg, Pa., prominent 
among thinkers of the German reformed 
faith. He was the author of Psychology: 
a View of the Human Soul; and The In¬ 
ner Life of the Christian. He died March 
2, 1841, in Mercersburg, Pa. 

RAUCH, JOHN HENRY, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 4, 1828, in Lebanon, 
Pa. In 1857 he was professor of materia 
medica and medical botany in the Rush 
Medical college of Chicago, Ill.; and in 
1859 filled the same chair in the Chicago 
College of Pharmacy, of which he was one 
of the organizers. His chief work as a 
writer is embodied in the reports of the 
Illinois state board of health in eight vol¬ 
umes. 

RAUE, CHARLES GODLOVE, physi¬ 
cian, educator, author, was born May 11, 
1820, in Saxony. From 1864 till 1871 he 
was professor of pathology and practice 
at the Homoeopathic college of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and at Hahnemann Medical college 
in Philadelphia. He is the author of Spe¬ 
cial Pathology and Diagnostics with Ther¬ 
apeutic Hints; and Annual Record of 
Homoeopathic Literature. 

RAUM, GREEN BERRY, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, author, was born Dec. 
11, 1829, in Golconda, Ill. In 1861 he par¬ 
ticipated in the war for the union as ma¬ 
jor of the fifty-sixth Illinois volunteers, 
and was promoted to the rank of brevet 
brigadier-general in 1864, and to the full 
rank of brigadier in 1865. In 1866 he was 
elected a representative from Illinois to 
the fortieth congress as a republican. He 
was commissioner of internal revenue 
from 1876 to 1883; and subsequently 
United States commissioner of pensions. 
He is the author of The Existing Conflict 
between Republican Government and 
Southern Oligarchy. 

RAVENEL, HENRY WILLIAM, botan¬ 
ist, author, was born May 19, 1814, in St. 
John's Parish Berkeley, S. C. He was a 
botanist of Aiken, S. C., distinguished for 
his knowledge of fungi; and was the au¬ 
thor of Fungi Caroliniani Exsiccati; and 
Fungi Americani Exsiccati. He died July 
17, 1887, in Aiken, S. C. 

RAVENEL, ST. JULIEN, chemist, sur¬ 
geon, was born Dec. 15, 1819, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. He was surgeon-in-chief of the 
confederate hospital in Columbia, and was 
director of the confederate laboratory in 
that city for the preparation of medical 
supplies. At the close of the war he re¬ 
turned to Charleston, and in 1866 he dis¬ 
covered the \alue of the phosphate de¬ 
posits in the vicinity of that city for ag¬ 
ricultural purposes. He died March 16, 
1882, in Charleston, S. C. 

RAVENSCROFT, D. W., author, poet, 
was born in 1852 in California. Under the 
nom de plume of The Exile he has con¬ 
tributed upwards of a thousand poems to 
current literature. He is the author of 
The Spirit of Unrest; Idyls; and several 
novels. 

RAWLE, FRANCIS, author, was born 
in 1660 in England. He was a Quaker 
colonist of Pennsylvania whose Ways and 
Means for the Inhabitants of Delaware to 
become Rich is said to have been the first 
book printed by Franklin. He died March 
5, 1727, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RAWLE. FRANCIS, lawyer, author, 
was born Aug. 7, 1846, in Mifflin county, 
Pa. In 1871 he was admitted to the bar 
in Philadelphia. He has published two 
revised editions of Bouvier’s Law Diction¬ 
ary, in which are given over seven hun¬ 
dred subjects not named in the original 
work. 


RAWLE, HENRY, soldier, lawyer, man¬ 
ufacturer, iron master, was born Aug. 21, 
1833, in Mifflin county, Pa. He engaged 
extensively in the coal and iron business 
in Erie, Pa., and established the Erie 
blast-furnace and Erie rolling-mill. In 
1874-76 he was mayor of Erie, and from 
18 io till 1878 he was treasurer of Penn¬ 
sylvania. 

RAWLE, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, 
was born April 28, 1759, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a distinguished lawyer of 
Philadelphia; and the author of View of 
the Constitution of the United States; and 
The Study of the Law. He died April 12, 
1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RAWLE, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, 
was born July 19, 1788, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. As reporter of the state supreme 
court, he published twenty-five volumes 
of reports. He died Aug. 9, 1858, in Mont¬ 
gomery county, N. Y. 

RAWLE, WILLIAM BROOKE, lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 29, 1843, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is a lawyer of Philadel¬ 
phia who has published The Right Flank 
at Gettysburg; and With Gregg in the 
Gettysburg Campaign. 

RAWLE, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 31, 1823, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a prominent lawyer 
ot Philadelphia; and the author of Law 
of Covenants for Title; Some'Contrasts 
in the Growth of Pennsylvania in English 
Law; and Equity in Pennsylvania. He 
died April 19, 1889, in Philadelphia. 

RAWLES, RICHARD H., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Sept. 15, 1850, in 
Nausemond county, Va. He was a state 
senator in the Virginia legislature from 
the thirty-second senatorial district; and 
has been judge of the county and crimi¬ 
nal court of his native county. 

RAWLES, WILLIAM A., educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 4, 1863, in Remington, 
Ind. He has filled the chair of American 
history and politics in various institu¬ 
tions, and since 1894 in the Indiana uni¬ 
versity. He is the author of Civil Gov¬ 
ernment of Indiana, and other works. 

RAWLINS, JOHN AARON, soldier, sec¬ 
retary of war, was born Feb. 13, 1831, in 
East Galena, Ill. He was assistant adju¬ 
tant-general; and after seeing much ser¬ 
vice in the field rose by degrees to the 
rank of major-general by brevet in 1865. 
He served as chief of staff to the general 
commanding the armies. On the acces¬ 
sion of General Grant to the presidency, 
he was appointed secretary of war. He 
died Sept. 9, 1869, in Washington, D. C. 

RAWLINS, JOSEPH L., lawyer, educa¬ 
tor, congressman, United States senator, 
was born March 28, 1850, in Salt Lake 
county, Utah. He was professor in the 
university of Deseret in Salt Lake City, 
Utah, for two years. He was elected to 
the fifty-third congress as delegate on the 
democratic ticket; and was elected to the 
United States senate as a democrat in 
1897. 

RAWSON, ALBERT LEIGHTON, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 15, 1829, in Chester, 
Vt. He is a traveler of note who has pub¬ 
lished Histories of All Religions; An¬ 
tiquities of the Orient; The Unseen 
World; and a number of dictionaries and 
vocabularies of Oriental tongues. 

RAWSON, EDWARD, author, was born 
April 16, 1615, in England. He was one of 
the first secretaries of the general court 
of Massachusetts colony. He died March 
27, 1693, in Boston, Mass. 

RAY, ANNA CHAPIN, author, was born 
in 1865 in Massachusetts. She is a writer 
of West Haven, Conn., whose tales for ju¬ 
venile reading have been popular. She is 


the author of Cadets of Fleming Hall; 
Half a Dozen Boys; Half a Dozen Girls; 
In Blue Creek Canon; Dick; and Mar¬ 
garet Davis Tutor. 

RAY, FABIUS MAXIMUS, lawyer, edu¬ 
cator, state legislator, author, was born in 
March, 1837, in East Windham, Maine. 

In 1867 entertaining 
the project of aban¬ 
doning the law, he 
entered the senior 
class of the Divinity 
school in Cambridge 
and graduated, but 
never received ordi¬ 
nation, and in a year 
or two resumed the 
legal profession in 
Portland, which he 
continues in the firm 
of Ray and Dyer. He 
represented Westbrook in the Maine leg¬ 
islature of 1871-72. He published a vol¬ 
ume of poems in 1873. He taught a school 
in Saccarappa in 1865 and in the winter 
of 1869-70, and has had several private 
pupils in modern languages and the clas¬ 
sics. 






RAY, GEORGE W., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 3, 1844, in 
Otselic, N. Y. He received his education 
_ at the Norwich acad¬ 
emy, New York; and 
has attained emi¬ 
nence as one of the 
leading lawyers of 
the east at Norwich. 
He served with dis¬ 
tinction in congress, 
in the forty-eighth, 
fifty - second, fifty- 
third, fifty - fourth, 
and fifty-fifth con- 
L .• ,-vl gresses. He is a 
member of the re¬ 
publican state committee; chairman of 
the republican county committee; and a 
member of the board of education of Nor¬ 
wich, N. Y. 

RAY, HARRY PALMER, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born July 2, 1866, in Phelps, 
N. Y. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the public schools of Cold- 
water, Mich., and subsequently attended 
the Chicago university and Union College 
of Law. For eighteen years he has been 
engaged in newspaper work; several 
years of which were with the Associated 
Press. He has contributed to the St. Louis 
Globe-Democrat, Republican, and Post- 
Dispatch; the Chicago Tribune, and the 
Cincinnati Enquirer. He is one of the 
leading turf writers in America; the edi¬ 
tor of Whip and Spur of Philadelphia, 
Pa., and the author of several works of 
fiction. 


RAY, ISAAC, physician, author, was 
born Jan. 16, 1807, in Beverly, Mass. He 
was a physician of Philadelphia; and the 
author of Conversations on Animal Econ¬ 
omy; Education in Relation to the Health 
of the Brain; Mental Hygiene; and Medi¬ 
cal Jurisprudence of Insanity. He died 
March 31, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RAY, JAMES BROWN, governor, was 
born Feb. 19, 1794, in Jefferson county, Ky. 
He was governor of Indiana from 1825 to 
1831. He died Aug. 4, 1848, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

RAY, JOHN, lawyer, state senator, was 
born Oct. 14, 1816, in Washington county, 
Mo. He removed to Monroe, La., and took 
high rank in his profession. He was 
elected in 1844 to the state house of repre¬ 
sentatives, and in 1850 to the state senate. 
In 1854 and again in 1859 he was nomi¬ 
nated by the whigs for lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor. He died March 4, 1888, in New Or¬ 
leans. La. 








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RAY, JOSEPH, educator, mathematic¬ 
ian, author, was born Nov. 25, 1807, in Vir¬ 
ginia. He received his degree of M. D. 

from the Ohio Medi¬ 
cal college; and was 
for a time surgeon in 
the Cincinnati hospi¬ 
tal. During 1834-51 
he held the chair of 
mathematics in 
Woodward college; 
and from about 1849 
he was president of 
the board of direct¬ 
ors of the Cincinnati 
House of Refuge. He 
published an eclectic 
series of arithmetics long popular in the 
western states. He died April 17, 1865, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

RAY, JOSEPH WARREN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 25, 1849, in 
Greene county, Pa. He has practiced his 
profession since 1876 in Waynesburg, Pa.; 
and was elected to the fifty-first congress 
as a republican. 

RAY, OSSIAN, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Dec. 13, 1835, in 
Hinesburg, Vt. He was a representative 
in the New Hampshire state legislature in 
1868 and 1869. He was United States dis¬ 
trict attorney in 1879 and 1880. He was 
a member of the forty-sixth congress to 
fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the 
forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses 
as a republican. 

RAY, WILLIAM, author, was born Dec. 
8, 1771, in Salisbury, Conn. He was the 
author of Horrors of Slavery; and a book 
of poems. He died in 1827 in Auburn, 
N. Y. 

RAY, WILLIAM H., merchant, banker, 
congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1812, in 
Dutchess county, N. Y. He was elected 
from Illinois to the forty-third congress. 

RAYMOND, ANDREW VAN VRANK- 
EN, clergyman, college president, was 
born Aug. 8, 1854, in Vischer’s Ferry, N. 
Y. This eminent clergyman was pastor of 
the Fourth Presbyterian church of Al¬ 
bany, N. Y., for eight years; and since 
1895 has been president of the Union col¬ 
lege of Schenectady, N. Y. 

RAYMOND, ANNIE LOUISE CARY, vo¬ 
calist, was born Oct. 22, 1842, in Wayne, 
Maine. She is one of the most noted 
concert singers in the United States. 

RAYMOND, BENJAMIN WRIGHT, 
merchant, was born Oct. 23, 1801, in Rome, 
N. Y. In 1839 he was elected the third 
mayor of Chicago, and he was re-elected 
in 1842. He was one of the originators of 
the city of Lake Forest, a founder of Lake 
Forest university and president of its 
board of trustees; and was a member of 
the board of trustees of Beloit college 
and Rockford Female seminary. In 1864 
he organized the Elgin National Watch 
company, and became its president. He 
died April 5, 1883, in Chicago, Ill. 

RAYMOND, CHARLES W., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, orator, was born in Dubuque, Iowa. 
His father, William M. Raymond, was 
captain of company 
C, fifty-second Indi¬ 
ana volunteer in¬ 
fantry, and lost his 
life in the battle of 
Nashville. Charles 
W. Raymond was 
educated at the 
Grand Prairie semi¬ 
nary of Onarga, Ill., 
and at the Wabash 
college. He attained 
prominence at the 
Illinois bar at Wat- 
seka; and was 
vice-president of the State Bar asso¬ 


ciation when Lyman Trumbull was pres¬ 
ident. In 1895-96 he was president of the 
Republican league of Illinois; and was 
chairman of the Illinois delegation of the 
National Republican league convention at 
Cleveland in 1895. In 1894 he was elected 
a judge; and in 1897 was tendered the po¬ 
sition of United States civil service com¬ 
missioner. He has delivered numerous 
public addresses throughout the United 
States on current subjects. 

RAYMOND, GEORGE LANSING, edu¬ 
cator, author, poet, was born Sept. 3, 1839, 
in Chicago, Ill. He is a professor of ora¬ 
tory at Princeton college from 1881. His 
writings in verse include Colony ballads; 
A Life in Song; Ballads of the Revolu¬ 
tion, and Other Poems; Sketches in Song; 
and Pictures in Verse. He is the author 
of The Orator’s Manual; Modern Fishers 
of Men, a novel; Poetry as a Representa¬ 
tive Art; The Genesis of Art Form; Art 
in Theory; Painting, Sculpture, and Archi¬ 
tecture as Representative Arts; Rhythm 
and Harmony in Poetry and Music; and 
Ideals Made Real. 

RAYMOND, HENRY JARVIS, journal¬ 
ist, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, 
author, was born Jan. 24, 1820, in Lima, 
N. Y. In 1849 he was elected to the New 
York state assembly; was re-elected and 
made speaker. In 1851 he established the 
New York Times. He was subsequently 
chosen lieutenant-governor of New York; 
and was again elected to the state legisla¬ 
ture. In 1864 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from New York to the thirty-ninth 
congress. He was the author of Life of 
Lincoln; Political Lessons of the Revolu¬ 
tion; History of the Administration of 
Lincoln; and Letters to Mr. Yancey. He 
died June 18, 1869, in New York city. 

RAYMOND, JAMES, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1796 in Connecticut. In 1844 
he was elected a member of the Maryland 
house of delegates, and in 1847 he was ap¬ 
pointed state’s attorney. He published 
Digest of the Maryland Chancery Decis¬ 
ion; and Political, a book in opposition to 
Knownothingism as a phase of politics in 
the state of Maryland. He died in January, 
1858, in Westminster, Md. 

RAYMOND, JEROME HALE, educator, 
college president, was born March 10, 
1869, in Clinton, Iowa. He attended the 
public schools of 
Chicago, Ill.; the 
Northwestern acad¬ 
emy of Evanston; 
received the degrees 
of A. B. and A. M. 
from the Northwest¬ 
ern university, and 
the degree of Ph. D. 
from the university 
of Chicago. He has 
been professor of 
history and political 
science in the Law¬ 
rence university; lecturer in sociology in 
the university of Chicago; professor of 
sociology in the university of Wisconsin; 
and since 1897 has been president of the 
West Virginia university. As an educator 
his work has been chiefly in university 
extension. 

RAYMOND. JOHN BALDWIN, soldier, 
journalist, congressman, was born Dec. 5, 
1844, in Lockport, N. Y. He served 
in the union army throughout the war of 
the rebellion, rising to the rank of cap¬ 
tain. In 1877 he was appointed United 
States marshal for the territory of Dako¬ 
ta, and served fi\ e years, declining a re¬ 
appointment. He was elected the delegate 
from Dakota to the forty-eighth congress 
as a republican. He died Dec. 27, 1885. 


RAYMOND, LEVI BEARDSLEY, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, was born July 3, 1838, in 
Alleghany county, N. Y. For over twenty 
years he has been a member of the school 
board of Hampton, Iowa; was county su¬ 
perintendent of schools during 1867-69, 
and again in 1875-76. He is the editor and 
part owner of the Franklin County Re¬ 
corder of Hampton, Iowa; has been post¬ 
master; and since 1896 has been trustee 
of the Iowa Soldiers’ home. 

RAYMOND, MINER, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 29, 1811, in New York city. 
He is a methodist clergyman of Illinois, 
theological professor in Garrett Biblical 
institute at Evanston, Ill., from 1864; and 
the author of Systematic Theology. 

RAYMOND, ROBERT RAIKES, jour¬ 
nalist, educator, author, was born in 1819 
in New York city. He edited the Syracuse 
Free Democrat in 1852, and the Evenine 
Chronicle in 1853-54, and was professor of 
elocution and English in Brooklyn Poly¬ 
technic institute from 1857 till 1864. He 
published Gems from Tupper; Little Don 
Quixote, from the German; and Patriotic 
Speaker. He died Nov. 16, 1888, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 

RAYMOND, ROSSITER WORTHING¬ 
TON, civil engineer, journalist, author, 
was born April 27, 1840, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He is a mining engineer of Brook¬ 
lyn, editor of The Engineering and Min¬ 
ing Journal from 1868. Among his tech¬ 
nical and other writings are included. 
Mines and Mining of the Rocky Moun¬ 
tains; Mines, Mills, and Furnaces of the 
Pacific Slope; Silver and Gold; Brave 
Hearts, a novel; The Man in the Moon, 
and Other People; The Book of Job; Es¬ 
says and a Metrical Paraphrase; The Mer¬ 
ry-Go-Round; and Two Ghosts, and Other 
Tales. 

RAYMOND, SARAH E., educator, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born Oct. 20, 1842, in Big 
Grove, Ill. She was educated at the public 
high school and acad¬ 
emy; by private tu¬ 
tors in various 
branches; and in 1866 
graduated from a 
three years’ course in 
the Illinois State 
Normal university. 
She has become one 
of the most distin¬ 
guished educators in 
Illinois. In 1866-68 
she was an instruct¬ 
or at the Fowler in¬ 
stitute of Newark, Ill.; then for six years 
in the schools of Bloomington, Ill.; and in 
1874 was elected secretary of the school 
board and superintendent of all the 
Bloomington city schools, which position 
she held for eighteen years, resigning in 
August, 1892. She was the first woman 
in the United States elected to the posi¬ 
tion of superintendent of city schools. She 
was president of the Central Illinois Tea¬ 
chers’ association; president of the Wo¬ 
men’s State Teachers’ association; presi¬ 
dent of the Bloomington Public library for 
ten years, and one of its directors for 
nineteen years; and for several years she 
was president of the Woman’s Educa¬ 
tional association of the Illinois Wesleyan 
university. Since 1892 she has resided in 
Boston, engaged in literary work. 

RAYNER, ISIDOR, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born April 11, 1850. 
In 1878 he was elected to the Maryland 
legislature for two years. In 1886 he was 
elected to the state senate from Baltimore 
City for four years; and was elected to 
the fiftieth and fifty-second congresses, 
and re-elected to the fifty-third congress 
as a democrat. 














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RAYNER, KENNETH, state legislator, 
congressman, author, was born in 1808 in 
Bertie county, N. C. In 1835 he was a 
member of the North Carolina house of 
commons, and the same year was a mem¬ 
ber of the con\ention to revise the state 
constitution. He served again in the lo¬ 
cal legislature in 1836 and 1838; and was 
a representative in congress from 1839 
to 1845, and a presidential elector in 1848. 
In 1846, for the third time, he went into 
the legislature. In 1866 he published the 
Life and Services of Andrew Johnson. In 
1877 he was appointed solicitor of the 
treasury of the United States. He died 
Feb. 5, 1884, in Washington, D. C. 

RAYNOLDS, L. D., journalist, was born 
Sept. 24, 1847, in Ohio. He is now the edi¬ 
tor and owner of the Chicago Express, 
the oldest reform paper in the United 
States. 

RAYNOR, ARLINGTON, lecturer, was 
born July 7, 1872, in New York city. He 
has attained prominence as a lecturer in 
New York city, where he is secretary for 
the Young Men’s Christian association. 

REA, DAVID, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Jan. 19, 1831, in Ripley county, 
Ind. He is a noted lawyer of Savannah, 
Mo.; and was elected a representative 
from Missouri to the forty-fifth congress 
as a democrat. 

REA, JOHN, soldier, congressman, was 
born in 1755 in Pennsylvania. He served 
during the revolutionary war; was sev¬ 
eral times a member of the Pennsylvania 
state house of representatives, and was 
five times elected as a democrat to con¬ 
gress, serving from 1803 till 1815, except 
in 1811-13. He died Feb. 6, 1829, in 
Chambersburg, Pa. 

REA, JOHN PATTERSON, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 13, 1840, in 
Chester county, Pa. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the common 
schools of his native county; attended 
the Hopewell academy; and graduated in 
1867 in the classical course from the Ohio 
Wesleyan univ ersity. During the war he 
was second lieutenant, first lieutenant and 
captain in the first regiment of the Ohio 
volunteer cavalry; was brevet major 
United States volunteer, and subsequently 
was captain company A, first regiment 
Minnesota national guard; and then brig¬ 
adier-general. He has been judge of the 
probate court of Hennepin county, Minn.; 
district judge of the fourth judicial dis¬ 
trict of Minnesota; and in 1876-77 was edi¬ 
tor of the Minneapolis Tribune. He is 
prominent in the business and political af¬ 
fairs of Minneapolis, Minn., and stands 
high in several fraternal orders. 

REA, MRS. JULIE [FOSTER], singer, 
author, was born in 1814, in England. 
She was an opera singer and dramatic 
critic of Philadelphia, and the author of 
The Ins and Outs of Paris; Italy and the 
War of 1859; and Parisian Pickings. She 
died in 1866. 

READ, ABNER, naval officer, was born 
April 5, 1821, in Urbana, Ohio. He served 
with distinction in the civil war and at¬ 
tained the rank of commodore. He died 
July 12, 1863, in Baton Rouge, La. 

READ, ALMON H„ state legislator, 
state senator, was horn June 12, 1790, in 
Shelburne, Vt. He was frequently elected 
to the Pennsylvania state legislature; and 
also to the senate. In 1840 he was 
appointed treasurer of the state; and in 
1841 was elected to fill a vacancy in the 
national house of representatives; and 
re-elected to the succeeding congress. He 
died June 3, 1844, in Montrose, Pa. 


READ, BENJAMIN M., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born September, 1854, in Las 
Cruces, N. M. He has been private sec¬ 
retary to Governors L. A. Sheldon and E. 
G. Ross. He has been a translator of the 
New Mexico laws; professor of English 
and Spanish; and in 1885 was admitted 
to the supreme court of New Mexico. In 
1890-91 he was a member of the New Mex¬ 
ico legislature; has been vice-president 
for New l\Jexico of the National Repub¬ 
lican league, and was a delegate to the 
conventions of the National Republican 
league in 1894 and in 1896. He has been 
pension agent; and since 1876 has been a 
delegate to nearly all the republican ter¬ 
ritorial conventions in New Mexico. 

READ, COLLINSON, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1751, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was appointed deputy register of wills 
for the county, and afterward practiced 
law in Philadelphia. He published a Di¬ 
gest of the Laws of Pennsylvania; Abridg¬ 
ment of the Laws of Pennsylvania; Amer¬ 
ican Pleader’s Assistant; and Precedents 
in the Office of a Justice of the Peace. 
He died March 1, 1815, in Reading, Pa. 

READ, DANIEL, composer, was b'orn 
Nov. 16, 1757, in Attleborough, Mass. He 
published in 1791 The American Singing- 
Book, or a New and Easy Guide to the 
Art of Psalmody; and in 1793 Columbian 
Harmony, a collection of devotional mu¬ 
sic. Subsequently he published a New 
Collection of Psalm-Tunes, which came to 
be known as the Litchfield Collection, 
containing many tunes of his own compo¬ 
sition (Dedham. 1805), Windham, Green¬ 
wich, Sherburne, Russia, Stafford, and 
others of Read’s hymn-tunes are still in 
general use in American churches. He 
died in 1841, in New Haven, Conn. 

READ, DANIEL, educator, college pres¬ 
ident, was bcrn June 24, 1805, in Marietta, 
Ohio. In 1856 he became professor of 
mental and moral philosophy in Wiscon¬ 
sin university, and in 1863 entered on the 
presidency of Missouri State university, 
Columbia, which office he filled until 1876. 
He died Oct. 3, 1878, in Keokuk, Iowa. 

READ, GEORGE, signer of declaration 
of independence, was born Sept. 17, 1733, 
in Cecil county, Md. He was made at¬ 
torney-general of the three lower coun¬ 
ties on the Delaware in 1763, and held the 
office until he was chosen a delegate to 
congress in 1775. In 1776 he was a signer 
of the declaration of independence. He 
was elected a member of the United 
States senate, serving from 1789 to 1793; 
and was then appointed chief justice of 
the supreme court of Delaware, in which 
office he remained until his death in 1798. 
He died Sept. 21, 1798. 

READ, GEORGE CAMPBELL, naval 
officer, was born about 1787, in Ireland. 
He was promoted commander in 1816, 
and captain in 1825; took charge of the 
East India squadron in 1840, and of the 
squadron cn the coast of Africa in 1846. 
He died Aug. 22, 1862, in Philadelphia. 

READ, HOLLIS, missionary, author, 
was born Aug. 26, 1802, in Newfane, Vt. 
He was a presbyterian foreign mission¬ 
ary, who after 1835 was settled over var¬ 
ious New Jersey parishes. He was the 
author of Journal in India; The Hand of 
God in History, a very popular book at 
one time: The Palace of the Great King; 
India and Its People; The Coming Crisis 
of the World; The Negro Problem Solved; 
and The Devil in History. He died April 
7, 1887, in Somerville, N. J. 

READ, J., congressman. He was a dele¬ 
gate from Pennsylvania to the continental 
congress in 1787 and 1788. 


READ, JACOB, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, state senator, was born 1752, in 
South Carolina. He was a delegate from 
South Carolina to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1783 to 1786; and was elected 
a senator in congress from that state for 
the term from 1795 to 1802. In 1801 he 
was appointed judge of the United States 
district court of South Carolina. He died 
July 17, 1816, in Charleston, S. C. 

READ, JANE MARIA, author, was born 
in 1853, in Massachusetts. She is poet of 
Colebrook Springs, Mass., who has pub¬ 
lished Between the Centuries, and Other 
Poems. 

READ, JOHN, lawyer - , state senator, 
was born July 7, 1769, in Newcastle, Del. 
He was appointed in 1797 agent-general 
of the United States under Jay’s treaty, 
and held that office until its expiration in 
1809. He was also a member of the su¬ 
preme and common councils of Philadel¬ 
phia and of the Pennsylvania legislature, 
and in 1816 chairman of its celebrated 
committee of seventeen. He succeeded 
Nicholas Biddle in the Pennsylvania sen¬ 
ate in 1816. He died July 13, 1854, in 
Trenton, N. J. 

READ, JOHN, lawyer, was born about 
1673 in Mendon, Mass. He was an ac¬ 
tive member of the provincial house of 
representatives, and of the council during 
Governor William Shirley’s administra¬ 
tion. He contributed greatly to the re¬ 
form of legal phraseology, being the first 
to reduce the antiquated forms and re¬ 
dundant phrases of deeds of conveyance 
to simpler and clearer language. He died 
Feb. 7, 1749, in Boston, Mass. 

READ, JOHN MEREDITH, lawyer, dip¬ 
lomat, author, was born Feb. 21, 1837, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of 
Albany, N. Y., who was minister to Greece 
in 1873-79, and subsequently filled other 
important diplomatic positions. He was 
the author of An Historical Inquiry Con¬ 
cerning Hendrick Hudson. He died in 
1896. 

READ. LAZARUS H., lawyer, jurist. 
In 1853 he was appointed judge of the 
United States court for the territory of 
Utah. 

READ, MATTHEW CANFIELD, law¬ 
yer, lecturer, was born Aug. 21, 1823, in 
Williamsfield, Ohio. During the war he 
was United States sanitary commissioner; 
has been collector of revenue; a member 
of the Ohio geological corps; and lec¬ 
turer on biology and practical geology. 

READ, NATHAN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 2, 1759, in War¬ 
ren, Mass. He was a representative in 
congress from Massachusetts from 1800 
to 1803. He removed to Hallowell, Maine, 
and was for many years judge of the court 
of common pleas. He died Jan. 20, 1849, 
near Belfast, Maine. 

READ, NELL M., educator, poet, was 
born Aug. 4, 1873, in Carimona, Minn. 
She has attained success in educational 
work, and still resides in her native state 
at Preston. She has contributed exten¬ 
sively to current literature, and is the au¬ 
thor of a number of meritorious poems. 

READ, OPIE, journalist, author, was 
born in 1852, in Tennessee. He is a jour¬ 
nalist now living in Chicago, who edited 
The Arkansaw Traveler for some years, 
and whose studies of Arkansas life have 
been widely read. He is the author of My 
Young Master; An Arkansaw Planter; 
Len Gansett; Up Terrapin River; A Ken¬ 
tucky Colonel; On the Suwannee River; 
Miss Polly Lopp, and Other Stories; The 
Captain's Romance; and The Jucklins, a 
novel. 


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READ. THEODORE, soldier, lawyer, 
was born April 11, 1836, in Athens, Ohio. 
He served in various battles in General 
Grant’s campaign, and in 1864 was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general of volunteers for 
services in the field. He lost his* life in 
the last encounter between the armies of 
Generals Grant and Lee. He died April 
5, 1865, in Farmville, Va. 

READ, THOMAS, naval officer, was 
born in 1740, in New Castle, Del. He was 
the first naval officer to obtain the rank 
of commodore in the American navy. He 
died Oct. 26, 1788, in White Hill, N. J. 

READ, THOMAS, clergyman, was born 
in March, 1746, in Chester county, Pa. 
In August, 1777, he performed an import¬ 
ant service for the American cause by 
drawing for General Washington a map 
that showed the topography of the coun¬ 
try and a route by which he could retreat 
from Stanton, and avoid a conflict with 
the superior British force that had landed 
at Elk ferry, and was advancing on the 
American camp. He died June 14, 1823, 
in Wilmington, Del. 

READ, THOMAS B., state senator. He 
was a senator in congress from Missis¬ 
sippi from 1826 to 1827, and also during 
the session of 1829. He died Nov. 26, 1829, 
in Lexington, Ky. 

READ, THOMAS BUCHANAN, artist, 
poet, was born March 12, 1822, in Chester 
county, Pa. He was a poet and artist of 
Philadelphia, whose later years were 
spent in Florence and Rome. As a poet 
he is best known by the famous Sheri¬ 
dan’s Ride; Drifting; and The Closing 
Scene; and it is by these poems that he 
will continue to be remembered. He is 
the author of Poems; Lays and Ballads; 
The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard, 
a prose romance; The New Pastoral; 
The House by the Sea; The Wagoner of 
the Alleghanies, in which occurs the fine 
lyric beginning, The maid who binds her 
warrior’s sash; Sylvia; A Voyage to Ice¬ 
land; A Summer Story; and Sheridan’s 
Ride, and Other Poems. His complete 
poems were issued in 1882. He died May 
11, 1872, in New York city. 

READ, WILLIAM B., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1820, 
in Hardin county, Ky. He was elected 
to the state senate of Kentucky in 1857, 
and again in 1861. He was elected to the 
legislature of Kentucky in 1867; and was 
elected to the forty-second and forty- 
third congresses as a democrat. 

READE, EDWIN G., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 13, 1812, in Orange 
county, N. C. He was elected from North 
Carolina a representative in congress in 
1855, serving until 1857. 

READER, FRANK S., soldier, journal¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 17, 1842, in Coal Cen¬ 
ter, Pa. He served as a soldier during 
the civil war in the 
second regiment Vir¬ 
ginia volunteer in¬ 
fantry; and in 1863 
changed to the fifth 
regiment of the 
West Virginia cav¬ 
alry. He was cap¬ 
tured on June 20, 
1864, and subse¬ 
quently escaped. For 
several years he was 
a clergyman in the 
methodist church, 
but retired on account of ill-health. In 
1874 he established the Beaver Valley 
News of New Brighton, Pa.; and began 
the daily edition in 1893. He is the author 
of The Life of Moody and Sankey; A His¬ 
tory of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry; 
and has contributed various historical 


sketches and other articles to the periodi¬ 
cal press generally. 

READING, JOHN R., physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 1, 1826, in Phila¬ 
delphia county. Pa. He was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-first congress. 

READY, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 22, 1802, in 
Readyville, Tenn. He was a member of 
the Tennessee legislature in* 1835, and 
closely identified with the organization 
of the judiciary. By special commission 
he twice presided in the supreme court of 
Tennessee. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state in 1853, 
to which position he was twice re-elected. 

READY, SAMUEL, philanthropist, was 
born March 8, 1789, in Baltimore, Md. 
He obtained a charter in 1864, and, hav¬ 
ing no immediate family, left $371,000, 
constituting the bulk of his fortune, as 
an endowment for the Samuel Ready 
asylum. The institution, which is in the 
northern part of Baltimore, was opened 
in 1888. He died Nov. 28, 1871, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. 

REAGAN, JOHN HENNINGER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Oct. 8, 
1818, in Sevier county, Tenn. He was ap¬ 
pointed deputy surveyor in the republic of 
Texas in 1840; and in 1843 was a justice 
of the peace, and a militia captain. In 
1846 he was probate judge and colonel of 
militia; and was elected a member of the 
legislature in 1847. He was a judge of 
the district court from 1852 to 1857; and 
in 1856 was elected a member of the thir¬ 
ty-fifth congress. He was re-elected to 
the thirty-sixth congress; withdrew in 
February, 1861, and became postmaster- 
general of the confederate government. 
He was elected to the forty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a representative from Texas, 
and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, for¬ 
ty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth and 
forty-ninth congresses as a democrat; and 
became a United States senator in 1887. 

REALF, RICHARD, soldier, journalist, 
author, was born June 14, 1834, in Eng¬ 
land. He was a journalist and poet of 
Pittsburg who was a federal officer during 
the civil war. He was the author of 
Guesses at the Beautiful. He died Oct. 
28, 1878, in Oakland, Cal. 

REAM, VINNIE, sculptor, was born in 
1850, in Mississippi. She has modeled 
characteristic busts of Horace Greeley 
and Senator Sherman; and her bust of 
Liszt and her America, or the Four Sis¬ 
ters, have been much talked about. 

REAMY, THADDEUS ASBURY, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born April 28, 
1829, in Frederick county, Va. He re¬ 
ceived the degree of A. M. from the Ohio 
Wesleyan university; and the degree of 
LL. D. from Cornell college. He has been 
professor of clinical gynaecology in the 
Medical college of Ohio, and in the med¬ 
ical department of the Cincinnati univer¬ 
sity. He has also been gynaecologist to 
the Cincinnati hospital, the Good Sam¬ 
aritan hospital, and the Woman's hos¬ 
pital. He is the proprietor of a large 
prhate hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio; is 
a member of the leading medical bodies 
of Europe and America; and a well known 
writer on medical and surgical diseases 
of women. 

REAVIS, ISAAC, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Illinois. He removed to Nebras¬ 
ka, and was appointed from that terri¬ 
tory an associate justice of the United 
States court for the territory of Arizona, 
residing in Arizona City. 


REAVIS, LOGAN URIAH, journalist, 
author, was born March 26, 1831, in San¬ 
gamon Bottom, Ill. He was a St. Louis 
journalist, who published St. Louis, the 
Future Great City of the World; Life of 
Horace Greeley; Thoughts for the Young 
Men and Women of America; Life of Gen¬ 
eral Harney; and Railway and River Sys¬ 
tem. He died April 25, 1889, in St. Louis, 
Mo. 

RECTOR, ELBRIDGE LEE, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 16, 1847, in Seguin, 
Texas. He received his education at the 
university of Virginia; and since 1877 has 
been engaged in the practice of law in 
.San Saba, Texas. He has always been a 
student of political economy; has con¬ 
tributed articles on monetary topics to 
the American Magazine of Civics; and is 
the author of a work entitled The Science 
of Exchange. 

RECTOR, HENRY M., governor. He 
was governor of Arkansas from 1860 to 
1864. 

REDDALL, HENRY FREDERICK, 
journalist, author, was born Nov. 25, 1852, 
in England. He has been a contributor to 
periodicals under the pen-name of Fred¬ 
eric Alldred. Since 1881 he has been as¬ 
sociate editor of The People’s Cyclopaedia. 
He has published From the Golden Gate 
to the Golden Horn; Who Was He?, six 
historical sketches; School-Boy Days in 
Merrie England; Courtship, Love and 
Wedlock; and Fancy, Fact and Fable. • 

REDE, WY’LLYS, clergyman, author, 
was born March 7, 1859, in Monmouth, Ill. 
He graduated from Williams college in 
1882; studied at the General Theo¬ 
logical seminary of New York; and spent 
a year in the post-graduate study at Ox¬ 
ford university. He has filled pastorates in 
Maine, Virginia and Maryland, and is 
now rector of the Emanuel church of 
Rockford, Ill. He is the author of The 
Communion of Saints; Striving for the 
Mastery; and other works. 

REDFIELD, AMASA ANGELL. lawyer, 
author, was born May 19, 1837, in Clyde, 
Wayne county, N. Y. He is a lawyer of 
New York city, and the author of Hand¬ 
book of United States Tax Laws; Law 
and Practice of Surrogates’ Courts; and 
Reports of Surrogates’ Courts of New 
York State, 1864-82. 

REDFIELD, ISAAC FLETCHER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born April 10, 
1804, in Wethersfield, Vt. He was a lawyer 
who was chief justice of Vermont in 1852- 
60, and a resident of Boston after the lat¬ 
ter date. He was the author of The Law 
of Railways; The Law of Wills; Law of 
Carriers and Bailments; Leading Amer¬ 
ican Railway Cases; and Civil Pleading. 
He died March 23, 1876, in Charlestown, 
Mass. 

REDFIELD, JOHN HOWARD, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born July 10, 1815, in 
Cromwell, Conn. He was appointed con¬ 
servator of the herbarium of the Philadel¬ 
phia academy of Natural Sciences in 1876, 
and he has contributed botanical papers 
to the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 
Club, and to the Botanical Gazette. He 
has also published Genealogical History of 
the Redfield Family in the United States. 

REDFIELD, WILLIAM CHARLES, me¬ 
teorologist, author, was born March 26, 
1789, in Middletown, Conn. He conceived 
the fundamental idea of his famous law 
of storms as early as 1821, and promul¬ 
gated his theory in 1831. He was first 
president of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. He was 
the author of On Whirlwind Storms; and 
other works. He died Feb. 12, 1857, in 
New York city. 



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REDING, JOHN R., congressman, was 
born in New Hampshire. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1841 to 1845; and from 1853 to 1858 
held the office of naval storekeeper at 
Portsmouth. 

REDMAN, JOHN, physician, author, 
was born Feb. 27, 1722, in Philadelphia, 
Pa, On the foundation of the Philadelphia 
college of Physicians in 1786 he was 
chosen president of that body, and for 
many years he was one of the physicians 
of the city hospital. He died March 19, 
1808, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

REDPATH, JAMES, journalist, author, 
was horn in 1833. He was a New York 
journalist for many years on the staff of 
The Tribune, and prominent as an aboli¬ 
tionist. He was the author of The Rov¬ 
ing Editor; Handbook of Kansas Terri¬ 
tory; Public Life of Captain John Brown; 
Echoes of Harper's Ferry; Guide to 
Hayti; and Talks About Ireland. He died 
Feb. 10, 1891, in New York city. 

REDWAY, JACQUES WARDLAW, ge¬ 
ographer, educator, author, was born May 
5, 1849, in Nashville, Tenn. He is a geog¬ 
rapher and educator of California, and 
the author of Complete Geography; Man¬ 
ual of Physical Geography; and Manual 
of Geography and Travel. 

REDWINE, HYRAM G., educator, law¬ 
yer, was born April 6, 1868, in Graves 
■county, Ky. He attended the West Ken¬ 
tucky college of Mayfield; and the North¬ 
ern Indiana Law school of Valparaiso.' 
For many years he was engaged in educa¬ 
tional work; was editor of the Repub¬ 
lican of Marshall, Ark.; and since 1893 
has practiced law with success at Salmon, 
Idaho. 

REDWINE, ROBERT B., merchant, 
lawyer, was horn July 12, 1860, in Union 
county, N. C. Early in life he became a 
successful farmer and merchant; and sub¬ 
sequently turned his attention to law; 
taking a course at Bingham school, and 
later graduated from the law school of the 
university of North Carolina. He has 
attained success as an able lawyer of 
Monroe, N. C.; was presidential elector 
on the national democratic ticket in 1896; 
and takes a prominent part in the public 
affairs of his city, county and state. 

REDWOOD, ABRAHAM, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born in 1709,’ in the West In¬ 
dies. He was a Quaker, and founder of 
the Redwood library, to which he gave 
five hundred pounds. He died March 3, 
1788, in Newport, R. I. 

REED, ANNA MORRISON, author, lec¬ 
turer, poet, was born in Dubuque, Iowa. 
Besides writing for the press east and 
west, she published 
between 1880 and 
1896 two different 
editions of her po¬ 
ems, a third compil¬ 
ation being about 
to issue. She has 
been called on to lec¬ 
ture before the Agri¬ 
cultural association 
of Northern Califor¬ 
nia; and was ap¬ 
pointed one of the 
commissioners on 
the state board for the Columbian exposi¬ 
tion in 1892. Her organizing talents won 
her the distinction of again being solicited 
to aid in raising funds for the Midwinter 
Fair of San Francisco the following year, 
in which she was eminently successful. 
She is a life member of the Pacific Coast 
Woman’s Press association. A native of 
Iowa. 

REED, CALEB, journalist, was born 
April 22 1797, in West Bridgewater, Mass. 


He was a believer in the doctrines of 
Swedenborg, and for more than twenty 
years edited the New Jerusalem Maga¬ 
zine, devoted to their promulgation. He 
published The General Principles of Eng¬ 
lish Grammar, He died Oct. 14, 1854, in 
Boston, Mass. 

REED, CHARLES ANDREW, lawyer, 
author, publisher, was born June 16, 1836, 
in Weymouth, Mass. During 1881-82 he 
was a member of the house of the Massa¬ 
chusetts state legislature; and in 1886-87 
was a member of the senate. During 
1879-94 he was city solicitor of Taunton, 
and in 1895 was elected mayor. He is 
secretary of the Old Colony Historical 
society, and has written various articles 
of local history. 

REED, CHARLES M.. congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1843 to 1845. 

REED, DAVID, scholar, philanthropist, 
was born Feb. 6, 1790, in Easton, Mass. 
He founded the Christian Register in 
Boston in 1821; and was one of the found¬ 
ers of the American Anti-Slavery society 
in 1828. He died June 7, 1870, in Boston, 
Mass. 

REED, EDWARD C., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 8, 1793, in Fitzwil- 
liam, N. H. He settled at Homer, N. Y., 
as a lawyer; hnd was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1831 to 
1833. 

REED, EDWIN, scholar, author, was 
born in 1835, in Bath, Maine. He is a 
Shakespearean scholar who has published 
Bacon vs. Shakspere, a history of the con¬ 
troversy, with arguments pro and con. 

REED, ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG, au¬ 
thor, was born May 16, 1842, in Winthrop, 
Maine. She is the author of The Bible 
Triumphant; Earnest Words; and Hindu 
Literature. 

REED, EMILIE McKIM, was born May 
10, 1840, in Baltimore, Md. She repre¬ 
sented Maryland in the Woman’s Pavil¬ 
ion in the Centennial exposition of 1876; 
was a member of the board of lady man¬ 
agers at the World’s Columbian expo¬ 
sition at Chicago; and was appointed by 
the governor of Maryland as chairman 
of the woman’s committee for Maryland 
for the Atlanta exposition. For seventeen 
years she has been president of the Balti¬ 
more Decorative Art society; and secre¬ 
tary and vice-president respectively of the 
National and Maryland Society of Colonial 
Dames of America. 

REED, GEORGE E., journalist, was 
born Feb. 4, 1872, in Shippensburg, Pa. 
He is the editor and owner of the Ob¬ 
server of Prairie Depot, Ohio; and has 
contributed extensively to periodical lit¬ 
erature. In 1896-97 he was enrolling clerk 
of the Ohio house of representatives; and 
has filled various other public positions of 
trust. 

REED, GEORGE EDWARD, clergyman, 
college president, was born March 28, 
1846, in Brownville, Maine. This eminent 
clergyman is the honored president of 
Dickinson college of Carlisle, Pa. 

REED, GILBERT B., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Feb. 8, 1828, in Steuben county, N. 
Y. He is president judge of the court of 
appeals of Colorado, to which state he 
removed in 1860. He was judge of the 
miners court until 1861; was then elected 
prosecuting attorney, which position he 
resigned and practiced law until 1888. In 
that year he was appointed judge of the 
supreme court commission, which posi¬ 
tion he held until appointed to his present 
position. 


REED, HARRY W., clergyman, writer, 
was born May 7, 1855, in New York city. 
He received a thorough education at the 
public schools, Adelphi academy of Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y., Colgate university, the Union 
Theological seminary, and the Hamilton 
Theological seminary. He has attained 
eminence as a successful baptist clergy¬ 
man, and has filled pastorates in Wyom¬ 
ing, N. Y.; Belvidere and Waukegan, Ill.; 
and at La Crosse, Wis. He is a fluent 
speaker at young people’s conventions and 
other denominational gatherings; and is 
engaged quite extensively in the review 
of denominational and other religious 
books. 

REED, HENRY, educator, author, was 
born Juiy 11, 1808, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was an educator of Philadelphia; and 
professor of English literature in the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania. He was the au¬ 
thor of Lectures on English History; Lec¬ 
tures on English Literature; and Lectures 
on the British Poets. He died Sept. 27, 
1854, at sea. 

REED. HENRY, lawyer, jurist, author, 
was born Sept. 22, 1846, in Philadelphia. 
He is a Philadelphia jurist who has pub¬ 
lished The Law of the Statute of Frauds. 

REED, HORATIO BLAKE, soldier, w'as 
born Jan. 22, 1837, in Rockaway, L. I. 
He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel in the 
regular army for meritorious services dur¬ 
ing the civil war. He died March 7, 1888, 
in Togus, Maine. 

REED, HUGH, educator, author, was 
torn Aug. 17, 1850, in Richmond, Ind. 
He is a military educator of Virginia, and 
the author of Signal Tactics; Cadet Regu¬ 
lations; Military Science and Tactics; and 
Broom Tactics. 

REED, ISAAC, merchant, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in 1810, in 
Waldoborough, Maine. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Maine from 
1852 to 1853; served six years in the state 
legislature; was state treasurer in 1856; 
and was president of the Waldoborough 
bank. 

REED. JAMES, clergyman, author, was 
born in 1834, in Massachusetts. He is a 
Swedenborgian clergyman of Boston from 
1858, and the author of Men and Women; 
Religion and Life; and Swedenborg and 
the New Church. 

REED, JOHN, clergyman, congressman, 
was born Nov. 11, 1751, in Framingham, 
Mass. He was ordained a minister of the 
Gospel in 1780, and settled at West 
Bridgewater, Mass.; and was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from that state from 
1795 to 1801. He died Feb. 17, 1831, in 
West Bridgewater, Mass. 

REED, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Sept. 2, 1781, in West Bridge- 
water, Mass. He was a representative in 
congress from Massachusetts from 1813 to 
1817, and again from 1821 to 1841; and 
was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts 
from 1844 to 1851. He died Nov. 25, 1860, 
in Bridgewater, Mass. 

REED, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, educator, 
author, was born in 1786, in Pennsylvania. 
He was a Pennsylvania jurist, professor of 
law in Dickinson college of Carlisle in 
1834-50, and author of The Pennsylvania 
Biackstone. He died June 19, 1850, in 
Carlisle, Pa. 

REED, JOSEPH, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 27, 1741, in New 
Jersey. In 1776 he was appointed adju¬ 
tant-general of the army; and was a 
delegate to the continental congress from 
1777 to 1778, and a signer of the Articles 
of confederation. He was president of 
Pennsylvania in the latter year until 1781. 
He died March 4, 1785, in Philadelphia. 




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REED, JOSEPH, lawyer, author, was 
born July 11, 1772, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
From 1800 to 1809 he was a prothonotary 
of the supreme court, and then attorney- 
general of Pennsylvania in 1810-11. He 
became recorder of the city of Philadel¬ 
phia in 1810, continuing in that office till 
1829; and published The Laws of Penn¬ 
sylvania, in five volumes. 

REED, JOSEPH, soldier, was born Aug. 
27, 1841, in Trenton, N, J. He was a dis¬ 
tinguished soldier of the revolutionary 
war; and in 1878 was elected president 
of the supreme executive council of Penn¬ 
sylvania, resigning in 1881. 

REED, JOSEPH R., soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was born 
March 12, 1835, in Ashland county, Ohio. 
He was a member of the Iowa state sen¬ 
ate in 1866 and 1868; was judge of the 
district court from Sept. 1, 1872, to 
Jan. 1, 1884, and judge of the supreme 
court of the state from the latter date to 
1889; and was elected to the fifty-first 
congress as a republican. In 1891 he was 
appointed chief justice of the court of pri¬ 
vate law claims, which position he still 
holds. 

REED, JOSEPH SAMUEL, merchant, 
po*et, was boin in December, 1852, in Sul¬ 
livan, Ind. He is a successful merchant 
in his native city; the author of a volume 
of poems entitled Winnowed Grasses, 
which bears the imprint of nature; and 
his writings appear in various periodicals 
and standard collections. 

REED, PHILIP, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born about 1760, in Kent 
county, Md. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress, from Maryland from 1806 to 1813; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1817 to 1819, and again from 1822 to 1823. 
He died Nov. 2, 1829, in Huntingville, Md. 

REED, ROBERT R.. physician, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 
Pennsylvania. He served one or two 
terms in the legislature of Pennsylvania; 
and was a representative in congress 
from that state from 1849 to 1851. He 
died Dec. 15, 1864, in Harrisburg, Pa. 

REED, SAMPSON, journalist, author, 
was born June 10, 1800, in West Bridge- 
water, Mass. He was a Swedenborgian 
writer of Boston, editor of The New 
Church Magazine for Children, and the 
author of Observations on the Growth of 
the Mind. He died July 8, 1880, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

REED, THOMAS BRACKETT, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 
18, 1839, in Portland, Maine. He was a 
member of the Maine state house of rep- 
resentathes in 1868-69, and of the state 
senate in 1870; was attorney-general of 
Maine in 1870-72; and was city solicitor 
of Portland in 1874-77. He was elected to 
the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventn, 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty- 
first, fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty- 
fourth congresses; and re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. He 
was elected speaker of the house of rep¬ 
resentatives Dec. 2, 1889, Dec. 2, 1895, 

and March 15, 1897. 

REED, WILLIAM, merchant, philan¬ 
thropist, congressman, was born in 1777, 
in Marblehead, Mass. He was a member 
of congress from Massachusetts from 1811 
to 1815. Besides liberal bequests to heirs 
and relatives, he left $68,000 to benevo¬ 
lent objects. He died Feb. 18, 1837, in 
Marblehead, Mass. 

REED, WILLIAM BRADFORD, lawyer, 
author, was born June 30, 1806, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was attorney-general in 
Pennsylvania in 1838; was United States 
minister to China in 1857 and 1858; and 


negotiated the treaty ratified in 1861. He 
was the author of Life and Correspond¬ 
ence of Joseph Reed; Life of Esther Reed; 
Vindication of Joseph Reed. He died 
Feb. 18, 1886, in New York city. 

REEDER, ANDREW HORATIO, law¬ 
yer, governor, United States senator, was 
born Aug. 6, 1807, in Easton, Pa. In 1854 
he was appointed the first governor of 
Kansas; and subsequently served in con¬ 
gress; and was also a United States sen¬ 
ator. He was the author of Kansas. He 
died July 5, 1854, in Easton, Pa. 

REEDER, CHARLES, merchant, manu¬ 
facturer, author, was born Oct. 30, 1817, 
in Baltimore, Md. He is a merchant and 
manufacturer of Baltimore; and the au¬ 
thor of Caloric, a Review of the Dynamic 
Theory of Heat. 

REEDER, FRANK, soldier, lawyer, was 
born May 22, 1845, in Easton, Pa. He 
served through the civil war; attaining 
for meritorious services the rank of brig¬ 
adier-general. At the close of the war 
he studied law and practiced in New York. 

REES, JOHN KROM, astronomer, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Oct. 27, 1851, in 
New York city, He is' an astronomer, 
professor at Columbia college, and direct¬ 
or of the observatory from 1881. He is 
the author of Report on the Solar Eclipse, 
1878; International Time System; and 
Observations of the Transit of Venus, 
1882. 

REESE, CHAUNCEY B., civil engineer, 
was born Dec. 28, 1837, in Canastota, N. 
Y. He rendered valuable service in the 
Virginia peninsular campaign, in con¬ 
structing bridges, roads, and field works; 
particularly the bridge, 2,000 feet in 
length, over the Chickahominy. He died 
Sept. 22, 1870, in Mobile, Ala. 

REESE, DAVID A., congressman, was 
born in South Carolina. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Georgia from 
1853 to 1855. 

REESE, DAVID MEREDITH, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1800, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was an eminent physi¬ 
cian of New York city, superintendent of 
the city public schools at one period, and 
the author of Strictures on Health; Re¬ 
view of the Anti-Slavery Society’s First 
Annual Report; Quakerism versus Cal¬ 
vinism; Phrenology Known by Its Fruits; 
Medical Lexicon of Modern Terminology; 
and Humbugs of New York. He died 
Aug. 12, 1861, in New York city. 

REESE, JOHN JAMES, physician, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 16, 1818, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia 
physician, professor of jurisprudence in 
the university of Pennsylvania, and the 
author of American Medical Formulary; 
Analysis of Physiology; Manual of Toxi¬ 
cology; and Text-Book of Medical Juris¬ 
prudence. 

REESE, LEVI H., clergyman, was born 
Feb. 8, 1806, in Harford county, Md. In 
1826 he entered the ministry of the meth- 
odist episcopal church. In the contro¬ 
versy that resulted in the formation of 
the methodist protestant church, he 
joined the Union society, became secre¬ 
tary of that body, and was the first pastor 
that was ordained in that organization. 
He died Sept. 21, 1851, in Philadelphia. 
Pa. 

REESE, LIZETTE WOODWORTH, ed¬ 
ucator, poet, was born in 1856, in Mary¬ 
land. She is a poet and educator of Bal¬ 
timore, and the author of A Branch of 
May; A Handful of Lavender; and A 
Quiet Road. 

REESE, SEABORN, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Nov. 28, 
1846, in Madison, Ga. In 1872 he was 


elected a representative in the Georgia, 
state legislature for the term of two- 
years; was solicitor-general of the north¬ 
ern judicial circuit from 1877 to 1880; and 
was a presidential elector in 1880. He was 
elected a representative from Georgia to 
the forty-seventh congress to fill a va¬ 
cancy; and was re-elected to the forty- 
eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a 
democrat. 

REESE, THOMAS, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1742, in Pennsylvania. He 
became pastor of Salem church, S. C. He 
published a valuable essay on the Influ¬ 
ence of Religion on Civil Society. He 
died August, 1794, in Pendleton, S. C. 

REESE. WILLIAM M., college presi¬ 
dent, was born Dec. 16, 1847, in Warren 
county, Ga. In 1885 he was elected pres¬ 
ident of the Baptist college at Mt. Leb¬ 
anon, La., which position he resigned af¬ 
ter many years of service on account of 
ill-health. 

REEVE, EMILY A., educator, poet, was 
born March 23, 1859, in Franklin county, 
Iowa. She received her education in the- 
common schools, the Geneva school, and 
graduated from the Iowa State Agricul¬ 
tural college. She has been a successful 
teacher and county superintendent of 
schools; and her poems have been ex¬ 
tensively published in the newspapers of 
Iowa. 

REEVE, ISAAC VAN DUZEN, soldier,, 
was born July 29, 1813, in Butternuts, 
N. Y. He was brevetted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral in the United States army in 1865- 
for faithful and meritorious service dur¬ 
ing the civil war. tie died Dec. 31, 1890, 
in New York city. 

REEVE, JAMES KNAPP, author, was 
bc-rn in 1856, in New York. He is a novel¬ 
ist of Franklin, Ohio, and the author of 
Vawder’s Understudy; and The Three 
Richard Whalens. 

REEVE, TAPPING, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 1, 1744, in Brook- 
haven. He was an eminent jurist of 
Litchfield, Conn., and the author of Law 
of Baron and Femme, of Parent and 
Child, of Guardian and Ward, of Servant 
and Master; aiid Treatise on the Law of 
Descents in the Several United States. 
He died Dec. 13, 1823, in Richfield, Conn.. 

REEVE, WILLIAM W„ soldier, clergy¬ 
man, was born Oct. 12, 1832, near Selma, 
Ala. He graduated with first honor at the 
Howard college, Ala., and took a full 
course and graduated from Rochester 
Theological seminary of New York city. 
He went into the confederate army as 
captain of artillery; was afterward elect¬ 
ed major; and subsequently promoted to 
lieutenant-colonel. He has traveled in 
Europe; and is now a baptist clergyman 
in Eufaula, Ala. The degree of D. D. was 
conferred upon him by the university of 
Alabama. 

REEVES. HENRY A., lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, congressman, was born in 1833, in Sag 
Harbor, N. Y. He graduated at Union 
college, N. Y., in 
1852, taught school 
tor two years; stud¬ 
ied law. He came to 
the bar in Brooklyn 
in 1857; and in 1858 
purchased the Re¬ 
publican Watchman, 
published at Green- 
port, L. I., and ed¬ 
ited the same. In 
1861 he was arrested 
by order of Secre¬ 
tary Seward and con¬ 
fined for fi\e weeks in Fort Lafayette 
for alleged disloyalty. In 1868 lie was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-first congress as a democrat. 



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REEVES, MARION CALHOUN LE- 
GARE, author, was horn about 1854, in 
Charleston, S. C. He is a novelist of 
Washington, and the author of Ingemisco; 
Randolph Honor; Sea Drift; A Little 
Maid of Arcadie; Wearithorne; and with 
Emily Read, Old Martin Boscawen’s Jest; 
and Pilot Fortune. 

REEVES, REUBEN A., jurist, was born 
Aug. 9, 1821, in Todd county, Ky. In 
1885 he was appointed one of the supreme 
judges in New Mexico. 

REEVES, WALTER, educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 25, 1848. 
near Brownsville, Pa. He removed to Illi¬ 
nois in 1856; in childhood lived on a 
farm; became a teacher and then a law¬ 
yer; was admitted to the bar of the state 
of Illinois in 1875; and was admitted to 
the bar of the supreme court of the United 
States in 1885. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth, and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress. In politics he is a re¬ 
publican. He devoted himself to internal 
impro\ements of the country and espec¬ 
ially of the state of Illinois. The con¬ 
struction and completion of the Illinois 
and Mississippi canal, and the improve¬ 
ment of the Chicago river at a total ex¬ 
penditure of about six and a half millions 
of dollars by the general government were 
part the results of his efforts. 

REHAN, ADA, actress, was born April 
22, 1859, in Ireland. She first appeared in 
Newark, in the play Across the Conti¬ 
nent. Subsequently she acted at Mrs. 
Drew’s theater in Philadelphia. She be¬ 
came famous, as early as 1880, in the 
character of Thelka, in The Passing Regi¬ 
ment. Her versatility of dramatic talent 
is wonderful. 

REHN, FRANK KNOX MORTON, art¬ 
ist, was born April 12, 1848, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was awarded in 1882 the 
first prize for marine painting at the St. 
Louis exposition; in 1885 the first prize 
at the water color exhibition of the Amer¬ 
ican Art association, and in 1886 a gold 
medal at the Prize fund exhibition. His 
paintings include Looking Down on the 
Sea from the Rocks at Magnolia, Mass.; A 
Missing Vessel; Close of a Summer Day; 
and Evening, Gloucester Harbor. 

REICH, JACQUES, artist, was born 
Aug. 10, 1852, in Hungary. In 1885 he 
came to New York and made all the pen 
and ink portraits for Scribner’s Cyclo¬ 
paedia of Painters and Paintings, as well 
as numerous others for periodicals. He 
drew the portraits for Appleton’s An¬ 
nual Cyclopaedia for 1886, 1887, and 1888. 
Early in 1886 he began to execute the 
sixteen hundred portraits for this work, 
to which task he gave almost exclusive 
attention till it was completed in Decem¬ 
ber, 1888. 

REICHEL, WILLIAM CORNELIUS, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born 
May 9, 1742, in Salem, N. C. He was a 
Mora\ ian clergyman and educator of 
Bethlehem, Pa., among whose writings 
are Moravianism in New York and Con¬ 
necticut; Memorials of the Moravian 
Church; and A Red Rose from the Olden 
Time. He died April 18, 1825, in Prussia. 

REICHERT, EDWARD TYSON, physi¬ 
cian, educator, author, was born in 1855, 
in Pennsylvania. He is a Philadelphia 
physician and educator, professor of phys¬ 
iology in the university of Pennsylvania 
from 1886. and was the author of A Text- 
Book of Physiology. 

REID. DAVID BOSWELL, cheipist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1805, in Scotland. He 
was a chemist who came to America in 
1856, and was director of the medical in¬ 
spection of the United States sanitai.v 
commission. He was the author of In¬ 


troduction to the Study of Chemistry; 
Rudiments of Chemistry of Daily Lue; 
and Ventilation for American Dwellings. 
He died April 5, 1863, in Washington, 

D. C. 

REID, DAVID SETTLE, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman. United States 
senator, governor, was born April 19, 1813, 
in Rockingham county, N. C. He was 
elected to the North Carolina state legis¬ 
lature in 1835, and served continuously 
until 1842. In 1843 he was elected a rep- 
resentathe in congress from North Caro¬ 
lina; and was re-elected in 1845. In 1850 
he was elected governor of North Caro¬ 
lina; and was re-elected in 1852, serving 
until 1855, when he was elected a senator 
in congress for four years. 

REID, GEORGE L„ author, poet. He is 
a writer of Menasha, Wis., and the author 
of a volume of poems entitled The 
Heather Bell. 

REID, HUGH THOMPSON, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Oct. 18, 1811, in Union 
county, Ind. In 1840-42 he was prosecut¬ 
ing attorney for Lee, Des Moines, Henry, 
Jefferson and Van Buren counties, Iowa, 
holding high rank as a land lawyer. He 
was president for four years of tne Des 
Moines Valley railroad. He entered the 
volunteer service as colonel of the fif¬ 
teenth Iowa infantry in 1861; and was ap¬ 
pointed brigadier-general in 1863. He died 
Aug. 21, 1874, in Keokuk, Iowa. 

REID, JAMES, college president, was 
born in Canada. In 1890 he was elected 
president of the college of Montana, which 
position he still holds. 

REID, JAMES MADISON, railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born April 10, 1849, in West¬ 
moreland county, Pa. He is president of 
the Ursina and North Fork railway at 
Connellsville, Ga. 

REID, JAMES WESLEY, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman. was born June 11, 1849, in 
Wentwoith, N. C. He was elected county 
treasurer of Rockingham county, N. C., in 
1874; and was continuously re-elected un¬ 
til November, 1884. He was elected a 
representath e from North Carolina to the 
forty-ninth congress; and in January, 
1855, at a special election, was elected to 
the forty-eighth congress to fill a va¬ 
cancy. 

REID. JOHN MORRISON, clergyman, 
author, was born May 30, 1820, in New 
York city. He is a methodist clergyman 
and editor of religious journals who se¬ 
cured the library of Von Ranke for Syra¬ 
cuse university. He is the author of Mis¬ 
sions of the Methodist Church; and 
Doomed Religions. 

REID, JOHN W., soldier, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born June 
14, 1821, in Lynchburg, Va. He settled in 
Jackson county; served two sessions in 
the Missouri legislature; and was elected 
a representative from Missouri to the 
thirty-seventh congress. He was ex¬ 
pelled from the house in December, 1861. 

REID MRS. MARY J„ poet. She is a 
-writer of Alameda, Cal., and her poems 
have appeared in the leading magazines 
and journals of California. 

REID, ROBERT, artist, was born July 
29, 1863, in Stockbridge, Mass. He has at¬ 
tained a world wide reputation as a suc¬ 
cessful artist of New York. 

REID, ROBERT RAYMOND, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, governor, was born 
in 1789 in Beaufort District, S. C. He was 
a representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1818 to 1823, and was elected mayor 
of Augusta on his retirement from con¬ 
gress. He was also a judge of the su¬ 
perior court of Georgia, and in 1832 was 
appointed district judge for eastern Flor¬ 


ida. He was appointed governor of the 
territory of Florida from 1839 to 1841. He- 
died July 1, 1841, near Tallahassee. F.a. 

REID, SAMUEL CHESTER, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 21, 1818, in New York 
city. He is a lawyer of New Orleans, and 
the author of The United States Bankrupt 
Law of 1841; and The Battle of Chicka- 
mauga. 

REID, WHITELAW, journalist, author, 
was born Oct. 27, 1837, in Xenia, Ohio. 
He ear y began to edit papers with great 
success, and his abilities as a war corre¬ 
spondent, during the civil war, gave him 
great distinction. In 1869 he became man¬ 
aging editor of the New York Tribune. 
He was the author of After the War, a 
Southern Tour; Ohio in the War; Schools 
of Journalism; and Newspaper Tenden¬ 
cies. 

REID. WILLIAM JAMES, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 17, 1834, in South 
Argyle, N. Y. He is a united presbyterian 
clergyman, pastor at Pittsburg from 1889, 
and the author of Lectures on the Reve¬ 
lation; and United Presbyterianism. 

REID, WILLIAM S„ college president, 
was born April 21, 1778, in Chester coun¬ 
ty, Pa. In 1806 he was elected president 
of Hampden-Sidney college. He died 
June 23, 1853. 

REID, WILLIAM THOMAS, soldier, 
educator, was born Nov. 8, 1842, in Jack¬ 
sonville, Ill. He received his education at 
Han ard college. During the war he 
served as a soldier in the union army, 
with the rank of sergeant, and was mus¬ 
tered out with recommendation as ma¬ 
jor. He has been headmaster of the high 
school of Newport, R. I.; headmaster's as¬ 
sistant of the Boston Latin school; super¬ 
intendent Brookline schools; headmaster- 
boys’ high school of San Francisco; head¬ 
master of the Belmont school, and presi¬ 
dent of the university of California. His 
administration was characterized by a 
wisely conservative devotion to high edu¬ 
cational ideals; and after four years of" 
tireless industry, he resigned to carry out 
a long-cherished plan of founding a school 
which should do for the Pacific coast what 
Rugby has done for England. In pursu¬ 
ance of this plan, he opened the Belmont 
school of Belmont, Cal., in 1885, of whicht 
he is still the head. 

REILLY. JAMES B.. lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 12, 1854, in Schuyl¬ 
kill county, Pa. He was elected district 
attorney in 1871, and served in that office 
until 1875. In 1874 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Pennsyh ania to the for¬ 
ty-fourth congress; was re-elected to the 
forty-fifth congress. He also served in 
the fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third 
congresses as a democrat. 

REILLY. JAMES W„ soldier, was born 
about 1842. He was made brigadier-gen- 
eial of volunteers in 1864. In 1866 he was 
assistant ordnance officer in the arsenal in 
Washington, D. C., and he was afterward 
assistant officer at Watervliet arsenal, N. 
Y. 

REILLY, JOHN, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 22, 1836, in Ab- 
nerville, Pa. He was president of the 
beard of city commissioners of Altoona 
in 1867 and 1868; was president of the 
Bell’s Gap Railroad company during 1872 
and 1873; and was also connected with 
the manufacturing and mining interests of 
the state. In 1874 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative to the forty-fourth congress as a 
democrat. 

REILLY, WILSON, lawyer, congress¬ 
man. In 1857 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Pennsylvania. 


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REILY, GEORGE WOLF, physician, 
banker, was born March 31, 1834, in Har¬ 
risburg, Pa. He received his education at 
the Harrisburg academy, Yale college, and 
the university of Pennsylvania. For 
many years he practiced his profession, 
which he devoted largely to charity 
among the needy of the city. In 1871 he 
was elected president of the Harrisburg 
National bank. He has been president of 
the Harrisburg Gas company, and a direc¬ 
tor iii various business institutions. He 
■died Feb. 8, 1892, in Harrisburg, Pa. 

REILY, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, was 
born April 12, 1752, in England. He was 
not a brilliant orator, but was a polished 
writer, and left several manuscripts. He 
published A Compendium for Pennsylva¬ 
nia Justices of the Peace, which was the 
first work of its character printed in this 
■country. He died May 2, 1810, in Myers- 
town, Pa. 

REILY, LUTHER, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1837 to 1839. 

REILY, WILLIAM McCLELLAN, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 
8, 1837, in York, Pa. He is a German re¬ 
formed clergyman and educator of Allen¬ 
town, Pa., president of the female college 
there from 1888. He is the author of The 
Artist and his Mission. 

REIMENSNYDER, JUNIUS BENJA¬ 
MIN, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 
24, 1841, in Staunton, Va. He is a luth- 
eran clergyman of New York city from 
1880; and the author of Heavenward; 
Doom Eternal; Lutheran Literature: its 
Distinctive Traits; Work and Personality 
of Luther; Six Days of Creation; and 
Lutheran Manual. 

REINAGLE, HUGH, artist, was born 
about 1790 in Philadelphia, Pa. For many 
years he was engaged as a scene-painter 
in New York, and produced also a pano¬ 
rama of New York, which was exhibited 
in that city. He was one of the original 
thirty members of the National Academy 
of Design, and exhibited there, in 1831, a 
View of the Falls of Mount Ida. His Mac- 
donough’s Victory on Lake Champlain 
was engraved by Benjamin Tanner in 
1810. He died May, 1834, in New Orleans, 
La. 

REINBERGER, IRVING, lawyer, was 
horn Jan. 31, 1860, in St. Louis, Mo. He 
received a liberal education; and is now 
one of the foremost lawyers of Arkansas 
at Pine Bluff. He has been assistant 
prosecuting attorney for the eleventh ju¬ 
dicial circuit of Arkansas; and has filled 
various other public positions of trust. 

REINHART, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
artist, was born Aug. 29, 1829, in Waynes- 
burg. Pa. Among his works, many of 
which have been engraved, are Cleopatra; 
Evangeline; Pocahontas; Katrina Van 
Tassel; Washington Receiving the News of 
Arnold’s Treason; Consolation; After the 
Crucifixion; Nymphs of the Wood; Young 
Franklin and Sir William Keith; The Re¬ 
gatta; The Pride of the Village; Cap¬ 
tain Kidd and the Governor; and Baby 
Mine. He died May 3, 1885, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

REINHART, CHARLES STANLEY, ar¬ 
tist, was born May 16, 1844, in Pittsburg, 
Pa. He is well known for his excellent 
work in black and white for book and 
magazine illustration. His works in oil 
include Clearing Up; Caught Napping; 
Reconnoitring; Rebuke; September 
Morning; Old Life Boats; Coast of Nor¬ 
mandy; In a Garden; Mussel Fisherwo- 
man; Flats at Villerville; Sunday; Eng¬ 
lish Garden; and Washed Ashore. 


REINHART, JOSEPH W„ railroad 
president, was born Sept. 17, 1851, in 
general auditor and 

vice-president of the 
company, he formu¬ 
lated, in 1889, the 

plan for financial re¬ 
organization of The 
Atchison, Topeka and 
Santa Fe railroad, 
and carried it out 
with such success 
that the company, 
recognizing his sa¬ 

gacity and foresight, 
advanced him 
through different 
stages to the presidency in 1893. He is 
now president of the Gulf, Colorado and 
Santa F6, the St. Louis, Kansas City and 

Colorado, the Atlantic and Pacific, the 

Colorado Midland, the Wichita and West¬ 
ern, the Southern California, the New 
Mexico and Arizona, and the Sonora rail¬ 
roads. 

RELF, SAMUEL, journalist, was born 
March 22, 1776, in Virginia. He became 
connected with the National Gazette in 
Philadelphia, Pa., of which he was for 
many years the editor and its owner. He 
died Feb. 14, 1823, in Virginia. 

RELFE, JAMES H., congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He settled in Missouri; 
and was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1843 to 1847. 

REMEY, GEORGE C., naval officer. 
After the end of the civil war he was 
made a lieutenant commander, and later 
served in numerous posts of the navy on 
land and on sea. In 1885 he was made a 
captain, and in the same year was placed 
in command of the Charleston squadron 
of evolution. He is an able officer, and 
has handled the affairs of war at Key 
West to the entire satisfaction of the au¬ 
thorities. 

REMINGTON, MRS. ALICE M„ poet, 
was born Nov. 6, 1852, in Brookville, Pa. 
She is the author of a number of poems. 

REMINGTON, FREDERIC, author, ar¬ 
tist, was born in 1861 in New York. He 
is a popular artist and illustrator, whose 
work in the main reflects the life of the 
far west. He is the author of Pony 
Tracks. 

REMINGTON. HENRY WILLIAMS, 
merchant, lawyer, legislator, was born 
Aug. 9,1823, in Lorain county, Ohio. He has 
been prosecuting at¬ 
torney; chairman of 
town board of super¬ 
visors: a member of 
the Wisconsin state 
legislature; pres i- 
dent of the Wiscon¬ 
sin Valley railroad; 
appraiser of school 
and university lands 
for the state of Wis¬ 
consin in 1851; and 
has been a successful 
lawyer, farmer, mer¬ 
chant and railroad builder. He has done * 
much work in land surveying for the state 
of Wisconsin and for private individuals. 
He is best known as a writer and speaker 
on political and judicial questions. In 
1854 he set in motion at Madison, Wis.. a 
movement which resulted in closing sa¬ 
loons on election and other public days 
in Wisconsin, which movement has since 
spread to other states. 

REMINGTON, JOSEPH PRICE, educa¬ 
tor. author, was born March 26, 1847, in 
Philadelphia. He is a professor of phar¬ 
macy in the Philadelphia college of Phar¬ 
macy from 1874; and the author of The 
Practice of Pharmacy. 


REMINGTON. PHILO, inventor, was 
born Oct. 31, 1816, in Litchfield, N. Y. 
With his brothers, Samuel and Eliphalet, 
the firm of E. Remington and Sons was 
established, and for upward of twenty- 
five years he continued in charge of the 
mechanical department. In 1886 the Rem¬ 
ingtons disposed of their type-writing-ma- 
cliine manufacturing business, and soon 
afterward the firm of E. Remington and 
Sons went into liquidation. Since then 
Mr. Remington has lived in retirement. 
Philo Remington was for nearly twenty 
years president of the village of Uion, 
and with his brother has given Syracuse 
university sums aggregating $250,000. 

REMINGTON, STEPHEN, missionary, 
author, was born May 16, 1803, in Bedford, 
N. Y. He was a baptist minister, but 
prior to 1845 a preacher of the methodist 
faith; and the author of Reasons for Be¬ 
coming a Baptist; and A Defence of Re¬ 
stricted Communion. He died March 23, 
1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

REMSEN, IRA, chemist, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 10, 1846, in New York 
city. He is an eminent chemist, profes¬ 
sor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins univer¬ 
sity from 1876; and the author of Chemi- 
ical Experiments. 

RENCHER, ABRAHAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born in Wake 
county, N. C. He was elected to congress 
from North Carolina, where he served 
from 1829 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 
1843. He was charge d' affaires to Portu¬ 
gal in 1843; and was appointed, by Presi¬ 
dent Buchanan, governor of the territory 
of New Mexico. 

RENO. CONRAD, lawyer, author, was 
born in 1859 in Alabama. He is a lawyer 
of Boston; and the author of Employers’ 
Liability Act. ■ 

RENO, JESSE LEE, soldier, was born 
June 20, 1823, in Wheeling, W. Va. In 
1846 he graduated from West Point; 

served in the Mexi¬ 
can war; and re¬ 
ceived two brevets 
for gallantry. In 
1861 he was commis¬ 
sioned a brigadier- 
general, and the fol¬ 
lowing year became 
a major-general of 
volunteers. He led a 
brigade under Gen. 
Burnside in the tak¬ 
ing of R o a n-o k e 
Island; repelled the 
confederates under General Lee; and was 
killed in action on the evening of Sept. 14, 
1862. 

RENWICK, EDWARD SABINE, expert, 
was born Jan. 3, 1823, in New York city. 
Since 1849 he has been engaged mainly as 
an expert in the trials of patent cases in 
the United States courts. In 1862, in con¬ 
nection with his brother, Henry B. Ren- 
wick, he devised methods for the repair of 
the steamer Great Eastern while afloat, 
and successfully accomplished it, replat¬ 
ing a fracture in the bilge 82 feet long and 
about 10 feet broad at the widest place. 

RENWICK, JAMES, scientist, educator, 
author, was born May 30, 1790, in Eng¬ 
land. He was a prominent scientist of 
New York city, and professor of natural 
and experimental philosophy and chemis¬ 
try at Columbia college from 1820 to 1853. 
He was the author of Lives of Ritten- 
house, Fulton, Count Rumford, in 
Sparks’s American Biography; Outlines of 
Natural Philosophy; Treatise on the 
Steam Engine; Elements of Mechanics; 
and Lives of Jay, Hamilton, De Witt Clin¬ 
ton. He died Jan. 12, 1863, in New York. 





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RENWICK, JAMES, architect, was born 
Nov. 3, 1818, in New York city. He de¬ 
signed St. Bartholomew's church and the 
Church of the Covenant of New York city. 

REPPLIER, AGNES, essayist, author, 
was born in 1855 in Pennsylvania. She is 
a popular essayist of Philadelphia; and 
the author of Books and Men; points of 
View; In the Dozy Hours, and Other Pa¬ 
pers; Essays in Idleness; Essays in Mini¬ 
ature; and Varia. 

RE QUA, HARRIET W., missionary, 
poet, was horn in Arcade, N. Y. She is 
the author of two volumes of poems en¬ 
titled Stones for the Temple; and Ziona, 
the Bride of the King. 

REQUA, ISAAC LAWRENCE, mining 
engineer, was born Nov. 22, 1828, in Tar- 
rytown, N. Y. He was for twenty years 
chairman of the republican state commit¬ 
tee, and was tendered the nomination for 
governor, which he felt obliged to decline. 
He is president of the Central Pacific rail¬ 
road, the Eureka and Palisade railway, 
and the Oakland bank of savings in Oak¬ 
land, Cal. 

REQUIER, AUGUSTUS JULIAN, law¬ 
yer, author, was born May 27, 1825, in 
Charleston, S. C. He was a lawyer of 
Mobile prior to the civil war, and subse¬ 
quently of New York city. He was the 
author of The Old Sanctuary, a romance; 
Poems; and the dramas, Marco Bozzaris; 
and The Spanish Exile. He died March 
19, 1887, in New York city. 

REULING, GEORGE, physician, educa¬ 
tor, inventor, author, was born Nov. 11, 
1839, in Germany. He has invented a 
microtome for microscopical sections, and 
a ring-shaped silver-sling for the extrac¬ 
tion of cataract within the capsule. He 
has written on Detachment of the Choroid 
after Extraction of Cataract; Extraction 
of Cataract within the Capsule; and De¬ 
struction of a Cyst of the Iris by Galvano- 
Cautery. 

REVEAL, WILLIAM O., farmer, public 
official, was born Jan. 1, 1860, in Broad 
Ripple, Ind. He is a successful farmer 
near Indianapolis, Ind.; has been county 
commissioner; and is a fluent speaker on 
agricultural and political topics. 

REVELS, HIRAM R., clergyman. 
United States senator, was horn Sept. 1, 
1822, in Fayetteville, N. C. He settled at 
Natchez, Miss.; was chosen a member of 
the city council; and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Mississippi from 1870 to 1871. 

REVERE, JOSEPH WARREN, soldier, 
author, was born May 17, 1812, in Boston, 
Mass. He was an officer in the federal 
army during the civil war; and the au¬ 
thor of Keel and Saddle; and Retrospect 
of Forty Years’ Military Service (1872). 
He died April 20, 1880, in Hoboken, N. J. 

REVERE, PAUL, patriot, engraver, was 
born Jan. 1, 1735, in Boston, Mass. He 
was one of the noted Boston tea party, 
and is famous for his midnight-ride 
through the county of Middlesex, to give 
notice of the intended attack of Gen. Gage. 
The town of North Chelsea, Mass., was 
named Revere in his honor in 1871. He 
died May 10, 1818, in Boston, Mass. 

REVERE, PAUL JOSEPH, soldier, was 
born Sept. 10, 1832, in Boston, Mass. He 
was brevetted brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers for bravery at Gettysburg, where he 
received a fatal wound in the second day’s 
battle. He died July 4, 1863, in West¬ 
minster, Md. 

REXDALE, ROBERT (pseud.), journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born in 1859 in 
Maine. He was a journalist and poet of 
Portland, Maine; and the author of Drift¬ 
ing Songs and Sketches; Saved by the 
Sword, a novel; and The Cuban Liber¬ 
ated. 


REXFORD, EBEN EUGENE, poet, au¬ 
thor, was born July 16, 1848, in Johns- 
burg, N. Y. He is a popular poet and 
song writer of Shiocton, Wis., whose 
poem Silver Threads Among the Gold has 
been set to music and widely sung. He is 
the author of Brother and Lover; Grand¬ 
mother’s Garden; and John Fielding and 
His Enemy. 

REYBURN, JOHN EDGAR, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born Feb. 7, 1845, in New Car¬ 
lisle, Ohio. He was educated by private 
tutor and at Saunders institute, West 
Philadelphia; studied law and was admit¬ 
ted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1870. 
He was a member of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives of Pennsylvania, sessions of 
1871, 1874, 1875, and 1876; and was elect¬ 
ed a member of the senate of Pennsyl¬ 
vania for a term of four years from 1876; 
and re-elected in 1880. He was elected 
president pro tempore for the session of 
1883; and was re-elected senator in 1884, 
and again elected in 1888 for a term of 
four years. He was elected as a republic¬ 
an to fill the unexpired term of Hon. 
William D. Kelley in the fifty-first con¬ 
gress in 1890, and was elected to the fifty- 
second and fifty-third congresses and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

REYNOLDS, CHARLES BUTLER, edu¬ 
cator, was born in South East, N. Y. He 
received the rudiments of his education 
in the public schools and graduated from 
the Illinois Wesleyan university. He has 
filled important positions; for sixteen 
years was superintendent of city schools 
of Clinton, Mo.; and is now principal 
and superintendent of city schools in 
Kansas City, Mo. 

REYNOLDS, DANIEL H„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Dec. 14, 1832, 
in Centreburg, Ohio. In 1861 he was elect¬ 
ed captain of a company for service in 
the confederate army, and was promoted 
brigadier-general in 1864. He was state 
senator in Arkansas in 1866-67. 

REYNOLDS, ELMER ROBERT, ethnol¬ 
ogist, author, was born July 30, 1846, in 
Dansville, N. Y. He is an ethnologist in 
the United States civil service from 1877; 
and the author of A Scientific Visit to the 
Caverns of Luray; Shell Mounds, etc., of 
the Choptank Indians; and Aboriginal 
Soapstone Quarries in the District of Col¬ 
umbia. 

REYNOLDS, FRANCES, journalist, 
poet, was born Dec. 4, 1853, in Mt. Carmel, 
Ill. Since the death of her husband she 
has been the editor and owner of' The 
Gazette of Mariposa, Cal. She is also 
the author of a volume of poems. 

REYNOLDS, GIDEON, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1847 to 1851. 

REYNOLDS, J. MASON, poet. He was 
a journalist of Grand Rapids, Mich.; and 
the author of a volume of poems. 

REYNOLDS, JAMES B., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1815 to 1817, and again 
from 1823 to 1825. 

REYNOLDS, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 26, 1789, in Mont¬ 
gomery county, Pa. He was a justice of 
the supreme court of Illinois in 1818. He 
was a member of the legislature from 
1826-30, 1846-48, 1852-54; and served dur¬ 
ing the last term as speaker. He was 
governor of Illinois from 1830 to 1834; 
commanded the Illinois volunteers dur¬ 
ing the Black Hawk war in 1832; and was 
a representative in congress from 1835 
to 1837, and from 1839 to 1843. He pub¬ 
lished Pioneer History of Illinois; Glance 


at the Crystal Palace, and Sketches of 
Travel; My Life and Times; and at onfe 
time conducted the Belleville Eagle, a 
daily paper. He died May 8, 1865, in 
Belleville, Ill. 

REYNOLDS, JOHN H., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, vas born June 21, 1819, in 
Morean, N. Y. In 1853 he was appointed 
postmaster at Albany, N. Y.; and in 1858 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the thirty-sixth congress. He was 
subsequently appointed a judge of the 
court of appeals of New York; and also a 
commissioner of appeals. He died Sept. 
24, 1875, in Kinderhook. 

REYNOLDS, JOHN PARKER, agricult¬ 
urist, journalist, was born March 1, 1820, 
in Lebanon, Ohio. In 1868 he removed to 
Chicago, and the next year he became first 
editor of the National Live Stock Journal. 

REYNOLDS, JOSEPH, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in New York. 
He was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1835 to 1837; and also 
served in the assembly of that state in 
1819. 

REYNOLDS, JOSEPH SMITH, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Dec. 3, 1839, in New 
Lenox, Ill. He took part in seventeen 
battles, was wounded three times, and 
for gallant and meritorious service was 
promoted to a captaincy, subsequently to 
colonel; and in 1865 was brevetted brig¬ 
adier-general of volunteers. He has been 
elected as representative and senator to 
the Illinois legislature, and was a com¬ 
missioner from Illinois to the universal 
exposition at Vienna in 1873. 

REYNOLDS, ROBERT J., legislator, 
governor, was born March 17, 1838, in 
Smyrna, Del. In 1868 he was elected to 
the Delaware gener¬ 
al assembly; was 
elected state treas¬ 
urer in 1869, and re¬ 
elected to the same 
office in 1871. He 
was chairman of the 
democratic state 
central committee; 
and chairman of the 
state committee in 
numerous cam¬ 
paigns. On Jan. 20, 
1891, he was inau¬ 
gurated governor of Delaware; and for 
four years filled that office with distinc¬ 
tion. Governor Reynolds has been in 
politics for over thirty years, and has 
never lost a political battle. Since 1861 
he has principally been engaged in farm¬ 
ing near Petersburg, Del.; has extensive 
peach orchards, and is a successful farmer 
and fruit grower. 

REYNOLDS, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, governor, was born March 
12, 1796, in Bracken county, Ky. He set¬ 
tled in Illinois; was elected a representa¬ 
tive in the legislature and made speaker; 
and was attorney-general of the state. 
He was judge of the supreme court. In 
1828 he moved to Missouri, where he was 
a member of the state legislature; presi¬ 
dent judge of a court of justice; and was 
governor of Missouri from 1840 to 1844. 
He died Feb. 9, 1844, in Jefferson City, Mo. 

REYNOLDS, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
born Dec. 18, 1815, in Lancaster, Pa. In 
1873 he was appointed rear-admiral in 
the United States navy. He died Nov. 5, 
1879, in Washington. 

REYNOLDS, WILLIAM H., farmer, leg¬ 
islator, was born in Polk county, Fla. He 
is a successful farmer of Lakeland, Fla.; 
was elected to the Florida state senate, 
and was made president of that body. He 
has been a presidential elector; and is 
now state comptroller of Florida. 




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REYNOLDS, WILLIAM H., legislator, 
was born Feb. 28, 1868, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He has served as assemblyman and sen¬ 
ator in the New York state legislature. 

REYNOLDS, WILLIAM MORTON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 4, 1812, in 
Fayette county, Pa. He was the author of 
Discourse on the Swedish Churches. He 
translated from the Swedish of Israel 
Acrelius, A History of New Sweden, with 
introduction and notes. He died Sept. 5, 
1876, in Oak Park, Ill. 

RHEA, JOHN, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Tennessee 
from 1803 to 1815, and from 1817 to 1823. 
In 1816 he was appointed United States 
commissioner to treat with the Choctaws. 
He died May 27, 1832. 

RHEA, JOHN S., lawyer, congressman, 
was born March 9, 1855, in Russellville, 
Ky. He was elected prosecuting attorney 
for Logan county, Ky., in 1878, and again 
elected in 1882. He was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a democratic-popu¬ 
list. 

RHEES, WILLIAM JONES, author, 
was born March 13, 1830, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is the chief clerk of the Smith¬ 
sonian institution from 1852, who has 
published, among other works, The Smith¬ 
sonian Institution; and James Smithson 
and His Bequest. 

RHETT, ROBERT BARNWELL, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Dec. 24, 1800, in 
Beaufort, S. C. In 1826 he was elected to 
the South Carolina state legislature; and 
in 1832 was elected attorney-general of 
South Carolina. He was a representative 
in congress from 1838 to 1849; and was a 
senator in congress during the years 1850, 
1851, and a part of 1852. He died Sept. 14, 
1876, in Saint James parish, La. 

RHIND, ALEXANDER GOLDEN. na\ al 
officer, was born Oct. 31, 1821, in New 
York city. He served in the United States 
navy during the civil war; attaining the 
rank of rear-admiral. 

RHINE, ALICE HYNEMAN, author, 
was born Jan. 31, 1840, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. She is a daughter of Leon Hyne- 
man, and has gained a reputation as a 
writer of prose and verse for the periodi¬ 
cal press. She has contributed numerous 
articles to the Popular Science Monthly, 
the North American Review, and the 
Forum, and has edited an illustrated work 
on Niagara. 

RHOADS, JAMES E., physician, col¬ 
lege president, philanthropist. He was a 
religious teacher and the organizer of 
schools among the negroes of the south 
and the Indians. He was the first presi¬ 
dent of Bryn Mawr college, and filled that 
position during 1885-94. He died Jan. 2, 
1895, in Bryn Mawr, Pa. 

RHOADS, THOMAS J. B., physician, 
surgeon, merchant, banker, poet, was born 
Sept. 26, 1837, in Berks county, Pa. He 
received a thorough 
education, and for 
many years was en¬ 
gaged in educational 
work. He prosecut¬ 
ed his studies and 
subsequently entered 
the Medical college 
of Philadelphia, from 
which institution he 
graduated in 1861. 
In 1862 he was com¬ 
missioned as assist¬ 
ant surgeon of the 
one hundred and sixty-ninth regiment 
Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. Togeth¬ 
er with his brother, Reuben, he had charge 
of the forces at Fort Keys and the hospi¬ 
tal on the point. In the spring of 1863 Dr. 


Rhoads moved with his regiment and 
remained with it as acting assistant sur¬ 
geon until it was mustered out of the 
service. After the war he settled down to 
the practice of his profession at Boyer- 
town, Pa. In 1883 he organized the Farm¬ 
er’s National bank of Boyertown, and has 
ever since been its president. He is 
also a successful merchant; takes an 
active part in public affairs; and con¬ 
tributes both prose and verse to current 
literature. 

RHODAjbeCK, JESSE C., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Aug. 11, 1831, in 
Chester county, Pa. He received his ed¬ 
ucation in Granville, Ohio; and is now a 
prominent lawyer of Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
He served as a union soldier during the 
civil war, and was promoted to captain. 
He has always taken an active part in 
public affairs; has been judge of the dis¬ 
trict court; and has filled with distinction 
various public offices of trust. He has also 
contributed literary articles on various 
topics to current literature. 

RHODERICK, GEORGE CARLTON, ed¬ 
itor, poet, was born Feb. 19, 1861, in Mid¬ 
dletown, Md. He is the local and news 
editor of The Valley 
Register of Middle- 
town, Md., of which 
his father has been 
editor and proprietor 
for forty-four years, 
it having been estab¬ 
lished in 1844; cor¬ 
respondent for a 
number of metropol¬ 
itan dailies; and 

manager of the 

Western Union Tele¬ 
graph office. For 

many years he published a humorous pub¬ 
lication; has written a number of meri¬ 
torious poems, some of which have been 
given a place in Poets of America and 
other standard works. 

RHODES, ALBERT, author, was born 
Feb. 1, 1840, in Pittsburg, Pa. He is a 
writer who was successively United States 
consul at Jerusalem, Rotterdam, Rouen, 
and Elberstadt, and since 1885 has been a 
resident of Paris. He is the author of 
Jerusalem as It Is; The French at Home; 
and Monsieur at Home. 

RHODES, JAMES FORD, author, was 
born in 1848. He is a historian of Boston; 
and the author of History of the United 
States from the Compromise of 1850. 

RHODES, JOHN HENRY, soldier, law¬ 
yer, educator, was born Feb. 8, 1836, in 
Morrow county, Ohio. He served as a 
soldier during the civil war, and was 
mustered out in 1865 as lieutenant-col¬ 
onel. During 1886-87 he was a member 
of the Ohio state legislature. He moved 
to Clyde, Ohio, in 1869, where he has been 
engaged in the practice of law since 1870. 

RHODES, MOSHEIM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 14, 1837, in Wil¬ 
liamsburg, Pa. He is a Lutheran clergy¬ 
man of St. Louis from 1874; and the au¬ 
thor of Life Thoughts for Young Men; 
Life Thoughts for Young Women; Recog¬ 
nition in Heaven; Vital Questions; The 
Throne of Grace; and Expository Lec¬ 
tures on Philippians. 

RHODES, ROBERT LEWIS, educator, 
business man, was born Nov. 4, 1837, in 
Hephzibah, Ga. For many years he was 
a school teacher; and during the civil 
war was a conductor for mail trains. For 
the past ten years he has been postmaster 
of his native village; where he is a suc¬ 
cessful farmer, real estate agent, and takes 
an active part in the public affairs of his 
county and state. 


RHODES, SAMUEL, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the 
continental congress from 1774 to 1775. 

RHODES, WILLIAM HENRY, poet, 
was born July 16, 1822, in Bertie county, 
N. C. He was the author of The Indian 
Gallows, ana Other Poems; and of a 
volume called Caxton’s Book. He died in 
1852. 

RIBBLE, WILLIAM, farmer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born Oct. 10, 1819, in 
Montgomery county, Va. In 1843 he was 
elected justice of the peace, and some 
time afterward was appointed major of 
the Indiana state militia. He was elected 
to the Indiana legislature. 

RICAUD, JAMES BARROLL, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, congressman, was 
born Feb. 11, 1808, in Baltimore, Md. 
He was a member of the house of dele¬ 
gates of Maryland in 1834; and of the 
state senate of Maryland from 1836 to 
1844. He was a presidential elector in 
1836 and 1844; and was a representative 
in the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth con¬ 
gresses. He was appointed judge of the 
circuit court. He died Jan. 26, 1866, in 
Chestertown, Md. 

RICE, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, 
manufacturer, congressman, governor, 
was born Aug. 30, 1818, in Newton, Mass. 
In 1853 he was elected to the common 
council of Boston, and became the presi¬ 
dent of that body; and was mayor of 
Boston in 1856 and 1857. He was elected 
a representative from Massachusetts to 
the thirty-sixth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-seventh, thirty- 
eighth and thirty-ninth congresses. He 
was subsequently elected mayor of Bos¬ 
ton; and was governor of Massachusetts 
from 1876 to 1879. 

RICE, ALLEN THORNDIKE, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born June 1, 1853, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He organized in 1879 and sub¬ 
sequently directed what is popularly 
known as the Charnay expedition, which 
was despatched under the joint auspices 
of the United States and France, to in¬ 
vestigate systematically the remains of 
ancient civilization in Central America 
and Mexico. He edited Reminiscences of 
Abraham Lincoln; and contributed to 
Ancient Cities of the New World. He died 
May 16, 1889, in New York city. 

RICE, ALONZO E., lawyer, legislator, 
was born May 6, 1857, in Fayette county, 
Ill. He received the rudiments of his edu¬ 
cation in the public schools, and attended 
the Central university of Pella, Iowa. In 
1884 he was a surveyor in Holt county, 
Neb.; and during 1885-86 he served as a 
representative in the lower house of the 
Nebraska legislature. He is a successful 
lawyer of Centralia, Wash.; was city at¬ 
torney in 1892; and during 1893-94 was 
prosecuting attorney for Lewis county. 

RICE, AMERICUS VESPUCIUS, sol¬ 
dier, banker, congressman, was born Nov. 
18, 1835, in Perryville, Ohio. He served 
in the war for the union from 1861 to 1865 
entering as a private and coming out as 
a brigadier-general. In 1868 he became 
manager of a banking house in Ottawa, 
Ohio; and in 1874 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the Yorty-fourth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth congress. 

RICE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, United States senator, was 
born May 26, 1828, in East Otto, N. Y. 
He was elected to the Kentucky state leg¬ 
islature in 1865; and was a presidential 
elector in 1856. After the war he settled 
in Little Rock, Ark., and organized the 
republican party in that state. In 1868 he 
was elected a senator in congress from 
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RICE, DAVID HALL, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1841 in Massachusetts. He is 
a lawyer of Boston, living in Brookline, 
Mass.; and the author of Protective Phi¬ 
losophy; and Digest of Decisions of Com¬ 
missioner of Patents, 1869-80. 

RICE, EDMUND, soldier, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 14, 

1819, in Waitsfield, Vt. He moved to St. 
Paul in 1849, and practiced law till 1856. 
He was president of the Minnesota and 
Pacific Railroad company from 1857 till 
1863; St. Paul and Pacific railroad 1863 
till 1872, and trustee till 1879; and presi¬ 
dent St. Paul and Chicago 1863 till 1877. 
He was a member of the territorial legis¬ 
lature 1851; and was state senator 1864- 
■66, 1874-76. He was a member of the state 
house of representatives 1867, 1872, 1877, 
and 1878; was mayor of St. Paul 1881-83; 
and re-elected in 1885. He was elected to 
the fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

RICE, EDWARD Y., lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 8, 

1820, in Logan county, Ky. In 1847 he 
was elected county recorder of Montgom¬ 
ery county, Ill.; was a member of the leg¬ 
islature in 1849; and was elected judge 
■of Montgomery county, and served two 
years. He was appointed master in 
chancery from 1853 until 1857, when he 
was elected judge of the eighteenth circuit 
of Illinois; and was re-elected in 1861, 
and in 1867. He was a member of the 
constitutional convention of Illinois in 
1869; and was elected to the forty-second 
congress as a democrat. 

RICE, EDWIN WILBUR, clergyman, 
editor, author, was born July 24, 1831, 
near Gloversville, N. Y. He received a 
thorough education at the Kingsboro 
•academy and the academy of Little Falls, 
N. Y. Hq studied theology at the Union 
Theological seminary of New York city, 
and was ordained in 1860 at La Crosse, 
Wis., where he had previously been en¬ 
gaged in educational work. He has been 
the editor-in-chief of the American Sun¬ 
day School union since 1878. He had 
served as a missionary of the union in the 
northwest, as superintendent of an im¬ 
portant district, and as assistant secre¬ 
tary of missionary work. He knew by 
personal observation what teachers and 
pupils needed, and few men could have 
met the need so ably. The Scholars’ 
Handbook; the Lesson Leaves; and the 
first Sunday School Quarterly ever issued, 
besides fifteen exhaustive works of larger 
scope, two of which we have already 
mentioned, are evidences of his devotion 
and capacity in service. 

RICE, FRANK, lawyer, legislator, jur¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 15, 1845, in Seneca, 
N. Y. He is a successful lawyer of Canan¬ 
daigua, N. Y.; has been a member of 
the New York state assembly; county 
judge; and secretary of state of the state 
of New York. 

RICE, FRANK P., capitalist, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Oct. 28, 1838, in Clare¬ 
mont, N. H. In 1882 he was a member of 
the Georgia state senate; and was a 
member of the state legislature for sev¬ 
eral terms. 

RICE, FRANK S., lawyer, author, was 
born Feb. 3, 1850, in Elmira, N. Y. He is 
the author of a book entitled Civil and 
Criminal Evidence; and Annotation Code 
of Civil Procedure. 

RICE, GEORGE EDWARD, poet, was 
born July 10, 1822, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a verse-writer of Boston; and the 
author of Ephemeral; Nugamenta; and 
A New Play in an Old Garb, a fanciful 
adaptation of Hamlet. He died Aug. 10, 
1861, in Roxbury, Mass. 


RICE, HARVEY, lawyer, author, poet, 
was born in June, 1800, in Conway Mas- 
sell, Mass. He was a prominent lawyer 
of Cleveland; and 
the author of Mount 
Vernon, and Other 
Poems; Select Po¬ 
ems; Nature and 
Culture; Pioneers 
of the Western Re¬ 
serve; Sketches of 
Western Life; and 
The Founder of the 
City of Cleveland. 
Besides the publica¬ 
tion of these works, 
he contributed valu¬ 
able articles and poems te the leading 
newspapers and magazines of the United 
States. He died in 1891 in Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

RICE, HENRY MOWER, surveyor, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was 
born Nov. 29, 1816, in Waitsfield, Vt. In 
1853 he was elected a delegate to con¬ 
gress from Minnesota; and was re-elected 
in 1855. In 1857 he was elected a senator 
in congress from Minnesota for the term 
of six years. 

RICE, ISAAC LEOPOLD, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1850 in Bavaria. He is 
a lawyer of New York city who has writ¬ 
ten What Is Music? 

RICE, JAMES CLAY, soldier, was born 
Dec. 27, 1829, in Worthington, Mass. He 
served through the civil war, attaining 
for gallant and meritorious services the 
rank of brigadier-general. He died May 
11, 1864, in Spottsylvania, Va. 

RICE, JAMES MONTGOMERY, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born March 8, 
1842, in Monmouth, Ill. In 1887 he set¬ 
tled in Peoria, Ill., where he has since 
been engaged in the practice of law. 
He served one term in the Illinois state 
legislature during 1871-72. He is the au¬ 
thor of a Range Manual, now adopted and 
used in five states for the national guards 
as an authority; and also Small Arms 
Practice for the National Guards. He is 
the inventor and patentee of a practical 
moving target, used with great success 
by both the regular troops and the na¬ 
tional guards. 

RICE, JOHN ANDREW, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born Sept. 25, 1867, in 
Colleton county, S. C. This eminent 
methodist episcopal clergyman was elect¬ 
ed president of the Columbia Female col¬ 
lege, South Carolina, in 1894. 

RICE, JOHN B., soldier, physician, sur¬ 
geon, congressman, was born at Fremont, 
Ohio. He adopted the medical profession; 
served in the union army as assistant sur¬ 
geon, surgeon, and surgeon-in-chief of a 
division during the war of the rebellion; 
and was elected a representative from 
Ohio to the forty-seventh congress as a 
republican. 

RICE, JOHN B., librarian, congressman, 
was born in 1809 in Easton, Md. He was 
elected mayor of Chicago in 1865; and re¬ 
elected in 1867. He was elected to the 
forty-third congress; and was appointed 
librarian of the house of representatives. 
He died Dec. 17, 1874, in Norfolk, Va. 

RICE, JOHN H., merchant, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 5, 1816, in Mount 
Vernon, Ky. In 1852 he was elected a 
state attorney for three years; was re¬ 
elected, and held the office until he was 
chosen a representative from Maine to the 
thirty-seventh congress. He was re-elect¬ 
ed to the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth 
congresses. 

RICE, JOHN HOLT, educator, author, 
was born Nov. 23, 1777, in New London, 


Va. In 1822 he filled the chair of theology 
in Hampden-Sidney college, which posi¬ 
tion he filled until his death. He was the 
author of a work entitled Historical and 
Philosophical Considerations on Religion. 
He died Sept. 3, 1831. 

RICE, JOHN M., state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Floyd county, Ky. 
He served in the legislature of Kentucky 
in 1859 and 1867; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Kentucky to the forty-first 
congress, and was re-elected to the forty- 
second congress as a democrat. 

RICE, LUTHER, clergyman, mission¬ 
ary, philanthropist, was born March 25, 
1783, in Northborough, Mass. He attained 
prominence as an eminent clergyman of 
the congregational church; was a mis¬ 
sionary in India; and it was mainly 
through his influence and efforts that the 
Columbian university of Washington, 
D. C., was established. He died Sept. 25, 
1836, in Edgefield, S. C. 

RICE, MARTIN HENRY, clergyman, 
journalist, was born Oct. 4, 1829, in Ja¬ 
maica, Vt. He always took a deep in¬ 
terest in Masonry, 
and has lectured ex¬ 
tensively on that 
subject. He has been 
grand master; grand 
high priest and il¬ 
lustrious grand mas¬ 
ter of Masons in In¬ 
diana. He is best 
known as the editor 
of the Masonic Ad¬ 
vocate, on which for 
a quarter of a cen¬ 
tury his time and 
talents, his pen and brain, have been ac¬ 
tively employed in spreading true Masonic 
light and knowledge to his uninformed 
brethren. 

RICE, NATHAN LEWIS, clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 29, 1807, in Garrard 
county, Ky. He was a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman of note who held pastorates in St. 
Louis, Cincinnati and New York city, and 
was an active controversialist. He was 
the author of Romanism the Enemy of 
Free Institutions; The Signs of the Times; 
Baptism; The Pulpit; and Discourses. 
He died June 11, 1877, in Chatham, Ky. 

RICE, ROSELLA, author, was born 
Aug. 11, 1827, in Perrysville, Ohio. She 
published a novel entitled Mabel, or Heart 
Histories. In 1871-72 she contributed, 
under the pen-name of Pipsissiway Potts, 
a serial entitled Other People’s Windows, 
to Timothy S. Arthur’s Home Magazine. 

RICE, SAMUEL ALLEN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Jan. 27, 1828, in Penn Yan, 
N. Y. In 1856 he was chosen attorney- 
general of Iowa, and in 1858 he was con¬ 
tinued in that office for a second term. 
He entered the national army as colonel 
of the thirty-third Iowa volunteers, his 
commission dating from Aug. 10, 1862. 
For bravery at Helena, Ark., he was pro¬ 
moted brigadier-general of volunteers. 
He died July 6, 1864, in Oskaloosa, Iowa. 

RICE, THERON M., soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1829, 
in Mecca, Ohio. In 1858 he moved to Mis¬ 
souri; served in the union army during 
the war of the rebellion, rising to the rank 
of colonel. At the close of the war he 
resumed the practice of law at Tipton, 
Mo.; and was elected circuit judge in 
1868, and served six years. He was elected 
a representative from Missouri to the 
forty-seventh congress. 

RICE, THOMAS, lawyer, congressman. 
He was a representative in the state legis¬ 
lature in 1813; and was a representative 
in congress from Massachusetts from 1815 
to 1819. He died in 1854. 




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RICE, THOMAS D., actor, was born 
May 20, 1808, in New fork city. About 
1832 he began his career in negro min¬ 
strelsy at the Pittsburg and Louisville 
theaters with success, repeating his per¬ 
formances in the eastern cities for sev¬ 
eral years to crowded houses. For a short 
time in 1858 he was with Wood’s min¬ 
strels, where his name stood for the shad¬ 
ow of an attraction. He died Sept. 19, 
1860, in New York city. 

RICE, VICTOR MOREAU, educator, 
was born April 5, 1818, in Mayville, N. Y. 
The New York legislature having created 
a department of public instruction in 
1854, he was elected the first state super¬ 
intendent for three years. He was thrice 
re-elected, filling the office till 1866. He 
died Oct. 17, 1869, in Oneida, N. Y. 

RICE, VIETTS LYSANDER, engineer, 
inventor, was born in 1844 in Windsor, Vt. 
He is manager of Filer, Stowell and 
Company; and of the North Star Iron 
works of Minneapolis. His inventions are 
the Narod ore pulverizer, the gravity mill 
and the granulating mill. He is also 
president of the American Ore Machinery 
company of New York city. 

RICE, WILLARD MARTIN, clergyman, 
author, was born April 30, 1817, in Low- 
ville, N. Y. Since 1876 he has devoted 
himself entirely to the work of the pres- 
byterian board of publication. He has 
prepared Westminster Question Book; 
Lesson Leaf; and the Quarterly. 

RICE, WILLIAM, educator, clergyman, 
was born March 10, 1821, in Springfield, 
Mass. He graduated from the Wesleyan 
academy of Wilbra- 
ham, Mass.; and dur¬ 
ing 1841-97 he was 
a successful clergy¬ 
man in the metho- 
dist episcopal 
church. His pastor¬ 
ates were chiefly in 
Boston and vicinity. 
During 1861-97 he 
was also librarian of 
the Springfield city 
library; and for 
eighteen years was a 
member of the Massachusetts state board 
of education. He died Aug. 17, 1897, in 
Springfield, Mass. 

RICE, WILLIAM E., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Nov. 28, 1852, near Albion, N. Y. 
He graduated from the Michigan State 
Normal school, and for several years was 
engaged in educational work. In 1883 he 
was admitted to the bar, and is now a 
successful lawyer and fruit grower of 
Rogers City, Mich. In 1888-89 he was 
prosecuting attorney of Presque Isle 
county, and was again elected to that 
office in 1896. In 1895-96 he served with 
distinction as a representative in the 
Michigan state legislature, and was on 
several important committees. He died 
in January, 1898. 

RICE, WILLIAM J., lawyer, journalist, 
was born July 3, 1864, in Carter county, 
Ky. He is a successful lawyer of Rainier, 
Ore.; and the editor and owner of The Re¬ 
view of that city. 

RICE, WILLIAM W., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 21, 1845, in Marblehead, Mass. He 
was judge of insolvency for Worcester 
county in 1858; was mayor of Worcester 
in 1860; and was district attorney for the 
middle district of Massachusetts from 
1869 to 1874. He was a representative in 
the state legislature in 1875; and was 
elected a representative from Massachu¬ 
setts to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty- 
seventh, forty-eighth, and forty-ninth 
congresses as a republican. 


RICH, CHARLES, congressman, was 
born in 1771 in Hampshire county, Mass. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Vermont from 1811 to 1812, and again 
from 1817 to 1824. He died Oct. 15, 1824, 
in Shoreham, Vt. 

RICH, MRS. HELEN [HINSDALE], 
author, poet, was born in 1827 in New 
York. She is a poet of Chicago; and the 
author of A Dream of the Adirondack^, 
and Other Poems; and Madame de Stael. 

RICH, ISAAC, merchant, was born in 
1801 in Wellfleet, Mass. In the course of 
years he became a successful fish mer¬ 
chant, and subsequently a millionaire, 
gave largely to educational and charitable 
institutions, tyid, in addition to numerous 
bequests, left the greater part of his 
estate, appraised at $1,700,000, to the trus¬ 
tees of the Boston Wesleyan university. 
He died Jan. 13, 1872, in Boston, Mass. 

RICH, JOHN T., agriculturist, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born April 23, 
1841, in Conneautville, Pa. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative in the Michigan state 
legislature in 1872, 1874, 1876, and 1878, 
serving as speaker during the last two 
terms; and was state senator in 1880. In 
1881 he was elected a representative from 
Michigan to the forty-seventh congress to 
fill a vacancy. 

RICH, SANFORD CLARK, educator, 
clergyman, lawyer, was born May 2, 
1863, in Morgantown, W. Va. He received 
his education at the Drew Theological 
seminary; was engaged in educational 
work for eight years; was a clergyman 
for six years; and is now a successful 
lawyer of Pleasanton, Kan. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively both prose and verse 
to the periodical press, and several of his 
poems have been included in standard 
works. 

RICHARD. GABRIEL, missionary, edu¬ 
cator, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 
1767, in France. He was for a time pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics in St. Mary's col¬ 
lege, Maryland; labored in Illinois as a 
missionary; and went to Detroit in 1799, 
whence he was sent as a delegate to con¬ 
gress in 1823. He died Sept. 13, 1832, in 
Detroit, Mich. 

RICHARDS, BENJAMIN WOOD, pub¬ 
lic official, state legislator, was born in 
November, 1797, in Burlington county, 
N. J. He was appointed by President 
Jackson a director of the United States 
bank, which office he resigned to become 
mayor of Philadelphia in 1830-31. He was 
one of the earliest directors of Girard col¬ 
lege; the originator, founder, and presi¬ 
dent until his death of the Girard Life 
and Trust company, and a founder with 
John Vaughan of the Blind asylum. He 
died July 13, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RICHARDS, CHARLES COMSTOCK, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 16, 1859, 
in Salt Lake City. In 1888 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative in the territorial leg¬ 
islature of Utah; and in 1890 was a sen¬ 
ator of that body. He was secretary of 
the territory from May 16, 1893, to Jan. 6, 
1896, when that territory became a state; 
and he was the acting governor at the 
time of admission, and turned the ex¬ 
ecutive office over to the governor of the 
state. 

RICHARDS, CHARLES HERBERT, 
clergyman, author, was born March 18, 
1839, in Meriden, N. H. He was pastor of 
a congregational church in Kokomo, Ind., 
in 1866-67, and since that time has had 
charge of the First Congregational church 
in Madison, Wis. He is the author of 
Will Phillips; Songs of Christian Praisef 
Scripture Selections for Public Wor¬ 
ship; and Songs of Praise and Prayer. 


RICHARDS, CHARLES L., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born March 21, 1856, near 
Woodstock, Ill. For two terms this suc¬ 
cessful lawyer was prosecuting attorney 
of Thayer county, Neb.; and in 1895 he 
was elected a member of the Nebraska 
state legislature, of which body he was 
speaker. 

RICHARDS, MRS. CORNELIA HOL- 
ROYD [BRADLEY], author, was born 
Nov. 1, 1822, in Hudson, N. Y. She is the 
author of At Home and Abroad, or How 
to Behave; Pleasure and Profit, or Les¬ 
sons on the Lord’s Prayer; Hester and I; 
and Memoir of Mrs. Haven. 

RICHARDS, CYRUS SMITH, educator, 
author, was born March 11, 1808, in Hart¬ 
ford. Vt. He was principal of Kimball 
Union academy, Meriden, N. H., and from 
1871 until his death had charge of the pre¬ 
paratory department of Howard univer¬ 
sity of Washington, D. C. He was the au¬ 
thor of Latin Lessons and Tables; Out¬ 
lines of Latin Grammar; and an Intro¬ 
duction to Caesar: First Latin Les¬ 
sons. He died July 19, 1885, in Madison, 
Wis. 

RICHARDS, MRS. ELLEN HENRIET¬ 
TA [SWALLOW], educator, author, was 
born Dec. 3, 1842, in Dunstable, Mass. 
She is an instructor in sanitary chemistry 
in the Massachusetts institute of Tech¬ 
nology; and is the author of Chemistry 
of Cookery and Cleaning; Food Materials 
and Their Adulterations; and First Les¬ 
sons in Minerals. 

RICHARDS, FRANCIS HENRY, in¬ 
ventor, was born Oct. 20, 1850, in New 
Hartford, Conn. He has invented a great 
many valuable machines and devices, 
which he has given to the public. 

RICHARDS, FRANKLIN DEWEY, 
Mormon apostle, state legislator, was born 
April 2, 18zi, in Richmond, Mass. In 1849 
he was ordained one of the twelve apostles 
of Salt Lake City; in 1852 was a member 
of the legislature; and re-elected in 1856. 
In 1889 he became historian and general 
recorder of the church at Salt Lake City, 
which position he still holds. 

RICHARDS, GEORGE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in Rhode Island. He was 
pastor of a universalist church in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H., from 1793 till 1809, and 
subsequently in Philadelphia, where he 
established the Freemason’s Magazine and 
General Miscellany, and edited it for two 
years. He was the author of odes, Ma¬ 
sonic orations, An Historical Discourse 
on the Death of Gen. Washington, and 
many patriotic poems descriptive of the 
revolution. He died March 1, 1814, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

RICHARDS, GEORGE, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born March 21, 1833, in Potts- 
ville, Pa. Since j. 862 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Hibernia Mine railroad; is 
also president of the Hibernia Under¬ 
ground railroad, and Dover and Rockaway 
railroad. 

RICHARDS, HELEN DOROTHY WHIT- 
ON, author. She was the author of 
several juvenile books, including Robert 
Walbar; Hemlock Ridge; and The Con¬ 
quered Heart. 

RICHaRDS, JACOB, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1803 to 1809. 

RICHARDS, JAMES A. D., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 22, 1845, in 
Boston, Mass. He was elected to the 
fifty-third congress as a democrat from 
Ohio. 

RICHARDS, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1797. 




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RICHARDS, JOHN, state legislator, 
congressman. He was a member of the 
New York assembly in 1814 and 1815; 
and was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1823 to 1825. 


RICHARDS, MRS. LAURA ELIZA¬ 
BETH [HOWE], author, was born in 1850 
in Massachusetts. She is a writer of 
juvenile books, whose home is in Gar¬ 
diner, Maine; and the author of The Joy¬ 
ous Story of Toto; Toto’s Merry Winter; 
In My Nursery; Five Mice; Captain Jan¬ 
uary; Jim of Hellas; and Queen Hilde- 
garde. 

RICHARDS, LOUIS HARRY, railroad 
president, was born April 7, 1831, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. Since 1878 he has been 
president of the Potomac, Fredericksburg 
and Piedmont railroad. 

RICHARDS, MRS. MARIA [TOLMAN], 
educator, author, was born Oct. 8, 1821, in 
Dorchester, Mass. She is an educator and 
lecturer of Providence; and the author 
of Life in Judea; and Life in Israel. 

RICHARDS, MARK, state legislator, 
congressman, was born' in New Haven, 
Conn. He was a member of the state 
legislature for eight years; was county 
sheriff for five years; was a presidential 
elector in 1813; and was a state counsel¬ 
or in 1813 and 1815. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Vermont from 1817 
to 1821; and was lieutenant-governor of 
Vermont in 1830. 

RICHARDS, MATTHIAS, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born in 1757. He 
was a judge of Berks county, Pa., from 
1788 to 1797; and was a representative 
in congress from Pennsylvania from 1807 
to 1811. He died in 1830. 

RICHARDS, MATTHIAS HENRY, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, journalist, was born 
June 17, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 
.1880 he has been editor of Church Lesson- 
Leaves; and Helper; and since 1886 the 
managing editor of the Church Messenger 
at Allentown, Pa. 

RICHARDS, ROBERT HALLOWELL, 
metallurgist, educator, inventor, was born 
Aug. 26, 1844, in Gardiner, Maine. He has 
invented a jet aspirator for chemical and 
physical laboratories; and an ore-sep¬ 
arator for the Lake Superior copper mills. 
During 1886 he was president of the Amer¬ 
ican institute of Mining Engineers. 

RICHARDS, SARAH J., philanthropist, 
was born in 1820. She was a noted phi¬ 
lanthropist of her time. She died in 1893. 

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RICHARDS, THOMAS ADDISON, art¬ 
ist, educator, was born Dec. 3, 1820, in 
England. Since 1867 he has been profes¬ 
sor of art in the university of the city of 
New York, which gave him the honorary 
degree of M. A. in 1878. His numerous 
paintings include Alastor, or the Spirit of 
Solitude; and The Indian’s Paradise. 

RICHARDS, W. AVERY, clergyman, au-> 
thor, poet, was born Dec. 28,1838, in Clyde, 
Ohio. He has filled pastorates in the 
methodist churches of Dixon, Prairie 
City, Sioux City, and Fort Dodge, Iowa; 
and is the author of a volume of poems. 

RICHARDS, WILLIAM, missionary, 
was born Aug. 22, 1792, in Plainfield, 
Mass. In 1822 he embarked as a mission¬ 
ary to the Sandwich islands. In 1838 he 
became councilor, chaplain and inter¬ 
preter to the king, and after the recogni¬ 
tion of the independence of the islands 
by foreign powers was sent as ambas¬ 
sador to England, and to other courts. He 
died Dec. 7, 1847, in Honolulu. 

RICHARDS, WILLIAM ALFORD, 
farmer, civil engineer, governor, was born 
March 9, 1849, in Hazel Green, Wis. He 
has been county surveyor in California 
and Colorado, and during 1889-93 was 
United States surveyor-general of Wyom¬ 
ing. Jan. 7, 1895, he was inaugurated 
governor of Wyoming for a term of four 
years. 

RICHARDS, WILLIAM CAREY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, poet, was born Nov. 24, 
1818, in England. He was a baptist min¬ 
ister of Chicago, widely known as a lec¬ 
turer upon physical science, and the au¬ 
thor of Baptist Banquets; The Lord Is 
My Shepherd; The Mountain Anthem; 
Our Father in Heaven, a series of son¬ 
nets; and Science in Song. He died in 
1892. 

RICHARDS, WILLIAM TROST, artist, 
was born Nov. 14, 1833, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. Among his works in oil are Tulip- 
Trees (1859); Midsummer; Woods in 
June (1864); and Mid Ocean. His work in 
water-colors has become widely known, 
and includes Cedars on the Sea-Shore 
(1873); Paradise, Newport; Sand-Hills, 
Coast, N. J.; King Arthur’s Castle, Tin- 
tagel, Cornwall; Mullion Gull Rock, Tin- 
tagel, Cornwall (1882); The Unresting 
Sea (1884). 

RICHARDS, ZALMON, educator, was 
born Aug. 11, 1811, in Cummington, Mass. 
He attended Williams' college during 1831- 
36; was principal of 
the Union academy 
of his native city for 
three years; of the 
Stillwater academy 
for ten years; of the 
preparatory depart¬ 
ment of the Colum¬ 
bian college for three 
years; and of the 
Union academy dur¬ 
ing 1851-66. For two 
years he was super¬ 
intendent of public 
schools of Washington, D. C., and for 
three years was a clerk in the bureau of 
education. Since 1856 he has been presi¬ 
dent and a member of the National Edu¬ 
cational association. 

RICHARDSON, MRS. ABBY (SAGE), 
educator, author, poet, was born in 1835. 
She is an educator and lecturer upon lit¬ 
erature, and the author of Familiar Talks 
on English Literature; Stories from Old 
English Poetry; History of Our Country; 
and Abelard and Heloise, a Mediaeval Ro¬ 
mance. She has edited Songs from the 
Old Dramatists, and other works. 


RICHARDSON, ALBERT DEANE, 
journalist, author, was born Oct. 6, 1833, 
in Franklin, Mass. He was a journalist 
of New York city, and famous as the 
war correspondent of The Tribune during 
the civil war. He was the author of Be¬ 
yond the Mississippi; Personal History of 
Ulysses Grant; The Field, the Dungeon, 
and the Escape; and Garnered Sheaves. 
He died Dec. 2, 1868, in New York city. 

RICHARDSON, BEALE HOWARD, 
journalist, was born in 1843, in Baltimore, 
Md. In 1889 he obtained control of the 
Georgia Enquirer Sun, which under his 
management became remarkably success¬ 
ful. 

RICHARDSON, CHARlES ALBERT, 
soldier, lawyer, public official, was born 
Aug. 14, 1829, in Freetown, N. Y. He re¬ 
ceived the rudi¬ 
ments of his educa¬ 
tion in the common 
schools, and attend¬ 
ed Cortland academy 
of Homer, N. Y. He 
has been county 
treasurer and surro¬ 
gate of Ontario coun¬ 
ty, N. Y.; New York 
state commissioner 
for Gettysburg and 
Chattanooga monu- 
- ments; and United 
States commissioner for Gettysburg na¬ 
tional park. Dui'ing the civil war he 
served in the union army as lieutenant, 
captain and major of the one hundred and 
twenty-sixth regiment New York volun¬ 
teer infantry. He is one of the foremost 
lawyers of the east, and has a large prac¬ 
tice at Canandaigua, N. Y. 

RICHARDSON, CHARLES FRANCIS, 
educator, author, was born May 29, 1851, 
in Hallowell, Maine. He was a professor 
of English literature at Dartmouth col¬ 
lege from 1882, and is the author of Prim¬ 
er of American Literature; The Cross, a 
collection of verse; American Literature, 
1607-1885; and The Choice of Books. Co¬ 
editor with H. A. Clark of The College 
Book. 

RICHARDSON, DAVID P„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born May 28, 1833, 
in Macedon, N. Y. He served in the union 
army from 1861 to 1864; removed to An¬ 
gelica in 1866, and engaged in the prac¬ 
tice of his profession. He was elected a 
representative from New York to the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses 
as a republican. 

RICHARDSON, E. C., librarian. He is 
the librarian of the Princeton university, 
and a regular contributor to historical lit¬ 
erature. 

RICHARDSON, GEORGE F., agricultu¬ 
rist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born July 1, 1850, in Jamestown, Mich. 

He was the son of a 
pioneer farmer, and 
his occupation in life 
has been principally 
that of a farmer. He 
received his educa¬ 
tion in the common 
schools. He was 
elected township 
clerk eight years in 
succession, and in 
1884 was elected to 
the Michigan legis¬ 
lature, and again in 
1890. The democrats controlled the or¬ 
ganization of the house, and he was elect¬ 
ed speaker pro tempore, and was elected 
to the fifty-third congress by the demo¬ 
crats and populists. He was the editor of 
The Free Coinage Independent, which is 
now published as The Middle West of 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 






RICHARDS, JOSEPH WILLIAM, Ph. D„ 
mineralogist, author, was born July 
28, 1864, in England. He is the au¬ 
thor of the only work in the English 
language on aluminum. Since 1887 he 
has been professor of metallurgy, mineral¬ 
ogy and blowpipe analysis in the Lehigh 
university of Bethlehem, Pa. 

RICHARDS, L. L. GREENE, editor, 
poet, was born April 8, 1849, in Kanes- 
ville, Iowa. At the age of twenty-three 
she became the ed¬ 
itor of the Woman’s 
Exponent—the first 
woman’s paper pub¬ 
lished in Utah; her¬ 
self Utah’s first lady 
editor. The year 
following she mar¬ 
ried Levi Willard 
Richards, but five 
years later she was 
compelled through 
failing health and 
domestic duties to 
relinquish her business pursuits and to 
turn the publication over to the hands of 
Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells, under whose 
care it still flourishes. 








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RICHARDSON, HOBART WOOD, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1831. He was 
a journalist of Portland, Maine, and the 
author of Paper Money; The National 
Banks; and The Standard Dollar. He 
died in 1889. 

RICHARDSON, J. M., soldier, poet, was 
born March 13, 1831, in South Carolina. 
He served in the civil war as a confed¬ 
erate, attaining the rank of colonel. He 
has contributed both prose and verse to 
the leading magazines and journals of 
South Carolina. 

RICHARDSON, JAMES B., governor, 
was born, in South Carolina. He was gov¬ 
ernor of that state from 1802 to 1804. 

RICHARDSON, JAMES DANIEL, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, 
was born March 10, 1843, in Rutherford 
county, Tenn. In 1870 he was elected a 
representative in the Tennessee state leg¬ 
islature, and was elected speaker on the 
first day of the session. In 1872 he was 
elected state senator and served two years, 
and in 1873, when thirty years of age, 
was made grand master of Masons for 
the state of Tennessee. He also became 
grand high priest of the grand chapter 
of the state. In 1884 he was elected a 
representative from Tennessee to the for¬ 
ty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, 
fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

RICHARDSON, JOHN FRAM, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 7, 1808, in Vernon, 
N. Y. He believed he had discovered the 
true pronunciation of Latin, as spoken 
by the ancient Romans, and in the face 
of much opposition taught it to his pupils. 
It has since been adopted by many of the 
foremost educators. He published Ro¬ 
man Orthoepy: a Plea for the Restora¬ 
tion of the True System of Latin Pronun¬ 
ciation. He died Feb. 10, 1868, in Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y. 

RICHARDSON, JOHN PETER, state 
legislator, congressman, governor, was 
born April 14, 1801, in Hickory Hill, S. C. 
He was a member of the South Carolina 
state legislature from 1824 to 1836; was a 
representative in congress from 1837 to 
1840; and was governor of South Carolina 
from 1840 to 1842. He died Jan. 24, 1864, 
in Fulton, S. C. 

RICHARDSON, JOHN S., soldier, law¬ 
yer, agriculturist, congressman, was born 
Feb. 29, 1828, in Sumter district, S. C. 
He served in the confederate army as a 
commissioned officer during the war of 
the rebellion. He was a member of the 
South Carolina state house of representa¬ 
tives from 1865 to 1867. He was elected 
a representative from South Carolina to 
the forty-sixth and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

RICHARDSON, JOHN SMYTHE, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, was born April 
11, 1777, in Sumter, S. C. He was an as¬ 
sociate judge of the general sessions and 
of the common pleas, and presiding judge 
of the court of appeals; and was elected 
a member of congress in 1820, but owing 
to some exigency in his private affairs, 
was not qualified. He was a member of 
the state legislature, and attorney-general 
for the state of South Carolina. He died 
May 8, 1850, in Charleston, S. C. 

RICHARDSON, JOSEPH, clergyman, 
congressman, was born Feb. 1, 1778, in 
Billerica, Mass. He was a representative 
in congress from Massachusetts from 1827 
to 1831; and was senior pastor over the 
First church at Hingham for fifty years. 
He died Sept. 25, 1871, in Hingham, Mass. 

RICHARDSON, JOSEPH, architect, was 
born Sept. 7, 1814, in England. Thirty 


years ago he established a line of steam¬ 
boats between New York and Bridgeport, 
Conn., which he yet controls. The water 
works at Laramie City are another mon¬ 
ument to his enterprise, he having been 
their originator and builder. He also 
built the water works at Houston, Texas. 

RICHARDSON, NATHANIEL SMITH, 
clergyman, journalist, author, was born 
Jan. 8, 1810, in Middlebury, Conn. He 
was an episcopal clergyman who was edi¬ 
tor of The American Church Review, and 
was the author of Reasons Why I am a 
Churchman; Reasons Why I am not a 
Papist; and Evidences of Natural and Re¬ 
vealed Religion. He died Aug. 7, 1883, in 
Bridgeport, Conn. 

RICHARDSON, RICHARD, patriot, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1704 near Jamestown, 
Va. In 1775 he was a member of the 
council of safety at Charleston, S. C.; and 
in 1776 became a brigadier-general. He 
died in September, 1781, near Salisbury, 
S. C. 

RICHARDSON, SHERMAN D., soldier, 
journalist, poet, was born Jan. 2, 1847, in 
Stafford, Conn. Colonel Richardson was 
an officer in the civil war. He learned 
the printing business, and has been editor, 
cartoonist, special correspondent and con¬ 
tributor to various newspapers and maga¬ 
zines. He is known as the War Poet; 
has given public readings of his own 
works with success; and is the author of 
a volume of poems. 

RICHARDSON, T., journalist, public of¬ 
ficial, was born Oct. 22, 1844, in Port Gib¬ 
son, Miss. For eighteen years he has 
been an alderman of his native city; post¬ 
master for twenty years, and a delegate 
to the republican national conventions of 
1884 and 1896. He is the editor and owner 
of The Vidette of Port Gibson, Miss. 

RICHARDSON, WILLIAM ADAMS, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, author, 
was born Nov. 2, 1821, in Tynsborough, 
Mass. In 1855 he was appointed to revise 
the statutes of Massachusetts, and subse¬ 
quently was appointed to edit the annual 
supplements to the general statutes, which 
he continued to do for twenty-two years. 
In 1856 he became a judge of probate, and 
two years later judge of probate and in¬ 
solvency, serving as such for sixteen 
years. He became assistant secretary of 
the treasury department, and in 1871 went 
to Europe as a financial agent for the 
government. In 1873 he was appointed 
secretary of the treasury, and in 1874 ac¬ 
cepted a seat on the bench of the United 
States court of claims. In 1885 he was 
appointed chief justice of the United 
States court of claims. He was the author 
of The Banking Laws of Massachusetts; 
History of the Court of Claims; Practical 
Information Concerning the United States 
Public Debt; and National Banking Laws. 

RICHARDSON. WILLIAM ALEXAN¬ 
DER, soldier, lawyer, congressman, Unit¬ 
ed States senator, governor, was born Oct. 
11, 1811, in Fayette county, Ky. In 1835 
he was elected state attorney; in 1836 
a member of the Illinois state legislature, 
and in 1838 was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate. In 1844 he was again elected to the 
legislature, and made speaker of the 
house; and was also chosen a presidential 
elector in 1844. In 1846 he served as cap¬ 
tain in the Mexican war. In 1847 he was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Illinois, where he continued to serve by 
re-election until 1856. In 1857 he was ap¬ 
pointed governor of Nebraska, and in 1860 
was elected to the house of representa¬ 
tives, and was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress to fill a vacancy. He died Dec. 27, 
1875, in Quincy, Ill. 


RICHARDSON, WILLIAM MER¬ 
CHANT, lawyer, jurist, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 4, 1774, in Pelham, N. 
H. He was a member of congress from 
Massachusetts from 1811 to 1814, when he 
resigned. He removed to Portsmouth, N. 
H., in 1814, and was appointed chief jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of New Hamp¬ 
shire in 1816. He was the author of The 
New Hampshire Justice, and The Town 
Officer; and a considerable portion of the 
first and second volumes of The New 
Hampshire Reports was drawn up by him. 
He died March 3, 1838, in Chester, N. H. 

RICHE, GEORGE INMAN, lawyer, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Jan. 21, 1833, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. During the civil war he was 
paymaster of United States volunteers, 
and in 1864-67 he was a member of the 
common council. He is best known for 
his educational work. In 1867-86 he was 
the principal of the Philadelphia high 
school. 

RICHEY, ISABEL GRIMES, poet, was 
born in Lancaster, Mo. She is a writer of 
Plattsmouth, Neb., and the author of a 
volume of poems entitled A Harp of the 
West. 

RICHEY, JAMES, educator, poet, was 
born July 15, 1818, in Pendleton county, 
Ky. Despite the advanced age of Mr. 
Richey he still teaches school. For more 
than half a century he has contributed 
to educational journals and the periodical 
press; and his poems have been given a 
place in several standard collections. 

RICHEY, JAMES C., soldier, journalist, 
was born July 13, 1847, in New Castle, 
Pa. During the civil war he served as a 
union soldier, and has been on the fron¬ 
tier since the war. He is the editor and 
owner of The Times of Wichita, Kan.; 
has been alderman of his city and filled 
various other public positions of trust. 

RICHMOND, DEAN, merchant, railroad 
president, was born March 31, 1804, in 
Barnard, Vt. He moved to Buffalo in 
1842, and after the consolidation of the 
railroads forming the New York Central 
he moved to Batavia, N. Y. He was 
first vice-president of the company; was 
elected its president in 1864, and was the 
first railroad man to advocate the laying 
of steel rails. He died Aug. 27, 1866, 
in New York city. 

RICHMOND, MRS. EUPHEMIA JOHN¬ 
SON (GUERNSEY), author, was born in 
1825 in New York. She is a writer of 
Upton, N. Y„ and the author of Hope 
Raymond; Two Paths; The McAllisters, 
a temperance tale; The Jewelled Serpent; 
The Fatal Dower; and Anna Maynard, 
the King's Daughter. 

RICHMOND, HIRAM H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 17,1810, in Chau¬ 
tauqua, N. Y. He was elected from New 
York to the forty-third congress. 

RICHMOND, JACOB L„ soldier, farmer, 
lawyer, business man, was born June 16, 
1836, in Wayne, N. Y. He received his 
education in the common and high schools 
and attended a commercial college in 
St. Louis, Mo. He served as a union sol¬ 
dier during the civil war; was commis¬ 
sioned first lieutenant, and promoted to 
captain for bravery and efficiency during 
the siege of Vicksburg. For fifteen suc¬ 
cessive years he was inspector of cus¬ 
toms; has been United States circuit court 
commissioner; and was clerk of the dis¬ 
trict court for fifteen years. He has 
filled the office of justice of the peace, 
and various other public offices of trust. 
He is prominent in the Masonic and other 
fraternal orders; and resides in Minne- 
waukan, N. D. 


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RICHMOND, JAMES BUCHANAN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 
Turkey Cove, Va. He served in the con¬ 
federate army, rising to the rank of lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Virginia to the forty-sixth 
congress as a democrat. 

RICHMOND, JAMES COOK, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1808, in Providence, 
R. I. He traveled extensively in Europe, 
and was the author of a Visit to Iowa in 
1846; A Midsummer Day Dream; and 
Metacomet, the first canto of an epic 
poem. He died July 20, 1866, in Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. 

RICHMOND, JONATHAN, pioneer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1774 in Bristol, 
Mass. He was one of the pioneers of 
western New York in 1813; was once col¬ 
lector of the customs for the United States 
and was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1819 to 1821. He died 
July 29, 1853, in Cayuga, N. Y. 

RICHMOND, LEWIS, soldier, merchant, 
diplomat, was born March 12, 1824, in 
Providence, R. I. During the civil war 
he attained the rank of brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. In 1875 he was appointed United 
States consul in Ireland; subsequently in 
Italy; and in 1884 was appointed minister 
resident at Lisbon, Portugal. 

RICHMOND, MARY ELIZABETH 
MEAD, philanthropist, was born in June, 
1813, in Troy, N. Y. From 1853 until her 
death in 1895 she resided in Batavia, N. 
Y. The Richmond Memorial Library 
building of that city was erected by her 
at a cost of thirty thousand dollars, in 
memory of her son, Dean Richmond, who 
died in 1885. She performed many gen¬ 
erous acts. 

RICHTER, E. L., journalist, was born 
in Harrison, Ohio. He received a liberal 
education, and attended the Northwestern 
Ohio Normal school. He has been a tele¬ 
graph operator, assistant superintendent 
train dispatcher; and is now the editor 
and owner of The Pioneer of Larimore, 
N. D. 

RICHTER, JOHN G. A., legislator, was 
born April 30, 1862, in Allegheny City, Pa. 
In 1888 he organized the first council of 
the Junior Order of the'United American 
Mechanics, in the city of Canton, Ohio, in 
which society he has since held high 
offices. 

RICKARDS, JOHN EZRA, merchant, 
legislator, governor, was born July 23, 
1848, in Delaware City, Del. His early 
life was spent on a 
farm; and was sub¬ 
sequently a clerk and 
bookkeeper. In 1870 
he located in Colo¬ 
rado, and nine years 
later in California; 
and in 1882 in Butte 
City, Mont., which 
has since been his 
home In 1888 and 
again in 1892 he was 
elected to represent 
the laymen of Mon¬ 
tana in the general conference of the 
methodist episcopal church. He served as 
a member of the board of aldermen in 
Butte; was elected a member of the con¬ 
stitutional convention; then became lieu¬ 
tenant-governor; and in 1892 was elected 
governor of Montana, and was popularly 
known as Montana’s model governor. He 
was instrumental in the establishment of 
a reform school; is a strong and unyield¬ 
ing advocate of bimetallism, and his well- 
known ability and integrity of purpose 
have made him invincible in every po¬ 
litical contest he has undertaken. 


RICKETTS, JAMES BREWERTON, 
soldier, was born June 21, 1817, in New 
York city. In 1839 he graduated from the 
United States Mili¬ 
tary academy. In 
1864 he passed from 
the campaign against 
Richmond to the de¬ 
fence of Washington, 
when threatened by 
General Early; and 
then took part’ under 
Sheridan in the pur¬ 
suit through the Val¬ 
ley, receiving at 
Cedar Creek a wound 
„ . which disabled him 

tor the winter. He received the brevets of 
major-general of volunteers in 1864, and 
of brigadier and major-general in the reg¬ 
ular army in 1865. He died Sept. 22, 1887 
in Washington, D. C. 

RICKOFF, ANDREW JACKSON, educa¬ 
tor was born Aug. 23, 1824, in Mercer, 
N. J. The credit is awarded him of reor¬ 
ganizing the schools both of Cincinnati 
and Cleveland, and largely influencing the 
school systems in Ohio. 

RICORD, MRS. ELIZABETH (STRYK¬ 
ER), author, was born in 1788 on Long 
Island. She was an educator of Geneva, 
N. Y., and after 1845 a resident of New¬ 
ark, N. J. She was the author of Philoso¬ 
phy of the Mind; and Zamba, or the In¬ 
surrection, a Dramatic Poem. She died 
Oct. 10, 1865, in Newark, N. J. 

RICORD, FREDERICK WILLIAM, law¬ 
yer, educator, author, poet, was born Oct. 
7, 1819, in West Indies. He'is a lawyer 
and educator of Newark, N. J., and the 
author of History of Rome; The Youth’s 
Giammar; English Songs from Foreign 
Tongues; and The Self-Tormentor, from 
the Latin of Terentius, with More Eng¬ 
lish Songs. 

RICORD, JEAN BAPTISTE, physician, 
naturalist, author, was born in 1777 in 
France. He was a French physician and 
naturalist who settled in New York city, 
and was the author of Improved French 
Grammar; and several French works. He 
died in 1837 in the West Indies. 

RIDDELL, JOHN LEONARD, physi¬ 
cian, educator, inventor, author, was born 
Feb. 20, 1807, in Leyden, Mass. He was 
melter and refiner at the United States 
mint in New Orleans, the inventor of a 
binocular microscope and magnifying 
glass, and discovered the microscopical 
characteristics of the blood and black 
vomit in yellow fever. He first brought 
to notice the botanical genus Riddellia, 
which was named for him. 

RIDDLE, ALBERT GALLATIN, lawyer, 
author, congressman, was born May 28, 
1816, in Monson, Mass. He was elected a 
representative from 
Ohio to the thirty- 
seventh congress; 
and subsequently 
practiced law in 
Washington, D. C. 
He has written a 
number of romances 
of early life in Ohio. 
He is the author of 
The House of Ross; 
Bart Ridgeley; Alice 
Brand; The Tory’s 
Daughter; Mark 
Loan; The Portrait; Personal Recollec¬ 
tions of War Times; Students and Law¬ 
yers; Life of Benjamin Wade; Life of 
Garfield; and Speeches and Arguments. 

RIDDLE, GEORGE READE, civil en¬ 
gineer, lawyer, state senator, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1817 in New Castle, Del. 
He was appointed deputy attorney-gen¬ 


eral for his native county, which position 
he held until 1850, when he was elected a 
representative from Delaware to the thir¬ 
ty-second congress. He was re-elected to 
the thirty-third congress. In 1864 he was 
elected a senator in congress from Dela¬ 
ware, for the term ending in 1869. He 
died March 29, 1867, in Washington City. 

RIDDLE, H. T., congressman. He was 
elected a representative from Tennessee 
to the forty-fourth congress. 

RIDDLE, HAYWOOD YANCEY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 20, 1834, in 
Van Buren, Tenn. Prom 1865 to 1875 he 
was clerk and master of the Lebanon 
chancery court. He was then elected a 
representative from Tennessee to the 
forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy, 
and was re-elected to the forty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

RIDDLE, MATTHEW BROWN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 17, 1836, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. He was an original mem¬ 
ber of the New Testament revision com¬ 
mittee formed in 1871, translated and ed¬ 
ited the epistles to the Romans, Gala¬ 
tians, Ephesians, and Colossians in the 
American edition of Lange’s Commen¬ 
tary; contributed to Rev. Dr. Philip 
Schaff’s Popular Illustrated Commentary 
on the New Testament; and to his Inter¬ 
national Revision Commentary (New 
York, 1882). 

RIDDLEBERGER, HARRISON HOLT, 
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, United 
States senator, was born Oct. 4, 1844, in 
Edinburg, Va. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the Virginia state legislature 
in 1871, and again in 1873. He was elect¬ 
ed a commonwealth attorney in 1875 and 
1879, and in the latter year was elected 
state senator. He was a presidential 
elector in 1876 and 1880; and in 1881 was 
elected United States senator from Vir¬ 
ginia for the term of sfx years from March 
4, 1883. He died Jan. 24, 1890, in Wood- 
stock, Va. 

RIDEING, WILLIAM HENRY, littera¬ 
teur, journalist, author, was born Feb. 
17, 1853, in England. He is a Boston 
writer on the editorial staff of The 
Youth’s Companion, and the author of 
Pacific Railway Illustrated; A Saddle in 
the Wild West; Boys in the Mountains 
and on the Plains; Boys Coastwise; Stray 
Moments with Thackeray; Alpenstock; 
Young Folks’ History of London; The 
Boyhood of Living Authors; Thackeray’s 
London; A Little Upstart, a novel; In 
the Land of Lorna Doone; and The Cap¬ 
tured Cunarder. 

RIDER, GEORGE THOMAS, educator, 
journalist, author, was born Feb. 21, 1829, 
in Rice City, R. I. In 1860 he removed 
to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he con¬ 
ducted the Cottage Hill seminary for 
young ladies till 1874. He is on the edi¬ 
torial staff of the New York Churchman. 
He has published Plain Music for the 
Book of Common Prayer; Lyra Anglicana, 
or a Hymnal of Sacred Poetry, selected 
from the Best English Writers, and ar¬ 
ranged after the Order of the Apostles’ 
Creed; and Lyra Americana, or Verses of 
Praise and Faith from American Poets. 

RIDER, HENRY CLOSS, educator, was 
born Dec. 14, 1832, in Esperance, N. Y. 
He is the founder and present superin¬ 
tendent of the Northern New York in¬ 
stitute for Deaf Mutes. 

RIDER, JOHN J., farmer, legislator, was 
born Feb. 23, 1840, in Exeter, N. Y. This 
successful farmer is the owner of three 
hundred acres, and makes a specialty of 
dairying and hop raising. In 1894 he 
served as a member of the New York 
state legislature, and received the re- 
election to a second term. 









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RIDGAWAY, HENRY BASCOM, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Sept. 7, 
1830, in Talbot county, Md. He was a 
methodist clergyman and educator of Illi¬ 
nois, and president of the Garrett Bibli¬ 
cal institute at Evanston, Ill., from 1882. 
He was the author of Life of Alfred 
Cookman; The Lord’s Land, or Travels in 
Sinai and Palestine; and Lives of Bishops 
Janes, Waugh, Simpson. He died in 1895. 

RIDGELEY, HENRY M„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1778. He was a 
lawyer by profession, and for many years 
was a distinguished member of the Dela¬ 
ware bar. He was a representative in 
congress from Delaware from 1811 to 
1815; and filled a vacancy as senator in 
congress from 1826 to 1829. He died Aug. 
7, 1847, in Dover, Del. 

RIDGELY, CHARLES, soldier, state 
senator, governor, was born Dec. 6, 1762. 
He served in the state senate, and was 
chosen governor of Maryland three times 
successively, in 1815-17. He was also 
brigadier-general of Maryland militia. He 
died July 17, 1829, in Hampton, Md. 

RIDGELY, EDWIN REED, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born May 9, 
1844, in Crawford county, Kan. In the 
early seventies he engaged in the Texas 
cattle trade, personally sharing in and 
directing the gathering of cattle on the 
range and driving them to the Kansas 
markets. Subsequently he extended his 
cattle operations to the Pacific coast, in¬ 
cluding Washington territory, Oregon and 
California. He lived in Ogden, Utah, from 
1889 to 1893. He was nominated by the 
people’s and democratic parties and elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fifth congress. 

RIDGELY, HENRY MOORE, lawyer, 
congressman. United States senator, was 
born in 1778, in Dover, Del. He was elect¬ 
ed and re-elected to congress as a fed¬ 
eralist, serving from 1811 till 1815. He 
then returned to Dover and continued to 
practice his profession until he was elect¬ 
ed United States senator from Delaware 
in place of Nicholas Van Dyke, deceased. 
He held the seat from 1827 till 1829. He 
died Aug. 7, 1847, in Dover, Del. 

RIDGELY, JAMES LOT, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 27, 1807, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was a member of the 
Baltimore council in 1834-35; of the state 
house of delegates in 1838, and of the 
constitutional conventions of 1849 and 
1864. He was for twelve years register of 
wills for Baltimore county, several years 
president of the board of education, and 
aided in establishing the present public 
school system in 1848. He is the princi¬ 
pal author of the various rituals that are 
now in use. He has also written Odd-Fel¬ 
lowship—What Is It? The Odd-Fellow’s 
Pocket Companion; and many other 
works of a similar character. He was the 
editor of The Covenant, the official mag¬ 
azine of the order. He died Nov. 16, 1881, 
in Baltimore, Md. 

RIDGELY, NICHOLAS, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born Sept. 30, 1762, 
in Dover, Del. He was attorney-general 
and member of the Delaware legislature. 
In 1801 he was appointed chancellor of 
the state of Delaware, and held that office 
for twenty-nine years until his 4eath. He 
died April 1, 1830, in Georgetown, Del. 

RIDGELY, RICHARD, congressman. 
He was a delegate from Maryland to the 
continental congress from 1785 to 1786. 

RIDGEWAY, ROBERT, journalist, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative from 
Virginia to the fortieth congress. He 
was at one time editor of the Richmond 
Whig. He died Oct. 16, 1869, in Amherst 
county, Va. 

RIDGWAY, JACOB ELWOOD, banker, 
financier, was born Aug. 14, 1824, in Salem, 
N. J. He was one of the founders of the 


Union Passenger railway, now known as 
the Philadelphia Traction company. Sev¬ 
eral large ships were also built by him. 

RIDGWAY, JOSEPH, manufacturer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
May 6, 1783, on Staten Island, N. Y. In 
1828 he was elected to the legislature of 
Ohio, and was re-elected in 1830; and was 
a representative in congress from Ohio, 
from 1837 to 1843. 

RIDGWAY, ROBERT, ornithologist, 
author, was born July 2, 1850, in Mount 
Carmel, Ill. He was an eminent ornithol¬ 
ogist of Washington, and curator of the 
department of birds in the National muse¬ 
um from 1879. He is the author of The 
Birds of Colorado; Ornithology of the 
Fortieth Parallel; Manual of North Amer¬ 
ican Birds; and History of North Ameri¬ 
can Birds. 

RIDINGS, ADA NENETA, educator, 
poet, was born Dee. 22, 1870, in Hollow- 
town, Ohio. Since the age of six she has 
resided in Caldwell, Kan. She has at¬ 
tained success in educational work, and 
is the author of numerous poems of merit. 

RIDINGS, S. P., lawyer, poet, was born 
in 1868 in Highland county, Ohio. He 
was raised on the frontiers of Kansas, 
received a thorough education, and gradu¬ 
ated from the State university of Kansas. 
He has attained success in the practice 
of law in Oklahoma; and in literature has 
gained the name of The Poet of Pond 
Creek. 

RIDLON, G. T., clergyman, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was bora July 12, 1841, in Hollis, 
Maine. During the civil war he served 
in the union army in the seventeenth and 
twenty-seventh regiments of Maine volun¬ 
teer infantry. He is the author of A 
History of the Ancient Ryedales; Bur¬ 
bank Genealogy; Hamblens of Beech Hill; 
Saco Valley Settlements and Families; 
and Rambles in Europe. 

RIDPATH, JOHN CLARK, author, poet, 
was born April 26, 1840, in Putnam coun¬ 
ty, Ind. In 1885 he published his Cyclo¬ 
pedia of Universal History in four vol¬ 
umes. He is the author of Life and Work 
of James G. Blaine; Popular and Acad¬ 
emic Histories of the United States; His¬ 
tory of Texas; Life of Garfield; History of 
the World; Christopher Columbus; Col¬ 
umbia, a Quadricentennial Story; Great 
Races of Mankind; and Epic of Life, a 


poem. 

RIED, SAMUEL CHESTER, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Aug. 25, 1783, in Norwich, 
Conn. He was in active service during 
the war of 1812, and regulated the pilot- 
boats and signals at the Battery and the 
Narrows. He was also designer of the 
present United States flag. He died Jan. 
28, 1861, in New York. 

RIEF, CHARLES, legislator, poet, was 
born Nov. 13, 1842, in Germany. His ca¬ 
reer has been an eventful one; he has 
traveled around the 
world twice; and has 
contributed many 
historical papers of 
value on the coun¬ 
tries he has visited. 
He is prominent in 
the municipal affairs 
of Grand Island, 
Neb.; is a member of 
the city council; 
president of the 
board of education; 
and has represented 
his county in the Nebraska legislature. 

RIFE, JOHN W., soldier, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1846, in 
Middletown, Pa. He was a member of 
the house of representatives of Pennsyl¬ 
vania in 1885 and 1886. He was elected to 
the fifty-first congress, and re-elected to 
the fifty-second congress as a republican. 



RIGBY, ISAAC ALBERT, lawyer, wri 
ter, was born May 13, 1861, in Doniphan 
county, Kan. He received the rudiments 
of his education in the common schools; 
attended the Kansas State university, 
from which institution he received the 
degree of LL. B. in 1885. He is a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer of Concordia, Kan.; has 
been president of the board of education; 
county attorney; and a delegate to re¬ 
publican congressional and state conven¬ 
tions. He has contributed extensively to 
law literature and the periodical press 
generally. 



RIGDON, JONATHAN, educator, lec¬ 

turer, author, was born Dec. 22, 1858, in 
Rigdon, Ind. He attended the National 
Normal university of 
Lebanon, Ohio; and 
later took the philo¬ 
sophical course in 
the Central Normal 
college of Danville, 
and subsequently 
graduated from the 
Boston university. 
Since 1885 he has 
filled the chair of 
philosophy and lite¬ 
rary criticism in the 
Central Normal col¬ 
lege of Danville, Ind. He is a successful 
lecturer, and the author of a series of 
grammars that have become very popular. 
He is also the author of Psychology; and 
is at work on a brief intx-oduction to 

Shakespeare, and a work on Psychology. 
His lecture on The Tempest has attracted 
widespread attention, and he has deliv¬ 
ered several courses of lectures in In¬ 
diana designed especially for teachers’ 
associations and literary societies. 


RIGDON, SIDNEY, printer, was born 
Feb. 19, 1793, in St. Clair, Pa. It is said 
that Rigdon was the printer who first 
made public, in connection with Joseph 
Smith, The Book of Mormon, a manu¬ 
script given him to be printed by one 
Spaulding, its author. He died July 14, 
1876, in Friendship, N. Y. 


RIGGEN, JOHN A., soldier, physician, 
surgeon, legislator, was born Oct. 29, 1841, 
in Stark county, Ill. He was a member of 
the eighteenth regiment Missouri veteran 
volunteer infantry during four years’ ser¬ 
vice, and was promoted to corporal, ser¬ 
geant, sergeant-major, second lieutenant, 
and first lieutenant. He has attained 
prominence as a noted physician and sur¬ 
geon of Iowa at What Cheer; was 
president of the Keokuk County Medical 
society in 1886-87; was senior vice-com¬ 
mander of the Iowa department of the 
Grand Army of the Republic in 1888; since 
1882 has been division surgeon of the 
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern 
railroad. During 1894-98 he served with 
distinction as state senator in the Iowa 
state legislature, and was on several im¬ 
portant committees. 


RIGGS, ANNA R., educator, reformer, 
was born Jan. 28, 1835, in Cynthiana, Ky. 
For five years she was financial secretary 
of the Woman’s Educational association, 
in connection with the Illinois Wesleyan 
university of Bloomington, Ill., during 
1876-81. She then removed with her hus¬ 
band to Portland, Ore., and has been 
eight years state president of the Wo¬ 
man’s Christian Temperance union. She 
was one of the founders of the Refuge 
for Fallen Girls, since changed to Flor¬ 
ence Crittenton home. For twenty years 
she has been engaged in philanthropic 
work; and is now the president of the 
board of managers of the Florence Crit¬ 
tenton home; and state lecturer for res¬ 
cue work. 


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RIGGft, ELIAS, missionary, author, was 
born Nov. 19, 1810, in New Providence, N. 
J. He was a congregational missionary 
in Constantinople, famous as a linguist, 
among whose writings are, Manual of the 
Chaldee Language; Grammar of the Mod¬ 
ern Armenian Language; Notes of Diffi¬ 
cult Passages of the New Testament; and 
A Harmony of the Gospels, in Bulgarian. 

RIGGS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
banker, was born July 4, 1813, in George¬ 
town, D. C. He formed the banking house 
of Corcoran and Riggs, which acquired 
a national fame during the Mexican war 
by taking up the entire loan that was 
called for by the government in 1847 and 
1848. He died Aug. 24, 1881, in Green 
Hill. Md. 

RIGGS, JAMES MILTON, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born April 
17, 1839, in Scott county, Ill. He was 
elected a representative in the Illinois 
state legislature in 1870, and in 1872 was 
elected state’s attorney for Scott county, 
and served four years. He was elected a 
representative from Illinois to the forty- 
eighth congress, and was re-elected to the 
forty-ninth congress as a democrat. 

RIGGS, JAMES STEVENSON, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born in 1853 
in New York. He is a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman, professor in Auburn Theological 
seminary from 1881, and has published 
The Bible in Art. 

RIGGS, JETUR R., physician, state 
senator, congressman, was born June 20, 
1809, in Morris county, N. J. He served 
two years in the New Jersey legislature. 
He spent one or two years in charge of 
the hospital at Sutter’s Fort, California, 
and in 1855 was elected, for three years, 
to the senate of New Jersey. In 1858 he 
was elected a representative in congress 
from New Jersey. He died Nov. 5, 1869, 
in Drakesville. 

RIGGS, JOHN D. S., college president, 
author, was born Jan. 29, 1851, in Wash¬ 
ington, Pa. This eminent educator has 
filled chairs in the leading colleges, and 
since 1896 has been president of the Ot¬ 
tawa university, Kansas. He is the author 
of In Latinum, a work in Latin prose com¬ 
position in two volumes. 

RIGGS, MRS. KATE DOUGLAS 
(SMITH) (WIGGIN), author, poet, was 
born in Massachusetts. She is a popular 
writer of New York city, and the author 
of Timothy’s Quest; Polly Oliver’s Prob¬ 
lem; The Birds’ Christmas Carol; The 
Story of Patsy; A Summer in a Canon; 
Children’s Rights; A Cathedral Court¬ 
ship, and Penelope’s English Experiences; 
The Village Watch-Tower; Marm Lisa; 
and Nine Love Songs and a Carol. She 
has also written in collaboration with her 
sister, Nora Archibald Smith, The Story 
Hour; and The Republic of Childhood. 

RIGGS, LEWIS, congressman, was born 
in New York. He was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1841 to 1843. 

RIGGS, LUTHER GRANGER, journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born Sept. 28, 1837, in Fair- 
field county, Tenn. He was for five suc¬ 
cessive years an official reporter of the 
Connecticut state senate. In 1875 he pub¬ 
lished a collection of his miscellaneous 
poems. He is now editor of The Record¬ 
er, of Richmond, Ill. 

RIGGS, STEPHEN RETURN, mission¬ 
ary, author, was born March 23, 1812, in 
Steubenville, Ohio. He was a missionary 
to the Indians in Minnesota and Dakota, 
and the author of Forty Years Among the 
Sioux; The Bible in Dakota; and many 
translations and other writings relating 
to the Dakota Indians. He died Aug. 24, 
1883, in Beloit, Wis. 


RIIS, JACOB AUGUST, author, was 
born in 1849 in Dakota. He is a New 
York writer on social problems and the 
author of How the Other Half Lives; The 
Children of the Poor; and Nibsy’s Christ¬ 
mas. 

RIKER, JAMES, historian, author, was 
born May 11, 1822, in New York city. In 
addition to addresses and brochures upon 
the history of the Dutch settlers of New 
York, he is the author of A Brief History 
of the Riker Family; The Annals of New¬ 
town; Harlem: Its Origin and Early An¬ 
nals; and The Indian History of Tioga 
County, in a gazetteer of that county (Sy¬ 
racuse, 1888). He died July 15, 1889, in 
Waverly, N. Y. 

RIKER, RICHARD, lawyer, was born 
Sept. 9, 1773, in Newtown, L. I., N. Y. 
From 1802 till 1840 he was district attorney 
for New York, Westchester and Queens 
counties, and he was recorder of the city 
in 1815-19, 1821-23 and 1824-38. Fitz- 
Greene Halleck made Mr. Riker the sub¬ 
ject of his poem, The Recorder. He died 
Sept. 26, 1842, in New York city. 

RIKER, SAMUEL, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman. He was a member of the New 
York assembly in 1784, and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1804 to 1805, and again from 1807 
to 1809. 

RILEY, BENNETT, soldier, was born 
Nov. 27, 1787, in Alexandria, Va. He re¬ 
ceived the brevet of brigadier-general in 
1847 for gallantry at Cerro Gordo, and 
that of major-general in 1847 for Contre¬ 
ras. At the conclusion of the war he 
was placed in command of the Pacific 
department, with headquarters at Monte¬ 
rey. He was appointed military governor 
of California, and served as the first chief 
magistrate of the territory and until the 
admission of the state into the union. He 
died June 9, 1853, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

RILEY, CHARLES VALENTINE, en¬ 
tomologist, author, was born Sept. 18, 
1843, in England. He was a distinguished 
entomologist of Washington, at one peri¬ 
od state entomologist of Missouri, and 
from 1881 till his death in charge of the 
entomological division of the United 
States department of agriculture. He was 
the author of The Locust Plague in the 
United States; Potato Pests; and Noxious, 
Beneficial, and Other Insects of Missouri. 
He died in 1895. 

RILEY, ELIHU SAMUEL, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born May 2, 1845, in Annapolis, 
Md. He is the author of The Ancient City, 
a History of Annapolis, Md.; and is the 
editor and compiler of the City Code of 
Annapolis; the Maryland Manual; and the 
Memorial Volume of the Two Hundredth 
Anniversary of the Removal of the Capi¬ 
tol of Maryland from St. Mary’s to An¬ 
napolis. 

RILEY, HENRY HIRAM, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 1, 1813, in Great 
Barrington, Mass. He was a lawyer of 
Constantine, Mich., once known as a hu¬ 
morous writer; and the author of Paddle- 
ford and Its People; and The Paddleford 
Papers, or Humors of the West. He died 
Feb. 8, 1888, in Constantine, Mich. 

RILEY, JAMES, mariner, author, was 
born Oct. 27, 1777, in Middletown, Conn. 
He was a mariner who was enslaved by 
the Arabs of Africa in 1815 and ransomed 
by Mr. Wiltshire, the British consul, at 
Mogadore. In 1821 he settled in Ohio 
and founded the town of WilTshire, named 
in honor of the consul. From his jour¬ 
nals was prepared, in 1816, the Authentic 
Narrative of the Loss of the American 
Brig Commerce on the West Coast of 
Africa, with a Description of Timbuctoo. 
He died March 15, 1840, at sed:. 


RILEY, JAMES, author, poet, was born 
in 1848 in Ireland. He is a poet of Bos¬ 
ton whose unpretentious Poems, published 
in 1886, reached a third edition in 1888. 

RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB, poet, was 
born about 1852 in Greenfield, Ind. He 
is a very popular poet of Indianapolis 
whose dialect poems of Hoosier life have 
been greatly praised. His earliest work 
appeared over the signature, Benjamin 
F. Johnson of Boone. His dialect and 
other poems display much real feeling and 
originality. He is the author of The Old 
Swimmin’ Hole and ’Leven More Poems; 
The Boss Girl, and Other Sketches; Af¬ 
terwhiles; Old-Fashioned Roses; Pipes o’ 
Pan at Zekesbury; Rhymes of Childhood; 
Flying Islands of the Night; Neighborly 
Poems; An Old Sweetheart of Mine; 
Green Fields and Running Brooks; Poems 
Here at Home; Armazindy; and A Child 
World. 

RILEY, JOHN CAMPBELL, physician, 
author, was born Dec. 16, 1828, in George¬ 
town, D. C. He was a Washington physi¬ 
cian who wrote a Compend of Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics. He died Feb. 
22, 1879, in Washington, D. C. 

RIMMER, CAROLINE HUNT, author, 
was born in 1851 in Massachusetts. She 
is the author of Animal Drawing. 

RIMMER, WILLIAM, sculptor, artist, 
educator, author, was born Feb. 20, 1816, 
in England. He was a Boston painter, 
sculptor and teacher of art anatomy, who 
also practiced medicine, but gave up his 
profession to devote himself to art. He 
was the author of Art Anatomv; and 
Elements of Design. He died Aug. 20, 
1879, in South Milford, Mass. 

RINAKER, JOHN IRVING, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in Balti¬ 
more, Md. In 1862 he raised and organ¬ 
ized the one hundred 
and twenty-second 
regiment of Illinois 
infantry volunteers, 
and was mustered 
into the military ser¬ 
vice of the United 
States Sept. 4, 1862, 
as colonel of that 
regiment, and served 
three years, till the 
close of the war. He 
was made brevet 
brigadier-general for 
gallant and meritorious services in the 
field. He served as presidential elector 
on the republican ticket twice—in 1872 
as elector for the seventeenth congression¬ 
al district of Illinois and in 1876 as elector 
for the state at large; and was a delegate 
to the republican national convention in 
1876 and again in 1884. He was a member 
of the board of railroad and warehouse 
commissioners of Illinois under Governor 
Oglesby from 1885 to 1889. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fourth congress in 1894 as 
a republican. 

RINEHART, WILLIAM HENRY, sculp¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 13, 1825, near Union 
Bridge, Md. He was commissioned to 
finish the modeling of the bronze doors 
of the capitol at Washington, which 
Crawford had left unfinished at his death. 
Copies of several of his noted pieces are 
in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

RING, LLEWELLYN BICKNELL, jour¬ 
nalist, was born June 12, 1854, in Cooks- 
ville, Wis. He is the editor and proprie¬ 
tor of The Times of Neillsville, Wis. He 
has served as deputy United States mar¬ 
shall at Shanghai, China, and was sub¬ 
sequently engaged in newspaper work at 
Washington, D. C., and at La Crosse, 
Wis. 




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RINGGOLD, CADWALADER, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born Aug. 20, 1802, in Washing¬ 
ton county, Md. He was commissioned 
commodore in 1862, and placed on the re¬ 
tired list in 1864. He was promoted to 
rear-admiral in 1866. He died April 29, 
1867, in New York city. 

RINGGOLD, GEORGE HAY, soldier, 
author, was born in 1814 in Hagerstown, 
Md. He served in the pay department 
during the Mexican war, became lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel and deputy paymaster-gen¬ 
eral in May, 1862, and was in charge of 
the paymasters of the department of the 
Pacific from 1861 till his death. He was 
an accomplished scholar, draughtsman, 
and painter, and published Fountain 
Rock, Amy Weir, and Other Metrical Pas¬ 
times. He died April 4, 1864, in San 
Francisco, Cal. 

RINGGOLD, SAMUEL, congressman, 
was born Jan. 13, 1770, in Chestertown, 
Md. He was a representative in congress 
from Maryland from 1810 to 1815, and 
again from 1817 to 1821. He died Oct. 
18, 1829, in Frederick county, Md. 

RINGGOLD, SAMUEL, soldier, invent¬ 
or, was born in 1800 in Washington coun¬ 
ty, Md. He became captain in 1836, par¬ 
ticipated in the Florida war, and was bre- 
vetted major for active and efficient con¬ 
duct during hostilities. He introduced fly¬ 
ing artillery into this country, and in¬ 
vented a saddle-tree, which was subse¬ 
quently known as the McClelland saddle, 
and a rebounding hammer made of brass 
for exploding the fulminating primers for 
field-guns, that prevented the blowing 
away of the hammer. He died May 11, 
1846, in Point Isabel, Tex. 

RINGOLD, THOMAS, congressman, 
He was a delegate from Maryland to the 
colonial congress, which met in New York 
in 1765. _ 

RINGOLSKY, ISSIE JOSEPH, lawyer, 
was born Sept. 24. 1864, in Leavenworth, 
Kan. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the high school of his na¬ 
tive city; and from the law and literary 
departments of the university of Michi¬ 
gan. He is one of the leading lawyers of 
Kansas City, Mo., and has the largest 
practice of any individual lawyer in that 
city. 

RINGS, DANIEL, lawyer, jurist. He 
was an early emigrant to the territory of 
Arkansas, and was the first chief justice 
of the supreme court of the state. He 
died Sept. 3, 1873, in Little Rock, Ark. 

RIORDAN, PATRICK WILLIAM, edu¬ 
cator, Roman catholic archbishop, was born 
Aug. 27, 1841, in Ireland. From 1868 till 
1871 he was engaged in missionary work 
at Joliet, Ill., after which he became rec¬ 
tor of St. James’s church, Chicago. While 
be was thus engaged he received notice 
of his appointment as titular bishop of 
Cabasa, and coadjutor, with the right of 
succession, to Archbishop Joseph S. Ale- 
many, of San Francisco. 

RIORDAN, ROGER, journalist, author, 
was born in 1848 in Ireland. He is a New 
York city journalist, and the author of 
A Score of Etchings; and Sunrise Stories, 
a Glance at the Literature of Japan. 

RIPLEY, EDWARD PAYSON, railroad 
president, was born Oct. 30, 1845, in Dor¬ 
chester, Mass. Since 1896 he has been 
president of the Atchison, Topeka and 
Santa Fe railway at Chicago, Ill. 

RIPLEY, ELEAZAR WHEELOCK, 
soldier, congressman, was born April 15, 
1782, in Hanover, N. H. He was speaker 
of the Massachusetts house of representa¬ 
tives in 1811. He moved to Louisiana, 
whence he was elected to congress, serv¬ 
ing from 1835 to the time of his death. 
He died March 2, 1839, in West Feliciana, 
La. 


RIPLEY, EZRA, clergyman, author, 
was born May 1, 1751, in Woodstock, Conn. 
He was a chaplain in the army, and a 
popular clergyman of Concord, Mass. He 
was the author of A History of the Fight 
at Concord. He died Sept. 21, 1841, in 
Concord, Mass. 

RIPLEY, GEORGE, clergyman, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Oct. 3, 1802, in 
Greenfield, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman who was pastor in Boston in 
1826-41, and then for several years the 
chief promoter of the famous Brook Farm 
experiment. In 1849 he became literary 
editor of The New York Tribune, and 
continued in that position until his death. 
With C. A. Dana he edited the American 
Cyclopedia, 1857-63, and also the revised 
edition of the same, 1873-76. His liter¬ 
ary criticisms exerted a wide and bene¬ 
ficial influence. He was the author of 
Discourses on the Philosophy of Relig¬ 
ion; and Letters to Andrews Norton on 
the Latest Form of Infidelity. He died 
July 4, 1880, in New York city. 

RIPLEY, HENRY JONES, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born Jan. 28, 1798, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a baptist cler¬ 
gyman who held a pastorate in Georgia 
in 1819-26, and from 1826 to 1860 was a 
professor in the Theological seminary at 
Newton, Mass. He was the author of 
Notes on the Gospels, Acts, Hebrews; 
Christian Baptism; Church Polity; and 
The Exclusiveness of the Baptists. He 
died May 21, 1875, in Newton Center, 
Mass. 

RIPLEY, HENRY WHEELOCK, mer¬ 
chant, author, was born June 30, 1828, in 
Fryeburg, Maine. He is a great grandson 
of Eleazer E. Whee- 
lock, the founder and 
first president of 
Dartmouth college. 
He received his edu¬ 
cation in the Frye¬ 
burg academy, and 
for many years was 
engaged in mercan¬ 
tile business. He 
was inspector of cus¬ 
toms in Portland, 
Maine, in 1860, and 
is the author of The 
History of the White Mountains. 

RIPLEY, JAMES W., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman. He served 
four years in the legislature of Maine; 
was an officer in the last war with Eng¬ 
land, and was a member of congress from 
Maine from 1826 to 1830, when he was ap¬ 
pointed collector of customs for the Passa- 
maquoddy district of Maine. He died in 
June, 1835. 

RIPLEY, JAMES WOLFE, soldier, was 
born Dec. 10, 1794, in Windham, Conn. 
He served in the second war with Great 
Britain. He received the brevet of brig¬ 
adier-general United States army in 
July, 1861, and in August was promoted to 
the full rank. From his retirement until 
his death he was inspector of the arma¬ 
ment of fortifications on the New 
England coast. In 1865 he received the 
brevet of major-general United States 
army for long and faithful service He 
died March 16, 1870, in Hartford, Conn. 

RIPLEY, ROSWELL SABINE, soldier, 
author, was born March 14, 1823, in 
M orthington, Ohio. He was a confederate 
army officer of prominence who wrote a 
History of the Mexican War. He died 
March 26, 1887, in New York city. 

RIPLEY, THOMAS C., lawyer, congress¬ 
man was born Jan. 2, 1807, in Easton, 
N. Y. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the twenty-ninth con¬ 
gress to fill a vacancy. In 1854 he moved 
to Saginaw, Mich. 



RISING, WILLARD BRADLEY, chem¬ 
ist, educator, was born Sept. 26, 1839, in 
Mecklenburg, N. Y. For several years he 
was consulting analyst to the state viti- 
cultural commission, and was entrusted 
with important studies connected with 
the chemistry of wine. In 1885 he was 
appointed state analyst of California, with 
charge of the examination of various food- 
products. 

RISLEY, ELIJAH, congressman, was 
born in 1780 in Connecticut. He was a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1849 to 1851. He died Jan. 9, 1870, 
in Fredonia, Conn. 

RISLEY, SAMUEL DOTY, soldier, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Jan. 16, 1845, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He has invented an op¬ 
tometer with perimeter attachment for 
measuring errors of refraction in the hu¬ 
man eye and mapping the field of vision, 
and an ophthalmoscope with cylindrical 
lenses, securing a wide range of spherico- 
cylindrical lenses. He has published nu¬ 
merous papers on his specialty, which in¬ 
clude The More Frequently Occurring 
Forms of Conjunctival Disease; and the 
Mydriatics Compared. 

RISTY, AUSTIN G., educator, legisla¬ 
tor, was born April 8, 1855, in Norway. 
In 1867 be emigrated to the United States, 
and for seventeen years taught school. 
He is an ardent advocate of temperance; 
has filled numerous municipal offices, and 
served as a member of the South Dakota 
state legislature. 

RISUM, OTTO A., soldier, merchant, 
legislator, was born Feb. 23, 1835, in Nor¬ 
way. He is a successful merchant of Pul- 
cifer, Wis., and for sixteen years its post¬ 
master. He has served as a member of 
the Wisconsin state assembly, and has 
always taken a prominent part in politics. 

RITAN, OLE A., lumberman, merchant, 
was born Feb. 16, 1849, in Norway. In 
1867 he emigrated to the United States, 
and in 1874 located 
in Wisconsin. Four 
years later he estab¬ 
lished a general 
store in Cumberland, 
Wis., the first one 
built on the island. 
He has attained suc¬ 
cess in business, and 
has taken an active 
part in the public af¬ 
fairs of his city and 
county. He was one 
of the first board of 
city was organized, 
president of the vil- 

RITCH, JOHN WARREN, architect, 
was born June 22, 1822, in Putnam, N. Y. 
Among his important works in New lork 
-city are the Bank of Commerce, the Union 
Dime Savings bank, the buildings of the 
American Express company and the Mer¬ 
chants’ Despatch company, St. Luke’s 
hospital, the State Emigrant hospital, the 
Nursery and Child’s hospital, and the 
artificial islands and Quarantine hospital 
in the lower bay. During 1847-48 he edit¬ 
ed the American Architect. 

Rll CH, WILLIAM GILLET, legislator, 
governor, was born May 4, 1830, in Wa- 
warsing, N. Y. He was elected to the 
state senate of the Wisconsin legislature, 
and was chosen a member of the electoral 
college. In 1869 he established the Winne¬ 
bago County Press at Neenah. In 1873 
President Grant appointed him secretary 
of the territory of New Mexico, which he 
filled for twelve years, three years of 
which he served as governor. He is the 
author of two volumes of Spanish-Ameri- 
can history, entitled The Blue Book of 
New Mexico Aztlan. 



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RITCHEY, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He settled in Ohio, 
and was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1847 to 1849, 
and again from 1853 to 1855. 

RITCHIE, MRS. ANNA CORA (OG¬ 
DEN) (MOWATT), actress, author, was 
horn in 1822 in France. She was a once 
popular actress who 
retired from the 
stage in 1854, and 
for the last ten years 
of her life lived in 
Florence and Lon¬ 
don. Her writings 
include several no¬ 
vels: The Fortune 
Hunter; The Mute 
Singer; Fairy Fin¬ 
gers; Evelyn; The 
Twin Roses; The 
Clergyman’s Wife; 
two successful plays, Fashion and Ar- 
mand; Mimic Life, or Before and Behind 
the Curtain; and Autobiography of an 
Actress, the last named an exceedingly 
popular book. She died in 1870. 

RITCHIE, BYRON F., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan, 29, 1853, in Grafton, 
Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 
1874; and has since practiced his chosen 
profession in Toledo, Ohio. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-third congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

RITCHIE, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 19, 1812, in 
Canansburg, Pa. He was a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the thirty-third, 
thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. 
After leaving congress he held the office 
of judge for about one year. He died Jan. 
24, 1867, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

RITCHIE, HENRY J., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Feb. 11, 1865, in Canada. 
Since 1895 he has been president of the 
St. Augustine and South Beach railway. 

RITCHIE, JAMES MONROE, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 28, 1829, in 
Scotland. He adopted the profession of 
the law. He was a delegate to the repub¬ 
lican national convention of 1880 from 
Ohio, and elected to the forty-seventh 
congress. 

RITCHIE, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Aug. 12, 1831, in Frederick City, 
Md. In 1860 he was elected a presidential 
elector; in 1867 was elected attorney for 
Frederick county to serve for four years; 
and was elected a representative from 
Maryland to the forty-second congress. 

RITCHIE, THOMAS, journalist, was 
born Nov. 5, 1778, in Essex county, Va. 
He became editor of the Richmond Ex¬ 
aminer in 1804, whose name he changed 
to the Enquirer, and he continued to edit 
and publish it for forty years. At the re¬ 
quest of President Polk he resigned the 
Enquirer to his two sons in 1845, and, re¬ 
moving to Washington, assumed the edi¬ 
torial control of the Union, the organ of 
the administration, but retired in 1849. 
He died Jan. 12, 1854, in Richmond, Va. 

RITESMAN, JOHN SMART, farmer, 
public official, was born Jan. 1, 1830, in 
Morgan county, Ind. In 1876 he moved 
to Kansas, and has been successful in 
farming, and has a fine farm at Benning¬ 
ton. He has been justice of the peace 
for a number of years, and held various 
other public offices of trust in his county. 

RITNER, JOSEPH, state legislator, 
governor, was born March 25, 1780, in 
Berks county, Pa. He was frequently a 
member of the legislature of Pennsylvania 
from 1820 to 1827; and was the candidate 
of the anti-Masons for governor in 1829, 
but was defeated. He was afterwards 
governor from 1835 to 1839. He died Oct. 
16, 1869, in Carlisle, Pa. 


RITTENHOUSE, DAVID, scientist, was 
born April 8, 1732, in Roxborough, Pa. 
In 1763 he was employed to determine 
Mason and Dixon’s Line, which he did 
with instruments of his own construc¬ 
tion, and afterwards fixed the boundaries 
of several other states. He was appointed 
by the American Philosophical society to 
observe the transit of Venus in 1769. 
From 1777 to 1789 he was treasurer of 
Pennsylvania. He was a director of the 
United States mint from 1792 to 1795. He 
died June 26, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RITTENHOUSE, LAURA J., author, 
poet, was born in 1841 in Grand Chain, 
Ill. She is the author of two books: Out 
of the Depths, a poem; and a book of tem¬ 
perance stories for young children. 

RITTER, ABRAHAM, merchant, au¬ 
thor, was born in September, 1792, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a merchant of 
Philadelphia, and the author of History 
of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia; 
and Philadelphia and Her Merchants. He 
died Oct. 8, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RITTER, BURWELL C„ agriculturist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Jan. 6, 1810, in Barren county, Ky. He 
was a member of the legislature of Ken¬ 
tucky in 1843 and 1850, and in 1864 was 
a presidential elector. In 1865 he was 
elected a representative from Kentucky to 
the thirty-ninth congress. 

RITTER, CARLTON M., educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born Sept. 1, 1850, in 
East Varick, N. Y. After receiving the 
rudiments of his education, he attended 
the State Normal college of Albany, N. 
Y.; and has since attained prominence as 
one of the foremost educators of Califor¬ 
nia. He has been principal of the Gram¬ 
mar school, and vice-principal of the High 
school of Stockton, and professor of math¬ 
ematics in the State Normal school of 
Chico, of which institution he is now pres¬ 
ident. 

RITTER, MRS. FANNY RAYMOND, 
author, poet, was born in 18—. She is the 
author of Woman as a Musician; Some 
Famous Songs, an Art Historical Sketch; 
and Songs and Ballads. 

RITTER, FREDERICK LOUIS, musi¬ 
cian, composer, author, was born in 1834 
in France. He was a musician of Alsace 
who came to the United States in 1856, and 
becoming professor of music at Vassar 
college in 1867, retained that position un¬ 
til his death. He was the author of 
Music in England; Music in America; 
History of Music in the Form of Lectures; 
and Manual of Musical History. He died 
in 1891. 

RITTER, GEORGE ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, writer, was born Feb. 2, 1854, in 
Edwardsville, Ill. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his educa¬ 
tion in the public 
schools of Nauvoo, 
Ill.; attended Bay- 
lee’s Commercial col¬ 
lege of Keokuk, 
Iowa; the Christian 
Brothers academy; 
and the Washington 
university of St. 
Louis, Mo. He was 
admitted to the bar 
in 1870 in St. Louis, 
Mo., and for many 
years practiced law with success in Nau¬ 
voo, Ill. He was offered many public po¬ 
sitions of trust, but always declined; and 
his name was several times mentioned in 
connection with the governorship of Illi¬ 
nois by the public press and the young 
democracy. He is the author of a work 
entitled The Lawyer and the Law as a 
Profession; has made numerous contrib¬ 


utions to legal science, and his essay en¬ 
titled Legal Reform was brought to the 
attention of the Illinois State Bar asso¬ 
ciation. He has always written on and 
espoused the cause of a uniform system 
or code of pleading, as against the old 
common law form of pleading. He has 
advocated numerous reforms through the 
press, and has made some valuable con¬ 
tributions to mental science. He is an 
honorary member of various societies; ad¬ 
vocated the building of the Nauvoo High 
school; and was instrumental in other im¬ 
provements in his city, county and state. 
On account of his wife’s health he moved 
to Denver, Col., in 1897, where he is now 
engaged in the law and collections. 

RITTER, JOHN, journalist, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 6, 1779, in Exeter 
Township, Pa. The election to the con¬ 
vention to revise the constitution of Penn¬ 
sylvania in 1836, and elections to seats in 
the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth con¬ 
gresses, from Pennsylvania, came to him 
as spontaneous declarations of popular 
confidence and respect. He died Nov. 24, 
1851, in Reading, Pa. 

RITZEMA, JOHANNES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1710 in Holland. He 
was senior minister of the reformed 
Dutch church of New York city, held pas¬ 
toral relations there from 1744 till 1784, 
and frequently preached at Harlem, Phil- 
ipsburg, Fordham, and Cortlandt. He was 
one of the original trustees of Columbia 
college. He died in 1795 in Kinderhook, 
N. Y. 

RIVERS, RICHARD HENDERSON, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born 
Sept. 11, 1814, in Montgomery county, 
Tenn. He was a methodist clergyman and 
educator of Alabama, and for many years 
pastor in Louisville in 1883-87. He was 
the author of Mental Philosophy; Moral 
Philosophy; Our Young People; Life of 
Robert Paine; and Arrows from Two 
Quivers. He died in 1894. 

RIVERS, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in Tennessee. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1855 to 1857. 

RIVERS, WILLIAM JAMES, educator, 
college president, author, was born 
July 18, 1822, in Charleston, S. C. 

He graduated from the South Carolina 
college of Columbia in 1841. For seven¬ 
teen years he was professor of Greek lit¬ 
erature in the State college of South Car¬ 
olina; and for fourteen years was presi¬ 
dent of a college in Maryland. He is the 
author of The Early History of South 
Carolina; Topics in the History of South 
Carolina; a volume of College Addresses 
and Other Occasional Pieces; The Poems 
Eldred; and numerous poems. 

RIVES, AjuFRED LANDON, civil engin¬ 
eer, was born March 25, 1830, in France. 
He was an assistant engineer in com¬ 
pleting the United States capitol build¬ 
ing, Washington, D. C., and in building 
the aqueduct there, in charge of the Unit¬ 
ed States survey in improving the Poto¬ 
mac river; and designed and constructed 
the Cabin John bridge, near Washington, 
which at the time of its completion was 
the largest single-arch stone bridge in the 
world. 

RIVES, AMELIE, author, was born Aug. 
23, 1863, in Richmond, Va. Her first work 
was a story in the Atlantic Monthly, 
which has since appeared with others in 
book-form under the titld of A Brother to 
Dragons, and Other Old-Time Tales. Her 
subsequent work includes stories and 
poems, and a novel entitled The Quick or 
the Dead? 

RIVES, FRANCIS E., congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1837 
to 1841. He died Nov. 30, 1861. 








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RIVES, MRS. JUDITH PAGE (WALK¬ 
ER), author, was born March 24, 1802, in 
Castle Hill, Va. She was the author of 
Souvenirs of a Residence in Europe; 
Home and the World; The Canary Bird; 
and Epitome of the Bible. She died Jan. 
23, 1882, in Castle Hill, Va. 

RIVES, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, was born June 17, 1806, in Nelson 
county, Va. He settled in Albemarle 
county, Va., from which he was elected 
to the state legislature at intervals from 
1835 to 1861, the latest years in the sen¬ 
ate. In 1866 he was appointed to the 
supreme court of appeals of Virginia, and 
his opinions were published in several 
volumes. He gave up his seat on the 
bench in 1869; and in 1871 was appoihted 
United States district judge for the west¬ 
ern district of Virginia. 

RIVES, WILLIAM CABELL, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, Uni¬ 
ted States senator, author, was born May 
4, 1793, in Nelson county, Va. He was 
elected to the legislature of Virginia in 
1817-19, from Nelson county, and in 1822 
was elected to the same position from 
Albemarle county. In 1823 he was elected 
a representative in congress, and served 
for three successive terms. In 1829 he was 
appointed minister to France. In 1832 
was elected a senator in congress. He 
was re-elected in 1835, and served until 
1839. In 1840 he was elected to the sen¬ 
ate, for a third term, where he remained 
until 1845. In 1849 he was a second time 
appointed minister to France; and re¬ 
turned to the United States in 1853. He 
published a history of the Life and Times 
of James Madison. He took part in the 
rebellion of 1861 as a member of the so- 
called confederate congress. He died 
April 25, 1868, in Castle Hill, Va. 

RIXEY, JOHN FRANKLIN, agricultur¬ 
ist, lawyer, congressman. He was edu¬ 
cated in the common schools, at Bethel 
academy, and at the 
university of Vir¬ 
ginia. He attained 
success as a farmer; 
and is one of the 
foremost lawyers of 
Virginia. For twelve 
years he was com¬ 
monwealth attorney 
for Culpeper county; 
and was elected to 
the fifty - fifth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 
He has served on 
several important committees, and always 
takes an active part in debates. 

ROACH, JOHN, shipbuilder, was born 
Dec. 25, 1813, in Ireland. In 1840 he went 
to Illinois to buy land, but he returned 
to New York, and 
worked as a machin¬ 
ist for several years, 
and then established 
a foundry with three 
fellow-workmen. The 
explosion of a boiler 
nearly ruined him 
financially, but he 
rebuilt his works, 
which were known 
as the iEtna Iron 
works. Here he con¬ 
structed the largest 
engines that had been built in the United 
states at that time, and also the first com¬ 
pound engines. In 1868 he bought the 
Morgan Iron works in New York city, and 
also the Neptune, Franklin Forge, ’and 
Allaire works, and in 1871 the ship yards 
in Chester, Pa., that were owned by Rain¬ 
er and Sons. He died Jan. 10, 1887 in 
New York city. 


ROACH, JOHN DANIEL, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born May 1, 1842, in Monroe 
county, Ala. He graduated from the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia, 
a t Charlottesville. 
During the war he 
served under Gen. R. 
E. Lee from April, 
1861, to February, 
1865; and subse¬ 
quently taught 
school in Alabama. 
He takes an active 
interest in the politi¬ 
cal affairs of Louisi¬ 
ana at Mansfield, 
where he has a lu¬ 
crative practice, and has been successfully 
engaged in law for over a quarter of a 
century. 

ROACH, WILLIAM NATHANIEL, ag¬ 
riculturist, state legislator, United States 
senator, was born Sept. 25, 1840, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He was mayor of Larimore, 
S. D., from 1883 to 1887; was a member of 
the territorial legislature of the session of 
1885, and was twice democratic candidate 
for governor of his state. He was elected 
United States senator in 1893. 

ROANE, ARCHIBALD, governor. He 
was governor of Tennessee from 1801 to 
1803. 

ROANE, JOHN, congressman, was born 
in Virginia. He was a presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1809; and was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1815 to 
1817; from 1827 to 1831, and for a, third 
term from 1835 to 1837. He died Dec. 18, 
1869, in Washington, D. C. 

ROANE, JOHN J., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia, his native state, from 1831 to 
1833. 

ROANE, JOHN SELDEN, soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Jan. 8, 1817, in Wilson 
county, Tenn. He was governor of Ar¬ 
kansas from 1848 to 1852; and was a brig¬ 
adier-general in the confederate army. 
He died April 7, 1867, in Pine Bluff, Ark. 

ROANE, JOHN T., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1809 to 1815. 

ROANE, SPENCER, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, author, was born April 4, 
1762, in Essex, Va. He was successively a 
member of the assembly, council and sen¬ 
ate. In 1789 he was appointed a judge of 
the general court; and in 1794 a judge of 
the court of errors. 

ROANE. WILLIAM HARRISON, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
in 1788 in Virginia. He was twice elected 
a member of the executive council of Vir¬ 
ginia; and was once a delegate to the gen¬ 
eral assembly. He was a representative 
in congress from 1815 to 1817; and was a 
senator of the United States from 1837 to 
1841. He died May 11, 1845, in Tree Hill, 
Va. 

ROBB, EDWARD, lawyer, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born March 19, 1857, 
in Brazeau, Mo. He was educated in the 
common schools, 
Brazeau academy, 
Fruitland Normal in¬ 
stitute, and the Mis¬ 
souri state univer¬ 
sity; graduated from 
the law department 
of the Missouri State 
university in March, 
1879, and the May 
following located in 
Perryville, where he 
has since been en¬ 
gaged in the practice 
of his profession. He was elected prose¬ 
cuting attorney of Perry county in 1880; 


and re-elected in 1882. He was elected a 
member of the legislature in 1884, and 
re-elected in 1886. He was appointed as¬ 
sistant attorney-general of the state in 
1889, which position he held for the term 
of four years. He was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

ROBB, JAMES BURCH, lawyer, author, 
was born April 14, 1817, in Baltimore, 
Md. He prepared and published a valu¬ 
able compilation of Patent Cases in Su¬ 
preme and County Courts of the United 
States to 1850, in two volumes. He died 
Nov. 3, 1876, in Boston, Mass. 

ROBB, JAMES HAMPDEN, banker, 
state senator, was born Oct. 27, 1846, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a member of 
the legislature of New York in 1882; and 
state senator in 1884-85. 

ROBB, W. H., journalist, state legisla¬ 
tor, was born in 1856, in Williamsport, 
Pa. For over a quarter of a century he 
has been the editor and owner of the In¬ 
dependent American of Creston, Iowa, a 
daily and weekly newspaper, and one of 
the ablest reform journals in the United 
States. He has served two terms as a 
member of the Iowa state legislature. 

ROBBIE, REUBEN, congressman, was 
born in Vermont. He settled in New 
York, and was elected a representative in 
congress from that state from 1851 to 
1853. 

ROBBIN, STEPHEN HERBERT, 
clergyman, was born Oct. 4, 1858, in Can¬ 
ada. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the Ontario public schools, 
and graduated from the St. Lawrence uni¬ 
versity of Canton, N. Y. He is now one 
of the foremost clergymen of New Eng¬ 
land; has filled pastorates in Genoa and 
Victor, N. Y.;. Bay City, Mich.; and Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He has been president of the 
Social union; is a member of the Boston 
Art club; chairman of the creed revision 
committee in Chicago in 1897; and a prom¬ 
inent Mason and a member of various 
societies. 

ROBBINS, ASHER, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Oct. 26, 1757, in Wethers¬ 
field, Conn. He was United States district 
attorney in 1812. He was a leading sen¬ 
ator in congress from Rhode Island from 
1825 to 1839; and was a member of the 
Rhode Island legislature for many years. 
He died Feb. 25, 1845, in Newport, R. I. 

ROBBINS, CHANDLER, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 24, 1738, in Branford, 
Conn. He published A Reply to John Cot¬ 
ton’s Essays on Baptism; An Address at 
Plymouth to the Inhabitants assembled to 
celebrate the victories of the French Re¬ 
public over their Invaders; An Anniver¬ 
sary Sermon on the Landing at Plymouth; 
anti other discourses. He died June 30, 
1799, in Plymouth, Mass. 

ROBBINS, CHANDLER, was born Feb. 
14, 1810, in Lynn, Mass. He was a Uni¬ 
tarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the 
Second church in 1833-74; and the author 
of Liturgy for the Use of a Christian 
Church; History of the Second or Old 
North Church; Memoir of Benjamin Cur¬ 
tis; and Portrait of a Christian Drawn 
from Life. He died Sept. 11, 1882, in 
Weston, Mass. 

ROBBINS, EDWARD EVERETT, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 27, 1860, in Westmoreland county, 
Pa. He was admitted to the Westmore¬ 
land, Pa., bar in 1884, and at once en¬ 
gaged in the practice of law; and was 
nominated for district attorney in 1886. 
He was elected in 1888 to the state senate, 
and served in that body till 1892. He 
is major and quartermaster of the second 
brigade, state militia; and was elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 



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ROBBINS, ELIZA, educator, author, 
was born in 1786 in Massachusetts. She 
was an educator in Boston for many years; 
and the author of Elements of Mythology; 
Grecian History; and Tales from Ameri¬ 
can History. She died in 1853. 

ROBBINS, FRANCIS LE BARON, cler¬ 
gyman, was born May 2, 1830, in Camillus, 
N. Y. He took up the work of founding a 
church in Kensington, the center of the 
manufacturing district of Philadelphia. In 
this he succeeded, and in 1886 the Beacon 
Presbyterian church was dedicated. 

ROBBINS, GASTON A., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 26, 1859, in 
Alabama. He entered the university of 
North Carolina in 
1877, and graduated 
in 1879 ; studied law 
with Dick and Dil¬ 
lard, at Greensboro, 
N. C. He was admit¬ 
ted to practice law in 
the supreme court of 
North Carolina in 
1880. Returning then 
to Selma, Ala., he 
employed himself in 
the practice of the 
law; and was presi¬ 
dential elector on the Cleveland and Hen¬ 
dricks ticket in 1884. He was elected to 
the fifty-third and re-elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a democrat. His father, 
a noted lawyer, was killed in the confed¬ 
erate service in 1864. 

ROBBINS, GEORGE R., physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 24, 1812, in Al¬ 
lentown, N. J. He was elected from New 
Jersey to the house of representatives of 
the thirty-fourth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-fifth congress. 

ROBBINS, HENRY ALFRED, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Feb. 9, 1839, in St. 
Louis, Mo. He is a prominent physician 
of Washington City; and is the author of 
Non-Venereal Syphilis; Organic Syphilis; 
and Under the Red Flag of the Com¬ 
mune. 

ROBBINS, HORACE WOLCOTT, artist, 
was born Oct. 21, 1842, in Mobile, Ala. 
Many of his works are pictures of moun¬ 
tain and lake scenery, in the delineation 
of which he has, perhaps, been most suc¬ 
cessful. His oil-paintings include Blue 
Hills of Jamaica; Passing Shower, Ja¬ 
maica; Roadside Elms; Harbor Islands, 
Lake George; Lake Katahdin, Maine; 
Early Autumn, Adirondacks; Sunset on 
the Tunxis; Darkening in the Evening 
Glory; and The Lane. 

ROBBINS, JANE BODWELL BAR¬ 
NETT, educator, pioneer, was born Feb. 
24, 1815, in Methuen, Mass. She was a 
pioneer in Wisconsin in 1855, in Minne¬ 
sota in 1856, and in Washington terri¬ 
tory in 1878. She was an active teacher, 
pioneer, Sunday-school and Woman’s 
Christian Temperance union worker, and 
a missionary and suffrage patron. She 
voted in the years 1881-87 in Washington 
territory; and there died on Nov. 19, 1894, 
at Cheney. 

ROBBINS, JOHN, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was for several years engaged in the 
iron and steel business. He was elected 
to congress in 1848, 1850 and 1852; subse¬ 
quently held a number of local positions; 
and in 1874 was elected to the forty- 
fourth congress as a democrat. 

ROBBINS, JOSEPH, patriot, revolution¬ 
ary soldier, was 'born Feb. 22, 1729, in Ac¬ 
ton, Mass. He commanded a company of 
yeomanry in the first fight with the Brit¬ 
ish at the old North Bridge at Concord, 
April 19, 1775, in response to the call of 
Paul Revere. On patriot’s day, 1895, the 


citizens of Acton, Concord and Lexing¬ 
ton set up a large memorial stone on the 
place where once stood the home of Capt. 
Joseph Robbins. He died March 31, 1800. 

ROBBINS, MRS. MARY CAROLINE 
[PIKE], author, was born, in 1842, in 
Maine. She is a writer for the magazines 
on art, landscape gardening, and kindred 
topics; and is the author of The Rescue 
of An Old Place. 

ROBBINS, RENSSELAER DAVID 
CHANCEFORD, linguist, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 23, 1811, in Wards- 
borough, Vt. He contributed to the Bib¬ 
liotheca Sacra, translated Egypt and the 
Books of Moses from the German of E. W. 
Hengstenberg; and Xenophon’s Memora¬ 
bilia of Socrates, with notes, and edited 
the third and fourth editions of Prof. 
Moses Stuart’s Commentaries on the Epis¬ 
tles to the Romans, Hebrews and Eccle¬ 
siastes. He died Nov. 3, 1882, in Newton 
Highlands, Mass. 

ROBBINS, ROYAL, clergyman, author, 
was born Oct. 21, 1788, in Wethersfield, 
Conn. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man, pastor at Kensington, Conn., in 1816- 
61; and the author of Outlines of Ancient 
History; and The World Displayed. He 
died March 26, 1861, in Berlin, Conn. 

ROBBINS, WILLIAM M., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
in 1829 in Randolph county, N. C. He 
was elected to the senate of North Caro¬ 
lina in 1868, and re-elected in 1870. He 
was elected to the forty-third and forty- 
fourth congresses; and was re-elected to 
the forty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

ROBERDEAU, DANIEL, congressman, 
was born in 1727 in the West Indies. He 
was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the 
continental congress from 1777 to 1779; 
and was a signer of the articles of con¬ 
federation. He died Jan. 5, 1795, in Win¬ 
chester, Va. 

ROBERTS, ADA PALMER, author, po¬ 
et, was born Feb. 14, 1852, in North East, 
N. Y. Prior to her marriage in 1878 she 
taught music. She is the author of a 
number of popular stories; and her poems 
have appeared in several standard works. 

ROBERTS, MRS. ANNA SMITH 
[RICKEY], poet, was born Dec. 23, 1827, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. She was a poet who 
published Forest Flowers of the West. She 
died Aug. 10, 1858, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ROBERTS, ANTHONY E„ merchant, 
congressman, was born in October, 1803, 
in Chester county, Pa. In 1839 he was 
elected sheriff of Lancaster county, and 
held the office till 1842; and in 1849 was 
appointed marshal of the eastern district 
of Pennsylvania. He was a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the thirty-fourth 
congress; and was re-elected to the thir¬ 
ty-fifth congress. 

ROBERTS, BENJAMIN STONE, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1811 in Manchester, Vt. 
In 1835 he graduated from West Point; 

and practiced law in 
Iowa in 1843-46. He 
then re-entered the 
army; served with 
distinction in the 
Mexican and civil 
wars; and attained 
the rank of major 
general. After two 
years as professor of 
tactics at Yale col¬ 
lege, he retired from 
active service in 
1870; and then un¬ 
dertook the manufacture and sale of a 
rifle of his own invention. He died Jan. 
29, 1875, in Washington, D. C. 


ROBERTS, BENJAMIN TITUS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1823 in New 
York. He was a free methodist clergy¬ 
man of North Chili, N. Y., founder of 
Chesbrough academy there in 1865, and 
president of that institution in 1869-93. He 
was the author of Fishers of Men; Why 
Another Sect; First Lessons on Money; 
and Ordaining Women. He died in 1893. 

ROBERTS, CHARLES B., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, congressman, was born 
April 19, 1842, in Uniontown, Md. He 
received the rudiments of his education 
in the public schools, and graduated at 
Calvert college of New Windsor, Md. Dur¬ 
ing 1874-78 he was a member of congress 
from the second Maryland congressional 
district. For four years he was attor¬ 
ney general of Maryland; afterward be¬ 
came associate judge of the court of ap¬ 
peals of Maryland; and subsequently chief 
judge of the fifth judicial circuit of Mary¬ 
land. 

ROBERTS, CHARLES GEORGE DOUG¬ 
LAS, litterateur, author, poet, was born 
in 1860 in New Brunswick. He is a pop¬ 
ular Canadian poet and writer, formerly 
a professor of literature in King's col¬ 
lege, Windsor, Nova Scotia, and in re¬ 
cent years a resident of New York city. 
His work in verse includes, Orion, and 
Other Poems; in Divers Tones; The Book 
of the Native. His prose comprises. 
Earth’s Enigmas, a collection of short 
stories; The Forge in the Forest, an Aca¬ 
dian Romance; A History of Canada; 
Around the Camp Fire; Canadian Guide 
Book; Reube Dare’s Shad Boat; Raid from 
Beausejour, and How the Carter Boys 
Lifted the Mortgage. 

ROBERTS, ELLIS H., journalist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 
30, 1827, in Utica, N. Y. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature of the state of New 
York in 1867. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from New York to the forty-sec¬ 
ond and forty-third congresses. He was the 
author of Government Revenue; and New 
York, the Planting and Growth of the 
Empire State. 

ROBERTS, ELWOOD, educator, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born Jan. 22, 
1846, in Wilmington, Del. He received a 
liberal education; and for fourteen years 
taught in the public and private schools 
of Pennsylvania. Since 1882 he has been 
engaged in editorial work on the Norris¬ 
town Herald, one of the foremost daily 
and weekly newspapers of the east. He 
is one of the founders of the Montgomery 
County Historical society, and is its li¬ 
brarian. He is the author of a series of 
papers on Valley Forge Camp-Ground, 
now being published in book form; a vol¬ 
ume of poems entitled Lyrics of Quaker¬ 
ism; and he is greatly interested in 
genealogical research. 

ROBERTS, GEORGE BROOKE, rail¬ 
road president, was born Jan. 15, 1833, in 
Montgomery county, Pa. Since 1880 he 
has been president of the Pennsylvania 
railroad; and is also president of nu¬ 
merous other railroad corporations. 

ROBERTS, GEORGE LITCH, lawyer, 
was born Dec. 30, 1836, in Boston, Mass. 
He is one of the foremost patent lawyers 
in the United States. 

ROBERTS, HOWARD, sculptor, was 
born April 9, 1843, in Philadelphia. He 
opened a studio in Philadelphia, and pro¬ 
duced there his first work of note, the 
statuette Hester and Pearl, from Haw¬ 
thorne’s Scarlet Letter. Among his oth¬ 
er works are Hypatia; Lucille, a bust; 
Lot’s Wife, a statuette; and numerous 
ideal and portrait busts. His statue of 
Robert Fulton is in the capitol at Wash¬ 
ington. 





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ROBERTS, ISAAC PHILIPS, professor 
of agriculture, was born July 24, 1833, in 
East Varick, N. Y. He is professor of ag¬ 
riculture in and director of the College 
of Agriculture and experimental station 
of the Cornell university. He is also on 
the editorial staff of the Country Gen¬ 
tleman. 

ROBERTS, JAMES ARTHUR, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, was horn March 
8, 1847, in Waterboro, Maine. In 1870 he 
graduated from Bow- 
doin college. At the 
age of seventeen he . 
joined the seventh 
Maine battery, and 
took part in the final 
engagements of the 
civil war. After leav¬ 
ing college he taught 
school in Portland, 
Maine; and in 1875 
was admitted to the 
bar at Buffalo, N. Y. 
During 1879-80 he 
was a member of the New York state 
assembly. He was appointed a member 
of the park commission; and has been 
vice-president, director, attorney, or sec¬ 
retary of a score of institutions in me 
state of New York. In 1893 he was elect¬ 
ed state comptroller for the state of New 
York. 

ROBERTS, JAMES BOOTH, actor, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 27, 1818, in New Cas¬ 
tle, Del. In 1851 he went to England 
and played at Drury Lane theater, Lon¬ 
don, in the characters of Sir Giles Over¬ 
reach, King Lear, and Richard III. He 
wrote a version of Goethe’s Faust which 
he produced in Philadelphia, playing Me- 
phistopheles. 

ROBERTS, JOB, agriculturist, jurist, 
author, was born March 23, 1757, near 
Gwynedd, Pa. He was among the first 
to introduce and breed merino sheep in 
Pennsylvania, and promoted the manufac¬ 
ture of silk. He published The Pennsyl¬ 
vania Farmer, being a Selection from the 
Most Approved Treatises in Husbandry. 
He died Aug. 20, 1851, near Gwynedd, Pa. 

ROBERTS, JOHN BINGHAM, author, 
was born in 1852 in Pennsylvania. He is 
a Philadelphia physician; and the author 
of Paracentesis of the Pericardium; and 
Compendium of Anatomy. 

ROBERTS. JOHN FRANCIS, legisla- • 
tor, was born May 10, 1856, in Phelps 
county, Mo. In 1893 he served as a mem¬ 
ber of the Arkansas state legislature. He 
was twice president of the county Farm¬ 
er’s Alliance, and has been a delegate to 
the state alliance of Little Rock, Ark. 

ROBERTS, JONATHAN, state senator, 
congressman. United States senator, was 
born Aug. 16, 1771, in Upper Merion, Pa. 
He was elected to both branches of the 
Pennsylvania legislature; was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from 1811 to 1814. 
From 1814 to 1821 he was a sen¬ 
ator of the United States. In 1841 
he was appointed collector of the port of 
Philadelphia. He died July 21, 1854, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

ROBERTS, JOSEPH, soldier, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 30, 1814, in Mid¬ 
dletown, Del. He was promoted colonel 
in the fourth artillery in 1877; and was 
placed on the retired list. He is the au¬ 
thor of a Hand-Book of Artillery (New 
York, 1860). 

ROBERTS, JOSEPH JENKINS, presi¬ 
dent of Liberia, was born March 15, 1809, 
in Norfolk, Va. When the colony of Li¬ 
beria was founded by the American Colo¬ 
nization society he was first lieutenant- 
governor and then governor of the col¬ 
ony, and, Upon the formation of the re¬ 


public in 1848, he was elected its first pres¬ 
ident, serving four years. He died Feb. 
24, 1876, in Liberia. 

ROBERTS, ORAN MILO, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, agriculturist, educator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born July 9, 1815, in Laurens 
district, S. C. In 1841 he moved to Texas, 
and settled at St. Augustine in the prac¬ 
tice of his profession; and in 1844 was ap¬ 
pointed district attorney, holding the of¬ 
fice until the annexation of Texas to the 
L T nited States. In 1846 he was appointed 
judge of the fifth judicial district of Tex¬ 
as; and in 1857 was elected an associate 
justice of the supreme court of Texas. In 
1862 he resigned and entered the confed¬ 
erate army as colonel of the eleventh 
Texas infantry. He was elected a United 
States senator, but was not admitted to 
his seat. From 1868 to 1870 he was pro¬ 
fessor of law and agriculture in the in¬ 
stitute at Gilmer, Texas. In 1874 he was 
appointed chief justice of the state; and 
was elected to that position in 1876. In 
1878 he was elected governor of Texas; 
and was re-elected in 1880. In 1883 he 
became professor of law in the university 
of Texas. He was the author of Govern¬ 
or Robinson’s Texas. 

ROBERTS, ROBERT ELLIS, merchant, 
author, was born June 3, 1809, in Utica, 
N. Y. He was a prominent merchant and 
citizen of Detroit; and the author of 
Sketches of Detroit; and The City of the 
Straits. He died Feb. 18, 1881, in Detroit, 
Mich. 

ROBERTS, ROBERT RICHFORD, mis¬ 
sionary, was born Aug. 2, 1778, in Fred¬ 
erick county, Md. He was called by the 
Indians the grandfather of all the mis¬ 
sionaries. His history is identified with 
the early methodist church. He died 
March 26, 1843, in Lawrence county, Ind. 

ROBERTS, ROBERT W., congressman, 
was born in Delaware. He settled in Mis¬ 
sissippi; and was elected a representative 
in congress from that state from 1843 to 
1847. 

ROBERTS, SARAH, author, was born 
July 26, 1812, in Portsmouth. She was 
the author of My Childhood; My Step- 
Mother; and Voice of the Grass. She died 
March 16, 1869, in New York city. 

ROBERTS, SOLOMON WHITE, civil 
engineer, author, was born Aug. 3, 1811, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a distin¬ 
guished civil engineer of Pennsylvania; 
and the author of The Destiny of Pitts¬ 
burg. He died March 20, 1882, in At¬ 
lantic City, N. J. 

ROBERTS, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 25, 1809, in Wales. 
He was a Welsh presbyterian clergyman 
of Utica from 1875. He published, in 
Welsh, The Abrahamic Covenant; and 
The Election of Grace. He died in 1887. 

ROBERTS, WILLIAM HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 31, 1844, in 
Wales. He is a presbyterian clergyman, 
professor of theology in Lane seminary, 
in 1886-93, and stated clerk of the gen¬ 
eral assembly from 1884. He is the au¬ 
thor of History of the Presbyterian 
Church in the United States; Ecclesiasti¬ 
cal Status of Theological Seminaries; and 
The Presbyterian System. 

ROBERTS, WILLIAM RANDALL, mer- 
cnant, congressman, was born Feb. 6, 1830, 
in Ireland. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from New York to the forty-second 
and forty-third congresses as a democrat, 
and in 1885 was appointed United States 
minister to Chili. 

ROBERTSON, ALEXANDER, artist, 
was born in 1768 in Scotland. He painted 
landscapes in water-color, and, like his 


brother, was well known as a teacher. He 
died May 27, 1841, in New York city. 

ROBERTSON, ANTHONY LISPEN- 
ARD, lawyer, jurist, was born June 8, 
1808, in New York city. He was assist¬ 
ant vice-chancellor in 1846-48, surrogate 
of New York city in 1848, and in 1859 was 
elected a judge of the superior court. In 
1864 he was elected for a second term, 
and in 1866 was chosen chief justice by 
his associates. He died Dec. 18, 1868, in 
New York city. 

ROBERTSON, ARCHIBALD, artist, was 
born May 8, 1765, in Scotland. From 1792 
till 1821 Robertson followed his profes¬ 
sion as a painter and instructor in New 
York, working mostly in water-colors and 
crayons. In 1802 he assisted in the pro¬ 
ject of forming an art academy, and in 
1816, on the founding of the American 
academy, he was elected a director. He 
died Dec. 6, 1835, in New York city. 

ROBERTSON, EDWARD WHITE, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 
13, 1823, near Nashville, Tenn. He was 
a representative in the Louisiana state 
legislature from 1847 to 1849; and again 
in the legislature in 1853. He was state 
auditor from 1857 to 1862. He entered 
the confederate army in the latter year 
as captain, and served throughout the 
war. He was elected a representative 
from Louisiana to the forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses. He 
died August, 1887, in Washington, D. C. 

ROBERTSON, FELIX, physician, was 
born Jan. 17, 1780, in Nashville, Tenn. He 
was thoroughly identified with the city 
of Nashville, being the first male child 
born in the city, practiced medicine there 
forty years, was twice mayor, also long 
a president of the Bank of Tennessee, and 
a presiding officer of the university of 
Nashville. He died Sept. 10, 1865, in 
Nashville. Tenn. 

ROBERTSON, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
educator, state legislator, was born Nov. 
18, 1790, in Mercer county, Ky. In 1816 
he was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress, and served from 1817 to 1821. He 
was a member of the legislature, and 
speaker of the house during four sessions, 
ending in 1827. In 1828 he was secretary 
of state, and the same year was chosen 
judge of the court of appeals. In 1829 he 
was commissioned chief justice of Ken¬ 
tucky. He was professor of law in Tran¬ 
sylvania university for twenty-three 
years. He died May 17, 1874, in Lexing¬ 
ton. 

ROBERTSON, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1834 
to 1839. 

ROBERTSON, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1787 near Peters¬ 
burg, Va. He was a Virginia jurist; and 
the author of Riego, or the Spanish Mar¬ 
tyr, a tragedy; and Opuscula, a book of 
verse. He died July 5, 1873, in Mount 
Athos, Va. 

ROBERTSON, JOHN HENRY, journal¬ 
ist, reformer, was born July 30, 1866, near 
Pine Bluff, Ark. He is a prominent mem¬ 
ber of the Knights of Labor; has been its 
district secretary, state statistician, state 
secretary-treasurer; general worthy in¬ 
spector; secretary of the general co-opera- 
the board; general organizer; and during 
1892-97 was a representative to the gen¬ 
eral assembly of the order of the Knights 
of Labor. In 1894 he was Arkansas state 
secretary of the Farmer's Alliance; and 
in 1894-95 was assistant secretary of the 
State Horticultural society. He is a suc¬ 
cessful journalist of Little Rock, Ark., 
and takes an active part in reform work. 




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ROBERTSON, MERCER L., lawyer, was 
born April 22, 1859, in Alexandria, Va. 
In 1881 he graduated at the Law univer¬ 
sity of Virginia; and in 1882 received the 
degree of B. L. from Yale college. He is 
one of the foremost lawyers of Texas at 
Dallas; has been alderman of his city, and 
takes an active part in the public affairs 
of his city, county and state. 

ROBERTSON, ROBERT HENDER¬ 
SON, architect, was born April 29, 1849, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. Among many build¬ 
ings of his design are the Madison Avenue 
Methodist church, St. James’s Episcopal 
church, the Young Women’s Christian as¬ 
sociation building, the Church of the Holy 
Spirit, Phillips Presbyterian church, the 
New York club building, the Railroad 
Men’s building, St. Augustine chapel, 
Grace chapel, and the Mott Haven railroad 
station, all in New York city. 

ROBERTSON, ROBERT STODDART, 
soldier, lawyer, statesman, was born April 
16, 1839, in North Argyle, N. Y. He served 
as a soldier during the civil war, and 
was promoted to colonel of New York vol¬ 
unteers. During 1871-76 he was register 
in bankruptcy; in 1886-88 he was lieuten¬ 
ant-governor of Indiana; and during 1881- 
94 was a member of the Utah commis¬ 
sion. He is prominently identified with 
the public institutions of Fort Wayne, 
Ind.; and has filled numerous public po¬ 
sitions of honor in that city. 

ROBERTSON, SAMUEL MATTHEWS, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Jan. 1, 1852, in Plaque- 
mine, La. He was elected a member of 
the Louisiana state legislature from the 
parish of East Baton Rouge in 1879 for a 
term of four years. In 1880 he was elected 
a member of the faculty of the Louisiana 
State university and Agricultural and Me¬ 
chanical college; and filled the chair of 
natural history in that institution and the 
position of commandant of cadets until he 
was elected to the fiftieth congress to fill 
a vacancy created by the death of his 
father, E. W. Robertson. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth congresses; and re-elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fifth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

ROBERTSON, THOMAS A., lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 9, 1848, in Hodgensville, Ky. He 
was twice elected school commissioner 
of La Rue county, Ky.; and afterward 
was elected county attorney. In 1877 he 
was elected a representative in the state 
legislature. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Kentucky to the forty-eighth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth congress as a democrat. 

ROBERTSON, THOMAS BOLLING, a 
Virginian, became Louisiana’s governor in 
1820. In 1805 he moved from Virginia to 
the territory of New Orleans; and be¬ 
came its attorney general. In 1807 he was 
secretary of the territory, and for a time 
acted as United States district attorney. 
He was the first representative elected to 
the United States congress from Louisi¬ 
ana after it became a state. He resigned 
the governorship in 1824 to accept the 
United States judgeship. He died Oct. 5, 
1828, in White Sulphur Springs, Va. 

ROBERTSON, THOMAS JAMES, plan¬ 
ter, state senator, was born Aug. 3, 1823, 
in Fairfield county, S. C. In 1868 he was 
elected a senator in congress from South 
Carolina for the term ending in 1871; 
and was re-elected for the term ending in 
1877. 

ROBERTSON, WILLIAM ADDISON 
ROAN, farmer, lawyer, was born July 25, 


1849, in Carlinville, Ill. He attended the 
public schools, the university of Carlin¬ 
ville, the Illinois college, and the Harvard 
Law school. He has had a varied career; 
was connected with the Fargo Daily Ar¬ 
gus for five years; has attained success 
as a lawyer at Carlinville, Ill.; and now 
resides in Florida. 

ROBERTSON, WILLIAM AIRD, ac¬ 
countant, journalist, • was born Dec. 17, 
1866, in Glasgow, Scotland. He is an ex¬ 
pert accountant of Salt Lake City, 
Utah; and a journalist and mining pro¬ 
moter of prominence. He has also at¬ 
tained success in the insurance business; 
and takes an active part in business en¬ 
terprises and political affairs. 

ROBERTSON, WILLIAM D., railroad 
president, was born Jan. 31, 1810, in South 
Argyle, N. Y. Since- 1884 he has been 
president of the Greenwich and Johnson- 
ville railway at Greenwich, N. Y. 

ROBERTSON, WILLIAM H., lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 10, 1823, in Bedford, N. Y. In 
1848 he was elected to the New York as¬ 
sembly, and re-elected in 1849. In 1854 
he was elected to the state senate. In 
1856 he was elected for four years judge of 
Westchester county; and was re-elected in 
1859, and also in 1863, serving eleven 
years in all. In 1866 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the for¬ 
tieth congress; and in 1875 he was elect¬ 
ed to the senate of New York. 

ROBERTSON, WINDHAM, governor, 
was born Jan. 26, 1803, in Manchester, 
Va. He was elected lieutenant-governor 
of Virginia in 1834; and in 1836 was made 
acting-governor of the state, remaining 
in that position until 1837. He died Feb 

11, 1888, in Washington county, Va. 

ROBESON, GEORGE MAXWELL, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 
1827 in Warren county, N. J. In 1859 he 
was appointed prosecuting attorney for 
Camden county. On the outbreak of the 
rebellion was appointed a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral, and took an active part in the or¬ 
ganization of troops. In 1867 he was ap¬ 
pointed attorney-general of New Jersey, 
which position he resigned to accept a 
seat, in 1869, in the cabinet of President 
Grant, as secretary of the navy. He re¬ 
mained in the cabinet until the advent of 
President Hayes in 1877; and was elected 
a representative from New Jersey to the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses 
as a republican. 

ROBIE, FREDERICK, soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 

12, 1822, in Gorham, Maine. He was a 
representative in the Maine state legis¬ 
lature for seven years, serving as speaker 
for two sessions; and was a state senator 
for two terms. He served as paymaster 
in the union army throughout the civil 
war. He was a member of the executive 
council on the staff of the governor of 
Maine for four years; and was made mas¬ 
ter of the Maine State Grange of Patrons 
of Husbandry. In 1882 he was elected 
governor of Maine for the term of two 
years; and was re-elected in 1884. 

ROBIE, THOMAS, librarian, author, 
was born March 20, 1689, in Boston, Mass. 
He was librarian of Harvard college in 
1712-13, and from 1714 till 1723 was a tu¬ 
tor. He published a book entitled The 
Knowledge of Christ; and in the Trans¬ 
actions of the Philosophical society a pa¬ 
per on Alkaline Salts; and one on The 
Venom of the Spider. He died Aug. 28, 
1729, in Boston, Mass. 


ROBINS, HENRY EPHRAIM, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, was born 
Sept. 27, 1827, in Hartford, Conn. In 1867 
he took the pastorate of the First Bap¬ 
tist church of Rochester, N. Y., and he 
remained there until 1873, when he was 
called to the presidency of Colby univer¬ 
sity, Waterville, Maine. For nearly ten 
years he administered the affairs of this 
college with success. In 1882 he was elect¬ 
ed to the chair of Christian ethics in 
Rochester Theological seminary. 

ROBINSON, ALEXANDER KELLEY, 
lawyer, was born July 26, 1850, in Gal¬ 
latin county. Ill. He received a thorough 
education in the 
schools of Shawnee- 
town, Ill. He then 
studied law; and has 
since attained suc¬ 
cess in that profes¬ 
sion in California. In 
1890-92 he was dis¬ 
trict attorney of Pla¬ 
cer county, Cal.; and 
filled that office with 
distinction. He has 
a lucrative practice 
in Auburn, Cal.; and 
takes an active part in the public affairs 
of his city, county and state. He is a 
member of various fraternal orders; and 
has held numerous public positions of 
trust. 

ROBINSON, MRS. ANNIE DOUGLAS 
[GREEN]—Marian Douglas—author, po¬ 
et, was born Jan. 12, 1842, in Plymouth, 
N. H. She is a writer of Bristol, N. H.; 
and the author of Picture Poems for 
Young Folks; and Peter and Polly, or 
Home Life in New England One Hundred 
Years Ago. 

ROBINSON, CHARLES, physician, law¬ 
yer, governor, was born July 21, 1818, in 
Hardwick, Mass. His father was a farmer, 
a strong abolitionist, 
and a descendant of 
the John Robin¬ 
son of Plymouth 
colony fame. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
at the Hadley and 
Amherst academies, 
Amherst college and 
the medical schools 
of Pittsfield, Mass., 
and Woodstock, Vt. 
For many years he 
pi’acticed his profes¬ 
sion at Belchertown and Pittsfield, and 
at Springfield opened a hospital. In 1849 
he went to California, suffered shipwreck 
on his return on the coast of Mexico; and 
while in California served in the legisla¬ 
ture. After his return to Massachusetts 
he was editor of the Fitchburg News for 
two years; and in 1854 became identified 
with the free state movement in Kansas. 
Doubtless his influence in laying the 
foundation of that state was greater than 
any other single individual. He was 
elected governor of the territory, and in 
1861 was elected governor of the state un¬ 
der the recognized constitution; and he 
became popularly known as the war gov¬ 
ernor of Kansas. He was instrumental 
in the establishment of the first school in 
Lawrence; was identified with the found¬ 
ing of the state university, of which he 
was regent for many years, and at his 
death bequeathed $150,000 to that institu¬ 
tion. For forty years he was identified 
with the best interests of the political and 
social affairs of the state; and the peo¬ 
ple of Kansas duly acknowledged his 
great and lasting service. He was the 
author of The Kansas Conflict. He died 
Aug. 17, 1894, at his home, near Law¬ 
rence, Kas. 





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ROBINSON. CHARLES SEYMOUR, 
'Clergyman, author, was born March 31, 
1829, in Bennington, Vt. He is a presby- 
terian clergyman of prominence in New 
York city, well known as an hymnologist. 
Besides Laudes Domini, and other hym¬ 
nals, he has published Church Work, a 
Yolume of sermons; Studies on the New 
Testament; Studies of Neglected Texts; 
The Pharaohs of the Bondage and the 
Exodus; Simon Peter, his Life and Work; 
Studies in Mark’s Gospel; Simon Peter’s 
Later Life and Labors; Sermons in Songs; 
and Sabbath Evening Sermons. 

ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Rhode Island. 
He was attorney general of Rhode Island; 
and was elected a representative from 
Rhode Island to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress. In 1861 he was appointed minister 
to Peru. 

ROBINSON, CONWAY, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born Sept. 15, 1805, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. He devoted himself for many 
years to a revision of the civil and crim¬ 
inal code of Virginia; and he was the au¬ 
thor of a number of valuable law works. 
He died Jan. 30, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ROBINSON, DAVID, soldier, was born 
Nov. 4, 1754, in Hardwick, Mass. He 
served through the war of 1812, attaining 
for meritorious service the rank of major- 
general. He died Dec. 11, 1843. 

ROBINSON, EDITH, author, was born 
in 1858 in Massachusetts. She is a Bos¬ 
ton novelist; and the author of A Forced 
Acquaintance; Penhallow Tales; and A 
Loyal Little Maid. 

ROBINSON, EDWARD, merchant, state 
senator, was born in 1796 in Connecti¬ 
cut. He served two years in the Maine 
senate. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maine during the years 1838 
and 1839; and in 1840 was a presidential 
elector. He died Feb. 20, 1857 

ROBINSON, EDWARD, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 10, 1794, 
in Southington, Conn. He was a distin¬ 
guished congregational clergyman and 
biblical scholar of New York city, a pro¬ 
fessor in Union seminary in 1837-63, and 
the founder of the Bibliotheca Sacra. He 
was the author of Harmony of the Four 
Gospels, in Greek; Harmony of the Four 
Gospels, in English; Biblical Researches 
in Palestine; Physical Geography of the 
Holy Land; and A Greek and English 
Lexicon of the New Testament. He died 
Jan. 27, 1863, in New York city. 

ROBINSON, EDWARD BRECK, musi¬ 
cian, poet, was born May 29, 1821, in Dor¬ 
chester, Mass. He was the first organ¬ 
ist of the First Parish church, Portland, 
Maine; and was a partner in the firm of 
Andrews and Robinson, manufacturers of 
pianos and organs. He is the author of a 
number of poems, some of which have 
been set to music. 

ROBINSON, EDWARD MURPHY, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born March 11, 1872, 
in Stockton, Ala. He received the degree 
of B. A. from the university of Alabama, 
and the degree of LL. B. from the same 
institution. He studied law at the univer¬ 
sity of Virginia, and has attained success 
in that profession in his native state at 
Mobile. He has filled numerous public 
offices of trust, and in 1894-95 and 1896-97 
served as a member of the state legisla¬ 
ture, and was chairman of the committee 
on education in the house, and a member 
of the judiciary committee. He is also 
captain of the Mobile rifle company. 

ROBINSON, EZEKIEL GILMAN, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, author, was 
born March 23, 1815, in Attleborough, 


Mass. He was a baptist clergyman and 
educator, president of the Brown univer¬ 
sity in 1872-89; and the author of Yale 
Lectures on Preaching; Principles and 
Practice of Morality; and Christian Evi¬ 
dences. He died in 1894. 

ROBINSON, FANNIE, educator, poet, 
was born Sept. 30, 1847, in Carlindale, 
Pa. She attended the Albany Female col¬ 
lege, and Rutgers Female college. • For 
twenty years she has been engaged in 
educational work, and most of the time 
as principal and preceptress. Her poems 
have appeared in Harper’s Monthly, Cos¬ 
mopolitan, and other leading magazines. 

ROBINSON, FAYETTE, author, was 
born in Virginia. He was the author of 
Mexico and her Military Chieftains; Ac¬ 
count of the Organization of the United 
States Army; California and the Gold Re¬ 
gions; Spanish Grammar; Wizard of the 
Wave, a romance; and a number o£ trans¬ 
lations from the French. He died in 1859. 

ROBINSON, FRANK TORREY, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1845 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is a journalist and art critic 
of Boston, and more recently one of the 
curators of the Metropolitan museum of 
New York city. He is the author of 
Quaint New England; Living New Eng¬ 
land Artists; and History of the Fifth 
Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Mi¬ 
litia. 


ROBINSON. FRED ERNEST, poet, was 
born Feb. 22, 1865, in Cato, Wis. He 
is the author of a number of poems. 

ROBINSON, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 1, 1835, in Hubbardston, 
Mass. For many years he was judge of 
the district court of East Hampton, Mass. 

ROBINSON, GEORGE DEXTER, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, governor, 
was born Jan. 20, 1834, in Lexington, 
Mass. He was a representative in the 
Massachusetts state legislature in 1874; 
and a state senator in 1876. He was 
elected a representative from Massachu¬ 
setts to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty- 
seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a 
republican. In 1883 he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Massachusetts, and resigned his 
seat in congress to assume the duties of 
that office from January, 1884; and was 
re-elected in 1884 and 1885. 


ROBINSON, MRS. HARRIET JANE 
[HANSON], suffragist, author, poet, was 
born Feb. 8, 1825, in Boston, Mass. She 



England; and The 
in blank verse. 


is a prominent wo¬ 
man suffragist of 
Malden, Mass. In 
her early life she 
was one of the con¬ 
tributors to the 
noted Lowell Offer¬ 
ing; and the author 
of Massachusetts in 
the Woman Suffrage 
Movement; Captain 
Mary Miller, a 
drama; Early Fac¬ 
tory Labor in New 
ew Pandora, a drama 


ROBINSON, HARRY PERRY', littera¬ 
teur, author, was born in 1860 in East In¬ 
dies. He is an English writer, resident in 
the United States from 1883, and now liv¬ 
ing in Chicago. He is a brother of Philip 
Robinson, the English writer. He is the 
author of Men Born Equal, a novel; and 
monographs on railway topics. 

ROBINSON, HENRY A., statistician, 
political economist, was born July 25, 
1840, in Bay de Verte, N. B. His parents 
removed to the United States when he 
was seven years of age, first to Maine and 
then to Ohio. During the civil war he 


served a short time in the union army. 
He studied law, was admitted to the bar, 
and practiced. He has, however, devoted 
his best energies to political economy and 
statistics, and has written extensively on 
these and kindred subjects. He has been la¬ 
bor commissioner and statistician of the 
labor bureau of Michigan. He has been 
president of the National Statistical asso¬ 
ciation at Washington, D. C., and is now 
its first vice-president; and is a member 
of various other statistical bodies. He is 
a fluent speaker, and has done much plat¬ 
form talking on economical and political 
subjects. 

ROBINSON, HENRY CORNELIUS, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Aug. 28, 1832, 
in Hartford, Conn. He has been mayor 
of his native city; a representative in the 
Connecticut state legislature; and a mem¬ 
ber of the state constitutional convention. 

ROBINSON, HORATIO NELSON, edu¬ 
cator, mathematician, author, was born 
Jan. 1, 1806, in Hartwick, N. Y. He 
was a mathematician and educator of Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio, after 1854 a resident of Eld- 
ridge, N. Y. He was the author of Uni¬ 
versity Algebra; Mathematical Recre¬ 
ations; Treatise on Surveying and Navi¬ 
gation; Treatise on Astronomy; and Ana¬ 
lytical Geometry and Conic Sections He 
died Jan. 19, 1867, in Eldridge, N. Y. 

ROBINSON, J. F., governor. He .was 
governor of Kentucky from 1861 to 1863. 

ROBINSON, JAMES C„ soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1822 in Edgar 
county, Ill. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Illinois to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress, and was re-elected to the thirty- 
seventh and thirty-eighth congresses. He 
was elected to the forty-second and forty- 
third congresses as a democrat. 


ROBINSON, JAMES HERVEY, state 
legislator, was born Jan. 31, 1802, in Mor¬ 
ristown, N. J. He was chosen a member 
of the New Jersey legislature in 1840, and 
again in 1842, serving two terms, with 
credit to himself and to his constituency. 



ROBINSON, JAMES M„ machinist, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born in 1861 in Al¬ 
len county, Ind. At the age of fifteen he 
took employment in 
a shop at Fort 
Wayne as a machine 
hand, and from that 
time till the present 
has supported and 
kept house with his 
mother; and while 
working at his trade 
he studied law. In 
1881 he entered the 
office of Judge Wal¬ 
pole G. Colerick, who 
was then in con¬ 
gress; and in 1882 was admitted to prac¬ 
tice in the state and United States courts. 
In 1886 and 1888 he was unanimously 
nominated for prosecuting attorney and 
elected, filling that position for four years. 
He was unanimously nominated by the 
democrats in 1896 and elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a democrat, represent¬ 
ing the twelfth congressional district of 
Indiana. 


ROBINSON, JAMES SIDNEY, soldier, 
journalist, state legislator, congressman, 
was born Oct. 14, 1827, near Mansfield, 
Ohio. In 1856 he was elected chief clerk 
of the Ohio house of representatives, 
and served two terms. He enlisted in the 
union army in 1861 and served through¬ 
out the war, rising to the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general and brevet major-general. He 
was elected a representative from Ohio to 
the forty-seventh and forty-eighth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 




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ROBINSON, JAMES W„ lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 28, 
1826, in Union county, Ohio. He was elect¬ 
ed to the Ohio legislature in 1858, 1860, 
and 1864; and was elected to the forty- 
third congress. 

ROBINSON, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 8, 1768, in Cabarrus coun¬ 
ty, N. C. He was the author of a work 
entitled Eulogy .on Washington. He died 
Dec. 14, 1843. 

ROBINSON, JOHN BUCHANAN, naval 
officer, journalist, congressman, was born 
May 23, 1846, in Allegheny City. He is 
at present proprietor of the Media Ledger 
and is the largest stockholder in the West 
Chester Publishing company, West Ches¬ 
ter, Pa. He was elected to the state leg¬ 
islature, lower house, 1884; re-elected in 
1886; was elected to the state senate in 
1889; and elected to the fifty-second con¬ 
gress in 1890. He was re-elected to the 
fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as 
a republican. 

ROBINSON, JOHN BUNYAN, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, poet, was born 
April 11, 1834, in Osceola, Ohio. In 1860 
he graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity. He has been principal of the 
Mount Washington seminary, near Cin¬ 
cinnati; and was successively president 
of Willoughby college, Fort Wayne col¬ 
lege, New Hampshire seminary and Fe¬ 
male college, and Jennings seminary. He 
has lectured extensively; and is the au¬ 
thor of Infidelity Considered; Vinves of 
Eshcol; Commencements; and various 
other prose works; and a volume of po¬ 
etical works entitled Emeline. He is rep¬ 
resented in Poets of America and other 
standard works. 

ROBINSON, JOHN CLEVELAND, sol¬ 
dier, was born April 10, 181 1 , in Bing¬ 
hamton, N. Y. He was brevetted a 
major-general of the United States army. 
He participated in the Mexican war, Semi¬ 
nole war, Indian troubles in Texas, Mor¬ 
mon troubles in Utah, and served with 
distinction through the civil war. In 1872 
he was chosen lieutenant-governor of his 
state. 

ROBINSON, JOHN HOVEY, physician, 
author, was born in 1825 in Maine. He 
is a physician who wrote a large number 
of sensational romances of slight literary 
merit, among which are,'White Rover; 
Nightshade; and Silver-Knife. 

ROBINSON, JOHN L„ congressman, 
was born in Kentucky. He was a repre¬ 
sentative, in congress from Indiana from 
1847 to 1853. In 1857 he was appointed 
United States marshal for the district of 
Indiana. He died March 21, 1860, in In¬ 
diana. 

ROBINSON, JOHN M., lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born in 1793 
in Kentucky. He was one of the early 
settlers of Illinois, and one of the judges 
of the supreme court of that state. He 
was a senator in congress from 1830 to 
1842. He died April 27, 1843, in Ottawa, 
Ill. 

ROBINSON, JOHN STANIFORD, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, governor, was born 
Nov. 10, 1804, in Bennington, Vt. He was 
for many years in the state legislature; 
and was governor of Vermont from 1853 
to 1854. He died April 24, 1860, in Cher- 
leston, S. C. 

ROBINSON, JONATHAN, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, United States senator, was born Aug. 
24, 1756, in Hardwick, Mass. He was ap¬ 
pointed chief justice ot Vermont in 1801; 
and in 1806 was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress, serving from 1807 to 1815. He died 
Nov. 3, 1819, in Bennington, Vt. 


ROBINSON, LEORA BETTISON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born June 8, 1840, in 
Little Rock, Ark. Together with her hus¬ 
band she established the Holyoke acad¬ 
emy of Louisville, Ky. She is the author 
of House with Spectacles; Than; Patsy; 
and other works. 

ROBINSON, LUCIUS, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, governor, was born Nov. 4, 1810, 
in Windham, N. Y. He was district at¬ 
torney of Greene county, N. Y., from 1837 
to 1840. In the latter year he moved to 
New York city; and in 1843 was appoint¬ 
ed commissioner in chancery. In 1859 he 
was elected a representative in the New 
York legislature; and was re-elected in 
1860. In 1861 he was elected comptroller 
of the state; and was re-elected in 1863. 
In 1871 he was a member of the state con¬ 
stitutional commission; in 1875 was again 
elected comptroller; and in 1876 was elect¬ 
ed governor of New York. 

ROBINSON, MRS. MARTHA HARRI¬ 
SON, author, was born in Virginia. She 
is a writer of Philadelphia who has pub¬ 
lished a number of translations from the 
French, and Helen Erskine, an original 
novel. 

ROBINSON, MARTIN L., educator, law¬ 
yer, was born Oct. 18, 1860, in Paintsville, 
Ky. For fifteen years he was engaged 
in educational work; and is now a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer of Boons Camp, Ky., where 
he is prominent in public affairs. 

ROBINSON, MRS. MARY DOMMET 
[NAUMAN], author, was born in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. She is a novelist of Lancaster, 
Pa.; and the author of Twisted Threads; 
Sidney Elliot; The Enchanted Princess; 
Clyde Wardleigh’s Promise; and Eva’s 
Adventures in Shadowland. 

ROBINSON, MERRITT M., lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1810 in Louisiana. 
He was the reporter of the supreme court 
of Louisiana from 1841 till 1847. He pub¬ 
lished a useful Digest of the Penal Laws 
of Louisiana, Analytically Arranged. His 
Reports, comprising sixteen volumes, in¬ 
cluding four that he edited, were en¬ 
riched with valuable marginal notes. He 
died June 5, 1850, in Louisiana. 

ROBINSON, MILTON S., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
April 20, 1832, in Versailles, Ind. He en¬ 
tered the army as lieutenant-colonel; and 
rose to the rank of brevet brigadiei'-gen- 
eral. He was a member of the state sen¬ 
ate from 1867 to 1870; and in 1874 was 
elected a representative from Indiana to 
the forty-fourth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

ROBINSON, MOSES, state legislator, 
governor, United States senator, was born 
March 15, 1741, in Hardwick, Mass. He 
served in the legislature of Vermont; and 
was governor of that state from 1789 to 
1790. He was a member of the senate of 
the United States from Vermont under the 
administration of President Washington 
from 1791 to 1796. He died May 26, 1813, 
in Bennington, Vt. 

ROBINSON, ORRIN W., lumber mer¬ 
chant, state senator, was born Aug. 12, 
1834, in Claremont, N. H. In 1873 he or¬ 
ganized the Sturgeon River Lumber com¬ 
pany of Chassell, Mich., of which he is 
still president. He was a member of the 
Michigan house of representatives in 1896; 
and served with distinction as a member 
of the state senate in 1897-98. 

ROBINSON, ORVILLE, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1843 to 1845; and also served four years in 
the assembly of that state from Oswego 
county. 


ROBINSON, ROWLAND EVANS, far¬ 
mer, author, was born in 1833 in Ver¬ 
mont. He is a farmer of Ferrisburgh, Vt.; 
and the author of Danvis Folks, a novel; 
Vermont; a Study of Independence; Un¬ 
cle ’Lisha’s Shop; and In New England 
Woods and Fields. 

ROBINSON. SAMUEL, soldier, was born 
Aug. 9, 1738, in Hardwick, Mass. He was. 
the first justice of the peace appointed 
in town under the authority of Vermont 
in 1778, and was also during the same year 
one of the judges of a special court. He 
died May 3, 1813, in Bennington, Vt. 

ROBINSON, SARA TAPPAN DOOLIT¬ 
TLE, author, was born July 12, 1827, in 
Belchertown, Mass. She is the wife of 
the late ex-Governor 
Charles Robinson, 
frequently called the 
war governor of 
Kansas. She received 
a thorough education 
in the classical school 
of her native city, 
now known as Salem 
academy. Mrs. Rob¬ 
inson is the author 
of Kansas, its Inter¬ 
ior and Exterior Life, 
a book which was 
widely circulated and had great influence 
in the Kansas struggle. She is a pleasing 
writer, and has contributed extensively 
to the periodical press. She was the 
daughter of Myron Lawrence, a distin¬ 
guished lawyer, who did his state great 
honor in various public capacities. 

ROBINSON, SOLON, journalist, author, 
was born Oct. 21, 1803, near Tolland, Conn. 
He was a journalist of New York city 
long known as an agricultural writer for 
The Tribune, and after 1870 a resident 
of Jacksonville, Fla. He was the author 
of Hot Corn, or Life Scenes in New York, 
a very popular book for a short period; 
Facts for Farmers, which was extensive¬ 
ly circulated; How to Live, or Domestic 
Economy Illustrated; and Me-won-i-toc, 
He died Nov. 3, 1880, in Jacksonville, Fla. 

ROBINSON, STILLMAN WILLIAMS, 
educator, civil engineer, author, was born 
March 6, 1838, in South Reading, Vt. He 
is a civil engineer, professor of physics at 
Ohio State university from 1878; and the 
author of Practical Treatise on the Teeth 
of Wheels; Railroad Economics; and 
Strength of Wrought-Iron Bridge Mater¬ 
ials. 

ROBINSON, STUART, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 14, 1814, in Ireland. 
He is a presbyterian clergyman of prom¬ 
inence in Louisville; and the author of 
Discourses of Redemption; and The 
Church of God. He died Oct. 5, 1881, in 
Louisville, Ky. 

ROBINSON, MRS. THERESE ALBER- 
TINE LOUISE [VON JAKOB]—Talvi— 
author, was born in 1797 in Georgia. She 
was an able and learned author who 
wrote both in English and German, using 
the pseudonym Talvi in the latter case. 
She was the author of Characteristik der 
Volkslieder germanischen Nationen; Die 
Unechtheit der Lieder Ossians; Aus der 
Geschichte der ersten Ansiedelungen in 
den Vereinigten Staaten; Die Colonisa¬ 
tion von New England; Fifteen Years, a 
Picture from the Last Century; Historical 
View of the Language and Literature of 
the Slavic Nations. She also wrote a 
number of stories which her daughter 
translated from the German, including 
Psyche; Heloise; Life’s Discipline; and 
The Exiles. She died in 1869. 




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ROBINSON, THOMAS, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Delaware from 1839 to 1841. He died Oct. 
28, 1843, in Sussex county, Del. 

ROBINSON, THOMAS, artist, was born 
Aug. 23, 1835, in Pictou, N. S. He has 
attained a national reputation throughout 
the United States as a noted artist. He 
died March 1, 1888, in Providence, R. I. 

ROBINSON, TRACY, business man. au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in New York. He 
was an official of the Panama railway in 
1861-74, and subsequently a resident of 
New York city. He is the author of Soug 
of the Palm, and Other Poems. 

ROBINSON, WALTER A., educator, 
was born Dec. 15, 1854, in East Orring- 
ton, Maine. His work in Franklin gave 
him a reputation as a prominent educator 
in New Hampshire, and led to his being 
elected president of the State Teachers’ 
association. 

ROBINSON, WILLIAM ERIGENA, 
journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born 
May 6, 1814, in Ireland. He was a fre¬ 
quent writer for the New York Herald; 
and in 1844 became identified with the 
New York Tribune, signing his commu¬ 
nications Richelieu. In 1848 and 1849 he 
became identified as editor with a weekly 
paper called The People. He practiced 
law in New York from 1853 to 1862; and 
in 1862 was appointed United States as¬ 
sessor of internal revenue for the city of 
Brooklyn. In 1866 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the for¬ 
tieth congress; and was again a represen¬ 
tative in the forty-seventh and forty- 
eighth congresses as a democrat. He died 
Jan. 23, 1892, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

ROBINSON, WILLIAM STEVENS, 
—Warrington—journalist, author, was 
born Dec. 7, 1818, in Concord, Mass. He 
was a journalist of Boston long known 
as the Boston correspondent of the New 
York Tribune and the Springfield Repub¬ 
lican. He was the author of The Salary 
Grab; Manual of Parliamentary Practice; 
Warrington’s Pen Portraits; and Personal 
and Political. He died March 11, 1876. 
in Malden, Mass. 

ROBISON, DAVID F., congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1855 to 1857. 

ROBISON, JAMES DICKEY, surgeon, 
was born April 23, 1820, in Wooster, Ohio. 
During the Mexican war he was surgeon 
in the third regiment Ohio infantry; and 
during the civil war was commissioned 
surgeon in the sixteenth Ohio infantry. 
He performed the first amputation made 
during the civil war. He died May 10, 
1895, in Wooster, Ohio. 

ROBSON, STUART, actor, was born 
March 4, 1836, in Annapolis, Md. He has 
attained a national reputation through¬ 
out the United States as a noted actor. 

ROBYN, ALFRED GEORGE, musician, 
composer, was born April 29, 1860, in St. 
Louis, Mo. He is the author of the oper¬ 
ettas, Beans and Buttons; Court Martial; 
Soldier in Petticoats; and A Slim Leg¬ 
acy. Among his popular ballads are: You; 
Answer; Yearning; and It Was a Dream. 

ROCHE, JAMES JEFFREY, journalist, 
author, was born in 1847 in Ireland. He 
is a popular Boston journalist, since 1890 
the editor of The Pilot; and the author of 
Songs and Satires; Ballads of Blue Water; 
Life of John Boyle O’Reilly; The Story 
of the Filibusters; and His Majesty the 
King. 

ROCHESTER. NATHANIEL, soldier, 
was born Feb. 21, 1752, in Westmoreland 
county, Va. He was a major-general dur¬ 
ing the revolution. In 1818 he purchased 
large tracts of land in the Genesee val¬ 


ley and settled in Rochester, which has 
been named after him. He died May 17, 
1831, in Rochester, N. Y. 

ROCHESTER, PAUL A., railroad man¬ 
ager, was born Aug. 21, 1857, in Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y. He received his education at 
the United States Military academy and 
at the Rochester university. He has been 
in railroad service since 1878; has been 
in the engineer’s corps of several rail¬ 
roads; and since 1895 has been general 
eastern agent of the Gulf, Colorado and 
Santa Fe railway at New York city. 

ROCHESTER, THOMAS FORTESCUE, 
physician, author, was born Oct. 8, 1823. 
in Rochester, N. Y. He was a prominent 
physician of Buffalo; and the author of 
The Army Surgeon; and Medical Men and 
Medical Matters in 1776. He died May 24, 
1887, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

ROCHESTER, WILLIAM BEATTY, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, 
was born in Washington county, Md. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1821 to 1823. He sub¬ 
sequently held the office of circuit judge 
in New York, but resigned to compete 
with De Witt Clinton for the office of gov¬ 
ernor. He died June 15, 1838, at sea. 

ROCHESTER, WILLIAM BEATTY, 
soldier, was born Feb. 15, 1826, in Angel¬ 
ica, N. Y. He entered the United States 
service as major and additional paymas¬ 
ter of volunteers in 1861. He was trans¬ 
ferred to the permanent establishment as 
paymaster in 1867, and in February, 1882, 
was appointed paymaster-general of the 
army, with the rank of brigadier-general. 

ROCKEFELLER, JOHN DAVISON, 
founder of the Standard Oil company, was 
born July 8, 1839, in Ric-hford, N. Y. In 
1870 the firm of Rockefeller, Andrews 
and Flagler dissolved and organized the 
Standard Oil company of Ohio, with 
John D. Rockefeller as its president and 
William Rockefeller as vice-president. 
The Standard Oil companies have been 
able to reduce the cost of oil to con¬ 
sumers, and they now own thousands of 
acres of oil lands, an extensive system of 
wells, refineries, pipe lines, oil steamships 
and business houses in all the principal 
cities of the United States and the repre¬ 
sentative cities of nearly every civilized 
country on the face of the globe. They 
control the greater part of the petroleum 
business of this country and export much 
of the oil used in other countries. 

ROCKEFELLER, WILLIAM, president 
of the Standard Oil company, was born 
May 31, 1841, in Tioga county, N. Y. In 
1865 he came to New York and estab¬ 
lished the firm of Rockefeller and Com¬ 
pany to sell and handle in this market 
the oils of the two concerns in Cleveland. 
In 1867 all three firms were dissolved to 
be succeeded by Rockefeller, Andrews and 
Flagler of Cleveland and New York city, 

W illiam Rockefeller taking charge of the 
business in New York. 

ROCKEL, WILLIAM MAHLON, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born July 18, 1855 in 
Clark county, Ohio. In 1887 he was ’ad¬ 
mitted to the bar; 
and has attained 
success as one of the 
foremost lawyers of 
Ohio at Springfield. 
He is probate judge 
of Clark county; 
and is prominent in 
the public affairs of 
his city, county and 
state. He is the au¬ 
thor of Questions 
Fiom Ohio Supreme 
. , T . Court; Ohio Mechan¬ 

ic s Lien Law; and Complete Guide for 
Township Officials. 


ROCKFORD, J. A., lawyer, was born 
Feb. 16, 1860, in Kankakee, Ill. He is a 
successful lawyer of North Yakima, 
Wash., and has been prosecuting attor¬ 
ney of his county for two terms. He is 
prominent in Masonry; was one of a com¬ 
mission of five from the grand lodge of 
Washington to visit the World’s Masonic 
congress held in Chicago in 1893. 

ROCKHILL, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in New Jersey. He settled in 
Indiana; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1847 
to 1849. 

ROCKWELL, ALPHONSO DAVID, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born May 18, 1840, in 
New Canaan county, Conn. He is a phy¬ 
sician of New York city; and the au¬ 
thor of Relation of Electricity to Medi¬ 
cine and Surgery; and Medical and Surgi¬ 
cal Uses of Electricity. 

ROCKWELL, CHARLES, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 22, 1806, in Cole- 
brook, Conn. He was a congregational 
clergyman who held pastorates in the 
New England and other states; and the 
author of Sketches of Foreign Travel and 
Life at Sea; and The Catskill Mountains 
and the Region Around. He died April 
17, 1882, in Albany, N. Y. 

ROCKWELL, FRANCIS W., lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, was born May 26, 1844, in Pitts¬ 
field, Mass. In 1873 he was appointed one 
of the special justices of the district court 
of Central Berkshire, Mass.; and held sev¬ 
eral local offices. In 1879 he was elected 
a representative in the state legislature; 
in 1881 was elected a state senator; and 
was re-elected in 1882. In 1884 he was 
elected a representative from Massachu¬ 
setts to the forty-eighth congress to fill a 
vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as 
a republican. From its incorporation in 
1893 he has been president of the City 
Savings bank of Pittsfield, Mass. 

ROCKWELL, HOSEA H., soldier, law¬ 
yer. congressman, was born in 1840 in 
Tioga county, Pa. Since 1869 he has prac¬ 
ticed law in Elmira, Pa. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Pennsylvania assembly in 
1877; for several years was city attorney 
of Elmira; and was elected to the fifty- 
second congress as a democrat. He was 
the only member from his state who voted 
in behalf of the free coinage of silver. In 
1896 he presided at the New York state 
democratic convention. 

ROC Kl\ ELL, JOEL EDSON, clergy¬ 
man. author, was born May 4, 1816, in 
Salisbury. Vt. He was a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman of Stapleton, Staten Island; and 
the author of Sketches of the Presbyterian 
Church; The Young Christian Warned; 
Scenes and Impressions Abroad; My 
Sheet Anchor; and Seed Thoughts. He 
died July 29, 1882, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

ROC KWELL, JOHN ARNOLD, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Aug. 27, 1803, in 
Norwich, Conn. He was twice elected to 
the Connecticut state senate; and was at 
one time judge of the county court for 
New London county. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Connecticut from 
1845 to 1849. He was the author of Span¬ 
ish and American Law in Relation to 
Mines and Titles to Real Estate. He died 
1 eb. 10, 1861, in Washington, D. C. 

ROCKWELL, JULIUS, journalist, law- 
J e1 .’ jurist, state legislator, congressman, 
ioae- States senator, was born April 26, 
I80o, in Colebrook, Conn. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1847 to 1851; 

Was a United States senator during 
1853-55. He died May 19, 1888, in Lenox, 
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ROCKWOOD, CHARLES GREENE, 
banker, was born July 19, 1814, in Boston, 
Mass. For the past forty years be has 
been cashier and then president of the 
National Newark Banking company of 
Newark, N. J. 

ROCKWOOD, CHARLES GREENE, JR., 
mathematician, was born Jan. 11, 1843, 
in New York city. He has filled the 
chair of mathematics in Bowdoin col¬ 
lege, Rutgers college, and since 1877 in 
the Princeton university. 

ROCKWOOD, GEORGE GARDNER, 
journalist, photographer, author, was born 
April 12, 1832, in Troy, N. Y. He was 
managing editor of the Troy Daily Post, 
Troy, N. Y. He became interested in 
photography in 1855; was the first to 
make the carte de visite photograph in 
this country. He is the author of the sci¬ 
entific hoax. Brain Pictures, which ap¬ 
peared in a New York paper in 1887. 

RODDEY, PHILIP DALE, soldier, was 
born in 1818 in North Carolina. He or¬ 
ganized a company of scouts early in 1861 
for the confederate service, and subse¬ 
quently a brigade, and was commissioned 
brigadier-general in 1863. 

RODENBOUGH, THEOPHILUS FRAN¬ 
CIS, soldier, author, was born Nov. 5,1838, 
in Easton, Pa. He is a federal army offi¬ 
cer, assistant inspector-general of New 
York state in 1880-83; and the author of 
From Everglade to Canon with the Sec¬ 
ond United States Cavalry; Afghanistan 
and the Anglo-Russian Dispute; and Un¬ 
cle Sam’s Medal of Honor. 

RODES, ROBERT EMMETT, soldier, 
was born’ March 29, 1826, in Lynchburg, 
Va. He served in the confederate army 
during the civil war; attaining the rank 
of major-general. He died Sept. 19, 1864, 
in Winchester, Va. 

RODGERS, CHRISTOPHER RAYMOND 
PERRY, naval officer, was born Nov. 
14 1819, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He served 
in’ the United States navy; and in 1874 
was commissioned rear admiral. He died 
Jan. 8, 1892, in Washington, D. C. 

RODGERS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
naval officer, was born Feb. 22, 1787, in 
Harford county, Md. He entered the navy 
as midshipman in 1804, was commissioned 
lieutenant in 1810. He was commissioned 
captain in 1825; and at his death was 
commodore commanding the Brazil 
squadron. He died May 21, 1832, in South 
America. 

RODGERS, JOHN, naval officer, was 
born Aug. 8, 1812, in Harford county, Md. 
He served in the United States navy dur¬ 
ing the civil war, attaining the rank of 
rear admiral. He died May 5, 1882, in 
Washington, D. C. 

RODGERS, ROBERT L., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born July 14, 1847, in San- 
dersville, Ga. He received the rudiments 
of his education in 
the common schools; 
attended Washing¬ 
ton institute in I860; 
the Milledgeville 
academy in 1861-62; 
in 1863 he entered 
as a cadet in the 
Georgia Military in¬ 
stitute; and in May, 
1864, entered the 
confederate army 
and served until the 
close of the war. 
During 1869-73 and 1892-94 he was a jus¬ 
tice of the peace; in 1873-75 was master 
of Sandersville grange; and at the same 
time was district lecturer of the Patrons 
of Husbandry. In 1873-74 he was editor 


of The Sandersville Herald; in 1876 was 
county attorney; and during 1877-80 he 
was judge of the county court. In 1876- 
78 he was captain of the Washington 
rifles; and since 1888 has been historian 
of Atlanta camp Confederate Veterans. He 
now practices law in Atlanta, Ga.; and is 
known as one of the foremost lawyers of 
the South. 

RODGERS, SAMUEL ANDREW, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born March 5, 1830, in 
Knox county, Tenn. In 1878 he was elect¬ 
ed from Loudon, Tenn., judge of the third 
judicial circuit court, and served for three 
successive terms of eight years each. 

RODMAN, ISAAC PEACE, soldier, 
manufacturer, state legislator, was born 
Aug. 18, 1822, in South Kingston, R. I. 
He sat in both houses of the Rhode Is¬ 
land legislature for several terms. He 
was made lieutenant-colonel of the fourth 
Rhode Island volunteers in 1861, and soon 
afterward was commissioned as brigadier- 
general of volunteers. He died Sept. 30, 
1862, in Sharpsburg, Md. 

RODMAN, THOMAS JEFFERSON, sol¬ 
dier, inventor, author, was born July 30, 
1815, in Salem, Ind. He was an army offi¬ 
cer, brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. 
He invented the method of hollow casting; 
and was the author of Report of Experi¬ 
ments on Metals for Cannon and Cannon 
Powder. He died June 7, 1871, in Rock Is¬ 
land, Ill. 

RODMAN, WILLIAM, soldier, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 
1757, in Bensalem, Pa. He was for many 
years in the legislature of his native 
state; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1811 to 1813. He died July 27, 
1824, in Bensalem, Pa. 

RODNEY, CZGSAR, signer of the decla¬ 
ration of independence, was born Oct. 7, 
1728, in Dover, Del. He was high sheriff, 
justice of the peace, and a judge in his na¬ 
tive county; and in 1762 was elected to 
the state legislature, serving several 
years, and as speaker in 1769. He was a 
delegate to the New York congress in 
1765; and was a delegate from Delaware 
to the continental congress from 1774 to 
1778, and in 1783. He was a signer of the 
declaration of independence; was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the supreme court of 
Delaware; also served for a time as gen¬ 
eral of militia; and was president of the 
state of Delaware. He died June 29, 1784, 
in Dover, Del. 

RODNEY, CAESAR AUGUSTUS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, author, United 
States senator, was born Jan. 4, 1772, in 
Dover, Del. He was a representative in 
congress from Delaware from 1803 to 1805. 
He was appointed attorney-general of the 
United States by President Jefferson. He 
was again a representative in congress 
from Delaware from 1819 to 1821; and 
was a senator of the United States from 
1821 to 1823, in which year he was ap¬ 
pointed United States minister to Buenos 
Ayres. He was the author of Reports on 
the Present State of the United Provinces 
of South America. He died June 10, 1824, 
in Buenos Ayres. 

RODNEY, CALEB, governor. He was 
acting governor of Delaware in 1822 and 
1823 to fill a vacancy. 

RODNEY, DANIEL, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born in 
1764 in Delaware. He was a presidential 
elector in 1809; and was governor of Del¬ 
aware from 1814 to 1817. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from the state of 
Delaware from 1822 to 1823; and was a 
senator in congress from 1826 to 1827. He 
died Sept. 2, 1846, in Delaware. 


RODNEY, GEORGE B., congressman, 
was born in Delaware. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from his native state 
from 1841 to 1845; and was a delegate in 
1861 to the peace congress of Washington. 

RODNEY, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born June 4, 1744, in 
Sussex county, Del. He was a delegate 
from Delaware to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1781 to 1783, and from 1785 to 
1787. In 1803 he was appointed United 
States judge for the territory of Missis¬ 
sippi. He died Jan. 2, 1811, in Rodney, 
Miss. 

ROE, ALFRED SEELYE, educator, leg¬ 
islator, author, was born June 8, 1844, in 
Rose, N. Y. He served as a soldier dur¬ 
ing the civil war; and during 1892-97 was 
a member of the Massachusetts state leg¬ 
islature. He is the author of several 
books and pamphlets on educational, mil¬ 
itary and historical subjects. 

ROE, AZEL STEVENS, author, was 
born Aug. 16, 1798, in New York city. 
He was a once popular novelist who was 
for many years a wine merchant of New 
York city. He was the author of True to 
the Last; A Long Look Ahead; Time and 
Tide; To Love and To Be Loved; James 
Montjoy; True Love Rewarded; How 
Could He Help It?; Looking Around; Wo¬ 
man Our Angel; and The Cloud in the 
Heart. He died Jan. 1, 1886, in East 
Windsor Hill, Conn. 

ROE, EDWARD PAYSON, clergyman, 
author, was born March 7, 1838, in New 
Windsor, N. Y. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman who retired from the ministry, 
and, living at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, 
devoted himself to novel-writing. Bar¬ 
riers Burned Away; Opening a Chestnut 
Burr; A Face Illumined; His Sombre 
Rivals; What Can She Do?; Near to Na¬ 
ture’s Heart; From Jest to Earnest; A 
Knight of the Nineteenth Century; A Day 
of Fate; Without a Home; A Young Girl’s 
Wooing; An Original Belle; Driven Back 
to Eden; Nature’s Serial Story; The 
Earth Trembled; Miss Lou; Taken Alive, 
and Other Stories. He also published two 
horticultural books, The Home Acre; and 
Success with Small Fruits. He died July 
19, 1888, in Cornwall, N. Y. 

ROE, EDWARD REYNOLDS, author. 
He is a novelist of Chicago; and the au¬ 
thor of Brought to Bay; The Grey and 
the Blue; God Reigns: Lay Sermons; 
From the Beaten Path; and May and 
June. 

ROE, FRANCIS A., rear-admiral, was 
born Oct. 4, 1823, in Elmira, N. Y. He 
served in the navy during the Mexican 
and civil wars; was commander of several 
United States battleships, and fought a 
fleet of pirate war junks in China in 1853. 
During his service in the United States 
navy he was promoted from midshipman 
to rear-admiral. 

ROE, HARRE ALLAN, poet, was born 
April 8, 1860, in Havana, Cuba. In 1873 
he moved to Bloomington, Ill.; thence to 
Franklin Grove. His poems have ap¬ 
peared in the Detroit Free Press and other 
papers, and in several standard works. 

ROE, J. E., author. He is the author 
of Bacon’s Drama of the DeFoe Period, 
and other works. 

ROEBLING, JOHN AUGUSTUS, civil 
engineer, author, was born June 12, 1806, 
in Prussia. He was a civil engineer of 
note who built the suspension bridge 
across the Ohio between Cincinnati and 
Covington, and was the designer of the 
Brooklyn bridge; and the author of Long 
and Short Span Railway Bridges. He died 
July 22, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 






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ROEBLING, WASHINGTON AUGUS¬ 
TUS, soldier, engineer, author, was born 
May 26, 1837, in Saxonburg, Pa. A sus¬ 
pension bridge was built over the Poto¬ 
mac at Harper’s Ferry by him and many 
balloon ascensions were made for recon- 
noitering purposes and it was during one 
of these that he became the first to dis¬ 
cover General Lee’s army in motion for 
the march into Pennsylvania. Resigning 
in 1865 he took almost entire charge of 
building the suspension bridge in Cincin¬ 
nati. Then came the Brooklyn bridge 
project, greatest work of all, undertaken 
first by his father. He is the author of 
Military Suspension Bridges. 

ROEHR, JULIUS EDWARD, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, was born in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. In 1892 he was elected a state 
senator for four years to the Wisconsin 
legislature. He is a successful lawyer and 
jurist of Milwaukee, Wis. 

ROELKER, BERNARD, lawyer, author, 
was born April 24, 1816, in Germany. In 
1856 he removed to the city of New York, 
and entered the firm of Laur and Roelker. 
He soon established a large practice 
among the Germans. He published Con¬ 
stitutions of France; Argument in Favor 
of the Constitutionality of the Legal-Ten¬ 
der Clause in the Act of Congress, Feb. 25, 
1862; and Manual for the Use of Notaries 
Public and Bankers. He also translated 
from the Swedish The Magic Goblet, a 
novel, and made a German adaptation of 
Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Prac¬ 
tice. He died March 5, 1888, in New York 
city. 

ROEMER, JEAN, educator, college pres¬ 
ident, author, was born about 1815 in Eng¬ 
land. He was an educator of New York 
city, vice-president of the college of the 
city of New York from 1869; and the au¬ 
thor of Dictionary of English-French Id¬ 
ioms; Polyglot Readers; Cavalry; Prin¬ 
ciples of General Grammar; Cours de lec¬ 
ture et de traduction; Origins of the Eng¬ 
lish People and Language; and Left in the 
Wilderness. He died Aug. 31, 1892, in 
Lenox, Mass. 

ROGDE, PETER JACOB, lawyer, was 
born Feb. 4, 1864, in Lee county, Ill. He 
received his education at the Northwest¬ 
ern university at Naperville, Ill.; the Lu¬ 
ther college of Decorah, Iowa; and the 
law department of the university of Iowa. 
He is a prominent lawyer of Sioux Falls, 
S. D.; has been state’s attorney of his 
county; and takes an active part in pub¬ 
lic affairs. 

ROGE, MRS. CHARLOTTE FISKE 
[BATES], educator, poet, was born in 
1838 in New York. She is an educator and 
verse-writer of Cambridge and New Y"ork 
city who has written Risk, and Other Po¬ 
ems, and edited The Cambridge Book of 
Poetry and other works. 

ROGERS, ANDREW J., educator, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born July 1, 1828, 
in Hamburg, N. J. In 1862 he was elected 
a representative from New Jersey to the 
thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected 
to the thirty-ninth congress. 

ROGERS, ANNA M., educator, poet, 
was born in 1847 in Canada. She re¬ 
ceived her education in private semina¬ 
ries, and has attained success in educa¬ 
tional work. For many years she has 
taught French in the public schools of 
San Francisco; and is the author of a 
Volume of poems. 

ROGERS, ANTHONY A. C., merchant, 
congressman, was born Feb. 14, 1821, in 
Sumner county, Tenn. He was elected a 
representative from Arkansas to the for¬ 
ty-first congress. 


ROGERS, ASA, soldier, civil engineer, 
legislator, politician, was born Aug. 20, 
1836, in Oakham, Va. He was a civil en¬ 
gineer up to April, 1861, when he entered 
the confederate service as a lieutenant in 
the first Virginia cavalry; was promoted 
to captain after the battles around Rich¬ 
mond in 1862; and served till the sur¬ 
render at Appomattox. He then again 
took up engineering, and was elected rail¬ 
road commissioner in 1880. In 1884 he 
v.as elected to the Virginia state senate; 
and in 1885 was appointed collector of in¬ 
ternal revenue by President Arthur. For 
seventeen years he has been secretary of 
the republican state committee of Vir¬ 
ginia. 

ROGERS, B. F., clergyman, poet. He is 
an eminent clergyman in the congrega¬ 
tional church of Ft. Atkinson, Wis.; and 
is the author of a number of poems. 

ROGERS, BARTON, educator, clergy¬ 
man, poet, was born July 23, 1831, in 
Piermont, N. H. For three years he was 
chaplain of the fifteenth Illinois infantry 
during the civil war. He is a universalist 
clergyman and well-known in his denom¬ 
ination as an organizer and builder of 
churches. 

ROGERS, CHARLES, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in New York. He 
served in the assembly of New York from 
Washington county in 1833 and 1837; and 
was a representative in congress from 1843 
to 1845. 

ROGERS, DANIEL, governor. He was 
governor of Pennsylvania in the years 
1797 and 1798. 

ROGERS, DENNIS LUCRETIUS, law¬ 
yer, was born July 26, 1850, in Grand Rap¬ 
ids, Mich. He received the rudiments of 
his education in the schools of his native 
city; and attended the Michigan state 
university. He has attained prominence 
as an able lawyer in his native city; is 
captain of the second regiment of the 
Michigan national guard; and is promi¬ 
nent in public affairs. 

ROGERS, EBENEZER PLATT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 18„ 1817, in 
New York city. In 1862 he accepted the 
charge of the South Reformed church in 
New York city, where he continued until 
a few months before his death. He was 
the author of Earnest Words to Young 
Men in a Series of Discourses; and His¬ 
torical Discourse on the Reformed Pro¬ 
testant Dutch Church of Albany. He died 
Oct. 23, 1881, in Montclair, N. j. 

ROGERS, EDWARD, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1780 in Con¬ 
necticut. He was for many years county 
judge of Madison county, N." Y. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1843 to 1845. He died May 23, 
1857, in Galway, N. Y. 

ROGERS, FAIRMAN, educator, author, 
was born Nov. 1, 1833, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a professor of civil engineer¬ 
ing in the university of Pennsylvania in 
1855-70; and the author of The Magnetism 
of Iron Vessels. 

ROGERS, FRANKLIN WHITING, art¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 27, 1854, in Cambridge, 
Mass. He has devoted himself especially 
to the painting of dogs. Among his works 
are The Two Friends; Steady; Resigna¬ 
tion; Loo; and Mischief. 

ROGERS, HENRY DARWIN, educator, 
geologist, author, was born Aug. 1, 1808^ 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a noted geol¬ 
ogist who was professor in the university 
of Pennsylvania in 1835-46, and held the 
chair of natural history in the Scottish 
university of Glasgow from 1857 till his 
death. He was the author of The Geology 


of Pennsylvania; and Geological Map of 
Pennsylvania. He died May 29, 1866, near 
Glasgow, Scotland. 

ROGERS, HENRY J., inventor, was 
born in 1811 in Baltimore, Md. He de¬ 
vised the code of signals by means of flags 
that is known by his name, which was 
adopted by the United States navy in 
1846 and modified in 1861. He also de¬ 
vised a code of signals by means of col¬ 
ored lights, which was the first pyrotech¬ 
nic system invented. He died Aug. 20, 
1879, in Baltimore, Md. 

ROGERS, HENRY WADE, lawyer, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Oct. 10, 
1853, in Trenton Falls, N. Y. Since 1890 
he has been president of the Northwestern 
university of Evanston and Chicago. He 
has written a law treatise on Expert Tes¬ 
timony; compiled the Illinois Citations; 
and contributed to Forum, the North 
American Review, and other publications. 

ROGERS, HORATIO, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born May 18, 1836, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He is a Providence jurist who 
has published The Private Libraries of 
Providence; Mary Dyer of Rhode Island, 
the Quaker Martyr; and edited Hadden’s. 
Journal and Orderly Books. 

ROGERS, J. H., musician, composer, 
was born in Germany. He is a successful 
musician of Cleveland, Ohio; and the 
author of a number of songs and compo¬ 
sitions. 

ROGERS, JAMES, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in South Carolina. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1835 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 
1843. 

ROGERS, JAMES HARRIS, electrician, 
inventor, was born July 13, 1850, in Frank¬ 
lin, Tenn. In 1877 he was appointed 
electrician at the United States capitol in 
Washington, D. C., and he continued in 
that office until 1883. He was the inventor 
of the secret telephone that was sold in 
New \"ork for $80,000, also of the national 
improv ed telephone, and of the pan-elec¬ 
tric system. He has lately devised what 
he calls visual synchronism. 

ROGERS, JAMES WEBB, soldier, cler¬ 
gyman, lawyer, author, poet, was born 
July II, 1822, in Hillsborough, N. C. He 
is a writer who in early life was an epis¬ 
copal clergyman in Tennessee, and during, 
the civil war a confederate officer. He 
became a Roman catholic in 1878 and set¬ 
tled in Washington as a lawyer. He is 
the author of Lafitte, or the Greek Slave; 
Arlington, and Other Poems; and Parthe¬ 
non. 

ROGERS, JOHN, college president, was 
born in January in 1631 in England. In 
1682 he was elected president of Harvard 
college, resigning in 1684. He died July 
2, 1684, in Cambridge, Mass. 

ROGERS, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a delegate from Maryland to the continen¬ 
tal congress from 1775 to 1776; and was 
chancellor of the state. He died in 1789 
in Annapolis, Md. 

ROGERS, JOHN, merchant, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born May 9, 1813, 
in Caldwell, N. Y. He was elected from 
New York to the forty-second congress 
as a democrat. 

ROGERS, JOHN, sculptor, was born 
Oct. 30, 1829, in Salem, Mass. He is mod¬ 
eler of the famed Rogers’ groups, which 
he began as illustrations of the civil war. 

ROGERS, JOHN C., physician, legisla¬ 
tor, was born March 26, 1835, in Ireland. 
During the civil war he served in the 
army as assistant surgeon, and has prac¬ 
ticed medicine in Pembroke, Maine, since 
1866. In 1890 he was elected to the state 
senate of Maine. 


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ROGERS, JOHN HENRY, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 
1845, in Bertie county, N. C. He served 
in the confederate army from March, 1862, 
to the close of the war, rising to the rank 
of first lieutenant. In 1877 he was elected 
circuit judge, and was re-elected in 1878. 
He resigned in 1882, and was elected a 
representative from Arkansas to the for¬ 
ty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to 
the forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. In 1896 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States district judge for 
the western district of Arkansas. 

ROGERS, JOHN R., merchant, journal¬ 
ist, governor, author, was born Sept. 4, 
1838, in Brunswick, Maine. He was edu¬ 
cated in his native 
town, learned the 
drug business in 
Boston and followed 
it for some years in 
Mississippi and 
Maine. He engaged 
in farming in Iowa 
and Kansas, and 
held several public 
offices in the latter 
state, serving as a 
commissioner of Har¬ 
vey county for some 
years. He established and was editor for 
three years of the Kansas Commoner, now 
published at Wichita. He came to Wash¬ 
ington in 1890, locating at Puyallup, where 
he has since resided. He was a member 
of the fourth legislature as a represen¬ 
tative from Pierce county, and took a very 
active interest in legislation pertaining to 
education, coal mining and taxation. In 
1896 he was elected governor of Washing¬ 
ton. He was the author of the measure 
familiarly known as the barefoot school¬ 
boy law, and it was due chiefly to his 
energetic efforts that the bill was enacted 
after a memorable contest. 

ROGERS, MINA L., poet, was born Sept. 
22, 1840, in Franklin county, Mo. She has 
written both prose and verse for the pe¬ 
riodical press; and her poems appear in 
Poets of America, Woman in Sacred Song, 
and other standard works. 

ROGERS, NATHANIEL PEABODY, 
journalist, author, was born June 3, 1794, 
in Portsmouth, N. H. He established at 
Concord, N. H., the Herald of Freedom in 
1838, one of the pioneer anti-slavery pa¬ 
pers in the United States: He wrote for 
the New York Tribune over the signature 
The Old Man of the Mountains. He died 
Oct. 18, 1846, in Concord, N. H. 

ROGERS, NINA MANDEVILLE, educa¬ 
tor, poet, was born April 17, 1842, in Nat¬ 
chez, Miss. She has attained a favorable 
reputation as a poet of the south, espec¬ 
ially in the state of South Carolina. For 
many years she has been engaged in edu¬ 
cational work, and resides in Florence, 
S. C. 

ROGERS, ORVILLE D., poet, was born 
in 1867 in Marietta, Iowa. He has been 
editor of the Brooklyne Blade of Denver, 
Col.; and has filled several public posi¬ 
tions in Kit Carson county, Col. He has 
contributed extensively both prose and 
verse to the periodical press; and his 
poems have been a valuable acquisition 
to current literature. 

ROGERS, RANDOLPH, sculptor, was 
born July 6, 1825, in Auburn, N. Y. He 
opened a studio in New York, where he 
remained until 1855. Among his earlier 
works are Ruth, an ideal bust; Nydia; 
Boy Skating; Isaac, full-length; and the 
statue of John Adams, in Mt. Auburn cem¬ 
etery. One of his best-known works, the 
bas-reliefs on the doors of the capitol at 
Washington, representing scenes in the 

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life of Columbus, was designed in 1858, 
and cast in bronze at Munich. In 1861 he 
completed the Washington monument at 
Richmond, which had been left unfinished 
by Thomas Crawford. 

ROGERS, ROBERT CAMERON, litter¬ 
ateur, author, was born in 1862 in New 
York. He is a litterateur of Buffalo; and 
the author of The Wind in the Clearing, 
and Other Poems; Will of the Wasp, a 
yarn of the War of 1812; and Old Dorset, 
a collection of short stories. 

ROGERS, ROBERT WILLIAM, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born in 1864 in 
Pennsylvania. He is a methodist clergy¬ 
man and educator, professor of Hebrew 
in Drew Theological seminary, Madison, 
N. J., from 1893; and the author of Two 
Texts of Esarhaddon; Unpublished In¬ 
scriptions of Esarhaddon; and The In¬ 
scriptions of Sennacherib. 

ROGERS, SHERMAN SKINNER, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born April 16, 1830, in 
Bath, N. Y. He is one of the foremost 
lawyers of Buffalo, N. Y., where he has 
practiced his profession since 1854. In 
1873 he was a member of the constitution¬ 
al commission of New York; in 1875-76 
was a senator in the New York state leg¬ 
islature; and during 1884-87 was one of 
the first commissioners of the Niagara 
Falls state reservation. Since 1881 he has 
been president of the Reform association 
of Buffalo, N. Y.; and has always been 
acthe in public affairs pertaining to the 
material interests of his adopted city. 

ROGERS, SION H., soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 30, 1825, in 
Wake county, N. C. He was elected to 
the thirty-third congress; and was elect¬ 
ed to the legislature of North Carolina in 
1860. He served in the confederate army 
as colonel of the forty-seventh North 
Carolina regiment. He was attorney-gen¬ 
eral of North Carolina from 1862 to 1868; 
and was elected to the forty-second con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

ROGERS, THOMAS J., journalist, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born in 1781 in 
Ireland. He was the author of biographi¬ 
cal dictionaries of revolutionary worthies; 
edited a political paper; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1818 to 1824. He died Dec. 7, 1832, in 
New York city. 

ROGERS, WILLIAM, educator, clergy¬ 
man, was born July 22, 1751, in Newport, 
R. I. In 1789 he was chosen professor of 
oratory and English literature in the col¬ 
lege' of Philadelphia, and in 1792 to the 
same post in its successor, the university 
of Pennsylvania, which place he resigned 
in 1811. He died April 7, 1824, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

ROGERS, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, as¬ 
tronomer, educator, was born Nov. 13, 
1832, in Waterford, Conn. The observa¬ 
tory at Alfred was built and equipped 
by him. In 1870 he was appointed assis¬ 
tant in the Harvard observatory, and he 
became in 1877 assistant professor of as¬ 
tronomy. In 1886 he was called to the 
chair of astronomy and physics at Colby 
university. 

ROGERS, WILLIAM BARTON, scien¬ 
tist, college president, author, was born 
Dec. 7, 1804, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 
an eminent scientist of Boston, the found¬ 
er of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech¬ 
nology in 1862, and its president in 1862- 
70, and again in 1878-81. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Geology of the Virginias; 
Elements of Mechanical Philosophy; and 
The Strength of Materials. He died May 
30, 1882, in Boston, Mass. 

ROGERS, WILLIAM F., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 1, 1820, in 
Northampton county, Pa. In 1864 he was 


appointed provost marshal of the thirtieth 
district of New York. He was elected 
comptroller of the city of Buffalo in 1866, 
and mayor in 1868. He was appointed 
major-general of the fourth division na¬ 
tional guard; and was elected a represen¬ 
tative from New York to the forty-eighth 
congress. 

ROHDE, JOHN MARTIN, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 28, 1852, 
in St. Louis, Mo. He graduated from the 
Central Wesleyan 
college of Warren- 
ton, Mo., and imme¬ 
diately began educa¬ 
tional work. In 1881 
he entered the St. 
Louis German Meth¬ 
odist Episcopal con¬ 
ference, and has filled 
pastorates in Mount 
Vernon, Bland, Mor¬ 
rison, Pinckney, and 
Steinhagen, Mo. He 
is a member of the 
board of trustees of the Central Wesleyan 
college; and the author of The Joy of 
Prayer, a work on devotion, now in its 
third edition. 

ROHE, GEORGE HENRY, physician, 
author, was born Jan. 26, 1851, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He is a successful physician of 
Baltimore, Md.; and author of Textbook 
of Hygiene; Manual of Skin Diseases; 
and Annual, Universal and Medical Sci¬ 
ences. 

ROHLFS, MRS. ANNA KATHARINE 
[GREEN], author, was born Nov. 11, 1846, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. She is a very popu¬ 
lar novelist of Buffalo whose detective ro¬ 
mances display much inventive skill. She 
is the author of The Sword of Damocles; 
The Leavenworth Case; A Strange Dis¬ 
appearance; Hand and Ring; The Mill 
Mystery; Behind Closed Doors; Cynthia 
Wakeham’s Money; Marked Personal; 
Miss Hurd; An Enigma; Dr. Izard; Old 
Stone House, and Other Stories; 7 to 12; 
X, Y, Z; The Doctor, His Wife, and the 
Clock; That Affair Next Door; Risifi’s 
Daughter, a Drama; and The Defense of 
the Bride, and Other Poems. 

ROHRBACHER, PHILLIPP, engineer, 
business man, was born Jan. 30, 1838, in 
Germany. In 1853 he crossed the plains 
to California, and became chief engineer 
of the Stockton fire department. He was 
the president of the United States Brew¬ 
ing company of San Francisco, Cal., and 
president of the Royal Eagle Distilleries 
company of San Francisco and Owens¬ 
boro, Ky. He was supreme arch of the 
United States United Ancient Order of 
Druids at the time of his death, which 
occurred on April 25, 1897, in San Fran¬ 
cisco, Cal. 

ROLFE, JOHN CAREW, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1859 in Massachusetts. 
He is a professor of Latin in the univer¬ 
sity of Michigan; and the author of Heau- 
ten Timorumenos of Terence. 

ROLFE, WILLIAM JAMES, scholar, 
educator, author, was born Dec. 10, 1827, 
in Newburyport, Mass. He is a distin¬ 
guished Shakespearean scholar and edu¬ 
cator of Cambridge. He has published 
Shakespeare the Boy; two annotated edi¬ 
tions of Shakespeare, the Friendly Edi¬ 
tion in twenty volumes, and a School Edi¬ 
tion in forty volumes; and a series of 
annotated editions of selections from 
Tennyson, Browning. Wordsworth, Gray, 
Goldsmith, Scott, and other English poets. 
He has also edited Craik’s English of 
Shakespeare; and is co-author with J. H. 
Hanson of several classical text-books, 
and with J. A. Gillet of The Cambridge 
Physics. 







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ROLLINS, MRS. ALICE MARLAND 
I WELLINGTON], author, poet, was born 
June 12, 1847, in Boston, Mass. She is a 
writer of New York city; and the author 
of My Welcome Beyond, arnd Other Po¬ 
ems; The Ring of Amethyst, and Other 
Poems; The Story of a Ranch; All Sorts 
of Children; The Three Tetons; From 
Palm to Glacier; and Uncle Tom’s Tene¬ 
ment, a study of New York tenement- 
house life. 

ROLLINS, MRS. CLARA [SHER¬ 
WOOD], author, was born in 1868 in Mis¬ 
souri. She is a Boston writer of short 
stories; and the author of A Burne Jones 
Head; and Threads of Life. 

ROLLINS, DANIEL G., lawyer, was 
born Oct. 18, 1842, in Great Falls, N. H. 
He was assistant United States attorney 
for the southern district of New York in 
1866-69; assistant district attorney of 
New York county in 1873-80; then dis¬ 
trict attorney till 1882, and then surrogate 
■of the county till 1888. 

ROLLINS, EDWARD HENRY, mer¬ 
chant, congressman. United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Oct. 3, 1824; in Rollinford, 
N. H. He was a member of the New 
Hampshire state legislature in 1855-57, 
serving as speaker during the last two 
years. He was elected a representative 
from New Hampshire to the thirty-sev¬ 
enth congress; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses. 
He was elected secretary of the Union Pa¬ 
cific Railroad company in 1869, and treas¬ 
urer in 1871. He resigned those positions 
when elected a United States senator from 
New Hampshire for the term of six years 
from March 4, 1877. His portrait hangs 
in the new library building of the state 
capitol. He died July 31, 1889, on the Isle 
of Shoals, N. H. 

ROLLINS, MRS. ELLEN CHAPMAN 
[HOBBS], author, was born April 30, 1831, 
in Wakefield, N. H. She was a writer of 
Philadelphia; and the author of New 
England Bygones; and Old-Time Child- 
life. She died May 29, 1881, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

ROLLINS, FRANK WEST, legislator, 
was born Feb. 24, 1860, in Concord, N. H. 
He served with distinction in the New 
Hampshire state senate in 1895; and was 
made president of that body. He still re¬ 
sides in the place of his nativity; and his 
portrait hangs in the new library building 
of the state capitol. 

ROLLINS, JAMES SIDNEY, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
April 19, 1812, in Richmond, Ky. In 1838 
he was elected to the Missouri state leg¬ 
islature, and was re-elected in 1840 and 
1842. In 1846 he was elected to the state 
senate, serving four years; and in 1854 
was again elected to the legislature. In 
1860 he was elected a representative from 
Missouri to the thirty-seventh congress; 
and in 1862 was re-elected to the thirty- 
eighth congress. He died Nov. 9, 1888, 
near Columbia, Mo. 

ROLLINS, NATHANIEL, soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Feb, 29, 1832, 
in St. Albans, Maine. He received his 
education in the common schools and at 
Hartland academy. During the civil war 
he was a captain in the second regiment 
Wisconsin volunteer infantry. In 1885 he 
was a member of the Colorado legisla¬ 
ture; and has attained prominence in that 
state as an able lawyer of Leadville. In 
1894 he was elected department com¬ 
mander, department of Colorado and Wy¬ 
oming, Grand Army of the Republic. Dur¬ 
ing his term of office the strike and serious 
riots of Cripple Creek occurred; he im¬ 
mediately issued a circular letter, which 


was instrumental in restraining old sol¬ 
diers from taking sides with the lawless 
element; and his sen ices called forth a 
letter of approval from General Nelson A. 
Miles. 

ROMAIN, ARMAND, lawyer, legislator, 
was born Feb. 22, 1871, in New Orleans, 
La. After receiving the rudiments of his 
education in the public schools, he at¬ 
tended the Tulane university of Louis¬ 
iana. He has attained success as an emi¬ 
nent lawyer of his native city; has been 
the republican candidate for congress; 
and in 1896 was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate of Louisiana. 

ROMAN, ALFRED, soldier, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, author, was born in 1824 in St. 
James’ Parish, La. In 1880 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the criminal court of New 
Orleans for a term of eight years. He was 
the author of The Military Operations of 
General Beauregard. He died Sept. 20, 
1892, in New Orleans, La. 

ROMAN, ANDREW BIENVENU, gov¬ 
ernor, was born March 5, 1795, in Ope¬ 
lousas. In 1818 he was a member of the 
Louisiana house of representatives; was 
several times re-elected; and for four 
years was speaker. He became parish 
judge, and entered upon his duties as 
governor in 1831; and was again elected 
to that office in 1838. He died Jan. 26, 
1866, after hav ing served Louisiana during 
years of sorrow and trial. 

ROMAN, J. DIXON, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1847 to 1849; and was a 
delegate to the peace congress of 1861. He 
died Jan. 19, 1867, in Maryland. 

ROMANS, BERNARD, engineer, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1720 in Holland. 
He served in the revolutionary war as 
engineer, and is the author of Concise 
Natural History of East and West Flori¬ 
da; and also a Map of the Seat of the 
War. 

ROMEIS, JACOB, business man, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 1, 1835, in Ger¬ 
many. In 1874 he was elected a member 
of the board of aldermen of Toledo, Ohio, 
and was re-elected in 1876. He was pres¬ 
ident of the board in 1877; and in 1879 
was elected mayor of the city, and was 
re-elected in 1881 and 1883. In 1884 he 
was elected a representative from Ohio 
to the forty-ninth congress; and re¬ 
elected to the fiftieth congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

ROMERO, TRINIDAD, lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, congressman, was born June 15, 
1835, in Santa Fe, N. M. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in the territorial legislature in 
1863. He was elected probate judge of 
San Miguel county in 1867; and was 
elected a delegate from New Mexico to the 
forty-fifth congress as a republican. 

ROMEYN, JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1797 in Greenbush, N. Y. He 
published The Crisis, a sermon; and a 
Plea for the Evangelical Press. He died 
Sept. 7, 1859, in New Brunswick. 

ROMEYN, JAMES VAN CAMPEN, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 14, 
1765, in Minisink, N. Y. In 1799-1834 he 
was pastor of the united congregations of 
the Dutch reformed church in Hackensack 
and Schraalenburgh, N. J. He published 
an Address to the Students of the Theo¬ 
logical Seminary. He died June 27, 1840, 
in Hackensack, N. J. 

ROMEYN. JEREMIAH, clergyman, lin¬ 
guist, was born Dec. 24. 1768, in YVood- 
stock, N. Y. He was an eminent linguist, 
and from 1797 till his death was professor 
of Hebrew in the Dutch reformed church. 
He died July 17, 1818. in Woodstock, N. Y. 


ROMEYN, THEODORIC (called Dirck) 
(ro-mine), clergyman, was born June 12, 
1744, in Hackensack, N. J. He was one 
of the founders of the academy that sub¬ 
sequently became Union college, and from 
1797 till 1804 was professor of theology in 
the general synod of the reformed Dutch 
church. He died April 16, 1804, in Schen¬ 
ectady, N. Y. 

ROMEYN, THEODORE BAYARD, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Oct. 22, 1827, in 
Nassau, N. Y r . He was pastor of the re¬ 
formed Dutch church in Blawenburg, N. 
J., in 1850-65, and from the latter date 
until his death of the firtft reformed 
church at Hackensack. He published 
Historical Discourse; and The Adaptation 
of the Reformed Church in America to 
American Character. He died Aug. 29, 
1885, in Hackensack, N. J. 

ROMNEY, CAROLINA WESTCOTT, 
educator, inventor, was born in Clyde, N. 
Y. She became a literary editor on the 
Chicago Times, and subsequontly was its 
traveling correspondent. She has pub¬ 
lished newspapers of her own, and a 
morning daily in Durango, Col. As an in¬ 
ventor she received ten awards from the 
World's Columbian exposition of Chicago 
in 1893. 

RONAYNE, MAURICE, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1828 in Ireland. 
He was a Roman catholic clergyman and 
educator of New York city; and professor 
of history at St. Francis Xavier’s college 
from 1888. He is the author of Religion 
and Science; and God Knowable and 
Known. 

RONDTHALER, EDWARD, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 6, 1817, in York, 
Pa. In 1853-54 he was president of Naza¬ 
reth Hall, Pennsylvania. He was the au¬ 
thor of a Life of John Heckewelder. He 
died March 5, 1855, in Nazareth, Pa. 

ROOD, OGDEN NICHOLAS, physicist, 
educator, author, was born Feb. 3,' 1831, 
in Danbury, Conn. He is a physicist of 
note, professor of physics at Columbia col¬ 
lege from 1863; and author of Modern 
Chromatics. 

ROORBACH. ORVILLE AUGUSTUS, 
journalist, author, was born Jan. 20, 1803, 
in Red Hook, N. Y r . He published Biblio¬ 
theca Americana from 1820 to 1861. He 
died June 21, 1861, in Schenectady, N. Y. 

ROOSA, DANIEL BENNETT ST. JOHN, 
physician, educator, author, was born 
April 4, 1838, in Bethel, N. Y. He is a 
prominent physician of New York city, 
and a professor at the university of the 
city of New York in 1863-82. He is the 
author of Treatise on the Ear; A Doctor’s 
Suggestion; and On the Necessity of 
Wearing Glasses. 

ROOSE, F. F., educator, author, was 
born July 3, 1855, in Moline, Ill. In 1884 
he founded the Lincoln Business college, 
Nebraska; and in 1891 founded the Lin¬ 
coln Normal university, the construction 
of which cost one hundred and fifty thou¬ 
sand dollars. For three years he was 
president and owner of the Omaha Busi¬ 
ness college. He was one of the founders 
of the Woodmen of the World; and he is 
now the supreme commander of the Fra¬ 
ternal Union of America. 

ROOSEVELT, HILBORNE LEWIS, 
organ-builder, was born Dec. 21, 1849, in 
New York city. He established factories 
in New York city, Philadelphia, and Bal¬ 
timore, and built some of the largest or¬ 
gans in the United States, including that 
m Garden City cathedral, Long Island, 
and Grace church, New York city, each of 
which contains twenty miles of electric 
wire. He died Dec. 30, 1886, in New York 
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ROOSEVELT, JAMES HENRY, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Nov. 10, 1800, in New 
York city. He accumulated the sum that 
he intended from his early manhood to 
leave for some charitable object. By the 
terms of his will he left the principal part 
of his estate to found a noble hospital 
in New York city which bears his name, 
and was formally opened in 1871. The 
property left by him was valued at about 
$1,000,000. He died Nov. 30, 1863, in New 
York city. 

ROOSEVELT, JAMES JOHN, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Dec. 14, 1795, in New York city. In 
1835 and 1840 he was a member of the 
New York state legislature; and in 1842 
and 1843 was a representative in congress 
from New York city. He was judge of the 
supreme court of the state in 1851; was 
an attorney of the United States; and 
held the office of judge eight years. He 
died April 5, 1875, in New York. 

ROOSEVELT, ROBERT B„ lawyer, 
congressman, author, was born Aug. 7, 
1829, in New York city. In 1868 he was 
appointed commissioner of fisheries for 
the state of New York; and from 1868 
edited The New York Citizen. He was 
elected a representative to the forty-sec¬ 
ond congress as a democrat. He was 
United States minister to the Netherlands 
in 1888-89. He was the author of The 
Game Fish of North America; Coast and 
Game Birds of the Northern States; Flor¬ 
ida and the Game Water Birds; Love 
and Luck; Progressive Petticoats; and 
Five Acres Too Much, a Satire. 

ROOSEVELT. THEODORE, politician, 
reformer, soldier, author, was born Oct. 
27, 1858, in New York city. He is a poli¬ 
tician and municipal reformer of New 
York city; and president of the board of 
police commissioners of New York city 
from 1895 to 1897, when he resigned that 
position to become assistant secretary of 
the navy. He is the author of The Naval 
War of 1812; Hunting Adventures of a 
Ranchman; Ranch Life and the Hunt¬ 
ing Trail; The Winning of the West; 
The Wilderness Hunter; Essays on Prac¬ 
tical Politics; History of the City of 
New York; and Lives of Thomas H. 
Benton and Gouverneur Morris. During 
the Spanish-American war he served with 
distinction as colonel of the Rough Riders. 
In November, 1898, he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of the state of New. York. 

ROOT, DAVID, clergyman, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born in 1790 in Pomfret, Vt. 
He held pastorates in Guilford and New 
Haven, Conn., till 1852, when he retired. 
He gave $10,000 to endow a professor¬ 
ship in Beloit college, Wisconsin; $20,000 
to Yale Theological seminary, and $5,000 
to the American Missionary society. He 
died Aug. 30, 1873, in Chicago, Ill. 

ROOT, ELIHU, lawyer, was born Feb. 
15, 1845, in Clinton, N. Y. He settled in 
New York city, where he has attained 
high reputation; and in 1883-85 was 
United States district attorney for the 
southern district of New York. 

ROOT, ERASTUS, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, was born March 16, 1773, in 
Hebron, Conn. He was a representative 
in the New York assembly eleven years; 
was speaker of the house three years; 
and was state senator eight years. He 
was a representative in congress from 
1803 to 1805, and from 1809 to 1817, when 
he resigned and was appointed postmaster 
at Delhi, N. Y. In 1822 he was chosen 
lieutenant-governor of the state; was 
again elected to congress from 1831 to 
1833. He died in 1846 in New York city. 

ROOT, FREDERIC WOODMAN, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born June 13, 1846, in 
Boston, Mass. He has been very success¬ 


ful as a teacher of vocal music, and has 
published Root's School of Singing. From 
1871 till 1875 he edited the Song Mes¬ 
senger. 

ROOT, JESSE, soldier, clergyman, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 
28, 1736, in Coventry, Conn. He settled 
in Hartford, Conn.; took part in the 
revolutionary war; and was a delegate 
to the continental congress from 1778 to 
1783. He was appointed judge of the su¬ 
perior court in 1779; and chief justice of 
Connecticut from 1796 until his resig¬ 
nation in 1807. He died March 29, 1822, in 
Coventry, Conn. 

ROOT. JOSEPH C., author, and founder 
of Woodcraft, was born Dec. 3, 1844, in 
Chester, Mass. When ten years of age 
his parents removed 
to Lyons, Iowa. He 
received a liberal ed¬ 
ucation; began busi¬ 
ness for himself in a 
book-store; after¬ 
ward operated flour¬ 
ing mills and elevat¬ 
ors; and was United 
States deputy collect¬ 
or when barely of 
age. In 1860 he 
founded the public 
library of Lyons, 
Iowa; was admitted to the bar in 1879, 
and founded Woodcraft and promulgat¬ 
ed its rituals and teachings in 1883. He 
has been twice mayor of Lyons, Iowa; 
has been prominently identified in various 
business enterprises; proposed and agi¬ 
tated the construction of the Iowa Mid¬ 
land railway; and is the secretary of 
the Chicago, Lyons and Pacific railway. 
He established the first telephone ex¬ 
change west of the Mississippi river; has 
been editor of two newspapers of extend¬ 
ed circulation; and is the author of sev¬ 
eral books. He is the sovereign com¬ 
mander of the Woodmen of the World, and 
resides at Omaha, Neb. The entire sys¬ 
tem now embraces half a million mem¬ 
bers, has disbursed many millions of dol¬ 
lars, and is increasing rapidly. 

ROOT, JOSEPH M., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1817, 
in Cayuga, N. Y. He was appointed prose¬ 
cuting attorney in Ohio; and in 1840 was 
elected to the state senate. He served as 
a representative in congress from 1845 to 
1851. 

ROOTS, LOGAN H., soldier, educator, 
congressman, was born March 26, 1841, in 
Perry county, Ill. After the war he set¬ 
tled in Arkansas as a planter. He was 
elected a representative from that state 
to the fortieth congress, and re-elected to 
the forty-first congress as a republican. 

ROOTS. PHILANDER KEEP, civil en¬ 
gineer, banker, was born June 4, 1838, in 
Tolland county, Conn. He is the son of 
the noted educator. 
Prof. B. G. Roots of 
Illinois. He received 
his education in the 
Carrollton academy 
of Illinois and the 
Wesleyan university 
of Bloomington. For 
several years he was 
principal of the high 
school in DuQuoin, 
Ill. He has been 
resident engineer on 
the Mobile and Ohio 
railroad in Kentucky and Tennessee; 
United States deputy surveyor in Nevada; 
chief engineer of the Cairo and Fulton 
railroad in Arkansas and Missouri; and 
for over twenty years has been engaged in 
banking in Little Rock, Ark. He is a 
prominent Mason and ranks high in vari¬ 
ous other fraternal orders. 


ROPES, JOHN CODMAN, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born April 28, 1836, in Russia. 
He is a lawyer of Boston well known as 
a military historian; and the author of 
The Army under Pope; The Campaign 
of Waterloo; Atlas of Waterloo; The 
First Napoleon; and The Story of the 
Civil War. 

RORER, SARAH TYSON, lecturer, au¬ 
thor. She is a popular writer and lecturer 
on cooking. 

ROSE, AQUILA, printer, poet, was 
born in 1695 in England. He was a print¬ 
er and verse writer of Philadelphia whose 
Poems on Several Occasions were collect¬ 
ed after his death. He died Aug. 22, 1723, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ROSE, CHAUNCEY, was born Dec. 24, 
1794, in Wethersfield, Conn. He organized 
the Terre Haute and Indianapolis rail¬ 
road in 1847, and 
was the first presi¬ 
dent. It was his 
means and influence 
that caused the con¬ 
struction of the 
Evansville. Terre 
Haute and Chicago 
railroad He estab¬ 
lished and endowed 
the Ladies’ Aid so¬ 
ciety of Terre Haute. 
He contributed gen¬ 
erously to the sup¬ 
port of Wabash college. To Providence 
hospital lie gave a large sum of money; 
and he established and endowed the Rose 
Polytechnic institute, under the name of 
the Terre Haute school of Industrial Sci¬ 
ence. He died Aug. 13, 1877, in Terre 
Haute, Ind. 

ROSE, DANIEL DE VINNE, soldier, 
educator, physician, author, was born 
May 28, 1843, in Onondaga county, N. Y. 

He moved to Michi¬ 
gan with his par¬ 
ents; and served in 
the civil war in the 
eleventh regiment 
Michigan volunteer 
infantry for more 
than three years. He 
then became a stu¬ 
dent and teacher, 
which he continued 
until he graduated 
with the degree of 
bachelor of science, 
and later doctor of medicine; since which 
time he has devoted himself to his pro¬ 
fession of medicine and literary work. 
He has become a prominent physician of 
Burlington, Iowa; has been county phy¬ 
sician, coroner, and medical director of 
the Grand Army of the Republic. He is 
the author of What Every Woman Should 
Know; Physiology of Woman; and nu¬ 
merous other articles in journals and 
other periodicals. 

ROSE, JAMES A., lawyer, secretary of 
state, was born Oct. 13, 1850, in Pope 
county, Ill. He was in 1896 elected sec¬ 
retary of state of Illinois. 

ROSE, ROBERT L., farmer, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 12, 1804, in Geneva, 
N. Y. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1847 to 1851. 

ROSE, ROBERT S., congressman, was 
born in 1772 in Henrico county, Va. He 
was a representative in congress from the 
state of New York from 1823 to 1827, and 
again from 1829 to 1831. He died Nov. 24, 
1835, in Waterloo, N. Y. 

ROSE, THOMAS ELLWOOD, soldier, 
was born March 12, 1830, in Bucks coun¬ 
ty, Pa. Col. Thomas E. Rose, with one 
hundred and eight other union officers, by 
tunneling from a cellar, escaped from 
Libby prison; and among all the thrill- 











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mg incidents in the history of Libby pris¬ 
on none exceed in interest this celebrated 
tunnel escape which occurred on the night 
of Feb. 9, 1864. Of the one hundred and 
nine men fifty-nine reached the union 
lines, forty-eight were recaptured and two 
drowned. After days of suffering he was 
again captured and sent back to Libby 
prison, but a few months after was ex¬ 
changed for a confederate colonel. Col. 
Rose since the war has served with the 
sixteenth United States infantry, in which 
he holds a captain’s commission. 

ROSE, U. M., lawyer, legislator, was 
born March 5, 1834, in Marion county, Ky. 
He is a successful lawyer of Little Rock, 
Ark., and during 1860-65 was chancellor 
of the state of Arkansas. 

ROSE, WILLIAM G., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Sept. 23, 1829, in Mercer county, 
Pa. This prominent lawyer of Cleveland, 
Ohio, served his city as mayor for two 
terms; and was candidate for lieutenant- 
governor of Ohio in 1883. Before moving 
to Ohio he served as a member of the 
Pennsylvania state legislature. 

ROSECRANS, WILLIAM STARKE, sol¬ 
dier, civil engineer, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 6, 1819, in 
Kingston, Ohio. He 
graduated from West 
Point in 1842. He 
was appointed aid to 
General McClellan in 
Ohio; was appointed 
colonel and chief en¬ 
gineer of Ohio; and 
was commissioned 
colonel of Ohio vol¬ 
unteers, and briga¬ 
dier-general United 
States army. In 1864 
he commanded the 
department oi Missouri; was made brevet 
major-general United States army in 
1865; and resigned in 1867. He was min¬ 
ister to Mexico in 1868, but was recalled 
in a few months. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from California to the forty- 
seventh and forty-eighth congresses. In 
1885 he was appointed register of the 
treasury at Washington. He died in 1898. 

ROSELIUS, CHRISTIAN, journalist, 
lawyer, was born Aug. 10, 1803, in Ger¬ 
many. In 1831 he was appointed attor¬ 
ney-general of Louisiana. He was for 
many years dean of the university of 
Louisiana; and for the last twenty-three 
years of his life was professor of civil law 
in that institution. He died Sept. 5, 1873, 
in New Orleans, La. 

ROSENBERG, DAVID H„ clergyman, 
physician, surgeon, was born May 19, 1837, 
in Montgomery county, Pa. For twenty- 
five years he has been a minister in the 
evangelical church; and is now a doctor 
of medicine at Mascotte, Fla. 

ROSENFELD, MAURICE BERNHARD, 
musician, composer, was born Dec. 31, 
1865, in Austria. He is a teacher in the 
Chicago Musical college; and the com¬ 
poser of numerous pieces for piano, violin 
and string instruments. 

ROSENGARTEN, JOSEPH GEORGE, 
lawyer, author, was born July 14, 1835, in 
Philadelphia. He is a lawyer of Phila¬ 
delphia; and the author of The German 
Soldier in the Wars of the United States. 

ROSENKRANS, S. ALICE, poet. She 
has contributed both prose and verse to 
the periodical press; and some of her 
poems have appeared in standard works. 

ROSENOW, MAX GUSTAV GEORGE, 
engraver, artist, was born Aug. 17, 1864, 
in Germany. He received his education 


at the Bohn school of Berlin, Germany; 
studied art under Professor Biihler; and 
has attained success as a lithographer, en¬ 
graver, and script designer. He is the 
senior member of Rosenow and Company, 
new process engravers, Chicago, Ill. He 
has designed numerous book covers for 
the foremost publishing houses of the 
west; and designed the cover for this 
volume of Herringshaw’s American Bi¬ 
ography. 

ROSENTHAL, LEWIS, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 10, 1856, in Baltimore, 
Md. He is a journalist who has published 
America and France; and the Influence 
of the United States on France in the 
Eighteenth Century. 

ROSENTHAL, MAX, artist, was born 
Nov. 23, 1833, in Russia. He made the 
chomo-lithograpnic plates for what is 
believed to be the first fully illustrated 
book by this process in the United States, 
Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters. After 
1884 he turned his attention to etching, 
and he has since executed one hundred 
and fifty portraits of eminent Americans 
and British officers, together with numer¬ 
ous large plates, among which are Storm 
Approaches; Doris, the Shepherd’s Maid¬ 
en; and Marguerite. 

ROSENTHAL, TOBY EDWARD, artist, 
was born March 15, 1848, in New Haven, 
Conn. His more important works are 
Love’s Last Offering; Spring’s Joy and 
Sorrow; Morning Prayers in Bach’s Fam¬ 
ily, which was bought by the Saxon gov¬ 
ernment, and is now in the museum of 
Leipsic; Elaine; Young Monk in Re¬ 
fectory; and Forbidden Longings. 

ROSS, ABEL HASTINGS, clergyman, 
author, was born April 28, 1831, in Winch- 
endon, Mass. Since 1872 he has been a 
lecturer on church polity in the Oberlin 
Theological seminary of Ohio. He is the 
author of a number of valuable papers 
on religious topics, and various books and 
pamphlets. 

ROSS, ALEXANDER COFFMAN, mer¬ 
chant, composer, inventor, was born May 
31, 1812, in Zanesville, Ohio. From a boy 
he was interested in scientific inventions, 
and he is said to have produced the first 
daguerreotype ever made in this country. 
He was one of the most enterprising busi¬ 
ness men in Zanesville, and accumulated a 
large property. He died Feb. 25, 1883, in 
Zanesville, Ohio. 

ROSS, CHARLES ALEXANDER, edu¬ 
cator, public oflicial, was born May 16, 
1863, in Presque Isle, Maine. He received 
his education in the St. John’s English 
and Classical school, arid for many years 
was engaged in educational work. He is 
prominent in the public affairs of Wash¬ 
ington, and since 1894 has been clerk of 
Whitman county, state of Washington. 

ROSS, CLINTON, author, was born in 
1861 in New York. He is a novelist of 
New York city; and the author of The 
Silent Workman; The Countess Bettina; 
The Speculator; Adventures of Three 
Worthies; Improbable Tales; Two Sol¬ 
diers and a Politician; The Puppet; The 
Scarlet Coat; Battle Tales; Bobbie Mc- 
Duff; The Meddling Hussy; and Zuleika. 

ROSS, DAVID, congressman, was born 
about 1750 in Maryland. He was a dele¬ 
gate from Maryland to the continental 
congress from 1786 to 1787. 

ROSS, EDMUND GIBSON, journalist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 7, 1826, in 
Ashland, Ohio. He learned the art of 
printing at Huron, Ohio. He became ed¬ 
itor of the Kansas Tribune, at that time 
the only free-state paper in the territory, 
all others having been destroyed. He 
entered the union army as a private sol¬ 


dier, an<L was promoted to the rank of 
major in the war for the suppression of 
the rebellion. He was appointed to the 
United States senate as a republican to 
fill a vacancy and served during 1866-71. 

ROSS, FRANK WARD, physician, sur¬ 
geon, lecturer, was born July 10, 1859, in 
Horseheads, N. Y. He has been presi¬ 
dent of the Elmira Academy of Medi¬ 
cine; professor of X-ray and medico-legal 
electricity in the National college of Elec¬ 
tro-therapeutics; and was formerly lec¬ 
turer on electro-therapeutics at the 
Niagara university. He is a successful 
scientist and medical electrician; and has 
contributed many papers and given many 
lectures to me'dical and scientific bodies. 

ROSS, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Dec. 25, 1796, in 
Cobharn, Va. fj He is a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman of Huntsville, Ala.; and the au¬ 
thor of Slavery as Ordained of God. He 
died April 13, 1883, in Huntsville, Ala. 

ROSS, GEORGE, signer of the declara¬ 
tion of independence, was born in 1730 in 
New Castle, Del. In 1768 he was elected 
to the colonial legislature; was a dele¬ 
gate to the continental congress from 1774 
to 1777; and was one of the signers of the 
declaration of independence. In 1779 
he was appointed judge of the court of 
admiralty for Pennsylvania. He died in 
July, 1779, in Lancaster, Pa. 

ROSS, HENRY HOWARD, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born in Essex coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. For fifty years he was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1825 to 1827; and was county judge 
of Essex county in 1847 and 1848. He was 
a presidential elector in 1848, heading the 
state ticket, and officiating as president 
of the electoral college. He died Sept. 14, 
1862, in Essex, N. Y. 

ROSS, JAMES, educator, author. He 
published a Greek Grammar in Latin'; 
translated the Shorter Catechism into 
Latin; and wrote a number of poems in 
Latin. He died in September, 1786. 

ROSS, JAMES, lawyer, United States 
senator, was born July 12, 1762, in York 
county, Pa. He was a senator in congress 
from Pennsylvania, from 1794 to 1803. He 
died Nov. 27, 1847, in Allegheny City, Pa. 

ROSS, JOHN, merchant, was born Jan. 
29, 1726, in Ross, Scotland. In 1775 he was 
appointed muster-master of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania navy. In 1776 he was employed by 
the committee of commerce of congress to 
purchase clothes, arms, and powder for 
the use of the army. He died in March, 
1800, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

ROSS, JOHN, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1809 to 1811, and again from 
1815 to 1818, having resigned. 

ROSS, JOHN WESLEY, lawyer, public 
official, was born June 23, 1841, in Lewis- 
town, Ill. He received the rudiments of 
his education in private schools; attend¬ 
ed the Lewistown,Ill.,seminary until 1856; 
the Illinois college in 1856-62; and the 
Harvard Law school in 1864-65. The de¬ 
gree of LL. D. was conferred upon him 
by the Georgetown university in 1885. 
He was postmaster of Washington, D. C., 
in 1888-90; was appointed by President 
Harrison commissioner of the District of 
Columbia in September, 1890, receiving 
the reappointment to the same position 
by President Cleveland, and again by 
President McKinley; and is president of 
the board of commissioners. For two 
terms he was president of the board of 
trustees of the public schools of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C.; and is one of the foremost 
lawyers of that city. 




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ROSS, LAWRENCE SULLIVAN, sol¬ 
dier, governor, was born Sept. 27, 1838, in 
Bentonport, Iowa. He became colonel of 
the sixth Texas regiment of cavalry in 
the confederate army in 1862; and was 
made brigadier-general in 1863. In 1886 he 
became governor of Texas. 

ROSS, LEONARD FULTON, soldier, 
lawyer, was born July 18, 1823, in Fulton 
county, Ill. He was chosen in 1861 colonel 
of the seventeenth Illinois regiment which 
he had raised; and was commissioned 
brigadier-general of volunteers in April 
25, 1862. In 1867 he was appointed col¬ 
lector of internal revenue for the ninth 
district of Illinois. He has imported fine 
stock into this country, and has a large 
farm in Iowa. 

ROSS, LEWIS W., lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1812, 
in Seneca county, N. Y. In 1840 and 1844 
he was elected to the Illinois state legis¬ 
lature; and was a presidential elector in 
1848. In 1862 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Illinois to the thirty-eighth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the thirty- 
ninth and fortieth congresses as a demo¬ 
crat. 

ROSS, MILES, merchant, state legislat¬ 
or, congressman, was born April 30, 1828, 
in Raritan township, N. J. He was a repre¬ 
sentative to the New Jersey state legisla¬ 
ture for two years. In 1874 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from New Jersey to 
the forty-fourth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and 
forty-seventh congresses as a democrat. 

ROSS, SAMUEL, state senator, was 
born July 14, 1865, in Patchogue, N. Y., 
which is still his place of residence. He 
has served with distinction in the state 
senate; and filled numerous public posi¬ 
tions of honor in his city, county and 
state. 

ROSS, SOBEISKI, civil engineer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 16, 1828, in 
Coudersport, Pa. He was engaged in set¬ 
tling land in the northern counties of 
Pennsylvania; and was elected to the 
forty-third congress, and re-elected to the 
forty-fourth congress as a republican. 

ROSS, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in 1825 in Pennsylvania. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1849 to 1853. 

ROSS, THOMAS R., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1789. He. was a ltpre- 
sentative from Ohio to the sixteenth, 
seventeenth and eighteenth congresses. 
He died June 28, 1869, in Lebanon, Ohio. 

ROSS, WILLIAM H., governor, was 
born in Delaware. He was elected gov¬ 
ernor of that state in 1851, continuing in 
office until 1855. 

ROSS, WILLIAM WALLACE, educator, 
lawyer, was born Dec. 24, 1834, in Seville, 
Ohio. For thirty-three years he has been 
superintendent of the schools of Fremont, 
Ohio; has been president of the Ohio 
State Teachers’ association; president 
of the Tri-State association of Ohio, 
Michigan and Indiana; and president of 
the Ohio state board of examiners. 

ROSSE, IRVING C., neurologist, scien¬ 
tist, author, was born Oct. 20, 1842, in 
East New Market, Md. He received his 
education at the St. John’s college of An¬ 
napolis; the United States Military acad¬ 
emy of West Point; the university of 
Maryland; the New York university; 
and the principal clinics in Europe. He 
has been assistant surgeon in the United 
' States army; surgeon to the revenue 
cutter bureau; surgeon of the Soldiers’ 
home in Milwaukee; and United States 
examining surgeon for the pistriet of Col¬ 
umbia. He was a juror to the Paris ex¬ 
position; a member of the cholera com¬ 


mission to Europe in 1893; and profes¬ 
sor of the diseases of the nervous sys¬ 
tem in the Georgetown university. He 
has done considerable literary work for 
medical journals upon popular scientific 
and geographical subjects; and is the au¬ 
thor of The Cruise of the Corwin to 
Alaska and the North West Arctic Ocean; 
The First Landing on Wrangel Island; 
and various other works. 

ROSSELL, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1761 in New Jersey. He was 
for many years a judge of the United 
States district court; and also a judge of 
the supreme court of New Jersey. He 
died June 20, 1840, in Mount Holly, N. J. 

ROSSER, LEONIDAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born July 31, 1815,'in Peters¬ 
burg, Va. He was a methodist clergyman 
of Virginia; and the author of Baptism; 
Experimental Religion; Class Meetings; 
Recognition in Heaven; Open Commun¬ 
ion; Initial Life; and Reply to Howell’s 
Evils of Baptism. He died in 1892. 

ROSSER, THOMAS LAFAYETTE, sol¬ 
dier, was born Oct. 15, 1836, in Campbell 
county, Va. He was a brigadier-general 
and commanded a brigade during the civil 
war in the confederate cavalry in Hamp¬ 
ton’s division. 

ROSSITER, CLINTON L., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born Feb. 13, 1860, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. In 1895 he became president of the 
Brooklyn Heights railroad at Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

ROSSITER. THOMAS PRICHARD, art¬ 
ist, was born Sept. 29,1817, in New Haven, 
Conn. He has painted a large number of 
historical and scriptural pictures, and also 
numerous portraits. He died May 17, 
1871, in Cold Springs, N. Y. 

ROSSMAN, GEORGE P., lawyer, politi¬ 
cian, was born Aug. 14, 1859, in Plymouth, 
Wis. He is one of the foremost lawyers 
of Ashland. He has been district attor¬ 
ney for Ashland county; and city attor¬ 
ney of Ashland for three terms. He has 
been a chairman of the county committee, 
a member of the state central committee 
for Wisconsin; and a delegate to the 
state convention three times. 

ROTCH, ABBOTT LAWRENCE, me¬ 
teorologist, author, was born in 1861 in 
Massachusetts. He is a meteorologist who 
founded the Blue Hill meteorological ob¬ 
servatory in Milton, Mass., in 1885, and 
who has published many valuable me¬ 
teorological papers. 

ROTH, THEOPHILUS B., educator, 
clergyman, journalist, was born Feb. 9, 
1853, in Prospect, Pa. In 1893 he be¬ 
came president of Thiel college of Green- 
castle, Pa. He is the founder and editor 
of the Young Lutheran, which has the 
largest circulation of all English Luther¬ 
an papers. 

ROTHERMEL, PETER FREDERICK, 
artist, was born July 18, 1817, in Nesco- 
pack, Pa. He was elected a member of 
the Pennsylvania academy, of which insti¬ 
tution he had been director from 1847 to 
1855. His best works are: De Soto Dis¬ 
covering the Mississippi; Embarkation 
of Columbus, in the Pennsylvania acad¬ 
emy; Christian Martyrs in the Colisseum; 
a series of paintings illustrative of Wil¬ 
liam H. Prescott’s History of the Con¬ 
quest of Mexico. 

ROTHERT, HENRY W., merchant, leg¬ 
islator, was born Sept. 11, 1840, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. He has been mayor of 
Keokuk, Iowa; and for two terms was a 
member of the state senate, and became 
lieutenant-governor of Iowa by succession 
as president of the senate. He has been 
register of the land office at Cheyenne, 
Wyo.; and is now superintendent of the 
Iowa School for the Deaf. 


ROTHROCK, JOSEPH TRIMBLE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born April 9, 1839, in 
McVeytown, Pa. He is a professor of 
botany in the university of Pennsylvania 
from 1877; and the author of Botany 
of the Wheeler Expedition; Vacation 
Cruisings; Flora of Alaska; and Revision 
of the North American Gaurinem. 

ROTHWELL, GIDEON F„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1836 in Callaway 
county, Mo. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Missouri to the forty-sixth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

ROUMFORT, AUGUSTUS LOUIS, sol¬ 
dier, educator, state legislator, was born 
Dec. 10, 1796, in Paris, France. He was 
professor of mathematics at Mount Airy 
college at Germantown during 1818-26, 
and trom that time till 1834 superintend¬ 
ent of a military school in that town. He 
was in the Pennsylvania legislature in 
1843-44, and harbor-master of Philadel¬ 
phia in 1845-48. He had been made cap¬ 
tain of Pennsylvania militia in 1820, and 
in 1843 had risen to the rank of brigadier- 
general. He died Aug. 2, 1878, in Harris¬ 
burg, Pa. 

ROUND, WILLIAM MARSHALL FITZ, 
author, was born March 26, 1845, in Paw¬ 
tucket. R. I. He is a writer active in 
prison reforms. His books for juvenile 
readers include Achsah; Child Marion 
Abroad; Torn and Mended; Hal; and 
Rosecroft. 

ROUNDS, STERLING PARKER, print¬ 
er, was born June 27, 1828, in Berkshire, 
Vt. He migrated to Chicago in 1851; and 
soon afterward opened a printers’ ware¬ 
house. In 1856 the business was extended 
by the addition of the printers’ electro¬ 
type foundry, and the first number of 
Rounds’ Printers’ Cabinet, still in exist¬ 
ence, was issued. He was appointed pub¬ 
lic printer in 1881; but he removed to 
Omaha in 1885 and was identified with the 
Republican till his death. He died Dec. 
17, 1887, in Omaha, Neb. 

ROUNER, DAVID ARGYLE, soldier, 
farmer, lawyer, legislator, was born April 
20, 1842, in Sligo, Ky. He served as a sol¬ 
dier in the confederate army; was a 
member of the thirty-first and thirty- 
second Missouri general assembly; and 
a member of the thirty-sixth and thirty- 
seventh state senate. He is the author 
of many of the revenue laws of Missouri. 

ROUQUETTE, ADRIEN EMMANUEL, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
Feb. 13, 1813, in New Orleans, La. He was 
a Roman catholic clergyman and educator 
of New Orleans, known as the Abbd 
Rouquette. He was the author of a vol¬ 
ume entitled Wild Flowers. He died July 
15, 1887, in New Orleans, La. 

ROUQUETTE, FRANCOIS DOMIN¬ 
IQUE, lawyer, author, was born Jan. 2, 
1810, in New Orleans, La. He is a law¬ 
yer who resided ih France for the greater 
part of his life. He is the author of a 
work in French and English on the Choc¬ 
taw Indians. 

ROURKE, PATRICK HENRY, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Oct. 28, 1854, in Nor¬ 
ristown, Pa. He received the rudiments 
of his education in the common schools, 
and attended the Northern Indiana Nor¬ 
mal college of Valparaiso, Ind. In 1882 
he was admitted to the bar in Chicago, 
Ill., and moved the same year to the ter¬ 
ritory of Dakota. He took up the prac¬ 
tice of his profession at Lisbon, N. D.; 
has been city attorney; mayor of his 
city; district attorney; state’s attorney; 
and in 1892 was the republican nominee 
for attorney-general. He served with dis¬ 
tinction as state senator in the North 
Dakota state senate; and has been United 
States district attorney for the district of 
North Dakota. 


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ROUSE, HENRY' CLARK, railroad 
president, was born March 15, 1853, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. In 1892 he was elected 
president of the Missouri, Kansas and 
Texas Railway company; and in 1893 
was appointed receiver of the Northern 
Pacific, a position he still holds. 

ROUSSEAU, LOVELL HARRISON, sol¬ 
dier. lawyer, state senator, congressman, 
was born Aug. 4, 1818, in Lincoln county, 
Ky. He was elect¬ 
ed for three years to 
the legislature of In¬ 
diana, and for three 
years to the senate 
of the state. He 
served through the 
war with Mexico as 
a captain, and was 
present at Buena 
Vista. In 1850 he re¬ 
turned to Louisville, 
where he subse¬ 
quently resided. In 

1860 he was elected, by both political 
parties, to the senate of Kentucky. In 

1861 he was commissioned a colonel of 
volunteers; was appointed a brigadier- 
generai; and in 1862 appointed a major- 
general. In 1865 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Kentucky to the thirty- 
ninth congress. In 1867 he was appointed 
a brigadier-general in the regular army, 
and was assigned to duty in the new ter¬ 
ritory of Alaska. He died Jan. 7, 1869, 
in New Orleans, La. 

ROUTT, ELIZA FRANKLIN, author, 
was born in 1842 in Springfield, Ill. She 
is most noted as a social leader and phi¬ 
lanthropist. She is the wife of Col. Routt, 
the first governor of Colorado in 1878, 
who was again elected to the high office 
in 1891. She has given much attention to 
literary work. 

ROUTT, JOHN L., governor. He was a 
resident of Denver, Colo. In 1871 he was 
appointed second assistant postmaster- 
general, in which capacity he served until 
1875. He was governor of Colorado ter¬ 
ritory during a part of the year 1875; and 
in 1876 was elected governor of the new 
state of Colorado, holding the office until 
1879. 

ROWAN. JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
in 1773 in Pennsylvania, He was elected 
from Kentucky a member of congress 
from 1807 to 1809; and was for many 
years a member of the general assembly. 
He was a judge of the court of appeals in 
1819; was a senator in congress from 
1825 to 1831; and his last public position 
was that of minister to the Two Sicilies. 
He died July 13, 1853, in Louisville, Ky. 

ROWAN, STEPHEN CLEGG, soldier, 
was born in December, 1808, in Ireland. 
In 1870 he was vice-admiral of the United 
States navy. He died March 31, 1890, in 
Washington, D. C.' 

ROWE, CHARLES HENRY, clergyman, 
poet, was born Jan. 19, 1834, in Guilford, 
Maine. In 1864 he was commissioned a 
chaplain in the United States army. He 
has filled pastorates in the baptist church 
ever since in the vicinity of Boston. For 
a time he was connected with the editorial 
department of The Watchman of Boston; 
and he is the author of a number of 
poems and sacred hymns. 

ROWE, MRS. HARRIET GOULD, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1854 in Maine. She is 
a writer of Bangor, Maine; and the au¬ 
thor of Re-told Tales of the Hills and 
Shores of Maine; and Queenshithe. 

ROWE, HENRY CLARK, was born 
April 23, 1851, in New Haven, Conn. He 
is the pioneer in deep water oyster culture 
in Long Island sound, and he received the 


first grant of oyster ground outside of 
the harbors in 1874. From 1875 until th& 
present time he has secured such legisla¬ 
tion from year to year as the growth of 
the business required. During 1897 he 
planted nearly three million bushels of 
shells and other material on his grounds, 
which comprise nearly ten thousand acres. 
He is regarded as an authority on the 
propagation and culture of oysters; and 
is the author of The Oyster Industry; and 
various papers read before the Interna¬ 
tional Fisheries congress at Chicago in 
1893, and before other societies. 

ROWE, PETER, congressman. He was 
a reoresentative in congress from New 
York from 1853 to 1855. 

ROWELL, GEORGE PRESBURY, jour¬ 
nalist, was born July 4, 1838, in Concord, 
Vt. In 1867 he took up his residence in 
New York, where he began the publica¬ 
tion of Rowell’s Newspaper Directory. 

ROWELL, JONATHAN H„ soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 10, 
1833, in Haverhill, N. H. He served three 
years in the union army during the civil 
war as a line officer. He was state’s at¬ 
torney of the eighth judicial district at 
Bloomington, Ill., from 1868 to 1872. He 
was a presidential elector in 1880; and was 
elected a representative from Illinois to 
the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth and 
fifty-first congresses as a republican. 

ROWLAND, ALFRED, soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Feb. 9, 1844, in Lumberton, N. C. In 1867 
he was elected by the county court reg¬ 
ister of deeds for Robeson county, N. C.; 
and was a member of the general as¬ 
sembly of North Carolina in 1876-77, and 
again in 1880-81. He was elected to the 
fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a dem¬ 
ocrat. 

ROWLAND, DAVID, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Connecticut to the 
colonial congress which met in New York 
in 1765. 

ROWLAND, HENRY AUGUSTUS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 18, 1804, in 
Windsor, Conn. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Newark, N. J.; and the au¬ 
thor of Common Maxims of Infidelity; 
The Path of Life; Light in a Dark Val¬ 
ley; and The Way of Peace. He died 
Sept. 4, 1859, in Boston, Mass. 

ROWLAND, HENRY AUGUSTUS, sci¬ 
entist, was born Nov. 27, 1848, in Hones- 
dale, Pa. In 1884 he received the Rum- 
ford medal for his researches in light and 
heat. 

ROWLAND, WILLIAM, ship builder, 
was born April 28, 1828, in Monmouth 
Junction, N. J. In 1894 he built the 
Priscilla of the Fall River line, which 
is acknowledged to be the finest vessel 
afloat, we also finished the ships owned 
by the Old Dominion line of steamers. 

ROWLEY, ELIZA A., educator, poet, 
was born March 1, 1834, in Oneida county, 
N. Y. For many years she taught school 
and music, sung soprano and alto, and 
served as organist in several churches. 
She has filled positions of honor in vari¬ 
ous societies in Nebraska; and is the 
author of a number of poems which have 
appeared in the periodical press. 

ROWLEY, THOMAS ALGEO, soldier 
lawyer, was born Oct. 5, 1808, in Pittsburg,' 
Pa. He was made brigadier-general for 
services at Fredericksburg, Va., in No¬ 
vember, 1862, and resigned his commis¬ 
sion Dec. 29, 1864. From 1866 till 1870 he 
was United States marshal for the west¬ 
ern district of Pennsylvania, and he now 
practices law in Pittsburg, Pa. 

ROWLEY, WILLIAM REUBEN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 8,’ 1824, 


in Gouverneur, N. Y. He was brevetted 
brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865. 
He then returned to Galena, Ill.; was 
elected county judge in 1877, which office 
he held at his death, and was also en¬ 
gaged in real estate business. He died 
Feb. 9, 1886, in Chicago, Ill. 

ROWSE, SAMUEL WORCESTER, art¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 29, 1822, in Bath, Maine. 
He has devoted himself to drawing in 
black and white, and his works in crayon, 
chiefly portraits and ideal heads of chil¬ 
dren, are well known to the public. 

ROWSON, MRS. SUSANNA [HAS- 
WELL], author, was born in 1762 in Eng¬ 
land. She was a once famous novelist 
whose Charlotte Temple was the most 
popular tale of its day. In 1793 she 
came again to America, and after a short 
career as an actress opened a school in 
Boston, which was very successful. Her 
writings include Victoria; Mary, or the 
Test of Honour; The Fille de Chambre; 
The Inquisitor; The Trials of the Heart; 
Reuben and Rachel; Lucy Temple, a 
sequel to Charlotte Temple; Miscellane¬ 
ous Poems; The Slaves of Algiers, an 
opera; The Volunteers, a farce; and The 
French Patriot, a comedy. She died 
March 2, 1824, in Boston, Mass. 

ROY'ALL, MRS. ANNE, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born June 11, 1769, in Virginia. 
She was a well-known and unpopular 
Washington journalist, editor of the 
Washington Paul Pry, whose literary style 
was quite devoid of merit. She was the 
author of The Black Book; The Tennes¬ 
sean, a novel; Sketches of History, Life, 
and Manners in the United States; and 
A Southern Tour: Letters from Alabama. 
She died Oct. 1, 1854, in Washington, D. C. 

ROY'ALL, ISAAC, soldier, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born about 1720. Among numer¬ 
ous bequests he left 2,000 acres of land in 
Worcester county. Mass., for the endow¬ 
ment of a law professorship in Harvard. 
This was established in 1815 and is known 
by his name. The town of Royalston, 
Worcester county, Mass, was named for 
him. He died in October, 1781, in Eng¬ 
land. 

ROYCE, HOMER ELIHU, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was born 
June 14, 1820, in East Berkshire, Vt. He 
was a member of the Vermont state legis¬ 
lature in 1846 and 1847; and was prose¬ 
cuting attorney for the state in 1848. He 
was a state senator in 1849-51; and was 
elected a representative from Vermont to 
the thirty-fifth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-sixth congress. 

ROYCE, JOSIAH, educator, author, 
was born Nov. 20, 1855, in Grass Valley, 
Cal. He is a professor of the history of 
philosophy at Harvard university; and 
the author of The Religious Aspect of 
Philosophy; California: a Study of Amer¬ 
ican Character; The Feud of Oakfield 
Creek, a novel; Primer of Logical Analy¬ 
sis; and The Spirit of Modern Philos¬ 
ophy. 

ROYCE, STEPHEN, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, governor, was born Aug. 
12, 1787, in Tinmouth, Vt. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Vermont legislature in 1815 and 
1816, from Sheldon county, and from 1822 
to 1824 from St. Albans county. He was 
judge of the supreme court of the state 
in 1826 and 1827, and from 1829 to 1852. 
He was chief justice from 1846 to 1851; 
and was governor of Vermont from 1854 
to 1856. He died Nov. 11, 1868, in East 
Berkshire, Vt. 

ROY E, EDWARD JAMES, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born Feb. 3, 1815, in Newark, 
Ohio. He became president of Liberia, 
where he died Feb. 12, 1872. 




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ROYER, JOHN A., soldier, physician, 
surgeon, was born Feb. 15, 1840, in Frank¬ 
lin county, Pa. During the civil war he 
was appointed surgeon in the depart¬ 
ment of Virginia; subsequently raised a 
cavalry company, and was commissioned 
first lieutenant. For twenty-five years he 
practiced medicine in Carey, Ohio; and 
since 1893 in Toledo. For four years he 
was examining pension agent; and has 
filled numerous other positions of honor. 

ROYER, JOHN GROFF, educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born April 22, 1838, in 
Hartleton, Pa. This well-known educat¬ 
or has been president of the Mt. Morris 
college, Illinois, since 1884. 

ROYSE, LEMUEL W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 19, 1848, in 
Kosciusko county, Ind. In 1876 he was 
elected prosecuting attorney for the 
thirty-third judicial circuit of Indiana, 
which office he held two years. He was 
elected mayor of the city of Warsaw in 
1885 and held this office until 1891. He 
was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty- 
fifth congresses as a republican. 

RUBLEE, HORACE, journalist, state 
librarian, was born Aug. 19, 1829, in Berk¬ 
shire, Vt. In 1869 he was appointed 
United States minister to Switzerland, and 
held that position until 1880. In 1881 he 
assumed the editorship of the Milwaukee 
Republican and News; and in 1882 be¬ 
came editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel. 

RUCKER, DANIEL HENRY, soldier, 
was born April 28, 1812, in Belleville, N. J. 
In 1865 he received the brevets of major- 
general, United States army, and major- 
general, United States volunteers, for 
faithful and meritorious service during 
the war. 

RUCKER, HOWARD LEWIS, educator, 
was born Jan. 12, 1852, in Jacksonville, 
Ill. He is president of the university of 
Commerce and Finance in Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

RUCKER, WILLIAM P., soldier, farm¬ 
er, physician, lawyer, was born Nov. 9, 
1831, in Lynchburg, Va. He received his 
education in Collins institute, the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia, and the Jefferson 
Medical college. He was prosecuting at¬ 
torney for two years for Greenbrier coun¬ 
ty, W. Va.; and two years for Pocahontas 
county. During the war ne served as a 
major of the thirteenth regiment West 
Virginia infantry; was aid-de-camp to 
Generals Fremont, Siegel and Crook; 
commanded for a short .time the third 
district of the West Virginia home 
guards. After the war he was a success¬ 
ful merchant and tobacconist of Lynch¬ 
burg, Va. He is one of the foremost law¬ 
yers of the south, and practices his pro¬ 
fession in Lewisburg, W. Va. 

RUDDER, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1820 in British Guinea. 
He was an episcopal clergyman of Phila¬ 
delphia, rector of St. Stephen’s church; 
and the author of Sermons; and A Ra¬ 
tionale of the Church’s Liturgic Worship. 

RUDE, MRS. ELLEN SERGEANT, 
poet, was born March 17, 1838, in Sodus, 
N. Y. She is a temperance advocate of 
St. Augustine, Fla.; and the author of a 
volume of poems entitled Magnolia 
Leaves. 

RUDEL, CHARLES A., public official, 
was born Aug. 26, 1868, in Baden, Ger¬ 
many. He is prominent in political af¬ 
fairs of Peoria, Ill., was town clerk of 
Peoria township in 1893; and since 1894 
has served as county clerk. 

RUDY, MARTIN, pharmacist, was born 
Oct. 23, 1860, in Oregon, Pa. He is one 
of the leading registered pharmacists and 
manufacturing chemists in Pennsylvania. 
His name and his goods have a world¬ 


wide reputation, and have done as much 
as any other local industry to make the 
city of Lancaster, Pa., familiar to people 
all over the civilized world; his busi¬ 
ness extending to England, Mexico, Aus¬ 
tralia and other foreign countries. 

RUEBSAM, JOHN EMIL HERMAN, in¬ 
ventor, was born March 19, 1841, in Prus¬ 
sia. He was operator and inventor for 
the movement treatment at the Union 
hospital of Philadelphia, Pa., in 1876; and 
he is the inventor of various kinds of ap¬ 
paratus for medical use. 

RUFFIN, EDMUND, soldier, agricult¬ 
urist, journalist, state legislator, author, 
was born Jan. 5, 1794, in Prince George 
county, Va. He served in the Virginia 
legislature, was secretary of the state 
board of agriculture, agricultural survey¬ 
or of South Carolina, for many years was 
president of the Virginia Agricultural so¬ 
ciety, and was the discoverer of the value 
of marl as a fertilizer of poor soil, by the 
use of which millions of dollars were add¬ 
ed to the value of real estate of eastern 
Virginia. He published Essay on Calcare¬ 
ous Manures; Essay on Agricultural Ed¬ 
ucation; and Anticipations of the Future 
to Serve as Lessons for the Present Time. 
He died June 15, 1865, in Redmoor, Va. 

RUFFIN, MARGARET E„ poet, was 
born Aug. 26, 1857, in Baldwin county, 
Ala. She is proficient in music, a linguist, 
and the author of a volume of poems en¬ 
titled Drifting Leaves. 

RUFFIN, THOMAS, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Edgecombe 
county, N. C. He served as circuit at¬ 
torney of the seventh judicial circuit of 
the state of Missouri from 1844 to 1848. 
He was elected a representative from 
North Carolina to the thirty-third, thirty- 
fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth con¬ 
gresses. He took part in the rebellion of 
1861 as a member of the confederate con¬ 
gress, having previously been a delegate 
to the peace congress of 1861. He died 
in October, 1863, in Alexandria, Va. 

RUFFIN, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 17, 
1787, in King and Queen county, Va. He 
served in the North Carolina legislature 
in 1813-16, becoming speaker in the latter 
year; was judge of the supreme court in 
1816-18, and elected again from 1825; and 
was chief justice of the state supreme 
court from 1829 till 1852, and again in 
1856-58, after which he served as presid¬ 
ing judge of the county court. He died 
Jan. 15, 1870, in Hillsboro, N. C. 

RUFFNER, HENRY, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 19, 1789, in 
Page county, Va. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of Virginia; a noted opponent 
of slavery; and the author of Fathers of 
the Desert: a History of Monarchism; and 
Future Punishment. He died Dec. 17, 
1861, in Malden, Va. 

RUFFNER, WILLIAM HENRY, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born in 
1824, in Virginia. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman of Philadelphia, and from 1870 
state superintendent of public instruction 
in Virginia. He is the author of Charity 
and the Clergy. 

RUGER, THOMAS HOWARD, soldier, 
was born April 2, 1833, in Lima, N. Y. 
In 1862 he was commissioned brigadier- 
general of volunteers, and was subse¬ 
quently promoted to major-general. In 
1868\ he was provisional governor of 
Georgia; and during 1871-76 was superin¬ 
tendent of the United States Military 
academy. 

RUGER, WILLIAM CRAWFORD, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Jan. 30, 1824, in 
Bridgewater, N. Y. In 1882 he was elect¬ 
ed chief judge of the New York court of 
appeals. 


RUGGLES, BENJAMIN, lawyer, jurist. 
United States senator, was born Feb. 21, 
1782, in Pomfret, Conn. In 1810 he was 
elected president judge of the court of 
common pleas for the third circuit of 
Ohio. He was elected a senator of the 
United States from Ohio, serving from 
1815 to 1833. He died Sept. .2, 1857, in St. 
Clairsville, Ohio. 

RUGGLES, CHARLES HERMAN, was 
born Feb. 10, 1789, in Milford, Conn. Re¬ 
moving to New York he was a member of 
the New York legislature in 1820. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1821 to 1823; and was for 
many years a judge of the circuit court. 
He served for a second term in the state 
legislature; was made a judge of the 
court of appeals and presiding judge from 
1853; and retired from the bench in 1855. 
He died June 16, 1865, in Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. 

RUGGLES, DANIEL, soldier, was born 
Jan. 31, 1810, in Barre, Mass. He joined 
the confederate army, and was commis¬ 
sioned brigadier-general in the same year. 
He became major-general in 1863, and 
commanded the department of the Mis¬ 
sissippi. 

RUGGLES, EMILY, merchant, was born 
July 16, 1827, in Dorchester, Mass. She is 
a descendant of Peregrine White, the first 
child born among the Pilgrims of Massa¬ 
chusetts. Being deeply interested in the 
reforms of the day, she was one of the 
first women in Massachusetts elected to 
the office of school committee. 

RUGGLES, GEORGE DAVID, soldier, 
was born Sept. 11, 1833, in Newburgh, 
N. Y. In 1855 he graduated from West 
Point; and served 
on the frontier and 
in the territories un¬ 
til 1861. During the 
civil war he served 
with Patterson in 
1861; in charge of 
the organization of 
the volunteer army 
in 1861-62; chief of 
staff under Pope in 
1862; and with Sec¬ 
retary Stanton in 
1863. During 1863- 
64 he was in the conscription bureau and 
inspection; and in 1865 was adjutant- 
general army of the Potomac under 
Meade. During 1868-76 he was in the 
department of the Platte; and during the 
next four years was in the department of 
the Dakota. He won many brevets for 
bravery and meritorious services; at¬ 
tained the rank of adjutant-general of the 
army; and was retired in 1896. 

RUGGLES, HENRY STODDARD, finan¬ 
cier, author, was born Oct. 31, 1846, in 
Boston, Mass. He has been for many 
years engaged in the 
management of trust 
property, having 
charge of large es¬ 
tates in Boston. His 
residence is in the 
town of Wakefield, a 
suburb of that city. 
During his leisure, 
he has turned his 
attention somewhat 
towards literature, 
writing over his 
own name as well as 
his nom-de-plume of Henry Stoddard. 
He has also contributed many pa¬ 
pers to historical and other periodicals 
in addition to several books; and his 
writings have been a valuable acquisition 
to current literature. 






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RUGGLES, JOHN, mechanic, lawyer, 
state legislator. United States senator, 
was born Oct. 8, 1789, in Westborough, 
Mass. He was nine times elected to the 
Maine legislature, and officiated as speak¬ 
er three years. From 1831 to 1835 he was 
judge of the court of common pleas. He 
was a senator in congress from Maine 
from 1835 to 1841. He died June 20, 1874, 
in Tliomaston, Maine. 

RUGGLES, JOSEPH WESLEY, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Dec. 2, 1837, in 
Milan, Ohio. He is a director of the Con¬ 
servatory School of Music at the Upper 
Iowa university of Fayette. He is the au¬ 
thor of a number of anthems, cantatas, 
and Sunday school songs. 

RUGGLES, NATHANIEL, congressman, 
was horn in 1761 in Massachusetts. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1813 to 1819. He died 
Dec. 19, 1819, in Roxbury, Mass. 

RUGGLES, SAMUEL BULKELEY, 
lawyer, financier, was born April 11, 1800, 
in New Milford, Conn. He was one of 
the organizers of the Erie canal; and 
was a representative of the United States 
in the international monetary conference 
at Paris in 1867. He laid out and pre¬ 
sented Gramercy Park to the city of New 
York. He died Aug. 28, 1881, in Fire 
Island, N. Y. 

RUGGLES, STEPHEN PRESTON, in¬ 
ventor, was born July 4, 1808, in Wind¬ 
sor, Vt. He was the original inventor of 
the movable platen in printing presses, 
and of many other features which are 
still in use in printing presses. He also 
invented types, presses, and paper fbr 
printing for the blind, which now, like 
his devices for stereotyping, paper-cutting 
and ruling and metal working machinery, 
have become common property. He died 
May 28, 1880, in Boston, Mass. 

RUGGLES, WILLIAM, educator, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born Sept. 5, 1797, in 
Rochester, Mass. He was a generous 
contributor to charitable objects, especial¬ 
ly those of the baptist denomination. To 
Karen Theological school, in Burmah, he 
gave during his life $15,000, and at his 
death he left it a legacy of $25,000. He 
died Sept. 10, 1877, in Washington, D. C. 

RULISON, NELSON SOMERVILLE, 
bishop, was born April 24, 1842, in Car¬ 
thage, N. Y. In 1867 he became rector 
of Zion church of Morris, N. Y.; and three 
years later went to Jersey City, and there 
founded and built the St. John’s Free 
church. He was subsequently consecrat¬ 
ed protestant episcopal bishop of central 
Pennsylvania. 

RUMFORD, BENJAMIN THOMPSON, 
count, philosopher, statesman, author, 
was born in 1753 in Maine. He was a 
statesman and philosopher. After serving 
Great Britain in the war of the revolution, 
he entered the service of the elector of 
Bavaria, rose to the position of minister 
of war, and was created count of the Holy 
Roman empire, taking his title Rumford 
from Rumford, now Concord, N. H. He 
was the author of Essays: Political, Eco¬ 
nomical, and Philosophical. He died Aug. 
21, 1814, near Paris, France. 

RUMPLE, JETHRO, clergyman, author, 
was born March 10, 1827, in Cabarrus 
county, N. C. He was ordained to the 
Presbyterian ministry in 1857. After hold¬ 
ing pastorates in Mecklenburg county, he 
was called in 1860 to Salisbury, N. C., 
where he has since remained. He has 
taken an active part in the councils of 
his church, and published History of Row¬ 
an County, N. C.; and History of the First 
Fifty Years of Davidson College; and 
History of Presbyterianism in North 
Carolina. 


RUMSEY, BENJAMIN, congressman, 
was born about 1730. He was a delegate 
from Maryland to the continental congress 
from 1776 to 1778. 

RUMSEY, DAVID, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1847 
to 1851. 

RUMSEY, EDWARD, congressman, was 
born in Kentucky. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1837 
to 1839. 

RUMSEY, JOSEPH B., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Aug. 29, 1842, in Maines- 
burg, Pa. Since 1892 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Olean, Oswayo and Eastern 
railroad. 

RUNCIE, MRS. CONSTANCE 
[FAUNT LE ROY], author, poet, was 
in Indianapolis, Ind. 
She is a writer 
whose home was 
many years at St. 
Joseph, Mo. She is 
the author of Di¬ 
vinely Led; Poems, 
Dramatic and Lyric; 
Woman’s Work; Fe- 
1 i x Mendelssohn; 
and Children’s Stor¬ 
ies and Fables. Be¬ 
sides the publication 
of these works, she 
has contributed both 
prose and verse to the leading newspapers 
and magazines of the United States. 

RUNK, JOHN, congressman, was born 
in New Jersey. He was a presidential 
elector in 1841; and was a representative 
in congress from New Jersey from 1845 to 
1847. 

RUNKLE, JOHN DANIEL, educator, 
mathematician, author, was born Oct. 11, 
1822, in Root, N. Y. He is a noted mathe¬ 
matician, professor of mathematics in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 
1870-78; and the author of Elements of 
Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry. 

RUNKLE, LUCIA ISABELLA, author, 
was born Aug. 20, 1844, in North Brook¬ 
field, Mass. For many years she was an 
editorial writer and contributor to the 
New York Tribune, in which she pub¬ 
lished a brilliant series of articles on 
Cooking, treated from an artistic stand¬ 
point, which attracted much attention. 

RUNNELS, HARRISON R„ state legis¬ 
lator, governor, was born in Mississippi. 
He emigrated to Texas in 1841, served ih 
the legislature of the state and was speak¬ 
er of the house; and in 1855 was elected 
lieutenant-governor. In 1857 he was elect¬ 
ed governor of Texas. He died in Cowie 
county. Miss. 

RUNNELS, HIRAM G., governor. He 
was governor of Mississippi from 1833 to 
1835. 


born Jan. 15, 1836, 



RUNYAN, JOHN N., soldier, was born 
April 26, 1846, in Warsaw, Ind. He left 
Warsaw in December, 1861, with a num¬ 
ber of recruits for 
company E, twelfth 
Indiana infantry. He 
was promoted second 
lieutenant in 1863. 
At the battle of 
Chickamauga, the 
captain and first 
lieutenant being 
wounded early in the 
action, the command 
of h* s company de- 
flf volvefl upon Lieu¬ 

tenant Runyan. As 
a drill master he was one of the best. It 
was while engaged in a sharp skirmish, 
June 15, 1864, at the foot of Kenesaw 
Mountain, that Lieutenant Runyan dis¬ 
played remarkable bravery. 



RUPP, ISAAC DANIEL, author, was 
born July 10, 1803, in Cumberland county. 
Pa. He was an industrious local histori¬ 
an of Pennsylvania, who, besides writing 
histories of nearly thirty counties in his 
state, published also Events in Indian 
History; History of Religious Denomina¬ 
tions in the United States; Early History 
of Western Pennsylvania; and Thirty 
Thousand Names of German Emigrants. 
He died May 31, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RUSCHENBERGER, WILLIAM S. W., 
naval surgeon, author, was born Sept. 4, 
1807, in Cumberland county, N. Y. He 
was a noted naval surgeon and natural¬ 
ist of Philadelphia, and the author of 
Elements of Natural History; A Voyage 
Around the World; Three Weeks in the 
Pacific; Notes and Commentaries Dur¬ 
ing Voyages to Brazil and China; Lexi¬ 
con of Natural History Terms; Account 
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
in Philadelphia; and The Brothers Rog¬ 
ers. He died in 1895. 

RUSH, BENJAMIN, signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence, was born Dec. 
24, 1745, in Bristol, Pa. He was an earn¬ 
est advocate of the 
cause of liberty; was 
a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress in 
1776 and 1777, and a 
signer of the declara¬ 
tion of independence. 
He was a member 
of the convention 
called to ratify the 
federal constitution, 
and subsequently held 
the post of cashier of 
the United States 
mint. He took an active part in the so¬ 
ciety for the Abolition of Slavery, the 
Philadelphia Bible society, the Philadel¬ 
phia Medical society, and the American 
Philosophical society. He was the author 
of Treatise on Diseases of the Mind; Es¬ 
says, Literary, Moral and Philosophical; 
and Sixteen Introductory Lectures. He 
died April 19, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RUSH, BENJAMIN, lawyer, author, 
was born Jan. 23, 1811, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is a lawyer of Philadelphia, and 
the author of Appeal for the Union; and 
Letters on the Rebellion, 1862. He died 
June 30, 1877, in Paris, France. 

RUSH, JACOB, lawyer, jurist, author, 
was born in 1746 in Byberry township. 
Pa. He was a Philadelphia jurist, and 
the author of Charges on Moral and Reli¬ 
gious Subjects; Character of Christ; and 
Christian Baptism. He died Jan. 5, 1820, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RUSH, JAMES, philanthropist, author, 
was born March 1, 1786, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. Pie was a distinguished Philadelphia 
citizen, and the founder of the Ridgeway 
library, to which he left one million dol¬ 
lars. He was the author of The Philoso¬ 
phy of the Human Voice; Analysis of the 
Human Intellect; and Rhymes of Con¬ 
trast on Wisdom and Folly. He died 
May 26, 1869, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RUSH, RICHARD, lawyer, orator, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 29, 1780, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. In 1814 he was appointed attor¬ 
ney-general of the United States. In 
1817 he was appointed minister to Eng¬ 
land, serving until 1825. He was secre¬ 
tary of the treasury under President J. Q. 
Adams; was candidate for vice-president 
on the ticket with Adams, and in 1847 was 
appointed minister to France, remaining 
in office ten years. In 1833 he published A 
Residence at the Court of St. James; a 
Sequel to it in 1845, and in 1857, Familiar 
Letters of Washington. In 1860 a volume 
of Occasional Productions was pub¬ 
lished. He died July 30, 1859, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 





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RUSK, HARRY WELLES, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 17, 1852, in Baltimore, Md. In 1872 
he graduated from 
the Maryland univer¬ 
sity law school with 
the degree of LL. B. 
For six years he 
was a member of the 
Maryland house of 
delegates; and for 
four years a mem¬ 
ber of the Maryland 
senate. He was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive from Baltimore 
to the forty-ninth 
congress to fill a vacancy; and was elected 
to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, 
fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses. 

RUSK, JEREMIAH McLAIN, soldier, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
June 17, 1830, in Morgan county, Ohio. 

He was a member of 
the Wisconsin legis¬ 
lature in 1862. He 
was commissioned 
major of Wisconsin 
volunteers in 1862, 
and was brevetted 
brigadier - general. 
He was elected bank 
comptroller of Wis¬ 
consin in 1866, and 
re-elected for 1868. 
He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from 
Wisconsin to the forty-second, forty-third 
and forty-fourth congresses. He was 
elected governor of Wisconsin in 1882, 
and was re-elected in 1884 and in 1886. In 
1889 he was elected secretary of agricul¬ 
ture. 

RUSK, THOMAS JEFFERSON, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born Aug. 8, 1802, in Camden, S. C. 
He served as a member of the house of 
representatives and as chief justice of the 
supreme court, which last office he re¬ 
signed early in 1842. In 1845 he was presi¬ 
dent of the convention that consummated 
the annexation of Texas to the United 
States. Upon the admission of Texas into 
the LTnion in 1845 he was elected one of 
the senators in the congress of the United 
States, in which office he served two terms 
and was re-elected for the third term, 
ending in 1863. He died July 29, 1856, in 
Nacogdoches, Texas. 

RUSS, JOHN, congressman, was born 
in Ipswich, Mass. He was- a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Connecticut from 
1819 to 1823. He died June 22, 1832, in 
Hartford, Conn. 

RUSSELL, ADDISON PEALE, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1826 in Ohio. He 
is an Ohio journalist and essayist, now 
living in retirement in Wilmington, Ohio. 
He is the author of Half Tints; Library 
Notes; Thomas Corwin, a Sketch; Charac¬ 
teristics; A Club of One; In a Club Cor¬ 
ner; and Sub-Coelum. 

RUSSELL, ALFRED, jurist, scholar, 
orator, was born March 18, 1830, in Ply¬ 
mouth, N. H. In 1850 he graduated from 
Dartmouth college, 
and in 1852 from the 
Harvard college law 
school. The same 
year he was admit¬ 
ted to the bar of 
New Hampshire; the 
following year to the 
bar of Michigan; to 
the bar of the Unit¬ 
ed States circuit 
court on June 25, 
1853, and to the bar 
of the supreme court 
of the United States at Washington in 


1858. He took part in the formation of 
the republican party. In 1864 he was 
sent to Montreal and Toronto by Secre¬ 
tary Seward to procure extradition of the 
St. Albans and Lake Erie raiders. He 
was appointed United States district at¬ 
torney by President Lincoln; and has 
been professor of federal jurisprudence in 
the Detroit College of Law. He is the au¬ 
thor of many patriotic and college ad¬ 
dresses, and has achieved a national rep¬ 
utation among the lawyers and scholars 
of America. 

RUSSELL, AMOS B., clergyman, poet, 
was born Feb. 24,1825, in Woodstock, N. H. 
After taking a theological course he be¬ 
came pastor of the 
methodist church of 
Gilmanton, N. H. He 
has traveled exten¬ 
sively in Europe; 
and now fills the pas¬ 
torate in East Lemp- 
ster. His poems 
have appeared in the 
Boston Christian 
Witness, and other 
prominent religious 
publications; and his 
poems also appeared 
in Poets of America and other standard 
works; and are a valuable acquisition to 
American literature. 

RUSSELL, ARCHIBALD, philanthrop¬ 
ist, was born in 1811 in Scotland. He 
settled in New York city in 1836, where 
he devoted his time and fortune to ben¬ 
evolent and educational enterprises, 
founding the Five Points mission, of 
which he was president for eighteen 
years, and aiding in establishing the Half- 
Orphan asylum, of which he was a vice- 
president. He died April 12, 1871, in New 
York city. 

RUSSELL, BENJAMIN, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, state senator, author, was born 
Sept. 13, 1761, in Boston, Mass. For 
twenty-four years he was a representa¬ 
tive from Boston to the general court, 
and was several years in the state senate. 
For many years he was the editor and 
owner of the Columbian Sentinel. He 
died Jan. 4, 1845, in Boston, Mass. 

RUSSELL, BENJAMIN EDWARD, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 5, 1845, in Monticello, 
Fla. He entered the 
confederate army as 
a drummer boy in 
the first Georgia reg¬ 
iment, and upon the 
disbanding of this 
regiment he immedi¬ 
ately enlisted in the 
eighth Florida regi- 
m e n t, continuing 
with it the last three 
years of the war with 
the rank of first lieu¬ 
tenant. He entered 
the printing business, and has been twen¬ 
ty-one years editor of the Bainbridge 
Democrat. In 1877 he was a delegate to 
the state constitutional convention; dele¬ 
gate to the national democratic conven¬ 
tion in 1880, and mayor of Bainbridge in 
1881-82. He was a representative in the 
legislature 1882-83, and postmaster at 
Bainbridge from 1885 to 1890. He was 
elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth 
congresses as a democrat. 

RUSSELL. BENJAMIN F„ lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, legislator, was born Oct. 26, 1844, 
in Greenwood, Maine. During the civil 
war he served as lieutenant in the third 
regiment Massachusetts cavalry. He has 
served as a representative in the Missouri 
state legislature, and has been speaker 
in that body. 


RUSSELL, CHARLES ADDISON, sol¬ 
dier, merchant, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born March 2, 1852, in Worces¬ 
ter, Mass. He re¬ 
ceived a public 
school and collegiate 
education, and in 
1873 graduated from 
Yale college Dur¬ 
ing 1881-82 he was 
aide - de - camp on 
Governor Bigelow’s 
staff, with the rank 
of colonel. In 1883 
he was a member of 
the general assembly 
of Connecticut; and 
in 1885-86 was secretary of state of Con¬ 
necticut. He was elected to the fifty-first, 
fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and 
fifty-fifth congresses. He is a successful 
woolen merchant of Killingly, Conn. 

RUSSELL, DANIEL LINDSAY, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 
1845, in Brunswick county, N. C. He 
was elected to the North Carolina state 
legislature in 1864, and re-elected in 1865. 
He was elected judge of the superior 
courts for the fourth judicial circuit in 
1868, and served six years; and was again 
elected to the legislature in 1876. He was 
elected to the forty-sixth congress. 

RUSSELL, DAVID, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in 1800 
in Massachusetts. He was in the legis¬ 
lature in 1816 and in 1830, subsequently 
United States district attorney for north¬ 
ern New York, and in 1835-41 was a mem¬ 
ber of congress. He died Nov. 24, 1862, 
in Salem, N. Y. 

RUSSELL, EMORY POOLE, musician, 
educator, lecturer, was born Sept. 20, 1855, 
in New York city. This eminent musi¬ 
cian was proprietor and director of the 
Conservatory of Music in New York 
state, and is now director of music in 
Providence, R. I. 

RUSSELL, FRANCIS THAYER, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born June 
10, 1828, in Roxbury, Mass. He is an 
episcopal clergyman and educator of Wat- 
erbury. Conn., rector of St. Margaret’s 
school there, and voice instructor in the 
General Theological seminary in New 
York city. He is the author of The Use 
of the Voice. 

RUSSELL, GEORGE H., scientific tan¬ 
ner, was born April 27, 1835, in Laugh- 
tenstown, Pa. For many years he was 
superintendent of the Russell Belting and 
Tanning company of Baltimore, Md., and 
New York city. He is the inventor of a 
system of tanning fine oak harness leath¬ 
er, a process which makes a fine grade 
out of a fair sole leather for fine work, 
nice russet and belting. 

RUSSELL, HARRY LUMAN,. bacteriol¬ 
ogist, author, was born March 12, 1866, 
in Poynette, Wis. For many years he has 
filled the chair of bacteriology in the uni¬ 
versity of Wisconsin; and is the con¬ 
sulting bacteriologist to the Wisconsin 
state board of health. He has made val¬ 
uable researches in bacteriology; and is 
the author of Russell’s Outlines of Dairy 
Bacteriology. 

RUSSELL, HENRY, author, was born 
Dec. 24, 1842, in Port Kent, N. Y. He is 
the author of a number of songs. Among 
his best known are. The Maniac; I’m 
Afloat; The Ivy Green; A Life on the 
Green Wave; Woodman, Spare that Tree; 
The Old Arm-Chair; anu There’s a Good 
Time Coming, Boys. 

RUSSELL, IRWIN, author, was born in 
1853. He is a southern writer of dialect 
verse; and the author of Dialect Poems. 
He died in 1879. 
















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RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK, educator, 
geologist, author, was born Dec. 10, 1852, 
in Garrattsville, N. Y. He is a professor 
of geology in the university of Michigan 
from 1892, and a geologist in the United 
States geological survey, in 1880-92. He 
is the author of Lakes of North America; 
Lake Lahontan; Quarternary History of 
Moro Valley; Glaciers of North America; 
Present and Extinct Lakes of Nevada; 
and Volcanoes of North America, and 
many geological reports. 

RUSSELL, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, was born Oct. 1, 1640, in 
Charlestown, Mass. He was a representa¬ 
tive in 1679, an assistant in 1680-86, and 
one of Gov. Joseph Dudley’s council. He 
was a member of the council of safety 
in 1689, a leader in the revolutionary 
movement of that day, a councillor under 
the new charter in 1692, and was a judge 
and treasurer of Massachusetts in 1680-86. 
He died April 28, 1709, in Charlestown, 
Mass. 

RUSSELL, JAMES M., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 10, 1786, in York, Pa. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1841 to 1843. He died 
Dec. 20, 1870, in Bedford, Pa. 

RUSSELL, JEREMIAH, congressman, 
was born in New York. . He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state 
from 1843 to 1845. 

RUSSELL, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1805 to 1809. 

RUSSELL, JOHN E., agriculturist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 20, 1834, in 
Greenfield, Mass. He was elected secre¬ 
tary of the Massachusetts state board of 
agriculture in 1880, and was five times 
re-elected, serving until he was elected 
to the fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

RUSSELL, JOHN HENRY, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born July 4, 1827, in Frederick 
City, Md. He served in the United States 
navy during the civil war, attaining the 
rank of lieutenant-commander in 1862; 
and in 1886 he was commissioned rear-ad¬ 
miral. 

RUSSELL, JONATHAN, diplomat, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1771 in Providence, 
R. I. He was appointed minister pleni¬ 
potentiary to Sweden in 1814, and was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1821 to 1823. He died Feb. 
19, 1832, in Milton, Mass. 

RUSSELL, JOSEPH, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1845 to 1847, and from 
1851 to 1853. 

RUSSELL, L. A., musician, author, was 
born in 1834, in Newark, N. J. He is the 
musical director of the Newark College of 
Music, the author of How to Read Mu¬ 
sic; and composer of several pieces for 
the pianoforte, voice, orchestra and cho¬ 
rus. 

RUSSELL, LAWRENCE, lawyer, state 
legislator, was born Aug. 3, 1855, in Rus¬ 
sellville, Ark. During 1891-94 he served 
as a representative in the Arkansas state 
legislature. He is an able lawyer and 
practices his profession in Russellville, 
Ark. 

RUSSELL, LILLIAN, operatic singer, 
was born Dec. 4, 1861, in Clinton, Iowa. 
Her father was Charles E. Leonard, who 
died in 1897, and for many years prior to 
his death was a member of the firm of 
Knight and Leonard, the well-known 
printers and publishers of Chicago. Her 
mother, Cynthia Leonard, has been for 
many years a prominent advocate of fe¬ 
male suffrage and other reforms. Lillian 
made her debut as a ballad singer in New 
York city; went to Europe in 1883, and 
from 1885 attained rank as one of the 


foremost operatic singers of the century. 
Her labors on the stage have been highly 
profitable, and she is now the possessor 
of a comfortable home in New York city. 
She has been married and has one daugh¬ 
ter. 

RUSSELL, NOADIAH, clergyman, was 
born in 1659 in Middletown, Conn. In 
1688 he was ordained minister of the 
church in Middletown, where he remained 
until his death. He was one of the twelve 
founders of Yale, and a trustee of that 
college. His Diary is published in the 
New England Historical Register for Jan¬ 
uary, 1853. He died Dec. 3, 1713, in Mid¬ 
dletown, Conn. 

RUSSELL, O. E., business man, was 
born May 4, 1848, in Meigs county, Ohio. 
He is a successful business man of Mid- 
dleport, Ohio, where he is engaged in 
the stationery and printing business. He 
has been a member of the city council; 
a delegate of the supreme council of the 
A. P. A. at Washington, and has filled 
various other public positions of trust. 

RUSSELL, RICHARD, colonist, was 
born in 1612 in England. He came to this 
country in 1640, was a representative in 
1646, speaker of the house in 1648-49, 
1654, 1656, and 1658, assistant in 1659-76, 
and treasurer of Massachusetts from 1644 
until his death. He died May 14, 1674, in 
Charlestown, Mass. 

RUSSELL, S. DOUGLAS, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Aug. 3, 1862, in Natchez, 
Miss. He received his education in the 
Alcon university of Rodney, Miss., and is 
now a prominent lawyer of Kingfisher 
City, 0. T., and the editor and owner of 
The Constitution of that city. 

RUSSELL, SAMUEL L., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1853 to 1855. 

RUSSELL, SHELDON C., soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born May 26, 1832, in Wayne 
county. Pa. He attended the academy 
in Coudersport, Pa., 
where he also stud¬ 
ied law. In 1856 he 
moved to Kansas, 
and was admitted to 
the bar three years 
later at Lawrence, 
where he has since 
been successfully en¬ 
gaged in the practice 
of his profession. In 
1861 he enlisted in 
the eighth regiment, 
Kansas volunteer in¬ 
fantry, as first lieutenant and adjutant; 
served in the army of the Cumberland; 
and was later commissioned a major of 
the thirteenth Kansas. He represented 
Douglas county in the state convention 
that nominated Governor S. J. Crawford, 
and was offered the position of paymaster 
in the regular army by Abraham Lincoln. 

RUSSELL, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in Ireland. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Ohio from 1827 
to 1833, and again from 1841 to 1843. 

RUSSELL. WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 20, 1690, in Middle- 
town, Conn. He declined the presidency 
of Yale college, was one of its trustees, 
and published a sermon entitled The De¬ 
cay of Love to God in Churches. 

RUSSELL, WILLIAM, elocutionist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 28, 1798, in Scotland. 
He was an elocutionist of note, widely 
known in bis day as a teacher, and the 
author of Orthophony, or Vocal Culture; 
Pulpit Elocution; Lessons in Enuncia¬ 
tion; and Grammar of Composition. He 
died May 17, 1873, in Lancaster, Mass. 


RUSSELL, WILLIAM, author, was born 
Dec. 28, 1835, in Tennessee. He is a prac¬ 
tical horseshoer; and is the author of a 
work entitled Russell on Scientific Horse¬ 
shoeing. He is conceded to be the stand¬ 
ard authority on horseshoeing; has over 
two hundred different styles of horse¬ 
shoes, which have been made during the 
past half century, and at the World’s Col¬ 
umbian exposition he received the first 
prize medal and diploma. 

RUSSELL, WILLIAM, educator, college 
president, was born July 16, 1842, near 
Centerville, Ind. He received a thor¬ 
ough education in the common schools, 
Richmond academy, and the Illinois 
State Normal university. In 1869 he was 
superintendent of schools of Marion, Ind., 
and during the years 1877-85 was a teach¬ 
er in the Marion public schools and the 
Marion Normal school. Since 1890 he has 
been connected with the Southland col¬ 
lege, and since 1891 has been its presi¬ 
dent. 

RUSSELL, WILLIAM A., manufacturer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
April 22, 1831, in Wells River, Vt. He 
was a representative in the Massachusetts 
state legislature in 1869, and was elected 
a representative from Massachusetts to 
the forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty- 
eighth congresses as a republican. 

RUSSELL, WILLIAM EUSTIS, govern¬ 
or, author, was born Sept. 6, 1857, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He was mayor of Cam¬ 
bridge during 1884-88; and for three terms 
he served as governor of Massachusetts 
during 1890-93. He was the author of 
Speeches and Messages. He died in 1896. 

RUSSELL, WILLIAM F., merchant, 
state legislator, congressman,,was born in 
Saugerties, N. Y. He was a member of the 
legislature of New York in 1850. He was 
elected a representative from New York in 
the thirty-fifth congress. 

RUSSELL, WILLIAM HOWARD, law¬ 
yer, was born Nov. 24, 1867, in Livermore, 
Pa. In 1879 he moved to Kansas with 
his parents; and is now a prominent law¬ 
yer of La Crosse. In his youth he taught 
school, herded cattle, and was local man¬ 
ager for an eastern lumber company. He 
organized a camp Sons of Veterans, and 
was subsequently elected commander-in¬ 
chief. 

RUST, ALBERT, soldier, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. Removing to Ark¬ 
ansas he was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1855 to 1857,. 
and again from 1859 to 1861. He took 
part in the rebellion of 1861, and was a 
brigadier-general. 

RUST, MRS. ELIZABETH L., author, 
was born in Ellicott City, Md. She is the 
general corresponding secretary of the 
Woman’s Home Missionary society of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church from its for¬ 
mation. As secretary of this great insti¬ 
tution she has written seventeen annual 
reports, in which are discussed almost 
every phase of home missionary work. 

RUST, RICHARD S., clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, philanthropist, was born 
Sept. 12, 1815, in Ipswich, Mass. As early 
as 1837 he was a lecturer on anti-slavery 
in New England. He originated and pub¬ 
lished the American Pulpit. He was pres¬ 
ident of Ellington seminary in 1842; of 
the New Hampshire conference seminary 
and Female college in 1850-54; in 1858 was 
elected the first president of Wilberforce 
college of Ohio, and in 1863 was elected 
president of the Wesleyan college for 
Women at Cincinnati, Ohio. For twenty- 
five years he was field and corresponding 
secretary of the Freedman’s Aid and 
Southern Educational society of the rneth- 
odist episcopal church, of which he was 
one of the founders. 






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RUST, WILLIAM APPLETON, physi¬ 
cian, druggist, legislator, was born June 
22, 1823, in Gorham, Maine. He attended 
the Gorham academy, Maine Medical 
school, and in 1846 graduated at the New 
York university. He has been trustee of 
the Maine State Reform school; member 
of the Massachusetts house of represent¬ 
atives, and a member of the Boston school 
board. He has been a trustee of the city 
hospital; a director of the Metropolitan 
railroad; for twenty-five years a director 
of the Blackstone National bank; and 
vice-president of the Penny Savings bank. 
For eighteen years he practiced medicine 
with success, and since 1865 has been a 
successful wholesale druggist of Boston. 

RUTER, MARTIN, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born April 3, 1785, 
in Charlton, Mass. When Augusta col¬ 
lege, Kentucky, was established in 1828 
he was selected for the presidency, and he 
held that office until he resigned in order 
to return to the ministry in 1832. He 
preached in Pittsburg, Pa., for two years, 
and Tnen became president of Allegheny 
college. Obtaining the appointment of 
superintendent of the mission to Texas, 
he resigned in July, 1837. Rutersville, 
Texas, was named for him, and the col¬ 
lege there was founded in his honor. He 
published a Collection of Miscellaneous 
Pieces. He died May 16, 1838, in Wash¬ 
ington, Texas. 

RUTGERS, HENRY, soldier, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Oet. 7, 1745, in New 
York city. He was a member of the New 
York assembly, and during 1802-26 was a 
regent in the New York State univer¬ 
sity. Rutgers college of New Brunswick, 
N. J., was named in his honor, he having 
contributed five thousand dollars to its 
funds. 

RUTHERFOORD, JOHN, governor, was 
born Dec. 6, 1792, in Richmond, Va. In 
1841 he was elected governor of Virginia, 
serving until 1842. He died in July, 1865. 

RUTHERFORD. ALLAN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Oct. 29, 1839, in New York 
city. He served as a volunteer officer 
during the rebellion, and became a briga¬ 
dier-general by brevet. In 1866 he was 
appointed a captain in the regular arriiy; 
and resigned in 1870 to accept the office 
of third auditor of the United States trea¬ 
sury. 

RUTHERFORD, GRIFFITH, soldier, 
was born about 1731 in Ireland. In 1776 
he was appointed a brigadier-general by 
the provincial congress. In-1784 he was a 
state senator in South Carolina. Ten 
years later he became president of the 
Tennessee legislative council. A county 
in North Carolina, and also in Tennessee, 
bear his name. He died in 1794 in Ten¬ 
nessee. 

RUTHERFORD, JOHN, governor. He 
was a native of Virginia. He was govern¬ 
or of that state in 1841 and 1842. 

RUTHERFORD, JOHN, lawyer, United 
States senator, was born in September, 
1760, in New York city. He was a senator 
of the United States from New Jersey 
from 1791 to 1798; was a presidential 
elector in 1798, 1813, and 1821, and was the 
last survivor of the senators in congress 
during the administration of President 
Washington. He died Feb. 23, 1840, in 
Rutherford, N. J. 

RUTHERFORD, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
was born Dec. 6, 1792, in Richmond, Va. 
He was for many years president of the 
Virginia Mutual Assurance society, the 
first institution of this kind in the state, 
and held that post until his death. 
He became lieutenant-governor of Vir¬ 
ginia in 1840. He died in July, 1866, in 
Richmond, Va. 


RUTHERFORD. MILDRED LEWIS, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born July 16,. 1852, in 
Athens, (^a. She received her education 
in the Lucy Cobb institute of Athens, Ga., 
and during 1880-95 she was principal in 
that institution. She has been president 
of the Ladies’ Memorial association since 
1888; president of the Daughters of the 
Confederacy since its organization; and 
is the state historian for Georgia in the 
U. D. C. She is the author of Englifeh 
Authors; American Authors; Bible Ques¬ 
tions; Bible Authors; Mannie Brown, 
That School Girl; Edward Kennedy, 
That College Boy; and other works. 

RUTHERFORD, ROBERT, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in congress 
from Virginia from 1793 to 1797. 

RUTHERFURD, JOHN, United States 
senator, was born in 1760 in New York 
city. In 1798 he served as a United 
States senator. He died Feb. 23, 1840, in 
New Jersey. 

RUTHRAUFF, JOHN M., clergyman, 
college president, was born Jan. 13, 1846, 
near Canton, Ohio. This eminent clergy¬ 
man was president of the Rock River as¬ 
sembly during 1878-95, and is now presi¬ 
dent of Carthage college, Illinois. 

RUTLEDGE, EDWARD, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born 
Nov. 23, 1749, in Charleston, S. C. He was 
a delegate to the continental congress 
from 1774 to 1777, and signed the declara¬ 
tion of independence. He served in the 
state assembly, and in 1798 was elected 
governor of South Carolina. He died Jan. 
23, 1800, in Charleston, S. C. 

RUTLEDGE. EDWARD, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 11, 1799, in 
Charleston, S. C. He was an episcopal 
clergyman who was professor of moral 
philosophy at the university of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. and the author of The Family Al¬ 
tar; and History of the Church of Eng¬ 
land. He died March 13, 1832, in Savan¬ 
nah, Ga. 

RUTLEDGE, HUGH, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born about 1741 in 
Charleston, S. C. In 1782-85 he was speak¬ 
er of the South Carolina state house of 
representatives. In 1791 he was chosen 
by the legislature one of the three judges 
of the court of equity as reconstituted by 
a lately enacted law, which office he filled 
till his death. He died in January, 1811, 
in Charleston, S. C. 

RUTLEDGE, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, governor, was born 
in 1739 in Charleston, S. C. He was a 
delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress; 
and in 1776 was ap¬ 
pointed president of 
South Carolina, and 
commander- in¬ 
chief of that colony, 
having also been a 
member of the' con¬ 
vention of 1774. He 
was governor of the 
state in 1779; was 
chancellor of the 
state in 1784; and 
was a member of the convention to frame 
the constitution of the United States, and 
signed that instrument. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1797 to 1803. 
After having been judge of the court of 
chancery, chief justice of South Carolina, 
and judge of the supreme court of the 
United States, he was finally promoted to 
the position of chief justice, but was not 
confirmed by the senate. He died in July, 
1800, in Charleston, S. C. 

RUTTENBER, EDWARD MANNING, 
antiquarian, author, was born July 17, 
1824, in Bennington, Vt. He is an anti¬ 


quary of Newburg, N. Y., who has pub¬ 
lished a History of Newburg; History of 
Orange County; and History of the Hud¬ 
son Liver Tribes. 

RUTTER, JAMES H., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Feb. 3, 1836, in Lowell, 
Mass. In 1883 he was president of the 
New York Central Railroad company. He 
died June 27, 1885. 

RYALL, D. D., lawyer, congressman, 
was born in Trenton, N. J. He adopted 
the profession of the law; and was a 
representative in congress from New Jer¬ 
sey from 1839 to 1841. 

RYALS, GARLAND MITCHELL, farm¬ 
er, legislator, was born May 27, 1839, in 
Cumberland county, Va. During the civil 
war he was color bearer of his company; 
became second sergeant, and was finally 
promoted to captain and major of cavalry, 
and served on the staffs of Lee, Stuart and 
Hampton. After the war he engaged in 
merchandising, railroading and farming; 
and in 1869 moved to Savannah, Ga. In 
1875 he was connected with a cotton farm, 
and since 1880 has pursued truck farming. 
In 1890 he served with distinction as a 
member of the Georgia state legislature. 
He is vice-president of the Farmers’ Na¬ 
tional congress, and has filled various 
other public offices of trust. 

RYAN, ABRAM JOSEPH—Father Ryan 
—clergyman, poet, was born Aug. 15, 1839, 
in Norfolk, Va. He was a Roman catholic 
priest and verse-writer of the south whose 
verse has been much over-praised in some 
quarters. He was the author of Poems, 
Patriotic, Religious, and Miscellaneous; 
The Conquered Banner, and Other Po¬ 
ems; and A Crown for Our Queen. He 
died April 22, 1886, in Louisville, Ky. 

RYAN, EDWARD GEORGE, journalist, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. ; 13, 1810, in 
Ireland. He was city attorney of Mil¬ 
waukee in 1870-72, and in 1874 was ap¬ 
pointed chief justice of the state to fill 
a vacancy; and was elected to the office 
in the following April. He died Oct. 19, 
1880, in Milwaukee, Wis. 

RYAN, EMMONS BLACKBURN, law¬ 
yer, public official, was born Nov. 20, 1832, 
in Lexington, Ky. He was educated at 
the Transylvania university of his native 
city. He moved to California in 1849, and 
subsequently engaged in the provision 
business in Sacramento. For many years 
he was assessor of that city, and was con¬ 
nected with the paymaster’s department 
of the army during 1864-66. In 1868 he 
became private secretary to Senator Stan¬ 
ford, which confidential position he filled 
until 1871. Since that time he has been 
general tax commissioner of San Francis¬ 
co, Cal., and for twenty-six years tax at¬ 
torney for the Central Pacific Railroad 
company and the Southern Pacific Rail¬ 
road company. 

RYAN, GEORGE PARKER, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born May 8, 1842, in Boston, 
Mass. He organized parties for the ob¬ 
servation of the transit of Venus in 1874, 
and was selected to take charge of the 
expedition to Kerguelen islands. At the 
time of his death he was one of the most 
scientific navigators of the service. He 
died Nov. 24, 1877, at sea. 

RYAN. JAMES, Roman catholic bishop, 
was born in 1848 in Ireland. After his 
ordination he was on the Kentucky mis¬ 
sion for seven years, principally at Sf. 
Martin’s, Meade county, and at Eliza¬ 
bethtown, Hardin county. He moved to 
the Peoria diocese in Illinois in 1878, and 
was appointed pastor at Wataga. In 
1888 he was nominated to the bishopric 
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RYAN, JOHN, college president, was 
born June 24, 1810, in Ireland. He was 
ordained a Roman catholic priest; and 
in 1850 was elected president of St. Fran¬ 
cis Xavier college, resigning in 1856. He 
died in 1861, in New York city. 

RYAN, MRS. MARAH ELLIS (MAR¬ 
TIN), actress, author, was born in 1860 
in Pennsylvania. She is an actress and 
novelist living at Fayette Springs, Pa., 
and the author of A Pagan of the Alle- 
ghanies; Merze; On Love’s Domains; 
Told in the Hills; and Squaw Eloise. 

RYAN, PATRICH JOHN, archbishop, 
was born Feb. 20, 1831, in Ireland. Dur¬ 
ing the war he acted as chaplain to the 
Gratiot Street Military prison and hospi¬ 
tal, and after the war was appointed 
rector of St. John’s church. In 1872 he 
was consecrated bishop of St. Louis, and 
subsequently archbishop; and in 1884 was 
transferred to Philadelphia as its arch¬ 
bishop. He is the author of What Cath¬ 
olics do Not Believe; and Some of the 
Causes of Modern Religious Scepticism. 

RYAN, STEPHEN VINCENT, bishop, 
author, was born Jan. 1, 1825, in Ontario. 
He was the Roman catholic bishop of 
Buffalo from 1860, and the author of The 
Claims of a Protestant Episcopal Bishop 
to Apostolical Succession and Valid Or¬ 
ders Disproved. 

RYAN, THOMAS, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 25, 1837, in Ox¬ 
ford, N. Y. In 1865 he moved to Kansas 
and settled in Topeka; was county attor¬ 
ney for eight years; and was assistant 
United States attorney from 1873 to 1877. 
He was elected a representative from 
Kansas to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, for- 
ty-sevenin, forty-eighth, forty-ninth and 
fiftieth congresses as a republican. 

RYAN, THOMAS F„ capitalist, was 
born Oct. 17, 1851, in Blue Ridge, Va. In 
1886 he joined hands with William C. 

Whitney in securiu'g 
and consolidating 
the various street 
surface railroads in 
New York, which 
now comprise the 
large system owned 
by the Metropolitan 
Traction company. 
He is a director in 
the Southern rail¬ 
way, the Hocking 
Valley, the Flint and 
Pere Marquette and 
the Georgia Central railroads, the Metro¬ 
politan Traction company, the Consolidat¬ 
ed Traction company, the Bank of New 
Amsterdam, and many other corpora¬ 
tions of like nature. The success of his 
business career, culminating in a fortune 
estimated at several millions, is obviously 
due to indomitable will power, unrelent¬ 
ing perseverance and breadth of mental 
vision. 

RYAN, WILLIAM, farmer, merchant, 
congressman, was born in 1840 in Ireland. 
He was a member of the New York state 
assembly in 1891 and 1892, and was elect¬ 
ed as a democrat to the fifty-third con¬ 
gress. 

RYAN, WILLIAM REDMOND, author, 
soldier, was born in England. He pub¬ 
lished Personal Adventures in California, 
which was illustrated from his own draw¬ 
ings, and contains many interesting de¬ 
tails of early pioneer life in California. 

RYDER, ALBERT PINKHAM, artist, 
was born March 19, 1847, in New Bedford. 
Among his works are Wandering Cow; 
Curfew Hour; Pegasus; Farm-Yard; The 
Waste of Waters Is Their Field; Little 
Maid of Arcady; Temple of the Mind; and 
Phantom Ship. 


RYDER, EDGAR L„ lawyer, legislator, 
was born Feb. 13, 1860, in Sing Sing, N. 
Y. He has become prominent as a law¬ 
yer, journalist, and writer on economic 
subjects. He has served as a member of 
the New York state assembly. 

RYDER, JAMES, educator, clergyman, 
college president, was born Oct. 8, 1800, 
in Ireland. In 1839 he became pastor of 
St. Mary’s church, Philadelphia, and in 
the following year he took charge of a 
church in Frederick, Md„ which he soon 
left to assume the presidency of George¬ 
town college. From 1843 till 1845 he was 
superior of the Jesuit order in the United 
States. In 1846 he became president of 
the college of the Holy Cross, which had 
been established three years before at 
Worcester, Mass. He died Jan. 12, 1860, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

RYDER PLATT POWELL, artist, was 
born June 11, 1821, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Among his genre paintings are Life s 
Evening; Spinning; An Interior; Fare¬ 
well; Spinning-Wheel; Reading the Cup; 
Welcome Step (1883); Clean Shave; 
Washing-Day; Bill of Fare; Fireside; 
and Watching and Waiting. He was elect¬ 
ed an associate of the National academy 
in 1868, and was also a founder of the 
Brooklyn Academy of Design. 

RYDER, WILLIAM HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, was born July 13, 1822, in Province- 
town, Mass. He became pastor of the 
universalist church in Roxbury, Mass., 
where he remained ten years. He resigned 
this post to accept a call to St. Paul’s 
church of Chicago, in 1860. He bequeathed 
more than half a million dollars to char¬ 
itable, educational and religious institu¬ 
tions. He died March 8, 1888, in Chicago, 
Ill. 

RYERSON, MARTIN, merchant, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born in New Jersey. He 
was associate justice of the supreme court 
of New Jersey, and in 1874 was appointed 
one of the judges of the court organ¬ 
ized in Washington for the purpose of 
adjudicating the Alabama claims. He died 
in June, 1875, in Newton, N. J. 

RYERSON, MARTIN, merchant, was 
born Jan. 6, 1818. In 1839 Mr. Ryerson 
engaged with a merchant and lumberman 
of Muskegon, Mich., 
continuing with him 
for two years. Be¬ 
ing impressed with 
the timber wealth of 
the country and its 
prospective profit, he 
bargained for his 
employer’s interest 
in the saw mill and 
engaged in the man¬ 
ufacture of lumber— 
at first upon a small 
scale. The rise of 
western towns supplied him with an ex¬ 
cellent market, and he gradually increased 
his facilities until the business eventually 
grew to be one of the largest of the kind 
in the west. He erected in Lincoln park, 
Chicago, a bronze group of statuary in 
memory of the Ottawa nation, for whom 
in his early life he had acquired a pro¬ 
found admiration. He died Sept. 6, 1887, 
in Boston, Mass. 

RYLANCE, JOSEPH HINE, clergyman, 
author, was born June 16, 1826, in Eng¬ 
land. He is an episcopal clergyman of 
New York city, and rector of St. Mark’s 
in the Bowery from 1871, and prominent 
among broad churchmen. He is the au¬ 
thor of Preachers and Preaching; Essays 
on Miracles; Social Questions; and Pulpit 
Talks on Topics of the Time. 


RYLAND, JOHN EDWIN, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born July 8, 1830, in Fayette, Mo. 
During 1862-65 he was circuit attorney 
of the sixth judicial circuit of Missouri, 
and subsequently he became judge of the 
criminal court of the fifteenth judicial 
district of Missouri. 

RYLAND, ROBERT, clergyman, college 
president, was born March 14, 1805, in 
King and Queen county, Va. In 1832 he 
took charge of the manual-labor school in 
Richmond, and when that school was 
chartered in 1844 as Richmond college h6 
was made its president, serving until 
1866. For twenty-five years he acted as 
pastor of the First African Baptist church 
of Richmond, during which time he bap¬ 
tized into its fellowship nearly 4,000 per¬ 
sons. In 1868 he removed to Kentucky, 
where he has been engaged in the work 
of teaching and preaching. 

RYLAND, WILLIAM SEMPLE, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born June 
4.' 1836, in Richmond, Va. This eminent 
clergyman and educator has held chairs 
in the Female institute of Mississippi; 
and Lexington Female college of Ken¬ 
tucky, of which he became president. He 
is nrofessor of natural science in Bethel 
college of Russellville, Ky., and has been 
its president since 1889. 

RY'ON, JAMES, lawyer, legislator, jur¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 13, 1831, in Elkland, 
Pa He was admitted to the bar in 1856, 
and in 1861 was elected to the Pennsyl¬ 
vania state legislature. He was elected 
president judge of Schuylkill county, and 
displayed high judicial management in the 
affairs of the bench. 

RY r ON, JOHN W., lawyer, congressman, 
was born March 4, 1825, in Tioga county. 
Pa. He was district attorney of his na¬ 
tive county from 1850 to 1856; and was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the forty-sixth congress as a 
democrat. 

SABIN, ALVAH, clergyman, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 
1793, in Georgia, Vt. He served ten years 
in the Vermont state legislature; was sec¬ 
retary of state for Vermont in 1841, and 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1853 to 1857. 

SABIN, CHAUNCEY BREWER, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, was born Aug. 
6, 1824, in Oneonta, N. Y. In 1873 he was 
elected a representative in the Texas 
state legislature, and in 1874 was appoint¬ 
ed postmaster at Galveston, which office 
he held until 1883. In 1884 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States district judge for 
the eastern district of Texas. 

SABIN, DAVID D., merchant, banker, 
legislator, was born Dec. 31, 1830, in 
Chenango, N. Y. He was a member of 
the Iowa state legislature from the fifty- 
ninth district. He is a successful mer¬ 
chant and banker of Belvidere, Ill. 

SABIN, DWIGHT MAY, soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, state legislator. United States 
senator, was born April 25, 1844, in Mar¬ 
seilles, Ill. He moved to Minnesota in 
1868 and in 1870 was elected a state 
senator, and was re-elected in 1871. He 
served several terms as a representative 
in the state legislature, became president 
of several large manufacturing companies, 
and was elected a United States senator 
from Minnesota for six years from March 
4, 1883. 

SABIN, ELIJAH ROBINSON, evangel¬ 
ist, author, was born Sept. 10, 1776, in Tol¬ 
land, Conn. He was a methodist evangel¬ 
ist of New England, and the author of 
The Road to Happiness; and Charles Ob- 
servator. He died May 4, 1818, in Au¬ 
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SABIN, GEORGE M., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Sept. 18, 1835, in Cuya¬ 
hoga county, Ohio. He moved to Nevada 
in 1868, and practiced law, and in 1882 was 
appointed United States district judge for 
the district of Nevada, residing at Carson 
City. 

SABIN, JOSEPH, publisher, bibliophile, 
author, was born Dec. 9, 1821, in England. 
He was an English publisher and bibli¬ 
ophile who came to America in 1848, and 
finally settling in New York city, became 
widely known as a bookseller and collect¬ 
or of rare books. He was the author of 
The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of 
England, with Scriptural Proofs; Biblio¬ 
theca Americana; and Bibliography of 
Bibliographies. He died June 5, 1881, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

SABINE, LORENZO, merchant, state 
legislator, congressman, author, was born 
Feb. 28, 1803, in New Lisbon, N. H. He 
was for some time secretary of the Bos¬ 
ton board of trade; was three times elect¬ 
ed to the legislature of Maine from East- 
port; and was at one time deputy collector 
of the port of Passamaquoddy. He held, 
in Massachusetts, the position of confi¬ 
dential agent of the treasury department, 
and was a representative from Massachu¬ 
setts to the thirty-second congress. He 
was the author of a Life of Commodore 
Preble; The American Loyalists; Report 
on the American Fisheries; and Notes on 
Duels and Duelling. He died April 14, 
1877, in Boston, Mass. 

SACHS, BERNARD, physician, author, 
was born in 1858 in Maryland. He is a 
physician of New York city, well known 
as a neurologist, and the author of Ner¬ 
vous and Mental Diseases of Childhood, 
and many professional monographs. 

SACHSE, JULIUS FRIEDRICH, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1842 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a journalist of Philadel¬ 
phia; and the author of The German Pie¬ 
tists of Provincial Pennsylvania; and 
The Genesis of the Lutheran Church in 
Pennsylvania. 

SACKETT, MYRON W., journalist, 
was born Oct. 24, 1841, in Southington, 
Ohio. He received his education in the 
common schools and 
at Mahoning acade¬ 
my of Canfield, Ohio. 
His early life was 
passed in mercantile 
pursuits in Mead- 
ville and Pittsburg, 
Pa. In 1871 he be¬ 
came identified with 
the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen, a 
mutual protection 
organization; since 
1878 he has devoted 
his entire time to its interests, and since 
1879 has been its supreme secretary. Its 
members now number half a million; and 
have paid out over eighty million dollars 
to deceased members. For many years he 
has also been the secretary-treasurer of 
the National Fraternal congress, wherein 
is represented forty-two fraternal benefit 
orders. For a number of years past he 
has also been editor-in-chief of the Key¬ 
stone Workman, and has contributed 
to periodical literature various articles 
on reform and kindred subjects. 

SACKETT, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 18, 
1812, in Aurelius, N. Y. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1849 to 1853. He practiced law in 
Saratoga Springs. 

SADLER, ORIN WINSLOW, doctor of 
medicine, was born Jan. 2, 1843, in Brew- 
erton, N. Y. He received a thorough ed¬ 
ucation, and attended the Michigan uni¬ 


versity and the medical department of the 
Northwestern university of Chicago. He 
is a successful oculist and aurist of Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa., and a member of the leading 
medical bodies of America and Europe. 

SADLER, THOMAS WILLIAM, soldier, 
agriculturist, lawyer, congressman, was 
born April 17, 1831, near Russellville, Ala. 
He was county superintendent of educa¬ 
tion from 1875 to 1884; and was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1880. In 1884 he was 
elected a representative from Alabama to 
the forty-ninth congress as a democrat. 

SADLIER, ANNA TERESA, author, 
was born Jan. 19, 1854, in Montreal, Can¬ 
ada. She is the author of Seven Yearsland 
Mair; The King’s Page; Ethel Hamilton; 
Names that Live, a volume of biogra¬ 
phies; Women of Catholicity; The Silent 
Woman of Alood; and many translations 
from the French, Italian and German. 

SADLIER, MRS. MARY ANNE (MAD¬ 
DEN), author, was born Dec. 31, 1820, in 
Ireland. She is a prominent writer of 
Roman catholic Sunday-school tales, and 
wife of J. Sadlier, a New York publisher. 
Among her many writings are, Alice Rior- 
dan; Red Hand of Ulster; The Daughter 
of Tyrconuell; and The Old House by the 
Boyne. 

SADTLER, BENJAMIN, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born Dec. 25, 
1823, in Baltimore, Md. In 1875 he ac¬ 
cepted the presidency of Muhlenberg col¬ 
lege, Allentown, Pa. He has published 
numerous baccalaureate discourses and 
addresses, including A Rebellious Nation 
Reproved; and The Causes and Remedies 
of the Losses of Her Population by the 
Lutheran Church in America. 

SADTLER, SAMUEL PHILIP, chemist, 
educator, author, was born July 18, 1847, 
in Pine Grove, Pa. He is a chemist of 
Philadelphia, and professor in the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania from 1875. He 
is the author of Chemical Experimenta¬ 
tion; Handbook of Industrial Organic 
Chemistry; and A Text-Book of Chemis¬ 
try. 

SAFFOLD, REUBEN, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Sept. 4, 1788, in Wilkes 
county, Ga. During the Indian troubles 
he commanded a volunteer company, and 
he subsequently served several terms in 
the legislature of Mississippi territory. 
He was made a circuit judge, and was one 
of the three judges that were appointed 
to the supreme bench in 1832, serving as 
chief justice in 1835-36. He died Feb. 15, 
1847, in Dallas county, Ala. 

SAFFORD. A. P. K., governor. He was 
governor of the territory of Arizona from 
1870 to 1878. 

SAFFORD, JAMES MERRILL, educa¬ 
tor, geologist, chemist, was born Aug. 13, 
1822, in Putnam, now a part of Zanesville, 
Ohio. In 1844 he 
graduated at the 
Ohio university, and 
afterward attended 
Yale university, from 
which institution he 
subsequently re¬ 
ceived the degree of 
Ph. D. During 1848- 
72 he was professor 
of natural science in 
Cumberland univer¬ 
sity; during 1873-96 
was professor of 
chemistry in the medical department 
of the university of Nashville; in 
the medical department of the Vander¬ 
bilt university during 1873-94; and since 
1875 he has also been professor of nat¬ 
ural history and geology in the Vanderbilt 


university. In 1854-60 he was state geol¬ 
ogist at Tennessee, and since 1871 has 
filled the same position. He is the au¬ 
thor of a series of reports on the Geology 
of Tennessee, and various other works. 

SAFFORD, TRUMAN HENRY, astrono¬ 
mer, educator, author, was born Jan. 6, 
1836, in Royalton, Vt. He is an astrono¬ 
mer of note, famous in childhood as a 
mathematician, and professor of astrono¬ 
my at Williams college from 1876. He is 
the author of Mathematical Teaching and 
Its Modern Methods. 

SAFFORD, WILLIAM HARRISON, was 
born Feb. 19, 1821, in Parkersburg, W. Va. 
He is a lawyer of Chillicothe, Ohio, and 
the author of Life of Blennerhasset; and 
The Blennerhasset Papers. 

SAGE, EBENEZER, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1809 to 1815, and again 
from 1819 to 1820. He died in 1834. 

SAGE, GARDNER AVERY, surveyor, 
philanthropist, was born May 3, 1813, in 
New York city. He built and endowed 
the library of the Theological seminary 
at New Brunswick, N. J., which bears his 
name, and which he presented to the gen¬ 
eral synod. His gifts amounted to nearly 
.$250,000. He died Aug. 22, 1882, in Sul¬ 
phur Springs, Va. 

SAGE, GEORGE R., lawyer, jurist, was 
born Aug. 24, 1828, in Erie, Pa. He was 
prosecuting attorney three terms in Leba¬ 
non, Ohio. He returned to Cincinnati in 
1865, and practiced law in the firm of 
Sage and Hinkle until appointed, in 1883, 
United States district judge for the south¬ 
ern district of Ohio. 

SAGE, HENRY W., financier, state leg¬ 
islator, was born Jan. 31, 1813, in Middle- 
town, Conn. About 1854, he built a saw 
mill at Lake Simcoe, in Canada, and 
later became a lumber operator in West 
Bay City, Mich., and one of the largest 
owners of pine lands in that state. He 
has given more than $1,250,000 to Cornell 
university; and Sage college for women, 
a chapel, a library and other buildings 
there are monuments to his liberality. In 
1847 he was, as a republican, elected to 
the New York legislature, and in 1892 
was a candidate for elector. 

SAGE, RUSSELL, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 4, 1816, in Oneida 
county, N. Y. In 1841 he was elected an 
alderman of the city 
of Troy, N. Y., and 
by annual re-elec¬ 
tions, served seven 
years in that capa¬ 
city. He was treas¬ 
urer of Rensselaer 
county for seven 
years, in which office 
he was especially 
popular. He was a 
representative i n 
congress from New 
York from 1853 to 
1857, and was the first man who advo¬ 
cated, on the floor of congress, the pur¬ 
chase of Mount Vernon by the general 
government. For twelve years he was 
president and vice-president of the Chi¬ 
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad; 
and is director in many of the largest 
railroads in America. 

SAILLY, PETER, public official, con 
gressman, was born in France. He was a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1805 to 1807. He was appointed, by 
President Jefferson, collector of customs 
for the district of Champlain, holding the 
office until his death. He died in 1826 
in Pittsburg, Pa. 








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SAINT GAUDENS, AUGUSTUS, sculp¬ 
tor, was born March 1, 1848, in Ireland. 
He has been president of the Society of 
American Artists. His more important 
wo. - ks are the bas-relief Adoration of the 
Cross by Angels, in St. Thomas’s church, 
New York; statues of Admiral David G. 
Farragut, in New York; of Robert R. 
Randall, at Sailor’s Snug Harbor, Staten 
Island, N. Y., and of Abraham Lincoln, in 
Chicago. 

SAINT GAUDENS, LOUIS, sculptor, 
was born Jan. 8, 1854, in New York. He 
has modeled a Faun; St. John, for the 
Church of the Incarnation, New York, 
and other statues, and has assisted his 
brother in most of his works. 

SAJOUS, CHARLES EUCHARISTE, 
physician, author, was born Dec. 13, 1852, 
in Paris, France. He became clinical chief 
in the throat department of Jefferson col¬ 
lege hospital of Philadelphia, and finally 
lecturer in the college proper. In 1888 he 
edited and brought to a successful issue 
one of the largest medical works of the 
time, the Annals of the Universal Medical 
Sciences. 

SALES, FRANCIS, educator, author, 
was born in 1771 in France. He was in¬ 
structor at Harvard in French and Span¬ 
ish from 1816 till 1839, and afterward in 
Spanish alone till the year of his deatfy. 
He edited and enlarged Augustin E. 
Josse’s Grammar of the Spanish Language; 
and published critical and annotated edi¬ 
tions of the Spanish dramatists, Don 
Quixote, and other Spanish classics, the 
Fables of Fontaine, with notes, and trea¬ 
tises on the French and Spanish lan¬ 
guages. He died Feb. 16, 1854, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

SALISBURY, EDWARD ELBRIDGE, 
philologist, educator, author, was born 
April 6, 1814, in Boston, Mass. He is a 
philologist of distinction, professor of 
Arabic at Yale university in 1841-56; 
and the author of General and Biographi¬ 
cal Monographs. 

SALISBURY, JAMES HENRY, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Oct. 13, 1823, in 
Scott, N. Y. In 1864 he settled in Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio, where he assisted in establish¬ 
ing the Charity Hospital Medical college, 
before which he lectured till 1866 on phy¬ 
siology and histology. He has been presi¬ 
dent of the institute of Micrology since 
1878. Among his publications are a prize 
essay on the Anatomy and History of 
Plants; and one on the Chemical and Phy¬ 
siological Examinations of the Maize 
Plant during the Various Stages of Its 
Growth. 

SALOMON, EDWARD, lawyer, govern¬ 
or, was born in 1828 in Prussia. He be¬ 
came a lawyer, was governor of Wiscon¬ 
sin in 1862-63, and then practiced in New 
York city. 

SALOMON, FREDERICK, soldier, sur¬ 
veyor, was born April 7, 1826, in Prussia. 
He served through the civil war, receiv¬ 
ing the brevet of major-general in 1865. 
He was subsequently for several years 
surveyor-general of Utah territory. 

SALSBURY, ELIAS D„ lawyer, was 
born July 23, 1867, in the village of Locke, 
Ind. He received his education at the uni¬ 
versity of Michigan, and graduated from 
the law department of that institution. 
He is a prominent lawyer of Goshen, Ind., 
and first distinguished himself as an able 
lawyer in his defense of Hendryx in the 
famous Hendryx-Calkins murder case. 

SALT, ENOCH, musician, composer, 
was born April 9, 1856, in Covington, Ky. 
In 1876 he was the organist at the Centen¬ 
nial exhibition, and is now an organist of 
Portsmouth, Ohio. He is the composer of 


several songs, church music, and several 
sonatas for the piano. 

SALTER, RICHARD, clergyman.^ phil¬ 
anthropist, author, was born in 1723 in 
Boston* Mass. He gave to Yale college 
in 1781 a farm, which was sold for $2,000, 
for the purpose of promoting the study 
of Hebrew and other oriental languages. 
He published an Election Sermon; and 
began a Commentary on the New Testa¬ 
ment. He died April 14, 1789, in Mans¬ 
field, Conn. 

SALTER, SUMNER, musician, compos¬ 
er, was born June 24, 1856, in Burlington, 
Iowa. He is a noted organist and direct¬ 
or, and the author of a number of songs 
and church music. 

SALTER, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 17, 1821, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Since 1846 he has been pastor of 
the congregational church of Burlington, 
Iowa. He is the author of The Life of 
James W. Grimes. 

SALTER, WILLIAM D„ naval officer, 
was born in 1794 in New York city. He 
entered the navy as midshipman in 1809, 
became lieutenant in 1814, was made mas¬ 
ter-commandant in 1831, captain in 1839, 
and commodore on the retired list in 
1862. He died Jan. 3, 1869, in Elizabeth, 
N. J. 

SALTONSTALL, DUDLEY, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born Sept. 8, 1738, in New Lon¬ 
don, Conn. He was a commodore in the 
continental navy. He died in 1796, in the 
West Indies. 

SALTONSTALL, GURDON, clergyman, 
governor, was born March 27, 1666, in 
Haverhill, Mass. He was governor of 
Connecticut from 1707 till his death, and 
he bequeathed one thousand pounds to 
the university of Haverhill to educate stu¬ 
dents for the ministry. He died Oct. 1, 
1724. 

SALTONSTALL, LEVERETT, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born June 
13, 1783, in Haverhill, Mass. He was a 
state senator in 1831, and was mayor of 
Salem, Mass., from 1836 to 1838. He was 
a presidential elector in 1837, and fre¬ 
quently served in the state legislature. 
He was a representative in congress from 
1838 to 1843. He died May 8, 1845, in 
Salem, Mass. 

SALTONSTALL, LEVERETT, lawyer, 
genealogist, was born March 16, 1825, in 
Salem, Mass. In 1885 he was appointed 
collector of customs for the port of Bos¬ 
ton and Charlestown. He is an active 
member of the Massachusetts Historical 
society and of other learned bodies, and 
compiled a genealogical history of his 
family. 

SALTUS, EDGAR EVERTSON, author, 
was born in June, 1858, in New York 
city. He is a novelist of New York cify, 
and the author of Balzac: a Study; The 
Philosophy of Disenchantment; The Ana¬ 
tomy of Negation; Mr. Incoul’s Misadven¬ 
ture; The Truth about Tristram Varick; 
Eden; A Transaction in Hearts; When 
Dreams Come True; and The Pace that 
Kills. 

SALTUS, FRANCIS SALTUS, poet, 
was born in 1849 in New York. He was 
a poet' much of whose life was passed 
abroad. He was the author of Honey and 
Gall; Shadows and Ideals; The Witch of 
Endor; Romance of the Opera; Kings of 
Song; The Bayadere, and Other Sonnets. 
He died June 25, 1889. 

SALYER, JOHN PRESTON, lawyer, 
state senator, was born Feb. 9, 1855, in 
Floyd, Ky. In 1893 he was elected from 
the thirty-fourth district of Kentucky as 
a member of the state senate, for* the 
period of four years. 


SALZMANN, JOSEPH, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born Aug. 17, 1819, in 
Austria. He succeeded Archbishop Henni 
as president of the Theological seminary 
of St. Francis. He was one of the found¬ 
ers of the Seebote, a German periodical 
published at Milwaukee, to w r hich he was 
a frequent contributor. He died Jan. 17, 
1874, in Milwaukee, Wis. 

SAMFORD, WILLIAM J., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1844, 
in Greenville, Ga. He was a delegate to 
the state constitutional convention of 
1875;_ was a presidential elector in 1876; 
and "was elected a representative from 
Alabama to the forty-sixth congress as a 
democrat. 

SAMMONS, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1803 to 1807, and again 
from 1809 to 1813. 

SAMPLE, ROBERT FLEMING, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 19, 1829, in 
Corning, N. Y. He is a member of vari¬ 
ous church boards, and a director of the 
McCormick Theological seminary, Chi 
cago. Ill. Besides numerous pamphlets 
and sermons, he has published several 
books for the young on Christian experi¬ 
ence, and also a Memoir of Rev. John C. 
Thom. 

SAMPLE, SAMUEL C., congressman, 
was born in Maryland. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Indiana from 
1843 to 1845. 

SAMPSON, ARCHIBALD J., soldier, 
lawyer, lecturer, was born in Ohio. In 
1873 he moved to Colorado, and in 1876 
was elected attorney-general of that state. 
He subsequently settled in Phoenix, Ariz., 
and in 1896 was elected department com¬ 
mander of the Grand Army of the Repub¬ 
lic of Arizona. He has delivered lectures 
upon Mexico; Music of the War; Music 
and Musicians; Lincoln; and other sub¬ 
jects. 

SAMPSON, EZEKIEL S., soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state senator, congressman, 
was born Dec. 6, 1831, in Huron county, 
Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney in 
1856-58, in Sigourney, Iowa. He was cap¬ 
tain in the fifth Iowa infantry in 1861 and 
1862, and lieutenant-colonel in 1863 and 
1864. He was a state senator in 1866; 
and was judge of the sixth judicial dis¬ 
trict of Iowa from 1867 to 1875. He was 
elected a representative from Iowa to the 
forty-fourth congress, and was re-elected 
to the forty-fifth congress as a republican. 

SAMPSON, EZRA, clergyman, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Feb. 12, 1749, in 
Middleborough, Mass. He was a congre¬ 
gational clergyman at Plympton, Mass., 
in 1775-95, and subsequently a journalist 
in Hartford. He was the author of Beau¬ 
ties of the Bible; The Historical Diction¬ 
ary; The Sham Patriot Unmasked; and 
The Brief Remarker on the Ways of Men. 
He died Dec. 12, 1823, in New lork city. 

SAMPSON, JOHN PATTERSON, law¬ 
yer, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 13, 
1837, in Wilmington, N. C. He is a cler¬ 
gyman of the African methodist church, 
and prior to 1882 a lawyer in Washington. 
He is the author of Common Sense Physi¬ 
ology; The Disappointed Bride; Temper¬ 
ament and Phrenology of Mixed Races; 
Jolly People; and Illustrations in Theol¬ 
ogy. 

SAMPSON. WILLIAM, lawyer, author, 
was born Jan. 17, 1764, in Ireland. He 
was a famous lawyer of New York city 
who came to America in 1798, having pre¬ 
viously been a barrister in Dublin. He 
was the author of Sampson Against the 
Philistines, or the Reform of Lawsuits; 
and Memoir of William Sampson. He 
^died Dec. 27, 1836, in New York city. 


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SAMPSON, WILLIAM THOMAS, naval 



officer, was born Feb. 8, 1840, in Palmyra, 
N. Y. He came out of the naval acad¬ 
emy in 1860 and 
went into service on 
the frigate Potomac. 
He was made master 
in 1861, lieutenant in 
1862, and served on 
the practice ship 
John Adams for one 
year. After that he 
was a lieutenant on 
the ironclad Patap- 
sco with the South 
Atlantic blockading 
squadron. He es¬ 
caped luckily from that ship when she 

was destroyed in Charleston harbor on 

Jan. 15, 1865. After the war Captain 


Sampson served on the flagship Colorado 


and became lieutenant-commander in 
1866. For three years, until 1871, he was 
stationed at the naval academy. He was 
then assigned to the Congress, served a 
year on that ship at the European station 
and got his commission as commander on 
Aug. 9, 1874. He was placed in command 
of the third-rater Alert, on which he 
served until 1875. Since then he has com¬ 
manded the Swatara, has served at the 
academy, at the observatory, at the tor¬ 
pedo station and in other posts. In 1S98 
he was made rear-admiral for his services 
during the Spanish-American war. 


SAMPSON, ZABDIEL, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Plympton, Mass. He 
was a representative in congress from 
his native state from 1817 to 1819; and 
in 1820 was appointed collector of cus¬ 
toms at Plymouth. He died July 19, 1828, 
in Plymouth, Mass. 

SAMSON, CALEB, clergyman, was born 
March 19, 1858, in South Wales. He re¬ 
ceived a thorough education; and since 
1884 has been distinguished as an emi¬ 
nent congregational clergyman; and now 
fills a pastorate in Oak Hill, Ohio. He is 
prominent among the Welshmen of this 
country; and was a candidate for the con¬ 
sulship at Swansea, Walfe. 

SAMSON, DEBORAH, patriot, was born 
Dec. 17, 1760, in Plympton, Mass. At the 
outbreak of the revolution, she assumed 
male attire and enlisted in the army 
under the name of Robert Shirtleff. 
Accustomed to out-door labor, she was 
able to fulfill the duties of a soldier. She 
was twice wounded. Washington, on be¬ 
ing apprised of her sex, called her to him, 
and without speaking to her, handed her 
a discharge. She afterward married Ben¬ 
jamin Gannett. She died April 29, 1827, 
in Sharon, Mass. 

SAMSON, GEORGE WHITEFIELD, 
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 29, 
1819, in Harvard, Mass. He was a bap¬ 
tist clergyman and educator of New York 
city; and president of Rutgers Female 
college from 1871. He was a voluminous 
writer whose principal works comprise, 
Elements of Art Criticism; Physical Me¬ 
dia in Spiritual Manifestations; The 
Atonement; The Divine Law as to Wines; 
Idols of Fashion and Culture; Tested 
Truths as to Relations of Capital and 
Labor; Outlines of the History of Ethics; 
Spiritualism Tested, originally issued as 
To Daimonion; Guide to Self-Education; 
The Bible Revisers’ Greek Text; and 
Guide to Bible Interpretation. He died 
in 1896. 


SAMUEL, GREEN B., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1794 in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was elected from Virginia a 
representative in congress from 1838 to 
1841, and was, for eleven years, judge of. 
the supreme court of appeals. He died 
Jan. 5, 1859, in Richmond. Va. 


SAMUELS, ADELAIDE FRANCES, 
was born Sept. 24, 1845, in Boston, Mass. 
She is a writer for juveniles, and the au¬ 
thor of Dick and Daisy Series; Dick Tra¬ 
vers Abroad Series; and Daisy Travers. 

SAMUELS, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, nat¬ 
uralist, author, was born July 4, 1836, in 
Boston, Mass. He is a Boston naturalist, 
and the author of Ornithology and Oology 
of New England; Among the Birds; 
Mammalogy of New England; and The 
Living World. 

SAMUELS, SAMUEL, inventor, author, 
was born March 14, 1825, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is a noted seaman and inventor 
who organized the Steam Heating com¬ 
pany of New York city in 1881. He is the 
author of From Forecastle to Cabin. 

SAMUELS, MRS. SUSAN BLAGGE 
(CALDWELL), author, was born Oct. 21, 
1848, in Dedham, Mass. She is a popular 
writer for juveniles, and the author of 
The Golden Rule Series. 

SANBORN, ALVAN FRANCIS, author, 
was born Oct. 9, 1822, in Hampton Falls, 
N. H. He is the author of Moody’s Lodg¬ 
ing House, and Other Tenement Sketches; 
and Meg McIntyre’s Raffle, and Other 
Stories. 

SANBORN, CHARLES HENRY, phy¬ 
sician, state legislator, author, was born 
Oct. 9, 1822, in Hampton Falls, N. H. He 
was active in the political revolt of the 
independent democrats of New Hampshire 
in 1845, which ended in detaching the 
state from its pro-slavery position. In 
1854-55 he was a member of the legislat¬ 
ure. He published The North and the 
South. 

SANBORN, EDWIN DAVID, educator, 
author, was born May 14, 1808, in Gil- 
manton, N. H. He was an educator who 
was professor of literature at Dartmouth 
college in 1863-85, and the author of a 
History of New Hampshire. He died Dec. 
29, 1885, in Hanover, N. H. 

SANBORN, FRANKLIN BENJAMIN, 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 15, 1831, 
in Hampton Falls, N. H. He is a noted 
journalist and reformer living at Concord, 
Mass., and connected with The Springfield 
Republican from 1868. He is the author 
of Life of Thoreau; Life and Letters of 
John Brown; and Life of Dr. S. E. Howe. 

SANBORN, HEDEN JOSEPHINE, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1857 in Maine. She is 
the author of A Winter in Central Amer¬ 
ica, a volume of travels. 

SANBORN, KATHERINE ABBOTT, 
educator, author, poet, was born in 1839 
in Hanover, N. H. She is a popular and 
versatile writer of ephemeral books, who 
was professor of English literature at 
Smith college prior to 1886. She is the 
author of Home Pictures of English 
Poets; Vanity and Insanity of Genius; 
Adopting an Abandoned Farm; Abandon¬ 
ing an Adopted Farm; A Truthful Wo¬ 
man in Southern California; My Liter¬ 
ary Zoo; and a number of compilations. 

SANBORN, MRS. MARY [FARLEY], 
author, was born in 18—. She is a novel¬ 
ist of Boston; and the author of Sweet 
and Twenty; It came to Pass; and Paula 
Ferris. 

SANBORN, WALTER HENRY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 19, 1845, in Epsom, 
N. H. In 1891 he was elected from St. 
Paul, Minn.,, judge of the United States 
circuit court for the eighth circuit. 

SANDEMAN, ROBERT, founder of a 
sect, author, was born in 1718 in Perth, 
Scotland. He was the founder of the 
Sandemanian sect, who came to America 
in 1764 and gathered a church at Danbury, 
Conn., where he died. He was the author 
of Letters on Theron and Aspasio; and 


Thoughts on Christianity. He died April 
2, 1771, in Danbury, Conn. 

SANDERS, BILLINGTON, McCARTER. 
college president, was born Dec. 2, 1789, 
in Columbia county, Ga. In 1833 he was 
elected the first president of Mercer uni¬ 
versity, serving until 1839. He died May 
12, 1852, in Penfield, Ga. 



SANDERS, BLEUFORD B„ soldier, 
merchant, educator, clergyman, was born 
Sept. 19, 1840, near Carrollton, Ala. In 
1861 he enlisted as a 
confederate soldier, 
and served four 
years; when he be¬ 
gan educational work 
and taught for eight 
years. He then en- 
tered mercantile 
business until 1886, 
when he became a 
minister of the gos¬ 
pel, and is now pas¬ 
tor of the First 
Christian church of 
Austin, Tex., which has one of the larg¬ 
est congregations of that church in the 
state. For eight years he was an evan¬ 
gelist and served under the auspices of 
the Texas State Missionary board of the 
Christian church. 


SANDERS, DANIEL CLARKE, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born May 3, 
1768, in Sturbridge, Mass. He was a con¬ 
gregational clergyman and educator, pres¬ 
ident of the university of Vermont in 
1800-14, and subsequently pastor at Med- 
field, Mass. He was the author of A His¬ 
tory of the Indian Wars with the First 
Settlers of the United States, which he 
published in 1812. He died Oct. 18, 1850, 
in Medfield, Mass. 

SANDERS. DANIEL JACKSON, college 
president, was born Feb. 15, 1847, near 
Winnsboro, S. C. In 1891 he was elected 
president of Biddle university, Charlotte, 
N. C. 

SANDERS, MRS. ELIZABETH [EL¬ 
KINS], author, was born in 1762 in Salem, 
Mass. She was a writer of Salem, Mass., 
and the author of Conversations, princi¬ 
pally on the Aborigines of North Amer¬ 
ica; First Settlers of New England; and 
Reviews. She died Aug. 10, 1851, in Sa¬ 
lem, Mass. 


SANDERS, JAMES T., lawyer, was born 
Oct. 6, 1868, in Hawkinsville, Ga. He re¬ 
ceived a thorough education and attended 
the Mercer university of Macon, Ga. He 
has attained prominence as an able law¬ 
yer of Florida at Miami; has been prose¬ 
cuting attorney for Brevard and Dade 
counties; attorney for the board of coun¬ 
ty commissioners for four years; attor¬ 
ney for several large corporations; and 
makes a specialty of real estate and cor¬ 
poration law. 


SANDERS, JOHN, civil engineer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1810 in Lexington, Ky. 
He was employed in the improvements on 
Delaware bay and river, and in construct¬ 
ing Fort Delaware. He published Me¬ 
moirs on the Resources of the Valley of 
the Ohio. He died July 29, 1858, in Fort 
Delaware, Del. 

SANDERS, WILBUR F., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state legislator. United States sena¬ 
tor, was born May 2, 1834, in Leon, N. Y. 
He was the republican candidate for dele¬ 
gate to congress in 1864, 1867, 1880 and 
1886; was delegate to the republican na¬ 
tional conventions of 1868, 1872, 1876 and 
1884; and was a member of the legislative 
assembly of Montana from 1872 till 1880 
inclusive. He was elected to the United 
States senate as a republican, and took his 
seat April 16, 1890. 





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SANDERS, WILLIAM PRICE, soldier, 
was born Aug. 12, 1833, in Lexington, Ky. 
He engaged in the battles of Yorktown, 
Williamsburg, Mechanicsville and Han¬ 
over Court-House during the Virginia 
peninsular campaign; and became briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers in 1863. He 
died Nov. 18, 1863, in Knoxville, Tenn. 

SANDERSON, AUSTIN A., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 4, 1848, in New York 
city. During 1891-97 he was judge of the 
superior court of San Francisco. He was 
one of the ablest of San Francisco’s many 
judges, and is now regarded as among her 
foremost lawyers. 

SANDERSON, FREDERICK H., clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, was born Sept. 3, 1855, in 
Toronto, Canada. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the Collegiate institute and theo¬ 
logical department of the Victoria univer¬ 
sity of Coburg, Ontario, Canada. In 1882 
he moved to Iowa, and immediately came 
into prominence through his abilities as a 
clergyman and popular lecturer. He was 
chaplain of the sixth regiment Iowa na¬ 
tional guards; president of the Iowa state 
Epworth league; and was chosen as one 
of the eminent preachers at the Iowa 
state fair. In 1894 he moved to Omaha, 
Neb., where he is pastor of the Trinity 
Methodist Episcopal church. 

SANDERSON, JOHN, educator, author, 
was born in 1783 in Carlisle, Pa. He was 
an educator of Philadelphia, classical pro¬ 
fessor in the high school in 1836-44, and 
of some note in his day as a humorist. 
He was the author of The American in 
Paris; The American in England; and the 
first two volumes of the Biography of the 
Signers of the Declaration of Independ¬ 
ence. He died April 5, 1844, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

SANDERSON, JOHN PHILIP, soldier, 
author, was born Feb. 13, 1818, in Leban¬ 
on county, Pa. He was an officer in the 
federal army; and the author of Views 
and Opinions of American Statesmen on 
Foreign Immigration; and Republican 
Landmarks. He died Oct. 14, 1864, in St. 
Louis, Mo. 

SANDERSON, JOSEPH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born May 23, 1823, in Ireland. 
He is a presbyterian clergyman in New 
York and other localities; and the author 
of Jesus on the Holy Mount; Memorial 
Tributes; and The Bow in the Cloud. 

SANDFORD, EDWARD, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born Sept. 22, 1809, in 
Ovid, N. Y. He began practice in New 
York city, and in 1842 was appointed 
judge of the criminal court of that city. 
He was a member of the New York senate 
in 1843. He died Sept. 27, 1854, at sea. 

SANDFORD, JOHN, state senator, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from 1841 to 1843; and was a 
member of the New York senate in the 
extra session of 1851. He died in October, 
1857, in Amsterdam, N. Y. 

SANDFORD, JONAH, state legislator, 
congressman. He was a member of the 
New York assembly in 1827 and 1830, from 
the county of St. Lawrence; and was a 
representative in congress from 1830 to 
1831. 

SANDFORD, LEWIS HALSEY, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born June 8, 1807, in 
Ovid, N. Y. He removed to New York 
city in 1833, and in 1843 was chosen as¬ 
sistant vice-chancellor of the first circuit. 
He became vice-chancellor in 1846, and 
from 1847 till his death was associate jus¬ 
tice of the superior court of New York. 
He published Catalogue of the New York 
Law Institute; New York Chancery Re¬ 
ports; and New York Superior Court Re¬ 
ports. He died July 27, 1852, in Toledo, 
Ohio. 


SANDFORD, THOMAS, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1762 in West¬ 
moreland county, Va. He was a member 
of the state constitutional convention of 
1799; was several times a member of the 
Kentucky legislature; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1803 to 1807. 
He was drowned Dec. 10, 1808, in the Ohio 
river. 

SANDIDGu, JOHN M„ planter, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 7, 
1817, in Franklin county, Ga. He served 
as a member of the legislature of Louisi¬ 
ana from 1846 to 1855; and was speaker of 
the house in the Louisiana legislature in 
1854 and 1855. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Louisiana to the thirty- 
fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. 

SANDIFORD, RALPH, author, was 
born in 1693 in England. He published 
A Brief Examination of the Practice of 
the Times, by the Foregoing and Present 
Dispensation. He died May 28, 1733, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

SANDS, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, 
lawyer, author, was born May 2, 1828, in 
Williamsburg, Va. He was a lawyer of 
Richmond, Va., wno entered the baptist 
ministry not long before his death. He 
was the author of History of a Suit in 
Equity; Recreations of a Southern Barris¬ 
ter; Practical Law Forms; and Sermons 
by a Village Pastor. He died Dec. 22, 
1887, in Richmond, Va. 

SANDS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, na¬ 
val officer, was born Feb. 11, 1811, in Bal¬ 
timore, Md. He entered the navy in 1828; 
served with distinction in the Mexican 
and civil wars; was commissioned rear- 
admiral in 1871; and placed on the retired 
list three years later. He died June 30, 
1883, in Washington, ( D. C. 

SANDS, JOHN D., clergyman, was born 
Feb. 8, 1815, in England. He is an emi¬ 
nent congregational clergyman; and dur¬ 
ing the war was chaplain in the nine¬ 
teenth regiment Iowa volunteer infantry. 
He has filled pastorates in Essex, Vt.; 
several churches in Iowa; and now fills 
the pastorate in the Congregational 
church of Belmond, Iowa. 

SANDS, JOSHUA, soldier, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1758 
in Queens county, N. Y. During the war 
of 1775 he was a member of the Brooklyn 
home guards; in 1797 was appointed col¬ 
lector of customs for the port of New 
York; and was at one time a magistrate 
in Kings county. He also took an active 
part in the revolutionary war to its close. 
He was a member of the New York sen¬ 
ate from Kings county from 1792 to 1799; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1803 to 1804, and again from 1825 to 1827. 
He died Sept. 13, 1835, in Queens county, 
N. Y. 

SANDS, JOSHUA RATOON, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born May 15, 1795, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. In 1812 he became a midshipman; 
lieutenant in 1818; commander in 1840; 
captain in 1854; and commodore on the 
retired list in 1862. 

SANDS, ROBERT CHARLES, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born May 11, 1799, 
in Flatbush, L. I. He was a journalist 
and verse-writer of New York city who 
wrote a Life of Paul Jones; The Talis¬ 
man; and co-author with Eastburn of the 
once noted poem Yamoyden. He died in 
December, 1832, in Hoboken, N. J. 

SANFORD, DAVID, clergyman, was 
born Dec. 11, 1737, in Milford, Conn. He 
was ordained pastor of the Congregation¬ 
al church at Medway, Mass., where he 
passed the remainder of his life, with the 
exception of a brief period, during which 
he served as a chaplain in the revolu¬ 
tionary army. He early resisted the op¬ 


pression of Great Britain, and relin¬ 
quished his salary for a time. He died 
April 7, 1810, in Medford, Mass. 

SANFORD, EDWARD, journalist, state 
senator, poet, was born July 8, 1805, in 
Albany, N. Y. In 1838 he was made as¬ 
sistant’naval officer at the port of New 
York, and also held the office of secretary 
to the commission to restore the duties on 
goods that had been destroyed by the 
great fire of 1835. In 1843 he was elected 
to the state senate. Among his best- 
known compositions, only a few of which 
appeared over his own name, are a poeti¬ 
cal address to Black Hawk; and The 
Loves of the Shell-Fishes. He died Aug. 
28, 1876, in Gowanda, N. Y. 

SANFORD, EZEKIEL, author, was 
born in 1796 in Ridgefield, Conn, he was 
the author of A History of the United 
States Before the Revolution; and a novel 
entitled The Humors on Utopia. He died 
in 1822 in Columbia, S. C. 

SANFORD, HENRY C., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 11, 1833, in Maine. 
This prominent lawyer of Akron, Ohio, 
has been prosecuting attorney of his city 
and county; and for two terms has served 
as a member of the Ohio state legislature. 

SANFORD, JAMES T„ agriculturist, 
congressman, was born in Virginia. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1823 to 1825. Having ac¬ 
quired a large property in the pursuits of 
agriculture, he appropriated a part of his 
wealth to the establishment of Jackson 
college. He died about 1880. 

SANFORD, JONAH, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born in 
1789 in Cornwall, Vt. In 1829 and 1830 he 
represented his county in the New York 
state legislature; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress to fill a vacancy in 1830- 
31. He was one of the associate judges 
of the court of common pleas. He died 
Dec. 25, 1867, in Hopkinton. 

SANFORD, LAURA G„ historian. She 
is the author of a History of Erie County, 
Pennsylvania, which is considered one of 
the most meritorious local histories of 
that state. 

SANFORD, NATHAN, lawyer, jurist. 
United States senator, was born Nov. 5, 
1771, in Bridgehampton, L. I. He was 
United States commissioner of bankrupt¬ 
cy for New York in 1802; was United 
States district attorney for New York 
from 1803 to 1816; and was speaker of the 
assembly in 1811. He was afterward 
state senator; and was a United States 
senator from 1815 to 1821, and again from 
1825 to 1831. He was chancellor of New 
York from 1823 to 1825. He died Oct. 17, 
1838, in Flushing, N. Y. 

SANFORD, STEPHEN, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born May 26, 1826, in 
Amsterdam, N. Y. The Amsterdam Res¬ 
ervoir company, by which a thousand 
acres have been flooded with the waters 
of the Chuctanunda creek, supplying an 
immense water power for his own and 
other manufactories, originated with him, 
and has been managed by him as presi¬ 
dent. He also founded and became presi¬ 
dent of the Amsterdam city national bank. 
He was a representative from New York 
to the forty-first congress. 

SANFORD, THADDEUS, journalist, 
banker, was born in 1791 in Connecticut. 
In 1828 he became the editor and proprie¬ 
tor of the Mobile Register. He contin¬ 
ued to conduct that journal, with the ex¬ 
ception of the period between 1837 and 
1841, for twenty-six years. In 1833 he was 
elected president of the bank of Mobile, 
and in 1853 he was appointed collector of 
the port, holding the office throughout 
Buchanan’s administration. He died April 
30, 1867, in Mobile, Ala. 


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SANGER, GEORGE PARTRIDGE, law¬ 
yer, journalist, was born Nov. 27, 1819, in 
Dover, Mass. He was for many years the 
editor of The American Almanac, and also 
edited the Boston Law Reporter. He ed¬ 
ited, with George Minot, the United States 
Statutes at Large, Treaties, Proclama¬ 
tions, etc.; and in 1862-63, with John G. 
Locke, revised and consolidated the city 
ordinances of Boston, Mass., and collated 
the state municipal laws. He died July 
3, 1890, in Swampscott, Mass. 

SANGER, JANE, business woman, poet, 
was born in 1829 in Nelson, N. Y. She is 
the owner of a photograph gallery, and 
part-owner of a book bindery at Fort 
Scott, Kan. She is the author of a large 
number of poems; has contributed exten¬ 
sively to current literature; and her po¬ 
litical poems have attracted much atten¬ 
tion. 

SANGSTER, MRS. MARGARET ELIZ¬ 
ABETH [MUNSON], journalist, author, 
poet, was born Feb. 22, 1838, in New Ro¬ 
chelle, N. Y. She is a journalist of New 
York city, editor of Harper’s Bazar from 
1889, and a popular verse-writer whose 
domestic poems display sentiment of a 
very genuine kind. Her writings in verse 
comprise, On the Road Home; Easter 
Bells; Poems of the Household; Home 
Fairies and Heart Flowers. She has also 
written a Manual of Missions of the Re¬ 
formed Church, and several books for 
girls, including Hours with Girls; Home 
and Heaven; Splendid Times; Five Hap¬ 
py Weeks; May Stanhope and her Friend; 
Miss Dewbury’s School: Little Knights 
and Ladies; and Maidie’s Problem. 

SANKEY, IRA DAVID, evangelist, vo¬ 
calist, author, was born Aug. 28, 1840, in 
Edinburgh, Pa. He was a musical evan¬ 
gelist, and co-laborer of Dwight L. Moody. 
He is the author of several popular 
hymns, and is one of the compilers of the 
revival hymn book entitled Gospel Songs. 

SANTAYANA, GEORGE, educator, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1863 in Spain. He 
is an instructor in philosophy at Harvard 
university; and the author of Sonnets and 
Other Poems; and The Sense of Beauty: 
being the Outlines of HL'sthetic Theory. 

SAPP, OSCAR L., lawyer, college presi¬ 
dent, was born May 5, 1869, in Kerners- 
ville, N. C. He has been mayor of his na¬ 
tive town and during 1891-92 was presi¬ 
dent of the Enfield Collegiate institute. 

SAPP, WILLIAM FLETCHER, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Nov. 20, 1824, in Danville, Ohio. In 
1860 he removed to Nebraska; and in 1861 
was appointed adjutant-general of Ne¬ 
braska territory, and subsequently elect¬ 
ed to the territorial legislature. He 
served in the union army as lieutenant- 
colonel. He moved to Iowa; and was a 
state representative in 1865. He was 
United States district attorney from 1869 
to 1873. He was elected a representative 
from Iowa to the forty-fifth congress; 
was re-elected to the forty-sixth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

SAPP, WILLIAM R., congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1853 to 
1857. 

SARGEANT, NATHANIEL PEASLEE, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 2, 1731, in Methuen, 
Mass. He was elected a delegate to the 
provincial congress in 1775; and was a 
representative in the Massachusetts legis¬ 
lature in 1776. He was judge of the su¬ 
preme court of the state; and became 
chief justice in 1789. He died Oct. 12, 
1791, in Haverhill, Mass. 

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SARGENT, AARON AUGUSTUS, law¬ 
yer, congressman,' United States senator, 
was born Sept. 28, 1827, in Newburyport, 
Mass. In 1861 he 
was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Cali¬ 
fornia to the thirty- 
seventh congress, 
serving as a member 
of the select com¬ 
mittee on the Pacific 
railroad, to which 
enterprise he was 
particularly devoted, 
and was re-elected to 
the forty-first and 
forty-second con¬ 
gresses. He was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress for the term commencing in 1873 
and ending in 1879, serving on the com¬ 
mittees on naval affairs, mines and min¬ 
ing, and appropriations; and in 1882 was 
appointed United States minister to Ger¬ 
many. He died Aug. 14, 1887, in San 
Francisco, Cal. 

SARGENT, CHARLES SPRAGUE, 
journalist, botanist, educator, author, was 
born April 24, 1841, in Boston, Mass. He 
is a botanist of eminence, Arnold profes¬ 
sor of arboriculture at Harvard university 
from 1879, and editor of Garden and For¬ 
est from 1888. He is the author of The 
Silva of North America; Report on the 
Forests of North America; The Woods of 
the United States; and Notes on the For¬ 
est Flora of Japan. 



SARGENT, DUDLEY ALLEN, medical 
examiner, lecturer, inventor, author, was 
born Sept. 28, 1849, in Belfast, Maine. He 
received the degrees of A. B., A. M. and 
S. D. from Bowdoin college; and the de¬ 
gree of M. D. from Yale college. He Is 
the director of the Hemenway gymnasium 
of the Harvard university at Cambridge, 
Mass. He has been president of the 
American association for the Advancement 
of Physical Education; has invented vari¬ 
ous gymnastic appliances; has lectured 
extensively on physical training; and is 
the author of a number of works on these 
topics. 


SARGENT, EPES, journalist, author, 



poet, was born Sept. 27, 1813, in Glouces¬ 
ter, Mass. He was a once prominent Bos¬ 
ton journalist and 
poet, who perhaps 
will be longest re¬ 
membered by the fa¬ 
miliar poem, Life on 
the Ocean Wave. 
His verse includes, 
Songs of the Sea; 
Poems; and The Wo¬ 
man who Dared. In 
fiction he published, 
Wealth and Worth; 
What’s to be Done?; 
Fleetwood; and Pe¬ 
culiar, a tale of the Great Rebellion. He 
wrote the dramas. Bride of Genoa; Ve¬ 
lasco; Change Makes Change; and The 
Priestess. His miscellaneous writings 
comprise, Life of Henry Clay; American 
Adventures by Land and Sea; Arctic Ad¬ 
ventures by Sea and Land; Original Dia¬ 
logues; Planchette, the Despair of Sci¬ 
ence; and Memoir of Franklin. He edited 
a popular series of school and critical edi¬ 
tions of many English poets, and Harper’s 
Cyclopedia of Poetry. He died Dec. 31, 
1880, in Boston, Mass. 


SARGENT, FITZ WILLI AM, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born May 17, 1820, 
in Gloucester, Mass. He is a Philadel¬ 
phia surgeon who went to live in Switzer¬ 
land in 1854; and is the author of Ban¬ 
daging and Other Operations of Minor 
Surgery. 


SARGENT, GEORGE HENRY, manu¬ 
facturer, was born Oct. 29, 1828, in Wor¬ 
cester, Mass. In 1853 he joined his bro¬ 
ther, Joseph Brad¬ 
ford Sargent in the 
manufacture of 
hardware. His prin¬ 
cipal factories were 
established in 1863, 
and being enlarged 
from time to time 
now represent an in¬ 
vestment of millions 
of dollars and stand 
as a monumental in¬ 
stance of the prog¬ 
ress and growth of 
American manufactures during the past 
forty years. 

SARGENT. HENRY, artist, was born 
Nov. 25, 1770, in Gloucester, Mass. He is 
widely known through his engraving, 
The Landing of the Pilgrims. He died 
Feb. 21, 1845, in Boston, Mass. 

SARGENT, HENRY WINTHROP, hor¬ 
ticulturist, author, was born Nov. 26, 1810, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a noted horti¬ 
culturist of Fishkill, N. Y.; and the au¬ 
thor of Skeleton Routes through England, 
etc.; and Treatise on Landscape Garden¬ 
ing. He died Nov. 10, 1882, in Hudson, 
N. Y. 

SARGENT, HORACE BINNEY, soldier, 
was born June 30, 1821, in Quincy, Mass. 
During the civil war he served with dis¬ 
tinction, and was brevetted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. 

SARGENT, JAMES, inventor, was born 
Dec. 1, 1824, in Chester, Vt. He invented 
a lock that was proof against professional 
skill, for which, in 1865, he received a pat¬ 
ent. He then established himself in 
Rochester, N. Y., where he began its 
manufacture. In 1873 he invented the 
timelocks that bear his name, which were 
the first ever successfully used in this 
country. 

SARGENT, JOHN OSBORNE, lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born Sept. 20, 1811, 
in Gloucester, Mass. He was a lawyer 
and journalist of New York city. He 
translated Griin’s Last Knight; and pub¬ 
lished, also, Papers for the Times by a 
Berkshire Farmer; and Horatian Echoes; 
Translation of the Odes of Horace. He 
died in 1891. 

SARGENT, JOHN SINGER, artist, was 
born in 1856 in Italy. Among his figure- 
pieces are Fishing for Oysters at Cancale; 
and Neapolitan Children Bathing. He is 
especially noted for his excellent por¬ 
traits. 

SARGENT, LUCIUS MANLIUS, author, 
was born June 25, 1786, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a once prominent temperance ad¬ 
vocate of Boston; and the author of Tem¬ 
perance Tales, a very popular work; Deal¬ 
ings with the Dead; The Irrepressible 
Conflict; Hubert and Ellen; and Other 
Poems; and Translations from the Minor 
Latin Poets. He died June 2, 1867, in 
West Roxbury, Mass. 

SARGENT, NATHAN, lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, jurist, author, was born May 5,1794, in 
Pultney, Vt. In 1830 he went to Philadel¬ 
phia and established a whig newspaper. 
He subsequently became the Washington 
correspondent of the United States Ga¬ 
zette of Philadelphia. He was register of 
the treasury from 1851 to 1853; and in 1861 
was appointed commissioner of customs, 
and held the position until 1871. At the 
time of his death he was president of the 
Washington reform school, and his last 
literary labor was the preparation of a 
work entitled Public Men and Events. 
He also wrote Life of Henry Clay. He 
died Feb. 2, 1875, in Washington, D. C. 



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SARGENT, WINTHROP, soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, poet, was born May 1, 1753, in 
Gloucester, Mass. He attained the rank 
of major, serving during the entire war. 
He became connected with the Ohio com¬ 
pany, and in 1786 was appointed surveyor 
of the northwest territory; and became its 
secretary in 1787. He was governor of 
the territory of Mississippi from 1798 to 
1801; and was adjutant-general of St. 
Clair’s army in the unfortunate expedi¬ 
tion against the Indians, in 1791, and was 
wounded. He was adjutant-general and 
inspector in Wayne’s campaign in 1794 
and 1795. He was the author of Boston, 
a Poem; and Papers Relating to Certain 
American Antiquities. He died June 3, 
1820. 

SARGENT, WINTHROP, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 23, 1825, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a lawyer of New York 
city; and the author of Life of Major 
Andrd, a work displaying much research. 
He also edited the History of Braddock’s 
Expedition, from Original Papers. He 
died May 18, 1870, in Paris, France. 

SARTAIN, EMILY, artist, was born 
March 17, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. She 
is the principal of the Philadelphia school 
of Design for women. She gained a 
medal in 1876 at the Centennial exhibition 
for her painting entitled Reproof. 

SARTAIN, JOHN, engraver, was born 
Oct. 24, 1808, in London, England. In \ 
1830 he brought the art of mezzo tinting 
to the United States. He established Sar- 
tain’s Magazine in New York city; and 
attained national reputation as a success¬ 
ful engraver. His most noted plates are 
Christ Rejected; The Ironworker; King 
Solomon; Civil War in Missouri; Home¬ 
stead of Henry Clay; and The Battle of 
Gettysburg. For sixty-seven years he 
lived in Philadelphia; was director of the 
Academy of Fine Arts for twenty-three 
years; was chief of the bureau of art at 
the Centennial exposition; and he has re¬ 
ceived thirty decorations and medals. 
His children inherit their father’s genius: 
Samuel is an engraver of portraits; Wil¬ 
liam is a New York painter and president 
of the Art club of that city, and his 
daughter Emily is an artist and art critic 
of note, and was a member of the inter¬ 
national jury of awards of the World’s 
Columbian exposition at Chicago. He 
died in 1898 in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SARTAIN, SAMUEL, engraver, was 
born Oct. 8, 1830, in Philadelphia. His 
prints include Clear the Track; Christ 
blessing Little Children; One of the 
Chosen; Christ stilling the Tempest; 
The Song of the Angels; Evangeline; and 
various portraits after Thomas Sully, 
John Neagle, and others. 

SARTAIN, WILLIAM, artist, educator, 
was born Nov. 21, 1843, in Philadelphia,. 
Pa. He has been professor in various art 
institutes and received a silver medal 
from Boston and from the Pennsylvania 
academy of fine arts. His pictures have a 
place in several of the public art galleries. 

SARTWELL, HENRY PARKER, phy¬ 
sician, botanist, author, was born April 1, 
1792, in Pittsfield, Mass. He was a botan¬ 
ist and physician of Penn Yan, N. Y., who 
from 1840 devoted his attention to the 
genus Carex. His herbarium of more 
than eight thousand specimens is in Ham¬ 
ilton college. He is the author of Carices 
Americans Exsiccatte. He died Nov. 15, 
1867, in Penn Yan, N. Y. 

SASNETT, WILLIAM JACOB, clergy¬ 
man, educator, was born April 29, 1820, in 
Hancock, Ga. He was professor of Eng¬ 
lish in Emory college, Georgia, in 1849- 
57; president of Lagrange female college 
in 1858, and the next year became princi¬ 


pal of East Alabama college in Auburn. 
He died Nov. 3, 1865, in Montgomery, Ala. 

SATTERFIELD, DAVID JUNKIN, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, college president, was 
born Oct. 16, 1844, in Pulaski, Pa. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the Princeton col¬ 
lege of New Jersey and the Western The¬ 
ological seminary of Allegheny, Pa. Dur¬ 
ing 1873-85 he was pastor of the Pres¬ 
byterian church of Beaver, Pa.; and since 
1886 has been president of the Scotia 
seminary of Concord, N. C. 

SATTERLEE, FRANCIS LE ROY, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born June 15, 1847, in 
New York city. Since 1869 he has been 
professor of chemistry, materia medica 
and therapeutics in the New York college 
of Dentistry, and is the author of The 
Treatment of Erysipelas; and a Treatise 
on Gout and Rheumatism. 

SATTERLEE, HENRY YATES, bishop, 
author, was born Jan. 11, 1843, in New 
York city. He is the first protestant epis¬ 
copal bishop of Washington, and prior to 
1896 a prominent clergyman of New York 
city. He is the author of A Creedless Gos¬ 
pel and the Gospel Creed. 

SATTERLEE, RICHARD SHERWOOD, 
soldier, surgeon, was born Dec. 6, 1798, in 
Fairfield, N. Y. He became United States 
medical purveyor in 1853, held that office 
till the close of the civil war, and in 1864 
was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, colonel, 
and brigadier-general. He became lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel and chief medical purveyor 
in 1866, and was retired in 1869. He died 
Nov. 10, 1880, in New York city. 

SATTERLEE, WALTER, artist, was 
born Jan. 18, 1844, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 
1886 he gained the Clarke prize at the 
academy. Among his works are the oil 
paintings, Contemplation, in Smith col¬ 
lege, Northampton, Mass.; Extremes Meet, 
and The Convent Composer; Autumn; 
Good-bye Summer; and Fortune by Tea 
Leaves. His pencil has been frequently 
employed in book illustration, and he is 
well known as a teacher. 

SATTERTHWAIT, JOSHUA W., busi¬ 
ness man legislator, was born March 29, 
1835, in Senecaville, Ohio. He is a success¬ 
ful druggist of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; was 
trustee of the Iowa State Normal school 
for twelve years; and served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the thirteenth general 
assembly of the Iowa state legislature. 

SATTERTHWAITE, THOMAS E., phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, author, was born March 
26, 1843, in New York city. He filled the 
chair of surgery in the College of Physi¬ 
cians and Surgeons, New York city. He 
is the author of A Manual of Histology; 
Practical Bacteriology; and numerous 
medical papers. 

SAUERHERING, EDWARD, pharma¬ 
cist, congressman, was born June 24, 1864, 
in Mayville, Wis. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican from Mayville, 
Wis. * 

SAUL, GEORGE W., railroad president, 
was born Oct. 16, 1858, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
From 1889 to 1892 he was president of the 
Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad; 
and he was also president of various other 
railroad corporations at Cleveland, Ohio. 

SAULSBURY, ELI, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, United States senator, was born 
Dec. 29, 1817, in Kent county, Del. He was 
a member of the state legislature of Dela¬ 
ware in 1853 and 1854; and was elected 
a senator in congress in 1871 for the term 
ending in 1877; and was re-elected in 1877 
and again in 1883. 

SAULSBURY, GOVE, governor, was 
born in Delaware. He was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Delaware in 1865 until 1871. 


SAULSBURY, WILLARD, lawyer. 
United States senator, was born June 2, 
1820, in Kent county, Del. In 1850 he was 
appointed attorney-general of Delaware, 
holding the office five years. In 1859 he 
was elected a senator in congress for the 
term ending in 1865; and was re-elected 
to the senate for the term ending in 1871. 

SAUNDERS, ALVIN, merchant, bank¬ 
er, governor, United States senator, was 
born July 12, 1817, in Fleming county, 
Ky. He was postmaster at Mount Pleas¬ 
ant, Iowa, for seven years. He was a 
state senator for eight years; and was 
one of the commissioners appointed by 
congress to organize the Pacific Railroad 
company. He was governor of the ter¬ 
ritory of Nebraska from 1861 until it was 
admitted as a state in 1867; and was 
elected a United States senator from Ne¬ 
braska for the term of six years from 
March 4, 1877. 

SAUNDERS, EPHRAIM DOD, clergy¬ 
man, philanthropist, was born Sept. 30, 
1808, in Brookside, N. J. In 1871 he gave 
the buildings and grounds, which were 
valued at $100,000, to found, as a memorial 
of his son, Courtland, the Presbyterian 
hospital, toward whose endowment he 
raised $100,000 more by his personal ef¬ 
forts. He died Sept. 13, 1872, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa, 

SAUNDERS, JAMES NEWTON, lawyer, 
state legislatox - , was born April 2, 1864, in 
Springfield, Ky. This eminent lawyer 
has served as a member of the Kentucky 
state legislature; and for many years 
was a member of the Kentucky railroad 
commission. 

SAUNDERS, FREDERICK, librarian, 
author, was born Aug. 14, 1807, in Eng¬ 
land. He was the librarian of the Astor 
library, New York city, in 1859-96; and 
is the author of New York in a Nut-Shell; 
Salad for the Solitary and Salad for the 
Social; Memoirs of the Great Metropolis; 
The Story of Some Famous Books; Story 
of the Discovery of the New World by 
Columbus; Pastime Papers; Stray Leaves 
of Literature; and Character Studies. 

SAUNDERS, ROBERT, college presi¬ 
dent, was born Jan. 25, 1805, in Williams¬ 
burg, Va. He was fourteenth president of 
the William and Mary college; and presi¬ 
dent of the York River railroad. He died 
Sept. 11, 1868. 

SAUNDERS, ROMULUS MITCHELL, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born March 3, 1791, in Caswell 
county, N. C. He was a representative 
in congress from North Carolina from 
1821 to 1827, and from 1841 to 1845. In 
1828 he was attorney-general of the state. 
In 1835 he was elected a judge of the 
state supreme court; and in 1846 was ap¬ 
pointed minister to Spain, where he re¬ 
mained four years. On his return was 
again elected to the legislature of North 
Carolina; and afterward devoted much 
attention to the railroad improvements of 
the state. He died April 21, 1867, in 
Raleigh, N. C. 

SAUNDERS, WILLIAM LAURENCE, 
author, was born July 30, 1835, in Raleigh, 
N. C. He is the author of a work en¬ 
titled the Colonial Records of North Caro¬ 
lina. He died April 2, 1891, in Raleigh, 
N. C. 

SAVAGE, EDWARD, artist, was born 
Nov. 26, 1761, in Princeton, Mass. He 
produced the well-known Family Group at 
Mount Vernon. This was for a long time 
exhibited in the museum that Savage es¬ 
tablished in New York, and is now in the 
Boston museum. His portraits of Wash¬ 
ington and Henry Knox were frequently 
engraved by the artist himself and by 
others. He died July 6, 1817, in Prince¬ 
ton, Mass. 


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SAVAGE, EDWARD HARTWELL, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born May 18, 1812, 
in Alstead, N. H. He was a Boston police¬ 
man and justice of the peace; and the 
author of Boston Police Recollections; 
and Five Thousand Boston Events, 1630- 
1880. 

SAVAGE, GEORGE MARTIN, clergy¬ 
man, educator, was horn Feb. 5, 1849, in 
Tishomingo county. Miss. This eminent 
clergyman has been president of the 
Southwestern Baptist university of Jack- 
son, Tenn.; since 1890; and for twenty- 
five years has been pastor of various 
baptist churches. 

SAVAGE, JAMES, lawyer, genealogist, 
author, was horn July 13, 1784, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a Boston lawyer eminent 
as a genealogist. He is best known as the 
author of a Genealogical Dictionary of the 
First Settlers of New England, upon 
which twenty years of labor were expend¬ 
ed. He died March 8, 1873, in Boston, 
Mass. 


SAVAGE, JAMES WOODRUFF, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 2, 
1826, in Bedford, N. H. In 1847 he gradu¬ 
ated from Havard 
university with the 
degree of B. A.; and 
in 1850 was admitted 
to the bar in New 
York city. In 1861 
he was commis¬ 
sioned captain in the 
regular army and as¬ 
signed as aid-de- 
camp to the staff of 
General Fremont. 
He was subsequently 
promoted to major, 
lieutenant-colonel and became colonel of 
the twelfth New York volunteer cavalry. 
In 1867 he moved to Omaha, Neb.; and in 
1875, was elected judge of the third ju¬ 
dicial district, and in 1879 received the 
election for a second term. In 1885 he 
was appointed a government director of 
the Union Pacific Railway company. He 
has written extensively articles on his¬ 
torical and law subjects, and is a mem¬ 
ber of various historical societies of New 
Hampshire, Wisconsin and Missouri. 



SAVAGE, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1779 
in New York. He was a member of the 
New York assembly in 1814; and from 
1815 to 1819 was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state. He subsequently 
held the positions of district attorney, 
comptroller of the state, chief justice of 
the supreme court of New York, and 
treasurer of the United States for New 
York. He was a presidential elector in 
1845. He died Oct. 19, 1863, in Utica, N. Y. 


SAVAGE, JOHN, journalist, author, 
poet, was born Dec. 13, 1828, in Ireland, 
He was a journalist of New York city, 
and subsequently of Washington. He was 
the author of Poems; Picturesque Ire¬ 
land; Lays of the Folkstead; Modern 
Revolutionary History of Ireland; Our 
Living Representative Men; Life of An¬ 
drew Johnson; Fenian Heroes and Mar¬ 
tyrs; Sibyl, a tragedy; and several other 
plays. He died Dec. 13, 1828, in Dublin, 
Ireland. 


SAVAGE, JOHN HOUSTON, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 
1815, in McMinnville Tenn. He was at¬ 
torney-general of the fourth district of 
Tennessee in 1841, and held the office until 
1847. He was elected a representative in 
congress in 1849; was re-elected in 1851; 
and was again elected to congress in 1855 
and 1857. 


SAVAGE, JOHN S., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 30, 1841, in Clermont 
county, Ohio. He was admitted to the 
bar in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1865; and 
was elected a representative from Ohio to 
the forty-fourth congress. 

SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born June 10, 1841, in 
Norridgewock, Maine. He was educated 
principally at Bow- 
doin college; and in 
1864 graduated at the 
Bangor Theological 
seminary. He has 
been a congregation¬ 
al missionary in Cal¬ 
ifornia; has been 
pastor of the several 
prominent churches; 
and is now pastor of 
the church of the 
Unity of Boston, 
Mass. He is the au¬ 
thor of Christianity the Science of Man¬ 
hood; Beliefs About Man; Belief in 
God; Life Questions; Poems; The Re¬ 
ligion of Evolution; The Religion of 
Morals; Talks About Jesus; The Modern 
Sphinx; Man, Woman and Child; Social 
Problems; My Creed; Religious Recon¬ 
struction; Signs of the Times; Helps for 
Daily Living; Four Great Questions Con¬ 
cerning God; The Evolution of Christian¬ 
ity; Is This a Good World?; Jesus and 
Modern Life; A Man; Light on the Cloud; 
Bluffton, a novel; and The Minister’s 
Handbook. 

SAVAGE, PHILIP HENRY, author, 
poet, was born in 1868 in Massachusetts. 
He is a Boston writer; and the author 
of First Poems and Fragments. 

SAVAGE, RICHARD HENRY, author, 
poet, was born in 1846 in New York. He 
is the author of My Official Wife; For 
Life and Love; A Daughter of Judas; 
The Anarchist; Delilah of Harlem; In 
the Old Chateau; The Little Judge of 
Lagunitas; The Masked Venus; The Fly¬ 
ing Halcyon; Miss Devereux of the Mari- 
quita; and After Many Years, and Other 
Poems. 

SAVAGE, WILLIAM HENRY, soldier, 
educator, clergyman, author, poet, was 
born Sept. 27, 1833, in Woolwich, Maine. 
During the civil war he was a captain in 
the seventeenth regiment Maine volunteer 
infantry. He has become distinguished 
as an eminent clergyman, and now fills 
a pastorate in Watertown, Mass. He has 
published numerous sermons, essays, and 
poems. 

SAVITZ, JEROHN JOSEPH, educator, 
was born Jan. 1, 1866, in Easton, Pa. He 
attended the Kutztown Normal school; 
Fayette college for three years; and took 
a course at the Illinois Wesleyan univer¬ 
sity, and at Wooster, Ohio. Since 1882 he 
has been engaged in educational work, 
and for the past seven years has been su¬ 
pervising principal of schools of Slating- 
ton, Pa. He received the degree of A. M. 
from Ursinus university in 1893. 

SAWTELLE, CHARLES GREENE, sol¬ 
dier, was born May 10, 1834, in Norridge¬ 
wock. In 1864 he was in charge of steam 
transportation in the department of the 
gulf, and was chief quartermaster in the 
military division of west Mississippi in 
1864-65. 

SAWTELLE, CULLEN, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in Nor¬ 
ridgewock, Maine. He served eight years 
as register of probate; was a state sen¬ 
ator during the years 1843 and 1844; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Maine from 1845 to 1847, and again from 
1849 to 1851. 



SAWTELLE, HENRY ALLEN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 11, 1832, in 
Sidney, Maine. He was a baptist clergy¬ 
man of San Francisco and elsewhere; and 
the author of Open Communion; and 
Things to Think Of. He died Nov. 22, 
1885, in Waterville, Maine. 

SAWTELLE, LELIA ROBINSON, law¬ 
yer, author, was born July 23, 1850, in 
Boston, Mass. She was a successful law¬ 
yer of Boston, Mass., and author of Law 
Made Easy; and the Law of Husband and 
Wife. She died Aug. 10, 1891. 

SAWYER, MRS. CATHARINE ME- 
HETABEL [FISHER], author, was born 
Dec. 8, 1812, in Newton, Mass. She is the 
author of The Poetry of Hebrew Tradi¬ 
tion. For many years she was editor of 
The Ladies’ Repository. 

SAWYER, CLAUDE EPAMINONDAS, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 25, 1851, 
in Sawyers Mills, S. C. For four years he 
served as a member of the South Carolina 
legislature; was presidential elector in 
1888; and has filled various other public 
positions of honor. He was a member of 
the historic Wallace house in 1876, and 
took a prominent part in behalf of peace 
in quelling the riots of 1876. . He was 
subsequently a colonel on Hampton 
Wade’s staff, and on the staffs of several 
succeeding governors. While a member 
of the legislature he took an important 
part in the deliberations of that body. 
For many years he was official reporter of 
the second judicial circuit; is the editor 
of a monthly magazine; and prominent in 
masonry and other fraternal orders at 
Aiken, S. C. 

SAWYER, ELBERT H., soldier, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, author, 
was born Dec. 18, 1843, in Milford, Mich. 
He received his education in the public 
schools, Fenton seminary, Kalamazoo col¬ 
lege, the La Grange college of Missouri, 
and the Theological seminary of Chi¬ 
cago. For nearly a quarter of a century 
he has been a clergyman; for ten years 
a college professor and president; for four 
years was president of the Baptist con¬ 
vention of Colorado; in 1889 was presi¬ 
dent of the baptist ministers’ conference 
at St. Louis; and now resides in Kirk¬ 
wood, Mo. During the war he served as 
a private soldier in the eighth regiment 
Michigan volunteer infantry; was wound¬ 
ed by shell in his right hand at Antietam; 
and was conspicuous in the charge of the 
slope and in protecting regimental colors. 

SAWYER, FREDERICK ADOLPHUS, 
educator, United States senator, was born 
Dec. 12, 1822, in Boston, Mass. In 1859 
he went to Charleston, S. C., and had 
charge of the normal school there until 
1861. He was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress from South Carolina for the term 
ending in 1873; and was subsequently ap¬ 
pointed assistant secretary of the treasury. 

SAWYER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
lawyer, author, was.born April 22, 1810, in 
Saco, Maine. He was a Boston lawyer; 
and the author of Merchant’s and Chip- 
master’s Guide; Plea for Amusements; 
and Hits at American Whims. He died in 
1875 in Boston, Mass. 

SAWYER, GEORGE SMALL, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Jan. 7, 1841, in Stand- 
ish, Maine. In 1862 he was admitted to 
the bar in Maine; in 1864 was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney of Ormsby county, Nev. ;• 
and in 1870 was made district attorney 
of Lincoln county. During 1889-91 he 
served with distinction as a member of 
the state senate of Nevada. In 1884 he 
was elected superintendent of schools; 
and in 1894 was a candidate for attorney- 
general of Nevada on the populist ticket. 






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SAWYER, HORACE BUCKLIN, naval 
officer, was born Feb. 22, 1797, in Bur¬ 
lington, Vt. In 1856 the legislature of 
Vermont gave him a handsome sword for 
his services in the second war with Great 
Britain. He died Feb. 14, 1860, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

SAWYER, JOHN GILBERT, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born June 5, 
1825, in Brandon, Vt. He was a justice of 
the peace in Albion from 1852 to 1858; 
was district attorney of Orleans county 
from 1863 to 1866; and was judge and 
surrogate of Orleans county from 1868 to 
1884. In tne latter year he was elected 
a representative from Vermont to the 
forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected 
to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as 
a republican. 

SAWYER, LEICESTER AMBROSE, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, author, was born July 
28, 1807, in Pinckney, N. Y. He is a pres- 
byterian clergyman and educator, after 
1860 a resident of Whitesboro, N. Y.; and 
the author of Elements of Biblical Inter¬ 
pretation; Mental Philosophy; Moral Phi¬ 
losophy; A Critical Exposition of Bap¬ 
tism; Organic Christianity; and Recon¬ 
struction of Bible Theories. He made a 
translation of the Scriptures, of which the 
New Testament was published. 

SAWYER, LEMUEL, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, author, was born 
in 1777 in North Carolina. He was in the 
North Carolina state legislature in 1801; 
and was a representative from North 
Carolina to congress in 1807-13. He sub¬ 
sequently served in the same capacity 
' from 1817 to 1823, and from 1825 to 1829. 
About 1850 he moved to Washington, and 
held a clerkship in one of the depart¬ 
ments. He published a Life of John Ran¬ 
dolph; and an Autobiography. He died 
Jan. 9, 1852, in Washington, D. C. 

SAWYER, LORENZO, lawyer, jurist, 
was born May 23, 1820, in Le Roy, N. Y. 
In 1854 he was elected attorney for San 
Francisco; and was afterward appointed 
judge of the district court for the state. 
In 1863 he was elected one of the justices 
of the supreme court of the state; was 
chief justice from 1868 to 1870; and in 
the latter year was commissioned United 
States circuit judge for the ninth circuit, 
residing in San Francisco, Cal. 

SAWYER, LUCY SARGENT, mission¬ 
ary, was born April 3, 1840, in Belfast, 
Maine. Her whole life has been spent in 
mission work; and in 1882 she was elected 
president of the Woman's Home Mission¬ 
ary society. 

SAWYER, MOSES HAVENS, lawyer, 
author, was born June 6, 1827, in Mystic, 
Conn. In 1886 he was appointed United 
traces consul at Trinidad and Tobago. He 
is the author of Lieutenant Colburn; His¬ 
tory of Annexation of Tobago; Judica¬ 
ture; Mortgages; Desertion of Seamen, 
Immigration and Ornithology. 

SAWYER, PHILETUS, merchant, state 
legislator, congressman, United States 
senator, was born Sept. 22, 1816, in Whit¬ 
ing, Vt. He was 
elected to the legis¬ 
lature of Wisconsin 
in 1857 and 1861; and 
in 1863 was elected 
mayor of Oshkosh, 
and re-elected in 
1864. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative 
from Wisconsin to 
the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress. He was also 
a delegate to the 
Philadelphia Loyal¬ 
ists’ convention of 1866; and was re¬ 
elected to the fortieth congress. He was 
also re-elected to the three succeeding 


congresses; and declined a re-election. 
He was elected a United States senator 
from Wisconsin for the term of six years, 
from March 4, 1881; and was re-elected in 
1887. In 1896 he was chairman of the re¬ 
publican convention at St. Louis, Mo., that 
nominated William McKinley for presi¬ 
dent of the United States. 

SAWYER, S. T., journalist, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1800 in North Carolina. 
He was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1837 to 1839. He was ap¬ 
pointed collector of customs at Norfolk, 
Va.; and was subsequently editor of the 
Norfolk Argus. He died Nov. 29, 1865, in 
New Jersey. 

SAWYER, SAMUEL L., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Nov. 27, 1813, in 
Mount Vernon, N. H. He moved to Mis¬ 
souri in 1838; and was elected circuit at¬ 
torney in 1848, and re-elected in 1852. He 
was elected a circuit judge in 1871, and re¬ 
elected in 1874. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Missouri to the forty-sixth 
congress as an independent democrat. 

SAWYER, SYLVANUS, inventor, was 
born April 15, 1822, in Templeton, Mass. 
His inventions have entirely revolution¬ 
ized the chair-cane business; and in 1853 
he invented improvements in rifle and 
cannon projectiles. 

SAWYER, THOMAS JEFFERSON, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 
9, 1804, in Reading, Vt. He is a universal- 
ist clergyman and educator, and after 
1869 a professor of theology at Tufts col¬ 
lege. He is the author of Doctrine of 
Eternal Salvation; Who Is God,—the Son 
or the Father?; and Endless Punishment 
in the Very Words of Its Advocates. 

SAWYER, WILLARD S„ musician, 
composer, was born Sept. 4, 1860, in New 
York city. He is a teacher of the piano 
and violin in Brooklyn, N. Y.; and the 
author of Sawyer’s Piano Student’s Prac¬ 
tice Records. 

SAWYER, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in Ohio. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1845 
to 1849. 

SAXE, JACOB BRADFORD, clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born Nov. 10, 1819, 
in Greenfield, N. Y. Since 1843 he has 
been a successful clergyman of the uni- 
versalist church, and now fills a pastorate 
in Fort Scott, Kan. He is a constant con¬ 
tributor to various publications; and is 
the author of a volume entitled The Or¬ 
ganic Laws. 


SAXTON, CHARLES TERRY, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, lieutenant-governor, was 
born July 2, 1846, in Clyde, N. Y. He en¬ 
listed during the civil war in the nine¬ 
teenth New York infantry, and mustered 
out as sergeant-major; and has held high 
office in the Grand Army of the Republic. 
In 1867 he was admitted to the bar, and 
after practicing his profession for awhile 
in Grand Rapids, Mich., he opened an 




SAXE, JOHN GODFREY, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born June 2, 1816, in 
Highgate, Vt. He was a lawyer and jour¬ 
nalist of Vermont 
and subsequently of 
New York, widely 
known as a humor¬ 
ous poet. He was 
the author of Prog¬ 
ress; A New Rape 
of the Lock; The 
Proud MissMcBride; 
The Money King; 
Clever Songs of Many 
Nations; The Mas¬ 
querade; Leisure 
Day Rhymes; and 
Fables and Lyrics in Rhyme. He died 
March 31, 1887, in Albany, N. Y. 


office in his native city, where he has ac¬ 
quired prominence as a counsel learned in 
the law. In 1887-89 he was a member of 
the New York state assembly; a state 
senator in 1890-94; and was inaugurated 
lieutenant-governor of his state on Jan. 1, 
1895. He introduced the Australian ballot 
system in New York; in 1894 he appoint¬ 
ed the Luxow committee; and has al¬ 
ways taken an active part in reform legis¬ 
lation. He received the degree of doctor 
of laws from the Union university, and 
in 1892 was elected chancellor of that in¬ 
stitution. He is a fluent and forcible writ¬ 
er; and has contributed to the North 
American Review and other current pub¬ 
lications. 

SAXTON, JOSEPH, inventor, was born 
March 22, 1799, in Huntington county, Pa. 
He made the clock which still marks the 
time from the belfry of Independence hall 
in Philadelphia, when he was but eight¬ 
een, and subsequently added many in¬ 
genious devices to science. He was one of 
the original incorporators of the National 
Academy of Science. He died Oct. 26, 
1873, in Washington, D. C. 

SAXTON, RUFUS, soldier, was born 
Oct. 19, 1824, in Greenfield, Mass. He 
served with distinction through the civil 
war, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier- 
general in the United States army. In 
1882 he was promoted to colonel and as¬ 
sistant quartermaster-general. 


SAY, BENJAMIN, physician, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1756 in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1808 to 1809 to fill a 
vacancy. He died April 3, 1813, in Phila¬ 
delphia. Pa. 


SAY, THOMAS, zoologist, author, was 
born July 27, 1787, in Philadelphia. He 
was a zoologist who was the first curator 
of the Philadelphia 
Academy of Natural 
Sciences. In 1825 he 
removed to New 
Harmony, Ind., and 
was the agent of the 
Owen socialist col¬ 
ony there. He was 
the author of Vo¬ 
cabularies of Indian 
languages; American 
Conchology; and 
American Entomol¬ 
ogy. His Complete 
Writings on Conchology have been ed¬ 
ited by Binney, and those on Entomology 
by Le Conte. He died Oct. 10, 1834, in 
New Harmony, Ind. 



SAYERS, JOSEPH D., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 23, 1841, in 
Grenada, Miss. He served as a member of 
the Texas state senate in the session of 
1873; and was lieutenant-governor of 
Texas in 1879-80. He was elected to the 
forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-sec¬ 
ond, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a democrat. 


SAYLER, HENRY B., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 31, 1836, in 
Montgomery county, Ohio. He enlisted 
in the army as lieutenant; and was pro¬ 
moted to major of the one hundred and 
eighteenth Indiana infantry. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Indiana to the 
forty-third congress as a republican. 

SAYLER, JOSEPH HENRY, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 9, 1846, in 
Farmington, Ill. He served during the 
civil war as a private soldier in the sixty- 
first and eighty-third regiments Illinois 
volunteer infantry. He is an able law¬ 
yer of Marysville, Mo., of which city he- 
has served as mayor for three terms. 
He is now probate judge of his county. 







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SAYLER, MILTON, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Nov. 4, 
1831, in Lewisburg, Ohio. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Ohio state legislature in 1862 
and 1863, and of the city councils in 1864 
and 1865. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Ohio to the forty-third and 
forty-fourth congresses; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

SA\ LES, FREDERIC CLARK, manu¬ 
facturer. was born July 17, 1835. He be¬ 
came the partner of his brother in 1863, 
and was an active co-laborer with him in 
the development of the Moshassuck 
bleachery and nearly all the other mill¬ 
ing enterprises controlled by the Sayles 
family. He has served as mayor of Paw¬ 
tucket, in which city he lives. 

SAYLES, JOHN, educator, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, author, was born March 9, 1825, in 
Vernon, N. Y. He was a Texas jurist, and 
professor in Baylor university from 1880. 
He was the author of Practice in the Dis¬ 
trict and Supreme Courts of Texas; Civil 
Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in 
the State of Texas; Principles of Pleading 
in Civil Actions in the Courts of Texas; 
Probate Laws of Texas; Laws of Busi¬ 
ness; Constitution of Texas, with Notes; 
and Notes on Texan Reports. 

SAYRE, DAVID AUSTEN, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born March 12, 1793, in Bottle 
Hill, N. J. He removed in early life to 
Lexington, where he became a success¬ 
ful merchant and banker. Though re¬ 
peatedly meeting with heavy losses, he 
gave about $500,000 to benevolent objects 
during his lifetime, including $100,000 to 
found the Sayre institute. He died Sept. 
11, 1870, in Lexington, Ky. 

SAYRE, EMILIUS, KITCHELL, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, was born March 20, 1810, in 
Battle Hill, N. J. He attended the schools 
of Elizabethtown, N. 
J.; received the de¬ 
gree of A. B. from 
Amherst college in 
1826, and the degree 
of A. M. in 1831 from 
the same institution; 
and the degree of 
LL. B. from the 
Transylvania college 
in 1833. During 1828- 
31 he was a profes¬ 
sor in the Washing¬ 
ton institute, New 
York; during 1833-52 was a lawyer in 
Lexington, Ky.; and since that time has 
been a farmer in Missouri. During 1861- 
63 he was a member of the Missouri state 
constitutional convention; and has filled 
various other public positions of honor 
in Lewis county and the state of Missouri. 

SAYRE, LEWIS ALBERT, educator, 
physician, surgeon, author, was born Feb. 
29, 1820, in Bottlehill, N. J. He is a dis¬ 
tinguished surgeon of New York city, and 
professor of orthopaedic surgery in Belle¬ 
vue Hospital college. He is the author of 
a Practical Manual of the Treatment of 
Club-Foot; Lectures on Orthopaedic Sur¬ 
gery; and Spinal Curvature and Its Treat¬ 
ment. 

SCALES, ALFRED MOORE, JR., law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, govern¬ 
or, was born Nov. 26, 1827, in Reedsville, 
N. C. He was elected to the legislature 
of North Carolina in 1852 and 1856; and 
in 1857 was elected a representative from 
his native state to the thirty-fifth con¬ 
gress. He was a presidential elector in 
1861; and was elected to the forty-fourth 
congress. He was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, and forty- 


eighth congresses. In 1884 he was elected 
governor of North Carolina for four years. 

SCALES, JOHN, educator, journalist, 
author, was born Oct. 6, 1835, in Notting¬ 
ham, N. H. He was fitted for college at 
the Colby university, and graduated from 
Dartmouth college in 1863. He then en¬ 
gaged in educational work as principal of 
the Wolfeborough and Gilmanton acad¬ 
emies till 1869; and during 1869-83 was 
principal of the Franklin academy of 
Dover, N. H. Since 1883 he has been ed¬ 
itor of the Dover Daily Republican, the 
leading republican journal in New Hamp¬ 
shire; has contributed to various publica¬ 
tions; and is the author of several works. 
He has been trustee of the state normal 
school; and is a member of the school 
committee of Dover. He is prominent in 
political affairs; a Knight Templar and 
thirty-second degree Mason; and a mem¬ 
ber of various fraternal orders. 

SCAMMON, CHARLES MELLVILLE, 
navigator, author, was born May 28, 1825, 
in Pittston, Maine. He is the author of 
a work on The Marine Mammals of the 
Northwestern Coast of America and the 
American Whale Fishery. 

SCAMMON, ELIAKIM PARKER, sol¬ 
dier, educator, was born Dec. 27, 1816, in 
Whitefield, Maine. He was professor in 
Mount St. Mary’s college of Cincinnati, 
Ohio, in 1856-58, and president of the 
Polytechnic college in that city from 1859- 
61. He became colonel of the twenty-third 
Ohio regiment in 1861, served in western 
Virginia and Maryland, and was promoted 
brigadier-general of volunteers. 

SCAMMON, JAMES, educator, lawyer, 
litterateur, was born June 10, 1844, in 
Strathan, N. H., on the old homestead oc¬ 
cupied by the family 
continuously for two 
hundred and fifty 
years. He received 
a thorough educa¬ 
tion, graduated from 
the Brown univer¬ 
sity in 1868, and 
from the Albany 
Law school two 
years later. He has 
been superintendent 
of public schools in 
his native city; and 
principal in the River Point Classical 
seminary, Rhode Island. For the past 
twenty-five years he has been a prom¬ 
inent lawyer of Kansas City, Mo.; has 
been general counsel of the Kansas City 
and Eastern Railway company; president 
of the Franklin Savings bank; and presi¬ 
dent of the board of managers of the 
Jackson County Reform school. He is 
also president of the Speery Associate 
Electric company; president and chair¬ 
man of the board of managers of the 
Kansas City Humane society; president 
for twenty years of the All Souls Unitar¬ 
ian Church society; and for several year's 
president of the Missouri valley confer¬ 
ence of Unitarian churches. He is a 
director in a dozen business enterprises; 
is best known as a lawyer and scholar, 
and has a library of several thousand vol¬ 
umes. 

SCAMMON, JOHN F., merchant, bank¬ 
er, state senator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 24, 1786, in Saco, Maine. He served 
in the Massachusetts legislature as a rep¬ 
resentative during 1817, and in the Maine 
legislature in 1820 and 1821. He was col¬ 
lector of customs at Saco from 1829 to 
1841. He was a representative in congress 
from Maine from 1845 to 1847; and was a 
state- senator in 1855. He died May 23, 
1858. 


SCAMMON, JONATHAN YOUNG, law¬ 
yer, journalist, statesman, was born July 
27, 1812, in Whitefield, Maine. He was 
one of the main organizers and directors 
of the first railroad west of Lake Michi¬ 
gan, now the Northwestern. He laid the 
foundation of the first successful public 
school system in Chicago. He was one 
of the founders of the Chicago Astronom¬ 
ical society, and its first president. In 
1872 he established the Chicago Inter 
Ocean as a republican paper. He founded 
the Hahnemann hospital and other in¬ 
stitutions. He was a member of the Illi¬ 
nois state legislature. He died March 17, 
1890, in Chicago, Ill. 

SCANLAN, LAWRENCE, clergyman, 
bishop, was born Sept. 28, 1843, in Ireland. 
In 1868 he was ordained a priest in Dub¬ 
lin, and in 1873 was consecrated bishop of 
Salt Lake City, Utah. 

SCANLAND, MRS. AGNES LEONARD, 
author, was born Jan. 20, 1842, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. She is a writer of Leadville, 
Colo.; and the author of several works. 

SCANNELL, RICHARD, bishop, was 
born May 12, 1844, in Ireland. He is 
an eminent Roman catholic bishop of 
Concordia, Kan. 

SCARBOROUGH, JOHN, bishop of New 
Jersey, was born April 25, 1831, in Ireland. 
He has filled pastoi-ates in Troy and New 
York city; and became protestant epis¬ 
copal bishop of New Jersey. 

SCARBOROUGH, JOHN CATRE, sol¬ 
dier, educator, college president, was born 
Sept. 22, 1841, in Wake county, N. C. 
During 1877-85 he was state superintend¬ 
ent of public instruction for North Caro¬ 
lina, and again filled that office during 
1893-97. He is now president of the 
Chowan Baptist Female institute of Mur- 
freesborough, N. C. 

SCARBOROUGH, WILLIAM SAUND¬ 
ERS, educator, author, was born Feb. 16, 
1852, in Macon, Ga. He is an educator of 
African descent, professor of ancient lan¬ 
guages in Wilberforce university, Ohio, 
from 1877; and the author of First Les¬ 
sons in Greek; and Theory and Func¬ 
tions of the Thematic Vowel in the 
Greek Verb. 

SCARBROUGH, WILLIAM, planter, in¬ 
ventor, was born Feb. 18, 1776, in Lower 
Three Runs, S. C. He built the first ocean 
steam boat. The Savannah, that crossed 
the Atlantic in 1819. He died June 11, 
1838, in New York. 

SCATES, THOMAS A., educator, law¬ 
yer, was born Oct. 31, 1859, in Union City, 
Tenn. He received a thorough educa¬ 
tion in the high 
schools of Kansas, 
and at Eastman’s 
Business college of 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
He taught school for 
several years, and 
for two years was 
principal of the 
Kinsley High school, 
Kansas. He is a 
prominent lawyer 
ot Liberal, Kansas; 
was county commis¬ 
sioner of Seward county for six years; 
and county attorney for three years. He 
takes a prominent part in the public af¬ 
fairs of his city, county and state; and 
is a member of several fraternal orders. 

SCHAEFFER, CHARLES ASHMEAD, 
chemist, college president, was born Aug. 
14, 1843, in Harrisburg, Pa. For many 
years he was professor of chemistry in 
Cornell university, and is now president 
of the state university of Iowa. 












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SCHAEFFER, CHARLES FREDE¬ 
RICK, educator, clergyman, author, was 
born Sept. 3, 1807, in Germantown, Pa. 
He was professor of systematic theology 
in the Lutheran Theological seminary at 
Philadelphia in 1864-76. He was the au¬ 
thor of A System of Lutheran Theology, 
one of several important works, which 
he translated from the German. He died 
Nov. 23, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SCHAEFFER, CHARLES WILLIAM, 
educator, clergyman, author, was born 
May 5, 1813, in Hagerstown, Md. He was 
professor of church history in the Phila¬ 
delphia Lutheran seminary from 1864; 
and the author of History of the Lutheran 
Church in the United States; and Family 
Prayers. 

SCHAEFFER, DAVID FREDERICK, 
clergyman, author, was born July 22,1787, 
in Carlisle, Pa. From 1808 until his death 
he was pastor of the Lutheran church in 
Frederick, Md. He was the author of 
Historical Address on the Reformation. 
He died in May, 1837, in Frederick, Md. 

SCHAEFFER, FREDERICK CHRIS¬ 
TIAN, educator, clergyman, author, was 
born Nov. 12, 1792, in Germantown, Pa. 
He filled pastorates in Harrisburg and 
New York city; and published Parables 
and Parabolic Sayings. He died in March, 
1831, in New York city. 

SCHAFF, DAVID T., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 17, 1852, in Mercers- 
burg, Pa. He is now a pastor of the Pres¬ 
byterian church in Jacksonville, Ill. He 
was the co-editor of the Schaff-Herzog Re¬ 
ligious Encyclopedia, a work of four vol¬ 
umes. 

SCHALLER, ALBERT, lawyer, legislat¬ 
or, was born May 20, 1856, in Chicago, Ill. 
He received a thorough education in St. 
Vincent’s college of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 
in France; and at the St. Louis Law 
school. During 1880-91 he was county 
attorney of Duluth county, Minn.; dur¬ 
ing 1891-96 was city attorney of Hastings, 
Minn.; and also in 1895-96 was city at¬ 
torney of South St. Paul. During 1895- 
98 he served with distinction as a state 
senator in the Minnesota legislature, and 
took an active part in the deliberations of 
that body. He is one of the foremost 
lawyers of the northwest, and has a large 
practice in Hastings, Minn. 

SCHANCK, JOHN STILWELL, physi¬ 
cian, educator, was born Feb. 24, 1817. He 
received his education in the schools of 
Middletown and 
Freehold, N. J.; then 
at the celebrated 
academy at Lenox, 
Mass.; and in 1840 
graduated at the 
Princeton college of 
New Jersey. In 1843 
he received his medi¬ 
cal degree from the 
university of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and prac¬ 
ticed medicine from 
that time in Prince¬ 
ton, N. J. For nearly fifty years he has 
delivered a course of lectures on anatomy, 
physiology and zoology in the Princeton 
college; and from 1856-93 he also filled 
the chair of chemistry in the same insti¬ 
tution. He has served that noted college 
under four presidents with great distinc¬ 
tion. 

SCHARF, JOHN THOMAS, author, was 
born May 1, 1843, in Baltimore, Md. He 
is an historical writer of Baltimore; and 
the author of Chronicles of Baltimore; 
History of Maryland; History of Balti¬ 
more; History of Western Maryland; His¬ 
tory of the City of St. Louis; History of 
Philadelphia; History of the Confederate 
Navy; and History of Delaware. 


SCHAUFFLER, WILLIAM GOTTLIEB, 
missionary, author, was born Aug. 22, 
1798, in Germany. He was a congrega¬ 
tional missionary in Turkey well known 
as a linguist. He translated the Bible 
into Hebrew-Spanish and Turkish, and 
also wrote Essay on the Right Use of 
Property; and Meditations on the Last 
Day of Christ. He died Jan. 27, 1883, in 
New York city. 

SCHAYER, MRS. JULIA [THOMP¬ 
SON] [VON STORCH], author, was born 
in 1840 in Maine. She is a Washington 
writer; and the author of The Tiger Lily 
and Other Stories. 

SCHELL, RICHARD, congressman. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-third congress, to fill 
a vacancy. 

SCHEM, ALEXANDER JACOB, statis¬ 
tician, author, was born March 16, 1826, 
in Prussia. He was a statistician of note 
who was assistant superintendent of 
schools in New York city in 1874-81. He 
was the author of Latin English Diction¬ 
ary; Statistics of the World; and Cyclo¬ 
paedia of Education. He died May 21, 
1881, in Hoboken, N. J. 

SCHENCK, ABRAHAM H., manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born in 1777. 
He was a member of the New York assem¬ 
bly in 1804-06; and was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1815 to 
1817. He died in 1831. 

SCHENCK, FERDINAND S., physician, 
jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 
1790, in Middlesex county, N. J. In 1829 
he was elected to the state legislature, and 
was re-elected in 1830 and 1831. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Jersey from 1833 to 1837. He was soon 
afterward elected a justice of the court of 
errors and appeals, which he held for 
eight years. He died May 17, 1860, in 
Camden, N. J. 

SCHENCK, NOAH HUNT, clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born June 30, 1805, 
in Pennington, N. J. He founded and ed¬ 
ited The Western Churchman during his 
pastorate in Chicago, and in 1867 became 
co-editor of The Protestant Churchman 
in New York. He was the author of nu¬ 
merous published sermons and addresses, 
of which a collection has appeared in 
book form. He died Jan. 4, 1885, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

SCHENCK, ROBERT CUMMING, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 4, 1809, in Franklin, 
Ohio. In 1840 he was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive to the Ohio leg¬ 
islature; was re¬ 
elected in 1842; and 
was a representative 
in congress from his 
native state from 
1843 to 1851. In 1861 
he served as briga¬ 
dier and major-gen¬ 
eral in the union 
army; and in 1862 
was elected to the 
thirty-eighth congress. He was re-elected 
to the thirty-ninth congress. He was re¬ 
elected to the fortieth and forty-first con¬ 
gresses. In 1870 he was appointed min¬ 
ister to England; and on his return to 
the United States, settled in Washington 
city in the practice of his profession. He 
died March 23, 1890, in Washington, D. C. 

SCHENCK, WILLIAM EDWARD, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 29, 1819, 
in Princeton, N. J. He is a Presbyterian 
minister of Philadelphia; and the author 
of Children in Heaven; Nearing Home; 
and The Fountain for Sin; Church Ex¬ 
tension in Cities. 


SCHERER, JOHN JACOB, clergyman, 
educator, college president, was born Feb. 
7, 1830, in Wythe county, Va. He was 
president of Colorado college, Texas, for 
twenty years; president of Marion Fe¬ 
male college, Virginia; and president of 
the general synod south of the Lutheran 
church. 

SCHERESCHEWSKY, SAMUEL ISAAC 
JOSEPH, clergyman, author, was born 
May 6, 1831, in Russia. He is third pro- 
testant episcopal bishop of the China mis¬ 
sion. He was consecrated in 1877, but re¬ 
signed his office in 1883 and lived for some 
years in Cambridge, but since 1895 has 
lived at Shanghai. He is the author of a 
translation of the Bible into Chinese. 

SCHERMERHORN, ABRAHAM M., con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1849 to 
1853. He died Aug. 22, 1855, in Rochester, 
N. Y. 

SCHERMERHORN, SIMON J., farmer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 26, 1827, in Rotterland, N. Y. In 
1862 he was elected without opposition to 
the New York state legislature. He is 
interested in banking, being a director 
and trustee of local banks. He was on 
the Cleveland electoral ticket in 1888, rep¬ 
resenting the old twentieth district of the 
state of New York; and was elected to 
the fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

SCHIEFFLIN, SAMUEL BRADHURST, 
author, was born Feb. 24, 1811, in New 
York city. He is a business man of New 
York city who wrote on religious topics. 
He is the author of Message to the Ruling 
Elders; Foundations of History; Words 
to Christian Teachers; and The Church 
in Ephesus and the Presbyterian and Re¬ 
formed Churches. 

SCHIEREN, CHARLES A., manufact¬ 
urer, inventor, was born Feb. 28, 1842, in 
Germany. In 1882 he established the 
present firm of Chas. A. Schieren and Co. 
of Brooklyn, N. Y., manufacturers of 
leather belting. He was the inventor of 
the electric belt, consisting of a coating of 
composition spread over the belt to pre¬ 
serve the leather. 

SCHINDLER, SOLOMON, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1842 in Silesia. He is 
a Hebrew clergyman now living in Cam¬ 
bridge but formerly in charge of Temple 
Adath Israel, Boston. He is the author of . 
Young West, a sequel to Looking Back¬ 
ward; Messianic Exhortations and Mod¬ 
ern Judaism; and Dissolving Views on 
the History of Judaism. 

SCHLEICHER, GUSTAVE, civil en¬ 
gineer, state senator, congressman, was 
born Nov. 19, 1823, in Germany. He moved 
to Texas in 1847; served in the state leg¬ 
islature in 1853 and 1854; and from 1859 
to 1861 served in the state senate. In 1874 
he was elected a representative from 
Texas to the forty-fourth congress; and 
was re-elected to the forty-fifth and forty- 
sixth congresses as a democrat. He died 
Jan. 10, 1879, in Washington City, Pa. 

SCHLEY, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, governor, 
author, was born Dec. 15, 1786, in Fred¬ 
erick, Md. In 1825 he was elected a judge 
of the superior court of the middle dis¬ 
trict of Georgia, and was elected to the 
state legislature in 1830. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Georgia from 
1833 to 1835; and during the two succeed¬ 
ing years was governor of Georgia. He 
published a Digest of the English Stat¬ 
utes. At the time of his death he was 
president of the Medical college of Geor¬ 
gia. He died Nov. 20, 1858, in Augusta, 
Ga. 




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SCHLEY, WINFIELD SCOTT, naval 
officer, explorer, author, was horn Oct. 
9, 1839, near Frederick, Md. He attended 
the naval academy 
during 1856-60; and 
was promoted to 
master in 1861. He 
was in all the en¬ 
gagements which led 
to the capture of 
Port Hudson in 1863. 
In 1866 he was com¬ 
missioned a lieuten¬ 
ant-commander; and 
commander in 1874. 
During 1880-83 he 
was light-house in¬ 
spector; in 1884 was in charge of the 
Greely expedition; and in 1885-89 was 
chief of the bureau of equipment and re¬ 
cruiting. He was promoted to captain 
in 1888; and in 1898 gained distinction 
during the Spanish-American war in the 
destruction and capture of the Spanish 
fleet. He is the author of The Rescue of 
Greely. 

SCHMAUK, THEODORE EMANUEL, 
journalist, author, was born May 30, 1860, 
in Lancaster, Pa. He has been president 
of the Pennsylvania German society, and 
chancellor of the Pennsylvania Chautau¬ 
qua. He is editor-in-chief of The Luth¬ 
eran and several church publications; 
and the author of The Negative Criticism; 
The Art of Conversation; The Voice of 
Speech and Song; and various other 
works. 

SCHMIDT, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, 
educator, clergyman, journalist, author, 
was born Jan. 2, 1837, in Germany. He 
has for years been a leader among the 
Norwegian lutherans. In 1873 he was sent 
as delegate from the Norwegian synod to 
the general assembly of the Norwegian 
Mission society at Christiania, Norway. 
He was editor of the Lutheran Watchman 
in Decorah, Iowa, in 1864-65. 

SCHMIDT, HENRY IMMANUEL, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 
21, 1806, in Nazareth, Pa. He was a luth- 
eran clergyman and educator of New York 
city, professor of German in Columbia 
college in 1848-80, and the author of His¬ 
tory of Education; The Lutheran Doctrine 
of the Lord’s Supper; and Course of 
American Geography. He died Feb. 11, 
1889, in New York city. 

SCHMITZ, JOHN PETER, merchant, 
physician, surgeon, lecturer, author, was 
born Feb. 24, 1834, in Germany. In 1855 he 
emigrated to America 
and engaged in mer¬ 
cantile pursuits. In 
1875 he entered the 
Cooper Medical col¬ 
lege of San Francis¬ 
co; and subsequently 
attended the Califor¬ 
nia Medical college, 
graduating there- 
from in 1881, and has 
since attained prom¬ 
inence as a success¬ 
ful physician of San 
Francisco, and a noted lecturer and teach¬ 
er of physiology to medical students, hav¬ 
ing held the chair of physiology in the 
California Medical college since 1886. He 
is the author of a work on Human Physi¬ 
ology, Analysis and Digest, for the use of 
Medical Students and Practitioners; and 
valuable papers and pamphlets on the 
cause of diphtheria and croup have ap¬ 
peared from his pen. 

SCHMUCKER, JOHN GEORGE, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born Aug. 18, 1771, 
in Germany. He was a frequent contrib¬ 
utor to periodicals, and a poet of merit. 


Among his works are. Prophetic History 
of the Christian Religion, or Explanation 
of the Revelation of St. John. He died 
Oct. 7, 1854, in Williamsburg, Pa. 

SCHMUCKER, SAMUEL MOSHEIM, 
author, was born Jan. 12, 1823, in New 
Market, Va. He was a Philadelphia au¬ 
thor who was in the early part of his 
career a lutheran minister. He was the 
author of Errors of Modern Infidelity; 
The Spanish Wife, a play; History of the 
Four Georges; History of All Religions; 
Court and Reign of Catharine II.; Lives of 
Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Web¬ 
ster, Clay, Dr. Kane, Fremont; Memora¬ 
ble Scenes in French History; History of 
the Modern Jews; History of Napoleon 
Third; Arctic Explorations; and History 
of the Civil War in the United States. He 
died May 12, 1863, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SCHMUCKER, SAMUEL SIMON, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 
28, 1799, in Hagerstown, Md. He was a 
lutheran clergyman and educator, and pro¬ 
fessor in the Theological seminary at Get¬ 
tysburg in 1826-64. He was the author 
of Elements of Popular Theology; Psy¬ 
chology; Lutheran Manual; Lutheran 
Symbols, or American Lutheranism Vin¬ 
dicated; Church of the Redeemer; and 
The Unity of Christ’s Church. He died 
July 26, 1873, in Gettysburg, Pa. 

SCHNECK, BENJAMIN SHRODER, 
clergyman, author, was born March 14, 
1806, in Upper Bern, Pa. He was a luth¬ 
eran clergyman, pastor at Chambersburg 
from 1855, and the author of Die deutsche 
Kanzel; The Burning of Chambersburg; 
and Mercersburg Theology. He died April 
19, 1874, in Chambersburg, Pa. 

SCHODDE, GEORGE HENRY, educat¬ 
or, clergyman, author, was born April 15, 
1854, in Allegheny City, Pa. He was pro¬ 
fessor at Capitol university from 1880; 
and the author of The Book of Enoch 
translated from the Ethiopic, with Notes; 
and A Day in Capernaum, from the Ger¬ 
man of Delitzsch. 

SCHOEPFLE, HENRY, educator, law¬ 
yer, was born Feb. 12, 1867, in Sandusky, 
Ohio. He received his education in the 
Northwestern Normal university of Adair, 
Ohio, and gi'aduated from the Cincinnati 
Law school. For many years he was en¬ 
gaged in educational work; is now a 
prominent lawyer of Sandusky, Ohio; is 
serving as city solicitor, and takes an 
active part in public affairs. 

SCHOFIELD, JOHN McALLISTER, sol¬ 
dier, was born Sept. 29, 1831, in Chautau¬ 
qua county, N. Y. In 1853 he graduated 
from the United 
States Military acad¬ 
emy; was assigned 
to the first regiment 
of artillery, and dur¬ 
ing 1855-60 was pro¬ 
fessor of natural 
philosophy. In 1861 
he was commissioned 
captain. During the 
civil war he served 
as major of the first 
Missouri volunteers; 
was appointed chief 
of staff, and the same year became briga¬ 
dier-general of the Missouri militia. In 
1862 he was appointed major-general of 
volunteers, and in 1864, for his services 
at the battle of Franklin, he was made 
brigadier-general and brevet major-gen¬ 
eral in the regular army. General Scho¬ 
field succeeded Edwin M. Stanton as sec¬ 
retary of war; and in 1869 he was ap¬ 
pointed major-general. During 1876-81 he 
was superintendent of the United States 
Military academy; and in 1895 was retired 
from active service. 


SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY ROWE, eth¬ 
nologist, author, poet, was born March 29, 
1793, in Albany county, N. Y. He was 
an eminent ethnolo¬ 
gist and geologist, 
thirty years of whose 
life were spent 
among the Indians, 
chiefly at Mackinaw. 
He discovered the 
source of the Missis¬ 
sippi. Among his 
many works are in¬ 
cluded, View of the 
Lead Mines of Mis¬ 
souri; Algic Discov¬ 
eries; Historical In¬ 
formation Concerning the Indian Tribes; 
Narrative of an Expedition to Itasca 
Lake; Oneota, reissued as The Indian 
and His Wigwam; The Myth of Hiawa¬ 
tha; Personal Memoirs of 'Thirty Years’ 
Residence with Indian Tribes; Scenes and 
Adventures in the Ozark Mountains; 
Life of General Cass, and several volumes 
of verse. He died Dec. 10, 1864, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

SCHOOLCRAFT, JOHN L„ merchant, 
banker, congressman, was born in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. He was for many years presi¬ 
dent of the Commercial bank of Albany, 
and was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1849 to 1853. He died in 
May, 1860, in Canada. 

SCHOOLCRAFT, MRS. MARY (HOW¬ 
ARD), author, was born in Beaufort, S. 
C. She is the author of The Black Gaunt¬ 
let, a Tale of Plantation Life. 

SCHOONMAKER, AUGUSTUS, lawyer, 
was born March 2, 1828, in Rochester, N. 
Y. In 1876-77 he was a member of the 
New York state senate, and in 1878-79 he 
was attorney-general of New York. 

SCHOONMAKER, CORNELIUS C., con¬ 
gressman, was born in June, 1745, in 
Rochester, N. Y. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 1791 
to 1793, and was, for fourteen years, be¬ 
fore and after the above term, a member 
of the New York assembly, from the coun¬ 
ty of Ulster. He died in 1796, in Shaw- 
angunk, N. Y. 

SCHOONMAKER, MARIUS, lawyer, 
congressman, author, was born April 24, 
1811, in Kingston, N. Y. He was elected 
to congress as a whig and served from 
1851 till 1853. In 1854 he was auditor of 
the canal department, and in 1855-56 he 
served as superintendent of the bank de¬ 
partment of the state of New York. He 
has published speeches in congress on 
Public Lands; The Slave Question; and 
is the author of a History of Kingston 
from its First Settlement to 1820. 

SCHOONMAKER, MARTINUS, clergy¬ 
man, was born in 1737 in Rochester, N. Y. 
In 1784 he fixed his residence at Flatbush, 
and assumed charge of the six congrega¬ 
tions in Kings county. He died in 1824 
in Flatbush, N. Y. 

SCHOTT, CHARLES ANTONY, civil 
engineer, author, was born Aug. 7, 1826, 
in Germany. He entered the service of 
the United States coast survey, and is the 
author of numerous works on meteor¬ 
ology. 

SCHOULER, JAMES, educator, lawyer, 
author, was born March 20, 1839, in West 
Cambridge, Mass. He is a lawyer and his¬ 
torian of Boston, professor in the law 
school of Boston university; and the au¬ 
thor of The Law of Bailments; The Law 
of Personal Property; The Law of Hus¬ 
band and Wife; Law of Executors and 
Administrators; Law of Wills; A History 
of the United States under the Constitu¬ 
tion; Life of Thomas Jefferson; and His¬ 
torical Briefs. 



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SCHOULER, WILLIAM, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 31, 1814, in Scotland. 
He was a journalist of Boston who pub¬ 
lished A History of Massachusetts during 
the Civil War. He died Oct. 24, 1872, in 
West Roxbury, Mass. 

SCHRIVER, EDMUND, soldier, was 
born Sept. 16, 1812, in York, Pa. He 
served in the Florida, Mexican and civil 
wars; and was brevetted major-general of 
the United States army in 1865. 

SCHROEBACH, JAMES, clergyman, 
bishop, was born Aug. 15, 1847, in 

Germany. He came to America in 1864. 
In 1892 he was consecrated bishop of the 
diocese of La Crosse, having for ten 
years previous been its vicar-general. 

SCHROEDER, CHARLES H„ educator, 
poet, was born March 16, 1858, in Boeuf 
Creek, Mo. After studying the normal 
course at the university of Missouri for 
three years, he first taught school at New 
Haven in 1884 as principal; then at Au¬ 
gusta, Mo., for four years, and has since 
been principal of various schools. He is 
the author of a pastoral story entitled 
Enos and Aurelia; and his poems have 
been given a place in Poets of America 
and other standard works. 

SCHROEDER, FREDERICK A., state 
senator, was born March 9, 1833, in Ger¬ 
many. In 1871 he was elected mayor of 
Brooklyn; and in 1879 was a member of 
the state senate from New York. 

SCHROEDER, JOHN FREDERICK, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, author, was born April 
8, 1800, in Baltimore, Md. He was an 
episcopal clergyman and educator of 
Flushing, L. I., and the author of Life 
of Washington; Maxims of Washington; 
Class Book of Astronomy; and Sunday 
Addresses. He died Feb. 26, 1857, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

SCHUETTE, CONRAD HERMAN 
LOUIS, educator, clergyman, author, was 
born June 17, 1843, in Germany. He was 
pastor at Delaware, Ohio, in 1865-72, has 
been professor of mathematics and natu¬ 
ral science in Capitol university since 
1872, and since 1881 also professor of eth¬ 
ics, symbolics, and homiletics in the the¬ 
ological department. He has been editor- 
in-chief of the Columbus Theological Mag¬ 
azine since 1886, and has published The 
Church Member’s Manual; and The 
State, the Church, and the School. 

SCHULTE, MRS. MARY JEMIMA 
(McCOLL), poet, was born in 1847 in Eng¬ 
land. She is a verse-writer of Jersey 
City, and the author of Bide a Wee, and 
Other Poems. 

SCHULTZ, EMANUEL, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born July 25, 1819, in 
Berks county, Pa. In 1875 he was elected 
a member of the Ohio house of repre¬ 
sentatives; and was elected to the forty- 
seventh congress. 

SCHULTZ, IRWIN WILLIAM, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 6, 1855, in Phillips- 
burg, N. J. He has served his native city 
as mayor, and is the presiding judge of the 
court of common pleas of his county. 

SCHULTZE, AUGUSTUS, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 3, 1840, in Germany. 
For fifteen years this eminent theologian 
and philologist was professor of exegesis 
and dogmatics at the Moravian college 
and Theological seminary of Bethlehem, 
Pa., and since 1885 has been its presi¬ 
dent. He is the author of The Mission 
Fields of the Moravian Church; Grammar 
and Vocabulary of the Alaskan Eskimo 
Language; The Theology of Peter and 
Paul, and other works. 

SCHULTZE, JOHN S„ railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Sept. 30, 1837, in Centre 
county, Pa. Since 1878 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Newburg, Dutchess and Con¬ 
necticut railroad. 


SCHULZE, JOHN ANDREW, governor, 
was born July 19, 1775, in Tulpehocken, 
Pa. In 1823 he was elected governor of 
Pennsylvania, serving until 1829. He died 
Nov. 18, 1852, in Lancaster, Pa. 

SCHUMACHER, JAMES MADISON, 
banker, state senator, was born Nov. 18, 
1843, in Mohawk, N. Y. For one term he 
was a member of the Florida state sen¬ 
ate. In 1890-93 he was president of the 
State Bankers’ association; was president 
of the Jacksonville and Atlantic railroad; 
and was vice-president of the Maine 
Street Electric railroad. 

SCHUMAKER, JOHN G„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 27, 1826, in 
Claverack, N. Y. In 1856 he was elected 
district attorney for Kings county; and 
in 1862 and 1864 was elected corpora¬ 
tion counsel for the city of Brooklyn. In 
1868 he was elected a representative from 
New York to the forty-first congress; and 
was also elected to the forty-third and 
forty-fourth congresses as a democrat. 

SCHUNEMAN, MARTIN G., congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1805 to 1807. 

SCHUREMAN, JAMES, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was 
born Feb. 12, 1756, in New Brunswick, N. 
J He was a delegate to the continental 
congress iri 1786 and 1787; was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New Jersey 
from 1789 to 1791, and from 1797 to 1799; 
and was a senator in congress from 1799 
to 1801. He was again a representative 
from 1813 to 1815; and was at one time 
mayor of New Brunswick. He died Jan. 
23, 1824, in New Brunswick, N. J. 

SCHURMAN, JACOB GOULD, educa¬ 
tor, college president, author, was born 
May 22, 1854, in Prince Edward Island. 
For many years he was a successful Ca¬ 
nadian educator; and since 1892 has been 
president of Cornell university of Ithaca, 
N. Y. He is the president of the Associa¬ 
tion of Colleges and Preparatory Schools 
of the United States and Maryland. He 
is the author of Kantian Ethics and the 
Ethics of Evolution; The Ethical Import 
of Darwinism; Belief in God; and Ag¬ 
nosticism and Religion. 

SCHURZ, CARL, soldier, journalist, 
United States senator, author, was born 
March 2, 1829, near Cologne, Germany. 

He emigrated to the 
United States in 1852. 
In 1861 he was se¬ 
lected by President 
Lincoln as minister 
to Spain; and was 
r h e n appointed a 
brigadier-general of 
volunteers. In 1865 
and 1866 he was a 
Washington corres¬ 
pondent for the New 
York Tribune, and 
was subsequently 
connected with the press of Detroit and 
St. Louis. He was elected a senator in 
congress from Missouri for the term com¬ 
mencing in 1869 and ending in 1875. In 
1876 he became secretary of the interior 
in the cabinet of President Hayes. He 
afterwards became editor of the New York 
Evening Post, in which position he con¬ 
tinued until 1884. He is the author of 
Speeches; Life of Henry Clay; and Abra¬ 
ham Lincoln, an essay. 

SCHUSSELE, CHRISTIAN, artist, was 
born April 16, 1824, in Alsace. He worked 
at chromo-lithography, which he had also 
followed in France, but later he devoted 
himself almost entirely to painting. His 
best-known works are Clear the Track; 
Franklin before the Lords in Council; 
Men of Progress, in Cooper institute, New 
York; Zeisberger Preaching to the In¬ 


dians; The Iron-Worker and King Solo¬ 
mon; Washington at Valley Forge (1862); 
and Home on Furlough, and McClellan at 
Antietam. He died Aug. 20, 1879, in Mer- 
chantville, N. J. 

SCHUWERK, WILLIAM MARTIN, 
lawyer, legislator, was born April 12, 1856, 
in Cleveland, Ohio. For many years this 
able lawyer was the prosecuting attorney 
for Evansville, Ill. He ser\ed as a mem¬ 
ber of the thirty-sixth general assembly 
of the Illinois legislature. 

SCHUYLER, AARON, educator, mathe¬ 
matician, author, was born Feb. 7, 1828, 
in New York. He is a mathematician who 
was professor in Baldwin university and 
president of that institution in 1875-81, 
and since 1885 a professor in Kansas Wes¬ 
leyan university. He is the author of The 
Human Soul; Higher Arithmetic; Prin¬ 
ciples of Logic; Surveying and Naviga¬ 
tion; Elements of Geometry; and Empi¬ 
rical and Rational Psychology. 

SCHUYLER, ANTHONY, clergyman, 
author, was born July 8, 1816, in Geneva, 
N. Y. He is an episcopal clergyman, rec¬ 
tor of Grace church at Orange, N. J., from 
1868, and author of Household Religion. 

SCHUYLER, GEORGE LEE, author, 
was born June 9. 1811, in Rhinebeck, N. Y.; 
has been active in yachting matters, and 
in 1882 the America’s cup was returned 
to him, as its sole surviving donor, by 
the New York Yacht club. He has pub¬ 
lished Correspondence and Remarks upon 
Bancroft’s History of the Northern Cam¬ 
paigns in 1877; and the Character of 
Major-General Philip Schuyler. 

SCHUYLER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
state official, author, was born Feb. 2,1810, 
in Stillwater, N. Y. He was a prominent 
state official of New York for many years; 
and the author of Colonial New York; 
and Philip Schuyler and His Family. He 
died Feb. 1, 1888, in Ithaca, N. Y. 

SCHUYLER, MONTGOMERY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 9, 1814, in 
New York city. He was an episcopal 
clergyman of St. Louis, rector of Christ 
church from 1854; and the .author of The 
Church: its Ministry and Worship; and 
The Pioneer Church. He died in 1896. 

SCHUYLER, MONTGOMERY, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Aug. 19, 1843, in 
Ithaca, N. Y. He is a journalist of New 
York city on the staff of The Times; and 
the author of Studies in American Archi¬ 
tecture. 

SCHUYLER, PETER, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, was born Sept. 17, 1657, in Albany, 
N. Y. He was a successful merchant of 
Albany, and its first mayor. He died Feb. 
19, 1724, in Albany, N. Y. 

SCHUYLER, PHILIP, soldier, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born Nov. 
22, 1733, in Albany, N. Y. He was ap¬ 
pointed major - gen¬ 
eral in the army of 
the’ revolution i n 
1775, and dispatched 
to the fortifications 
of the north of New 
York, to prepare for 
the invasion of Can¬ 
ada. He was a del- 
e g a t e to congress 
previous to the pres¬ 
ent constitution; and 
was a senator of the 
United States by ap¬ 
pointment from 1789 to 1791, and again 
in 1797. He died Nov. 18, 1804, in Albany, 
N. Y. 

SCHUYLER, PHILIP J., congressman, 
was born in 1768. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 1817 
to 1819. He died Feb. 21, 1835, in New 
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SCHUYLER, RICHARD, soldier, legis¬ 
lator, was born in 1733 in Albany, N. Y. 
He was a captain under Sir William John¬ 
son, and was in active public service until 
the revolution. He was a general in the 
patriot army, and was a legislator after 
the war. He died in 1804. 

SCHWARTS, JOHN, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 27, 1793, in Berke 
county, Pa. He served as lieutenant in 
the last war with Great Britain. He was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the thirty-sixth congress. He 
died in July, 1S60. 

SCHWARTZ, JACOB, librarian, was 
born March 13, 1846, in New York city. 
In 1863 he entered the Apprentices’ li¬ 
brary of New York, of which he became 
chief librarian in 1871. The method of 
management that is followed there was 
devised by him. He has contributed to 
the Library Journal and other periodicals. 

SCHWATKA, FREDERICK, naval of¬ 
ficer, author. He was a naval officer and 
explorer; and the author of In the Land 
of Cave and Cliff Dwellers; Nimrod in 
the North; Along Alaska’s Great River; 
and The Children of the Cold. He died in 
1892. 

SCHWEINITZ, EDMUND ALEXAN¬ 
DER, bishop, college president, author, 
was born March 20, 1825, in Bethlehem, 
Pa. He was a Moravian bishop in Penn¬ 
sylvania, president of the Moravian col¬ 
lege in 1867-84; and the author of The 
Moravian Manual; The Moravian Episco¬ 
pate; Life of Zeisberger, the Western Pio¬ 
neer and Apostle to the Indians; Some of 
the Fathers of the American Moravian 
Church; History of the Church known as 
the Unitas Fratrum; and Systematic Be¬ 
nevolence. He died Dec. 18, 1887, in Beth¬ 
lehem, Pa. 

SCHWEINITZ, LEWIS DAVID DE, 
clergyman, botanist, author, was born 
Feb. 13, 1780, in Bethlehem, Pa. He was 
a Moravian clergyman of Bethlehem, Pa., 
famous in his day as a botanist; and the 
author of Conspectus Fungorum Lusatiae; 
Synopsis Fungorum Carolina Superioris; 
Synopsis Fungorum in America; and Bo- 
reali Media Digentium. He died Feb. 8, 
1834, in Bethlehem, Pa. 

SCHWINDT, G. E., statesman. He is 
prominently identified with the education¬ 
al and business interests of Prentice, Wis.; 
and has filled numerous public offices of 
trust in his city, county, and state. 

SCOFIELD, CYRUS INGERSON, cler¬ 
gyman, state legislator, was born Aug. 19, 
1844, in Clinton, Mich. This eminent cler¬ 
gyman of the congregational church was 
a pastor for twelve years in Dallas, Tex. 
In 1872 he was elected a member of the 
Kansas state legislature. 

SCOFIELD, EDWARD, soldier, state 
senator, governor, was born March 28, 
1842, in Oconto, Pa. During the civil war 
he served with distinction in the eleventh 
Pennsylvania reserved; and received the 
brevet of major. In 1886 he was elected 
state senator for four years; and in 1896 
was elected governor of Wisconsin. 

SCOFIELD, GLENNI W„ lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
March 11, 1817, in Chautauqua county, N. 
Y. In 1850 and 1851 he was a member of 
the Pennsylvania assembly, and from 1857 
to 1859 was in the state senate. In 1861 
he was appointed president judge of the 
eighteenth judicial district of the state. In 
1862 he was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the thirty-eighth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the thirty- 
ninth, fortieth, forty-first, forty-second, 
and forty-third congresses as a republican. 


He was register of the treasury of the 
United States from 1878 to 1881, when he 
was appointed an associate justice of the 
United States court of claims. 

SCOLLARD, CLINTON, educator, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Sept. 18, 1861, in 
Clinton, N. Y. He is an educator of Clin¬ 
ton, N. Y., professor of English literature 
and Anglo-Saxon at Hamilton college in 
1888-96, and a well-known poet of the day. 
His writings in verse include Pictures in 
Song; With Reed and Lyre; Old and 
New World Lyrics; Giovio and Giulia; 
Songs of Sunrise Lands; Hills of Song; 
Skenandoa; and A Boy’s Book of Rhyme. 
In prose he has published Under Summer 
Skies; and On Sunny Shores. 

SCOTFORD, HENRY CLINTON, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Oct. 30, 1849, in Saline, 
Mich. He is the son of Rev. John Scot- 
ford, a congregational minister who died 
in 1881, and was the author of several 
works. He received his education in the 
Olivet college, from which institution he 
received the degrees of A. B. and A. M.; 
the degree of B. D. was conferred by the 
Yale Theological seminary; and the de¬ 
gree of D. D. by the Philander* Smith col¬ 
lege. This eminent minister of the con¬ 
gregational church has filled pastorates in 
Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, and 
is now pastor of his church in Nashua, 
Iowa. While filling a pastorate in Kan¬ 
sas City he was the editor of The Church 
Builder and The Christian Era. 

SCOTT, ABRAHAM M., governor. He 
was governor of Mississippi from 1831 to 
1833. 

SCOTT, ALLEN DARLING, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, legislator, was born Jan. 15, 1831, in 
Springville, N. Y. For many years he was 
a lecturer and instructor of the law school 
of the Buffalo university. For two years 
he was surrogate of his county, and for 
two terms county judge. He served as a 
state senator of the New York legislature 
from the thirty-second senatorial district. 

SCOTT, ANDREW, lawyer, jurist. He 
was an early emigrant to Arkansas; and 
in 1819 he was appointed an associate jus¬ 
tice of the United States court for that 
territory. 

SCOTT, AUSTIN, educator, college pres¬ 
ident, was born Aug. 10, 1848, in Maunree, 
Ohio. In 1883 he was appointed professor 
of history, political economy and constitu¬ 
tional law of the Rutgers college, holding 
this position until 1890, when he became 
president of the same college. 

SCOTT, CHARLES, soldier, governor, 
was born in 1733 in Cumberland county, 
Va. He was appointed colonel of the 
third Virginia battalion in 1776, and was 
made brigadier-general in 1777. He was 
governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812. 
He died Oct. 23, 1813. 

SCOTT, CHARLES, lawyer, author, was 
born Nov. 12, 1811, in Knoxville, Tenn. He 
was a lawyer of Jackson, Miss.; and the 
author of Analogy of Ancient Craft Ma¬ 
sonry to Natural and Revealed Religion; 
and The Keystone of the Masonic Arch. 
He died May 30, 1861, in Jackson, Miss. 

SCOTT, CHARLES, soldier, lawyer, 
banker, was born Nov. 7, 1847, in Jackson, 
Miss. At the age of fifteen he joined the 
confederate army, and served with dis¬ 
tinction. He is one of the leading lawyers 
of the south at Rosedale, Miss.; the pres¬ 
ident of the bank of Rosedale; prominent 
in the public affairs of his city, county and 
state; and for many years was president 
of the Mississippi levee commissioners. He 
is possessed of a constructive talent which 
places him in the front rank of lawmak¬ 
ers; and his name has several times been 
mentioned in connection with the sena- 
torship of his state. 


SCOTT, CHARLES FREDERICK, jour¬ 
nalist, legislator, was born Sept. 7, 1860, 
near Iola, Kansas. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his educa¬ 
tion in the common 
schools of his native 
county, and at the 
Kansas State univer¬ 
sity. Since 1892 he 
has been the owner 
and editor of The 
Register of Iola, Kan. 
In 1891 he was a 
member of the board 
of regents of the 
state university; was 
president of the Kan¬ 
sas State Editorial association in 1893; 
president of the Kansas State Republican 
league in 1895; and a candidate for presi¬ 
dential elector in 1896. During 1892-96 
he was a member of the senate of the 
Kansas state legislature; and on several 
important committees; and served with 
distinction in that body. 

SCOTT, CHARLES L., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 
1827, in Richmond, Va. In 1856 he was 
elected a representative from California 
to the thirty-fifth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He 
left his seat in congress in March, 1861, 
and went to Alabama, where he enlisted 
in the confederate army, and was elected 
major of his regiment. In 1877 he re¬ 
moved to Monroe county, Ala., and en¬ 
gaged in planting. In 1881 he resumed 
the practice of his profession at Monroe¬ 
ville, Ala.; and in 1885 was appointed 
United States minister to Venezuela. 

SCOTT, CHARLES WINFIELD, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in October, 1849, 
in Johnson, Vt. For many years he prac¬ 
ticed medicine in his 
native town; moved 
to Hartford, Conn., 
in 1876, and was there 
elected a member of 
the court of common 
council in 1881-83. In 
1883 he moved to 
Kansas City, Mo., 
and was appointed 
professor of anatomy 
at the Kansas City 
Hospital of Medicine; 
and is now a promi¬ 
nent physician of Boston, Mass. In 1863, 
when thirteen years of age, he enlisted 
in the union army; at fourteen years of 
age he was chief bugler and dispatch car¬ 
rier in the second brigade of the first di¬ 
vision second corps army of the Potomac; 
was one of the youngest soldiers of the 
war, and was wounded at the battle of 
Cold Harbor, Va. He is the author of a 
work entitled Key Notes of Health and 
a Century of Life; and several medical 
papers on Hygiene and Health. 

SCOTT, EBEN[EZER] GREENOUGH, 
author, was born in 1836 in Pennsylvania. 
He is a writer of Wilkesbarre, Pa.; and 
the author of Development of Constitu¬ 
tional Liberty in the English Colonies 
of America; Commentaries upon the In¬ 
terstate System of Pennsylvania; and Re¬ 
construction During the Civil War in the 
United States of America. 

SCOTT, EDWARD, lawyer, author,.was 
born in 1774 in Virginia. He was a Ten¬ 
nessee lawyer, prominent in the state’s 
early history, who published Laws of the 
State of Tennessee in 1822. He died in 
1852. * 

SCOTT, FREDERICK R., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born in 1830 in Ireland. Since 
1873 he has been president of Richmond 
and Petersburg railroad. 







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SCOTT, GUSTAVUS, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Prince William county, 
Va. He was a delegate from Maryland 
to the continental congress from 1784 to 
1785. He died in 1801 in Washington, 
D. C. 

SCOTT, GUSTAVUS HALL, naval officer, 
was born June 13, 1812, in Fairfax coun¬ 
ty, Va. He served in the civil war with 
distinction, attaining the rank of rear- 
admiral, United States navy. He died 
March 23, 1882, in Washington, D. C. 

SCOTT, HARVEY D., congressman, was 
born in Ohio. He removed to Indiana; 
and was elected a representative from In¬ 
diana to the thirty-fourth congress. 

SCOTT, HARVEY W., journalist, was 
born Feb. 1, 1838, near Peoria, Ill. He 
received the rudiments of his education in 
various schools in 
Oregon, and gradu¬ 
ated from the Pacific 
university. In 1864 
he moved to Port¬ 
land, Ore., intending 
to follow the profes¬ 
sion of law, but took 
up writing for the 
press. Since 1865 he 
has been the editor 
of The Oregonian, 
the leading daily 
newspaper of that 
state. To this publication he has since 
devoted his attention. He is a clear and 
forcible writer, and a man of executive 
ability and untiring energy. 

SCOTT, HENRY LEE, soldier, author, 
was born in 1814 in North Carolina. He 
was an army officer who served in the 
Mexican and civil wars, and was the au¬ 
thor of A Military Dictionary. He died 
in 1886. 

SCOTT, HUGH REID, lawyer, banker, 
state senator, was born in 1855 in Rock¬ 
ingham county, N. C. In 1878 he was 
prosecuting attorney of his native county, 
and during 1881-84 was a member of the 
state senate of the North Carolina legis¬ 
lature. In 1885 he organized the Reids- 
ville bank, and has ever since been its 
president. 

SCOTT, IRVING MURRAY, mechanical 
engineer, was born Dec. 25, 1837, in He¬ 
bron Mills, Md. He has invented numerous 
appliances connected with engines; and 
also in mining machinery. He has been 
president of the Mechanics’ institute and 
of the Art institute of San Francisco, Cal. 
He is at the head of the Union Iron works, 
and built the battleship Oregon. 

SCOTT, JAMES, lawyer, jurist. In 1813 
he was appointed an associate justice of 
the United States court for the territory 
of Indiana. 

SCOTT, JAMES, clergyman, author, po¬ 
et, was born in 1806 in Scotland. He was 
pastor at German Valley and Newark, N. 
J. He published a dissertation on the ge¬ 
nius of Robert Pollok in his Life, and be¬ 
fore his death completed a narrative poem 
called The Guardian Angel. He died in 
1857 in Newark, N. J. 

SCOTT, JAMES W., journalist, was 
born June 26, 1849, in Walworth county. 
He is the editor and owner of the Chicago 
Evening Post. 

SCOTT, JEANNE McCLAIN, editor, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 12, 1849, in Carthage- 
on-the-Cumberland, Tenn. She attended 
the Sacred Heart college of New Orleans, 
and in 1863 graduated from the Huntsville 
college, Alabama. She is the editor of the 
Arkansas Traveler, and a contributor to 
eastern and southern magazines. She is a 
successful syndicate writer and the au¬ 
thor of four books. 


SCOTT, JOHN, congressman, was born 
in 1782 in Hanover county, Va. He was 
a delegate to congress from the territory 
of Missouri from 1816 to 1821; and was a 
representative in congress from Missouri 
from 1821 to 1827. He died in 1861 in St. 
Genevieve, Mo. 

SCOTT, JOHN, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Hunting¬ 
don county, Penn., from 1829 to 1831. 

SCOTT, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born Oct. 27, 1820, in Washington county, 
Pa. He is a methodist protestant clergy¬ 
man of Cincinnati; and the author of Pul¬ 
pit Echoes; and The Land of Sojourn. 

SCOTT, JOHN, lawyer, state senator, 
United States senator, was born July 14, 
1824, in Alexandria, Pa. He was a prose¬ 
cuting attorney from 1846 to 1849; was for 
ten years solicitor for the Pennsylvania 
Railroad company; and in 1862 was elect¬ 
ed to the state legislature. He was elected 
a senator in congress from Pennsylvania 
for the term commencing in 1869 and end¬ 
ing in 1875. He died March 22, 1889, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. 

SCOTT, JOHN G., manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 26, 1819, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. In 1862 he was elected a 
representative from Missouri to the thir¬ 
ty-eighth congress to fill a vacancy. 

SCOTT, JOHN M., clergyman, educator, 
poet, was born in 1855 in Westmoreland 
county, Pa. He is a successful educator 
and baptist clergyman of Sewickly, Pa.; 
and the author of a number of meritorious 
poems. 

SCOTT, JOHN MORIN, congressman, 
was born in 1730 in New York. He was 
secretary of the state of New York in 
1778 and 1779; and was a delegate from 
New York to the continental congress 
from 1780 to 1783. He died Sept. 14, 1784, 
in New York. 

SCOTT, JOHN MORIN, soldier, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 25, 1789, in New York city. 
He was for many years a member of the 
Philadelphia city councils, a delegate to 
the state constitutional convention of 
1837, and in 1841-44 served as mayor. 

SCOTT, JOHN T., jurist, was born May 
6, 1831, in Glasgow, Ky. He removed to 
Terre Haute, Ind.; and in 1868 he was 
elected judge of the court of common 
pleas, and was again elected to the judge- 
ship in 1872. 

SCOTT, JOHN W., educator, clergyman, 
was born Jan. 22, 1800, in Beaver county. 
Pa. He graduated from the university of 
Pennsylvania; taught 
school for a number 
of years; and during 
1824-81 he filled the 
chair of natural sci¬ 
ence and mathemat¬ 
ics in various insti¬ 
tutions. In 1830 he 
was ordained a cler¬ 
gyman in the pres- 
byterian church; and 
during the Harrison 
administration h e 
was a member of the 
president’s family at the White house. His 
son, John Neal Scott, is a noted lawyer 
of Port Townsend, Wash.; and his daugh¬ 
ter is the wife of ex-President Benjamin 
Harrison. 

SCOTT, JULIAN, artist, was born Feb. 
14, 1846, in Johnson, Vt. Among his 
works, mostly pictures of army life, are 
Rear-Guard at White Oak Swamp, owned 
by the Union League club; Battle of Ce¬ 
dar Creek, in the state-house at Montpe¬ 
lier, Vt.; Battle of Golding’s Farm; The 
Recall; On Board the Hartford; and Old 
Records. 


SCOTT, LAWRENCE W., journalist, ' 
clergyman, author, poet, was born May 29, 
1846, in Monongalia county, Vt. In his 
youth he learned the printer’s trade in 
Texas, and was local editor of the Daily 
Leader of Covington, Ky. In 1866 he en¬ 
tered the ministry, and became somewhat 
distinguished as a theological disputant. 
In 1872 he returned to Texas, where he 
published the Olive Branch, which was 
afterward consolidated with the Southern 
Christian Weekly. He is the author of 
Paradox, and Other Poems, and several 
prose works. 

SCOTT, ORANGE, clergyman, author, 
was born Feb. 13, 1800, in Brookfield, Vt. 
Besides many contributions to the press, 
he was the author of An Appeal to the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. He died July 
31, 1847, in Newark, N. J. 

SCOTT, OWEN, lawyer, journalist, 
congressman, was born July 6, 1848, near 
Effingham, Ill. He was elected superin¬ 
tendent of schools 
for Effingham county, 
Ill., and served in 
that capacity eight 
years; was admitted 
to the bar by the 
Illinois supreme 
court in 1874, and 
practiced law for ten 
years, leaving this to 
engage in newspaper 
work. He published 
the Effingham Demo¬ 
crat, leaving it to be¬ 
come proprietor and manager of the 
Bloomington Daily and Weekly Bulletin; 
and also publishes monthly the Illinois 
Freemason. He was elected city attorney 
and mayor of Effingham; was deputy col¬ 
lector of internal revenue; and was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-second congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

SCOTT, ROBERT KINGSTON, soldier, 
physician, governor, was born July 8, 1826, 
in Armstrong county, Pa. He was in 
Sherman’s operations before Atlanta, and 
in the march to the sea. He was assistant 
commissary from 1865 to 1868; and was 
governor of South Carolina from 1868 to 
1871. 

SCOTT, ROBERT NICHOLSON, soldier, 
author, was born Jan. 21, 1838, in Win¬ 
chester county, Tenn. He was an army 
officer, in charge of the publication of war 
records at Washington in 1877-87, who 
published a Digest of the Military Laws of 
the United States. He died March 5, 1887, 
in Washington, D. C. 

SCOTT, RUFUS LEONARD, lawyer, 
was born March 31, 1835, in Lanesborough, 
Mass. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar, 
and has since con¬ 
tinued the practice of 
law in the city of 
New York, residing 
in Brooklyn. In 1877 
he was elected regis¬ 
trar of arrears for 
the city of Brooklyn; 
and he was instru¬ 
mental in having the 
plan of advertising 
the tax sales in pam¬ 
phlet form for distri¬ 
bution, with a refer¬ 
ence notice in the daily papers, instead of 
advertising in detail through the press; 
and this measure subsequently became a 
law. He has been a member of the board 
of aldermen; a member of the board of 
education; was a leader in securing rapid 
transit for the city; one of the promoters 
and founders of the Bushwick and East 
Brooklyn dispensary; and also fine of the 
founders of the Bushwick Savings bank. 












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SCOTT, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1791, and again 
from 1793 to 1795. 

SCOTT, THOMAS ALEXANDER, sol¬ 
dier, railroad president, was born Dec. 28, 
1824, in London, Pa. He was commissioned 
colonel of the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia 
volunteers; a few 
weeks later was ap¬ 
pointed ih charge of 
all government rail¬ 
ways and telegraphs. 

In 1861 he was ap¬ 
pointed assistant 
secretary of war, and 
in 1863 became colo¬ 
nel and assistant 
quartermaster on the 
s t a ff of General 
Hooker. During 1871-72 he was president 
of the Union Pacific Railway company; in 
1872 was elected president of the Texas 
Pacific Railway company; and in 1873 was 
elected president of the Atlantic and Pa¬ 
cific Railway company. In 1874 he was 
elected president of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad company. He died May 21, 1881, 
in Darby, Pa. 

SCOTT, THOMAS FIELDING, protest- 
ant episcopal bishop, was born March 12, 
1807, in Iredell county, N. C. He was 
elected missionary bishop of Oregon and 
Washington territories, and was conse¬ 
crated in Christ church, Savannah, Ga., in 
1854. He died July 14, 1867, in New York 
city. 

SCOTT, THOMAS GIBNEY, clergyman, 
home missionary, was born Aug. 2, 1824, 
in Uniontown, Pa. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Franklin college of Ohio, 
and the Theological seminary of New Al¬ 
bany, Ind. He has attained success as an 
eminent clergyman and home missionary, 
and has filled pastorates in Westfield, Pa., 
in Mechanicstown and Beech Springs, 
Ohio; and now fills a pastorate in Cham¬ 
paign, Ill. 

SCOTT, THOMAS SMITH, clergyman, 
was born Nov. 9, 1849, in Enon Valley, 
Pa. He attended the new Lisbon High 
school; the Union academy of Poland, 
Ohio, and the Western Reserve college; 
and subsequently studied in the Theologi¬ 
cal seminary of Auburn, and the Union 
Theological seminary of Schenectady. This 
eminent presbyterian clergyman has filled 
pastorates in East Cleveland, Ohio; Rock¬ 
ford HI.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Vincennes, 
Ind.; and Middletown, Ohio. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively to the New York Ob¬ 
server, New York Independent, and other 
publications, principally on religious and 
educational topics. 

SCOTT, WALTER, author, was born 
Oct. 31, 1796, in Scotland. He was one of 
the founders of the Disciples or Camp- 
bellites; and was the author of The Gos¬ 
pel Restored; and The Great Demonstra¬ 
tion. He died April 23, 1861, in May’s Lick, 
Ky. 

SCOTT WALTER GAY, journalist, law¬ 
yer was ’born Feb. 21, 1853, in Washing¬ 
ton, Pa. He started in life as a printer, 
and became a successful journalist. He 
has attained distinction as an able lawyer 
of St. Johns, Ariz.; has been court com- 
. missioner; district attorney; and filled 
numerous positions of honor. 

SCOTT, WILLIAM AMASA, educator, 
author, was born April 17, 1862, in Clark¬ 
son, N. Y. He has filled the chair of his¬ 
tory and political science in various insti¬ 
tutions, principally in the university of 
Wisconsin. He is the author of Repudia¬ 
tion of State Debts; and various articles 
on economic subjects. 


SCOTT, WILLIAM ANDERSON, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 

31, 1813, in Rock Creek, Tenn. He was a 
presbyterian clergyman of San Francisco, 
professor in the Theological seminary 
there from 1871; and the author of The 
Bible and Politics; Strauss and Renan; 
Daniel' ,a Model for Young Men; Achan 
in El Dorado; The Giant Judge; The 
Church in the Army; The Christ of the 
Apostles’ Creed; and Trade and Letters. 

He died Jan. 14, 1885, in San Francisco, 
Cal. 

SCOTT, WILLIAM COWPER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 13, 1817, in 
Martinsburg, Va. He was pastor of several 
churches in his native, state till his death, 
except during two years, when feeble 
health compelled him to desist from 
preaching, and he was occupied in teach¬ 
ing and writing for periodicals. He was 
the author of a work on Genius and 
Faith, or Poetry and Religion in their 
Mutual Relations. He died Oct. 23, 1854, 
in Bethesda, Va. 

SCOTT, WILLIAM HENRY, educator, 
college president, was born Sept. 14, 1840, 
in Chauncey, Ohio. He filled the chair of 
Greek in the Ohio university of Athens 
during 1869-72, and was its president dur¬ 
ing 1872-83; and from that time until 
1895 he was president of the Ohio state 
university, in which he now fills the chair 
of philosophy. 

SCOTT, WILLIAM L.. manufacturer, 
congressman, was born July 2, 1828, in 
Washington, D. C. He was a page in 
the national house of representatives from 
1840 to 1846; and in 1848 settled at Erie, 
Pa. As president or director he was in¬ 
terested in twenty-two thousand miles of 
completed road, probably the largest mile¬ 
age in the management of which one man 
was ever interested. He was elected mayor 
of Erie in 1866, and again in 1871. In 1884 
he was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-ninth congress; 
and re-elected to the fiftieth congress as 
a democrat. 

SCOTT, WINFIELD, soldier, lawyer, 
author, was born June 13, 1786, in Peters¬ 
burg, Va. He joined the army in 1808; 

was made lieutenant- 
colonel in 1812, and 
passed through the 
war that ensued with 
great honor to him¬ 
self and his com¬ 
pany. He was bre- 
vetted major-general' 
in 1814, and was 
made general - in - 
chief of the army in 
1841. He was made 
lieutenant-general in 
1855. He was voted 
a gold medal for his service in the war 
of 1812. He was a candidate for the presi¬ 
dency in 1852. He was the author of Gen¬ 
eral Regulations of the Army; System of 
Infantry and Rifle Tactics; and Autobi¬ 
ography (1864). He died May 29, 1866, in 
West Point, N. Y. 

SCOULLER, JAMES BROWN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 12, 1820. near 
Newville, Pa. He is a prominent united 
presbyterian clergyman; and the author 
of Manual of the United Presbyterian 
Church; History of the United Presbyte¬ 
rian Church; and Calvinism: its History 
and Influence. 

SCOVEL, SYLVESTER F„ clergyman, 
college president, was born Dec. 29, 1835, 
in Harrison, Ohio. During 1857-83 he filled 
pastorates in the presbyterian church 
when he was appointed president of 
Wooster university of Ohio. 


SCOVILLE, JONATHAN, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born in Salisbury, Conn. 

He removed to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1860, and 
engaged in the manufacture of car wheels. 

He was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-sixth congress to fill a 
vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty- 
seventh congress. 

SCOVILLE, JOSEPH A., journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1811 in Connecticut. He 
was a journalist of New York city, clerk 
of the common council, and at one period 
private secretary to Calhoun. He was the 
author of Adventures of Clarence Bolton, 
or Life in New York; The Old Merchants 
of New York; Vigor, a novel; and Ma¬ 
rion. He died in 1864. 

SCRANTON, GEORGE WHITEFIELD, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born 
May 11, 1811, in Madison, Conn. In 1858 
he was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress; 
and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh 
congress. He died March 24, 1861, in 
Scranton, Pa. 

SCRANTON, JOSEPH A., journalist, 
congressman, was born July 26, 1838, in 
Madison, Conn. He was collector of in¬ 
ternal revenue from 1862 to 1866; and in 
1867 founded the Scranton Republican 
newspaper. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Pennsylvania to the forty-sev¬ 
enth congress; and re-elected to the forty- 
ninth, fifty-first, fifty-third, and fifty- 
fourth congresses as a republican. 

SCREVEN, JAMES, soldier, was born 
about 1744 in Georgia. He early espoused 
the patriot cause, and in 1774 was one of 
the committee that drew up articles of 
association for the defense of liberty in 
Georgia. He died Nov. 24, 1778, in Mid¬ 
way, Ga. 

SCREVEN, JAMES PROCTOR, state 
senator, railroad president, was born Oct. 
11, 1799, in Bluffton, S. C. In 1855 he was 
elected state senator from South Carolina 
and in 1866 mayor of Savannah. He is the 
president of the Savannah, Albany and 
Gulf, and the Atlantic and Gulf railroads. 
He died July 16, 1859. 

SCREVEN, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1629 in England. He 
came to this country about 1640, settled 
about sixty miles north of Charleston, and 
was the original proprietor of the land on 
which the town of Georgetown was built. 
He was the author of An Ornament for 
Church Members, published after his 
death. He died in 1713 in Georgetown, 
S. C. 

SCRIBNER, CHARLES, publisher, was 
born Feb. 21, 1821, in New York city. 
In 1865 he began the publication of Hours 
at Home in New York city, a monthly 
magazine, which in 1870 was merged in 
Scribner’s Monthly, under the editorship 
of Josiah G. Holland, and which was pub¬ 
lished by a separate company, Scribner 
and Co., with Dr. Holland and Roswell 
Smith as part owners. He died Aug. 26, 
1871, in Switzerland. 

SCRIBNER, EUGENE D„ journalist, 
lawyer, orator, was born Dec. 21, 1867, in 
Delafield, Wis. He received his education 
in the public schools of Fulton and Sara¬ 
toga counties, N. Y. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as an able lawyer of Northville, N. 
Y.; and as an orator and journalist is 
well known. He is president of the North¬ 
ville Electric Light and Power company; 
and is interested in various other business 
enterprises. In 1894 he was a candidate 
for member of the New York state assem¬ 
bly from Fulton county; and takes an 
active part in the public affairs of his city, 
county and state. 




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SCRIPTURE, EDWARD WHEELER, 
scientist, author, was born in 1864 in New 
Hampshire. He is a scientist, director of 
the physical laboratory of Yale univer¬ 
sity; and the author of Thinking, Feeling, 
Doing, a popular psychology; The New 
Psychology; and Studies from the Yale 
Physical Laboratory. 

SCRUGGS, WILLIAM L„ journalist, 
lawyer, public official, was born Sept. 14, 
1834, in Knoxville, Tenn. He was editor 
of the Columbus Sun from 1861 to 1864; 
and in 1865 became editor of the New 
Era of Atlanta, Ga. In 1872 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States assessor of internal 
revenue for the district of Georgia. In 
1873-76 he was appointed minister of the 
United States to the United States of Co¬ 
lombia; and in 1879 was appointed United 
States consul in China. 

SCUDDER, ELIZA, poet, was born in 
1821 in Massachusetts. She was a hymn- 
writer of Massachusetts; and the author 
of Hymns and Sonnets. She died in 1896. 

SCUDDER, HENRY J., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1825 in Northport, 
L. I. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-third con¬ 
gress as a republican. He died Feb. 12, 
1886, in New York city. 

SCUDDER, HENRY MARTYN, clergy¬ 
man, missionary, author, was born Feb. 
5, 1822, in Ceylon. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman and missionary, pastor in Chi¬ 
cago in 1883-87, and from 1887 a mission¬ 
ary in Japan. He published in the Tamil 
language Liturgy of the Dutch Reformed 
Church; The Bazaar Book; Sweet Savors 
of Divine Truth; and Spiritual Teaching. 
He died in 1895. 

SCUDDER, HORACE ELISHA, littera¬ 
teur, author, was born Oct. 16, 1838, in 
Boston, Mass. He is a Boston writer, edi¬ 
tor of The Atlantic Monthly from 1890; 
and the author of Seven Little People and 
Their Friends; Dream Children; Stories 
from my Attic; The Dwellers in Five- 
Sisters’ Court; Stories and Romances; 
Boston Town; Life of Noah Webster; A 
History of the United States; A Short His¬ 
tory of the United States; The Book of 
Fables; The Book of Folk Stories; Fables 
and Folk Stories; George Washington: an 
Historical Biography; Men and Letters, 
a volume of essays; Childhood in Lite¬ 
rature and Art; Recollections of Samuel 
Breck; and The Bodley Books, a series of 
popular juveniles. 

SCUDDER, ISAAC W„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1818 in Elizabeth, 
N. J. He was twice prosecutor of the 
court of common pleas for Hudson county; 
and was elected a representative from 
New Jersey to the fort 3 r -third congress. 

SCUDDER, JARED WATERBURY, 
missionary, author, was born in 1830 in 
Ceylon. He was ordained a missionary 
to India under the reformed Dutch church, 
and since 1857 has held native charges 
there. He has published translations from 
the Tamil of Henry M. Scudder’s Spiritual 
Teaching, and his Bazaar Book; and a 
History of the Arcot Mission. 

SCUDDER, JOHN, missionary, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Sept. 3, 1793, in 
Freehold, N. J. He was a Dutch reformed 
missionary and physician in Ceylon in 
1820-39; and the author of Letters from 
the East; Letters to Pious Young Men; 
and Promises lor Passing Over Jordan. 
He died Jan. 13, 1855, in Africa. 

SCUDDER, JOHN A., physician, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in New 
Jersey. He served a number of years in 
the assembly of his native state; and was 
a representative in congress from New 
Jersey to fill a vacancy. 


SCUDDER, JOHN KING, educator, phy¬ 
sician, was born May 16, 1865, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. In 1886 he received the de¬ 
gree of B. A. from the Cincinnati univer¬ 
sity, and subsequently the degree of M. A. 
from the same institution. He also studied 
at the Eclectic Medical institute of Cin¬ 
cinnati, of which institution he has been 
secretary since 1887; and a member of the 
Ohio State Board of Medical Registration 
and Examination since 1896. He is con¬ 
nected with the publishing house of the 
Scudder Brothers company, medical pub¬ 
lishers and booksellers of Cincinnati, 
Ohio, and the publishers of the Eclectic 
Medical Journal. 

SCUDDER, JOHN MILTON, physician, 
author, was born Sept. 14, 1829, in Harri¬ 
son, Ohio. During 1839-43 he attended 
the Miami university of Oxford, Ohio; 
and subsequently the Eclectic Medical in¬ 
stitute of Cincinnati, Ohio, from which 
institution he received his medical de¬ 
gree. During 1830-94 he was professor of 
medicine; was the editor of the Eclectic 
Medical Journal during 1863-94; and was 
the author of the following works: Speci¬ 
fic Medication; Specific Diagnosis; Prin¬ 
ciples of Medicine; Practice of Medicine; 
Materia Medica; Diseases of Children; 
Diseases of Women; Venereal; and Med¬ 
icated Inhalations. He died Feb. 17, 1894, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

SCUDDER, MOSES LEWIS, broker, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1843 in Massachusetts. 
He is a broker of Chicago; and the au¬ 
thor of Brief Honors, a romance; Almost 
an Englishman; National Banking; Con¬ 
gested Prices; and The Labor Value Pro¬ 
phecy. 

SCUDDER, NATHANIEL, congressman, 
was born May 10, 1733, near Huntington, 
N. Y. He was a delegate from New Jersey 
to the continental congress from 1777 to 
1779; and was one of the signers of the 
articles of confederation. He died Oct. 17, 
1781, in Shrewsbury, N. J. 

SCUDDER, SAMUEL HUBBARD, natu¬ 
ralist, author, was born in 1837 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a naturalist of Cambridge; 
and the author of The Butterflies of the 
Eastern United States and Canada; But¬ 
terflies, their Structure, Changes, and Life 
Histories; Brief Guide to the Commoner 
Butterflies; The Life of a Butterfly; Frail 
Children of the Air; Excursions into the 
World of Butterflies; A Century of Orthop- 
tera; and The Fossil Insects of North 
America. 

SCUDDER, TREADWELL, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman. He was for six years 
a member of the New York assembly; and 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1817 to 1819. 

SCUDDER, VIDA DUTTON, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 15, 1861, in India. 
He is an educator of Massachusetts, pro¬ 
fessor in Wellesley college; and the au¬ 
thor of How the Rain Sprites were Freed; 
The Life of the Spirit in the Modern Eng¬ 
lish Poets; The Witness of Denial; and 
The Prometheus Unbound of Shelley. 

SCUDDER, ZENO, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1807, 
in Barnstable, Mass. He was president of 
the Massachusetts senate; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Massachu¬ 
setts from 1851 to 1854. He died June 26, 
1857, in Barnstable, Mass. 

SCULL, EDWARD, journalist, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1818 in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. He published and edited the 
Somerset Herald since 1852, in Somerset, 
Pa. He was elected to the fiftieth and 
fifty-first congresses, and re-elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a republican. 


SCULLY, JOHN, college president, was 
born Sept. 23, 1846, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
In 1888 he was elected president of St. 
John’s college, Fordham, N. Y„ resigning 
in 1891. 

SCURRY, RICHARDSON, congressman, 
was born in Tennessee. He was elected 
a representative in congress from Texas 
from 1851 to 1853. 

SEABpOOK, WHITEMARSH B., state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1795 
in South Carolina. He served in the state 
senate; was president of the State Agri¬ 
cultural society; and was governor of 
South Carolina from 1848 to 1850. He died 
April 16, 1855, in St. Luke’s Parish, S. C. 

SEABURY, GEORGE J., manufacturer, 
was born Nov. 10, 1844. He will be known 
in history as the father and organizer of 
his branch of phar¬ 
maceutical chemis¬ 
try, chiefly for his 
original work, inven¬ 
tions and improve¬ 
ments on old meth¬ 
ods. His firm have 
invariably received 
the highest awards 
over all American 
and European com¬ 
petitors, notably in 
Paris, London, Vi¬ 
enna, Philadelphia, 
New York, Chicago, Liverpool, Melbourne, 
Montreal, and at many other world’s ex¬ 
hibitions, forty-nine gold medals and spe¬ 
cial diplomas having been awarded them. 

SEABURY, SAMUEL, bishop, author, 
was born Nov. 30, 1729, in Groton, Conn. 
He was the first protestant episcopal bish¬ 
op of Connecticut. During the early days 
of the American revolution he attracted 
much attention by his pamphlets signed 
A. W. Farmer, which sharply criticized 
the actions of the patriots. They include. 
Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the 
Continental Congress; The Continental 
Congress Canvassed; and View of the 
Controversy between Great Britain and 
her English Colonies. His sermons have 
been issued in three volumes. He died 
Feb. 29, 1796, in New London, Conn. 

SEABURY, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 9, 1801, in New Lon¬ 
don. He was an episcopal clergyman of 
New York city, prominent among High 
Churchmen, and professor in the General 
Theological seminary. He was the author 
of Continuity of the Church of England; 
Mary the Virgin; Historical Sketch of 
Augustine of Hippo; Supremacy of Con¬ 
science; American Slavery Justified; The¬ 
ory and Use of the Calendar; and Dis¬ 
courses on the Holy Calendar. He died 
Oct. 10, 1872, in New York city. 

SEABURY, WILLIAM JONES, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Jan. 25, 
1837, in New York city. He is an episco¬ 
pal clergyman of New York city, rector of 
the church of the Annunciation from 
1868, and professor in the General semi¬ 
nary from 1873. He is the author of Sug¬ 
gestions in Aid of Devotion; and Intro¬ 
duction to the Study of Ecclesiastical Po¬ 
lity. 

SEAL, RODERICK, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Harrison county, Miss. 
He was a representative in the legisla¬ 
ture; and in 1875 was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Mississippi to the forty-fourth 
congress. 

SEALSFIELD, CHARLES, author, was 
born March 3, 1793, in Moravia. He was 
the author of Tokiah, or the White Rose; 
The Viceroy and the Aristocrat; The 
Cabin Book, or Life in Texas; and Scenes 
and Adventures in Central America. He 
died May 26, 1864. 



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SEAMAN, EZRA CHAMPION, comp¬ 
troller, author, was born Oct. 14, 1805, in 
Chatham, N. Y. He was the comptroller 
of the treasury in 1849-53, and subsequent¬ 
ly inspector of the Michigan State pris¬ 
ons. He was the author of Essays on the 
Progress of Nations; Commentaries on 
the Constitution, Laws, People, and His¬ 
tory of the United States; The American 
System of Government; and Views of Na¬ 
ture. He died July 1, 1880, in Ann Ar¬ 
bor, Mich. 

SEAMAN, HENRY J., congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1845 
to 1847. 

SEAMAN, VALENTINE, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born April 2, 1770, in Hemp¬ 
stead, L. I. He was a once prominent phy¬ 
sician of New York city, active in intro¬ 
ducing the practice of vaccination. He 
was the author of Waters of Saratoga; 
Midwife’s Monitor; and On Vaccination. 
He died July 3, 1817, in New York city. 

SEARCH, PRESTON WILLIS, educa¬ 
tor, lecturer, was born April 10, 1853, in 
Marion, Ohio. He received his education 
at the university of Wooster, Ohio. In 
1873-74 he was principal of Millersburg 
academy of Ohio; and has since been 
superintendent of public schools in West 
Liberty and Sidney, Ohio; in Pueblo, 
Colo.; in Los Angeles, Cal.; and since 
1896 in Holyoke, Mass. He is a noted wri¬ 
ter and lecturer on Individualism in Edu¬ 
cation, of which doctrine he is the leading 
exponent. He was the originator of the 
Pueblo plan of individual instruction; and 
is the editor of The Advance in Educa¬ 
tion. 

SEARIGHT, THOMAS B., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, author, was born Feb. 20, 1827, in 
Fayette county. Pa. In 1848 he graduated 
from the Washington college, and was in¬ 
timately associated with James G. Blaine 
while at college. He is one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of the east; has a large 
practice in Uniontown, Pa.; has served 
as a representative in both houses of the 
Pennsylvania state legislature; and is the 
author of The History of the National 
Road; Letters on States’ Rights; and va¬ 
rious other valuable contributions to his¬ 
torical literature. 

SEARING, JOHN A., agriculturist, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 14, 1814, in 
Queens county, N. Y. He was chosen a 
representative from New York to the thir¬ 
ty-fifth congress. 

SEARING, MRS. LAURA CATHERINE 
[REDDEN], author, poet, was born Feb. 
9, 1840, in Somerset county, Md. She is a 
poet and journalist now living in Califor¬ 
nia, but from 1868-76 on the staff of The 
New York Mail. She is the author of 
Sounds from Secret Chambers; Poems; 
Idylls of Battle; and Brother and Sister. 

SEARL, FERNANDO C„ lawyer, poet, 
was born July 18, 1825, in Scioto county, 
Ohio. He is a prominent attorney of 
Portsmouth, Ohio, 
where he has been 
engaged in the prac¬ 
tice of his profession 
for many years, and 
has filled various 
public positions of 
trust. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively 
both prose and verse 
to the periodical 
press, and his poems 
have appeared in the 
leading magazines of 
America, and in Poets of America and oth¬ 
er standard works. He is the author of 
a volume of Collected Poems. 


SEARLE, ARTHUR, astronomer, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 21, 1837, in 
England. He is a professor of astronomy 
at Harvard university from 1887, who has 
published Outlines of Astronomy. 

SEARLE, GEORGE MARY, astronomer, 
educator, author, was horn June 27, 1839’ 
in England. He went to Harvard as as¬ 
sistant in the observatory in 1866, and re¬ 
mained there until 1868, when he joined 
the Paulists, and was ordained as a priest 
in that community in March, 1871, having 
been converted to the Roman catholic faith 
in 1862. He has had charge of the science 
teaching of the seminary that forms part 
of the home in New York. 

SEARLE, JAMES, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born about 1730 in New York 
city. He settled in Philadelphia about 
1763. He signed the non-importation 
agreement of 1765; was one of the man¬ 
agers of the United States lottery from 
1776 to 1778. He was a delegate to the 
continental congress from 1778 to 1780. 
He died Aug. 7, 1797, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SEARLES, WILLIAM HENRY, civil 
engineer, author, was born in 1837 in Ohio. 
He is a civil engineer; and the author of 
Field Engineering; and The Railroad Spi¬ 
ral. 

SEARS, BARN AS, clergyman, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 19, 1802, in San- 
disfield, Mass. He was a baptist clergy¬ 
man and educator of prominence in his 
day. He was professor at Newton Theo¬ 
logical seminary in 1836-48, and president 
of Brown university in 1855-67. He is the 
author of Life of Luther; The Ciceronian 
or Prussian Mode of Instruction in Latin; 
and Essays on Classical Literature. He 
died July 6, 1880, in Saratoga Springs, 
N. Y. 

SEARS, CLINTON BROOKS, civil and 
military engineer, was born June 2, 1844, 
in Penn Yan, N. Y. He attended the Ohio 
Wesleyan university, 
and graduated from 
the United States 
Military academy in 
1867. During the civil 
war he served as a 
volunteer, and was 
in the battles of 
Richmond and Per- 
ryville, Ky.; and 
Stone River, Tenn. 
He was color - ser¬ 
geant of the ninety- 
fifth regiment Ohio 
volunteer infantry in the Vicksburg cam¬ 
paign. Since his graduation in 1867 he 
has been in charge of various public 
works, civil and military, on the Atlantic 
and Pacific coast, and in the Mississippi 
valley. He is now major in the corps of 
engineers of the United States army in 
charge of river and harbor works, with 
head-quarters at Duluth, Minn. 

SEARS, EDMUND HAMILTON, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born in 1810 in 
Sandisfield, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman and religious poet, and pastor 
at Weston, Mass., in 1865-76. He wrote 
the familiar Christmas hymn, Calm on the 
Listening Ear of Night. Regeneration; 
Foregleams and Foreshadows of Immor¬ 
tality, originally published as Athanasia; 
The Fourth Gospel the Heart of Christ; 
Christ in the Life; Sermons and Songs of 
the Christian Life; Pictures of the Olden 
Time; and That Glorious Song of Old. 
He died Jan. 14, 1876, in Weston, Mass. 

SEARS, EDWARD I., journalist, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1819 in Ireland. 
He was professor of languages in Man¬ 
hattan college. He became editor and 
proprietor of the National Quarterly, a 
literary magazine, in 1860, and conducted 


it until his death. He published, under 
the pen-name of H. E. Chevalier, Legends 
of the Sea. He died Dec. 7, 1876, in New 
York city. 

SEARS, GEORGE W., soldier, author, 
was born in 1821 in Massachusetts. He is 
a writer of Wellsboro, Pa., who served in 
the federal army during the civil war. He 
is the author of Woodcraft; and Forest 
Runes (\erse). 

SEARS, ISAAC, soldier, congressman, 
patriot, was born in 1729, in Norwalk, 
Conn. On the passage of the stamp act 
he ardently engaged in the patriot cause 
and became an active member of the Sons 
of Liberty. He was a member of the 
provincial congress of New York in 1783 
and of the assembly in the same year. 
He died Oct. 28, 1786, in China. 

SEARS [JOSEPH] HAMBLEN, author, 
was born in 1865 in Massachusetts. He is 
a writer of New York city; and the author 
of The Governments of the World To- 
Day. 

SEARS, ROBERT, publisher, was born 
June 28, 1810, in St. John, N. B. His 
books were among the first of the now 
well-known class of books sold exclu¬ 
sively by suscription. 

SEARS, SCHUYLER EARL, clergy¬ 
man, poet, was born April 7, 1868, in Sha¬ 
ron, Ohio. He graduated from the Bald¬ 
win university and the Drew Theological 
seminary, and has received the degree of 
B. A. He now fills a pastorate in the 
methodist episcopal church at Perrysville, 
Ohio; and is the author of more than a 
hundred poems, which have appeared in 
the Cle\ eland Leader, and other current 
periodicals. 

SEAT, WILLIAM J., business man, leg¬ 
islator, was born June 14, 1866, in Polk 
county, Ore. He is a successful business 
man of Vollmer, Idaho; and in 1896 was 
elected a member of the Idaho state legis¬ 
lature. 

SEATON, WILLIAM WINSTON, jour¬ 
nalist, public official, was born Jan. 11, 
1785, in King William county, Va. He 
became connected with the Register, in 
Raleigh; in 1812 went to Washington 
city and joined his brother-in-law in the 
management of the National Intelligencer, 
with which he was most honorably iden¬ 
tified until his death. He was frequently 
elected mayor; was a regent of the Smith¬ 
sonian institution; in conjunction with 
Mr. Gales, was one of the public printers 
for very many years. He died June 16, 
1866, in Washington, D. C. 

SEAVER, EBENEZER, congressman, 
was born in 1763. He was a member of 
the state legislature from 1794 to l&e2; 
was a member of the state constitutional 
convention of 1820; and a representative 
in congress from Massachusetts in 1803- 
13. He died March 1, 1844, in Roxbury, 
Mass. 

SEAWELL, MOLLY ELLIOTT, author, 
was born in 18— in Virginia. She is a 
Washington writer and newspaper corres¬ 
pondent; and the author of The Sprightly 
Romance of Marsac; Hale Weston, a 
novel; The Berkeleys and their Neigh¬ 
bors; Throckmorton; Maid Marian, and 
Other Stories; Children of Destiny; Lit¬ 
tle Jarvis; Midshipman Paulding; Paul 
Jones; Decatur and Somers; Through 
Thick and Thin; A Strange, Sad Comedy; 
and Quarterdeck and Fok’sle. 

SEAWELL, WASHINGTON, soldier, 
was born in 1802 in Virginia. He served 
in the Florida, Mexican and civil wars; 
and attained the rank of brigadier-general 
in 1865. 




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SEAY, WILLIAM A., lawyer, jurist, ed¬ 
ucator, state legislator, was born April 19, 
1831, near Burkeville, Va. He was a pro¬ 
fessor in the Louisiana State Military 
school; was an engineer officer in the 
confederate army under General Price; 
and received a majority of the votes cast 
for judge of the district court in 1872, 
but the returning board decided that he 
was not elected. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative to the Louisiana legislature in 
1881, and again in 1884. In 1884 he was 
appointed commissioner to revise the stat¬ 
ute laws of the state; and in 1885 was ap¬ 
pointed United States minister to Bolivia. 

SEBASTIAN, WILLIAM KING, lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, was born in 
1814 in Vernon, Tenn. He was appointed 
prosecuting attorney, and held the office 
until 1837. He was circuit judge from 1840 
to 1842; and in the latter year was ap¬ 
pointed a state supreme judge. He was a 
state senator, and president of the state 
senate in 1846; and was a presidential 
elector in 1848. He was a United States 
senator from Arkansas from 1847 to 1853; 
and was re-elected for the term ending in 
1859, and, in the latter year, was re¬ 
elected for a term of six years. He was 
expelled for disloyalty in 1861. He died 
May 20, 1865, in Memphis, Tenn. 

SECCOMB, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born April 25, 1708, in Medford, Mass. 
He was a congregational minister at Har¬ 
vard, Mass., in 1733-57, and after 1763 at 
Chester, Nova Scotia. He was the author 
of Father Abbey’s Will, a once extremely 
popular piece of doggerel, which was fol¬ 
lowed by The Letter to the Widow Abbey, 
He died in January, 1793, in Nova Scotia. 

SECCOMB, JOSEPH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1706 in Medford, Mass. 
He was a congregational minister at 
Kingston, N. H., from 1737, and author of 
A Plain and Brief Rehearsal of the Oper¬ 
ations of Christ as God. He died in 1760. 

SECOR, EUGENE, banker, poet, was 
born in 1841 in Peekskill, N. Y. He was 
chosen the first mayor of Forest City, 
Iowa, and re-elected three consecutive 
times. He is the author of a number of 
meritorious poems. 

SEDDON, JAMES ALEXANDER, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born July 13, 1815, 
in Falmouth, Va. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in con¬ 
gress from that state 
from 1845 to 1847, 
and again from 1849 
to 1851. He was a 
member of the con¬ 
federate government 
as a representative in 
congress in 1861, hav¬ 
ing previously been 
a delegate to the 
peace congress of 
that year. In 1862 he 
became the confeder¬ 
ate secretary of war. He died Aug. 19, 
1880, in Virginia. 

SEDGWICK. ARTHUR GEORGE, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Oct. 6, 1844, in 
New York city. He is a lawyer of New 
York city; and the author of Principles 
and Practices Governing the Trial of Ti¬ 
tle to Land; and Elements of Damages. 

SEDGWICK, C. B., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in March, 1815, in Pom- 
pey, N. Y. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from New York to the thirty-sixth 
congress; and was re-elected to the thir¬ 
ty-seventh congress. In 1863 he was ap¬ 
pointed a commissioner to look after cer¬ 
tain naval affairs. 


SEDGWICK, CATHARINE MARIA, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 28, 1789, in Stock- 
bridge, Mass. She was a once famous nov¬ 
elist whose name 
was for a time the 
foremost among 
those of American 
literary women. She 
was the author of 
Hope Leslie; Red¬ 
wood; The New Eng¬ 
land Tale; The Trav¬ 
eler; Clarence; Le 
Bossu; The Lin- 
woods; Married or 
Single (1857), include 
her novels. Other 
works for older readers are, Letters from 
Abroad; and Historical Sketches of the 
Old Painters. Her juvenile moral tales, of 
which Live and Let Live; Poor Rich Man 
and Rich Poor Man; Means and Ends; 
and Morals and Manners, are good exam¬ 
ples, are as entertaining as they were pop¬ 
ular. For a half century she was prin¬ 
cipal of a school for girls in Stockbridge, 
Mass., her native town. She died July 31, 
1867, near Roxbury, Mass. 

SEDGWICK, MRS. ELIZABETH BUCK¬ 
MINSTER [DWIGHT], author, was born 
in 1791 in Massachusetts. She was a 
teacher for many years; and the author of 
Beatitudes and Pleasant Sundays; Les¬ 
sons Without Books; A Talk with My 
Pupils; and Stories of the Spanish Con¬ 
quest. She died in 1864. 

SEDGWICK, JOHN, soldier, was born 
Sept. 13, 1813, in Cornwall, Conn. In 1837 
he graduated from the United States Mili¬ 
tary academy a t 
West Point; was ap¬ 
pointed second lieu¬ 
tenant, and was first 
engaged in the Semi¬ 
nole war. In 1846 he 
entered the Mexican 
war as first lieuten¬ 
ant of artillery; and 
for his gallantry re¬ 
ceived the brevets of 
captain and of ma¬ 
jor. In 1862 he was 
made colonel of the 
first regular cavalry; was commissioned 
brigadier-general of the United States 
volunteers; and subsequently became 
major-general. He was killed in 1864 by 
a bullet from a sharp-shooter. A monu¬ 
ment was erected to his memory in 1868 
upon the grounds of the United States Mil¬ 
itary academy at West Point. 

SEDGWICK, MRS. SUSAN LIVING¬ 
STON [RIDLEY], author, was born about 
1789. She was a writer for young people; 
and the author of Walter Thornley; The 
Morals of Pleasure; The Young Emi¬ 
grants; Allen Prescott; and Alida, or 
Town and Country. She died in 1867. 

SEDGWICK, THEODORE, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman. United States senator, 
was born in 1746, in Hartford, Conn. He 
was a zealous patriot 
in the revolutionary 
war; was a member 
of the provincial 
congress in 1785 and 
1786; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in con¬ 
gress from Massa¬ 
chusetts, after the 
adoption of the con¬ 
stitution, from 1789 
to 1796. He was a 
senator of the United 
States from 1796 to 
1798. In 1799 he was again a member of 
the house, and was chosen speaker. From 
1802 until his death he was a judge of 


the supreme court of Massachusetts. He 
died Jan. 24, 1813, in Boston, Mass. 

SEDGWICK, THEODORE, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 31, 1780, in Sheffield, 
Mass. He was a lawyer of Albany, and 
from 1819 a resident of Stockbridge, Mass., 
and the author of Public and Private 
Economy; and Hints to My Countrymen. 
He died Nov. 7, 1839, in Pittsfield, Mass. 

SEDGWICK, THEODORE, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 27, 1811, in Albany, 
N. Y. He was a lawyer of New York 
city, and the author of Rules which Gov¬ 
ern the Interpretation and Application of 
Statutory and Court Law; and Treatise on 
the Measure of Damages, a work of much 
importance. He died Dec. 9, 1859, in 
Stockbridge, Mass. 

SEDLEY, HENRY, journalist, author, 
was born April 4, 1835, in Boston, Mass. 
He engaged in journalism, was one of the 
editors of the New York Times and the 
Evening Post, and for some time was an 
editor of the Commercial Advertiser. He 
is the author of Dangerfield’s Rost, a 
Romance; and Marion Rooke, or the 
Quest for Fortune. 

SEDLEY, WILLIAM HENRY, actor, 
was born Dec. 4, 1806, in Wales. His first 
appearance in New York was at the old 
Chatham street theater in 1840, when he 
acted Edgar to the Lear of Junius Brutus 
Booth. He also appeared acceptably as 
Laertes, Gratiano, and Marc Antony. His 
last professional appearance in New York 
was made at the Winter garden in 1865. 
He died Jan. 17, 1872, in San Francisco, 
Cal. 

SEELEY, ELIAS P., governor. He was 
governor of New Jersey for a part of the 
year 1833. 

SEELEY, JOHN E., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 1, 1810, in Ovid, 
N. Y. He was elected county judge and 
surrogate in 1851, and served four years; 
and was a presidential elector in 1860 
and also in 1864. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the forty- 
second congress. 

SEELY, EDWARD HOWARD, author, 
was born in 1856, in New York. He was a 
writer of New York city, and the author of 
A Lone Star Bo-peep, and Other Tales of 
Texan Ranch Life; A Ranchman’s Stories; 
A Nymph of the West; The Jonah of 
Lucky Valley, and Other Stories; and A 
Border Leander. He died in 1894. 

SEELYE, MRS. ELIZABETH [EG¬ 
GLESTON], author, was born in 1858, in 
Minnesota. She is a writer living at Lake 
George, N: Y., and the author of The Story 
of Columbus; Montezuma; Brandt and 
Red Jacket; Pocahontas; Tecumseh (with 
E. Eggleston); and The Story of Wash¬ 
ington. 

SEELYE, JULIUS HAWTRY, clergy¬ 
man, college president, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 14, 1824, in Bethel, 
Conn. He was ordained pastor of the 
Dutch reformed church in Schenectady, 
N. Y., in 1853, and remained there until 
appointed professor at Amherst college in 
1858; and was its president during 1876- 
90. In 1874 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Massachusetts to the forty- 
fourth congress. He was the author of 
Natural Religion; The Way, the Truth, 
and the Life; Christian Missions; and 
Duty. He died in 1895. 

SEELYE. LAUREMUS CLARK, clergy¬ 
man. college president, was born Sept. 
20, 1837, in Bethel, Conn. For eight years 
this eminent clergyman was professor of 
English literature and rhetoric in Am¬ 
herst college; and since 1873 has been 
president of the Smith College for Women 
o[ Northampton, Mass. 









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SEEMULLER, MRS. ANNIE MON¬ 
CURE [CRANE], author, was born in 
1838, in Maryland. She is a novelist of 
New York city, whose somewhat striking 
fictions were popular for a brief period. 
She was the author of Emily Chester; 
Reginald Archer; and Opportunity. She 
died in 1872. 

SEERLEY, HOMER H., statesman. He 
is prominently identified with the educa¬ 
tional and public interests of Cedar Palls, 
Iowa; and has filled several positions of 
honor in his city, county and state. 

SEERLEY, JOHN J., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 13, 1852, in Toulon, 
Ill. He was city solicitor of Burlington, 
Iowa, for six years; was the candidate 
of the democratic party for congress in 
1888; and was elected to the fifty-second 
congress as a democrat. 

SEGAR, JOSEPH E., state legislator, 
congressman, was born June 1, 1804, in 
King William county, Va. In 1836 he was 
elected to the house of delegates of Vir¬ 
ginia, and continued to serve for several 
years; and was again elected to the same 
position in 1848, and continued to serve 
almost uninterruptedly until the state 
rebelled against the union. After eastern 
Virginia was restored to the federal au¬ 
thority, he was elected a representative 
from Virginia to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. He died in 1855. 

SEGUIN, EDOUARD, physician, author, 
was born Jan. 20, 1812, in Prance. He was 
a French physician who came to the 
United States in 1848 and whose specialty 
was the training of idiots. Among his 
many works on this and other profes¬ 
sional topics are, New Facts Concerning 
Idiocy; Family Thermometer; Medical 
Thermometry; and idiocy and Its Treat¬ 
ment by the Physiological Methods. He 
died Oct. 28, 1880, in New York city. 

SEGUR. SETH WILLARD, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1831, in Vermont. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Ohio, and subsequently of Massachusetts, 
and was the author of Relation and Re¬ 
sponsibilities of Pastor and People; The 
True Manhood; The Nation’s Hope; and 
National Blessings and Duties. He died 
in 1875. 

SEIDENBUSH, RUPERT, Roman cath¬ 
olic bishop, was born Oct. 30, 1830, in 
Bavaria. The northern part of Minne¬ 
sota was erected into a vicariate apostolic 
by a papal brief on Feb. 12, 1875, and he 
was appointed its vicar apostolic, under 
the title of bishop of Halia in partibus. 

SEIP, THEODORE LORENZO, college 
president, was born June 25, 1842, in 
Easton, Pa. In 1886 he was elected pres¬ 
ident of the Muhlenberg college, Pa., 
which position he still holds. 

SEISS, JOSEPH AUGUSTUS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 18, 1823, 
in Graceham, Md. He is an eminent lu- 
theran clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor 
of the Church of the Holy Communion, 
and a voluminous writer on religious 
themes. He is the author of The Gospel 
in the Stars; The Miracle in Stone, a re¬ 
statement of Piazzi Smyth’s famous the¬ 
ory of the Pyramid; Lectures on the Apo¬ 
calypse; Lectures on the Epistle to the 
Hebrews; Luther and the Reformation; 
The Lutheran Church; Recreation Songs; 
Life After Death; Right Life; The Chil¬ 
dren of Silence, the Story of the Deaf; 
Christ’s Descent into Hell; The Last 
Times; and Voices from Babylon. 

SELDEN, DUDLEY, lawyer, congress¬ 
man. He was a prominent member of the 
New York bar; and was a representative 
in congress from New York from 1833 to 
1835. He died Nov. 7, 1855, in Paris, 
France. 


SELDEN, HENRY ROGERS, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Oct. 14, 1805, in 
Lyme, Conn. In 1862 he was appointed a 
judge of the court of appeals to fill the 
vacancy caused by the resignation of his 
brother, and he was afterward elected for 
a full term, but resigned in 1864. He pub¬ 
lished Reports, New York Court of Ap¬ 
peals, 1851-54, in six volumes. He died 
Sept. 18, 1885, in Rochester, N. Y. 

SELDEN, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist. He 
was an early emigrant to Arkansas; and 
in 1820 was appointed judge of the United 
States court for the territory of Arkansas. 

SELDEN, SAMUEL LEE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 12, 1800, in Lyme, Conn. 
He began to practice law in Rochester, 
N. Y., in 1825, was chancery clerk and 
first judge of common pleas in Monroe 
county for many years, and in 1847 was 
elected justice of the supreme court. In 
1856 he was elected judge of the court of 
appeals, which place he resigned in 1862. 
He died Sept. 20, 1876, in Rochester, N. Y. 

SELFRIDGE, THOMAS OLIVER, naval 
officer, was born April 24, 1804, in Boston, 
Mass. He became a rear admiral on the 
retired list in 1870. 

SELFRIDGE, THOMAS OLIVER, naval 
officer, was born Feb. 6, 1837, in Charles¬ 
town, Mass. In 1870 he was the com¬ 
mander of the Darien exploring expedi¬ 
tion. 

SELIGMAN, EDWIN ROBERT AN¬ 
DERSON, educator, author, was born in 
1861, in New York. He is a professor of 
political economy and finance in Colum¬ 
bia college, and the author of Chapters on 
Medisecal Guilds in England; Owen and 
the Christian Socialists; Railway Tariffs; 
Shifting and Incidence of Taxation; Pro¬ 
gressive Taxation in Theory and Practice; 
and Essays on Taxation. 

SELKIRK, EDWARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 13, 1809, in Waterbury, 
Conn. He was ordained deacon in the 
Protestant episcopal church, and became 
priest in 1844. He was then rector of 
Trinity church, Albany, N. Y., in which 
he continued until 1884, when he became 
rector emeritus. He has published An 
Address on the Laying of the Corner- 
Stone of Trinity Church; and History of 
Trinity Church. 

SELLERS, COLEMAN, civil engineer, 
was born Jan. 28, 1827, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. In 1889 he was called upon to advise 
as to the development of the water power 
of Niagara Falls, and chiefly upon his 
advice was that work undertaken; and he 
is now president and chief engineer of the 
Niagara Falls Power Co. He has occu¬ 
pied the position of president of the 
Franklin institute, Pa.; and of the Penn¬ 
sylvania Museum and School of Indus¬ 
trial Art. 

SELLERS, JAMES F., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Jan. 12, 1849, in Decatur 
county, Tenn. He has served as a mem¬ 
ber of the Arkansas state legislature for 
five terms; and is well known as an able 
lawyer of Perryville, Ark. 

SELLERS, L. M., journalist, legislator, 
was born July 2, 1848, in Franklin county, 
Pa. This successful journalist of Cedar 
Springs, Mich., has served as a member 
of the Michigan state legislature; and was 
a delegate to the republican national con¬ 
vention in 1892. 

SELLSTEDT, LARS GUSTAF, artist, 
was born April 30, 1819, in Sweden. He 
has devoted himself chiefly to portraiture, 
his works in that line including Solomon 
G. Haven; George W. Clinton; and Mil¬ 
lard Fillmore. 


SELPH, E. E., lawyer, public official, 
was born Dec. 3, 1860, in Salem, Ore. He 
is one of the leading lawyers of Tilli- 
moolc, Ore.; has been mayor of that city; 
city attorney; deputy district attorney; 
and is now a member of the board of 
trustees of McMinnville college, in which 
institution he received his education. 

SELVAGE, THOMAS HENRY, lawyer, 
orator, was born April 22, 1857, in Orient, 
Maine. In 1888 he was admitted to the 
bar; and is now a prominent lawyer of 
Eureka, Cal. He has been district attor¬ 
ney of Humboldt county; secretary of the 
Humboldt chamber of commerce; and 
took an active part as a platform speaker 
during the presidential election of 1896 
for McKinley and Hobart. He is an as¬ 
tute lawyer, and a prominent member in 
various fraternal orders. 

SELYE, LEWIS, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 11, 1808, in Chit- 
tenango, N. Y. He became extensively en¬ 
gaged in the manufacturing business in 
Rochester, N. Y. He was for seven years 
the treasurer of the county; and in 1866 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the fortieth congress. 

SEMLING, C. KNUTE, educator, jour¬ 
nalist, was born June 8, 1865, in Norway. 
He has been principally engaged in edu¬ 
cational work; was professor in Druflat 
college of Portland, N. D.; was editor of 
the Northwest Standard at Grafton, N. D.; 
has been justice of the peace of Halsted; 
and during 1892-94 was proprietor of the 
Halsted Reporter. He now resides in 
Gary, Minn., engaged in journalistic work. 

SEMMES, ALEXANDER JENKINS, 
clergyman, surgeon, author, was born Dec. 
17, 1828, in Georgetown, D. C. He was a 
surgeon in the confederate navy who be¬ 
came a Roman catholic clergyman, presi¬ 
dent of Pio Nono college, Macon, Ga., 
from 1886. He is the author of Medical 
Sketches of Paris; Gunshot Wounds; and 
Notes from a Surgical Diary. 

SEMMES, BENEDICT J., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 
1, 1789, in Charles county, Md. In 1821 he 
was elected to the Maryland state legisla¬ 
ture; was again elected in 1825, 1827 and 
1828, and during one season was chosen 
speaker of the house of delegates. In 1829 
-he was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maryland; and was re-elected 
in 1831. He again served in the state leg¬ 
islature in 1842 and 1843. 

SEMMES, RAPHAEL, naval officer, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 27, 1809, in Charles 
county, Md. He was a celebrated naval 
officer in the confed¬ 
erate service during 
the civil war as com¬ 
mander of the Ala¬ 
bama. He was the 
author of Service 
Afloat and Ashore 
During the Mexican 
War; Campaign of 
General Scott in the 
Valley of Mexico; 
The Cruise of the 
Alabama; and Me¬ 
moirs of Service 
Afloat During the War Between the 
States. He died Aug. 30, 1877, in Mobile, 
Ala. 

SEMMES, THOMAS JENKINS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Dec. 16, 1824, in George¬ 
town, D. C. He is a noted lawyer of New 
Orleans, La.; and represented his state 
in the confederate senate. During 1873-79 
he filled the chair of civil law in the uni¬ 
versity of Indiana. In 1887 he was pres¬ 
ident of the American Bar association. 




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SEMPLE, EUGENE, lawyer, governor, 
was born June 12, 1840, in Bogota, New 
Granada, South America. He graduated 
from the law school of the Cincinnati 
university in 1863; was a practicing law¬ 
yer in Portland, Ore., in 1864; editor of 
the Daily Oregon Herald in 1869; and 
state printer of Oregon in 1872. He was 
governor of Washington territory in 1888, 
candidate of the democratic party for gov¬ 
ernor of Washington in 1889; and harbor 
line commissioner of the state in 1891. 
In 1897 he became president of the Seat¬ 
tle and Lake Washington Waterway Co. 

SEMPLE, JAMES, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1798, 
in Greene county, Ky. He was colonel 
of an Illinois regiment in the Black Hawk 
war; brigadier-general of the militia; 
speaker of the house of representatives; 
attorney general; chief justice of the su¬ 
preme court and senator in congress from 
Illinois; and minister to New Grenada 
from the United States. He took a prom¬ 
inent part in the agitation for settling 
and holding the Oregon country, making 
speeches in that behalf in the Mississippi 
valley in 1842, and introducing, Jan. 8, 
1844, in the United States senate, a reso¬ 
lution directing the president of the 
United States to give notice to his Britan¬ 
nic majesty of the desire of this country 
to abrogate the treaty by which the two 
countries jointly occupied the Pacific coast 
of America, from the Mexican province of 
California to the Russian province of 
Alaska. He died Dec. 20, 1866, in Elsah 
Landing, Ill. 

SEMPLE, ROBERT, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Nov. 12, 1851, in Wilkinson county, 
Miss. In 1869 he graduated from the Vir¬ 
ginia Military insti¬ 
tute of Lexington, 
and received the de¬ 
gree of bachelor of 
law from Washing¬ 
ton college in 1870. 
The following year 
he was admitted to 
the bar; moved to 
Louisiana, and began 
practice at New 
Rhodes, which has 
since been his home. 
He has been district 
attorney and district judge; and has filled 
various other public offices of trust and 
honor. He has contributed extensively 
both prose and verse to the periodical 
press; and while at college was assistant 
professor of languages at the Virginia 
Military institute during 1869-70. 

SEMPLE, ROBERT BAYLOR, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 20, 1769, in 
Virginia. He was a noted baptist clergy¬ 
man of Virginia; and the author of A 
History of the Virginia Baptists; and 
other works. He died Dec. 25, 1831, in 
Fredericksburg, Va. 

SENEFF, MICHAEL BURNS LOOR, 
educator, clergyman, college president, 
was born Jan. 27, 1862, in Fayette county, 
Pa. Since 1895 this eminent clergyman 
has been president of Westfield college. 
Ill. 

SENER, JAMES BEVERLY, journalist, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
May 18, 1837, in Fredericksburg, Va. He 
was sergeant of the city of Fredericksburg 
in 1863; was army correspondent of the 
southern associated press with General 
Lee’s army during the civil war; and from 
1865 was editor of the Fredericksburg 
Ledger. He was elected a representative 
from Virginia to the forty-third congress. 
He was appointed chief justice of the su¬ 
preme court of the territory of Wyoming 
in 1879. 


SENEY, GEORGE EBBERT, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, author, was born May 
29, 1832, in Uniontown, Pa. In 1857 he 
was elected judge of 
the common pleas 
court, and served 
five years. He served 
as a commissioned 
officer in the union 
army during the 
civil war. He was a 
delegate to the dem¬ 
ocratic national con¬ 
vention of 1876. He 
was elected a repre- 
sentative from Ohio 
to the forty-eighth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses. 
In 1887 he was chairman of the democratic 
state convention of Ohio. He was the 
author of Seney’s Code of Procedure. 

SENEY, GEORGE INGRAHAM, philan¬ 
thropist, banker, was born May 12, 1826, 
in Astoria, L. I. He rose from the post 
of paying teller in the Metropolitan bank. 
New York city, to the presidency of that 
institution, holding the latter office in 
1877-84. He founded the Seney scholar¬ 
ships and largely endowed Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity, and has contributed to miscel¬ 
laneous charities more than $400,000. 

SENEY, JOSHUA, congressman, was 
born in 1750, on eastern shore of Mary¬ 
land. He was a delegate to the conti¬ 
nental congress in 1787 and 1788; and was 
a representative in congress from Mary¬ 
land from 1789 to 1792. He was presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1792. He died in 1799, in 
Maryland. 

SENN, NICHOLAS, physician, author, 
was born Oct. 31, 1844, in Switzerland. 
In 1890 he was appointed surgeon-general 
of Wisconsin; and now holds the same 
position in Illinois. He is the author of 
The Surgical Bacteriology; Intestinal Sur¬ 
gery; Principles of Surgery; and Syllabus 
of Surgery. 

SENTER, DEWITT C., governor. He 
was governor of Tennessee in 1869-71. 

SENTER, ISAAC, physician, surgeon, 
author, was born in 1755, in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He was a surgeon in the revolu¬ 
tionary army, and accompanied Benedict 
Arnold’s expedition to Quebec, an .inter¬ 
esting account of which he published in 
the Bulletin of the Historical Society of 
Pennsylvania. He died Dec. 20, 1799, in 
Newport, R. I. 

SENTER, WILLIAM T., congressman, 
was bcrn in 1802, in Granger county, 
Tenn. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Tennessee from 1843 to 1845. 
He died Aug. 28, 1849. 

SERFASS. TILGHMAN H„ educator, 
was born Aug. 17, 1855, in Gilbert, Pa. 
He attended Weaversville academy, Ship- 
pensburg State Normal school, and the 
Muhlenburg college. For eight years he 
taught in the public schools of his native 
city, and for four years was vice-prin¬ 
cipal of Fain iew academy. Then for 
seven years he was principal of Fairview 
academy; was elected superintendent of 
schools in 1893, and received the re-elec¬ 
tion in 1896. 

SERGEANT, JOHN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 5, 1779, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was elected from Pennsyl¬ 
vania a representative to congress, and 
served from 1815 to 1823, from 1827 to 
1829, and from 1837 to 1842. He was es¬ 
pecially famous for his part in the great 
Missouri compromise in 1820. In 1832 he 
was the whig candidate for vice-president, 
being upon the same ticket with Henry 
Clay. He died Nov. 25, 1852, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 


SERGEANT, JONATHAN DICKINSON, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1746, in 
Newark, N. J. He was a member of the 
continental congress in 1776 and 1777; 
and took his seat a few days after the 
declaration of independence. In 1777 he 
became attorney-general of Pennsylvania. 
He died Oct. 8, 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SERGEANT, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Jan. 14, 1782, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a Philadelphia jurist, and 
the author of Treatise on the Law of 
Pennsylvania Relating to Proceedings by 
Foreign Attachment; Constitutional Law; 
View of the Land Laws of Pennsylvania; 
and Sketch of the National Judiciary Pow¬ 
ers. He died May 8, 1860, in Philadelphia. 

SERVICE, FRANCIS G., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in New Jersey. He removed to 
Ohio, from which state he was appointed 
an associate justice for the territory of 
Montana, residing at Virginia City. 

SESSION, WALTER L., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in Bran¬ 
don, Vt. He was commissioner of schools 
for several years; was a member of the 
New York assembly in 1853 and 1854; and 
was a member of the state senate in 1859 
and 1865. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from New York to the forty-second 
and forty-third congresses; and in 1884 
was elected a representative to the forty- 
ninth congress as a republican. 

SESSUMS, DAVIS, bishop of Louisiana, 
was born July 7, 1858, in Houston, Texas. 
He is an eloquent orator, and a metaphy¬ 
sician of some note. He has published 
\ arious metaphysical theses, together with 
some episcopal addresses, lectures and ser¬ 
mons. 

SETH, JAMES, educator, author, was 
bcrn in 1860, in Scotland. He is a profes¬ 
sor of moral philosophy in Cornell univer¬ 
sity from 1896, and the author of A Study 
of Ethical Principles. 

SETON, MRS. ELIZABETH ANN 
[BAYLEY], author, was born Aug. 28, 
1774, in New York city. She was the 
founder and first superior of the order of 
Sisters of Charity in the United States. 
After the death of her husband she be¬ 
came a Roman catholic, took the veil as 
a sister of charity in 1809, and in 1812 
founded at Emmettsburg, Md., the first 
American house of the order. She was the 
author of a volume entitled Memoirs of 
Mrs. Seton, written by Herself: A 
Fragment of Real History, which was 
published in 1817. She died Jan. 4, lo21, 
in Emmettsburg, Md. 

SETON, ROBERT, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 28, 1839, in Italy. He is 
a Roman catholic clergyman of Jersey 
City, dean of the monsignori in the 
United States, and the author of Memoirs, 
Letters and Journal of E. Seton; and Es¬ 
says on Various Subjects, principally 
Roman. 

SETON, WILLIAM, naval officer, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Jan. 28, 1835, in 
New York city. He is a naval officer of 
the United States, and the author of Ro¬ 
mance of the Charter Oak; The Pride of 
Lexington; Rachel’s Fate, and Other 
Tales; The Poor Millionaire; The Sham¬ 
rock Gone West; Moida, a Tale of the 
Tyrol; and The Pioneer, a poem. 

SETTLE, EVAN E„ lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Dec. 1, 1848, 
in Frankfort, Ky. He was elected county 
attorney from Owenton, Ky., in 1878, re¬ 
elected in 1882, and again in 1886. He re¬ 
signed in 1887, and was twice elected to 
the Kentucky legislature, and served in 
that body in sessions of 1887-88 and 1889- 
90. He was elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 










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SETTLE, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1791, 
in Rockingham county, N. C. He was a 
representative in the legislature of that 
state in 1815, and in 1826-28; at which last 
session he was speaker of the house of 
commons. He was a representative in 
congress from 1817 to 1821; in 1832 was 
chosen judge of the superior court of law 
and equity, and held the office for twenty 
years. He died Aug. 5, 1857, in Rocking¬ 
ham county, N. C. 

SETTLE, THOMAS, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Jan. 23, 1831, in Rockingham county, 
N. C. In 1854 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive in the North Carolina legislature; 
and was re-elected in 1856 and 1858, serv¬ 
ing as speaker of the house during his last 
term. In 1859 and 1862 he was elected so¬ 
licitor of the fourth circuit, holding the 
office until 1865. In the latter year was 
elected a member of the state constitu¬ 
tional convention, and in the fall of the 
same year was elected a state senator. 
In 1868 he was elected a judge of the su¬ 
preme court of North Carolina; and in 
1872 was appointed a judge of the supreme 
court of North Carolina, to fill a vacancy. 
In 1877 he was appointed United States 
district judge for the northern district of 
Florida. 

SETTLE, THOMAS, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 10, 1865, in Rocking¬ 
ham county, N. C. He was nominated 
by the republican party a candidate for 
congress in 1892, and elected; was re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress from 
Reidsville, N. C. 

SEVER, ANNE ELIZABETH PAR¬ 
SONS, benefactor, was born May 29, 1810, 
in Boston, Mass. She bequeathed $100,000 
to Harvard to build a hall for undergrad¬ 
uates, which should be called by her 
name, and $20,000 for the purchase of 
books for its library. She also willed $10,- 
000 to the Boston children’s hospital, and 
$5,000 each to five benevolent institutions 
in that city, $5,000 to the New England 
historic-genealogical society, and an equal 
sum to the General Theological library, 
to the Boston training school for nurses, 
and the Connecticut retreat for the insane. 
She died Dec. 15, 1879, in Boston, Mass. 

SEVERANCE, LUTHER, journalist, 
state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 
28, 1797, in Montague, Mass. He was the 
founder of the Kennebec Journal, and ed¬ 
itor from 1825 to 1849. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Maine from 
1843 to 1847; and was frequently a mem¬ 
ber of the Maine legislature, serving five 
years in the assembly and two years in 
the senate. He died Jan. 25, 1855, in Au¬ 
gusta, Maine. 

SEVERANCE, MARK SIBLEY, author, 
was born in 1846, in Massachusetts. He 
is the author of Hammersmith: his Har¬ 
vard Days, a novel. 

SEVERY, MELVIN LINWOOD, dram¬ 
atist, poet, was born Aug. 5, 1863, in Mel¬ 
rose, Mass. He is the author of a dozen 
plays and a volume entitled Fleur-de-Lis. 
He is also a lecturer and instructor of 
oratory in Boston, Mass. 

SEVIER, AMBROSE HUNDLEY, law¬ 
yer, congressman, United States senator, 
was born Nov. 4, 1801, in Green county. 
Tenn. He was elected a member of the 
Arkansas state legislature; first in 1823 
and again in 1825. From 1827 to 1836 he 
was a delegate to congress from Arkan¬ 
sas; when the territory became a state, 
in 1836, he was elected a senator to 
congress. He died Dec. 21, 1848, in Little 
Rock, Ark. 

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SEVIER, JOHN, soldier, congressman, 
governor, was born in 1744, in Tennessee. 
He was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina in 1790 and 1791; from 
1796 to 1801, and 1803 to 1809 was gov¬ 
ernor of Tennessee; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Tennessee from 1811 
to 1815. He was then appointed one of 
the commissioners to ascertain the boun¬ 
dary line of the Creek territory. He died 
Sept. 24, 1815, in Fort Decatur, I. T. 

SEVIER, JOHN, pioneer, was born Sept. 
23, 1745, in Rockingham county, Va. He 
was a pioneer in North Carolina; and 
served several terms in the legislature of 
that state from Wapauga. He was also 
a district judge, and filled various other 
positions of honor. 

SEWALL, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Oct. 7, 1735, in York, Maine. He was 
representative for York in 1776; was 
chosen a member of the council of Mas¬ 
sachusetts; and was appointed in 1777 
a justice of the superior court. From 1789 
till 1818 he was United States judge for 
the district of Maine. He died Oct. 22, 
1825, in York, Maine. 

SEWALL, FRANK, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1837, in Maine. He is a 
Swedenborgian clergyman of Washington, 
and the author of Moody Mike, or the 
Power of Love; The Hem of His Gar¬ 
ment; The Pillow of Stones; The New 
Ethics; The New Metaphysics; and An¬ 
gelo and Ariel. 

SEWALL, MRS. HARRIET [WINS¬ 
LOW], poet, was born in 1819, in Maine. 
She was a religious poet of Boston, some 
of whose lyrics are found in the antho¬ 
logies. A collection of her Poems, with 
Memoir by Mrs. E. Cheney, appeared in 
1889. She died in 1889. 

SEWALL, JOHN SMITH, clergyman, 
educator, was born March 20, 1830, in 
Newcastle, Maine. He was pastor of the 
congregational church at Wenham, Mass., 
till 1867, when he became professor of 
rhetoric and English literature at Bow- 
doin. He exchanged this chair in 1875 for 
that of homiletics at Bangor Theological 
seminary. 

SEWALL, JOSEPH ADDISON, college 
president, was born in 1830, in Maine. 
In 1877 he was elected the first president 
of the university of Colorado, serving un¬ 
til 1888. 

SEWALL, JOTHAM, clergyman, was 
born Jan. 1, 1760, in York, Maine. His 
ministry extended over a period of fifty 
years, and in this time he preached four 
and a half times on an average every 
week. His field was confined chiefly to 
Maine and parts of New Hampshire and 
Rhode Island. He died Oct. 3, 1850, in 
Chesterville, Maine. 

SEWALL, MAY WRIGHT, educator, 
lecturer, writer, was born May 27, 1844, 
in Greenfield, Wis. She received the rudi¬ 
ments of her educa¬ 
tion in the district 
schools; attended the 
Tafton academy and 
Northwestern uni¬ 
versity. She has 
been president of the 
National Council of 
Women of the 
United States; presi¬ 
dent of the Propy- 
lseum association of 
Indianapolis; and 
president of the 
Ramabai Circle of Indianapolis. She has 
contributed to the press on historical, lit¬ 
erary and ieform subjects; a large number 
of pamphlets and monographs on educa¬ 
tional and reform topics; and her public 


addresses have been very numerous. She 
is now engaged in educational work in 
Indianapolis, Ind., and has charge of the 
Girls’ Classical school of that city, of 
which her husband was the founder. 

SEWALL, RUFUS KING, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 21, 1814, in Edgecomb, 
Maine. He is a lawyer of Wiscasset, 
Maine, and the author of Lectures on the 
Holy Spirit; Sketches of St. Augustine; 
and Ancient Dominions of Maine. 

SEWALL, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 28, 1652, in England. 
He was a noted jurist of Boston, best re¬ 
membered for his connection with the 
Salem witchcraft trials. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Selling of Joseph; Answer to 
Queries Respecting America; Accomplish¬ 
ment of Prophecies; Memorial Relating to 
the Kennebec Indians; and Description of 
the New Heaven. He died Jan. 1, 1730, in 
Boston, Mass. 

SEWALL, SAMUEL, civil engineer, in¬ 
ventor, was born in 1724, in York, Maine. 
He is said to have been the first to drive 
piles as a foundation for bridges, intro¬ 
ducing this device at York in 1761. In 
1786 he erected the Charlestown bridge 
on this plan. He died July 28, 1815, in 
York, Maine. 

SEWALL, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born June 1, 1785, in Marblehead’ 
Mass. He was pastor of the congrega¬ 
tional church at Burlington, Mass., from 
1814 till his death. He was fond of anti¬ 
quarian studies, and left a History of 
Woburn, Mass., from the Grant of Its 
Territory to Charlestown in 1640 to 1860. 
He died Feb. 18, 1868, in Burlington, Mass. 

SEWALL, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 11, 1757, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. In 1796 he was elected from 
Massachusetts a representative in con¬ 
gress, serving until x800. In 1800 he was 
placed upon the bench of the supreme 
court of Massachusetts, and in 1813 was 
appointed chief justice of that court. He 
died June 8, 1814, in Wiscasset, Maine. 

SEWALL, STEPHEN, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Dec. 18, 1704, in Salem, Mass. 
He was appointed a judge of the supreme 
court of Massachusetts. In 1752 he was 
made chief justice, and he served in that 
capacity, and also as a member of the 
council, till the close of his life. He died 
Sept. 10, 1760. 

SEWALL, STEPHEN, scholar, educator, 
author, was born April 4, 1734, in York, 
Maine. He was a Hebrew scholar, pro¬ 
fessor of Hebrew at Harvard college in 
1765-85, among whose writings are, He¬ 
brew Grammar; Scripture Account of the 
Shechinah; and Carmina Sacra quae La- 
tine Graeceque condidit America. He died 
July 23, 1804, in Boston, Mass. 

SEWALL, THEODORE LORETT, edu¬ 
cator, was born Sept. 20, 1853, in German¬ 
town, Ohio. He received his education in 
the classical and commercial academy of 
Wilmington, Del.; and graduated from 
Harvard in 1874, with the degree of A. B.; 
and from the Harvard Law school two 
years later. The same year he opened the 
Boys’ Classical school at Indianapolis; 
and in 1882 founded the Girls’ Classical 
school in the same city, of which his wife, 
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, is principal. 
For ten years he was secretary of the In¬ 
dianapolis Literary club, and was one year 
its president. For five years he was sec¬ 
retary of the Contemporary club; founder 
and secretary of the Indiana Harvard 
club; and is interested in various reforms, 
civil service reform, higher education, 
and in the political enfranchisement of 
women. 







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SEWARD, CLARENCE ARMSTRONG, 
lawyer, was born Oct. 7, 1828, in New 
York city. He was judge-advocate-gen¬ 
eral of the state of New York in 1856-60. 
After the attempted assassination of Sec¬ 
retary Seward and his son, Frederick W., 
he was appointed acting assistant secre¬ 
tary of state. 

SEWARD, FREDERICK A., lawyer, 
state legislator, was born in New York. 
He was for several years an assistant sec¬ 
retary of the state department; in 1866 
was commissioned to negotiate for the 
cession of Samana Bay; and was subse¬ 
quently elected to the legislature of New 
York. 

SEWARD, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
journalist, lawyer, author, was born July 
8, 1830, in Auburn, N. Y. He was as¬ 
sociate editor of the Albany Evening Jour¬ 
nal till 1861, when he was appointed as¬ 
sistant secretary of state, which office he 
held for the eight years that his father 
was secretary. He was a member of the 
New York legislature in 1875. He was 
assistant secretary of state again in 1877- 
81. His principal publication is the Life 
and Letters of his father. 

SEWARD, GEORGE FREDERICK, dip¬ 
lomat, author, was born Nov. 8, 1840, in 
Florida, N. Y. He was a nephew of W. H 
Seward, and minister to China in 1876-80 
He was the author of Chinese Immigra¬ 
tion in Its Social and Economical As¬ 
pects. 

SEWARD, JAMES L., lawyer, congress¬ 
man. In 1836 he was elected to the 
Georgia state legislature, serving several 
years. He entered congress in 1853, as a 
representative from Georgia, and contin¬ 
ued there to the close of the thirty-fifth 
congress. 

SEWARD, THEODORE FRELING- 
HUYSEN, editor, author, was born Jan. 
25, 1897, in Florida, N. Y. He received his 
education in the Seward institute of his 
native city; at the Normal Musical insti¬ 
tute of New York city; and in London, 
England. He was for many years the 
editor of the New York Musical Gazette, 
and the Musical Reform; and for many 
years was professor of Music Teacher’s 
college of New York city. He is the au¬ 
thor of The School of Life; Heaven Every 
Day; and of many music books for church 
and social use. He was the founder of 
the Brotherhood of Christian Unity, of 
East Orange, N. J.; and is still its man¬ 
ager. 

SEWARD, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
state senator, author, was born May 16, 
1801, in Florida, N. Y. In 1830 he was 
elected to the state 
senate for four years. 
In 1834 he was an 
unsuccessful candi¬ 
date for governor of 
the state; in 1838 
was renominated 
and was elected for 
two years; and was 
re-elected for two 
years. In 1849 he 
was chosen a senator 
in congress from 
New York for six 
years; and was re-elected in 1855, and 
held the position until he became secre¬ 
tary of state, under President Lincoln, in 
1861. In 1849 published the Life and Pub¬ 
lic Services of John Quincy Adams; and 
his own life and collected speeches were 
published in four volumes, between 1853 
and 1862. He was also the author of 
Orations and Speeches; Diplomatic 
History of the Civil War; and Travels 
Around the World. He died Oct. 10, 1872, 
in Auburn, N. Y. 


SEWELL, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, was born Oct. 7, 1735, in York, 
Maine. He was a member of the Maine 
legislature; was chosen councilor; and in 
1777 was appointed a justice of the su¬ 
perior court. From 1789 to 1818 he was 
judge of the United States district court 
of Maine. He died Oct. 22, 1825, in York, 
Maine. 

SEWELL, JAMES, congressman. He 
was a representative from Maryland in 
the third session of the twenty-seventh 
congress to fill a vacancy. 

SEWELL, WILLIAM JOYCE, soldier, 
United States senator, was born Dec. 6, 
1835. in Ireland. He served in the mer¬ 
chant marine for a 
few years; then went 
to Chicago, Ill., and 
engaged in business. 
He entered the union 
army in 1861 as a 
captain, and was 
mustered out of ser¬ 
vice at the close of 
the war as a brevet 
major - general. He 
served in the state 
senate of New Jer¬ 
sey nine years, three 
years as president of the senate. He was 
a delegate to all the republican national 
conventions from 1876 to 1896; and was 
elected a senator of the United States 
from New Jersey for the term of six 
years from March 4, 1881; and was re¬ 
elected in 1895 for term expiring in 1901. 

SEXTON, HENRY D., financier, was 

born Nov. 18, 1854, in East St. Louis, Ill. 

He has been a successful real estate deal¬ 
er, financier, and insurance broker of East 
St. Louis, Ill. He is now vice-president 
of the Workingmen’s Banking company; 
president of the Second Mutual Loan as¬ 
sociation; president of the State Savings 
and Loan association; vice-president of 
the East St. Louis Electric Street Rail¬ 
road company; secretary and treasurer of 
the Citizens’ Electric Light and Power 
company; and president of the Main 
Street Safe Deposit company. He is also 
prominent in various other business enter¬ 
prises, and takes an active part in public 
affairs. 

SEXTON, JAMES A., soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, was born Jan. 5, 1844, in Chicago, 
Ill. In 1861 he enlisted as a private sol¬ 
dier; was commis¬ 
sioned a first lieu¬ 
tenant; and partici¬ 
pated in nearly all 
the campaigns of the 
army of the Tennes¬ 
see. After the war 
he remained two 
years in Alabama; 
and in 1867 returned 
t o Chicago and 
founded the firm of 
J. A and T. S. Sex¬ 
ton, which after the 
Chicago fire was succeeded by Cribben, 
Sexton and Company. This firm is still 
in the business as manufacturers of stoves, 
hollow-ware, and plumbers’ supplies, and 
has become widely known throughout the 
United States. During 1889-93 he was 
postmaster of Chicago. He has been a 
presidential elector; a colonel in the Illi¬ 
nois national guard; and has held various 
other positions of honor in his nativ e 
state. In 1898 he became grand ce 
mander of the Grand Army of the Re¬ 
public. , 

SEXTON, LEONIDAS, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 19, 1827, in Rush- 
ville, Ind. He was a representative in the 
Indiana state legislature in 18,56; lieuten¬ 


ant-governor from 1873 to 1877; .and was 
elected a representative from Indiana to 
the forty-fifth congress as a republican. 

SEXTON, PLINY T., lawyer, banker, 
was born June 12, 1840, in Palmyra, N. Y. 
He is president of the First National bank 
of Palmyra, of which city he was presi¬ 
dent for four years. He has been presi¬ 
dent of the board of education for six 
years; and in 1890 was elected regent of 
the university of the state of New York, 
which is a life position. 

SEYBERT, ADAM, chemist, congress¬ 
man, author, was born May 16, 1773, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia 
chemist; and a member of congress from 
1809 to 1815, and again from 1817 to 1819. 
He was the author of The Statistical An¬ 
nals of the United States, 1789-1818. It was 
in a notice of this book for The Edin¬ 
burgh Review that Sydney Smith made 
the famous query, Who reads an Ameri¬ 
can book? He died May 2, 1825, in Paris, 
France. 

SEYFFARTH, GUSTAVUS, scientist, 
educator, author, was born July 13, 1796, 
in Saxony. He was a German scientist 
who was professor of oriental archaeology 
at Leipzig university in 1825-55, and, com¬ 
ing to America in the latter year, was 
professor at Concordia seminary in St. 
Louis in 1855-71. The remainder of his 
life was passed in New York city. Among 
his voluminous writings are, Rudimenta 
Hieroglyphica; Grammatica HSgyptiaca; 
and Egyptian Theology according to a 
Paris Mummy Coffin. He died Nov. 17. 
1885, in New York city. 

SEYMOUR, AUGUSTUS SHERRILL, 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born 
Nov. 30, 1836, in Ithaca, N. Y. He moved 
to Newberne, N. C., and was appointed 
criminal judge of that city in 1868. He 
was a representative in the state legisla¬ 
ture from 1868 to 1870; was a member of 
the state constitutional convention of 
1871; and state senator from 1872 to 1874. 
He was judge of the state superior court 
from 1874 to 1882; and in 1882 became 
United States district judge. 

SEYMOUR, CHARLES B„ journalist, 
author, was born in 1829 in England. In 
1849 he became connected with the New 
York Times, serving as musical and dra¬ 
matic editor until his death. He was cor¬ 
respondent for the Times at the Paris 
exposition of 1867, where his services as 
one of the American commission procured 
him a medal from the emperor. He was 
the author of Self-Made Men. He died 
May 2, 1869, in New York city. 

SEYMOUR. CHARLES W., lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born June 4, 1838, in Hart¬ 
ford, Ohio. In 1860 he graduated from 
the Ohio Wesleyan 
,.f ■■ university, and re- 

ceived the degrees of 
^'tHHi A. B. and A. M. Dur- 
ing 1X62-64 he served 
with distinction as a 
member of the Ne¬ 
braska legislature. 
During the civil war 
he served in the 
union army. For 
twenty-five years he 
has been master in 
chancery, and United 
States commissioner for the same number 
of years. He is one of the leading law-- 
yers of the west in Nebraska City; has 
been city attorney for eight years; chair¬ 
man of the republican state central com¬ 
mittee; a thirty-second degree member of 
the Knight Templars; and has filled va¬ 
rious high offices in masonry and other 
fraternal orders. 









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SEYMOUR, DAVID L., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1802 in Connec¬ 
ticut. In 1836 he was a member of the 
New York state legislature; and was a 
master in chancery. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from New York from 
1843 to 1845, and from 1851 to 1853. He 
died Oct. 11, 1867, in Lanesborough, Mass. 

SEYMOUR, EDWARD WOODRUFF, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born Aug. 30, 1832, in Litchfield, Conn 
He was a representative in the Connecti¬ 
cut state legislature in 1859, 1860, 1870, 
and 1871. In 1875 he moved to Bridge¬ 
port; and in 1876 was a state senator. 
He was elected a representative from 
Connecticut to the forty-eighth congress; 
and was re-elected to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

SEYMOUR, GEORGE FRANKLIN, 
clergyman, bishop, author, was born Jan. 
5, 1829, in New York city. He was the 
founder of St. Stephen’s college of An- 
nandale, N. Y. For many years he was 
dean and professor of ecclesiastical his¬ 
tory in the General Theological seminary, 
New York; he is the bishop of Spring- 
field, Ill., to which high office he has been 
elected three times. He is the author of 
Modern Romanism Not Catholicity. 

SEYMOUR, HENRY, merchant, state 
senator, was born May 30, 1780, in Litch¬ 
field, Conn. He served in both branches 
of the New York legislature, and was 
mayor of Utica, canal commissioner, and 
president of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust 
company. He died Aug. 26, 1837, in Utica, 
N. Y. 

SEYMOUR, HENRY WILLIAM, manu¬ 
facturer, lawyer, state senator, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1834 in Brockport, N. Y. 
In 1880 he was elected to the Michigan 
state house of representatives from the 
Cheboygan district; was elected state sen¬ 
ator in 1882 from the thirtieth district; 
and in 1886 was re-elected from the same 
district. He was elected to the fiftieth 
congress as a republican. 

SEYMOUR, HORATIO, lawyer, state 
senator, was born May 31, 1778, in Litch¬ 
field, Conn. He was a judge of probate 
and a member of the council of Vermont. 
He was a senator in congress from Ver¬ 
mont from 1821 to 1833. 

SEYMOUR, HORATIO, lawyer, state 
legislator, governor, was born May 31, 
1810, in Pompey Hill, N. Y. He was a 
member of the New 
York state assembly 
in 1841; was mayor 
of Utica in 1842, and 
was speaker of the 
lower house of the 
legislature in 1845. 
He was governor 
of New York from 
1853 to 1855, and 
from 1863 to 1865. 
In 1868 he was nom¬ 
inated for the presi¬ 
dency of the United 
States, but received only eighty electoral 
votes, and was defeated by General Grant. 
He died Feb. 12, 1886, in Utica, N. Y. 

SEYMOUR, JOHN, governor. In 1703 
he was appointed governor of Maryland 
serving until 1709. He died July 30, 1709. 

SEYMOUR, MRS. MARY (HARRISON), 
author, was born Sept. 7, 1835, in Oxford, 
Conn. She is a writer of Hartford whose 
writings are mainly for juvenile readers. 
Among them are, Mollie’s Christmas 
Stocking; Sunshine and Starlight; Rec¬ 
ompense; Through the Darkness; and 
Ned, Nellie, and Amy. 

SEYMOUR, MOSES, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, was born July 23, 1742, in Hartford, 
Conn. He held the office of town-clerk 


of Litchfield for thirty-seven years con¬ 
secutively from 1789 till his death, was 
elected annually to the legislature from 
1795 till 1811, and was active in the af¬ 
fairs of the protestant episcopal church. 
He died Sept. 17, 1826, in Litchfield, Conn. 

SEYMOUR, ORIGEN STORRS, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Feb. 9, 1804, in Litchfield, Conn. 
He served in the Connecticut state legis¬ 
lature, and was speaker in 1850. He was 
a representative in congress from Con¬ 
necticut from 1851 to 1855, and in the lat¬ 
ter year was appointed judge of the su¬ 
perior court, holding the office until 1863. 
In 1870 he was appointed a judge of the 
supreme court of errors, and in 1873 was 
appointed chief justice of the same. He 
died Aug. 12, 1881, in Litchfield, Conn. 

SEYMOUR, THOMAS DAY, educator, 
author, was born in 1840 in Ohio. He is a 
professor of Greek at Yale university from 
1880, and the author of Homeric Vocabu¬ 
lary; School Iliad; Selected Odes of Pin¬ 
dar, with Notes; Introduction to the Lan¬ 
guage and Verse of Homer; and Homer's 
Iliad. 

SEYMOUR, THOMAS HART, soldier, 
journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, 
governor, was born in 1808 in Hartford, 
Conn. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Connecticut from 1843 to 1845. 
In 1846 he went to Mexico as a major of 
the New England regiment. He was elect¬ 
ed governor of the state of Connecticut 
in 1850, and was three times re-elected. 
He was subsequently appointed minister 
to Russia. He died Sept. 3, 1868, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

SEYMOUR, TRUMAN, soldier, was 
born Sept. 25, 1824, in Burlington, Vt. He 
served with distinction in the Mexican 
and civil wars, and attained the brevet 
of major-general in the United States 
army. 

SEYMOUR, WILLIAM, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in Connecticut. 
He served as a member of the New York 
assembly in 1832 and 1834; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1835 to 1837. 

SHACKELFORD, JAMES M., soldier, 
lawyer, was born July 7, 1827, in Lincoln 
county, Ky. He served in the Mexican 
war as a lieutenant; and during the civil 
war attained the rank of brigadier-general 
of volunteers. Since 1865 he has practiced 
law in Evansville, Ind., and in 1880 was a 
republican presidential elector. 

SHADWICK, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a member of congress from North 
Carolina during the years 1796 and 1797. 

SHAFER, HELEN ALMIRA, educator, 
was born Sept. 23, 1839, in Newark, N. J. 
In 1877 she became professor of mathe¬ 
matics at Wellesley college, near Boston, 
Mass., and was made president of this in¬ 
stitution in 1888. 

SHAFER, JACOB K., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1826, in 
Rockingham county, Va. In 1849 he moved 
to Stockton, Cal., and in 1850 was elected 
district attorney. In 1852 he was elected 
mayor of Stockton, and in 1853 was judge 
of San Joaquin county, and continued in 
office until 1862, when he removed to 
Washington territory. He was elected 
delegate from the territory of Washington 
to the forty-first congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

SHAFFNER, TALIAFERRO PRESTON, 
inventor, author, was born in 1818 in 
Smitbfield, Va. He was an inventor of 
note, and the author of The Telegraph 
Companion; The Telegraph Manual; The 
Secession War in America; History of 
America; and Odd Fellowship. He died 
Dec. 11, 1881, in Troy, N. Y. 


SHAFROTH, JOHN F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 9, 1854, in Fay¬ 
ette, Mo. He practiced law at Fayette, 
Mo., until 1879, when he removed to Den¬ 
ver, Col., where he has ever since pur¬ 
sued his profession. In 1887 he was elect¬ 
ed city attorney of Denver, and was re¬ 
elected to the same position in 1889. He 
was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as 
a republican, and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a silver republican. 

SHAFTER, JAMES McMILLAN, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, was born May 27, 
1816, in Athens, Vt. He was admitted to 
the bar in 1840, practiced law in Town¬ 
send and Burlington, Vt., served in the 
legislature, and in 1842-49 was secretary 
of state. Removing to Wisconsin in 1849, 
he served in the legislature, was its speak¬ 
er, and in 1852 was a defeated candidate 
for congress. In 1852 he removed to Cal¬ 
ifornia; served in the California senate in 
1861-62, and again in 1863-64. 

SHAFTER, OSCAR LOVELL, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 19, 1812, in Athens, 
Vt. In 1854 he removed to California, 
and practiced his profession there until 
1864, when he became associate justice of 
the state supreme court for a term of ten 
years. He died Jan. 23, 1873, in Florence, 
Italy. 

SHAFTER, WILLIAM R., soldier, was 
born in 1835 in Kalamazoo county, Mich. 
He served in the civil war as first lieuten¬ 
ant of the seventh 
Michigan infantry, 
and as major and 
lieutenant-colonel of 
the nineteenth Mich¬ 
igan infantry. He 
was engaged In a 
dozen hotly contest¬ 
ed battles, and was 
brevetted first as 
colonel and then as 
brigadier-general for 
gallant and meritori¬ 
ous conduct. I n 
1866 he was commissioned lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel in the regular army, and 

in 1897 was commissioned brigadier- 
general. During the Spanish-American 

war he was in full command of the United 
States forces in Cuba; and won interna¬ 
tional fame for his brilliant capture of 
Santiago. 

SHAKESPEARE, EDWARD ORAM, 
physician, was born May 19, 1846, in Do¬ 
ver, Del. He spent six months in study¬ 
ing cholera, and made his report to con¬ 
gress. He is a member of several medi¬ 
cal societies of Philadelphia, Pa., and has 
devised for clinical purposes a new oph¬ 
thalmoscope and ophthalmometer. 

SHALER, ALEXANDER, soldier, en¬ 
gineer, author, was born March 19, 1827, 
in Haddam, Conn. He was commissioned 
brigadier-general of 
volunteers in 1863, 
and brevetted major- 
general of volunteers 
in 1865. He was 
consulting engineer 
to the Chicago board 
of police and fire in 
1874-75, being 
charged with the re¬ 
organization and in¬ 
struction of the fire 
department in that 
city. From 1867 till 
1886 he was major-general of the first div¬ 
ision of the national guard of New York, 
and was an organizer and president of the 
National Rifle association of the United 
States. He published a Manual of Arms 
for Light Infantry Using the Rifle Musket. 







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SHALER, NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE, 
geologist, educator, author, was born Feb. 
22, 1841, in Newport, Ky. He is an emi¬ 
nent geologist, professor of paleontology 
at Harvard university in 1868-87, and of 
geology from 1887. He is the author of 
Kentucky Geological Reports; Kentucky, 
a Pioneer Commonwealth; The Nature of 
Intellectual Property and Its Importance 
to the State; The Interpretation of Na¬ 
ture; The Story of Our Continent; Illus¬ 
trations of the Earth’s Surface: Glaciers 
(with W. M. Davis); The United States of 
America: a study of the American Com¬ 
monwealth; First Book in Geology; Na¬ 
ture and Man in America; Sea and Land: 
Features of Coasts and Oceans; Aspects 
of the Earth; Fossil Branchiopods of the 
Ohio Valley; American Highways; and 
Domesticated Animals: Their Relation to 
Man. 

SHALLENBERGER, WILLIAM S„ sol¬ 
dier, merchant, legislator, was born Nov. 
24, 1839, in Mt. Pleasant, Pa. He received 
his education in the Mt. Pleasant acad¬ 
emy and the Bucknell university. Dur¬ 
ing the war he served with distinction as 
adjutant in the one hundred and fortieth 
regiment Pennsylvania volunteer in¬ 
fantry, and subsequently until 1876 
was a successful merchant. He was 
elected a representative from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth 
and forty-seventh congresses as a 
republican. Since 1883 he has been 
in the banking business; and has been 
treasurer of various corporations; and 
was appointed by Governor Beaver of 
Pennsylvania as a member of the Lake 
Erie and Ohio river ship canal. He was 
a director of the chamber of commerce of 
Pittsburg; vice-president of the National 
Association of Manufacturers for Penn¬ 
sylvania for the first years and president 
of the Pennsylvania Baptist Mission so¬ 
ciety for several years. 

SHANAHAN, JEREMIAH FRANCIS, 
bishop, was born July 17, 1834, in Silver 
Lake, Pa. He became an eminent bishop 
of the Roman catholic church in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He died Sept. 24, 1886, in Harris¬ 
burg, Pa. 

SHANKLIN, CHARLES S., journalist, 
was born Sept. 2, 1857, in Linn county, 
Iowa. He attended the Cornell college of 
Mount Vernon, Iowa. He is a member of 
the Iowa bar, being admitted at the age 
of twenty years. For four years he was 
editor and proprietor of the Springville 
New Era; for two years of the Cedar Rap¬ 
ids Standard; is now the editor and owner 
of The Saturday Argus of Marion, Iowa; 
and also editor of the political pages of 
the Marion Sentinel. 

SHANKLIN, GEORGE S., congressman. 
He was a presidential elector in 1864, and 
was elected a representative from Ken¬ 
tucky to the thirty-ninth congress. 

SHANKLIN, JOHN H., soldier, lawyer, 
Nov. 2, 1824, in Mon- 
For many years he 
was engaged in edu¬ 
cational work; judge 
of Grundy county, 
and since 1851 has 
practiced law in 
Trenton, Mo. H e 
served in the Mexi¬ 
can war; and in 1861 
was commissioned 
division inspector, 
with the rank of col¬ 
onel. He served in 
the twenty-third reg¬ 
iment Missouri vol¬ 
unteer infantry; subsequently mustered in 
two battalions of Missouri militia, and in 
1862 helped to organize the third regiment 


Missouri state militia. He was commis¬ 
sioned lieutenant-colonel; and subse¬ 
quently organized the thirtieth regiment 
enrolled militia of Missouri; and was com¬ 
missioned as colonel of the same. He 
was a member of the constitutional con¬ 
vention which framed the existing con¬ 
stitution of Missouri. In 1869-71 he was 
president of the Chillicothe and Des 
Moines City Railroad company. He is 
president of the Grundy County Coal com¬ 
pany; president of the Trenton Handle 
Manufacturing company; and for many 
years was president of the Trenton Gas 
and Electric Light company. 

SHANKS, JOHN P. C., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born June 17, 
1826, in Martinsburg, Va. He was elected 
to the Indiana legis¬ 
lature in 1853 and 
1854; and in 1860 
was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Indi¬ 
ana to the thirty- 
seventh congress. He 
visited the field of 
Bull Run in July, 

1861, as a spectator, 
but became a parti¬ 
cipant. He was a 
delegate to the Pitts¬ 
burgh soldiers’ con¬ 
vention of 1866; and again elected to the 
fortieth congress. He was re-elected to the 
forty-first, forty-second, and forty-third 
congresses as a republican. In 1875 he 
was appointed an Indian agent. 

SHANKS, WILLIAM FRANKLIN 
GORE, journalist, was born April 20, 1837, 
in Shelbyville, Ky. He is a journalist of 
New York city, and the author of Recol¬ 
lections of Distinguished Generals; and 
A Noble Treason, a tragedy. 

SHANLY, CHARLES DAWSON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born in 1811 in 
Ireland. He was a journalist and verse- 
writer of New York city. The Walker in 
the Snow is his best-known poem. He 
was the author of A Jolly Bear and His 
Friends; The Monkey of Porto Bello; and 
The Truant Chicken. He died in 1875. 

SHANNON, JOHN PRIMROSE, lawyer, 
was born Aug. 4, 1850, in Augusta, Ga. 
He is one of the foremost lawyers of the 
south, and is prominent in the public af¬ 
fairs of Georgia at Elberton. In 1892 he 
was a democratic elector, and during 1894- 
96 was grand master of the Masons of 
Georgia. 

SHANNON, RICHARD CUTTS, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 

12, 1839, in New London, Conn. He 

was educated at the public schools and 
at Colby university, 
from which he was 
graduated as a mem¬ 
ber of the class of 

1862. He enlisted as 
a private in company 
H, fifth Maine volun¬ 
teers in 1861, and 
was promoted to sec¬ 
ond sergeant, and in 
1861 commissioned 
first lieutenant of 
the same company. 
In 1862 he was com¬ 
missioned captain and assistant adjutant- 
general of volunteers, serving continuous¬ 
ly till the end of the war, receiving the 
brevets of major and lieutenant-colonel of 
volunteers. In 1871 he was appointed by 
President Grant secretary of the United 
States legation at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 
and served until 1875, when he resigned. 
In 1876 he took charge of the Botanical 
Garden Railroad company, an American 
enterprise in Brazil, of which he subse¬ 
quently became the vice-president and 


general manager, and finally the presi¬ 
dent. In 1891 he was appointed envoy 
extraordinary and minister plenipoten¬ 
tiary of the United States to the Republics 
of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Salvador, 
and served until 1893. He was elected to 
the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 

SHANNON, ROBERT THOMAS, law¬ 
yer, author, was born May 5,1860, in Perry 
county, Tenn. He received his education 
at the Cloverdale seminary, Vanderbilt 
university, and the Cumberland univer¬ 
sity. He is a prominent lawyer of Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn., and the author of The Code 
of Tennessee, Annotated; A Code Supple¬ 
ment; and is the editor of the fifth edition 
of the Tennessee Form Book. 

SHANNON, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio in 1826 and 1827. 

SHANNON, THOMAS B., merchant, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
in 1827 in Westmoreland county, Pa. From 
1854 to 1861 he was engaged in merchan¬ 
dising in California. He served four ses¬ 
sions in the California legislature, and in 
1863 was elected a representative from 
California to the thirty-eighth congress. 

SHANNON, WILSON, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born Feb. 24, 1802, in 
Belmont county, Ohio. In 1835 he was 
prosecuting attorney for the state of 
Ohio; was elected governor of Ohio in 
1837, and again in 1842, and in 1844 was 
appointed United States minister to Mex¬ 
ico. He was a representative in congress 
from Ohio from 1853 to 1855, and in 1855 
was appointed governor of the territory of 
Kansas. He died Aug. 31, 1877, in Law¬ 
rence, Kan. 

SHAPLEIGH, FRANK HENRY, artist, 
was born March 7, 1842, in Boston, Mass. 
He has spent his professional life in his 
native city. His paintings include Ven¬ 
ice; Yosemite Valley; Mirror Lake; Cath¬ 
edral Rocks; Mount Washington; Cohas- 
set Harbor; Northern Peaks; and The 
White Mountains. 

SHAPLEY. RUFUS EDMONDS, lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 4, 1840, in Carlisle, 
Pa. He is the author of The Library of 
Wit and Humor; and The Overcrowding 
of the Learned Professions. 

SHARKEY, EMMA AUGUSTA, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Sept. 15, 1858, in 
Rochester, N. Y. She is a successful jour¬ 
nalist and story writer; and is the author 
of nearly a hundred serial stories and 
novels, and over one thousand sketches; 
besides numerous poems. Her writings 
generally appear under the nom de 
plume of E. Burke Collins. Her novels 
chiefly represent life in the south, more 
especially the pine woods of Louisiana, 
her hitherto and also untrodden field of 
literature. In 1884 she married Robert 
R. Sharkey, a Mississippi cotton planter. 

SHARKEY, WILLIAM LEWIS, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, was born in 1797 in Mus¬ 
sel Shoals, Tenn. He was presiding judge 
of the high court of 
errors in Mississippi, 
and was provisional 
governor of Missis¬ 
sippi in 1865 and 
1866. He was one of 
the foremost lawyers 
and jurists of his 
time; was a dele¬ 
gate to all the lead¬ 
ing political conven¬ 
tions; and active in 
all public affairs 
which tended to_the 
benefit of the state of Mississippi. He 
died April 29, 1873, in Washington, D. C. 


legislator, was born 
roe county, W. Va 










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SHARON, WILLIAM, United States 
senator, was born Jan. 9, 1821, in Smith- 
field, Ohio. On removing to Nevada he 
became largely interested in mining oper¬ 
ations; the only public position of a po¬ 
litical character he ever accepted was 
that of a senator in congress from Ne¬ 
vada, to which he was elected for the 
term beginning in 1875 and ending in 1881. 
He was largely interested in the financial 
affairs of the Pacific slope, and was trus¬ 
tee of the Bank of California. He died 
Nov. 13, 1885, in Smithfield, Ohio. 

SHARP, JOHN T„ farmer, merchant, 
state senator, was born in 1852. He was 
mayor of Elm City, N. C., for three years, 
■and in 1897 was elected a state senator. 

SHARP, KATE D„ poet. She is a 
writer of London, Ohio, and the author of 
a volume of poems entitled Eleanor's 
Courtship. 

SHARP, ROBERT, educator, author, 
was born Oct. 24, 1852, in Lawrenceville, 
Va. Since 1880 he has been professor of 
Greek and English in the Tulane univer¬ 
sity of New Orleans, La. He is the au¬ 
thor of A Treatise on the Use of the In¬ 
finitive in Herodotus; and various other 
works. 

SHARP, SOLOMON P., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1780 
in Virginia. He served a number of years 
in the Kentucky state legislature, and 
was attorney-general of the state. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1813 to 1817. He fell by 
the hand of an assassin, while a member 
of the legislature, in November, 1835. 

SHARP, SOLOMON Z., college presi¬ 
dent, author, was born Dec. 21, 1835, in 
Allenville, Pa. He has been state geol¬ 
ogist of Kansas, and is now the president 
of McPherson college of that state. He 
is the author of a work entitled History 
of the Brethren. 

SHARPE, GEORGE HENRY, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, was born Feb. 26, 
1828, in Kingston, N. Y. He served upon 
the staffs of Generals Hooker, Meade and 
Grant, and was brevetted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral in 1864, and major-general in 1865. 
In 1870-73 he was United States marshal 
for the southern district of New York, 
and took the census that demonstrated 
the great election frauds of 1868 in New 
York city, which led to the enforcement 
of the federal election law for the first 
time in 1871. He was surveyor of cus¬ 
toms for New York from 1873 till 18<8. 
He was a member of the assembly in 
1879-83, and in 1880-81 was the speaker. 

SHARPE, HORATIO, governor. In 
1753 he was elected proprietary governor 
of Maryland, serving until 1769. 

SHARPE, PETER, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in the 
New York legislature from 1814 to 1820. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1821 to 1823, and in 1827 
was a member of the tariff convention. 

SHARPE, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
•congressman, was born Dec. 13, 1742, in 
Cecil county, Md. He was a delegate to 
the provincial congress in 1775 and 1776; 
was aide-de-camp to General Rutherford 
in the Indian campaign of 1776, and was 
one of the commissioners who made a 
treaty with them in 1777. He was a rep¬ 
resentative from North Carolina to Jhe 
continental congress from 1779 to 1782. 
He died in July, 1818, in Iredell county, 
N. C. 

SHARPE, WILLIAM HAMILTON, 
orange grower, legislator, was born May 
5, 1836, in Lowndes county, Ga. In 1866 
he was a delegate to the reconstruction 
convention; was a member of the state 


senate of Florida during 1878-86; and was 
a delegate to the interstate agricultural 
convention at Atlanta, Ga. For many 
years he has been chairman of the board 
of county commissioners of Brevard coun¬ 
ty, Fla.; is a successful orange grower of 
Sharpes, Indian River, Fla.; and the presi¬ 
dent of the Orange Growers’ association 
of Indian River, at City Point, Fla. 

SHARPS, CHRISTIAN, inventor, was 
born in 1811 in New Jersey. His princi¬ 
pal invention was the Sharps breech¬ 
loading rifle, and in 1854 he removed to 
Hartford, Conn., to superintend the man¬ 
ufacture of this rifle. He died March 13, 
1874, in Vernon, Conn. 

SHARSWOOD, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born July 7, 1810, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was an eminent Philadel¬ 
phia jurist, and the author of Professional 
Ethics; Popular Lectures on Common 
Law; Lectures on Commercial Law; and 
Sharswood’s Blackstone. He died May 
28, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SHARSWOOD, WILLIAM, author, was 
born in 1836 in Philadelphia. He has pub¬ 
lished Studia Physica, a series of mono¬ 
graphs; Elenore, a Drama; and The Mis¬ 
cellaneous Writings of William Shars- 
wood. 

SHATTUC, WILLIAM B.. soldier, state 
senator, congressman, was born June 11, 
1841, in North Hector, N. Y. He was a 
commissioned officer in the union army 
during the rebellion, in the army of the 
frontier. For thirty years previous to 
1895 he was an officer in the railway traf¬ 
fic service, and is now retired from busi¬ 
ness. He lives in Madisonville, Ohio. In 
1895 he was elected one of the state sena¬ 
tors from Hamilton county to the sev¬ 
enty-second general assembly, and was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

SHATTUCK, AARON DRAPER, artist, 
inventor, was born March 9, 1832, in 
Francestown, N. H. The first picture that 
he exhibited at the academy was a Study 
of Grasses and Flowers. The following 
year he was elected an associate, and he 
became an academician in 1861. In 1867 
he held the post of recording secretary. 
He invented in 1883-85 a stretcher-frame 
with keys, a great improvement on the 
old methods of tightening canvases. 

SHATTUCK, GEORGE CHEYNE, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born July 17, 1783, in 
Templeton, Mass. He contributed largely 
to Dartmouth college, and built its obser¬ 
vatory, which he furnished with valuable 
instruments. Shattuck school, at Fari¬ 
bault, Minn., a collegiate boarding-school 
under the auspices of the protestant epis¬ 
copal church, of which Dr. Shattuck was 
a liberal patron, was named for him. He 
published two Boylston prize disserta¬ 
tions, entitled Structure and Physiology of 
the Skin; and Causes of Biliary Secre¬ 
tions; and Yellow Fever of Gibraltar in 
1828. He died March 18, 1854, in Boston, 
Mass. 

SHATTUCK, MRS. HARRIETTE (RO¬ 
BINSON), author, was born in 1850 in 
Massachusetts. She is a writer of Mal¬ 
den, Mass., who has published The 
Story of Dante’s Divine Comedy; Little 
Folks East and West; and Woman’s Man¬ 
ual of Parliamentary Law. 

SHATTUCK, JOSEPH CUMMINGS, ed¬ 
ucator, legislator, was born Feb. 28, 1835, 
in Marlborough, N. H. For three terms 
he was superintendent of public instruc¬ 
tion of Colorado; was professor of peda¬ 
gogics and dean of the faculty of the 
university of Denver for three years; 
of which institution he is now the finan¬ 
cial agent. He has served as a member 
of the Colorado state legislature. 


SHATTUCK, LEMUEL, state legislator, 
author, was born Oct. 15, 1793, in Ashby, 
Mass. He was for several years a rep¬ 
resentative in the legislature. In 1844 he 
was one of the founders of the New 
England Historic-Genealogical society, and 
he was its vice-president for five years. 
He published History of Concord, Mass.; 
Vital Statistics of Boston; The Census of 
Boston; Report on the Sanitary Condition 
of Massachusetts; and Memorials of the 
Descendants of William Shattuck. He 
died Jan. 17, 1859, in Boston, Mass. 

SHATTUCK, WALTER WHEELOCK, 
lawyer, was born July 1, 1852, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He has been justice of the 
peace, and filled various other public po¬ 
sitions of trust in Missouri. Soon after 
1880 he moved to California; was editor 
of a paper for ten years; and has attained 
prominence as an able lawyer in that 
state at Kiswich. He is also prominent in 
the I. O. O. F., and other fraternal orders. 

SHAVER, GEORGE FREDERICK, in¬ 
ventor, was born Nov. 4, 1855, in Ripley, 
N. Y. He has recently been engaged in 
the introduction of his improved mechan¬ 
ical telephone, was president of the Con¬ 
solidated Telephone company in 1883-86, 
and since 1887 has been vice-president and 
general manager of the Shaver corpora¬ 
tion, which has charge of that and other 
of his inventions. 

SHAVER, LEONIDAS, lawyer, jurist, 
was an early emigrant to Utah, and in 
1853 was appointed an associate justice 
of the United States court for the terri¬ 
tory of Utah. 

SHAW, AARON, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1811 
in Orange county, N. Y. He served sev¬ 
eral terms in the state legislature. He 
was elected a representative from Illinois 
to the thirty-fifth congress, and served 
one term; was then elected circuit judge, 
and served six years. He was elected a 
representative from Illinois to the forty- 
eighth congress as a republican. 

SHAW, ALBERT, journalist, author, 
was born July 23, 1857, in New London, 
Ohio. He is a journalist of New York 
city, and the American editor of The Re¬ 
view of Reviews from 1891. He is the 
author of Icaria, a Chapter in the His¬ 
tory of Communism; Local Government in 
Illinois; Co-operation in a Western City; 
Municipal Government in Great Britain; 
and Municipal Government in Continental 
Europe. 

SHAW, ALBERT DUANE, soldier, 
state legislator, was born Dec. 27, 1841, in 
Lyme, N. Y. He served in the thirty-fifth 
New York regiment in 1861-63, and was 
elected to the legislature in 1867. He was 
appointed United States consul at Toron¬ 
to, Canada, in 1868, and in 1878 promoted 
to Manchester, England, where he served 
till 1885. 

SHAW, ANNIE CORNELIA, artist, was 
born Sept. 16, 1852, in West Troy, N. Y. 
She is a well-known artist of Chicago, 
Ill. 

SHAW, C. AUSTIN, artist, writer, was 
born Oct. 24, 1840, in West Milton, Ohio. 
He was a successful landscape painter, 
in Providence, R. I., and afterward edited 
a magazine entitled Language and 
Thought. In 1871 he entered the signal 
service, and held positions in Minnesota, 
Dakota, Madison, Wis., and Erie, Pa. In 
1887 he retired from public service and 
devoted his time entirely to literature; 
and was the author of a number of meri¬ 
torious essays, which have been a valuable 
acquisition to current literature. 


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SHAW, CHARLES, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1782 in Bath, Maine. He was 
a lawyer of Montgomery, Ala., who pub¬ 
lished A Topographical Description of 
Boston from Its First Settlement. He 
died in 1828, in Montgomery, Ala. 

SHAW, FRANK T., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 7, 1841, in Woodsbor- 
ough, Md. In 1873 he was elected clerk 
of the circuit court for Carroll county, 
Md., for the term of six years, and was 
re-elected in 1879. In 1884 he was elected 
a representative from Maryland to the 
forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected 
to the fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

SHAW, GEORGE G., lawyer,'was born 
Jan. 29, 1866, in Homer, La. After re¬ 
ceiving his education he taught school for 
a while, and is now a prominent lawyer of 
Kaufman, Texas. He is prominent in 
Masonry and other fraternal orders; and 
in 1896 was elected mayor of Kaufman. 

SHAW, HENRY, lawyer, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born in 1788 in 
Windham county, Vt. He was nominated 
for congress before he was eligible, and 
in 1816 was elected a representative from 
Massachusetts to the sixteenth congress. 
He was a member of the Massachusetts 
legislature for eighteen years, and was 
also a member of the governor’s council. 
In 1848 he moved to New York, and re¬ 
sided at Fort Washington, on the Hudson. 
He was a member of the board of edu¬ 
cation in New York city, and two years 
in the common council, and in 1853 was 
elected a member of the New York assem¬ 
bly. He died Oct. 1 1 , 1857, in Peekskill, 
N. Y. 

SHAW, HENRY, philanthropist, was 
born July 24. 1800, in England. In 1885 
he gave to Washington university im¬ 
proved real estate that yields $5,000 yearly 
income, which was used in organizing and 
maintaining a school of botany as a de¬ 
partment of the university. At the same 
time the Missouri botanical garden and 
arboretum were placed in such relation to 
the school as to secure their full uses for 
scientific study and investigation to the 
professor and students for all time to 
come. He died Aug. 25, 1889, in St. Louis, 
Mo. 

SHAW, HENRY M., soldier, physician, 
state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 
20, 1819, in Newport, R. I. He moved to 
North Carolina, and was a state senator 
in 1852. He was a representative from 
North Carolina to the thirty-third and 
thirty-fifth congresses. During the war of 
the rebellion he served as a colonel in the 
confederate army. He died in February, 
1864, in Newberne, N. C. 

SHAW, HENRY WHEELER—Josh 
Billings—humorist, author, was born 
April 21, 1818, in Lanesborough, Mass. 
He was the author of Josh Bill¬ 
ings’s Sayings; Everybody’s Friend; 
Josh Billings’s Trump Kards; and Josh 
Billings’s Spice Box. He died Oct. 14, 
1885, in Monterey, Cal. 

SHAW, JAMES DICKSON, soldier, 
clergyman, journalist, was born Dec. 27, 
1841, in Walker county, Texas. He served 
four years as a soldier in the confederate 
army, and surrendered at the close of 
the war as a second lieutenant. For twelve 
years he was a clergyman in the meth- 
odist episcopal church south, and since 
1883 has been editor of The Independent 
Pulpit of Waco, Texas. 

SHAW, JOHN, physician, surgeon, poet, 
was born May 4, 1778, in Annapolis, Md. 
He was a contributor to The Portfolio. 
His poems, with a memoir, and extracts 
from his foreign correspondence and jour¬ 
nals, were published in 1810. He died 
Jan. 10, 1809, at sea. 


SHAW, JOHN G., business man, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Jan. 16, 1859, 
near Fayetteville, N. C. He located at 
Fayetteville, N. C., and was elected coun¬ 
ty attorney for Cumberland county in 
1890, and held the position for four years. 
He was a democratic candidate for presi¬ 
dential elector in 1892 and was elected; 
and was elected to the fifty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

SHAW, LEMUEL, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Jan. 9, 1781, in Barnstable, Mass. He 
drafted the charter of the city of Boston, 
and for twenty-seven years was one of the 
corporation of Harvard college. He died 
March 30, 1861, in Boston, Mass. 

SHAW, LESLIE MORTIMER, lawyer, 
financier, was born in 1848 in Lamoille 
county, Vt. In 1869 he moved to Iowa, 
taught school and 
attended Cornell col¬ 
lege of Mount Ver¬ 
non. from whch in¬ 
stitution he gradu¬ 
ated. He graduated 
in law from the 
Iowa Law school of 
Des Moines, and in 
1876 began the prac¬ 
tice of law in Deni¬ 
son, Iowa. He is also 
a successful finan¬ 
cier, owns two banks, 
and has loaned over two million dollars on 
Iowa farms. He has taken an active part 
in the business and public affairs of his 
adopted state, and in 1896 was republican 
nominee for governor of that state. 

SHAW, MILTON GILMAN, lumberman, 
legislator, was born Dec. 31. 1820, in In¬ 
dustry, Maine. In 1841 he began life in 
the lumber business at Greenville, Maine, 
then almost in the heart of the pine .for¬ 
ests of Maine; and he now owns an im¬ 
mense area of timber lands in Maine, in¬ 
cluding several townships. He has filled 
different public offices, and was a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature in 1859. 

SHAW, OLIVER, musician, composer, 
was born in 1776. He composed Home of 
My Soul, and other popular pieces of 
music. He died Dec. 31, 1848, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. 

SHAW, ROBERT GOULD, merchant, 
was born June 4, 1773, in Gouldsborough. 
Maine. He bequeathed over a hundred 
thousand dollars to philanthropic pur¬ 
poses. He died May 3, 1853, in Boston. 
Mass. 

SHAW, ROBERT GOULD, soldier, was 
born Oct. 10, 1837, in Boston, Mass. He 
became colonel of the fifty-fourth Massa¬ 
chusetts, the first regiment of colored 
troops from a free state that was mus¬ 
tered into the United States service. He 
died July 18, 1863, in Fort Wagner, S. C. 

SHAW, RODNEY K., soldier, lawyer, 
writer, was born Dec. 13, 1829, in Copen¬ 
hagen, N. Y. He received the rudiments 
of his education in 
the common schools 
of his native county; 
attended Union aca¬ 
demy of Bellville, 
N. Y.; the Lowville 
academy; and subse¬ 
quently graduated 
from a Chautauqua 
course. During the 
war he served as 
captain of the sixty- 
third regiment, Ohio 
volunteer infantry; 
and was commissioner for relief of sol¬ 
dier-comrades of his county. He is one 
of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at Mariet¬ 
ta; and has contributed extensively both 
prose and verse to the periodical press. 


SHAW, SAMUEL, physician, surgeon, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
in December, 1768, in Dighton, Mass. In 
1799 he was returned as a member of the 
Vermont legislature, and was for some 
time a member of the state council. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Vermont from 1808 to 1813. On his re¬ 
tirement from congress he was appointed 
surgeon in the army, and removed to the 
city of New York. He died Oct. 22, 1827, 
in Clarendon, Vt. 

SHAW, THOMAS, educator, author, 
was born in 1843 in Ontario. He is a 
Canadian educator, since 1893 professor 
of animal husbandry at the Minnesota 
agricultural experiment station, and the 
author of The First Principles of Agricul¬ 
ture; and Weeds and How to Eradicate 
Them. 

SHAW, THOMPSON DARRAH, naval 
officer, was born Aug. 20, 1801, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was retired in 1862 on his 
own application, after more than forty 
years’ service. He was continued on spe¬ 
cial duty at New York, Philadelphia, and 
Boston in 1863-67, and was promoted to 
commodore on the retired list in 1867. He 
died July 26, 1874, in Germantown, Pa. 

SHAW, TRISTAM, congressman, was 
born in 1787 in New Hampshire. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Hampshire from 1839 to 1843. He died 
March 14, 1843, in Exeter, N. H. 

SHAW, WILLIAM SMITH, lawyer, phil¬ 
anthropist, born Aug. 12, 1778, in Haver¬ 
hill, Mass. He was admitted to the bar in 
April, 1804, and in the same year became 
treasurer of the Anthology society, the 
nucleus of the Boston Athenaeum. He 
devoted much of his time to the collec¬ 
tion of its library, and became known as 
Athenaeum Shaw. He was the first to 
suggest making the library public, and 
connecting with it a reading room. After 
the incorporation of the institution he 
was its secretary and librarian till 1823, 
and its secretary alone till 1824. At his 
decease he left it collections of coins, 
pamphlets and books to the value of $10,- 
000. He died April 25, 1826, in Boston, 
Mass. 

SHEA, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, author, 
was born June 10, 1826, in Ireland. He 
was a jurist who was chief justice of the 
city court of New York, and the author 
of Alexander Hamilton: a Historical 
Study; and Nature and Form of the Amer¬ 
ican Government. 

SHEA, JOHN AUGUSTUS, journalist, 
poet, was born in 1802 in Ireland. He 
was an Irish verse-writer who came to 
America in 1827, and was a journalist in 
New York city. His writings include, 
Adolph; Parnassian Wild Flowers; Rud- 
deki, an Eastern Romance, in verse; and 
Clontarf, a Poem. He died Aug. 15, 1845, 
in New York. 

SHEA. JOHN DAWSON GILMARY, 
journalist, author, was born July 22, 1824, 
in New York city. He was an historical 
writer of note, for a number of years edi¬ 
tor of Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, 
in New York city. He was the author of 
The Catholic Church in the United States; 
Legendary History of Ireland; History of 
Catholic Indian Missions; Discovery and 
Exploration of the Mississippi Valley; 
Early Voyages Up and Down the Missis¬ 
sippi; Novum Belgium, an Account of 
New Netherlands, 1633-44; The Operations 
of the French under De Grasse; Life of 
Pius Ninth; The Catholic Church in Col¬ 
onial Days; The Catholic Hierarchy of the 
United States; and Life and Times of 
Archbishop Carroll. He died in 1892. 




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SHEA, JOSEPH, college president, was 
born Dec. 31, 1829, in Fordham, N. Y. 
For six years he was president of St. 
John’s college, Fordham, N. Y. He died 
Dec. 5, 1881, in New York city. 

SHEAFE, JAMES, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Nov. 16, 1755, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New Hampshire 
from 1799 to 1801; and was a senator in 
congress in 1801 and 1802, resigning June, 
1802. He died Dec. 5, 1829, in Portsmouth 
N. H. 

SHEAFER, PETER WENRICK, mining 
engineer, was born March 31, 1819, in 
Halifax, Pa. In 1848 he settled in Potts- 
ville and devoted his attention to mining 
engineering, and he has been specially 
active in the development of the coal and 
iron interests of that district. He issued 
in 1875, under the auspices of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Historical society, a map of Penn¬ 
sylvania as it was in 1775. 

SHEAFFER, SAMUEL G., lawyer, pub¬ 
lic official, was born May 13, 1841, near 
Shippensburg, Pa. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the common schools and the 
Shippensburg academy. He has been post¬ 
master, justice of the peace, clerk of the 
courts of Ness county, police judge of 
Ness city, and filled various other public 
positions of honor. He is a successful 
lawyer and promoter of patriotic associa¬ 
tions and public enterprises, and is adju¬ 
tant-general battalion of America. 

SHEAKLEY, JAMES, public official, 
legislator, governor, was born April 24, 
1830, in Sheakleyville, Pa. When nine¬ 
teen years of age he went to California, 
and for three years was engaged in the 
mining of gold. He then returned to 
Sheakleyville and bought the old home¬ 
stead. He embarked in the drygoods busi¬ 
ness in Greenville, in.1860; was one of 
the pioneers in the oil excitement in west¬ 
ern Pennsylvania, and for nearly twenty- 
years was extensively engaged in the pro¬ 
duction and shipping of petroleum. He 
served as a democrat in the forty-fourth 
congress, ar.d in 1887 was appointed by 
President Cleveland as United States com¬ 
missioner of Alaska, and the educational 
department made him superintendent of 
schools for southeastern Alaska. In 1892 
he was appointed governor of Alaska by 
President Cleveland, and served in that 
high office with distinction. 

SHEARER, JOHN BUNYAN, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born July 19, 
1832, in Appomattox county, Va. This em¬ 
inent presbyterian clergyman and pro¬ 
fessor of biblical instruction and moral 
philosophy during 1870-75 was president 
of the Stewart college ' of Clarksville, 
Tenn. For thirteen years he was presi¬ 
dent of the Southwestern Presbyterian 
university; and since 1888 has been presi¬ 
dent of Davidson college, North Carolina. 

SHEARMAN, THOMAS GASKELL, 
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 25, 1834, in 
England. He is a lawyer and political 
economist of New York city, and the au¬ 
thor of Law of Practice and Pleadings; 
Law of Negligence; Talks on Free Trade; 
Does Protection Protect? Pauper Labor of 
Europe; The Single Tax; National Taxa¬ 
tion; Henry George’s Mistake; and Crook¬ 
ed Taxation. 

SHEATS, CHARLES CHRISTOPHER, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
April 10, 1839, in Walker county, Ala. He 
was elected to the Alabama state legis¬ 
lature in 1861; and was a presidential 
elector in 1868. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Alabama to the forty-third 
congress. In 1875 he was appointed sixth 
auditor of the United States treasury. 


SHEATS, WILLIAM NICHOLAS, educa¬ 
tor, state superintendent of public instruc¬ 
tion, was born March 5, 1851, in Auburn, 
Ga. He graduated from Emory college at 
Oxford, Ga., in 1874. He then taught in the 
Fletcher institute during 1873-74, and in 
various other institutions until 1881. In 
1880 he was elected superintendent of pub¬ 
lic instruction of Alachun county, and 
filled that position by constant re-elec¬ 
tions until 1892, since which time he has 
been state superintendent of public in¬ 
struction of Florida. In 1885 he was elect¬ 
ed a member of the state constitutional 
convention, and was the author of the 
article on education adopted by that body, 
which laid the foundation of the state’s 
educational system, and placed Florida 
in the lead in public education among all 
of her southern sisters. His work as state 
superintendent has been highly success¬ 
ful. 

SHECUT. JOHN LINNHL'US EDWARD 
WHITRIDGE, physician, scientist, author, 
was born Dec. 4, 1770, in Beaufort, S. C. 
He was a once eminent physician and sci¬ 
entist of Charleston, and the author of 
Flora Carolinensis; Medical and Philoso- 
ophical Essays; Elements of Natural Phil¬ 
osophy; and A New Theory of the Earth. 
He died in 1836 in Charleston, S. C. 

SHEDD, JOEL HERBERT, civil engin¬ 
eer, author, was born May 31, 1834, in 
Pepperell, Mass. He is an eminent civil 
engineer of Providence, whose most im¬ 
portant professional labor is the Provi¬ 
dence waterworks. He has written a 
work on Landscape Gardening, and many 
important professional papers. 

SHEDD, MRS. JULIA ANN (CLARK), 
author, was born Aug. 8, 1834, in Newport, 
Maine. She was the author of Famous 
Painters and Paintings; Famous Sculp¬ 
tors and Sculpture; The Ghiberti Gates; 
and Raphael: His Madonnas and Holy 
Families. 

SHEDD, WILLIAM GREENOUGH 
THAYER, educator, clergyman, author, 
was born June 21, 1820, in Acton, Mass. 
He was a presbyterian clergyman of New 
York city, professor in Union seminary in 
1863-90, and a theologian of a very conser¬ 
vative type. He is the author of History 
of Christian Doctrine; Sermons to the 
Natural Man; Homiletics and Pastoral 
Theology; Theological Essays; Sermons 
to the Spiritual Man; Endless Punish¬ 
ment; Dogmatic Theology; The Pro-Revi¬ 
sion of the Westminster Standards; Cal¬ 
vinism Pure and Mixed; and Literary 
Essays. 

SHEEDY, MORGAN M., priest, writer, 
was born Oct. 8, 1853, in Ireland. He was 
ordained in the Pittsburg cathedral in 
1876. He was immed¬ 
iately assigned as 
professor of theology 
and history in Saint 
Michael’s seminary, 
where he continued 
until the closing of 
that institution. As 
a successful pastor 
he became widely 
known through his 
work on educational 
lines with young 
men. In Pittsburg 
the school, hall and free library that he 
established were centers of the very best 
influence felt in the whole community. 
He was the founder of the Pittsburg 
Polytechnic society and is a member of 
the Writers’ club, the Academy of Science, 
the Western Pennsylvania Historical so¬ 
ciety, and other literary bodies. He has 
always been one of the leaders in the 


temperance movement and for four years 
was the vice-president of the Catholic 
Total Abstinence union of America. He 
is the author of Christian Unity; and of 
a work entitled Social Problems. 

SHEEHAN, WILLIAM FRANCIS, lieu- 
tenant-governor, was born Nov. 6, 1859, in 
New York. In 1892 he was elected lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of the state of New York. 

SHEELEIGH, MATTHIAS, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born Dec. 29, 1821, in 
Charleston, Pa. Since 1860 he has edited 
the Lutheran Sunday School Herald of 
Fort Washington, Pa. He is the author of 
American Ecclesiad; A Gettysburgiad; 
Luther: a Song Tribute; Brief History of 
Luther; and Outlines of Old and New 
Testament History. 

SHEFFER, DANIEL, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative to congress from that state from 
1837 to 1839. 

SHEFFEY, DANIEL, lawyer, banker, 
congressman, was born in 1770 in Freder¬ 
ick, Md. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Virginia from 1809 to 1817 
He died Dec. 3, 1830, in Augusta, Va. 

SHEFFIELD, JOSEPH EARLE, mer¬ 
chant, philanthropist, was born June 19, 
1793, in Southport, Conn. His donations 
to Yale have been munificent. In 1860 the 
name of its scientific department, which 
was reorganized and placed on a firm 
basis by his liberality, was changed to 
the Sheffield scientific school in his honor. 
Its two buildings are called respectively 
Sheffield hall and North Sheffield hall. He 
gave to other colleges, seminaries, and 
religious institutions, and his gifts 
amounted to more than $1,000,000. He 
died Feb. 16, 1882, in New Haven, Conn. 

SHEFFIELD, WILLIAM PAINE, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Aug. 30, 1819, on Block Island, R. I. 
In 1845 he was elected, from his native 
town, a member of the state assembly. 
Removing his residence to Tiverton, he 
was again elected to the assembly in 1849, 
where he continued to serve until 1853, 
when he resigned his seat, and settled in 
Newport, and represented that city in the 
assembly from 1857 to 1861. He was 
elected a representative from Rhode Isl¬ 
and to the thirty-seventh congress, and 
in 1869 was appointed one of the commis¬ 
sioners to revise the laws of Rhode Isl¬ 
and. 

SHELBY, ISAAC, soldier, surveyor, 
state legislator, governor, was born Dec. 
11, 1750, near Hagerstown, Md. He be¬ 
came a surveyor in 
western Virginia. In 
1774 he was lieuten¬ 
ant in his father’s 
company at the bat¬ 
tle of Point Pleasant, 
Va.; was a captain 
in 1776; and was 
made commissary in 
1777. He was a 
member of the legis¬ 
lature in 1779; was 
commissioned a ma¬ 
jor by Governor Jef¬ 
ferson, and in 1780 was made colonel, and 
defeated Major Ferguson at the battle of 
King’s Mountain. He was a member of 
the legislature of North Carolina in 1781 
and 1782. In 1788 he settled at Travelers’ 
Rest, Kentucky; was governor of Ken¬ 
tucky from 1792 to 1796, after its separa¬ 
tion from Virginia, and in 1813 joined 
General Harrison. In 1818 he was a com¬ 
missioner, with General Jackson, to treat 
with the Cherokee Indians. A county in 
Kentucky and a college in Shelbyville 
were named for him. He died July 18, 
1826, in Lincoln county, Ky. 





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SHELBY, WILLIAM R., railroad offi¬ 
cial, was born Dec. 4, 1842, in Lincoln 
county, Ky. He is now vice-president and 
treasurer of the Grand Rapids and Indiana 
Railroad company. He has been also ex¬ 
tensively engaged in wheat raising in 
the northwest, and since 1875 has man¬ 
aged the Cass farm, a portion of which is 
more generally known as the great Dal- 
rymple farm. 

SHELDON, A. W., soldier, journalist, 
lawyer, jurist, was born July 18, 1842, in 
Granville, Ohio. He was judge advocate 
of the first division of the national guard 
of the state of New York, with the rank 
of colonel from 1875 to 1881. He was 
judge advocate of the department of New 
York, Grand Army of the Republic, in 
1877 and 1878. In 1881 he moved to Balti¬ 
more, and became editor of the Baltimore 
Herald. In 1883 he was appointed asso¬ 
ciate justice of the supreme court of Ari¬ 
zona territory. 

SHELDON, CARLOS D., congressman. 
He takes an active part in the business 
and public affairs of Houghton, Mich.; 
and was elected from the twelfth district 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

SHELDON, CHARLES H., soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1840 in Johnson, Vt. 
For ten years he lived in southern Illi¬ 
nois; in Kentucky three years; and in 
1881 moved to Dakota. He was a member 
of the territorial council of 1887; and in 
1892 was elected governor. 

SHELDON, CLESSON PARMENTER, 
clergyman, was born May 9, 1813, in Ber- 
nardston, Mass. In 1845 he graduated 
from the Madison university of Hamilton, 
N. Y. He became an eminent clergyman 
of the baptist church; filled pastorates 
in Whitesboro, Hamilton, Buffalo, and for 
nineteen years in Troy, N. Y., where he 
died Oct. 25, 1888. 

SHELDON, DAVID NEWTON, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
June 26, 1807, in Suffield, Conn. He was a 
baptist clergyman who became a Unitarian 
in 1856. He was president of Colby uni¬ 
versity in 1843-53; and the author of Sin 
and Redemption. 

SHELDON, EDWARD AUSTIN, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 4, 1823, in 
Perry Centre, N. Y. He is a noted edu¬ 
cator of Oswego, principal of the normal 
school there from 1862; and the author of 
Manual of Elementary Training; and Les¬ 
sons on Objects. 

SHELDON, EDWARD STEVENS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1851 in Maine. 
He is a professor of Romance philology at 
Harvard university from 1883; and the 
author of Short German Grammar and 
monographs. 

SHELDON, GEORGE LAWSON, farm¬ 
er, banker, was born May 31, 1870, in 
Nehawka, Neb. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the common 
schools; received the degree of B. L. from 
the university of Nebraska; and the de¬ 
gree of B. A. from Harvard university. 
He has been a member of the republican 
state committee from the fourth district 
of Nebraska; is the president of the Ne¬ 
hawka bank; and was captain of com¬ 
pany A, Nebraska university cadets. 

SHELDON, GEORGE WILLIAM, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Jan. 28, 1843, 
in Summerville, S. C. He is a journalist 
and art critic of New York city, now in 
charge of the London office of D. Appleton 
and Company, publishers. He is the au¬ 
thor of American Painters; The Story of 
the Volunteer Fire Department of New 
York City; Hours with Art and Artists; 
Selections in Modern Art; and Recent 
Ideals of American Art. 


SHELDON, HENRY CLAY, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born March 12, 
1845, in Martinburg, N. Y. He is a meth- 
odist clergyman, professor of historic 
theology in Boston university from 1882. 
He is the author of History of Christian 
Doctrine; and History of the Christian 
Church. 

SHELDON, HENRY L., librarian, was 
born Aug. 15, 1821, in Middlebury, Vt. He 
is the founder and librarian of the Shel¬ 
don Art museum of his native city. He 
was city clerk for twenty-five years, and 
an expert accountant and bookkeeper. 

SHELDON, LIONEL ALLEN, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, 
was born Aug. 30, 1829, in Otsego, N. Y. 
He served one term as judge of probate 
in Lorain county, Ohio. In 1861 he en¬ 
tered the volunteer army as a captain; 
was soon promoted to the rank of lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel; and at the close of the war 
was brevetted a brigadier-general. He 
subsequently settled in New Orleans, La., 
and devoted himself to his profession. In 
1868 he was elected a representative from 
Louisiana to the forty-first congress; and 
was re-elected to the forty-second and 
forty-third congresses. In 1881 he was ap¬ 
pointed governor of the territory of New 
Mexico. 

SHELDON, MARY DOWNING, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Sept. 15, 1850, in Os¬ 
wego, N. Y. In 1874 she served as pro¬ 
fessor of history in Wellesley in 1876-78, 
and subsequently occupied the same chair 
in the state normal school, Oswego, N. Y. 
She has published Studies in General His¬ 
tory; and Teacher’s Manual. 

SHELDON, PORTER, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 29, 1831, in Victor, 
N. Y. In 1862 he was a member of the 
constitutional convention of Illinois; and 
in 1868 was elected a representative from 
New York to the forty-first congress as a 
republican. 

SHELDON, WILLIAM EVARTS, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, was born Oct. 22, 1832, 
in Dorset, Vt. He has attained success 
as an educator, and his life has been de¬ 
voted to teaching, school supervision, and 
educational journalism. In 1863-64 he was 
president of the Massachusetts Teachers’ 
association; was president of the Ameri¬ 
can Institute of Instruction in 1867; presi¬ 
dent of the National Educational associa¬ 
tion in 1887; and since 1884 has been a 
member of the national council of educa¬ 
tion. He is the editor of The Journal of 
Education; Current History; American' 
Primary Teacher; and Modern Methods; 
all of which are published in Boston, 
Mass. 

SHELL, GEORGE W., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 13, 1831, in Laurens 
county, S. C. He entered the confederate 
army in 1861, and remained in the service 
until the surrender at Appomattox. He 
served as private, lieutenant, and captain. 
He served as clerk of court for Laurens, 
S. C., for six years; and was elected to 
the fifty-second, and re-elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. 

SHELLABARGER, SAMUEL, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Dec. 10, 1817, in Clarke county, Ohio. He 
was a member of the first legislature in 
Ohio that met under the present constitu¬ 
tion, and in 1860 was elected to congress 
as a republican. He took his seat in the 
special session that met in accordance 
with President Lincoln’s call in 1^61; 
and served in 1861-63, in 1865-69, and in 
1870-73. He was United States minister 
to Portugal in 1869-70, and in 1874-75 was 
one of the civil service commission. 


SHELLEY, CHARLES M., soldier, 
architect, congressman, was born Dec. 28, 
1833, in Sullivan county, Tenn. He en¬ 
tered the confederate army in 1861, and 
rose to the rank of brigadier-general. He 
was elected a representative from Ala¬ 
bama to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty- 
seventh, and forty-eighth congresses. In 
1885 he was appointed fourth audit¬ 
or in the United States treasury at Wash¬ 
ington. 

SHELLEY, HARRY ROWE, musician, 
composer, was born June 8, 1858, in New 
Haven, Conn. He is a successful organist, 
and the author of many pieces of church 
music. 

SHELTON, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1814 
in Jamaica, N. Y. He was an episcopal 
clergyman of Carthage Landing, N. Y., 
who wrote in both prose and verse a num¬ 
ber of humorous and satirical books. He 
was the author of The Trollopiad, or the 
Traveling Gentleman in America; The 
Rector of St. Bardolph’s; Peeps from the 
Belfry, or the Parish Sketch-Book; Sa- 
lander and the Dragon, a romance; Up 
the River, a collection of rural sketches; 
Chrystalline, a romance; The Gold Mania; 
and Use and Abuse of Reason. He died 
June 20, 1881, in Carthage Landing, N. Y. 

SHELTON, WILLIAM HENRY, soldier, 
artist, author, was born Sept. 4, 1840, in 
Allen’s Hill, N. Y. He served as a sol¬ 
dier during the civil war and was pro¬ 
moted to lieutenant. He is probably best 
known as the author of A Man Without a 
Memory, published in Scribner’s. He is 
also the author of Capture and Escape, 
which is a true narrative of his personal 
experiences as a federal artilleryman. 

SHEPARD, CHARLES B., congressman, 
was born Dec. 5, 1807, in Newberne, N. C. 
He was elected to congress from North 
Carolina in 1837, where he continued to 
serve until 1841. He died in October, 1843. 

SHEPARD, CHARLES UPHAM, edu¬ 
cator, geologist, author, was born June 
29, 1804, in Little Compton, R. I. He was 
a geologist, professor of geology at Am¬ 
herst college, who published a valuable 
Report on the Geology of Connecticut. 
He died May 1, 1886, in Charleston, S. C. 

SHEPARD, CHARLES UPHAM, chem¬ 
ist, was born Oct. 4, 1842, in New Haven, 
Conn. In 1887 he presented the second 
cabinet of minerals that was left by his 
father, numbering more than ten thou¬ 
sand specimens, to the collection of Am¬ 
herst; and his cabinet of two hundred dif¬ 
ferent meteorites has been deposited in 
the United States National museum of 
Washington, D. C. 

SHEPARD, EDWARD MORSE, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1850 in New York. 
He is a lawyer of Brooklyn; and the au¬ 
thor of a Life of Martin Van Buren. 

SHEPARD, ELIHU HOTCHKISS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1795 in Ver¬ 
mont. He was an educator of St. Louis; 
and the author of Autobiography; and 
Early History of St. Louis and Missouri. 
He died in 1876. 

SHEPARD, ELLIOTT FITCH, soldier, 
lawyer, journalist, was born July 25, 1833, 
in Jamestown, N. Y. He was instrument¬ 
al in raising the fifty-first New York 
regiment, which was named for him the 
Shepard rifles. He was the founder of the 
New York State Bar association in 1876, 
which has formed the model for the or¬ 
ganization of similar associations in other 
states. In 1888 he purchased the New 
York Mail and Express. 


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841. 


SHEPARD, GEORGE BOHAN, lawyer, 
inventor, was born Sept. 23, 1847, in Og- 
densburg, N. Y. He received his rudi¬ 
mentary education 
in the public schools 
of that city, and the 
higher branches at 
private institutions 
there. In 1862 he be¬ 
gan the study of law 
and was admitted to 
the bar in 1869; and 
since that time he 
has never discon¬ 
tinued practice, 
though his other 
undertakings have 
interfered with active litigation. From 
1873 he served two terms as clerk of surro¬ 
gate’s court of St. Lawrence county, and 
on Dec. 17, 1879, was appointed United 
States deputy collector of internal rev¬ 
enue for St. Lawrence and Franklin coun¬ 
ties, serving as such until the office was 
filled by the incoming of the democratic 
administration. He introduced the elec¬ 
tric telephone in his native county, build¬ 
ing several local exchanges and the con¬ 
necting county lines. He inherits a na¬ 
tural taste for mechanics, and is a direct 
lineal descendant from Hezekiah Hunting- 
ton of Windham, Conn., who manufac¬ 
tured the first guns made in America, and 
who was appointed by Gen. Washington 
repairer of arms for the continental army. 
He also numbers among his ancestors 
Gov. Bradford of Plymouth colony. Mr. 
Shepard has made a number of useful in¬ 
ventions, including early improvements 
in the typewriter and copygraph; and he 
has recently perfected a successful rotary 
engine. He is at present engaged upon 
an improved machine to furnish stereo¬ 
type plates for printing, which prom¬ 
ises a revolution in that art; and still re¬ 
sides in the place of his nativity. 

SHEPARD, IRWIN, soldier, educator, 
•college president, was born July 5, 1843, 
in Skaneateles, N. Y. He served three 
years during the civil war in the ninth 
army corps. Since 1879 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the state normal school of Win¬ 
ona, Minn. 

SHEPARD, ISAAC FITZGERALD, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born July 7, 1816, in 
Natick, Mass. He was a federal officer in 
the civil war who was consul at Swatow 
and Hankow in 1874-80; and the author 
of Pebbles from Castalia; Poetry of Feel¬ 
ing; Scenes and Songs of Social Life; 
and Household Tales. He died in 1889. 

SHEPARD, LILLIE R., poet. She is a 
writer of Melrose, Mass.; and the author 
of a volume of poems entitled Rays of 
Light. 

SHEPARD, SIDNEY, manufacturer, ca¬ 
pitalist, was born Sept. 28, 1814, in 

Coblesville, N. Y. In 1849 he became the 
proprietor of the 
Shepard Iron works; 
which institution 
also became one of 
the largest importers 
of tinplate, manufac¬ 
turers of stamp met¬ 
alware, and dealers 
in hardware and tin¬ 
ners’ supplies in the 
United States. He 
was prominent in 
railroad affairs, and 
for many years a di¬ 
rector in the Alabama Central, the Mobile 
and Ohio, and the New Jersey Central 
railroaus. He steadfastly declined the 
candidacy for various important public 
offices. In 1885 he transferred his inter¬ 
est in the Shepard Iron works to his son, 
C. Sidney Shepard of New Haven, N. Y. 


SHEPARD, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 5, 1605, in England. 
He was a puritan clergyman who came to 
America in 1635, and from 1636 until his 
death was minister of what is now the 
Shepard church in Cambridge. He was 
the author of New England’s Lamenta¬ 
tions for Old England’s Present Errours; 
The Sound Beleever; The Clear Sunshine 
of the Gospel; Theses Sabbaticae; Sub¬ 
jection to Christ; The Parable of the Ten 
Virgins Opened and Applied; and Auto¬ 
biography. His Sermons, with Memoir 
by Alger, were printed in three volumes in 
1853. He died Aug. 25, 1649, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

SHEPARD, WILLIAM, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 1,1737, near Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. In 1780 he was promoted to 
the rank of brigadier-general under Gen¬ 
eral Lafayette; and after the war was a 
brigadier-general of militia. In 1785 and 
1786 he was a representative in the Massa¬ 
chusetts legislature; in the latter year 
was appointed a major-general, and in 
the same year was summoned from his 
farm to assume command of the national 
forces at Springfield, Mass., on the out¬ 
break of the Shay rebellion. He was a 
presidential elector in 1788 and 1792; was 
a member of the state executive council 
from 1792 to 1796; and was a repre¬ 
sentative from Massachusetts to the na¬ 
tional congress from 1793 to 1803. He 
died Nov. 11, 1817, in Westfield, Mass. 

SHEPARD, WILLIAM B., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1799 
in Newberne, N. C. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from North Carolina from 
1827 to 1837, when he declined a re-elec¬ 
tion. In 1838 he was elected to the state 
senate, where he served five terms. He 
died June 20, 1852, in Elizabeth City, N. J. 

SHEPHERD, ALEXANDER B., soldier, 
governor, was born Jan. 31, 1835, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. In 1873 he was appointed 
the second governor of the District of 
Columbia; and remained in office until 
the form of government was again 
changed. 

SHEPHERD, FRANK, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born Jan. 28, 1853, in 
Lenawee county, Mich. Since 1879 he has 
practiced law in Cheboygan, Mich. In 
1880-82 he was prosecuting attorney; was 
appointed judge of probate in 1886; and 
elected to the same office in 1888. In 1897 
he was elected a member of the Michigan 
state legislature. 

SHEPHERD, JAMES EDWARD, law¬ 
yer, educator, was born in July, 1847, in 
Nausemond county, Va. In 1882 he was 
elected judge of the superior court from 
Raleigh, N. C.; and during 1888-95 was a 
justice of the supreme court, last two 
years of which he served as chief justice. 

SHEPHERD, JAMES OSGOOD, educat¬ 
or, lawyer, jurist, was born in Palmyra, 
Va. He was a graduate of the university 
of Virginia; engaged in educational work, 
and became county superintendent of 
schools. Pie is now an able lawyer of Vir¬ 
ginia at Buena Vista; has been judge of 
the corporation court of Roanoke; and 
judge of Plustings court, Buena Vista. 

SHEPHERD, NATHANIEL GRAHAM, 
author, was born in 1835 in New York 
city. At the beginning of the civil war 
he became a war correspondent fbr the 
New York Tribune. He contributed large¬ 
ly to periodicals and journals; and was 
the author of The Dead Drummer-Boy; 
The Roll-Call; and A Summer Reminis¬ 
cence. He died May 23, 1869, in New 
York city. 


SHEPHERD, OLIVER LATHROP, sol¬ 
dier, was born Aug. 15, 1815, in Clifton, 
Pa. He served in the Florida, Mexican 
and civil wars, and in 1863 was brevetted 
brigadier-general. In 1870 he was retired 
from the army. 

SHEPHERD, WILLIAM, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 1, 1737, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. In 1783 he was chosen a briga¬ 
dier-general, having fought in twenty-two 
battles; and was subsequently a major- 
general of militia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Massachusetts from 
1797 to 1803. He died Nov. 11, 1817, in 
Westfield, Mass. 

SHEPHERD, WILLIAM ROBERT, au¬ 
thor. He is the author of History of Pro¬ 
prietary Government in Pennsylvania. 

SHEPLEY, ETHER, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator. United States senator, 
was born Nov. 2, 1789, in Groton, Mass. 
He was in the Massachusetts legislature 
in 1819; was a member of the convention 
that framed the first constitution of Maine 
in 1820; and was for thirteen years at¬ 
torney of the United States for Maine. 
He was a senator in congress from Maine 
from 1833 to 1836. After leaving the sen¬ 
ate of the United States he was chosen 
a justice of the supreme court of Maine, 
and subsequently chief justice of the 
same, which latter position he held until 
1855. He died Jan. 15, 1877, in Portland, 
Maine. 

SHEPLEY, GEORGE FORSTER, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born 
Jan. 1, 1819, in Saco, Maine. He removed 
to Portland, Maine; was appointed by 
President Polk United States district at¬ 
torney, which position he held until 1861. 
When the civil war broke out he became 
colonel of the twelfth Maine volunteers. 
He was made brigadier-general; and was 
military governor of Louisiana from 1862 
to 1864. He was military governor of 
Richmond on its surrender in 1865. In 
1871 he was United States circuit judge of 
the first circuit. He died July 20, 1878, in 
Portland, Maine. 

SHEPLOR, MATTHIAS, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Ohio from 
1837 to 1839. 

SHEPPARD, FRANCIS MARION, phy¬ 
sician, legislator, was born Dec. 22, 1868, 
in Monticello, Miss. After receiving the 
rudiments of his education in the com¬ 
mon schools, he attended the university of 
Louisville, Ky., graduating therefrom in 
1893. He is a successful physician of 
Waynesboro, Miss.; and in 1896 became a 
representative in the lower house of the 
Mississippi state legislature, his term ex¬ 
piring in 1900. 

SHEPPARD, FURMAN, lawyer, author, 
was born Nov. 21, 1823, in Bridgeton, N. J. 
He is a Philadelphia lawyer who has pub¬ 
lished The Constitutional Text-Book; and 
other works. 

SHEPPARD, JOHN HANNIBAL, law¬ 
yer, author, was born March 17, 1789, in 
England. In addition to several Masonic 
and antiquarian addresses, he was the au¬ 
thor of occasional poems; of Reminis¬ 
cences of the Vaughan Family; and The 
Life of Samuel Tucker, Commodore in 
the American Revolution. He died June 
25, 1873, in Boston, Mass. 

SHEPPARD, NATHAN, educator, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Nov. 9, 1834, in 
Baltimore, Md. He was a journalist and 
educator who was a special correspondent 
of The Cincinnati Gazette during the 
Franco-German war; and the author of 
Shut Up in Paris During the Siege; 
Darwinism Stated by Himself; Before an 
Audience; and Saratoga Chips. He died 
Jan. 24, 1888, in New York city. 





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SHEPPERD, AUGUSTUS H„ lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
in Surry county, N. C. He served in the 
house of commons of North Carolina from 
1822 to 1826; and was a representative 
in congress from 1829 to 1839, from 1841 
to 1843, and again from 1847 to 1851. 

SHERBURN, JOEL OSMAN, clergyman, 
legislator, was born Nov. 21, 1845, in 
Plainfield, Vt. For twenty-five years he 
has been a clergyman and presiding elder 
in the Vermont conference; now fills a 
pastorate in Williamstown, Vt.; and in 
1882 he represented the town of Rochest¬ 
er in the Vermont state legislature. 

SHERBURNE, JOHN HENRY, author, 
was born in 1794 in Portsmouth, N. H. 
He was a register of the navy in Wash¬ 
ington; and the author of Osceola, a 
tragedy; Erratic Poems; Life of John 
Paul Jones; The Tourist’s Guide in 
Europe; and A Suppressed History of the 
Administration of John Adams. He died 
in 1850 in Europe. 

SHERBURNE, JOHN SAMUEL, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born in 
1757 in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New Hamp¬ 
shire from 1793 to 1797; and was United 
States district attorney in 1803; and judge 
of the United States district court from 
1803 to 1830. He died Aug. 2, 1830, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. 

SHERBURNE. MOSES, lawyer, jurist. 
He was an early emigrant to Minnesota; 
and in 1853 was appointed an associate 
justice of the United States court for Min¬ 
nesota. 

SHEREDINE, UPTON, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1791 to 1793. 

SHERIDAN, PHILIP HENRY, soldier, 
author, was born March 6, 1831, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. In 1853 he graduated from 
the United States 
Military academy. 
During the civil war 
he attained high 
rank as a soldier; 
and for his gallantry 
was made a major- 
general in the United 
States regular army, 
in President Lin¬ 
coln's words: For 
the personal gallant¬ 
ry, military skill, 
and just confidence 
in the courage and gallantry of your 
troops, displayed by you at Cedar Run, 
whereby, under the blessing of Provi¬ 
dence, your routed army was reorganized, 
a great national disaster averted, and a 
brilliant victory achieved over the rebels 
for the third time in pitched battle with¬ 
in thirty days. In 1883 he became gen¬ 
eral-in-chief of the regular army. He 
died Aug. 5, 1888, in Nonquitt, Mass.; 
and the same year his Personal Memoirs 
were published. 

SHERIDAN, WILLIAM E., actor, was 
born June 1, 1839, in Boston, Mass. He 
attained a national reputation through 
the world as a successful tragedian. He 
died May 31, 1887. 

SHERMAN, ADRIAN C., legislator, 
was born March 20, 1846, in Mt. Pleasant, 
Iowa. He served as a soldier for five 
years during the civil war; and for four 
years he was a member of the Kansas 
state legislature. 

SHERMAN, ANTHONY S., railroad 
manager, financier, was born July 1, 1852, 
in Newport, R. I. For a quarter of a 
century he has been secretary and treas¬ 
urer of the Newport and Wickford rail¬ 
road. 


SHERMAN, BUREN ROBINSON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born 
May 28, 1836, in Phelps, N. Y. He received 
his education in the 
Union school of his 
native city, and the 
academy of Elmira, 
N. Y. During the 
war he served as 
captain in the thir- 
t e e n t h regiment 
Iowa volunteer in¬ 
fantry, and was se¬ 
verely wounded at 
the battle of Shiloh 
on April 6, 1862. He 
moved to Iowa in 
1855, first to Tama county, thence in 1859 
to Benton, where he resided at the time 
of his election as governor in 1881. He 
served with distinction as governor of 
Iowa; was re-elected and served until 
1885. For several years he was a clerk of 
the district court of Benton county; then 
served as county judge; and for three 
terms during 1875-80 he was auditor of 
the state of Iowa; stepping directly from 
that position into the executive chair. 
His knowledge of the law, and his public 
services to the state admirably qualified 
him for the position of governor; and he 
was always found to be equal to great 
emergencies. 

SHERMAN, CHARLES TAYLOR, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 3, 1811, 
in Norwalk, Conn. In 1866 he became one 
of the first government directors of the 
Union Pacific Railroad company; and in 
1867 was appointed United States district 
judge for the northern district of Ohio. 
He died Jan. 1, 1879, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

SHERMAN, EDWIN ALLEN, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 20, 1873, in Seattle, Wash. 
He received a thorough education in the 
public schools of Oakland, Cal.; and in 
private academies. He has attained suc¬ 
cess in the profession of law; is legal ad¬ 
viser for numerous corporations, political 
combinations, and fraternal organizations 
He has filled various offices in bar asso¬ 
ciations and clubs; and although offered 
several important political positions has 
steadfastly declined in order to give His 
entire time to his professional duties. 

SHERMAN, ELIJAH B., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born June 18, 1832, in Fair- 
field, Vt. In 1876 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative to the Illinois legislature and 
was re-elected in 1878; and in 1879 he 
was appointed one of the masters in 
chancery of the court of the United States. 

SHERMAN, ELMER EMMETT, educat¬ 
or, physician, surgeon, was born Feb. 7. 
1861, in Fountain Green, Ill. He attended 
Howe’s academy of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; 
the Laharpe seminary, Illinois; the Col¬ 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Keo¬ 
kuk, Iowa; and the Illinois Medical col¬ 
lege of Chicago. For many years he was a 
teacher in graded and country schools, and 
actively engaged in institute work. He 
has always taken great interest in Sunday 
school work; has been president of sev¬ 
eral religious and literary societies, and 
furnished written work for conventions. 

SHERMAN, FRANK DEMPSTER, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1860 in New 
York city. He is a lyrist of New York 
city; adjunct professor of architecture at 
Columbia college; and the author of 
Madrigals and Catches; Lyrics for a 
Lute; Little-Folk Lyrics; and New Wag- 
gings of Old Tales. 

SHERMAN, HENRY, lawyer, author, 
was born March 6, 1808, in Albany, N. Y. 
He was a Hartford lawyer, author of An 
Analytical Digest of the Laws of Marine 
Insurance to the Present Time; The Gov¬ 




ernmental History of the United States; 
and Slavery in the United States. He died 
March 28, 1879, in Washington, D. C. 


SHERMAN, J. W., congressman, was. 
born in New York. He was elected a 
representative from New York to the- 
thirty-fifth congress. 



SHERMAN, JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 
1855, in Utica, N. Y. He received an 
academic and colle- 
g i a t e '•duration, 
graduating from 
Hamilton college in 
the class of 1878; 
and was admitted to 
the bar in 1880, be¬ 
coming a member of 
the firm of Cookin- 
ham and Sherman. 
He was elected 
mayor of Utica, N. 
Y., in 1884, as a re¬ 
publican, receiving a 
substantial majority in a democratic city. 
He was chairman of the republican state 
convention in Saratoga in 1895; and was 
elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty- 
third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 


SHERMAN, JOHN, clergyman, author,, 
was born in 1772 in New Haven, Conn. 
He was a Unitarian clergyman of Trenton 
Falls, N. Y., where he conducted an acad¬ 
emy. From 1797 to 1805 he was a con¬ 
gregational minister at Mansfield, Conn.,, 
but resigned his charge on account of his 
becoming a Unitarian. He was the author 
of One God in One Person Only, the first 
noteworthy defense of unitarianism in 
America; Philosophy of Language Illus¬ 
trated; and A Description of Trenton 
Falls. He died Aug. 2, 1828, in Trenton 
Falls, N. Y. 


SHERMAN, JOHN, lawyer, statesman, 
was born May 10, 1823, in Lancaster,. 
Ohio. He is of Anglo-Saxon ancestry. 

He received an aca- 
d e m i c education; 
studied law, and was 
admitted to the bar 
May 11, 1844. He 
was a delegate in the 
national whig con¬ 
ventions of 1848 and 
1852, and presided 
over the first re¬ 
publican convention 
in Ohio in 1855. He 
was a representative 
in the thirty-fourth, 
thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh 
congresses, and was the republican candi¬ 
date for speaker in the winter of 1859-60. 
He was elected to the United States senate 
in March, 1861, and re-elected in 1866 and 
1872. He was appointed secretary of the 
treasury in March, 1877, and served as 
such during President Hayes’ administra¬ 
tion; was again elected to the United 
States senate in 1880, and was re-elected 
in 1886 and 1892. He was president of 
the senate from 1885 till 1887; and re¬ 
signed his seat in the senate to accept the 
position of secretary of state in President 
McKinley’s cabinet. He is the author of 
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, 
Senate and Cabinet; and Selected Speeches 
and Reports on Taxation, 1859-78. 



SHERMAN, ROBERT MINOT, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, was born May 22, 
1773, in Woburn, Mass. He was a member 
of the Connecticut general assembly in 
1798; and was a member of the state sen¬ 
ate from 1814 to 1818. He was a judge of 
the superior court and the supreme court 
of errors from 1840 to 1842. He died Dec, 
30, 1844, in Fairfield, Conn. 






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SHERMAN, ROGER, signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence, was born April 
19, 1721, in Newton, Mass. He was judge 
of the county, superior and supreme 
courts for a period of twenty-three years. 
He was a member of the first congress in 
1774, and continued in congress for many 
years. He signed the declaration of in¬ 
dependence in 1776, and also the articles 
of confederation and the constitution. 
After the adoption of the constitution of 
the United States, in regard to which he 
took a prominent part, he was elected a 
representative in congress from Connecti¬ 
cut. He was chosen a senator of the 
United States in 1791, continuing in that 
station until his death. He died July 23, 
1793, in New Haven, Conn. 

SHERMAN, SIDNEY, pioneer, was born 
in March, 1805, in Massachusetts. In 1839 
he was elected major-general of the Texan 
republic; in 1842 he served in its con¬ 
gress; and in 1862-63 in the state legis¬ 
lature. He died in 1873 in Galveston, 
Texas. 

SHERMAN, SOCRATES N., congress¬ 
man, was born in Vermont. He was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the thirty-seventh congress. 

SHERMAN, THOMAS WEST, soldier, 
was born March 26, 1813, in Newport, R. I. 
He served in the Florida, Mexican and 
civil wars; and attained the rank of 
brigadier-general. He died March 16, 

1879, in Newport, R. I. 

SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH, 

soldier, author, was born Feb. 8, 1820, in 
Mansfield, Ohio. In 1861 he was appointed 
a colonel of infantry 
in the United States 
army and command¬ 
ed a brigade at Bull 
Run. He was made 
brigadier-general of 
volunteers, and had 
command of the 
Kentucky depart¬ 
ment, He was made 
major-general; and 
in 1864 made one of 
the most famous 
military marches of 
modern times, going from Atlanta to 
Savannah, with sixty thousand men, 

which great enterprise soon brought the 
war to a conclusion. He was made briga¬ 
dier-general in the United States army in 
1863, major-general in 1864, lieutenant- 
general in 1866, and general-in-chief of 
the army in 1869. In 1869 he was appoint¬ 
ed secretary of war. A Memoir of His Life 
and Campaign has been published; and 
also his The Military Lessons of the 
War. He died in 1891. 

SHERRICK, FANNIE I„ poet, was born 
in St. Louis, Mo. She is the author of a 
volume of poems entitled Star Dust. 

SHERRILL, ELIAKIM, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New York. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1847 to 1849. He served 
as an officer in the rebellion, and was 
killed at the battle of Gettysburg. 

SHERRILL, JOSEPH E„ journalist, 
clergyman, was born Jan. 19, 1852, in Put¬ 
nam county, Ind. Since 1886 he has been 
proprietor of the Normal Publishing 
house of Danville, Ind.; and has at¬ 
tained prominence as an evangelist in 
the baptist church. 

SHERROD, WILLIAM C., soldier, 
planter, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Aug. 17, 1835, in Courtland, Ala. He 
served in the state legislature of Alabama 
in 1859 and 1860; and was an officer in 
the confederate army during the civil 
war. He was elected a representative 
from Alabama to the forty-first congress 
as a democrat. 


SHERWIN, JOHN C., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 8, 1838, in 
Saint Lawrence, N. Y. He was twice 
elected county clerk of Kane county, Ill.; 
and was city attorney of Aurora. He 
served three years in the union army dur¬ 
ing the war of the rebellion; and was 
elected a representative from Illinois to 
the forty-sixth and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

SHERWIN, THOMAS, educator, author, 
was born March 26, 1799, in Westmore¬ 
land, N. H. He was a noted educator of 
Boston, master of the high school in 1838- 
69, and author of treatises on algebra. 
He died July 23, 1869, in Dedham, Mass. 

SHERWOOD, ADIEL, educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 3, 1791, in Fort 
Edward, N. Y. He was a baptist minister 
and educator of Georgia; and the author 
of Gazetteer of Georgia; Christian and 
Jewish Churches; and Notes on the New 
Testament. He died Aug. 18, 1879, in 

St. Louis, Mo. 

SHERWOOD, MRS. EMILY [LEE], 

journalist, author, was born in 1843 in In¬ 
diana. She is a Washington journalist 
who has published Willis Peyton, a novel. 

SHERWOOD. HENRY, lawyer, con¬ 

gressman, was born Oct. 9, 1817, in Bridge¬ 
port, Conn. He devoted himself to the 
practice of law dur¬ 
ing t w e n t y-f our 
years; and was elect¬ 
ed to the forty-sec¬ 
ond congress as a 
democratfrom Wells- 
borough, Pa. He has 
attained prominence 
as one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of 
Pennsylvania; is also 
noted as an elo¬ 
quent speaker; and 
contributes valuable 
articles to the leading newspapers and 
magazines of the United States. 

SHERWOOD, ISAAC R., soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was 
born Aug. 14, 1835, in Stanford, N. Y. He 
established the Wil¬ 
liams county Ga¬ 
zette of Bryan, Ohio; 
and in 1859 was elect¬ 
ed probate judge of 
Williams county, 
which position he re¬ 
signed to enter the 
army in 1861. He 
was commissioned 
major in 1863; was 
promoted to lieuten 
ant-colonel in 1864; 
and commanded his 
regiment to the close of the war, receiving 
a brevet of brigadier-general for gallant 
and meritorious services. He edited the 
Toledo Commercial, and was an editorial 
writer on the Cleveland Leader. He was 
elected secretary of state for Ohio in 1868; 
and re-elected in 1870. He was elected a 
representative from Ohio to the forty- 
third congress as a republican. He is the 
author of a volume entitled Army Gray- 
back, a book of humorous verse. 

SHERWOOD, JAMES MANNING, cler¬ 
gyman, journalist, author, was born Sept. 
29, 1814, in Fishkill, N. Y. He is a presby- 
terian clergyman and editor of religious 
journals; and the author of A Plea for 
the Old Foundations; The History of the 
Cross; and Books and Authors. He died 
Oct. 22, 1890, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

SHERWOOD, JOHN D., author, was 
born Oct. 15, 1818, in Fishkill, N. Y. He 
was the author of Comic History of the 
United States; and The Case of Cuba. He 
died in 1891. 


SHERWOOD, MRS. KATHERINE 
MARGARET, journalist, author, poet, was 
born Sept. 24, 1841, in Poland, Ohio. She 
is a poet and jour¬ 
nalist of Canton, 
Ohio; and has been 
especially successful 
as a writer of army 
lyrics and poems for 
military occasions. 
She is the author of 
Camp Fire and Me¬ 
morial Poems; and 
Columbia. Since 1882 
she has been editor 
of the woman’s de¬ 
partment of the Na¬ 
tional Tribune, published at Washington, 
D. C., in the interest of the union soldiers. 

SHERWOOD, MRS. MARY ELIZA¬ 
BETH [WILSON], author, was born about 
1830 in Keene, N. H. She is a Washing¬ 
ton novelist and miscellaneous writer; 
and the author of The Sarcasm of Des¬ 
tiny; A Transplanted Rose; Amenities of 
Home; Home Amusements; Manners and 
Social Usages; Royal Girls and Royal 
Courts; Sweet Brier; Roxobel; and The' 
Art of Entertaining. 

SHERWOOD, SAMUEL, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1813 to 
1815. He died in November, 1862, in New 
York. 

SHERWOOD, SAMUEL B., congress¬ 
man, was born in Connecticut. He was a 
representative in congress from Connecti¬ 
cut from 1817 to 1819. He died in 1833. 

SHERWOOD, THOMAS ADIEL, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born June 2, 1834, in 
Eatonton, Ga. In 1872 he was elected to- 
the bench of the supreme court of the 
state of Missouri, served two successive 
terms of ten years, and was re-elected in 
1892. 

SHERZER, JANE BELLE, educator, 
was born Oct. 23, 1858, in Franklin, Ohia 
She received her education in the public 
schools of her native city, and studied 
four years at the university of Michi¬ 
gan, receiving the degree of Ph. D. She 
also studied in Paris, and has traveled ex¬ 
tensively through the principal countries. 
of Europe, and in Egypt and Palestine. 
She is a successful public speaker, and 
the author of a series of articles on for¬ 
eign travel. 

SHEW, JOEL, physician, author, was 
born Nov. 13, 1816, in Providence, N. Y. 
He was a hydropathic physician of New 
York state, among whose writings are. 
Hydropathy, or the Water Cure; Cholera 
Treated by Water; and The Hydropathic 
Family Physician. He died Oct. 6, 1855, in 
Oyster Bay, N. Y. 

SHIEL, GEORGE K.. soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born about 1815, in Ire¬ 
land. He practiced law in Salem, Ore., 
during 1854-61. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Oregon to the thirty- 
seventh congress. He died Dec. 14, 1893,. 
in Salem, Ore. 

SHIELDS, CHARLES WOODRUFF, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, author, was born April 
4, 1825, in New Albany, Ind. He is a- 
Presbyterian clergyman, professor of the 
harmony of science and revealed religion- 
at Princeton college from 1865, and active 
in behalf of church unity. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Presbyterian Book of Common 
Prayer According to the Revision of the 
Westminster Divines; Philosophia Ulti¬ 
ma, or Science of the Sciences; The Order 
of the Sciences; Religion and Science in 
Their Relations to Philosophy; Essays 
on Church Unity; The Historic Episco¬ 
pate; The Question of Unity; and The 
United Church of the United States. 









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SHIELDS, EBENEZER J„ congressman, 
was born in Georgia. He was elected a 
representative in congress from Tennessee 
from 1835 to 1839. He died May 20, 1846. 

SHIELDS, JAMES, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1829 to 1831. He died in 1831 
in Butler county, Ohio. 

SHIELDS, JAMES, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, governor, United 
States senator, was born in 1810 in Ire¬ 
land. In 1836 he was 
elected a member of 
the Illinois legisla¬ 
ture; was elected 
auditor of the state 
in 1839; and in 1843 
was appointed judge 
of the supreme court 
of Illinois. In 1845 
he was appointed 
commissioner of the 
general land office in 
the department of 
the interior at Wash¬ 
ington. At the commencement of the 
Mexican war he was appointed brigadier- 
general in the United States army; and 
was promoted to the rank of brevet ma¬ 
jor-general. In 1848 he was appointed 
governor of Oregon territory; and in 
1849 was elected to a seat in the United 
States senate from the state of Illinois 
for the term of six years. He subsequent¬ 
ly took up his residence in the territory 
of Minnesota; and in 1857 when it be¬ 
came a state, was elected to represent the 
same in the senate of the United States, 
in which position he served two years. 
He subsequently settled in Missouri; and 
was elected a United States senator from 
Missouri in 1879. He died June 1, 1879, 
in Ottumwa, Iowa. 

SHIELDS, JOHN C., lawyer, jurist. In 
1885 he was appointed chief justice of 
the supreme court of the territory of Ari¬ 
zona for the term of four years; resided 
at Prescott, Ariz. 



SHIELDS, JOHN FRANKLIN, educat¬ 
or, was born June 25, 1868, in Chester, 
Pa. He received his education in the 
Pennsylvania State college and the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania. He has attained 
success in educational work, and is now 
professor of mathematics in the Adelphi 
college of Brooklyn, N. Y. He is a mem¬ 
ber of the American Mathematical society; 
and is mathematical censor for several 
leading publishers. 


SHIELDS, MARY, philanthropist, was 
born Jan. 12, 1820, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
She was active in benevolent work, and 
bequeathed $1,400,000 for charitable pur¬ 
poses. She died Oct. 8, 1880, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

SHIELDS, MRS. SARAH ANNIE 
[FROST], author. She is the author of 
Parlor Charades and Proverbs; Laws and 
By-Laws of American Society; The Art 
of Dressing Well; Almost a Woman; and 
Sunshine for Rainy Days. 


SHIELDS, WILLIAM BAYARD, lawyer, 
jurist. He was an early emigrant to Mis¬ 
sissippi; and in 1818 was appointed dis¬ 
trict judge of tue United States court for 
the state of Mississippi. 


the road until its completion to the Mis¬ 
sissippi in 1857, and subsequently did gov¬ 
ernment surveying in Wisconsin. He was 
also two years engaged in railroad work 
in Ohio. In 1861 he organized the bank 
of Neenah, which four years later became 
the National bank of Neenah, of which 
he is president. He has heen president 
of the city public library since its com¬ 
mencement. He is a member of the 
American Numismatic and Archaeological 
society, and also is a member of two his¬ 
torical societies. Mr. Shiells is the au¬ 
thor of a volume, The Story of the Token 
as Belonging to the Sacrament of the 
Lord’s Supper. 

SHILLABER, BENJAMIN PENHAL- 
LOW, journalist, author, was born July 
12, 1814, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a 
journalist of Boston, 
once widely known 
as a humorist, whose 
latest years were 
spent in Chelsea, 
Mass. He was the 
author of Life and 
Sayings of Mrs. 
Partington; Parting- 
tonian Patchwork; 
Mrs. Partington’s 
Mother Goose; Ike 
Partington Stories; 
Lines in Pleasant 
Places; Wide Swath, a volume of col¬ 
lected verse; Rhymes with Reason; 
Cruises with Captain Bob; and The 
Double-Runner Club. He died Nov. 25, 
1890, in Chelsea, Mass. 

SHIMEALL, RICHARD CUNNING¬ 
HAM, clergyman, author, was born in 
1803 in New York city. He was an epis¬ 
copal clergyman who adopted reformed 
Dutch tenets in 1834, and subsequently be¬ 
came a presbyterian. He was a noted 
biblical scholar of millenarian views. He 
was the author of The End of Prelacy; 
Christ’s Second Coming; Prophetic Ca¬ 
reer and Destiny of Napoleon III; Unseen 
World; and Political Economy of 
Prophecy. He died March 19, 1874, in 
New York city. 

SHIMER, FRANCES A. WOOD, college 
president, was born Aug. 31, 1826, in Mil- 
ton, N. Y. She is the founder and presi¬ 
dent of the Mount Carroll seminary and 
Conservatory of Music of Mount Carroll, 
Ill., which institution she founded in 
1852. 

SHINDLER, MRS. MARY STANLEY 
BUNCE [PALMER] [DANA], poet, was 
born Feb. 15, 1810, in Beaufort, S. C. 
She was a once popular South Carolina 
verse-writer whose home was at Nacog¬ 
doches, Texas, after 1869. In 1844 she be¬ 
came a Unitarian, and published the next 
year Letters on the Trinity. In 1848 she 
married her second husband, an episcopal 
clergyman, and was received into his 
church. She was the author of The 
Northern Harp; The Southern Harp; 
The Parted Family, and Other Poems; 
The Temperance Lyre; and several prose 
works, including Charles Martin, or the 
Young Patriot; The Young Sailor; Fore¬ 
castle Tom; and A Southerner Among the 
Spirits. She died in 1883. 



SHIELLS, ROBERT, hanker, poet, was 
born Nov. 21, 1825, in Edinburgh, Scot¬ 
land. He is well versed in the Latin 
classics, and acquired a good knowledge 
of Latin, French and Greek, and a course 
in the higher mathematics. He was 
trained as a mechanical and civil en¬ 
gineer. He took part in the first surveys 
of the Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien 
railway, which is now known as the Mil¬ 
waukee and St. Paul railway. As locating 
and division engineer he remained with 


SHINE, JOHN W., lawyer, was born 
April 8, 1864, in Middleton Center, On¬ 
tario, Canada. When about a year old 
his parents moved to Austin Port, Mich.; 
and he is now one of the foremost law¬ 
yers of that state at Sault Ste. Marie; 
and for two terms has served as its city 
attorney. 

SHINN, ASA, clergyman, author, was 
born May 3, 1781, in New Jersey. He 
was a methodist protestant minister in 


Ohio; and the author of Essay on the 
Plan of Salvation; and Benevolence a.nd 
Rectitude of the Supreme Being. He died 
in February, 1853, in Brattleboro, Vt. 

SHINN, CHARLES HOWARD, author, 
was born in 1852 in Texas. He is a 
California writer who has published Min¬ 
ing Camps, a Study in American Frontier 
Government; and The Story of the Mine. 

SHINN, EARL, journalist, author, was 
born in 1837 in Pennsylvania. He was a 
New York journalist, at one period art 
critic of The Nation; and the author of 
The New Hyperion: from Paris to Marly 
by Way of the Rhine; and Studies in 
Modern French Art. 

SHINN, GEORGE WOLFE, clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 14, 1839, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is an episcopal clergy¬ 
man, rector of Grace church, Newton, 
Mass., from 1875; and the author of 
Friendly Talks About Marriage; Manual 
of the Prayer Book; Manual of Church 
History; Questions about Our Church; 
Questions that Trouble Beginners in Re¬ 
ligion; Stories for Christmas Time; and 
Some Modern Substitutes for Christianity. 

SHINN, WILLIAM N„ farmer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New Jersey. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1833 to 1837. 

SHIPHERD, JOHN J., founder, was 
born March 28, 1802, in West Granville, 
N. Y. He was the founder of Oberlin 
college. He died in 1844. 

SHIPHERD, ZEBULON R., congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in congress 
from New York from 1813 to 1815. He 
died in Moriah, N. Y. 

SHIPMAN, GEORGE ELIAS, physician, 
journalist, was born March 4, 1820, in New 
York city. In 1846 he removed to Chicago, 
where he soon had a large and lucrative 
practice. In 1865 he became editor of the 
United States Medical and Surgical Jour¬ 
nal, and the next year published The 
Homoeopathic Guide. 

SHIPMAN, NATHANIEL, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, was born Aug. 22, 
1828, in Southbury, Conn. In 1851 he en¬ 
gaged in the practice of the law at Hart¬ 
ford, Conn.; was a representative in the 
state legislature in 1857; and was execu¬ 
tive secretary of Governor William A. 
Buckingham from 1858 to 1862. In 1873 
he was appointed United States district 
judge for the district of Connecticut. 

SHIPP, ALBERT MICAJAH, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Feb. 15, 
1819, in Stokes county, N. C. He was a 
methodist clergyman and educator, pro¬ 
fessor of theology in Vanderbilt univer¬ 
sity from 1874, and the author of The His¬ 
tory of Methodism in South Carolina. He 
died in 1887. 

SHIPP, BERNARD, poet, was born 
April 30, 1813, near Natchez, Miss. He is 
a poet of Natchez, and subsequently of 
Louisville; and the author of Fame, and 
Other Poems; and Progress of Freedom, 
and Other Poems. 

SH1PPEN, EDWARD, merchant, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born July 9, 1703, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. In 1744 he was elected mayor 
of Boston. In 1745, and for several years 
thereafter, he was one of the judges of 
the court of common pleas. In 1752 he 
moved to Lancaster, where he was ap¬ 
pointed prothonotary, and continued such 
until 1778. He was a county judge under 
both the provincial and state govern¬ 
ments. In early life he laid out and 
founded Shippensburg, Pa. In 1746-48 he 
was one of the founders of the college of 
New Jersey. He died Sept. 25, 1781, in 
Lancaster, Pa. 



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SHIPPEN, EDWARD, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Feb. 16, 1729, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was judge of the admiralty court 
for the province; in 1791 was appointed 
judge of the supreme court, and in 1799 
became chief justice. He died April 16, 
1806, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SHIPPEN, RUSH RHEES, educator, 
clergyman, was born Jan. 18, 1828, in 
Meadville, Pa. He attended the Alle¬ 
gheny college and the Theological school 
of Meadville, Pa.; and for a while was 
engaged in educational work. During 
1849-57 he was pastor of the First Unitar¬ 
ian church of Chicago, Ill.; and during 
1858-71 of the Unity church of Worcest¬ 
er, Mass. Then for ten years he was 
secretary of the American Unitarian asso¬ 
ciation. During 1881-95 he was a pastor 
of All Souls church of Washington, D. C.; 
and since November, 1895, has been pas¬ 
tor of the Unity church of Brockton, 
Mass. 

SHIPPEN, WILLIAM, physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 1, 1712, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He was a member of the 
junto, and aided in founding the Penn¬ 
sylvania hospital, of which he was the 
physician from 1753 till 1778, the Public 
academy, and its successor, the university 
of Pennsylvania, being chosen in 1749 one 
of the first trustees of the academy. In 
1778 he was chosen by the assembly of 
Pennsylvania to the continental congress, 
and he was re-elected in 1779. He died 
Nov. 4, 1801, in Germantown, Pa. 

SHIPPEN, WILLIAM, physician, lec¬ 
turer, was born Oct. 21, 1736, in Phila¬ 
delphia. In 1762 he entered on the prac¬ 
tice of his profession in Philadelphia, Pa., 
anu in the same year began the first 
course of lectures on anatomy that was 
ever delivered in this country. He died 
July 11, 1808, in Germantown, Pa. 

SHIRAS, ALEXANDER EAKIN, sol¬ 
dier, was horn Aug. 10, 1812, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. A large share of the credit for 
the manner in which the national armies 
were supplied during the civil war is due 
to him. At the close of the war he was 
brevetted brigadier-general and major- 
general, United States army. He died 
April 14, 1875, in Washington, D. C. 

SHIRAS, GEORGE W., lawyer, jurist, 
was horn Jan. 26, 1832, in Pittsburg, Pa. 
He practiced law successfully in Pitts¬ 
burg till his appointment in 1892 as an 
associate justice of the United States su¬ 
preme court. 

SHIRAS, OLIVER P., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 22, 1833, in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. He removed to Dubuque, Iowa, 
and was there admitted to the bar in 1856. 
He was aid-de-camp and judge advocate 
on the staff of General Herron in the 
army of the frontier during 1862 and 
1863; and in 1882 was appointed United 
States district judge for the northern dis¬ 
trict of Iowa. 

SHIRK, DAVID FRANKLIN, educator, 
was born July 10, 1859, in Carroll county, 
Ill. This popular educator has been prin¬ 
cipal of several large schools; county 
superintendent of public instruction of 
Dickinson county, Kan., and has contrib¬ 
uted extensively to current literature on 
educational topics. 

SHIRK, MILTON SMITH, educator, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
Nov. 29, 1818, in Butler county, Ohio. 
For sixty years he has been successfully 
engaged as a teacher in the various grades 
of school, and for fifty years he has been 
engaged in the ministry in various cities, 
and at the Coliseum Place Baptist church 
of New Orleans, La. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the Miami university and the 
Granville college, Ohio; and was a gradu¬ 


ate of the Madison university of Hamil¬ 
ton, N. Y. He has been president of the 
Pearl River institute, president of the 
Amite Female seminary, Mississippi, and 
the Shreveport university, Louisiana. 

SHIRLAW, WALTER, artist, was born 
Aug. 6, 1838, in Scotland. He first ex¬ 
hibited at the National academy in 1861, 
and subsequently decided to devote him¬ 
self altogether to art. He was elected an 
academician of the Chicago Academy of 
Design in 1868. 

SHIRLEY, JOHN MILTON, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 16, 1831, in San- 
bornton, N. H. He was a lawyer of Ando¬ 
ver, N. H., and the author of The Early 
Jurisprudence of New Hampshire; Com¬ 
plete History of the Dartmouth College 
Case; and Reports of Cases in Supreme 
Judicial Court. He died May 21, 1887, in 
Andover, N. H. 

SHIRLEY, MOSES GAGE, farmer, poet, 
was born May 15, 1865, in Goffstown, N. H. 
He is a farmer in the place of his nativity; 
and the author of A Book of Poems. 

SHIRLEY, WILLIAM, soldier, govern¬ 
or, author, was born in 1693 in England. 
He was a noted colonial soldier who 
planned the conquest of Cape Breton, and 
was governor of Massachusetts in 1741-45. 
He was the author of Electra, a tragedy; 
The Birth of Hercules, a masque; Letter 
to the Duke of Newcastle, with Journal of 
the Siege of Louisburg; and The Conduct 
of General Shirley Briefly Stated. He died 
March 24, 1771, in Roxbury, Mass. 

SHIVELY, BENJAMIN F„ educator, 
lawyer, congressman, was born March 20, 
1857, in St. Joseph county, Ind. During 
1874-80 he taught 
school; and then en¬ 
gaged in journalism. 
He was elected to the 
forty-eighth con¬ 
gress to fill a va¬ 
cancy. He graduat¬ 
ed in law from the 
Ann Arbor univer¬ 
sity with the class 
of 1886, and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar. He 
was elected to the 
fiftieth and fifty- 
first congresses, and re-elected to the fifty- 
second congress as a democrat. In 1896 
he was the democratic nominee for gov¬ 
ernor of Indiana. 

SHOBER, FRANCIS E., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born March 12, 
1831, in Salem, N. C. In 1853 he located 
in Salisbury, N. C. In 1862 he was elected 
to the state assembly as a conservative, 
and continued in that position until the 
close of the war. He subsequently served 
one session in the state senate, and was 
elected a representative from North Caro¬ 
lina to the forty-first and forty-second 
congresses. He was acting secretary of 
the United States senate from 1881 to 1883. 

SHQCK, WILLIAM HENRY, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born June 15, 1821, in Baltimore, 
Md. In January, 1845, he entered the 
United States naval 
service. He served 
under Commodore 
Perry during the 
» i* i>. Mexican war; and 

under Admiral Far- 
ragut during the civ¬ 
il war. In 1877 he 
was appointed engin¬ 
eer-in-chief of the 
United States navy; 
and retired in June, 
1883 (age limit under 
the law) with rank 
of commodore. He is a member of the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the 
United States; National Geographical so¬ 




ciety, American Society of Naval Engin¬ 
eers, Society of Naval Architects and 
Marine Engineers, and the Philosophical 
society of Washington, D. C. He is the 
author of Steam Boilers, Their Design, 
Construction and Management. 

SHOEMAKER, GEORGE WASHING¬ 
TON, inventor, was born Dec. 14, 1861, 
near Williamsport, Pa. Having mechan¬ 
ical ability, he made various improve¬ 
ments in his father’s woolen mill, and in 
1886 invented a ring-machine, by which 
wool-spinning may be carried on continu¬ 
ously. 

SHOEMAKER, HENRY F„ banker, 
railroad president, born March 28, 1845, 
in Pennsylvania. In 1887 he was elected 
president of the Min¬ 
eral Range railroad, 
and in 1888 he 
bought a large inter¬ 
est in the Cincinnati, 
Hamilton and Day- 
ton railroad, and lat¬ 
er, with others, be¬ 
came one of the dom¬ 
inant snirits in the 
company and was 
made chairman of its 
executive committee. 
He has been suc¬ 
cessful in his undertakings and is 
now president of the Dayton and 
Union and the Cincinnati, Dayton and 
Ironton railroads. He was also at one 
time engaged in the mining of bituminous 
coal in the Kanawha valley, W. Va. 

SHOEMAKER, JACOB W., educator, in¬ 
ventor, artist, author, was born April 18, 
1842, in West Overton, Pa. He was the 
founder and president of the National 
School of Elocution and Oratory of Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa., and died May 15, 1880. 

SHOEMAKER, MRS. JACOB W„ elo¬ 
cutionist, author. She is the wife of the 
late Jacob W. Shoemaker, the founder and 
president of the National School of Elo¬ 
cution and Oratory of Philadelphia, Pa., 
and since the death of her husband in 
1880 she has continued the management 
of that institution. 

SHOEMAKER, JOHN CHAPMAN, state 
senator, was born April 8, 1826, in Perry 
county, Ind. In 1868 he was elected a 
member of the lower house of the In¬ 
diana legislature, in which body he again 
brought into prominence the same prac¬ 
tical views of legislation that so eminently 
distinguished him while a member of the 
senate. 

SHOEMAKER, LAZARUS D., lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 
5, 1819, in Kingston, Pa. He graduated 
at Yale college in 
1840, studied and 
practiced law in 
Wilkesbarre, Pa. He 
was a member of the 
state senate in 1866- 
68, and was elected a 
representative from 
Pennsylvania to the 
forty-second and for¬ 
ty-third congresses 
as a republican, 
serving as chairman 
of the committee on 
revolutionary pensions, and on that of 
claims. 

SHOEMAKER, MICHAEL MYERS, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1853 in Kentucky. He is 
a writer of travels, and the author of 
Eastward to the Land of Morning; The 
Kingdom of the White Woman, a volume 
of Mexican travel; and Trans-Caspia: the 
Sealed Provinces of the Czar. 





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SHOEMAKER, WILLIAM LUKEN, 
physician, philologist, poet, was born July 
19, 1823, in Georgetown, D. C. His poems, 
bird songs, translations from the German 
of Heine and others, are distinguished by 
rare perfection of form and melody. He 
is best known for his Sweetheart Bird 
Song, set to music by Balfe, the English 
composer. As a linguist and poet he 
holds a masterly rank. 

SHOLES, CHARLES CLARK, journal¬ 
ist, state senator, was born Jan. 8, 1816, 
in Norwich, Conn. He settled in Kenosha, 
Wis., in 1847, of which place he was sev¬ 
eral times mayor, frequently represented 
Kenosha county both in the assembly and 
senate of the state, and in one session 
was chosen speaker of the former body. 
He died Oct. 5, 1867, in Kenosha, \vis. 

SHOl^o, CHRISTOPHER LATHAM, 
journalist, inventor, was born Feb. 14, 
1819, in Mooresburg, Pa. In addition to 
his work as a journalist, which has been 
his profession when not holding office, he 
has interested himself in inventions, the 
most important of which is the typewrit¬ 
ing machine that was introduced through 
the Arm of E. Remington and Sons. In 
1873 this invention passed into tbe hands 
of the Remingtons for manufacture, since 
which time many minor improvements 
have been added to it, increasing its use¬ 
fulness. 

SHONK, GEORGE W., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born April 26, 1850, in Ply¬ 
mouth, Pa. He was admitted to the bar of 
Luzerne county, Pa., in 1876, and has prac¬ 
ticed his profession at Wilkesbarre since. 
He was elected to the fifty-second con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

SHORT, ALFRED, manufacturer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Jan. 1, 1847, in- Sharon, 
Pa. He attended the Richburg academy, 
the Friendship acad¬ 
emy, and the Alfred 
academy, in the 
state of New York. 
He is a successful 
manufacturer o f 
North East, Pa.; has 
been mayor of his 
city, and president of 
the school board. In 
1878-79 he served 
with distinction as a 
member of the state 
assembly of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. In 1888 he was a delegate to the 
democratic national convention at St. 
Louis; and has always taken an active 
part in political affairs. He is president 
of the People's Savings institution of 
Erie county, and president of the Eureka 
Tempered Copper works of North East, 
Pa. 

SHORT, CHARLES, college president, 
author, was born May 28, 1821, in Haver¬ 
hill, Mass. In 1863 he became seventh 
president of the Kenyon college, and is 
the author of On the Order of Words in 
Attic-Greek Prose; and Mitchell’s Ancient 
Geography. He died Dec. 24, 1886, in 
New York city. 

SHORT, CHARLES WILKINS, botan¬ 
ist, was Dorn Oct. 6, 1794, in Woodford 
county, Ky. In 1838 he moved to Louis¬ 
ville, Ky., where he was associated with 
several others in founding the medical de¬ 
partment of the university of Louisville, 
and continued to hold a chair in that 
institution until 1849, when he retired. He 
then devoted himself to the collection of 
plants and, flowers, and. with Dr. Robert 
Peter and Henry A. Griswold, prepared 
Plants of Kentucky. He died March 7, 
1863, in Louisville, Ky. 

SHORTALL, JOHN GEORGE, humani¬ 
tarian, -was born Sept. 20, 1838, in Ireland. 


He entered upon the business of making 
records of abstracts of title to lands in 
Cook county, Ill. He did great service in 
the collection and preservation of his val¬ 
uable abstracts of title. He is president 
of the Illinois Humane society, and is as¬ 
sociated with the National and State Hu¬ 
mane associations. 

SHORTER. ELI S., lawyer, planter, 
congressman, was born March 15, 1823, in 
Monticello, Ga. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Alabama to the thirty- 
fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. 

SHORTER. JAMES ALEXANDER, 
bishop, was born Feb. 4, 1817, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He was elected bishop of the 
African-American methodist episcopal 
church in 1868, and sent more fully to 
organize the church in the extreme south¬ 
west, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. 
As president of the Missionary society of 
his church, he has succeeded in opening 
the work in Hayti and Africa, whither 
missionaries have been sent. 

SHORTER, JOHN GILL, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, governor, 
was born in 1818 in Jasper county, Ga. 
He was for several years a state senator 
from Alabama. From 1855 to 1861 was 
circuit judge for his district. He was a 
member of the confederate congress, and 
was governor of Alabama from 1861 to 
1863. He died May 29, 1872, in Eufauia, 
Ala. 

SHOTWELL, AMBROSE MILTON, ge¬ 
nealogist, educator, author, was born May 
30, 1853, in Elba, N. Y. He has been a 
successful teacher in schools for the blind, 
and is now embosser of literature in the 
Michigan School for the Blind of Lan¬ 
sing. He is the author of Annals of Our 
Colonial Ancestors and Their Descend¬ 
ants; and other works. 

SHOUP. FRANCIS ASBURY, soldier, 
clergyman, educator, author, born March 
22, 1834, in Laurel, Ind. He was an episco¬ 
pal clergyman and educator of Sewanee, 
Tenn., professor of metaphysics in the 
university of the South, and a confederate 
officer in the civil war. He was the au¬ 
thor of Infantry Tactics; Artillery Div¬ 
ision Drill; and Elements of Algebra. He 
died in 1896. 

SHOUP, GEORGE L., soldier, merchant, 
governor, United States senator, was born 
June 15, 1836, in Kittanning, Pa. He en¬ 
listed in Captain 
Backus’s independ¬ 
ent company of 
scouts, and was soon 
thereafter commis¬ 
sioned second lieu¬ 
tenant, and was 
commissioned col¬ 
onel of the third 
Colorado cavalry in 
1864. He engaged in 
the mercantile busi¬ 
ness in Virginia 
City, Mont., in 1866, 
and during the same year established a 
business at Salmon City, Idaho; and since 
1866 has been engaged in mining, stock 
raising, mercantile, and other business in 
Idaho. He was a member of the terri¬ 
torial legislature during the eighth and 
tenth sessions. He was United States 
commissioner for Idaho at the World's 
Cotton Centennial exposition at New Or¬ 
leans, La., in 1884-85, and was again 
placed on the republican national com¬ 
mittee in 1888, re-elected in 1892 and again 
in 1896. He was appointed governor of 
Idaho territory in 1889, which position 
he held until elected governor of the 
state of Idaho in 1890. He was elected to 
the United States senate as a republican 


in 1890, and was re-elected in 1895. His 
term of service will expire March 3, 1901. 

SHOWALTER. JOSEPH B„ educator, 
was born Feb. 11, 1851, near Smithfield, 
Pa. He taught school in Pennsylvania, 
West Virginia, Indiana, and Illinois. He 
has filled numerous local offices in Chi- 
cora, Pa., and in his county and state. 
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress. 

SHOWER. JACOB, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1853 to 1855. 

SHRADY, JOHN, physician, author, 
was born March 13, 1830, in New York 
city. N. Y. He is a prominent lawyer of 
New York city, and is the author of Tran¬ 
sactions; The Psychical Aspects of In¬ 
sanity; The Shadow Line of Insanity; 
Signs of the Moribund Condition; and 
Two Hundred Years of Medicine. 

SHREYE. HENRY MILLER, inventor, 
born Oct. 21, 1785, in Burlington county, 
N. .J. In 1815 he ascended the Mississippi 
to Louisville in the 
Enterprise, the first 
steam vessel that 
ever performed that 
voyage, and subse¬ 
quently he built the 
Washington on a 
plan of his own in¬ 
vention, with im¬ 
provements that 
made it superior to 
Robert Fulton’s boat. 
In 1817 his vessel 
made its first trip 
laden with passengers and freight, and 
demonstrated its superiority. When its 
success was thoroughly shown, Fulton and 
his associates, having the exclusive right 
to navigate all vessels propelled by fire 
and steam in the rivers of said territory, 
entered suit against him and seized his 
boats; but the case was decided in his 
favor. In 1826 he was appointed superin¬ 
tendent of western river improvements, 
which place he held until 1841. He died 
March 6, 1854, in St. Louis, Mo. 

SHREVE, SAMUEL HENRY, civil en¬ 
gineer. author, was born Aug. 2, 1829, in 
Trenton, N. J. He was a civil engineer 
of New York city, and the author of The 
Strength of Bridges and Roofs. He died 
Nov. 27, 1884, in New York city. 

SHREVE. THOMAS H., journalist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1808, in Alexan¬ 
dria, Va. He was a journalist of Louis¬ 
ville, and the author of Drayton, an Amer¬ 
ican Tale; and Poems. He died Dec. 23, 
1853, in Louisville, Ky. 

SHRIVER. ALFRED JENKINS, law 
yer, author, was born in 1867 in Baltimore, 
Md., where he has attained prominence 
as a successful lawyer. He received the 
degree of A. B. from the Johns Hopkins 
university, and LL. B. from the law 
school of the university of Maryland. He 
is the author of several monographs on 
legal subjects, which have attracted fa¬ 
vorable attention. 

SHUBRICK, WILLIAM BRADFORD, 
na^al officer, was born Oct. 31, 1790, on 
Bull’s Island, S. C. He served through 
the Mexican and civil wars, atcaining for 
meritorious ser\ ices the rank of rear- 
admiral. He died May 27, 1874, in Wash¬ 
ington. 

SHUCK, MRS. HENRIETTA [HALL], 
author, was born Oct. 28, 1817, in Kilmar¬ 
nock, Va. She was thfe wife of a mission¬ 
ary in China; and the author of Scenes 
in China. She died Nov. 27, 1844, in Hong 
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SHUCK, WILLIAM ROBERT, lawyer, 
politician, was born July 15, 1864, in Ar¬ 
kansas. He studied law in the St. Louis 
Law school; was admitted to the bar in 
Houston, and has attained success in his 
profession at Eminence, Mo. He has been 
commissioner of his county; was elected 
prosecuting attorney in 1896; is a promi¬ 
nent democrat in politics; and has served 
two terms on the staff of the secretary of 
the Missouri senate. 

SHUEY, MRS. LILLIAN HINNMAN, 
author, poet, was born March 22, 1853, in 
Toulon, Ill. She is a writer of Lorin. 
Cal.; the author of two prose works en¬ 
titled Hilda, and Don Louis’ Wife; and a 
volume of poems entitled California Sun¬ 
shine. 

SHUEY, WILLIAM JOHN, journalist, 
was born Feb. 9, 1827, in Miamisburg. 
Ohio. In 1866 he became sole agent, which 
position he has since occupied, of the 
United Brethren Publishing house of Day- 
ton, Ohio. 

SHUFELDT. ROBERT WILSON, naval 
officer, was born Feb. 21, 1832, in Red 
Hook, N. Y. He became a midshipman 
in 1839; served in the Mexican and civil 
wars; was promoted to rear-admiral in 
1883; and retired the following year. 

SHUFORD, ALONZO CRAIG, agricul¬ 
turist, congressman, was born March 1, 
1858, in Catawba county, N. C. He was 
made county lecturer and later district 
lecturer of the alliance; was elected del¬ 
egate to the labor conference in St. Louis 
in 1892; and also delegate for the state 
at large to the populist convention in 
Omaha in the same year. He was elected 
vice-president of the state alliance in 1894; 
and was elected from North Carolina to 
the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a populist. 

SHULTZ, EMANUEL, manufacturer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
July 25, 1819, in Berks county. Pa. He 
was elected in 1875 a member of the Ohio 
state legislature and served two years; 
and was elected to the forty-seventh con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

SHULTZ, JAMES, lawyer, was born 
in July, 1848, in Van Buren county, Iowa. 
He is one of the foremost lawyers of 
Kansas at Eureka; and prominent in the 
public affairs of his city, county and state. 

SHULTZ, JOSEPH S„ educator, author, 
poet, was born March 13, 1863, in De 
•Graff, Ohio. For many years he was pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics and English liter¬ 
ature in Wilder college. He is the author 
•of Observations in the Northwest; Look¬ 
ing Upward; and a number of meritorious 
poems. 

SHULTZ, THEODORE. missionary, 
translator, was born Dec. 17, 1770, in Ger¬ 
many. He entered the foreign mission 
field of the Moravian church in 1799, and 
was sent to Surinam, South America, 
where he served seven years. He revised 
and • improved a Dictionary, and trans¬ 
lated a Harmony of the Gospels into the 
-Arrawak language. He died Aug. 4, 1850. 
in Salem, N. C. 

SHULZE, JOHN ANDREW, state legis¬ 
lator, governor, was born July 19. 1775, 
in Tulpehocken, Pa. He represented Leb¬ 
anon county for several years in the state 
legislature; and was governor of Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1823 to 1829. He died Nov. 
19, 1852, in Lancaster, Pa. 

SHUMWAY, FRANK L., was born Jan. 
25, 1878, in Richmondville, N. Y. He has 
attained success as an educator; and re¬ 
sides in Normal Circle, Oneonta, N. Y. 

SHUMWAY, HENRY COTTON, soldier, 
•artist, was born July 4, 1807, in Middle- 
ttown. Conn. -For many years he followed 


his profession as a miniature-painter suc¬ 
cessfully in New York and other cities. 
Among the numerous eminent men that 
sat to him were Henry Clay, Daniel Web¬ 
ster, and Prince Napoleon, whose por¬ 
traits he painted in 1838. He died May 6, 
1884, in New York. 

SKUNK, FRANCIS RAWN, soldier, 
lawyer, governor, was born Aug. 7, 1778, 
in Trappe, Pa. He established himself for 
the practice of law in Pittsburg; and was 
governor of Pennsylvania from 1845 to 
1848. He died July 30, 1848, in Harrisburg. 

SHUPE, HENRY FOX, journalist, cler¬ 
gyman, was born March 18, 1860, in Scott- 
dale. Pa. In 1893 he was elected editor 
of The Watchword in Dayton, Ohio. He 
has been one of the most earnest advo¬ 
cates of the Christian Endeavor movement, 
and for several years served the cause as 
one of the vice-presidents of the Penn¬ 
sylvania union. 

SHURTLEFF, BENJAMIN, physician, 
philanthropist. He donated ten thousand 
dollars to the Baptist college of Upper 
Alton, Ill. The name of this institution 
was changed in 1836 to Shurtleff college 
in his honor. 

SHURTLEFF. ERNEST WARBURTON, 
clergyman, author, poet, was born April 
4, 1862, in Boston, Mass. He is a congre¬ 
gational clergyman and verse-writer of 
Plymouth, Mass.; and the author of Po¬ 
ems; Easter Gleams; Song of Hope; 
When I was a Child; and New Year’s 
Peace. 

SHURTLEFF, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 
physician, author, was born Aug. 5, 1819, 
in Carver, Mass. In 1872 he was elected 
president of the State Medical society of 
California, holding this position until 1883. 
He is the author of Medical Jurisprudence 
of Insanity; The Obscure Forms of Epi¬ 
lepsy and the Responsibilities of Epilep¬ 
tics; and Suicide. 

SHURTLEFF, NATHANIEL BRAD- 
STREET, antiquarian, author, was born 
June 29, 1810, in Boston, Mass. He was 
an antiquarian of Boston; and the author 
of Elements of Phrenology; A Perpetual 
Calendar of Old and New Style; Topo¬ 
graphical Description of Boston; and Pas¬ 
sengers of the Mayflower in 1620. With 
D. Pulsifer he edited The Records of the 
Colony of New Plymouth, in twelve vol¬ 
umes. He died Oct. 17, 1874, in Boston, 
Mass. 

SHURTLEFF, ROSWELL MORSE, art¬ 
ist, was born June 14, 1838, in Rindge, 
N. H. His animal paintings first gained 
him distinction, and of these the best 
known are The Wolf at the Door, and A 
Race for Life. Among his later works in 
oil, most of which are scenes in the Adi- 
rondacks, are On the Alert; Autumn Gold; 
Gleams of Sunshine (1881); and A Song 
of Summer Woods. 

SHUTE, SAMUEL, governor, was born 
in 1653 in England. During 1716-23 he 
was governor of Massachusetts. He died 
April 15, 1742, in England. 

SHUTE, SAMUEL MOORE, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born Jan. 24, 1823, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1859 he became 
professor of the English language and 
literature in Columbian university, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He is the author of a Man¬ 
ual of Anglo-Saxon. 

SHUTTER, MARION DANIEL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 4, 1863, in 
New Philadelphia, Ohio. He has been pas¬ 
tor of the Olivet Baptist church of Min¬ 
neapolis, Minn., and is now pastor of the 
First Universalist church of that city. He 
is the author of Wit and Humor of the 
Bible; Justice and Mercy; and Child of 
Nature. 


SIBBET, S. D., physician, author, poet, 
was born in Northampton, Pa. For a 
quarter of a century he has divided his 
time between the practice of medicine and 
scientific researches in Beaver Falls, Pa. 
He is the author of a number of medical 
books, and a volume of poems. 

SIBLER, WILHELM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1801 in Prussia. He 
was a Lutheran clergyman of Missouri; 
and the author of Sermons on the Epistles 
and Gospels of the Christian Year. 

SIBLER. WILLIAM BIENHAUSER, 
college president, was born Nov. 22, 1826, 
in New York city. In 1870-71 he was pres¬ 
ident of Albion college. New York city. 
He is the author of Progressive Lessons in 
Greek; Elementary Latin Grammar; A 
History of St. James Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Harlem, New York city; and 
Parallel Classics. 

SIBLEY, FRANK ,L, lecturer, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Aug. 11, 1847, in 
Royalton, N. Y. He received his education 
at Lockport acad¬ 
emy, and has attain¬ 
ed success as a tem¬ 
perance lecturer and 
author. In 1877 he 
was secretary of the 
prohibition New 
York state central 
committee, and of 
Kansas in 1880. Dur¬ 
ing 1882-85 he was 
grand chief templar 
of Good Templars of 
Nebraska; and since 
1893 has filled the same office for Georgia. 
During 1889-93 he organized a company 
and built the town of Demorest, Ga. He 
has founded various newspapers, and is 
the author of a number of works on Tem¬ 
perance. 

SIBLEY, HENRY HASTINGS, soldier, 
congressman, governor, was born Feb. 20, 
1811, in Detroit, Mich. He was a delegate 
to congress from Minnesota territory from 
1849 to 1853. In 1857 he was elected its 
first governor; and was a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers during the rebellion. 
He commanded an expedition against the 
Minnesota Indians in 1863; and was sub¬ 
sequently brevetted a major-general of 
volunteers. He died Feb. 18, 1891, in St 
Paul, Minn. 

SIBLEY, HIRAM, financier, was oorn 
Feb. 6, 1807, in North Adams, Mass. He 
was instrumental in obtaining from con¬ 
gress an appropriation in aid of Morse’s 
experiments and interested himself in tel¬ 
egraphy from the beginning. His tele¬ 
graphs eventually extended over thirteen 
states; were consolidated under the name 
of the Western Union Telegraph company, 
of which he was president for seventeen 
years. He became the largest owner of 
improved lands in the United States, own¬ 
ing the Burr Oaks farm of nearly forty 
thousand acres in Illinois; and the How¬ 
land Island farm of Cayuga, N. Y. He 
gave a one hundred thousand dollar build¬ 
ing to hold a public library and the col¬ 
lections of the Rochester university; and 
various other sums were donated by him. 
He died July 12, 1888, in Rochester, N. Y. 

SIBLEY, HIRAM LUTHER, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born May 4, 1836, in 
Gustavus, Ohio. For fourteen years he 
was judge of the court of common pleas 
of the seventh district of Ohio; and in 
1897 became circuit judge of the fourth 
Ohio circuit for a term of six years. He 
has received the degrees of A. M. and 
LL. D., and is noted as one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of Ohio at Marietta. 



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SIBLEY, JOHN LANGDON, librarian, 
author, was born Dec. 29, 1804, in Union, 
Maine. He was the librarian of Harvard 
university in 1841-77; and the author of 
History of the Town of Union, Maine; 
and Biographical Sketches of Harvard 
University Graduates. He died Dec. 9, 
1885, in Cambridge, Mass. 

SIBLEY, JONAS, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 17, 1762, in 
Sutton, Mass. From 1806 to 1823 he was 
a member of the Massachusetts legisla¬ 
ture; was an elector for president in 1820; 
and served again in both houses of the 
legislature. He was a member of con¬ 
gress from Worcester county from 1823 
to 1825. He died Feb. 10, 1834, in Sutton, 
Mass. 

SIBLEY, JOSEPH C., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1850, in 
Friendship, N. Y. He is extensively en¬ 
gaged in farming and 
stock raising; is a 
manufacturer of lu¬ 
bricating and signal 
oils, and interested 
in various other man¬ 
ufacturing and busi¬ 
ness enterprises He 
has been mayor of 
Franklin, Pa.; and 
president of the 
Pennsylvania State 
Dairymen’s associa¬ 
tion. He was elected 
a representative from Pennsylvania to the 
fifty-third congress; and in 1896 his name 
was put forward for the presidency of the 
United States by the silver party of the 



east. 

SIBLEY", MARK HOPKINS, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, state senator, congressman, was born 
in 1796 in Great Barrington, Mass. He 
was a member of the New York assembly 
in 1834 and 1835. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1837 to 1839; and 
was subsequently a state senator; and in 
1846 a county judge. He died Sept. 8, 1852, 
in Canandaigua, N. Y. 

SIBLEY, SOLOMON, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 7, 1769, in Sutton, Mass. He moved 
to Detroit, Mich., in 1797; and in 1799 
was elected to the first territorial legisla¬ 
ture of the North-western territory. He 
was a delegate to congress from the terri¬ 
tory of Michigan from 1820 to 1823; and 
in 1824 was appointed judge of the su¬ 
preme court of Michigan, and held the 
office until 1836. He died April 4, 1846, in 
Detroit, Mich. 

SICKEL, HORATIO GATES, soldier, 
was born April 2, 1817, in Belmont, Pa. 
He entered the United States service in 
1861 as colonel of the third regiment of 
the Pennsylvania reserv e corps, and suc¬ 
ceeded General George G. Meade in the 
command of the brigade. He died April 
18, 1896, in Philadelphia, Pa. 



SICKLES, DANIEL EDGAR, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 20, 1823, in New York city. In 
1847 he was elected 
to the assembly of 
New York, and in 
1856 to the state sen¬ 
ate. He was elected 
a representative from 
New York to the 
thirty-fifth congress; 
and was re-elected to 
the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress He served in 
the union army dur¬ 
ing the rebellion; 
lost a leg in battle, 
and attained the rank of major-general of 
volunteers. In 1866 he was appointed 
minister resident to the Netherlands, but 


declined. He was subsequently appointed 
a colonel in the regular army; and in 
1867 was brevetted a major-general for 
gallant and meritorious services at Get¬ 
tysburg. He was elected to the fifty-third 
congress as a democrat. 

SICKLES, NICHOLAS, congressman, 
was born in Kinderhook, N. Y. He was a 
representative in congress from 1835 to 
1S37. He died May 13, 1845, in Kingston, 
N. Y. 

SIDELL, YVILL TECUMSEH, educator, 
lawyer, was born Feb. 20, 1865, in Monroe 
county, Ohio. For many years he was 
engaged in educational work; and became 
superintendent of schools for Wetzel coun¬ 
ty, W. Va. He was also editor of the Wet¬ 
zel Democrat for several years. He is 
now a prominent lawyer of New Martins¬ 
ville, W. Va.; has been twice mayor of 
that city; and has been connected with a 
number of building and loan associations, 
and taken an active part in the public af¬ 
fairs of his city, county and state. 

SIDWELL, MILTON CRAVEN, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 16, 1855, 
in Overton county, Tenn. He has held the 
office of county surveyor of Clay county, 
Tenn.; was superintendent of public in¬ 
struction for four years of Pickett county, 
and four years held the same position in 
Clay county, Tenn.; and attained success 
as an educator. He is a prominent law¬ 
yer of Celina, Tenn.; has held the posi¬ 
tion of special judge in five courts; has 
been attorney general pro tempore; and 
has taken a prominent part in politics. 
He stands high in Masonry; and is a 
member of several fraternal orders. 

SIGEL, FRANZ, soldier, was born Nov. 
18, 1824, in Germany. He served with dis¬ 
tinction through the civil war, attaining 
the rank of brigadier-general. 

SIGOURNEY", MRS. LYDIA HOWARD 
fHUNTLY"], author, poet, was born Sept. 
1, 1791, in Norwich, Conn. She was one 
of the most popular 
of the earlier Ameri¬ 
can writers. She was 
nearly all her life a 
resident of Hartford. 
Among her prose 
writings are Myrtis; 
Post Meridian; Let¬ 
ters to My Pupils; 
Letters to Young La¬ 
dies; Traits of the 
Aborigines in Ameri¬ 
ca; and Letters of 
Life. Other Works 
are Pocahontas; Moral Pieces in Prose 
and Verse; Poetry for Children; and Zin- 
zendorf, and Other Poems. She died June 
10, 1865, in Hartford, Conn. 

SIGSBEE, CHARLES D., naval officer, 
was born in the state of New York. Dur¬ 
ing 1859-63 he attended the naval academy 
and served in the 
civil war in the west 
gulf squadron. He 
was in the battle of 
Mobile bay, and at 
both attacks at Fort 
Fisher; and in the 
final assault on same. 
In 1867 he was com¬ 
missioned lieutenant, 
and lieutenant-com¬ 
mander in 1868. Dur¬ 
ing 1869-71 he was 
on duty at the naval 
academy; and was promoted to command¬ 
er in 1882. He was in command of the 
warship Maine, which was destroyed by 
a sub-marine mine in Havana harbor. He 
rendered important service during the 
Spanish-American war. 




SIKES, MRS. OLIVE [LOGAN], actress, 
author, was born in 1841 in New Y"ork. She 
is an actress and author, popular at one 
period as a lecturer; and the author of 
Photographs of Paris Life; Chateau 
Frissac, or Home Scenes in France; John 
Morris’s Money; Somebody’s Stockings; 
Apropos of Women and Theaters; Before 
the Footlights and Behind the Scenes; 
The Mimic World; Get Thee Behind Me, 
Satan; and They Met by Chance, a novel. 

SIKES, WILLIAM WIRT, journalist, 
author, was born in 1836 in Watertown, 
N. Y. He was a journalist of New York 
city who was consul at Cardiff, Wales, in 
1876-83; and the author of British Gob¬ 
lins; Welsh Folk-Lore; One Poor Girl; 
Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales; 
and Studies of Assassination. He died 
Aug. 19, 1883, in London, England. 

SILKMAN, THEODORE HANNIBAL, 
lawyer, public official, was born March 25, 
1858, in New York city. He received his 
education in Hooper’s academy of Yonk¬ 
ers, N. Y. In 1879 he was admitted to 
the bar and has since practiced law con¬ 
tinuously in New York city. He has been 
United States commissioner for the city 
of Yonkers; police commissioner for six 
years; and is now president of the board. 
He began a term of six years as surrogate 
of West Chester county, N. Y., in 1895. 

SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND, educator, 
poet, was born April 29, 1841, in Windsor, 
Conn. He was a poet and educator of 
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and professor in the 
uni\ ersity of California in 1874-82. He was 
the author of The Hermitage, and Later 
Poems; and Poems. He died Feb. 27, 
1887, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

SILL, JOHN MAHELON BERRY, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Nov. 23, 1831, in 
Black Rock, N. Y". He is a Michigan edu¬ 
cator of prominence, principal of the State 
Normal school; and the author of Syn¬ 
thesis of the English Sentence; and Prac¬ 
tical Lessons in English. 

SILL, JOSHUA WOODROW, soldier, 
was born Dec. 6, 1831, in Chillicothe, Ohio. 
At the beginning of the civil war in April 
he at once offered his services to the 
governor of Ohio, and was commissioned 
assistant adjutant-general of that state. 
He was commissioned colonel of the thir¬ 
ty-third Ohio volunteers, and attained the 
rank of brigadier-general. He died Dec. 
31, 1862, in Murfreesboro, Tenn. 

SILL, THOMAS H., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Connecticut. In 1826 
he was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania to fill a vacancy; and was 
again a representative in congress from 
1829 to 1831. 

SILLIMAN, AUGUSTUS ELY, financier, 
author, was born April 11, 1807, in New¬ 
port, R. I. He was a banker of New Y’ork 
city who published A Gallop Among 
American Scenery. He died May 30, 1884, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

SILLIMAN, BENJAMIN, educator, nat¬ 
uralist, author, was born Aug. 8, 1779, in 
North Stratford, Conn. He was a chemist 
of distinction, pro¬ 
fessor of chemistry 
at Yale university in 
1802-55; and the 
founder in 1818 of 
Silliman’s Journal of 
Science and Art. He 
was the author of 
Journal of Travels 
in England; Narra¬ 
tive of a Visit to 
Europe (1853); Ele¬ 
ments of Chemistry; 
and Consistency of 
Modern Geology with Sacred History. He 
died Nov. 24, 1864, in New Haven, Conn. 









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SILLIMAN, BENJAMIN, chemist, author, 
was born Dec. 4, 1816, in New Haven’ 
Conn. He was a professor of chemistry 
at Yale university from 1846 until his 
death, and editor of Silliman’s Journal. 
He was the author of First Principles of 
Chemistry; American Contributions to 
Chemistry; and Principles of Physics. He 
died Jan. 14, 1885, in New Haven, Conn. 

SILLIMAN, BENJAMIN DOUGLAS, 
lawyer, state legislator, was born Sept. 
14, 1805, in Newport, R. I. He was elected 
to the New York legislature in 1838. In 
1865 he was appointed United States at¬ 
torney for the eastern district of New 
York. 

SILLIMAN, GOLD SELLECK, soldier, 
was born May 7, 1732, in Fairfield, Conn. 
At the beginning of the revolutionary war 
he was colonel of cavalry in the local 
militia. During the greater part of the 
war he held the rank of brigadier-general 
and was charged with the defense of the 
southwestern frontier of Connecticut, 
which, owing to the long occupation of 
New York city by the British, was a duty 
that required much vigilance. He died 
July 31, 1790, in Fairfield, Conn. 

SILLOWAY, THOMAS WILLIAM, arch¬ 
itect, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 7, 
1828, in Newburyport, Mass. He is a Bos¬ 
ton architect who became a universalist 
minister in 1862; and the author of Theo- 
gonis; Text-Book of Modern Carpentry; 
Warming and Ventilation; and Cathedral 
Towns of England. 

SILSBEE, MRS. MARIANNE CABOT 
[DEVEREUX], author, was born in 1812. 
She was a Boston writer who published A 
Half Century in Salem, and se\eral com¬ 
pilations of poems. She died in 1889. 

SILSBEE, NATHANIEL, merchant, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born in 1773 in Essex county. Mass. He 
was frequently elected to the Massachu¬ 
setts state legislature; and was for three 
years president of the state senate. He 
served as a representative in congress 
from 1816 to 1820; and was a senator of 
the United States from 1826 to 1835. He 
was a presidential elector in 1837. He died 
July 1. 1850, in Salem, Mass. 

SILSBY, WILLIAM H., soldier, farmer, 
was born Aug. 31, 1832, in Union county, 
Pa. He served with distinction during 
the civil war in the 
union army. He was 
first lieutenant of 
company I, and cap¬ 
tain of company A, 
in the tenth regi¬ 
ment Iowa volunteer 
infantry; and was 
promoted to lieuten¬ 
ant and colonel of 
his regiment. He is 
now a successful 
farmer of Ashland, 
Oregon. 

SILVER, THOMAS, civil engineer, in¬ 
ventor, author, was born June 17, 1830, in 
Greenwich, N. J. He was a civil engineer 
well known as an inventor; and the au¬ 
thor of A Trip to the North Pole, or The¬ 
ory of the Origin of Icebergs. He died 
April 12, 1888, in New York city. 

SILVESTER, PETER, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
New York. He was a member of the Al¬ 
bany committee of safety in 1774; and of 
the New York provincial congress. He 
was a judge of the common pleas in 1776; 
and was elected a member of the first con¬ 
gress under the federal constitution. He 
was subsequently a state senator. He died 
Jan. 30, 1845, in Kinderhook, N. Y. 

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SILVESTER, PETER H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 17, 1807, in Kin¬ 
derhook, N. Y. He was a representative 
in congress from New York from 1847 
to 1851. 

SILVESTER. RICHARD WILLIAM, 
educator, agriculturist, was born Sept. 16, 
1857, in Norfolk, Va. In 1877 he gradu¬ 
ated from the Virginia Military institute. 
The same year he was elected professor 
of mathematics and military tactics at the 
Charlotte academy; in' 1886 the chair of 
German was added to his duties; and in 
1889 he was elected principal of the same 
institution. In 1890 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the Maryland Agricultural col¬ 
lege, and has since filled that position 
with distinction. 

SIMKINS, ARTHUR, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born about 1750 in 
Virginia. At the beginning of the revolu¬ 
tionary war he took sides with the pa¬ 
triots, and his place, known as Cedar 
Fields, was burned by the tories. After the 
war he was chosen a member of the gen¬ 
eral assembly, and retained his seat for 
nearly twenty years. He died in 1826 in 
Edgefield, S. C. 

SIMKINS, ELDRED, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 
1779, in Edgefield, S. C. He served fre¬ 
quently in the legislature; was lieutenant- 
governor of South Carolina in 1812; and 
was a general of militia. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from South Caro¬ 
lina from 1817 to 1821. He died in 1832 in 
Edgefield, S. C. 

SIMMONS, F. M., lawyer, congressman, 
was born Jan. 20, 1854, in Jones county, 
S. C. In 1876 he moved to New Berne, N. 
C., where he has since resided and ‘prac¬ 
ticed his profession. He was elected to 
the fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

SIMMONS, GEORGE A., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1771 in New 
Hampshire. He served a number of years 
in the assembly of New Hampshire; and 
was elected a representative from New 
Hampshire to the thirty-third and thirty- 
fourth congresses. He died Oct. 27, 1857, 
in Keesville, N. Y. 

SIMMONS, GEORGE FREDERICK, 
clergyman, author, was born March 24, 
1814, in Boston, Mass. He was a well- 
known clergyman of Massachusetts, and 
the state of New York; and published a 
number of sermons and religious works. 
He died Sept. 5, 1855, in Concord, Mass. 

SIMMONS, GUSTAVUS LINCOLN, sur¬ 
geon, physician, author, was born March 
13, 1832, in Hingham, Mass. He is a suc¬ 
cessful physician and surgeon of Sacra¬ 
mento, Cal.; and is the author of The 
Feigned Insanity of the Public Adminis¬ 
trator and Murderer Troy Dye. 

SIMMONS, JAMES, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born June 11, 1821, in Middle- 
bury, Vt. Besides filling several minor of¬ 
fices he was clerk of the county circuit 
court of Wisconsin from 1861 till 1871. He 
has published Simmons’s Wisconsin Di¬ 
gest; Supplements to the same; Supple¬ 
ment to Wait’s Digest, New York Re¬ 
ports; and Simmons’s New Wisconsin Di¬ 
gest. 

SIMMONS, JAMES FOWLER, farmer, 
manufacturer, congressman, United States 
senator, was born Sept. 10, 1795, in Little 
Compton, R. I. He was a member of the 
general assembly of Rhode Island from 
1828 to 1841. He was elected to the United 
States senate in 1841 for six years to 
March 3, 1847; and was again chosen sen¬ 
ator for the term beginning March 4, 
1857. He died July 10, 1864, in Johnson, 
R. I. 


SIMMONS, JAMES WRIGHT, poet, was 
born in South Carolina. He published 
Blue Beard, a Poem; and The Greek Girl. 
A series of metrical tales, Wood Notes 
from the West, remain in manuscript. 
Verses by both brothers may be found 
in Duyckinck’s Cyclopaedia of American 
Literature. 

SIMMONS, P. R., business man, was 
born April 14, 1874, in Yankton, S. D. For 
many years he has been identified with the 
lumber business, and is prominent in the 
public affairs of Madison, Wis. 

SIMMONS, THOMAS JEFFERSON, 
lawyer, jurist, was born June 25, 1837, in 
Crawford county, Ga. In 1871 and 1875 
he was elected state senator from Geor¬ 
gia; in 1878 judge of the superior 
court; and in 1887 chief justice of the su¬ 
preme court. 

SIMMONS, WILLIAM HAYNE, poet, 
was born about 1875 in South Carolina. 
While in Charleston he published anony¬ 
mously an Indian poem entitled Onea. He 
is also the author of A History of the 
Seminoles. 

SIMMONS, WILLIAM JOHNSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 29, 1849, 
in Charleston, S. C. He is a baptist min¬ 
ister of African birth who has published 
Men of Mark. 

SIMMS, JEPTHA ROOT, author, was 

born Dec. 31, 1807, in Canterbury, Conn. 

In 1829 he began the retail dry goods bus¬ 

iness in New York 
city; and three years 
later continued the 
business in Schoha¬ 
rie county, N. Y. 
After 1842 he filled 
the office of toll col¬ 
lector, and for nine 
years was ticket 
agent. His spare 
hours were employed 
in collecting an as¬ 
sortment of fossils, 
which he sold for 
five thousand dollars to the state of New 
York for the Geological museum of Al¬ 
bany. He was a rapid writer and a vol¬ 
uminous contributor to current literature. 
He was the author of a History of Scho¬ 
harie County; The American Spy, Nathan 
Hale; Trappers of New York; The Fron¬ 
tiersmen; and numerous lectures and po¬ 
ems. He died May 31, 1883, in Fort Plain, 
N. Y. 

SIMMS. JOSEPH, physiognomist, lectur¬ 
er, author, was born Sept. 3, 1833, in Plain- 
field Center, N. Y. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the acad¬ 
emy of West Win¬ 
field, N. Y.; and has 
attained success and 
a world-wide reputa¬ 
tion as a lecturer on 
physiognomy. During 
1854-84 he delivered 
lectures in all parts 
of the world, his 
principal lecture be¬ 
ing How to Rise in 
the World. He taught 
school in New York, 
New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Illinois, later 
studied medicine and surgery, and prac¬ 
ticed his profession for a short time. Dur¬ 
ing 1854-84 he lectured on physiognomy 
and physiology with marked success in 
all parts of the world. He is the author 
of a Physiognomical Chart; Nature’s Rev¬ 
elations of Character; Book of Scientific 
Lectures; Health and Character; Practi¬ 
cal and Scientific Physiognomy; and other 
works. 








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SIMMS, WILLIAM E., congressman, 
was born in Kentucky. He was elected a 
representative from that state to the thir¬ 
ty-sixth congress. 

SIMMS, WILLIAM GILMORE, author, 
poet, was horn April 17, 1806, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. He was a voluminous romancer 
and' verse-writer of Charleston. He was 
the author of The Partisan; The Yemas- 
see; Guy Rivers; Martin Faber; Border 
Beagles; Beauchampe; and twelve vol¬ 
umes of verse: Atlantis; Lays of the Pal¬ 
metto; and Areytos, or Songs and Ballads 
of the South. Other works of his include 
A History of South Carolina; and Lives of 
Marion, General Greene, Captain John 
Smith, and Chevalier Bayard. He died 
June 11, 1870, in Charleston, S. C. 

SIMONDS, WILLIAM, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 30, 1822, in Charles¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a Boston journalist 
who was a very popular writer for young 
people; and the author of The Aimwell 
Stories; The Boys’ Own Guide; and Boys’ 
Book of Morals and Manners. He died July 
7, 1859, in Winchester, Mass. 

SIMONDS, WILLIAM EDGAR, soldier, 
lecturer, congressman, author, was born 
Nov. 25, 1841, in Collinsville, Conn. Since 
1865 he has practiced 
law in Hartford, 
Conn. During 1884- 
93 he filled the lec¬ 
tureship on patent 
law in the Yale Law 
school; and for three 
years in 1891-93 filled 
the same chair in the 
Columbia university 
of Washington, D. C. 
In 1882 he was elect¬ 
ed a member of the 
Connecticut state leg¬ 
islature; and in 1885 received the re- 
election and was made speaker. He was 
a member of the fifty-first congress in 
1889-91; and was United States commis¬ 
sioner of patents in 1891-93. He is the 
author of Design Patents; Digest of Pat¬ 
ent Office Decisions; Digest of Patent 
Cases; and Summary of Patent Law. 

SIMONS, MICHAEL LAIRD, journalist, 
author, was born Sept. 7, 1843, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He edited Stodart’s Review; 
condensed D’Aubigne’s History of the Re¬ 
formation; published Half-Hours with the 
Best Preachers; and continued Duyck- 
inck’s Cyclopaedia of American Literature, 
adding about one hundred new names 
down to 1873. His last work is an extensive 
History of the World. He died Nov. 17, 
1880, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SIMONS, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born in 1792. He was a representative in 
congress from Connecticut from 1843 to 
1845. He died Jan. 13, 1847, in Bridgeport, 
Conn. 

SIMONS, THOMAS, lawyer, was bom 
Dec. 17, 1834, in Burmah. In 1865 he 
moved to New York city, and became as¬ 
sistant United States attorney, serving un¬ 
til 1875, when he was appointed an assis¬ 
tant attorney-general of the United States, 
residing at Washington. 

SIMONS, THOMAS YOUNG, soldier, 
journalist, lawyer, state legislator, was 
born Oct. 1, 1828, in Charleston, S. C. In 
1854-60 he was a member of the South 
Carolina legislature, and in the latter year 
a presidential elector. He was also a mem¬ 
ber of the convention that passed the or¬ 
dinance of secession in December, 1860, 
and in the civil war he served as captain 
of the twenty-seventh South Carolina reg¬ 
iment, and later as judge-advocate. He 
died April 30, 1878, in Charleston, S. C. 


SIMONSON, JOHN SMITH, soldier, 
was born June 2, 1796, in Uniontown, Pa. 
At the opening of the civil war he was 
made superintendent of the volunteer re¬ 
cruiting service at Indianapolis, Ind., and 
he continued on active military duty till 
1869. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier- 
general United States army for long and 
faithful service. He died Dec. 5, 1881, in 
New Albany, Ind. 

SIMONTON. CHARLES BRYSON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 
8, 1838, in Tipton county, Tenn. He was 
a member of the state house of represen¬ 
tatives in 1877 and 1878; and was elected 
a representative from Tennessee to the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses. 

SIMONTON, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a member of congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1839 to 1843. He died May 
18, 1846, in Hanover, Pa. 

SIMPKINS, JOHN, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 27, 1862, in New 
Bedford, Mass. He served in the Massa¬ 
chusetts state senate in 1890 and 1891; 
and was a presidential elector for Harri¬ 
son and Reid in 1892. He was elected to 
the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses. 

SIMPSON, CHARLES WESLEY, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Feb. 11, 1857, in De Witt 
county, Tex. In 1885 he graduated from 
the Southwestern university of George¬ 
town, Tex., and received the degree of 
A. M. He is the editor and owner of the 
Spokesman of Colorado, Tex. He has been 
county treasurer, postmaster, census enu¬ 
merator, and filled various other public 
positions of trust. 

SIMPSON, EDWARD, naval officer, au¬ 
thor, was born March 3, 1824, in New York 
city. He was a naval officer of promi¬ 
nence, rear-admiral from 1884; and the 
author of Ordnance and Naval Gunnery; 
The Naval Mission to Europe; and Re¬ 
port of the Gun Foundry Board. He died 
Dec. 2, 1888, in Washington, D. C. 

SIMPSON, GEORGE SEMMES, pioneer, 
was born May 7, 1818, in St. Louis, Mo. 
After various experiences in Wyoming. 
Colorado, and New Mexico he built the 
old fort in 1842 where the city of Pueblo 
now stands. He died Sept. 4, 1885, in Trin¬ 
idad, Colo., and was buried in a tomb 
cut out of the solid rock on the summit of 
a mountain known as Simpson’s Nest, 
where he had once found shelter from the 
Indians. A monument marks the spot. 

SIMPSON, HARVEY S., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born in 1854 in Laurens, S. C. 
Since 1891 he has been president of the 
Glenn Springs railroad, South Carolina. 

SIMPSON, HENRY, author, was born in 
1790 in Pennsylvania. He was a Philadel¬ 
phia author who published Lives of Emi¬ 
nent Philadelphians. He died March 25, 
1868, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SIMPSON, JAMES HERVEY, soldier, 
author, was born March 9, 1813, in New 
Jersey. He was a colonel of engineers and 
brevet brigadier-general in the United 
States army. He was the author of The 
Shortest Route to California; and Coron¬ 
ado’s March in Search of the Seven Cities 
of Cibola. He died March 2, 1883, in St. 
Paul, Minn. 

SIMPSON, JERRY, sailor, farmer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 31, 1842, in 
New Brunswick. In 1878 he drifted to 
Kansas and is now living six miles from 
Medicine Lodge, Barber county, where he 
is engaged in farming and stock raising. 
He was elected to the fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses as a farmers’ alli¬ 
ance candidate; and was nominated for 
the fifty-fourth congress, but was defeated 
at the election; and was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a demo-populist. 


SIMPSON, JOSIAH, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Pennsylvania. In 1812 he was 
appointed United States judge for the ter¬ 
ritory of Mississippi. 

SIMPSON, MARCUS DE LAFAYETTE, 
soldier, was born Aug. 28, 1824, in Es- 
perance, N. Y. During the civil war he 
served in the commissary-general’s office, 
and he was brevetted colonel, brigadier- 
general, and major-general in 1865. 

SIMPSON, MATTHEW, bishop, author, 
was born June 20, 1811, in Cadiz, Ohio. 
He was a methodist bishop famous as a 
pulpit orator; and 
the author of Lec¬ 
tures on Preaching; 
A Hundred Years of 
Methodism; Ser¬ 
mons; and Cyclo¬ 
paedia of Methodism. 
During 1839-49 he 
was president of the 
Indiana Asbury uni¬ 
versity, now called 
the De Pauw univer¬ 
sity. He rendered 
vast services to the 
country during the civil war; was often 
sent for to visit Washington; and as 
early as 1861 he had suggested the neces¬ 
sity of an emancipation proclamation. He 
died June 18, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SIMPSON, RICHARD F., state senator, 
congressman, was born in South Carolina. 
He was a member of the senate of his na¬ 
tive state; and was a representative in 
congress from South Carolina in 1843-47. 

SIMPSON, W. D., soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, governor, was 
born June 11, 1803, in Brunswick county, 
Va. In 1856 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive in the South Carolina state legisla¬ 
ture; and was re-elected. He was elected 
a state senator in 1860. He entered the 
confederate army as lieutenant-colonel on 
staff duty; and was afterward major and 
lieutenant-colonel in the line. In 1863 he 
was elected a representative in the con¬ 
federate congress; and in 1868 was elected 
a representative from South Carolina to 
the forty-first congress. In 1876 he was 
elected lieutenant-governor of South Car¬ 
olina; and was re-elected in 1878. In 1879 
he became governor of the state by the 
election of Governor Hampton to the 
United States senate; and in that year 
was elected chief justice of the supreme 
court of the state for the term of six 
years from 1880. 

SIMPSON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, scientist, author, was born Jan. 
24, 1836, in Knox county, Tenn. He has 
been county surveyor of Roane and Lou¬ 
don counties, Tenn.; for sixteen years 
a member of the magistrate’s court of 
Loudon county; and for twenty-three 
years postmaster of Stockton. He is a 
noted scientist, and the author of A Com¬ 
mon Sense Commentary on the Bible. 

SIMS, ALEXANDER DROMGOOLE, 
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born 
June 11, 1803, in Brunswick county, Va. 
He served in the South Carolina state leg¬ 
islature in 1840 and 1842; and was a mem¬ 
ber of congress from South Carolina from 
1845 to 1848. He died Nov. 11, 1848, in 
Kingstree, S. C. 

SIMS, CHARLES N., clergyman, college 
president, author, was born May 18, 1835, 
in Union county, Ind. In 1860 he became 
president of Valparaiso college. Indiana; 
and in 1862 was appointed to a pastoral 
charge in Richmond, Ind. Since 1880 he 
has been chancellor of Syracuse univer¬ 
sity. In 1882 and 1883 he was appointed 
commissioner to the Onondaga Indian na¬ 
tion. He is the author of a Life of Thomas 
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SIMS, CLIFFORD STANLEY, lawyer, 
author, was born Feb. 17, 1839, in Dau¬ 
phin county, Pa. He was a lawyer of Ar¬ 
kansas, and latterly of New Jersey, whose 
principal work is The Origin and Signifi¬ 
cation of Scottish Surnames. He died in 
1896. 

SIMS, HARRY MARION, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born Feb. 27, 1851, 
in Montgomery, Ala. He established him¬ 
self in New York city, giving much atten¬ 
tion to gynecology, on which subject he 
has lectured for several years before the 
New York polyclinic. He has prepared an 
American edition of Dr. Grailly Hewitt’s 
work on Diseases of Women, with addi¬ 
tions showing the later improvements in 
gynecology in this country. 

SIMS, HENRY AUGUSTUS, architect, 
was born Dec. 22, 1832. in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was long the secretary for foreign 
correspondence of the American Institute 
of Architects. He designed many city and 
country residences and, among other pub¬ 
lic buildings, the Columbia Avenue and 
Second Presbyterian churches in Philadel¬ 
phia, the chapel at Mercersburg, Pa., the 
court-house at Hagerstown, Md., and the 
almshouse of Montgomery county. Pa. He 
died July 10, 1875, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SIMS, JAMES MARION, physician, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Jan. 25, 1813, in 
Lancaster county, S. C. He was a cele¬ 
brated surgeon of New York city to whose 
influence is due the establishment of 
gynaecology as a department of medicine; 
and the author of Clinical Notes on Uter¬ 
ine Surgery; Ovariotomy; and The Story 
of My Life. He died Nov. 13, 1883, in 
New York city. 

SIMS, JAMES PEACOCK, architect, 
was born Nov. 15, 1849, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He designed, besides many private 
residences, the building of the Royal In¬ 
surance company, Christ church and Holy 
Trinity Memorial chapels, Philadelphia, 
and Christ church in Germantown. He 
died May 20, 1882, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SIMS, LEONARD H., congressman, was 
born in North Carolina. He was elected a 
representative in congress from Missouri 
from 1845 to 1847. 

SIMg, THETUS WILLRETTE, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, congressman, was born April 
25, 1852, in Wayne county, Tenn. He was 
elected county superintendent of public 
instruction for Perry county, Tenn., in 
1882, and held that office for two years. 
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a democrat. 

SIMS, WINFIELD SCOTT, inventor, 
was born April 6, 1844, in New Y r ork city. 
He was the first to apply electricity for 
the propulsion and guidance of movable 
torpedoes for harbor and coast defense. 
His torpedo is a submarine boat, with a 
cylindrical hull of copper and conical ends, 
supplied with a screw propeller and rud¬ 
der. 

SINCLAIR, BREVARD D., lawyer, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 31, 1859, 
in Charlotte, N. C. He graduated from 
the Mantua academy of Philadelphia, Pa., 
the Princeton university, and the Prince¬ 
ton Theological seminary. During 1877-84 
he was a member of the bar of the su¬ 
preme court of Ohio, North Carolina, and 
the United States supreme court at Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He then became a clergy¬ 
man of the presbyterian church, and has 
filled pastorates in Fowlerville, N. Y.; 
Newburyport, Mass.; Seattle, Wash.; 
and now fills a pastorate in St. Mark’s 
church of Yreka, Cal. He is the author of 
The Crowning Sin of the Age, and other 
works. 


SINCLAIR, CARRIE BELL, poet, was 
born May 23, 1839, in Milledgeville, Ga. 
She is a verse writer of Philadelphia; and 
the author of Poems; and Heart Whispers, 
or Echoes of Song. 

SINCLAIR, CHARLES E., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born in Virginia. He was ap¬ 
pointed an associate justice of the United 
States court for the territory of Utah. 

SINCLAIR, DANIEL, journalist, was 
born Jan. 12, 1833, in Scotland. For twen¬ 
ty years he was pastor of Winona, Minn, 
where he is the editor and owner of the 
Daily Republican. 

SINCLAIR. EDGAR LAFAYETTE, 
educator, clergyman, was born Oct. 21, 
1851, in Branch county, Mich. He at¬ 
tended the Leoni College of the United 
Brethren; the Olivet college; the Ohio 
Normal university, from which institution 
he graduated in 1874. For many years 
he was engaged in educational work, and 
became superintendent of schools. During 
1879-81 he attended Albion college; has 
attained prominence as one of the leading 
clergymen in the methodist episcopal 
church of Michigan, and now fills a pas¬ 
torate at Shelby. 

SINCLAIR, JOSEPH F., manufacturer, 
was born May 28, 1847, in Nova Scotia. 
In 1863 he enlisted in the United States 
marine corps, and was honorably dis¬ 
charged from the Naval hospital of Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y., in May, 1865. In 1879 he moved 
to Washington territory; built the first 
saw-mill in Ballard, and in 1888 was pres¬ 
ident and manager of the same. In 1892 
he became interested in the West Coast 
Mining and Iron company, of which he is 
still vice-president. In 1893 he was elected 
department commander of Washington 
and Alaska Grand Army of the Republic. 
He has filled various public offices in the 
gift of the people of Yakima City, Wash., 
and takes an active part in public affairs. 

SINGER, ISAAC MERRITT, inventor, 
was born Oct. 27, 1811, in Oswego, N. Y. 
He was a machinist, and devoted himself 
entirely to the study of improving sew¬ 
ing-machines. After years of close appli¬ 
cation he succeeded in completing a sin¬ 
gle-thread, chain-stitch machine, for 
which he received a patent. He died July 
23, 1875, in England. 

SINGER, OTTO, musician, composer, 
was born July 26, 1833, in Germany. He 
was the author of The Landing of the Pil¬ 
grim Fathers; Festival Ode; and has 
contributed to periodicals articles on his¬ 
torical and aesthetical subjects. He died 
in January, 1894, in New York city. 

SINGERLY, WILLIAM MISKEY. pro¬ 
prietor of The Philadelphia Record, was 
born Dec. 27, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
In 1877 he bought The Philadelphia Re¬ 
cord; and he brought the daily sales from 
5,000 to more than 100,000 copies, and 
made the enterprise profitable. He died in 
1898. 

SINGISER, THEODORE F., soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born March 15, 
1845, in Churchtown, Pa. He was employed 
in the United States treasury at Washing¬ 
ton from 1875 to 1879, when he was ap¬ 
pointed receiver of public moneys at Ox¬ 
ford, Idaho. In 1880 he was appointed 
secretary of Idaho territory; was acting 
governor of the territory during the win¬ 
ter of 1881-82; and was elected the dele¬ 
gate from Idaho to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

SINGLETON, JAMES W., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 23, 
1811, in Paxton, Va. He served six terms 
in the Illinois state legislature; and was 
elected a brigadier-general of state mili¬ 
tia. He was president of the Quincy and 


Toledo, and Quincy, Alton and St. Louis 
railroads. He was elected a representative 
from Illinois to the forty-sixth and forty- 
seventh congresses as a democrat. 

SINGLETON, OTHO R., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 14, 1814, in Jessamine county, Ky. 
He was two years in the lower house of 
the Mississippi legislature; and served 
six years in the state senate. He was a 
presidential elector in 1852; and was 
elected a representative from Mississippi 
to the thirty-third congress. He was also 
elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth 
congresses. He joined the great rebellion 
in 1861, and served as a representative in 
the confederate congress from 1861 to 
1865. In 1875 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive to the forty-fourth congress; and was 
re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, 
forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty- 
ninth congresses as a democrat. 

SINGLETON, THOMAS D., congress¬ 
man. He was elected to congress from 
South Carolina in 1833, and, while on his 
way to Washington to take his seat in 
December, died at Raleigh, N. C. 

SINNICKSON, CLEMENT H., soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 
1834, in Salem, N.*J. In 1861 he raised a 
company of volunteers, and enlisted as 
taptain in the fourth regiment of New Jer¬ 
sey volunteers. In 1874 he was elected a 
representative from New Jersey to the 
forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected 
to the forty-fifth congress as a republican. 

SINNICKSON, THOMAS, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1745 
in Salem county, N. J. He served in the 
revolutionary war at the battles of Tren¬ 
ton and Princeton in the capacity of cap¬ 
tain; and was for many years a member 
of the council and assembly of New Jer¬ 
sey, and the presiding judge of the court 
of common pleas. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the first congress, after the adop¬ 
tion of the constitution, from 1789 to lv91; 
and was again a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1797 to 1799. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1801. He died May 15, 
1817, in Salem, N. J. 

SINNICKSON, THOMAS, merchant, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 13, 1786, in Salem, 
N. J. He was a judge of the court of 
common pleas for twenty years; was a 
member of the New Jersey legislature; 
and judge of the court of errors and ap¬ 
peals. He was a representative in congress 
from New Jersey during the years 1828 
and 1829. 

SIPE, WILLIAM ALLEN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 1, 1844, in Har- 
risonville, Pa. He is a noted lawyer of 
Pittsburg, Pa. He was elected as a demo¬ 
crat to the fifty-second congress to fill a 
vacancy; and also elected to the fifty- 
third congress. 

. SISSON, ABNER, poet. He is the au¬ 
thor of a volume of poems entitled Com¬ 
mon Sense Rhymes. 

SITGREAVES, CHARLES, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
April 22, 1803, in Easton, Pa. He was a 
member of the New Jersey assembly in 
1831 and 1833; in 1834 was a member of 
the legislative council; and was a mem¬ 
ber and president of the same in 1835. He 
was a member of the state senate from 
1852 to 1854. In 1864 he was elected a 
representative from New Jersey to the 
thirty-ninth congress. He was mayor of 
Philipsburg in 1861, declining a re-elec¬ 
tion; was president of the Belvidere and 
Delaware Railroad company; and was 
president of the bank at Philipsburg. He 
was re-elected to the fortieth congress as 
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SITGREAVES, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born about 1740 
in New Berne, N. C. He was an officer in 
the war of the revolution; was a delegate 
to the continental congress from North 
Carolina from 1784 to 1785; and in 1790 
was appointed attorney-general for that 
state. He soon afterwards was appointed 
judge of the United States district court 
for the district of North Carolina. He died 
March 4, 1802, in Halifax, N. C. 

SITGREAVES, SAMUEL, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 16, 1764, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1795 to 1798; and was then appointed 
commissioner to treat with Great Britain. 
He died April 4, 1824, in Easton, Pa. 

SIVARTHA, ALESHA, author, was 
born May 16, 1834, in England. During 
1859-78 he made discoveries of certain 
great laws in the constitution of man: 
That the thirty-six faculties are in twelve 
groups; that the institutions of society 
are a direct outgrowth of the mental 
faculties; and that each faculty creates 
wants of its own kind. He has also in¬ 
vented a universal language, the Visona, 
based upon the natural laws of sound, of 
thought and expression. These discoveries 
are embodied in The Book of Life, The 
Visona, and in The Historic Growth ot 
Man. 

SIVER, DATUS E., railroad president, 
was born Oct. 15, 1840, in Milford, N. Y. 
Since 1888 he has been president of the 
Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley rail¬ 
road at Cooperstown, N. Y. 

SIZER, NELSON, phrenologist, au¬ 
thor, was born May 21, 1812, in Chester, 
Mass. He has been associate editor and ed¬ 
itor of the Phrenological Journal, vice- 
president of the firm, and president of and 
teacher in the American Institute of Phre¬ 
nology. As an author he has published 
books of great value, such as Forty Years 
in Phrenology; Choice of Pursuits; and 
How to Teach. 

SKAGGS, ANDREW E., physician, po¬ 
et, was born April 31, 1862, in New Cas¬ 
tle county, Del. He attended the Balti¬ 
more Medical college, and the Veterinary 
Surgeon college. He has filled various 
public positions of trust in his native 
county; and is a prominent physician of 
Townsend. He has contributed many po¬ 
ems to the periodical press; and is widely 
known as the Poet of Delaware. 

SKELTON, CHARLES, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New Jersey 
from 1851 to 1855. 

SKENE, ALEXANDER JOHNSTON 
CHALMERS, physician, author, was born 
June 17, 1837, in Scotland. He is a Brook¬ 
lyn physician, professor of gynaecology in 
Long Island College hospital from 1884; 
and the author of Diseases of the Bladder 
in Women; and Diseases of Women from 
the Standpoint of the Physician. 

SKIDDY, WILLIAM, wheelwright, man¬ 
ufacturer, banker, was born in 1845, in 
New York city. He went to Russell’s 
Military school in New Haven, Conn.; and 
at the breaking out of the war was de¬ 
tailed to assist in drilling three months’ 
volunteers. In 1865 he graduated from 
Yale college. He subsequently started in 
business, became interested in mining, 
and in 1875 became connected with The 
Stamford Manufacturing company, one of 
the oldest concerns in the United States, 
being established in 1796, and of which 
corporation he is president. He is a di¬ 
rector in several banks, and active in 
various organizations connected with Yale 
university. He was commissary-general 


of the state of Connecticut at one time; 
was a delegate to the national democratic 
conventions of 1884 and 1892; and has 
held various positions of honor in Stam¬ 
ford, Conn. He is a prominent member 
of the protestant episcopal church; and 
has been a delegate to the general conven¬ 
tions of that church held at Chicago, New 
York, Baltimore and Minneapolis. 

SKILTON, JULIUS AUGUSTUS, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born June 29, 
1833, in Troy, N. Y. He served in New 
York city during the draft riots, and was 
medical director of cavalry department 
of the southwest in 1864-65. In 1869 he 
was appointed United States consul at the 
city of Mexico, and in 1872 he was pro¬ 
moted to be consul-general, holding the 
office until 1878. Besides his annual re¬ 
ports he has published Mining Districts 
of Parhuca, Real del Monte, El Chico, and 
Star Rosa, State of Hidalgo, Republic of 
Mexico. 

SKINNER, CHARLES MONTGOMERY, 
journalist, author, was born in 1852 in 
New York. He is a journalist of Brook¬ 
lyn, associate editor of The Eagle; and 
the author of Villon the Vagabond, and 
other plays; Myths and Legends of Our 
Own Land; and Nature in a City Yard. 

SKINNER, CHARLES RUFUS, journal¬ 
ist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Aug. 4, 1844, in Union Square, N. Y. 
He was a member of the board of educa¬ 
tion of Watertown, N. Y., from 1875 to 
1883; and was a member of the state house 
of representatives from 1877 to 1881. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-se\enth congress to fill 
a vacancy; and was re-elected to the for¬ 
ty-eighth congress as a republican. 

SKINNER, FREDERICK GUSTAVUS, 
soldier, journalist, author, was born 
March 11, 1814, in Annapolis, Md. He 
joined the staff of the Turf, Field and 
Farm in New York, and, as field editor 
of that journal, was instrumental in 
bringing about the first field trial, the 
first bench-show of dogs, and the first in¬ 
ternational gun-trial that was ever held in 
the United States. 

SKINNER, HALCYON, inventor, was 
born March 6, 1824, in Mantua, Ohio. In 
1874 he invented a power-loom for weav¬ 
ing moquette carpets, which had up to 
this date been woven entirely by hand. 

SKINNER, HARRY, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 25, 1855, in Perqui¬ 
mans county, N. C. In 1890 he was elected 
to the lower house of 
the North Carolina 
legislature. He has 
served as chairman 
of the democratic 
executive committee 
of his county, chair¬ 
man of the demo¬ 
cratic executive com¬ 
mittee of the first 
congressional dis¬ 
trict, and on the 
state central com¬ 
mittee. He is chair¬ 
man of the populist executive commit¬ 
tee of his county and on the state cen¬ 
tral committee; and is a trustee of the 
state university. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a 
populist. 

SKINNER, HENRY, surgeon, entomolo¬ 
gist, author, was born March 27, 1861, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was elected asso¬ 
ciate state entomologist of Pennsylvania 
in 1894; and since 1896 has been profes¬ 
sor of entomology in the Academy of Nat¬ 
ural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pa. He is 
editor of the Entomological News, and has 
lectured extensively on that subject. 


SKINNER, JOHN STUART, journalist, 
author, was born Feb. 12, 1788, in Mary¬ 
land. He was the author of Nautical Edu¬ 
cation; Christmas Gift to Young Agricul¬ 
turist; Agricultural Chemistry; and You- 
att on the House. He died March 21, 1851, 
in Baltimore, Md. 

SKINNER, OTIS AINSWORTH, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 3, 1807, in 
Royalton, Vt. He was a universalist min¬ 
ister of Boston and elsewhere; and the 
author of Family Prayer Book; Sermons 
on Doctrinal Subjects; Universalism De¬ 
fended; Letters on Revivals; and Moral 
Duties of Parents. He died Sept. 18, 1861, 
in Lapierville, Ill. 

SKINNER, RICHARD, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
May 30, 1778, in Litchfield, Conn. He 
moved .o Manchester, Vt.; he served in 
congress from 1813 to 1815; was elected a 
judge of the supreme court of Vermont in 
1816; and became chief justice of that 
court in 1817. In 1818 he was elected to 
the lower branch of the legislature, and 
was speaker. He was governor of Ver¬ 
mont in 1820, 1821 and 1822; and was re¬ 
appointed chief justice in 1824. He died 
May 23, 1833, in Manchester, Vt. 

SKINNER, THOMAS GREGORY, far¬ 
mer, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was 
born Jan. 21, 1842, in Perquimans county, 
N. C. He was elected a representative 
from North Carolina to the forty-eighth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth and fnty-first congresses as a demo¬ 
crat. 

SKINNER, THOMAS HARVEY, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born March 
7, 1791, in Harvey’s Neck, N. C. He was 
a presbyterian clergyman of New York 
city, professor of sacred rhetoric in Pinion 
seminary in 1848-71; and the author of Re¬ 
ligion of the Bible; Aids to Preaching and 
Hearing; Discussions in Theology; and 
Thoughts on Evangelizing the World. He 
died Feb. 1, 1871, in New York city. 

SKINNER, THOMAS J., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1796 to 1799, and 
again from 1803 to 1804. 

SKINNER, WELLS HAWKS, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 1, 1856, in. Jeffer¬ 
son county, W. Va. He has been super¬ 
intendent of city schools in various 
cities; and in i895 was president of the 
Nebraska State Teachers’ association. He 
is the author of Studies In Literature and 
Composition, and other works. 

SLACK, JAMES RICHARD, educator, 
soldier, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 
28, 1818, in Bucks county. Pa. He grad¬ 
uated from the acad¬ 
emy of Newton, Pa., 
and in 1837 moved 
with his parents to 
Delaware county, 
Ind. He next entered 
educational work, 
and subsequently 
was admitted to the 
bar, and practiced 
his profession in 
Huntington. During 
1842-51 he filled the 
office of county audi¬ 
tor; and for two terms was a member of 
the Indiana state senate. In 1858 he was 
again elected to the state senate and 
served four successive terms until 1861. 
He served in the civil war in the forty- 
seventh regiment of the Indiana volunteer 
infantry; was made brigadier-general in 
1864; and major-general by brevet in 1866. 
In 1872 he was elected judge of the twen¬ 
ty-eighth judicial circuit of Indiana, and 
served in that office until his death on 
July 28, 1881. 









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SLADE, CHARLES, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Illinois from 1833 to 1834. He died in 
July, 1834, in Knox county, Ind. 

SLADE, DANIEL DENISON, physician, 
scientist, author, was born May 10, 1823, 
in Boston, Mass. He attended the Bos¬ 
ton Latin school and 
graduated from the 
Harvard university. 
He was a physician 
and scientist, and 
professor of zoology 
at Harvard univer¬ 
sity from 1871. He 
was the author of 
Diphtheria: its Na¬ 
ture and Treatment; 
Twelve Days in the 
Saddle, a Journey in 
New England in 
1883; and Evolution of Horticulture in 
New England. He died Feb. 11, 1896, in 
Chestnut Hill, Mass. 

SLADE, EMMA M. R. H., was born Jan. 
11, 1847, in Lowell, Mass. She is the 
founder and organizer and first president 
of the National Society of New England 
Women; the president of the United 
States Daughters of 1812 for New York, 
New Jersey and New England; and a 
prominent member of the Daughters of 
the Revolution. 

SLADE, JAMES P., educator, college 
president, was born Feb. 9, 1837, in West- 
erlo, N. Y. This eminent educator is the 
state superintendent of public instruction 
of Illinois, and president of the Almira 
college. 

SLADE, WILLIAM, journalist, lawyer, 
Jurist, congressman, governor, author, was 
born May 9, 1786, in Cornwall, Vt. In 1815 
he was elected secretary of state of Ver¬ 
mont, which office he held eight years, 
during six of which he officiated as judge 
of the Addison county court. He was sub¬ 
sequently state’s attorney for the same 
county. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Vermont from 1831 to 1843; 
and on his retirement from congress was 
elected reporter of the decisions of the su¬ 
preme court of Vermont. In 1844 he was 
chosen governor of Vermont; and was 
subsequently made secretary of the na¬ 
tional board of popular education. In 1823 
he published the Vermont State Papers; 
in 1825 the Statutes of Vermont; and in 
1844 a volume of Vermont Reports. He 
died Jan. 18, 1859, in Middlebury, Vt. 

SLAFTER, CARLOS, educator, author, 
was born July 21, 1825, in Thetford, Vt. 
He received his education at the Thetford 
academy, and in 1849 graduated from 
Dartmouth college. He taught one year in 
the Framingham academy; and for forty 
years, during 1852-92, was principal of the 
Dedham High school, Mass. In 1865 he 
was admitted to deacon’s orders in the 
episcopal church; and for three years was 
chaplain of the county prison at Dedham. 
He is the author of a Compendium of Eng¬ 
lish Grammar, several novels, and various 
addresses on patriotic, educational and 
historical subjects. 

SLAFTER, EDMUND FARWELL, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born May 30, 1816, in 
Norwich, Vt. For twenty years he was 
superintendent for the protestant episco¬ 
pal church and the American Bible socie¬ 
ty; and since 1877 has devoted his time 
to historical studies. He is most noted 
for his Memorial of John Slafter, with 
genealogical account of his descendants. 

SLAGLE, CHARLES W., merchant, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born March 11, 1828, in 
Hanover, Pa. He is distinguished as 
a successful merchant and philanthropist 
of Baltimore, Md. 


SLATER, JAMES HARVEY, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Dec. 28, 1826, in Sangamon 
county. Ill. He was a member of the 
Oregon territorial assembly in 1857 and 
1858, and of the state assembly immedi¬ 
ately after the admission of Oregon as a 
state. He was elected district attorney in 
1866; and was a presidential elector in 
1868. He was elected a representative 
from Oregon to the forty-second congress; 
and was elected a United States senator 
from Oregon for the term of six years from 
March 4, 1879. In 1887 he was appointed 
railroad commissioner for Oregon. 

SLATER, JOHN FOX, philanthropist, 
was born March 4, 1815, in Slaterville, R. 
I. He was early interested in the cause 
of education, and gave liberally for the 
establishment of the Norwich free acad¬ 
emy and other objects. In 1882 he placed 
in the hands of trustees $1,000,000, the 
interest of which is to be used for the 
education of freedmen in the south. He 
died May 7, 1884, in Norwich, Conn. 

SLATER, WILLIAM ALBERT, philan¬ 
thropist. In 1886 he transferred to the 
Norwich free academy a building cost¬ 
ing one hundred and fifty thousand dol¬ 
lars, which he erected in memory of his 
father, John Fox Slater. 

SLAUGHTER. GABRIEL, soldier, far¬ 
mer, state legislator, governor, was born 
in 1767 in Virginia. He was frequently a 
member of the Kentucky state legisla¬ 
ture. At the battle of New Orleans he was 
chosen colonel of a Kentucky regiment, 
and received the thanks of the legisla¬ 
ture. He was chosen lieutenant-governor, 
and, after the death of Governor Madi¬ 
son, was governor from 1816 to 1820. He 
died Sept. 9, 1830, in Mercer county, Ky. 

SLAUGHTER, GUILFORD H., farmer, 
state senator, was born Aug. 29, 1828, in 
Hopkinsville, Ky. He was postmaster for 
twenty-five years; and for the same period 
was a justice of the peace. For two 
terms he served as a state senator. 

SLAUGHTER, LINDA W., journalist, 
poet, was born Feb. 1, 1850, in Harrison 
county, Ohio. She is a writer of Bismarck, 
N. D.; and has been vice-president of the 
Woman’s National Press association at 
Washington, D. C. She is the author of 
several prose works; and a volume of po¬ 
ems entitled Early Efforts. 

SLAUGHTER, PHILIP, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 26, 1808, in Springfield, 
Va. He was an episcopal clergyman of 
Virginia, historiographer of the diocese; 
and the author of The Colonial Church in 
Virginia; and Man and Woman. 

SLAUGHTER, WILLIAM BANK, law¬ 
yer, author, was born April 10, 1798, in 
Culpeper county, Va. He was a Wisconsin 
lawyer of note who published Reminis¬ 
cences of Distinguished People I Have 
Met. He died July 21, 1879, in Madison, 
Wis. 

SLAUGHTER, WILLIAM MONTGOM- 
RIE, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born 
July 25, 1833, near Waverly, Ohio. He 
received a liberal education at the public 
schools, and at Otterbein university, Ohio. 
In 1856 he was a representative in the Ne¬ 
braska legislature; and in 1859 was a 
representative in the legislature of Jef¬ 
ferson Territory, now Colorado. In 
1859-60 he was judge of appellate 
court, people’s government of Denver. He 
also served with distinction in the Colo¬ 
rado legislature of 1862, and 1867-68. In 
1870 he was chief clerk of the house of 
representatives, and has filled various 
other positions of honor. Since 1866 he 


has been continuously in the practice of 
law, and now resides at Loveland, Colo. 

SLAYDEN, JAMES L., merchant, state 
legislator, congressman, was born June 1, 
1853, in Graves county, Ky. He was a 
member of the twenty-third legislature of 
Texas in 1892; declined re-election; and 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. He has taken an active part in 
various debates on bills that affect the 
welfare of his state; and has served on 
numerous important committees. He is a 
successful cotton merchant of San An¬ 
tonio, Texas. 

SLAYMAKER, AMOS, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 11, 1755, in 
London Lands, Pa. He served as a soldier 
in the revolutionary army. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Pennsylvania 
during a part of the thirteenth congress to 
fill a vacancy. He died June 12, 1837, in 
Salisbury, Pa. 

SLEAT, JOHN DRAKE, naval officer, 
was born in 1780, in New York city. In 
1800 he entered the navy as sailing mas¬ 
ter, passed through all grades, and at¬ 
tained the rank of rear admiral. He died 
Nov. 28, 1867, in New Brighton, N. Y. 

SLEEPER, DAVID L., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, was born June 15, 1856, in Iowa. 
During 1885-91 he was prosecuting attorney 
of Athens county, Ohio. He was elected 
as a republican to the seventy-first gen¬ 
eral assembly of Ohio; and re-elected to 
the seventy-second general assembly; and 
served as speaker of the house. 

SLEEPER, JOHN SHERBURNE, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Sept. 21, 1794, in 
Tyngsboro, Mass. He was a shipmaster 
and subsequently a journalist of Boston, 
editor of The Journal in 1834-54; and the 
author of Tales of the Ocean; Salt-Water 
Bubbles; Jack in the Forecastle; and 
Mark Rowland, a Tale of the Sea. He 
died Nov. 14, 1878, in Boston Highlands, 
Mass. 

SLEEPER, WILLIAM TRUE, clergy¬ 
man, poet, was born Feb. 9, 1819, in Dan¬ 
bury, N. H. He received his education in 
Exeter, N. H.; grad¬ 
uated from the uni¬ 
versity of Vermont 
in 1850; and three 
years later from the 
Andover Theological 
seminary. For four 
years he was chap¬ 
lain of the reform 
school at Westboro, 
Mass.; and has filled 
pastorates at Patten, 
Sherman and Fort 
Fairfield, Maine; and 
for nineteen years at Worcester, Mass. 
He was supervisor of schools in Aroostook 
county, Maine, during 1870-72; was editor 
and founder of the North Star of Caribou, 
Maine; and the projector and president 
of the Aroostook River railroad. Since 
1853 he has been engaged in the ministry, 
and has built five churches. He is the 
author of a volume of poems; and has 
contributed extensively to current liter¬ 
ature. 

SLEETH, JAMES M., jurist, state legis¬ 
lator, was born March 24, 1817, in Clarks¬ 
burg, Va. He was nominated and elected 
state senator from Shelbyville, Ind., and 
served one long term of three sessions. 
He was chosen for the second time in 
1851. In 1853 he was elected judge of the 
court of common pleas, which position he 
creditably filled for eight years. In 1869 
he was again sent to the legislature, to 
represent the counties of Bartholomew 
and Shelby. 








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SLEMMER, ADAM J., soldier, was born 
in 1828, in Montgomery county, Pa. In 
1850 he graduated from West Point; 

served in the Semi¬ 
nole, Mexican and 
civil wars. He at¬ 
tained the rank of 
brigadier-general of 
volunteers in 1862; 
and took an active 
part in the battle of 
Murfreesboro. From 
1863 to the close of 
the war he served on 
an examining board 
as its president. He 
won the brevets of 
colonel and brigadier-general in the 
United States army in 1865; and spent the 
balance of his life in command at Fort 
Laramie, Kas., where he died Oct. 7, 1868. 

SLEMONS, WILLIAM F., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 15, 
1830, in Weakly county, Tenn. He en¬ 
tered the southern army in 1861, and re¬ 
mained in service until its close; and 
rose from lieutenant to brigadier-general, 
and commanded a division. After the 
war he was district attorney; and was 
elected a representative from Arkansas 
to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty- 
sixth congresses as a democrat. 

SLENKER, MRS. EMMA LORAKE], 
author, was born Dec. 23, 1827, in La 
Grange, N. Y. She is a writer living at 
Snowville, Va.; and the author of Study¬ 
ing the Bible; John’s Way; The Darwins; 
Mary Jones; and Little Lessons for Little 
Folks. 

SLEYSTER, AARON L., photographer, 
poet, was born March 11, 1856, in Waupun, 
Wis. He is a successful photographer of 
Preston, Minn.; and the author of How¬ 
ard Gray and Other Poems; and Hours of 
Pleasure, illustrated. 

SLICER, HENRY, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1801 in Annapolis, Md. He 
was a methodist clergyman, eight times 
chaplain of the United States senate; and 
the author of Appeal on Christian Bap¬ 
tism; and Discourse on Duelling. He died 
April 23, 1874, in Baltimore, Md. 

SLIDELL, JOHN, lawyer, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman. United States senator, 
was born about 1793 in New York city. He 
was appointed United States district at¬ 
torney; and was frequently elected to the 
legislature of Louisiana. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1843 to 1845; 
and while in congress was appointed min¬ 
ister to Mexico. In 1853 he was elected 
to the United States senate for the 
unexpired term of Senator Soule; and 
was re-elected for six years. He died July 
29, 1871, in London, England. 

SLIGH, JAMES ELISON, clergyman, 
journalist, lawyer, was born July 31, 1841, 
in Minden, La. He attended the Minden 
academy, and received a liberal education. 
He has been a successful clergyman, and 
pastor of churches in Greenville, Texas, 
and White Oaks, N. M. While in New 
Mexico he was an assayer in a mining 
camp, and subsequently studied law. 
Since 1890 he has practiced law in Shel¬ 
ton, Wash.; has been postmaster of his 
city for three years; and was the founder 
and editor of the Sentinel of that city. 

SLINGERLAND, JOHN I., agriculturist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
March 1, 1804, in Albany county, N. Y. He 
was a member of the New York legisla¬ 
ture in 1843; and was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1847 to 
1849. He died Oct. 26, 1861, in Albany, 
N. Y. 


SLOAN, A. SCOTT, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1820 
in Morrisville, N. Y. He moved to Wis¬ 
consin in 1854; was elected to the Wiscon¬ 
sin legislature in 1856; was appointed a 
circuit judge in 1858; and in 1860 was 
elected a representative from Wisconsin 
to the thirty-seventh congress. 

SLOAN, ANDREW, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born June 10, 1845, in McDon¬ 
ough, Ga. He moved to Savannah, and 
was appointed deputy collector of cus¬ 
toms. He was appointed United States 
district attorney, and held the position 
until 1872. In 1872 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Georgia to the forty- 
third congress. 

SLOAN, CLAY, planter, state senator, 
was born Aug. 20, 1861, in Smithville, 
Ark. He has served with distinction as 
a member of the Arkansas state senate; 
and has filled the office of auditor of state. 

SLOAN, GEORGE BEALE, merchant, 
state senator, was born June 20, 1831, in 
Oswego, N. Y. He strongly supported the 
cause of the union during the civil war, 
and was four times elected to represent 
his district in the state assembly, namely, 
in 1874, 1876, 1877 and 1879, and was, 
during two terms, chairman of the com¬ 
mittee on ways and means, and one term 
speaker of the assembly. He was also 
three times elected to the state senate 
and served continuously from 1886 to 1891. 

SLOAN, ITHAMAR C., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Madison county, 
N. Y. He removed to Wisconsin in 1854; 
and in 1858 and 1860 was chosen district 
attorney of Rock county. In 1862 he was 
elected a representative from Wisconsin 
to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-ninth congress. 

SLOAN, JAMES, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Jersey from 1803 to 1809. He died in No¬ 
vember, 1811, in New Jersey. 

SLOAN, JOHN A., soldier, autnor, was 
born July 20, 1839, in Greensboro, N. C. 
He served in the civil war, attaining the 
rank of colonel. He is the author of a 
History of North Carolina in the War Be¬ 
tween the States. He died in November, 
1886, near Baltimore. 

SLOAN, SAMUEL, architect, was born 
March 7, 1815, in Chester county, Pa. He 
was an architect of Philadelphia; and the 
author of City and Suburban Architect¬ 
ure; Constructive Architecture; The Mod¬ 
el Architect; and Homestead Architect¬ 
ure. He died July 19, 1884, in Raleigh, 
N. C. 

SLOAN, SAMUEL, railroad president, 
state senator, was born Dec. 25, 1819, in 
Ireland. He has served in the senate of 
the New York state legislature. He has 
been president of the Hudson River rail¬ 
road, Michigan Central railroad, and vari¬ 
ous other railroads. 

SLOAN, SAMUEL G., educator, clergy¬ 
man, was born July 12, 1864, in Fulton 
county, Ill. For many years he was en¬ 
gaged in educational work as a teacher in 
the public schools and as a college pro¬ 
fessor. He has attained success as a 
clergyman in the baptist church, and now 
fills a pastorate in Pratt, Kas. 

SLOANE, JAMES RENWICK WILSON, 
educator, college president, was born May 
29, 1823, in Topsham, Vt. He was presi¬ 
dent of Richmond college, Ohio, in 1848- 
50; of Geneva college, in the same state, 
in 1851-56; and professor of systematic 
theology and homiletics in Alleghany The¬ 
ological seminary from 1868 till his death. 
He died March 6, 1886, in Alleghany City, 
Pa. 


SLOANE, JOHN, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1779 in York, Pa. 
He was elected a member of the Ohio 
general assembly in 1804 and 1805, and 
1805 was speaker. He was a receiver of 
public moneys at Canton, Ohio, from 1808 
to 1816; and was afterward at Wooster 
until 1819. He was a colonel of militia 
during the war of 1812. In 1819 he was 
elected to congress as a representative 
from Ohio, continuing a member until 
1829. He was secretary of state for three 
years; and was treasurer of the United 
States under President Fillmore. He died 
May 15, 1856, in Wooster, Ohio. 

SLOANE, JONATHAN, congressman, 
was born in Massachusetts. He settled in 
Ohio; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1833 to 1837. 

SLOANE, RUSH RICHARD, lawyer, 
jurist, financier, was born Sept. 18, 1828, 
in Sandusky, Ohio. He was twice elected 
probate judge of Sandusky, Ohio. In 1879 
the city of Sandusky made him mayor for 
a two years’ term. Judge Sloane has been 
a promoter of railroad building in Ohio, 
and actually built the line between Colum¬ 
bus and Springfield. 

SLOANE, THOMAS O’CONOR, chem¬ 
ist, author, was born Nov. 24, 1851, in New 
York city. He is a chemist of New York 
city, on the editorial staff of The Scientific 
American; and the author of Home Ex¬ 
periments in Science; and Standard Elec¬ 
trical Dictionary. 

SLOANE, WILLIAM MILLIGAN, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Nov. 12, 1850, in 
Richmond, Ohio. He is a professor of 
history at-Columbia college; and the au¬ 
thor of The French War and the Revolu¬ 
tion; Life of James M’Cosh; and Life of 
Napoleon Bonaparte. 

SLOAT, JOHN DRAKE, naval officer, 
was born in 1780, in New York city. He 
served in the war of 1812, and the Mexi¬ 
can and civil wars; attaining for meri¬ 
torious services the rank of rear admiral. 
He died Nov. 28, 1867, in New Brighton, 
N. Y. 

SLOCUM, ELLIOTT TRUAX, legislator, 
capitalist, was born May 15, 1839, in Tren¬ 
ton, Mich. In 1869 he was elected a state 
senator to the Michigan legislature. He 
is now one of the directors of the Union 
Trust company of Detroit. 

SLOCUM, HENRY WARNER, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 24, 1827, in New York. In 1859 
he was elected to the 
state legislature; and 
from 1859 to 1861 
was instructor of 
artillery in the New 
York militia. When 
the rebellion broke 
out he was chosen 
colonel of the twen¬ 
ty-seventh regiment 
of New York volun¬ 
teers: and before the 
close of 1861 was 
made brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers. In 1862 he was ap¬ 
pointed a major-general. In 1868 he was 
chosen a presidential elector. He was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-first and forty-second con¬ 
gresses; and was also elected to the forty- 
eighth congress. 

SLOCUM, JANE M., educator, lecturer, 
was born May 1, 1842, in Slocumville, N. 
Y. She has attained success in educational 
work; and has lectured extensively on so¬ 
cial economics, social ethics, science of 
government, and current topics. 







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SLOCUM, JESSE, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from North 
Carolina from 1817 to 1820. He died Dec. 
20, 1820, in Washington, D. C. 

SLOCUM, WILLIAM F., clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born July 29, 1851, in 
Grafton, Mass. This eminent congrega¬ 
tional clergyman has been professor of 
philosophy and president of Colorado col¬ 
lege since 1888. 

SLOSS, JOSEPH H., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 12, 1826, in Somerville, Ala. He was 
a member of the Illinois legislature in 
1858. He returned to Alabama, and joined 
the confederate army, in which he served 
until the close of the war. He was elected 
mayor of Tuscumbia after the war, and 
continued in that office until 1870. He 
was elected a representative from Ala¬ 
bama to the forty-second and forty-third 
congresses. 

SLOSSON, MRS. ANNIE [TRUM¬ 
BULL], author, was horn in Connecticut. 
She is known as an entomologist whose 
specialty is the study of moths. She is the 
author of Aunt Liefy; Fishin’ Jimmy; 
Seven Dreamers; The Heresy of Meheta- 
bel Clark; Anna Malann; and The China 
Hunter’s Club. 

SLOUGH, JOHN P., soldier, state leg¬ 
islator, author, was born in 1829 in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. He was elected to the 
Ohio state legislature, from which he was 
expelled for striking a member during de¬ 
bate. In 1852 he was chosen secretary 
of the central democratic committee. He 
soon after went to Kansas; and in 1860 
removed to Denver city, Colo. On the 
breaking out of the civil war he served 
with credit on the southwestern frontiers; 
and was made a brigadier-general and 
military governor at Alexandria, in Vir¬ 
ginia. At the close of the war he was 
appointed chief justice of the territory of 
New Mexico. He died Dec. 16, 1867, in 
Santa Fe, N. M. 

SLUTER. GEORGE LUDEWIG, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born May 5, 1837, in 
Germany. He is a lutheran clergyman, 
pastor at Arlington, N. J., from 1881; and 
the author of History of Our Beloved 
Church; Life of Tiberius; and The Re¬ 
ligion of Politics. 

SMAIL, MARION, soldier, educator, po¬ 
et, was born July 8, 1846, in Whetstone, 
Ohio. He attended the Wesleyan univer¬ 
sity of Bloomington, Ill.; served as a sol¬ 
dier in the civil war; has been a success¬ 
ful teacher; has traveled extensively 
throughout the United States; and is the 
author of a number of meritorious po¬ 
ems. He is a manufacturer of medical ar¬ 
ticles in Indianapolis, Ind. 

SMALL, ALVIN EDMOND, physician, 
educator, was horn March 4,1811, in Maine. 
In 1856 he removed to Chicago and en¬ 
tered at once into an extensive practice, 
which he continued till his death. Soon 
after his arrival in that city he was called 
to the ohair of theory and practice in 
Hahnemann college, which he held for 
life. He died Dec. 29, 1866, in Chicago. 

SMALL, ELWOOD ELDENNE, journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born July 22, 1869, in Mar¬ 
shall, Mich. He is a journalist of Val¬ 
paraiso, Ind.; and the author of a vol¬ 
ume of poems entitled Rhymes with Reas¬ 
on and Without. 

SMALL, MICHAEL PETER, soldier, 
was born Aug. 9, 1831, in Harrisburg, Pa. 
He became brevet colonel of United States 
volunteers, and brevet brigadier-general 
in 1865, for meritorious services in the 
subsistence department during the war. 
Since 1884 he has been purchasing and de¬ 
pot commissary at Baltimore, Md. 


SMALL, WILLIAM B., congressman. 
He was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-third congress. 

SMALLEY, DAVID A., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born April 6, 1809, in 
Middlebury, Vt. In 1842 he was elected 
from Vermont a state senator, and de¬ 
clined a re-election. In 1853 he was ap¬ 
pointed collector of customs for Vermont; 
was a delegate to the Cincinnati conven¬ 
tion of 1857; and in that year was ap¬ 
pointed United States district judge for 
the district of Vermont. 

SMALLEY, EUGENE VIRGIL, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born July 18, 1841, in 
Randolph, Ohio. He is a journalist of St. 
Paul; and the author of History of the 
Northern Pacific Railroad; and History of 
the Republican Party. 

SMALLEY, FRANK, educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 10, 18*6, in 
Towanda, Pa. He has filled the chairs of 
geology, zoology and botany in the Syra¬ 
cuse university; and since 1881 has filled 
the chair of Latin language and literature 
in the same institution. He is the author 
of Latin Analysis; Latin Verse; Latin 
Etymology; Latin Hymns; and other 
works and translations. 

SMALLEY, GEORGE WASHBURN, 
journalist, author, was born June 2, 1833, 
in Franklin, Mass. He is a noted jour¬ 
nalist who was the London correspondent 
of the New York Tribune in 1867-95, and 
from 1895 American correspondent of the 
London Times. He is the author of Lon¬ 
don Letters, and Some Others; and Stud¬ 
ies of Men. 

SMALLEY. JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born June 4, 1734, in Lebanon (now 
Columbia), Conn. He was a congregation¬ 
al clergyman, pastor at New Britain from 
1758 till his death; and the author of Na¬ 
tional and Moral Inability; and Universal 
Salvation. He died June 1, 1820, in New 
Britain, Conn. 

SMALLS, ROBERT, naval officer, state 
senator, congressman, was born April 5, 
1829, in Beaufort, S. C. In 1868 he was 
a member of the South Carolina house of 
representatives; and he also filled the 
unexpired term in the state senate for 
two years. In 1872 he was re-elected to 
that position; and was made brigadier- 
general and afterwards major-general of 
state troops. In 1874 he was elected a 
representative from South Carolina to the 
forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected 
to the forty-fifth, forty-seventh, forty- 
eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

SMART, AMANDA J.. poet, was born 
in 1830, in Thornton, N. H. She has writ¬ 
ten both prose and verse for the periodi¬ 
cal press; and her poems have been given 
a place in Poets of America and other 
standard works. 

SMART, EPHRAIM K., lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, state senator, congressman, was 
born in 1813 in Prospect (now Searsport), 
Maine. In 1841 he was elected state sena¬ 
tor from Maine; in 1842 was aid to the 
governor, with the rank of lieutenant-col¬ 
onel; and was re-elected to the senate the 
same year. He was a representative in 
congress from Maine from 1847 to 1849, 
and from 1851 to 1853. From 1853 to 1858 
he was collector of customs at Belfast, 
Maine. In 1854 he established the Maine 
Free Press, and was its editor for three 
years; and in 1858 was again elected to 
the legislature. 

SMART, MRS. HELEN HAMILTON 
[GARDENER], author, was born in 1853 
in Virginia. She is a Boston novelist 
whose writings are mainly concerned with 


the furtherance of social reforms. She is 
the author of An Unofficial Patriot; Is 
This Your Son, My Lord?; Facts and Fic¬ 
tions of Life; Pray You, Sjr, Whose 
Daughter?; Pushed by Unseen Hands; A 
Thoughtless Yes; and The Fortunes of 
Margaret Weld. 

SMART, JAMES HENRY, educator, au¬ 
thor, college president, was born Jan. 30, 
1841, in Center Harbor, N. H. For thirty 
years he has been a member of the state 
board of education of Fort Wayne, Ind.; 
was thrice elected state superintendent of 
public instruction; and became president 
of Purdue university in 1883. He is the 
author of The Indiana Schools and the 
Men who Work in Them; a History of In¬ 
stitutes in the United States; and a se¬ 
ries of valuable Indiana state educational 
reports. 

SMART, JAMES S., soldier, journalist, 
congressman, was born June 14, 1842, in 
Baltimore, Md. In 1865 he took charge of 
the Washington County Post, published at 
Cambridge, N. Y. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the forty- 
third congress as a republican. 

SMEAD, ISAAC DAVID, manufacturer, 
inventor, was born July 31, 1849, in Cole¬ 
raine, Mass. He received his education 
in the district schools, and in 1867 com¬ 
menced the manufacture of heating and 
ventilating apparatus in Toledo, Ohio; has 
since continued in the business with great 
success; and is the president and superin¬ 
tendent of the Smead Furnace and Foun¬ 
dry company. He was a member of the 
board of managers of the Ohio peniten¬ 
tiary for four years, and was reappointed 
to that position for five years. He was 
commissioner of mechanics and machin¬ 
ery for the Ohio centennial exposition; 
and has served as colonel on the staff of 
Governor J. B. Foraker. 

SMEAD, WESLEY, physician, philan¬ 
thropist, author, was born Dec. 23, 1800, 
in Westchester county, N. Y. He founded 
in 1850 the Widows’ home in Cincinnati, 
to which he gave $37,000, and gave liber¬ 
ally to every public charity that came 
to his notice. Besides essays on banking, 
he published Guide to Wealth, or Path¬ 
way to Health, Peace and Competence. He 
died Jan. 6, 1871, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

SMEDES, MRS. SUSAN [DABNEY], 
author, was horn Aug. 10, 1840, in Ray¬ 
mond, Miss. She is a Mississippi writer 
now living in Washington, whose Me¬ 
morials of a Southern Planter is much 
valued as an accurate picture of south¬ 
ern life. 

SMEDLEY, SAMUEL LIGHTFOOT, 
contractor, author, was horn Dec. 29, 1832, 
in Edgmont, Pa. In 1856 he plotted a 
district of West Philadelphia into streets, 
and soon after published the first complete 
atlas of Philadelphia, which became the 
standard authority for many years. 

SMELT, DENNIS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Georgia from 1806 to 1811. 

SMET, PETER JOHN DE, missionary, 
author, was born Dec. 31, 1801, in Bel¬ 
gium. He was the author of Oregon Mis¬ 
sions and Travels; Western Missions and 
Missionaries; and the New Indian 
Sketches. He died Aug. 1, 1838, in New¬ 
ton, Conn. 

SMILIE, JOHN, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1741 in Ireland. He 
served in the legislature of Pennsylvania, 
his adopted state. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1793 to 1795, and again from 1799 to 1813. 
In 1797 he was a presidential elector. He 
died Dec. 30, 1813, in Washington, D. C. 


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SMILLIE, GEORGE HENRY, artist, 
was born Dec. 29, 1840, in New York city. 
He was elected an associate of the Nation¬ 
al academy in 1864, and an academician 
in 1882, and is also a member of the 
Water-color society. Among his works 
in oil are A Lake in the Woods; A Flori¬ 
da Lagoon; A Goat Pasture; Merrimack 
River; On the Massachusetts Coast; Sum¬ 
mer Morning on Long Island; and Light 
and Shadow along Shore. 

SMILLIE, JAMES, engraver, was born 
Nov. 23, 1807, in Edinburgh. Among his 
most noted works are copies of T. Cole’s 
four pictures: The Voyage of Life; Dream 
of Arcadia; Harvesting; Mount Washing¬ 
ton; and Rocky Mountains. He died Dec. 
4, 1885, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

SMILLIE, JAMES DAVID, artist, was 
born Jan. 16, 1833, in New York city. He 
was one of the founders of the American 
Water-color society, and for five years its 
president; also one of the founders of the 
New York Etching club, of which he sub¬ 
sequently became president. 

SMILLIE, NELLIE SHELDON JAC¬ 
OBS, artist, was born Sept. 14, 1854, in 
New York. Her works include Grand¬ 
mother’s Old Love Letters; When the 
Dew is on the Grass, in oil; Priscilla; 
Forgotten Strain; and Family Choir, in 
water-colors. 

SMILLIE, WILLIAM CUNNING, en¬ 
graver. was born Sept. 23, 1813, in Eng¬ 
land. He devoted himself to banknote en¬ 
graving, and was connected with several 
firms which were ultimately merged in 
the American Bank Note company. 

SMISER, BUTLER, journalist, author, 
poet, was born July 6, 1862, in Oldham 
county, Ky. He is editor and owner of 
The Indian Citizen of Atoka, I. T.; and 
has contributed both prose and verse to 
current literature. 


SMITH, A. HERR, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 7, 1815, in Lancas¬ 
ter county, Pa. He was elected to the house 
ox representatives of Pennsylvania in 1843 
and 1844; and in 1845 was elected to the 
state senate. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Pennsylvania to the forty- 
third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, 
forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses 
as a republican. 


SMITH, ABNER, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Aug. 4, 1843, in Orange, Mass. He is 
a judge of the circuit court of Cook coun¬ 
ty, Ill., and a man 
whose high attain¬ 
ments have placed 
him in the front rank 
of the representa¬ 
tives of the legal 
profession. His an¬ 
cestors on both sides 
of the house figure 
prominently in the 
early history of this 
country. On grad¬ 
uating from Middle- 
bury college in 1866 
he became principal of Newton academy 
of Vermont, but resigned in 1868, when he 
came to Chicago to take up the study of 
his chosen profession. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1868 at Chicago, where he 
still resides, and enjoyed a large practice 
in the state and supreme courts till the 
fall of 1893, when he was nominated by 
the republican party for the circuit court 
judgeship and elected by an overwhelm¬ 
ing majority. On the bench as well as at 
the bar he has made a record that will 
long command the respect of the people of 
Illinois. He also possesses great literary 
ability. 



SMITH, ABNER C., lawyer, journalist, 
jurist, state senator, was born Feb. 14, 
1814, in Vermont. In 1839 he moved to 
Michigan; was judge of the county court; 
judge of probate; and a state senator from 
Macomb county in 1845-46. He was the 
editor and publisher of the Macomb Coun¬ 
ty Gazette; and also of the Ancient Land¬ 
mark. He died Sept. 20, 1880, in Litch¬ 
field, Minn. 

SMITH, ALAN PENNEMAN, physi¬ 
cian. was born Feb. 3, 1840, in Baltimore, 
Md. He is connected with nearly all the 
hospitals of Baltimore as consulting phy¬ 
sician or surgeon, and has performed the 
operation of lithotomy more than one 
hundred times, successfully in every in¬ 
stance. 

SMITH. ALBERT, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 3, 1793, in Hanover, 
Mass. He was sent to the general court 
of Massachusetts in 1820. From 1830 to 
1838 he was marshal of the United States 
for Maine. He was a representative in 
congress from Maine from 1839 to 1841; 
and in 1842 was appointed United States 
commissioner to settle the northeastern 
boundary, under the Ashburton treaty, 
which business was completed in 1847. He 
died May 29, 1867, in Boston, Mass. 

SMITH, ALBERT, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New York. He was 
a member of the New York assembly from 
Genesee county in 1842; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1843 to 1847. 

SMITH. ALFRED BAKER, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Nov. 17, 1825, in Massena, 
N. Y. He received his education at the 
St. Lawrence academy and Union college 
of Schenectady, N. Y. During the civil 
war he was a major in the one hundred 
and fiftieth regiment New York volun¬ 
teer infantry; was promoted to lieutenant- 
colonel and colonel of same; and brevet- 
ted brigadier-general by President Lin¬ 
coln for gallant and meritorious services 
in Georgia and the Caroiinas. He took part 
with his regiment in Gettysburg, and on 
every march and fight it was in; and com¬ 
manded the regiment on its march to the 
sea. He has since become one of the 
leading lawyers of the east at Poughkeep¬ 
sie, N. Y.; has been its postmaster for 
eight years; and for thirty-eight years a 
member of the board of education. 

SMITH, ALCOCK C., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Kentucky. He moved to Washing¬ 
ton territory, from which he was appoint¬ 
ed a justice of the United States court for 
the territory of Idaho. 

SMITH, ANDREW J., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Sept. 2, 1818, in Chillicothe, 
Ohio. In 1875-76 he was attorney gen¬ 
eral of Michigan; in 1878 was appointed 
judge of the second circuit to fill a vacan¬ 
cy from Cassopolis; and was re-elected 
to the same office in 1881 for six years. 

SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON, soldier, 
was born April 28, 1815, in Bucks county, 
Pa. In 1838 he graduated from West 
Point; served with distinction in the Mex¬ 
ican and civil wars; and attained the bre¬ 
vet of major-general in the United States 
army. 

SMITH, ANDREW ROBINSON GID- 
DINGE, physician, surgeon, state senator, 
was born in May, 1841, in Bridgton, Maine. 
He entered military service as hospital 
steward; was promoted assistant surgeon; 
aDd has since been United States examin¬ 
ing surgeon in Whitefield, Maine. He has 
represented his town in the state legisla¬ 
ture; and his district in the state senate 
for two sessions. 


SMITH, ARTHUR, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 15, 1785, in Isle 
of Wight county, Va. He served with 
credit at the head of a militia force at 
Norfolk in 1812; was a member of the 
privy council of Virginia, and subsequent¬ 
ly a member of the state legislature. He 
was a representative in congress from 1821 
to 1825. He died March 30, 1853, in Vir¬ 
ginia. 

SMITH, ARTHUR DONALDSON, ex¬ 
plorer, author, was born in 1864 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is an African explorer; and 
the author of Through Unknown African 
Countries. 

SMITH, ARTHUR E., poet, was born 
June 15, 1865, in Granville, N. Y. He is 
a writer of Belcher, N. Y.; and the author 
of a volume of poems entitled Rural Leg¬ 
ends and Lyrics. 

SMITH, ASA DODGE, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born Sept. 21, 
1804, in Amherst, N. H. He was a presby- 
terian clergyman; and was president of 
Dartmouth college during 1863-77. He 
published several addresses and sermons. 
He died Aug. 16, 1877, in Hanover, N. H. 

SMITH, ASHBEL, physician, diplomat, 
author, was born Aug. 13, 1805, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. He was a Texas politician 
and physician; and the author of Account 
of the Geography of Texas; and Perma¬ 
nent Identity of the Human Race. He 
died Jan. 21, 1886, in Harris county, 
Texas. 


SMITH, ASHLEY AUBURN, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born May 28, 1871, in 
Auburn, Maine. He graduated from Tufts 
college; and now fills a pastorate in Glou¬ 
cester, Mass. He is the author of a vol¬ 
ume entitled Noble Thoughts for Noble 
Living. 



SMITH, AUGUSTUS LEDYARD, busi¬ 
ness man, legislator, was born April 5. 
1833, in Middletown, Conn. He graduated 
from the university 
of Middletown, and 
subsequently took a 
position as tutor in 
the university of 
Wisconsin at Madi¬ 
son. In 1856 he be¬ 
came connected with 
the office of school 
lands in Wisconsin, 
and with the Fox 
and Wisconsin Im¬ 
provement company, 
and became its sec¬ 
retary and treasurer. In 1861 he accepted 
the professorship in the United States 
Naval academy of Annapolis, and was sub¬ 
sequently assigned to duty on the steam 
frigate Constitution. After the war he 
resumed his duties with the Fox and Wis¬ 
consin Improvement company, which was 
subsequently merged into the Green Bay 
and Mississippi Canal company; and was 
continuously with that company until 
1872. In 1870 Mr. Smith organized the 
First National bank of Appleton, and was 
its president for more than twenty years. 
In 1881 he was the leading spirit of the 
Appleton Edison Light company; and in 
1894 was elected vice-president of the Na¬ 
tional Association of the Edison Illumi¬ 
nating companies. In 1866-67 he served as 
state senator in the Wisconsin legislature; 
and in 1870 was elected mayor of Appleton. 
Among the important measures in which 
he took a leading part was the reorganiza¬ 
tion of the State university; and while a 
member of the senate Governor Fairchild 
appointed him regent, which position he 
held for six successive years. In 1884 he 
received the nomination to congress; and 
was president of the Wisconsin board of 
World’s Fair managers in 1891. 


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SMITH, AUGUSTUS WILLIAM, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born May 12, 1802, in 
Newport, R. I. He was an educator who 
was professor of mathematics at Wesley¬ 
an university in 1831-51: and president of 
that institution from 1851. He was the au¬ 
thor of Elementary Treatise on Mechan¬ 
ics. He died March 26, 1866, in Annapo¬ 
lis, Md. 

SMITH, AZARIAH LAWRENCE, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, poet, was horn Nov. 18, 
1837, in Tompkins county, N. Y. For thir¬ 
ty years he was engaged in educational 
work as a teacher in the public schools. 
He has filled pastorates in several 
churches in Missouri, and for many years 
was pastor of the First Baptist church of 
Mattock, Iowa. He has contributed both 
prose and verse to the periodical press, 
and some of his poems have been given a 
place in standard works. 

SMITH. BALLARD, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1815 to 1821. 

SMITH, BENJAMIN, state legislator, 
governor, was born in 1750 in Brunswick 
county, N. C. He was a member of the 
North, Carolina state legislature in 1792; 
was a general of militia: and was govern¬ 
or of the state from 1810 to 1811. His 
life w r as one of many difficulties; was en¬ 
gaged in many duels; but is kindly re¬ 
membered because of his donation of 
twenty thousand acres of land to the State 
university in 1789. He died Feb. 10, 1829, 
in Smithville, N. C. 

SMITH. BENJAMIN BOSWORTH, bish¬ 
op, was born June 13, 1794, in Bristol, R. 
I. In 1832 he became a protestant episco¬ 
pal bishop of the diocese of Kentucky. 
His earliest work in the ministry was in 
Marblehead for two years, after which he 
became rector of St. George’s church, Ac¬ 
comack county, Va., and two years later 
rector of Zion church, Charlestown, with 
charge of the church in Shepherdstown. 
He died May 31, 1884, in New York city. 

SMITH, BENJAMIN WILSON, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, state legislator, was born 
Jan. 19, 1830, in Harrison county, Va. He 
is the senior member of a school supply 
firm of La Fayette, Ind.; and has served 
as a member of the Indiana state legisla¬ 
ture for three terms. 

SMITH, BERNARD, public official, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1776 in Morris¬ 
town, N. J. He was sent as a special 
bearer of dispatches to Europe; and was 
subsequently collector and postmaster at 
New Brunswick. He was a representative 
in congress from New Jersey from 1819 
to 1821; and during the latter year was 
appointed register of the land office in Ar¬ 
kansas, which office he held until his 
death. He died July 16, 1835, in Little 
Rock, Ark. 

SMITH, BOARDMAN H„ lawyer, jurist, 
•congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1826, in 
Whitingham, Vt. He settled in New York; 
was appointed judge of the Chemung 
county courts in 1859, and elected to the 
same office in that year. He was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
forty-second and forty-third congresses. 

SMITH, BUCKINGHAM, lawyer, diplo¬ 
mat, antiquarian, author, was born Oct. 
31, 1810, in Cumberland Island, Ga. He 
was a Spanish-American scholar and anti¬ 
quary of note; twice secretary of the 
United States legation at Mexico; and 
after 1859 a lawyer in Florida. Among 
his many publications are Grammatical 
Sketch of the Heve Language; Grammar 
of the Pima, or Nevome; and Narratives 
of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the 
Conquest of Florida. He died Jan. 5, 1871, 
in New York city. 


SMITH, CALEB BLOOD, congressman, 
cabinet officer, was born April 16, 1808, 
in Boston, Mass. In 1832 he established 
and edited a whig 
journal called the 
Indiana Sentinel. In 
1833 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the legisla¬ 
ture; and also in 
1834-36. He was a 
representative in 
congress from Indi¬ 
ana from 1843 to 
1849; and was a pres¬ 
idential elector in 
1840 and 1856. Aft¬ 
er leaving congress 
in 1849 he was appointed one of the mem¬ 
bers of the board for investigating the 
claims of American citizens against Mex¬ 
ico; and subsequently practiced his pro¬ 
fession in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1861 he 
was appointed secretary of the interior 
department. He was a member of the 
peace congress held in Washington in 
1861; and in 1862 was appointed judge of 
the United States district court for the 
district of Indiana. He died Jan. 8, 1864, 
in Indianapolis, Ind. 

SMITH, CARL, journalist, poet. He was 
a successful journalist and on the staff of 
the Chicago Record. He was the author 
of a volume of poems entitled Where the 
Sun Goes Down. He was drowned in 
September, 1898. 

SMITH. CARROLL EARLL, journalist, 
state legislator, was born Dec. 25, 1832, 
in Syracuse, N. Y. He was associate edi¬ 
tor on the staff of the Syracuse Chronicle. 
In 1888 he was a member of the New York 
legislature; and in 1889-93 was postmaster 
of Syracuse, N. Y. 

SMITH, CHARLES, bookseller, was 
born in 1768 in New York. He was a book¬ 
seller in New York city; translated plays 
for the stage from the German of Kotze¬ 
bue and Schiller; and edited the Month¬ 
ly Military Repository in 1796-97. He also 
published a Political Pocket Almanac in 
1797. He died in 1808 in New York city. 

SMITH. CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 4, 1765, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He became president judge in 
1819 of the judicial district composed of 
the counties of Cumberland, Franklin and 
Adams; and in 1820 of the newly formed 
district court of Lancaster city and coun¬ 
ty. His later life was spent in Philadel¬ 
phia. He was appointed by the legislature 
in 1810 to revise the laws of the state, and 
to frame a compilation of them, which he 
published with a Treatise on the Land 
Laws of Pennsylvania, in five volumes. 
He died March 18, 1836, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

SMITH, CHARLES ADAM, clergyman, 
author, was born Jan. 25, 1809, in New 
York city. He was a lutheran clergyman 
of Rhinebeck, N. Y., and elsewhere. He 
was the author of The Catechumen’s 
Guide; Men of the Olden Time; Before 
the Flood and After; Among the Lilies; 
Inlets and Outlets; Stoneridge, pastoral 
sketches; and Popular Exposition of the 
Gospels. He died Feb. 15, 1879, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

SMITH, CHARLES BROOKS, soldier, 
congressman, was born Feb. 24, 1844, in 
Wood county, W. Va. He enlisted in the 
union army at the age of nineteen years, 
and was mustered out in 1865. He was 
twice elected mayor of the city of Parkers¬ 
burg; and in 1880 was elected sheriff and 
treasurer of the county of Wood, and 
served a term of four years; was delegate 
at large to the national republican conven¬ 
tion at Chicago in 1888; and was elected 
to the fifty-first congress as a republican. 


SMITH, CHARLES EMORY, journalist, 
was born Feb. 18, 1842, in Mansfield, Conn. 
He became editor of the Albany Express 
in 1865, and of the Albany Journal in 
1870, and since 1880 has conducted the 
Philadelphia Press. He was president of 
the New York State Press association in 
1874, and delivered the annual address at 
its meeting. He was a regent of the uni¬ 
versity of the state of New York in 1879- 
80; and a delegate to the national republi¬ 
can conventions in 1876 and in 1888. 

SMITH. CHARLES FERGUSON, sol¬ 
dier, was born April 24, 1807, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He served at the military 
academy from 1829 till 1842 as assistant 
instructor of infantry tactics, adjutant, 
and as commandant of cadets and instruc¬ 
tor of infantry tactics. He was with the 
army of General Zachary Taylor in the 
military occupation of Texas in 1845-46, 
and was placed in command of four com¬ 
panies of artillery, acting as infantry, 
which throughout the war that followed 
was famous as Smith’s light battalion. 
He died April 25,1862, in Savannah, Tenn. 

SMITH, CHARLES FORSTER, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born June 30, 1852, in 
Abbeville county, S. C. He graduated from 
the Wafford college. Harvard university, 
and Leipsic university. He has filled the 
chair of Greek in various institutions, and 
now fills that chair in the university of 
Wisconsin. He is the author of several 
books, and a number of philological and 
literary articles. 

SMITH, CHARLES HENRY (Bill Arp), 
lawyer, journalist, author, was born June 
15, 1826, in Lawrenceville, Ga. He is a 
lawyer and journalist of Rome, Ga., and 
well-known as a humorous contributor to 
The Atlanta Constitution. He is the au¬ 
thor of Bill Arp’s Letters; Bill Arp’s 
Scrap Book; The Farm and the Fireside; 
A Side Show of the Southern Side of the 
War; and Georgia as a Colony and State 
in 1733-1893. 

SMITH, CHARLES HENRY, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, was born Nov. 1, 
1827, in Hollis, Maine. He has been suc¬ 
cessively lawyer, soldier, state senator, 
and army officer, and is now on the retired 
list of the United States army in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

SMITH, CHARLES P., merchant, bank¬ 
er, state legislator, was born March 4, 
1847, in Canada. He was educated in the 
public schools of Burlington; is president 
of the Burlington Savings bank; and in 
1894 was elected a member of the Vermont 
house of representatives. 

SMITH, CHARLES PERRIN, genealo¬ 
gist, was born Jan. 5, 1819, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. On attaining his majority he 
became proprietor and editor of The Na¬ 
tional Standard of Salem, N. J., and con¬ 
ducted it for eleven years. He served in 
the legislature of 1852, and filled nu¬ 
merous public positions. He was the au¬ 
thor of a genealogy. He died Jan. 27, 
1883, in Trenton, N. J. 

SMITH, CHARLES SHALER, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born Jan. 26, 1836, in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. He constructed the confed¬ 
erate states powder works, one of the 
largest that had then been built. In 1866 
he organized the engineering firm which 
subsequently became the Baltimore Bridge 
company, of which he was president and 
chief engineer. He died Dec. 19, 1886, in 
St. Louis, Mo. 

SMITH, CHESTER G., lawyer, orator, 
was born Dec. 31, 1870, in Frankfort, 
Mich. He received a thorough education 
in the graded and normal schools; studied 
law and was admitted to the bar at Utica, 
N. Y. He has a successful practice in 
Buffalo, N. Y. 



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SMITH, DABNEY HOWARD, state aud¬ 
itor, was born Nov. 24, 1821, near George¬ 
town, Ky. In 1849 he was elected to the 
Kentucky state legislature, and in 1853 
he was elected state senator, without op¬ 
position, from the district composed of the 
counties of Scott and Fayette, the latter 
being the home of Henry Clay. 

SMITH, DANIEL, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born about 1740 in Fauquier 
county, Va. He was one of the earliest 
emigrants to Tennessee, and was a gen¬ 
eral of militia. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Tennessee during the year 
1798, and was again a senator from 1805 
to 1809. He died in July, 1818. 

SMITH, DANIEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 16,1806, in Salisbury, Conn. 
He was a methodist clergyman of New 
York state, and very active in the tem¬ 
perance cause. He was the author of Wis¬ 
dom in Miniature; Gems of Female Biog¬ 
raphy; Anecdotes for the Young; Teach¬ 
ers’ Assistant; Lectures to Young Men; 
Book of Manners; and Anecdotes of the 
Christian Ministry. He died June 23, 1852, 
in Kingston, N. Y. 

SMITH, DAVID HIGHBAUGH, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Dec. 19, 1854, in Hart county, Ky. He 
has been practicing law since 1876, and 
was elected county attorney for Larue 
county in 1878, for the term of four years. 
He was elected superintendent of common 
schools for Larue county in 1878. In 1881 
he was elected to represent Larue county 
in the house of representatives of the 
general assembly for two years, and in 
1885 was elected to the state senate for 
the term of four years, and re-elected 
in 1889. At the first meeting of the 
senate he was elected for the term 
of two years, at the end of which term he 
was again elected for a second term of 
two years, and was president of the sen¬ 
ate. He was elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

SMITH, DAVID ivl., inventor, state leg¬ 
islator, was born in 1809, in Hartland, 
Vt. The awl-haft as manufactured by 
him was similar if not identical with the 
one now known as the Aiken awl. In 1840- 
41 he represented the town of Gilsum in 
the New Hampshire legislature, after 
which he removed to Springfield, Vt. He 
patented a combination-lock in 1849, of 
which an English expert named Hobbs, 
who had opened all the locks that were 
brought to him in London, said, It cannot 
be picked. He died Nov. 10, 1881, in 
Springfield, Vt. 

SMIiri, DELAZON, journalist, United 
States senator, was born Oct. 5, 1816, in 
New Berlin, N. Y. He studied law, be¬ 
came a writer for the 
press, and was asso¬ 
ciated with the 
Rochester True Jef¬ 
fersonian and the 
Western Empire of 
Dayton, Ohio. In 
1846 he removed to 
Iowa territory, where 
he remained until 
1852, when he moved 
to Oregon territory. 
In 1854 he was elect¬ 
ed to the assembly 
of Oregon, and was re-elected in 1855 and 
1856. In 1857 he was a member of the 
convention which framed a state consti¬ 
tution, and in 1858 was chosen one of the 
senators in congress for the prospective 
state, and took his seat as such in 1859. 
He was also the editor of the Oregon 
Democrat. He died Nov. 17, 1860, in Port¬ 
land, Ore. 


SMITH, DEXTER, author, poet, was 
born in 1842 in Salem, Mass. More than 
one thousand poems from the pen of this 
poet have been set to music, and some of his 
songs have attained circulations running 
well into millions of copies, notably the 
lyrics, Ring the Bell Softly, There’s Crape 
on the Door; Cross and Crown; Put Me 
in My Little Bed; Darling Minnie Lee; 
and others. Ring the Bell Softly has 
been translated into several foreign lan¬ 
guages. Since 1865 he has edited contin¬ 
uously various musical journals, among 
them the Orpheus and the Boston Musical 
Record, which he now conducts. A vol¬ 
ume of his poems appeared in 1867. 

SMITH, DIETRICH C., soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, banker, congressman, was born 
April 4, 1840, in Hanover. He entered the 
union army in 1861, and served through¬ 
out the war, attaining the rank of cap¬ 
tain. He engaged in banking and manu¬ 
facturing in Pekin, Ill.; was a representa¬ 
tive in the legislature of Illinois, and was 
elected a representative from Illinois to 
the forty-seventh congress. 

SMITH, EDWARD DELAFIELD, law¬ 
yer, author, poet, was born May 8, 1826, 
in Rochester, N. Y. He was a lawyer of 
New York city, and the author of Avidae, 
a poeA; Destiny, a poem; Oratory, a 
poem; Reports of Cases in the New York 
Court of Common Pleas; and Addresses 
to Juries in Slave Trade Trials. He died 
April 13, 1878, in Shrewsbury, N. J. 

SMITH, EDWARD HENRY, farmer, 
congressman, was born in 1809, in Smith- 
town, N. Y. In 1860 he was elected a 
representative from New York to the thir¬ 
ty-seventh congress. 

SMITH, EDWARD M., lawyer, legislat¬ 
or, was born Feb. 6, 1838, in Alstead, N. 
H. He received a thorough education, at¬ 
tended the academy 
of Alstead; and in 
1860 graduated from 
the Albany Law 
school. New York. 
He has attained suc¬ 
cess in the profes¬ 
sion of law; is one 
of the foremost law¬ 
yers of New Eng¬ 
land, and still prac¬ 
tices in the city of 
his nativity. He has 
served with distihc- 
tion as a member of the New Hampshire 
state legislature; was superintendent of 
the school committee for twelve years; 
has been tax collector for eleven years; 
and is moderator of Alstead, N. H. He 
is prominent in the public affairs of his 
city, county and state; and an active 
member in several fraternal orders. 

SMITH, EDWARD M., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Jan. 5, 1854, in St. Albans, 
Vt. Since 1896 he has been president of 
the Central Vermont railroad. 

SMITH, EDWARD PARMELEE, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born June 3, 
1827, in South Britain, Conn. In 1871 he 
was appointed an Indian agent among 
the Chippewas in Minnesota; in 1873 he 
was appointed commissioner of Indian 
affairs, and in 1875 was appointed presi¬ 
dent of Howard university. He died June 
15, 1876, in Africa. 

SMITH, EDWIN BRADBURY, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born in October, 1832, 
in Kennebunkport, Maine. He practiced 
law in Saco, Maine; frequently served in 
the state legislature, and was chosen 
speaker in 1871. He was subsequently the 
official reporter of the supreme court, and 
in 1875 was appointed first assistant in the 
office of the attorney-general of the Unit¬ 
ed States. 


SMITH, ELDRIDGE, soldier, poet. He 
served with distinction as a colonel in the 
United States army during the civil war; 
and took part in the defence of Balti¬ 
more during the raid of General Early in 
1864. He is the author of a volume of 
poems entitled Songs of the Morning. 
His wife is also the author of a volume of 
poems entitled Beautiful Builders. 

SMITH, ELI, missionary, author, was 
born Sept. 13, 1801, in Northfield, Conn. 
He was a congregational missionary at 
Beirut, and the author of Missionary Re¬ 
searches in Armenia; and an Arabic trans¬ 
lation of the Bible. He died Jan. 11, 1857, 
in Syria. 

SMITH, ELI N., lawyer, was born April 
24, 1844, in Woodsfield, Ohio. He re¬ 
ceived a thorough education, and has at¬ 
tained eminence as a successful criminal 
lawyer of El Dorado, Kan. He has been 
prosecuting attorney, mayor of his city, 
and takes a prominent part in public 
affairs. 

SMITH, ELIAS, clergyman, author, was 
born June 17, 1769, in Lyme, Conn. He 
was a congregational clergyman of Massa¬ 
chusetts, and the author of The Qlergy- 
man’s Looking-Glass; History of Anti- 
Christ; and Sermons on the Prophecies. 
He died June 29, 1846, in Lynn, Mass. 

SMITH, ELIHU HUBBARD, physician, 
author, poet, was born Sept. 4, 1771, in 
Litchfield, Conn. He was a physician and 
poet of New York city. He was the au¬ 
thor of Edwin and Angelina, an opera; 
and American Poems, Original and Se¬ 
lected. He died Dec. 19, 1798, in New York 
city. 

SMITH, ELIJAH, railroad president, 
was born April 23, 1840, in Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. Since 1895 he has been president of 
the Oregon Improvement company; and 
has also been president of the Detroit, 
Hillsdale and South-Western railroad. 

SMITH, MRS. ELIZABETH OAKES, 
author, poet, was born Aug. 12, 1806, in 
North Yarmouth, Maine. She was a prom¬ 
inent writer of prose and poetry, and 
was the first woman lecturer in America. 
Her later years were passed in Hollywood, 
S. C. Among her many works are, Tile 
Sinless Child, and Other Poems; The 
Newsboy, which first directed public at¬ 
tention to a hitherto neglected class; 
Riches Without Wings; Old New York, or 
Jacob Leisler, a tragedy; Woman and Her 
Needs; Bertha and Lily; and The West¬ 
ern Captive. She died in 1893. 

SMITH, EMMETT WERTER, educator, 
lawyer, was born Feb. 1, 1866, in Sexton, 
Texas. In 1888 he graduated with honors 
from the Southwestern university; was 
principal of the high school in East Texas 
for three years, and in 1892 graduated 
from the law department of the university 
of Texas. He has attained prominence 
as an able lawyer of Nacogdoches, Texas, 
where he is also associate editor of The 
Star-News. He is the author of a num¬ 
ber of articles on various topics, which 
have appeared in current literature. 

SMITH, ERASMUS DARWIN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 10, 1806, in De Ruy- 
ter, N. Y. He became a master in chan¬ 
cery in 1832, and was a justice of the 
supreme court of New York from 1855 
till 1877, when he was retired on account 
of age. He served on the court of ap¬ 
peals in 1862 and 1870, and was general 
term justice in 1872-77. He died Nov. 11, 
1883, in Rochester, N. Y. 

SMITH, ERASMUS PESHINE, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born March 2, 1814, in 
New York city. He was a jurist and po¬ 
litical economist; and the author of Man¬ 
ual of Political Economy. He died Oct. 
21, 1882, in Rochester, N. Y. 







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SMITH, MRS. ERMINNIE ADELLE, 
scientist, author, was born Feb. 26, 1836, 
in Marcellus, N. Y. She was an ethnol¬ 
ogist who published an Iroquois-English 
dictionary. Sne died June 9, 1886, in 
Jersey City, N. J. 

SMITH, ETHAN, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 19, 1762, in Belchertown, 
Mass. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man and city missionary of Boston in 
1&32-49. He was the author of A View of 
the Trinity; and A View of the Hebrews, 
in which the origin of the American In¬ 
dians was traced to the ten tribes of 
Israel. He died Aug. 29, 1849, in Pompey, 

N. Y. 

SMITH, EUGENE ALLEN, educator, 
geologist, was born Oct. 27, 1841, in Ala¬ 
bama. He has attained eminence as a 
noted geologist; and is connected with 
the university of Alabama. 

SMITH, MRS. EUGENIA M., author, 
was born in 1852 in Vermont. She is a 
writer of Dubuque, Iowa, and the author 
of Winsome but Wicked; The Parson's 
Sin; and Our Money-Makers, a poultry 
book. 

SMITH, MRS. EVA MUNSON, compos¬ 
er, poet, author, was born July 12, 1843, 
in Monkton, Vt. She is the author of 

__ _ Woman in Sacred 

B|MUM Song, a representa¬ 

tive work of what 
woman has done in 
hymnology. She is 
the author of a 
large number of 
temperance songs 
and other works, 
w’hich have become 
very popular. Her 
B poems appear in 
B Poets of America 
and other standard 
works. Her best known productions are, 
Woodland Warblings; American Rifle 
Team March; and I Will Not Leave You 
Comfortless. 

SMITH, FLORENCE, poet, was born in 
1845 in New York city. She was a poet of 
New York city; and published Piero’s 
Painting, and Other Poems. She died in 
1871 in New York city. 

SMITH, FRANCIS GURNEY, physician, 
author, was born March 8, 1818, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. During the civil war he 
was physician in charge of a military hos¬ 
pital. He founded and established the 
first laboratory in which physiology was 
taught experimentally and by demonstra¬ 
tion in the university of Pennsylvania, 
was the first president of the Philadel¬ 
phia Obstetrical society, and vice-presi¬ 
dent of the American Medical association 
in 1870. For nine years he was an editor 
of the Philadelphia Medical Examiner. He 
contributed frequently to medical litera¬ 
ture; translated and edited Barth and 
Roger’s Manual of Auscultation and Per¬ 
cussion; edited Daniel Drake’s System¬ 
atic Treatise; and was the author of Do¬ 
mestic Medicine, Surgery, and Materia 
Medica. He died April 6, 1878, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

SMITH, FRANCIS HENNEY, soldier, 
educator, author, was born Oct. 18, 1812, 
in Norfolk, Va. He was a confederate 
officer who was professor of mathematics 
at Hampden Sidney college in 1837-39, and 
superintendent of the Virginia Military 
institute in 1839-61, and 1865-90. He was 
the author of Best Methods of Conducting 
Common Schools; College Reform; and a 
series of algebras. He died March 21, 
1890, in Lexington, Va. 

SMITH, FRANCIS HOPKINSON, artist, 
civil engineer, author, was born Oct. 23, 
1838, in Baltimore, Md. He is the au¬ 



thor of Well-Worn Roads of Spain, Hol¬ 
land and Italy; Old Lines in New Black 
and White; A White Umbrella in Mexico; 
Colonel Carter of Cartersville, a novel; 
A Day at Daguerre’s, and Other Days; 
American Illustrators; Venice of To-Day; 
A Gentleman Vagabond, and Some 
Others; and Tom Grogan. 

SMITH, FRANCIS OSMOND JON, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 23, 1806, in Brentwood, N. H. He 
was elected to the 
assembly of Maine 
in 1831; was presi¬ 
dent of the state sen¬ 
ate in 1833, and was 
a representative in 
congress from Maine 
from 1833 to 1839. 
He was a brilliant 
orator and parlia¬ 
mentarian; and 
while in congress 
served on a number 
of important com¬ 
mittees. He died Oct. 14, 1876, in Deering, 
Maine. 

SMITH, FRANK B., lawyer, jurist, was 
born March 6, 1861, near Leavenworth, 
Kan. He held the office of state’s attor¬ 
ney for six years, and that of county 
judge for two years. He is now circuit 
judge of the fourth judicial circuit of 
South Dakota. 

SMITH, FRANK H., physician, state 
legislator, was born in 1855 in Jackson¬ 
ville, Pa. He has been mayor of Good- 
land, Kan., where he is a successful phy¬ 
sician. In 1896 he was elected a member 
of the Kansas state legislature. 

SMITH, FRANK HILL, artist, was born 
Oct. 15, 1842, in Boston, Mass. His work 
in oil includes portraits, figure-pieces and 
landscapes. Some of his Venetian pictures 
belong to the Somerset club, Boston. He 
has decorated the Windsor hotel and the 
opera-house at Holyoke, Mass., and nu¬ 
merous public and private buildings in 
Boston, Cambridge and other cities. 

SMITH, FRANK L., portrait painter, 
was born Dec. 21, 1860, in Ripon, Wis. 
Early in life he had a penchant for art; 
studied under the best masters, and has 
attained a national reputation as an emi¬ 
nent portrait painter. 

SMITH, FRANK SULLIVAN, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 14, 1851, in Short Tract, 
N. Y. He received a thorough education: 
attended Angelica academy; and in 1872 
graduated from Yale college. He has at¬ 
tained success as a lawyer, and is one of 
the foremost in his profession, with offices 
in New York city and Angelica. He has 
had much important and successful liti¬ 
gation, notably in relation to Eastern and 
Northern railroad of Alabama; Schuyler 
Electric company of Allegheny; and the 
Kinzua Railroad company. He has been 
supervisor of Allegheny county, was a 
delegate to the republican national con¬ 
vention in 1884, has been school commis¬ 
sioner, and was secretary of the repub¬ 
lican state committee during 1887-91. He 
was general counsel of the Sciota Val¬ 
ley and N. E. railroad. He is president 
of the Allegheny Central Railroad com¬ 
pany, and vice-president and counsel 
of the C., N. Y. and W.; and general coun¬ 
sel of the P. S. and L. E.; and the Michi¬ 
gan Gas company. 

SMITH, GENIE M., journalist, author, 
poet, was born Nov. 17, 1852, in Vermont. 
She is the author of three novels, one 
book of poems, and numerous serials, 
short stories, sketches and other articles. 
She has been the editor of the Minnesota 
Housekeeper, Iowa Mid-Continent, and 
various other publications. 


SMITH, GEORGE, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1809 to 1813. 

SMITH, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, author, was born Feb. 12, 1804, 
in Delaware county. Pa. He served in 
the state senate in 1832-36. He was an 
associate judge of the court of common 
pleas of Delaware county from the latter 
date till 1857, and was re-elected in 1861 
for a term of five years. He was chosen 
the first superintendent of the Delaware 
county common schools in 1854, and for 
the subsequent twenty-five years was 
president of the school board of Upper 
Darby school district. He also devoted 
much attention to scientific pursuits, es¬ 
pecially to geology. He was a founder of 
the Delaware county institute of science, 
and its president from 1833 until his death, 
presenting it with his valuable herbarium 
about 1875. He published several essays 
and A History of Delaware County, Pa., 
from the Discovery of the Territory In¬ 
cluded Within Its Limits to the Present 
Time. He died March 10, 1882, in Upper 
Darby, Pa. 

SMITH, GEORGE CARSON, railroad 
president, was born March 4, 1855, in 
Granville, Wash. Since 1894 he has been 
president of the Atlanta and West Point 
railroad, and also of the Western railway 
of Alabama. 

SMITH, GEORGE HANDY, United 
States senator, was born July 21, 1836, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1871 he was chosen 
a member of the Pennsylvania state leg¬ 
islature, and was twice re-elected. In 
1875 he was elected a state senator, and 
in 1877 a United States senator. In 1885 
and again in 1887 he was chosen president 
pro tern, of the senate. 

SMITH, GEORGE L., soldier, merchant, 
journalist, congressman, was born 
Dec. 11, 1840, in Hillsborough coun¬ 

ty, N. H. He served in the army; 
settled in Louisiana at the close of 
the civil war and engaged in mercantile 
business, and was elected a member of 
the assembly in 1870 and 1872. He was 
proprietor of the Shreveport Southwest¬ 
ern Telegram; and was president of a sav¬ 
ings bank and trust company. He was 
elected a representative from Louisiana 
to the forty-third congress to fill a va¬ 
cancy. 

SMITH, GEORGE W., physician, mer¬ 
chant, banker, was born Dec. 10, 1846, 
in Hillsdale county, Mich. In 1867 he 
moved to Owosso, Mich., engaged in the 
drug business, and there studied medi¬ 
cine. He practiced that profession for a 
while, and then engaged in the wholesale 
and retail grocery business. In 1878 he 
moved to Geneva, Neb., and a year later 
organized the Geneva Exchange bank, of 
which he was president. In 1879 the 
bank’s name was changed to the First 
National bank of Geneva, of which he is 
still president. He has traveled exten¬ 
sively in Europe, and on his return was 
elected mayor of his city in 1890. He 
has also organized several other banks 
in Nebraska, and has made generous con¬ 
tributions to churches and educational 
institutions. 

SMITH, GEORGE W„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 18, 1846, in Put¬ 
nam county, Ohio. In 1870 he was admit¬ 
ted to the practice of law by the supreme 
court of Illinois, since which time he has 
resided in Murphysboro. In 1880 he was 
the republican elector for his congression¬ 
al district, and cast the vote of the district 
for Garfield and Arthur. He was elected 
to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, 
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a 
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SMITH, GEORGE WASHINGTON, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 4, 1800, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a founder of the Penn¬ 
sylvania Historical society; for many 
years one of its councillors, and at his 
death senior vice-president. He possessed 
a large estate, of which he gave liberally 
to benevolent objects. He published 
Facts and Arguments in Favor of Adopt¬ 
ing Railroads in Preference to Canals; 
Defence of the Pennsylvania System in 
Favor of Solitary Confinement of Pris¬ 
oners; and edited Nicholas Wood’s trea¬ 
tise on Railroads. He died April 22, 
1876, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SMITH, GEORGE WILLIAM, governor. 
He was governor of Virginia from 1811 to 
1812, and lost his life at the burning of 
the Richmond theater, Dec. 26, 1811. 

SMITH, GEORGE WILLIAMSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was horn Nov. 21, 1836, in 
Catskill, N. Y. He was ordained deacon 
in 1860, and priest in 1864, in the protes- 
tant episcopal church, and was an assist¬ 
ant at various churches in Washington, 
D. C. He was acting professor of math¬ 
ematics in the United States naval acad¬ 
emy at Newport, R. I., in 1864-65, chap¬ 
lain at the Annapolis academy in 1865-68, 
and chaplain on the United States steam¬ 
ship Franklin in 1868-71. He was rector 
of Grace church, Jamaica, L. I., in 1872- 
81, of the Church of the Redeemer, Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y., in 1880-83, and since the latter- 
date has been president of Trinity col¬ 
lege. He has published occasional ser¬ 
mons, and is the author of a Memoir of 
Rev. John H. Van Ingen. 

SMITH, GERRIT, philanthropist, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born March 6, 
1797, in Utica, N. Y. He was one of the 
leaders of the Anti-Slavery society, and 
was noted for his philanthropy. Having 
inherited one of the largest landed es¬ 
tates in the country, he distributed nearly 
two hundred thousand acres of it among 
the poor. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1853 to 
1855. He was the author of Speeches in 
Congress; Sermons and Speeches; The Re¬ 
ligion of Reason; The Theologies; and 
Nature the Basis of a Free Theology. He 
died Dec. 28, 1874, in New York city. 

SMITH, GERTRUDE, author, was horn 
in 1860 in California. She is a Boston 
writer, whose early life was spent in the 
west. She is the author of The Rousing 
of Mrs. Potter, and Other Stories; The 
Arabella and Araminta Stories; and De- 
dora Heywood. 

SMITH, GILES ALEXANDER, soldier, 
was born Sept. 29, 1829, in Jefferson coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. He became captain in the 
eighth Missouri volunteers in 1861, and in 
1863 was promoted brigadier-general of 
volunteers. He died Nov. 8, 1876, in 
Bloomington, Ill. 

SMITH, GREEN CLAY, soldier, cler¬ 
gyman, congressman, was born July 2, 
1830, in Richmond, Ky. He was a school 
commissioner from 1853 to 1857, estab¬ 
lishing a great number of schools. He 
served as second lieutenant in the Mexi¬ 
can war, and after the breaking out of 
the rebellion in 1861 had command of the' 
fourth Kentucky cavalry. He was elected 
to the state legislature; was appointed 
a brigadier-general in 1862; was subse¬ 
quently promoted to the rank of major- 
general; and was present at the battle 
of Ball’s Bluff and about fifty other en¬ 
gagements. In 1863 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Kentucky to the thirty- 
eighth congress, and was re-elected to 
the thirty-ninth congress. In 1866, while 
still in congress he was appointed gov¬ 
ernor of Montana. He subsequently be¬ 


came a preacher in the baptist church in 
Frankfort, Ky. In 1876 he was the candi¬ 
date of the prohibition party for the presi¬ 
dency of the United States. 

SMITH, GUSTAVUS WOODSON, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born Jan. 1, 1822, in 
Scott county, Ky. He was a confederate 
general who lived in New York city from 
1876. He was the author of Notes on Life 
Insurance; and Confederate War Papers. 
He died in 1896. 

SMITH, H. BOARDMAN, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1826, in 
Whitingham, Vt. He was appointed 
judge of the Chemung county courts in 
1859, and was elected to the same office. 
He was elected to the forty-second con¬ 
gress, and was re-elected to the forty- 
third congress as a republican. 

SMITH, HAMILTON LANPHERE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Nov. 5, 1819, in 
New London, Conn. He is an educator 
who has been professor of natural phil¬ 
osophy at Hobart college since 1868. He 
is the author of Natural Philosophy; and 
First Lessons in Astronomy and Geol¬ 
ogy. 

SMITH, HARRY H., public official, au¬ 
thor, was born July 31, 1842, in Fairport, 
N. Y. In 1870 he was special marshal 
of the Michigan census. He has been 
United States national bank examiner. 
He is the author and compiler of a Digest 
and Manual; and is a parliamentary au¬ 
thor, writer and expert; bank and tariff 
statistical expert, and magazine writer. 
He prepared a codification of the rules of 
the senate, which code was substantially 
adopted, and Senate Manual, as revised by 
him was printed. Mr. Smith made two oth¬ 
er revisions of the house rules in the forty- 
ninth and fifty-first congresses, in the 
latter eliminating all filibustering mo¬ 
tion, thus permitting a majority to rule. 
That code, so prepared by him, was sub¬ 
stantially adopted, and became known 
as the Reed rules. He has prepared the 
parliamentary history of congress, the 
manuscript of which will he purchased 
by congress, in accordance with unani¬ 
mous recommendations of committees of 
both houses of congress. 

SMITH, HENRY, millwright, congress¬ 
man, was born July 22, 1838, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. The year of his birth he re¬ 
moved with his parents to Massillon, Ohio, 
and moved to Milwaukee in 1844, where 
he has since resided. He was a member of 
the common council of Milwaukee from 
1868 till 1872; was a member of the Wis¬ 
consin legislature in 1878; and was again 
a member of the common council from 
1880 till 1882. He was city comptroller 
from 1882 till 1884, and from that date 
a member of the common council until 
1887, when he was elected to the fiftieth 
congress as the people’s party candidate. 

SMITH, HENRY, educator, missionary. 
For several years after graduation from 
taught in the Ports¬ 
mouth academy. Af¬ 
ter three years at 
Andover he became a 
successful mission¬ 
ary in western New 
York. For eleven 
years he filled a pas¬ 
torate in the presby- 
terian church of 
Camden, N. Y. The 
Theological school of 
Auburn, N. Y„ was 
largely benefited by 
the funds which he 
raised for it. He was also noted for his 
great philanthropy and kindness to the 
poor. He died in July, 1826. 


SMITH, HENRY BERNARD, clergy¬ 
man, was born Feb. 16, 1848, in Marietta, 
Ohio. He graduated from the Marietta 
college, and has at¬ 
tained distinction as 
one of the foremost 
clergymen in the 
United States. For 
sixteen years he was 
pastor of a large 
church in Nashua, N. 
H., and since 1894 
has filled a pastorate 
in Troy, N. Y. For 
eight years he was 
chaplain of the sec¬ 
ond regiment na¬ 
tional guard of New Hampshire; and is a 
prominent Mason. 

SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 21, 1815, in 
Portland, Maine. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of eminence as a theologian, 
and professor of systematic theology in 
Union seminary of New York city in 1854- 
74. He was the author of Faith and Phil¬ 
osophy; Apologetics; Chronological His¬ 
tory of the Church of Christ; Introduction 
to Christian Theology; and System of 
Christian Theology. He died Feb. 7, 1876, 
in New York city. 

SMITH, HENRY HOLLINGSWORTH, 
surgeon, author, was horn Dec. 10, 1815, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a surgeon 
of Philadelphia; and the author of Minor 
Surgery; System of Operative Surgery; 
Practice of Surgery; and Professional Vis¬ 
it to London and Paris. He died April 11, 
1890, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SMITH, HENRY MAYBELL, educator, 
clergyman, was born Feb. 14, 1853, in 
Athens, Ga. He received his education in 
the common schools of his native city, 
and graduated from the Atlanta univer¬ 
sity. For many years he was engaged in 
educational work; is an eminent cler¬ 
gyman of the baptist church, and now 
fills a pastorate in Crawford, Ga. 

SMITH, HERBERT HUNTINGTON, 
scientist, author, was born in 1851 in 
New York. He is a scientist who has been 
engaged upon geological surveys in Ohio, 
New York and Brazil. He is the author 
of Brazil, the Amazons and the Coast. 

SMITH, HEZEKIAH BRADLEY, in¬ 
ventor, congressman, was born July 24, 
1816, in Bridgewater, Vt. He learned the 
trade of a cabinet-maker, and became an 
inventor and manufacturer of wood ma¬ 
chinery. He was elected a representative 
from New Jersey to the forty-sixth con¬ 
gress. He died Nov. 3, 1887, in Smith- 
ville, N. J. 

SMITH, HEZEKIAH WRIGHT, en¬ 
graver, was born in 1828 in Edinburgh, 
Scotland. His most important plates are 
a full-length of Daniel Webster, after 
Chester Harding; a three-quarter length 
Edward Everett, after Moses Wright; and 
Washington. 

SMITH, HIRAM Y., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born March 22, 
1843, in Piqua, Ohio. He was district at¬ 
torney of the fifth judicial district of 
Iowa from 1875 to 1879, and was a mem¬ 
ber from Des Moines of the state senate 
of Iowa from 1882 to 1884. He was 
elected a representative from Iowa to the 
forty-eighth congress, to fill a vacancy. 

SMITH, HOKE, journalist, cabinet of¬ 
ficer, was born Sept. 2, 1855, in Newton, 
N. C. In 1887 he purchased the Atlanta 
Journal. Much of the credit for Cleve¬ 
land’s victory in Georgia in 1892 was at¬ 
tributed to the Atlanta Journal and the 
personal efforts of its proprietor, and in 
1893 he was appointed secretary of the 
interior in President Cleveland’s cabinet. 


Bowdoin college, he 




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SMITH, HOMER J., educator, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, was born Aug. 31, 1846, 
in Fayette county, Pa. He received 
the rudiments of his education in 
the public schools, and graduated 
from the Academy of Sciences of 
Pittsburg, Pa.; from Mount Union col¬ 
lege of Alliance, Ohio; from the Illinois 
Wesleyan university of Bloomington, and 
has received the degrees of B. A., M. A., 
D. D., Ph. D. Since 1870 he has been a 
clergyman of the methodist episcopal 
church, and was a successful educator, and 
one of the founders of the Ohio Anti-Sa¬ 
loon league. He is one of the foremost 
lecturers on scientific and general topics, 
and now fills a pastorate in Zanesville, 
Ohio. 

SMITH, HORACE WEMYSS, journalist, 
author, was born Aug. 15, 1825, in Phila¬ 
delphia county, Pa. He is a Philadelphia 
journalist whose principal works include: 
Nuts for Future Historians to Crack; 
Yorktown Orderly Book; and Life of 
Reverend William Smith. 

SMITH, HUBBARD M., physician, poet, 
was born Sept. 6, 1820, in Winchester, Ky. 
Since 1844 he has been engaged in the 
practice of medicine, 
and since 1849 in 
Vincennes, Ind., with 
the exception of 
about ten years, in 
which he was en¬ 
gaged either in edit¬ 
ing and publishing 
the Vincennes Ga¬ 
zette or acting as 
postmaster. For 
twelve years he was 
United States pen¬ 
sion surgeon; was 
one of the charter members of the West¬ 
ern Writers’ association of Indiana, and 
is a member of several medical bodies. 
He has contributed valuable articles to the 
medical press, and his poems have been 
given a place in Poets of America and 
other standard works. 

SMITH, ISAAC, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1736 in Trenton, N. 
J. He was a representative in congress 
from New Jersey from 1795 to 1797, and 
was appointed a commissioner to treat 
with the Seneca Indians. He was a judge 
of the superior court of New Jersey. He 
died Aug. 29, 1807, in Trenton, N. J. 

SMITH, ISAAC, congressman, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He was a representative 
in congress from Pennsylvania in 1813-15. 

SMITH, ISRAEL, lawyer, jurist, United 
States senator, was born April 4, 1759, in 
Suoeld, Conn. He was sent to the Ver¬ 
mont state legislature from Rutland, and 
was a representative in- congress from 
1791 to 1797, and again in 1800. He was 
appointed chief justice of the supreme 
court of Vermont in 1797. He was a sen¬ 
ator in congress during the years 1801 
and 1802, and from 1803 to 1807, when he 
resigned. He was governor of Vermont 
in 1807. He died Dec. 2, 1810, in Rutland, 
Vt. 

SMITH, JACKSON L., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Callaway county, Mo. In 
1877 he was elected attorney-general; was 
appointed fish commissioner in 1885, and 
again in 1889. In 1888 he was elected 
judge of the Kansas City court of appeals, 
and in 1892 was re-elected for a full term. 

SMITH, JAMES, signer of the declara¬ 
tion of independence, was born about 1720 
in Ireland. On the approach of war he 
took an active part in public affairs; 
raised a company and commanded it in 
the field; was made a colonel, and also 
took an active part in raising additional 
troops. He was a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1776 to 1778; was a 


signer of the declaration of independence, 
and in 1780 entered the state legislature. 
He wrote The Constitutional Power of 
Great Britain over the Colonies in Amer¬ 
ica, which materially aided the cause of 
the patriots. He died July 11, 1806, in 
York, Pa. 

SMITH, JAMES, pioneer, author, was 
born in 1737 in Franklin county, Pa. He 
was a noted Kentucky pioneer, and the 
author of Shakerism Developed; Shaker- 
ism Detected; Remarkable Adventures in 
the Life of Colonel James Smith; and 
Mode and Manner of Indian War. He 
died in 1812 in Washington county, Ky. 

SMITH, JAMES, manufacturer, United 
States senator, was born June 12, 1851, in 
Newark, N. J. He was nominated for 
mayor of his native city but declined, 
and has been tendered nearly every office 
in the gift of his party in the state, but 
has always refused office. He is a manu¬ 
facturer of patent and enameled leather in 
Newark, and conducts the largest business 
of the kind in the country. He was elect¬ 
ed to the United States senate as a demo¬ 
crat, and took his seat in 1893. 

SMITH, JAMES JACKSON MANNING, 
soldier, architect, builder, poet, was born 
Nov. 4, 1839, in Oxford, Ga. During the 
war he served with distinction in the 
confederate service. For many years he 
has resided in Burnet, Texas, engaged as 
an architect and builder. He has contrib¬ 
uted both prose and verse to the periodi¬ 
cal press, and takes a prominent part in 
public affairs. 

SMITH, JAMES M. W., journalist, was 
born in 1855, in Celina, Tenn. He re¬ 
ceived a thorough education, and attended 
Mt. Vale academy. He is the editor and 
owner of The Spy of Tompkinsville, Ky.; 
has been city marshal, and filled various 
other public positions of trust. 

SMITH, JAMES MILTON, soldier, law¬ 
yer, governor, was born Oct. 24, 1823, in 
Twiggs county, Ga. He entered the con¬ 
federate army in 1861 as major in the 
thirteenth Georgia regiment, became 
colonel in 1862, and was a member of the 
confederate congress from that year un¬ 
til the close of the civil war. He served 
in the legislature in 1871-72; was speaker, 
and in 1872 was chosen governor to fill a 
vacancy, which office he held by re-elec¬ 
tion till 1874. 

SMITH, JAMES S., physician, congress¬ 
man, was born in Orange county, N. C. He 
was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina from 1817 to 1821; and 
served in the legislature of North Carolina 
in 1821. 

SMITH, JAMES THOMAS, soldier, 
journalist, was born May 4, 1847, in Ire¬ 
land. He received his education in the 
preparatory schools of Connecticut. Dur¬ 
ing 1861-65 he was a lieutenant in 
the union forces, and up to 1870 
served in the regular army. He has been 
city clerk and city auditor of Denver, 
Col., and since 1876 has been secretary 
and director of the state school of mines. 
He has also been editor and proprietor 
of the Rocky Mountain News since 1878. 

SMITH, JAMES TINKER, poet, was 
born in 1816, in St. Mary’s Parish, La. 
He translated into English the Medita¬ 
tions of Lamartine; and also published a 
volume of poems. He died Aug. 10, 1854, 
in Franklin, La. 

SMITH, JAMES WHEATON, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 26, 1823, in 
Providence, R. I. In 1853 he became pas¬ 
tor of the Spruce street baptist church in 
Philadelphia, Pa., and he continued in 
this relation until 1870. He is the author 
of a Life of John P. Croser. 


SMITH, JAMES YOUNGS, manufactu¬ 
rer, governor, was born Sept. 15, 1809, in 
Groton, Conn. In 1838 he was a cotton 
manufacturer in Willimantic, Conn., and 
at Woonsocket, R. I. He was afterward 
a member of the legislature of Rhode 
Island for several years. He was mayor 
of Providence in 1855 and 1857; and was 
governor of the state from 1863 to 1865. 
He died March 26, 1876, in Providence, 
R. I. 

SMITH, JANE LUELLA DOWD, edu¬ 
cator, author, poet, was born June 6, 
1847, in Sheffield, Mass. At the age of 
eighteen she gradu¬ 
ated from the West- 
field Normal school. 
After teachingschool 
for a year, she en¬ 
tered the Ladies’ 
seminary of North 
Granville, New York, 
where she graduated 
valedictorian of the 
class in 1868. She at¬ 
tained success in ed¬ 
ucational work; was 
principal of the 
South Hampton High school, Sheffield 
High school, Stamford High school, and 
the South Egremont academy. In 1875. 
she was married to Dr. Henry H. Smith 
of Hudson, N. Y. She is the author of 
three volumes of verse, entitled Wayside 
Leaves; Wind Flowers; and Flowers from 
Foreign Fields. 

SMITH, MRS. JEANIE OLIVER, poet, 
was born in Troy, N. Y. She is a writer 
of Johnstown, N. Y., and the author of a 
volume of poems entitled Day Lilies. 

SMITH, JEDEDIAH K., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born in 1770. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1807 to 1809, and 
from 1822 to 1825. He held the office of 
judge and chief judge of the court of 
common pleas for Hillsborough county 
from 1810 to 1814, and was also a state 
councilor. He died in 1828. 

SMITH, JEREMIAH, lawyer, jurist,, 
congressman, was born Nov. 29, 1759, in 
Peterborough, N. H. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New Hampshire in 
1791, and continued there till 1797, being 
one of the last survivors of the distin¬ 
guished men who participated with Wash¬ 
ington in the administration of the gov¬ 
ernment. He was chosen governor of New 
Hampshire in 1809; served as a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1809, and was for several 
years chief justice of the superior court 
of the state. He died Sept. 21, 1842, in 
Dover, N. H. 

SMITH, JEROME VAN CROWNIN- 
SHIELD, physician, author, was born 
July 20, 1800, in Conway, N. H. He was 
a physician of Boston, where he was 
mayor in 1854, and subsequently of New 
l r ork city. He was the author of Class 
Book of Anatomy; Life of Andrew Jack- 
son; Natural History of the Fishes of 
Massachusetts; Pilgrimage to Palestine; 
Turkey and the Turks; and The Ways of 
Women. He died Aug. 21, 1879, in New 
York city. 

SMITH, JESSE C., soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, was born July 18, 1808^ 
in Butternuts, N. Y. He was surrogate 
of Kings county in 1850-55, and state sen¬ 
ator in 1862. At the beginning of the civil 
war he was instrumental in the reorgan¬ 
ization of the national guard, and in 
forming the one hundred and thirty-ninth 
regiment of New York volunteers. He 
commanded the eleventh brigade of the 
national guard at the battle of Gettys¬ 
burg. After the war he practiced law in 
Brooklyn. 






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SMITH, JOB LEWIS, physician, author, 
was born Oct. 15, 1827, in Spafford, N. Y. 
He is a physician of New York city who 
has written a Treatise on Diseases of 
Children. 

SMITH, JOHN, one of the founders of 
Virginia, was born in 1579 in England. 
He was a celebrated sea captain and ad¬ 
venturer who was one of the founders of 
Virginia, and of the company which set¬ 
tled at Jamestown in 1607. He was a 
forcible, vigorous writer, much given to 
magnifying his own exploits, and not al¬ 
ways to be trusted in the absence of other 
testimony. He was the author of A True 
Relation of Virginia; The Generali His¬ 
toric of Virginia, which is partly original 
and partly compiled; A Map of Virginia, 
with a Description of the Country; A 
Description of New England; An Acci¬ 
dence, or Pathway to Experience; A Sea 
Grammar; and The True Travels of Cap¬ 
tain John Smith. He died in 1631. 

SMITH, JOHN, United States senator, 
was born in 1735 in Hamilton county, 
Ohio. He was a senator in congress from 
Ohio from 1803 to 1808, when he resigned. 
He was a warm personal friend of Aaron 
Burr, and though for a time suspected, 
was in reality innocent of treasonable de¬ 
signs. He died June 10, 1816, in Hamilton 
county, Ohio. 

SMITH, JOHN, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Feb. 12, 1752, 
near Brookhaven, N. Y. He was a geneial 
of militia in New York. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature from 1784 to 
1799; and was a member of the convention 
which adopted the constitution. He was a 
representative in congress from New \oik 
from 1799 to 1804. From 1804 to 1813 he 
was a senator in congress, and in the lat¬ 
ter year was appointed United States mai- 
shal for New York. 

SMITH, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born Dec. 21, 1752, in Newbury, Mass. 
He was a congregational minister and ed¬ 
ucator and professor of languages at 
Dartmouth college and college pastor in 
1778-1809, as well as librarian of the col¬ 
lege for some thirty years. He was the 
author of Hebrew, Greek and Latin Gram¬ 
mars, as well as some minor publications. 
He died April 30, 1809, in Hanover, N. H. 

SMITH, JOHN, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1789, in 
Barre, Mass. He moved in early life to St. 
Albans, Vt.; represented St. Albans in 
the legislature for nine successive years, 
and was elected state’s attorney of Frank¬ 
lin county in 1826, and served six years. 
In 1831-33 he was speaker in the general 
assembly. He was a representative in 
congress from Vermont from 1839 to 
1841. He died Nov. 20, 1858, in St. Al¬ 
bans, Vt. 

SMITH, JOHN, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1801 to 1815. 

SMITH, JOHN A., lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Sept. 23, 
1814, in Hillsborough, Ohio. He was a 
member of the Ohio legislature in 1841 
and 1842, and was a member of the state 
constitutional convention of 1851. He was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
forty-first and forty-second congresses as 
a republican. \ 

SMITH, JOHN AMBLER, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Sept. 23, 
1847, near Dinwiddie Court House, Va. 
In 1868 he was appointed commissioner in 
chancery of the courts of Richmond; was 
state attorney of Charles City and New 
Kent counties for one year, and was 
elected to the state senate in 1869. He 
was elected a representative from Virginia 
to the forty-third congress. 


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SMITH, JOHN AUGUSTINE, physician, 
college president, author, was born in 
1782, in Virginia. He was a physician of 
New York city, previously president of 
William and Mary college in 1814-26. He 
was the author of Mutations of the Earth; 
Moral and Physical Science; and Func¬ 
tions of the Nervous System. He died 
Feb. 9, 1865, in New York city. 

SMITH, JOHN B., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Louisiana from 1853 to 1855. 

SMITH, JOHN BEYES, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born June 7, 1815, in Sullivan 
county, N. Y. In 1886 he was elected pres¬ 
ident'of the Erie and Wyoming Valley 
railroad, which position he still holds. 

SMITH, JOHN BLAIR, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born June 12, 1756, in 
Pequea, Pa. He was called to the Third 
Presbyterian church of Philadelphia in 
1791, and thence to the presidency of 
Union college upon its foundation in-1795, 
but in 1799 returned to his former charge 
in Philadelphia. He died Aug. 22, 1799, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SMITH, JOHN BUTLER, manufacturer, 
governor, was born April 12, 1838, at Sax¬ 
ton’s River, Vt. He received a thor¬ 
ough education, and attended the Fran- 
cistown academy, New Hampshire. He is 
a successful woolen manufacturer of Hills¬ 
boro, N. H.; was presidential elector in 
1884; councillor of the state in 1887-89; 
and during 1893-95 served with distinction 
as governor of the state of New Hamp¬ 
shire. 

SMITH, JOHN CORSON, soldier, public 
official, was born Feb. 13, 1832, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He served with distinction 
during the civil war from private soldier 
to brigadier-general. He was United 
States assessor at Galena, Ill.; -has been 
chief grain inspector of Chicago; state 
treasurer of Illinois, and filled with dis¬ 
tinction the high office of lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of the state of Illinois. He 
is prominent in fraternal orders. He 
left Chicago Nov. 26, 1894, and 

sailed from San Francisco to Hon¬ 
olulu. He has made three trips around 
the world; and the last and most 
memorable one was in 1894-95; and at 
every point in the world he touched he 
met brothers of the Masonic order. He is 
the past grand master and past grand 
commander, Illinois, and honorary grand 
master of Egypt. 

SMITH, JOHN COTTON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 
12, 1765, in Sharon, Conn. He was a 
member of the state senate in 1793, and 
from 1796 to 1800 he was a member of 
the lower house. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Connecticut from 
1800 to 1806. He was a presidential elect¬ 
or in 1809; was again a member of the 
legislature until 1809; and was governor 
of Connecticut from 1812 to 1817. He 
was also lieutenant-governor, and judge 
of the superior court. He died Nov. 7, 
1845, in Sharon, Conn. 

SMITH, JOHN COTTON, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 4, 1826, in Andover, 
Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman of 
New York city; and rector of the Church 
of the Ascension in 1860-82. He was the 
author of The Church’s Law of Develop¬ 
ment; Certain Aspects of the Church; 
Miscellanies; Old and New; and The Lit¬ 
urgy as a Basis of Union. He died in 
1882. 

SMITH, JOHN E., lawyer, state senator, 
was born Aug. 4, 1843, in Nelson, N. Y. 
He has been district attorney and assist¬ 
ant United States attorney of northern 
district of New York; and for two terms 


was a member of the state senate of the 
New York legislature. 

SMITH, JOHN EUGENE, soldier, was 
born Aug. 3, 1816, in Switzerland. In 1862 
he became a brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers; subsequently served in the United 
States army as major-general; and in 1881 
was retired. 

SMITH, JOHN GREGORY, lawyer, state 
senator, governor, was born July 22, 
in St. Albans, Vt. In 1838 he graduated 
from the university 
of Vermont; and 
subsequently from 
the New Haven Law 
school. He succeed¬ 
ed his brother as 
chancellor in 1858; 
was a member of the 
state senate in 1858- 
59; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in the state 
legislature in 1860- 
62. He was govern¬ 
or of Vermont dur¬ 
ing 1863-65; and was an active supporter 
of the union cause during the civil war. 
In 1866 he was made president of the 
North Pacific railroad. 




SMITH. JOHN HENRY, state legislator, 
was born Sept. 18, 1848, in Corbunca, 
Iowa; and is the son of Apostle George 
A. Smith, who was 
the first councillor to 
Brigham Young. In 
1882 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature, 
and in 1895 was 
elected a member of 
the constitutional 
convention, of which 
body he was unani¬ 
mously elected presi¬ 
dent. He has con¬ 
tributed a number of 
valuable economic 


articles to the periodical press. 


SMITH, JOHN HYATT, clergyman, con- 
ressman, author, was born April 10, 
824, in Saratoga, N. Y. He was a prom- 
rent baptist clergyman of Brooklyn, and 
member of the forty-second congress 
i 1880-82. He was the author of Gileaa, 
nd The Open Door. He died Dec. 7, 
886, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

SMITH, JOHN JAY, librarian, author, 
ms born June 16, 1798, in Burlington 
ounty, N. J. He was a librarian of Phil- 
.delphia who edited many works, and 
,-as author of Notes for a History of the 
fibrary Company of Philadelphia; A Sum- 
aer’s Jaunt Across the Water; and His- 
orical and Literary Curiosities. He diert 
iept. 23, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SMITH, JOHN LAWRENCE, chemist, 
mthor, was born Dec. 17, 1818, near 
Charleston, S. C. He was a chemist of 
lote who was professor of chemistry in 
he university of Louisville. He was the 
mthor of Mineralogy and Chemistry, 
iriginal researches. He died Oct. 12, 
883, in Louisville, Ky. 

SMITH, JOHN LYMAN, farmer, cler- 
;yman, legislator, was born Oct. 22, 1855, 
n Salt Lake City, Utah. He was one 
if the first settlers of southern Idaho, and 
served an honorable term in the third ses¬ 
sion of the Idaho legislature during 1894- 
15 He was successful in carrying 
ihrough a bill providing an appropriation 
[or an eastern portion of the State Nor¬ 
mal, which is now one of the finest 
buildings in eastern Idaho. He was the 
means of having an academy in Oakley; 
is now superintending the building of a 
tabernacle; and is an acting bishop in the 
aiormon church. 




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SMITH, JOHN MONTGOMERY, edu- 
e ^ tor ’ 0 la yy er > legislator, was born Feb. 
26, 1834, in Bedford Springs, Pa. In 1838 
he moved with his parents to Wisconsin, 
settling in Mineral Point. He there re¬ 
ceived his education, studied law and was 
admitted to the bar in 1862. In 1864 he 
was superintendent of schools, district at¬ 
torney of Iowa county in 1868-70; mayor 
of Mineral Point in 1879, 1880 and 1885. 
He was a delegate to the democratic na¬ 
tional conventions of 1880 and 1888; was 
city attorney in 1891-92; a member of the 
county board in 1892; presidential elector 
in the same year, and was also elected a 
member of the assembly of the Wisconsin 
state legislature in 1892. 

SMITH, JOHN y., farmer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1824, 
in Warren county, Ohio. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Ohio state senate in 1860 and 
1872; and was a member of the state house 
of representatives in 1862 and 1863. He 
was elected a representative from Ohio to 
the forty-third congress as a republican; 
in 1875 was appointed commissioner of 
Indian affairs. 

SMITH, JOHN SPEED, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born July 31, 
1792, in Jessamine county, Ky. He served 
as a soldier under General Harrison; was 
at the battle of Tippecanoe; and was aide- 
de-camp to the same general at the bat¬ 
tle of the Thames in 1813. In 1819 he Was 
elected to the legislature of Kentucky. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1821 to 1823; and in 1827 
was again elected to the state legislature, 
and was made speaker of the house. He 
subsequently served several terms both in 
the house and senate, and was appointed 
United States attorney for the district of 
Kentucky. He was superintendent of pub¬ 
lic works in Kentucky for several years. 
He died June 6, 1854, in Madison county, 
Ky. 

SMITH, JOHN STILMAN, clergyman, 
was born Feb. 9, 1832, in Charlotte, 
Maine. He is a successful clergyman of 
the Christian church, and in 1881 became 
assistant to the Rev. Edward Everett Hale 
in Boston, Mass. He was one of the in¬ 
corporators of the Society of Ten Times 
One, and was made its treasurer. 

SMITH. JOHN T., congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a 
representative in congress from that 
state from 1843 to 1845. 

SMITH, JOHN TALBOT, clergyman, 
author, was born Sept. 22, 1855, in Sara¬ 
toga, N. Y. He is a Roman catholic cler¬ 
gyman in the diocese of Ogdensburg, and 
the author^of History of Ogdensburg Dio¬ 
cese; A Woman of Culture, a novel; Soli¬ 
tary Island, a novel; Prairie Boy, a juve¬ 
nile tale; and Our Seminaries, an essay on 
Clerical Training. 

SMITH, JONATHAN BAYARD, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 21, 1742, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He was a delegate from 
Pennsylvania to the continental congress 
from 1777'to 1778; and was a signer of 
the articles of confederation. He died 
Jime 16, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SMITH, JOSEPH, naval officer, was 
born March 30, 1790, in Boston, Mass. He 
served in the civil war; and in 1862 at¬ 
tained the rank of rear-admiral. He died 
Jan. 17, 1877, in Washington, D. C. 

SMITH, < JOSEPH, clergyman, author, 
was born July 15, 1796, in Westmoreland 
county. Pa. He was a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman, once prominent in western Penn¬ 
sylvania; and the author of History of 
Jefferson College; and Old Redstone, or 
Historical Sketches of Western Presby¬ 
terianism. He died Dec. 4, 1868, in 

Greensburg, Pa. 


SMITH, JOSEPH, founder of the mor¬ 
mon sect, was born Dec. 23, 1805, in Sha¬ 
ron, Vt. After failing to start a colony 
of his sect in Ohio and Missouri, he at 
last settled in Nauvoo, Ill. But this failed 
as all others had, on account of the op¬ 
position of the people to the peculiar doc¬ 
trines of the mormons. Joseph and his 
brother being confined in jail, were sur¬ 
rounded by a mob and both killed June 
27, 1844, in Carthage, Ill. 

SMITH, JOSEPH, founder of a religious 
sect, was born Nov. 6, 1832, in Kirkland, 
Ohio. After the death of his father in 
1844 he remained in Nauvoo with his 
mother, who would not acknowledge the 
authority of Brigham Young. He went 
abroad and preached frequently for about 
fifteen years, and then removed to La- 
moni, Iowa, the acknowledged head of the 
reorganized church of Jesus Christ of 
Latter-Day Saints, a strong opponent to 
the doctrine and practices of the polyga¬ 
mists of Utah. 

SMITH, JOSEPH EDWARD ADAMS, 
—Godfrey Greylock—author, was born in 
1822. He was a writer of Pittsfield, 
Mass., and the author of Taghconic, 
the Romance and Beauty of the Hills; and 
A History of Paper. 

SMITH, JOSEPH FIELDING, state leg¬ 
islator, was born Nov. 13, 1838, in Far 
West, Mo. In 1882 he was a member and 
president of the council of the Utah 
legislature, and the same year was elected 
president of the Utah constitutional con¬ 
vention. In 1889 he was elected second 
counselor in the presidency of the mor¬ 
mon church of Salt Lake City, Utah. 

SMITH, JOSEPH LEE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born May 28, 1776, in New Britain. 
Conn. Having become a resident of 
Florida, he was appointed United States 
judge for that territory, serving as such 
until 1832. He died May 27, 1846, in St. 
Augustine, Fla. 

SMITH. JOSEPH MATHER, physician, 
author, was born March 14, 1789, in New 
Rochelle, N. Y. He was a physician of 
New York city, and the author of Ele¬ 
ments of the Etiology and Philosophy of 
Epidemics; and Illustrations of Medical 
Phenomena in Public Life. He died April 
22, 1866, in New York city. 

SMITH, JOSEPH ROWE, soldier, was 
born Sept. 8, 1802, in Stillwater, N. Y. 
During the Mexican war he was brevetted 
major and lieutenant-colonel. He became 
chief mustering officer of Michigan in 

1862, military commissary of musters in 

1863, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier- 
general, United States army, for long and 
honorable service. He died Sept. 3, 1868, 
in Monroe, Mich. 

SMITH, JOSEPH S., lawyer, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born June 20, 
1824, in Fayette county, Pa. He moved 
to Oregon, and then to Washington ter¬ 
ritory; was made prosecuting attorney; 
and was elected to the territorial legisla¬ 
ture, and made speaker in 1857. He was 
elected a representative from Oregon to 
the forty-first congress. 

SMITH, JOSIAH, congressman, was 
born in 1745 in Pembroke, Mass. He was 
a representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1801 to 1803. He died in 
March, 1803, of smallpox. 

SMITH, JUDSON, clergyman, educator, 
author, was born June 28, 1837, in Middle- 
field, Mass. He is a congregational cler¬ 
gyman and educator; secretary of the 
American Board of Commissioners for 
Foreign Missions from 1884; and the au¬ 
thor of Lectures in Church History; and 
Lectures on Modern History. 


SMITH, JUSTIN ALMERIN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 29, 1819, in 
Ticonderoga, N. Y. He w r as a baptist 
clergyman of Chicago, editor of The 
Standard from 1853; and the author of The 
Martyr of Vilvorde; Sinclair Thompson, 
the Shetland Apostle; The Spirit in the 
Word; Modern Church History; and 
Patmos. He died in 1896. 

SMITH, LEWIS W., educator, poet, was 
born Nov. 22, 1866, in Malta, Ill. After 
spending a term in Beloit college, he later 
attended the college of Fairfield, Neb., 
from which institution he graduated in 
1889. He has attained success as an edu¬ 
cator in Nebraska; and his poems have 
appeared in current literature. 

SMITH, LLOYD PEARSALL, librarian, 
author, was born Feb. 6, 1822, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He became hereditary as¬ 
sistant and treasurer in the Philadelphia 
and Loganian library, and in 1851 suc¬ 
ceeded his father as librarian. He edited 
Lippincott’s Magazine in 1868-70; and 
was the author of Report to the Contrib¬ 
utors of the Pennsylvania Relief Associa¬ 
tion for East Tennessee of a Commission 
of the Executive Committee Sent to Ex¬ 
amine that Region; Remarks on the Ex¬ 
isting Materials for Forming a Just Es¬ 
timate of Napoleon I; Remarks on the 
Apology for Imperial Usurpation Con¬ 
tained in Napoleon’s Life of Caesar; Ad¬ 
dress Delivered at Haverford College 
Before the Alumni; and Symbolism and 
Science. He died July 2, 1886, in Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa. 

SMITH, LUCAS F., soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 3, 1844, in Wells coun¬ 
ty, Ind. He graduated from the univer¬ 
sity of Michigan, and soon attained suc¬ 
cess as one of the foremost lawyers of 
the west. During the civil war he served 
as a private in the union army; and was 
captain of a company of rangers in the 
Indian war of 1875. He has served as 
county attorney of Fannin county, Texas; 
was district attorney of the eleventh ju¬ 
dicial district of Texas, and served with 
distinction as United States district at¬ 
torney of New Mexico. He is now su¬ 
perior judge of Santa Cruz county, Cal. 

SMITH, LUCIUS EDWIN, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 29, 1822, in Williams- 
town. Mass. From 1868 till 1875 he was 
literary editor of the New York Examin¬ 
er. In 1877 he became editor of the 
Watchman, Boston, of which journal since 
1881 he has remained associate editor. 
Besides contributing numerous articles 
to periodicals he has edited Heroes and 
Martyrs of the Modern Missionary En¬ 
terprise. 

SMITH. MRS. LURA EUGENIE, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1864 in New 
York. She is a journalist of Little Rock; 
and the author of On the Track and Off 
the Train. 

SMITH, LYMAN CORNELIUS, Manu¬ 
facturer, inventor, was born March 31, 
1850, in Torrington, Conn. He developed 
a new typewriter, to 
which h(|\ gave the 
now w e 11-k n o w n 
name of The Smith 
Premier. ^In 1893 his 
business was incor¬ 
porated under the 
name of The Smith 
Premier Typewriter 
Co., Mr. Smith being 
the president; and 
this industry now 
gives employment to 
five hundred skilled 
mechanics in the factory and to two hun¬ 
dred people in connection with the sales 
department in the various branch offices 
in this country and in Europe. 






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SMITH, MARCUS A., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 24, 1852, near Cynthi- 
ana, Ky. He moved to Arizona in 1881, 
and the following year was elected prose¬ 
cuting attorney of his district. He was 
elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-sec¬ 
ond, and fifty-third congresses as a demo¬ 
crat; refused to run for the fifty-fourth 
congress; and was elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a democrat. 

SMITH, MRS. MARGARET BAYARD, 
author, was born in 1778 in Philadelphia, 
Pa. She was a social leader in Washing¬ 
ton; and the author of A Winter in 
Washington, in two volumes; and What 
Is Gentility? She died in 1844 in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

SMITH, MARTIN LUTHER, soldier, 
was born in 1819 in New York city. He 
entered the confederate service, became a 
brigadier-general, commanded a brigade 
in defence of New Orleans, was at the 
head of the engineer corps of the army, 
and planned and constructed the defences 
of Vicksburg, where he was taken pris¬ 
oner. He subsequently attained the rank 
of major-general. After the war he be¬ 
came chief engineer of the Selma, Rome 
and Dayton railroad. He died July 29, 
1866, in Rome, Ga. 

SMITH, MARTIN SNYDER, public of¬ 
ficial, railroad president, was born Nov. 
12, 1834, in Lima, N. Y. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the schools 
of Pontiac, Mich. He has been vice-presi¬ 
dent and treasurer of the Alger-Smith 
company and the Manistique Lumbering 
company; president of the Manistique 
Railway company; president of the Amer¬ 
ican Exchange National bank; president 
of the Michigan Condensed Milk com¬ 
pany; and in 1872-88 was police commis¬ 
sioner. 

SMITH, MARY, artist, was born in 1842 
in Philadelphia, Pa. She became remark¬ 
able for her paintings of little chickens 
and small animals of the woods. She left 
a volume of one hundred finely drawn 
and colored insects of eastern Pennsyl¬ 
vania. She also gave to the Pennsylvania 
Academy of Fine Arts a perpetual gift 
for an animal prize to ladies for the best 
painting, which has done much good dur¬ 
ing the past twenty years. She died in 
1878. 

SMITH, MRS. MARY LOUISE RILEY, 
author, poet, was born May 27, 1842, in 
Brighton, N. Y. She is a popular poet 
of New York city; and the author of 
Sometime, and Other Poems; The Inn of 
Rest; A Gift of Gentians, and Other 
Verses; and Cradle and Armchair. 

SMITH, MRS. MARY PRUDENCE, au¬ 
thor, was born July 30, 1840, in Attica, 
N. Y. She is a Cincinnati writer for 
young people; and the author of The 
Browns; Child Life on a Farm; Jolly 
Good Times at School; Jolly Good Times 
at Hackmatack; More Good Times at 
Hackmatack; and Miss Ellis’s Mission. 

SMITH, MRS. MARY STUART, author, 
was born in 1834 in Pennsylvania. She 
has made many translations from the 
German and French, and has also pub¬ 
lished Heirs of the Kingdom; and Vir¬ 
ginia Cookery Book. 

SMITH, MATTHEW HALE, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1816 in Portland, 
Maine. He was a clergyman of the univer- 
salist and subsequently of the presbyterian 
and other faiths, and was also a lawyer 
and brilliant journalist, known as Bur¬ 
leigh. He was the author of Universalism 
Examined, Renounced, and Exposed; Uni¬ 
versalism Not of God; Sabbath Evenings, 
Mount Calvary; Sunshine and Shadow in 
New York; Bulls and Bears of Wall 
Street, which include his chief works. 
He died Nov. 7, 1879, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 


SMITH, MELANCTHON, congressman, 
was born in 1724 in Jamaica, N. Y. He 
was a delegate from New Y'ork to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1785 to 1788. He 
died July 29, 1798, in New York city. 

SMITH, MELANCTHON, naval officer, 
was born May 24, 1810, in New York city. 
In 1826 he entered the navy as a mid¬ 
shipman, passed through all the grades, 
and was commissioned rear-admiral in 
1870. He was subsequently appointed gov¬ 
ernor of the naval asylum at Philadelphia. 

SMITH, MERIWETHER, state legislat¬ 
or, congressman, was born in 1730 in 
Essex county, Va. He was long a mem¬ 
ber of the house of burgesses; was a 
member of all the Virginia conventions 
in 1775 and 1776; and was a member of 
the federal convention of Virginia. He 
was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1778 to 1782. He died Jan. 25, 
1790, in Virginia. 

SMITH, MILO ROBERTS, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born July 1, 1830, in Logans- 
port, Ind. He is a prominent lawyer ot 
Rochester, Ind.; was county recorder for 
two terms of Fulton county; and served 
with distinction as a state senator in the 
Indiana legislature. 

SMITH, MINNA CAROLINE, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1860 in California. 
She is a journalist of Boston; and the 
author of The Boys of Cary Farm, a 
juvenile tale; and Trilby, the Faiiy o 
Argyle, from the French of Nodier. 

SMITH, MILTON H., railroad president, 
was born in Chautauqua county, N. Y. 
Since 1891 he has been president of the 
Louisville and Nashville railroah. 

SMITH, MOSES, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 16, 1830, in Hebron, Conn. 
He first engaged in educational work as 
instructor in the 
Westfield academy; 
and in 1855 entered 
Andover Theological 
seminary, from 
which institution he 
graduated in 1859. 
He was ordained the 
same year and be- 
came pastor of 
the congregational 
church of Plainville, 
Conn. During the 
war he served in 
company A, eighth regiment Connecti¬ 
cut volunteer infantry, and was unani¬ 
mously elected chaplain of the regiment. 
He has filled pastorates in Chicago, Jack- 
son and Detroit, Mich.; and since 1888 
has been pastor of the congregational 
church at Glencoe, Ill. He is the author 
of Questions of the Ages, which discusses 
certain of the deep things of the gospel. 

SMITH, NATHAN, physician, author, 
was born Sept. 13, 1762, in Rehoboth, 
Mass. He was a physician who was a 
medical professor in Dartmouth college 
in 1798-1813. He was the author of Prac¬ 
tical Essays on Typhus Fever; and Medi¬ 
cal and Surgical Memoirs. He died July 
26, 1828, in New Haven, Conn. 

SMITH, NATHAN, lawyer, United 
States senator, was born Jan. 8, 1769, in 
Woodbury, Conn. He was a member of 
the convention that framed the state con¬ 
stitution; and was for many years state’s 
attorney for the county of New Haven. 
He frequently served in the state legis¬ 
lature; and was for several years United 
States attorney for the district of Con¬ 
necticut. He was a delegate to the Hart¬ 
ford convention in 1814; and represented 
his native state in the senate of the 
United States from 1833 to 1835. He died 
Dec. 6, 1835, in Washington, D. C. 


SMITH, NATHAN RYNO, surgeon, au¬ 
thor, was born May 21, 1797, in Concord, 
N. H. He was a professor of surgery in 
the university of Maryland in 1840-70; 
and the author of Surgical Anatomy of 
the Arteries; and Legends of the South. 
He died July 3, 1877, in Baltimore, Md. 

SMITH, NATHANIEL, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1762, in 
Woodbury, Conn. He was for many years, 
a member of the state legislature, serv¬ 
ing in both houses. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Connecticut from 
17^5 to 1799; and in 1806 was elected 
judge of the supreme court of the state, 
and held the office until 1819. He died: 
March 9, 1822, in Woodbury, Conn. 

SMITH, OLIVER, philanthropist, was. 
born in January, 1766, in Hatfield, Mass. 
He was a magistrate for forty years; twice 
a representative to the state legislature; 
and in 1820 was a member of the state 
constitutional convention. He acquired 
large wealth by stock-raising; which he 
bequeathed to establish the Smith chari¬ 
ties, a unique system of benevolence, now 
holding one million dollars, the interest 
of which is extended in marriage portions 
to poor and worthy young couples. He 
died Dec. 22, 1845, in Hatfield, Mass. 

SMITH, OLIVER HAMPTON, lawyer, 
congressman. United States senator, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 23, 1794, near Trenton, 
N. J. In 1824 he was prosecuting attor¬ 
ney for the third district of Indiana; and 
was elected to the state legislature in 
1822. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Indiana from 1827 to 1829; 
and was a senator in congress from 1837 
to 1848. He was the author of a work 
giving his Recollections of Congressional 
Life; and Early Indian Trials. He died 
March 19, 1859, in Indianapolis, Ind. 

SMITH, ORLAND, railroad president, 
was born May 2, 1825, in Lewiston, Maine. 
Since 1884 he has been president of the 
Columbus and Midland railroad at Balti¬ 
more, Md. 

SMITH, OTIS DAVID, educator, lec¬ 
turer, was born June 27, 1831, in New 
Haven, Vt. For fifty years he has beefi 
identified with the educational interests 
of Alabama and the south; and has lec¬ 
tured before schools, colleges, and liter¬ 
ary institutions. 

SMITH, PERRY, lawyer, jurist, United 
States senator, was born May 12, 1783, in 
Woodbury, Conn. He settled in New 
Milford in 1807; was a state representa¬ 
tive for four years; and was a judge of 
probate for two years. He was a senator 
in congress from 1837 to 1843. He died 
June 8, 1852, in Milford, Conn. 

SMITH, PERSIFER FRAZER, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1808 in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia; 
and the author of Forms of Procedure in 
Pennsylvania Courts; and Pennsylvania 
Supreme Court Reports, in thirty-two vol¬ 
umes. He died May 17, 1882, in West¬ 
chester, Pa. 

SMITH, REUBEN S., educator, writer, 
lawyer, politician, was born April 1, 1854, 
in Marianna, Fla. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the common 
schools of his native city, and graduated 
from the Howard university, from which 
institution he received the degree of 
LL. B. He taught school for awhile, 
and for several years was the Washing¬ 
ton correspondent of the New York Globe. 
He has filled numerous offices of trust 
in the United States government; was a 
delegate to the national republican con¬ 
vention in 1880; and is now one of the 
leading lawyers of Washington, D. C., 
practices in all the courts of the District 
of Columbia and before the government 
departments. 




HLRRINGSHAW'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


SMITH, RICHARD, congressman, was 
born March 22, 1735, in Burlington, N. J. 
He was a delegate from New Jersey to the 
continental congress from 1774 to 1776. 
He died in 1803 near Natchez, Miss., while 
on a journey through the southern ’states. 

SMI TH, RICHARD PENN, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born March 13, 1799, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a lawyer and drama¬ 
tist of Philadelphia, hfteen of whose plays 
were placed on the stage, and were once 
popular, Caius Marius being one of the 
best. He wrote also The Forsaken, a 
novel; The Actress of Padua, and Other 
Tales; and Lives of Crockett and Martin 
Van Buren. His complete works in four 
volumes were issued in 1888. He died 
Aug. 12, 1854, in Falls of Schuylkill, Pa. 

SMITH, RICHARD SOMERS, soldier, 
educator, author, was born Oct. 30, 1813, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a soldier and 
educator; president of Girard college in 
1863-68; and for the last seven years of 
his life in charge of the department of 
drawing at the United States Naval acad¬ 
emy. He was the author of Manual of 
Topograpnical Drawing; and Manual of 
Linear Perspective. He died Jan. 23, 
1877, in Annapolis, Md. 

SMITH, RICHMOND MAYO, educator, 
author, was born in 1854 in Ohio. He is 
a professor of political economy at Col¬ 
umbia college from 1883; and the author 
of Statistics and Economics; Emigration 
and Immigration; and Statistics and 
Sociology. 

SMITH, ROBERT, clergyman, educator, 
was born in 1723 in Ireland. From 1751 
till his death was pastor of the presby- 
terian church at Pequea, Pa., a part of 
the time supplying the church at Leacock. 
Shortly after his settlement in Pequea he 
founded a classical and theological sem¬ 
inary, which enjoyed a high reputation. 
He died April 15, 1793, in Rockville, Pa. 

SMITH, ROBERT, protestant episcopal 
bishop, was born June 25, 1732, in Eng¬ 
land. In 1783 he opened an academy, 
which was chartered in 1786 as the South 
Carolina college. Of this institution he 
was president until 1798. He was unani¬ 
mously elected in 1795 to be the first 
bishop of the protestant episcopal church 
in South Carolina. He died Oct. 28, 1801, 
in Charleston, S. C. 

SMITH, ROBERT, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, cabinet officer, was born in Novem¬ 
ber, 1757, in Lancaster, Pa. He served as 
a volunteer in the revolutionary war, and 
was present at the battle of Brandywine. 
He served as a member of the Maryland 
legislature; was secretary of the navy 
from 1802 to 1805; and was secretary of 
the navy under President Madison. He 
died Nov. 26, 1842, in Baltimore, Md. 

SMITH, ROBERT, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 12, 1802, in 
Peterborough, N. H. He removed to Il¬ 
linois in 1832; served in the Illinois legis¬ 
lature from 1836 to 1840; and was enroll¬ 
ing and engrossing clerk of the house of 
representatives of Illinois from 1840 to 
1843. He was then elected to congress, 
and served until 1849; and was re-elected 
to the thirty-fifth congress. He died in 
December, 1867, in Alton, Ill. 

SMITH, ROBERT A., lawyer, banker, 
legislator, was born June 13, 1827, in 
Booneville, Ind. He received a thorough 
education and attended the Indiana uni¬ 
versity of Bloomington. He has lead a 
life of an active business man, banker, 
lawyer, and statesman. He was elected 
auditor of Warren county, Ind.; and in 
1853 moved to St. Paul, Minn. He prac¬ 
ticed law, and was appointed secretary 
to Governor Gorman, and acted as ter¬ 
ritorial librarian up to 1856; and for the 

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twelve succeeding years was treasurer of 
Ramsey county, in 1868 he was elect¬ 
ed alderman of St. Paul, and for 
three years was president of the 
common council. He served two years 
in the legislature; then became mayor 
of St. Paul, and was elected a state 
senator serving eight years as mayor 
and four years as state senator. He has 
been postmaster of St. Paul, and for 
nearly fifty years has been engaged in 
official life. 

SMilH, ROBERT BUxcNS, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, governor, was born Dec. 29, 1854, 
in Hickman county, Ky. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the public 
schools, and at the academy of Milburn, 
Ky. lor four years he was engaged in 
educational work; and studied law and 
was admitted to the bar in 1877. In 1884 
he was a member of the constitutional 
convention of Montana; United States 
district attorney for Montana during 1885- 
89; was corporation counsel for the city 
of Helena in 1891; and in 1894 was a 
candidate for congress on the people’s 
party ticket. In 1897 he was elected to 
fill the high office of governor of Mon¬ 
tana for four years. He is one of the 
foremost lawyers of the west; and is re¬ 
garded as the best political debater in the 
state of Montana. 

SMITH, ROBERT DAVIS, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born Oct. 9, 
1842, in Columbia, Tenn. His father, Rev. 
Franklin G. Smith, founded the Columbian 
Athenmum, of which Robert, his eldest 
son, became president. He also served 
four years in the confederate army as 
captain. 

SMITH. ROBERT FREDERICK, sol¬ 
dier, was born Aug. 2, 1806, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He saw much active service, 
and commanded a brigade in Sherman’s 
march from Atlanta to the sea and thence 
to Washington. Before the regiment was 
mustered out of service in 1865 he was 
brevetted brigadier-general. He died 
April 23, 1893, in Hamilton, Ill. 

SMITH, ROSWELL, publisher, was born 
March 30, 1829, in Lebanon, Conn. He 
moved in 1870 to New York city, where, 
in connection with Dr. Josiah G. Holland 
and Charles Scribner, he established 
Scribner’s Monthly, now the Century 
Magazine. In 1873 he began the publica¬ 
tion of St. Nicholas, a magazine for chil¬ 
dren. The first organization was under 
the firm name of Scribner and Co., which 
subsequently became the Century com¬ 
pany, with Mr. Smith as president. 

SMITH, RUSSELL, artist, was born 
April 26, 1812, in Glasgow, Scotland. When 
seven years of age he came to Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and in 1835 settled in Philadelphia, 
and has become a distinguished scene and 
landscape painter. His Chocorua Peak, 
and Cave at Chelton Hills were exhibited 
in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial ex¬ 
hibition. 

SMITH, SADIE ADAMS, author, was 
born Aug. 23, 1845, in Lancaster, N. H. 
She is the historian general of the Daugh¬ 
ters of the Revolution; secretary general 
and historian of United States Daughters 
of 1812; and the first treasurer of the 
National Society of New England Women 
In 1865 she was married to Captain 
Le Roy Sunderland Smith. She excels as 
a writer, and has contributed extensively 
to periodical literature. 

SMITH, SAMUEL, financier, author, 
was born in 1720 in Burlington, N. J. He 
was a colonial treasurer of the province 
of West Jersey; and published a History 
jf Nova Caesarea, or New Jersey, from Its 
Settlement to 1721. He died in 1776, in 
Burlington, N. J. 


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SMITH, SAMUEL, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1805 to 1809. 

SMITH, SAMUEL, soldier, merchant, 
congressman. United States senator, was 
born July 27, 1752, in Lancaster, Pa. He 
was a distinguished merchant of Balti¬ 
more, of which city he was mayor. He rose 
from the rank of captain to that of briga¬ 
dier-general in the revolutionary war. In 
1776 he was a member of the convention 
for framing the constitution of Maryland; 
and was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1793 to 1803, and again 
from 1816 to 1822. He was a senator in 
congress from 1803 to 1815, and again 
from 1822 to 1833. He died April 22, 1839. 
in Baltimore, Md. 

SMITH, SAMUEL, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1767 in Peter¬ 
borough, N. H. He held many public po¬ 
sitions; and was for many years a manu¬ 
facturer of paper. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New Hampshire 
from 1813 to 1815. He died in 1842. 

SMITH, SAMUEL A., congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Bucks county 
from 1829 to 18a3. 

SMITH, SAMUEL A., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born June 26, 1822, in Monroe 
county, Tenn. In 1845 he was elected at¬ 
torney-general for the third judicial dis¬ 
trict of Tennessee, which office he held 
until 1848. He was a delegate to the Na¬ 
tional convention of that year held at 
Baltimore; and was soon afterward elect¬ 
ed a presidential elector. He was again 
chosen a presidential elector in 1852; and 
in 1850 took a deep interest in the affairs 
of ine East Tennessee and Georgia rail¬ 
road. He was elected a representative 
from Tennessee to the thirty-third con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the thirty- 
fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. In 

1859 he was appointed commissioner of the 
general land office. 

SMITH, SAMUEL EMERSON, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, governor, was 

born March 12, 1788, in Hollis, N. 

H. In 1812 he settled in Wiscasset, 
Maine; was a representative in the 

legislature in 1819 and 1820; and was 

chief justice of the court of common pleas 
of Maine in 1821. He was justice of the 
state court of common pleas from 1822 
to 1830; was governor of Maine from 1831 
to 1834; and was again judge of the court 
of common pleas from 1835 to 1837. In 
the latter year he was a commissioner to 
revise the public statutes of Maine. He 
died March 4, 1860, in Wiscasset, Maine. 

SMITH, SAMUEL FINLEY, educator, 
journalist, was born Nov. 13, 1855, in 
Dexter, Ohio. He began teaching at the 
age of sixteen years, 
earned all the money 
necessary to com¬ 
plete his education, 
won two of the three 
class honors, gnd in 
1884 graduated with 
credit from the Na¬ 
tional Normal uni¬ 
versity at Lebanon, 
Ohio. He taught 
successfully as prin¬ 
cipal of Chester 
academy and the Ra¬ 
cine public schools, both in his native 
county. He was elected clerk of courts 
of Meigs county in 1894, a position he 
still holds. He is also editor and pro¬ 
prietor of The Pomeroy Leader, one of 
the best local newspapers published in 
the state. 







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SMITH, SAMUEL FRANCIS, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born Oct. 21, 1808, 
in Boston, Mass. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the Boston 
Latin school, and be¬ 
came a successful 
clergyman and au¬ 
thor. In 1834 he was 
ordained a clergy¬ 
man of the baptist 
church; filled a pas¬ 
torate in Waterville 
for two years; and 
during 1842-54 filled 
a pastorate in New¬ 
ton, Mass. He has 
been editor of the 
various publications of the Baptist Mis¬ 
sionary union during 1864-69; and he 
twice visited the chief missionary sta¬ 
tions in Europe and Asia. Dr. Smith did 
a large amount of literary work, mainly 
in the line of hymnology, his most noted 
compositions being the national hymn, 
My Country,’Tis of Thee, and the mission¬ 
ary hymn entitled The Morning Light is 
Breaking. His original hymns and poetry 
have been published under the titles of 
Lyric Gems; The Psalmist; Rock of 
Ages; and he was also the author of 
Missionary Sketches and other works. He 
died in 1896. 

SMITH, SAMUEL G., clergyman, lec¬ 

turer, author, was born in 1852. He is 
a congregational clergyman; and since 
1888 has been pastor 
of the People’s 
church of St. Paul, 
Minn. He graduated 
in 1872 from Cornell 
college, Iowa. He 
has been seven years 
a member of the 
state board of cor¬ 
rections and chari¬ 
ties of Minnesota; 
three years member 
of the St. Paul board 
of education; and 
five years president of the associated char¬ 
ities; besides occupying other public po¬ 
sitions. He has been for five years lectur¬ 
er in sociology in the state university. 
He is in constant demand as a platform 
lecturer, and has written extensively for 
newspapers and magazines. 

SMITH, SAMUEL HARRISON, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1772 in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He edited the New World in 

1796-1800, and on the removal of the seat 
of government to Washington, D. C., on 
Oct. 31 of the latter year, founded the 
National Intelligencer, which he edited 
till 1818. He was commissioner of rev¬ 

enue from 1813 till the oflice was abol¬ 
ished. He published Remarks on Educa¬ 
tion; and Trial of Samuel Chase, Im¬ 
peached Before the United States Senate, 
in two volumes. He died Nov. 1, 1845, 
in Washington, D. C. 

SMITH, SAMUEL JOSEPH, poet, was 
born in 1771 in Moorestown, N. J. He 
lived on his estate, dividing his time be¬ 
tween his farm, literature, and public 
benefactions. Two of his lyrics are in 
Lyra Sacra Americana, and his Miscel¬ 
lanies, with a memoir, were published m 
1836. He died Nov. 14, 1835, near Bur¬ 
lington, N. J. 

SMITH, SAMUEL STANHOPE, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
March 16, 1750, in Pequea, Pa. He was a 
presbyterian clergyman; and president 
of Princeton college in 1794-1812. He was 
the author of Lectures on the Evidences 
of the Christian Religion; Moral and Po¬ 
litical Philosophy; Sermons; Compre¬ 
hensive View of Natural and Revealed Re¬ 


ligion; and On the Variety of Complexion 
and Figure of the Human Species. He 
died Aug. 21, 1819, in Princeton, N. J. 

SMITH, SAMUEL W., educator, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Aug. 23, 1852, in Independence, Mich. He 
commenced to care for himself at the 
early age of twelve years; and engaged 
in teaching school at sixteen years of age, 
and for the last eighteen years has prac¬ 
ticed law in Pontiac, Mich. In 1880 he 
was elected prosecuting attorney of Oak¬ 
land county, and re-elected in 1882. In 
1884 he was elected to the state senate; 
and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 

SMITH, MRS. SARAH LOUISA HICK¬ 
MAN, poet, was born June 30, 1811, in 
Detroit, Mich. She was a Cincinnati poet 
whose poems appeared in 1829. She died 
Feb. 12, 1832, in New York city. 

SMITH, SEBA—Jack Downing—journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Sept. 14, 1792, in 
Buckfield, Maine. He was a journalist 
of Portland, Maine; and after 1842 of 
New York city. He was the author of 
The Letters of Major Jack Downing; 
Powhatan, a metrical romance; New Ele¬ 
ments of Geometry; Way Down East, or 
Portraitures of Yankee Life; My Thirty 
Years Out of the Senate; and Dew-Drops 
of the Nineteenth Century. He died July 
29, 1868, in Long Island, N. Y. 

SMITH, SEBASTIAN BACH, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1845. He was a 
Roman catholic clergyman of Paterson, 
N. J.; and the author of Elements of 
Ecclesiastical Law; and New Procedure 
in Criminal and Disciplinary Causes of 
Ecclesiastics in the United States. He 
died in 1895. 

SMITH, SIDNEY IRVING, biologist, 
was born Feb. 18, 1843, in Norway, Maine. 
He had charge of the deep-water dredg¬ 
ing that was carried on in Lake Superior 
by the United States lake survey in 1871; 
by the United States coast survey in the 
region of St. George’s banks in 1872. His 
papers have been published in the Re¬ 
ports of the United States Fish Commis¬ 
sion; Reports of Progress of the Geo¬ 
logical Survey of Canada; and other gov¬ 
ernment reports. 

SMITH, SOLOMON FRANKLIN, actor, 
lawyer, author, was born April 20, 1801, 
in'Norwich, N. Y. He was a popular co¬ 
median who left the stage in 1853, and 
was afterward a noted lawyer of St. Louis. 
He was the author of Theatrical Appren¬ 
ticeship; Theatrical Journey Work; and 
Autobiography. He died April 20, 1869, 
in St. Louis, Mo. 

SMITH, SOPHIA, philanthropist, was 
born Aug. 27, 1796, in Hatfield, Mass. 
She founded Smith college of Northamp¬ 
ton, Mass., for the education of women, 
which she endowed with nearly a half 
million dollars. She also bequeathed 
seventy-five thousand dollars to the town 
of Hatfield for the endowment of a school 
preparatory to Smith college. She died 
June 12, 1870, in Hatfield, Mass. 

SMITH, STEPHEN, physician, author, 
was born Feb. 19, 1823, in Onondaga 
county, N. Y. He was a New York sur¬ 
geon; and professor of clinical surgery 
in the university of the city of New York 
from 1874. He is the author of Hand¬ 
book of Surgical Operations; and Prin¬ 
ciples of Operative Surgery. 

SMITH, THEOPHILUS WASHING¬ 
TON, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was 
born Sept. 28, 1784, in New York city. 
After serving in the United States navy 
he was admitted to the bar in his native 
city in 1805, having been a law-student in 
the office of Aaron Burr, and a fellow- 
student with Washington Irving. In 1816 


he visited the west in the interest of his 
father-in-law, who had a large estate in 
Ohio, and proceeding as far as Edwards- 
ville, Ill., settled there. In 1823 he was 
elected state senator, and filled other im¬ 
portant offices. He died May 6, 1846, in 
Chicago, Ill. 

SMITH, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1745 in Scotland. 
In 1769 he was appointed deputy-surveyor, 
and settled in Bedford, Pa. He was col¬ 
onel of militia during the revolution; and 
was a member of the constitutional con¬ 
vention in 1776. He was a member of the 
state legislature; was a delegate to the 
continental congress from 1780 to 1782; 
and was president judge from 1791 to 1794. 
He was a judge of the superior court of 
Pennsylvania from 1794 to 1809. He died 
June 16, 1809, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SMITH, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1817. 

SMITH, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Indiana from 
1839 to 1841, and again from 1843 to 1847. 

SMITH, THOMAS, state legislator, was 
born Jan. 18, 1835, in England. In 1890-92 
he was a member of the New Jersey state 
legislature; and in 1891 he was appointed 
commissioner for the World’s Fair at 
Chicago. 

SMITH. THOMAS CHURCH HAS¬ 
KELL, lawyer, soldier, was born March 
24, 1819, in Acushnet, Mass. He engaged 
in the establishment of the Morse tele¬ 
graph system in the west and south, and 
was president of the New Orleans and 
Ohio Telegraph company. At the begin¬ 
ning of the civil war he became lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel of the first Ohio cavalry, 
served under Gen. John Pope in Virginia, 
and became brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers in 1862. He was mustered out of 
the volunteer service in 1866; in 1878 
entered the regular army as major and 
paymaster; and in 1883 was retired. 

SMITH, THOMAS KILBY, soldier, law¬ 
yer, diplomat, was born Sept. 23, 1820, in 
Boston, Mass. In 1865 he was brevetted 
major-general of volunteers; and the 
following year was appointed United 
States consul at Panama. He died Dec. 
14, 1887, in New York city. 

SMITH, THOMAS LOCHLAN, artist, 
was born Dec. 2, 1835, in Glasgow, Scot¬ 
land. He removed to New York, and in 
1869 was elected an associate of the Na¬ 
tional academy. He devoted himself 
chiefly to painting winter scenes. His 
Deserted House and Eve of St. Agnes 
were at the Centennial exhibition at Phil¬ 
adelphia in 1876. He died Nov. 5, 1884, in 
New York city. 

SMITH, TRUMAN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
Nov. 27, 1791, in Rocksbury, Conn. He 
was elected to the 
state legislature in 
1831, and re-elected 
in 1832 and 1834. In 
1839 he was elected 
a representative in 
congress; and was 
re-elected in 1841. He 
was a presidential 
elector in 1844; in 
1845 he was again 
elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress, and 
was re-elected in 
1847. In 1849 he took his seat in the 
United States senate for a full term of six 
years. He was appointed judge of the 
court of arbitration in New York, under 
the treaty of 1862 with Great Britain. He 
died May 3, 1884, in Stamford, Conn. 








HERRINGSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


SMITH, URIAH, author, poet, was born 
In 1832 in New Hampshire. He is a 
seventh day adventist writer of Battle 
Creek, Mich.; and the author of Looking 
Unto Jesus; Here and Hereafter; The 
Destiny of the Wicked; Nature and Des¬ 
tiny of Man; A Word for the Sabbath, in 
verse; The United States in the Light 
of Prophecy; Daniel and the Revelation; 
The Sure Foundation; and Scripture 
Pathways Cleared of Stumbling Stones. 

SMITH, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1721 in Scotland. He was an 
episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia who 
came to America from Scotland in 1751, 
and in 1754 was made first provost of the 
university of Pennsylvania. A General 
Idea of the College of Mirania first 
brought him to the knowledge of Frank¬ 
lin, who was then laying plans for the 
university. He was author, also, of Brief 
Account of the Province of Pennsylvania; 
Sermons; ana Discourses on Public Oc¬ 
casions. He died May 14, 1803, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

SMITH, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born June 28, 1728, in New York 
city. He was a jurist of New York city; 
was a loyalist during the revolution; and 
in 1786 was appointed chief justice of 
Canada. He was the author of History 
of the Province of New York from Its Dis¬ 
covery to 1732. He died Nov. 3, 1793, in 
Quebec, Canada. 

SMITH. WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in 1730 in Baltimore, Md. He was 
a delegate to the continental congress 
from Maryland from 1777 to 1778; and 
was a representative in congress from 
17&9 to 1791. He was then appointed 
auditor of the treasury. He died March 
27, 1814, in Baltimore, Md. 

SMITH, WILLIAM, educator, author. 
In 1754 he was elected the first provost 
of the college of Philadelphia, serving 
until 1779. He was the author of A Brief 
Account of Philadelphia; Discourses on 
Puulic Occasions; and a collection of 
sermons. 

SMITH, WILLIAM, clergyman, educat¬ 
or, author, was born in 1754 in Scotland. 
He was an episcopal clergyman of New¬ 
port, R. I., and elsewhere; and of some 
note as an educator in his day. He was 
the author of Essays on the Christian 
Ministry. He died in 1821. 

SMITH, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, United States senator, was horn 
in 1762 in North Carolina. He was a 
senator in congress from South Carolina 
from 1816 to 1823, and again from 1826 to 
1831, officiating on two occasions as presi¬ 
dent pro tern, of the senate. In 1837 he 
received the electoral vote of Virginia 
for vice-president of the. United States. 
He served in the legislature of South 
Carolina; was judge of the superior court 
of that state; and was a distinguished 
supporter of the doctrine of state rights. 
He died June 10, 1840, in Huntsville, Ala. 

SMITH, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1789 to 1799; and 
resigned to become United States minis¬ 
ter to Portugal. 

SMITH, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in Chesterfield, Va. He was a repre¬ 
sentative from that state to the nine¬ 
teenth congress. 

SMITH, WILLIAM, ' historian, states¬ 
man, author, was born Sept. 7, 1769, in 
New York. He became successively clerk 
of the provincial parliament, master in 
chancery, and in 1814 secretary of state 
for the colonies and a member of the ex¬ 
ecutive council. He published a History 
of Canada from Its Discovery, in two vol¬ 
umes. He died Dec. 17, 1847, in Canada. 


SMITH, WILLIAM, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, governor, was born 
Sept. 6, 1797, in Virginia. In 1836 he 
was elected to the 
state legislature; and 
was re-elected in 
1840. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in con¬ 
gress during the 
term of 1842 and 
1843; and in 1845 he 
was elected govern¬ 
or of Virginia for 
three years. In 1853 
he was again elected 
a representative in 
congress, in which 
position he continued until the breaking 
out of the rebellion in 1861. He subse¬ 
quently served as a brigadier-general in 
the Virginia army, and was wounded fit 
Antietam. He died May 18, 1887, in War- 
renton, Va. 

SMI 1 H, WILLIAM, naval officer, was 
horn Jan. 9, 1803, in Washington, Ky. 
He entered the United States navy as 
a midshipman in 1823; served in Com¬ 
modore David Porter’s squadron against 
the West Indian pirates; and became 
lieutenant in 1831. During the civil war 
he was in the frigate Congress when she 
was sunk by the Merrimac; became com¬ 
modore in 1862; and was subsequently in 
command of the Pensacola naval station 
till 1865, when he was retired. He died 
May 1, 1873, in St. Louis, Mo. 

SMITH. WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Oct. 8, 1697, in England. He gradu¬ 
ated from Yale in 1719, served as tutor 
there for five years, and in 1724 returned 
to New York city and was admitted to the 
bar. His eloquence and address soon 
brought him into notice. He died Nov. 22, 
1769, in New York city. 

SMITH, WILLIAM ALDEN, lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 12, 1859, in 
Dowagiac, Mich. He was appointed page 
in the Michigan house of representa¬ 
tives in 1879; and was assistant secretary 
of the Michigan state senate in 1882. He 
was a member of the republican state 
central committee in 1888, 1890, and 1892. 
He was the republican candidate for con¬ 
gress in the fifth congressional district in 
1894 and elected, and was re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

SMITH, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, agri¬ 
culturist, state senator, congressman, was 
born Jan. 9, 1828, in North Carolina. He 
was a member of the secession convention 
of North Carolina in 1861. He was a 
representative in the state legislature in 
1864; was a member of the constitution¬ 
al convention in 1865; and was a member 
of the state senate in 1870. He was presi¬ 
dent of the North Carolina railroad, and 
of the Yadkin River railroad; and was 
a representative from Nortn Carolina to 
the forty-third congress as a republican. 

SMITH. WILLIAM ANDREW, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 29, 1802, in 
Fredericksburg, Va. He was a methodist 
clergyman of Vir¬ 
ginia whose Lectures 
on the Philosophy 
and Practice of Slav¬ 
ery are considered 
the ablest presenta¬ 
tion of the pro-slav¬ 
ery side of the ques¬ 
tion. He took an ac¬ 
tive part in the abo¬ 
litionist movementf 
and contributed val¬ 
uable articles on that 
question to the lead¬ 
ing newspapers of the United States. He 
died March 1, 1870, in Richmond, Va. 


SMITH, WILLIAM E., state legislator, 
governor, was born in 1824, in Scotland. 
He was elected a member of the Wiscon¬ 
sin legislature in 1851 and re-elected in 
1871, when he was made speaker of the 
house. Besides holding many other of¬ 
fices, he has been twice elected governor 
of Wisconsin, in 1877 and 1879. 

SMI TH, WILLIAM E., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 14, 1829 
in Augusta, Ga. In 1850 he was made 
solicitor-general for the southwestern 
circuit. In 1861 he entered the confeder¬ 
ate army in the fourth Georgia regiment 
as first lieutenant; was elected captain 
in 1862; and lost a leg in front of Rich¬ 
mond. In 1863 he was elected to the 
confederate house of representatives, and 
continued in that office during its exist¬ 
ence. He then engaged in agricultural 
pursuits and cotton planting; and was 
elected a representative from Georgia to 
the forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty- 
sixth congresses as a democrat. 

SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR, soldier, 
author, was born Feb. 17, 1824* in St. 
Albans, Vt. He was a brevet major-gefi- 
eral in the United 
St'ates army; and re¬ 
signed in 1867. He 
is the author of 
From Chattanooga 
to Petersburg under 
Generals Grant and 
Butler; and several 
other works. He has 
always been promi- 
n e n 11 y identified 
with army affairs; 
has filled numerous 
public positions of 
honor in Wilmington, Del.; and has con¬ 
tributed extensively to the leading news¬ 
papers and magazines of the United 
States. 

SMITH, WILLIAM H., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, governor, was born April 
9, 1826, in Georgia. He moved to Ala¬ 
bama; and was twice elected to the leg¬ 
islature. He was a presidential elector in 
1856; was appointed a circuit judge of 
the state; and in 1868 was elected govern¬ 
or of Alabama for the term of two years. 

SMITH, WILLIAM HARRISON, col¬ 
lege president, was born May 10, 1848, in 
Furnace, Va. He is president of the Vir¬ 
ginia Polytechnic institute of New Mar¬ 
ket, Va. 

SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY, journalist, 
author, was born in 1833 in Ohio. He was 
a journalist of Cincinnati; and subse¬ 
quently collector of Chicago. He was the 
author of The St. Clair Papers; and Po¬ 
litical History of the United States. He 
died in 1896. 

SMITH, WILLIAM J., soldier, agricult¬ 
urist, state senator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 24, 1823, in Birmingham, Eng¬ 
land. He devoted 
himself to agricult¬ 
ural pursuits; and 
during the rebellion 
was persecuted and 
arrested on account 
of his devotion to the 
union cause. He en¬ 
listed in the volun¬ 
teer army as a pri¬ 
vate, and rose to the 
rank of brevet brig¬ 
adier-general. H e 
was a member of the 
convention to reorganize the state govern¬ 
ment in Tennessee; was subsequently 
elected to the state legislature; and in 

1867 was elected to the state senate. In 

1868 he was elected a representative from 
Tennessee to the forty-first congress. 











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SMITH, WILLIAM L. G., author, was 
born in 1814 in Vermont. He is the au¬ 
thor of Uncle Tom’s Cabin as It Is. 

SMITH, WILLIAM LOUGHTON, diplo¬ 
mat, congressman, author, was born in 
1758 in Charleston, S. C. He was a repre¬ 
sentative from South Carolina from 1789 
to 1799; and resigned in 1797 to become 
minister to Portugal; and was minister 
to Spain in 1800-01. He was an active 
federalist politician. He was the author 
of Speeches; Comparative View of the 
Constitutions of the States; and Ameri¬ 
can Arguments for British Rights. He 
died in 1812 in Charleston, S. C. 

SMITH, WILLIAM NATHAN HAR¬ 
RELL, lawyer, state senator, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 24, 1812, in Murfrees- 
borough, N. C. In 1840 he was elected a 
member of the state house of commons, 
and in 1848 was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate. He was solicitor of the first judicial 
district for eight years. In 1858 he Was 
again elected to the house of commons, 
but resigned his seat; and was elected a 
representative from North Carolina to the 
thirty-sixth congress. He took part in 
the rebellion of 1861 as a member of the 
so-called confederate congress; and was 
a delegate to the Philadelphia national 
union convention of 1866, and the New 
York convention of 1868. He died Nov. 
14, 1889, in Raleigh, N. C. 

SMITH, WILLIAM RUDOLPH, lawyer, 
author, was born Aug. 31, 1787, in La 
Trappe, Pa. He was a Wisconsin lawyer; 
and the author of Observations on Wis¬ 
consin Territory, 1831; and History of 
Wisconsin. He died Aug. 22, 1868, in 
Quincy, Ill. 

SMITH, WILLIAM RUSSELL, lawyer, 
congressman, author, was born Aug. 8, 
1813, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He is a lawyer 
of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was a congress¬ 
man in 1851-55; and during that period 
sat in the confederate congress. He is 
the author of The Alabama Justice, The 
Uses of Solitude, a poem; As It Is, a 
novel; and Condensed Alabama Reports. 

SMITH WILLIAM SOOY. civil engineer, 
was born' July 22, 1830, in Tarlton, Ohio. 
In 1853 he graduated from the United 
States Military academy. In 1857 he made 
the first surveys for the international 
bridge across Niagara river; and con¬ 
structed an iron bridge across Savannah 
river He was active in the civil war, 
and was promoted brigadier-general of 
volunteers in 1862. He has built numer- 
ous steel bridges; has served on numer¬ 
ous engineering expeditions; and in 1880 
was president of the civil engineers club 
of the northwest. 

SMITH, WILLIAM STEPHENS, sol¬ 
dier lawyer, congressman, was born in 
1755 in New York city. He was aid to 
General Sullivan in 1776; was lieutenant- 
colonel of the thirteenth Massachusetts 
regiment from 1778 to 1779; and was sev¬ 
eral times wounded. He was then, for 
a short time, attached to the staff of Steu¬ 
ben, but left in 1781 to become aid-de- 
camp to Washington. He was secretary 
of legation under John Adams in Eng¬ 
land in 1785; was surveyor of the port 
of New York; and served three years as a 
member of the New York assembly. He 
was president of the New York Cincinnati 
society in 1804; and was a representative 
in congress from 1813 to 1816. He died 
June 10, 1816, in Lebanon, N. Y. 

SMITH, WILLIAM THEODORE, jour¬ 
nalist, state senator, was born Feb. 7, 
1860, in Monticello, Ark. He is the editor 
and owner of the Chronicle of Stuttgart, 
Ark. He has served as a member of 
the Arkansas state senate. 


SMITH, WILLIAM WAUGH, soldier, 
educator, author, was born March 12, 1845, 
in Warrenton, Va. He entered the con¬ 
federate service at seventeen years of age, 
fought through the war in the ranks, 
twice refusing commissions, and was 
wounded at the battles of Fair Oaks and 
Gettysburg. He was principal of Bethel 
academy in 1871-78, when he became 
professor of languages in Randolph Ma- 
con, held office till 1886, and since that 
time has been president of that college. 
He has published Outlines of Psychology; 
and Chart of Comparative Syntax of 
Latin, Greek, French, German, and En¬ 
glish. 

SMITH, WINFIELD, railroad president, 
was born Aug. 16, 1827, in Fort Howard, 
Wis. He is president of the Milwaukee 
and Superior railway. 

SMITH, WORTHINGTON, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1795 in Hadley, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Vermont, pastor at St. Albans in 1823-49, 
and president of the university of Ver¬ 
mont in 1849-56. He was the author^ of 
Select Sermons. He died Feb. 13, 1856, 
in St. Albans, Vt. 

SMITH, WORTHINGTON C., merchant, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
April 23, 1823, in St. Albans, Vt. He 
became an iron merchant and manufac¬ 
turer. In 1863 he was chosen to the leg¬ 
islature of the state, and in 1864 and 1865 
was elected to the state senate, officiating 
during the last session as president of the 
senate. He was elected a representative 
from Vermont to the fortieth, forty- 
first and forty-second congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

SMITH, XANTHUS, soldier, artist, was 
born Feb. 26, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is known as a marine and landscape 
painter. He served during the civil war 
under Admiral Samuel F. DuPont, and has 
painted many of the naval engagements of 
the war. 

SMITH, ZACHARIAH FREDERICK, 
educator, author, was born Jan. 7, 1827, 
in Henry county, Ky. He was super¬ 
intendent of public instruction in Ken¬ 
tucky for four years; and is the author 
of a History of Kentucky. 

SMITHDEAL, GEORGE MICHAEL, 
educator, author, was born Sept. 23, 1855, 
near Salisbury, N. C. He taught school 
and attended col¬ 
lege alternately for 
several years, and 
subsequently became 
a successful Spence¬ 
rian penman. In 
1883 he opened the 
Smithdeal Business 
college in Greensbo¬ 
ro, N. C., which in¬ 
stitution he subse¬ 
quently moved to 
Richmond, Va. He 
has gradually built 
one of the finest institutions of the kind 
in the country, buying and uniting several 
other schools of similar character with 
the Smithdeal college, of which he is 
president. He is the author of Smithdeal’s 
Bookkeeping, and other works. 

SMITHERS, NATHANIEL B., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1818, in 
Dover, Del. He was clerk of the Delaware 
house of representatives in 1845 and 1847. 
In 1863 he was appointed secretary of 
state for Delaware. He was elected a 
representative from Delaware to the thir¬ 
ty-eighth congress. 

SMITHSON, JAMES, scientist, philan¬ 
thropist. The Smithsonian institution of 
Washington, D. C., was founded by con¬ 
gress in 1846, in accordance with the will 


of James Smithson, who bequeathed for 
its establishment over half a million dol¬ 
lars, and the institution was named in his 
honor. 

SMOCK, JOHN CONOVER, geologist, 
author, was born Sept. 21, 1842, in Holm- 
del, N. J. He is a geologist, assistant in 
charge of the New York State Museum 
from 1885, and the author of Report on 
Clay Deposits; and On Building-Stones 
in New York. 

SMOKE, ELMYRA J., poet, was born in 
1832, in Clinton county, Ohio. Her poems 
have principally appeared in the leading 
publications of the Pacific coast, and sev¬ 
eral have been given a place in standard 
collections. Mrs. Smoke now resides in 
Wichita, Kan. 

SMOOT, MARTHA ADALINE, educator, 
litterateur, was born Dec. 28, 1829, in 
Buckholts, Liberty county, Miss. She 
received her education at the Monticello 
seminary, Illinois, and in Mobile, Ala. 
For many years she was principal of lit¬ 
erary and musical schools in Galveston 
and' Bryan, Texas. In 1892-93 she was 
chairman of the Texas advisory music 
committee for the world’s fair. She is 
now a widow, and her son is president 
of the National bank of Colorado, Texas. 
She has contributed extensively to cur¬ 
rent literature. 

SMYSER. MARTIN LUTHER, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 3, 1851, in 
Plaine township, Ohio. He was elected 
prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, 
Ohio, in 1872, and served one term, and 
has practiced law continuously since. He 
was elected to the fifty-first congress as a 
republican. 

SMYTH, ALBERT HENRY, educator, 
author, was born June 18, 1863, in Phila¬ 
delphia. Pa. He attended the Central 
High school of his native city, and the 
Johns Hopkins university. During 1885- 
86 he was assistant librarian of the Johns 
Hopkins university; and since 1886 has 
been professor of English language and 
literature in the Central High school of 
Philadelphia. He was the founder and 
editor of Shakesperiana, the first maga¬ 
zine ever devoted to the study of a single 
author. He is the author of American 
Literature, published in 1889; Life of 
Bayard Taylor; and of various articles 
and original investigations in the maga¬ 
zines and in the proceedings of learned 
societies. 

SMYTH, ALEXANDER, soldier, state 
legislator, congressman, author, born in 
1765, in Ireland. He was a member of the 
Virginia legislature. He was appointed a 
colonel of rifles in 1808, and was appointed 
acting inspector-general, with rank of 
brigadier-general in 1812. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Virginia 
from 1817 to 1825, and from 1827 to 1830. 
He published Regulations for United 
States Infantry, in 1812, and a pamphlet 
on the Apocalypse. He died April 26, 
1830, in Washington, D. C. 

SMYTH, DAVID McCONNELL, invent¬ 
or, was born July 3, 1833, in Ireland. He 
is the inventor of a method for shaving 
veneer wood, a machine for cutting wood¬ 
en toothpicks, and the adjustable mitre- 
box, now in universal use. 

SMYTH, EGBERT COFFIN, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born Aug. 24, 1829, 
in Brunswick, Maine. He is a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman prominent among lib¬ 
eral thinkers in his denomination, and 
professor of ecclesiastical history at An¬ 
dover seminary from 1863. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Value of the Study of Church 
History in Ministerial Education; and 
translation of Uhlhorn’s Conflict of Chris¬ 
tianity and Heathenism. 




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SMYTH, FREDERICK, governor. He 
was governor of New Hampshire for two 
years, from 1865 to 1867. 

SMYTH, GEORGE W., congressman, 
was born in North Carolina. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Texas from 1853 to 1855. 

SMYTH, HERBERT WEIR, educator, 
author, was born Aug. 8, 1857, in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. He is a professor of Gi’bek 
in Bryn Mawr college from 1888, and the' 
author of Sounds anu Inflections of the 
Greek Dialects. 

SMYTH, JULIAN KENNEDY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1856 in New 
York. He is a Swedenborgian clergyman 
of Boston, and the author of Footprints 
of the Saviour; and Holy Names as In¬ 
terpretations of the Story of the Manger 
and the Cross. 

SMY'xH (SAMUEL), NEWMAN (PHIL¬ 
LIPS), clergyman, author, was born June 
25, 1843, in Maine. He is a congregational 
clergyman of prominence and of liberal 
theology, and pastor of the First church 
at New Haven from 1882. He is the au¬ 
thor of Old Faiths in New Light; The 
Orthodox Theology of To-Day; The Re¬ 
ligious Feeling; The Morality of the Old 
Testament; Personal Creeds; Christian 
Ethics; Dorner on the Future State; and 
The Reality of Faith. 

SMYTH, THOMAS, clergyman, author, 
was born July 14, 1808, in Ireland. He 
was a presbyterian clergyman of Charles¬ 
ton, pastor of the Second church in 1832- 
73, and very active as a controversialist, 
among whose many writings are; Lec¬ 
tures on the Prelatical Doctrine of the 
Apostolical Succession; History of the 
Westminster Assembly; Why Do I Live? 
Solace for Bereaved Parents; Calvin and 
His Enemies; and Ecclesiastical Repub¬ 
licanism. He died Aug. 20, 1873, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

SMYTH, THOMAS A., soldier, was born 
in Ireland. He served through the civil 
war, and for gallant and meritorious ser¬ 
vices received the rank of brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He died April 6, 1865, in Farmville, 
Va. 

SMYTH, WILLIAM, educator, author, 
was born in 1797 in Pittston, Maine. He 
is an educator who was professor of 
mathematics at Bow- 
doin college from 
1825, and is the au¬ 
thor of Elements of 
Algebra; Treatise on 
Algebra; Trigonome¬ 
try, Surveying, and 
Navigation; Ele¬ 
ments of Analytical 
Geometry; Elements 
of the Differential 
and Integral Calcu¬ 
lus; and Lectures on 
Modern History. He 
died April 3, 1868, in Brunswick, Maine. 

SMYTH, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 3, 1824, in Ire¬ 
land. In 1848-53 he was attorney for 
Linii county, Iowa; was judge of the same 
from 1854 to 1857; and in 1858 was ap¬ 
pointed a commissioner to codify the 
state laws. He was a colonel of Iowa 
volunteers from 1862 to 1864, and was 
elected a representative from Iowa to the 
forty-first congress. 

SNAPP, H., lawyer, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 30, 1822, in 
Livingston county, N. Y. He was elected 
to the Illinois state senate in 1869, and 
served until elected to the forty-second 
congress as a republican. 


SNEAD, THOMAS LOWNDES, soldier, 
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 10, 1828, in 
Henrico county, Va. He was a St. Louis 
lawyer who served in the confederate 
army, and after 1865 resumed his profes¬ 
sion in New York city. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Fight for Missouri in 1861. 
He died Oct. 17, 1890, in New York city. 

SNEED. JOHN LOUIS TAYLOR, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, au¬ 
thor, was born May 12, 1820, in Raleigh, 
N. C. He was a member of the Tennessee 
legislature in 1845; and was captain of 
a Tennessee company in the Mexican war 
in 1846-47. He was judge of the state 
supreme court in 1870-78, and of the 
court of arbitration in 1879, and judge 
of the state court of referees in 1883-84. 
In 1888 he was chosen president of the 
Memphis School of Law. He is the au¬ 
thor of Reports of the Supreme Court of 
Tennessee, 1854-59. 

SNEED, WILLIAM H., congressman, 
was born in Tennessee. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1855 to 1857. 

SNELLING, HENRY HUNT, author, 
was born Nov. 8, 1817, in Plattsburg, N. 
Y. He is a writer living at Cornwall, 
N. Y., from 1871, and the author of His¬ 
tory and Practice of Photography; and 
Dictionary of the Photographic Art. 

SNELLING, JOSIAH, soldier, author, 
was born in 1782, in Boston, Mass. He 
was distinguished in the battle of Tip¬ 
pecanoe in 1811; and attained the rank of 
colonel. He was the author of Remarks 
on General Hull’s Memoirs. He died Aug. 
20, 1829, in Washington, D. C. 

SNELLING, WILLIAM JOSEPH, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Dec. 26, 1804, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a journalist of Bos¬ 
ton; and the author of The Polar Regions 
of the Western Continent Explored; 
Truth: a Satirical Poem; and Six Months 
in a House of Correction. He died Dec. 
24, 1848, in Chelsea, Mass. 

SNETHEN, NICHOLAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 15,1769, in Glen Cove, 
L. I. He was a methodist itinerant preach¬ 
er, active in the formation of the meth¬ 
odist protestant denomination; and the 
author of Preaching the Gospel; Lay Rep¬ 
resentation; and Lectures on Biblical Sub¬ 
jects. He died May 30, 1845, in Princeton, 
Ind. 

SNIDER, DENTON JAQUES, lecturer, 
author, was born Jan. 9, 1841, in Mt. Gil¬ 
ead, Ohio. He is a literary lecturer of St. 
Louis; and the author of System of 
Shakespeare’s Dramas; A Walk in Hel¬ 
las; Delphic Days, an idyl in the elegiac 
distich; Agamemnon’s Daughter, a classic 
romantic poem; An Epigrammatic Voy¬ 
age; Goethe’s Faust: a Commentary; and 
The Shakespearean Drama. 

SNIDER, SAMUEL PRATHER, soldier, 
agriculturist, manufacturer, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1845, 
in Mt. Gilead, Ohio. 
He enlisted as a pri¬ 
vate soldier in the 
sixty-fifth Ohio vol¬ 
unteer infantry; 
served with his regi¬ 
ment in Kentucky, 
Tennessee, Georgia, 
Alabama, and Missis¬ 
sippi; and was 
wounded at the bat¬ 
tle of Stone River, 
and severely wound¬ 
ed and taken prison¬ 
er at the battle of Chickamauga. He serv¬ 
ed in West Tennessee as captain in the 
thirteenth United States colored infantry. 
He moved to Minnesota in 1876; or¬ 
ganized and built the Midland railway; 


and is engaged in farming, mining, and 
manufacturing in Minneapolis. He served 
in the Minnesota legislature from 1884 to 
1888; and was elected to the fifty-first 
congress as a republican. 

SNIVELY, WILLIAM ANDREW, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1833 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is an episcopal clergyman 
of Louisville; and the author of Family 
Prayers for the Christian Year; Testi¬ 
monies to the Supernatural; Parish Lec¬ 
tures on the Prayer Book; ^Esthetics in 
Worship; and The Oberammergau Pas¬ 
sion Play. 

SNODGRASS, HENRY C., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born in 1848 in White county, 
Tenn. He commenced the practice of law 
in Sparta, Tenn., which he still continues. 
He was attorney-general of the fifth ju¬ 
dicial circuit for eight years; and was 
elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to 
the fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

SNODGRASS, JOHN FRYALL, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 2, 1804, in 
Berkeley county, Va. He was a lawyer by 
profession, and practiced in Parkersburg, 
Va. He was a representative in congress 
from Virginia from 1853 to 1854. He died 
June 5, 1854, in Parkersburg, W. Va. 

SNOVER, HORACE G., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1847, in 
Romeo, Mich. He was probate judge of 
Huron county, Mich., from 1881 to 1885; 
and was elected to the fifty-fourth and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

SNOW, ALVIN LINCOLN, clergyman, 
author, poet, was born Jan. 29, 1862, in 
Ellison, Ill. He has attained success as a 
clergyman, and has 
filled pastorates in 
various churches in 
the western states. 
He is the author of 
Songs of the White 
Mountains and Other 
Poems, and has con¬ 
tributed extensively 
to current literature. 
He now fills a pasto¬ 
rate in his church at 
Lenox,Iowa; and has 
filled many of the 
most important offices in the gift of his 
denomination. 

SNOW, ANNA LE CONTE BROOKS, 
president of Daughters of the Revolution, 
was born Sept. 25, 1855, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. She is a graduate of Vassar col¬ 
lege, and the honored president of the 
Daughters of the Revolution. 

SNOW, ARTHUR H., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, was born in 1841 in Clinton, Mich. 
He has been county attorney of Winona 
county, Minn.; mayor of Winona; and 
president of the board of education. In 
1896 he was elected a member of the Min¬ 
nesota state legislature. 

SNOW, CALEB HOPKINS, physician, 
author, was born April 1, 1796, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a Boston physician who 
published A History of Boston; and Ge¬ 
ography of Boston and Adjacent Towns. 
He died July 6, 1835, in Boston. Mass. 

SNOW, ELBRIDGE GERRY, under¬ 
writer, was born Jan. 22, 1841, in Water- 
bury, Conn. He read law in an office in 
his native city; and in 1862 entered the 
New York office of the Home Insurance 
company, of which he became the Massa¬ 
chusetts general agent in 1873. In 1885 
he was appointed assistant secretary in 
the New York office; and three years later 
was elected a director and vice-president 
of the company, which positions he still 
fills. He is a member of the New York 
Geological society, and various other or¬ 
ganizations. 






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SNOW, FRANCIS HUNTINGTON, edu¬ 
cator, college president, scientist, was 
born June 29, 1840, in Fitchburg, Mass. 
He received his education at the Williams 
college, Andover Theological seminary, 
and the Agassiz School of Natural His¬ 
tory, and has received the degrees of Ph. 
D. and LL. D. He has been principal of 
the high school of Fitchburg, Mass.; in 
1866-70 was professor of mathematics and 
natural science in the university of Kan¬ 
sas; and professor of natural history in 
the same institution during 1870-89. Since 
that time he has been professor of botany 
and entomology in the university of Kan¬ 
sas, and president and chancellor of that 
institution since 1890. He is eminently 
successful as a lecturer, and a thorough 
believer in the doctrines of evolution. He 
has been an enthusiastic scientist; has 
made frequent excursions upon the plains 
and into the mountains of Colorado and 
New Mexico, which have resulted in valu¬ 
able additions to the Zoological, Botanical, 
Entomological, and Paleontological mu¬ 
seums. He has discovered many new spe¬ 
cies of insects, a score of which have been 
named in his honor. 

SNOW, HERMAN W., lawyer, educator, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
July 3, 1836, in La Porte county, Ind. He 
served in most of the southern states, and 
was provost-marshal-general of Georgia 
on Major-General Steedman’s staff. At 
the expiration of service he resumed 
teaching in the Chicago High school for 
three years. He was elected to the Illi¬ 
nois legislature; and was elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a democrat. 

SNOW, JOHN F., educator, orator, was 
born June 17, 1854, in Portland, Ind. After 
ten years devoted to the work of student 
and teacher in the 
various school grades 
he attained the de¬ 
gree of bachelor of 
science. In 1883 he 
was chosen county 
superintendent o f 
Adams county, Ind., 
and has since been 
five times re-elected 
to the same position. 
As a member of the 
Indiana County Su¬ 
perintendents’ asso¬ 
ciation he has served on various educa¬ 
tional committees, and in 1890 was chosen 
president of the association. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature 
on educational topics; and is the author 
of a biographical work. 

SNOW, LORENZO, was born April 3, 
1814, in Mantua, Ohio. In 1893 he was 
elected president of the twelve apostles 
of the Mormon church, Salt Lake City, 
Utah, which office he still holds. 

SNOW, MARSHALL SOLOMON, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Aug. 17, 1842, in 
Hyannis, Mass. He is a professor of his¬ 
tory in Washington university; and the 
author of The City Government of St. 
Louis. 

SNOW. WILLIAM DUNHAM, soldier, 
lawyer, poet, inventor, was born Feb. 2, 
1832, in Webster, Mass. Since his gradu¬ 
ation at Columbia Law school in 1876 he 
has practiced in New York city and in the 
federal courts. He has invented a success¬ 
ful carburettor, a gas-regulator, a thermo¬ 
static apparatus for the maintenance of 
equal heat for furnaces and steam appara¬ 
tus, and a system for fac-similetelegraphy. 
He is the author of several anti-slavery 
poems, and has contributed to magazines. 

SNOW. WILLIAM W„ congressman, 
was born in Massachusetts. He removed 



to New York; and was elected a represen¬ 
tative from that state to the thirty-second 
congress. 

SNOW ZERUBBABEL, lawyer, jurist, 
was an early emigrant to the territory of 
Utah; and in 1850 was appointed a judge 
of the United States court for that dis¬ 


trict. 

SNOWDEN, ARCHIBALD ^LOUDON, 
inventor, was born Aug. 11, 1837, in Cum¬ 
berland county, Pa. He was made register 
of the United States mint on May 7, 1857; 
became chief coiner on Oct. 1, 1866, and in 
1877-79 was postmaster of Philadelphia. 
In 1879-85 he was superintendent of the 
mint, and in 1878 he declined the office of 
general director of all the mints in the 
United States. 


SNOWDEN, DAVID HAROLD, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born 
April 25, 1842, in Fairview C. H., W. Va. 

He has attained emi¬ 
nence as a clergy¬ 
man of the congrega¬ 
tional church; has 
filled pastorates in 
various cities, and 
now fills a pastorate 
in Nickerson, Kan. 
He has received the 
degrees of M. D., Ph. 
D.,D. D.,LL. D., F.R. 
S.,and is a member of 
many learned bodies. 
For many years he 
taught Hebrew and Greek; is a brilliant 
lecturer; and the author of Is Man a 
Creation; The Seven Most Prominent of 
the Twenty-Five Bibles of the World; 
God’s Hand in American History, and 
other works. In 1898 he was appointed as¬ 
sistant surgeon-general of the western de¬ 
partment, with the rank of colonel in the 
regular army. 



SNOWDEN, JAMES ROSS.numismatist, 
congressman, author, was born in 1810 in 
Chester, Pa. He was speaker of the house 
of representatives of Pennsylvania from 
1842 to 1844. He was state treasurer from 
1845 to 1847; was treasurer of the United 
States mint from 1847 to 1850, and director 
of the same from 1853 to 1861. He pub¬ 
lished Descriptions of Coins in the United 
States Mint; Description of Medals in 
the United States Mint; The Mint at 
Philadelphia; Coins of the Bible; and 
The Corn Planter Memorial. He was also 
the author of the Articles on Coins of the 
United States in the National Almanac of 
1873, and many pamphlets on the subject. 
He died March 21, 1878, in Hulmeville, Pa. 


SNYDER, ADAM CLARK, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born March 26, 1834, in High¬ 
land county, Va. For nine years he was 
judge of the supreme court of West Vir¬ 
ginia. 


SNYDER. ADAM W., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1801. He fre¬ 
quently served in the state legislature of 
Illinois; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1837 to 1839. 
He died May 14, 1842, in Belleville, Ill. 

SNYDER, CHARLES PHILIP, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 9, 1847, near 
Charleston, W. Va. He was elected prose¬ 
cuting attorney of Kanawha county, W. 
Va., in 1876; was re-elected in 1880, and 
continued to serve until elected a repre¬ 
sentative from West Virginia to the forty- 
eighth congress to fill a vacancy; and was 
re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a 
democrat. 


SNYDER, ELMORE WILLIAM, banker, 
railroad president, was born Nov. 23, 1850, 
in Wayne county, N. Y. He is the presi¬ 
dent of the Manufacturers’ National bank 
of Leavenworth, Kan.; and president of 
the Leavenworth Terminal railway. 


SNYDER, GREELEY B., physician, 
surgeon, was born May 8, 1860, in Henry 
county, Ill. He studied medicine in the 
medical department of the university of 
Michigan, and at the Bellevue Hospital 
Medical college of New York city, from 
which institution he graduated in 1885. 
He has attained success in his profession, 
and is one of the leading physicians and 
surgeons of Iowa at Rock Valley. 

SNYDER, JOHN, congressman, was- 
born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a 
lepresentative in congress from that state 
from 1841 to 1843. 

SNYDER, MARTIN L., lawyer, was 
born April 3, 1858, near Sunbury, Pa. He 
attended the university of Selin's Grove, 
Pa.; then took a scientific course at the 
State Normal school at Bloomsburg, Pa., 
finishing his education at the Princeton 
college of New Jersey. For several years- 
he was connected with the Augusta bank 
of his nativ e city, and is now a prominent 
attorney and real estate dealer. 

SNYDER, OLIVER P., state senator,, 
congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1833, in 
Missouri. He was a member of the gen¬ 
eral assembly of Arkansas in 1864 and 
1865; and was elected a delegate to the 
state constitutional convention in 1867. He 
was a presidential elector in 1868; was 
elected a member of the state senate for 
four years; and was appointed one of the 
three commissioners to revise and rear¬ 
range the statutes of Arkansas. He was 
elected a representative from Arkansas to 
the forty-second and forty-third con¬ 
gresses; and in 1875 was appointed post¬ 
master of Pine Bluff, Ark. 

SNYDER, SIMON, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born Nov. 5, 
1759, in Lancaster, Pa. He was several 
years speaker of the house of representa¬ 
tives of Pennsylvania; and in 1818 was 
a member of the state senate. He was 
governor of Pennsylvania from 1808 to 
1817. He died Nov. 9, 1819, in Selin’s 
Grove, Pa. 

SNYDER, WILLIAM HENRY, artist, 
was born Feb. 28, 1830, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He studied in Paris; has attained promi¬ 
nence as a painter; and is curator of the 
Brooklyn Art school. 

SNYDER, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
legislator, was born June 29, 1858, in 
Belleville, Ill. He received the rudiments 
of his education in the public schools of 
his native city, and attended Washington 
university of St. Louis, Mo. He is an 
able lawyer of Belleville, Ill.; has been 
city attorney; served with distinction as 
a member of the house of representatives 
of the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth Illi¬ 
nois general assemblies. He is now mas¬ 
ter in chancery of his county; secretary 
of the board of trustees of the Illinois 
Historical library; and is prominent ip 
the public affairs of his city, county and 
state. 

SOLEY. JAMES RUSSELL, educator, 
author, was born Oct. 1, 1850, in Roxbury, 
Mass. He is an educator, professor at the 
Naval academy in 1871-82, and lecturer on 
international law at Newport Naval col¬ 
lege from 1885. He is the author of The 
Rescue of Greeley; Foreign Systems of 
Education; The Blockade and the Cruis¬ 
ers; The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval 
Heroes; History of the Naval Academy; 
and The Sailor Boys of ’61. 

SOLLERS, AUGUSTUS R., congress¬ 
man, was born in Maryland. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
his native state from 1841 to 1843, and 
again from 1853 to 1855. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1856. 







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SOLOMON, EDWARD, governor. He 
was governor of Wisconsin from 1861 to 
1863. 

SOMERBY, FREDERIC THOMAS, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 4, 1814, in Newbury- 
port. He was for many years a corres¬ 
pondent of the Boston Post and the Spirit 
of the Times, and published, under the 
name of Cymon, Hits and Dashes, or a 
Medley of Sketches and Scraps touching 
People and Things. He died Jan. 18, 1871, 
in Worcester, Mass. 

SOMERBY, HORATIO GATES, genealo¬ 
gist, was born Dec. 24, 1805, in Newbury- 
port, Mass. He was a member of the New 
England Historic-Genealogical society, to 
whose publications he contributed valua¬ 
ble papers, and a large quantity of his 
unpublished material is in possession of 
the Massachusetts Historical society, with 
which he had been connected since 1859. 
He died Nov. 14, 1872, in London, Eng¬ 
land. 

SOMERS, PETER J., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born April 12, 1850, in Menomi¬ 
nee, Wis. In 1882 he was elected attorney 
of the city of Milwaukee, and served two 
years; and in 1890 was elected to the 
common council, and upon its organiza¬ 
tion was elected president. He was ap¬ 
pointed trustee of the Public library; and 
in 1890 was elected mayor of the city of 
Milwaukee, and was re-elected in 1892. At 
the special election held in 1893 to fill a 
vacancy he was elected to the fifty-third 
congress as a democrat. 

SOMERVILLE, HENDERSON MIDDLE- 
TON, journalist, jurist, was born March 23, 
1837, in Madison county, Va. In 1860 he 
became editor of the Memphis Appeal; 
and in 1880 he was appointed associate 
justice of the supreme court of Alabama, 
serving for twelve years, and in 1890 he 
was appointed United States general ap¬ 
praiser. 

SOMERVILLE, WILLIAM CLARKE, 
public official, author, was born March 25, 
1790, in St. Mary’s county, Md. He was a 
writer who was appointed minister to 
Sweden, but died before reaching there 
and was buried at the Marquis Lafay¬ 
ette’s home at Lagrange. He was the au¬ 
thor of Letters from Paris on the Causes 
of the French Revolution. He died Jan. 
5, 1826, in France. 

SOMES, DANIEL E., congressman. He 
was a representative from Maine in the 
thirty-sixth congress. From 1855 to 1857 
he was mayor of Biddeford, Maine; and 
from 1856 to 1858 was president of the City 
bank of that city. He was a member of 
the peace congress of 1861; and subse¬ 
quently settled in Washington as a claim 
agent. 

SOMMERS, CHARLES GEORGE, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 4, 1793, 
in England. After a six years’ pastorate 
in Troy, N. Y., he was called to the charge 
of the South Baptist church in New York 
city, where he remained till his retirement 
in 1856. He published numerous contro¬ 
versial articles in defense of baptist doc¬ 
trines, edited a volume of Psalms and 
Hymns, and The Baptist Library; and was 
the author of a Memoir of John Stanford, 
D. D., with Selections from his Corres¬ 
pondence. He died Dec. 19, 1868, in New 
York city. 

SONGER, ABRAM W„ soldier, mer¬ 
chant, was born Nov. 2, 1832, near Xenia. 
Ill. He served in the civil war as second 
and first lieutenant of the twenty-first 
regiment Illinois volunteer infantry from 
May 10, 1861, to May 15, 1865. He is a 
successful miller and grain dealer of Kin- 
mundy, Ill.; has served as city alderman 


for several terms; has been a member of 
the board of education; and is now pres¬ 
ident of the board of education and Kin- 
mundy graded schools. 

SONNTAG, GEORGE, soldier, was born 
in 1786 in Philadelphia, Pa. He went to 
Russia in 1815, entered the military ser¬ 
vice, and with the allied army entered 
Paris. He became a general in the Rus¬ 
sian army and an admiral in the navy. 
He died March 23, 1841, in Russia. 

SONNTAG, WILLIAM LOUIS, artist, 
was born March 2, 1822, in Pittsburg, Pa. 
In 1823 his parents moved to Cincinnati, 
Ohio, and he receiv¬ 
ed a thorough edu¬ 
cation in the Kin- 
mont school in that 
city. In 1848 he 
opened a studio in 
Cincinnati, and was 
entirely a self-taught 
artist. In 1853 he 
made his first visit 
to Europe; and has 
since spent two years 
in Florence studying 
art. In 1854 he moved 
to New York city, where he has attained 
success as an eminent landscape painter. 
Since 1861 he has been a member of the 
National Academy of Design; is a mem¬ 
ber of the American Water-Color society; 
the Artist Fund society, and various other 
institutions. His most notable pictures 
are Progress of Civilization; Spirit of 
Solitude; E\angeline; and A Dream of 
Italy. 

SOPER, ERASTUS BURROWS, soldier, 
lawyer, business man, was born Sept. 15, 
1841, in Pitcher. N. Y. During 1857-61 he 
attended the Western 
college; Cornell col¬ 
lege during 1865-68, 
and subsequently re¬ 
ceived from the lat¬ 
ter institution the 
degree of A. M. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war he 
served as private, 
sergeant, second lieu¬ 
tenant, first lieuten¬ 
ant, and captain in 
the first and twelfth 
regiments Iowa vol¬ 
unteer infantry. He has resided in Iowa 
since 1847, and is an able lawyer and busi¬ 
ness man of Emmetsburg. He has been di¬ 
rector, vice-president and president of a 
large number of banking and other corpo¬ 
rations; is a charter member of the Iowa 
Society Sons of the American Revolu¬ 
tion; is prominent in fraternal orders; 
and for twenty years has been an active 
and influential member of the board of 
trustees of Cornell college. 

SOPHOCLES, EVANGELINUS APOS- 
TOLIDES, scholar, educator, aumor, was 
born March 8, 1807, in Greece. He was a 
Greek scholar of distinction, and professor 
at Harvard unh ersity in 1849-83. His chief 
work is a Greek Lexicon of the Roman 
and Byzantine Periods; and among his 
other publications are Greek Grammar for 
Learners; and History of the Greek Al¬ 
phabet. He died Dec. 17, 1883, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

SOPRIS, WILLIAM ROBERT, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Nov. 18, 1869, in 
Trinidad, Colo. He received his education 
at the Denver university, and graduated 
from the Columbia Law school of New 
York. He is a successful lawyer of his 
native city, and served with distinction 
as a member of the Colorado legislature 
in 1895-97. He was the youngest member' 
of the house, and served on several im¬ 
portant committees. 


SORG, PAUL J., manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 23, 1840, in 
Wheeling, W. Va. He began the manu¬ 
facture of tobacco 
on a small scale in 
Cincinnati, and his 
manufactory, now lo¬ 
cated at Middletown, 
Ohio, is one of the 
largest in the world 
and employs more 
than a thousand men. 
He was elected to 
the fifty-third con¬ 
gress as a democrat 
at a special election 
held in 1894 to fill a 
\ acancy. At the November (1894) elec¬ 
tion he enjoyed the distinction of being 
one of the two democratic representatives 
elected from Ohio, being elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

SORIN, EDWARD, clergyman, was 
born in 1814 in France. He was the first 
president of Notre Dame college, and con¬ 
tinued in office until 
1865. One of its 
beautiful halls which 
is adorned with a 
life-sized portrait of 
Washington was 
named and dedicated 
in his honor by 
Father Sorin, and 
Washington’s birth¬ 
day is always a gala 
day at Notre Dame. 
The Ave Maria, a 
widely known religi¬ 
ous journal, was started by Father Sorin, 
who was its editor for a number of years; 
and he has contributed extensively to 
catholic publications. 

SOSSO, LORENZO, merchant, poet, was 
born March 2, 1867, in Italy. He is a suc¬ 
cessful merchant of San Francisco, Cal.; 
and the author of a_ volume of poems en¬ 
titled A New Poet. 

SOTHERAN, ALICE HYNEMAN, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Jan. 31,-1840, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. She has attained promi¬ 
nence as a constant contributor of prose 
and verse to current magazines and news¬ 
papers, including the North American Re¬ 
view, the Forum, and the Popular Science 
Monthly. She is the author of Woman in 
Industry; and also a work entitled Nia¬ 
gara, a finely illustrated and popular 
work. She first married Mr. Henry Rhine, 
and is now the wife of Charles Sotheran, 
the eminent journalist and bibliographer 
of New York city. 

SOTHERAN, CHARLES, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born July 8, 1847, in Surrey, 
England. In 1876 he began his first active 
work on the Metropolitan Daily* Press; 
first on the New York World; then the 
New York Sun, and subsequently became 
associate editor and proprietor of the New 
York Echo. He has been literary editor of 
the New York Recorder and New York 
Star; Export and Finance, Sunnyside 
Press, Nym Crinkle’s Feuilleton, Advo¬ 
cate, Dramatic World, etc.; and the au¬ 
thor of Horace Greeley and Other Pio¬ 
neers of American Socialism; The Thea¬ 
ters of New York; Percy Bysshe Shelley 
as a Philosopher and Reformer, and other 
works. 

SOUDER, CASPER, journalist, author, 
was born Nov. 8, 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
In 1853 he became associated with the 
Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia,of which 
he was afterward an editor and part pro¬ 
prietor till his death. His History of 
Chestnut Street, which was published se¬ 
rially, has been praised for trustworthi¬ 
ness and originality of treatment. He died 
Oct. 21, 1868, in Philadelphia. 














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SOULE, MRS. CAROLINE AUGUSTA 
[WHITE], missionary, author, was born 
Sept. 3, 1824, in Albany, N. Y. She is the 
widow of a universalist minister; she en¬ 
tered the ministry herself, was the first 
foreign missionary of that denomination, 
and in 1888 was in charge of a congrega¬ 
tion in Glasgow, Scotland. She is the 
author of House Life; The Pet of the 
Settlement; and Wine or Water. 

SOULE, GEORGE, educator, author, 
president of Soule’s college, was born May 
14, 1834, in Barrington, N. Y. He received 
his education at the 
Sycamore academy, 
Illinois, and the Med¬ 
ical, Law and Com¬ 
mercial schools of St. 
Louis, Mo. In 1856 
he established Soule's 
Commercial College 
and Literary insti¬ 
tute of New Orleans. 
La., which has grown 
to be one of the lead¬ 
ing educational in¬ 
stitutions in the 
state. During the forty years the Soule 
college has been in existence, over ten 
thousand pupils have been taught within 
its walls. In 1862 he entered the military 
service of the confederate states as cap¬ 
tain of company A, Crescent regiment 
Louisiana volunteers of New Orleans, and 
served through the war. As a lecturer on 
commercial sciences and sociology, Pro¬ 
fessor Soule is well known to every young 
man in New Orleans, and to educators 
north and south. He is the author of sev¬ 
eral works on practical mathematics and 
accounting. He has been president of the 
International Business College associa¬ 
tion and Business Educators’ association 
of America; and is prominent in various 
social, scientific and educational organiza¬ 
tions. 

SOULE, HARRISON, soldier, financier, 
was born Aug. 4, 1832, in Orleans county, 
N. Y. He served with distinction through 
the war, and’ was promoted major. For 
sixteen years he has been ticket agent for 
the Michigan Central railroad; and is the 
treasurer of the university of Michigan. 

SOULE, JOSHUA, bishop, was born Aug. 
1, 1781, in Bristol, Maine. In 1824 he was 
elected methodist episcopal bishop in New 
York and then in Baltimore. He died 
March 6, 1867, in Nashville, Tenn. 

SOULE, NATHAN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1831 to 1833; and was a 
member of the state assembly from Onon¬ 
daga in 1837. 

SOUIfE, PIERRE, journalist, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born in Sep¬ 
tember, 1802, in France. He was a dis¬ 
tinguished lawyer of New Orleans, La.; 
in 1845 was elected to the state senate; in 
1847 was appointed a member of the 
United States senate to fill a vacancy, and 
two years later was elected for a full term. 
He died March 26, 1870, in New Orleans, 
La. 

SOULE, RICHARD, lexicographer, au¬ 
thor, was born June 8, 1812, in Danbury, 
Mass. He was a lexicographer of Boston; 
and the author of Manual of English Pro¬ 
nunciation; Dictionary of English Syn¬ 
onyms; and Pronouncing Handbook. He 
died Dec. 25, 1877, in St. Louis, Mo. 

SOUTH, JERRY CURTIS, lawyer, state 
senator, lieutenant-governor, was born 
March 24, 1866, in Arkansas. He attended 
the Kentucky Military institute, the uni¬ 
versity of Louisville, and the university 
of Virginia. He has served three times 
as a member of the house of representa¬ 


tives of Arkansas; has been a member of 
the state senate, and served with distinc¬ 
tion as lieutenant-governor. In 1892 and 
in 1896 he was a delegate to the national 
democratic comention; and has filled va¬ 
rious other public positions of honor. He 
is one of the foremost lawyers of Arkan¬ 
sas at Mountain Home. He is the author 
of a genealogical work on the South fam¬ 
ily- 

SOUTHARD, HENRY, soldier, agricul¬ 
turist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born in October, 1749, in Long Island, N. 
Y. He took an active part in the revolu¬ 
tionary war; and after the adoption of 
the constitution served nine years in the 
state legislature. He was a representative 
in congress from New Jersey from 1801 to 
1811, and from 1815 to 1821. He died June 
2, 1842, in Baskinridge, N. J. 

SOUTHARD. ISAAC, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1831 to 1833. He died 
Sept. 18, 1850. 

SOUTHARD, JAMES HARDiNG, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1851, 
in Lucas county, Ohio. In 1882 he was 
appointed assistant 
prosecuting attorney 
of Lucas county; and 
afterward was twice 
elected prosecuting 
attorney of said 
county and served in 
that office six years. 
He was elected to 
the fifty-fourth, and 
re-elected to the fif¬ 
ty-fifth congress as a 
republican. He has 
attained success as 
one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at 
Toledo, where he is also prominent in 
public affairs. 

SOUTHARD, MILTON ISAIAH, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 20, 1836, in 
Licking county, Ohio. He was elected 
attorney for Muskingum county, Ohio, in 
1867, 1869, and 1871. He was elected a 
representative from Ohio to the forty-third 
congress, and was re-elected to the forty- 
fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a dem¬ 
ocrat. 

SOUTHARD. SAMUEL LEWIS, lawyer, 
United States senator, governor, was born 
June 9, 1787, in Baskinridge, N. J. In 
1815 he was elected to the New Jersey 
legislature, and in a week after taking his 
seat was placed on the bench of the su¬ 
preme court of New Jersey. In 1820 he 
was a presidential elector; and in 1821 
was elected a senator in congress. In 1823 
he was appointed secretary of the navy. 
In 1830 he was elected attorney-general of 
New Jersey; and in 1832 was governor of 
the state. In 1833 he was again elected 
to the United States senate, and served 
until 1842; and on the death of President 
Harrison became the president of the sen¬ 
ate. He died June 26, 1842, in Fredericks¬ 
burg, Va. 

SOUTHGATE, HORATIO, bishop, au 
thor, was born July 5, 1812, in Portland 
Maine. He was the first and only pro- 
testant episcopal bishop of Constantinople. 
He was consecrated in 1844, but resigned 
his office in 1850, and held various rector¬ 
ships subsequently, including that of Zion 
church, New York city, in 1859-72, in 
which latter year he retired from active 
duties. He was the author of The Cross 
Above the Crescent; Parochial Sermons; 
Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, 
etc.; The War in the East; and Practical 
Directions for the Observance of Lent. He 
■died in 1894. 

SOUTHGATE, WILLIAM W., congress¬ 
man, was born in Kentucky. He was a 


representative in congress from Kentucky 
from 1837 to 1839; and was a presidential 
elector in 1840 and 1844. 

SOUTHWICK, GEORGE N., journalist, 
congressman, was born March 7, 1863, in 
Albany, N. Y. He was made editor of 
the Albany Evening Journal in 1889. He 
was elected from New York to the fifty- 
fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

SOUTHWORTH, MRS. EMMA DORO¬ 
THY ELIZA [NEVITTE], author, was 
born Dec. 26, 1819, in Washington, D. C. 
She is a voluminous writer of sensational 
romances, mainly of southern life and 
some sixty in number, for many years a 
resident of Washington, but since 1876 of 
Yonkers, N. Y. She is the author of Ish- 
mael; The Widow’s Son; Retribution; 
and The Family Doom. 

SOUTHWORTH, MRS. GRACIA, poet, 
was born Aug. 6, 1833, in Worcester coun¬ 
ty, Mass. She has contributed extensively 
both prose and verse to the periodical 
press of Michigan. 

SOUTHWORTH, NATHANIEL, artist, 
was born in 1806 in Scituate, Mass. He 
took a high rank in Boston, where he es¬ 
tablished himself as a miniature-painter, 
his portraits being characterized by accu¬ 
rate drawing and very delicate execution. 
In 1848 he visited Europe, and after his re¬ 
turn practiced his profession in New York 
and Philadelphia. He died April 25, 1858, 
in Dorchester, Mass. 

SOUTHWORTH, ROYAL A., farmer, 
legislator, was born Sept. 29, 1845, in 
Litchfield. Mich. For many years he was 
a member of the general assembly of Colo¬ 
rado; and for twelve years was a member 
of the state board of agriculture. In 1888 
he was a nominee of the union labor party 
for congress. 

SOUVIELLE, MRS. E. M„ author, poet, 
was born in central New York. She has 
traveled extensively in Europe and is a 
close student. Under 
the nom de plume of 
Eben Malcolm Sut¬ 
cliffe she published 
a work entitled Se¬ 
quel to the Parlia¬ 
ment of Religions. 
She is a poet of rare 
genius, and the au¬ 
thor of The Ulyssiad, 
an American Epic. 
Her last work is a 
book upon Cuba, 
written originally in 
Spanish expressly for her purpose, and of 
which she is the English editor and trans¬ 
lator. She is the wife of Dr. Mathieu 
Souvielle, an eminent surgeon and scient¬ 
ist of Jacksonville, Fla. 

SOUVIELLE, MATHIEU, physician, 
surgeon, scientist, was born in 1851 in 
Paris, France. He received his education 
in Paris and Berlin. 
For many years he 
was a surgeon in the 
French army, and he 
was thanked by the 
French government 
for his services dur¬ 
ing the Prussian war. 
He then became a 
demonstrator o f 
anatomy in London, 
England. He is now 
vice-president of a 
large syndicate for 
the mining and manufacture of aluminum, 
with headquarters at Jacksonville, Fla. He 
speaks six languages; and is very greatly 
interested in literary work, having con¬ 
tributed a number of articles to medical 
and scientific journals. 












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SOWDEN, W. H., congressman. In 1884 
he was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-ninth congress; 
and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress 
as a democrat. 

SOWER. CHRISTOPHER, physician, 
printer, was born in 1693 in Germany. In 
1738 he issued a German almanac in Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa., which was continued by his 
descendants until 1798. In 1739 he began 
the publication of a religious and secular 
journal; and in 1743 published a quarto 
edition of the Bible in German. He died 
Sept. 25, 1758, in Germantown, Pa. 

SPAETH, ADOLPH, clergyman, author, 
was born Oct. 29, 1839, in Germany. He 
is a prominent Lutheran clergyman of 
Philadelphia, pastor of St. John's church 
from 1867; and the author of Die Evan- 
gelien des Kirchenjahrs; Brosamen von 
des Herrn Tische; Saarkorner; Luther in 
Lied seiner Zeitgenossen; Phoebe the Dea¬ 
coness; Liederlust; Faith and Life Repre¬ 
sented by Luther; and Annotations on the 
Gospel according to St. John. 

SPAHR, CHARLES BARZILLAI, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1860 in Ohio. 
He is a political economist, associate edi¬ 
tor of The Outlook from 1886; and the au¬ 
thor of The Distribution of American 
Wealth. 


SPAIGHT, RICHARD D., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born March 25, 
1758, in New Berne, N. C. In 1781 he 
entered the house of commons of North 
Carolina; from 1782 to 1874 was a member 
of the continental congress, and also dur¬ 
ing the years 1785 and 1786. He was one 
of the delegates to form the constitution 
of the United States, to which his name 
is appended. He was a presidential elect¬ 
or in 1797; and in 1792 was again elected 
to the local legislature. He was the same 
year elected governor of North Carolina; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1798 to 1801, after which he was elected 
to the state senate. He died Sept. 6, 1802, 
in New Berne, N. C. 

SPAIGHT, RICHARD DOBBS, JR., agri¬ 
culturist, state senator, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1796 in New Berne, 
N. C. He served four years in the North 
Carolina state legislature; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1823 to 1825. 
He subsequently served ten years in the 
state senate. He was governor of North 
Carolina in 1835 and 1836. He died in 
November, 1850, in New Berne, N. C. 



SPALDING, ALBERT GOODWILL, 
merchant, was born Sept. 2, 1850, in By¬ 
ron, Ill. He is the senior partner in the 
house of A. G. Spald¬ 
ing and Brothers, 
which corporation 
has a paid-up capital 
of three million dol¬ 
lars, with branch 
houses in New York, 
Philadelphia, and 
other cities; in all 
fourteen different 
branches. In 1895 he 
was elected president 
of the national board 
of trade of cycle 
manufacturers. He owns a sub-division 
of nearly one thousand acres just south of 
the city of Chicago. He is best known 
as the American baseball magnate. 


SPALDING, BENEDICT JOSEPH, cler¬ 
gyman, bishcp, was born April 15, 1812, in 
Marion county, Ky. In 1847 he was called 
to the charge of the Cathedral church in 
liOuisville, and was appointed vicar-gen¬ 
eral of the diocese. He died Aug. 4, 1868, 
in Louisville, Ky. 


SPALDING, BURLEIGH FOLSOM, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Dec. 3, 1853, in 
Craftsbury, Vt. He received his education 
at the Lyndon Liter- 
TJ ary institute, and the 
Norwich university. 
In 1882-84 he was su¬ 
perintendent of pub¬ 
lic instruction; and 
in 1883-87 was a 
member of the capi¬ 
tal commission of 
Dakota territory to 
select a location for 
^ the capital and con¬ 
struct buildings. In 
*® 1889 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the constitutional convention of 
North Dakota, and served on many im¬ 
portant committees. He was a member 
of the joint commission of North and 
South Dakota as provided for by congress 
to divide property and archives of terri¬ 
tory of Dakota between the two new 
states. He took an active part in the 
formation and organization of the new 
state; and has always been active in all 
matters of public interest and pertaining 
to public welfare. Since 1880 he has 
practiced law in Fargo, N. D., and is one 
of the foremost lawyers of the south. He 
was elected to the fifty-sixth congress. 

SPALDING, CATHERINE, first superior 
of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, was 
born Dec. 23, 1793, in Charles county, Md. 
In 1819 she sent a colony of sisters to 
Bardstown, who established the Bethle¬ 
hem Day school, and in 1820 St. Vincent 
convent was founded in Union county. 
She opened St. Catherine’s school in Scott 
county in 1823. It was afterward removed 
to Lexington, where it still exists, and is 
regarded as one of the community’s most 
flourishing establishments. The Academy 
of the Presentation was opened in Louis¬ 
ville in 1831, of which Mother Spalding 
took personal charge. She died March 20, 
1858, in Louisville, Ky. 

SPALDING, CHARLES WARREN, civil 
engineer, genealogist, was born June 11, 
1843, in Nashua, N. H. For eleven years 
he was connected with the Chicago, Bur¬ 
lington and Quincy railroad as civil engi¬ 
neer, land agent and secretary of the land 
department. He has been identified with 
various business enterprises; and he or¬ 
ganized the firm of Spalding, Mitchell and 
Company, wholesale coal dealers, of which 
his son is now the senior member; and for 
many years he was president of a large 
banking institution. He was actively in¬ 
terested in the development of a large ir¬ 
rigation enterprise in Idaho, which com¬ 
pany has constructed and is now operat¬ 
ing one of the most complete and exten¬ 
sive systems of irrigating canals in the 
United States. In 1897 he published the 
Spalding Memorial. 

SPALDING, EUGENE C., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born Jan. 16, 1862. In 1889 he 
was elected president of the International 
Association of Accountants. 

SPALDING, GEORGE, soldier, educa¬ 
tor, congressman, was born in 1837 in 
Scotland. During the civil war he was 
promoted to brevet brigadier-general. He 
was postmaster of Monroe from 1866 to 
1870; special agent of the treasury depart¬ 
ment from 1871 to 1875; and elected mayor 
of Monroe, Mich., in 1876, and president of 
the board of education. In 1876 and in 
1892 he was elected president. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

SPALDING, GEORGE BURLEY, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 11, 1835, in 
Montpelier, Vt. Since 1885 he has been 
pastor of the First Presbyterian church of 



Syracuse, N. Y. He was a member of the 
constitutional convention of New Hamp¬ 
shire in 1877; was a member of the state 
legislature, and chaplain of that body in 
1877. He is the author of a number of 
works, and has contributed extensively to 
periodical literature. 

SPALDING, HARRIET MABEL, poet, 
was born Jan. 10, 1862, in Gloversville, N. 
Y. In 1877 she graduated from the Albany 
Female academy, and won six gold medals 
in various branches of composition. She 
is the author of a volume of poems, and 
contributes both prose and verse to cur¬ 
rent publications. 

SPALDING, HENRY HARMON, clergy¬ 
man, missionary, was born Nov. 26, 1803, 
in Bath, N. Y. He was a missionary to the 
Indians for forty years in Oregon and Ida¬ 
ho. He crossed the Rocky mountains in 
1836, the trail that Fremont followed six 
years later. He died Aug. 3, 1874, in 
Idaho. 

SPALDING, JAMES A., physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 20, 1846, in Portland, 
Maine. In 1870 he graduated from the 
medical department of Harvard univer¬ 
sity, and has practiced medicine in Port¬ 
land ever since. He has made three voy¬ 
ages of study to Europe, and contributed 
valuable papers to medical publications. 
He is the author of a standard work en¬ 
titled The Sympathetic Diseases of the 
Eye. 

SPALDING, JAMES REED, journalist, 
author, was born Nov. 15, 1821, in Mont¬ 
pelier, Vt. He established the New York 
World in 1860. As a journalist his vigor 
and elegance have never been excelled by 
a writer on the city press. His published 
addresses are Spiritual Philosophy and 
Material Politics; and The True Idea of 
Female Education. He died Oct. 10, 1872, 
in Dover, N. H. 

SPALDING, JAMES WALTER, was 
born July 28, 1856, in Byron, Ill. In 1876 
he established the well-known mercantile 
house of A. G. Spalding and Brothers of 
Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, 
manufacturers and dealers in sporting 
goods. 

SPALDING, JESSE, lumber merchant, 
was born April 15, 1833, in Athens, Pa. 
His purchase of timber lands in Wisconsin 
and Michigan to supply his mills have ag¬ 
gregated three hundred thousand acres; 
and he is considered one of the greatest 
lumber merchants in America. He built 
and equipped the barracks of Camp Doug¬ 
las during the war; was a personal friend 
of Grant and gave counsel in many grave 
exigencies; and he presided at the un¬ 
veiling of the Grant monument at Lincoln 
park, Chicago. He is a director in many 
large corporations of Chicago; was three 
years in the city council; and in 1881 was 
appointed collector of the port of Chicago. 

SPALDING, JOHN FRANKLIN, clergy¬ 
man, bishop, author, was born Aug. 25, 
1828, in Belgrade, Maine. In 1858 he was 
ordained priest, and 
in 1873 was conse¬ 
crated bishop of Col¬ 
orado. He is presi¬ 
dent of the college of 
St. John the Evange¬ 
list, which embraces 
the Denver Theologi¬ 
cal school, Wolfe 
Hall School for Girls, 
and Jarvis Hall 
School for Boys. He 
is the author of The 
Church and its Apos¬ 
tolic Ministry; Jesus Christ the Proof of 
Christianity; Manual of Prayers; The 
Threefold Ministry; and other works. 




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SPALDING, JOHN LANCASTER, bish¬ 
op, author, poet, was born June 2, 1840, in 
Lebanon, Ky. He received his education 
in the Mt. St. Mary’s 
college and the uni¬ 
versity of Louvain, 
Belgium. In 18bs he 
was ordained and at¬ 
tached to the cathe¬ 
dral in Louisville as 
assistant. In 1869 he 
organized a congre¬ 
gation of colored 
people and built for 
their use the church 
of St. Augustine, of 
which he was ap¬ 
pointed pastor. He was soon after made 
chancellor of the diocese and secretary to 
the bishop. In 1873 he commenced mis¬ 
sionary work in the parish of St. Mich¬ 
ael’s in New York city, and became noted 
as an eloquent preacher and lecturer. 
When the diocese of Peoria was created 
in 1887 he was consecrated bishop, and his 
administration has been marked by energy 
and signal success. He is the author of 
Life of Archbishop Spalding; Essays and 
Reviews; Religious Mission of the Irish 
People; and Lectures and Discourses. He 
is also a poet of rare genius; and the au¬ 
thor of America, and Other Poems; The 
Poet’s Praise; Education and the Higher 
Life; Means and Ends of Education; 
Things of the Mind; and Songs, chiefly 
from the German. 

SPALDING, LYMAN, physician, author, 
was born June 5, 1775, in Cornish, N. H. 
He was a physician at Portsmouth, N. H., 
subsequently of New York city; and was 
one of the early advocates of vaccination. 
He was the author of Reflections on Fe¬ 
ver; and Reflections on Yellow Fever Pe¬ 
riods. He died Oct. 31, 1821, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. 

SPALDING, MARTIN JOHN, bishop, 
author, was born May 23, 1810, in Leba¬ 
non, Ky. He was a Roman catholic arch¬ 
bishop of Baltimore 
during 1864-72, and 
active as a contro¬ 
versialist. He was 
the author of Review 
of D’Aubigne’s His¬ 
tory of the Reforma¬ 
tion; Modern Civili¬ 
zation; Evidences of 
Catholicity; Life of 
Bishop Flaget; Early 
Catholic Missions in 
Kentucky; and Mis¬ 
cellanea. His nephew, 
John Lancaster Spalding, wrote The Life 
of Martin John Spalding. He died in 1872 
in Baltimore, Md. 

SPALDING, RUFUS PAINE, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born May 3, 
1797, in West Tisbury, Mass. In 1839 he 
was elected to the Ohio legislature; was 
re-elected in 1841, and was speaker of the 
house. In 1849 he was elected a judge of 
the supreme court. In 1862 he was elected 
a representative from Ohio to the thirty- 
eighth congress; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses as a 
republican. He died Aug. 27, 1886, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

SPALDING, SIMON, soldier, was born 
Jan. 16, 1742, in Plainfield, Conn. He was 
a soldier in the revolutionary army, be¬ 
coming a lieutenant in 1776, and being 
promoted to captain in 1778. In 1783 he 
moved to Shesequin, Bradford county, 
Pa„ the upper part of the Wyoming set¬ 
tlement, where he rose through the vari¬ 
ous grades to general of militia. He died 
Jan. 24, 1814, 


SPALDING, MRS. SUSAN MARR. poet, 
was born in 18—, in Maine. She is a poet 
of Philadelphia; and the author of The 
Wings of Icarus, and Other Poems. 

SPALDING, THOMAS, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Georgia from 1805 to 1806. 

SPALDING, VOLNEY MORGAN, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Jan. 29, 1849, in 
East Bloomfield, N. Y. In 1873 he graduat¬ 
ed from the university of Michigan, in 
which institution he tills the chair of bot¬ 
any. He is the author of An Introduction 
to Botany, and various papers on Plant 
Physiology, Forestry, and kindred sub¬ 
jects. 

SPALDING, ZEPHANIAH SWIFT, sol¬ 
dier, sugar manufacturer, was born Sept. 
2, 1837, at Warren, Ohio. He is the sec¬ 
ond son of the late Hon. Rufus Paine 
Spaiding, a learned judge of the supreme 
court of Ohio. He served as a union sol¬ 
dier during the civil war, and was pro¬ 
moted to lieutenant-colonel. He has held 
various government positions and received 
from the French government the order of 
the Legion d’Honneur. He has large sugar 
interests in the Hawaiian Islands; and in 
1896 was granted by the United States 
government a subsidy toward building 
and maintaining a cable from the Ha¬ 
waiian Islands to the United States. 

SPANGLER, DAVID, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1833 to 1837; and in 1844 was 
nominated by the whig party for govern¬ 
or of the state, but declined the nomina¬ 
tion. He died Oct. 18, 1856, in Coshocton, 
Ohio. 

SPANGLER, HENRY T., educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born Nov. 14, 1853, in 
Myerstown, Pa. In 1873 he graduated 
from the Ursinus college, of which insti¬ 
tution he became professor of psychol¬ 
ogy in 1891, and president since 1893. 

SPANGLER, JACOB, congressman, was 
born in 1768. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania in 1813; and 
was again a representative in congress 
from 1816 to 1818. He was subsequently 
surveyor-general of the state. He died 
June 17, 1843, in York, Pa. 

SPARHAWK, FRANCES CAMPBELL, 
author, philanthropist, was born in 1847 in 
Maine. She is a novelist and philanthro¬ 
pist of Newton, Mass.; and has written 
much in behalf of the Indian cause. She 
is the author of A Chronicle of Conquest, 
a romance of the Indian school at Car¬ 
lisle; Little Polly Blatchley; Miss West’s 
Class in Geography; Elizabeth, a colonial 
romance; The Query Club; A Lazy Man’s 
Work; Onoqua, an Indian Story; and Sen¬ 
ator Intrigue and Inspector Nosely. 

SPARKMAN, STEPHEN MEudNC- 
THON, lawyer, legislator, was born July 
29, 1849, in Hernando county, Fla. He was 
educated in the common schools of Flori¬ 
da, and taught school for about three 
years for the purpose of assisting in his 
education. He read law under H. L. 
Mitchell, now governor of Florida, and 
was admitted to practice in 1872; and has 
since practiced in the courts of the state 
and the United States. He was state at¬ 
torney for the sixth judicial circuit for 
nine years, from 1878 to 1887; was a 
member of the state and congressional 
committees from 1890 to 1892, when he 
was elected chairman, which posiuon he 
now holds. He was tendered the circuit 
judgeship for the sixth judicial circuit of 
Florida by Governor Perry in 1888, and 
the position of associate judge on the su¬ 
preme court bench in 1891 by Governor 
Fleming, both of which were declined. He 
was elected to the fifty-fourth and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress, 




SPARKS. ANDREW J., educator, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Sept. 10, 1848, in La¬ 
fayette county, Mo. In 1887 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar; a-nd is the editor and 
owner of the American School News of 
Higginsville, Mo. 

SPARKS, JARED, clergyman, educator, 
author, was born May 10, 1789, in Wil- 
lington, Conn. He was a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman, pastor at Baltimore in 1819-23, 
professor of history at Harvard university 
in 1839-49, and president of Harvard uni¬ 
versity in 1849-53. He is best known by 
the American Biography which he edited, 
and of which he was in part the author. 
It includes sixty lives, of which he wrote 
those of Ethan Allen; Benedict Arnold; 
Marquette; La Salle; Pulaski; Ribault; 
Charles Lee; Ledyard. He was also au¬ 
thor of a Life of Gouverneur Morris. He 
published editions of the works of Frank¬ 
lin and Washington, with notes and life 
of each; and also Correspondence of the- 
American Revolution. He died March 14, 
1866, in Cambridge, Mass. 

SPARKS, WILLIAM A. J., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Nov. 19, 
1828, near Albany, N. Y. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Illinois state legislature in 1857 
and 1858; and was a state senator in 1863 
and 1864. He was a delegate to the na¬ 
tional democratic convention at New York 
in 1868. He was elected a representative- 
from Illinois to the forty-fourth congress; 
and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a 
democrat. 

SPARKS, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
poet, was born Jan. 16, 1800, on St. Si¬ 
mon’s Island, Ga. He was a Mississippi 
planter; after 1850 a lawyer of New Or¬ 
leans; and published Memories of Fifty 
Years. He was also a popular poet, his. 
best known poems being Somebody’s Dar¬ 
ling; and The Dying Year. He died Jan. 
13, 1882, in Marietta, Ga. 

SPAULDING, CHESTER WARD, far¬ 
mer, state legislator, was born May 14, 
1859, in Panton, Vt. In 1896 he repre¬ 
sented his native city in the Vermont 
state legislature. 

SPAULDING, EDWARD, inventor, was 
born Sept. 3, 1824, in Milford, N. H. He 
has taken out about ten patents, the most 
notable of which is a magnetic and elec¬ 
tric ear telephone for enabling the deaf to- 
hear. Among his other inventions is a 
process for keeping cider sweet in any cli¬ 
mate. 


SPAULDING, ELBRIDGE GERRY, 
financier, legislator, author, was born Feb. 
24, 1809, in Summer Hill, N. Y. In 1834 he 
moved to Buffalo, N. 
Y., and was mayor 
of that city in 1847.. 
In 1848 he was elect¬ 
ed a member of the- 
New York legisla¬ 
ture; and the follow¬ 
ing year was made a 
member of congress,, 
and served that body 
six years. For four 
years he was on the 

_ committee of ways. 

and means; and was 
the author of the legal tender act. In 1853 
he was elected treasurer of the state of 
New York. In 1852 he engaged in bank¬ 
ing; and in 1864 organized the Farmers’' 
and Mechanics’ National bank of Buffalo, 
of which he was president until his death. 
He took a great interest in genealogical 
history pertaining to the Spalding family, 
and erected a monument in Buffalo, N. Y., 
in honor of the nine Spaldings who fought 
in the battle of Bunker Hill. He died in 
1897 in Buffalo, N. Y. 




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SPAULDING, ERASTUS, physician, 
state legislator, was horn July 1, 1818, in 
Tompkins county, N. Y. In 1845 he moved 
to Michigan; for a quarter of a century 
practiced medicine in Oakland county; 
and in 1867 was a representative in the 
state legislature. Since 1879 he has prac¬ 
ticed his profession in Grand Rapids. 


SPAULDING, SOLOMON, lawyer, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 20, li61, in 
Ashford, Conn. He was a graduate of 
Dartmouth college, and wrote a remark¬ 
able story of fiction, entitled Manuscript 
Found, which is now generally regarded 
as the basis of the Mormon Bible. He 
died Sept. 10, 1816, in Amity, Pa. 


SPAULDING, HENRY FOSTER, mer¬ 
chant, was born April 26, 1816, in Bran¬ 
don, Vt. He was engaged in the commis¬ 
sion business under the style of Spaulding, 
Swift and Company; and for eight years 
was president of the Central Trust com¬ 
pany. He died July 17, 1893, in Riverdale- 
on-the-Hudson, N. Y. 

SPAULDING, HENRY GEORGE, cler¬ 
gyman, author, poet, was born in 1837 in 
Massachusetts. He is a Unitarian clergy¬ 
man of Massachusetts, among whose writ¬ 
ings are, The Teachings of Jesus; Later 
Heroes of Israel; and Forty Hymns and 
their Authors. 


SPAULDING, JUSTIN, missionary, was 
born in 1802 in Moretown, Vt. After fill¬ 
ing a number of appointments, he was se¬ 
lected in 1836 as missionary to Brazil, 
where he labored as superintendent of 
the mission until 1841, when on his re¬ 
turn he was transferred to the New Hamp¬ 
shire conference. He died in 1865 in 
Moretown, Vt. 

SPAULDING, LEVI, missionary, was 
born Aug. 22, 1791, in Jaffrey, N. H. He 
was ordained at Salem, Mass. In 1820 he 
arrived as a missionary of the American 
board at Jaffna, Ceylon; and at the time 
of his death he was the oldest missionary 
of the American board. He died June 18, 
1873, in Ceylon. 


SPAULDING, NATHAN WESTON, 
manufacturer, inventor, philanthropist, 
was born Sept. 24, 1829, in North Anson. 
Maine. He went to California in 1851, and 
ten years later established a saw manu¬ 
factory in San Francisco, in which busi¬ 
ness he is still engaged. He has taken 
out several United States patents on saws, 
saw-teeth and machines, which have com¬ 
pletely revolutionized the circular saw 
business. In 1871 he was elected mayor 
of Oakland, received the re-election with¬ 
out opposition, declined the nomination 
for a third term, and donated the salary 
of his office to the Oakland Benevolent so¬ 
ciety. He served four years as United 
States assistant treasurer of San Fran¬ 
cisco; was one of the founders of the Me¬ 
chanics’ institute of San Francisco; and 
was selected by the late Hon. Leland 
Stanford as one of the trustees of the Le¬ 
land Stanford, Jr., university. He stands 
high in Masonic circles; and is a leader 
in various philanthropic movements. 


SPAULDING, OLIVER LYMAN, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 2, 
1833, in Jaffrey, N. H. In 1862 he entered 
the United States 



service as captain in 
the twenty-third reg¬ 
iment Michigan in¬ 
fantry, and was rap¬ 
idly promoted to 
brevet brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. During 1866-72 
he was secretary of 
state of Michigan; 
and in 1880 was 
elected a member of 
congress. During 
1889-93 he was as¬ 
sistant secretary of the treasury; and in 

1896 was a delegate from Michigan to tne 

national republican convention at St. 
Louis. In 1897 he was again appointed 

assistant secretary of the treasury at 

Washington, D. C. 


SPAULDING, WESLEY J„ clergyman, 
educator, college president, was born 
April 18, 1827, in Newark, N. Y. He grad¬ 
uated from the Indiana Asbury university, 
and received from that institution the de¬ 
gree of Ph. D. In 1855 he became profes¬ 
sor of Greek in the Iowa Wesleyan univer¬ 
sity of Mount Pleasant, Iowa; and in 
1876 became president of that institution. 
He has been pastor in the methodist epis¬ 
copal church, and contributes extensively 
to current literature. 

SPEAR, CHARLES, clergyman, author, 
was born May 1, 1801, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a universalist minister of Boston 
active in prison reform; and the author of 
Names and Titles of Christ; Essays on the 
Punishment of Death; Plea for Discharged 
Convicts; and Voices from Prison. He 
died April 18, 1863, in Washington, D. C. 

SPEAR, DAVID DANA, physician, sur¬ 
geon, poet, was born May 26, 1839, in Yar¬ 
mouth, Maine. In 1864 he commenced the 
practice of medicine and surgery in Ken- 
nebunk, Maine; and is now located at 
Freeport. He has contributed a number of 
poems to Christian publications. 

SPEAR, ELLIS, lawyer, commissioner 
of patents, was born Oct. 15, 1834, in War¬ 
ren, Maine. He was a citizen of Maine; 
and was commissioner of patents in the 
department of the interior from 1877 to 
1878. He settled in Washington city in 
the practice of law. 

SPEAR, SAMUEL P., soldier, was born 
in 1815 in Boston, Mass. He commanded 
se\eral expeditions during the civil war; 
and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He died May 5, 1875, in New York 
city. 

SPEAR, SAMUEL THAYER, journalist, 
clergyman, author, was born March 4, 
1812, in Ballston Spa, N. Y. He was a 
Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn, ed¬ 
itor of The Ne.w York Independent from 
1871; and the author of Family Power; 
Religion and the State; Constitutionality 
of the Legal Tender Act; The Law of the 
Federal Judiciary; The Law of Extradi¬ 
tion; and The Bible Heaven. He died in 
1891. 

SPEARS, JOHN RANDOLPH, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1850 in Ohio. He 
is a journalist of New York city; and the 
author of The Gold Diggings of Cape 
Korn; and The Port of Missing Ships, 
and Other Stories of the Sea. 

SPEARS, WILLIAM T., physician, sur¬ 
geon, poet, was born Sept. 10, 1854, in 
Morgan county, Ga. For several years he 
was engaged in edu¬ 
cational work; then 
took up the study of 
medicine, and is now 
one of the leading 
physicians and sur¬ 
geons of the south at 
Rutledge, Ga. He is 
the author of a vol¬ 
ume of poems en¬ 
titled Sentiments of 
Leisure Hours, which 
contains a number 
of poems of acknowl¬ 
edged merit; and his poems have been 
given a place in several standard collec¬ 
tions, 



SPEECE, CONRAD, clergyman, author, 
poet, was born Nov. 7, 1776, in New Lon¬ 
don, Va. He was a noted baptist clergy¬ 
man of Virginia; and the author of The 
Mountaineer; and a number of meritori¬ 
ous poems. He died Feb. 15, 1836, in 
Stauntcn, Va. 

SPEED, FREDERICK, soldier, jurist, 
was born Sept. 22, 1841, in Ithaca, N. Y. 
He served as a private soldier during the 
war, and became lieutenant. In 1865 he 
settled in Vicksburg, Miss., and during 
1869-70 was judge of the criminal court of 
Warren county. 

SPEED, JAMES, lawyer, educator, state 
senator, was born March 11, 1812, in Far¬ 
mington, Ky. He settled in the practice 
of law at Louisville, Ky., in 1853; in 1847 
was elected to the state legislature; and 
in 1861 was elected to the state senate. In 

1864 he was appointed attorney general of 
the United States. In 1872 he became a 
professor in the Louisville Law school. 
He died June 25, 1887, in Jefferson county, 
Ky. 

SPEED, JOHN, soldier, jurist, was born 
May 17, 1772, in Virginia. He served with 
the volunteer forces in the service of the 
United States against the Indians in 1791; 
and was a judge of the quarter sessions 
court. In 1828 he wrote a series of ar¬ 
ticles upon the political topics of the day. 
He died March 30, 1840, in Farmington, 
Ky. 

SPEED, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, was 
born in 1842 in Louisville, Ky. He served 
in the union army during the civil war 
in the ninth Kentucky cavalry, and was 
promoted assistant adjutant-general. In 

1865 he was made paymaster with the 
rank of major. He is now one of the most 
successful practitioners at the Louisville 
bar. 

SPEED, JOHN GILMER, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1852 in Kentucky. He 
is a journalist of New York city; and the 
author of Life of Keats. 

SPEED, JOHN JAMES, soldier, inven¬ 
tor, was born in 1803 in Mecklenburg 
county, Va. He was an efficient co-worker 
of Prof. Morse in introducing and perfect¬ 
ing magnetic telegraph apparatus, and 
was president of the Western Telegraph 
company in Detroit, and at Portland, 
Maine, established the independent line to 
Washington. He died in 1867 in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

SPEED, JOHN JAMES, physician, edu¬ 
cator, was born Oct. 31, 1816, in Bards- 
town, Ky. In 1850 he moved to Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. In 1861 he was made postmas¬ 
ter, which position he filled for eight 
years. In 1874 he was elected president 
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
and was also professor in the Hospital 
College of Medicine. 

SPEED. JOHN JAMES, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, jurist, was born Jan. 14, 1839, in 
Ithaca, N. Y. During 1873-74 he was a 
representative in the Michigan state leg¬ 
islature from Detroit. In 1881 he became 
judge of the third circuit court, and 
is now counselor of the city of Detroit, 
SPEED, JOHN K., merchant, manufac¬ 
turer, was born March 21, 1848, in Louis- 
\ille, Ky. He helped to organize the 
board of trade of Memphis, and was its 
first president. He was also one of the 
originators of the Merchants’ exchange, 
and was its first president. 

SPEED, PHILIP, soldier, was born 
April 12, 1819, in Farmington, Ky. In the 
latter part of the war period he was ap¬ 
pointed collector of internal revenue. He 
was a model officer, giving entire satis¬ 
faction to the government. He died Nov. 
1, 1882. 


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SPEED, THOMAS, soldier, legislator, 
congressman, was born Oct. 25, 1768, in 
Virginia. He moved to Kentucky in 1782, 
and participated in the war of 1812. In 
1817 he was elected to congress, and in 
1821, 1822 and 1840 he was a member of 
the Kentucky legislature. He died Feb. 
20, 1842, at his home, near Bardstown, Ky. 

SPEED, THOMAS, soldier, lawyer, 
genealogist, historian, was born Nov. 26, 
1841, in Bardstown, Ky. He attended Cen¬ 
tre and Hanover colleges. In 1862 he 
joined the union army as a private; was 
made first lieutenant and then adjutant of 
the regiment, twelfth- Kentucky veteran 
infantry; and also served on brigade staff. 
He was in the siege of Knoxville, Bean’s 
Station, the various battles of the Atlan¬ 
ta campaign, Columbia, Franklin, Nash¬ 
ville, and the taking of Fort Anderson, 
and Wilmington, N. C. After the war he 
studied law at the Michigan university, 
and has ever since practiced his profes¬ 
sion in Louisville, Ky. He is the author 
of The Wilderness Road; The Political 
Club; History of the Union Regiments of 
Kentucky; The Speed Family; and other 
works* 

SPEER, ALFRED, merchant, was born 
Nov. 2, 1823, near Belleville, N. J. He 
is president of the Speer New Jersey 
Wine company of Passaic, N. J. He was 
the first mayor of his village; and was an 
enrolling officer during the civil war. He 
was also the editor and owner of the first 
newspaper published in Passaic in 1870; 
and is the editor and owner of the Weekly 
Item of that city, which he has published 
for over a quarter of a century. He has 
been a director of the People’s bank since 
its existence; and still takes a promi¬ 
nent part in the public affairs of his city, 
county and state. 

SPEER, DAVID R., lawyer, politician, 
was born June 26, 1849, in Greenville, S. 
C. In 1872 he was admitted to the bar, 
which profession he still practices in the 
place of his nativity. He has written ex¬ 
tensively for the periodical press; and 
takes an active part in public affairs. 

SPEER, EMORY, soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Sept. 3, 1848, in 
Cullcden, Ga. In 1873 he was appointed 
solicitor-general for the western judicial 
circuit of Georgia, and held the office 
three years. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Georgia to the forty-sixth and 
forty-seventh congresses; and in 1885 was 
appointed United States district judge for 
the southern district of Georgia. 

SPEER, JOHN, journalist, state senator, 
was born Dec. 27, 1817, in Kittanning, Pa. 
In 1863 until 1871 he conducted the Kan¬ 
sas City Tribune; in 1864 was a member 
of the state senate; and from 1862-66 was 
United States collector of Kansas. 

SPEER. OCIE, lawyer, author, was born 
April 1, 1869, in Tarrant county, Texas. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1889; and 
practices in Bowie, Texas; was elected 
county attorney in 1890; and is the author 
of a treatise entitled The Law of Married 
Women. 

SPEER, ROBERT MILTON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1838, in 
Cassville, Pa. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Pennsylvania to the forty-sec¬ 
ond and forty-third congresses as a demo¬ 
crat. 

SPEER, WILLIAM, missionary, author, 
was born April 24, 1822, in New Alexan¬ 
dria, Pa. He is a presbyterian missionary 
in China; and the author of China and 
the United States; The Great Revival of 
1800; and God’s Rule for Christian Giving. 

SPEIGHT, JESSE, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was 


born Sept. 22,1795, in Greene county, N. C. 
In 1822 he was a member of the house of 
commons of North Carolina; and in 1823 
was a member of the state senate, where 
he continued until 1827, officiating sev¬ 
eral years as speaker. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from North Caro¬ 
lina from 1829 to 1837. He moved to Mis¬ 
sissippi; and was elected to the legisla¬ 
ture there, and made speaker. From 1845 
to 1847 he was a senator in congress from 
his adopted state. He died May 1, 1847, 
in Columbus, Miss. 

SPELLMEYER. HENRY, clergyman, 
was born Nov. 25, 1847, in Newark, N. J. 
He received his education in the-New 
York university and the Union Theolog¬ 
ical seminary, and since 1869 has been a 
clergyman of the methodist episcopal 
church. In 1896 he was a member of the 
general conference. He has been a trus¬ 
tee of the Drew Theological seminary of 
Madison, N. J.; a trustee of the Syracuse 
university, and of the Hackettstown Col¬ 
legiate institute. In 1896 he was elected 
a member of the book committee of the 
methodist episcopal church for four years. 

SPENCE, JOHN FLETCHER, educator, 
college president, was born Feb. 3, 1828, in 
Greenfield, Ohio. In 1853 he graduated 
from the Ohio Wes¬ 
leyan university, and 
the same year joined 
the Cincinnati con¬ 
ference of the meth¬ 
odist episcopal 
church. In 1862 he 
entered the union 
army as chaplain, 
and served till the 
close of the war, 
when he settled in 
Knoxville, Tenn. For 
three years he was 
president of the Knoxville Female col¬ 
lege; and since 1875 has been chancellor 
of the Grant university. When Doctor 
Spence took charge of the university, the 
property was in imminent danger of be¬ 
ing sold for debt. He has secured a lib¬ 
eral endowment and a largely increased 
patronage; in 1889 brought about the an¬ 
nexation of Chattanooga university; and 
the institution is now one of the most 
prosperous universities in the south. 

SPENCE, JOHN SELBY, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Feb. 29, 
1788, near Snow Hill, Md. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Maryland 
from 1823 to 1825, and from 1831 to 1833; 
and was United States senator from 1837 
to 1840. He died Oct. 29, 1840, near Ber¬ 
lin, Md. 

SPENCE, THOMAS ADAM, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1810, in 
Accomac county, Va. He was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1840; and was elected a 
representative in congress from Maryland 
from 1843 to 1845. He died Nov. 10, 1877, 
in Washington, D. C. 

SPENCE, WILLIAM WALLACE, finan¬ 
cier, philanthropist, was born in 1815 in 
Scotland. He has been a finance commis¬ 
sioner of the city of Baltimore, N. Y. In 
1890 he presented the city of Baltimore 
a $50,000 statue of Sir William Wallace, 
from whom he descends, and the monu¬ 
ment was placed on a site in Druid Hill 
park. 

SPENCER, AMBROSE, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born Dec. 13, 1765, in 
Salisbury, Conn. He settled in Hudson, 
N. Y.; and was elected to the assembly 
in 1793; and in 1795 to the state senate, 
serving until 1798, when he was re-elected 
for four years. In 1804 he became a jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of New York. 
He died March 13, 1848, in Lyons, N. Y. 


SPENCER, MRS. BELLA ZILFA, au¬ 
thor, was born March 1, 1843, in England. 
She was the author of Ora, the Lost Wife; 
Tried and True; and Surface and Depth. 
She died Aug. 1, 1867, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. 

SPENCER, MRS. CORNELIA [PHIL¬ 
LIPS], author, was born March 20, 1825, in 
Harlem, N. Y. She is a North Carolina 
writer who published The Last Ninety 
Days of the War in North Carolina; and 
History of North Carolina. 

SPENCER, FRANCIS ELIAS, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, was born April 25, 
1834, in Ticonderoga, N. Y. In 1861 he 
was elected district attorney of Santa 
Clara county, Cal., which office he filled 
until 1866. In 1871 he was elected to the 
lower branch of the legislature as a re¬ 
publican. In 1879 he was elevated to the 
bench of the superior court of Santa Clara 
county. 

SPENCER, GEORGE ELIPHAZ, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, United States senator, was 
born Nov. 1, 1836, in Jefferson county, N. 
Y. He was secretary of the Iowa senate 
in 1858. He entered the army as a cap¬ 
tain in 1862; and was brevetted a briga¬ 
dier-general for gallantry in the field. He 
settled in Alabama; and in 1867 was ap¬ 
pointed a register in bankruptcy for the 
fourth district of Alabama. In 1868 he 
was elected a senator in congress from 
that state for the term ending in 1873; 
and was re-elected for the term ending in 
1879. 

SPENCER, HIRAM LADD, journalist, 
author, was born in 1829 in Castleton, Vt. 
He is the author of Summer Saunterings 
Away Down East; and a volume of po¬ 
ems. 

SPENCER, ICHABOD SMITH, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 23, 1798, in 
Rupert, Vt. He was a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman prominent in Brooklyn for many 
years; and the author of A Pastor’s 
Sketches; Sermons; Sacramental Dis¬ 
courses; and Evidences of Divine Revela¬ 
tion. He died Nov. 23, 1854, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 

SPENCER, JAMES BRADLEY, soldier, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born April 26, 1781, in Salisbury, Conn. 
He served as a captain in the war of 1812. 
He was in the legislature of New York in 
1831 and 1832; and was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1837 to 
1839. He subsequently held the various 
positions of elector, magistrate, county 
judge, collector and Indian agent. He 
died March 26, 1848, in Fort Covington, 
N. Y. 

SPENCER, JAMES CLARK, lawyer, 
jurist, was born May 29, 1826, in Fort 
Covington, N. Y. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the Fort Cov¬ 
ington academy; and 
commenced the prac¬ 
tice of law in 1850 
in his native county. 
Four years later he 
moved to Ogdens- 
burg; in 1857 he was 
appointed United 
States district attor¬ 
ney for the northern 
district of New 
York; and after the 
expiration of his 
term moved to New York city, where he 
has since practiced his profession with 
success. He served with distinction as 
judge of the superior court of New York; 
in 1875 he was appointed a referee in the 
case of the receiver of the Erie Railway 
company; and in 1883 he was one of the 
commissioners for building a new aque¬ 
duct for the city of New York. 





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SPENCER. JAMES GRAFTON, farmer, 
legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 
1844, near Port Gibson, Miss. He entered 
Oakland college in 1861 and after passing 
the freshman class entered the confeder¬ 
ate army as private in Cowan's battery of 
light artillery, serving until the close of 
the war in the army of Mississippi and 
Tennessee. He returned to his ancestral 
home and began farming, which he has 
followed since, living in the house in 
which he was born. In 1892 he was sent 
as representative to the state legislature, 
serving two sessions; and was elected to 
the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

SPENCER, JAMES R., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 10, 1844, in Courdand 
county, N. Y. He was educated in the 
schools of Binghamton, N. Y.; and was 
admitted to the bar in 1872. He is a suc¬ 
cessful lawyer of Waukesha, Wis.; has 
been justice of the peace for the past six¬ 
teen years; and has taken an active part 
in the public affairs of his city, county 
and state. 

SPENCER, JESSE AMES, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born June 17, 1816, 
in Hyde Park, N. Y. He is an episcopal 
clergyman and educator, professor in the 
College of the City of New York in 1869- 
83, and editor of many valuable classical 
text-books. His other works include, His¬ 
tory of the English Reformation; History 
of the United States, a very popular work; 
Sermons; Discourses; The East: Sketches 
of Travel in Egypt and the Holy Land; 
Greek Praxis; Five Last Things; Stuuies 
in Eschatology; Papalism vs. Catholic 
Truth; and Memorabilia of Sixty-Five 
Years, 1820-86. 

SPENCER. JOHN CANFIELD, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1787, 
in New York. In 1816 he was elected to 
congress from Canandaigua; in 1820 was 
elected to the state assembly; and in 1824 
was elected to the state senate for four 
years. In 1832 he was again elected to 
the state assembly; and in 1839 was ap¬ 
pointed secretai'y of state. In 1841 he 
was made secretary of war. He was a 
successful lawyer, and achieved his high¬ 
est fame from his connection with the re¬ 
vision of the statutes of New York. He 
died May 18, 1855, in Albany, N. Y. 

SPENCER, JOSEPH, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born in 1714 in 
East Haddam, Conn. He was elected a 
member of the council in 1766; was ap¬ 
pointed brigadier-general in the continen¬ 
tal army in 1775; became major-general 
in 1776; was in the expedition against 
Rhode Island in 1778; and assisted in Sul¬ 
livan's retreat. He was a delegate to the 
continental congress in 1778 and 1779; and 
in 1780 was again elected to the council, 
and was annually re-elected until his 
death. He died Jan. 13, 1789, in East 
Haddam, Conn. 

SPENCER, MORTON W„ clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 21, 1836, in Gil¬ 
bert’s Mills, N. Y. This eminent minister 
of the free baptist church is the author of 
The Missing Link, which is a history of 
cur Saxon race, containing one thousand 
historical and prophetic proofs of our He¬ 
brew and Saxon ancestry. 

SPENCER, PLATT ROGERS, the 
originator of the Spencerian ^method of 
penmanship, was born Nov. 7, 1800, in 
East Fishkill, N. Y. He had given pen¬ 
manship much attention from early youth, 
and was led to perfect his semi-angular 
system by seeing the necessity of a more 
rapid execution than the old round Ro¬ 
man method, and a more legible hand 
than the angular or German system. He 
died May 16, 1864, in Geneva, Ohio. 


SPENCER. ROSWELL T„ journalist, 
legislator, was born Aug. 7, 1850, in Bluff- 
dale, Ill. He is the editor and owner of 
the Illinois State Center of Illiopolis; has 
been the vice president of the Illinois 
State Press association, and is a promi¬ 
nent member of the Masonic lodge. 

SPENCER, SAMUEL, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born March 2, 1847, in Colum¬ 
bus, Ga. He is president of the Ala¬ 
bama Great Southern railroad; and of the 
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern railway; and is 
also president of numerous other corpo¬ 
rations in New York city. 

SPENCER. MRS. SARA [ANDREWS], 
autlioi 1 , was born Oct. 21, 1837, in Savona, 
N. Y. ‘She is a prominent woman suff¬ 
ragist of Washington; and proprietor of 
the Spencerian Business college. She is 
the author of Problems on the Woman 
Question; and Lessons in the English 
Language. 

SPENCER, SELDEN P„ legislator, jur¬ 
ist, was born Sept. 16, 1862, in Erie, Pa. 
In 1895 he served as a member of the Mis¬ 
souri state legislature from St. Louis; 
and in 1897 became judge of the circuit 
court of St. Louis for a term of six years. 

SPENCER, THOMAS, physician, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1793 in Great 
Barrington, Mass. He was a physician 
who was medical professor at Hobart col¬ 
lege in 1835-57; and was the author of 
Lectures on Vital Chemistry; and Practi¬ 
cal Observations on Epidemic Diarrhoea 
known as Cholera. He died May 30, 1857, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

SPENCER, WILLIAM B., congressman. 
He was elected a representative from Lou¬ 
isiana to the forty-fourth congress. 

SPENCER, MRS. WILLIAM LORING 
[NUNEZ], was born in 18— in St. Au¬ 
gustine, Fla. She is the author of Salt 
Lake Fruit; The Story of Mary, repub¬ 
lished as Dennis Day; A Plucky One; and 
Calamity Jane. 


SPERRY, LEWIS, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Jan. 23, 1848, in South Windsor, 
Conn. In 1869 he graduated from the 
Monson academy; 
and from the Am¬ 
herst college in 1873. 
In 1875 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, 
and practices law in 
Hartford. In 1876 he 
represented his na¬ 
tive town in the 
Connecticut state 
legislature; and was 
coroner for Hartford 
county during 1883- 
91. He was elected 
to the fifty-second and fifty-third con¬ 
gresses as a democrat, and served during 
1891-95. In 1896 he was a delegate to the 
Indianapolis sound money convention. 




SPERRY, NEHEMIAH D., was born 
July 10, 1827, in Woodbridge, Conn. He 
was elected a member of the common 
council in 1853; in 
1854 was elected an 
alderman of the city; 
and was elected se¬ 
lectman of the town 
of New Haven in 
1853. He was elected 
secretary of state in 
1855; and was re¬ 
elected in 1856. He 
was nominated post¬ 
master in 1861 and 
continued in office 
until the first elec¬ 
tion of Grover Cleveland. He was nomi¬ 
nated for postmaster and served until the 
re-election of President Cleveland, mak¬ 


ing in all twenty-eight years and two 
months. He was appointed a member of 
the commission to visit England, Ger 
many, and France to look into their sys¬ 
tem of postoffices, but declined service. 
He was president of the chamber of com¬ 
merce of New Haven; was bondsman for 
building the Monitor; and was elected 
to the fifty-fourth congress and re-elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

SPICER, WILLIAM FRANCIS, naval 
officer, poet, was born Feb. 7, 1820, in 
New York city. He was made commodore 
in 1877, and was commandant of the Bos¬ 
ton navy-yard until his death. He was 
well known as a poet and musician, and 
vvas the author of several popular ballads, 
among which are Absent Friends and You, 
Mary. 

SPIEKER, GEORGE FREDERICK, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born 
Nov. 17, 1844, in Elk Ridge, Md. Since 
1883 he has been pastor of St. Michael’s 
Lutheran congregation, Allentown, Pa. He 
has been professor of Hebrew in Muhlen¬ 
berg college, Allentown, since 1887; pres¬ 
ident of its board of trustees since 1886; 
and examiner in doctrinal theology of the 
ministerium of Pennsylvania since 1882. He 
has published Hutter’s Compend of Luth¬ 
eran Theology, translated, with Dr. Hen¬ 
ry E. Jacobs; and Wildenhahn’s Martin 
Luther, translated from the German. 

SPILMAN, ISAAC R., civil engineer, 
lawyer, was born Oct. 7, 1856, in Toulon, 
Ill. He received his education at the Ew¬ 
ing college, from which institution he 
graduated in 1880. He has been county 
surveyor and city attorney of DuQuoin, 
Ill., where he has attained prominence as 
an able lawyer. 

SPINK, S. L., journalist, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
20, 1831, in Whitehall, N. Y. In 1860 he 
moved to Illinois, and conducted the Prai¬ 
rie Beacon of Paris. He was elected to 
the state legislature in 1864; was appoint¬ 
ed secretary of Dakota territory; and con¬ 
tinued in office until 1869, when he was 
elected the delegate from Dakota to the 
forty-first congress as a republican. 

SPINNER, FRANCIS ELIAS, soldier, 
financier, congressman, was born Jan. 21, 
1802, in Mohawk, N. Y. He held all the 
commissions, from the governors of New 
York, from a lieutenant to a major-gen¬ 
eral of the state artillery. He was coun¬ 
ty sheriff, and commissioner for build¬ 
ing the state lunatic asylum; and from 
1845 to 1849 was auditor in the naval of¬ 
fice at New York. In 1854 he was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
thirty-fourth congress; and was re-elected 
to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth con¬ 
gresses. In 1861 he was appointed United 
States treasurer, and continued in the po¬ 
sition until 1875. He died Dec. 31, 1890, 
in Jacksonv ille, Fla. 

SPINOLA. FRANCIS B., soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, state senator, congressman, was 
born March 19, 1821, in Stony Brook, N. 
Y. He served six years as member of the 
assembly of the state of New York, and 
four years as a senator. He was appoint¬ 
ed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, 
for meritorious conduct in recruiting and 
organizing a brigade of four regiments 
and accompanying them to the field. He 
was elected from New York to the fiftieth 
and fifty-first congresses as a democrat. 
He died April 12, 1891, in Washington. 

SPITZKA, EDWARD CHARLES, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Nov. 10, 1852, in 
New York city. He is a physician of New 
York city eminent as a neurologist; and 
the author of Insanity, its Classification, 
Diagnosis and Treatment. 



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SPOFFORD, AINSWORTH RAND, li¬ 
brarian, author, was born Sept. 12, 1825, 
in Gilmanton, N. H. He was the librar¬ 
ian of congress, and editor of The Ameri¬ 
can Almanac and Treasury of Facts. He 
is the author of Library of Choice Liter¬ 
ature; and Library of Historical Charac- 
•ters. 

SPOFFORD, MRS. HARRIET ELIZA¬ 
BETH [PRESCOTT], author, poet, was 
born April 3, 1835, in Calais, Maine. She 
is a novelist and poet of Newburyport. 
She is the author of Azarian; Sir Rohan’s 
Ghost; The Amber Gods, and Other Stor¬ 
ies; New England Legends; The Thief in 
the Night; The Marquis of Carabas, a ro¬ 
mance; A Lost Jewel; Hester Stanley at 
St. Mark’s, a story for girls; The Scarlet 
Poppy, and Other Stories; Art Decoration 
Applied to Furniture; Home and Hearth; 
Essays on the Domestic Relations; Three 
Heroines of New England; The Servant 
Girl Question; A Master Spirit; Ballads 
About Authors; Poems; and In Titans’ 
‘Garden, and Other Poems. 

SPOFFORD, HENRY MARTYN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 8, 1821, 
in Gilmanton, N. H. In 1877 he was elect¬ 
ed United States senator from Louisiana 
by the Nicholls legislature, but the senate 
admitted William P. Kellogg, who had 
been chosen by the rival, or Packard 
legislature. He was co-author of The 
Louisiana Magistrate and Parish Official 
Guide. He died Aug. 20, 1880, in Red Sul¬ 
phur Springs, W. Va. 

SPOONER, ALDEN JEREMIAH, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 2, 1810, in Sag Har¬ 
bor, N. Y. He was the originator in 1863 
of the Long Island Historical society, and 
gave more than one thousand books and 
pamphlets as a nucleus for its library. 
He edited, with notes and memoirs of the 
authors, Gabriel Furman’s Notes, Geo¬ 
graphical and Historical, Relating to the 
Town of Brooklyn; and Silas Wood’s 
Sketch of the First Settlement of the Sev¬ 
eral Towns on Long Island. He died 
Aug. 2, 1881, in Hempstead, L. I., N. Y. 

SPOONER, BENJAMIN F., soldier, was 
born Oct. 27, 1828, in Mansfield, Ohio. At 
the beginning of the civil war he became 
lieutenant-colonel of 
the seventh Indiana 
regiment, with which 
he fought at Philippi 
and Laurel Hill, and 
he afterward held 
the same commission 
in the fifty-first In¬ 
diana, with which he 
was present at Shi¬ 
loh and the siege of 
Corinth. He then 
resigned and returned 
home, but was soon 
made colonel of the eighty-third Indiana. 
In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral and major-general of volunteers. He 
died April 3, 1881, in Lawrenceburg, Ind. 

SPOONER, CLAPP, financier, was born 
June 11, 1824, in Fitzwilliam, N. H. When 
the Harnden Express company, with oth¬ 
ers, among them 
Phillips and Com¬ 
pany’s express, of 
which he was then 
part owner, deter¬ 
mined to combine 
and incorporate the 
great system of the 
Adams Express com¬ 
pany, he was one of 
the nine organizers 
of that company and 
has been identified 
with it ever since. 
For many years one of its managers and 
superintendent of the New England di¬ 


vision, he held the office of vice-president 
from 1887 until 1891, when he retired from 
active commercial life. He now devotes 
all of his time to the supervision, im¬ 
provement and building up of his large 
tract of land, called Brooklawn park, the 
finest suburb of Bridgeport, Conn. 

SPOONER, HENRY J., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Ane- fi 1839 in Providence, R. I. He 
served in the union 
army as a commis¬ 
sioned officer from 
1862 to 1865. He was 
admitted to the bar 
in the latter ' year, 
and engaged in the 
practice of law in 
his native city. He 
was a member of the 
state house of repre¬ 
sentatives from 1875 
to 1881, serving as 
speaker the last two 
years. He was elect¬ 
ed as a representative to the forty-seventh 
congress to fill a vacancy; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, 
fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

SPOONER, JOHN COIT, soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, United States senator, was 
born Jan. 6, 1843, in Lawrenceburg, Ind. 
He was military and private secretary 
to Governor Lucius Fairchild, of Wiscon¬ 
sin. He served as assistant attorney-gen¬ 
eral of Wisconsin from 1867 to 1870. In 
1872 he was elected a representative in the 
Wisconsin legislature. He was a member 
of the board of regents of the Wisconsin 
university; and was elected United States 
senator from Wisconsin for the term of 
six years from March 4. 1885. In 1893 he 
moved to Madison. He received the elec¬ 
tion to the United States senate again in 
1897. 

SPOONER, LYSANDER, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 19, 1808, in Athel, 
Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston promi¬ 
nent as an abolitionist; and the author of 
Our Finances; The Deist’s Reply to the 
Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Chris¬ 
tianity; A Defense for Fugitive Slaves; 
Unconstitutionality of Slavery; The Law 
of Prices; and Poverty: Causes and Cure. 
He died May 14, 1887, in Boston, Mass. 

SPOONER, SHEARJASHUB, dentist, 
author, was born in 1809 in Brandon, Vt. 
He was a dentist of New York cuy; and 
the author of Guide to Sound Teeth; Sur¬ 
gical and Mechanical Dentistry; Bio¬ 
graphical and Critical Dictionary of Paint¬ 
ers, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects; 
and Anecdotes of Painters. He died in 
March, 1859, in Plainfield, N. J. 

SPOONTS, MORRIS A., lawyer, jurist, 
orator, was born Nov. 9, 1857, in Bell 
county, Texas. He was educated in the 
common schools of his native state; has 
become one of the foremost lawyers of 
Texas; and has a large practice in Fort 
Worth. He has been prosecuting attor¬ 
ney; judge of his county; president of the 
city council; and filled various other pub¬ 
lic positions of honor. For many years 
he has been attorney of the Union Pacific 
Railway company, and the Fort Worth 
and Denver City Railroad company. He 
is prominent in public affairs and in 
politics, and has attained prominence as 
a brilliant orator. 

SPOTTS, JAMES HANNA, naval officer, 
was born March 11, 1822, in Fort John¬ 
son, N. C. In 1881 he was promoted to 
rear admiral. He died March 8, 1882, in 
the Falkland Islands. 

SPRAGUE, ALFRED WHITE, chemist, 
author, was born June 17, 1821, in the 





Sandwich Islands. He is a Boston chem¬ 
ist who published Chemical Experiments; 
and Elements of Natural Philosophy. 

SPRAGUE, CHARLES, financier, au¬ 

thor, poet, was born Oct. 26, 1791, in Bos¬ 
ton Mass. He was a cashier of the Globe 

bank, Boston, in 
1825-65; and well 
known in his life¬ 
time as a poet, and 
still pleasantly re¬ 
membered for the 
genuine sentiment in 
such poems as The 
Family Meeting and 
The Winged Wor¬ 
shippers, though an 
Ode to Shakespeare 
was once much 
praised. His poems 
first appeared in 1841, the latest edition 
being that of 1876. He died Jan. 22, 1875, 
in Boston, Mass. 

SPRAGUE, CHARLES EZRA, author, 
was born Oct. 9, 1842, in Nassau, N. Y. 
He is the secretary of the Dime Savings 
institution in New York city from 1878; 
and the author of Logical Symbolism; 
and Handbook of Volapiik. 

SPRAGUE, CHARLES FRANKLIN, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born June 10, 1857, in Boston, Mass. In 
1891 and 1892 he was in the Massachu¬ 
setts house of representatives. In 1893 
and 1894 he was a member of, and latter¬ 
ly chairman of, the board of park com¬ 
missioners of the city of Boston. In 1895 
and 1896 was a member of the Massa¬ 
chusetts senate; and was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

SPRAGUE, CHARLES JAMES, poet, 
was born Jan. 16, 1823, in Boston, Mass. 
For many years he was curator of bot¬ 
any in the Boston society of Natural His¬ 
tory, and he is known among cryptog- 
amists for his collection of lichens. He 
has contributed poems to journals and 
magazines, and has written articles for 
scientific papers. 

SPRAGUE, FRANK JULIAN, inventor, 
was born July 25, 1857, in Milford, Conn. 
He is the inventor of the Sprague elec¬ 
tric motors. 

SPRAGUE, HOMER BAXTER, educa¬ 
tor, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 19, 
1829, in Sutton, Mass. He has attained 
success as an author, commentator, teach¬ 
er, editor, lecturer, and soldier. He en¬ 
tered educational work early in life, be¬ 
came head master of the Girls’ High 
school of Boston, Mass.; served with dis¬ 
tinction as a representative in the Con¬ 
necticut legislature; and was commis¬ 
sioned captain, major, lieutenant and 
colonel in the volunteer army. He was 
wounded in battle and brevetted for gal¬ 
lantry at Port Hudson, La. He then be¬ 
came professor in Cornell university; 
has been president of Mills college; presi¬ 
dent of the university of North Dakota; 
and professor at the Drew Theological 
seminary of Madison, N. J. He has been 
annotator and editor of the masterpieces 
of the leading poets; and a successful lec¬ 
turer on Shakespeare, Milton, Goldsmith 
and others. He is the author of the His¬ 
tory of the Thirteenth Connecticut Vol¬ 
unteers; of various addresses; and the 
founder of Martha’s Vineyard Summer in¬ 
stitute. 

SPRAGUE, JOHN TITCOMB, soldier, 
author, was born July 3, 1810, in Newbury¬ 
port, Mass. He was an officer of the 
United States army who was military 
governor of Florida in 1865; and the au¬ 
thor of Origin, etc., of the Florida War. 
He died Sept. 6, 1878, in New York city. 







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SPRAGUE, JOHN WILSON, soldier, 
merchant, banker, was born April 4, 1817, 
in White Creek, N. Y. He was made a 
captain in the seventh Ohio volunteers at 
the beginning of the civil war, and was 
appointed brigadier-general of volunteers 
in 1864, receiving the brevet of major- 
general United States volunteers in 1865. 
He was engaged in various enterprises, 
and was for five years president of the 
National bank in Tacoma, Washington 
territory. 

SPRAGUE, LEVI L., educator, author, 
was born Dec. 23, 1844, in Beekman, N. Y. 
He is the author of Theoretical and Prac¬ 
tical Bookkeeping; and A Practical 
Speller. 

SPRAGUE, MARY APLIN, author, was 
born in 1849 in Ohio. She is a novelist of 
Newark, Ohio; and the author of An 
Earnest Trifler. 

SPRAGUE, NATHAN TURNER, ban¬ 
ker, state senator, was born June 22, 1828, 
in Mount Holly, Vt. In 1883 he estab¬ 
lished the Sprague National bank of 
Brooklyn, of which he is president, and 
in 1886 the City Savings bank of Brook¬ 
lyn. He has been a member of the Ver¬ 
mont legislature for several terms, was 
elected a state senator in 1872, and has 
been a colonel on the Vermont military 
staff. 

SPRAGUE, PELEG, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 10, 1756. He was a 
representative in congress from New 
Hampshire from 1797 to 1799. He died in 
1800. 

SPRAGUE, PELEG, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, author, 
was born April 27, 1793, in Duxbury, 
Mass. He was a member of the Maine 
legislature in 1821 and 1822; and was a 
representative in congress from Maine 
from 1825 to 1829. He was a senator in 
congress from 1829 to 1835. In 1841 he 
was appointed judge of the district court 
of the United States for Massachusetts; 
and in 1841 was also a presidential elec¬ 
tor. He was the author of Speeches and 
Addresses; and Decisions in Admiralty 
and Maritime Cases. He died Oct. 13, 1880, 
in Boston, Mass. 

SPRAGUE, WILLIAM, state legislator, 
congressman, go\ernor, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born Nov. 3, 1799, in Providence, 
R. 1. He was elected 
to the general as¬ 
sembly; and in 1832 
was chosen speaker 
of the house. In 1835 
he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in con¬ 
gress from Rhode Is¬ 
land. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Rhode Is¬ 
land in 1838 and 
1839; and in 1842 
was elected to the 
United States senate, 
serving two years. In 1849 he was a presi¬ 
dential elector; and was a member of the 
state assembly at the time of his death. 
He died Oct. 19, 1856, in Providence, R. I. 

SPRAGUE, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in Rhode Island. He moved to 
Michigan, and was a representative in 

congress from that state from ±849 to 

1851. He died about 1853. 

SPRAGUE, WILLIAM, soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, banker, governor, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Sept. 12, 
1830, in Cranston, R. I. In 1861 he was 
elected governor of Rhode Island. In 
1862 he was elected a senator in congress 
from Rhode Island for the term ending in 
1869. He was re-elected to the senate in 
1868. 


SPRAGUE, WILLIAM BUELL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 16, 1795, in 
Andover, Conn. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of Albany whose Annals of the 
American Pulpit in ten volumes is the 
work by which he is best known. Other 
works of his include, Letters to a Daugh¬ 
ter; The Daughter’s Own Book; Letters 
from Europe; Letters on Revivals; True 
Christianity, and Other Systems; Life of 
Edward Dorr Griffin; Letters to 
Young Men; Women of the Bible; Visits 
to European Celebrities; Life of Jedediah 
Morse; and Aids to Early Religion. He 
died May 7, 1876, in Flushing, N. Y. 

SPRAGUE, WILLIAM P„ merchant, 
banker, state senator, congressman, was 
born May 21, 1827, in Morgan county, 
Ohio. He was president of the First Na¬ 
tional bank of McConnellsville, Ohio; was 
a member of the state senate of Ohio in 
1860 and 1862; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the forty-second 
and forty-third congresses as a repub¬ 
lican. 

SPREAD, HENRY FENTON, artist, was 
born Oct. 21, 1844, in Ireland. He was 
elected an academician of the Chicago 
Academy of Design in 1871, and became 
its professor of drawing and painting. He 
left the institute to make a two years’ 
tour in Italy, and on his return founded 
Spread’s Art academy. Among his works 
are Chicago Rising from Her Ashes; and 
Sad News. 

SPRECHER, SAMUEL, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born Dec. 28, 
1810, in Hagerstown, Md. He is a luth- 
eran clergyman, president of Wurtemburg 
seminary at Springfield, Ohio, in 1849-74, 
and author of The Groundwork of a Sys¬ 
tem of Lutheran Theology. 

SPRECKELS, JOHN DIEDRICH, mer¬ 
chant, was born Aug. 16, 1853, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. In 1880 he founded the house 
now known as the J. D. Spreckels and 
Brothers company, capital $2,000,000, to 
engage in trade with the Hawaiian Is¬ 
lands, beginning operations with the little 
two hundred ton schooner Rosario. In 
1887 he established the Spreckels Broth¬ 
ers Commercial company at San Diego, 
and built one of the finest wharves, coal 
depots and warehouses there on the Pa¬ 
cific coast. He is president of the com¬ 
pany. 

SPRENG, SAMUEL P., clergyman, edi¬ 
tor, author, was born Feb. 11, 1853, in 
Wayne county, Ohio. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the North¬ 
western college of 
Naperville, Ill. In 
1876 he was licensed 
to preach in the 
Evangelical associa¬ 
tion; and in 1883 was 
elected presiding el¬ 
der and fraternal 
delegate to the gen¬ 
eral conference of 
the united brethren 
church. Since 1887 
he has been editor of 
The Evangelical Messenger of Cleveland, 
Ohio; and was one of the editors of The 
Standard Dictionary. In 1893-95 he was 
the president of the Missionary society; 
and since 1895 has been president of the 
Young People’s alliance. He is the author 
of the History of the Evangelical Associa¬ 
tion; Rays of Light; Life of Bishop John 
Seybert, and other works. 

SPRIGG, JAMES C„ congressman, was 
born in Maryland. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Kentucky 
from 1841 to 1843. 


SPRIGG, MICHAEL C., state legislator, 
congressman. He was frequently a mem¬ 
ber of the Maryland legislature; and was 
at one time president of the Chesapeake 
and Ohio canal. He was a presidential 
elector in 1820; and was a representative 
in congress from 1827 to 1831. He died 
in December, 1845, in Cumberland, Md. 

SPRIGG, RICHARD, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1796 to 1799, and from 1801 
to 1802. 

SPRIGG, SAMUEL, governor, was born 
in Maryland. He was elected governor 
of that state in 1819, remaining in office 
until 1822. 

SPRIGG, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1793 to 1796. 

SPRIGG, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Maryland. He was appointed 
United States judge for the territory of 
Michigan; and in 1806 was transferred to 
the same position in Orleans. In 1812 he 
was transferred to Louisiana; and in 1813 
to the territory of Illinois. On the admis¬ 
sion of Missouri into the union as a state 
he received the appointment of district 
judge for that state. 

SPRIGGS, JOHN THOMAS, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 5, 1826, in Eng¬ 
land. He was elected district attorney of 
New York in 1853; and county treasurer 
in 1856. Ho was elected mayor of the 
city of Utica in 1868, and again in 1880. 
He was elected a representative from 
New York to the forty-eighth congress; 
and was re-elected to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

SPRING, EDWARD ADOLPHUS, sculp¬ 
tor, was born Aug. 26, 1837, in New York 
city. In 1868 he discovered at Eagles- 
wood, N. J., a fine modeling clay, pecul¬ 
iarly suited to terra-cotta work, and in 
1877 he established at Perth Amboy the 
Eagleswood Art Pottery. At the National 
academy he exhibited a bust of Giuseppe 
Mazzini in 1873, and several terra-cotta 
pieces in 1878. Since 1880 he has been 
director of the Chautauqua school of 
sculpture. 

SPRING, GARDINER, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 24, 1785, in Newbury- 
port, Mass. He was a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman, long prominent in New York city 
as pastor of the Brick church in 1810-73; 
and the author of Power of the Pulpit; 
The Church in the Wilderness; Sermons; 
The Mercy Seat. He died Aug. 18, 1873, 
in New York city. 

SPRING, LEVERETT WILSON, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born in 1840 
in Vermont. He is a congregational cler¬ 
gyman and educator, professor of English 
literature at the university of Kansas in 
1881-86, and professor of rhetoric at Wil¬ 
liams college from 1886. He is the author 
of History of Kansas; and Mark Hopkins: 
Teacher. 

SPRING, LOUIS GARDINER, clergy¬ 
man, was born Feb. 13, 1858, in Weathers- 
field, Ill. He received his education at the 
York college of Nebraska, and at the Mac- 
lay College of Theology. He has attained 
success as an eminent clergyman of the 
methodist episcopal church, and now fills 
a pastorate at Garden Grove, Cal. 

SPRING, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born March 10, 1746, in Northbridge, 
Mass. In 1775 he became a chaplain in the 
army. In 1799 he aided in founding the 
Massachusetts Missionary society, of 
which he was president. He published 
twenty-five miscellaneous discourses; and 
a number of controversial works. He died 
March 4, 1819, in Newburyport, Mass. 






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SPRINGER, CHARLES CHESLEY, 
educator, lawyer, state legislator, was 
born Nov. 4, 1852, in Livermore, Maine. 
In 1879-80 he served as a member of the 
Maine house of representatives from the 
town of Yarmouth. 

SPRINGER, REBECCA RUTER, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Nov. 8, 1832, in In¬ 
dianapolis, Ind. She is the author of two 
novels entitled Beechwood; and Self; 
and a volume of poems entitled Songs of 
the Sea. 

SPRINGER, REUBEN RUNYAN, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born Nov. 16, 1800, in 
Frankfort, Ky. He gave to the Music hall, 
the Exposition building, the Odeon thea¬ 
ter, and the Art museum in Cincinnati, in 
all $420,000; to private charities of the 
Roman catholic church, of which he was 
a member, more than $100,000, and at 
least $30,000 annually in the way of be¬ 
nevolence, besides contributing liberally 
and regularly to various charities and 
public enterprises. He left about $3,000,- 
000 to his nearest of kin, having no child¬ 
ren; also annuities to the college of Mu¬ 
sic the Music hall and the Art museum, 
and nearly $400,000 to various Roman 
catholic charitable institutions, among 
these, $40,000 to the Cathedral schools, 
$50,000 to St. Peter’s Benevolent society, 
and $100,000 for the education of priests. 
He died Dec. 10, 1884, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

SPRINGER, WILLIAM McKENDREE, 
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born May 
30, i836, in Sullivan county, Ind. In 1870- 
72 he was a member of the Illinois state 
legislature; and for twenty years during 
1875-95 was a member of congress from 
the Springfield district. In 1895 he became 
judge of the United States court, and chief 
justice of the United States court of ap¬ 
peals for the Indian territory, for term 
expiring Dec. 12, 1899. 

SPROAT, EBENEZER, soldier, civil 
engineer, was born in 1752 in Middlebor- 
ough. Mass. In 1775 he entered the army 
as a captain, and became a lieutenant- 
colonel. He was subsequently a surveyor 
of Providence, R. I. He died in Febru¬ 
ary, 1805, in Marietta, Ohio. 

SPRONG, WILLIAM ALBERT, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, was born Jan. 23, 1859, in 
Raleigh, Ind. He received his education 
at the Raleigh academy, and the Adrian 
college, Michigan. He became principal 
of the Elwood graded schools; studied 
law; and is now a'prominent lawyer of 
Anderson, Ind. He has been reading clerk 
in the Indiana house of representatives; 
deputy prosecuting attorney of the fiftieth 
judicial circuit of Indiana; is prominent 
in several fraternal orders; and takes a 
prominent part in the public affairs of his 
city, county and state. He has contributed 
both prose and verse to the periodical 
press. 

SPROULL, THOMAS, reformer, author, 
was born Sept. 15, 1803, near Freeport, Pa. 
He was a reformed presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of Pittsburg, who published Prelec¬ 
tions on Theology. 

SPRUANCE, PRESLEY, merchant, 
United States senator, was born in 1785 
in Delaware. He served in the Delaware 
state senate and was president of that 
body. He was a senator in congress from 
Delaware from 1847 to 1853. He died Feb. 
13, 1863, in Smyrna, Del. 

SPURGEON, JAMES ARBUTHNOT, ed¬ 
ucator, lawyer, was born in 1868 in Brown 
county, Ohio. He received his education 
in the Missouri Normal school of Kirks- 
ville, Mo. He then entered educational 
work; studied law; and is now one of 
the leading lawyers of his native state at 

Joplin. 


SQUIER, EPHRAIM GEORGE, arch¬ 
aeologist, author, was born June 17, 1821, 
in Bethlehem, N. Y. He was an archaeolo¬ 
gist and diplomatist, consul to Peru in 
1863-65, and consul-general of Honduras 
at New York in 1868. He was the author 
of Nicaragua; Mexican Hieroglyphics; 
Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi 
Valley (with E. H. Davis); Antiquities of 
the State of New York; Waikna, or Ad¬ 
ventures on the Mosquito Coast; The 
States of Central America; Serpent Sym¬ 
bols; and Peru. He died April 17, 1888, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

SQUIER, KITTIE ESTELLA, artist, 
poet, was born June 10, 1862, in William¬ 
son, N. Y. After receiving her education 
she began educational work; has been a 
book-keeper, and has acquired success as 
an artist, having taken several prizes for 
pencil drawing, pen and ink illustrations 
and designs; and two of her pictures ex¬ 
hibited at the World’s Columbian exposi¬ 
tion were favorably reported. She is the 
author of a number of meritorious poems, 
some of which have been given a place in 
Poets of America and other standard 
works. 

SQUIRE, WATSON CARVOSSO, soldier, 
financier, congressman, governor, United 
States senator, was born May 18, 1838, in 
Cape Vincent, N. Y. 
In 1862 he received 
commission from the 
governor of Ohio to 
raise the seventh in¬ 
dependent company 
of sharpshooters, of 
which he was com¬ 
missioned captain. 
He served with the 
army of the Cumber¬ 
land, and command¬ 
ed the battalion of 
Ohio sharpshooters 
in 1863. His company was selected by 
General Sherman as his sole headquarters 
escort and body guard in the march to the 
sea. He was appointed judge advocate of 
the district of Tennessee, on the staff of 
Major-General Rousseau; served on the 
staff of General Thomas in the battle of 
Nashville; was brevetted major, lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel, and colonel; and was mus¬ 
tered out of the service in August, 1865. 
He was engaged in business in the city of 
New York and at Uion, N. Y., in the man¬ 
ufacture and sale of Remington breech¬ 
loading arms and ammunition for years; 
and visited European countries and Mexi¬ 
co for this purpose. After disposing of 
his interest in this business he became in¬ 
terested in the territory, now state of 
Washington, where he has engaged in 
farming and other business since the year 
1879. He was governor of the territory in 
1884-87; and was elected to the United 
States senate in 1889, and re-elected in 
1891. 

STACY, EDWIN CLARK, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Sept. 5, 1814, in 
Hamilton, N. Y. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the Hamilton 
academy of his na¬ 
tive city, and the 
Erie academy, Penn¬ 
sylvania. In 1836 he 
moved to Ann Arbor, 
Mich.; there studied 
law, and was admitt¬ 
ed to the bar in 1840 
at Tecumseh, Mich. 
In 1856 he moved 
west, located a gov¬ 
ernment claim at the 
head of Geneva lake, 
in the then wilds of Minnesota. In 1856 he 
was appointed a commissioner to organize 
Freeborn county; and in 1857 he was 


elected to the constitutional convention 
which framed the organic law of the state, 
and served in that body with marked 
ability. In 1859 he moved to Albert Lee; 
was elected three terms as county audi¬ 
tor; served as judge of probate; and 
one term as superintendent of schools. 
He was city justice from 1875 until his 
death, which occurred on Sept. 5, 1896. 

STACY, JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born June 2, 1830, in Liberty county, 
Ga. In 1757 he was called to the pastorate 
of the Newnan, Ga., presbyterian church. 
He is president of the board of directors 
of the Theological seminary at Colum¬ 
bia, S. C. He has published a prize essay 
on the Holy Sabbath; Water Baptism; 
and Day of Rest. 

STAFFORD, CHARLES LEWIS, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born Sept. 26, 
1844, in Miami county, Ohio. Since 1891 
he has been president of the Iowa Wes¬ 
leyan university. 

STAGER, ANSON, soldier, was born 
April 20, 1825, in Ontario county, N. Y. 
He served in the civil war, attaining for 
meritorious services the rank of brigadier- 
general. 

STAHEL, JULIUS, soldier, journalist, 
was born Nov. 4, 1825, in Hungary. In 
1863 he was commissioned major-general. 

He resigned from the 
army in 1865. In 1866 
he was made United 
States consul at Yo¬ 
kohama, Japan, but 
after three years’res¬ 
idence there he was 
compelled to return 
on account of im¬ 
paired health. He 
was engaged in min¬ 
ing from 1870 till 
1877, when he was 
again appointed con¬ 
sul to Japan. There he remained until 
March, 1884, when he was made United 
States consul-general at Shanghai. 

STAHLE, JAMES A., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 11, 1830, in West 
Chester, Pa. He enlisted in 1861 as cap¬ 
tain of company A, eighty-seventh Penn¬ 
sylvania volunteers, and was promoted 
major and lieutenant-colonel. He was 
deputy collector of internal revenue at 
York for more than fifteen years. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

STAHLNECKER, WILLIAM G„ mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born June 20, 
1849, in Auburn, N. Y. He was elected 
mayor of Yonkers, N. Y., in 1884, for a 
term of two years. In 1884 he was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected 
to the fiftieth, fifty-first, and fifty-second 
congresses as a democrat. He served on 
several important committees while a 
member of congress. 

STAHR, JOHN S., clergyman, college 
president, was born Dec. 2, 1841, in Bucks 
county, Pa. He was professor of German 
and history during 1867-72 in Franklin 
and Marshall college; professor of natu¬ 
ral science from 1872-90; and since that 
time has been its president. 

STAIGG, RICHARD MORRELL, artist, 
was born Sept. 7, 1817, in England. Some 
of his miniatures were exhibited at the 
Royal academy, and received warm praise. 
The last twenty years of his life were de¬ 
voted to painting life-size portraits in oil, 
as well as genre pieces and landscapes. 
He died Oct. 11, 1881, in Newport, R. I. 






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STAKEBAKE, ANDREW J., soldier, 
educator, lawyer, legislator, was born 
March 16, 1843, in Preble county, Ohio. 
During the civil war he served three years 
as a soldier in company E, thirty-fifth 
Ohio volunteer infantry; and was totally 
disabled in the left arm by a gunshot at 
Missionary Ridge Nov. 25, 1863. For many 
years he was engaged in missionary 
work; was county school superintendent; 
president of the city school board of Win¬ 
chester. He is one of the foremost law¬ 
yers of Indiana at Winchester; has serv¬ 
ed two terms as deputy prosecuting attor¬ 
ney; one term as deputy county treas¬ 
urer; and two terms during 1893-95 as 
representative in the Indiana state legis¬ 
lature. 

STALEY, CADY, civil engineer, college 
president, author, was born in 1840 in 
New York. He is a civil engineer, presi¬ 
dent of the Case School of Applied Sci¬ 
ence at Cleveland; and author of The Sep¬ 
arate System of Sewerage. 

STALEY, ERASTUS H., journalist, col¬ 
lege president, was born Feb. 6, 1830, in 
Tippecanoe county, Ind. In 1862 he was 
made president of the Male and Female 
college at Valparaiso, Ind., where he re¬ 
mained nearly three years. In 1872 he 
closed his career as a teacher, and he 
at once assumed the editorial control 
and management of the Frankfort Cres¬ 
cent in Frankfort, Ind. 

STALL, SYLVANUS, clergyman, author, 
was born Oct. 18, 1847, in Elizaville, N. 
Y. Since 1890 he has been associate editor 
of the Lutheran Ob¬ 
server of Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is the 
author of Pastor’s 
Pocket Record; Min¬ 
ister’s Handbook to 
Lutheran Hymns in 
the Book of Wor¬ 
ship; How to Pay 
Church Debts and 
How to Keep 
Churches Out of 
Debt; Methods of 
Church Work; and 
other works on religious subjects. 

STALLINGS, JESSE F., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born April 4, 
1856, in Manningham, Ala. In 1877 he 
graduated from the 
university of Alaba¬ 
ma, and studied law 
at the same institu¬ 
tion. Since 1879 he 
has practiced law in 
Greenville; was 
elected solicitor for 
the second judicial 
circuit in 1886 for a 
term of six years; 
and was a delegate 
to the national dem¬ 
ocratic convention 
in 1888. He was elected to the fifty-third, 
fifty-fourth, and fifty-fifth congresses. 

STALLO, JOHN BERNHARD, lawyer, 
diplomat, author, was born March 16,1823, 
in Germany. He is a Cincinnati lawyer, 
and was minister to Italy in 1885. He 
is the author of Concepts and Theories of 
Modern Physics; and General Principles 
of the Philosophy of Nature. 

STALLWORTH, JAMES A., lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
April 7, 1822, in Conecuh county, Ala. He 
served in the Alabama legislature during 
the years 1845-48; and was twice elected 
solicitor for his district. He was elected 
a representative from Alabama to the 
thirty-fifth congress; and was re-elected 
to the thirty-sixth congress, but withdrew 
in 1861 to take part in the rebellion. 

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STANARD, EDWIN O., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 5, 1832, in New¬ 
port, N. H. He was elected lieutenant- 
governor of Missouri in 1868; and was 
elected a representative from Missouri to 
the forty-third congress. 

STANBERRY, WILLIAM, congressman, 
was born in Essex county, N. J. He re¬ 
sided in Licking county; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Ohio from 
1827 to 1833. 

STANBERY, HENRY, lawyer, was born 
Feb. 20, 1803, in New York city. He 
was elected by the assembly of Ohio the 
first attorney-general of that state in 
1846; and in 1866 was appointed attorney- 
general of the United States. He died 
June 26, 1881, in New York city. 

STANCHr IELD, HOLLIS J., educator, 
was born Feb. 19, 1847, in Eastport, Maine. 
He received his education in the Oskaloo- 
sa college, Iowa; and has been engaged 
in educational work for more than a quar¬ 
ter of a century. He has been county su¬ 
perintendent of schools; and filled va¬ 
rious other public positions of trust in 
Rushville, Neb. 

STANCH FI ELD, MATTIE CRESS, poet. 
She has contributed both prose and verse 
extensively to the periodical press; and 
some of her poems have been given a 
place in Poets of America, and other 
standard works. 

STANDEFORD, ELISHA D„ manufac¬ 
turer, banker, state senator, congressman, 
was born Dec. 28, 1831, in Jefferson coun¬ 
ty, Ky. He was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate in 1868 and 1871 from Louisville; and 
was elected a representative from Ken¬ 
tucky to the forty-third congress as a 
democrat. 

STANDIFER. JAMES, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1823 to 1825, and again 
from 1829 to 1837. He died Aug. 24, 1836, 
in Kingston, Tenn. 

STANDISH, JOHN V. N., educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born Feb. 26, 1825, in 
Woodstock, Vt. For forty years he was 
the honored president of the Lombard 
university of Galesburg, Ill. 

STANDLEE, E. LEE, physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Nov. 9, 1864, in Amity, 
Ark. He graduated from the American 
Medical college of St. 
Louis, Mo., and since 
1885 has practiced 
medicine and sur¬ 
gery in that city. 
He has since also 
filled the chair as 
professor of general 
pathological and sur¬ 
gical anatomy in the 
American Medical 
college. He has been 
president of the St. 
Louis Eclectic Med¬ 
ical society; president of the Missouri 
Eclectic Medical society; vice-president of 
the state board of health of Missouri, and 
is a member of the leading medical so¬ 
cieties. 

STANDRIDGE, HOWELL COBB, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, was born Nov. 2, 1851, 
in White county, Ga. In 1873 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, but did not follow that 
profession very long. He has been prin¬ 
cipally engaged as an educator in the 
first free schools of Georgia, and was one 
of the founders of the Young Harris col¬ 
lege and the Hiawassee High school, of 
which latter institution the was offered 
the presidency. He is a successful clergy¬ 
man of Hiawassee, Ga., and has filled nu¬ 
merous positions of honor. 


STANFORD, LELAND, merchant, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was bom 
March 9, 1824, in Watervliet, N. Y. In 
1856 he .moved to 
San Francisco to en¬ 
gage in mercantile 
pursuits on a large 
scale. He was a del¬ 
egate to the republi¬ 
can national conven¬ 
tion in 1860, and in 
1861-63 was governor 
of California. As 
president of the Cen¬ 
tral Pacific Railroad 
company he superin¬ 
tended its construc¬ 
tion over the mountains, building 530 
miles of it in 293 days. He became inter¬ 
ested in other railroads on the Pacific 
slope, in agriculture, and in manufactures. 
In 1885 he was elected United States 
senator from California for the term of 
six years from March 4, 1886; and re¬ 
ceived the re-election in 1890. He died 
June 21, 1893, in Palo Alto, Cal. 

STANFORD, RICHARD, congressman, 
was born in 1769. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from North Carolina from 
1797 to 1816. He died April 9, 1816, in 
Georgetown, D. C. 

STANLEY. ANTHONY DUMOND, 
mathematician, author, was born April 2, 
1810, in East Hartford, Conn. He was 
an educator who was a professor of math¬ 
ematics at Yale university in 1836-53, and 
the author of Elementary Treatise of 
Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry; 
and Tables of Logarithms. He died March 
16, 1853, in Hartford, Conn. 

STANLEY, DAVID SLOAN, soldier, was 
born June 1, 1828, in Cedar Valley, Ohio. 
During 1855-61 he took part in the In¬ 
dian wars; and in 1861 was appointed 
brigadier-general of volunteers. He sub¬ 
sequently won the title of brevet major- 
general at the battle of Franklin, where 
he defeated Hood. He is on the retired 
list, and is the commander of the Sol¬ 
diers’ home in Washington, D. C. 

STANLEY, EDWARD, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born about 1811 in New Berne, 
N. C. He served three years in the house 
of commons of North Carolina, and was 
speaker of that body. He was a repre¬ 
sentative from North Carolina to the 
twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-sev¬ 
enth, thirtieth, thirty-first and thirty- 
second congresses. He moved to Califor¬ 
nia, where he devoted himself to the prac¬ 
tice of law, and was recalled from there by 
President Lincoln in 1862 to assume the 
duties of military governor of North Car¬ 
olina. He died July 12, 1872, in San 
Francisco. Cal. 

STANLEY, HENRY MORTON, explor¬ 
er, author, was born in 1840 near Den¬ 
bigh, Wales. He is a celebrated African 
explorer. In 1855 he was adopted by a 
New Orleans merchant, whose name he 
took. He was sent by the New York 
Herald in search of Livingstone in T870, 
and was again sent to Africa by the Her¬ 
ald in 1874. In 1879 he accompanied an 
African expedition sent by the king of the 
Belgians, which resulted in the establish¬ 
ment of the Congo Free State. He is the 
author of How I Found Livingstone; My 
Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave, a study 
of Central Africa; Coomassie and Mag- 
dala; Through the Dark Continent; The 
Congo and the Founding of Its Free 
State; In Darkest Africa; My Dark Com¬ 
panions; My Early Travels in America 
and Asia; and Slavery and the Slave 
Trade in India. 








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STANLEY, JOHN, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in North Carolina. 
He was a distinguished member of the 
legislature of North Carolina, and was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1801 to 1803, and again from 1809 to 
1811. He died Aug. 3, 1834, in New Berne, 
N. C. 

STANLY, FABIUS, naval officer, was 
born Dec. 15, 1815, in New Berne, N. C. 
He served in the Mexican and civil wars, 
and attained the rank of rear-admiral. 
He died Sept. 5, 1882, in Washington, D. C. 

STANSBURY, ARTHUR J., author, was 
born in 1781 in New York city. Besides 
contributing to periodicals, he published 
several sermons and addresses, and was 
the author of Elementary Catechism on 
the Constitution of the United States; and 
a Report of the Trial of Judge James H. 
Peek, or an Impeachment by the House 
of Representatives of the United States. 
He died about 1848. 

STANSBURY, HOWARD,, explorer, 
civil engineer, author, was born Feb. 8, 
1806, in New York city. He was an ex¬ 
plorer who was a topographical engineer 
in the United States army, and published 
An Expedition to Great Salt Lake. He 
died April 17, 1863, in Madison, Wis. 

STANSBURY, PHILIP, traveler, au¬ 
thor, was born about 1802. He was the 
author of A Pedestrian Tour of Two 
Thousand Three Hundred Miles in North 
America, to the Lakes, the Canadas, and 
the New England States, Performed in 
the autumn of 1821. He died about 1870. 

STANSEL, MARTIN L., soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born April 23, 1824, 
in Savannali, Ga. In 1844 he graduated 
from the university of Alabama; has 
been judge of the circuit court, and dur¬ 
ing 1861-65 he served as colonel of the 
forty-first regiment confederate states vol¬ 
unteers. In 1865 he served as a member 
of the Alabama state constitutional con¬ 
vention; and for many years has served 
with distinction as representative and 
state senator of the Alabama state legis¬ 
lature. He is one of the foremost lawyers 
of the south at Carrollton, Ala. 

STANTON, BENJAMIN, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born June 4, 
1809, in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. He was 
elected to the Ohio state senate in 1841; 
resigned in 1842, but was re-elected the 
same year. In October, 1850, he was 
elected to the house of representatives of 
the thirty-second congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth 
and thirty-sixth congresses. In 1862 he 
was lieutenant-governor of Ohio. 

STANTON, EDWIN McMASTERS, 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born 
Dec. 19, 1814, in Steubenville, Ohio. In 
1842 he was elected 
reporter of the deci¬ 
sions of the supreme 
court of Ohio, and in 
1848 formed a law 
partnership at Pitts¬ 
burg. He soon after¬ 
wards began to be 
much employed in 
the supreme court of 
the United States 
which compelled him 
to remove to Wash¬ 
ington in 1857. In 
1858 he was sent, by the government, to 
California to defend its interests in cer¬ 
tain important land cases in that state, 
and in 1860 went into President Buchan¬ 
an’s cabinet as attorney-general. In 1862 
he was appointed secretary of war. In 
1869 he was appointed a justice of the 
supreme court of the United States. He 

died Dec. 24, 1869, in Washington, D. C. 


STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY, suffra¬ 
gist, author, was born Nov. 12, 1815, in 
Johnstown, N. Y. In 1848, chiefly through 
her efforts, the first woman’s rights con¬ 
vention was formed and held in Seneca 
Falls, N. Y. She is the author of a His¬ 
tory of the Woman Suffrage Movement. 

STANTON, FRANK LEBBY, journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born in 1858 in Georgia. 
He is a journalist and popular verse-wri¬ 
ter of Atlanta, and the author of Songs 
of the Soil. 

STANTON, FREDERICK PERRY, 
business man, lawyer, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Dec. 22, 1814, in Alex¬ 
andria, Va. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Tennessee from 1845 
to 1855; and was appointed governor of 
the territory of Kansas in 1858. 

STANTON, HENRY, soldier, was born 
about 1796 in Vermont. He was brevetted 
brigadier-general for meritorious conduct 
in the Mexican war in 1847. He died Aug. 
1, 1856, in Hamilton, N. Y. 

STANTON, HENRY BREWSTER, jour¬ 
nalist, reformer, author, was born June 
29, 1805, in Griswold, Conn. He was 'a 
journalist and reformer of New York city, 
and the author of Sketches of Reforms 
and Reformers in Great Britain and Ire¬ 
land; and Random Recollections. He died 
Jan. 14, 1887, in New York city. 

STANTON, HENRY THOMPSON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, journalist, poet, was born 
June 30, 1834, in Alexandria, Va. He is 
an officer in the United States army, and 
an Indian commissioner. He has written 
much humorous verse. He is the author 
of The Moneyless Man, and Other Poems; 
and Jacob Brown, and Other Poems. 

STANTON, JOSEPH, congressman. 
United States senator, was born July 19, 
1739, in Charleston, R. I. He was a sen¬ 
ator in congress from Rhode Island from 
1790 to 1793; and a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1801 to 1807. He died about 
1807 in Charleston, R. I. 

STANTON, OSCAR FITZALAN, naval 
officer, was born July 18, 1834, in Sag 
Harbor, N. Y. He entered the navy as 
acting midshipman in 1849, and was grad¬ 
uated from the United States naval acad¬ 
emy at Annapolis in 1855, promoted to 
master in 1855; commissioned lieuten¬ 
ant in 1856, and became a commodore. 

STANTON, RICHARD HENRY, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 9, 1812, in Alexan¬ 
dria, Va. Being elected from Kentucky 
to congress as a democrat, he served from 
1849 till 1855, and was presidential elector 
on the Buchanan ticket in 1856; state at¬ 
torney for his judicial district in 1858; 
a delegate to the national democratic con¬ 
vention in 1868, and district judge in 
1868-74. He edited the Maysville Moni¬ 
tor and the Maysville Express, and pub¬ 
lished a Code of Practice in Civil and 
Criminal Cases in Kentucky; Practical 
Treatises for Justices of the Peace, etc., 
of Kentucky; and a Practical Manual for 
Executors in Kentucky. 

STANTON, STILES TRUMBULL, jour¬ 
nalist, state senator, was born Dec. 10, 
1849, in Stonington, Conn. He was ex¬ 
ecutive secretary of state in Connecticut 
in 1879-80, and was a member of the 
house of representatives in 1881-82, and 
served in the state senate in 1884-86, being 
president pro tempore in 1885-86. Early 
in life he devoted himself to journalism, 
and became connected with the Norwich, 
Conn., Bulletin and the Worcester, Mass., 
Press, achieving a reputation as a humor¬ 
ist. He died Feb. 2, 1888, in New York 
city. 



STANTON, THEODORE, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 10, 1851, in Seneca 
Falls, N. Y. He is a journalist living in 
Paris, and the author of The Woman 
Question in Europe. 

STANTON, WILLIAM A., clergyman, 
author, was born March 5, 1854, in Law- 
renceville. Pa. He has filled pastorates 
in various churches of the baptist denom¬ 
ination. He is the author of the Stanton 
Genealogy; and A History of the First 
Baptist Church of Rockford, Ill. 

STANTON, WILLIAM H., congressman. 
He was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth con¬ 
gress to fill a vacancy. 

STANWOOD, EDWARD, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1841 in Maine. He is a 
Boston journalist, managing editor of The 
Youth’s Companion, and the author of A 
History of Presidential Elections; and 
History of Cotton Manufacture in New 
England. 

STAPLES, ERNEST LINWOOD, law¬ 
yer, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 10, 
1856, in Monroe, Conn. He received a 
thorough education under private tutors, 
and was admitted to the bar of Connecti¬ 
cut in 1883; and practiced his profession 
in Shelton since 1886. In 1896 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the Unitarian ministry at Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He is the author of A Man of 
Destiny, an epic having Abraham Lincoln 
for its subject; and also the author of 
Our Ulysses, and Other Poems. 


STAPLES, WILLIAM READ, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Oct. 10, 1798, in 
Providence, R. I. He was associate judge 
of the Rhode Island supreme court from 
1835 till 1854; and was chief justice of 
that court in 1854-56. He edited the second 
volume of the Rhode Island Historical so¬ 
ciety’s collections, and Samuel Gorton’s 
Simplicities’ Defence Against Seven-Head¬ 
ed Policy (Providence); and issued Docu¬ 
mentary History of the Destruction of the 
Gaspe (1S45); Proceedings of the First 
General Assembly for the Incorporation 
of Providence Plantations in 1647; and 
Rhode Island Form-Book. He died Oct. 
19, 1868, in Providence, R. I. 


STARBUCK, CALVIN WASHBURN, 
journalist, was born April 20, 1822, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He established the Cin¬ 
cinnati Times, an afternoon newspaper. 
To his exertions and generosity are main¬ 
ly due the Relief union, the Home of the 
Friendless, and other charitable insti¬ 
tutions of Cincinnati, while his private 
gifts were many and constant. He died 
Nov. 15, 1870, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 



STARIN, JOHN H., congressman, was 
born Aug. 27, 1827, in Sammonsville, N. Y. 
He received an academic education; com¬ 
menced the study of 
medicine in 1842, 
and established and 
conducted the drug 
and medicine busi¬ 
ness at Fultonville 
from 1845 to 1858. 
From 1848 to 1852 he 
was postmaster at 
Fultonville, and from 
1856 to the present 
time has been large¬ 
ly engaged in the 
transportation busi¬ 
ness through the city, river and harbor 
and waters of Long Island Sound, and its 
accessories of vessel building. He is at 
present a director of the North River 
bank, New York city, and the Mohawk 
River National bank, and is greatly and 
personally interested in agriculture and 
stocking. He was elected to the forty- 
fifth congress, and was re-elected to the 
forty-sixth congress as a republican. 


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STARK, BENJAMIN, merchant, lawyer, 
'congressman, United States senator, was 
born June 26, 1820, in New Orleans, La. 
In 1845 he settled in Oregon, and estab¬ 
lished commercial relations with the 
Sandwich Islands, and with California, 
then a Mexican province. In 1852 he was 
a member of the territorial legislature 
of Oregon, and in 1860 was a member of 
the state legislature of that state. He 
was a senator in congress from Oregon 
-during parts of the years 1861 and 1862, 
in the thirty-seventh congress. 

STARK, CALEB, lawyer, state legislat¬ 
or, author, was born Nov. 21, 1804, in 
Dunbarton, N. H. He was a member of 
the New Hampshire legislature, and was 
the author of Reminiscences of the French 
War, containing Rogers’s Expeditions 
with the New England Rangers, and an 
Account of the Life and Military Service 
of John Stark; Memoir and Official Cor¬ 
respondence of Gen. John Stark, with No¬ 
tices of other Officers of the Revolution; 
and a History of Dunbarton, N. H., from 
the Grant by Mason’s Assigns in 1751 to 
1860. He died Feb. 1, 1864, in Dunbarton, 
N. H. 

STARK, CHARLES B., lawyer, author, 
son of Hon. Joseph C. Stark of Tennessee. 
He is a successful lawyer of St. Louis, 
Mo., and the author of Stark’s Missouri 
Digest in three volumes. 

STARK, HENRY M., statistician, was 
born April 14, 1845, in Flanders, N. J. 
He received a thorough education in the 
public schools; and has principally been 
engaged in railroad positions. During 
1889-91 he was commissioner of labor and 
industrial statistics of the state of Wis¬ 
consin. He has contributed extensively to 
the periodical press; and takes an active 
part in the public affairs of South Supe¬ 
rior, Wis. 

STARK, JOHN, soldier, was born Aug. 
28, 1728, in Londonderry, N. H. He was 
a brigadier-general, and is a conspicuous 
figure in American history, by his vic¬ 
tory over the British at Bennington, Aug. 
16, 1777, and by his words before going 
into battle: There are the red-coats; we 
must beat them to-day, or Molly Stark is 
a widow! He died May 8, 1832, in Man¬ 
chester, N. H. 

STARK, JOSEPH CARTER, state sena¬ 
tor, jurist, was born Dec. 29, 1817, in 
Sumner county, Tenn. He was a Ten¬ 
nessee state senator, and judge of the 
tenth judicial circuit court of Tennessee. 
He died March 6, 1890. 

STARK, WILLIAM, lawyer, poet, was 
born about 1820 in Manchester, N. H. He 
devoted himself to literary pursuits and 
to the care of a large collection of rare 
birds and animals. His park in Man¬ 
chester, N. H., which was open* to the 
public, was widely known. He wrote 
several poems, and frequently lectured. 
He died Oct. 29, 1873, in Somerville, Mass. 

STARK, WILLIAM LEDYARD, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born July 29, 
1853, in Mystic, Conn. He was commis¬ 
sioned major and judge-advocate-general 
of the Nebraska national guard, and was 
nominated for congress by the populists 
and afterwards by the democrats, and 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress. 

STARKEY, THOMAS ALFRED, bishop 
of Newark, N. J., was born in 1824 in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was elected bishop 
of northern New Jersey in 1879, and was 
consecrated on Jan. 8, 1880. The name of 
his diocese was changed to Newark in 
1886, and about the same time the bishop 
removed his residence to East Orange. 


STARKWEATHER, AMELIA MINER¬ 
VA, educator, poet, was born in Stark- 
ville, N. Y. She received her education 
at the Cary collegi¬ 
ate seminary of Oak- 
field, N. Y. She has 
principally been en¬ 
gaged in educational 
work; for four years 
was traveling finan¬ 
cial agent for the Or¬ 
phans’ home of Ran¬ 
dolph, N. Y. She en¬ 
tered the Deaconess 
home at Buffalo, and 
six months later 
went as superintend¬ 
ent of the Deaconess home of Brooklyn, 
N. 1. For three years she was president 
of the Woman’s Missionary society; has 
lectured extensively, and given numerous 
public readings. She has written both 
prose and verse for the periodical press, 
and many of her poems have been given a 
place in standard works. 

STARKWEATHER, DAVID A., lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Connecticut. 
He was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from Ohio from 1839 to 1841, and 
again from 1845 to 1847. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1848, and was minister 
to Chili from 1854 to 1857. 

STARKWEATHER, GEORGE A„ con¬ 
gressman, was born in Connecticut. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1847 to 1849. 

STARKWEATHER, GEORGE B., cler¬ 
gyman, inventor, translator, author. He 
has been a missionary for twenty years; 
has been a. translator in five different 
languages, and is the author of half a 
dozen books. 

STARKWEATHER, HENRY HOW¬ 
ARD, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born April 29, 1826, in Preston, 
Conn. He served in the Connecticut state 
legislature, and in 1861 was appointed 
postmaster of Norwich. In 1867 he was 
elected a representative from Connecti¬ 
cut to the fortieth congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-first, forty-second, 
forty-third and forty-fourth congresses as 
a republican. He died Jan. 28, 1876, in 
Washington, D. C. 

STARKWEATHER, JOHN CONVERSE, 
soldier, congressman, was born May 11, 
1830, in Cooperstown, N. Y. He was a 
colonel in the New York twelfth artillery. 
He served as a member of congress dur¬ 
ing 1847-49. He died Nov. 15, 1890, in 
Washington, D. C. 

STARKWEATHER, JOHN L„ lawyer, 
was born Oct. 4, 1844, in Romeo, Mich. He 
received the rudiments of his education 
in the public schools of his native city; 
attended Eastman’s Business college of 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; and the law de¬ 
partment of the university of Michigan. 
He commenced life as a school teacher, 
and all his life has been prominently 
identified with temperance movements 
and societies. He has attained success 
as an able lawyer, his specialties being 
patents and pensions. Since 1891 he has 
been a prominent Forester, and is a mem¬ 
ber of various other fraternal orders in 
his native city. 

STARKWEATHER, PERRY, soldier, 
manufacturer, was born Nov. 20, 1844, in 
Oakland county, Mich. During the war 
he served in the union army for over four 
years in company I, ninth regiment, Mich¬ 
igan volunteer infantry, and is prominent 
in the affairs of the Grand Army of the 
Republic of Minneapolis, Minn., where he 
is a successful manufacturer of knit 
goods. 


STARR, CHARLES RICHARD, lawyer, 
jurist, was born May 15, 1824, in Nova 
Scotia. He moved to Illinois in 1842, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1849. For 
four years he was county judge, and for 
the past sixteen years has been judge of 
the circuit court. 

STARR, ELIZA ALLEN, lecturer, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 29, 1824, in Deer¬ 
field, Mass. She is an art lecturer in Chi¬ 
cago, and the author of Patron Saints; 
Pilgrims and Shrines; and Songs of a 
Lifetime. 

STARR, FREDERIC RATCHFORD, 
farmer, author, was born June 18, 1821, 
in Nova Scotia. He is a noted dairy 
farmer of Litchfield, Conn., and the au¬ 
thor of Didley Dumps, the Newsboy; May 
I Not? What Can I Do? Farm Echoes; 
and From Shore to Shore. 

STARR, JOHN F., congressman, was 
born in 1818 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1863 
he was elected a representative from New 
Jersey to the thirty-eighth congress, and 
was re-elected to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress. 

STARR, MOSES ALLEN, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1854 in New York. He 
is a physician of New York city, promi¬ 
nent as a neurologist, and the author of 
Familiar Forms of Nervous Diseases; 
Lectures on Insanity; and Brain Surgery. 
He also is a constant contributor to medi¬ 
cal literature. 

STARR, WILLIAM GABRIEL, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born Sept. 
26, 1840, in Rappahannock county, Va. 
He entered the ministry in 1860, and has 
since filled the leading stations in tile 
Virginia annual conference of the method- 
ist episcopal church south. For five years 
he was president of the Wesleyan Fe¬ 
male college of Murfreesboro, N. C. 

STARRS, WILLIAM, clergyman, was 
born in 1807, in Ireland. In 1853 he was 
appointed rector of St. Patrick’s cathedral 
and vicar-general of the archdiocese of 
New York, and in 1864 he was administra¬ 
tor of the diocese until the succeeding 
bishop was appointed. He died Feb. 6, 
1873, in New York city. 

START, HENRY R., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, was born Dec. 28, 
1845, in Bakersfield, Vt. He was educated 
at the Bakersfield 
and Barre academy. 
During the civil war 
he was a member of 
company A, third 
regiment Vermont 
volunteer infantry. 
He is one of the 
foremost lawyers of 
New England at 
Bakersfield; has held 
the office of state's 
attorney; was state 
senator in 1880, and 
was a representative in the Vermont state 
legislature in 1890, and speaker of the 
house. In 1880 he was a presidential elect¬ 
or, and in 1890 was elected a juuge of the 
supreme court. 

S i AUFFER, FRANCIS HENRY, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1832 in Pennsylvania. 
He is a sensational novelist of Philadel¬ 
phia, long a contributor to the Saturday 
Night. Among his serials published in that 
paper are Ruth Brandon; Lucy Darrel; 
and Devona the Dauntless. 

STAUNTON, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1803 in England. He 
was an episcopal clergyman of New York 
city who published an Ecclesiastical Dic¬ 
tionary, and wrote much on musical top¬ 
ics. He died Sept. 20, 1889. 






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STAVELEY, ROBERT MILTON, cler¬ 
gyman, poet, was born Oct. 31, 1859, in 
England. At nine years of age he came 
to America with his 
parents, attended the 
Dakota university 
for two years, And 
the Garrett Biblical 
institute for two 
years. Since 1894 
he has been engaged 
in ministerial work 
in South Dakota; 
has written exten¬ 
sively for the period¬ 
ical press, and is the 
author of a number 
of meritorious poems. Some of his poems 
have been given a place in several stand¬ 
ard collections. 



ST. CLAIR, ARTHUR, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, governor, author, was born in 
1734 in Scotland. In 1764 he settled in 
Pennsylvania, where 
he erected mills. In 
1770 he was made a 
district surveyor and 
justice of common 
pleas In 1776 he 
was ordered to Can¬ 
ada; acquitted him¬ 
self with great abil¬ 
ity, rose to the rank 
of major-general. He 
joined GeneralWash- 
ington; took a lead¬ 
ing part in battles of 
Princeton, Ticonderoga, and Brandywine; 
assisted Sullivan against the Six Na¬ 
tions, and was a commissioner to arrange 
a cartel with the British in 1780. He 
was a delegate to congress in 1785, and 
was chosen president of the same in 1787. 
He was appointed governor of the north¬ 
west territory in 1788; made an Indian 
treaty in. 1789, and located the city of 
Cincinnati, and gave it its name. He 
was appointed general-in-chief of the 
army in 1791. He died Aug. 31, 1818, in 
Greensburg, Pa. 

STEARNS, ASHAEL, lawyer, educator, 
congressman, author, was born in 1774 
in Massachusetts. He was several years 
county attorney for Middlesex county; 
and was a representative in congress 
from Massachusetts from 1815 to 1817. 
He was appointed professor of law at 
Cambridge in 1817, and continued in the 
office until 1829. In 1824 he puDlished a 
volume on Real Actions. He died Feb. 
5, 1839, in Cambridge, Mass. 

STEARNS, CHARLES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born July 19, 1753, in Leo¬ 
minster, Mass. He was a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman, pastor at Lincoln, Mass., from 
1785 till his death, and the author of The 
Ladies’ Philosophy of Love, a Poem; 
and Principles of Morality and Religion. 
He died July 26, 1826, in Lincoln, Mass. 



STEARNS, CHARLES WOODWARD, 
physician, surgeon, author, was born in 
1818 in Springfield, Mass. He was a phy¬ 
sician and surgeon of note as a Shakes¬ 
pearean scholar, and the author of Shake¬ 
speare’s Medical Knowledge; Shakespeare 
Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge; 
Concordance of the Constitution of the 
United States; and The Black Men and 
the South and the Rebels. He died Sept. 
8, 1887, in Long Meadow, Mass. 


STEARNS, EBEN SPERRY, educator, 
was born in 1821 in Bedford, Mass. He 
was master of the Normal school at Fra¬ 
mingham, Mass., of the Albany Female 
academy, and in 1875 became chancellor 
of Nashville university. He died in 1887 
in Nashville, Tenn. 


STEARNS, EDWARD JOSIAH, was 
born Feb. 24, 1810, in Bedford, Mass. He 
was an episcopal clergyman and educator 
in Maryland; and the author of A Plat¬ 
form for All Parties; Notes on Uncle 
Tom’s Cabin; Practical Guide to English 
Pronunciation; The Faith of Our Fore¬ 
fathers, an Examination of Archbishop 
Gibbons’s Faith of Our Fathers; and The 
Archbishop’s Champion Brought to Book. 
He died in 1890. 

STEARNS, EZRA SCOLLAY, author, 
was born Sept. 1, 1838, in Rindge, N. H. 
He is the author of History of Rindge; 
and History of Ashburnham, N. H. 

STEARNS, FRANK PRESTON, author, 
was born in 1846 in Massachusetts. He 
is a Boston writer upon art, literature and 
history, and the author of The Real and 
Ideal in Literature; Life of Tintoretto; 
The Midsummer of Italian Art; Sketches 
from Concord and Appledore; Modern 
English Prose; and Summer Travel in 
Europe. 

STEARNS, JOHN GLAZIER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 22, 1795, 
in Ackworth, N. H. He was a baptist 
clergyman prominent in central New 
York, and the author of The Primitive 
Church; Letters on Freemasonry; The 
Sovereignty of God and Free Agency; 
and The Influence of the Spirit and the 
Word in Regeneration. He died Jan. 16, 
1874, in Clinton, N. Y. 

STEARNS, JOHN NEWTON, temper¬ 
ance reformer, author, was born May 24, 
1829, in New Ipswich, N. H. He is the 
author of The Temperance Chimes; The 
Temperance Speaker; The Centennial 
Songster; One Hundred Years of Temper¬ 
ance; and Temperance in All Nations. 

STEARNS, JOHN WILLIAM, educator, 
author, was born in 1840 in Sturbridge, 
Mass. He is a professor in the university 
of Wisconsin from 1884, and the author of 
The History of Education in Wisconsin. 

STEARNS, JONATHAN FRENCH, 
clergyman, author, was born in Septem¬ 
ber, 1808, in Bedford, Mass. In 1849 he 
became pastor of the First Presbyterian 
church in Newark, N. J., which connec¬ 
tion continued about thirty years. He 
published Sermon on the Death of Dan¬ 
iel Webster; and Historical Discourses 
Relating to the First Presbyterian Church 
in Newark. 

STEARNS, JUNIUS BRUTUS, artist, 
was born July 2, 1810, in Arlington, 
Vt. His work was mainly in portraiture, 
but he painted also numerous historical 
subjects. Of these the best known are 
the Washington Series, five paintings rep¬ 
resenting Washington as a citizen, farm¬ 
er, soldier, statesman, and Christian. His 
Millennium is in the Academy of Design, 
New York. He died Sept. 17, 1885, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

STEARNS, LEWIS FRENCH, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born in 1847 
in Massachusetts. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman, and professor of systematic 
theology in Bangor Theological seminary 
in 1880-92. He was the author of The Evi¬ 
dence of Christian Experience; Present 
Day Theology, with Biographical Sketch 
by G. L. Prentiss; and Life of Henry 
Boynton Smith. He died in 1892. 

STEARNS, MARCELLUS L„ soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, governor, was 
born April 29, 1839, in Lovell, Maine. 
He entered the union army as a private, 
and rose to the rank of first lieutenant. 
He settled in Florida immediately after 
the close of the civil war; and was ap¬ 
pointed United States surveyor-general of 
Florida. He was twice elected a repre¬ 


sentative to the legislature, and speaker 
of the house. He was elected lieutenant- 
governor of Florida, and was governor of 
the state from 1874 to 1877. 

STEARNS, OAKMAN SPRAGUE, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born Oct. 
20, 1817, in Bath, Maine. He was a bap¬ 
tist clergyman of Massachusetts, and pro¬ 
fessor of biblical interpretation at New¬ 
ton Theological seminary from 1868. He 
was the author of A Syllabus of Messianic 
Passages in the Old Testament; and In¬ 
troduction to the Books of the Old Testa¬ 
ment. He died in 1893. 

STEARNS, ONSLOW, governor, was 
born in New Hampshire. In 1869 he was 
elected governor Qf New Hampshire; and 
was re-elected in 1870. He died Dec. 28, 
1878, in New Hampshire. 

STEARNS, OZORA PIERSON, soldier, 
lawyer, United States senator, was born 
Jan. 15, 1831, in De Kalb, N. Y. He was 
elected county attorney of Olmstead coun¬ 
ty, Minn., in 1861. He was elected to the 
United States senate as a republican fo 
fill a vacancy and took his seat Jan. 23, 
1871. 

STEARNS, ROBERT E. C., scientist, 
author, poet, was born Feb. 21, 1827, in 
Boston, Mass. He is connected with the 
scientific depart¬ 
ments of the Smith¬ 
sonian institution, 
and the United States 
geological survey at 
Washington, D. C. 
He has published 
numerous scientific 
papers; and is the 
author of a number 
of meritorious poems 
which have appeared 
in the leading news¬ 
papers and maga¬ 
zines of the United States. 

STEARNS, SAMUEL, physician, as¬ 
tronomer, author, was born in 1747 in 
Bolton, Mass. He was a physician and 
astronomer of Worcester, New York city, 
and lastly of Brattleboro, Vt. He was the 
author of Tour to London and Paris; 
Mystery of Animal Magnetism; American 
Oracle; and The American Herbal or Ma¬ 
teria Medica. He died Aug. 8, 1819, in 
Brattleboro, Vt. 

STEARNS, MRS. SARAH BURGER, 
reformer, was born Nov. 30, 1836, in New 
York city. For many years she has been 
vice-president for Minnesota of the Na¬ 
tional Woman Suffrage association. She 
is president of the Duluth Home society, 
and was instrumental in establishing a 
temporary home for needy women and 
children in that city. 

STEARNS, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, 
clergypian, author, was born March 17, 
1805, in Bedford, Mass. He was a congre¬ 
gational clergyman, president of Amherst 
college in 1854-76, and the author of In¬ 
fant Church Membership; and A Plea for 
the Nation. He died June 8, 1876, in Am¬ 
herst, Mass. 

STEARNS, WINFRID ALDEN, author, 
was born in 185—. He is the author of 
Labrador: a Sketch of Its Peoples, etc.; 
Wrecked on Labrador; and New England 
Bird Life. 

STEBBENS, SARAH BRIDGES, author, 
poet, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. She 
is the author of several volumes of poems, 
the most notable of which are Marble Isle 
Legends of the Round Table; and Gal- 
gano’s Wooing, and Other Poems. She 
is also the author of a prose work en¬ 
titled Annals of a Baby; and also a ro¬ 
mance entitled He and I. 








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STEBBINS, EMMA, was born Sept. 1, 
1815, in New York city. She was a sculp¬ 
tress who lived many years in Rome, 
where she formed a friendship with Char¬ 
lotte Cushman. She was the author of 
Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and 
Memories of Her Life. She died Oct. 25, 
1882, in New York city. 

STEBBINS, GILES BADGER, author. 
He is the author of After Dogmatic The¬ 
ology, What? The American Protection¬ 
ist’s Manual; Chapters from the Bible of 
the Ages; Facts and Opinions Touching 
the American Colonization Society; and 
Progress from Poverty. 

STEBBINS, HENRY G„ banker, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1812 in New York 
city. He was one of the originators, and 
president of the Dramatic Fund associa¬ 
tion, and an active manager of the New 
York Academy of Music. In 1862 he was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the thirty-eighth congress. 

STEBBINS, MRS. MARY ELIZABETH 
(MOORE) (HEWITT), author, poet, was 
born in 1818 in Massachusetts. She is the 
author of Songs of Our Lord; Heroines 
of History; and Poems: Sacred, Passion¬ 
ate, and Legendary. 

STEBBINS, RUFUS PHINEAS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1810 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a Unitarian clergyman 
of Ithaca, N. Y., and subsequently of 
Newton Centre, Mass. He was the author 
of A Study of the Pentateuch; and A 
Common Sense View of the Books of the 
Old Testament. He died in 1885. 

STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Oct. 8, 1833, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. He is a poet and literary 
critic of New York city, for many years a 
member of the Stock exchange there. His 
volumes of verse include, Poems: Lyric 
and Idyllic; The Prince’s Ball; The Battle 
of Bull Run; Alice of Monmouth; Idyl of 
the Great War, and Other Poems; The 
Blameless Prince; Hawthorne, and Other 
Poems; Lyrics and Idyls; Poems, House¬ 
hold Edition; and The Star Bearer. His 
other works comprise, Octavius Brooks 
Frothingham and the New Faith; Vic¬ 
torian Poets; Poets of America; and The 
Nature and Elements of Poetry. His most 
important labors as editor have been, A 
Library of American Literature; The 
Works of Poe; and A Victorian Anthol¬ 
ogy. 

STEDMAN, WILLIAM, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1765 
in Massachusetts. In 1802 he was a repre¬ 
sentative in the state legislature; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1803 to 1810. He 
died in 1831 in Newburyport, Mass. 

STEEDMAN, CHARLES, naval officer, 
was born Sept. 24, 1811, in Charleston, 
S. C. In 1828 he was appointed a midship¬ 
man; passed through all the grades, and 
attained the rank of rear-admiral. 

STEEDMAN, JAMES BARRETT, sol¬ 
dier, state legislator, was born July 30, 
1818, in Northumberland county. Pa. In 
1843 he was a member of the Ohio state 
legislature. In 1849 he crossed the plains 
to California; returned the following 
year, and during President Buchanan’s 
administration was printer to congress. 
He served with distinction through the 
civil war, and attained the rank of ma¬ 
jor-general. 

STEEL, HARRY GIVIN, journalist, was 
born Dec. 6, 1868, in Ashland, Pa. He 
has been editor and business manager of 
the Shamokin Daily Dispatch, and other 
prominent papers; and is now editor and 
■owner of The Daily Herald of Shamokin, 
Pa. 


STEEL, GEORGE ALEXANDER, busi¬ 
ness man, legislator, was born April 22, 
1846, in Stafford, Ohio. He is the son of 
William Steel, a prominent abolitionist 
of Ohio, and cousin of Hon. William E. 
Gladstone. On April 2, 1863, he started 
for Portland, Ore., going by the way of 
New York, Aspinwall, Panama and San 
Francisco, arriving there on May 25, 1864. 
He has been county treasurer, state sen¬ 
ator, postmaster of Portland for two 
terms, special agent of the postoffice de¬ 
partment, and has filled various other of¬ 
fices of trust. He is widely and favorably 
known throughout Oregon; is largely in¬ 
terested in street railways in Portland - 
and vicinity, and is now president and 
superintendent of the East Side Railway 
company, one of the longest and'most suc¬ 
cessful electric railways in the United 
States. 

STEELE, DANIEL, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1824 in New 
York. He is a methodist clergyman and 
educator of note, and the author of Com¬ 
mentary on Joshua; Love Enthroned; 
Milestone Papers; Antinomianism Re¬ 
vived; Commentary on Leviticus and 
Numbers; Bible Readings; and Sermons 
and Essays. 

STEELE, DAVID, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1827 in Ireland. He is a 
reformed presbyterian clergyman of Pnil- 
adelphia from 1861, and the author of 
The Times in Which We Live, and the 
Ministry They Require; and The Apolo¬ 
getics of History. 

STEELE, FREDERICK, soldier, was 
born Jan. 14, 1819, in Delhi, N. Y. He 
served with distinction through the civil 
war, and attained the rank of major-gen¬ 
eral. He died Jan. 12, 1868, in San Mateo, 
Cal. 

STEELE, GEORGE McKENDREE, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born in 1823 
in New York. He is a methodist clergy¬ 
man and educator; and principal of Wil- 
braham academy, Massachusetts. He is 
the author of Outline Study of Political 
Economy. 

STEELE, GEORGE W., lawyer, soldier, 
banker, congressman, was born Dec. 13, 
1839, in Fayette county, Ind. He served in 
the civil war and attained the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel. In 1882 he established 
the First National bank of Marion, Ind., 
and became its president. He was the 
first governor of Oklahoma, and resigned 
after serving twenty months. He was 
a member of the forty-seventh, forty- 
eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty- 
fourth congresses and was re-elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

STEELE, ISAAC NEVETT, lawyer, was 
born April 25, 1809, in Cambridge, Md. 
He received a thorough education in the 
public academy of 
Cambridge; S t. 
John’s college of 
Annapolis, and at 
Trinity college o f 
Hartford, Conn. In 
1830 he was admitted 
to the bar; and at¬ 
tained prominence as 
one of the foremost 
lawyers in America, 
and a leader of the 
Maryland bar. He 
contributed valuable 
articles to current literature. He died 
April 11, 1891, in Baltimore, Md. 

STEELE, JAMES, soldier, manufactu¬ 
rer, was born Jan. 16, 1765, in Lancaster 
county, Pa. He served in the war of 
1812-14, and for meritorious conduct was 
promoted to the rank of brigadier-general 
of militia. He died Sept. 30, 1845, in Har¬ 
risburg, Pa. 


STEELE, JOEL DORMAN, educator, 
author, was born May 14, 1836, in Lima, 
N. Y. He was a prominent educator of 
Elmira, N. Y„ who published Barnes’s 
History of the United States and a se¬ 
ries of text-books on the sciences, each 
intended for a course of study of four¬ 
teen weeks, including Natural Philosophy; 
Geology; Human Physiology; Zoology; 
and Chemistry. He died May 25, 1886, in 
Elmira, N. Y. 

STEELE, JOHN, soldier, state senator, 
was born Aug. 15, 1758, in Lancaster 
county, Pa. In 1801 he was elected state 
senator, but, as he held a United States 
appointment, his seat was declared va¬ 
cant. In 1804 he was elected state senator 
and in 1805 became speaker of that body. 
He also held the rank of brigadier-general 
in the Pennsylvania militia. 

STEELE, JOHN, agriculturist, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Nov. 1, 
1764, in Salisbury, N. C. He served a 
number of years in the North Carolina 
state legislature, part of the time as 
speaker, and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from North Carolina • from 1790 to 
1793. In 1806 he was a commissioner to 
adjust the boundaries between the states 
of North and South Carolina. He was 
a general of the militia; held the office of 
first comptroller of the treasury under 
Presidents Washington and Adams, and 
in 1814 was again elected to the legis¬ 
lature. He died Aug. 14, 1815, in Salis¬ 
bury, N. C. 

STEELE, JOHN B., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 28, 1814, in 
Delhi, N. Y. In 1841 he was appointed 
district attorney for Otsego county, N. Y. 
In 1847 he moved to Kingston, and in 1850 
he was elected special judge of that coun¬ 
ty. In 1860 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from New York to the thirty-sev¬ 
enth congress, and was re-elected to the 
thirty-eighth congress. He was accident¬ 
ally killed Sept. 24, 1866, in Kingston, 
N. Y. 

STEELE, JOHN H., governor, was born 
in 1792 in North Carolina. He was gov¬ 
ernor of New Hampshire from 1844 to 
1846. He died July 3, 1865, in Peterbor¬ 
ough, N. H. 

STEELE, JOHN N., congressman, was 
born in Maryland. He was a presidential 
elector in 1832, and was a representative 
in congress from Maryland from 1835 to 
1837. 

STEELE, THOMAS SEDGWICK, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1845 in Connecticut. 
He is the author of Canoe and Camera: 
a Tour Through the Maine Forests; Pad¬ 
dle and Portage from Moosehead Lake to 
the Aroostook River; and A Voyage to 
Vikingland. 

STEELE, WALTER LEAK, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
April 18, 1823, in Steele's Mills (now Lit¬ 
tle’s Mills), N. C. He was elected to the 
North Carolina state house of commons 
in 1846, 1848, 1850 and 1854, and to the 
state senate in 1852 and 1858. He was 
elected a representative from North Caro¬ 
lina to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat, and declined a 
renomination. 

STEELE, WILLIAM G., merchant, 
banker, congressman, was born Dec. 17, 
1820, in Somerset county, N. J. He was 
for several years a state director for the 
Delaware and Raritan canal, and the 
Camden and Amboy Railroad company. 
He was elected a representative from New 
Jersey to the thirty-seventh congress, and 
was re-elected to the thirty-eighth con¬ 
gress. 




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STEELE, WILLIAM R., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 24, 1824, in 
New York city. He was elected to the 
legislative council of Wyoming territory 
in 1871, was elected to the forty-third 
congress as the delegate from the territory 
of Wyoming, and was re-elected to the 
forty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

STEENDAM, JACOB, poet, was born in 
1616 in Holland. He is the earliest poet 
of New York. He was in the employ of 
the Dutch West India company, and lived 
in New Amsterdam, now New York, 
from 1650 to 1663, about which time he 
returned to Holland. The place and date 
of his death are unknown. His four small 
volumes of verse include: The Thistle 
Finch; The Complaint of New Amster¬ 
dam; The Praise of New Netherland; and 
Spurring Verses. 

STEENERSON, HALVOR, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born June 30, 1852, in Dane 
county, Wis. He is a successful lawyer 
of Crookston, Minn.; has been county at¬ 
torney; city attorney and a member of 
the board of education. He served with 
distinction as a state senator in the Min¬ 
nesota legislature. 

STEENROD, LEWIS, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Virginia, 
serving from 1839 to 1845. 

STEENSTRA, PETER HENRY, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 24, 
1833, in Netherlands. He is an episcopal 
clergyman of Cambridge, Mass., and pro¬ 
fessor of Old Testament criticism and in¬ 
terpretation in the Episcopal Theological 
school from 1867. He is the author of 
The Being of God as Unity and Trinity. 

STEERE, WARREN BURLINGHAM, 
physician, surgeon, was born Dee. 9, 1832, 
in Otsego county, N. Y. He received his 
education in the pub¬ 
lic schools; attend¬ 
ed the medical de¬ 
partment of the 
Michigan university; 
the Eclectic Medical 
college of Philadel¬ 
phia, and the Col¬ 
lege of Physicians 
and Surgeons of 
Keokuk, Iowa. For 
fourteen years he 
was United States 
examining surgeon; 
was professor uf obstetrics in the medi¬ 
cal department of the Drake university, 
and for six years was professor of materia 
medica and therapeutics in the Iowa Ec¬ 
lectic Medical college. He is one of the 
foremost physicians and surgeons of Iowa 
at Des Moines. 

STEIGER, ERNST, bibliographer, pub¬ 
lisher, author, was born in 1832 in Sax¬ 
ony. He is a bibliographer and publisher 
of New York city, and the author of Der 
Nachdruck in Nordamerika; Das Copy¬ 
right Law in den Vereinigten Staaten; 
and Periodical Literature, a bibliography. 

STEINBACH, JOHN A., soldier, con¬ 
tractor, was born Jan. 28, 1847, in Bethel, 
Mo. He served as a soldier in the civil 
war and was promoted to first lieutenant 
United States volunteers. He is a suc¬ 
cessful contractor and business man, and 
has been mayor of Quincy, Ill. 

STEINER, LEWIS H., physician, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born May 4, 1827, in 
Frederick, Md. He was chief inspector in 
the army of the Potomac, of United States 
sanitary commission; and was the state 
senator for twelve years from Frederick 
county, Md. He was the first librarian 
of the Enoch Pratt free library of Balti¬ 
more, and is the author of a number of 
scientific and religious works. 



STEINWAY, ALBERT, was born June 
10, 1840, in Germany. Early in the civil 
war he was advanced to the colonelcy of 
the sixth regiment of New York volun¬ 
teers, and later became brigadier-general. 
He died May 14, 1877, in New York city. 

STEINWAY, C. F. THEODORE, piano 
manufacturer, was born Nov. 6, 1825, in 
Germany. He came to America in 1849 
with his father, Henry E. Steinway, and 
was associated with his father in the great 
manufacturing house of Steinway and 
Sons, until his death. 

STEINWAY, HENRY ENGELHARD, 
founder of the great piano manufacturing 
house of Steinway and Sons, was born 
Feb. 15, 1797, in North Germany. He 
came to America in 1849, and in 1853 
founded the house of Steinway and Sons 
in New York city. They also own large 
warerooms, and in 1866 built Steinway 
Hall. He died Feb. 7, 1871, in New York 
city. 


STEINWAY, WILLIAM, piano manu¬ 
facturer, and president of Steinway and 
Sons, was born March 5, 1836, near the 
city of Brunswick, 
Germany. In 1853 
he joined his father 
and his brothers in 
the founding of the 
L| house of Steinway 

WSJ •*7 and Sons. With four 

or five workmen, the 
Steinways built one 
square piano a week, 
and to-day they own 
and operate the larg¬ 
est piano factory in 
the world, having 
manufactured over one hundred thousand 
pianos since they first entered the busi¬ 
ness in America. William Steinway has 
taken an active part in the public affairs 
of New York city; was a democratic elect¬ 
or in 1892; and the following year was 
unanimously elected president of the elec¬ 
toral college. As rapid transit commis¬ 
sioner of the city of New York he became 
very popular. 



STELLHORN, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 
1841 in Germany. He is a lutheran cler¬ 
gyman of Ohio, professor of theology in 
Capitol university, and has published a 
Lexicon of New Testament Greek; Anno¬ 
tations on the Acts of the Apostles; and 
Annotations on the Gospels. 

STEMBEL, ROGER NELSON, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born Dec. 27, 1810, in Middle- 
town, Md. He co-operated with the army 
in suppressing the 
rising of the Semi¬ 
nole Indians in Flo¬ 
rida in 1836; and 
did brilliant service 
in the Mexican war 
of 1846. In the civil 
war he was instru¬ 
mental in organizing 
the union gunboat 
flotilla on the west¬ 
ern waters, and was 
in command of the 
gunboat Lexington 
at the battle of Belmont. He assisted 
in the capture of Fort Henry, command¬ 
ing the gunboat Cincinnati, where he had 
the honor of receiving the surrender of 
the fort, and of hoisting Old Glory for 
the first time over southern territory. He 
was in command of the same gunboat dur¬ 
ing the protracted bombardment and final 
capture of island No. 10 on the Mississippi 
river, and while still in command of the 
Cincinnati he was seriously and almost 
mortally wounded by a rifle ball passing 
through his throat during the bombard¬ 
ment of Fort Pillow. This wound in¬ 



valided him for nearly two years, when he 
again was connected with the western 
gunboat flotilla until the close of the war. 
He is now on the retired list as rear-ad¬ 
miral United States navy. 

STENGER, WILLIAM S., lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, was born Feb. 13, 
1840, in London, Pa. He served as dis¬ 
trict attorney for Franklin county, Pa., 
and in 1874 was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth 
congress, and was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth congress as a democrat. 

STEPHEN, ADAM, soldier, was born 
about 1730 in Virginia. He was made a 
brigadier-general in 1776, and in 1777 was 
promoted major-general. 

STEPHEN, MRS. ELIZABETH (WILL- 
ISON), author, was born in 1856 in Ala¬ 
bama. She is the wife of a presbyterian 
clergyman in Rockport, Ill., and the au¬ 
thor of The Confessions of Two, a novel. 

STEPHEN, HARLAN E., poet. He is a 
successful writer of Iowa, and the author 
of a number of meritorious poems. He 
has taken an active part in the public 
affairs of his county and state, and has. 
filled a number of local offices in Glen- 
wood. 

STEPHENS, ABRAHAM P., congress¬ 
man, was born in New York. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
that state from 1851 to 1853. 

STEPHENS, ALEXANDER HAMIL¬ 
TON, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 11, 1812, in 
Crawfordsville, Ga. In 1836 he was elect¬ 
ed to the lower house of the Georgia state 
legislature, where he served five years; 
and in 1842 was elected to the senate of 
his state. In 1843 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Georgia, to 
which position he was regularly re-elected 
to the close of the thirty-fifth congress. 
He became identified with the rebellion of 
1861, and was chosen vice-president and 
member of congress of the so-called 
southern confederacy. In 1866 he was 
elected a senator in congress, but was 
not admitted, and was subsequently elect¬ 
ed a representative to the forty-third, 
forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth and 
forty-seventh congresses. In 1882 he was 
elected governor of Georgia. He was the 
author of School History of the United 
States; History of the War Between the 
States; and Compendium of United States 
History. He died March 4, 1883, in At¬ 
lanta, Ga. 

STEPHENS, ALICE BARKER, artist, 
was born in 1858, in New Jersey. For 
many years she was engaged in wood 
engraving and as an illustrator for Har¬ 
per’s, Century and other leading maga¬ 
zines. For three years she taught por¬ 
trait and life classes in the Philadelphia 
School of Design for Women. 

STEPHENS, MRS. ANN SOPHIA 
(WINTERBOTHAM), author, poet, was 
born in 1813 in Derby, Conn. She was a 
novelist of New York city whose books 
were at one time much read. Among 
them are, Fashion and Famine, her best 
work; A Story of Western Life; The Old 
Homestead; Myra, the Child of Adoption; 
The Heiress; Wives and Widows; The 
Curse of Gold; and A Popular History of 
the United States. She wrote not a little 
verse, her best known poem being the 
familiar Polish Boy. She died Aug. 20, 
1886, in Newport, R. I. 

STEPHENS, HARRIET MARION, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1823. She was the au¬ 
thor of Home Scenes and Home Sounds; 
and Hagar the Martyr, a novel. She died 
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STEPHENS, HENRY LOUIS, book-il¬ 
lustrator, was born Feb. 11, 1824, in Phil¬ 
adelphia. He was well known as a cari¬ 
caturist, excelling especially in the hu¬ 
morous delineation of animals, and drew 
cartoons and sketches for Vanity Fair; 
Mrs. Grundy; Punchinello; and other 
periodicals. He died Dec. 13, 1882, in 
Bayonne, N. J. 

STEPHENS, JAMES ATTISON, lawyer, 
business man, was born Jan. 18, 1869, near 
Buchanan, Texas. He has had a very 
varied career, and is now a prominent 
lawyer of Benjamin, Texas, where he is 
also engaged in real estate, and is prom¬ 
inent in the public affairs of his city, 
county and state. 

STEPHENS, JOHN H., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in Shel¬ 
by county, Texas. He graduated from the 
law department of 
Cumberland univer¬ 
sity of Lebanon, 
Tenn., in 1872, and 
has practiced law 
since at Montague, 
Montague county, 
and Vernon, Wil¬ 
barger county, Tex. 
He served as state 
senator in the twen¬ 
ty-first and twenty- 
second legislatures 
of Texas, and was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

STEPHENS, JOHN PHARES, farmer, 
clergyman, legislator, author, was born 
Sept. 28, 1836, near Manilla, Ind. In 
1860 he was ordained a pastor of the bap¬ 
tist church, and has since filled import¬ 
ant pastorates in Ohio and Kansas; and 
is now filling a pastorate in the baptist 
church at Wellsville, Kan. In 1891 he 
served with distinction as a representa¬ 
tive in the Kansas state legislature; is 
a prominent member of the Farmers’ 
Alliance, and is the author of several 
works. 

STEPHENS. LINTON, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, was born July 1, 
1823, in Crawfordsville, Ga. He repre¬ 
sented the counties of Taliaferro and Han¬ 
cock in the legislature for several years. 
In 1858 he was appointed to a vacancy 
in the supreme court of Georgia, and his 
decisions, contained in three volumes oi 
the Georgia Reports, are characterized by 
their precision, perspicuity, and power of 
logic. He died July 14, 1872, in Sparta, 
Ga. 

STEPHENS, PHILANDER, congress¬ 
man. He was a member of the house 
of representatives in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1829 to 1833. He died July 
8, 1842, in Springfield, Pa. 

STEPHENS, THOMAS, author. He was 
the author of The Castle Builder, or the 
History of William Stephens, of the Isle 
of Wight. 

STEPHENS, URIAH S., was born Aug. 
3, 1821, near Cape May, N. J. He was 
one of the founders of the order of the 
Knights of Labor. He died Feb. 13, 1882. 

STEPHENS, WILLIAM, governor, was 
born Jan. 22, 1671, in England. He was 
a colonial governor of Georgia in 1743-50, 
who published a Journal of the Proceed¬ 
ings in Georgia. He died in August, 1753, 
in Georgia. 

STEPHENS, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
was a citizen of Georgia. In 1801 he was 
appointed judge of the United States dis¬ 
trict court for the district of Georgia. 

STEPHENSON, BENJAMIN, congress¬ 
man. He was a delegate in congress from 
Illinois territory from 1814 to 1816, when 
he was appointed receiver of public mon¬ 
eys at Edwardsville, Ill. 


STEPHENSON, ISAAC, merchant, state 
legislator, congressman, was born June 
18, 1826, near Frederickton, N. B. In 1845 
he moved to Milwaukee, Wis., and in 
1858 removed to Marinette. He held vari¬ 
ous local offices, and was a representative 
in the state legislature in 1866 and 1868. 
He was elected a representative from 
Wisconsin to the forty-eighth congress; 
was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fif¬ 
tieth congresses as a republican. 

STEPHENSON, JAMES, soldier, state 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
20, 1764, in Gettysburg, Pa. He command¬ 
ed a company in the campaign of General 
St. Clair; was present at the quelling of 
the whisky insurrection in Pennsylvania, 
and was promoted to the office of brigade 
inspector. He served for many years as 
a delegate to the Virginia assembly; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1803 to 1805, from 1809 
to 1811, and again from 1822 to 1825. He 
died in August, 1833. 

STEPHENSON, JAMES S., congress¬ 
man, was born in York county, Pa. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1829. He died 
Oct. 17, 1831, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

STEPHENSON, LUTHER, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born April 25, 1830, in Hing- 
ham, Mass. He served in the civil war at¬ 
taining the rank of lieutenant-colonel; 
and is also author and composer of a 
number of patriotic songs. 

STEPHENSON, SAMUEL M„ agricult¬ 
urist, merchant, state senator, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1831 in New Brunswick. 
He was chairman of the board of super¬ 
visors of Menominee county for several 
years; was a representative in the Mich¬ 
igan state legislature in 1877-78, and a 
member of the senate in 1879-80 and 1885- 
86. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty- 
second, and fifty-third congresses and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

STEPHENSON, WILLIAM WORTH, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 24, 1857, 
in Madison county, N. Y. He received a 
thorough education 
in the Daughters col¬ 
lege, Kentucky uni¬ 
versity and the 
Bethany college of 
West Virginia, from 
which latter institu¬ 
tion he received the 
degrees of A. B. and 
A. M. In 1879-80 he 
was principal of the 
Harrodsburg acad¬ 
emy. In 1881 he was 
admitted to the bar; 
and has given his chief attention to the 
practice of law, and is now one of the 
foremost lawyers of the south at Harrods¬ 
burg. In 1889 he was elected a member 
of the Kentucky state legislature; re¬ 
elected in 1891 and served in the long 
session of 1891-93 as a member of the 
judiciary and other committees. In 1893 
he was elected to the state senate and 
served in the sessions of 1894, 1896 and 
1897, and took an active part in the de¬ 
liberations of those assemblies. In 1896 
he was a delegate to the convention of 
national democrats at Indianapolis; and 
has always taken a deep interest in po¬ 
litical affairs. 

STERIGERE, JOHN B., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Montgomery county, Pa., from 1827 to 
1831. 

STERLING, ANSEL, congressman, was 
born in New London county. Conn. He 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1821 to 1825. 


STERLING, MICAH, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1781 in Lyme, 
Conn. He was for some years a member 
of the New York legislature; and was 
a representative in congress from 1821 
to 1823. He died April 10, 1844, in Water- 
town, N. Y. 

STERLING, RICHARD, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1812 in Ireland. He 
prepared a series of school-readers and 
spelling-books that came into general 
use throughout the southern and south¬ 
western states. In 1873 he opened a 
boarding-school in Evansville, Ind., and 
in 1875 removed to Mocksville, N. C., 
where he kept a similar school till 1880, 
when he was elected superintendent of 
the public schools of the county. He died 
Oct. 3, 1883, in Mocksville, N. C. 

STERN, SIMON ADLER, author, was 
born in 1838 in Pennsylvania. He is the 
author of Florentine Nights; Excerpts; 
and Jottings of Travel in Lhina and 
Japan. 

STERNBERG, GEORGE MILLER, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born June 8, 1838, in Ot¬ 
sego county, N. Y. In 1861 he was ap¬ 
pointed assistant-surgeon in the United 
States army; captain and assistant-sur¬ 
geon in 1866; major and surgeon in 
1875; lieutenant-colonel and deputy sur¬ 
geon-general in 1891; and brigadier-gen¬ 
eral and surgeon-general in 1893. He is 
the author of Photo-Micrographs; Ma¬ 
laria and Malarial Diseases; Bacteria, 
from the French of Maguin; Immunity: 
Protective Inoculations in Infectious Di¬ 
seases; and Manual of Bacteriology. 

STERNE, SIMON, lawyer, author, was 
born July 23, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He studied at the university of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and also at 
the university of 
Heidelberg, and was 
admitted to the bar 
at Philadelphia in 
1859, and to the bar 
at New York in 1860, 
at which latter place 
he has since been 
practicing his pro¬ 
fession. He deliv¬ 
ered many addresses 
on politico-econom¬ 
ical subjects. In 1870 
wrote Representative Government, and in 
1881 Constitutional Development and Po¬ 
litical History of the United States, and 
contributed a number of articles to La- 
lor’s Cyclopaedia of Political Science and 
United States History. He was appoint¬ 
ed by Gov. Tilden in 1875 on the com¬ 
mission to devise a plan for the govern¬ 
ment of the cities of New York, and in 
1884 was commissioned by President 
Cleveland to report on the relation of the 
railways of western Europe to their gov¬ 
ernments. In 1895 he was appointed by 
Gov. Morton as one of a commission to 
recommend changes in methods of legis¬ 
lation. He has been counsel for many 
prominent bankers, private corporations 
and railway companies, and is regarded 
as one of the leading corporation lawyers 
in New York. On June 8, 1870, he mar¬ 
ried Mathilde Elsberg, sister of the late 
Prof. Louis Elsberg, the celebrated 
laryngologist, and has one child, Alice L. 
Sterne. 

STERRETT, JOHN ROBERT SITLING- 
TON, educator, author, was born in 1851 
in Virginia. He is a professor of Greek 
at Amherst college from 1892; and the 
author of Qua in re Hymni Homerici 
quinque majores inter se differunt; In¬ 
scriptions of Assos; Epigraphical Jour¬ 
ney in Asia Minor; and The Wolfe Expe¬ 
dition to Asia Minor. 









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STERRETT, SAMUEL, congressman. 
He was a member of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives of the United States from 
Maryland from 1791 to 1793, me died 
July 12, 1833, in Baltimore, Md. 

STETEFELDT, CARL AUGUST, civil 
engineer, inventor* author, was born Sept. 
28, 1838, in Germany. He is widely Known 
through the mining districts by his in¬ 
vention of the Stetefeldt furnace, which 
is extensively used in the west for the 
roasting of silver ores preparatory to the 
extraction of the metal by either amalga¬ 
mation or lixiviation. Besides technical 
papers he has written The Lixiviation of 
Silver Ores with Hyposulphite Solutions. 

STETSON, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1801, in 
New Ipswich, N. H. In 1834 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the municipal court of 
Bangor, Maine. In 1845 he was elected 
a member of the executive council of the 
state; and re-elected three years in suc¬ 
cession. In 1848 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Maine to the thirty-first 
congress. He died March 27, 1883, in 
Bangor, Maine. 

STETSON, JAMES BURGESS, mer¬ 
chant, railroad president, was born March 
27, 1831, in Kingston, Mass. He is presi¬ 
dent and general manager of The North 
Pacific Coast railroad and The California 
Street Cable railroad in San Francisco 
and has banking and industrial interests. 
He has been supervisor for two years in 
San Francisco. 

STETSON, JOHN BATTERSON, manu¬ 
facturer, was born May 5, 1830, in Orange, 
N. J. He is president of the John B. Stet¬ 
son company, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
An interesting feature of the Stetson 
factories is" the amount of space set 
apart for the entertainment of op¬ 
eratives. There are reading rooms, a 
parlor, a hall which will seat two thou¬ 
sand persons, a library, a dispensary, and 
an armory, and he has also promoted the 
formation of a Sunday school and vari¬ 
ous literary and other societies. 

STETSON, LEMUEL, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman. He served 
three years in the assembly of New York; 
and was a representative in congress from 
1843 to 1845. He was county judge of 
Clinton county from 1847 to 1851. 

STEUART, GEORGE H„ soldier, was 
born Aug. 24, 1828, in Baltimore, Md. In 
1862 he became brigadier-general. He 
defended the bloody angle at the battle of 
the Wilderness against Hancock’s corps, 
and was taken prisoner, but exchanged in 
the winter of 1864-65. Since the war he 
has resided in Baltimore. 

STEUART, JAMES ALOYSIUS, physi¬ 
cian, was born April 3, 1828, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He established himself in 
practice in Baltimore, and became phy¬ 
sician to the city general dispensary, and 
assistant physician to the Maryland hos¬ 
pital for the insane. Since 1875 he has 
been health commissioner, registrar of 
vital statistics, and president of the city 
board of health. 

STEUART, RICHARD SPRIGG, physi¬ 
cian, was born Nov. 1, 1797, in Baltimore, 
Md. Beginning practice in Baltimore, he 
was elected in 1828 president of the Mary¬ 
land hospital for the insane, which he re¬ 
organized, and of which he was presi¬ 
dent till his death. He died July 13, 1876, 
in Baltimore, Md. 

STEVENS, AARON FLETCHER, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 9, 1819, in Derry, 
N. H. In 1849 he was elected to the New 
Hampshire state legislature; was re¬ 
elected, and served five years as a state 
solicitor. In 1861 he entered the volun¬ 


teer army as major in the first New 
Hampshire infantry, and for his gallantry 
was brevetted a brigadier-general. He 
was elected a representative from New 
Hampshire to the fortieth and forty-first 
congresses as a republican. He died May 
10, 1887, in Nashua, N. H. 

STEVENS, ABEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 19, 1815, in Philadelphia. 
He is a methodist clergyman of New York 
city of prominence as a writer, and long 
connected with the Methodist Book Con¬ 
cern. He is the author of History of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in the United 
States; History of Methodism; Life of 
Madame de Stael; Life of Nathan Bangs; 
Character Sketches; Women of Method¬ 
ism; Christian Work and Consolation; 
Church Polity; and Tales from the Par¬ 
sonage. 

STEVENS, ALEXANDER HODGDON, 
surgeon, author, was born Sept. 4, 1789, 
in New York city. He was a surgeon of 
New York city, whose chief works are, 
Inflammation of the Eye; Lectures on 
Lithotomy; and First Lines of Surgery. 
He died March 30, 1869, in New York 
city. 

STEVENS, AUGUSTA DE GRASSE, art 
critic, author, was born in 186— in New 
York. He is a novelist and art critic 
who has lived in London for many years; 
and is the author of Distance, a novelette; 
Old Boston, an American Historical Ro¬ 
mance; Weighed in the Balance; The 
Lost Dauphin; Miss Hildreth; The Sen¬ 
sation of the Season; and A Romantic 
Inheritance. 

STEVENS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
bibliographer, author, was born Feb. 19, 
1833, in Barnet, Vt. He is a bibliographer 
who has edited Campaign in Virginia in 
1781; and Facsimiles of Manuscripts in 
European Archives Relating to America, 
1773-83. 

STEVENS, BRADFORD N., educator, 
congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1813, in 
Boscawen, N. H. He was elected a repre^ 
sentative from Illinois to the forty-second 
congress as an independent democrat. 

STEVENS, CHARLES ASBURY, au¬ 
thor, was born in October, 1845, in Nor¬ 
way. Since 1870 he has devoted himself 
to literary labor, contributing to the peri¬ 
odical press and to the preparation of 
books for youthful readers, with the titles 
Camping Out; Left on Labrador; Off to 
the Geysers; On the Amazon; Lynx 
Hunting; Fox Hunting; and The Moose 
Hunters. He is one of the editors of 
the Youth’s Companion. 

S i EVENS, CHARLES ELLIS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 5, 1853, in 
Boston, Mass. He is an episcopal clergy¬ 
man of Philadelphia; and the author of 
The Sources of the Constitution of the 
United States in Relation to Co’lonial and 
English History. 

STEVENS, CHARLES FORD, railroad 
president, was born June 21, 1850, in 
Geneva, N. Y. He is president of the 
Central railway of New Brunswick at 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

STEVENS. EDWARD, soldier, was born 
about 1745, in Culpeper county, Va. He 
served through the revolutionary war, 
and attained the rank of brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He died Aug. 17, 1820, in Culpeper 
county, Va. ^ 

STEVENS, FREDERICK CLEMENT, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Jan. 1, 1861, in Boston, Mass. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1884, and com¬ 
menced practice in St. Paul. He was 
elected to the state legislature of Min¬ 
nesota in sessions of 1888-89 and 1890-91; 
and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 


STEVENS, GEORGE BARKER, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born July 
13, 1854, in Spencer, N. Y. He is a congre¬ 
gational clergyman and educator of New 
Haven, and professor in Yale Divinity 
school from 1886. He is the author of 
Commentary on Galatians; The Pauline 
Theology; The Johannine Theology; and 
Doctrine and Life. 

STEVENS, H. S., state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1832 in Weston, Vt. 
In 1856 he located in that portion now 
Arizona; and was a representative in 
the territorial legislature of Arizona from 
1868 to 1873. He was elected a delegate 
from Arizona to the forty-fourth and 
forty-fifth congresses. 

STEVENS, HENRY, antiquary, state 
legislator, was born Dec. 13, 1791, in Bar- 
net, Vt. He was the founder and first 
president of the Vermont Historical so¬ 
ciety. The most valuable part of his col¬ 
lection was placed for safe-keeping in the 
state house at Montpelier, where in 1857 
it was burned. He was a member of the 
legislature for two terms. He died July 
30, 1867, in Barnet, Vt. 

STEVENS, HENRY, bibliographer, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 24, 181.9, in Barnet, 
Vt. He was a bibliographer of prom¬ 
inence, who lived in London after 1845; 
and the author of Historical Nuggets; 
Historical Collections; Recollections of 
James Lenox; The Tehuantepec Railway; 
Historical and Geographical Notes; The 
Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition; Cata¬ 
logue of the American Books in the Brit¬ 
ish Museum; and indexes to state papers 
in London relating to Virginia, Maryland, 
Rhode Island, and New Jersey. He died 
Feb. 24, 1886, in England. 

STEVENS, HESTOR L., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in October, 1803, in 
Lima, N. Y. He moved to Michigan; and 
was elected a representative in congress 
from that state from 1853 to 1855. He 
died May 7, 1864, in Georgetown, D. C. 

STEVENS, ISAAC INGALLS, soldier, 
civil engineer, governor, was born March 
28, 1818, in Andover, Mass. He was at 
the siege of Vera 
Cruz under General 
Scott; fought in 
several subsequent 
battles; and was 
twice brevetted for 
gallant services. He 
served for a time as 
an assistant in the 
coast survey office in 
Washington city; 
and in 1853 was ap- 
pointed governor 
and superintendent 
of Indian affairs for the territory of 
Washington. In 1857 he was elected a 
delegate to congress from Washington 
territory, where he continued to serve 
until the breaking out of the rebellion. 
When governor of Washington territory 
he traveled throughout its whole extent; 
and as commissioner made many treaties 
with the Indian tribes. In 1861 he was 
appointed a brigadier-general in the vol¬ 
unteer service. He was killed in the 
battle of Bull Run Sept. 1, 1862, near 
Chantilly, Va. 

STEVENS, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in 1768 in Fairfield, Conn. He 
served in congress as a representative 
from Connecticut from 1819 to 1821, vot¬ 
ing with the south on the Missouri com¬ 
promise. In 1822 he was appointed post¬ 
master of Stamford. He died in April, 
1835, in Stamford, Conn. 




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STEVENS, JAMES ALEXANDER, law¬ 
yer, was born Jan. 29, 1790, in New York 
city. In connection with Thomas Gib¬ 
bons, he established the Union steamboat 
line between New York and Philadelphia, 
which led to the suit of Ogden vs. Gib¬ 
bons, memorable for the decision that 
placed all the navigable waters of the 
United States under the jurisdiction of 
the general government. He died Oct. 7, 
1873, in Hoboken, N. J. 

STEVENS, JOHN, civil engineer, was 
born in 1749 in New York city. In 1776- 
79 he was treasurer of New Jersey. In 
1804 he built a vessel propelled by twin 
screws that navigated the Hudson; and 
the engine and boiler of this steamboat 
are preserved in the Stevens institute of 
Hoboken, N. J. 

STEVENS, JOHN AUSTIN, author, was 
born Jan. 21, 1827, in New York city. 
He is an author of New York city, and 
later of Newport, R. I., who founded the 
(Magazine of American History; The 
Valley of the Rio Grande; The Expedi¬ 
tion of Lafayette against Arnold; and 
Life of Albert Gallatin. 

STEVENS, JOHN COX, was born Sept. 
24, 1785. He was from his youth a de¬ 
voted yachtsman. He organized the New 
York Yacht club, was its first commo¬ 
dore, and commanded the America in the 
memorable race in England in 1851. He 
died June 13, 1857, in Hoboken, N. J. 

STEVENS, JOHN LEAVITT, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, state senator, author, was 
born Aug. 1, 1820, in Mt. Vernon, Maine. 
He became associated with James G. 
Blaine in the ownership and management 
of the Kennebec Journal newspaper of 
Augusta, Maine, in which he continued 
for thirteen years as editor-in-chief. He 
served five years in the state legislature, 
three years in the lower house, and two 
years in the senate. He was United States 
minister to Uruguay and Paraguay from 
1870 to 1873. In 1877 he was appointed 
United States minister to Sweden and 
Norway, which post he resigned in 1883. 
He was the author of History of Gustavus 
Adolphus. He died in 1895. 

STEVENS, LILLIAN M. N„ educator, 
reformer, was born in 1844 in Maine. 
In 1898 she became president of the 
Woman’s Christian Temperance union. 

STEVENS, MOSES T.. manufacturer, 
banker, state senator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 10, 1825, in North Andover, 
Mass. Since 1843 he has been engaged 
in the manufacture of woolen goods 
In North Andover. He was a member of 
the Massachusetts house of representa¬ 
tives in 1861; and of the senate in 1868. 
He is president of Andover National 
bank; and was elected to the fifty-second 
and re-elected to the fifty-third congress 
as a democrat. 

STEVENS, ROBERT LIVINGSTON, 
builder, was born Oct. 18, 1787, in Ho¬ 
boken, N. J. In 1842 he built the first 
ironclad steamboat. He died April 20, 
1856, in Hoboken, N. J. 

STEVENS, ROBERT S., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 27, 1824, in 
Attica, N. Y. He removed to Missouri in 
1870, and engaged in the construction and 
management of railroads. In 1879 he re¬ 
turned to his native place and settled 
there; and was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. He served on nu¬ 
merous important committees while a 
member of congress. 

STEVENS, SAMUEL, governor. He 
was governor of Maryland from 1822 to 
1826. 


STEVENS, THADDEUS, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born April 
4, 1792, in Danville, Vt. In 1833 he was 
elected to the Penn¬ 
sylvania state legis¬ 
lature, and was 
again elected in 1834, 
1835, 1837, and 1841. 
In 1836 he was elect¬ 
ed a member of the 
convention to revise 
the state constitu¬ 
tion; and in 1838 
was appointed a ca¬ 
nal commissioner. 
In 1842 he moved to 
Lancaster, Pa.; was 
elected a representative from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the thirty-first, thirty-sec¬ 
ond, thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirty- 

eighth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth con¬ 
gresses. He was also one of the man¬ 
agers in the impeachment trial of Presi¬ 
dent Andrew Johnson. He died Aug. 11, 
1868, in Washington, D. C. 

STEVENS, THADDEUS MORRELL, 
journalist, physician, educator, author, 
was born Aug. 29, 1830, in Indianapolis, 
Ind. He was professor of medical juris¬ 
prudence and toxicology in the Indiana 
Medical college and in the college of 
Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis. 
His publications include brochures on 

Expert Testimony; State Boards of 
Health; and Automatic Filtration. He 
died Nov. 8, 1885, in Indianapolis, Ind. 

STEVENS, THOMAS, cyclist, author, 
was born Dec. 24, 1855, in England. He is 
a noted cyclist who has published Scout¬ 
ing for Stanley in East Africa; Around 
the World on a Bicycle: From San Fran¬ 
cisco to Teheran, From Teheran to Yoko¬ 
hama; and Through Russia on a Mus¬ 
tang. 

STEVENS, THOMAS HOLDUP, naval 
officer, was born May 27, 1819, in Middle- 
town, Conn. In 1836 he was appointed 
a midshipman; and served with distinc¬ 
tion through the civil war. 

STEYENS, WALTER HUSTED, sol¬ 
dier, civil engineer, was born Aug. 24, 
1827, in Penn Yan, N. Y. In 1862 he 
attained the rank of brigadier-general on 
the staff of Gen. Bragg. He was subse¬ 
quently chief engineer of the railroad 
from Vera Cruz to Mexico. He died in 
December, 1867, in Iberville, La. 

STEVENS, WALTER LE CONTE, phy¬ 
sicist, educator, inventor, author, was 
born June 17, 1847, in Gordon county, 
Ga. He was called in 1882 to the chair 
of mathematics and physics in Packer 
Collegiate institute in Brooklyn. In con¬ 
nection with his class-work he has in¬ 
vented various improved forms of physic¬ 
al apparatus, of which his organ-pipe 
sonometer and reversible stereoscope are 
the best known, descriptions of which 
have been published in the American 
Journal of Science. 

STEVENS, WILLIAM BACON, bishop, 
was born July 13, 1815, in Bath, Maine. 
He was the fourth protestant episcopal 
bishop of Pennsylvania, consecrated in 
1862; and the author of History of 
Georgia; The Bow in the Cloud; Ser¬ 
mons; Sabbaths of Our Lord; Parables 
of the New Testament Unfolded; History 
of Silk Culture in Georgia; and The Sun¬ 
day at Home. He died June 11, 1887, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

STEVENSON, ADLAI E., vice-presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born Oct. 
23, 1835, in Christian county, Ky. He 
moved in 1869 to Bloomington, Ill., where 
he has since resided. He was a member 
of the forty-fourth and forty-sixth con¬ 
gresses. He was first assistant post¬ 
master-general from 1885 to 1889. He 


was nominated for vice-president by the 
democratic national convention in 1892; 
and was duly elected, and took the oath 
of office on March 4, 1893. 

STEVENSON, ANDREW, agriculturist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
in 1784 in Culpeper county, Va. He was 
a member of the Virginia state legislature 
where for several sessions he was elected 
speaker of the house. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Virginia from 
1821 to 1834; and during the twentieth, 
twenty-first, and twenty-second con¬ 
gresses from 1828 to 1834 was speaker of 
the house. In 1836 he was appointed 
minister to Great Britain, and remained 
there until 1841. He died Jan. 25, 1857, 
in Blenheim, Va. 

STEVENSON, CHARLES COBURN, ed¬ 
ucator, lawyer, public official, was born 
Nov. 29, 1862, in Red Bluff, Cal. He re¬ 
ceived a thorough education in the public 
schools of California and Idaho; attended 
St. Matthew’s Hall Military academy of 
San Mateo; Sockett’s school of Oakland; 
and the university of Michigan. He has 
been county superintendent of schools ahd 
county attorney for Ada county, Idaho; 
territorial superintendent of public in¬ 
struction of Idaho; and city attorney of 
Boise, Idaho, where he is engaged in 
the practice of law. He has been chief 
clerk in the United States surveyor-gen¬ 
eral’s office for Idaho; is prominent in 
several fraternal orders; and historian 
of the Idaho Historical society of Pi¬ 
oneers. 

STEVENSON, EDWARD A„ lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, was born June 14, 1831, in Low- 
ville, N. Y. In 1853 he was elected a 
representative in the California legisla¬ 
ture; and was the only one of eight rep¬ 
resentatives from the same county who 
was re-elected in 1854. In 1859 he was 
again elected a representative in the leg¬ 
islature, and at the session of 1860 was 
elected speaker pro tern, of the house. 
In 1863 he removed to Boise county, 
Idaho. In 1864 he was elected a justice 
of the peace; and in 1866 was elected a 
member of the territorial council of Idaho. 
In 1874 he was elected a member of the 
territorial assembly, and was unanimous¬ 
ly elected speaker of the assembly. In 
1876 he was again elected to the terri¬ 
torial council for two years; and in 1885 
was appointed governor of the territory 
of Idaho. 

STEVENSON, E[DWARD] IREN^EUS, 
litterateur, author, was born in 1858 in 
New Jersey. He is a writer of New York 
city, since 1881 the editor of The New 
York Independent, and for many years an 
editor of Harper’s Weekly. He has been 
the musical editor of several journals for 
a number of years. He is the author of 
White Cockades, an Incident of the Forty- 
five; Janus, reissued as A Matter of Tem¬ 
perament, a musical novel; Left to Them¬ 
selves, reissued as Philip and Gerald; 
Mrs. Dee’s Encore; and A Square of 
Sevens. 

STEVENSON, JOB E„ lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 10, 
1831, in Ross county, Ohio. He was so¬ 
licitor of Chillicothe, Ohio, from 1859 to 
1862; and was a state senator from 1863 
to 1865, when he removed to Cincinnati. 
He was elected to the forty-first and forty- 
second congresses as a republican. 

STEVENSON, JOHN D., soldier, state 
legislator, was born June 8, 1821, in 
Staunton, Va. He was a member for sev¬ 
eral terms in the Missouri state legisla¬ 
ture from St. Louis. In 1861 he raised 
the seventh Missouri regiment; and the 
following year was made brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers. 



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S iEVENSON, JOHN WHITE, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
May 4, 1812, in Richmond, Va. He was 
elected to the Kentucky legislature iD 
1845, 1846, and 1847. He was one of the 
three commissioners appointed to revise 
the civil and criminal code of Kentucky. 
He was elected a representative to the 
thirty-fifth congress from that state; and 
was re-elected to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress. In 1867 he was elected lieutenant- 
governor of Kentucky, and acted as gov¬ 
ernor. In 1871 he entered the United 
States senate for the term ending in 1877. 
He died Aug. 10, 1886, in Covington, Ky. 

STEVENSON, SARAH HACKETT, 
physician, author, was born Feb. 2, 1843, 
in Buffalo Grove, Ill. In 1876 she was a 
delegate from the Illinois State Medical 
society to the American Medical associa¬ 
tion at Philadelphia, and was the first 
woman physician to be elected a member 
of that body. She was one of the pro¬ 
moters of the Home for Incurables and 
Training School for Nurses in Chicago, 
and outside of her large practice has 
found time to publish works on Biology, 
in two volumes; and Physiology. 

STEVENSON, THOMAS GREELY, sol¬ 
dier, was born Feb. 3, 1836, in Boston, 
Mass. He successfully defended Wash¬ 
ington, N. C., against a superior force; 
and became a brigadier-general. He was 
killed at the head of his troops in the 
battle of Spottsvlvania. A memoir of 
Gen. Stevenson was printed privately 
after his death. He died May 10, 1864, 
near Spottsylvania, Va. 

STEVENSON, WILLIAM C., educator, 
author, was born Dec. 25, 1864, in Vernon 
county, Wis. He is a successful educator, 
and since 1890 has been professor of 
bookkeeping and penmanship in the Kan¬ 
sas State Normal school of Emporia, the 
largest normal school in the world. He 
is the author of a text-book on Book¬ 
keeping, which has been adopted for use 
in all the schools of Kansas. 

STEVENSON, WILLIAM E„ governor. 
He was governor of West Virginia from 
1869 to 1871. 

STEVENSON, WILLIAM H„ railroad 
president, was born in 1847 in Bridge¬ 
port, Conn. In 1887 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the New York, Rutland and Mon¬ 
treal railroad and director and trustee 
of numerous other corporations. 

STEWARD, LEWIS, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 20, 1824, in 
Wayne county. Pa. He has been engaged 
in farming and manufacturing in Plano, 
Ill.; and was democratic candidate for 
governor in 1876. He was elected to the 
fifty-second congress as a democrat. He 
died Aug. 27, 1896, in Plano, Ill. 

STEWART, ALEXANDER, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. He was judge of the United States 
for the territory of Illinois, and held the 
position until the organization of the 
state government in 1818. 

STEWART, ALEXANDER, merchant, 
congressman, was born Sept. 12, 1829, in 
Canada. In 1849 he moved to where the 
city of Wausau is now located, engaging 
in the lumber business, which occupation 
he has ever since followed. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

STEWART, ALEXANDER PETER, 
soldier, educator, was born Oct. 2, 1821, in 
Rogersville, Tenn. He became brigadier- 
general in the confederate army in 1861, 
major-general in 1863, and lieutenant- 
general in 1864. In 1868 he became pro¬ 
fessor of mathematics and natural phi¬ 
losophy in the university of Mississippi, 
and chancellor of the university. 


STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY, 
merchant, was born Oct. 12, 1802, in Ire¬ 
land. He was considered the greatest 
merchant in the world. He is said to 
have made his immense fortune by at¬ 
tending to details, and following closely 
the one priced system of merchandising 
of which he was the father. He died 
April 10, 1876, in New York city. 

STEWART, ALVAN, reformer, was 
born Sept. 1, 1790, in South Granville, 
N. Y. He removed to Utica, N. Y. His 
life was mainly given to the temperance 
and the anti-slavery causes. A volume of 
his speeches was published in 1860. He 
died May 1, 1849, in New York city. 

STEWART, ANDREW, agriculturist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born in 
June, 1792, in Fayette county, Pa. He was 
elected to the Pennsylvania state legisla¬ 
ture, and served three years; and was 
appointed by President Monroe district 
attorney for western Pennsylvania. He 
was a representative in congress from 
1821 to 1829, from 1831 to 1835, and from 
1843 to 1847. He died July 16, 1872, in 
Uniontown, Pa. 

STEWART. ARCHIBALD, congress¬ 
man. He was a delegate from New Jer¬ 
sey to the continental congress in 1784 
and 1785 to fill a temporary vacancy. 

STEWART, AUSTIN, educator, author, 
was born about 1793 in Prince William 
county, Va. He was an author and edu¬ 
cator of African descent who published 
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty 
Years a Freeman. He died about 1860. 

STEWART, CHARLES, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1729 in Ireland. 
He became a deputy surveyor-general of 
the province of Pennsylvania. In 1777 he 
was appointed by congress commissary- 
general of issues in the continental army, 
serving as such on Washington’s staff 
till the close of the war. In 1784-85 he 
was a representative from New Jersey in 
congress. He died July 24, 1800, in Flem- 
ington, N. J. 

STEWART, CHARLES, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born May 30. 
1836, in Memphis, Tenn. In 1866 he 
moved to Houston, Texas; was city at¬ 
torney in 1872; and served two terms as 
a state senator. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Texas to the forty-eighth, 
forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty- 
second congresses as a democrat. 

STEWART, CHARLES SAMUEL, cler¬ 
gyman. author, was born Oct. 16, 1795, in 
Flemington, N. J. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman, chaplain in the navy; and the 
author of Residence at the Sandwich 
Islands in 1822-23; Visit to the South 
Seas in the Ship Vincennes; Sketches of 
Society in Great Britain and Ireland in 
1832; Brazil and La Plata in 1850-63; and 
Personal Record of a Cruise. He died 
Dec. 15, 1870, in Cooperstown, N. Y. 

STEWART, CHARLES SEAFORTH, 
soldier, was born April 11, 1823, at sea. 
He served during the civil war in the 
corps of engineers, was made major in 
1863, and was chief engineer of the mid¬ 
dle military division in 1864-65. He was 
made lieutenant-colonel in 1867, colonel 
in 1882, and was retired in 1886. 

STEWART, CHASE, lawyer, legislator, 
was born Oct. 26, 1856, in Yellow Springs, 
Ohio. He is an able lawyer of Springfield, 
Ohio; and for six years was prosecuting 
attorney of his county. In 1895 he was 
elected a member of the Ohio house of 
representatives; and re-elected in 1897. 

STEWART, DAVID, lawyer. United 
States senator, was born Sept. 13, 1800, in 
Baltimore, Md. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Maryland from 1849 to 1850 by 
executive appointment to fill a vacancy. 


He was commissioner of public buildings- 
for the District of Columbia. He died Jan.. 
5, 1858, in Baltimore, Md. 

STEWART, DAVID, clergyman, was 
born May 16, 1809, in Warren county, 
Ohio. In the civil war he was identified 
with the various 
measures for the 
support and comfort 
of the soldiers. 
While he was on a 
mission of that kind 
to the army at 
Vicksburg, the citi¬ 
zens of Rush county 
nominated him, 
without his knowl¬ 
edge, ,to represent 
them in the legisla¬ 
ture. Thus pressed 
into the political field he made the can¬ 
vass, was elected in 1864, and re-elected in 
1866 and 1S68. 

STEWART, ELIZA D., philanthropist, 
was born April 26, 1816, in Piketon, Ohio. 
She organized the first Woman’s union 
in the great temperance cause; and is. 
the author of Memories of the Crusade; 
and The Crusader in Great Britain. 

STEWART, FERDINAND CAMPBELL, 
physician, author, was born Aug. 10, 1815, 
in Williamsburg, Va. He is a physician 
of New York city who removed to Eng¬ 
land in 1855; and is the author of Hos¬ 
pitals and Surgeons of Paris. 

STEWART, GEORGE H., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Feb. 26, 1858, in 
Fayette county, Ind. He received a thor¬ 
ough education in the normal schools, and 
graduated in law and the scientific course. 
For four years he was prosecuting attor¬ 
ney of Frontier county. Neb.; was state 
senator from Ada county in the second 
session of the Idaho state legislature for 
two years. He has been a trustee of the 
state normal school of Albion, Idaho; 
a member of the board of education of 
Boise City; and since 1894 has been 
judge of the district court for a term of 
six years. 

STEWART, GIDEON TABOR, lawyer, 
journalist, prohibitionist, was born Aug. 
7, 1824, in Johnstown, N. Y. In 1861 he 
moved to Iowa, where he edited and pub¬ 
lished the Dubuque Daily Times during 
the civil war. He has been elected three 
times grand worthy chief Templar by the 
Good Templars of Iowa, and has been 
their nominee three times for governor, 
seven times for supreme judge, once for 
congress, and once for vice-president of 
the LTnited States. 

STEWART, HARLON LINCOLN, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Dec. 12, 1861, in Nor¬ 
walk, Ohio. He is editor and publisher 
of the Norwalk Daily News in Norwalk, 
Ohio. 

STEWART, ISAAC A., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Jan. 10, 1854, in Knox county, 
Ky. Since 1891 he has been judge of 
the criminal court at De Land, Fla. He 
is one of the largest orange growers in 
his section. 

STEWART, JACOB HENRY, surgeon, 
congressman, was born Jan. 15, 1829, in 
Clermont, N. Y. He was a member of 
the Minnesota state senate in 1858 and 
1859; and was surgeon-general of the 
state from 1857 to 1863. He was appoint¬ 
ed surgeon of the first Minnesota volun¬ 
teer infantry in 1861. He was surgeon of 
the board of enrollment in 1864 and 1865. 
He was postmaster of St. Paul from 1865. 
to 1870; and mayor of St. Paul in 1864, 
1865, 1872, 1873 and 1874. He was elected 
a representative from Minnesota to the 
forty-fifth congress as a republican. He 
died Aug. 25, 1844, in St. Paul, Minn. 




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STEWART, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in 1770. He was a representative in 
congress from North Carolina during the 
years 1818 and 1819. He died in Feb¬ 
ruary, 1822, in North Carolina. 

STEWART, JAMES, physician, author, 
was born April 7, 1799, in New York city. 
He was a physician of New York city; 
and the author of Diseases of Children; 
and The Lungs. He died Sept. 12, 1864, in 
Rye, N. Y. 

STEWART, JAMES A., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 24, 1808, in Dorchester county, Md. 
He served in the state legislature; and 
was a judge of the circuit court of Mary¬ 
land. He was elected a representative 
from Maryland to the thirty-fourth and 
thirty-fifth congresses, and was re-elected 
to the thirty-sixth congress. 


STEWART, JAMES FLEMING, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 15, 1851, in 
Paterson, N. J. He graduated at the Law 
school of the uni¬ 
versity of New York 
in 1870, taking the 
first prize for best 
examination. H e 
practiced law in New 
York city until 1875, 
since which time he 
has followed his pro¬ 
fession in his native 
city. He was three 
times appointed re¬ 
corder of Paterson, 
the criminal magis¬ 
trate of the city, which office he occupied 
at the time of his election to congress. 
He was elected to the fifty-fourth and 
re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a republican. 



STEWART, JAMES JONES, lawyer, 
was born April 22, 1868, in Montgomery. 
Ala. He received his education at the 
university of Alabama, and at the age of 
eighteen years was admitted to practice 
in the supreme court of Alabama. He has 
attained prominence as an able lawyer of 
Braidentown, Fla.; and for three years 
was captain of company G, first regiment 
Alabama state troops. 

STEWART, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1800 to 1801 to fill a 
vacancy; and was re-elected to the 
seventh and eighth congresses. 

STEWART, JOHN, agriculturist, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, 
was born in 1795 in Chatham. He served 
many years in the Connecticut legisla¬ 
ture; and was judge of Middlesex county 
court. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Connecticut from 1843 to 1845. 
He died Sept. 16, 1860, in Chatham, Conn. 

STEWART, JOHN D., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, clergyman, congressman, was born 
Aug. 2, 1833, in Fayette county, Ga. He 
was elected probate judge, and served as 
such five years; and was lieutenant and 
captain in the thirteenth Georgia regi¬ 
ment during the civil war. He was a 
member of the Georgia legislature in 1865- 
67. He was ordained a minister of the 
baptist church in 1871; and was mayor of 
Griffin, Ga., in 1875-76. He was judge of 
the superior court from 1879 until 1886; 
and was twice elected judge by the legis¬ 
lature without opposition. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fiftieth congress, and was re¬ 
elected to the fifty-first congress as a 
democrat. 


STEWART, JOHN W., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, governor, was born 
in 1825 in Middlebury, Vt. He was state’s 
attorney for his native county from 1852 
to 1855. He was a representative in the 
state legislature in 1856 and 1857; was a 
state senator in 1862 and 1863; and was 


again in the assembly in 1864, 1865, 1866, 
and 1867. He was governor of the state 
from 1870 to 1872; and was again a repre¬ 
sentative in the legislature in 1876 and 
1877. He was elected a representative 
from Vermont to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as 
a republican. 

STEWART, MARCUS A., author, poet, 
was born Sept. 21, 1852, in Madison, Wis. 
He is a writer of San Jose, Cal.; and the 
author of a volume of poems entitled 
Rosita. 

STEWART, ORRVILLE H., journalist, 
poet, author, was born Oct. 25, 1876, in 
Adams, Ind. He is the city editor of the 
Daily New Era of Greensburg, Ind.; staff 
correspondent of several metropolitan 
dailies, and a regular contributor to the 
Louisville Courier-Journal, the Chicago 
Chronicle, Indianapolis Journal, and the 
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. His best- 
known poem is Down on the Farm, and 
his Hoosier Stories have been widely cop¬ 
ied in the periodical press. 

STEWART, PHILO PENFIELD, found¬ 
er, was born in July, 1798, in Sherman, 
Conn. He was one of the founders of 
Oberlin college. He died Dec. 13, 1868. 

STEWART, ROBERT ADGER, lawyer, 
orator, was born March 6, 1862, in Abbe¬ 
ville, S. C. He received his education in 
the South Carolina college and the Hamp¬ 
ton institute, Virginia. He has been pro¬ 
fessor of law and secretary of the law 
faculty of Allen university, South Caro¬ 
lina; and in 1886 was elected dean of the 
law department, which he declined. In 
1884 he was admitted to the bar; is one of 
the foremost lawyers of the south at 
Manning, S. C.; and is well known as the 
silver-tongued orator of the south. He 
has received the degree of LL. B., and 
contributes extensively to law literature. 

STEWART, ROBERT MERCELLUS, 
state senator, governor, was born March 
12, 1815, in Truxton, N. Y. In 1845 he was 
a delegate to the state constitutional con¬ 
vention, and for ten years he was a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate. He was elected 
governor of Missouri in 1857. He died 
Sept. 21, 1871, in St. Joseph, Mo. 

STEWART, THOMAS E„ lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 
22, 1824, in New York city. In 1854 he was 
elected a commissioner of common 
schools; and in 1864 and 1865 was elected 
a member of the New York state assem¬ 
bly. In 1866 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from New York to the fortieth con¬ 
gress. 

STEWART, THOMAS McCANTS, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Dec. 28, 1854, 
in Charleston, S. C. He has been 
professor of mathematics in the State 
Agricultural college of South Caro¬ 
lina; and since 1886 has practiced law 
in New' York city. He ranks high as 
an orator and as an author, his best- 
known book being Liberia: The Amer- 
ico-African Republic. During 1891-95 he 
was a member of the board of education 
of the city of Brooklyn, and served on sev¬ 
eral important committees. 

STEWART, WILLIAM, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Sept. 
16, 1811, in Mercer, Pa. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate of Pennsylvania 
for three years. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Pennsylvania to the thirty- 
fifth congress; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-sixth congress. 

STEWART, WILLIAM BELL, clergy¬ 
man, was born Oct. 10, 1818, in Butler 
county. Pa. He received his education 
at the Washington college, Pennsylvania; 


and has attained success as a clergyman 
of the presbyterian church. He has been 
pastor and principal of several colleges; 
and secretary of the American Tract so¬ 
ciety. 

STEWART, WILLIAM H., soldier, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Sept. 25, 1838, in 
Deep Creek, Va. Since 1873 he has been 
successfully engaged 
in the practice of 
law in Virginia. For 
two terms of four 
years each he was 
commonwealth’s at¬ 
torney for the coun¬ 
ty of Norfolk; dur¬ 
ing 1887-94 was vice- 
president and direc¬ 
tor of the Ports¬ 
mouth Street Rail¬ 
way company; was- 
a director in the Su¬ 
burban Railway company of Norfolk, Va.; 
and is now president of the Port Norfolk 
Electric railway, which runs from Ports¬ 
mouth to Port Norfolk, of which latter city 
he was the founder. He is the author of 
The Battle of the Crater,and other works; 
and a number of articles contributed to 
current literature. He served as second 
lieutenant of the Wise light dragoons, 
state volunteers; and subsequently the 
Jackson Grays, confederate army. He 
fought gallantly throughout the war; and 
was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. 

STEWART, WILLIAM M., educator, 
was born Sept. 5, 1859, in Draper, Utah. 
He received the rudiments of his educa¬ 
tion in the public schools, and graduated 
from the state university of Utah, subse¬ 
quently receiving the degree of master of 
didactics. He then began educational 
work, and was elected superintendent of 
schools in Salt Lake county in 1885, re¬ 
ceiving the re-election twice. He has 
served as regent of the university for 
three terms; and is now principal of the 
state normal school and professor of ped¬ 
agogy in the state university. He has 
taken an active part in educational affairs, 
and in 1887 attended the National Educa¬ 
tional association held in Chicago, and 
was elected director of the Educational 
association for Utah: and the following 
year attended the convention of the Na¬ 
tional Educational association in San 
Francisco. 

STEWART, WILLIAM MORRIS, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born Aug. 
9, 1827, in Lyons, N. Y. In 1860 he re¬ 
moved to Virginia City, Nev., where he 
was largely engaged in early mining liti¬ 
gation and in the development of the 
Comstock lode. He was elected United 
States senator in 1864 and re-elected in 
1869; in 1875 he resumed the practice of 
law in Nevada, California, and the Pa¬ 
cific coast generally, and was thus en¬ 
gaged when elected to the United States 
senate, as a republican. 

STICKLER, JOSEPH WILLIAM, scien¬ 
tist, was born June 26, 1854. Much or¬ 
iginal work has been performed by him 
in attempting to dis¬ 
cover a disease in 
the lower animals, 
which will furnish 
virus, which, when 
introduced into the 
human tissues, will 
render them proof 
against the con¬ 
tagion of scarlet 
fever. He has done 
much to secure such 
legislative action as 
will probably result 
in the eradication of bovine tuberculosis 
from the state of New Jersey. 







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STICKNEY, ALBERT, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1839, in Massachusetts. He 
is a lawyer of New York city; and the 
author of The Lawyer and His Clients; 
A True Republic; Democratic Govern¬ 
ment: a Study of Politics; and The Po¬ 
litical Problem. 

STICKNEY, ALPHEUS BEEDE, rail¬ 
road president, was born June 27, 1840, in 
Wilton, Maine. Since 1894 he has been 
president of the Chicago and Great West¬ 
ern railway at St. Paul, Minn. 

STICKNEY, HORACE A., merchant, 
poet, was born Feb. 14, 1846, in Harrison, 
Iowa. For many years he studied medi¬ 
cine; was for several years engaged in 
railroad work, then followed mercantile 
pursuits; and is now the proprietor of 
property interests and a large hotel in 
Steele, N. D. He has contributed both 
prose and verse to the periodical press. 

STICKNEY, JOHN, musician, was born 
in 1742 in Stoughton, Mass. He traveled 
extensively through the New England 
states, and acquired reputation as a teach¬ 
er and composer, but finally settled in 
South Hadley, where he continued his 
teaching. He published The Gentlemen 
and Ladies’ Musical Companion, a valu¬ 
able collection of psalms and anthems, to¬ 
gether with explanatory rules for learning 
to sing. He died in 1826 in South Had¬ 
ley, Mass. 

STICKNEY, MRS. JULIA GRANBY 
[NOYES], poet, was born July 5, 1830, in 
West Newbury, Mass. She is a poet of 
Groveland, Mass.; and the author of 
Poems on Lake Winnepesaukee. 

STIFFER, J. M., educator, clergyman, 
theologian, was born Dec. 8, 1839, in Al¬ 
toona, Pa. During 1871-75 he filled the 
chair of Bible exegesis in Shurtleff col¬ 
lege; and in 1882 was called to the same 
chair in the Crozer Theological seminary. 
He has published a number of sermons 
and religious works. 

STILES, CHARLES WARDELL, zool¬ 
ogist, was born May 15, 1867, in Spring 
Valley, N. Y. He has been professor of 
zoology in the Georgetown university; 
and zoologist in the bureau of animal in¬ 
dustry of the United States department 
of agriculture. His publications have 
been chiefly on medical zoology. 

STILES, EDWARD H., lawyer, was 
born Oct. 8, 1836, in Granby, Conn. In 
1892 he was appointed master in chancery 
of the United States circuit court for the 
western district of Missouri. 

STILES, EZRA, clergyman, author, was 
born Nov. 29, 1727, in North Haven, Conn. 
He was a congregational clergyman, fa¬ 
mous in colonial days, who was president 
of Yale college in 1778-95. He was the 
author of Account of the Settlement of 
Bristol, R. I.; and History of Three of 
the Judges of Charles the First, Whalley, 
Goffe, and Dixwell. He died May 12, 1795, 
in New Haven, Conn. 

STILES, GEORGE P., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in New York; and removed to 
Iowa. In 1854 he was appointed an asso¬ 
ciate judge of the United States court for 
the territory of Utah. 

STILES, HENRY REED, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born March 10, 1832, in New 
York city. He is a prominent physician 
of Brooklyn; and the author of History 
and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Con¬ 
necticut; History of Brooklyn, Long Is¬ 
land; and The Wallabout Prison Ship. 

STILES, ISRAEL NEWTON, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born July 16, 1833, 
in Suffield, Conn. He was prosecuting at¬ 
torney two years and a member of the 
Indiana legislature, and became active as 
an anti-slavery orator during the Fremont 


canvass, delivering more than sixty 
speeches. He was subsequently major, 
lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the six¬ 
ty-third Indiana, and finally brevet brig¬ 
adier-general, his commission being dated 
Jan. 31, 1865. He removed to Chicago, 
where he has earned a high reputation as 
a lawyer. 

STILES, JOHN D„ lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 15, 1823, in Lu¬ 
zerne county, Pa. In 1853 he was elected 
district attorney for 
Lehigh county, and 
held the office three 
years. In 1856 he was 
a delegate to the na¬ 
tional convention 
which nominated Mr. 
Buchanan for presi¬ 
dent. He was elected 
to the thirty-seventh 
congress to fill a va¬ 
cancy; and in 1862 
was re-elected to the 
thirty - eighth con¬ 
gress. He was a delegate to the Chicago 

convention of 1864; to the Philadelphia 
national union convention of 1866; and to 
the New York democratic convention of 
1868. He was re-elected to the fortieth and 
forty-first congresses as a democrat. 

STILES, JOSEPH CLAY, clergyman, 

author, was born Dec. 6, 1795, in Savan¬ 
nah, Ga. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man, after 1860 an evangelist in the south; 
and was the author of Modern Reform 
Examined, or the Union of North and 
South on Slavery; and The National Con¬ 
troversy. He died March 27, 1875, in Sa¬ 
vannah, Ga. 

STILES, WILLIAM H., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, author, was born in Janu¬ 
ary, 1808, in Savannah, Ga. In 1833 he 
was elected solicitor-general of the east¬ 
ern district of Georgia, which office he 
resigned in 1836. He was a representative 
in congress from Georgia from 1843 to 
1845; and was appointed by President 
Polk charge d’ affaires to Austria. He 
served as a colonel in the great rebellion. 
He published a History of Austria. He 
died Dec. 20, 1865, in Savannah, Ga. 

STILL, WILLIAM, philanthropist, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 7, 1821, in Shamony, 
N. J. He is a noted Philadelphia philan¬ 
thropist of African descent; and the au¬ 
thor of The Underground Railroad; Vot¬ 
ing and Laboring; and Struggle for the 
Rights of Colored People in Philadelphia. 

STILLE, ALFRED, physician, author, 
was born Oct. 30, 1813, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is a physician of Philadelphia; 
and the author of Elements of General 
Pathology; The Unity of Medicine; Hum¬ 
boldt’s Life and Character; Was as an 
Element of Civilization; Othello and Des- 
demona: their Characters; The National 
Dispensatory (with Maisch); Therapeu¬ 
tics and Materia Medica; Epidemic Men¬ 
ingitis; and Epidemic or Malignant Chol¬ 
era. 

STILLE, CHARLES JANEWAY, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Sept. 23, 1819, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Philadelphia 
educator, and provost of the university of 
Pennsylvania in 1868-80. He is the au¬ 
thor of Historical Development of Ameri¬ 
can Civilization; Studies in Mediaeval Ci¬ 
vilization; Beaumarchais and the Lost 
Million, a chapter of the Secret History of 
the American Revolution; History of the 
United States Sanitary Commission; How 
a Free People Conduct a Long War; 
Northern Interest and Southern Indepen¬ 
dence; Life and Times of John Dickin¬ 
son; and General Anthony Wayne and the 
Pennsylvania Line. 


STILLE, GEORGE NELSON, journal¬ 
ist, public official, was born April 26, 1857, 
in Bethel, Ohio. He learned the printing 
business, and is now 
the editor and part 
owner of The Repub¬ 
lican of Unionville, 
Mo. He has been 
sheriff of Putnam 
county fortwoterms; 
postmaster of his 
city; and in 1896 was 
nominee for railroad 
and warehouse com¬ 
missioner of the 
state of Missouri. He 
has served on coun¬ 
ty, congressional and state committees; 
has been a delegate to two national re¬ 
publican conventions, and several state 
and congressional conventions. He is 
prominent in fraternal orders, and in the 
public affairs of his city, county and state. 

STILLE, MORETON, physician, author, 
was born Oct. 27, 1822, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a Philadelphia physician; 
and the author of a Treatise on Medical 
Jurisprudence. He died Aug. 20, 1855, in 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 

STILLMAN, JAMES W., lawyer, mer¬ 
chant, legislator, author, poet, was born 
in 1840 in Unadilla Forks, N. Y. In 1868- 
69 he was a member of the Rhode Island 
state legislature, where he distinguished 
himself by espousing the cause of wo¬ 
man suffrage. Since 1880 he has been 
a merchant in Boston, Mass. He is the 
author of Woman Suffrage; The Mormon 
Q\:estion; The Unknown God; God and 
the Universe; and a volume of poems. 

STILLMAN, THOMAS BLISS, civil en¬ 
gineer, banker, inventor, was born Aug. 
30, 1806, in Westerly, R. I. During the 
civil war he was United States inspector 
of steam vessels for the New York dis¬ 
trict, and superintendent of construction 
of revenue cutters. For nearly twenty 
years he was a trustee of the New \ork 
hospital, and he was long president of 
the Metropolitan Savings bank. He in¬ 
vented improved forms of machinery that 
have come into use. He died Jan. 1, 1866, 
in Plainfield, N. J. 

STILLMAN, WILLIAM JAMES, littera¬ 
teur, artist, author, was born June 1, 1828, 
in Schenectady, N. Y. He is a writer and 
artist who was consul at Rome in 1861-65, 
and in Crete in 1865-69. He has lived at 
Rome from 1886 as the correspondent of 
The London Times for Italy and Greece. 
He is the author of History of the Cretan 
Insurrection; Poetic Localities of Cam¬ 
bridge; Herzegovina and the Late Upris¬ 
ing; Turkish Rule and Warfare; On the 
Track of Ulysses; and Manual of Photo¬ 
graphy. 

STILLMAN, WILLIAM OLIN, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Sept. 9, 1856, in 
Albany, N. Y. He resides in Albany, N. 
Y., where he is actively and very success¬ 
fully engaged in the practice of medicine. 
He is the author of Two Vaginal Specu- 
lums; Cholera and Prevention; and Pop¬ 
ular Sanitation. 

STILWELL, JOHN B., soldier, educa¬ 
tor, was born June 23, 1843, in Scipio.Mich. 
He received a thorough education in his 
native state. He served as a soldier dur¬ 
ing the civil war as a private in company' 
M, fifth regiment Michigan cavalry. He 
enlisted Sept. 23, 1862; was captured on 
March 2, 1864; was in Libby prison and 
Andersonville until Nov. 21, when he was 
exchanged at Savannah, Ga. He served 
with distinction and was honorably dis¬ 
charged July 5, 1865. He has attained suc¬ 
cess in educational work, and is now su¬ 
perintendent of schools of McMinnville, 
Mich. 








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SIILWELL, SILAS MOORE, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born June 6, 1800, in 
New York city. In 1814 he engaged in 
surveying in the west, and then settled in 
Tennessee, where in 1822 he was in the 
legislature. He died May 16, 1881, in New 
York city. 

STILWELL, THOMAS L., lawyer, bank¬ 
er, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1830, 
in Stilwell, Ohio. In 1856 he was elected 
to the legislature of Indiana. In 1864 he 
was elected a representative from Indiana 
to the thirty-ninth congress; and in 1867 
was appointed minister resident to Vene¬ 
zuela. He was killed Jan. 14, 1874, in An¬ 
derson, Ind. 

STIMMEL, SMITH, soldier, lawyer, was 
born Dec. 17, 1842, in Franklin county, 
Ohio. He served as a soldier during the 
ci\ il war, and was on President Lincoln’s 
body guard from January, 1864, till date 
of his assassination. He removed to Far¬ 
go, N. D„ and in 1889 was made presi¬ 
dent of the Dakota council (senate). 

STIMPSON, WILLIAM, naturalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 14, 1832, in Roxbury, 
Mass. He was a naturalist of eminence; 
and the author of Descriptiones Animali- 
um Evertebratorum; Notes on North 
American Crustacea; and Crustacea 
Dredged in the Gulf Stream. He died May 
26, 1872, in Ilchester Mills, Md. 

STIMSON, ALEXANDER LOVETT, 
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Dec. 
14, 1816, in Boston, Mass. He is a law¬ 
yer and journalist; and the author of 
History of the Express Companies; New 
England Boys; and Waifwood, a novel. 

STIMSON, FREDERICK JESUP, law¬ 
yer, author, was born July 20, 1855, in 
Dedham, Mass. He is a lawyer and pop¬ 
ular novelist of Boston; and the author 
of Labor in its Relations to Law; Hand¬ 
book of the Labor Law of the United 
States; American Statute Law; Glossary 
of Technical Terms of the Common Law; 
Uniform State Legislation. In fiction he 
has published Guerndale; The Crime of 
Henry Vane; The King’s Men; The Resi¬ 
duary Legatee; The Sentimental Calen¬ 
dar; In the Three Zones; First Harvests; 
Pirate Gold; King Noanett; and Rollo’s 
Journey to Cambridge. 

STIMSON, JOHN WARD, artist, author, 
was born Dec. 16, 1850, in Paterson, N. J. 
He is an artist of New York city, four 
years superintendent of the Metropolitan 
Museum Art schools; and the author of 
The Law of Three Primaries. 

STIMSON, LEWIS ATTERBURY, phy¬ 
sician, educator, author,- was born in 1844 
in New Jersey. He is a physician of 
New York city, professor of surgery in the 
university of the city of New York; and 
the author of Manual of Operative Sur¬ 
gery; Practical Treatise on Fractures; 
and Treatise on Dislocations. 

STINELL, JOHN HENRY, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Aug. 9, 1840, in 
Providence, R. I. He served in the civil 
war, and was second lieutenant of the 
second regiment New York artillery. He 
is justice of the supreme court of Rhode 
Island; and president of the Rhode Island 
Historical society. 

STITH, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1689 in Virginia. He was an 
episcopal clergyman of Virginia, and pres¬ 
ident of William and Mary college in 
1752-55. He wrote a History of Virginia. 
He died Sept. 27, 1755, in Williamsburg, 
Va. 

STIVER, SAMUEL L., educator, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, was born Nov. 1, 
1848, in Potter’s Mills, Pa. In 1874 he 
graduated with first honors from the La 
Fayette college, after taking the junior 


prize in mathematics and senior prize in 
astronomy. In 1878 he graduated from 
Union Theological seminary of New York 
city; the same year he was licensed as a 
clergyman, and the following year was 
ordained in the High Street Presbyterian 
church. P(e has filled pastorates in va¬ 
rious churches; and since 1881 has been 
proprietor and superintendent of the Bun¬ 
ker Hill Military academy, Illinois. He 
has been editor of various publications, 
and has contributed extensively to cur¬ 
rent literature; and is the author of sev¬ 
eral educational works. He is a brilliant 
lecturer and educator; and is prominent 
in the political affairs of Macoupin coun¬ 
ty, Ill. 

STIVERS, EMMONS B., lawyer, educa¬ 
tor, state legislator, author. For a num¬ 
ber of years he was actively engaged in 
school work, either as teacher, principal 
or superintendent. He is the author of 
Outlines of United States History; and 
Recreations in School Studies. He was 
elected as a democrat from Brown county, 
Ohio, to the seventy-second general as¬ 
sembly of Ohio. 

STIVERS, HENRY C., soldier, journal¬ 
ist, state legislator, was born Sept. 30,1848, 
in Pomeroy, Ohio. He is the editor and 
cwner of the Journal of Brainerd, Minn., 
of which city he was mayor in 1890. The 
following year he was elected a member of 
the Minnesota state legislature. 

STIVERS, MOSES DUNNING, manu¬ 
facturer, journalist, congressman, was 
born Dec. 30, 1828, near Beemerville, N. J. 
In 1869 he became collector of United 
States internal revenue for the eleventh 
district of New York, which office he held 
fourteen years. In 1868 he became pro¬ 
prietor of the Orange County Press, then 
a weekly, and now a semi-weekly. He is 
also one of the proprietors and editors of 
the Middletown Daily Press. He was pres¬ 
ident of the New York State Press associ¬ 
ation in 1887. He was elected to the fifty- 
'first congress as a republican. 

ST. JOHN, CHARLES, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 8, 1818, in Orange 
county, N. Y. He was a merchant and 
lumberman of Port Jervis, N. Y.; and was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-second and forty-third con¬ 
gresses. 

ST. JOHN. DANIEL B., merchant, bank¬ 
er, state legislator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 8, 1808, in Sharon, Conn. In 1839 he 
was elected to the New York state legis¬ 
lature. He was a representative from 
New York to the thirtieth congress; and 
from 1849 until 1855 had charge of the 
bank department of New York. 

ST. JOHN, EVERITTE, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Feb. 4, 1844, in Connecti- 
' cut. He is the vice-president and general 
manager of the Seaboard Airline of Nor¬ 
folk, Va.; and is one of the most noted 
railroad men in America. In 1862 he en¬ 
tered railroad service as a clerk; and in 
1863 became connected with the Chicago, 
Rock Island and Pacific railway, of which 
he eventually became general manager. 
In 1891 he reorganized the General Mana¬ 
gers’ association of Chicago, and was its 
permanent chairman until Jan. 1, 1895, 
when he took the office of vice-president 
of the Seaboard line; and since his con¬ 
nection with that company he has made 
it one of the leading railroads of the 
south. 

ST. JOHN, HENRY, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Ohio from 1843 to 
1847. 

ST. JOHN, ISAAC MUNROE, civil engi¬ 
neer, soldier, journalist, was born Nov. 
19, 1827, in Augusta, Ga. He entered the 


engineer corps of the confederate army at 
Richmond, Va.,and was promoted through 
the various grades to the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general. He was city engineer of 
Louisville in 1870-71, made the first topo¬ 
graphical map of that city, and estab¬ 
lished its system of sewerage. From 1871 
until his death he was consulting engi¬ 
neer of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail¬ 
road, and chief engineer of the Lexington 
and Big Sandy railroad. He died April 7, 
1880, in Sulphur Springs, W. Va. 

ST. JOHN, JASON EDGAR, educator, 
was born May 30, 1848, in Clinton, Mich. 
For the past quarter of a century he has 
been connected with the Industrial School 
for Boys of Lansing, Mich., of which in¬ 
stitution he is superintendent. 

ST. JOHN, JOHN PIERCE, governor, 
was born Feb. 25, 1833, in Franklin coun¬ 
ty, Ind. He removed to Olathe, Kan., in 
1869, served in the state senate in 1873-74, 
and was elected governor of Kansas as a 
republican in 1878, serving until 1882. 

ST. MARTIN, LOUIS, merchant, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born in 
1820 in Saint Charles Parish, La. He was 
appointed to fill a vacancy in the New 
Orleans post-office; and was elected in 
1846 to the legislature of Louisiana. He 
was appointed the same year register of 
the United States land office for the south¬ 
eastern district of Louisiana by President 
Polk; and was elected a second time to 
the legislature. After two years’ service 
he was elected to the thirty-second con¬ 
gress from the first district of Louisiana. 
He was elected to the forty-ninth congress 
as a democrat. 

STOCKARD, HENRY JEROME, A. M., 
educator, poet, was born Sept. 15, 1858, in 
Chatham county, N. C. He is professor 
of English in the university of North Car¬ 
olina. His contributions to literature have 
appeared in the Century, Youth’s Com¬ 
panion, and other publications. 

STOCKARD, MRS. V. A. C., educator, 
college president, was born March 27, 1848, 
in Knox county, Mo. She received a thor¬ 
ough education, and for many years was 
engaged as a teacher in the public schools. 
Her principal primary work was in the 
Richmond college, Missouri. For eight 
years she taught mathematics and French 
in the Central Female college of Lexing¬ 
ton, Mo.; and since 1884 has been presi¬ 
dent of the Cottey college of Nevada, Mo. 

STOCKBRIDGE, FRANCIS BROWN, 
merchant, United States senator, was born 
in 1826 in Bath, Maine. In 1850 he settled 
at Saugatuck, Mich. He served as a rep¬ 
resentative in the Michigan legislature in 
1869; and was a state senator in 1871. In 
1874 he mov ed to Kalamazoo. In 1887 he 
was elected to the United States senate for 
term expiring in 1893. 

STOCKBRIDGE, HENRY, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 
18, 1856, in Baltimore, Md. In 1887 he 
became one of the 
editorial staff of the 
Baltimore American, 
with which paper he 
is still connected. In 
1882 he was appoint¬ 
ed an examiner in 
equity by the su¬ 
preme bench of Bal¬ 
timore City. He was 
elected to the fifty- 
first congress as a re¬ 
publican. During 
1887-89 he was on 
the editorial staff of the Baltimore Amer¬ 
ican. In 1891 he was appointed commis¬ 
sioner of emigration at the port of Balti¬ 
more; and in 1896 was elected associate 
judge of the supreme court of Baltimore 
City. 





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HERRINGSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPH I . 


STOCKBRIDGE, LEVI, agriculturist, 
was born March 13, 1820, in North Had¬ 
ley, Mass. For twelve years he was a 
member of the state board of agriculture 
of Massachusetts; in 1867 he was called 
to a chair in the Massachusetts Agricul¬ 
tural college of Amherst, of which he was 
president in 1880-82. He has conducted a 
series of investigations on the fertiliza¬ 
tion of crops; and his researches have 
chiefly appeared in the Annual Reports 
of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 

STOCKDALE, JOHN LARK, educator, 
soldier, physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 
12, 1831, in Edgefield, S. C. During 1845- 
49 he attended the 
Talladega Male High 
school; from 1851-54 
he attended the Med¬ 
ical college of South 
Carolina; and subse¬ 
quently attended the 
Augusta Medical col¬ 
lege and the univer¬ 
sity of Nashville, 
Tennessee. For many 
years he taught in 
the Talladega Male 
High school; and 
during 1861-65 was a surgeon in the con¬ 
federate states army, with rank of ma¬ 
jor. He has been registrar and master 
in chancery of the fourteenth district N. 
E. chancery division; president of the 
Clay county Medical society; and is prom¬ 
inent in various other medical bodies. 

STOCKDALE, THOMAS RINGLAND, 
soldier, educator, congressman, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He was elected from 
Mississippi to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty- 
second. and fifty-third congresses as a 
democrat. 

STOCKHAM, ALICE BUNKER, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1833 in Ohio. 
She is a prominent physician and author 
of the well-known work entitled Toko¬ 
logy, which has been translated into sev¬ 
eral languages. 

STOCKLEY, CHARLES C., banker, 
state senator, governor, was born Nov. 6, 
1819, in Georgetown, Del. In 1873 he was 
elected a state senator for the term of 
four years, and at the second session of 
that body was elected speaker. He was 
president of the Breakwater and Frank- 
ford railroad, and president of the Farm¬ 
ers’ bank of the state of Delaware. In 
1882 he was elected governor of Delaware. 



STOCKLY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
manufacturer, was born Dec. 20, 1843, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. In 1876 he called the at- 

__ tention of Charles F. 

Brush to the subject 
of illumination and 
subsequently arrang¬ 
ed with him to un¬ 
dertake the produc¬ 
tion of a system of 
electric arc lighting. 
The first Brush plant 
was made and tested 
in the factory and at 
the expense of the 
Telegraph Supply 
company, and an ar¬ 
rangement was made whereby the com¬ 
pany took active control of the business 
under the Brush patents, paying Mr. 
Brush a royalty. During the next four¬ 
teen years the Brush Electric company, 
which succeeded the Telegraph Supply 
company, with Mr. Stockly as president 
and manager, achieved immense success 
as pioneers of public electric lighting. He 
introduced the telephone in Ohio and built 
and operated the first telephone exchange 
in the country. 



STOCKSLAGER, STROTHER M., sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, journalist, state senator, 
congressman, was born May 7, 1842, in 
Mauckport, Ind. He served in the union 
aimy during the war of the rebellion. He 
was a state senator from 1874 to 1878. He 
was elected a representative from Indiana 
to the forty-seventh congress; and re¬ 
elected to the forty-eighth congress as a 
democrat. Since 1878 he has been the edi¬ 
tor of the Corydon Democrat. 

STOCKTON, FRANCIS RICHARD, au¬ 
thor, was born April 5, 1834, in Philadel¬ 
phia’, Pa. He is a widely popular humor¬ 
ist and novel-writer who first attracted 
general notice by his now famous Rudder 
Grange, a thoroughly original piece of 
humor. In the same vein are The Rudder 
Grangers Abroad, and Other Stories; Po¬ 
mona’s Travels; and The Casting Away 
of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine. His 
other works, which all display original 
inventive humor, are, Tales Out of School; 
The Ting-a-Ling Stories; Roundabout 
Rambles; What Might Have Been Expect¬ 
ed; A Jolly Fellowship; The Floating 
Prince; The Story of Viteau; The Late 
Mrs. Null; The Lady or the Tiger?, his 
most celebrated work; The Christmas 
Wreck, and Other Stories; The Hun¬ 
dredth Man; The Bee Man of Orn; The 
Dusantes; Amos Kilbright; Ardis Cla- 
verden; The Great War Syndicate; The 
Stories of the Three Burglars; The Mer¬ 
ry Chanter; The House of Martha; Ko- 
bel Land; The Clocks of Rondaine; The 
Watchmaker’s Wife; The Adventures of 
Captain Horn; A Chosen Few; Personal¬ 
ly Conducted; A Story-Teller’s Pack, a 
volume of short stories; Stories of New 
Jersey; and Captain Chap, or the Rolling 
Stones. 

STOCKTON, JOHN DREAN, journalist, 
was born April 26, 1836, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. From 1873 till his death he was dra¬ 
matic and musical critic of the New York 
Herald. He wrote Fox and Geese, a com¬ 
edy which ran one hundred nights in New 
York and other cities, and more than 
three hundred in London. He died Nov. 
3, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

STOCKTON, JOHN N. C., legislator, 
banker, was born in 1860 in Gadsden coun¬ 
ty, Fla. For many years he has been 
the president of the National bank of 
Tampa, and the National bank of Florida. 
In 1897 he served with distinction as a 
member of the Florida state legislature. 

STOCKTON, JOHN POTTER, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Aug. 2, 1826, in 
Princeton, N. J. During President Bu¬ 
chanan’s administration he was United 
States minister to Rome. He was elected 
to the United States senate in 1865, but 
only served one year of the term on ac¬ 
count of informality in the election. He^ 
received the re-election in 1869, and serv-* 
ed with distinction the full term of six 
years. In 1877 General Stockton was ap¬ 
pointed attorney-general of the state of 
New Jersey, and has received the reap¬ 
pointment at the expiration of every term. 

STOCKTON, RICHARD, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born Oct. 
1, 1730, near Princeton, N. J. He was ap¬ 
pointed a judge, both under the provincial 
gov ernment and after the adoption of the 
constitution. He was a delegate to the 
continental congress in 1776 and 1777; and 
signed the declaration of independence. 
He died Feb. 28, 1781, in Princeton, N. J. 

STOCKTON, RICHARD, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
April 17, 1764, near Princeton, N. J. In 
1792 and 1800 he was a presidential elec¬ 
tor; was a senator of the United States 
from 1796 to 1799; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1813 to 1815. He 
died March 7, 1828, in Princeton, N. J. 


STOCKTON. ROBERT FIELD, naval 
officer, United States senator, was born 
Aug. 20, 1795, in Princeton, N. J. He com¬ 
manded the Ameri¬ 
can squadron on the 
coast of Africa, and 
was one of the found¬ 
ers of the colony of 
Liberia. He was one 
of the first of our 
commanders to in¬ 
troduce and apply 
steam to naval pur¬ 
poses — the famous 
slcop-of-war Prince¬ 
ton having been built 
under his supervis- 
declared with Mexico 
he was placed in command of the United 
States fleet in the Pacific, and performed 
the duties of commodore, general, and 
governor. He was elected United States 
senator for the term from 1851 to 1857. 
He was elected a delegate to the peace 
congress in 1861; and was president of 
the Delaware and Raritan Canal company 
from the time he left the senate until his 
death. He died Oct. 7, 1866, in Princeton. 

STOCKTON, THOMAS, soldier, govern¬ 
or. He was a captain in the third artil¬ 
lery in 1812; was major of the forty- 
second infantry in 1814; and was govern¬ 
or of Delaware from 1844 to 1846. He died 
March 2, 1846, in New Castle, Del. 

STOCKTON, THOMAS HEWLINGS, 
clergyman, author, was born June 4, 1808, 
in Mt. Holly, N. J. He was a methodist 
preacher of Balti¬ 
more and Philadel- * 
phia, chaplain to 
both houses of con¬ 
gress successively, 
and famous for his 
eloquence. He was 
the author of Float¬ 
ing Flowers from a 
Hidden Brook; Po¬ 
ems; Stand Up for 
Jesus, and Other Po¬ 
ems; and The Book 
Above All. He also 
contributed to current publications. He 
died Oct. 9, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

STOCKTON, THOMAS TELFAIR, 
journalist, was born Oct. 8, 1853, in Quin¬ 
cy, Fla. He is general manager of the 
Times Union, one of the leading journals 
of Florida at Jacksonville. 

STOCKWELL, WILLIAM WATSON, 
farmer, lecturer, poet, was born Feb. 7, 
1829, in Northampton, Mass. He is a suc¬ 
cessful farmer of 
Mead, Ind., where he 
has been township 
librarian and trus¬ 
tee, and filled various 
other public posi¬ 
tions of trust. He is 
the author of Inci¬ 
dents in the Life of 
George W. Murray, 
treating of events of 
the civil war and 
Libby prison. He has 
attained success as a 
lecturer; has contributed extensively to 
the periodical press; and is the author of 
a volume of Songs and Poems. 

STODDARD, A. H., farmer, poet. He is 
a successful farmer of Kalamazoo, Mich.; 
and the author of a volume entitled Mis¬ 
cellaneous Poems. 

STODDARD, AMOS, soldier, author,was 
born Oct. 26, 1762, in Woodbury, Conn. 
He was a soldier of note in the early days 
of the republic; and the author of 
Sketches of Louisiana; and The Political 
Crisis. He died May 11, 1813, in Fort 
Meigs, Ohio. 





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S rODDARD, ANTHONY, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 9, 1678, in North¬ 
ampton, Mass. He was minister at Wood¬ 
bury, Conn., from 1702 till his death. He 
was clerk of probate forty years; was the 
lawyer and physician of his people, and 
one of the most extensi\e farmers in the 
town. He published an Election Sermon. 
He died Sept. 6, 1760, in Woodbury, Conn. 

STODDARD, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, 
clergyman, journalist, author, was born 
in 1833 in Massachusetts. He is a presby- 
terian clergyman of New York city, edi¬ 
tor of The Observer from 1885; and the 
author of Across Russia; Spanish Cities; 
Beyond the Rockies; and Cruising Among 
the Caribbees. 

STODDARD, CHARLES WARREN, 
lecturer, author, poet, was born Aug. 7, 
1843, in Rochester, N. Y. In 1864 he made 
a voyage to the Hawaiian Islands, where 
he passed much time; and was correspond¬ 
ent for the'San Francisco Chronicle. He 
is now lecturer upon English literature in 
the Catholic university of Washington, 
D. C. He is the author of South Sea Idyls; 
Mashallah, a Flight into Egypt; The Lep¬ 
ers of Molokai; and other works. 

STODDARD, EBENEZER. lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born May 6. 
1786, in West Woodstock, Conn. He was 
for several years a member of the Connec¬ 
ticut state legislature; was lieutenant- 
governor of the state for one year; and 
was a representative in congress from 1821 
to 1825. He died in August, 1848, in 
Woodstock, Conn. 

STODDARD, MRS. ELIZABETH DREW 
[BARSTOW], author, poet, was born May 
6, 1823, in Mattapoisett, Mass. She is a 
novelist and poet whose work in verse 
and fiction shows much individuality. She 
is the author of The Morgesons; Temple 
House; Two Men; Lolly Dinks’s Doings, 
a juvenile tale; and Poems. 

STODDARD, JOHN, jurist, author, was 
born Feb. 11, 1681. He was for many 
years a member of the council of Massa¬ 
chusetts; chief justice of the court of 
common pleas, and colonel of militia. 
His Journal of an Expedition to Canada, 
1713-14, was printed in the Genealogical 
Register in 1851. He died June 19, 1748, 
in Boston, Mass. 

STODDARD, JOHN F., educator, au¬ 
thor, was born July 20, 1825, in Green¬ 
field, N. Y. He was eminently successful 
as an instructor of mathematics and in 
his efforts to promote normal schools, and 
left a fund to Rochester university for a 
gold medal to be awarded to the best stu¬ 
dent in mathematics. His principal pub¬ 
lished works are Practical Arithmetic; 
Philosophical Arithmetic; University Al¬ 
gebra (1857); and School Arithmetic. He 
died Aug. 6, 1873, in Kearney, N. J. 

STODDARD, JOHN LAWSON, lecturer, 
author, was born in 1850 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is a popular stereopticon lectur¬ 
er; and the author of Red Letter Days 
Abroad; and Napoleon from Corsica to 
St. Helena. 

STODDARD, JOHN POTTER, lawyer, 
diplomat, United States senator, was born 
Aug. 2, 1826, in Princeton, N. J. In 1857- 
61 he was United States minister to Rome, 
Italy. In 1865 he was chosen United 
States senator from New Jersey; was sub¬ 
sequently unseated; and in 1869 was elect¬ 
ed for term ending in 1875. In 1877 he 
was appointed attorney-general of New 
Jersey, and was chosen again in 1882 and 
in 1887. 

STODDARD, JOSHUA C., inventor, was 
horn Aug. 26, 1814, in Pawlet, Vt. He 
turned his attention to inventing, and in 
1856 devised the steam-calliope, which is 


used on Mississippi steamers. He also 
invented the Stoddard horse-rake and 
hay-tedder. 

STODDARD, RICHARD HENRY, jour¬ 
nalist, author, poet, was born July 2, 1825, 
in Hingham, Mass. He is a critic of 
New York city, and 
literary editor of The 
Mail and Express 
from 1880. He has 
edited the Bric-a- 
Brac Series and oth¬ 
er volumes, while his 
own writings include 
Poems; Adventures 
in Fairy Land; Foot¬ 
prints; Life of Hum¬ 
boldt; Songs of Sum¬ 
mer; The King’s 
Bell; The Book of 
the East; Abraham Lincoln: a Horatian 
Ode; Putnam the Brave; A Century Af¬ 
ter; Life of Washington Irving; The Li¬ 
on’s Cub, with Other Verse; and Under 
the Evening Lamp, a collection of essays 
on literary topics. 

STODDARD, SOLOMON, clergyman, 

author, was born in 1643 in Boston, Mass. 

He was a congregational clergyman, and 
pastor at Northampton, Mass., from 1669 
until his death. He was the author of Ap¬ 
peal to the Learned; Guide to Christ; 
Safety in the Righteousness of Christ; 
and Doctrine of Instituted Churches Ex¬ 
plained, a reply to Increase Mather’s Or¬ 
der of the Gospel, and one which occa¬ 
sioned much exciting controversy. He 
died Feb. 11, 1729, in Northampton, Mass. 

STODDARD, SOLOMON, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1800 in Northampton. 
He became professor of languages at Mid- 
dlebury college, Vermont. He was co¬ 
author with Ethan Allen Andrews of a 
Grammar of the Latin Language, which 
was at one time almost universally used 
in this country, and had passed through 
sixty-five editions. He died Nov. 11, 1847, 
in Northampton. 

STODDARD. WALTER P., clergyman, 
poet, was born July 4, 1852, in New York 
city. He received a thorough education 
in the public schools 
of his native city, 
and attended the 
Wesleyan university 
of Middletown, Conn. 
He has attained suc¬ 
cess as a clergyman 
of the methodist 
episcopal church. He 
preached in New 
England until 1891, 
when he served three 
years in Oskaloosa, 
Iowa; and now fills 
a pastorate in Mt. Peasant, Iowa. He has 
traveled extensively in Europe; has lec¬ 
tured in many places in his adopted state; 
and is the author of various papers con¬ 
tributed to current literature; and his 
poems have appeared in several standard 
works. 

STODDARD, WILLIAM OSBORN, jour¬ 
nalist, inventor, author, was born Sept. 24, 
1835, in Homer N. Y. He is a journalist 
and inventor whose writings have been 
largely though not entirely for juvenile 
readers, and have been very popular. He 
is the author of Little Smoke; The Wind¬ 
fall; Esau Hardery; Dab Kinzer; Saltil¬ 
lo Boys; Wrecked; Verses of Many Days; 
The Heart of It; The White Cave, an 
Australian Story; The Red Mustang; Two 
Arrows; Among the Lakes; The Quartet; 
Winter Fun; Men of Business; The Talk¬ 
ing Leaves; The Volcano Under the City, 
a story of the draft riots in New York; 


Lives of the Presidents; Gid Granger; 
and Chuck Purdy. 

STODDART, JOHN T., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1833 to 1835. 

STODDERT, BENJAMIN, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, cabinet officer, was born in 1751 in 
Charles county, Md. He served as a ma¬ 
jor during the revolution; and was for 
many years extensively engaged in mer¬ 
cantile pursuits in Georgetown, D. C. In 
1798 he was appointed secretary of the 
navy, and was the first man who served 
in that capacity. He died Dec. 18, 1813, in 
Bladensburg, Md. 

STOECKEL, GUSTAVE JACOB, musi¬ 
cian, educator, composer, was born Nov. 9, 
1819, in Germany. Since 1849 he has been 
instructor in music at Yale, and organist 
of the college chapel. He has published 
a collection of sacred music for mixed 
voices, and College Hymn-Book for male 
voices, besides compositions for the piano, 
songs and overtures and symphonies for 
orchestra. 

STOEVER, MARTIN LUTHER, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Feb. 17, 1820, in 
Germantown, Pa. He was a Pennsylvania 
educator, a professor in the college at 
Gettysburg in 1840-70; and the author of 
Brief Sketch of the Lutheran Church in 
the United States; and Life and Times of 
Henry Muhlenberg. He died July 22, 1870, 
in Germantown, Pa. 

STOKELY, SAMUEL, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman. He served in the 
Ohio state legislature; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Ohio from 1841 
to 1843. 

STOKES, J. WILLIAM, agriculturist, 
congressman, was born in 1853 in Orange¬ 
burg county, S. C. He was brought up to 
farm life, attending the ordinary schools 
of his county and town until he was nine¬ 
teen years of age; graduated from Wash¬ 
ington and Lee university, Virginia, in 
1876, and taught school for twelve years, 
graduating meantime in medicine from 
Vanderbilt university, Tennessee; in 1889 
he returned to the farm, assisted in ar- 
ganizing the farmers, and was president 
of the State Farmers’ alliance two terms; 
was elected to the state senate in 1890; 
was a delegate at large to tne national 
democratic convention at Chicago in 1892, 
and was presidential elector on the demo¬ 
cratic ticket the same year; in 1894 was 
nominated without opposition in the dem¬ 
ocratic primaries in the new seventh con¬ 
gressional district. He received the certi¬ 
ficate of election to the fifty-fourth con¬ 
gress, but the seat was declared vacant. 
At the election on Nov. 3, 1896, he was 
elected to the short term of the fifty- 
fourth congress; was re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a democrat, receiv¬ 
ing 8,065 votes against 1,342 votes for 
T. B. Johnson, regular republican. 

STOKES, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
was a native of North Carolina. He serv¬ 
ed as a colonel in the revolution; and in 
1790 was appointed judge of the United 
States district court for North Carolina. 
He died in October, 1790, in Lafayette- 
ville, N. C. 

STOKES, MONTFORD, governor, United 
States senator, was born in 1760 in Winces 
county, N. C. He was elected to the 
United States senate, which honor he de¬ 
clined; and in 1816 was again elected 
United States senator, and served until 
1823. In 1826 he went into the general 
assembly of North Carolina as senator; 
and in 1829 was elected a member of the 
commons. In 1830 he was again elected to 
the commons, and in the same year was 
elected governor of the state. 





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STOKES, WILLIAM B., soldier, agri¬ 
culturist, state senator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 9, 1814, in Chatham county, N. 
C. He served three sessions in the legis¬ 
lature of Tennessee—twice as a represen¬ 
tative and once as a senator. He was 
elected a representative from Tennessee 
to the thirty-sixth congress. During the 
rebellion of 1861 he served as a colonel in 
the union army. In 1865 he was elected 
a representative from Tennessee to the 
thirty-ninth congress; and was re-elect¬ 
ed tothe fortieth and forty-first congresses 
as a union republican. 

STOLBERG, PETER H., lawyer, was 
born Dec. 7, 1848, in Sweden. In- 1868 he 
emigrated to America, and has since at¬ 
tained success as an able lawyer of Har¬ 
ris, Minn. He has served as receiver in 
the United States land office of Taylor’s 
Falls, Minn.; and -has been county attor¬ 
ney for eight years. 

STOLBRAND, CARLOS JOHN MEUL- 
LER, soldier, inventor, was born May 11, 
1821, in Sweden. He participated in the 
campaign of Atlanta and the march to the 
sea, and in 1865 -was promoted to briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers. He has made 
various improvements in steam engines 
and steam boilers, and now resides at 
Fort Collins, Colo. 

STOLL, FREDERICK F„ organizer, 
was born in 1865 in Chicago, Ill. He first 
entered the employ of the American Ex¬ 
press company; and 
in 1890 entered the 
real estate and fire 
insurance business 
on his own account. 
In 1894 he became 
superintendent of 
carriers of the Chi¬ 
cago postoffice, and 
was promoted to gen¬ 
eral superintendent 
of city delivery. He 
introduced the use 
of bicycles by the 
carriers; and the postal cars on the street 
railway lines were also one of the in¬ 
structions. He received an offer from the 
Chinese government to go there and or¬ 
ganize the free delivery system, which 
he declined. He is a prominent member 
of various fraternal orders; was the or¬ 
ganizer of the Chicago Postoffice Em¬ 
ployes Mutual Aid association, and was 
twice elected its president. 

STONE, ALFRED, architect, was born 
July 29, 1834, in East Machias, Maine. 
He has designed many of the most im¬ 
portant public buildings, business blocks 
and private residences of Providence, 
R, I. 

STONE, ALFRED P., merchant, con¬ 
gressman. He was treasurer of the state 
of Ohio; was a representative in congress 
from Ohio from 1844 to 1845; and was ap¬ 
pointed by President Lincoln a collector 
of internal revenue. He died Aug. 2, 1865, 
in Columbus, Ohio. 

STONE, AMASA, philanthropist, was 
born April 27, 1818, in Charlton, Mass. 
He gave large sums in charity to the city 
of Cleveland. He built and endowed the 
Home for Aged Women and the Indus¬ 
trial School for Children, and gave $600,- 
000 to Adelbert college of Western Re¬ 
serve university. He died May 11, 1883, 
in Cleveland, Ohio. 

STONE, ANDREW LEETE, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 25, 1815, in Ox¬ 
ford, Conn. He was a congregational 
clergyman in San Francisco from 1866; 
and the author of Service the End of Liv¬ 
ing; Ashton’s Mothers; Memorial Dis¬ 
courses; and Leaves from a Finished Pas¬ 
torate. He died in 1892. 


STONE, ASAHEL, state senator, was 
born June 29, 1817, in Washington county, 
Ohio. In 1862 he was appointed quarter- 
master-general of the state, and was sta¬ 
tioned at Indianapolis. In 1847 he was 
elected a member of the Indiana legisla¬ 
ture on the whig ticket, defeating the 
democratic and anti-slavery candidate. 
In 1860 he was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate by a large majority, and also served 
as senator during the extra sessions 
called by Governor Morton in 1861. He 
was a member of the house in 1873. 

STONE, CHARLES W., agriculturist, 
merchant, state senator, congressman, 
was born June 29, 1843, in Groton, Mass. 
He was appointed county superintendent 
of schools of Warren county, Pa., in 1865; 
was a member of the Pennsylvania house 
of representatives in 1870-71; and was a 
member of the Pennsylvania senate in 
1877-78. He was lieutenant-governor of 
that state from 1879 to 1883; and was ap¬ 
pointed secretary of the commonwealth 
in 1887. He was elected to the fifty-first 
congress to fill a vacancy; and was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-second congress. He was 
elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth 
congresses, and re-elected to the fifty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 

STONE, COLLINS, clergyman and ed¬ 
ucator, was born Sept. 7, 1812, in Guil¬ 
ford, Conn. In 1852 he was called as 
principal to the Ohio state asylum for 
the deaf and dumb at Columbus, but he 
returned in 1863 to take charge of the 
asylum at Hartford, where he remained 
until his death. He died Dec. 23, 1870, 
in Hartford, Conn. 

STONE, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, United 
States senator, governor, was born Feb. 
17, 1770, in Hope, N. C. He was for four 
years in the state legislature; and was a 
judge of the supreme court of North Caro¬ 
lina from 1795 to 1798. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1799 to 1801; 
was a senator in congress from 1801 to 
1807; and was governor of North Caro¬ 
lina in 1808. He served a second time as 
United States senator from 1813 to 1814. 
He died Oct. 7, 1818, in Raleigh, N. C. 

STONE, DAVID MARVIN, journalist, 
author, was born Dec. 23, 1817, in Oxford, 
Conn. He was a noted journalist of New 
York city, and editor of The Journal of 
Commerce in 1849-93. He published Frank 
Forrest (1850), a work that passed into 
twenty editions. He died in 1895. 

STONE, EBEN F., soldier, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1822 
in Newburyport, Mass. He served terms 
in each branch of the state legislature; 
and served in the union army during the 
war of the rebellion, in command of a 
regiment. He was elected a representa- 
tiv e from Massachusetts to the forty- 
seventh, forty-eighth and forty-ninth 
congresses as a republican. 

STONE, EBENEZER WHITTEN, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born June 10, 1801, in 
Boston, Mass. He was an adjutant-gen¬ 
eral of the Massachusetts militia from 
1851; and the author of Digest of Massa¬ 
chusetts Militia Laws; Compend of In¬ 
structions in Military Tactics; and Man¬ 
ual of Percussion Aim. He died April 18, 
1880, in Roxbury, Mass. 

STONE, EDWIN MARTIN, clergyman, 
author, was born April 29, 1805, in Fram¬ 
ingham, Mass. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Providence; and the author 
of Life of Elhanan Winchester; History 
of Barre, Massachusetts, 1630-1842; The 
Invasion of Canada in 1775; and Our 
French Allies in the Revolution. He 
died Dec. 15, 1883, in Providence, R. I. 


STONE, EDWIN WINCHESTER, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born in 1835 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was a soldier in the fed¬ 
eral army during the civil war. He was 
the war correspondent of The Providence 
Journal, and author of Rhode Island in 
the Rebellion. He died in 1878. 

STONE, FREDERICK, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 
7, 1820, in Virginia. In 1855 and 1856 he 
was a member of the Maryland state leg¬ 
islature. He was elected a representative 
from Maryland to the fortieth and forty- 
first congresses as a democrat. 

STONE, GEORGE ROYAL, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, was born May 16, 1843, in Ando¬ 
ver, N. H. He has attained prominence 
as an able lawyer of Franklin Falls, N. H„ 
where he was twice nominated by the 
democrats a representative to the state 
legislature. 

STONE, HERBERT STUART, journal¬ 
ist, was born May 29, 1870, in Chicago, Ill. 
He is the editor and owner of The Chap 
Book; and was the founder of the pub¬ 
lishing house of Herbert S. Stone and 
Company of Chicago. 

STONE, JAMES, congressman, was. 
born in Kentucky. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1843 to 1845. 

STONE. JAMES KENT, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1840 in Boston, Mass. 
He is a Roman catholic clergyman of the 
order of Passionists, and known as Father 
Fidelis. He was formerly an episcopal 
clergyman and president of Hobart col¬ 
lege. . 

STONE, JAMES SAMUEL, clergyman, 
author, was born April 27, 1852, in Eng¬ 
land. He is an episcopal clergyman of 
Chicago; and the author of Simple Ser¬ 
mons on Simple Subjects; The Heart of 
Merrie England: Readings in Church His¬ 
tory; and Woods and Dales of Derbyshire. 

STONE, JAMES W., congressman, was 
born in 1813 in Kentucky. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Kentucky 
from 1843 to 1845, and again from 1851 to 
1852. He died Oct. 13, 1854. 

STONE, JOHN AUGUSTUS, dramatist, 
actor, author, was born in 1801 in Con¬ 
cord, Mass. He is a dramatist and actor. 
He is best remembered by Metamora, a 
play written for Edwin Forrest, for 
whom he also wrote The Ancient Briton; 
and Fauntleroy. Other dramas by him 
are, Tancred; The Demoniac; and La 
Roque. He died June 1, 1834, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

STONE, JOHN HOSKINS, soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1745 in Charles coun¬ 
ty, Md. He was governor of Maryland 
from 1794 to 1797. He died Oct. 5, 1804, in 
Annapolis, Md. 

STONE, JOHN MARSHALL, farmer, 
soldier, legislator, governor, was born 
April 30, 1830, in Gibson county, Tenn. 

He received a 
thorough education 
in the country 
schools; and during 
the civil war com¬ 
manded a regiment 
of infantry in the 
confederate army, 
and served four 
years in the army of 
Northern Virginia. 
During 1870-1876 he 
served as a state sen¬ 
ator in the Missis¬ 
sippi legislature. During 1876-1881 he 
served with distinction as governor of the 
state of Mississippi; and during 1890-96 
again filled the high office of governor to 
the satisfaction of the people of that state. 
In 1884-85 he was railroad commissioner. 










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STONE, JOHN SEELY, clergyman au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 7, 1795, in Great Bar¬ 
rington, Mass. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of Cambridge, dean of the Epis¬ 
copal Theological school there in 1867-72, 
and prominent among the low churchmen 
of his day. He was the author of The 
Living Temple; The Christian Sacra¬ 
ments; Sermons; Memoir of Bishop Gris¬ 
wold; The Christian Sabbath; and The 
Contrast, or the Evangelical and Trac- 
tarian Systems Compared. He died Jan. 
13, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass. 

STONE, JOHN W., lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman. was born July 18, 1838, in 
Wadsworth, Ohio. He moved to Grand 
Rapids, Mich., where he practiced law. He 
was elected a representative from Michi¬ 
gan to the forty-fifth congress; and re¬ 
elected to the forty-sixth congress as a 
republican.- 

STONE, JOSEPH C., soldier, physician, 
congressman, was born July 30, 1829, in 
Westport, N. Y. He enlisted as a private 
in the first Iowa cavalry in 1861, and be¬ 
came an assistant adjutant-general, serv¬ 
ing until the close of the war. He re¬ 
sumed the practice of medicine after the 
war in Burlington, Iowa; and was elected 
a representative from Iowa to the forty- 
fifth congress. 

STONE, LUCY, reformer, was born in 
1818. In 1847 she graduated from Ober- 
lin college, and the same year began the 
modern woman's rights movement by a 
series of lectures, beginning with one giv¬ 
en in her brother’s church in Gardner, 
Mass. In 1858 she married for her sec¬ 
ond husband Mr. Henry B. Blackwell of 
Boston, Mass. She died Oct. 18, 1893. 

STONE, MELVILLE ELIJAH, journal¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 15, 1848, in Hudson, 
Ill. He published the first number of 
The Daily News on Christmas day of 1875, 
in Chicago, Ill. This publication, under 
his able management, has become one of 
the foremost newspapers in America. He 
is also connected with a banking institu¬ 
tion and other corporations of Chicago. 

STONE, MICHAEL JENIFER, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born about 1750 
in Charles county, Md. He was a repre- 
sentativ e in congress from his native 
state from 1789 to 1791. He was subse¬ 
quently for many years judge of the 
Charles county court. He died in 1812 in 
Charles county, Md. 

STONE, ORMOND, astronomer, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Jan. 11, 1847, in 
Pekin, Ill. In 1882 he was called to the 
chair of practical astronomy in the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia, with care of the Le- 
ander McCormick observatory. Since 1883 
he has edited The Annals of Mathematics 
at the university of Virginia. 

STONE, R. FOSTER, clergyman, lec¬ 
turer, was born in Bedford. He has lec¬ 
tured extensively in the principal states 
of the union, under the auspices of the I. 
O. G. T., W. C. T. U., and ministerial 
associations. He is a prominent clergy¬ 
man of the methodist episcopal church, 
and fills a pastorate in Mendota, Mo. 

STONE, THOMAS, signer of the decla¬ 
ration of independence, was born in 1743 
in Charles county, Md. He was a delegate 
to the continental congress from 1775 to 
1779, and in 1784 and 1785. He was a sign¬ 
er of the declaration of independence; and 
in 1778 was chosen to the Maryland leg¬ 
islature. He died Oct. 5, 1787, in Alex¬ 
andria, Va. 

STONE, THOMAS TREADWELL, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 9, 1801, in 
Waterford, Maine. He was a Unitarian 

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clergyman of Bolton, Mass.; and the au¬ 
thor of Sermons on War; Sermons; The 
Rod and Staff; and Sketches of Oxford 
County, Maine. He died in 1895. 

STONE, WARREN, physician, was born 
in February, 1808, in St. Albans, Vt. He 
began teaching anatomy in 1836, in 1837 
was appointed professor of that branch 
in the university of Louisiana, and aft¬ 
erward accepted the chair of surgery, 
which he held till his death. He died Dec. 
6, 1872, in Baton Rouge, La. 

SI ONE, WARREN, soldier, physician, 
was born in 1843 in New Orleans, La. In 
1873 he made what is thought to be the 
first recorded cure of traumatic aneurism 
of the subclavian artery by digital pres¬ 
sure. He gave his services to the people 
of Brunswick, Ga., during the prevalence 
of yellow fever in 1874 and in 1878. He 
died Jan. 3, 1883, in New Orleans, La. 

STONE, WILBUR FISK, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in December, 1833, in Litchfield, 
Conn. For many years he taught school 
in Indiana; studied 
law; and for a year 
was the editor-in- 
chief of the Daily 
Enquirer of Evans¬ 
ville, Ind. In 1859 
he moved to Omaha; 
in 1860 to Denver; 
and in 1861 was chos¬ 
en a representative 
from Park county to 
the legislature. Dur¬ 
ing 1862-66 he was 
assistant United 
States district attorney; and in 1877 was 
elected to the supreme bench of Colorado. 
He has contributed valuable articles to 
current literature. 

STONE, WILLIAM, governor, was born 
in 1603 in England. In 1648 he was ap¬ 
pointed governor of Maryland, and served 
until 1653. He died about 1695 in Charles 
county, Md. 

STONE, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1838 to 1839. 

STONE, WILLIAM ALEXIS, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born April 18, 
1846, in Delmar township, Pa. He has 
practiced law at Wellsboro and Pittsburg 
since his admission to the bar; and has 
been district attorney of Tioga county 
and United States attorney for the west¬ 
ern district of Pennsylvania. He was 
elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and 
fifty-fourth congresses; and re-elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

STONE, WILLIAM DESSAN, lawyer, 
jurist, was horn Sept. 12, 1843, in Dade- 
ville, Fla. He has been judge of the Forsyth 
city court, Ga.; and takes an active part in 
political affairs. He has served as excel¬ 
lent warden of the grand commandery of 
the Knight Templars in Georgia; and 
stands high in several fraternal orders. 

STONE, WILLIAM H., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1828, in 
Shawangunk, N. Y. He was president, of 
the St. Louis Hot-pressed Nut and Bolt 
company. He was a member of the as¬ 
sembly, and of the St. Louis board of 
water commissioners. He was elected a 
representative from Missouri to the forty- 
third and forty-fourth congresses as a 
democrat. 

STONE, WILLIAM J., farmer, lawyer, 
legislator, congressman, governor, was 
horn May 7, 1848, in Madison county, Ky. 
He was educated at the university of Mis¬ 
souri; was prosecuting attorney of Ver¬ 
non county from 1873 to 1874; and was 
elector on the Tilden and Hendricks tick¬ 


et in 1876. He was elected to the forty- 
ninth and fiftieth congresses, and was re¬ 
elected to the fifty-first congress as a 
democrat. He is one of the foremost 
lawyers of the west, at Jefferson City, 
Mo., and has practiced his profession for 
over a quarter of a century. He served 
with distinction as governor of the state 
of Missouri during 1892-1896. 

STONE. WILLIAM JOHNSON, soldier, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
June 26, 1841, in Caldwell (now Lyon) 
county, Ky. In 1867 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in the Kentucky state legis¬ 
lature; was again elected to the assembly 
in 1875, and was chosen speaker of me 
house. In 1883 he was for the third time 
elected a member of the legislature. In 
1884 he was elected a representative from 
Kentucky to the forty-ninth congress. 

STONE, WILLIAM LEETE, journalist, 
author, was born April 20, 1792, in New 
Paltz, N. Y. He was a journalist of 
prominence in New York city, and the 
first superintendent of public schools 
there. He was the author of History of 
the Albany Constitutional Convention of 
1821; Tales and Sketches; Matthias and his 
Impostures; Maria Monk and the Nun¬ 
nery of the Hotel Dieu; Ups and Downs 
of a Distressed Gentleman, a social satire; 
Letters on Animal Magnetism; Poetry 
and History of Wyoming; Lives of Brant, 
Red Jacket; and Letters on Masonry. He 
died Aug. 15, 1844, in Saratoga Springs, 
N. Y. 

STONE, WILLIAM LEETE, lawyer, 
author, was born April 4, 1835, in New 
York city. He is a lawyer and historical 
writer of Jersey City; and the author of 
History of New York City; Life of Sir 
William Johnson; Burgoyne’s Campaigns; 
Life and Military Journals of General Rie- 
desel; Reminiscences of Saratoga and 
Ballston; Life of William Leete Stone; 
and Visits to Saratoga Battle Grounds. 

STONE, WILLIAM M., governor. He 
was governor of Iowa from 1864 to 1868. 

STONE, WILLIAM MURRAY, bishop, 
was born June 1, 1779, in Somerset coun¬ 
ty, Md. In 1830 he was elected the third 
protestant episcopal bishop of Maryland. 
He died Feb. 26, 1838. 

STONE. WILLIAM OLIVER, artist, was 
born Sept. 26, 1830, in Derby, Conn. He 
gained distinction in portraiture, and de¬ 
voted himself entirely to that branch of 
art. Among his numerous portraits are 
those of Bishops Williams of Connecticut; 
Littlejohn of Rhode Island; and Kip of 
California; John W. Ehninger (1859), 
owned by the National academy; Rev. 
Henry Anthon; Cyrus W. Field; and 
James Gordon Bennett. He died Sept. 15, 
1875, in Newport, R. I. 

STONEMAN, GEORGE, soldier, was 
born Aug. 8, 1822, in Busti, N. Y. In 1846 
he graduated from the United States Mil¬ 
itary academy, and 
was brevetted ma¬ 
jor-general, and re¬ 
tired from the army 
in 1871. He has since 
lived in California, 
of which state he 
was governor during 
1883-87. During his 
administration the 
California state tax 
rate was lower than 
it had ever been in 
the history of that 
state. He is a brilliant orator; and has 
filled all the local offices in the gift of 
his state. 





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STORER, BELLAMY, lawyer, jurist, ed¬ 
ucator, congressman, was born March 9, 
1798, in Portland, Maine. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Ohio from 
1835 to 1837; and was a presidential elec¬ 
tor in 1844. He served three terms as a 
judge of the superior court in the district 
of Cincinnati; and was a professor in the 
Cincinnati Law school. He died June 1, 
1875, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

STORER, BELLAMY, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 28, 1847, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. He was elected from Ohio to 
the fifty-second and re-elected to the 
fifty-third congress as a republican. 

STORER, CLEMENT, United States 
senator, was born in 1760 in Kennebunk, 
Maine. He was a United States senator 
from New Hampshire from 1817 to 1819. 
He died Nov. 22, 1830, in Portsmouth, 
N. H. 

STORER, DAVID HUMPHREYS, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, author, was born in 1804. 
In 1822 he graduated from Bowdoin col¬ 
lege; studied medi¬ 
cine and became a 
successful physician 
and surgeon of Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. In 1837 
he originated the 
Tremont Street Med¬ 
ical school, and in 
1854 was called to 
the chair of obstet¬ 
rics and medical jur¬ 
isprudence in the 
medical department 
of Harvard univer¬ 
sity, of which institution he was also 
dean of the faculty. He has contributed 
valuable papers to various publications on 
zoology and herpetology; and was the 
author of Ichthyology and Herpetology of 
Massachusetts; Synopsis of North Ameri¬ 
can Fishes; and History of the Fishes of 
Massachusetts. 

STORER, FRANCIS HUMPHREYS, ed¬ 
ucator, chemist, author, was born March 
27, 1832, in Boston, Mass. He is an emi¬ 
nent chemist, professor of agricultural 
chemistry at Harvard university from 
1870, dean of the Bussey institute. He is 
the author of Alloys of Copper and Zinc; 
Manufacture of Paraffin Oils; First Out¬ 
lines of a Dictionary of the Solubilities 
of Chemical Substances; Manual of Inor¬ 
ganic Chemistry; Manual of Qualitative 
Chemical Analysis; and Agriculture in 
Some of its Relations with Chemistry. 

STORER, HORATIO ROBINSON, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born Feb. 27, 
1830, in Boston, Mass. He is a surgeon of 
note; and the author of Why Not? a 
Book for Every Woman; Is It I? a Book 
for Every Man; Nurses and Nursing; 
and Criminal Abortion. 

STOREY, MOORFIELD, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1845, in Massachusetts. He 
is a Boston lawyer living in Brookline, 
Mass.; and the author of Life of Charles 
Sumner. 

STORK, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1838, 
near Frederick county, Md. He was a 
lutheran clergyman, professor of theol¬ 
ogy at Gettysburg in 1881-83; and the au¬ 
thor of Light on the Pilgrim’s Way. He 
died Dec. 17, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

STORK, CHARLES AUGUSTUS GOTT¬ 
LIEB, clergyman, was born June 16, 1764, 
in Germany. In 1788 he accepted a call 
as pastor and missionary among lutherans 
in North Carolina. When in 1803 the 
synod of North Carolina was organized 
he was elected the first president, and he 
was annually re-elected whenever he 
could be present. He died March 27, 1831, 
in Salisbury, N. C. 


STORK, THEOPHILUS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in August, 1814, near Salis¬ 
bury, N. C. He was a lutheran clergy¬ 
man of Philadelphia; and the author of 
Life of Luther; Luther’s Christmas Tree; 
Luther and the Bible; Afternoon; Home 
Scenes in the New Testament; and The 
Unseen World. He died March 28, 1874, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

STORM, JOHN B., educator, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 19, 1838, in 
Monroe county, Pa. He was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-second, forty-third, forty-eighth and 
forty-ninth congresses as a democrat. 

STORM, JOHN C., lawyer, was born 
March 6, 1866, in New England. He re¬ 
ceived a thorough education in the pub¬ 
lic schools, and grad¬ 
uated from the Mis¬ 
souri state univer¬ 
sity. He has gained 
distinction as an 
able lawyer of Kirks- 
ville,Mo.; has served 
as city attorney; and 
takes a prominent 
part in public affairs. 
He is also a constant 
contributor to many 
of the leading news¬ 
papers and maga¬ 
zines of the United States. 

STORRS, CHARLES BACKUS, clergy¬ 
man, abolitionist, college president, was 
born May 15, 1794, in Long Meadow, Mass. 
In 1831 he was elected president of the 
Western Reserve college. He died Sept. 
15, 1833, in Braintree, Mass. His death 
was the subject of one of Whittier's most 
stirring anti-slavery poems. 

STORRS, HENRY RANDOLPH, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 3, 1787, in 
Middletown, Conn. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 1819 
to 1821, and from 1823 to 1831. He died 
July 29, 1837, in New Haven, Conn. 

STORRS, RICHARD SALTER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 21, 1821, in 
Braintree, Mass. He was a distinguished 
congregational cler¬ 
gyman of Brooklyn, 
pastor of the Church 
of the Pilgrims from 
1846; and the author 
of The Constitution 
of the Human Soul; 
Historical Address¬ 
es; Divine Origin of 
Christianity; Condi¬ 
tions of Success in 
Preaching without 
Notes; John Wy- 
cliffe and the First 
English Bible; Manliness in the Scholar; 
Love to Christ; Recognition of the Super¬ 
natural; Bernard of Clairvaux; and Forty 
Years of Pastoral Life. He died Aug. 11, 
1873, in Braintree, Mass. 

STORRS, WILLIAM LUCIUS, educator, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
March 25, 1795, in Middletown, Conn. He 
was a representath e in congress from 
Connecticut from 1829 to 1833, and again 
from 1839 to 1841. He was judge of the 
supreme court of Connecticut from 1840 
to 1856; and was chief justice of that 
court from 1856 until his death. He was 
also professor of law in Yale college in 
1846 and 1847. He died June 25, 1861, in 
Hartford, Conn. 

STORTS, JEFFERSON DAVIS, journal¬ 
ist, lawyer, legislator, was born March 18, 
1858, in Lawrence county, Ark. During 
1877-84 he was engaged in journalism; and 
since that time has practiced law, and is 
now one of the foremost lawyers of Mis¬ 
souri at St. Louis. For two years he was 


prosecuting attorney of Shannon county; 
and in 1883-85 served with distinction as 
a member of the Missouri state legisla¬ 
ture. He has also been a nominee for 
congressman on the democratic ticket. 

STORY, GEORGE HENRY, artist, was 
born Jan. 22, 1835, in New Haven, Conn. 
He has attained success as an artist; and 
is curator in the department of painting 
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New 
York city. He has been president of the 
Artist’s Fund society; vice-president of 
the Lotos club; an associate of the Na¬ 
tional Academy of Design; and is a prom¬ 
inent member of various other societies. 

STORY,. ISAAC, lawyer, poet, was born 
Aug. 25, 1774, in Marblehead, Mass. He 
was a lawyer and verse writer of Castine, 
Maine; and the author of An Epistle from 
Tarico to Inkle; Consolatory Odes; and A 
Parnassian Shop. He died July 19, 1803, 
in Marblehead, Mass. 

STORY, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, author, was born 
Sept. 18, 1779, in Marblehead, Mass. He 
was a member of the Massachusetts state 
legislature in 1805, and was elected speak¬ 
er. During the years 1808 and 1809 he 
was a representative in congress; and in 
1811 was appointed a judge of the supreme 
court of the United States, which office he 
held until his death. He was the author of 
The Power of Solitude, with Fugitive Po¬ 
ems, a somewhat callow performance; and 
his first legal production, which appeared 
in 1805, was a Selection of Pleadings in 
Civil Actions. His subsequent works in¬ 
clude, Commentaries on the Constitution 
of the United States; The Conflict of 
Laws, his most able effort; Equity Juris¬ 
prudence; The Law of Agency; Law of 
Bailments; Equity Pleadings; Law of 
Partnership; Law of Promissory Notes; 
and Miscellaneous Writings. He died 
Sept. 10, 1845, in Cambridge, Mass. 

STORY, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, was 
born April 4, 1843, in Waukesha, Wis. He 
attended the Salem Classical and High 
schools, Mass.; and graduated from the 
law T department of the Michigan univer¬ 
sity. He is one of the foremost lawyers 
of the West at Ouray, Colo. In 1867-68 he 
was judge of the eighth circuit of Arkan¬ 
sas; during 1868-73 was judge of the sec¬ 
ond circuit of Arkansas; and in 1869 was. 
special chief justice of Arkansas. During 
1871-74 he was judge of the United States 
district court, western district of Arkan¬ 
sas; and in 1891-92 he served with dis¬ 
tinction as lieutenant-governor of Colo¬ 
rado. 

STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE, lawyer, 
sculptor, author, poet, was born Feb. 12, 
1819, in Salem, Mass. His prose writings 
include, The Law of Contracts; The Law 
of Sales; Life of Joseph Story; Propor¬ 
tions of the Human Figure; Roba di Ro¬ 
ma; The American Question; Fiammetta, 
a novel; Conversations in a Studio; and 
Excursions in Art and Letters. The Cas¬ 
tle of St. Angelo; A Roman Lawyer in 
Jerusalem; Nero, an Historical Play; and 
a two-volume edition of Poems, com¬ 
prise his verse. He and She: a Poet’s 
Portfolio; and A Poet’s Portfolio: Later 
Readings, contain both poetry and prose. 
He died in 1895. 

STOTT, CHARLES ADAMS, soldier, 
manufacturer, legislator, was born Aug. 
18, 1835, in Lowell, Mass. During the 
civil war he served as major of the sixth 
regiment Massachusetts volunteer infant¬ 
ry. In 1867 he was elected a member of 
the Massachusetts state legislature; and 
during 1875-76 was mayor of Lowell, 
Mass. 






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STOUGHTON, EDWIN HENRY, sol- 
,dier, lawyer, was born June 28, 1838, in 
.Springfield, Vt. His services in the civil 
war gained for him promotion to the rank 
of brigadier-general of voluuteers in 1862 
He died Dec. 25, 1868, in Boston, Mass. 

STOUGHTON, WILLIAM, governor, was 
born May 30, 1632, in England. He was 
lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts; 
and in 1699 was acting governor. He died 
July 7, 1701, in Dorchester, Mass. 

STOUGHTON, WILLIAM LEWIS, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born 
March 20, 1827, in Bangor, N. Y. From 
1856 to 1860 he was prosecuting attorney; 
and in 1861 was appointed United States 
district attorney for Michigan. He en¬ 
tered the volunteer army as lieutenant- 
colonel; and was brevetted a brigadier- 
general for gallantry on the field, and 
after the war was brevetted a major-gen- 
.eral. In 1866 he was elected attorney-gen¬ 
eral of Michigan. In 1868 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from that state to the 
forty-first congress; and was re-elected 
to the forty-second congress as a repub¬ 
lican. He died June 6, 1888, in Sturgis, 
Mich. 


STOUT, ADELAIDE, poet. Her poems. 
Little One, Gathering Mint, Sweet Brier, 
Consider, Pets, are among her recent pro¬ 
ductions which have elicited much com¬ 
ment, giving her the reputation of being 
one of the ablest writers in the western 
part of New York. 


STOUT, BRYON GRAY, agriculturist, 
banker, congressman, was born in 1829 
near Canandaigua, N. Y. In 1854 he was 
elected to the Mich¬ 
igan state legisla¬ 
ture; and was re¬ 
elected in 1856, and 
chosen speaker of 
the house. He was 
state senator in 1860; 
and was president 
pro tempore of the 
senate. He was a 
member of the Phil¬ 
adelphia convention 
of 1866; and also of 
the national demo¬ 
cratic conventions of 1868, 1880 and 1888. 
He was engaged in private banking prior 
to 1869, and from that time in agricul¬ 
ture. He was elected to the fifty-second 
congress as a democrat. He died June 19, 
1896, in Pontiac, Mich. 



STOUT, JACOB, governor. While hold¬ 
ing the position of lieutenant-governor of 
Delaware in 1820 he was acting-governor 
of that state, serving one year. 


STOUT, LANSING, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born March 27, 1828, in Pamelia, N. Y. In 
1856 he was elected to the California leg¬ 
islature. In 1857 he went to Oregon and 
turned his attention to the practice of 
law; and in 1858 was elected judge of 
Multnomah county. Before the close of 
that year he was elected a representative 
from Oregon to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress; and subsequently served in the 
State legislature. He died in 1870. 


STOVER, ELIAS S., merchant, mining 
operator, state senator, was born Nov. 
22, 1836, in Rockland, Maine. He has 
been a member of the house and senate of 
the Kansas legislature, of which state he 
was lieutenant-governor. He is a promi¬ 
nent merchant and mining operator of Al¬ 
buquerque, N. M.; and is a member of the 
senate in the legislature of that state. He 
has also contributed valuable articles on 
-current topics to the periodical press. 


STOVER, JOHN H., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 24. 1833, in 
Aaronsburg, Pa. In 1861 he entered the 
volunteer army as a 
private; was at once 
made a captain; 
served as major of 
the one hundred and 
sixth regiment of 
Pennsylvania volun¬ 
teers until 1864; and 
was then colonel of 
the one hundred and 
eighty-fourth regi¬ 
ment until the close 
of the war. He par¬ 
ticipated in the bat¬ 
tle of Yorktown, the seven days’ battles, 
and those of Fredericksburg, Antietam, 
Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and was 
present at the final surrender of the con¬ 
federate forces. He moved to Missouri; 
and was elected a representative from 
that state io the fortieth congress to fill 
a vacancy. 

STOW, BARON, clergyman, author, was 
born June 16, 1801, in Croydon, N. H. He 
was a baptist clergyman of Boston, of 
much prominence in his day, among 
whose writings are, Helen’s Pilgrimage; 
History of the English Baptist Mission 
to India; Christian Brotherhood; and 
First Things. He died Dec. 27, 1869, in 
Boston, Mass. 

STOW, SILAS, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1811 to 1813. 



STOWE, CALVIN ELLIS, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born April 6, 
1802, in Natick, Mass. In 1824 he grad¬ 
uated from Bowdoin 




>m ^ 



college; and then 
entered educational 
work. In 1830 he had 
the editorial charge 
of the Boston Re¬ 
corder; and during 
1831-33 was in the 
chair of languages 
at Hanover. He then 
filled the chair of 
biblical literature in 
Iff the Lane seminary 
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 
where he remained for seventeen years. 
He was the author of an Introduction to 
the Study of the Bible; and has also made 
numerous and valuable contributions to 
literary and religious periodicals. His 
other works are, Origin and History of 
the Books of the Bible; Elementary In¬ 
struction in Europe; and Lectures on the 
Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews. He was 
the husband of the noted Harriet Beecher 
Stowe. He died Aug. 22, 1886, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 


STOWE, MRS. HARRIET ELIZABETH 
[BEECHER], author, poet, was born Jan. 
14, 1812, in Litchfield, Conn. In 1850 she 
removed to Bruns¬ 
wick, Maine, and, 
having by this time 
become deeply im¬ 
pressed with the 
wrong of slavery, 
she wrote Uncle 
Tom’s Cabin for The 
National Era at 
Washington, in which 
paper it appeared 
serially from June, 
1851, till April, 1852. 
The Minister’s Woo¬ 
ing, a novel of the early days of the re¬ 
public, must rank as her finest work. The 
quality of her other work is uneven, its 
highest level being represented by Old- 
town Folks; The Pearl of Orr’s Island; 



Dred; The Chimney Corner; and Relig¬ 
ious Poems, among which is the well 
known hymn, Still, Still with Thee. Her 
lesser works comprise, My Wife and I; 
Sam Lawson’s Fireside Stories; We and 
Our Neighbors; Little Foxes; The May¬ 
flower, and Other Sketches; Sunny Mem¬ 
ories of Foreign Lands; Our Charley; Ag¬ 
nes of Sorrento, an Italian novel; House 
and Home Papers; Stories about Our 
Dogs; Queer Little People; Daisy’s hirst 
Winter; Men of Our Times, biographical 
sketches; The American Woman’s Home 
(with Catherine Beecher); Little Pussy 
Willow; Pink and White Tyranny; Pal¬ 
metto Leaves; Betty’s Bright Idea; Foot¬ 
steps of the Master; Bible Heroines; 
Poganuc People; and A Dog’s Mission. 
She died in 1896. 

STOWELL, CHARLES HENRY, micro- 
scopist, author, was born in 1850 in New 
York. He is a microscopist, professor of 
histology in the university of Michigan; 
and the author of Students’ Manual of 
Microscopy; Physiology and Hygiene; 
The Microscopical Structure of the Human 
Tooth; A Primer of Health; A Healthy 
Body; and Essentials of Health. 

STOWELL, JOHN M., manufacturer, 
journalist, was born in 1824 in New York. 
In 1856 he moved to Milwaukee, where he 
was engaged in journalistic work, and 
serv ed that city as mayor. 

STOWELL, MRS. LOUISA MARIA 
[REED], educator, author, was born Dec. 
23, 1850, in Grand Blanc, Mich. She is an 
instructor in microscopical botany at the 
university of Michigan for twelve years; 
and the author of Microscopical Structure 
of Wheat; and Microscopic Diagnosis. 

STOWELL, WILLIAM H. H., merchant, 
congressman, was born July 26, 1840, in 
Windsor, Vt. He settled in Virginia in 
1865; and was appointed collector of in¬ 
ternal revenue for the fourth district in 
1869. He was elected a representative 
from Virginia to the forty-second, forty- 
third and forty-fourth congresses as a re¬ 
publican. .» 

STOWER, JOHN G., state senator, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1827 to 
1829; and was a state senator from Madi¬ 
son county in 1833 and 1834. 

STRACHEY, WILLIAM, colonist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1585 in England. He 
was the first secretary of the Virginia 
colony. He was the author of A True Re¬ 
pertory of the Wracke and Redemption 
of Sir Thomas Gates upon and from the 
Islands of the Bermudas, supposed to 
have been the inspiration of Shake¬ 
speare’s Tempest; Historie of Travaile 
into Virginia Britannia; and For the Col¬ 
ony in Virginia Britannia: Lawes Div ine, 
Morall and Martiall. He died about 1640. 

STRADER, OTTO, lawyer, jurist. He 
was an early emigrant to Louisiana; and 
in 1806 was appointed a judge of the 
United States district court for the dis¬ 
trict of Louisiana. 

STRADER, P. W., engineer, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 6, 1818, in Warren, 
N. J. In 1868 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the forty-first con¬ 
gress. 

STRAIN, WILLIAM, agriculturist, legis¬ 
lator, was born July 10, 1860, in Bolinas, 
Cal. He is a successful agriculturist of 
Crescent City, Cal.; and served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the thirty-sec¬ 
ond session of the California state legis¬ 
lature. 






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STRAIT, HORACE B., soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, banker, congressman, was born 
Jan. 26, 1835, in Potter county, Pa. He 
was elected mayor of Shakopee, Minn., in 
1870, and re-elected in 1871 and 1872. He 
was elected to the forty-third, forty- 
fourth, forty-fifth, forty-seventh, forty- 
eighth and forty-ninth congresses. 

STRAIT, THOMAS JEFFERSON, sol¬ 

dier, state senator, congressman, was born 
Dec. 25, 1846, in Chester, S. C. He was 
elected state senator from South Carolina 
in 1890; and was elected to the fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fifth congress. 

STRANAHAN, MRS. CLARA HARRI¬ 
SON, author, poet, was born in Westfield, 
Mass. She received her education in 

northern Ohio, and 
subsequently attend¬ 
ed the Mount Holy¬ 
oke seminary and 
the Troy Female 
seminary. Her best 
known work is A 
History of French 
Painting from Its 
Earliest to Its Lat¬ 
est Practice. She is 
also the author of a 
large number of fu¬ 
gitive articles and 
poems, which have been a valuable acqui¬ 
sition to current literature. In 1870 she 
became the wife of the Hon. J. S. T. Stran- 
ahan, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a member of the 
United States congress, who is known 
as the first citizen of Brooklyn. 

STRANAHAN, JAMES SAMUEL 
THOMAS, capitalist, congressman, was 
born April 25, 1806, in Peterboro, N. Y. 

He settled in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y., in 1844. 
In 1854 he was sent 
as a whig to con¬ 
gress, and served 
from 1855 till 1857. 
He was a member of 
the first Metropoli¬ 
tan police commis¬ 
sion in 1858, and 
delegate to the re¬ 
publican national 
conventions in 1860 
and 1864. Brooklyn 
is indebted to him more than any other 
man for Prospect park, the Ocean park¬ 
way, Eastern parkway, and the city’s 
beautiful system of boulevards. He died 
in 1896. 

STRANGE, JOHN TEDRICK, farmer, 
lawyer, was born April 7, 1850, in Arcana, 
Ind. He received a thorough education, 
and after five years at Wabash college 
graduated from that institution in 1877. 
He is a prominent lawyer of Marion, Ind.; 
was a delegate to the national convention 
of 1896 held at Chicago; and takes an ac¬ 
tive part in the public affairs of his city, 
county and state. 

STRANGE, ROBERT, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, United States senator, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 20, 1796, in Virginia. 

He served a number 
of years in the North 
Carolina state legis¬ 
lature; in 1826 was 
elected a judge of 
the superior court; 
and held the office 
until elected a sena¬ 
tor of the United 
States in 1835. He 
was subsequently ap¬ 
pointed solicitor for 
the fifth judicial dis¬ 
trict of the state. He 
was the author of a novel entitled Eone- 
guski; or, the Cherokee Chief. He died 
Feb. 19, 1854, in Fayetteville, N. C. 


STRANGE, WILLOUGHBY TEMPLE, 
lawyer, politician, was born Sept. 6, 1860, 
in Charlottesville, Va. He is a son of the 
confederate states 
general, John B. 
Strange of Virginia, 
who was killed in 
the battle of Sharps- 
burg in 1862. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
at the William and 
Mary college of Wil¬ 
liamsburg, Va.; at 
the Richmond col¬ 
lege; and at the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia. 
He is one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of Texas, and a leading 
politician of Dallas, where he takes an 
active part in the public affairs of his 
city, county and state. In 1897 he was 
made chairman of the congressional cam¬ 
paign committee of the sixth district of 
Texas. 

STRATTAN, OLIVER H., lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born July 14, 1827, in Jen¬ 
nings county, Ind. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the public schools, at the Han¬ 
over college, and from private tutors in 
Carrollton, La Grange, and Versailles, Ky. 
In 1864 he was admitted to the Kentucky 
bar; and has attained success in his pro¬ 
fession in Louisville, Ky., where he has 
continuously lived since 1849. During 
1851-58 he was clerk of the board of al¬ 
dermen; and the four succeeding years 
was a clerk in one of the local courts of 
Louisville. He has contributed extensive¬ 
ly to the periodical press; and is the au¬ 
thor of Industrial Economy, and various 
other works. 

STRATTON, CHARLES C., state legis¬ 
lator, governor, was born in 1796 in New 
Jersey. He served a number of years in 
the state legislature; and was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from New Jersey from 
1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. 
He was governor of New Jersey from 1844 
to 1848. He died March 30, 1859, in Glou¬ 
cester county, N. J. 

STRATTON, CHARLES CARROLL, 

■ clergyman, college president, was born 
Jan. 4, 1833, in Mansfield, Pa. In 1887 he 
accepted the presidency of Mills college, 
Oakland, Cal. He was a delegate to me 
general conference of the methodist 
church in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1872, and 
to that in Cincinnati in 1880. 

STRATTON, CHARLES SHERWOOD, 
dwarf, was born Jan. 4, 1838, in Bridge¬ 
port, Conn. He was known by the name 
of Gen. Tom Thumb. When first exhibited 
by Barnum he was not more than two 
feet high, and weighed less than sixteen 
pounds; but as he grew older his height 
increased to forty inches. In 1863 he mar¬ 
ried Lavinia Warren, also a dwarf forty 
inches in height and fifty pounds in 
weight. They were the wonders of the 
world. He died July 15, 1883, in Middle- 
borough, Mass., and was buried in Bridge¬ 
port, where a marble shaft forty feet in 
height was raised to his memory. 

STRATTON, HENRY DWIGHT, educa¬ 
tor, was born Aug. 24, 1824, in Amherst, 
Ohio. With Henry B. Bryant he estab¬ 
lished the Bryant and Stratton business 
colleges, which at the time of his death 
numbered more than fifty, located in the 
principal cities of the United States and 
Canada. He died Feb. 20, 1867, in New 
York city.' 

STRATTON, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1801 to 1803. 


STRATTON, JOHN L. N., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1817 in Mount Hol¬ 
ly, N. J. In 1858 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New Jersey to the thirty- 
sixth congress; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-seventh congress. 

STRATTON, NATHAN T., congress¬ 
man, was born in New Jersey. He was a 
representative in congress from tnaL state 
from 1851 to 1855. 

STRAUB, CHRISTIAN M., congress¬ 
man, was born in Pennsylvania. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1853 to 1855. 

STRAUS, ISIDOR, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 6, 1845, in Bavaria. 
In 1865 he moved to New York city, where 
his father founded 
the mercantile firm 
of Straus and Sons in 
1866. He has been 
connected with the 
various tariff and 
currency reform 
movements, and is 
New York city’s rep¬ 
resentative on the 
New York and New 
Jersey bridge com¬ 
mission. He was 
elected at a special 
election as a representative to the fifty- 
third congress to fill a vacancy. 

STRAUSS, OSCAR SOLOMON, mer¬ 
chant, diplomat, author, was born Dec. 23, 
1850, in Bavaria. He is a municipal re¬ 
former of New York city, minister to Tur¬ 
key in 1887; and the author of The Orig¬ 
in of Republican Government in the 
United States; and Roger Williams, the 
Pioneer of Religious Liberty. 

STRAWBRIDGE, JAMES D„ soldier, 
physician, congressman, was born in 1824 
in Montour county, Pa. He entered the 
army as a brigade-surgeon of volunteers, 
and served throughout the war. He re¬ 
sumed the practice of medicine after the 
close of the war, in Danville, Pa.; and 
was elected a representative from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the forty-third congress as a 
republican. 

STRAYHORN, ROBERT JASPER, far¬ 
mer, jurist, was born Oct. 6, 1835, in Hay¬ 
wood county, Tenn. He is a successful 
farmer and ranchman of Snyder, Texas. 
He has been county commissioner, county 
judge; and filled various other public po¬ 
sitions of trust. 

STREATOR, WORTHY STEVENS, 
railroad president, state senator, was born 
Oct. 16, 1816, in Hamilton, N. Y. In 1870 
he was elected president of the Cleveland, 
Lorain and Wheeling railroad; but in 1878 
he took the vice-presidency, which posi¬ 
tion he has since retained. He was a 
state senator in 1868-72, and, under the 
appointment of President Hayes, internal 
revenue collector at Cleveland in 1879-85. 

STREET, ALFRED BILLINGS, author, 
poet, was born Dec. 18, 1811, in Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. He was a poet of Albany, 
and state librarian of New York from 
1848. His writings include, Frontenac; 
Woods and Waters; Forest Pictures; The 
Burning of Schenectady, and Other Po¬ 
ems; Drawings and Tintings; Fugitive Po¬ 
ems; and Digest of Taxation in the United 
States. He died June 2, 1881, in Albanv, 
N. Y. 

STREET, AUGUSTUS RUSSELL, don¬ 
or, was born Nov. 5, 1791, in New Haven, 
Conn. He presented to Yale its school 
of the fine arts, one of its finest buildings, 
Titus Street professorship in the theolog¬ 
ical department. He died June 12, 1866, 
in New Haven, Conn. 















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STREET, RANDALL S., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1780 in Cats- 
kill, N. Y. In 1810 he was appointed dis¬ 
trict attorney for New York, and was re¬ 
appointed in 1813. Soon afterwards, as 
major and lieutenant-colonel, he served in 
the army during the war with England. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1819 to 1821. He was 
promoted to the rank of general of the mi¬ 
litia. He died in 1841, in Monticello, N. Y. 

STREET, THOMAS, author, poet, was 
born Nov. 29, 1821, in Gunthorp, Ohio. He 
has contributed extensively to the peri¬ 
odical press; and his poems have ap¬ 
peared in Poets of America and other 
standard works. He is a prominent citi¬ 
zen of Vineland, N. J. 

STREET, WHITING, philanthropist, 
was born March 25, 1790, in Wallingford, 
Conn. He accumulated a large fortune, 
and at his death left $106,000 to the city 
of Holyoke and twenty-one adjacent 
towns, to be used for the benefit of the 
worthy poor that should not be already 
in charge of the public. He died July 31, 
1878, in Northampton, Mass. 

STRIBLING, CORNELIUS KINCHI- 
LOW, naval officer, was born Sept. 22, 1796, 
in Pendleton, S. C. He served in the 
United States navy during the civil war; 
and in 1865 served as commander-in-chief 
of the east gulf squadron, and in 1867 was 
created rear admiral. 

STRICKLAND, O. F., lawyer, jurist. He 
was an early emigrant to Utah; and was 
appointed associate justice of the United 
States court for that territory. 

STRICKLAND, RANDOLPH, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 
4, 1823, in Danville, N. Y. He was prose¬ 
cuting attorney for Clinton county, Mich., 
during 1852-62; and was elected to the 
state senate in 1861 and 1862. He was 
elected a representative from Michigan 
to the forty-first congress. 

STRICKLAND, THERON C., author, 
was born Nov. 24, 1859, in New York state. 
He is prominent as a teacher in commer¬ 
cial schools and colleges; and is the au¬ 
thor of The Twentieth Century Short¬ 
hand. 

STRICKLAND, WILLIAM, architect, 
author, was born in 1787 in Philadelphia. 
He was a Philadelphia architect whose 
chief professional work was the capitol 
at Nashville, Tenn.; and the author of 
Triangulation of the Entrance into Dela¬ 
ware Bay; Report on Canals and Rail¬ 
ways; and Public Works of the United 
States. He died April 7, 1854, in Nashville, 
Tenn. 

STRICKLAND, WILLIAM PETER, 
■clergyman, author, was born Aug. 17, 1809, 
in Pittsburg, Pa. He was a methodist 
clergyman, pastor of a presbyterian 
church at Bridgehampton, L. I., in 18t>5- 
77, whose principal writings comprise 
Pioneers of the West; History oi the 
American Bible Society; The Genius of 
Methodism; Light of the Temple; Old 
Mackinaw, or the Fortress of the Lakes; 
Christianity Demonstrated by Facts; and 
The Astrologer of Chaldea, or the Life 
of Faith. He died July 15, 1884, in Ocean 
Grove, N. J. 

STRICKLER, MINNIE MAY, writer, 
poet, was born July 4, 1869, in Neosho 
Rapids, Kan. She has contributed both 
stories and verse to the periodical press; 
and her poems have been a valuable ac¬ 
quisition to current literature. 

STRINGER, SAMUEL, physician, was 
born in 1734 in Maryland. He settled in 
Albany, N. Y., and in 1775 was appointed 
director and physician of the hospitals of 


the northern department, and authorized 
to appoint a surgeon for the fleet that was 
then fitting out upon the lakes. He died 
July 11, 1817, in Albany, N. Y. 

STRINGHAM, JAMES S., physician, 
lecturer, was born in 1775 in New York 
city. He was professor of chemistry in 
Columbia in 1802-13, and of medical juris¬ 
prudence in the college of Physicians and 
Surgeons from 1813 till his death. He was 
the first to lecture here on the latter sci¬ 
ence, and may be regarded as its founder 
in the United States. He died June 28, 
1817, in St. Croix, W. I. 

STRINGHAM, SILAS HORTON, naval 
officer, was born Nov. 7, 1798, in Middle- 
town, N. Y. In 1809 he became a midship¬ 
man in the United States navy. He passed 
through all the grades, and was made a 
rear-admiral on the retired list in 1862. 

STRODE, JESSE B., soldier, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1845, 
in Fulton county. Ill. He was made prin¬ 
cipal of the graded schools of Abingdon, 
Ill., which position he continued to occu¬ 
py for about eight years; and was twice 
elected mayor and six times councilman of 
the city of Abingdon. He moved to Platts- 
mouth, Neb.; was elected district attor¬ 
ney in 1882, and served two terms. He re¬ 
moved to Lincoln in 1887 and practiced 
law there until November, 1892, when he 
was elected judge of the district court, 
which position he resigned in 1895, having 
been elected a representative to the fifty- 
fifth congress. 

STRODE, JOSEPH, public official, was 
born in 1815. He is the oldest postmaster 
in continual service in the United States; 
and since 1845 has been postmaster of 
Strode’s Mills, Pa. 

STROHM, GERTRUDE, author, was 
born in 1843 in Ohio. She is a writer living 
near Dayton, Ohio; and the author of 
Word Pictures; Universal Cookery Book; 
Flower Idyls; and The Young Scholar’s 
Companion. 

STROHM, JOHN, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 16, 1793, in Lan¬ 
caster county, Pa. In 1831 he was elected 
a member of the legislature of his native 
state, serving three sessions in the house 
and eight in the senate, during one term 
as speaker. He was a representative in 
congress from 1845 to 1847, and for a sec¬ 
ond term ending in 1849. 

STROMQUIST, CHARLES J., farmer, 
legislator, was born Sept. 27, 1842, in Swe¬ 
den. He emigrated to the United States 
in 1867, and is now a successful farmer 
and stock raiser of Fremont, Kan. He has 
been assessor, justice of the peace, county 
commissioner, and served with distinction 
in the Kansas state legislature for two 
terms, during 1893-95, declining to be a 
candidate for a third term. He was the 
originator of the Swedish-American In¬ 
surance company of Kansas, and was its 
president for ten years. Since 1880 he has 
been a member of the board of directors 
of Bethany college of Lindsborg, Kan. 

STRONG, AUGUSTUS HOPKINS, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, author, was born 
Aug. 3, 1826, in Rochester, N. Y. He is a 
baptist clergyman of Rochester, N. Y., 
president of the Rochester Theological 
seminary from 1872; and the author of 
Systematic Theology; and Philosophy and 
Religion. 

STRONG, ABIGAIL SPURR, reformer, 
was born Aug. 23, 1811, in Annapolis, N. 
S. Her whole life was spent in religious 
and reformatory work in Brooklyn, Bos¬ 
ton, and St. Paul, Minn., where she now 
resides. 


STRONG, CALEB, lawyer, governor, 
United States senator, was born Jan. 9, 
1745, in Northampton, Mass. In 1780 he 
was chosen one of the council of Massa¬ 
chusetts. In 1779 he assisted in framing 
the constitution of that state; and in 
1787 also assisted in framing the constitu¬ 
tion of the United States, but did not sign 
that instrument. From 1789 to 1797 he 
was a senator in congress; and from 1800 
to 1807 was governor of the state; also 
from 1812 to 1816. He was a presidential 
elector in 1809. He died Nov. 7, 1819, in 
Northampton, Mass. 

STRONG, DANIEL GATES, educator, 
college president, clergyman, prohibition¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 10, 1838, in Kenton, 
Ohio. During the civil war he was chap¬ 
lain in the fourth regiment Ohio volunteer 
infantry; has been president of the Wil¬ 
bur Collegiate college of Lewiston, Idaho; 
was a delegate to the general conference 
of 1880; and in 1892 was a candidate on 
the prohibition ticket for lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of the state of Washington. 

STRONG, GEORGE CROCKETT, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born Oct. 16, 1832, in 
Stockbridge, Vt. He was a general in 
the federal army during the civil war who 
fell in the assault on Fort Wagner; and 
the author of Cadet Life at West Point. 
He died July 30, 1863, in New York city. 

STRONG, GEORGE TEMPLETON, law¬ 
yer, was born Feb. 26, 1820, in New York 
city. During the civil war he was treas¬ 
urer and one of the executive committee 
of the United States sanitary commission, 
in which capacity he rendered valuable 
service. He died July 21, 1875, in New 
York city. 

STRONG, HENRY, lawyer, financier, 
railroad president, was born in 1829 in 
Scotland. He soon became widely known 
as a lawyer and financier, through his 
connection with v arious railroad" corpora¬ 
tions as general or consulting attorney, 
including the Chicago, Burlington and 
Quincy, the Des Moines Valley, the Union 
Pacific, and the Atchison, Topeka and San¬ 
ta F6, of which last named company he 
was president. 

STRONG, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in 1783 in Windham, Conn. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1819 to 1821, and again from 
1823 to 1831. He died Aug. 8, 1847, in 
Chester, N. J. 

STRONG, JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1822 in New York. He was a 
methodist clergyman and educator of emi¬ 
nence, and professor in Drew seminary at 
Madison, N. J., from 1868. His writings 
include English Harmony of the Gospels; 
Greek Harmony of the Gospels; Irenics; 
The Tabernacle of Israel; Sacred Idyls; 
Future Life; Jewish Life; Our Lord’s 
Life; Commentary on Ecclesiastes; and 
Concordance of the Bible. He died in 
1894. 

STRONG, JAMES HOOKER, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born April 26, 1814, in Canan¬ 
daigua, N. Y. He was commissioned com¬ 
modore in 1870; and in 1873 was promoted 
to the rank of rear-admiral, and placed on 
the retired list three years later. He 
died Nov. 23, 1882, in Columbia, S. C. 

STRONG, JAMES WOODWARD, clergy¬ 
man, educator, college president, was born 
Sept. 29, 1833, in Brownington, Vt. Since 
1870 he has been president of the Carleton 
college of Northfield, Minn. 

STRONG, JAMIN, physician, lecturer, 
was born Nov. 27, 1825, near Rochester, 
N. Y. For twenty years he practiced med¬ 
icine in Elyria, Ohio, and in 1869 was 
elected to the state legislature. In 1891 
he was appointed health officer of Cleve¬ 
land, where he died Jan. 29, 1895. 


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STRONG, JEDEDIAH, congressman, 
was born Nov. 7, 1738, in Litchfield, Conn. 
He was a delegate from Connecticut to 
the continental congress from 1782 to 
1784. He died June 21, 1802, in Litchfield, 
Conn. 

STRONG, JOHN, pioneer, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born Aug. 16, 1738, 
in Coventry, Conn. He represented Dor¬ 
set in the Vermont legislature in 1779-82, 
and served as assistant judge of Benning¬ 
ton county in 1781-82. He returned to his 
old home in Addison, Vt., in 1783; sat 
again in the legislature in 1784-86; was 
first judge of the county court in 1785- 
1801, and judge of probate in 1786-1801. 
He died June 16, 1816, in Addison, N. Y. 

STRONG, JOSIAH, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 19, 1847, in Naperville, Ill. 
Since 1886 he has been general secretary 
of the Evangelical alliance for the United 
States. He is the author of Our Country, 
of which nearly two hundred thousand 
copies in English have been sold. He is 
also author of The New Era of the Com¬ 
ing Kingdom; and other works. 

STRONG, JULIUS L., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Nov. 8, 
1828, in Bolton, Conn. He was a member 
of the Connecticut legislature for two 
years. In 1859 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Connecticut to the forty-first 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
second congress as a republican. He died 
Sept. 7, 1872, in Hartford, Conn. 

STRONG, LATHAM CORNELL, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born June 12, 1845, in 
Troy, N. Y. He was a journalist and 
verse-writer of Troy, N. Y.; and the au¬ 
thor of Castle Windows; Pots of Gold; 
Poke o’ Moonshine; and Midsummer 
Dreams. He died Dec. 17, 1879, in Tarry- 
town, N. Y. 

STRONG, LUTHER M., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born June 23, 
1838, near Tiffin, Ohio. He enlisted as a 
private in the forty- 
ninth Ohio volunteer 
infantry early in 
1861, and was elected 
captain of company 
G and promoted to 
major and lieutenant- 
colonel. He was sen¬ 
ior officer of the reg¬ 
iment and in com¬ 
mand thereof from 
about the time of the 
fall of Atlanta until 
after the battle of 
Nashville; and resigned March 13, 1865, 
on account of a wound. He is a successful 
lawyer of Kenton, Ohio; was a member of 
the board of education for many years; 
and was elected to the senate of the state 
of Ohio in 1879 and re-elected in 1881. He 
was appointed judge of the court of com¬ 
mon pleas by Governor Charles Foster to 
fill a vacancy; and was elected to the 
fifty-third and re-elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a republican. 

STRONG, NATHAN, was born Oct. 16, 
1745, in Coventry, Conn. He was a con¬ 
gregational clergyman of Hartford; and 
the author of Sermons; The Doctrine of 
Eternal Misery Consistent with the Infin¬ 
ite Benevolence of God. He died Dec. 25, 
1816, in Hartford, Conn. 

STRONG, NEHEMIAH, educator cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 24, 1730, in 
Northampton, Mass. In 1770 he’ became 
the first professor of mathematics and 
natural philosophy at Yale, which chair 
he held till 1781. He published Astronomy 
Improved. He died Aug. 12, 1807 in 
Bridgeport, Conn. 


STRONG, SELAH BREWSTER, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, was born May 11, 1792, in 
Brookhaven, Mass. He ser\ed in the war 
of 1812 and was made captain of his regi¬ 
ment in 1815. He took his seat in con¬ 
gress in 1843, and in 1846 was elected 
judge of the supreme court, and served un¬ 
til 1860. He died Nov. 29, 1872, in Setau- 
ket, N. Y. 

STRONG, SIMEON, lawyer, jurist, was 
born March 6, 1736, in Northampton, Mass. 
He was a representative in the general 
court of Massachusetts in 1767-69; a state 
senator in 1793, and a judge of the state 
supreme court in 1800-05. He died Dec. 
14, 1805, in Amherst, Mass. 

STRONG, SOLOMON, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1815 to 1819; was a member 
of the state legislature in 1812, 1813, 1843, 
and 1844; and was judge of the court of 
common pleas from 1818 to 1842. He died 
Sept. 6. 1850. 

STRONG, STEPHEN, congressman, 
was born in Connecticut. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1845 to 1847. 

STRONG. THEODORE, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born July 26, 1790, in South Had¬ 
ley, Mass. He was a professor of mathe¬ 
matics at Rutgers college in 1827-63; and 
the author of Treatise on Elementary Al¬ 
gebra; and On Differential and Integral 
Calculus. He died Feb. 1, 1869, in New 
Brunswick. 

STRONG, THERON RUDD, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1802, 
in Salisbury, Conn. He served in the as¬ 
sembly of New York from Wayne county 
in 1842; and was a representath e in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1839 to 1841. 
He died May 15, 1873, in New York city. 

STRONG, THOMAS MORRIS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 20, 1797, in 
Cooperstown, N. Y. He was a pastor of 
the Dutch reformed church in Flatbush, 
L. I., from 1822 till his death. He pub¬ 
lished a History of the Town of Flatbush. 
He died June 14, 1861, in Flatbush, L. I. 

STRONG, TITUS, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 26, 1787, in Brighton, Mass. 
He was an episcopal clergyman of Green¬ 
field, Mass.; and the author of Tears of 
Columbia, a Political Poem; Candid Ex¬ 
amination of the Episcopal Church; The 
Deerfield Captive; and The Young Scho¬ 
lar’s Manual. He died in June, 1855, in 
Greenfield, Mass. 

STRONG, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born May 6, 1808, in 
Somers, Conn. He was elected from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the thirtieth and thirty-first 
congresses. In 1857 he was elected a judge 
of the supreme court of Pennsylvania for 
fifteen years; and resigned that position 
in 1868 and returned to the bar. In 1870 
he was appointed an associate justice of 
the supreme court of the United States. 

STRONG, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Vermont. He was an early emi¬ 
grant to the territory of Washington; and 
was appointed an associate justice of the 
United States for that territory. 

STRONG, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born in 
Windham county, Conn. He was a repre¬ 
sentath e in congress from Vermont from 
1811 to 1815, and again from 1819 to 1821. 
He was for eight years sheriff of Hart¬ 
ford county; and was judge of the same 
county. He was a member of the state 
legislature for eight years. 

STRONG, WILLIAM EMERSON, sol¬ 
dier, merchant, was born Aug. 10 1840 
in Granville, N. Y. In 1865 he was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He 


was inspector-general of the Freedmen’a 
bureau from 1865 till 1866, and from 1867 
till 1873 was secretary of the Peshtigd 
Lumber company in Chicago, Ill., of which 
he has been president since the latter year. 

STROTHER, DAVID HUNTER—Porte 
Crayon—soldier, artist, author, was born 
Sept. 16, 1816, in Martinsburg, Va. (now 
W. Va.). He was an artist of Berkeley 
Springs, W. Va., once popular as a maga- 
zinist. During the civil war he was a 
colonel in the union army, and in 1865 he 
was brevetted brigadier-general. He was 
the author of The Blackwater Chronicle; 
and Virginia Illustrated. He died March 
8, 1888, in Charleston, W. Va. 

STROTHER, GEORGE F., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Culpeper countys 
Va. He was a representative in congress 
from Virginia from 1817 to 1820, when he 
was appointed receiver of public moneys 
at St. Louis, Mo. 

STROTHER, JAMES F., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 
1811, in Culpeper county, Va. He served 
ten years in the legislature of Virginia, 
and was speaker during the sessions Of 
1847 and 1848. In 1850 he was a member 
of the convention which framed the pres¬ 
ent constitution of the state; and was a 
representative in congress from 1851 to 
1853. He died Sept. 20, 1860, in Culpeper 
county, Va. 

STROUD, GEORGE McDOWELL, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Oct. 12, 1795, in 
Stroudsburg, Pa. He was a Philadelphia 
jurist who published Sketch of Laws Re¬ 
lating- to Slavery in the Several States. 
He died June 29, 1875, in Germantown, Pa, 
STROUP, CHARLES ADDISUin, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, was born July 31, 1872, in 
Southington, Ohio. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as a clergyman and lecturer, and now 
fills a pastorate in the First Congregation¬ 
al church of Mesopotamia, Ohio. 

STROUSE, MYER, lawyer, journalist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 16, 1825, in 
Germany. In 1862 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Pennsylvania to the thirty- 
eighth congress; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-ninth congress. 

STROUT, SEWALL CUSING, lawyer* 
jurist, was born Feb. 17, 1827, in Wales* 
Maine. He is one of Maine’s oldest and 
successful lawyers; and is now associ¬ 
ate justice of the supreme court of Maine* 

STROWD, WILLIAM F., farmer, con¬ 
gressman. was born Dec. 7, 1832, in Orange- 
county, N. C. He is a farmer of Pitts- 
boro, N. C. He was nominated by the- 
populists for congress in 1892 in the fourth 
congressional district; and was again 
nominated by the populists in 1894, and 
was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty- 
fifth congresses as a populist. 

STRUBLE, GEORGE R., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born July 25, 1836, in. 
Sussex county, N. J. He has been cir¬ 
cuit judge of the- 
eighth judicial dis¬ 
trict of Iowa; and is 
one of the foremost 
lawyers of that state 
at Toledo. He served 
with distinction as a 
member of the eigh¬ 
teenth and nine¬ 
teenth general as¬ 
semblies of Iowa; 
and was speaker dur¬ 
ing his second term. 

In 1896 he was a del¬ 
egate to the republican national conven¬ 
tion, held in St. Louis, Mo.; and for the 
past quarter of a century has been prom¬ 
inently identified with the political af¬ 
fairs of Iowa. 




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STRUBLE, ISAAC H., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 3, 1843, near 
Fredericksburg, Va. He served in the 
union army throughout the war of the 
rebellion. In 1872 he moved to Le Mars, 
Iowa, and continued the practice of law. 
He was elected a representative from Iowa 
to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, 
and fifty-first congresses as a republican. 

STRUDWICK, WILLIAM E., congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in congress 
from Maryland from 1796 to 1797. 

STRYKER. MELANCHTHON WOOL- 
SEY, educator, college president, author, 
was born in 1851 in New York. He is a 
Presbyterian clergyman and educator, 
president of Hamilton college from 1892; 
Beside several hymnals, he has published 
Miriam, and Other Verse; Hamilton, Lin¬ 
coln, and Other Addresses; and The Let¬ 
ter of James the Just. 

STRYKER. PETER, clergyman, lectur¬ 
er, author, poet, was born April 8, 1826, 
in Fairfield, N. J. He is an eminent cler¬ 
gyman of the reformed church, and now 
fills a pastorate in Asbury Park, N. J. 
In 1895 he became president of the general 
synod of the reformed church of Ameri¬ 
ca; and has been manager of the Nation¬ 
al Temperance society since its organiza¬ 
tion in 1866. In 1883 he was president of 
the New York State Temperance society. 
He is the author of a number of popular 
works, the most notable of which are 
Three Little Graves; Gems for the Sa¬ 
vior’s Crown; and a collection of poems 
entitled Words of Comfort. 

STRYKER. WILLIAM SCUDDER. sol¬ 
dier, banker, author, was born June 6, 
1838, in Trenton, N. J. In the beginning 
of the civil war he assisted in organizing 
the fourteenth New Jersey volunteers. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1866, and for 
some time was president of the Trenton 
Banking company in New Jersey. He has 
published many monographs relating to 
the history of New Jersey, among these 
being The Reed Controversy; New Jersey 
Continental Line in the Virginia Cam¬ 
paign of 1781; New Jersey Continental 
Line in the Indian Campaign of 1779 
(1885); and The New Jersey Volunteers 
in the Revolutionary War. 

STUART. ALEXANDER, lawyer, jurist. 
He was appointed an associate justice of 
the United States court for the territory 
of Illinois in 1809; and in 1814 was trans¬ 
ferred to a similar position in the terri¬ 
tory of Missouri. 

STUART, ALEXANDER HUGH H., 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born April 2, 1807, in Staunton, Va. In 

1836 he was elected 
a member of the 
house of delegates of 
Virginia from the 
county of Augusta, 
and was re-elected in 

1837 and 1838. In 1841 
he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in con¬ 
gress from Virginia, 
and served until 1843. 
He was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1848; 
and in 1850 was in¬ 
vited by President Fillmore to fill the of¬ 
fice of secretary of the interior, which he 
held until 1853, and then returned to the 
practice of his profession in Staunton. In 
1856 he was a member of the convention 
which nominated Mr. Fillmore for the 
presidency; and in 1857 was elected to the 
state senate of Virginia for four years. 
He died Feb. 13, 1891, in Staunton, Va. 

STUART, ANDREW, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a 
representative in congress from Ohio from 
1853 to 1855, 


STUART, AMBROSE PASCAL SEVI- 
LON, educator, was born Nov. 22, 1820, in 
Sterling, Mass. In 1868 he accepted the 
chair of chemistry in Illinois Industrial 
university, where he remained until 1874. 
His chemical researches have been pub¬ 
lished in the transactions of societies. 

STLTART, ARCHIBALD, congressman, 
was born in Virginia. He was elected a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1837 to 1839. 

STUART, CHARLES BEEBE, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born June 4, 1814, in 
Chittenango Springs, N. Y. He is a mil¬ 
itary engineer in government service; and 
the author of Naval Dry Docks of the 
United States; Water Works of the United 
States; and Civil and Military Engineers 
of the United States. He died Jan. 4, 1881, 
in Geneva, N. Y. 

STUART. CHARLES E., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Nov. 25, 1810, in 
Columbia county, N. Y. He was a member 
of the Michigan legislature in 1842; and 
was a representative in the thirtieth and 
thirty-second congresses. In 1853 he was 
elected a senator in congress for six years. 
He died in 1887 in Kalamazoo, Mich. 

STUART, DAVID, congressman, was 
born March 12, 1816, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Michigan from 1853 to 1855. He died Sept. 
19, 1868, in Detroit, Mich. 

STUART, GEORGE, educator, author, 
was born about 1834 in Saratoga county, 
N. Y. As co-editor of the Chase and Stu¬ 
art Classical Series he has published, with 
Professor Thomas Chase, elementary Lat¬ 
in books and school editions of Caesar’s 
Gallic War; Cicero’s Select Orations; and 
works of Sallust, Cornelius Nepos, Taci¬ 
tus, Virgil, and Ovid. He is also the au¬ 
thor of an educational tract on The Rai¬ 
son d’etre of the Public High School. 

STUART, HAMILTON, journalist, state 
legislator, was born Sept. 4, 1813, in Jef¬ 
ferson county, Ky. In 1838 he removed to 
Texas, where he established the Civilian, 
an independent democratic journal, which 
he continued for nearly forty years. He 
has resided in Galveston since its founda¬ 
tion; was its mayor in 1848-52, and served 
as a member of the legislature in 1847-48. 
He subsequently became one of the edi¬ 
tors of the Galveston News. 

STUART, ISAAC WILLIAM, educator, 
state legislator, author, was born in 1809 
in New Haven, Conn. He was thrice 
elected to the Connecticut state senate. 
While professor at South Carolina college 
he produced an annotated edition of the 
CEdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles. In later 
life he gave much attention to American 
history and antiquities. He died Oct. 2, 
1861, in Hartford, Conn. 

STUART, JAMES EWELL BROWN, 
soldier, was born Feb. 6, 1833, in Patrick 
county, Va. He commanded all the con¬ 
federate cavalry at Bull Run; was made 
brigadier-general in 1861; and major-gen¬ 
eral in 1862. He was killed in battle May 
11, 1864, near Richmond, Va. 

STUART, JANE, artist, author, was 
born about 1810. For many years she fol¬ 
lowed the profession of portrait-painting. 
She contemplated writing a life of her 
father, and published several papers in 
Scribner’s Monthly in 1877. The work 
was subsequently written, at her request, 
by George Champlin Mason. She died 
April 28, 1888, in Newport, R. I. 

STUART, JOHN TODD, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Nov. 10 
1807, near Lexington, Ky. In 1832 and 
1834 he was a member of the Illinois 
legislature. He was elected a representa¬ 


tive from Illinois to the twenty-sixth and 
twenty-seventh congresses. In 1848 he was 
elected to the state senate, serving four 
years. In 1862 he was elected a,represen¬ 
tative to the thirty-eighth congress. He 
died Nov. 28, 1885, in Springfield, Ill. 

STUART, MARY McCREA, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born in 1810 in New York city. 
She was known through New York as one 
of the most philanthropic women there, 
donating large sums of money to various 
institutions, the principal one being the 
Princeton Theological seminary. She died 
Dec. 30, 1891, in New York city. 

STUART, MOSES, clergyman, educator, 
author, was born March 26, 1780, in Wil¬ 
ton, Conn. He was a congregational cler¬ 
gyman and educator of Massachusetts; 
and professor of sacred literature at An¬ 
dover seminary in 1809-48. Among his 
writings are Commentaries on the Epistles 
to the Romans and the Hebrews; Hints 
on the Prophecies; Conscience and the 
Constitution; and Critical History and 
Defense of the Old Testament Canon. He 
died Jan. 4, 1852, in Andover, Mass. 

STUART, PHILIP, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1760 in Maryland. He 
was elected as a federalist to congress 
from Maryland, and served with re-elec¬ 
tions from 1811 till 1819. During the war 
of 1812 he was an officer in the Maryland 
volunteers at the time of the British in¬ 
vasion. He died Aug. 14, 1830, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

STUART, ROBERT, explorer, was born 
Feb. 19, 1785, in Scotland. In 1810 he was 
one of the founders of Astoria, Ore. In 
1812, with a party of six, he traveled over¬ 
land from Astoria to New York; and the 
story of the journey is given at length 
by Washington Irving in his Astoria. He 
was subsequently commissioner for all 
the Indian tribes in the northwest; and 
in 1834 became treasurer of Michigan at 
Detroit. He died Oct. 28, 1848, in Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. 

STUART, ROBERT LEIGHTON, mer¬ 
chant, philanthropist, was born July 21, 
1806, in New York city. In 1880 he gave 
$55,000 to the Presbyterian hospital, Neto 
York city; $100,000 to Princeton Theo¬ 
logical seminary; $100,000 to Princeton 
college; and $50,000 to the San Francisco 
Theological seminary. Mr. Stuart’s chari¬ 
ties are continued by his widow, whose 
New York residence is among the finest 
in the country. He died Dec. 12, 1882, in 
New York city. 

STUART, MRS. RUTH McENERY, was 
born in 18— in Louisiana. She is the au¬ 
thor of A Golden Wedding, and Other 
Tales; Carlotta’s Intended, and Other 
Stories; The Story of Babette; Sonny; 
and Solomon Crow’s Christmas Pockets. 

STUBBLEFIELD, OLIVE, educator, 
lecturer, was born in Olathe, Kan. She 
received a thorough education in the 
Southwest Kansas college and the Kan¬ 
sas State university. She has attained 
success in educational work; has been 
county superintendent of schools of Lin¬ 
coln county, Okla.; and is a successful 
lecturer upon temperance and kindred 
subjects. 

STUBBS, PHILIP H., lawyer, legislat¬ 
or, was born April 7, 1838, in Strong, 
Maine. He soon attained prominence as 
an able lawyer. He has served as state 
senator of the Maine legislature. 

STUCKART, MARY COLEMAN, phil¬ 
anthropist, was born in 1854 in Canada. 
She is a philanthropist of Denver, Col., 
and designed a plan for a co-operative 
home, which should give to each family 
their own private and separate house 
and grounds; with a central building for 
their common use. 



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STUCKENBERG, JOHN HENRY WIL¬ 
BURN, clergyman, educator, author, was 
born Jan. 6, 1835, in Germany. He is a 
lutheran clergyman, professor of theology 
at Wittenberg college, Springfield, Ohio, 
in 1873-80, and minister in charge of the 
American chapel at Berlin from 1880. He 
is the author of Christian Sociology; Life 
of Kant; and Introduction to the Study 
of Philosophy. 


STUDEBAKER, CLEMENT, railroad 
president, was born March 12, 1831, in 
Adams county, Pa. In 1892 he was made 
president of the Chicago and South Bend 
railway at South Bend, Ind. 





STUDEBAKER, JOHN, merchant, bank¬ 
er, was born Aug. 15, 1817, in Darke coun¬ 
ty, Ohio. He began his mercantile opera¬ 
tions in a log cabin 
in Bluff ton, Ind.; 
was the agent of the 
" & American Fur com- 
av pany, and did a large 

business among the 
Indians. In 1856 he 
entered the banking 
business, and estab¬ 
lished the Exchange 
bank, which institu- 
-k tion in 1863 was 

Hb merged into the First 

National bank, of 
which he was president. Since 1868 he 
has been president of the Exchange bank 
of John Studebaker and Company, which 
is now known as the Studebaker bank. 
He has been a candidate for congress, and 
has taken an active part in the business 
and public affairs of his county and state. 


STUDEBAKER, JOHN MOHLER, man¬ 
ufacturer, was born Oct. 10, 1833, in Lan¬ 
caster, Pa. For five years he built wag¬ 
ons in California, and with his savings 
then returned to South Bend and became 
the partner of his brothers. When the 
company was organized in 1868, the broth¬ 
ers made the subject of this sketch first 
vice-president, and that position he yet 
holds, devoting his attention mainly to 
the mechanical department. 

STUDEBAKER, PETER E„ manufac¬ 
turer, Chicago, Ill., was born April 1, 
1836, in Ashland county, Ohio. The firm 
of Studebaker Brothers took him into 
partnership and sent him to St. Joseph, 
Mo., to establish a depot, where he built 
up a handsome trade with the plains. In 
1884, the growing manufacture of fine car¬ 
riages compelled Mr. Studebaker to re¬ 
move to Chicago. Mr. Studebaker is now 
treasurer of the concern. 


STUHR, WILLIAM SEBASTIAN, law¬ 
yer, state senator, was born Oct. 1, 1859, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is a prominent 
lawyer of Hudson county, N. J., where 
he has a large and lucrative practice. In 
1890 he was elected to the senate. 

STUMP, HERMAN, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Aug. 8, 1837, 
in Harford county, Md. He was elected 
to the Maryland state senate in 1878, and 
was made president of that body in 1880. 
He was elected to the fifty-first and fifty- 
second congresses as a democrat. 

STURGEON, DANIEL, physician, state 
legislator. United States senator, was born 
Oct. 27, 17o9, in Adams county. Pa. In 
1818 he was chosen a member of the Penn¬ 
sylvania house of representatives, serv¬ 
ing three terms; and in 1825 he was 
elected to the state senate, being speaker 
of that body the last three years of his 
term. In 1830 he was appointed auditor- 
general of the state, which office he filled 
six years; and in 1838 and 1839 he was 
state treasurer and ended the buckshot 
war by refusing to honor Governor Rit- 
ner’s warrant for payment of the troops. 


He was elected United States senator as 
a democrat for the term that began March 
4, 1839, and was re-elected to that body, 
his last term expiring March 3, 1851. In 
1853 President Polk appointed him treas¬ 
urer of the United States mint at Phila¬ 
delphia, which post he held until 1858. 
He died July 2, 1878, in Uniontown, Pa. 

STURGES, JONATHAN, merchant, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born March 24, 1802, in 
Southport, Conn. He was distinguished 
for philanthropy, and was liberal as a 
founder or supporter of many charities 
in New York city. He was at one time 
vice-president of the New York chamber 
of commerce, an active member of the 
Century club, and a generous patron of 
art. He died Nov. 28, 1874, in New York 
city. 

STURGES, MARY UPSHUR, author, 
poet, was born April 7, 1828, in Accomac 
county, Va. She is a successful writer 
of New York city, and the author of Con¬ 
federate Notes, a novel; and a volume of 
Poems. 

STURGES, SAMUEL DAVIS, soldier, 
was born June 11, 1822, in Shippensburg, 
Pa. He served in the Mexican and In¬ 
dian wars. He resigned and joined the 
southern confederacy in 1861, and in its 
service attained the rank of brigadier- 
general. 

STURGIS, FREDERICK RUSSELL, 
physician, surgeon, author, was born July 
7, 1844, in the Philippine islands. He is 
a prominent physician and surgeon of 
New York city, and the author of Human 
Cestoids; and Students’ Manual of Ven¬ 
ereal Diseases. 

- STURGIS, JOHN F., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Nov. 27, 1861, in East Spring- 
field, Ohio. This prominent lawyer was 
a member of congress from the fifteenth 
district of Missouri, and took a promi¬ 
nent part in the deliberations of that 
body. 

STURGIS, JONATHAN, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1740, in 
Fairfield, Conn. In 1775 he was chosen 
a delegate to congress; espoused and sup¬ 
ported the cause of independence, and was 
a representative in congress from 1789 
to 1793, when he was appointed a judge of 
the supreme court of Connecticut. He 
continued in that office until 1805 and was 
a presidential elector in 1797 and 1805. He 
died Oct. 4, 1819, in Fairfield, Conn. 

STURGIS, LEWIS BURR, congressman, 
was born in 1762 in Fairfield, Conn. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Connecticut from 1805 to 1817. He died 
March 30, 1844, in Norwalk, Ohio. 

STURGIS, ORIN JONES, educator, 
journalist, was born June 12, 1853, in 
Fayette county, Pa. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the public 
schools; attended the George Creek acad¬ 
emy at Smithfield, the Bucknell univer¬ 
sity, and in 1879 graduated from the 
Brown university. For several years he 
taught in the public schools; was post¬ 
master of Uniontown in 1884-85, and dur¬ 
ing 1881-91 was editor and part owner of 
the Republican Standard of Uniontown, 
Pa. In 1891-92 he was on the editorial 
staff of the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, 
and since 1893 has been managing editor 
and part owner of the Uniontown News 
Standard. 

STURGIS, RUSSELL, architect, author, 
was born in 1836 in Maryland. He is 
an architect of New York city, a valued 
authority upon art, architecture, and 
archaeology, and the author of Europeah 
Architecture. 

STURGIS, RUSSELL, merchant, was 
born Aug. 3, 1831, in Boston, Mass. He 
was United States consul at Canton, but 


returned to Boston, and became a mer¬ 
chant in that city. In 1862-63 he served 
as captain and major in the forty-fifth 
Massachusetts regiment. He has been 
actively associated with the Young Men’s 
Christian association since 1858, as presi¬ 
dent of the Boston association. 

STURGISS, GEORGE C., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born Aug. 16, 1842, in Poland, 
Ohio. Since 1895 he has been president 
of the West Virginia Northern railroad at 
Morgantown, W. Va. 

STURTEVANT, EDWARD LEWIS, ag¬ 
riculturist, journalist, author, was born 
Jan. 23, 1842, in Boston, Mass. In 1881 
he was called to the charge of the New 
York agricultural station at Geneva, 
where he remained for six years. Be¬ 
sides making large contributions to agri¬ 
cultural papers, he edited the Scientific 
Farmer in 1876-79, the North American 
Ayrshire Register and the annual Reports 
of the New York Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station, and with Joseph N. Stur- 
tevant, published The Dairy Cow. 

STURTEVANT, JOHN C., manufactur¬ 
er, banker, congressman, was born Feb. 
20, 1835, in Spring Township, Pa. In 
1861, 1862 and 1864 he was an officer in 
the house of representatives at Harris¬ 
burg, Pa., and was elected a member of 
the house of representatives for the ses¬ 
sion of 1865; and re-elected for the ses¬ 
sion of 1866. He removed to Conneaut- 
ville in 1867, and was engaged in manu¬ 
facturing and milling until 1888. In 1874 
he was appointed cashier of the First Na¬ 
tional bank of Conneautville, and in 1875 
was elected president of the same bank. 
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 

STURTEVANT, JULIAN MONSON, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born July 26, 1805, in 
Warren, Conn. He was a prominent ed¬ 
ucator of Jacksonville, Ill., professor in 
Illinois college in 1830-86, and the au¬ 
thor of Economics, or the Science of 
Wealth; and Keys of Sect. He died Feb. 
11, 1886, in Jacksonville, Ill. 

STUTZMAN, FRANK ROSS, clergyman, 
writer, was born July 7, 1866, in Somerset, 
Pa. He is a successful clergyman, and 
has presided over several of the greatest 
conventions held by the disciples in Mis¬ 
souri. He has held pastorates in Missouri 
and Illinois, and filled various official po¬ 
sitions with the organizations of the 
Christian church; and is now state super¬ 
intendent of Christian Endeavor for the 
Disciples. He has filled editorial posi¬ 
tions with Kansas City papers, and with 
the Christian Publishing company of St. 
Louis, Mo. He is the author of consid¬ 
erable Endeavor literature, and has con¬ 
tributed extensively to the periodical 
press. 

STUYVESANT, PETER, governor, was 
born in 1602, in Holland. He received 
an academic education; entered the 
Dutch military ser¬ 
vice, and was made 
governor of a col¬ 
ony on the island of 
Curacoa. In 1847 he 
became governor of 
the colony of New 
Netherlands, now 
New York. When the 
English fleet reached 
his territory in 1664, 
he was obliged to 
surrender, and was 
the last Dutch gov¬ 
ernor of the Island of Manhattan. His 
title was captain, general and governor- 
in-chief of Amsterdam in New Netherland 
and the Dutch West India Islands. He 
died in 1672 in New York city. 



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SUCKLEY, GEORGE, soldier, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, author, was born in 1830 
in New York city. He became brigade 
surgeon in 1861, and was staff surgeon, 
United States volunteers, in 1862-65. He 
became brevet lieutenant-colonel and col¬ 
onel, United States volunteers, Aug. 15, 
1865. He has published Reports on the 
Natural History, Climate, and Physical 
Geography of Minnesota, Nebraska, 
Washington and Oregon Territories. He 
died July 30, 1869, in New York city. 

SUDDARDS, WILLIAM, clergyman, 
journalist, was born in 1805 in England. 
In 1834 he assumed the rectorship of 
<Jrace church, Philadelphia. He was for 
fifteen years either associate or sole edi¬ 
tor of The Episcopal Recorder; and ed¬ 
ited The British Pulpit. 

SUDDATH, JAMES WALKER, lawyer, 
politician, was born May 12, 1857, in Jack- 
son county, Mo. He is a prominent at¬ 
torney of Warrensburg, Mo.; has been 
prosecuting attorney of Johnson county 
for two terms; and in 1892 was elected a 
democratic presidential elector. In 1894 
he was a member of the resolution on 
platform committee of the Missouri dem¬ 
ocratic state convention; and takes a 
prominent part in the public affairs of 
his city, county and state. 

SUDDICK, MRS. LOUISE F., poet, was 
born Oct. 21, 1856, in Farmington, Mo. 
She is a writer of Cuba, Mo., her poems 
appearing in the periodical press gen¬ 
erally. 

SUDDS, WILLIAM F., musician, com¬ 
poser, was born March 5, 1843, in Eng¬ 
land. His compositions comprise both 
vocal and instrumental music, and some 
of his pieces have become very popular. 
He has also published National School for 
the Piano-Forte; and several collections 
of music in book-form, including Anthem 
Gems; and Modern Sacred Duets. 

SUDDUTH, WILLIAM XAVIER, physi¬ 
cian, lecturer, was born Jan. 18, 1853, in 
Springfield, Ill. He prepared for college 
at the Illinois State 
Normal university, 
and graduated from 
the Illinois Wesleyan 
university with the 
degree of Ph. B., 
subsequently receiv¬ 
ing the degree of A. 
M. from the same in¬ 
stitution. He grad¬ 
uated in 1881 at the 
Philadelphia Dental 
college, and in 1885 
from the college of 
Physicians and Sur¬ 
geons of New York city. He then studied 
in the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg 
and Vienna. He was a special lecturer on 
biology in the university of Iowa, 1888-89, 
in the university of California, 1891-92, 
and in the Minneapolis academy, 1893-95; 
and university extension lecturer on biol¬ 
ogy and psycho-physics, in the university 
of Minnesota, 1893-95; and is now profes¬ 
sor of morbid psychology and psycho¬ 
therapeutics and director of the psycho¬ 
physical laboratory of the Post-Graduate 
Medical school of Chicago; also national 
lecturer on narcotics for the W. C. T. U., 
1896. 

SULLIVAN, ALEXANDER. lawyer, 
was born Aug. 9, 1847, in Waterville, 
Maine. In 1883 he was chosen first presi¬ 
dent of the Irish National league of Am¬ 
erica. whose object is to promote home 
rule in Ireland. This place he resigned in 
1884, and now devotes his entire time to 
his profession of law in Chicago, Ill. 

SULLIVAN, GEORGE, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 


1771, in Durham, N. H. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the general court of New 
Hampshire in 1805 and 1813. He was a 
representative in congress in 1811 and 
1812; was a member of the state senate 
in 1814 and 1815, and was twenty-one 
years attorney-general of the state, which 
office he resigned in 1836. He died June 
14, 1838, in Exeter, N. H. 

SULLIVAN, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, author, was born April 22. 
1744, in Berwick, Maine. In 1775 he was a 
member of the provincial congress. In 
1776 he was appointed judge of the supe¬ 
rior court; was a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress in 1782; and was a 
member of the executive council and 
judge of probate. In 1790 was appointed 
attorney-general, which office he retained 
till 1807, when he was elected governor of 
Massachusetts. He was the author of 
History of Land Titles of Massachusetts; 
Observations on the Government of the 
United States; The Path to Riches, or a 
Dissertation on Banks; The Altar of Baal 
Thrown Down, or the French Nation De¬ 
fended; and Impartial Review of Causes 
of the French Revolution. He died Dec. 
10, 1808, in Boston, Mass. 

SULLIVAN, JAMES WILLIAM, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1848 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a journalist of New York 
city, editor of social reform journals in 
1893-96, and the author of Tenement Tales 
of New York; So the World Goes; and 
Direct Legislation through the Initiative 
and Referendum. 

SULLIVAN, JOHN, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Feb. 17, 1740, 
in Brunswick, Maine. He attained the 
rank of major-general in the revolution¬ 
ary army. He was a delegate from New 
Hampshire to the continental congress in 
1774 and 1775, and again in 1780 and 
1781. He was for three years president 
of New Hampshire. In 1789 he was ap¬ 
pointed a judge of the district court, 
which office he held until his death. He 
died Jan. 23, 1795, in Durham, N. H. 

SULLIVAN, JOHN LANGDON, civil 
engineer, physician, was born April 9, 
1777, in Saco, Maine. He was appointed 
engineer of the first canal in the United 
States, between Boston harbor and the 
Merrimac river, and in 1814 received a 
patent for the first steam tow-boat. He 
died Feb. 9, 1865, in Boston, Mass. 

SULLIVAN, JOHN TURNER SAR¬ 
GENT, lawyer, author, poet, was born in 
1813 in Boston, Mass. He wrote several 
well-known songs, and, besides the mem¬ 
oir of his father, published translations of 
stories from the German. He died Dec. 
30, 1838, in Boston, Mass. 

SULLIVAN, MARGARET FRANCES, 
journalist, author. She is literary and 
art editor of the Chicago Tribune and an 
editorial contributqr to the press of New 
York. She is author of Ireland of To-Day; 
and Mexico, Picturesque, Political and 
Progressive. 

SULLIVAN, THOMAS RUSSELL, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born in 
1799 in Brookline, Mass. He was a Uni¬ 
tarian clergyman of Keene, N. H., in 
1825-35, and from 1835 till his death an 
educator in Boston. He was the author of 
Letters Against the Immediate Abolition 
of Slavery; and Limits of Responsibility 
in Reforms. He died Dec. 23, 1862, in 
Somerville, Mass. 

SULLIVAN, THOMAS RUSSELL, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1849 in Massachusetts. 
He is a novelist of Boston, and the au¬ 
thor of Tom Sylvester; Roses of Shadow; 
Day and Night Stories; and several plays. 



SULLIVAN, WILL VAN AMBERG, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 18, 
1857, near Winona, Miss. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the democrat¬ 
ic national conven¬ 
tion in 1892, and was 
by the national dem¬ 
ocratic convention of 
1896, at the request 
of the state of Mis¬ 
sissippi, elected a 
member for Missis¬ 
sippi of the national 
democratic executive 
committee, which 
position he now 
holds. He was nom¬ 
inated for congress, though not a candi¬ 
date for the position, but a deadlock be¬ 
tween the four aspirants having contin¬ 
ued for several days, the nomination was 
tendered to and accepted by him, and he 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a democrat. 



SULLIVAN, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, 
was born Nov. 30, 1774, in Saco, Maine. 
He was a lawyer of Boston, and the au¬ 
thor of Familiar Letters on Public Men 
of the Revolution; Historical Causes and 
Effects; and Sea Life. He died Sept. 3, 
1839, in Boston, Mass. 

SULLIVANT, WILLIAM STARLING, 
botanist, author, was born Jan. 15, 1803, 
near Franklinton, Ohio. He was a bot¬ 
anist of Ohio, and the author of Musci Al- 
leghanienses; Musci Cubenses; leones 
Muscorum; and Musci and Hepaticse of 
the United States East of the Mississippi. 
He died April 30, 1873, near Columbus, 
Ohio. 


SULLOWAY, CYRUS ADAMS, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
June 8, 1839, in Grafton, N. H. He was a 
member of the New Hampshire house of 
representatives in 1872-73, and from 1887 
to 1893, inclusive. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

SULLY, ALFRED, soldier, was born in 
1821, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served with 
distinction through the Mexican and civil 
wars; and attained the rank of brigadier- 
general. He died April 17, 1879, in Fort 
Vancouver, Wash. 

SULLY, THOMAS, was born June 8, 
1783, in England. He was a distinguished 
portrait painter of Philadelphia, and the 
author of Hints to Young Painters. He 
died Nov. 5, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


SULZER, WILLIAM, lawyer, legislator, 
congressman, was born March 18, 1863, in 
Elizabeth, N. J. He was educated in the 
public schools, stud¬ 
ied law and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 
1884, and is a well- 
known lawyer of New 
York city. He was 
elected to the legis¬ 
lature in 1889, 1890, 
1891, 1892, 1893 and 
1894; in 1892 he was 
the leader of the ma¬ 
jority of the assem¬ 
bly, and in 1893 he 
was speaker of the 
issembly. In 1894 he was the leader of the 
ninority of the assembly. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. As a lawyer he 
las won considerable fame and reputa- 
;ion, and has been identified with some of 
the most important cases tried in New 
Fork city. He has introduced and passed 
some of the best laws for the people in 
recent years. 








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SUMERVILLE, ALEXANDER, soldier, 
was born in 1820 in Maryland. In 1839 
he was appointed brigadier-general, com¬ 
manded an unsuccessful expedition to 
Mexico in 1842; and in the latter part of 
that year was collector of customs for the 
district of Matagorda until 1845. He died 
in 1854. 

SUMMERBELL, JOSEPH JAMES, cler¬ 
gyman, editor, was born Jan. 23, 1844, in 
Milford, N. J. He is an eminent clergy¬ 
man, and the: present editor of The Her¬ 
ald of Gospel Liberty. He is a member of 
the mission board and a trustee of the 
Christian Biblical institute. 

SUMMERBELL, MARTYN, clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born Dec. 20, 1847, 
in Naples, N. Y. He has filled important 
pastorates in Brooklyn and New York 
city; and since 1888 has been pastor of the 
College church of Bates college of Lewis¬ 
ton, Maine. Since 1896 he has been a 
lecturer on church history in the Divinity 
school of Lewiston. He has published a 
Minister’s Hand-Book, and has been a 
frequent contributor to the religious 
press. He is also a noted lecturer on 
oriental religions. 

SUMMERFIELD, JOHN, clergyman, au- 
31, 1798, in England, 
clergyman, renowned 
for eloquence in his 
day; and one of the 
founders of the Am¬ 
erican Tract society. 
He was a constant 
contributor to relig¬ 
ious literature. He 
i s the author of 
Sermons and Sketch¬ 
es of Sermons, which 
were posthumously 
published. He died 
June 13, 1825, in 

New York city. 

MARCUS, educator, 
lawyer, was born Aug. 15, 1842, in Prus¬ 
sia. He received his education in Ger¬ 
many; from private tutors in the United 
States; and in 1864 graduated in medi¬ 
cine from the medical colleges of Cincin¬ 
nati and New York city. Five years later 
he was admitted to the bar; and for ten 
years he was professor of law in the 
Law school, university of Kansas; in 
which state he practices his profession at 
Lawrence. 

SUMMERLIN, ADOLPH, journalist, 
was born Aug. 24, 1857, in Keosauqua, 
Iowa. For a quarter of a century he has 
been the jMitor and owner of the Com¬ 
mercial of Mattoon, Ill.; has been a can¬ 
didate for county judge and also for rep¬ 
resentative of the legislature. 

SUMMERS, GEORGE W., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born near Alexandria, Va. In 1830 he 
was elected a member of the house of 
delegates, and continued to represent Ka¬ 
nawha county in the legislature for sev¬ 
eral years. He was elected to the nation¬ 
al house of representatives in 1841, and 
re-elected in 1843, serving throughout the 
twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth con¬ 
gresses. In 1851 he was unanimously 
nominated as the whig candidate for gov¬ 
ernor at the first election of the governor 
by the people. In 1852 he was elected 
judge of the eighteenth judicial circuit in 
Virginia, and served in that capacity for 
six years. He was a delegate to the peace 
congress of 1861. 

SUMMERS, THOMAS OSMOND, was 
born Oct. 11, 1812, in England. He was 
a methodist clergyman of Nashville, and 
the author of Commentary on the Gos¬ 
pels, Acts, and Ritual of the Methodist 


Church South; Treatise on Baptism; On 
Holiness; and Talks Pleasant and Profit¬ 
able. He died in 1882. 

SUMMERS, WILLIAM DOUGLAS, law¬ 
yer, was born Nov. 10, 1862, in Kentucky. 
He taught school for a while, and in 1882 
moved to Harrisville, Mo., and two years 
later was admitted to the bar. He is 
now one of the ablest and most learned 
lawyers of Missouri; takes a prominent 
part in political affairs, and ranks high 
in various fraternal orders. 

SUMMEY, GEORGE, clergyman, college 
president, was born June 3, 1853, in Ashe¬ 
ville, N. C. This eminent presbyterian 
clergyman since 1892 has been chancellor 
of the Southwestern Presbyterian univer¬ 
sity of Clarksville, Tenn., and since 1887 
has been editor of the Presbyterian Quar¬ 
terly. 

SUMNER, CHARLES, journalist, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, author, was 
born Jan. 6, 1811, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a distinguished 
Massachusetts states- 
m a n who succeed¬ 
ed Daniel Webster 
in 1851 in the senate 
of the United States. 
He was a fearless 
opponent of slavery, 
and, in consequence 
of this attitude of 
his, was assaulted in 
the senate chamber 
by Preston Brooks, 
of South Carolina, in 
1856, and severely injured. He is the au¬ 
thor of The True Grandeur of Nations; 
and Prophetic Voices Concerning Amer¬ 
ica. His complete works, including his 
many orations and speeches, have been 
issued in fifteen volumes. He died March 
11, 1874, in Washington, D. C. 

SUMNER, CHARLES ALLEN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Aug. 2, 1835, in Great 
Barrington, Mass. During the war he 
served as a captain in the second Mas¬ 
sachusetts volunteer infantry; and was 
colonel of the first Nevada infantry. He 
was congressman-at-large for California 
in the forty-eighth congress. Prior to his 
term of service in congress he was a mem¬ 
ber of the Nevada state senate during 
1864-68, the latter year as president of the 
senate. He ‘ is a stenographer of San 
Francisco; and the author of Shorthand 
and Reporting; Golden Gate Sketches; 
Travels in Southern Europe; and a vol¬ 
ume of Poems. 

SUMNER, CHARLES FLETCHER, phy¬ 
sician, legislator, jurist, was born March 
28, 1817, in Hebron, Conn. For three 
terms this eminent physician was a mem¬ 
ber of the Connecticut state legislature, 
and probate judge for two terms. He is 
a genealogist and the author of Bolton 
Town History; and other historical works. 

SUMNER, CHARLES PINCKNEY, law¬ 
yer, author, poet, was born in 1766 in 
Massachusetts. He was a lawyer of Bos¬ 
ton, high sheriff of Suffolk county from 
1825 till his death, and the author of Eu¬ 
logy on Washington; The Compass; and 
Letters on Speculative Masonry. He died 
in 1839. 

SUMNER, DANIEL H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 15, 1837, in Ma¬ 
lone, N. Y. In 1871 he settled at Wau¬ 
kesha, Mis., and in 1875 was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney and served two years. He 
was unanimously renominated, but de¬ 
clined further service. He was elected a 
representative from Wisconsin to the for¬ 
ty-eighth congress. 


SUMNER, EDWIN VOSE, soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Jan. 30, 1797, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a major in the Mexican 
war; was governor 
of New Mexico in 
1851-53; and in 1861 
was appointed a bri¬ 
gadier-general in the 
regular army; and 
served with distinc¬ 
tion in a score of 
battles and engage¬ 
ments. He was made 
a major-general in 
the regular army for- 
services before Rich¬ 
mond. He died 
March 21, 1863, in Syracuse, N. Y. 

SUMNER, GEORGE, educator, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Dec. 19, 1793, in 
Pomfret, Conn. He was a Hartford phy¬ 
sician, professor of botany at Trinity col¬ 
lege in 1824-55, and the author of Com¬ 
pendium of Physiological and Systematic 
Botany. He died Feb. 20, 1855, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

SUMNER. GEORGE, political econo¬ 
mist, author, was born Feb. 5, 1817, in 
Boston, Mass. He lectured extensively on 
philanthropic subjects, and contributed to 
the North American and the Democratic 
reviews and to French and German peri¬ 
odicals. His advocacy of the system of 
solitary confinement in prisons led to 
its adoption in French penitentiaries, 
which furnished the subject for a pam¬ 
phlet entitled The Pennsylvania System of 
Prison Discipline Triumphant in France. 
He died Oct. 6, 1863, in Boston, Mass. 

SUMNER, INCREASE, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, governor, was born Nov. 
27, 1746, in Roxbury, Mass. He was a. 
state representative from Massachusetts 
from 1776 to 1780, and a state senator 
from 1780 to 1782. He was an associate 
judge of the supreme judicial court from 
1782 to 1797. He was governor of Mas¬ 
sachusetts from 1797 to 1799. He died 
June 7, 1799, in Roxbury, Mass. 

SUMNER, JETHRO, soldier, was born 
in 1730 in Virginia. He served throughout 
the revolutionary war, attaining the rank 
of brigadier-general. He died in 1790, in 
Warren county, N. C. 

SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Oct. 30, 1840, in 
Paterson, N. J. He is an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman, prominent as a political econo¬ 
mist, professor of political and social sci¬ 
ence at Yale university from 1872, and the- 
author of A History of American Curren¬ 
cy; What Social Classes Owe to Each 
Other; Problems in Political Economy; 
Collected Essays in Political and Social 
Science; Protectionism; Lives of Andrew 
Jackson, Alexander Hamilton, Robert 
Morris; and The Financier and the Fi¬ 
nances of the Revolution, a more extend¬ 
ed life of Robert Morris. He is also a 
constant contributor to the leading relig¬ 
ious periodicals of the United States. 

SUMNER, WILLIAM HYSLOP, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, author, was born 
July 4, 1780, in Roxbury. He was one 
of the original members of the Massa¬ 
chusetts Horticultural society. His works 
include An Inquiry into the Importance of 
the Militia; Observations on National De¬ 
fence; Reminiscences (1854); Memoir of 
Increase Sumner, Governor of Massachu¬ 
setts; Reminiscences of General Warren 
and Bunker Hill; History of East Boston; 
and Reminiscences of Lafayette’s Visit to 
Boston. He died Oct, 24, 1861, in Jamaica 
Plains, Mass. 


thor, was born Jan. 
He was a methodist 



SUMMERFIELD, 








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SUMTER, THOMAS, soldier, diplomat, 
United States senator, was born July 14, 
1736, in Virginia. He was a distinguished 
soldier of the Ameri¬ 
can revolution, and 
was a citizen of 
South Carolina. He 
was promoted, i n 
1780, from the office 
of colonel to that of 
brigadier - general. 
For his services he 
received the thanks 
of congress and the 
applause of his coun¬ 
try. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in con¬ 
gress from South Carolina from 1789 to 
1793. In 1801 he was elected a senator in 
congress, serving until 1809, when he was 
appointed minister to Brazil. After spend¬ 
ing two years abroad, he returned home 
and was again elected to the senate. He 
died June 1, 1832, near Camden, S. C. 

SUMTER, THOMAS D., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 1840 to 1843. 

SUNDERLAND, JABEZ THOMAS, cler¬ 
gyman, journalist, author, was born Feb. 
11, 1842, in England. He is a distinguished 
clergyman of the Unitarian church; the 
founder and editor of the Unitarian 
Monthly, and the author of A Rational 
Faith; What Is the Bible? The Liberal 
Christian Ministry; Home Travel in Bible 
Lands; The Bible: Its Origin and Place 
Among the Sacred Books of the World; 
and Orthodoxy and Revivalism. 

SUNDERLAND, LA ROY, author, was 
born May 18, 1802, in Exeter, R. I. He 
was a writer who in early life was a 
zealous methodist preacher, and after 1845 
an equally zealous opponent of Christian¬ 
ity, slavery, spiritualism, and mormonism. 
Among his writings are: History of South 
America; Book of Human Nature; Book 
of Psychology; The Trance, and How In¬ 
troduced; Anti-Slavery Manual, and Mor¬ 
monism Exposed. He died May 15, 1885, 
in Quincy, Mass. 

SUNDERLAND, THOMAS, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born in 1821 in Terre Haute, Ind. 
After securing a large fortune, he en¬ 
gaged in the practice of his profession, 
and became chief justice of the supreme 
court of California. He died Oct. 9, 1886, 
in New York city. 

SUPER, CHARLES W., educator, col¬ 
lege president, author. He has attained 
success in educational work, and is now 
president of the Ohio university of Ath¬ 
ens. He is the author of A History of 
the German Language from the Earliest 
Times to the Present Day; and other 
works. 

SUPLEE, THOMAS DANLY, educator, 
author, was born April 17, 1846, in Phil¬ 
adelphia. He is an educator of New Jer¬ 
sey, and the author of Frank Muller, or 
Labor and Its Fruits; Pebbles from the 
Fountain of Castalia; Poems; Plain 
Talks; Riverside, a romance; and Civil 
Government under the United States Con¬ 
stitution. 

SUTHERLAND, GEORGE E., soldier, 
jurist, lecturer. For three years he served 
as a union soldier during the civil war, 
and was promoted to major. In 1886 he 
moved to Milwaukee, where he was 
elected superior judge. 

SUTHERLAND, JABEZ G., lawyer, was 
born Oct. 6, 1825, in Onondaga county, N. 
Y. In 1849 he settled in Saginaw City, 
Mich., and was made prosecuting attor¬ 
ney for that county, and in 1853 was elect¬ 
ed to the state legislature. In 1863 he was 
elected circuit judge of the tenth circuit. 



and was re-elected to the same position 
in 1869 without opposition. In 1870 he 
was elected to the forty-second congress as 
a democrat. 

SUTHERLAND, JOEL B., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born in 1791 in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Philadelphia coun¬ 
ty, Pa., from 1827 to 1837. He died Nov. 
15, 1861, in Philadelphia. 

SUTHERLAND, JOSIAH, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in New York. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the thirty-second congress, and 
was subsequently a judge of the supreme 
court of the state. 


SUTHERLAND, RODERICK DHU, 
lawyer, congressman, was born April 27, 
1862, in Scotch Grove, Iowa. He was 


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elected county at¬ 
torney in Nebraska 
in 1890; and re-elect¬ 
ed in 1892 and 1894. 
He was elected to 
the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a populist. 
He is one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of Ne¬ 
braska at Nelson; 
and while in con¬ 
gress served on a 
number of important 
committees. 


SUTHERLAND, WILLIAM A., lawyer, 
was born May 30, 1849, in Hopewell, N. Y. 
He was counsel for the republican state 
committee in the celebrated senatorial 
election cases in 1891, and in the contest 
against the re-appointment of 1892. In 
1894 he was one of the counsel in the 
Lexow committee of the state senate 
which investigated the affairs of New 
York city. This successful lawyer is 
prominent in political affairs, and prac¬ 
tices law in Rochester, N. Y. 

SUTLIFFE, ALBERT, poet, was born 
about 1830 in Meriden, Conn. He first 
became known as a writer of verse for the 
National Era, Washington, D. C., and in 
1854 was a contributor to the Genius of 
the West, at Cincinnati. He published a 
volume of poems in 1859. 

SUTRO, ADOLPH HEINRICH JOSEPH, 
mining engineer, was born April 29, 1830, 
in Germany. In 1860 he planned the now 
famous Sutro tunnel through the heart 
of the mountain in Nevada, where lay 
the Comstock lode; and in 1879 the great 
tunnel was finished and its projector be¬ 
came a millionaire many times over. He 
was mayor of San Francisco, and has 
filled numerous public positions of honor. 

SUTRO, OTTO, merchant, musician, 
was born Feb. 24, 1833, in Prussia. In 
1868 he decided to engage in the piano, 
organ and music and musical merchan¬ 
dise business in Baltimore, Md., which 
business he is still connected with. 

SUTRO, THEODORE, lawyer, author, 
was born March 14, 1845, in Prussia. From 
1875 to 1880 he was employed as attor¬ 
ney for the Sutro Tunnel company of 
Nevada; and published a book entitled 
The Sutro Tunnel Company and the Sutro 
Tunnel. 

SUTTER, DANIEL, merchant, was born 
Dec. 16, 1830, in Mount Holly, N. J. For 
forty-five years he was identified with 
the business interests of Philadelphia, Pa., 
and for thirty-two years was the senior 
member of the firm of Sutter and Miller, 
rubber merchants, retiring from active 
business in 1896, and has since resided in 
the place of his nativity. For twenty-five 
years he has been a bank director, and 
still continues in that capacity; also re¬ 


taining an interest in various other cor¬ 
porations as director, treasurer and stock¬ 
holder. He stands high in Masonry, is sl 
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite, and 
is a member of the Pennsylvania Histori¬ 
cal society, and the Horticultural, Colon¬ 
ial and Genealogical societies of that 
state; and also a member of the Union 
league, Trades league and other asso¬ 
ciations in Philadelphia. 

SUTTER, JOHN AUGUSTUS, pioneer, 
was born Feb. 15, 1803, in Baden. In 
1834 he settled in St. Louis, Mo., and in 
1838 crossed the Rocky Mountains. He- 
subsequently went to Sitka, Alaska, and 
in 1839 founded the first white settlement 
on the site of Sacramento. He received a 
large tract of land from the Mexican gov¬ 
ernment, and in 1841 built a fort, and 
was appointed governor of the northern 
frontier country. He died June 17, 1880, 
in Washington, D. C. 

SUTTON, A. LINCOLN, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born June 21, 1866, in Oregon, 
Wis. He is one of the foremost lawyers, 
of the west, and resides in South Omaha, 
Neb. He has been justice of the peace; 
served two terms in the Nebraska state 
legislature with distinction; has been 
county commissioner, Omaha, and filled 
various other public positions of trust. 

SUTTON, CICERO HOLT, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born in Batesville, Ga. In 1843 
he was admitted to the bar; was justice- 
of the inferior court in 1846, and re¬ 
ceived the re-election in 1848, and since- 
1847 has lived in Clarkesville, Ga. Dur¬ 
ing 1851-55 he served two terms as pro¬ 
bate judge of his county, and in 1865 was 
elected judge of the county court; and in 
1876 and again in 1880 was appointed to 
that position by the governor. He has 
won distinction as an able lawyer and 
jurist. 

SUTTON, JAY W., lawyer, business¬ 
man, was born Sept. 10, 1858, in Romeo, 
Mich. In 1881 he was admitted to the 
bar. He has been secretary of the Soo 
Mutual Building and Loan association 
since its organization in 1888; and in 
1897 was elected state banker for two 
years by the Modern Woodmen of Amer¬ 
ica. He takes a deep interest in the 
public affairs of Michigan at Sault Ste. 
Marie; and is prominent in various fra¬ 
ternal orders. 

SUTTON, WILLIAM BELL, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator* was born Feb. 12, 1849. 
in Indiana, Pa. He was judge of Oneida 
county, N. Y. He subsequently moved to 
Kansas where he has attained prominence 
as an able lawyer, and member of the 
Kansas house of representatives. 

SUTTON, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Sept. 11, 1835, in 
Haddonfield, N. J. He received his edu¬ 
cation at the Dickinson college of Car¬ 
lisle, Pa.; the Wesleyan university of 
Middletown, Conn.; and the Albany Law 
school. He has been school director and 
a state senator in the Pennsylvania leg¬ 
islature; and was instrumental iii intro¬ 
ducing and passing many improvements 
in statutory law. He has declined nom¬ 
inations for judge of court of common 
pleas and for congress, preferring the 
practice of law, in which he has been 
eminently successful, both in criminal 
and common law. He is a ready speaker, 
but as a brilliant lawyer of Philadelphia 
he is most distinguished. 

SUYDAM, JAMES AUGUSTUS, artist, 
was born March 27, 1819, in New York. 
His best known work is a characteristic 
landscape painting known as Long Island 
Shore. He died Sept, 15, 1865, in North 
Conway, N. H. 




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SUYDAM, JOHN HOWARD, clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 1, 1832, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He is a Dutch reformed cler¬ 
gyman of Jersey City from 1869, and the 
author of The Cruger Family; Cruel Jim; 
and The Wreckmaster. 

SWAIM, DAVID GASKILL, soldier, 
lawyer, was born Dec. 22, 1834, in Salem, 
Ohio. He served with distinction through¬ 
out the civil war in the United States 
army, and attained the rank of colonel. 
He became judge advocate general of the 
army in 1881, with the rank of brigadier- 
general. 

SW'AIN, ADELINE MORRISON, edu¬ 
cator, suffragist, was born May 25, 1820, 
in Bath, N. H. She received her educa¬ 
tion in the public 
schools, Newbury 
seminary, Vermont, 
and the Troy Con¬ 
ference academy of 
West Poultney. For 
many years she was 
preceptress of the 
Troy Conference 
seminary, and a 
teacher of French, 
Spanish and Italian. 
She subsequently 
held the same po¬ 
sition in Nunda Literary institute; 
and taught drawing and painting in 
both institutions. In 1883 she was 
a candidate for state superintendent of 
public instruction of Iowa; and in 1884 
was state delegate at large to the presi¬ 
dential convention held at Indianapolis. 
She has contributed extensively to cur¬ 
rent literature on different topics and 
suffrage work. 

SWAIN, DAVID LOWRY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, college president, governor, author, 
was born Jan. 4, 1801, near Asheville, N. 
C. In 1824 he was elected to represent 
Buncombe county, N. C., in the house of 
commons of the state. In 1831 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the supreme court; from 
1832 to 1835 was governor of the state. 
From that time until his death he was 
president of the university of North Car¬ 
olina. He published British Invasion of 
North Carolina; and other works. He 
died Sept. 3, 1868, in Chapel Hill, N. C. 

SWAIN, JAMES BARRETT, journalist, 
author, was born July 30, 1820, in New 
York city. He was a journalist of New 
York city, postoffice inspector in 1881-85, 
and the author of Life and Speeches of 
Henry Clay; Historical Notes to Speeches 
of Henry Clay; and A Military History of 
New York State. He died in 1895. 

SWAIN, JOHN R., lawyer, writer, was 
born Aug. 9, 1863, in Detroit, Mich. In 
1868 he moved west with his parents, first 
to Mapleton, Iowa, and then to Southland, 
where he received his early education; 
subsequently graduating from the law de¬ 
partment of the state university of Iowa. 
He has attained success in the profession 
of law at Greeley, Neb.; was city attor¬ 
ney in 1892-93, and county attorney in 
1893-94. He has been a member of the 
city council for several years, and chair¬ 
man of the school board. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively to the periodical 
press, and in 1895 was editor of the Gree¬ 
ley Herald. 

SWAIN, JOSEPH, educator, college 
president, was born June 16, 1857, in Pen¬ 
dleton, Ind. In 1893 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the university of Indiana, which 
position he still holds. 

SWAN, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a delegate from North Carolina to the 
continental congress from 1787 to 1788. 

SWAN, JOSIAH ROCKWELL, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Dec. 28, 1802, in 


Westernville, N. Y. He was a prominent 
jurist of Columbus, Ohio, and the author 
of Treatise on Justices of the Peace and 
Constables in Ohio; Manual for Executors 
and Administrators; Pleading and Prac¬ 
tice; and Commentaries on Pleadings un¬ 
der the Ohio Code. He died Dec. 18, 1884, 
in Columbus, Ohio. 

SWAN, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born in 1771 in Somerset county, N. J. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1821 to 1831. He died 
Aug. 24, 1844, in Brunswick, N. J. 

SWAN, TIMOTHY, musician, compos¬ 
er, was born July 23, 1758, in Worcester, 
Mass. He settled at Northfield, Mass., 
where he resided until his death. Some of 
his psalm-tunes, among them China, Pow- 
nal, and Poland, became very popular, 
and are still to be found in collections 
of church music. He died July 23, 1842, 
in Northfield, Mass. 

SWAN, WILLIAM B., physician, legis¬ 
lator, was born Feb. 16, 1864, in Paterson, 
N. J. In 1892 he was elected a member 
of the Kansas house of representatives 
from the Topeka City district. 

SWAN, WILLIAM DRAPER, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 17, 1809, in Dor¬ 
chester, Mass. He was an educator and 
bookseller of Boston. He published a 
popular series of school readers; and a 
series of widely used arithmetics. He 
died Nov. 2, 1864, in Rochester, N. Y. 

SWANGER, FRANCIS ASBURY, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born May 
3, 1859, in Milroy, Pa. He attended the 
State Normal school of Kirksville, Mo., 
and the State university of Columbia; 
and has had the degrees of M. S. D. and 
A. M. conferred upon him. For many 
years he taught in the district schools of 
Sullivan county, Mo., and has been prin¬ 
cipal of schools in Greencastle, Carroll¬ 
ton, Lancaster and Kirksville. He taught 
physics and language in the State Normal 
school of Kirksville, Mo., during 1889-91; 
then taught mathematics until 1894; since 
which time he has been president of that 
institution of learning. 

SWANGER, JOHN E., lawyer, educat¬ 
or, legislator, was born June 22, 1864, in 
Milan, Mo. For a number of years he 
taught school, was a superintendent of 
public schools for three years, and is now 
engaged in the practice of law at Milan, 
Mo. In 1892 he was elected to the Mis¬ 
souri state legislature and received the 
re-election in 1894. 

SWANK, JAMES MOORE, author, was 
born July 12, 1832, in Loyalhanna, Pa. 
He is the general manager of the Ameri¬ 
can Iron and Steel association since 1885, 
and the author of History of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture; Iron Making and 
Coal Mining in Pennsylvania; and Iron 
Manufacture in All Ages. 

SWANN, THOMAS, lawyer, banker, 
governor, United States senator, was born 
in 1805 in Alexandria, Va. He was ap¬ 
pointed secretary of 
the Neapolitan com¬ 
mission, and in 1834 
settled in Baltimore, 
Md. Two years after¬ 
ward he was chosen 
a director of the Bal¬ 
timore and Ohio 
Railroad company, 
and in 1847 was cho¬ 
sen president of the 
same, which office he 
resigned in 1853. He 
was also president of 
the Northwestern Virginia Railroad com¬ 
pany, disbursing in behalf of the two 
roads about thirteen million dollars. In 
1856 he was elected mayor of Baltimore; 


was re-elected in 1858. He was the orig¬ 
inator of the Druid Hill park in that 
city. He emancipated his slaves before 
the rebellion, and continued a union man 
during the war. In 1863 he was elected 
president of the First National bank of 
Baltimore. In 1864 he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Maryland. In 1866 he was elect¬ 
ed a senator in congress, but declined to 
leave the executive chair. In 1868 he 
was elected a representative from Mary¬ 
land to the forty-first congress, and was 
re-elected to the forty-second, forty-third, 
forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as 
a democrat. He died July 24, 1883, in 
Leesburg, Va. 

SWANSON, CLAUDE A., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 31, 1862, in 
Swansonville, Va. He was a delegate to 
the national democratic convention of 
1896. He was elected from Virginia to 
the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses as a democrat. 

SWANWICK, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1798, but re¬ 
signed before the expiration of his sec¬ 
ond term. 

SWART, PETER, state senator, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1807 to 
1809; and was a state senator from 1817 
to 1820. 

SWARTHOUT, SAMUEL, naval officer, 
was born May 10, 1804, in New York 
city. In 1820 he entered the navy as a 
midshipman; was promoted to command¬ 
er in 1855; and took an active part in the 
civil war. He died Feb. 5, 1867, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

SWARTZ, JOEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 18, 1827, in Shenandoah, 
Va. He is a lutheran clergyman, pastor 
at Gettysburg from 1881, and the author 
of Dreamings of the Waking, with Other 
Poems; and Lyra Lutherana. 

SWAYNE, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Aug. 10, 1842, in New Castle 
county, Del. He has served as United 
States district judge of the northern dis¬ 
trict of Florida, with headquarters at St. 
Augustine. 

SWAYNE, NOAH HAYNES, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, was born Dec. 7, 
1804, in Culpeper county, Va. In 1829 
he was elected to the legislature of Ohio, 
and in 1830 was appointed United States 
district attorney for Ohio, holding that 
position nine years, and residing in Co¬ 
lumbus. In 1834 he was chosen judge of 
the court of common pleas, but declined 
the office, and in 1836 was again elected 
to the state legislature. In 1861 he was 
appointed a justice of the supreme court 
of the United States. He died June 8, 
1884, in New York city. 

SWAYNE, WAGER, soldier, lawyer, 
was born Nov. 10, 1834, in Columbus, Ohio. 
In 1865 he was brevetted a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral. He was a successful lawyer of New 
York city, and subsequently of Chicago. 

SWEARINGEN, HENRY, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a 
representative in congress from Ohio from 
1839 to 1841. 

SWEARINGEN, THOMAS V., congress¬ 
man, was born in Jefferson county, Vir¬ 
ginia. He was elected a representative in 
congress from Virginia from 1819 to 1822, 
when he died in Virginia. 

SWEAT, LORENZO D. M., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born May 26, 
1818, in Parsonville, Maine. In 1856 and 
1860 he was a city solicitor in Portland, 
Maine; and in 1862 was a member of the 
state senate. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Maine to the thirty-eighth 
congress. 




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SWEAT, MRS. MARGARET JANE 
(MUZZEY), author, was born Nov. 28, 
1823, in Portland, Maine. She is the au¬ 
thor of Ethel’s Love Life; and Highways 
of Travel, or a Summer in Europe. 

SWEENEY, W. N., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 5, 1832, in Kentucky. 
In 1868 he was elected a representative 
from Kentucky to the forty-first congress. 

SWEENEY, ZACHARY TAYLOR, cler¬ 
gyman, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 
10, 1849, in Liberty, Ky. He received' his 
education in the Eu¬ 
reka and the De 
Pauw universities. 
For twenty-four 
years he was pastor 
of one of the largest 
churches among the 
religious people of 
his choice, and edi¬ 
torially connected 
with several of his 
denominational jour¬ 
nals. He has been 
connected with But¬ 
ler university in the capacity of chancel¬ 
lor. He is the author of a book of tra¬ 
vel; has been president of the Indiana 
Christian Sunday-school convention; 
president of the Indiana Anti-Liquor 
league; was United States consul-general 
to the Ottoman Empire from 1889 to 1891, 
and was imperial Ottoman commissioner 
to the World’s Columbian exposition. 
He was decorated by the Sultan of Turkey 
with the order of the Osmanieh. 

SWEENY, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Ohio from 
1839 to 1843. 

SWEET, ALEXANDER EDWIN, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, author, was born March 
28, 1S41, in St. John, N. B. He is a 
Texas journalist who served in the con¬ 
federate army, and is the author of Three 
Dozen Good Stories from Texas Siftings. 

SWEET, BENJAMIN JEFFREY, sol¬ 
dier, was born April 24, 1832, in Kirk¬ 
land, N. Y. He served with distinction 
through the civil war, and attained the 
rank of brigadier-general. He died Jan. 
1, 1874, in Washington, D. C. 

SWEET, ELNATHAN, civil engineer, 
author, was born Nov. 20, 1837, in Chesh¬ 
ire, Mass. In 1876-80 he was division en¬ 
gineer of New York state canals, and he 
was elected state engineer in 1883, which 
office he held for four years from Jan. 1, 
1884. His writings include annual re¬ 
ports that he issued from Albany during 
the years he held office, and various tech¬ 
nical papers. 

SWEET, HOMER DE LOIS, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Jan. 24, 1826, in 
Pompey, N. Y. He is a civil engineer of 
Syracuse, and the author of The Averys 
of Groton, a genealogy; and Twilight 
Hours in the Adirondacks. 

SWEET, JOHN EDSON, inventor, me¬ 
chanical engineer, was born Oct. 21, 1832, 
in Pompey, N. Y. This successful invent¬ 
or and manufacturer is president of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engin¬ 
eers. For many years he,was professor 
of practical mechanics in Cornell univer¬ 
sity. 

SWEET, SYLVESTER JAMES PERRY, 
educator, author, was born April 30, 1853, 
near Waupun, Wis. Since 1891 he has 
been president of the Santa Rosa Business 
college, California. He is the author of 
Sweet’s Short Methods in Arithmetic; 
Sweet’s Bookkeeping; Elements of Geom¬ 
etry; Sweet’s System of Practical Pen¬ 
manship; and other works. 

SWEET, WILLIS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 1, 1856, in Al- 


burg Springs, Vt. He was appointed 
United States attorney for Idaho in 1888, 
and was appointed associate justice of the 
supreme court of Idaho in 1889, which 
position he held until the admission of 
Idaho into the union. He was elected to 
the unexpired term of the fifty-first con¬ 
gress, and re-elected to the fifty-second 
and fifty-third congresses as a republican. 

SWEETSER, CHARLES, congressman, 
was born in Vermont. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Ohio, from 
1849 to 1853. 

SWEETSER, CHARLES HUMPHREYS, 
journalist, author, was born Aug. 25, 1841, 
in Athol, Mass. He was a journalist of 
New York city and subsequently of Chi¬ 
cago. He was the author of Songs of 
Amherst; History of Amherst College; 
and Tourist’s and Invalid’s Guide to the 
Northwest. He died Jan. 1,1871, in Palat- 
ka, Fla. 

SWEETSER. HENRY EDWARD, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Feb. 19, 1837, in New 
York city. In 1860 he was made night 
editor of the World, and in 1863 he found¬ 
ed, with his brother, Charles H. Sweet- 
ser, the Round Table, from which he 
withdrew in 1866, and, after a short visit 
to Europe, returned to New York and en¬ 
gaged in editorial work until his death. 
He died Feb. 17, 1870, in New York city. 

SWEETSER, MOSES FOSTER, author, 
was born Sept. 22, 1848, in Newburyport, 
Mass. He was a Boston writer who has 
published Europe for Two Dollars a Day; 
Artist Biographies; Summer Days Down 
East; Guide-Books to New England, the 
Middle States, the White Mountains, and 
the Maritime Provinces; and In Distance 
and in Dream, a story. He died in 1897. 

SWEETSER, WILLIAM, physician, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Sept. 8, 1797, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a physician who 
was professor of medicine at Bowdoin col¬ 
lege in 1845-61, and the author of Trea¬ 
tise on Consumption; Digestion and Its 
Disorders; Mental Hygiene; and Human 
Life. He died Oct. 14, 1875, in New York 
city. 

SWENEY, JOHN ROBSON, musician, 
composer, was born Dec. 31, 1837, in West 
Chester, Pa. He has charge of the music 
in Bethany Presbyterian church, Philadel¬ 
phia. His publications are: Gems of 
Praise; The Garner; Joy to the World; 
The Quiver; The Wells of Salvation; 
Anthems and Voluntaries; Songs of Re¬ 
deeming Love; Songs of Triumph; Our 
Sabbath Home; Melodious Sonnets; 
Songs of Joy and Gladness; Joyful Wing; 
Infant Praises; Banner Anthem Book; 
Glad Hallelujahs; and Showers of Bless¬ 
ing. 

SWENEY, JOSEPH HENRY, soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 2, 1845, in Warren county, Pa. 

He was a sergeant in 
company K twenty- 
seventh regiment 
Iowa infantry, in 
which company he 
served for three 
years. He was col¬ 
onel of the sixth reg¬ 
iment national guard 
of Iowa, for four 
years; and brigadier 
and inspector-gene¬ 
ral of the state, re¬ 
signing after his 
election to congress. In 1883 he was elect¬ 
ed state senator, and was re-elected in 
1887. In 1886 he was, by unanimous votes 
of republican and democratic senators, 
elected president pro tempore, and pre¬ 
sided over the joint convention at the in¬ 
auguration of Governor Larrabee and 
Lieutenant-Governor Hull. He was elect¬ 


ed to the fifty-first congress as a republi¬ 
can. He now practices law in Osage, 
Iowa. 

SWENSBERG, C. G., educator, soldier, 
journalist, was born Sept. 20, 1835, in Ger¬ 
many. In 1866 he opened the Grand 
Rapids Commercial college, Mich. He is 
the president of the Telegram Publishing 
company, and is president of the board 
of public works of Grand Rapids, Mich. 

SWENSSON, CARL A., clergyman, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born June 25, 1857, in 
Sugar Grove, Pa. He has received a thor¬ 
ough education in 
the universities of 
America and Eu¬ 
rope; and has had 
conferred upon him 
the degrees of A. B., 
A. M. and Ph. D. In 
1885 he was secre¬ 
tary of the general 
council of the evan¬ 
gel i c a 1 lutheran 
church; and presi¬ 
dent of the same in 
1893-94. In 1888-89 
he served with distinction as a member 
of the Kansas state legislature, and since 
1891 has been pastor of the Bethany luth¬ 
eran church of Lindsborg, Kan. He was 
the founder of Bethany college, and pres¬ 
ident of that institution since 1891. He 
is a distinguished lecturer; the author of 
several Swedish works, and for nearly 
a quarter of a century has contributed 
to the periodical press. 

SWETT, JOHN APPLETON, physician, 
author, was born Dec. 3, 1808, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a physician of New York 
city, and the author of Diseases of the 
Chest. He died Sept. 18, 1854, in New 
York city. 

SWETT, JOSIAH, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 4, 1814, in Claremont, N. 
H. He was an episcopal clergyman long 
prominent in Vermont, and the author of 
English Grammar; Pastoral Visiting; 
Family Prayer; and The Firmament in the 
Midst of the Waters. He died in 1890. 

SWETT, LEONARD, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, was born Aug. 11, 1825, near Turn¬ 
er, Maine. In 1865 he removed to Chica¬ 
go. In 1852-61 he took an active part in 
politics, canvassing the state several times 
and in 1858, at the special request of Mr. 
Lincoln, was a candidate for the leg¬ 
islature on the republican ticket, and was 
elected by a large majority. He delivered 
the oration at the unveiling of the statue 
of Abraham Lincoln in Chicago, Ill., Oct. 
22, 1887. He died June 8, 1889, in Chica¬ 
go, Ill. 

SWETT, SAMUEL, author, was born 
June 9, 1782, in Newburyport, Mass. He 
was a prominent citizen of Boston who 
during the war of 1812 served in the 
American army as a topographical en¬ 
gineer. He was the author of History and 
Topographical Sketch of Bunker Hill Bat¬ 
tle; Who was Commander at Bunker Hill? 
and Sketches of Distinguished Men of 
Newbury and Newburyport. He died Oct. 
28, 1866, in Newburyport, Mass. 

SWETT, SOPHIA MIRIAM, author, 
was born in 186- in Maine. She is a writer 
of short stories and juvenile books, living 
at Arlington, Mass. She is the author of 
Pennyroyal and Mint; The Lollipops’ 
Vacation; Captain Polly; Flying Hill 
Farm; The Mate of the Mary Ann; Cap’n 
Thistletop; and The Ponkaty Branch 
Road. 

SWETT, SUSAN HARTLEY, author, 
was born in 186- in Maine. She is a 
writer of Arlington, Mass., and the author 
of Field Clover and Beach Grass, a vol¬ 
ume of short stories. 










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SWETTING, ERNEST VOLNEY, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer., was born Aug. 1, 1858, in 
Berlin, Wis. He received his education 
in the public schools of his native city; 
was engaged in educational work for a 
number of years; and is now one of the 
foremost lawyers of Iowa of Algona. 

SWIFT, BENJAMIN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born 
.April 5, 1781, in Amenia, N. Y. In 1813, 
1814, 1825 and 1826 he was a representa¬ 
tive in the general assembly. He was a 
representative in congress from Vermont 
Irom 1827 to 1831. In 1833 he was elected 
to the senate of the United States for six 
years. He died Nov. 11, 1847, in St. Al¬ 
bans, Vt. 

SWIFT, EBENEZER, soldier, surgeon, 
was born Oct. 8, 1819, in Wareham, Mass. 
In 1865 he held the office of medical di¬ 
rector with the ranks of lieutenant-col- 
(onel and colonel. In 1869 he received the 
.additional brevet of brigadier-general for 
meritorious services voluntarily rendered 
•during the prevalence of cholera at Fort 
Barker, Han. In 1874 he became medical 
•director of the department of the south, 
and thereafter, until his retirement on 
Oct. 8„ 1883, he was assistant medical pur- 
veyor in New York city. 

SWIFT, GUSTAVUS FRANKLIN, pack¬ 
er, merchant, was born June 24, 1839, in 
iCape Cod, Mass. Embarking in the busi¬ 
ness of packing in his own name, he met 
with excellent success, and then em¬ 
barked in the work of shipping fresh 
meats directly from Chicago to all parts 
•of the United States and to Europe. The 
firm of Swift and Company, now a cor¬ 
poration, organized in 1885 with a capital 
.of $300,000, now $15,000,000. 

SWIFT, JOHN LINDSAY, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1828 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a Boston lawyer and 
journalist, deputy collector of the port 
of Boston from 1890. He is the author 
.of About Grant; 

SWIFT, JONATHAN WILLIAMS, naval 
officer, was born March 30, 1808, in Taun¬ 
ton, Mass. He entered the navy as mid¬ 
shipman in 1823. He was promoted to 
commodore on the retired list in 1867. He 
•died July 30, 1877, in Geneva, N. Y. 

SWIFT, LEWIS, astronomer, was born 
Feb. 29, 1820, in Clarkson, N. Y. In 1880 
he found a comet with a period of five 
.and a half years, and in 1881 he discovered 
two others. For the former he received 
.a special prize of $500 from Mr. Warner, 
which is the largest sum ever awarded 
-for the discovery of any heavenly body. 

SWIFT, LOUIS FRANKLIN, packer, 
was born in 1860 in Cape Cod, Mass. He 
identified himself with the packing busi¬ 
ness, in which the family have become 
famous, and has spent a portion of his 
business career in England in the inter¬ 
est of Swift and Company. 

SWIFT, LUCIAN, journalist, was born 
July 14, 1848, in Akron, Ohio. In 1885 he 
became manager, secretary and treasurer 
of the Minneapolis Journal, which posi¬ 
tion he still holds. 

SWIFT, ROBERT, conchologist, was 
born in 1799 in Philadelphia. His col¬ 
lection of shells, said to be the finest in 
the West Indies, was arranged in Den¬ 
mark, and presented to the Smithsonian 
institution at Washington, D. C. The 
■collection was valued at $30,000. He died 
May 6, 1872, in St. Thomas, W. I. 

SWIFT, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 3, 1782, in Amenia, 
N. Y. He was secretary of state of Ver¬ 
mont; judge of probate of Addison coun¬ 


ty from 1819 till 1841; and a judge of the 
county court in 1855-57. He published 
History of the Town of Middlebury; 
Statistical and Historical Account of the 
County of Addison, Vermont; and ad¬ 
dresses. He died in 1875 in Middlebury, 
Vt. 

SWIFT, ZEPHANIAH, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, author, was born in Feb¬ 
ruary, 1759, in Wareham, Mass. He was 
a representative in congress from Connec¬ 
ticut from 1793 to 1797. He was placed 
on the bench of the superior court of the 
state, w-here he continued eighteen years, 
during the last five years of which he was 
chief justice. He was afterward a member 
of the state legislature, and was one of the 
committee to revise the statute laws 
of the state. He published several works; 
among them was a Digest of the Laws of 
Connecticut, on the model of Blackstone. 
He died Sept. 27, 1823, in Warren, Ohio. 

SWIGERT, PHILIP, banker, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Dec. 27, 1798, in Fayette 
county, Kv. He was chiefly instrumental 
in the ’establishment of the Deposit bank 
of Frankfort, and upon its organization 
he was elected president. In 1861 he was 
elected by the Kentucky legislature, chair¬ 
man of the state board of internal im¬ 
provement. In 1864 he was elected to 
represent the counties of Franklin, Wood¬ 
ford and Anderson in the state senate. 

SWILER, JOHN W., educator, was born 
Dec. 14, 1844, in Hoguestown, Pa. He re¬ 
ceived his education in the Monmouth col¬ 
lege, and the Bry¬ 
ant and Stratton 
Commercial college, 
from both of which 
institutions he grad¬ 
uated with honor. 
For thirteen years he 
was a teacher in the 
Illinois institution 
for the Deaf and 
Dumb; and since 
1880 has been super¬ 
intendent of the 
State school for the 
Deaf of Delavan, Wis. He has contrib¬ 
uted valuable articles to several educa¬ 
tional publications. 

SWINBURNE, JOHN, surgeon, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 30, 1820, in Deer 
River, N. Y. He was appointed surgeon 
by the surgeon-general of the United 
States, and assigned to duty at Savage’s 
Station. In 1864 he was appointed health 
officer of the port of New York, and was 
reappointed in 1866. In 1882 he was 
elected mayor of Albany, and in 1884 was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-ninth congress. He died 
March 28, 1889, in Albany, N. Y. 

SWINBURNE, LOUIS JUDSON, author, 
was born Aug. 24, 1855, in Albany, N. Y. 
He was a Colorado writer who was in 
Paris during the siege of 1871, and pub¬ 
lished a volume of observations on the 
subject entitled Paris Sketches. He died 
Dec. 9, 1887, in Colorado Springs, Col. 

SWING, DAVID, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 23, 1830, in Cincinnati. 
He was a Presbyterian clergyman of Chi¬ 
cago, tried for heresy in 1874, and ac¬ 
quitted, subsequently pastor of the Cen¬ 
tral church there until his death. He 
was the author of Sermons; Club Essays; 
Truths for To-Day; Motives of Life; and 
Old Pictures of Life, a collection of 
essays. He died Oct. 3, 1894, in Chicago, 
Ill. 

SWING, PHILIP B., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Ohio. He resided at Batavia, 



Ohio, whence he was, in 1871, appointed 
United States judge for the southern dis¬ 
trict of Ohio. 

SWTNK, GEORGE W., farmer, state 
senator, was born June 1, 1836, in Breck¬ 
inridge county, Ky. During 1875-84 he 
was postmaster at Rocky Ford, Col.; was 
elected to the Colorado state senate in 
1892, and received the re-election in 1896. 
He has taken an active part in the or¬ 
ganization of several irrigating companies 
and helped to build several large canals 
in the interests of his county. 

SWINTON, JOHN, journalist, author, 
was born Dec. 12, 1830, in Scotland. He 
is a journalist of New York city whose 
principal work is John Swinton’s Travels. 

SWINTON, WILLIAM, journalist, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born April 23, 1833, in 
Scotland. He was a journalist and edu¬ 
cator, long prominent in New York city, 
and was the author of Rambles Among 
Words; Twelve Decisive Battles of the 
War; Campaigns of the Army of the Po¬ 
tomac; The Times’s Review of McClel¬ 
lan; History of the New York Seventh 
Regiment; Word Analysis; Bible Word 
Book; and Studies in English Literature. 
He died Oct. 24, 1892, in New York. 

SWISHER, MRS. BELLA (FRENCH), 
was born in 1837 in Georgia. She was a 
writer who resided in Texas from 1877, 
and the author of Struggling up to the 
Light, a novel; Rocks and Shoals; Flo- 
recita, a romance; History of Brown 
County, Wisconsin; Cassie; Homeless 
Though at Home; and The Story of a Wo¬ 
man’s Love. She died in 1894. 

SWTSSHELM, MRS. JANE GRAY 
(CANNON), journalist, author, was born 
Sept. 6, 1815, in Pittsburg, Pa. She was 
a journalist of Pittsburg, and subsequent¬ 
ly of cit. Cloud, Minn., prominent as an 
abolitionist. She was the author of Let¬ 
ters to Country Girls; and Half a Cen¬ 
tury, an autobiography. She died July 
22, 1884, in Swissvale, Pa. 

SWITZER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
clergyman, was born Nov. 2, 1854, in Tip¬ 
pecanoe county, Ind. He graduated from 
the De Pauw university of Greencastle, 
Ind.; and has gained distinction as one 
of the leading clergyman of the methodist 
episcopal church. In 1881 he was a dele¬ 
gate to the international Young Men’s 
Christian association held in London, 
England; and in 1897 was vice-president 
of the Young Men's Christian association 
of Indiana. He is a popular clergyman of 
Indiana, and has filled pastorates in Craw- 
fordsville, Brazil and West Lafayette, in 
that state. 


SWITZER, LUCY ROBINS MESSER, 
temperance worker, was born March 28, 
1844, in Lowell, Mass. She has become 

_ prominent as a 

worker in the Wom- 
an’s Foreign Mis¬ 
sionary society and 
the Woman’s Chris- 
t i a n Temperance 
union, and has writ¬ 
ten extensively on 
those subjects. She 
has traveled thou¬ 
sands of miles in the 
work, and has at¬ 
tended national con¬ 
ventions in Detroit, 
Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Nashville, New 
York, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, 
D. C. For ten years she has been ter¬ 
ritorial and state president of the Wom¬ 
an’s Christian Temperance union at 
Cheney, Wash. 



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SWITZLER, WILLIAM F., journalist, 
congressman, author, was born March 16, 
1819, in Fayette county, Ky. He has been 
a representative sev¬ 
eral times in the 
Missouri state legis¬ 
lature; and was a 
member of the two 
conventions of 1865 
and 1875 to form the 
constitutions of the 
state. He was chief 
of the bureau of sta¬ 
tistics, treasury de¬ 
partment, during 
President Cleve¬ 
land's first term. He 
was elected to the forty-first congress. In 
184L he began editorial work, and in 1843 
established the Missouri Statesman, which 
he published and edited for forty-two 
years; and in 1893 became the editor and 
owner of The Democrat of Boonville. He 
is the author of Switzler’s Illustrated His¬ 
tory of Missouri; is a political speaker of 
wide reputation; and a magazine writer 
of national fame. 

SWOOPE, JACOB, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1809 to 1811. 

SWOPE, JOHN A., merchant, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1827, in 
Gettysburg, Pa. In 1882 he was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-eighth congress to fill a vacancy; 
and was re-elected to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

SWORD, JAMES BRADE, painter, was 
born Oct. 11, 1839, m Philadelphia, Pa. 
He has been president of the Philadelphia 
Society of Artists since 1878, and di- 
vector of the Art club since 1887. 

SWROPE, SAMUEL F., congressman, 
was born in Kentucky. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1855 to 1857. 

SYKES, EDWARD TURNER, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born March 15, 
1839, in Decatur, Ala. In 1858 he gradu¬ 
ated from the university of North Caro¬ 
lina; and in law from the university of 
Mississippi in 1860. In 1861-62 he was ad¬ 
jutant of and captain in the tenth Mis¬ 
sissippi infantry regiment, confederate 
service. In 1862-64 he was A. A. general of 
Wathall’s brigade of infantry; and in 
1864-65 filled the same position in Jack- 
son’s cavalry division. During 1884-88 he 
served with distinction as a state senator 
in the Mississippi legislature. He is one 
of the foremost lawyers of the south at 
Columbus, Miss., where he has held high 
positions of honor in the United Confed¬ 
erate Veterans, and since 1894 has been 
adjutant-general and chief of staff, with 
rank of brigadier-general, department 
east of the Mississippi, United Confed¬ 
erate Veterans. 

SYKES, GEORGE, congressman, was 
born Oct. 9, 1822, in Dover, Del. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1843 to 
1847. He was a suc¬ 
cessful speaker; and 
while in congress 
took an active part 
in various debates. 
He also served on a 
number of the most 
important commit¬ 
tees; and was an 
ardent supporter of 
all measures that 
tended to the ad¬ 
vancement of the in¬ 
dustrial progress of his state. He also 
contributed valuable articles to the lead¬ 
ing newspapers and magazines. He died 
Feb. 9,. 1880, in Brownsville, Texas. 


SYKES, HENRY B., merchant, public 
official, was born March 18, 1844, in Dor¬ 
set, Vt. He received his education at 
the Burr and Burton seminary of Man- 
cnester, Vt.; and at Eastmans business 
college of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. tor two 
years he was assistant cashier or the 
First National bank of Belvidere, Ill.; 
for sixteen years was a member of the 
ary goods firm of Sabine and Sykes of 
Beiviaere, Ill.; and for fourteen years 
has been principal owner of the dry gooas 
firm of H. B. Sykes and Company ol Eik- 
hart, ind. In 1&94 he was elected mayor 
of Elkhart, lnd.; and has filled numer¬ 
ous other public positions of honor. 

SYKES, JAMES, physician, congress¬ 
man, was born Marcn 27, 1761, in Dover, 
Del. He was a delegate from Delaware 
to the continental congress from 1777 to 
lira. He died Oct. 18, 1822, in Dover, Del. 

SYLVESTER, HERBERT MILION, 
lawyer, author, was born Feb. 20, 1849, in 
Lowell, Mass. He is a Boston lawyer 
who has published two volumes of sym- 
patnetic nature studies; and is the au¬ 
thor of Prose Pastorals; and Homestead 
Highways. 

S Y'LVESTER, NATHANIEL BART¬ 
LETT, lawyer, author, was born Feb. 22, 
1825, in Denmark, N. Y. He is a lawyer 
of troy, N. Y.; and the author of Histor¬ 
ical Sketches of Northern New York; His¬ 
tory of the Connecticut Valley of Massa¬ 
chusetts; Indian Legends of Saratoga; 
Historical Narratives of the Upper Hud¬ 
son; and Histories of Saratoga, Rens¬ 
selaer, and Ulster Counties, N. Y. 

SYMES, GEORGE G., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born April 28, 
184u, in Ashtabula county, Ohio. In 1862 
he raised a volunteer company and re¬ 
entered the service as adjutant of the 
twenty-fifth regiment of Wisconsin vol¬ 
unteers. He was promoted colonel of the 
forty-fourth Wisconsin regiment. In 1869 
he was appointed an associate justice of 
the supreme court of Montana. In 1874 
he moved to Denver, Colo., where he con¬ 
tinued to practice law; and in 1884 was 
elected the representative from Colorado 
to the forty-ninth congress; and re-elect¬ 
ed to the fiftieth congress as a republican. 

SYMMES, JOHN CLEVES, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born July 21, 1742, 
in Long Island, N. Y. He was a delegate 
to the continental congress from Dela¬ 
ware in 1785 and 1786; was a judge of 
the superior court of New Jersey; and 
was afterward chief justice of New Jer¬ 
sey. In 1788 he was appointed judge of 
the northwest territory, and was founder 
oi the settlements in the Miami country. 
He died Feb. 26, 1814, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

SYMMES, JOHN CLEVES, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1780 in New Jersey. 
He was a soldier of Newport, Ky. He was 
the author of The Theory of Concentric 
Spheres, an attempt to prove that the 
earth is hollow, open at the poles, and 
habitable in the interior. He died May 28, 
1829, in Hamilton, Ohio. 

SYMONDS, JOSEPH WHITE, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Sept. 1841, in Portland. 
He has been city solicitor, judge of the 
superior court of Portland, Maine; and 
is now one of the justices of the supreme 
court of Maine. 

SYPHER, J. HALE, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 22, 1837, in 
Perry county, Pa. He received a liberal 
education, graduated from the Alfred uni¬ 
versity in 1859, and adopted the profes¬ 
sion of law. In 1861 he enlisted as a 
private soldier in the first regiment Ohio 
Light artillery and served through the 


war. He was promoted to first lieuten¬ 
ant, captain and colonel, and brevetted 
brigadier-general of the United States vol¬ 
unteers for faithful and meritorious ser¬ 
vices during the war. He served eight 
years as a representative in congress in 
the fortieth, forty-first, forty-second and 
forty-third congresses; and advocated 
amnesty, internal improvements and pro¬ 
tection. He has a large practice in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

SYPHER, JOSIAH R„ journalist, law¬ 
yer, was born April 12, 1832, in Liverpool, 
Pa. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the public schools; attend¬ 
ed the Alfred academy; and in 1858 grad¬ 
uated from Union college. He was war 
correspondent of the New York Tribune, 
and for several years associate editor of 
that publication; was editor of the State 
Journal of Harrisburg, Pa.; and is now 
a prominent lawyer of Philadelphia. He 
is the author of History of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Reserve Corps; School History of 
Pennsylvania; The Art of Teaching 
School; and School History of New Jer¬ 
sey. 

SZABAD, EMERIC, soldier, author, was 
born in 1822 in Hungary. He was a soldier 
under Garibaldi who came to America in 
1861, and served in the federal army. He 
is the author of Hungary Past and Pres¬ 
ent; State Policy of Modern Europe; and 
Modern War: Its Theory and Practice. 

TABS, JOHN BANISTER, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1845 in 
Maryland. He is a Roman catholic cler¬ 
gyman and educator; and professor of 
English literature in St. Charles’ college 
of Ellicott City, Md. He is the author of 
Poems; Lyrics; and An Octave to Mary. 

TABER, CHARLES A. M., author, poet, 
was born April 3, 1824, in Rochester, 
Mass. He has published Essays on Pre¬ 
vailing Winds, Ocean Currents, and Frigid 
Periods. He is the author of a volume 
of poems entitled Rhymes from a Sailor’s 
Journal. 

TABER, STEPHEN, farmer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in Dover, 
N. Y. In 1860 and 1861 he was elected 
to the New York state legislature. In 
1864 he was elected a representative 
from New York to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the fortieth 
congress. 

TABER, THOMAS, agriculturist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born May 
19, 1785, in New York. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the New York legislature in 1826; 
and was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1827 to 1829. He died 
March 21, 1862. 

TABOR, CHARLES FRANKLIN, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born June 28, 1841, 
in St. Joseph county, Mich. He received 
the rudiments of his 
education in the pub¬ 
lic schools; at Clar¬ 
ence academy of Erie 
county, N. Y.; and 
the Lima seminary 
of Genesee county, 
N. Y. In 1863 he 
was admitted to the 
bar at Buffalo, N. Y., 
where he has at¬ 
tained an enviable 
reputation as one of 
the leading lawyers 
of that state. In 1876-77 he served witfi 
distinction as a member of the New York 
state assembly; and during 1888-91 was 
attorney-general for the state of New 
York. He has always taken an active 
part in public affairs; and is a prominent 
member of various fraternal orders. 














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TABOR, HORACE AUSTIN WARNER, 
miner, merchant, lieutenant-governor. 

United States senator, was born Nov. 26, 
1830, in Orleans 
county, Vt. In 1857 
he became a member 
of the Topeka legis¬ 
lature, Kan.; and in 
1859 moved to Den¬ 
ver, Colo., and a 
year later to Lead- 
ville. He was there 
engaged in mining 
until 1865, and dur¬ 
ing 1865-78 was also 
engaged in mercan¬ 
tile life. He was 
postmaster of that city; twice its mayor; 

was president of the Leadville Improve¬ 
ment company; established and man¬ 
aged the Leadville bank; and became 
lieutenant-governor of Colorado. In 1883 
he was elected to the United States senate 
for the short term and has filled many po¬ 
sitions of honor in the republican party; 
and is the permanent chairman of that 
party. In 1897 he was appointed post¬ 
master of Denver. 

TABOR, STEPHEN J. W., journalist, 
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Aug. 5, 
1815, in Corinth, Vt. He moved to Iowa, 
and published a paper called the Civilian. 
He served several years as a county judge, 
and also as county treasurer and re¬ 
corder. In 1863 he was appointed fourth 
auditor of the treasury. 

TAFEL, GUSTAV, soldier, educator, 
journalist, lawyer, was born in Germany. 
He served with distinction throughout the 
civil war. For many 
years he was en¬ 
gaged in journalistic 
work; became a 
noted lawyer of Cin¬ 
cinnati; and mayor 
of that city. He has 
contributed a num¬ 
ber of valuable arti¬ 
cles on economical 
questions and edu¬ 
cational matters to 
the leading newspa- 
ers and magazines of 
the United States; and various articles to 
law literature. 

TAFEL, JOHANN FRIEDRICH LEON¬ 
HARD, educator, author. He is a Ger¬ 
man educator who removed to the United 
States in 1853, and lived in St. Louis. He 
was the author of Staat und Christen- 
thum; Der Christ und der Atheist; and 
A German-English and English-German 
Pocket Dictionary. 

TAFEL, RUDOLPH LEONHARD, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 
24, 1831, in Germany. He was formerly an 
educator of St. Louis, but since 1868 a 
Swedenborgian minister in London, Eng¬ 
land. He is the author of Emanuel Swe¬ 
denborg as Philosopher and Man; Our 
Heavenward Journey; Authority in the 
New Cnurch; The Preaching Gift; and 
Investigation as to the Laws of English 
Pronunciation and Prosody. 

TAFFE, JOHN, lawyer, state legislat¬ 
or, congressman, was born Jan. 30, 1827, 
in Indianapolis, Ind. He was elected to 
the territorial legislature in 1858 and 
1859. In 1860 he was elected to the coun¬ 
cil; and in the winter of 1861 was made 
president of that body. In 1862 he raised 
a regiment of cavalry for service against 
the Indians, and was made a major. In 
1866 he was elected a representative from 
the new state of Nebraska to the fortieth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
first and forty-second congresses as a re¬ 
publican. In 1875 he was appointed secre¬ 
tary of Colorado. 


TAFT, ALPHONSO, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Nov. 5, 1810, in Townsend, Vt. In 
1866 he was appointed to fill a vacancy 
on the bench of the superior court of 
Cincinnati; was elected to that position, 
and was re-elected by the unanimous vote 
of both political parties. In 1876 he was 
appointed secretary of war; and in the 
same year became attorney-general of 
the United States. In 1882 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States minister to Austria. 
He died May 21, 1891, in San Diego, Cal. 

TAFT, CHARLES P., journalist, law¬ 
yer state legislator, congressman, was 
born Dec. 21, 1843, in Cincinnati. He 
graduated from the 
Columbia College 
Law school of New 
York in the spring 
of 1866; in the fall 
of 1866 he went to 
Germany, and took a 
degree at the univer¬ 
sity of Heidelberg in 
the spring of 1868. 
In 1871 he was elect¬ 
ed a member of the 
house of representa¬ 
tives of the general 
assembly of Ohio. Since 1879 he has been 
in the newspaper business and is the 
editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star. He 
is a member of the board of sinking-fund 
trustees of the city of Cincinnati. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

TAFT, LORADO, sculptor, educator, 
was born April 29, 1860, in Elmwood, Ill. 
He has executed several busts and me¬ 
dallions, a statue of Schuyler Colfax, 
which was unveiled in Indianapolis in 
1888, and reliefs for Michigan regimental 
monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield. 
He is instructor in sculpture at the Chi¬ 
cago Art institute. 

TAFT, RUSSELL SMITH, lawyer, state 
senator, jurist, author, was born Jan. 28, 
1835, in Williston, Vt. He is a successful 
lawyer of Burling¬ 
ton, Vt.; and has 
filled numerous mu¬ 
nicipal positions of 
honor. He has been 
a member of the 
Vermont house of 
representatives and 
also of the state sen¬ 
ate; and was presid¬ 
ing officer in both 
houses. He has been 
city and state’s at¬ 
torney, and filled the 
office of lieutenant-governor of Vermont. 
Since 1880 he has been judge of the 
supreme court of Vermont. He is the au¬ 
thor of a sketch of the supreme court of 
Vermont, and a Judicial History of Ver¬ 
mont. 

TAGGART, DAVID ARTHUR, legislat¬ 
or, was born Jan. 30, 1852, in Goffstown, 
N. H. He served with distinction as a 
member of the New Hampshire state sen¬ 
ate in 1889, and was made president of 
that bony. 

TAGGART, MOSES, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Aug. 21, 1799, in Colerain, Mass. He 
practiced law for fifty-five years, principal¬ 
ly in Batavia, N. Y. He held the oflice of 
county judge and surrogate, district at¬ 
torney, and was a justice of the supreme 
court; and by virtue of his position held 
a place in the court of appeals for several 
years. He died Feb. 17, 1883. 

TAGGART, SAMUEL, clergyman, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 24, 1754, in 
Londonderry, N. H. He was elected a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts, serving from 1803 to 1817. He 
died April 25, 1825, in Colerain, Mass. 


1AGGART, WILLIAM MARCUS, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Jan. 25, 1852, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is the owner and editor of 
the Taggart Times. It is the only paper 
in Philadelphia, Pa., which has remained 
in the same family for three generations. 

TAGLIABUE, GIUSEPPE, instrument- 
maker, was born Aug. 10, 1812, in Italy. 
He settled in New York in 1833, and soon 
acquired the reputation of being one of 
the most competent instrument-makers in 
this country. His hydrometer for the 
proving of whisky was adopted by the 
Unitea States internal revenue depart¬ 
ment in preference to all others, and he 
made instruments for the United States 
coast survey. He died May 7, 1878, in 
Mount Vernon, N. Y. 

TAINTER, ANDREW, lumberman, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born July 6, 1823, in 
Salina, N. Y. In 1832 he moved west to 
Prairie du Chien, 
Wis.; and in 1895 
moved to Chippewa 
Falls, Wis. He has 
attained success in 
the lumber business; 
and commanded the 
first steam bo at 
which was used by 
his firm on the Chip¬ 
pewa river. He pre¬ 
sented to the city of 
Menominee a public 
library and Memori¬ 
al hall, which is the chief ornament of 
that city. Commencing fifty years ago 
with no capital, he now owns controlling 
interests in the largest lumber mills of 
Wisconsin, and is the wealthiest man in 
the Chippewa valley. 

TAIT, ARTHUR FITZ WILLI AM, art¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 5, 1819, in England. He 
was elected in 1859 to the National acad¬ 
emy. He has gained a national reputation 
as an artist and always paints from na¬ 
ture. Many of his works have been litho¬ 
graphed or engraved. 

TAIT, CHARLES, lawyer, jurist, United 
States senator, was born in 1768 in Louisa 
county, Va. He was for several years a 
judge of the superior court of Georgia; 
and was a senator in congress from that 
state from 1809 to 1819. In 1819 he moved 
to Alabama; and was appointed a judge of 
the district court. He died Oct. 7, 1835, in 
vvilcox county, Ala. 

TAIT, JOHN ROBINSON, artist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Jan. 14, 1834, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. For awhile he edited The 
Stylus of Bethany, Va. He is the author 
of Life, Legend and Landscape; and a 
volume of Poems. 

TALBERT, W. JASPER, soldier, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1846 
in Edgefield county, S. C. In 1880 he was 
elected to the South Carolina legislature, 
and re-elected in 1882; and was elected to 
the state senate in 1884. He was chosen 
superintendent of the state penitentiary, 
which position he held when elected to 
congress. He has held various positions 
in the Farmers’ Alliance and helped 
formulate the Ocala demands. He was 
elected to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and 
fifty-fifth congresses. 

TALBOT, CHARLES REMINGTON, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1851. He 
was a writer of juvenile books who was 
an episcopal clergyman at Wrentham, 
Mass. He was the author of Honor 
Bright; Miltiades Peterkin Paul; Royal 
Louise; Romulus and Remus, a dog story; 
A Midshipman at Large; The Imposter; 
and A Romance of the Revolution. He 
died in 1891. 












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TALBOT, ETHELBERT, bishop of 
Wyoming and Idaho, was born Oct. 9, 
1848, in Fayette, Mo. He was consecrated 
on May 27, 1887, missionary bishop of 
Wyoming and Idaho. 

TALBOT, FREEMAN, public official 
legislator, poet, was born April 5, 1811, in 
Ireland. He has filled numerous public 
positions of trust; during 1871-72 he 
served with distinction in the Minnesota 
state legislature as a senator from Le 
Sueur county, and for five years after¬ 
ward was one of the trustees of the in¬ 
sane. He is the author of a number of 
poems which have appeared in the period¬ 
ical press; and some of his productions 
have been given a place in Poets of Amer¬ 
ica and other standard works. 

TALBOT, HENRY PAUL, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1864 in Massachusetts. 
He is an associate professor of analytical 
chemistry in the Massachusetts institute 
of Technology; and the author of An 
Introductory Course of Quantitative 
Chemical analysis. 

TALBOT, ISHAM, lawyer, United States 
senator, was born in 1773 in Bedford 
county, Va. He was a member of the 
Kentucky senate from 1812 to 1815. From 
1815 to 1819 he was a member of the 
United States senate; and for a second 
term from 1820 to 1825. He died Sept. 27, 
1837, near Frankfort, Ky. 

TALBOT, J. FRED C., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born July 29, 1843, in 
Baltimore, Md. He was prosecuting at¬ 
torney for Baltimore county, Md., from 
1871 to 1875. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Maryland to the forty-sixth, 
forty-seventh, and forty-eighth con¬ 
gresses. 

TALBOT, JOSEPH CRUIKSHANK, 
bishop, was born Sept. 5, 1816, in Alex¬ 
andria, Va. In 1853 he became rector of 
Christ church of Indianapolis, Ind., which 
post he held until he was elected to the 
episcopate. He died Jan. 15, 1883, in 
Indianapolis, Inch 

TALBOT, MATHEW,' state senator, 
governor, was born in 1767 in Virginia. 
He frequently served in the Georgia state 
legislature; and was a delegate to the 
constitutional convention of Georgia. 
He was for many years in the state sen¬ 
ate, and officiated as president of that 
body; and was acting governor of the 
state in 1819. He died Sept. 17, 1827, in 
Wilkes county, Va. 

TALBOT, SAMSON, college president, 
was born June 28, 1828, in Urbana, Ohio. 
In 1863 he was elected president of the 
Denison university, resigning in 1873. He 
died June 10, 1873. 

TALBOT, SILAS, naval officer, state 
legislator, was born in 1751 in Dighton, 
Mass. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1793 to 1794, 
when he was appointed captain in the 
navy. He served a number of years in 
the state assembly from Montgomery 
county. He died June 30, 1813, in New 
York city. 

TALBOT, THOMAS, manufacturer, 
state legislator, governor, was born Sept. 
7, 1818, in Cambridge, N. Y. He was a 
representative in the Massachusetts leg¬ 
islature for a number of years; and was 
a member of the governor’s council for 
five years. In 1872 he was elected lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of Massachusetts; and 
in 1878 was elected governor of Massa¬ 
chusetts. He died Oct. 6, 1886, in Lowell, 
Mass. 

TALBOTT, ALBERT G., congressman, 
was born in Kentucky. He was elected a 
representative from that state to the 
thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. 

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TALBOTT, J. FREDERICK C., soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born July 29 
1843, in Lutherville, Md. He was elected 
piosecuting attorney for Baltimore county 
in 1871 for the term of four years; and 
was elected to the forty-sixth, forty- 
seventh and forty-eighth congresses. He 
was appointed insurance commissioner of 
the state of Maryland in 1889, and resigned 
the position in 1893, having been elected 
to the fifty-third congress as a democrat. 

IALCOTT, JOHN BUTLER, manufac¬ 
turer, banker, was born Sept. 14, 1824, in 
Enfield, Conn. For two terms’ he was 
mayor of New Britain, Conn.; and is now 
president of the Mechanics’ National 
bank; president American Hosiery com¬ 
pany; and president of the New Britain 
Knitting company. 

TALCOTT, JOSEPH, governor, was 
born Nov. 16, 1669, in Hartford, Conn. In 
1724 he was made governor of Connecti¬ 
cut, serving until his death, and he was 
the first native of Connecticut to hold 
this office. He died Oct. 11, 1741, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

TALCOTT, SEBASTIAN VISSCHER, 
civil engineer, surveyor, author, was born 
Nov. 24, 1812, in New York city, N. Y. 
On the election of Horatio Seymour as 
governor of New York in 1862, Talcott 
was appointed by him quartermaster-gen¬ 
eral of the state, with the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general, and served through the ad¬ 
ministration. He compiled and published 
The Talcott Pedigree; and Genealogical 
Notes of New York and New England 
Families. 

TALIAFERRO, BENJAMIN, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1750 in Virginia. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Georgia from 1799 to 1802. He died Sept. 
3, 1821, in Wilkes county, Ga. 

TALIAFERRO, JOHN, librarian, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1768 in Spottsyl- 
vania, Va. He was a representative in 
congress from Virginia from 1801 to 1803, 
from 1811 to 1813, from 1824 to 1831, and 
from 1835 to 1843. In 1805 and 1821 he was 
a presidential elector; and for three years 
before his death was librarian of the 
treasury department in Washington. He 
died Aug. 12, 1853, in Hagley, Va. 

TALLMADGE, BENJAMIN, soldier, 
merchant, congressman, was born Feb. 
25, 175^, in Brookhaven, N. Y. He was a 
member of Washington’s military family, 
and attained the rank of general. He was 
a representative in congress from Con¬ 
necticut from 1801 to 1817. He died 
March 7, 1835, in Litchfield, Conn. 

TALLMADGE, FREDERICK AUGUS¬ 
TUS, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 
29, 1792. In 1836 he was elected an aider- 
man of New York city, and also a state 
senator; and was subsequently for five 
years recorder of the city. He was a rep¬ 
resentative from New York in the thir¬ 
tieth congress; was again recorder for 
three years; and in 1857 was appointed 
general superintendent of the metropoli¬ 
tan police. 

TALLMADGE, JAMES, soldier, bank¬ 
er, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 
28, 1778, in Stanford, N. Y. From 1817 to 
1819 he was a representative in congress 
from New York; and in 1823 was elected 
to the assembly from Dutchess county. 
From 1825 to 1828 he was lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor under General Clinton. During the 
last twenty years of his life he was presi¬ 
dent of the American institute in New 
York. He was one of the founders of the 
university of New York, and was presi¬ 
dent of the council. He died Sept. 29, 
1853, in New York city. 


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TALLMADGE, MATTHIAS BURNET, 
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1774 in New 
York. In 1805 he was appointed United 
States judge for the northern district of 
New York. He died Oct. 7, 1819, in Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. 

TALLMADGE, NATHANIEL PITCH¬ 
ER, lawyer, state legislator, governor, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Feb. 8, 1795, in Chatham, N. Y. 
He was a member of the assembly of 
New York in 1828; and was a member of 
the state senate from 1830 to 1833. He 
was a senator in congress from New York 
from 1833 to 1844; and was subsequently 
appointed territorial governor of Wiscon¬ 
sin. He died Nov. 2, 1864, in Battle Creek, 
Mich. 

TALLMAN, PELEG, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 24, 1764, in 
Tiverton, R. I. He became commander of 
a merchant vessel; and after following 
a seafaring life for many years, devoted 
himself to the business of a merchant, 
and acquired a large fortune. He was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1811 to 1813. He died 
March 12, 1840, in Bath, Maine. 

TALMAGE, JAMES EDWARD, educat¬ 
or, college president, geologist, author, 
was born Sept. 21, 1862, in Hungerford, 
Berkshire, England. 
He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his educa¬ 
tion in the English 
national schools; at¬ 
tended the Brigham 
Young academy dur¬ 
ing 1876-82; the Le¬ 
high university in 
1882-83; and the 
Johns Hopkins uni¬ 
versity in 1883-84. In 
1882-84 he was an in¬ 
structor in the Brig¬ 
ham Young academy; and during 1884-88 
was professor of natural science in the 
same institution. During 1888-92 he was 
principal of the Latter-Day Saints col¬ 
lege of Salt Lake City; and since 1890 has 
been curator of the Deseret museum. In 
1892-93 he was professor of biology in 
the university of Utah; and since 1893 
has been professor of geology and presi¬ 
dent of that institution. He is the au¬ 
thor of two text books entitled First Book 
of Nature, and Domestic Science, both of 
which have been adopted in the public 
schools of Utah; and has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to periodical literature. 

TALMAGE, JOHN VAN NEST, mis¬ 
sionary, was born Aug. 18, 1819, in Somer¬ 
ville, N. J. Since 1846 he has been a mis¬ 
sionary of the reformed church in China. 
He has translated several books of the 
Bible into the Amoy colloquial dialect, 
and is the author of a Chinese-English 
Dictionary. 

TALMAGE, SAMUEL KENNEDY, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1798 in Somer¬ 
ville, N. J. From 1838 till 1841 he was 
professor of ancient languages at Ogle¬ 
thorpe university, of which he was presi¬ 
dent from 1841 until his death. He con¬ 
tributed to the Southern Presbyterian 
Review, and published several sermons 
and addresses. He died Oct. 2, 1865, in 
Midway, Ga. 

TALMaGE, THOMAS DE WITT, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Jan. 7, 1832, in 
Bound Brook, N. J. He was a presbyteri- 
an clergyman of Brooklyn in 1869-94, and 
subsequently of New York, widely known 
as a preacher. He is the author of 
Crumbs Swept Up; Sermons; From 
Manger to Throne; Sports that Kill; So¬ 
cial Dynamite; The Pathway of Life; 
The Marriage Ring; Old Wells Dug Out; 
Everyday Religion; Sundown; and Fish¬ 
ing Too Near Shore. 



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TALMAN, JOHN, journalist, poet, was 
born July 30, 1851, in Perinton, N. Y. He 
is a successful journalist of St. Paul, 
Minn.; where he is on the editorial staff 
of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He has 
contributed extensively to current litera¬ 
ture; and is the author of a number 
of meritorious poems. 



TANEY, ROGER BROOKE, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, was born March 17, 1777, 
in Calvert county, Md. In 1801 he was 
elected to the Mary¬ 
land state assembly 
and settled in Fred¬ 
erick; and subse¬ 
quently served four 
years in the state 
senate. He removed 
to Baltimore in 1822; 
in 1827 was chosen 
attorney-general of 
Maryland; and in 
1831 was appointed 
attorney-general o f 
the United States in 
President Jackson’s cabinet. He was ap¬ 
pointed a justice of the supreme court of 
the United States, but was again rejected 
by the senate; and in 1836 was appointed 
chief justice of the supreme court of the 
United States. He died Oct. 12, 1864, in 
Washington, D. C. 


TANEYHILL, RICHARD HENRY, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born June 30, 
1822, in Calvert county, Md. He is a 
prominent lawyer of Barnesville, Ohio, 
where he has been mayor and justice of 
the peace for two terms. He is the au¬ 
thor of a work entitled Leatherwood God; 
Life of Logan, the Mingo Chief; and 
other works. 


TANNEHILL, ADAMSON, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1752 in Frederick 
county, Md. In 1812 he was brigadier- 
general of Pennsylvania volunteers. He 
was then elected to congress as a demo¬ 
crat, and served from 1813 till 1815. He 
died July 7, 1817, in Pittsburg, Pa. 

TANNEHILL, J. L., poet. He has filled 
numerous positions of trust in the state 
of Ohio; and has contributed both prose 
and verse to the periodical press which 
have attracted favorable attention. 

TANNEHILL, WILKINS, journalist, 
author, was born March 4, 1787, in Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. He was a journalist of Nash¬ 
ville; and the author of Freemasons’ Man¬ 
ual; Sketches of the History of Litera¬ 
ture; and Sketches of the History of 
Roman Literature. He died June 2, 1858, 
in Nashville, Tenn. 

TANNER, ADOLPHUS H., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 23, 1833, in 
Granville, N. Y. In 1862 he entered the 
volunteer army as a captain; and as lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel of the one hundred and 
twenty-third regiment of infantry served 
until the close of the war. In 1868 he was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-first congress as a republican. 

TANNER, ALVA AMASA, farmer, 
poet, was born Dec. 26, 1849, in South Cot¬ 
tonwood, Utah. In 1882 he moved to 
Idaho; has been 
justice of the peace; 
deputy sheriff; and 
twice a candidate for 
the Idaho legislature 
on the populist tick¬ 
et. He is also a pro¬ 
fessional phrenolo¬ 
gist, and has trav¬ 
eled extensively lec¬ 
turing on that sub¬ 
ject He has writ¬ 
ten extensively for 
the periodical press, 
and his poems have been given a place in 
several standard collections. 



TANNER, BENJAMIN TUCKER, bish¬ 
op, author, was born Dec. 25, 1835, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. He is a bishop of the 
African methodist church; and the author 
of Paul vs. Pius Ninth; The Negro’s Ori¬ 
gin, and Is the Negro Cursed?; and Out¬ 
line of the History and Government of 
the African Methodist Episcopal Church. 

TANNER, GEORGE CLINTON, educat- 
tor, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 21, 
1834, in West Greenwich, R. I. He re¬ 
ceived his education at the Plainfield 
academy and the Brown university, from 
which latter institution he graduated in 
1857. In 1857-58 he was principal of grad¬ 
ed schools in Winona, Minn.; in 1858-67 
he was instructor in classics in the schools 
of the Bishop Seabury mission, and head¬ 
master; and in 1867-87 he was rector of 
St. Paul’s church of Owatana. In 1872-87 
he was superintendent of schools for 
Steele county; and since 1887 has been 
chaplain at the Shattuck school of Fari¬ 
bault, Minn. During these thirty years 
he has been actively engaged in laying the 
foundations of church and educational 
work. He is the author of the History of 
the Episcopal Church in Minnesota; and 
registrar and historian of the diocese of 
Minnesota. 

TANNER. HENRY S., geographer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1786 in New York. He 
was a geographer of Philadelphia; and 
the author of Memoir on the Recent Sur¬ 
veys in the United States; View of the 
Valley of the Mississippi; American Trav¬ 
eler; Central Traveler; New Picture of 
Philadelphia; and Description of Canals 
and Railways in the United States. He 
died in 1858 in New York city. 

TANNER, HERBERT BATTLES, phy¬ 
sician, was born Feb. 13, 1859, in White- 
water, Wis. He was city physician of 
Kaukauna, Wis., during 1886-93; mayor 
of the city for two terms in 1895-96; and 
president of the Fox River Medical so¬ 
ciety in 1897. 

TANNER, JOHN, captive, author, was 
born about 1780 in Kentucky. He wrote a 
Narrative of the Captivity and Adven¬ 
tures of John Tanner during Thirty 
Years’ Residence Among the Indians. He 
died in 1847. 

TANNER, JOHN RILEY, soldier, state 
senator, governor, was born April 4, 1844, 
in Warrick county, Ind. In 1863 he en¬ 
tered company A, ninety-eighth Illinois 
infantry, and served until 1865 in Ken¬ 
tucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. 
After the war he returned to Illinois, and 
purchased sixty acres of land in Clay 
county, which he occupied until 1870, 
when he was elected sheriff of Clay coun¬ 
ty. In 1880 he was elected to the Illinois 
state senate; was elected state treas¬ 
urer in 1886; and subsequently was 
United States marshal for the southern 
district of Illinois. In 1896 he was elect¬ 
ed governor of the state of Illinois. 

TANNER, RICHARD ROBERT, lawyer, 
was born March 30, 1858, in San Juan’ 
Cal. For a number of years he was as¬ 
sistant postmaster of San Buena Ventura; 
and in 1885 was admitted to the bar at 
Santa Monica, and is now one of the 
leading members of the legal profession 
in Los Angeles county. For two years he 
was deputy district attorney of his coun¬ 
ty, and for eight years filled with distinc¬ 
tion the office of city attorney. 

TAPPAN, ARTHUR, merchant, jour¬ 
nalist, was born May 22, 1786, in North¬ 
hampton, Mass. He was one of the found¬ 
ers of the American Tract society; New 
York Journal of Commerce; and of Ober- 
lin college, Ohio; and first president of 
the American Anti-Slavery society at 
Philadelphia. He died July 23, 1865, in 
New Haven, Conn. 


TAPPAN, BENJAMIN, soldier, engrav¬ 
er, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, 
was born May 25, 1773, in Northampton, 
Mass. In 1799 he emigrated to Ohio, and 
was one of the earliest settlers there. 
In 1803 he was elected to the legislature 
of the new state; served in the war of 
1812 as aid-de-camp to General Wads¬ 
worth; and was for seven years president 
judge of the fifth Ohio circuit. In 1833 he 
was appointed United States judge for 
the district of Ohio. He was a senator in 
congress from Ohio from 1839 to 1845. He 
died April 12, 1857, in Steubenville, Ohio. 

TAPPAN, DAVID, clergyman, author, 
was born April 21, 1752, in Cambridge, 
Mass. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man, pastor at Newbury, Mass., in 1774- 
92, 'and Hollis professor of divinity at 
Harvard university from 1792 until his 
death. He was the author of Sermons on 
Important Subjects; and Lectures on 
Jewish Antiquities. He died April 27, 
1803, in Cambridge, Mass. 

TAPPAN, ELI TODD, educator, college 
president, author, was born April 30, 1824, 
in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1844-45 he was 
mayor of Steubenville, and he was super¬ 
intendent of the public schools there in 
1858-59. From 1868 till 1875 he was presi¬ 
dent of Kenyon college, Gambier, Ohio, 
where he was professor of mathematics 
from 1875 till 1887. In 1887 he was ap¬ 
pointed state commissioner of common 
schools of Ohio, which post he now holds. 
He has published a Treatise on Plane and 
Solid Geometry; a Treatise on Geom¬ 
etry and Trigonometry; Notes and Exer¬ 
cises on Surveying for the Use of Stu¬ 
dents in Kenyon College; and Elements 
of Geometry. 

TAPPAN, HENRY PHILIP, clergyman, 
author, was born April 23, 1805, in Rhine- 
beck, N. Y. He was a Dutch reformed 
chancellor of the university of Michigan, 
university of the city of New York; and 
clergyman, professor of philosophy in the 
1852-63. He was the author of Elements 
of Logic; Treatise on Universal Educa¬ 
tion; Review of Edwards’s Inquiry Into 
the Freedom of the Will; The Doctrine 
of the Freedom of the Will Determined 
by an Appeal to Consciousness; The Doc¬ 
trine of the Freedom of the Will Applied 
to Moral Agency; A Step from the Old 
World to the New and Back Again; and 
Introductions to Illustrious Personages of 
the Nineteenth Century. He died Nov. 15, 
1881, in Switzerland. 

TAPPAN, JAMES CAMP, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, legislator, was born in Frank¬ 
lin, Tenn. He is a successful lawyer of 
Helena, Ark.; was a brigadier-general in 
the confederate army; has twice served 
as a member of the Arkansas state legis¬ 
lature; and was speaker of the thirty- 
first session of the house of representa¬ 
tives. He has been judge of the circuit 
court, and receiver of the United States 
land office at Helena, Ark. 

TAPPAN, LEWIS, merchant, abolition¬ 
ist, author, was born May 23, 1788, in 
Northampton, Mass. He was a merchant 
of New York city, proprietor of The Jour¬ 
nal of Commerce, and active as an aboli¬ 
tionist; and the author of Life of Arthur 
Tappan. by his brother, a valuable con¬ 
tribution to anti-slavery literature. He 
died June 21, 1873, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

TAPPAN, MASON WEARE, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 20, 1817, in Newport, N. H. He was 
a member of the New Hampshire state 
legislature in 1853-55. He was a repre¬ 
sentative from New Hampshire in the 
thirty-fourth congress; and was re-elect¬ 
ed to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth con¬ 
gresses. He died Oct. 24, 1886, in Brad¬ 
ford, N. H. 



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TAPPAN, WILLIAM BINGHAM, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 29, 1794, in 
Beverly, Mass. He was a verse-writer 
and educator of Philadelphia and Boston; 
and the author of Poetry of the Heart; 
Poetry of Life; New England, and Oiner 
Poems; Songs of Judah; Lyrics; Sacred 
and Miscellaneous Poems; The Sunday 
School, and Other Poems; and Early and 
Late Poems. He died June 18, 1849, in 
West Needham, Mass. 

TARBELL, FRANK BIGELOW, educat- 
tor, author, was born in 1853 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a professor of Greek in 
the university of Chicago from 1892; and 
the author of A History of Greek Art; 
and The Philippics of Demosthenes, with 
introduction and Notes. 

TARBELL, IDA M., author. She is the 
author of Early Life of Abraham Lincoln. 

TARBELL, JOHN ADAMS, physician, 
author, was born March 31, 1810, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a homoeopathic phy¬ 
sician of Boston; and the author of 
Sources of Health; and Homoeopathy 
Simplified. He died Jan. 21, 1864, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

TARBOX, INCREASE NILES, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 11, 1815, in 
East Windsor, Conn. He was a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman who was secretary of 
the American College and Education 
society in 1851-84. He was the author of 
Winnie and Walter Stories; When I Was 
a Boy; Nineveh, or the Buried City; 
Uncle George’s Stories; Journeys and 
Labors of St. Paul; Life of General Israel 
Putnam; Sir Walter Raleigh and His Col¬ 
ony in America; and Songs and Hymns 
for Common Life. He died May 3, 1880, 
in West Newton, Mass. 

TARBOX, JOHN KEMBLE, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born May 6, 
1838, in Methuen, Mass. He served in the 
union army in the fourth regiment of 
Massachusetts volunteers. He was a 
member of the legislature of Massachu¬ 
setts in 1868, 1870, and 1871, and of the 
state senate in 1872. He was mayor of the 
city of Lawrence in 1873 and 1874. He 
was elected a representative to the forty- 
fourth congress from Massachusetts as a 
democrat. 

TARR, CHRISTIAN, congressman, was 
born in Baltimore, Md. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1817 to 1819, and again from 1820 
to 1821. 

TARR. RALPH STOCKMAN, geologist, 
educator, author, was born in 1864 in 
Massachusetts. He is a geologist, assis¬ 
tant professor of geology at Cornell uni- 
\ ersity in 1892-97, and professor of dyna¬ 
mic geology and physical geography there 
from 1897. He is the author of Elemen¬ 
tary Geology; Economic Geology of the 
United States; and Elementary Physical 
Geography. • 

TARSNEY, JOHN C., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1845, in 
Lenawee county, Mich. He was city attor¬ 
ney of Kansas City, Mo., in 1874 and 1875, 
since which time he has followed the pro¬ 
fession of the law. He was elected to the 
fifty-first, fifty-second, and fifty-third con¬ 
gresses and re-elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress as a democrat. 

TARSNEY, TIMOTHY E„ civil engineer, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 
4, 1849, in Ransom, Mich. He was a jus¬ 
tice of the peace in 1873 and 1874; and 
was city attorney of East Saginaw, Mich., 
from 1875 to 1878, when he resigned. He 
was elected a representative from Michi¬ 
gan to the forty-ninth congress in 1884; 
and re-elected to the fiftieth congress. 


TARVER, WILLIAM HENRY, educa¬ 
tor, business man, was born in Hawkins- 
ville, Ga. For many years he was engaged 
in educational work, and is now the pro¬ 
prietor of a book store and circulating li¬ 
brary in Savannah, Ga. 

TASCHER, ELBE M. M., artist, poet, 
was born Nov. 21, 1843, in Winterport, 
Maine. She is the author of Arbutus and 
Dandelions. She is also an artist in port¬ 
rait and figure painting. 

TASISTRO, LOUIS FITZGERALD, act¬ 
or, journalist, author, was born about 1808 
in Ireland. He was the author of Travels 
in the Southern States; Random Shots 
and Southern Breezes. He died about 
1 NIIS. 

TATE. FARISH CARTER, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 20, 
1856, in Jasper, Ga. He was a member of 
the general assembly of Georgia for six 
years. He was elected to the fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

TATE, JAMES BUTTS, educator, col¬ 
lege president, was born Nov. 13, 1852, in 
Andrew county. Mo. In 1896 he was ap¬ 
pointed president of Baird college of Clin¬ 
ton, Mo. 

TATE, JAMES WILLIAM, treasurer of 
Kentucky, was born Jan. 2, 1831, in Frank¬ 
lin county, Ky. In 1867 he was nominated 
for treasurer of Kentucky on the demo¬ 
cratic state ticket. Since that time he has 
been successively re-elected by popular 
majorities. 

TATE, MAGNUS, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1815 to 1817. 

TATHAM, WILLIAM, civil engineer, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1752 in Eng¬ 
land. He was an engineer and lawyer of 
Virginia who served in the American ar¬ 
my during the revolution. He was the au¬ 
thor of An Analysis of the State of Vir¬ 
ginia; Remarks on Inland Canals; and 
National Irrigation. He died Feb. 22, 
1819, in Richmond, Va. 

TATNALL, EDWARD F., congressman, 
was born in Savannah, Ga. He was a 
representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1821 to 1827. 

TATNALL, HENRY LEA, artist, was 
born Dec. 31, 1829, in Brandywine village, 
Del. In 1856 he removed to Wilmington 
and began the lumber business, and at the 
same time cultivated his musical and ar¬ 
tistic talent, which showed itself in early 
life. He could play on almost every in¬ 
strument, and composed and set to music 
many popular songs. He died Sept. 26, 
1885, in Wilmington, Del. 

TATNALL, JOSIAH, soldier, United 
States senator, was born in Bonaventure, 
Ga., in 1762. In 1793 he was appointed 
colonel of a Georgia regiment, and in 1800 
a brigadier-general, participating exten¬ 
sively in the military affairs of the state, 
and serving occasionally in the legislature. 
He also served in 1796 at Louisville in the 
general assembly that rescinded the Ya¬ 
zoo act of 1795. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Georgia from 1796 to 1799. He 
died June 6, 1803, in the West Indies. 

TATUM, ABSALOM, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
North Carolina during the years 1795 and 
1796. 

TATUM, JOHN EATON, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born April 25, 1862, in Green¬ 
wood, Ark. He has served as special coun¬ 
ty and probate judge; and in 1896 was 
elected a representative of the general as¬ 
sembly of Arkansas. 

TAUL, MICAH, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Ken¬ 
tucky from 1815 to 1817. 


TAULBEE, WILLIAM PRESTON, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1851, 
in Morgan county, Ky. In 1878 he was 
elected clerk of the county court of Mag¬ 
offin county, Ky., was re-elected in 1882, 
and in 1884 was elected a representative 
from Kentucky to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress; and re-elected to the fiftieth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

TAUNEHILL, ADAMSON, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1752 
in Frederick county, Md. He moved to 
Pennsylvania and settled on a small farm 
adjoining Pittsburg. He was a justice of 
the peace at the breaking out of the whis¬ 
ky insurrection, and firmly opposed that 
outbreak. He served as a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral in the war of 1812. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1812 to 1815. 
He died in 1817 in Grant’s Hill, Pa. 

TAUSSIG, FRANK WILLIAM, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1859 in Missouri. 
He is a professor of political economy at 
Harvard university; and the author of 
Protection to Young Industries as Applied 
in the United States; The History of the 
Present Tariff, 1860-83; The Tariff His¬ 
tory of the United States; The Silver 
Situation in the United States; and Wages 
and Capital. 

TAWNEY, JAMES A., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1855, 
near Gettysburg, Pa. He was elected to 
the state senate of Minnesota in 1890; and 
was elected to the fifty-third and fifty- 
fourth congresses and re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

TAYLER, JOHN, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born July 4, 1742, in New York. 
He became a merchant at Albany, N. Y., 
in 1773; superintended the commissary 
department on the expedition to Canada 
in 1775; and was a member of the pro¬ 
vincial congress. He was for nearly forty 
years a member of the legislature of New 
York; and was lieutenant-governor of the 
state from 1813 to 1822. He died March 
19, 1829, in Albany, N. Y. 

TAYLER, ROBERT WALKER, lawyer, 
state senator, was born Nov. 9, 1»12, in 
Harrisburg, Pa. In 1851 he was elected 
mayor of Youngstown, Ohio; and was 
elected to the state senate in 1855 and 
1857. He was auditor of the state from 
1860 to 1863; and in the latter year was 
appointed first comptroller of the United 
States treasury. He died Feb. 25, 1878. 

TAYLOR, ABNER, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born in Maine. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Illinois state legislature for one 
term; and was elected to the fifty-first 
congress, and re-elected to the fifty-second 
congress as a republican. 

TAYLOR, ALBERT REYNOLDS, edu¬ 
cator, college president, author, was born 
Oct. 16, 1846, near Magnolia, Ill. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
in the public schools, 
the Wenona semi¬ 
nary, the Illinois 
State Normal univer¬ 
sity, Knox college; 
and in 1872 gradu¬ 
ated from the Lin¬ 
coln university, Illi¬ 
nois, in which latter 
institution he was 
professor of natural 
science for ten years. 
Since 1882 he has 
been president of the State Normal school 
of Emporia, Kan. He is the author of 
The Church at Work in the Sunday 
School, and other works; has contributed 
extensively to periodical literature; and 
is a successful lecturer on educational and 
popular themes. 



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TAYLOR, ALBERT VINCENT, soldier, 
manufacturer, state senator, congressman, 
was born Dec. 6, 1845, in Bedford. He en¬ 
listed in company 
H, one (hundred and 
fiftieth Ohio volun¬ 
teer infantry, and 
subsequently in com¬ 
pany H, one hundred 
and seventy-seventh 
Ohio volunteer in¬ 
fantry, and served in 
that regiment until 
the close of the war, 
when he began busi¬ 
ness as a manufac¬ 
turer, and has been 
so engaged up to the present time. He 
served two years, 1888 and 1889, in the 
Ohio senate; and was elected to the fifty- 
second congress as a republican. He is 
one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at 
Cleveland. 

TAYLOR, ALEXANDER SMITH, eth¬ 
nologist, author, was born April 16, 1817, 
in Charleston, S. C. He published a trans¬ 
lation of the diary of Juan Rodriguez Ca- 
brillo, under the title of The First Voyage 
to the Coast of California; a History of 
Grasshoppers and Locusts of America in 
the report of the Smithsonian institution 
for 1858; The Indianology of California 
in the California Farmer; and Biblio- 
graphia Californica in the Sacramento Un¬ 
ion. He died July 27, 1876, in Santa Bar¬ 
bara, Cal. 

TAYLOR, ALEXANDER WILSON, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born March 22, 1815, in Indiana county, 
Pa. He was a member of the Pennsylvania 
legislature in 1859 and 1860; and was 
elected to the forty-third congress, 

TAYLOR, ALFRED, naval officer, was 
born May 23, 1810, in Fairfax county, Va. 
He entered the navy as a midshipman in 
1826, and was commissioned a lieutenant 
in 1837. He was promoted to rear-admiral 
in 1872, and was retired by operation of 
law. He died April 19, 1891, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

TAYLOR, ALFRED, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1831 in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
is a presbyterian clergyman of Philadel¬ 
phia; and the author of Peeps at Our 
Sunday Schools; Sunday School Photo¬ 
graphs; and Hints about Sunday School 
Work. 

TAYLOR, ALFRED ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1849 
near Elizabethton, Tenn. He was elected 
to the Tennessee legislature in 1875 from 
Carter and Johnson counties. He was 
elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second 
and re-elected to the fifty-third congress 
as a republican. 

TAYLOR, ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER 
EDWARD, journalist, educator, college 
president, author, was born Aug. 27, 1834, 
in Springfield, Ohio. From 1873 till 1883 
he was president of Wooster university, 
Ohio. He continued to be connected with 
the institution as professor of logic and 
political economy and dean of the post¬ 
graduate department for five years longer. 
He then became editor of The Mid-Conti¬ 
nent, the organ of the presbyterian church 
in the southwest, published in St. Louis, 
Mo. 

TAYLOR, ARTHUR H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 29, 1852, in Cale¬ 
donia Springs, Canada. In 1880 and again 
in 1882 he was elected prosecuting attor¬ 
ney for the eleventh judicial circuit of In¬ 
diana; and was elected to the fifty-third 
congress as a democrat. 

TAYLOR, ASHER, congressman. He 
was a representative from New York to 
the twenty-eighth congress. 



TAYLOR, BARNARD C., theologian, 
author, was born May 20, 1850, in Holm- 
del, N. J. For many years he has filled 
the chair of old testament exegesis in the 
Crozer Theological seminary of Chester, 
Pa. He has done considerable editorial 
work on Sunday school periodicals of the 
American Baptist Publication society; 
and is the author of two books on biblical 
subjects. 



TAYLOR, BAYARD, journalist, author, 
was born Jan. 11, 1825, in Kennett square, 
Pa. In 1846 he published a book contain¬ 
ing the experiences 
of his journeyings; 
edited a newspaper 
at Phoenixville, Pa., 
for a year; then went 
to New York city and 
engaged in editorial 
work. In 1851 he set 
out on a protracted 
tour in the east, 
which occupied sev¬ 
eral years; and in 
1862 and 1863 was 
secretary of the 
United States legation at St. Petersburg, 
Russia, and part of the time acting charge 
d' affaires. In 1874 he revisited Egypt, 
and attended the millennial celebration in 
Ireland. In 1878 he was appointed United 
States minister to Germany. He died Dec. 
19, 1878, in Berlin, Prussia. 


TAYLOR, BENJAMIN COOK, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 24, 1801, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. From 1828 till the time 
of his death he was pastor of the reformed 
church of Bergen, the two hundredth an¬ 
niversary of which he commemorated in 
a sermon in 1861. Besides this and other 
discourses, he published Annals of the 
Classis and Township of Bergen. He died 
Feb. 2, 1881, in Bergen, N. J. 


TAYLOR, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born July 19, 1819, in 
Lowville, N. Y. He was a popular poet of 
Chicago; and the author of Songs of Yes¬ 
terday; Old Time Pictures, and Sheaves 
of Rhyme; Dulce Domum; Between the 
Gates; Summer Savory; The River of 
Time; Pictures of Life in Camp and Field; 
Complete Poems; and Theophilus Trent, 
a novel. He died Feb. 24, 1887, in Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. 


TAYLOR, CALEB N., agriculturist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1819 in Sunbury, 
Pa. In 1866 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Pennsylvania to the fortieth 
and forty-first congresses as a republican. 

TAYLOR, CHARLES, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 15, 1819, in Boston, 
Mass. He is a methodist clergyman who 
was a missionary to China in 1848-54; and 
the author of Five Years in China; and 
Baptism in a Nutshell. 

TAYLOR, CHARLES ELISHA, college 
president, educator, was born Oct. 28, 1842, 
in Richmond, Va. For fourteen years he 
was professor of Latin in the Wake Forest 
college, North Carolina, of which institu¬ 
tion he has been president since 1884. 

TAYLOR, CHARLES FAYETTE, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born April 25, 1827, in 
Willistown, Vt. He is a surgeon of 
New York city; and the author of Theory 
and Practice of the Movement Cure; Spi¬ 
nal Irritation; Sensation and Pain; Me¬ 
chanical Treatment of Angular Curvature 
of the Spine; Treatment of Disease of the 
Hip Joint; and Infantile Paralysis. 

TAYLOR, E. J., educator, was born Oct. 
22, 1869, in Waddington, N. Y. He has 
attained success in educational work, and 
is now county superintendent of public 
education at Ellisville, Miss. 


TAYLOR, EDWARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1642 in England. He 
left several manuscript volumes, including 
a Commentary on the Four Gospels; 
Christographia, or a Discourse on the Vir¬ 
tues and Character of Christ; and poems 
in English and in Latin. He died June 
29, 1729, in Westfield, Mass. 

TAYLOR, DANIEL T., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born March 20, 1823, in 
Rouse’s Point, N. Y. Since 1846 he has 
been in the ministry, and now fills a pas¬ 
torate in Hyde Park, Mass. He is the 
author of numerous pamphlets and tracts; 
and a volume entitled the Reign of Christ. 

TAYLOR, EZRA B., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born July y, 1823, in 
Nelson, Ohio. In 1861 he moved to War¬ 
ren, Ohio; and was judge of the court of 
common pleas for the ninth judicial dis¬ 
trict from 1877 to 1880. He was elected a 
representative from Ohio to the forty- 
sixth congress to fill a vacancy; and was 
re-elected to the forty-seventh, forty- 
eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, and 
fifty-second congresses as a republican. 

TAYLOR, FITCH WATERMAN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 4, 1803, in 
Middle Haddam. He was an episcopal 
chaplain in the United States navy; and 
the author of The Flag Ship, or a Voyage 
Around the World; and The Broad Pen¬ 
nant. He died July 23, 1865, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

TAYLOR, GEORGE, signer of the decla¬ 
ration of independence, was born in 1716 
in Ireland. In 1764 he was elected to 
the provincial assembly at Philadelphia, 
serving six years. He was again elected 
to the assembly in 1775; was a delegate 
to the continental congress in 1776 and 
1777; and was a signer of the declaration 
of independence. He died Feb. 23, 1781, 
in Easton, Pa. 

TAYLOR, GEORGE, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 19, 1820, in 
Wheeling, W. Va. In 1856 he was elected 
from Alabama a representative to the 
thirty-fifth congress. As an author, writ¬ 
ing upon topics connected with the natu¬ 
ral sciences, he was successful; a work 
published in 1851 and entitled Indications 
of the Creator has passed through four 
editions, and been highly applauded by 
the critics of England and France. 

TAYLOR, GEORGE BOARDMAN, mis¬ 
sionary, author, was born Dec. 27, 1832, in 
Richmond, Va. He is a baptist missionary 
in Rome since 1873; and the author of 
Oakland Stories; Costar Grew; Roger 
Bemant, the Pastor’s Son; Walter Ennis, 
a tale of the Early Virginia Baptists; and 
Life of J. B. Taylor. 

TAYLOR, GEORGE DRAPER, lawyer, 
was- born Oct. 21, 1859, in Luzerne coun¬ 
ty, Pa. He received his education at the 
Wyoming seminary of Kingston, Pa., and 
has attained prominence as one of the 
leading lawyers of his native state at 
Scranton. 

TAYLOR, GEORGE EDWIN, journalist, 
was born Aug. 4, 1857, in Little Rock, 
Ark. He is the editor and owner of the 
Solicitor, a national journal published at 
Oskaloosa, Iowa. He has attained success 
as a speaker; takes a prominent part in 
political affairs; and was a delegate to 
the Chicago democratic national conven¬ 
tion in 1896. 

TAYLOR, GEORGE HENRY, physician, 
author, was born in 1821 in Willistown, 
Vt. He is a physician of New York city, 
among whose writings are Exposition of 
the Swedish Movement Cure; Health for 
Women; Massage; and Pelvic and Her¬ 
nial Therapeutics. 




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TAYLOR, GEORGE HERBERT, lawyer, 
author, was born May 10, 1853, in Berk¬ 
shire, Vt. He is the author of Fifteen 
Years a Mystery; Erastus Corning; An 
Agreement and What Came of It; Wil¬ 
liam Livingston; Trout Fishing in Wis¬ 
consin; A Bear Hunt in Vermont; and 
Hunting in Minnesota. 

TAYLOR, GEORGE K., lawyer, jurist. 
In 1801 he was appointed United States 
judge of the circuit court for the fourth 
circuit. 

TAYLOR, GEORGE LANSING, clergy¬ 
man, author,, was born Feb. 13, 1835, in 
Skaneateles, N. Y. He is a methodist 
clergyman of eastern New York; and the 
author of Elijah the Reformer, a Ballad 
Epic; Grant: an Elegy, and Other Po¬ 
ems; What Shall we Do with the Sunday 
School?; and The New Africa. 

TAYLOR, GEORGE W., lumber mer¬ 
chant, state legislator, was born March 31, 
1855, in Wenham, Mass. He is a success¬ 
ful lumber merchant of Marinette, Wis. 
In 1894 he was elected a member of the 
Wisconsin state legislature, and received 
the re-election in 1896. 

TAYLOR, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 16, 1849, in Mont¬ 
gomery county, Ala. He enlisted as a pri¬ 
vate in company D, first regiment South 
Carolina cavalry, and served as a courier 
till the end of the war. He /was elected to 
the lower house of the general assembly 
of Alabama in 1878, and served one term 
as a member from Choctaw county. In 
1880 he was elected state solicitor for the 
first judicial circuit of Alabama, and was 
re-elected in 1886. He was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress of the United States 
as a democrat. 

TAYLOR. GEORGE WILLIAM, soldier, 
was born Nov. 22, 1808, in Hunterdon 
county, N. J. When the civil war began 
he was made colonel of the third New 
Jersey infantry. He received his com¬ 
mission as brigadier-general of volunteers 
in 1862. He died in September, 1862, in 
Alexandria, Va. 

TAYLOR, HANNIS, lawyer, author, was 
born in 1851 in North Carolina. He is a 
lawyer of Mobile, minister to Spain in 
1893-97; and the author of The Origin 
and Growth of the English Constitution. 

TAYLOR, HENRY OSBORN, author, 
was born in 1856 in New York. He is a 
legal writer of New York city; and the 
author of Treatise on the Law of Private 
Corporations, a standard work much used 
as a text-book in law schools; and An¬ 
cient Ideals. 

TAYLOR, IDA SCOTT, author, poet, 
was born in Springfield, Ill. With Martha 
C. Oliver she has written three juvenile 
books in verse entitled The Story of Co¬ 
lumbus; In Slavery Days; and The Far 
"West. 

TAYLOR, ISAAC EBENEZER, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born April 25, 1812, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1861 the Bellevue 
Hospital Medical college was incorporated 
and went into operation, and he became 
its president and treasurer. He was one 
of the originators of the New York Medi¬ 
cal Journal, and president of its associa¬ 
tion in 1869-70. 

TAYLOR, ISAAC HAMILTON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born April 18, 1840, 
near New Harrisburg, Ohio. He engaged 
in the practice of the law at Carrollton, 
Ohio, in his native county; and was clerk 
of the courts of Carroll county from 1870 
to 1877. In 1884 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 


TAYLOR, JAMES BARNETT, mission¬ 
ary, author, was born March 19, 1819, in 
England. He was a baptist missionary 
in Virginia; and the author of Life of Lot 
Cary; and Lives of Virginia Baptist Min¬ 
isters. He died Dec. 22, 1871, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. 

TAYLOR, [JAMES] BAYARD, author, 
poet, was born in 1825 in Pennsylvania. 
He was an author well known as poet, 
novelist, translator, and traveler. His 
volumes of verse comprise Ximena, and 
Other Poems; Rhymes of Travel; Poems 
and Ballads; Poems of Home and Travel; 
Poems of the Orient, his. most original 
work; The Picture of St. John; The Po¬ 
et’s Journal; Lars; The Masque of the 
Gods; Home Pastorals; Prince Deukali- 
on; The Prophet, a tragedy; and Centen¬ 
nial Ode. In fiction he published Beauty 
and the Beast; Hannah Thurston; The 
Story of Kennett; John Godfrey’s For¬ 
tune; Joseph and His Friend. His trav¬ 
els include Views Afoot; Eldorado; By¬ 
ways of Europe; Central Africa; Egypt 
and Iceland; Greece and Russia; At 
Home and Abroad; India, China, and Ja¬ 
pan; The Lands of the Saracen; and Col¬ 
orado. The translation of Faust is his 
greatest work, and the one on which his 
fame will most securely rest. Other works 
of his are School History of Germany; 
Literary Essays and Notes; Studies in 
German Literature; and The Echo Club, 
and Other Literary Diversions. He died 
in 1878. 

TAYLOR. JAMES MONROE, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 5, 1848, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He has been president of Vas- 
sar college from 1886; and is the author 
of Psychology. 

TAYLOR, JAMES WICKES, public of¬ 
ficial, author, was born Nov. 6, 1819, in 
Starkey, Yates county, N. Y. He was a 
United States consul at Winnipeg, Mani¬ 
toba, from 1870; and the author of The 
Victim of Intrigue, a Tale of Burr’s Con¬ 
spiracy; History of Ohio, First Period: 
1620-1787; Manual of Ohio School Sys¬ 
tem; Forest and Fruit Culture in Manito¬ 
ba; and Mineral Resources of the United 
States. He died in 1893. 

TAYLOR, JOHN, United States senator, 
author, was born in 1750 in Orange coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was a politician of prominence 
in his day as a United States senator from 
Virginia in 1792-94, and also in 1803-09, 
and 1822-24. He was the author of Inquiry 
into the Principles and Polity of the 
United States Government; Agricultural 
Essays; Construction Construed; Tyran¬ 
ny Unmasked; and New Views of the 
United States Constitution. He died Aug. 
20, 1824, in Caroline county, Va. 

TAYLOR, JOHN, missionary, author, 
was born in 1752 in Fauquier county, Va. 
He published an account of his religious 
labors and of the churches that he had 
aided in founding, under the title of A 
History of Ten Baptist Missions. He died 
in 1833 in Forks of Elkhorn, Ky. 

TAYLOR, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
United States senator, governor, was born 
May 4, 1770, in Columbia, S. C. He served 
in the South Carolina state legislature a 
number of years; was a presidential elect¬ 
or in 1797; was a representative in con¬ 
gress from South Carolina from 1807 to 
1809, and also from 1817 to 1821. He was a 
senator in congress from 1810 to 1816; was 
a trustee of the South Carolina college in 
1806; a state senator in 1810 and 1822; and 
was governor of the state from 1826 to 
1828. He was also at one time receiver of 
public moneys in Mississippi territory. He 
died April 16, 1832, in Columbia, S. C. 


TAYLOR, JOHN J., congressman, was 
born in Massachusetts. He settled in New 
York; and was elected a representative 
in congress from that state from 1853 to 
1855. 

TAYLOR, JOHN L., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born March 7, 1805, in Stafford 
county, Va. He settled in Chillicothe, 
Ohio, in 1829; and was for six years ma¬ 
jor-general of the Ohio militia. He was 
a representative in congress from Ohio 
from 1847 to 1855; and in 1870 was ap¬ 
pointed a clerk in the interior department. 
He died Sept. 6, 1870, in Washington, 
D. C. 

TAYLOR, JOHN LOUIS, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born March 1, 1769, in Eng¬ 
land. He was a former chief justice of 
North Carolina in 1810-29; and the author 
of Superior Court Cases in Law and Equi¬ 
ty; The North Carolina Law Repository; 
Term Reports; and Duties of Executors 
and Administrators. He died Jan. 29, 
1829, in Raleigh, N. C. 

, TAYLOR, JOHN MAY, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 18, 1838, in 
Lexington, Tenn. He entered the confed¬ 
erate army in 1861; was elected lieuten¬ 
ant; and was subsequently promoted to 
the rank of major. In 1869 he was elected 
mayor of Lexington, Tenn.; and was attor¬ 
ney-general of the eleventh judicial cir¬ 
cuit from 1870 to 1878. He was a member 
of the state house of representatives in the 
called sessions of 1881 and 1882. He was 
elected a representative from Tennessee 
to the forty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-ninth congress as a 
democrat. 

TAYLOR, JOHN NEILSON, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born July 24, 1805, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. He was a lawyer of 
Brooklyn; and the author of American 
Law of Landlord and Tenant; and The 
Law of Executors and Administrators in 
New York State. He died Feb. 6, 1878, in 
New Brunswick, N. J. 

TAYLOR,-JOHN ORVILLE, reformer, 
author, was born May 14, 1807, in Charl¬ 
ton, N. Y. He was an educational writer 
and reformer long prominent in New 
York state, and after 1879 a resident of 
New Brunswick, N. J. He was the author 
of The District School, or Popular Educa¬ 
tion. He died Jan. 18, 1890, in New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. J. 

TAYLOR, JOHN VINCENT, soldier, po¬ 
et, was born in 1834 in Bristol, England. 
In 1862 he moved to New York, making 
a name for himself 
by his contributions 
to the Christian In¬ 
telligencer, at the 
outbreak of the civil 
war, upon the lead¬ 
ing topics of that 
time. Eventually he 
volunteered and join¬ 
ed the second New 
York state militia, 
eighty-second regi¬ 
ment for three years 
for the war, having 
the good fortune in his first battle at the 
Wilderness to rescue and bring the stars 
and stripes from the field where they had 
been left by the color-sergeant, who was 
shot. In 1872 he sailed for Australia, and 
was known among Australian journalists 
as That Young Man from America. He 
became connected with the United States 
Sewing Machine Times; at the same time 
contributed to the Age of Steel, St. Louis, 
Mo., as well as supplying New York let¬ 
ters to various American and European, 
publications. 





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TAYLOR, JOHN W., lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born March 26, 
1784, in Charlton, N. Y. He was elected to 
the New York state legislature in 1811, 
and while in that body was elected to con¬ 
gress, where he served from 1813 to 1833; 
and was speaker of the house for the sec¬ 
ond session of the sixteenth congress, 
during the passage of the Missouri com¬ 
promise. He was also speaker of the nine¬ 
teenth congress; and was a state senator 
in 1841 and 1842. He died Sept. 8, 1854, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

TAYLOR, JONATHAN, congressman, 
was born in Connecticut. He removed to 
Ohio; and was elected a representative 
in congress from that state from 1839 to 
1841. 

TAYLOR, JOSEPH DANNER, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 7, 
1830, in Belmont county, Ohio. He served 
in the union army as a commissioned of¬ 
ficer during the war of the rebellion. He 
was twice elected prosecuting attorney of 
Ohio; and was president of the city school 
board for seven years. He was elected a 
representative from Ohio to the forty-sev-' 
enth congress to fill a vacancy; and was 
re-elected to the forty-eighth, fiftieth, fif¬ 
ty-first, and fifty-second congresses as a 
republican. 

TAYLOR, JOSEPH HANCOCK, soldier, 
was born Jan. 26, 1836, in Kentucky. In 
1863 he was assigned to duty as assistant 
adjutant-general of the department at 
Washington. He was appointed a major 
on the staff in 1866; and was brevetted 
colonel for faithful s ervi ces during the 
war. He died March 13, 1885, in Omaha, 
Neb. 

TAYLOR, JOSEPH PANNEL, soldier, 
was born May 4, 1796, in Louisville, Ky. 
He entered the army in 1813; passed 
through all grades; and was commissioned 
a brigadier-general in 1863. He died June 
29, 1864, in Washington, D. C. 

TAYLOR, MRS. MARIE HANSEN, 
translator, was born June 2, 1829, in Ger¬ 
many. She zealously promoted her hus¬ 
band’s, Bayard Taylor, literary career, and 
translated into German his Greece; Han¬ 
nah Thurston (Hamburg); Story of Ken- 
nett (Gotha, 1868); Tales of Home; anu 
Studies in German Literature. 

TAYLOR, MARSHALL WILLIAM, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born July 1, 1846, in 
Lexington, Ky. He was a methodist cler¬ 
gyman of African descent in Kentucky; 
and the author of Handbook for Schools; 
and The Negro in Methodism. He died 
Sept. 11, 1887, in Louisville, Ky. 

TAYLOR, MILES, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Louisiana to the thirty- 
fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth con¬ 
gresses; and withdrew in February, 1861. 

TAYLOR, MOSES, merchant, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Jan. 11, 1806, in New 
York city. He was one of the originators 
of submarine telegraphy, and has been an 
active promoter of important railway 
lines. Among his charitable gifts was one 
ol $250,000 in 1882 for a hospital for em¬ 
ployes of the Delaware, Lackawanna and 
Western railroad, and coal and iron com¬ 
panies at Scranton, Pa. 

TA1 LOR, NATHANIEL G., lawyer, 
clergyman, congressman, was born Dec. 
29, 1819, in Carter county, Tenn. He was 
a representative in congress from Ten¬ 
nessee from 1854 to 1855; was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1853 and I860; and was 
for several years a minister in the meth¬ 
odist episcopal church south. In 1865 he 
was elected a representative from Tennes¬ 
see to the thirty-ninth congress. In 1867 
he was appointed commissioner of Indian 
affairs. 


TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM, 
clergyman, author, was born June 23, 1786, 
in New Milford, Conn. He was a congre¬ 
gational clergyman prominent in his day 
as the exponent of the New Haven type 
of theology; and was Dwight professor 
at Yale university in 1822-38. He was 
the author of Practical Sermons; Moral 
Government of God; and Essays, etc., 
upon Select Topics in Revealed Theology. 
He died March 10, 1858, in New Haven, 
Conn. 

TAYLOR, NELSON, soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born June 8, 1821, 
in South Norwalk, Conn. In 1849 he was 
elected to the state senate of California. 
In 1861 he was mustered into military 
service as colonel of the seventy-second 
regiment of New York volunteers; and 
was promoted to the rank of brigadier- 
general in 1862. In 1864 he was elected a 
representative from New York to the 
thirty-ninth congress. 

TAYLOR, OLIVER ALDEN, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 18, 1801, in Yar¬ 
mouth, Mass. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Manchester, Mass.; and the 
author of Brief Views of the Savior; and 
Life of Jesus. He died Dec. 18, 1851, in 
Manchester, Mass. 

TAYLOR, RICHARD, soldier, author, 
was born Jan. 27, 1826, in New Orleans, 
La. He was a confederate officer; and 
the author of Destruction and Recon¬ 
struction. He died April 12, 1879, in New 
York city. 

TAYLOR. RICHARD COWLING, geolo¬ 
gist, author, was born Jan. 18, 1789, in 
England. He was an English geologist 
who came to America in 1830, among 
whose publications are. Geology and Nat¬ 
ural History of the Northeast Extremity 
of the Alleghany Mountains; History and 
Description of Fossil Fuel; and Statistics 
of Coal. He died Nov. 26, 1851, in Eng¬ 
land. 

TAYLOR, ROBERT, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Virginia from 1825 
to 1827. 

TAYLOR, ROBERT BARRAUD. soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born March 24, 1774, 
in Norfolk, Va. He was a member of the 
Virginia assembly in 1798-99. As a briga¬ 
dier-general of Virginia militia he served 
'in the defense of Norfolk in 1813-14. He 
was a member of the state constitutional 
convention of 1829-30, and judge of the 
general court of Virginia from 1831 till 
his death. He died April 13, 1834 in 
Norfolk, Va. 

TAYLOR, ROBERT L., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 31, 1850, in Hap¬ 
py Valley, Tenn. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Tennessee to the forty- 
sixth congress as a democrat. 

TAYLOR, ROBERT S., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, author, was born May 22, 
1838, in Ross county, Ohio. He has at¬ 
tained success at the 
bar in Fort Wayne, 
Ind.; has served 
with distinction as a 
member of the In¬ 
diana state legisla¬ 
ture; and also served 
one term on the 
bench. In 1881 he 
was appointed a 
member of the Mis¬ 
sissippi river com¬ 
mission by President 
Garfield to succeed 
Benjamin Harrison. He is regarded as 
an authority on Mississippi river ques¬ 
tions, and has published many addresses 
and papers on that subject. He was a 
member of the monetary commission ap¬ 


pointed under the auspices of the Indian¬ 
apolis convention of 1897; and during 
1873-96 has published discussions of the 
money question covering all its various 
phases. 

TAYLOR, ROBERT W., educator, law¬ 
yer, journalist, congressman, was born 
Nov. 26, 1852, in Youngstown, Ohio. In 
1872 he commenced teaching in the high 
school in Lisbon, Ohio, and was elected 
superintendent of schools in 1873 and re¬ 
elected in 1874. From 1875 to 1876 he 
was editor of the Buckeye State newspa¬ 
per at Lisbon; was elected prosecuting at¬ 
torney of Columbiana county in 1880; and 
re-elected in 1882, and served until Jan¬ 
uary, 1896. He was elected to the fifty- 
fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

TAYLOR, ROBERT WILLIAM, physi¬ 
cian, educator, was born Aug. 11, 1842, in 
England. He is one of the surgeons of 
the venereal department of the Charity 
hospital, and physician to the department 
of skin diseases in Bellevue hospital dis¬ 
pensary, and for six years he was surgeon 
to the department of venereal and skin 
diseases of the New York dispensary. 

TAYLOR, RUFUS, clergyman, author, 
was born March 24, 1811. in Hanley, Mass. 
He is a congregational minister of Massa¬ 
chusetts, whose home was at Beverly, N. 
J., after 1878. He is the author of Union 
to Christ; Love to God; Thoughts on 
Prayer; and Cottage Piety Exemplified. 

TAYLOR, SAMUEL HARVEY, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Oct. 3, 1807, in Der¬ 
ry, N. H. He was an educator long promi¬ 
nent in Massachusetts; and principal of 
Phillips academy, Andover, in 1837-71. He 
was the author of Method of Classical 
Study. He died Jan. 29, 1871, in Andover, 
Mass. 

TAYLOR, SAMUEL M., soldier, state 
senator, was born April 19, 1831, in 

Wayne county, Ind. He entered the army 
in the late rebellion, and served with the 
one hundred and first regiment Indiana 
volunteers during the war. In 1876 he 
was honored by an election to the sena¬ 
torial branch of the Indiana state legis¬ 
lature. 

TAYLOR, STEPHEN WILLIAM, col¬ 
lege president, was born Oct. 28, 1791, in 
Adams, Mass. In 1851 he was elected 
president of Colgate university, holding 
that position until 1855, when he resigned. 
He died Jan. 6, 1856. 

TAYLOR, THOMAS HOUSE, clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 18, 1799, in George¬ 
town, S. C. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman, prominent in New York city as 
the rector of Grace church in 1834-67, and 
active as a low church controversialist. He 
was the author of Sermons Preached in 
Grace Church. He died Sept. 9, 1867, in 
West Parke, N. Y. 

TAYLOR, TnAVIS, educator, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 2, 1853, in Fairview, Ill. 
For ten years he lived in Lincoln coun¬ 
ty, Ky., and in 1868 moved to Howell 
county, Mo. For many years he was en¬ 
gaged in educational work, and is now one 
of the foremost lawyers of Missouri at 
Willow Springs. 

TAYLOR. VIRGIL CORYDON, musi¬ 
cian, was born in 1817 in Barkhamstead, 
Conn. He endeavored to introduce in 
musical notation an index-staff in which 
the key-note occupies a heavier line or a 
wider space. He published collections of 
sacred and secular songs, containing many 
compositions by himself. Their titles are 
Sacred Minstrel; The Lute, or Musical 
Instructor; Choral Anthems; The Golden 
Lyre; Concordia; The Chime; The Celes- 
tina; The Song Festival; The Enchanter; 
The Concertina; and The Praise Offering. 



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TAYLOR, WALTER, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, was born 
in 1786 in Lunenburg county, Va. He was 
a judge of the territory of Indiana in 
1806. He was aide-de-camp to Gen. Har¬ 
rison at the battle of Tippecanoe; and was 
United States senator from Indiana from 
1816 to 1825. He died Aug. 26, 1826, in 
Lunenburg, Va. 

TAYLOR, WALTER HERRON, soldier, 
banker, author, was born June 13, 1838, 
in Norfolk, Va. He was a confederate 
officer during the civil war, and subse¬ 
quently a banker in Norfolk. He is the 
author of The Book of Travels of a Doc¬ 
tor of Physic; and Four Years with Gen¬ 
eral Lee. 

TAYLOR, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1833 to 
1835. 

TAYLOR, WILLIAM, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Alexandria, D. C. He 
was elected a representative in congress 
from Virginia, and served from 1843 to 
1846. He died Jan. 17, 1846, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

TAYLOR, WILLIAM, physician, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1793, 
in Connecticut. He was president of the 
New York Medical society; and was a 
practicing physician for fifty years. He 
was for many years president of the board 
of supervisors of the state of New York. 
He was a member of the state legislature 
in 1841, 1842, 1852 and 1853, in the two 
latter years representing New York city. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1833 to 1839. He died 
Sept. 6, 1865, in Manlius, N. Y. 

TAYLOR, WILLIAM, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born May 2, 1821, in Rockbridge 
county, Va. He is a noted methodist 
missionary and evangelist, appointed 
bishop in Africa in 1884, among whose 
writings are, California Life Illustrated; 
Seven Years’ Street Preaching in San 
Francisco; Pauline Methods of Missionary 
Work; The Model Preacher; Reconcilia¬ 
tion; The Election of Grace; Christian 
Adventures in South Africa; and Our 
South American Cousins. 

TAYLOR, WILLIAM A., journalist, po¬ 
et lawyer, politician, was born April 25, 
1837, in Perry county, Ohio. Commenc¬ 
ing to write prose 
and verse at the age 
of fifteen, he taught 
school at intervals 
for the following six 
years, at the same 
time being editor 
and part proprietor 
of Perry County 
Democrat. At the 
age of twenty-one 
he was admitted to 
the bar, practiced 
law for four years in 
connection with editorial work, and was 
also state’s attorney a part of the same 
time. He then became one of the editorial 
writers of the Cincinnati Enquirer. He 
served in the army of the Potomac dur¬ 
ing the war, after the close of which he 
resumed editorial work on the Enquirer. 
He was chief editorial writer of the Pitts¬ 
burg Post for eight years subsequent to 
1868. He next was employed successively 
on the New York Sun for two years; then 
on the New York World for a period; 
next was managing editor of the Pitts¬ 
burg Telegraph for nearly two years; and 
then became editorial manager of Colum¬ 
bus Democrat and Times for several yeais. 
He is now again with the Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer as staff correspondent and general 
political writer. 


TAYLOR, WILLIAM BOWER, lawyer, 
physicist, journalist, was born May 23, 
1821, in Philadelphia. In 1854 he was 
made an examiner in the United States 
patent office in Washington, where he re¬ 
mained until 1877. He was appointed ed¬ 
itor of the publications of the Smithson¬ 
ian institution in 1878. 

TAYLOR, WILLIAM H., journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born May 2, 1862, in Arctic, R. 

I. He is the editor and business man¬ 
ager of the Shore Line Times of New 
Haven, Conn.; and is part owner of the 
Windham County Standard of Putnam, 
Conn. He was a messenger in the Con¬ 
necticut house of representatives in 1884; 
doorkeeper in 1889; and is the author of 
Taylor’s Souvenir of the Capitol, 1877-98, 
the best of the kind ever published in any 
state. 

TAYLOR. WILLIAM JAMES ROMEYN, 
clergyman, author, was born July 31, 1823, 
in Schodack, N. Y. In 1869 he had charge 
of a church in Newark, N. J. He presided 
over the general synod in 1871. From 
1872 till 1876 he edited the Christian In¬ 
telligencer, and attended the presbyterian 
councils held in Philadelphia, Belfast, and 
London. He has published hymns, ad¬ 
dresses, sermons, and tracts. He is the au¬ 
thor of Louisa, a Pastor’s Memorial (Phil¬ 
adelphia) ; The Bible in the Last Hundred 
Years; Church Extension in Large Cities; 
and On Co-operation in Foreign Missions. 

TAYLOR. WILLIAM MACKERGO, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 23, 1829, 
in Scotland. He was a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman of eminence. He came from Scot¬ 
land to New York city in 1871, and was 
pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in 
1871-93. He was the author of Contrary 
Winds; The Limitations of Life; The Lost 
Found; The Gospel Miracles; Prayer and 
Business; Life Truths; John Knox; Jo¬ 
seph the Prime Minister; Ruth the Glean¬ 
er and Esther the Queen; David, King of 
Israel; Elijah the Prophet; Peter the 
Apostle; Daniel the Beloved; Moses the 
Law-Giver; Paul the Missionary; and The 
Scottish Pulpit from the Reformation. He 
died in 1895. 

TAYLOR, WILLIAM R.. agriculturist, 
state senator, governor, was born in 1820 
in Connecticut. He moved to Wisconsin 
in 1848, and turned his attention to farm¬ 
ing; and held various county offices. He 
was elected to the state legislature, both 
house and senate; and in 1873 was elected 
governor of Wisconsin. 

TAYLOR, ZACHARY, twelfth presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born Sept. 

county, Va. He re¬ 
ceived a very limited 
common school edu¬ 
cation. In 1808 he 
was appointed lieu¬ 
tenant in the United 
States infantry. Mr. 
Taylor was married 
in 1810. He was pro¬ 
moted from time to 
time, and in 1840 at¬ 
tained the rank of 
brigadier - general. 
About this time he 
purchased a large es¬ 
tate in Louisiana. In 1845 he was ordered 
to Mexico, and commanded at the battles 
of Palo Alto, Matamoras, Monterey and 
Buena Vista.’ June 7, 1848, the whig na¬ 
tional convention met at Philadelphia. 
June 8 the balloting commenced. On the 
first ballot Zachary Taylor received 111 
votes; Henry Clay, 97; Winfield Scott, 46; 
Daniel Webster, 21, and John McLean, 2. 
After another unsuccessful ballot the con¬ 
vention adjourned. On the first ballot. 
June 9, Taylor received 133 votes; Clay, 


74; Scott, 53; Webster, 16, and John M. 
Clayton, 1. The second ballot resulted in 
a choice, Taylor having received 171 votes; 
Scott, 63; Clay, 30; Webster, 12. Millard 
Fillmore was nominated for vice-president, 
Messrs. Taylor and Fillmore were elected 
the coming fall, and took the oath of of¬ 
fice March 5, 1849, the fourth of March oc¬ 
curring on Sunday (inauguration day) the 
second time, and occurred again in 1877. 
Mr. Taylor died July 9, 1850. Taylor 
never held a political office or cast a vote 
until he was elected to the presidency. 
He left an estate worth about one hun¬ 
dred and fifty thousand dollars. 

TAYLOR, ZACHARY, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born May 9, 1849, 
in Haywood county, Tenn. In 1880 he was 
elected a senator in the forty-second gen¬ 
eral assembly of Tennessee; and was 
postmaster at Covington from 1883 to 1885. 
In 1884 he was elected a representative 
from Tennessee to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

TAZEWELL, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, United States senator, 
was born in 1753 in Brunswick county, Va. 
In 1775 he was a member of the Virginia 
house of burgesses, and in the convention 
of 1776. He was a member of the house 
of delegates for many years; was elected 
judge in 1785; and of the first court of ap¬ 
peals in 1793. From 1794 to 1799 he was 
United States senator from Virginia. He 
died Jan. 24, 1799, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

TAZEWELL, LITTLETON WALLER, 
lawyer, congressman, governor, United 
States senator, was .born Dec. 17, 1774, in 
Williamsburg, Va. He was a member of 
the Virginia legislature in 1798. He was 
a representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1799 to 1801; and was a senator in 
congress from 1824 to 1832. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Virginia from 1834 to 1836. He 
died May 6, 1860, in Norfolk, Va. 

TEAGER, MICHAEL MOORES, soldier, 
lawyer, poet, was born May 1, 1833, in 
Bath county, Ky. In 1880 he was elected 
county and prosecuting attorney in Ken¬ 
tucky, and subsequently was appointed 
master in chancery. He has been editor 
of several newspapers; and is the author 
of a number of poems, and a volume in 
blank verse entitled Marian. 

TEALL, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Aug. 16, 1822, in Fort 
Anne, N. Y. He assisted Ephraim G. 
Squier in preparing his Ancient Monu¬ 
ments of the Mississippi Valley, and John 
R. Bartlett in the first edition of his Dic¬ 
tionary of Americanisms, and made the 
analytical index to the American edition 
of Napier’s Peninsular War. In 1853 he 
became editor of a newspaper at Hunt¬ 
ington, L. I. 

TEESE, FREDERICK H„ lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Oct. 12, 1823, 
in Newark, N. J. In 1860 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the New Jersey general assembly; 
and was re-elected in 1861, and made 
speaker. He was appointed presiding 
judge of the Essex court of common pleas 
in 1864; and was reappointed in 1869. He 
was elected a representative from New 
Jersey to the forty-fourth congress. 

TEFFT, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1813 in Floyd, 
N. Y. He was a methodist clergyman of 
Maine; and the author of The Shoulder- 
Knot, a Story of the Seventeenth Century; 
Memorials of Prison Life; Methodism Suc¬ 
cessful; Our Political Parties; Evolution 
and Christianity; Hungary and Kossuth; 
and Life of Daniel Webster. He died Sept. 
16, 1885, in Brewer, Maine. 



24, 1784, in Orange 



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TEFFT, LYMAN B. ( clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, college president, was born July 15, 
1833, in Exeter township, R. I. He has 
been professor in Roger Williams univer¬ 
sity, Tenn.; and is now president of the 
Hartshorn Memorial college, Va. 

TELFAIR, EDWARD, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1735 in Scotland. 
He was a delegate from Savannah, Ga., to 
the old congress in 1778, and from 1780 to 
1783. He died Sept. 17, 1807, in Savannah, 
Ga. 

TELFAIR, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Georgia from 1813 to 1817. He died in 
April, 1818, in Savhnnah, Ga. 

TELLER, HENRY MOORE, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born May 23, 
1830, in Granger, N. Y. He moved to Illi¬ 
nois in 1858, and from there to Colorado 
in 1861. He never held office until he was 
elected to the United States senate on 
the admission of Colorado as a state, and 
took his seat in 1876; and was re-elected 
in 1876. He served until April 17, 1882, 
when ihe was appointed secretary of the 
interior; and served until March 3, 1885. 
He was again elected to the United States 
senate as a republican to fill a vacancy, 
and took his seat March 4, 1885; and was 
re-elected in 1890 and in 1897. 

TELLER, ISAAC, congressman, was 
born in 1798 in New York. He was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
thirty-third congress to fill a vacancy. He 
died April 30, 1868, in Matteawan, N. J. 

TEMPLE, DANIEL, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 23, 1798, in Reading, 
Mass. He was ordained as an evangelist 
in 1821, and went to Malta as a mission¬ 
ary in 1822, where he labored till his re¬ 
turn to this country in September, 1828. 
He published many works in modern 
Greek, Italian and Armenian, including 
several biographies of Bible characters, 
and edited a monthly magazine in Greek. 
He died Aug. 9, 1851, in Reading, Mass. 

TEMPLE, EDWARD LOWE, banker, 
author, was born May 12, 1844, in Fort 
Winnebago, Wis. Since 1883 he has been 
manager of the Marble Savings bank; and 
in 1893 he published a volume entitled The 
Church in the Prayer Book; Shakespeare: 
the Man and his Art; and the Testimony 
of the Scriptures. 

TEMPLE, JACKSON, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Aug. 11, 1827, in Heath, Mass. 
He was appointed to the bench of the 
California state supreme court to fill a 
vacancy in 1887, and then continued in his 
seat by re-election. He has also served as 
district judge and judge of the.superior 
court of Sonoma county. 

TEMPLE, OLIVER P., lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born Jan. 27, 1820, in Greene 
county, Tenn. He is a noted lawyer of 
Knoxville, Tenn.; and during 1866-78 was 
chancellor of the second chancery division 
of Tennessee. He is the author of The 
Covenanter; The Cavalier; and The Puri¬ 
tan. 

TEMPLE, WILLIAM, merchant, state 
senator, governor, was born Feb. 28, 1815, 
in Queen Anne county, Md. In 1844 he 
was elected to the Delaware state legis¬ 
lature, and was speaker of the house. The 
governor of the state and president of the 
senate having died, he became acting-gov¬ 
ernor for the remainder of the term. Dur¬ 
ing the next ten years he was a member 
of the state senate, and declined a re- 
election in 1854. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Delaware to the thirty- 
eighth congress. He died in 1863 in Smvr- 
na, Del. 

TEMPLE, WILLIAM GRANVILLE, na¬ 
val officer, was born March 23, 1824, in 


Rutland, Vt. He served with distinction 
through the Mexican and civil wars; and 
became a rear admiral in 1884. 

TEMPLER, JAMES N„ lawyer, was 
born Feb. 8, 1836, in Xenia, Ohio. In 1861 
he was elected prosecuting attorney of the 
thirteenth judicial circuit of Indiana, and 
held the office three consecutive terms 
of two years each. 

TEN BROECK, ABRAHAM, soldier, 
banker, jurist, state senator, was born 
May 13, 1734, in Albany, N. Y. He was 
made a colonel of militia early in the 
revolution, and in 1778 became brigadier- 
general of militia. He was mayor of Al¬ 
bany, N. Y., in 1779-83; a member of the 
state senate in 1780-83, and judge of the 
court of common pleas in 1781-84. He died 
Jan. 19, 1810, in Albany, N. Y. 

TEN EYCK, EGBERT, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
April 18, 1779, in Rensselaer county, N. 
Y. He was a member of the New York 
assembly in 1812 and 1813, and speaker. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1823 to 1825. He also held 
the offices of judge of the Jefferson county 
court, and president of a county agricul¬ 
tural society. He died April 11, 1844, in 
Watertown, N. Y. 

TEN EYCK, HENRY JAMES, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born July 25, 1856, in 
Albany, N. Y. He was an occasional con¬ 
tributor to the magazines, more particu¬ 
larly the Century and the Popular Science 
Monthly, an article from his pen in the 
latter magazine in 1886 on Some Tenden¬ 
cies in Taxation having attracted much at¬ 
tention. He died Nov. 29, 1887, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. 

TEN EYCK, JOHN CONOVER, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born March 21, 
1814, in Freehold, N. J. In 1839 he was 
appointed prosecutor of the pleas for Bur¬ 
lington county, N. J., holding the posi¬ 
tion for ten years; and was elected a 
senator in congress for the term com¬ 
mencing in 1859 and ending in 1865. He 
died Aug. 24, 1879, in Mount Holly, N. J. 

TENNANT, ALBERT C., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 11, 1846, in Willet, N. Y. 
In 1873 he was admitted to the bar at 
Albany, N. Y.; was elected surrogate in 
1883, and so ably and satisfactorily dis¬ 
charged his duties that in 1889 he re¬ 
ceived the re-election to the same office. 

TENNENT, GILBERT, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1703 in Ireland. He 
was a presbyterian clergyman of Philadel¬ 
phia, active in his day as a controver¬ 
sialist; and the author of XXIII Ser¬ 
mons; Discourses on Several Subjects; 
and Sermons on Important Subjects. He 
died July 23, 1764, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

TENNEY, MRS. ABBY AMY GOVE, au¬ 
thor. She is the author of Pictures and 
Stories of Animals for the Little Ones at 
Home; and a New Game of Natural His¬ 
tory. She also contributed to scientific 
journals. 

TENNEY, CHARLES HENRY, mer¬ 
chant, was born July 9, 1842, in Salem, N. 
H. While owning an interest in the hat in¬ 
dustry, he is pre¬ 
eminently a commis¬ 
sion merchant; and 
in this capacity he 
now represents up¬ 
ward of forty hat 
manufacturing con¬ 
cerns, among them 
the largest not only 
in the United States 
but in the world. 
Prominent in the 
town of Methuen, N. 
Y., is a shaft in 
granite and bronze, erected by him at a 


cost of $20,000, to commemorate the mem¬ 
ory of the men of Methuen who fell on 
southern battlefields. The town supplied 
a company of the sixth.Massachusetts in¬ 
fantry, the first regiment to pass through 
Baltimore for the defense of Washington 
upon the outbreak of the war. 

TENNEY, EDWARD PAYSON, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
in 1835. He is a congregational clergy¬ 
man of New England, at one time presi¬ 
dent of Colorado college; and the author 
of Agamenticus; and Constance of Aca¬ 
dia, a novel. 

TENNEY, SAMUEL, soldier, physician' 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
Nov. 27, 1748, in Byfield, Mass. He was 
present at the battle of Bunker Hill, 
where he was employed in attending upon 
the wounded. He was attached to the 
Rhode Island line of the provincial army, 
and served during the whole war. For 
many years he w r as judge of probate in 
Exeter, N. H. In 1800 he was elected a 
representative from that state in the con¬ 
gress of the United States. He died Feb. 
6, 1816, in Exeter, N. H. 

TENNEY, SANBORN, naturalist, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 13, 1827, in Stoddard, 
N. H. He was a naturalist who was pro¬ 
fessor of natural history at Williams col¬ 
lege from 1868; and the author of Ele¬ 
ments of Zoology; Manual of Zoology; and 
Geology for Teachers. He died July 9, 
1877, in Buchanan, Mich. 

TENNEY, MRS. SARAH [BROWN- 
SON], author, was born June 7, 1839, in 
Chelsea, Mass. She was the author of 
Marion Elwood, or How Girls Live; At 
Anchor; and Life of Demetrius Gallitzin, 
Prince and Priest. She died Oct. 30, 1876, 
in Elizabeth, N. J. 

TENNEY, MRS. TABITHA [GILMAN], 
author, was born in 1762 in Exeter, N. H. 
She wrote Female Quixotism, an amusing 
satirical novel, which was long popular. 
She died May 2, 1837, in Exeter, N. H. 

TENNEY, WILLIAM JEWETT, author, 
was born in 1814 in Newport, R. I. He 
was a writer who lived at Elizabeth, N. J., 
for many years. He edited Appleton’s 
Annual Cyclopedia in 1861-82, and wrote 
a Military and Naval History of the Re¬ 
bellion. He died Sept. 20, 1883, in New¬ 
ark, N. J. 

TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1825 in New 
Brunswick, N. J. He is the author of 
Syria from the Saddle, a volume of trav¬ 
els; Columbia Stories, a collection of 
sketches; and The Great Cedarhurst Mys¬ 
tery. 

TERHUNE, MRS. MARY VIRGINIA 
[HAWES], author, was born in 1830 in 
Amelia county, Va. She is a popular nov¬ 
elist, lecturer, and writer on domestic top¬ 
ics, and the wife of a Dutch reformed 
clergyman of New York city. Her work 
in fiction includes, Alone; Moss-Side; 
Beechdale; Judith; The Hidden Path; 
Handicapped; Nemesis; At Last; Helen 
Gardner’s Wedding-Day; Jessamine; With 
the Best Intentions; True as Steel; Sun- 
nybank; From My Youth Up; My Lit¬ 
tle Love; A Gallant Fight; The Royal 
Road; His Great Self; Mr. Wayt’s Wife’s 
Sister; Eve’s Daughters; and Marion. 
Other works of hers are, Common Sense 
in the Household, a widely known manual 
of housewifery; Common Sense in the 
Nursery; The Cottage Kitchen;. The Din¬ 
ner Year-Book; Breakfast, Luncheon, and 
Tea; The Story of Mary Washington; and 
Loitering in Pleasant Paths. 



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TERRAL, JOHN H. D., clergyman, mis¬ 
sionary, was born Aug. 1, 1858, in Pauld¬ 
ing, Miss. He received his education in 
the Summerville institute of Gholson, 
Miss.; was mayor of Spanish Fork, Texas, 
in 1885; and since that time has been a 
missionary, and identified with the meth- 
odist episcopal church south. He founded 
the town of Terral, I. T., where he is 
also a successful merchant, and promi¬ 
nent in public affairs. 

TERRELL, JOHN A., physician, public 
official, was born in 1850 in Auburn Mills, 
Va. He received his education at the uni¬ 
versity of Maryland; and graduated in 
medicine from the Baltimore Medical col¬ 
lege. He is one of the leading physicians 
of the south, and has a large practice in 
his native city; has been justice of the 
peace, postmaster, and filled various other 
public positions of trust. 

TERRELL, WILLIAM, agriculturist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born in 
1778 in Fairfax county, Va. He was fre¬ 
quently a member of the Georgia legisla¬ 
ture; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Georgia from 1817 to io21. In 
1853 he made a donation of twenty thou¬ 
sand dollars for the establishment of an 
agricultural professorship in the univer¬ 
sity of Georgia, which professorship bears 
his name. He died July 4, 1855, in Sparta, 
Ga. 

TERRILL, WILLIAM RUFUS, soldier, 
was born April 21, 1834, in Covington, Va. 
He was appointed brigadier-general of 
volunteers in 1862, and was killed in the 
battle of Perryville in the same year. He 
died Oct. 8, 1862, near Perryville, Ky. 

TERRY, ADRIAN RUSSELL, educator, 
physician, author, w-as born Sept. 29, 1808, 
in Hartford, Conn. He was a physician 
and educator who w-as for some years pro¬ 
fessor in Bristol college. Pa.; and the au¬ 
thor of Travels in the Equatorial Regions 
of South America in 1832. He died Dec. 
3, 1864, in Chicago, Ill. 

TERRY, ALFRED HOWE, soldier, law¬ 
yer, w-as born Nov. 10, 1827, in Hartford, 
Conn. He served with distinction through 
the civil -war, and was promoted to briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers in 1862. He 
died Dec. 16, 1890, in New Haven, Conn. 

TERRY, ELI, clock-maker, was born 
April 13, 1772, in East Windsor, Conn. In 
1792 he made his first wooden clock, which 
is still preserved in the family, and is one 
of the first that was made in this coun¬ 
try. A year later he settled in Plymouth, 
Conn., and there began the manufacture 
of wooden and brass clocks. He died Feb. 
24, 1852, in Terryville, Conn. 

TERRY, LUTHER, painter, was born 
July 18, 1813, in Enfield, Conn. The first 
important work from his easel w-as one 
that had for its subject Christ Disputing 
with the Doctors in the Temple, which is 
now in the Wadsworth athenaeum, Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. Other paintings by Mr. Terry 
are The Loves of the Angels, from By¬ 
ron’s Heaven and Earth; Columbus before 
Ferdinand and Isabella; and Jacob’s 
Dream, several times repeated. 

TERRY, MILTON SPENCER, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 22, 1840, 
in Albany county, N. Y. He is a metho- 
dist clergyman and educator; and since 
1884 a professor in Garrett Biblical in¬ 
stitute of Evanston, Ill. He is the au¬ 
thor of Commentary on Judges, Ruth and 
Samuel; Commentary on Kings, Chron¬ 
icles, Ezra, and Nehemiah; Commentary 
on Genesis and Exodus; Biblical Her¬ 
meneutics; Sibylline Oracles; The Song 
of Songs; Prophecies of Daniel Expound¬ 
ed; and Rambles in the Old World. 


TERRY, NATHANIEL, congressman, 
w-as born in 1786 in Enfield, Conn. He 
resided in Hartford, Conn., and held vari¬ 
ous offices in his native state. From 1817 
to 1819 w-as a representative in congress. 
He died June 14, 1844, in New Haven, 
Conn. 

TERRY, WILLIAM, soldier, journalist, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 
1824, in Amherst county, Va. He served 
in the confederate army, and became a 
general. He w-as elected from Virginia a 
representative to the forty-second con¬ 
gress; and in 1874 was elected to the for¬ 
ty-fourth congress. He died Sept. 5, 1888, 
near Wytheville, Va. 

TERRY, WILLIAM LEAKE, soldier, 
law-yer, congressman, w-as born Sept. 27, 
1850, in Anson county, N. C. He was 
elected to the city council of Little Rock, 
Ark., in 1877; was elected to the state 
senate in 1878, and was elected president 
of the senate at the close of the session in 
1879. He served eight terms as city at¬ 
torney of Little Rock; and was elected to 
the fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth 
and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat. 

TERRY, WILLIAM RICHARD, soldier, 
state senator, w-as born March 12, 1827, in 
Liberty, Va. At the beginning of the 
civil w-ar he entered the confederate serv¬ 
ice as captain of Virginia cavalry, and was 
soon promoted and given command of the 
twenty-fourth Virginia regiment. In 1864 
he was made brigadier-general. After the 
war he served as a member of the Vir¬ 
ginia senate for eight years, and for some 
time w-as superintendent of the peniten¬ 
tiary in Richmond. He then became su¬ 
perintendent of the Lee Camp Soldiers’ 
home in Richmond. 

TESCHEMACHER. JAMES ENGLE- 
BERT, merchant, scientist, author, was 
born June 11, 1790, in England. Besides 
several addresses, he published Concise 
Application of the Principles of Struc¬ 
tural Botany to Horticulture; Essay on 
Guano (1845); and a translation of Julius 
A. Stockhardt’s Chemical Field Lectures. 
He died Nov. 9, 1853, in Boston, Mass. 

TESLA, NIKOLA, electrician, was 
born in 1857. He is the inventor of the 
mechanical and electrical oscillator. 

TEST, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, congress¬ 
man, was born in Salem, N. J. He was a 
representative in congress from Indiana 
from 1823 to 1827, and from 18z9 to 1831. 
He was presiding judge of one of the cir¬ 
cuit courts of Indiana. He died Oct. 9, 
1849, near Cambridge City, Ind. 

TETLOW, JOHN, college president, au¬ 
thor, was born April 1, 1843, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He became headmaster of the 
Boston Girls’ High and Latin schools, and 
president of the New England Association 
of Colleges and Preparatory Schools. He 
is the author of a series of elementary 
Latin and Greek classics. 

TEUFFEL, MRS. BLANCHE WILLIS 
[HOWARD] VON, author, w-as born in 
1847 in Maine. She is a novelist w-ho has 
lived in Stuttgart, Germany, since 1875; 
and is the author of One Summer; Aul- 
nay Tower; Aunt Serena; Guenn; The 
Open Door; No Heroes, a Story for Boys; 
A Fellowe and His Wife; Seven on the 
Highway, short stories; and One Year 
Abroad: European Travel Sketches. 

THACHER, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
April 12, 1754, in Yarmouth, Maine. He 
was a delegate to the old congress; and 
on the adoption of the constitution he 
served as a representative in congress 
from Massachusetts from 1789 to 1801. In 
1792 he was elected a district judge in 
Maine, serving until 1800, when he was 


chosen a judge of the supreme court in 
Massachusetts; and held the latter office 
until 1824. He died April 6, 1824, in Bidde- 
ford, Maine. 

THACHER, JAMES, physician, author, 
w-as born Feb. 14, 1754, in Barnstable, 
Mass. He was a physician of Plymouth, 
Mass., prominent in his youth as a mili¬ 
tary surgeon in the battles of the Ameri¬ 
can revolution; and the author of Ameri¬ 
can Medical Biography; History of Ply¬ 
mouth; Essay on Demonology; American 
New Dispensatory; Observations on Hy¬ 
drophobia; A Military Journal During the 
American Revolution, a work of great 
value; The Management of Bees; Ameri¬ 
can Orchardist; and Observations Relat¬ 
ing to the Execution of Major Andrd. He 
died May 26, 1844, in Plymouth, Mass. 

THACHER, JOHN BOYD, bibliograph¬ 
er, author, w-as born in 1847 in New York. 
He is a critical scholar and bibliographer 
of Albany, mayor of that city in 1897; and 
the author of Charlecote, a drama; The 
Continent of America, its Discovery and 
its Baptism; and Little Speeches. 

THACHER. JOHN MARSHALL, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, public official, was born July 
1, 1836, in Barre, Vt. He served as a vol¬ 
unteer officer during the war of the union. 
In 1864 he was appointed assistant exam¬ 
iner in the patent office; and rose by regu¬ 
lar promotion to the rank of commis¬ 
sioner in 1874. 

THACHER, OXENBRIDGE, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1720 in Milton, Mass. 
He w-as successful at the bar, and took 
an active part in opposition to the Eng¬ 
lish government during the early stages 
of the revolution, being at that time one 
of the four representatives of Boston in 
the general court. He published Consid¬ 
erations upon Reducing the Value of the 
Gold Coins Within the Province; and Sen¬ 
timents of a British-American, occasioned 
by an Act to Lay Certain Dunes in the 
British Colonies and Plantations. He died 
July 8, 1765, in Boston, Mass. 

THACHER. PETER, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1651 in Salem, Mass. He was 
ordained pastor of the church in Milton, 
Mass., in 1681, and labored there for the 
remainder of his life. He published Un¬ 
belief Detected and Condemned, to which 
is added the Treasures of the Fathers In¬ 
heritable by their Posterity; Election Ser¬ 
mon; Christ’s Forgiveness a Pattern: A 
Sermon; A Sermon on the Death of Sam¬ 
uel Man; A Divine Riddle: He that is 
Weak is Strong; and The Perpetual Cov¬ 
enant. He died Dec. 17, 1725, in Milton, 
Mass. 

THACHER. PETER, clergyman, author, 
w-as born March 21, 1752, in Milton, Mass. 
He published a Narrative of the Battle of 
Bunker Hill. He died Dec. 16, 1802, in 
Savannah, Ga. 

THACHER. SAMUEL, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, w-as born July 1, 
1776, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Massachu¬ 
setts from 1802 to 1805; and served eleven 
years in the Massachusetts legislature. He 
w-as sheriff of Lincoln county from 1814 
to 1821. He died July 19, 1872, in Bangor, 
Maine. 

THACHER, SAMUEL COOPER, clergy¬ 
man, author, w-as born Dec. 14, 1785, in 
Boston, Mass. He w-as a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman of Boston, pastor of the New 
South church in 1811-15; and the author 
of An Apology for Rational and Evangeli¬ 
cal Christianity; The Unity of God; Ser¬ 
mons; and Evidences Necessary to Es¬ 
tablish the Doctrine of the Trinity. He 
died Jan. 2, 1818, in France. 


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THACHER, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born May 1, 1620, in England. 
He was a Puritan clergyman, pastor and 
physician at Weymouth, Mass., in 1644- 
66, and pastor of the Old South church in 
Boston from 1666. He published, in 1677, 
A Brief Rule to Guide the Common Peo¬ 
ple of New England How to Order Them¬ 
selves and Theirs in the Small Pocks or 
Measels, supposed to be the first medi¬ 
cal work published in New England. He 
died Oct. 15, 1678, in Boston, Mass. 

THARIN, ROBERT SEYMOUR SYM- 
MES, lawyer, author, was born Jan. 10, 
1830, near Charleston, S. C. He is a 
lawyer of Alabama who was prominent 
as a unionist during the civil war, and 
has since been employed in the auditor's 
office ^n Washington. He is the author of 
Arbitrary Arrests in the South; and Let¬ 
ters on the Political Situation. 

THATCHER, BENJAMIN BUSSEY, 
lawyer, author, poet, was born Oct. 8, 
1809, in Warren, Maine. He was the son 
of Col. Samuel Thatcher, a noted lawyer, 
and a member of congress. He became 
an eminent lawyer of Boston, Mass. He 
edited a volume of Mrs. Hemans’s Poems; 
contributed Lives of the Indians to Har¬ 
per’s Family Library; and for their Juve¬ 
nile Series a work called Indian Traits. He 
traveled extensively; and contributed 
sketches of his travels to the leading jour¬ 
nals of America. He died July 14, 1840, 
in Boston, Mass. 

THATCHER, HENRY KNOX, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born May 26, 1806, in Thomas- 
ton, Maine. In 1823 he was a midship¬ 
man; passed through all the grades; and 
was appointed rear-admiral in 1866. He 
died April 5, 1880, in Boston, Mass. 

THATCHER, MOSES, mormon apostle, 
was born Feb. 2, 1842, in Sangamon coun¬ 
ty, Ill. He is now vice-president of Zion’s 
Co-operative Mercantile institution of Salt 
Lake City, and of the Deseret National 
and Deseret Savings banks. 

THATCHER, OLIVER JOSEPH, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born about 
1850 in Ohio. He is a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman, assistant professor of mediaeval 
and English history in the university of 
Chicago from 1893; and the author of A 
Sketch of the History of the Apostolic 
Church; Europe in the Middle Age; and 
A Short History of Mediaeval Europe. 

THAXTER, ADAM WALLACE, dram¬ 
atist, author, was born Jan. 16, 1832, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a dramatist of Bos¬ 
ton among whose plays are, The Sculptor; 
Olympia; Mary Tudor; and The Painter 
of Naples. He published, also, The Grotto 
Nymph. He died June 8, 1864, in Boston, 
Mass. 

THAXTER. MRS. CELIA [LAIGH- 
TON], poet, was born June 24, 1836, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. She was a poet whose 
childhood and much 
of her later life 
was spent in the 
Isles of Shoals. Her 
verse is distinctly 
original and is large¬ 
ly the poetry of the 
shore, such poems as 
The Sandpiper; 
Courage; Kittery 
Church-Yard; The 
Spaniards’ Graves; 
and The Watch of 
Boon Island, being 
characteristic of her work in verse. Her 
volumes of verse comprise, Drift-Weed; 
The Cruise of the Mystery; Idyls and Pas¬ 
torals; Verses; Poems for Children; and 
Poems, Appledore Edition. She wrote, 
also, An Island Garden; and Among the 
Isles of Shoals. She died in 1894. 


THAYER, ABBOTT HENDERSON, ar¬ 
tist, was born Aug. 12. 1849, in Boston, 
Mass. He painted chiefly animals until 
he had been two years abroad. Since that 
time he has devoted himself principally to 
figure-painting. He has also essayed land¬ 
scapes with success. At the Paris salon 
of 1877 he exhibited Le sommeil; and in 
the following year he sent a portrait. 

THAYER, ALEXANDER WHEELOCK, 
author, was born Oct. 22, 1817, in South 
Natick. Mass. He is a writer whose later 
life has been spent abroad, and who was 
consul at Trieste in 1859-82. His most 
important work, a Life of Beethoven, the 
third volume of which was published in 
Berlin in 1887, has not been printed in 
English. It is still unfinished. The He¬ 
brews and the Red Sea; and Signior Ma- 
soni and Other Papers by the late I. 
Brown. 

THAYER, AMOS M.. soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 10, 1841, in Mina, N. 
Y. During the war he was first lieu¬ 
tenant and brevet major in the United 
States signal corps In 1865 he moved to 
Missouri, and became a noted lawyer of 
St. Louis. In 1876 he was elected judge 
of the eighth judicial circuit court; was 
re-elected in 1882; and subsequently was 
appointed one of the circuit judges. 

THAYER, CHARLES PAINE, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born Jan. 22, 1843, in 
W’est Randolph, Vt. He filled the chair 
of anatomy in the university of Vermont; 
and was professor of anatomy in Tufts 
college. He is president of the Vermont 
Veteran association of Boston, Mass. 

THAYER, ELI, educator, congressman, 
author, w r as born June 11, 1819, in Men- 
don, Mass. He served as alderman of the 
city of Worcester in 1853; and was a rep- 
resentath e in the Massachusetts legisla¬ 
ture during the years 1853 and 1854. He 
was elected a representative to the thirty- 
fifth congress from that state; and was 
re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He 
is the author of A History of the Kansas 
Crusade—its Friends and its Foes. 

THAYER, MRS. EMMA HOMAN, au¬ 
thor, artist, was born Feb. 13, 1842, in 
New York city. She is the author of Wild 
Flowers of Colorado; Wild Flowers of 
the Pacific Coast; and a novel entitled An 
English-American. She is also a success¬ 
ful artist of Salida, Colo. 

THAYER, JAMES BRADLEY, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1831 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a professor in the Har¬ 
vard Law school at Cambridge; and the 
author of A Western Journey with Mr. 
Emerson; Cases on Constitutional Law; 
and A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence 
at the Common Law. 

THAYER, JOHN MILTON, soldier, leg¬ 
islator, governor, was born Jan. 24, 1823, 
in Bellingham, Mass. He graduated from 
Brown university; 
settled in Nebraska 
in 1854; and was 
elected brigadier- 
general and then ma¬ 
jor-general in de¬ 
fense of the frontier 
against hostile In¬ 
dians. He was thus 
engaged till the war 
for the defense of 
the union. He en¬ 
tered the army as 
colonel of the first 
regiment Nebraska infantry; was com¬ 
mander of a brigade at Fort Donelson and 
Shiloh; and was made a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral for gallant conduct on those fields. 
He led a storming column at Chickasaw 
bayou; and his horse was shot from under 
him at Arkansas post. He commanded a 


brigade and division through the siege- 
of Vicksburg, after which he was made 
commander of the district and army of 
the frontier. On admission of Nebraska 
as a state he was elected United States, 
senator. Afterward he was made govern¬ 
or of Wyoming, and three times governor 
of Nebraska. 

THAYER, JOSEPH HENRY, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 7, 1828, 
in Boston, Mass. He is a congregational 
clergyman, professor of New Testament 
criticism and interpretation in the Divin¬ 
ity school of Harvard university from 
1884; and the author of Books and Their 
Use; The Change of Attitude Toward the- 
Bible; and A Greek-English Lexicon of 
the New Testament. 

THAYER. MARTIN RUSSELL, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, author, was born Jan. 
27, 1819, in Petersburg, Va. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Pennsylvania 
to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-ninth congress. After 
leaving congress in 1859 he became dis¬ 
trict judge for Philadelphia. He is the- 
author of The Duties of Citizenship; The 
Great Victory: its Cost and Value; The 
Law as a Progressive Science; On Librar¬ 
ies; Life and Works of Francis Lieber; 
and The Battle of Germantown. 

THAYER, NATHANIEL, clergyman, 
was born July 11, 1769, in Hampton. N. H_ 
In 1795 he was installed over the Unitar¬ 
ian society at Lancaster, Mass., where he- 
remained for nearly fifty years. He pub¬ 
lished twenty-three occasional sermons 
in 1795-1821. He died June 23, 1840, in 
Rochester, N. Y. 

THAYER. NATHANIEL, capitalist,, 
philanthropist, was born Sept. 11, 1808,. 
in Lancaster, Mass. He contributed to 
a commons hall, erected Thayer hall in 
1870 as a memorial of his father and 
brother, bore the expenses of Prof. Louis 
Agassiz’s expedition to South America, 
which was known as the Thayer expedi¬ 
tion, built a fire-proof herbarium at the 
Botanic garden, and gave much in aid of 
poor students of the college. He died 
March 7, 1883, in Boston, Mass. 

THAYER, SIMEON, soldier, journalist, 
was born April 30, 1737, in Mendon, Mass. 
In 1775 he was appointed captain by the- 
Rhode Island assembly, and accompanied 
Benedict Arnold’s expedition against Que¬ 
bec. He was promoted major in 1777, aDd 
served with great credit in the defense of 
Red Bank and at Fort Mifflin, receiving 
for the latter a sword from the Rhode Is¬ 
land assembly in July. His Journal of 
the Invasion of Canada in 1775 has been 
edited by Edwin M. Stone. He died Oct. 
14, 1800, in Cumberland, Pa. 

THAYER, STEPHEN HENRY, banker, 
author, was born in 1839 in New Hamp¬ 
shire. He is a banker of New York city 
living at Tarrytown, N. Y., who has pub¬ 
lished Songs of Sleepy Hollow. 

THAYER, SYLVANUS. soldier, civil en¬ 
gineer, author. He was a military en¬ 
gineer of distinction, superintendent of 
West Point academy in 1817-33, and from 
1836-68 in charge of the military defenses 
of Boston. He was the author of Papers, 
on Practical Engineering. He died Sept. 

7, 1872, in South Braintree, Mass. 

THAYER, THOMAS BALDWIN, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 10, 1812, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a universalist 
clergyman of Lowell; and the author of 
Over the River; Christianity vs. Infidel¬ 
ity; Historical Doctrine of Endless Pun¬ 
ishment; Bible Class Assistant; and The¬ 
ology of Universalism. He died Feb. 12, 
1886, in Roxbury, Mass. 










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THAYER, W. W., lawyer, congressman, 
governor, was born July 15, 1827, in Lima, 
N. Y. He was a representative in the 
Idaho territorial legislature in 1866; and 
in that year was elected district attorney. 
In 1867 he moved to Portland, Oregon; 
and in 1878 was elected governor of Ore¬ 
gon, and served four years. 

THAYER. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE, 
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1820, 
in Franklin, Mass. He is a congregation¬ 
al clergyman who retired from the minis¬ 
try, and living at Franklin, Mass., devoted 
himself to authorship. His books, which 
have been extraordinarily popular, are 
mainly intended for juvenile reading. 
Among them are, Youths’ History of the 
Rebellion; The Bobbin Boy; The Pioneer 
Boy; The Printer Boy; The Poor Boy and 
the Merchant Prince; Turning Points in 
Successful Careers; Marvels of the New 
West; The White House Series; Aim 
High: Hints for Young Men; Life of Gar¬ 
field; Men Who Win; and Women Who 
Win. 

THAYER, WILLIAM ROSCOE, educa¬ 
tor, poet, was born in 1857 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He was formerly an instructor at 
Harvard university. His writings in verse 
include, The Confessions of Hermes; Hes- 
per; Poems, New and Old. He has pub¬ 
lished, also, The Dawn of Italian Indepen¬ 
dence; and The Best Elizabethan Plays. 

THEAKER, THOMAS CLARKE, ma¬ 
chinist, congressman, was born Feb. 1, 
1812, in York county, Pa. He was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Ohio to the thir¬ 
ty-sixth congress; and was subsequently 
appointed one of a board of commission¬ 
ers to examine into the affairs of the pat¬ 
ent office. In 1865 he was appointed com¬ 
missioner of patents. He died July 16, 
1883, in Oakland, Md. 

THEBAUD, AUGUSTINE J„ clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1807 in France. 
He was a Roman catholic clergyman and 
educator of New York city; and the au¬ 
thor of The Irish Race in the Past and 
Present; Louisa Kirkbride, a tale of New 
York; The Church and the Moral World; 
and The Twit-Twats, a bird allegory. He 
died Dec. 17, 1890, in Fordham, N. Y. 

THELLER, EDWARD ALEXANDER, 
physician, journalist, was born about 1810 
in East Canada. He was a Canadian phy¬ 
sician who. for his activity in the Ca¬ 
nadian rebellion of 1837, was imprisoned 
and sentenced to death. He escaped to the 
United States, and was subsequently a 
journalist in California and superinten¬ 
dent of schools in San Francisco. He was 
the author of Canada in 1837-38. He 
died in 1859, in Honitas, Cal. 

THIBODEAUX, B. G., congressman, was 
born in Louisiana. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Louisiana from 1845 
to 1847, and for a second term ending in 
1849. He died in March, 1866, in Terre¬ 
bonne, La. 

THIBODEAUX, HENRY SCHUYLER, 
governor, was born in 1769 in Albany, N. 
Y. His early days were passed in Scot¬ 
land, coming to Louisiana in 1794. In 1805 
he was elected a member of the territorial 
legislature, and became a justice of the 
peace in 1808. He was three times elect¬ 
ed senator of the general assembly. In 
1824 he completed, as acting governor, the 
unexpired term of Governor Robertson. 
The town of Thibodeauville, La., was 
named in his honor. 

THICKSTUN, THOMAS, clergyman, po¬ 
et, was born July 3, 1824, in Cassewago, 
Pa. He is an eminent baptist clergyman 
of Iowa; now fills a pastorate in the bap¬ 
tist church of Council Bluffs, of which 
church he was the principal founder. He 
is the author of a number of meritorious 
poems. 


THIEBLIN, NICOLAS LEON, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1834 in Italy. He 
was a journalist of London, and after 1874 
of New York city. He was Spanish corre¬ 
spondent of The Herald in the Carlist 
war; and the author of A Little Book 
About Great Britain; and Spain and the 
Spaniards. He died in 1889. 

THIENPONT, EMANUEL, clergyman, 
was born in 1803 in Belgium. He was 
the pioneer secular priest of Ohio, and 
was the first to build Roman catholic 
churches in Dayton, Portsmouth, Steuben¬ 
ville and other places in the state. He 
died Oct. 19, 1873, in Logan, Ohio. 

THOBURN, JAMES MILLS, missionary, 
bishop, author, was born March 7, 1836, 
in St. Clairsville, Ohio. He is a metho- 
dist missionary, bishop in India and Ma¬ 
laysia since 1888; and the author of Mis¬ 
sionary Addresses; My Missionary Ap¬ 
prenticeship in New York; India and Ma¬ 
laysia; Light in the East; The Deacon¬ 
ess and Her Vocation; and Christless Na¬ 
tions. 

THOM, GEORGE, soldier, was born Feb. 
21, 1819, in Derry, N. H. He became 
colonel of engineers in 1880, and was bre- 
vetted brigadier-general United States 
army, for faithful and meritorious serv¬ 
ices during the rebellion. 

THOM, JAMES CRAWFORD, artist, 
was born March 22, 1835, in New York. 
Since his return to the United States in 
1872 many of his pictures have found 
their way into private galleries in this 
country. Among the paintings that he 
executed while abroad are By the River¬ 
side; Returning from the Wood; Tired 
of Waiting; Going to School; and The 
Monk’s Walk. 

THOMAS, ABEL CHARLES, clergyman, 
author, was born June 11, 1807, in Exeter. 
Pa. He was a universalist clergyman of 
Philadelphia, and for a short time in 
Lowell, where he established the Lowell 
Offering, a periodical written by the fac¬ 
tory operatives. He was the author of 
Allegories and Divers Day Dreams; Cen¬ 
tenary of Universalism; Discussions on 
Universalism; The Christian Helper; and 
Autobiography. He died Sept. 28, 1880, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

THOMAS, ALBERT D.. lawyer, jurist, 
was born Jan. 17, 1841, in Williamsport, 
Ind. He has served as judge of the court 
of common pleas, and during 1873-79 was 
judge of circuit court at Crawfordsville, 
Ind. 

THOMAS, ALLEN CLAPP, author, was 
born Dec. 26, 1846. He is librarian and 
professor of history in Haverford college, 
Pa., and the author of a History of the 
United States. 

THOMAS, AMOS RUSSELL, physician, 
author, was born Oct. 3, 1826, in Water- 
town, N. Y. He is a Philadelphia phy¬ 
sician, dean of Hahnemann Medical col¬ 
lege; and the author of Post Mortem 
Examinations and Morbid Anatomy. 

THOMAS, ARTHUR L., governor, was 
born Aug. 22, 1851, in Chicago, Ill. In 
1879 he was appointed secretary of the 
territory of Utah, residing at Salt Lake 
City. In 1880 he was appointed United 
States supervisor of the census for the 
district of Utah. He was acting governor 
of the territory during the legislative ses¬ 
sion of 1879-80, during a part of the ses¬ 
sion of 1881-82, for three months in 1881, 
and again in 1883; and in the latter year 
was reappointed secretary for a second 
term. During 1889-93 he was governor of 
Utah. 

THOMAS, BENJAMIN, railroad presi¬ 
dent. In 1891 he was elected president 
of the Chicago and Western Indiana rail¬ 
road and Belt railway of Chicago. 


THOMAS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 12* 
1813, in Boston, Mass. He was a jurist of 
Worcester, Mass.; and the author of Di¬ 
gest of Laws of Massachusetts in Relation 
to Powers, Duties and Liabilities of Towns 
and Town Officers; and Life of Isaiah 
Thomas. He died Sept. 27, 1878, in Salem, 
Mass. 

THOMAS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, was born March 16, 
1849, in Mifflin, Pa. For many years he 
was engaged in educational work; and 
was admitted to the St. Louis conference 
of the methodist episcopal church in 1881. 
He served six years on circuits in south¬ 
eastern Missouri; five years in the city of 
St. Louis; two years on Lebanon Station; 
and since 1892 has been presiding elder of 
the Rollo district. 

THOMAS, BENJAMIN S., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Feb. 12, 1813, in Boston, Mass. He was a 
member of the Massachusetts legislature 
in 1842; and was appointed judge of pro¬ 
bate for the county of Worcester in 1844. 
In 1853 he was appointed to the bench of 
the supreme court of Massachusetts. In 
1861 he was elected a representative from 
Massachusetts to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. 

THOMAS, CHARLES CLOPTON, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born July 4, 1873, in 
Waycross, Ga. This rising young lawyer 
was a member of the house of represen¬ 
tatives of Georgia in 1896-97. 

THOMAS, CHARLES R., lawyer, jurist* 
congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1827, in 
Carteret county, N. C. He was elected 
one of the judges of the superior court of 
North Carolina in 1868; and was elected 
to the forty-second and forty-third con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

THOMAS, CHRISTOPHER Y., lawyer* 
state senator, congressman, was born 
March 24, 1818, in Pittsylvania, Va. In 
1859 he was elected to the state senate for 
four years; and in 1869 was again elected 
to the legislature. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Virginia to the forty- 
third congress. 

THOMAS, CYRUS, ethnologist, author, 
was born July 27, 1825, in Kingsport* 
Tenn. He was a noted ethnologist and en¬ 
tomologist in the government service; and 
the author of Actididae of North Ameri¬ 
ca; Noxious and Beneficial Insects of Illi¬ 
nois; Study of the Manuscript Troano;. 
Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Man¬ 
uscripts; Aids to the Study of the Maya 
Chronicles; The Cherokees and the Shaw- 
nees in Pre-Columbian Times; Catalogue 
of Prehistoric Works East of the Rocky 
Mountains; and Mound Exploration of the 
Bureau of Ethnology. 

THOMAS, D. B., congressman. In 1865 
he was elected a representative from Ten¬ 
nessee to the thirty-ninth congress, but 
was not declared entitled to his seat until 
near the end of the first session of that 
congress. 

THOMAS, DAVID, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born June 11, 1762, in Pelham, 
Mass. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1801 to 1808 
from Salem; served four years in the 
assembly of that state; and also held the 
position of state treasurer. He was also 
major-general of the state militia. He 
died Nov. 26, 1831, in Providence, R. I. 

THOMAS, DAVID, pomologist, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born in 1776 in Mont¬ 
gomery county. Pa. He was a pomologist 
and engineer, once prominent in western 
New York; and the author of Travels in 
the West. He died in 1859, in New York. 


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THOMAS, DAVID, merchant, manufac¬ 
turer, was born Nov. 3, 1794, in South 
Wales. He founded the anthracite iron 
industry in the United States. He died 
June 20, 1882, in Catasauqua, Pa. 

THOMAS, DAVID, clergyman, was born 
Feb. 28, 1818, in Adams county, Ohio. He 
lias attained eminence as a clergyman and 
evangelist, and now fills a pastorate in 
Winfield, Kas. 

THOMAS, E. B., railroad president. In 
1894-95 he was president of the New 
York, Lake Erie and Western railway; 
and since 1895 has been president of the 
Erie railroad. 

THOMAS, EBENEZER SMITH, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in June, 1780, in 
Lancaster, Mass. He was a Cincinnati 
journalist who published Reminiscences 
•of the Last Sixty-five Years; and Remin¬ 
iscences of South Carolina. He died in 
August, 1844, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

THOMAS, MRS. EDITH [CARPEN¬ 
TER], author, was born in 18— in New 
Hampshire. She is a writer of Millville, 
N. J.; and the author of Lorenzo Di Medi¬ 
ci: an Historical Portrait; and Your 
Money or Your Life, a novel. 

THOMAS, EDITH MATILDA, author, 
poet, was born Aug. 12, 1854, in Chatham, 
Ohio. She is a poet and prose-writer, for¬ 
merly of Geneva, Ohio, but since 1888 of 
New York city and its vicinity. Beside 
a volume of prose papers, The Round 
Year, she has published in verse A New 
Year’s Masque; A Winter Swallow, with 
Other Verse; Fair Shadow Land; Lyrics 
and Sonnets; The Inverted Torch; In 
Sunshine Land; and In the Young World. 

THOMAS, ELISHA SMITH, clergyman, 
bishop, was born March 1, 1834, in Wick- 
ford, R. I. He graduated from Yale col¬ 
lege and Berkeley 
Divinity school; and 
served as rector in 
Seabury Divinity 
school of Faribault, 
Minn. He was sec¬ 
ond protestant epis¬ 
copal bishop of Kan¬ 
sas in 1887; and 
bishop in 1889. He 
contributed valuable 
articles to current 
literature; and he 
was also the author 
of several religious works. He died March 
9, 1895, in Topeka, Kan. 

THOMAS, FRANCIS, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, governor, author, was born 
Feb. 3, 1799, in Frederick county, Md. 
He was a member of the house of dele¬ 
gates in 1822, 1827, and 1829, when he 
was chosen speaker. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Maryland from 
1831 to 1841; and in 1839 was president of 
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. From 
1841 to 1844 he was governor of Mary¬ 
land; and was for the sixth time elected 
a representative to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress. He was re-elected to the thirty- 
eighth, thirty-ninth and fortieth congress¬ 
es; and in 1872was appointed UnitedStates 
minister to Peru. He was killed in a rail¬ 
road accident Jan. 22, 1876, in Frank- 
ville, Md. 

THOMAS, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 
•clergyman, journalist, educator, author, 
was born in 1811 in Charleston, S. C. He 
was the author of The Emigrant, a Poem; 
The Beechen Tree, and Other Poems; 
Sketches of Character; Randolph of Roa¬ 
noke. His novels include Clinton Brad¬ 
shaw; East and West; and Howard 
Pinckney. He died Sept. 30, 1866, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 


THOMAS, GABRIEL, author. He re¬ 
sided in Pennsylvania and western New 
Jersey from 1682 till 1697. He wrote An 
Historical and Geographical Account of 
the Province and County of Pennsylvania 
and of West New Jersey. 

THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY, soldier, 

was born- July 31, 1816. in Southampton 

county, Va. He was the slow but sure 
general of the Amer¬ 
ican civil war. His 
wonderful skill exer¬ 
cised at the battle 
of Chickamauga fur¬ 
nishes one of the 
most remarkable 
pages in the history 
of the war, and won 
for him the title of 
The Rock of Chicka¬ 
mauga. He became 
a brigadier-general. 
He died March 28, 
1870, in San Francisco, Cal. 

THOMAS, GEORGE M., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Nov 23, 1828, in Lewis county, Ky. He 
was elected county attorney of Lewis 

county, Ky., in 1854, and sexved four 
years. He was elected to the state legis¬ 
lature in 1859, and re-elected in 1861. He 
was elected commonwealth attorney for 
the tenth judicial district, and served six 
years; and also in 1868 and 1872. He was 
elected county judge in 1868; was elected 
to the legislature in 1872, and re-elected 
in 1873. He was elected circuit judge in 
the fourteenth judicial district in 1874, 
and served six years; and was appointed 
United States district attorney in May, 
1881, and served four years. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fiftieth congress as a republican. 

THOMAS, GEORGE PRENTICE, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born April 19, 1869, 
in Trigg county, Ky. In 1889 he gradu¬ 
ated from Bethel college of Russellville, 
Ky., with the degree of B. S. He is one 
of the foremost lawyers of Kentucky at 
Cadiz. He served with distinction as a 
member of the Kentucky state legislature 
in 1896-97; and was the republican can¬ 
didate for congress in 1896. 

THOMAS, HENRY F., soldier, physi¬ 
cian, state senator, congressman, was 
born Dec. 17, 1843, in Tompkins town¬ 
ship, Mich. He en¬ 
listed in the seventh 
Michigan cavalry as 
a private; was pres¬ 
ent with his company 
in nearly all of the 
memorable cam¬ 
paigns in which it 
was engaged, and 
was honorably dis¬ 
charged in 1865. In 
1873 and 1874 he was 
elected a member of 
the Michigan state 
house of representatives from Allegan. He 
has been president of Allegan village, and 
in 1884 was a delegate to the republican 
national convention from the fifth dis¬ 
trict; has been president of the West 
Michigan Medical society. He was elected 
to the fifty-third and re-elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a republican. 

THOMAS, HENRY GODDARD, soldier, 
was born April 5, 1837, in Portland, Maine. 
He was honorably mustered out of the 
volunteer service in 1866, but remained in 
the United States army, and is now pay¬ 
master, with the rank of major. 

THOMAS, HENRY WIRTZ. legislator, 
was born Oct. 20, 1812, in Frederick coun¬ 
ty, Md. He was a member of the Virginia 
state legislature, judge, and lieutenant- 
governor of Virginia. He died June 20, 
1890, in Fairfax, Va. 


THOMAS, ISAAC, congressman, was 
born in 1735 in Virginia. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Tennessee 
from 1815 to 1817. He died in 1819 in 
Sevierville, Tenn. 

THOMAS, ISAIAH, journalist, author, 
was born Jan. 19, 1749, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a noted printer of Worcester, 
Mass., who was the founder of the Ameri¬ 
can Antiquarian society at Worcester. He 
published The Massachusetts Spy till 1801; 
The New England Almanac; and wrote 
a valuable History of Printing. He died 
April 4, 1831, in Worcester, Mass. 

THOMAS, JAMES, governor, was born 
March 11, 1785, in St. Mary’s county, Md. 
He was governor of Maryland from 1833 
to 1836. He died Dec. 25, 1845, in St. 
Mary’s county, Md. 

THOMAS, JAMES C„ educator, lawyer, 
poet, was born Oct. 13, 1870, in Gibson 
county, Ind. For many years he taught 
school, and is now engaged in the practice 
of law in Union, Ind. His poems have 
appeared quite extensively in current lit¬ 
erature. 

THOMAS, JAMES HOUSTON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 22, 1808, in 
Iredell county, N. C. In 1836 he was 
elected attorney-general for the state of 
Tennessee, holding the office six years. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1847 to 1851; and was 
a presidential elector in 1846. In 1859 he 
was elected a representative from Tennes¬ 
see to the thirty-sixth congress. 

THOMAS, JAMES R., college president, 
was born May 12,1812, in Hancock county, 
Ga. In 1855 he was elected president of 
Emory college, resigning in 1867. 

THOMAS, JESSE BURGESS, lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, was born in 
1777 in Shepardstown, Va. He was a del¬ 
egate to congress from the territory of 
Indiana from 1808 to 1809; and the latter 
year was appointed United States judge of 
Illinois territory. He was one of the first 
senators in congress from Illinois, hold¬ 
ing the position from 1818 to 1829. He 
was the author of the Missouri Compro¬ 
mise. He died May 3, 1855, in Mount Ver¬ 
non, Ohio. 

THOMAS, JESSE BURGESS,clergyman, 
educator, author, was born July 29, 1832, 
in Edwardsville, Ill. He is a baptist cler¬ 
gyman, and professor in the Theological 
seminary at Newton. Mass., from 1887. He 
is the author of The Old Bible and the 
New Science; The Mould of Doctrine; 
and Significance of the Historical Element 
in Scripture. 

THOMAS, JOHN, soldier, was born in 
1725 in Marshfield, Mass. He took an act¬ 
ive part in the revolutionary war; and be¬ 
came a major-general. He died June 2, 
1776, in Canada. 

THOMAS, JOHN ;ADDISON, soldier, 
was born in 1811 in Tennessee. He be¬ 
came a resident of Washington city; and 
in 1855 was appointed assistant secretary 
of state. He died March 26, 1858, in Paris, 
France. 

THOMAS. JOHN CHEW, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Oct. 15, 1764, in Cecil 
county, Md. He became a prominent law¬ 
yer of Philadelphia, Pa., and served as a 
member of congress in 1799-1801, from 
Maryland. He died May 10, 1836, in Rid¬ 
ley, Pa. 

THOMAS, JOHN E., journalist, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Nov. 7, 1862, in Belleville, 
Ill. He is a successful journalist of Belle¬ 
ville, Ill. He served with distinction as 
a member of the fortieth general assembly 
of the Illinois state legislature. 








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THOMAS, JOHN J., agriculturist, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was horn Jan. 8,1810, in Au¬ 
rora, N. Y. He was an agricultural writer 
of Albany, long on the editorial staff of 
The Country Gentleman. He edited Rural 
Affairs, and was author of The American 
Fruit Culturist; Farm Implements: their 
Construction and Use; and Farm Imple¬ 
ments and Farm Machinery. He died in 
1895. 

THOMAS, JOHN L., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 20, 1835, in Baltimore, 
Md. In 1861 he was appointed solicitor of 
the city of Baltimore* and in 1863 was 
elected state attorney for Maryland. In 
1865 he was elected a representative from 
Maryland to the thirty-ninth congress to 
fill a vacancy. 

THOMAS, JOHN R., vocalist, musician, 
composer, was born in 1830 in South 
Wales. For many years he was a success¬ 
ful concert singer and also connected with 
the Sequin English Opera company, fin¬ 
ally settling in New York city. His best 
known songs are The Cottage by the Sea; 
Happy be Thy Dreams; Some One to 
Lo\e; and ’Tis But a Little Faded Flow¬ 
er. He has also written Church Music. 

THOMAS, JOHN R., soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 11, 1846, in 
Mt. Vernon, Ill. He served in the union 
army during the war of the rebellion, 
rising from the ranks to a captaincy. He 
was state’s attorney from 1872 to 1876. He 
was elected a representative from Illinois 
to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses; and was re-elected to the forty- 
eighth, forty-ninth, and fiftieth congresses 
as a republican. 

THOMAS, JOHN R., farmer, educator, 
legislator, was born Dec. 29, 1862, in Brig¬ 
ham City, Utah. He received a collegiate 
education and for several years was en¬ 
gaged in educational work. He is presi¬ 
dent of the board of education of Malad 
City, Idaho; and in 1897 served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the Idaho state 
legislature. 

THOMAS, JOHN W., railroad president, 
was born Aug. 24, 1830, in Nashville, Tenn. 
Since 1884 he has been president of the 
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis rail¬ 
road. 

THOMAS, JOSEPH, lexicographer, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 23, 1811, in Cayuga 
county, N. Y. He was an eminent lexico¬ 
grapher of Philadelphia; and the authoi 
of A Pronouncing Gazetteer and Dictionary 
of the World; Gazetteer of the United 
States; Medical Dictionary; Universal 
Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and 
Mythology; First Book of Etymology, 
and Travels in Egypt and Palestine. He 
died in 1891. 

THOMAS, JOSEPH DIO, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born May 8, 1843, in Pittsbuig, 
Pa. He occupies the chair of genito-uri- 
nary and venereal diseases in the medical 
department of the Western university, 
and is the author of a work entitled A 
Souvenir of Europe. 

THOMAS, LAWRENCE BUCKLEY, 
clergyman, genealogist, was born Dec. 6, 
1848, in Baltimore, Md. This eminent 
clergyman has been rector of parishes of 
the episcopate in the dioceses of New 
York Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and 
New Jersey. He is the author of a Gen¬ 
ealogy of the Thomas Family. 

THOMAS, LEWIS FOULKE, lawyer, 
poet, was born in 1815 in Baltimore coun¬ 
ty, Md. He was a lawyer and verse-writer 
of Washington; and the author of India, 
and Other Poems; Cortez the Conqueror, 
a drama; Osceola, a drama; and Rhymes 
of the Routes. He died May 26, 1868, in 
Washington, D. C. 


THOMAS, MARTHA CAREY, educator, 
college president, was born Jan. 2, 1857, 
in Baltimore, Md. She was the first wo¬ 
man who ever received from Zurich the 
highest degree given by the university of 
Zurich. During 1885-94 she was dean of 
the faculty of Bryn Mawr college, and 
professor of English; and since 1894 has 
• been president of that institution. In 1895 
she became a trustee of Cornell univer¬ 
sity; and is a noted writer and speaker 
on subjects affecting the higher education 
of women. 

THOMAS, MARTHA McCANNON, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 15, 1823, in Baltimore, 
Md. She is the author of Life’s Lessons, 
a Tale; and Captain Phil, a story of the 
civil war. 

THOMAS, MARY VON ERDEN, com¬ 
puter, author, was born Dec. 8, 1825, in 
Charleston, S. C. She is a computer in the 
coast survey office at Washington from 
1854; and the author of Winning the Bat¬ 
tle, a novel. 

THOMAS. ORMSBY B„ soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 
21, 1832, in Sandgate, Vt. He was district 
attorney of Crawford county, Wis., several 
terms; and was a representathe in the 
Wisconsin legislature in 1862, 1865, and 
1867. He was a member of the Wisconsin 
state senate in 1880 and 1881; and was 
a presidential elector in 1872. He served 
as captain of company D, thirty-first reg¬ 
iment Wisconsin volunteer infantry in the 
union army. In 1884 he was elected a 
representative from Wisconsin to the for¬ 
ty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the 
fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a re¬ 
publican. 

THOMAS, PHILEMON, soldier, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1764 
in North Carolina. He was a member of 
the legislature of Kentucky. He after¬ 
ward removed to Louisiana; and in 1810 
and 1811 headed the insurrection of Baton 
Rouge, which threw off the yoke of Spain 
from West Florida. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Louisiana from 1831 
to 1835. He died Nov. 18, 1847, in Baton 
Rouge, La. 

THOMAS, PHILIP EVAN, college pres¬ 
ident, philanthropist, was born Nov. 11, 
1776, in Montgomery county, Md. He was 
the father of the railroad system of the 
United States. He was the founder and 
first president of the Baltimore and Ohio 
Railroad company. He died Sept. 1, 1861, 
in Yonkers, N. Y. 

THOMAS, PHILIP FRANCIS, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, United States sena¬ 
tor. governor, was born Sept. 12, 1810, in 
Easton, Md In 1836 
he was a member of 
the state constitu¬ 
tional convention; 
and in 1838 was 
elected to the Mary¬ 
land state legislature. 
He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress 
from 1839 to 1841. He 
was subsequently 
judge of the land of¬ 
fice court of the east¬ 
ern shore of Mary¬ 
land. In 1843 and 1845 he was elected to 
the house of delegates; and in 1847 was 
elected governor of Maryland. In 1860 he 
was appointed commissioner of the patent 
office; and was appointed secretary of the 
treasury in Mr. Buchanan’s cabinet. In 
1867 he was elected a senator in congress 
for the term ending in 1873, but was re¬ 
jected; and was subsequently elected a 
representative to the forty-fourth con¬ 
gress. He died Oct. 2, 1890, in Baltimore, 
Md 


THOMAS, REUEN, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1840 in England. He is a 
congregational clergyman, pastor of the 
Harvard church at Brookline, Mass., from 
1875; and the author of Through Death 
to Life; Divine Sovereignty; Grafenburg 
People; and Leaders of Thought in the 
Modern Church. 

THOMAS, RICHARD, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1745. He was a soldier 
in the revolutionary war; and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1795 to 1801. He died in 1832 in 
Philadelphia. 

THOMAS, ROBERT BAILY, journalist, 
author, was born April 24, 1766, in West 
Boylston, Mass. He was an editor for 
fifty-three years of The Farmer’s Alma¬ 
nack, which he first published in 1793 and 
which is still issued yearly. He died May 
19, 1846, in West Boylston, Mass. 

THOMAS, ROBERT HARPER, journal¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 8, 1834, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. In 1870 he purchased the Val¬ 
ley Democrat of Mechanicsburg, changing 
the name to the Independent Journal, and 
subsequently to the Farmer’s Friend and 
Grange Advocate. He was commissioner 
from Pennsylvania to the World’s Indus¬ 
trial and Cotton Centennial exhibition at 
New Orleans in 1884-85, and also to the 
American exposition at London in 1887. 

THOMAS, ROBERT WILLIAM STEPH¬ 
ENSON, educator, clergyman, was born 
April 9, 1870, in Antigua, British West In¬ 
dies. He graduated from the Shaw uni¬ 
versity of Raleigh, N. C., and has filled 
several important pastorates in the meth- 
odist episcopal church. He also fills the 
chair of sciences in the Bennett college of 
Greensboro, N. C.; is third vice-president 
of the North Carolina Epworth league; 
and secretary of ttte North Carolina con¬ 
ference of the methodist episcopal church. 

THOMAS, SETH, clock manufacturer, 
was born Dec. 1, 1816, in Thomaston, 
Conn. The Seth Thomas Clock Co. was 
organized in 1853 in Thomaston, Conn. 
When the company was incorporated, 
Seth became its secretary, eventually ris¬ 
ing to be president. The clock works are 
yet the principal industry of the village. 
He died April 28, 1888, in Thomaston, 
Conn. 

THOMAS, STEPHEN, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, was born Dec. 6, 
1809, in Bethel, Vt. He served in the Ver¬ 
mont legislature in 1838-39, 1845-46; was 
state senator in 1848-49; register of the 
probate court of Orange county in 1842- 
46; and judge of the same in 1847- 
49. He was appointed brigadier-general 
of volunteers; and in 1867-68 was lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of Vermont. From 1870 
till 1877 he was United States pension 
agent, and since then has engaged in 
farming in Vermont. 

THOMAS, THEODORE GAILLARD, 
physician, author, was born Nov. 21, 1831, 
in Edisto Island, S. C. He is an eminent 
physician of New York city who has pub¬ 
lished Diseases of Women; and Abortion 
and Its Treatment. 

THOMAS, THOMAS, college president, 
was born Dec. 23, 1812, in England. In 
1849 he was elected president of Hanover 
college, serving until 1855. He died Feb. 
3, 1875, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

THOMAS, TRAVERS, legislator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Feb. 3, 1799. He served 
as a member of the Maryland state legis¬ 
lature; was governor of the state; mem¬ 
ber of congress; and United States min¬ 
ister to Peru. He died Jan. 22, 1876, in 
Frederick county, Md. 








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IHOMAS, WALTON TRUE, educator, 
was born April 25, 1860, in Edina, Mo. 
In 1891 this prominent educator founded 
the Joplin Business college, Missouri, 
which has become under his able manage¬ 
ment one of the leading commercial col¬ 
leges of the state. 

THOMAS, WILLIAM HENRY, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born May 5, 1824, in Port¬ 
land, Maine. He was a journalist and 
traveler; and the author of Life in the 
East Indies; A Whaleman’s Adventures; 
A Slaver’s Adventures; Running the 
Blockade; The Belle of Australia; On 
Land and Sea; Lewey and I; and Ocean 
Rovers. He died in 1895. 

THOMAS, WILLIAM WIDGERY, state 
senator, author, was born Aug. 26, 1839, in 
Portland, Maine. He was a member of 
the house of representatives of the Maine 
legislature in 1873-75, and its speaker in 
1874-75; became a member of the state 
senate in 1879; and was United States 
minister to Sweden and Norway in 1883- 
85. He has published The Last Athenian; 
and Sweden and the Swedes. 

THOMASSON, WILLIAM P., soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born in Henry 
county, Ky. He was elected to the In¬ 
diana state legislature from Corydon. He 
moved to Louisville, Ky., about the year 
1841; and was chosen a representative 
in congress from Kentucky from 1843 to 
1847. He afterward went to Chicago, Ill., 
where he was engaged in the practice of 
his profession until the breaking out of 
the rebellion, when he served in the 
union army as a colonel of volunteers. 

THOMPSON, ALBERT, artist, author, 
was born March 18, 1853, in Woburn, 
Mass. Among his works, mainly land¬ 
scapes and cattle-pieces, are After the 
Shower; Clearing Up; More Wind than 
Rain, in Woburn public library; Chang¬ 
ing Pasture; and An October After¬ 
noon. He is the author of Principles of 
Perspective. 

THOMPSON, ALBERT CLIFTON, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was 
born Jan. 23, 1842, in Brookville, Pa. He 
served in the union army, rising from the 
rank of sergeant to that of captain. He 
moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1865; was 
probate judge of Scioto county from 1869 
to 1872; and in 1882 was elected judge of 
the common pleas for the second subdi¬ 
vision of the seventh judicial district of 
Ohio. In 1884 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Ohio to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress; and re-elected to the fiftieth and 
fifty-first congresses as a republican. 

THOMPSON, ALEXANDER RAMSAY, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 16, 1822, 
in New York city. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of New York city who pub¬ 
lished Christianity and Patriotism; Cast¬ 
ing Down Imaginations, and was the au¬ 
thor of many hymns. He died in 1895. 

THOMPSON, ALFRED WORDS¬ 
WORTH, artist, was born May 27, 1840, 
in Baltimore, Md. He has traveled at 
various times in all parts of Europe, Asia 
Minor, and northern Africa, and his pic¬ 
tures cover a wide range of subjects, 
oriental and American, including land¬ 
scapes, genre pieces and military scenes. 
They include Desolation; Lost in the 
Forest; Annapolis in 1776, owned by the 
Buffalo Fine Arts academy; A Twi¬ 
light in Corsica; The Market-Place in 
Biskra; The Hour of Prayer; Returning 
from a Boar Hunt, Tangier; The Ad¬ 
vance of the Enemy; and The Departure 
for the War, 1776. 

THOMPSON, AUGUSTUS CHARLES, 
clergyman, author, was born April 30, 
1812, in Goshen, Conn. He is a congre¬ 


gational clergyman, and pastor of the 
Eliot church at Roxbury, Mass., from 1842. 
He is the author of Lyra Ccelestis, or 
Hymns on Heaven; Christian’s Consola¬ 
tion; Songs in the Night; The Mercy 
Seat; Foreign Missions; Moravian Mis¬ 
sions; Future Probation and Foreign Mis¬ 
sions; Our Birthdays; and Protestant Mis¬ 
sions. 

THOMPSON, BENJAMIN, philosopher, 
economist, was born March 26, 1753, in 
Woburn, Mass. He gave to science many 
endowments, both in discoveries and 
wealth; and it is a matter of national 
pride that the two men, Benjamin Frank¬ 
lin and Benjamin Thompson, who first 
demonstrated the capital propositions of 
pure science, in regard to lightning and 
electricity, were Americans by birth and 
by education. He died Aug. 21, 1814. 

THOMPSON, BENJAMIN, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in 1798 in 
Massachusetts. He was several times a 
representative in the Massachusetts state 
legislature. He was twice elected to con¬ 
gress from the fourth district of Massa¬ 
chusetts, serving from 1845 to 1847, and 
again from 1851 until his death. He died 
Sept. 24, 1852, in Charlestown, Mass. 

THOMPSON, CEPHAS, artist, was born 
July 1, 1775, in Middleborough, Mass. His 
profession was that of a portrait-painter, 
anu he made yearly tours in the south, 
painting in all the cities from Philad'el- 
phia to New Orleans. Among his por¬ 
traits were those of John Marshall, Ste¬ 
phen Decatur, David Ramsay of South 
Carolina, John Howard Payne, and 
George Washington Parke Custis, who 
was his pupil. He died Nov. 6, 1856, in 
Middleborough, Mass. 

THOMPSON, CEPHAS GIOVANNI, art¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 3, 1809, in Middle¬ 
borough, Mass. Besides many portraits 
and copies from the old masters, he has 
painted Angel of Truth; Guardian An¬ 
gels of Infancy; Brigand’s Daughter; and 
Mother’s Prayer. He practices his profes¬ 
sion in New York city. 

THOMPSON, CHARLES C. B„ naval of¬ 
ficer, was born in 1786 in Virginia. Dur- 
the war of 1812 he rendered distinguished 
service in the defence of New Orleans. 
He was promoted captain in 1825, and 
commanded the Pacific squadron In 1828- 
31. He died Sept. 2, 1832, in Hot Springs, 
Va. 

THOMPSON, CHARLES LEMUEL, 
clergyman, author, poet, was born Aug. 18, 
1839, in Cooperstown, Pa. He is a pres¬ 
byterian clergyman of New York city, and 
the author of Times of Refreshing: A 
History of American Revivals; and Etch¬ 
ings in Verse. 

THOMPSON, CHARLES MINER, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1864 in Ver¬ 
mont. He is a Boston writer on the ed¬ 
itorial staff of The Youth’s Companion, 
and the author of The Nimble Dollar, with 
Other Stories; and Life of Ethan Allen. 

THOMPSON, CHARLES P., lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
July 30, 1827, in Braintree, Mass. He was 
a member of the Massachusetts state leg¬ 
islature in 1871 and 1872, and was elected 
a representative from Massachusetts to 
the forty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

THOMPSON, CHARLES RUSSELL, ed¬ 
ucator, public official, was born Aug. 23, 
1863, in Spanish Ranch, Cal. He received 
a thorough education in the public schools 
and at the university of California. He 
has attained success as an educator; has 
been president of the county board of 
education; county supervisor; and has 
filled various other public positions of 
trust. 


THOMPSON, CHARLES WINSTON, 
banker, was born Dec. 30, 1860, in Macon 
county, Ala. In 1890 he was county su¬ 
perintendent of instruction; is a member 
of Governor Johnston's staff, and has been 
president of the Bank of Tuskegee, Ala., 
since its organization. 

THOMPSON, CLEVELAND C., public 
official. He has filled numerous public 
offices in the city of Plattsburg and the 
state of Missouri, and is now clerk of the 
Clinton county circuit court. 

THOMPSON, DANIEL GREENLEAF, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1850 in Ver¬ 
mont. He is a lawyer of New York city, 
and the author of First Book in Latin; 
A System of Psychology; The Problem 
of Evil; The Religious Sentiments of the 
Human Mind; Social Progress; Philoso¬ 
phy of Fiction in Literature; Politics in 
a Democracy; and Woman’s New Oppor¬ 
tunity. 

THOMPSON, DANIEL PIERCE, lawyer, 
author, was born Oct. 1, 1795, in Charles¬ 
town (now a part of Boston), Mass. He 
was a lawyer of Montpelier, Vt., and the 
author of Gaut Gurley; May Martin; 
Green Mountain Boys; Locke Amsden; 
Lucy Hosmer; The Doomed Chief; The 
Rangers; Tales of the Green Mountains; 
Centeola, and Other Tales; and History 
of Montpelier. He died June 6, 1868, in 
Montpelier, Vt. 

THOMPSON, DAVID P., state senator, 
governor, was born Nov. 8, 1834, in Cadiz, 
Ohio. He was elected state senator from 
Oregon, serving from 1866-72. In 1878 he 
served in the lower house of the state 
legislature, and in 1874-76 he was gover¬ 
nor of Idaho. 

THOMPSON, EDWARD R., naval offi¬ 
cer, was born about 1808 in Pennsylvania. 
He entered the navy as a midshipman in 
1826, became a lieutenant in 1837, served 
during the Mexican war. In 1867 his 
rank was raised to that of commodore. 
He died Feb. 12, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

THOMPSON, ELIZA, was born Aug. 24, 
1816, in Hillsboro, Ohio. She was the 
leader of the first woman’s crusade band 
in the temperance cause in Hillsboro, 
Ohio, Dec. 24, 1873. 

THOMPSON, ELIZABETH, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born Feb. 21, 1821, in Lyndon, 
Vt. Some years ago she bought three 
thousand acres at the foot of the Rocky 
Mountains, near Denver, where, by erect¬ 
ing public buildings, she formed a nucleus 
for a flourishing sealement. It is said 
that she has given more than fifteen 
farms to persons worthy of her gifts, 
for with philanthropy she also possesses 
that discrimination which is the needed 
balance. 

THOMPSON, EMMA, author, poet. She 
is ’ the daughter of Edward Davison, a 
prominent merchant in Buenos Ayres, and 
also at one time 
American minister 
to what is now the 
Argentine Republic. 
She lived many 
years in Buenos 
Ayres, and has trav¬ 
eled extensively in 
Europe, residing in 
Brittany for the pur¬ 
pose of studying the 
people and legends, 
resulting in the au¬ 
thorship of a volume 
on Brittany, beautifully illustrated. She 
is the author of numerous stories, prose 
articles, and many beautiful poems. She 
edited and compiled Wit and Wisdom of 
Don Quixote, including the life of Cer¬ 
vantes; and also Wit and Wisdom of 
Charles Dickens. 






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THOMPSON, ERNEST MEREDETH, 
lawyer, lecturer, was born July 25,1854, in 
-Crystal Lake, Ill. In 1884 he was admit¬ 
ted to the bar, and is now a prominent 
lawyer of Independence, Iowa. He has 
held high positions in religious, social 
and literary societies; is field secretary 
-of The National Christian Citizenship 
league; and has attained prominence as a 
lecturer. 

THOMPSON, FRANCIS M„ lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, antiquarian, was born Oct. 16, 
1833, in Colerain, Mass. He received a 
thorough education in the common and 
select schools and at the Williston sem¬ 
inary. He is one of the foremost lawyers 
•of New England at Greenfield, Mass., has 
been town clerk, town treasurer, assessor, 
selectman, and was a member of the first 
legislature of Montana. Since 1870 he has 
been register of probate of Franklin coun¬ 
ty, Mass. He has contributed extensively 
to current literature; is a noted antiquar¬ 
ian; and the author of valuable historical 
papers and addresses. 

THOMPSON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
lawyer, congressman, author, was born 
May 14, 1806, in St. Clairsville, Ohio. He 
was United States district attorney for 
Virginia in 1849; was elected a represent¬ 
ative in congress from that state in 1851 
and 1852; left congress for the bench. He 
was the author of The Living Forces of 
the Universe, in 1866; Address on the 
Common Schools, 1841; Right of Virginia 
to the Northwest Territory; and Life of 
Linn Boyd. He died Feb. 24, 1888, in 
Wheeling, W. Va. 

THOMPSON, HEDGE, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey during the years 1827 and 
1828. He died July 20, 1828, in Salem. 

THOMPSON, HUGH MILLER, bishop, 
■author, was born June 5, 1830, in Ireland. 
He is the second protestant episcopal 
bishop of Mississippi, and the author of 
Unity and Its Restoration; Copy, a col¬ 
lection of essays; Sin and Its Penalty; 
First Principles; The World and the Lo¬ 
gos; The World and the Kingdom; The 
World and the Man; The World and the 
Wrestlers; and Absolution. 

THOMPSON, HUGH S., soldier, edu¬ 
cator, governor, was born Jan. 24, 1836, 
in Charleston, S. C. He served in the 
confederate army as an officer of the corps 
■of cadets, and in 1865 was elected princi¬ 
pal of the Columbia Male academy, which, 
under his charge, acquired a high reputa¬ 
tion as a classical school. In 1876 he was 
elected state superintendent of education, 
and was re-elected in 1878 and 1880. In 
1882 he was elected governor of South 
Carolina for the term of two years, and 
was re-elected in 1884. 


THOMPSON, JACOB, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born May 15, 1810, in 
Caswell, N. C. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the university 
of Chapel Hill; stud¬ 
ied law, and was ad- 
_ mitted to the bar in 
| 1834, and during the 
succeeding year re¬ 
moved to the state of 
Mississippi. He was 
elected to congress 
as a representative 
from Mississippi in 
1839, and continued 
to serve in that ca¬ 
pacity until 1851. He 
was appointed in 1857 secretary of the in¬ 
terior; that position he resigned in 1861, 
and, joining the rebellion, served as gov¬ 
ernor of Mississippi, and in the insurgent 
army. He died March 24, 1885, in Mem¬ 
phis, Tenn. 



THOMPSON, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Oct. 1, 1806, in 
Middlesex, Pa. He was elected to the as¬ 
sembly of his native state in 1832, 1833, 
and 1834, presiding during the last ses¬ 
sion as speaker. He was a representative 
in congress from 1845 to 1851. In 1847 he 
was elected a judge of the supreme court 
of Pennsylvania for fifteen years; and ih 
1866 was made chief justice. He died in 
1879, in Petersburg, Va. 

THOMPSON, JAMES FRANKLIN, jour¬ 
nalist, legislator, was born May 29, 1844, 
in Union City, Pa. He attended Alle¬ 
gheny college and the Tafton Collegiate 
seminary. He taught school in Wisconsin 
and Iowa; was superintendent of schools 
of Clayton county during 1882-87; and 
principal of Elkader school in 1880. In 
1881-85 he was clerk of courts; and in 
1886-90 was a representative in the Iowa 
state legislature. He entered journalism 
in 1880 and in 1890 became editor and 
owner of The Daily Humboldt Standard 
of Eureka, Cal. Since 1894 he has been 
receiver of the United States land office, 
and is prominent in political affairs, and 
several fraternal orders. 

THOMPSON, JAMES K. P., soldier, 
lawyer, banker, was born Aug. 21, 1845, 
in Carey, Ohio. He served three years in 
the civil war, was in seven battles, and 
severely wounded at Vicksburg. He was 
the prime mover and one of the incorpo¬ 
rators of the Vicksburg National bank. 
He is now a prominent lawyer of Rock 
Rapids, Iowa, and part owner of the Lyon 
County bank of that city. He has been 
trustee of the Iowa college; colonel in the 
Iowa state militia: commander depart¬ 
ment of Iowa, Grand Army of the Re¬ 
public; and ranks high in several frater¬ 
nal orders. 

THOMPSON, JEROME, artist, was born 
Jan. 30, 1814, in Middleborough, Mass. He 
painted both landscapes and figures with 
success, his best-known works being Rem¬ 
iniscences of Mount Mansfield; The Old 
Oaken Bucket; Home, Sweet Home; and 
Woodman, Spare That Tree. He died May 
1, 1886, in Glen Gardner, N. J. 

THOMPSON, JOEL, state legislator, 
congressman. He was a representative in 
congress from New York, from 1813 to 
1815, having previously served one year 
in the state assembly from Albany, and 
two years from Chenango county. 

THOMPSON, JOHN, state legislator, 
congressman. He was a member of the 
New York assembly from Albany in 1788 
and 1789, in 1827 from Delaware county, 
and in 1802 and 1841 from Dutchess coun¬ 
ty. He was a representative in congress 
from New York, from 1799 to 1801, and 
again from 1807 to 1811. 

THOMPSON, JOHN, lawyer, jurist. He 
was a citizen of the territory of Orleans. 
In 1808 he was appointed United States 
judge for the territory of Orleans. 

THOMPSON, JOHN, political writer, 
was born in 1777. He was the author 
of articles signed Casca and Gracchus in 
the Petersburg Gazette, in which he at¬ 
tacked John Adams’s administration, and 
also of letters signed Curtius, addressed 
to Chief-Justice John Marshall in 1798, 
which were issued in book-form. He died 
in 1799, in Petersburg, Va. 

THOMPSON, JOHN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born July 4, 1809, in Rhinebeck, 
N. Y. He was elected a representative 
in congress from New York to the thirty- 
fifth congress. 

THOMPSON, JOHN BURTON, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was bom 
Dec. 14, 1810, in Harrodsburg, Ky. He 
was a representative in congress from 


that state from 1840 to 1843, and again 
from 1847 to 1851. In 1853 he was elected 
a senator in congress for the long term. 
He died Jan. 7, 1874, in Harrodsburg, Ky. 

THOMPSON, JOHN GILBERT, edu¬ 
cator, was born June 23, 1862, in New 
Bedford, Mass. In 1886 he graduated 
from Dartmouth college, and has since 
attained eminence as a successful edu¬ 
cator. He has been superintendent of 
schools, and is now principal of the State 
Normal school of Fitchburg, Mass. 

THOMPSON, JOHN M., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Jan. 4, 1829, in Butler county, Pa. He 
served two terms as a representative in 
the Pennsylvania legislature, the last 
term as speaker. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Pennsylvania to the forty- 
third congress to fill a vacancy, and was 
elected to the forty-fifth congress as a 
republican. 

THOMPSON, JOHN REUBEN, lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born Oct. 23, 1823, 
in Richmond, Va. He was a journalist 
and lawyer of Richmond, Va., editor of 
the Southern Literary Messenger in 1847- 
59, and very popular in the south as a 
lyrist. He died April 30, 1873, in New 
York city. 

THOMPSON, JONATHAN, merchant, 
banker, was born Dec. 7, 1773, in Sagtikos 
Manor, L. I. He was collector of direct 
taxes and internal revenue for the state 
of New York during the war of 1812-15, 
and afterward, when that office was abol¬ 
ished, was appointed collector of customs 
of the port of New York, and served from 
1820 to 1829. He died Dec. 30, 1846, in 
New York city. 

THOMPSON, JOSEPH PARRISH, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Aug. 7, 1819, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was an eminent 
congregational clergyman of New York 
city, pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle 
in 1845-71, and from 1872 a resident in 
Berlin, Germany. He was the author 
of The Theology of Christ; Man in Gen¬ 
esis and Geology; Lectures to Young 
Men; Church and State in the United 
States; The United States as a Nation; 
Egypt Past and Present; The Workman: 
His False Friends and His True Friends; 
Life of Christ; American Comments on 
European Questions; Christianity and 
Emancipation; and The Holy Comforter. 
He died Sept. 20, 1879, in Berlin, Germany. 

THOMPSON, LAUNT, sculptor, was 
born Feb. 8, 1833, in Ireland. He worked 
in Palmer’s studio for nine years, produc¬ 
ing several portrait-busts and ideal heads 
of some merit, and in 1858 removed to 
New York. His works are portrait-busts 
of William C. Bryant, in the Metropolitan 
museum, New York; James Gordon Ben¬ 
nett, the elder; Robert B. Minturn; Capt. 
Charles H. Marshall; Edwin Booth as 
Hamlet; Stephen H. Tyng; and Charles L. 
Elliott and Samuel F. B. Morse. 

THOMPSON, LEWIS C., clergyman, 
was born Sept. 13, 1857, in Nelson, Ohio. 
He has attained prominence as an emi¬ 
nent clergyman of the methodist epis¬ 
copal church, and now fills a pastorate 
in Hyattville, Wyo. 

THOMPSON, LEWIS O., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 13, 1839, in Norway. 
He was a presbyterian clergyman of Peo¬ 
ria, Ill., and the author of The Presidents 
and their Administrations; Nothing Lost; 
How to Conduct Prayer Meetings; The 
Prayer Meeting and its Improvement; and 
Nineteen Christian Centuries in Outline. 
He died July 16, 1887, in Henry, Ill. 

THOMPSON, MARK, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1795 to 1799. 




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THOMPSON, MAURICE, soldier, geol¬ 
ogist, state legislator, author, poet, was 
born Sept. 9, 1844, in Fairfield, Ind. He 
is a writer of Crawfordsville, Ind., who 
was a confederate soldier during the civil 
war, and state geologist of Indiana, 1885- 
89, and has been a member of the Indiana 
state legislature. His work in fiction 
includes, A Tallahassee Girl; His Second 
Campaign; At Love’s Extremes; A Fort¬ 
night of Folly; The Ocala Boy; and King 
of Honey Island. Other works are, Hoo- 
sier Mosaics, a volume of sketches; The 
Witchery of Archery; Songs of Fair Wea¬ 
ther; Byways and Bird Notes; Sylvan 
Secrets; The Story of Louisiana; Poems 
(1892); and Lincoln's Grave, a Poem. 

THOMPSON, MERRIWETHER JEFF, 
soldier, civil engineer, inventor, was born 
Jan. 22, 1826, in Harper’s Ferry, Va. He 
was appointed brigadier-general in the 
Missouri state guards early in 1861, and 
in the confederate army in October of that 
year. He was the inventor of a hemp- 
break, which is now in general use, and 
an improved pistol-lock. He died in July, 
1876, in St. Joseph, Mo. 

THOMPSON, MORTIMER, lecturer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1830. He was the au¬ 
thor of Doesticks; What He Says; Plu- 
Ri-Bus-Tah, a travesty of Hiawatha; The 
Witches of New York; Nothing to Say; 
and History and Records of the Elephant 
Club. He died in 1875. 

THOMPSON, MOTHER, founder of the 
Woman’s Christian Temperance union, 
was the daughter of Governor Trimble of 
Ohio. She attended the first national tem¬ 
perance convention, which was held in 
the Independence hall in 1883. On her 
return home to Hillsboro, Ohio, she or¬ 
ganized a small society of women and 
started a crusade against the saloons in 
the town. Her work soon spread over the 
country, and the movement became pop¬ 
ular, and has since developed into the 
Woman’s Christian Temperance union. 

THOMPSON, PHILIP, congressman, 
was horn in Kentucky. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Kentucky from 
1823 to 1825. 

THOMPSON, PHILIP B., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 15, 1845, in Har- 
rodsburg, Ky. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Kentucky to the forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 

THOMPSON, PHILIP R., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1801 to 1807. He died July 
22, 1837, in Virginia. 

THOMPSON, RALPH S., journalist, au¬ 
thor, lecturer, was born Dec. 19, 1847, in 
.Albion, Ill. He is the editor and owner 
of The New Era, me organ of the na¬ 
tional party. He is the author of Science 
in Farming, which has been used as a 
text-book in many agricultural colleges. 

THOMPSON, RICHARD E., lawyer, 
state senator, was horn in 1856, in Fill¬ 
more county, Minn. He is a noted law¬ 
yer of Preston, Minn.; was a member of 
the Minnesota state legislature in 1883 
and 1885; and.in 1894 was elected to the 
state senate for four years. 

THOMPSON, RICHARD WIGGINTON, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born June 9, 1809, in Culpeper county, 
Va. He was elected to the Indiana legis¬ 
lature and was re-elected in 1835. In 
1836 he was elected to the state senate, 
served two years, and was, for a time, 
president pro tem. of the senate, and 
acting lieutenant-governor. He was a 
presidential elector in 1840. In 1841 he 
was elected a representative in congress 
for the term ending in 1843, and in 1844 
was again chosen a presidential elector. 


He was again a representative in congress 
from Indiana from 1847 to 1849, when he 
declined a re-election. He was secretary 
of the navy, in the cabinet of President 
Hayes, from 1877 to 1881, and resigned to 
become vice-president of the Panama 
Canal company. He was the author of 
The Papacy and the Civil Power; Foot¬ 
prints of the Jesuits; and History of 
Protective Tariff Laws. 

THOMPSON, ROBERT A., congress¬ 
man, was born in Virginia. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1847 to 1849. 

THOMPSON, ROBERT ELLIS, journal¬ 
ist, educator, author, was born in 1844 In 
Ireland. He is a political economist of 
Philadelphia. He was editor of The Penn 
Monthly, 1870-80; professor in the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania, 1870-92; and 
president of the Central High school from 
1894. He is the author of History of the 
Presbyterian Churches in the United 
States; Elements of Political Economy; 
Social Science and National Economy; 
Hard Times and What to Learn from 
Them; Protection to Home Industry; and 
De Civitate Dei. 

THOMPSON, ROBERT HARVEY, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Aug. 25, 1847, in 
Copiah county, Miss. He served as a con¬ 
federate soldier in the civil war. During 
1876-80 he was state senator in the Mis¬ 
sissippi legislature; code commissioner in 
1891-92; and trustee of the university of 
Mississippi in 1890-96. 

THOMPSON, SEYMOUR DWIGHT, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 18—. He is a 
lawyer of St. Louis, and the author of 
On the Liability of Stockholders in Cor¬ 
porations; Charging the Jury; The Law 
of Carriers of Passengers; The Law of 
Negligence in Relations not resting in 
Contract; and Liabilities of Directors. 

THOMPSON, SMITH, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Jan. 17, 1768, in Stanford, N. Y. 
In 1801 he was district attorney in the 
middle district of New York; was judge of 
the supreme court of New York from 1802 
to 1814; and was chief justice from 1814 to 
1818. He was secretary of the navy from 
1818 to 1823; and was an associate jus¬ 
tice of the United States supreme court 
from 1823 until his death. He died Dec. 
18, 1843, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

THOMPSON, THOMAS L„ publisher, 
journalist, congressman, was born May 31, 
1838, in Charleston, Va. He has been for 
thirty-two years a printer, editor, and 
publisher, and in 1860 he purchased the 
Sonoma Democrat in Santa Rosa, Cal. He 
was a delegate to the democratic national 
convention at Cincinnati in 1880, and was 
elected secretary of state in 1882. He was 
elected to the fiftieth congress. 

THOMPSON, THOMAS OLIVER, jour¬ 
nalist, was born in Woodstock, Ill. He 
moved to Chicago in 1871 and became 
connected with the Chicago Times, with 
which he was connected for eight years. 
He resigned the editorial chair to become 
private secretary of the elder Carter H. 
Harrison, which he filled during 1879-85. 
He next served as a member of the Cook 
county board of education for three years, 
being president of that body during the 
last year of his term. He has written sev¬ 
eral works; Food Frauds; The Tariff; and 
Anarchy and Anarchist. He now edits and 
manages two trade papers. 

THOMPSON, THOMAS W., congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born 
March 15, 1766, in Boston, Mass. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
Hampshire from 1805 to 1807; was state 
treasurer in 1809, and was a United States 
senator from 1814 to 1817. He died Oct. 
1, 1821, in Concord. 


THOMPSON, WADDY, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 8„ 
1798, in Pickensville, S. C. He served in 
the legislature of his native state, and 
was at one time solicitor for the western 
circuit of South Carolina. He was chosen 
a presidential elector; attained the mili¬ 
tary title of brigadier-general, and in 1842 
was appointed minister plenipotentiary to- 
Mexico, about which country he published 
an interesting work. He was a represent¬ 
ative in congress from 1835 to 1841. He 
died Nov. 23, 1868, in Tallahassee, Fla. 

THOMPSON, WILEY, congressman, was 
born in Amelia county, Va. He was a 
representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1821 to 1833. 

THOMPSON, WILLIAM, soldier, con¬ 
gressman. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Iowa from 1847 to- 
1851. He served through the war of the 
rebellion, upwards of four years, as cap¬ 
tain, major, and colonel in the first Iowa 
cavalry, and as brevet brigadier-general, 
had command of a brigade. He was sub¬ 
sequently appointed a captain of cavalry 
in the regular army. 

THOMPSON, WILLIAM G., soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, 
was born Jan. 17, 1830, in Butler county. 
Pa. In 1854 he was elected prosecuting 
attorney for two years; in 1856 was elect¬ 
ed a state senator for four years. He en¬ 
tered the union army in 1862 as a major, 
and served until 1864. He was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1864, and was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney for»the eighth judicial dis¬ 
trict of Iowa, and served seven years. He 
was appointed chief justice of the terri¬ 
tory of Idaho in January, 1879. He was 
elected a representative from Iowa to the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses 
as a republican. 

THOMPSON, WILLIAM JACKSON, 
railroad president, was born Sept. 27, 1835, 
in Rappahannock county, Va. Since 1892 
he has been president of the White and 
Black River Valley railway at Little 
Rock, Ark. 

THOMPSON, WILLIAM OXLEY, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born Nov. 
5, 1855, in Cambridge, Ohio. This eminent 
Presbyterian clergyman has been presi¬ 
dent of the Miami university of Oxford, 
Ohio, since 1891. 

THOMPSON, WILLIAM P., manufac¬ 
turer, financier, was born Jan. 7, 1837, in 
Wheeling, W. Va. In 1882 he became sec¬ 
retary, and in 1884 
succeeded Oliver H. 
Payne as vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Standard 
Oil company, having 
general charge of the 
affairs of the com¬ 
pany throughout the 
states west of Buf¬ 
falo. The growing 
business of the cor¬ 
poration compelled 
his removal to New 
York city in 1887, 
and when the Standard Oil Trust was 
formed by a union of a number of sep¬ 
arate companies, he became chairman of 
the domestic committee, having charge of 
its internal affairs. 

THOMPSON, WILLIAM TAPPAN, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 31, 1812, in Ravenna, 
Ohio. He was a prominent journalist of 
Savannah, the rough, extravagant humor 
of whose studies of Georgia life was once 
popular. He was the author of Major 
Jones’s Courtship; Major Jones’s Sketches 
of Travel; Major Jones’s Characters of 
Pineville; The Live Indian, a Farce; and 
John’s Alive. He died March 24, 1882, in 
Savannah, Ga. 






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THOMPSON, WiNPIELD SCOTT, law¬ 
yer, business man, was born June 23, 1842, 
in Penn Grove, N. J. He received a 
thorough education; attended Pennington 
seminary; and in 1865 graduated from the 
Albany Law School. The same year he 
moved to Missouri, and has ever since 
been engaged in the practice of his pro¬ 
fession in that state, making a specialty 
of land and real estate titles. 

THOMPSON, ZADOCK, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was Dorn May 23, 1796, in 
Bridgewater. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman, professor of natural history in 
the university of Vermont, and state geol¬ 
ogist in 1845-48. He was the author of 
History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and 
Statistical; Gazetteer of Vermont; Geog¬ 
raphy and Geology of Vermont; and 
Guide to Lake George. He died Jan. 19, 
1856, in Burlington, Vt. 

THOMSON, ALEXANDER, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 12, 1788, in Franklin 
county. Pa. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1824 to 
1826. He died Aug. 2, 184S, in Chambers - 
burg, Pa. 

THOMSON, CHARLES, patriot, author, 
was born Nov. 29, 1729, in Ireland. He 
was a writer of Lower Merion, Pa., who 
was secretary of the first continental con¬ 
gress during 1774-89. He published Inquiry 
Into the Causes of the Alienation of 
the Delaware and Shawanese Indians; 
Synopsis of the Four Evangelists; and a 
noted translation of the Bible, that of 
the Old Testament being the earliest Eng¬ 
lish version of the Septuagint. He died 
Aug. 16, 1824, in Lower Merion, Pa. 

THOMSON, CHARLES WEST, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1798, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman at York, Pa., in 1849-66, who 
wrote The Limner, in prose; and in verse. 
The Phantom Barge; The Sylph; Elinor; 
and The Love of Home. He died April 17, 
1879, in York, Pa. 

THOMSON, EDWARD, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born Oct. 12, 
1810, in England. He was a methodist 
clergyman, president of Ohio Wesleyan 
university in 1846-60, and the author of 
Evidences of Revealed Religion; Our Ori¬ 
ental Missions; Educational Essays; 
Moral and Religious Essays; Biographical 
Sketches; Letters from Europe; and Let¬ 
ters from India. He died March 21, 1870, 
in Wheeling, W. Va. 

THOMSON, EDWARD WILLIAM, civil 
engineer, author, was born in 1849 in 
Ontario. He is a civil engineer of Boston 
who was for some years editor-in-chief 
of The Toronto Globe. He is the author 
of Old Man Savarin, and Other Stories, 
a striking collection of short stories; Wal¬ 
ter Gibbs, a book for boys; and the me¬ 
trical portions of M. S. Henry’s version 
of Aucassin and Nicolette. 

THOMSON, ELIHU, electrician, invent¬ 
or, was born March 29, 1853, in England. 
In 1876 he became professor of chemistry 
and physics. To aid in the delivery of 
lectures at the Franklin institute in 18 <6- 
77, he made a practical dynamo and in¬ 
vented a number of ingenious machines, 
and, in 1878-79, obtained several patents 
for electric lighting apparatus. 

THOMSON, FREDERICK BORDINE, 
missionary, author, was born Nov. 5, 1809, 
in New Brunswick, N. J. He published a 
Dyak Hymn-Book, the first printed book 
in that language; and Brown’s Catechism 
in Dyak; and translated into the same 
tongue the Gospel of St. Matthew and the 
first twenty chapters of Genesis. He leit 
an unfinished work on The Economy of 
Missions. He died March 3, 1847, in Swit¬ 
zerland. 

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THOMSON, JAMES BATES, educator, 
author, was born May 21, 1808, in Spring- 
field, Vt. He was an educator of Brooklyn 
who was a mathematician and concholo- 
gist. He published a School Algebra; and 
Arithmetical Analysis, and a popular 
series of arithmetics. He died June 22, 
1883, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

THOMSON, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in 1777 in Franklin county, Pa. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1825 to 1827, and again from 
1829 to 1837. He died Dec. 2, 1852, in 
New Lisbon, Ohio. 

THOMSON, JOHN EDGAR, civil en¬ 
gineer, railroad president, was born Feb. 
10, 1808, in Springfield, Pa. In 1847 he 
became chief engineer of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania railroad, and in 1852 he was made 
its president, which office he held until 
his death. He died May 27, 1874, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. 

THOMSON, JOHN I., manufacturer, 
banker, was born Dec. 28, 1850, in Lancas¬ 
ter, Pa. He has been a member of the 
city council of Spartansburg, Pa., and for 
twenty-one years has been secretary of 
the board of education. He is the pro¬ 
prietor of the Spartansburg Flouring 
mills; president of the Spartansburg bank, 
and takes a prominent part in public af¬ 
fairs. 

THOMSON, JOHN RENSHAW, mer¬ 
chant, United States senator, was born 
Sept. 25, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 
1820 he established himself as a merchant 
in Canton, China. He was appointed con¬ 
sul of the United States at that port in 
1823, and remained there until 1825. After 
the year 1830 he engaged in the manage¬ 
ment of several railways and of the New 
Jersey canal. He was United States sen¬ 
ator from New Jersey from 1853 to 1857; 
and was re-elected for the term ending in 
1863. He died Sept. 13, 1862, in Trenton, 
N. J. 

THOMSON, SAMUEL, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 9, 1769, in Alstead, 
N. H. He was a physician of Boston who 
originated the Thomsonian school of 
medicine, so called, and the author of 
Materia Medica and Family Physician; 
New Guide to Health; and Life and Medi¬ 
cal Discoveries. He died in 1843 in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

THOMSON, SAMUEL HARRISON, ed¬ 
ucator, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 
26, 1813, in Nicholas county, Ky. He was 
a presbyterian clergyman and educator, 
and the author of The Mosaic Account of 
the Creation; and Geology an Interpreter 
of Scripture. He died Sept. 2, 1882, in 
Pasadena, Cal. 

THOMSON, WILLIAM, surgeon, was 
born Jan. 28, 1833, in Chambersburg, Pa. 
He was with the army of the Potomac 
throughout the civil war, either in the 
field or at Washington. He was raised to 
the post of medical inspector of the de¬ 
partment of Washington in 1864, received 
two brevets, and after the war was sent 
to Louisiana, but he resigned from the 
army in 1866. 

THOMSON, WILLIAM HANNA, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1833 in Syria. 
He is a physician of New York city, and 
the author of The Great Argument, oi 
Jesus Christ in the Old Testament; The 
Parables and Their Home; and Material¬ 
ism and Modern Physiology of the Ner¬ 
vous System. 

THOMSON, WILLIAM McCLURE, mis¬ 
sionary, author, was born Dec. 31, 1806, 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a presbyte¬ 
rian missionary in Beyrout in 1833-76, 
widely known as the author of The Land 
and the Book. He wrote also The Land of 
Promise. 


THORBURN, GRANT, merchant, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 18, 1773, in Scotland. 
He was a Scottish nail-maker who came 
to America in 1794, and subsequently es¬ 
tablished himself in New York city as a 
seedsman. He was a noted figure in his 
day, not only as the hero of Galt’s novel, 
Lawrie Todd, but because of his eccentri¬ 
cities. He was the author of Lawrie 
Todd’s Notes on Virginia; Fifty Years’ 
Reminiscences of New York; Men and 
Manners in Great Britain; Hints to Mer¬ 
chants, Married Men, and Bachelors; and 
Forty Years’ Residence in America. He 
died Jan. 21, 1863, in New Haven, Conn. 

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID, author, 
poet, was born July 12, 1817, in Concord, 
Mass. He was all his life a resident of 
Concord, Mass. A Week on the Concord 
and Merrimac Rivers, and Walden were 
the only works by him which were pub¬ 
lished in his lifetime. Those since issued 
include. Excursions; Maine Woods; Cape 
Cod; A Yankee in Canada. Early Spring 
in Massachusetts; Summer; Autumn; 
Winter, are selections from Thoreau’s 
Journal, edited by H. G. O. Blake. Still 
other works are, Miscellanies; Letters to 
Various Persons; Familiar Letters; and 
Poems of Nature. He died May 6, 1862, 
in Concord, Mass. 

THORINGTON, JAMES, congressman, 
was born in North Carolina. Removing 
to Iowa, he was elected a representative 
from that state to the thirty-fourth con¬ 
gress. 

THORINGTON, WILLIAM SEWELL, 
lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 30, 
1847, in Montgomery, Ala. In 1867 he was 
admitted to the bar; 
has been city attor¬ 
ney of Montgomery, 
and judge advocate- 
general for four 
years. He has been 
judge of the city 
court of Montgomery 
(law and equity 
court); associate 
justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Ala- 
b a m a (appellate 
court), and declined 
re-election in 1892. He was appointed 
trustee of the State university of Alaba¬ 
ma to succeed Hon. H. A. Herbert, and 
still fills that position. During 1864-65 he 
was in the confederate service with the 
Alabama corps of cadets, of which he was 
adjutant in 1865. This able lawyer and 
jurist has always been a resident in the 
place of his nativity. He was the au¬ 
thor of several works. In 1897 he was 
elected dean of the law faculty in the uni¬ 
versity of Alabama. 

THORN, FRANK MANLY, superintend¬ 
ent of the coast survey, journalist, public 
official, was born Dec. 7, 1836, in Collins, 
N. Y. In 1885 he was appointed chief 
clerk in the bureau of internal revenue in 
Washington, and a few weeks later was 
made superintendent of the United States 
coast and geodetic survey, which office he 
still fills. 

THORNBURGH, JACOB M„ soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born July 3, 
1837, in Newmarket, Tenn. In 1862 he 
joined the federal army in Kentucky, and 
was promoted until he became colonel of 
the fourth Tennessee cavalry in 1863. In 
1867 he moved to Knoxville, and was ap¬ 
pointed attorney-general of the third dis¬ 
trict of Tennessee, and was elected to the 
same position in 1869 and 1870. He was 
elected to the forty-third congress, and 
was re-elected to the forty-fourth and 
forty-fifth congresses as a republican. 




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THORNBURY, FRANK J., physician, 
author. This eminent lecturer on medical 
topics fills the chair of bacteriology in 
the university of Buffalo, and is the au¬ 
thor of numerous books, pamphlets and 
treatises, which have made his name fa¬ 
mous in the medical world. 

THORNDIKE, GEORGE QUINCY, art¬ 
ist, was born about 1825 in Boston, Mass. 
His landscapes showed many of the char¬ 
acteristics of the French school. His 
better known works include The Wayside 
Inn; Swans in Central Park; and The Lily 
Pond. He died in December, 1886, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

THORNDIKE, ISRAEL, merchant, 
philanthropist, state legislator, was born 
in 1757 in Beverly, Mass. He was elected 
to the Massachusetts convention that rati¬ 
fied the constitution of the United States, 
and for many years sat in the Massachu¬ 
setts legislature. He settled in Boston in 
1810, and in 1818 purchased for the use of 
Harvard the library of Prof. Christoph 
Daniel Ebeling of Hamburg, which con¬ 
sists of 4,000 volumes, and is remarkably 
rich in works on American history and 
antiquities. He died May 10, 1832, in 
Boston, Mass. 

THORNE, EDITH H„ poet. She is the 
author of numerous meritorious poems, 
which have appeared principally in Mis¬ 
souri publications, and in several standard 
collections. 

THORNE, WILLIAM HENRY, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in England. He is 
an aggressive essayist and critic, and ed¬ 
itor of The Globe Review from 1889. He 
came to the United States from England 
in 1855, and after some years spent in the 
Presbyterian ministry became a Roman 
catholic layman. He is the author of 
Modern Idols; Studies in Biography and 
Criticism; and Quintets, and Other Verses. 

THORNTON, ANTHONY, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 9, 1814, in Bour¬ 
bon county, Ky. In 1847 he was a mem¬ 
ber of the convention which framed the 
constitution of Illinois, and in 1850 was a 
member of the state legislature. In 1864 
he was elected a representative from Illi¬ 
nois to the thirty-ninth congress. 

THORNTON, ELIZA B„ poet, was born 
July 23, 1795, in North Hampton, N. H. 
She was for many years a contributor of 
poetry to the Southern Literary Messen¬ 
ger, the Christian Mirror, and other peri¬ 
odicals. Her best known piece is The 
Mayflower. She died July 27, 1854, in 
Saco, Maine. 

THORNTON, GUSTAVUS BROWN, 
sanitarian, author, was born Feb. 22, 1835, 
in Bowling Green, Va. In addition to his 
official reports as president of the Mem¬ 
phis board of health, he has contributed 
numerous memoirs on sanitary subjects to 
the Proceedings of the American Public 
Health Association, and to the transac¬ 
tions of other societies of which he is a 
member. These include Yellow Fever, 
Pathology and Treatment; Memphis San¬ 
itation and Quarantine in 1879 and 1880; 
and Sanitation of the Mississippi Valley. 

THORNTON, JAMES B., state legis¬ 
lator, author, was born in Merrimack, N. 
H. He was speaker of the New Hamp¬ 
shire state legislature in 1829 and 1830. 
He was the author of Digest of the Con¬ 
veyancing, Testamentary, and Registry 
Laws of the United States in 1837. He 
was charge d’affaires to Peru in 1836. He 
died Jan. 25, 1838, in Callao, N. H. 

THORNTON, JAMES BANKHEAD, 
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 28, 1806, in 
Mount Zephyr, Va. He represented his 
district in the Virginia senate in 1838-40, 
and was one of the prime movers in the 


establishment of the Military institute 
at Lexington, Va. He was the author of 
a Digest of the Conveyancing, Testament¬ 
ary, and Registry Laws of the States of 
the Union. He died Oct. 12, 1867, in Mem¬ 
phis, Tenn. 

THORNTON, JAMES SHEPARD, naval 
officer, was born Feb. 25, 1826, in Merri¬ 
mack, N. H. He was on the Kearsarge in 
its fight with the Alabama, and attained 
the rank of captain in 1872. He died May 
14, 1875, in Germantown, Pa.; and his 
portrait hangs in the new library build¬ 
ing of the New Hampshire state capitol. 

THORNTON, JESSY QUINN, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Aug. 24,1810, near 
Point Pleasant, W. Va. He was an Oregon 
jurist of note, and the author of Oregon 
and California in 1848; History of the 
Provisional Government, of Oregon; and 
The Gold Mines of California. He died 
Feb. 5, 1888, in Salem, Ore. 

THORNTON, JOHN WINGATE, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1714 in Ireland. He 
is a Boston lawyer of genealogical tastes, 
and the author of Colonial Schemes of 
Popham and Gorges; The Landing at 
Cape x4.nne; First Records of Anglo-Am¬ 
erican Civilization; The Pulpit of the 
American Revolution; and Historical Re¬ 
lation of New England to the English 
Commonwealth. 

THORNTON, MATTHEW, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born in 
1714 in Ireland. He was appointed a sur¬ 
geon in the army from New Hampshire, 
and commanded a regiment of militia in 
the revolutionary war. He was, for six 
years, judge of the superior court of New 
Hampshire, and chief justice of the com¬ 
mon pleas. He was a delegate to the 
continental congress from 1776 to 1778, 
and was one of the signers of the declara¬ 
tion of independence. He also served, for 
several years, in the general court and in 
the state senate, and was appointed jus¬ 
tice of the peace and quorum throughout 
the state. He died June 24, 1803, in New- 
buryport, Mass. 

THORNTON, THOMAS C., clergyman, 
author, was born Oct. 12, 1794, in Dum¬ 
fries, Va. He was the author of Inquiry 
Into the History of Slavery in the United 
States, and other works. He died March 
23, 1860, in Mississippi. 

THORNTON, WILLIAM, physician, 
architect, author, was born in West In¬ 
dies. He was a physician and architect of 
Philadelphia who removed to Washing¬ 
ton, w r here he drew the plans of the first 
capitol,building, and was at the head of 
the patent office in 1802-27. He was the 
author of Cadmus, or the Elements of 
Written Language. He died in 1827, in 
Washington, D. C. 

THORNTON, WILLIAM, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1846 in England. He is 
a physician of Boston, and the author of 
The Origin, Purpose, and Destiny of Man. 

THORNTON, WILLIAM W., lawyer, au¬ 
thor. This prolific writer is the author of 
several valuable legal reference books, the 
most important of which are: Universal 
Encyclopedia of Law; Statutory Con¬ 
structions; Practice Code; Municipal Law; 
and Lost Wills. 

THORNWELL, JAMES HENLEY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1812 in Marl¬ 
borough, S. C. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman, professor in the theological 
seminary at Columbia, S. C., prominent 
alike for his rigid Calvinism and his ex¬ 
treme pro-slavery opinions. He was the 
author of Arguments of Romanists Dis¬ 
cussed and Refuted; Discourses on Truth; 
Rights and Duties of Masters; and The 
State of the Country. He died Aug. 1 
1862, in Charlotte, N. C. 


THORP, ROBERT T., lawyer, congress¬ 
man was born March 12, 1850, in Gian- 
ville county, N. C. In 1877 he was ap¬ 
pointed commonwealth attorney for Meck¬ 
lenburg county, Va., to fill an unexpired 
term; and was elected to the same posi¬ 
tion for four successive terms, serving in 
that office for eighteen years. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

THORP, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in Delaware. He was elected govern¬ 
or of that state in 1846, remaining in 
office until 1851. 

THORPE. FRANCIS NEWTON, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1857 in Massachusetts. 
He is a lawyer of Philadelphia, and the 
author of The Government of the People 
of the United States; and The Story of the 
Constitution. 

THORPE, MRS. ROSA (HARTWICK), 
author, poet, was born in 1850, in Misha¬ 
waka, Ind. She is a poet chiefly known 
as the author of Cur¬ 
few Must Not Ring 
To-Night. Temper¬ 
ance Poems; Ring¬ 
ing Ballads; and sev¬ 
eral juvenile prose 
works, including The 
Year’s Best Days; 
The Chester Girls; 
Fred’s Dark Days; 
The Fenton Fam¬ 
ily; and Minna 
Bruce. Her poems 
have also been in¬ 
cluded in a number of standard col¬ 
lections. 

THORPE. THOMAS BANGS, artist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 1, 1815, in West- 
field, Mass. He was an artist and author 
of New Orleans in 
1836-53, and in later 
life of New York 
city. Niagara aS It 
Is is his finest paint¬ 
ing. His writings in¬ 
clude The Hive of 
the Bee Hunter; 
Tom Owen the Bee 
Hunter; Mysteries 
of the Backwoods; 
Our Army of the Rio 
Grande; Our Army 
at Monterey; A 
Voice to America; Scenes in Arkansas; 
and Lynde Weirs, an Autobiography. He 
died in October, 1878, in New York city. 

THRELKELD, ISAAC N., lawyer, was 
born March 14, 1870, near Benton, Ill. 
He received a thorough education in the 
public schools of his native county and at 
Ewing college. He studied law, was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar, and has attained prom¬ 
inence as one of the leading corporation 
and criminal lawyers of Illinois at Belle¬ 
ville. 

THROCKMORTON, JAMES WEBB, 
soldier, state senator, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Feb. 1, 1825, in Sparta, 
Tenn. He was a member of the Texas leg¬ 
islature in 1851; and served in that body 
until the civil war in 1861. In 1861 he 
entered i..e confederate service, and con¬ 
tinued actively engaged until 1863. In that 
year he was elected state senator; was 
appointed brigadier-genei'al of state 
troops, and sent to command the north¬ 
west border of the state. He was elected 
governor of Texas in 1866, and was re¬ 
moved under the reconstruction acts of 
1869. In 1874 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Texas to the forty-fourth 
congress, and was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth, forty-eighth and forty-ninth con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 







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1HKOOP, ENOS THOMPSON, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, governor, was born 
Aug. 21, 1784, in Johnstown, N. Y. He 
was a representative in congress during 
the years 1815 and 1816, and in 1823 was 
elected circuit judge. In 1829 he became 
lieutenant-governor of New York, and 
in 1831 was governor of that state. In 
1838 he was appointed charge d’affaires 
to the two Sicilies. He died Nov. 1, 1874, 
near Auburn, N. Y. 

THROOP, MONTGOMERY HUNT, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Jan. 26, 1827. He 
is a lawyer of New York city, and the au¬ 
thor of The Future: a Political Essay; 
Validity of Verbal Agreements; Annotat¬ 
ed Code of Civil Procedure; The New 
York Justices’ Manual; Digest of Massa¬ 
chusetts Supreme Judicial Court Deci¬ 
sions; and Revised Statutes of the State 
of New York. 

THRUSTON, BUCKNER, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born in 1763 in Win¬ 
chester, Va. He was appointed federal 
judge in the territory of Orleans in 1805, 
and was, the same year, elected a mem¬ 
ber of the United States senate from Ken¬ 
tucky for six years. He resigned in 1809, 
on being appointed by President Madison 
judge of the United States circuit court 
of the District of Columbia, which office 
he held until his death. He died Aug. 30, 
1845, in Washington. 

THRUSTON, CHARLES MYNN, soldier, 
jurist, legislator, was born in 1738 in 
Gloucester county, Va. At the beginning 
of the revolution he raised a company, 
was commissioned as captain, and badly 
wounded at Trenton. On his recovery he 
was appointed colonel, being known as the 
Warrior Parson. After tbe war he was 
judge and .a member of the legislature, 
and in 1808 removed to Louisiana. He 
died in 1812 near New Orleans, La. 

THRUSTON, CHARLES MYNN, sol¬ 
dier, banker, was born Feb. 22,1789, in Lex¬ 
ington, Ky. In 1814 he was commissioned 
as lieutenant of artillery, and assigned 
to duty on Governor’s Island, New York 
harbor. He became adjutant of his regi¬ 
ment in 1821, and during the Florida war 
in 1835-36 was acting adjutant-general of 
the Florida army. Resigning in 1836, he 
settled on a farm at Cumberland, Md. 
He became president of a bank in 1838, 
and mayor in 1861. He died in February, 
1873, in Cumberland, Md. 

THRUSTON, GATES PHILLIPS, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born June 11, 1835, in 
Dayton, Ohio. He was promoted major 
and assistant adjutant-general in 1863, 
and was brevetted colonel and brigadier- 
general of volunteers for gallantry. Since 
the war he has followed his profession at 
Nashville, Tenn. 

THUMMELL, GEORGE HAMILTON, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 31, 1848, 
in Palmyra, Ill. He began the practice of 
law in Grand Island, Neb. In 1871 he was 
a member of the Nebraska constitutional 
convention; and six years later was elect¬ 
ed state senator. 

THURBER, CHARLES HERBERT, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born in 1864 in New 
York. He is an educator of Chicago, a 
professor in the university of Chicago 
from 1895, and the author of In and Out 
of Ithaca; and The Higher Schools of 
Prussia. 

THURBER, GEORGE, botanist, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1821 in Rhode 
Island. He was a botanist who edited 
The American Agriculturist in 1863-90. He 
published American Weeds and Useful 
Plants, a revision of Darlington’s Agricul¬ 
tural Botany. He died in 1890. 


THURMAN, ALLEN GRANBERRY, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States 
senator, was born Nov. 13, 1813, in Lynch¬ 
burg, Va. He was a representative from 
Ohio to the twenty-ninth congress, and 
was elected a judge of the supreme court 
of Ohio in 1851. He was chief justice of 
the same from 1854 to 1856. In 1868 he 
was elected a senator in congress from 
that state for the term commencing in 
1869 and ending in 1875, and was re-elect¬ 
ed for the term ending in 1881. 

THURMAN, JOHN R., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1849 to 1851. He died 
July 25, 1854, in New York. 

THURSBY, EMMA CECILIA, vocalist, 
was born Feb. 21, 1857, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
She was a choir singer in Beecher’s Ply¬ 
mouth church and elsewhere. Mr. Stra- 
kosch in 1879 introduced her to the con¬ 
cert stage, where her remarkable talents 
were recognized both in Europe and 
America. 

THURSTON. BENJAMIN B., state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, governor, was born 
June 29, 1804, in nopkinton, R. I. He was 
elected fourteen years in succession ,to 
the assembly of his native state. He was 
a presidential elector in 1836, and in 1838 
was lieutenant-governor. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Rhode Island 
from 1847 to 1849, and again from 1851 to 
1857. He was subsequently elected a 
member of the senate of Rhode Island. 
He died May 17, 1886, in New London, 
Conn. 

THURSTON, BROWN, publisher, gene¬ 
alogist, was born Oct. 6, 1814, in Win- 
throp, Maine. He was the first job printer 
to introduce the power-press in Portland, 
Maine, and subsequently introduced ste¬ 
reotyping, electrotyping and wood en¬ 
graving. In 1880 he compiled and pub¬ 
lished the first edition of the Thurston 
Genealogy; and in 1892 issued a second 
edition. He is president of the Brown- 
Thurston Publishing company of Portland, 
Maine. 

THURSTON, CHARLES BALDWIN, 
railroad president, was born April 2, 
1832, in New York city. He is president of 
the Jersey City and 
Bergen Railroad 
company; treasurer 
and manager of the 
Jersey associates of 
Jersey City, which 
own nearly all the 
water front and fer¬ 
ry rights; has charge 
as president of 
the toll roads be¬ 
tween Jersey City 
and Newark; presi¬ 
dent of the board of 
park commissioners of the Hudson com¬ 
pany, and holds other positions of trust 
and responsibility. 

THURSTON, JOHN MELLEN, lawyer, 
state legislator, United States senator, 
was born Aug. 21, 1847, in Montpelier, Vt. 

He was elected a 
member of the Oma¬ 
ha city council in 
1872; city attorney 
of Omaha in 1874, 
and a member of the 
Nebraska legislature 
in 1875. He was 
president of the Re¬ 
publican league of 
the United States in 
1889 to 1891. In 1877 
he became assistant 
attorney of the 
Union Pacific Railway company, and in 




1888 was appointed general solicitor of the 
Union Pacific system, and held that posi¬ 
tion at the time of his election to the 
senate. In 1895 he was tendered in writ¬ 
ing the unanimous vote of the entire re¬ 
publican membership in the legislature, 
and was elected for the term commencing 
March 4, 1895. His term of office will ex¬ 
pire March 3, 1901. He was permanent 
chairman of the republican national con¬ 
vention of 1896 which nominated Presi¬ 
dent McKinley. He is a constant con¬ 
tributor to current publications; and an 
able orator. 


J. rtUKC? i uin. 


nuciiirti nnuNitY, was 


born Oct. 25, 1839, in Providence, R. I. 
He was trained in the workshops of his 
father,Robert Lawton 
Thurston, and grad¬ 
uated from Brown 
university in 1859. In 
1861 he entered the 
navy as an officer of 
engineers and served 
during the civil war 
on various vessels. 
In 1865 he was de¬ 
tailed as assistant 
professor of natural 
and experimental 
philosophy at the 
United States naval academy of Annap¬ 
olis, where he also acted as lecturer of 
chemistry and physics. In 1870 he visited 
Europe for the purpose of studying the 
British iron manufacturing districts, and 
in 1871 was appointed professor of me¬ 



chanical engineering at the Stevens in¬ 
stitute of Technology; and has written 
numerous papers on technical subjects, 
which have appeared in scientific jour¬ 
nals in Europe and America. In 1878 he 
was made vice-president of the American 
Institute of Mining Engineers, and is at 
present director of the Sibley college, 
Cornell university, dean of the faculty and 
professor of mechanical engineering. He 
is the author of Friction and Lubrication; 
Manual of the Steam Engine; Manual of 
Steam Boilers; Engine and Boiler Trials; 
History of the Growth of the Steam En¬ 
gine; Materials of Engineering; Friction 
and Lost Work; Steam-Boiler Explosions 
in Theory and Practice; Heat as a Form 
of Energy; and Robert Fulton, His Life 
and Its Results. 


THURSTON, ROBERT LAWTON, man¬ 
ufacturer, was born Dec. 13, 1800, in 
Portsmouth, R. I. He developed an ex¬ 
traordinary talent as a mechanic, and in 
conjunction with John Babcock, complet¬ 
ed an experimental steam engine. In 
1830 he moved to Providence, and four 
years later commenced business with Mr. 
Babcock, starting the first steam engine 
building establishment in New England, 
known as the Providence Steam Engine 
company, which subsequently became 
Thurston, Greene and Company. He died 
Jan. 13, 1874, in Providence, R. I. 

THURSTON, SAMUEL R., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1816 in Monmouth, 
Maine. He was a delegate in congress 
from the territory of Oregon from 1849 to 
1851. He died April 9, 1851, at sea. 

THWAITES, REUBEN GOLD, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born May 15, 1853, in 
Boston, Mass. He is an antiquarian wri¬ 
ter of Wisconsin, and secretary of the 
State Historical society, and the author 
of Historic Waterways; Six Hundred 
Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox 
and Wisconsin Rivers; The Story of Wis¬ 
consin; Our Cycling Tour in England; 
and The Colonies, 1492-1750. He is also 
the editor of the Jesuit Relations and Al¬ 
lied Documents. 






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THWING, CHARLES FRANKLIN, 
clergyman, educator, college president, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 9, 1853, in New Sha¬ 
ron, Maine. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
at Phillips academy 
of Andover, Mass.; 
at the Harvard col¬ 
lege, and the Theo¬ 
logical seminary. He 
has filled pastorates 
in Cambridge, Mass., 
i n Minneapolis, 
Minn., and since 1890 
has been president 
of the Western Re¬ 
serve university, 
Adelbert college of Cleveland, Ohio. He 
is the author of American Colleges; The 
Reading of Books; The Working Church; 
The Family: an Historical and Social 
Study; and The College Woman. In con¬ 
junction with his wife, Mrs. Carrie F. 
Butler Tliwing, he has published a gene¬ 
alogical work on the family. 

THWING, EDWARD PAYSON, educat¬ 
or, clergyman, author, was born in 1830 
in Missouri. He was a congregational 
clergyman and professor of vocal culture, 
and the author of The Preacher’s Cabinet; 
Out-Door Life in Europe; Windows of 
Character; The King in His Beauty; Ex- 
Oriente; and Drill Book in Vocal Culture. 
He died in 1893. 

TIBBATTS, JOHN W., soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Kentucky. He was 
a representative in congress from Ken¬ 
tucky from 1843 to 1847, and also served as 
a colonel in the Mexican war. He died 
July 12, 1852, in Newton, Ky. 

TIBBETTS, GEORGE, state legislator, 
state senator, congressman, author, was 
born Jan. 14, 1763, in Warwick, R. I. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1803 to 1805. He was a 
member of the state assembly from Rens¬ 
selaer county in 1802 and 1820, and of 
the state senate from 1815 to 1818. He 
published several works. He died July 19, 
1849, in Troy, N. Y. 

TIBBITS, WILLIAM BADGER, soldier, 
manufacturer, was born March 31, 1837, 
in Hoosick, N. Y. He was brevetted 
brigadier-general of volunteers in 1864. 
He died Feb. 10, 1880, in Troy, N. Y. 

TICHENOR, ISAAC, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, governor, 
was born Feb. 8, 1754, in Newark, N. J. 
He was an officer of the revolution; and 
was a judge and chief justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Vermont. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in the state legislature, and 
was a senator in congress during the ses¬ 
sions of 1796 and 1797. He was governor 
of Vermont from 1798 to 1800, and was 
again in the senate from 1815 to 1821. He 
died Dec. 11, 1838, in Bennington, Vt. 

TICKER, WILLIAM JEWETT, ninth 
president of Dartmouth college, was born 
in 1839 in Griswold, Conn. In 1880-92 he 
filled the chair of homiletics at Andover, 
and attained a world-wide reputation as 
a theologian. In 1892 he was inaugu¬ 
rated president of Dartmouth college, 
which position he still fills. As editor of 
the Andover Review, as a pulpit orator of 
wonderful ability, and as the originator 
of the famous Andover House in Boston, 
he has become a recognized leader of the 
ethical forces of the day. 

TICKNOR, CALEB B., physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1805 in Salisbury, Conn. 
He was a homeopathic physician of New 
York city, and the author of Medical Phil¬ 
osophy; and Guide to Mothers and Nurses. 
He died Sept. 19, 1840, in New York city. 


TICKNOR, CAROLINE, author, was 
born in 1866 in Massachusetts. Sne was 
a Boston writer of short stories, and the 
author of A Hypocritical Romance, and 
Other Stories; and Miss Belladonna, a 
story for children. 

TICKNOR, ELISHA, educator, was born 
March 25, ' 1757, in Lebanon, Conn. In 
1788 he became head master of Franklin 
grammar school of Boston. He made one 
of the earliest efforts to improve female 
education in Massachusetts, and originat¬ 
ed the scheme for primary schools in 
Boston, proposing them at a town meet¬ 
ing in 1818. He died June 22, 1821, in 
Hanover, N. H. 

TICKNOR, GEORGE, educator, author, 
was born Aug. 1, 1791, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a noted Boston historian who was 
professor of modern languages at Har¬ 
vard university in 1820-35. A History of 
Spanish Literature, the fruit of many 
years’ study and research, is his princi¬ 
pal work. Other works by him are, Life 
of W. H. Prescott; and Life of Lafayette. 
He died Jan. 26, 1871, in Boston, Mass. 

TICKNOR, WILLIAM DAVIS, publisher, 
was born Aug. 6, 1810, in Lebanon, N. H. 
He was a member of the firm of Ticlcnor 
and 1 lelds, publishers of Atlantic Month¬ 
ly and North American Review. He died 
April 10, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

TIDBALL, JOHN CALDWELL, soldier, 
author, was born Jan. 25, 1825, in Ohio 
county, Va. (now W. Va.) He was a fed¬ 
eral officer during the civil war who has 
published a Manual of Heavy Artillery 
Service. 

TIDBALL, LEWIS CASS, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born June 25, 1849, near Zanes¬ 
ville, Ohio. He received a thorough ed¬ 
ucation, and attended the Illinois State 
Normal college. He is one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of Wyoming at Sheridan. 
During 1893-95 he served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the Wyoming leg¬ 
islature; was elected speaker, and re¬ 
ceived the re-election in 1897. In 1895 
he was a candidate for governor on the 
populist ticket. He is vice-president of 
the Direct Legislation league, and a mem¬ 
ber of the people’s party national execu¬ 
tive committee. 

TIDBALL, MRS. MARY LANGDON, au¬ 
thor, was born in 18—. She is a novelist 
of Virginia, and the author of Barbara’s 
Vagaries. 

TIDBALL, THOMAS ALLEN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1847 in Virginia. 
He is an episcopal clergyman of Philadel¬ 
phia, rector of the Church of the Epipha¬ 
ny, and the author of Christ in the New 
Testament; The Character of Christ its 
Own Witness; and The Holy Spirit as 
Energizing the Sacrament. 

TIEBOUT, CORNELIUS, engraver, was 
born in 1777 in New York. He worked 
in the stipple or chalk manner, and was 
an artist of no mean merit. Among his 
folio plates are portraits of Washington, 
Gen. Horatio Gates, John Jay, and Bish¬ 
op White, after Gilbert Stuart; and Thom¬ 
as Jefferson, after Rembrandt Peale. He 
died about 1830 in Kentucky. 

TIEDEMAN, CHRISTOPHER GUSTA- 
VUS, educator, author, was born in 1857 
in South Carolina. He is a legal writer, 
professor of law in the university of Mis¬ 
souri in 1881-91, and from 1891 professor 
of constitutional law in the university of 
the City of New York. He is the author 
of The Law of Real Property; Limitations 
of the Police Power; Commercial Paper; 
The Unwritten Constitution of the United 
States; Law of Sales; and Law of Muni¬ 
cipal Corporations. 


TIERNAN, MRS. FRANCES (FISHER), 
author, was born in Salisbury, N. C. She 
is a popular novelist whose writings in¬ 
clude: Valerie Aylmer; Mabel Lee; Mor¬ 
ton House; A Daughter of Bohemia; Miss 
Churchill; Bonny Kate; Ebb Tide; Nina’s 
Atonement, and Other Stories; After 
Many Days; Heart of Steel; Hearts and 
Hands; A Question of Honor; A Summer 
Idyl; A Gentle Belle; Roslyn’s Fortune; 
A Comedy of Elopement; The Picture of 
Las Cruces; The Land of the Sun; and A 
Woman of Fortune. 

TIERNAN, LUKE, merchant, was born 
in 1757 in Ireland. In 1826-27 he was one 
of a committee to urge upon the legisla¬ 
ture of Maryland the incorporation of the 
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company, 
the first railroad company incorporated in 
this country. He died Nov. 10, 1839, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

TIERNAN, MRS. MARY SPEAR 
(NICHOLAS), author, was born in 1836. 
She was a Georgia novelist and the au¬ 
thor of Homoselle; Suzette; and Jack 
Horner. She died in 1891. 

TIFERRO, EMIL, teacher of art sing¬ 
ing and director of the Denver Opera club, 
was born Feb. 1, 1858, in Germany. He 
received his educa¬ 
tion at the conserva¬ 
tories of Munich and 
Vienna, and subse¬ 
quently studied in 
Italy. For a number 
of years he held the 
position of first ten¬ 
or on the Italian 
stage, and has been 
engaged in Berlin, 
Amsterdam, London, 
New York city, Bos¬ 
ton, the World’s Fair 
grand concerts at Chicago, and the lead¬ 
ing cities of Europe and America. He is 
tne founder and director of the Denver 
Opera club, where he gives concerts, reci¬ 
tals, and lectures upon musical subjects, 
and produces operas in costume. 

TIFFANY, ALEXANDER RALSTON, 
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 16, 
1796, in Niagara, Upper Canada. He was 
a jurist of Palmyra, Mich., and the author 
of The Justices’ Guide; Criminal Law; 
and Form Book for Michigan Attorneys. 
He died Jan. 14, 1868, in Upper Canada. 

TIFFANY, CHARLES COMFORT, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1829 in Mary¬ 
land. He is an episcopal clergyman of 
New York city, but prior to 1866 a con¬ 
gregational clergyman. He is the author 
of Expression in Church Architecture; 
and History of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church in the United States. 

TIFFANY, CHARLES LEWIS, founder 
of the firm of Tiffany and Company, was 
born Feb. 15, 1812, in New York. He is 
a founder of the New 
York Society of Fine 
Arts and of the 
Union League club. 
He has also been a 
patron of the Metro¬ 
politan Museum of 
Art and a trustee of 
the American Muse¬ 
um of Natural His¬ 
tory He is a prom¬ 
inent representative 
of the sixth genera¬ 
tion of descent from 
Squire Humphrey Tiffany of England. 
The family lived for several generations 
in Massachusetts. In 1867 he established 
the present house of Tiffany and Company 
of New York city, which is to-day the 
leading jewelry house in America. 







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TIFFANY, FRANCIS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1827 in Maryland. He 
is a Unitarian clergyman living in Cam¬ 
bridge, pastor at West Newton, Mass., 
in 1865-82, and the author of Life of Doro¬ 
thea Lynde Dix; Bird Bolts; Life of 
Charles Francis Barnard; and This Good¬ 
ly Frame, the Earth, a volume of travels 
in America, Japan, Egypt, Palestine, and 
Greece. 

TIFFANY, JOEL, author. He is the au¬ 
thor of Treatise on Government and Con¬ 
stitutional Law; Man and His Destiny; 
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined 
in the Court of Appeals of the State of 
New York; The Book of Forms; Laws of 
Trusts and Trustees; and Treatise on 
Practice and Pleadings in the Courts of 
Record. 

TIFFANY, OSMOND, author, was born 
July 16, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. He is 
a custom-house clerk in Baltimore since 
1869, and the author of The Canton Chi¬ 
nese; Brandon, a Tale of the American 
Revolution; and Life of General Otho 
Williams. 

TIFFIN, EDWARD, governor, United 
States senator, was born June 19, 1766, in 
England. He was speaker of the Ohio 
territorial legislature in 1799. He was 
elected first governor of the state from 
1803 to 1807, and was United States sen¬ 
ator from Ohio from 1807 to 1809. He was 
appointed commissioner of the general 
land office in 1812, and resigned in 1815, 
when appointed surveyor-general of the 
northwest, which he held until his death. 
He died Aug. 9, 1829, in Chillicothe, Ohio. 

TIFT, NELSON, congressman. He was 
elected a representative from Georgia to 
the fortieth congress. 

TIGERT, JOHN JAMES, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Nov. 25, 1856, in 
Louisville, Ky. He is a methodist clergy¬ 
man and educator in Nashville, and the 
author of Handbook of Logic; The 
Preacher Himself; A Voice from the 
South; and Constitutional History of 
American Episcopal Methodism. 

TILDEN, DANIEL R., congressman, 
was born in Connecticut. Having settled 
in Ohio, he was elected a representative 
in congress from that state from 1843 to 
•1847. 

TILDEN, HERBERT, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, was born June 18, 1850, in Ches- 
terville, Maine. He received his educa¬ 
tion in the Nichols Latin school of Lewis¬ 
ton, Maine; and in 1875 graduated from 
the Colby university, from which institu¬ 
tion he received the degree of A. M. In 
1875-76 he was principal of the Black 
River academy of Ludlow, Vt.; has been 
pastor of Maine churches at Lamoine, 
Bararloa, Sedgwick, Old Lowell, and 
Farmington; and since 1892 has been pas¬ 
tor of the Fifth Baptist church of Cedar 
Rapids, Iowa. 

TILDEN, SAMUEL JONES, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born Feb. 9, 1814, 
in New Lebanon, N. Y. In 1846 he was 
elected to the New 
York state legislat¬ 
ure, and was again 
elected to the state 
legislature in 1870. 
In 1874 he was elect¬ 
ed governor of New 
York. A volume of 
his Writings and 
Speeches was edit¬ 
ed and published in 
1893. He was an un¬ 
successful candidate 
for the presidency of 
the United States. He died Aug. 4, 1886, 
in Greystone, N. Y. 



TILDEN, WILLIAM PHILLIPS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1811 in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He was a Unitarian clergy¬ 
man of Boston, and the author of The 
Work of the Ministry; and Buds for the 
Bridal Wreath. He died in 1890. 

TILFORD, FRANK, merchant, banker, 
was born July 22, 1852, in New York city. 
In 1876, he joined the Real Estate ex¬ 
change, and, from 
that time to the 
present has been an 
extensive operator in 
real estate, both in 
Harlem and on the 
west side above 59th 
street. In 1885 he 
was elected a trustee 
of the North River 
Savings bank. Dur¬ 
ing the same year. 
Park and Tilford 
opened a branch 
store at Fifty-ninth street and Fifth 
avenue, and Mr. Tilford was placed in 
charge of this establishment. Even 
this additional increase of labors was 
not sufficient to employ all of his 
active energies; and in 1889, together 
with George G. Haven, he organized 
the Bank of New Amsterdam, of which 
Thomas C. Acton is president. Mr. Til¬ 
ford has been vice-president of the bank 
from the day it opened. 

TILGHMAN, LLOYD, soldier, was born 
in 1816 in Talbot county, Md. He joined 
the confederate army in 1861, was com¬ 
missioned brigadier-general in 1862. He 
died May 16, 1863, near Vicksburg, Miss. 

TILGHMAN, MATTHEW, congressman, 
was born Feb. 17. 1718, in Hermitage, Md. 
He was a delegate from Maryland to the 
continental congress from 1774 to 1777. 
He died May 4, 1790, in Hermitage, Md. 

TILGHMAN, TENCH, soldier, was born 
Dec. 25, 1744, in Talbot county, Md. On 
the surrender of Cornwallis he was se¬ 
lected by Washington to bear his des¬ 
patch to congress announcing that event. 
He was voted the thanks of congress, a 
sword, and a horse with accoutrements, 
for this service. After the war he be¬ 
came a merchant in Baltimore. He died 
April 18, 1786, in Baltimore, Md. 

TILGHMAN, TENCH, soldier, public 
official, was born March 25, 1810, in Plim- 
himmon. Md. He was brigadier-general 
of Maryland militia in 1837-60; and major- 
general in 1860-61, state commissioner of 
public works in 1841-51; and superintend¬ 
ent of the military department of tbe 
Maryland military academy of Oxford in 
1847-57. In 1849-50 he was United States 
consul at Mayaguez, Porto Rico. From 
1857 till 1860 he was collector of customs 
for the port of Oxford, Md. He died Dec. 
22, 1874, in Baltimore, Md. 

TILGHMAN, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born Aug. 12, 1756, 
in Talbot county, Md. He was appointed 
chief justice of the state supreme court 
in 1806. He was a member of the Penn¬ 
sylvania legislature for several years, 
from 1788. He was president of the Phil¬ 
osophical society in 1824, and in 1809 pre¬ 
pared a report of the English statutes in 
force within the state. He died April 
30, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

TILLETT, WILBUR FISK, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born Aug. 25, 1854, 
in Henderson, N. C. He is a methodist 
clergyman and educator, and vice-chancel¬ 
lor of Vanderbilt university, Nashville, in 
1882-95. He is the author of Our Hymqs 
and Their Authors; and Discussions in 
Theology. 



TILLINGHAST, JOSEPH LEONARD, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born in 1790 in Taunton, Mass. In 1833 
he was elected a member of the board of 
trustees of Brown university. He was a 
representative in congress from Rhode 
Island from 1837 to 1843, and was, for 
many years, a member of the state legis¬ 
lature, and was elected speaker on sev¬ 
eral occasions. To him was awarded the 
authorship of the free schools, and im¬ 
proved judiciary system of his native 
state. He died Dec. 30, 1844, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. 

TILLINGHAST, NICHOLAS, educator, 
author, was born Sept. 22, 1804, in Taun¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a Massachusetts ed¬ 
ucator, principal of 
the Normal school at 
Bridgewater in 1840- 
53, and the author of 
Elements of Plane 
Geometry; and Pray¬ 
ers for Schools. He 
was one of the fore¬ 
most educators of 
New England; and 
besides his published 
works contributed 
valuable articles to 
current publications. 
He died April 10, 1856, in Bridgewater, 
Mass. 

TILLINGHAST, THOMAS, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Aug. 26, 1742, 
in East Greenwich, L. I. He was for many 
years a judge of the supreme court of 
Rhode Island; and was a representative 
in congress from Rhode Island from 1797 
to 1799, and again from 1801 to 1803. He 
died Aug. 26, 1821, in East Greenwich, 
N. Y. 




TILLMAN, BENJAMIN RYAN, legislat¬ 
or, governor, United States senator, was 
born Aug. 11, 1847, in Edgefield county, 
S. C. He followed 
farming as a pursuit 
and took no active 
part in politics till 
he began the agita¬ 
tion in 1886 for in¬ 
dustrial and technic¬ 
al education which 
culminated in the es¬ 
tablishment of the 
Clemson Agricult¬ 
ural and Mechanical 
college at Calhoun’s 
old home, Fort Hill, 
educational reform 
demand for other 
changes in state affairs, and he was put 
forward by the farmers as a candidate for 
governor in 1890, and was elected in 'No¬ 
vember following. This was his first po¬ 
litical office, and he was re-elected in 1892 
by an overwhelming vote. His term as 
governor was signalized by the passage of 
the dispensary law for the control of the 
liquor traffic by the state and by the estab¬ 
lishment of another college, the Winthrop 
Normal and Industrial college for Wom¬ 
en, at Rock Hill. He was elected as a 
democrat to the United States senate. His 
term of service will expire March 3, 1901. 


The demand for 
broadened into a 


TILLMAN, GEORGE D., soldier, law¬ 
yer, .state senator, congressman, was born 
Aug. 21,1826, in Edgefield county, S. C. He 
was a member of the South Carolina state 
house of representatives in 1854 and 1855, 
and again in 1864. He served in the con¬ 
federate army from 1862 to 1865. He was 
a state senator in 1865; and was elected 
a representative from South Carolina to 
the forty-sixth congress; and was again 
elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, 
fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second con¬ 
gresses as a democrat. 




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TILLMAN, JAMES HAMMOND, lawyer, 
legislator, the son of Hon. George G. Till¬ 
man, a one time member of congress, was 
born June 27, 1869, 
in Edgefield county, 
S. C. He received 
his education in the 
Curry ton academy; 
the Virginia Military 
institute; the Emer¬ 
son institute of 
Washington, D. C.; 
and the Georgetown 
University Law 
school. He is one of 
the foremost lawyers 
of South Carolina; 
has served with distinction as state sen¬ 
ator in the South Carolina legislature; is 
brigadier-general of the South Carolina 
volunteer troops; and takes a prominent 
part in public affairs. 

TILLMAN, LEWIS, agriculturist, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1816, 
in Bedford county, Tenn. He was clerk 
of the circuit court from 1852 to 1860; of 
the chancery court from 1865 to 1868; and 
was elected a representative from Tennes¬ 
see to the forty-first congress as a repub¬ 
lican. 

TILLMAN, SAMUEL ESCUE, soldier, 
educator, author, was born in 1847 in 
Tennessee. He is a soldier and educator, 
professor of chemistry at West Point 
from 1880; and the author of Elementary 
Lessons in Heat; and Essential Principles 
of Chemistry. 

TILLOTSON, MARY ELLA, author, 
poet, teacher of hygienic law in diet 
and clothing, was born Nov. 15, 1816, in 
central New York. 
She has been a suc¬ 
cessful teacher of 
select schools, secre¬ 
tary of many socie¬ 
ties and a lecturer 
and writer for the 
liberal and radical 
press. Her whole 
life has been devot¬ 
ed to science, litera¬ 
ture, and universal 
reform. In 1850 she 
was married to Mr. 
C. B. Tillotson, a distant relative of the 
same name as her own. She studied 
diseases and remedies, but instead of 
practicing cures, taught preventives. She 
has traveled, lectured, formed societies, 
made six anti-fashions conventions, and 
gave to women a moral plan of teaching 
children. Although nearly fourscore 
years of age she made a speech at the 
World's Columbian exposition entitled 
Light of the World. She is the author of 
two works on Effects of Press on Health; 
and a History of the Dress Movement 
from 1850 to 1885. She is also the author 
of a poetic volume entitled Love and 
Transition; and a volume of Miscellane¬ 
ous Poems. 

TILLOTSON, THOMAS C., stockman, 
jurist, was born March 11, 1853, in Boone 
county, Ill. During 1870-75 he was en¬ 
gaged in the hard¬ 
ware business in 
Chicago, Ill.; and 
was an eye-witness 
of the great confla¬ 
gration of Oct. 9, 
1871. He has been 
postmaster of Lin¬ 
coln, N. M.; pro¬ 
bate clerk and regis¬ 
ter of deeds, and 
judge of the probate 
court. In 1890 he 
was the nominee 
of the republican convention for the 
legislative assembly in his district. He 


was a Star Route mail contractor, and 
operated a line or‘route of one hundred 
and thirty-six miles in length; and for 
four years was receiver of the court in a 
very important cattle suit. He is a suc¬ 
cessful rancher and stockraiser of Lin¬ 
coln county, N. M.; and takes a promi¬ 
nent part in all public affairs. 

TILLSON, DAVIS, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, was born April 14, 1830, in Rock¬ 
land, Maine. In 1857 he was elected to 
the Maine state legislature; and in 1887 
became adjutant-general of the state. He 
served with distinction through the civil 
war in the artillery, and in 1865 had com¬ 
mand of the district of east Tennessee. 

TILTON, BENJAMIN TROWBRIDGE, 
physician, author, was born in 1868 in 
Rhode Island. He is a physician of New 
York city who has translated Die Specielle 
Chirurgie, in two volumes; and Allge- 
meine Chirurgie from the German of 
Tillmanns. 

TILTON, DANIEL, lawyer, jurist. He 
was appointed in 1798 United States judge 
for the territory of Mississippi. 

TILTON, JAMES, physician, surgeon, 
congressman, was born June 1, 1745, in 
Kent county, Del. He became disting¬ 
uished as a surgeon during the revolu¬ 
tionary war; and from 1777 to the close 
of the war acted as hospital surgeon, and 
introduced the use of hospital huts. He 
was a delegate in the continental congress 
from 1783 to 1785; and in 1785 was ap¬ 
pointed commissioner of loans. In 1812 
he was appointed surgeon-general of the 
United States army. He published Ob¬ 
servations on Military Hospitals; and 
some papers on agriculture. He died May 
14, 1822, in Wilmington, Del. 

TILTON, THEODORE, journalist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Oct. 2, 1835, in 
New York city. He is a journalist and 
verse-writer who was editor of The New 
York Independent in 1863-72, and since 
1883 has lived in Europe. He is the au¬ 
thor of The American Board and Slavery; 
The King’s Ring; Sanctum Sanctorum or 
an Editor’s Proof Sheets; Life of Vic¬ 
toria Woodhull; Tempest-Tossed, a novel; 
Swabian Stories; The Sexton’s Tale, and 
Other Poems; and Thou and I, a volume 
of verse. 

TILTON, WILLIAM FREDERIC, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1867 in Massachusetts. 
He is an historical writer; and the au¬ 
thor of Die Spanische Armada; and The 
Life of Philip the Second. 

TIMAYENIS, TELEMACHUS THOMAS, 
author, was born in 1853 in Asia Minor. 
He is a writer of New York city of Greek 
parentage, and resident in the United 
States from 1870. He is the author of The 
Modern Greek, Its Pronunciation and Re¬ 
lations to Ancient Greek; A History of 
Greece; Greece in the Times of Homer; 
Contes Tir6s de Shakespeare; Talks with 
HL'sop; and In Search of Happiness, a 
play. 

TIMBERLAKE, CHARLES B., educat¬ 
or, business man, was born Sept. 25, 1854, 
in Wilmington, Ohio. He has attained 
success as an educator, and was principal 
and superintendent of schools in Ohio, 
Indiana and Colorado. He was county su¬ 
perintendent of schools in Colorado for 
six years; and in 1892 was a candidate 
for state superintendent of public instruc¬ 
tion for Colorado on the republican ticket. 
Since 1895 he has been county clerk of 
Phillips county, Colo.; was mayor of 
Holyoke in 1891; -a member of the city 
council for four years; and is a success¬ 
ful business man, and prominent in pub¬ 
lic affairs of his city, county and state. 


TIMROD, HENRY, journalist, poet, was 
born Dec. 8, 1829, in Charleston, S. C. 
He was a poet and journalist of Charles¬ 
ton, and, in his last years, of Columbia, 
S. C., whose verse has very real merit. 
Spring in Carolina is one of his best 
poems. He died Oct. 6, 1867, in Columbia, 
S. C. 

TIMROD, WILLIAM HENRY, author, 
was born in 1792 in South Carolina. He 
was a bookbinder of Charleston who pub¬ 
lished a volume of Lyrics. He died in 
1838. 

TINCKER, MARY AGNES, author, was 
born July 18, 1833, in Ellsworth, Maine. 
She is a popular novelist who lived in 
Italy in 1873-87, and subsequently in Bos¬ 
ton. She is the author of Signor Monal- 
dini’s Niece; The Jewel in the Lotus; 
Aurora; Two Coronets; By the Tiber; 
The House of Yorke; A Winged Word; 
Grapes and Thorns; Six Sunny Months; 
and San Salvador. 

TINNIN, WILEY JAMES, lawyer, mer¬ 
chant, banker, legislator, was born Oct. 7, 
1829, near Jackson, Miss. In 1850 he 
moved to San Francisco; followed min¬ 
ing in Sacramento, Placer, Nevada and 
Trinity counties for three years. He then 
engaged in merchandise and banking in 
Weaverville; and also practiced law. 
During 1871-74 he was a representative in 
the assembly of the California state leg¬ 
islature; and then served a term in the 
state senate. In 1879 he served as a dele¬ 
gate to the state constitutional convention. 
In 1885 he was appointed surveyor of the 
port of San Francisco, and filled that 
office for four years. In 1891 he moved 
to Fresno, where he has since been ac¬ 
tively engaged in the practice of law 
and in dealing in mines. He stands high 
in fraternal orders, and in 1880 served 
as grand high priest of the Royal Arch 
Masons of California. 

TIPTON, JOHN, United States senator, 
was born Aug. 14, 1786, in Sevier county, 
Tenn. He moved to Indiana in 1806; and 
was a senator in congress from Indiana 
from 1831 to 1839. He died April 5, 1830, 
in Logansport, Ind. 

TIPTON, THOMAS F„ lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1833 in 
Franklin county, Ohio. He was state’s 
attorney for the eighth judicial district in 
1867 and 1868 in McLean county. Ill.; was 
elected judge of the eighth judicial circuit 
in 1870, and under the reorganization of 
circuits was elected judge of the four¬ 
teenth judicial circuit. He was elected 
a representative from Illinois to the forty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 

TIPTON, THOMAS W., clergyman, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born Aug. 

5, 1817, in Cadiz, Ohio. In 1845 he was 
elected to the Ohio 
legislature; and was . 
for three years at 
the head of a divis¬ 
ion of the general 
land office in Wash¬ 
ington. He moved 
to Nebraska terri¬ 
tory, and was chosen 
a delegate to the 
constitutional con¬ 
vention. In 1860 he 
was a councilman in 
the territorial legis¬ 
lature. He served during the rebellion as 
chaplain of the first regiment of Nebraska 
infantry. He was elected a senator in 
congress from the new state of Nebraska 
for the term commencing in 1867 and end¬ 
ing in 1869; and was re-elected for term 
expiring in 1875. 












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TITCHENER, EDWARD BRADFORD, 
educator, author, was born in 1867 in Eng¬ 
land. He is a professor of psychology at 
Cornell university from 1892, and Sage 
professor of psychology there from 1895; 
the American editor of Mind, and co-ed¬ 
itor of The American Journal of Psychol¬ 
ogy. Beside translating Knelpe’s Outlines 
of Psychology and other German works, 
he has published An Outline of Psy¬ 
chology. 

TITCOMB, JONATHAN, soldier, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1728 in Newbury, 
Mass. He was a member of the commit¬ 
tee of safety, and of the provincial con¬ 
gress in 1774 and 1775. He was a briga¬ 
dier-general of militia; and was naval 
officer of Newburyport from 1789 to 1812. 
He died in 1817 in Newbury, Mass. 

TITCOMB, SARAH ELIZABETH, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1841 in Massachusetts. 
She is a Boston writer who published 
Early New England People; Mind-Cure 
on a Material Basis; and Aryan Sun 
Myths the Origin of Religions. She died 
in 1895. 

TITUS, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was born 
in Pennsylvania. He was appointed from 
Pennsylvania an associate justice of the 
United States court for the territory of 
Arizona; and was subsequently appointed 
chief justice of the same court for the 
territory of Utah, presiding at Salt Lake 
City. 

TITUS, LORENZO UDOLPHUS CAM¬ 
ERON, lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 
27, 1854, in South Norwich, Ontario, Can¬ 
ada. • He received a 
thorough education, 
and received the de¬ 
gree of LL. B. from 
the Albert univer¬ 
sity of Ontario. He 
served two terms as 
a member of the 
lower council of 
Trenton, Ontario, in 
which city he prac¬ 
ticed law with suc¬ 
cess until he moved 
to Minnesota. He 
practiced in Duluth, then Grand Marais; 
and in 1896 was elected county attorney of 
Cook county. He has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to law literature, and takes an 
active part in public affairs. 

TITUS, OBEDIAH, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1837 to 1839. 

TITUS, ROBERT CYPRUS, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Oct. 24, 1839, in Eden, N. Y. 
For thirty years he has practiced law in 
Buffalo, N. Y. He was district attorney 
of Erie county for three years; state 
senator in the New York legislature for 
four years; and has filled the positions 
of judge of the superior court of Buffalo 
and justice of the supreme court of New 
York. 

TOASPERN, OTTO, artist, was born 
in 1863 in Brooklyn, N. Y. This noted art¬ 
ist has been instructor in the National 
academy of Design of New York city. He 
is best known as an illustrator for Life, 
Century, Harper’s and The Ladies’ Home 
Journal. 

TOBEY, FRANK BASSETT, manufac¬ 
turer, was born Sept. 15, 1833, in Dennis, 
Mass. In 1882 with his brothers he or¬ 
ganized the Tobey Furniture company, of 
Chicago, Ill., of which he is president. 

TOBEY, SILAS B., educator, author, 
was born Nov. 10, 1861, in Champaign, 
Ill. He has contributed extensively to ed¬ 
ucational journals and is the author of A 
Topical Reference Book in United States 
History. 


TOBIN, JOHN, accountant, financier, 
author, was born Nov. 11, 1868, in Elm 
Grove, Ill. He received the rudiments of 
his education in the 
public schools of Il¬ 
linois; then went 
west and attended 
the Colfax college, 
Washington; and 
completed his educa¬ 
tion in the Peoria 
Business college, Illi¬ 
nois, from which 
institution he gradu¬ 
ated in 1892. He has 
attained success as 
an accountant and 
writer on financial topics; has filled im¬ 
portant county offices in Whitman county, 
Wash.; was elected auditor of that coun¬ 
ty in 1894 and again in 1896. He is the 
author of a number of pamphlets and 
articles which treat of legal and finan¬ 
cial subjects as applied to municipal gov¬ 
ernment. 

TOD, DAVID, lawyer, state senator, 
governor, was born Feb. 21, 1805, in 
Y r oungstown, Ohio. In 1838 he was a 
member of the Ohio state senate. He was 
minister to Brazil from 1847 to 1852. He 
was elected governor of Ohio in 1862, and 
gave his support to the government dur- 
ring his term of two years. He died Nov. 
13, 1868, in Youngstown, Ohio. 

TOD, GEORGE, soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born Dec. 11, 1773, in 
Suffield, Conn. He settled in Georgetown, 
Ohio, in 1800. He was elected state sen¬ 
ator in 1804; served as judge of the state 
supreme court from 1806 till 1809; was 
presiding judge of the third judicial cir¬ 
cuit of Ohio from 1815 till 1834; and was 
afterward prosecuting attorney for War¬ 
ren county. He was appointed lieutenant- 
colonel in the war of 1812. He died April 
11, 1841, in Warren county, Ohio. 

TODD, ALBERT, soldier, author, was 
born in 1854 in Rhode Island. He is a 
lieutenant in the United States army who 
has published The Campaigns of the Re¬ 
bellion. 

TODD, ALBERT M., chemist, congress¬ 
man, was born June 3, 1850, near Nottawa. 
Mich. He has been elected a member of 
a number of scientific associations, among 
them the American association for the 
Advancement of Science; the American 
Chemical society; the Society of Chemical 
Industry, international; and the American 
Pharmaceutical association. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-fifth congress by a union 
of the democratic, union silver, people’s, 
and national parties. 

TODD, CHARLES BURR, author, was 
born Jan. 9, 1849, in Redding, Conn. He 
is a magazinist of Redding, Conn.; and 
the author of Life and Letters of Joel 
Barlow; General History of the Burr 
Family; History of Redding, Conn.; Story 
of the City of New York; and The Story 
of the City of Washington. 

TODD, CHARLES SCOTT, soldier, law¬ 
yer, journalist, state legislator, was born 
Jan. 22, 1791, in Danville, Ky. He entered 
the army in 1812 as acting quartermaster 
of the northwestern division; and in 1815 
was inspector-general with rank of brevet 
colonel of cavalry. He was secretary of 
state under Madison in 1816; was a mem¬ 
ber of the legislature in 1817 and 1818; 
and was charge d’affaires to Colombia 
from 1818 to 1823. He prepared sketches 
of the life of Harrison in 1840; edited the 
Cincinnati Republican; and accompanied 
General Harrison to Washington in 1841. 
He was selected minister to St. Petersburg 
by President Tyler in 1841, and held the 
position until 1845. He died May 14, 1871, 
in Baton Rouge, La. 


TODD, DAVID PECK, educator, author, 
was born March 19, 1855, in Lake Ridge, 
N. Y. He is a professor of astronomy at 
Amherst college from 1881; and the au¬ 
thor of Stars and Telescopes; and As¬ 
tronomy for Beginners. 

TODD, ELI, physician, was born July 
23, 1769, in New Haven, Conn. He was 
principally instrumental in founding the 
Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, Conn., 
one of the earliest of the kind, was elected 
its superintendent, and presided over it 
till his death. He died Nov. 17, 1833, in 
Hartford, Conn. 

TODD, JACOB JEFFERSON, soldier, 
lawyer, was born March 12, 1843, in 

Beaver county, Pa. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the com¬ 
mon schools of In¬ 
diana and in Roa¬ 
noke seminary and 
Fort Wayne college, 
and for several terms 
he was engaged in 
educational work. 
During the civil war 
he served as a sol¬ 
dier in company D, 
one hundred and 
thirty-seventh regi¬ 
ment Indiana volun¬ 
teer infantry. On his return from the ser¬ 
vice he began the study of law; in 1896 
he was admitted to the bar, and two years 
later opened a law office in Bluffton, Ind., 
where he has since resided and is known 
as a prominent member of the legal fra¬ 
ternity. In 1880 he was a delegate to the 
Chicago convention and took an active 
part in securing the nomination of Gen¬ 
eral Garfield for president. In 1886 his 
party tendered his name as a candidate 
for lieutenant-governor but he declined 
the use of his name. In 1894 he was the 
nominee for judge of the twenty-eighth 
judicial circuit and in 1896 his name 
was put forward as a candidate for gov¬ 
ernor. In 1890 he was appointed one of 
the commissioners to construct and fur¬ 
nish the hospitals for the insane at Lo- 
gansport, Richmond, and Evansville. In 
1895 he was appointed a member of the 
board of trustees of the hospital for the 
insane at Logansport, and was elected 
president of the board. He has filled nu¬ 
merous public positions of honor; and 
was grand master of Masons for Indiana 
in 1890-91. 

TODD, JAMES, clergyman, author, was 
born May 29, 1851, in Scotland. He was 
commissioned as a missionary to Mani¬ 
toba in 1880 by the colonial commit¬ 
tee of the presbyterian church of 
Scotland; reached there in October 
of that year; and moved to Wiscon¬ 
sin in 1888. He has been synodical 
missionary of home missions, presbyteri¬ 
an church of Wisconsin; secretary of 
Gale college, Wisconsin; and now fills a 
pastorate in Escanaba, Mich. He is the 
author of The Relation Between Educa¬ 
tion and Morality; Hand Book for Pres¬ 
byterians; When, How and By Whom 
Was the Bible Written; and numerous 
pamphlets and contributions to current 
literature. 

TODD, JAMES WILLIAM, president of 
Kentucky, was born March 25, 1834, in 
Winchester, Va. He removed to Shelby- 
ville, Ky., about the year 1855, and estab¬ 
lished the Shelbyville High school. In 
1872 he accepted the presidency of the 
Kentucky High school, now known as the 
Kentucky Eclectic institute. 

TODD, JOHN, congressman, was born 
at Hartford, Conn. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1821 to 1824. 






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TODD, JOHN, soldier, was born in 1750 
in Montgomery county, Pa. He was an 
aide to General Andrew Lewis in the 
battle of Point Pleasant. He succeeded 
General George Rogers Clarke in com¬ 
mand at Kaskaskia in 1778, and was sev¬ 
eral years civil governor and colonel of 
the county of Illinois. He was command¬ 
ant of the Kentucky forces at the battle of 
Blue Licks, Aug. 18, 1782, and was killed 
in this battle. 

TODD, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born Oct. 9, 1800, in Rutland, Vt. He was 
a congregational clergyman, and pastor of 
the First church in Pittsfield, Mass., in 
1842-72. Among his many popular works 
are included Lectures to Children; Stu¬ 
dent’s Manual; Truth Made Simple; Hints 
to Young Men; The Daughter at School; 
Mountain Gems; Woman’s Rights; Sun¬ 
set Land; Old-Fashioned Lives; and 
Future Punishment. He died Aug. 24, 
1873, in Pittsfield, Mass. 

TODD, JOHN BLAIR SMITH, soldier, 
congressman, was born April 4, 1814, in 
Lexington, Ky. In 1861 he was elected a 
delegate to congress from Dakota. When 
the rebellion commenced he was appointed 
a brigadier-general, and commanded a 
division in the army of Tennessee. He 
was re-elected a delegate to congress, 
where he served until 1865. He was one 
of the founders of Yankton, and claimed 
as the leading citizen of Dakota in his 
time. He died Jan. 5, 1872, in Yankton, 
N. D. 

TODD, LEMUEL, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 29, 1817, in Car¬ 
lisle, Pa. He was elected from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the thirty-fourth congress. He 
served in the rebellion as major of the 
first regiment Pennsylvania volunteer re¬ 
serve corps, and afterward as inspector- 
general of Pennsylvania. He was elected 
to the forty-third congress. 

TODD, LEVI, soldier, surveyor, was 
born in 1756 in Pennsylvania. He was ma¬ 
jor, colonel, brigadier and major-general 
of the Kentucky forces until his death in 
1807. 

TODD, MRS. MABEL [LOOMIS], au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1858. She has ed¬ 
ited The Poems and Letters of Emily 
Dickinson; A Cycle of Sonnets; and is 
the author of a work on Total Eclipses of 
the Sun. 

TODD, MRS. MARION, lawyer, lecturer, 
author, was born in 1841 in New York 
city. She is a lawyer and lecturer of 
Eaton Rapids, Mich.; and the author of 
Railways of Europe and America, or Gov¬ 
ernment Ownership; and Protective Tariff 
Delusion. 

TODD, MARY IVES, author, poet was 
born in Dec. 23, 1848, in Eddyville, Iowa. 
She is the daughter of Homer De Grasse 
Ives, a lawyer of 
ability. She is the 
author of The New 

Adam and Eve; and 

a novel entitled 

Little Ruth. She re¬ 
ceived a thorough 

education in the 
public schools of her 
native city, and in a 
private seminary in 
New Haven, Conn. 
She has contributed 
... , stories, newspaper 

articles and poems to the periodical press- 
and her poems have been incorporated in 
Poets of America and other standard 

works. At the age of twenty years she 

was married to Dr. B. Todd, and resides 
in Los Angeles, Cal. 

TODD, ROBERT A., was born April 18, 
1861, in Blair county, Pa. For many 


years he was assistant general manager of 
the Pittsburg company of Ellwood City, 
Pa.; and now manages the real estate in¬ 
terests of that company. He is promi¬ 
nent in public fraternal orders, and takes 
an active part in public affairs. 

TODD, ROBERT BURR, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, jurist, was born Jan. 17, 1825, in 
Howard county, Mo. In 1843 he gradu¬ 
ated from the university of Missouri; and 
is noted as one of the foremost lawyers 
of the south at New Iberia, La, He has 
served with distinction as a state senator; 
has been a delegate to three constitution¬ 
al conventions; and for nine years was 
judge of the supreme court. 

TODD, ROBERT S., legislator, was born 
Feb. 25, 1791, near Lexington, Ky. When 
about thirty years old he was elected 
clerk of the Kentucky house of repre¬ 
sentatives, and by successive elections 
held the position for twenty years. He 
was then three times elected representa¬ 
tive from Fayette county; in 1845 was 
elected to the state senate; and was a 
candidate for re-election when he died. 

TODD, SERENO EDWARDS, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1820 in New York. 
He is a journalist of New York city, at 
one period agricultural editor of The 
Times, now living at Orange, N. J. He- 
is the author of The Apple Culturist; 
Young Farmer’s Manual; The American 
Wheat Culturist; Country Homes; and 
Rural Poetry and Country Lyrics. 

TODD, THOMAS, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 23, 1765, in Virginia. He 
emigrated to Kentucky in 1786, and began 
to practice law at Danville. He was judge 
of the court of appeals in 1801-06; was 
chief justice of Kentucky in 1806 and 1807; 
and associate judge of the supreme court 
from 1807. He died Feb. 7, 1826. in Frank¬ 
fort, Ky. 

TOEBBE, AUGUSTUS MARY, Roman 
catholic bishop, was born Jan. 17, 1829, 
in Hanover. He was consecrated bishop 
of Covington, Ky., in 1870. He died May 
2, 1884, in Covington, Ky. 

TOLAND, GEORGE W., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1837 to 1843. 

TOLAND, MRS. MARY B., poet. She 
has written and published nine beautiful 
poetical books, from the press of Lip- 
pincott and Co., which are magnificently 
illustrated, and are veritable works of art, 
and are the finest ever published in 
America: Stella, or How I Tamed a Wild 
Indian; Sir Rae; Iris, the Romance of 
an Opal Ring; Qnti Ora, a metrical ro¬ 
mance; The Inca Princess, an Historical 
Romance; vE'gle and the Elf; Eudora, a 
Tale of Love; Legend Laymore; Tisayac 
of the Yosemite; and Atlina, the Queen 
of the Floating Isle. 

TOLBERT, ROBERT REO. cotton 
planter, merchant, politician, was born 
May 10, 1863. near Greenwood, S. C. He is 
a successful cotton planter and merchant 
of Abbeville, S. C.; and prominent in the 
public affairs of his city, county and state. 
He has been the republican county chair¬ 
man of Abbeville county; and in 1897 
was elected republican state chairman of 
bouth Carolina for four years. 

TOLL, CHARLES HANSEN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 26, 1850, in Mem¬ 
phis, N. Y. He has served one term as 
judge of Rio Grande county, Colo. In 
1880 he became attorney-general of Colo¬ 
rado. 

TOM, BLIND, musician, was born May 
j 5 > 1849 > near Columbus, Ga., of African 
descent. He was born blind, and the only 
Sign of intelligence he gave in infancy 
was the interest he showed in sounds. 


When he was four years old a piano was 
brought to his master’s house for the use 
of the family, and one night they were 
awakened by hearing him play one of 
their pieces. In 1861 he made his first 
appearance in New York city, and since 
that time his musical feats have aston¬ 
ished the world. 

TOMBAUGH, JAMES M., clergyman, 
college president, was born Nov. 10, 1857, 
in Washington county, Pa. This eminent 
clergyman is the president of Ashland col¬ 
lege, Ohio. 

TOMES, ROBERT, physician, author, 
was born March 27, 1817, in New Yorit 
city. He was the author of Panama in 
1855; Bourbon Prince; My College Days; 
Richard the Lion-Hearted; Oliver Crom¬ 
well; The Americans in Japan; Battles 
of America by Sea and Land; The War 
with the South; and The Champagne 
Country. He died Aug. 28, 1882, in Brook¬ 
lyn. N. Y. 

TOMKINS, CALEB, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in Westchester 
county, N. Y. He was a member of the 
New York assembly from that county 
from 1804 to 1806; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New York 
from 1817 to 1821. 

TOMKINS, CHRISTOPHER, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in congress 
from Kentucky from 1831 to 1835. He 
died in 1845 in Glasgow, Ky. 

TOMKINS, CYDNOR B., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 8, 1810, in Bel¬ 
mont, Ohio. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Ohio to the thirty-fifth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the thirty- 
sixth congress. 

TOMKINS, DANIEL D., vice-president 
of the United States, was born June 21, 
j. 774, in New York. He was admitted to 
practice in the city of New York in 1797. 
He served in the state legislature. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
1805 to 1807; and resigned to accept an 
appointment as an associate judge of 
the supreme court of the state. In 1807 
he was elected governor of the state, 
and held that office two years. In 1817 he 
resigned the office of governor; was elect¬ 
ed vice-president of the United States; 
and served two years. He died June 11, 
1825, on Staten Island, N. Y. 

TOMLINSON, EVERETT TITSWORTH, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1859 in 
New York. He is a baptist clergyman of 
Elizabeth, N. J., popular as a writer of 
juvenile tales, among which are, The 
Search for Andrew Field; The Boy Sol¬ 
diers of 1812; The Boy Oflicers of 1812; 
Three Colonial Boys; Tecumseh’s Young 
Braves; and Three Young Continentals. 

TOMLINSON, GIDEON, lawyer, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born 
Dec; 31, 1780, in Stratford, Conn. In 1818 
he was chosen a representative in con¬ 
gress, in which office he was continued till 
1827. In that year he was chosen gov¬ 
ernor of Connecticut, and remained in 
that station until 1831, when, on being 
elected a senator of the United States, he 
resigned his office as governor. He died 
Oct. 8, 1854, in Fairfield, Conn. 

TOMLINSON, THOMAS A., state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in New 
York. He served in the New York state 
assembly from Essex county in 1835 and 
1836; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1841 to 1843. 

1 OMPKINS, CHARLES H., soldier, was 
born Sept. 12, 1830, in Fort Monroe, Va. 

In 1856 he entered the United States ser¬ 
vice in the dragoons; served with distinc¬ 
tion through the civil war; and attained 
the rank of colonel and brigadier-general 
in 1865. 



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TOMPKINS, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1780. He was an early set¬ 
tler of Missouri. He was a judge of the 
state supreme court from 1828 to 1840; 
and was its chief justice from 1840 to 1846. 
He died April 7, 1846, near Jefferson City 
Mo. 

TOMPKINS, PATRICK W., congress¬ 
man, was born in Kentucky. He settled 
in Mississippi; and was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1847 to 1849. 

TOMPSON, BENJAMIN, educator, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born July 14, 1642, in 
Braintree, Mass. He was a colonial edu¬ 
cator, the master of a preparatory school 
in Cambridge for nearly forty years from 
1670, and a satirical poet of some merit. 
He was the author of New England’s Cri¬ 
sis, a poem on King Philip's War. He 
died April 13, 1714. 

TOMPSON, EDWARD, clergyman, was 
born April 20, 1665, in Boston, Mass. He 
taught for several years at Newbury, and 
from 1696 until his death was pastor of 
the church at Marshfield, Mass. His last 
sermons, entitled Heaven the Best Coun¬ 
try, were published in 1712. He died 
March 10, 1715, in Marshfield, Mass. 

TONE, WILLIAM THEOBALD WOLFE, 
soldier, author, was born April 29, 1791, 
in Ireland. After serving in the French 
army he came to America in 1816 and was 
in the artillery service of the United 
States for ten years. He died Oct. 10, 1828, 
in New York city. 

TONER, JOSEPH MEREDITH, physi¬ 
cian, philanthropist, was born April 30, 
1825, in Pittsburg, Pa. He is the presi¬ 
dent of the Columbian Historical society 
of Washington, D. C.; and he gave a col¬ 
lection of twenty-eight thousand books 
and eighteen thousand pamphlets to the 
congressional library, known as the Toner 
collection, and regarded as a most im¬ 
portant and valuable acquisition. He 
founded the Toner lectures under the 
auspices of the Smithsonian institution. 
He is the author of Abortion in Its Medi¬ 
cal and Moral Aspects; Maternal Instinct; 
and Medical Men of the Revolution. 



TONGUE. THOMAS H., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born June 23, 1844, in Lincoln¬ 
shire, England. He removed with his 
parents to Washing¬ 
ton county, Ore., 
Nov. 23, 1859, where 
he has since resided. 
He was educated at 
Pacific university, 
Forestgrove, Wash¬ 
ington county, Ore., 
and graduated in 
June, 1868. In 1888 
he was elected a 
member of the state 
senate, serving a 
term of four years. 
In 1890 he was the permanent chairman of 
the state republican convention; and in 
February, 1892, was elected president of 
the state organization of republican clubs 
and served for a term of two years. He 
was a delegate to the national republican 
convention at Minneapolis in 1892, and 
was the Oregon vice-president of that con¬ 
vention. In 1894 he was again the perma¬ 
nent chairman of the state republican con¬ 
vention; and has been a member of the 
state central committee continuously since 
1866. He has been the chairman of the 
congressional committee of the first con¬ 
gressional district of Oregon from the 
time of its organization until 1896. He 
was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a republican. 

TOOLE, JOSEPH KEMP, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born May 12. 1851, 
in Savannah, Mo. In 1872 he was elected 


district attorney of the third judicial dis¬ 
trict of Montana; and was re-elected in 
1874 without opposition. In 1881 he was 
elected a member of the council of the 
twelfth legislative assembly of Montana, 
and was chosen president of the council. 
In 1884 he was elected the delegate from 
Montana to the forty-ninth congress; and 
was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as 
a democrat. 

TOOMBS, ROBERT, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born July 2, 1810, in Wilkes county, Ga. 

In 1837 he was elect¬ 
ed to the legislature 
from his native coun¬ 
ty, and, with the ex¬ 
ception of 1841, con¬ 
tinued a member of 
the lower branch un¬ 
til his election to the 
federal house of rep¬ 
resentatives, where 
he served during the 
twenty-ninth, thir¬ 
tieth, thirty-first, and 
thirty-second con¬ 
gresses. He entered the senate during the 
thirty-third congress for six years, and 
was re-elected for a second term ending 
March 4, 1865. He was expelled in 1861, 
and became secretary of state in the con¬ 
federate government. He was also a 
brigadier-general in the great rebellion. 
He died Dec. 14, 1885, in Washington, 
D. C. 

TOOMER. JOHN DE ROSSETT, jurist, 
state senator, was born March 13, 1784, in 
Wilmington, N. C. In 1831 and 1832 he 
represented Cumberland county in the 
North Carolina state senate; and in 1836 
was elected judge of the superior court, 
and served until 1840 when he continued 
the practice of law in Pittsboro, N. C. He 
died Oct. 27, 1856, in Pittsboro, N. C. 

TOPPAN. ROBERT NOXON, lawyer, 
author, was born Oct. 17, 1836, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is a lawyer of Cambridge, 
Mass.; and the author of Historical Sum¬ 
mary of Metallic Money; and Biographical 
Sketches of Old Newbury. 

TORBERT, ALFRED THOMAS ARCH¬ 
IMEDES, soldier, was born July 1, 1833, 
in Georgetown, Del. He served with dis¬ 
tinction through the civil war, and at¬ 
tained the rank of brevet major-general 
of volunteers in 1865. He died Sept. 30, 
1880, at sea. 

TORNOS, MANUEL ALBERTO, public 
official, author, was born June 2, 1862, in 
New York city. Since 1881 he has been 
secretary of the Spanish consulate-general 
in New' York city. He has published 
Spanish Tariffs, with Extracts from the 
Custom-House Regulations. 

TORRENCE. JOSEPH THATCHER, 
soldier, lawyer, mechanical engineer, was 
born March 15, 1843, in Mercer county, 
Pa. He served with 
distinction through 
the civil war, and at¬ 
tained the rank of 
brigadier-general. In 
1869 he moved to 
Chicago as manager 
of the Chicago Iron 
works, now the Un¬ 
ion Works of the Il¬ 
linois Steel company. 
He organized the 
Standard Steel and 
Iron company, and 
also the Calumet Canal Improvement com¬ 
pany. He was prominent in the develop¬ 
ment of terminal railroad facilities in Chi¬ 
cago and the west; and was known as 
the father of track elevation. He died 
Oct. 31, 1896. 




TORREY, BRADFORD, essayist, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 9, 1843, in Weymouth, 
Mass. He is an essayist of Boston, a mem¬ 
ber of the editorial staff of The Youth’s 
Companion; and the author of Birds in 
the Bush; The Foot-Path Way; A Ram¬ 
bler’s Lease; A Florida Sketch-Book; and 
Spring Notes from Tennessee. 

TORREY, CHARLES TURNER, reform¬ 
er, author, was born in 1813 in Scituate, 
Mass. He was an anti-slavery reformer 
who was imprisoned in Baltimore for aid¬ 
ing in the escape of slaves, and died in 
imprisonment. He was the author of Me¬ 
moir of William Saxton; and Home, or 
the Pilgrim’s Faith Reward. He djed May 
9, 1846, in Baltimore, Md. 

TORREY, JOHN, botanist, physician, 
author, was born Aug. 15, 1796, in New 
York city. He was a distinguished botan¬ 
ist and physician of New York city, pro¬ 
fessor in the college of Physicians and 
Surgeons in 1827-55; and United States 
assayer in 1853-73. He was the author of 
Catalogue of Plants Growing Spontaneous¬ 
ly Within Thirty Miles of New York; 
Flora of the Northern and Middle States; 
and Flora of New York State. He died 
March 10, 1873, in New York city. 

TORREY, JOSEPH, clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Feb. 2, 1797, in Row- 
ley, Mass. He was a congregational cler¬ 
gyman and educator, and professor in the 
university of Vermont in 1827-67. He was 
the author of A Theory of Art, transla¬ 
tion of Neander’s History of the Christian 
Religion. He died Nov. 26, 1867, in Bur¬ 
lington, Vt. 

TORREY, MARY CUTLER, author, was 
born May 28, 1831, in Burlington, Vt. She 
is the author of America, a dramatic po¬ 
em; and has edited Joseph Torrey’s The¬ 
ory of Fine Art; and has revised edi¬ 
tion of Neander’s Church History, herself 
preparing the index volume. 

TORREY, SAMUEL, clergyman, was 
born in 1631 in England. In 1856 he be¬ 
came pastor of the church at Weymouth, 
which post he held for fifty-one years. He 
preached the election sermon in 1674, 1683, 
and 1689, and was a person of such deep 
and extensive views that the gov ernor and 
council would send for him to come fifteen 
miles to aid them with his advice and 
wise observations. He died April 10, 1707, 
in Weymouth, Mass. 

TOTTEN, BENJAMIN J., naval officer, 
anther, was born in 1806 in West Indies. 
He is a naval officer of New Bedford; and 
the author of Totten’s Naval Text-Book. 
He died May 9, 1877, in New Bedford, 
Mass. 

TOTTEN, CHARLES ADELLE LEWIS, 
inventor, author, was born Feb. 3, 1851, 
in New London, Conn. He is a military 
inventor; and the author of Strategos, 
the American War Game; Yale Military 
Lectures; and Nativity: its Facts and 
Fancies. 

TOTTEN, GEORGE MUIRSON. civil 
engineer, was born May 28, 1809, in New 
Haven, Conn. He was appointed in 1850 
engineer-in-chief of the Panama railroad, 
and spent twenty-five years among dif¬ 
ficulties of every sort in the completion 
of this arduous task. He died June 8, 
1884, in New York city. 

TOTTEN, JOSEPH GILBERT, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Aug. 23, 1788, in 
New Haven, Conn. He was a military en¬ 
gineer cf distinction, brevetted major-gen¬ 
eral in 1864; and the author of Essays on 
Hydraulic and Other Cements. He died 
April 22, 1864, in Washington, D. C. 







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TOTTEN, SILAS, clergyman, author, 
was born March 26, 1804, in Schoharie 
county, N. Y. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman, president of Trinity college in 
1837-48; and the author of New Intro¬ 
duction to Algebra; and The Analogy of 
Truth. He died Oct. 7, 1873, in Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky. 


TOUCEY, ISAAC, lawyer, congressman, 
governor, United States senator, was born 
Nov. 5, 1796, in Newton, Conn. He was a 
representative in 
congress from Con¬ 
necticut from 1835 to 
1839; and was gov¬ 
ernor of the state 
from 1846 to 1847. He 
was appointed attor¬ 
ney-general of the 
United States by 
President Polk. He 
was a state senator 
in 1850; and was a 
senator in congress 
from 1852 to 1857. In 
March of the latter year he went into 
President Buchanan’s cabinet as secretary 
of the navy, serving as such until 1861. 
He subsequently founded two scholarships 
in Trinity college. He died July 30, 1869, 
in Hartford, Conn. 

TOUCHARD, LOUIS CHARLES, naval 
officer, was born in 1741 in New Orleans, 
La. In 1782 he was attacked by two Eng¬ 
lish men of war; he captured one, but 
was killed in the moment of victory. He 
died April 12, 1782, at sea; and was bu¬ 
ried with honors in Martinique. 

TOULMIN, HENRY, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1767 in England. He 
was a jurist who was a judge of the 
United States district court in 1804; and 
was the Kentucky secretary of state in 
1796-1804, and president of Transylvania 
university, and subsequently lived in Ala¬ 
bama. He was the author of A Description 
of Kentucky; Magistrate’s Assistant; Col¬ 
lection of the Acts of Kentucky; Review 
of the Criminal Law of Kentucky; and 
Digest of the Territorial Laws of Alaba¬ 
ma. He died Nov. 11, 1823, in Washington 
county, Ala. 




TOURGEE, ALBION WIMEGAR, law¬ 
yer, jurist, diplomat, author, was born 
May 2, 1838, in Williamsfield, Ohio. He 
received his educa¬ 
tion at the Kings¬ 
ville academy and 
the Rochester uni¬ 
versity. During the 
civil war he was 
first lieutenant in 
the one hundred and 
fifth regiment Ohio 
volunteer infantry. 
During 1868-76 he 
was judge of the su¬ 
perior court of the 
seventh district of 
North Carolina; lias been code commis¬ 
sioner; and was a member of the consti¬ 
tutional conventions of North Carolina in 
1868 and in 1874. In 1897 he was appoint¬ 
ed by President McKinley as minister to 

-. He is the author of A Fool’s 

Errand, his most noted work, and the fol¬ 
lowing books: A Royal Gentleman; Figs 
and Thistles: Bricks Without Straw; 
John Eax; Hot Plowshares; Black Ice; 
Button's Inn; Pactolus Prime; Murvale 
Eastman; With Gauge and Swallow; A 
Son of Old Harry; Out of the Sunset Sea; 
The Mortgage on the Hip-Roof House; An 
Outing with the Queen of Hearts; An Ap¬ 
peal to Caesar; The Veteran and His Pipe; 
The Man of Destiny; Letters to a King; 
The Story of a Thousand; The War of the 
Standards; The Code with Notes; Digest 


of Cited Cases; and The Bystander, in the 
Chicago Inter Ocean since 1886. 

TOURGEE, EBEN, musician, philan¬ 
thropist, was born June 1, 1834, in War¬ 
wick, R. I. In 1859 he founded a musical 
conservatory at East Greenwich, and in 
1864 he projected a larger institution at 
Providence, which was removed to Bos¬ 
ton in 1867, and incorporated in 1870. He 
died April 12, 1891, in Boston, Mass. 

TOUSEY, SINCLAIR, president of the 
American News company, was born July 
18, 1818, in New Haven, Conn. In 1864 
he helped form the American News com¬ 
pany in New York city, which bought the 
trade of himself and several other whole¬ 
sale dealers. He was elected president of 
the new company, and occupied the office 
until his death. He died June 16, 1887, in 
New York city. 

TOWER, CHARLEMAGNE, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born April 17, 1848, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is a prominent lawyer of 
Philadelphia, Pa., where he has a large 
and lucrative practice; and is the author 
of a work entitled The Marquis de La 
Fayette in the American Revolution. 

TOWER, FAYETTE BARTHOLOMEW, 
civil engineer, was born Jan. 29, 1817, in 
Waterville, N. Y. He made Waterville, 
N. Y„ his residence, and at that time pre¬ 
pared his Illustrations of the Croton Aque¬ 
duct, consisting of a series of twenty-one 
plates, with text. He died Feb. 16, 1857, 
in Waterville, N. Y. 

TOWER, ZEALOUS BATES, soldier, 
was born Jan. 12, 1819, in Cohasset, Mass. 
After forty years of active service he was 
retired. He received eight brevets up to 
major-general. He founded the City of 
Mexico in 1847. 

TOWLE, AMOS, educator, was born Ju¬ 
ly 23, 1823, in Exeter, N. H. He received 
a thorough education and attended the 
Phillips Exeter academy. He attained 
success in educational work, and taught 
two years in the Bristol academy of Taun¬ 
ton, Mass., before he moved in 1844 to 
Mobile, Ala. He then taught in private 
schools until 1853, when he engaged in 
building up the public schools until 1860. 
He then entered the Mobile college for 
eight years; then established Towle’s in¬ 
stitute for Boys, which flourished until 
he ceased to teach, after fifty-three years 
of active service in the cause of civiliza¬ 
tion. 

TOWLE, GEORGE MAKEPEACE, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Aug. 27, 1841, in 
Washington, D. C. He was the author of 
History of Henry V.; Glimpses of His¬ 
tory; Modern France; Certain Men of 
Mark; American Society; Beaconsfield; 
England and Russia in Asia; England in 
Egypt; Young People’s History of Eng¬ 
land; Young People’s History of Ireland; 
The Nation in a Nutshell; Heroes of His¬ 
tory; The Literature of the English Lan¬ 
guage; and Heroes and Martyrs of Inven¬ 
tion. He died Aug. 10, 1893, in Brookline, 
Mass. 

TOWLER, JOHN, educator, author, was 
born June 20, 1811, in England. He is an 
English educator who settled in America 
in 1850, was a professor in Hobart college, 
Geneva, N. Y., in 1853-82, and subsequent¬ 
ly lived at Orange, N. J. Beside publishing 
a number of works on photography, he 
was co-editor of Hilpert’s German and 
English Dictionary. 

TOWLES, MRS. CATHERINE WEBB, 
author, poet, was born Oct. 25, 1823, in 
Charlemont, Mass. She has received hon¬ 
orary degrees from southern colleges. She 
has published Tales for the Freemason’s 
Fireside; The Three Golden Links; and 
Poor Claire, or Life Among the Queer. 


TOWN, SALEM, educator, author, was 
born March 5, 1779, in Belchertown 

Mass. He was a once noted educator ol 
New York and Indiana; and the author 
of System of Speculative Masonry; An¬ 
alysis of English Derivatives; and, with 
N. Holbrook, a popular series of readers. 
He died Feb. 24, 1864, in Greencastle, Ind. 

TOWNE, CHARLES ARNETTE, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Nov. 21, 1858, 
in Oakland county, Mich. He is one of the 
foremost lawyers of the west, and has a 
large practice in Duluth, Minn. He served 
with distinction as a member of the fifty- 
fourth congress, and since 1897 has been 
chairman of the national committee of the 
silver republican party. 

TOWNE, EDWARD CORNELIUS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born ip 1834 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a congregational clergy¬ 
man of New Haven; and the author of 
The Question of Hell; and Electricity 
and Life. 

TOWNE, HENRY ROBINSON, manu¬ 
facturer, was born Aug. 28, 1844, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. The Yale and Towne Man¬ 
ufacturing company, whose works are yet 
located in Stamford, with others in Bran¬ 
ford, Conn., was practically founded and 
has been entirely developed by him. 

TOWNS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
journalist, lawyer, legislator, congress¬ 
man, governor, was born May 4, 1801, in 
Wilkes county, Ga. He served for sev¬ 
eral years in the Georgia legislature. He 
was a representative in congress from 
1835 to 1839, and was again elected in 
1846. His last public position was that of 
governor of Georgia, to which office he 
was elected in 1847; and was re-elected in 
1849. He died July 15, 1854, in Macon. 

TOWNSEND, AMOS, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1831 in Fayette 
county, Pa. He served in the Cleveland 
city council for tern years, seven years as 
president of the council: and was elected 
a representative from Ohio to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

TOWNSEND, CALVIN, author, was 
born in 18—. He is the author of Ana¬ 
lysis of the United States Constitution; 
Compendium of Commercial Law; Ana¬ 
lysis of Letter-Writing; and Shorter 
Course in Civil Government. 

TOWNSEND, CHARLES, author. He 
is the author of Essays on Mind, Matter, 
Force, etc.; and Primordial Principles of 
the Universe. 

TOWNSEND. CHARLES CHAMPLIN, 
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was 
born Nov. 24, 1841, in Allegheny City, Pa. 
He served two years in the army during 
the rebellion as a private in company A, 
ninth regiment Pennsylvania reserve vol¬ 
unteer corps, and afterwards as adjutant 
of the first Pennsylvania cavalry. He was 
elected from New Brighton, Pa., to the- 
fifty-first congress as a republican. 

TOWNSEND, DWIGHT, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1826 in New York 
city. In 1864 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative from New York to the thirty-eighth 
congress to fill a vacancy; and was also 
elected to the forty-second congress. 

TOWNSEND, EDWARD DAVIS, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born Aug. 22, 1817, in 
Boston, Mass. He was an adjutant-gen¬ 
eral of the United States army; at the 
time of his death on the retired list as 
brigadier-general. He was chief executive 
officer of the war department in Washing¬ 
ton during the civil war. He was the au¬ 
thor of Catechism of the Bible; and Anec¬ 
dotes of the Civil War in the United 
States. He died May 11, 1893, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 








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TOWNSEND, EDWARD WATERMAN, 
journalist, author, was born in 1855 in 
Ohio. He is a journalist of New York 
city whose studies of Bowery life and 
dialect have been widely popular. He is 
the author of Chimmie Fadden, Major 
Max, and Other Stories; Chimmie Fadden 
Explains, Major Max Expounds; A Daugh¬ 
ter of the Tenements, a novel; Near a 
Whole City Full, a collection of short dra¬ 
matic stories. In collaboration he has 
written several plays, including Chimmie 
Fadden; A Daughter of the Tenements; 
and The Marquis of Michigan. 

TOWNSEND, ELIZA, poet, was born in 
1789 in Boston, Mass. She was a verse- 
writer of Boston whose collected Poems 
and Miscellanies appeared in 1856. She 
died Jan. 12, 1854, in Boston, Mass. 

TOWNSEND, FREDERICK, soldier, 
was born Sept. 21, 1825, in Albany, N. Y. 
In 1856 he became adjutant-general of the 
state. He served in various capacities 
during the civil war as major; and in 
1878 was appointed a brigadier-general in 
the state militia, and afterward became 
adjutant-general. 

TOWNSEND, GEORGE, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1815 to 1819. 

TOWNSEND, GEORGE ALFRED— 
Gath—journalist, author, was born Jan. 
30, 1841, in Georgetown, Del. He is a 
journalist of New York city and Chicago 
famous as a war correspondent, among 
whose writings are Washington Outside 
and Inside; Tales of the Chesapeake; Bo¬ 
hemian Days; Campaigns of a Non-Com¬ 
batant; The Entailed Hat, a novel; Po¬ 
ems; Life of Garibaldi; The Real Life 
of Abraham Lincoln; Katy of Catoctin. 
a National Romance; and Mrs. Reynolds 
and Hamilton. 

TOWNSEND, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
merchant, lawyer, author, was born Feb. 
1, 1839, in West Chester, Pa. He received 
his education in the 
public and classical 
schools of Philadel¬ 
phia. For ten years 
he was a successful 
merchant, and in 1874 
was admitted to the 
bar. He is the au¬ 
thor of several re¬ 
ligious and secular 
works, and has given 
much time and study 
to solving the educa¬ 
tional problem How 
to Educate. His method of education em¬ 
bodied in The Wherewithal trains the 
senses and teaches how to think. He has 
filled high official Masonic positions, and 
has lectured extensively on educational 
topics. 

TOWNSEND, HOSEA, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born June 16, 
1840, in Greenwich, Ohio. He enlisted in 
the second Ohio cav¬ 
alry in 1861; and was 
promoted to lieuten¬ 
ant, and resigned in 
1863 on account of 
disability. He was 
admitted to the bar 
at Cleveland, Ohio, 
and commenced the 
practice of law in 
Memphis, Tenn., in 
1865. He was elected 
to the legislature of 
that state in 1869 as 
a republican, and served one term. He re¬ 
moved to Colorado in 1879; was elected 
to the fifty-first congress, and re-elected 
to the fifty-second congress as a republi¬ 
can In 1897 he was appointed judge of 


the United States supreme court for the 
southern district of the Indian territory. 

TOWNSEND, HOWARD, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 22, 1823, in Albany, 
N. Y. He was a physician of Albany; and 
the author of The Sunbeam and the Spec¬ 
troscope; Food and its Digestion; and 
Sinai Bible. He died Jan. 16, 1867, in 
Albany, N. Y. 

TOWNSEND, JAMES, congressman. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the second congress. He died in 
May, 1791. 

TOWNSEND, JAMES MULFORD, capi¬ 
talist, philanthropist, was born Jan. 20, 
1825, in New Haven, Conn. The Townsend 
prize fund, amounting to one hundred dol¬ 
lars, was his gift to the Yale Law school, 
and is offered the student who shall write 
and deliver the best oration in the best 
manner on graduation day. 

TOWNSEND, JOHN KIRK, naturalist, 
author, was born Aug. 10, 1809, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a naturalist of Wash¬ 
ington; and the author of Journey to the 
Columbia River, republished in London 
as Sporting Adventures in the Rocky 
Mountains. He died Feb. 16, 1851, in 
Washington, D. C. 

TOWNSEND, LINUS, author, poet, was 
born Dec. 25, 1819, near Apollo, Pa. For 
half a century he has contributed to the 
periodical press; is the author of a vol¬ 
ume entitled Miscellaneous Poems, a work 
of over three hundred pages; and a Pio¬ 
neer History, containing historical notes 
of a district in West Pennsylvania. His 
poems also appear in Poets of America, 
and other standard works. 

TOWNSEND, LUTHER TRACY, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born Sept. 
27, 1838, in Orono, Maine. He is a metho- 
dist clergyman and educator of promi¬ 
nence, professor in Boston university in 
1873-93; a pastor in Baltimore from 1893; 
and subsequently in Washington, D. C. He 
is the author of God-Man; Credo; The 
Fate of Republics; Outlines of Christian 
Theology; Sword and Garment; The Are¬ 
na and the Throne; The Intermediate 
World; Search and Manifestations; The 
Mosaic Record and Modern Science; Bible 
Miracles and Modern Thought; Outlines 
of Theology; The Supernatural Factor in 
Religious Revivals; Real and Pretended 
Christianity; The Bible and Other An¬ 
cient Literature in the Nineteenth Cen¬ 
tury; The Chinese Problem; The Inter¬ 
mediate World; and The Art of Speech. 

TOWNSEND, MARTIN INGHAM, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Feb. 6, 1810, 
in Hancock, Mass. In 1842-45 he was dis¬ 
trict attorney for Rensselaer county, N. 
Y.; attorney for the northern district of 
New York during 1879-87; and a member 
of the constitutional commission of 1890. 
He was elected a representative in the 
forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as 
a republican. 

TOWNSEND, MRS. MARY ASHLEY 
[VAN VOORHEES], author, poet, was 
born about 1836 in Lyons, N. Y. She is a 
popular poet of New Orleans; and the 
author of Xariffa’s Poems; Down the Ba¬ 
you, and Other Poems; Distaff and Spin¬ 
dle; The Captain’s Story, a Poem; and 
The Brother Clerks. 

TOWNSEND, N. S., congressman, was 
born in England. He settled in Ohio; and 
was elected a representative in congress 
from that state from 1851 to 1853. 

TOWNSEND, SMITH J., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born Jan. 16, 1869, in Geneva, 
Ill. He received his degree of medicine 
from the medical department of the West¬ 
ern Reserve university of Cleveland, Ohio; 


and has since attained success in his pro¬ 
fession at Paton, Iowa. He has been 
health commissioner; medical examiner 
of various large life insurance companies, 
and is a prominent member of the leading 
medical bodies. 

TOWNSEND, THOMAS S„ compiler, 
was born Aug. 27, 1829, in New York city. 
In 1860 he determined to form a chrono¬ 
logical history of every important occur¬ 
rence in connection with the impending 
civil war. This journalistic record com¬ 
prises about one hundred and twenty vol¬ 
umes containing sixty thousand pages. 
This collection is now in Columbia col¬ 
lege library, New York city. 

TOWNSEND, VIRGINIA FRANCES, 
author, was born in 1836 in New Haven, 
Conn. She is the author of A Woman’s 
Word; One Woman’s Two Lovers; Lenox 
Dare; Protestant Queen of Navarre; Only 
Girls; Sirs, Only Seventeen; A Boston 
Girl’s Ambition; Six in All; But a Philis¬ 
tine; and That Queer Girl. 

TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in 1813 in West¬ 
chester, Pa. In 1832 he became a teller 
in the bank of Ches¬ 
ter county, during 
which service he stu¬ 
died law, and came 
to the bar in 1844. 
He served two terms 
as deputy state’s at¬ 
torney of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He was a del¬ 
egate to the Balti¬ 
more national con¬ 
vention of 1852, and 
also to the Chicago- 
convention of 1860. 
In 1868 he was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the forty-first con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
second, forty-third, and forty-fourth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

TOWNSEND, WILLIAM KNEELAND, 
lawyer, jurist, was born June 12, 1849, in 
New Haven, Conn. He is a noted lawyer 
of New Haven, Conn.; has been corpora¬ 
tion counsel; judge of the United States 
district court; and professor of law in the 
Yale university. 

TOWNSHEND, RICHARD WELLING¬ 
TON, lawyer, congressman, was born 
April 30, 1840, in Prince George county, 
Md. He was prosecuting attorney for the 
twelfth judicial circuit of Illinois from 
1868 to 1872. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Illinois to the forty-fifth, 
forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, 
forty-ninth, and fiftieth congresses as a 
democrat. 

TOWNSLEY, FRANCES ELEANOR, 
educator, clergyman, poet, was born Sept. 
13, 1849, in Albany, N. Y. She is now 
pastor of the baptist church of Ashland, 
Neb. She is the author of numerous po¬ 
ems of merit, which have appeared in 
Harper’s Weekly, Poets of America, and 
other standard works. 

TOY, CRAWFORD HOWELL, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born March 
23, 1836, in Norfolk, Va. He is a Unitarian 
clergyman, and professor of Hebrew in 
Harvard University Divinity school. He 
is the author of Quotations in the New 
Testament; History of the Religion of 
Israel; and Judaism and Christianity, the 
Progress of Thought from the Old Testa¬ 
ment to the New. 

TRACEWELL, ROBERT J., lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 7, 1852, in 
Warren county, Va. He entered his fath¬ 
er’s law office at Corydon, Ind., and has 
since remained at Corydon in the prac¬ 
tice of the law. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth congress as a republican. 










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TRACEY, CHARLES, congressman, 
was born May 27, 1847, in Albany, N. Y. 
He was appointed aide-de-camp to Gov¬ 
ernor Tilden of New York in 1875; and 
was appointed commissary-general of sub¬ 
sistence of New York state in 1877. He 
was elected to the fiftieth congress to fill 
a vacancy; and was re-elected to the 
fifty-first; and re-elected to the fifty-sec¬ 
ond and fifty-third congresses as a demo¬ 
crat. 

TRACEY, JOHN P., soldier, journalist, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 18, 
1836, in Wayne county, Ohio. He enlisted 
as a private in the 
union army in 1862, 
and was mustered 
out with the rank of 
first lieutenant in 
1865; and was com¬ 
missioned lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel of enroll¬ 
ed militia in 1865. He 
settled in Stockton 
and engaged in the 
practice of law; re¬ 
moved to Springfield 
in 1874 and engaged 
in journalism as the editor of a republi¬ 
can newspaper. He was on the Grant 
electoral ticket in 1868; republican candi¬ 
date for railroad commissioner in 1878; 
and candidate for elector at large on the 
Garfield ticket in 1880. He was commis¬ 
sioned United States marshal for the west¬ 
ern district of Missouri in 1890, and served 
until 1894. He was elected to the fifty- 
fourth congress as a republican. He se¬ 
cured the adoption of a reform in the ju¬ 
diciary department, substituting stated 
salaries instead of fees to attorneys and 
marshals of the United States courts. 

TRACY, ALBERT HALLER, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born June 
17, 1793, in Norwich, Conn. He served 
three terms in congress from 1819 to 1825 
as a representative from a district com¬ 
prising almost the whole of that part of 
New York west of Seneca lake. In 1829 
he was elected to the senate of New York 
for four years; and was re-elected for a 
second term of four years. He died Sept. 
19, 1859, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

TRACY, ANDREW, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in Vermont. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Vermont from 1853 to 1855. He served ten 
years in the state legislature, a part of the 
time in each house, and was speaker from 
1842 to 1845. He died Oct. 28, 1868, in 
Woodstock, Vt. 

TRACY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, cabinet officer, was 
born April 26, 1830, in Owego, N. Y. In 
1853 and 1856 he was 
elected district at¬ 
torney of Tioga 
county; and was 
successively elected 
and re - elected a 
member of the state 
legislature. He serv¬ 
ed in the civil war, 
and at its close was 
made a brigadier- 
general. During 1866- 
73 he was United 
States district attor¬ 
ney for the eastern district of New York; 
and during 1881-83 was an associate judge 
of the court of appeals. In 1888 he was 
chosen by President Harrison to be sec¬ 
retary of the navy, and his record in the 
creation of the new navy is a matter of 
history. He drafted the new charter for 
the greater city of New York; and in 
1897 was a candidate for the mayoralty of 
that city. 


TRACY, CHARLES CHAPIN, mission¬ 
ary, author, was born Oct. 31, 1838, in 
East Smithfield, Pa. He is a presbyterian 
foreign missionary; and the author of 
Letters to Members of Oriental Families; 
and Myra, or a Child’s Story of Missionary 
Life. 

TRACY, H. W., merchant, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 1807. 
in Luzerne county, Pa. In 1861 and 1862 
he was elected to the Pennsylvania state 
legislature; and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Pennsylvania to the thirty- 
eighth congress. 

TRACY, IRA, missionary, author, was 
born Jan. 15, 1806, in Hartford, Vt. He 
was a congregational missionary in the 
East Indies; and the author of Duty to 
the Heathen. He died Nov. 10, 1875, in 
Bloomington, Wis. 

TRACY, JOSEPH, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 3, 1794, in Hartford, Vt. 
He was a congregational clergyman, sec¬ 
retary of the Massachusetts Colonization 
society; and the author of Three Last 
Things; and The Great Awakening, a 
History of the Revival of Religion in the 
Time of Edwards and Whitefield. He 
died March 24, 1874, in Beverly, Mass. 

TRACY, PHINEAS LYMAN, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 25, 1786, in Norwich, 
Conn. He was a representative in congress 
from Genesee county, N. Y., from 1827 to 
1833. He died Dec. 23, 1876, in Batavia, 
N. Y. 

TRACY, ROGER SHERMAN, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Dec. 9, 1841, in 
Windsor, Vt. He is a physician of New 
York city; and the author of Handbook 
of Sanitary Information for Household¬ 
ers; Essentials of Anatomy; Physiology 
and Hygiene; and The New Liber Pri¬ 
mus. 

TRACY, URI, congressman, was born in 
Franklin, Conn. He was a representative 
in congress from New York from 1805 to 
1807, and again from 1809 to 1813. He 
died in 1813. 

TRACY, URIAH, lawyer, congressman. 
United States senator, was born Feb. 2, 
1755, in Franklin, Conn. He was often 
chosen a state representative from Con¬ 
necticut, and in 1793 was speaker of the 
house. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1793 to 1796, and from 1796 to 
1807 was a senator of the United States. 
He was also a major-general of militia. 
He died July 19, 1807, in Washington, 
D. C. 

TRAFTON, MARK, clergyman, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Aug. 1, 1810, 
in Bangor, Maine. He is a methodist cler¬ 
gyman of prominence, and was a member 
of the thirty-fourth congress in i855-57, 
from Massachusetts. He is the author of 
Rambles in Europe; Safe Investment; 
Baptism: its Subjects and Mode; and 
Scenes in My Life. 

TRAIN, ARTHUR SAVAGE, clergy¬ 
man, educator, was born Sept. 1, 1812, in 
Framingham, Mass. He was ordained to 
the ministry in 1836, as pastor of the bap¬ 
tist church in Haverhill, Mass., and he 
continued in that relation for twenty- 
three years, resigning his pastorate to 
accept the professorship of sacred rhetoric 
and pastoral duties in Newton Theologi¬ 
cal seminary. He died Jan. 2, 1872, in 
Framingham, Mass. 

TRAIN, CHARLES RUSSELL, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 18, 1817, in Framing¬ 
ham, Mass. He was elected to the Massa¬ 
chusetts legislature in 1847; and from 
1848 to 1851 he was district attorney for 
northern Massachusetts. He was a second 
time appointed district attorney; and in 


1857 and 1858 served as a member of the 
state council. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Massachusetts to the thirty- 
sixth congress; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-seventh congress. In 1875 he was 
elected attorney-general of Massachusetts. 

TRAIN. ELIZABETH PHIPPS, author, 
was born in 1857 in Massachusetts. She 
is a novelist of Duxbury, Mass.; and the 
author of Dr. Lamar; Autobiography of a 
Professional Beauty; A Social Highway¬ 
man; A Marital Liability. Her transla¬ 
tions from the French include The Apos¬ 
tate; The Shadow of Dr. Laroque; and 
Recollections of the Court of the Tuileries. 

TRAIN, GEORGE FRANCIS, lecturer, 
author, was born March 24, 1829, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He is a lecturer of New York 
city; and the author of an American Mer¬ 
chant in Europe; Young America Abroad; 
Young America in Wall Street; Spread 
Eagleism; Union Speeches; and Irish In¬ 
dependency. 

TRALL, RUSSELL THACHER, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Aug. 5, 1812, in 
Vernon, Conn. He was a homoeopathic 
physician of New York city, and subse 
quently of Florence, N. J. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Bath: the History and Uses 
of, in Health and Disease; Digestion and 
Dyspepsia; The Mother's Hygienic Hand¬ 
book; The Human Voice; Popular Physi¬ 
ology; The True Temperance Platform; 
Encyclopedia of Hydropathy; and Uter¬ 
ine Diseases. He died Sept. 23, 1 oi 7, in 
Florence, N. J. 

TRAMMELL, LEANDER NEWTON, 
state senator, was born June 5, 1830, in 
Habersham county, Ga. In 1861 and 1863 
he was a representative in the Georgia 
legislature; and in 1870 was president of 
the senate. 

TRAPIER, PAUL, congressman. He was 
a delegate from South Carolina to the 
continental congress from 1777 to 1778. 

TRASK, JABEZ NELSON, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 19, 1831, 
in Freedom, Maine. In 1863 he was em¬ 
ployed by the New England Educational 
commission as superintendent of aban¬ 
doned plantations on Port Royal island. 
S. C. In 1871-72 he was United States In¬ 
dian agent among the Utahs in southwest¬ 
ern Colorado. In 1894 he published a work 
entitled Adjusted Constitution of Massa¬ 
chusetts. Since 1868 he has been a cler¬ 
gyman, and has filled pastorates in va¬ 
rious cities throughout the United States. 

TRASK. WILLIAM BLAKE, author, 
genealogist, was born Nov. 25. 1812, in 
Dorchester, Mass. He has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to the His¬ 
torical and Genealo¬ 
gical Register of 
Boston, Mass. He 
copied the ancient 
town records of Bos¬ 
ton, and made fac 
similes of autographs 
for Samuel G. 
Drake’s history of 
that city; and con¬ 
tributed extensively 
to the New England 
Historical and Gene¬ 
alogical Register, and various other pub¬ 
lications. 

TRAUTWINE, JOHN CRESSON, civil 
engineer, author, was born March 30, 
1810, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a civil 
engineer of eminence; and the author of 
Method of Calculating Cubic Contents of 
Excavations and Embankments; Field 
Practice of Laying out Railroad Curves; 
and Civil Engineer’s Pocket-Book. He 
died Sept. 14, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa. 








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TRAVERS, LEVI DOVE, jurist, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Nov. 21, 1828, in Taylor’s 
Island, Md. In 1878 he was chaplain of 
the state senate of the legislature of Mary¬ 
land; and for the past twelve years has 
been a member of the Maryland state 
legislature. 

TRAVIS, WILLIAM BARRETT, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1811 in Conecuh county, 
Ala. At the commencement of the Texan 
struggle for independence he drew his 
sword in that cause and fell bravely fight¬ 
ing a vastly superior force of Mexicans. 
He was killed March 1, 1836, at the Alamo, 
and he is known in history as'the hero 
of the Alamo. 

TRAYNOR. W. J. H., journalist, was 
born July 4, 1845, in Canada. He is the 
founder, editor and owner of The Patri¬ 
otic American; and he is the supreme 
president of the American Protective as¬ 
sociation, with headquarters at Detroit, 
Mich. 

TREADWELL, DANIEL, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 10, 1791, in Ipswich. 
Mass. He was the inventor of the power- 
press for spinning hemp for cordage; and 
also a cannon which bears his name. He 
was Rumford professor at Harvard uni¬ 
versity in 1834-45; and the author of The 
Relations of Science to the Useful Arts; 
The Practicability of Constructing Cannon 
of Great Calibre; and Construction of 
Hooped Cannon. He died Feb. 27, 1872, 
in Cambridge, Mass. 

TREADWELL, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, governor, was born Nov. 23, 
1745, in Farmington, Conn. He filled the 
offices of judge of probate, and of other 
courts. From 1785 to 1786 he was a dele¬ 
gate to the continental congress. In 1809 
he was elected governor of Connecticut, 
and served two years. He died Aug. 19, 
1823, in Farmington, Conn. 

TREADWELL, SEYMOUR BOUGH- 
TON, politician, author, was born June 1, 
1795, in Bridgeport, Conn. He was a 
politician of Jackson, Mich.; and the au¬ 
thor of American Liberties and American 
Slavery Politically Illustrated. He died 
June 9, 1867, in Jackson, Mich. 

TREADWELL, THOMAS, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, state senator, congressman, was born 
Feb. 6, 1743, in Smithtown, N. Y. He was 
a member of the provincial congress of 
the colony of New York in 1775 and 1776; 
and was also a member of the convention 
of representatives of the state of New 
York in 1776 and 1777, by which the first 
constitution of the state of New York was 
adopted. From 1777 to 1783 he was a 
member of the New York assembly; and 
from 1786 to 1789 of the state senate from 
the same county. He was the first judge 
of the court of probate of the state, serv¬ 
ing from 1778 to 1787; and was subse¬ 
quently surrogate of Suffolk county from 
1787 to 1791. He was a member of congress 
from his native district from 1791 to 1795; 
and was one of the original proprietors 
of Plattsburg, N. Y. He was again elect¬ 
ed to the state senate, and served from 
1803 to 1807. He was appointed surrogate 
of Clinton county in 1807, and held that 
office until 1831, making an almost con¬ 
tinuous term of public service of fifty-six 
years. He died Jan. 30, 1832, in Platts¬ 
burg, N. Y. 

TREAT, JOHN HARVEY, author, was 
born July 23, 1839, in Pittsfield, N. H. He 
received his education at Phillips Andover 
academy, and in 1862 graduated from Har¬ 
vard college. After graduating he engaged 
in business with his father in Lawrence, 
Mass.; and has traveled extensively in 
Europe and the east; and is a member 
of the various historical societies in 
America and in England. In 1888 he pre¬ 


sented to Harvard a large collection of 
rare books; and to its museum of com¬ 
parative zoology he gave his large collec¬ 
tion of entomological specimens. He is 
the author of Notes on the Rubrics; Tru¬ 
ro Baptism; The Catholic Faith; A Gen¬ 
ealogy of the Treat Family; and other 
works. In addition to which he has pri¬ 
vately printed pamphlets on theological 
and archaeological subjects. 

TREAT, JOSEPH, soldier, author, was 
born Dec. 8, 1775, in Bangor, Maine. He 
became brigadier-general in the Maine 
state militia. He published a pamphlet 
entitled The Vindication of Captain Jos¬ 
eph Treat, late of the twenty-first United 
States Infantry, against the Atrocious Ca¬ 
lumnies Comprehended in Major-General 
Brown’s Official Report of the Battle of 
Chippeway (1815). He died Feb. 27, 1853, 
in Bangor, Maine. 

TREAT, MRS. MARY LUA ADELIA 
[DAVIS] [ALLEN], naturalist, author, 
was born in 18—. She is a naturalist of 
Vineland, N. J.; and the author of Chap¬ 
ters on Ants; Injurious Insects of the 
Farm and Garden; Home Studies in Na¬ 
ture; and My Garden Pets. 

TREAT, ROBERT, governor, was born 
in 1622 in England. In 1676 he was elected 
deputy governor of Connecticut, and sub¬ 
sequently served as governor. He died 
July 12, 1710, in Milford, Conn. 

TREAT, SAMUEL, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, journalist, was born Dec. 17, 1815, 
in Portsmouth, N. H. He became assistant 
editor of the Missouri Reporter of St. 
Louis, Mo., and subsequently editor-in- 
chief of the St. Louis Union, practicing law 
in addition to his editorial duties. In 1849 
he was appointed judge of the court of 
common pleas of St. Louis; and in 1851 
was elected to that position. While holding 
that office in 1857 he was appointed United 
States district judge for the eastern dis¬ 
trict of Missouri. 

TREAT, SAMUEL HUBBEL, lawyer, 
author, jurist, was born June 21, 1811, in 
Plainfield, N. Y. In 1855 he was ap¬ 
pointed to the office of United States judge 
for the southern district of Illinois, which 
post he held at the time of his death. 
He compiled, with notes, Illinois Law Stat¬ 
utes, embracing all of the general laws 
in force, in two volumes. He died March 
27, 1887, in Springfield, Ill. 

TREDWAY, WILLIAM M., congress¬ 
man, was born in Virginia. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1845 to 1847. 

TREE, LAMBERT, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, was born Nov. 29, 1832, in 
Washington, D. C. In 1855 he moved to 
Chicago and practiced law. In 1864 he 
was elected president of the Chicago Law 
institute. In 1870 he was elected one of 
the circuit judges at Chicago to fill an un¬ 
expired term, and was re-elected for a 
full term; and in 1885 was the candidate 
of the democrats in the state legislature 
for United States senator, but was de¬ 
feated by Gen. John A. Logan by one vote. 
In 1885 he was appointed United States 
minister to Belgium. 

TREGO, WILLIAM HENRY, express- 
man, was born Feb. 18, 1837, in Middle- 
burg, Md. In 1856 he became the super¬ 
intendent of the Adams Express com¬ 
pany at Baltimore, and during the civil 
war had charge of the transportation of 
express matter for troops in the southern 
states. In 1877 he projected and organ¬ 
ized the first trunk railway express in the 
United States; and in 1887 organized the 
railway express over the Erie system. 


TREICHLER, MARY EMMA DANA, 
poet, was born July 12, 1851, in Kenton, 
Ohio. Her poems have appeared in the 
National Tribune of Washington, D. C., 
and other prominent publications, and in 
several standard collections. Her po¬ 
em entitled Springtime Song is quite a 
favorite, and is often sung with Root’s fa¬ 
mous Brooklet Chords. 

TRELOAR, WILLIAM W„ educator, 
composer, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 
1850, near Linden, Wis. In 1872 he moved 
to Huntsville, and in 
1875 to Mexico, Mo.; 
and has always been 
actively engaged in 
educational work. In 
1894 he was elected a 
representative from 
Missouri in the fifty- 
fourth congress and 
served with distinc¬ 
tion in that body. He 
is an accomplished 
musician; and has 
composed and pub¬ 
lished a hundred piano pieces and several 
booklets. The most notable of his com¬ 
positions are The Sleigh Ride Galop; The 
Tambourine March; and The Railroad 
Galop. Nearly a hundred thousand copies 
of each of these pieces have been pub¬ 
lished. 

TREMAIN, GEORGE L., banker, was 
born June 4, 1833, in Laona, N. Y. He is 
prominent in the business and public af¬ 
fairs of Humboldt, Iowa, and the presi¬ 
dent of The People’s bank of that city. 

TREMAIN. HENRY EDWIN, soldier, 
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 14, 1840, in 
New York city. He is a lawyer of New 
York city who was an officer in the fed¬ 
eral army during the civil war; and is 
the author of Sailor’s Creek to Appo¬ 
mattox Court House, or The Last Hours 
of Sheridan’s Cavalry. 

TREMAIN, LYMAN, lawyer, jurist, leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born June 14, 
1819, in Durham, N. Y. He was elected 
county judge and surrogate in 1846; and 
was elected attorney general of the state 
of New York in 1858. In 1866 he was a 
member of the assembly from the city of 
Albany, and was speaker in 1868. He was 
elected to the forty-third congress as a 
republican. He died Nov. 30, 1878, in 
New York city. 

TRENCHARD, EDWARD, artist, was 
born Aug. 17, 1850, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
His works include The Passing Shower; 
The Old Wreck; and Sea, Sand and Soli¬ 
tude, all exhibited at the Academy of De¬ 
sign; The Breaking Waves Dashed High; 
A Tropic Beach; and The Surf. 

TRENCHARD, STEPHEN DECATUR, 
naval officer, was born July 10, 1818, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1834 he became a 
midshipman in the United States navy; 
and a commodore in 1871. 

TRENHOLM, WILLIAM LEE, soldier, 
merchant, public official, was born Feb. 3, 
1836, in Charleston, S. C. He served in 
the confederate army throughout the war 
of the rebellion; and in 1865 resumed 
business in Charleston. In 1885 he was 
appointed one of the commissioners of the 
civil service of the United States; and 
in 1886 was appointed comptroller of the 
currency in the department of the treas¬ 
ury. 

TRENT, WILLIAM PETERFIELD, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born in 1862 in Vir¬ 
ginia. He is a professor of English and 
history at the university of the South, 
Sewanee, Tenn., from 1888; and the au¬ 
thor of English Culture in Virginia; Life 
of William Gilmore Simms; and South¬ 
ern Statesmen of the Old Regime. 





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TRESCOT, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
author, was born Nov. 10, 1822, in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. He is a lawyer and diplo¬ 
matist of Washington; and the author 
-of Diplomacy of the Revolution; and 
Diplomatic History of the Administra¬ 
tions of Washington and Adams. 

TRESSLER, DAVID LOY, soldier, law¬ 
yer, college president, clergyman, was 
born Feb. 5, 1839, in Loysville, Pa. In 
1872 he became professor of ancient lan¬ 
guages in Carthage college, Ill., and its 
treasurer. In the following year he was 
elected president of the college, which 
ymst he occupied until his death. He died 
Feb. 20, 1880, in Carthage, Ill. 

TRETBAR, HELEN D.. musician, com¬ 
poser, was born in Buffalo, N. Y. She is 
;a. well known contributor to leading musi¬ 
cal journals; and a translator of songs 
from German, French and Italian. 

TREUTLEN, JOHN ADAM, governor. 
In 1777 he was elected governor of Geor¬ 
gia. He died in Orangeburg, S. C. 

TREVETT, RUSSELL, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Dec. 30, 1817, in Mar¬ 
blehead, Mass. He was professor of clas¬ 
sics and history at St. James’s college, 
Md., in 1844-55, and of ancient languages 
at St. John’s college, Annapolis, Md., in 
1855-61, and was rector of St. James’s 
church, North Salem, N. Y., from 1861 till 
his death. He died March 8, 1865, in 
North Salem, N. Y. 

TREVETT, SAMUEL RUSSELL, sur¬ 
geon, was born Aug. 20, 1783, in Marble¬ 
head, Mass. After the war he was ap¬ 
pointed surgeon of the navy yard at Char¬ 
leston, and in 1822 he was detailed as sur¬ 
geon on board the sloop-of-war Peacock. 
For some time previous to his death he 
had been engaged in collecting materials 
for a biography of American physicians. 
He died Nov. 4, 1822, in Norfolk, Va. 

TREZVANT, JAMES, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in Sussex 
county, Va. He was attorney for the state 
of Virginia; and was a member of the 
state legislature and of the constitutional 
convention of 1830. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Virginia from 
1825 to 1831. He died in 1838. 

TRIGG, ABRAM, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Virginia 
in 1797 to 1809. 

TRIGG, CONNALLY F., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Virginia. In 1862 he was ap¬ 
pointed United States judge for the east¬ 
ern district of Tennessee. 

TRIGG, CONNALLY F„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 18, 1847, in Ab¬ 
ingdon, Va. In 1872 he was elected com¬ 
monwealth attorney for Washington 
county; and held the position by success¬ 
ive re-elections until 1884, when he re- 
.signed, having been elected a represen¬ 
tative from Virginia to the forty-ninth 
congress as a democrat. 

TRIGG, JOHN, congressman. He was a 
representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1797 to 1804. 

TRIMBLE, ALLEN, state senator, gov- 
•ernor, was born Nov. 24, 1783, in Augusta 
county, Va. In 1816 he was a state rep¬ 
resentative from Virginia; and from 1817 
to 1826 state senator, and speaker from 
1819 to 1826. He was acting governor in 
1821 and 1822; and was governor from 1826 
to 1830. He was president of the first 
state board of agriculture from 1846 to 
1848. He died Feb. 2, 1870, in Hillsboro. 

TRIMBLE, CARY A., agriculturist, ed¬ 
ucator, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 
1813, in Hillsborough, Ohio. In 1837 he 
-was appointed demonstrator of anatomy 
in his Alma Mater, which position he held 
mntil 1841, wlien "he settled in Chillicothe. 


He was elected a representative from 
Ohio to the thirty-sixth congress; and 
re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. 

TRIMBLE, DAVID, agriculturist, manu¬ 
facturer, congressman, was born in 1782 
in Frederick county, Va. He was en¬ 
gaged in the war of 1812, serving two 
campaigns under Gen. Harrison. In 1817 
he was chosen a member of congress from 
Kentuckv and served without interrup¬ 
tion until 1827. He died Oct. 26, 1842, in 
Trimble’s Furnace, Ky. 

TRIMBLE, JOHN, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1812, in 
Roane county, Tenn. From 1836 to 1841 
he was attorney general of the state for 
the Nashville district. He was a member 
of the state assembly from 1843 to 1845; 
of the state senate from 1845 to 1847, and 
again from 1859 to 1861. In 1862 he was 
appointed district attorney of the United 
States for middle Tennessee, which office 
he resigned in 1864. He was again in 
the state senate from 1865 to 1867, when 
he resigned. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Tennessee to the fortieth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty-first 
congress as a democrat. 

TRIMBLE, LAWRENCE S., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, railroad president, congressman, was 
born Aug. 26, 1825, in Fleming, Ky. He 
was a member of the Kentucky legislature 
in 1851 and 1852; and was judge of the 
equity and criminal court of the first 
judicial district of the state from 1856 to 
1860. From 1860 to 1865 he was presi¬ 
dent of the New Orleans and Ohio Rail¬ 
road company. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Kentucky to the thirty-ninth 
congress; and re-elected to the fortieth 
and forty-first congresses. 

TRIMBLE, ROBERT, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born in 1777 in Ber¬ 
keley county, Va. He was elected to the 
Kentucky state legislature; and in 1808 
was chosen judge of the court of ap¬ 
peals, but soon resigned the position. In 
1810 he was made chief justice of the 
state; in 1813 became district attorney for 
the state; and in 1816 was appointed fed¬ 
eral judge of Kentucky. In 1826 he was 
appointed justice of the supreme court 
of the United States. He died Aug. 25, 
1828. 

TRIMBLE, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Kentucky. He was an early 
emigrant to the territory of Arkansas, 
where he was appointed United States 
judge for that territory, remaining in of¬ 
fice until 1832. 

TRIMBLE, WILLIAM A., soldier, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born April 
4, 1786, in Woodford, Ky. He was lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel of the Ohio first infantry 
from 1814 to 1819. He was United States 
senator from Ohio from 1819 to 1821; and 
was commissioner with Gen. Cass to treat 
with the northwestern Indians at Green 
Bay. He died Dec. 13, 1821, in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

TRIPLETT, PHILIP, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Kentucky from 1839 
to 1843. 

TRIPP, BARTLETT, lawyer, jurist, 
public official, was born July 15, 1839, in 
Harmony, Maine. In 1869 he moved to 
Yankton, S. D.; and in 1883 was a dele¬ 
gate to the first constitutional convention 
of the territory, and was elected president 
of that body. In 1883 he was elected pres¬ 
ident of the Bar association of the sec¬ 
ond judicial district; and in 1885 was 
elected first president of the Senatorial 
Bar association. In 1885 he was appoint¬ 
ed chief justice of the supreme court of 
Dakota territory. 


TRIPP, HOWARD C., journalist, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born April 4, 1861, in 
Plano, Ill. He has filled the editorial 
chair on several prominent publications, 
and is now the editor and owner of The 
Times of Kingsley, Iowa. He is the au¬ 
thor of Legends of Lemars; Ballad Blos¬ 
soms; Around the Fireside and Other Po¬ 
ems; and other works. 

TRIPP, ROBERT P., congressman, was 
born in Georgia. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Georgia to 
the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth con¬ 
gresses. 

TRIST, NICHOLAS PHILIP, lawyer, ed¬ 
ucator, was born June 2, 1800, in Char¬ 
lottesville, Va. He was first clerk in the 
United States treasury department in 1828, 
private secretary to President Jackson 
in 1829, and United States consul at Ha¬ 
vana in 1834-36. He became assistant sec¬ 
retary of state in 1845, and in 1848 was 
sent as peace commissioner to Mexico, 
where he negotiated and signed the treaty 
of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In 1870 he was 
appointed postmaster at Alexandria, Va. 
He translated a treatise on Milch Cows 
from the French of M. F. Guenon. He 
died Feb. 11, 1874, in Alexandria, Va. 

TRITLE, FREDERICK A., lawyer, state 
senator, governor, was born Aug. 7, 1833, 
in Franklin county, Pa, In 1859 he emi¬ 
grated to the Pacific coast, settling at 
Carson City, Nev., in 1860. In 1863 he 
moved to Virginia City, Nev., and became 
president of the Belcher Mining company, 
which position he filled until 1868. In 
1866 he was elected state senator to fill 
a vacancy; and was re-elected for a full 
terrii in 1868. In 1881 he removed to 
Arizona; and in 1882 was appointed gov¬ 
ernor of the territory of Arizona for the 
term of four years. 

TROOST. GERARD, mineralogist, was 
born March 15, 1776, in Holland. He was 
one of the founders of the Academy of 
Natural History of Philadelphia, Pa.; 
and its first president in 1812-17. From 
1827 until his death he was professor of 
chemistry, mineralogy and geology in the 
university of Nashville. He died Aug. 14, 
1850, in Nashville, Tenn. 

TROTT, NICHOLAS, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1663 in England. He 
was a Charleston jurist, very eminent in 
the Carolinas in his day; and the author 
of Laws of South Carolina (1734); Clav- 
is Linguae Sanctae; and Laws Relating to 
the Church and Clergy in America. He 
died in 1740 in Charleston, S. C. 

TROTTER, GEORGE, soldier, was born 
in 1779, in Virginia. He became lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel of Kentucky volunteers in 
1813, and led a brigade from his state with 
rank of brigadier-general, at the battle of 
the Thames in 1813. He died Oct. 13, 1815, 
in Lexington, Ky. 

TROTTER, JAMES FISHER, educator, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 5, 1802, in 
Brunswick county, Va. He settled in 
Hamilton, Monroe county, Miss., in 1823, 
and soon established a reputation as a 
constitutional lawyer. After serving sev¬ 
eral terms in the legislature, he was chos¬ 
en, in 1837, a judge of the circuit court 
of his district, and in 1838 succeeded 
Judge John Black in the United States 
senate, having been chosen as a demo¬ 
crat. After serving from February to De¬ 
cember of that year, he resigned to ac¬ 
cept a seat in the court of appeals of 
Mississippi, which he held till 1840. He 
then resumed his profession, and was 
vice-chancellor of the northern district of 
the state iD 1855-57, and professor of law 
in the university of Mississippi in 1860-62. 
He died March 9, 1866, in Holly Springs, 
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TROTTER, NEWBOLD HOUGH, artist, 
"was born Jan. 4, 1827, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He has devoted himself principally 
to painting pictures of animal life. His 
more important works of this class in¬ 
clude They Knew not the Voice of Stran¬ 
gers; They Only Knew the Voice of 
Strangers; The Range of the Bison; After 
the Combat; Grizzly Bears; The Last 
Stand; El-Mahdi; and In the Soudan. 

TROUBAT, FRANCIS JOSEPH, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1802 in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia; 
and the author of Practice in Civil Ac¬ 
tions in Pennsylvania Supreme Court 
(with W. Haley); The Law of Limited 
Partnership in the United States; and 
Treatise on the Law of Partnerships. He 
■died Oct. 8, 1868, in Paris, France. 

TROUBETZKOY, MRS. AMELIE 
[RIVES] [CHANLER], author, was born 
in 1863 in Virginia. She is a novelist 
whose second husband is a Russian prince. 
She is the author of The Quick or the 
Dead; A Brother to Dragons; Virginia of 
Virginia; Barbara Dering; The Witness 
of the Sun; Athelwold, a tragedy; and 
Herod and Marianne, a drama. 

TROUP, GEORGE McINTOSH, lawyer, 
congressman. United States senator, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Sept. 8, 1780, on the Tom- 
bigbee river, Ga. In 
1800 he was elected 
to the legislature of 
Georgia; and was 
three times re-elect¬ 
ed. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress 
from Georgia from 
1807 to 1815; and was 
a United States sen¬ 
ator from 1816 to 
1818, and from 1829 
to 1834. From 1823 to 
1827 he was govern¬ 
or of Georgia. He died May 3, 1856, in 
Laurens county, Ga. 

TROUP, ROBERT, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, author, was born in 
1757 in New York city. He was appoint¬ 
ed by congress in 1778 secretary of the 
board of war; in 1779 went to New Jer¬ 
sey, and completed his law studies. After 
the close of the war he became judge of 
the United States district court of New 
York, and held that office many years. 
He was a member of the state legislature. 
He published a letter on the lake canal 
policy of New York; Vindication of the 
Claim of Elkanah Watson; and Remarks 
on Trinity Church Bill. He died Jan. 
14, 1832, in New York city. 

TROUSDALE, WILLIAM, soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in 1790 in Sumner coun¬ 
ty, Tenn. He was made brevet briga¬ 
dier-general in 1848, for gallant and meri¬ 
torious conduct at Chapultepec, where 
he was severely wounded. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Tennessee from 1841 to 1851; 
and was minister plenipotentiary to Brazil 
in 1853. He died in March, 1872, in Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn. 

TROUT, MICHAEL C., congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1853 to 1855. 

TROUT, PHILIP, educator, clergyman, 
was born April 5, 1852, in Clarke county, 
Ohio. For seven years he taught in the 
public schools of Ohio, and for two years 
was superintendent of the Children’s 
home of Springfield, Ohio. He attend¬ 
ed the Ohio Wesleyan university of Dela¬ 
ware, and since 1888 has been a clergy¬ 
man of the methodist episcopal church. 
He has served important charges in the 
Cincinnati conference, and has been emi¬ 
nently successful in his work. 



TROW, JOHN FOWLER, printer, was 
born Jan. 29, i.810, in Andover, Mass. He 
was one of the first to introduce electro¬ 
typing into the printing business, and 
adopted many inventions to facilitate 
typesetting and the manufacture of books. 
In 1855 he published a specimen-book of 
the typographic art, for which the uni¬ 
versity of New York conferred on him the 
title of university printer. He died Aug. 
8, 1886, in Orange, N. J. 

TROWBRIDGE, CATHERINE MARIA, 
author, was born in 1818 in Connecticut. 
She is a writer of South Manchester, 
Conn., who has made many contributions 
to juvenile literature, a few among them 
being, Christian Heroism; Victory at 
Last; Will and Will Not; Snares and 
Safeguards; and Changing Paths. 


TROWBRIDGE, EDMUND, lawyer, was 
born in 1709 in Newton. Mass. He be¬ 
came attorney general of Massachusetts in 
1749; and was elevated to the supreme 
bench of Massachusetts the next year. He 
died April 2, 1792, in Cambridge, Mass. 



TROWBRIDGE, MARY ELIZABETH 
DAY, journalist, was born in Michigan, 
the daughter of the Rev. G. B. and Eliza¬ 
beth Day, who set¬ 
tled in Sturgis in 
1836. She pursued a 
course of study in 
the Kalamazoo col¬ 
lege, and studied mu¬ 
sic in New York city. 
She taught sciences 
and music, and in 
1860 was married to 
Rev. L. H. Trow¬ 
bridge. In 1869 she 
was called to the 
chair of music of 
Kalamazoo college, which position she 
filled for four years, resigning to devote her 
entire time to literary work in connection 
with the Christian Herald, of which pub¬ 
lication she became engaged on the edi¬ 
torial staff in 1870. For over a quarter of 
a century she has been actively engaged 
in journalism on the Christian Herald, 
side by side with her husband. Since 
1872 she has been actively identified with 
the interest of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science; and has 
served as examiner of schools of higher 
education. She has prepared papers for 
public meetings of the state board of 
health, and is the author of several bro¬ 
chures issued by the American Baptist 
Publication society of Philadelphia, no¬ 
tably The Way of Light; Pioneer Days; 
Vacation Notes; and a series of Euro¬ 
pean letters. 


TROWBRIDGE, JOHN, physicist, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Aug. 5, 1843, in 
Boston, Mass. He is a physicist of note, 
professor at Harvard university from 
1880, and Rumford professor of the appli¬ 
cation of science to the useful arts there 
from 1888. He is the author of What is 
Electricity?; The New Physics; Three 
Boys on an Electrical Boat; and The Elec¬ 
trical Boy. 

TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND, 
author, poet, was born Sept. 18, 1827, in 
Ogden, N. Y. He is a popular writer of 
Arlington, Mass., whose work in verse 
and prose reaches a high grade of excel¬ 
lence. His novel, Neighbor Jackwood, 
when first issued in 1857, was a strong 
moral agent in stimulating anti-slavery 
sentiment. His other fictions include, 
Lucy Arlyn; Coupon Bonds, and Other 
Stories; Farnell’s Folly; Neighbors’ 
Wives; Martin Merrivale. Among his 
very many juvenile tales' are, Cudjo’s 
Cave; Three Scouts; The Drummer Boy; 
The Prize Cup; The Lottery Ticket; The 
Tide-Mill Stories; The Toby Trafford 


Series; The Little Master; Jack Hazard 
Series. His published volumes of verse 
include. The Vagabonds (his best known 
poem), and Other Poems; The Emigrant’s 
Story, and Other Poems; A Home Idyl, 
and • Other Poems; The Lost Earl; and 
The Book of Gold, and Other Poems. At 
Sea and Midsummer are two of his finest 
poems. 

TROWBRIDGE, ROWLAND E„ agri¬ 
culturist, state senator, congressman, was 
born June 18, 1821, in Elmira, N. Y. He 
was elected to the senate of Michigan in 
1856 and 1858. In 1860 he was elected 
a representative from Michigan to the 
thirty-seventh congress; and was also 
elected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth 
congresses as a republican. He died April 
3, 1883, in Detroit, Mich. 

TROWBRIDGE, WILLIAM PETIT, civ¬ 
il engineer, scientist, author, was born 
May 25, 1828, in Oakland county, Mich. 
He was an engineer and scientist in 
charge of the engineering department of 
the School of Mines, Columbia college, in 
1877-92. He was the author of Steam 
Generator; Heat as a Source of Power; 
Turbine Wheels; and Stationary Steam 
Engines. He died Aug. 12, 1892, in New 
Haven, Conn. 

TROXELL, MILLARD FRANCIS, cler¬ 
gyman, lecturer, journalist, was born Oct. 
25, 1857, in Cumberland, Md. This emi¬ 
nent pastor of the Grace Lutheran church 
of Springfield, Ill., has been president of 
two lutheran synods; chaplain of the state 
senate of the Illinois assembly; and for 
two years was vice-president of the Illi¬ 
nois Christian Endeavor union. 

TRUE. CHARLES KITTRIDGE, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 
14, 1809, in Portland, Maine. He was a 
methodist clergyman and educator, pro¬ 
fessor at Wesleyan university in 1849-60; 
and the author of Elements of Logic; 
Shawmut, or the Settlement of Boston; 
John Winthrop and the Great Colony; 
Lives of Raleigh, John Knox, John Har¬ 
vard, Captain John Smith; The Thirty 
Years’ War; and Heroes of Holland. He 
died June 20, 1878, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

TRUE. HENRY CLAY, lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, jurist, was born Oct. 9, 1867, in Cross 
Plains, Tenn. He is one of the leading 
lawyers of his native state at Springfield; 
during 1891-93 he served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the Tennessee state 
legislature; has served as judge of the 
city court; and is prominent in public af¬ 
fairs. 

TRUE, JOHN PRESTON, author, was 
born in 1859 in Maine. He is a Boston 
writer; and the author of Their Club and 
Ours, a popular juvenile tale; and Shoul¬ 
der Arms, a tale of life in a military 
school. 

TRUELL, EDWIN M., soldier, was born 
Aug. 19, 1841, in Lowell, Mass. He served 
as a union soldier for three years during 
the civil war. He was a member of com¬ 
pany E, twelfth Wisconsin volunteer in¬ 
fantry; was commissioned first lieuten¬ 
ant by brevet, and received congressional 
medal of honor for gallantry in action at 
Atlanta, Ga. 

TRUELSEN, HENRY, merchant, pub¬ 
lic official, was born Oct. 20, 1844, in Ger¬ 
many. In 1859 he entered the grocery 
business, and continued until elected sher¬ 
iff in 1886. In 1869 he moved to Duluth, 
Minn., from the copper regions of Michi¬ 
gan; was eight years alderman of the city 
of Duluth; sheriff of St. Louis county in 
1886-87; president of the board of pub¬ 
lic works during 1891-93; and mayor of 
the city of Duluth in 1896-98. 




944 


HERRINGSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


TRUETT, GEORGE, governor, was born 
in 1756. He was governor of Delaware 
from 1808 to 1811. He died Oct. 8, 1818, 
in Camden, Del. 

TRUMAN, BENJAMIN CUMMINGS, 
governor, author, was born Oct. 25, 1835, 
in Providence, R. I. He is a California 
writer, military governor of Tennessee 
during the civil war; and the author of 
The South During the War; Semi-Tropic¬ 
al California; Occidental Sketches; Win¬ 
ter Resorts of California; From the Cres¬ 
cent City to the Golden Gate; Homes and 
Happiness in the Golden Gate; and The 
Field of Honor. 

TRUMAN, IRWIN JOSEPH, farmer, 
merchant, banker, was horn Oct. 27, 1840, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was president 
of the Columbian Banking company of 
San Francisco, Cal., for four years. He 
is also a successful farmer; and has taken 
an active part in the public affairs of his 
city, county and state. 

TRUMBO, ANDREW, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 13, 1799, in Mont¬ 
gomery county (now Bath), Ky. He was 
a representative in the twenty-ninth con¬ 
gress; and was one of the presidential 
electors of Kentucky in 1848. 

TRUMBO, DAVID SARENCY, soldier, 
lawyer, farmer, was born June 6, 1828, 
near Owingsville, Ky. During 1853-57 he 
was sheriff of his native county; and dur¬ 
ing 1862-65 was lieutenant and quarter¬ 
master of the twenty-fourth regiment 
Kentucky volunteers. He has attained 
prominence in his state as a successful 
farmer and lawyer. 

TRUMBULL, BENJAMIN, clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 19, 1735, in Hebron, 
Conn. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man, pastor at North Haven, Conn., for 
sixty years; and the author of Plea in 
Vindication of the Connecticut Title to the 
Contested (Western) Lands; Divine Orig¬ 
in of the Holy Scriptures; General His¬ 
tory of the United States (1810); and A 
Complete History of Connecticut, 1630- 
1764. He died Feb. 2, 1820, in North 
Haven, Conn. 

TRUMBULL, GURDON, artist, was born 
May 5, 1841, in Stonington, Conn. He 
has attained eminence as one of the fore¬ 
most artists in America. 

TRUMBULL, HENRY CLAY, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born June 8, 
1831, in Stonington, Conn. He is a con¬ 
gregational clergyman of Philadelphia; 
editor of the Sunday-School Times; and 
the author of A Model Superintendent; 
The Threshold Covenant; The Knightly 
Soldier; Kadesh-Barnea; Teaching and 
Teachers; The Blood Covenant, a Primi¬ 
tive Rite; The Sunday-School, its Origin, 
Methods and Auxiliaries; Children in the 
Temple; Some Army Sermons; The Worth 
of an Historic Consciousness; Principles 
and Practice; Friendship the Master 
Passion; and Studies in Oriental Social 
Life. 

TRUMBULL, JAMES HAMMOND, phil¬ 
ologist, author, was born Dec. 20, 1821, in 
Stonington, Conn. He is the author of 
The Composition of Indian Geographical 
Names; Best Method of Studying the In¬ 
dian Languages; Indian Names of Places; 
On the Algonkin Verb; The True Blue- 
Laws of Connecticut. He has edited The 
Colonial Records of Connecticut; and 
Roger Williams’s Key to the Languages 
of North America. 

TRUMBULL, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 24, 1750, in West- 
bury, Conn. He was a noted jurist of 
Hartford, famous in his day as a satirical 
poet. With Barlow and others he pub¬ 
lished The Anarchiad, a series of satirical 


essays, and he was the author of The 
Progress of Dulness; but' MacFingal, a 
Hudibrastic poem, the first canto of 
which appeared in 1775, is his best title 
to remembrance. He died May 10, 1831, 
in Detroit, Mich. 

TRUMBULL, JOHN, artist, was born 
April 6, 1756, in Lebanon, Conn. He was 
a son of Jonathan Trumbull, colonial gov¬ 
ernor of Connecti¬ 
cut. His Battle of 
Bunker Hill, and 
Death of Montgom¬ 
ery before Quebec, 
are well known 
through engravings. 
Four of the colossal 
pictures in the ro¬ 
tunda of the capitol 
at Washington, viz., 
Surrender of Corn¬ 
wallis; Resignation 
of Washington; Dec¬ 
laration of Independence; and Surrender 
of Burgoyne, are his. He died in 1843 
in New York city. 

TRUMBULL, JONATHAN, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, governor, was born 
Oct. 12, 1710, in Lebanon, Conn. He was 
a member of the as¬ 
sembly at the age of 
twenty-three; and 
was chosen lieuten¬ 
ant-governor in 1766, 
and chief justice of 
the superior court. 
He refused to take 
the oath enjoined on 
royal officers. He 
was made governor 
from 1769 to 1783; 
and was the only co¬ 
lonial governor who 
took side with the people. He was a whig 
leader and was relied on by Washington 
as one of his firm supporters. The phrase 
sometimes used by Washington, Let us 
see what Brother Jonathan says, is sup¬ 
posed to have originated the term fre¬ 
quently applied to the United States. He 
died Aug. 17, 1785. 

TRUMBULL, JONATHAN, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, governor, was 
born March 26, 1740, in Lebanon, Conn. 
He was for several years a representative 
in the state legislature of Connecticut, and 
speaker of the house. He was a presiden¬ 
tial elector in 1797, 1801 and 1805; and 
was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1789 to 1795. He was 
elected speaker of the house of representa¬ 
tives in 1791, and continued in that sta¬ 
tion until transferred to the United States 
senate in 1795, where he served only one 
year. He was elected lieutenant-governor 
of Connecticut, and resigned the senator- 
ship; and in 1798 was elected governor. 
He died Aug. 7, 1809, in Lebanon, Conn. 

TRUMBULL, JOSEPH, congressman, 
was born March 11, 1737, in Lebanon, 
Conn. He was a delegate to the conti¬ 
nental congress in 1774 and 1775; was a 
commissioner for the board of war in 
1777; and was commissary-general in the 
revolutionary army from 1775 to 1777. He 
died July 23, 1778, in Lebanon, Conn. 

TRUMBULL, JOSEPH, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 7, 1782, in Leb¬ 
anon, Conn. He was president of the 
Hartford bank for eleven years; served 
in tbe general assembly in 1832, 1848 and 
1851; and was president of a railroad com¬ 
pany. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Connecticut in 1834 to fill a va¬ 
cancy, and from 1839 to 1843. In 1849 he 
was elected governor of Connecticut. He 
died Aug. 4, 1861, in Hartford, Conn. 


TRUMBULL, LYMAN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was. 
born Oct. 12, 1813, in Colchester, Ohio. He 
became a member of the legislature of 
Illinois in 1840; was secretary of the state 
of Illinois in 1841 and 1842; and was a 
justice of the supreme court of Illinois 
from 1848 to 1853. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Illinois to the thirty- 
fourth congress; and was elected a sen¬ 
ator in congress for the term commencing 
in 1855 and ending in 1861. He was re¬ 
elected for the term ending in 1867. In 
1867 he was re-elected to the senate for 
the term ending in 1873. 

TRUSLER, NELSON, lawyer, was born 
Dec. 11, 1823, in Franklin county, Ind. He 
had a lucrative practice in the courts of 
the counties of Fay¬ 
ette, Franklin, Union 
and Rush, and he 
soon took position in 
the front rank of the 
bar. While thus en¬ 
gaged in the practice 
of law, he was elect¬ 
ed as representative 
to the general assem¬ 
bly of his state, after 
a bitter political con¬ 
test, his political op¬ 
ponent being the 
noted baptist preacher, the Rev. Wilson 
W. Thompson, candidate of the democrat¬ 
ic party for that position. 

TRUXTON, WILLIAM TALBOT, naval 
officer, was born March 11, 1824, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. In 1841 he entered the navy 
as a midshipman; became a commodore 
in 1882; and was promoted to rear admiral 
by seniority in 1886. He died Feb. 25, 
1887, in Norfolk, Va. 

TRYON, DWIGHT WILLIAM, artist, 
educator, was born Aug. 13, 1849, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. At the salon of 1881 he ex¬ 
hibited Harvest Time 
in Normandy; and 
On the Maas. Among 
his other works are 
A New England Vil¬ 
lage; A November 
Day; Evening in Au¬ 
tumn; Evening in a 
New England Vil¬ 
lage; Starlight; and 
Night. He was 
awarded gold medals 
at the American Art 
association for his 
Daybreak in 1886, and Moonlight in 1887. 
He has been professor of art at Smith col¬ 
lege, and director of the Hartford school 
of Arts since 1885. 

TRYON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, con- 
chologist, author, was born May 20, 1838, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a concholo- 
gist of Philadelphia; and the author of 
Land and Fresh-Water Shells of North 
America; Marine Conchology; Structural 
and Systematic Conchology; and Manual 
of Conchology. He died Feb. 5, 1888, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

TRYON, WILLIAM, governor, was born 
about 1725 in Ireland. In 1764 he was ap¬ 
pointed lieutenant-governor of North 
Carolina; and in 1771 was appointed gov¬ 
ernor of New York. He died Feb. 27, 
1788, in England. 

TUBMAN, HARRIET, abolitionist, was 
born in 1821 in Cambridge, Md. She was 
active in the cause of emancipation. 

TUCK, AMOS, educator, congressman, 
was born in Maine. Removing to New 
Hampshire he was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1847 
to 1853; and was a member of the peace 
congress of 1861. 











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TUCKER, BEVERLY, journalist, was 
born in Virginia. He was identified with 
the newspaper business in Washington; 
was chosen superintendent of public 
printing in 1853; and during the rebellion 
participated with zeal in the cause of the 
southern states. 

TUCKER, EBENEZER, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born in 1758 in 
New Jersey. He was a member of con¬ 
gress from New Jersey from 1825 to 1829; 
and also held the offices of judge of the 
common pleas, justice of the court of 
quarter sessions, and judge of the or¬ 
phans’ court. He died Sept. 5, 1845 in 
Tuckerton, N. J. 

TUCKER, EPHRAIM, genealogist, was 
born Oct. 14, 1821, in Oxford, Mass. He 
received a thorough education and at¬ 
tended the Wesleyan 
academy of Wilbra- 
ham, Mass. He is the 
author of a genea¬ 
logical work on the 
Tucker family, and 
has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to current 
literature numerous 
articles on genealog¬ 
ical and historical 
subjects, which have 
been incorporated in 
several standard 

[ works. He still contributes to man^r of 
the leading newspapers and magazines of 
the United States. 

TUCKER, EUGENE A., lawyer, jurist, 
was born May 13, 1856, in Cortland, N. Y. 
He is a successful lawyer of Humboldt, 
Neb.; and has been police judge, city at¬ 
torney and county attorney. 

TUCKER, GEORGE, educator, state 
legislator, author, was born in 1775 in 
Bermuda. He was a member of the Vir¬ 
ginia legislature; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Virginia from 1819 
to 1845. He was professor of moral philos¬ 
ophy and political economy in the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia. He was the author 
of Life of Jefferson; Political History of 
the United States; Essays Moral and 
Philosophical; Theory of Money and 
Banks; Essays on Subjects of Taste; 
Principles of Rent, Wages and Profits; 
The Valley of the Shenandoah, a novel; 
and A Voyage to the Moon, a satirical ro¬ 
mance. He died April 10, 1861, in Sher¬ 
wood, Va. 

TUCKER, GEORGE FOX, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1852 in Massachusetts. 
He is a lawyer of New Bedford, Mass.; 
and the author of Manual of Wills; Man¬ 
ual of Business Corporations; Manual of 
the Constitution of Massachusetts, the In¬ 
terpretation of Statutes, Special Writs, 
and Motions for New Trials; The Mon¬ 
roe Doctrine; Notes on the United States 
Revised Statutes; A Quaker Home, a nov¬ 
el; Uncle Calup’s Christmas Dinner; and 
Your Will: How to Make it. 

TUCKER, GIDEON J„ lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, jurist, was born in 1827 in New York 
city. In 1848 he was admitted to the 
bar; was elected secretary of the state 
of New York in 1857; and in 1866 served 
with distinction as a member of the as¬ 
sembly of the New York state legisla¬ 
ture. During 1862-70 he served as sur¬ 
rogate of New York city and county. 

TUCKER, HENRY HOLCOMBE, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, journalist, author, was 
born May 10, 1819, in Warren county, Ga. 
He was the author of Religious Liberty; 
The Gospel in Enoch; and The Old The¬ 
ology Restated in Sermons. The Posi¬ 
tion of Baptism in the Christian System is 
a noted sermon by him. 

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TUCKER, HENRY ST. GEORGE, edu¬ 
cator, lawyer, congressman, author, was 
born Dec. 29, 1780, in Williamsburg, Va. 
He was at one time president of the court 
of appeals; and was also professor of law 
in the university of Virginia. He was a 
representative in congress from Virginia 
from 1815 to 1819. He was the author of 
Lectures on Natural Law and Govern¬ 
ment; Lectures on Constitutional Law; 
and Commentaries on the Law of Virgi¬ 
nia. He died Aug. 28, 1848, in Winchester, 
Va. 

TUCKER, HENRY ST. GEORGE, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born in 1826 in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was a lieutenant-colonel in 
the confederate army; and the author of 
Hansford, a Tale of Bacon’s Rebellion; 
and The Southern Crop. He died in 1863. 

TUCKER, HENRY ST. GEORGE, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born April 5, 1853, 
in Winchester, Va. Since 1876 he has 
practiced law in 
Staunton. Va. He 
was elected to the 
fifty-first, fifty-sec¬ 
ond, fifty-third and 
fifty-fourth congress¬ 
es as a democrat. He 
was the author of 
the amendment to 
the constitution pro¬ 
viding for the elec¬ 
tion of United States 
senators by the peo¬ 
ple, which passed the 
house in the fifty-second and fifty-third 
congresses. On the death of his father, 
John Randolph Tucker, he was elected to 
fill the chair of constitutional law and 
equity made vacant by his death in the 
Washington and Lee university. He thus 
became the fourth member of his family, 
in direct lineal succession, who has oc¬ 
cupied that position. 

TUCKER, JOHN, cabinet officer. He 
was a citizen of New York; and held the 
position of assistant secretary of war dur¬ 
ing a part of the rebellion, receiving the 
appointment in 1862. 

TUCKER, JOHN RANDOLPH, soldier, 
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Dec. 24, 1823, in Winchester, Va. He 
was a presidential elector in 1852 and 
1856; and in 1857 was elected attorney- 
general of Virginia, and was re-elected 
in 1859 and 1863. In 1870 he was elected 
professor of equity and law in Washing¬ 
ton college. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Virginia to the forty-fourth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty- 
eighth and forty-ninth congresses. 

TUCKER, JOSEPH T., soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, was born Aug. 31, 1833, in 
Boston, Mass. He was educated at Yale 
___ college. During the 

war he was in the 
. confederate service 
as lieutenant-colonel 
in the seventh Ken¬ 
tucky cavalry, John 
Morgan’s brigade; 
and was captured 
and confined in sev¬ 
eral prisons. He has 
attained success as 
an able lawyer of 
Winchester, Ky.; 
has been prosecuting 
attorney; city attorney; and has served 
with distinction as a member of the Ken¬ 
tucky state legislature for two sessions. 

TUCKER, JOSHUA THOMAS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Sept. 20, 1812, in 
Milton, Mgss. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Boston; and the author of 
The Sinless One, a life of Christ; and 
Christ’s Infant Kingdom. He died in 1897. 


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TUCKER, MRS. MARGARETTA 
[AMES], poet. She is a verse-writer of 
Boston; and the author of For My Friend, 
a collection of verses; and Driftwood] 
and Other Poems. 

TUCKER, NATHANIEL BEVERLY, 
educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born 
Sept. 6, 1786, in Williamsburg, Va. He 
was a Virginia jurist, professor of law at 
William and Mary college in 1834-51; 
and the author of The Partisan Leader; 
George Balcombe, a novel; and Principles 
of Pleading. He died Aug. 26, 1851 in 
Winchester, Va. 

TUCKER, NATHANIEL, BEVERLEY, 
journalist, was born June 8, 1820, in Win¬ 
chester, Va. He founded the Sentinel in 
1853, was elected printer to the United 
States senate in December of that year; 
and in 1857 was appointed consul to Liver¬ 
pool, remaining till 1861. He died July 4 
1890, in Richmond, Va. 

rUCKER, POMEROY, journalist, au¬ 
thor was born Aug. 10, 1802, in Palmyra, 
N- Y- He was a Canandaigua journalist- 
who published a work on The Origin of 
Mormonism. He died June 30, 1870, in 
Palmyra, N. Y. 

TUCKER, MRS. SARAH, Quaker preach¬ 
er, born in 1779 in Portsmouth, R. I. She 
was a minister of the Society of Friends 
for thirty-seven years. Her autobiography 
was published under the title of Memoirs 
of the Life and Religious Experience of 
Sarah Tucker. She died in 1840. 

PUCKER, ST. GEORGE, soldier, law- 
yer, jurist, state legislator, author, was 
born July 10, 1/52, in Bermuda. He was 
a member of the Virginia legislature; and 
was one of the committee to revise the 
laws of Virginia. He was a professor in 
Vv illiarn and Mary college. He was judge 
in the state courts nearly fifty years; was 
a judge of the court of appeals from 1803 
to 1811; and was judge of the United 
States district court in 1813. He was 
called The American Blackstone. He was 
the author of Letters on the Alien and 
Sedition Laws; The Probationary Odes of 
Jonathan Pindar, a collection of political 
satires; and an annotated Blackstone; but 
is known to general literature only by the 
lyric beginning Days of My Youth, ye 
have Glided Away. He died Nov. 10, 1828, 
in Warminster, Va. 

TUCKER, STARLING, congressman, 
was born in Halifax county, N. C. He was 
a representative in congress from the 
Laurens district of South Carolina from 
1817 to 1831. He died Feb. 4, 1834. 

TUCKER, THOMAS TUDOR, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1745 in Bermuda. He 
was a patriot of the revolution; and was 
a delegate to the continental congress in 
1787 and 1788. He was a representative 
in congress from South Carolina from 1789 
to 1793; and was United States treasurer 
from 1794 to his death. He died May 2, 
1828, in Washington. 

TUCKER, TILGHMAN M., congress¬ 
man, governor, was born in North Caro¬ 
lina. He was governor of Mississippi from 
1841 to 1843; and was a representative in 
congress from Mississippi from 1841 to 
1845. He died April 30, 1859, in Alabama. 

TUCKER, WILLIS GAYLORD, educa¬ 
tor, journalist, was born Oct. 31, 1849, in 
Albany, N. Y. In 1881 he was one of the 
founders of the Albany College of Phar¬ 
macy, and became professor of chemistry, 
in addition to which, since 1883, he has 
been its president. He was appointed 
analyst to the state board of health in 
1881; and he has been registrar of the 
Albany Medical college since 1882, and 
secretary of its Alumni association since 
its organization in 1874. He was editor of 
the Albany Medical Annals in 1882-87, 














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TUCKER, WILLIAM JEWETT, clergy¬ 
man, college president, author, was born 
July 12, 1839, in Griswold, Conn. He was 
professor in Andover Theological semi¬ 
nary in 1879-93, and has been president of 
Dartmouth college from 1893. He is the 
author of The New Movement in Hu¬ 
manity. 

TUCKERMAN, ARTHUR LYMAN, 
architect, author, was born in 1861 in New 
York. He is an architect of New York 
city, superintendent of the Metropolitan 
Museum Art schools in 1888; and the au¬ 
thor of A Short History of Architecture. 
He died in 1892. 

TUCKERMAN, BAYARD, author, was 
horn July 2, 1855, in New York. He, is a 
writer of New York city; and the author 
of History of English Prose Fiction; Life 
of Lafayette; Life of William Jay; and 
Life of Peter Stuyvesant. 

TUCKERMAN, CHARLES KEATING, 
diplomat, author, was born March 11,1821, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a diplomat who 
was minister to Greece in 1868-72, and 
lived in Europe subsequently. He was the 
author of The Greeks of To-Day; Poems; 
and Personal Recollections of Notable 
People. He died in 1896. 

TUCKERMAN, EDWARD, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 7, 1817, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a professor of botany at 
Amherst college in 1858-86; and the au¬ 
thor of Genera Lichenum; Synopsis of the 
North American Lichens; and Catalogue 
of Plants Growing Wild within Thirty 
Miles of Amherst. He died March 15, 1886, 
in Amherst, Mass. 

TUCKERMAN, FREDERICK GOD¬ 
DARD, lawyer, author, was born Aug. 16, 
1821, in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer 
and writer of Boston whose only pub¬ 
lished book was a volume of poems. He 
died May 14, 1877, in Boston, Mass. 

TUCKERMAN, HENRY THEODORE, 
author, poet, was born April 21, 1813, in 
Boston, Mass. Much of his life was spent 
abroad, largely in 
Italy, his intimate 
acquaintance with 
Italian affairs ap¬ 
pearing in his ear¬ 
liest works, The Ital¬ 
ian Sketch-Book; 
and Isabel, or Sicily, 
a Pilgrimage, repub¬ 
lished as Sicily and 
Pilgrimage (1852). 
His subsequent writ- 
ings include 
Thoughts on the Po¬ 
ets; The Book of the Artists; Essays Bi¬ 
ographical and Critical; Artist Life; Ram¬ 
bles and Reveries; Characteristics of Lit¬ 
erature; The Criterion; Maga Papers 
about Paris; Leaves from the Diary of a 
Dreamer; Life of J. P. Kennedy; Ameri¬ 
ca and Her Commentators; The Optimist, 
a series of essays; A Sheaf of Verse; Po¬ 
ems; Mental Portraits; and The Collect¬ 
or, a volume of essays. He died Dec. 17, 
1871, in New York city. 

TUCKERMAN, JOSEPH, clergyman, 
philanthropist, was born Jan. 18, 1778, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman, minister at Chelsea, Mass., in 
1801-28, long eminent as a philanthropist. 
He was the author of Gleams of Truth; 
and Principles and Results of the Ministry 
at Large in Boston. Elevation of the 
Poor- is a collection of his most important 
writings. He died April 20, 1840, in Ha¬ 
vana, Cuba. 

TUCKERMAN, STEPHEN SALISBURY, 
artist, was born Dec. 8, 1830, in Boston, 
Mass. Since 1872 he has worked chiefly 
abroad, and he has exhibited in London, 
Paris, and in Holland, as well as in his 


native country. He is noted especially for 
his marine views, among which are Beach 
at Hastings; U. S.Frigate Constitution Es¬ 
caping from the British Fleet in 1812, 
which is in the Boston Museum of Fine 
Arts; and Dutch Fishing-Boats Beaching 
in a Gale. 

TUDOR, WILLIAM, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, was born March 28, 1750, in Boston, 
Mass. He was attached to General Wash¬ 
ington’s staff in 1775-78 as judge-advocate 
with the rank of colonel; was a member 
of both houses of the Massachusetts leg¬ 
islature; and in 1809-10 served as secre¬ 
tary of state. He died July 8, 1819, in 
Boston, Mass. 

TUDOR. WILLIAM, journalist, legisla¬ 
tor, author, was born Jan. 28, 1779, in 
Boston, Mass. He was a member of the 
Massachusetts legislature; inaugurated 
the ice traffic with tropical climes in 1805; 
and was afterwards engaged in other com¬ 
mercial transactions in Europe. In 1823 
he was appointed consul at Lima, Peru; 
and in 1827 charge d’affaires to Brazil. 
He published Letters on the Eastern 
States; Miscellanies; Life of James Otis; 
and Gebel Teir. He died March 9, 1830, in 
Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 

TUFTS, ARTHUR WEBSTER, mer¬ 
chant, state senator, was born Feb. 20, 
1828, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a 
member of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts legislature 
in 1879,1880 and 1881, 
and of the senate in 
1882 and 1883. In 
politics he was origi¬ 
nally a whig, and in 
1860 joined the re¬ 
publican party, be¬ 
coming presidential 
elector in 1884, and, 
in 1888, delegate to 
the Chicago conven¬ 
tion which nominat¬ 
ed Benjamin Harrison. In 1889 he accepted 
appointment to the governor’s council, 
serving three years. He was director in 
various corporations, including the Com¬ 
monwealth Insurance company of Boston, 
and the Warren Institution for Savings 
in Charlestown, and was president of the 
Institution for Savings in Roxbury. 

TUFTS, CHARLES, philanthropist, was 
born July 11, 1781, in Medford, Mass. He 
was a liberal friend of education, and gave 
the site and seventy acres of land to found 
a college at Milford Hill, near Medford, 
Mass. It was founded in 1853, and was 
named Tufts college in his honor. He 
died Dec. 24, 1876, in Somerville, Mass. 

TUFTS, COTTON, physician, was born 
May 30, 1734, in Medford, Mass. He was 
one of the founders of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the 
Massachusetts Medical society, of which 
he was president for some time. He died 
Dec. 8, 1815, in Weymouth, Mass. 

TUFTS, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born May 5, 1689, in Medford, Mass. He 
published Introduction to the Singing of 
Psalm-Tunes, with a Collection of Tunes 
in Three Parts; and a sermon, Humble 
Call to Archippus. He died in August, 
1750, in Amesbury, Mass. 

TUFTS, JOHN QUINCY, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
July 12, 1840, in Aurora, Ind. He held 
the position of clerk, trustee, and justice; 
and was elected to the Iowa legislature 
in 1869; and re-elected in 1871 and 1873. 
In 1874 he was elected a representative 
from Iowa to the forty-fourth congress as 
a republican. 


TUFTS, QUINCY, philanthropist, was 
born July 4, 1791, in Weymouth, Mass. 
He left by his will $10,000 to Harvard for 
the education of indigent students, $2,000 
each to Amherst college and Atkinson 
academy, New Hampshire, for a like pur¬ 
pose; $10,000 to the town of Weymouth 
for a free library; $10,000 to the Massachu¬ 
setts General hospital for free beds; and 
about $40,000 to be distributed among the 
charitable institutions of the city. He died 
April 18, 1872, in Weymouth, Mass. 

TUGWELL, A. P.. journalist, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1860 in New York city. 
He is the editor and owner of The Sun 
of Tacoma, Wash.; and has served his 
state as judge. 

TULLY, JOHN, astrologer, was born 
Sept. 9, 1628, in England. For twenty 
years, from 1681 till the time of his death, 
he was engaged in compiling almanacs, 
and was popularly known as the New 
England astrologer. He died Oct. 5, 1701, 
in Middletown, Conn. 

TULLY, PLEASANT B., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 21, 1829, in 
Pleasant Exchange, Tenn. He was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1861; commenced 
practice at Gilroy, Cal.; and was a dele¬ 
gate to the state constitutional conven¬ 
tion of 1879. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from California to the forty-eighth 
congress as a democrat. 

TULLY, WILLIAM, physician, botanist, 
educator, author, was bom Nov. 18, 1785, 
in Saybrook, Conn. He was a noted New 
England botanist and physician, and med¬ 
ical-professor at Yale university in 1829- 
42. He was the author of Essays upon 
Fever; Materia Medica, or Pharmacology; 
and Therapeutics. He died Feb. 28, 1859, 
in Springfield, Mass. 

TUNIS, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born in 1858 in New York. He was an 
episcopal clergyman of Millbrook, N. J., 
but prior to 1892 in the Unitarian ministry. 
He was the author of The Faith by Which 
We Stand. He died in 1896. 

TUNNICLIFF, JOHN J., lawyer, public 
official, was born March 17, 1841, in Penn 
Yan, N. Y. In 1863 h6 graduated from the 
Hamilton college, 
Clinton, N. Y., and 
the following year 
from the Albany 
Law school. Since 
1865 he has practiced 
law in Galesburg, 
Ill.; was five times 
elected state’s attor¬ 
ney of Knox county, 
and held the office 
during 1872-92; and 
in 1895 he was elect¬ 
ed mayor of the city 
of Galesburg. While he held the office of 
state’s attorney he prosecuted many im¬ 
portant criminal cases, and convicted 
Frank Rande who had committed mur¬ 
ders in various states; and nearly all of 
his cases, when taken to the supreme 
court, were generally sustained, and many 
important questions in criminal practice 
settled. 

TUOMY, MICHAEL, geologist, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born Sept. 29, 1808, in Ire¬ 
land. He was a professor of geology in 
the university of Alabama in 1847-57, state 
geologist of South Carolina from 1844, and 
of Alabama from 1848. He was the au¬ 
thor of Geological and Agricultural Sur¬ 
vey of South Carolina; Report on the 
Geology of South Carolina; Fossils of 
South Carolina (with F. Holmes); and 
First and Second Biennial Reports on the 
Geology of Alabama. He died March 30„ 
1857, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. 









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TUPPER, BENJAMIN, soldier, jurist, 
•was born in August, 1738, in Stoughton, 
Mass. He attained the rank of brigadier- 
general for services in the revolutionary 
war. He was a surveyor of Ohio lands in 
1785; distinguished himself in suppressing 
Shay’s insurrection; and became a judge 
of Ohio in 1788. 

TUPPER, FREDERIC ALLISON, edu¬ 
cator, poet, was born Aug. 17, 1860, in 
Holliston, Mass. He graduated from the 
Roxbury Law school 
and from Harvard 
college. Since grad¬ 
uation he has taught 
school in Worcester, 
New Brunswick, 
N. J.; and then was 
principal of Arms 
academy of Shelburn 
Falls, Mass.; and is 
now in Quincy. He 
is the author of a 
volume of poems en¬ 
titled Echoes from 
Dreamland; qnd his poems and sketches 
have appeared in current literature, Poets 
of America, and other standard works. He 
is also a brilliant orator and has delivered 
addresses on public occasions. 

TUPPER. HENRY ALLEN, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 29, 1828, in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. He received a thorough aca¬ 
demic education; and 
attained eminence as 
a successful clergy¬ 
man of the baptist 
church. He was pas¬ 
tor of the Washing¬ 
ton, Ga., Baptist 
church during 1853- 
72; was secretary of 
the foreign mission 
board of the south¬ 
ern baptist conven¬ 
tion during 1872-93; 
has been trustee of 
several colleges; is now trustee of Rich¬ 
mond college; and president and trustee 
of the Woman’s college of Richmond, Va, 
During the war he was chaplain of the 
ninth Georgia regiment. He is the author 
of Foreign Missions of Southern Baptist 
Convention; A Decade of Foreign Mis¬ 
sions; Truth in Romance; The Carpen¬ 
ter’s Son; First Century of First Baptist 
Church of Richmond, Va.; First Church 
of South Carolina; American Baptist 
Missions in Africa; and numerous pam¬ 
phlets; and contributed to current litera¬ 
ture. In 1893 he presented a paper at the 
World’s Congress of Religions at Chicago, 
on African Missions. 

TUPPER, HENRY MARTYN, educator, 
missionary, was born April 11, 1831, in 
Monson, Mass. In 1859 he graduated from 
Amherst college, and three years later 
from the Newton Theological seminary. 
He served in the union army during the 
civil war chiefly in Virginia and Missis¬ 
sippi, fighting many battles and doing 
much chaplain work. After the war he 
became a missionary of the American 
Baptist Home Missionary society; began 
work among the colored people at Ral¬ 
eigh, N. C„ and laid the basis of the Shaw 
university. 

TURCHIN, JOHN BASIL, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 30, 1822, in Russia. 
He was a Russian soldier who came to 
America in 1856, served in the federal 
army during the civil war, and in 1873 
established the Polish colony of Radon in 
Illinois. He is the author of The Cam¬ 
paign and Battle of Chickamauga. 

TURELL, EBENEZER, clergyman, was 
born Feb. 5, 1702, in Boston, Mass. He 


was minister of Medford, Mass., from 1724 
till his death. He collected and published 
poems by his wife, with a memoir of her. 
A tract of his on Witchcraft is in the 
Massachusetts Historical Collections. He 
died Dec. 8, 1778, in Medford, Mass. 

1 URELL, MRS. JANE, poet, was born 
Feb. 25, 1708, in Boston, Mass. She wrote 
eulogies on Sir Richard Blackmore’s 
works, and on The Incomparable Mr. 
Waller; An Invitation into the Country 
in Imitation of Horace; and some prose 
articles. Her poems were collected and 
published by her husband, with a memoir 
of her life. She died March 26, 1735, in 
Medford, Mass. 

TURINI, GIOVANNI, sculptor, was 
born May 23, 1841, in Italy. In 1867 he 
exhibited a group of statuary entitled An¬ 
gelica and Medora at the World’s fair in 
Paris, and in 1882 he made a bust of Leo 
XIII. for the Vatican in Rome. The statue 
of Garibaldi erected in Washington square 
by the Italians of New York city was de¬ 
signed by him. 

TURNBULL, CHARLES NESBIT, sol¬ 
dier, civil engineer, was born Aug. 14, 
1832, in Washington, D. C. During the 
civil war he served at first on the staff 
of General Benjamin F. Butler and in the 
department of the gulf, after which, in 
1863-64, he was with the army of the Po¬ 
tomac. He received his promotion as cap¬ 
tain of topographical engineers in 1862, 
and was transferred to the corps of engi¬ 
neers in 1863. He received the brevets of 
major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel for 
his services, and after the war served on 
the repairs of Fort Hamilton. He died 
Dec. 2, 1874, in Boston, Mass. 

TURNBULL, LAURENCE, physician, 
author, was born Sept. 10, 1821, in Scot¬ 
land. He is an eminent physician of Bal¬ 
timore; and the author of Hints and Ob¬ 
servations on Military Hygiene; Imper¬ 
fect Hearing; Clinical Manual of Diseases 
of the Ear; Advantages and Disadvantages 
of Artificial Anaesthesia; and The Electro- 
Magnetic Telegraph. 

TURNBULL, NEEDHAM S„ lawyer, 
legislator, was born June 10, 1856, in Law- 
renceville, Va. This eminent lawyer has 
been judge of Brunswick county; and in 
1892 became a member of the Virginia 
state legislature. 

TURNBULL, ROBERT, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 10, 1809, in Scotland. 
He was a baptist clergyman of Hartford 
in 1845-69; and the author of The Thea¬ 
ter; Olympia Morata; The Genius of Scot¬ 
land; The Genius of Italy; Pulpit Ora¬ 
tors of France and Switzerland; The Stu¬ 
dent Preacher; Theophany; The World 
We Live In; Life Pictures; and Christ 
in History. He died Nov. 20, 1877, in 
Hartford, Conn. 

TURNBULL, ROBERT JAMES, lawyer, 
author, was born in January, 1775, in New 
Smyrna, Fla. He was a lawyer and po¬ 
litical writer of Charleston; and the au¬ 
thor of A Visit to the Philadelphia Peni¬ 
tentiary, much noticed at the time of its 
appearance in 1797; The Crisis, a work on 
nullification; and The Principle of Der¬ 
nier Ressort. He died June 15, 1833, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

TURNBULL, WILLIAM, civil engineer, 
was born Oct. 9, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
From 1832 till 1843 he was superintending 
topographical engineer of the construction 
of the Potomac aqueduct. He died Dec. 
9, 1857, in Wilmington, N. C. 

TURNBULL, WILLIAM PATERSON, 
clergyman, author, was born June 20, 1830, 
in Scotland. He was a Philadelphia orni¬ 




BIOGRAPHY. 

thologist; and the author of Birds of 
East Lothian; and Birds of East Penn¬ 
sylvania and New Jersey. He died July 5, 
1871, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

TURNER, ALBERT, educator, journal¬ 
ist, was born July 22, 1842, in Fair Ha¬ 
ven, N. J. He is now the editor and pro¬ 
prietor of Health Culture, published in 
New York city. 

TURNER, ALICE, educator, physician, 
writer, was born March 13, 1859, near 
Greencastle, Iowa. She received her edu¬ 
cation at the Mitchell seminary, Simpson 
college, Lincoln university, and the college 
of Physicians and Surgeons of Keokuk, 
Iowa. She has attained success as an edu¬ 
cator and physician of Colfax, Iowa, and 
is the wife of Dr. Turner of that city. She 
was the founder of the Colfax library; 
has been health officer; and has contribu¬ 
ted valuable papers to current literature 
on Hygiene, and other topics. 

TURNER, ARCHELAUS EWING, edu¬ 
cator, college president, was born April 
27, 1861, near Greenville, Ill. He was 
professor of natural sciences in the Lin¬ 
coln university for four years; and in 1888 
became its president. 

TURNER, BENJAMIN STERLING, 
merchant, congressman, was born March 
17, 1825, in Halifax county, N. C. He was 
elected to the forty-second congress as 
representative from Alabama as a republi¬ 
can. 

TURNER, CHARLES, congressman, was 
born in 1750. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Massachusetts, 
serving from 1809 to 1813; and was at 
one time master of the Marine hospital 
at Chelsea. He died in 1816. 

TURNER, CHARLES H., merchant, 
congressman, was born May 26, 1861, in 
Wentworth, N. H. He moved to New 
York in 1879; engaged in the ice business 
in New York city, and continued therein 
till he became a candidate in 1888 for 
state senator. He was elected to the fifty- 
first congress to fill a vacancy. 

TURNER, CHARLES YARDLEY, art¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 25, 1850, in Baltimore, 
Md. He gained the Hallgarten prize by 
the Courtship of Miles Standish in 1883; 
was also elected an associate of the acad¬ 
emy, and in 1886 was made an acade¬ 
mician. His works in oil include The 
Grand Canal at Dordrecht; The Days that 
are No More; Afternoon Tea; Doro¬ 
thy Fox; and Preparing for Yearly Meet¬ 
ing. 

TURNER, DANIEL, naval officer, was 
born in 1794 in Richmond, N. Y. He was 
a commodore of the Brazil squadron in 
1843-46; and during 1846-49 had charge 
of the Portsmouth navy yard. He died 
Feb. 4, 1850, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

TURNER, DANIEL, soldier, educator, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 26, 1796, in Warren county, N. C. 
In 1814 he was appointed a lieutenant of 
artillery, and as such served at Brooklyn 
Heights and at Plattsburg. From 1819 to 
1823 he served in the legislature of North 
Carolina; and was a member of congress 
from 1827 to 1829. He subsequently had 
charge of the Warrenton Female semi¬ 
nary. He died July 21, 1860, on Mare Is¬ 
land, Cal. 

TURNER, DOUGLAS KELLOGG, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Dec. 17, 1823, in 
Stockbridge, Mass. In 1873 he became cor¬ 
responding secretary and librarian of the 
Presbyterian Historical society. He has 
published The History of the Neshaminy 
Church from 1726 to 1876. 







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TURNER, E. B., lawyer, jurist, was 
born May 24, 1825, in Putney, Vt. In 1853 
he moved to Texas; and in 1866 was ap¬ 
pointed United States district attorney 
for the western district of Texas. He be¬ 
came attorney-general of the state under 
the reconstruction acts; and in 1871 was 
appointed judge of the thirty-second ju¬ 
dicial district of the state, serving until 
1876. He was then elected judge of the 
sixteenth judicial district, and resigned in 
1880 to accept the appointment of United 
States district judge for the western dis¬ 
trict of Texas. 

TURNER, MRS. ELIZA [SPROAT], au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1826 in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. She is a poet of Pennsylvania; 
and the author of OutT-of-Door Rhymes. 

TURNER, ERASTUS J., soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, congressman, was born 
Dec. 26, 1846, in Lockport, Pa. He en¬ 
listed in company E, thirteenth Iowa in 
fantry in 1864, and remained till the close 
of the war. He moved to Kansas in 1879' 
and was elected a member of the legisla¬ 
ture in 1881, and re-elected in 1883. He 
was elected secretary of the Kansas board 
of railroad commissioners in 1883. He 
was elected to the fiftieth congress, and 
was re-elected to the fifty-first congress 
as a republican. 

TURNER, FREDERICK HUGH, mer¬ 
chant, state senator, was born Oct. 31, 
1859, in Rock county, Wis. He is a suc¬ 
cessful merchant of Idaho Falls, Idaho; 
and has served as a member of the state 
senate. 

TURNER, GEORGE, soldier, jurist, was 
born in 1750 in England. He was a cap¬ 
tain, and commanded in South Carolina; 
and was distinguished at the battles in 
that state. He was commissioned judge 
of the Northwest territory in 1789. He 
died March 16, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

TURNER, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
United States senator, was born Feb. 25, 
1850, in Edina, Mo. He was associate jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court for the territory 
of Washington from 1884 till 1886; was a 
member of the constitutional convention 
which framed the constitution for the 
state of Washington; and was elected to 
the United States senate as a represen¬ 
tative of the people’s party. 

TURNER, HENRY G., lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born March 20, 
1839 in Franklin county, N. C. He en¬ 
gaged in practice at Quitman, Ga.; and 
was a presidential elector in 1872. He was 
three times elected a representative in the 
state legislature. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Georgia to the forty-sev¬ 
enth congress; and was re-elected to the 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty- 
first, fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty- 
fourth congresses as a democrat. 

TURNER, HENRY McNEAL, bishop, 
author, was born Feb. 1, 1833, in New¬ 
berry, S. C. He is a bishop of the African 
methodist church; and the author of a 
work on Methodist Polity. 

TURNER, JAMES,soldier,United States 
senator, governor, was born Dec. 20, 1766, 
in Southampton, Va. He served in the 
revolution as a private soldier; entered 
public life in 1800 as a member of the leg¬ 
islature of North Carolina; in 1802 was 
elected governor of the state; and was a 
senator in congress from North Carolina 
from 1805 to 1816. He died Jan. 15, 1824, 
in Bloomsbury. 

TURNER, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in Maryland. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1833 
to 1837. 


TURNER, JOHN ORMAN, educator, 
college president, was born Nov. 27, 1850, 
in Greene county, Ala. He received his 
education at the 
Howard college, from 
which institution he 
received the degree 
of A. M.; the univer¬ 
sity of Alabama; and 
graduated from the 
State Normal college 
of Troy with the de¬ 
gree of LL. D. He 
has been principal of 
the Springville High 
school; president of 
the Ashville college; 
county superintendent of education; since 
1894 has been state superintendent of edu¬ 
cation for Alabama; and for nearly a 
quarter of a century Dr. Turner has been 
engaged in practical educational work. 

TURNER, JOHN WESLEY, soldier, 

civil engineer, was born July 19, 1833, in 

Saratoga county, N. Y. He was promoted 
major-general of volunteers for gallant 
and meritorious service on several occa¬ 
sions before the enemy, and brigadier- 
general and major-general United States 
army for services in the field during the 
rebellion. Since 1877 he has been a street 
commissioner and member of the board of 
public works of St. Louis, Mo. 

TURNER, OSCAR, agriculturist, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, was born 
Feb. 3, 1825, in New Orleans, La. In 1851 
he was elected commonwealth’s attorney 
for Kentucky, and served four years. In 
1867 he was elected state senator, and 
served four years; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Kentucky to the forty- 
sixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth 
congresses as an independent democrat. 

TURNER, PETER, naval officer, was 
born Feb. 17, 1803, in Rhode Island. He 
was placed on the reserved list in 1855, 
and was on waiting orders until 1861, 
when he was commissioned commander, 
and was governor of the naval asylum at 
Philadelphia during the civil war. He 
was promoted to commodore in 1862. He 
died Feb. 17, 1871, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

TURNER, SAMUEL EPES, author, was 
born in 1846 in Maryland. He is the au¬ 
thor of A Sketch of the Germanic Consti¬ 
tution from Early Times to the Dissolu¬ 
tion of the Empire. 

TURNER, SAMUEL HULBEART, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 
23, 1790, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an 
episcopal clergyman, professor in the 
General Theological seminary in New 
York city in 1818-61, and best known by 
his Commentaries on Hebrews, Romans, 
Ephesians, and Galatians. Other works 
by him are, Companion to the Book of 
Genesis; Thoughts on Scripture Prophecy; 
Comparing Spiritual Things with Spir¬ 
itual; and Biographical Notices of Jew¬ 
ish Rabbis. He died Dec. 21,1861, in New 
York city. 

TURNER, SMITH S., soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 21, 1842, in Warren county, Va. He 
taught mathematics in a female seminary 
at Winchester, Va., for two years after 
the war; studied law, and was admitted 
to the bar in 1869. He was a member of 
the Virginia legislature in 1869-1872; was 
for a number of years prosecuting attor¬ 
ney for Warren county, and is still en¬ 
gaged in the practice of law. He was 
elected to the fifty-third and re-elected to 
the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

TURNER, THOMAS, naval officer, was 
born Dec. 23, 1808, in Washington, D. C. 
He served in the United States navy in the 


civil war attaining the rank of rear-ad¬ 
miral. He died March 24, 1883, in Glen 
Mills, Pa. 

TURNER, THOMAS, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Sept. 10,. 
1821, in Richmond, Ky. He was com¬ 
monwealth attorney from 1846 to 1849; 
and was a representative in the Kentucky 
state legislature from 1861 to 1863. He 
was elected a representative from Ken¬ 
tucky to the forty-fifth congress; and re¬ 
elected to the forty-sixth congress as a 
democrat. 

TURNER, THOMAS G., governor. He 
was governor of Rhode Island for one 
year, beginning in 1859. 

TURNER, THOMAS J., lawyer, jurist,, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
April 5, 1815, in Trumbull county, Ohio. 
He sealed in Freeport, Ill.; and was made 
justice of the peace, which office he held 
for several years. In 1842 he was elect¬ 
ed probate justice of the peace; and in 
1844 was appointed postmaster. In 184fi 
he was chosen state’s attorney for the 
sixth judicial district; and in 1846 was. 
elected a representative in the thirtieth 
congress. In 1854 he was a member of 
the lower house of the legislature, and 
was chosen speaker. 

TUtvNER, THOMAS SLOSS, journalist,, 
poet, was born July 30, 1860, in Wood- 
burn, Ky. He is a Texas journalist and 
poet; and the author of Life’s Brevity, 
and Other Poems; Heart Melodies; and 
A Dream of Bachelors. 

TURNER. TURNER, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Ohio. He was appointed from 
Ohio chief justice of the United States 
court for the territory of Nevada, residing 
at Carson City. 

TURNER, WILLIAM F., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He removed 
to Iowa, from which state he was appoint¬ 
ed chief justice of the United States court 
for the territory of Arizona. 

TURNEY, HOPKINS LACEY, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Oct. 3, 1797, in Smith county, 
Tenn. From 1828 to 1838 he served in the 
Tennessee legislature; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Tennessee 
from 1837 to 1843. He served in the senate 
of the United States from 1845 to 1851. He 
died Aug. 1, 1857, in Winchester, Tenn. 

TURNEY, JACOB, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1825, 
in Greensburg, Pa. He was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney for Westmoreland county in 
1850; and was re-elected in 1853, and con¬ 
tinued in that office six years. He was 
state senator in 1858-60; and speaker of 
that body in 1859. In 1874 he was elected 
a representative from Pennsylvania to 
the forty-fourth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress. 

TURPIE, DAVID, lawyer, jurist. United 
States senator, was born July 8, 1829, in 
Hamilton county, Ohio. He was judge of 
the court of common pleas in 1854, and 
was judge of the circuit court in 1856, both 
of which offices he resigned. In J.853 and 
also in 1858 he was a member of the legis¬ 
lature of Indiana; and in 1863 was elect¬ 
ed a senator in congress to fill a vacancy. 
He was elected a member of the house of 
representatives of the general assembly of 
Indiana and served as speaker of that 
body in 1874-75. In 1878 he was appointed 
one of the three commissioners to revise 
the laws of Indiana, serving three years 
as such. In 1886 he was appointed United 
States district attorney for the state of 
Indiana and served as such until 1887. 
He was elected to the United States senate 
as a democrat in 1887; and was re-elected 
in 1893. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 1899. 




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TURPIN, LOUIS W., agriculturist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 22, 1849, in Al¬ 
bemarle, Va. He was elected to represent 
his district in the fifty-first congress, but 
was unseated to pave the way for the elec¬ 
tions bill; and was re-elected to the fifty- 
second congress, and was elected to the 
fifty-third congress from the ninth or 
Birmingham district as a democrat. 

TURRELL, JOEL, state legislator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1795 in Vermont. 
He was a member of the state assembly 
trom Oswego county in 1831; and was a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1833 to 1837. He died Dec. 26, 1859, 
in Oswego, N. Y. 

TUTHILL, JOSEPH H., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 11, 1811, in 
Blooming Grove, N. Y. He was a mer¬ 
chant for thirty-five years; president of 
the Ellenville Glass works; and was 
•clerk of Ulster county for four years. He 
was a member of the Ulster county board 
•of supervisors ten years; and was elect¬ 
ed from New York to the forty-second 
congress as a democrat. 

TUTHILL, MRS. LOUISA CAROLINE 
[HUGGINS], author, was born July 6, 
1798, in New Haven, Conn. Among her 
many publications are, I Will Be a Gentle¬ 
man; I Will Be a Lady; Tales for the 
Young; True Manliness; I Will Be a 
Sailor; I Will Be a Soldier; Onward. 
Right Onward; Romantic Belinda; and 
Ancient Architecture. She died June 1, 
1879, in Princeton, N. J. 

TUTHILL, SELAH, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the seven¬ 
teenth congress. He died in December, 
1821. 

TUTTLE, CHARLES RICHARD, au¬ 
thor, poet. He is the author of General 
History of Michigan; Border Wars of 
Two Centuries; History of Indiana; His¬ 
tory of Canada; History of Wisconsin; 
and The Boss Devil of America. 

TUTTLE, CHARLES WESLEY, astron¬ 
omer, author, was born in November, 1829, 
in Newfield, Maine. His leisure was de¬ 
voted to historical and antiquarian re¬ 
search, and he won a high reputation as 
an original investigator. He was the au¬ 
thor of a monograph on Capt. John 
Mason, the Founder of New Hampshire, 
edited, with historical illustrations, by 
John Ward Dean, and published by the 
Prince society. He died July 17, 1881, in 
Boston, Mass. 

TUTTLE, DANIEL SYLVESTER, low¬ 
er bishop of Missouri, was born Jan. 26, 
1837, in Windham, N. Y. For years he 
has been active in the discussion of the 
Mormon question in Utah, where his in¬ 
fluence has been very great. He took up 
his residence at Salt Lake City in 1869. 
On the death of Bishop Robertson, of Mis¬ 
souri, on May 1, 1886, he consented to be 
translated to the see of Missouri. 

TUTTLE, DWIGHT W., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born Jan. 11, 1846, in Hamden, 
Conn. He has been prosecuting attor¬ 
ney of East Haven, Conn. For three 
terms he was a member of the Connecti- 
-cut house of representatives, and became 
a member of the state senate in 1897. 

TUTTLE, MRS. EMMA [ROOD], lec¬ 
turer, author, poet, was born July 21, 1839, 
in Braceville, Ohio. She is a lecturer 
and poet of Berlin Heights, Ohio; 
and the author of Blossoms of Our 
Spring; Gazelle; From Soul to Soul, 
Poems; Stories for Our Children; and 
The Lyceum Guide. 

TUTTLE, HERBERT, educator, author, 
was born Nov. 29, 1849, in Bennington, Vt. 
He was a professor at Cornell university 


in 1881-94, occupying the chair of mod¬ 
ern European history from 1891. He was 
the author of The History of Prussia; and 
German Political Leaders. He died in 
1894. 

TUTTLE, HORACE PARNELL, astron¬ 
omer, inventor, was born March 24, 1839, 
in Newfield, Maine. In 1861 he devised a 
method of signaling at long distances by 
using flashes made by a Drummond light, 
to correspond with the dots and dashes 
of the Morse telegraph system. He dis¬ 
covered thirteen comets between 1857 and 
1866, and in 1861-62 the asteroids Mala and 
Clytie. At present he is assistant com¬ 
puter in the United States naval observa¬ 
tory. 

TUTTLE, HUDSON, author, was born 
Oct. 4, 1836, in Berlin Heights, Ohio. He 
is a spiritual medium of Berlin Heights, 
Ohio; and the author of Life in the 
Spheres; Arcana of Nature; Career of the 
God Idea; Career of the Christ Idea; 
Career of Religious Ideas; Origin and De¬ 
velopment of Man; Clair, a Tale; Camile, 
or Love and Labor; Heloise; and Love or 
Religion. 

TUTTLE, JAMES MADISON, soldier, 
was born Sept. 24, 1823, in Summerfield, 
Ohio. At the opening of the civil war he 
joined the second Iowa regiment as a 
captain, and became successively lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel and colonel. For his Services 
in these battles he was promoted briga¬ 
dier-general in 1862. He died Oct. 24, 1892, 
in Casa Grande, Ariz. 

TUTTLE, JOSEPH FARRAND, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born March 12, 1818, 
in Bloomfield, N. J. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman; and the author of Life of 
William Tuttle; The Way Lost and 
Found; and Annals of Morris County, 
N. J. 

TUTTLE, LUCIUS, railroad president, 
was born March 11, 1846, in Hartford, 
Conn. Since 1893 he has been president 
of the Boston and Maine railroad. 

TUTTLE, THOMAS B., merchant, leg¬ 
islator, was born Sept. 30, 1844, in Potter 
Center, N. Y. This successful merchant 
of Le Roy, N. Y., was a member of the 
New York legislature during 1894-95. 

TWEED, CHARLES A., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Massachusetts. He moved to 
California; and in 1870 was appointed an 
associate justice of the supreme court for 
the territory of Arizona, residing at Yuma. 

TWEED, WILLIAM M., manufacturer, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
April 3, 1823, in New York city. He was 
an alderman in New York city in 1852; 
and was a member of the thirty-third 
congress. He was a member of the state 
board of education in 1857; and was a 
supervisor of New York county in 1858. 
He was a state senator in 1867. He died 
April 12, 1878, in New York city. 

TWEEDALE, WILLIAM, civil engineer, 
was born May IS, 1823, in Scotland. At 
the opening of the civil war he raised a 
company for an engineer regiment, and 
was mustered in as captain. He was en¬ 
gaged in the engineering operations 
against New Madrid, which resulted in its 
capture, and cut a passage for a fleet of 
transports across the lower end of Island 
No. 8. 

TWEEDY, JOHN H., congressman, was 
born in Connecticut. He was a member of 
the first constitutional convention of Wis¬ 
consin territory in 1846; and was elected 
a delegate to congress from the same in 
1847. 

TWEEDY, SAMUEL, congressman, was 
born in Connecticut. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from that state from 
1833 to 1835. 


TWIGGS, DAVID EMANUEL, soldier, 
was born in 1790, in Richmond county, Ga. 
He was a major at the close of the war 
of 1812, and was retained in the army. 
He was brevetted major-general after the 
battle of Monterey, and for his gallantry 
there he received a gift of a sword from 
congress. He died Sept. 15, 1862, in Au¬ 
gusta, Ga. 

TWINING, NATHAN CROOK, soldier, 
educator, was born Sept. 27, 1834, in Bos¬ 
ton, N. Y. He received his education in 
the Albion academy, Milton college, Wis¬ 
consin, and holds college diplomas of A. 
B. and A. M. In 1864 he was a captain 
in the United States army; and is a prom¬ 
inent member of the Grand Army of the 
Republic. He has-been a superintendent 
of public instruction; and attained suc¬ 
cess as professor of ancient languages, lit¬ 
erature and mathematics. 

TWISS, STEPHEN P., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born May 2, 1827, in 
Charlton, Mass. He was a representative 
in the Massachusetts state legislature in 
1857; and was city solicitor of Worcester 
in 1863 and 1864. In 1865 he moved to 
Kansas City, Mo.; and was a representa¬ 
tive in the state legislature. He was city 
counselor in 1878-79; and in 1880 was ap¬ 
pointed associate justice of the supreme 
court of Utah. 

TWITCHELL, ALBERT S., soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Sept. 16, 1840, in Bethel, 
Maine. He received a thorough education 
in the public schools 
and at Gould’s acad¬ 
emy of Bethel, 
Maine. He served 
with distinction in 
the seventh regiment 
Maine light battery 
as quartermaster ser¬ 
geant during the civ¬ 
il war; and is now 
one of the foremost 
lawyers of New Eng¬ 
land at Gorham, N. 
H. He has been 
railroad commissioner for New Hamp¬ 
shire; president of the New Hampshire 
Veterans' association; judge advocate, 
department, New Hampshire Grand Army 
of the Republic; United States consul at 
Santiago de Cuba; and is now a member 
of the school board of Gorham, and pres¬ 
ident of the Savings bank of that city. 

TWITCHELL. DANIEL S., lawyer, pub¬ 
lic official, was born April 11, 1834, in Ann 
Arbor, Mich. He received a thorough edu¬ 
cation and attended 
the Michigan univer¬ 
sity. He has been 
recorder of his na¬ 
tive city; circuit 
court commissioner 
of his native county; 
and is now one of 
the leading lawyers 
of Missouri, at Kan¬ 
sas City, where he 
was city counselor 
during 1881-83. In 
1889 he served with 
distinction as a member of the upper 
house of Kansas City, Mo.; and in 1890 
was a candidate for congress. He is 
president of the Early Settlers and His¬ 
torical society of Kansas City, Mo.; and 
takes an active part in municipal affairs. 

TWITCHELL, EDGAR A., journalist, 
lawyer, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 
1, 1854, in Bethel, Vt. In 1877 he grad¬ 
uated from Dartmouth college; and is now 
the editor and owner of The Emancipator, 
of St. Cloud, Minn. He is also a success¬ 
ful lawyer and lecturer; and the author 
of several works. 









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TWITCHELL, GINERY, congressman, 
was born Aug. 26, 1811, in Athol, Mass. 
In 1866 he was elected a representative 
from Massachusetts to the fortieth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
first and forty-second congresses as a re¬ 
publican. He died July 23, 1883, in Brook¬ 
line, Mass. 

TWITCHELL, JOSEPH PIOPKINS, 
clergyman, author, was born in 183—, in 
Connecticut. He is a congregational cler¬ 
gyman of Hartford from 1865; and the 
author of Life of John Winthrop; and 
Some Old Puritan Love Letters. 

TYDINGS, RICHARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 16, 1783, in Anne 
Arundel county, Md. He was a member 
of the Louisville conference at the time 
of his death. He wrote a work on Apos¬ 
tolical Succession. He died Oct. 3, 1865, 
in Bullitt county, Ky. 

TYLER, ASHER, lawyer, congressman, 
was born May 10, 1798, in Bridgewater, N. 
Y. He was a representative from New 
York to the twenty-eighth congress. He 
subsequently settled in Elmira, where he 
was extensively identified with railway 
operations. He died in August, 1875, in 
Elmira, N. Y. 

TYLER, BENNET, clergyman, author, 
was born July 10, 1783, in Middlebury, 
Conn. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man; president of Dartmouth college in 
1822-28; and subsequently minister at 
Portland, Maine. He was the author of 
History of New Haven Theology; The 
Sufferings of Christ; New England Revi¬ 
vals; and Lectures on Christian Nurture. 
He died May 14, 1858, in South Windsor, 
Conn. 

TYLER, CHARLES HUMPHREY, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1826, in Virginia. He 
entered the confederate service; became a 
brigadier-general; and was killed in bat¬ 
tle at West Point, Ga. He died April 17, 
1865, in West Point, Ga. 

TYLER, CHARLES MELLEN, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1832, in Maine. 
He is a professor of the history and phil¬ 
osophy of religion at Cornell university 
from 1891; and the author of Bases of Re¬ 
ligious Belief, Historic and Ideal. 

TYLER, D. GARDINER, soldier, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1846, 
in East Hampton, Long Island, N. Y. 
He was director on board of state lunatic 
asylum at Williamsburg, Va., from 1884 
to 1887; was visitor of William and Mary 
college; and was presidential elector in 
1888 on the democratic ticket. He was 
elected in 1891 to the state senate; and 
was elected to the fifty-third; and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress. 

TYLER, DANIEL, soldier, civil engi¬ 
neer, was born Jan. 7, 1799, in Brooklyn, 
Conn. He became colonel of the first reg¬ 
iment, Connecticut volunteers; was pro¬ 
moted to brigadier-general; and com¬ 
manded at Harper’s Ferry when the con¬ 
federate army invaded Pennsylvania. 

TYLER, ERASTUS B., soldier, was 
born April 24, 1822, in West Bloomfield, 
N. Y. He was commissioned colonel of 
the seventh Ohio volunteers in 1861; and 
in 1862 was made brigadier-general. He 
died Jan. 9, 1891, in. Calverton, Md. 

TYLER, JAMES M., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born April 27, 1835, in Wilming¬ 
ton, Vt. He was a representative in the 
Vermont legislature in 1863 and 1864; 
state’s attorney in 1866 and 1867; and be¬ 
came a trustee in the state insane asylum 
in 1875. He was elected a representative 
from Vermont to the forty-sixth and for¬ 
ty-seventh congresses as a republican. 

TYLER, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was born 
in Virginia. In 1811 he was appointed a 


judge of the United States district court 
for the district of Virginia. 

TYLER, JOHN, tenth president of the 
United States, was born March 29, 1790, 
in Williamsburg, Va., and at the age of 
seventeen he grad¬ 
uated at William and 
Mary college. At the 
age of nineteen he 
was admitted to the 
bar; and at the age 
of twenty-one (1811) 
he was elected to the 
Virginia legislature; 
and held the office 
five successive years. 
In 1813 he married 
Miss Lucretia Chris¬ 
tian. She died in 
1842; and in 1844 he married Miss Julia 
Gardiner. In 1816 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress; and served two 
terms. In 1823 he was elected a member 
of the state legislature; and in 1825 he was 
elected governor of Virginia. He was 
elected United States senator in 1827; and 
re-elected in 1833, but resigned his seat 
in 1836. In 1838 he was again elected 
to the state legislature; and in 1840 was 
elected vice-president of the United States. 
Upon the death of President Harrison, in 
accordance with Article III. of the con¬ 
stitution, he became president of the 
United States. Mr. Tyler was at his res¬ 
idence in Virginia when Mr. Harrison 
died (April 4), but reached Washington 
and took the oath of office April 6, 1841. 
At the close of his official term (March 
4, 1845) he retired to his estate near 
Williamsburg, and died Jan. 17, 1862. He 
was a member of the secession congress 
at the time of his death. Tyler held office 
twenty-seven years. He died rich. 

TYLER, JOHN MASON, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 18—. He is a professor 
of biology at Amherst college; and the 
author of The Whence and the Whither 
of Man. 

TYLER, JOSEPH, clergyman, author, 
was born in 18—. He was a congregation¬ 
al missionary in South Africa for forty 
years; for the last ten years of his life 
a resident of St. Johnsbury, Vt. He was 
the author of Forty Years Among the 
Zulus. He died in 1895. 

TYLER, LYON GARDINER, author, 
was born August, 1853, in Charles City 
county, Va. He has been president of 
William and Mary college since 1888; and 
is the author of The Letters and Times of 
The Tylers; and Parties and Patronage in 
the United States. 

TYLER, MOSES COIT, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 2, 1835, in Griswold, 
Conn. He is a professor of American 
history at Cornell university from 1881. 
From 1860 to 1881 he was a member of 
the congregational ministry, but in the 
latter year took orders in the episcopal 
church. He is best known by an admira¬ 
ble History of American Literature Dur¬ 
ing the Colonial Period, 1606-1765, which 
is as readable as it is scholarly, the style 
being both vigorous and original. He is 
the author of The Brawnville Papers; Life 
of Patrick Henry; Three Men of Letters 
(Berkeley, Dwight, Joel Barlow); The 
Literary History of the American Revo¬ 
lution; and Manual of English Literature. 

TYLER, RANSOM HEBBARD, lawyer, 
banker, author, was born Nov. 18, 1813, in 
Leyden, Mass. He was a lawyer and bank 
president of Fulton, N. Y.; and the author 
of The Bible and Social Reform; Ameri¬ 
can Ecclesiastical Law; Commentaries on 
the Law of Infancy and Covertures; 
Ejectment and Adverse Enjoyment) 
Usury; Pawns and Loans; Fixtures; and 


Boundaries, Fences, and Window Lights. 
He died Nov. 27, 1881, in Fulton, N. Y. 

TYLER, ROBERT, lawyer, journalist, 
author, was born in 1818, in New Kent 
county, Va. He was a lawyer of Phila¬ 
delphia; and after the civil war a journ¬ 
alist in Montgomery, Ala. He was the au¬ 
thor of Ahasuerus, a Poem; Death, a 
Poem; and Is Virginia a Repudiating 
State? He died Dec. 3, 1877, in Mont¬ 
gomery, Ala. 

TYLER, ROBERT OGDEN, soldier, was 
born Dec. 22, 1831, in Greene county, N. 
Y. He served with distinction in the civ¬ 
il war; and attained the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general. He died Dec. 1, 1874, in 
Boston, Mass. 

TYLER, ROYALL, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born July 18, 1757, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a Vermont jurist; chief 
justice of the supreme court of his state 
from 1800; and the author of Reports of 
Vermont Supreme Court Cases; The Con¬ 
trast, a brilliant comedy, the first Ameri¬ 
can play acted by regular comedians, and 
the earliest in which Yankee dialect is 
employed; May Day, a comedy; The Geor¬ 
gia Speculator, or Land in the Moon; 
The Algerine Captive; Moral Tales for 
American Youths; and The Yankey in 
London. He died Aug. 16, 1826, in Brat- 
tleDoro, Vt. 

TYLER, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 22, 1809, in Prince 
George county, Md. He was a jurist of 
Frederick, Md.; and the author of The 
Progress of Philosophy; Discourse on 
the Baconian Philosophy; Burns as a 
Poet and as a Man; Memoir of Chief Jus¬ 
tice Taney; and Commentary on the Law 
of Partnership. He died Dec. 15, 1878, in 
Georgetown, D. C. 

TYLER, W. D., railroad president, was 
born Jan. 12, 1849, in Port Huron, Mich. 
Since 1892 he has been president of the 
Washington and Columbia River railway,, 
at Walla Walla, Wash. 

TYLER, WILLIAM, Roman catholic 
bishop, was born June 5, 1806, in Derby. 
Vt. In 1843 the new diocese of Hartford 
was created, and Father Tyler was conse¬ 
crated its first bishop. He was conse¬ 
crated on March 17, 1844, and went to 
Providence, R. I., which he made his 
episcopal residence. He died June 18, 
1849, in Providence, R. I. 

TYLER, WILLIAM SEYMOUR, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Sept. 2, 
1810, in Hartford, Pa. He is a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman and educator; professor 
at Amherst college from 1836; and now 
professor emeritus of the Greek language 
and literature. He is the author of Prayer 
for Colleges; Theology of the Greek Poets; 
editions of Tacitus and the Iliad of Ho¬ 
mer; and History of Amherst College. 

TYLOR, WILSON MOORE, educator, 
journalist, was born June 2, 1856, near 
Denton, Md. Since 1885 he has been the 
editor and proprietor of The Gazette, of 
Easton, Md. 

TYNER, JAMES NOBLE, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, governor, was born 
Jan. 17, 1826, in Brookville, Ind. He was 
secretary of the Indiana senate for four 
sessions from 1857; and was a presidential 
elector in 1860. He was a special agent 
of the postoffice department from 1861 to 
1866; and was elected to the forty-first, 
forty-second and forty-third congresses. 
Immediately after leaving congress he was 
appointed governor of Colorado. In 1875 
he was appointed second assistant post¬ 
master-general, which position he held 
until 1876, when he was promoted to the 
post of first assistant postmaster-general, 
continuing in office until 1881. During 
1889-93 he was law adviser of the post- 
office department. 



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TYNG, DUDLEY ATKINS, clergyman, 
lecturer, author, was born Jan. 12, 1825, 
in Prince George county, Md. He was 
known as a lecturer on religious and sec¬ 
ular subjects. He was the author of Vi¬ 
tal Truth and Deadly Error; God in Our 
Dwelling; and Our Country’s Troubles. 
He died April 19, 1858, in Brookfield, Pa. 

TYNG, EDWARD, naval officer, was 
born in 1683, in Massachusetts. He com¬ 
manded the frigate Massachusetts in the 
expedition against Cape Breton in 1745; 
and was made commodore of the provin¬ 
cial fleet. He died Sept. 8, 1755, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

TYNG, STEPHEN HIGGINSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 1,1800, in 
Newburyport, Mass. He was an episco¬ 
pal clergyman of New York city; rector 
of St. George’s church in 1844-85; and 
long prominent among low churchmen. 
He wrns the author of The Christian Pas¬ 
tor; Family Commentary on the Gospels; 
Lectures on the Law and the Gospel; The 
Israel of God; Christ is All; The Rich 
Kinsman, the history of Ruth; The 
Prayer Book Illustrated by Scripture; 
The Captive Orphan; Esther the Queen of 
Persia; and Forty Years’ Experience in 
Sunday Schools. He died Sept. 4, 1885, in 
Irvington, N. Y. 

TYNG, STEPHEN HIGGINSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 28, 1839, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was an episcopal 
clergyman of New York city; for a num¬ 
ber of years subsequent to 1881 the man¬ 
ager of an insurance company in Paris. 
He is the author of The Square of Life; 
He Will Come; and Our Church Work. 

TYSON, JACOB, state senator, con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1823 to 
1825; and was a member of the New York 
senate from Richmond county in 1828. 

TYSON, JAMES, physician, educator, 
author, was born Oct. 26, 1841, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is a Philadelphia physi¬ 
cian, and medical professor in the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania from 1870. He 
is the author of Manual of Physical Diag¬ 
nosis; The Cell Doctrine; Introduction to 
Practical Histology; Practical Examina¬ 
tion of the Urine; and Treatise on 
Bright’s Disease. 

TYSON, JOB R., lawyer, legislator, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Feb. 8, 1803, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He frequently served 
in the city councils of Philadelphia; and 
was a representative from Pennsylvania 
to the thirty-fourth congress. He also 
served in the legislature of Pennsylvania; 
and through his exertions the archives 
of that state were first published. He 
was the author of Essay on the Penal 
Laws or Pennsylvania; The Lottery Sys¬ 
tem of the United States; Social and In¬ 
tellectual State of Pennsylvania prior to 
1743; and Resources and Commerce of 
Philadelphia. He died June 27, 1858, in 
Woodlawn Hall, Pa. 

TYSON, PHILIP THOMAS, chemist, au¬ 
thor, was born June 23, 1799, in Baltimore, 
Md. He published Geology and Indus¬ 
trial Resources of California, In 1856 he 
was appointed state agricultural chemist, 
which place he held until 1860. He was 
first president of the Maryland academy 
of sciences and contributed papers to its 
proceedings. He died Dec. 16, 1877, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

TYTLER, JAMES, compiler, author, 
was born in 1747, in Scotland. He was the 
author and compiler of three-fourths of 
Elliot’s Encyclopedia Britannica; and 
several works in Scotch dialect. He died 
in 1805, near Salem, Mass. 


UDALL, DAVID KING, farmer, was 
born Sept. 7, 1851, in St. Louis, Mo. He 
is a successful farmer of Springerville, 
Ariz. He received his education in the 
public schools of Nephi, Utah; has been 
bishop of a ward; and president of a stake 
in the church of the Latter-Day Saints. 

UDREE, DANIEL, manufacturer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 
Philadelphia. He removed to Berks county, 
Pa., where he entered largely in the man¬ 
ufacture of iron. He was in the state legis¬ 
lature from 1799 to 1805. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1813 to 1815, from 1819 to 1821, and 
from 1823 to 1825, to fill vacancies. He 
died July 22, 1828. 

UHLE, ALBRECHT BERNHARD, ar¬ 
tist, was born Oct. 5, 1847, in Saxony. He 
is the instructor of the portrait class at 
the Pennsylvania academy, and has be¬ 
come known as an excellent artist. Among 
his portraits are those of Isaac Lea and 
Peter McCall; Joseph Leidy, painted for 
the Academy of Natural Sciences; Wayne 
McVeagh, for the department of justice, 
Washington; and John D. Lankenau, for 
the German hospital, Philadelphia. 

UHLER, PHILIP REESE, naturalist, li¬ 
brarian, author, was born June 3, 1835, 
in Baltimore, Md. In 1876 he became an 
associate in natural sciences at Johns 
Hopkins university. He is also librarian 
of the Peabody institute in that city. He 
translated and edited, with a glossary, Dr. 
Hermann A. Hagen’s Synopsis of Neurop- 
tera of North America. 

ULAND, LARS A., farmer, legislator, 
was born Aug. 24, 1855, in Vernon county, 
Wis. He settled in North Dakota in 1887, 
and shortly afterward became an active 
member of the Farmers’ Alliance. In 1889 
he was elected a representative to the 
North Dakota legislature; was again 
elected in 1892; and in 1894 received the 
nomination from the populist party for 
lieutenant-governor. 

ULLMANN, DANIEL, soldier, was born 
April 28, 1810, in Wilmington, Del. In 
1861 he raised the seventy-eighth regi¬ 
ment New York volunteers; served as col¬ 
onel; was promoted brigadier general in 
1863; and became major-general in 1865. 
He died Sept. 20, 1892, in Nyack, N. Y. 

ULRICH, JOHN, lawyer, state legisla¬ 
tor, was born Sept. 16, 1857, in New York 
city. In 1882 he was a member of the New 
Jersey legislature; and was judge of the 
city court of Plainfield, N. J. 

UNANGST, ELIAS, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1824, in Lehigh Valley, 
Pa. In 1857 he was ordained to the lu- 
theran ministry. He is at the head of the 
mission stations of the general synod. He 
has rendered important service in the 
translation of the New Testament into 
the language of the Telugus, has also 
translated various tracts and hymns into 
the same language, and published a His¬ 
torical Sketch of the American Evangel¬ 
ical Lutheran Missions in India. 

UNDERHILL, EDWARD FITCH, sten¬ 
ographer, lawyer, author, poet, was born 
April 20, 1830, in Wolcott, N. Y. He was 
one of the first court reporters in the 
United States; and in 1860 procured the 
passage of a law that made stenographers 
officers of the courts in New York city, 
which practice has since been adopted by 
the county courts and by nearly every 
state in the union. He has been official 
stenographer of the legislature for five 
years, of the constitutional convention 
in 1867-68, of the state supreme court for 
eight years, and of the surrogate’s court 
from 1872 till the present time. 


UNDERHILL, WALTER, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1849 to 1851. 

UNDERWOOD, ADIN BALLOU, sol¬ 
dier, was born May 19, 1828, in Milford, 
Mass. In 1861 he was captain of the sec¬ 
ond regiment Massachusetts infantry; 
and in 1865 was brevetted major-general. 

UNDERWOOD, BENJAMIN FRANK¬ 
LIN, journalist, author, was born in 1839. 
He was formerly the editor of The Index 
in Boston; and the author of Influence 
of Christianity upon Civilization; and 
Essays and Lectures. 

UNDERWOOD, FRANCIS HENRY, dip¬ 
lomat, author, was born Jan. 12, 1825, in 
Enfield, Mass. He was a Boston writer; 
and the organizer of the Atlantic Monthly. 
He was American consul at Glasgow in 
1885-89, and subsequently at Leith, where 
he died. He was the author of Hand¬ 
books of English Literature: British Au¬ 
thors, and American Authors; Builders 
of American Literature; biographies of 
Lowell, Longfellow, and Whittier; The 
Poet and the Man, Recollections of James 
Russell Lowell; Cloud Pictures; and the 
novels, Lord of Himself; Man Proposes; 
Dr. Gray’s Quest; and Quabbin. He died 
in 1894. 

UNDERWOOD, JOHN COX, soldier, 
civil engineer, journalist, was born Sept. 
12, 1840, in Georgetown, D. C. He was en¬ 
gineer in charge of the public works of 
Warren county, Ky., city engineer of Bow¬ 
ling Green in 1868-75, and mayor of that 
town in 1870-72. In 1876-80 he was lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of Kentucky. In 1881 
he removed to Covington, and organized 
a daily newspaper publishing company in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, where in 1882 the Daily 
News, of which he was general manager, 
began to be issued. 

UNDERWOOD, JOHN CURTISS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born in 1808 in Litch¬ 
field, N. Y. From 1861 to 1863 he was 
fifth auditor of the treasury in Washing¬ 
ton; and was subsequently United States 
district judge in the state of Virginia. 
He died Dec. 7, 1873, in Washington, D. C. 

UNDERWOOD, JOHN WILLIAM 
HENRY, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1816, in 
Elbert county, Ga. In 1843 he was elected 
solicitor-general for the western circuit, 
resigning in 1847. He was a member of 
the Georgia legislature in 1857, and chosen 
speaker. In 1859 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Georgia to the thirty-sixth 
congress. He died July 18, 1888, in Rome, 
Ga. 

UNDERWOOD, JOSEPH ROGERS, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Oct. 24, 1791, in 
Goochland county, 
Va. In 1813 he w T as 
lieutenant of a vol¬ 
unteer company. He 
was a member of the 
Kentucky legislature 
from 1816 to 1819. In 
1823 he removed to 
Bowling Green; and 
was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the general as¬ 
sembly in 1825 and 
1826. From 1828 to 
1835 he was judge of 
the court of appeals. He was elected a 
representative in congress, in which po¬ 
sition he served from 1835 to 1843. In 
1846 he was again elected to the legis¬ 
lature of Kentucky, and was speaker of 
the house. In 1847 he was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the United States senate for six 
years. He died Aug. 23, 1876, near Bow¬ 
ling Green, Ky. 







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UNDERWOOD, LUCIEN MARCUS, edu¬ 
cator, botanist, author, was born Oct. 26, 
1853, in New Woodstock, N. Y. He is a 
professor of botany at Syracuse university 
from 1883; and the author of Systematic 
Plant Record; Our Native Ferns and 
How to Study Them; Our Native Ferns 
and Their Allies; and North American 
Hepatic®. 

UNDERWOOD, OSCAR W., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 6, 1862, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky. He is a noted lawyer of Bir¬ 
mingham, Ala. He 
was chairman of the 
democratic executive 
committee of the 
ninth district in the 
campaign of 1892; 
and was elected to 
the fifty-fourth and 
fifty-fifth congresses 
as a democrat. He 
is a member of sev¬ 
eral important com¬ 
mittees; is an able 
speaker; and has 
taken an active part in the passage of 
several bills of importance to his state. 

UNDERWOOD, WARNER L„ lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Aug. 7, 1808, in Goochland county, Va. He 
was appointed attorney-general for the 
eastern district of the republic of Texas, 
but held the office only a short time. In 
1848 he was a representative ip the Ken¬ 
tucky legislature; and in 1849 a member 
of the state senate. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative to the thirty-fourth and 
thirty-fifth congresses. 

UNDERWOOD, WILLIAM HENDER¬ 
SON, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born 
Sept. 13, 1779, in Culpeper county, Va. 
He was for several years judge of the 
western circuit of Georgia, being elected 
to this post in 1825. He was the leading 
counsel of the Cherokees during their 
controversy with the state of Georgia, and 
became famous in the supreme court of 
the United States for the ability with 
which he advocated their cause. He died 
Aug. 4, 1859, in Marietta, Ga. 

UNTERREINER, CHARLES, educator, 
was born March 4, 1847, in Alsace. He 
received his education in the university 
of Strasburg; has taught modern lan¬ 
guages in France; and for the past quar¬ 
ter of a century in the United States. He 
is now the principal of The Institute of 
Peekskill, N. Y., which he founded in 
1877. 

UPCHURCH, JOHN JORDEN, me¬ 
chanic, was born March 26, 1822, in Frank¬ 
lin, N. C. In 1868 he secured a situation 
in the machine-shops of the Atlantic and 
Great Western railroad at Meadville, Pa. 
Here he prepared the first ritual and or¬ 
ganized the first lodge of the Ancient 
Order of United Workmen, to which his 
principal reputation is due. It has since 
spread into every state and territory of 
the union, has more than 150,000 members, 
and pays out about $2,000,000 annually in 
benefits to the families of deceased mem¬ 
bers. He died Jan. 18, 1887, in Steelville, 
Mo. 

UPDEGRAFF, JONATHAN T„ physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, state senator, congressman, 
was born in Jefferson county, Ohio. He 
served as a surgeon in the union army 
during the war of the rebellion. He was 
a presidential elector of Ohio in 1872; was 
a state senator in 1872 and 1873. He was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses 
as a republican. He died Nov. 30, 1882. 

UPDEGRAFF, MILTON, educator, as¬ 
tronomer, was born Feb. 20, 1861, in De¬ 
corah, Iowa. Since 1890 he has been pro¬ 


fessor of astronomy and director of Law’s 
observatory in the university of Missouri 
at Columbia. He has contributed various 
articles to astronomical journals. 

UPDEGRAFF, THOMAS, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born April 3, 
1834, in Tioga county. Pa. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the state 
house of representa¬ 
tives of Iowa and 
chairman of the ju¬ 
diciary committee of 
that body in 1878. He 
was elected to the 
forty-sixth congress 
and re-elected to the 
forty-seventh con¬ 
gress as a republic¬ 
an. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the board of 
education and city 
solicitor of McGregor, Iowa, for many 
years; and was delegate to the republican 
national convention of 1888 and member 
of notification committee. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

UPDIKE, WILKINS, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, author, was born Jan. 8, 1784, in 
Kingston, R. I. He served many years 
in the Rhode Island legislature, and was 
the author of Memoirs of the Rhode 
Island Bar; and a History of the Epis¬ 
copal Church in Narragansett Pier, R. I. 
He died Jan. 14, 1867, in Kingston, R. I. 

UPFOLD, GEORGE, protestant episco¬ 
pal bishop, author, was born May 7, 1796, 
in England. He moved to Pennsylvania 
in 1831, taking the rectorship of Trinity 
church, Pittsburg, from which post he 
was elevated to the episcopate. He was 
consecrated first bishop of Indiana. His 
writings include The Last Hundred Years, 
a lecture; Manual of Devotions for Do¬ 
mestic and Private Use; and sermons, 
pastoral letters and addresses. He died 
Aug. 26, 1872, in Indianapolis, Ind. 

UPHAM, ALBERT GOOKIN, physician, 
author, was born July 10, 1819, in Ro¬ 
chester, N. H. He published a biograph¬ 
ical and genealogical History of the Up- 
ham Family. He died June 16, 1847, in 
Boston, Mass. 

UPHAM, CHARLES WENTWORTH, 
clergyman, congressman, author, was 
born May 4, 1802, in Canada. In 1840, 
1849, and 1850, he was in the Massachu¬ 
setts state legislature. In 1851, 1857 and 
1858 he was president of the state senate; 
and was mayor of Salem in 1852. .He was 
a member of the thirty-third congress. 
He was the author of Lectures on the 
Logos; Prophecy as an Evidence of Chris¬ 
tianity; Salem Witchcraft and Cotton 
Mather; Life of Timothy Pickering; Life 
of Sir Henry Vane; Lectures on Witch¬ 
craft; and Principles of Congregational¬ 
ism. He died June 14, 1875, in Salem, 
Mass. 

UPHAM, FRANCIS WILLIAM, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Sept. 10, 1817, in 
Rochester, N. H. He was an educator of 
New York city; and the author of The 
Debate Between the Church and Science; 
The Wise Men: Who They Were; The 
Star of Our Lord; Thoughts on the Gos¬ 
pels; St. Matthew’s Witness; and The 
First Words from God. He died in 1895. 

I PHAM, GEORGE B., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1769. He 
served a number of years in the New 
Hampshire legislature; and was speaker 
in 1809 and 1815. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New Hampshire 
from 1801 to 1803. He died Feb. 10, 1848 
in Claremont, N. H. 


UPHAM, MRS. GRACE LE BARON 
[LOCKE], author, was born in 1845 in 
Massachusetts. She is a Boston writer of 
popular juvenile tales; and the author 
of The Rosebud Club; Little Miss Faith; 
and Little Daughter. 

UPHAM, JABEZ, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1807 to 1810, when he 
resigned. He died in 1811. 

UPHAM, JOSHUA, lawyer, jurist, man¬ 
ufacturer, was born Nov. 14, 1741, in 
Brookfield, Mass. He was a lawyer of 
Boston; then emigrated to New Bruns¬ 
wick, where he was judge of the supreme 
court and member of the council during 
1784-1807. He is said to have introduced 
the salt manufacture, and built the first 
woolen mill in America. He died in 1808 
while in London on public business. 

UPHAM, NATHANIEL, merchant, state 
legislator, congressman, governor, was 
born June 9, 1774, in Deerfield, N. H. He 
was a member of the legislature of New 
Hampshire; and was a member of the 
governor’s council from 1811 to 1812. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1817 to 1823. He 
died in 1829. 

UPHAM, NATHANIEL GOOKIN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, railroad president, was born 
Jan. 8, 1801, in Deerfield, N. H. From 
1833 till 1843 he was judge of the supreme 
court of New Hampshire, and from 1843 
till 1863 he was superintendent of the 
Concord railroad, of which he was presi¬ 
dent in 1863-66. He died Dec. 11, 1869, 
in Concord, N. H. 

UPHAM, THOMAS COGSWELL, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 30, 1799, in 
Deerfield, N. H. He was a professor of 
philosophy at Bow- 
doin college in 1824- 
72; and the author 
of Elements of Moral 
Philosophy; Treatise 
on the Will; Life of 
Madame Guyon; 
Principles of the 
Hidden Life; Disor¬ 
dered Mental Action; 
Elements of Intel¬ 
lectual Philosophy; 
Ratio Disciplinae; 
Christ in the Soul; 
me Dire or Faith; The Manual of Peace; 
Divine Union; American Cottage Life, a 
book of verse; Life of Madame Catherine 
Adorna; and View of the Absolute Reli¬ 
gion. He died April 2, 1872, in New York 
city. 

UPHAM, WARREN, geologist, author, 
was born March 8, 1850, in Amherst, N. H. 
In 1879 he began in Minnesota the ex¬ 
ploration of the area of the glacial Lake 
Agassiz; and is the author of Geology of 
Minnesota; Upper Beaches and Deltas 
of Lake Agassiz; and the Glacial Lake of 
Agassiz. 

UPHAM, WILLIAM, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, United States senator, was born 
in August, 1792, in Leicester, Mass. He 
was a member of the Vermont assembly 
in 1827, 1828, and 1830; and was state’s 
attorney for Washington county in 1829. 
He was a senator in congress from 1843 to 
the time of his death. He died Jan. 14, 
1853, in Washington, D. C. 

UPJOHN, RICHARD MICHELL, archi¬ 
tect, was born March 7, 1828, in England. 
He has made many independent designs, 
among which are the churches of St. 
Peter, Albany; St. Paul, Brooklyn; Cen¬ 
tral Congregational, Boston; and the 
cathedral at Fond du Lac, Wis.; also the 
library building of Hobart college, Ge¬ 
neva, N. Y., the capitol at Hartford, Conn., 
and many other buildings in various parts 
of the country. 








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UPSHUR, ABEL PARKER, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, author, was born June 
17, 1790, in Northampton county, Va. In 
1826 he was chosen judge of the general 
court of Virginia; and was again chosen 
judge, serving many years. In 1841 he 
went into the cabinet of President Tyler 
as secretary of the navy. In 1843 he was 
transferred to the head of the state de¬ 
partment. He was the author of Inquiry 
into the Nature and Character of Our Fed¬ 
eral Government. He died Feb. 28, 1844, 
near Washington, D. C. 

UPSHUR, MARY JANE STITH, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born April 7, 1828, in Ac- 
comac county, Va. She has contributed 
to southern periodicals both prose and 
poetry, commonly under the pen-name of 
Fanny Fielding. Her principal work is 
Confederate Notes, an historical novel, 
which appeared anonymously in 1867 in 
the Home Monthly, published at Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn. 

UPSON, ANSON JUDD, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Nov. 7, 1823, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. This eminent presbyterian 
clergyman has been professor of sacred 
rhetoric in the Auburn Theological sem¬ 
inary, and since 1874 has been connected 
with the university of New York as re¬ 
gent, vice-chancellor and chancellor. 

UPSON, CHARLES, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born March 19, 
1821, in Southington, Conn. In 1849-50 he 
was county clerk for St. Joseph county, 
Mich.; and in 1853-54 was prosecuting at¬ 
torney for the same. In 1855-56 he held 
the office of state senator; and in 1861 
and 1862 was attorney-general for Michi¬ 
gan. He was elected a representative 
from Michigan to the thirty-eighth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the thirty- 
ninth and fortieth congresses. He died 
Sept. 5, 1885, in Coldwater, Mich. 

UPSON, COLUMBUS, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1829, in 
Onondaga county, N. Y. He served in the 
confederate army as a colonel during the 
war of the rebellion. He was elected a 
representative from Texas to the forty- 
sixth congress to till a vacancy; and was 
re-elected to the forty-seventh congress 
as a democrat. 

UPSON, WILLIAM H„ lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 
1823, in Worthington, Ohio. He was elect¬ 
ed to the Ohio state senate in 1854 and 
1855. He was elected a representative 
from Ohio to the forty-first congress; and 
was re-elected to the forty-second con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

UPTON, CHARLES HORACE, diplo¬ 
mat, congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1812, 
in Salem, Mass. He settled in Fairfax 
county, Va.; and in l&bO was a repre¬ 
sentative from that state to congress. 
In 1863 he was appointed United States 
consul at Geneva, Switzerland, where he 
died in June, 1877. 

UPTON, EMORY, soldier, author, was 
born Aug. 27, 1839, in Batavia, N. Y. He 
was an officer with the rank of major-gen¬ 
eral in the federal army during the civil 
war; and the author of Infantry Tactics; 
The Armies of Asia and Europe; and 
Tactics for Non-Military Bodies. He died 
March 14, 1881, in San Francisco, Cal. 

UPTON, FRANCIS HENRY, lawyer, 
author, was born May 25, 1814, in Salem, 
Mass. He was an eminent lawyer of New 
York city; and the author of Treatise on 
the Law of Trade-Marks; and The Law 
of Nations Affecting Commerce During 
War. He died June 25, 1876, in New York 
city. 

UPTON, FRANCIS ROBBINS, inventor, 
was born July 26, 1852, in Peabody, Mass. 
He became associated with Thomas A. 


Edison in the development of the elec¬ 
tric light and other inventions, residing 
in Menlo Park, N. J. 

UPTON, GEORGE PUTNAM, journalist, 
author, was born Oct. 25, 1834, in Rox- 
bury, Mass. He is a Chicago journalist; 
and the author of Letters of Peregrine 
Pickle; The Great Fire; Woman in 
Music; The Standard Operas; The Stan¬ 
dard Oratorios; The Standard Cantatas; 
The Standard Symphonies; Lives of 
Haydn, Liszt, and Wagner, from the 
German of Nohl; and Memories, from 
the German of Max Muller. 

UPTON, JACOB KENDRICK, author, 
was born Oct. 9, 1837, in Wilmot, N. H. 
He was the assistant secretary of the 
treasury in 1880; and the author of Money 
in Politics; and A Coin Catechism. 

UPTON, LARKIN, educator, business 
man, legislator, was born Feb. 4, 1832, in 
North Reading, Mass. For many years 
he successfully taught penmanship in 
Massachusetts and in the west. He is a 
successful mason, contractor and builder 
of Clinton, Iowa. In 1860-61 he was aider- 
man of Clinton; in 1878-79 was mayor of 
that city; and served with distinction 
as a member of the nineteenth and twen¬ 
tieth general assemblies of Iowa. 

UtPTON, SARA CARR, author, was born 
Jan. 1, 1843. She is a frequent contrib¬ 
utor to magazines and has in press a vol¬ 
ume of Translations from the French. 

UPTON, WHEELOCK SAMUEL, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Jan. 17, 1811, in 
Salem, Mass. He was one of the com¬ 
pilers of The Louisiana Civil Code, and 
published An Address at New York. He 
died Oct. 18, 1860, in Carrollton, La. 

UPTON, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born June 19, 1854, in 
Weaverville, Cal. He has been superior 
judge at Walla Walla, Wash. He is the 
author of The Masonic Code of Wash¬ 
ington; and a Genealogy of the Upton 
Family. 

UPTON, WILLIAM W., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, author, was 
born in July, 1817, in Victor, N. Y. He 
was a representative in the Michigan state 
legislature in 1847; and was prosecuting 
attorney at Lansing, Mich., from 1847 to 
1852. In the latter year he moved to 
California; and was a representative in 
the California legislature in 1856. He was 
prosecuting attorney of Sacramento coun¬ 
ty from 1861 to 1863. In 1864 he moved 
to Oregon; and was an associate justice 
of the supreme court of Oregon from 1867 
to 1872, and chief justice of that court 
from 1872 to 1874. In 1877-85 he was sec¬ 
ond comptroller of the treasury of the 
United States at Washington. He is the 
author of Digest of Decisions of the Sec¬ 
ond Comptroller of the Treasury, 1869-84. 

UPTON, WINSLOW, educator, astron¬ 
omer, author, was born Oct. 12, 1853, in 
Salem. He was a member of the United 
States expeditions to observe eclipses in 
1878 and 1883, and is a member of the 
principal American and foreign scientific 
societies, to whose publications he has 
contributed numerous papers. 

TTRE, WILLIAM ANDREW, journalist, 
philanthropist, was born April 8, 1839, in 
West Farms, N. Y. In 1873 he bought 
the Sunday Call, which was the leading 
paper of New Jersey. In 1894 he was 
elected president of the Newark board of 
trade. 

URMY, CLARENCE [THOMAS], or¬ 
ganist, author. He is an organist and 
verse-writer of San Jose, Cal.; and the 
author of A Rosary of Rhyme; and A 
Vintage of Verse. 


URNER, CLARENCE H., educator, pub¬ 
lic official, poet, was born April 13, 1856, 
in New Market, Va. After receiving a 
thorough education 
at the New Market 
Polytechnic institute 
he began education¬ 
al work, and for fif¬ 
teen years was suc¬ 
cessfully engaged in 
that profession. He 
has been clerk in the 
treasury department 
of Virginia, and is 
prominent in the 
public affairs of that 
state. He is the au¬ 
thor of a number of poems of merit which 
have appeared in the leading magazines, 
in Poets of America, and other standard 
works. 

URNER, MILTON G., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born July 29, 1839, in Frederick 
county, Md. He was elected state’s at¬ 
torney for his native county in 1871, and 
served four years. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Maryland to the forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a 
republican. 

URQUHART, EDMOND, manufacturer, 
was born April 5, 1834, in Fort Henry, 
Canada. He established The Little Rock 
Oil works, becoming 
president of the com¬ 
pany and among the 
pioneers of the cot- 
ton-seed oil industry 
in Arkansas. His en¬ 
ergy produced an ef¬ 
fect almost electrical 
in this old state. 
Cotton fields covered 
a. large part of the 
territory of Arkansas 
and cotton seed 
could be obtained in 
ample supply. His mill in Little Rock 
provided a local market for the seed. 

USHER, EDWARD PRESTON, lawyer, 
author, was born in 1851 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is a Boston lawyer living in 
Grafton, Mass. In 1877 he was president 
of the Grafton and Upton railroad. He is 
the author of Sales of Personal Property; 
and Protestantism, a Study in the Direc¬ 
tion of Religious Truth. 

USHER, JOHN, governor, was born 
April 25, 1648, in Boston, Mass. He was a 
bookseller and stationer of Boston; and 
treasurer of Massachusetts. He ren¬ 
dered important services to the province 
in purchasing the district of Maine. Dur¬ 
ing 1692-97 and 1702 he was lieutenant- 
governor of New Hampshire. He died 
Sept. 1, 1706, in Medford, Mass. 

USSHER, BRANDRAM BOILEAU, phy¬ 
sician, clergyman, bishop, poet, was born 
Aug. 6, 1845, in Dublin, Ireland. He at¬ 
tended the university 
of Michigan, the Uni¬ 
versity Medical col¬ 
lege, Missouri, and 
received a theologic¬ 
al training under 
Bishop Whiteham of 
Chicago, Ill. He 
practiced as a physi¬ 
cian for several 
years in Aurora, Ill.; 
was a bishop of Can¬ 
ada and Newfound¬ 
land in the reformed 
episcopal church; and is now bishop of 
the reformed episcopal church, and the 
pastor of Christ church of Peoria, Ill. 
He is a poet of acknowledged excellence, 
and his poem, entitled The Veteran of 
Beverly Ford, is worthy of a place be¬ 
side those of our national poets. 





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USTICK, JOHN T., printer, paper mer¬ 
chant, was born Nov. 20, 1842, near St. 
Louis, Mo., and is the son of Thomas 
Watts Ustick. For a quarter of a cen¬ 
tury he has been prominently identified 
with some of the foremost wholesale pa¬ 
per establishments of Chicago as secre¬ 
tary, manager and president. In 1897 he 
founded the Central Paper company of 
Chicago, and was its first president. 

USTICK, THOMAS, clergyman, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Aug. 30, 1753, in New 
York city. He was educated at the Rhode 
Island college, now the Brown university, 
where he graduated in 1771. In 1777 he 
was ordained to the ministry, and in 1782 
became pastor of the First Baptist church 
of Philadelphia. During the yellow fever 
in Philadelphia in 1793 he was of great 
service to his fellowmen. He died April 
18, 1803, and was buried in the cemetery 
at the rear of the First Baptist church, of 
which he had been pastor for twenty- 
one years. 

USTICK, THOMAS WATTS, printer, 
publisher, was born Aug. 22, 1801, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa., and was a grandson of the 
Rev. Thomas Ustick, a noted baptist di¬ 
vine. He learned the printing business 
in Virginia, and became a successful 
printer and publisher of Washington, Chi¬ 
cago and St. Louis. In 1828 he was the 
publisher of the Washington City Chron¬ 
icle. He was a devout member of the 
Third Baptist church of St. Louis, Mo., 
of which church he was deacon. He died 
Aug. 15, 1866, in St. Louis, Mo., leaving a 
rich legacy to his children in a name un¬ 
tarnished and an influence which will 
ever live. 

USTICK, WILLIAM WATTS, printer, 
genealogist, was born Feb. 22, 1816. For 
many years he was a printer and pub¬ 
lisher of Dubuque, Iowa; and is the au¬ 
thor of a genealogical work entitled 
Ustick Family Register. 

UTTER, MRS. REBECCA [PALFREY], 
poet. She is the author of The King’s 
Daughter, and Other Poems. 

UTTLEY, HOWELL MOSHER, lawyer, 
was born March 12, 1851, in South Bristol, 
N. Y. He has attained success as one of 
the leading lawyers of Nebraska at 
O’Neill, where he takes a prominent part 
in the public affairs of his city, county 
and state. 

VACHELL, HORACE ANNESLEY, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1861 in England. He is 
a novelist now resident in California, but 
in 1883 an English lieutenant in the rifle 
brigade. He is the author of The Ro¬ 
mance of Judge Ketchum; The Model of 
Christian Gay; The Quicksands of Pac- 
tolus; and An Impending Sword. 

VAIL, ALFRED, scientist, inventor, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 25, 1807, in Morris¬ 
town, N. J. He was a scientist who was 
one of the inventors of the telegraph. He 
published a work on The American Elec¬ 
tro-Magnetic Telegraph. He died Jan. 18, 
1859, in Morristown, N. J. 

VAIL, EDWARD P., lawyer, jurist, was 
born July 30, 1849, in Frederick, Ill. For 
four years he was state’s attorney of his 
native county; and for nearly four years 
filled the same position in Macon coun¬ 
ty. For the past ten years he has been 
judge of the fourth judicial circuit court of 
Illinois. 

VAIL, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born July 21, 1809, in Mor¬ 
ristown, N. J. He was a representative 
in congress from New Jersey from 1853 
to 1857; and was appointed consul to Glas¬ 
gow. He was also a judge of the court of 
errors. He died May 23, 1875, in Morris¬ 
town, N. J. 


VAIL, HENRY, congressman, was born 
in New York. He was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1837 to 
1839. He died June 25, 1843. 

VAIL, STEPHEN MONTFORD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Jan. 10, 1818, in 
Union Dale, N. Y. He was a methodist 
clergyman, at one time tried by his church 
for advocating an educated ministry. He 
was the author of Outlines of Hebrew 
Grammar; Education in the Methodist 
Church; and The Bible Against Slavery. 
He died Nov. 26, 1880, in Jersey City, N. J. 

VAIL, THEODORE NEWTON, public 
official, was born July 16, 1845, in Car- 
roll county, Ohio. He was assigned to 
duty as assistant 
general superintend¬ 
ent in the United 
States government 
postoffice; and in 
1876 was appointed 
general superintend¬ 
ent in the city of New 
York. He had thus 
reached the highest 
grade in this branch 
of the federal em¬ 
ployment. Mr. Vail 
was the youngest of 
the officers of the railway mail service, 
both in years and terms of service. 

VAIL, THOMAS HUBBARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Oct. 21, 1812, in 
Richmond, Va. He was the first protest- 
ant episcopal bishop of Kansas, conse¬ 
crated bishop in 1864; and the author 
of Hannah, a Sacred Drama; and The 
Comprehensive Church. He died Oct. 6, 
1889, in Bryn Mawr, Pa. 

VAILE, EDWIN ORLANDO, educator, 
journalist, was born Nov. 21, 1843, in 
Piqua, Ohio. During the war he served 
as a private in the one hundred and thir¬ 
ty-first Ohio. He is the editor and owner 
of The Intelligence, and The Week’s Cur¬ 
rent, which are published in Oak Park, Ill. 

VAILL, JOSEPH, clergyman, author, 
poet, was born July 3, 1750, in Litch¬ 
field, Conn. He made two missionary 
tours, one in 1792 to Vermont, and another 
in 1807 to the Black river country in New 
York. After 1832 he was given a col¬ 
league. He contributed to the Connecti¬ 
cut Evangelical Magazine, under the pen- 
names of Senex and Jethro, wrote for 
other periodicals, and, besides sermons 
published a narrative poem entitled 
Noah’s Flood, with some minor poetical 
pieces. He died Nov. 21, 1838, in Killing- 
worth, Conn. 

VALE, GILBERT, author, was born in 
1788 in England. He was a Brooklyn 
writer prominent as a free-thinker; and 
was the author of Fanaticism; and Life 
of Thomas Paine. He died Aug. 17, 1866, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

VALENTINE, DANIEL MULFORD, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born June 
18, 1830, in Shelby county, Ohio. He has 
been county survey¬ 
or and county at¬ 
torney in Iowa and 
is now one of the 
foremost lawyers of 
the west at Topeka, 
Kan., to which state 
he moved in 1859. In 
1862 he served as a 
member of the house 
of representatives of 
the Kansas state leg¬ 
islature; and as state 
senator in 1863-64. 
During 1865-69 he was judge of the dis¬ 
trict court; and during 1869-93 served 
with distinction as judge of the supreme 
court, a position which he filled with 
honor for twenty-four consecutive years. 


VALENTINE, DAVID THOMAS, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Sept. 15, 1801, in 
East Chester, N. Y. He was the clerk of 
the New York common council in 1831-69, 
and author of a Manual of the Corporation 
of New York City; and History of New 
York City. He died Feb. 25, 1869, in New 
York city. 

VALENTINE, EDWARD K., soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, was born June 1, 1843, in 
Keosauqua, Iowa. He served as an officer 
in the union army throughout the war of 
the rebellion. He located in Nebraska 
in 1866; and in 1869 was appointed reg¬ 
ister of the United States land office at 
Omaha, Neb. He was judge of the sixth 
judicial district from 1875 to 1878. He 
was elected a representative from Ne¬ 
braska to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh 
and forty-eighth congresses as a repub¬ 
lican. 

VALENTINE, EDWARD VIRGINIUS, 
sculptor, was born Nov. 12, 1838, in Rich¬ 
mond, Va. He opened a studio in Rich¬ 
mond. He was given the commission to- 
execute the marble figure of Gen. Robert 
E. Lee in the mausoleum attached to the 
chapel of Washington and Lee university 
at Lexington, Va. This is among the fin¬ 
est pieces of sculpture of the kind in the 
United States. 

VALENTINE, EZRA GATES, lawyer, 
banker, was born Aug. 9, 1847, in Wyo¬ 
ming county, N. Y. He graduated with 
the full classical course in 1869 from the 
Beloit college, Wisconsin. He has at¬ 
tained distinction as an eminent lawyer 
of Breckenridge, Minn.; was a delegate 
to the national republican convention in 
1896; and takes a prominent part in pub¬ 
lic affairs. He has been president of the 
state drainage board of Minnesota; vice- 
president and director of the First Na¬ 
tional bank of Breckenridge, and director 
of other banks. He has been mayor of 
his city; is a thirty-two degree Mason, 
and stands high in several fraternal 
orders. 

VALENTINE, MILTON, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Jan. 1, 1825, near 
Uniontown, Md. He is a lutheran clergy¬ 
man, and professor of systematic the¬ 
ology at Gettysburg Theological seminary 
from 1884. He is the author of Natural. 
Theology, or Rational Theism; The Re¬ 
lations of the Family to the Church; The 
Dynamics of Success; Knowledge by Ser¬ 
vice; Absolute Christianity; and Truth’s 
Testimony to Its Servants: Is the Lord’s 
Day only a Human Institution? 

VALK, WILLIAM W., congressman, 
was born in South Carolina. He removed 
to New York; and was a representative 
in congress from that state from 1855 to. 
1857. 

VALLANDIGHAM, CLEMENT LAIRD, 
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born July 29, 1820, in New Lisbon, Ohio. 

He was elected to. 
the Ohio state legis¬ 
lature in 1845 and 
1846; and was the 
editor of the Dayton 
Empire from 1847 to. 
1849. He was elect¬ 
ed to the thirty-fifth, 
and thirty-sixth con¬ 
gresses; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty- 
seventh congress. In 
1863 he was arrested* 
by military author¬ 
ity, for expressing his opinions against 
the war, and was banished to the south¬ 
ern states, and, by way of Bermuda, went 
to Canada. During his exile he was nonii- 
inated for governor of Ohio, and was de¬ 
feated. He died June 17,1871, in Lebanon, 
Ohio, 









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VALLENTINE, BENJAMIN BENNA- 
TON, journalist, author, was born in 1843 
in England. He was a journalist of New 
York city, dramatic critic of The Herald; 
and the author of The Fitznoodle Papers; 
Fitznoodle in America; and The Lost 
Train. 

VAN AERNAM, HENRY, surgeon, state 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
11, 18r9, in Marcellus, N. Y. He was a 
member of the New York state legislature 
in 1858; and in 1862 was appointed sur¬ 
geon of the one hundred and fifty-fourth 
New York volunteers, which position he 
resigned in 1864. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the thirty- 
ninth congress; and was re-elected to the 
fortieth congress. He was commissioner of 
pensions at Washington from 1869 to 1871; 
and was again a representative in the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses 
as a republican. 

VAN ALLEN, GEORGE C., pioneer, 
lawyer, author, was born July 6, 1830, in 
Jefferson county, N. Y. He has attained 
success in real estate law at Mt. Pleas¬ 
ant, Iowa; and is the author of Abstracts 
of Title for Henry County. 

VAN ALLEN, JAMES Q., state legis¬ 
lator, congressman. He was a member of 
the New York state assembly in 1804; and 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1807 to 1809. 

VAN ALLEN, JOHN E., state legislat¬ 
or, congressman. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New York from 1793 
to 1799; and was a member of the state 
assembly from Rensselaer county in 1800 
and 1801. 

VAN ALLEN, MARTIN, civil engineer, 
was born July 9, 1832, in Pillar Point, 
N. Y. He has filled important positions in 
the engineering corps in the construction 
of various railroads; in the United States 
land survey; and in the land department 
of the Illinois Central railroad. He was 
one of the first to advocate a system for 
securing pure water for Chicago. He is 
also a successful real estate dealer. 

VAN ALSTYNE, FRANCES JANE, 
poet, hymn writer, was born March 24, 
1820, in South East, N. Y. She is a blind 
poet, and is the author of Monterey, and 
Other Poems; and Hazel Dell; and some 
of her hymns are Safe in the Arms of 
Jesus; Close to Thee; and I Am Thine, 
O Lord. Her pen-name is Fanny G. 
Crosby. 

VAN ALSTYNE, THOMAS J., congress¬ 
man, was born July 25, 1827, in Richmond- 
ville, N. Y. In 1849 he was admitted to 
the bar in Albany, N. Y., where he has 
since resided. For twelve years he was 
county judge of Albany county; and was 
elected to the forty-eighth congress as a 
democrat. 

VAN-ANDERSON, MRS. HELEN [VAN 
METRE], minister, author, was born 
in 1859 in Iowa. She is a minister and 
lecturer of Boston; and the author of 
The Right Knock; It Is Possible; The 
Story of Teddy; and Journal of a Live 
Woman. 

VAN AUKEN, DENNIS M., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 15, 1826, in 
Pennsylvania. He was elected a prose¬ 
cuting attorney in 1855; and was fre¬ 
quently appointed to the same office. He 
was elected a representative from Penn¬ 
sylvania to the fortieth and forty-first 
congresses as a democrat. 

VAN BRUNT, GERSHOM JAQUES, 
naval officer, was born Aug. 28, 1798, in 
Monmouth county, N. J. He was com¬ 
missioned as commodore in 1862, and was 
retired because of his age in 1863. He 
died Dec. 17, 1863, in Dedham, Mass. 


VAN BRUNT, HENRY, architect, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 5, 1832, in Boston, 
Mass. He is an architect of note, the de¬ 
signer of Memorial hall at Cambridge; 
and the author of Greek Lines, and Other 
Architectural Essays. 

VAN BUREN, ABRAHAM, soldier, was 
born Nov. 27, 1807, in Kinderhook, N. Y. 
He served with distinction in the Mexican 
and civil wars; and attained the rank of 
brigadier-general. He died March 15, 
1873, in New York city. 

VAN BUREN, JAMES LYMAN, soldier, 
was born June 21, 1837, in Dunkirk, N. Y. 
In 1864 he served with credit in Gen. 
Grant's campaign against Richmond, re¬ 
ceiving the brevet of lieutenant-colonel 
for his bravery, and subsequently that of 
colonel for his services in the Knoxville 
campaign. In the assault on the works at 
Petersburg he gained the brevet rank of 
brigadier-general. He died April 13, 1866, 
in New York city. 

VAN BUREN, JOHN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man. He was one of the ablest lawyers 
of the Ulster county bar, in New York. 
He was a representative in congress from 
1841 to 1843. He died Jan. 16, 1855, in 
Kingston, N. Y. 

VAN BUREN, JOHN, lawyer, was born 
Feb. 18, 1810, in Hudson, N. Y. In 1845 
he was elected attorney-general of the 
state of New York, serving till 1846. He 
died Oct. 13, 1866, at sea. 

VAN BUREN, JOHN DEbri, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born Aug. 8, 1838, 
in New York city. He is a civil engineer 
of New York city; and the author of 
Investigation of Formulas for the 
Strength of Iron Parts of Steam Machin¬ 
ery; and Quay and Other Retaining 
Walls. 

VAN BUREN, LAWRENCE, soldier, 
was born in 1783 in Kinderhook, N. Y. 
He served in the war of 1812-15, in which 
he attained the rank of major. He died 
July 1, 1868, in Kinderhook, N. Y. 

VAN BUREN, MARTIN, eighth presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born Dec. 
5, 1782, in the town of Kinderhook, Col¬ 
umbia county, N. Y. 
He received a com¬ 
mon English educa¬ 
tion, and at the age 
of fourteen years be¬ 
gan the study of law, 
and. according to the 
New York rule, after 
•studyingseven years, 
he was admitted to 
the bar. In 1806 he 
married Miss Han¬ 
nah Hoes, who was a 
distant relative. In 
1808 he was appointed surrogate of Col¬ 
umbia county, and in 1812 was elected to 
the state senate, and re-elected in 1816. 
In 1821 he was elected United States sen¬ 
ator, and re-elected in 1827. In 1828 he 
was elected governor of New York, and 
entered upon the duties of that office the 
1st of January, 1829, having resigned his 
seat in the senate. He filled the guber¬ 
natorial chair but little over two months, 
being appointed secretary of state by Mr. 
Jackson in March. At the expiration of 
two years he resigned his seat in the cab¬ 
inet, and was appointed minister to Eng¬ 
land. The appointment was not confirmed 
by the senate, and he was recalled. He 
was elected vice-president of the United 
States in 1832. Mr. Van Buren was nom¬ 
inated for president by the national dem¬ 
ocratic convention held at Baltimore in 
February, 1836. Being duly elected he 
took the oath of office March 4, 1837. 
He was the first president ever nomin¬ 
ated by a regular national convention. 


Prior to this time it had been the cus¬ 
tom of congress and the state legislatures 
to nominate the candidates for president 
and vice-president. He was defeated for 
a re-election in 1840, and at the close of 
his term, March 4, 1841, he returned to 
his estate at Kinderhook. He was nom¬ 
inated by the free soil party for the 
presidency in 1848, but did not receive an 
electoral vote. He died July 24, 1862. Van 
Buren held office thirty years. He was 
the only man who ever held the four 
highest political offices in the United 
States—president, vice-president, secre¬ 
tary of state and United States senator. 
He died worth some $300,000. It is said 
that during his entire administration he 
never drew any portion of his salary, 
but on leaving took the whole $100,000 in 
a lump. He wrote An Inquiry into the 
Origin and Causes of Political Parties in 
the United States, his only writing of 
importance, except state papers. 

VAN BUREN, WILLIAM HOLME, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born April 5, 1819, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was an eminent 
surgeon of New York city; and the au¬ 
thor of Contributions to Practical Sur¬ 
gery; Diseases of the Rectum; Diseases 
of the Genito-Urinary Organs (with 
Keyes); and The Principles of Surgery. 
He died March 25, 1883, in New York city. 

VAN BURG, LIZZIE, author, poet, was 
born Sept. 29, 1859, in Bernadotte, Ill. She 
is a writer of Holbrook, Neb.; and the 
author of a volume of poems. 

VANCE, ALANSON A., journalist, was 
born Jan. 25, 1826, in Newton, N. J. Since 
1852 he has been editor and owner of 
The Jerseyman of Morristown, N. J.; was 
postmaster of his city during 1861-75; 
and was chosen freeholder from the first 
ward of Morristown in 1895. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current litera¬ 
ture, and is one of the foremost journal¬ 
ists of the east. 

VANCE, HART, civil engineer, poet, 
was born March 7, 1851, in Memphis, Tenn. 
Since 1873 he has filled many positions 
of trust, as civil engineer and surveyor. 
He is the author of a number of poems. 

VANCE, JAMES A., educator, lawyer, 
was born Oct. 10, 1849, in Pontotoc, Miss. 
He attended Abingdon college, Illinois, 
during 1866-71, and has attained success 
in educational work; and has been county 
examiner for schools of Perry county. 
Ark., for several terms; and has a suc¬ 
cessful practice in Perryville. He has 
filled numerous offices of public trust, and 
takes an active part in public affairs. He 
was republican nominee for state senator 
in 1886 and in 1890. 

VANCE, JOHN L., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born July 19, 1839, in Gallipolis, 
Ohio. He entered the volunteer army as 
a captain and rose to the rank of colonel. 
In 1874 he was elected a representative 
from Ohio to the forty-fourth congress as 
a democrat. 

VANCE, JOHN M., railroad president, 
was born Jan. 4, 1846, in New Brunswick. 
In 1892 he became president of the Eel 
River and Eureka railway at Eureka, Cal. 

VANCE, JOSEPH, agriculturist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born March 
21, 1786, in Washington county, Pa. He 
served frequently in the legislature of 
Ohio. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1821 to 1835; was governor of 
the state in 1836; and was again in con¬ 
gress from 1843 to 1847. He died Aug. 24, 
1851, near Urbana, Ohio. 

VANCE, ROBERT B., physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1790 in Buncombe, 
N. C. In 1822 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from North Carolina to the 
eighteenth congress. He died in October, 
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VANCE, ROBERT B., congressman, was 
born in North Carolina. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1823 to 1825. 

VANCE, ROBERT BRANK, soldier, 
agriculturist, congressman, was born 
April 24, 1828, in Buncombe county, N. C. 
He was a captain of a company in the 
confederate service in 1861; and was ap¬ 
pointed brigadier-general in 1863. He was 
elected a representative from North Caro¬ 
lina to the forty-third congress; and was 
re-elected to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, 
forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty- 
eighth congresses. In 1885 he was ap¬ 
pointed assistant commissioner of patents 
in the department of the interior. 

VANCE, ROBERT JOHNSTON, journal¬ 
ist, legislator, was born March 15, 1854, in 
New York city. He is the editor of the 
New Britain Herald; has been city clerk 
for nine years; and a member of the Cbn- 
necticut legislature in 1886. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

VANCE, ZEBULON BAIRD, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, United 
States senator, governor, was born May 
13, 1830, in Buncombe county, N. C. In 
1854 he was elected to the legislature 
from Buncombe county, N. C.; and in 
1858 was elected to the federal house of 
representatives. He was re-elected to the 
thirty-sixth congress. He was elected 
governor of North Carolina in 1862, and 
re-elected in 1864. He was elected United 
States senator in 1870, but was refused 
his seat. He was elected governor in 1876; 
and was elected a United States senator 
from North Carolina for the term of six 
years from March 4, 1879; and in 1885 was 
re-elected; and again in 1890. 

VAN CLEAVE, JAMES ROBERT 
BURNS, public official, was born Oct. 9, 
1853, in Knoxville, Ill. He received his 
education in the public schools of his 
native city and at Knox college at Gales¬ 
burg, Ill. While pursuing his collegiate 
course he acted as correspondent of the 
? Chicago papers, and afterward was trav¬ 
eling correspondent for the New York 
Herald and the Chicago Times throughout 
the south at the period of the Hayes- 
Tilden electoral contest. He has been en¬ 
rolling and engrossing clerk of the Illi¬ 
nois state senate; was secretary of the 
original Blaine club of Chicago; was chief 
clerk of the custom house at Chicago; 
deputy city clerk for two terms, and city 
clerk for turee terms. He has been sec¬ 
retary of every republican state and coun¬ 
ty convention for many years; and in 
1896 was secretary of the state central 
committee and a member of the executive 
committee. He is a member of the gov¬ 
ernor’s staff, holding the position of in¬ 
spector-general of the Illinois national 
guard. He is also the insurance super¬ 
intendent of the state of Illinois, and a 
prominent member of various secret or¬ 
ders and clubs of Chicago, Ill. 

VAN CLEEF, JAMES HENRY, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born July 12, 1841, in 
Branchville, N. J. In 1877-78 he was city 
attorney for New Brunswick, N. J.; in 
1881 was elected to the legislature; and 
in 1889 was elected mayor of the city of 
New Brunswick. 

VAN CLEVE, HORATIO PHILLIPS, 
soldier, agriculturist, civil engineer, W'as 
born Nov. 23, 1809, in Princeton, N. J. 
He served under General George H. Thom¬ 
as at Mill Springs, for his part in which 
action he was promoted brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers on March 21, 1862. 
He was adjutant-general of Minnesota in 
1866-70, and in 1876-82. He died April 24, 
1891, in Minneapolis, Minn. 


VAN CORTLANDT, PHILIP, soldier, 
agriculturist, state senator, congressman, 
was born Sept. 1, 1749, in Cortlandt 
Manor. He served through the revolu¬ 
tionary war as colonel in the New York 
line. He was a member of the New York 
assembly from Westchester county in 
1788, 1789, and 1790; and was a member of 
the state senate from 1791 to 1794. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1793 to 1809. He died 
Nov. 5, 1831, in Cortlandt, N. Y. 

VAN CORTLANDT, PIERCE, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman. He was a member 
of the state assembly of New York in 1777; 
and was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1811 to 1813. 

VAN CORTLANDT, PIERRE, soldier, 
banker, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 
1762, in Cortlandt Manor. He was a lead¬ 
ing man in Westchester county, its repre¬ 
sentative in congress in 1811-12, and ma¬ 
jor-general of the militia, one of his aides 
being James Fenimore Cooper. He died 
in July, 1848, in Cortlandt Manor. 

VAN CORTLANDT, STEPHANUS, 
statesman, was born May 4, 1643, in New 
York city. He was the first and only 
lord of the manor, and one of the most 
eminent men of the province of New York 
after it became an English colony. He 
served in various offices and became gov 1 
ernor of the colony. He died Nov. 25, 
1700, in New York city. 

VAN COTT, CORNELIUS, state senator, 
was born Feb. 12, 1838, in New York city. 
From 1888-89 he was a member of the 
New York senate; and in 1889 was elect¬ 
ed postmaster of New York city. 

VAN COTT, OSCAR, educator, was born 
Sept. 17, 1863, in Salt Lake City, Utah. 
He graduated from the university of Utah; 
has attained success as an educator; and 
during 1896-98 was the first superintend¬ 
ent of Salt Lake county schools under 
statehood for Utah. 

VANDALE, JOHN A. A., educator, law¬ 
yer, was born Sept. 1, 1853, in Boggsville, 
W. Va. He is a prominent lawyer of 
Spencer, W. Va.; was principal of schools 
for several years, and a member of the 
school board when the high school was 
built. He has been public prosecutor for 
eight years; is a member and secretary 
of the board of directors of the second 
hospital for the insane; and has filled 
various other public positions of honor. 

VANDENHOFF, GEORGE, actor, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 18, 1820, in England. 
He is an actor and elocutionist of note; 
and the author of Plain System of Elo¬ 
cution; Leaves from an Actor’s Note 
Book; Dramatic Reminiscences; Clerical 
Assistant, or Elocutionary Guide; Com¬ 
mon Sense; and The Art of Reading 
Aloud. 

VANDERBILT, CORNELIUS,navigator, 
railroad president, was born May 27, 1794,’ . 
on Staten Island, N. Y. In 1862 he pre¬ 
sented to the federal 
government his fin- ' 
est steamer, worth 
$800,000. He found¬ 
ed the Vanderbilt 
university at Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn., for the 
education of youth of 
the methodist epis¬ 
copal church. He 
was president of the 
Harlem, the Hudson 
River and Central 
railroad of New 
York up to his eighty-second year, and 
his enterprise, genius and success, says 
the Merchants’ Magazine, are known and 
felt the world over. He died Jan. 4, 1877, 
in New York. 


VANDERBILT, CORNELIUS, financier, 
was born Nov. 27, 1843, on Staten Island, 
N. Y. He was treasurer of the New York 
and Harlem railroad 
from 1867 till 1877, 
then vice-president 
till 1886, and since 
that date has been 
its president. He is 
a director in thirty- 
four different rail¬ 
road companies, and 
is a trustee of many 
of the charitable, re¬ 
ligious, and educa¬ 
tional institutions of 
New York city. 
Among his benefactions are the gift of a 
building in New York city for the use of 
railroad employes, a contribution of $100,- 
000 for the protestant episcopal cathedral, 
and a collection of drawings by the old 
masters and the painting of the Horse 
Fair, by Rosa Bonheur, to the Metro¬ 
politan museum of art. 

VANDERBILT, JOHN, state senator, 
was born in 1819, in Flatbush, L. I. He 
was the first judge of the court of com¬ 
mon pleas of Kings county, N. Y.; and in 
1852 was a member of the state senate. 

VANDERBILT, WILLIAM H., philan¬ 
thropist, was born May 8, 1821, in New 
Brunswick, N. J. He inherited a large 
part of his father’s 
immense fortune, and 
was a successful 
manager of his fath¬ 
er’s stupendous en¬ 
terprises. He added 
two hundred thou¬ 
sand dollars to the 
endowment of Van¬ 
derbilt university; 
and gave five hun¬ 
dred thousand dol¬ 
lars for land and for 
the erection of new 
buildings for the college of Physicians 
and Surgeons of New York city. He re¬ 
moved the Egyptian obelisk to Central 
park of New York city at an expense of 
one hundred thousand dollars. He died 
Dec. 8, 1885, in New York city. 

VANDERBILT, WILLIAM KISSAM, 
railroad president, was born Dec. 12, 1849, 
on Staten Island, N. Y. In 1882 he was 
elected president of the New York, Chi¬ 
cago and St. Louis railroad, which posi¬ 
tion he still holds. 

VANDERu^kG, JOHN C., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist. He was an early immigrant to Indi¬ 
ana. In 1800 he was appointed an asso¬ 
ciate justice for the territory of Indiana. 

VANDERBURGH, CHARLES EDWIN, 
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 2, 1829, in 
Saratoga county, N. Y. In 1859 he was 
elected judge of the fourth judicial dis¬ 
trict of Minnesota, which position he 
held for twenty years. 

VANDERGRIFT, JACOB JAY, busi¬ 
ness man, capitalist, was born April 10, 
Pa. In 1863-64 he 
formed a company in 
Pittsburg for pro¬ 
ducing oil; and his 
next important en¬ 
terprise was in con¬ 
nection with a rail¬ 
road and pipe line. 
He laid the Star 
Pipe line, which was 
the real commence¬ 
ment of the gigantic 
system which now 
prevails under the 
name of the Nation¬ 
al Transit company; and of the United 
Jripe lines, Captain Vandergrift has al- 





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ways been president. He was one of the 
prime movers in.the organization of the 
Forest Oil company, and has been its 
president since its incorporation. He is 
interested in various fuel gas and natural 
gas companies, president of several of 
them, and also president of the Keystone 
bank of Pittsburg, Pa. 

VANDERHORST, ARNOLDUS, govern¬ 
or. He was tne seconu governor of South 
Carolina under the constitution, serving 
as such from 1792 to 1794. 

VAN DERLIP, JOHN T., business man, 
poet, was born Sept. 14, 1854, in Alba, Pa. 
He is a successful stonemason and con¬ 
tractor of Carbon- 
dale, Kan.; has con¬ 
tributed extensively 
to the periodical 
press; and his poems 
appear in Poets of 
America and other 
standard works. He 
has filled several lo¬ 
cal offices of import¬ 
ance in his city and 
county; and is also 
a member of several 
fraternal orders and 

societies. 

VANDERLYN, JOHN, artist, was born 
Oct. 15, 1775, in Kingston, N. Y. He 
painted two views of Niagara Falls, which 
were engraved and published; and por¬ 
traits of Burr and his daughter. He 
spent several years in England and Paris, 
where he painted for Joel Barlow the 
Death of Miss McCrea. In 1805 he visited 
Rome, and there painted, in 1807, his 
Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage. He 
died Sept. 24, 1852, in Kingston, N. Y. 

VANDERPOEL, ANN PRISCILLA, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born June 25, 1815, in 
England. She founded the Ladies’ home 
United States hospital in 1861, and gave 
her gratuitous services for four years and 
a half as a nurse to the union soldiers. 
She has Deen called the Florence Night¬ 
ingale of New York. She died May 4, 
1870, in New York city. 

VANDERPOOL, AARON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Feb. 5, 1799, in Kinderhook, N. Y. 
He served in the New York state legis¬ 
lature in 1825, 1829 and 1830. He was a 
representative in congress from 1833 to 
1837, and again from 1839 to 1841. He was 
appointed one of the judges of the superior 
court, which office he held until 1850. He 
died July 18, 1870, in New York. 

VANDERVEER, ABRAHAM, congress¬ 
man, was born in New York. He was a 
representative in congress from that state 
from 1837 to 1839. He died July 20, 1839. 

VANDER VEER, ALBERT, surgeon, 
was born July 10, 1841, in Root, N. Y. He 
graduated in medicine from the medical 
department of the Columbia university 
of Washington, D. C., and from the Al¬ 
bany Medical college in 1862. He has 
been professor of surgery in the Albany 
Medical college; became dean of the same 
institution; and in 1895 was made regent 
of the New York State university of Al¬ 
bany. He has traveled extensively in Eu¬ 
rope; and is a member of the leading 
medical associations. He has written ex¬ 
tensively on medical subjects, and is one 
of the foremost leaders in his profession. 

VAN DEUSEN, MRS. MARY (WEST¬ 
BROOK), author, poet, was born in 1829 
in New York. She is a writer of Ron- 
dout, N. Y., whose principal works include 
Rachel Du Mont; Gertrude Willoughby, a 
novel; Colonial Dames of America; and 
Voices of My Heart, a book of verse. 


VAN DEVANTER, WILLIS, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born April 17, 1859, 
in Marion, Ind. He attended the De 
Pauw university, and the law school of 
the Cincinnati college. He has attained 
success in the profession of law at Chey¬ 
enne, Wyoming; has been city attorney; 
a member of the territorial legislature, 
and commissioner to revise territorial 
laws. He has served with distinction as 
chief justice of the supreme court of Wy¬ 
oming, which office he filled for two terms. 
He has been chairman of the republican 
state committee; a member of the republi¬ 
can national committee; and is promi¬ 
nently identified with the public affairs of 
Wyoming. 

VANDEVER, WILLIAM, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 31, 
1817, in Baltimore, Md. He removed to 
Iowa, and was elected a representative 
from that state to the thirty-sixth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the thirty- 
seventh congress. He served as a colonel 
in the union army in 1861. He also served 
in the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as 
a republican. 

VANDIVER, WILLARD DUNCAN, ed¬ 
ucator, congressman, was born March 30, 
1854, in Hardy county, Va. He was elected 
professor of natural science in Bellevue 
institute, and three years later became 
its president. In 1889 he accepted the 
chair of science in the State Normal 
school at Cape Girardeau, and in 1893 be¬ 
came its president. He was elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress. 

VAN DORN, EARL, soldier, was born 
Sept. 17, 1820, in Port Gibson, Miss. In 
1842 he graduated from West Point; and 
served with distinc¬ 
tion in the Mexican 
and civil wars, at¬ 
taining the rank of 
brigadier-general. In 
1861 he was appoint¬ 
ed brigadier-general 
of the state forces by 
the Mississippi legis¬ 
lature; and after¬ 
ward succeeded Jef¬ 
ferson Davis as ma¬ 
jor-general. After 
gallant service in the 
confederate army he was fatally shot by a 
Dr. Peters May 8, 1863, in Springfield, 
Tenn. 

VAN DUSEN, WASHINGTON, author, 
poet, was born Feb. 3, 1857, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He is the author of a volume 
of poems entitled 
Immortelles, and 
Other Poems; and 
has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to the Phil¬ 
adelphia daily news¬ 
papers, and promi¬ 
nent eastern maga¬ 
zines. His poems 
have been given a 
place in Poets of 
America, and in sev¬ 
eral other standard 
collections; and are 
a valuable acquisition to literature. 

VAN DYKE, CORNELIUS VAN AL¬ 
LEN, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 
13, 1818, in Kinderhook, N. Y. He su¬ 
perintended the publication of a version 
of the whole Bible in 1864-67 for the 
American Bible society. He is the au¬ 
thor in Arabic of a series of mathemati¬ 
cal, chemical, astronomical and hygienic 
works. 

VAN DYKE, HENRY HERBERT, 
financier, was born in 1809 in Kinderhook, 
N. Y. He became superintendent of pub¬ 





lic instruction for the state of New York 
in 1857, and in 1861 superintendent of the 
state banking department, holding office 
till 1865, when he was chosen assistant 
United States treasurer. He died Jan. 22, 
1888, in New York city. 

VAN DYKE, HENRY JACKSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born March 2, 1822, 
in Abingdon, Pa. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of Brooklyn, and tne author of 
The Lord’s Prayer; and The Church: Her 
Ministry and Sacraments. He died May 
26, 1891, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

VAN DYKE, HENRY JACKSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Nov. 10, 1852, in 
Germantown, Pa. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman of New York city, pastor of 
the Brick church from 1882, and the au¬ 
thor of The Reality of Religion; The 
Story of the Psalms; The National Sin of 
Literary Piracy; The Poetry of Tenny¬ 
son; Historic Presbyterianism; Straight 
Sermons to Young Men; The Christ Child 
in Art; Little Rivers; The Story of the 
Other Wise Man; That Monster—the 
Higher Critic; God and Little Children; 
The Gospel for an Age of Doubt; and The 
Builders, and Other Poems. 

VAN DYKE, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 3, 1807, in 
Lamington, N. J. He was a representative 
in congress from New Jersey from 1847 to 
1851. He afterwards became a judge of 
the supreme court of the state. He died 
Dec. 24, 1878, in Wabasha, Minn. 

VAN DYKE, JOHN CHARLES, art cri¬ 
tic, author, was born April zl, 1856, in 
New Brunswick, N. J. He is an art critic 
and librarian of the Sage library at New 
Brunswick, N. J. He is the author of 
Books and How to Use Them; Principles 
of Art; How to Judge a Picture; Serious 
Art in America; Art for Art’s Sake; His¬ 
tory of Painting; and Old Dutch and Fle¬ 
mish Masters. 

VAN DYKE, JOSEPH SMITH, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 2, 1832, in 
Bound Brook, N. J. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman, minister at Cranbury, N. J., 
from 1869, and the author of Popery the 
Foe of the Church; Prohibition of the 
Liquor Traffic; Through the Prison to 
the Throne; From Gloom to Gladness; 
Giving or Entertainment—Which? and 
Theism or Evolution. 

VAN DYKE, NICHOLAS, congressman, 
was born Sept. 25, 1738, in New Castle 
county, Del. He was a delegate from Del¬ 
aware to the continental congress from 
1777 to 1782, and was a signer of the arti¬ 
cles of confederation. He died Feb. 19, 
1789, in New Castle county, Del. 

VAN DYKE, NICHOLAS, lawyer, state 
legislator, United States senator, was born 
Dec. 20, 1769, in New Castle, Del. He was 
elected in 1799 to the legislature of Del¬ 
aware, and in 1807 to congress, serving 
until 1811. In 1815 he became a member 
of the senate of Delaware, and from 1817 
till 1826 he was a member of the United 
States senate. He died May 21, 1826, in 
New Castle, Del. 

VAN DYKE, THEODORE STRONG, 
was born July 19, 1842, in New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. J. He is a lawyer and sportsman 
of southern California, and the author 
of Rifle, Rod and Gun in California; 
Southern California; The Still Hunter; 
Game Birds at Home; and Southern Cal¬ 
ifornia the Italy of America. 

VANE, HENRY, governor, was born in 
1612, in England. From 1636-37 he was 
governor of Massachusetts. He was the 
author of A Healing Question; A Needful 
Corrective; Meditations Concerning 
Man’s Life; Meditation on Death; and 
The Retired Man’s Meditation. He died 
June 14, 1662. 





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VAN EATON, HENRY S., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 14, 1826, in Hamilton county, 
Ohio. In 1857 he was elected district at¬ 
torney, and in 1859 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in the Mississippi state legisla¬ 
ture. He served in the confederate army 
throughout the civil war. In 1880 he was 
appointed chancellor of the tenth district 
of Mississippi, and served on the bench 
until elected a representative from Missis¬ 
sippi to the forty-eighth congress; and 
was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress 
as a democrat. 

VAN GAASBECK, PETER, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1793 to 1795. 

VAN HORN, BURT, manufacturer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Nov. 28, 1823, in Newfane, N. Y. He was 
elected to the New York state legislature 
in 1858, and the two succeeding years. 
He was a representative from New York 
to the thirty-seventh congress, and in 
1864 was elected to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress. He was re-elected to the fortieth 
congress as a republican. 

VAN HORN, GEORGE, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 5, 1850, in Otsego 
county, N. Y. In 1881 he was elected 
clerk of the county 
of Otsego, and re¬ 
elected in 1884; and 
was twice elected su¬ 
pervisor of the town 
of Otsego, and sev¬ 
eral times a member 
and chairman of the 
democratic county 
committee. He was 
elected to the fifty- 
second congress as a 
democrat. He has 
attained prominence 
as a lawyer of Cooperstown, N. Y„ and 
has contributed valuable articles to sec¬ 
ular and law publications. 

VAN HORN, ROBERT THOMPSON, 
soldier, journalist, legislator, was born 
May 19,1824, in East Mahoning, Pa. After 
receiving a thorough education he became 
a practical printer. He attended the or¬ 
dinary schools of that time; at fifteen 
years of age he entered the office of the 
Indiana (Pa.) Register, serving four years 
as an apprentice to the printing business. 
He moved to Ohio in 1844, and to his 
present place of residence in Missouri in 
1855, where he established the Kansas 
■City Journal, of which he is still editor. 
He was elected mayor of that city in 1861 
and again in 1865. He served during the 
war, first as major of Van Horn’s battal¬ 
ion, United States reserve corps, taking 
part in the battle and siege of Lexington, 
under Colonel Mulligan, in September, 
1861; then as lieutenant-colonel of the 
twenty-fifth Missouri infantry, command¬ 
ing the regiment in the battle of Shiloh, 
and serving in the army of the Tennessee 
and in the campaigns of southeast Missou¬ 
ri and Arkansas. While in the field he 
was elected to the Missouri senate in 1862, 
and to congress in 1864, also in 1866, 1868 
and 1880, serving in the thirty-ninth, for¬ 
tieth, forty-first and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses. He was collector of internal rev¬ 
enue for the sixth district of Missouri 
from September, 1875, to 1881. He has 
been a delegate to the republican national 
conventions of 1864, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1880 
and 1884, being twice a member of the 
national republican committee, and chair¬ 
man of the republican state committee of 
Missouri; and was one of the 306 voting 
for General Grant in the convention of 
1880. He was elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress. 


VAN HORNE, ARCHIBALD, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maryland from 1807 to 1811. 

VAN HORNE, ESPY, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1829. He died 
June 25, 1829, in Williamsport, Pa. 

VAN HORNE, ISAAC, soldier, congress¬ 
man. He was a captain in the revolu- 
uonary war; was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Pennsylvania from 1801 to 
1805; and was then appointed receiver of 
public moneys in Zanesville, Ohio. 

VAN HORNE, THOMAS B., clergyman, 
author, was born in 18—. He is a cler¬ 
gyman, chaplain in the federal army dur¬ 
ing the civil war, and the author of His¬ 
tory of the Army of the Cumberland; and 
Life of Major-General Thomas. 

VAN HORNE, WILLIAM C., railroad 
president, was born in February, 1843, in 
Will county, Ill. He became general man¬ 
ager of the Canadian Pacific railroad, of 
which the section through the wheat dis¬ 
tricts of Manitoba had just been complet¬ 
ed. He was elected vice-president of the 
company in 1884, and in 1888 became its 
president. 

VAN HOUTEN, GEORGE H., soldier, 
journalist, horticulturist, lecturer, state 
legislator, was born Feb. 24, 1847, in Mis¬ 
souri, and since 1855 
has resided in Taylor 
county. He served 
nearly two years in 
the war as a member 
of the fourth regi¬ 
ment Missouri caval¬ 
ry. He has been a 
successful nursery¬ 
man and journalist; 
is secretary of the 
Iowa State Horticul¬ 
tural society, and 
also of the South¬ 
western Iowa society. He has lectured on 
travels and for fraternal societies. He 
served with distinction as a member of 
the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh 
general assemblies of the Iowa state leg¬ 
islature. 

VAN HOUTON, ISAAC B., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1833 to 1835. 

VAN LENNEP, HENRY JOHN, was 
born March 8, 1815, in Asia Minor. He 
was a congregational missionary in Asia 
Minor in 1839-69, and the author of Ten 
Days Among Greek Brigands; Bible 
Lands; Travels in Little Known Parts of 
Asia Minor; and The Oriental Album. 
He died Jan. 11, 1889, in Barrington, 
Mass. 

VAN METRE, JOHN J., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1843 to 1845. 

VANN, IRVING GOODWIN, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Jan. 3, 1842, in Ulysses] 

N. Y. In 1863 he received his education 
at the Trumansburg 
academy, the Ithaca 
academy, graduated 
from Yale college in 
1863, and from the 
Albany Law school 
two years later. In 
1879 he served with 
distinction as mayor 
of Syracuse; and 
during 1882-96 was 
justice of the su¬ 
preme court. In 1896 
he was appointed by 
the governor as judge of the court of ap¬ 
peals for the state of New York; and in 
November of the same year was elected 
to that high office for a full term of four¬ 
teen years by a majority of 243,180. 


VAN NESS, CORNELIUS PETER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was 
born Jan. 26, 1782, in Kinderhook, N. Y 
He was a representative in the legislaturf 
from 1818 to 1821, and was a commissioner 
to settle the national boundaries under 
the treaty of Ghent, from 1817 to 1821. 
He was chief justice of the state from 
1821 to 1823, and was governor from 1823 
to 1826. He was minister to Spain from 
1829 to 1839, and was collector of the port 
of New York in 1844 and 1845. He died 
Dec. 15, 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

VAN NESS, JOHN PETER, lawyer, 
banker, congressman, was born in 1770 in 
Ghent, N. Y. He was a representative in 
congress from 1801 to 1803. Having taken 
up his residence in Washington City he 
became the first president of the Bank of 
the Metropolis in 1814, and was also 
elected mayor of Washington. He died 
March 7, 1847, in Washington, D. C. 

VAN NESS, MARCIA BURNS, philan¬ 
thropist, was born in 1782 in Washington, 
D. C. On her death the people at Wash¬ 
ington held a large 
meeting, at which 
prominent men eulo¬ 
gized her good deeds. 
She was an aboli¬ 
tionist known the 
world over; and con¬ 
tributed stirring art¬ 
icles on that subject 
to the leading news¬ 
papers and maga¬ 
zines of the United 
states, which materi¬ 
ally aided the cause. 
She died in September, 1832, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

VAN NESS, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1859 in Maryland. He 
is a Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pas¬ 
tor of the Second church, and the author 
of The Coming Religion; The Ideal Com¬ 
monwealth; and My Visit to Count Tol¬ 
stoi. 

VAN NESS, WILLIAM PETER, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born in 1778 in Ghent, 
N. Y. He was a jurist of New York city, 
and the author of Examination of Charges 
Against Aaron Burr; Laws of New York; 
and Concise Narrative of Jackson’s First 
Invasion of Florida. He died Sept. 16, 
1826, in New York city. 

VAN NEST, ABRAHAM RYNIER, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 1, 1823, in 
New York city. He was a Dutch reformed 
clergyman in charge of American chapels 
abroad, and pastor in Philadelphia in 
1878-86. He was the author of Signs of 
the Times; and Life of G. Bethune. He 
died June 2, 1892, in New York city. 

VAN NORDEN, CHARLES, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1843 in Connecticut. 
He is a congregational clergyman at Suf- 
field, Connecticut, and the author of The 
Outermost Rim and Beyond; and The 
Psychic Factor. 

VAN NORDEN, WARNER, president of 
the National Bank of North America, was 
born July 2, 1841, in New York. In 1891 
he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the National 
Bank of North Am¬ 
erica, one of the old¬ 
est financial institu¬ 
tions in the country, 
and has since re¬ 
mained at its head. 
He is president of 
the South Yuba Wa¬ 
ter company, presi¬ 
dent of the Land and 
River Improvement 
i * * TT ,, company; vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Holland Trust company, and a 
director of the Home Insurance company, 














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American Savings bank, the Northern 
Trust company, of Superior, Wis., and sev¬ 
eral other organizations. 

VAN NORMAN, DANIEL CUMMINGS, 
educator, was born in August, 1815, in 
Nelson, Canada West. He founded and 
became principal of the Van Norman in¬ 
stitute of New York city, a school for 
young ladies, successfully conducting that 
institution until his death. He died June 
24, 1886, in New York city. 

VAN RENSSELAER, CORTLAND, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born May 26, 1808, in 
Albany, N. Y. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman who was secretary of the pres¬ 
byterian board of education, 1846-60, and 
the author of Miscellaneous Sermons, Es¬ 
says and Addresses; and Essays and Dis¬ 
courses. He died July 25, 1860, in Bur¬ 
lington, N. J. 

VAN RENSSELAER, HENRY, soldier, 
congressman, was born in 1810 in Albany, 
N. Y. He was a member of congress in 
1841-43, and in 1855-60 was president of 
mining companies. At the beginning of 
the civil war he was appointed chief-of- 
staff to Gen. Winfield Scott, with the rank 
of brigadier-general, and he became in¬ 
spector-general with the rank of colonel 
on the retirement of General Scott; served 
in the department of the Rappahannock 
in April and August, 1862, subsequently 
in the third army corps, and in the de¬ 
partment of the Ohio until his death. 
He died March 23, 1864, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

VAN RENSSELAER, JEREMIAH, pat¬ 
riot, congressman, was born in 1741 in 
New York city. He was a patriot of the 
revolution. He was a member of congress 
from New York from 1789 to 1791; and 
was lieutenant-governor of New York 
from 1801 to 1804; and was a presidential 
elector in 1810. He died Feb. 22, 1820, in 
Albany, N. Y. 

VAN RENSSELAER, KILLIAN, sec¬ 
ond lord of the manor, was born in 1662, 
in Rensselaerswick. He was an officer of 
militia and a magistrate; represented the 
manor in the assembly in 1693-1704, and 
was a member of the council from the lat¬ 
ter date until his death. In 1705 he con¬ 
veyed Claverack, or the lower manor, to 
his brother, Hendrick. He died in 1719 in 
Rensselaerswick. 

VAN RENSSELAER, KILLIAN K., con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1763 in Rensselaer 
county, N. Y. He was a member of con¬ 
gress from New York from 1801 to 1811, 
after which he retired to private life. He 
died „une 18, 1845, in Albany, N. Y. 

VAN RENSSELAER, MRS. MARIANA 
(GRISWoLD), art critic, author, was born 
Feb. 23, 1851, in New York city. She is 
an art critic of New York city, and the 
author of Art Out of Doors, a work on 
gardening; English Cathedrals; Six Por¬ 
traits; Handbook of English Cathedral;?; 
Henry Hobson Richardson; and One Man 
who was Content, and Other Stories. 

VAN RENSSELAER, MAUNSELL, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 15, 1819, 
in Albany, N. Y. He is an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of New York city; and the author 
of Sister Louise: her Life Book; and An¬ 
nals of the Van Rensselaers in the United 
States. 

VAN RENSSELAER, PHILIP S„ mayor 
of Albany, was born April 15, 1767, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. He became mayor of Albany, 
N. Y., in 1799, and held office for nineteen 
years, the longest service of any mayor of 
that city. He was president of the Albany 
Bible society for many years, a trustee of 
Union, and a founder of Albapy academy. 
He died Sept. 25, 1824, in Albany, N. Y. 

VAN RENSSELAER. SOLOMON, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1774, 


in Rensselaer county, N. Y. He was adju¬ 
tant-general of New York from 1801 to 
1810, and in 1813. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1819 
to 1822, when he was appointed postmaster 
at Albany. He died April 23, 1852, near 
Albany, N. Y. 

VAN RENSSELAER, STEPHEN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, 
was born Nov. 1, 1765, in New York. He 
was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the New York 
senate in 1795; and 
was six years lieu- 
tenant-governor o f 
New York. He was 
a member of con¬ 
gress from 1822 to 
1829. In 1810 he was 
appointed one of the 
canal commissioners 
and for the last four¬ 
teen years of his life 
was president of the 
board. During the last war with England 
he commanded as a major-general on the 
Niagara frontier. He was distinguished 
for his wealth and munificent charities, 
and enjoyed the inherited title of Patroon. 
He died Jan. 26, 1839, in Albany, N. Y. 

VAN RENSSELAER, STEPHEN, the 
last patroon, was born March 29, 1789, in 
Albany, N. Y. During the anti-rent trou¬ 
bles in 1839 he sold his townships, and at 
his death the manor passed out of the 
hands of his descendants. He died May 
25, 1868, in Albany, N. Y. 

VAN RIPER, JACOB J., lawyer, jurist, 
was born March 8, 1838, in Haverstraw, 
N. Y. During 1881-84 he was attorney- 
general of Michigan. In 1892 he was elect¬ 
ed judge of probate for four years. 

VANSANT, JOSHUA, college president, 
congressman, was born in Maryland. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Maryland from 1853 to 1855; and was al¬ 
so for many years president of the Mary¬ 
land institute. 

VAN SANTVOORD, CORNELIUS, was 
born April 8, 1816, in Belleville, N. J. He 
was a Dutch reformed clergyman of New 
York state; and the author of Memoir of 
Eliphalet Nott; and Limitation of the 
Liabilities of Ship Owners Under United 
States Laws. He died in 1892. 

VAN SANTVOORD, GEORGE, lawyer, 
author, was born Dec. 8, 1819, in Belle¬ 
ville, N. J. He was a lawyer of Kinder- 
hook, N. Y.; and the author of Life of 
Algernon Sidney; Lives of the Chief Jus¬ 
tices of the United States; The Indiana 
Justice; Principles of Pleading in Civil 
Actions; Precedents of Pleading; and 
Practice in Equity Actions in New York 
Supreme Court. He died March 6, 1863, 
in East Albany, N. Y. 

VAN SANTVOORD, HAROLD, author, 
was born in 1854 in New York. He was a 
New York writer; and the author of Half 
Holidays, a volume of essays. 

VAN SCAY, THOMAS, educator, college 
president, was born Feb. 13, 1848, in White 
county, Ind. He has attained success as a 
professor of ancient languages; was 
president of the Williamette university, 
Oregon, for twelve years; and dean of the 
Portland university for six years. 

VAN SCHAACK, HENRY CRUGER. 
lawyer, author, was born April 3, 1802, in 
Kinderhook, N. Y. He is a lawyer of 
Manlius, N. Y.; and the author of History 
of Manlius Village; An Old Kinderhook 
Mansion; Captain Thomas Morris; and 
Life of Peter Van Schaack. He died Dec. 
16, 1887, in Manlius, N. Y. 

VAN SCHAACK, PETER, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born in March, 1747, in Kin¬ 


derhook, N. Y. He was a once famous 
jurist of Kinderhook, N. Y.; and the au¬ 
thor of Laws of the Colony of New York; 
and Conductor Generalis. He died Sept. 
17, 1832, in Kinderhook, N. Y. 

VAN SCHAICK, GOZEN, soldier, was 
born in January, 1737, in Albany, N. Y. He 
served with distinction in the revolution¬ 
ary war; and in 1783 was appointed a 
brigadier-general by brevet. He died July 
4, 1789. 

VAN SCHAICK, ISAAC W., manufac¬ 
turer, lawyer, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 7, 1817, in Coxsackie, 
N. Y. In 1872 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive in the Wisconsin legislature, and was 
re-elected in 1874. In 1877 he was elected 
to the Wisconsin senate; and was re¬ 
elected in 1879 and 1881. In 1884 he was 
elected a representative from Wisconsin 
to the forty-ninth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the fifty-first congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

VAN SICKLE, FRANK ALBERT, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, was born Dec. 16, 1864, in 
Ontario, Canada. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Trinity university of Toronto; 
and his degree of medicine from the De¬ 
troit C:ll(ge of Medicine; and he is now 
one of the leading physicians and surgeons 
of Micl igan at Breedsville. 

VAN 3VEENWYK, GYSBERT, soldier, 
legislator, banker, was born Jan. 30, 1814, 
in Holland. He served two years in the 
army of the Nether¬ 
lands, and in 1849 
emigrated to Ameri¬ 
ca. In 1859 he was 
elected to the state 
assembly of the Wis¬ 
consin state legisla¬ 
ture, and subsequent¬ 
ly became bank comp¬ 
troller. In 1857 he 
was commissioned 
brigadier-general of 
state troops. He has 
been connected with 
the Victor Flouring mill, the La Crosse 
Linseed Oil mill, the Edison Electric 
Light and Power company, the La Crosse 
Street Railway company, and various oth¬ 
er business enterprises. He is best known 
as a banker, and for more than a quarter 
of a century the Batavian bank, of which 
he is president, has been a pillar of 
strength in his community. 

VAN TRUMP, PHILADELPH, journal¬ 
ist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born 
Nov. 15, 1810, in Lancaster, Ohio. In 1862 
he was elected a judge of the court of 
common pleas, which position he resigned 
in 1866. In that year he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Ohio to the fortieth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
first and forty-second congresses. He died 
July 31, 1874, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

VANUXEM, LARDNER, scientist, au¬ 
thor, was born July 23, 1792, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a scientist who was 
state geologist of New York in 1836-42; 
and the author of Geology of New York, 
Third District; and Essay on the Ulti¬ 
mate Principles of Chemistry, Natural 
Philosophy, and Physiology. He died 
Jan. 25, 1848, in Bristol, Pa. 

VAN VALKENBURGH, ROBERT 
BRUCE, soldier, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1821, in 
Steuben county, N. Y. He served three 
terms in the state legislature of New 
York. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress; and in 1862, while in congress, took 
command as colonel of the one hundred 
and seventh regiment New York volun¬ 
teers, and was present at the battle of 






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Antietam. He was re-elected to the thirty- 
eighth congress. In 1865 he was appointed 
acting commissioner of Indian affairs dur¬ 
ing the absence of the commissioner; and 
in 1865 was appointed minister resident 
to Japan. He died Aug. 2, 1888, in Su- 
wanee Springs, Fla. 

VAN VECHTEN, ABRAHAM, lawyer, 
state legislator, author, was born Dec. 5, 
1762, in Catskill, N. Y. He was known as 
the father of the New York bar, being 
the first lawyer admitted to practice after 
the adoption of the state constitution. He 
was city recorder in 1797-1808; state sen¬ 
ator in 1798-1805; member of the assem¬ 
bly in 1805-15; attorney-general in 1810 
and 1813-15; and a member of the consti¬ 
tutional convention in 1821. In 1797-1823 
he was a regent of the university of the 
state of New York. He died Jan. 6, 1837, 
in Albany, N. Y. 

VAN VECHTEN, JACOB, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1788 in Catskill, N. 
Y. In 1815-49 he was pastor of the re¬ 
formed Dutch church in Schenectady, N. 
Y. He published Memoirs of Dr. John M. 
Mason, in two volumes; and An Effective 
Ministry, a sermon. He died Sept. 15, 
1871, in Auburn, N. Y. 

VAN VLECK, JACOB, Moravian bishop, 
was born March 24, 1751, in New York 
city. In 1815 he was consecrated to the 
episcopacy at Bethlehem, having been ap¬ 
pointed president of the executive board 
of the southern province. He died July 3, 
1831, in Bethlehem, Pa. 

VAN VLECK, JOHN MONROE, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born March 4, 1833, in 
Stone Ridge, N. Y. He was a member 
of the expedition that was sent out under 
the auspices of the Nautical Almanac of¬ 
fice to observe the total solar eclipse at 
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in 1869. His publi¬ 
cations include Tables giving the Posi¬ 
tions of the Moon for 1855-56, and for 
1878-91, and similar Tables giving the Po¬ 
sitions of Saturn for 1857 to 1877, con¬ 
tributed to the American Nautical Alma¬ 
nac. 

VAN VLECK, WILLIAM HENRY, Mo¬ 
ravian bishop, was born Nov. 14, 1790, in 
Bethlehem, Pa. He was consecrated to 
the episcopacy in 1836 at Bethlehem, and 
appointed president of the executive board 
of the southern province and pastor of 
the church at Salem. He died Jan. 19, 
1853, in Bethlehem, Pa. 

VAN VLIET, STEWART, soldier, was 
born July 21, 1815, in Ferrisburg, Vt. He 
served in the Seminole, Mexican and civil 
wars; and was brevetted major-general 
in the United States army in 1865. 

VAN VOORHES, NELSON H., soldier, 
journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, 
was born Jan. 23, 1822, in Washington 
county, Pa. In 1850 he was elected a 
member of the Ohio state legislature; and 
in 1855 was elected probate judge. He re¬ 
signed to again become a member of the 
legislature, and was made speaker; and 
by re-elections was a member ten years. 
In 1861 he entered the army in the volun¬ 
teer service; and in 1862 was commis¬ 
sioned colonel of the ninety-second regi¬ 
ment of United States troops. In 1871 he 
was again speaker of the assembly; served 
in that capacity four years. In 1874 he 
was elected a representative from Ohio to 
the forty-fourth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

VAN VOORHIS, HENRY C„ lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 11, 1852, in 
Muskingum county, Ohio. He was elected 
from Zanesville. Ohio, to the fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 


VAN VOORHIS, JOHN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 22, 1828, in De¬ 
catur, N. Y. He was a member of the 
Rochester city board of education in 1857; 
city attorney in 1859; and was appointed 
collector of internal revenue in 1862. He 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh 
and fifty-third congresses as a republican. 

VAN WART, ISAAC, patriot, was born 
in 1760 in Greenburg, N. Y. On Sept. 23, 1780, 
with John Paulding and David Williams, 
he intercepted Major John Andrd on his 
return from the American lines. For this 
service he received the thanks of con¬ 
gress, a pension of $200 per annum for 
life, and a silver medal bearing on one 
side the word Fidelity, and on the other 
the legend Vincit Amor Patriae. On June 
11, 1829, the citizens of Westchester coun¬ 
ty erected a monument to his memory. 
He died May 23, 1828, in Mount Pleasant, 
N. Y. 

VAN WINKLE, PETER G., state legis¬ 
lator, United States senator, was born 
Sept. 7, 1808, in New York city. He was 
a member of the legislature of West Vir¬ 
ginia from its organization until 1863; 
and in November of that year was elected 
a senator in congress from West Virginia 
for the term ending in 1869. He died 
April 15, 1872, in Parkersburg, W. Va. 

VAN WYCK, CHARLES HENRY, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman. United States 
senator, was born May 10, 1824, in Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. He was elected a represen¬ 
tative from New York to the thirty-sixth 
congress; and was also elected to the 
thirty-seventh congress. While in con¬ 
gress he served in the volunteer service 
as colonel of a regiment; and in 1865 was 
appointed a brigadier-general by brevet. 
He was elected to the fortieth congress; 
and was re-elected to the forty-first con¬ 
gress. He removed to Nebraska in 1874; 
and was a state senator from 1876 to 1880. 
He was elected United States senator from 
Nebraska for six years from March 4, 1881. 

VAN WYCK, SAMUEL, insurance pres¬ 
ident, was born Dec. 22, 1824, in West 
Hills, N. Y. In 1887 he was elected presi¬ 
dent of the La Fayette Fire Insurance 
company of Brooklyn, N. Y., which posi¬ 
tion he still holds. 

VAN WYCK, WILLIAM W., congress¬ 
man, was born in Dutchess county, N. Y. 
He was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1821 to 1825. 

VAN ZANDT, CHARLES COLLINS, 
lawyer, state senator, governor, was born 
Aug. 10, 1830, in Newport, R. I. He was 
speaker of the Rhode Island state house 
of representatives in 1858-59, from 1866 to 
1869, and from 1871 to 1873; and was lieu¬ 
tenant-governor and ex-officio president of 
the state senate from 1873 to 1875. He 
was governor of Rhode Island from 1877 
to 1880. 

VAN ZANDT, MARIE, vocalist, was 
born Oct. 8, 1861, in Texas. She was be¬ 
friended by Adelina Patti, who encour¬ 
aged her to go on the stage. She has un¬ 
consciously copied the style of that great 
cantatrice. Her voice is clear and melo¬ 
dious and of astonishing compass. 

VAN ZILE, EDWARD SIMS, journalist, 
author, was born in 1863 in New York. 
He is a novelist and journalist of New 
York city on the staff of The World; and 
the author of Wanted, a Sensation; The 
Last of the Van Slacks; A Magnetic Man. 
and Other Stories; Don Miguel, and Other 
Stories; The Manhattaners; and A Crown 
Prince. 

VARICK, RICHARD, soldier, was born 
March 25, 1753, in Hackensack, N. J. He 
served with distinction during the revolu¬ 


tionary war; and was inspector-general 
at West Point after 1780. He died July 
30, 1831, in Jersey City, N. J. 

VARICK, THEODORE ROMEYN, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born June 24, 1825, in 
Dutchess county, N. Y. He was the first 
to prove the usefulness of cocaine in capi¬ 
tal amputations. He published mono¬ 
graphs on The Use of Hot Water in Sur¬ 
gery; The Protective Treatment of Open 
Wounds; and a score of other valuable 
medical papers. He died Nov. 23, 1887, in 
Jersey City, N. J. 

VARNEY, MRS. F. G„ poet. She has 
attained success as a writer of Windham 
Centre, Maine. 

VARNEY, GEORGE JONES, author, 
was born in 1836 in Maine. He is the au¬ 
thor of Young People’s History of Maine; 
Gazetteer of Maine; A Brief History of 
Maine; and The Story of Patriot’s Day. 

VARNUM, CHARLES W., lawyer, poli¬ 
tician, orator, was born Feb. 25, 1862, in 
Sanilac county, Mich. He attended the 
Hillsdale college; 
graduated with high¬ 
est honors from the 
Iowa City Commer¬ 
cial college, and from 
the law department 
of the state univer¬ 
sity of Iowa with the 
degree of LL. B. He 
has attained success 
in the profession of 
law at Denver, Colo. 
In 1891 he organized 
the Republican 
league of Colorado, and was its first pres¬ 
ident. He has been three times a delegate 
to the National League convention, and 
secured the national convention of 1894 
for Denver. In 1894 he was elected state 
organizer of the Republican league of 
Colorado, and in three months organized 
ninety clubs with over forty thousand 
members. In 1897 he was elected chair¬ 
man of the national silver party commit¬ 
tee of Denver. 

VARNUM, JAMES MITCHELL, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 17, 1748, in Dracut, 
Mass. In 1774 he accepted the command 
of a company called the Kentish guards; 
and in 1777 was promoted to the rank of 
brigadier-general. In 1779 he resigned his 
commission in the army, and the legisla¬ 
ture appointed him major-general of mili¬ 
tia. From 1780 to 1782 he was a delegate 
to the continental congress. In 1786 he 
was again a delegate to congress, and 
served one year; and was then appointed 
judge of the Northwest territory. He 
died Jan. 10, 1789, in Marietta, Ohio. 

VARNUM, JOHN, lawyer, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, was born in 1783 in Es¬ 
sex county, Mass. He was frequently a 
member of the state legislature; and was 
a representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1825 to 1831. He died July 
23, 1846, in Niles, Mich. 

VARNUM, JOSEPH BRADLEY, soldier, 
state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 
29, 1750, in Dracut, Mass. He was a gen¬ 
eral in the revolutionary war; and was a 
representative in congress from 1795 to 
1811, being speaker during the tenth and 
eleventh congresses. He was chosen sena¬ 
tor in 1811; served until 1817, and was 
president pro tempore of the senate. He 
died Sept. 21, 1821, in Dracut, Mass. 

VARNUM, JOSEPH BRADLY, lawyer, 
author, was born June 9, 1818, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. He is a lawyer and writer 
of New York city; and the author of The 
Seat of Government of the United States; 
and The Washington Sketch-Book. He 
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VARNUM, LULU LEE, suffragist. She 
was the first woman delegate to a national 
political convention of one of the old par¬ 
ties; and is well known in Colorado as 
a state organizer of women’s republican 
clubs. She is the wife of Charles W. 
Varnum, the secretary and state organizer 
of the Republican league of Colorado, and 
she has been his right hand in the very 
successful work he has accomplished. 

VASEY, GEORGE, physician, botanist, 
author, was born Feb. 28, 1822, in Eng¬ 
land. He was a physician and botanist 
who was botanist of the department of 
agriculture at Washington in 1872-93. He 
was the author of Beauties and Utilities 
of a Library; The Philosophy of Laugh¬ 
ing and Smiling; A Descriptive Catalogue 
of Native Forest Trees of the United 
States; Grasses of the United States; Ag¬ 
ricultural Grasses of the United States; 
Grasses of the South; Grasses of the Arid 
Districts; Descriptive Catalogue of the 
Grasses of the United States; and Indi¬ 
vidual Liberty. He died in 1893. 

\ ASSAR, JOHN ELLISON, lay preach¬ 
er, was born Jan. 13, 1813, in Poughkeep¬ 
sie, N. Y. At the conclusion of the war 
he visited, in the service of the Tract so¬ 
ciety, Virginia, North Carolina, South 
Carolina, and Florida. Few men of his 
day traveled more extensively or were 
more widely known than Uncle John Vas¬ 
sal'. He died Dec. 6, 1878, in Poughkeep¬ 
sie, N. Y. 

VASSAR, JOHN GUY, philanthropist, 
author, was born June 15, 1811, in Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. He was a philanthropist of 
Poughkeepsie, nephew of the founder of 
Vassar college; and the author of Twenty 
Years Around the World. He died Oct. 
27, 1888, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



\ ASSAR, MATTHEW, philanthropist, 
was born April 29, 1792, in England. He 
came to America in 1796; amassed a for¬ 
tune in the brewery 
business; and in 1861 
he gave nearly half 
a million dollars to 
found the Vassar Fe¬ 
male college o f 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 
which was named in 
his honor." By his 
will that sum was 
nearly doubled; and 
he also made be¬ 
quests to various 
charitable institu¬ 
tions. He died June 23, 1868, in Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. 


VASSAR, MATTHEW, philanthropist, 
was born May 11, 1809, in Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. He served at one time as trustee 
of the village of Poughkeepsie and mem¬ 
ber of the board of education; held many 
private trusts, and was one of the origi¬ 
nal trustees of Vassar college, and at the 
request of the founder was its treasurer 
from the beginning until his death. His 
various benefactions amounted to half a 
million dollars. He died Aug. 10, 1881, in 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

VASSAR, THOMAS EDWIN,clergyman, 
author, was born Dec. 3, 1834, in Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. He is a baptist clergyman; 
and the author of Uncle John Vassar, or 
The Fight of Faith, a very popular work. 

VAUGHAN, DANIEL, scientist, was 
born about 1821 in Ireland. The last work 
of his life was a series of astronomical ar¬ 
ticles that were published in the Popular 
Science Monthly. He issued in book-form 
Popular Physical Astronomy, or an Expo¬ 
sition of Remarkable Celestial Phenome¬ 
na. He died in April, 1879, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 


VAUGHAN, ELBERT HUNTER, clergy¬ 
man, college president, was born Jan. 9, 
1849, in Blountville, Tenn. He has attain¬ 
ed eminence as a minister of the metho- 
dist episcopal church, and as president of 
Soule college of Dodge City, Kan. 

VAUGHAN, FRED W., lawyer, politic¬ 
ian, was born Dec. 9, 1858, in Wyalusing, 
Pa. He received his education in the 
common schools, at 
the Susquehanna Col¬ 
legiate institute, and 
at the Wyoming 
Commercial college. 
He is a successful 
lawyer of Fremont, 
Neb.; secretary of 
the Sound Money 
Democratic league of 
Nebraska, and a 
prominent member 
of various orders. In 
1896 he was a gold 
delegate to the democratic national con¬ 
vention, which delegation was unseated. 
He was subsequently chosen to a Chicago 
conference, which resulted in the national 
convention at Indianapolis, to which he 
was also a delegate. 

VAUGHAN, JOHN, physician, author, 
was born June 25, 1775, in Uchland, Pa. 
He was a physician of Wilmington, Del., 
very eminent in his day; and the author 
of Chemical Syllabus; and Observations 
on Animal Electricity. He died March 25, 
1807, in Wilmington, Del. 

VAUGHAN, JOHN B., journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born June 16, 1860, near Bow¬ 
man. Ga. He is the author of several 
Sunday School and Revival Song Books; 
and is also the editor and owner of The 
Music Leader of Atlanta, Ga. 

VAUGHAN, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
born Sept. 12, 1703, in Portsmouth, N. H. 
He first suggested the expedition against 
the French at Louisburg; and he took part 
as lieutenant in that successful expedition. 
He died Dec. 11, 1746, in England. 

VAUGHAN, WILLIAM W., congress¬ 
man. He was elected to the forty-second 
congress as a representative from Ten¬ 
nessee. He is an 
able speaker; and 
while in congress 
served on the com¬ 
mittee of territories, 
and various other 
important commit¬ 
tees. He also con¬ 
tributed articles on 
current topics to the 
leading newspapers 
and magazines of the 
United States; and 
he is the author of one published work. 

VAUX, CALVERT, architect, author, 
was born Dec. 20, 1824, in England. He 
was an English architect and landscape 
gardener who settled in the United States 
in 1851. With F. L. Olmsted he designed 
Central park in New York city, and he 
was associated with him in many similar 
works throughout the country. He pub¬ 
lished Villas and Cottages in the earlier 
part of his career. He died in 1895. 

VAUX, RICHARD, penologist, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Dec. 19, 1816, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a distin¬ 
guished penologist of Philadelphia; mayor 
of that city in 1856; and a member of the 
fifty-first congress to fill a vacancy. His 
writings include every annual report of 
the Eastern penitentiary for more than 
fifty years; Recorders’ Decisions; and 
many volumes on the subject of penology. 
He died in 1895. 


VAUX, ROBERTS, lawyer, jurist, pen¬ 
ologist, author, was born Jan. 25, 1786, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a jurist and 
penologist of Philadelphia, prominent in 
all local philanthropic enterprisesthrough- 
out his life. He was the author of Me¬ 
moirs of Benjamin Lay, Ralph Sandiford, 
and Anthony Benezet; and Efforts to Im¬ 
prove the Discipline of the Prison at Phil¬ 
adelphia. He died Jan. 7, 1836, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

VAUX, WILLIAM SANSOM, mineralo¬ 
gist, was born May 19, 1811, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was president of the Zoo¬ 
logical society of Philadelphia, and from 
1864 until his death, with the exception of 
1874-75 was vice-president of the Phila¬ 
delphia Academy of Natural Sciences. He 
was one of eight founders of the Numis¬ 
matic and Antiquarian society, and its 
senior vice-president. He died May 5, 1882, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

V EALE. MOSES, soldier, lawyer, was 
born Nov. 9, 1832, in Bridgeton, N. J. He 
served through the civil war, and for 
meritorious services received the rank of 
major. In 1866 he was United States at¬ 
torney for Montana. 

V EATCH, ANDREW A., Clergyman, po¬ 
et. He is a successful clergyman of Brooke- 
land, Tex., and the author of a collection 
of sacred poems entitled Over the Line, 
and Other Poems. He is also the author 
of several popular songs; and has con¬ 
tributed extensively both prose and verse 
to the periodical press. 

VEATCH, JAMES CLIFFORD, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, was born Dec. 19, 
1819. near Elizabethtown, Ind. He was in 
the Indiana legislature in 1861-62; became 
colonel of the twenty-fifth regiment of 
Indiana volunteers in 1861, brigadier-gen¬ 
eral of volunteers in 1862, and brevet ma¬ 
jor-general in August, 1865, at which time 
he retired from the army. He became ad¬ 
jutant-general of Indiana in 1869; and 
was collector of internal revenue from 
1870 till 1883. 

VEAZEY, THOMAS W., governor, was 
born in 1780. He was governor of Mary¬ 
land from 1836 to 1838; and was a mem¬ 
ber of the house of delegates and of the 
executive council. He died June 30, 1848, 
in Cecil county, Md. 

VEDDER, COMMODORE PERRY, state 
senator, was born Feb. 23, 1838, in Elli- 
cottville, N. Y. In 1875, 1876, 1877, and 
1888 he was a member of the senate from 
Tennessee. 

VEDDER. ELIHU, artist, was born Feb. 
26, 1836, in New York city. One of the 
best known of his paintings is the Lair 
of the Sea-Serpent, now in the Boston mu¬ 
seum of Fine Arts, where are also The 
Roc's Egg; Fisherman and Djin; Domini¬ 
can Friars; and An Italian Woman. 

VEDDER, HENRY CLAY, educator, 
journalist, author, was born in 1853 in 
New York. He is a journalist for many 
years, and subsequently professor of 
church history at Crozer Theological sem¬ 
inary, Upland, Pa. He is the author of 
American Writers of To-Day; and A Short 
History of the Baptists. 

VEDDER, PETER VAN DYCK, clergy, 
man, was born Dec. 29, 1854, in Schen 
ectady, N. Y. He is a graduate of the 
Union Classical institute; and since 1880 
has been united with the Des Moines 
methodist episcopal conference. Great re¬ 
vivals of religion have followed his labors 
at each pastorate; and he is considered 
one of the foremost clergymen in the 
methodist episcopal church of Iowa. He 
now fills a pastorate in Clarinda. 




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VEEDER, EMILY ELIZABETH,author, 
poet, was born in the valley of Lake 
Champlain, N. Y. She was a student in 
the Packer institute 
of Brooklyn, N. Y.; 
and has traveled ex¬ 
tensively in the 
United States and 
foreign countries. 
She belongs to a tal¬ 
ented family, and is 
the granddaughter 
of Judge MeOmber. 
She is the author of 
Her Brother Don- 
nard; In ’the Gar¬ 
den, and Other Po¬ 
ems; and has arranged several of her 
poems to music of her own composition. 
During the author’s congress of the 
World’s Columbian exposition, Mrs. Veed- 
•er originated the idea of an author’s in¬ 
stitute. She has contributed extensively 
to current literature, and her most popu¬ 
lar poems are Twilight Hours; In My 
Dreams; and A Voice. 

VEEDER, WILLIAM D., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born May 19, 
1835, in Guilderland, N. Y. He was a 
member of the New York assembly in 1865 
and 1866; and surrogate of Kings county 
from 1867 to 1877. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the forty- 
fifth congress as a democrat. 

VEHSLAGE, JOHN H. G„ soldier, busi¬ 
ness man, congressman, was born Dec. 
20, 1842, in New York city. In 1863 he 
joined the third cav¬ 
alry, national guard, 
state of New York, 
and was commission¬ 
ed captain by Gov¬ 
ernor Seymour in 
1864. In 1876 he was 
appointed inspector 
of rifle practice with 
the rank of captain, 
and continued in 
service until 1880, 
when the regiment 
was mustered out of 
service by Governor Cornell; remained as 
supernumerary until 1883. He was elected 
and served as member of assembly from 
the first assembly district, New York 
city, in the year 1894; was at the demo¬ 
cratic state convention held at Buffalo; 
was appointed a presidential elector, but 
resigned on account of receiving the nomi¬ 
nation for congress. He was elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

VENABLE, ABRAHAM B., congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born in 
1760 in Prince Edward county, Va. He 
was a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1791 to 1799, and was a sena¬ 
tor of the United States from 1803 to 
1804. He died Dec. 26, 1811, in Richmond, 
Va. 

VENABLE, ABRAHAM WOODSON, 
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Oct. 17, 1799, in Prince Edward county, 
Va. He was a presidential elector in 
1832 and 1836, and was a representative 
in congress from North Carolina, from 
1847 to 1853. He took part in the rebel¬ 
lion of 1861, as a member of the so- 
called confederate congress, having pre¬ 
viously been elected a presidential elec¬ 
tor. He died Feb. 28, 1876, in Oxford, 
N. C. 

VENABLE, CHARLES SCOTT, soldier, 
educator, author, was born April 19, 1827, 
in Prince Edward county, Va. He is a 
Confederate army officer, professor of 
mathematics in the University of Virginia 
from 1865, and author of a series of popu¬ 
lar mathematical text-books. 


VENABLE, FRANK PRESTON, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Nov. 17, 1856, in 
Longwood, Va. He is a professor of chem¬ 
istry at the University of North Carolina 
from 1880, and the author of A Short 
Course in Qualitative Analysis; and The 
Development of the Periodic Law. 

VENABLE, WILLIAM HENRY, educat¬ 
or, author, poet, was born April 29, 1836, 
in Warren county, Ohio. He is an edu¬ 
cator and litterateur of Cincinnati, and 
the author of School History of the United 
States; Footprints of the Pioneers in the 
Ohio Valley; The Beginnings of Literary 
Culture in the Ohio Valley; Let Him 
First be a Man, a collection of essays on 
education. His writings in verse include, 
June on the Miami, and Other Poems; 
and The Melodies of the Heart. 

VENTING, RICHARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, lecturer, was born May 19, 1863, in 
Wellington, England. This eminent cler¬ 
gyman of the baptist 
church now fills a 
pastorate in Denison, 
Iowa. At the age of 
fifteen he engaged in 
evangelistic work, 
and has ever since 
been devoted to 
Christian labor in 
England and in the 
United States. He is 
the author of several 
books, the most not¬ 
ed of which are Frag¬ 
rant Flowers of Truth; Apcient Emblem 
of Beauty; and The Different Aspects of 
the Christian Life. He is also a success¬ 
ful lecturer, and known as one of Iowa’s 
brightest young divines and zealous work¬ 
ers. 

VER BRYCK, CORNELIUS, artist, was 
born Jan. 1, 1813, in Yaugh Paugh, N. J. 
The New York Historical society owns his 
The Old Dutch Bible. Among his por¬ 
traits is one of William Cullen Bryant. 
He died May 31, 1844, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

VERDI, TULLIO SUZZARA, physician, 
author, was born Feb. 10, 1829, in Italy. 
He is a homoeopathic physician practicing 
in Washington from 1857, and the author 
of Maternity; Mothers and Daughters; 
The Infant Philosopher; and Special Di¬ 
agnosis for Popular Use. 

VERB, MAXIMILIAN, scholar, author, 
was born Nov. 1, 1820, in Sweden. He has 
published Outlines of Comparative Philo¬ 
logy; Grammar of the Spanish Language; 
Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature; 
Studies in English; First French Read¬ 
er; Grammar in French (1867); The 
Great Empress, a novel; Wonders of the 
Deep; Introduction to the Study of 
French; Romance of American History; 
Americanisms, or the English of the 
New World; and other works. 

VERMILYE, ASHBEL GREEN, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1822 in Prince¬ 
ton, N. J. Having been appointed chap¬ 
lain of the Marine hospital Antwerp, Bel¬ 
gium, he went to that country in March, 
1879. Among other sermons he published 
Historical Sermon at Centennial of First 
Presbyterian Church, Newburyport. 

VERNON, JANE MARCHANT FISHER, 
actress, was born in 1796 in England.’ 
She became attached to the Old Chat¬ 
ham theater, and in 1830 to the Park, 
where she remained till 1847, and gained 
great popularity. She was long connected 
with Wallack’s company, making her last 
appearance as Mrs. Sutcliffe in School in 
1869. She died June 4, 1869, in New York 
city. 

VERPLANCK, DANIEL CROMMELIN, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 
1761 in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was 


a representative in congress from that 
state from 1802 to 1809; and subsequently 
served for many years as judge of the 
county court of Dutchess county, N. Y., 
resigning in 1828. He died March 29, 
1834, near Fishkill, N. Y. 

VERPLANCK, GULIAN CROMMELIN, 
state legislator, educator, author, was born 
Aug. 6, 1786, in New York city. In 1820 
he was a prominent member of the New 
York legislature. He soon after became 
professor of the evidences of Christian¬ 
ity in the Theological seminary of the 
Protestant Episcopal church in New York. 
From 1825 to 1833 he was a member of 
congress from the city of New York; and 
was afterwards, for several years, a mem¬ 
ber of the New York senate. He was a 
Shakespearean scholar whose carefully 
edited Shakespeare appeared in 1846. He 
was the author of Essays on Revealed Re¬ 
ligion; Discourses on American History, 
Art and Literature; Discourses and Ad¬ 
dresses; Essay on the Doctrine of Con¬ 
trasts; and The Bucktail Bards. He died 
March 18, 1870, in New York city. 

VERPLANCK, ISAAC A., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Oct. 16, 1812, in Coeymans, N. 
Y. He went to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1847, was 
elected a judge of the superior court of 
that city in 1854, and twice re-elected, and 
by the choice of his associates was made 
chief. He died April 16, 1873, in Buffalo, 
N. Y. 

VERREE, JOHN P., manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1819 in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was a member of the Phila¬ 
delphia select council for six years; and 
four years the presiding officer of that 
body. He was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth 
congress, and was re-elected to the thir¬ 
ty-seventh congress. 

VERREN, ANTOINE, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, was born Feb. 14, 1801, in France. 
In 1831, by appointment, he revised and 
corrected the Book of Common Prayer. 
He died March 17, 1874, in New York city. 

VERRILL, ADDISON EMORY, educat¬ 
or, scientist, author, was born Feb. 9, 1839, 
in Greenwood, Maine. In 1862 he gradu¬ 
ated from the Lawrence Scientific school 
and received the degree of A. M. from 
Yale college. For two years he remained 
at Cambridge as an assistant of Louis 
Agassiz; and since 1864 has been profes¬ 
sor of zoology in Yale university, and 
an instructor in geology for twenty-three 
years. Since its foundation in 1875 he 
has also been curator of the zoological 
department of the Peabody museum. He 
was special assistant on United States 
fish commission in charge of scientific ex¬ 
plorations and marine invertebrates from 
1871 to 1888. 

VERTIN, JOHN, bishop, was born July 
17, 1844, in Austria. In 1863 he emigrated 
to the United States, and two years later 
was ordained a 
priest, and was 
placed in charge of 
the Mission church 
of Houghton, Michi¬ 
gan. After five years 
spent there he la¬ 
bored for eight years 
among the Catholics 
of Negaunee. In 
1879 he was conse¬ 
crated bishop of 
Marquette and Sault 
de Ste. Marie, and 
has sixty priests under his care. He has 
built St. Peter’s cathedral of Marquette, 
which is one of the finest cathedrals in 
America; and established numerous 
churches. 








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VERY, FRANK W., educator, astrono¬ 
mer, author, was born Feb. 12, 1852, in 
Salem, Mass. He was astronomer at the 
Allegheny observatory for over seventeen 
yeais, and is now professor of astronomy 
in the Brown university of Providence 
R. I. He is the author of numerous 2 
tionomieal works, and has contributed 
valuable articles to current scientific jour¬ 
nals. 

VERY, JONES, clergyman, author, poet 
was born Aug. 28, 1813, in Salem, Mass.’ 
He was a Unitarian clergyman living in 
Salem, Mass., who must be accounted as 
one of the most purely spiritual of Ameri- 
■can poets. His Essays and Poems ap¬ 
peared in 1839, the poems including fifty 
sonnets on the Shakespearean model re¬ 
markable for their extreme delicacy and 
purity of conception. A fuller edition of 
the Poems alone appeared in 1883, and a 
complete and revised edition of Poems and 
Essays in 1886. He died May 8 1880 in 
Salem, Mass. 

\ ER\, LY DIA LOUISA ANNA, educat¬ 
or, author, poet, was born Nov. 2, 1823, in 
Salem, Mass. She was for many years a 
teacher in Salem and is the author of 
Poems and Prose Writings. 

\ ESSELS, WILLIAM GREENE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 27, 1847, In 
Manton, Ky. He is a successful clergy¬ 
man of the Methodist Episcopal church 
of Newtown, Ind. He is the author of two 
books entitled Trowel and Sword, a tem¬ 
perance work; and Trio, a religious work. 

VEST, EMMONS RUTLEDGE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 4, 1852, in 
Holman, Ind. He received his degrees of 
A. B. and A. M. from the De Pauw uni¬ 
versity; and for two years was professor 
of history and English in that institu¬ 
tion. In 1883 he entered the ministry of 
the Methodist Episcopal church, and has 
since filled pastorates in the Indiana con¬ 
ference. He is the author of Columbia’s 
Tomorrow; Religion in Civilization; 
Higher Citizenship; and other works. 

VEST, GEORGE GRAHAM, lawyer, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Dec. 6, 1830, in Frankfort, Ky. In 
1853 he removed to Missouri and began 
the practice of law in Central Missouri. 
He was a presidential elector on the dem¬ 
ocratic ticket in 1860; and was a mem¬ 
ber of the Missouri house of representa¬ 
tives in 1860-61. He was a member of 
the house of representatives of the Con¬ 
federate congress for two years and a 
member of the Confederate senate for one 
year. He was elected to the United States 
senate as a democrat to fill a vacancy and 
took his seat March 18, 1879. He was 
re-elected in 1885, 1890, and 1897. His 
term of service will expire March 3, 1903. 

VETHAKE, HENRY, educator, author, 
was born in 1792, in Essequilo county, B. 
G. He was a Philadelphia educator who 
was professor in the University of Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1836, and provost in 1854. 
He was the author of Principles of Po¬ 
litical Economy. He died Dec. 16, 1866, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

VETROMILE, EUGENE, missionary, 
author, was born Feb. 22, 1819, in Italy. 
He was a noted Italian Jesuit missionary 
long resident among the Penobscot In¬ 
dians, and the author of Travels in Eu¬ 
rope, etc.; The Abenaki and Their His¬ 
tory; and several works in the Abenaki 
language. He died Aug. 21, 1880, in Italy. 

VEYSEY, ARTHUR HENRY, author, 
was born in 1869 in England. He is a 
writer of New York city, and the author 
of A Cheque for Three Thousand, a novel. 


VEZIN, HERMANN, actor, was born 
March 29, 1829, in Philadelphia. He was 
successful in The Man o’ Airlie; The 
Rightful Heir; Life for Life; and various 
comedies, new and old, and in 1875 added 
greatly to his reputation by his render¬ 
ing of Jacques in As You Like It. 

\IBBARD, CHAUNCEY, railroad super¬ 
intendent, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 
1811, in Galway, N. Y. In 1848 he became 
the superintendent of the Utica and Sche¬ 
nectady Railway company, and was after¬ 
wards called to the same position in the 
New York Central Railway company, in 
which capacity he continued until elected 
a representative from New York to the 
thirty-seventh congress. 

VICK, JAMES, horticulturist, was born 
Nov. 23, 1818, in England. In 1855 he en¬ 
gaged in the novel enterprise of retailing 
seeds through the medium of the U. S. 
mails. He developed new varieties of 
plants by cultivation or cross-fertiliza¬ 
tion, notably double phlox, white gladio¬ 
lus, and fringed petunia. He died May 
16, 1882, in Rochester, N. Y. 

VICKERS, GEORGE, soldier, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born Nov. 19, 
1801, in Chestertown, Md. In 1836 he was 
an elector of the state senate of Mary¬ 
land; and in 1864 was a presidential elec¬ 
tor. He was a member of the Maryland 
state senate in 1866 and 1867, and in 1868 
was elected a senator in congress from 
Maryland, for the term ending in 1873, to 
fill a vacancy. At the commencement of 
the rebellion he received the appointment 
of major-general of the Maryland militia. 
He died Oct. 8, 1879, in Chestertown, Md. 

VICKERS, GEORGE M., author, poet, 
was born Jan. 8, 1841, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He is the author of a number of 
works; among his best known are Lost in 
the Mountains; The Felon’s Wife; Rode¬ 
rick Lee; The Pilot Bride; and numerous 
others. He has also written a number of 
short comedies as Dorothy Clyde and The 
Public Worrier. 

VICTOR, MRS. FRANCES AURETTA 
[FULLER] [BARRETT], author, was 
born May 23, 1826, in Rome, N. Y. She 
is the author of The River of the West; 
All Over Oregon; The New Penelope, and 
Other Stories; and Atlantis Arisen. 

VICTOR, MRS. METTA VICTORIA 
[FULLER], author, poet, was born March 
2, 1831, near Erie, Pa. She was a novel¬ 
ist and poet of New York city, and the 
author of Fresh Leaves from Western 
Woods; Last Days of Tul, a Yucatan 
romance; The Senator’s Son, a plea for 
the Maine Law; Two Mormon Wives; 
The Gold Hunters; Miss Slimmens’ Win¬ 
dow, and Other Papers; Uncle Ezekiel; 
Too True; Alice Wilde; The Backwoods 
Bride; Maum Guinea; Jo Daviess’s Client; 
The Dead Letter; Figure Eight; Passing 
the Portal; Blunders of a Bashful Man; 
The Bad Boy’s Diary; The Naughty Girl’s 
Diary; and The Rasher Family. Her poem 
Compound Interest is still quoted. She 
died in 1885. 

VICTOR, ORVILLE JAMES, journalist, 
author, was born Oct. 23, 1827, in San¬ 
dusky, Ohio. He is an author and editor 
of New York city, and the author of His¬ 
tory of the Southern Rebellion; Incidents 
and Anecdotes of the War; and History 
of American Conspiracies. 

VIDEL, MICHEL, journalist, diplomat, 
congressman, was born in France. In 
1867 he started, in Opelousas, La., a paper 
called the St. Landry Progress. He was 
afterwards appointed a registrar for the 
city of New Orleans. He was elected a 
representative from Louisiana to the for¬ 
tieth congress, and was subsequently ap¬ 
pointed consul at Tripoli. 


VIELE, EGBERT LUDOVICKUS, mili¬ 
tary engineer, congressman, author, was 
born June 17, 1825, in Waterford, N. Y. 

He is a military en¬ 
gineer who served in 
the civil war, and be¬ 
came park commis¬ 
sioner of New York 
city in 1883. He was 
elected a represen¬ 
tative to the forty- 
ninth congress. He 
is the author of 
Handbook for Active 
Service; Topographi¬ 
cal Atlas of New 
York City. Besides 
his published works he has been a regu¬ 
lar contributor to various magazines and 
scientific papers of the United States. 

VIGNAUD, JEAN HENRY, journalist, 
author, was born Nov. 27, 1830, in New Or¬ 
leans, La. In 1863 he was appointed as¬ 
sistant secretary of the Confederate diplo¬ 
matic commission in Paris. He is the 
author of a History of the Formation of 
the American Union; and a History of the 
Discovery and Occupation of the Territory 
of the United States. 

VILAS, WILLIAM FREEMAN, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, United States senator, 
was born July 9, 1840, in Chelsea, Mass. 

He removed with his 
father’s family to 
Wisconsin and set¬ 
tled at Madison June 
4, 1851. He was grad¬ 
uated at the State 
University in 1858, 
and from the law de¬ 
partment of the Uni¬ 
versity of Albany, N. 
Y., in 1860. He was 
admitted to the bar 
by the supreme court 
of New York and by 
the supreme court of Wisconsin in the 
same year, and began the practice of law 
at Mauison in 1860. He was captain of 
company A, twenty-third regiment Wis¬ 
consin infantry volunteers, and after¬ 
wards major and lieutenant-colonel of the 
regiment. He has been one of the pro¬ 
fessors of law of the law department of 
the state university since 1868, omitting 
four years, 1885 to 1889, and was 
one of the regents of the university 
from 1880 to 1885. He was one of 
three revisers appointed by the supreme 
court of Wisconsin in 1875 who prepared 
the existing revised body of the statute 
law adopted in 1878; and was a member 
of assembly in the Wisconsin legislature 
in 1885. He was a delegate to the demo¬ 
cratic national conventions of 1876, 1880 
and 1884, and permanent chairman of the 
latter. He was postmaster-general from 
1885 to 1888, and secretary of the interior 
from the latter date to 1889. He received 
the unanimous nomination of the demo¬ 
cratic legislative caucus and was elected 
United States senator Jan. 28, 1891, and 
took his seat March 4, 1891. 

VILLARD, HENRY, journalist, finan¬ 
cier, was born April 11, 1835, in Germany. 
He subsequently became the European 
correspondent of the New York Tribune. 
In 1870 he engaged in Germany in the 
negotiation of American railway securi¬ 
ties. Representing clients, he gained con¬ 
trol of the Oregon Steamship company 
and other transportation routes of which 
he was made president in 1875. 

VILLEPIGUE, JOHN BORDENAVE. 
soldier, was born July 2. 1830, in Camden, 

S. C. He joined the Confederate army, 
and attained the rank of major-general. 
He died Nov. 9, 1862, in Port Hudson, La. 





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VILLERE, JAMES PHILIP, became 
governor of Louisiana in 1817. He was a 
soldier and participated in the battle of 
New Orleans as major-general of the 
state militia. He was a member of the 
convention of 1812 which framed the first 
constitution of the state of Louisiana. 
He died March 7, 1830, on his plantation, 
full of years and honors. 

VILLERE, JAQUEZ, soldier, governor, 
was born April 28, 1761, near New Or¬ 
leans, La. He was major of volunteers 
under General Jackson in the battle of 
New Orleans in 1814 and 1815; and was 
governor of Louisiana from 1816 to 1820. 
He died in 1831, in New Orleans, La. 

VINCENT, ALBERT OLIVER, soldier, 
was born Feb. 7, 1842, in Cadiz, Ohio. He 
served as major of the fourth Arkansas 
cavalry in 1864-65, and was retired from 
active service in 1869. He died Dec. 9, 
1882, in St. Louis, Mo. 

VINCENT, BOYD, protestant episcopal 
bishop, was born May 18, 1845, in Erie, 
Pa. He was elected bishop of Delaware 
in 1887 by the clergy, but was not con¬ 
firmed by the laity, and in 1888 was 
chosen assistant bishop of southern Ohio. 

VINCENT, FRANCIS, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 17, 1822, in Eng¬ 
land. He was a journalist of Wilmington, 
Del., who published A History of Dela¬ 
ware. He died June 23, 1884, in Wil¬ 
mington, Del. 

VINCENT, FRANK, traveler, author, 
was born April 2, 1848, in Brooklyn, N. 
Y. He is a traveler of note, and the au¬ 
thor of The Land of the White Elephant; 
Norsk, Lapp, and Finn; Through and 
Through the Tropics; The Republics of 
South America; Around and About South 
America; In and Out of Central Amer¬ 
ica; Actual Africa; and Lady of Cawn- 
pore, a novel. 

VINCENT, JOHN HEYL, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 23, 1832, in Tusca¬ 
loosa, Ala. He is a methodist bishop now 
living at Topeka, of much prominence as 
the founder of the celebrated Chautauqua 
movement in 1878. He is the author of 
Studies in Young Life; The Modern Sun¬ 
day School; Little Footprints in Bible 
Lands; Earthly Footsteps of the Man of 
Galilee; Better Not; The Chautauqua 
Movement; To Old Bethlehem; Our Own 
Church; Outline History of Greece; and 
Outline History of Rome. 

VINCENT, JOSHUA WILLIAM, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born May 14, 1859, in 
Jackson, Miss. He has been editor and 
owner of the Reveille of Linn Creek, Mo.; 
and for many years published the Tribune 
and other newspapers. He has contribu¬ 
ted both prose and verse extensively to 
current literature; and is the author of a 
History of Camden County, Mo. 

VINCENT, MARVIN RICHARDSON, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born 
Sept. 11, 1834, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He 
is a presbyterian clergyman of New 
York city, and professor in Union sem¬ 
inary from 1888. He is the author 
of Faith and Character; Student’s 
Handbook of the Topics and Liter¬ 
ature of New Testament Introduction; 
Word Studies in the New Testament; 
Stranger and Guest; Gates into the Psalm 
Country; Amusement a Force in Christian 
Training; The Two Prodigals; The Minis¬ 
ter’s Handbook; What Is It To Believe?; 
God and Bread; The Covenant of Peace; 
The Law of Sowing and Reaping; Bible 
Inspiration and Christ; That Monster, the 
Higher Critic; Christ as a Teacher; In the 
Shadow of the Pyrenees, from Basque 
Land to Carcassonne; and The Age of 
Hildebrand. 


VINCENT, STRONG, soldier, was born 
June 17, 1837, in Waterford, Pa. He 
served in the civil war, attaining the rank 
of brigadier-general. 

VINCENT, THOMAS McCURDY, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born Nov. 15, 1832, in 
Cadiz, Ohio. He is an army officer who 
has published The Military Power of the 
United States during the War of the Re¬ 
bellion. 

VINCENT, WILLIAM A., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Jan. 1, 1857, in Wheeling, Va. 
He moved to New Mexico, and was ap¬ 
pointed chief justice of the supreme court 
of New Mexico by President Cleveland; 
subsequently he was elected president of 
the New Mexico Bar association and re¬ 
ceived the democratic nomination for con¬ 
gress. He declined the nomination for 
congress, returned to Springfield, and in 
1889 moved to Chicago. He was attorney 
for the company which built the Ferris 
wheel for the world’s fair; and was the 
leading counsel for the defense in the 
famous Luetgert case. 

VINCENT, WILLIAM D., merchant, 
journalist, congressman, was born Oct. 11, 
1852, near Dresden, Tenn. In 1862 he 
moved with his parents to Kansas; and 
received his education in the public 
schools and in the state agricultural col¬ 
lege. He has been the nominee of his 
party for lieutenant-governor, and also 
for governor; was a member of the state 
board of railroad commissioners in 1893- 
94; and was elected to the fifty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a populist. 

VINGUT, FRANCISCO JAVIER, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1823 in Cuba. 
He is a Cuban educator, after 1848 a resi¬ 
dent of New York, and professor of Span¬ 
ish in the university of the city of New 
York. He is the author of Spanish Gram¬ 
mar; and Spanish and English Phrase 
Book. 

VINGUT, MRS. GERTRUDE, author, 
was born about 1830 in Philadelphia, Pa. 
Her first work was Irene, or the Autobiog¬ 
raphy of an Artist’s Daughter. She edited 
Gems of Spanish Poetry, in conjunction 
with her husband,' and afterward pub¬ 
lished two novels entitled Madeline; and 
Naomi Torrente, the History of a Wo¬ 
man. 

VINING, JOHN, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Dec. 23, 1758, 
in Dover, Del. He was a delegate to the 
continental congress from 1784 to 1786; 
was a representative in congress, from 
Delaware, from 1789 to 1792; and was a 
senator in congress from 1795 to 1798, 
when he resigned. He died in February, 
1802, in Dover, Del. 

VINJE, A. J., lawyer, jurist, was born 
Nov. 10, 1857, in Norway. In 1891 he 
moved to West Superior, Wis.; and since 
1895 has been judge of the eleventh ju¬ 
dicial circuit of Wisconsin. 

VINTON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, 
clergyman, author, was born May 2, 1807, 
in Providence, R. I. He was an episco¬ 
pal clergyman of 
Boston, prominent 
as a low churchman, 
and the author of 
Bohlen Lectures for 
1877; Sermons. He 
declined the office of 
bishop of Texas in 
1857; was voted for 
in the Pennsylvania 
convention in 1862; 
and was nearly elect¬ 
ed by that of Massa¬ 
chusetts in 1873. He 
died April 28, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


VINTON, ARTHUR DUDLEY, lawyer, 
author, was born Dec. 23, 1852, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. He is a lawyer and novelist 
of New York city and the author of The 
Pomfret Mystery; and The Unpardonable 
Sin. 

VINTON, CALESTA HOLMAN, mis¬ 
sionary, author, was born in 1809, in 
Union, Conn. She was successful in 
teaching the Karen women, and was the 
author of several hymn-books in their 
language. She died Dec. 20, 1864, in Bur- 
mah. 

VINTON, DAVID HAMMOND, soldier, 
was born May 4, 1803, in Providence, R. I. 
In 1864 he was brevetted, for faithful and 
meritorious services, colonel and briga¬ 
dier-general. In 1866 he became assistant 
quartermaster-general, and in the same 
year was placed upon the retired list. He 
died Feb. 21, 1873, in Stamford, Conn. 

VINTON, FRANCIS, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 29, 1809, in Providence, R. 
I He was an episcopal clergyman of New 
York city, rector of Trinity church in 
1855-72, and the author of Arthur Tre¬ 
maine, or Annals of Cadet Life; Evidences 
of Christianity; and Manual Commentary 
on the General Canon Law of the Episco¬ 
pal Church. He died Sept. 28, itw2, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

VINTON, FRANCIS LAURENS, soldier, 
author, was born in 1835 in Maine. He 
was an officer in the federal army during 
the civil war who rose to the rank of 
brigadier-general, and the author of The 
Guardian, a poem; Lectures on Machines; 
and Theory of the Strength of Materials. 
He died in 1879. 

VINTON, FREDERIC, bibliographer, 
author, was born Oct. 9, 1817, in Boston, 
Mass. In 1865 he became first assistant 
in the library of congress, and held the 
post eight years. He there prepared six 
annual supplements to the Alphabetical 
Catalogue of the Library of Congress, and 
the Index of Subjects. In 1873 he became 
librarian of Princeton college, of whose 
library he printed the Subject Catalogue. 
He died Jan. 1, 1890, in Princeton, N. J. 

VINTON, FREDERIC PORTER, artist, 
was born Jan. 29, 1846, in Bangor, Maine. 
He has attained eminence as a portrait 
painter. He received the gold medal at 
the World’s Columbian exposition; and a 
gold medal at the Atlanta exposition. 

VINTON, JOHN ADAMS, clergyman, 
genealogist, author, was born Feb. 5, 1801, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a congregation¬ 
al clergyman and genealogist; and the 
author of The Vinton Memorial; The 
Symmes Memorial; The Giles Memorial; 
and The Sampson Family in America. He 
died Nov. 13, 1877, in Winchester, Mass. 

VINTON, SAMUEL FINLEY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Sept. 25, 1792, in 
South Hadley, Mass. He was first elected 
a representative in congress in 1823 from 
Ohio; and served fourteen years, when he 
declined a re-election. He was again 
elected in 1843, and served eight years in 
succession, when he again declined a re- 
election. In 1840 he was a presidential 
elector; and in 1862 was appointed a com¬ 
missioner under the act emancipating the 
slaves in the District of Columbia. He 
died May 11, 1862, in Washington. 

VIRGIN. WILLIAM WIRT, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born in September, 1823, in Rum- 
ford, Maine. He was a jurist who was 
justice of the supreme court of Maine; 
and the author of The Maine Civil Of¬ 
ficer; Digest of the Decisions of the Su¬ 
preme Judicial Court of Maine; and Law 
and Equity Reports. He died in 1893. 





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VISSCHER, WILLIAM L., author, poet, 
was born Nov. 25, 1842, in Owingsvnle! 
Ky. He has written more than a thou¬ 
sand poems, and his masterpiece entitled 
Black Mammy, a song of the sunny south, 
appeared in book-form in 1886, together 
with other miscellaneous poems from his 
pen. 

VITTUM, EDMUND MARCH, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born Oct. 24, 1855, 
in Sandwich, N. H. This eminent congre¬ 
gational clergyman 
has published three 
books entitled 
Church Festival in 
the Meeting House; 
Faith on the Fron¬ 
tier; and Head of 
the Firm. He is a 
noted clergyman of 
Grinnell, Iowa; and 
a valuable contribu¬ 
tor to religious pub¬ 
lications. His poems 
have been a valuable 
acquisition to literature, and have been 
incorporated into several standard collec¬ 
tions. 

VOGDES, WILLIAM, lawyer, educator, 
author, was born Dec. 29, 1802, in Phila¬ 
delphia. He was a lawyer and educator 
of Philadelphia; and the author of United 
States Arithmetic; and Elementary Trea¬ 
tise on Mensuration. He died Jan. 28, 1886, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

VOGELGESANG, JACOB GEORGE, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born April 
3, 1853, near Canton, Ohio. He has held 
several public positions in Tazewell coun¬ 
ty, Ill.; and is now a successful lawyer 
of Russell, Kan. He has been judge of 
the probate court for five terms; and 
served with distinction as a representa¬ 
tive in the Kansas state legislature. 

VOIGHT, EDWARD WILLIAM, brewer, 
capitalist, was born April 5, 1844, in Sax¬ 
ony. He retains the general management 
of the Voight Brewing company, and is 
now president of the Michigan Sulphite 
Fibre company; vice-president of the Ed¬ 
ison Illuminating company of Detroit; and 
the Edison Light company of Grand Rap¬ 
ids. 

VOLK, LEONARD WELLS, sculptor, 
was born Nov. 7, 1828, in Wellstown (now 
Wells), N. Y. In 1857 he settled in Chi¬ 
cago. His first sitter for a portrait-bust— 
the first that was ever modeled in that 
city—was his patron, and he subsequent¬ 
ly, in 1858, made a life-size statue of Mr. 
Douglas in marble. 

VOLK, STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUG¬ 
LAS, artist, was born Feb. 23, 1858, in 
Pittsfield, Mass. In 1875 he exhibited at 
the salon In Brittany, and his Vanity was 
at the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition 
of 1876. His other important works are 
In the Studio; The Puritan Maiden; The 
Puritan Captives; Accused of Witchcraft; 
and The Bride. 

VOLLMERING. JOSEPH, artist, was 
born Aug. 27, 1810, in Westphalia. He 
opened a studio in New York and was 
elected an associate member of the Na¬ 
tional academy in 1853. Among his works 
are Indian Falls, near Cold Spring, N. Y.; 
View on the Hudson; Holy Shrine at 
Sunset; and Study of Trees. He died 
Sept. 24, 1887, in New York city. 

VOORHEES, CHARLES STEWART, 
lawyer, congressman, was born June 4, 
1853, in Covington, Ind. He is a success¬ 
ful lawyer of Colfax, Wash. He was 
elected prosecuting attorney for Whitman 
county in 1882, and served until 1885; 
and was elected to the forty-ninth, and re¬ 
elected to the fiftieth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 


VOORHEES, DANIEL WOLSEY, law¬ 
yer, congressman, United States senator, 
was born Sept. 26, 1827, in Butler county, 
Ohio. He was ap¬ 
pointed United States 
district attorney for 
Indiana in 1858, and 
held that office until 
he entered congress 
in 1861. He was 
elected to the thirty- 
seventh, thirty- 
eighth, thirty-ninth, 
forty-first, and forty- 
second congresses. 
He was appointed 
United States sena¬ 
tor to fill a vacancy, and took his seat 
Nov. 12, 1877. Soon after entering 

the senate he addressed that body in favor 
of free coinage of silver and the preserva¬ 
tion of the greenback currency as full le¬ 
gal-tender money; and in this speech he 
laid down the principles on which as a 
direct issue the state of Indiana was car¬ 
ried by the democratic party the following 
year. He was re-elected in 1885, and was 
re-elected in 1891. 

VOORHEES, JACOB, farmer, legislator, 
was born May 25, 1841, in Glen, N. Y. 
He has been regent for Oregon State Nor¬ 
mal school and for the State Agricultural 
college. He has served as a member of 
the Oregon state senate. 

VOORHIES, JOHN STEVENS, pub¬ 
lisher, was born May 9, 1809, in New York 
city. He projected and published Sedg¬ 
wick on Damages; Voorhies’s Code of 
Civil Procedure; Burrill's Voluntary As¬ 
signments; Greenleaf's Overruled Cases; 
Burrill’s Circumstantial Evidence; Ab¬ 
bott’s Digest; Cleveland’s Banking Laws; 
and many other works. He died Nov. 19, 
1865, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

VOORHIS. CHARLES HENRY, lawyer, 
legislator, was born March 3, 1833, in 
Spring Valley, N. J. He graduated at 
Rutgers college, New Jersey, in 1853; and 
was admitted to the bar as an attorney 
in 1856 and as counsellor at law in 1859. 
He was appointed in 1868 presiding judge 
for Bergen county, N. J., by Governor 
Ward; and was elected to the forty-sixth 
congress as a republican. For fifty years 
he was a member of the bar of New Jer¬ 
sey; was a pleasing and popular speaker; 
manifested superior literary ability, and 
contributed valuable historical data of 
Bergen and Hudson counties, N. J. He 
died April 15, 1896. 

VOS, GEERHARDUS. clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1862 in Holland. 
He is a Dutch clergyman, professor of 
biblical theology at Princeton seminary 
from 1894; and the author of The Mosaic 
Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes; Die 
Kampfe und Streitigkeiten zwischen den 
Banu Umajja und den Banu Haschim; 
The Doctrine cf the Covenants in Reform¬ 
ed Theology; and Biblical Theology as a 
Science and as a Discipline. 

VOSE, GEORGE LEONARD, civil engi¬ 
neer, educator, author, was born April 19, 
1831, in Augusta, Maine. He is a civil 
engineer, professor in the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology in 1881-86; and 
the author of Orographic Geology; Man¬ 
ual for Railway Engineers; Bridge Dis¬ 
asters in America; A Graphic Method for 
Solving Algebraic Problems; Elementary 
Course of Geometric Drawing; and Life 
of G. W. Whistler, Civ il Engineer. 

VOSE, JOHN, educator, author, was 
born in 1766 in New Hampshire. He was 
an educator of Atkinson, N. H., prominent 
in his day; and the author of System of 
Astronomy; and Compendium of Astrono¬ 
my. He died in 1840. 


VOSE, ROGER, lawyer, jurist, congress¬ 
man. He was for many years chief jus¬ 
tice of the court of common pleas in New 
Hampshire; and was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1813 to 
1817. He died April 17, 1842. 

VOTAW, ELIHU HILLES, clergyman, 
lecturer, author, poet, was born June 21, 
1839, in Salem, Ohio. He received his 
education at the Amherst college; then 
engaged in teaching in Yonkers, N. Y.; 
and Cleveland, Ohio. In 1874 he was or¬ 
dained a clergyman of the congregational 
church; and has since filled pastorates 
in Cleveland, Ohio; St. Paul, Minn.; Ge¬ 
neva, Ohio; Princeton, Ill.; and is now 
filling a pastorate in Anita, Iowa. He is 
the author of Pillars and Perils of the 
Republic, and other works. He is also a 
brilliant lecturer, and a poet of acknowl¬ 
edged excellence. 

VOUGHT, HARRY DYER, journalist, 
was born Aug. 14, 1849, in Buffalo, N. Y. 
For three years he was president of the 
Buffalo Press club; and has been secre¬ 
tary, governor and president of the Inter¬ 
national League Press clubs. For over 
twenty-one years he was connected with 
the Buffalo Courier. 

VREDENBURGH, PETER, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born Oct. 31, 1805, in Reading- 
ton, N. J. In 1837-52 he was prosecuting 
attorney of Monmouth county, N. J.; and 
in 1855-69 he was associate justice of the 
supreme court of New Jersey. He died 
March 24, 1873, in St. Augustine, Fla. 

VROOM, ADELAIDE, educator, poet. 
She has attained prominence as a suc¬ 
cessful educator of Missouri; and is the 
author of a number of meritorious poems 
which have appeared in western publica¬ 
tions and several standard collections. 

VROOM, GARRET DORSET WALL, 
lawyer, author, was born Dec. 17, 1843, in 
Trenton, N. J., and is the son of the late 
Governor Vroom of New Jersey. Since 
1865 he has practiced law in his native 
city; was city solicitor in 1866-70, and 
again in 1874-76. In 1870 he was prosecu¬ 
tor of the pleas of Mercer county, and in 
1873 was appointed reporter of the su¬ 
preme court. During 1881-83 he was may¬ 
or of Trenton; and became president of 
the board of public works. He was co¬ 
editor cf the Revision of the Statutes of 
New Jersey, and also of the General 
Statutes of New Jersey. 

VROOM, PETER DUMONT, congress¬ 
man. governor, was born Dec. 12, 1791, in 
Hillsborough township, N. J. He was gov¬ 
ernor of New Jersey from 1829 to 1836; 
and was a representative in congress from 
New Jersey from 1839 to 1841. He was a 
member of the state constitutional con¬ 
vention of 1844; in 1852 was a presidential 
elector; in 1853 was appointed minister to 
Prussia; and was a delegate to the peace 
congress of 1861. He died Nov. 18, 1873, 
in Trenton, N. J. 

""VROOM. PETER DUMONT, soldier, 
was born April 18, 1842, in Trenton, N. J. 
He served in the civil war, was promoted 
major of the second New Jersey cavalry 
in 1863, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel 
and colonel of volunteers for meritorious 
services during the war. He became first 
lieutenant in the third United States cav¬ 
alry in 1866. 

VROOMAN, HARRY CHASE, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, was born April 13, 1864, in 
Port Huron, Mich. He received his educa¬ 
tion at the Washburn college of Topeka, 
Kan., and graduated from the Harvard 
college. For fcur years he taught school; 
and for several years was a reporter on 
the Topeka Daily Journal. He has at¬ 
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congregational church; has lectured from 
Maine to California, and from the lakes 
to the gulf on sociological topics. He is 
one of six brothers, all noted as socio¬ 
logical or progressive theological clergy¬ 
men and lecturers; and sons of Judge H. 
P. Vrooman of Kansas City. 

WACKERHAGEN, AUGUSTUS, was 
born May 22, 1774, in Germany. He was a 
lutheran clergyman of Columbia county, 
N. Y.; and the author of Inbegriff des 
Glaubens und Sittenlehre. He died Nov. 
1, 1865, in Clermont, N. Y. 

WADDELL, ALFRED MOORE, soldier, 
lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born 
Sept. 16, 1834, in Hillsborough, N. C. He 
served in the confederate army as lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel of cavalry. He was elected to 
the forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth, 
and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat. 

WADDELL, HUGH, soldier, was born 
in 1734 in Ireland. He was lieutenant in 
Colonel James Innes’s regiment in the 
Virginia campaign of 1754, became captain 
in 1755, built Fort Dobbs, and commanded 
there in 1756-57. He became colonel 
in 1759. In 1771 he commanded the 
expedition against the regulators with 
the rank of major-general. He died April 
9, 1773, in Castle Haynes, N. C. 

WADDELL, HUGH, lawyer, state sena¬ 
tor, was born in 1799 in Newfields, N. C. 
He represented Orange county in the leg¬ 
islature in 1828; was speaker of the North 
Carolina state senate in 1836-37, and again 
a member of that body in 1844-46. He 
died Nov. 1, 1878, in Wilmington, N. C. 

WADDELL, JAMES, clergyman, was 
born July 29, 1739. He was blind, and the 
original subject of William Wirt’s beau¬ 
tiful sketch of The Blind Preacher. He 
died Sept. 17, 1805, in Virginia. 

WADDELL, JOHN NEWTON, educator, 
was born Apm 2, 1812, in Willington, S. 
C. In 1865-74 he was chancellor of the 
university of Mississippi, and in 1879-88 
he occupied the same post in the South¬ 
western Presbyterian university, Clarks¬ 
ville, Tenn. Since 1874 he has been secre¬ 
tary of the board of ministerial education 
of the southern presbyterian church. 

WADDELL, MOSES, clergyman, college 
president, was born July 29, 1770, in Ro¬ 
wan county, N. C. In 1819-29 he was 
president of the university of Georgia. He 
published Memoirs of Miss Catherine Eli¬ 
zabeth Smelt. He died July 21, 1840, in 
Athens, Ga. 

WADDELL, WILLIAM HENRY, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Nov. 23, 1864, in 
Crittenden county, Ky. This able lawyer 
of Jasper, Tenn., has been county attor¬ 
ney, and served two terms in the Ten¬ 
nessee state legislature. 

WADDILL, EDMUND, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
May 22, 1855, in Charles City county, Va. 
In 1880 he was elected by the legislature 
of Virginia judge of the county court of 
Henrico, and resigned this office in 1883 to 
accept the office of United States attorney 
for the eastern district of Virginia, which 
position he filled till 1885. He was elected 
in the latter year to the legislature, in 
which body he served till he resigned to 
take his seat in the fifty-first congress. 
He was elected to the fifty-first congress 
as a republican. 

WADDILL, JAMES RICHARD, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 22, 
1842, in Springfield, Mo. He served in 
the union army from 1861 to 1863, when 
he resigned. He was elected prosecuting 
attorney in 1874; and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Missouri to the forty- 
sixth congress as a democrat. 


WADE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state senator, United States 
senator, was born Oct. 27, 1800, in Feed¬ 
ing Hills Parish, Mass. He was a justice 
of the peace, prosecuting attorney for 
Ashtabula county, state senator, and pres¬ 
ident of a judicial circuit. In 1851 he was 
elected a senator in congress from Ohio 
for the term ending in 1857; and was 
twice re-elected, his third term ending in 
1869. At the meeting of the fortieth con¬ 
gress he was chosen president of the sen¬ 
ate pro tempore. In 1869 he was appoint¬ 
ed a commissioner for the Pacific Railroad 
company. He died March 2, 1878, in Jef¬ 
ferson, Ohio. 

WADE, DECIUS C., lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, was born Jan. 23, 1835, in An¬ 
dover, Ohio. In 1860 he was appointed 
county judge of Ashtabula county, Ohio, 
and was twice elected to that position, 
serving seven years. In 1869 he was elect¬ 
ed a state senator, and while serving in 
that capacity in 1871 was appointed chief 
justice of Montana; and was reappointed 
in 1875; again reappointed in 1879, and 
for a fourth term in 1883. 

WADE, EDWARD, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 22, 1803, in 
West Springfield, Mass. He was elected 
justice of the peace in Jefferson, Ohio, in 
1832; removed to Unionville, and re¬ 
mained until 1837; finally settled in 
Cleveland, Ohio. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the thirty-third 
congress, and was three times re-elected. 
He died in August, 1866, in Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

WADE, JAMES F., soldier, was born 
in 1843 in Ohio; and is a son of Hon. B. 
Wade. He was brevetted a number of 
times during the civil war for gallant ser¬ 
vices, and in 1866 was appointed captain 
in the sixth cavalry. About 1890 he was 
commissioned brigadier-general; and 
during the Spanish-American war in 1898 
had command of the United States forces 
at Tampa. 

WADE, LEONIDAS ELIJAH, educator, 
lawyer, was born April 13, 1858, in Tallo- 
kas, Ga. He has been a successful school 
teacher, and is now a successful lawyer of 
Jacksonville, Fla. 

WADE, MARTIN J., lawyer, educator, 
lecturer, jurist, was born Oct. 20, 1861, in 
Burlington, Vt. He was professor of law 
in the state university of Iowa during 
1891-93. He was appointed judge of the 
eighth judicial district of Iowa in 1893; 
received the election to that office in 1894, 
which position he still fills. He also lec¬ 
tures upon Evidence in the law depart¬ 
ment of the state university, and upon 
Medical Jurisprudence in the medical de¬ 
partment of the same institution. In 1897 
he was elected president of the Iowa State 
Bar association. 

WADE, WILLIAM H., soldier, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Nov. 3, 
1835, in Clarke county, Ohio. He enlisted 
in the union army in 1861, and rose 
through the intermediate grades to lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel. In 1880 he was elected a 
representative in the Missouri state leg¬ 
islature, and was re-elected in 1882. In 
1884 he was elected a representative from 
Missouri to the forty-ninth congress; and 
re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first 
congresses as a republican. 

WADE, WILLIAM P., author. He is 
the authpr of a Treatise on the Law of 
Notice; On the Operation and Construc¬ 
tion of Retroactive Laws; Manual of 
American Mining Laws in the Western 
States; The Laws of Notice as Affecting 
Civil Rights and Remedies; and The Law 
of Attachment and Garnishment. 


WADLEIGH, BAINBRIDGE, lawyer, 
state legislator, United States senator, 
was born Jan. 4, 1831, in Bradford, N. H. 
He was a member of the New Hampshire 
state house of representatives for eight 
years between 1865 and 1873; and was 
elected to the United States senate for 
the term commencing in 1873 and ending 
in 1879. He died Jan. 24, 1891, in Boston, 
Mass. 

WADLEY, WILLIAM MORRIS, railroad 
manager, was born Nov. 12, 1813, in 
Brentwood, N. H. He was the pioneer in 
successfully consolidating railroads in the 
south; and also created the Ocean Steam¬ 
ship company, with its immense wharves; 
and organized the powerful South Railway 
and Steamship association. He died Aug. 
10, 1882. 

WADSWORTH, ADRIAN ROWE, civil 
engineer, legislator, was born Nov. 26, 
1855, in Farmington, Conn. He is a de¬ 
scendant of William 
Wadsworth, who 
landed in Boston in 
1832; and the Wads¬ 
worths have been 
among the most 
prominent public 
spirited of the fam¬ 
ilies of Farmington. 
In 1880 he graduated 
from the scientific 
department of Yale 
college; and two 
years later was elect¬ 
ed city surveyor of Shamokin, Pa. He 
next entered upon the duties of construc¬ 
tion and bridge building. In 1885 he 
moved to Minneapolis, where he practiced 
his profession in engineering work for 
street and motor line tramways. He sub¬ 
sequently returned to his native city, and 
since 1886 has been interested in develop¬ 
ing a public water supply. He is presi¬ 
dent of the Connecticut Dairyman’s asso¬ 
ciation, and president of the Farmer’s 
association of the general assembly. He 
takes an active part in political affairs; 
was justice of the peace for four years, 
and received the election in 1897 to the 
general assembly of the Connecticut state 
legislature. 

WADSWORTH, BENJAMIN, college 
president, was born in 1669 in Milton, 
Mass. In 1725 he was elected president of 
Harvard college, serving until his death. 
He died March 16, 1737, in Cambridge, 
Mass. 

WADSWORTH, JAMES, congressman, 
was born July 6, 1730, in Durham, Conn. 
He was a delegate from Connecticut to the 
continental congress from 1783 to 1786. 
He died Sept. 22, 1817, in Durham, Conn. 

WADSWORTH, JAMES SAMUEL, sol¬ 
dier, philanthropist, was born Oct. 30, 1807, 
in Geneseo, N. Y. He was admitted to 
the bar in 1833. He 
never practiced his 
profession but devot¬ 
ed himself to the 
management of the 
family estate in west¬ 
ern New York, which 
amounted to fifteen 
thousand acres. In 
1852 he was elected 
president of the State 
Agricultural society, 
in which he was in¬ 
terested during his 
life. He founded a public library in Gene¬ 
seo; was a subscriber to the endowment 
of Geneseo college; aided in establishing 
the school-district librarv system. He 
died May 8, 1864, near Chancellorsville, 
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WADSWORTH, JAMES W., soldier, 
capitalist, state legislator, congressman, 
was born Oct. 12, 1842, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was brevetted major for gallantry 
at the battle of Five Forks. He was a 
representative in the state legislature in 
1878 and 1879; and was comptroller of 
the state from 1879 to 1881. In the latter 
year he was elected a representative from 
New York to the forty-seventh congress 
to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to 
the forty-eighth, fifty-second, fifty-third, 
fifty-fourth, and fifty-fifth congresses as a 
republican. 

WADSWORTH, JEREMIAH, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1743 in Hartford, Conn. 
He was a delegate from Connecticut to the 
continental congress from 1786 to 1788; 
and was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1789 to 1795. He died 
April 30, 1804, in Hartford, Conn. 

WADSWORTH, MARSHMAN ED¬ 
WARD, geologist, author, was born May 6, 
1847, in Livermore Falls, Maine. He is 
the state geologist of Michigan from 
1888; and the author of Geology of the 
Iron and Copper Districts of Lake Su¬ 
perior; The Azoid System; and Litho¬ 
logical Studies. 

WADSWORTH, PELEG, soldier, mer¬ 
chant, surveyor, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born May 6, 1748, in Duxbury, 
Mass. He joined the army as captain of a 
company of minute men, and rose to the 
rank of brigadier-general after the war. 
In 1792 he was elected a senator in the 
legislature of Massachusetts; in the same 
year was chosen the first representative 
in congress from his district; and was 
successively re-elected until 1806, when he 
declined a further nomination. He died 
Nov. 18, 1829, in Hii'am, Maine. 

WADSWORTH, WILLIAM, soldier, 
was born in 1732 in Durham, Conn. At 
the beginning of the war of 1812 he was 
brigadier-general of New York militia, 
and he served in the United States army 
in 1812-32. He died in February, 1833, in 
Geneseo, N. Y. 

WADSWORTH, WILLIAM HENRY, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born July 4, 1821, in Maysville, Ky. He 
was a member of the state senate of Ken¬ 
tucky in 1853 and 1855; and was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1860, presiding over the 
electoral college. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Kentucky to the thirty- 
seventh congress, and was re-elected to 
the thirty-eighth congress. After leaving 
congress he was appointed a member of 
the Mexican claims commission. In 1884 
he was elected a representative from Ken¬ 
tucky to the forty-ninth congress. 

WAGENER, DAVID D., merchant, 
banker, congressman, was born in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He was a merchant, and for 
many years president of the Easton bank. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1833 to 1841. He died 
Oct. 1, 1860, in Easton, Pa. 

WAGENER, GEORGE A., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born Dec. 25, 1845, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. He is president of the Carolina 
Midland railway at Charleston, S. C. 

WAGGAMANN, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 
United States senator, was born in 1782 
in Somerset county, Md. He was secretary 
of the state of Louisiana under three ad¬ 
ministrations; and held various other 
public positions. He was a senator in 
congress from 1831 to 1835. He died March 
22, 1843, in New Orleans. 

WAGNALL^, ADAM WILLIS, railroad 
president, was born Sept. 24, 1843, in 
Lithopolis, Ohio. Since 1891 he has been 
president of the Harriman Coal and Iron 

railroad at New York city. 


WAGNER, ARTHUR LOCKWOOD, 
soldier, author, was born in 185- in Illi¬ 
nois. He is an officer in the United States 
army; and the author of Catechism of 
Outpost Duty; Organization and Tactics; 
The Service of Security and Information; 
and The Campaign of Koniggratz. 

WAGNER, JOHN, educator, physician, 
surgeon, was born July 7, 1791, in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. In 1829 he was elected pro¬ 
fessor of pathological and surgical anato¬ 
my in South Carolina Medical college, 
which is said to have been the first college 
to establish this department. In 1832 he 
succeeded Dr. James Ramsey in the chair 
of surgery. He died May 22, 1841, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

WAGNER, MADGE M., journalist, au¬ 
thor, poet. In 1881 she published a volume 
of poems which have since had a second 
edition. She is the author of Meric; Di¬ 
ana; and A Titled Plebeian. 

WAGNER, PETER J.. congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1839 to 1841. 

WAGNER, WEBSTER, inventor, state 
senator, was born Oct. 2, 1817, in Pala¬ 
tine Bridge, N. Y. In 1867 he manufac¬ 
tured the first drawing-room car, and 
founded the Wagner Palace-Car company, 
of which he was president until his death. 
He also invented the oval car-roof, and 
patented the elevated panel. Mr. Wagner 
was elected as a republican to the New 
York assembly in 1870, and from 1871 till 
1882 he was state senator. He died Jan. 
13, 1882, near Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y. 

WAIN WRIGHT, JONATHAN MAY- 
HEW, bishop, author, was born Feb. 24, 
1793, in England. He was a provincial 
protestant episcopal 
bishop of New York 
in 1852-54. He was 
the author of The 
Land of Bondage; 
Short Family Pray¬ 
ers; The Pathway 
and Abiding Places 
of Our Lord; Les¬ 
sons on the Church 
Religious Education; 
and Selected Ser¬ 
mons. Besides his 
published works he 
contributed freely to the leading religious 
periodicals of the United States. He died 
Sept. 21, 1854, in New York city. 

WAINWRIGHT, RICHARD, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born Jan. 5, 1817, in Charles¬ 
town, Mass. He was commissioned lieu¬ 
tenant in 1841. He was promoted to com¬ 
mander in 1860, and given the flag-ship 
Hartford of Admiral Farragut’s fleet, fitted 
out for the capture of New Orleans. He 
died Aug. 10, 1862, near New Orleans, La. 

WAINWRIGHT, RICHARD, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born in the District of Columbia. 
In 1868 he graduated from the Naval acad¬ 
emy; and in 1898 gained world-wide re¬ 
nown for his gallant conduct in handling 
the auxiliary gunboat Gloucester during 
the Spanish-American war. 

WAIT, JOHN TURNER, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Aug. 27, 
1811, in New London, Conn. He was state’s 
attorney for the county of New London, 
Conn., from 1842 to 1844. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1864; was a state sena¬ 
tor in 1865 and 1866. He was a represen¬ 
tative in the state legislature in 1867, 1871 
and 1873, serving the first year as speaker. 
He was elected a representative from Con¬ 
necticut to the forty-fourth congress to 
fill a vacancy. He was re-elected to the 
forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, for¬ 
ty-eighth, and forty-ninth congresses as a 
republican. 


WAIT, SAMUEL, educator, was born 
Dec. 19, 1789, in Washington county, N. 
Y. The first baptist newspaper published 
in North Carolina owed its existence to 
his labors. He was active in establishing 
Wake Forest school, which subsequently 
became Wake Forest college, and was its 
president. He died July 28, 1867, in Wake 
Forest, N. C. 

WAIT, WILLIAM, was born Feb. 2, 
1821, in Ephratah, N. Y. He was an emi¬ 
nent lawyer of Fulton county, N. Y.; and 
the author of Law and Practice in Civil 
Actions; New York Annotated Code of 
Procedure; Actions and Defenses at Law 
and in Equity; and Treatise on General 
Principles of the Law. He died Dec. 29, 
1880, in Johnstown, N. Y. 

WAIT, WILLIAM BELL, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born March 25, 1839, in Amster¬ 
dam, N. Y. He was the author of Har¬ 
monic Notation; The Normal Course of 
Piano Technique; and A System of Tan¬ 
gible Musical Notation and Point Writing 
and Printing for the Use of Notation. 

WAITE, CARLOS ADOLPHUS, soldier, 
was born in 1800. He was brevetted brig¬ 
adier-general of volunteers in 1865 for 
long and faithful service in the army. He 
died May 7, 1866, in Plattsburg, N. Y. 

WAITE, MRS. CATHERINE [VAN 
VALKENBURG], suffragist, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1829 in Canada West. 
She is a Chicago lawyer, founder of The 
Chicago Law Times, and an active advo¬ 
cate of woman suffrage. She is the author 
of The Mormon Prophet and his Harem. 

WAITE, CHARLES BURLINGAME, 
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 29, 
1824, in Wayne county, N. Y. He re¬ 
moved to Illinois, from which state he 
was appointed an associate judge of the 
United States court for the territory of 
Utah, residing at Salt Lake City. 

WAITE, DAVIS HANSON, governor, 
was born April 9, 1825, in Jamestown, N. 
Y. In 1893 he was elected governor of 
Colorado, serving until 1894. 

WAITE, HENRY MATSON, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, state legislator, was born Feb. 9, 1787, 
in Lyme, Conn. In 1815 he was elected to 
the Connecticut legislature, serving sev¬ 
eral years as representative and as state 
senator in 1832-33. He was appointed a 
judge of the supreme court of errors of 
Connecticut in 1834, and held that place 
and that of judge of the superior court for 
twenty years. In 1854 he was made chief 
justice of the state by the unanimous vote 
of the legislature. He died Dec. 14, 1869, 
in Lyme, Conn. 

WAITE, HENRY RANDALL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 16, 1845, in 
Copenhagen, N. Y. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman who has published The Motive 
of St. Paul’s Life; Illiteracy and the Mor¬ 
mon Problem; and A Boy’s Workshop. 

WAITE, MORRISON REMICK, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, was born Nov. 29, 
1816, in Lyme, Conn. In 1849 he was 
elected to the Ohio 
state legislature; and 
in 1871 was one of 
the counsel of the 
United States before 
the tribunal of arbi¬ 
tration at Geneva, 
under the treaty of 
Washington. In 1873 
he was unanimously 
elected a member of 
the convention to 
amend the constitu¬ 
tion of Ohio, and was 
made its president. In 1874 he was nomi¬ 
nated and confirmed as chief justice of the 
supreme court of the United States. He 
died March 23, 1880, in Washington, D. C. 






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WAKEFIELD, CYRUS, manufacturer, 
was born Feb. 7, 1811, in Roxbury, N. H. 
He originated the rattan business in this 
country, and discovered several methods 
of utilizing the rattan waste, while of the 
split rattans he made furniture and car¬ 
riage-bodies. He established a large fac¬ 
tory for these manufactures in South 
Reading, Mass., where his rattan-works 
cover seven acres of ground. He died Oct. 
26, 1873, in Boston, Mass. 

WAKEFIELD. GEORGE WASHING¬ 
TON, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 22, 
1839, near De Witt, Ill. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1868; in 1885-86 he became 
circuit judge in the fourth judicial district 
of Iowa; and since 1887 has been district 
judge. Since 1892 he has been president 
of the board of trustees of Sioux City Pub¬ 
lic library. He is interested in science 
and literature, and occasionally writes on 
those subjects. 

WAKEFIELD, JAMES B., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1828 
in Connecticut. He was a member of the 
first state legislature of Minnesota in 1857; 
and was again a member of the legisla¬ 
ture in 1865, and was elected speaker. He 
was a state senator in 1867-69; and in 
the latter year was appointed receiver of 
the United States land office at Winne¬ 
bago City. He resigned in 1875, and was 
elected lieutenant-governor of Minnesota. 
He was elected a representative from 
Minnesota to the forty-eighth congress; 
and was re-elected to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

WAKEFIELD, MRS. NANCY AMELIA 
WOODBURY PRIEST, was born Dec. 7, 
1836, in Royalton, Mass. She was a verse- 
writer remembered for her poem, Over 
the River. She died Sept. 21, 1870, in 
Winchendon, Mass. 

WAKELEY, JOSEPH BEAUMONT, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1804 in 
Danbury, Conn. He was a methodist 
clergyman of New York city among whose 
waitings are The Heroes of Methodism; 
Lost Chapters Recovered from Early 
American Methodism; Reminiscences; 
and The American Temperance Cyclope¬ 
dia. He died April 27, 1876, in New' York 
city. 

WAKELIN, MARY A. HITCHCOCK, 
educator, temperance worker, was born 
April 28, 1834, in Rodman, N. Y. She has 
attained success in educational work, and 
for six years was state president of the 
Woman’s Christian Temperance union of 
Nebraska. 

WAKELY, EBENEZER, lawyer, jurist, 
w r as born in New York. He settled in 
Wisconsin; and was appointed an asso¬ 
ciate justice of the United States court 
for the territory of Nebraska. 

WAKEMAN, ABRAHAM, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born May 31. 
1824, in Fairfield, Conn. In 1850 he was 
elected to the New York legislature; and 
was re-elected in 1851. In 1854 he was 
elected an alderman in New York, serving 
two years. In 1856 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative to the thirty-fifth congress; and 
also frequently served as a member of 
state conventions. 

WAKEMAN, SETH, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Jan. 15, 
1811, in Franklin, Vt. He was district 
attorney of Genesee county, N. Y., from 
1851-57; and was a member of the assem¬ 
bly of the state of New' York in 1856-57. 
He was a member of the state constitu¬ 
tional convention of New York in 1867-68; 
and was elected to the forty-second con¬ 
gress as a republican, serving with ability 
on several important committees while a 
member of that body. 


WALBRIDGE, ARTHUR DEWEY, mu¬ 
sical composer, was born April 10, 1843, in 
Gaines, N. Y. He was the author of the 
words and music of several popular songs, 
including Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep; 
Sleeping Where the Daisies Grow; Baby 
Meets Me on the Stairs; and college songs. 
He died Dec. 14, 1872, in Rochester, N. Y. 

WALBRIDGE, DAVID S., agriculturist, 
congressman, was born July 30, 1802, in 
Bennington, Vt. He removed to Michigan 
in 1842; and was elected a representative 
in congress from that state in 1854, and 
ser\ ed until 1859. He died June 15, 1868, 
in Kalamazoo. 

WALBRIDGE, HENRY S., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1851 to 1853. 

WALBRIDGE, HIRAM, congressman, 
was born Feb. 2, 1821, in Ithaca, N. Y. 
Removing to New York city he was elect¬ 
ed a representative in congress from New 
York, serving from 1853 to 1855. He died 
Dec. 6, 1870, in New York city. 

WALCH, HENRY F., stenographer, was 
born July 19, 1848, in Madison county, N. 
Y. For thirty-three years he has devoted 
his time to stenographic work. In 1890 
he was elected the first president of the 
Michigan Law Stenographers’ association, 
and received the election again in 1896. 

WALCOTT, CHARLES DOOLITTLE, 
geologist, author, was born March 31, 1850, 
in New York Mills, N. Y. He is a geolo¬ 
gist of note, director of the United States 
geological survey from 1894; and the au¬ 
thor of The Trilobite; Paleontology of 
the Eureka District; The Cambrian Fau¬ 
nas of North America; The Fauna of the 
Lower Cambrian or Olinus Zone; and Cor¬ 
relation Papers. 

WALCOTT, CHARLES MELTON, actor, 
author, was born in London, England. He 
was an actor and playwright of Philadel¬ 
phia, among whose plays are The Course 
of True Love; Hoboken; Washington, or 
Valley Forge; and A Good Fellow. He 
died May 10, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WALCUTT, CHARLES CARROLL, sol¬ 
dier, was born Feb. 12, 1838, in Columbus, 
Ohio. He served through the civil war, 
and for gallantry and meritorious ser¬ 
vices received the rank of major-general 
of the United States army. 

WALDEN, HIRAM, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1800, in 
Rutland county, Vt. He attained the office 
of major-general of militia. In 1836 he 
was elected to the New York state legis¬ 
lature; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1849 to 1851. 

WALDEN, JOHN M., clergyman,bishop, 
was born Feb. 11, 1831, in Lebanon, Ohio. 
He is a successful clergyman, and bishop 
of the methodist episcopal church at Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. 

WALDEN, MADISON M., soldier, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 
1836, in Adams county, Ohio. He served 
in the union army from 1861 to 1865 as 
captain of infantry and cavalry. He had 
charge of a newspaper at Centre\ille, 
Iowa; and was a member of the house 
of representatives of Iowa in 1866 and 
1867. He was a member of the state sen¬ 
ate in 1868 and 1869; and was lieutenant- 
governor of Iowa in 1870. He was elected 
a representative from Iowa to the forty- 
second congress as a republican. 

WALDEN, TREADWELL, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1830 in New York. 
He is an episcopal clergyman of Washing¬ 
ton; and the author of Sunday-School 
Prayer Book; Our English Bible and its 
Ancestors; and The Great Meaning of 
Metanoia. 

WALDO, DANIEL, clergyman, was born 
Sept. 10, 1762, in Windham, Conn. In 


1855, at the age of ninety-three, he was 
made chaplain of the house of represen¬ 
tatives. He died July 30, 1864, in Syra¬ 
cuse, N. Y. 

WALDO, FRANK, meteorologist, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1857 in Ohio. He 
is a meteorologist of Princeton, N. J., for¬ 
merly a junior professor in the United 
States signal service. Beside a number of 
scientific monographs he has published 
Modern Meteorology; and Elementary 
Meteorology. 

WALDO, H. L., lawyer, jurist. In 1876 
he was appointed chief justice of the 
United States court for the territory of 
New Mexico. 

WALDO, LEONARD, astronomer, au¬ 
thor, was born March 4, 1853, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. He was appointed assistant at 
the Harvard observatory in 1875, and con¬ 
tinued there until 1880, after which, until 
1887, he was astronomer in charge of the 
horological bureau of the Winchester ob¬ 
servatory of Yale. He is the author of 
cyclopaedia articles and popular papers on 
technical subjects. 

WALDO, LORIN P., lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 2, 
1802, in Canterbury, Conn. He was state’s 
attorney for Connecticut from 1837 to 
1849; and was for two years judge of the 
court of probate in his district, and six 
years a member of the legislature of his 
state. In 1849 he was elected to the thir¬ 
ty-first congress; and in 1852 was elected 
commissioner of the school fund of Con¬ 
necticut. In 1853 he was appointed com¬ 
missioner of pensions. In 1855 he was 
elected to the office of judge of the su¬ 
preme court. 

WALDO, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1721 in Maine.. In 1760 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of probate for Cumberland 
county, Maine. He died April 16, 1770, in 
Maine. 

WALDO, SAMUEL LOVETT, artist, 
was born April 6, 1783, in Windham, 
Conn. For fifty-three years he painted 
portraits in New York city; among them 
are those of General Macomb; and May¬ 
ors Willett. Radcliffe, and Allen. He died 
Feb. 16, 1861, in New York city. 

WALDO, SAMUEL PUTNAM, author, 
was born in 1780 in Connecticut. He was 
a writer of Hartford, Conn.; and the au¬ 
thor of Tour of President Monroe in 1818; 
Memoirs of General Andrew Jackson; 
Life of Stephen Decatur; and Biographi¬ 
cal Sketches. He died in March, 1826, in 
Hartford, Conn. 

WALDRON, EDMUND QUINCY 
SHEAFE, clergyman, college president, 
was born July 6, 1812, in Dover, N. H. 
From 1857 till 1860 he had charge of St. 
Matthew’s church at Washington, D. C. 
From 1860 till 1869 he was president of 
Borromeo college, Pikesville, Md. He died 
April 16, 1888, in Pikesville, Md. 

WALDRON, HENRY, civil engineer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 11, 1819, in 
Albany, N. Y. He was elected to the legis¬ 
lature of Michigan in 1843; served as a 
representative in congress during the 
years 1855-58; and was also elected to 
the thirty-sixth congress. He was elected 
a representative to the forty-second, for¬ 
ty-third, and forty-fourth congresses as a 
republican. 

V ALDSTEIN, CHARLES, archaeologist, 
author, was born March 30, 1856, in New 
York city. He is an eminent archaeolo¬ 
gist, and the director of the American 
School of Archaeology at Athens from 
1888. He is the author of Excavations at 
the Heraion of Argos; The Balance of 
Emotion and Intellect; Essays on the Art 
of Pheidias; The Work of John Ruskin; 
and Study of Art in Universities. 


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WALES, GEORGE E., lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born in 
Windham county, Vt. He served six years 
in the state legislature, and was speaker 
in 1823 and 1824. He was a representative 
in congress from Vermont from 1825 to 
1829; and was judge of probate for Hart¬ 
ford county from 1843 to 1848. 

WALES, JAMES ALBERT, caricaturist, 
was born Aug. 30, 1852, in Clyde, Ohio. 
In 1881 he went abroad, and after his re¬ 
turn he became one of the founders of 
The Judge, and was for some time its 
chief cartoonist. He returned to Puck in 
1885. He was the only prominent carica¬ 
turist of the newer school who was a na¬ 
tive American. He died Dec. 6, 1886, in 
New York. 

WALES, JOHN, United States senator, 
was born July 31, 1783, in New Haven, 
Conn. He was a senator in congress from 
Delaware from 1849 to 1851 to All a va¬ 
cancy. He died Dec. 3, 1863, in Wilming¬ 
ton, Del. 

WALES, LEONARD E., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 26, 1823, in Wilmington, 
Del. In 1864 he was appointed judge of 
the superior court of Delaware for New 
Castle county; and continued in this po¬ 
sition until 1884, when he resigned to ac¬ 
cept the appointment of United States dis¬ 
trict judge for the district of Delaware. 

WALES,,PHILIP SKINNER, naval of¬ 
ficer, author, was born Feb. 27, 1837, in 
Annapolis, Md. He is a United States na¬ 
val officer who has published a Treatise 
on Mechanical Therapeutics. 

WALES, SALEM HOWE, journalist, 
was born Oct. 4, 1825, in Wales, Mass. 
He was president - of the department of 
parks, New York city, in 1873; president 
of the department of docks in 1876; and 
of the park commission in 1880-85. He 
wrote a series of letters on European 
travel in 1855 and 1867 for the New York 
Sun and Scientific American. 

WALES, SAMUEL, clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born March 2, 1748, in 
Raynham, Mass. He was minister of Mil¬ 
ford in 1770-82, and in the latter year re¬ 
ceived the degree of D. D. from Yale, 
where he was professor of divinity from 
1782 till his death. He published Dangers 
of Our National Prosperity, an election 
sermon. He died Feb. 18, 1794, in New 
Haven, Conn. 

WALKE. HENRY, naval officer, author, 
was born Dec. 24, 1808, in Princess Ann 
county, Va. He was a naval officer ap¬ 
pointed rear-admiral in 1870; and the au¬ 
thor of Nav al Scenes and Reminiscences 
of the Civil War. He died in 1896. 

WALKER, ALBERT H., lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, author, was born Nov. 25, 1844, in 
Fairfax, Vt. He received a thorough edu¬ 
cation in the com¬ 
mon and commercial 
schools and grad¬ 
uated from the 
Chicago Law school. 
He has attained suc¬ 
cess in his profession 
at Hartford. Conn.; 
has served with dis¬ 
tinction as a repre¬ 
sentative in the Con¬ 
necticut state legisla¬ 
ture; and is the au¬ 
thor of Walker on 
Patents, and other works. He has lectured 
on Patent Law in the law departments of 
Cornell university, and of the university 
of Michigan; and has argued cases in the 
United States courts in sixteen different 
states of the union. 


WALKER, ALEXANDER JOSEPH, 
journalist, lawyer, author, was born Oct. 
13, 1819, in Fredericksburg, Va. He was 
a lawyer and journalist of New Orleans; 
and the author of Jackson and New Or¬ 
leans; History of the Battle of Shiloh; 
Butler at New Orleans; Duelling in Louis¬ 
iana; and Life of General Andrew Jack- 
son. He died Jan. 24, 1893. 

WALKER, AM AS A, educator, merchant, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
May 4, 1799, in Woodstock, Conn. In 1842 
he became professor of political economy 
at the Oberlin college, Ohio; and in 1843 
v isited Europe as a delegate to the peace 
congress; and went on the same mission 
in 1849. He was a member of the state 
legislature in 1849; was a state senator in 
1850; and was secretary of state in 1851 
and 1852. He was elected a representative 
from Massachusetts to the thirty-seventh 
congress to fill a vacancy. He was the 
author of Science of Wealth; and The Na¬ 
ture and Uses of Money. He died Oct. 29, 
1875, in Brookfield, Mass. 

WALKER. BENJAMIN, merchant, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born in 1753 in 
England. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1801 to 1803. 
He died Jan. 13, 1818, in Utica, N. Y. 

WALKER, CHARLES C. B., congress¬ 
man, was born June 27,1824, in Drewsville, 
N. H. He was postmaster of Corning, N. 
Y., from 1856 to 1860; and was an assis¬ 
tant quartermaster-general at Elmira in 
1861. In 1874 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from New York to the forty-fourth 
congress as a democrat. 

WALKER, CHARLES MANNING, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Dec. 25, 1834, in 
Athens, Ohio. He is a journalist of In¬ 
dianapolis; and the author of History of 
Athens County, Ohio; First Settlement 
of Ohio at Marietta; and Lives of Oliver 
Martin and Alvin Hovey. 

WALKER, CORNELIUS, educator, 
clergyman, author, was born June 12, 1819, 
near Richmond, Va. He is an episcopal 
clergyman, professor in the Virginia 
Theological seminary from 1866; and the 
author of Sorrowing Not Without Hope; 
Outlines of Christian Theology; and Lec¬ 
tures on Christian Ethics. 

WALKER. DAVID, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1817 to 1820. He died 
March 1, 1820. 

WALKER, DAVID S., governor. He was 
governor of Florida from 1866 to 1868. 

WALKER, EDWARD DWIGHT, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1859 in Long 
Island. He was a journalist and writer of 
New York city; and the author of Rein¬ 
carnation, a Study of Forgotten Truth. He 
died in 1890. 

WALKER, EDWIN, lawyer, was born 
in 1832 in Genesee county, N. Y. Through 
diligent study of the statutes and appoint¬ 
ment as general solicitor for the Cincin¬ 
nati, Richmond and Logansport railroad 
in 1860 he became an authority on corpo¬ 
ration law, and when the general offices 
of his company were removed to Chicago 
in 1865 he made Chicago his home. Dur¬ 
ing the World’s fair he sen ed as a di¬ 
rector and he was retained by the rail¬ 
roads in the lawsuits growing out of the 
famous strike of 1894. 

WALKER, EDWIN SAWYER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 11, 1838, in 
Whiting, Vt. He has filled important pas¬ 
torates in the baptist church; and is the 
author of The Story of My Ancestors; A 
History of the Springfield Baptist Asso¬ 
ciation; and other works. 


WALKER, ELIAS MILBURN, farmer, 
poet, was born Jan. 31, 1842, in Scotts- 
ville. Ill. He is a successful farmer of 
Mulberry, Kan.; has contributed exten¬ 
sively to the periodical press; and his 
poems have been given a place in several 
standard collections. 

WALKER, FELIX, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born July 19,1753, 
in Hampshire county, Va. He settled in 
Tryon county, N. C.; and was for many 
years in the state legislature. He was a 
representative in congress from North 
Carolina lrom 1817 to 1823. He died in 
1830 in Mississippi. 

WALKER, FRANCIS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1793 to 1795. 

WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA, soldier, 
educator, journalist, lawyer, college presi¬ 
dent. He was the president of the Massa¬ 
chusetts Institute of Technology from 
1881, and during the cir il war a federal 
officer, rising to the rank of colonel, and 
brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He 
was the author of Wages; Money; Money 
in its Relations to Trade and Industry; 
Political Economy; The Indian Question; 
Land and its Rent; History of the Second 
Army Corps; Life of General Hancock; 
The Making of the Nation; Double Taxa¬ 
tion in the United States; and Interna¬ 
tional Bimetallism. He died in 1897. 

WALKER, FREEMAN, United States 
senator, was born Oct. 25, 1780, in Charles 
City, Va. He was a senator in congress 
from Georgia from 1819 to 1821, and re¬ 
signed. He died Sept. 23, 1827, in Rich¬ 
mond county, Ga. 

WALKER, GEORGE, United States 
senator, was born in 1768 in Culpeper 
county, Va. He was a senator in congress 
from Kentucky from 1814 to 1815. He 
died in 1819 in Nicholasville, Ky. 

WALKER, GEORGE, lawyer, banker, 
state senator, diplomatist, was born in 
1824 in Peterborough, N. H. In 1857 he 
was elected to the Massachusetts senate; 
was re-elected, and in 1868 was a member 
of the lower house. He was instrumental 
in introducing the national system of 
banking into the state; engaged in busi¬ 
ness in Springfield, Mass., and became 
president of the Third National bank of 
that city. He died Jan. 15, 1888, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

WALKER. GEORGE LEON, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1830 iit Vermont. He 
is a congregational clergyman, pastor of 
a church in Hartford, Conn., from 1879; 
and the author of History of the First 
Church in Hartford, 1633-1883; Thomas 
Hooker: Preacher, Founder, Democrat; 
and Some Aspects of the Religious Life 
of New England. 

WALKER. GEORGE ULM, lawyer, was 
born June 26, 1849, in Columbia, S. C. 
He attended the primary school of New¬ 
berry, S. C.; Pleasant Ridge academy, 
Ala.; and the Southern university of 
Greensboro. He is one of the foremost 
lawyers of the south at Jacksonville, Fla.; 
has been assistant city attorney; and 
filled various other public positions of 
honor. 

WALKER, GILBERT CARLTON, law¬ 
yer, banker, congressman, governor, was 
bcrn Aug. 1, 1832, in Binghamton, N. Y. 
In 1864 he went to Norfolk, Va. He be¬ 
came president of the Exchange National 
bank; and subsequently settled in Rich¬ 
mond. In 1869 he was elected governor 
of Virginia, sen ing four years. He was 
elected a representative from Virginia to 
the forty-fourth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress. He died 
May 11, 1885, in New York city. 



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WALKER, HARRIET G., reformer, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born Sept. 10, 1841, in 
Brunswick, Ohio. More than twenty years 
ago she turned her 
attention to chari¬ 
table work, and is 
to - day associated 
with many of the 
charities of Minne¬ 
apolis, Minn. For 
twenty years she has 
been secretary of the 
Reformatory for Wo¬ 
men called the Beth¬ 
any Home. She is 
president of the 
Northwestern Hospi¬ 
tal for Women and Children; and is na¬ 
tional vice-president and state president 
in the Non-Partisan Woman’s Christian 
Temperance union. She is chairman of 
the police matron joint committee; and 
in 1892 was elected to the presidency of 
the woman’s council, which is a delegate 
association representing all the organized 
woman’s work of Minneapolis. 

WALKER, HENDERSON, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, governor, was born in 1660. He was 
a lawyer, judge of the supreme court, and 
president of the council, and introduced 
important reforms in the judiciary. He 
was governor of North Carolina from 1699 
until his death. He died April 14, 1704, 
in Edenton, N. C. 

WALKER, ISAAC P., United States sen¬ 
ator, was born in 1813 in Virginia. He 
was a presidential elector in 1841, and 
was a senator in congress from Wisconsin, 
from 1848 to 1855. He died April 1, 1872, 
in Milwaukee, Wis. 

WALKER, JAMES, clergyman, college 
president, author, was born Aug. 16, 1794, 
in Burlington, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman, minister at Charlestown, 
Mass., in 1818-38, president of Harvard 
university in 1853-60, and the author of 
Lectures on Natural Religion; Lectures on 
the Philosophy of Religion; Sermons 
Preache'd in the College Chapel; and Dis¬ 
courses. He died Dec. 23, 1874, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

WALKER, JAMES ALEXANDER, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 
27, 1832, in Augusta county, Va. He en¬ 
tered the confederate army in 1861, and 
was promoted to colonel of the thirteenth 
Virginia infantry in 1862, and in 1863 was 
promoted to brigadier-general. He was 
elected commonwealth’s attorney for Pu¬ 
laski county in 1860; represented Pulaski 
county in the house of delegates of Vir¬ 
ginia in 1871-72; and was elected lieu¬ 
tenant-governor of Virginia in 1877. He 
was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty- 
fifth congresses as a republican. 

WALKER, JAMES BARR, clergyman, 
author, was born July 29, 1805, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a popular presby- 
terian clergyman in Ohio and Illinois, 
and the author of Philosophy of the Plan 
of Salvation; Poetry of Reason and Con¬ 
science; Pioneer Life in the West; God 
Revealed in Nature and in Christ; Phi¬ 
losophy of Skepticism and Ultraism; The 
Divine Operation in the Redemption of 
Man; Living Questions of the Age; Doc¬ 
trine of the Holy Spirit; and Poems. 
He died March 6, 1887, in Wheaton, Ill. 

WALKER, JAMES BRADFORD RICH¬ 
MOND, clergyman, author, was born April 
15, 1821, in Taunton, Mass. He is a con¬ 
gregational clergyman of Massachusetts, 
and the author of Comprehensive Con¬ 
cordance to the Holy Scriptures. 

WALKER, JAMES DANIEL, soldier, 
lawyer, United States senator, was born 
Dec. 13, 1830, in Logan county, Ky. He 
served in the confederate army as a col¬ 


onel, and was solicitor-general of the 
state for a time. He was a presidential 
elector in 1876; and in 1879 took his seat 
as a senator of the United States from 
Arkansas for the term of six years. 

WALKER, JAMES E., physician, sur¬ 
geon, was born May 21, 1854, in Nunda, 
N. Y. He studied medicine at the Cin¬ 
cinnati Medical college, the New York 
Polyclinic, Kings college of London, Eng¬ 
land, and did post-graduate work in Ber¬ 
lin, Vienna, and other European cities. 
He is superintendent of the Steuben sani¬ 
tarium of Hornellsville, N. Y., one of 
the most complete and modern health in¬ 
stitutions in the United States. He is a 
member of the American Medical associa¬ 
tion and the leading medical and surgical 
societies of America. 

WALKER, JAMES MURDOCK, lawyer, 
author, was born Jan. 10, 1813, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. He was a South Carolina law¬ 
yer, and the author of The Theory of 
Common Law; Tract on Government; The 
State versus Bank of South Carolina; and 
Roman Jurisprudence in the Law of Real 
Estate. He died Sept. 18,1854, in Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. 

WALKER, JAMES PERKINS, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1829 in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. He was a Boston publisher, 
and the author of Faith and Patience, a 
story for boys; Book of Raphael’s Madon¬ 
nas; and Sunny-Eyed Tim. He died May 
10, 1868, in Boston, Mass. 

WALKER, JAMES PETER, congress¬ 
man, was born March 14, 1851, in Lau¬ 
derdale county, Tenn. In 1867 he moved to 
Missouri; and was elected from Dexter 
to the fiftieth congress as a democrat. 

WALKER, JESSE, missionary, was 
born about 1760 in North Carolina. He 
became presiding elder of the Illinois 
district in 1812, conference missionary 
in 1819, and in 1820 built the first method- 
ist episcopal church and formed the first 
methodist episcopal congregation in St. 
Louis, Mo. He died Oct. 5, 1835, in Cook 
county, Ill. 

WALKER, JOHN, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Feb. 13, 1744, in Castle Hill, 
Va. He was a senator in congress from 
Virginia during the year 1790. He died 
Dec. 2, 1809, in Orange county, Va. 

WALKER, JOHN BRISBEN, editor, 
publisher, was born Sept. 10, 1847, on the 
Monongahela river. Pa. In 1889 he came 
to New York, purchased the Cosmopolitan 
Magazine, then an insolvent property, 
having a circulation of 16,000 copies, in¬ 
fused great life into the magazine, and 
brought its circulation up to nearly 400,- 
000 copies a month. 

WALKER, JOHN GRIMES, naval offi¬ 
cer, was born March 20, 1835, in Hills¬ 
borough, N. H. He became lieutenant in 
1858. He was promoted to lieutenant- 
commander in 1862, and had command of 
the river iron-clad Baron de Kalb. 

WALKER, JOHN H., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed 
a judge of the United States court for the 
district of Pennsylvania. 

WALKER, JOHN WILLIAMS, United 
States senator, was born in 1789 in Vir¬ 
ginia. He was a senator in congress from 
Alabama from 1819 to 1822. He died April 
23, 1823, in Huntsville, Ala. 

WALKER, JONATHAN, reformer, was 
born in 1799 on Cape Cod, Mass. For 
five years he lectured on slavery in the 
northern and western states. He removed 
to Michigan about 1850, where he resided 
near Muskegon until his death. He was 
the subject of John G. Whittier’s poem, 
The Man with the Branded Hand. He 
died May 1, 1878, in Muskegon, Mich. 


WALKER, JOSEPH, governor. He was- 
elected governor of Louisiana in 1850, and 
held the omce until 1854. 

WALKER, JOSEPH, soldier, farmer,, 
legislator, was born May 6, 1829, in Eng¬ 
land. During the civil war he was cap¬ 
tain of company I, first regiment New 
York engineers; and was promoted to- 
major; he served in South Carolina, Geor¬ 
gia, Florida and Virginia, and w r as pres¬ 
ent with the cavalry when the flag of 
truce came in preparatory to the surrender 
at Appomattox. For four sessions he was 
a member of the Virginia house of dele¬ 
gates; a member of the state senate for 
four sessions, and his legislative record 
is a part of the archives of Virginia. He 
is now a prominent business man of 
Manchester, Va., where he takes an active 
part in the political affairs of his state. 

WALKER, JOSEPH BURBEEN, agri¬ 
culturist, author, was born in 1822 in New 
Hampshire. He is an agriculturist of New 
Hampshire, and the author of Land Drain¬ 
age; Forests of New Hampshire; Pros¬ 
pective Agriculture in New Hampshire; 
Oats; Rogers the Ranger; and Birth of the 
Federal Constitution. 

WALKER, JOSEPH HENRY, manufac¬ 
turer, state legislator, congressman, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 21, 1829, in Boston,. 
Mass. He was elected a trustee of the 
People’s Savings bank of Worcester, 
Mass., in 1866. He was several years a 
member and was elected president of the 
common council of Worcester, and was 
president of the Worcester board of trade 
for several years. He was three times 
elected to the Massachusetts legislature. 
He has been for a quarter of a century 
president of the board of trustees of Wor¬ 
cester academy, an important college pre¬ 
paratory and scientific school for boys. 
He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-sec¬ 
ond, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth 
congresses as a republican. He is the au¬ 
thor of A Few Facts and Suggestions on 
Money, Trade and Banking. 

WALKER, JOSEPH MARSHALL, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in New Orleans, La. He 
served in the state legislature of Louisi¬ 
ana, both as representative and senator, 
and in 1846 was state treasurer. In 1850 
he was inaugurated governor of Louisi¬ 
ana, and died Jan. 26, 1856. 

WALKER. JOSEPH REDDEFORD, tra¬ 
veler, was born Oct. 13, 1798, in Knox¬ 
ville, Tenn. He was guide to Bonnevill’s 
expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 
1832, and conducted the party from Great 
Salt Lake to California, which discovered 
the beautiful Yosemite valley. Walker’s 
river, lake and pass, discovered by this 
expedition, were named for him. He died 
Oct. 27, 1876, in Ignacio Valley, Cal. 

WALKER, JUSTIN ELISHA, poet, was 
born Sept. 12, 1825, in Fairfax, Vt. His 
poems have received publication from 
time to time in the periodical press, many 
of which are on temperance subjects. 

WAL^R, MRS. KATHERINE KENT 
(CHILD), author, was born about 1840 in 
Pittsford, Vt. She is a writer who is 
best known by a famous paper in the At¬ 
lantic Monthly on The Total Depravity of 
Inanimate Things. She is the author of 
Bible Stories for the Young; Life of 
Christ; and From the Crib to the Cross. 

WALKER, LEROY POPE, soldier, law¬ 
yer. jurist, state legislator, was born July 
8, 1817, near Huntsville, Ala. He was 
speaker of the Alabama house of repre¬ 
sentatives in 1847-50, and servea as judge 
of the state circuit court in 1850-53. He 
was commissioned brigadier-general in 
the confederate army, but resigned in 
1862. He died Aug. 22, 1884, in Hunts¬ 
ville, Ala. 




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WALKER, LEWIS C., lawyer, jurist, 
legislator, was born Dec. 4, 1837, in Wil¬ 
mington, Ohio. He served two terms as 
a member of the Indiana general assem¬ 
bly, and for twelve years was judge of 
the superior court, Indianapolis, Ind. 

WALKER, MRS. MARY SPRING, au¬ 
thor. She is the author of The Family 
Doctor, or Mrs. Barry and Her Bourbon; 
Rev. Dr. Willoughby and His Wine; Both 
Sides of the Street; Down in a Saloon; 
and White Robes. 


WALKER, PERCY, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born near Huntsville, Ala. He served as 
an officer in a volunteer company during 
the Creek war. He was elected by the 
legislature to the office of state's attorney 
for the sixth judicial circuit, which he 
held four years. In 1839, 1847 and 1853 
he represented Mobile county in the gen¬ 
eral assembly, and in 1855 was elected a 
representative from Alabama to the thir¬ 
ty-fourth congress. 

WALKER, ROBERT H., merchant, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born April 18, 1849, 
in Dadeville, Ala. During 1871-83 he was 
a successful merchant of Columbia, Ala., 
and since 1884 has attained eminence as 
a lawyer, having the largest and most 
varied practice in the state. From 1880 
to 1886 he was captain of the Columbia 
Blues, state troops, of which he was the 
organizer. He afterward served as mayor 
of Columbia for two years; and for four 
years served with distinction in the Ala¬ 
bama state senate. 


W T ALKER, ROBERT J. C., merchant, 
lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born 
Oct. 20, 1838, in Chester county, Pa. He 
was twice elected a member of the Phila¬ 
delphia city council, and was, for some 
time, editor and proprietor of the Satur¬ 
day Evening Post newspaper. In 1878 he 
moved to Williamsport, Pa., and engaged 
in the lumber and coal business. He was 
elected a representative from Pennsylvan¬ 
ia to the forty-seventh congress. 


WALKER, ROBERT JAMES, lawyer, 
governor, United States senator, author, 
was born July 23, 1801, in Northumber¬ 
land, Pa. In 1836 he was chosen a senator 
in congress from Mississippi, serving until 
1845. In 1845 he was called upon to take 
charge of the treasury department, which 
he administered for four years. He was 
appointed, in 1857, governor of the terri¬ 
tory of Kansas, which office he resigned. 
In 1863 he went to Europe and nego¬ 
tiated bonds of the government to the 
amount of two hundred and fifty millions 
of dollars. He was the author of Letters 
on the Finances and Resources of the 
United States. He died Nov. 11, 1869, in 
Washington, D. C. 



WALKER, THOMAS BARLOW, manu¬ 
facturer, philanthropist, was born Feb. 1, 
1840, in Xenia, Ohio. He is managing 
partner of the firm 
of Walker and Ake- 
ley of Minneapolis, 
president of the Red 
River Lumber com¬ 
pany, with mills 
at Crookston, Minn., 
and Grand Forks, N. 
D., and at the head 
of the St. Louis Park 
syndicate, which is 
building a suburban 
city on the boundary 
of Minneapolis. With 
B. F. Nelson and his son, Gilbert Walker, 
he is an owner of the Hennepin Paper 


company, and is engaged in many other 
enterprises, devoted to building up Min¬ 
neapolis. Through his instrumentality 
and many years of work, the old Athe¬ 
naeum Library association was developed 


into the Public library, which stands now 
third or fourth in circulation among those 
of the cities in this country. 

ALKER, TIMOTHY, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born June 26, 1737, in 
Concord, N. H. He was a member of 
the fourth and fifth New Hampshire pro¬ 
vincial congresses and of the first house 
of representatives in 1776 under the state 
constitution. Upon the reorganization of 
the state courts in 1777 he was made a 
justice of the court of common pleas for 
Rockingham county, which office he held 
for twenty-three years. He died May 5, 
1822, in Concord, N. H. 

WALKER, TIMOTHY, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born Dec. 1, 1806, in Wilming¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a jurist of Cincinnati, 
and the author of Elements of Geometry; 
and Introduction to American Law. He 
died Jan. 15, 1856, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

WALKER, WILLIAM, adventurer, au¬ 
thor, was born May 8, 1824, in Nashville, 
Tenn. He was a famous adventurer who 
led a filibustering expedition into Nicara¬ 
gua in 1855, and was afterward court-mar¬ 
tialed and shot by the authorities of Hon¬ 
duras. He was the author of The War in 
Nicaragua. He died Sept. 12, 1860, in 
Honduras. 

WALKER, WILLIAM A., congressman, 
was born in New Hampshire. He was a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1853 to 1855. He died Dec. 18, 1861, 
in New York. 

WALKER, WILLIAM DAVID, bishop 
of western New York, was born June 29, 
1839, in New York city. As bishop of 
North Dakota he distinguished himself 
by his attachment to the Red Indians, 
among whom he instituted a remarkably 
successful evangelizing work. He invent¬ 
ed the device of the cathedral car, a rail¬ 
way carriage fitted up for public worship, 
by means of wffiich he reached many scat¬ 
tered hamlets which would otherwise have 
remained without pastoral care. 

WALKER, WILLIAM H. T., soldier, 
was born in 1816 in Georgia. He was 
brevetted major in the United States army 
for gallant conduct at Contreras and 
Churubusco, and lieutenant-colonel for 
Molino del Rey. He died July 26, 1864, 
near Decatur, Ga. 

WALKER, WILLIAM JOHNSON, bene¬ 
factor, was born March 15, 1790, in 
Charlestown, Mass. Late in life he came 
into possession of a large fortune, of 
which he gave to benevolent objects about 
$400,000 during his lifetime, and by his 
will left nearly $1,000,000 to institutions of 
learning. He died April 2, 1865, in New¬ 
port, R. I. 

WALKER, WILLIAM McCREARY, na¬ 
val officer, author, was born Sept. 2, 1813, 
in Baltimore, Md. He was a United States 
naval officer who published a work on 
Screw Propulsion. He died Nov. 19, 1866, 
in New York city. 

WALKER, WILLIAM S., naval officer, 
was born Dec. 6, 1793, in New Hampshire. 
He entered the navy as a midshipman 
in 1814, was promoted to lieutenant in 
1825, and to master-commandant in 1841. 
He was placed on the retired list, and pro¬ 
moted to commodore in 1862. He died 
Nov. 24, 1863, in Boston, Mass. 

WALKER, WILLISTON, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1860 in Maine. 
He is a congregational clergyman, and 
professor of Germanic and western church 
history in Hartford Theological seminary 
from 1889. He is the author of The 
Creeds and Platforms of Congregational¬ 
ism; On the Increase of Royal Power un¬ 
der Philip Augustus; and a History of the 
Congregational Church in the United 
States. 


WALKUP, LIBERTY, inventor, artist, 
was born July 14, 1844, in Pine Creek, Ill. 
He served as a union soldier during the 
civil war. He is a successful inventor of 
art tools, and president of the Air Brush 
Manufacturing company of Rockford, Ill. 
He is also an instructor in the fine arts. 

WALL, ANNIE CARPENTER, author, 
was born Sept. 19, 1859, in Richland coun¬ 
ty, Wis. She is the author of a book of 
poems entitled Some Scattered Leaves. 

WALL, GARRET DORSET, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born March 10, 1783, in Middletown, N. J. 

He commanded a 
volunteer company 
at the defense of 
Sandy Hook in the 
war of 1812, and was 
quartermaster - gen¬ 
eral of the state from 
1815 to 1837. In 1827 
he was elected to the 
general assembly. In 
1829 he was appoint¬ 
ed United States dis¬ 
trict attorney for 
New Jersey. He was 
a member of the United States senate 
from 1835 to 1841. In 1848 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the court of errors and 
appeals, which office he occupied until 
his death. He died Nov. 22, 1850, in Bur¬ 
lington, N. J. 

WALL, GARRETT S., lawyer, soldier, 
legislator, was born July 12, 1845, in Bour¬ 
bon county, Ky. He served in the con¬ 
federate army and was promoted to cap¬ 
tain. He has been county attorney, coun¬ 
ty judge and state senator from Maysville, 
Ky. 

WALL, HAMPTON W., legislator, was 
born Nov. 10, 1832, in Staunton, Ill. This 
successful farmer and banker was justice 
of the peace of his native town for twenty 
years. He served two terms in the Illi¬ 
nois general assembly, and was a member 
of the state senate for four years. 

WALL, JAMES WALTER, lawyer. 
United States senator, author, was born 
May 26, 1820, in Trenton, N. J. In 1847 he 
settled in Burlington, 
N. J., and devoted 
some attention to 
literary pursuits. In 
1850 he was elected 
mayor of Burlington, 
and in 1854 visited 
Europe, and pub¬ 
lished a volume en¬ 
titled Foreign Etch¬ 
ings, or, Visits to the 
Old World’s Pleas¬ 
ant Places. During 
the early part of the 
war of the rebellion he wrote against the 
administration in power, for interfering 
with the freedom of the press. In 1863, 
he was elected a senator in congress from 
New Jersey to fill a vacancy. He died 
June 9, 1872, in Elizabeth, N. J. 

WALL, JOSEPH BAISDEN, lawyer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born Jan. 23, 1847, in 
Hernando county, Fla. He received the 
rudiments of his education in the common 
schools, and subsequently attended the 
university of Virginia. He soon attained 
eminence as a brilliant lawyer of Tampa, 
Fla.; was state’s attorney of the sixth cir¬ 
cuit of Florida; and the first president of 
the State Bar association. In 1889 he 
served with distinction in the Florida 
state senate; was presidefit of that body, 
and is now judge of the criminal court. 

WALL, OSCAR GARRETT, journalist, 
banker, poet. He served as a soldier in 
the union army. He subsequently was en¬ 
gaged in banking, and is the author of a 
volume of poems entitled Sunny Nooks. 





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WALL. WILLIAM, manufacturer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 20, 1801, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1860 he was elected 
a representative from New York to the 
thirty-seventh congress. 

WALLACE, ALEXANDER S., planter, 
magistrate, state legislator, congressman, 
was born Dec. 30, 1810, in York county, 
S. C. He was elected a member of the 
South Carolina legislature in 1852, as a 
union candidate, in opposition to all seces¬ 
sion movements, and was again elected 
in 1865. He was appointed internal rev¬ 
enue collector in 1866, which position he 
held until elected to the forty-first con¬ 
gress. He was re-elected to the forty- 
second, forty-third and forty-fourth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

WALLACE, ANDREW, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, poet, was born in 1782 in Milford, 
N. H. He served as a member of the 
state legislature; was a delegate in the 
state convention of 1850, and died six 
years later. 

WALLACE. ARTHUR E., journalist, 
was born Nov. 2, 1865, in Moravia, Iowa. 
He received his education at the Iowa 
State university; has contributed exten¬ 
sively to current literature; and is now 
the editor and owner of The Republican 
of Rapid City, S. D. 

WALuACE, DANIEL, congressman, was 
born in South Carolina. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from South Carolina 
from 1847 to 1853. 

WALLACE, DAVID, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born April 4, 1799, in Lancaster, Pa. In 
1828 he was a member of the Indiana leg¬ 
islature; was elected lieutenant-governor 
of the state in 1830 and in 1833. He was 
governor of the state from 1837 to 1840; 
was a representative in congress from In¬ 
diana from 1841 to 1843 and subsequently 
was prosecuting attorney for the state. In 
1856 he was elected judge of the court of 
common pleas at Indianapolis. He died 
Sept. 5, 1859, in Indianapolis, Ind. 

WALLACE, HORACE BINNEY, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Feb. 26, 1817, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer and 
writer of Philadelphia and the author of 
Literary Criticisms; and Art and Scenery 
in Europe. He died Dec. 16, 1856, in Paris. 

WALLACE, JAMES, educator, author, 
was born March 12,1850, in Wooster, Ohio. 
During 1881-87 he was professor of Greek 
and German in Macalester college, St. 
Paul, Minu.; dean of that institution in 
1891-95; and its president since 1895. He 
is the author of a work entitled Xeno¬ 
phon’s Anabasis. 


WALLACE, JAMES M., congressman, 
was born in Dauphin county, Pa. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1815 to 1821. 

WALLACE, JOHN BRADFORD, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Aug. 17, 1778, in 
Somerset county, N. J. He was a lawyer 
of Philadelphia, and the author of Re¬ 
marks on the Law of Bailment; and Re¬ 
ports of Cases of the Third Circuit Court. 
He died Jan. 7, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WALLACE, JOHN W., physician, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 20, 1818, in Bea¬ 
ver Falls, Pa. In 1860 he was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
thirty-seventh congress. In 1863 he was 
appointed paymaster in the army, and 
served until the close of the war, and in 
1870 was a presidential elector. In 1874 
he was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress 
as a republican. 

WALLACE, JOHN WILLIAM, author, 
was born Feb. 17, 1815, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a master in chancery of the 
Pennsylvania supreme court, and the au¬ 
thor of The Reporters, Chronologically 
Arranged; Cases in the Circuit Court of 
the United States for the Third Circuit; 
Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Su¬ 
preme Court of the United States; and An 
Old Philadelphian: Colonel William Brad¬ 
ford, the Patriot Printer of 1776. He 
died Jan. 12, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WALLACE, JONATHAN H., lawyer, 
congressman, was born Oct. 31, 1824, in 
Columbiana county, Ohio. He was elected 
prosecuting attorney of Columbiana coun¬ 
ty, and was re-elected in 1853. He was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 
forty-eighth congress. He died Oct. 29, 
1892, in New Lisbon, Ohio. 

WALLACE, LEWIS, soldier, lawyer, 
governor, author, was born April 10, 1827, 
in Brockville, Ind. He served one term 
as a state senator, 
and at the outbreak 
of the civil war was 
appointeu adjutant- 
general of Indiana. 
In 1861 he was com¬ 
missioned a briga¬ 
dier-general, and in 
1862 was promoted to 
major-general for 
conspicuous gallaut- 
ry at the capture of 
Fort Donelson. He 
was United States 
minister to Paraguay. He was governor 
of the territory of New Mexico from 1878 
to 1881, and in 1882 was appointed United 
States minister to Turkey, serving until 
1885. He is the author of Ben Hur, a 
Tale of the Christ, which has been ex¬ 
tremely popular, but neither this nor his 
other romances have met the entire ap¬ 
proval of literary critics. His other works 
include, The Fair God, an Aztec Story; 
The Prince of India; The Boyhood of 
Christ; and Life of General Benjamin 
Harrison. 

WALLACE, NATHANIEL DICK, manu¬ 
facturer, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 
1845, in Columbia, Tenn. He has been 
elected twice as president of the New Or¬ 
leans Produce exchange, and is also active 
in manufacturing interests, and is presi¬ 
dent of two large factories in New Or¬ 
leans. He was elected to the forty-ninth 
congress from Louisiana. 

WALLACE, RODNEY, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 21, 1823, in 
New Ipswich, N. H. He was representa¬ 
tive to the general court of Massachusetts 
in 1873; was councilor of state of Massa¬ 
chusetts in 1880, 1881 and 1882, and was 


elected to the fifty-first congress as a re¬ 
publican. 


WALLACE, MRS. SUSAN E., author, 
poet, was born Dec. 24, 1830, in Craw- 
fordsville, Ind. She is the wife of Gen. 
Lew Wallace, the author of Ben Hur. She 
is the author of The Storied Sea; Ginevra, 
a Christmas Story; The Land of the Pueb¬ 
los; and The Repose in Egypt. 

WALLACE, WILLIAM A., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman. United States senator, was born 
Nov. 28, 1827, in Clearfield, Pa. In 1862 
he was elected to the Pennsylvania state 
senate, and served by re-elections until 
1871, when he was made speaker of that 
body. He was elected a senator in con¬ 
gress for the term commencing in 1875, 
and ending in 1881. 

WALLACE, WILLIAM COPELAND, 
lawyer, congressman, was born May 21, 
1856, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was assistant 
United States attorney for the southern 
district of New York in 1880-83, and was 
elected to the fifty-first congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

WALLACE, WILLIAM H., state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, governor, was born 
July 17, 1811, in Miami county, Ohio. He 
was elected to the state legislature of 
Iowa, and served as speaker and also as 
president of the state council. He re¬ 
moved to Washington territory in 1853, 
and served several sessions in the terri¬ 
torial legislature. In 1861 he was appoint¬ 
ed governor of Washington territory; and 
was elected a delegate therefrom to the 
thirty-seventh congress. He was appoint¬ 
ed the first governor of Idaho territory, 
and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth 
congress as a delegate from Idaho. 

WALLACE, WILLIAM HARVEY 
LAMB, soldier, was born July 8, 1821, in 
Urbana, Ohio. He moved to Illinois and 
practiced law until 
1846. He then vol¬ 
unteered as a private 
in the Mexican war. 
He also served with 
distinction in the 
civil war, and was 
made a brigadier- 
general of volun¬ 
teers. He was en¬ 
gaged in the battles 
of Fort Henry and 
Fort Donelson, and 
subsequently served 
with distinction on the field of Shiloh. He 
was killed in battle April 10, 1862, in 
Savannah, Tenn. 

WALLACE, WILLIAM JAMES, lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 14, 1839, in Syra¬ 
cuse, N. Y. He was mayor of Syracuse, 
N. Y., in 1873 and 1874, and was appointed 
United States district judge for the north¬ 
ern district of New York in 1874. In 1882 
he was appointed United States circuit 
judge for the second judicial circuit. 





WALLACE, JAMES GOODWIN, sur¬ 
geon, lawyer, was born June 24, 1836, in 
South Carolina. He was educated in the 
Furman university 
I of South Carolina, 
and attended the Na¬ 
tional Medical col- 
|’j lege of Washington, 
D. C. During the 
civil war he was field 
surgeon in the con¬ 
federate army. He 
is surgeon of the F. 
C. and P. R. R., Tam¬ 
pa division, and has 
performed more cri¬ 
tical, extensive and 
successful surgical operations than any 
surgeon in the state of Florida. He re¬ 
sides in Dade City, has been secretary and 
treasurer of the Medical association of 
Pasco county, Fla.; and chairman of the 
board of county commissioners. He stands 
high in Masonry; is a noted lawyer and a 
member of the supreme court bar of 
Florida. 



WALLACE, SAMUEL L., lawyer, was 
born Aug. 9, 1849, in Pickaway county, 
Ohio. He received the rudiments of his 
education in the 

district school, and 
attended the Lincoln 
university of Lin¬ 
coln, Ill., where he 

has attained success 
as an able lawyer. 
He was city attorney 
during 188 6-89 
state’s attorney of 
Logan county during 
1888-92; and in 1893- 
94 was postmaster of 
his city. He has 

filled numerous other public positions of 
trust in his city, county and state. 






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WALLACE, WILLIAM ROSS, lawyer, 
poet, was born in 1819 in Lexington, Ky. 
He was a lawyer and verse-writer of New 
York city, and the author of Perdita; Al¬ 
ban; and Meditations in America, and 
Other Poems. The Liberty Bell is his 
best-known poem. He died May 5, 1881, 
in New York city. 

WALLACE, WILLIAM VINCENT, com¬ 
poser, was born June 1, 1814, in Ireland. 
He was the author of Maritana; Matilda 
of Hungary; Lurline; The Amber Witch; 
The Desert Flower; Gulmare and Olga; 
and Maid of Zurich. He died Oct. 12, 1865, 
in France. 

WALLACE, JAMES WILLIAM, actor, 
was born Aug. 24, 1794, in England. For 
about twenty-five years he acted in Amer¬ 
ica and Europe. He died Dec. 25, 1864, in 
New York city. 

WALLACE, LESTER, dramatist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1820 in New Y T ork. He 
was a noted comedian and dramatist of 
New York city, and the author of The 
Veteran; and Rosedale. He died Sept. 6, 
1888, in Stamford, Conn. 

WALLBER, EMIL, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Germany. He was a noted law¬ 
yer and jurist of Milwaukee, Wis., and 
served that city as mayor during 1884-88. 

WALLEN, HENRY DAVIES, soldier, 
was born April 19, 1819, in Savannah, Ga. 
He served in the Florida, Texas and civil 
wars; and attained the rank of brigadier- 
general. He died Dec. 2, 1866, in New 
Y'ork city. 

WALLER, ELWYN, chemist, author, 
was born March 22, 1846, in New Y r ork 
city. He has been an instructor of analy¬ 
tical chemistry in various institutions, 
and has published numerous works on 
that science. 

WALLER, FRANE, artist, author, was 
born June 12, 1842, in New York city. He 
was one of the founders in 1875 of the 
Art Students’ league, of which he was also 
the first president, and for which he wrote 
Report on Art Schools. He has adopted 
architecture as a profession, and now de¬ 
votes his attention principally to that art. 

WALLER, JOHN LIGHTFOOT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 23, 1809, in 
Woodford county, Ey. In 1845 he estab¬ 
lished the Western Baptist Review, after¬ 
ward called the Christian Repository, in 
Louisville, Ey., of which he remained ed¬ 
itor until his death. He died Oct. 10, 1854, 
in Louisville, Ey. 

WALLER, THOMAS McDONALD, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, governor, was born 
about 1840 in New York city. He was 
a representative in the Connecticut state 
legislature in 1867, 1868, 1872 and 1876, 
and was speaker of the house during the 
latter term. He was secretary of state in 
1870, and was state’s attorney from 18 76 
until 1883, when he resigned to enter 
upon the duties of governor of Connecti¬ 
cut, to which office he had been elected 
the previous November for the term of 
two years. 

WALLEY, SAMUEL H., lawyer, bank¬ 
er, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 
31, 1805, in Boston, Mass. He was a 
member of the Massachusetts state legis¬ 
lature for eight sessions, and speaker of 
the house for two years. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1853 to 1855, 
and on his return from Washington was 
the whig candidate for governor of Massa¬ 
chusetts, but was defeated. He was a 
bank commissioner in 1858; and in 1859 
became president of the Revere bank of 
Boston. 

WALLING, ANSEL T., lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, state senator, governor, was born 
Jan. 10, 1824, in Otsego county, N. Y. He 
moved to Ohio in 1843 and was editor of 


the Mahoning Index and Coshocton Demo¬ 
crat, and for a time of the Eeokuk Daily 
Times in Iowa. In 1865 he was elected 
to the state senate, and in 1867 was elected 
to the state assembly and made speaker. 
In 1874 he was elected a representative 
from Ohio to the forty-fourth congress as 
a democrat. 

WALLIS, JAMES HEARENETT, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, lawyer, was born April 
13, 1861, in London, England. He has 
been a school teacher, justice of the peace, 
prosecuting attorney and lieutenant-col¬ 
onel in the Idaho national guards. He is 
the editor and manager of The Post of 
Paris, Idaho, which was established in 
1880, and is the organ of the mormon 
church in Idaho. 

WALLIS, SEVERN TEACELE, lawyer, 
author, was born Sept. 8, 1816, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was a lawyer of Baltimore, 
and the author of Glimpses of Spain; and 
Spain: her Institutions, Politics, and Pub¬ 
lic Men. A memorial edition of his writ¬ 
ings in four volumes was published in 
1896. He died in 1894. 

WALLS, JOSIAH T., state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 30, 1842, in Win¬ 
chester, Va. He was a member of the Vir¬ 
ginia state legislature in 1868; and was 
a member of the state senate in 1869. He 
was elected to the forty-second congress, 
but his seat was successfully contested. 

WALN, ROBERT, merchant, congress¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 22, 1765, in 
Philadelphia. He was a prominent mer¬ 
chant in Philadelphia, and was a mem¬ 
ber of congress from Pennsylvania from 
1798 to 1801 to fill a vacancy, and was 
then re-elected. He was the author of An¬ 
swer to the Anti-Protection Report of 
Henry Lee; and Seven Letters to Elias 
Hicks, widely read at the time of their 
appearance. He died Jan. 24, 1836, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

WALN, ROBERT, author, poet, was 
born Oct. 25, 1794, in Philadelphia. He 
was a Philadelphia writer, and the au¬ 
thor of The Hermit in America; American 
Bards, a satire; Sisyphi Opus, with Other 
Poems; and Life of Lafayette. He died 
July 4, 1825, in Providence, R. I. 

WALSER, GEORGE H., soldier, law¬ 
yer, poet, was born May 26, 1834, in Dear¬ 
born county, Ind. In 1857 he began the 
practice of law in 
Middleport, Ill., and 
in 1861 he was the 
first man to volun¬ 
teer as a soldier, 
and was elected cap¬ 
tain of company I, 
twentieth regiment 
Illinois volunteer in¬ 
fantry. Failing health 
caused his resigna¬ 
tion, and in 1863 he 
settled in Missouri, 
and three years later 
resumed the practice of his profession, 
and has had great success as a lawyer in 
the circuit and supreme courts. He has 
written a volume entitled Poems of Lei¬ 
sure, which was published in 1891. Mr. 
Walser has a wife and two children. He 
is still a resident of Liberal, Mo., which 
town he laid out in 1881, founding the 
town on the basis of free thought and 
mental liberty. He here also founded 
the Spiritual Institute and Home, of which 
institution he is professor of psychology. 
He has in preparation a most commend¬ 
able work entitled Floral Tribute, em¬ 
bracing the language of flowers and em¬ 
blems, with a poetical description of each. 
He is the author of Poems of Leisure; 
Floral Tribute; and other works. 




WALSER, ZEB VANCE, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, legal author, was born June 17, 
1863, in Davidson county, N. C. He re¬ 
ceived the degree of 
A. B. from the uni¬ 
versity of North Car¬ 
olina, and the degree 
of LL. B. from the 
law school of the uni¬ 
versity of Michigan. 
He has three times 
been a member of 
the North Carolina 
state legislature; 
served with distinc¬ 
tion as a state sena¬ 
tor, and was elected 
speaker of the house of representatives 
of the North Carolina general assembly. 
He is now attorney-general of North Car¬ 
olina; is the author of the monograph 
on Cross Examination of Witnesses, and 
other works. He has been trustee of the 
university of North Carolina; attorney 
of the Southern Railway company, and 
at the time of his election to the assembly 
was the youngest speaker of the house 


of representatives and attorney-general in 
the history of the state. 

WALSH, BENJAMIN DANN, entomol¬ 
ogist, author, was born Sept. 21, 1808, in 
England. He was associated with Charles 
V. Riley in founding the American Ento¬ 
mologist in 1868 in Illinois, and was its 
senior editor until his death. He pub¬ 
lished Walsh’s Comedies of Aristophanes. 
He died Nov. 18, 1869, in Rock Island, Ill. 

WALSH, CHARLES CLINTON, educat¬ 
or, lawyer, author, was born May .29, 1867, 
in Eirkwood, 111. For seven years he was 
teacher and principal of public schools in 
Illinois. He is the author of three vol¬ 
umes entitled The Student's Quiz Books, 
designed for the use of law students, 
which received the endorsement of the 
faculty of the law department of the uni¬ 
versity of Michigan, of which institute 
he was a graduate. He has attained suc¬ 
cess in the profession of law at Gonzales, 
Texas, and takes a prominent part in 
public affairs. 


WALSH, JAMES J., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 22, 1858, in New York 
city. He was admitted to the bar in 1880 
and has practiced law in New York city 
ever since. He was inspector of common 
schools in New York city for two terms, 
six years, but resigned when nominated 
for congress. He was elected to the fif¬ 
ty-fourth congress as a democrat. 

WALSH, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Feb. 26, 1850, in Ireland. In 1876 he 
was admitted to the bar, and served as 
mayor of New Britain, Conn., four times. 
For ten years he was judge of probate 
court, and since 1893 has been associate 
judge of court of common pleas. 

WALSH, JOHN JOHNSON, missionary, 
author, was born April 4, 1820, in New- 
burg, N. Y. In 1874 he was pastor at 
Millerton, N. Y., for two years, and sub¬ 
sequently in Amenia. He had just left 
India for the United States, and thus es¬ 
caped the massacre of the mission at Fut- 
tehghur by the Sepoys in 1857. He pub¬ 
lished A Memorial of the Futtehghur Mis¬ 
sion and her Martyred Missionaries. He 
died Feb. 7, 1884, in Amenia, N. Y. 

WALSH, MICHAEL, educator, author, 
was born in 1763 in Ireland. He was a 
popular educator of Massachusetts 
who published a Mercantile Arithmetic, 
and a New System of Bookkeeping. He 
died Aug. 20, 1840, in Amesbury, Mass. 

WALSH, MICHAEL, journalist, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 7, 1810, in 
Ireland. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1853 to 1855. 
He died March 17, 1859, in New York city. 




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OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 


WALSH, PATRICK, journalist, state 
legislator, United States senator, was born 
Jan. 1, 1840, in Ireland. In 1862 he moved 
to Augusta, Ga., and for forty-two years 
has been connected with the press of 
that city, most of the time as manager 
.and editor of the Augusta Chronicle, 
which was established in 1785. In 1870 
he was elected a member of the city coun¬ 
cil of Augusta, and in 1873-77 he served 
as a member of the state legislature from 
Richmond county. In 1894 he was ap¬ 
pointed senator from Georgia to fill a 
vacancy. 

WALSH, ROBERT, public official, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1784 in Balti¬ 
more, Md. He was a prominent Philadel¬ 
phian who was United States consul at 
Paris in 1845-51. In 1811 he established 
the American Review of History and Poli¬ 
tics, the first quarterly in the United 
States. He was the author of An Appeal 
from the Judgments of Great Britain; 
Letter on the Genius and Disposition of 
the French Government; Correspondence 
Respecting Russia; Didactics; and The 
Museum of Foreign Literature and Sci¬ 
ence. He died Feb. 7, 1859, in Paris, 
France. 

WArASH, T., poet. He is a writer of 
Louisville, Ky., and the author of a vol¬ 
ume of Poems. 

WALoH, THOMAS Y., congressman, 
was born in Maryland. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Maryland 
from 1851 to 1853. 

WALSH, WILLIAM, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 11, 1828, in Ireland. 
In 1874-he was elected a representative to 
the forty-fourth congress and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

WALSH, WILLIAM SHEPARD, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Feb. 1, 1854, in 
France. He was a Philadelphia writer, 
editor of Lippincott’s Magazine in 
1886-90, and the author of Authors and 
Authorship; Pen Pictures of Earlier Vic¬ 
torian Authors; Faust: the Legend and 
the Poem; Paradoxes of a Philistine; Pen 
Pictures of Modern Authors; and Our 
Young Folks’ History of the Roman Em¬ 
pire. He died about 1896. 

WALTER, ALFRED, railroad president, 
was born Oct. 2, 1851, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Since 1894 he has been president of the 
Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill 
railroad. 

WALTER, GEORGE WILLIAM, organ¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 16, 1851, in New York 
city. As an organist he is known for his 
powers in extemporaneous performance 
and novelty in registration. His musical 
library contains more than eight thou¬ 
sand works. 

WALTER, NEHEMIAH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in December, 1663, in Ire¬ 
land. He was a pastor at Roxbury, Mass., 
from 1688 until his death, and the 
author of The Sense of Indwelling Sid 
in the Unregenerate; Sermons; and Prac¬ 
tical Discourses on the Holiness of Hea¬ 
ven. He died Sept. 17, 1750, in Roxbury, 
Mass. 

WALTER, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Dee. 13, 1696, in Roxbury, 
Mass. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man, the colleague of his father, and the 
author of Grounds and Rules of Music 
Explained; and Infallibility May Some¬ 
times Mistake. He died Jan. 10, 1725, in 
Roxbury, Mass. 

WALTER, THOMAS, botanist, author, 
was born about 1740 in England. He was 
a successful planter near Charleston, S. C., 
and in 1788 published a work entitled 
Flora Caroliniana. He died in 1788 in 
'.Charleston, .S. C. 


ENCVCLOPEDIA 

WALTER, THOMAS USTICK, archi¬ 
tect, was born Sept. 4, 1804, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. Among the many monuments 
of his skill as designer and architect, are 
the Girard college, perhaps the finest spe¬ 
cimen of classical architecture in Amer¬ 
ica; the iron dome and extension of the 
capitol at Washington, east and west 
wings of the patent office, and extension 
of the general postoffice. He died Oct. 30, 
1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WALTER, WILLIAM, clergyman, was 
born Oct. 7, 1737, in Roxbury, Mass. In 
1792 he became rector of Christ church 
in Boston, Mass., where he ministered till 
his death. In 1796 he was invited to de¬ 
liver the Dudleian lecture at Harvard col¬ 
lege, and in 1798 he pronounced the anni¬ 
versary discourse before the Massachu¬ 
setts Humane society, which was pub¬ 
lished. He died Dee. 5, 1800, in Boston, 
Mass. 

WALTER, WILLIAM BICKER, author, 
poet, was born April 19, 1796, in Boston, 
Mass, ne was a poet who published Po¬ 
ems; and Sukey, suggested by Halleek’s 
Fanny. He died April 23, 1822, in Boston, 
Mass. 

WALTER, WILLIAM HENRY, musi¬ 
cian, author, was born July 1, 1825, in 
Newark, N. J. He was appointed organ¬ 
ist at Columbia college, New York, in 
1856, with which he is still connected. 
His published works are Manual of 
Church Music; Chorals and Hymns; 
Common Prayer with Ritual Song; Les¬ 
sons in Music; and Mass in C, with Latin 
and English text. 

WALTERS, GEORGE, lawyer, legislat¬ 
or, was born Aug. 4, 1835, in Hamilton 
county, Penn. In 1870 he was a member 
of the Tennessee constitutional conven¬ 
tion, and in 1871-72 was representative in 
the state legislature. He is now one of 
the foremost lawyers of Texas at Waxa- 
hachie, where for six years he has served 
with distinction as district attorney. 

WALTERS, WILLIAM THOMPSON, 
merchant, author, was born May 23, 182o’ 
in Juniata River, Pa. He was a merchant 
of Baltimore, long prominent as an art 
patron, and the author of Antoine Louis 
Barye, from the French of Various Cri¬ 
tics; The Percheron Horse, from the 
French of Du Hays; and Notes upon Cer¬ 
tain Masters of the Nineteenth Century 
He died in 1891. 

WALTHALL, EDWARD CARY, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, 
United States senator, was born April 4, 
1831, in Richmond, 
Va. He received a'fi 
academic education 
at Holty Springs, 
Mississippi; studied 
law at Holly Springs, 
was admitted to the 
bar in 1852, and com¬ 
menced the practice 
of law the same year 
in Coffeeville, Miss. 

In 1856 he was elect¬ 
ed district attorney 
for the tenth judicial 
district of Mississippi, and re-elected in 
1859, resigning that office in the spring oi 

1861. He then entered the confederate 
service as a lieutenant in the fifteenth 
Mississippi regiment; was soon after elect¬ 
ed lieutenant-colonel of that regiment. In 
the spring of 1862 he was elected colonel 
of the twenty-ninth Mississippi regiment, 
and was promoted to brigadier-general in 

1862, and major-general in 1864. After 
the surrender he practiced law at Coffee¬ 
ville until 1871, when he moved to Gre¬ 
nada, and there continued practice until 
1885. He was a delegate-at-large to the 
national democratic conventions of 1868, 


1876, 1880, 1884 and 1896; except in 1868 
was chairman of the Mississippi delega¬ 
tion in these conventions. He was ap¬ 
pointed to the United States senate in 
1885 to fill a vacancy, and was elected for 
the unexpired term the following year, 
receiving the re-election in 1888, and 
again in 1892. In 1894 he resigned on 
account of ill health. 

WALTHER, CARL FERDINAND WIL¬ 
HELM, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 
25, 1811, in Saxony. He was a lutheran 
clergyman who came to America in 1839, 
and was president of the Lutheran The¬ 
ological seminary at St. Louis in 1849-87. 
He was the leader of what are known as 
Missouri lutherans. He died May 7, 1887, 
in St. Louis, Mo. 

WALTON, CHARLES EDGAR, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born May 30, 1849, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. This eminent physician 
and surgeon has been professor of ana¬ 
tomy, surgery and gynecology in the Ho¬ 
meopathic Medical society of Cleveland, 
Ohio, of which institution he was presi¬ 
dent in 1889. 

V ALTON, CHARLES W., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1819, 
in Mexico, Maine. Removing to Andros¬ 
coggin county, Maine, in 1855, he was 
elected attorney for that county in 1857, 
which office he held until 1860, when he 
was elected a representative from Maine 
to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1862 
he resigned his seat in congress, and was 
appointed judge of the supreme court of 
Maine. 

WALTON, CLIFFORD STEVENS, law¬ 
yer, author, was born March 2, 1861, near 
Chardon, Ohio. He is a successful Span- 
ish-American lawyer of Washington, D. 

C. He has contributed a number of arti¬ 
cles to current literature on international 
law subjects, and his life and experience 
in Spain. 

WALTON, E. P., journalist, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Feb 17 
1812, in Montpelier, Vt. He edited the 
Vermont Watchman, and served in the 
\ ermont state legislature as a represent¬ 
ative one term. He was then elected a 
representative to the thirty-fifth congress, 
and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth and 
thirty-seventh, congresses. After leaving 
congress he resumed the editorship of his 
journal in Montpelier, Vt. 

WALTON, GEORGE, signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence, was born in 
1740 in Frederick county, Va. In 1776 he 
was a delegate to congress from Georgia 
and a signer of the declaration of inde¬ 
pendence and the articles of confedera¬ 
tion. In 1779 he was chosen governor of 
the state. In 1780 he was again sent to 
congress; in 1783 was appointed chief jus¬ 
tice of the state, and in 1787 was a dele- ' 
gate to the convention for framing the 
constitution of the United States, but 
declined taking his seat. In 1789 he was a 
presidential elector, and in 1793 was again 
judge of the supreme court. He died Feb. 

2, 1804, in Augusta, Ga. 

WALTON, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Feb. 18, 1822, in 
Wakefield, Mass. He received a thorough 
collegiate training; and has attained suc¬ 
cess as an educator. He has been princi¬ 
pal of various schools in Massachusetts, 
and for twenty-five years was the agent 
of the Massachusetts state board of edu¬ 
cation. He has been conductor of in¬ 
stitutes in the states of Massachusetts, 
New York and Virginia. He is the au¬ 
thor of several works on arithmetic, and 
has contributed extensively to educational 
journals. 







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WALTON, GEORGE EDWARD, physi¬ 
cian, educator, author, was horn Dec. 25, 
1839, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a Cincin¬ 
nati physician, professor of medicine in 
.Cincinnati college from 1880, and the au¬ 
thor of The Mineral Springs of the United 
States and Canada. 

WALTON, MATTHEW, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1803 to 1807, and a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1809. He died Jan. 18, 
1819. 

WALWORTH, CLARENCE ALPHON- 
SUS, clergyman, author, poet, was born 
May 30, 1820, in Plattsburg, N. Y. He is 
a Roman catholic clergyman who was one 
of the founders of the Paulist order in the 
United States, a prominent temperance 
advocate, and since 1864 rector of St. 
Mary’s, Albany. He is the author of The 
Gentle Sceptic; The Doctrine of Hell; and 
Andiatorocte, and Other Poems. 

WALWORTH, MRS. ELLEN [HAR¬ 
DIN], author, was born Oct. 20, 1832, in 
Jacksonville, Ill. She is a Saratoga writer 
who has published Saratoga, the Battle 
Ground. 

WALWORTH, ELLEN HARDIN, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 2, 1858, in Saratoga 
Springs. She is the author of An Old 
World as Seen Through Young Eyes. 

WALWORTH, MRS. JEANETTE 
RITCHIE [HADERMANN], author, was 
born Feb. 22, 1837, in Philadelphia. She 
is a novelist of New York city; and the 
author of Dead Men’s Shoes; The Bar 
■Sinister; The Man at Rossmere; At Bay; 
Southern Silhouettes; Forgiven at Last; 
Baldy’s Point; The Silent Witness; Heavy 
Yokes; An Old Fogy; The Little Radical; 
■and Uncle Scipio. 

WALWORTH, JOHN, pioneer, lawyer, 
Jurist, was born in 1765 in Groton, Conn. 
He settled at Painesville, Ohio, in 1800, 
and in 1802 was made justice of the peace 
for Trumbull county. In 1803 he was ap¬ 
pointed associate judge of the superior 
court. He died Sept. 10, 1812, in Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. 

WALWORTH, MANSFIELD TRACY, 
lawyer, author, was born Dec. 3, 1830, in 
Albany, N. Y. He was a lawyer once well 
known as a writer of extremely sensa¬ 
tional romances; and the author of Bev¬ 
erly; Warwick; Lulu; Delaplene; Storm- 
cliff; Mission of Death; and Tahara,_ a 
Leaf from Empire. He died June 3, 1873, 
in New York city. 

WALWORTH, REUBEN HYDE, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was 
born Oct. 26, 1788, in Bozrah, Conn. He 
was an attorney of 
the supreme court of 
New York; and set¬ 
tled at Plattsburg in 
1811. He was a 
member of the house 
o f representatives 
during the seven¬ 
teenth congress; de¬ 
clined a re-election; 
and was appointed a 
circuit judge in 1823. 
In 1828 he was made 
chancellor of the 
state of New York, which office he held 
for twenty years, when the office was 
abolished. He was the author of Rules 
and Orders of the New York Court of 
Chancery; and The Hyde Genealogy. He 
died Nov. 27, 1867, in Saratoga Springs, 
N. Y. 

WALWORTH, REUBENA HYDE, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 21, 1867, in Louisville, 
Ky. She is the author of Where Was 
Elsie?, a comedietta. 


WALWORTH, WARREN S., railroad 
president, was born Aug. 21, 1838, in Jef¬ 
ferson county, N. Y. In 1894 he became 
president of the York Southern railroad 
at Cleveland, Ohio. 

WANAMAKER, JOHN, merchant, cab¬ 
inet officer, was born July 11, 1838, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He is the leading mer¬ 
chant of Philadelphia, Pa. In 1886 he de¬ 
clined the nomination for mayor of Phil¬ 
adelphia tendered by independent repub¬ 
licans. He was appointed postmaster- 
general March 4, 1889. 

WANGER, IRVING PRICE, lawyer, 
congressman, was born March 5, 1852, in 
North Coventry, Pa. He was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney of Montgomery county, Pa., 
in 1880 and again in 1886. He was elected 
to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth con¬ 
gresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. 

WANTON, JOSEPH, merchant, govern¬ 
or, was born in 1705 in Newport, R. I. He 
was governor of Rhode Island during 
1769-75. He died July 19, 1780, in New¬ 
port, R. I. 

WARD, A. H., congressman. He was 
elected a representative from Kentucky to 
the thirty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy. 

WARD, AARON, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born July 5, 1790, 
in Sing Sing, N. Y. In 1814 he served in 
the regular army as 
a captain. After the 
war he became dis¬ 
trict attorney for the 
county of Westchest¬ 
er; and subsequently 
attained the position 
of major-general of 
the New York mili¬ 
tia. He served as a 
representative i n 
congress from 1825 
to 1829, from 1831 to 
1837, and from 1841 
to 1843. In 1846 he was a delegate to the 
state constitutional convention. He was 
the author of Around the Pyramids, a vol¬ 
ume of travel. He died March 2, 1867, in 
Georgetown, D. C. 

WARD, ANDREW HENSHAW, lawyer, 
antiquarian, author, was born May 26, 
1784, in Shrewsbury, Mass. He was a law¬ 
yer of Shrewsbury, Mass., and subsequent¬ 
ly of Newton in the same state; and the 
author of History of Shrewsbury; Gene¬ 
alogy of the Rice Family; and The Ward 
Family. He died Feb. 18,1864, in Newton- 
ville, Mass. 

WARD, ANNA LYDIA, author, was 
born about 1850 in Bloomfield, N. J. She 
assisted in compiling a Dictionary of Quo¬ 
tations, and has published A Dictionary 
of Quotations from the Poets; Surf and 
Wave; and a History of Waterbury. 

WARD, ARTEMAS, soldier, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born in 
1727 in Shrewsbury, Mass. He was a 
representative in the Massachusetts leg¬ 
islature; and was a judge of the court of 
common pleas for the county of Wor¬ 
cester. In 1775 he was appointed major- 
general of the American army. He was 
a delegate to the provincial congress, and 
a representative in the United States con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts from 1791 to 
1795. He died Oct. 28,1800, in Shrewsbury, 
Mass. 

WARD, ARTEMAS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born Jan. 9, 1762, in 

Shrewsbury, Mass. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Massachu¬ 
setts from 1813 to 1817; and in 1821 was 
appointed chief justice of the court of 
common pleas of the state, which office 


he held for nineteen years. He died Oct. 
7, 1847, in Boston, Mass. 

WARD, DURBIN, lawyer, state senator, 
was born Feb. 11, 1819, in Augusta, Ky. 
He served through the civil war, and was 
brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He 
entered the Ohio state senate in 1870. 
The plan of the present circuit court 
system of Ohio was drafted by him. He 
began, but did not live to complete, a 
work on constitutional law, to be entitled 
The Federal Institutes. A volume of his 
speeches was published by his widow in 
1888. He died May 22, 1886, in Lebanon, 
Ohio. 

WARD, DUREN JAMES HENDERSON, 
educator, clergyman, lecturer, author, was 
born June 17, 1851, in Canada. He re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of his education in 
the high schools of Memphis, Mich.; and 
attended the Hillsdale college, Harvard 
university, Berlin university, and Leipsic 
university; and has had the degrees of 
D. B., A. M., and Ph. D., conferred upon 
him. During 1879-82 he was principal of 
the New Lyme academy, Ohio; in 1887- 
89 librarian of Harvard Divinity school; 
and in 1888-89 was a lecturer on philos¬ 
ophy in the Harvard university. In 1889- 
91 he was superintendent of the Adler 
Ethical Society school of New York city; 
and during 1891-94 lecturer to the Science 
Sermons society. Since 1895 he has been 
minister to the Unitarian society of Dover, 


WARD, EDGAR MELVILLE, artist, 
was born Feb. 24, 1839, in Urbana, Ohio. 
His Brittany Washerwomen was at the 
salon of 1876, the Philadelphia exhibition 
of 1876, and at Paris in 1878 with Vene¬ 
tian Water-Carriers and The Sabot- 
Maaer. 

WARD, ELIJAH, merchant, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 
1816, in Sing Sing, N. Y. He was presi¬ 
dent of the Mercantile Library associa¬ 
tion of New York city in 1839. He was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the thirty-fifth congress; in 1866 
was elected to the thirty-seventh con¬ 
gress, and in 1862 to the thirty-eighth 
congress. He was, for several years, judge 
advocate-general of New York with the 
rank of brigadier-general; and was also 
elected to the forty-fourth congress. He 
died Feb. 7, 1882, in Roslyn, N. Y. 

WARD, MRS. ELIZABETH STUART 
[PHELPS], author, was born in 1844 in 
Massachusetts. She has recently lived in 
Newton, Mass. The publication in 1869 
of The Gates Ajar, a tale whose theme 
is the life of departed spirits in the next 
world, aroused much discussion, and in¬ 
stantly made its author famous. She has 
since pursued the same motive in Be¬ 
yond the Gates, and The Gates Between. 
She is the author of Hedged In; The Si¬ 
lent Partner; Sealed Orders, and Other 
Stories; Men, Women, and Ghosts; 
Friends: a Duet; Dr. Zay; The Story 
of Avis; An Old Maid’s Paradise, and 
Burglars in Paradise; Fourteen to One, 
a book of short stories; Donald Marcy; 
Jack the Fisherman; The Madonna of the 
Tubs; A Singular Life; The Supply at 
St. Agatha’s; The Master of the Magi¬ 
cians (with H. D. Ward); Come Forth 
(with H. D. Ward); What to Wear?; The 
Struggle for Immortality, a collection of 
essays; and Chapters from a Life, an 
autobiography. Less widely known as a 
poet, her Poetic Studies, and Songs of the 
Silent World, perhaps represent her high¬ 
est point of attainment. Her juvenile 
books include, Gypsey’s Rainy Day Book; 
My Cousin and I; The Trotty Book; and 
Trotty’s Wedding Tour and Story Book. 







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WARD, FERDINAND DE WILTON, 
missionary, author, was born July 9, 1812, 
in Bergen, N. Y. He was a presbyterian 
missionary in India in 1836-47, and subse¬ 
quently a minister in Geneseo, N. Y. He 
is the author of India and the Hindoos; 
Christian Gift, or Pastoral Letters Upon 
Character; Summer Vacation Abroad; 
and History of the Churches of Rochester, 
N. Y. 

WARD, FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, 
physician, surgeon, was born July 10, 
1860, in San Francisco. She has the larg¬ 
est practice of any woman physician west 
of Chicago, and has written extensively 
for medical journals. 

WARD, HAMILTON, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born July 3, 1829, in Salisbury, 
N. Y. In 1856 he was elected district at¬ 
torney for Allegany county at Belmont, 
holding the office three years, and was re¬ 
elected in 1862. During that year he was 
active in raising and organizing state 
troops. In 1864 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New York to the thirty- 
ninth congress; and was re-elected to 
the fortieth and forty-first congresses as 
a republican. 

WARD, HENRY, congressman, was 
born Dec. 27, 1732, in Rhode Island. He 
was appointed secretary of Rhode Island 
in 1760; was a supporter of the revolu¬ 
tion; and a member of the congress 
which met in New York in 1765. He was 
a member of the committee of correspond¬ 
ence during the revolution; and held the 
office of secretary from his appointment 
until his death. He died in December, 
1797. 

WARD, HENRY AUGUSTUS, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born March 9, 1834, in 
Rochester, N. Y. He is a naturalist of 
note, professor in the university of Ro¬ 
chester in 1860-75; and the author of 
Notices of the Megatherium Cuvieri; and 
Description of the Most Celebrated Fossil 
Animals in Royal Museums of Europe. 

WARD, HENRY DANA, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1797 in Massachusetts. 
He was a baptist clergyman prominent 
as an opponent of Freemasonry; and the 
author of Freemasonry: Its Pretensions; 
The Gospel of the Kingdom; The History 
of the Cross; and The Faith of Abraham 
and Christ. He died in 1884. 

WARD, HERBERT DICKINSON, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1861 in Massachusetts. 
He is the author of The Captain of the 
Kittie Wink; A Dash to the Pole; The 
New Senior at Andover; The White 
Crown, and Other Stories; and The 
Burglar Wno Moved Paradise. 

WARD, HORATIO, banker, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born in 1810 in New York city. 
He bequeathed $100,000 to the National 
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ home of Washing¬ 
ton, D. C.; and an equal sum for the 
education of soldiers’ orphans. He died 
in April, 1868, in England. 

WARD, JAMES H., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Nov. 30, 1853, in Chicago, 
Ill. He engaged in the practice of law 
in Chicago; and was elected supervisor of 
the town of West Chicago in 1879. He 
was a presidential elector in 1884; and in 
the same year was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Illinois to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

WARD, JAMES HARMAN, naval of¬ 
ficer, author, was born in 1806 in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. He was a United States naval 
officer; and the author of Elementary 
Course of Instruction in Naval Gunnery; 
Manual of Naval Tactics; and Steam for 
the Million. He died June 27, 1861, near 
Matthias Point, Conn. 


WARD, JAMES THOMAS, educator, 
clergyman, author, poet, was born Aug. 
21, 1820, in Georgetown, D. C. He stud¬ 
ied at the Colum¬ 
bian academy of 
Washington, D. C., 
and the Brookville 
academy, Maryland. 
In 1840 he was li¬ 
censed to preach; 
and has since at¬ 
tained eminence as a 
clergyman, and has 
filled pastorates in 
various prominent 
churches of Mary¬ 
land, Pennsylvania 
He is the author of 
Fifty Short Letters to Save Souls; A 
Tribute to the Memory of George A. 
Johnson; Thanksgiving Sermon and 
Christmas Poem; Sunday Address in 
Rhyme; Daily Manual for Bible Read¬ 
ers; and a series of sixty papers entitled 
Sketches and Reminiscences of American 
Protestant Ministers. During 1868-86 he 
was president of the Western Maryland 
college; and in 1886 was elected presi¬ 
dent ot the Westminster Theological sem¬ 
inary of the methodist protestant church, 
which position he still holds. 

WARD, JAMES WARNER, poet, was 
born June 5, 1817, in Newark, N. J. He is 
a poet; librarian in 1874-95 of the Gros- 
venor library at Buffalo; and the author 
of Home-Made Verses and Stories in 
Rhyme; Yorick, and Other Poems; and 
Higher Water, a parody upon Hiawatha. 

WARD, JAMES WILLIAM, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born March 14, 1861, 
in Minneapolis, Minn. He held the chair 
of physiology in the Hahnemann Medical 
college from 1885-86; and is the author 
of A Year’s Work at the Sanatorium 
Without a Death. 

WARD, JASPER D., lawyer, congress¬ 
man. He was elected a representative 
from Illinois to the forty-third congress; 
and five days after its adjournment was 
appointed United States attorney for the 
southern district of Illinois in 1875. 

WARD, JOHN, soldier, physician, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Nov. 30, 1838, in New 
York city. He is a soldier and physician 
of New York city; and the author of The 
Overland Route to California, and Other 
Poems. 

WARD, JOHN ELLIOT, lawyer, state 
senator, was born Oct. 2, 1814, in Sunbury, 
Ga. In 1838 he was appointed United 
States district attorney for Georgia; and 
the following year was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the state legislature. He was also 
a member of the state legislature in 1845 
and 1853; and in 1854 was elected mayor 
of Savannah. In 1857 he was elected a 
state senator, and was chosen its presi¬ 
dent. During 1859-61 he was United 
States minister to China. 

WARD, JOHN HENRY HOBART, sol¬ 
dier, was born June 17, 1823, in New York 
city. He served with distinction in the 
Mexican and civil 
wars; and attained 
the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general in 1862. 
He took part in the 
first battle of Bull 
Run, in which his 
regiment lost one 
hundred and twenty- 
six men. He com¬ 
manded a brigade at 
Gettysburg, the bat¬ 
tle of the Wilder¬ 
ness, and in numer- 

WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, sculp¬ 
tor, was born June 29, 1830, in Urbana, 


Ohio. In 1861 he opened a studio in 
New York, where he has since resided. 
The Indian Hunter, completed in 1864 and 
now in the Central park, won universal 
praise for its excellence in design and exe¬ 
cution, and is among the best of his 
statues. New York city also possesses 
a colossal statue of a citizen soldier for 
the seventh regiment; Shakespeare; and 
a colossal statue of Washington. 

WARD, JOHN TEFFT, journalist, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1847, in 
Norway, N. Y. For twenty years this 
eminent clergyman has filled pastorates 
in the free baptist church. He is the 
editor of The Free Baptist at Minneap¬ 
olis, Minn.; and author of The Free Bap¬ 
tist Cyclopaedia. 

WARD, JONATHAN, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New York. He was 
a state senator from Westchester county, 
N. Y., from 18u7 to 1810; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1815 to 1817. 

WARD, JULIUS HAMMOND, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born Oct. 12, 
1837, in Charlton, Mass. He was an epis¬ 
copal clergyman and journalist of Boston 
on the staff of The Boston Herald. He 
was the author of Life of J. G. Percival; 
The Bible in Modern Thought; Life of 
Bishop White; Phillips Brooks in Massa¬ 
chusetts; The Church in Modern Society; 
and The White Mountains, a Guide to 
Their Interpretation. He died in 1897. 

WARD, LESTER FRANK, botanist, 
geologist, author, was born June 18, 1841, 
in Joliet, Ill. He is a botanist and geolo¬ 
gist employed in the United States geo¬ 
logical survey; an-d is the author of Guide 
to the Flora of Washington and Vicinity; 
Sketch of Paleontological Botany; Synop¬ 
sis of the Flora of the Laramie Group; 
Types of the Laramie Flora; Geograph¬ 
ical Distribution of Fossil Plants; Dy¬ 
namic Sociology; The Psychic Factors of 
Civilization; and The Principles of 
Sociology. 

WARD, LULA, educator, poet. She at¬ 
tained prominence as a successful edu¬ 
cator, has contributed extensively to 
the periodical press, and is the author of 
a number of meritorious poems. 

WARD, MARCUS LAWRENCE, manu¬ 
facturer, congressman, governor, was 
born Nov. 9, 1812, in Newark, N. J. He 
was elected governor of New Jersey in 
1865 for the term of three years; and was 
elected to the forty-third congress. He 
died April 25, 1884, in Newark, N. J. 

WARD, MARY EASTMAN, poet, was 
born in May, 1843, in North Danville, Vt. 
She has written numerous poems of merit, 
which have appeared in eastern publica¬ 
tions, her most notable poems being The 
Flag of the Seventeenth Vermont Regi¬ 
ment, and Signal Lights. 

WARD, MARY SNEDEKOR, musician, 
author, was born in Troy, N. Y. She 
graduated from the Troy Female college, 
and afterward received instruction in the 
languages under private tutors; and re¬ 
ceived her musical instruction from em¬ 
inent professors. She is prominent in 
various societies; has been vice-president 
of the Domestic Training association of 
Orange, N. J.; and manager of the Orange 
Woman’s exchange; and was one of the 
organizers of the Daughters of the Revo¬ 
lution in New Jersey, and was its first 
state secretary. She was on the educa¬ 
tional committee of Essex county for 
woman’s work at the World’s Columbian 
exposition. She has visited every capital 
city in Europe; has been a correspond¬ 
ent for tne metropolitan press, and is the 
author of interesting Sketches of Egypt, 
and Random Leaves of European Travel. 



and West Virginia. 



ous other battles. 



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WARD, MATTHEW FLOURNOY au¬ 
thor, was born May 19,1826, in Scott coun¬ 
ty, Ky. He was a writer of Louisville; 
and the author of Letters from Three 
Continents; and English Items. He died 
Sept. 30, 1862, in Helena, Ark. 

WARD, MATTHIAS, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
about 1800 in Elbert county, Ga. He 
served a number of years in the congress 
of the Texas republic; and when it be¬ 
came a state was elected to the legisla¬ 
ture as a senator. In 1858 he was appoint¬ 
ed a senator in congress from Texas for 
the term ending in 1863. He died Oct. 13, 
1861, in Raleigh, N. C. 

WARD, MRS. MAY [ALDEN], author 
was born in 1853 in Ohio. She is the au¬ 
thor of Petrarch; Dante: Sketch of His 
Life and Works; and Old Colony Days. 

WARD, MILAN LESTER, educator, 
college president, was born Dec. 24, 1830 
in Meredith, N. Y. Since 1887 he has been 
professor of mathematics in the Ottawa 
university, Kan., of which institution he 
has been president for the past three 
years. 

WARD, NATHANIEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1580 in England. He was 
a puritan clergyman, minister at Ipswich 
in 1634-36, and a resident of the colony of 
Massachusetts until 1646, when he re¬ 
turned to England, and was rector of 
Shenfield in Essex, 1647-52. He is famous 
as the author of The Simple Cobbler of 
Aggavvam in America, a piece of satire 
as able as it is vindictive and intolerant. 
The first code of laws made in New Eng¬ 
land was drafted by Ward in 1639, and 
formally adopted in 1644. It is styled The 
Body of Liberties. Mercurius Anti-me- 
chanicus, or the Simple Cobbler’s Boy 
with His Lap-full of Caveats, is usually 
attributed to Ward, and probably with 
truth. Other writings ascribed to him 
are, A Religious Retreat Sounded to a 
Religious Army; and A Sermon Before 
Parliament. He died in 1652 in England. 

WARD, RICHARD, governor, was born 
April 15, 1689, in Newport, R. I. In 1712- 
13 he was attorney-general of Rhode 
Island; recorder during 1714-30; and was 
subsequently governor of Rhode Island. 
He died Aug. 21, 1763, in Newport, R. I. 

WARD, RICHARD HALSTED, micro- 
scopist, was born June 17, 1837, in Bloom¬ 
field, N. J. As an expert in microscopical 
examinations he was one of the first to 
discriminate between different kinds of 
blood; and has published some original 
investigations. Since 1875 he has been 
manager of the American Postal Micro¬ 
scopical club of Troy, N. Y. 

WARD, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, governor, was 
born May 27, 1725, in Newport, R. I. He 
was a member of the general assembly 
from 1756 to 1759; was chief justice in 
1761; and was governor in 1762, and from 
1765 to 1767. He was one of the founders 
of Rhode Island college, now known as 
Brown university. He was a delegate to 
the continental congress from 1774 to 1776, 
in which he usually presided when in com¬ 
mittee of the whole. He died March 26, 
1776, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WARD, SAMUEL, banker, was born 
May 1, 1786, in Rhode Island. In 1838 he 
secured through the bank of England a 
loan of nearly $5,000,000 to enable the 
banks to resume specie payments, and es¬ 
tablished the Bank of Commerce in New 
York city, becoming its president. He 
died Nov. 27, 1839, in New Yora: city. 

WARD, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in 1759. He was a representative in 
congress from New Jersey from 1813 to 
1817. He died Feb. 4, 1842, in Newark, 
N. J. 


ENCYCLOPEDIA OP AMERICAN 

WARD, THOMAS, author, poet, was 
born June 8, 1807, in Newark, N. J. He 
was a writer of New York city; and the 
authoi of A Month 
of Freedom; Pas¬ 
saic: a Group of 

Poems; Flora, or 
the Gypsy’s Frolic, a 
pastoral opera; and 
War Lyrics. Besides 
his published works 
he was a constant 
contributor to the 
leading newspapers 
and magazines of the 
United States. He 
died April 13, 1873, 

WARD. THOMAS, soldier, was born 
March 18, 1839, in West Point, N. Y. 
During 1859-63 he was a cadet at the 
Military academy; he graduated and was 
promoted in the army to second lieutenant 
of the first artillery. He served during 
the rebellion of the seceding states dur¬ 
ing 1863-66, and was brevetted captain 
for good conduct and gallant services. 
During 1873-77 he was professor of mili¬ 
tary science at the Union college of 
Schenectady, N. Y.; was promoted to cap¬ 
tain of first artillery in 1876; assistant 
adjutant-general in 1884; and lieutenant- 
colonel and assistant adjutant-general in 
1893. He received the degree of A. M. 
from the Union college. 

WARD, THOMAS B., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born April 27, 1835, in 
Marysville, Ohio. He was twice elected 
mayor of the city of Lafayette, Ind., serv¬ 
ing from 1861 to 1865. He served six years 
as city attorney; and in 1875 was appoint¬ 
ed to the then newly-created office of 
judge of the superior court of Tippecanoe 
county. In 1876 he was elected to that 
position, and served four years. He was 
elected a representative from Indiana to 
the forty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-ninth congress as a 
democrat. 

WARD, WILLIAM, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 1, 1837, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth, 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses 
as a republican. 

WARD, WILLIAM GREENE, lawyer, 
soldier, was born July 20, 1832, in New 
York city. In 1863 he served as colonel 
of the regiment in the Pennsylvania cam¬ 
paign. After the war he was made a 
brigadier-general in the state militia ser¬ 
vice, and served for nearly twenty years. 

WARD, WILLIAM HAYES, clergyman, 
journalist, author, was born June 25, 1835, 
in Abington, Mass. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman of New York city, editor of The 
Independent, and eminent as an Assyri- 
ologist. He is the author of Notes on 
Oriental Antiquities. 

WARD, WILLIAM LUKENS, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 
1856, in Greenwich, Conn. He was elected 
to congress and also as elector at the same 
election; and was elected from New York 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 

WARD, WILLIAM THOMAS, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 9, 1808, in Amelia 
county, Va. He was a representative in 
congress from Kentucky from 1851 to 1853. 
He died Oct. 12, 1878, in Louisville, Ky. 

WARDELL, DANIEL, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born ifi 
1791 in Bristol, R. I. He was four times 
elected to the legislature of New York 
from Rome; and was for several years 
judge of a county court. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York from 
1831 to 1837. 


BIOGRAPHY. 977 

WARDEN, DAVID BAILLIE, public of¬ 
ficial, author, was born in 1778 in Ireland. 
He was a consul and secretary of the 
United States legation at Paris from 1804 
until his death. He was the author of 
Origin and Nature of Consular Establish¬ 
ments; Inquiry Concerning the Intellec¬ 
tual and Moral Faculties and Literature 
of the Negroes; Description of the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia; and a Statistical His¬ 
tory of the United States. He died Oct. 
9, 1845, in Paris, France. 

WARDEN, ROBERT BRUCE, lawyer, 
author, was born Jan. 18, 1824, in Bards- 
town, Ky. He is a lawyer formerly of 
Cincinnati, but since 1873 of Washing¬ 
ton. He is the author of A Familiar For¬ 
ensic View of Man and Law; A Voter’s 
Version of the Life and Character of 
Stephen Douglas; and Private Life of 
Salmon Chase. 

WARDER, GEORGE WOODWARD, 
lawyer, author, poet, was born May 20, 
1848, in Richmond, Mo. He is the author 
of an historical nov¬ 
el, but is best known 
as a poet, having 
issued three volumes 
of verse which have 
attracted consider¬ 
able attention, and 
established for the 
author a national rep¬ 
utation; in 1873 ap¬ 
peared Poetic Writ¬ 
ings or College Po¬ 
ems; in 1874 Eden 
Dell, or Love’s Wan¬ 
derings; and the third volume, a collec¬ 
tion of his finest poems, entitled the Uto¬ 
pian Dreams and Lotus Leaves, was is¬ 
sued from London press in 1885. Col. 
Warder organized the stock exchange of 
Kansas City, Mo., of which city he has 
been one of the foremost in its improve¬ 
ments, and was elected its mayor in 1886. 
He is president of the mining exchange, a 
director in the Exposition association, the 
Warder Grand opera house, the Newsboys’ 
home, and is connected with various en¬ 
terprises and charitable institutions. 

WARDER, JOHN ASTON, physician, 
author, was born Jan. 19, 1812, near Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a Cincinnati physi¬ 
cian very active in promoting a general 
interest in forestry and landscape garden¬ 
ing. He was the author of Hedge Man¬ 
ual; and American Pomology. He died 
July 14, 1883, in North Bend, Ohio. 

WARE, ASHUR, educator, journalist, 
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 10, 
1782, in Sherburne, Mass. He moved to 
Portland, Maine, in 1817, and was judge 
of the United States district court of 
Maine from 182'2 to 1866; and was first 
secretary of state for Maine in 1820. He 
published Reports of Cases in the United 
States District Court of Maine, from 1822 
to 1839; and also wrote several legal es¬ 
says and orations. He died Sept. 10, 1873, 
in Portland, Maine. 

WARE, EUGENE FITCH, soldier, law¬ 
yer, legislator, poet, was born May 29, 
1841, in Hartford, Conn. He served 
five years in the 
volunteer army; and 
five years in the 
Kansas state senate. 
He is a successful 
lawyer of Fort Scott; 
and the author of a 
volume of poems en¬ 
titled Rhymes of 
Ironquill. He is a 
constant contributor 
to current newspa¬ 
pers and magazines; 
and his poems have 
been incorporated in several standard col¬ 
lections. 



in New York city. 




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WARE, HENRY, clergyman, author, 
was born April 1, 1764, in Sherburne, 
Mass. He is a Unitarian clergyman of 
Massachusetts', pastor of Hingham in 
1787-1805. His election in the latter year 
to the Hollis professorship of divinity at 
Harvard university precipitated the dis¬ 
sensions which ultimately resulted in di¬ 
viding the congregational body into Uni¬ 
tarian and trinitarian portions. He was 
the author of Letters to Trinitarians and 
Calvinists; and Inquiry into Foundation, 
Evidences, and Truth of Religion. He 
died July 12, 1845, in Cambridge, Mass. 

WARE, HENRY, clergyman, author, 
was born April 21, 1794, in Hingham, 
Mass. He was a Unitarian clergyman of 
Massachusetts, pastor of the Second 
church in Boston in 1817-30, and Parkman 
professor at Harvard university in 1830- 
42. He was the author of The Vision of 
Liberty, an ode; Hints on Extemporane¬ 
ous Speaking; Discourses on the Offices 
and Character of Christ; Sermons on 
Small Sins; On the Formation of Chris¬ 
tian Character, which has been very wide¬ 
ly read; Life of the Savior; and Lives of 
Priestley and Noah Worcester. He died 
Sept. 22, 1843, in Framingham, Mass. 

WARE, JOHN, educator, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 19, 1795, in Hingham, 
Mass. He was a Boston physician, pro¬ 
fessor of medicine at Harvard university 
in 1832-58; and the author of History and 
Treatment of Delirium Tremens; Hints 
to Young Men on the Relation of the 
Sexes; Success in the Medical Profession; 
and Life of Henry Ware. He died April 
29, 1864, in Boston, Mass. 

WARE, JOHN FOTHERGILL WATER- 
HOUSE, clergyman, author, was born 
Aug. 31, 1818, in Boston, Mass. He was a 
Unitarian clergyman of Baltimore, and 
subsequently of Boston. He was the au¬ 
thor of Wrestling and Waiting; Sermons; 
War Tracts; The Silent Pastor; and 
Home Life. He died Feb. 26, 1881, in Mil- 
ton, Mass. 

WARE, MRS. KATHERINE AUGUSTA 
[RHODES], author, poet, was born in 
1797 in Quincy, Mass. She was the wife 
of a United States naval officer. She pub¬ 
lished The Power of the Passions, and 
Other Poems. She died in 1843 in Paris, 
France. 

WARE, MARY, poet, was born in April, 
1828, in Madisonville, Tenn. She was the 
daughter of George Harris, a noted south¬ 
ern lawyer. Mrs. 
Ware has for nearly 
half a century con- 
tributed to the 
periodical press, 
and her poems ap¬ 
pear in Poets of 
America, and other 
standard collections. 
She is a popular 
poet of Alabama, 
and prominent in 
various women’s so¬ 
cieties of Birming¬ 
ham, and the state of Alabama. 

WARE, MRS. MARY GREENE [CHAN¬ 
DLER], author, was born May 22, 1818, 
in Petersham, Mass. She is the author of 
Elements of Character; Thoughts in My 
Garden; and Death and Life. 

WARE, NATHANIEL A., author, was 
born Aug. 16, 1789, in Abbeville, S. C. 
He was a southern writer whose later 
years were spent in Philadelphia and Cin¬ 
cinnati. He was the author of Views of 
the Federal Constitution; and Notes on 
Political Economy. He died in 1854 in 
Galveston, Texas. 


WARE, NICHOLAS, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born in 1769 in Carolina county, 
Va. He was a senator in congress from 
Georgia from 1821 to the time of his 
death. He died Sept. 7, 1824, in New York 
city. 

WARE, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 3, 1797, in Hingham, Mass. 
He was a Unitarian clergyman of New 
York city in 1821-36, whose historical nov¬ 
els are still popular. He was the author 
of Letters from Palmyra, republished as 
Zenobia; Probus, afterward called Aure- 
lian; Julian; American Unitarian Biog¬ 
raphy (edited); Lectures on the Works of 
Washington Allston; Sketches of Euro¬ 
pean Capitals; Life of Nathaniel Bacon 
in Sparks’s American Biography; Sermons 
Illustrative of Unitarian Christianity; and 
Unitarianism the Doctrine of Matthew’s 
Gospel. He died Feb. 19, 1852, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

WARE, WILLIAM HIBBERT, poet, was 
born Dec. 24, 1863, in England. He is the 
author of an njpic Poem, published in one 
volume. 

WARE, WILLIAM ROBERT, educator, 
author, was born May 27, 1832, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He is a professor of archi¬ 
tecture in Columbia college School of 
Mines from 1881. He has published Mod¬ 
ern Perspective. 

WARFIELD, BENJAMIN BRECKEN- 
RIDGE, educator, clergyman, author, was 
born in 1851 in Kentucky. He is profes¬ 
sor of didactic and polemical theology at 
Princeton Theological seminary from 
1887; and is the author of The Divine 
Origin of the Bible; Introduction to the 
Textual Criticism of the New Testament; 
The Canon of the New Testament; and 
The Gospel of the Incarnation. 

WARFIELD,* MRS. CATHERINE 
ANNE [WARE], author, poet, was born 
June 6, 1816, in Natchez, Miss. She was a 
Kentucky novelist who with her sister 
Eleanor wrote The Wife of Leon, and Oth¬ 
er Poems; and The Indian Chamber, and 
Other Poems. Her own separate writings 
Include, The Household of Bouverie; The 
Romance of the Green Seal; Miriam Mon- 
fort; Hester Howard's Temptation; A 
Double Wedding; Lady Ernestine; Miri¬ 
am’s Memoirs; Sea and Shore; The Car¬ 
dinal’s Daughter; Ferae Fleming; and 
The Romance of Beauscincourt. She died 
May 21, 1877, in Pewee Valley, Ky. 

WARFIELD, ETHELBERT DUDLEY, 
lawyer, college president, author, was 
born March 16, 1861, in Lexington, Ky. 
Since 1891 he has been president of the 
Lafayette college. He is the author of 
The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798; Chris¬ 
tian Education; Christopher Columbus; 
Philip Melancthon; and other books and 
pamphlets. 

WARFIELD, HENRY R., congressman, 
was born in Anne Arundel county, 
Md. He was a representative in congress 
from Maryland from 1819 to 1825. He died 
March 18, 1839, in Frederick, Md. 

WARING, GEORGE EDWIN, engineer, 
author, was born July 4, 1833, in Bound- 
ridge, N. Y. He is an eminent sanitary 
engineer, since 1895 superintendent of the 
street-cleaning department of New York 
city; and the author of The Sanitary 
Drainage of Houses and Towns; A Farm¬ 
er’s Vacation; The Bride of the Rhine; 
Tyrol and the Skirt of the Alps; Village 
Improvements; Farm Villages; Elements 
of Agriculture; Draining for Profit and 
Draining for Health; Book of the Farm; 
How to Drain a House; Sewage and Land 
Drainage; Sanitary Condition of City and 
Country Dwellings; and Modern Methods 
of Sewage Disposal. 


WARMAN, CLEMMER, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Oct. 17, 1844, near Mor¬ 
gantown, W. Va. He graduated from the 
West Virginia university, and for eight 
years taught in the public schools. For a 
quarter of a century he has been a mem¬ 
ber of the West Virginia conference of 
the methodist episcopal church, and now 
fills a pastorate in Harrisville, W. Va. He 
has been successful in his work, and a 
leader in the building of eight churches. 

WARMAN, CY, journalist, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born in 1852 in Illi¬ 
nois. He is a Colorado journalist who 
was for a time a railway engineer; and 
the author of Tales of an Engineer, with 
Rhymes of the Rail. 

WARMOTH, HENRY CLAY, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born 
in 1842 in Illinois. During the civil war 
he was brigadier-general of the Missouri 
state troops. He began the practice of 
law in New Orleans in 1865, was sent to 
congress by the republicans; and in 1868 
was elected governor of Louisiana. Pre¬ 
viously he served as a member of the gen¬ 
eral assembly; and was elected to the 
constitutional convention of 1879. 

WARNER, ADONIRAM JUDSON, sol¬ 
dier, merchant, congressman, author, was 
born Jan. 13, 1834, in Wales, N. Y. He 
was educated at Be¬ 
loit, Wis.; and New 
York Central college. 
He was principal of 
the Lewistown acad¬ 
emy, ana superin¬ 
tendent of public 
schools of Mifflin 
county, and principal 
of Mercer union 
schools, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, from 1856 to 
1861. He entered the 
army as captain in 
a Pennsylvania regiment in 1861, was pro¬ 
moted to lieutenant-colonel and colonel, 
and brevetted brigadier-general. He served 
through the war, participating in various 
battles, and was severely wounded at 
Antietam. He studied law and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1865, but engaged in 
other business. He was elected to the 
forty-sixth and forty-eighth congresses 
and was re-elected to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. He is a successful 
dealer in railroad coal and iron; is presi¬ 
dent of the Bimetallic union from its for¬ 
mation; and in addition to economic 
questions he has been a student of geol¬ 
ogy, archaeology and kindred subjects. 
He is the author of Appreciation in 
Money; and Source of Value in Money. 

WARNER, ALEXANDER, soldier, 
farmer, legislator, banker, was born Jan. 
10, 1827, in Smithfield, R. I. He received 
his education in the 
Woodstock academy, 
Connecticut, and at 
the Wilbraham acad¬ 
emy, Massachusetts. 
He served as deputy 
sheriff in Windham 
county. Conn.; and 
in 1861 was appoint¬ 
ed major of the third 
regiment Connecti¬ 
cut volunteer in¬ 
fantry; and was next 
appointed lieuteD- 
ant-colonel of the thirteenth regiment 
Connecticut volunteer infantry. After the 
war he moved to Madison county, Miss.; 
and was appointed secretary of state by 
the commanding general; and was also 
appointed by Secretary Chase as special 
agent/' of the treasury department. For 
six years he was trustee and treasurer of 
the state university; and for six yeark 










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was a member of the state senate; and 
part of the time its president and ex- 
officio lieutenant-governor. For four years 
he was chairman of the republican state 
committee; and three times was a dele¬ 
gate to the national republican conven¬ 
tion. He then moved to Connecticut, and 
for two years was state treasurer of Con¬ 
necticut. In 1888 he moved to Kansas; 
was elected a member of the house of 
representatives; and was selected by the 
members of the house chairman of the 
committee, that organized and led the at¬ 
tack that broke down the doors, which 
resulted in regaining possession; and in 
1894 he received the re-election. 

ARNER, AMOS GRISWOLD, educat¬ 
or, author, was born in 1861 in Iowa. He 
is a professor of applied economics in 
Leland Stanford Junior university, who, 
beside reports as superintendent of chari¬ 
ties for the District of Columbia, has pub¬ 
lished American Charities: a Study in 
Philanthropy and Economics; and Three 
Phases of Cooperation in the West. 

WARNER. ANNA BARTLETT—Amy 
Lothrop—author, was born in 1820 in New 
York. She is the author of Wych Hazel; 
Books of Blessing; and Ellen Montgom¬ 
ery's Bookshelf. Among her separate nov¬ 
els and religious and other works are. 
Dollars and Cents; My Brother’s Keeper; 
Stories of Vinegar Hill; The Fourth 
Watch; The Other Shore; Three Little 
Spades, a Cmld’s Book of Gardening; 
Gardening by Myself; and Up and Down 
the House. 

WARNER, BEVERLEY E., clergyman, 
author, was born in 1855 in New Jersey. 
He is an episcopal clergyman of New Or¬ 
leans; and the author of English His¬ 
tory in Shakespeare’s Plays. 

WARNER, CHARLES DUDLEY, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Sept. 12, 1829, in 
Plainfield, Mass. He is a popular novel¬ 
ist and essayist of Hartford, editor of The 
Hartford Courant from 1867, and one of 
the editors of Harper’s Magazine from 
1884. He is the author of My Summer in 
a Garden; Backlog Studies; Saunterings; 
Being a Boy; Baddeck and That Sort of 
Thing; Mummies and Moslems; In the 
Wilderness: Adirondack Essays; Life of 
Washington Irving; Life of Captain John 
Smith; In the Levant; My Winter on the 
Nile; A Roundabout Journey; On horse¬ 
back, a Tour in Virginia, North Carolina, 
and Tennessee, with Notes of Travel in 
Mexico and California; The Work of 
Washington Irving; Studies in the South 
and West; Southern California; A Little 
Journey in the World; Their Pilgrimage; 
The Golden House; As We Go; As We 
Were Saying; The Relation of Life to 
Literature; and Our Italy. 

WARNER, ELIZA A., author, was born 
in 18—. She is a writer of Northampton, 
Mass., among whose works are, Tom 
Tracy; The Red House; and Our Two 
Lives. 



WARNER, HIRAM, educator, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 29, 1802, in Hampshire county, 
Mass. From 1828 to 
1831 he was a repre¬ 
sentative to the gen¬ 
eral assembly, and 
declined a re-elec¬ 
tion. In 1833 he was 
elected one of the 
judges of the superi¬ 
or courts of Georgia, 
and was re-elected in 
1836, holding the of¬ 
fice until 1840. In 
1845 he was appoint¬ 
ed one of the judges 
of the state supreme court, serving for 
eight years, and then resigned. In 1855 he 


was elected a representative in the thirty- 
fourth congress. He died in 1881 in At¬ 
lanta, Ga. 

WARNER, JOHN DE WITT, educator, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 30, 
1851, in Schuyler county, N. Y. For four 
years he filled the 
chairs of Latin, Ger¬ 
man, and elocution in 
the Ithaca and Al¬ 
bany academies. He 
was elected from 
New York city to the 
fifty-second and fifty- 
third congresses as a 
democrat, and took 
an active part on 
several important 
committees on tariff, 
finance and commer¬ 
cial matters. He was one of the found¬ 
ers of the Shakespeare club of New York 
city; and the author of Sound Sequence 
in Shakespeare and other papers on 
Shakespearian subjects. In 1892 he was 
the tariff reform editor of the New York 
Weekly World, and is the author of nu¬ 
merous pamphlets and tariff reform arti¬ 
cles. During 1895-96 he was chairman of 
the reform club’s sound currency com¬ 
mittee, and its president in 1897. 

V ARNER, LEVI, lawyer, congressman, 
was born Oct. 10, 1831, in Wethersfield. 
Conn. He was elected from Connecticut 
to the forty-fourth congress to fill a 
vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth congress as a democrat. 

WARNER, LUCIEN CALVIN, manufac¬ 
turer, philanthropist, was born Oct. 26, 
1841, in Cuyler, N. Y. Warner Bros, em¬ 
ploy about 2,000 operatives in their large 
factory in Bridgeport and enjoy an enor¬ 
mous sale of their productions. He is an 
interested member of the chamber of com¬ 
merce of New York. He gave a §100,000 
building to his alma mater at Oberlin for 
a conservatory of music; was active and 
liberal in the erection of a §150,000 build¬ 
ing for the Harlem branch of the Young 
Men’s Christian association; and in part¬ 
nership with his brother, has built an ad¬ 
mirable club house in Bridgeport, Conn., 
at a cost of §100,000, for the use of the 
girls in the employment of the firm. 

WARNER, MILLARD FILLMORE, edu¬ 
cator, college president, clergyman, was 
born Oct. 15, 1848, in Tuscarawas, Ohio. 
In 1887 he became a professor in the 
Baldwin university of Berea, Ohio; and 
in 1894 was made president of that insti¬ 
tution. 

WARNER, N. M., journalist, author, 
poet, was born Aug. 20, 1855, in Richland, 
Iowa. He is a publisher of Lyons, Neb.; 
and the author of Warner’s History of 
Dakota County; and a volume of poems. 

WARNER, OLIN LEVI, sculptor, was 
born April 9, 1844, in Suffield, Conn. His 
works include a colossal medallion of Ed¬ 
win Forrest, which was exhibited at Phil¬ 
adelphia in 1876; Dancing Nymph; a 
fountain for Portland, Ore., completed in 
1888; Diana; portrait-statues of Gov. Wil¬ 
liam A. Buckingham, which was placed in 
the capitol in Hartford in 1883, and Wil¬ 
liam Lloyd Garrison in Boston. 

WARNER, RICHARD, soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
in 1835 in Tennessee. He served in the 
confederate army throughout the war of 
the rebellion. He was a representative in 
the Tennessee state legislature in 1878; 
and was elected a representative from 
Tennessee to the forty-seventh and forty- 
eighth congresses as a democrat. 

W T ARNER, SAMUEL L., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1829 



in Wetherfield, Conn. In 1853 he was 
appointed executive secretary of state; 
and in 1857 was a member of the Connec¬ 
ticut legislature. In 1861 he was elected 
mayor of Middletown, and was re-elected 
until 1865, when he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Connecticut to the thirty- 
ninth congress. 


rell—author, was born July 11, 1819 in 
New York city. She was a once famous 
novelist of Highland Falls, N. Y., whose 
Wide, Wide World, appearing in 1849, at¬ 
tained an extraordinary popularity in 
America and England. Among her other 
works are, Queechy; The Old Helmet; 
Stephen, M. D.; The Hills of the Shate- 
muc; Melbourne House; Daisy; Diana; 
and The Law and the Testimony, a theo- 
logical work. She died March 17, 1885, in 
Highland Falls, N. Y 


WARNER, VESPASIAN, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, congressman, was born April 
l 84 ?,’, in T Mt Pleasant (now banner 
City), Ill. In 1861 he enlisted as a pri¬ 
vate soldier in company E, twentieth Illi¬ 
nois volunteer infantry. In 1862 he was 
commissioned a second lieutenant; re¬ 
mained in the service until 1866, when he 
was mustered out, then being a captain 
and brevet major. He was colonel and 
judge advocate-general of Illinois; and 
was elected a republican presidential 
elector in 1888. He was elected to the 
fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as 
a republican. 


VARNER, WILLARD, soldier, United 
States senator, was born Sept. 4, 1826, in 
Granville, Ohio. He entered the volun¬ 
teer army in 1861 as a major; and in 1864 
was appointed colonel of the one hun¬ 
dred and eightieth Ohio volunteers He 
was promoted to the rank of major-gen¬ 
eral by brevet, for gallant and meritorious 
services. He served two years in the Ohio 
senate; and was chosen a senator in con¬ 
gress from Alabama for the term ending 
in 1871. 


Y ARIsER, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer 
congressman, was born in 1840 in Wiscon¬ 
sin. He served three and a half years 
m the union army, in the thirty-third and 
forty-fourth Wisconsin infantry, during 
the civil war. In 1867 he was elected city 
attorney of Kansas city; and in 1868 was 
elected circuit attorney; and was mayor 
of Kansas City in 1871. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1872; was appointed 
United States attorney for the western 
district of Missouri in 1882; and in 1885 
received the votes of the republican mem¬ 
bers of the Missouri legislature for United 
States senator. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Missouri to the forty-ninth 
congress; and was re-elected to the 
fiftieth congress as a republican. 

WARNER, WILLIAM RICHARD, chem¬ 
ist, was born Dec. 25, 1836, in Caroline 
county, Md. He is a pioneer in the manu¬ 
facture of sugar-coated pills and many 
other pharmaceutical preparations now 
used all over the world. 

WARNER, ZEBEDEE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 28, 1833, in Pendleton 
county, Va. He is a minister of the sect 
of united brethren; and the author of 
Christian Baptism; Rise and Progress of 
the United Brethren Church; Life of 
Jacob Buchtel; and The Roman Catholic 
Not a True Christian Church. 

WARNOCK, WILLIAM R„ soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 29, 1838, 
in Urbana, Ohio. For four years he was 
prosecuting attorney of his county; in 
1876-77 was a state senator in the Ohio 
legislature; and for ten years was judge 
of court of common pleas. 


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WARREN, BARNEY E., educator, cler¬ 
gyman, musical editor, was born Feb. 20, 
1867, near Rochester, N. Y. He has at¬ 
tained eminence as a successful traveling 
evangelist; has edited and published a 
Sunday School Song Book for religious 
use in evangelical meetings; and is the 
author of other works. He contributed 
extensively to the periodical press, and his 
poems have appeared in several standard 
works. 

WARREN, CORNELIA, author, was 
born in 1857 in Massachusetts. She is the 
author of a work entitled Miss Wilton, 
a novel. 

WARREN, CORNELIUS, congressman, 
was born in 1790 in Putnam county, N. Y. 
He was a member of congress from New 
York from 1847 until his death. He died 
July 28, 1849, in Cold Spring, N. Y. 

WARREN, CYRUS MORE, chemist, in¬ 
ventor, author, was born Jan. 15, 1824, in 
Dedham, Mass. The use of coal-tar and 
asphaltum for roofing and paving pur¬ 
poses have been introduced by the War¬ 
ren Chemical and Manufacturing com¬ 
pany and the Warren-Scharf Asphalt 
Paving company, of which corporations he 
is president and treasurer. In 1866-68 he 
held the chair of organic chemistry in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

WARREN, EDWARD A., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born May 2, 1818, in Greene county, Ala. 
He served in the Mississippi legislature 
in 1845 and 1846; and was a representa¬ 
tive in the legislature of Arkansas in 1848 
and 1849, and was speaker of the house. 
In 1850 he was elected state’s attorney 
for the sixth judicial district of Arkansas. 
He was a representative from that state 
to the thirty-third congress; and was also 
elected to the thirty-fifth congress. He 
died July 2, 1875, in Nevada, Ark. 

WARREN, FITZ HENRY, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, state senator, was born Jan. 11, 
1816, in Brimfield, Mass. During the civil 
war he was in com¬ 
mand of the first 
Iowa cavalry, and he 
became brigadier- 
general of volunteers 
in 1862, and after¬ 
ward major-general 
by brevet, being mus¬ 
tered out of service 
in 1865. He was a 
member of the Iowa 
state senate in 1866, 
minister to Guate¬ 
mala in 1867-68, and 
a presidential elector on the democratic 
ticket in 1872. He was editor of the Bur¬ 
lington (Iowa) Hawkeye for a time, and 
was also, at a later period, connected with 
the Sun and the Tribune in New York 
city. He died June 21, 1878, in Brimfield, 
Mass. 

WARREN, FRANCIS E., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, banker, congressman, governor. 
United States senator, was born June 20, 
1844, in Hinsdale, 
Mass. He enlisted 
in 1862 in the forty- 
ninth Massachusetts 
regiment, and served 
as a private and non¬ 
commissioned officer 
in that regiment till 
it was mustered out 
of the service; was 
afterward captain in 
the Massachusetts 
militia; and was 
awarded a medal of 
honor for exceptional gallantry in action 
before Port Hudson. He was engaged in 
farming and stock raising in Massachu¬ 
setts till early in 1868, when he removed 


to Wyoming, then a part of Dakota. He 
is engaged in mercantile, live-stock, and 
lighting business; was president of the 
council of Wyoming legislature in 1873, 
and member of the council in 1884. He 
was mayor of Cheyenne, and served three 
terms as treasurer of Wyoming. He was 
appointed governor of Wyoming by Presi¬ 
dent Arthur; and was again appointed 
governor of Wyoming by President Harri¬ 
son and served till the territory was ad¬ 
mitted as a state, when he was elected 
governor. He was elected to the United 
States senate as a republican, and took his 
seat in 1890, and served until 1893. He 
was re-elected as a republican in 1895 for 
term expiring in 1901. 

WARREN, GEORGE W., educator, was 
born July 8, 1851, in Watertown, N. Y. He 
has attam’ed success in educational work; 
has been principal of public schools in 
Michigan and California; and is now city 
superintendent of schools in Eureka, Cal. 

WARREN, GEORGE WILLIAM, musi¬ 
cian, composer, was born Aug. 17, 1828, in 
Albany, N. Y. In 1860 he was invited to 
take charge of the music of the church of 
the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, and ten years 
later he became organist of St. Thomas’s 
church. He has written much church 
music and several pieces for the piano, 
and has published Hymns and Tunes as 
Sung at St. Thomas’s Church, New York. 

WARREN, GOUVERNEUR KEMBLE, 
soldier, author, was born Jan. 8, 1830, in 
Cold Spring, N. Y. He was a lieutenant- 
colonel in the engin¬ 
eer corps, major- 
general of United 
States volunteers, 
and brevet, major- 
general in the United 
States army. He was 
the author of Explo¬ 
rations in the Daco¬ 
ta Country in 1855; 
Exploration of the 
Country Between the 
Missouri and the 
Platte Rivers; and 
The Battle of Five Forks, Virginia. He 
died Aug. 8, 1882, in Newport, R. I. 

WARREN, HENRY WHITE, bishop, 
author, was born Jan. 4, 1831, in Williams¬ 
burg, Mass. He is a methodist bishop 
living in Denver, and the author of The 
Bible in the World’s Education; Lectures 
on the Bible in English; Sights and In¬ 
sights, or Knowledge by Travel; Studies 
of the Stars; and Recreations in Astrono¬ 
my. 

WARREN, IRA, journalist, physician, 
author, was born in 1806 in Ontario. He 
was a journalist and physician of Boston, 
and the author of Causes and Cure of 
Puseyism; and The Household Physician. 
He died in 1864. 

WARREN, ISRAEL PERKINS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 8, 1814, in 
New Bethany, Conn. He was a congre¬ 
gational clergyman, editor of The Chris¬ 
tian Mirror at Portland, Maine, from 1875, 
and the author of Three Judges; Chauncey 
Judd; The Seaman’s Cause; Sadduceeism; 
The Parousia; and The Book of Rev¬ 
elation: an Exposition. He died in 1892. 

WARREN, JAMES, revolutionary lead¬ 
er, was born Sept. 28, 1726, in Plymouth, 
Mass. In 1766 he was chosen a member 
of the colonial assembly, where he served 
until its final dissolution in 1774. After 
the death of Gen. Joseph Warren at Bun¬ 
ker Hill, he was chosen to succeed him 
as president of the provincial congress 
of Massachusetts. He died Nov. 27, 1808, 
in Plymouth, Mass. 


WARREN, JOHN COLLINS, educator, 
physician, author, was born Aug. 1, 1778, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a Boston phy¬ 
sician who succeeded his father as profes¬ 
sor of anatomy at Harvard university in 
1815. He was one of the founders in 1820 
of the Massachusetts General hospital, 
and its chief surgeon till his death. He 
published Cases of Organic Diseases of 
the Heart; Surgical Observations on 
Tumors, and lesser works. He died May 4, 
1856, in Boston, Mass. 

WARREN, JOHN COLLINS, educator, 
author, was born May 4, 1842, in Boston, 
Mass. He is a professor of surgery at 
Harvard university from 1887, and the au¬ 
thor of The Anatomy and Development of 
Rodent Ulcer; Pathology of Carbuncle and 
Columnal Adipose; Tne Healing of Ar¬ 
teries after Ligature in Men and Animals; 
and Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics. 

WARREN, JONATHAN MASON, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born in 1811 in Boston, 
Mass. He was a Boston physician, and 
the author of Surgical Observations, with 
Cures and Operations. He died Aug. 19, 
1867, in Boston, Mass. 

WARREN, JOSEPH, soldier, was born 
June 11, 1741, in Roxbury, Mass. He pos¬ 
sessed in perfection the gift of eloquence, 
and a speech deliv¬ 
ered in March, 1772, 
on the anniversary 
of the Boston mas¬ 
sacre, carried him at 
once to the helm, 
and for the brief pe¬ 
riod of his subse¬ 
quent life he was one 
of the most promi¬ 
nent men in New 
England. He was 
elected major-gene¬ 
ral June 14, 1775, and 
fell at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 
1775. The Bunker Hill monument now 
stands near the spot where he fell. 

WARREN, JOSEPH, journalist, was 
born July 24, 1829, in Waterbury, Vt. He 
became associate eaitor of the Buffalo 
Courier in New York in 1853, and editor- 
in-chief in 1858, and was chosen presi¬ 
dent of the New York Press association 
in 1870. He was elected superintendent 
of public schools in Buffalo in 1857, ad¬ 
vocated a public park system for that city, 
and served on the park commission from 
its formation in 1871 till his death. He 
died Sept. 30, 1876, in Buffalo, N. Y. 

WARREN, JOSEPH M., merchant, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born in 
1813 in Troy, N. Y. He was elected mayor 
of Troy, N. Y., in 1852; and was elected 
to the forty-second congress. 

WARREN, JOSIAH, reformer, author, 
was born in 1799. He established what 
was known as the Time store in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio, which he conducted with fair 
success for two years, giving and receiv¬ 
ing labor-notes in transactions with his 
customers. He propounded his theories 
in a work entitled the True Civilization. 
He died in 1874 in Boston, Mass. 

WARREN, LOTT, soldier, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, wjis born Oct. 30, 
1797, in Burke county, Ga. He served 
in the Seminole war as a second lieuten¬ 
ant of militia in 1818; and in 1823 he was 
elected a major of battalion. In 1824 he 
was elected to the Georgia state legisla¬ 
ture and in 1825 was appointed solicitor- 
general to fill a vacancy. In 1830 he was 
elected to the state senate. In 1831 he 
was again elected to the lower house of 
the legislature, and was a representative 
in congress from 1839 to 1843. He died 
June 17, 1861, in Albany, Ga. 








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WARREN, MARY EVALIN, temper¬ 
ance lecturer, poet, was born March 14, 
1827, in Galway, N. Y. She has been ac¬ 
tively engaged in 
temperance work 
and in lecturing. She 
is the author of three 
books entitled, Our 
Laurels; Little Jak- 
ie; and Compensa¬ 
tion, a temperance 
story. For thirty-five 
years she has resided 
in Fox Lake, Wis., 
where she is promi¬ 
nently identified 
with various charita- 
literary associations. She is the 



ble and 
wife of 


Mr. George Watren. 


WARREN, MRS. MERCY (OTIS), au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Sept. 25, 1728, in 
Barnstable, Mass. She was the author of 
The Group, a Political Satire; History of 
the American Revolution; three tragedies, 
including The Adulator, The Sack of 
Rome, The Ladies of Castille; and Poems: 
Dramatic and Miscellaneous. She died 
Oct. 19, 1814, in Plymouth, Mass. 

WARREN, NATHAN BOUGHTON, au¬ 
thor, was born July 4, 1805, in Troy, N. Y. 
He is a writer of Troy, N. Y., and the au¬ 
thor of The Ancient Plain Song of the 
Church; Ine Order of Daily Service, with 
the English Musical Notation; The Holi¬ 
days; and Hidden Treasure, a Goblin 
Story. 


WARREN, SAMUEL EDWAnD, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Oct. 31, 1831, in 
Newton, Mass. During 1854-72 he was 
professor in the Rensselaer Polytechnic 
institute of Troy, N. Y.; and during 1872- 
75 in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech¬ 
nology. He is the author of a series of 
text books, comprising a dozen books, 
principally on geometric subjects; and 
has contributed on educational subjects to 
current reviews and periodicals. Elemen¬ 
tary Projection Drawing; General Prob¬ 
lems of Shades and Shadows; Problems in 
Stone Cutting; Descriptive Geometry; 
Machine Drawing; and The Sunday Ques¬ 
tion, are among his published works. 


WARREN, THOMAS ROBINSON, mer¬ 
chant, author, was born in 1828 in New 
York. He is a traveler and merchant, 
and the author of Dust and Foam Tracks; 
The Yachtsman Primer; Shooting, Boat¬ 
ing, and Fishing; On Deck; and Juliette 
Irving and the Jesuit. 

WARREN, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 21, 1806, in Water¬ 
ford, Maine. He was a congregational 
clergyman at Gorham, Maine, and the au¬ 
thor of School Geography; Household 
Consecration; The Spirit’s Sword; Twelve 
Years Among Children; and These for 
Those. He died Jan. 28, 1879, in Gorham, 
Maine. 

WARREN, WILLIAM FAIRFIELD, 
clergyman, educator, author, the first 
university, was born 
March 13, 1833, in 
Williamsburg, Mass. 
After his graduation 
at Wesleyan univer¬ 
sity in 1853 he es¬ 
tablished a classical 
school in Mobile, 
Ala.; traveled; 
preached; and for 
nearly two years 
studied at the Ando¬ 
ver Theological sem¬ 
inary. In the years 
1858-60 he was a pas¬ 
tor, first at Wilbraham, Mass., then at 
Boston. Of the ten years, however, 1856- 
66, more than seven were spent in Eu¬ 
rope and the Orient. In Rome he gave 



much attention to classical and ecclesias¬ 
tical archaeology, and at the university of 
Berlin he made a special study of phil¬ 
osophy, Christian art and monumental 
theology. In Halle his studies related 
more to biblical and oriental antiquities. 
In 1866 he returned to Boston to organize 
and preside over the Boston Theological 
seminary, which was the nucleus of Bos¬ 
ton university, chartered in 1869. To the 
presidency of this latter Dr. Warren was 
called, and to its development the best 
work of his life has been given. He is 
the author of Paradise Found: the Cradle 
of the Human Race at the North Pole; 
The True Key to Ancient Chronology; In 
the Footsteps of Arminius; Constitutional 
Law Questions in the Methodist Church; 
The Quest of the Perfect Religion; and 
The Story of Gottlieb. 

WARREN, WILLIAM WIRT, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 
27, 1834, in Brighton, Mass. He was ap¬ 
pointed assessor of internal revenue of 
Boston, Mass., and in 1870 was a mem¬ 
ber of the state senate. He was elected 
a representative to the forty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

WARRINER, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, 
clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1829 
in Massachusetts. He is an episcopal 
clergyman of Montrose, Pa., and the au¬ 
thor of Victor La Tourette; Kear, a Poem; 
and I Am That I Am, a Metrical Essay. 

WARRINER, FRANCIS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 24, 1805, in Spring- 
field, Mass. He was a congregational cler¬ 
gyman who was a United States naval 
chaplain in 1831-34, and the author of 
The Cruise of the Potomac. He died 
April 22, 1866, in Chester, Mass. 

WARRINGTON, LEWIS, naval officer, 
was born Nov. 3, 1782, in Williamsburg, 
Va. In 1800 he entered the navy as a 
midshipman; served in all the wars; and 
attained the rank of commodore. He cap¬ 
tured the British sloop Epervier in 1813, 
and received a gold medal and the thanks 
of congress. In 1827-30 he was navy com¬ 
missioner; also in 1840-42; and president 
of the board in 1841. He died Oct. 12, 
1851, in Washington, D. C. 

WARROCK, JOHN, printer, was born 
Nov. 4, 1774, in Richmond, Va. He becam'e 
a printer, and for forty years issued an¬ 
nually Warrock’s Almanac. He was cho¬ 
sen to the office of printer to the Virginia 
senate, and held that place for more than 
forty years. He died March 8, 1858, in 
Richmond, Va. 

WARTHEN, RICHARD, state senator, 
was born in February. 1794, in Washing¬ 
ton county, Ga. In 1833 he was elected 
to the Georgia state legislature; and in 
1842 was a member of the state senate. He 
died Nov. 27, 1861, in Warthens, Ga. 

WASHBURN. CADWALADER COL- 
DEN, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was 
born April 22, 1818, in Livermore, Maine. 

He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative fro m 
Wisconsin to the 
thirty-fourth a n d 
thirty-fifth congres¬ 
ses; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty- 
sixth congress. He 
was also a delegate 
to the peace con¬ 
gress of 1861. In 
1862 he was appoint¬ 
ed a major-general in 
the union army; and 
was a delegate to the soldiers’ conven¬ 
tion held in Pittsburg in 1866. He was 
governor of Wisconsin during 1872-74, and 
was re-elected to the fortieth and forty- 
first congresses as a republican. He died 
May 14, 1882, in Eureka Springs, Ark. 



WASHBURN, CHARLES AMES, diplo¬ 
mat, author, was born March 16, 1822, 
in Livermore, Maine. He was a diplomat¬ 
ist who was minister to Paraguay in 
1863-68. He was the author of The His¬ 
tory of Paraguay; From Poverty to Com¬ 
petence: Graduated Taxation; Political 
Evolution; Philip Thaxter; and Gomery 
of Montgomery. He died Jan. 26, 1889, in 
New York city. 

WASHBURN, DEXTER C., merchant, 
poet, was born Oct. 9, 1861, in Rockport, 
Maine. He is a merchant of Boston, Mass., 
and the author of a volume of poems en¬ 
titled Songs of the Seasons. 

WASHBURN, EDWARD ABIEL, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 16, 1819, in 
Boston, Mass. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of broad church views, rector of 
Calvary church, New York city, and the 
author of The Social Law of God; Voices 
from a Busy Life, a volume of verse; The 
Relation of the Episcopal Church to Other 
Bodies; Epochs of Church History; and 
Beatitudes, and Other Sermons. He died 
Feb. 2, 1881, in New York city. 

WASHBURN, EMORY, educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, governor, author, was born 
Feb. 14, 1800, in Leicester, Mass. He was 
a member of the general court from 1825 
to 1827, and in 1838; was judge of the 
court of common pleas from 1844 to 1847; 
and was governor of Massachusetts in 
1854 and 1855. He became a professor of 
the Cambridge Law school in 1855, and so 
continued for many years. He was the 
author of Sketches of the Judicial History 
of Massachusetts; History of Leicester, 
Massachusetts; Treatise on American Law 
of Real Property; American Law of Ease¬ 
ments and Servitudes; Testimony of Ex¬ 
perts; and Lectures on the Study and 
Practice of the Law. He died March 18, 
1877, in Cambridge, Mass. 

WASHBURN, FRANCIS, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1843 in New York. 
He is an episcopal clergyman of Newburg. 
N. Y.; and the author of Meditations on 
Charity; The Soul Athirst, and Other 
Sermons; and Thoughts on the Lord’s 
Prayer. 

WASHBURN. FREDERIC LEONARD, 
educator, biologist, was born April 12, 
1860, in Brookline, Mass. He has been 
instructor of zoo.logy in the university of 
Michigan, in the State Agricultural col¬ 
lege of Oregon, and also in the university 
of Oregon. 

WASHBURN, GANEM, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born in October, 1823, 
in Livermore. He settled in Oshkosh, 
Wis.; has been a member of the senate 
of Wisconsin; and judge of Winnebago 
county and of tenth judicial circuit of the 
state. 

WASHBURN, GEORGE, educator, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, was born March 
1, 1833, in Middleboro, Mass. He was pro¬ 
fessor of philosophy and political economy 
and acting president in Robert college, 
Constantinople, in 1869-76, and since tne 
latter year he has been president. 

WASHBURN, HENRY D„ soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 28, 
1832, in Windsor county, Vt. In July of 
1861 he raised a company for service 
in the war; was promoted to the com¬ 
mand as colonel of the eighteenth Indiana 
volunteers in 1862; in 1864 was brevetted 
a brigadier-general-; and was mustered 
out of the service in 1865. He was elected 
a representative from Indiana to the thir¬ 
ty-ninth congress. He was re-elected to 
the fortieth congress as a republican; and 
in 1869 was appointed surveyor-general of 
Montana. 








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WASHBURN, HENRY STEVENSON, 
manufacturer, legislator, poet, was born 
June 10,1813, in Providence, R. I. Through 
his own exertions he 
received a thorough 
education at the 
Worcester academy 
and the Brown uni¬ 
versity. For fifteen 
years he was en¬ 
gaged in the manu¬ 
facture of wire in 
Worcester; laid the 
corner stone of Me¬ 
chanic’s hall, and de¬ 
livered the dedica¬ 
tory address at its 
completion. In 1852 he declined the 

nomination for congress; and during 

the civil war he was in charge 

of clothing and hospital supplies for 
the union army. For a dozen years 
he was manager of the Shawmut 
Wire works in Boston; in 1871-72 he 

was a member of the Massachusetts house 
of representatives; and in 1873-74 was 
a member of the state senate. For sev¬ 
eral years he was president of the Union 
Mutual Life Insurance company, and sub¬ 
sequently traveled in France and Ger¬ 
many in its behalf. He is the author of 
The Vacant Chair, and Other Poems, a 
volume of strong, earnest and tender po¬ 
etry. He has long since retired from ac¬ 
tive business and is a resident of Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

WASHBURN, ISRAEL, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, governor, author, 
was born June 6, 1813, in Livermore, 
Maine. He was a member of the Maine 
legislature in 1842; and was elected to 
the federal house of representatives from 
Maine for the thirty-second, thirty-third, 
thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth 
congresses. In 1860 he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Maine; and in 1863 was ap¬ 
pointed collector of the port of Portland, 
Maine. He died May 12, 1883, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

WASHBURN, JOHN HENRY, insur¬ 
ance president, was born Oct. 27, 1828, in 
Amherst, Mass. He first became identified 
with the insurance business in 1850. In 
1859 he became connected with the Home 
Insurance company of New York city; 
was appointed its secretary in 1867; and 
became vice-president of that company in 
1884. He has been twice elected presi¬ 
dent of the association of Western Under¬ 
writers; and has also been president of 
the Insurance Tariff association of New 
York. 

WASHBURN, PETER THACHER, law¬ 
yer, governor, author, was born Sept. 7, 
1814, in Lynn, Mass. He was reporter of 
the Vermont supreme court for eight 
years at Woodstock; was adjutant and in¬ 
spector-general for Vermont from 1861 to 
1866; and was governor of the state from 
1869 until his death. He was the author 
of Reports of the Supreme Court of Ver¬ 
mont; and Digest of All Cases in the Ver¬ 
mont Supreme Court. He died Feb. 7, 
187Q, in Woodstock, Vt. 

WASHBURN, WILLIAM BARRETT, 
manufacturer, banker, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, United States senator, was born 
Jan. 31, 1820, in Winchendon, Mass. He 
was a member of the Massachusetts state 
senate in 1850, and of the lower house 
in 1854; and was subsequently president 
of the Greenfield bank. He was elected 
a representative from Massachusetts to 
the thirty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-ninth congress. He 
was re-elected to the fortieth congress; 
and continued to serve in the house of 
representatives until 1872, when he re¬ 
signed. In 1872 and 1873 he was gov¬ 


ernor of Massachusetts; resigned, and was 
elected a senator in congress to fill a 
vacancy, and continued in the senate until 
1875. He died Oct. 5, 1887, in Springfield, 
Mass. 

WASHBURN, WILLIAM DREW, sur¬ 
veyor, manufacturer, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Jan. 14, 1831, in 
Livermore, Maine. 
He was appointed 
surveyor-general of 
Minnesota by Presi¬ 
dent Lincoln in 1861, 
and held the office 
for four years. He 
has been actively en¬ 
gaged in various 
manufacturing in¬ 
dustries in the city 
of Minneapolis since 
that time; was a di¬ 
rector and large 
owner of the Minneapolis Water Power 
company; was the projector and after¬ 
wards president of the Minneapolis and 
St. Louis railroad; and organized and 
built the Sault line of railway from Min¬ 
neapolis to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., 
of which he was the chief projector, and 
remained president until his election to 
the United States senate in 1889. He was 
elected to the legislature in 1858 and 1871; 
was elected to the forty-sixth, forty-sev¬ 
enth, and forty-eighth congresses; and 
was elected to the United States senate 
as a republican, and served during 1889- 
95. 

WASHBURN, WILLIAM TUCKER, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1841 in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. He is a lawyer and novelist 
of New York city, and the author of 
Fair Harvard; The Unknown City, a story 
of New York; and Spring and Summer, a 
collection of verse. 

WASHBURNE, ELIHU B., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, author, was born Sept. 23, 1816, 
in Livermore, Maine. He was elected a 
representative to the thirty-third con¬ 
gress from Galena, Ill.; and re-elected to 
the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, thirty- 
sixth, thirty-seventh, and thirty-eighth 
congresses. On account of having served 
continuously for a longer period than 
any other member of the thirty-eighth 
congress, usage awarded him the title of 
Father of the House. He was re-elected 
to the thirty-ninth congress. He was re¬ 
elected to the fortieth congress; and in 
1869, was appointed secretary of state in 
the cabinet of President Grant, but re¬ 
signed, after one week of service, to ac¬ 
cept the post of minister plenipotentiary 
to France, continuing in that position 
until 1877. He was the author of Sketch 
of Edward Coles and the Slavery Struggle 
of 1823-24; and Recollections of a Min¬ 
ister to France. He died Oct. 22, 1887, 
in Chicago, Ill. 

WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFER¬ 
RO, educator, college president, author, 
was born April 18, 1856, in Hale’s Ford, 
Va. He is a distinguished educator of 
African descent and president of Tuske- 
gee institute in Alabama from 1881. 

WASHINGTON, BUSHROD, soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, author, was born June 5, 
1762, in Westmoreland county, Va. He 
served as a soldier in the revolution; was 
a member of the Virginia house of dele¬ 
gates; and was a member of the conven¬ 
tion to ratify the federal constitution. 
In 1798 he was appointed a justice of the 
supreme court of the United States. He 
was the author of Reports of Cases in the 
Virginia Court of Appeals; and Reports 
of Cases in the United States Circuit 
Court, Third District, 1803-27. He died 
Nov. 26, 1829, in Philadelphia, Pa. 


WASHINGTON, GEORGE, first presi¬ 
dent of the United States, was born Feb. 
22, 1732, in the county of Westmoreland, 
Va. His father, Au¬ 
gustine Washington, 
and his mother, 
Mary Ball, had six 
children—Tour sons 
and two daughters— 
George being the eld¬ 
est. He received a 
common English ed¬ 
ucation, and at the 
age of nineteen was 
appointed one of the 
adjutant-generals of 
his state, with the 
rank of major. He was soon after ap¬ 
pointed colonel, which position he held 
until 1758. At the age of tweniy-seven 
he married Mrs. Martha Custis, a wealthy 
widow about three months his junior, and 
the mother of two children. In 1759 he 
was elected to the house of burgesses, and 
continued to be returned to that body for 
fifteen years, with the exception of short 
intervals, and officiating as justice of the 
peace. In 1774 Washington was elected 
one of the delegates to represent Virginia 
in the first continental congress, at Phila¬ 
delphia, and held the office until June 
15, 1775, when he was appointed by that 
body commander-in-chief of the American 
army. He held that position until he 
brought the revolutionary war to a suc¬ 
cessful termination; then he returned to 
Annapolis, where congress was in ses¬ 
sion, and resigned his commission Dec. 
23, 1783. In May, 1787, he was elected 
to the convention which met in Philadel¬ 
phia for the purpose of framing a con¬ 
stitution, and was chosen to preside over 
its deliberations. The convention suc¬ 
ceeded in framing our present constitu¬ 
tion of the United States, and it was 
adopted by that body Sept. 17, 1787. As 
soon as the constitution had been rati¬ 
fied by a sufficient number of states they 
proceeded to elect a president. George 
Washington was unanimously elected by 
the electoral college in April, 1789, re¬ 
ceiving sixty-nine votes. These were the 
votes of only ten states; two of the thir¬ 
teen original states had not yet ratified 
the constitution, and New York had not 
passed an electoral law. He took the oath 
of office April 30, 1789, at Federal hall, 
in the city of New York. At the expira¬ 
tion of his first term he was unanimously 
re-elected by the electoral college, and 
took the oath of office, March 4, 1793, 
at Philadelphia. On the 4th of March, 
1797. his second presidential term closed, 
and he retired to his farm at Mount Ver¬ 
non, determined to pass the remainder of 
his days in retirement. In July, 1798, the 
rank and title of lieutenant-general and 
commander-in-chief of all the armies of 
the United States 
was conferred upon 
him by congress on 
account of difficul¬ 
ties with France, 
but he did not find 
it necessary to take 
the field. He held 
the commission until 
his death, which oc¬ 
curred Dec. 14, 1799, 
and his body was de¬ 
posited in the family 
tomb at Mount Ver¬ 
non. Colonel Henry Lee said in a me¬ 
morial address before congress that he 
was first in war, first in peace, and first 
in the hearts of his countrymen. Wash¬ 
ington held political office about twenty- 
five years, and military positions about 
fifteen years. He left an estate valued at 
$800,000. 












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WASHINGTON, GEORGE CORBIN, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 20, 
1789, in Westmoreland county, Va. He 
represented Maryland in congress from 
1827 to 1833, and from 1835 to 1837. He 
was also a president of the Chesapeake 
and Ohio canal, and a commissioner for 
the settlement of Indian claims. He died 
July 17, 1854, in Georgetown, D. C. 


WASHINGTON, JAMES B., railroad 
president, was born Aug. 26, 1839, in 
Baltimore, Md. He was president of the 
Wheeling, Pittsburg and Baltimore rail¬ 
road; and also president of numerous rail¬ 
road corporations in Pittsburg, Pa. 

WASHINGTON, JOHN AUGUSTUS, 
soldier, was born May 3, 1821, in Blakely, 
Va. He was a descendant of George 
Washington; served as aide-de-camp on 
the staff of General Robert E. Lee; and 
was killed with a reconnoitering party, 
Sept. 13, 1861, near Richmond, Va. 


WASHINGTON, JOSEPH EDWIN, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Nov. 10, 1851, in Wessington, Tenn. 

He is a descendant 
of the Virginia 
Washingtons of Sur¬ 
rey and Southamp¬ 
ton counties. In 1876 
he was elected a 
member of the Ten¬ 
nessee house of rep¬ 
resentatives; and in 
1880 was the demo¬ 
cratic elector on the 
Hancock and English 
ticket. In 1886 he 
was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from his native county to the 
fiftieth congress as a democrat; and was 
re-elected successively to the fifty-first, 
fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth 
congresses. Having been a consistent 
sound money democrat, he declined to be 
a candidate for re-election after the adop¬ 
tion of the Chicago democratic platform. 
He is now engaged in agricultural pur¬ 
suits. 



WASHINGTON, MRS. LUCY HALL 
[WALKER], reformer, author, was born 
in 1835 in Vermont. She is a temperance 
reformer and poet, the wife of a baptist 
clergyman at Port Jervis, N. Y., and 
the author of Echoes of Song; and Mem¬ 
ory’s Casket. 

WASHINGTON, WILLIAM, soldier, leg¬ 
islator, was born Feb. 28, 1752, in Staf¬ 
ford county, Va. He entered the army 
under Mercer, and 
greatly distinguished 
himself at the south 
as a commander of 
a corps of cavalry. 
Taken prisoner at 
the battle of Eutaw 
Springs, he remained 
a captive until the 
close of the war. Af¬ 
ter the conclusion of 
peace he took no 
other concern in 
public affairs than to 
appear occasionally in the legislature of 
South Carolina, although he was offered 
the nomination for the governorship of 
that state. He died March 6, 1810, in 
Charleston, S. C. 

WASHINGTON, WILLIAM H., lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
in 1814 in North Carolina. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from 1841 to 1843; 
and subsequently served five or six years 
in the state legislature. He died Aug. 12, 
1860. 

WASSON, DAVID ATWOOD, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born May 14, 1823, 



in West Brooksville, Maine. He was a 
Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, 
prominent as a radical thinker, who lived 
at West Medford after his retirement 
from the ministry. He was the author of 
Poems; and Essays: Religious, Social, Po¬ 
litical. He died Jan. 21, 1887, in West 
Medford, Mass. 

WASSON, GEORGE SAVARY, artist. 
His works are Great Misery Island; The 
Constitution and the Guerriere; A Wreck 
at Isle au Haut; Moore’s Head, Isle au 
Haut (1886); Going to Pieces; and Run¬ 
ning for a Harbor. 

WATERBURY, JARED BELL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 11, 1799, in 
New York city. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman who was city missionary of 
Brooklyn, and the author of Advice to a 
Young Christian; Voyage of Life; 
Sketches of Eloquent Preachers; and 
Southern Planters and Freedmen. He 
died Dec. 31, 1876, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

WATERHOUSE, BENJAMIN, educator, 
physician, author, was born March 4,1754, 
in Newport, R. I. He was a physician 
who was professor of medicine at Har¬ 
vard university in 1783-1812, and of na¬ 
tural history at Brown university in 1784- 
91. He was the author of Lectures on 
the Theory and Practice of Medicine; The 
Principles of Vitality; The Botanist; and 
The Journal of a Young Man of Massa¬ 
chusetts, a novel. He died Oct. 2, 1846, 
in Cambridge, Mass. 

WATERMAN, ELIJAH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 28, 1769, in Bozrah, 
Conn. He contributed prose and verse to 
periodicals, and his other publications in¬ 
clude An Oration before the Society of 
the Cincinnati; A Century Sermon at 
Windham; and Life and Writings of John 
Calvin. He died Oct. 11, 1825, in Spring- 
field, Mass. 

WATERMAN. FRANK ALLAN, physi¬ 
cist, was born July 9, 1865, in Oswego, N. 
Y. In 1888 he graduated from the Prince¬ 
ton university; was professor of physics 
in the Purdue university in 1891-93; in¬ 
structor in physics in the Princeton uni¬ 
versity during 1893-97; and since that 
time has filled the chair of physics in the 
Smith college of Northampton, Mass. 

WATERMAN, IDA FERRIS, educator, 
reformer, lecturer, poet, was born May 4, 
1855, in Galesburg, Ill. For many years 
she taught school; has lectured exten¬ 
sively on temperance and prohibition; and 
is the author of a number of meritorious 
poems. She resides in South Dakota, 
where she is active as an organizer in re¬ 
ligious and temperance work. 

WATERMAN, LEWIS EDSON, inven¬ 
tor, was born Nov. 20, 1837, in Decatur, 
N. Y. He is the inventor of the Water¬ 
man fountain pen. 

WATERMAN, MARCUS, artist, was 
born Sept. 1, 1834, in Providence, R. I. 
His landscapes include Gulliver in Lilli- 
put, which was at the Centennial exhibi¬ 
tion, Philadelphia, in 1876; The Roc’s 
Egg; The Journey to the City of Brass; 
and numerous American forest scenes and 
Arabian subjects. 

WATERMAN, SIGISMUND, physician, 
surgeon, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 
22, 1819, in Bavaria. In 1857 he was ap¬ 
pointed police surgeon, which place he 
filled for nearly thirty years, and during 
the civil war he was made one of the 
draft surgeons. Among his papers are 
Practical Remarks on Scarlatina; Thera¬ 
peutic Employment of Oxide of Zinc; and 
Spectral Analysis as an Aid in the Diag¬ 
nosis of Disease. 


WATERMAN, SYLVANUS DEXTER, 
soldier, educator, was born Sept. 14, 1842, 
in Litchfield, Maine. In 1861 he grad¬ 
uated from Bowdoin college, and served 
gallantly through the civil war in the 
third regiment Massachusetts volunteer 
infantry. He has attained success in edu¬ 
cational work; has been superintendent 
of schools in Greencastle, Ind.; principal 
of grammar schools in Louisville, Ky.; 
for twelve years was principal of the high 
school in Stockton, Cal.; and is now prin¬ 
cipal of high school and general superin¬ 
tendent of public schools of Berkeley, 
Cal. In 1882 he was republican nominee 
for state superintendent of public instruc¬ 
tion of California. 

WATERMAN, THOMAS GLASBY, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Jan. 23, 1788, in 
New York city. He was a lawyer of Bing¬ 
hamton, N. Y., who published The 
Justice’s Manual. He died Jan. 7, 1862, 
in Binghamton, N. Y. 

WATERMAN, THOMAS WHITNEY, 
lawyer, author, was born June 28, 1821, 
in Binghamton, N. Y. He is a lawyer of 
Binghamton who, besides editing many 
legal works, has written The Civil Juris¬ 
diction of Justices of the Peace in New 
York; Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction of 
Justices in Wisconsin and Iowa; Princi¬ 
ples of Law and Equity; The Law of Set- 
Off; The Law of Trespass; The Law Re¬ 
lating to Specific Performance of Con¬ 
tracts; and The Law of Corporations 
other than Municipal. 

WATERS, MRS. CLARA [ERSKINE] 
[CLEMENT], author, was born Aug. 28, 
1834, in St. Louis, Mo. She is an art- 
writer of Boston, and the author of Hand¬ 
book of Legendary and Mythological Art; 
Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engrav¬ 
ers, and their Works, a Handbook; Chris¬ 
tian Symbols (with K. Conway); Ar¬ 
tists of the Nineteenth Century and 
their Works (with L. Hutton); Life 
of Charlotte Cushman; Eleanor Mait¬ 
land, a novel; Stories of Art and Artists; 
Naples, the City of Parthenope; Venice, 
Mediaeval and Modern; Constantinople, 
the City of the Sultans; History of Paint¬ 
ing for Beginners and Students; and 
Rome, the Eternal City. 

WATERS, HENRY FITZ-GILBERT, 
genealogist, was born March 29, 1833, in 
Salem, Mass. He received the honorary 
degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1885 for 
tracing the family of John Harvard, when 
other genealogists had failed. He has 
spent several years in England pursuing 
genealogical inquiries. 

WATERS, JULIUS S., lawyer, legislator, 
was born March 25, 1836, in Warrick coun¬ 
ty, Ind. In 1858 he was a candidate for 
the legislature in his native county and 
state; and in 1860 was a member of the 
Indiana state commission when Benja¬ 
min Harrison was nominated for supreme 
court reporter. In 1864-65 he was en¬ 
gaged in journalistic work, and has pub¬ 
lished and edited papers in Nebraska, 
Kansas and Idaho. In 1866 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar; was county attorney 
in Kansas in 1868; and received the re- 
election in 1870, 1876 and 1878. In 1880 
he was elected to the Kansas legislature, 
and received the re-election to the ses¬ 
sion of 1882. In 1883 he was appointed 
receiver of the United States land office at 
Hailey, Idaho; served four years, and 
was elected district attorney of Alturas 
county, Idaho, in 1888. In 1896 he was 
elected to the Idaho legislature from Lin¬ 
coln county. He is a recognized leader in 
the house of representatives; is a versa¬ 
tile writer, a ready speaker, and a bril¬ 
liant orator. 



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WATERS, ROBERT, educator, author, 
was born May 9, 1835, in Scotland. He 
is an educator of Hoboken, N. J., 
and the author of Life of William Cob- 
bett; Shakespeare Portrayed by Himself; 
and How Genius Works its Wonders. 

WATERS, WILLIAM EVERETT, edu¬ 
cator, author, college president, was born 
Dec. 20, 1856, in Winthrop, Maine. Since 
1894 he has been president of Wells col¬ 
lege, of Aurora, N. Y. He was joint 
author with President Harper, of the Chi¬ 
cago university, of An Inductive Greek 
Method. 

WATERSTON, MRS. ANNE CABOT 
LOWELL [QUINCY], author, poet. She 
is the author of Verses by A. C. Q. W.; 
and Adelaide Phillipps, a Record. 

WATERSTON, ROBERT CASSIE, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1812 in Maine. 
He was a Unitarian clergyman of Boston, 
and the author of Thoughts on Moral and 
Spiritual Culture; and Arthur Lee and 
Tom Palmer. He died in 1893. 

WATIE, STAND, soldier, was born in 
1815 in Cherokee, Ga. He served as a 
member of the Cherokee, Ga., legislative 
council, and was speaker of the lower 
house from 1862 till 1865. He became 
colonel of the first Cherokee confederate 
infantry regiment in October, 1861, and 
was promoted brigadier-general in the 
confederate army in 1864. He died in 
August, 1877. 

WATKIN, WILLIAM HAMILTON, 
lawyer, was born March 10, 1871, in Lee, 
Miss. He attended the university ot Mis¬ 
sissippi; studied law, and has since at¬ 
tained prominence as an able lawyer of 
Jackson, Miss. 

WATKINS, ALBERT G., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born May 5, 
1818, in Jefferson county, Tenn. He was 
elected to the Tennessee legislature from 
his native county in 1845; and was a 
presidential elector in 1848. He was first 
elected a representative in congress in 
1849, and served by successive re-elec¬ 
tions until 1859, except during the thirty- 
third congress, when he declined the nom¬ 
ination. 

WATKINS, JABEZ B., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born June 25, 1845, in Indiana 
county. Pa. In 1890 he became president 
of the Kansas City, Watkins and Gulf 
railway at Lawrence, Kan. 

WATKINS, SAMUEL, philanthropist, 
was born in 1794 in Campbell county, Va. 
He bequeathed one hundred and thirty 
thousand dollars for the establishment of 
a polytechnic institution in Nashville, 
which was erected there in 1882. He died 
Oct. 16, 1880, in Nashville, Tenn. 

WATKINS, TOBIAS, physician, was 
born in 1780 in Maryland. In 1825 he was 
appointed fourth auditor of the treasury, 
which office he held until 1830. He died 
Nov. 14, 1855, in Washington, D. C. 

WATKINS, WALTER KENDALL, ge¬ 
nealogist, historian, was born Aug. 5, 
1855 in Boston, Mass. This noted gene¬ 
alogist and historical writer is secretary 
of the society of Colonial Wars; registrar 
of society of Sons of the Revolution; and 
assistant librarian and curator of the’ New 
England Historic Genealogical society. 

WATKINS, WILLIAM BROWN, philol¬ 
ogist, author, was born May 2, 1834 in 
Bridgeport, Ohio. From 1868 till 1872 he 
was presiding elder at Steubenville, Ohio, 
after which he was stationed in Pittsburg 
for nine years. He is a reader of the his¬ 
torical dictionary of the Philological so¬ 
ciety now in course of publication in Lon¬ 
don, and for many years has been prepar¬ 
ing an Etymological Dictionary of Amer¬ 
ican Geographical Names. 


WATKINSON, DAVID, philanthropist, 
was born Jan. 17, 1778, in England. By 
his will he gave $40,000 to the Hartford 
hospital, $20,000 to the orphan asylum, 
$40,000 for the foundation of a juvenile 
asylum and farm school for neglected and 
abandoned children, and $100,000 for a 
library of reference in connection with the 
Connecticut Historical society, also mak¬ 
ing the trustees of the library of refer¬ 
ence residuary legatees of his estate. He 
died Dec. 13, 1857, in Hartford, Conn. 

WATMOUGH, JOHN GODDARD, sol¬ 
dier, congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1793, 
in Wilmington, Del. He was aide-de- 
camp to General Gaines, at New Orleans, 
and in the Creek Nation in 1814 and 1815; 
and resigned his commission in 1816. He 
was elected a representative in congress 
from Pennsylvania in 1831. He was high 
sheriff of Philadelphia city and county in 
1835; and was surveyor of that port in 
1841. He died Nov. 29, 1861, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

WATMOUGH, PENDLETON GAINES, 
naval officer, was born May 3, 1828, in 
Whitemarsh, Pa. He entered the navy 
in 1841; served on 
the Brazil station, 
the Mediterranean, 
and the Pacific, and 
shared in the cap¬ 
ture and occupation 
of California during 
the Mexican war. He 
returned home in 
1847, the following 
year was graduated 
at the naval aca¬ 
demy, served in the 
Mediterranean and 
Pacific and on the coast of China, and re¬ 
signed in 1858. In 1861 he volunteered for 
the civil war and was reappointed in the 
navy. He resigned as lieutenant-com¬ 
mander in 1865, and in 1869-77 was col¬ 
lector of the port of Cleveland, Ohio. - 

WATROUS, JEROME A., soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Sept. 6, 1840, in Conk¬ 
lin, N. Y. His place in the history of 
the civil war is forever fixed by the fact 
of his having been adjutant general of the 
famous Wisconsin iron brigade. For many 
years he has been a journalist of repu¬ 
tation, and his historical articles on the 
civil war published during the last 
three years in The Times-Herald have 
been the most widely read literature of 
their kind in recent years. On June 16, 
1898, he was made a paymaster in the 
regular army, with the rank of major. 

WATROUS, JOHN C., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1806 in Colchester, Conn. 
He was attorney-general of the republic 
of Texas; and when it became a state 
was made judge of the United States court 
for the eastern district of the state, serv¬ 
ing until 1869. He died June 17, 1874, in 
Baltimore, Md. 

WATSON, ALFRED AUGUSTIN, bish¬ 
op of East Carolina, was born Aug. 21,1818 
in New York city. He served as chaplain 
to the second regiment of North Carolina 
state troops from 1861 to 1863, when he 
was elected assistant to Bishop’Atkinson, 
in charge of St. James’s church, Wilming¬ 
ton, N. C„ of which he became rector in 
1864, and served there until his elevation 
to the episcopate. 

WATSON, BENJAMIN FRANK, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, lawyer, was born April 30, 
1826, in Warner, N. H. He was editor 
and proprietor of the Lawrence Sentinel, 
postmaster of the city, was nominated for 
mayor, and subsequently elected city so¬ 
licitor. He was major of the sixth regi¬ 
ment of Massachusetts militia. 


WATSON, BERIAH ANDRE, physician, 
author, was born March 26, 1836, in Lake 
George, N. Y. He is a physician of Jer¬ 
sey City, and the author of Amputations 
and their Complications; and The Sports¬ 
man’s Paradise, or the Lake Lands of 
Canada. 

WATSON, COOPER K., congressman, 
was born in Ohio. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1855 
to 1857. 

WATSON, DAVID H., journalist, lawyer, 
was born April 25, 1855, in Fulton county. 
Ill. He has filled various public omces of 
trust in Missouri; and is now the editor 
of The Record of Cabool. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature 
on various subjects. 

WATSON, DAVID K., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born June 18, 1849, near Lon¬ 
don, Ohio. He was assistant United 
States district attorney for the southern 
district of Ohio during the administration 
of President Arthur; and in 1887 was 
nominated by the republican state con¬ 
vention of Ohio for attorney-general and 
elected, and was renominated by accla¬ 
mation and re-elected in 1889. In 1892 he 
was appointed special counsel for the 
United States in the suits brought by the 
government against the Pacific railroads. 
In 1894 he was elected to the fifty-fourth 
congress as a republican, being the only 
republican ever elected from the district. 

WATSON, ELKANAH, agriculturist, 
author. He was a noted traveler and 
agriculturist, and the author of Men and 
Times of the Revolution, his best-known 
work, which is mainly autobiographic. 
Other works of his are, Tour in Holland 
in 1784; History of the Canals in the State 
of New York from 1788 to 1819; Rise of 
Modern Agricultural Societies; and His¬ 
tory of Agricultural Societies on the 
Berkshire System. He died Dec. 5, 1842, 
in Port Kent, N. Y. 

WATSON, FLETCHER B., soldier, ed¬ 
ucator, lawyer, was born Nov. 27, 1841, in 
Chatham, Va. During the civil war he 
served as a sergeant in the confederate 
army. He has been superintendent of 
schools, clerk of circuit court; for years 
was engaged in journalistic work; and is 
now a prominent lawyer in his native 
city. 

WATSON, HENRY CLAY, journalist, 
author, was born in 1831 in Maryland. 
He was a journalist of Philadelphia, and 
subsequently of California, and the au¬ 
thor of Campfires of the Revolution; 
Campfires of Napoleon; Romance of His¬ 
tory; Lives of the Presidents; Nights 
in a Block-House; Old Bell of Independ¬ 
ence; The Yankee Teapot; Heroic Women 
of History; and Universal Naval History. 
He died July 10, 1869, in Sacramento, ual. 

WATSON, HENRY COOD, musical 
critic, was born in 1816 in England. He 
came to this country in 1840, and was 
art-critic for the New York World in 
which he published several poems. He 
became connected with the Musical Chron¬ 
icle in 1843, and contributed to various 
periodicals. He founded the Musical 
Guest. In 1862 he founded the Art 
Journal, and in 1863 became musical 
critic of the New York Tribune. He died 
Dec. 2, 1875, in New York city. 

WATSON, JAMES, state legislator. 
United States senator. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the assembly of New York during 
the years 1791, 1794, 1795, and 1796; was a 
state senator in 1797; and was a senator 
in congress from New York from 1798 
to 1800, when he resigned. He died May 
15, 1806, in New York city. 



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WATSON, JAMES CRAIG, astronomer, 
author, was born Jan. 28, 1838, in Canada. 
He became assistant astronomer in the 
observatory of the university of Michigan. 
He is the author of A Popular Treatise 
on Comets; A Complete Digest of the 
Results and Methods of All Great Writers 
on Theoretical Astronomy, and other 
works. He died Nov. 23, 1880, in Madi¬ 
son, Wis. 

WATSON, JAMES E., lawyer, congress¬ 
man. was born Nov. 2, 1864, in Winches¬ 
ter, Ind. He is a. noted lawyer of Rush- 
ville, Ind. He was elected president of 
the state Epworth league of the metho- 
dist episcopal church in 1892 and was re¬ 
elected in 1893. He was elected to the 
Hfty-fourth congress as a republican. 

WATSON, JAMES MADISON, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 8, 1827, in Onon¬ 
daga county, N. Y. He is an educator 
of Elizabeth, N. J., and the author of 
Handbook of Gymnastics; Manual of Cal¬ 
isthenics; and a series of Independent 
Readers. 

WATSON, JAMES V., clergyman, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1814, in Lon¬ 
don, England. He was editor of the 
Michigan Christian Advocate and of the 
Northwestern Christian Advocate in Chi¬ 
cago in 1852-56, and was the author of 
Helps to the Promotion of Revivals; and 
Tales and Takings, Sketches and Inci¬ 
dents from the Itinerant and Editorial 
Budget of the Rev. J. V. Watson. He 
■died Oct. 17, 1856, in Chicago. Ill. 

WATSON, MRS. JENNIE J., poet, was 
born May 4, 1838, in Booneville, Mo. She 
is the author of a number of poems. 

WATSON, JOHN, physician, surgeon, 
author, was born April 16, 1807, in Ire¬ 
land. He was instrumental in organiz¬ 
ing the New York Medical and Surgical 
society, the American Medical association 
and the New York Academy of Medicine, 
of which latter institution he was presi¬ 
dent in 1859-60. He was the author of 
numerous reports, essays, and reviews in 
professional journals. He died June 3, 
1863, in New York city. 

WATSON, JOHN FANNING, booksel¬ 
ler, banker, author, was born in 1780, in 
New Jersey. He was a bookseller, and 
subsequently a banker, of Philadelphia, 
and the author of Historic Tales; and 
Annals of Philadelphia. He died in 1860. 

WATSON, JOHN WHITTAKER, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Oct. 14, 1824, in 
New York city. He was a journalist of 
New York city, and the author of Beau¬ 
tiful Snow and Other Poems; and The 
Outcast and Other Poems. He died July 
18, 1890, in New York city. 

WATSON, LEWIS F., merchant, bank¬ 
er, congressman, was born April 14, 1819, 
in Crawford county, Pa. He was elected 
president of the Warren Savings bank 
in 1870; and was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth and 
lorty-seventh congresses as a republican; 
and was re-elected to the fifty-first con¬ 
gress. He died Aug. 25, 1890, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

WATSON, PAUL BARRON, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born March 25, 1861, in Mor¬ 
ristown, N. J. He is a lawyer of Boston, 
and the author of Marcus Aurelius An¬ 
toninus; Bibliography of Pre-Columbian 
Discoveries of America; and The Swedish 
Revolution under Gustavus Vasa, a very 
•effective study of an important epoch in 
Swedish history. 

WATSON, SERENO, botanist, author, 
was born Dec. 1, 1826, in East Windsor 
Hill, Conn. He was a noted botanist of 
'Cambridge, curator of the Herbarium of 
Harvard university in 1888-92. and the 


author of Bibliographical Index of North 
American Botany; and Botany of Califor¬ 
nia. He died March 9, 1892, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

WATSON, STEPHEN M„ librarian, 
poet, was born Jan. 22, 1836, in Saco, 
Maine. He was elected superintendent 
and librarian at the 
York institute of Sa¬ 
co, Maine, which po¬ 
sition he resigned to 
accept a similar one 
in the public library 
of Portland He is 
the editor and pub¬ 
lisher of The Maine 
Historical and Ge¬ 
nealogical Recorder. 
His poems have ap¬ 
peared in the lead¬ 
ing publications of 
New England; and in a number of stand¬ 
ard collections of poetry. 

WATSON, THOMAS E., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 5, 
1856, in Georgia. He was a member of 
the Georgia legislature in 1882-83; and 
was democratic elector for tne state at 
large in 1888. He was elected to the fifty- 
second congress as a democrat. 

WATSON, WILLIAM, civil engineer, 
author, was born Jan. 19, 1834, in Nan¬ 
tucket, Mass. He is a professor of me¬ 
chanical engineering, and the author of 
Technical Education; Course in Descrip¬ 
tive Geometry; and Course in Shades and 
Shadows. 





WATSON, WILLIAM F., educator, poet, 
was born May 11, 1862, in Canada. At 
the age of seventeen he commenced edu- 

__ cational work in the 

state of Maine; and 
later completed a 
classical course at 
Houlton academy; 
and subsequently 
graduated from the 
Colby university. 
For many years he 
has been professor 
of chemistry in the 
Furman university 
of Greenville, S. C. 
He is the author of a 
volume entitled The Children of the Sun, 
and Miscellaneous Poems; and contrib¬ 
uted extensively to current literature on 
educational and scientific topics. His'po¬ 
ems also appear in Poets of America and 
other standard works. 



WATSON, WILLIAM HENRY, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Nov. 8, 1829, in 
Providence, R. I. He was examiner in 
diagnosis and pathology in the state board 
of medical examination from 1872 till 
1881; U. S. examining pension surgeon 
from 1875 till 1881, surgeon-general of 
New York state from 1880 till 1883, and 
since 1882 has been regent of the uni¬ 
versity of the state of New York. 

WATSON. WILLIAM ROBINSON, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, author, was born Dec. 14, 
1799, in Scuth Kingston, R. I. In 1856 
he was appointed by the Rhode Island 
general assembly state auditor, serving 
until 1863. He frequently edited political 
journals, and wrote for the press, vindi¬ 
cating and explaining the doctrines of 
the whig party with great vigor. He 
died Aug. 29, 1864, in Providence, R. I. 

WATSON, WINSLOW COSSOUL, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 22, 1803, in Albany, 
N. Y. He is the author of Treatise on 
Practical Husbandry; Pioneer History of 
the Champlain Valley; and History of 
Essex County, New York. 


WATTERS, M. L., lawyer, legislator, 
was born March 13, 1863, near Groton, 
Ohio. In 1893 he was a representative in 
the Kansas state legislature, known as 
the war-house; and is still a member, 
elected by the state populist ticket. He 
has been principally engaged in coal min¬ 
ing; for three years was president of the 
Miners’ union; and is now engaged in law 
at Scammon, Kan. 

WATTERSON, GEORGE, lawyer, li¬ 
brarian, author, was born Oct. 23, 1783, 
in New York city. He was a Washington 
lawyer who was the first librarian of 
congress; and the author of Letters from 
Washington; The Wanderer in Washing¬ 
ton; Course of Study Preparatory to the 
Bar or Senate; and The Lawyer, or Man 
as He Ought Not to Be. He died Feb. 4, 
1854, in Washington, D. C. 

WATTERSON, HARVEY McGEE, 
journalist, state senator, congressman, 
was born Nov. 23, 1811, in Bedford county, 
Tenn. He was elected a representative 
from his native county to the Tennessee 
legislature in 1835. He resided in the con¬ 
gressional district of James K. Polk, and, 
in 1839, when Mr. Polk became a candi¬ 
date for governor was elected as his suc¬ 
cessor in congress. He was re-elected in 
1841, and served until 1843. He was ap¬ 
pointed United States minister to Buenos 
Ayres; and on his return from this mis¬ 
sion, in 1845, was elected to the state 
senate of Tennessee, and when the legis¬ 
lature met was chosen president of the 
senate. He became connected with his 
son in the conduct of the Louisville Cour¬ 
ier-Journal, and continued an active mem¬ 
ber of the editorial staff on that paper. 
He died Oct. 1, 1891, in Louisville, Ky. 

WATTERSON, HENRY, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, was born Feb. 16, 
1840, in Washington, D. C. He served in 
the confederate army. In 1867 he re¬ 
moved to Louisville, Ky., and became part 
owner and the editor of the Louisville 
Journal; consolidated with other papers, 
in 1868, under the title of the Courier- 
Journal, of which he became the editor. 
He was elected a representative from 
Kentucky to the forty-fourth congress, to 
fill a \ acancy, as a democrat. He is the 
author of Oddities of Southern Life and 
Character. 

WATTERSON. JOHN AMBROSE, Ro¬ 
man catholic bishop, was born May 27, 
1844, in Blairsville, Pa. He was appoint¬ 
ed professor in Mount St. Mary’s, and in 
1877 he was made president. In 1880 he 
was consecrated bishop of Columbus. In 
1884 he founded a college in Columbus. 

WATTS, EDWIN FORREST, journalist, 
poet, was born March 29, 1859, in Taylor 
county, Iowa. In 1884 he entered journal¬ 
ism and in 1886 started a crusade against 
the corrupt management of the Iowa state 
institution for the deaf, which resulted in 
Mr. Watts being sustained by the state 
legislature, and the management removed. 
In 1891 he was a delegate to the state 
convention, and has since filled various 
public positions of trust. He resides in 
Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he is success¬ 
fully engaged in journalism. 

WATTS, FREDERICK, lawyer, jurist, 
was born May 9, 1801, in Carlisle, Pa. In 
1849 he was appointed president judge of 
the ninth district of Pennsylvania. In 
1854 he was one of the projectors of the 
Agricultural college of Pennsylvania, and 
chosen president of the board of trustees; 
and took an interest in all the local enter¬ 
prises of Carlisle. In 1871, he was ap¬ 
pointed commissioner of agriculture in 
Washington. 




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WATTS, HENRY MILLER, lawyer, 
state legislator, was born Oct. 10, 1805, 
in Carlisle, Pa. He practiced law in 
Pittsburg, Pa.; was appointed deputy at¬ 
torney-general; and was a representative 
in the state legislature from 1835 to 1838. 
He then settled in Philadelphia, and was 
appointed United States attorney for the 
district of Philadelphia; and in 1868 was 
appointed envoy extraordinary and minis¬ 
ter plenipotentiary to Austria. 

WATTS, JOHN, major general, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 27, 1749, in New 
York city. In the military service of the 
state of New York he rose to the rank of 
brigadier general. He was a member of 
congress from 1793 to 1795. He died Sept. 
3, 1836, in New York city. 

WATTS, JOHN S., soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Jan. 19, 1816, in Boone county, Ky. 
He served in the legislature of Indiana; 
was twice elected a prosecuting attorney; 
and in 1851 was appointed an associate 
justice in New Mexico. He was elected 
a delegate from New Mexico to the thirty- 
seventh congress; took an active part in 
laising troops for the union army during 
the rebellion; and in 1868 was appointed 
chief justice of the supreme court of New 
Mexico. 

WATTS, ROBERT, educator, was born 
in 1812, in Fordham, N. Y. From 1839 
till his death he was professor of anato¬ 
my in the college of Physicians and Sur¬ 
geons of New York city, and from 1859 
he was one of the attending physicians of 
the nursery and child’s hospital'. He died 
Sept. 8, 1867, in Paris, France. 

WATTS, THOMAS HILL, statesman, 
lawyer, governor, was born Jan. 3 1819 in 
Butler county, Ala. In 1842 he was elected 
to the legislature, and he was returned in 
1844 and 1845. He. removed to Montgom¬ 
ery county in 1847, and was in 1849 sent 
to the legislature from that district; and 
m 1863-68 was governor of Alabama. 

WAUCHOPE, SAMUEL, soldier, public 
official, was born March 10, 1783, in Lex- 
^ton Va. He was a soldier in’ the war 
ot 1812, in which he was also paymaster. 
He was elected commissioner of revenue - 
sheriff of his county; and died 


WAUCHOPE, SAMUEL AUGUSTINE, 
physician, surgeon, was born June 28 
1822, in Rockbridge county, Va. He at¬ 
tended the Washington and Lee univer¬ 
sity, and the university of New York city. 
He taught school until he graduated in 
medicine; practiced in his native state 
for a number of years, when he moved to 
Georgia, where he attained success in his 
profession and became one of the lead¬ 
ing physicians and surgeons of that state. 
He now resides in Tallahassee, Fla. 


WAUGH, BEVERLY, bishop, was boi 
Oct. 28, 1789, in Fairfax county, Va. 
1808 he entered the ministry, and at tl 
end of three years he was stationed in tl 
city of Washington. He was elected 1 
the Baltimore conferences to the gener 
conferences of 1816 and 1820. In 1852 1 
became senior bishop of the church. 1 
died Feb. 9, 1858, in Baltimore, Md. 


WAUGH, DAN, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 7, 1842, in In¬ 
diana. He served three years as private 
in company A, thirty-fourth Indiana vol¬ 
unteer infantry. He was elected to the 
office of judge of the thirty-sixth judicial 
circuit for six years; and was elected 
from Indiana to the fifty-second and fifty- 
third congresses. 


WAUGH, FREDERICK JUDD, artist, 
was born Sept. 13, 1861, in Bordentown, 


N. J. He has been successful as a land¬ 
scape and marine painter; and in painting 
portraits and allegorical figures. 

WAUGH, IDA, artist, was born in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. In 1896 she received the 
three hundred dollar prize awarded for 
the best picture painted by an American 
woman at the New York Academy of De¬ 
sign. 

WAUGH, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
poet, was born March 21, 1814, in Eng¬ 
land. He is an eminent presbyterian 
clergyman of Cohocton, N. Y. In 1888 he 
published a work entitled Messiah’s Mis¬ 
sion. 

WAUL, THOMAS N., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1815, 
in Sumter district, S. C. Having removed 
to Texas he was elected one of her repre¬ 
sentatives in the first confederate con¬ 
gress. He was a brigadier-general in the 
confederate army. 

WAXHAM, FRANK E., physician, edu¬ 
cator, was born Dec. 1, 1853, in La Porte 
county, Ind. In 1878 he graduated from 
the Chicago Medical 
college; and subse¬ 
quently studied in 
London and Berlin. 
He now fills the 
chair in the Gross 
Medical college of 
Denver, Col. He is 
a versatile writer, 
and a constant con¬ 
tributor to medical 
and secular journals. 
He has also published 
numerous pamphlets 

on medical subjects. 

WAY, ANDREW JOHN HENRY, artist, 
was born April 27, 1826, in Washington, 
D. C. At the Philadelphia exhibition of 
1876 he received a medal for two panels. 
His numerous works include A Christmas 
Memory; Prince Albert Grapes; Flora and 
Pomona; Wild Fowl; A Sportsman’s 
Luck; To my Sweetheart; and Prepara¬ 
tion for Apple Toddy. He died Feb. 7, 
1888, in Baltimore, Md. 

WAY, GEORGE BREVITT, artist, was 
born Oct. 29, 1854, in Baltimore, Md. 
Among his works are Sunset; Twilight on 
the Susquehanna; Village Scene in 
Brownsville; and On the Upper Potomac. 

WAYLAND, FRANCIS, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born March 11, 
1796, in New York city. He was a bap¬ 
tist clergyman emi¬ 
nent as a metaphysi¬ 
cian, and was presi¬ 
dent of Brown uni¬ 
versity in 1827-55. 
He was the author of 
Elements of Moral 
Science; Intellectual 
Philosophy; Human 
Responsibility; Ele¬ 
ments of Political 
Economy; Occasion¬ 
al Discourses; Moral 
Law of Accumula¬ 
tion; Domestic Slavery Considered as a 
Scriptural Institution; Sermons to the 
Churches; Principles and Practice of Bap¬ 
tist Churches; and Letters on the Minis¬ 
try of the Gospel. He died Sept. 30, 1865, 
in Providence, R. I. 

WAYLAND, FRANCIS, educator, law¬ 
yer, jurist, author, was born Aug. 23, 1826, 
in Boston, Mass. In 1864 he was elected 
judge of probate for New Haven; and in 
1869 he was elected lieutenant-governor 
of Connecticut. In 1872 he was appointed 
to a professorship in the Law school of 
Yale, and in the next year he was made 
dean of that school. He published papers 
on Tramps; and Out-Door Relief, pre¬ 




pared for the American Social Science as¬ 
sociation. 

WAYLAND, HEMAN LINCOLN, cler¬ 
gyman, journalist, author, was born April 
23, 1830, in Providence, R. I. He is a 
baptist clergyman, editor of The National 
Baptist at Philadelphia in 1872-94, and 
editor of The Examiner from 1894. He 
is the author of Life and Labors of F. 
Wayland; and Faith and Works ot 
Charles Spurgeon. 

WAYNE, ANTHONY, soldier, states¬ 
man, was born Jan. 1, 1745, in East Town, 
Chester county, Pa. In 1773 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative 
in the Pennsylvania 
general assembly. 
In 1775 he entered: 
the army as colonel, 
and at the close of 
the campaign was 
made a brigadier- 
general. In 1781 he 
led the Pennsylva¬ 
nia line to form a 
junction 'with Lafay¬ 
ette in Virginia, and' 
engaged in the cap¬ 
ture of Cornwallis, after which he con¬ 
ducted the war in Georgia with equal suc¬ 
cess, receiving from the legislature of that 
state, as a reward for his services, a val¬ 
uable farm, upon which he retired after 
the war. In 1787 he was a member of the' 
convention for framing the constitution. 
He concluded a treaty, Aug. 3, 1795, withi 
the hostile tribes northwest of the Ohio,, 
and attained the rank of major-general. 
He was called Mad Anthony. He died in 
December, 1796, in Erie, Pa. 



WAYNE, ISAAC, congressman, was 
born in 1770 in Warren county, Pa. He- 
was a representative in congress from, 
Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1825. He died: 
Oct. 25, 1852, in Chester county, Pa. 

WAYNE, JAMES MOORE, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, state legislator, congressman, was, 
born in 1790 in Savannah, Ga. He was 
elected a member of the general assembly 
as an opponent of the relief law; and: 
was re-elected the following year. He was 
mayor of the city of Savannah, y and on 
his resignation of that office was chosen 
judge of the superior court. He was 
elected a member of congress in the ses¬ 
sion of 1829 and 1830, and served until 
1835. He was appointed to a seat on the 
bench of the United States supreme court 
in 1835. He died July 5, 1867, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

WEAD, CHARLES KASSON, electric¬ 
ian, author, was born Sept. 1, 1848, in 
Malone, N. Y. He is an electrician of 
Hartford; and the author of Aims and: 
Methods of the Teaching of Physics; and 
Lecture Notes on Sound and Light. 






1U " J J 


congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1850, in 
Ireland. In 1877 he was appointed prose- 

__ cuting attorney of 

Bay county, and 
served till 1878. He 
was mayor of Bay 
City from 1883 to 
1885; and was a 
member of the board 
of education of Bay 
City for a short time. 
He was elected to 
the fifty-second and 
fifty-third congress¬ 
es as a democrat. 

He now practices 
law in Detroit, Mich.; and also is asso¬ 
ciated with his brother, John C. Weadock, 
in the law office at Bay City. 








HERRINGSHAW'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. ' 987' : 


WEAKLEY, ROBERT, congressman, 
was born July 20, 1764, in Halifax county, 
Va. He was a representative in congress 
from Tennessee from 1809 to 1811; and 
iri 1819 was appointed United States com¬ 
missioner to treat with the Chickasaws. 
He died Feb. 4, 1845, in Nashville, Tenn. 

WEAR. ROBERT DUKE, lawyer, poet, 
was born Feb. 26, 1854, in Verona, Miss. 
He is a successful lawyer of Granbury, 
Tex.; and the author of a volume entitled 
Beauty, and Other Poems. 

WEARE, MESHECH, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
June 16, 1713, in Hampton, N. H. He was 
elected to the New Hampshire legislature 
for several years, serving as speaker 
in 1752. In 1754 he was a commissioner 
to the colonial congress at Albany, and 
he was afterward a justice of the supreme 
court, and in 1777 became chief justice. 
He died Jan. 15, 1786, in Hampton Falls, 
N. H. 

WEATHERSBY, ELIZA, actress, was 
born in 1849 in England. She has attain¬ 
ed a national reputation throughout the 
country as a noted actress. She died 
March 24, 1887, in New York city. 

WEATHERWAX, FRANK, elocution¬ 
ist, orator, was born Nov. 21, 1863, in 
Corey, Mich. He received a thorough ed¬ 
ucation in the district schools, and at the 
Northern Indiana Normal school of 
Valparaiso. He studied elocution and ora¬ 
tory under the best masters, and is now 
teacher of those arts in Detroit, Mich. 

WEAVER, ARCHIBALD J., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born April 15, 1844, 
in Susquehanna county, Pa. He is a noted 
lawyer of Falls City, Neb. In 1872 he was 
elected district attorney of the first ju¬ 
dicial district. He was elected judge of 
the first judicial district in 1875, and was 
re-elected in 1879, holding the position 
until elected a representative from Ne¬ 
braska to the forty-eighth congress. He 
was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress 
as a republican. 

WEAVER, CHARLES ALEXANDER, 
manufacturer, banker, was born April 14, 
1845, in York, Pa. He is a successful 
manufacturer of Moundville, W. Va.; 
president of the Moundville Manufactur¬ 
ing company; president of the Mound¬ 
ville Land company; and president of the 
Marshall County bank. 

WEAVER, GEORGE SUMNER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Dec. 24, 1818, in 
Rockingham, Vt. He is a universalist 
clergyman; and the author of Lectures 
on Mental Science; Hopes and Helps for 
the Young; Aims and Aids for Girls; The 
Ways of Life; The Christian Household; 
The Open Way; Moses and Modern Sci¬ 
ence; The Heart of the Word; and Lives 
and Graves of Our Presidents. 

WEAVER, JAMES B.. soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 12, 1833, in 
Dayton, Ohio. He entered the union army 
in 1861 as a private, 
and rose to the rank 
of colonel and brevet 
brigadier - general. 
He was elected dis¬ 
trict attorney of the 
second judicial dis¬ 
trict of Iowa in 1866; 
and was appointed 
assessor of internal 
revenue in 1867. He 
was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Iowa 
to the forty-sixth 
congress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth and fiftieth congresses. In 1890 

he was the candidate of the national 

party for the presidency of the United 
States. 


WEAVER, JOHN G., legislator, public 
official, was born Nov. 25, 1812, in New¬ 
port, R. I. In 1863-64 he was a represen¬ 
tative in the Rhode Island state legisla¬ 
ture; and was one of the first aldermen 
of Newport. 

WEAVER, JOHN RILEY, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, diplomat, was born Oct. 21, 1839, 
in Youngstown, Pa. He received a thor¬ 
ough education in the Normal School 
academy, and the Allegheny college, from 
which latter institution he received the 
degrees of A. B. and A. M.; and in 1866 
was given the degree of S. T. B. by the 
Garrett Biblical institute of Evanston, 
Ill. During the civil war he served in the 
union army as lieutenant in company G, 
eighteenth regiment Pennsylvania caval¬ 
ry; was made a prisoner of war; was 
confined in Libby prison and other pris¬ 
ons for nearly two years; and was bre- 
vetted lieutenant-colonel of volunteers. 
In 1869-70 he was consul in Italy; in 1870- 
79 consul at Antwerp, Belgium; and con¬ 
sul-general at Vienna, Austria, during 
1879-86. He has been professor of math¬ 
ematics and military science during 1866- 
69 in the West Virginia university; and 
since 1885 has been professor of modern 
languages, history and political philoso¬ 
phy, and political science in the De Pauw 
university of Greencastle, Ind. ne has 
written and lectured extensively on eco¬ 
nomic, political and social subjects; and 
is the author of Syllabuses on Constitu¬ 
tional History; Economics and Banking; 
Sociology and Its Applications; Social¬ 
ism and Social Reform; and other works. 

WEAVER. JONATHAN, bishop, author, 
was born Feb. 23, 1824, in Carroll county, 
Ohio. He is a clergyman of Ohio, bishop 
of the church of the United Brethren; and 
the author of Discourses on the Resurrec¬ 
tion; Ministerial Salary; Divine Provi¬ 
dence; and Universal Restoration not 
Sustained by the Word of God. 

WEAVER, RUFUS B„ physician, edu¬ 
cator, was born Jan. 10, 1841, in Gettys¬ 
burg, Pa. He is lecturer on surgical ana¬ 
tomy, and demonstrator of anatomy in 
Hahnemann Medical college of Philadel¬ 
phia. 

WEAVER, WALTER L., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 1, 1851, in 
Montgomery county, Ohio. He was elect¬ 
ed prosecuting attorney for Clarke county, 
Ohio, in 1874, and again elected to the 
same office in 1880, 1882, and 1885. He was 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a re¬ 
publican. 

WEAVER, WILL J., journalist, poet, 
was born Dec. 24, 1856, in Mill Hall, Pa. 
He was editor of The Normal Gazette; 
and the author of numerous poems. 

WEBB, ALEXANDER STEWART, sol¬ 
dier, college president, author, was born 
Feb. 15, 1835, in New York city. He is 
president of the college of the city of 
New York from 1869, and during the civil 
war a general in the federal army. He 
is the author of The Peninsula; and Mc¬ 
Clellan's Campaign of 1862. 

WEBB, CHARLES, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, was born Feb. 13, 1724, in Stam¬ 
ford, Conn. He was a member of the 
Connecticut legislature in 1758, and was 
rechosen twenty-three times. He died 
after 1794. 

WEBB, CHARLES HENRY—John Paul 
—journalist, author, was born Jan. 24, 
1834, in Rouse’s Point, N. Y. He is a jour¬ 
nalist now living at Nantucket very popu¬ 
lar as a humorist in the earlier part of his 
career. He is the author of Liffith Lank; 


St. Twel’mo’; John Paul’s Book; Parodies' 
in Prose and Verse; and Vagrom Verse. 

WEBB. MRS. FRANCES ISABEL- 
[CARRIE], journalist, author, was born 
in 1857 in New Jersey. She was a maga- 
zinist of New York city; and the author' 
of A Tiff with the Tiffins; Gala Day 
Books; and A Breath of Suspicion. She' 
died in 1895. 

WEBB, GEORGE FRANKLIN, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 
8, 1818, near Liberty, Miss. In 1840 he' 
was admitted to the bar, and practiced in 
the place of his nativity until the civil 
war, when he was commissioned as ma¬ 
jor commissary, which office he held un¬ 
til the close of the war. After the war 
he was elected to a seat in the Mississippi 
state legislature, and served two sessions 
with distinction. He has frequently pre¬ 
sided as circuit judge under special ap¬ 
pointments; and has attained prominence 
as one of the foremost lawyers of Missis¬ 
sippi. For several years he was engaged 
in journalism; has given much attention 
to literary work; and is the author of nu¬ 
merous essays, addresses, and articles in 
current literature. 

WEBB. HENRY LIVINGSTON, soldier, 
state legislator, was born Feb. 6, 1795, in 
Claverack, N. Y. He settled in southern 
Illinois in 1817, and was repeatedly a 
member of both houses of the legislature. 
He was general of the Illinois militia. 
He died Oct. 5, 1876, in Makanda, Ill. 

WEBB, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, state' 
senator, author, was born in 1792 in 
Georgia. He was judge of the superior 
court of Georgia. He was United States 
district judge in the territory of Florida. 
He resigned and moved to Texas in 1839; 
and was attorney-general of the state and 
secretary of state. He served one term in 
the senate; and after Texas became a 
state was reporter of the decisions of the 
supreme court of the state; secretary of 
state, and judge of the fourteenth judicial 
district, which position he held at the 
time of his death. He was the author of 
Reports of the Supreme Court of Texas 
from 1846 to 1848. He died Nov. 1, 1856, 
in Goliad, Tex. 

WEBB. JAMES WATSON, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born Feb. 8, 1802, in 
Claverack, N. Y. He entered the army 
as second lieutenant 
in 1819; was made- 
first lieutenant in 
1823, and resigned in 
1827 and took charge' 
of the New York 
Courier, which was ; 
united to the En¬ 
quirer, under the 4 
name of Morning 
Courier and New 
York Enquirer. He 
became sole editor, 
and in 1830 sole pro¬ 
prietor. In 1861 he was minister to Bra¬ 
zil; while in this position secured the set¬ 
tlement of long-standing claims against 
Brazil, and was instrumental, through his 
intimacy with Napoleon III., in procuring 
the withdrawal of the French from Mexi¬ 
co. He was the author of Altowan, or Life 
in the Rocky Mountains; and Slavery and 
its Tendencies. He died June 7, 1884, in 
Claverack, N. Y. 

WEBB, JOHN RUSSELL, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 6, 1824, in Brown- 
ville, N. Y. He published John’s First 
Book; and Webb’s Word Method,in which 
he expounded his system of instruction; 
besides a series of readers embodying the 
method. He died Sept. 10, 1887, in Benton 
Harbor, Mich. 







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WEBB, JONATHAN NELSON, clergy¬ 
man, was born Jan. 14, 1811, in Brown- 
ville, N. Y. For sixty-three years he was 
actively engaged as 
a baptist clergyman, 
and filled pastorates 
in various states and 
territories. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
at the Madison uni¬ 
versity of Hamilton, 
N. Y., the same in¬ 
stitution as is now 
known as the Col¬ 
gate university. He 
has been a general 
missionary and dis¬ 
trict secretary of the American Baptist 
Home Missionary society in Nebraska 
and Southwestern Dakota; and for fif¬ 
teen years has filled pastorates in the 
baptist denomination of Missouri. 

WEBB, LINDLEY M., lawyer, legisla¬ 
tor, was born March 7, 1849, in Windham, 
Maine. He has filled several important 
offices in the city government of Port¬ 
land, Maine, and has served as a member 
of the Maine house of representatives. 

WEBB, NATHAN, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, was born May 7, 1825, in Port¬ 
land, Maine. He was a representative in 
the Maine state legislature in 1864 and 
1865. He was elected county attorney of 
Cumberland county in 1865; and re¬ 
elected in 1868. In 1870 he resigned the 
eounty attorneyship to accept the ap¬ 
pointment of United States district attor¬ 
ney for Maine; and was reappointed in 
1874, and again in 1878. In 1882 he was 
appointed United States district judge for 
the district of Maine. 

WEBB. SAMUEL BLATCHLEY, pa¬ 
triot, soldier, was born Dec. 15, 1753, in 
Wethersfield, Conn. He held the Bible 
for Washington when he took his oath 
as first president of the United States. 
He died Dec. 3, 1807, in Claverack, N. Y. 

WEBB. THOMAS SMITH, Masonic au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 30, 1771, in Boston, 
Mass. In 1797 as appears from the copy¬ 
right he published The Freemason’s Mon¬ 
itor, or Illustrations of Masonry, and thus 
secured for himself fame as a Masonic 
ritualist and author. He died July 8, 1819, 
in Cleveland, Ohio. 

WEBB. WILLIAM BENNING. soldier, 
lawyer, banker, cabinet officer, was born 
Sept. 17, 1825, in Washington, D. C. In 
1861 he joined a company of volunteers, 
and was elected captain. In 1861, upon 
the formation of the metropolitan police 
force in Washington, he was elected su¬ 
perintendent of the force. In 1885 he was 
appointed one of the commissioners of 
the District of Columbia; and in 1886 
was elected president of the board of com¬ 
missioners. 

WEBB. WILLIAM STEWARD, presi¬ 
dent of the Wagner Palace Car company, 
was born Jan. 31, 1851, in New York city. 

He was doing well at 
the Stock exchange 
when, in 1883, at the 
request of William 
H. Vanderbilt, his 
father-in-law, he re¬ 
tired from Wall 
street to accept the 
presidency of the 
Wagner Palace Car 
company. This cor¬ 
poration needed an 
energetic head, and 
he took hold of its 
affairs with great earnestness, improved 
its rolling stock, extended its territory, 
and largely increased its earnings. He 
is yet its president and maintainsthecom- 


pany in a highly prosperous condition. 
He is also president of the Adirondack 
and St. Lawrence Railway company; and 
built two hundred and thirty-three miles 
of track in the northern part of this state. 

WEBB, WILLIS S., banker, was born 
Nov. 10, 1819, in Clarke county, Ind. In 
1863 he was elected president of the First 
National bank of Franklin, Ind., being 
the principal stockholder, and served as 
such for six years. 

WEBBER, CHARLES WILKINS, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born May 29, 1819, in 
Russellville, Ky. He was a journalist and 
traveler who was killed in Walker’s ex¬ 
pedition in Nicaragua. He was the au¬ 
thor of Hunter-Naturalist; Tales of the 
Southern Border; Old Hicks the Guide; 
Gold Mines of the Gila; Shot in the Eye; 
Adventures with Texas Rifle Rangers; 
Wild Scenes and Song Birds; History of 
Mystery; Spiritual Vampirism; Texan 
Virago; Wild Girl of Nebraska; and Ro¬ 
mance of Natural History. He died April 
11, 1856, in Central America. 

WEBBER, GEORGE W., business man, 
congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1825, in 
Newburg, Vt. He removed to Michigan. 
He was one of the founders of the Second 
National bank of Ionia;, and for two 
terms was mayor of that city. He was 
elected a representative from Michigan to 
the forty-seventh congress as a republi¬ 
can. 

WEBBER. MILTON MATHIAS NAPO¬ 
LEON, merchant, writer, was born July 
27, 1847, in Wells county, Ind. He was 
drafted into the 
LTnited States federal 
army, but was re¬ 
leased on account of 
his age. In 1866 he 
was government es¬ 
cort at Atchison, 

Kan., to guard the 

United States mail 
through Denver to 
Fort Benton, a dis¬ 
tance of two thou¬ 

sand three hundred 
miles, and was sub¬ 
sequently engaged in the same capacity 
on other routes. In 1878 he only lacked a 
few votes of receiving the democratic 

nomination for state senator from Allen 

county, Ind. He is prominently identified 
with various fraternal orders; and has 
been a charter member and active in the 
formation of various societies. He has 
attained success in mercantile pursuits; 
has written extensively for the periodical 
press; and acted as commercial corres¬ 
pondent for the metropolitan press. 

WEBBER. SAMUEL, educator, college 
president, author, was born in 1759 in 
Byfield, Mass. He was an educator of 
Cambridge, professor of mathematics in 
Harvard university in 1789-1806, and pres¬ 
ident of the same in 1806-10. He publish¬ 
ed a System of Mathematics that was for 
a long time the only text-book on that 
subject in use in New England colleges. 
He died July 17, 1810, in Cambridge, Mass. 

WEBBER, SAMUEL, physician, poet, 
was born Sept. 15, 1797, in Cambridge, 
Mass. He was a physician of Charlestown, 
N. H.; and the author of Zogan, an In¬ 
dian Tale, in Verse; and War, a Poem. 
He died Dec. 5, 1880, in Charlestown, 
N. H. 

WEBBER, WILLIAM LEWIS, railroad 
president, was born July 19, 1825, in Og¬ 
den, N. Y. Since 1881 he has been presi¬ 
dent of the Saginaw, Tuscola and Huron 
railroad at Saginaw, Mich. 


WEBER, CHARLES MARIE, pioneer, 
philanthropist, was born Feb. 16, 1814, in 
Bavaria. He was the founder of Stock- 
ton, Cal., and has done much toward the 
improvement of that city. He died May 
4, 1881, in Stockton, Cal. 

WEBER, GUSTAV C. E., physician, 
surgeon, was born May 26, 1828, in Ger¬ 
many. During 1856-63 he was professor 
of surgery in the Cleveland Medical col¬ 
lege; and in 1861 was surgeon-general of 
the state. During the civil war he at¬ 
tained the rank of brigadier-general of 
volunteers. In 1870-72 he was assessor of 
internal revenue of New York; and was 
then made collector till 1883. 

WEBER, JOHN B., soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 21, 1842, in Buffalo, 
N. Y. He was deputy postmaster at Buf¬ 
falo for three years; and in 1873 was 
elected sheriff of Erie county. In 1884 he 
was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-ninth congress; and 
was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a 
republican. 

WEBSTER, ALBERT FALVEY, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1848 in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a magazinist of New 
York city, the best of whose short stories 
are Little Majesty; An Operation in 
Money; and Miss Eunice’s Glove. He 
died Dec. 27, 1876, at sea. 

WEBSTER, DANIEL, statesman, was 
born Jan. 18, 1792, in Salisbury, now 
Franklin, N. H. He graduated from 
Dartmouth college 
in 1801 with great 
honor. He then 
taught school; be¬ 
came a lawyer in 
1805; and was elect¬ 
ed to congress in 
1812. For six years 
from 1816 he won 
distinction in his 
profession. He was 
re-elected to con¬ 
gress in 1822; was 
United States sena¬ 
tor from 1827 to 1841; and was secretary 
of state under Harrison. He was United 
States senator again from 1845 to 1852; 
and then secretary of state under Fill¬ 
more. He was a master of English style, 
the best of his orations on especial occa¬ 
sions being those delivered at the second 
Pilgrim centennial in 1820, on the laying 
of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill monu¬ 
ment in 1825, and the eulogy of Adams 
and Jefferson in 1826. He died Oct. 24, 
1852, in Mansfield, Mass. 

WEBSTER, MRS. E. H., poet, was 
born in 1822. She is the author of a vol¬ 
ume of poetry and prose entitled Clover 
Blossoms. 

WEBSTER. EDWIN H., soldier, state 
senator, congressman, was born March 31, 
1829, in Hartford county, Md. He was a 
member of the Maryland senate from 1855 
to 1859, serving two years as the presi¬ 
dent of that body. In 1856 he was chosen 
a presidential elector. He was a repre¬ 
sentative from Maryland to the thirty- 
sixth congress; and was re-elected to the 
thirty-sev enth congress. For a time he 
rendered the state some service in a mili¬ 
tary capacity, and was colonel of a Mary¬ 
land regiment. In 1863 he was re-elected 
to the thirty-eighth congress; and was 
re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress. In 
1865 he was appointed collector of cus¬ 
toms for the port of Baltimore. 

WEBSTER, EZEKIEL, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in 1739 in Kingston, 
N. H. From 1791 to 1806 he was a judge 
of the New Hampshire court of common 
pleas. He died in 1806 in Salisbury, N. H. 











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WEBSTER. EZEKIEL, lawyer, state 
legislator, was born March 11, 1780, in 
Salisbury, N. H. He was a member for 
several years of the New Hampshire leg¬ 
islature. He died April 10, 1820, in Con¬ 
cord, N. H. 

WEBSTER, FLETCHER, soldier, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, author, was born 
July 23, 1813, in Portsmouth, N. H. He 
was private secretary to his father during 
part of the latter’s service as secretary 
of state; secretary of legation in China 
under Caleb Cushing in 1843; a member of 
the Massachusetts legislature in 1847; and 
from 1850 till 1861 surveyor of the port of 
Boston. He died Aug. 30, 1862, near Bull 
Run, Va. 

WEBSTER. HARRISON EDWIN, sol¬ 
dier, educator, college president, -was 
born Sept. 8, 1842, in Angelica, N. Y. He 
accepted the professorship of geology and 
natural history at the university of Roch¬ 
ester, where he remained until 1888, when 
he was elected president of Union college. 
He has written several pamphlets on nat¬ 
ural history subjects, especially on ma¬ 
rine forms. 

WEBSTER, HORACE, educator, was 
born Sept. 21, 1794, in Hartford, Vt. In 
1848 he became principal of the Free acad¬ 
emy in New York city. Here he held the 
chair of moral and intellectual philosophy 
from 1851, and in 1852 that of political 
philosophy was added. In 1866 the name 
of the academy was changed by law to 
The College of the City of New York, 
and he continued at its head till 1869, 
after which he was emeritus professor till 
his death. He died July 12, 1871, in Ge¬ 
neva, N. Y. 

WEBSTER. JOHN R., lawyer, was born 
Dec. 25, 1860, in Rutledge, Tenn. He re¬ 
ceived his education at the university of 
Tennessee; and has become one of the 
foremost lawyers of the west at Boise 
City, Idaho. Prior to his moving to Ida¬ 
ho he practiced his profession in Kansas, 
and during 1887-91 was clerk of Morton 
county. 

WEBSTER, JOHN WHITE, educator, 
chemist, author, was born May 20, 1793, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a chemist who 
was professor at Harvard university in 
1824-50, and was tried and executed in 
1850 for the murder of Dr. Parkman. He 
was the author of Description of the Is¬ 
land of St. Michael; and Manual of Chem¬ 
istry. He died Aug. 30, 1850, in Boston, 
Mass. 

WEBSTER, NATHAN BURNHAM, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born June 13, 1821, in 
Unity, N. H. He is an educator of Nor¬ 
folk, Va.; and the author of Outlines of 
Chemistry. 

WEBSTER, NOAH, lexicographer, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 16, 1758, in Hartford, 
Conn. He was a famous lexicographer, 
best known by his Spelling Book and his 
American Dictionary of the English Lan¬ 
guage. Among his other works are in¬ 
cluded A Philosophical and Practical 
Grammar of the English Language; The 
Prompter, or Common Sayings and Sub¬ 
jects; Rights of Neutrals; Dissertations 
on the English Language; and A Com¬ 
pendious Dictionary of the English Lan¬ 
guage (1806). He died May 28, 1843, in 
New Haven, Conn. 

WEBSTER, PELATIAH, economist, 
author, was born in 1725 in Lebanon, 
Conn. He was a once famous political 
economist of Philadelphia; and the au¬ 
thor of Essays on Free Trade and Fi¬ 
nance; Essay on Credit; and Political 
Essay on the Nature and Operation of 
Money. He died in September, 1795, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 


WEBSTER, PRENTISS, lawyer, author, 
was born May 24,-1851, in Lowell, Mass. 
He has been United States consul to Ger¬ 
many; and is the author of Law of Citi¬ 
zenship in the United States; and Law 
of Naturalization in the United States, 
and of Other Countries. 

WEBSTER, RICHARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born July 14, 1811, in Albany, 
N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman, 
pastor at Mauch Chunk in 1835-56; and 
the author of History of the Presbyterian 
Church in America till 1760. He died June 
19, 1856, in Mauch Chunk, Pa. 

WEBSTER, TAYLOR, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He settled in 
Ohio; and was elected a representative 
in congress from Ohio from 1833 to 1839. 

WEBSTER, WARREN, physician, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born March 7, 1635, in 
Gilmanton, N. H. He was an army sur¬ 
geon during the civil war; and is the au¬ 
thor of The Army Medical Staff; and 
Sympathetic Diseases of the Eye, from 
the German of Mauthner. 

WEBSTER, WILLIAM PRENTISS, sol¬ 
dier, jurist, was born June 9, 1817, in 
Newburyport, Mass. In 1869 he was ap¬ 
pointed consul-general of the United 
States at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Ger¬ 
many; and subsequently served as judge. 
He died Feb. 27, 1877, in Lowell, Mass. 

WEDDERBURN, ALEXANDER JOHN, 
farmer, journalist, was born Oct. 31, 1849, 
in New Orleans, La. He is master of the 
Virginia State grange; has lectured ex¬ 
tensively on various topics; and was 
special agent of the department of agri¬ 
culture for investigating food adultera¬ 
tions; and is the editor and owner of the 
Weekly National Intelligencer, and The 
National Farm and Fireside of Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 

WEED, ANNIE W., lecturer, author, 
poet, was born June 18, 1833, in Canada. 
She is a successful lecturer of Rose, N. 
Y.; and the author of Isidore; and The 
Pathway to the Rifted Rock. 

WEED, CLARENCE MOORES, educa¬ 
tor, author, was born in 1864 in Ohio. He 
is a professor of zoology and entomology 
at the New Hampshire College of Agri¬ 
culture and the Mechanic Arts, Durham, 
N. H. He is the author of Ten New Eng¬ 
land Blossoms and their Insect Visitors; 
Insects and Insecticides; Fungi and Fun¬ 
gicides; and Spraying Crops. 

WEED, EDWIN GARDNER, bishop of 
Florida, was born July 23, 1847, in Sa¬ 
vannah, Ga. He was consecrated third 
bishop of Florida in St. John’s church, 
Jacksonville, Fla., on Aug. 11, 1886. 

WEED, ELBERT D., lawyer, was born 
Dec. 1, 1858, in Allegheny county, N. Y. 
In 1880 he graduated from the Lawrence 
university of Appleton, Wis.; and subse¬ 
quently from the Wisconsin State Law 
school of Madison. He has attained prom¬ 
inence as one of the foremost lawyers of 
Montana at Helena; was assistant United 
States district attorney, district of Mon¬ 
tana, in 1884-85; was United States dis¬ 
trict attorney during 1889-94; and in 
1894-95 was mayor of the city of Helena. 

WEED, EMILY STUART, poet, was 
born in Greenwich, Conn. _ Her collection 
of poems entitled Twilight Echoes con¬ 
tains many fine gems. She is of English 
parentage, and lineally descended from 
John Adams, second president of the 
United States. 

WEED, SMITH MEAD, lawyer, finan¬ 
cier, state senator, was born July 26, 1833, 
in Belmont, N. Y. His connection with 
what are now known as the Chateaugay 
Iron mines in northern New York, dates 
from 1867. In 1865 he took his seat in 


the New York state assembly. By suc¬ 
cessive re-elections he served in the as¬ 
sembly during 1866, 1867, 1871, 18 <2, and 
1873. 

WEED, STEPHEN HINSDALE, sol¬ 
dier, was born in 1834 in New York city. 
He served in the Seminole, Mexican and 
civil wars, and in 1863 was made briga¬ 
dier-general of volunteers. He died July 
2, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pa., from a wound 
received while holding a position on Lit¬ 
tle Round Top, which is now historically 
marked as Weed’s Hill. 

WEED. THURLOW, journalist, author, 
was born Nov. 15, 1797, in Cairo, N. Y. 
His first effort in journalism, the great 
work of his life, was 
to establish a paper 
called the Agricul¬ 
turist, after which he 
edited various news¬ 
papers, until in 1830 
he became editor of 
the Albany Evening 
Journal, which posi¬ 
tion he occupied un¬ 
til 1865, and acquired 
great distinction and 
influence as a party 

manager for the 

whigs and republicans. Being the father 

of so many newspapers he is sometimes 
called The Priam of the Press. He was 
the author of Letters from Europe; and 
Autobiography. He died Nov. 22, 1882, in 
New York city. 

WEEDEN, WILLIAM BABCOCK, sol¬ 
dier, manufacturer, author, was born 

Sept. 1, 1834, in Bristol, R. I. He served 
as a union soldier during the civil war. 
He is president of the Prov idence board 
of trade in Rhode Island. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Morality of Prohibitory Li¬ 
quor Laws; Social Law of Labor; and 
The Economic and Social History of New 
England. 

WEEDON, GEORGE, soldier, was born 
about 1730 in Fredericksburg, Va. He 
was commissioned brigadier-general in 
1777, and participated in the battles of the 
Brandywine and Germantown. He died 
in 1790 in Fredericksburg, Va. 

WEEKS, EDGAR, soldier, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born Aug. 3, 1839, in Mount Cle¬ 
mens, Mich. He received his education 
in the public schools of his native city. 
In 1861 he entered the military service 
as first sergeant of company B, fifth regi¬ 
ment Michigan infantry; was promoted 
in 1862 to first lieutenant and adjutant of 
the twenty-second regiment Michigan in¬ 
fantry; and subsequently became captain 
of company F in the same regiment. He 
also served as assistant inspector-general 
of the third brigade, second division re¬ 
serve corps, army of the Cumberland. 
Since 1866 he has practiced law in Mount 
Clemens, Mich. During 1867-70 he was 
prosecuting attorney of Macomb county; 
and during 1875-76 was judge of probate. 

WEEKS, EDWIN LORD, artist, author, 
was born in 1849 in Boston, Mass. He is 
an artist of note; and the author of From 
the Black Sea through Persia and India. 

WEEKS, JOHN M., inventor, author, 
was born May 22, 1788, in Litchfield, Conn. 
He was an inventor of Salisbury, Vt.; and 
the author of Manual on Bees; and His¬ 
tory of Salisbury. He died Sept. 1, 1858, 
in Salisbury, Vt. 

WEEKS, JOHN W., lawyer, jurist, state 
senator, congressman. He was a county 
sheriff in New Hampshire from 1820 to 
1825. He was a state senator in 1827 and 
1828; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New Hampshire from 1829 to 
1833. He was judge of probate in Coos 
county in 1854. 




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WEEKS, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Massachusetts. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New Hampshire from 1835 to 1839, having 
previously been for two years judge of 
the county court for Cheshire county. 

WEEKS, LEROY TITUS, educator, 
college president, poet, was born Feb. 1, 
1854, in Mount Vernon, Iowa. In 1893 he 
became president of the Little Rock uni¬ 
versity of Arkansas; and is the author 
of a volume of poems. 

WEEKS, ROBERT KELLEY, lawyer, 
poet, was born Sept. 21, 1840, in New York 
city. He was a lawyer and verse-writer 
of New York city whose poems are not 
without individuality and a very measu¬ 
rable degree of charm. He was the author 
.of Twenty Poems; and Episodes and Ly¬ 
ric Pieces. He died April 13, 1876, in New 
York city. 

WEEKS, STEPHEN BEAUREGARD, 
author, was born in 1865 in North Caro¬ 
lina. He is an historical writer; and the 
author of Bibliography of the Historical 
Literature of North Carolina; Church and 
State in North Carolina; The Press of 
North Carolina in the Eighteenth Cen¬ 
tury; and Southern Quakers and Slavery. 

WJEEKS, THOMAS EDWIN, dental sur¬ 
geon, author, was born May 5, 1853, in 
Massillon, Ohio. In 1892 he filled the 
.chair of dental anatomy and operative 
technics in the university of Minnesota. 
He is the author of a work entitled 
Weeks’s Manual of Operative Technics. 

WEEKS, WILLIAM RAYMOND, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Aug. 6, 1783, 
in Brooklyn, Conn. He was a presbyte- 
rian clergyman of Newark, N. J.; and 
the author of Nine Sermons; Pilgrim’s 
Progress in the Nineteenth Century; and 
Scripture Catechism. He died June 27, 
1848, in Oneidg, N. Y. 

WEEMS, JOHN C., congressman, was 
born in Calvert county, Md. He was a 
representative in congress from Maryland 
from 1826 to 1829. 

WEEMS, MASON LOCKE, clergyman, 
author, was born about 1760 in Dum¬ 
fries, Va. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man, famous as a book agent in his day, 
but at one time rector of Pohick church, 
Mount Vernon, where Washington attend¬ 
ed. His Life of Washington, which as 
early as 1811 had reached an eleventh edi¬ 
tion, is still the most popular life of its 
subject, as from some points of view it is 
the most entertaining. He wrote also 
Lives of Marion, Penn, and Franklin. He 
died May 23, 1825, in Beaufort, S. C. 

WEIDENMEYER, JOHN WILLIAM. 
He was a writer of New York city; and 
the author of Catalogue of North Ameri¬ 
can Butterflies; Real and Ideal, a volume 
of verse; Themes and Translations; 
American Fish and How to Catch Them; 
and From Alpha to Omega. He died in 
1896. 

WEIDNER, REVERE FRANKLIN, 
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 22, 1851, 
in Centre Valley, Pa. He is a lutheran 
clergyman, professor of systematic theol¬ 
ogy at Augustana seminary, Rock Island, 
in 1885-91, and subsequently at the Lu¬ 
theran seminary of Chicago. He is the 
author of Commentary on Mark; Exege- 
tical Theology; Historical Theology; Sys¬ 
tem of Dogmatic Theology; Grammar of 
New Testament Greek; Commentary on 
the Hebrew Text of Obadiah; and Method 
for Study of New Testament Greek. 

WEIGHTMAN, RICHARD HANSON, 
soldier, congressman, was born in 1818, 
in Maryland. He was a captain in the 
Missouri battalion of light artillery vol¬ 
unteers in the Mexican war and distin¬ 


guished himself under Colonel Donophan 
in the battle of Sacramento; and subse¬ 
quently held the position of additional 
paymaster. He was a delegate to congress 
from New Mexico from 1851 to 1853. He 
died Aug. 10, 1861, near Wilson’s Creek, 
Mo. 

WEIGHTMAN, ROGER C., librarian, 
was born in 1786 in Alexandria, Va. He 
was mayor of Washington in 1824-27; be¬ 
came cashier of the Washington bank, 
and was for many years librarian of the 
patent office. He died Feb. 2, 1876, in 
Washington, D. C. 

WEIR, ALLEN, lawyer, legislator, ju¬ 
rist, was born April 24, 1854, in Los An¬ 
geles county. Cal. He received his edu¬ 
cation in the public schools of California 
and Washington territory, and finished at 
the Olympia Collegiate ( institute. He has 
been municipal judge of Port Townsend, 
Wash.; United States commissioner; and 
secretary of the board of trade of that 
city; and a member and chairman of the 
Puget Sound board of health. For twelve 
years he was the editor ana owner of the 
Puget Sound Argus, a prominent daily 
and weekly newspaper. He has served 
with distinction as a member of the upper 
house of the Washington territorial leg¬ 
islature; was a member of the constitu¬ 
tional state convention in 1889; and dur¬ 
ing 1889-93 was the first secretary of 
state. In 1892 he was acting governor for 
the state of Washington at the dedication 
of the World’s Columbian Exposition 
buildings at Chicago. This eminent law¬ 
yer practices in all state and federal 
courts, and resides in Olympia. 

WEIR, JAMES, lawyer, banker, author, 
was born June 16, 1821, in Greenv ille, Ky. 
He has been a lawyer for forty years, and 
a banker for thirty years. He is the presi¬ 
dent of the Owensboro and Nashville rail¬ 
road; and president of the Deposit hank 
of Owensboro, Ky. He is the author of 
three novels entitled Long Powers, or the 
Regulators; Simon Kenton; and Winter 
Lodge. 

WEIR, JOHN FERGUSON, educator, 
artist, author, was born Aug. 28, 1841, in 
West Point, N. Y. He is director of the 
school of Fine Arts at Yale university 
from 1869, and professor of painting and 
design there. He is the author of The 
Way: the Nature and Means of Revela¬ 
tion. 

WEIR, JOSEPH LATIMER, poet, was 
born Jan. 24, 1821, in White House, Tenn. 
His poems have received extensive publi¬ 
cation in the periodical press of the south. 

WEIR, JULIAN ALDEN, artist, was 
born Aug. 30, 1852, in West Point, N. Y. 
Among his works are A Brittany Interior; 
Brittany Peasant-Girl; Study of an 
Old Peasant; Breton Interior; The Muse 
of Music; Jenne Fille; and The Good Sa¬ 
maritan. 

WEIR, ROBERT WALTER, artist, was 
born June 18, 1803, in New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Among his well known paintings is The 
Embarkment of the Pilgrims in the ro¬ 
tunda of the capitol at Washington. He 
died May 1, 1889, in New York city. 

WEISS, GEORGE MICHAEL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1697 in Ger¬ 
many. From about 1746 until his death 
he preached in Old Gosenhoppen and 
Great Swamp, Pa. He published An Ac¬ 
count and Instruction relating to the Col¬ 
ony and Church of Pennsylvania, made up 
by the Deputies of the Synod of South 
Holland; a pamphlet concerning his ar¬ 
rangements with the classis of Amster¬ 
dam to care for the Germans in Pennsyl¬ 
vania; and an Account of the Indians. He 
died in 1762 in Philadelphia, Pa. 


WEISS, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born June 28, 1818, in Boston, Mass. He 
was a Unitarian clergyman of very radi¬ 
cal views who was pastor at Watertown, 
Mass., and was prominent as an aboli¬ 
tionist. He was the author of Wit, Hu¬ 
mor, and Shakespeare; American Relig¬ 
ion; The Immortal Life; and Life of 
Theodore Parker. He died March 9, 1879, 
in Boston, Mass. 

WEISS, LEWIS, lawyer, jurist, journal¬ 
ist, was horn Dec. 28, 1717, in Prussia. He 
was one of the founders of the German 
society of Philadelphia; and its president 
in 1783-84. He was commissioned by the 
executive council of the province a justice 
of the peace, and a justice of the court of 
common pleas. He edued Collection of 
the Laws of Pennsylvania. He died Oct. 
22, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WEISS, MRS. SUSAN ARCHER [TUL- 
LEY], poet, was born Feb. 14, 1835, in 
Hanover county, Va. She is a poet of 
New York city whose poems were first 
collected in 1859. 

WEISSE, FANEUIL DUNKIN, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Aug. 27, 1842, in 
Roxbury, Mass. In 1879 he took charge 
of the dissecting room of the University 
Medical college, which position he still 
holds. He is the author of a work en¬ 
titled Practical Human Anatomy. 

WEISSE, JOHN ADAM, philologist, 
author, was born Dec. 3, 1810, in France. 
He was a philologist, born in Lorraine, 
who came to America in 1840, and ten 
years later settled in New York city, 
where he was president of the New York 
Philological society. He was the author 
of Key to the French Language; Origin, 
Progress, and Destiny of the English 
Language and Literature; and The Obe¬ 
lisk and Freemasonry. He died Jan. 12, 
1888, in New York city. 

WEISSERT, AUGUSTUS G„ soldier, 
lawyer, was born Aug. 7, 1844, in Canton, 
Ohio. He served as a union soldier dur¬ 
ing the civil war in the eighth Wisconsin 
volunteer infantry, and was brevetted cap¬ 
tain for meritorious conduct on the field 
of battle. In 1888 he was department 
commander of the Wisconsin Grand Army 
of the Republic; received the re-election 
a second time; and in 1892-93 was com- 
mander-in-chief of that body. 

WEITZEL, GODFREY, soldier, was 
born Nov. 1, 1835, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 
1864 he was brevetted major-general of 
volunteers for meritorious and distin¬ 
guished services during the civil war. He 
died March 19, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WELBORN, JOSEPH F., banker, legis¬ 
lator, was born Aug. 6, 1818, in Guilford 
county, N. C. In the fall of 1876 he was 
elected a member of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives of the Indiana state legisla¬ 
ture, and served during 1877-78. 

WELBY, MRS. AMELIA [COPPUCK], 
poet, was born Feb. 3, 1819, in St. 
Michaels, Md. She was a poet of Louis¬ 
ville whose sentimental lyrics attained an 
extraordinary popularity in their author’s 
lifetime. She was the author of a volume 
entitled Poems by Amelia. She died May 
3, 1852, in Louisville, Ky. 

V ELCH, ADONIJAH STRONG, lawyer, 
college president, United States senator, 
author, was born April 12, 1821, in East 
Hampton, Conn. In 1865 he moved to 
Florida; and in 1868 was elected a sena¬ 
tor in congress from that state for the 
term ending in 1869. He was president of 
Iowa Agricultural college in 1869-83. He 
was the author of Analysis of the English 
Sentence; Object Lessons; Talks on Psy¬ 
chology; and The Teacher’s Psychology. 

He died March 15, 1889, in Pasadena, Cal. 


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WELCH, THANK, congressman. He 
was a representative from Nebraska to 
the forty-fifth congress. 

WELCH, JOHN, lawyer, state senator, 
congressman, author, was born Oct. 28, 
1805, in Harrison county, Ohio. He was 
a member of the state senate of Ohio in 
1846 and 1847; and was a representative 
in congress from 1851 to 1853. He was 
subsequently one of the trustees of the 
Ohio university. He was the author of 
Mathematical Curiosities; and Index Di¬ 
gest of Ohio Decisions. 

WELCH, JOHNSON, clergyman, college 
president, was born Sept. 15, 1809, in Har¬ 
rison county, Ohio. He became a minister 
of the presbyterian church, adhering to 
the Scotch or seceding party, and at the 
time of his death was president of Frank¬ 
lin college. He died April 1, 1837, in Ath¬ 
ens, Ohio. 

WELCH, MOSES COOK, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 22, 1754, in Mans¬ 
field, Conn. He published various dis¬ 
courses and pamphlets, including Eulogy 
on Benjamin Chaplin; and The Addres¬ 
ser Addressed, a reply to Hon. Zepha- 
niah Swift. He died April 21, 1824, in 
Mansfield, Conn. 

WELCH, PHILIP HENRY, journalist, 
humorist, author, was born in 1849 in 
New York. He was a journalist and hu- 
•morist of New York city; and the author 
of The Tailor-Made Girl; and Said In 
Fun. He died in 1889. 

WELCH, RANSOM BETHUNE, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born in 1825 
in Greenfield, N. Y. He was a presbyte¬ 
rian clergyman, professor of Christian 
theology at Auburn seminary; and the au¬ 
thor of Faith and Modern Thought; and 
Outlines of Christian Theology. He died 
.June 29, 1890, in Healing Springs, Va. 

WELCH, WILLIAM H„ lawyer, jurist, 
was born in Connecticut. In 1853 he was 
appointed chief justice of the United 
States court for the territory of Minne¬ 
sota, where he resided. 

WELCH, WILLIAM HENRY, physi¬ 
cian, educator, author, was born in 1850 
in Connecticut. He is a Baltimore physi¬ 
cian, professor of pathology in Johns 
Hopkins university from 1884; and the 
■author of General Pathology of Fever. 

WELCH, WILLIAM W., physician, 
congressman, was born Dec. 10, 1818, in 
Norfolk, Conn. He was twice elected to 
the house of representatives, and twice 
to the senate of Connecticut. He was a 
:representative from that state during the 
thirty-fourth congress. 

WELCHER, ADAIR, author, poet. He 
is a writer of Berkeley, Cal.; and the au¬ 
thor of a work entitled Romer, King of 
Norway. 

WELD, MRS. ANGELINA EMILY 
[GRIMKE], author, was born Feb. 20, 
1805, in Charleston, S. C. She was the 
author of Letters to Catharine Beecher, 
a review of the slavery question; Appeal 
to the Christian Women of the South; 
and Sacred Palmlands. She died in 1879. 

WELD, HORATIO HASTINGS, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 4, 1811, in 
Boston, Mass. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of Riverton, N. J.; and the author 
of Corrected Proofs; Life of Christ; and 
Women of the Scriptures. He died Aug. 
27, 1888, in Riverton, N. J. 

WELD, THEODORE DWIGHT, aboli¬ 
tionist, reformer, author, was born Nov. 
23, 1803, in Hampton, Conn. He was a 
reformer of Boston, long prominent as an 
abolitionist; and the author of The Bible 
Against Slavery; American Slavery As L 
Is; and Slavery and the Internal Slave 
Trade in the United States. He died in 
1895. 


WELDON, LAWRENCE, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
in 1829 in Muskingum county, Ohio. In 
1860 he was elected a representative in 
the Illinois state legislature, and was also 
a presidential elector on the republican 
ticket. In 1861 he resigned his seat in the 
legislature to accept the appointment of 
United States attorney for the southern 
district of Illinois. He resigned in 1866, 
and in 1867 moved to Bloomington, Ill. 
In 1883 he was appointed associate jus¬ 
tice of the United States court of claims. 

WELKER, MARTIN, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, governor, educator, was 
born April 25, 1819, in Knox county, Ohio. 
In 1851 he was elected a judge of the com¬ 
mon pleas for the sixth district, serving 
five years. In 1857 he moved to Wooster, 
and was elected lieutenant-governor of 
Ohio, declining a renomination. In 1861 
he was appointed a judge advocate, with 
the rank of major; and was soon after¬ 
wards appointed aide-de-camp and acting 
judge advocate-general, with the rank of 
colonel, under the governor of the state. 
In 1862 he was an assistant adjutant-gen¬ 
eral, and superintended the draft of the 
state. In 1864 he was elected a represen¬ 
tative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth con¬ 
gress. He was re-elected to the fortieth 
and forty-first congresses as a republican, 
and in 1873 was appointed United States 
judge for the northern district of Ohio. 
He afterward became professor of politi¬ 
cal science, and of constitutional and in¬ 
ternational law in Wooster university. 

WELLBORN, MARSHALL JOHNSON, 
lawyer, congressman, was born May 29, 
1808, in Putnam county, Ga. He was a 
representative in congress from Georgia 
from 1849 to 1851. He died Oct. 16, 1874, 
in Columbus, Ga. 

WELLBORN, OLIN, soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born June 13, 1843, in 
Cumming, Ga. He served in the confed¬ 
erate army throughout the civil war. He 
moved to Dallas, Tex.; and was elected 
a representative from Texas to the forty- 
sixth congress; and was re-elected to the 
forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty- 
ninth congresses as a democrat. 

WELLER, GEORGE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 15, 1790, in Boston, 
Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman 
once prominent in Tennessee and Missis¬ 
sippi; and was the author of Vindication 
of the Church: and The Weller Tracts. 
He died Nov. 9, 1841, in Raymond, Miss. 

WELLER, JOHN B., congressman, 
United States senator, governor, was 
born in 1812 in Ohio. He was a represen¬ 
tative in congress from Ohio from 1839 
to 1845; and was the first United States 
commissioner to Mexico. Having taken 
up his residence in California he was in 
1851 elected to the United States senate 
for six years. He was subsequently elect¬ 
ed governor of California; and in 1860 
was appointed United States minister to 
Mexico. He died Aug. 7, 1875, in New Or¬ 
leans, La. 

WELLER, LUMAN H., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born Aug. 24, 1833, in 
Litchfield county, Conn. He was elected 
a representative from Iowa to the forty- 
eighth congress. 

WELLER, WALTER SCOTT, journal¬ 
ist, musician, composer, was born Dec. 1, 
1857, in LaPorte, Ind. He is a noted 
musician and composer; and the author 
of Evening Echoes; Idylle; and Among 
the Daisies. He has edited numerous pub¬ 
lications, and is now the editor and pro¬ 
prietor of The New Church Independent 
if Chicago, Ill. 


WELLES, CHARLES STUART, physi¬ 
cian, author, poet, was born about 1860. 
He has published Boheme; Lilian; and 
The New Marriage and Other Uniform 
Laws. 

WELLES, GIDEON, journalist, state 
legislator, author, was born July 1, 1802, 
in Glastonbury, Conn. From 1827 to 1835 
he was a member of the Connecticut leg¬ 
islature; and was subsequently appointed 
comptroller of public accounts. From 
1836 to 1841 he was postmaster of Hart¬ 
ford; and in 1842 was made comptroller 
of the state. Iq 1846 he took charge of 
a bureau in the navy department, where 
he remained until 1849. In 1861 he went 
into President Lincoln’s cabinet as secre¬ 
tary of the navy. For thirty years before 
becoming secretary he was an occasional 
contributor to the Hartford Press, the 
New York Evening Post, and the Wash¬ 
ington Globe and Union; and* was the 
author of Lincoln and Seward. He died 
Feb. 11, 1878, in Hartford, Conn. 

WELLES, NOAH, clergyman, was born 
Sept. 25, 1718, in Colchester, Conn. He 
was a tutor at Yale in 1745-46, and in the 
latter year received a call to Stamford, 
where he remained until the day of his 
death, the thirtieth anniversary of his or¬ 
dination. He published The Re^l Advan¬ 
tages which Ministers and People may 
Enjoy, especially in the Colonies, by con¬ 
forming to the Church of-^England; The 
Divine Right of Presbyterian Ordination 
Asserted; Patriotism Described and Re¬ 
commended, the annual election sermon; 
amj Vindipation of the Validity and Di¬ 
vine Right of Presbyterian Ordination. He 
died Dec. 31, 1776, in Stamford, Conn. 

WELLES, THOMAS, governor, was 
born in 1598 in England. In 1655 he was 
elected governor of Connecticut, but after 
two years he returned to the office of 
deputy governor. He was chosen govern¬ 
or for a second time in 1658, and in 1659 
again held the office of deputy governor. 
He died Jan. 14, 1660, in Wethersfield, 
Conn. 

WELLING, JAMES CLARKE, educator, 
was born July 14, 1825, in Trenton, N. J. 
In 1884 he was appointed a regent of the 
Smithsonian institution, and soon after¬ 
ward he was elected chairman of its exe¬ 
cutive committee. He is president of the 
Copyright league of the District of Co¬ 
lumbia. 

WELLINGTON, ARTHUR MELLEN, 
civil engineer, author, was born Dec. 20, 
1847, in Waltham, Mass. He was a civil 
engineer of distinction; and the author 
of The Computation of Earthwork from 
Diagrams; The Economic Theory of the 
Location of Railways; Car-Builders’ Dic¬ 
tionary; and Field Work of Railway Lo¬ 
cation. He died in 1895. 

WELLINGTON, GEORGE L., congress¬ 
man, United States senator, was born 
Jan. 28, 1852, in Cumberland, Md. He 
was appointed treas¬ 
urer of Allegany 
county, Md., in 1882, 
and served until 
1888; and was again 
appointed in 1890. 
He was a delegate to 
the national repub¬ 
lican conventions of 
1884 and 1888. He 
was appointed assis¬ 
tant treasurer of the 
United States at Bal¬ 
timore in 1890; and 
was nominated for congress by the repub¬ 
licans of the sixth congressional district 
in 1892. He was renominated in 1894 and 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress; and 
was elected to the United States senate. 




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WELLS, ALFRED, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 27,1814, in Dags- 
borough, Del. In 1858 be was elected a 
representative from New York to the thir¬ 
ty-sixth congress; and also held the posi¬ 
tions of deputy clerk, district attorney, 
and judge of Tompkins county. He died 
in 1857. 

WELLS, BEN H., lawyer, state senator, 
was born Sept. 21, 1860, in Hines county, 
Miss. He is a successful lawyer of Jack- 
son, Miss.; w r as a member of the Missis¬ 
sippi house of representatives in 1886; and 
was elected to the state senate in 1896. 

WELLS, MRS. CATHERINE BOOTT 
[GANNETT], essayist, author, was born 
in 1838 in England. She is a Boston es¬ 
sayist and novelist who has contributed 
largely to periodicals; and is the author 
of In the Clearings; Miss Curtis; Two 
Modern Women; About People, a collec¬ 
tion of essays; and several Sunday-school 
manuals of ethics and normal methods. 

WELLS, CHARLES WILLIAM, pub¬ 
lisher, author, was born May 7, 1757, in 
Charleston, S. C. Going with the king’s 
troops to St. Augustine, Fla., in 1782, he 
published the first weekly newspaper in 
that province. He received the gold and 
silver Rumford medals from the Royal 
society in 1816 for the celebrated Essay 
on Dew, which is his greatest work. 

WELLS, CHARLOTTE FOWLER, 
phrenologist, was born Aug. 14, 1814, in 
Cohocton, N. Y. She early became inter¬ 
ested in the study of phrenology and is 
considered the pioneer woman in this 
field, having been for more than fifty 
years actively engaged in the work. On 
the death of her husband in 1875 she 
became owner and director of the estab¬ 
lishment, together with the widely known 
Phrenological Journal, and is the presi¬ 
dent of the Fowler and Wells company. 

WELLS, CLARENCE W., lawyer, was 
born June 22, 1864, in Daviess county, 
Ky. In 1887 he graduated from the 
Georgetown college with the degree of 
A. B.; and studied law in the law de¬ 
partment of the university of Michigan. 
He is a prominent lawyer of Owensboro, 
Ky.; where he has filled several public 
positions of trust. 

WELLS, DANIEL, merchant, banker, 
congressman, was born in Maine. He be¬ 
came extensively engaged in the business 
of banking and lumbering at Milwaukee, 
Wis.; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Wisconsin from 1853 to 1855. 

WELLS, DAVID AMES, journalist, in¬ 
ventor, author, was born June 17, 1828, in 
Springfield, Mass. He became an asso¬ 
ciate editor of the Springfield Republican; 
and while there invented a machine for 
folding books and newspapers. After the 
close of the civil war he was made chair¬ 
man of a special commission created by 
congress to inquire into the resources of 
the country; was subsequently made a 
special commissioner of the revenue, 
which office he held four years. After 
leaving Washington he was appointed to 
revise the taxation laws of that state and 
made two important reports in 1872 and 
1873. He is the author of Familiar Sci¬ 
ence; Science of Common Things; Our 
Merchant Marine; Primer of Tariff Re¬ 
form; Practical Economics; Local Taxa¬ 
tion; Robinson Crusoe’s Money; Study of 
Mexico; Recent Economic Changes; Re¬ 
lation of the Tariff to Wages; Principles 
of Taxation; and Production and Distri¬ 
bution of Wealth. 

WELLS, EBENEZER T., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in New York. In 1871 he was 
appointed one of the associate justices of 
the United States supreme court for the 
territory of Colorado. 


WELLS, EMMELINE BLANCrtE, jour¬ 
nalist, poet, was born Feb. 29, 1828, in 

Petersham, Mass. Since 1875 she has 
been connected with 
the editorial staff of 
the Woman’s Expon¬ 
ent, of Salt Lake 
City, Utah; and 
since 1877 has been 
its sole editor and 
publisher. She is 
a member of the 
Pacific Coast Wom¬ 
an’s Press associa¬ 
tion; has attended 
conventions of wom¬ 
en in Washington 
and other places; presented memorials to 
congress; and called upon presidents and 
senators and members of the house in 
the interests of Utah. Mrs. Wells is a 
poet of rare genius, and her poems have 
appeared in Poets of America and other 
standard works. 

WELLS, ERASTUS, railroad president, 
congressman, was born Dec. 2, 1823, in 
Jefferson county, N. Y. He moved to at. 

Louis, Mo., and es¬ 
tablished the first 
omnibus line in that 
city, and the first 
street railroad com¬ 
pany. He was, for 
fifteen years, a mem¬ 
ber of the city coun¬ 
cil; and was presi¬ 
dent of the Missouri 
Railroad company, 
and a director in 
several incorporated 
companies. He was 
elected a representative from Missouri to 
the forty-first, forty-second, forty-third, 
and forty-fourth congresses; and was 
also elected to the forty-sixth congress as 
a democrat. 

WELLS, GEORGE WILLIAM, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born June 5, 1841, in 
Tyrone, N. Y. Since 1891 he has been 
medical director of the Manhattan Life 
Insurance company. He is the editor of 
the Medical Examiner, and the author of 
a medical work entitled The Medical Ex¬ 
aminer: What He Does and Why He 
Does It. 

WELLS, GUILFORD WILEY, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 14, 
1840, in Conesus, N. Y. He entered the 
war for the union as a lieutenant of vol¬ 
unteers, rose to the rank of lieutenant- 
colonel, and was twice wounded and was 
brevetted for gallantry on the field. In 
1870 he was appointed United States dis¬ 
trict attorney for the northern district of 
Mississippi; and was re-appointed in 1874. 
The same year he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from that state to the forty- 
fourth congress as a republican. 

WELLS, HARRY LAURENZ, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born March 28, 1854, 
in Geneva, Ill. In 1878 he went to Cali¬ 
fornia. His most important work is a 
Popular History of Oregon; and his Song 
of the Bears has attracted wide attention. 

WELLS, HENRY HORATIO, soldier, 
lawyer, state legislator, was born Sept. 
17, 1823, in Rochester, N. Y. He was a 
member of the Michigan legislature from 
1854 to 1856. He served in the war for 
the union from that state and became a 
brigadier-general by brevet. He settled 
in Virginia; was military governor of 
Virginia in 1868 and 1869 and resigned. 
He was United States attorney for the 
district of Virginia from 1869" to 1872, 
when he resigned. In 1875 he entered 
upon the duties of United States attorney 
for the District of Columbia. 


WELLS, HENRY PARKHURST, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1842 in Rhode 
Island. He is a lawyer of New York city; 
and the author of City Boys in the 
Woods; Fly Rods and Fly Tackle; and 
The American Salmon Fisherman. 

WELLS, HEZEKIAH G., lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1812 in Steubenville, Ohio. 
He was elected judge of the circuit court 
of the state of Michigan. By his indi¬ 
vidual exertions he raised a regiment of 
volunteers during the rebellion. From 
1865 to 1875 he was president of the state 
board of agriculture; and was subsequent¬ 
ly appointed presiding judge of the court 
of commissioners of Alabama claims. He 
died April 4, 1885, in Kalamazoo, Mich. 

WELLS, HORACE, dentist, was born 
Jan. 21, 1815, in Hartford, Vt. He was 
the first to employ laughing gas to de¬ 
stroy pain during dental operations, which 
he caused to be used on himself success¬ 
fully in 1844. He died Jan. 24, 1848, in 
New York city. 

WELLS, J. C., author, was born 18—. 
He is a legal writer of Ohio; and the 
author of Delineation of the Law of Limi¬ 
tation in Illinois; My Uncle Toby: his 
Table Talks and Reflections; Questions of 
Law and Fact; Treatise on the Doctrines 
of Res Ad judicata and Stare Decisis; On 
the Separate Property of Married Women 
under the Separate Enabling Acts; E 
Pluribus Unum; Magna Charta, or the 
Rise and Progress of Constitutional Civil 
Liberty in England and America; The 
Jurisdiction of Courts; and Powers and 
Duties of Ohio County Commissioners. 

WELLS, JAMES MADISON, seven¬ 
teenth governor of Louisiana, was a na¬ 
tive of that state. In 1840 he filled the 
position of sheriff; in 1864 became lieu¬ 
tenant governor; and the following year 
was elected governor, serving until 1867. 

WELLS, JEFFERSON MADISON, far¬ 
mer, public official, was born Jan. 7, 1808, 
in Rapides, La. He received the rudiments 
of his education in Bardstowil, Ky.; and 
at Captain Partridge’s Military academy, 
Conn. He served with distinction as gov¬ 
ernor and surveyor of the port of New 
Orleans under President Grant. He was 
president of the returning board that 
elected R. B. Hayes president of the 
United States. He is a successful far¬ 
mer of Lecompte, La.; and has been a 
power in the public and political affairs of 
Louisiana. 

WELLS, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in 1770 in Cherry Valley, N. Y. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1851 to 1853. He died 
Sept. 7, 1853, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

WELLS, JOHN DOANE, physician, sur¬ 
geon, lecturer, was born in Boston, Mass. 

In 1817 he graduated from Harvard col¬ 
lege; then studied 
medicine, and at¬ 
tained success as one 
of the foremost phy¬ 
sicians and surgeons 
of New England. 

In 1826 he was 
appointed professor 
of anatomy and phy¬ 
siology in the Berk¬ 
shire Medical school; 
and three years lat¬ 
er was elected to the 
anatomical chair in 
the university of Maryland. He also be¬ 
came a noted and popular lecturer; and 
was earnest and enthusiastic in his de¬ 
votion to science. He died in the sum¬ 
mer of 1830. 





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WELLS, JOHN SULLIVAN, United 
States senator, was born Oct. 18, 1803, in 
Durham, N. H. He was a senator' in 
congress from New Hampshire from Jan¬ 
uary to March, in 1855, by executive ap¬ 
pointment. He died Aug. 1, I860 in Ex¬ 
eter, N. H. 

WELLS, LEMUEL HENRY, bishop of 
Spokane, Wash., was born Dec. 3, 1841, in 
Yonkers, N. Y. From 1884 to’1889* he 
was rector of St. Luke’s church, Tacoma. 
Wash., and then he became rector of 
Trinity church. Tacoma, which he had 
himself founded, and continued in that 
charge till his elevation to the episcopate. 

WELLS, OWEN A., agriculturist, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1844, 
in Catskill, N. Y. He was collector of in¬ 
ternal revenue for the third Wisconsin 
district under Grover Cleveland for two 
years, until the district was consolidated 
with the Milwaukee district. He was 
elected to the fifty-third congress as a 
democrat. 

WELLS, ROBERT W., lawyer, jurist. 
He was for nearly thirty years on the 
United States bench of Missouri; and his 
decisions were always respected by the 
supreme court of the United States. He 
died Sept. 22, 1864, in Bowling Green, Ky. 

WELLS, SAMUEL, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born Aug. 15, 
1801, in Durham, N. H. He was for some 
years judge of the superior court of 
Maine; and was governor of the state in 
1856 and 1857. He died July 15, 1868, in 
Boston, Mass. 

WELLS, SAMUEL ROBERTS, phrenol¬ 
ogist, author, was born April 4, 1820, in 
West Hartford, Conn. He was a phre¬ 
nologist of New York city, long a mem¬ 
ber of the publishing house of Fowler and 
Wells; and the author of The New Phy¬ 
siognomy; and Wedlock, or the Right Re¬ 
lations of the Sexes. He died April 13, 
1875, in New York city. 

WELLS, WALTER, educator, author, 
was born November, 1830, in Salisbury, 
N. H. In 1867 he was appointed to the 
hydrographic survey of Maine, and he 
published in connection with that work 
The Water-Power of Maine. He died 
April 21, 1881, in Portland, Maine. 

WELLS, WILLIAM, soldier, was born 
about 1770, in Kentucky. When he was 
twelve years of age he was taken captive 
by the Miami Indians; and served with 
the Indians until 1790. Realizing that he 
was fighting against his own kindred, he 
set out for Gen. Anthony Wayne’s army, 
and was made captain of a company of 
scouts. He was subsequently Indian 
agent and justice of the peace near Fort 
Wayne, Ind. When he was informed in 
1812 that Fort Dearborn was to be evacu¬ 
ated, he set out with thirty friendly 
Miami Indians as a body guard for the 
people on their route from Chicago to 
Fort Wayne. He arrived too late to pre¬ 
vent its evacuation, which he was cer¬ 
tain would result in a massacre. Before 
they had gone two miles, five hundred 
Indians sprang from ambush, and mas¬ 
sacred them all. He died Aug. 15, 1812, 
in Chicago, Ill. 

WELLS, WILLIAM, soldier, was born 
Dec. 14, 1837, in Waterbury, Vt. He was 
brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, 
in 1865, received his full commission in 
May and was subsequently brevetted ma¬ 
jor-general. He died April 29, 1892, in 
New York city. 

WELLS, WILLIAM HARVEY, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Feb. 27, 1812, in 
Tolland, Conn. He was an educator of 
Chicago, superintendent of the city public 
schools, in 1856-64; and the author of His¬ 

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torical Authorship of English Grammar; 
and several popular text-books on Eng¬ 
lish Grammar. He died Jan. 21, 1885, in 
Chicago, Ill. 

WELLS WILLIAM HILL, United 
States senator, was born about 1760, in 
Pennsylvania. He was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Delaware from 1799 to 1804, 
when he resigned; and was again a 
United States senator from 1813 to 1817. 
He died March 11, 1829, in Millsborough, 
Del. 

WELLS, WILLIAM VINCENT, author, 
was born Jan. 2, 1826, in Boston, Mass. 
He is the author of Explorations in Hon¬ 
duras; Walker's Expedition to Nicaragua; 
and Life of Samuel Adams. 

WELLSTOOD, JAMES, engraver, was 
born Noy. 20, 1855, in Jersey City, N. J. 
At the time of his death he was a mem¬ 
ber of the firm of William Wellstood and 
Company, and was a successful and prom¬ 
ising engraver. His principal plates were 
The Pointer; and Safe in Port, after 
Thomas Moran. He died March 14, 1880, 
in Jersey City, N. J. 

WELLSTOOD, JOHN GEIKIE, engrav¬ 
er, was born Jan. 18, 1813, in Scotland. 
In 1871 he founded in Washington, D. C., 
the Columbian Bank-Note company. While 
he was president of this company he 
modeled and partially engraved the backs 
of all the United States treasury-notes. 
He died Jan. 21, 1893, in Greenwich, Conn. 

WELLSTOOD, WILLIAM, engraver, 
was boru Dec. 19, 1819, in Scotland. He 
has been employed by the Western Meth¬ 
odist Book concern in 1846-74, and by 
various firms in New York. Among his 
plates, executed in the line manner, are 
portraits of Florence Nightingale, Ulysses 
S. Grant, and Henry W. Longfellow, the 
latter after Alonzo Chappel, and the land¬ 
scape, Coast of Mount Desert. 

WELMAN, CHARLES WILLIAM, edu¬ 
cator, journalist, was born Sept. 18, 1858, 
in Crawford county, Ind. Since 1888 he 
has been the editor and owner of The 
Times of Sullivan, Ind. He is president 
of the Indiana Democratic Editorial as¬ 
sociation, and has been county superin¬ 
tendent of schools since 1891. 

WELS, CHARLES, musician, composer, 
was born Aug. 24, 1825, in Bohemia. He 
has been very successful in the composi¬ 
tion of church music. 

WELSH, ALFRED HIX, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 7, 1850, in Fostoria, 
Ohio. He was a professor of English in 
Ohio State university from 1885, and the 
author of Development of English Lite¬ 
rature and Language; English Literature 
in the Eighteenth Century; The Conflict 
of Ages; Man and His Relations; and 
Plane Trigonometry. He died in 1889. 

WELSH, HERBERT, philanthropist, 
author, was born in 1851 in Pennsylvania. 
He is a philanthropist of Philadelphia, 
prominent as a champion of the rights 
of the Indians, and the author of Civiliza¬ 
tion Among the Sioux Indians; Four 
Weeks Among Some of the Sioux Tribes; 
and A Visit to the Navajo, Pueblo, and 
Hualpais Indians. 

WELSH, THOMAS, soldier, was born 
May 5, 1824, in Columbia, Pa. He com¬ 
manded a brigade at South Mountain and 
Antietam, as also at Fredericksburg, 
where he won promotion by his services 
on the right center, being commissioned 
as brigadier-general of volunteers in 1863. 
He died Aug. 14, 1863, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

WELSH, WILLIAM, philanthropist, 
journalist, author, was born about 1810 in 
Philadelphia. For several years he was 
proprietor of the North American and the 
Philadelphia Gazette, which he had pur¬ 


chased in order to elevate the morals of 
the daily press. He published, besides 
various papers, Lay Co-operation in St. 
Mark’s Church; and Letters on the Home 
Missionary Work of the Protestant Epis¬ 
copal Church. He died Feb. 11, 1878, in 
Philadelphia. 

WELTY, EDWIN ARTHUR, financier, 
poet, was born Dec. 5, 1853, in Canal Do¬ 
ver, Ohio. He received his education in 
the public schools of 
St Joseph, Mo., and 
graduated from the 
High school in 1872 
with highest honors. 
At the age of eight¬ 
een Edwin crossed 
the plains and spent 
six months in the 
Rocky Mountains, 
and afterward en¬ 
gaged in the attack 
and massacre of Ma¬ 
jor Thornburg’s com¬ 
mand. Returning from Colorado and New 
Mexico after some years of desultory rov¬ 
ing, he settled into business life as bro¬ 
ker in St. Joseph, Mo., and finally in Ore¬ 
gon, Mo., where he now resides. He has 
taken a prominent part in political affairs, 
and in 1888 was a delegate to the national 
republican convention at Chicago, and was 
a candidate for state senator. He is the 
author of a volume of poems entitled The 
Hollow Oak; Border Ballads and Forest 
Legends; and his poems have appeared 
in the leading magazines, Poets of Amer¬ 
ica, and other standard works. 

WEMPLE, EDWARD, manufacturer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Oct. 23, 1843, in Fultonville, N. Y. He 
was a representative in the New York 
state legislature in 1877 and 1878. He be¬ 
came president of the Fultonville and 
Fonda Street Railroad company, and a di¬ 
rector in the Fultonville National bank. 
He was elected a representative from New 
York to the forty-eighth congress as a 
democrat. 

WEMYSS, FRANCIS COURTNEY, was 
born May 13, 1797, in England. He was 
a theatrical manager of New York city, 
and the author of Chronology of the Am¬ 
erican Stage in 1752-1852. He died Jan. 
5, 1859, in New York city. 

WENDELL, BARRETT, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1855 in New York. He 
is an assistant professor of English at 
Harvard university, and the author of The 
Duchess Emilia, a romance; Rankell’s Re¬ 
mains, a novel; Life of Cotton Mather; 
English Composition; Stelligeri, and Oth¬ 
er Essays; William Shakspere, a Study 
in Elizabethan Literature; and Ralegh in 
Guiana, a play. 

WENDELL, JOHN LANSING, lawyer, 
author, was born Jan. 2, 1785, in Albany, 
N. Y. For many years he was reporter of 
the New York supreme court. He pub¬ 
lished Law Reports of New York During 
1828-41, in twenty-six volumes; and Di¬ 
gest of the Supreme Court Reports Dur¬ 
ing 1828-35. He died Dec. 13, 1861, in 
Hartford, Conn. 

WENDOVER, PETER H„ state legis¬ 
lator, congressman. He was a member of 
the state assembly from the city of New 
York in 1804; and was a representative in 
congress from that state from 1815 to 
1821. 

WENTWORTH, BENNING, philanthro¬ 
pist, governor, was born July 24, 1696, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. He was governor of 
New Hampshire for twenty years, and 
gave five hundred acres of land for the 
founding of Dartmouth college. The town 
of Bennington, Vt., was named in his 
honor. He died Oct. 14, 1770, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. 




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WENTWORTH, GEORGE ALBERT, 
author, educator, was born July 31, 1835, 
in Wakefield, N. H. He was fitted for 
college at the Philips 
Exeter academy, and 
in 1858 graduated 
from Harvard col¬ 
lege. For thirty- 
three years he was 
professor of mathe¬ 
matics in the Phil¬ 
ips Exeter academy, 
resigning that posi¬ 
tion in 1891. He is 
best known as the 
author of a series of 
text books in mathe¬ 
matics, which are used in the public 
schools and colleges of every state and 
territory of the United States; and are 
also extensively used in Japan, British In¬ 
dia, Canada and other countries where 
the English language is taught. 

WENTWORTH, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, 
lieutenant-governor, was born Jan. 16, 
1671, in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1711 he 
was councilor of New Hampshire; jus¬ 
tice of the court of common pleas in 1713, 
and lieutenant-governor during 1717-30. 
He died Dec. 12, 1730, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

WENTWORTH, JOHN, governor, was 
born Aug. 9, 1737, in Portsmouth, N. H. 
He was the last royal governor of New 
Hampshire. He died April 8, 1820, in 
Nova Scotia. 

WENTWORTH, JOHN, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1768 in Portsmouth, N. H. 
He was appointed attorney-general of 
Prince Edward island, and removed to 
Portsmouth, where he married Martha 
Wentworth. In 1816 he returned to Eu¬ 
rope. He was the author of a System of 
Pleading, in ten volumes. He died in 1816 
in France. 

WENTWORTH, JOHN, journalist, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born March 5, 1815, 
in Sandwich, N. H. He was among the 
first who took an interest in securing a 
city charter for Chicago. He was a rep¬ 
resentative from Illinois to the twenty- 
eighth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first 
and thirty-second congresses; and was 
subsequently elected for the sixth term to 
the thirty-ninth congress. He died Oct. 
16, 1888, in Chicago, Ill. 

WENTWORTH, JOHN, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born July 17, 
1745, in Somersville, N. H. He was reg¬ 
ister of probate, which office he held until 
his death. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive to the New Hampshire state legisla¬ 
ture from 1776 to 1780. He was a delegate 
from New Hampshire to the continental 
congress in the years 1778 -and 1779, serv¬ 
ing four sessions, and was one of the 
signers of the articles of confederation. 
He was a member of the state senate from 
1784 until his death, and was an active 
member of the committee of safety during 
the revolution. He died Jan. 10, 1787, in 
Dover, N. H. 

WENTWORTH, JOSHUA, soldier, was 
born in 1742 in Portsmouth, N. H. He 
was colonel of the first New Hampshire 
regiment in 1776, was elected to the leg¬ 
islature, served four years as state sena¬ 
tor, and was appointed a delegate to the 
continental congress, but did not attend. 
He died Oct. 19, 1809, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

WENTWORTH, MOSES J., lawyer, cap¬ 
italist, state legislator, was born May 9, 
1848, in Sandwich, N. H. Becoming sole 
trustee of the large estate of his uncle, 
John Wentworth, he did not practice his 
profession, but devoted his time to the 
care of property. He is a democrat in 
politics and was elected a member of the 
twenty-ninth, thirtieth and thirty-first 
general assemblies of the state of Illinois. 


WENTWORTH, TAPPAN, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 1802, 
in Dover, N. H. He was president of the 
common council of Lowell in 1842; served 
four years in the state senate, and eight 
years in the lower house of the legislature. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1853 to 1855. He died 
June 12, 1875, in Boston, Mass. 

WENZEL, JOHN, lawyer, author, was 
born Oct. 30, 1869, in Marlboro, Mass. For 
seven years he was assistant librarian of 
Boston university, and since 1894 he has 
been trustee of the Ashland Public library, 
Massachusetts. He practices law in Bos¬ 
ton, and is the author of The Comparative 
View of Governments, and contributes ex¬ 
tensively to current literature. 

W T ERDEN, ELIAS, poet, was born April 
26, 1816, in New Marlboro, Mass. He is 
the author of a volume of poems entitled 
Sketches in Prose and Verse. 

WEREAT, JOHN, patriot, congressman, 
was born about 1730. He was a member 
of the provincial congress of Georgia in 
1775, its speaker in 1776, and after the 
fall of Savannah in 1779, as president of 
the executive council, was at the head of 
the state government till the next elec¬ 
tion. He died in 1798 in Bryan county, 
Ga. 

WERNICK, EMIL V., educator, busi¬ 
ness man, was born Feb. 14, 1863, in Wind¬ 
sor, Wis. He received his education at 
the State Normal school of Oshkosh, Wis., 
and graduated from a full course in 1882. 
For seven years he was principal of the 
Hillsboro High school; and is now presi¬ 
dent of the board of education of that 
city. For three years he was a member 
of the county board of supervisors, and is 
now president of the board of trustees of 
Vernon county Insane asylum. 

WERNWAG, LEWIS, civil engineer, 
was born Dec. 4, 1769, in Germany. In 
1810 he erected a bridge across Nesha- 
miny creek, on the road between Philadel¬ 
phia and New York. One of his bridges of 
wood was built across the Schuylkill river 
in 1812 at Philadelphia. This structure 
was known as the Colossus of Fairmount. 
In consideration of its length of span 
(it being the longest ever erected), solid¬ 
ity, and strength, the bridge was regarded 
as one of the wonders of the world. He 
died Aug. 12, 1843, in Harper’s Ferry, Va. 

WERT, J. HOWARD, educator, poet. 
He is a successful educator of Harrisburg, 
Pa., and the author of Poems of Camp 
and Hearth; and other works. 

WERTMAN, SARAH K., lawyer. She 
was admitted to the bar and is now a 
member of the law firm of Wertman and 
Wertman, of Ashland, Ohio. 

WERTMULLER, ADOLPH ULRIC, art¬ 
ist, born in 1751 in Sweden. Among his 
portraits are those of Gustavus III. and 
his queen, and Gustavus IV. His Marie 
Antoinette and her Children is in the mu¬ 
seum at Stockholm. He died Oct. 5, 1811, 
near Marcus Hook, Pa. 

WESLEY, JOHN, philanthropist, was 
born June 17, 1703, in England. He was 
the founder of methodism. He died Feb. 
23, 1791. 

WESSELHOEFT, CONRAD, physician, 
author. He is a homeopathic physician 
of Boston, and the author of The Law of 
Similars. 

WESSELHOEFT, MRS. LILY (POPE), 
author, was born in Massachusetts. She 
is a Boston writer of popular juvenile 
tales, and the author of Jerry the Blun¬ 
derer; Sparrow the Tramp; Flipwing the 
Spy; Old Rough the Miser; The Winds, 
the Woods, and the Wanderer; and Frow- 
zle, the Runaway. 


WESSELLS, HENRY WALTON, sol¬ 
dier, was born Feb. 20, 1809, in Litch¬ 
field, Conn. In 1833 he graduated from 
West Point; served in the Seminole, Mexi¬ 
can and civil wars; and attained the bre¬ 
vet of brigadier-general in the United 
States army. 

WESSINGER, JOHN AUGUSTUS, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, lecturer, was born Aug. 6, 
1860, in Howell, Mich. He received a 
thorough education; received the degree 
of A. B. from the university of Blooming¬ 
ton; the degree of M. D. from the Detroit 
college of Medicine, and took a course in 
sanitary science under the Michigan state 
board of health. In 1892 he was lecturer 
on hygiene and sanitary science in the 
Michigan college of Medicine and Surgery 
of Detroit; and is now a prominent phy¬ 
sician and surgeon of Ann Arbor, Mich. 
He is the author of a number of import¬ 
ant medical papers, published in pamphlet 
form, and in medical journals; and is a 
prominent member of the leading medical 
bodies of America and Europe. 

WEST, ANDREW FLEMING, educator, 
author, was born in 1853 in Pennsylvania. 
He is a professor of Latin in Princeton 
college from 1883, and the author of The 
Philobiblion of Richard de Bury; and Al- 
cuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools. 

WEST, BENJAMIN, astronomer, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in March, 1730, in 
Rehoboth, Mass. In 1786 he accepted 
the chair of mathematics and natural phi¬ 
losophy in Brown university, which he 
held until 1799. In 1812-13 he was post¬ 
master of Providence. He published an 
Account of the Observation of Venus upon 
the Sun, June 3, 1769. He died Aug. 13, 
1813, in Providence, R. I. 

WEST, BENJAMIN, artist, was born 
Oct. 10, 1738, near Springfield, Pa. Early 
in life he took up his residence in Lon¬ 
don, and was patron¬ 
ized as an artist by 
George III. Some of 
his finest pictures 
are in the Academy 
of Fine Arts, Phila¬ 
delphia. He succeed¬ 
ed Sir Joshua Rey¬ 
nolds as president of 
the Royal Academy 
in 1792. He died 
March 11, 1820, in 
London, England. 
His pictures have 
been extensively copied by engravers of 
the United States. 

WEST, BINA M., supreme record keep¬ 
er, Ladies of the Maccabees of the World, 
was born May 18, 1867, in Columbus, Mich. 
She has been prominently identified with 
the educational interests of Michigan. She 
began teaching at an early age, and her 
ability was recognized by an election to 
tne county board of school managers for 
St. Clair county, the only woman who 
has ever been so honored in that county. 
She is an extensive traveler, and has lec¬ 
tured in the interest of the Ladies of the 
Maccabees in every state in the Union. 
She is distinguished as an orator and 
writer, and is the editor of The Review, 
a fraternal magazine. 

WEST, CHARLES W., merchant, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born Aug. 7, 1810, in 
Montgomery county, Pa. In 1841 he es¬ 
tablished himself in Cincinnati, where he 
achieved commercial success. In 1880 he 
offered to contribute $150,000 toward the 
erection of an art museum building, pro¬ 
vided that an equal amount was raised by 
subscription, and on the condition being 
fulfilled he gave twice as much as he had 
promised. The building was begun in 
1882, and completed in 1885. He died Sept. 
21, 1884, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 






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WEST, GEORGE, manufacturer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 17, 
1823, in England. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the New York legislature from 
1872 to 1877, and became president of the 
First National bank of Ballston Spa, N. 
Y., where he was a paper manufacturer. 
In 1880 he was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-seventh con¬ 
gress, and in 1884 was elected a repre¬ 
sentative to the forty-ninth congress; and 
was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as 
a republican. 

WEST, JOSEPH RODMAN, soldier, 
journalist, United States senator, (was 
born Sept. 19, 1822, in New Orleans, La. 

He moved to Califor¬ 
nia in 1849, and en¬ 
gaged in commercial 
pursuits, and at the 
outbreak of the re¬ 
bellion was proprie¬ 
tor of the San Fran¬ 
cisco Prices Current. 
He entered the army 
as lieutenant-colonel 
of the first California 
infantry, and at¬ 
tained the rank of 
brevet major-gene- 
ial. He went to Texas, and then removed 
to New Orleans, and was chief deputy 
Lmted States marshal and auditor of 
customs, and adminstrator of improve¬ 
ments. He was elected to the United 
States senate, for the term commencing 
in 1871 and ending in 1877. He settled in 
\\ ashington City, and served for several 
years as one of the commissioners of the 
District of Columbia. 

WEST, LOVETTE PLACE, railroad 
president, was born Dec. 24, 1841, in Lake 
Side, N. Y. Since 1882 he has been presi¬ 
dent of Conexus Lake railroad at Lake 
Side, N. Y. 

WEST, MARI ALLEN, educator, au¬ 
thor, was born July 31, 1837, in Galesburg, 
Ill. She was an Illinois educator who was 
Knox county superintendent of schools in 
1873-92, and the author of Childhood: Its 
Care and Culture. She died Dec. 1, 1892, 
in Tokio, Japan. 

WEST, NATHANIEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in September, 1794, in 
Ireland. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of Philadelphia, and the author of 
The Ark of God the Safety of the Nation; 
Popery the Prop of European Despotism; 
Babylon the Great; Right and Left Hand 
Blessings of God; and Complete Analysis 
of the Whole Bible. He died Sept. 2, 1864, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WEST, SAMUEL, clergyman, author, 
was born March 3, 1730, in Yarmouth, 
Mass. He was a member of the conven¬ 
tion for framing the constitution of Mas¬ 
sachusetts; and for the adoption of that 
of the United States. He was the author 
of Essays on Liberty and Necessity; and 
some sermons. He died Sept. 24, 1807, in 
Tiverton, R. I. 

WEST, STEPHEN, clergyman, author, 
was born Nov. 13, 1735, in Tolland, Conn. 
He was a congregational clergyman, pas¬ 
tor at Stockbridge, Mass., in 1759-1819, 
and the author of Essay on Moral Agency; 
Life of Reverend Samuel Hopkins; Evi¬ 
dence of the Divinity of Christ; and Duty 
and Obligation of Christians to Marry 
Only in the Lord. He died May 15, 1819, 
in Stockbridge, Mass. 

WESTBROOK, JOHN, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1841 to 1843. 

WESTBROOK, THEODORIC R., con¬ 
gressman, was born in New York. He was 
a representative in congress from that 
state from 1853 to 1855. 


WESTBROOKS, CHARLES P., educa¬ 
tor, college president, clergyman, was 
born June 30, 1854, in Aberdeen, Miss. 
He was a successful educator in Mississip¬ 
pi and Texas for twenty years; became 
president of the Jones Male and Female 
institute of Goliad, Texas; and is now a 
successful clergyman of San Antonio, 
Texas. 

WESTCOTT, GEORGE, lawyer, journal¬ 
ist, was born March 26, 1843, in Clyde, N. 
Y. He is the editor and owner of The 
Times of Ely, Minn. He has served as a 
county judge in South Dakota. 

WESTCOTT, GEORGE P., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born Dec. 25, 1842, in Blue 
Hill, Maine. Since 1882 he has been presi¬ 
dent ot the Portland and Rochester rail¬ 
road at Portland, Maine. 

WESTCOTT, JAMES DIAMENT, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born May 
10, 1802, in Alexandria, Va. He was ap¬ 
pointed secretary of the territory of Flo¬ 
rida, and held the office four years, per¬ 
forming the duties of the governor dur¬ 
ing his temporary absence. He was a 
member of the territorial legislature in 
1832, and was appointed United States 
district attorney for the middle district of 
the territory, which office he held until 
1836. He was again a member of the leg¬ 
islature, and a member of the convention 
for framing a state constitution in 1838 
and 1839. On the admission of Florida 
into the union as a state, in 1845, he was 
elected a senator in congress, and served 
until 1849. 

WESTCOTT, JAMES DIAMENT, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, jurist, was born June 18, 
1839, in Tallahassee, Fla. He entered the 
confederate service at the beginning of 
the war, and attained the rank of major. 
In 1885 he became attorney-general of 
Florida, but resigned this post a year 
later, and was appointed a justice of the 
supreme court. 

WESTCOTT, THOMPSON, journalist, 
author, was born June 5, 1820; in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia jour¬ 
nalist, editor of The Sunday Dispatch in 
1848-S4, and the author of Life of John 
Fitch, the Inventor of the Steamboat; 
The Taxpayer’s Guide; Official Guide to 
Philadelphia; and Historic Mansions of 
Philadelphia. He died May 8, 1888, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

WESTERLO, EILARDUS, clergyman, 
author, was born in October, 1738, in 
Holland. He delivered the address of wel¬ 
come to General Washington when he vis¬ 
ited Albany in 1782. He left in manu¬ 
script an autobiography containing refer¬ 
ences-to the years between 1761 and 1790, 
Greek and Hebrew lexicons, complete, and 
a translation from the Dutch of Alber- 
thonias’s Catechism. He died Dec. 20, 
1790, in Albany, N. Y. 

WESTniRLO, RENSSELAER, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1775 in Albany, N. Y. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1817 to 1819. He died in 
1851 in Albany, N. Y. 

WESTHAFER, FRANCIS M„ surveyor, 
educator, clergyman, was born Jan. 12, 
1850, in Tracy, Ohio. He received an 
academic education, and graduated from 
the Illinois Normal and the Moore’s Hill 
college. He has been a surveyor, county 
school superintendent and a professor in 
the Moore’s Hill college. He has at¬ 
tained eminence as a successful clergy¬ 
man of the methodist episcopal church 
in the Indiana conference, and for four 
years filled a pastorate in Greenwood. Hfe 
has contributed extensively to current 
publications on educational and religious 
topics. 


WESTLAKE, WILLIAM, inventor, was 
born July 23, 1831. He invented the first 
loose globe car lamp; and the revolving 
headlight for locomotives. He has a 
large establishment in New York city, 
which is known as the Adams and West- 
lake company. 

WESTMORELAND, J. F., journalist, 
legislator, was born April 27, 1847, in 
Stokes county, N. C. He is the editor and 
owner of the Davidson County News of 
Phomasyille, N. C., and has represented 
his district as state senator in the North 
Carolina legislature. 

W ESTON, EDWARD, electrician, in¬ 
ventor, was born May 9, 1850, in England. 
In 1887 he built in Newark one of the 
largest private laboratories in the world, 
and he also possesses a fine technical li¬ 
brary that contains many rare books on 
electricity. One of his most valuable inven¬ 
tions is that of tamidine, a modification 
of cellulose, which is extensively used in 
incandescent lamps. 

WESTON, HENRY GRIGGS, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Sept. 11, 
1820, in Lynn, Mass. In 1868 he accepted 
the presidency of the Crozer Theological 
seminary, Pennsylvania. He was for a 
time editor of the Baptist Quarterly, and 
has also been president of the American 
Baptist Missionary union. He has con¬ 
tributed to periodicals, and is the author 
of a treatise on the Four Gospels. 

WESTON, JAMES A., governor. He 
was governor of Nevada in the years 1871 
and 1872. 

WESTON, JAMES A., civil engineer, 
governor, was born Aug. 1, 1827, in Man¬ 
chester, N. H. He was extensively en¬ 
gaged in building and operating railroads 
and water works in New Hampshire. He 
was elected mayor of Manchester in 1868, 
1870, 1871 and 1874, and was governor of 
New Hampshire in 1871 and 1874. 

WESTON, MRS. MARY CATHERINE 
(NOR'i xi), author, was born April 14, 
1822, in Albany, N. Y. She is the author 
of Calvary Catechism; Synopsis of the 
Bible; Jewish Antiquities; and Biography 
of Old and New Testament Characters. 
She died Aug. 4, 1882, in Greenwich, 
Conn. 

WESTON, THOMAS R., lawyer, author, 
was born June 14, 1834, in Middleboro, 
Mass. He is the author of A Sketch of 
Peter Oliver, the last Chief Justice of the 
Superior Court of Judicature in Massa¬ 
chusetts Bay Colony; and a Genealogy of 
the Descendants of Demon Weston. 

WETHERBEE, GARDNER, was born 
Nov. 8, 1838, in Harvard, Mass. In 1873 
he returned to New York to lease from 
John T. Daly the 
Windsor hotel, o n 
Fifth avenue at 
Forty-seventh street, 
in partnership with 
Samuel Hawk, under 
the firm name of 
Hawk and Wether- 
bee. This was a new 
and exceedingly 
handsome hotel, sit¬ 
uated in the heart of 
the fashionable resi¬ 
dence section of the 
city, requiring skillful management, but 
promising good returns to a firm, compe¬ 
tent to conduct one of the finest public 
houses in the metropolis in a proper man¬ 
ner. The entire success of the Windsor 
hotel is a sufficient commentary upon the 
excellence of its management. 

WETHERED, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in Maryland. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Maryland from 1843 
to 1845. 





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WETHERELL, EMMA ABBOTT, vo¬ 
calist, was born Dec. 9, 1849, in Chicago, 
Ill. She gained a national reputation as 
a vocalist. She died Jan. 5, 1891, in Salt 
Lake City, Utah. 

WETHERILL, CHARLES MAYER, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born Nov. 4, 1825, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a professor of 
chemistry at Lehigh university in 1866-71, 
and the author of The Manufacture of 
Vinegar. He died March 5, 1871, in Beth¬ 
lehem, Pa. 

WETHERILL, SAMUEL, soldier, in¬ 
ventor, was born May 27, 1821, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He served with distinction 
during the civil war, and attained the 
rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel. The 
first zinc white was made by a process in¬ 
vented by him. 

WETMORE, MRS. ELIZABETH (BIS- 
LAND), journalist, author, was born in 
1863 in Texas. She is a journalist of New 
York city, and the author of A Flying 
Trip Around the World. 

WETMORE, GEORGE PEABODY, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, governor, was 
born Aug. 2, 1846, in London, England. 
He was admitted to the bar of Rhode 
Island and of New York in 1869; is a trus¬ 
tee of the Peabody Museum of Natural 
History in Yale university; is a trustee of 
the Peabody education fund, president of 
the Newport hospital, and a director 'of 
other associations. He was first presi¬ 
dential elector of Rhode Island in 1880 
and in 1884; was a member of the state 
committee to receive the representatives 
of France on the occasion of their visit 
to Rhode Island in 1881, and as a member 
of the commission to build a new state- 
house. He was governor of Rhode Island 
in 1885-86, and 1886-87. He was elected to 
the senate in 1894. 

WETMORE, PROSPER MONTGOM¬ 
ERY, author, poet, was born Feb. 14, 1798, 
in Stratford, Conn. He was a once prom¬ 
inent citizen of New York city, and the 
author of Lexington, and Other Fugitive 
Poems; and Observations on the War 
with Mexico. He died March 16, 1876, in 
Stratford, Conn. 

WEVER, JOHN M., soldier, banker, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 24, 1847, in Gan¬ 
ges, Mich. He served in the army of the 
Cumberland and the army of the Ohio. 
At the close of the war he located in 
New York state and entered into the 

banking business, in which business he 
has since continued. He was elected coun¬ 
ty treasurer of Clinton county in 1884 
and re-elected in 1887. He was elected to 
the fifty-second and re-elected to the 
fifty-third congress as a republican. 

WEYMOUTH, GEORGE WARREN, 

bank and railroad director, congressman, 

was born Aug. 25, 1850, in Fitchburg, 
Mass. He devotes 
most of his time to 
the Fitchburg Steel 
Ball company a s 
vice-president and 
general manager. He 
is director of the 
Fitchburg National 
bank and trustee of 
the Fitchburg Sav¬ 
ings bank; is direct¬ 
or of the Fitchburg 
and Leominster 
Street railway, and 
also of the Orswell mills and Nockege 
mills. He is ex-president of the Fitch¬ 
burg board of trade; was one year in the 
city council of Fitchburg, in the state leg¬ 
islature of 1896, and a delegate to the 
national convention at St. Louis in 1896. 
He was elected from Massachusetts to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a republican. 


WHALEY, KELLIAN V., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born May 6, 
1821, in Onondaga county, N. Y. He was 
elected to the thirty-seventh congress 
from West Virginia. Afterward he act'ed 
as an aide to Governor Pierpoint in or¬ 
ganizing and equipping regiments, and 
was in command at the battle of Guyan- 
dotte. He was re-elected to the thirty- 
eighth and thirty-ninth congresses. In 
1868 he was appointed collector at Brazos 
de Santiago, Texas. 

WHALLOxY, REUBEN, congressman, 
was born in 1777 in New Jersey. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1833 to 1835. He died April 15, 
1843, in Essex county, N. Y. 

WHAREY, JAMES, clergyman, author, 
was born June 15, 1789, in Rutherford 
county, N. C. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of Goochland county, Va., and 
the author of Baptism; and Sketches of 
Church History. He died April 29, 1842, 
in Goochland, Va. 

WHARTON, ANNE HOLLINGS¬ 
WORTH, author, was born about 1845 in 
Philadelphia, Pa. She is a Philadelphia 
writer, and the author of The Wharton 
Family; Virgilia; St. Bartholomew’s Eve; 
Colonial Days and Dames; Through Col¬ 
onial Doorways; A Last Century Maid, 
and Other Stories for Children; and Mar¬ 
tha Washington, a biography. 

WHARTON, CHARLES HENRY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born June 5, 1748, in 
St. Mary’s county, Md. He was an epis¬ 
copal clergyman of Burlington, N. J., 
rector of St. Mary’s church in 1798-1833, 
and the author of Reply to Bishop Car- 
roll’s Address to the Roman Catholics of 
America; Proofs of the Divinity of Christ; 
and Concise View of the Principal Points 
of Controversy Between Protestant and 
Roman Catholic Churches. He died July 
22, 1833, in Burlington, N. J. 

WHARTON, FRANCIS, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born March 7, 1820, in 
Philadelphia. He was an episcopal cler¬ 
gyman of Boston, and professor of eccle¬ 
siastical and international law in the 
Episcopal Theological school at Cam¬ 
bridge. He was the author of Criminal 
Law of the United States; Medical Juris¬ 
prudence; State Trials of the United 
States; The Silence of Scripture; Treatise 
on Theism; Precedents of Indictments; 
The Law of Homicide in the United 
States; The Conflict of Laws; Law of 
Agency and Agents; Digest of Interna¬ 
tional Law (with M. Stille); The Law of 
Negligence; Commentary on the Law of 
Evidence in Civil Issues; and The Law of 
Contracts. He died Feb. 21, 1889, in 
Washington, D. C. 

WHARTON, HENRY, lawyer, author, 
was born June 2, 1827, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia, and 
the author of Practical and Elementary 
Treatise on the Law of Vicinage. He died 
Nov. 11, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WHARTON, JESSE, congressman, Uni¬ 
ted States senator, was born in 1760 in 
Albemarle county, Va. He represented 
the state of Tennessee in congress from 
1807 to 1809; and was a United States 
senator in 1814 and 1815, when he was 
superseded by J. Williams. He died July 
22, 1833, in Nashville. 

WHARTON, JOHN A., soldier, states¬ 
man, congressman, was born in Tennes¬ 
see. He served through the Mexican war, 
attaining the rank of adjutant-general. 
From 1837-38 he was a member of con¬ 
gress from Texas. He died Dec. 15, 1838, 
in Houston, Texas. 

WHARTON, JOSEPH, manufacturer, 
was born March 3, 1826, in Philadelphia. 


He was among the first to establish the 
manufacture of spelter, nickel, and cobalt 
in this country, and was the first to make 
magnetic needles of other substance than 
steel. He owns the deposits of nickel 
ore in Lancaster county, Pa., which he 
purchased in 1873, and established his 
works in Camden, N. J. The Wharton 
School of Finance and Economics was 
founded by him. 

WHARTON, ROBERT, mayor of Phil¬ 
adelphia, was born Jan. 12, 1757, in Phil¬ 
adelphia. He was fifteen times elected 
mayor of Philadelphia. He died March 7, 
1834, in Philadelphia. 

WHARTON, SAMUEL, state legislator, 
congressman, was born May 3, 1732, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He signed the non-im¬ 
portation resolutions of 1765, and was a 
member of the city councils of Philadel¬ 
phia, of the committee of safety in the 
revolution, of the colonial and state leg¬ 
islatures of Pennsylvania, and of the con¬ 
tinental congress in 1782 and 1783. He 
died in March, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WHARTON, THOMAS, governor, was 
born in 1735 in Chester county, Pa. He 
was one of the twenty-five citizens that 
formed the committee of safety in Phila¬ 
delphia in 1775. In 1777 he was elected 
president of Pennsylvania, which office he 
held till his death. He died May 22, 1778, 
in Lancaster, Pa. 

WHARTON, THOMAS ISAAC, lawyer, 
author, was born May 17, 1791, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Phila¬ 
delphia, and the author of Digest of Cases 
in United States Court, Third District; 
Reports of Cases in Pennsylvania Su¬ 
preme Court; and Memoir of William 
Rawle. He died April 7, 1856, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

WHARTON, THOMAS ISAAC, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Aug. 1, 1859, in Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. He is the author of A 
Latter-Day Saint; and Hannibal of New 
York. 

WHEATLEY, CHARLES MOORE, min¬ 
eralogist, author, was oorn March 16, 1822, 
in England. He was a mineralogist of 
Phoenixville, Pa., who published a Cata¬ 
logue of the Shells of the United States. 
He died May 6, 1882, in Phcenixville, Pa. 

WHEATLEY, PHILLIS, poet, was born 
in 1751 in Africa. She is the author of a 
volume entitled Poems. She died in 1784. 

WHEATLEY, RICHARD, clergyman, 
author, was born in England. He is a 
methodist clergyman of New Jersey and 
the author of Cathedrals and Abbeys in 
Great Britain and Ireland. 

WHEATLEY, WILLIAM, actor, was 
born Dec. 5, 1816, in New York city. He 
attained a national reputation as a 
noted actor. He died Dec. 3, 1876, in New 
York. 

WHEATON, CHARLES, lawyer, legis¬ 
lator, was born May 29, 1829, in Warren, 
R. I. He received his education in the 
academies, and after¬ 
ward attended Trini¬ 
ty college of Hart¬ 
ford, Conn., from 
which institution he 
graduated in 1849. In 
1864 he served with 
distinction as mayor 
of the city of Auro¬ 
ra, Ill.; and during 

1868- 72 was supervi¬ 
sor of that city. In 

1869- 70 he was a 
member of the con¬ 
stitutional convention of Illinois; has 
taken a prominent part in the public af¬ 
fairs of his city, county and state, and has 
gained prominence as one of the foremost 
lawyers of Illinois. 






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WHEATON, FRANK, soldier, was born 
May 8, 1833, in Providence, R. I. He was 
appointed brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers in 1862, and was brevetted major- 
general of volunteers for gallant and 
meritorious services, and received bre¬ 
vets in the regular army to the grade of 
major-general. 

WHEATON, HENRY, lawyer, diplomat, 
author, was born Nov. 27, 1785, in Provi¬ 
dence. He was the author of History of the 
Progress of the Law of Nations; Elements 
of International Law; History of the 
Northmen; Reports of Cases in United 
States Supreme Court; Digest of Supreme 
Court Decisions from 1789 to 1820; and 
Life of William Pinkney in Sparks’s Am¬ 
erican Biography. He died March 11, 1848, 
in Dorchester, Mass. 

WHEATON, HORACE, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York from 
1843 to 1847. 

WHEATON, LABAN, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born in 1754 at Marsh¬ 
field, Mass. He was a county judge bf 
Massachusetts, and was a representative 
in congress from 1809 to 1817. He died 
March 23, 1846, in Norton, Mass. 

WHEATON, MILTON ALVORD, law¬ 
yer, inventor, was born Nov. 14, 1830, in 
North Gage, N. Y. He taught school lor 
a while near Sacra¬ 
mento, Cal., and in 
1856 was admitted to 
the bar and settled 
in Suisun, Cal. He 
has attained success 
in the profession of 
law, particularly in 
land litigation. He 
is frequently called 
to different states to 
argue important pat¬ 
ent cases; and dur¬ 
ing the last quarter 
of a century has frequently appeared in 
argument cases before the United States 
supreme court. Since 1865 he has lived 
near San Francisco, Cal., in which city 
he is a prominent figure. 

WHEATON, ROBERT, lawyer, author, 
was born Oct. 5, 1826, in New York city. 
He was a skilful musician, and published 
several able and thoughtful articles in the 
North American Review, and other peri¬ 
odicals. Selections from his writings were 
published by his sister, Abby Wheaton, 
with a memoir in 1854. He died Oct. 9, 
1851, in Providence, R. I. 

WHEDON, DANIEL DENISON, clergy¬ 
man, journalist, author, was born March 
20, 1808, in Onondaga, N. Y. He was a 
methodist clergyman, editor of The Meth¬ 
odist Quarterly Review in l8oo-84, and 
the author of The Freedom of the Will; 
Commentary on ..he New Testament; 
Commentary on the Old Testament; Es¬ 
says, Reviews and Discourses, and State¬ 
ments: Theological and Critical. He 
died June 8, 1885, in Atlantic Highlands, 
N. J. 

WHEELER, ANDREW CARPENTER, 
critic, author, was born July 4, 1835, in 
New York. He is a dramatic and musi¬ 
cal critic of New York city, and the au¬ 
thor of The Chronicles of Milwaukee; The 
Twins, a comedy; and The Primrose Path 
of Dalliance, a theatrical tale. 

WHEELER, BENJAMIN IDE, educa¬ 
tor, philologist, author, was born July 15, 
1854, in Randolph, Mass. He was instruc¬ 
tor in Brown university and in Harvard; 
and professor of comparative philology 
and Greek in Cornell college. He is the 
author of The Greek Noun Accents; Ana¬ 
logy, and the Scope of Its Application in 
Language; Introduction to the Study of 
History and Language; and other works. 


WHEELER, CHARLES GARDINER, 
author, was born in 1855 in Peabody, 
Mass. He is a writer formerly of Win- 
chendon, Mass., and later of Topsham, 
Maine. He is the author of Who Wrote 
It? a literary index, and Familiar Allu¬ 
sions, both begun by his uncle, and com¬ 
pleted by him. The Course of Empire: 
Outlines of the Chief Political Changes 
in the History of the World. 

WHEELER, CHARLES KENNEDY, 
lawyer, congressman, was born April 18, 
1863, in Christian county, Ky. Since 1880 
he has been engaged in the active practice 
of law in Paducah, Ky., and has been 
corporation counsel for the city for the 
years 1894 and 1895. He was democratic 
elector for the first congressional district 
of Kentucky in 1892, and was elected to 
the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

WHEELER, CROSBY HOWARD, mis¬ 
sionary, author, was born in 1823 in 
Maine. He is a missionary to Turkey, 
and the author of Little Children in Eden; 
Letters from Eden; Ten Years on the Eu¬ 
phrates; Odds and Ends; and Grace Illus¬ 
trated. 

WHEELER, DANIEL HILTON, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, author, was born 
Nov. 19, 1829, in Ithaca, N. Y. He is a 
methodist clergyman, president of Alle¬ 
gheny college, Meadville, Pa., in 1883-87, 
and the author of Brigandage in South 
Italy; By-Ways, of Literature; and Our 
Industrial Utopia and Its Unhappy Citi¬ 
zens. 

WHEELER, DORA, artist, was borli 
March 12, 1858, in Jamaica, L. I. Though 
devoting herself mainly to decorative de¬ 
signing, she has also painted several pic¬ 
tures. Among these are a series of por¬ 
traits of English and American authors, 
including Thomas Bailey Aldrich, James 
Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, Charles 
Dudley Warner, John Burroughs, Austin 
Dobson and Walter Besant. 

WHEELER, EDWARD FRANCIS, cler¬ 
gyman, was born in 1862, in Grafton, Vt. 
He attended the Dartmouth college; grad¬ 
uated from Bowdoin 
college in 1883; from 
the Hartford Theo¬ 
logical seminary in 
1889, and subsequent¬ 
ly took a post-grad¬ 
uate course in that 
institution. In 1884- 
85 he was home mis¬ 
sionary in western 
Minnesota; has been 
pastor of the Grace 
Union church of 
North Wilbraham, 
Mass.; and is now pastor of the congrega¬ 
tional church of the Redeemer, at St. 
Louis, Mo. He has been secretary and 
treasurer of the Missouri State associa¬ 
tion of Congregational Churches, and has 
contributed extensively to church litera¬ 
ture. 

WHEELER, EZRA, lawyer, jurist, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 1820 
in Shenango county, N. Y. In 1852 he 
was elected to the legislature of Wiscon¬ 
sin, and in 1854 was elected to the office of 
county judge, holding the same for eight 
years. He was elected a representative 
from Wisconsin to the thirty-eighth con¬ 
gress. 

WHEELER, FRANK W., ship-builder, 
congressman, was born March 2, 1853, in 
Chaumont, N. Y. He and his father were 
engaged extensively in ship-building at 
the bay cities in 1877, and the yard they 
established has grown to be the largest 
wood ship-building plant in the United 
States. He was elected to the fifty-first 
congress as a republican. 


WHEELER, GEORGE MONTAGUE, 
soldier, civil engineer, was born Oct. 9, 
1842, in Grafton, Mass. In 1869 he was 
sent to make a geographical reconnois- 
sance in central Nevada, and in 1871 he 
took the field with a force of surveyors 
and scientists. His organization assumed 
the title of the Geographical survey of 
the territory of the United States west of 
the one hundredth meridian, of which he 
became superintending engineer. 

WHEELER, GRATTAN H., state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born in New York. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1831 to 1833; was a mem¬ 
ber of the state assembly from Steuben 
county for four years; and was one year 
a member of the state senate. 

WHEELER, HAMILTON K„ lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 
5, 1848, in Ballston, N. Y. In 1884 he was 
elected to the state senate of Illinois 
from the sixteenth senatorial district, 
and <jn the organization of the senate he 
was assigned the chairmanship of the 
committee on judicial department. He 
was one of the one hundred and three who 
took an active part in the famous sena¬ 
torial contest of Illinois, which resulted in 
the election of General Logan to the Unit¬ 
ed States senate. He was elected to the 
fifty-third congress as a republican. 

WHEELER, HARRISON H„ soldier, 
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was 
born March 22, 1839, in Lapeer county, 
Mich. In 1870 he was elected state sena¬ 
tor for Bay and adjoining counties, and 
re-elected in 1872. After the session of the 
legislature in 1873 he moved to Luding- 
ton, Mich., and was appointed circuit 
judge in 1874 by Governor Bagley, and at 
the first election thereafter was elected to 
the same office without opposition. He 
was elected to the fifty-second congress. 

WHEELER, HENRY NATHAN, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1850 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was formerly an instructor 
in mathematics at Harvard university and 
now engaged in educational publishing 
work in Boston. He is the author of 
Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; The 
Elements of Logarithms; and Second Les¬ 
sons in Arithmetic. 

WHEELER, HOYT H., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born Aug. 30, 1833, in 
Chesterfield, N. H. He was a representa¬ 
tive in the Vermont legislature in 1867 
from Jamaica; a state senator in 1868 
and 1869; and was a judge of the state su¬ 
preme court from 1869 to 1877, when he 
was appointed United States district judge 
for the district of Vermont. He removed 
to Brattleboro in 1884. 

WHEELER, JOHN, merchant, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1823 in Darby, Conn. 
He entered the mercantile business in 
New York city; subsequently engaged in 
hotel-keeping, which he followed at the 
time of his election and during his ser¬ 
vice as a member of congress. He was a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1853 to 1857. 

WHEELER, JOHN HILL, public official, 
author, was born Aug. 6, 1806, in Murfrees¬ 
boro, N. C. He entered the house of com¬ 
mons as a member from his native county, 
and served four years successively. He 
was appointed superintendent of the Uni¬ 
ted States branch mint in 1836 at Char¬ 
lotte, N. C., and in 1842 was elected trea¬ 
surer of the state of North Carolina. In 
1852 he was appointed minister resident 
to the Republic of Nicaragua. He was 
the author of the History of North Caro¬ 
lina; Legislative Manual of North 
Carolina; and Reminiscences and Memoirs 
of North Carolina. He died Dec. 7, 1882, 
in Washington, D. C. 





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WHEELER, JOSEPH, soldier, legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 
1836, in Augusta, Ga. He graduated from 
West Point in 1859; 
was lieutenant of 
cavalry and served 
in New Mexico; and 
resigned in 1861. He 
was lieutenant of ar¬ 
tillery in the confed¬ 
erate army; was suc¬ 
cessively promoted 
to the command of a 
regiment, brigade, 
division and army 
corps, and in 1862 
was assigned to the 
command of the army corps of cavalry 
of the western army, continuing in that 
position till the war closed. By joint res¬ 
olution of the confederate congress he re¬ 
ceived the thanks of that body for suc¬ 
cessful military operations, and for the 
defense of the city of Aiken received the 
thanks of the state of South Carolina. In 
1864 he became the senior cavalry general 
of the confederate armies. He was ap¬ 
pointed professor of philosophy, Louisi¬ 
ana State seminary in 1866, which he de¬ 
clined. He was lawyer and planter, and 
was elected to the forty-seventh, forty- 
ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, 
fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and 
re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. In 1898 he was commissioned 
a brigadier-general in the United States 
volunteer army raised for the Cuban war. 

WHEELER, JUNIUS BRUTUS, civil 
engineer, educator, author, was born Feb. 
21, 1830, in Murfreesboro, N. C. He was 
a military engineer, professor at West 
Point in 1866-85, and the author of Civil 
Engineering; Art and Science of War; 
Elements of Field Fortifications; and Mili¬ 
tary Engineering. He died July 15, 1886, 
in Lenoir, N. C. 

WHEELER, MRS. MARY SPARKES, 
lecturer, author, poet, was born June 21, 
1835, in England. She is the author of the 
two well-known soldiers’ decoration 
hymns, entitled Peacefully Rest; and 
Scatter Love’s Beautiful Garlands Above 
Them. Her poems have been set to music 
by Professor Sweeney, P. P. Bliss, Kirk¬ 
patrick and others. She is the author of a 
volume entitled Poems for the Fireside; 
Modern Cosmogony and the Bible; and 
other works. 

WHEELER, NATHANIEL, inventor, 
manufacturer, state senator, was born 
Sept. 7, 1820, in Watertown, Conn. In 
1850 he made the ac¬ 
quaintance of Allan 
B. Wilson, who was 
engaged in perfect¬ 
ing a sewing-ma¬ 
chine, but needed aid 
in patenting his in¬ 
vention and intro¬ 
ducing it to the pub¬ 
lic. Wilson induced 
Mr. Wheeler to join 
in that .enterprise, 
and in 1852 the ma¬ 
chine was patented 
in the firm-name of Wheeler and Wilson. 
In 1853 the Wheeler and Wilson Manu¬ 
facturing company was founded. He has 
served six sessions in the senate and 
house of the Connecticut legislature, and 
has taken out patents for various inven¬ 
tions in sewing-machines, railway-cars, 
heating and ventilation of buildings, and 
wood finishing. 

WHEELER. ORLANDO BELINA, civil 
engineer, was born Nov. 29, 1835, in’Lodi, 
Mich. Since 1884 he has been United 
States assistant engineer under the Mis¬ 


souri river commission. His writings, 
principally reports, have appeared in the 
annual volumes of the chief of engineers 
of the United States army, and of the 
superintendent of the United States naval 
observatory. 

WHEELER, WILLIAM ADOLPHUS, 
librarian, author, was born Nov. 14, 1833, 
in Leicester, Mass. He was a librarian of 
Boston who, besides editing an edition 
of vVebster’s Dictionary, was the author of 
Noted Names of Fiction; Familiar Al¬ 
lusions; and Who Wrote It? a literary 
index. He died Oct. 28, 1874, in Roxbury. 

WHEELER, WILLIAM ALMON, law¬ 
yer, banker, state senator, congressman, 
was born June 30, 1819, in Malone, N. Y. 

In 1850 and 1851 he 
was elected to the 
New York state leg¬ 
islature, and in 1857 
and 1858 to the state 
senate. In 1860 he 
was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from New 
York to the thirty- 
seventh congress. He 
was, for many years, 
engaged in the bank¬ 
ing business, and 
was president of the 
Ogdensburg and Rouses’ Railroad com¬ 
pany. He was a delegate to the state 
constitutional convention of 1867, and was 
elected its president. He was elected to 
the forty-first and three succeeding con¬ 
gresses. In 1876 he was elected vice-pres¬ 
ident of the United States, and served the 
full term of four years. He died June 4, 
1887, in New York. 

WHEELOCK, ELEAZAR, founder and 
first president of Dartmouth college, was 
born April 22, 1711, in Windham, Conn. 
He died April 24, 1779. 

WHEELOCK, GEORGE ALEXANDER, 
lawyer, naturalist, was born Jan. 21, 1816, 
in Winchester, N. H. For twenty-five 
years he has been chairman of the school 
board of Keene, N. H.; and served two 
years in the state legislature. For many 
years he was president of Ashuelot Na¬ 
tional bank; and is commissioner and 
donor of Wheelock Park. 

WHEELOCK, JOSEPH A., journalist, 
was born Feb. 8, 1831, in Nova Scotia. 
In 1860 and 1861 he was commissioner 
of statistics of Minnesota. In the latter 
year, with others, he founded the St. 
Paul Press, and in 1862 became its ed¬ 
itor. Since that time he has been editor 
of the St. Paul Press and the Pioneer 
Press in 1871-75. 

WHEELWRIGHT, JOHN TYLER, law¬ 
yer, author, was born Feb. 28/ 1856, in 
Roxbury, Mass. He is a Boston lawyer, 
and the author of Rollo’s Journey to 
Cambridge; A Child of the Century, a 
novel; and A Bad Penny. 

WHEILDON, WILLIAM WILLDER, 
journalist, author, was born Oct. 17, 1805, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a journalist of 
Charlestown, Mass., in 1827-70, and long 
a resident of Concord, in the same state. 
He was the author of Letters from Na- 
hant; Contributions to Thought; New 
History of the Battle of Bunker Hill; 
The Arctic Regions; and Curiosities of 
History. He died in 1892. 

W HELAN, JAMES, bishop, author, was 
born Dec. 8, 1823, in Ireland. He was a 
Roman catholic bishop of Nashville, and 
the author of Catena Aurena, or Papal 
Infallibility no Novelty. He died Feb. 
18, 1878, in Zanesville, Ohio. 

WHELAN, VINCENT, bishop, was born 
Jan. 28, 1809, in Baltimore, Md. In 1841 
he was consecrated second bishop of Bal¬ 
timore. He erected a cathedral at Wheel¬ 


ing, W. Va.; and in 1850 was made first 
bishop of Wheeling. He died July 7, 1874, 
in Baltimore, Md. 

WHELPLEY, JAMES DAVENPORT, 
physician, journalist, was born Jan. 23, 
1817, in New York city. In 1847 he re¬ 
moved to New York city, where he be¬ 
came editor and one of the owners of 
the American Whig Review, to which he 
had been a contributor since 1845. He 
died April 15, 1872, in Boston, Mass. 

WHELPLEY, SAMUEL, clergyman, ed¬ 
ucator, author, was born in 1766, in Stock- 
bridge, Mass. He was a baptist clergy¬ 
man and educator of New Jersey. He was 
the author of Letters on Capital Punish¬ 
ment; a once popular Compend of His¬ 
tory; and The Triangle, a theological dis¬ 
cussion. He died July 14, 1817, in New 
York city. 

WHIPPLE, ABRAHAM, naval oflicer, 
was born Sept. 16, 1733, in Providence, R. 
I. In 1775 Rhode Island fitted out two 
armed vessels, and he was put in command 
and made commodore; and he fired the 
first gun of the revolution on the water. 
In 1779 he captured eight prizes, valued at 
one million dollars. He died May 2, 1819, 
in Marietta, Ohio. 

WHIPPLE, EDWIN PERCY, essayist, 
critic, author, was born March 8, 1819, in 
Gloucester, Mass. He was a Boston essay¬ 
ist and critic, whose writing was as dis¬ 
criminating as it was vigorous and epi¬ 
grammatic in style. He was the author of 
Character and Characteristic Men; Liter¬ 
ature and Life; Essays and Reviews; Suc¬ 
cess and Its Conditions; Literature of the 
Age of Elizabeth; Recollections of Emi¬ 
nent Men, with Other Papers; American 
Literature, and Other Papers; Outlooks on 
Society, Literature, and Politics; and Ru¬ 
fus Choate, a volume of personal recol¬ 
lections. He died June 16, 1886, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 

WHIPPLE, HENRY BENJAMIN, bish¬ 
op of Minnesota, was born Feb. 15, 1822, 
in Adams, N. Y. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his educa¬ 
tion in the private 
schools of New York, 
and studied under 
Dr. William D. Wil¬ 
son of Cornell uni¬ 
versity. In 1849 he 
was ordained dea¬ 
con, and a priest in 
1850. The same year 
he became rector of 
Zion’s church. New 
York. He was rector 
of the Church of the 
Holy Communion in Chicago in 1857, 
where he remained till consecrated bishop 
of Minnesota in St. James’ church, Rich¬ 
mond, Va., in 1859. In 1876 he was offered 
the bishopric of the Sandwich Islands. He 
is one of the original trustees of the Pea¬ 
body education fund. He built the cathe¬ 
dral of the Merciful Saviour in Faribault, 
Minn., the first protestant cathedral built 
in America. He founded and built the 
three noble educational institutions at 
Faribault, Minn.—the Seabury Divinity 
school, St. Mary’s Hall and the Shattuck 
Military school. Bishop Whipple has de¬ 
voted much of his life to the evangeliza¬ 
tion of the Indians; is known among the 
Indians as Straight Tongue, and is called 
the Apostle to the Indians. His name is 
well-known in England, and in 1888, at 
the Pan-Anglican synod, he preached the 
opening sermon at Westminster Abbey. 
He was present at the Lambeth confer¬ 
ence in 1897, and delivered the sermon in 
connection with the unveiling of the 
Tennyson memorial at the Isle of Wight. 
Bishop Whipple is chaplain-general of the 
society of the Sons of the Revolution. 













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WHIPPLE, JOHN ADAMS, inventor, 
was born Sept. 10, 1822, in Grafton, Mass. 
He prepared his plates and brought out 
his pictures by steam, invented crayon 
daguerreotypes, and crystalotypes, or dag¬ 
uerreotypes on glass, and, with the aid 
of the fifteen-inch equatorial telescope of 
the Harvard college observatory, under 
the direction of Prof. William C. Bond, 
took a daguerreotype of the moon’s sur¬ 
face, for which he was complimented by 
the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences 
of London, and in 1850 photographed Al¬ 
pha Lyra. 

WHIPPLE, SQUIRE, civil engineer, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 16, 1804, in Worces¬ 
ter county, Mass. He was a civil engin¬ 
eer of note, and the author of The Way 
to Happiness; Treatise on Bridge Build¬ 
ing; and The Doctrine of Central Forces. 
He died March 15, 1888, in Albany, N. Y. 

WHIPPLE, THOMAS, physician, con¬ 
gressman. He served the state of New 
Hampshire as a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1821 to 1829. He died Jan. 23, 
1835, in Wentworth, N. H. 

WHIPPLE, WILLIAM, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born 
Jan. 14, 1730, in Kittery, Maine. In 1775 
he was a member of the provincial con¬ 
gress, and in 1776 was a member of the 
provincial council. He was a delegate 
from New Hampshire to the continental 
congress from 1776 to 1779, and was one 
of the signers of the declaration of inde¬ 
pendence. In 1777 he entered the army, 
and served with distinction in several 
campaigns, and rose to the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general. In 1782 he was appointed 
financial receiver for New Hampshire, 
serving two years, when he resigned. He 
also held the offices of judge of the su¬ 
perior court, and justice of the peace and 
quorum, and was a commissioner on be¬ 
half of Connecticut to settle the land dif¬ 
ficulties in Wyoming Valley. He died 
Nov. 28,1785, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

WHIPPLE, WILLIAM DENISON, sol¬ 
dier, was born Aug. 2, 1826, in Nelson, N. 
Y. In 1851 he graduated from the United 
States Military academy; and in 1865 at¬ 
tained the rank of brevet major-general 
in the regular army. 

WHISTLER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
civil engineer, was born May 19, 1800, in 
Fort Wayne, Ind. During 1834-37 he was 
engaged in the reproduction of a locomo¬ 
tive for the Boston and Albany railroad; 
and subsequently attained success in the 
manufacture of improved locomotives. 
He died April 7, 1849, in Russia. 

WHISTLER, GEORGE WILLIAM, en¬ 
gineer, was born in 1822 in New London, 
Conn. ’ He was connected with various 
railroads in this country, and was super¬ 
intendent of the Erie, and New York and 
New Haven railroads. In the winter of 
1856 he went to Russia to take charge of 
the St. Petersburg and Moscow railroad 
under the Winans contract. He died 
Dec. 24,1869, in England. 

WHISTLER, JAMES ABBOTT MC¬ 
NEILL, artist, author, was born in 1834 in 
Lowell,' Mass. He is an artist who from 
1863 to 1892 lived in London, and in Pans 
from the latter date. He is the author of 
Ten O’Clock; and The Gentle Art of Mak¬ 
ing Enemies. 

WHITAKER, ALEXANDER, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1585 in England. 
He was an episcopal clergyman who came 
to Virginia in 1611. He baptized Poca¬ 
hontas, and officiated at her wedding. 
He was the author of Good Newes from 
Virginia, one of the very first books wiit- 
ten in the colony. See Tyler’s American 
Literature. He died about 1613 in Hen¬ 
rico county, Va. 


WHITAKER, DANIEL KIMBALL, law¬ 
yer, journalist, was born April 13, 1801, in 
Sharon, Conn. He removed to New Or¬ 
leans in 1866, where he founded and ed¬ 
ited for many years the New Orleans 
Monthly Review. He was corresponding 
secretary of the New Orleans Academy of 
Sciences. He died April 10, 1881, in New 
Orleans, La. 

WHITAKER, EPHER, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born March 27, 1820, in Fair- 
neld, N. J. He is a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man, pastor at Southold, Long Island, 
from 1851; and the author of The War 
of Death; New Fruits from an Old Field; 
Ready for Duty; Collection of Original 
Hymns; History of Southold, 1640-1740; 
and Old Town Records. 

WHITAKER, HERSCHEL, public of¬ 
ficial, was born July 25, 1847, in Turin, 
N. Y. For many years he has been a sten¬ 
ographer in the United States circuit 
and district courts, eastern district of 
Michigan. He has been United States 
commissioner; United States examiner; 
member of the board of education; and 
Detroit secretary of the Michigan fish 
commission. For eight years he was pres¬ 
ident of the Michigan Fish commission; 
and has been twice president of the 
American Fisheries society. 

WHITAKER, LILY C., poet, was born 
about 1850 in Charleston, S. C. She con¬ 
tributed to the Southern Quarterly, under 
her father’s direction, and has written 
for the New Orleans press. She has pub¬ 
lished Donata, and Other Poems. 

WHITAKER, MRS. MARY SCRIM- 
GEOUR [FURMAN] [MILLER], author, 
poet, was born Feb. 22, 1820, in Beaufort 
district, S. C. She is a New Orleans writ¬ 
er; and the author of Poems; and Al¬ 
bert Hasting, a novel. 

WHITAKER, NATHANIEL, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 23, 1732, in Long 
Island, N. Y. He was a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman in New England and Virginia, pop¬ 
ular in the colonial period. He was the 
author of Discourses on Reconciliation; 
and Discourses on Toryism. He died Jan. 
21, 1795, in Woodbridge, Va. 

WHITAKER, OZI WILLIAM, bishop 
of Pennsylvania, was born May 10, 1830, 
in New Salem, Mass. He was elected mis¬ 
sionary bishop of Nevada and Arizona by 
the general convention in New York in 
1868, and was consecrated in St. George’s 
church, New York, on Oct. 13, 1869. The 
bishop was elected assistant bishop of 
Pennsylvania in June, 1886. 

WHITCHER, MRS. FRANCES MIRIAM 
[BERRY], humorist, author, was born 
Nov. 1, 1811, in Whitestown, N. Y. She is 
a still popular humorist who was the wife 
of an episcopal clergyman in Elmira, N. 
Y.; and the author of The Widow Bedott 
Papers; and Widow.Spriggins, and Other 
Sketches. She died Jan. 4, 1852, in Whites¬ 
town, N. Y. 

WHITCOMB, JAMES, lawyer, United 
States senator, governor, was born Dec. 
1, 1795, in Windsor, Vt. In 1826 he was 
appointed prosecuting attorney at Bloom¬ 
ington, Ind.; and in 1830 was chosen a 
member of the state senate, and served 
five years. He was appointed commis¬ 
sioner of the general land office in 1836; 
and in 1841 returned to the practice of 
his profession at Terre Haute, Ind. In 
1843 he was chosen governor of the state; 
and was re-elected in 1846. In 1849 he was 
elected a senator of the United States for 
the term ending in 1855. He died Oct. 4, 
1852, in New York city. 

WHITE, ADDISON, congressman, was 
born in Kentucky. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Kentucky from 1851 
to 1853. 


WHITE, ALBERT SMITH, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
Oct. 24, 1803, in Blooming Grove, N. Y. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Indiana from 1837 to 1839; and was a 
senator in congress from 1839 to 1845. He 
was president of the Wabash and Indian¬ 
apolis, and of the Lake Erie, Wabash 
and St. Louis Railroad companies. He 
was elected a representative from Indiana 
to the thirty-seventh congress. After 
leaving congress he was appointed a 
commissioner to settle certain claims 
against the Sioux Indians; and in 1864 
was appointed judge of the district court 
of Indiana. He died Sept. 4, 1864, in 
Stockwell, Ind. 

WHITE, ALEXANDER, congressman, 
was born in 1738 in Rappahannock coun¬ 
ty, Va. He was a delegate from Virginia 
to the continental congress from 1786 to 
1788; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1789 to 1793. He died in Sep¬ 
tember, 1804, in Woodville, Va. 

WHITE, ALEXANDER, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, 
was born Oct. 16, 1816, ’in Franklin, Tenn. 
He was a member of the thirty-second 
congress; was a member of the Alabama 
state convention of 1865; and was a mem¬ 
ber of the general assembly in 1872. He 
was elected a representative from Ala¬ 
bama to the forty-third congress; and 
in 1875 was appointed an associate justice 
of the United States court for the terri¬ 
tory of Utah. 

WHITE, ALEXANDER CALDWELL, 
lawyer, congressman, was horn Dec. 12, 
1833, near Kittanning, Pa. In 1867 he 
was elected district attorney of Jefferson 
county; and in 1868 removed to Brook- 
ville, the county seat. In 1870 he was re¬ 
elected. In 1884 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Pennsylvania to the forty- 
ninth congress as a republican. 

WHITE, ALFRED, stockman, legislat¬ 
or, was born Feb. 21,1857, in England. In 
1876 he emigrated to the United States, 
and seven years later settled in North 
Dakota. He is a successful stock dealer 
and prominent in the public affairs of his 
city, county and state. He has served 
with distinction as a member of the fifth 
assembly of the North Dakota legislature. 

WHITE, ALLISON, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Dec. 21, 1816, in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He was elected a representative 
from Pennsylvania to the thirty-fifth con¬ 
gress from the fifteenth congressional 
district of that state. 

WHITE, ANDREW CURTIS, educator, 
author, was born Nov. 25, 1854, in Kirk¬ 
land, N. Y. For four years he was in¬ 
structor in Latin and Greek in the Cor¬ 
nell university; and since 1889 has been 
assistant librarian of that institution. He 
is the author of Memoirs of Rhoderick 
White; and other works. 

WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON, educat¬ 
or, state senator, author, was born Nov. 
7, 1832, in Homer, N. Y. In 1857 he was 
elected professor of history in the uni¬ 
versity of Michigan; and in 1862 was 
elected a member of the New York state 
senate; and was re-elected in 1864. In 
1867-85 he was president of the Cornell 
university; and in 1871 was one of the 
government commissioners to St. Domin¬ 
go. He was appointed United States min¬ 
ister to Germany in 1879-81; and to Rus¬ 
sia in 1892; and appointed ambassador 
to Germany in 1897. He is the author of 
Lectures on Mediaeval and Modern His¬ 
tory; The New Germany; History of the 
Doctrine of Comets; European Schools of 
History and Politics; Studies in General 
History; Paper Money Inflation in France; 
and The Warfare of Science with The¬ 
ology. 


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HITE, BARTOW W., congressman, 
was born in Westchester county, X. Y. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Xew York from 1S25 to 1S27. 

^ HITE, BENJAMIN, agriculturist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
in Maine. During the years 1841 and 
1S42 he was a member of the Maine leg¬ 
islature and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from that state from 1844 io 1845. 

WHITE, BENJAMIN F., banker, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Dec. 3, 1837, in New 
Bedford, Mass. This successful banker 
-and business man became governor of 
-Montana in 18S9. 

WHITE, CAMPBELL P.. merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born in New York. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1829 to 1835; and also took a 
leading part in the New York convention 
of 1846. He died Feb. 12, 1859. 

WHITE. CARLOS, author, was born in 
1842 in Vermont. He is the author of 
Ecce Femina. an Attempt to Solve the 
Woman Question. 

WHITE. CATHERINE ANN, author, 
was born in 1S25 in New York. She was a 
former superior of the convent of the Sac¬ 
red Heart. New York city; and the au¬ 
thor of The Students' Mythology; Clas¬ 
sical Literature; and Bible Literature. 
She died in 1S7S. 

WHITE. CHARLES, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 2S. 1795. in Randolph, Vt. 
He was a congregational clergyman and 
educator, president of Wabash college. 
Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1841-61; and the 
author of Essays in Literature and Ethics. 
He died Oct. 29. 1861, in Crawfordsville, 
Ind. 

WHITE, CHARLES ABIATHAR. geolo¬ 
gist. author, was born Jan. 26. 1S26, in 
North Dighton. Mass. He was the state 
geologist of Iowa in 1865-70, and on the 
l nited States geological survey from 1SS2. 
He is the author of Report of Iowa Geo¬ 
logical Survey; and Physical Geographv 
of Iowa. 

WHITE. CHARLES IGNATIUS, clergy¬ 
man. author, was born in 1807 in Balti¬ 
more. Md. He was a Roman catholic cler¬ 
gyman of Washington, long pastor of St. 
Matthew's church. He translated from 
the French Chateaubxiands Genius of 
Christianity; and other works. He died 
April 1, 1S77. in Washington. D. C. 

WHITE. CHILTON A., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born in 
February, 1826, in Georgetown, Ohio. In 
18o2 and 1853 he was prosecuting attor¬ 
ney for Brown county; and in 1S59 and 
I860 was chosen a senator in the state leg¬ 
islature. He was elected a representative 
from Ohio to the thirty-seventh congress: 
and was re-elected to the thirtv-eighth 
congress. 

WHITE, DANIEL APPLETON, law- 
yer. jurist, congressman, was born June 
7. 1776. in Lawrence, Mass. He was a 
jurist of Salem. Mass.; and the author of 
The Jurisdiction of the Massachusetts 
Court of Probate; New England Congre¬ 
gationalism in Its Origin and Purity; and 
Eulogy on Nathaniel Bowditch. He died 
March 30. 1861, in Salem. Mass. 

WHITE. DAVID, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman. He was one of the judges of 
the circuit court of Kentucky: and repre¬ 
sented that state in congress from 1823 
to 1825. He died Feb. 17, 1835, in Frank¬ 
lin county, Ohio. 

^ HiTE, EDM ARD D.. congressman, 
governor, was born in March, 1795. in 
Tennessee. He was governor of Louisiana 
from 1824 to 1830: and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1829 to 1834. and 
from 1839 to 1S43. He died April IS. 1847, 
in New Orleans. La. 


WHITE, EDWARD DONNELL, educat¬ 
or, lecturer, was born May 2, 1869, in 
Monroe, Tenn. For four years he was 
president of the Fiske academy of Over- 
ton, Tenn.; and for several years was 
principal of the Chickasaw Male academy 
of Indian territory. He is a successful 
educator, and a brilliant lecturer; and 
has contributed extensively to current lit¬ 
erature. 

WHITE, EDWARD DOUGLAS, a native 
of Tennessee, became governor of Louisi¬ 
ana in 1835. In 1825 he was appointed 
associate judge of New Orleans; was three 
times elected to the lower house of con¬ 
gress: and served his state as governor 
with marked ability. He died April 18, 
1847. 

WHITE, EDWARD DOUGLASS, law¬ 
yer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born Nov. 3, 1845, in Lafourche parish. 
La. He served in the confederate army. 
He was elected state senator in 1874; and 
was appointed associate justice of the su¬ 
preme court of Louisiana in 1878. He was 
elected to the United States senate as a 
democrat, and took his seat March 4,1891; 
while serving his term as senator from 
Louisiana he was appointed in 1894 an 
associate justice of the supreme court. 

WHITE. ELIZA ORNE, author, was 
born in 1856 in New Hampshire. She is a 
writer of Brookline, Mass.; and the au¬ 
thor of Miss Brooks; When Molly W 7 as 
Six, a juvenile tale; Winterborough; A 
Little Girl of Long Ago: and The Coming 
of Theodora. 

WHITE. MRS. ELLEN G. [HARMON], 
author. She is the author of The Spirit 
of Prophecy. 

WHITE. EMERSON ELDRIDGE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Jan. 10, 1829, in 
Mantua. Ohio. He is superintendent of 
the Cincinnati public schools from 1883; 
and the author of The Elements of Peda¬ 
gogy; and School Management. 

M HITE. FRANCIS, congressman, was 
born in Virginia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Virginia from 1813 
to 1815. 

M HITE. FRANCIS J., soldier, lawver, 
legislator, was born in 1842 in New York 
city. At one period of the war he was 
provost-marshal and judge advocate-gen¬ 
eral in central Missouri, and in the clos¬ 
ing years of the contest he was governor 
of the eastern shore of Maryland. He 
was appointed brigadier-general of vol¬ 
unteers in 1865, and was offered a cap¬ 
taincy in the regular army, which he de¬ 
clined. After serving a short time in 
Texas he removed to St. Louis, studied 
law. was admitted to the bar, and elected 
to the legislature. He died Aug. 29, 1875. 
in San Francisco, Cal. 

WHITE. FREDERICK EDWARD, sol¬ 
dier. farmer, congressman, was born in 
1844 in Prussia. In 1857 he emigrated to 
the United States, and located in Keo¬ 
kuk county. Iowa. He served gallantly 
through the war in the famous Crocker 
brigade. He subsequently bought a farm 
of forty acres, which has since been ex¬ 
tended to more than four hundred acres, 
and is one of the best kept farms in the 
state of Iowa. In 1890 he was elected a 
member of the United States congress. In 
1897 he was the nominee of the demo¬ 
crats. populists and free silver republicans 
for governor of the state of Iowa. 

WHITE. GEORGE E., soldier, lumber 
merchant, state senator, congressman, 
was born in 1848 in Massachusetts. He 
served under General Grant in the armv 
of the Potomac, from the battle of the 
Wilderness until the surrender of Gen¬ 
eral Lee. He is head of the extensive 


hardwood lumber firm of George E. White 
and Co. of Chicago, Ill. He has served as 
alderman of Chicago and as state senator. 
He was elected to the fiftj r -fourth and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
republican. 

WHITE, GEORGE HENRY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Dec. 18, 1852, in 
Rosendale, N. C. He was principal of one 
of the state normal and other schools in 
the state. He w T as elected to the house 
of representatives in 1880 and to the state 
senate in 1884. He was elected solicitor 
and prosecuting attorney for the second 
judicial district of North Carolina fol 
four years in 1886, and for a like term in 
1890. He was elected to the fifty-fifth 
congress as a republican. For six years he 
was grand master of Masons of North 
Carolina. 

WHITE, GEORGE SAVAGE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 12, 1784, In 
England. He was the author of Christian 
Memorial; Containing God’s Abundant 
Grace and Provincial Kindness to the 
Author; Memoir of Samuel Slater; and 
History of Manufactures. He died March 
3, 1850. 

WHITE. GEORGE W., clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born Feb. 18, 1858, in 
Valparaiso, Ind. He was ordained a 
clergyman of the methodist episcopal 
church in Iowa; has filled important pas¬ 
torates in the southern California con¬ 
ference; and is presiding elder of the Los 
Angeles district. He is also the president 
of the university of Southern California. 

WHITE. GREENOUGH, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, authox-, was born in 1863 in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He was professor of English at 
the university of the South, Sewanee, 
Tenn., in 1885-87, and professor of eccle¬ 
siastical history and polity there from 
1894. He is the author of Sketch of the 
Philosophy of American Literature; The 
Rise of Papal Supremacy; and Outline of 
the Philosophy of English Literature. 

M HITE, HARRY, soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Jan. 12, 1834, 
in Indiana county, Pa. In 1861 he entered 
the union army as a major, and served 
throughout the war, attaining the rank of 
colonel and brevet brigadier-general. 
While in service was elected a state sen¬ 
ator from Pennsylvania, and served dur¬ 
ing the session of 1862-63, returning to his 
command at the close of the session. He 
was re-elected to the state senate for three 
years in 1865, again in 1868, and again in 
1871, serving as speaker during the close 
of the latter term. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses. 

WHITE, HENRY, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 3, 1790, in Wilbraham, 
Mass. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Maine and New Hampshire, who 
published The Early History of New Eng¬ 
land. He died Dec. 8, 1858, in Garland, 
Maine. 

WHITE. HENRY, theologian, was born 
June 10, 1800, in Durham, N. Y. He found¬ 
ed the l nion Theological seminary and 
was elected its first professor of syste¬ 
matic theology, which position he held 
until his death. He died Aug. 25, 1850, in 
New York city, N. Y. 

M HITE, HENRY" CLAY, lawyer, jurist, 
was born Feb. 23, 1839, in Newburgh, 
Ohio. He is one of the leading lawyers 
of Cleveland, Ohio, where he is judge of 
the probate court. 

W HITE, HENRY 7 CLAY, chemist, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 30, 1850, in Baltimore, 
Md. He was the state chemist of Georgia 
from 1880; and the author of Complete 
History of the Cotton Plant; and Ele¬ 
mentary Geology of Tennessee. 


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WHITE, HENRY KIRKE, lawyer, was 
born Feb. 14, 1’864, in Afton, Va./in sight 
of Stratford, the home of the Lees, and 
not far from Wakefield, the birthplace of 
Washington. He received a thorough edu¬ 
cation in the university of Texas, and in 
1887 commenced the practice of law in 
Birmingham, Ala., and has since at¬ 
tained prominence as one of the foremost 
lawyers of the south. 

WHITE, HORACE, journalist, author, 
was born Aug. 10, 1834, in Colebrook, 
N. H. He was editor of the Chicago 
Tribune in 1864-74, .and since 1883 one of 
the editors of The New York Evening 
Post. He is the author of The Silver 
Question; The Tariff Question; Coin’s 
Financial Fool; Money and Banking Il¬ 
lustrated by American History; and The 
Gold Standard. 

WHITE, HORATIO STEVENS, educat¬ 
or, lawyer, author, was born April 23, 
1852, in Syracuse, N. Y. Since 1876 he 
has been professor 
of German language 
and literature and 
dean of the faculty 
of Cornell university. 
He is the author of 
Lessing’s Prose and 
other works. He 
was admitted to the 
bar in New York 
state as attorney in 
1878 and as counsel¬ 
or in 1879. He is the 
author of Selections 
from Heine’s Poems, and also of Selec¬ 
tions for German Prose and Composition. 

WHITE, HOWARD GANSON, journal¬ 
ist, state legislator, was born May 5, 1856, 
in Syracuse, N. Y. In 1883 he became ed¬ 
itor of the Syracuse Standard; and in 1887 
became sole owner of it. In 1889 he was 
elected to the New York legislature, and 
re-elected in 1890. 



WHITE. HUGH, soldier, legislator, was 
born in 1737 in Dauphin county, Pa. He 
was one of the first commissioners of Ly¬ 
coming county, and a member of the 
Pennsylvania assembly in 1795, 1796. and 
1803. He served as colonel of Pennsyl¬ 
vania troops in 1812. He died in 1822. 

WHITE, HUGH, congressman, was born 
in 1799 in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from his native state 
from 1845 to 1851. He died Oct. 6, 1870, 
in Troy, N. Y. 


WHITE. HUGH LAWSON, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, United States senator, was 
born Oct. 30, 1773, in Iredell county, N. C. 

In 1801 he was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the 
supreme court of the 
state of Tennessee, 
and served until 
1807; and in 1808 
was appointed dis¬ 
trict attorney. In 
1809 he was elected 
to the state senate; 
again served six 
years in the supreme 
court as judge. In 
1815 he was chosen 
president of the state bank of Ten¬ 
nessee; in 1820 he was again a member 
of the state senate, and about that 
time was appointed a commissioner 
to adjust the claims of our citizens 
against Spain. He was elected a sen¬ 
ator in congress from 1825 to 1835, and 
from 1836 to 1840. At the election for 
president of the United States in 1836 he 
received all the votes of Georgia and Ten¬ 
nessee for that office. He died April 10, 
1840, in Knoxville, Tenn. 



V HITE, ISRAEL CHARLES, geologist, 
author, was born Nov. 1, 1848, in Monon¬ 
galia county, W. Va. He was called to 
the chair of geology in the West Virginia 
university in 1877. He was the first to ap¬ 
ply the anticlinal idea to the successful 
location of natural gas and oil wells, and 
announced his theory in 1885. He is also 
the author of nine volumes of the reports 
of the geological survey of Pennsylvania. 

HITE, ISAAC CUSHING, clergyman. 
He has attained success as one of the most 
eminent ministers of the congregational 
church. For many years he was pastor 
of Scotland church of Bridgewater, Mass.; 
then at Providence, R. I.; and now in 
Plymouth, Mass. 

WHITE, JAMES, merchant, legislator, 
was born July 9, 1828, in Hinsdale, Mass. 
For twelve years he was the senior mem¬ 
ber of the firm of White, Brown 
and Co., dry goods importers of Bos¬ 
ton and New York. In 1876-77 he 
was one of Boston’s representatives 
in the state legislature; and in 1878- 
79 was a member of the state senate. He 
died Sept. 3, 1895, in Williamstown, Mass. 

WHITE, JAMES, congressman, was 
born in 1737 in Iredell county, N. C. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Tennessee from 1792 to 1794. He died in 
1815 in Knoxville, Tenn. 

WHITE. JAMES, author, was born in 
1821. He is a seventh day adventist elder 
who published Life Incidents of the Great 
Advent Movement. 

WHITE, JAMES B., soldier, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born in June, 
1835, in Scotland. He enlisted as a private 
in company I, thirtieth Indiana volun¬ 
teers; and was elected captain by the 
company. In 1874 he was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the common council of the city of 
Fort Wayne, Ind.; and was elected to the 
fiftieth congress as a republican. 

WHITE, JAMES TERRY, publisher, au¬ 
thor, was born July 3, 1845, in Newbury- 
port, Mass. In 1886 he came to New York 
city, and is now the head of the pub¬ 
lishing house of James T. White and Co. 
He is also president of the Yost Typewrit¬ 
ing Co., and a stockholder in several of 
the banks and business corporations of 
his city. He is the author of two holi¬ 
day volumes: Flowers from Arcadia, and A 
Bouquet of California Flowers; Captive 
Memories; and Christmas Greeting. 

WHITE, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born in 1677 in Watertown, Mass. He was 
a congregational clergyman, pastor at 
Gloucester, Mass., in 1703-60; and the au¬ 
thor of The Gospel Treasure in Earthen 
Vessels; and New England’s Lamenta¬ 
tions for the Decay of Godliness. He died 
Jan. 17, 1760, in Gloucester, Mass. 

WHITE. JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1805 in Kentucky. 
He served as a representative in congress 
from Kentucky from 1835 to 1845; and 
was speaker of the house during the twen¬ 
ty-seventh congress. He was judge of 
the nineteenth judicial district of Ken- 
tucity at the time of his death. He died 
Sept. 22, 1845, in Richmond, Ky. 

WHITE. JOHN BLAKE, artist, lawyer, 
dramatist, author, was born Sept. 2, 1781, 
near Eutaw Springs, S. C. He was the au¬ 
thor of Foscari; Mysteries of the Castle; 
Intemperance; Modern Honor; and Tri¬ 
umph of Liberty. He died Aug. 24, 1859, 
in Charleston, S. C. 

WHITE, JOHN D., lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born Jan. 16, 
1849, in Clay county, Ky. In 1874 he was 
elected a representative from Kentucky 
to the forty-fourth congress; and was 
again elected a representative to the forty- 
seventh and forty-eighth congresses. 


BIOGRAPHY. 

WHITE, JOHN HAZEN, bishop, author, 
was born March 10, 1849, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He is episcopal bishop of Indiana 
at Indianapolis; and has published nu¬ 
merous sermons and addresses. 

WHITE, JOHN SILAS, educator, author, 
was born Feb. 3, 1847, in Wrentham, Mass. 
He is an educator of New York city, mas¬ 
ter of the Berkeley school from 1880; and 
the author of Boys’ and Girls’ Plutarch; 
and Herodotus and Pliny. 

WHITE, JOHN STAPLES, lawyer, lec¬ 
turer, author, was born Oct. 27, 1838, in 
Portland, Maine. He is the author of 
Humanics, a, philosophical and conserva¬ 
tive criticism on men and manners; and 
much other literary matter—social, politi¬ 
cal and religious. A lawyer by profession, 
he has attained a wide reputation as an 
able and progressive writer and thinker. 

WHITE, JOHN WILLIAMS, educator, 
author, was born March 5, 1849, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. He was a professor of Greek 
at Harvard university from 1877; and the 
author of Greek and Latin at Sight; First 
Lessons in Greek; The Beginner’s Greek 
Book; and An Illustrated Dictionary to 
Xenophon’s Anabasis. 

WHITE, JOSEPH L., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Cherry Valley, N. Y. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Indiana from 1841 to 1843. He died in 
January, 1861. 

WHITE, JOSEPH M., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born May 10, 1781, in Franklin 
county, Ky. He was a delegate to con¬ 
gress from the territory of Florida from 
1823 to 1837. He died Oct. 19, 1839, in St. 
Louis, Mo. 

WHITE, JOSEPH W., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Oct. 2, 1822, in Cambridge, 
Ohio. In 1845 and 1847 he was appointed 
prosecuting attorney for his native coun¬ 
ty; and was elected a representative from 
Ohio to the thirty-eighth congress. 

WHITE, JULIUS, soldier, was born 
Sept. 29, 1816, in Cazenovia, N. Y. He 
served as a general in the volunteer army 
during the rebellion; and in 1872 he was 
appointed minister resident to the Argen¬ 
tine Confederation. He resigned in 1874, 
after which he settled in Chicago, Ill. He 
died May 12, 1890, in South Evanston, Ill. 

WHITE, LEONARD, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1767 in Haver¬ 
hill, Mass. He represented his town in 
the legislature; and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Massachusetts from 
1811 to 1813. He died Oct. 10, 1849, in 
Haverhill, Mass. 

WHITE, MATTHEW, author. He is the 
author of Ascott Abroad; One of the’Pro¬ 
fession; and My Mysterious Fortune. 

WHITE, MICHAEL D., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 8, 1827, in Clarke 
county, Ohio. He was elected prosecuting 
attorney in 1854, serving two years. He 
was state senator for four years from 
1860; and was elected a representative 
from Indiana to the forty-fifth congress. 

WHITE, MILO, merchant, state senator, 
congressman, was born Aug. 17, 1830, in 
Fletcher, Vt. He engaged in merchandis¬ 
ing in Chatfield, Minn.; and was elected 
a state senator in 1871, 1872, 1874 and 1880. 
He was elected a representative from Min¬ 
nesota to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth 
congresses as a republican. 

WHITE, MOSES CLARK, missionary, 
physician, author, was born July 24, 1819, 
in Paris, N. Y. During 1847-53 he was a 
missionary in China. He then established 
himself as a physician in New Haven, 
Conn. In 1857-67 he filled the chair of 
microscopy in Yale college. He is the 
author of several medical works. 


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WHITE, OCTAVIUS AUGUSTUS, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born Feb. 8, 1826, in 
Charleston. He first introduced the prac¬ 
tice of superficial in¬ 
cisions within the os 
uteri for the relief of 
stenotic dysmenor- 
rhcea. He also in¬ 
vented the hyster- 
otome.an instrument 
for practicing safe 
incision within the 
neck of the womb; 
also novel instru¬ 
ments for the cure of 
hernia and varico¬ 
cele, and a new form 
of laryngoscope. He is the author of Re¬ 
port on the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 
Wilmington, N. C.; Varicocele and Its 
Radical Cure; Report on the Yellow Fever 
Epidemic in Savannah, Ga. 

WHITE, PETER, lawyer, banker, leg¬ 
islator, was born Oct. 31, 1830, in Rome, 
N. Y. For several years he lived in Mac¬ 
kinac and Detroit, 
and in 1849 moved 
to Marquette, then 
called Worcester, 
and has resided there 
continuously since. 
In 1852 he embarked 
in business for him¬ 
self as general store¬ 
keeper and private 
banker. The store 
business was 
dropped, but an in¬ 
surance agency was 
added; and in 1863 he incorporated his 
bank as the First National bank, of which 
he is president to this day. He has been 
prominently identified with various manu¬ 
facturing and mining corporations. Dur¬ 
ing the war he raised company B, first 
regiment Michigan cavalry, and was elect¬ 
ed its captain. He has held several fed¬ 
eral and state appointments; was post¬ 
master in 1851; and has been collector of 
customs and register of the land office. 
In 1857 he was a representative in the 
Michigan state legislature; and in 1876 
he served with distinction as a state sen¬ 
ator. He has been prominently identi¬ 
fied with the public interests of Marquette, 
and the public library called by his 
name is in a building given by him, and 
several thousand books were donated by 
him to begin it. He has been a special 
master in chancery in United States 
courts’ matters where millions were in¬ 
volved; has been a lawyer for ten years 
and a banker for forty years. 

WHITE, PHILLIPS, congressman, was 
born about 1730 in New Hampshire. He 
was a delegate from New Hampshire to 
the continental congress in 1782 and 1783. 
He died about 1783 in New Hampshire. 

WHITE, PHINEAS, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in 1770 in 
Hampshire county. Mass. He was register 
of probate in the town of Pomfret, Vt., 
from 1800 to 1809; and was county at¬ 
torney in 1813. He served eight years in 
the state legislature; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Vermont from 
1821 to 1823. He died in 1847. 

WHITE, PLINY HOLTON, clergyman, 
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 6, 1822, in 
Springfield, Conn. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman of Coventry, Vt., but prior to 
1859 a lawyer there; and was the author of 
History of Coventry. He died April 24, 
1869, in Coventry, Vt. 

WHITE, RICHARD EDWARD, poet, 
was born in 1843 in Ireland. He is a 
writer of San Francisco, Cal.; and the 
author of a volume of poems entitled The 
Cross of Monterey. 




WHITE, RICHARD GRANT, scholar, 
author, poet, was born May 22, 1821, in 
New York city. He was an eminent 
Shakespearean scholar of New York city. 
His critical twelve-volume edition of 
Shakespeare appeared in 1865, and the 
Riverside edition in 1883. His original 
works comprise Words and Their Uses; 
Every-Day English; England Without 
and Within; Biographical and Critical 
Handbook of Christian Art; Shake¬ 
speare’s Scholar; Memoirs of Shakespeare; 
Studies in Shakespeare; The New Gospel 
of Peace, a political satire; Revelations: 
a Companion to The New Gospel of Peace; 
The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys, a 
novel; The Fall of Man, or the Loves of 
the Gorillas; The American View of the 
Copyright Question; and The Chronicles 
of Gotham. He died April 8, 1885, in New 
York city. 

WHITE, MRS. RHODA ELIZABETH 
[WATERMAN], author, was born in 18—, 
She is the author of Portraits of My 
Married Friends; From Infancy to Wom¬ 
anhood, a Book for Young Mothers; and 
What Will the World Say? a novel. 

WHITE, ROBERT GRAY, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born Jan. 21,1807, in Selin’s Grove, 
Pa. He was a member of the state con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1838, treasurer 
of Tioga county in 1841 and 1843, and 
elected president judge of the fourth ju¬ 
dicial district of Pennsylvania in 1851 and 
1861, retiring in 1871. He died Sept. 6, 
1875, in Millsboro, Pa. 

WHITE, RUFUS A., clergyman, reform¬ 
er, was born Nov. 24, 1857, in Franklin, 
Pa. He was fitted for college at the col¬ 
legiate institute of Towanda, Pa.; entered 
Tuft’s college in 1879; spent six years in 
the Divinity school and department of 
letters; and subsequently traveled ex¬ 
tensively in Europe. For eight years he 
was pastor of the Universalist church of 
Newton, Mass.; and since 1892 he has 
been pastor of the Stewart Avenue Uni¬ 
versalist church of Chicago, Ill. He has 
been a member of the school board and 
president of associated charities. He has 
been actively connected with the Civic 
Federation; and organized the Chicago 
penny savings system, of which he is 
chairman. He is one of the editors of 
The New Unity, the organ of the liberal 
congress of religion; and contributes ex¬ 
tensively to current literature. 

WHITE, SAMUEL, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born in 1770 in Wilmington, Del. 
He was a United States senator from Dela¬ 
ware from 1801 until his death. He died 
Nov. 4, 1800, in Wilmington, Del. 

WHITE, MRS. SARAH ELIZABETH 
[JOY], journalist, author, was born in 
18— in Maine. She is a Boston journal¬ 
ist; and the author of Housekeepers and 
Homemakers; and Business Openings for 
Girls. 

WHITE, SHUBBEL F., soldier, lawyer, 
legislator, jurist, was born June 17, 1841, 
in Marshall, Mich. He attended Olivet col¬ 
lege; graduated in 1864 from the univer¬ 
sity of Michigan; and from the Albany 
Law school three years later. During the 
war he was captain of company A, twen¬ 
ty-eighth regiment Michigan volunteer 
infantry. In 1873-74 he was circuit judge; 
and in 1883 served with distinction as 
state senator in the Michigan state legis¬ 
lature. He is now one of the foremost 
lawyers of Minnesota at Duluth; and 
takes a prominent part in public and polit¬ 
ical affairs. 

WHITE, STEPHEN MALLORY, law¬ 
yer, United States senator, was born Jan. 
19, 1853, in San Francisco, Cal. In 1874 
he commenced practicing law in Los An¬ 
geles county, Cal., where he has since re¬ 
sided; and in 1882 he was elected district 
attorney of his county. In 1886 he was 


elected to the state senate for the term of 
four years, and was chosen president pro 
tempore of the senate during both sessions 
of his incumbency. In 1888 he discharged 
the functions of lieutenant-governor. He 
was also a delegate-at-large to the nation¬ 
al convention in 1892. He took his seat as 
United States senator March 4, 1893. His 
term of service will expire March 3, 1899. 

WHITE, STEPHEN VAN GULEN, law¬ 
yer, banker, broker, congressman, was 
born Aug. 1, 1831, in Chatham county, 
N. C. In 1856 he moved to Des Moines, 
Iowa, where he was actively engaged in 
the practice of law till 1865, when he re¬ 
moved to New York city. He became a 
member of the New York stock exchange, 
and has been engaged as banker and 
broker ever since. He was elected to the 
fiftieth congress as a republican. 

WHITE, WILLIAM, clergyman, bishop, 
author, was born April 4, 1748, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He was the first protestant 
episcopal bishop of 
Pennsylvania; and 
for nearly sixty 


mmmagR 


years he ruled his 
| growing diocese, and 
for forty years was 
||| senior and presiding 
bishop; and the au¬ 
thor of Memoir of 
pH the Episcopal 
Church; Lectures on 
the Catechism; and 
Comparative View of 
the Controversy Be¬ 
tween Calvinists and Arminians. He died 
July 17, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WHITE, WILLIAM ALLEN, journalist, 
author, was born in 1868 in Emporia, Kan. 
He is now editor and owner of the Em¬ 
poria Gazette in Emporia, Kan. He is the 
author of The Real Issue; and also a 
clever book of Kansas Stories. 



WHITE, WILLIAM CHARLES, lawyer, 
dramatist, author, was born in 1777 in 
Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer and 
dramatist of Worcester, Mass.; and the 
author of The Country Cousin; The Poor 
Lodger; and Compendium of the Laws of 
Massachusetts. He died May 2, 1818, in 
Worcester, Mass. 


WHITE, WILLIAM J„ agriculturist, 
banker, manufacturer, congressman, was 
born Oct. 7, 1850, in Canada. He owns 
large vessel interests, and is interested 
largely in banking, farming, stock-raising, 
and various other business enterprises. 
He was elected mayor of West Cleveland 
as a republican in 1889; and was elected 
to the fifty-third congress as a republican. 


WHITE, WILLIAM JONES, railroad 
president, was born Oct. 7, 1842, in War- 
renton, N. C. Since 1885 he has been 
president of the Warrenton railroad at 
Warrenton, N. C. 

WHITE, WILLIAM N„ bookseller, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1819 in Walton, N. Y. 
He was a bookseller of Athens, Ga., who 
edited The Southern Cultivator. He was 
the author of Gardening for the South; 
and Scientific Gardening. He died July 
9, 1867, in Athens, Ga. 


WHITEAKER, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, governor, was born May 4, 
1820, in Dearborn county, Ind. He was 
elected a judge of probate in 1855; a rep¬ 
resentative in the territorial legislature in 
1857; and governor of the new state of 
Oregon in 1858, holding that office until 
1862. He was elected a representative in 
the state legislature in 1866; re-elected 
in 1868, and was made speaker; and again 
re-elected in 1870. In 1876 he was elected 
state senator for four years; and was 
president of the senate in 1876 and 1878. 
He was elected a representative from Ore¬ 
gon to the forty-sixth congress. 





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WHITEFIELD, HENRY, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1597 in England. He 
was a puritan clergyman who came to 
New England in 1637, and was one of the 
founders of the New Haven colony. He 
returned to England in 1650. He was the 
author of Helps to Stir Up to Christian 
Duties; The Light Appearing; and 
Strength Out of Weakness. He died about 
1651 in Winchester, England. 

WHITEFIELD, J. W., congressman, 
was born in Tennessee. He was a dele¬ 
gate from the territory of Kansas to the 
thirty-fourth congress. 

WHITEFIELD, JAMES, soldier, gov¬ 
ernor, was born in Georgia. He moved 
to Mississippi at an early day; served as 
a soldier in the war of 1812; and also in 
the Creek war. He was governor of Mis¬ 
sissippi from 1851 to 1852. During the late 
rebellion he acted as funding agent for 
the confederate government. He died 
June 30, 1875, in Columbus, Ga. 

WHITEHEAD, CHARLES E., railroad 
president, was born in 1830 in New York 
city. Since 1887 he has been president of 
the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio 
railroad at New York city. 

WHITEHEAD, CHARLES EDWARD, 
author, was born in 1829 in New York. 
He is the author of The Campfires of the 
Everglades, or Wild Sports in the South. 

WHITEHEAD, CORTLANDT, bishop of 
Pittsburg, Pa., was born Oct. 30, 1842, in 
New York city. He was elected bishop of 
Pittsburg in October, 1881, and was con¬ 
secrated in Trinity church, Pittsburg, on 
Jan. 25, 1882. 

WHITEHEAD, JAMES MADISON, sol¬ 
dier, editor, lawyer, was born Feb. 21, 
1839, in Houston county, Ga. He served 
in the confederate army, and lost a leg 
at Seven Days Mound, near Richmond. 
Since 1860 he has been editor of fifteen 
different papers, and as a writer is 
humorous and particularly strong in sa¬ 
tire. He is an advanced populist, an able 
platform speaker, and a successful lawyer 
of Greenville, Ala. 

WHITEHEAD, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, 
was born in 1819 in Jersey, Ohio. In 1857 
he was elected United States circuit court 
commissioner for the district of New 
Jersey. 

WHITEHEAD, JOHN M., lawyer, state 
senator, was born July 29, 1852, near 
Hillsboro, Ill. Since 1883 he has practiced 
law in Janesville, Wis.; and in 1896 was 
elected to the Wisconsin state senate. 

WHITEHEAD, THOMAS, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, lawyer, state senator, congressman, 
was born Dec. 27, 1825, in Clifton, N. J. 
He was elected to the state senate in 
1865, but did not qualify; and was elected 
a representative in the Virginia legisla¬ 
ture for Amherst county in 1866. He was 
re-elected in 1869; resigned in 1873; and 
in 1872 was elected a representative from 
Virginia to the forty-third congress. 

WHITEHEAD, WILLIAM ADEE, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 19, 1810, in Newark, 
N. J. He was a prominent citizen of 
Newark, N. J.; and the author of Bio¬ 
graphical Sketch of William Franklin; 
Contributions to the Early History of 
Perth Amboy; and East Jersey Under the 
Proprietary Governments. He died Aug. 
8, 1884, in Perth Amboy, N. J. 

WHITEHILL, ALEXANDER REID, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Aug. 4, 1850, in Hooks- 
town, Pa. He received his education at 
the Princeton college, N. J.; the School of 
Mines of Freiberg, Saxony; and the uni¬ 
versity of Leipsic. For four years he was 
professor of physical sciences in the uni¬ 
versity of Mound College, San Francisco, 
Dal.; and for four years was principal of 
;he Lindsly institute of Wheeling, W. Va. 


For the past twelve years he has filled the 
chair of chemistry in the West Virginia 
university, of which institution he is also 
treasurer. He has traveled extensively in 
America and Europe, and has contributed 
valuable articles to current literature. 

WHITEHILL, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman. He was a representative 
in congress from Pennsylvania in 1813 
and 1814; and was judge of a county court 
and a general of militia. He died March 
5, 1822, in Strasburg, Pa. 

WHITEHILL, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in 1721. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania, from 1803 
to 1807. He died in 1815. 

WHITEHILL, ROBERT, congressman 
was born July 29, 1738, in Pequea, Pa. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania, from 1805 to 1813. He died 
April 8, 1813, in Lauther Manor, Pa. 

WHITEHOUSE, HENRY JOHN, bishop 
was horn Aug. 19, 1803, in New York city! 
He was rector of St. Thomas’s church of 
New York city, from 1844 till 1851, when 
he was made a bishop. He died Aug. 10, 
1874, in Chicago, Ill. 

WHITEHOUSE, JAMES HORTON, de¬ 
signer, was born Oct. 28, 1833, in Eng¬ 
land. Many of the best-known art-pieces 
of silver-ware that have been produced 
in this country were designed by him, 
among them the Bryant vase, which was 
presented to the poet on his eightieth 
birthday, and is to be seen in the Metro¬ 
politan museum of Art of New York city. 

WHITEHOUSE, JOHN 0., merchant, 
manufacturer, congressman, was born 
July 19, 1817, in Rochester, N. H. He 
was elected a representative from Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y., to the forty-third congress; 
and was re-elected to the forty-fourth 
congress. 

WHITEHOUSE, WILLIAM PENN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born April 9, 1842, in 
Kennebec county, Maine. This eminent 
lawyer was for twelve years judge of the 
supreme judicial court. 

WHITELAW, R. J., congressman, was 
born Jan. 30, 1854, in Essex county, Va. 
In 1859 he moved to Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 
and was elected to the fifty-first congress 
as a democrat to fill a vacancy. 

WHITELEY, MRS. ISABEL [NIXON], 
author, was born in 1850 in New York. 
She is a Philadelphia writer; and the 
author of The Falcon of Langeac. 

WHITELEY, JOHN, was born April 5, 
1819, in England. He emigrated to the 
United States in 1842; moved to St. 
Charles, Ill., the following year; and sub¬ 
sequently settled in Shirley, Mass., where 
for many years he has been a successful 
manufacturer. He has been elder and 
trustee of Shirley and Harvard, Mass.; 
and is now elder and trustee of the Unit¬ 
ed society. 

WHITELEY, RICHARD HENRY, sol¬ 
dier, manufacturer, lawyer, congressman, 
United States senator, was born Dec. 22, 
1830, in Ireland. He was appointed soli¬ 
citor-general of the southwestern circuit 
of Georgia in 1868. In 1870 he was elected 
United States senator for the term ending 
in 1871. He was elected to the forty-first, 
forty-second, and forty-third congresses. 

WHITELEY, WILLIAM G., lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born in 1819 in 
Newark, N. J. He was elected from Del¬ 
aware a member of the thirty-fifth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the thirty- 
sixth congress. In 1872 he was appointed 
prothonotary of the supreme court of New 
Castle county; and in 1875 was elected 
mayor of Wilmington, Del. In 1884 he 
was appointed judge of the circuit court. 
He died April 23, 1886. 


WHITESIDE, JENKINS, United States 
senator, was born in 1782, in Lancaster, 
Pa. He was a senator in congress from 
Tennessee, from 1809 to 1811. He died 
Sept. 25, 1822, in Nashville, Tenn. 

WHITESIDE, JOHN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania, from 1815 to 1819. 


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vvnjirm^n, HUiJaKT rAKK, paleon¬ 
tologist, author, was born May 27, 1828, 
in New Hartford, N. Y. In 1877 he was 
appointed curator of the geological de¬ 
partment of the American museum of Nat¬ 
ural History in New York city. He is 
the author of thirty memoirs, which have 
appeared in the Bulletins of the Ameri¬ 
can museum of Natural History. 

WHITFORD, WILLIAM CLARKE, ed¬ 
ucator, legislator, clergyman, college 
president, was born May 5, 1828, in Ed- 
meston, N. Y. He 
received his educa¬ 
tion at the Brook- 
ville academy, De- 
Ruyter institute, the 
Union college of 
Schenectady, and the 
Theological semi¬ 
nary of New York 
city. He has been 
successfully engaged 
in educational work; 
has been president 
of Milton college for 
the past forty years; and served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member of the Wisconsin 
state legislature. He has been president 
of the Wisconsin Teachers’ association; 
and for four years was state superintend¬ 
ent of public instruction. For nine years 
he was regent of the state normal schools 
of Wisconsin; and for four years was ed¬ 
itor of the Wisconsin Journal of Educa¬ 
tion. He has attained success as an emi¬ 
nent clergyman, and has been promi¬ 
nently identified with the seventh-day 
baptist church. 



WHITING, CHARLES GOODRICH, 
journalist, author, was born in 1842 in 
St. Albans, Vt. He is a journalist of 
Springfield, Mass., on the editorial staff 
of The Republican; and the author of The 
Saunterer: Essays on Nature. 

WHITING, GEORGE ELBR1DGE, mu¬ 
sician, composer, was born Sept. 14, 1842, 
in Holliston, Mass. In 1878 he became or¬ 
ganist of the Music hall in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, and head of the organ department 
in the college of Music, but after five 
years he returned to his old post in the 
New England conservatory. His compo¬ 
sitions include a mass in C minor; a 
mass in F minor; Dream Pictures; The 
Tale of the Viking; and Leonora. He has 
also composed music for the organ, and 
has published The Organist; and The 
First Six Months on the Organ. 


WHITING, HARVEY A., railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born Oct. 27, 1833, in Pittsburg, 
Mass. Since 1884 he has been president 
of the Monson railroad at Wilton, N. H. 

WHITING, HENRY, soldier, author, 
was born about 1790 in Lancaster, Mass. 
He was a United States army officer; and 
the author of Otway, the Son of the For¬ 
est, a Poem; Sanilae, a Poem; The Age 
of Steam; and Life of Zebulon Pike, in 
Sparks’s American Biography. He died 
Sept. 16, 1851, in St. Louis, Mo. 


WHITING, JUSTIN RICE, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 
1847, in Bath, N. Y. He is a merchant 
and manufacturer; and was elected mayor 
of St. Clair in 1879. He was elected state 
senator in 1882; and was elected to the 
fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, and fifty- 
third congresses as a democrat. 


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WHITING, LILIAN, journalist, author, 
was horn about 1850 in New York. She is 
a Boston journalist; and the author of 
From Dreamland Sent, a volume of verse; 
The World Beautiful, two collections of 
essays; and After Her Death: The Story 
of a Summer. 

WHITING, MARTHA, one of the pio¬ 
neers of female education in America, was 
born Feb. 27, 1795, in Hingham, Mass. 
She founded the Charleston Female semi¬ 
nary, where some of the noted women of 
America have been finely educated, promi¬ 
nent among whom are Mary A. Liver¬ 
more and Abbie R. Knight. She died 
Aug. 22, 1853, in Hingham, Mass. 

WHITING, RICHARD H., soldier, mer¬ 
chant, congressman, was born Jan. 7,1826, 
in Hartford, Conn. He engaged in busi¬ 
ness as a merchant in Illinois; served 
as paymaster in the federal army during 
the civil war; and in 1870 was appointed 
assessor. He was collector of the fifth 
collection district of Illinois, which posi¬ 
tion he held until elected a representa¬ 
tive from Illinois to the forty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

WHITING, SAMUEL, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 20, 1597, in England. 
He was a puritan clergyman, pastor at 
Lynn, Mass., in 1636-79; and the author of 
Oratio quam Comitijs Cantab. Ameri- 
canis, etc.; The Last Judgment; and Ab¬ 
raham Interceding for Sodom. He died 
Dec. 11, 1679, in Lynn, Mass. 

WHITING, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born March 3, 1813, in Con¬ 
cord, Mass. He was a Boston jurist 
whose chief work, The War Powers of 
the President and the Legislative Powers 
of Congress, has been widely read. He 
died June 29, 1873, in Boston, Mass. 

WHITING, WILLIAM, manufacturer, 
banker, state senator, congressman, was 
born May 24, 1841, in Dudley, Mass. In 
1865 he organized the Whiting Paper com¬ 
pany; and became president of the Hol¬ 
yoke National bank in 1872. He was a 
state senator in 1873; was city treas¬ 
urer of Holyoke in 1876 and 1877; and 
mayor in 1877 and 1878. He was elected 
a representative from Massachusetts to 
the forty-eighth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

WHITING, WILLIAM B., naval officer, 
was born Nov. 13, 1813, in Troy, N. Y. 
In recognition of his scientific attain¬ 
ments, he was promoted to commander 
and captain in 1867, and to commodore in 
1871. He died Dec. 16, 1883, in Milwau¬ 
kee, Wis. 

WHITING, WILLIAM HENRY CHASE, 
soldier, was born in 1825, in Mississippi. 
In 1845 he graduated from West Point; 
entered the confederate service, and was 
made a major-general in 1863. He died 
March 10,1865, on Governor’s Island, N. Y. 

WHITLEY, VINSON M., lawyer, stock- 
man, legislator, was born Aug. 12, 1855, 
in Red Boiling Springs, Tenn. He served 
as a representative in the Tennessee leg¬ 
islature. 

WHITLOCK, GEORGE CLINTON, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, author, was born in 
1808 in Vermont. He is a methodist cler¬ 
gyman and educator of Iowa; and the 
author of Elements of Geometry; and 
New System of Surveying. 

WHITMAN, A. B., educator, lawyer, 
state senator, was born April 1, 1854, in 
Turner, Maine. He was educated in Hor- 
tonville, Wis.; and during 1882-89 was 
city superintendent of schools in Apple- 
ton. He was district attorney of Outa¬ 
gamie county in 1889-91; and city attor¬ 
ney of Appleton in 1894-96. In* 1895 he 
was elected to the Wisconsin state senate. 


WHITMAN, ALONZO GARCELON, 
educator, author, was born Sept. 7, 1842, 
in Auburn. In 1875 he was elected prin¬ 
cipal of the high school of Melrose, Mass. 
He published in 1872 a volume entitled 
Notes on Mineralogy. 

WHITMAN, BENATAH LONGLEY, 
clergyman, college president, was born 
Nov. 21, 1862, in Nova Scotia. He has 
filled a pastorate in the baptist church 
of Portland, Maine; was president of the 
Colby university for three years; and 
since 1895 has been president of the Co¬ 
lumbian university of Washington, D. C. 

WHITMAN, BERNARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born June 8, 1796, in East 
Bridgewater, Mass. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman, pastor at Waltham, Mass., in 
1826-34; and the author of On Denying 
the Lord Jesus; Letters on Religious Lib¬ 
erty; Village Sermons; and Friendly 
Letters to a Universalist. He died Nov. 
5, 1834, in Waltham, Mass. 

WHITMAN, CHARLES OTIS, natural¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1842 in Maine. 
He is a naturalist of note and head pro¬ 
fessor of zoology in the university of Chi¬ 
cago from 1892. He established The Jour¬ 
nal of Morphology in 1887; and is the 
author of Methods of Research in Micro¬ 
scopical Anatomy and Embryology. 

WHITMAN, EZEKIEL, lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born March 9, 1776, in 
East Bridgewater, Mass. He was chief 
justice of the common pleas and also 
of the superior court of Maine, presiding 
as such for twenty-five years. He was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1809 to 1811, and from 1817 
to 1821. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Maine from 1821 to 1823; and 
was a member of the executive council 
of Maine in 1815 and 1816. He died Aug. 
1, 1866, in East Bridgewater, Mass. 

WHITMAN, JASON, clergyman, author, 
was born April 30, 1799, in Bridgewater. 
Mass. He was a Unitarian clergyman of 
Portland, Maine; and author of Memoir 
of B. Whitman; Young Man’s Assistant; 
Young Lady’s Aid to Usefulness; Week 
Day Religion; and Discussions on the 
Lord’s Prayer. He died Jan. 25, 1848, in 
Lexington, Mass. 

WHITMAN, LEMUEL, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Connecticut from 1823 to 1824. He died 
Nov. 18, 1841, in Farmington, Conn. 

WHITMAN, MARCUS, pioneer, was 
born Sept. 4, 1802, in Rushville, N. Y. 
Dr. Whitman, and the Rev. Henry N. 
Spaulding and their young wives, set out 
in 1836, and crossed the Rocky moun¬ 
tains by the South Pass, through which 
John C. Fremont’s party penetrated six 
years later. Mrs. Whitman and Mrs. 
Spaulding were the first white women to 
cross the mountains. Whitman is cred¬ 
ited with saving Oregon to the union. 
He was subsequently massacred with his 
wife and two children by the Cayuse In¬ 
dians. He died Nov. 29, 1847, in Waulat- 
pu, Oregon. 

WHITMAN, MRS. SARAH HELEN 
[POWER], poet, was born in 1803, in 
Providence, R. I. She was a poet of 
Providence whose Still Day in Autumn, 
her finest effort, still finds an honored 
place in anthologies. She is the author 
of Hours of Life, and Other Poems; and 
Edgar Poe and his Critics. A complete 
edition of her poems appeared in 1879. 
She died June 27, 1878, in Providence, R. I. 

WHITMAN, WALTER [WALT], poet, 
was born May 31, 1819, in West Hills, N. 
Y. During the civil war he served as a 
volunteer nurse in the Washington hos¬ 
pitals, and, after holding a government 


clerkship till 1873, removed to Camden, 
N. J., where the rest of his life was 
passed. Leaves of Grass, his first book, 
appeared in 1855. Drum Taps, which in¬ 
cluded the now famous Lincoln elegies, 
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard 
Bloomed, and O Captain, My Captain, fol¬ 
lowed in 1865. His later works include, 
After All Not to Create Only; A Passage 
to India; As a Strong Bird on Pinions 
Free; Two Rivulets; November Boughs; 
Good Bye My Fancy; Sands at Seventy; 
Specimen Days and Collect; in prose, 
Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate; Demo¬ 
cratic Vistas; and Memoranda During the 
War. My Captain is his most popular 
poem. He died March 25, 1892, in Cam¬ 
den, N. ,J. 

WHITMARSH, CAROLINE SNOWDEN, 
author, was born June 1, 1827, in Boston, 
Mass. Her books include Violet; Daisy; 
Never Mind the Face; and the Summer- 
House Series on scientific subjects. She 
has compiled Hymns for Mothers and 
Children; Hymns of the Ages, the first 
series with Mrs. Anne E. Guild; and 
Prayers of the Ages. 

WHITMORE, GEORGE W„ lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Aug. 26, 1824, in McMinn county, Tenn. 
He was a member of the Texas state 
house of representatives in 1852, 1853 and 

1858. In 1866 he was appointed attorney 
of the ninth district; was appointed reg¬ 
ister in bankruptcy in 1867; and was 
elected a representative from Texas to the 
forty-first congress as a republican. 

WHITMORE, WILLIAM HENRY, ge¬ 
nealogist, was born Sept. 6, 1836, in Dor¬ 
chester, Mass. He is a genealogist of 
Boston; and the author of American 
Genealogy; Elements of Heraldry; His¬ 
tory of the Old State House, Boston; 
and many genealogies. 

WHITNEY, MRS. ADELINE DUTTON 
TRAIN, author, was born Sept. 15, 1824, 
in Boston, Mass. She has lived at Mil- 
ton. Mass., for many years. She is the 
author of Friendly Letters to Girl 
Friends; Faith Gartney’s Girlhood; The 
Gayworthys; A Summer in Leslie Gold- 
thwaite’s Life; Hitherto; We Girls; The 
Other Girls; Real Folks; Sights and In¬ 
sights; Odd or Even?; Bonnyborough; 
Boys at Chequasset; Homespun Yarns; 
Ascutney Street; A Golden Gossip; Pa¬ 
tience Strong’s Outings; Mother Goose 
for Grown Folks. She has also written 
The Open Mystery: A Reading of the 
Mosaic Story; Just How, a Key to the 
Cook Books; and in verse, Pansies; Daffo¬ 
dils; Holy Tides; Bird Talk; and White 
Memories. 

WHITNEY, ANNE, sculptor, poet, was 
born Sept. 2, 1821, in Watertown, Mass. 
She is a sculptor and poet of Boston. 
Her only volume of Poems appeared in 

1859. Bertha is her best known poem. 

WHITNEY, ASA, merchant, author, was 

born in 1797. He was in mercantile busi¬ 
ness in New York city. He was the au¬ 
thor of A Project for a Railroad to the 
Pacific; and A Plan for a Direct Com¬ 
munication Between the Great Centers of 
Populations of Europe and Asia. He died 
in August, 1872, in Washington, D. C. 

WHITNEY, CASPAR, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1861 in Massachusetts. 
He is a journalist of New York city, a 
prominent advocate of -amateur sports; 
and the author of A Sporting Pilgrimage; 
and On Snow Shoes to the Darren 
Grounds. 

WHITNEY, CHARLES S., railroad pres¬ 
ident, was born Feb. 9, 1824, in Gallipolis, 
Ohio. He is president of the Bradford 
and Western Pennsylvania railroad at Bel¬ 
mont, N. Y. 


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WHITNEY, ELI, inventor, was born 
Dec. 8, 1765, in Westborough, Mass. The 
first of his inventions was the cotton gin, 
which he was stimulated to devise by the 
widow of Nathaniel Green. He afterward 
reaped a fortune by his various improve¬ 
ments on fire-arms, the manufaciuring of 
which became the origin of the flourish¬ 
ing village of Whitneyville, Conn. He 
died Jan. 8, 1825, in New Haven, Conn. 

WHITNEY, EUGENE, author, was born 
Dec. , 11 ’ 1838 > in Mendon, Mass. His com¬ 
positions include cantatas, choruses, part- 
songs and songs. He died Jan. 21 , 1889, 
in Burlington, Vt. 

WHITNEY, FREDERIC AUGUSTUS, 
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 13, 1812, 
in Quincy, Mass. After doing missionary 
• work, he was pastor at Brighton, Mass., 
in 1843-59, and afterward lived in that 
town without a pastoral charge. He pub¬ 
lished Historical Sketch of the Old Church 
at Quincy; and Biography of James Hol¬ 
ton, founder of the Holton library, Brigh¬ 
ton. He died Oct. 21, 1880, in Brighton, 
Mass. 

WHITNEY, GEORGE, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born July 2, 1804, in Quincy, 
Mass. He was pastor of churches in Rox- 
bury. He published Some Account of the 
Early History and Present State of the 
Town of Quincy, Mass., of which he was 
preparing an enlarged edition at the time 
of his death. He died April 2, 1842, in 
Jamaica Plain, Mass. 

WHITNEY, GEORGE J., railroad man¬ 
ager, was born Jan. 26, 1819, in Verona, 
N. Y. In 1857 he built the Whitney ele¬ 
vator, one of the largest erected up to 
that time. 

WHITNEY, JAMES AMAZIAH, chem¬ 
ist, author, was born June 30, 1839, in 
Rochester, N. Y. He is an agricultural 
chemist; and the author of Relation of 
the Patent Laws to Development of Agri¬ 
culture; The Chinese and the Chinese 
Question; Shobab, a Tale of Bethesda in 
verse; Sonnets and Lyrics; and The Chil¬ 
dren of Lamech. 

WHITNEY, [JOSEPH] ERNEST, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1858 in Con¬ 
necticut. He is an instructor in English 
for some years at Yale university; and 
the author of Poems of the Pike’s Peak 
Region. 

WHITNEY, JOSIAH DWIGHT, educat¬ 
or, geologist, author, was born Nov. 23, 
1819, in Northampton, Mass. He was a 
professor of geology at Harvard univers¬ 
ity from 1865, and state geologist of Cali¬ 
fornia in 1860-74. He was the author of 
The Gnited States; The Metallic Wealth 
of the United States; Barometric Hypso- 
metry; Polypetalae; and Gamopetalse; 
Contributions to American Geology; 
Names and Places, Studies in Geogra¬ 
phy and Topographical Nomenclature; 
Geological Survey of California; Yose- 
mite Guide Book; and Geological Survey 
of Iowa. He died in 1896. 

WHITNEY, LEVI LINCOLN, manufac¬ 
turer, legislator, was born Jan. 20, 1858, 
in Princeton, Mass. In 1881 he was elected 
and served as a member of the Massa¬ 
chusetts state legislature; and in 1889 be¬ 
came a state senator. 

WHITNEY, MRS. LOUISA GODDARD, 
author, was born Dec. 17, 1819, in Eng¬ 
land. She was the author of The Burn¬ 
ing of the Convent; and Peasy’s Child¬ 
hood, an Autobiography. She died May 
13, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass. 

WHITNEY, MILTON BURRALL, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Oct. 6, 1825, in 
Granville, Mass. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his education in the public 
schools of his native city; was fitted for 


college, with Rev. Dr. Timothy M. Cooley; 
graduated from Williams college in 1849; 
and admitted to the bar at Springfield, 
Mass., in 1853. In 1862-63 he served as 
Massachusetts state senator from western 
Hampden district, serving on several im¬ 
portant committees. In 1868 he was a 
presidential elector; in 1880 was a dele¬ 
gate to the republican national conven¬ 
tion; and during 1881-97 was a member 
of the Massachusetts state board of edu¬ 
cation. He is one of the foremost law¬ 
yers of New England at Westfield, Mass. 

WHITNEY, MYRON W., singer, was 
born ^Sept. 5, 1836, in Ashbury, Mass. 
In 1876 he was the principal solo-singer 
at the opening exercises of the Centennial 
exhibition in Philadelphia. Since that 
year he has sung in his native country, 
and has appeared in nearly all the May 
festivals held in different cities of the 
union. 

WHITNEY, ORSON F., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born July 1, 1855, in Salt 
l ake City, Utah. For many years he was 
editor of The Dese¬ 
ret News of Utah; 
and was later city 
treasurer of Salt 
Lake City. He is a 
bishop of the Mor¬ 
mon church; and 
the author of His¬ 
tory of Utah, in 
three volumes; and 
a volume of Poeti¬ 
cal Writings. He is 
also a constant con¬ 
tributor to the lead¬ 
ing newspapers and magazines of the 
United States. 

WHITNEY, PETER, clergyman, author, 
was born Sept. 6, 1744, in Northborough, 
Mass. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man, pastor at Northborough, Mass., in 
1767-1815; and the author of History of 
Worcester County. He died Feb. 29, 1816, 
in Northborough, Mass. 

WHITNEY, THOMAS RICHARD, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, author, was born in 
1804 in New York city. He served two 
years in the assembly of New York; de¬ 
voted much of his life to literary pur¬ 
suits, having been at one time editor of 
the New York Sunday News. He was the 
author of a poem called the Ambuscade, 
and a political work entitled The Ameri¬ 
can Policy Vindicated. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York 
from 1855 to 1857. He died April 12, 1858, 
in New York city. 

WHITNEY, WILLIAM COLLINS, law¬ 
yer, secretary of navy, was born July 15, 
1841, in Conway, Mass. In 1872 he was 
appointed inspector of schools in the city 
of New York. In 1875 was appointed cor¬ 
poration counsel of the city of New York; 
and was re-appointed in 1876 and 1880. 
In 1885 he became secretary of the navy 
in the cabinet of President Cleveland. 

WHITNEY, WILLIAM DWIGHT, phil¬ 
ologist, was born Feb. 9, 1827, in North 
Hampton, Mass. He was a philologist of 
eminence, professor of Sanskrit at Yale 
university from 1854, and of comparative 
philology, also, from 1870. He edited The 
Century Dictionary; Language and the 
Study of Language; Compendious German 
Grammar; Oriental and Linguistic Stu¬ 
dies; Life and Growth of Language; Es¬ 
sentials of English Grammar; Sanskrit 
Grammar; Practical French Grammar; 
Roots, Verb Forms, and Primary Deriva¬ 
tives of the Sanskrit Language; and Max 
Muller’s Science of Language. He died 
in 1894. 



BIOGRAPHY. 


WHITON, JAMES MORRIS, clergyman, 
author, was born April 11, 1833, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He is a congregational cler¬ 
gyman of New York city; and the author 
of New Points to Old Texts; Is Eternal 
Punishment Endless?; The Gospel of the 
Resurrection; Beyond the Shadow; The 
Divine Satisfaction; Early Pupils of the 
Spirit; The Evolution of Revelation; The 
Law of Liberty; Turning Points of 
Thought and Conduct; and Gloria Patri. 

WHITON, JOHN MILTON, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 1, 1785, in Win- 
chendon, Mass. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman of Antrim, N. H.; and the au¬ 
thor of Sketches of the Early History of 
New Hampshire, 1623-1833. He died Sept. 
28, 1856, in Antrim, N. H. 

WHITON, MARY BARTLETT, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Aug. 17, 1857, in New 
Haven, Conn. She was the author with 
her father of Six Months’ Preparation for 
Reading Xenophon. 


WHITSETT, WILLIAM THORNTON, 
educator, poet, was born Aug. 5, 1866, in 
Guilford county, N. C. His preparatory 
education was re¬ 
ceived in public 
■ Jfa- schools and under 

private tutors. Be¬ 
gan teaching at the 
age of seventeen, 
and taught for two 
years in the public 
schools of Guilford 
and Alamance. In 
1885 was assistant in 
Oakdale academy, 
Alamance county. 
He entered the uni¬ 
versity of North Carolina in 1886, where 
he spent two years as a student. In ls88 
he was elected superintendent of Fair 
View institute, which position he still 
holds. He is a frequent contributor to 
periodicals of prose and verse, and a dili¬ 
gent student of educational problems. 



WHITSITT, WILLIAM HETH, educat¬ 
or, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 25, 
1841, in Nashville, Tenn. He is a bap¬ 
tist clergyman of Louisville, professor of 
ecclesiastical history at the Southern 
Baptist Theological seminary from 1872; 
and the author of History of the Rise of 
Infant Baptism; History of Communion 
Among Baptists; Life and Times of Jude 
Caleb Wallace; and A Question in Bap¬ 
tist History. 


WHITSON, W. C., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Indiana. He moved to Lewiston, 
Idaho; and in 1874 was appointed an as¬ 
sociate justice of the United States su¬ 
preme court for the territory of Idaho. 
He died Dec. 25, 1875, in Omaha, Neb. 

WHITTAKER, FREDERICK, soldier, 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 12, 1838, 
in England. He was a federal cavalry 
officer during the civil war, and subse¬ 
quently a journalist of New York city. 
He is the author of A Defence of Dime 
Novels by a Writer of Them; Life of 
General Custer; Cadet Button, a Tale of 
American Army Life; and Bel Rubio, a 
novel. 


WHITTAKER, HENRY, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 15, 1808, in Wales. 
He was a law-office clerk in New York 
city; and the author of Practice and 
Pleading Under the Codes; and Analysis 
of Decisions in Practice and Pleading. He 
died Feb. 9, 1881, in New York city. 

WHITTAKER, JAMES THOMAS, phy¬ 
sician, surgeon, author, was born in 1843 
in Ohio. He is a prominent surgeon of 
Cincinnati; and the author of Lectures on 
Physiology; History of Tuberculosis; and 
Theory and Practice of Medicine. 


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WHITTAKER, JOHN, governor. He 
was the first governor of Oregon after it 
became a state, serving as such from 1859 
to 1862. 

WHITTEMORE, AMOS, mechanic, in¬ 
ventor, was born April 19, 1759, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. He invented a machine for 
puncturing the leather and setting the 
wires of cotton and wool cards, which 
patent he sold for $150,000. The leading 
features of the invention were suggested 
by a dream. He died March 27, 1828, in 
West Cambridge, Mass. 

WHITTEMORE, BENJAMIN FRANK, 
clergyman, journalist, state senator, con¬ 
gressman, • was horn in 1824 in Malden, 
Mass. After the war he settled himself 
in South Carolina, and identified himself 
with the educational interests of the 
state. He was the founder and editor 
of the New Era, published at Darling¬ 
ton, S. C. He was also a member of the 
state senate. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from South Carolina to the for¬ 
tieth congress; and was re-elected to the 
forty-first congress as a republican. 

WHITTEMORE, DON JUAN, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born Dec. 6, 1830, in Milton, 
Vt. In 1847 he became an engineer, and 
in 1853-57 was made chief assistant engi¬ 
neer of the La Crosse and Milwaukee 
railroad, after which he was chief engi¬ 
neer of the Southern Minnesota Railway 
company. 

WHITTEMORE, ELIAS, congressman, 
was born in Rockingham county, N. H. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1825 to 1827. 

WHITTEMORE, THOMAS, clergyman, 
author, was born Jan. '1, 1800, in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. He was a universalist clergy¬ 
man of Boston; and the author of His¬ 
tory of Modern Universalism; Notes and 
Illustrations of the Parables; Commentar¬ 
ies on Daniel and Revelations; Life of 
Hosea Ballou; and Autobiography. He 
died March 21, 1861, in Cambridge, Mass. 

WHITTEN, MARTHA ELIZABETH, 
educator, missionary worker, author, poet, 
was born Oct. 3, 1842, near Austin, Texas. 

She received her ed¬ 
ucation at the Aus¬ 
tin Collegiate Fe¬ 
male academy, and 
at the McKenzie col¬ 
lege. She attained 
success as a teacher 
and a missionary 
worker; and has 
contributed exten¬ 
sively to the periodi¬ 
cal press. Mrs. 
Whitten’s poems are 
full of thought and 
pathos; they were collected in 1886 and 
published under the title of Texas Gar¬ 
lands, which work was followed by the 
Drunkard’s Wife, a temperance poem in 
pamphlet form. 

WHITTET, ROBERT, publisher, poet, 
was horn in 1829 in Scotland. He was a 
printer and publisher in Richmond, Va.; 
and the author of a volume of poems en¬ 
titled The Brighter Side of Suffering. 

WHITTHORNE, WASHINGTON CUR¬ 
RAN, soldier, lawyer, congressman, Unit¬ 
ed States senator, was born April 19, 1825, 
in Marshall county, Tenn. He was a 
member of the Tennessee state senate for 
four years; and in 1859 was elected to 
the lower house of the legislature of Ten¬ 
nessee, and made presiding officer. He 
was assistant adjutant-general in the pro¬ 
visional army of Tennessee in 1861; and 
was afterward adjutant-general of the 
state, which position he held until the 
close of the war. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Tennessee to the forty- 


second, forty-third, and forty-fourth con¬ 
gresses; and was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh con¬ 
gresses. In 1886 he was appointed a 
United States senator, serving until 
March 3, 1887. He died Sept. 21, 1891, in 
Columbia, Tenn. 

WHITTIER, ELIZABETH HUSSEY, 
poet, was born Dec. 7, 1815, in Haverhill, 
Mass. She was the author of poems 
marked by tenderness, grace, and rhyth¬ 
mic felicity. Several of them were in¬ 
cluded by her brother in his volume en¬ 
titled Hazel Blossoms. She died Sept. 3, 
1864, in Amesbury. 

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Dec. 17, 1807, in 
Haverhill, Mass. He was one of the early 
abolitionists, and ed¬ 
ited The Pennsylva¬ 
nia Freeman, 1838- 
39. After 1840 he 
lived at Amesbury, 
Mass. Among the 
most characteristic 
of his shorter poems 
are, My Soul and I; 
The Eternal Good¬ 
ness; In School 
Days; The Last 
Walk in Autumn; 
The Playmates; and 
My Psalm. His prose writings include, 
The Stranger in Lowell; The Supernatur- 
alism of New England; Leaves from Mar¬ 
garet Smith’s Journal; Old Portraits and 
Modern Sketches; and Literary Recrea¬ 
tions and Miscellanies. His work in 
verse comprises, Legends of New Eng¬ 
land; Moll Pitcher; MoggMegone; Poems; 
Lays of My Home; Voices of Freedom; 
Songs of Labor; The Chapel of the Her¬ 
mits; A Sabbath Scene; The Panorama; 
Flome Ballads and Poems; In War Time; 
National Lyrics; Snow-Bound; The Tent 
on the Beach; Among the Hills; Ballads 
of New England; Miriam; The Pennsyl¬ 
vania Pilgrim; Hazel Blossoms; Mabel 
Martin; Centennial Hymn; The Vision of 
Echard, and Other Poems; The King’s 
Missive, and Other Poems; The Bay of 
Seven Islands, and Other Poems; St. 
Gregory’s Guest, and Other Poems; and 
At Sundown. He was also the compiler 
of Songs of Three Centuries; Child-Life; 
and Child-Life in Prose; and the editor 
of John Woolman’s Journal. He died 
Sept. 7, 1892, in Hampton Falls, N. H. 

WHITTINGHAM, WILLIAM ROLLIN- 
SON, bishop, author, was born Dec. 2, 
1805, in New York city. He was the 
fourth protestant episcopal bishop of 
Maryland; and the author of fifteen ser¬ 
mons. He died Oct. 17, 1879, in Orange, 
N. J. 

WHITTLE, FRANCIS McNEECE, bish¬ 
op of Virginia, was born July 7, 1823, in 
Mecklenburg county, Va. In i876, he suc¬ 
ceeded to the bishopric of Virginia. In 
1877 the diocese of Virginia was divided. 
West Virginia becoming a separate dio¬ 
cese, and Bishop Whittle chose the re¬ 
maining portion of the old diocese. 

WHITTLESEY, ABIGAIL GOODRICH, 
educator, journalist, was born Nov. 29, 
1788, in Ridgefield, Conn. She began in 
1832, while in Utica, the publication of 
the Mother’s Magazine, which she edited 
till about 1850, and subsequently revived 
under the title of The Magazine for Moth¬ 
ers and Daughters. 

WHITTLESEY, CHARLES, soldier, 
lawyer, geologist, was born Oct. 4, 1808, 
in Southington, Conn. He served in the 
Black Hawk war. He subsequently was a 
lawyer of Cleveland, Ohio; and attained 
note as a geologist. He died Oct. 18, 
1886, in Cleveland, Ohio. 


WHITTLESEY, ELIPHALET, soldier, 
clergyman, educator, was born May 14, 
1821, in New Britain, Conn. He served 
with distinction during the civil war, and 
was brevetted brigadier-general of United 
States volunteers. For several years he 
was pastor of the Central church of Bath, 
Maine; and filled a professor’s chair in 
the Bowdoin college. Since 1874 he has 
been secretary of the board of Indian 
commissioners at Washington, D. C. 

WHITTLESEY, ELISHA, soldier, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Oct. 19, 1783, in Washington, Conn. 

He received an aca¬ 
demic education, stu¬ 
died law; and in 1806 
removed to the west¬ 
ern reserve of Ohio. 
He served in the war 
of 1812 as aid-de- 
camp to General E. 
Wadsworth; and 
was, for sixteen 
years, a prosecuting 
attorney. He was 
elected to the legis¬ 
lature in 1820 and 
1821; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1823 to 1839. He was appoint¬ 
ed auditor for the postoffice department; 
and was first comptroller of the treasury. 
He died Jan. 7, 1863, in Washington, D. C. 

WHITTLESEY, FREDERICK, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born June 12, 
1799, in Washington, Conn. He was a 
representative in congress from 1831 to 
1835; and in 1839 was chosen vice-chan- 
vellor of the eighth judicial district of 
New York, and retained the office eight 
years. He was a judge of the supreme 
court of the state; and in 1850 was elected 
professor of law in Genesee college. He 
died Sept. 19, 1851, in Rochester, N. Y. 

WHITTLESEY, MRS. SARAH JOHN¬ 
SON [COGSWELL], author, was born 
about 1825 in Williamston, N. C. She is 
the author of Heart Drops from Memory’s 
Urn; The Stranger's Stratagem, and Other 
Stories; Herbert Hamilton; Bertha the 
Beauty; and Spring Buds and Summer 
Blossoms. 

WHITTLESEY, THOMAS T„ congress¬ 
man, was born in Connecticut. He was a 
representative in congress from his native 
state from 1836 to 1839. 

WHITTLESEY, WILLIAM A., lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Connecticut. 
He settled in the practice of law in Ohio; 
and was a representative in congress from 
that state from 1849 to 1851. 

WHITTREDGE, WORTHINGTON, ar¬ 
tist, was born May 22, 1820, in Spring- 
field, Ohio. His works are mostly pic¬ 
tures of American scenery. 

WHITWAN, EDWARD A., soldier, cler¬ 
gyman, college president, poet, was born 
July 9, 1845, in Flint, Mich. He served 
as a private soldier 
until the close of the 
war in the fourth 
I’egiment Michigan 
cavalry. He subse¬ 
quently became an 
eminent clergyman 
of the methodist 
episcopal church; 
and in 1884 was 
elected president of 
the Western Reserve 
seminary of east 
Ohio. In 1886 he was 
elected to the chair of physics and chem¬ 
istry in McKendree college of Illinois, and 
later to the presidency. In 1887 he be¬ 
came president of the North Nebraska 
Normal college. 










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WHYTE, WILLIAM PINKNEY, mer¬ 
chant, lawyer, United States senator, was 
born Aug. 9, 1824, in Baltimore, Md. In 
1847 he was elected to the Maryland 
house of delegates; and in 1853 was 
elected state comptroller. He was ap¬ 
pointed a senator in congress to fill a 
vacancy; and was re-elected to the sen¬ 
ate for the term commencing in 1875 and 
ending in 1881. In the latter year he was 
elected mayor of Baltimore. 

WIARD, NORMAN, civil engineer, in¬ 
ventor, author, was born in 1826, in On¬ 
tario. He is an inventor and military en¬ 
gineer of distinction whose specialty was 
the manufacture of ordnance. He was the 
author of The Solution of the Ordnance 
Problem. He died in 1896. 

WICK, WILLIAM W., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was horn Feb. 23, 
1796, in Canonsburg, Pa. In 1822 he was 
chosen president judge of the fifth ju¬ 
dicial circuit of Indiana; and in 1825 be¬ 
came secretary of state. In 1829 he was 
attorney for the state in the fifth judi¬ 
cial circuit, from which office he retired 
in 1831; and was president judge for three 
years. In 1839 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Indiana; and 
was again in congress in 1845 and 1847. 
In 1850 he was again chosen president 
judge. From 1853 to 1857 was postmaster 
at Indianapolis. He served in the militia 
of the state as brigadier-general, quarter¬ 
master, and adjutant-general. He died 
May 19, 1868, in Franklin county, Ind. 

WICKERSHAM. JAMES, journalist 
jurist, was born Aug. 24, 1857. in Patoka. 
Ill. He was for four years judge of Price 
county, Wash. He gives special at¬ 
tention to ethnology; is associate editor 
of the American Antiquarian; and presi¬ 
dent of the Tacoma Academy of Science. 

WICKERSHAM, JAMES PYLE, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born March 5, 1825, in 
Chester county. Pa. He was an educator 
of Lancaster, Pa., state superintendent of 
public instruction in 1868-81; and minis¬ 
ter to Denmark in 1882. He was the au¬ 
thor of School Economy; and Methods of 
Instruction. He died March 25, 1891, in 
Lancaster, Pa. 

WICKES, ELIPHALET, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1805 to 1807. 

WICKES, THOMAS, clergyman, author, 
was born Oct. 31, 1814, in Jamaica, N. Y. 
He was a presbyterian clergyman of Ma¬ 
rietta, Ohio; and the author of Exposi¬ 
tion of the Apocalypse; The Son of Man; 
The Household; and Economy of the 
Ages. He died Nov. 10, 1870, in Orange, 
N. J. 

WICKHAM, CHARLES PRESTON, 
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was 
horn Sept. 15, 1836, in Norwalk, Ohio. 
He enlisted as a private in company D, 
fifty-fifth regiment Ohio volunteers. 
While a major he was commissioned lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel by brevet, by the president, 
for gallant and meritorious services in 
the Carolinas. He resumed the practice 
of law in Norwalk; was elected prosecut¬ 
ing attorney in 1866 and re-elected in 
1868. He was elected judge of the court 
of common pleas of the fourth judicial 
district in 1880, and re-elected in 1885 as 
a republican. He was elected to the 
fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to 
the fifty-first congress as a republican. 

WICKHAM, JOHN JERVIS, lawyer, 
jurist, was born May 14, 1844, in Ireland. 
During the civil war he served as a mili¬ 
tary telegrapher. In 1884 he became 
judge of common pleas and is now a 
judge of the superior court of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 


WICKHAM, WILLIAMS CARTER, 
soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born 
Sept. 21, 1820, in Richmond, Va. At the 
beginning of the civil war he entered the 
confederate army as captain, and became 
colonel of the fourth Virginia regiment, 
rising to the rank of brigadier-general. 
He was chosen to the Virginia state sen¬ 
ate in 1882-83, and in the next election he 
was returned without opposition. He died 
July 23, 1888, in Richmond, Va. 

WICKLIFFE, CHARLES A., soldier, 
state legislator, congressman, governor, 
was born June 8, 1788, in Bardstown, Ky. 
In 1812 he was appointed aide-de-camp to 
General Winlock and during the same 
year was elected to the Kentucky state 
legislature and was re-elected in 1813. 
He was at the battle of the Thames as 
aid to General Caldwell, after which he 
was again elected to the legislature, where 
he continued until elected a representa¬ 
tive from Kentucky to congress in 1823, 
and was four times re-elected. In 1833 he 
was again elected to the legislature and 
was speaker in 1834. In 1836 he was 
elected lieutenant-governor of Kentucky. 
In 1841 he was appointed postmaster-gen¬ 
eral, and in 1845 was sent on a secret 
mission to Texas, in connection with its 
annexation to the United States. In 1861 
he again became a representative in con¬ 
gress from Kentucky. He died Oct. 31, 
1869, in Howard county, Md. 

WICKLIFFE, ROBERT CHARLES, 
thirteenth governor of Louisiana. In 1854 
he was elected state senator, receiving re- 
election to the two succeeding terms with¬ 
out opposition, and became president of 
the senate. In 1856 he became governor 
of Louisiana, and served with distinction 
for four years. In 1866 he was elected to 
congress, but refused to take the oath 
demanded of him, and was therefore de¬ 
nied admittance. Since 1846 he has prac¬ 
ticed law in West Feliciana, La. 

WIDENER. HOWARD H„ educator, 
lawyer, public official, was born May 6, 
1860, in Chili, N. Y. In 1879 he graduated 
from the Chili semi¬ 
nary, and for four 
years was engaged 
in educational work. 
In 1885 he was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar 
and has attained 
prominence as an 
able lawyer at Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. For ten 
years he has been 
first assistant dis¬ 
trict attorney of 
Monroe county and 
has represented the people in many im¬ 
portant criminal cases on trial and in the 
higher courts. He practices generally in 
all the state courts. He has always taken 
an active interest in politics, and is con¬ 
nected with various associations and busi¬ 
ness enterprises. 

WIDGERY, WILLIAM, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, legislator, congressman, was born 
in 1753 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was lieu¬ 
tenant of a privateer in the revolutionary 
war. He served in the Massachusetts leg¬ 
islature in 1789-94 and 1797. He was a 
state councilor in 1806 and 1807 and was a 
representative in congress from Massa¬ 
chusetts from 1811 to 1813. He was judge 
of the court of common pleas from 1813 
to 1822. He died Aug. 7, 1822, in Boston, 
Mass. 

WIEGAND, OTTO OSCAR, journalist, 
legislator, was born July 9, 1860, in Hika, 
Wis. He is editor and owner of the Sha¬ 
wano Advocate, and during 1896-97 was 
mayor of his city. In 1891-92 he served as 
a member of the Wisconsin state assem¬ 
bly. 


WIGFALL, LEWIS T„ soldier, United 
States senator, was born April 21 1816, 
in Edgefield district, S. C. He was a 
senator in congress from Texas from 1859 
until that state seceded, when he became 
identified with the great rebellion as a 
brigadier-general and was expelled from 
the senate in July, 1861. He died Feb. 18, 
1874, in Galveston, Tex. 

WIGGIN, JAMES BARTLETT, mer¬ 
chant, author, poet, was born July 19, 
1832, in Wadley’s Falls, N. H. He is the 
author of a work entitled The Wild Artist 
in Boston, which has run through several 
editions. He is also a poet of acknowl¬ 
edged excellence, and his poems appear 
in Poets of America and other standard 
works. For many years he was engaged 
successfully in business at Cambridgeport, 
Mass., and now resides in Boston. 

WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS, author 
was born Sept. 28, 1857, in Philadelphia, 
Pa. She is the author of A Summer in 
a Canon; Timothy’s Guest; A Cathedral 
Courting; Patsy; and The Birds’ Christ¬ 
mas Carol. 

WIGGINTON, PETER D., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Sept. 6, 1839, in 
Springfield, Ill. In 1864 he was elected 
district attorney for Merced county, Cal. 
In 1875 he was elected a representative 
from California to the forty-fourth con¬ 
gress and was re-elected to the forty-fifth 
congress as a democrat. 

WIGGLESWORTH, EDWARD, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born in 1693 
in Malden, Mass. He was a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman and Hollis professor of 
theology at Harvard university in 1722- 
65. He was the author of An Answer 
to Mr. Whitefield’s Reply to the College 
Testimony; and Doctrine of Reprobation 
Briefly Considered. He died Jan. 16, 1765, 
in Cambridge, Mass. 

WIGGLESWORTH, EDWARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 7, 1732, in 
Cambridge, Mass. He was a congrega¬ 
tional clergyman who succeeded his fa¬ 
ther in the Hollis professorship at Har¬ 
vard University in 1765, and the author 
of Calculations on American Population; 
and Authority of Tradition Considered. 
He died June 17, 1794, in Cambridge, 
Mass. 

WIGGLESWORTH, EDWARD, lawyer, 
merchant, author, was born Jan. 14, 1804, 
in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer and 
merchant of Boston who published Re¬ 
flections, a collection of apothegms. He 
died Oct. 15, 1876, in Boston, Mass. 

WIGGLESWORTH, MICHAEL, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born Oct. 18, 1631, 
in England. He was a congregational 
clergyman, pastor at Malden, Mass., in 
1656-1705. The Day of Doom, his chief 
work, appearing in 1662, was for more 
than a century the most popular poem 
in New England. It is an epic of the Last 
Judgment, not without gleams of poetic 
merit, but full of what must be styled 
savage theology. Meat Out of the Eater 
is a much inferior poem, but was very 
popular for a long period. God’s Contro¬ 
versy with New England, also in verse, 
and A Short Discourse on Eternity, com¬ 
prise his remaining works. He died June 
10, 1705, in Malden, Mass. 

WIGGLESWORTH, SAMUEL, clergy¬ 
man, author, was horn Feb. 15, 1689, in 
Malden, Mass. He accepted a call at Ips¬ 
wich Hamlet, and was ordained in 1714. 
There he remained until his death. He 
published, between 1727 and 1765, nine 
occasional discourses, besides A Short 
Account of the Rev. Mr. Hale, of New¬ 
bury, in the Christian History; and a 
Dudleian Lecture. He died Sept. 3, 1768, 
in Hamilton, Mass. 



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WIGHT, MISS EMMA HOWARD, au¬ 
thor, was born in Baltimore, Md. She is 
the author of a novel entitled Passion 
Flowers and the Cross; and has written 
numerous theological articles, which have 
attracted wide attention. 


WIGHT, MOSES, artist, was horn April 
2, 1827, in Boston, Mass. His portraits in¬ 
clude those of Alexander von Humboldt, 
Louis Agassiz, Charles Sumner, Edward 
Everett, and Josiah Quincy. Among his 
ideal works are Sleeping Beauty; Eve at 
the Fountain; Lisette; Confidants; John 
Alden and Priscilla; and Pet’s First Cake. 

WIGHT, ORLANDO WILLIAMS, cler¬ 
gyman, physician, author, was born Feb. 
19, 1824, in Centreville, N. Y. He was 
a universalist clergyman and physician, 
appointed state geologist of Wisconsin in 
1874. He was the author of The Philoso¬ 
phy of Sir William Hamilton; Lives and 
Letters of Abelard and Heloise; Lectures 
on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good; 
Maxims of Public Health; and People and 
Countries Visited in a Winding Journey 
Round the World. He died Oct. 19, 1888, 
in Centreville, N. Y. 

WIGHT, PETER BONNETT, architect, 
was born Aug. 1, 1838, in New York city. 
He is an architect of New York city; and 
the author of One Phase in the Revival 
of Fine Arts in America. 


WIGHT, WILLIAM W., lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, was born Jan. 14, 1849, in Troy, 
N. Y. He is a successful lawyer of Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis., and was the originator and 
promoter of the plan for a public library 
in Milwaukee. He published The Wights, 
a genealogy; The Courtship of Miles 
Standish; and various other volumes. 

WIGHTMAN, VALENTINE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was horn in 1681 in North 
Kingston, R. I. He was the first baptist 
minister in Connecticut, planted in Groton 
the first church of that denomination, 
and was active in establishing other 
churches throughout the state and in the 
city and state of New York. He was also 
the author of a Letter on Singing Psalms 
(1725). He died June 9, 1747, in Groton, 
Conn. 


WIGHTMAN, WILLIAM MAY, melo¬ 
dist episcopal bishop, was born Jan. 29, 
1808, in Charleston, S. C. In 1839-40 he 
was presiding elder of the Cokesbury dis¬ 
trict. He was a member of the general 
conference of the methodist episcopal 
church in 1840; and subsequently became 
a bishop. He died Feb. 15, 1882, in Char¬ 
leston, S. C. 



WIGMAN, JOHN H. M., lawyer, was 
born Aug. 15, 1835, in Amsterdam, Hol¬ 
land. He was admitted to the bar in 
1864, and for twenty- 
seven years was a 
member of the firm 
of Hudd and Wig- 
man; but in 1885 Mr. 
Hudd was elected 
to congress, and 
since that time Mr. 
Wigman has carried 
on the law business 
alone until 1889, 
when he took in his 
son-in-law, Mr. P. 
H. Martin. He has 
been the attorney in many of the leading 
cases in the courts of Wisconsin; was 
district attorney of Outagamie county, 
during 1&64-70; mayor of Green Bay in 
1882-83; United States district attorney 
for the eastern district of Wisconsin dur¬ 
ing 1893-97. 


WIKE, SCOTT, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born April 6, 1834, in 
Meadville, Pa. In 1859 he commenced the 
practice of law in Pittsfield, Ill. He was 


twice elected to the legislature of Illinois, 
and served from 1863 to 1867. He was a 
member of the forty-fourth congress; and 
was elected to the fifty-first congress, and 
re-elected to the fifty-second congress as 
a democrat. 

WIKOFF, HENRY, author, was born in 
1813 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a 
writer whose life after 1834 was passed 
mainly in Europe. He was commonly 
known as Chevalier Wikoff. He was the 
author of Reminiscences of an Idler; 
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; Life of Count 
d’Orsay; My Courtship and Its Conse¬ 
quences; Adventures of a Roving Diplo¬ 
matist; A New Yorker in the Foreign Of¬ 
fice; and The Four Civilizations. He died 
May 2, 1884, in England. 

WILBER, DAVID, agriculturist, lumber 
merchant, banker, congressman, was born 
Oct. 5, 1820, in Schenectady county, N. Y. 
He was, for several years, interested in 
the Second National bank at Coopers- 
town, and the bank at Oneonta. He was 
elected a representative from New York 
to the forty-third congress; and was also 
elected to the forty-sixth and fiftieth con¬ 
gresses as a republican. 

WILBER, DAVID F., agriculturist, 
congressman, was born Dec. 7, 1859, in 
Milford, N. Y. Since 1890 he has been 
largely interested in farming and stock 
breeding in Oneonta, N. Y. He is a di¬ 
rector of the Wilber National bank of 
Oneonta; and is president of the Holstein- 
Friesian association of America and of 
the American Cheviot Sheep association 
of the United States and Canada. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a republi¬ 
can. He was instrumental in securing 
the passage of the filled cheese bill in 
1896. 

WILBOUR, CHARLES EDWIN, author, 
was born March 17, 1833, in Little Comp¬ 
ton, R. I. 1 He was an Egyptologist who 
published a Life of Victor Hugo and a 
number of translations from the French. 
He died in 1896. 

WILBUR, CHARLES TOPPAN, physi¬ 
cian, journalist, was born May 18, 1835, 
iii Newburyport, Mass. In 1884 he opened 
a private asylum for the feeble-minded at 
Kalamazoo. In 1882 he founded the Phil¬ 
anthropic Index and Review, a monthly 
publication devoted to the interests of 
feeble-minded children, and the only per¬ 
iodical of the kind in existence. 

WILBUR, HERVEY, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born in 1787 in Wen¬ 
dell, Mass. He was a congregational cler¬ 
gyman and educator of Massachusetts 
among whose writings are. Elements of 
Astronomy; and Lexicon of Useful 
Knowledge. He died Jan. 5, 1852, in New¬ 
buryport, Mass. 

WILBUR, HERVEY BACKUS, physi¬ 
cian, philanthropist, was born Aug. 18, 
1820, in Wendell, Mass. He was founder 
of the schools for idiots in the United 
States, the first fully organized one being 
at Syracuse, N. Y., 1854, of which he 
was appointed superintendent. 

WILBUR, ISAAC, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born in Rhode 
Island. He was for many years chief jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court of Rhode Island; 
and in 1806 was acting governor. He was 
a representative in congress from Rhode 
Island from 1807 to 1S09. 

WILBUR, NEWELL L., musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Aug. 2, 1851, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. He has attained eminence as 
a successful church organist in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. As a teacher of music he 
stands at the head of his profession. 


WILBUR, ROBERT PALMER, soldier, 
shipbuilder, legislator, was born Oct. 28, 
1839, in Noank, Conn. During the first 
part of the war he 
served in company 
E, second regiment 
Connecticut volun¬ 
teers. He subse¬ 
quently followed the 
sea for many years; 
was commander of 
the Ulysses in 1863, 
and subsequently 
commanded numer¬ 
ous ships in the Cal¬ 
ifornia and Euro¬ 
pean trade. He was 
one of the incorporators of The Robert 
Palmer and Son Shipbuilding and Marine 
Railway company of Noank, Conn., and 
has been vice-president of that company 
since 1893. He has filled numerous public 
offices in Groton, Conn., and in 1897 
served with distinction as a member of 
the Connecticut state legislature. 

WILCOX, CADMUS MARCELLUS, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born May 29, 1826, in 
Wayne county, N. C. He was a United 
States army officer; and the author of 
Rifles and Rifle Practice; and History 
of the Mexican War. He died Dec. 2, 
1890, in Washington, D. C. 

WILCOX, CARLOS, clergyman, author, 
poet, was born Oct. 22, 1794, in Newport, 
N. H. He was the author of a work en¬ 
titled Religion of Taste; a volume of Ser¬ 
mons; and The Age of Benevolence, a 
poem. He died May 29, 1827, in Danbury, 
Conn. 

WILCOX, CHARLES W. He is promi¬ 
nently identified with the educational and 
public affairs of Barkers, N. Y.; and a 
constant contributor to the leading news¬ 
papers and magazines of the United 
States. 

WILCOX, MRS. ELLA [WHEELER], 
author, poet, was born in 1845 in Johns¬ 
town Centre, Wis. She is a very popular 
poet and novelist of New York city. She 
is the author of Maurine, and Other Po¬ 
ems; Drops of Water, temperance poems; 
Shells; Poems of Passion; Poems of 
Pleasure; The Song of the Sandwich; The 
Beautiful Land of Nod, poems and prose 
for children; and Custer, and Other Po¬ 
ems. Her prose work includes, Men, 
Women, and Emotions; Mai Moulee; 
Was It Suicide?; A Double Lue; Sweet 
Danger; Perdita and Other Stories; An 
Erring Woman’s Love; and Adventures of 
Miss Volney. 

WILCOX, JEDUTHUN, congressman, 
was born in 1769 in New Hampshire. He 
was a representative in congress from 
1813 to 1817. He died in July, 1838, in 
Oxford, N. H. 

WILCOX, JOHN A., congressman, was 
born in North Carolina. He removed to 
Mississippi and was elected a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 1851 
to 1853. 

WILCOX, JOHN SHULER, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born March 18, 1833, in Fulton- 
ville, N. Y. He served as a union sol¬ 
dier during the civil war and became 
colonel in the fifty-second regiment Illi¬ 
nois volunteer infantry. He is an able 
lawyer of Elgin, Ill., of which city he 
has been postmaster and mayor. 

WILCOX, LEONARD, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
Jan. 29, 1799, in Hanover, N. H. He was 
a member of the New Hampshire state 
legislature; was a judge of the superior 
court; and was a senator in congress from 
New Hampshire during the years 1842 and 
1843. He died June 18, 1850, in Oxford, 
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WILCOX, MARRION, author, was born 
in 1858 in Georgia. She is a New Haven 
writer; and the author of Real People; 
and Senora Villena. 

WILCOX, PHINEAS BACON, lawyer, 
author, was born Sept. 26, 1798, in Mid¬ 
dletown, Conn. He was a lawyer of Co¬ 
lumbus, Ohio; and the author of Con- 
densed^ Reports of Ohio Supreme Court; 
Ohio ‘Forms and Practice; A Few 
Thoughts by a Member of the Bar; Prac¬ 
tical Forms in Action, etc.; and Practical 
Forms Under Code of Civil Procedure. 
He died March 25, 1863, in Columbus, 
Ohio. 

WILD, AUGUSTUS, soldier, was born 
Nov. 25, 1825, in Brookline, Mass. In 
1863 he was made a brigadier-general of 
volunteers; and since the war has been 
engaged in silver mining. 

WILDE, RICHARD HENRY, lawyer, 
educator, congressman, author, poet, was 
born Sept. 24, 1789, in Ireland. He was 
made attorney-general of Georgia; and 
in 1815 was elected a representative in 
congress from that state. He was again 
elected in 1823, and again in 1827, serv¬ 
ing with marked ability until 1835. In 
1843 he moved to New Orleans, La.; 
and was elected professor of constitu¬ 
tional law in the university of Louisiana. 
He was the author of .Conjectures and 
Researches Concerning Tasso; but is 
known chiefly as the author of the grace¬ 
ful lyric, My Life is Like the Summer 
Rose. He died Sept. 10, 1847, in New 
Orleans, La. 

WILDE, WILLIAM ALLAN, journalist, 
legislator, was born July 11, 1827, in Ac¬ 
ton, Mass. He is a noted newspaper man 
of Malden, Mass.; superintendent of 
schools; and a representative in the Mas¬ 
sachusetts state legislature. 

WILDER, A. CARTER, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 18, 1828, in 
Mendon, Mass. In 1862 he was elected a 
representative from Kansas to the thirty- 
eighth congress. He died Dec. 23, 1875, 
in San Francisco, Cal. 

WILDER, ALEXANDER, journalist, 
physician, scientist, author, was born 
May 14, 1823, in Verona, N. Y. In 1850 
he graduated i n 
medicine. He be¬ 
came assistant edi¬ 
tor of the Syracuse 
Star, then editor of 
the New York Teach¬ 
er, and later editor 
of the American Col¬ 
lege Journal. About 
1860 he became a 
member of the edi¬ 
torial staff of the 
Evening Post, and 
for thirteen years 
was its legislative correspondent. He has 
been prominent in public affairs, and in 
various medical associations, and is a 
noted scientist with decided philosophic 
proclivities; and in 1893 he delivered the 
address at the World’s Medical Congress 
auxiliary. He is the author of the follow¬ 
ing works: The Later Platonists; The 
Soul; Life Eternal; The Birth and Being 
of Things; The Antecedent Life; Intui¬ 
tion and Divination; Micro-Organisms in 
Disease; Mind, Thought, and Cerebra¬ 
tion; The Ganglionic Nervous System; 
Psychological Science; and The Resur¬ 
rection. 

WILDER, BURT GREEN, physician, 
educator, author, was born Aug. 11, 1841, 
in Boston, Mass. He is a physician, pro¬ 
fessor of physiology at Cornell university 
from 1867; and the author of What Young 
People Should Know; Emergencies; and 
Health Notes for Students. 


WILDER, DANIEL WEBSTER, lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born July 15, 1832, 
in Blackstone, Mass. He is a Kansas 
lawyer and journalist who has published 
Tlje Annals of Kansas. 

WILDER, EDWARD BINNS, civil en¬ 
gineer, was born Aug. 9, 1814, in Mon¬ 
tego Bay, Jamaica. After graduating 
from Union college of Schenectady, N. Y., 
he studied civil engineering; and during 
1846-53 was engaged in exploring the min¬ 
eral resources of Cuba. - He subsequently 
moved to California and engaged in min¬ 
ing engineering, and for many years was 
superintendent of the Ophir silver mines 
in Nevada. He resides in Salt Lake City, 
and is a brother of the late William H. 
Wilder, the eminent lawyer of New Or¬ 
leans, La. 

WILDER, MARSHALL PINCKNEY, 
humorist, author, was born Sept. 19, 1859, 
in Geneva, N. Y. He is the author of a 
book entitled The People I’ve Smiled 
With. 

WILDER, WILLIAM HEATLEY, law¬ 
yer, civil engineer, philanthropist, was 
born March 25, 1813, in Beauford, S. C. 
After graduating from the Union college 
of Schenectady, N. Y., he studied French, 
German, and Spanish in Europe. He sub¬ 
sequently graduated from the New York 
university of Law; and from 1833 was 
engaged in the practice of that profession, 
moving to New Orleans in 1843. For 
three successive terms he was a member 
of the Louisiana legislature; was a mem¬ 
ber of the general council of New Orleans 
in 1847; and subsequently alderman for 
a number of years. He was noted for 
his great philanthropy and benevolence. 
He died March 25, 1898, in New Orleans, 
La. 

WILDMAN, MILTON MILLARD, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Oct. 25, 1856, in 
Piatt county, Ill. He received a thor¬ 
ough education, and graduated from the 
law department of the university of Mich¬ 
igan. He has attained success as an able 
lawyer of York, Neb.; has filled various 
offices of public trust; and is now county 
judge of York county. 

WILDMAN, ZALMON, congressman, 
was born in Danbury, Conn. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Connecticut from 1835 to 1836. He died 
Dec. 10, 1835, in Washington, D. C. 

WILDRICK, ISAAC, congressman, was 
born in New Jersey. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1849 to 1853. 

WILES, IRVING RAMSAY, artist, was 
born April 8, 1861, in Utica, N. Y. He is 
known as a clever figure-painter, and his 
Corner Table gained the third Hallgarten 
prize at the Academy of Design in 1886. 

WILES, LEMUEL MAYNARD, artist, 
was born Oct. 21, 1826, in Perry, N. Y. 
In 1875 he assumed the directorship of the 
college of Fine Arts in Ingham university, 
Le Roy, N. Y., and in 1888 he founded 
the Silver Lake art-school at Perry, N. 
Y. His works include The Pillar of Fire; 
Mount San Jacinto, California; Ruins of 
the Cathedral of San Juan Capistrano, 
Cal.; The Noonday Retreat; The Vale of 
Elms; Snowbound; and A Song of the 
Sea. 

WILEY, CALVIN HENDERSON, cler¬ 
gyman, educator, author, was born Feb. 
3, 1819, in Guilford county, N. C. He was 
a presbyterian clergyman and educator in 
the Carolinas; and the author of Adven¬ 
tures of Old Dan Tucker; Utopia, a Pic¬ 
ture of Early Life at the South; Scrip¬ 
tural Views of National Trials; Alamance, 
a novel; and Roanoke, or Where is Uto¬ 
pia? He died Jan. 11, 1887, in Winston, 
N. C. 


WILEY. HARVEY WASHINGTON, ed¬ 
ucator, chemist, was born in 1844, in 
Kent, Ind. He has been state chemist of 
Indiana; president of the American 
Chemist society; president of the asso¬ 
ciation of Official Agricultural Chemists; 
and filled various other positions of hon¬ 
or. He is the author of Principles and 
Practice of Agricultural Analysis: Part 

1., Soils; Part II., Fertilizers; and Part 

111., Agricultural Products. 

WILEY, ISAAC WILLIAM, bishop, au¬ 
thor, was born March 29, 1825, in Lewis¬ 
ton, Pa. He was a bishop of the metho- 
dist church from 1872; and the author of 
The Fallen Missionaries of Fuh Chan; 
The Religion of the Family; and China 
and Japan: a Record of Observations. He 
died in November, 1884, in China. 

WILEY, JAMES S., congressman, was 
born in Maine. He was a representative 
in congress from Maine’ from 1847 to 
1849. 

WILEY, JOHN M., merchant, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Aug. 11, 
1846, in Ireland. He was elected to the 
New York legislature in 1871 and 1872; 
and was elected to the fifty-first congress 
as a democrat. 

WILEY, WILLIAM LORENZO, business 
man, poet, was born Nov. 10, 1820, in 
Saxton’s River, Vt. For six years he was 
engaged in educa¬ 
tional work; then 
entered mercantile 
work in his native 
place, where he was 
also postmaster. In 
1851 he moved to 
Illinois, and dealt 
largely in real es¬ 
tate. In connection 
with his brothers, 
George and Henry 
Wiley and others, he 
laid out the town of 
Galva, and built the first school house. 
He was the first president of the First 
National bank of Galva, and a director 
until the charter expired. He was a dele¬ 
gate to the republican national convention 
in Chicago that nominated Grant for pres¬ 
ident; and for many years was vice-presi¬ 
dent and director in the Rock Island and 
Peoria Railroad company. For four 
years he was a member of the state board 
of equalization from his district; and is 
now and has been for years president of 
the board of education of Galva, Ill. He 
is the author of a number of meritorious 
poems, some of which can be found in 
Poets of America, and other standard 
works. 

WILKES, CHARLES, naval officer, au¬ 
thor, was born April 3, 1798, in New York 
city. In 1826 he was commissioned a lieu¬ 
tenant, and in 1830 
was appointed to the 
charge of the United 
States department of 
charts and instru¬ 
ments. It is said of 
him that he was the 
first man in the 
country to set up fix¬ 
ed astronomical in¬ 
struments and take 
observations with 
them. He was com¬ 
missioned rear-ad¬ 
miral on the retired list July 25, 1866. 
He was the author of Narrative of United 
States Exploring Expedition During the 
Years 1838-42; Western America; and 
Theory of the Winds. He died Feb. 
1877, in Washington, D. C. 





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WILKES, GEORGE, journalist, author, 
was born in 1820 in New York city. He 
was a journalist of New York city, ed¬ 
itor of The Spirit of the Times from 1850; 
and the author of History of California; 
Europe in a Hurry; and Shakespeare from 
an American Point of View. He .died 
Sept. 23, 1885, in New York city. 

WILKES, JOHN SUMMER FIELD, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born March 2, 1841, in 
Culleoka, Tenn. He served as a soldier 
in the confederate army. He has been 
president of the Citizens National bank 
of Pulaski, Tenn.; president of Martin 
Female college; and associate justice of 
the supreme court of Tennessee. 

WILKESON, FRANK, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born March 8, 1845, in Buffalo, 
N. Y. He is a journalist of Hamilton, 
Wash.; and the author of Recollections 
of a Private Soldier in the Army of the 
Potomac. 

WILKESON, SAMUEL, manufacturer, 
state senator, was born in 1781 in Car¬ 
lisle, Pa. He was appointed first judge 
of the Erie court of common pleas in 
February, 1821, though he was without a 
legal education, was elected to the New 
York state senate in 1842, and served in 
that body and in the court for the cor¬ 
rection of errors for six years. In 1836 
he was elected mayor of Buffalo. He 
died in July, 1848, in Tennessee. 

WILKESON, SAMUEL, journalist, was 
born May 9, 1817, in Buffalo, N. Y. He 
was for twelve years a staff writer on the 
New York Tribune, and its war corre¬ 
spondent in the army of the Potomac, and 
was the editor and owner of the Buffalo 
Democracy and of the Albany Evening 
Journal, having bought out Thurlow 
Weed in 1865. He has been secretary of 
the Northern Pacific Railroad company 
since 1869. 

WILKIE, FRANCIS BANGS, journalist, 
author, was born July 2, 1832, in West 
Charlton, N. Y. He was a Chicago jour¬ 
nalist; and the author of Petrolia, or 
the Oil Regions of the United States 
(1865); Davenport, Past and Present; 
Walks About Chicago; The Chicago Bar; 
Great Inventions and Their Influence on 
Civilization; The Gambler, a Story of Chi¬ 
cago Life; Pen and Powder; and Personal 
Reminiscences. He died in 1892. 

WILKIN, JAMES W., state legislator, 
congressman, was horn in 1762. He was 
a member of the legislature of New York 
In 1800; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1815 to 1819. He died Feb. 
23, 1845, in Goshen, N. Y. 

WILKIN, SAMUEL J., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1790 in New 
York. He was a member of the state 
assembly from Orange county in 1824 and 
1825; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1831 to 1833. 
He was the whig candidate for lieutenant- 
governor on the ticket with Millard Fill¬ 
more. He died March 11, 1866, in Goshen, 
N. Y. 

WILKINS, BEN C., telegraph manager, 
author, poet, was born in 1849, in Fond 
du Lac, Wis. For thirty years he has 
been connected with the Western Union 
Telegraph company in Wisconsin, Iowa 
and Dakota, and is now telegraph man¬ 
ager at Ashland, Wis. He is the author of 
a prose work entitled Cruise of the Little 
Nan, and a volume of poems. 

WILKINS, BERIAH, merchant, state 
senator, congressman, was born July 10, 
1846, in Union county, Ohio. He became 
cashier and general manager of the Na¬ 
tional bank at Urichsville, Ohio. He was 
elected a state senator in 1879; and was 
elected a representative from Ohio to the 


forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected 
to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses 
as a democrat. 

WILKINS, JOHN HUBBARD, author, 
was born in 1794, in New Hampshire*. 
He was a Boston writer whose Elements 
of Astronomy was long popular as a text¬ 
book. He died in 1861. 

WILKIinS, MARY ELEANOR, author, 
was born in 1862 in Randolph, Mass. She 
is a novelist of Randolph, Mass. Her fic¬ 
tion deals almost entirely with phases 
of New England rural life. She is the 
author of A Humble Romance, and Other 
Stories; A New England Nun, and Other 
Stories; Young Lucretia, and Other 
Stories; The Pot of Gold, a collection of 
juvenile tales; Jane Field; Pembroke; 
Madelon; Giles Corey, Yeoman, a Play; 
Jerome, a Poor Man; The Adventures of 
Ann; Comfort Pease and her Gold Ring; 
and The Long Arm (with J. E. Cham¬ 
berlin). 

WILKINS, ROSS, lawyer, jurist, was 
born in February, 1799, in Pittsburg, Pa. 
He was a federal judge for the territory 
of Michigan; and in 1837 was appointed 
a regent of the state university. He pre¬ 
sided over the first war meeting held in 
Detroit after the commencement of the 
rebellion; and was, for a great many 
years, a circuit judge, remaining in office 
until 1870. He died May 17, 1872, in 
Detroit, Mich. 

WILKINS, WILLIAM, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 
20, 1779, in Carlisle, Pa. He was a sena¬ 
tor in congress from Pennsylvania from 
1831 to 1834. He was appointed minister 
plenipotentiary to Russia in 1834; and 
was a representative in congress from 1843 
to 1844. In 1844 and 1845 he was secre¬ 
tary of war under President Tyler; and 
subsequently held the office of judge of 
the United States district court for west¬ 
ern Pennsylvania. He died June 23, 1865, 
near Pittsburg, Pa. 

WILKINSON, ADOLPHUS C., lawyer, 
was born July 16, 1853, in England. In 
1877 he was admitted to the bar in Wis¬ 
consin; was a member of the county 
board of supervisors several times in Wis¬ 
consin; court commissioner and district 
attorney; and local attorney for the lead¬ 
ing railroad companies in Wisconsin; and 
for the past ten years has been attorney 
for the Great Northern Railway com¬ 
pany at Crookston, Minn. 

WILKINSON, JAMES, soldier, gover¬ 
nor, author, was born in 1757 near Bene¬ 
dict, Md. He was governor of Louisiana 
territory from 1805 to 1807. He was gen¬ 
eral-in-chief of the army, and remained 
at the head of the southern department 
until 1811; and in 1812 was appointed 
brevet major-general. In 1813 he be¬ 
came major-general. After the war he 
removed to Mexico, where he purchased 
large estates. He wrote Memories of My 
Own Times. He died Dec. 28, 1825, near 
the City of Mexico. 

WILKINSON, JAMES ^MON, poet, 
was born Feb. 8, 1876, in Oneida, Kan. 
He is the author of a volume of poems 
entitled Hours in Dreamland. 

WILKINSON, JEMIMA, religious im¬ 
postor, was born in 1753 in Cumberland, 
R. I. She professed to be endowed with 
the power of Christ, and alleged that she 
could work miracles. She removed with 
a few proselytes to Crooked Lake in New 
York. She died July 1, 1819, in Jerusa¬ 
lem, N. Y. 

WILKINSON, JOHN, naval officer, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 6, 1821, in Norfolk, 
Va. He is a confederate naval officer who 


has published The Narrative of a Block¬ 
ade Runner. 

WILKINSON, JOHN MILES, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, was born Dec. 5, 1853, in 
Toronto, Canada. He graduated in arts 
from the Toronto university; was vale¬ 
dictorian and won the prize in elocution 
and oratory. For three years he was pas¬ 
tor of the Agnes Street Methodist church 
of Toronto, Canada, and subsequently or¬ 
ganized the People’s Tabernacle of that 
city. He is now the well known clergy¬ 
man of the methodist episcopal church of 
St. Peter, Minn. As an orator and lec¬ 
turer he has attained a wide reputation. 

WILKINSON, MORTON SMITH, law¬ 
yer, state senator, congressman, United 
States senator, was born Jan. 22, 1819. 
in Skaneateles, N. Y. In 1847 he settled 
in Minnesota; and in 1849, when that ter¬ 
ritory was organized, was elected to the 
legislature, and the laws adopted by the 
territory as its code were of his draught¬ 
ing. In 1859 he was chosen a senator 
in congress from Minnesota for the term 
ending in 1865. He was subsequently 
elected to the forty-first congress as a 
representative from Minnesota. 

WILKINSON, THEODORE STARK, 
planter, congressman, was born Dec. 18, 
1847, in Plaquemines Parish, La. He was 
a member and president of the board of 
levee commissioners for the third levee 
district; and was elected to the fiftieth 
congress, and was re-elected to the fifty- 
first congress as a democrat. 

WILKINSON, ULYSSES GRANT, law¬ 
yer, clergyman, writer, was born July 30, 
1863, in Green county, Mo. He has at¬ 
tained prominence both as a successful 
lawyer and an eminent clergyman, in Co¬ 
manche, Indian Territory. He also con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature. 

WILKINSON, WILLIAM CLEAVER, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born 
Oct. 19, 1833, in Westford, Vt. He is a 
baptist clergyman and educator; and the 
author of Poems; A Free Lance in the 
Field of Life and Letters; Webster, an 
Ode; The Baptist Principle; The Epic of 
Saul; The Dance of Modern Society; and 
College Greek Course in English, and 
other text-books. 

WILL, THOMAS ELMER, educator, 
college president, was born Nov. 11, 1861, 
in Stones Prairie, Ill. He has attained 
success in educational work; has lectured 
extensively; and is now the president of 
the Kansas State Agricultural college of 
Manhattan. 

WILLARD, ALLIE CAPITOLA, jour¬ 
nalist, temperance worker, was born April 
13, 1860, near Nauvoo, Ill. For five years 
she was postmaster 
of Loup City, Neb.; 
and in 1889 was a 
clerk in the Nebras¬ 
ka senate. She then 
engaged in journal¬ 
istic work, and in 
1893 went to Europe 
for study and travel. 
For eighteen months 
she was manager of 
the business office of 
Lady Henry Somer¬ 
set’s newspaper. The 
Woman’s Signal, at Memorial Hall, Lon¬ 
don, England; in which city she also ed¬ 
ited for a year The Woman’s Signal Bud¬ 
get, the organ of the British Women’s 
Temperance association. 

WILLARD, ASHBEL P., governor. He 
was governor of Indiana from 1857 until 
his death, in 1861. He died in 1861. 




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WILLARD, ASHTON ROLLINS, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1858 in Vermont. 
He is a lawyer of Boston; and the au¬ 
thor of A Sketch of the Life and Work 
of the Painter Domenico Morelli; and 
Legislative Handbook Relating to tne 
Preparation of Statutes. 

WILLARD. CHARLES W„ lawyer, 
journalist, state senator, congressman, 
was born June 18, 1827, in Lyndon, Vt. 
He was elected secretary of state in 1855, 
and declined a re-election. He was elected 
a state senator in 1860; and in 1861 be¬ 
came the editor of the Green Mountain 
Freeman. In 1868 he was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Vermont to the forty- 
first congress; and was re-elected to the 
forty-second congress. 

WILLARD, MRS. EMMA [HART], edu¬ 
cator, author, poet, was born Feb. 23, 
1787, in Berlin, Conn. She was a noted 
educator of Troy, N. Y.; and the au¬ 
thor of Journal and Letters from France 
and Great Britain; History of the United 
States; Universal History in Perspective; 
Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood; 
Last Lea\es of American History; and 
Poems. She wrote the well known poem, 
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep. She 
died April 15, 1870, in Troy, N. Y. 

WILLARD. FRANCES ELIZABETH, 
temperance reformer, author; was born 
Rochester, N. Y. In 
1871 she became 
president of Evans¬ 
ton college; and in 
1874 resigned to join 
the Woman’s Chris¬ 
tian Temperance un¬ 
ion. In 1879 she was 
elected president, 
which position she 
held until her death. 
In the cause of tem¬ 
perance she visited 
every state and ter¬ 
ritory in the United 
She published eight 
volumes, of which the chief are Nineteen 
Beautiful Years; Woman and Temper¬ 
ance; Glimpses of Fifty Years; How to 
Win; Woman in the Pulpit; and A Great 
Mother. She died Feb. 17, 1898, in New 
York city. 

WILLARD, GEORGE, journalist, edu¬ 
cator, congressman, was born March 20, 

1824, in Bolton, Vt. He was for two years 
a professor in Kalamazoo college, Mich.; 
and was editor and publisher of the Bat¬ 
tle Creek Journal. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Michigan to the forty- 
third and forty-fourth congresses as a 
republican. 

WILLARD, HORACE BIRNEY, physi¬ 
cian, legislator, poet, was born May 2, 

1825, in Volney, N. Y. He graduated in 

1849, from the Gene¬ 
va Medical college, 
and for twenty years 
practiced medicine 
with success, which 
profession failing 
health compelled 
him to abandon. He 
served several years 
in the county board 
of supervisors; one 
year as mayor of 
Fort Atkinson; and 
in 1861 served with 

distinction as a member of the Wiscon¬ 
sin legislature. Mr. Willard has been 

often called to other places of public 

trust and responsibility. He is now vice- 
president of the Citizen’s State bank at 
Fort Atkinson, Wis., where he now re¬ 
sides. 


WILLARD, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, was 
born May 20, 1792, in Guilford, Conn. 
He was an eminent jurist of New York 
city; and the author of Equity Jurispru¬ 
dence; Treatise on Executors, Adminis¬ 
trators, and Guardians; and Real Estate 
and Conveyancing. He died Aug. 31,1862, 
in Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 

WILLARD, JOHN DWIGHT, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born Nov. 4, 1799, in 
Lancaster, N. Y. In 1826 he began the 
practice of law in Troy, N. Y.; and was 
editor of the Troy Sentinel for a num¬ 
ber of years. He served as a state sen¬ 
ator; and as judge of the New York 
circuit court. He was the author of i rea- 
tise on Equity Jurisprudence; Law of 
Real Estate; and other works. He left 
ten thousand dollars to Dartmouth col¬ 
lege, from which he graduated in 1819. 
He died Oct. 16, 1864, in Troy, N. Y. 

WILLARD, JOSEPH, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was born Jan. 9, 1738, in 
Biddeford, Maine. In 1781 he became 
president of Harvard college. He died 
Sept. 25, 1804, in North Bedford, Mass. 

WILLARD, JOSEPH, lawyer, author, 
was born March 14, 1798, in Cambridge, 
Mass. He was a successful lawyer of 
Boston, Mass.; and the author of a His¬ 
tory of Lancaster; A Family Genealogy; 
and other works. He died May 12, 1865, 
in Boston, Mass. 

WILLARD, JOSEPH AUGUSTUS, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1816, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. He is a clerk of the superior 
court of Massachusetts for Suffolk coun¬ 
ty, from 1865. His connection with courts 
of justice began in 1846. He is the au¬ 
thor of Half a Century with Judges and 
Lawyers. 

WILLARD, JOSEPH CLAPP, was born 
Nov. 11, 1820, at Westminster, Vt. Re¬ 
turning from California after a successful 
career financially, 
he decided to locate 
in Washington, D. 
C., then scarcely 
more than an infant 
city, where he asso¬ 
ciated himself with 
his brothers, Edwin 
Dorr and Henry Au¬ 
gustus, in Willard’s 
Hotel, originally 
known as Fuller’s 
City Hotel. After 
having been for 
years identified with Willard’s Hotel, Mr. 
W T illard became in 1892 sole owner of the 
property which is yet in his hands. It is 
the best known hotel in the United States. 

WILLARD, JOSIAH, lawyer, jurist, was 
born May 1, 1681, in Massachusetts. He 
was secretary of Massachusetts from iii7 
until his death, being known as the good 
secretary. He was judge of probate in 
1731, and a member of the council in 
1734. He died Dec. 6, 1756, in Newport, 
R. I. 

WILLARD, SAMUEL, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, author, was born Jan. 31, 
1640, in Concord, Mass. He was a con¬ 
gregational clergyman of Boston, and 
president of Harvard university, 1701-07. 
Of his many works, A Complete Body of 
Divinity is the best known. Others are. 
Peril of the Times Displayed; Covenant- 
Keeping the Way to Blessedness; and Ne 
Sutor Ultra Crepidam. He died Sept. 12, 
1707, in Boston, Mass. 

WILLARD, SIMON, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, was born in April, 1605, in England. 
He was a founder of Concord; and rep¬ 
resented it in the legislature from 1636 
till 1654, and was assistant and councilor 
from 1654 till 1676. He became a magis¬ 


trate and died while holding a court in 
Charlestown. He died April 24, 1676, in 
Charlestown, Mass. 

WILLARD, SYDNEY, educator, author, 
was born Sept. 19, 1780, in Beverly, Mass. 
He was a professor of Hebrew at Har¬ 
vard university in 1801-31; and the author 
of Hebrew Grammar; and Memories of 
Youth and Manhood. He died Dec. 6, 
1856, in Cambridge, Mass. 

WILLARD, SYLVESTER DAVID, phy¬ 
sician, author, was born June 19, 1825, in 
Wilton, Conn. He was an Albany physi¬ 
cian, surgeon-general of New York at the 
time of his death. The Willard Asylum 
for the Insane was named for him. He 
was the author of Biographical Memoirs 
of Physicians of Albany County; and An¬ 
nals of the Albany County Medical Soci¬ 
ety. He died April 2, 1865, in Albany, 
N. Y. 

WILLCOX, ORLANDO BOLIVAR, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born April 16, 1823, in 
Detroit, Mich. He served with distinction 
throughout the Mexican and civil wars, 
and was brevetted major-general of vol¬ 
unteers in 1865. In 1886 he was promoted 
to brigadier-general of the regular army, 
and was retired in 1887. In 1888 he was 
made governor of the Soldiers’ Home of 
Washington, D. C. He is the author of 
Shoepack Recollections; and Faca, an 
Army Memoir. 

WILLCOX, WASHINGTON F., lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Killingworth, 
Conn. He was elected a member of the 
Connecticut house of 
representatives in 
1862 and 1863; and 
was elected to the 
state senate in 1875 
and 1876. He was 
appointed state at¬ 
torney in 1875, and 
held that office con¬ 
tinuously for eight 
years. He was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-first 
congress and re¬ 
elected to the fifty- 
second congress as a democrat. In 1897 
he was appointed railroad commissioner; 
and was elected by his associates chair¬ 
man of the board. 

WILLERS, DIEDRICH, soldier, clergy¬ 
man, was born Feb. 6, 1798, in Germany. 
For five years he served in the German 
army, and was at the battle of Waterloo 
with the allied army under the Duke of 
Wellington. In 1819 he emigrated to the 
United States, and was ordained a clergy¬ 
man in 1821. For sixty years he was pas¬ 
tor of the German reformed church. He 
stood high in his religious denomination, 
and frequently presided over its synods. 
He died May 13, 1883, in Varick, N. Y. 

WILLERS, DIEDRICH, educator, law¬ 
yer, public official, author, was born Nov. 
3, 1833, in Varick, N. Y. He was edu¬ 
cated principally in the public schools and 
under the direction of his father. In his 
youth he taught school for several years, 
and afterward graduated from the Albany 
Law school, and was admitted to the bar. 
In 1864 he served as private secretary to 
Governor Horatio Seymour; was elected 
supervisor of Varick in 1865-66. For six 
years he was clerk in the office of the 
secretary of state of Albany; was eight 
years a deputy; and for two years served 
with distinction as secretary of state. In 
1878 he was a member of the assembly 
of the New York state legislature, and 
was on several important committees. 
He still resides in the place of his na¬ 
tivity; has given much attention and re¬ 
search to local history, and is the author 
of several local publications. 


Sept. 28, 1839, near 



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WILLETT, JOSEPH EDGERTON, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Nov. 17, 1826, in 
Macon, Ga. He is a professor of natural 
science in Mercer university, Macon, Ga., 
from 1849; and the author of The Wond¬ 
ers of Insect Life. 

WILLETT, MARINUS, soldier, was 
born July 31, 1740, in Jamaica, N. Y. 
He served with distinction through the 
revolutionary war; and in 1792 was ap¬ 
pointed a brigadier-general. In 1807 he 
was mayor of New York city. He pub¬ 
lished an Autobiography. He died Aug. 
22, 1830, in New York city. 

WILLETT, WILLIAM MARINUS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was horn Jan. 3, 1803, in 
New York city. He was a methodist cler¬ 
gyman and educator; and the author of 
Scenes in the Wilderness; A New Life 
of Summerfield; Life and Times of Herod 
the Great; Herod Antipas; The Messiah; 
and The Restitution of All Things. He 
died in 1895. 

WILLETTS, DEBORAH, was born in 
1789 in Marshfield, Mass. She was a skil¬ 
ful grammarian, and was often consulted 
on difficult questions by Goold Brown, 
who in the preface of his celebrated gram¬ 
mar, acknowledged his indebtedness to 
her. She died in 1880 near Mechanic, 
N. Y. 

WILLETTS, JACOB, educator, was born 
in 1785 in Fishkill, N. Y. He was an ac¬ 
complished mathematician, and published 
text-books of geography, arithmetic, and 
bookkeeping, which were much used 
throughout the world. He died Sept. 12, 
1860, near Mechanic, N. Y. 

WILLEY, AUSTIN, clergyman, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born June 24, 1806, in 
Campton, N. H. He was a congregational 
clergyman of Maine, long prominent as 
an abolitionist, and the editor of The Ad¬ 
vocate of Freedom, in 1839-58. After the 
latter date he lived at Northfield, Minn. 
He was the author of Family Memorial; 
and History of the Anti-Slavery Cause in 
State and Nation. He died in 1896. 

WILLEY, BENJAMIN GLAZIER, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Feb. 1, 1796, in 
Conway, N. Y. He was a congregational 
clergyman of New Hampshire who wrote 
a History of the White Mountains. He 
died April 17, 1867, in East Summer, 
Maine. 

WILLEY, CALVIN, lawyer, jurist, Unit¬ 
ed States senator, was born Sept. 15, 1776, 
in East Haddam, Conn. He served in the 
Connecticut state legislature and senate 
a number of years; and was postmaster 
at Stafford Springs eight years. He was 
a judge of probate for seven years; and 
in 1824 was a presidential elector. He 
was a senator in congress from 1825 to 
1831. He died Aug. 23, 1858, in Stafford, 
Conn. 

WILLEY, HENRY, botanist, lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born July 19, 1824, 
in Geneseo, N. Y. He is the author of 
List of North American Lichens; Intro¬ 
duction to the Study of Lichens; and 
Synopsis of the Genus Athona. 

WILLEY, NORMAN BUSHNELL, gov¬ 
ernor, was born March 25, 1838, in Guil¬ 
ford, N. Y. He was a successful miner 
and was elected governor of Idaho in 
1890. 

WILLEY, WAITMAN THOMAS, law¬ 
yer, lecturer, United States senator, was 
born Oct. 18, 1811, in Monongalia, W. Va. 
In 1861 he was elected senator in con¬ 
gress; and at the close of that year was 
a delegate to the Wheeling constitutional 
convention. In 1863 he was elected a sen¬ 
ator in congress from West Virginia; and 
in 1864 was re-elected to the senate for 


the term commencing in 1865 and ending 
in 1871. 

WILLIAMS, ABRAM PEASE, agricul¬ 
turist, merchant, United States senator, 
was born Feh. 3, 1832, near Portland, 
Maine. In 1861 he moved to San Fran¬ 
cisco; and is an importer, stock raiser, 
and farmer. He was one of the founders 
of the San Francisco board of trade, and 
its first president; and is a member of 
the San Francisco chamber of commerce. 
He was elected United States senator by 
the California legislature in 1886 to fill a 
vacancy. 

WILLIAMS, ALFRED MASON, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born in 1840 in 
Massachusetts. He was a Providence 
journalist, editor of The Journal; and the 
author of The Poets and Poetry of Ire¬ 
land; Studies in Folk-Song and Popular 
Poetry; and Sam Houston and the War 
of Independence in Texas. He died in 
1896. 

WILLIAMS, ALPHEUS STARKEY, sol¬ 
dier, journalist, lawyer, jurist, congress¬ 
man, was born Sept. 10, 1810, in Say- 
brook, Conn. From 1840 to 1844 he was 
judge of probate for Wayne county, Mich.; 
was recorder of the city of Detroit; and 
from 1843 to 1847 was editor and owner 
of the Detroit Daily Advertiser. He 
served through the Mexican war as lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel; and in 1849 was appointed 
postmaster of Detroit. When the civil 
war began he was made major-general 
of militia, and was president of the state 
military board. He was subsequently ap¬ 
pointed a brigadier-general in the na¬ 
tional army, and performed much service 
on the upper Potomac. From 1866 to 1869 
he was minister resident to San Salvador. 
In 1874 he was elected a representative 
from Michigan to the forty-fourth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth 
congress. He died Dec. 21, 1878, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 

WILLIAMS, ANDREW, manufacturer, 
congressman, was born Aug. 27, 1828, in 
Canada. He was elected a representative 
from New York to the forty-fourth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
fifth congress as a republican. 

WILLIAMS, MRS. ANNA [BOLLES], 
author, was born in 1840 in Connecticut. 
She is a writer of Springfield, Mass., who 
has written a number of popular juvenile 
tales. She is the author of Birchwood; 
Professor Johnny; The Fitch Club; Who 
Saved the Ship?; Rolf and His Friends; 
Scotch Caps; Giant Dwarf; and Riverside 
Museum. 

WILLIAMS, ARCHIBALD H. A., sol¬ 
dier, agriculturist, congressman, was born 
Oct. 22, 1842, in Franklin county, N. C. 
He served four years in the army of nor¬ 
thern Virginia, and at the surrender of 
Appomattox Court-House was captain of 
his company. Since the war he has been 
engaged in farming and merchandising; 
and was instrumental in building the Ox¬ 
ford and Henderson railroad, which was 
for several years under his management. 
He has twice represented Granville coun¬ 
ty in the North Carolina legislature; and 
was elected to the fifty-second congress 
as a democrat. 

WILLIAMS, BARNEY, actor, was born 
in 1823 in Ireland. In 1867 he became 
manager of Wallack’s old Broadway thea¬ 
ter in New York city and subsequently 
he played with success in this country. 
Great Britain and Canada. Mr. Williams 
attained a wide reputation as an Irish 
comedian. Among his last plays were 
The Emerald Ring; The Connie Soogah; 
and The Fairy Circle. He died April 25, 
1876, in New York city. 


WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN, state legisla¬ 
tor, congressman, governor, was born in 
1754 in North Carolina. He was a pat¬ 
riot of the revolution; and was a mem¬ 
ber of congress from 1793 to 1795. He 
also served many years in the state legis¬ 
lature; and was twice elected governor of 
North Carolina, in 1799 and 1807. He died 
in 1814 in North Carolina. 

WILLIAMS, BETSEY, philanthropist, 
was born in 1789 in Cranston, R. I. She 
inherited a farm of one hundred acres, 
by direct succession through five genera¬ 
tions, from Roger Williams, and be¬ 
queathed it to the city of Providence to 
form the park that bears his name. She 
died Nov. 27, 1871, in Cranston, R. I. 

WILLIAMS, MRS. CATHERINE R. 
[ARNOLD], author, was born in 1787 
in Providence, R. I. She was a Provi¬ 
dence writer; and the author of Original 
Poems; Religion at Home; Tales: Na¬ 
tional and Revolutionary; Fall River, an 
Authentic Narrative; Neutral French; 
Annals of the Aristocracy of Rhode Isl¬ 
and; and Aristocracy: a novel. She died 
Oct. 11, 1872, in Providence, R. I. 

WILLIAMS, CEYLON F., musician, 
business man, was born Oct. 6, 1842, in 
Dupage county, 111. He served in the civil 
war in company A, first regiment Ne¬ 
braska volunteer infantry, as a musician. 
He then engaged in telegraphy, and rail¬ 
roading; was a steamboat pilot; and filled 
several public positions. He next studied 
real estate law, and in 1876 established 
a real estate, mortgage and loan business 
in Nebraska. He is now a broker and 
financier of Seattle, Wash. He has been 
an Odd Fellow for over thirty years, and 
in 1896-97 was elected grand master of 
Washington. 

WILLIAMS, CHANNING MOORE, bish¬ 
op, was born July 18, 1829, in Richmond, 
Va. He was consecrated missionary bish¬ 
op of China, with jurisdiction in Japan, 
in 1866. 

WILLIAMS, CHARLES FREDERIC, 
author, was born in 1842 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is the author of The Tariff Laws 
of the United States, with Explanatory 
Notes; and Index of Cases Overruled by 
the Courts of America, England, and Ire¬ 
land from 1873 to 1887. He edited the 
last eight volumes of The American and 
English Cyclopaedia of Law. He died in 
1895. 

WILLIAMS, CHARLES G., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 
1829, in Royalton, N. Y. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1868; and was elected 
to the state senate for two years. He 
was elected to the forty-third and forty- 
fourth congresses; and was re-elected to 
the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-sev¬ 
enth congresses. In 1883 he was appoint¬ 
ed register of a land district in southern 
Dakota. 

WILLIAMS, CHARLES KILBOURNE, 
soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born 
Jan. 24, 1782, in Cambridge, Mass. In 
1812 he served during one campaign on 
the northern frontier. Between 1809 and 
1821 he was several times a representa¬ 
tive in the Vermont legislature; and 
again in 1849. He was state’s attorney in 
1814 and 1815; was a judge of the su¬ 
preme court from 1822 to 1824, and from 
1829 to 1842; and was collector of cus¬ 
toms for the district of Vermont from 
1825 to 1829. He was chief justice of the 
supreme court of Vermont from 1843 to 
1846; and was president of the council of 
censors in 1847. He was governor of Ver¬ 
mont from 1850 to 1852. He died March 
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WILLIAMS, CHARLES LANGDON, 
lawyer, author, was born in 1821 in Rut¬ 
land, Vt. He practiced law in Brandon, 
Vt., in 1844-48, and afterward in Rutland. 
He published Statistics of the Rutland 
County Bar, with biographical sketches; 
Statutes of Vermont; and vols. xxvii.- 
xxix. of Vermont Supreme Court Reports. 
He died Feb. 10, 1861, in Rutland, Vt. 

WILLIAMS, CHARLES MILLER, law¬ 
yer, was born April 30, 1851, in Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y. He received his education at 
the Rochester Collegiate institute, the 
Rochester Free academy; in 1871 gradu¬ 
ated from the university of Rochester, 
and subsequently from the Albany Law 
school. In 1875 he was admitted to the 
bar, and has attained prominence as one 
of the foremost lawyers of the east at 
Rochester, N. Y. In 1879-81 he was a 
member of the board of education; and 
since 1891 has been secretary and treas¬ 
urer of the university of Rochester. He is 
a prominent Mason, and takes an active 
part in public affairs. 

WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER H„ con¬ 
gressman, was born in Tennessee. He 
was a representative in congrdss from 
Tennessee from 1837 to 1843, and again 
from 1849 to 1853. 

WILLIAMS, DANIEL OVERTAN, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born in 1856, in Alexan¬ 
dria, Tenn. He has attained success in 
the profession of law in his native city; 
has been justice of the peace, county 
judge, special chancellor, circuit judge, 
and special attorney-general. 

WILLIAMS, DAVID, soldier, was born. 
Oct. 21, 1754, in Tarrytown, N. Y. He 
served with distinction through the revo¬ 
lutionary war; with John Paulding and 
Isaac Van Wart he was one of the cap- 
tors of Major John Andre in 1780. He 
received a silver medal from congress and 
a pension of two hundred dollars a year 
for that service. A monument has been 
erected to his memory by the state at 
the Stone Fort near Schoharie Court 
House. Pie died Aug. 2, 1831, near Liv- 
ingstonville, N. Y. 

WILLIAMS, DAVID ROGERSON, con¬ 
gressman, governor, was born March 10, 
1776, in Robbins Neck, S. C. He was a 
representative in congress from South 
Carolina from 1805 to 1809, and again 
from 1811 to 1813, in which year he was 
appointed a brigadier-general. He was 
governor of South Carolina from 1814 to 
1816. He died Nov. 15, 1830, in Lynch’s 
Creek, S. C. 

WILLIAMS, DWIGHT, clergyman, poet, 
was born April 26. 1824, in Rippleton, N. 
Y. Most of his life was spent in pastoral 
work in the state 
of New York. For 
some years Rev. 
Williams devoted 
himself to editorial 
work; he has con¬ 
tributed to the cur¬ 
rent literature-of the 
day; and many of 
his productions have 
been extensively co¬ 
pied by the press of 
this and other coun¬ 
tries. He is the au¬ 
thor of three small volumes of poems, 
the last and best of which perhaps is 
The Beautiful City. His verses always 
contain much delicate sentiment and pur¬ 
ity of thought and feeling. 

WILLIAMS, EDWARD H., manufactur¬ 
er, philanthropist, was born June 1, 
1824, in Woodstock, Vt. He has traveled 
extensively for the Baldwin Locomotive 
works, of which he is a partner, and has 
introduced the Baldwin locomotives to 


Europe, South America, Australia and Ja¬ 
pan. Williams Hall at Carleton college, 
Minnesota, was built by him and a six¬ 
teen inch telescope given to the institu¬ 
tion in 1891. He has also presented the 
Norman Williams library to Woodstock, 
Vt., and, in memory of his wife, a build¬ 
ing to the university of Vermont. 

WILLIAMS, EDWIN, author, was born 
March 7, 1797, in Norwich, Conn. He was 
a writer of New York city; and the author 
of The Politician’s Manual; New Univer¬ 
sal Gazetteer; Book of the Constitution; 
New York as It Is; Arctic Voyages; The 
Fortunate Puzzler; The Statesman’s Man¬ 
ual; and The Twelve Stars of the Re¬ 
public. He died Oct. 21, 1854, in New 
York city. 

WILLIAMS, ELEAZER, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1787 in Caughnawaga, 
N. Y. He was an episcopal clergyman at 
Green Bay, Wis., supposed by some per¬ 
sons to have been Louis XVII, of France. 
He published A Spelling-Book in the Lan¬ 
guage of the Seven Iroquois Nations, and 
other works in Iroquois. He died Aug. 
28, 1858, in Hoganstown, N. Y. 

WILLIAMS, ELIHU S„ soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born Jan. 24, 1835, in 
Bethel township, Ohio. He enlisted as a 
private in the seventy-first Ohio volunteer 
infantry; and was commissioned first- 
lieutenant in 1862. He was promoted to 
captain in 1863. He was attorney-general 
of the sixth judicial district of Tennessee 
from 1865 till 1867; and was elected to 
the Tennessee house of representatives in 
1867. He removed to Troy, Ohio, in 1875; 
and was elected to the fiftieth congress, 
and was re-elected to the fifty-first con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

WILLIAMS, ELISHA, clergyman, col¬ 
lege president, was horn Aug. 24, 1694, in 
Hatfield, Mass. He was ordained to the 
ministry in 1721, and served the church at 
Wethersfield till 1726, when he became 
president of Yale, holding office till 1739. 
He died July 24, 1755, in Wethersfield, 
Conn. 

WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH FINCK 
MINUSE, writer, poet, was born May 23, 
1843, in Fort Avery, Ohio. For many 
years she was engaged in educational 
work, and is well known as a contribu¬ 
tor of prose and verse to current litera¬ 
ture. Her poems have appeared in the 
leading magazines and have been highly 
eulogized. 

WILLIAMS. ELKANAH, physician, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Dec. 19, 1822, in Law¬ 
rence county, Ind. He was ophthalmic 
surgeon to the Commercial hospital in 
Cincinnati in 1862-72, and early in the 
civil war was appointed assistant surgeon 
to the United States marine hospital, 
which post he held till the close of the 
war. He died Oct. 5, 1888, in Hazlewood, 
Pa. 

WILLIAMS, EPHRAIM, soldier, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Feb. 24, 1715, in New¬ 
ton, Mass. Possessing a grant of land in 
the present township of Williamstown, 
Mass., he bequeathed his property to 
found a free school there, which after¬ 
ward became Williams college. He was 
killed while leading a regiment to the 
invasion of Canada, Sept. 8, 1755, near 
George Lake, N. Y. 

WILLIAMS, ESPY WILLIAM HEND¬ 
RICKS, merchant, poet, was born Jan. 30, 
1852, in Carrollton, La. Since 1869 he has 
been engaged in mercantile pursuits in 
New Orleans, La., where he is also a 
prominent hanker. He is the author of a 
volume of poems entitled The Dream of 
Art and Other Poems; and as a drama¬ 
tist he is best known. 


WILLIAMS, FRANCIS S., educator, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 17, 1822, in West 
Mendon, N. Y. For thirty-five years he 
has been actively engaged in educational 
work; and for twenty-five years was con¬ 
nected with the schools of Wheeling, W. 
Va. He is now engaged in his profession 
in Minneapolis, Minn.; and takes an ac¬ 
tive part in various educational societies. 

WILLIAMS, FRANCIS HOWARD, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1844 in Penn¬ 
sylvania. He is a writer of Philadelphia. 
His plays include The Princess Eliza¬ 
beth, a Lyric Drama; The Higher Edu¬ 
cation; A Reformer in Ruffles; Master 
and Man; Theodora, a Christmas Pastoral. 
Other works are, Atman, a Story; The 
Flute Player, and Other Poems; and Penn¬ 
sylvania Poets of the Provincial Period. 

WILLIAMS, GEORGE FRED, lawyer, 
journalist, congressman, was born July 10, 
1852, in Dedham, Mass. In 1878 he ed¬ 
ited Williams’ Citations of Massachusetts 
Cases; and from 1880 to 1887 edited vol¬ 
umes ten to seventeen of the Annual Di¬ 
gest of the United States. He was elected 
to the Massachusetts legislature in 1889; 
and was elected to the fifty-second con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

WILLIAMS, GEORGE HENDERSON, 
educator, was born June 9, 1861, in Fay¬ 
etteville, N. C. He has attained success 
in educational work; and is now princi¬ 
pal of the Fayetteville State Normal 
school, N. C. 

WILLIAMS, GEORGE HENRY, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born March 26, 
1823, in New Lebanon, N. Y. During 
1847-52 he was judge of the first judicial 
district of Iowa; was presidential elec¬ 
tor in that state in 1852; chief justice of 
Oregon territory during 1853-57; and a 
member of the convention to frame a con¬ 
stitution for Oregon. During 1865-71 he 
was a senator in the United States con¬ 
gress; was a member of the high joint 
commission for the settlement of the Ala¬ 
bama claims; and during 1871-74 was at¬ 
torney-general of the United States. 

WILLIAMS, GEORGE HJNTINGTON, 
educator, author, was born in 1856 in New 
York. He was a professor of inorganic 
geology at Johns Hopkins university from 
1892; and the author of Elements of Crys¬ 
tallography. He died in 1894. 

WILLIAMS, GEORGE W., lawyer, 
banker, state senator, was born Oct. 7, 
1801, in Bourbon county, Ky. In 1864, at 
Louisville, he was chosen permanent pres¬ 
ident of the first republican state conven¬ 
tion ever held in Kentucky. He was the 
founder of the Deposit bank of Paris, Ky., 
and for many years its president. He was 
a member of the Kentucky state senate. 

WILLIAMS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
soldier, author, was born Oct. 16, 1849, in 
Bedford Springs, Pa. He is a writer of 
African descent who served in the fed¬ 
eral army during the civil war, and as 
lieutenant-colonel of artillery in the re¬ 
publican army of Mexico in 1865-67, and 
who was minister to Hayti in 1885-86. He 
is the author of History of the Negro 
Race in America; The Negro Troops in 
the War of the Rebellion; and History of 
the Reconstruction of the Insurgent 
States. 

WILLIAMS, GERSHOM MOTT, bishop 
of Marquette, Mich., was born Feb. 11, 
1857, in Fort Hamilton, N. Y. He was ap¬ 
pointed speaker at the church congress of 
1889 and at the missionary council of 1893 
and 1896. He was one of the deputation to 
the Canadian general synod at Winnipeg 
in 1896, and in the same year he was ap¬ 
pointed select preacher at Cornell uni¬ 
versity. 




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WILLIAMS, GUSTAVUS BROWN, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, was born Oct. 28, 1834, in 
Uxbridge, Mass. He served as a union 
soldier during the civil war as sergeant of 
company K, fifty-first regiment Massa¬ 
chusetts volunteer infantry. He is the 
author of A History of Mendon, and other 
historical papers and reports. 

WILLIAMS, HENRY, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born in November, 
1804, in Taunton, Mass. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Massachusetts 
from 1839 to 1841, and from 1843 to 1845. 
He was a state senator for two years; 
and was a representative in the state leg¬ 
islature for three years. 

WILLIAMS, HENRY SHALER, educat¬ 
or, author, was born March 6, 1847, in 
Ithaca, N. Y. He is a professor of palae¬ 
ontology at Cornell university from 1871; 
and the author of The Bones, Ligaments, 
and Muscles of the Domestic Cat; and 
Geological Biology. 

WILLIAMS, HENRY W., lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 30, 1830, in Susquehanna 
county, Pa. In 1854 he was admitted to 
the bar; and in 1865 
was appointed addi¬ 
tional law judge of 
the fourth judicial 
district of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, receiving the 
re-election to that 
office in November 
of the same year; 
and in 1870 was 
elected president 
judge. In 1875 he 
was appointed a 
member of the com¬ 
mission to revise the constitution of the 
state. In 1880 he was re-elected president 
judge; and in 1887 was elected to the 
supreme court of Pennsylvania for a term 
of twenty-one years. 

WILLIAMS, HEZEKIAH, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1798 
in Woodstock, Vt. He was register of 
probate from 1824 to 1838; and was a 
state senator from 1839 to 1841. He was 
a representative in congress from Maine 
from 1845 to 1849. He died Oct. 24, 1856. 

WILLIAMS, HUBERT, lawyer, state 
legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1853, in 
Lakeville, Conn. He is a successful law¬ 
yer of Salisbury, Conn.; and in 1894 was 
elected a member of the Connecticut house 
of representatives. 

WILLIAMS, ISAAC, congressman, was 
born in New York. He was a representa- 
tive in congress from New York from 1813 
to 1815, from 1817 to 1819, and again from 
1823 to 1825. 

WILLIAMS, JAMES, agriculturist, state 
senator, congressman, was born Aug. 4, 
1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1856 and 
1862 he was elected to the Delaware state 
legislature; and in 1866 was elected to the 
state senate. He was made speaker of the 
senate in 1869; and was a member of 
the Baltimore convention of 1872. In 1874 
he was elected a representative from Dela¬ 
ware to the forty-fourth congress; and 
was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress 
as a democrat. 

WILLIAMS, JAMES DOUGLAS, agri¬ 
culturist, state senator, congressman, gov¬ 
ernor, was born Jan. 16, 1808, in Pickaway 
county, Ohio. He was elected to the In¬ 
diana state legislature in 1843, 1847, 1851, 
1856, and 1868. He was elected state sen¬ 
ator in 1858, 1862 and 1870. He was a 
member of the state board of agriculture 
for seventeen years, serving four years of 
the time as president. In 1874 he was 
elected a representative from Indiana to 
the forty-fourth congress. In 1876 he was 
elected governor of Indiana for the term 


of four years from 1877. He died Nov. 20, 
1880, in Indianapolis, Ind. 

WILLIAMS, JAMES R., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 27,1850, in White 
county, Ill. He was master in chancery 
from 1880 to 1882, and county judge of 
White county from 1882 to 1886. He was 
nominee for elector on the Cleveland and 
Thurman ticket. He was elected to the 
fifty-first congress at a special election to 
fill a vacancy; and was elected to the 
fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty- 
third congress as a democrat. 

WILLIAMS, JAMES TILLMAN, lawyer, 
poet, was born April 10, 1864, near Pine 
Apple, Ala. He received a thorough edu¬ 
cation, and has attained prominence as an 
able lawyer of Hillsboro, Texas. He has 
written extensively for the periodical 
press, and is the author of a number of 
meritorious poems which have been high¬ 
ly eulogized by the press. 

WILLIAMS, JAMES W., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1788 in Mary¬ 
land. He was a member of the legislature 
of Maryland, being for a time speaker of 
the house of delegates in 1839. In 1841 he 
was elected to congress as a representa¬ 
tive, and continued a member of that body 
until the time of his death. He died Dec. 
2, 1843, on his way to Washington, D. C. 

WILLIAMS, JARED, agriculturist, con¬ 
gressman, was born March 4, 1766, in 
Montgomery county, Md. In 1811 he was 
elected to the house of delegates of Vir¬ 
ginia, and served a number of years. He 
was a representative in congress from Vir¬ 
ginia from 1819 to 1825. In 1829 he was a 
presidential elector. He died Jan. 2, 1831, 
in Frederick county, Va. 

WILLIAMS, JARED WARNER, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, governor, 
was born Dec. 22, 1796, in West Wood- 
stock, Conn. He was a representative in 
congress from 1837 to 1841; and was gov¬ 
ernor of New Hampshire from 1847 to 
1849. He was a senator in congress from 
1853 to 1854, to fill a vacancy. He also 
served several terms in the state legisla¬ 
ture. He died Sept. 29, 1864, in Lancaster, 
N. H. 

WILLIAMS, JEREMIAH N„ soldier, 
congressman, was born in April, 1829, in 
Barbour county, Ala. In 1874 he was 
elected a representative from Alabama to 
the forty-fourth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

WILLIAMS, JESSE LYNCH, littera¬ 
teur, author, was born in 1871 in Illinois. 
He is a writer of New York city; and the 
author of Princeton Stories; and The 
Freshman, a book for boys. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Dec. 10, 1644, in Roxbury, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Deerfield, Mass., carried captive to Can¬ 
ada, with many of his parishioners, by the 
French aDd Indians in 1704. The Re¬ 
deemed Captive is a graphic account of 
heroism and suffering during the period of 
captivity. He died June 12, 1729, in Deer¬ 
field, Mass. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN, state senator, con¬ 
gressman. He was a member of the New 
York senate from 1777 to 1779; and from 
1783 to 1795 from Washington county. He 
was a member of the assembly from 1781 
to 1782; and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1795 to 1799. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Hanover county, 
Va. He was one of the first judges under 
the state constitution from 1777 to 1790; 
and was a delegate to the continental con¬ 
gress from North Carolina in 1778 and 
1779. He died in October, 1799, in Gran¬ 
ville county, Ohio. 


WILLIAMS, JOHN, journalist, author, 
was born about 1765 in England. He was 
an English journalist who came to the 
United States after being very unpopular 
in England; and was the author of Po¬ 
ems; Legislative Biography; The Ham- 
ilt'oniad; The Dramatic Censor; and Life 
of Alexander Hamilton. He died Oct. 12, 
1818, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN, soldier, lawyer. 
United States senator, was born in 1778 
in Surry county, N. C. He served till 
the close of the war with Great Britain, 
and was then elected United States sen¬ 
ator from Tennessee to fill a vacancy; 
and was re-elected, serving from 1815 till 

1823. He died Aug. 10, 1837, in Knoxville, 
Tenn. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN, soldier, merchant, 
congressman, was born in 1807 in Utica, 
N. Y. In 1842 he was chosen an alderman 
of Rochester, N. Y., and in 1852 elected 
mayor of the city. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from 1855 to 1857; in 1871 
was made city treasurer, and was re¬ 
elected in 1873 and 1875. He was made a 
major-general of militia, and rendered 
good service during the rebellion in rais¬ 
ing troops for the war. He died March 26, 
1875, in Rochester, N. Y. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN, bishop, author, was 
born Aug. 30, 1817, in Deerfield, Mass. He 
was the fourth protestant episcopal bish¬ 
op of Connecticut, and presiding bishop 
from 1887. He is the author of Sermons; 
Studies on the English Reformation; An¬ 
cient Hymns of Holy Church; Thoughts 
on the Gospel Miracles; The World’s Wit¬ 
ness-to Christ; and Studies in the Book of 
Acts. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN AUGUSTUS, educa¬ 
tor, lecturer, author, was born Sept. 21, 

1824, in Bourbon county, Ky. He has at¬ 
tained success as a 
lawyer of Harrods- 
burg, Ky.; has been 
president of the 
Prospect Hill semi- 
nary, Kentucky; 
president of the 
Bourbon institute; 
president of the 
Christian college of 
Columbia, Mo., and 
president of the 
Daughters’ college 
Kentucky. He has 

been professor of the Kentucky university 
of Lexington; president of the Kentucky 
State college, and grand lecturer of grand 
lodge for Kentucky. He is the author of 
a work entitled Rosa Emerson, a story of 
a young woman’s influence in the lodge, 
the church and the school. He is also 
the author of The Life of John Smith, and 
other works. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN E., lawyer, legislat¬ 
or. He is attorney for the Gould system 
of railways at Little Rock, Ark., and has 
twice served as a member in the state sen¬ 
ate of the Arkansas legislature. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN FLETCHER, libra¬ 
rian, was born Sept. 25, 1834, in Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. In 1867 he was elected sec¬ 
retary and librarian of the Minnesota His¬ 
torical society of St. Paul, Minn. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN JOSEPH, Roman 
catholic archbishop, was born April 27, 
1822, in Boston, Mass. The new sees of 
Springfield and Providence were created 
from his original diocese in 1870 and 1872, 
respectively, and in 1875 a new ecclesiastic 
province was established, embracing these 
dioceses and those of Portland and Bur¬ 
lington. Boston became the archepiscopal 
see, and he was made archbishop, receiv¬ 
ing the pallium from the hands of Arcn- 
bishop McCloskey. 






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WILLIAMS, JOHN MASON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born June 24, 1780, in New Bed¬ 
ford, Mass. He became associate justice 
of the Massachusetts court of common 
pleas in 1821, and its chief justice in 1839- 
44. In 1844-56 he was commissioner of in¬ 
solvency. He was also author of a pam¬ 
phlet entitled Nullification and Compro¬ 
mise. He died Dec. 28, 1868, in New Bed¬ 
ford, Mass. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN M. S., merchant, 
ship owner, state senator, congressman, 
was born Aug. 14, 1818, in Richmond, Va. 
He was a member of the Massachusetts 
state house of representatives in 1856, 
and of the senate in 1858. He was a pres¬ 
idential elector in 1868, and was elected 
to the forty-third congress. He died 
March 19, 1886, in Cambridge, Mass. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN S., soldier, lawyer, 
journalist, public official, was born Dec. 
14, 1825, in Lockport, N. Y. In 1856 he 
was elected mayor of the city of Lafayette, 
Ind., and was re-elected in 1858. He was 
for some time editor of the Lafayette 
Daily American. In 1861 he recruited the 
sixty-third regiment of Indiana volun¬ 
teers, and was commissioned colonel of 
the regiment. In 1866 he was appointed 
collector of internal revenue for the 
eighth district of Indiana. In 1869 he 
became the publisher of the Lafayette 
Sunday Times, and in 1885 was appointed 
third auditor of the United States treasury 
department. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN SHARPE, lawyer, 
cotton planter, congressman, was born 
July 30, 1854, in Memphis, Tenn. He en¬ 
gaged in the practice of his profession 
and the varied pursuits of a cotton plant¬ 
er in Yazoo, Miss. He was elected from 
Mississippi to the fifty-third and fifty- 
fourth congresses and re-elected to the 
fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN SKELTON, railroad 
president, was born July 6, 1865, in Pow- 
atan county, Va. Since 1895 he has been 
president of the Georgia and Alabama 
railroads, and is also president of nume¬ 
rous corporations at Richmond, Va. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN STUART, soldier, 
state legislator, United States senator, was 
born in 1820 in Montgomery county, Ky. 
He was a representative in the Kentucky 
state legislature in 1857. He entered the 
confederate service in 1861 as colonel, and 
was promoted to brigadier-general, serv¬ 
ing throughout the war. In 1875 he was 
again in the lfegislature, and was elected 
a senator of the United States in 1878. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN WILSON MONT¬ 
GOMERY, clergyman, author, was born 
April 7, 1820, in Portsmouth, Va. He has 
been president of the Maryland Tract so¬ 
ciety since 1870, vice-president of the 
southern baptist convention, several times 
moderator of the Maryland Baptist Union 
association, and trustee of Columbian uni¬ 
versity since 1851. 

WILLIAMS, JONATHAN, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, author, was born May 
26, 1750, in Boston, Mass. He was for 
several years a judge 
of the court of com¬ 
mon pleas in Phila¬ 
delphia. He was ap¬ 
pointed major of ar¬ 
tillery in 1801, and 
inspector of fortifi¬ 
cations. He was su¬ 
perintendent of West 
Point academy; was 
lieutenant-colonel of 
engineers in 1802; 
colonel from 1808 to 
1812, and was gen¬ 
eral of New York militia from 1812 to 
1815. He was elected a representative in 


congress from Philadelphia in 1814, and 
was vice-president of the American Phi¬ 
losophical society. He was the author of 
On the Use of the Thermometer in Navi¬ 
gation; Elements of Fortification, 1801; 
and Kosciusko’s Movements for Horse Ar¬ 
tillery, 1808. He died May 16, 1815, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

WILLIAMS, JOSEPH, lawyer, jurist. 
He was an early emigrant to Iowa, and 
in 1838 was appointed a United States 
judge for that territory. He was subse¬ 
quently appointed to the same office in 
Kansas. 

WILLIAMS, JOSEPH HARTWELL, 
lawyer, state senator, author, was born 
Feb. 15, 1814, in Augusta, Maine. He was 
president of the Maine state senate in 
1857, and became acting governor on the 
resignation of Hannibal Hamlin in Feb¬ 
ruary of that year. In 1864-66 and 1874 he 
was a member of the legislature. He is 
the author of A Brief Study in Genealogy, 
treating of the Cony family, to which 
his mother belonged. 

WILLIAMS, JOSEPH LANIER, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, was born in 1800 in 
Tennessee. He was a representative in 
congress from Tennessee from 1837 to 
1843, and was appointed an associate 
judge of the United States court for the 
territory of Dakota, residing at Yankton. 

WILLIAMS, LEMUEL, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Massachusetts from 1799 to 1805. He died 
in 1827. 

WILLIAMS, LEWIS, congressman, was 
born Feb. 1, 1786, in Surry county, N. C. 
He entered the house of commons of his 
native state in 1813,-and was re-elected in 
1814. He was a representative in congress 
from 1815 to 1842, where for his many 
good qualities and his long service, he 
was known as the Father of the House. 
He died Feb. 20, 1842, in Washington, 
D. C. 

WILLIAMS, MAMIE L., educator, was 
born Nov. 4, 1874, in Corinth, Miss. For 
six years she taught school in Mississippi, 
and has since taught several years in 
Tennessee. She graduated from the State 
Normal school of Mississippi, and the 
Rust university of Holly Springs; has at¬ 
tended summer normals in Texas, Ten¬ 
nessee, Illinois, Michigan, and Boston, 
and is one of the foremost educators of 
the south. 

WILLIAMS, MARMADUKE, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born April 6, 1772, in Caswell county, N. 
C. He was a representative in congress 
from North Carolina. In 1810 he moved, 
with his family, to Madison county, Ala., 
and ihence to Tuscaloosa in 1818. He was 
repeatedly elected to the legislature, and 
was a delegate from Tuscaloosa county to 
the convention which framed the state 
constitution. In 1832 he was elected judge 
of the county court, which office he held 
until 1842. He died Oct. 29, 1850, in Tus¬ 
caloosa, Ala. 

WILLIAMS, MARY ANN, philanthro¬ 
pist, was born Aug. 10, 1822, in Milledge- 
ville, Ga. She originated and named 
April 26 as a date to wreathe the graves 
of our martyred dead with flowers. She 
died April 15, 1874’ in Columbus, Ga. 

WILLIAMS, MRS. MARY BUSHNELL, 
author, poet, was born in 1826 in Baton 
Rouge, La. She has contributed to peri¬ 
odical literature, and her poetry has been 
much admired, notably the verses entit¬ 
led The Serfs of Chdteney. She is the 
author of a volume of Tales and Legends 
of Louisiana. 


WILLIAMS, MILTON BRYANT, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, was born Aug. 24, 1869, in 
Ontario, Canada. He received his degree 
of A. B. from the Northwestern univer¬ 
sity of Evanston, Ill.; and took a post¬ 
graduate course in biblical interpretation 
in the university of Chicago. For several 
years he was engaged in educational 
work; has attained prominence as an 
eminent clergyman of the methodist epis¬ 
copal church, and now fills a pastorate in 
Aurora, Ill. 

WILLIAMS, MORGAN B„ manufactu¬ 
rer, congressman, was born Sept. 17, 1831, 
in Wales. He was appointed to the posi¬ 
tion of mine superintendent for the Le¬ 
high and Wilkesbarre Coal company, 
which position he held for fourteen years. 
He subsequently leased a tract of coal land 
in the vicinity of Wilkesuarre and or¬ 
ganized a company known as the Red Ash 
Coal company, and is at present the vice- 
president and general manager of the com¬ 
pany, and has been since its organization. 
He is president of the Williams Coal com¬ 
pany of Pottsville. He was elected to the 
senate of Pennsylvania in 1884, and was 
a member of the world’s fair commission. 
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 

WILLIAMS, NATHAN, congressman, 
was born in New York. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from New York from 
1805 to 1807. He served in the state as¬ 
sembly from Onondaga in 1816, 1817 and 
1818. 

WILLIAMS, NELSON GROSVENOR, 
soldier, was born May 4, 1823, in Bain- 
bridge, N. Y. He was made brigadier-gen¬ 
eral in 1862. In 1869 he entered the United 
States custom service in New York city. 

WILLIAMS, NELSON MONROE, law¬ 
yer, poet, was born March 23, 1853, in St. 
Paris, Ohio. He is a successful lawyer of 
Hamilton; is deputy grand master of the 
grand lodge of Free and Accepted Ma¬ 
sons of Ohio, and is called the Masonic 
Poet of Ohio. 

WILLIAMS, PETER, lawyer, public of¬ 
ficial, was born Dec. 17, 1831, in Wales. 
He is one of the foremost lawyers of Wis¬ 
consin; has been 
postmaster at Cam¬ 
bria; clerk of the 
county circuit court, 
and state agent of 
the Wisconsin public 
school for dependent 
and neglected chil¬ 
dren. He has been 
prominently identi¬ 
fied with the passage 
of several bills of 
importance to his 
state, and has con¬ 
tributed valuable articles to law literature 
and current publications. 

WILLIAMS. REUEL, lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, United States senator, was born June 
2, 1783, in Hallowell, Maine. He was a 
representative and senator in the legis¬ 
lature of Maine for twelve years, and was 
a senator in congress from 1837 to 1843. 
He died July 25, 1862, in Augusta, Maine. 

WILLIAMS, RICHARD, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Nov. 15, 1836, in Find¬ 
lay, Ohio. He was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Oregon to the forty-fifth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

WILLIAMS, ROBERT, clergyman, was 
born in 1745 in England. He was. the first 
to print methodist books in this country, 
and gave a wide circulation to Wesley’s 
sermons until the conference that admit¬ 
ted him appropriated the right of publica¬ 
tion. He died Sept. 26, 1775, in Norfolk 
county, Va. 






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WILLIAMS, ROBERT, lawyer, govern¬ 
or, was born in 1765 in Caswell county, N. 
C. He was appointed governor of Missis¬ 
sippi territory, filling that office from 1805 
till 1809. He died in Louisiana. 

WILLIAMS, ROBERT, congressman, 
governor, was born July 12, 1773, in Surry 
county, N. C. He was an adjutant-gen¬ 
eral of North Carolina; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from that state from 
1797 to 1803. He was appointed commis¬ 
sioner of land titles in Mississippi terri¬ 
tory in 1803, and was governor of the ter¬ 
ritory of Mississippi from 1805 to 1809. He 
died about 1820 in Louisiana. 

WILLIAMS, ROBERT WILLOUGHBY, 
lawyer, public official, was born Feb. 21, 
1845, in Tallahassee, Fla. He received his 
education at the university of North Car¬ 
olina, and has attained success as one of 
the foremost lawyers of the south in Tal¬ 
lahassee, the city of his nativity. He has 
filled various civil and military offices 
with distinction, and is now commissioner 
on uniform state laws for the state of 
Florida, and a member of the congress of 
state commissioners. 

WILLIAMS, ROGER, clergyman, auth¬ 
or, was born in 1599 in Wales. He was 
a famous clergyman, minister at Salem, 
Mass., but banished from the Massachu¬ 
setts Bay colony in 1635 on account of his 
views upon religious liberty. In 1636 he 
founded the city of Providence, and was 
the chief citizen of the Rhode Island 
colony until his death. He was the author 
of Key Into the Languages of America; 
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for 
Cause of Conscience; The Bloudy Tenent 
Yet More Bloudy by Mr. Cotton’s En¬ 
deavour to Wash It White in the Bloud 
of the Lambe; Mr. Cotton’s Letter Lately 
Printed, Examined and Answered; and 
George Fox Digg’d Out of His Burrowes. 
He died in 1683 in Rhode Island. 

WILLIAMS, ROGER BUTLER, manu¬ 
facturer, banker, was born May 8, 1848, in 
Ithaca, N. 'i. He received the rudiments 
of his education in 
the public schools of 
his native city, and 
i n 1868 graduated 
from Yale college. 
He is the senior 
member of Williams 
Brothers, successful 
manufacturers of ag¬ 
ricultural imple¬ 
ments and machinery 
of Ithaca, N. Y. He 
has been cashier of 
the Merchants’ and 
Farmers’ National bank of Ithaca; presi¬ 
dent of the Ithaca Savings bank; presi¬ 
dent of the board of education; chairman 
of the board of sewer commissioners; be¬ 
sides filling various other public positions 
of honor with distinction. He takes an 
active part in the political affairs of his 
city, county and state, and is prominent 
in several fraternal orders. 

WILLIAMS. RUFUS B., farmer, pho¬ 
tographer. legislator, was born Aug. 5, 
1851, in Winchester, Tenn. He is a suc¬ 
cessful farmer and photographer, and still 
resides in his native city. He served with 
distinction as a member of the forty- 
eighth and forty-ninth general assemblies 
of the state of Tennessee. He is a con¬ 
sistent democrat, a brilliant orator and a 
prominent member of various fraternal 
orders. 

WILLIAMS, SAMUEL, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born April 23, 1743, in 
Waltham, Mass. He was a congregational 
clergyman, Hollis professor of mathemat¬ 
ics at Harvard university in 1780-88, and 
the author of A Natural and Civil History 
of Vermont; and History of the American 


Revolution. He died Jan. 2, 1817, in Rut¬ 
land, Vt. 

WILLIAMS, SAMUEL P„ banker, leg¬ 
islator, was born Jan. 20, 1814, in Lebanon, 
Conn. He is president of the National 
State bank of Indiana. He was a member 
of the Indiana house of representatives in 
1856 and 1857. In 1854 he founded a fe¬ 
male seminary at Lima, and sustained it 
for over twelve years, when it was pur¬ 
chased by the town for a public school. 

WILLIAMS, SAMUEL W., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, author, was born Aug. 
28, 1828, in York county, S. C. He has 
filled the high offices of supreme judge of 
Arkansas; attorney-general of Arkansas; 
a member of the state senate of Arkan¬ 
sas legislature, and has contributed val¬ 
uable papers to law literature. 

WILLIAMS, SAMUEL WELLS, educa¬ 
tor, journalist, author, was born Sept. 22, 
1812, in Utica, N. Y. He was a secretary 
and interpreter of the American legation 
in China for many years, and after 1877 
professor of Chinese at Yale university. 
He was the author of China, the Middle 
Kingdom; Easy Lessons in Chinese; Chi¬ 
nese Commercial Guide; Tonic Dictionary 
of the Chinese Language in the Capton 
Dialect; Syllabic Dictionary of Chinese; 
and Chinese Topography. He died Feb. 
16, 1884, in New Haven, Conn. 

WILLIAMS, SETH, soldier, was born 
March 22, 1822, in Augusta, Maine. He 
was adjutant of the military academy in 
1850-53, and subsequently served in the 
adjutant-general’s department until his 
death. In 1861 he was appointed a briga¬ 
dier-general in the volunteer army, and 
was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1862. 
He died March 23, 1866, in Boston, Mass. 

WILLIAMS, SHERROD, congressman, 
was born in Kentucky. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Kentucky froin 
1835 to 1841. 

WILLIAMS, STEPHEN WEST, physi¬ 
cian, educator, author, was born March 
27, 1790, in Deerfield, Mass. He was a 
physician who was medical professor in 
Willoughby university, Ohio, in 1838-53, 
and the author of Catechism of Medical 
Jurisprudence; American Medical Biogra¬ 
phy; and The Williams Family in Amer¬ 
ica. He died July 9, 1855, in Laconia, Ill. 

WILLIAMS, THEODORE O., educator, 
lawyer, was born April 17, 1847, in Han¬ 
nibal, Mo. In 1873 he was admitted - to 
the bar, and is now a prominent lawyer 
of Osceola, Mo. He has been justice of 
the peace of Osceola; city attorney; and 
is now chairman of the democratic com¬ 
mittee of that city. Prior to his engaging 
in law he taught school and filled var¬ 
ious public positions of trust in Windsor, 
Mo. 

WILLIAMS, THOMAS, surgeon, jurist, 
was born April 1, 1718, in Newton, Mass. 
He settled in Deerfield, Mass., where he 
was judge of probate and of common 
pleas, and the leading physician in the 
region. He died Sept. - 28, 1775, in Deer¬ 
field, Mass. 

WILLIAMS, THOMAS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 5, 1779, in Pomfret, 
Conn. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man of Providence, and the author of Ten 
Sermons on Important Subjects; The Do¬ 
mestic Chaplain; and Rhode Island Ser¬ 
mons. He died Sept. 29, 1867, in Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. 

WILLIAMS, THOMAS, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Aug. 28, 
1806, in Greensburgh, Pa. He was a state 
senator from Pittsburg in the legislature 
in 1838, and the three succeeding years. 
In 1860 he was again elected to the lower 
house of the legislature. In 1862 he was 
elected a representative from Pennsyl¬ 


vania to the thirty-eighth congress, and 
was re-elected to the thirty-ninth and 
fortieth congresses as a republican. 

WILLIAMS, THOMAS, soldier, educa¬ 
tor, was born in 1815 in New York state. 
He was made a brigadier-general of volun¬ 
teers in 1861. He died Aug. 5, 1862, in 
Baton Rouge, La. 

WILLIAMS, THOMAS, agriculturist, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 11, 
1825, in Greenville county, Va. He was 
a representative in the state legislature 
in 1878, and was elected a representative 
from Alabama to the forty-sixth, forty- 
seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a 
democrat. 

WILLIAMS, THOMAS H., United States 
senator, was born in 1795 in Virginia. He 
moved to the northern part of Mississippi 
soon after the cession of Indian territory 
to that quarter, and was a senator in con¬ 
gress from Mississippi, by executive ap¬ 
pointment, during the years 1838 and 1839. 

WILLIAMS, THOMAS HILL, public of¬ 
ficial, United States senator, was born in 
1780 in North Carolina. In 1805 he was 
appointed register of the land office, and 
commissioner for deciding land claims in 
the territory of Mississippi, and subse¬ 
quently, for a few years, held the office of 
collector of the port of New Orleans. He 
was a senator in congress from Mississippi 
from 1817 to 1831. He died about 1840 in 
Robertson county, Tenn. 

WILLIAMS, THOMAS SCOTT, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born June 26, 1777, in Wethersfield, Conn. 
He- represented the town of Hartford in 
the Connecticut general assembly for sev¬ 
en terms, from 1813 to 1829. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Connecticut from 1817 to 1819. In 1829 he 
was appointed an associate judge of the • 
supreme court of errors, and in 1834 was 
appointed chief justice. He was mayor of 
the city of Hartford from 1831 to 1835, 
and in 1847 resigned his position as chief 
justice. He was a presidential elector in 
1848, and was, for twenty years, president 
of the American asylum for the Deaf and 
Dumb. He died Dec. 15, 1861, in Hartford, 
Conn. 

WILLIAMS, THOMAS W., merchant, 
legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 
28, 1789, in Stonington, Conn. He was a 
representative in congress from Connecti¬ 
cut from 1839 to 1843. He was a member 
of the legislature in 1846, and was chosen 
presidential elector in 1848. 

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Feb. 2, 1665, in Newton, 
Mass. He was settled as pastor of the 
church at Hatfield in 1685, and labored 
there for fifty-five years. He published 
numerous sermons and theological trea¬ 
tises, and commanded a wide influence in 
his community. He died Aug. 29, 1741, in 
Hatfield, Mass. 

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born 
April 18, 1731, in Lebanon, Conn. He was 
a member of the assembly of Connecti¬ 
cut; and a justice of the peace, and Was 
for nearly one hundred sessions, member, 
clerk or speaker of the house of repre¬ 
sentatives. At the commencement of the 
war of the revolution he was a member 
of the council of safety, and was one of 
the signers of the declaration of inde¬ 
pendence. He was a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1776 to 1778, and 
again in 1783 and 1784. When the govern¬ 
ment treasury was drained, he gave to his 
country what he called his last mite, 
which amounted to more than two thou¬ 
sand dollars, and was very fortunate in 
obtaining donations from others. He died 
Aug. 2, 1811, in Independence, Conn. 



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WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, founder, was 
born April 14, 1788, in Norwich, Conn. 
He was one of the founders of the Nor¬ 
wich Free academy. He died Oct. 28, 1870, 
in Norwich, Conn. 

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, banker, rail¬ 
road president, legislator, congressman, 
was born Sept. 6, 1815, in Bolton, Conn. 
He became a banker and railroad presi¬ 
dent, and was elected to the legislature of 
New York in 1866 and 1867. He was elect¬ 
ed to the forty-second congress. 

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born May 11, 1821, 
near Carlisle, Pa. In 1864 he was ap¬ 
pointed an additional paymaster in the 
United States army. In 1866 he was elect¬ 
ed a representative from Indiana to the 
fortieth congress, and was re-elected to 
the three succeeding congresses. 

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM B., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was born 
July 28, 1826, in Pittsford, N. Y. He was 
elected judge of probate in Michigan in 
1856 and 1860, and was elected to the 
state senate in 1866 and 1868. He was 
elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth 
•congresses. 

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM GEORGE, ed¬ 
ucator, was born Feb. 25, 1822, in Chilli- 
cothe, Ohio. In 1844 he was appointed 
to a place in the first faculty of the 
Ohio Wesleyan university of Delaware. 
His chair is that of Greek language and 
literature. In 1864 he was chaplain of 
the one hundredth and forty-fifth regi¬ 
ment, Ohio volunteer infantry. In 1898 
he was the only survivor of the orig¬ 
inal faculty of the Ohio Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity, of which he is dean. He has 
served fifty-three consecutive years with¬ 
out extended absence or sickness. 

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM R., clergyman, 
Author, was born Oct. 14, 1804, in New 
York city. He was a baptist clergyman of 
New York city, pastor of Amity street 
church in 1832-85, and the author of Re¬ 
ligious Progress; God’s Rescues, or The 
Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost 
Son: Discourses on Luke; Miscellanies; 
Lectures on the Lord’s Prayer; Lectures 
on Baptist History; and Eras and Charac¬ 
ters of History. He died April 1, 1885, in 
New York city. 

WILLIAMSON, HUGH, educator, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, congressman, author, born 
Dec. 5, 1735, in Nottingham, Pa. In 1760 he 
was appointed professor of mathematics 
in the university of Pennsylvania. He 
served a number of years in the house 
of commons, and also served in the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1782 to 1785, and 
from 1787 to 1788. He was a delegate to 
the convention which framed the con¬ 
stitution of the United States, and signed 
the same. He was a representative ^in 
•congress from North Carolina from 1790 
to 1793. In 1811 he published a work on 
the Climate of America; and in 1812, a 
History of North Carolina. He died May 
.22, 1819, in New York city. 

WILLIAMSON, ISAAC DOWD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 4, 1807, in 
Pomfret, Vt. He was a universalist cler¬ 
gyman of Cincinnati and other cities, and 
the author of Argument for the Truth of 
'Christianity; The Crown of Life; Philoso¬ 
phy of Odd Fellowship; Philosophy of 
Universalism; and Rudiments of Theo¬ 
logical and Moral Science. He died Nov. 
26, 1876, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

WILLIAMSON, ISAAC HALSTED, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, governor, was born 
in 1769 in Elizabethtown, N. J. He was 
prosecuting attorney for Morris county, 
and in 1817 was a member of the New 
Jersey assembly. He was governor and 


chancellor of the state from 1817 to 1829, 
and was president of the state constitu¬ 
tional convention of 1844. He died July 
10, 1844, in Elizabethtown, N. J. 

WILLIAMSON, ISAIAH VANSANT, 
philanthropist, was born in 1803 in Fall- 
sington, Pa. He established a fund of five 
million dollars in 1888, and placed it in 
the hands of a board of seven trustees for 
the purpose of establishing a free school 
of mechanical trades. He died March 7, 
1889, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WILLIAMSON, JAMES ALEXANDER, 
soldier, lawyer, was born Feb. 8, 1829, in 
Adair, Ky. At the close of the Atlanta 
campaign he was promoted to brevet brig¬ 
adier-general and brigadier-general, and 
later to brevet major-general. In 1876 life 
was appointed commissioner of the gen¬ 
eral land office at Washington City, an’d 
held the office until 1881. 

WILLIAMSON, JOHN, artist, was born 
April 10, 1826, in Scotland. Many of his 
paintings are scenes near Hudson river 
and in the Catskills. They include Trout 
Fishing; American Trout; Summit of 
Chocorua; Autumn in the Adirondacks; 
A Passing Shower, Connecticut Valley; 
After the Storm, Blue Ridge; In the Mo¬ 
hawk Valley; Sugar-Loaf Mountain; and 
The Palisades. He died May 28, 1855, in 
Glenwood-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. 

WILLIAMSON, JOSEPH, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1828 in Maine. He is 
a lawyer of Belfast, Maine, and the au¬ 
thor of The Maine Register and State Ref¬ 
erence Book; Bibliography of Maine; and 
History of Belfast. 

WILLIAMSON, JULIA MAY, author, 
poet, was born in 1859 in Maine. She is a 
verse-writer of Augusta, Maine, and the 
author of Echoes of Time and Tide; and 
The Choir of the Year. 

WILLIAMSON, ROBERT STOCKTON, 
soldier, author, was born in 1824 in New 
York. He was a soldier and military 
engineer, and the author of Report of a 
Reconnoissance in, Calitornia for Pacific 
Railroad Route; Use of the Barometer on 
Surveys; and Practical Tables in Meteor¬ 
ology. He died Nov. 10, 1882, in San 
Francisco, Cal. 

WILLIAMSON, SAMUEL E., lawyer, 
jurist, was born April 19, 1844, in Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. This eminent lawyer is gen¬ 
eral counsel of the New York, Chicago 
and St. Louis Railroad company, and has 
served as judge of court of common pleas 
at Cleveland, Ohio. 

WILLIAMSON, WALTER, physician, 
author, was born Jan. 4, 1811, in Newtown, 
Pa. He was a homeopathic physician of 
Philadelphia, and the author of Diseases 
of Females; and Instructions Concerning 
Diseases of Females. He died Dec. 19, 
1870, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WILLIAMSON, WILLIAM DURKEE, 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congress¬ 
man, governor, author, was born July 31, 
1779, in Canterbury, Conn. He was for 
seven years in the senate of Massachu¬ 
setts, before the separation of Maine; and 
was a senator in the Maine legislature in 
1821. He was a member of congress from 
Maine from 1821 to 1823. He was a 
judge of probate from 1827 to 1840; was a 
bank commissioner from 1838 to 1841, and 
was the author of a History of Maine. 
He died May 27, 1846, in Bangor, Maine. 

WILLIE, ASA H., soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Oct. 11, 1829, 
in Washington, Ga. In 1852 he was elect¬ 
ed attorney of the third district of Texas. 
He served in the confederate army during 
the war. In 1866 he was elected one of the 
judges of the supreme court of Texas, and 


held that office until 1867. He was elected 
to the forty-third congress. 

WILLING, JENNIE FOWLER, educa¬ 
tor, was born Jan. 22, 1834, in Canada. 
As an educator she was appointed profes¬ 
sor of English language and literature 
at the Illinois Wesleyan university, and 
as a pioneer in the temperance cause was 
one of the first crusaders; and elected 
first president of the National Woman’s 
Christian Temperance union, and became 
first editor of its organ, Our Union. 

WILLING, THOMAS, lawyer, banker, 
congressman, was born Dec. 19, 1731, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was one of the 
first to suggest resisting the British in 
Pennsylvania. He was chairman of a 
revolutionary meeting in June, 1774, and 
was a delegate to the continental congress 
in 1775 and 1776. He was president of the 
first chartered bank in America. He died 
Jan. 19, 1821, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WILLIS, ALBERT S., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 22, 1843, in Shelby 
county, Ky. He was elected county attor¬ 
ney in 1870 from Louisville, Ky., and re¬ 
elected in 1874, serving until he was elect¬ 
ed to congress. He was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Kentucky to the forty- 
fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty- 
eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a 
democrat. 

WILLIS, ANSON, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born Jan. 28, 1802, in Ulster 
county, N. Y. He represented New York 
city in the assembly in 1835-36. After¬ 
ward he served two terms as judge of the 
sixth judicial district court in that city. 
He published Our Rulers and Our Rights, 
or Outlines of the United States Govern¬ 
ment; and left unfinished Origin of all 
the Nations of the Earth. He died Dec. 
14, 1874, in Portchester, N. Y. 

WILLIS, BENJAMIN A., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born in 1840 in 
Roslyn, L. I., N. Y. In 1862 he entered 
the army as captain of a company raised 
at his own expense, which was assigned 
to the one hundred and nineteenth regi¬ 
ment, New York volunteers. He was 
elected a representative to the forty-fourth 
congress from New York, and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. He died Oct. 15, 1886, in New 
York city. 

WILLIS, EVANDER BERRY, journal¬ 
ist, was born Aug. 19, 1847, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. For several years he was reporter 
and correspondent for the New York Her¬ 
ald, and became editor and owner of The 
Mail of Middleton, N. Y. He has since 
filled editorial positions on The Daily 
Union of Madison, Wis.; The Chronicle 
and The Bulletin, of San Francisco, Cal.; 
was editor-in-chief of The Chronicle of 
Virginia City, Nev.; city editor of The 
Democrat of Scranton, Pa., and is now' 
the managing editor of the Record Union 
of Sacramento, Cal., one of the fore¬ 
most daily newspapers on the Pacific 
coast. 

WILLIS, FRANCIS, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 5, 1725, in Frederic 
county, Va. He was a representative in 
congress from Georgia from 1791 to 1793. 
He died Jan. 25, 1829, in Maury county, 
Tenn. 

WILLIS, JOHN WILLIAM, lawyer, ’ 
was born Sept. 25, 1853, in Winnsboro, 
La. He received the rudiments of his ed¬ 
ucation in the public and select schools 
of Evansville, Ind., and subsequently at¬ 
tended the university of Louisiana at New 
Orleans, La. Since 1876 he has been ac¬ 
tively engaged in the practice of law, and 
has attained eminence as one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of the south at Rayvilie, La. 


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WILLIS, JONATHAN SPENCER, cler¬ 
gyman, congressman, was born in Oxford, 
Md. He filled pastorates in Maryland, 
Delaware, Philadelphia, New York city 
and Stamford, Conn., retired from the 
ministry in 1884 and settled on a farm 
near Milford, Del. He was nominated in 
1894 and elected to the fifty-fourth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

WILLIS, NATHANIEL, journalist, was 
born June 6, 1780, in Boston, Mass. He 
established the Eastern Argus at Port¬ 
land, Maine, in 1803, the Boston Recorder 
in 1816, which was the first religious 
newspaper in America, and the Youth’s 
Companion in 1827, the first American ju¬ 
venile paper. He died May 26, 1870, in 
Boston, Mass. 

WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Jan. 20, 1806 v in 
Portland, Maine. He was a once popular 
New York writer, 
much overrated in 
the earlier part of 
his career, and now 
neglected. His prose, 
though pleasing, is 
almost all of ephe¬ 
meral merit, and his 
verse is sentimental 
rather than thought¬ 
ful. The latter in¬ 
cludes the once 
widely read Sacred 
Poems; Melanie; 
Lady Jane, and Humorous Poems; and 
Poems of Passion; while his prose com¬ 
prises Hurry Graphs; People I Have Met; 
Pencillings by the Way; • Inklings of Ad¬ 
ventures; Letters from Under a Bridge; 
Famous Persons and Places; A Summer 
Cruise in the Mediterranean; The Conva¬ 
lescent; Out-Doors at Idlewild; Paul Fane, 
a novel; A1 Abri, and other works of les¬ 
ser importance. He died Jan. 20, 1867, in 
Hudson, N. Y. 

WILLIS, RICHARD STORRS, journal¬ 
ist, author, poet, was born Feb. 10, 1819, 
in Boston, Mass. He has edited the New 
York Musical World and Once a Week; 
contributed to current literature, and pub¬ 
lished Church Chorals and Choir Studies; 
Our Church Music: a Book for Pastors 
and People; and Carols and Music Poems. 
He contributed to National Hymns (1861) 
and to the American edition of the Liffe 
of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. 

WILLIS, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, 
was born Aug. 31, 1794, in Haverhill, 
Mass. He was a Portland lawyer, and 
the author of History of Portland; and 
History of the Law, Courts and Lawyers 
of Maine. He died Feb. 17, 1870, in Port¬ 
land, Maine. 

WILLISTON, EBENEZER BANCROFT, 
educator, college president, author, was 
born in 1801 in Tunbridge, Vt. He was 
president of the Jefferson college of Mis¬ 
sissippi. He was the author of Eloquence 
of the United States, in five volumes. He 
died Dec. 28, 1837, in Norwich, Vt. 

WILLISTON, PAYSON, author, was 
born in 1763 in West Haven. He was 
the author of a work entitled Annals of 
the American Pulpit. He died Jan. 30, 
1856, in Easthampton. 

WILLISTON, SAMUEL, manufacturer, 
philanthropist, was born June 17, 1795, 
in Easthampton, Mass. In 1840 he es- 
. tablished the Williston seminary in his 
native town, to which he has given in 
all nearly a half million dollars. He died 
July 18, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WILLISTON, SETH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born April 4, 1770, in Suffield, 
Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman 
in New York state, and the author of 
Discourses on the Sabbath; Moral Im¬ 
perfections of Christians; Harmony of 
Divine Truth; and Millennial Discourses. 


He died March 2, 1851, in Guilford Center, 
N. Y. 

WILLISTON, TIMOTHY, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1805 in New York. 
He was a presbyterian clergyman, and 
the author of Orthodox Paths Restored; 
Talks to My Bible Class; Christ’s Millen¬ 
nial Reign; and Premium Essays. 

WILLITS, EDWIN, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born April 24, 1830, in Otto, N. 
Y. He was prosecuting attorney of Monroe 
county, Mich., from 1860 to 1862, and was a 
member of the state board of education 
from 1860 to 1872. He was postmaster at 
Monroe from 1863 to 1866. He was elected 
a representative from Michigan to the 
forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh 
congresses as a republican. In 1885 he 
was elected president of the State Agricul¬ 
tural college. 

WILLNER, WOLFE, rabbi, educator, 
was born July 28, 1863, in Strasburg, Ger¬ 
many. At the age of eleven he emigrated 
to America. He first lived in Newburg, 
N. Y., then in New Haven, Conn., where 
he entered Yale in 1881, graduating in 
the academic course in 1885 with the de¬ 
gree of A. B.; and in 1887 with the de¬ 
gree of A. M. He was then called to 
the ministry of the congregation Ohed 
Shalon of Houston, Texas; and now is 
an eminent rabbi and teacher of Balti¬ 
more, Md. He has written poetry from 
his youth, but his latter years have been 
devoted to translating from the Hebrew 
and German. His articles on religious 
and Hebrew literary subjects constantly 
appear in current literature; and his po¬ 
ems can be found in Poets of America and 
other standard works. 

WILLOSTON, LORENZO P., lawyer, 
jurist, was born in New York. He 
moved to Pennsylvania and was appointed 
from that state an associate justice of 
the United States court for the territory 
of Dakota. 

WILLOUGHBY, JAMES AMOS, journal¬ 
ist, legislator, was born May 2, 1855, in 
St. Clair county, Ill. He is a prominent 
journalist of Belleville, Ill., and was elect¬ 
ed a member of the state senate of the 
Illinois legislature in 1894. 

WILLOUGHBY, JOHN WALLACE 
CUNNINGHAM, college president, was 
born Aug. 20, 1845, in Knox county, Tenn. 
In 1883 he became president of the Wash¬ 
ington college in Tennessee, holding this 
position until 1891. 

WILLOUGHBY, WESTEL, JR., con¬ 
gressman. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1816 to 
1817. 

WILLS, JAMES, philanthropist, was 
born in 1760 in England. He bequeathed 
to the mayor and corporation of Philadel¬ 
phia and to their successors forever, more 
than $122,000 to found the Wills hospital 
for the relief of indigent blind and lame. 
He died in 1830 in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WILLS, JOHN CALVIN, druggist, phy¬ 
sician, was born in 1860 in Gainesville, 
Ga. He received a thorough education, 
and the degrees of M. D. and Ph. G. were 
conferred upon him. For ten years he 
was a prescription druggist in Jackson¬ 
ville and Starke, Fla., and is now a suc¬ 
cessful physician of Lake Butler, Fla. 

WILLSON, DAVID BURT, educator, 
clergyman, journalist, author, was born 
Sept. 27, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was ordained as a reformed presbyterian, 
and was pastor in Allegheny from 1870 till 
1875, when he was chosen to his present 
post in the seminary there as professor 
of theology. Besides publishing occa¬ 
sional addresses he edited an edition of 
Lyman’s Historical Chart; and since 1874 


has been editor of the Reformed Presby- 
terian and Covenanter in Pittsburg. 

WILLSON, FORCEYTHE, poet, was 
born April 10, 1837, in Little Genesee, N. 
Y. He was a verse-writer at one time on 
the staff of the Louisville Journal, and 
the author of The Old Sergeant, and Other 
Poems. He died Feb. 2, 1867, in Alfred, 
N. Y. 

WILLSON, JAMES McLEOD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Nov. 17, 1809, in 
Elizabeth, Pa. He was a reformed pres¬ 
byterian clergyman of Philadelphia, and 
the author of The Deacon; Bible Magis¬ 
tracy; Civil Government; Social Relig¬ 
ious Covenanting; and Witnessing. He 
died in 1866. 

WILLSON, JAMES RENWICK, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born April 9, 1780, in 
Pittsburg, Pa. He was a reformed pres¬ 
byterian clergyman in New York and; 
Pennsylvania, and the author of History 
of the Church of Scotland; The Written 
Law; and Historical Sketch of Opinions, 
on the Atonement. He died Sept. 29, 1853, 
in Coldenham, N. Y. 

WILLSON, MARCIUS, educator, author, 
was born Dec. 8, 1813, in West Stock- 
bridge, Mass. He is an educator of Vine- 
land, N. J., and the author of Civil Polity 
and Political Economy; Mosaics of Bible- 
History; and many school text-books. 

WILLSON, SLATER GORDAN, railroad 
president, was born Dec. 28, 1824, in Ark¬ 
wright, N. Y. He is president of the- 
Crooked Creek and Webster City, and 
Southwestern railroads at Webster City, 
Iowa. 

WILMARTH, LEMUEL EVERETT, art¬ 
ist, was born Nov. 11, 1835, in Attle¬ 
borough, Mass. Among his works, prin¬ 
cipally genre pictures, are Captain Nathan 
Hale; Playing Two Games at the Same 
Time; The Home Missionary; Another 
Candidate for Adoption (1871); Guess 
What I Have Brought You; Left in 
Charge; Ingratitude; Feat of Courage; A 
Plea for the Homeless; Pick of the Or¬ 
chard; and jack’s Return. 

WILMARTH. SETH, inventor, was born 
Sept. 8, 1810, in Brattleboro, Vt. He be¬ 
came a machinist in Pawtucket, R. I., 
and in 1855 was appointed superintendent 
and master-mechanic of the Charlestown 
navy yard. Among his patents, number¬ 
ing about twenty, were those for his re¬ 
volving turrets, and for the hydraulic lift 
for raising the turret shafts on monitor 
vessels. He died Nov. 5, 1886, in Walden, 
Mass. 

WILMER, JOSEPH PERE BELL, prot- 
estant episcopal bishop, was born Feb. 11, 
1812, in Kent county, Md. He went to 
England in 1863 to purchase Bibles for the 
confederate army, was captured on his 
return voyage, and for a short time con¬ 
fined in the old Capitol prison, Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. He became bishop of Louisiana 
in 1866. He died Dec. 2, 1878, in New 
Orleans, La. 

WILMER, LAMBERT A., journalist, 
author, was born about 1805. He was a 
Philadelphia journalist, and the author of 
New System of Grammar; The Quacks of 
Helicon; Life of De Soto; Our Press 
Gang, an Exposition of the Corruptions 
of American Newspapers (1859); Recan¬ 
tation: a Poem; Somnia; and Liberty 
Triumphant. He died Dec. 21, 1863, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

WILMER, RICHARD HOOKER, bishop 
of Alabama, was born March 15, 1816, in 
Alexandria, Va. He was successively rec¬ 
tor of several churches in Virginia, and of 
St. James’s, Wilmington, N. C., till he 
was consecrated bishop of Alabama. He 
is the author of The Recent Past from a 
Southern Standpoint. 




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WILMOT, DAVID, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, United States senator, was born 
Jan. 20, 1814, in Bethany, Pa. He was a 
member of congress from 1845 to 1851, and 
was subsequently president judge of the 
thirteenth judicial district of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, which position he resigned, and to 
which he was re-elected. In 1861 he was 
elected a senator in congress, where he 
remained until 1863. He was also a dele¬ 
gate to the peace congress of 1861, and 
in 1863 was appointed a judge of the court 
of claims. He died March 16, 1868, in 
Towanda, Pa. 

WILMSHURST, ZAVARR, journalist, 
author, was born Nov. 25, 1824, in Eng¬ 
land. He was a journalist of New York 
city, and the author of The Viking, an 
epic; The Winter of the Heart, and Other 
Poems; The Siren; and Ralph and Rose, 
a Poem. He died Jan. 27, 1887, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 

WILSHIRE, WILLIAM W., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1830, 
in Gallatin county, Ill. In 1867 he was 
appointed solicitor-general of Arkansas at 
Little Rock, and in 1868 became chief-jus¬ 
tice of one of the state courts, remain¬ 
ing in office until 1871. In 1874 he was 
elected a representative from Arkansas 
to the forty-fourth congress as a conserva¬ 
tive. 

WILSON, ALEXANDER, ornithologist, 
author, was born July 6, 1766, in Scotland. 
He was a Scottish ornithologist and poet 
who came to America in 1794. He is 
often called the Father of American Orni¬ 
thology. He was the author of Watty 
and Meg, a narrative poem; and Ameri¬ 
can Ornithology, or the Natural History of 
the Birds of the United States. He died 
Aug. 23, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WILSON, ALEXANDER, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1804 to 1809. 

WILSON, ALLEN BENJAMIN, invent¬ 
or, was born Oct. 18, 1824, in Willet, N. 
Y. His first patent bears the date of 
Nov. 12, 1850, and is the fifteenth on the 
patent office record for an improved sew¬ 
ing-machine. The first machine, complet¬ 
ed early in 1851, was sold for $125, and 
for a time this output was limited to 
eight or ten machines a week, but the de¬ 
mand soon increased, and they removed to 
Bridgeport, where they established the 
largest factory of its kind in the world, 
making six hundred machines a day. He 
died April 29, 1888, in Woodmont, Conn. 

WILSON, MRS. AUGUSTA JANE (EV¬ 
ANS), author, was born May 8, 1835, in 
Columbus, Ga. She was a popular nov¬ 
elist living at Mobile. Her writings had 
at one time an extraordinary vogue, but 
are now much less read. She is the au¬ 
thor of Beulah; Macaria; Vashti; St. El¬ 
mo; Inez, a Tale of the Alamo; Infelice; 
and At the Mercy of Tiberius. 

WILSON, BENJAMIN, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 30, 1825, in 
Harrison county, Va. He was attorney 
for the commonwealth in Harrison county 
from 1852 to 1860. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from West Virginia to the 
forty-fourth congress and was re-elected 
to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty- 
seventh congresses as a democrat. 

WILSON, BENJAMIN FRANK, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, college president, was 
born March 12, 1862, near Mayesville, S. 
C. During 1880-84 he attended the David¬ 
son college, North Carolina, and in 1885- 
8. the Theological seminary of Princeton, 
N. J. For three years he was pastor of the 
First Presbyterian church of Spartans- 
burg, S. C., and since 1890 has been presi¬ 


dent of the Converse college, the first un¬ 
denominational private endowed college 
for women in the south. He has attained 
success in educational work, and has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature 
on that and kindred subjects. 


WILSON, BIRD, lawyer, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born Jan. 8, 1777, 
in Carlisle, Pa. He was elected professor 
of systematic divinity in the Episcopal 
General Theological seminary in Pennsyl¬ 
vania in 1821, which post he held for 
nearly thirty years. He was secretary of 
the house of bishops in 1829-41. He died 
April 14, 1859, in New York city. 

WILSON, CLARENCE TRUE, clergy¬ 
man, lecturer, author, was born April 24, 
1872, in Milton, Del. He received the rudi¬ 
ments of his educa¬ 
tion in the public 
schools of Wilming¬ 
ton, Del.; attended 
St John’s college 
and the university of 
Southern California. 
He has had the de¬ 
grees of A. B. and 
Ph. D. conferred up¬ 
on him. He has 
filled pastorates in 
the methodist epis¬ 
copal church at Sea- 
ford, Del.; Sea Cliff, N. Y., and is now 
filling a pastorate in North Pasadena, Cal. 
He has attained success as a clergyman, 
lecturer and author, and has contributed 
extensively to current literature. 

WILSON, DAVID, legislator, author, 
was born Sept. 17, 1818, in West Hebron, 
N. Y. He was a member of the New 
York assembly in 1852, and in 1854 de¬ 
clined a nomination for congress. He 
published Life in Whitehall: a Tale of 
Ship-Fever Times; Solomon Northrup, or 
Twelve Years a Slave, a narrative of the 
abduction and enslavement of a free negro' 
of Washington county; and Life of Jane 
McCrea. He died June 9, 1887, in Albany, 
N. Y. 

WILSON, E. K., congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Mary¬ 
land from 1827 to 1831. 



WILSON, E. WILLIS, lawyer, state leg¬ 
islator, governor, was born in 1844 in 
Harper’s Ferry, Va. In 1870 he was elect¬ 
ed a delegate in the Virginia state leg¬ 
islature, and in 1872 was elected state 
senator. In 1874 he moved to Charleston, 
W. Va., and in 1876 was again elected to 
the lower house of the state legislature, 
and was elected a third time in 1880. Dur¬ 
ing the latter term he was elected, and 
serVed as speaker of the house of dele¬ 
gates. In 1884 he was elected governor of 
West Virginia. 


WILSON, EDGAR, lawyer, legislator, 
ongressman, was born Feb. 25, 1861, in 
Armstrong county. Pa. He graduated in 
1884 from Michigan 
university school of 
law. For two years 
he was district at¬ 
torney of Ada coun¬ 
ty, Idaho. In 1886- 
88 he was a member 
of the constitutional 
convention, and in 
1890 was elected a 
member of the fifty- 
fourth congress, rep¬ 
resenting the state of 
Idaho at large. 
WILSON, EDGAR C., congressman, was 
urn in Virginia. He was a representa- 
ve in congress from Virginia from 1833 
i 1835. He died in May, 1860, in Mor- 
mtown, Va. 



WILSON, EPHRAIM KING, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Dec. 22, 1821, in Snow Hill, 
Md. He was a representative in the Mary¬ 
land legislature in 1847, and was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1852. He was elected a 
representative from Maryland to the for¬ 
ty-second congress; was judge of the 
first judicial circuit of Maryland from 1878 
to 1884, and in 1884 was elected a United 
States senator from Maryland for the 
term ending March 3, 1891. He died Feb. 
24, 1891, in Washington, D. C. 

WILSON, ERVIN A., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Nov. 23, 1856, in Lehi, Utah. He 
has filled numerous positions of honor in 
Provo City, Utah; was superintendent of 
schools of his county; president board of 
education; and in 1896 was elected for a 
term of five years as judge of the fourth 
district court of state of Utah. 

WILSON, EUGENE M., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Dec. 25, 1833, in Mor¬ 
gan county, Va. He was United States 
district attorney for Minnesota from 1857 
to 1861, and served as a captain in the 
war for the union. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Minnesota to the forty- 
first congress as a democrat. He prac¬ 
tices law in Minneapolis. 

WILSON, FRANCIS HENRY, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Westmoreland, 
N. Y. He took a prominent part in the 
organization of the Union League club of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., of which organization 
he was president for four successive years. 
He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. In 1897 he was appointed 
postmaster of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

WILSON, GEORGE HENRY, musical 
writer, was born Feb. 18, 1854, in Law¬ 
rence, Mass. He is the musical critic of 
the Boston Traveler, and in 1883 began the 
Boston Musical Year-Book, the title of 
which w r as changed in 1886 to the Musical 
Year-Book of the United States. Since 
1885 he has prepared annually an analyti¬ 
cal and historical programme of the con¬ 
certs of the Boston symphony orchestra. 

WILSON, GEORGE W., soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 
22, 1840, in Brighton, Ohio. He received 

__ _ his education in the 

common schools and 
at Antioch college. 

*862 k e enlisted in 
the ninety-fourth 
regiment, Ohio vol¬ 
unteer infantry for 
three years; was 
commissioned second 
and first lieutenant; 
and in 1864 was com¬ 
missioned first lieu¬ 
tenant in the first 
regiment of United 
States veteran volunteer engineers. In 
1866 he was elected prosecuting attorney 
for Madison county, Ohio, and received 
the re-election two years later. In 1871 
he was elected a member of the Ohio 
general assembly, and in 1877 was elected 
to the state senate. In 1892 he was elect¬ 
ed to the fifty-third congress as a re¬ 
publican; and in 1894 was re-elected to 
the fifty-fourth congress. In 1896 he was 
a delegate to the republican national con¬ 
vention. 

WILSON. GEORGE WEST, journalist, 
was born May 10, 1859, in Boohe county, 
Ky. He has been United States collector 
of internal revenue for the district of 
Florida; chairman and secretary of vari¬ 
ous democratic campaign committees in 
Florida; president of the Ocala exposi¬ 
tion, and executive officer in many enter¬ 
prises. He is now the editor and owner 
of the Florida Citizen of Jacksonville. 




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WILSON, GILBERT LORD, writer, 
poet, was born March 4, 1856, in Center 
Point, Iowa. He is a member of the 
American Association of Writers, a close 
student, and has a thorough knowledge of 
Greek, Latin, German and Hebrew. He 
has taken numerous prizes in literary con¬ 
tests; is a constant contributor to the 
best publications; is a poet of acknowl¬ 
edged excellence, and his poems can be 
found in Poets of America, and other 
standard works. 

WILSON, GUSTAVUS JAMES NASH, 
soldier, educator, was born Oct. 16, 1827, 
in Harmony Grove, Ga. Since his youth 
he has been princi¬ 
pally engaged in ed¬ 
ucational work, and 
was associated with 
some of the most 
successful institu¬ 
tions of learning in 
Jackson county in 
ante-bellum days. 
During the war he 
served in the confed¬ 
erate army as an of¬ 
ficer in company E, 
thirty-fourth Georgia 
regiment. For nearly ten years subse¬ 
quent to the war he devoted most of his 
time to mechanics and machinery, but in 
1871 he was elected county superintendent 
of schools, which position he has filled 
for twenty-eight years. He is prominent 
in public affairs; owns one of the largest 
private libraries in the state of Georgia, 
and resides in his native county at Jef¬ 
ferson, in a beautiful residence built by 
himself. 

WILSON, HENRY, vice-president of the 
United States, was born Feb. 16, 1812, in 
Farrington, N. H. He was an energetic 
laborer in the anti¬ 
slavery cause, and 
for many years was 
a member of the na¬ 
tional senate. In 1872 
he was elected vice- 
president of the Uni¬ 
ted States. He was 
the author of His¬ 
tory of Anti-Slavery 
Measures; and Rise 
and Fall of the Slave 
Power in America. 
The name of his 
father was Colbath, but he was adopted 
by a man named Wilson, which name he 
retained. He died in the capitol at Wash¬ 
ington, Nov. 22, 1875. 

WILSON, HENRY, congressman, was 
born in Dauphin county, Pa. He was a 
representative in congress from Pennsyl¬ 
vania from 1823 to 182-6. He died Aug. 14, 
1826, in Allentown, Pa. 

WILSON, HENRY H., educator, lawyer, 
lecturer, was born Jan. 1, 1854, in San¬ 
dusky, Ohio. He received his education 
in the public schools 
of Ohio; the State 
Normal school o f 
Peru, Neb., and in 
1878 graduated from 
the State university 
at Lincoln, Neb. For 
two years he was 
principal of the High 
school of Seward, 
Neb.; was admitted 
to the bar in 1881; 
has lectured on evi¬ 
dence in the law de¬ 
partment of the university of Nebraska 
since 1892, and since 1891 has been presi¬ 
dent of the Lancaster Bar association. He 
is a thirty-three cjegree Mason; has been 
grand master of Masons of Nebraska, and 
is prominent in various fraternal orders. 


WILSON, HENRY ISAIAH, educator, 
musician, lawyer, was born April 10, 1869, 
near Wellsboro, Pa. He has attained suc¬ 
cess as a school teacher, teacher of music 
and instructor of bands and orchestras. 
He is a composer of several well-known 
pieces for bands and the violin, and has 
the reputation of being one of the best 
euphonium soloists in the state of Penn¬ 
sylvania. In 1892 he was admitted to the 
bar, and has since practiced that profes¬ 
sion in Big Run, Pa. 

WILSON, HENRY STEWART, railroad 
president, was born July 5, 1829, in Dau¬ 
phin county, Pa. In 1895 he became presi¬ 
dent of the Cairo and Kanawha railway at 
Parkersburg, W. Va, 

WILSON, ISAAC, soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman. He was elec¬ 
ted a member of the assembly of New 
York, and also of the senate. He was 
elected a representative in congress in 
1823, and at the end of his term was ap¬ 
pointed first judge of Genesee county. He 
died Oct. 25, 1848, in Batavia, Ill. 

WILSON, JAMES, signer of the declar¬ 
ation of independence, was born Sept. 14, 
1742, in Scotland. He was a delegate to 
the continental congress from 1775 to li78, 
in 1782 and 1783, and from 1785 to 1787. He 
was a signer of the declaration of inde¬ 
pendence. When not in congress he acted 
as advocate-general for the French na¬ 
tion. In 1789 he was appointed a justice 
of the supreme court of the United States. 
He died Aug. 28, 1798, in Edenton, N. C. 

WILSON, JAMES, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in 1757. He was a lawyer by 
profession; and was a representative in 
congress from New Hampshire from 1809 
to 1811. He died Jan. 4, 1839, in Keene, 
N. H. 

WILSON, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 28, 1779, in 
York county, Pa. From 1811 to 1822 he 
was a justice of the peace. He was a rep¬ 
resentative from Pennsylvania to the 
eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth con¬ 
gresses, and was again elected a justice of 
the peace, the duties of which office he 
continued to fill until 1859. 

WILSON, JAMES, soldier, congressman, 
was born April 9, 1822, in Crawfordsville, 
Ind. He went to Mexico in 1846 as a pri¬ 
vate in the Indiana regiment, and before 
his return home was promoted to the of¬ 
fice of quartermaster. He was elected a 
representative from Indiana to the thirty- 
fifth congress, and was re-elected to the 
thirty-sixth congress. In 1866 he was ap¬ 
pointed minister resident to Venezuela. 
He died in August, 1867. 

WILSON, JAMES, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, was born in New 
Hampshire. He was speaker of the New 
Hampshire state house of representatives 
in 1828, and in the legislature a number 
of years. He practiced law at Keene; was 
a generhl of militia, and was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from New Hampshire 
from 1847 to 1849. He died May 29, 1881, 
in California. 

WILSON, JAMES, agriculturist, con¬ 
gressman, cabinet officer, was born Aug. 
16, 1835, in Scotland. In 1855 he moved 
to Iowa, locating in Tama county, where, 
as early as 1861 he engaged in farming on 
his own account. He was elected to the 
state legislature, and served in the twelfth, 
thirteenth, and fourteenth general assem¬ 
blies, being speaker of the house in the 
last-mentioned assembly. He was elected 
to congress in 1872, and served in the 
forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-eighth 
congresses. From 1870 to 1874 he was a 
regent of the state university, and made 
secretary of agriculture March 5, 1897. He 
was elected to the fifty-third congress. 


WILSON, JAMES BENJAMIN, lawyer, 
lecturer, was born Feb. 22, 1859, in Owen 
county, Ind. He received his education 
in the public schools of Spencer, Ind.; 
and subsequently attended tne State uni¬ 
versity at Bloomington, in which institu¬ 
tion he has been assistant tutor in the 
law school. He has attained success as 
an able lawyer of Bloomington, Ind.; has 
taken a leading part in republican politics, 
and has attained success as a platform 
speaker and public lecturer. 

WILSON, JAMES F„ state senator, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born Oct. 19, 1828, in Newark, Ohio. He 
was a member of the Iowa state constitu¬ 
tional convention of 1856, and was a rep¬ 
resentative in the state legislature in 1857. 
In 1859 he was elected state senator, serv¬ 
ing as president of the senate in 1861. 
In the latter year he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Iowa to the thirty-seventh 
congress to fill a vacancy, and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth 
and fortieth congresses. In 1869 he was 
appointed a commissioner for the Pacific 
railroad. He was elected a United States 
senator from Iowa for six years from 
March 4, 1883, and was re-elected in 1888, 
and served until 1895. 

WILSON, JAMES GRANT, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born April 28, 1832, in Edin¬ 
burg, Scotland, in 1857 he established the 
first literary paper in 
Chicago. He raised 
a battalion of caval¬ 
ry, and was commis¬ 
sioned major of the 
fifteenth Illinois cav¬ 
alry. He was subse¬ 
quently aide-de-camp 
on the staff of Gen¬ 
eral Banks, and was 
brevetted brigadier 
for gallantry in the 
field. Since that time 
he has pursued a lit¬ 
erary career in New lork city. In 1897 he 
published a valuable life of General Grant, 
with whom he was intimate for a quarter 
of a century. He erected statues in Cen¬ 
tral park to his friend, Fitz-Greene Hal- 
leck, and in 1892 to Christopher Colum¬ 
bus. Besides editing Appleton’s Cyclope¬ 
dia of American Biography, he has pub¬ 
lished Poets and Poetry of Scotland; Mr. 
Secretary Pepys and His Diary; Love in 
Letters; Bryant and His Friends; Centen¬ 
nial History of the Drama of New York; 
Life of General Grant; Life of Fitz- 
Greene Halleck; and Sketches of Illustri¬ 
ous Soldiers. 

WILSON, JAMES HARRISON, soldier, 
author, was born Sept. 2, 1837, near Shaw- 
neetown, Ill. He was educated at the 
common schools, at 
McKendree college, 
and at the United 
States Military acad¬ 
emy. He graduated 
from the latter insti¬ 
tution in 1860, and 
after serving in vari¬ 
ous grades, was bre¬ 
vetted major-general 
for gallant and meri¬ 
torious services i n 
the capture of Fort 
Pulaski, the battles of 
Chattanooga, the Wilderness, and Nash¬ 
ville, and the capture of Selma, and was 
honorably discharged at his own request 
on Dec. 31, 1870. Since that time he has 
been largely engaged in railroad and en¬ 
gineering operations. He is the author 
of China; Life of Andrew J. Alexander; 
Travels and Investigations in the Mid¬ 
dle Kingdom; and also, in conjunction 
with Charles A. Dana, The Life of Gen. U. 
S. Grant. 















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WILSON, JAMES JEFFERSON, jour¬ 
nalist, United States senator, was born in 
1775 in Essex county, N. J. He was a sen¬ 
ator in congress from New Jersey from 
1815 to 1821, when he resigned, and was 
appointed postmaster at Trenton. He was 
at one time adjutant-general of the state. 
He died July 28, 1824, in Trenton, N. J. 

WILSON, JAMES PATRIOT, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Feb. 21, 1769, in 
Lewes, Del. He was a presbyterian cler¬ 
gyman of Philadelphia, and the author of 
Lectures on the Parables; Essay on 
Grammar; Common Objections to Chris¬ 
tianity; and Easy Introduction to Hebrew. 
He died in 1830. 

WILSON, JEREMIAH M„ lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1828, 
in Warren county, Ohio. He was judge of 
common pleas from 1860 to 1865, and was 
judge of the circuit court from 1865 until 
elected from Ohio to the forty-second con¬ 
gress. He was re-elected to the forty- 
third congress. 

WILSON, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born in 1588 in England. He was a 
puritan clergyman, the first pastor in 
Boston, and long prominent in the eccle¬ 
siastical and civil affairs of the colony. 
He was the author of Some Helps to 
Faith; Famous Deliverances of the Eng¬ 
lish Nation, a poem; and The Day Break¬ 
ing if not the Sun Rising of the Gospel 
with the Indians in New England. He 
died Aug. 7, 1667, in Boston, Mass. 

WILSON, JOHN, congressman, was born 
in 1777. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Massachusetts from 1813 to 
1816, and from 1817 to 1818. He died July 
9, 1848, in Belfast, Maine. 

WILSON, JOHN, congressman, was 
born in York, S. C. He was a presi¬ 
dential elector in 1809, and was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from South Carolina 
from 1821 to 1827. 

WILSON, JOHN, printer, author, was 
born April 16, 1802, in Scotland. He was 
a Scottish printer who came to America in 
1846, and established himself in the print¬ 
ing business in Cambridge. A Treatise on 
English Punctuation is his best-known 
work, but he wrote others on Scripture 
Proofs of Unitarianism; The Concessions 
of Trinitarians; and Unitarian Principles 
Confirmed. He died aug. 3, 1868, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

WILSON, JOHN A. B., clergyman, was 
born in 1848, in Delaware. He entered 
the ministry at the age of twenty, and 
for nine years was known as the phenom¬ 
enal presiding elder of methodism. In 1892 
he went to New York and became noted 
as a great clergyman, reformer and foun¬ 
der of the Co-operato, a home for self- 
supporting working girls. During 1895- 
97 he was in charge of the First church 
of Los Angeles, Cal., and is now pastor of 
the Howard Street Methodist church of 
San Francisco. 

WILSON, JOHN GROVER, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1810 in Miuuletown, 
Del. He was a Philadelphia clergyman, 
originally of the methodist episcopal de¬ 
nomination, but after 1855 the church of 
which he was pastor was known as the 
Ebenezer Independent church. Among his 
various works are, Discourses on Pro¬ 
phecy; Writings in Prose and Verse; The 
Sabbath and Its Law; and Atheism and 
Theism. He died Feb. 20, 1885, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

WILSON, JOHN HENRY, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Jan. 30, 
1846. He was elected to the Kentucky 
state senate in 1883 for a term of four 
years, and was elected to the fifty-first 
congress as a republican. 


WILSON, JOHN L., congressman, Unit¬ 
ed States senator, was born Aug. 7, 1850, 
in Crawfordsville, Ind. He was elected a 
representative to the state legislature of 
Indiana in 1880 from Montgomery county. 
He was appointed receiver of public mon¬ 
eys at Spokane and served four years; and 
was elected to the fifty-first congress as a 
republican, being the. first member of 
congress elected from the state of Wash¬ 
ington. He was unanimously renominat¬ 
ed and re-elected to the fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses, and while serving 
as a member of the fifty-third congress, 
was elected to the United States senate 
to fill a vacancy, and took his seat in 
the senate Feb. 19, 1895. His term of 
service will expire March 3, 1899. 

WILSON, JOHN LAIRD, journalist, 
author, was born Sept. 20, 1832, in Scot¬ 
land. He is a journalist of New York 
city, but prior to 1866 a united presby¬ 
terian minister in Scotland. He is the 
author of The Battles of the Civil War; 
and Life of John Wycliffe. 

WILSON, JOHN LEIGHTON, mission¬ 
ary, author, was born March 25, 1809, in 
Sumter county, S. C. He was a presby¬ 
terian missionary to Africa, and the au¬ 
thor of Western Africa: Its History, Con¬ 
dition, and Prospects (1857). He died July 
13, 1886, in Mayesville, S. C. 

WILSON, JOHN LYDE, lawyer, state 
senator, governor, author, was born May 
24, 1784, in Marlborough, S. C. He began 
to practice in Georgetown and in 1808 
he was returned to the South Carolina 
house of representatives from Prince 
George Winyaw. He was repeatedly re¬ 
elected and subsequently was chosen sen¬ 
ator. In 1822 he was made president of 
the senate, and during the same year 
elected governor and commander-in-chief. 
In 1827 he was again elected to the sen¬ 
ate. In 1838 he published a Code of Hon¬ 
or. He died Feb. 12, 1849, in Charleston, 
S. C. 

WILSON, JOHN T., soldier, agricultur¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was born 
April 16, 1811, in Highland county, Ohio. 
In 1861 he raised a company for the war, 
and was commissioned as its captain. He 
was subsequently twice elected to the Ohio 
senate. In 1866 he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative from Ohio to the fortieth con¬ 
gress, and was re-elected to the forty-first 
and forty-second congresses. 

WILSON, JOSEPH G., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Dec. 13, 1826, in Acworth, N. H. 
He moved to Oreon and in 1852 began the 
practice of law in Salem. In 1862 he was 
appointed judge of the fifth judicial dis¬ 
trict, and was elected to the same position 
in 1864. In 1872 he was elected a member 
of congress, but died before qualifying. 
He died in July, 1873, in Georgetown, 
D. C. 

WILSON, JOSEPH MILLER, civil 
engineer, was born June 20, 1838, in Phce- 
nixville, Pa. Among the important struc¬ 
tures that he has built are the Susquehan¬ 
na bridge at Harrisburg, the Schuylkill 
river bridge of the Filbert street line in 
Philadelphia, and bridges at Trenton, and 
New Brunswick, N. J. He designed the 
Drexel bank and the Drexel building in 
Philadelphia, the St. Francis de Sales In¬ 
dustrial school in Eddington, Pa., and 
other buildings. 

WILSON, LEMUEL G., educator, mer¬ 
chant, poet, was born April 30, 1836, in 
Mount Gilead, Ohio. He attended Cor¬ 
nell college for three years, and then 
engaged in educational work. He has 
been a photographer, commercial traveler 
and is now a successful merchant of Par¬ 
sons, N. D. He is the author of a num¬ 


ber of meritorious poems which have ap¬ 
peared in the periodical press, and in 
Poets of America and other standard 
works. 

WILSON, NATHAN, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York, from 1808 to 1809. 

WILSON, OBED JAY, publisher, poet, 
was born Aug. 30, 1826, in Bingham, 
Maine. In 1852 he entered the publishing 
house of Wintlirop B. Smith and Company 
as literary referee, and became at a later 
date editor-in-chief of their publications. 
In 1862 the firm made him a partner, and 
in 1869 he rose to the head of the house. 
Under the style of Wilson, Hinkle and 
Company, the firm became one of the 
largest school book publishing houses in 
the United States. In 1891 the business 
was merged in that of the American Book 
company. He has written much in prose 
and verse in an easy, graceful and forci¬ 
ble style, and owes his remarkable success 
to a combination of the qualities of a 
business man and a writer. 

WILSON, PETER, educator, author, was 
born Nov. 23, 1746, in Scotland. He was 
an educator of New York city, classical 
professor at Columbia college in 1789-92, 
and in 1797-1820; and the author of Rules 
of Latin Prosody; Introduction to Greek 
Prosody; and Compendium of Greek Pro¬ 
sody. He died Aug. 1, 1825, in New Bar- 
badoes, N. J. 

WILSON, ROBERT, United States sena¬ 
tor. He was appointed a senator in con¬ 
gress from Missouri, taking his seat in 
1861, and continued in the position until 
November, 1863. He was a delegate to 
the Philadelphia National union conven¬ 
tion of 1866. 

WILSON, ROBERT ANDERSON, law¬ 
yer, author, was born in 1812 in New 
York. He is a lawyer of California and 
the author of Mexico and Its Religion, 
reissued as Mexico, California, and Cen¬ 
tral America; and New History of the 
Conquest of Mexico. 

WILSON, ROBERT BURNS, artist, 
poet, was born in 1850 in Pennsylvania. 
He was an artist and poet of Louisville, 
and the author of Life and Love, a vol¬ 
ume of verse. 

WILSON, ROBERT G., college presi¬ 
dent, was born Dec. 30, 1768, in Lincoln 
county, N. C. In 1824 he was elected 
president of the Ohio university, serving 
until 1839. He died April 17, 1851, in 
South Salem, Ohio. 

WILSON, ROBERT P. C., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born in 
Boonville, Mo. He was one of the demo¬ 
cratic members of 
the house of repre¬ 
sentatives from Lea¬ 
venworth county in 
the first general as¬ 
sembly of Kansas, 
and during that year 
returned to Missouri. 
He was elected a 
member from Platte 
county to the twen¬ 
ty-sixth general as¬ 
sembly, and made 
speaker of the house. 
He was state senator from the third dis¬ 
trict from 1876 to 1880, and was for sev¬ 
eral years president of the Agricultural 
and Stock association of his county. He 
was elected as a democrat to fill a va¬ 
cancy in the fifty-first congress, and was 
re-elected to the fifty-second congress. 

WILSON, SAMUEL B., college presi¬ 
dent, was born about 1782. In 1847 he was 
elected president of Hampden Sidney col¬ 
lege, resigning in 1848. He died in Au¬ 
gust, 1869. 



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WILSON, SAMUEL FARMER, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born in 1805 in Con¬ 
necticut. He was a New Orleans journal¬ 
ist, and the author of History of the 
American Revolution, long a popular 
work. He died March 11, 1870, in New 
Orleans, La. 

WILSON, SAMUEL GRAHAM, mission¬ 
ary, author. He is a presbyterian mis¬ 
sionary in Persia, and the author of Per¬ 
sian Life and Customs. 

WILSON, STANYARNE, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Yorkville, S. C. He 
was elected to the South Carolina 
legislature in 1884, and to the senate in 
1892. He was a member of the state con¬ 
stitutional convention of 1895, and was 
elected to the fifty-fourth and re-eiected 
to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. 

WILSON, STEPHEN F., lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 
1821, in Columbia, Pa. He was a sen¬ 
ator in the Pennsylvania state legislature 
in 1863 and 1864, and although returned to 
the state senate, was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth 
congress, and was re-elected to the for¬ 
tieth congress as a republican. 

WILSON, T. B., business man, public 
official, was born March 5, 1832, in To- 
wanda, Pa. In 1846 he settled in Meno- 
monie, Wis. For 
many years he was 
engaged in survey¬ 
ing, and for nearly 
half a century has 
been identified with 
the business devel¬ 
opment of the state 
of Wisconsin. He 
has been postmaster 
of Menomonie, Wis., 
and filled numerous 
other public posi¬ 
tions of honor in his 
city, county and state. 

WILSON, THEODORE DELEVAN, 
architect, author, was born May 11, 1840, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a naval archi¬ 
tect of note in the government service, 
and the author of Ship Building, Theoret¬ 
ical and Practical. He died in 1896. 

WILSON, THOMAS, merchant, philan¬ 
thropist, was born Feb. 5, 1789, in Hart¬ 
ford county, Md. By his will he devoted 
$625,000 to various charities, endowing the 
Thomas Wilson sanitarium for children 
—an institution designed to take care of 
sick children during the summer months 
—with $500,000; and a fuel-saving society 
—to aid deserving poor people to purchase 
their fuel cheaply, and sewing-women to 
obtain sewing-machines at low cost—with 
$100,000. He died Sept. 2, 1879, in Balti¬ 
more, Md. 

WILSON, THOMAS, congressman, was 
born in 1771. He was a representative in 
congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 
1817. He died Oct. 4, 1824, in Erie, Pa. 

WILSON, THOMAS, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Virginia from 1811 to 1813. He died Jan. 
24, 1826. 

WILSON, THOMAS, printer, author, 
was born in 1768 in Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was a Philadelphia printer; and the au¬ 
thor of Principal American Military and 
Naval Heroes; and The Picture of Phila¬ 
delphia for 1824. He died about 1828 in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

WILSON, THOMAS, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 16, 1827, in Ire¬ 
land. He was elected district judge in 
1857, and held the office until 1864, when 
he was appointed by the governor asso¬ 
ciate justice of the supreme court of Min¬ 
nesota. He was elected chief justice of 
the state in 1864, and held the office till 


1869, when he resigned. In 1880 he was 
elected a member of the state house of 
representatives; and in 1882 was elected 
state senator, and served 1882-85. In 1886 
he was elected to the fiftieth congress as 
a democrat. 

WILSON. THOMAS BELLERBY, phy¬ 
sician, naturalist, was born Jan. 17, 1807, 
in Philadelphia. In 1832 he was elected 
to the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia, and at once took an active 
part in its proceedings. Its library was 
largely created through his liberality, and 
his collection of birds, which then ranked 
as the third in the world, was presented 
by him to the academy, of which he was 
president in 1863-64. He died March 15, 
1865, in Newark, Del. 

WILSON, THOMAS E., builder, poet, 
was born Sept. 6, 1839, in Kittery, Maine. 
Since 1870 he has been successfully en¬ 
gaged as a contractor and builder, prin¬ 
cipally in Boston, Mass. He is the au¬ 
thor of a volume of collected poems; 
and is represented in Poets of America, 
Poets of Maine, and other standard works. 

WILSON, THOMAS S„ lawyer, jurist, 
was an early emigrant to Iowa territory; 
and in 1838 was appointed United States 
judge for that district. 

WILSON, W. HASELL, railroad presi¬ 
dent, was born in 1811 in Charleston, S. C. 
Since 1884 he has been president of the 
Belvidere-Delaware railway at Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. 

WILSON, WILLIAM, congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1814 to 1819. 

WILSON, WILLIAM, congressman, was 
born in 1772 in Hillsborough county, N. H. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Ohio from 1823 to 1827. He died in 1827. 

WILSON, WILLIAM, journalist, poet, 
was born Dec. 26, 1801, in Scotland. He 
was a Scottish poet and journalist who 
became a bookseller in Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y., in 1854. He was the author of 
Poems, edited by B. J. Lossing. He died 
Aug. 25, 1860, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

WILSON, WILLIAM, lumber manufac¬ 
turer, was born Feb. 9, 1807, in Lycoming 
county, Pa. In 1832 he was a contractor 
on the Illinois Cen¬ 
tral canal; after¬ 
ward established a 
stage line between 
Burlington and Keo¬ 
kuk, Iowa, where he 
has also been a jus¬ 
tice of the peace. 
About 1846 he moved 
to Menomonie, Wis., 
and commenced lum¬ 
bering operations, 
and for over fifty 
years has been a 
successful lumber merchant and manufac¬ 
turer; and taken a prominent part in the 
public affairs of Wisconsin. 

WILSON, WILLIAM DEXTER, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Feb. 28, 
1816, in Stoddard, N. H. He is an epis¬ 
copal clergyman of Syracuse, professor of 
philosophy at Cornell university in 1868- 
86; and the author of History of the 
Reformation in England; The Church 
Identified; Psychology; The Foundations 
of Religious Belief; Elementary Treatise 
on Logic; Live Questions in Psychology 
and Metaphysics; and Introduction to the 
Study of the History of Philosophy. 

WILSON, WILLIAM LYNE, soldier, ed¬ 
ucator, lawyer, congressman, cabinet 
officer, was born May 3, 1843, in Jef¬ 
ferson county, Va. He was elected 
president of the West Virginia uni¬ 
versity in 1882. He served ' in the 
forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty- 


first, fifty-second, and fifty-third con¬ 
gresses. In the fifty-third congress he 
was chairman of the committee on ways 
and means, and had charge of the tariff 
bill in the house; and in the same con¬ 
gress he introduced and carried through 
the house of representatives the bill for 
the repeal of the Sherman law. He was 
nominated by the president as postmaster- 
general and confirmed by the senate, and 
took the oath of office on the 4th day of 
April, 1895. 

WILSON, WOODROW, educator, lectur¬ 
er, author, was born Dec. 28, 1856, in 
Staunton, Va. He has held professor¬ 
ships in Bryn Mawr college and Wesleyan 
university; and is now professor of juris¬ 
prudence in Princeton college, N. J. lie 
lias attained success as a lecturer; and is 
the author of Congressional Government: 
A Study in American Politics; The State 
Elements of Historical and Practical Poli¬ 
tics; An Old Master, and Other Political 
Essays; Division and Reunion, 1829-89; 
George Washington; and Mere Litera¬ 
ture, and Other Essays. 

WILSTACH, JOHN AUGUSTINE, law¬ 
yer, linguist, author, poet, was born July 
14, 1824, in Washington, D. C. After re¬ 
ceiving his educa¬ 
tion he studied law 
and began the prac¬ 
tice of that profes¬ 
sion in Indiana in 
1850. For ten years 
he was master in 
chancery; in 1867 
was sent to Paris as 
one of the United 
States commission¬ 
ers to the Paris Uni¬ 
versal exposition; 
and during 1867-72 
he was commissioner of emigration for the 
state of Indiana. His orations and 
speeches have frequently appeared in 
pamphlet form, and his numerous pub¬ 
lished works have been well received. He 
is the author of metrical translations of 
Virgil and Dante; Dante, the Danteans, 
and Things Dantean, a prose work; The 
Battle Forest, an epic poem; and The 
Angel and the King, and Other Poems. 
He has gradually withdrawn from the 
practice of law, and devotes his time to 
literary work and the management of 
his private estate at Lafayette, Ind. 

WILSTACH, JOSEPH WALTER, law¬ 
yer, author, was born June 28, 1857, in La¬ 
fayette, Ind. He is a lawyer of Lafayette, 
Ind.; and the author of Horatian Odes; 
and Montalembert: a Character Study. 

WILTSE, HENRY M., lawyer, legislator, 
lecturer, author, was born Jan. 7, 1852, in 
Shiawassee county, Mich. He received his 
education at the uni¬ 
versity of Michigan; 
has served with dis¬ 
tinction as a member 
of the Tennessee 
state legislature; has 
attained prominence 
as an able lawyer 
of Chattanooga; has 
been city attorney; 
assistant United 
States attorney for 
the eastern district 
of Tennessee; and 
registration commissioner of Hamilton 

county. He is a brilliant lecturer; has 

contributed extensively to legal publica¬ 

tions; is the author of the work en¬ 
titled The Moonshiners, a brief history of 
the remarkable people generally so-called; 
and another work entitled Folk-History of 
War Times. 













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WILTZ, LOUIS ALFRED, was born Jan. 
'21, 1843, in New Orleans, La. He enlisted 
as a private soldier in the confederate 
service during the civil war; was elected 
captain and became provost marshal at 
Franklin, La. In 1868 he was elected to 
the Louisiana state legislature; was elect¬ 
ed mayor of New Orleans, but did not 
serve; and in 1875 was a member of the 
legislature and speaker of the house. He 
became lieutenant-governor and president 
of the state senate; and in 1879 became 
governor of Louisiana. He died Oct. 16, 
1881, before the expiration of his term. 

WIMAN, ERASTUS, capitalist, author, 
was born April 21, 1834, in Canada. He 
was formerly a prominent capitalist of 
New York city; and the author of Chances 
of Success. 

WINANS, EDWIN B., farmer, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born May 16, 1828, in Avon, N. Y. He 
was a representative in the Michigan state 
legislature from 1861 to 1865; and in 1876 
was elected probate judge for Livingston 
county. He was elected a representative 
from Michigan to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth congress as a democrat. 

WINANS, JAMES JANUARY, lawyer, 
jurist, state senator, congressman, was 
born June 7, 1818, in Maysville, Ky. In 
1857 he was elected to the Ohio state sen¬ 
ate; and in 1863 was elected a representa¬ 
tive in the legislature. In 1864 he was 
elected a judge of the court of common 
pleas for two years; and was re-elected in 
1866 for a full term of five years. In 1868 
he was elected a representative from Ohio 
to the forty-first congress as a republican. 

WINANS, JOHN, lawyer, legislator, 
congressman, was born Sept. 27, 1831, in 
Vernon, N. J. He received a thorough 
education in the public, private schools 
and academies in New Jersey. He is one 
of the foremost lawyers in Wisconsin at 
Janesville; has been city attorney sev¬ 
eral terms; mayor of his city for two 
terms; a member of the state legislature 
several terms; and in 1882-84 served with 
distinction as a member of the forty- 
eighth congress from Wisconsin. He has 
been presidential elector several times, 
and was chairman of the convention of 
democratic clubs of the United States at 
Baltimore in 1888. 

WINANS, ROSS, inventor, author, *was 
born Oct. 7, 1796, in Vernon, N. J. He was 
an eminent inventor; and the author of 
One Religion: Many Creeds. He died 
April 11, 1877, in Baltimore, Md. 

WINANS, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 3, 1788, in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He was a pioneer of his church in 
Mississippi and Louisiana, and took a con¬ 
spicuous part in the organization of the 
methodist episcopal church, south. He 
published Discourses on Fundamental Re¬ 
ligious Subjects. He died Aug. 31, 1857, 
in Amite county, Miss. 

WINCHELL, ALEXANDER, educator, 
geologist, author, was born Dec. 31. 1824, 
in North East, Dutchess county, N. Y. He 
was a professor of geology at the univer¬ 
sity of Michigan in 1854-73 and in 1879-91; 
and the author of Sketches of Creation; 
Pre-Adamites; Doctrine of Evolution; 
World Life; Science and Religion; The 
Geology of the Stars; Thoughts on Cau¬ 
sality; Sparks from a Geologist’s Ham¬ 
mer; Geological Excursions; Geological 
Studies; and Walks and Talks in the Geo¬ 
logical Field. He died Feb. 19, 1891, in 
Ann Arbor, Mich. 

WINCHELL, JAMES MANNING, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Sept. 8, 1791, in 


North East, Dutchess county, N. Y. He 
was called to the First Baptist church in 
Boston in 1814, and remained until his 
death. He was one of the editors of the 
American Baptist Magazine, and pub¬ 
lished Jubilee Sermons: Two Discourses, 
exhibiting an Historical Sketch of the 
First Baptist Church in Boston from 1665 
to 1818; and Watts’s Psalms and Hymns, 
with a Supplement. He died Feb. 22, 1820, 
in Boston, Mass. 

WINCHELL, NEWTON HORACE, geol¬ 
ogist, author, was born Dec. 17, 1839, in 
North East, Dutchess county, N. Y. He is 
state geologist of Minnesota; and the au¬ 
thor of Geology of Minnesota; and Annual 
Reports on the Geological Natural His¬ 
tory Survey of Minnesota from 1872. 

WINCHELL, ROGER W.. educator, 
state legislator, was born Jan. 5, 1848, in 
Wyocena, Wis. He was elected in 1883 
as a member of the Washington state leg¬ 
islature. 

WINCHESTER, BOYD, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, was born Sept. 23, 
1836, in Ascension, La. In 1867 he was 
elected a Kentucky state senator. He was 
a presidential elector in 1868; and in that 
year was elected a representative from 
Kentucky to the forty-first congress. He 
was re-elected to the forty-second con¬ 
gress. In 1875 he became president of the 
Farmers’ and Drovers’ Insurance com¬ 
pany, in which position he remained until 
1877. In 1885 he was appointed minister 
resident and consul-general of the United 
States to Switzerland. 

WINCHESTER, CHARLES WESLEY, 
educator, clergyman, lecturer, author, 
was born July 2, 1843, in Westminster, Vt. 
In 1867 he graduated from the Genesee 
college, which institution was subsequent¬ 
ly absorbed into the Syracuse university; 
and has received the degrees of A. B., 
A. M., and D. D. He has filled the chair 
of Greek and German in the Fairfield sem¬ 
inary; and of Latin and Greek in the 
Cazenovia seminary. Since 1870 he has 
been a clergyman of the methodist epis¬ 
copal church; and also a presiding elder 
since that time. For eleven years he was 
secretary of the Genesee conference; trav¬ 
eled in Europe in 1890; and in 1891 was a 
member of the second ecumenical confer¬ 
ence in Washington, D. C. He has lec¬ 
tured extensively on various themes, prin¬ 
cipally on The Eight Wonders of the 
World. He is the author of The Gospel 
Kodak Abroad; The Wells of Salvation; 
and other works. 

WINCHESTER, ELHANAN, clergy¬ 
man, author, poet, was born Sept. 30, 1751, 
in Brookline, Mass. He was a universal- 
ist clergyman of Philadelphia, but in earli¬ 
er life a baptist minister. He was the au¬ 
thor of New Book of Poems on Several 
Occasions; Universal Restoration; Pro¬ 
phecies to Be Fulfilled; and Progress and 
Empire of Christ, a Poem. He died April 
18, 1797, in Hartford, Conn. 

WINCHESTER, JAMES, soldier, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born Feb. 6, 1752, in West¬ 
minster, Md. He was appointed judge of 
the district court of the United States in 
Maryland in 1799. He entered the army 
as a colonel from Tennessee in 1812; and 
was made a brigadier-general in 1813. He 
died July 27, 1826, near Gallatin, Tenn. 

WINCHESTER, OLIVER FISHER, 
manufacturer, was born Nov. 30, 1810, in 
Boston, Mass. In 1865 his company was 
reorganized as the Winchester Repeating 
Arms company in New Haven, Conn. They 
furnished many rifles for the French gov¬ 
ernment during the war with Germany 
and for Turkey in the Russo-Turkish war. 
He died* Dec. 10, 1880, in New Haven, 
Conn. 


WINDER, LEVIN, soldier, state sen¬ 
ator, governor, was born in 1756. He 
was appointed major of the Maryland 
regiment in 1777; and was a lieutenant- 
colonel at the close of the revolutionary 
war. Prior to 1812 he was speaker of 
the house of delegates, and from 1812 to 
1815 was governor of Maryland. In 1816 
he was a member of the state senate, and 
was a general of militia and grand master 
of Masons of Maryland. He died July 7, 
1819, in Baltimore, Md. 

WINDOM, WILLIAM, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, cabinet officer, United States senator, 
was born May 10, 1827, in Belmont coun¬ 
ty, Ohio. He moved to Minnesota in 1853; 
and was elected a representative from that 
state to the thirty-sixth congress. He was 
re-elected to the thirty-seventh, thirty- 
eighth and thirty-ninth congresses. He 
was re-elected to the fortieth congress, 
serving on old committees; and in 1870 
was appointed a senator in congress to 
fill a vacancy; and subsequently elected 
for the term ending in 1877. He was 
re-elected for the term ending in 1883; 
and resigned in 1881 to become secretary 
of the treasury; and was re-elected to 
fill a vacancy caused by his own resigna¬ 
tion. He died Jan. 29, 1891, in New York. 

WINEBRENNER, JOHN, clergyman, 
author, was born March 24, 1797, in Fred¬ 
erick county, Md. He was a German re¬ 
formed clergyman of Harrisburg, Pa., and 
founder in 1830 of the Church of God, a 
sect commonly known as Winebrenner- 
ians. He was the author of Regeneration; 
Practical and Doctrinal Sermons; and 
Brief Views of the Church of God. He 
died Sept. 12, 1860, in Harrisburg, Pa. 

WINES, ENOCH COBB, clergyman, phi¬ 
lanthropist, author, was born Feb. 17, 
1806, in Hanover, N. J. He was a congre¬ 
gational clergyman, widely known as a 
philanthropist, who labored extensively 
in behalf of prison reform. He was the 
author of Two and a Half Years in the 
Navy; A Trip to China; Hints on Popu¬ 
lar Education; How Shall I Govern My 
School; Commentaries on Laws of the 
Ancient Hebrews; Adam and Christ; 
Prisons and Reformatories of the United 
States and Canada; and State of Prisons 
and Child-Saving Institutions Throughout 
the World. He died Dec. 10, 1879, in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass. 

WINES, FREDERIC HOWARD, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born April 9, 1838, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was formerly a pres- 
byterian clergyman, but now devoted in 
official and private capacities to various 
reforms connected with the defective, de¬ 
pendent, and criminal classes. He is the 
author of Punishment and Reformation, 
an Historical Sketch of the Rise of the 
Penitentiary System; and The Liquor 
Problem in Its Legislative Aspects. 

WINFIELD, CHARLES H., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born April 22, 1822, in 
Crawford, N. Y. He was for six years 
district attorney for Orange county from 
1850 to 1856; and in 1862 was elected a 
representative from ‘ New York to the 
thirty-eighth congress. He was re-elected 
to the thirty-ninth congress as a demo¬ 
crat. 

WINFIELD, CHARLES HARDEN- 
BERG, lawyer, legislator, author, was 
born Nov. 8, 1829, in Deer Park, N. Y. 
Since 1883 he has been prosecutor of the 
pleas in Hudson county, N. J. During 
1886-89 he was a member of the state sen¬ 
ate of New Jersey. He is the author of 
Land Titles of Hudson County, N. J.; and 
a history of that county; Major Lee’s 
Capture of Paulus Hook in 1779; Mono¬ 
graph on the Founding of Jersey City; 
History of Hoboken; and other works. 


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WING, AUSTIN E., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in 1792 in Berk¬ 
shire county, Mass. He was a delegate 
to congress from the territory of Michi¬ 
gan from 1828 to 1832. He died Aug. 
25, 1849, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

WING, CONWAY PHELPS, clergyman, 
author, was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Mariet¬ 
ta, Ohio. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man of Carlisle, Pa., and long active as an 
abolitionist. Among his writings are 
History of Cumberland County, Pa.; and 
History of the Presbyteries of York and 
Carlisle. He died May 7, 1889, in Carlisle, 
Pa. 

WING, GEORGE CLARY, lawyer, was 
born April 4, 1848, in Bloomfield, Ohio. 
He received his education at the Phillips 
academy; attended Harvard college dur¬ 
ing 1867-71, receiving the degree of A. B.; 
and in 1872-73 at the law department of 
the Georgetown university, graduating 
with the degree of LL. B. For several 
years he was employed in the United 
States department of justice at Washing¬ 
ton, D. C.; from 1879-83 was attorhey 
for the government in the defense of suits 
in the court of claims; thereafter was 
chief of the diplomatic bureau of the 
United States department of state until 
1884; since which time he has practiced 
law with success in Cleveland, Ohio. 

WING, GEORGE CURTIS, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, was born April 16, 1847, in Liver¬ 
more, Maine. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1868. He 
practiced law for 
two years at Lisbon 
Falls and in March, 
1870, removed to Au- 
burn where he 
formed a co-part¬ 
nership with the 
Hon. Nahum Morrill. 
He served on the su¬ 
perintending school 
committee of Au¬ 
burn in 1872 and 
1873; and was city 
solicitor in 1878-87. He was one of the 
incorporators of the Shoe and Leather 
bank in 1875, and has been one of its 
directors ever since. He was elected 
county attorney for the county of Andro¬ 
scoggin in 1872, and judge of probate in 
1875 and 1879, and was appointed judge 
of probate for the year 1885. He was 
chairman of the republican state commit¬ 
tee in 1884, and in that year was chair¬ 
man of the republican state delegation to 
the convention at Chicago. He served on 
the staffs of Governors Bodwell and Mar¬ 
ble. In 1885 he took a prominent part in 
the formation of the Maine Benefit asso¬ 
ciation, was elected its president and has 
been re-elected ever since. At the pres¬ 
ent time he is vice-president of the Au¬ 
burn Trust company, president of the Au¬ 
burn board of trade and one of the direc¬ 
tors of the Portland and Rumford Falls 
railway. 

WINGARD, SAMUEL CYRUS, lawyer, 
jurist, state legislator, was born Aug. 6, 
1825, in Huntingdon county, Pa. He 
served two terms as a representative in 
the Pennsylvania state legislature. He 
moved to Washington territory in 1870; 
and in 1872 was appointed United States 
attorney for that territory. In 1875 he 
was appointed an associate justice of the 
supreme court of the territory, and con¬ 
tinued in that position by reappointment. 

WINGATE, CHARLES EDWARD 
LEWIS, journalist, author, was born in 
1861 in New Hampshire. He was a Bos¬ 
ton journalist; and the author of Shake¬ 
speare’s Heroines on the Stage. 


WINGATE, CHARLES FREDERICK, 
civil engineer, author, was born March 5, 
1847, in New York city. He was a sani¬ 
tary engineer of New York city; and the 
author of Views and Interviews on Jour¬ 
nalism; Plumbing and House Drainage; 
and Twilight Tracts. 

WINGATE, GEORGE WOOD, soldier, 
lawyer, author, was born July 1, 1840, 
in New York city. He is a lawyer and 
soldier; and the author of Last Cam¬ 
paign of the Twenty-Second Regiment; 
Manual of Rifle Practice; and On Horse¬ 
back Through the Yellowstone. 

WINGATE, JOSEPH F., state legislator, 
congressman, was born in Massachusetts. 
He was a member of the legislature of 
Massachusetts in 1818 and 1819; and was 
collector of customs at Bath, Maine, from 
1820 to 1824. He was a member of the 
Maine legislature in 1825 and 1826; and 
was a representative in congress from 
Maine from 1827 to 1831. 

WINGATE, PAINE, clergyman, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, United States sen¬ 
ator, was born May 14, 1739, in Amesbury, 
Mass. He was ordained as a congrega¬ 
tional minister at Hampton Falls, N. H., 
in 1763. He was appointed a member of 
congress under the confederation in 1787; 
and after the adoption of the constitution 
was elected a member of the United States 
senate in 1789, and served until 1793, when 
he was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress, serving until 1795. In 1798 he was 
appointed a judge of the superior court of 
New Hampshire, and continued in office 
until 1809, when he attained the age of 
seventy. He died March 7, 1838, in 
Stratham, N. H. 

WINGER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
lawyer, journalist, was born Nov. 27, 1835, 
in Pennsylvania. He served as a union 
soldier during the civil war, and became 
lieutenant-colonel of the one hundred and 
twelfth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer 
infantry. In 1868 he served as a member 
of the Pennsylvania house of representa¬ 
tives; and for a quarter of a century has 
been editor and owner of The Press of 
Greencastle, Pa. 

WINGFIELD, JOHN HENRY DUCA- 
CHET, clergyman, bishop, was born Sept. 
24, 1833, in Portsmouth, Va. In 1874 he 
was consecrated bishop of northern Cali¬ 
fornia. He is also the president of the 
St. Augustine college and the St. Mary’s 
college, and rector of St. Paul’s church of 
Benicia, Cal. 

WINKLER. EDWIN THEODORE, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Nov. 13, 1823, in 
Savannah, Ga. In 1872 he took charge of 
the baptist church in Marion, Ala., and in 
1874 he was made editor-in-chief of the 
Alabama Baptist. He was the author of a 
catechism for the instruction of colored 
people, and of several published sermons, 
addresses and essays. He died Nov. 10, 
1883, in Marion, Ala. 

WINN, THOMAS ELISHA, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born May 21, 1839, 
in Clarke county, Ga. He was elected ko- 
licitor of the county court of Milton coun¬ 
ty, Ga. He entered the confedei’ate army 
as first lieutenant in 1861; and was soon 
promoted to captain, afterward major, and 
finally lieutenant-colonel, twenty-fourth 
Georgia regiment, serving with Lee’s army 
until the surrender. He was elected to 
the fifty-second congress as an alliance 
man and democrat. 

WINNE, SCOTT E., financier, lawyer, 
was born June 29, 1863, in Haskinville, 
N. Y. For ten years he was special agent 
and adjuster of the German Insurance 
company of Freeport, Ill.; has been finan¬ 
cial correspondent of the Union Central 


Life Insurance company of Cincinnati, 
Ohio; and since 1890 has been president 
of the Winne Mortgage Trust company 
of Wichita, Kan., where he has also an 
extensive law practice. 

WINNER, SEPTIMIUS, composer, was 
born May 11, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He is the author of What Is Home With¬ 
out a Mother; Listen to the Mocking- 
Bird; and among his other publications 
are rudimentary instruction books, guides 
and primers for various instruments. 

WINSER, HENRY JACOB, journalist, 
author, was born Nov. 23, 1833, in Ba¬ 
varia. He was a journalist of New York 
city, and subsequently of Newark, N. J.; 
and United States consul at Sonneburg, 
Germany, in 1869-81. He was the author of 
The Great Northwest; The Yellowstone 
National Park; and The Seat of a Thou¬ 
sand Industries, a description of Newark. 

WINSHIP, ALBERT EDWARD, jour¬ 
nalist, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 24, 
1845, in West Bridgewater, Mass. For 
several years he was 
editor-in-chief of the 
Boston Evening 
Traveler; and is now 
the editor of the 
Journal of Education 
of Boston, Mass. He 
is well known as a 
lecturer and as a 
public speaker on 
educational, political 
and philanthropic 
subjects; and is the 
author of Life of 
Horace Mann; Methods and Principles 
in Bible Study; The Shop; Waifs; Our 
Industries; Educational Leaders; and 
other works. He was the first president 
of the Educational Press association; was 
president of the New England Press as¬ 
sociation in 1897; and the same year was 
also president of the American Institute of 
Instruction, the oldest educational asso¬ 
ciation of America. He has served on 
the Massachusetts republican state com¬ 
mittee, and on the executive committee; 
and was a delegate from Massachusetts 
to the national republican convention of 
1896. 

WINSLOW, A., lawyer, orator, was born 
Feb. 4, 1848, in Geneva county, Ala. He 
received his education in his native state 
at the Clintonville and Midway academ¬ 
ies. He has been justice of the peace; 
United States commissioner for the west¬ 
ern district of Texas; and master in 
chancery of the district court. He is a 
lawyer of ability and an orator of dis¬ 
tinction; and takes a prominent part in 
the public affairs of Laredo, Texas. 

WINSLOW, BENJAMIN DAVIS, cler¬ 
gyman, author, poet, was born Feb. 13, 
1815, in Boston, Mass. He was ordained 
deacon in 1838, and priest in 1839. His 
Sermons and Poetical Remains were ed¬ 
ited by Bishop Doane, who prefixed a 
notice entitled The True Catholic Church¬ 
man in His Life and Death. He died Nov. 
21, 1839, in Burlington, N. J. 

WINSLOW, MRS. CATHERINE MARY 
[REIGNOLDS], actress, author, was born 
about 1830 in England. She is a popular 
actress of Boston, and since her retire¬ 
ment from the stage well known as a 
public reader. She is the author of Yes¬ 
terdays with Actors; and Readings from 
the Old English Dramatists. 

WINSLOW, MRS. CELESTE M. A., au¬ 
thor, poet, was born Nov. 22, 1837, In 
Charlemont, Mass. She is the author of 
a volume of poems; and her contributions 
of both prose and verse have appeared in 
Scribner’s, Lippincott’s and other leading 
publications. 








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WINSLOW, CHARLES FREDERICK, 
physician, author, was born in 1811 in 
Nantucket, Mass. He was the author of 
Cosmography; The Cooling Globe; and 
Force and Nature. He died in 1877. 

WINSLOW, EDWARD, governor, au- 
, thor, was born Oct. 18, 1595, in England. 
He was a notable member of the Plymouth 
colony who succeeded Bradford as gov¬ 
ernor of that colony in 1633. He was the 
author of Good Newes from New England; 
Hypocrisy Unmasked; New England’s 
Salamander; and The Glorious Progress 
of the Gospel Among the Indians of New 
England. He died May 8, 1655, at sea. 

WINSLOW, EDWARD, governor of 
New Brunswick, was born in 1746 in 
Plymouth. He settled in New Bruhswick, 
was a member of the first council of that 
colony, and, successively, surrogate-gen¬ 
eral, judge of the supreme court, and gov¬ 
ernor of the province. He died in 1815. 

WINSLOW, EDWARD FRANCIS, sol¬ 
dier, railroad president, was born Sept. 
28, 1837, in Augusta, Maine. He was elect¬ 
ed president of the St. Louis and San 
Francisco Railway company in 1880. He 
was also for several years president of 
the New York, Ontario and Western Rail¬ 
way company, and formed an association 
for the purpose of building the West Shore 
railway, which he completed in about 
three years. 

WINSLOW, MISS HELEN M., author, 
poet, was born April 13, 1851, in West- 
field, Vt. She was one of the founders of 
the New England Woman’s Press associa¬ 
tion, and has been its treasurer since its 
foundation. She has done journalistic 
work on many of the leading Boston pub¬ 
lications; and is the author of The Shaw- 
sheen Mills; Jack; A Bohemian Chapter; 
and other novels; and her poems have 
been a valuable acquisition to current 
literature. 

WINSLOW, HOMER, artist, was born 
Feb. 24, 1836, in Boston, Mass. His 
Prisoners to the Front, exhibited in the 
Paris exposition, was one of the few 
American pictures which French artists 
would recognize, and made his name 
famous. 

WINSLOW, HORACE SPENCER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, was born July 18, 1837, in 
Pittsford, Vt. He received his education 
in the common 
schools and acad¬ 
emies of Vermont; 
and graduated from 
the State and Na¬ 
tional Law school of 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 
and the Ohio State 
and Union Law 
school of Poland, 
Ohio. He has at¬ 
tained success as 
one of the foremost 
lawyers of Iowa at 
Newton. He has served as district attor¬ 
ney of the sixth district of Iowa; has 
been judge of the second circuit of the 
sixth district of Iowa, and judge of the 
same district. He was appointed code 
commissioner by the supreme court, under 
act of the twenty-fifth general assembly 
of the Iowa state legislature. 

WINSLOW, HUBBARD, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Oct. 30, 1799, in Williston, 
Vt. He was a presbyterian clergyman 
who held charges in Boston and other lo¬ 
calities, and among whose writings are 
Hidden Life; Moral Philosophy; Doctrine 
of the Trinity; Controversial Theology; 
Christian Doctrines; Young Man’s Aid 
to Knowledge, a very popular work; and 
Intellectual Philosophy. He died Aug. 13, 
1864, in Williston, Vt. 

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WINSLOW, JOHN, soldier, was born 
Oct. 29, 1753, in Boston, Mass. In 1799 
he was elected brigadier-general of the 
Boston brigade, and in 1809 chosen by the 
legislature major-general of the militia. 
He died Nov. 29, 1819, in Boston, Mass. 

WINSLOW, JOHN, soldier, a descend¬ 
ant of Governor Winslow, of Pilgrim 
fame, was born May 27, 1702, in Marsh¬ 
field, Mass. He was founder of the town 
of Winslow, in Maine, and principal actor 
in the expulsion of the Acadians from 
their homes in 1755. He died April 17, 
1774, in Hingham, Mass. 

WINSLOW. JOHN ANCRUM, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born Nov. 19, 1811, in Wilming¬ 
ton, N. C. He was commander of the 
Kearsarge, which on June 19, 1864, en¬ 
countered and sunk the confederate cruis¬ 
er Alabama off the coast of France. He 
died Sept. 29, 1873, in Boston, Mass. 

WINSLOW, JOHN BRADLEY, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Oct. 4, 1851, in Living¬ 
ston county, N. Y. In 1871 he graduated 
from the Racine col¬ 
lege of Wisconsin; 
and in 1875 gradu¬ 
ated from the law 
department of the 
university of Wis¬ 
consin. In 1883 he 
was elected circuit 
judge of the first ju¬ 
dicial circuit; and 
was re-elected and 
served until 1891. He 
was then appointed 
associate justice of 
the supreme court; and in 1895 was re¬ 
elected for a full term. In 1889 he was ap¬ 
pointed special lecturer on criminal prac¬ 
tice in the college of Law of the univer¬ 
sity of Wisconsin. 

WINSLOW, JOHN FLACK, manufac¬ 
turer, railroad president, was born Nov. 
5, 1810, in Bennington, Vt. In 1833 he 
engaged in the production of pig-iron in 
Bergen and Sussex counties, N. J., and in 
1837 he formed a connection with Erastfis 
Corning of Albany which lasted under va¬ 
rious firm names for thirty years. The 
United States government contracted with 
his firm for the construction of the Moni¬ 
tor, which was begun in 1861 at Green- 
point, Long Island, and was launched in 
1862. He has been president of the Pough¬ 
keepsie and Eastern railway, and of the 
company for constructing the Pough¬ 
keepsie bridge over Hudson river. He 
died March 10, 1892, in Poughkeepsie. 

WINSLOW, JOSIAH, governor, was 
born in 1629 in Plymouth, Mass. Two 
years after his father’s death he was 
made assistant governor of Massachu¬ 
setts, which post he filled till his elec¬ 
tion in 1673 as governor, which office he 
held till his death. He died Dec. 18, 1680, 
in Marshfield, Mass. 

WINSLOW, MIRON, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born Dec. 11, 1789, in Williston, 
Vt. He was a presbyterian missionary 
in Ceylon and Madras; and the author of 
Hints on Missions to India; Sketch of the 
Missions; and Comprehensive Tamil and 
English Dictionary. He died Oct. 22, 1864, 
at Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. 

WINSLOW, NEVA ELIZABETH, artist, 
poet, was born Aug. 4, 1873, in Centralia, 
Wis. In 1882 she moved to Iowa; and is 
financial secretary in the I. O. G. T. lodge 
of Bailey. She is an artist of ability, and 
has received a medal; is a correspondent 
for various publications; and her poems 
have appeared in several standard works. 

WINSLOW, STEPHEN NOYES, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born April 14, 1826, in 
Hartland, Vt. He is a Philadelphia jour¬ 
nalist; and the author of Biographies of 
Successful Philadelphia Merchants. 



WINSLOW, WARREN, lawyer, state 
senator, congressman, governor, was born 
Jan. 1, 1810, in Fayetteville, N. C. In 1854 
he was appointed a confidential agent to 
Madrid on business connected with the 
Black Warrior affair; and during his ab¬ 
sence abroad was nominated for the sen¬ 
ate of North Carolina. He was elected a 
member thereof, and placed in the chair 
of speaker; and while in that position 
Governor Reid was elected to the United 
States senate, and the duties of governor 
devolved upon him. He was elected to 
the thirty-fourth congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth 
congresses. He died June 11, 1862, in 
Fayetteville, N. C. 

WINSLOW, WILLIAM COPLEY, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born Jan. 13, 1840, in 
Boston, Mass. In 1862 he graduated from 
Hamilton college, 
and three years later 
from the Protestant 
Episcopal General 
Theological semin¬ 
ary of New York 
city. He has since 
been engaged in 
preaching, lecturing, 
and writing for the 
press; was assistant 
editor of the New 
York World in 1862- 
63, and of the Chris¬ 
tian Union in 1864. Since 1870 he has 
resided in Boston, and through his efforts 
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts received 
a colossal statue of Rameses II. He is 
the vice-president for the United States 
of the Egypt exploration fund; is its 
honorary secretary; and is regarded as 
an authority on biblical and particularly 
Egyptological explorations. He is the 
author of Israel in Egypt; The Store City 
of Pithom; A Greek City in Egypt; and 
The Pilgrim Fathers in Holland. 

WINSOR, JUSTIN, librarian, author, 
was born Jan. 2, 1831, in Boston, Mass. 
He is librarian of Harvard university. He 
has edited The Memorial History of Bos¬ 
ton; and Narrative and Critical History 
of America. His original works include 
Reader's Handbook of the American 
Revolution; Cartier to Frontenac; Geo¬ 
graphical Discovery in the Interior of 
North America in Its Historical Rela¬ 
tions, 1534-1700; Christopher Columbus; 
The Mississippi Basin: the Struggle in 
America between England and France; 
Was Shakespeare Shapleigh?; and His¬ 
tory of Duxbury. 

WINSTANDLEY, JOHN B., legislator, 
was born in 1812 in Baltimore, Md. In 
1847 he was elected to the Indiana legis¬ 
lature from Floyd county. He was re¬ 
elected the succeeding year, and in 1849 
was elected to the senate, and served in 
that capacity three years. He was elected 
to the city council of New Albany in 1856, 
1868, 1870, and 1875, having had in all 
eight years’ experience in that body. 

WINSTON, GEORGE TAYLOR, educat¬ 
or, college president, was born Oct. 12, 
1852, in Windsor, N. C. During 1875-91 
he filled the chair of Latin in the univer¬ 
sity of North Carolina; and from 1891-96 
he was president of that institution; and 
since 1896 has been president of the uni¬ 
versity of Texas. 

WINSTON, JOHN ANTHONY, legislat¬ 
or, governor, was born Sept. 4, 1812, in 
Madison, Ala. In 1840 and 1842 he was 
chosen to the lower branch of the Ala¬ 
bama legislature, and in 1845 he was 
elected to the state senate, of which he 
was president for several years. He was 
governor of Alabama in 1853-57. He died 
Dec. 21, 1871, in Mobile, Ala. 





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WINSTON, JOSEPH, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born June 17, 1746, in Louisa 
county, Va. In 1766 he moved to North 
Carolina; and took an active part in the 
revolution. He commanded the right 
wing of the American troops in the battle 
of King’s Mountain, and for his bravery 
had a sword voted to him by the legisla¬ 
ture. He was elected to congress in 1792, 
and again in 1803, and served until 1807. 
He died April 21, 1815, in North Carolina. 

WINTER, ELISHA J., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1813 to 1815. 

WINTER, LORENZO EDWARD, edu¬ 
cator, clergyman, college president, was 
born Oct. 27, 1855, in Winesburg, Ohio. 
He attained success in educational work, 
was superintendent of public schools in 
Ohio, and president of Ashland college. 
He is a successful clergyman of the meth- 
odist episcopal church; has been a mis¬ 
sionary to India; and now fills a pastor¬ 
ate in Cleveland, Ohio. 

WINTER, WILLIAM, litterateur, dra¬ 
matic critic, author, poet, was born July 
15, 1836, in Gloucester, Mass. He is a 
prominent writer and dramatic critic of 
New York city; and the author of Poems; 
The Trip to England; The Jeffersons; 
English Rambles; Shakespeare’s Eng¬ 
land; Gray Days and Gold; Old Shrines 
and Ivy; Shadows of the Stage; My Wit¬ 
ness, a Book of Verse; The Wanderers, 
a collection of poems; Thistle Down, a 
Book of Lyrics; The Queen’s Domain, 
and Other Poems; The Convert, and 
Other Poems; Brown Heath and Blue 
Bells; and George William Curtis: a 
Eulogy. 

WINTERMUTE, MARTHA, author, 
poet, was born Sept. 6, 1843, in Delaware 
county, Ohio. She is the author of a 
work entitled Eleven Women and Thir¬ 
teen Men, a beautiful story in prose; 
which also contains a collection of her 
finest poems. She contributes extensive¬ 
ly to current literature, and is the author 
of several published works. 

WINTERS, JOSEPH EDCIL, physician, 
author, was born Jan. 11, 1850, in Minni- 
sink, N. Y. He is the author of Is Oper¬ 
ation of Tracheotomy in Diphtheritic 
Croup Dangerous; When Should the Op¬ 
eration Be Performed; Diphtheria and 
Its Management; Are Membranous Croup 
and Diphtheria Distinct Diseases; and 
numerous other works. 

WINTHROP, FREDERICK, soldier, 
was born Aug. 3, 1839, in New York city. 
He was commissioned a captain in the 
twelfth United States infantry, and re¬ 
ceived the brevet of brigadier-general of 
volunteers in 1864. In 1867 the brevet 
of major-general of volunteers was con¬ 
ferred on him, among the few brevets that 
were given after death. He died April 1, 
1865, near Five Forks, Va. 

WINTHROP, JOHN, governor, author, 
was born Jan. 22, 1588, in England. He 
was elected governor of Massachusetts 
twelve times, and 
that he was ffot 
chosen continuously 
was due to his 
strong insistence up¬ 
on the principle that 
true liberty requires 
wise and secure au¬ 
thority. A portrait 
of him, ascribed to 
Vandyke, is in the 
senate chamber of 
Massachusetts. He 
was the author of 
Arbitrary Government Described; and 
History of New England from 1630 to 
1649. He died March 26, 1649, in Boston, 
Mass. 


WINTPIROP, JOHN, educator, author, 
was born Dec. 19, 1714, in Boston, Mass. 
He was a professor of mathematics and 
natural philosophy at Harvard university 
in 1738-79, and the foremost teacher of 
science in America in his century. He 
was the author of Lectures on Earth¬ 
quakes; Account of Some Fiery Meteors; 
and Lectures on the Parallax. He died 
May 3, 1779, in Cambridge, Mass. 

WINTHROP, LAURA, author, was born 
Sept. 13, 1825, in New Haven, Conn. She 
has published Little Blossom’s Reward, a 
book for children, under the pen-name of 
Emily Hare; Poems of Twenty Years; 
and Longfellow Prose Birthday Book. 

WINTHROP. ROBERT CHARLES, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, United 
States senator, was born May 12, 1809, in 
Boston, Mass. He entered the legisla¬ 
ture of Massachusetts in 1835; and was 
speaker of the house from 1838 to 1840. 
He was a member of the United States 
house of representatives from 1840 to 1842, 
and continued in that body until 1850; was 
speaker during the congress commencing 
in 1847. He was appointed to the senate 
of the United States to fill a vacancy, and 
served from 1850 to 1851. He was the au¬ 
thor of Addresses and Speeches; a Life 
of Governor John Winthrop; and Memoirs 
of Henry Clay, Washington, Bowdoin, and 
Franklin. He died in 1894. 

WINTHROP, THEODORE, soldier, au¬ 
thor, was born Sept. 22, 1828, in New 
Haven, Conn. He was a brilliant young 
novelist who entered the federal army at 
the outbreak of the civil war and was 
killed at the battle of Big Bethel. He was 
the author of John Brent; Cecil Dreeme; 
Edwin Brothertoft; and The Canoe an'd 
the Saddle. He died June 10, 1861, near 
Great Bethel, Va. 

WINTHROP, THOMAS LINDALL, mer¬ 
chant, state senator, was born March 6, 
1760, in New London, Conn. He was suc¬ 
cessively a state senator, lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of Massachusetts in 1826-32, and a 
presidential elector. He died Feb. 22, 
1841, in Boston, Mass. 

WINTHROP, WILLIAM WOOLSEY, 
soldier, author, was born Aug. 3, 1831, in 
New Haven, Conn. He was a United 
States army officer, professor of law at 
West Point; and the author of Treatise 
on Military Law; and Digest of Opinions 
of the Judge Advocate-General of the 
Army. 

WIPPERMAN, HERMAN C., lawyer, 
state legislator, was born July 28, 1853, in 
Mosel, Wis. He is a successful lawyer 
of Grand Rapids; in 1895 was elected a 
member of the Wisconsin state assembly; 
and received the re-election to a second 
term. 

WIRT, WILLIAM, lawyer, author, was 
born Nov. 8, 1772, in Bladensburg, Md. 
In 1802 he was appointed chancellor of 
the eastern district 
of Virginia; and in 
1803 settled in Nor¬ 
folk, and wrote the 
British Spy In 1806 
he settled in Rich¬ 
mond; in 1812 wrote 
The Old Bachelor, 
and in 1817 the Life 
of Patrick Henry. In 
1816 he was appoint¬ 
ed attorney of the 
United States for the 
district of Virginia; 
and in 1817 was appointed attorney-gen¬ 
eral of the United States, holding this 
office until 1829, after which he settled in 
Baltimore. He died Feb. 18, 1834, in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 





WIRT, WILLIAM EDGAR, surgeon, 
was born Dec. 19, 1862, in Mendota, Ill. 
He received the rudiments of his educa¬ 
tion in the high 
school of Wads¬ 
worth, Ohio; attend¬ 
ed the United States 
Naval academy of 
Annapolis, Md.; the 
College of Physi¬ 
cians and Surgeons 
of New York city; 
and the medical de¬ 
partment of the uni¬ 
versity of Wooster. 
During 1880-86 he 
was a midshipman 
in the United States navy; and in 1889- 
90 was house surgeon in the hospital for 
ruptured and crippled in New York city. 
Since 1891 he has been professor of or¬ 
thopedic surgery in the Cleveland Col¬ 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons; and 
since 1894 has been orthopedic surgeon in 
the Cleveland general hospital. 



WISE, DANIEL, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 10, 1813, in England. He is 
a methodist clergyman and religious ed¬ 
itor of Boston; and the author of Per¬ 
sonal Effort; Heroic Methodists; Boy 
Travelers in Arabia; Some Remarkable 
Women; My Uncle Toby’s Library; Un¬ 
crowned Kings; Summer Days on the 
Hudson; and Men of Renown. 

WISE, GEORGE DOUGLAS, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, was born June 4, 
1831, in Accomac county, Va. He served 
in the confederate army as a captain dur¬ 
ing the war of the rebellion; and was 
commonwealth attorney of Richmond, 
Va., from 1870 to 1880. He was elected 
a representative from Virginia to the 
forty-seventh and forty-eighth con¬ 
gresses; and was re-elected to the forty- 
ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and 
fifty-third congresses as a democrat. 


WISE, HENRY ALEXANDER, soldier, 
lawyer, congressman, governor, author, 
was born Dec. 3, 1806, in Drummondtown, 
Va. He became a representative in con¬ 
gress, serving from 1833 to 1844, when 
he resigned his seat for the mission to 
Brazil, which post he occupied until the 
fall of 1847. In 1855 he was elected gov¬ 
ernor of Virginia, which office he held un¬ 
til 1860. He served in the great rebellion 
as a brigadier-general. He was the au¬ 
thor of Seven Decades of the Union; and 
Memoir of John Tyler. He died Sept. 12, 
1876, in Richmond, Va. 


WISE, HENRY AUGUSTUS, naval of¬ 
ficer, author, was born May 12, 1819, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a United States 
naval officer; and the author of Story of 
the Gray African Parrot; Captain Brand; 
Los Gringos; Tales for the Marines; and 
Scampavias, from Gibel Tarak to Stam- 
boul. He died April 2, 1869, in Naples, 
Italy. 


WISE, ISAAC MAYER, author, was 
born April 3, 1819, in Bohemia. He is Jew¬ 
ish rabbi of Cincinnati from 1854, presi¬ 
dent of Hebrew Union college; and the 
author of History of the Israelitish Na¬ 
tion; Essence of Judaism; Judaism: Its 
Doctrines and Duties; The Martyrdom of 
Jesus of Nazareth; The Cosmic God; His¬ 
tory of the Hebrew Second Common¬ 
wealth; and Pronaos to Holy Writ. 

WISE, JOHN, clergyman, author, was 
born in August, 1652, in Roxbury, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman of 
Ipswich from 1780 until his death. He 
was the author of The Church’s Quarrel 
Espoused; and Vindication of the Gov¬ 
ernment of New England Churches. He 
died April 8, 1725, in Ipswich, Maine. 







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WISE, JOHN, aeronaut, author, was 
born Feb. 24, 1808, in Lancaster, Pa. He 
was a noted aeronaut; and the au¬ 
thor of System of Aeronautics; and 
Through the Air, or Forty Years’ Experi¬ 
ence as an Aeronaut. He died Sept. 20, 
1879, on Lake Michigan. 

WISE, JOHN SERGEANT, soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, author, was born Dec. 
25, 1846, in Brazil. He was elected a 
representative from Virginia to the forty- 
eighth congress. He now practices law 
in New York city; and is the author of 
Diomed, the Life, Travels and Observa¬ 
tions of a Dog. 

WISE, MORGAN R., state legislator, 
congressman, was born June 7, 1830, in 
West Bethlehem, Pa. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in the Pennsylvania state legis¬ 
lature from 1874 to 1878; and was elected 
a representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses 
as a democrat. 

WISELY, JAMES L., educator, journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born June 9, 1824, in Aber¬ 
deen, Scotland. At the age of twenty 
he became associated 
with Isaac Pitman 
in disseminating the 
art of phonography. 
In 1850 he emigrated 
to America, farmed 
in Wisconsin, and 
there taught school. 
In 1878 he moved to 
Nebraska, and in 
1884 became editor 
and owner of the 
Loup County Clari¬ 
on; was elected 
county treasurer; has been justice of the 
peace for several terms; and in 1893 re¬ 
tired from active work and moved to 
Lincoln, Neb. He has contributed to vari¬ 
ous publications, and is the author of a 
number of meritorious poems. 

WISMAN, JAMES MARTIN, educator, 
college president, was born Feb. 20, 1855, 
in Williams county, Ohio. In 1893 he was 
elected president of Duquesne college, 
Pittsburg, Pa., which position he still 
holds. 

WISNER, BENJAMIN BLYDENBURG, 
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 19, 1794, 
in Goshen, N. Y. In 1821-32 he was pas¬ 
tor of the Old South church of Boston, 
Mass. His publications include single 
sermons and memoirs; History of the 
Old South Church; and Moral Condition 
and Prospects of the Heathen. He died 
Feb. 9, 1835, in Boston, Mass. 

WISNER, HENRY, congressman, was 
born in 1725 in Goshen, N. Y. He was a 
delegate from New York to the continent¬ 
al congress from 1774 to 1776. He died 
in 1790 in Goshen, N. Y. 

WISNER, MOSES, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, governor, was born in 1818 in Au¬ 
relius, N. Y. In 1843 he was appointed 
prosecuting attorney for Lapeer county, 
Mich. In 1858 he was elected governor of 
the state. He died Jan. 5, 1863, in Lex¬ 
ington, Ky. 

WISNER, WILLIAM, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1782 in Warwick, N. Y. 
He was a presbyterian clergyman of Ro¬ 
chester, N. Y.; and the author of Inci¬ 
dents in the Life of a Pastor; and Civil 
Liberty. He died Jan. 7, 1871, in Cedar 
Rapids, Iowa. 

WISNER. WILLIAM CARPENTER, 
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 7, 1808, 
in Elmira, N. Y. He was a presbyterian 
clergyman at Lockport, N. Y., in 1837- 
76; and the author of Prelacy and Parity. 
He died July 14, 1880, in Lockport, N. Y. 

WISSER, JOHN PHILIP, soldier, jour¬ 
nalist, was born July 19, 1852, in St. Louis, 


Mo. During 1874-80 he was second lieu¬ 
tenant of the first artillery. United States 
army; and since 1880 has been first lieu¬ 
tenant, with headquarters at Fort Mon¬ 
roe, Va. He is the editor of The Journal 
of the United States artillery; and the au¬ 
thor of Chemical Manipulations; Modern 
Gun Cotton; Practical Instruction in 
Minor Tactics and Strategy; and Report 
on Military Schools of Europe. 

WISTAR, CASPAR, physician, educat¬ 
or, author, was born Sept. 13, 1761, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. In 1792 he became ad¬ 
junct professor of 
anatomy in the uni¬ 
versity of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. The chair of 
anatomy he filled 
until his death, and 
his lectures and 
demonstrations did 
much to establish 
the high character 
and wide reputation 
of the school. From 
1793 to 1810 he was 
physician to the 
Pennsylvania hospital, and his resigna¬ 
tion of this post after long services caused 
great regret. He was the author of Sys¬ 
tem of Anatomy for Use of Students in 
Medicine. He died Jan. 22, 1818, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 

WISTAR. ISAAC JONES, soldier, law¬ 
yer, was born Nov. 14, 1827, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He entered the national army 
in 1861 as a captain in a regiment of 
Pennsylvania volunteers, and served in 
Maryland and Virginia, and was com¬ 
missioned brigadier-general of volunteers. 
After the war he resumed practice, and 
is now president of a canal company and 
several coal companies in Pennsylvania. 

WISTER, MRS. ANNIS LEE FUR¬ 
NESS, author, translator, was born Oct. 
9, 1830, in Philadelphia, Pa. She is a 
noted and popular translator of many 
German novels. 

WISTER. OWEN, lawyer, author, was 
born in i860 in Pennsylvania. He is a 
lawyer and writer of Philadelphia; and 
the author of The New Swiss Family Rob¬ 
inson; The Dragon of Wantley, a ro¬ 
mance; and Red Men and White, a col¬ 
lection of frontier stories. 

WISTER, MRS. SARAH [BUTLER], 
author, poet, was born in 1835 near Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. She is a Philadelphia writer 
who has published A Boat of Glass, a 
poem; and translations from Alfred de 
Musset. 

WISWALL, ICHABOD, clergyman, poet, 
was born in 1638 in England. From 1676 
until his death he was pastor of the 
church in Duxbury, Mass. He published 
a poem on the comet of 1680. He died 
July 23, 1700, in Duxbury, Mass. 

WITCHER, JOHN S„ soldier, lawyer, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
July 15, 1839, in Cabell county, Va. He 
entered the volunteer army in 1862 as a 
lieutenant, and rose by degrees to the 
rank of brigadier-general, serving to the 
end of the war. In 1865 he was elected 
to the West Virginia state legislature; and 
in 1866 was elected secretary of state. 
In 1868 he was elected a representative 
from West Virginia to the forty-first con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

WITHAM, SAMUEL MOSHER, con¬ 
tractor, builder, poet, was l)orn Jan. 14, 
1843, in Old York, Maine. He is a suc¬ 
cessful contractor, builder and dealer in 
real estate in Haverhill, Mass., where he 
has filled numerous public positions of 
trust. Several of his poems have been set 
to music; and he is represented in Poets 
of America and other standard works. 


WITHEE, LEVI, lumber merchant, state 
senator, was born Oct. 26, 1834, in Nor- 
ridgewock, Maine. He moved to Wiscon¬ 
sin in 1853; and is a successful lumber 
merchant in La Crosse. In 1892 he was 
elected a state senator in the Wisconsin 
assembly; and received the re-election to 
the same office in 1896. 

WITHERELL, JAMES, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, congressman, was born 
June 16, 1759, in Mansfield, Mass. He was 
a member of the state legislature; two 
years a county judge, and state councilor 
from 1803 to 1807. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Vermont during the 
years 1807 and 1808, and in the latter 
year was appointed federal judge in the 
territory of Michigan. He died Jan. 9, 
1838, in Detroit, Mich. 

WITHERS, FREDERIC CLARKE, ar¬ 
chitect, author, was born Feb. 4, 1828, in 
England. He is an architect of New York 
city, the designer of the reredos in Trinity 
church in that city, and the author of 
Church Architecture. 

WITHERS, JONES MITCHELL, soldier, 
lawyer, journalist, legislator, was born 
Jan. 12, 1814, in Madison county, Wis. 
He settled in Mobile as a lawyer and com¬ 
mission merchant in 1841. He was in 
the legislature in 1855; mayor of Mobile 
in 1856-61, and at the beginning of the 
civil war entered the confederate army as 
colonel of the third Alabama infantry. He 
became brigadier-general in 1861, and ma¬ 
jor-general early in 1862. After the war 
he returned to Mobile, and edited the Tri¬ 
bune in that city. 

WITHERS, ROBERT ENOCH, soldier, 
journalist. United States senator, govern¬ 
or, was born Sept. 18, 1821, in Campbell 
county, Va. He entered the service as 
major when Virginia passed the ordinance 
of secession, and was made colonel of the 
eighteenth Virginia regiment in 1861. In 
1866 he moved to Lynchburg and edit¬ 
ed the News until 1868. He was presiden¬ 
tial elector for the state at large in 1873, 
and was elected lieutenant-governor in 
1873, and United States senator for six 
years from March 4, 1875. 

WITHERS, T. I., lawyer, jurist. He 
was reputed to be one of the ablest jur¬ 
ists in the south, and was for a long time 
judge of the supreme court of South Car¬ 
olina. He died Dec. 8, 1865, in Sumter- 
ville, S. C. 

WITHERSPOON, JOHN, signer of the 
declaration of independence, was born 
Feb. 5, 1722, in Scotland. In 1766 he came 
to America, having been elected president 
of Princeton college. He was a member 
of the first constitutional convention of 
New Jersey in 1776; was a signer of the 
declaration of independence, and was a 
delegate to the continental congress from 
1776 to 1782, and signed the articles of 
confederation. He served in the legisla¬ 
ture, and at the same time frequently oc¬ 
cupied the pulpit. He was the author of 
Ecclesiastical Characteristics; Thoughts 
on American Liberty; Sermons on Prac¬ 
tical Subjects; Leading Truths of the 
Gospel; Letters on Marriage; and Ser¬ 
mons on Various Subjects. He died Nov. 
15, 1794, in Princeton, N. J. 

WITHERSPOON, ROBERT, congress¬ 
man. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from South Carolina from 1809 to 
1811. 

WITHERSPOON, THEODORE 
DWIGHT, clergyman, author, was born 
Jan. 17, 1836, in Greensborough, Ala. He 
was a presbyterian clergyman in Louis¬ 
ville from 1882, and the author of Children 
of the Covenant; and Letters on Roman¬ 
ism. 









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WITHEY, SOLOMON L., lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, was born April 21, 1820, in 
St. Albans, Vt. In 1848 he was elected 
judge of probate in Grand Rapids, Mich., 
and in 1860 was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate. He was appointed United States dis¬ 
trict judge for the western district of 
Michigan in 1869. He was president of 
the First National bank of Grand Rapids. 
He died April 25, 1886, in Grand Rapids, 
Mich. 

WITHINGTON, LEONARD, clergyman, 
author, was born Aug. 9, 1789, in Dorches¬ 
ter, Mass. He was a congregational cler¬ 
gyman, pastor at Newbury, Mass., in 
1816-85, and the author of The Puritan, a 
series of Essays; Penitential Tears; and 
Solomon’s Song Translated and Explained. 
He died April 22, 1885, in Newbury, Mass. 

WITT, SAMUEL B., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Sept. 6, 1850, in Prince Edward 
county, Va. In 1879-80 he was a member 
of the Virginia state legislature, and was 
prosecuting attorney of Richmond, Va., 
for five terms. He was then elected judge 
of the Hustings court, to which he was 
re-elected in 1896 for a second term of 
six years. 

WITTE, WILLIAM H., congressman, 
was born in New Jersey. Having settled 
in Pennsylvania he was elected a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from 1853 to 1855. 

WIXON, ISAAC, surgeon, state senator, 
was born March 7, 1803, in Hector, N. Y. 
He was a representative in the Michigan 
state legislature, and a member of the 
Michigan senate. In 1870 he moved to 
Fentonville, Mich., where he took up the 
practice of his profession. 

WIXON, SUSAN HELEN, author, poet, 
was born in 1849, in Dennisport, Mass. 
She is a popular lecturer on moral re¬ 
form and educational topics in Fall River, 
Mass.; and is president of the Humboldt 
Scientific society. She is the author of All 
in a Lifetime; Apples of Gold; The Story 
Hour; Summer Days at Onset; and a 
volume of poems. 

WOERNER, J. GABRIEL, lawyer, 
state senator, jurist, was born April 28, 
1826, in Germany. He served two terms 
in the Missouri senate; in 1864 was mayor 
of St. Louis, and in 1870 was elected 
judge of the probate court of St. Louis 
county. 

WOFFORD, JOHN W., soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, was born Aug. 14, 1837, in Georgia. 
He served in the house and senate of 
Georgia; and was in the confederate ser¬ 
vice from the beginning to the end of the 
war. In 1892 he was appointed judge of 
the Jackson county criminal court at 
Kansas City, Mo.; and was elected to 
continue in that position. 

WOGAN, HENRY F., soldier, educator, 
lawyer, clergyman, was born Nov. 2, 1839, 
near Rio Grande College, Ohio. He re¬ 
ceived his education 
at the A. M. L. uni¬ 
versity, Pomeroy 
academy, and the 
National Normal un¬ 
iversity, all in Ohio. 
He also attended the 
Hillsdale college. 
Michigan, and the 
Illinois Wesleyan 
university. During 
the war he enlisted 
as a line and recruit¬ 
ing officer in the 
union army, and out of the company of 
eighty-four only six survived the siege 
and fall of Richmond and the confed¬ 
eracy. In 1858 he was ordained a clergy¬ 
man. He was originally admitted to the 
bar in 1864 in Ohio, and in North Dakota 


in 1883; and in 1890 to the district and 
supreme courts. He has received the de¬ 
grees of Ph. D., LL. D., M. D. and D. D. 
He has attained success also in educa¬ 
tional work, and was a candidate for state 
superintendent of public instruction for 
North Dakota, in which state he resides 
at Bismarck. 

WOLCOTT, ANSON, farmer, merchant, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 21, 1819, 
in Western, N. Y. In 1864 he moved to 
Indiana; two years 
later was elected a 
member of the sen¬ 
ate of that state, and 
during three sessions 
of the legislature he 
held the position of 
chairman of the sen¬ 
ate finance commit¬ 
tee. In 1876 he was 
nominated by the 
greenback party for 
the office of govern¬ 
or. He filled nume¬ 
rous public offices of trust in his native 
state prior to his settlement in Indiana, 
and was attorney and counselor at law 
of the supreme court for the state of New 
York, and later of the United States su¬ 
preme court. He is the author of a num¬ 
ber of papers on the subject of finance, 
which have been published as memorials, 
by order of the United States senate. He 
has been a successful farmer and grain 
dealer of Wolcott, Ind., and is a direct 
descendant of Henry Wolcott, who came 
from Somersetshire, England, in 1630. 

WOLCOTT, EDWARD OLIVER, sol¬ 
dier, lawyer, United States senator, was 
born March 26, 1848, in Long Meadow, 
Mass. He served for a few months as 
private in the one hundred and fiftieth 
regiment of Ohio volunteers in 1864. He 
was elected to the United States senate 
as a republican from Denver, Col., and 
took his seat March 4, 1889. He was re¬ 
elected in 1895. His term of service will 
expire March 3, 1901. 

WOLCOTT, HENRY ROGER, financier, 
state senator, was born March 15, 1846, in 
Long Meadow, Mass. He is now treasurer 
of the Colorado Mining and Smelting 
company, a director of the Equitable Life 
Assurance society of New York. He was 
a member of the state senate of Colorado 
in 1878-82, and president pro tern, during 
his last term. 

WOLCOTT, JOHN TRUMAN, musician, 
composer, was born May 5, 1869, in 
Detroit, Mich. He has composed a great 
many songs, which have become popular, 
and is the author of the oratorio Hezekiah 
and St. John. He has conducted several 
of the heavy cantatas, such as Belshazzar, 
and gave a grand production of Elijah in 
1894. He has been organist in several 
churches of Detroit; gave a series of suc¬ 
cessful organ recitals in the states and 
Canada, and is the present organist and 
director of the choir of the Lincoln Ave¬ 
nue Methodist church. 

WOLCOTT, OLIVER, signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence, was born Nov. 
26, 1726, in Windsor, Conn. He was one 
of the signers of the declaration of inde¬ 
pendence and of the articles of confed¬ 
eration; and was a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1775 to 1778, and 
from 1780 to 1784. As a military man he 
rose to the grade of major-general, and 
was present at the capture of Burgoyne. 
In 1786 he was elected lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of Connecticut, holding the office 
ten years. He was governor of Connec¬ 
ticut from 1796 until his death. He died 
Dec. 1, 1797, in Litchfield, Conn. 


WOLCOTT, ROGER, colonial governor, 
poet, was born Jan. 4, 1679, in Windsor, 
Conn. He was a colonial governor of 
Connecticut in 1750-54, and the author of 
Poetical Meditations. He died May 17, 
1767, in East Windsor, Conn. 

WOLCOTT, ROGER, lawyer, statesman, 
was born July 13, 1847, in Boston, Mass. 
He served in the common council of 
Boston in 1877-79; in the state house of 
representatives in 1882-84; and in 1892 and 
again in 1893, was elected lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor of Massachusetts. 

WOLCOTT, SAMUEL, clergyman, mis¬ 
sionary, poet, was born July 2, 1813, in 
Windsor, Conn. He was missionary in 
Syria for three years. He was the au¬ 
thor of a genealogy of the Wolcott Family, 
and wrote numerous hymns. He died 
in February, 1886, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

WOLDINGER, JOSEPH, manufacturer, 
state legislator, was born Jan. 7, 1827, in 
Wilson, Wis. He is president of the 
Sprangers Clothing company of South 
Kaukauna, Wis., and president of the 
Dundas Butter and Cheese company. In 
1894 he was elected a member of the 
Wisconsin state assembly, and was re¬ 
elected in 1896. 

WOLF, EDMUND JACOB, clergyman, 
educator, author, was born in 1840 in 
Pennsylvania. He is a lutheran clergy¬ 
man, professor in the Theological semi¬ 
nary at Gettysburg from 1874, and the 
author of History of the Lutherans in 
America. 

WOLF, GEORGE, lawyer, state legis¬ 
lator, congressman, governor, was born 
Aug. 12, 1777, in Northampton county. 
Pa. After pursuing 
a course of classical 
education in his own 
county, he studied 
law, became eminent 
and engaged in a lu¬ 
crative practice. In 
1818 he was elected 
a member of the leg¬ 
islature of his na¬ 
tive state, and was a 
representative i n 
congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1824 to 
1829. He was governor of that state from 
1829 to 1835. In 1836 he was appointee 
first comptroller of the United States 
treasury; was subsequently appointed col¬ 
lector of customs at Philadelphia. He 
died March 17, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WOLF, SIMON, lawyer, lecturer, was 
born Oct. 28, 1836, in Bavaria. In 1862 
he went to Washington, and in 1869 he 
was appointed recorder of deeds for the 
District of Columbia, holding that office 
until 1878. In 1881 he received the post 
of consul-general in Egypt, which he re¬ 
signed in 1882. 

WOLF, THEODORE FRELINGHUY- 
SEN, physician, author, was born in 1843 
in New Jersey. He is a physician and 
litterateur of Ledgewood, N. J., and the 
author of A Literary Pilgrimage Among 
the Haunts of Famous British Authors; 
and Literary Shrines: the Haunts of Some 
Famous American Authors—two widely 
popular books. 

WOLF, WILLIAM P„ soldier, lawyer, 
state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 
1, 1833, in Stark county, Ohio. He was 
superintendent of common schools in 
Iowa. He was a member of the state 
house of representatives in 1863 and 
1864. He was re-elected to the state 
house of representatives; was assistant 
assessor of internal revenue in 1865, and 
was elected to the state senate in 1867. 
He was elected a representative from 
Iowa to the forty-first congress to fill a 
vacancy. 







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WOLFE, CATHARINE LORILLARD, 
philanthropist, was born March 28, 1828, 
in New York city. She gave about $100,- 
000 to Union college, $30,000 to St. Luke’s 
hospital, New York city, and $65,000 to 
St. Johnland on Long Island; largely aid¬ 
ed in building the American chapel at 
Rome, and contributed a large sum to 
the one in Paris; established an Italian 
mission, costing $50,000, and a newsboys 
lodging-house, and a diocesan house 
which, including its endowment, cost 
$170,000. She died April 4, 1887, in New 
York city. 

WOLFE, HENRY E., clergyman, was 
born Aug. 5, 1859, in Ortonville, Mich. 
In 1886 he graduated from the Albion col¬ 
lege of Boston, Mass.; subsequently from 
the University School of Theology, and 
has received the degrees of A. M. and 
•S. T. B. He has filled pastorates in the 
methodist episcopal churches at Calumet, 
Saginaw and Flint, Mich., and has con¬ 
tributed extensively to religious publica¬ 
tions. 

WOLFE, JAMES B., educator, college 
president, was born Nov. 14, 1856, in Sulli¬ 
van county, Tenn. In 1885 he graduated 
from the National Normal university of 
Lebanon, Ohio; has been superintendent 
of the Bremond public schools, Texas'; 
principal of the Calvert High school, and 
president of the Gladeville college, Vir¬ 
ginia. 

WOLFE, JOHN B., clergyman, philan¬ 
thropist, was born May 14, 1843, in Bond 
-county, 111. He served in the civil war, 
and has attained prominence as one of 
the most eminent clergymen of Illinois. 
He has been secretary of the Illinois 
conference of the methodist episcopal 
church; presiding elder, a delegate to 
the general conference of 1896, and a del¬ 
egate to the national conference of chari¬ 
ties held in Toronto, Ontario, in 1897. 
He now fills a pastorate in Bloomington, 
Ill. 

WOLFE, JOHN DAVID, merchant, phi¬ 
lanthropist, was born July 24, 1792, in 
New York city. He founded a high- 
school for girls, known as Wolfe hall, at 
Denver, Col., and a diocesan school for 
girls at Topeka, Kan., gave the building 
for the theological seminary connected 
with Kenyon college, and a fund for the 
•college of the Sisters of Bethany, at To¬ 
peka, Kan., built homes for crippled and 
destitute children and for impoverished 
Christian men, in Suffolk county, N. f., 
and, with Mrs. Peter Cooper, established 
the Sheltering Arms charity in New York 
city. He died May 17, 1872, in New York 
•city. 

WOLFE, NORMAN M., lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 6, 1850, in Richland county, 
Ohio. He is an eminent lawyer of Mans¬ 
field, Ohio. He has been a member of 
the board of education of his city, city 
solicitor, and is now judge of court of 
•common pleas. 

WOLFE, SIMEON K., soldier, lawyer, 
journalist, state senator, congressman, 
was born Feb. 14, 1824, in Floyd county, 
Ind. He was a presidential elector in 
1856, and was elected to the Indiana state 
senate in 1860, and served four years. He 
was colonel of the Indiana militia in 1861, 
nnd was editor and proprietor of the Gory- 
don Democrat from 1857 to 1865. In 18 <0 
he moved to New Albany; and was elect¬ 
ed to the forty-third congress. 

WOLFENBARGER, ANDREW GIV¬ 
ENS, lawyer, author, was born March 24, 
1856, in Greenbank, Va. He has attained 
prominence as a lawyer of Lincoln, Neb., 
and is president of the Nebraska Irriga¬ 
tion association. He is the author of the 
Nebraska Legislative Year Book of 1897. 


WOLFF, S. A., educator, musician, was 
born Feb. 8, 1861, near Abbottstown, Pa. 
During 1886-91 he was musical director 
of Gaston college of Dallas, N. C., and 
since 1891 has been principal of that in¬ 
stitution. 

WOLFORD. FRANK D., soldier, law¬ 
yer, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Sept. 2, 1817, in Adair county, Ky. 
He was a representative in the Kentucky 
state legislature in 1847, 1848, 1865 and 
1866. He was a presidential elector in- 
1864 and 1868, and was adjutant-general 
of the state of Kentucky in 1867 and 1868. 
He was elected a representative from 
Kentucky to the forty-eighth congress, 
and was re-elected to the forty-ninth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

WOLLE, FRANCIS, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Dec. 17, 1817, in 
Jacobsburg, Pa. He was a Moravian cler¬ 
gyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pa. 
He was the author of Desmids of the 
United States; Fresh-Water Algae; and 
Diatomaceae of North America. He died 
in 1893. 

WOLLENHAUPT, HERMANN AD¬ 
OLPH, musician, was born Sept. 17, 1827, 
in Germany. He composed pieces for the 
pianoforte, some of which were much ad¬ 
mired; several of them were published in 
Europe. He died Sept. 18, 1863, in New 
York city. 

WOLLENWEBER, LOUIS AUGUST, 
journalist, author, was born Dec. 5, 1807, 
in Germany. He was a German printer 
who came to America, and, after editing 
several German papers in Philadelphia, 
removed to Reading, Pa. He was the au¬ 
thor of Sketches of Domestic Life in 
Pennsylvania; Treu bis in den Tod; and 
Zwei treue Kameraden. He died July 25, 
1888, in Reading, Pa. 

WOLVERTON, SIMON P., soldier, law¬ 
yer, congressman, was born Jan. 28, 1837, 
in Rush township, Pa. In 1862 he raised 
a company of emer¬ 
gency men, of which 
he was made cap¬ 
tain. and served in 
the eighteenth regi¬ 
ment of Pennsylvan¬ 
ia volunteers. In 
1863 he was chosen 
captain of company 
F, thirty-sixth regi¬ 
ment Pennsylvania 
volunteers. In 1878 
he was elected to the 
state senate, and was 
re-elected in 1880 and 1884, when he de¬ 
clined further nomination to that office. 
In 1884 he was nominated for United 
States senator by the democrats of both 
houses, and was elected to the fifty-second 
and re-elected to the fifty-third congress 
as a democrat. He declined further nom¬ 
ination for congress. 

WOOD, ABIEL, merchant, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born in 1772. 
He was a distinguished merchant of Wis- 
casset, Mass., and from 1807 to 1811, and 
in 1816, was a member of the state leg¬ 
islature. He was a member of congress 
from that state from 1813 to 1815, and 
was a state councilor in 1820 and 1821. He 
died in November, 1834, in Belfast, Maine. 

WOOD, ALAN, banker, congressman, 
was born’ Julv 6, 1834, in Philadelphia, Pa. 
He took charge of the Delaware Iron 
works of his father and was there six 
years. He moved to Conshohocken, Pa., 
and assisted in building the original mill 
of the Schuylkill Iron works. He became 
interested in the two companies, and was 
president of the First National bank of 
Conshohocken. In 1874 he was elected a 
representative from Pennsylvania to the 
forty-fourth congress as a republican. 


WOOD, ALPHONSO, educator, author, 
was born Sept. 17, 1810, in Chesterfield, 
N. H. He was an educator of Brooklyn 
whose text-books were very popular. He 
was the author of Class-Book of Botany; 
First Lessons in Botany; Leaves and 
Flowers; and The American Botanist. He 
died Jan. 4, 1881, in West Farms, N. Y. 

WOOD. AMOS E., agriculturist, state 
senator, congressman, was born in 1810 
in Jefferson county, N. Y. He twice served 
in the legislature, and once for the term 
of two years in the state senate, from 
Woodville, Ohio. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from Ohio from 
1850 to 1852. He died Nov. 19, 1850, in 
Fort Wayne, Ind. 

WOOD, BENJAMIN, journalist, state 
senator, congressman, author, was born 
Oct. 13, 1820, in Shelbyville, Ky. He made 
several voyages to 
the West Indies and 
along the South Am¬ 
erican coast, and be¬ 
fore reaching man¬ 
hood had traveled 
through nearly every 
state in the Union. 
His business was 
principally transact¬ 
ed in New York, 
where he became 
very wealthy. He 
was a state senator 
in 1866 and 1867, and was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from New York to the thirty- 
seventh, thirty-eighth and forty-seventh 
congresses as a democrat. He is the au¬ 
thor of Fort Lafayette, or Love and Se¬ 
cession. 

WOOD, BENSON, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1839 in Susque¬ 
hanna county, Pa. He was an Illinois 
soldier in the war of the rebellion, at¬ 
taining the rank of captain of infantry. 
He was mayor of the city of Effingham, 
Ill., and a representative in the general 
assembly of Illinois. He was elected to 
the fifty-fourth congress. 

WOOD. BRADFORD R., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in Connecticut. He 
moved to Albany, N. Y., and was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from that state 
from 1845 to 1847. In 1861 he was ap¬ 
pointed minister resident to Denmark. 

WOOD, CHARLES, clergyman, author, 
was born June 3, 1851, in Brooklyn, N. 
Y. He is a presbyterian clergyman of 
Germantown, Philadelphia, and the author 
of Saunterings in Europe. 

WOOD, CHARLES BRADLEY, educa¬ 
tor, was born Aug. 29, 1843, in f ulton 
county, Ohio. He graduated from the 
Ohio Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity, and received 
the degrees of A. B. 
and A. M. For two 
years he taught 
mathematics in West 
i armington, Ohio; 
then in Willoughby. 
He subsequently was 
principal of public 
schools at Sewiekley, 
Pa.; professor of 
mathematics in the 
Pittsburg High 
school for eleven years; and for sixteen 
years has been principal of the Pittsburg 
High school. He has been actively identi¬ 
fied with building and loan associations 
for fifteen years, and has contributed ex¬ 
tensively to current literature on educa¬ 
tional topics. 

WOOD, DANIEL P., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, was born Nov. 5, 1819, in Pompey, 
N. Y. He is a prominent lawyer of New 
York city, and was a member of the New 
York state senate. 










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WOOD, FERNANDO, merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 14, 1812, in 


Philadelphia, Pa. 



forty-fifth and forty 
died Feb. 20, 1881, ii 


In 1840 he was 
a representative from 
New York to the 
twenty-seventh con¬ 
gress. In 1854 he 
was elected mayor of 
New York, and was 
re-elected to the 
same position, serv¬ 
ing five years. He 
was also elected to 
the thirty-eighth, 
fortieth, forty-first, 
forty-second, forty- 
third, forty-fourth, 
sixth congresses. He 
Washington, D. C. 


WOOD, GEORGE, public official, author, 
was born in 1799 in Newburyport, Mass. 
He was a treasury clerk at Washington, 
and the author of 
Peter Schmeil in 
America; The Mod¬ 
ern Pilgrim; Marry¬ 
ing Too Late; and 
Future Life, reissued 
in 1869 as The Gates 
Wide Open. Besides 
his published works 
h e contributed a 
number of valuable 
articles to the lead¬ 
ing newspapers and 
magazines of the 
United States. He died March 17, 1870, in 
New York city. 

WOOD, GEORGE BACON, physician, 
educator, author, was born March 13, 1797, 
in Greenwich, N. J. He was a Philadel¬ 
phia physician, and medical professor in 
the university of Pennsylvania in 1835-60. 
He was the author of The Dispensatory 
of the United States; The Practice of 
Medicine; Therapeutics and Pharmacol¬ 
ogy; Introductory Lectures and Addresses 
on Medical Subjects; History of the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania; and Lives of S. 
G. Morton, F. Bache. He died March 30, 
1879, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

WOOD, GEORGE T., soldier, congress¬ 
man, governor. He was appointed major 
of Georgia three months’ volunteers in the 
Creek war in 1836; was colonel of the 
second Texas regiment of mounted vol¬ 
unteers in the Mexican war, and was dis¬ 
tinguished at the storming of Monterey. 
He was afterwards member of the Texas 
congress, and was governor of Texas from 
1847 to 1849. He died Sept. 5, 1858, on 
Trinity River, Texas. 




WOOD, HENRY, merchant, author, was 
horn Jan. 16, 1834, in Barre, Vt. He has 
been a member and officer in various eth¬ 
ical, philosophical 
and humanitarian 
associations, and is 
the author of several 
books of wide circu¬ 
lation, on fiction, 
philosophy and met¬ 
aphysics, entitled 
God’s Image in Man; 
Ideal Suggestion; 
Studies in the 
Thought World; Po¬ 
litical Economy of 
Natural Law, and 
other works. In 1855 he emigrated to 
the west, began a successful career in 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, whence he removed 
to Chicago in 1863. After ten years, owing 
to ill-health, he retired from the active 
wholesale trade in which he had been 
engaged, and removed to Boston in 1882. 
He says that he has never attempted 
poetic form, but no critic can deny that 
his prose is imbued with a poetic spirit. 


WOOD, HORACE GAY, lawyer, author, 
was born in 1831 in Vermont. He was 
a New Hampshire lawyer, who practiced 
in New York city in his latest years. 
He was the author of The Relation of 
Landlord and Tenant; Treatise on the 
Law of Nuisances; Master and Servant; 
The Law of Fire Insurance; Limitation 
of Actions at Law and in Equity; On the 
Statute of Frauds; The Law of Railroads; 
and Legal Remedies of Mandamus and 
Prohibition. He died in 1893. 

WOOD, HORATIO CURTIS, educator, 
author, was born Jan. 13, 1841, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is a medical professor 
in the university of Pennsylvania from 
1866, and the author of The Phalangidae 
of the United States; Researches upon 
American Hemp; Brain Work and Over¬ 
work; On Fever; Nervous Diseases and 
their Diagnosis; Thermic Fever, or Sun¬ 
stroke; and Therapeutics. 

WOOD, ISAAC, physician, was born 
Aug. 21, 1793, in Clinton, N. Y. He was 
for twenty-five years one of the most 
active managers of the New York Insti¬ 
tution for the Blind, one of the founders 
and subsequently president of the Society 
for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans 
of Physicians, and a founder and twice 
president of the New York academy of 
Medicine. He died March 25, 1868, in 
Norwalk, Conn. 

WOOD, JAMES, soldier, governor, was 
born in 1750 in Virginia. He was a col¬ 
onel of the Virginia militia in 1776. He 
was lieutenant-governor and a member of 
the executive council, and was governor 
of the state from 1796 to 1799. A county 
in Virginia was named for him, to com¬ 
memorate his patriotic services. He died 
July 16, 1813, in Olney, Va. 

WOOD, JAMES, clergyman, educator, 
author, was born July 12, 1799, in Green¬ 
field, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergy¬ 
man and educator in Indiana, and the 
author of Old and New Theology; Trea¬ 
tise on Baptism; Call to the Sacred Office; 
The Best Lesson and the Best Time; The 
Gospel Fountain; and Grace and Glory. 
He died April 7, 1867, in Hightstown, N. J. 

WOOD, JAMES RUSHMORE, physi¬ 
cian, surgeon, was born Sept. 14, 1816, 
in Mamaroneck, N. Y. In 1847 he began 
to collect material with the intention of 
founding a museum. This collection now 
constitutes the Woods museum of New 
York city, the grandest monument ever 
erected to any surgeon in America. He 
died May 4, 1882, in New York city. 

WOOD, MRS. JEAN (MONCURE), au¬ 
thor, poet, was horn in 1754 in Virginia. 
She was the wife of James Wood, Who 
was governor of Virginia in 1796-99. She 
was the author of Flowers and Weeds of 
the Old Dominion, a book of verse. She 
died in 1823. 

WOOD, JOHN, author, was born in 1775 
in Scotland. He was a Scottish writer 
who came to America in 1800 and settled 
in Richmond, Va. Among his writings 
are General View of the History of Switz¬ 
erland; and History of the Administra¬ 
tion of John Adams. He died in May, 
1822, in Richmond, Va. 

WOOD, JOHN, soldier, state senator, 
governor, wa6 horn Dec. 20, 1798, in Mo¬ 
ravia, N. Y. In 1819 he moved to Illi¬ 
nois, and in 1822 built the first cabin on 
the site of the present city of Quincy. He 
was a member of the state senate during 
1850-54; was lieutenant-governor in 1856, 
and became governor in 1859. He served 
with distinction through the civil war. 
He died June 4, 1880. in Quincy, Ill. 

WOOD, JOHN, manufacturer, congress¬ 
man, was born in 1816 in Philadelphia, 


Pa. He was a representative to the thir¬ 
ty-sixth congress from Pennsylvania. 

WOOD, JOHN J., congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from New 
York from 1827 to 1829. 

WOOD, JOHN J., lawyer, was horn Feb. 
13, 1859, in Neshltoro, Wis. He is one 
of the foremost lawyers of Wisconsin at 
Berlin; has been city 
attorney, supervisor 
and school commis¬ 
sioner, and served 
with distinction as 
mayor of his city. In 
1896 he was a dele¬ 
gate from the sixth 
congressional d i s - 
trict of Wisconsin to 
the democratic na¬ 
tional convention at 
Chicago. He takes 
an active part in the 
public affairs of his city, county and state, 
and is a member of several fraternal or¬ 
ders. 

WOOD, JOHN M., railroad constructor, 
legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 
18, 1813, in Minisink, N. Y. He was a 
member of the legislature of Maine, and 
was for years occupied as a constructor 
of railroads and other public works. In 
1854 he was elected a representative from 
Maine to the thirty-fourth congress, and 
was re-elected to the thirty-fifth congress. 
He died Dec. 24, 1864, in Boston, Mass. 

WOOD, JOHN ROBERTSON, banker, 
was, born June 4, 1845, in Canada. He 
received a thorough education, and has 
attained success in business affairs at Ap¬ 
pleton, Wis. Since its organization in 
1887 he has been president of the First 
National bank of Iron Mountain, Mich. 

WOOD, JOHN SEYMOUR, lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, author, was born in 1853 in New 
York. He is a lawyer of New York 
city, editor of The Bachelor of Arts, and 
the author of Gramercy Park, a story o‘f 
New York; College Days, or Harry’s Ca¬ 
reer at Yale; Yale Yarns; A Coign of 
Vantage; An Old Beau, and Other Sto¬ 
ries; and A Daughter of Venice. 

WOOD, JOSEPH, soldier, congressman, 
was born in Pennsylvania, Pa. He en¬ 
tered the revolutionary army as major of 
second Pennsylvania regiment, and rose 
to the rank of colonel. He was a dele¬ 
gate from Georgia to the continental con¬ 
gress from 1777 to 1779. He died in March, 
1789, in Sunbury, Ga. 

WOOD, MRS. JULIA ANNA A., journal¬ 
ist. author, poet, was born April 13, 1825, 
in New London, N. H. She received her 
education at the Col¬ 
by academy of her 
native city, and at 
the Charleston Lad¬ 
ies' seminary, Massa¬ 
chusetts. In 1849 
she married William 
Wood, a lawyer and 
journalist. Two years 
later she moved to 
Sauk Rapids, Minn., 
where Mr. Wood 
was appointed Unit¬ 
ed States receiver of 
public moneys. Her husband also here 
established the Sauk Rapids New Era, the 
literary department of which was edited 
by Mrs. Wood. She has been a widow for 
more than a quarter of a century, and now 
publishes the Sauk Rapids Free Press in 
conjunction with her son. She is the au¬ 
thor of The Heart of Myrrha Lake; The 
Brown House of Duffield; Hubert’s Wife; 
Strayed from the Fold; From Error to 
Truth; and other works. 








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WOOD, LEONARD, soldier, physician. 

In 1898 he was appointed General Cham¬ 
bers McKibbin’s successor as military 
governor of Santiago. 

WOOD, REUBEN, soldier, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, was born 
in 1792 in Rutland county, Vt. He served 
as captain of the Vermont volunteers in 
the war of 1812. After the war he moved 
to Cleveland, Ohio, and was a member of 
the state senate from 1825 to 1828. He 
was made president judge of the third 
district of the state in 1830, serving until 
1833, when he was elected judge of the 
supreme court of Ohio. He continued 
to hold that office until 1845, and was 
chosen governor of Ohio for the term be¬ 
ginning in 1850 and ending in 1853. He 
was appointed United States consul to 
Valparaiso in 1853. He died Oct. 2, 1864, 
in Rockport, Ohio. 

WOOD, MRS. SARAH SAY WARD 
(BARRELL) (KEATING), author, was 
born in 1759 in Massachusetts. She was 
a novelist whose sentimental fictions in¬ 
clude, Duval; Ferdinand and Almira; 
Amelia, or the Influence of Virtue; Tales 
of the Night; and The Illuminated Baron. 
She died in 1855. 

WOOD, SILAS, congressman, author, 
was born in 1769 in Suffolk county, N. Y. 
He was the author of a History of Long 
Island. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1819 to 1829. 
He died March 2, 1847, in Huntington, 
L. I. 

WOOD, THOMAS J., lawyer, state sen¬ 
ator, congressman, was born Sept. 30, 
1844, in Athens county, Ohio. He was 
elected prosecuting attorney for a term of 
two years, in Crown Point, Ind.; and was 
re-elected. He was a state senator for 
four years, and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Indiana to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

WOOD, THOMAS JOHN, soldier, was 
born Sept. 25, 1823, in Munfordville, Ky. 
In 1845 he graduated from the United 
States Military acad¬ 
emy; was assigned 
to the topographical 
engineers; was 
transferred to the 
second dragoons, be¬ 
coming a second 
lieutenant in 1846. 
He took part in the 
war with Mexico; 
served in Kansas 
during the border 
troubles, and in 1861 
became brigadier- 
general of volunteers. He was present at 
the battles of Chickamauga and Mission¬ 
ary Ridge, and in 1864 was severely 
wounded. In 1865 he was promoted ma¬ 
jor-general of volunteers. He received the 
brevet of first lieutenant, United States 
army, for gallant and meritorious con¬ 
duct in the battle of Buena Vista; that of 
brigadier-general for Chickamauga, and 
major-general for Nashville. 

WOOD, THOMAS WATERMAN, artist, 
was born Nov. 12, 1823, in Montpelier, 
Vt. During 1878-87 he was president of 
the American Water-Color society; in 
1879-91 was vice-president of the Na¬ 
tional Academy of Design, and president 
of that institution since 1891. 

WOOD, WALTER ABBOTT, manufac¬ 
turer, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 
1815, in Mason, N. H. He removed to 
New York and engaged largely in manu¬ 
facturing; and was elected a representa- 
tive from New York to the forty-sixth 
and forty-seventh congresses as a republi¬ 
can. He died Jan. 15, 1892, in Hoosick 
Falls. N. Y. 

WOOD, WILLIAM, clergyman, was born 
Oct. 14, 1863, in England. He is a grad¬ 


uate of the Maine Wesleyan seminary, 
and the Boston university. He has at¬ 
tained success as a clergyman of the meth- 
odist episcopal church, and now fills a 
pastorate in Booth Bay Harbor, Maine. 

WOOD, WILLIAM DIXON, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, was born Dec. 1, 1858, 
in Marin county, Cal. In 1885-86 he was 
probate judge of King county, Wash.; in 
1889 became state senator; in 1893-95 was 
regent of the university of Washington; 
and in 1896-97 was mayor of Seattle. 

WOOD, WILLIAM HENRY SIGEL, ed¬ 
ucator, lawyer, orator, public official, was 
born Oct. 10, 1858, in Goodrich, Mich. 
For ten years he was engaged in educa¬ 
tional work; was in the railway mail ser¬ 
vice in 1885, a civil service clerk in the 
postoffice department of Washington dur¬ 
ing 1885-90. In 1891 he was clerk of the 
Michigan state board of auditors; in 1892 
superintendent of the Michigan State Re¬ 
form school; in 1893 superintendent 
Michigan State Industrial School for 
Boys; and in 1897 was elected circuit court 
commissioner of Livingston county, Mich. 

WOOD, WILLIAM MAXWELL, naval 
surgeon, author, was born May 27, 1809, 
in Baltimore, Md. He was a United States 
naval surgeon, and the author of Wan¬ 
dering Sketches; A Shoulder to the Wheel 
of Progress; Hints to the People on the 
Profession of Medicine; and Fankwei, or 
the San Jacinto in the Seas of India, 
China and Japan. He died March 1, 
1880, in Baltimore county, Md. 

WOOD, WILLIAM MAXWELL, naval 
officer, inventor, author, was born March 
9, 1850, in Baltimore, Md. He has pat¬ 
ented a boat-detaching apparatus, which 
has been adopted in the United States 
navy and merchant service. He is the 
author of an article on Life-Boats and 
Boat-Detaching Apparatus. 

WOODBERRY, GEORGE EDWA'.J, 
educator, author, was born May 12, 1855, 
in Beverly, Mass. He is a prominent lit¬ 
erary critic of New York city, professor 
of literature in Columbia university, and 
editor, with E. C. Stedman, of the com¬ 
plete works of Poe. He has also edited 
a complete edition of Shelley, with Me¬ 
moir and Notes. He is the author of A 
History of Wood Engraving; The North 
Shore Watch, and Other Poems; Life of 
Edgar Allan Poe; Life of James Russell 
Lowell; and Studies in Letters and Life. 

WOODBRIDGE, FREDERICK ENOCH, 
lawyer state legislature, congressman, 
was born Aug. 29, 1819, in Vergennes, Vt. 
He served three years in the Vermont 
state legislature; two years in the state 
senate and three years as state auditor. 
In 1863 he was elected a representative 
from Vermont to the thirty-eighth con¬ 
gress, and was re-elected to the thirty- 
ninth and fortieth congresses as a repub¬ 
lican. He died April 26, 1888, in Ver¬ 
gennes, Vt. 

WOODBRIDGE. LUTHER DANA, edu¬ 
cator, physician, lecturer, author, was 
born Dec. 27, 1850, in Perth Amboy, N. J. 

He received his ed¬ 
ucation in the Pin- 
gry school of Eliza¬ 
beth, N. J.; gradu¬ 
ated in 1872 from the 
Williams college of 
Williamstown Mass., 
from the college of 
Physicians and Sur¬ 
geons of New York 
city in 1877, and sub¬ 
sequently from the 
medical department 
of the Vienna uni¬ 
versity. In 1872-73 he was a tutor in the 
Robert college of Constantinople; and in 
1877-79 was house physician in the Roose¬ 


velt hospital of New York city. In 1880 
he was in the Interne London hospital, 
England, and in 1882-83 was assistant sur¬ 
geon in the Manhattan Eye and Ear hos¬ 
pital. Since 1884 he has been professor 
of anatomy and physiology in the Will¬ 
iams college of Williamstown, Mass. He 
has been president of the Berkshire Dis¬ 
trict Medical society, president of the 
Berkshire Congregational club, and since 
1894 has been lecturer on the nervous 
system in the college- of Physicians and 
Surgeons of Boston, Mass. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Syllabus of Lectures on Ana¬ 
tomy and Physiology; a pamphlet on 
the Abortive Treatment of Typhoid Fever, 
and other works. 

WOODBRIDGE, SAMUEL MERRILL, 
clergyman, author, was born in 1819 in 
Massachusetts. He is a Dutch reformed 
clergyman, professor at Rutgers Theologi¬ 
cal seminary of New Brunswick, N. J., 
from 1857, and the author of Analysis of 
Theology; and Faith: Its True Position in 
the Life of Man. 

WOODBRIDGE, WILLIAM, lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state senator, congressman, governor, 
United States senator, was born Aug. 20, 
1780, in Norwich, Conn. In 1807 he was 
elected to the assembly of Ohio, and in 
1808 was prosecuting attorney for his 
county, which office he held until 1814. 
During the same period he was also a 
member of the state senate. In 1814 he 
received the appointment of secretary of 
the territory of Michigan, and removed to 
Detroit. In 1819 he was elected the first 
delegate from Michigan to congress, and 
in 1828 was appointed judge of the su¬ 
preme court of Michigan territory and 
held the office four years. In 1837 he was 
elected to the state senate of Michigan. 
In 1839 he was chosen governor of the 
state, and was a senator in congress from 
1841 to 1847. He died Oct. 20, 1861, in 
Detroit, Mich. 

WOODBRIDGE, WILLIAM CHAN- 
NING, educator, author, was born Dec. 18, 
1794, in Medford, Mass. He was an ed¬ 
ucator of Hartford, and the author of 
Universal Geography; Modern Schodl 
Geography; and Letters from Hofwyl. He 
died Nov. 9, 1845, in Boston, Mass. 

WOODBURN, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
clergyman, was born March 23, 1832, in 
Crescent Township, Pa. Since the open¬ 
ing of the Allegheny General hospital in 
1884 he has been its president. 

WOODBURN, WILLIAM, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1838 in Ireland. 
He was district-attorney of Storey county 
in 1871 and 1872. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative from Nevada to the forty- 
fourth congress for the state at large, 
and in 1884 was elected to the forty-ninth 
congress; and also to the fiftieth congress 
as a republican. 

WOODBURY, AUGUSTUS, clergyman, 
author, journalist, legislator, was born 
Dec. 4, 1825, in Beverly, Mass. He was 
pastor of the Unitarian church from 1849 
until 1892, when he retired. He was chap¬ 
lain during the civil war; has served as 
a member of the Rhode Island legislature, 
and for many years was engaged in jour¬ 
nalism. He is the author of Plain W T ords 
to Young Men; The Second Rhode Island 
Regiment; and Historical Sketch of 
Rhode Island Prisons and Jails, his prin¬ 
cipal works. 

WOODBURY, CHARLES LEVI, lawyer, 
jurist, author, was born May 22, 1820, in 
Portsmouth, N. H. He was United States 
district attorney for Massachusetts from 
1858 until 1861. He edited with George 
Minot Reports of Cases Argued and De¬ 
termined in the Circuit Court of the Unit¬ 
ed States for the First Circuit, containing 
the decisions of Judge Levi Woodbury, in 
three volumes. 






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WOODBURY, DANIEL PHINEAS, sol¬ 
dier, author, was born Dec. 16, 1812, in 
New London, N. H. He was a general in 
the federal army during the civil war, and 
the author of Sustaining Walls; and The¬ 
ory of the Arch. He died Aug. 15, 1864, 
in Key West, Fla. 

WOODBURY, ISAAC BAKER, journal¬ 
ist, author, was born Oct. 18, 1819, in 
Beverly, Mass. In 1845 he removed to 
New York, where he edited the Musical 
Review and the Musical Pioneer. He 
compiled several collections of church mu¬ 
sic and glee-books, among which were 
the Anthem Dulcimer; Liber Musicus 
(1851); Million’s Glee-Book; Cultivation 
of the Voice Without a Master; Self-In¬ 
structor in Musical Composition and 
Thorough Bass; Singing-School and Mu¬ 
sic-Teacher’s Companion; and the Melo- 
deon and Seraphine Instruction-Book. He 
died Oct. 26, 1858, in Columbia, S. C. 

WOODBURY, LEVI, lawyer, jurist, con¬ 
gressman, governor, United States sena¬ 
tor, was born Dec. 22, 1789, in Frances- 
town, N. H. In 1816 
he was appointed 
judge of the superi¬ 
or court of New 
Hampshire, and in 
1819 settled in Ports¬ 
mouth. In 1823 he 
was elected governor 
of New Hampshire. 
He was speaker of 
the state house of 
representatives i n 
1825, and was a sen- 
a t o r in congress 
from 1825 to 1831. He was appointed sec¬ 
retary of the navy in 1831, and was trans¬ 
ferred to the treasury department as sec¬ 
retary, in 1834, by President Van Buren, 
and served until 1841. He was again a 
senator in congress from 1841 to 1845, 
when he was appointed a justice of the 
supreme court of the United States. He 
died Sept. 7, 1851, in Portsmouth, N. H. 

WOODCOCK, DAVID, state legislator, 
congressman, was born in Berkshire coun¬ 
ty, Mass. He was a member of the New 
York assembly from Seneca county in 
1814 and 1815, and from Tompkins coun¬ 
ty in 1826. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1821 to 
1823, and again from 1827 to 1829. 

WOODFORD, M. DE WITT, railroad 
president, was born Oct. 27, 1838, at Fre- 
donia, N. Y. Since 1893 he has been pres¬ 
ident of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheel¬ 
ing railroad, and also of numerous other 
corporations at Cincinnati, Ohio. 

WOODFORD, STEWART LYNDON, 
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born 
Sept. 3, 1835, in New York city. He was 
appointed assistant attorney for the Unit¬ 
ed States at New York in 1861. He en¬ 
listed in the one hundred and twenty-sev¬ 
enth regiment New York volunteers in 
1862; was promoted to the lieutenant-col¬ 
onelcy of that regiment, and subsequently 
colonel and brigadier-general. He was 
elected lieutenant-governor of the state 
of New York in 1866; and was elected 
presidential elector at large, and was'pres- 
ident of the electoral college in 1872. He 
was elected to the forty-third congress 
as a republican. 

WOODFORD, WILLIAM, soldier, was 
born in 1735 in Caroline county, Va. He 
was appointed brigadier-general in 1777, 
and given command of the first Virginia 
brigade. He died Nov. 13, 1780, in New 
York city. , 

WOODHOUSE, JAMES, surgeon, chem¬ 
ist, author, was born Nov. 17, 1770, in 


Philadelphia, Pa. In 1791 he served as 
a surgeon in St. Clair’s army. From 1795 
until his death he filled the chair of chem¬ 
istry in the university of Pennsylvania. 
He was the author of The Young Chem¬ 
ist’s Pocket Companion; Experiments a‘nd 
Observations on the Vegetation of Plants; 
and other works. He died June 4, 1809, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

WOODHOUSE, LORENZO GUERNSEY, 
merchant, was born July 16, 1839, in 
Westmoreland, N. H. In 1861 he enlisted 
in the seventh regi¬ 
ment, New York 
national guard, and 
followed the for¬ 
tunes of this regi¬ 
ment in its cam¬ 
paigns of 1861 and 
1862, and saw subse¬ 
quent service in riot 
duty. In 1863 he as¬ 
sociated himself with 
the dry goods firm of 
Cooley. Farwell and 
Company of Chicago, 
as their New York representative. He 
continued with their successors, Farwell, 
Field and Company, Field, Palmer and 
Leiter, Field, Leiter and Company, 
and Marshall Field and Company, cov¬ 
ering a period of twenty-seven years, 
retiring from the latter firm in 1890. 
During all this time, he was their rep¬ 
resentative and for many years the man¬ 
ager and resident New York partner. 

WOODHULL, ALFRED ALEXANDER, 
physician, surgeon, author, was born in 
1837 in New Jersey. He is a United 
States army surgeon, and the author of 
Notes on Military Hygiene; and Studies 
in the Non-Emetic Use of Ipecacuanha. 

WOODHULL, WILLIAM, clergyman, 
was born Dec. 3, 1741, in Miller’s Place, 
L. I., N. Y. He was a member of the 
provincial congress of New Jersey which 
met at Burlington in 1776; deposed Gov. 
William Franklin, the last royal governor, 
and framed the first constitution of New 
Jersey, and of the convention that met at 
Trenton in 1787, and adopted the United 
States constitution. He died Oct. 24, 
1824, in Chester, N. J. 

WOODMAN, CHARLES W., soldier, 
lawyer, jurist, congressman,, was born 
March 11, 1844, in Denmark. He was 
appointed prosecuting attorney of the 
lower courts in Chicago, Ill., in 1877, and 
in 1881 was appointed justice of the peace 
by the judges of Cook county. He was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
republican. 

WOODMAN, J. F., railroad president, 
was born in England. Since 1893 he has 
been president of the Great Salt Lake and 
Hot Springs railway at Salt Lake City, 
Utah. 

WOODMANSEE. EMILY HILL, poet, 
was born in England. In 1856 she emi¬ 
grated to America and has since resided 
in Salt Lake City, 
Utah. She is the au¬ 
thor of a number of 
meritorious poems 
and contributes ex¬ 
tensively to the peri¬ 
odical press. Mrs 
Woodmansee i s a 
woman possessed of 
business ability, and 
deals extensively in 
real estate. Her 
poems have been in¬ 
corporated in Poets 
of America, and several other standard 
collections. 


WOODRUFF, CLINTON ROGERS, law¬ 
yer, legislator, was born Dec. 17, 1868, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1897 he was elect¬ 
ed a member of the Pennsylvania state 
legislature. He has been prominent in 
educational and reform work, and in 1894 
was secretary of the Philadelphia con¬ 
ference for good city government. 

WOODRUFF, GEORGE, lawyer, jurist, 
was born July 4, 1807, in Binghamton, 
N. Y. He became county judge in 1846, 
and served two terms in Marshall, Mich. 
He was circuit commissioner three terms; 
and a judge of the circuit court in 1866-75. 
He died May 13, 1887, in Marshall, Mich. 

WOODRUFF, GEORGE C., lawyer, jur¬ 
ist, state legislator, congressman, was 
born Dec. 1, 1805, in Litchfield, Conn. He 
was a judge of probate in Connecticut for 
several years. In 1861 he was elected a 
representative from Connecticut to the 
thirty-seventh congress. 

WOODRUFF, HIRAM, author, was born 
Feb. 22, 1817, in Flemington, N. J. He 
was a noted horse-trainer who wrote The 
Trotting Horse of America. He died 
March 13, 1867, in New York. 

WOODRUFF, JOHN, state legislator, 
congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1826, in 
Hartford, Conn. He was a member of the 
Connecticut legislature in 1854. In 1855 
he was elected a representative from 
Connecticut to the thirty-fourth congress, 
and was also elected to the thirty-sixth 
congress. He subsequently held the po¬ 
sition of collector of internal revenue for 
the district of New Haven. He died May 
20, 1868, in New Haven, Conn. 

WOODRUFF, MRS. JULIA LOUISA 
MATILDA (CURTISS), author, was born 
in 1832 in Connecticut. She is an author 
and compiler of New York city, and the 
author of My Winter in Cuba; Shiloh; 
Holden with the Cords; Bellevue; and 
Daisy Seekers. 

WOODRUFF, LEWIS E„ lawyer, jurist, 
was born June 19, 1809, in Litchfield, 
Conn. In 1849 he was elected to the 
bench of common pleas, and in 1855 was 
transferred to that of the superior court. 
In 1868 he was appointed judge of the 
court of appeals, and in 1869 was ap¬ 
pointed circuit judge of the United States 
for the second circuit. He died Sept. 10, 
1875, in Litchfield, Conn. 

WOODRUFF, THOMAS M., merchant, 
congressman. He was a resident of New 
York city, and was a member of congress 
from 1845 to 1847. He died about 1870. 

WOODRUFF, WILFORD, apostle presi¬ 
dent of the Church of Jesus Christ of 
Latter-Day Saints, was born March 1, 
1807, in Avon, Conn. For many years 
he was a member of the legislature of 
Utah; president of the Deseret Agricul¬ 
tural and Manufacturing association, and 
president of several mercantile institu¬ 
tions. He has been priest and elder in 
his church, and is still its active presi¬ 
dent; vigorous at the age of ninety years, 
attending daily to official duties, preaches 
frequently, and presides over church af¬ 
fairs in all the world. 

WOODS, ALMOND LE ROY, educator, 
journalist, was born June 21, 1856, in 
Troy, Maine. He received his education 
at the Maine Central institute and at 
Bates college, and has received the de¬ 
grees of A. B. and A. M. He is a success¬ 
ful educator; was president of the North 
Dakota State Educational association in 
1890, and is now superintendent of coun¬ 
ty schools of Walsh county, N. D. In 
1889 he established Common School, a 
state educational journal, of which he is 
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WOODS, CHARLES COKE, clergyman, 
■was born Oct. 8, 1860, near Springfield, 
Ill. In 1879 he was licensed to preach at 
Belton, Mo.; is a graduate of the Garrett 
Biblical institute of Evanston, Ill., and 
the McKendree college of Lebanon, Ill. 
He has attained success as an eminent 
•clergyman of the methodist episcopal 
church; is a popular lecturer, and fills the 
chair of theological science in the Itin¬ 
erant’s Theological institute of south¬ 
western Kansas, Eldorado, Kan., where 
he also fills the pastorate in his church. 
He is an able, zealous and uncompromis¬ 
ing advocate of the prohibition cause, 
and was elected as a delegate to the 
world’s temperance congress in 1893. 

WOODS, GEORGE L„ lawyer, jurist, 
governor, was born July 30, 1832, in Boone 
county, Mo. In 1847 he moved to Oregon 
with his father; in 1863 he was appointed 
county judge of Wasco county, and in 
1864 was elected presidential elector. In 
1866 he was elected governor of Oregon 
for four years, and from 1871 served four 
years as governor of Utah territory. He 
died Jan. 14, 1890, in Portland, Ore. 

WOODS, HENRY, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1790 to 1803. 

WOODS, JOHN, governor. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Illinois for a part of the years 
1860 and 1861. 

WOODS, JOHN, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1815 to 1817. 

WOODS, JOHN, lawyer, congressman, 
was born in 1794 in Dauphin county, Pa. 
In 1824 he was elected from Ohio to con¬ 
gress and served two terms. In 1829 he 
became the editor and publisher of the 
Hamilton Intelligencer. In 1845 he was 
elected auditor of the state, which office 
he held for two terms. He died July 30, 
1855, in Hamilton, Ohio. 

WOODS, JOHN LAMB, lumberman, 
financier, philanthropist, was born Feb. 
11, 1821, in Corinth, Vt. He erected en¬ 
tirely at his own ex¬ 
pense a new college 
building for the 
medical department 
of the Western Re¬ 
serve university of 
Cleveland, and the 
building ranks 
among the finest in 
the United States. 
The Woman’s col¬ 
lege of the same uni¬ 
versity also received 
from him a large en¬ 
dowment in memory of his wife, as did 
also the Lakeside hospital of Cleveland, 
Ohio. Among his other gifts to the cause 
of education and science, he built for 
the Bradford academy of Bradford, Vt., 
a commodious school building, and also 
erected and liberally endowed a public li¬ 
brary there. He died March 27, 1892, in 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

WOODS, MRS. KATE TANNATT, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1838 in Peekskill, 
N Y. She is a writer of Salem, Mass.. 

and the author of 
Six Little Rebels; 
Dr. Dick; Out and 
About; The Wooing 
o f Grandmother 
Grey; Grandfather 
Grey; Children’s 
Stories; Toots and 
His Friends; and 
The Duncans o n 
Land and Sea. Her 
poems were given a 
place in Poets of 
America and other 

standard collections. 


WOODS, KATHERINE PEARSON, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1853 in West Virginia. 
She is the author of The Crowning of Can¬ 
dace; John, a Tale of King Messiah; From 
Dusk to Dawn; A Web of Gold; Metze- 
rott, Shoemaker, a protest against social 
injustice; and Mine and Thine. 

WOODS, LEONARD, educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born June 19, 1774, in 
Princeton, Mass. He was a congregation¬ 
al clergyman of Massachusetts, professor 
at Andover seminary in 1808-54, and the 
author of Letters to Unitarians; Inspira¬ 
tion of the Scriptures; Memoirs of Ameri¬ 
can Missionaries; Church Government; 
Lectures on Swedenborgianism; and Ex¬ 
amination of the Doctrine of Perfection. 
He died Aug. 24, 1854, in Andover, Mass. 

WOODS, LEONARD, clergyman, educa¬ 
tor, college president, author, was born 
Nov. 24, 1807, in West Newbury, Mass. 
In 1831 he was an instructor in the The¬ 
ological institution, ana the same year 
translated and published an edition of 
Knapp’s Theology. He was editor of the 
Literary and Theological Review during 
1834-37; became professor of biblical lit¬ 
erature in tne Theological seminary of 
Bangor in 1836, and in 1839 became presi¬ 
dent of Bowdoin college. In 1866 he re¬ 
signed the presidency of that institu¬ 
tion, and the following year received a 
commission from the governor of Maine 
to collect material in Europe for the early 
history of the state for the Maine Histori¬ 
cal society. He died Dec. 24, 1§78. 

WOODS, MICAJAH, lawyer, jurist,'was 
born in 1776 in Albemarle county, Va. He 
was for twenty years a member of the 
justice’s court for Albemarle county, and 
for many years the presiding justice of 
that county. He died in 1837 in Albe-^ 
marie county, Va. 

WOODS, VIRNA. educator, author, was 
born in 1864 in Ohio. He is an educator 
of Sacramento, Cal., and the author of A 
Modern Magdalene, a novel; and The 
Amazons, a lyrical drama. 

WOODS, W. B., soldier, lawyer, jurist, 
state legislator, was born in Newark, 
Ohio. In 1857 he was elected to the Ohio 
legislature and made speaker, and was 
re-elected to the same body in 1859. In 
1861 he went into the military service as 
lieutenant-colonel of the seventy-sixth 
Ohio infantry; served until the close of 
the war, and was mustered out with the 
rank of brigadier-general and brevet ma¬ 
jor-general. He was mustered out of 
service in Alabama, where he remained. 
In 1868 he was chosen a state chancellor 
for six years; and after serving as such 
two years, was appointed circuit judge of 
the United States for the fifth circuit, re¬ 
siding in Mobile. In 1881 he was appoint¬ 
ed a justice of the supreme court of the 
United States. 

WOODS, WILLIAM, clergyman, legis¬ 
lator, was born in 1738 in Albemarle 
county, Va. In 1780 he founded the old 
Albemarle Baptist church, near the uni¬ 
versity of Virginia. At the request of 
Jefferson he resigned his charge in 1799 
that he might be elected to the legisla¬ 
ture. He died in 1819 in Albemarle coun¬ 
ty, Va. 

WOODS, WILLIAM, state legislator, 
congressman. He was a representative in 
congress from New York from 1823 to 
1825, and a member of the state assem¬ 
bly from Steuben county in 1828. 

WOODS, WILLIAM ALLAN, educator, 
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born 
May 16, 1837, near Farmington, Tenn. 
In 1862 he moved to Goshen, Ind.. where 
he practiced his profession successfully, 
and in 1867 was elected a representative 
in the state legislature. In 1873 he was 


elected judge of the thirty-fourth judi¬ 
cial circuit, and served by re-election un¬ 
til 1881, when he was elected judge of the 
state supreme court. He was soon after 
made chief justice of that court, and in 
1883 was appointed United States district 
judge for the district of Indiana, and 
moved to Indianapolis. He is now United 
States circuit judge for the seventh cir¬ 
cuit. 

WOODS, WILLIAM STONE, financier, 
philanthropist, was born Nov. 1, 1840, in 
Columbia, Mo. He invested largely in 
real estate, being to-day the owner of 
much valuable business property, which 
is covered with buildings and rented to 
good advantage. In 1890 he gave fifty 
thousand dollars to the Orphans’ school 
of Fulton, Mo. 

WOODSON, SAMUEL H., congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
Kentucky from 1821 to 1825. 

WOODSON, SAMUEL H., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 
24, 1815, in Jessamine county, Ky. He 
was a member of the Missouri general as¬ 
sembly in 1853 and 1854, and was a mem¬ 
ber of the constitutional convention of 
Missouri in 1855. He was elected a rep¬ 
resentative to the thirty-fifth congress 
from that state, and was re-elected to the 
thirty-sixth congress. 

WOODSON, SILAS, lawyer, jurist, gov¬ 
ernor. He was governor of Missouri from 
1873 to 1875; and at the time of his death 
was judge of the criminal court of Bu¬ 
chanan county. He died Nov. 9, 1896, in 
St. Joseph, Mo. 

WOODVILLE, RICHARD CATON, art¬ 
ist, was born about 1825 in Baltimore, 
Md. Among his effective and well-fin¬ 
ished genre pictures were Old ’76; Young 
’48; The Politicians; The Game of Chess; 
Waiting for the Stage; and The Sailor s 
Wedding. He died Sept. 13, 1855, in Eng¬ 
land. 

WOODWARD, ASHBEL, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born June 26, 1804, in Welling¬ 
ton, Conn. He was a physician of Frank¬ 
lin, Conn., and the author of Vindication 
of General Israel Putnam; Vindication of 
Army Surgeons; Life of General Nathan¬ 
iel Lyon; and Medical Ethics, his prin¬ 
cipal writings. He died Nov. 20, 1885, 
in Franklin, Conn. 

WOODWARD, AUGUSTUS B., lawyer, 
jurist, was born about 1775 in Virginia. 
He was appointed a judge of the terri¬ 
tory of Michigan, a position he held 
during 1805-24. He was the author of a 
Code of Laws, which bears his name. In 
1824 he was appointed a judge for the 
territory of Florida, and died there after 
a service of three years. He died in 1827 
in Florida. 

WOODWARD, CALVIN MILTON, sol¬ 
dier, educator, author, was born Aug. 25, 
1837, in Fitchburg, Mass. He is a St. 
Louis educator, professor in Washington 
university from 1868, and the author of 
History of the St. Louis Bridge; and The 
Manual Training School: Its Aims, Meth¬ 
ods and Results. 

WOODWARD, EDWARD P., clergyman, 
poet, was born June 8, 1840, in Warsaw, 
N. Y. Since 1881 he has been pastor of 
the Second Advent church of Portland, 
Maine, and is also vice-president of the 
Maine State Advent Christian conference. 
His poems have appeared in the leading 
religious and secular publications. 

WOODWARD, FRANCIS CHANNING, 
author, was born in 1812 in Connecticut. 
He was a once popular writer of juvenile 
tales, among which are, Uncle Franu’s 
Home Stories; and Stories for Little 
Folks. He died in 1859. 






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WOODWARD, FRANK R., manufactu¬ 
rer, inventor, legislator, was born Feb. 

9, 1845, in Salisbury, N. H. He received 
his education in the 
district schools and 
at the Noyes acade¬ 
my. In 1868 he 
moved to Manches¬ 
ter, and became su¬ 
perintendent of the 
Forsaith Latch Nee¬ 
dle factory, which 
business he pur¬ 
chased in 1870, and 
two years later 
moved it to the town 
of Hill. The follow¬ 
ing year he sold out the needle business 
and engaged in the manufacture of glass 
cutters and other light hardware, for 
which a world-wide reputation has been 
established. He has done much to ad¬ 
vance the prosperity of his city; gave 
them Pleasant Hill cemetery, and built a 
system of waterworks. In 1884 he was 
chosen a representative in the New Hamp¬ 
shire state legislature, which he resigned 
a year later to accept the position of 
postmaster. 

WOODWARD, FRED A., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Feb. 12, 1854, in Wil¬ 
son county, N. C. He was elected from 
Wilson, N. C., to the fifty-third and re¬ 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
democrat. 

WOODWARD, GEORGE WASHING¬ 
TON, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was 
born March 26, 1809, in Bethany, Pa. In 
1841 he was appoint¬ 
ed president judge of 
the fourth judicial 
district, and held the 
office ten years. In 
1852 he was elected 
judge of the supreme 
court of Pennsylvan¬ 
ia, and held the po¬ 
sition for nearly six¬ 
teen years. He was 
elected a representa¬ 
tive from Pennsyl¬ 
vania to the fortieth 
and forty-first congresses as a democrat. 
He died May 10, 1875, in Rome, Italy. 

WOODWARD, GILBERT M„ soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 25, 1835, 
in Washington, D. C. He received a com¬ 
mon-school education; studied law, and 
was admitted to the bar, and has since 
practiced. He served in the union army 
during the war of the rebellion a little 
over three years, and in that time was pri¬ 
vate, first sergeant, second lieutenant, 
first lieutenant, adjutant of the second 
Wisconsin volunteer infantry; and served 
by detail as acting aide-de-camp on the 
staff of the first brigade, first division, 
first army corps, and in the same capacity 
on the staff of the first division, fifth army 
corps. He was district attorney of La 
Crosse county from 1866 to 1873, and was 
mayor of the city of La Crosse, 1874, 1875. 
He was city attorney of the city of La 
Crosse, 1876-82, and was elected to the 
forty-eighth congress as a democrat. 

WOODWARD, JOSEPH A., congress¬ 
man, was born in South Carolina. He was 
a representative in 'congress from South 
Carolina from 1843 to 1847. 

WOODWARD, JOSEPH JANVIER, sur¬ 
geon, author, was born Oct. 30, 1833, in 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was a United State's 
army surgeon, and the author of Outlines 
of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United 
States Armies, as Observed During the 
Present War (1864); and Medical and 
Surgical History of the Rebellion. He 
died Aug. 17, 1884, near Philadelphia, Pa. 





WOODWARD, NATHAN ARMSBY, 

lawyer, legislator, poet, was born March 

9, 1818, in Fairfax, Vt. His parents moved 

to Monroe county, 
N. Y., in 1834. 
He entered Union 
college and was 
graduated therefrom 
in 1845. He taught 
school for four or 
five years, in the 
meantime reading 
law, and was admit¬ 
ted to the bar in 
1848. He is a mem¬ 
ber of the Phi Beta 
Kappa society. I n 


1851 he opened an office in Batavia, N. Y., 
to begin the practice of law. In 1862 
he was elected county treasurer and 
held that office two terms issuing 
over half a million dollars of county 
war bonds, most of which were paid 
while he . held the office. He served 
as a delegate to the state constitutional 
convention for the twenty-ninth senato¬ 
rial district. He is the author of Pebbles 
and Boulders, a volume of poems. 


■WOODWARD, ROBERT SIMPSON, 
mathematician, educator, author, was 
born in 1849 in Michigan. He is a math¬ 
ematician, professor of mechanics at Col¬ 
umbia university from 1893 and the au¬ 
thor of Latitudes and Longitudes of Cer¬ 
tain Points in Missouri, Kansas and New 
Mexico, and many scientific papers of 
value. 


WOODWARD, SAMUEL BAYARD, phy¬ 
sician, philanthropist, was born June 10, 
1787, in Torringford, Conn. He was one 
of the founders of the Hartford Retreat 
for the Insane, and assisted to establish 
other philanthropic institutions. He died 
Jan. 3, 1850, in Northampton, Mass. 


WOODWARD, WILLIAM, congressman. 
He was a representative in congress from 
South Carolina from 181o to 1817. 


WOODWORTH, CHAUNCEY B., bank¬ 
er, was born Feb. 25, 1819, in Coventry, 
Conn. In 1857 he bought the perfumery 

_ factory of Campbell, 

Bunnell and Com- 

C pany, in Rochester, 
N. Y., and is still 
P its proprietor, the 

TP 1 frujf firm name being C. 

B. Woodworth and 
Sons. He is vice- 
president of the 
Flour City National 
bank, also of the 
Rochester Trust and 
Safe Deposit com¬ 
pany, trustee of the 
Mechanics’ Savings bank for ten years, 
and a trustee of the Rochester Theologi¬ 
cal seminary. He is a prominent member 
of the Second Baptist church of Roches¬ 
ter, and in politics a republican. 



WOODWORTH, FRANCIS C„ author, 
clergyman, was born in 1812 in Colchester, 
Conn. His numerous publications in¬ 
clude, Our Own Fields; Youth’s Book of 
Gems; Uncle Frank’s Home Stories, in 
six volumes; Uncle Frank’s Picture Gal¬ 
lery; Wonders of the Insect World; The 
World as It Is, or a Miniature Sketch of 
the Earth and Its Inhabitants; Theodore 
Tinker’s Stories for Little Folks, in twelve 
volumes; Young American’s Life of Fre¬ 
mont; and Uncle Frank’s Pleasant Pages 
for the Fireside. He also edited Wood¬ 
worth's American Miscellany; and Wood¬ 
worth’s Youth’s Cabinet. He died June 
5, 1859, at sea. 


WOODWORTH, JAMES H., merchant, 
state senator, congressman, was born 


Dec. 4, 1804, in Greenwich, N. Y. He 
moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1833; in 1839 
was elected to the state senate, and in 
1842 was a member of the lower house. 
From 1845 to 1850 he was connected with 
the city government of Chicago, being 
two years mayor, and was a representa¬ 
tive from Illinois to the thirty-fourth con¬ 
gress. 

WOODWORTH, JOHN, lawyer, jurist, 
author, was born Nov. 12, 1768, in Scho- 
dack, N. Y. He was a member of the New 
York assembly in 1803, and of the state 
senate in 1804-07; attorney-general of 
New York in 1804-08, and a judge of the 
state supreme court in 1819-28. He pub¬ 
lished Reminiscences of Troy from Its 
Settlement in 1790 till 1807. He died June 
1, 1858, in Albany, N. Y. 

WOODWORTH, JOHN MAYNARD, 
physician, surgeon, author, was born Aug. 
15, 1837, in Big Flats, N. Y. He was a 
surgeon in the civil war, and in 1865 re¬ 
ceived the brevet of lieutenant-colonel of 
volunteers. In 1866 he was professor of 
anatomy in the Chicago Medical college; 
surgeon of the Soldiers’ home; and san¬ 
itary inspector of the city board of health 
in 1868. In 1871-79 he was supervising 
surgeon-general of the Marine hospital of 
Washington, D. C. He was the author of 
several medical works. He died March 14, 
1879, in Washington, D. C. 

WOODWORTH, LAURIN D., soldier, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
Sept. 10, 1837, in Windham, Ohio. He 
was educated at Hi¬ 
ram college; was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in. 
1859, and practiced 
law at Ravenna, 
Ohio. He was a ma¬ 
jor in the army in 
the war for the 
union, and was elect¬ 
ed to the senate of 
Ohio in 1867 and 
1869. He was elect¬ 
ed to the forty-third 
congress, serving on 
the committees on the interior department 
and manufactures, and was re-elected to 
the forty-fourth congress as a republican. 

WOODWORTH, SAMUEL, journalist, 
poet, was born Jan. 13, 1785, in Scituate, 
Mass. He was a journalist and poet of 
New Y’ork city who wrote, The Cham¬ 
pions of Freedom, an historical romance; 
Melodies, Duets, Trios, Songs, and Bal¬ 
lads, but who will be longest remembered 
as the author of the famous lyric, The 
Old Oaken Bucket. He died Dec. 9, 1842, 
in New York city. 

WOODWORTH, WILLIAM W., con¬ 
gressman. was born in Connecticut. He 
was a representative in congress from 
New York from 1845 to 1847. 

WOOL, JOHN ELLIS, soldier, was born 
Feb. 20, 1784, in Newburg, N. Y. He 
served in the war of 1812; in 1841 was ap¬ 
pointed a brigadier- 
general in the Unit¬ 
ed States army, and 
for services in the- 
Mexican war he was 
brevetted major-gen¬ 
eral. He was retired 
in 1863, being long 
past the age for ac¬ 
tive service. He was 
especially eminent 
in the organizing 
and discipline of 
troops. A monu¬ 
ment seventy-five feet high has been 
erected to his memory in Troy, N. Y. He 
died Nov. 10, 1869, in Troy, N. Y. 








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WOOLLEN, WILLIAM WESLEY, jour¬ 
nalist, banker, author, was born June 21, 
1828, in Dorchester county, Md. He has 
filled the office of auditor and treasurer 
of his county; and city comptroller, and 
manager of the Indianapolis Clearing 
House association. He is the author of 
Biographical and Historical Sketches of 
Early Indiana. 

WOOLLEY, MRS. CELIA PARKER, 
lecturer, author, was born June 14, 1848, 
in Toledo, Ohio. She is the author of 
Love and Theology, which was changed 
in its fifth edition to the title of Rachel 
Armstrong. Her other works are A Girl 
Graduate; and Roger Hunt. She has 
lectured before women’s clubs, and for a 
year was president of the Woman’s West¬ 
ern Unitarian conference. For two years 
she served as president of the Chicago 
Woman’s club. 

WOOLMAN, JOHN, clergyman, author, 
was born Aug. 19, 1720, in Northampton, 
N. J. He was a Quaker itinerant preacher 
of New Jersey, in whose writings occurs 
the earliest protest in America against 
the slave trade. He is the author of Es¬ 
says and Epistles; Serious Considera¬ 
tions; and On the Keeping of Negroes. 
His famous journal, by which he is most 
widely known, has been edited by the 
poet Whittier. He died Oct. 7, 1772, in 
England. 

WOOLSEY, ABBY HOWLAND, philan¬ 
thropist, author. She was a New York 
philanthropist; and the author of A Cen¬ 
tury of Nursing; Lunacy Legislation in 
England; Handbook for Hospital Visi¬ 
tors; and Hospital Laundries. She died in 
1893. 

WOOLSEY, SARAH CHANNING, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born in 1836 in Ohio. She 
is a poet and popular writer for young 
people; and a resident of Newport, R. I. 
She is the author of Old Convent School 
in Paris; The New Year’s Bargain; What 
Katy Did; A Guernsey Lily; For Sum¬ 
mer Afternoons; In the High Valley; A 
Short History of Philadelphia; The Bar¬ 
berry Bush, and Other Stories About 
Girls; Verses; and A Few More Verses. 

WOOLSEY, THEODORE DWIGHT, 
clergyman, author, poet, was born Oct. 
31, 1801, in New York city. He was a 
congregational clergyman, and president 
of Yale university in 1846-71. He was the 
author of Political Science; Communism 
and Socialism; Introduction to the Study 
of International Law; Essay on Divorce 
and Divorce Legislation; Helpful 
Thoughts for Young Men; The Religion 
of the Present and the Future; and Eros, 
and Other Poems. He died July 1, 1889, 
in New Haven, Conn. 

WOOLSON, MRS. ABBA LOUISA 
[GOOLD], lecturer, author, was born 
April 30, 1838, in Windham, Maine. She 
is a Boston lecturer on English literature; 
and the author of Woman in American 
Society; Dress Reform; Browsings Among 
Books; and George Eliot and Her Hero¬ 
ines. 

WOOLSON, CONSTANCE FENIMORE, 
author, was born in 1848 in Claremont, 
N. H. She was a novelist whose work 
was much above the average level of fic¬ 
tion, Horace Chase being her best novel. 
Her other works include Castle Nowhere; 
Lake Country Sketches; Two Women, a 
poem; Rodman the Keeper: Southern 
Sketches; Anne; For the Major; East 
Angels: Jupiter Lights; The Front Yard 
and Other Italian Stories; Dorothy, and 
Other Italian Stories; Mentone, Cairo, 
and Corfu; and The Old Stone House. 
She died in 1894. 


WOOLWORTH, JAMES M„ lawyer, 
state legislator, author, was born in 1829 
in Onondaga Valley, N. Y. After practic¬ 
ing law in Syracuse, 
he moved to Omaha 
in 1856; and was the 
first city attorney of 
Omaha. He served 
one session in the 
Nebraska legislature, 
and in 1871 was a 
member of the con¬ 
stitutional conven¬ 
tion. In 1873 he was 
a democratic candi¬ 
date for chief justice 
of the supreme court. 
Among his publications are A Hand-Book 
of Nebraska Territory; two volumes of 
Nebraska State Reports; and one volume 
of United States Circuit Court Reports. 

WOOMER, EPHRAIM M., soldier, bank 
cashier, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 
1844, in Jonestown, Pa. He enlisted in 
company A, ninety-third regiment Penn¬ 
sylvania volunteers in 1861. He is cash¬ 
ier of the People’s bank of Lebanon; was 
a member of the councils of the borough 
of Lebanon from 1883 to 1885; and presi¬ 
dent of select councils of the city of Leba¬ 
non from 1885 to 1889. He was elected 
from Lebanon, Pa., to the fifty-third, and 
re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as 
a republican. 

WOOSTER, CHARLES WING, naval 
officer, was born in 1785 in New Haven, 
Conn. He served in the war with Eng¬ 
land; and in 1829 was promoted rear-ad¬ 
miral. He died in 1848 in California. 

WOOSTER, DAVID, soldier, state legis¬ 
lator, was born March 2, 1710, in Strat¬ 
ford, Conn. He became a brigadier-gen¬ 
eral in 1775; was one 
of the originators of 
the expedition which 
captured Tieondero- 
ga in 1775; and serv¬ 
ed as a member of 
the Connecticut as¬ 
sembly. He was a 
gallant soldier; and 
also contributed val¬ 
uable articles to the 
literature of the day. 
For many years he 
was major - general 
of the Connecticut militia. He was shot 
while annoying the enemy’s rear-guard 
with two hundred men in protecting his 
state from the enemy. He filled many 
public offices of honor in the civil service 
prior to the revolutionary war. He was 
taken to Danbury, and died there May 2, 
1777. 

WOOSfER, DAVID, physician, surgeon, 
author, was born June 10, 1825, in Jasper, 
N. Y. In 1858 he founded The Pacific 
Medical and Surgical Journal in San 
Francisco, Cal., which he edited four 
years. He has published a brochuie on 
Diphtheria, the first publication in the 
United States on this disease; Diseases 
of the Heart; a pamphlet on Hip-Joint 
Disease; and a Genealogy of the Woos- 
ters in America. 

WOOTTON, T. J.., farmer, business man, 
jurist, was born Nov. 7, 1832, in Brazos 
county, Tex. He is a successful farmer of 
Kerr county, Tex., and for several years 
was engaged in mercantile business. He 
has been county judge of his county, and 
has filled numerous other public positions 
of trust. 

WORCESTER, ALFRED, physician, 
author, was born in 1855 in Massachu¬ 
setts. He is a physician of Waltham, 
Mass.; and the author of Monthly Nurs¬ 
ing- A New Way of Training Nurses; 


Training Schools for Nurses in Small 
Cities; and Small Hospitals. 

WORCESTER, JOHN, clergyman, edu¬ 
cator, author, was born Feb. 13, 1834, in 
Boston, Mass. He was pastor of the New 
Church society of Newtonville, Mass., in 
1869, instructor of theology in the New 
Church Theological school, Boston, in 
1878, and subsequently its president. 

WORCESTER. JOSEPH EMERSON, 
lexicographer, philologist, author, was 
born Aug. 24, 1784, in Bedford, N. H. He 
was a distinguished lexicographer and 
philologist of Cambridge; and the au¬ 
thor of Geographical Dictionary; Gazet¬ 
teer of the United States; Sketches of the 
Earth and Its Inhabitants; Elements of 
History; Outlines of Scriptural Geogra¬ 
phy; and Comprehensive Primary Dic¬ 
tionary. His greatest work is his well- 
known quarto Dictionary of the English 
Language, first published in 1860. He 
died Oct. 27, 1865, in Cambridge, Mass. 

WORCESTER, NOAH, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Nov. 25, 1758, in Hollis, 
N. H. He was a Unitarian clergyman, 
pastor at Brighton, Mass., in 1813-37. He 
edited The Friend of Peace; and was the 
author of A Respectful Address to the 
Trinitarian Clergy; The Atoning Sac¬ 
rifice a Display of Love, not Wrath; Last 
Thoughts on Important Subjects; and 
Causes and Evils of Contentions Among 
Christians. He died Oct. 31, 1837, in 
Brighton, Mass. 

WORCESTER, NOAH, physician, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1812 in New Hampshire. 
He was a physician who was professor of 
pathology in Western Reserve college, 
Hudson, Ohio; and the author of Symp¬ 
toms, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Skin 
Diseases. He died April 4, 1847, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. 

WORCESTER, SAMUEL, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 1, 1770, in Hollis, 
N. H. He was a congregational clergy¬ 
man, pastor at Salem, Mass., from 1803; 
and the author of Letters to Dr. Chan- 
ning on the Unitarian Controversy; and 
Discourses on the Covenant with Abra¬ 
ham. He died June 7, 1821, in Brainard, 
Tenn. 

WORCESTER, SAMUEL MELANCH- 
THON, clergyman, educator, author, was 
born Sept. 4, 1801, in Fitchburg, Mass. 
He was a congregational clergyman, pro¬ 
fessor of rhetoric at Amherst college in 
1825-34, and pastor at Salem, Mass., in 
1834-60. He was the author of Essays on 
Slavery; and Life of Samuel Worcester. 
He died Aug. 16, 1866, in Boston, Mass. 

WORCESTER, SAMUEL T., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, state senator, congressman, was born 
Aug. 30, 1804, in Hollis, N. H. In 1848 
and 1849 he was elected to the state sen¬ 
ate from Norwalk, Ohio. In 1859 he was 
elected judge of the court of common 
pleas, which position he held until elected 
a representative from Ohio to the thirty- 
seventh congress. 

WORCESTER, THOMAS, clergyman, 
author, was born Nov. 23, 1768, in Hollis, 
N. H. He was a Unitarian clergyman; 
and the author of Call for Scripture Evi¬ 
dence that Christ is God; The True God 
but One Person; and New Chain of Plain 
Argument. He died Dec. 24, 1831, in Salis¬ 
bury. 

WORCESTER, THOMAS, clergyman, 
was born April 15, 1795, in Thornton, N. 
H. He was the first clergyman of the 
Swedenborgian faith in Massachusetts, 
serving as pastor of the Boston society of 
the New Jerusalem church from 1821 till 
1867. He published sermons, addresses, 
and magazine articles. He died Aug. 12, 
1878, in Waltham, Mass. 





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WORCH, RUDOLPH, soldier, journal¬ 
ist, poet, was born June 10, 1846, in Ger¬ 
many. He served in the civil war until 
its close. In 1871 he took charge of a Ger¬ 
man paper, The Volksfreund; and is the 
author of a number of poems. 

WORD, THOMAS J., congressman. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Mississippi from 1838 to 1839. 

WORDEN, JOHN LORIMER, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born March 12, 1818, in West¬ 
chester county, N. Y. He was commander 
of the Yankee cheese 
box, the Monitor, in 
her famous fight with 
the iron-clad Merri- 
mac, March 9, 1862, 
the first battle be¬ 
tween iron-clad ships 
in the world’s his¬ 
tory. He was com¬ 
missioned rear-ad¬ 
miral in 1872; was 
commander- in - chief 
of the European 
squadron from 1875- 
77; then served as a member of the ex¬ 
amining board and president of the retir¬ 
ing board until 1886, when, his health 
failing, he retired with the highest sea- 
pay of his grade. He died in 1886. 

WORK, HENRY CLAY, poet, was born 
Oct. 1, 1832, in Middletown, Conn. He was 
a popular song-writer of Chicago. March¬ 
ing Through Georgia; and Grandfather’s 
■Clock are perhaps the best known of his 
songs. He died June 8, 1884, in Hartford, 
■Conn. 

WORKMAN, CHARLES H., lawyer, 
author, was born April 23, 1859, near Mil- 
lersburgb, Ohio. For ten years he taught 
English literature and political economy 
in the Ohio Normal university. He served 
as a member of the seventieth general as¬ 
sembly of Ohio. He is the author of The 
Ohio Arbitration Law, and The Workman 
School Law. 

WORKMAN, MRS. FANNY [BUL¬ 
LOCK], author, was born in 1850 in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. With her husband she has 
written Algerian Memories: a Bicycle 
Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara; and 
Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia. 

WORKMAN, WILLIAM HUNTER, 
physician, author, was born in 1»47 in 
Massachusetts. He is a physician who is 
co-author with Mrs. Workman of Algerian 
Memories, and Sketches Awheel. 

WORLEY, CALEB, educator, clergy¬ 
man, was born Sept. 18, 1832, in Liberty, 
Ky. He received a thorough education; 
has been a college professor; county su¬ 
perintendent of schools; has attained 
success as an eminent clergyman in the 
baptist church, and now fills a pastorate 
in Clarksville, Tex. 

WORMAN, JAMES HENRY, educator, 
author, was born Feb. 28, 1835, in Prus¬ 
sia. He is an educator who has filled 
professorships in various colleges north 
and south; and is the author of Complete 
Grammar of the German Language; Ele¬ 
mentary German Grammar; and L’Echo 
de Paris. 

WORMAN, LUDWIG, tanner, congress¬ 
man, was born in Bucks county, Pa. He 
was a representative in congress from 
Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1822. He died 
in 1822. 

WORMELEY, ARIANA RANDOLPH, 
author, was born Oct. 14, 1835, in Eng¬ 
land. She has published a comedy en¬ 
titled The Coming Woman, or the Spirit 
of ’76, that has been acted in public and 
private both in the United States and in 
Europe. 


WORMELEY, KATHARINE PRES¬ 
COTT, translator, author, was born July 
14, 1832, in England. She is a translator 
of prominence who has translated the 
novels of Balzac and the plays of MoliOre, 
and is the author of The Other Side of 
War; Life of Balzac; The United States 
Sanitary Commission; and Hospital 
Transports. 

WORMELEY, MARY ELIZABETH, au¬ 
thor, was born July 26, 1822, in England. 
She has contributed to magazines, and 
published Forest Hill: a Tale of Social 
Life in 1830-31; Amabel, a Family His¬ 
tory; Our Cousin Veronica; and Familiar 
Talks on Some of Shakespeare’s Come¬ 
dies; also translations of Louis Ulbach’s 
Madame Gosselin; The Steel Hammer; 
and For Fifteen Years. 

WORMLY, THEODORE GEORGE, 
physician, author, was born April 1, 1826, 
in Wormleysburg, Pa. He is a Philadel¬ 
phia physician, professor of chemistry in 
the university of Pennsylvania from 1877; 
and is the author of Methods of Analysis 
of Coals, etc.; and The Micro-Chemistry 
of Poisons. 

WORTENDYKE, JACOB R., educator, 
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 27, 
1818, in Chestnut Ridge, N. J. He was al¬ 
derman of Jersey City, where he practiced 
law; and was elected a representative in 
the thirty-fifth congress from New Jersey. 
He died Nov. 7, 1868, in Jersey City, N. J. 

WORTH, JONATHAN, lawyer, state 
senator, governor, was born Nov. 18, 1802, 
in Guilford county, N. C. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the North Carolina legislature in 
1829-34. He was also for several terms a 
member of the state senate. He was a 
member of the lower house of the legisla¬ 
ture from 1862 till the end of the war, and 
was public treasurer of the state during 
the same period. He was elected gov¬ 
ernor, and served until 1868. He died 
Sept. 5, 1869, in Raleigh, N. C. 

WORTH, THOMAS, caricaturist, was 
born Feb. 12, 1834, in New York. He first 
came prominently before the public in 
1862, with his illustrations to Plutarch 
Restored. He illustrated also some of the 
books of Orpheus C. Kerr, the edition of 
Dicken’s Old Curiosity Shop that was 
published by the Hampers in 1878, and nu¬ 
merous other works. At present he is 
on the staff of Texas Siftings. 

WORTH, WILLIAM JENKINS, soldier, 
was born March 1, 1794, in Hudson, N. Y. 
He was prominent during the war of 
1812, and the Indian wars succeeding, and 
for his valuable services in the Mexican 
war was advanced to major-general. He 
died May 7, 1849, in San Antonio, Tex. 

WORTHEN, MRS. AUGUSTA HAR¬ 
VEY, educator, historian, poet, was born 
Sept. 27, 1823, in Sutton, N. H. For many 
years she was en¬ 
gaged in educational 
work; and has writ¬ 
ten extensively for 
the leading newspa¬ 
pers and magazines 
of the United States. 
She is the author of 
a Town History, in 
the compilation of 
which she was for 
twenty years en¬ 
gaged in collecting 
and arranging the 
material. Her poems have been incorpo¬ 
rated in Poets of America, and other 
standard works. 

WORTHEN, ROBERT WATKINS, 
planter, legislator, was born Nov. 10, 1847, 


in Little Rock, Ark. He received a thor¬ 
ough education; is a successful planter; 
and still resides in the city of his nativity. 
He has served as county and probate 
clerk; as sheriff; and as collector of his 
county. He has also filled with distinction 
the position of state senator in the Ar¬ 
kansas state legislature. 

WORTHEN, WILLIAM EZRA, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born March 14, 1819, 
in Amesbury, Mass. He is a civil engi¬ 
neer of prominence; and the author of 
Cyclopaedia of Drawing; First Lessons in 
Mechanics; and Rudimentary Drawing 
for Schools. 

WORTHINGTON, ERASTUS, lawyer, 
author, was born Oct. 8, 1779, in Belcher- 
town, Mass. He was a member of the 
general court of Dedham, Mass., in 1814- 

15. He published An Essay on the Estab¬ 
lishment of a Chancery Jurisdiction in 
Massachusetts; and History of Dedham, 
from the Beginning of its Settlement in 
1635 to 1827. He died June 27, 1842, in 
Dedham, Mass. 

WORTHINGTON, GEORGE, bishop, 
was born Oct. 14, 1842, in Lenox, Mass. 
For seventeen years he was rector of St. 
John’s church of Detroit, Mich., one of the 
largest protestant episcopal churches in 
the west. In 1884 he was elected bishop 
of Nebraska, and was consecrated the fol¬ 
lowing year. 

WORTHINGTON, H. G., lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 
1828, in Cumberland, Md. In 1861 he was 
elected to the California state legislature 
from the city and county of San Fran¬ 
cisco. In 1862 he moved to the territory 
of Nevada, and settled in Austin. On the 
admission of Nevada as a state he was 
elected the first representative there¬ 
from, taking his seat during the second 
session of the thirty-eighth congress. In 
1868 he was appointed minister to Uru¬ 
guay. 

WORTHINGTON, HENRY ROSSITER, 
inventor, was born Dec. 17, 1817, in New 
York city. In 1854 he invented a direct 
acting compound condensing engine; he 
set up the first one ever made in Savan¬ 
nah, Ga. He afterwards invented the du¬ 
plex pump. 

WORTHINGTON, JOHN T. H., con¬ 
gressman, was born in Maryland. He was 
a representative in congress from mat 
state from 1831 to 1833, and again from 
1837 to 1841. 

WORTHINGTON, NICHOLAS ELLS¬ 
WORTH, lawyer, congressman, was born 
March 30, 1835, in Brcoke county, W. Va. 
He was county superintendent of schools 
from 1864 to 1872 in Peoria, Ill. He was 
a member of the state board of public 
instruction from 1868 to 1872; and was 
elected a representative from Illinois to 
the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congress¬ 
es as a democrat. 

WORTHINGTON, THOMAS, United 
States senator, governor, was born July 

16, 1773, in Charleston, W. Va. He was a 
senator in congress from Ohio from 1803 
to 1807, and again from 1810 to 1814, when 
he resigned. From 1814 to 1818 he was 
governor of Ohio. After his retirement 
from that office he was appointed a mem¬ 
ber of the first board of canal commis¬ 
sioners, in which capacity he served until 
his death. He died June 20, 1827, in New 
York city. 

WORTHINGTON, THOMAS C., con¬ 
gressman, was born in Prince George 
county, Md. He was a representative in 
congress from Maryland from 1825 to 1827. 
He died June 19, 1827. 







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WORTHMAN, HARRY STEPHEN, 
lawyer, jurist, was born June 11, 1866, in 
Newtown, near Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1891 
he settled in Boise City, Idaho, where he 
has attained success in the practice of law. 

In 1894 he was elected probate judge and 
ex-officio county superintendent of public 
instruction, receiving the re-election in 
1896. 

WORTMAN, DENIS, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born April 30, 1835, in 
Hopewell, N. Y. This eminent clergyman 
is the author of a number of hymns that 
have passed into standard hymn-books. 
Relics of The Christ is considered one of 
the best poetic productions of the age. 

WORTMAN, JOSEPH A., lawyer, was 
born Sept. 11, 1863, in Berlin, Prussia. He 
has been a member of the Dayton, Ohio, 
tax commission; and in 1891 was elected 
mayor of that city, but was counted out 
on a technicality. He is prominent in pub¬ 
lic affairs, and a member of various fra¬ 
ternal orders. 

WREN, THOMAS, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Jan. 2, 1826, in McArthurs- 
town, Ohio. He was city attorney of Aus¬ 
tin, Nev., in 1874-76; and was a repre¬ 
sentative in the Nevada legislature in 
1875. He was elected a representative from 
Nevada to the forty-fifth congress as a 
republican. 

WRIGHT, ALBERT J., lawyer, writer, 
was born Aug. 8, 1850, in Angelica, N. Y. 
In early life he taught school, then took 
up civil engineering and land surveying; 
and has done considerable newspaper 
work. In 1880 he was admitted to the 
bar; was clerk of the probate court of 
Allegany county, N. Y., for a period of 
twelve years; and is now one of the fore¬ 
most lawyers of his native state at Brad¬ 
ford. 

WRIGHT, ALBERT O., manufacturer, 
author, was born June 23, 1842, in Rome, 
N. Y. He has been president of the Wis¬ 
consin Female college; editor of the Wis¬ 
consin Journal of Education; and presi¬ 
dent of the Midland School and Supply 
company. He is the author of a text¬ 
book on the United States Constitution; 
and a text-book on the Wisconsin Consti¬ 
tution. 

WRIGHT, AMMI W., lumberman, was 
born July 5, 1822, in Grafton, Vt. He is 
the head of the A. W. Wright Lumber 
company. which 



owns large areas of 
pine lands, together 
with large saw mills 
and salt blocks at 
Saginaw, Mich. In 
1885 he married An¬ 
na Case of Exeter, 
Ontario, and in the 
following year mov¬ 
ed to Alma on Pine 
river, thirty miles 
west of Saginaw. 
Here he built the 
Wright house, one of the finest hotels in 
the state; the Alma sanitarium, one of 
the largest and best equipped remedial 
institutions in the country; and othei 
large and substantial structures and do¬ 
nated the land and building which se¬ 
cured the establishment of Alma college. 

WRIGHT, ANDREW FLEMING, law¬ 
yer jurist, was born Dec. 25, 1851, in 
Franklin, Mo. He has filled various pub¬ 
lic offices in Barron county, Wis.; has 
been police justice of Cumberland, Wis.; 
and was elected judge of the third muni¬ 
cipal court for Barron county, Wis. In 
1894-95 he served as a member of the 
board of education of Ashland, Wis., in 
which city he has attained prominence as 
an able lawyer. 


WRIGHT, ARTHUR WILLIAMS, phy¬ 
sicist, educator, was born Sept. 8, 1836, in 
Lebanon, Conn. Since 1885 he has had 
charge of the Sloane Physical laboratory 
at Yale, which was constructed under his 
supervision. He was the first to observe 
and describe the electric shadow in 1870- 
71; devised a new apparatus for the pro¬ 
duction of ozone, and investigated its ac¬ 
tion upon alcohol and ether in 1872-74; 
also in 1874 determined the polarization 
of the zodiacal light, measuring its 
amount and investigated its spectrum. 

WRIGHT, ASHER, missionary, author, 
was born Sept. 7, 1803, in Hanover, N. H. 
He was a missionary to seneca Indians; 
translated parts of New Testament; and 
published elementary school books and 
hymnal in their language; and wrote In¬ 
teresting Narrative of Mary Jenison. He 
died April 13, 1875, in Cattaraugus, N. Y. 

WRIGHT, ASHLEY BASCOM, public 
official, congressman, was born in Hins¬ 
dale, Mass. In 1884 he was elected county 
commissioner for the county of Berkshire, 
serving for three years; in 1890 was elect¬ 
ed to the executive council of Massachu¬ 
setts; and re-elected in 1891. He was 
elected from North Adams, Mass., to the 
fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, 
and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as 
a republican. He died Aug. 21, 1897, in 
North Adams, Mass. 

WRIGHT, AUGUSTUS B., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born June 16, 1813, 
in Wrightsborough, Ga. At the age of 
twenty-nine he was elected circuit judge; 
resigned before the expiration of the sec¬ 
ond term, and was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Georgia to the thirty-fourth 
congress; and was re-elected to the thir¬ 
ty-fifth congress. He took part in the re¬ 
bellion. 

WRIGHT, BENJAMIN F., farmer, leg¬ 
islator, jurist, was born Dec. 8, 1845, in 
Hillsdale county, Mich. He served in the 
civil war in company G, twenty-second 
regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry, 
and was confined in the Libby prison. 
For four years he was judge of probate 
of Moody county, S. D.; and in 1896 was 
elected a member of the South Dakota 
state legislature. 

WRIGHT C. B., railroad president, 
was born June 17, 1859. in Erie, Pa He 
is president of the Rio Grande and Eagle 
Pass railway at Philadelphia, Pa. 

WRIGHT, MRS. C. M. H., author, poet, 
was born June 3, 1836. For over thirty 
years she has contributed extensively to 
the periodical press. She has given “uch 
time to temperance work; is the autho 
of several dramas; and her Poems ha^ 
been given a place in Poets of A 
and other standard works. 

WRIGHT, CARROLL DAVIDSON, sol¬ 
dier lawyer, statistician, was born July 
25, 1840, in Dunbarton, N. H. During the 
civil war he enlisted 




as a private in the 
fourteenth regiment 
New Hampshire vol¬ 
unteer infantry; and 
rose to the rank of 
colonel. In 1872-73 
he served with dis¬ 
tinction in the Mass¬ 
achusetts state sen¬ 
ate; was presiden¬ 
tial elector on the 
republican ticket in 
1876; chief of the 
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of La¬ 
bor during 1873-88; and since 1885 has 
been United States commissioner of 
labor. He has received the honorary 
degrees of M. A. from Tufts college, 
and LL. D. from the Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity. He has been president of the 


American Statistical association; and is 
a member and fellow of many American 
and foreign scientific bodies. He is the 
author of Census of Massachusetts, 1875; 

The Factory System of the United States; 

The Relation of Political Economy to the 
Labor Question; Annual Reports of 
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, 1873- 
88; Convict Labor; Strikes and Lock¬ 
outs; Working Women in Large Cities; 
Railroad Labor; Marriage and Divorce; 
Cost of Production of Iron, Steel, etc.; 
Cost of Production of Textiles and Glass; 
and Industrial Evolution of the United 
States. 

WRIGHT, CHARLES BARSTOW, 
financier, journalist, was born Jan. 8, 1822, 
in Bradford county, Pa. In 1863 he en¬ 
gaged actively in de¬ 
veloping the petro¬ 
leum interests of 
Pennsylvania. I n 
1870, as director and 
afterward as presi¬ 
dent, he undertook 
the work of pushing 
the Northern Pacific 
railroad to comple¬ 
tion. He moved to 
Boston in 1839, and 
became editor of the 
Massachusetts Abo¬ 
litionist. For several years he was con¬ 
nected with the press, and in 1846 he es¬ 
tablished the Chronotype, a daily news¬ 
paper, which he conducted until it was 
merged in the Commonwealth. 

WRIGHT, CHARLES EDWARD, physi¬ 
cian, educator, was born Nov. 1, 1843, in 
Indianapolis, lnd. In 1869 he was demon¬ 
strator of anatomy 
in the Indiana Medi¬ 
cal college, and sub¬ 
sequently professor 
of materia medica 
and therapeutics in 
and secretary of the 
same institution, and 
afterwards its presi¬ 
dent. He is also a 
member of the staff 
at the City hospital, 
and physician to St. 
John’s Home for In¬ 
valids. In 1875 and 1876 he was president 
of the Indianapolis board of health; was 
president of the Indiana Medico-Legal fra¬ 
ternity in 1877 and 1878, and at present 
fills the chair of materia medica and ther¬ 
apeutics in the Medical college of Indiana, 
the medical department of Butler univer¬ 
sity. 

WRIGHT, CHARLES EDWARD, law¬ 
yer jurist, was born Dec. 17, 1867, in Bat¬ 
tle Creek, Mich. He is a successful lawyer 
of Whitefield, N. H.; and is attorney for 
several large railroads. In 1896 he was 
commissioned judge of the municipal 
court for life by the governor of New 
Hampshire. 

WRIGHT, CHARLES W., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Dec. 2, 1847, near East Camp- 
bellsville, Ky. In 1882 he was admitted 
to the practice of law, and has attained 
success in that profession at Campbells- 
ville Ky. For twelve years he was coun¬ 
ty court clerk; for ten years was receiver 
of state and county taxes; and for four 
years served with distinction as judge of 
the city court. 

WRIGHT, CRAFTS JAMES, soldier, 
journalist, was born July 13,1808, in Troy, 
N. Y. In 1840 he was assistant editor of 
the Cincinnati Gazette; and during 1847- 
54 was president of the Gazette company. 
He served with distinction through the 
civil war, and attained the rank of briga¬ 
dier-general. He died July 23, 1883, in 
Chicago, Ill. 








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WRIGHT, DANIEL B., congressman, 
was born in Tennessee. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Mississippi 
from 1853 to 1857. 

WRIGHT, EBENEZER KELLOGG, 
bank president, was born July 28, 1837, 
1859 he came to New 
York city and se¬ 
cured the position of 
assistant teller in 
the Park National 
bank, then located at 
No. 5 Beekman 
street. In 1878 the 
stockholders elected 
him a director; in 
1888 second vice- 
president; in 1889 
vice-president; and 
on June 20, 1890, 

president. After the 
death of Eugene Kelly he became the se¬ 
nior director of the bank. This great in¬ 
stitution has now risen to an important 
position. Its capital is $2,000,000 and its 
surplus $3,000,000, while its deposits, 
which are upwards of $37,000,000, are not 
excelled in magnitude by any other bank 
in the United States. 

WRIGHT, EDWARD D., poet, was born 
Oct. 11, 1859, in Wayne county, Ind. He 
is the author of a volume entitled Modern 
Poems. 

WRIGHT, EDWARD E., lawyer, au¬ 
thor, poet, was born April 23, 1859, in 
Harrisville, Ohio. He became the aman¬ 
uensis of Mr. Burdette, when editor of 
the Burlington Hawkeye. Since 1883 he 
has practiced law in Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
He is the author of Everard and Eulalia; 
The Lightning’s Flash; and other works. 

WRIGHT, EDWIN R. V., lawyer, jour¬ 
nalist, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1812, 
in Hoboken, N. J. In 1843 he was elected 
to the New Jersey state senate, and was 
a leading advocate of the present free 
school system of the state. In 1851 he 
was appointed district attorney for Hud¬ 
son county, and held the office for five 
years; He was also a major-general of 
militia for several years, commanding 
the second division of the state. He was 
elected a representative from New Jersey 
to the thirty-ninth congress. He died 
Jan. 19, 1871, in Jersey City, N. J. 

WRIGHT, ELIZUR, journalist, author, 
was born Feb. 12, 1804, in South Canaan, 
Conn. He was a journalist of Boston long 
prominent as a reformer; and the autnor 
of A Curiosity of Law; The Politics and 
Mysteries of Life Insurance; Savings 
Bank Life Insurance; Myron Holley and 
What He Did for Liberty and True Re¬ 
ligion; and a translation of La Fontaine’s 
Fables. He died Nov. 21, 1885, in Med¬ 
ford, Mass. 

WRIGHT, FANNY, reformer, author, 
was born Sept. 6, 1795, in Scotland. She 
was the author of Altdorf; A Few Days 
in Athens; Course of Popular Lectures; 
and numerous other works on reform sub¬ 
jects. 

WRIGHT, FRANK E„ lawyer, was 
born July 20, 1857, in Montreal, Canada. 
He has attained success as a popular law¬ 
yer in Toledo, Ohio; and received the 
full endorsement of the bench and bar 
of that city in 1893 for the position of 
United States district attorney. He is 
prominent in several fraternal orders, 
and takes an active part in public affairs. 

WRIGHT, GEORGE FREDERICK, 
clergyman, geologist, author, was born 
Jan. 22, 1838, in Whitehall, N. Y. He is 


in Rome, N. Y. In 



a congregational clergyman and geologist, 
and since 1884 attached to the United 
States geological survey in the depart¬ 
ment of glacial geology. He is the au¬ 
thor of The Glacial Boundary in Ohio; 
Studies in Science and Religion; Logic 
of Christian Evidences; The Relation of 
Death to Probation; Divine Authority of 
the Bible; The Ice Age in North Ameri¬ 
ca; Man and the Glacial Period; and 
Life of Charles Grandison Finney. 

WRIGHT, GEORGE GROVER, lawyer, 
jurist, United States senator, was born 
March 24, 1820, in Bloomington, Ind. He 
moved to Iowa terri¬ 
tory in 1840; served 
as prosecuting attor¬ 
ney in 1847; and was 
elected to the state 
senate in 1849. In 
1854 he was chosen 
chief justice of the 
supreme court of the 
state; and was elect¬ 
ed to the same office 
by the people in 1860 
and 1865. He was a 
professor in the law 
department of the state university for six 
years from 1865. He was elected to the 
United States senate for the term com¬ 
mencing in 1871 and ending in 1877. In 
1890-92 he was president of the American 
Bar association. 

WRIGHT, GEORGE H., merchant, 
journalist, congressman, was born June 4, 
1817, in Concord, Mass. He went to Cali¬ 
fornia in 1849; and was a representative 
in congress from that state during the 
years 1850 and 1851. 

WRIGHT, GEORGE H., horticulturist, 
legislator, was born Nov. 3, 1829, in Troy, 
N. Y. For four years he was surveyor in 
Locke county, Iowa; in 1862 was internal 
revenue assessor; in 1870 served with 
distinction in the Iowa legislature; during 
1871-78 was registrar of the United States 
land office at Sioux City, Iowa; and is 
now a successful horticulturist of Orlan¬ 
do, Fla. 

WRIGHT, GEORGE MITCHELL, law¬ 
yer, geologist, was born Aug. 8, 1847, in 
Tallmadge, Ohio. In 1882 he was ap¬ 
pointed assistant geologist in the United 
States geological survey, and was engag¬ 
ed in geological field-work in the Yellow¬ 
stone National park, and in Wyoming, 
Montana, and Idaho. In 1886 he resumed 
the practice of his profession in Akron, 
Ohio, and has attained prominence as a 
brilliant lawyer. 

WRIGHT, HARRISON, lawyer, author, 
was born July 15, 1850, in Wilkesbarre, 
Pa. He was chosen secretary of the Wyo¬ 
ming Historical and Geological society 
of Wilkesbarre in 1874, and devoted him¬ 
self to literary and scientific pursuits. His 
last publications are The Manuscripts of 
the Earl of Ashbuinham, a Translation of 
the Report to the Minister of Public In¬ 
struction and Fine Arts, by Leopold Del¬ 
isle, of the National Library (1884); and 
Observations on the Very Ancient Manu¬ 
script of the Libri Collection, by Leopold 
Delisle. He died Feb. 20, 1885, in Wilkes¬ 
barre, Pa. 

WRIGHT, HENDRICK BRADLEY,law¬ 
yer, congressman, author, was born April 
24, 1808, in Plymouth, Pa. He was ap¬ 
pointed district attorney for Luzerne 
county in 1834; and was a member of the 
Pennsylvania state house of representa¬ 
tives in 1841-43, serving the last year as 
speaker. He was elected to the thirty- 
third, thirty-seventh, forty-fifth and forty- 



sixth congresses as a democrat and na¬ 
tional. He was the author of A Practical 
Treatise on Labor; and Historic Sketches 
of the Wyoming Valley. He died Sept. 2, 
1881, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. 

WRIGHT, HENRIETTA CHRISTIAN, 
author, was born in 18—. She is the au¬ 
thor of The Golden Fairy Series; Chil¬ 
dren’s Stories of American Progress; Sto¬ 
ries of the Great Inventors; Stories in 
American Literature; Stories in English 
Literature; Stories of American History; 
and The Princess Liliwinkins. 

WRIGHT, HENRY CLARKE, reform¬ 
er, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 29, 
1797, in Sharon, Conn. He was an anti¬ 
slavery reformer and lecturer of promi¬ 
nence in his day. He was the author of 
Man-Killing by Individuals and Nations 
a Wrong; A Kiss for a Blow; Defensive 
War a Denial of Christianity; Human 
Life Illustrated; Marriage and Parentage; 
and The Living Present and the Dead 
Past. He died Aug. 16, 1870, in Paw¬ 
tucket, R. I. 

WRIGHT, HORATIO GOVERNEUR, 
soldier, was born March 6, 1820, in Clin¬ 
ton, Conn. He served through the civil 
war; attaining the rank of major-general 
of United States army for gallant and 
meritorious services. 


WRIGHT, JAMES, go\ ernor, was born 
in 1714 in Charleston, S. C. In 1764 he 
was appointed governor of Georgia; and 
was the last to administer its affairs in 
the name of the king. He died Nov. 20, 
1785, in London, England. 


WRIGHT, JOHN, antiquarian, biblio- 
phite, author, was born Nov. 20, 1836, in 
Wilmington, Del. In 1863 he graduated 
_ from the Union col¬ 
lege of Schenectady, 
N. Y.; received the 
degree of doctor of 
divinity from the 
same institution in 
1891; and in 1866 he 
graduated from the 
Union Theological 
. ^ seminary. From 

S 1869-74 he was rector 

of the Trinity church 
of Bay City, Mich.; 
from 1874-87 was rec¬ 
tor of St. Matthew’s church of Boston; 
and since that time has been rector of St. 

Paul’s church of St. Paul, Minn. Dr. 

Wright has a library of nearly five thou¬ 
sand volumes containing rare Bibles and 
prayer books, and is considered an au¬ 
thority on American bibliography. He is 
the author of Early Bibles of America; 
Early Prayer Books of America; and His¬ 
toric Bibles of America. He has been 
elected a member of several learned so¬ 
cieties in Europe and America. 



WRIGHT, JOHN C., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, author, was born in 1783 in Weth¬ 
ersfield, Conn. His Law Reports are a 
part of all good libraries in the western 
states. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from Ohio from 1823 to 1829; and 
was for many years the owner and editor 
of the Cincinnati Gazette. He took an 
active part as delegate from Ohio in the 
peace congress of 1861. He died Feb. 13, 
1861, in Washington, D. C. 

WRIGHT, JOHN STEPHEN, manufac¬ 
turer, author, was born July 16, 1815, in 
Sheffield, Mass. He was a Chicago manu¬ 
facturer who established The Prairie 
Farmer in 1840; and was the author of 
Chicago: Past, Present and Future. He 
died Sept. 26, 1874, in Chicago, Ill. 








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WRIGHT, JOHN VINES, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born June 28, 1828, in Pur¬ 
dy, Tenn. He was elected a representative 
to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth con¬ 
gresses from Tennessee; and was re- 
•elected to the thirty-sixth congress. 

WRIGHT, JOSEPH ALBERT, lawyer, 
congressman, governor, United States sen¬ 
ator, was bcrn April 17, 1810, in Wash¬ 
ington, Pa. In 1833 he was elected to the 
Indiana state legislature; in 1840 was 
elected to the state senate; and from 1843 
to 1845 he was a representative in con¬ 
gress. He was governor of Indiana from 
1849 to 1857; and during the latter year 
was appointed minister to Prussia. In 
1862 he was appointed a senator in con¬ 
gress; and in 1863 was appointed com¬ 
missioner to attend the Hamburg exhibi¬ 
tion. In 1865 he was appointed for the 
second time minister to Prussia. He died 
May 11, 1867, in Berlin, Germany. 

WRIGHT, MRS. JULIA [McNAIR], au¬ 
thor, was born May 1, 1840. in Oswego, 

N Y. She is a prolific writer of temper¬ 
ance and religious tales, the latter being 
strongly anti-Roman catholic in char¬ 
acter. Among them are Almost a Nun, 
Priest and Nun; Scenes of the Convent; 
The Gospel in the Riviera; A Wife Hard 
Won; and A Million Too Much. 

WRIGHT, MRS. MABEL [OSowOuJ, 
author, was born in 1859 in New York. 
She is a nature writer of Fairfield, Conn.; 
and the author of The Friendship of Na- 
ture a series of out-door studies; Bird- 
craft, a field-book of New England Birds; 
Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts: a 
Natural History Story; and Citizen Bird, 
a bird book for beginners. 

WRIGHT, MARCUS JOSEPH, soldier, 
lawyer author, was born June 5, 1831, in 
Purdv, Tenn. He was a brigadier-general 
in the’ confederate army during the civil 
war and subsequently a lawyer of Mem¬ 
phis’ He is the author of Life of General 
Winfield Scott; Life of Governor William 
Blount; and Reminiscences of the Early 
Settlement of McNairy County, Tenn. 

WRIGHT, MRS. MARY [TAPPAN], au¬ 
thor was born in 1851 in Ohio. She is a 
writer of Cambridge, the wife of Professor 
J H Wright of Harvard university; and 
the author of A Truce, and Other Stories. 

WRIGHT, MAURICE LAUGHLIN, 
lawyer jurist, was born Nov. 27, 1845, in 
Scriba, n! Y. In his youth he taught 
school, and in 1864 
enlisted in the navy, 
and was on the 
United States gun¬ 
boat Valley City in 
the North Atlantic 
squadron under the 
command of Admiral 
Porter. In 1870 he 
graduated from the 
Columbian college 
law school of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., with 
the degree of LL. B. 
During 1879-81 he was president of the 
village of Mexico, N. Y.; and in 1»«3 was 
elected county judge, receiving the re- 
election in 1889. In 1890 he was appoint¬ 
ed a member of the constitutional com¬ 
mission to revise the judiciary articles of 
the constitution. In 1891 he was elected 
justice of the supreme court for the fifth 
judicial district, and two years later 
moved to Oswego, N. Y. 

WRIGHT, MYRON B., congressman, 
was born June 12, 1847, in Lake Forest, 
Pa He has been largely interested li 
several financial, business, and manufac¬ 
turing enterprises in Susquehanna, Pa. 
He was elected to the fifty-first congress; 


and was re-elected to the fifty-second con¬ 
gress as a republican. 

WRIGHT, ROBERT, congressman. 
United States senator, governor, was born 
about 1765 in Kent county, Md. He was a 
senator in congress from Maryland from 
1801 to 1806, when he resigned. He was 
at one time member of the state executive 
council. He was governor of Maryland 
from 1806 to 1809. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from Maryland from 1810 
to 1817; and was re-elected for the term 
from 1821 to 1823. He died Sept. 7, 1826, 
in Queenstown, Md. 

WRIGHT, ROBERT WILLIAM, lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born Feb. 22, 1816, 
in Ludlow, Vt. He was a Connecticut law¬ 
yer and journalist; and the author of 
The Church Knaviad; Vision of Judg¬ 
ment; The Pious Chi-Neh; Life: its True 
Genesis, a refutation of evolution; and 
Practical Legal Forms. He died Jan. 9, 
1885, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

WRIGHT, SAMUEL G., congressman, 
was born in 1787. At the time of his 
death he was a member-elect of congress 
from New Jersey. He died July 30, 184a, 
near Allentown, N. J. 

WRIGHT, SILAS, soldier, lawyer, 
United States senator, was born May 24, 
1795 in Amherst, Mass. In 1819 he settled 
in the practice of 


m 




the law at Canton, 

St Lawrence county, 

N. Y. He was soon 
made a magistrate 
and postmaster of 
wh <•» tttti his t° w n, and surro¬ 
gate of his county; 
^yjj i -• and early raised a 

uniformed militia 
rifle company, of 
which he was unani¬ 
mously chosen cap¬ 
tain, from which po¬ 
sition he rose to be colonel of a rifle regi- 
ment, and became a brigadier-general of 
infantry in 1827. He was elected to the 
state senate in 1823, and served until 1827, 
when he took his seat in congress, 
and was re-elected in 1828. He was cho¬ 
sen United States senator in 1833 was 
re-elected in 1837, and again i n 184 ^. and 
continued to serve until 1844. In 1844 he 
was elected governor of New Yoik. He 
died Aug. 27, 1847, in Canton, N. Y. 

WRIGHT, THOMAS LEE, Pky^aib 
iournalist, author, was born Aug. 7, 18^b, 
in Windham. Ohio. He is a physician and 
iournalist of Bellefontaine, Ohio; and 
the author of Notes on the Theoiy 
Human Existence; Disquisition on the 
Ancient History of Medicine; and Ine- 
briism: a Pathological and Psychological 
Study. 

WRIGHT, TURBETT, congressman. He 
was a delegate from Maryland to the con¬ 
tinental congress from 1781 to 178... 

WRIGHT WILLIAM, congressman, 
United States senator, gOTernor, was born 
in 1794 in Clarkstown, N. Y. He serveu 
as mayor of Newark, 
N. J., in 1840-43; and 
was a representative 
in congress from New 
Jersey from 1843 to 
1847. In 1853 he was 
elected a senator in 
congress for the term 
ending in 1859, serv- 
§§g ing as chairman of 
the committee on 
manufactures, and 
that on the contin¬ 
gent expenses of the 
senate. In 1863 he was again elected to 
the senate for the term ending in 1869, 


serving on the committees on manufac¬ 
tures, public lands, and revolutionary 
claims. He died Nov. 1, 1866, in Newark. 

WRIGHT, WILLIAM, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1824 in Ireland. He 
was a journalist of Paterson, N. J.; and 
the author of The Oil Regions of Penn¬ 
sylvania. He died March 13, 1886, in Pa¬ 
terson, N. J. 

WRIGHT, WILLIAM ARTER, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, was born Jan. 23, 1857, 
in New Cumberland, Ohio. In 1878 he 
established the Conception college in 
Chile, South America. He has filled the 
chair of historical theology in the Maclay 
School of Theology of San Fernando, Cal. 
He is a distinguished clergyman of the 
methodist episcopal church; and has 
filled pastorates in Massachusetts, Rhode 
Island and California. 

WRIGHT, WILLIAM BULL, physician, 
educator, author, poet, was born Sept. 29, 
1840, in Orange county, N. Y. He was a 
physician and educator of Buffalo; and 
the author of Highland Rambles, a Poem; 
and The Brook, and Other Poems. He 
died March 29, 1880, in Atlanta, Ga. 

WRIGHT, WILLIAM BURNET, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1836 in Ohio. 
He is a congregational clergyman of Bos¬ 
ton, and more recently of Buffalo; and 
the author of Ancient Cities from the 
Dawn to the Daylight; The World to 
Come; and Master and Men: the Sermon 
on the Mountain Practiced on the Plain. 



WRIGHT, WILLIAM HENRY, civil en¬ 
gineer, author, was born in 1814 in Wil¬ 
mington, N. C. He was a military engi¬ 
neer in government service; and the 
author of Brief Practical Treatise on Mor¬ 
tars. He died Dec. 29, 1845, in Wilming¬ 
ton, N. C. 

WRIGHT, WILLIAM JAMES, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Aug. 3, 
1831,' in Weybridge, Vt. He is a pres- 
byterian clergyman and educator, and 
professor of metaphysics at Westminster 
college, Missouri, from 1887. He is the 
author of Tracts on Higher Mathematics. 

WUCHTER, ASTOR CLINTON, lin¬ 
guist, clergyman, poet, was born Feb. 4, 
1856, in Jacksonville, Pa. He attended 
the Millersville State Normal school; stu¬ 
died three years in Paris; and attended 
the Lutheran Theological seminary of 
Philadelphia, Pa. He has been professor 
of languages in Paris, France; has been 
a successful instructor in music; and 
gained n national reputation as nn emi - 
nent lutheran clergyman of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and has filled pastorates in that 
state at Summit Hill, Weissport, and 
Gilbert. He is also the author of a num¬ 
ber of meritorious poems which have ap¬ 
peared in current literature. 

WURTZ. JOHN, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Penn¬ 
sylvania from 1825 to 1827. He died April 
23, 1861, in Rome, Italy. 

WYANT, ALEXANDER H.. artist, 
was born Jan. 11, 1836, in Port Washing¬ 
ton, Ohio. He was elected an associate 
of the National academy in 1868, and an 
academician the following year. Among 
his works in oil are A Storm; Staten 
Island, from the Jersey Meadows; Scene 
on the Upper Susquehanna; Shore of Lake 
Champlain; and Pool on the Ausable. His 
water-colors include Scene on the Upper 
Little Miami; New Jersey Meadows; Sun¬ 
set on the Prairie; Late Autumn, Au¬ 
sable River; and Reminiscence of the 
Connecticut. He died Nov. 29, 1892. in 
New York. 



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WYATT, FRANCIS, governor, was 
born about 1575 in England. He was ap¬ 
pointed governor of Virginia in 1621, and 
with a fleet of nine sail arrived there in 
October of that year. He died in 1644 in 
England. 

WYATT, WILLIAM EDWARD, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born July 9, 1789, in 
Nova Scotia. He was an episcopal clergy¬ 
man of Baltimore, and rector of St. Paul’s 
church in 1814-64. He was the author of 
Christian Offices; and The Parting Spirit’s 
Address to His Mother. He died June 24, 
1864, in Baltimore, Md. 

WYATT, WILLIAM FRANCIS, educa¬ 
tor, lawyer, author, was born Aug. 3, 
1867, in Kane, Ill. For several years he 
taught school, and has since attained suc¬ 
cess in the profession of law at White 
Hall, Ill. He has taken an active part in 
politics; is an eloquent platform speaker; 
and the author of Reform Measures and 
other works on political questions. 

WYCHE, JAMES E., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in Mississippi. He moved to Michi¬ 
gan; and was appointed from that state 
an associate justice of the United States 
court for the territory of Washington, re¬ 
siding at Vancom er. 

WYCKOFF, WILLIAM CORNELIUS, 
journalist, author, was born May 28, 1832, 
in New York city. He was the scientific 
editor of the New York Tribune in 1869- 
78; and the author of Silk Goods in 
America; and American Silk Manufac¬ 
ture. He died May 2, 1888, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

WYCKOFF, WILLIAM HENRY, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Sept. 10, 
1807, in New York city. He was a baptist 
clergyman and educator of New York 
city; and the author of American Bible 
Society and the Baptists; and Documen¬ 
tary History of the American Bible Union. 
He died Nov. 2, 1877, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

WYCKOFF, WILLIAM OZMUN, manu¬ 
facturer, soldier, lawyer, was born Feb. 16, 
1845, in Lansing, N. Y. About 1882 he 
established the firm of Wyckoff, Seamans 
and Benedict, with about $20,000 of capi¬ 
tal, and made a contract with E. Rem¬ 
ington and Sons whereby the firm be¬ 
came sole agents for the sale of the ma¬ 
chines. Their business continuing to ex¬ 
pand, Wyckoff, Seamans and Benedict 
were incorporated May 19, 1892, with a 
capital stock of $3,000,000. He died July 
11, 1895, at the Thousand Islands, N. Y. 

WYETH, JOHN ALLAN, surgeon, au¬ 
thor, was born May 26, 1845, in Mission¬ 
ary Station, Ala. He is a surgeon of New 
York city, founder in 1880 of the New 
York Polyclinic and Hospital, and the 
first graduate medical school in America. 
He is the author of Essays on Surgical 
Anatomy and Surgery; and Text-Book on 
Surgery. 

WYETH, LOUIS WEISS, lawyer, jurist, 
was born June 20, 1812, in Harrisburg, 
Pa. In 1874 he was elected judge of the 
fifth judicial district of Alabama; and 
later was judge of the supreme court of 
Alabama. He died July 7, 1889, in Mar¬ 
shall county, Ala. 

WYETH, NATHANIEL JARVIS, pio¬ 
neer explorer, was born Jan. 29, 1802, in 
Cambridge, Mass. He built Fort William 
on the Columbia, and established a settle¬ 
ment on Wappatoo Island. He died Aug. 
31, 1856. 

WYLIE, ANDREW, clergyman, author, 
was born April 12, 1789, in Washington, 
Pa. He was elected president of Indiana 
college in 1818, and removing to Bloom¬ 
ington, Ind., in 1829, held this post during 


life. He published several sermons on 
special occasions (1816-51); English 
Grammar; Eulogy on General Lafayette; 
Sectarianism in Heresy, with its Nature, 
Evils, and Remedy; and baccalaureate 
and other addresses. He died Nov. 11, 
1851, in Bloomington, Ind. 

WYLIE, THEODORE WILLIAM JOHN, 
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 3, 1818, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a reformed 
Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia; 
and the author of English, Latin, and 
Greek Vocabulary; The God of Our Fath¬ 
ers; and Washington as a Christian. 

WYLIE, THEOPHILUS ADAM, clergy¬ 
man, educator, author, was born Oct. 8, 
1810, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a re¬ 
formed presbyterian clergyman and edu¬ 
cator, and professor of ancient languages 
in the university of Indiana from 1864. He 
was the author of History of the Uni¬ 
versity of Indiana. He died in 1895. 

WYLLYS, GEORGE, governor, was 
born about 1570 in England. He was 
chosen deputy governor of Connecticut 
in 1641, and governor in 1642. He died 
March 9, 1645, in Hartford, Conn. 

WYMAN, EDWIN ALLEN, clergyman, 
author, was born in 1834 in Maine. He 
is a clergyman of Malden, Mass.; and the 
author of Acquaintance with God, or Sal¬ 
vation and Character. 

WYMAN, JEFFRIES, physician, scient¬ 
ist, educator, author, was born ^ug. 11, 
1814, in Chelmsford, Mass. He was a phy¬ 
sician and scientist of distinction, Hersey 
professor of anatomy in Harvard univer¬ 
sity in 1847-74. He was the author of 
Fresh-Water Shell-Mounds of the St. 
John’s River, Florida, and many scientific 
monographs of much value. He died Sept. 
4, 1874, in Bethlehem, N. H. 

WYMAN, MRS. LILLIE BUFFUM 
[CHACE], author, was born in 1837 in 
Rhode Island. She is the author of Pov¬ 
erty Grass, a collection of short stories. 

WYMAN, MORRILL, physician, author, 
was born July 25, 1812, in Chelmsford, 
Mass. He is a physician of Cambridge; 
and the author of Practical Treatise on 
Ventilation; Progress in School Disci¬ 
pline; and Autumnal Catarrh. 

WYMAN, ROBERT HARRIS, naval of¬ 
ficer, was born July 12, 1822, in Ports¬ 
mouth, N. H. He was commander in the 
United States navy in 1862; captain in 
1866; chief hydrographer in 1869; and 
rear-admiral in 1878. He died Dec. 2, 1882, 
in Washington, D. C. 

WYNKOOP, HENRY, soldier, legisla¬ 
tor, jurist, was born March 2, 1737, in 
Bucks county. Pa. He represented his 
county in the committee of safety in 1776; 
succeeded Edward Biddle in the continen¬ 
tal congress in 1779; and received the re- 
election in 1780 and 1781. He was a lieu¬ 
tenant in the revolutionary army; justice 
of common pleas; representative in the 
federal congress; and associate judge of 
his county during 1789-1812. He died 
March 25, 1816, in his native county. 

WYNKOOP, RICHARD, lawyer, au¬ 
thor, was born June 29, 1829, in York- 
town, N. Y. During 1852-64 he practiced 
law in New York city. He is the author 
of The Wynkoop Genealogy; Schureman 
Genealogy; Documenting of Vessels; 
Clearance and Entrance of Vessels; Ves¬ 
sels and Voyages; and other works. 

WYNN, RICHARD, soldier, congress¬ 
man, was born about 1750 in Eastern Vir¬ 
ginia. He entered the military service 
early in the revolutionary war, and in 
1775 was lieutenant of South Carolina 
Rangers. He was active during the re¬ 


mainder of the war, and at its close was. 
appointed a brigadier and then a major- 
general of militia. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from South Carolina from 
1793 to 1797, and again from 1802 to 1813. 
He died in 1813 in Tennessee. 

WYNN, THOMAS, planter, state sena¬ 
tor, congressman, was born in 1764 in 
Hertford county, N. C. He was a general 
of militia; and served a number of years 
in the North Carolina house of commons 
and senate. He was a representative in 
congress in 1802; from 1803 to 1807; and 
in 1800 and 1808 was a presidential elec¬ 
tor. He died June 3, 1825, in Hertford 
county, N. C. 

WYNNE, JAMES, physician, author, 
was born in 1814 in Utica, N. Y. He was 
a physician of New York city; and the 
author of Lives of Eminent Literary and 
Scientific Men of America; Importance of 
the Study of Legal Medicine; and The 
Private Libraries of New York. He died 
Feb. 11, 1871, in Central America. 

WYNNE, MRS. MADELENE [YALE], 
artist, author, was born in 1847 in New 
York. She is a Chicago artist and worker 
in silver; and the author of The Little 
Room and Other Stories. 

WYNNS, THOMAS, soldier, state sena¬ 
tor, was born in 1764 in Hertford county, 
N. C. In 1790 he was state senator from 
North Carolina. He was also a member 
of the executive council and brigadier- 
general of militia. He died June 3, 1825, 
in Hertford county, N. C. 

WYTHE, GEORGE, signer of the dec¬ 
laration of independence, was born in 
1726 in Elizabeth City, Va. He was for 
a long time a member of the house of 
burgesses; was chancellor of Virginia; 
and in 1764 was appointed to prepare a 
petition against the stamp act. He was a 
delegate to the continental congress from 
1775 to 1777, and signed the declaration 
of independence. In 1777 he was speaker 
of the house of delegates; and was ap¬ 
pointed judge of the court of chancery. 
The honor was awarded to him of having 
been the instructor of Thomas Jefferson. 
He was the author of Decisions of Cases 
in Virginia by the High Court of Chan¬ 
cery. He died June 8, 1806, in Richmond, 
Va. 

WYTHE, JOSEPH HENRY, clergyman, 
physician, author, was born March 19, 
1822, in England. He is a methodist cler¬ 
gyman and physician of San Francisco; 
and the author of The Microscopist; Cu¬ 
riosities of the Microscope; Agreement of 
Science and Revelation; The Science of 
Life; Biblical Biology; Easy Lessons in 
Vegetable Biology; and Physiology of 
the Soul. 

YALE, ALBERT W., educator, journal¬ 
ist, clergyman, was born Oct. 9, 1848, in 
Osceola, Ohio. He received his education 
at the Denison university of Granville, 
Ohio. In 1880 he was ordained a baptist 
clergyman; was president of the Normal 
school of Prospect, Ohio, in 1885-86; pres¬ 
ident of the Marion Normal school in 
1887-90; and is now the editor and owner 
of the Chronicle of Waynesfield, Ohio. 

YALE, CYRUS, clergyman, author, was 
born May 17, 1786, in Lee, Mass. He was 
ordained pastor of the church in New 
Hartford, Conn., in 1814; and the author 
of Life of Rev. Jeremiah Halleck; Min¬ 
iature of the Life of the Rev. Alvan 
Hyde, D. D.; Biographical Sketches of 
the Ministers of Litchfield County after 
the Year 1800. He died May 21, 1854, in 
New Hartford, Conn. 


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YALE, ELIHU, philanthropist, was 
born April 5, 1649, in Boston, Mass. In 
1678 he went to the East Indies; was 
governor of Fort St. George, Madras, dur¬ 
ing 1687-92; and acquired great wealth. 
He never returned to America, and died 
July 8, 1721, in London, England. During 
1714-21 he made donations to the college 
amounting to nearly three thousand dol¬ 
lars, at a time when the money was much 
needed; and the college was named Yale 
college in his honor. 

YALE, ELISHA, clergyman, author, 
was born June 15, 1780, in Lee, Mass. He 
became pastor of the presbyterian church 
at Kingsborough in 1804, and retained this 
charge till his resignation in 1852. He 
published Select Verse System, for the 
Use of Individuals, Families, and Schools; 
Helps to Cultivate the Conscience. He 
died Jan. 9, 1853, in Kingsborough, N. Y. 

YALE, LEROY MILTON, physician, 
educator, journalist, was born Feb. 12, 
1841, in Holmes Hole (now Vineyard Ha¬ 
ven), Mass. Since 1871 he has been in¬ 
structor and lecturer on various branches 
in the Bellevue Hospital Medical college 
in New York city. He had charge of 
The Medical Gazette in 1867-68, and has 
edited the medical part of Babyhood since 
its beginning in 1884. 

YALE, LINUS, inventor, was born 
April 4, 1821, in Salisbury, N. Y. He was 
the inventor of the famous Yale locks, 
which are now extensively used through¬ 
out the civilized world. He died Dec. 4, 
1868, in New York city. 

YALES, WILLIAM HALL, lawyer, 
state senator, lieutenant-governor, was 
born Nov. 12, 1831, in New Haven, Conn. 
He is a noted lawyer of Winona, Minn.; 
was elected to the Wisconsin state senate 
in 1866; and again in 1875 and 1894. In 
1869 he was elected lieutenant-governor 
of the state of Wisconsin, and received 
the re-election in 1871. 

YANCEY, BARTLETT, lawyer, state 
legislator, congressman, was born about 
1780 in Caswell county, N. C. He was a 
member of congress from North Carolina 
in 1813, where he served four years. He 
served for many years in the state legis¬ 
lature, and frequently as speaker of the 
house. He died Aug. 30, 1828, in Caswell 
county, N. C. 

YANCEY, WILLIAM LOWNDES, law¬ 
yer, journalist, state legislator, congress¬ 
man, was born Aug. 10, 1814, in Ogeechee 
Shoals, Ga. He was a representative in 
congress from Alabama from 1844 to 
1847. Before entering congress he had 
served in the Alabama legislature, and, 
after leaving it, served as a member of 
various political conventions. He died 
July 28, 1863, near Montgomery, Ala. 

YANCY, MRS. BELLE, author, poet, 
was born in Louisville, Ky. She is the 
author of several novels, and a number of 
poems. 

YANCY, JOEL, congressman. He was 
a representative in congress from Ken¬ 
tucky from 1827 to 1831. 

YANDELL, DAVID WENDELL, physi¬ 
cian, educator, was born Sept. 4, 1826, in 
Murfreesborough, Tenn. He was appoint¬ 
ed professor of surgery in the Indiana 
Medical college in 1874. In 1870 he es¬ 
tablished the American Practitioner. 

YAPLE, GEORGE L., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born Feb. 20, 1851, in Leonidas, 
Mich. He was elected a representative 
from Michigan to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress from Mendon, Mich. 

YARDLEY, ROBERT M., lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Oct. 9, 1850, in Yard- 

66 


ley, Pa. He was elected district attorney 
in 1879 in Doylestown, Pa., and was elect¬ 
ed a delegate to the republican national 
convention at Chicago in 1884. He was 
elected to the fiftieth congress, and was 
re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a 
republican. 

YARROW, HENRY CRECY, physician, 
author, was born Nov. 19, 1840, in Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. He is a physician in Wash¬ 
ington, curator of the reptile department 
in the National museum; and the author 
of Introduction to the Study of Mortuary 
Customs Among North American Indians. 

YATES, ABRAHAM, congressman, was 
born Aug. 23, 1724, in Albany, N. Y. He 
was a delegate from New York to the 
continental congress in 1787 and 1788. He 
died June 30, 1796, in Albany, N. Y. 

YATES, ARTHUR GOULD, merchant, 
railroad president, was born Dec. 18, 1843, 
in East Waverly, N. Y. In 1890 he was 
elected president and director of the Buf¬ 
falo, Rochester and Pittsburgh railway at 
Rochester, N. Y. 

YATES, AUSTIN ANDREW, soldier, 
lawyer, legislator, was born March 24, 
1836, in Schenectady. In 1868 he was 
elected district attorney of Schenectady 
county, N. Y.; and he was judge from 
1873 till 1876. He has a large law prac¬ 
tice in Schenectady, and has been twice 
a member of the New York assembly. 

YATES, ELIZABETH UPHAM, mis¬ 
sionary, lecturer, was born July 3, 1857, 
For many years she 
was a missionary in 
China; and as the 
national lecturer of 
the Woman’s Chris- 
t i a n Temperance 
union, and the Na¬ 
tional American Suf¬ 
frage association, 
she has attained a 
world-wide reputa¬ 
tion. She has ad¬ 
dressed many state 
legislatures and con¬ 
gressional commit- 
of woman’s enfran¬ 
chisement and other reform measures; 
and is now engaged in lecturing on liter¬ 
ary subjects, especially history and travel. 
Miss Yates is of French extraction, and 
a combination of Puritan and Creole. 

YATES, JOHN BARENTSE, state leg¬ 
islator, congressman, was born Feb. 1, 
1784, in Schenectady, N. Y. He was a 
representative in congress from New York 
from 1815 to 1817; and was a member 
of the assembly of that state in 1836 from 
Madison county. He died July 11, 1836, 
in Chittenango, N. Y. 

YATES, JOHN VAN NESS, lawyer, 
author, was born Dec. 18, 1779, in Albany, 
N. Y. He was a lawyer of Albany; and 
the author of Collection of Pleadings and 
Practical Precedents, with Notes; His¬ 
tory of the State of New York; and Prin¬ 
ciples and Practice, etc., in Cases of 
Writs of Error. He died Jan. 10, 1839, in 
Albany, N. Y. 

YATES, JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER, law¬ 
yer, jurist, governor, was born Nov. 9, 
1768, in Schenectady, N. Y. He served as 
mayor of Schenectady in 1798-1808, as 
state senator in 1806-07; and as judge of 
the supreme court in 1808-22; and was 
governor of the state of New York in 
1823-25. He died March 19, 1837, in Schen¬ 
ectady, N. Y. 

YATES, PETER W., lawyer, congress¬ 
man, was born in Albany, N. Y. He was 
a lawyer by profession, and well known in 
the courts of Albany both before and af¬ 


ter the revolution. He represented New 
York in the general congress in 1785-87. 

YATES, RICHARD, lawyer, congress¬ 
man, United States senator, governor, was 
born Jan. 18, 1818, in Warsaw, Ky. He 
frequently served in the Illinois state leg¬ 
islature; was a representative in congress 
from Illinois from 1851 to 1855, and in 
1861 was elected governor of Illinois for 
four years. He participated extensively in 
the raising of troops for the national army 
during the rebellion, and was elected a 
senator in congress from Illinois for the 
term commencing in 1865 and ending in 
1871. He died Nov. 27, 1873, in St. Louis. 

YATES, RICHARD, lawyer, jurist, was 
born Dec. 12, 1860, in Jacksonville, Ill. He 
has practiced law with success in his na¬ 
tive city; was city attorney during 1885- 
91, and county judge during 1894-98. 

YATES, ROBERT, lawyer, jurist, was 
born March 17, 1738, in Schenectady, 
N. Y. He was a judge of the supreme 
court of New York from 1777 to 1790 and 
was chief justice from 1790 to 1798. He 
was commissioned to treat with the states 
of Massachusetts and Connecticut on the 
subject of territory and to settle the 
claims of New York against the state of 
Vermont. He died Sept. 9, 1801, in Al¬ 
bany, N. Y. 

YEAGER, JAMES MARTIN, clergyman, 
lecturer, college president, was born Nov. 
2, 1857, in Yeagerstown, Pa. He attended 
the Wyoming seminary and in 1880 gradu¬ 
ated from the Wesleyan university, from 
which institution he subsequently received 
the degree of A. M. For two years he 
preached in Carmel, N. Y., then traveled 
through the principal countries of Europe 
and in Palestine and Egypt. During 
1883-84 he filled a pastorate in Lenox, 
Mass., then for three years in Rhinecliffe- 
on-Hudson, N. Y., and during 1&88-92 in 
Hillsdale, N. Y., and since 1892 has been 
president of the Drew Ladies’ seminary. 
He lectures on Rembles on The Conti¬ 
nent; Jauntings in the East; From Blar¬ 
ney Castle to The Nile; and Rocks That 
Wreck. 

YEAGLEY, JOHN W., lawyer, jurist, 
was born Sept. 12, 1843, in New Somerset, 
Ohio. He is an able lawyer of New Phila¬ 
delphia, Ohio, of which city he has been 
mayor. For six years he was judge of the 
probate court of his county. 

YEAMAN, GEORGE H., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, author, was born Nov. 1, 
1829, in Hardin county, Ky. In 1854 he 
was elected judge of Davies county, Ky. 
In 1861 he was elected to the legislature of 
Kentucky. He was a representative fronl 
Kentucky to the thirty-seventh congress 
and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth 
congress, serving on the same committee. 
In 1865 he was appointed minister resident 
to Denmark. He practices law in New 
York city; and is the author of The Study 
of Government. 

YEAMANS, JOHN, governor, was born 
about 1605 in England. During 1671-74 he 
was governor of South Carolina. He died 
about 1676, in the West Indies. 

YEARDLEY, GEORGE, governor, was 
born in 1580, in England. He was gov¬ 
ernor of Virginia in 1616, 1619-21, and in 
1625. In 1619 the first general assembly 
met in Virginia, and during his adminis¬ 
tration many important improvements, 
were made. He died in 1627. 

YEATES, JASPER, lawyer, jurist, au¬ 
thor, was born April 9, 1745, in Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa. He was judge of the supreme^ 
court of Pennsylvania from 1791 until his 
death. He published Reports of Cases in: 
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 
1791 to 1808 in four volumes. He died; 
March 14, 1817, in Lancaster, Pa. r 


in Bristol, Maine. 



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YEATES, JESSE J„ soldier, lawyer, 
congressman, was born May 29, 1829, in 
Hertford county, N. C. He was solicitor 
of Hertford county from 1855 to 1860 and 
a representative in the North Carolina 
state legislature in 1860. He served as 
major in the confederate army. He was 
elected a representative from North Caro¬ 
lina to the forty-fourth congress and re¬ 
elected to the forty-fifth congress. 

YEISER, JOHN 0., lawyer, legislator, 
was born Oct. 15, 1866, in Danville, Ky. 
He has attained success as a lawyer in 
Omaha, Neb., and has served with distinc¬ 
tion as a member of the Nebraska state 
legislature. 

YELL, ARCHIBALD, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, congressman, governor, was born 
in 1797 in Kentucky. He was appointed 
one of the judges of Arkansas Territory. 
He was elected a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1835 to 1839, and was again 
elected in 1845, serving only until 1846. 
He was governor of Arkansas in 1842 and 
1844. He was killed at the battle of 
Buena Vista, while in command of a regi¬ 
ment of Arkansas mounted volunteers, 
Feb. 23, 1847. 

YELLAND, RAYMOND D., artist, was 
born Feb. 2, 1848, in England. During 
1877-78 he was assistant director of the 
California School of Design, of which he 
was elected director in 1888. Among his 
works are Half-Moon Beach; The Lonely 
Sea; Sunlight and Shadow; The Golden 
Gate at Even; Mount Tacoma; Mount 
Hood; Columbia River; Golden Gate; 
Near Dordrecht; and Faringford, Isle of 
Wight. 

YEOMANS, JAMES D., railroad build¬ 
er, public official, was born April 21, 16*5, 
in Wyoming county, N. Y. He has been 
the general superintendent of the Balti¬ 
more, New York and Pittsburg railway; 
general superintendent of the Ohio, Bos¬ 
ton and Western railway; and has built 
many railroads in the states of New York, 
Pennsylvania, and Michigan. He is now 
inter-state commerce commissioner at 
Washington, D. C. 

YEOMANS, WILLIAM H., lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, was born July 14, 1835, in Columbia, 
Conn. He has attained success as a law¬ 
yer in his native city; has been judge 
and filled various other public positions 
of trust. 

YERGER, GEORGE SHALL, lawyer, 
was born Aug. 23,'1801, in Hagerstown, 
Md. He settled in Nashville; was for 
many years reporter of the decisions of 
the supreme court of Tennessee, and was 
elected attorney-general of the state. He 
died April 20, 1860, in Bolivar county. 
Miss. 

YERKES, CHARLES TYSON, was born 
June 25, 1837, in Philadelphia. In 1881 he 
opened a bank at the corner of La Salle 
and Madison streets in Chicago. This 
was operated in conjunction with his 
house in Philadelphia, the latter managed 
by his partner. From the time of his 
advent in Chicago he has had charge of 
the North Chicago City railway. A recent 
gift from him to the university of Chicago 
was a telescope, designed to be the largest 
and finest in the world, and cost about 
half a million dollars. 

YEWELL, GEORGE HENRY, artist, 
was born Jan. 20, 1830, in Havre de Grace, 
Md. His works include Children on the 
Sea-Shore; The Wounded Drummer-Boy; 
Roman Shepherd-Boy; some Venetian 
subjects, including interior views of the 
church of St. Mark; Santa Maria delle 
Salute; In the Church of San Pietro, Pe¬ 
rugia; and In the Carpet Bazaar, Cairo; 
and Mosque of Kait-Bey, Cairo. 

YOAKUM, CHARLES H„ lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1850 in Limestone, 


county, Tex. He was elected district at¬ 
torney for the eighth judicial district in 
1886, and re-elected in 1888. He was elect¬ 
ed to the state senate in 1892 for four 
years from Greenville, Tex.; and was 
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a 
democrat. 

YOAKUM, HENDERSON K., lawyer, 
author, was born in 1810 in Claiborne 
county, Tenn. He was a lawyer of Hunts¬ 
ville, Tex.; and the author of History of 
Texas from its First Settlement to its 
Annexation to the United States. He died 
Nov. 29, 1856, in Houston, Tex. 

YOCUM, SETH H„ soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born Aug. 2, 1834, in Co¬ 
lumbia county, Pa. He served in the 
union army in the war of the rebellion; 
and was elected a representative from 
Pennsylvania to the forty-sixth congress. 

YODER, SAMUEL S„ soldier, physi¬ 
cian, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 
16, 1841, in Berlin, Ohio. He enlisted in 
the one hundred and 
twenty-eighth Ohio 
infantry; rose to the 
rank of lieutenant, 
and served till the 
end of the war. He 
studied medicine, 
and practiced his 
profession for eigh¬ 
teen years. He was 
elected mayor of 
Bluffton, Ohio; serv¬ 
ed as a member of 
state democratic ex¬ 
ecutive committee; and was elected judge 
of the probate court of Allen county, Ohio, 
and served from 1882 till 1886, when he 
resigned. He was elected to the fiftieth 
congress, and was re-elected to the fifty- 
first congress as a democrat. 

YORK, TYRE, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, was born May 4, 1836, in 
Rockford, N. C. In 1865 he was elected a 
representative in the North Carolina state 
legislature, and served in one or the other 
branch of that body almost continuously 
until elected a representative from North 
Carolina to the forty-eighth congress as 
a republican. 

YQRKE, THOMAS J., congressman, 
was born in New Jersey. He was a rep¬ 
resentative in congress from New Jersey 
from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 
1843. He was a candidate for election to 
the twenty-sixth congress, but, although 
he came with the broad seal of his state, 
was not admitted. 

YOST, GEORGE WASHINGTON NEW¬ 
TON, inventor, was born April 15, 1831, 
in Dundee, N. Y. He was the inventor of 
the Yost typewriter. 

YOST, JACOB, journalist, congressman, 
was born April 1, 1853, in Staunton, Va. 
In 1875 he purchased an interest in the 
Valley Virginian, a newspaper published 
at Staunton, and was actively engaged in 
journalism till 1889, since which time he 
has devoted himself to general business, 
principally in connection with iron ore 
and coal. He was elected mayor of the 
city of Staunton in 1886; and was a mem¬ 
ber of the fiftieth congress. He was the 
republican nominee for congress in 1888 
and again in 1894; and was elected to the 
fifty-first congress as a republican. 

YOST, JACOB S., congressman, was 
born in Pennsylvania. He was a repre¬ 
sentative in congress from Pennsylvania 
from 1843 to 1847. 

YOST, MRS. M. EDITH, poet, was born 
July 26, 1863, in Mount Summit, Ind. She 
is a writer of Sulphur Springs, Ind.; add 
the author of a story in rhyme entitled 
A Summer Tale, and Other Poems. 


YOUMANS, EDWARD LIVINGSTON, 
scientist, journalist, author, was born 
June 3, 1821, in Coeyman's, N. Y. He was 
an eminent scientist who, though par¬ 
tially blind for many years, wrote and lec¬ 
tured extensively, beside editing The Pop¬ 
ular Science Monthly in 1872-87. He was * 
the author of Handbook of Household 
Science; The Culture Demanded by Mod¬ 
ern Life; Alcohol and the Constitution of 
Man; Chemical Atlas; and Correlation 
and Conservation of Forces (edited). He 
died Jan. 18, 1887, in New York city. 

YOUMANS, ELIZA ANN, author, was 
born Dec. 17, 1826", in Saratoga, N. Y. She 
is the author of First and Second Books 
of Botany; Descriptive Botany; and Les¬ 
sons in Cookery. 

YOUMANS, HENRY MELVILLE, man¬ 
ufacturer, congressman, was born May 15, 
1832, in Otego, N. Y. He was in the em¬ 
ploy of the York 
and Erie Railroad 
company, Susque¬ 
hanna division, for 
ten years. He re¬ 
moved to East Sagi¬ 
naw, Mich., in 1862; 
and engaged in the 
manufacture of lum¬ 
ber and salt. He was 
elected mayor of 
East Saginaw for the 
years 1886 and 1887; 
and held all the po¬ 
sitions of honor under the municipal gov¬ 
ernment of East Saginaw, where he now 
resides. He was elected to the fifty-sec¬ 
ond congress as a democrat; and in 1897- 
98 served as a member of the Michigan 
state senate. 

YOUMANS, W. F., lawyer, legislator, 
was born March 21, 1864, in Hampton, S. 
C. He received his education at the South 
Carolina college of Columbia. He has 
served with distinction as a member of 
the lower house of the South Carolina 
legislature; was the adviser of the gov¬ 
ernor during the Darlington riot. He is 
a successful lawyer in his native city; 
was for two terms a trustee of the Citadel 
academy of Charleston, S. C.; and was 
one of the originators of the dispensary. 

YOUMANS, WILLIAM JAY, physician, 
scientist, journalist, author, was born 
Oct. 14, 1838, in Saratoga, N,. Y. He is a 
physician and scientist of New York city, 
and editor of The Popular Science Month¬ 
ly from 1887. He is the author of Pio¬ 
neers of Science in America; and co¬ 
author with Huxley of Elements of Physi¬ 
ology and Hygiene. 

YOUNG, ALEXANDER, clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born in 1800 in Massachusetts. 
He was a Unitarian clergyman of Boston, 
pastor of the New South church; and 
the author of Chronicles of the Pilgrim 
Fathers; and Chronicles of the First 
Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts 
Bay, 1623-36. He edited The Library of 
Old English Prose Writers. He died in 
1854. 

YOUNG. ALEXANDER, journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born May 19, 1836, in Boston, 
Mass. He was a Boston journalist on the 
editorial staff of The Post; and the au¬ 
thor of History of the Netherlands; and 
Young Folks’ History of the Netherlands. 
He died March 19, 1891, in Boston, Mass 
YOUNG, ALFRED, clergyman, author, 
was born Jan. 21, 1831, in England. Be¬ 
sides magazine articles on sundry religi¬ 
ous topics and a series of epigrammatic 
poems on scriptural texts in the Catholic 
World, he has published Catholic Hymns 
and Canticles; The Office of Vespers; The 
Catholic Hymnal; and Carols for a Merry 
Christmas and a Joyous Easter. 






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YOUNG, ANDREW WHITE, journalist, 
author, was born March 2, 1802, in Car¬ 
lisle, N. Y. He was a journalist of War¬ 
saw, N. Y.; and the author of First Les¬ 
sons in Civil Government; Citizens’ Man¬ 
ual of Government and Law; The Ameri¬ 
can Statesman; National Economy: a 
History of the Protective System; His¬ 
tory of Warsaw; and History of Wayne 
County, Ind. He died Feb. 17, 1877, in 
Warsaw, N. Y. 

YOUNG, AUGUSTUS, lawyer, jurist, 
state senator, congressman, was born 
March 20, 1785, in Arlington, Vt. He was 
representative in congress from Vermont 
from 1841 to 1843; and was the author of 
On the Quadrature of the Circle; and 
Unity of Purpose. He died June 17, 1857, 
in St. Albans, Vt. 

YOUNG, BRIGHAM, was born June 1, 
1801, in Whitingham, Vt. In 1822 he 
founded the Mormon sect at Kirkland, 
Ohio; and was one of the apostles sent 
out to make converts in 1835. He was 
chosen president and prophet in 1844; 
abandoned Nauvoo in 1846, and persuaded 
his followers that Salt Lake Valley was 
the promised land. He settled there in 
1847; and in 1849 organized a state called 
Deseret, but congress organized it as the 
territory of Utah, of which he was United 
States governor from 1850 to 1854. The 
Mormons having defied the federal gov¬ 
ernment, President Buchanan, in 1857, 
sent a force to enforce its autnority, and 
in 1858 a compromise was made. He had 
twelve actual wives, besides many who 
had been sealed to him as his spiritual 
wives. As the head of the Morman church 
he was long governor of the territory, 
and president by semi-annual election. He 
died Aug. 29, 1877. 

YOUNG, BRYAN R., congressman, was 
born in Kentucky. He was a representa¬ 
tive in congress from that state from 
1845 to 1847. 

YOUNG, CASEY, soldier, lawyer, con¬ 
gressman, was born in 1832 in Tuscaloosa, 
Ala. In 1874 he was elected a representa¬ 
tive from Memphis, Tenn., to the forty- 
fourth congress; was re-elected to the 
forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses; 
and also elected to the forty-eighth con¬ 
gress as a democrat. 

YOUNG, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, as¬ 
tronomer, educator, author, was born Dec. 
15, 1834, in Hanover, N. H. He is an 
astronomer of note, professor of astrono¬ 
my at Princeton college from 1877; and 
the author of The Sun; A General As¬ 
tronomy; Elements of Astronomy; Les¬ 
sons in Astronomy; and Uranography. 

YOUNG, CHARLES ELISHA, physi¬ 
cian, author, was born Aug. 27, 1858, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He is author of Anti- 
partum Haemorrhage; and other works. 

YOUNG, CHARLES L., soldier, manu¬ 
facturer, educator, was born Nov. 23, 
1838, in Albany, N. Y. He received his 
education at the Al¬ 
bany academy, the 
Classical institute, 
and other classical 
institutions of his 
native state; and his 
preference for the 
bar was interrupted 
by the war. He 
served as an officer 
in the civil war, with 
rank of lieutenant- 
colonel of volun¬ 
teers; commanded 
his regiment in Pope’s campaign; was on 
the staff of Generals Sickles and Joseph 
Hooker; and was in inspector-general’s 
department of the second corps of Gen¬ 
eral W. S. Hancock. In 1878-80 he was 
brigadier-general of the state of Ohio; na¬ 


tional senior vice commander-in-chief of 
the Grand Army of the Republic in 1881- 
82; superintendent of the Ohio Soldiers’ 
and Sailors’ Orphans’ home in Xenia, 
Ohio, during 1890-95; and in 1895-96 was 
superintendent of the Pennsylvania Sol¬ 
diers’ Orphans’ Industrial school. In 1890 
he was president of the Toledo Soldiers’ 
Memorial association; and was a director 
in the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial 
association. 

YOUNG, EBENEZER, state senator, 
congressman, was born in 1784 in Killing- 
ly, Conn. In 1823 he was elected to the 
Connecticut state senate; was twice re¬ 
elected ; and was two years speaker of the 
house. He was a representative in con¬ 
gress from 1829 to 1835. He died Aug. 18, 
1851, in West Killingly, Conn. 

YOUNG, EDWARD, poet, was born Nov. 
25, 1818, in England. He is the author of 
a book of poems entitled Ladye Lillian. 

YOUNG, EDWARD FAITOUTE CON- 
DIT, banker, was born Jan. 25, 1835, in 
Malapardis, N. .1. He is president of the 
First National bank of Jersey city; of 
the Joseph Dixon Crucible company of 
Jersey City; and of the New Codale Coal 
company. 

YOUNG, EDWARD M., musician, com¬ 
poser, was born May 21, 1857, in San 
Francisco, Cal. He is a successful in¬ 
structor; and the author of a number of 
pieces for the piano. He has been presi¬ 
dent of the California Music Teachers’ as¬ 
sociation. 

YOUNG, GEORGE CURSON, physician, 
surgeon, author, was born in 1840 in Wis- 
beach, England. He was educated at 
Rugby and Eton colleges, and received 
his medical education at Edinburgh and 
Leeds. After passing a term in Guy’s 
hospital and St. Bartholomew’s, he made a 
tour through the various hospitals of Eu¬ 
rope. He next visited Palestine, Egypt, 
and other countries, and in 1870 emigrated 
to the United States. He has since prac¬ 
ticed his profession in New York city. 
Port Jervis, N. Y., and is now in Wash¬ 
ington, N. J. For two years he was pro¬ 
fessor of physiology in the Eclectic Medi¬ 
cal college of New York city. He is the 
editor of The Red Cross Knight, and the 
past grand commander of that order. He 
is the author of Ancient and Modern His¬ 
tory of the Order of Knights of Malta, in 
two volumes; Therapeutics in Nature; 
Physiology for the People, and various 
other medical works. 

YOUNG, HENRY W., journalist, state 
senator, was born Dec. 17, 1847, in North- 
ville, N. Y. He is the editor of The Star 
and Kansan of Independence; and is now 
a member of the Kansas state senate. 

YOUNG, JAMES, capitalist, was born 
July 25, 1820, in Middletown, Pa. In 
1859 he purchased a limestone quarry in 
Lancaster county, Pa.; and from it sup¬ 
plied a large amount of stone for bridges 
and railroads; and in 1886 he sold the 
quarry and became a prudent investor in 
real estate. 

YOUNG, JAMES RANKIN, soldier, edu¬ 
cator, congressman, was born March 6, 
1847, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served in 
the thirty-second Pennsylvania infantry. 
He made a six months’ tour of the south¬ 
ern states soon after the war as a corre¬ 
spondent of the New York Tribune; and 
served as chief of the Washington bureau 
of the New York Tribune from 1866 to 
1870. He was one of the founders of the 
Philadelphia Evening Star in 1866, and 
has been a constant contributor to its 
columns from that date to the present 
time, writing over the signature of S. M. 
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress 
as a republican. 


YOUNG, JESSE BOWMAN, soldier, 
clergyman, editor, author, was born July 
5, 1844, in Berwick, Pa. He was educated 
in the Dickinson seminary, the Polytech¬ 
nic college, Lafayette college and Dickin¬ 
son college, graduating from the latter 
institution in 1868. During 1862-65 he 
served as lieutenant and captain in the 
eighty-fourth regiment Pennsylvania vol¬ 
unteer infantry, being on staff duty much 
of the time. He is the author of a volume 
of army reminiscences entitled What a Boy 
Saw in The Army. He is also the author 
of Days and Nights on The Sea; and a 
prize essay on Mental Culture a Chris¬ 
tian’s Duty. He is an eminent clergyman 
of the Methodist Episcopal church; and 
since 1892 has been the editor of The Cen¬ 
tral Christian Advocate, one of the great¬ 
est journals of that denomination. 

YOUNG, JOHN, lawyer, state legislator, 
congressman, governor, was born June 
12, 1802, in Chelsea, Vt. He was in the 
New York state legislature in 1831, 1844 
and 1845, and was a representative in con¬ 
gress from New York from 1841 to 1843. 
He was governor of the state from 1847 to 
1849 and was assistant treasurer of the 
United States in New York city at the 
time of his death. He died April 23, 1852, 
in New York city. 

YOUNG, JOHN D., lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 22, 
1823, on Flat Creek, Ky. During 1843-46 
he was a farmer and deputy sheriff; and 
during 1852-55 was a deputy United States 
marshal under his father, Colonel Thomas 
Johnson Young. In 1858 he was admitted 
to the bar, and the same year was elected 
judge of that county court, serving four 
years. He received the re-election in 
1866, but resigned the following year, 
having received the nomination of the 
democratic party as a candidate to a seat 
in the fortieth congress. He was elected 
but refused his seat; he was again elected 
to the forty-third congress, and served 
out his full term. In 1890 Judge Young 
was again re-elected judge of Bath coun¬ 
ty, serving four years; and is now mas¬ 
ter commissioner of the Bath circuit 
court. 

YOUNG, JOHN FREEMAN, protestant 
episcopal bishop, was born Oct. 30. 1820, 
in Pittston, Maine. Having been elected 
the second bishop of Florida, he was con¬ 
secrated in 1867, and held the office until 
the time of his death. He published 
Great Hymns of the Church. He died Nov. 
15, 1885, in New York city. 

YOUNG, JOHN RUSSELL, lawyer, 
journalist, author, was born Nov. 20, 1841, 
ir. Dowington, Pa. In 1871 he went abroad 
as one of the foreign correspondents of 
the New York Herald, in which service 
he traversed the British Isles and the 
continent. In 1877 he accompanied Gen¬ 
eral Grant in his famous tour around the 
world, which occupied ,two years; and 
he published the result of his observa¬ 
tions in two volumes entitled Around the 
World with General Grant. On his re¬ 
turn he resumed his position on the edi¬ 
torial staff of the New York Herald; and 
in 1882 was appointed United States min¬ 
ister to China. He is also the author of 
The Memorial History of Philadelphia. 

YOUNG, JOHN S., soldier, lawyer, ju¬ 
rist, congressman, was born Nov. 4, 1834. 
in Wake county, N. C. He served in the 
confederate army throughout the war of 
the rebellion, rising to the rank of lieu¬ 
tenant-colonel. At the close of the war 
resumed the practice of his profession at 
Homer, La.; and was a district judge. 
He was elected a representative from 
Louisiana to the forty-fifth congress as 
a democrat. 




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YOUNG, MRS. JULIA EVELYN [DIT¬ 
TO], author, poet, was born Dec. 4, 1857, 
in Buffalo, N. Y. She is a novelist and 
poet of Buffalo; and the author of Adrift, 
a Story of Niagara; Glynne’s Vviie, a 
Story in Verse; and Thistle Down. 

YOUNG, LOYAL, clergyman, author, 
was horn July 1, 1806, in Charlemont, 
Mass. He was a presbyterian clergyman in 
Pennsylvania and West Virginia; and 
the author of From Dawn to Dusk; Ecce 
Diluvium; Interviews with Inspired Men; 
and Commentary on Ecclesiastes. 

YOUNG, MRS. MARY HULETT, poet, 
was born near Saratoga, N. Y. She is a 
writer of Mayville, N. Y.; and the author 
of a prose work entitled Wahrite; and a 
volume of poems entitled Forest Leaves. 

YOUNG, MICHAEL HARRY DE, jour¬ 
nalist, was born in October, 1848, in St. 
Louis, Mo. He is the editor and owner of 
the San Francisco 
Chronicle, and one 
of the best-known 
and most successful 
newspaper men in 
America. In 1865 he 
issued the first num¬ 
ber of The Dramatic 
Chronicle, which 
was subsequently 
merged into the San 
Francisco Chronicle. 
For many years he 
was a member of the 
committee; and was 
nominee for the United States senator- 
ship as successor to the late George 
Hearst. In 1889 he was appointed com¬ 
missioner from California to the Paris 
exposition; he was one of the most prom¬ 
inent California representatives in the 
World’s Columbian exposition, and was 
its second vice-president. The California 
Mid-Winter International exposition owed 
its conception to him, and he was its 
president and director general. 

YOUNG, OSCAR E., educator, poet, was 
born Jan. 6, 1861, in East Livermore, 
Maine. He is the author of two volumes 
of poems entitled Seaside Songs and 
Woodland Whispers. 

YOUNG, PETER C., lawyer, jurist, was 
born May 19, 1848, in Achor, Ohio. This 
able lawyer of Lisbon, Ohio, for four 
years was engaged in editorial work; and 
is now judge of the probate court of his 
county. 

YOUNG, PIERCE MANNING BUTLER, 
soldier, congressman, was born Nov. 15, 
1839, in Spartanburg, S. C. He joined the 
confederate army, and rose by promotion 
to the rank of major-general, receiving 
two wounds in battle. In 1868 he was 
elected a representative from Georgia to 
the forty-first congress; and was re¬ 
elected to the forty-second and forty-third 
congresses as a democrat. 

YOUNG, RICHARD MONTGOMERY, 
state legislator, United States senator, 
was born in 1796 in Kentucky. He was a 
presidential elector in 1828; and was a 
senator in congress from Illinois from 
1837 to 1843. He was appointed commis¬ 
sioner in the general land office in 1846; 
and was clerk of the United States house 
of representatives in 1850 and 1851. He 
died about 1852 in Washington, D. C. 

YOUNG, ROBERT ANDERSON, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was horn Jan. 23, 1824, in 
Knox county. Tenn. He is a successful 
clergyman; has been pastor, presiding 
elder, secretary of the board of foreign 
missions, president of the Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity of Alabama, and is now regent of 
Belmont college of Nashville, Tenn. 

YOUNG, SAMUEL MARTIN, farmer, 

legislator, was born May 29, 1861, near 


Dixon Springs, Tenn. In 1892-94 he was 
a member of the Tennessee state senate. 
He has devoted his time to agricultural 
pursuits, and has been president of the 
Dixon Springs Live Stock association. 

YOUNG, SHERMAN POMEROY, cler¬ 
gyman, was born Dec. 26, 1866, in Wood- 
burn, Ill. He graduated from the Mc- 
Kendrick college with the degree of B. 
A.; took a post-graduate course at the 
Yale university; and also from the Bos¬ 
ton university, receiving from the latter 
institution the degree of S. T. B. For 
many years he was engaged in education¬ 
al work in Jackson county, Ill.; and is 
now pastor of the methodist episcopal 
church of Salem, Ill. He is a frequent 
contributor to church periodicals and the 
secular press. 

YOUNG. STEPHEN JEWETT, educa¬ 
tor, banker, was born in November, 1839, 
in Pittston. He became instructor, and 
then professor of modern languages in 
Bowdoin college. He is president of the 
First National bank of Brunswick, and 
has thrice represented the town in the 
Maine legislature. 

YOUNG, THOMAS LOWRY, soldier, 
state senator, congressman, governor, 
was born Dec. 14, 1832, in Ireland. He 
settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served in 
the union army from 1861 to 1865, rising 
to the rank of colonel and brevet briga¬ 
dier-general. He was appointed assistant 
city auditor in 1865; and also elected a 
member of the state house of representa¬ 
tives for the term of two years. He was 
elected state senator in 1871. He was 
lieutenant-governor in 1875; and in 1877 
became governor by the election of R. B. 
Hayes to the presidency. He was elected 
a representative from Ohio to the forty- 
sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a 
republican. He died July 20, 1888, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. 

YOUNG, TIMOTHY R„ congressman, 
was born in New Hampshire. He was a 
representative in congress from Illinois 
from 1849 to 1851. 

YOUNG, VAN B., lawyer, jurist, was 
born in 1836 in Bath county, Ky. He was 
a member of the Kentucky legislature; 
and in 1890 was judge of the superior 
court. He died Feb. 27, 1892, in Frank¬ 
fort, Ky. 

YOUNG, VIRGINIA D., journalist, au¬ 
thor, was born in Marion, S. C. She has 
been state secretary of the Woman’s 
Christian Temperance union of South 
Carolina; honorable secretary of the Wo¬ 
man’s International union; and president 
of the Equal Rights association of South 
Carolina. She is associate editor of the 
Varnville Enterprise of Fairfax, S. C.; 
and the author of two novels entitled A 
Tower in the Desert; and Beholding As 
In A Glass. 

YOUNG, WILLIAM, dramatist, poet, 
was born in 1847 in Illinois. He is a 
dramatist of note whose plays include 
Pendragon; The Rajah; Jonquil; The 
Rogue’s March; Ganelon; Joan of Arc; 
If I Were You; Young America; and The 
House of Mauprat. He has also written 
Wishmakers’ Town, a volume of verse. 

YOUNG, WILLIAM A., merchant, con¬ 
gressman, was born May 17, 1860, in Nor¬ 
folk, Va. He was elected from Norfolk 
City, Va., to the fifty-fifth congress as a 
democrat. 

YOUNG, WILLIAM HENRY HARRI¬ 
SON HUTCHINSON, soldier, journalist, 
lawyer, inventor, was born May 4, 1819, 
in Amherst, N. Y. Since the war Colonel 
Young has practiced law in Washington. 
He and his wife founded the New York 
Volunteer institute, a school in which 



national republican 


they educated nine hundred soldiers’ or 
phans at their own expense. He has in¬ 
vented and patented an artificial stone. 

YOUNG, WILLIAM JAMES, was born 
Nov. 8, 1842, in Pittsburg, Pa. During 
1873-91 he has been consecutively cashier, 
vice-president and president of the Oil 
City Trust company of Oil City, Pa.; and 
since 1890 has been the vice-president, 
general manager and treasurer of the For¬ 
est Oil company of Pittsburg, Pa., the 
largest oil producing corporation in the 
state of Pennsylvania, with a capital of 
five and a half millions. Since 1893 he has 
been president of the Washington Oil 
company, and also since 1893 has been 
president of the Taylorstown Natural Gas 
company. He is prominent in the public 
affairs of Pittsburg, and a member of 
several fraternal orders. 

YOUNG, WILLIAM S., congressman, 
was born in Nelson county, Ky. He was 
a representative in congress from Ken¬ 
tucky from 1825 to 1827. 

YULEE, DAVID LEVY, agriculturist, 
congressman, United States senator, was 
born in 1811 in West Indies. He was a 
delegate to congress from the territory of 
Florida from 1841 to 1845, bearing the 
name Levy; and as Yulee was a delegate 
to the convention which formed the state 
constitution. He was elected a senator in 
congress in 1845. where he continued until 
1861. He died Oct. 10, 1886, in New York 
city. 

YUTZY, JACOB, educator, clergyman, 
author, was born May 24, 1847, in Salis¬ 
bury, Pa. He received his education at 
the Roanoke college, Virginia; the Penn¬ 
sylvania college, and the Theological 
seminary of Gettysburg, Pa. Since 1882 
he has been pastor of the University 
church of Selinsgrove, Pa. During 1892- 
94 he was president of the Susquehanna 
Synod, Lutheran. During 1882-92 he was 
professor of Hebrew, moral science, and 
church history in the Susquehanna uni¬ 
versity; and the four years following 
filled the same chair with the addition of 
Greek and German. This successful pro¬ 
fessor of Semitic languages, Hebrew, Ara¬ 
bic, and Syraic, and of systematic divini¬ 
ty, is the author of A Sermon on Luther; 
History of the University Church of Se¬ 
linsgrove; and other works. 

ZABRISKIE, ABRAHAM OOTHOUT, 
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born 
June 10, 1807, in Greenbush (now East 
Albany), N. Y. Removing to Jersey City 
he was elected to the state senate, and 
took an important part in framing the 
city charter of 1851 and in other legisla¬ 
tion. He became chancellor of New Jer¬ 
sey in 1866. He died June 27, 1873, in 
Truckee, Cal. 

ZABRISKIE, ANDREW CHRISTIAN, 
soldier, capitalist, author, was born May 
30, 1853, in New York city. He is the 
donor of a handsome bronze trophy, which 
is annually shot for by the various com¬ 
panies of the seventy-first regiment and 
is known as the Zabriskie Trophy. Of 
the Bergen Turnpike company, an ancient 
and powerful New Jersey corporation, he 
is president. His contributions to litera¬ 
ture have been mostly of an historical 
character, and embrace a Descriptive Cat¬ 
alogue of the Medals Struck in Honor of 
Abraham Lincoln. 

ZABRISKIE, FRANCIS NICOLL, cler¬ 
gyman, author, was born in 1832 in New 
York. He was a Dutch reformed clergy¬ 
man; and the author of Golden Fruit 
from Bible Trees; The Story of a Soul; 
Behold a Ladder; and Life of Horace 
Greeley. He died in 1891. 


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1045 


ZACHOS, JOHN CELIVERGOS, educa¬ 
tor, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 20, 
1820, in Turkey. He was a Unitarian cler¬ 
gyman and educator; and the author of 
New American Speaker; Analytical Edu¬ 
cator; and Phonic Primer. 

ZAHM, JOHN AUGUSTINE, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born in 1851 in Ohio. 
He is a Roman catholic clergyman, procu¬ 
rator-general of the congregation of the 
Holy Cross, now living at Rome; and the 
author of Evolution and Dogma; Bible, 
Science and Faith; Sound and Music; and 
Catholic Science and Scientists. 

ZAKRZEWSKA, MARIA ELIZABETH, 
physician, philanthropist, was born Sept. 
6, 1829, in Prussia. With Elizabeth and 
Emily Blackwell she established the New 
York infirmary, which she superintended 
two years, as resident physician and man¬ 
ager. After her removal to Boston in 
1863 she founded the New England Hos¬ 
pital for Women and Children. 

ZALINSKI, EDMUND LOUIS GRAY, 
soldier, inventor, was born Dec. 13, 1849, 
in Poland. He served in the civil war, 
and attained the rank of captain; and 
has invented the pneumatic dynamite gun. 

ZANE, CHARLES S., lawyer, jurist, 
was born March 2, 1831, in Tuckahoe, N. 
J. In June, 1873, he was elected circuit 
judge for the fifth judicial circuit of Illi¬ 
nois for a term of six years; and was re¬ 
elected in 1879. In 1884 he was appointed 
chief justice of the supreme court of the 
territory of Utah. 


fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. He is 
one of the foremost lawyers of Indiana at 
Corydon. 

ZENOS, ANDREW CONSTANTINIDES, 
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 
1855 in Turkey. He is a presbyterian 
clergyman, professor of biblical theology 
in McCormick Theological seminary, Chi¬ 
cago, from 1891; and the author of The 
Elements of the Higher Criticism; and 
Compendium of Church History. 

ZERRAHN, CARL, musician, was born 
July 28, 1826, in Germany. In 1854 he be¬ 
came musical director of the Handel and 
Haydn society of Boston, which post he 
now holds. He has edited two books de¬ 
signed for musical organizations, The In¬ 
dex, and The Apograph. 

ZEUNER, CHARLES, musician, com¬ 
poser, was born Sept. 20, 1795, in Saxony. 
In 1854 he settled in Philadelphia, where 
he held various posts as organist. His 
oratorio, The Feast of Tabernacles, was 
published in 1832. He issued also some 
collections of music, notably The Ameri¬ 
can Harp; and Ancient Lyre. He died 
Nov. 7, 1857, near Philadelphia, Pa. 

ZIEGLER, HENRY, educator, clergy¬ 
man, author, was born Aug. 19, 1816, near 
Old Fort Center county, Pa. He is a lu- 
theran clergyman in Selinsgrove, Pa.; 
and the author of Natural Theology; Apo¬ 
logetic Theology; Catechetics; The Pas¬ 
tor; The Preacher; Dogmatic Theology; 
and The Value to the Lutheran Church of 
Her Confessions. 


ZAVALA, LORENZO DE, Texan pa¬ 
triot, was born Oct. 3, 1789. In 1822 he 
was elected to the first Mexican congress; 
and in 1827-30 was governor of the state 
of Mexico. He died Nov. 1, 1836, in Zava¬ 
la county, Tex. 

ZEISBERGER, DAVID, missionary, au¬ 
thor, was born April 11, 1721, in Moravia. 
He was a noted missionary of the Mora¬ 
vians in Pennsylvania and Ohio; and the 
author of Delaware and English Spelling- 
Book; Sermons for Children; Dictionary 
in German and Delaware; and Essay 
Toward an Onondaga Grammar. In 1888 
his Diary from 1781 to 1798, including the 
narrative of his eventful life among the 
Indians of Ohio, was translated from the 
original manuscript in German by Eugene 
Bliss, and for the first time published. 
He died Nov. 17, 1808, in Goshen, Ohio. 

ZELLHOEFER. AUGUST CARL, cler¬ 
gyman, was born March 20, 1860, in Rome, 
Wis. He received his education in the 
public schools and the Morgan Park sem¬ 
inary, Illinois. In 1872 he moved to Iowa; 
was first connected with the Evangelical 
association, and united with the baptist 
church in 1884. In 1892 he became district 
missionary for northwestern Iowa. 

ZENOR, WILLIAM T., lawyer, jurist, 
congressman, was born April 30, 1846, in 
Harrison township. In 1871 he moved to 
Leavenworth, Ind., 
where he established 
a successful practice, 
and was appointed 
prosecuting attorney 
for the district, 
which office he held 
by this appointment 
and two succeeding 
elections till 1882. In 
1884 he was elected 
judge of the judicial 
circuit without oppo¬ 
sition; and was re¬ 
elected in 1890. He was elected to the 



ZIEGLER, WILLIAM, manufacturer, 
was born Sept. 1, 1843, in Beaver county, 
Pa. In 1870 he organized the Royal Chem¬ 
ical company, and began the manufacture 
of baking powder, and in 1873 incorpo¬ 
rated the Royal Baking Powder company 
in New York city. He came into great 
prominence in Brooklyn a few years ago 
by his long and successful fight to prevent 
the extravagant purchase of the Long Is¬ 
land Water Supply company by the city. 
He saved the city $1,500,000. He has been 
twice offered the mayoralty of Brooklyn 
by the republicans. 

ZILLIOX, JAMES, Roman catholic pre¬ 
late, author, was born Oct. 14, 1849, in 
Newark, N. J. In 1885 he was elected 
abbot of the newly established abbey at 
St. Mary’s church in Newark, N. J., which 
place failing health compelled him to re¬ 
sign a year later. He is the author of 
Album Benedictinum. 


ZIMMERMAN, CHARLES FREDER¬ 
ICK AUGUST, educator, artist, was born 
July 21, 1848, in Prussia. He moved to 
Milwaukee in 1856; 
attended the public 
schools of that city; 
and the State Nor¬ 
mal school of Platte- 
ville, Wis. He re¬ 
ceived the degree of 
Ph. B. from the Illi¬ 
nois Wesleyan uni¬ 
versity, and the de¬ 
gree of M. A. from 
Charles City college, 
j Iowa. He has at- 
tained success in ed- 
_ ___ has taught drawing, his¬ 
tory, geography, German and English in 
leveral leading colleges; and is now prin- 
:ipal of the public schools of Milwaukee, 
Vis. He has lectured on drawing and 
listoric ornament before teachers’ insti- 
:utes; is the author and editor of Art 
Studies; and is deeply interested in art 
ind industrial education. 



icational work; 


ZIMMERMANN, JOSEPH, legislator. 


jurist, editor, was 
Germany. In 1866 



orn June 19, 1851, in 
3 emigrated to Amer¬ 
ica. During 1883-91 
he was president of 
the board of educa¬ 
tion of Fremont, 
Ohio; during 1886-90 
he served with dis¬ 
tinction for two 
terms as state sena¬ 
tor in the Ohio leg¬ 
islature from the 
thirtieth district of 
Ohio; and in 1891 he 
was probate judge of 
his county. He has 


contributed extensively to current litera¬ 
ture; and is the editor and correspondent 
of several leading German newspapers. 


ZIMMERMANN, L. M., clergyman, au¬ 
thor, was born Aug. 29, 1863, in Man¬ 
chester, Md. He received his education 
in the Pennsylvania 
college at Gettys¬ 
burg, Pa. He has 
attained success as 
an eminent clergy¬ 
man, and for the 
past ten years has 
been pastor of the 
Christ English Lu¬ 
theran church of 
Baltimore, Md. He 
is the author of How 
to Be Happy When 
Married; Pearls of 
Comfort from Tennyson’s In Memoriam; 
Ihe Little Grave; Daily Bread for Daily 
Hunger; Sunshine; Paths That Cross; 
and other works. Paths That Cross is full 
of deep thought and study; is a master¬ 
piece and teaches a multitude of good 
lessons. 



ZOGBAUM, RUFUS FAIRCHILD, art¬ 
ist, author, was born Aug. 28, 1849, in 
Charleston, S. C. He is an artist of New 
York city; and the author of Horse, Foot, 
and Dragoons, or Sketches of Army Life. 



ZOLLARS, ALLEN, lawyer, legislator, 
jurist, was born in Licking county, Ohio. 
In 1864 he graduated from the Denison 
university of Gran¬ 
ville, Ohio, receiving 
the degree of A. B.; 
and subsequently re¬ 
ceived from the same 
institution the de¬ 
grees of A. M. and 
LL. D. In 1866 he 
was admitted to the 
bar, having received 
the degree of LL. D. 
from the university 
of Michigan; and he 
has since attained 
eminence as one of the foremost lawyers 
of Indiana at Fort Wayne. In 1868 he 
was elected a member of the Indiana 
state legislature; and in 1882 was elected 
judge of the supreme court of Indiana; 
and his written opinions show great re¬ 
search, industry and care. 


ZOLLARS, ELY VAUGHAN, educator, 
college president, author, was born Sept. 
19, 1847, near Lower Salem, Ohio. He 
has been adjunct professor of ancient lan¬ 
guages in Bethany college; president of 
the Kentucky Classical and Business col¬ 
lege; pastor of the church of Christ of 
Springfield, Ill.; and since 1888 has been 
president of the Hiram college, Ohio, of 
which institution President Garfield was 
president. He has received the degrees of 
A. M. and LL. D.; and is the author of 
Bible Geography; Holy Book and Sa¬ 
cred Day; The Great Salvation; and 
other works. 







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ZOLLICOFFER, FELIX KIRK, soldier, 
journalist, congressman, was born May 19, 
1812, in Maury county, Tenn. He was 
elected a representative in congress from 
Tennessee in 1853, where he continued 
until the close of the thirty-fifth congress. 
He was a delegate to the peace congress 
of 1861; and subsequently joined the great 
rebellion, and served as a general of vol¬ 
unteers. He died Jan. 19, 1862, near Mill 
Springs, Ky. 

ZORCHER, PHILIP, journalist, legisla¬ 
tor, was born Oct. 1, 1866, in Tell City, 
Ind. In 1889-91 he served as a represen¬ 
tative in the general assembly of the In¬ 
diana state legislature. In 1892 he was a 
delegate to the democratic national con¬ 
vention; and in 1893 was appointed post¬ 
master of his native city. He has con¬ 
tributed extensively to current literature; 


and is the editor and owner of the Tell 
City News. 

ZUBLY, JOHN JOACHIM, clergyman, 
congressman, author, was born Aug. 27, f 
1724, in Switzerland. He was a doctor of 
divinity, and preached in the German, 
English, and French languages. He was 
a member of the presidential congress; | 
and was elected as a delegate to the con¬ 
tinental congress in 1775. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Real Christian’s Hope in 
Death; Sermon on the Repeal of the 
Stamp Act; An Humble Inquiry into the 
Nature of the Dependency of the Ameri¬ 
can Colonies upon the Parliament of Great 
Britain; and The Law of Liberty: a Ser¬ 
mon on American Affairs. He died July 
23, 1781, in Savannah, Ga. 

ZULICK, C. MEYER, soldier, lawyer, 
jurist, governor, was born June 3, 1839, 



in Easton, Pa. He entered the union 
army as adjutant of the second regiment 
District of Columbia volunteers; rose to 
the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and was 
honorably mustered out of the service. He 
resumed the practice of law at Newark, N. 
J.; and was appointed collector of internal 
revenue for the fifth district of New Jer¬ 
sey. In 1879 he was elected surrogate 
judge of Essex county; and in 1885 was 
appointed governor of the territory of 
Arizona, which office he filled with great 
distinction. 

ZUNDEL, JOHN, organist, author, was 
born in 1815 in Germany. He was a musi¬ 
cian. organist of Plymouth church, Brook¬ 
lyn in 1850-78; and the author of Modern 
Organ School; The Amateur Organist; 
and Treatise on Harmony and Modulation. 
He died in 1882. 























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